Why should Apple bend over for some random company because some unrelated cartel has restrictive license terms?
Nobody is asking Apple to do anything. In fact, if Apple would do absolutely nothing, then there would be no problem.
Real is trying to compete in the iTunes download-a-song market, not the iPod media player market. Furthermore, they are trying to set up a market where music download services are decoupled from the media player market. Yes, "Real can make their own player", but this model would only serve to lock in customers to a particular company's player. Real wants to be able to offer people music downloads that will play on _any_ player. This is a more competitive market and will be better for the consumer, rather than the each-company-locks-in-its-users model.
Don't want to do that? Tough shit - it's your choice to publish using DRM, and Apple has no obligation to support you.
Unfortuneately, nobody will license Real any music if they are going to put it in an unsecured format. Real is making a competing product (their DRM scheme) and they should be allowed to reverse engineer FairPlay to interoperate the #1 music device on the planet.
Apple does not have to support them or do anything. But they also cannot prevent someone from doing some clean reverse engineering.
In the end, this will mean more songs out there, which will hopefully sell more iPods. Remember, iTunes is all about selling iPods.
I didn't say that the government should fund a program. I just want the government to get out of the way as much as possible so that information can be disseminated to as broad an audience as possible.
The information should be controllable, like in the subscription model, but also widely available, like in the broadcast model. Nobody has yet developed a system that achieves both goals, which is admittedly a difficult problem.
Some people say "If you don't like what you see or hear, change the channel." The same applies to you. If there aren't enough boobs or sex talk for you, change the channel.
The problem is that there is not enough boobs because the government won't allow it. So the freedom of speech is curtailed in the interests of "the children".
The subscription model is an improvement, because the save-the-children-people cannot use their argument to impose regulations on the carrier. The cost is that you have a system where only people who can afford the equipment get access to all the content. People who can't afford the equipment are given access to only the government approved stuff. Information for the rich is something that should be employed only where absolutely nessecary.
I have two kids, and I just make sure that when the radio, TV or computer is running, the content is appropriate. If it is not, then I turn it off and deal with the whines and cries of protest ("tough shit" or "when you are older" are the typical parent comebacks).
Big dishes collect more signal energy which is good for receiving weak signals. The geometry of the dish has more to do with the footprint on the ground.
We can have more time for barbecuing by going to work earlier and coming home earlier.
Not everybody has the option to change their schedule. Voluntary changes will also mean a little chaos as you need to remember who's on which schedule. And finally, changing hours would cause a boom in the printing business as companies changed their hours of operation twice a year.
If you are going to have a change, better to have to government coordinate it.
Another way to think of it is you are free to observe whatever time zone you want. You don't _have_ to live on government standard time. After all, the airlines run on GMT.
So for an inital deposit of $350.00 and $50.00 installments every year or so, you get a free laser printer replacement
Just make sure that it is a replacement plan. They have been changing their plans recently and many, especially the big dollar items) are becoming repair plans, where you send your unit out and they fix it for you (in about 2-3 months).
There is nothing illegal about owning an M-60. You just need the correct permits (in the USA).
Once a month, the local gun range has "Machine Gun Night" where people can come out and let a few hundred rounds fly.
If I recall, owning a machine gun or destructive weapon entails a $200 tax, a federal background check, and an endorsement from a local law enforcement official or judge indicating that you are not any trouble. The feds also have the right to search your property periodically to ensure that the weapon is properly secured.
What is Libre (non-gratis) information? Information that anyone can access for a price? Not very Libre if you don't have the denarii.
And if information has a price, then that implies that it has an owner, which is contradictory to the notion of Libre.
Truth is, information is non-libre, non-gratis, just like any other product produced. The fact that it can be reproduced with little or no cost and effort is the meat of "the problem". It tends to behave like a gratis, libre product, when it is not. The solution to "the problem" is to impose unnatural barriers (make people pay for something they can get for free or much reduced cost) in the capitalist system, which in its purest sense is anarchy.
So although information is not libre nor gratis, I can say one thing. A good deal of the entertainment information is overpriced;-).
The average temp of space is what a few Kalvin, almost absolute zero.
There is no temperature in space. If an object is placed in space, it will go towards thermal equilibrium where the incoming radiation heating it is balanced by the black body radiation that the object emits. At this equilibrium, you can measure the temperature. Note that this temperature is dependant on the amount of energy being received by the object, which is why the temperature of moon varies between 40 and 400K.
Say make a multilayered exterior skin/enclosure so could expose pipes or coolent to said vacuum...Make a large coil of pipes to maximize surface area exposed to cold. Wrap it around the entire exterior of the core module.
Just an idea don't know what type of material would be needed.
And the mass needed to radiate this much heat would be tremendous. Radiating heat is not an efficient way to move heat around. Conduction is much better, but in space there is nothing to conduct to.
