We can all just get GoT as part of our Netflix-by-mail subscriptions. This has got to hurt HBO much more than piracy. It legally bypasses both the cable subscription and the DVD sale.
As a Netflix user, I am probably a much more likely potential buyer than some degenerate pirate.
It's legal too.
I watched season 1 that way. My marginal cost was zero. HBO's marginal profit was zero. It was all perfectly legal too. There's nothing these corporate shills can say about it either.
What kind of clueless idiot are you? This is HBO we're talking about. How can we take anything else you say seriously if you can't get the basic details of the situation right?
It's hard to say for sure. However obscurity is usually far more harmful than piracy.
A copyright violation is not necessarily morally wrong.
Copyright is a public policy mechanism. It's not a moral or natural right. It is something that may or may not be employed by the state to encourage creativity. The end goal of copyright is ALWAYS "piracy".
Crimes that don't have an associated tort should always be suspect. If you aren't selling in their country, there can't be any harm because you have already decided that those pirates have no value.
> Or you could wait for DVD release, or buy it via Amazon Instant.
Neither of those solves the problem of having something that can be played with mplayer. Device support for Amazon streaming is actually rather limited and removing the DRM from a DVD presents a potential legal problem.
A Ferengi is far less likely to invest in basic research. We still need an agency that will develop the technologies that corporations will reuse. There is unprofitable work to be done before things can be handed over to the likes of Mosk. That is what NASA has done for 50 years and the new corporate space ventures are the dividend of very old investments.
X is fine locally. It's even more suitable as a gaming platform than Windows and that's probably the best metric for deciding how suitable a local display is.
Remotely, X still manages to hold it's own despite being ancient.
With a few tweaks, X can even kind of keep up with RDP.
The real proof comes when you compare X to MacOS. This is a disaster that you have really experience for yourself to fully appreciate. I think far too many people take all of the pro-Apple propaganda at face value.
Remote MacOS is a disaster and that's the approach the Wayland idiots want to take.
Linux applications don't look like "hammered shit".
Blob drivers getting you down? Vmware and Nvidia both solved that problem. Redhat and Ubuntu made it even easier.
It's really not the problem some people like to make it out to be.
BLOBS really only become a problem for companies that don't actually want to support Linux. They throw together a kernel specific binary and that's all you hear from them.
With dkms there's really no excuse at all for that anymore.
The kind of vendor that would give you a single kernel BLOB driver is probably a vendor you don't want to use with Windows either. Some stuff is just crap. Some companies are just crap.
You are going to get some crap in a free market regardless of how much you pander to hardware vendors.
...yet oddly enough I am still using GNOME2 despite everyone's best attempts to kill it.
A fork needs to be popular to be relevant. Otherwise it is just noise. The same is true of distributions. Few people are aware of them all or even how many there are. Most are highly specialized or have no following to speak of.
So effectively the level of diversity you have to consider yourself is far less than what some Usenet troll might want you to think.
The same is true of display servers. These projects have to gain momentum, developers, and users. Mass revolts may undermine that.
Then there's infighting of course...
I have to confess. I am feeling a big mountain of shadenfreude right now...
In museum terms, that sort of thing would be a traveling exhibit. It's something that would reside in different real museums like the Da Vinci tech museum in Milan.
It's 2013. Standing in line for days for some consumer product that you can have shipped to your door the moment it's available is just retarded. It's like some kind of throwback to the 70s.
It's pretty much the opposite of the trendiness that Apple is trying to sell.
Reverse engineer that trivial number of buttons and publish that on the web for anyone to use (and integrate into their $10 remotes).
If companies are interested in supporting it, it's pretty trivial if they have any interest in at all. Clearly your bargain bin IR remote vendors can't be bothered.
Linux is no less of a "closed system" than Windows or MacOS is yet those platforms support Netflix. Anyone can run a debugger or a memory monitor on those platforms and start chipping away at Netflix and their little stronghold.
A proprietary binary enforces the DRM. Doesn't matter if you are talking about Netflix or Amazon. Doesn't matter what platform you are talking about.
Linux happily plays protected Amazon streams and no one in Seattle gets their panties in a bunch over it.
Ironically enough, the situation is reversed with Amazon. My Linux desktop plays stuff just fine but my Android devices aren't supported/blessed with suitable apps.
