Song, game, and book publishers sell DRM versions for lower prices because DRM kills the resale market. They make more money when they don't have to compete for sales against used versions of their products.
To an IT professional (most of slashdot), $200 for this sort of technology is rather trivial, especially considering many of us have seen companies pay over a million dollars for the same sort of capacity a few years back.
If you earn $80k/year and you use the drive for 5 years, you're talking about spending 0.05% of your income on it. Trivial.
I never reread novels and I tire of video games after a few months. How am I an idiot for buying DRM'd content for Steam and for my Kindle? If I wouldn't benefit from a perpetual license, why would I want to pay the premium for such a license?
So instead of taking advantages of the AI's known weaknesses to get ahead in the game, we will now have to "train" our digital opponents by using a consistent tactic until they evolve to counter it, then switching to an alternative tactic, and repeating the process at regular intervals.
It certainly seems as if you're dismissing the science because you don't like the journalism based on it. That would be a mistake. The science looks pretty good.
It says that a scientific study which investigated one specific question, in fact, investigated that one specific question. That's how science works, kid-o.
Some filesharing software shares all of a person's data by default, or at least makes it easy to mistakenly configure it to do so. Most, if not all, filesharing software makes it easy for someone to inject trojaned or backdoored software into the network in such a way that average users cannot distinguish it from legitimate software.
It is a perfectly reasonable security trade-off for an organization to prohibit the use of filesharing software, so long as the term is adequately defined.
I'm no expert, but wouldn't prompting the immune system to attack the lining of the intestine basically be intentionally-induced inflammatory bowel disease? IBD increases the risk of colon cancer...
Well, it's just like any other managed service, including Windows Update. Microsoft could release an update which automatically uploaded the photos of your wife, too. The Kindle is not unique in this respect.
The former and the later are both merely licenses. When you buy a book you have only limited rights to the IP contained therin. Copyright owners would prefer that you have no rights to things like resale or library donation, but the courts have ruled that some rights cannot be waived without a signed contract.
eBooks are exactly the same, except that the courts have not yet ruled as to which rights can be waived.
These files were not deleted due to "DRM." They were deleted because the devices are remotely managed by Amazon. Any file, DRM or not, could be deleted by Amazon.
However, hating DRM is no reason to hat the Kindle. It works with both DRM and open documents. If you don't want to ever use DRM documents, fine! However, I read novels which no publisher offers in a digital format that lacks DRM, so I have buy those encumbered formats.
When will society learn? They already did: once digital music became popular, DRM-free music eventually became popular. Expect ebooks to follow a similar path. But don't blame Amazon or the Kindle; blame the copyright owners.
Liquidity, the ability to buy and sell an assets easily, decreases the costs associated with investing. This sort of trading increases liquidity because the larger number of trades going on make it easier for a buyer to match up with a seller.
I don't know too much about LISP. Why do you think it failed to catch on the way these other languages did? If it has modern data structure capabilities, it must be lacking in some other way...
It looks to me like they mean "high level" languages... the sort that allow you to deal with arbitrarily complex datastructures without burdening the programmer with the manual management of memory allocation and pointers.
Perl barely qualifies for this category (no pointers, but "references"), yet it was one of the first high level languages, so it should get some respect.
OSCON organizers have stated that the language debate won't be considered finished until at least one of the languages is compared to Hitler and/or the Nazis.
What Gabe suggests is called capitalism. It isn't a new idea. The first corporations were single-project operations: sell shares to buy, staff, and stock a trade ship to America. When it returns, liquidate everything and distribute the profit to the shareholders.
Today, companies tend to stick around and do more projects, rather than liquidating. But there's nothing stopping Valve from incorporating and selling single-project companies.
The Atom can only barely play higher-quality youtube videos. Any little thing will tip it over the edge. I agree that it is only a minor impact for most users. But Atoms are a different case.
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Song, game, and book publishers sell DRM versions for lower prices because DRM kills the resale market. They make more money when they don't have to compete for sales against used versions of their products.
To an IT professional (most of slashdot), $200 for this sort of technology is rather trivial, especially considering many of us have seen companies pay over a million dollars for the same sort of capacity a few years back.
If you earn $80k/year and you use the drive for 5 years, you're talking about spending 0.05% of your income on it. Trivial.
