Once again you miss my entire point. I'm sorry I haven't done a good enough job explaining it. I'll try one more time
My point is not that DRM is good. I agree, DRM is bad.
My point is not that the internet is evil, for heaven's sake I'm posting on/.. (ha, never puncuated a sentence ending in/. before) I love the internet, The internet is definitely the avenue for artists to promote and sell their own work. I wholeheartedly believe that if artists could post their music at a reasonable price on the internet, 99.9% of piracy would just go away AND the artists would make more money because that reasonable price would be a bigger cut than they get now.
What I AM trying to say is I can empathize with certain artists who are not developers or chip designers. I'm talking about the artists who don't know the difference between right click and left click. there are some who make excellent music who are completely computer illiterate.
These artists who don't have the skills to promote themselves have nowhere to go. Right now both record labels AND pirates are stealing from them. Right now they are victims.
Empathy, my post is about empathy. Even if I disagree with DRM, I can understand how these artists feel. I can understand why some artists think DRM is a good idea.
DRM is not the problem, DRM is a symptom of a larger problem that is exacerbated by a digital war between labels and pirates while artists are caught in the crossfire.
We're not in as much opposition as you think, I agree that the best avenue for artists right now is to promote and sell their work over the internet. Hopefully they can make their money by selling albums from their website and through live concerts.
I completely agree that this is the way to go and I have no doubt that there are artists already doing this.
The only problem is, this only works for internet savy musicians. Not all musicians are internet savy nor should they have to be. For those who are bad with computers, they get to choose between a record label stealing their money or pirates stealing their music. Neither is a good choice.
As for my game and working with microsoft, I was using that as an example. I'm really developing the game for fun. I don't expect to make any money. I'm developing for xbox because of the XNA sdk, C# express which they provide for free, and access to excellent 3d modeling and animation tools, game promotion, game distribution, and access to a developer community for a XNA community membership fee. I'm not developing for them because I trust them, I'm developing for them because I'm getting my moneys worth. I'm a huge fan of the Creators club:)
However, it has helped me see things from the artist's point of view.
I'm not saying that DRM is the best business strategy. But neither is letting people steal my work.
I'm trying to say that while people on here complain about the big record labels suing people and complain that DRM is unfair because the value of a digital copy is fractions of a cent the artists are getting ripped off by everybody. Not only are private individuals stealing their hard work but the record labels are also ripping them off.
but since the artist can't make money unless they go to a huge record label that can protect their work by investing ridiculous amounts of money into DRM schemes they must do it.
That's why I'm developing for Xbox, microsoft takes care of promoting and protecting my game while I develop it. For their services they take a healthy cut of the profits.
Piracy is contributing to the problem. If there was a reasonable way for artists to promote and sell their work for a profit they would use it instead of forking over their hard earned cash to the man.
right now there is no reasonable business strategy for the artist.
I'm writing a game for Xbox right now and I will do everything in my power to protect it. I want every person who plays and enjoys the game that I've spent many hours writing to pay me for my hard work.
I am not evil, I do not want to hold people back, I am not much more greedy than the next guy, it's just that I've spent a lot of time working through engineering textbooks and learning cryptic shader code to write this game and to me each copy of that game doesn't represent the effort it takes to ctrl+c, ctrl+v. To me that game represents the work that I've put into it
.
I pay for music that I listen to, not for the record companies, not because it takes great effort to copy the data, but because the artist have put their heart and souls into the music. They have put a lot of work into it and deserve to be payed.
If you don't like the big record labels don't listen to the music they produce.
well, since you're posting on/., you're probably in the top just like everybody else percentile here.
as fellow 1 percenter who thought the subject matter in school was easy, there was one topic in school that I found extremely challenging and as long as I worked on it I never got bored. it was.....................being social.
interacting with others is not something that has come naturally to me and the opportunities in school to help others catch up in class and hang out with kids at lunch were absolutely vital to my education
oh, and I drove everyone crazy asking questions and taking things apart and building other things out of the pieces without prescribed walk around the park time. Come to think of it I still drive everyone crazy asking questions and taking things apart.
The Volt is fundamentally different from other hybrids.
Hybrids up until now have all been parallel hybrids, which means that either the engine, or the motor can turn the wheels
The Volt, on the other hand, is a series hybrid which means that the engine is only used as a generator, the motor always turns the wheels. This saves significant drive-train weight and improves drive-train efficiency, it lets them choose a small, light engine and tune it specifically to one RPM that it always runs at. And it makes regenerative braking easier to implement.
