Which isn't addressing the entire point of what I wrote which is that the cost of duplication does not necessarily have any bearing on the cost of content production.
Less than 1% of music written is ever distributed. Even if you discount commercial ventures there's more music out there than anyone could possibly listen to.
So why do they sometimes with DRM? Because they are trying to combat piracy.
They'll never be able to close the analogue hole. The fact is that DRM doesn't actually prevent priacy (sharing really) as any of this content will be torrented on day zero. It's entire purpose is to restrict what the average costumer can do. With DRM I can no longer make copies for backups or interoperability, or extract excerpts for commentary, research, or education, which are uncontested legal rights anyone has with any media.
Similarly, your own difficulty with your particular hardware can hardly be said to be an argument for the mass piracy that goes on
You really mean mass sharing. I demand that my media works, and that I retain at minimum all the traditional rights that come with any media. I buy DVD's which are so trivial to crack that they mights as well not be DRM'ed. The issue is $20 or a blue ray vs. $12 for a DVD $7 for live theater, or $3 for a rental. I never said that I regularly copy BlueRayed content, but that it would be a lot more convenient to do so. I have the DVD's for LotRT and saw every one on the big screen (probably one of the 10% of films I find to be good). I also buy quite a few CD's, and Hi-def DRM-free audio tracks. Even if the Blue Ray was $2, I wouldn't pay someone to take away my freedom like that.
Which costs and which studios? And how is that relevant?
Music studios predominately. The cost of recording and distribution are counted as advances against any royalties, so much so only about 2% of artists with a recording contract ever see a penny for their cd.
Why do they need to find alternative models?
Because the marginal cost of making one copy in a one copy run is not much greater than one copy in a million copy run. Regardless of the conventional wisdom you can compete with free by doing certain things, and this is exactly what is happening today. Put a high cost on early copies, assure quality, use current products to promote upcoming products, make it clear that you have a good relation with your content producers, and that you encourage developing artists rather than the merely established, provide in the package something that has a higher one-copy price such as signed and special editions, or provide an experience that simply can't be had in the home such as the theatere or a live concert.
Weight, for any sort of real power you need to lug around a huge heat exchanger. Regenerators don't work as well with high volumes, and ideal cycle assumes an isothermic stage, which just doesn't happen when you scale up. (both in temperature differentials, and total heat)
There are all the parts of this needed in place.
There are already companies burning syngas generated from trash to create power.
There are companies in the experimental stage converting biogas into methanol and ethanol/ and long chain hydrocarbons.
It isn't efficiency that killed the steam engine, but power/weight. A heat engine such as a sterling can achieve near ideal efficiencies. (It's simply impossible to get any more efficient) It's really quite easy to build a reasonable 30-40 horsepower steam engine that can beat the same power Otto cycle engine any day, It's much easier to maintain, uses less fuel, without too much extra weight or size.
Some people have designed a 6-stroke engine that combines the Otto cycle, with a 2-stroke steam cycle to use wast heat.
There's also turbines that can burn many types of fuel, are very efficient, and have very high power/weight ratios. However they have practically no torque so they much be combined with electric drive trains, and are inefficient at slow speeds to there needs to be a battery storage system, however in well to wheel efficiency it's hard to beat. (If you ignore the resources to make the battery, generator and motor.
Not really at no cost, but at a cost not significantly higher than mass production. It means that one copy in a one copy run isn't significantly more expensive than one copy in a million-copy run.
The cost of many processes are routinely inflated so the studios can take a bigger cut. But you miss the point, which is that companies need to find alternative models rather than declare war on their customers.
1. Pirates were never your customers and never will be. People who never pay for anything will never pay for your product because they can't afford it, or don't think they should have to pay.
2. Focus on providing value to those who want to reciprocate. The last thing you want to do inconvenience those who pay for your product.
There's a huge problem with Sony's business model: it's easier for me to download a mpeg4 or mkv file of a blue ray rip, and hoot my PC into my home theater system, than it is the get the damn HDMI handshake to work between the BD player and the TV. Why should I pay 20 dollars more to be frustrated and inconvenienced, for content that is quite frankly more often than not cliche, juvenile, or so violent as to be disturbing?
The computer was dream up 200 years before implementation.
The difference between now and 1998 is that there is a compelling reason besides Geek-cred to at least switch some of the net to ipv6.
Because even then, they won't notice. They'll just blame the OS or the hardware, and wonder why someone keeps buying a flat screen TV with their credit card every week.
Nobody should trust a mobile device with financial information, especially if you routinely download and run programs from random, unproven developers.