I never reread novels and I tire of video games after a few months. How am I an idiot for buying DRM'd content for Steam and for my Kindle? If I wouldn't benefit from a perpetual license, why would I want to pay the premium for such a license?
I feel more informed. I know that there will be no measurable improvement in my health if I pay the premium for organic food.
I just bought a 2TB hard drive for a trivial sum. Hard drive constraints should never be a concern these days.
So instead of taking advantages of the AI's known weaknesses to get ahead in the game, we will now have to "train" our digital opponents by using a consistent tactic until they evolve to counter it, then switching to an alternative tactic, and repeating the process at regular intervals.
It certainly seems as if you're dismissing the science because you don't like the journalism based on it. That would be a mistake. The science looks pretty good.
It says that a scientific study which investigated one specific question, in fact, investigated that one specific question. That's how science works, kid-o.
Serious question: what percentage of the current Linux kernel was actually written by Linus?
Some filesharing software shares all of a person's data by default, or at least makes it easy to mistakenly configure it to do so. Most, if not all, filesharing software makes it easy for someone to inject trojaned or backdoored software into the network in such a way that average users cannot distinguish it from legitimate software.
It is a perfectly reasonable security trade-off for an organization to prohibit the use of filesharing software, so long as the term is adequately defined.
That's an amazing paper. It suggests that milk and red meat consumption is to blame for inflammatory diseases!
Considering this, you can count me as a mostly-vegetarian from now on. I don't want arthritis like my Grandma has!
I'm no expert, but wouldn't prompting the immune system to attack the lining of the intestine basically be intentionally-induced inflammatory bowel disease? IBD increases the risk of colon cancer...
The "electron scream" of CRTs is no longer an issue, is it is no longer possible to purchase CRT TVs.
Well, it's just like any other managed service, including Windows Update. Microsoft could release an update which automatically uploaded the photos of your wife, too. The Kindle is not unique in this respect.
The former and the later are both merely licenses. When you buy a book you have only limited rights to the IP contained therin. Copyright owners would prefer that you have no rights to things like resale or library donation, but the courts have ruled that some rights cannot be waived without a signed contract.
eBooks are exactly the same, except that the courts have not yet ruled as to which rights can be waived.
These files were not deleted due to "DRM." They were deleted because the devices are remotely managed by Amazon. Any file, DRM or not, could be deleted by Amazon.
However, hating DRM is no reason to hat the Kindle. It works with both DRM and open documents. If you don't want to ever use DRM documents, fine! However, I read novels which no publisher offers in a digital format that lacks DRM, so I have buy those encumbered formats.
When will society learn? They already did: once digital music became popular, DRM-free music eventually became popular. Expect ebooks to follow a similar path. But don't blame Amazon or the Kindle; blame the copyright owners.
Liquidity, the ability to buy and sell an assets easily, decreases the costs associated with investing. This sort of trading increases liquidity because the larger number of trades going on make it easier for a buyer to match up with a seller.
Why on earth would you need to update all the time? If it were me, I would install gentoo once, then only update those packages on the DoD's list.
If you will read my post, you will see that I explained which definition of "high-level" I was referring to.
I don't know too much about LISP. Why do you think it failed to catch on the way these other languages did? If it has modern data structure capabilities, it must be lacking in some other way...
It looks to me like they mean "high level" languages... the sort that allow you to deal with arbitrarily complex datastructures without burdening the programmer with the manual management of memory allocation and pointers.
Perl barely qualifies for this category (no pointers, but "references"), yet it was one of the first high level languages, so it should get some respect.
OSCON organizers have stated that the language debate won't be considered finished until at least one of the languages is compared to Hitler and/or the Nazis.
What Gabe suggests is called capitalism. It isn't a new idea. The first corporations were single-project operations: sell shares to buy, staff, and stock a trade ship to America. When it returns, liquidate everything and distribute the profit to the shareholders.
Today, companies tend to stick around and do more projects, rather than liquidating. But there's nothing stopping Valve from incorporating and selling single-project companies.
Try streaming HD video, especially when there is some distance between you and your access point. Then you will understand why N is long overdue.
The Atom can only barely play higher-quality youtube videos. Any little thing will tip it over the edge. I agree that it is only a minor impact for most users. But Atoms are a different case.