These systems only work when you share as much as you receive. Kind of like people who are dead set against Google knowing minor anonymous details about their life yet at the same time are happy for live traffic feedback in navigation apps.
If you're the type of person who is interested in leech only, then this is most definitely not even remotely the product for you.
TCM gave the slightly more succinct version, but I concur with him (or her) in your argument's lack of merit.
I'm perfectly fine with Google knowing my position and speed for the very reasons you specify - when and only when I'm using it to navigate. Throw a copy of LBE Security Master on your phone and set Google Maps to 'prompt' mode every time it wants your location. It's amazing how often it wants to know where I am, even when I'm not actively navigating.
I have a hosted Exchange account that I link to my phone. Why then, does Google automatically sync my calendar and contacts from Gmail when I sign into the phone? Literally the only three services of Google I want to use on my phone are Maps (on demand only), Search (only through Firefox), and the Play Store. Google seems to believe I want more than that; not the least of examples is the inclusion of Google+ as a "system" app or the automatic login to Google Sites and Youtube.
The flaw in your BitTorrent logic is this: The way BitTorrent works, if I'm sharing a Kubuntu Whacky Wombat ISO, then yes, I will be expected to upload as I download...but solely for THAT ISO. I assure you that there would be significantly fewer BT users if the protocol required sharing your My Documents directory despite the ISO living on a different hard disk entirely. The latter is what Google and Facebook both do, and it's why people like myself feel the need to use tools like LBE, Permission Denied, Pdroid, and Droidwall.
It's a bit of an obtuse way of doing things, but I use LBE Security Master, Droidwall and Permission Denied altogether. I have each blocking the internet access of the other two, so odds are pretty bad that any information is getting out the front door as a result. From there, it's just a matter of using each of them to deny what's necessary. LBE is great because it's simple, but it's limited to contacts, internet, SMS, and GPS data. While that's the core set of data, Permission Denied lets you pull access for basically every API, including camera and access to onboard accounts.
It's sad that my Linux-based phone requires more security tools than my Windows laptop, but eternal vigilance is the cost of freedom:/
Meh if you are using a browser in low rights mode with sandboxing who fricking cares.
You don't have to do legit system damage to be annoying. I've had plenty of users who have gotten infections consisting of a single executable in a temp folder that managed to somehow get itself to start up often enough to make a mess of people's systems. It helps prevent PERSISTENT damage that requires post-infection tools like Combofix or gMER, but it is still enough to make users upset and think that Super Duper Antivirus 2015 Pro has found kiddiepr0ndownloader.trojan and that they need to pay $29.95 using a Greenpak card in order to get rid of it.
Seriously, let 'em boot off a CD, do their internetness, and let it all go away after reboot. If you have guests that are sufficiently malicious as to scrub through your hard disk from a live Linux environment, you've got plenty of other issues right behind it. If you're simply looking to fix stupid, then grab a Live CD boot off it, and let it exist that way. Unless there's a particular need, don't complicate things.
None of them are actually funny, at least in print. Nearly all involve passengers attempting to say "I have a bomb" in a humorous manner in some capacity. Now I'd love to see the TSA abolished as much as the next Slashdotter, but I for one don't find bomb jokes funny in the context of an airport.
Now, if you want to read something regarding airlines that are actually funny, might I recommend either this or this, or this.
1.8 teraflops, 800MHz clock speed... so they're aiming for a GPU with roughly the same power of something nVidia released in 2010?
Not to mention only 8GB RAM shared between GPU & CPU, I'm sure that'll last us for years to come!
Two pieces of fairness here...
1.) the PS3 had 256MBytes of RAM on its release. 2.) like every other console, it can get away with having lower specs than a general purpose PC - it doesn't have to run an operating system in the same sense that a desktop does; in broad terms it's closer to ESXi and its requirements than Win7/OSX/Ubuntu in its, so far more of that RAM can go to the game itself.
Bonus: Even if we postulate that the OS takes a gig of RAM itself, 7GB is roughly 1/3 of a single layer Blu-Ray disc. I know that HD textures can eat up graphics RAM pretty quickly, but is it really limiting to have 1/3 of a game in RAM at a time? Let's face it, console game creation has always involved working within some incredibly tight limits...even Crysis 3 doesn't require that amount of RAM to play. If 7GB of RAM and streaming the rest from an internal hard disk is a constraint, then I'd be forced to assume that the people writing games cut their teeth on ActiveX controls...
...I really shouldn't be doing this at nearly 1AM...
1.) I've always heard that there are solid grounds for debate. a "Long Day Creationist" (one who believes that the world/universe was created in 6 indeterminate periods of time) and a "Short Day Creationist" (one who believes that the world/universe was created in six periods of twenty four hours) both believe that the earth was created by God. It's not "fudging an interpretation" when there is room for questioning of God's methods, but the duration of time God used to perform the creation of the universe is an attempt to understand an implementation. It's not fudging to say that there were distinct stages, which the Bible does refer to as "days", and then have an internal debate as to exactly how it went down. It's loosely akin to saying "CentOS is the best server Linux distro!" only to have someone else say, "No, Debian is!" the two may have a disagreement as to which implementation of Linux is ideal, but they both agree that Windows Server 2012 isn't the tool for the job.
2.) Can someone PLEASE let me know where this whole "God testing us" crap came from? I'm sure someone somewhere said it, and I'm sure that someone somewhere believes it...but the rest of us are of the persuasion that much of the fossil record is in much of the state it's in due to the Genesis Flood; a worldwide flood causing the highest mountains to be covered (whether it be the highest known mountains at that time, or Everest) would involve enough water to cause some significant changes in the geographical layout and cover a whole lot of bones in a whole lot of sand over a very short period of time (with additional fossilization having happened before the Flood, and plenty after as well, as the natural course of such things tend to happen).
3.) Admittedly there's plenty of speculation on my part for this one, but Adam was listed as having lived 913 years, and Eve likely lived somewhere around there as well. I'm certain that they had plenty of other children besides Cain and Abel, they were simply the ones that made headlines. I'd wager the $5 I've got in my pocket that most people reading this would have to head over to Google/Wiki in order to get insight into the 13 ancestors of Louis XIV, but most of us learned about THAT guy in history class. The Bible wasn't exactly written like a complete family tree or Holy Phone Book.
4.) I'm certain they'll find someone to arbitrate if the offer money on top of that for their services.