Has anybody else noticed that almost all of the problems of Andriod devices arise out of closed source, proprietary, and non-free applications? The first round of problem dealt with jails, secret hardware interfaces and modules that left people unable to update to newer kernels and thus newer android versions. The second round of problems deals with malicious code that you have no practical power to change or examine.
If applications were open-source the few people who cared could remove all this crap and distribute patches or modified versions, If you value you're freedom, don't use non-free programs on your device. Unfortunately I don't know of anybody is actually making something like this.
No, you can ask anyone to leave for just about any reason, and if they come back within a year, you can call the cops and have them arrested for trespassing. If you open the door to the public then it creates the presumption that anyone there has been invited. Of course this presumption can be overturned if you can document that you've asked to leave your store and not come back, or set some sort of bouncer up at the door to screen potential entrants.
The U.S is over 10X the population of Australia. And any given gun if the U.S. is less likely to cause a death than any given automobile. You don't consider automobiles a plague do you? And btw the price you pay is an increase in home invasions and armed robbery.
Kind of, it's like giving everybody 2^64 worth of subnet space, without all the difficulties of NAT. Thats 8 layers of heirchy with up to 256 machines on each level, or 4 layers with up to 65,536 machines. Or 4 levels with up to 256 machines and 2 levels with up to 65,536 machines.
There will be availible 2^48 prefisxes to give to ISP's who will be able to have 2^16/64 prefixes to costumers.
In theory at least. In practice ISP's will get one/48 or/32 for each city they serve for the sake of sanity. Then every country can get a or/24 or/16 and still have more than enough address space to add thousands or millions of of colonized worlds communicating via quantum processes.
The sake of sanity and organization is the primary reason to skip to a 128 bit rather than a 64 or 48 bit. ,
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The vulnerability was through the parsing of thumbnails, not though the actual autorun which requires requires user approval by specification.
Yes, they lock the generator, and turn the blade to meet the wind for less drag.
Which isn't addressing the entire point of what I wrote which is that the cost of duplication does not necessarily have any bearing on the cost of content production.
Less than 1% of music written is ever distributed. Even if you discount commercial ventures there's more music out there than anyone could possibly listen to.
So why do they sometimes with DRM? Because they are trying to combat piracy.
They'll never be able to close the analogue hole. The fact is that DRM doesn't actually prevent priacy (sharing really) as any of this content will be torrented on day zero. It's entire purpose is to restrict what the average costumer can do. With DRM I can no longer make copies for backups or interoperability, or extract excerpts for commentary, research, or education, which are uncontested legal rights anyone has with any media.
Similarly, your own difficulty with your particular hardware can hardly be said to be an argument for the mass piracy that goes on
You really mean mass sharing. I demand that my media works, and that I retain at minimum all the traditional rights that come with any media. I buy DVD's which are so trivial to crack that they mights as well not be DRM'ed. The issue is $20 or a blue ray vs. $12 for a DVD $7 for live theater, or $3 for a rental. I never said that I regularly copy BlueRayed content, but that it would be a lot more convenient to do so. I have the DVD's for LotRT and saw every one on the big screen (probably one of the 10% of films I find to be good). I also buy quite a few CD's, and Hi-def DRM-free audio tracks. Even if the Blue Ray was $2, I wouldn't pay someone to take away my freedom like that.
Which costs and which studios? And how is that relevant?
Music studios predominately. The cost of recording and distribution are counted as advances against any royalties, so much so only about 2% of artists with a recording contract ever see a penny for their cd.
Why do they need to find alternative models?
Because the marginal cost of making one copy in a one copy run is not much greater than one copy in a million copy run. Regardless of the conventional wisdom you can compete with free by doing certain things, and this is exactly what is happening today. Put a high cost on early copies, assure quality, use current products to promote upcoming products, make it clear that you have a good relation with your content producers, and that you encourage developing artists rather than the merely established, provide in the package something that has a higher one-copy price such as signed and special editions, or provide an experience that simply can't be had in the home such as the theatere or a live concert.
Oh come on. Maybe it doesn't make anything, but it does seem like a relatively cheap and safe way to live out childhood fantasies.
Weight, for any sort of real power you need to lug around a huge heat exchanger. Regenerators don't work as well with high volumes, and ideal cycle assumes an isothermic stage, which just doesn't happen when you scale up. (both in temperature differentials, and total heat)
Regular engines are about 20% efficient.
There are all the parts of this needed in place. There are already companies burning syngas generated from trash to create power. There are companies in the experimental stage converting biogas into methanol and ethanol/ and long chain hydrocarbons.
