We don't even seem to have a standard media format for 4K video yet. While 25% improvement is nice, it really isn't that spectacular when you consider the likely escalation of stream size.
When the likes of Sony seem perfectly willing to use Free Software, you really have to wonder if this is real problem or just nonsense perpetrated by a vanishingly small by highly noisy minority.
Then save your appetite for destruction for when the original media is genuinely unreadable. There is no need to hasten that which is only perceived as inevitable.
Trash it once it actually is trash.
Don't bother until then.
I've stored CDs in pretty harsh ways and managed to get far more than 6 years of shelf life out of them. They aren't nearly that fragile. Some are subject to manufacturing defects but that's another sort of problem and it's hardly universal.
Unless you are paying Manhattan real estate prices, why not keep the originals? They serve as another backup. They will likely not be too much of a burden. Most "obsolete" media is still perfectly usable and may be so for quite some time.
There is simply no need to rush into destroying something you already have and can serve as an alternate form of backup.
Originals always have some value in being the definitive version of something.
Storage isn't even the problem when it comes to file size, network bandwidth is. The generally poor quality of broadband and even cable ultimately relate to the size of the file. Network performance and bandwidth caps are the real choke point.
Streams get over compressed to the point that even an aggressively transcoded DVD beats the snot out of them in terms of quality. Forget about a raw BluRay stream.
Lone Ranger just comes off as Johnny Depp's Waterworld. He's gotten too big for himself and now he's doing crazy things. The nature of the Hollywood money machine and bean counters means that he gets to do that crazy with a lot of other people's money.
I am waiting for it on spinny disc so that I can watch it in the comfort of my own home theater. Anymore, it's hard to get the rest of the family to bother with a movie theater. The cinema experience continues to degrade quite independent of the decline in content quality.
Well Texas is waging war on the rural poor. So it's very likely that there isn't a good enough student to teacher ratio. Although I think that this is a well-funded suburban district. So teacher ratios may not be a problem after all.
It may be more like someone has too much time on their hands.
Idle hands. There's a religious saying for that...
> If I remember correctly, State(?) funding is based on attendance, so it behooves the school to keep track of their little gravy-trains in order to ensure they get the maximum possible funding.
Take roll in class. Use 100 year old technology to do it.
Suggesting DRM strategies is hardly sound advice. It's merely pandering to the already over inflated egos of "artistes".
Artistic megalomania is not the point. If you are fixating on "getting ripped off" then you're simply focusing on the wrong people. You are fixating on the one part of your business which is the least relevant.
You need to fixate on the paying customer rather than the degenerate mooch which will likely NEVER pay and will ALWAYS find a way to crack your copy protection.
You want to encourage sales rather than prevent mooching.
SALES are the only thing that really matter in the end.
You can have the perfect anti-piracy machine and still SELL nothing.
Piracy is unavoidable. Success or failure is purely a matter of convincing buyers that you have something worthwhile. Making your product less desirable will not help that in any way.
If your product doesn't suck, millions will buy it and you will make plenty of profit.
it's a tough market. Blaming piracy just makes you look like a whiney loser that never should have gotten into the business to begin with.
Except most apps these days don't need a 3GHz quad core. That's why the PC market is in the crapper. Most people are hard pressed to overwhelm a 5 year old trailing edge PC. The bloat of a new OS like Win8 is far more likely to cause problem than the apps.
The real problem is that ARM doesn't stack up to x86 even on a 1:1 basis in terms of clock speed. An Atom is going to smack around an ARM when it comes time to do actual computation.
It's like emulating current desktop app on a PC from the 90s.
It would probably work just as well as the early java version of Corel Office from back in the 90s.
> And that's different from what happens to you luggage in WHAT way ??
Your car isn't being packed into a pressurized metal cylinder that will be flying through the air with thousands of gallons of jet fuel and hundreds of people on board.
There isn't even the pretense of a public safety issue with a car parked at the airport.
The only thing that the LGPL allows that the GPL doesn't is the whole dynamic linking thing. That is not a relevant distinction here. So whatever Apple is doing that could p*ss off a Free Software developer applies equally to the GPL or LGPL.
The main difference between the two are how derivative works are defined.
> It's not Apple doing the abusing. It's the GPL that is incompatible with the App Store.