Uhm...I've had visual voicemail...since 2008...for free...including the ability to save voicemails to audio files on my SD card...on a phone running Windows Mobile 6.1. Their candybar phones don't have this functionality obviously, but every Android and Windows Mobile phone they've sold since the Touch Pro2 has been capable of visual voicemail, and as long as you have a data plan, they don't charge you extra for it.
Just 'friended' you because it's always nice to see a fellow DJ on Slashdot, and thus, I think I'm baiting myself for an "offtopic" mod since I gather that you will understand me, but many with mod points will not. I started out using Mixmeister (still an excellent product in its own right), but then went to Torq (also an excellent product, just a bit too late to market with a few too many shortcomings in its early releases), and finally got myself an SL-3 a few years ago. There are three broad reasons why I'm unconvinced that DJs are keeping the market alive in the way that you claim:
1.) The best selling record for the last several years is, unsurprisingly, the Serato control vinyl. Resultantly, a handful of vinyl pressing plants are still up and running, but the medium as a whole isn't really garnering many DJs.
2.) Panasonic stopped making the Technics 1200s in 2010. I love my Numark TTX decks, and there's been a Stanton turntable that a few jocks have said comes in "close second" to the 1200, but getting into the vinyl game these days requires much more intent, especially since...
3a.) Controllers are all the rage these days. Everyone from American Audio to Pioneer is making a controller with jog wheels and cue points these days, and I'd wager that most of the bedroom DJs are starting there, simply because it's a much more affordable starting point than a pair of turntables at minimum $800/pair - you can get a Virtual DJ controller, the kitchen sink edition of VDJ, and a whole lot of Beatport tracks for the same money.
3b.) I'd love to see plenty more top 40 tracks make their way onto vinyl so I could get a better handle at spinning real vinyl vs. control tone (I do mobile stuff, not clubs). The chicken-and-egg problem is that it's incredibly difficult to amass enough records to justify the workflow, and even then you're hard pressed to get Crooklyn Clan style transitions and party breaks pressed to wax. Sure, you'll always find a club guy or two who will keep to vinyl, and yes, I'd love nothing more than to be able to mark up all of my records with cue labels and be able to go out and do a set with them. If you're starting out now, it takes a LOT more dedication to get a pair of turntables and enough vinyl to forego a DVS, and at that, you'll need to make a name for yourself with "I only spin REAL vinyl" being your schtick, and then find someone who cares enough about what you use to make that an actual selling point, AND is willing to pay you what you're asking since you'll inevitably be asking more than the next guy who is using the aforementioned controller and collection of MP3s from Beatport or DJ City.
Me personally, I was thrilled to find Deborah Cox's "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven" and Tiesto's "Silence" (the "In Search of Sunrise" mix that takes the entire side of a 33) both pressed on vinyl. If I find a recognizable track here or there, I'll pick it up. Every so often I'll go on eBay on a vinyl binge and see if I can find any memorable songs pressed on a record, but it once annually, if that, when I find myself setting Scratch Live into "thru" mode to play an actual record...if for no other reason that I've been spoiled by relative mode where bumping the needle doesn't actually cause a disruption to the music.
I've been editing video on Adobe Premiere since the 6.1 days, on a 733MHz PIII with 256MB of RAM, 80GBytes of storage on a SCSI Raid-5 array with an offboard Adaptec controller, and a dedicated Matrox effects/MPEG-2 render card. You can stay on my lawn, but avoid the gnomes...
(Note: I edit on Windows; the following will skew in that direction, iMovie and Final Cut are both good, yadda yadda, platform wars aren't the point here)
Adobe, Sony, Corel, and Cyberlink basically own the market here, and the reason is fairly straightforward: if Windows Movie Maker doesn't work for you, $100 or less will buy you software that does. If $100 software doesn't cut it for you, you need the $600 versions of Premiere or Vegas.
I remember trying Jahshakah with its promises of being the best-of-both-worlds between Premiere and After Effects...and while pretty, trying to get clips to reliably appear and be manipulated on the timeline is an uphill battle, and there I'm being kind. The last time I used it, NOTHING was labeled; it was a 'hieroglyphics interface'. That may have changed as of late, admittedly it's been some time.
Kdenlive is about the best NLE I've seen on Linux, and seems to be largely stable. If I found myself on a Linux box and forced to edit a video, it would indeed be my weapon of choice. It does, however, suffer from many of the same problems as the rest of the FOSS video programs; more on that in a bit.
Cinelerra seemed to have LOTS of potential; I really liked its ability to network render things. However, it was clear that whoever designed the UI was likely a programmer, not as much a video editor. I found it incredibly complicated and once again, couldn't get my feet off the ground when attempting its use.
All of that being said, the common thing all these titles had that kept them miles behind their for-profit counterparts on Windows: effects. Now yes, many, MANY people use effects poorly. I hate overly effect-heavy clips as much as the next guy, especially the cartoonish transitions that Pinnacle Studio nickels and dimes you for. However, even things like color correction, EQing, reverb, split-screen, and DVE transitions were all sorely lacking as opposed to what came bone stock with all the rest of the editors. Partial dissolves, alpha channels, and any number of subtle-yet-effective things were all but nonexistent. Additionally, Adobe and Sony have excellent plug-in ecosystems. If you don't like what comes in the box, Pixelan, NewBlue, BorisFX, Panopticum, Magic Bullet, and a swath of others will be all too happy to sell you their solutions. Linux doesn't have this at all. DVD Flick will burn a DVD and add a menu to it, but even its functionality is limited in comparison to the ten-year-old Ulead DVD Workshop.
On top of that, format support has traditionally been inconsistent (AVCHD, I'm looking at you). You're guaranteed to run into some real hurdles if you're planning on spitting out MPEG-4 and keeping your source GPL'd.
Now...the UI of OpenShot looks like they solved many of these problems, which is awesome. However, OpenShot will end up with yet another hurdle in its path: Crash Acceptance. Premiere Pro CS2 crashed. a LOT. I can't begin to count the number of hours I lost to having lapsed memory of hitting Ctrl+S. Vegas was somewhat more stable, but it wasn't using the Matrox hardware. But after a $2,000 investment between hardware and software, we accepted that it was a fact of life. I fear that OpenShot will run into significant hurdles in this regard. If a company the size of Adobe or Sony can't get their software stable, supporting one platform (Yes, Premiere used to support MacOS, then it didn't, then it did again; Vegas never did, PowerDirector never did, and Video Studio was also Windows-only), I have my questions regarding the stability of such a title on Windows. Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE to see Adobe and Sony quake in their boots over it, but this too raises the question as to whether either company will simply let a largely-successful OpenShot li
As a DJ, I'll hopefully shed a little light on this:
1.) few DJs of any skill and seasoned experience will use the internal soundcard. Odds are good that they're using an offboard unit like the Audio8, Rane SL-2/3/4, Presonus Firepod...or some similar interface that costs between $500-$1,000 and is built properly with audio isolation, etc.