If we appear weak then forces inside the regime have no motivation to help stop the insanity. A show of force launched from some place they can't hope to touch is a benign reminder of what they're up against.
It doesn't matter to us much one way or the other.
Apple sells proprietary crud layered on top of free software. They generally don't want you to be even aware of the free software. They just want you to fixate on the shiny shiny proprietary bits on the surface. The fact that they exploit the free labor of hobbyists doesn't alter the basic crass nature of their activities.
Yes. However, the other guy does bring up a good point. There are such things as biblical scholars and they generally don't take the bible literally. This includes both Jews and Xians. Pretty much anyone with half a brain has gotten past the whole "word for word" idea a long time ago.
Given the nature of the work, it's kind of necessary really. You either adjust or sound like some toddler from the bronze age.
No. They're just developers. They're not stressed as much because they don't have to carry a production pager or respond when their code blows up in the wee hours of the night.
In terms of certain job expectations they are. These include longer hours and working weekends and during the 3rd shift.
A lot of mundanes don't understand this. They hear that you've got some office job and they don't understand why you would be working those kinds of hours.
Clueless spouses can add to the stress level. Even spouses that are part of the workforce can be ignorant and unsympathetic.
Trek had this annoying habit of assuming that everything would be a Communist utopia after we met aliens for the first time. It was rather annoying. They especially neutered humans from TNG onward to be drained of anything interesting enough to allow for drama. Alien races became stand-ins for human flaws.
People in the 24th century will likely be not that different than those of the 4th.
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...yes, the elephant in the room.
We can all just get GoT as part of our Netflix-by-mail subscriptions. This has got to hurt HBO much more than piracy. It legally bypasses both the cable subscription and the DVD sale.
As a Netflix user, I am probably a much more likely potential buyer than some degenerate pirate.
It's legal too.
I watched season 1 that way. My marginal cost was zero. HBO's marginal profit was zero. It was all perfectly legal too. There's nothing these corporate shills can say about it either.
Adverts?
What kind of clueless idiot are you? This is HBO we're talking about. How can we take anything else you say seriously if you can't get the basic details of the situation right?
It's hard to say for sure. However obscurity is usually far more harmful than piracy.
A copyright violation is not necessarily morally wrong.
Copyright is a public policy mechanism. It's not a moral or natural right. It is something that may or may not be employed by the state to encourage creativity. The end goal of copyright is ALWAYS "piracy".
Crimes that don't have an associated tort should always be suspect. If you aren't selling in their country, there can't be any harm because you have already decided that those pirates have no value.
There are no damages.
> Or you could wait for DVD release, or buy it via Amazon Instant.
Neither of those solves the problem of having something that can be played with mplayer. Device support for Amazon streaming is actually rather limited and removing the DRM from a DVD presents a potential legal problem.
That is the nature of any inter-generational story. Some fanboy will always whine that the newest incarnation is not a true Scotsman.
It doesn't matter if it's Dickens or Batman.
A Ferengi is far less likely to invest in basic research. We still need an agency that will develop the technologies that corporations will reuse. There is unprofitable work to be done before things can be handed over to the likes of Mosk. That is what NASA has done for 50 years and the new corporate space ventures are the dividend of very old investments.
The shoulders of giants.
X is fine locally. It's even more suitable as a gaming platform than Windows and that's probably the best metric for deciding how suitable a local display is.
Remotely, X still manages to hold it's own despite being ancient.
With a few tweaks, X can even kind of keep up with RDP.
The real proof comes when you compare X to MacOS. This is a disaster that you have really experience for yourself to fully appreciate. I think far too many people take all of the pro-Apple propaganda at face value.
Remote MacOS is a disaster and that's the approach the Wayland idiots want to take.
Linux applications don't look like "hammered shit".
That's just mindless Lemming trolling.
Blob drivers getting you down? Vmware and Nvidia both solved that problem. Redhat and Ubuntu made it even easier.
It's really not the problem some people like to make it out to be.
BLOBS really only become a problem for companies that don't actually want to support Linux. They throw together a kernel specific binary and that's all you hear from them.
With dkms there's really no excuse at all for that anymore.
