As a moral example, going all Sean Penn on the Papparazzi is understandable. They tresspass in a manner that none of the rest of us would tolerate. Thus jury nullification is a distinct possibility.
This has nothing to do with "it being Apple". It's a simple matter of allowed capabilities. An iPad is presented as an appliance with meaningful limitations on what the end user can do with it.
It's not a PC because Apple has chosen to play the role of corporate IT tyrant with it. The same goes with any other PC trying to pretend it's an appliance. (Android, Tivo, Router, NAS)
Hell. Nevemind 250K LOC. Just make it through a Slashdot post.
Being able to do something just hobbling along and doing it well are entirely two different things. Business is going to care about getting stuff done effectively and efficiently.
If the task requries more than a mouse on a PC, then it's likely to be a disaster on a tablet.
...which brings up an interesting question of how something like this could be considered novel enough to be patent worth when any Myth user could replciate this Microsoft atrocity with some shell scripting.
People still optimize to assembler. That idea never went away. So pointing out that we've "moved on" to C++ or Java doesn't really mean this kind of issue has gone away.
Some stuff still remains performance sensitive enough that people will go to the trouble of optimizing it at a lower level.
Science is all about reproducing results. This could be at Caltech or in some high school physics class room. Any findings have to stand up to independent verification from a wide number of sources.
If it's easy to find contrary data then it's time to start begin skeptical about some random published result.
You never know what kind of garbage went into it.
The difference between science and religion is that science does not treat the guys in lab coats and red hats as infallible.
Meanwhile the proles are actively campaigning for "tort reform" and trying to eliminate whatever accountability actually exists for these kinds of mistakes.
That kills the whole "mass market demand" for the product though.
Even now such tomes could likely survive by targeting institutions that have large amounts of money to throw around and plenty of users to amortize the cost over.
Multimedia was an afterthought on PCs. They were generally expensive and tended to be underpowered for what they tried to run. Windows wasn't even standard for much of the decade. Never mind "multi-media". Both sound cards and CD-ROM drives were expensive add-ons that may or may not have been included with a PC.
An H1B puts you at the mercy of your employer. This leads to a more relevant specialist with a PhD getting paid less than someone with less education, less experience, and a less relevant speciality. The main difference being the ability to walk out on your current employer.
The truth is that you don't have a magic money making machine that takes in time and spits out gold. No one really does. So all attempts to whine about "time not being free" are really quite assinine.
As far as "paying someone else" goes: there is no equivalent service. Even this thing at Walmart is rediculously incomplete.
The common man is probably far better off investigating iTunes.
Words have meaning. These meanings include differences that are significant both in legal and moral terms. If you choose to ignore these differences then you are ignoring both the law and morality.
You are in effect trying to create your own private law and your own private morals.
You are trying to claim the moral high ground when in truth you are liar and completely lawless.
There would be 3 thousand years of literature. There would be centuries of music. There would be decades of movies and television.
The far better question is "why bother" with the new stuff once you have a stockpile of the old stuff? Plenty of it is in the public domain and much of what isn't is very cheap.
> You can argue semantics all you want, but the base argument > is very simple and straight forward: Should you be allowed to > take another person's efforts and do whatever you want with > them?
Sure. The progress of all of human history would not exist otherwise. Even much celebrated "innovators" and "inventors" stood on the shoulders of others.
Copyright exists to serve the public good. It was never meant to be a form of property.
Server hardware? Who needs "server hardware"? Just put drives into any PC that you happen to have lying around. You're intentionally trying to make this harder and more expensive than it needs to be just to prove a point.
That might make you feel smug or something but it really has nothing to do with reality.
If you really are an "hourly guy" then you are in no position to throw money around. All of your "my time is valuable" rhetoric is just wishful thinking and nonsense.
Compressed, that amount of DVDs will fit in your pocket on a single 2.5 inch bus powered USB hard drive. A large Archos will be able to store half of them.
What does "efficient" really matter? What's your rush? So what if the physical ripping part takes awhile just because you do it "whenever" and don't "dedicate time" to it?
You are sabotaging the process and then complaining that it's not working.
Until any of these services can offer me what Target plus a DVD ripper can, then the whole point about "my time is valuable" is entirely moot. I can't buy a suitable replacement at any price.
I get something I can take anywhere and play on any device.
I get the largest selection of content available.
I get all of that stuff at competitive prices because you have multiple merchants selling the exact same item.
I never have to worry about companies going out of business or coupons "expiring".
I can copy this stuff at will and keep it forever.
You can do either depending on your preferences and the content in question. For something where the quality matters, you can just plain buy the BD and rip that. For other stuff, the degredation gained by re-compressing in a more modern format may not be such a tragedy.
If you can get more stuff on one disk, then that simplifies storage management. Plus, you can just have more stuff.
Ripping movies is trivial. You basically have ONE main features on a disk. Ripping TV shows is a little bit more interesting and involves mapping multiple titles on multiple disks with the associated episodes.
It's like CD ripping but without any of the nice automated disk metadata to take advantage of.
The whole "inconvenience" argument works much better with TV shows.
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As a moral example, going all Sean Penn on the Papparazzi is understandable. They tresspass in a manner that none of the rest of us would tolerate. Thus jury nullification is a distinct possibility.
This has nothing to do with "it being Apple". It's a simple matter of allowed capabilities. An iPad is presented as an appliance with meaningful limitations on what the end user can do with it.
It's not a PC because Apple has chosen to play the role of corporate IT tyrant with it. The same goes with any other PC trying to pretend it's an appliance. (Android, Tivo, Router, NAS)
Hell. Nevemind 250K LOC. Just make it through a Slashdot post.