The GPL predates the App Store by about 20 years. If Apple decided to create terms for it's store that are incompatible with a 20 year old license then that is on Apple.
It's their decision to be jackasses.
The rest of us should not bow and scrape and grovel just because Apple has decided it can abuse the rest of us at will.
> How is creating an "enemies list" worse than targeting your enemies through the IRS
One can actually be attributed to the President and the other can't.
That said, Bush 2 is shameful when compared to Nixon on the environment. Nixon created an EPA that was effective and independent. Bush 2 did his best to tear it down.
You know it's bad when a president makes you nostalgiac for Nixon.
I spent half that for my current PC 3 years ago and I'm still hard pressed to find a reason to replace it.
With a cheap video card upgrade, a 5 year old craptacular machine can be a respectable casual gaming machine. It's not 1988 anymore. You don't have to pay through the nose for hardware anymore. System software needs to keep in step with that.
$100 is overpriced for this years version of a well entrenched monopoly product. If not for vendor-lock, the value of that product would be $0.
You had to dig back 7 years for that little statistic.
That really speaks volumes about the situation.
You didn't even follow up with the final numbers. It could be that he only blipped on anyone's radar for a single week and then quickly disappeared. A lot of crap movies do that. They make a somewhat respectable number for their opening weekend and then quickly fade.
It's all in what numbers you choose to present.
After 7 years it looks more like this guy belongs on an episode of "Where are they Now?".
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We don't even seem to have a standard media format for 4K video yet. While 25% improvement is nice, it really isn't that spectacular when you consider the likely escalation of stream size.
25% smaller versus 400% larger.
When the likes of Sony seem perfectly willing to use Free Software, you really have to wonder if this is real problem or just nonsense perpetrated by a vanishingly small by highly noisy minority.
You can get one at Frys for $200 now.
Alternatively, you could get yourself a really old and dirt cheap video card to upgrade your current machine.
By the time I had any need of a hardware h264 decoder in Linux, the drivers were readily available and used by all of the relevant software.
The notable slacker here was Adobe. These are the losers that whine about clanlib while the "hobbyists" just take care of business.
The community and (at least a subset of) the hardware vendors were well prepared in ample time.
Current performance of current entry level CPUs may already make the point moot.
Then save your appetite for destruction for when the original media is genuinely unreadable. There is no need to hasten that which is only perceived as inevitable.
Trash it once it actually is trash.
Don't bother until then.
I've stored CDs in pretty harsh ways and managed to get far more than 6 years of shelf life out of them. They aren't nearly that fragile. Some are subject to manufacturing defects but that's another sort of problem and it's hardly universal.
Unless you are paying Manhattan real estate prices, why not keep the originals? They serve as another backup. They will likely not be too much of a burden. Most "obsolete" media is still perfectly usable and may be so for quite some time.
There is simply no need to rush into destroying something you already have and can serve as an alternate form of backup.
Originals always have some value in being the definitive version of something.
Storage isn't even the problem when it comes to file size, network bandwidth is. The generally poor quality of broadband and even cable ultimately relate to the size of the file. Network performance and bandwidth caps are the real choke point.
Streams get over compressed to the point that even an aggressively transcoded DVD beats the snot out of them in terms of quality. Forget about a raw BluRay stream.
Lone Ranger just comes off as Johnny Depp's Waterworld. He's gotten too big for himself and now he's doing crazy things. The nature of the Hollywood money machine and bean counters means that he gets to do that crazy with a lot of other people's money.
Even this implodes about half way through and ends up just being a sad parody of Hollywood blockbusters and not in a good way.
Generally, you're far better off digging through the Walmart bargain bin for old classics then paying attention to the new stuff.
I am waiting for it on spinny disc so that I can watch it in the comfort of my own home theater. Anymore, it's hard to get the rest of the family to bother with a movie theater. The cinema experience continues to degrade quite independent of the decline in content quality.
With that kind of civilian pay, you're better off staying in the Air Force.
Well Texas is waging war on the rural poor. So it's very likely that there isn't a good enough student to teacher ratio. Although I think that this is a well-funded suburban district. So teacher ratios may not be a problem after all.
It may be more like someone has too much time on their hands.
