They just assumed someone would DVR it and upload it to be torrented by the masses. As government produced material I assume it would be in the public domain as well.
As we move towards digital, and not physical methods of owning our content this is only natural. Take music, in the past I could sell a CD when I got bored of it. Now that's impossible, I either buy it from iTunes and am unable to sell it in the future, or I just pirate it for free. The second one is much more popular. Game companies trying to alienate people that actually buy their product are just setting themselves up for future piracy.
"Almost as snappy as Linux" in my experience with Ubuntu at least is the exact opposite. Firefox runs like a hog, flash barely runs at all and just opening a folder takes a few seconds of special thinking time.
Yeah it's totally insane that we are charged a whole $0.44 to reliably send any piece of paper over 3,000 miles to it's precise recipient in a matter of days. This is the kind of technological marvel that future societies will be looking back in awe of.
Made a quick template for you, could come handy for future posts. "What's needed instead is $buzzword1 and $buzzword2,
the development of $buzzword 3 and the demonstration of technology such as $buzzword4, which could provide a cheaper way to reduce $buzzword5."
Launching their own in house streaming music service allows them to compete with both iTunes and Pandora in the music market, something they care currently getting their ass handed to them in. After all who would pay for music when they can just stream it for free on their Zune HD? It's a smart move on Microsofts part.
How hard would it be to just make ten new ones? Hell I could do it for them, fold a piss of paper in half and take a piss on it. Now you don't have to worry about it for my lifespan + 70 years.
I'm just worried some overzealous wikipedia editors might try to kill me so it's released into the public domain earlier.
A better analogy would be a customer that pays for the hamburger by dumping a bucketful of pennies on the counter. It's not hard for him to pay with the bucket of change, but for the restaurant it's a pain in the ass to count them all out.
TFA refers to it as "Draconian Automated Content Access Protocol", we also have Draconian DRM and Draconian Internet Filters.
See Draconian always makes me think of Dracula, which makes me think of the cereal Count Chacula which forces me to go up and eat some. Imagine doing this every time you read an article on DRM. Needless to say I'm putting on weight and the womens are no longer responding. So I would appreciate it if someone could come up with a new word.
What's the point of having it self destruct? Encrypt any old flash drive with True Crypt and you have accomplished the same thing at a much lower price. Want to destroy the data? Hit yourself on the head with a crowbar, making you forget the password. Problem solved.
The earth is screwed if we ever get this to work on humans. Good news is that we will be able to build Burger Kings in Antarctica. Bad news is that the burgers will be made out of penguins.
Can anyone provide a link to confirm that the SIIA is actually making this? The trailer jumped the shark when the kid started spinning the CD endlessly on his finger, so my first impression would be that it is a parody of the original.
Serious question, would we ever know if the cat did go back in the bag? Controlling the flow of content on the internet isn't the impossibility some people make it out to be, child porn being the prime example.
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What about the waffles? Won't anyone think of the waffles?
So what your saying is Microsoft could fix all of their problems by changing the color of the screen?
They just assumed someone would DVR it and upload it to be torrented by the masses. As government produced material I assume it would be in the public domain as well.
As we move towards digital, and not physical methods of owning our content this is only natural. Take music, in the past I could sell a CD when I got bored of it. Now that's impossible, I either buy it from iTunes and am unable to sell it in the future, or I just pirate it for free. The second one is much more popular. Game companies trying to alienate people that actually buy their product are just setting themselves up for future piracy.
"Almost as snappy as Linux" in my experience with Ubuntu at least is the exact opposite. Firefox runs like a hog, flash barely runs at all and just opening a folder takes a few seconds of special thinking time.
Why not just reroute the weather? Once google gets into cloud seeding and all that they really will be SkyNet.
It bothers me that you have to put the "as a MacBook Pro user" to avoid getting modded down.
Because the websites promise that your email will be totally private, and people trust them.
Yeah it's totally insane that we are charged a whole $0.44 to reliably send any piece of paper over 3,000 miles to it's precise recipient in a matter of days. This is the kind of technological marvel that future societies will be looking back in awe of.
Made a quick template for you, could come handy for future posts. "What's needed instead is $buzzword1 and $buzzword2, the development of $buzzword 3 and the demonstration of technology such as $buzzword4, which could provide a cheaper way to reduce $buzzword5."
Launching their own in house streaming music service allows them to compete with both iTunes and Pandora in the music market, something they care currently getting their ass handed to them in. After all who would pay for music when they can just stream it for free on their Zune HD? It's a smart move on Microsofts part.
How hard would it be to just make ten new ones? Hell I could do it for them, fold a piss of paper in half and take a piss on it. Now you don't have to worry about it for my lifespan + 70 years. I'm just worried some overzealous wikipedia editors might try to kill me so it's released into the public domain earlier.
A better analogy would be a customer that pays for the hamburger by dumping a bucketful of pennies on the counter. It's not hard for him to pay with the bucket of change, but for the restaurant it's a pain in the ass to count them all out.
I think you meant Ubuntu with Firefox playing a flash video.
How about "NASA has Found the Lost Tapes"? Right now the title tells me that NASA is in ownership of the tapes, but just can't find them.
TFA refers to it as "Draconian Automated Content Access Protocol", we also have Draconian DRM and Draconian Internet Filters. See Draconian always makes me think of Dracula, which makes me think of the cereal Count Chacula which forces me to go up and eat some. Imagine doing this every time you read an article on DRM. Needless to say I'm putting on weight and the womens are no longer responding. So I would appreciate it if someone could come up with a new word.
What's the point of having it self destruct? Encrypt any old flash drive with True Crypt and you have accomplished the same thing at a much lower price. Want to destroy the data? Hit yourself on the head with a crowbar, making you forget the password. Problem solved.
The overall trend on one page instead of 12 is that storage is getting cheaper, bigger and faster. Oh boy...
The earth is screwed if we ever get this to work on humans. Good news is that we will be able to build Burger Kings in Antarctica. Bad news is that the burgers will be made out of penguins.
Don't judge a man by his domain name, judge him by his shitty website.
How is this different from OpenDNS? OpenDNS shows ads if your page can't be found. That said I much prefer my ISPs ad free DNS service to OpenDNS.
$18 million to overhaul the whole thing is still a ripoff. Unless they are burning money to power their webserver it's incredibly overpriced.
Can anyone provide a link to confirm that the SIIA is actually making this? The trailer jumped the shark when the kid started spinning the CD endlessly on his finger, so my first impression would be that it is a parody of the original.
Serious question, would we ever know if the cat did go back in the bag? Controlling the flow of content on the internet isn't the impossibility some people make it out to be, child porn being the prime example.
I think the only way 7 people are going to fit in them is if 2 of them are dead bodies in the trunk.