If your a poor AMD user with an ati chipset your screwed.
I keep seeing this creep into Linux/Desktop discussions and I think you have outdated information.
This computer is an AMD Phenom system with an ATI HD3870 running Arch Linux and has no issues related to those two pieces of hardware. I know in the past ATI's drivers were notoriously poor or non-existant, but their current fglrx driver is perfectly capable of running WoW and TF2.
In the IP-free world you describe, how might this happen?
That person is paid for thinking as well as he/she does, similarly to how the artists are paid for playing their music when they do (little money per album sale goes to them). However, there simply will not be this towering middle man gatekeeper limiting the uses of what was produced. There's no need for that middle man in this Internet information age.
Sure, they won't be paid millions of dollars as their work is easily replicated, but if people want them to create more, they simply pay them to create. It may not be comfortable for the artist, but all of what the *AAs protect is entertainment. Since when was it necessary for an actor or musician to be rich? We can live without Brad Pitt, and Metallica entertaining us.
As for the IP not directly related to entertainment, I do not have such a clear cut answer as there isn't much media attention to the inefficiencies of their business model, and as such I've not given it much thought. But I'm very certain there is a way, if people are looking for it.
The hormonal/glandular issue is not common at all (and as I've heard from people is just as much a cop out as "big boned"), IIRC something below 5% of people have a physiological reason for retaining weight. Which I'm certain they would allow as an exception assuming it was being treated.
...economics catching up with technology. As anyone in the world can now create and distrubute any collection of bits to anyone else, a company attempting to prevent that is just wasting their time. As with most DRM, it only aggrivates their actual customers and poses a fun game to those who like hacking executable binaries.
While I have no solution yet, more attempts should be made to try new models of business i.e. Radiohead's pay if you wish model (while DRM is a "new" business model I personally feel it is on shady moral ground). Technology has the ability to enrich our lives, but when we try to just keep doing the same things in the same way as before, technology just gets in the way.
It'd be nice if our government was smart enough to actually take my custom PC and put it to good use, instead it will rot in an evidence room until obsolete.
The Internet was a huge mistake from a Corporate viewpoint. As it not only nullified most distribution costs, but took distribution out of the producer's hands (as any Joe-Shmoe can run a web server). This is to remove those people who use the Internet in any meaningful way from contributing to the "problem", thus allowing them move to a more controlled Internet, like the AOL of old. Websites will be *channels* and every 5 to 10 minutes or possibly every 2 to 4 pages of "Internet" there will be a commercial break for you to pay tribute to your ISP's corporate sponsors.
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You will get 30 days free when you buy a retail copy, or you can download the client for free and get 10 days free from blizzard themselves.
If your a poor AMD user with an ati chipset your screwed.
I keep seeing this creep into Linux/Desktop discussions and I think you have outdated information.
This computer is an AMD Phenom system with an ATI HD3870 running Arch Linux and has no issues related to those two pieces of hardware. I know in the past ATI's drivers were notoriously poor or non-existant, but their current fglrx driver is perfectly capable of running WoW and TF2.
In the IP-free world you describe, how might this happen?
That person is paid for thinking as well as he/she does, similarly to how the artists are paid for playing their music when they do (little money per album sale goes to them). However, there simply will not be this towering middle man gatekeeper limiting the uses of what was produced. There's no need for that middle man in this Internet information age.
Sure, they won't be paid millions of dollars as their work is easily replicated, but if people want them to create more, they simply pay them to create. It may not be comfortable for the artist, but all of what the *AAs protect is entertainment. Since when was it necessary for an actor or musician to be rich? We can live without Brad Pitt, and Metallica entertaining us.
As for the IP not directly related to entertainment, I do not have such a clear cut answer as there isn't much media attention to the inefficiencies of their business model, and as such I've not given it much thought. But I'm very certain there is a way, if people are looking for it.
The hormonal/glandular issue is not common at all (and as I've heard from people is just as much a cop out as "big boned"), IIRC something below 5% of people have a physiological reason for retaining weight. Which I'm certain they would allow as an exception assuming it was being treated.
...economics catching up with technology. As anyone in the world can now create and distrubute any collection of bits to anyone else, a company attempting to prevent that is just wasting their time. As with most DRM, it only aggrivates their actual customers and poses a fun game to those who like hacking executable binaries.
While I have no solution yet, more attempts should be made to try new models of business i.e. Radiohead's pay if you wish model (while DRM is a "new" business model I personally feel it is on shady moral ground). Technology has the ability to enrich our lives, but when we try to just keep doing the same things in the same way as before, technology just gets in the way.
It'd be nice if our government was smart enough to actually take my custom PC and put it to good use, instead it will rot in an evidence room until obsolete.
The Internet was a huge mistake from a Corporate viewpoint. As it not only nullified most distribution costs, but took distribution out of the producer's hands (as any Joe-Shmoe can run a web server). This is to remove those people who use the Internet in any meaningful way from contributing to the "problem", thus allowing them move to a more controlled Internet, like the AOL of old. Websites will be *channels* and every 5 to 10 minutes or possibly every 2 to 4 pages of "Internet" there will be a commercial break for you to pay tribute to your ISP's corporate sponsors.