The kind of vendor that would give you a single kernel BLOB driver is probably a vendor you don't want to use with Windows either. Some stuff is just crap. Some companies are just crap.
You are going to get some crap in a free market regardless of how much you pander to hardware vendors.
X11 may be difficult to program and maintain if you are a developer.
It hasn't actualy been difficult to USE for a rather long time.
...yet oddly enough I am still using GNOME2 despite everyone's best attempts to kill it.
A fork needs to be popular to be relevant. Otherwise it is just noise. The same is true of distributions. Few people are aware of them all or even how many there are. Most are highly specialized or have no following to speak of.
So effectively the level of diversity you have to consider yourself is far less than what some Usenet troll might want you to think.
The same is true of display servers. These projects have to gain momentum, developers, and users. Mass revolts may undermine that.
Then there's infighting of course...
I have to confess. I am feeling a big mountain of shadenfreude right now...
In museum terms, that sort of thing would be a traveling exhibit. It's something that would reside in different real museums like the Da Vinci tech museum in Milan.
It's 2013. Standing in line for days for some consumer product that you can have shipped to your door the moment it's available is just retarded. It's like some kind of throwback to the 70s.
It's pretty much the opposite of the trendiness that Apple is trying to sell.
It's like 5 buttons. What's to publish?
Reverse engineer that trivial number of buttons and publish that on the web for anyone to use (and integrate into their $10 remotes).
If companies are interested in supporting it, it's pretty trivial if they have any interest in at all. Clearly your bargain bin IR remote vendors can't be bothered.
That's nonsense.
Linux is no less of a "closed system" than Windows or MacOS is yet those platforms support Netflix. Anyone can run a debugger or a memory monitor on those platforms and start chipping away at Netflix and their little stronghold.
A proprietary binary enforces the DRM. Doesn't matter if you are talking about Netflix or Amazon. Doesn't matter what platform you are talking about.
Linux happily plays protected Amazon streams and no one in Seattle gets their panties in a bunch over it.
Ironically enough, the situation is reversed with Amazon. My Linux desktop plays stuff just fine but my Android devices aren't supported/blessed with suitable apps.
1D is a line.
2D is a plane.
If we appear weak then forces inside the regime have no motivation to help stop the insanity. A show of force launched from some place they can't hope to touch is a benign reminder of what they're up against.
It doesn't matter to us much one way or the other.
Could mean a lot for our friends though.
Why should he have to go hunt for something that was a standard feature since about 1995?
They may not be "innovative" enough but they are a hell of a lot more useful than all of the abortive attempts to ape MacOS.
"Innovative" != useful.
This isn't about "leaning on closed source". This is about supporting the end users that Google just abandoned.
If they don't want it anymore, then they should have no problem giving it away and letting the user community fend for itself.
Apple sells proprietary crud layered on top of free software. They generally don't want you to be even aware of the free software. They just want you to fixate on the shiny shiny proprietary bits on the surface. The fact that they exploit the free labor of hobbyists doesn't alter the basic crass nature of their activities.
Apple are not "F/OSS developers".
Yes. However, the other guy does bring up a good point. There are such things as biblical scholars and they generally don't take the bible literally. This includes both Jews and Xians. Pretty much anyone with half a brain has gotten past the whole "word for word" idea a long time ago.
Given the nature of the work, it's kind of necessary really. You either adjust or sound like some toddler from the bronze age.
No. They're just developers. They're not stressed as much because they don't have to carry a production pager or respond when their code blows up in the wee hours of the night.
Not all of IT is on call.
In terms of certain job expectations they are. These include longer hours and working weekends and during the 3rd shift.
A lot of mundanes don't understand this. They hear that you've got some office job and they don't understand why you would be working those kinds of hours.
Clueless spouses can add to the stress level. Even spouses that are part of the workforce can be ignorant and unsympathetic.
Trek had this annoying habit of assuming that everything would be a Communist utopia after we met aliens for the first time. It was rather annoying. They especially neutered humans from TNG onward to be drained of anything interesting enough to allow for drama. Alien races became stand-ins for human flaws.
People in the 24th century will likely be not that different than those of the 4th.
JMS seemed to be much more of a realist.
Blu-ray players are now $60.
They haven't been hundreds of dollars for awhile now.