2.) Songs that an average top 40 DJ plays are likely compressed to hell and optimized for iPod earbuds, not actual speakers. Some people have the time and opportunity to optimize a 64-band EQ for each song they listen to, but as a DJ I'll say that the odds are good that I've got less than 90 seconds to pick and queue my next track; I'll fix the EQ if there's a particularly audible distortion or it sounds like it'd be "piercing" on the floor, but other than that I've got bigger fish to fry when I'm spinning.
3.) Some DJs get songs "the right way" and are properly encoded. Others still traverse Frostwire or whatever the latest P2P music sharing app is. There's no guarantee that the jock didn't get a sucktastic encode and didn't realize it until it was too late...
4.) Even if the audio is clean up to the mixer, there' s no guarantee it doesn't hit an old/horridly configured/poorly cabled preamp, crossover, or amplifier before it hits the speakers. The speakers themselves could be in dire need of a reconing or be mismatched with the amps, etc. There's *plenty* of areas in the post-mixer realm for audio quality to degrade. Even if you're getting a mostly-perfect, amplified signal, the "sizzle" gets louder, too. If the sizzle is -90dbm, and you're amplifying it by 100dbm, it's gonna hit that floor well before headphones will.
If anyone has any suggestions about other brands, products, or experiences I'd be happy to hear them. Because I certainly can't seem to find a reasonable alternative.
Now, the one thing I will say about my EON17 is that the keyboard on it is crap. The newer flavors of this model have nicer keyboards so I'm not sure if they're better in that regard, but that's one of two things I will hold against them (the other being battery life, but there's no such thing as a laptop with a desktop-grade core i7, GeForce 460M, three hard drives, and a long lasting battery). If you're doing serious typing to the point where a keyboard is more of a dealbreaker than anything else, some of the business grade Dell units still have an IBM-esque keyboard on them. If literally all else fails, Latitude D630's are a dime a dozen on eBay, and they're generally "quick enough" and have a pretty nice typing keyboard. Me personally, I have a USB gaming keyboard with Cherry MX keys on it. My friend told me he's getting me a Model M for my birthday that he's going to insist I start using...but I digress.
I don't work for Origin PC, but I am an incredibly satisfied customer. Now I completely understand that the 11-pound EON17 isn't for everyone, but they have a much more modest slim version, a 15" version, and an 11" laptop, all of which sport a core i7, either a glossy or matte screen, and as much RAM as you're willing to pay for. You can max out the specs, but what you pay for is the best support in the industry. I know everyone thinks that this award belongs to Apple, but let me know when an Apple support rep calls you from their personal cell phone on their day off to make sure that you got the support you needed - because one of their guys did that for me. They'll work with you on basically anything you need...I must have called their sales guy a dozen times, asking the most bizarre questions before I sent them a deposit check.
It's not for everyone, and if you're looking to spend south of $1,500 on a laptop you're probably screwed (even $2,500 will likely involve compromise). However, if you want a performance laptop with people who stand behind them and have the cash to prove it, then this is where your search ends.
Usage fees can work in certain areas, but not others. For example, military situations. Yes, I know, war is bad and all that...but if you find yourself stuck in one, does one pay a "usage fee" to the military? Does one only continue to fight as long as enough people agree to "use" it? Do soldiers only protect citizens who have paid the usage fee?
Do police require payment for each time they arrest someone for a crime? Can someone opt to not "use" the services of the officer and avoid a ticket?
Do firemen only fight fires of people who have paid usage fees? If someone doesn't pay the fee beforehand, how can they after their house has burned down?
The number of usage fees tied to a gallon of gasoline is astounding. You've got the EPA guys, the financial auditor guys, and the guys from the Bureau of weights and measures.
"Pay for what you use" works well in theory, In practice to to has its shortcomings.
The thing I don't like about it is that it ruins the certificate trust system. With every site signed by the same certificate, even bad ones are accepted by the browser and there is no way to tell them apart.
Counterpoint: If you're in an environment where you're using AD/Group Policy and a squid proxy, you're probably dealing with a group of users that require that sort of network control. Implicitly, they're not checking their certs anyway and wouldn't be able to meaningfully tell the good from the bad even if they had access to that information. If users were doing that, MITM SSL Cert signing wouldn't be necessary in the first place.
That's not quite accurate. Any business customer with thousands of customers who are buying their copies of Office through retail channels have significantly bigger issues. This licensing scheme only applied to retail copies of Office. OEM copies of Windows and Office have always been tied to the chassis, and Volume Licensing customers have their own EULAs that generally involve a Multiple Activation Key or Volume Licensing Server, neither of which tie you to hardware. No, this was Microsoft truly believing that home users and small businesses were so loyal to Microsoft Office that they'd buy a new copy every time their hardware failed, or that they would prefer yet another bill to arrive in the mail annually. Anyone with a brain stem would see that all it's going to do is drive more and more customers to either LibreOffice or The Pirate Bay, but unfortunately the people with said brain stems who work for Microsoft are doing cool stuff at Microsoft Research and missed their opportunity to raise the average IQ in the planning meeting to a double digit number.
If you think the Win 8 interface is horrible, just wait until you try Server 2012. Metro. On a server. For reelz.
Why? WHY???????
Because someone in the Windows Server area either said, "y'know what the future is? touch screens...on a server!", "We want to end the concept of companies hosting their own servers and spur along 'cloud migration' REALLY bad", or "Server 2008R2 is an excellent platform that will serve our customers well for years to come". The one guy who stood up in that meeting and said, "y'know...most people who administer servers do so over Remote Desktop or Powershell" was promptly killed by a flying chair.