Idle hands. There's a religious saying for that...
> If I remember correctly, State(?) funding is based on attendance, so it behooves the school to keep track of their little gravy-trains in order to ensure they get the maximum possible funding.
Take roll in class. Use 100 year old technology to do it.
Non-problem solved.
No Big Brother survelliance state required.
Suggesting DRM strategies is hardly sound advice. It's merely pandering to the already over inflated egos of "artistes".
Artistic megalomania is not the point. If you are fixating on "getting ripped off" then you're simply focusing on the wrong people. You are fixating on the one part of your business which is the least relevant.
You need to fixate on the paying customer rather than the degenerate mooch which will likely NEVER pay and will ALWAYS find a way to crack your copy protection.
You want to encourage sales rather than prevent mooching.
SALES are the only thing that really matter in the end.
You can have the perfect anti-piracy machine and still SELL nothing.
Piracy is unavoidable. Success or failure is purely a matter of convincing buyers that you have something worthwhile. Making your product less desirable will not help that in any way.
If your product doesn't suck, millions will buy it and you will make plenty of profit.
it's a tough market. Blaming piracy just makes you look like a whiney loser that never should have gotten into the business to begin with.
Except most apps these days don't need a 3GHz quad core. That's why the PC market is in the crapper. Most people are hard pressed to overwhelm a 5 year old trailing edge PC. The bloat of a new OS like Win8 is far more likely to cause problem than the apps.
The real problem is that ARM doesn't stack up to x86 even on a 1:1 basis in terms of clock speed. An Atom is going to smack around an ARM when it comes time to do actual computation.
It's like emulating current desktop app on a PC from the 90s.
It would probably work just as well as the early java version of Corel Office from back in the 90s.
Even in the best case, people have to be willing to recompile their apps.
Windows is just not a historically multi-architecture platform like Unix is.
> Most of this anti-Window nonsense, is decades old.
Microsoft is still up to the same kind of dirt tricks that earned them that kind of hatred in the first place.
It's just that now people are beginning to see that they have alternatives.
> And that's different from what happens to you luggage in WHAT way ??
Your car isn't being packed into a pressurized metal cylinder that will be flying through the air with thousands of gallons of jet fuel and hundreds of people on board.
There isn't even the pretense of a public safety issue with a car parked at the airport.
The only thing that the LGPL allows that the GPL doesn't is the whole dynamic linking thing. That is not a relevant distinction here. So whatever Apple is doing that could p*ss off a Free Software developer applies equally to the GPL or LGPL.
The main difference between the two are how derivative works are defined.
> It's not Apple doing the abusing. It's the GPL that is incompatible with the App Store.
The GPL predates the App Store by about 20 years. If Apple decided to create terms for it's store that are incompatible with a 20 year old license then that is on Apple.
It's their decision to be jackasses.
The rest of us should not bow and scrape and grovel just because Apple has decided it can abuse the rest of us at will.
> How is creating an "enemies list" worse than targeting your enemies through the IRS
One can actually be attributed to the President and the other can't.
That said, Bush 2 is shameful when compared to Nixon on the environment. Nixon created an EPA that was effective and independent. Bush 2 did his best to tear it down.
You know it's bad when a president makes you nostalgiac for Nixon.
Yes. The one that had enough of a budget and commitment to actually capture the Zeitgeist of the Known Universe at that time.
What kind of idiot spends $1500 on a PC in 2013?
I spent half that for my current PC 3 years ago and I'm still hard pressed to find a reason to replace it.
With a cheap video card upgrade, a 5 year old craptacular machine can be a respectable casual gaming machine. It's not 1988 anymore. You don't have to pay through the nose for hardware anymore. System software needs to keep in step with that.
$100 is overpriced for this years version of a well entrenched monopoly product. If not for vendor-lock, the value of that product would be $0.
You had to dig back 7 years for that little statistic.
That really speaks volumes about the situation.
You didn't even follow up with the final numbers. It could be that he only blipped on anyone's radar for a single week and then quickly disappeared. A lot of crap movies do that. They make a somewhat respectable number for their opening weekend and then quickly fade.
It's all in what numbers you choose to present.
After 7 years it looks more like this guy belongs on an episode of "Where are they Now?".