Think about this, the entire inner sides of the space shuttle cargo bay doors are radiators to help regulate the internal environment. They have at most a couple dozen kilowatts of power to dissipate. You would have to scale that by 1000, at least, to cool a nuclear reactor.
One nitpick in that article is that the power needed to create the shielding comes from a nuclear reactor - Which will need shielding.
Also, nuclear reactors on earth work well because they have a good heat sink. It is just a steam engine with nuclear fuel providing the heat and river or evaporative cooling towers providing the cool side. Getting rid of megawatts of waste heat in space is much more difficult. You can't conduct it away, so it needs to be radiated, which is much less efficient.
Computer games don't go bad, so just wait a few weeks and buy a used copy. Only the impatient gamers will spend $60. Everyone else will benefit from their folly.
Games? You can apply this argument to the console, too. I am just now considering getting a used XBox. Ebay has systems + games for between 200 and 300 bucks.
Yes it does. At least the rubberized grip on the bottom of the unit (where the GBA games go on a Nintendo DS) would be more expensive to make with a hole in it for CF.
Even if you double the price of the plastic piece "with a hole in it", which is a reach, the bill of materials will not be dramatically changed. Most of the cost for these units is in the displays, electronics and labor.
The real cost would be a less portable device due to the volume requirements of the CF slot. That is a more realistic killer of a feature than the fabrication costs of a mechanical part.
you can already buy 5GB drives inside CF cards, its just a matter of time before someone manages to squeeze a single 1GB platter inside a SD card.
You can't expect people to buy a device based on some possible future device. You need to design for accessories that are available _now_. Otherwise the customer will simply hold off on buying the device until the required accessories come out.
This device should have a CF slot. It does not add much to the cost and it greatly expands the capabilities.
The hero walks in and kicks the mud off of his Timberlands. He checks his Colt M-4 carbine with an Aimpoint sight at the front and saunters over to the bar. "Barkeep, gimme a Bass Ale and a shot of Stoli". He then takes out his Zippo lighter and starts puffing on a sligtly damp and crimped Cohiba...
Well if the game were programmed such that when you died, your last view of the world was the ad, and that view lasted until the ad completed, then that would probably be prime real estate.
Hmm. When my cordless phone rreceives a call, it needs to send a signal to the handset to ring. This no doubt increases the power used by the phone and therefore I am incurring a small expense for the extra electricity.
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Why should Apple bend over for some random company because some unrelated cartel has restrictive license terms?
Nobody is asking Apple to do anything. In fact, if Apple would do absolutely nothing, then there would be no problem.
Real is trying to compete in the iTunes download-a-song market, not the iPod media player market. Furthermore, they are trying to set up a market where music download services are decoupled from the media player market. Yes, "Real can make their own player", but this model would only serve to lock in customers to a particular company's player. Real wants to be able to offer people music downloads that will play on _any_ player. This is a more competitive market and will be better for the consumer, rather than the each-company-locks-in-its-users model.
Don't want to do that? Tough shit - it's your choice to publish using DRM, and Apple has no obligation to support you.
Unfortuneately, nobody will license Real any music if they are going to put it in an unsecured format. Real is making a competing product (their DRM scheme) and they should be allowed to reverse engineer FairPlay to interoperate the #1 music device on the planet.
Apple does not have to support them or do anything. But they also cannot prevent someone from doing some clean reverse engineering.
In the end, this will mean more songs out there, which will hopefully sell more iPods. Remember, iTunes is all about selling iPods.
I didn't say that the government should fund a program. I just want the government to get out of the way as much as possible so that information can be disseminated to as broad an audience as possible.
The information should be controllable, like in the subscription model, but also widely available, like in the broadcast model. Nobody has yet developed a system that achieves both goals, which is admittedly a difficult problem.
Some people say "If you don't like what you see or hear, change the channel." The same applies to you. If there aren't enough boobs or sex talk for you, change the channel.
The problem is that there is not enough boobs because the government won't allow it. So the freedom of speech is curtailed in the interests of "the children".
The subscription model is an improvement, because the save-the-children-people cannot use their argument to impose regulations on the carrier. The cost is that you have a system where only people who can afford the equipment get access to all the content. People who can't afford the equipment are given access to only the government approved stuff. Information for the rich is something that should be employed only where absolutely nessecary.
I have two kids, and I just make sure that when the radio, TV or computer is running, the content is appropriate. If it is not, then I turn it off and deal with the whines and cries of protest ("tough shit" or "when you are older" are the typical parent comebacks).
Big dishes collect more signal energy which is good for receiving weak signals. The geometry of the dish has more to do with the footprint on the ground.
Is that Admiral Protection Fault in the Navy?