You got this too? I just ordered a Crucial M4 on sale a few weeks ago. the day after I installed and cloned it, I had the same situation where it wouldn't start. I called Crucial, expecting to need an RMA. Luckily I got an informed gentleman on the phone who told me to leave it at the failed POST screen for 20 minutes, reboot, and give it another 20 minutes, and reboot again. It worked. Supposedly it's not so much a 'bug' as an 'obscure feature'....I'm keeping my spinning rust drive around just in case.
I really don't understand how you can find that more annoying than dealing with physical media.
Crysis 3 is 14GBytes. It takes less than 30 minutes to install from the DVD, more than triple that over a residential 15/2 cable connection. On my home DSL line (3Mbit/768Kbit), it *might* be done by tomorrow morning.
It takes less time to go to Gamestop, buy the disc, drive home, and install it, than it does to download from Origin anywhere except at work (where we've got 100/100). Not all of us have Google Fiber.
Let's be fair on this though. Their concept of a "computer" was royally different than what we're using today. They saw a computer as something that was room-sized, required a plumber, had power needs that are well beyond the scope of residential electrical configuration, and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not millions). They were programmed "to the machine", and generally were designed to be dialed into from dumb terminals anyway. Let's be serious, there's probably not even five Slashdotters that own an IBM BlueGene. THAT is what they were thinking when they said what they said. This does still make them wrong, but not laughably so.
The concept of a desktop, laptop, or touchscreen smartphone with 2GB of RAM and a 1.5GHz processor running off a battery is one that hadn't entered the mind of Ken or Tom when they said what they said.
Yes, there were indeed ways to download music long before Napster. There were ways to "copyright infringe" music before computers. Let me break it down for you...
Before Napster, there were FTP sites you could browse. Today, you can google $SOME_ARTIST, $SOME_SONG, and "Parent Directory" and usually find what you want...but that was far from the norm in the days of AltaVista. Usenet browsing is similarly possible if you're able and willing to dig.
Before using the internet, we used our 4x CD burners to copy CDs onto blanks. Before that, we used dual-deck cassette recorders, and before that...reel-to-reel, I guess. The point is that being able to retain and listen to permanent copies of songs users hadn't paid for indeed did not start with Napster.
What set Napster apart from the others was the fact that it was widespread, easy for novices, didn't suffer generational losses, or for the individual who wanted the song to know the person who had it. The fact that it was very easy for others to use it meant that they could share their collections, and it didn't take too long for the total breadth of music available on Napster to widely eclipse any existing distribution mechanism in existence at that time.
You've echoed many of the sentiments responded elsewhere, and I'll hope that the other posters are eagle-eyed enough to see this response instead of me cutting-and-pasting everywhere.
I pulled a few ideas off the top of my head, clearly without the market research or engineering teams required to actually bring one to fruition. I'm also not saying that every model is a good idea, just that if HTC keeps trying to compete with both the iPhone and Galaxy series phones, they're going to have to be very content with third place. The Marathon, for example, has a much better chance when its only competition is the Droid Razr Maxx HD. The Click has a great chance of being the best phone with a slide-out keyboard, especially when no competitors seem to want to address that at all. The Simplicity clearly isn't going to sell by the trillions, but doing so helps win a MUCH easier race with a relative minimum of R&D behind it. The Tinker already exists: it's called the HTC HD2, and it already runs WinMo 6.5 officially, with unofficial ports of Android, WP7, Ubuntu, and an incredibly-buggy-but-technically-bootable WP8 port. HTC might not be able to "officially" make it happen, but a wink and a nudge and a set of drivers that just so happen to cross compile incredibly easily, they can simply follow the trail that already exists.
What I'm ultimately getting at is that HTC is trying to do what everyone else is doing - making phones more anorexic, shinier, and shedding user replaceable parts. Their last flagship phone was the Evo 4G, and then Samsung completely stole their thunder, and they've got an incredibly challenging uphill battle ahead of them if they're going to return to the glory days of the Sensation and the Evo.Instead, I'm suggesting that by sacrificing their lust for the best selling Android handset ever, they can make handsets that won't sell in GS3 numbers but will have a particular "killer feature" that some users were sad to give up by getting their shiny Samsung. They won't all flock back, but they'll at least have a differentiating feature besides the flip clock.
If I were HTC, I would *let* Samsung take the flat-slab, single-button, iPhone clone handset market...and then concentrate on the niches. For example:
--HTC Universal: Every possible cellular frequency is supported, and shipped SIM unlocked. One handset that can roam freely between Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T, plus European and Asian cellular systems, at full data speed.
--HTC Marathon: Twice as thick as an iPhone...with a 5,000mAh battery that can last two full days on a charge.
--HTC Pure: From Google's Github to your phone in 72 hours. Those pining for a Sense-free, timely update situation can have it in the Pure.
--HTC Click: My HTC Touch Pro2 had, hands down, the best keyboard on a mobile phone I've ever used. The Click is that handset with a new processor, more RAM and storage, and capacitive screen.
--HTC Tower: If you live or work too far away from a tower for a normal handset to get a signal, the Tower will ensure your call gets there.
--HTC Vault: For users with far too much data, this handset has 256GB of internal storage, and uses the same technology as a desktop SSD to ensure that data gets in and out as fast as possible.
--HTC Flick: Glass lenses and optical zoom increase the thickness of this handset that has a camera that outperforms even most dedicated point-and-shoot cameras from Canon and Nikon.
--HTC Simplicity: There's still a small dumbphone market, and the Jitterbug caters to users who want a phone that reliably makes phone calls and is easy to read. The Jitterbug can withstand a little competition.
--HTC Tinker: This handset is born to be hacked. No locked bootloader, no rooting required, and images for Android, Windows Phone 8, and Ubuntu are all available direct from the manufacturer.
There are plenty of niches where HTC can compete. They just have to stop trying to play the "lowest common denominator" card and trying to convince users to choose them over the Galaxy S3.
Then we're screwed. There's already case precedent of "It's a license when it benefits us" and "It's a physical object when it benefits us". VMWare licenses are not transferable when a company acquires a company. Don't even get me started on Oracle Hell.
The fact of the matter is that Autodesk set the case precedent that any judge will look at if EA/Ubisoft/Activision/Whoever gets sued over the inability to transfer a license. You'll be hard pressed to find a case precedent where software companies lose to claims of fair use, even legitimate ones.
Count me in on your hope for a positive outcome. Count me out for waiting to see it happen.
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The classic bit-torrent problem.
These systems only work when you share as much as you receive. Kind of like people who are dead set against Google knowing minor anonymous details about their life yet at the same time are happy for live traffic feedback in navigation apps.