It isn't efficiency that killed the steam engine, but power/weight. A heat engine such as a sterling can achieve near ideal efficiencies. (It's simply impossible to get any more efficient) It's really quite easy to build a reasonable 30-40 horsepower steam engine that can beat the same power Otto cycle engine any day, It's much easier to maintain, uses less fuel, without too much extra weight or size.
Some people have designed a 6-stroke engine that combines the Otto cycle, with a 2-stroke steam cycle to use wast heat. There's also turbines that can burn many types of fuel, are very efficient, and have very high power/weight ratios. However they have practically no torque so they much be combined with electric drive trains, and are inefficient at slow speeds to there needs to be a battery storage system, however in well to wheel efficiency it's hard to beat. (If you ignore the resources to make the battery, generator and motor.
Not really at no cost, but at a cost not significantly higher than mass production. It means that one copy in a one copy run isn't significantly more expensive than one copy in a million-copy run.
The cost of many processes are routinely inflated so the studios can take a bigger cut. But you miss the point, which is that companies need to find alternative models rather than declare war on their customers.
1. Pirates were never your customers and never will be. People who never pay for anything will never pay for your product because they can't afford it, or don't think they should have to pay.
2. Focus on providing value to those who want to reciprocate. The last thing you want to do inconvenience those who pay for your product.
There's a huge problem with Sony's business model: it's easier for me to download a mpeg4 or mkv file of a blue ray rip, and hoot my PC into my home theater system, than it is the get the damn HDMI handshake to work between the BD player and the TV. Why should I pay 20 dollars more to be frustrated and inconvenienced, for content that is quite frankly more often than not cliche, juvenile, or so violent as to be disturbing?
And in the end the DRM was entirely cracked, meaning Sony wasted a bunch of time and money, and pissed off a lot of people for no benefit.
The computer was dream up 200 years before implementation. The difference between now and 1998 is that there is a compelling reason besides Geek-cred to at least switch some of the net to ipv6.
Because even then, they won't notice. They'll just blame the OS or the hardware, and wonder why someone keeps buying a flat screen TV with their credit card every week. Nobody should trust a mobile device with financial information, especially if you routinely download and run programs from random, unproven developers.
Trivially easy to learn x86 code? And what good does this do for anyone except you, if you can't legally re-redistribute any modifications you make?
Has anybody else noticed that almost all of the problems of Andriod devices arise out of closed source, proprietary, and non-free applications? The first round of problem dealt with jails, secret hardware interfaces and modules that left people unable to update to newer kernels and thus newer android versions. The second round of problems deals with malicious code that you have no practical power to change or examine. If applications were open-source the few people who cared could remove all this crap and distribute patches or modified versions, If you value you're freedom, don't use non-free programs on your device. Unfortunately I don't know of anybody is actually making something like this.
Here you can't open a tab unless you've had a credit card swiped first.
No, you can ask anyone to leave for just about any reason, and if they come back within a year, you can call the cops and have them arrested for trespassing. If you open the door to the public then it creates the presumption that anyone there has been invited. Of course this presumption can be overturned if you can document that you've asked to leave your store and not come back, or set some sort of bouncer up at the door to screen potential entrants.
The U.S is over 10X the population of Australia. And any given gun if the U.S. is less likely to cause a death than any given automobile. You don't consider automobiles a plague do you? And btw the price you pay is an increase in home invasions and armed robbery.
With civil procedure, you aren't required to take the stand, but a failure to provide certain requested evidence/documents can be weighed against you.
"Ya, that's the picture I found on her Facebook page"
I don't know why people are so stuck up on software patents. It's mostly just math.
Adobe PDF, not pdf/a which is a standard that doesn't have any sort of executable code or widgets in it.
Only buy books in a non-DRM format. .GOPI (Good Old Paper and Ink) if you have to. That's how we get rid of DRM.
Kind of, it's like giving everybody 2^64 worth of subnet space, without all the difficulties of NAT. Thats 8 layers of heirchy with up to 256 machines on each level, or 4 layers with up to 65,536 machines. Or 4 levels with up to 256 machines and 2 levels with up to 65,536 machines. There will be availible 2^48 prefisxes to give to ISP's who will be able to have 2^16 /64 prefixes to costumers.
In theory at least. In practice ISP's will get one /48 or /32 for each city they serve for the sake of sanity. Then every country can get a or /24 or /16 and still have more than enough address space to add thousands or millions of of colonized worlds communicating via quantum processes.
The sake of sanity and organization is the primary reason to skip to a 128 bit rather than a 64 or 48 bit. ,
Clever... So how's that working out for you?
Clever... So how's that working our for you?