Being able to do something just hobbling along and doing it well are entirely two different things. Business is going to care about getting stuff done effectively and efficiently.
If the task requries more than a mouse on a PC, then it's likely to be a disaster on a tablet.
It's much like saying that you can replace a shovel with a teaspoon. Both objects do much the same thing but they are hardly interchangeable.
A mobile browser is in no stretch of the imagination a replacecment for a PC browser. That's a little like saying we could all run Netscape 1.0.
A tablet doesn't even do web or email to adequately displace a PC.
Ever heard of Wrigley field.
This "advertising problem" is nothing new really.
It aint the "World Series" because it's supposed to be the world championship...
This insanity makes any sort of "disconnected" media experience have more value. It doesn't have to be piracy. It could be a conventional DVD player.
You don't have to pirate in order to accumulate a media stockpile that allows you to turn your back on this sort of crap.
...which brings up an interesting question of how something like this could be considered novel enough to be patent worth when any Myth user could replciate this Microsoft atrocity with some shell scripting.
People still optimize to assembler. That idea never went away. So pointing out that we've "moved on" to C++ or Java doesn't really mean this kind of issue has gone away.
Some stuff still remains performance sensitive enough that people will go to the trouble of optimizing it at a lower level.
Science is all about reproducing results. This could be at Caltech or in some high school physics class room. Any findings have to stand up to independent verification from a wide number of sources.
If it's easy to find contrary data then it's time to start begin skeptical about some random published result.
You never know what kind of garbage went into it.
The difference between science and religion is that science does not treat the guys in lab coats and red hats as infallible.
Meanwhile the proles are actively campaigning for "tort reform" and trying to eliminate whatever accountability actually exists for these kinds of mistakes.
That kills the whole "mass market demand" for the product though.
Even now such tomes could likely survive by targeting institutions that have large amounts of money to throw around and plenty of users to amortize the cost over.
They sell reprints of that. They're an interesting read.
I have a copy.
No. You obviously don't.
Multimedia was an afterthought on PCs. They were generally expensive and tended to be underpowered for what they tried to run. Windows wasn't even standard for much of the decade. Never mind "multi-media". Both sound cards and CD-ROM drives were expensive add-ons that may or may not have been included with a PC.
It's almost like what they taught us back in the dark ages:
An encyclopedia article is not sufficient research.
It's funny how some things remain true despite all of the superficial technology bits changing.
Yes. Grolier.
I knew that someone beat Microsoft to the punch and did it better but everyone remembers the 800lb gorilla.
An H1B puts you at the mercy of your employer. This leads to a more relevant specialist with a PhD getting paid less than someone with less education, less experience, and a less relevant speciality. The main difference being the ability to walk out on your current employer.
The truth is that you don't have a magic money making machine that takes in time and spits out gold. No one really does. So all attempts to whine about "time not being free" are really quite assinine.
As far as "paying someone else" goes: there is no equivalent service. Even this thing at Walmart is rediculously incomplete.
The common man is probably far better off investigating iTunes.
Words have meaning. These meanings include differences that are significant both in legal and moral terms. If you choose to ignore these differences then you are ignoring both the law and morality.
You are in effect trying to create your own private law and your own private morals.
You are trying to claim the moral high ground when in truth you are liar and completely lawless.
Nonsense. There would be plenty of stuff to copy.
There would be 3 thousand years of literature.
There would be centuries of music.
There would be decades of movies and television.
The far better question is "why bother" with the new stuff once you have a stockpile of the old stuff? Plenty of it is in the public domain and much of what isn't is very cheap.
> You can argue semantics all you want, but the base argument
> is very simple and straight forward: Should you be allowed to
> take another person's efforts and do whatever you want with
> them?
Sure. The progress of all of human history would not exist otherwise. Even much celebrated "innovators" and "inventors" stood on the shoulders of others.
Copyright exists to serve the public good. It was never meant to be a form of property.
Server hardware? Who needs "server hardware"? Just put drives into any PC that you happen to have lying around. You're intentionally trying to make this harder and more expensive than it needs to be just to prove a point.
That might make you feel smug or something but it really has nothing to do with reality.
If you really are an "hourly guy" then you are in no position to throw money around. All of your "my time is valuable" rhetoric is just wishful thinking and nonsense.
Compressed, that amount of DVDs will fit in your pocket on a single 2.5 inch bus powered USB hard drive. A large Archos will be able to store half of them.
What does "efficient" really matter? What's your rush? So what if the physical ripping part takes awhile just because you do it "whenever" and don't "dedicate time" to it?
You are sabotaging the process and then complaining that it's not working.
Until any of these services can offer me what Target plus a DVD ripper can, then the whole point about "my time is valuable" is entirely moot. I can't buy a suitable replacement at any price.
I get something I can take anywhere and play on any device.
I get the largest selection of content available.
I get all of that stuff at competitive prices because you have multiple merchants selling the exact same item.
I never have to worry about companies going out of business or coupons "expiring".
I can copy this stuff at will and keep it forever.
You can do either depending on your preferences and the content in question. For something where the quality matters, you can just plain buy the BD and rip that. For other stuff, the degredation gained by re-compressing in a more modern format may not be such a tragedy.
If you can get more stuff on one disk, then that simplifies storage management. Plus, you can just have more stuff.
That's kind of stupid.
Ripping movies is trivial. You basically have ONE main features on a disk. Ripping TV shows is a little bit more interesting and involves mapping multiple titles on multiple disks with the associated episodes.
It's like CD ripping but without any of the nice automated disk metadata to take advantage of.
The whole "inconvenience" argument works much better with TV shows.