If you're the type of person who is interested in leech only, then this is most definitely not even remotely the product for you.
TCM gave the slightly more succinct version, but I concur with him (or her) in your argument's lack of merit.
I'm perfectly fine with Google knowing my position and speed for the very reasons you specify - when and only when I'm using it to navigate. Throw a copy of LBE Security Master on your phone and set Google Maps to 'prompt' mode every time it wants your location. It's amazing how often it wants to know where I am, even when I'm not actively navigating.
I have a hosted Exchange account that I link to my phone. Why then, does Google automatically sync my calendar and contacts from Gmail when I sign into the phone? Literally the only three services of Google I want to use on my phone are Maps (on demand only), Search (only through Firefox), and the Play Store. Google seems to believe I want more than that; not the least of examples is the inclusion of Google+ as a "system" app or the automatic login to Google Sites and Youtube.
The flaw in your BitTorrent logic is this: The way BitTorrent works, if I'm sharing a Kubuntu Whacky Wombat ISO, then yes, I will be expected to upload as I download...but solely for THAT ISO. I assure you that there would be significantly fewer BT users if the protocol required sharing your My Documents directory despite the ISO living on a different hard disk entirely. The latter is what Google and Facebook both do, and it's why people like myself feel the need to use tools like LBE, Permission Denied, Pdroid, and Droidwall.
It's a bit of an obtuse way of doing things, but I use LBE Security Master, Droidwall and Permission Denied altogether. I have each blocking the internet access of the other two, so odds are pretty bad that any information is getting out the front door as a result. From there, it's just a matter of using each of them to deny what's necessary. LBE is great because it's simple, but it's limited to contacts, internet, SMS, and GPS data. While that's the core set of data, Permission Denied lets you pull access for basically every API, including camera and access to onboard accounts.
It's sad that my Linux-based phone requires more security tools than my Windows laptop, but eternal vigilance is the cost of freedom :/
Meh if you are using a browser in low rights mode with sandboxing who fricking cares.
You don't have to do legit system damage to be annoying. I've had plenty of users who have gotten infections consisting of a single executable in a temp folder that managed to somehow get itself to start up often enough to make a mess of people's systems. It helps prevent PERSISTENT damage that requires post-infection tools like Combofix or gMER, but it is still enough to make users upset and think that Super Duper Antivirus 2015 Pro has found kiddiepr0ndownloader.trojan and that they need to pay $29.95 using a Greenpak card in order to get rid of it.
Seriously, let 'em boot off a CD, do their internetness, and let it all go away after reboot. If you have guests that are sufficiently malicious as to scrub through your hard disk from a live Linux environment, you've got plenty of other issues right behind it. If you're simply looking to fix stupid, then grab a Live CD boot off it, and let it exist that way. Unless there's a particular need, don't complicate things.
The first "this" in the prior post is supposed to be this link:
http://www.businessballs.com/airtrafficcontrollersfunnyquotes.htm
Next time, I shall use the 'preview' button to actually preview.
None of them are actually funny, at least in print. Nearly all involve passengers attempting to say "I have a bomb" in a humorous manner in some capacity. Now I'd love to see the TSA abolished as much as the next Slashdotter, but I for one don't find bomb jokes funny in the context of an airport.
Now, if you want to read something regarding airlines that are actually funny, might I recommend either this or this, or this.
1.8 teraflops, 800MHz clock speed... so they're aiming for a GPU with roughly the same power of something nVidia released in 2010?
Not to mention only 8GB RAM shared between GPU & CPU, I'm sure that'll last us for years to come!
Two pieces of fairness here...
1.) the PS3 had 256MBytes of RAM on its release.
2.) like every other console, it can get away with having lower specs than a general purpose PC - it doesn't have to run an operating system in the same sense that a desktop does; in broad terms it's closer to ESXi and its requirements than Win7/OSX/Ubuntu in its, so far more of that RAM can go to the game itself.
Bonus: Even if we postulate that the OS takes a gig of RAM itself, 7GB is roughly 1/3 of a single layer Blu-Ray disc. I know that HD textures can eat up graphics RAM pretty quickly, but is it really limiting to have 1/3 of a game in RAM at a time? Let's face it, console game creation has always involved working within some incredibly tight limits...even Crysis 3 doesn't require that amount of RAM to play. If 7GB of RAM and streaming the rest from an internal hard disk is a constraint, then I'd be forced to assume that the people writing games cut their teeth on ActiveX controls...
...I really shouldn't be doing this at nearly 1AM...
1.) I've always heard that there are solid grounds for debate. a "Long Day Creationist" (one who believes that the world/universe was created in 6 indeterminate periods of time) and a "Short Day Creationist" (one who believes that the world/universe was created in six periods of twenty four hours) both believe that the earth was created by God. It's not "fudging an interpretation" when there is room for questioning of God's methods, but the duration of time God used to perform the creation of the universe is an attempt to understand an implementation. It's not fudging to say that there were distinct stages, which the Bible does refer to as "days", and then have an internal debate as to exactly how it went down. It's loosely akin to saying "CentOS is the best server Linux distro!" only to have someone else say, "No, Debian is!" the two may have a disagreement as to which implementation of Linux is ideal, but they both agree that Windows Server 2012 isn't the tool for the job.
2.) Can someone PLEASE let me know where this whole "God testing us" crap came from? I'm sure someone somewhere said it, and I'm sure that someone somewhere believes it...but the rest of us are of the persuasion that much of the fossil record is in much of the state it's in due to the Genesis Flood; a worldwide flood causing the highest mountains to be covered (whether it be the highest known mountains at that time, or Everest) would involve enough water to cause some significant changes in the geographical layout and cover a whole lot of bones in a whole lot of sand over a very short period of time (with additional fossilization having happened before the Flood, and plenty after as well, as the natural course of such things tend to happen).
3.) Admittedly there's plenty of speculation on my part for this one, but Adam was listed as having lived 913 years, and Eve likely lived somewhere around there as well. I'm certain that they had plenty of other children besides Cain and Abel, they were simply the ones that made headlines. I'd wager the $5 I've got in my pocket that most people reading this would have to head over to Google/Wiki in order to get insight into the 13 ancestors of Louis XIV, but most of us learned about THAT guy in history class. The Bible wasn't exactly written like a complete family tree or Holy Phone Book.