It takes more energy to make hydrogen than what you get back out of it. You can't make this at home. But you can make electric power at home, for free.
It takes more energy to generate electricity than you get back out of it, that's called the second law of thermodynamics, and no, electric power from home is not free, I have to pay an electric bill for any electricity I use. and no, solar cells are not free either.
Hydrogen fuel necessitates a distribution network exactly the same as for petrol.
It turns out that electricity also requires a distribution network, and the current distribution network probably couldn't handle every person in the US charging their car every night.
Plus, it's unbelievably explosive -
Anything with a high energy density can explode, including batteries. Think of the recent laptops that have caught fire, this is because laptop batteries are pushing energy density as far as they can to get slim laptops.
A common mistake made with hydrogen is to think of it is an energy source, it is more comparable to energy storage. There are current prototype cars that are gasoline hydrogen hybrids instead of gasoline battery hybrids. You could have a full electric car that uses hydrogen for its energy storage in the same way that batteries can be used for energy storage. You could also have an infrastructure where hydrogen is produced centrally and then distributed.
battery and fuel cell technology is not developed enough to decide which one is better, it is very productive to continue to explore both options as well as other options. This will promote innovation and it will help make sure we really get the best solution in the end.
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There's gotta be some place where the legal definition of being alive depends on you having a pulse
You can't convict a dead person muahahahahahahaha
That would require building an evacuated tube that extends into space.
There's an app for that
All the system tray crap loads much faster in Windows 7 than in previous versiosn of windows.
Your plan is to rid the world of windows by using more .Net applications?~
You are a dork by simple virtue of the fact that you're posting on /..
.....dogh
NASA usually contracts private contractors to do their work.
They don't design or build much of anything themselves.
Sounds like an anarcho-syndicalist commune to me.
This is already happening, take a look at the silverlight control toolkit. It's a codeplex project with a few microsoft developers working on it.
I don't understand how anyone in their right mind may think that DRM is a good idea...
Well, I'm glad you understand my point, even if we disagree :).
Once again you miss my entire point. I'm sorry I haven't done a good enough job explaining it. I'll try one more time
My point is not that DRM is good. I agree, DRM is bad.
My point is not that the internet is evil, for heaven's sake I'm posting on /.. (ha, never puncuated a sentence ending in /. before) I love the internet, The internet is definitely the avenue for artists to promote and sell their own work. I wholeheartedly believe that if artists could post their music at a reasonable price on the internet, 99.9% of piracy would just go away AND the artists would make more money because that reasonable price would be a bigger cut than they get now.
What I AM trying to say is I can empathize with certain artists who are not developers or chip designers. I'm talking about the artists who don't know the difference between right click and left click. there are some who make excellent music who are completely computer illiterate.
These artists who don't have the skills to promote themselves have nowhere to go. Right now both record labels AND pirates are stealing from them. Right now they are victims.
Empathy, my post is about empathy. Even if I disagree with DRM, I can understand how these artists feel. I can understand why some artists think DRM is a good idea.
DRM is not the problem, DRM is a symptom of a larger problem that is exacerbated by a digital war between labels and pirates while artists are caught in the crossfire.
We're not in as much opposition as you think, I agree that the best avenue for artists right now is to promote and sell their work over the internet. Hopefully they can make their money by selling albums from their website and through live concerts.
I completely agree that this is the way to go and I have no doubt that there are artists already doing this.
The only problem is, this only works for internet savy musicians. Not all musicians are internet savy nor should they have to be. For those who are bad with computers, they get to choose between a record label stealing their money or pirates stealing their music. Neither is a good choice.
As for my game and working with microsoft, I was using that as an example. I'm really developing the game for fun. I don't expect to make any money. I'm developing for xbox because of the XNA sdk, C# express which they provide for free, and access to excellent 3d modeling and animation tools, game promotion, game distribution, and access to a developer community for a XNA community membership fee. I'm not developing for them because I trust them, I'm developing for them because I'm getting my moneys worth. I'm a huge fan of the Creators club :)
However, it has helped me see things from the artist's point of view.
I'm not saying that DRM is the best business strategy. But neither is letting people steal my work.