4.) I'm certain they'll find someone to arbitrate if the offer money on top of that for their services.
Uhm...I've had visual voicemail...since 2008...for free...including the ability to save voicemails to audio files on my SD card...on a phone running Windows Mobile 6.1. Their candybar phones don't have this functionality obviously, but every Android and Windows Mobile phone they've sold since the Touch Pro2 has been capable of visual voicemail, and as long as you have a data plan, they don't charge you extra for it.
Just 'friended' you because it's always nice to see a fellow DJ on Slashdot, and thus, I think I'm baiting myself for an "offtopic" mod since I gather that you will understand me, but many with mod points will not. I started out using Mixmeister (still an excellent product in its own right), but then went to Torq (also an excellent product, just a bit too late to market with a few too many shortcomings in its early releases), and finally got myself an SL-3 a few years ago. There are three broad reasons why I'm unconvinced that DJs are keeping the market alive in the way that you claim:
1.) The best selling record for the last several years is, unsurprisingly, the Serato control vinyl. Resultantly, a handful of vinyl pressing plants are still up and running, but the medium as a whole isn't really garnering many DJs.
2.) Panasonic stopped making the Technics 1200s in 2010. I love my Numark TTX decks, and there's been a Stanton turntable that a few jocks have said comes in "close second" to the 1200, but getting into the vinyl game these days requires much more intent, especially since...
3a.) Controllers are all the rage these days. Everyone from American Audio to Pioneer is making a controller with jog wheels and cue points these days, and I'd wager that most of the bedroom DJs are starting there, simply because it's a much more affordable starting point than a pair of turntables at minimum $800/pair - you can get a Virtual DJ controller, the kitchen sink edition of VDJ, and a whole lot of Beatport tracks for the same money.
3b.) I'd love to see plenty more top 40 tracks make their way onto vinyl so I could get a better handle at spinning real vinyl vs. control tone (I do mobile stuff, not clubs). The chicken-and-egg problem is that it's incredibly difficult to amass enough records to justify the workflow, and even then you're hard pressed to get Crooklyn Clan style transitions and party breaks pressed to wax. Sure, you'll always find a club guy or two who will keep to vinyl, and yes, I'd love nothing more than to be able to mark up all of my records with cue labels and be able to go out and do a set with them. If you're starting out now, it takes a LOT more dedication to get a pair of turntables and enough vinyl to forego a DVS, and at that, you'll need to make a name for yourself with "I only spin REAL vinyl" being your schtick, and then find someone who cares enough about what you use to make that an actual selling point, AND is willing to pay you what you're asking since you'll inevitably be asking more than the next guy who is using the aforementioned controller and collection of MP3s from Beatport or DJ City.
Me personally, I was thrilled to find Deborah Cox's "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven" and Tiesto's "Silence" (the "In Search of Sunrise" mix that takes the entire side of a 33) both pressed on vinyl. If I find a recognizable track here or there, I'll pick it up. Every so often I'll go on eBay on a vinyl binge and see if I can find any memorable songs pressed on a record, but it once annually, if that, when I find myself setting Scratch Live into "thru" mode to play an actual record...if for no other reason that I've been spoiled by relative mode where bumping the needle doesn't actually cause a disruption to the music.
I've been editing video on Adobe Premiere since the 6.1 days, on a 733MHz PIII with 256MB of RAM, 80GBytes of storage on a SCSI Raid-5 array with an offboard Adaptec controller, and a dedicated Matrox effects/MPEG-2 render card. You can stay on my lawn, but avoid the gnomes...
(Note: I edit on Windows; the following will skew in that direction, iMovie and Final Cut are both good, yadda yadda, platform wars aren't the point here)
Adobe, Sony, Corel, and Cyberlink basically own the market here, and the reason is fairly straightforward: if Windows Movie Maker doesn't work for you, $100 or less will buy you software that does. If $100 software doesn't cut it for you, you need the $600 versions of Premiere or Vegas.
I remember trying Jahshakah with its promises of being the best-of-both-worlds between Premiere and After Effects...and while pretty, trying to get clips to reliably appear and be manipulated on the timeline is an uphill battle, and there I'm being kind. The last time I used it, NOTHING was labeled; it was a 'hieroglyphics interface'. That may have changed as of late, admittedly it's been some time.
Kdenlive is about the best NLE I've seen on Linux, and seems to be largely stable. If I found myself on a Linux box and forced to edit a video, it would indeed be my weapon of choice. It does, however, suffer from many of the same problems as the rest of the FOSS video programs; more on that in a bit.
Cinelerra seemed to have LOTS of potential; I really liked its ability to network render things. However, it was clear that whoever designed the UI was likely a programmer, not as much a video editor. I found it incredibly complicated and once again, couldn't get my feet off the ground when attempting its use.
All of that being said, the common thing all these titles had that kept them miles behind their for-profit counterparts on Windows: effects. Now yes, many, MANY people use effects poorly. I hate overly effect-heavy clips as much as the next guy, especially the cartoonish transitions that Pinnacle Studio nickels and dimes you for. However, even things like color correction, EQing, reverb, split-screen, and DVE transitions were all sorely lacking as opposed to what came bone stock with all the rest of the editors. Partial dissolves, alpha channels, and any number of subtle-yet-effective things were all but nonexistent. Additionally, Adobe and Sony have excellent plug-in ecosystems. If you don't like what comes in the box, Pixelan, NewBlue, BorisFX, Panopticum, Magic Bullet, and a swath of others will be all too happy to sell you their solutions. Linux doesn't have this at all. DVD Flick will burn a DVD and add a menu to it, but even its functionality is limited in comparison to the ten-year-old Ulead DVD Workshop.
On top of that, format support has traditionally been inconsistent (AVCHD, I'm looking at you). You're guaranteed to run into some real hurdles if you're planning on spitting out MPEG-4 and keeping your source GPL'd.
Now...the UI of OpenShot looks like they solved many of these problems, which is awesome. However, OpenShot will end up with yet another hurdle in its path: Crash Acceptance. Premiere Pro CS2 crashed. a LOT. I can't begin to count the number of hours I lost to having lapsed memory of hitting Ctrl+S. Vegas was somewhat more stable, but it wasn't using the Matrox hardware. But after a $2,000 investment between hardware and software, we accepted that it was a fact of life. I fear that OpenShot will run into significant hurdles in this regard. If a company the size of Adobe or Sony can't get their software stable, supporting one platform (Yes, Premiere used to support MacOS, then it didn't, then it did again; Vegas never did, PowerDirector never did, and Video Studio was also Windows-only), I have my questions regarding the stability of such a title on Windows. Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE to see Adobe and Sony quake in their boots over it, but this too raises the question as to whether either company will simply let a largely-successful OpenShot li
As a DJ, I'll hopefully shed a little light on this:
1.) few DJs of any skill and seasoned experience will use the internal soundcard. Odds are good that they're using an offboard unit like the Audio8, Rane SL-2/3/4, Presonus Firepod...or some similar interface that costs between $500-$1,000 and is built properly with audio isolation, etc.
2.) Songs that an average top 40 DJ plays are likely compressed to hell and optimized for iPod earbuds, not actual speakers. Some people have the time and opportunity to optimize a 64-band EQ for each song they listen to, but as a DJ I'll say that the odds are good that I've got less than 90 seconds to pick and queue my next track; I'll fix the EQ if there's a particularly audible distortion or it sounds like it'd be "piercing" on the floor, but other than that I've got bigger fish to fry when I'm spinning.
3.) Some DJs get songs "the right way" and are properly encoded. Others still traverse Frostwire or whatever the latest P2P music sharing app is. There's no guarantee that the jock didn't get a sucktastic encode and didn't realize it until it was too late...
4.) Even if the audio is clean up to the mixer, there' s no guarantee it doesn't hit an old/horridly configured/poorly cabled preamp, crossover, or amplifier before it hits the speakers. The speakers themselves could be in dire need of a reconing or be mismatched with the amps, etc. There's *plenty* of areas in the post-mixer realm for audio quality to degrade. Even if you're getting a mostly-perfect, amplified signal, the "sizzle" gets louder, too. If the sizzle is -90dbm, and you're amplifying it by 100dbm, it's gonna hit that floor well before headphones will.
If anyone has any suggestions about other brands, products, or experiences I'd be happy to hear them. Because I certainly can't seem to find a reasonable alternative.
Origin PC
Now, the one thing I will say about my EON17 is that the keyboard on it is crap. The newer flavors of this model have nicer keyboards so I'm not sure if they're better in that regard, but that's one of two things I will hold against them (the other being battery life, but there's no such thing as a laptop with a desktop-grade core i7, GeForce 460M, three hard drives, and a long lasting battery). If you're doing serious typing to the point where a keyboard is more of a dealbreaker than anything else, some of the business grade Dell units still have an IBM-esque keyboard on them. If literally all else fails, Latitude D630's are a dime a dozen on eBay, and they're generally "quick enough" and have a pretty nice typing keyboard. Me personally, I have a USB gaming keyboard with Cherry MX keys on it. My friend told me he's getting me a Model M for my birthday that he's going to insist I start using...but I digress.
I don't work for Origin PC, but I am an incredibly satisfied customer. Now I completely understand that the 11-pound EON17 isn't for everyone, but they have a much more modest slim version, a 15" version, and an 11" laptop, all of which sport a core i7, either a glossy or matte screen, and as much RAM as you're willing to pay for. You can max out the specs, but what you pay for is the best support in the industry. I know everyone thinks that this award belongs to Apple, but let me know when an Apple support rep calls you from their personal cell phone on their day off to make sure that you got the support you needed - because one of their guys did that for me. They'll work with you on basically anything you need...I must have called their sales guy a dozen times, asking the most bizarre questions before I sent them a deposit check.
It's not for everyone, and if you're looking to spend south of $1,500 on a laptop you're probably screwed (even $2,500 will likely involve compromise). However, if you want a performance laptop with people who stand behind them and have the cash to prove it, then this is where your search ends.
Usage fees can work in certain areas, but not others. For example, military situations. Yes, I know, war is bad and all that...but if you find yourself stuck in one, does one pay a "usage fee" to the military? Does one only continue to fight as long as enough people agree to "use" it? Do soldiers only protect citizens who have paid the usage fee?
Do police require payment for each time they arrest someone for a crime? Can someone opt to not "use" the services of the officer and avoid a ticket?
Do firemen only fight fires of people who have paid usage fees? If someone doesn't pay the fee beforehand, how can they after their house has burned down?
The number of usage fees tied to a gallon of gasoline is astounding. You've got the EPA guys, the financial auditor guys, and the guys from the Bureau of weights and measures.
"Pay for what you use" works well in theory, In practice to to has its shortcomings.
The thing I don't like about it is that it ruins the certificate trust system. With every site signed by the same certificate, even bad ones are accepted by the browser and there is no way to tell them apart.
Counterpoint: If you're in an environment where you're using AD/Group Policy and a squid proxy, you're probably dealing with a group of users that require that sort of network control. Implicitly, they're not checking their certs anyway and wouldn't be able to meaningfully tell the good from the bad even if they had access to that information. If users were doing that, MITM SSL Cert signing wouldn't be necessary in the first place.
That's not quite accurate. Any business customer with thousands of customers who are buying their copies of Office through retail channels have significantly bigger issues. This licensing scheme only applied to retail copies of Office. OEM copies of Windows and Office have always been tied to the chassis, and Volume Licensing customers have their own EULAs that generally involve a Multiple Activation Key or Volume Licensing Server, neither of which tie you to hardware. No, this was Microsoft truly believing that home users and small businesses were so loyal to Microsoft Office that they'd buy a new copy every time their hardware failed, or that they would prefer yet another bill to arrive in the mail annually. Anyone with a brain stem would see that all it's going to do is drive more and more customers to either LibreOffice or The Pirate Bay, but unfortunately the people with said brain stems who work for Microsoft are doing cool stuff at Microsoft Research and missed their opportunity to raise the average IQ in the planning meeting to a double digit number.
If you think the Win 8 interface is horrible, just wait until you try Server 2012. Metro. On a server. For reelz.
Why? WHY???????
Because someone in the Windows Server area either said, "y'know what the future is? touch screens...on a server!", "We want to end the concept of companies hosting their own servers and spur along 'cloud migration' REALLY bad", or "Server 2008R2 is an excellent platform that will serve our customers well for years to come". The one guy who stood up in that meeting and said, "y'know...most people who administer servers do so over Remote Desktop or Powershell" was promptly killed by a flying chair.