I'm trying to say that while people on here complain about the big record labels suing people and complain that DRM is unfair because the value of a digital copy is fractions of a cent the artists are getting ripped off by everybody. Not only are private individuals stealing their hard work but the record labels are also ripping them off.
but since the artist can't make money unless they go to a huge record label that can protect their work by investing ridiculous amounts of money into DRM schemes they must do it.
That's why I'm developing for Xbox, microsoft takes care of promoting and protecting my game while I develop it. For their services they take a healthy cut of the profits.
Piracy is contributing to the problem. If there was a reasonable way for artists to promote and sell their work for a profit they would use it instead of forking over their hard earned cash to the man.
right now there is no reasonable business strategy for the artist.
I'm writing a game for Xbox right now and I will do everything in my power to protect it. I want every person who plays and enjoys the game that I've spent many hours writing to pay me for my hard work.
I am not evil, I do not want to hold people back, I am not much more greedy than the next guy, it's just that I've spent a lot of time working through engineering textbooks and learning cryptic shader code to write this game and to me each copy of that game doesn't represent the effort it takes to ctrl+c, ctrl+v. To me that game represents the work that I've put into it
.
I pay for music that I listen to, not for the record companies, not because it takes great effort to copy the data, but because the artist have put their heart and souls into the music. They have put a lot of work into it and deserve to be payed.
If you don't like the big record labels don't listen to the music they produce.
well, since you're posting on /., you're probably in the top just like everybody else percentile here.
as fellow 1 percenter who thought the subject matter in school was easy, there was one topic in school that I found extremely challenging and as long as I worked on it I never got bored. it was.....................being social.
interacting with others is not something that has come naturally to me and the opportunities in school to help others catch up in class and hang out with kids at lunch were absolutely vital to my education
oh, and I drove everyone crazy asking questions and taking things apart and building other things out of the pieces without prescribed walk around the park time. Come to think of it I still drive everyone crazy asking questions and taking things apart.
How much does the tool cost and where can I find one?
that CPUs will only improve by a factor of 3.
yahoo will just use a clever computer program to skim all the fractions of cents off the top of every transaction.
Wow, a person who is truly upset by the typography of a math textbook.
I commend you. You sir, are a nerd's nerd.
The Volt is fundamentally different from other hybrids.
Hybrids up until now have all been parallel hybrids, which means that either the engine, or the motor can turn the wheels
The Volt, on the other hand, is a series hybrid which means that the engine is only used as a generator, the motor always turns the wheels. This saves significant drive-train weight and improves drive-train efficiency, it lets them choose a small, light engine and tune it specifically to one RPM that it always runs at. And it makes regenerative braking easier to implement.
The Volt is a huge jump in technology.
Why is it than whenever there's one of these death to microsoft articles, no one brings up DirectX?
Are there any decent games for a Mac since Oregon trail? Are there any 3D games for Linux that don't look like Tron?
Back in the days of WP 5.1, it was the standard word processing program for the legal industry.
I interned at a law office 4 or 5 years ago and they still used WP 5.1.
I did not think it was better.
there was a place where you could borrow any book you wanted for free as long as you promise to take good care of it and return it in a timely manner.
there is just such a competition: http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/
It takes more energy to make hydrogen than what you get back out of it. You can't make this at home. But you can make electric power at home, for free.
It takes more energy to generate electricity than you get back out of it, that's called the second law of thermodynamics, and no, electric power from home is not free, I have to pay an electric bill for any electricity I use. and no, solar cells are not free either.
Hydrogen fuel necessitates a distribution network exactly the same as for petrol.
It turns out that electricity also requires a distribution network, and the current distribution network probably couldn't handle every person in the US charging their car every night.
Plus, it's unbelievably explosive -
Anything with a high energy density can explode, including batteries. Think of the recent laptops that have caught fire, this is because laptop batteries are pushing energy density as far as they can to get slim laptops.
A common mistake made with hydrogen is to think of it is an energy source, it is more comparable to energy storage. There are current prototype cars that are gasoline hydrogen hybrids instead of gasoline battery hybrids. You could have a full electric car that uses hydrogen for its energy storage in the same way that batteries can be used for energy storage. You could also have an infrastructure where hydrogen is produced centrally and then distributed.
battery and fuel cell technology is not developed enough to decide which one is better, it is very productive to continue to explore both options as well as other options. This will promote innovation and it will help make sure we really get the best solution in the end.