You got this too? I just ordered a Crucial M4 on sale a few weeks ago. the day after I installed and cloned it, I had the same situation where it wouldn't start. I called Crucial, expecting to need an RMA. Luckily I got an informed gentleman on the phone who told me to leave it at the failed POST screen for 20 minutes, reboot, and give it another 20 minutes, and reboot again. It worked. Supposedly it's not so much a 'bug' as an 'obscure feature'. ...I'm keeping my spinning rust drive around just in case.
I really don't understand how you can find that more annoying than dealing with physical media.
Crysis 3 is 14GBytes. It takes less than 30 minutes to install from the DVD, more than triple that over a residential 15/2 cable connection. On my home DSL line (3Mbit/768Kbit), it *might* be done by tomorrow morning.
It takes less time to go to Gamestop, buy the disc, drive home, and install it, than it does to download from Origin anywhere except at work (where we've got 100/100). Not all of us have Google Fiber.
Let's be fair on this though. Their concept of a "computer" was royally different than what we're using today. They saw a computer as something that was room-sized, required a plumber, had power needs that are well beyond the scope of residential electrical configuration, and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not millions). They were programmed "to the machine", and generally were designed to be dialed into from dumb terminals anyway. Let's be serious, there's probably not even five Slashdotters that own an IBM BlueGene. THAT is what they were thinking when they said what they said. This does still make them wrong, but not laughably so.
The concept of a desktop, laptop, or touchscreen smartphone with 2GB of RAM and a 1.5GHz processor running off a battery is one that hadn't entered the mind of Ken or Tom when they said what they said.
Yes, there were indeed ways to download music long before Napster. There were ways to "copyright infringe" music before computers. Let me break it down for you...
Before Napster, there were FTP sites you could browse. Today, you can google $SOME_ARTIST, $SOME_SONG, and "Parent Directory" and usually find what you want...but that was far from the norm in the days of AltaVista. Usenet browsing is similarly possible if you're able and willing to dig.
Before using the internet, we used our 4x CD burners to copy CDs onto blanks. Before that, we used dual-deck cassette recorders, and before that...reel-to-reel, I guess. The point is that being able to retain and listen to permanent copies of songs users hadn't paid for indeed did not start with Napster.
What set Napster apart from the others was the fact that it was widespread, easy for novices, didn't suffer generational losses, or for the individual who wanted the song to know the person who had it. The fact that it was very easy for others to use it meant that they could share their collections, and it didn't take too long for the total breadth of music available on Napster to widely eclipse any existing distribution mechanism in existence at that time.
You've echoed many of the sentiments responded elsewhere, and I'll hope that the other posters are eagle-eyed enough to see this response instead of me cutting-and-pasting everywhere.
I pulled a few ideas off the top of my head, clearly without the market research or engineering teams required to actually bring one to fruition. I'm also not saying that every model is a good idea, just that if HTC keeps trying to compete with both the iPhone and Galaxy series phones, they're going to have to be very content with third place. The Marathon, for example, has a much better chance when its only competition is the Droid Razr Maxx HD. The Click has a great chance of being the best phone with a slide-out keyboard, especially when no competitors seem to want to address that at all. The Simplicity clearly isn't going to sell by the trillions, but doing so helps win a MUCH easier race with a relative minimum of R&D behind it. The Tinker already exists: it's called the HTC HD2, and it already runs WinMo 6.5 officially, with unofficial ports of Android, WP7, Ubuntu, and an incredibly-buggy-but-technically-bootable WP8 port. HTC might not be able to "officially" make it happen, but a wink and a nudge and a set of drivers that just so happen to cross compile incredibly easily, they can simply follow the trail that already exists.
What I'm ultimately getting at is that HTC is trying to do what everyone else is doing - making phones more anorexic, shinier, and shedding user replaceable parts. Their last flagship phone was the Evo 4G, and then Samsung completely stole their thunder, and they've got an incredibly challenging uphill battle ahead of them if they're going to return to the glory days of the Sensation and the Evo.Instead, I'm suggesting that by sacrificing their lust for the best selling Android handset ever, they can make handsets that won't sell in GS3 numbers but will have a particular "killer feature" that some users were sad to give up by getting their shiny Samsung. They won't all flock back, but they'll at least have a differentiating feature besides the flip clock.
If I were HTC, I would *let* Samsung take the flat-slab, single-button, iPhone clone handset market...and then concentrate on the niches. For example:
--HTC Universal: Every possible cellular frequency is supported, and shipped SIM unlocked. One handset that can roam freely between Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T, plus European and Asian cellular systems, at full data speed.
--HTC Marathon: Twice as thick as an iPhone...with a 5,000mAh battery that can last two full days on a charge.
--HTC Pure: From Google's Github to your phone in 72 hours. Those pining for a Sense-free, timely update situation can have it in the Pure.
--HTC Click: My HTC Touch Pro2 had, hands down, the best keyboard on a mobile phone I've ever used. The Click is that handset with a new processor, more RAM and storage, and capacitive screen.
--HTC Tower: If you live or work too far away from a tower for a normal handset to get a signal, the Tower will ensure your call gets there.
--HTC Vault: For users with far too much data, this handset has 256GB of internal storage, and uses the same technology as a desktop SSD to ensure that data gets in and out as fast as possible.
--HTC Flick: Glass lenses and optical zoom increase the thickness of this handset that has a camera that outperforms even most dedicated point-and-shoot cameras from Canon and Nikon.
--HTC Simplicity: There's still a small dumbphone market, and the Jitterbug caters to users who want a phone that reliably makes phone calls and is easy to read. The Jitterbug can withstand a little competition.
--HTC Tinker: This handset is born to be hacked. No locked bootloader, no rooting required, and images for Android, Windows Phone 8, and Ubuntu are all available direct from the manufacturer.
There are plenty of niches where HTC can compete. They just have to stop trying to play the "lowest common denominator" card and trying to convince users to choose them over the Galaxy S3.
Then we're screwed. There's already case precedent of "It's a license when it benefits us" and "It's a physical object when it benefits us". VMWare licenses are not transferable when a company acquires a company. Don't even get me started on Oracle Hell.
The fact of the matter is that Autodesk set the case precedent that any judge will look at if EA/Ubisoft/Activision/Whoever gets sued over the inability to transfer a license. You'll be hard pressed to find a case precedent where software companies lose to claims of fair use, even legitimate ones.
Count me in on your hope for a positive outcome. Count me out for waiting to see it happen.
This song seems appropriate.