We can have more time for barbecuing by going to work earlier and coming home earlier.
Not everybody has the option to change their schedule. Voluntary changes will also mean a little chaos as you need to remember who's on which schedule. And finally, changing hours would cause a boom in the printing business as companies changed their hours of operation twice a year.
If you are going to have a change, better to have to government coordinate it.
Another way to think of it is you are free to observe whatever time zone you want. You don't _have_ to live on government standard time. After all, the airlines run on GMT.
So for an inital deposit of $350.00 and $50.00 installments every year or so, you get a free laser printer replacement
Just make sure that it is a replacement plan. They have been changing their plans recently and many, especially the big dollar items) are becoming repair plans, where you send your unit out and they fix it for you (in about 2-3 months).
There is nothing illegal about owning an M-60. You just need the correct permits (in the USA).
Once a month, the local gun range has "Machine Gun Night" where people can come out and let a few hundred rounds fly.
If I recall, owning a machine gun or destructive weapon entails a $200 tax, a federal background check, and an endorsement from a local law enforcement official or judge indicating that you are not any trouble. The feds also have the right to search your property periodically to ensure that the weapon is properly secured.
What is Libre (non-gratis) information? Information that anyone can access for a price? Not very Libre if you don't have the denarii.
;-).
And if information has a price, then that implies that it has an owner, which is contradictory to the notion of Libre.
Truth is, information is non-libre, non-gratis, just like any other product produced. The fact that it can be reproduced with little or no cost and effort is the meat of "the problem". It tends to behave like a gratis, libre product, when it is not. The solution to "the problem" is to impose unnatural barriers (make people pay for something they can get for free or much reduced cost) in the capitalist system, which in its purest sense is anarchy.
So although information is not libre nor gratis, I can say one thing. A good deal of the entertainment information is overpriced
Review: The drive _is_ quiet. Whisper silent actually. Its not until you plug it in that it makes this horrible racket.
Could not cool it off in space?
The average temp of space is what a few Kalvin, almost absolute zero.
There is no temperature in space. If an object is placed in space, it will go towards thermal equilibrium where the incoming radiation heating it is balanced by the black body radiation that the object emits. At this equilibrium, you can measure the temperature. Note that this temperature is dependant on the amount of energy being received by the object, which is why the temperature of moon varies between 40 and 400K.
Say make a multilayered exterior skin/enclosure so could expose pipes or coolent to said vacuum...Make a large coil of pipes to maximize surface area exposed to cold. Wrap it around the entire exterior of the core module.
Just an idea don't know what type of material would be needed.
And the mass needed to radiate this much heat would be tremendous. Radiating heat is not an efficient way to move heat around. Conduction is much better, but in space there is nothing to conduct to.
Think about this, the entire inner sides of the space shuttle cargo bay doors are radiators to help regulate the internal environment. They have at most a couple dozen kilowatts of power to dissipate. You would have to scale that by 1000, at least, to cool a nuclear reactor.
One nitpick in that article is that the power needed to create the shielding comes from a nuclear reactor - Which will need shielding.
Also, nuclear reactors on earth work well because they have a good heat sink. It is just a steam engine with nuclear fuel providing the heat and river or evaporative cooling towers providing the cool side. Getting rid of megawatts of waste heat in space is much more difficult. You can't conduct it away, so it needs to be radiated, which is much less efficient.
Computer games don't go bad, so just wait a few weeks and buy a used copy. Only the impatient gamers will spend $60. Everyone else will benefit from their folly.
Games? You can apply this argument to the console, too. I am just now considering getting a used XBox. Ebay has systems + games for between 200 and 300 bucks.
I'll get an XBox360 when the next one comes out.
You forget that human copulation is the best documented behavior. Plenty of data out there for everyone.
Yes it does. At least the rubberized grip on the bottom of the unit (where the GBA games go on a Nintendo DS) would be more expensive to make with a hole in it for CF.
Even if you double the price of the plastic piece "with a hole in it", which is a reach, the bill of materials will not be dramatically changed. Most of the cost for these units is in the displays, electronics and labor.
The real cost would be a less portable device due to the volume requirements of the CF slot. That is a more realistic killer of a feature than the fabrication costs of a mechanical part.
you can already buy 5GB drives inside CF cards, its just a matter of time before someone manages to squeeze a single 1GB platter inside a SD card.
You can't expect people to buy a device based on some possible future device. You need to design for accessories that are available _now_. Otherwise the customer will simply hold off on buying the device until the required accessories come out.
This device should have a CF slot. It does not add much to the cost and it greatly expands the capabilities.
Cargo class: One way. Return ticket is purchased for an additional 120 million upon arrival in lunar orbit.
I'd rather stuff a LONG CYLINDRICAL player in my pants.
Scene: a bar
The hero walks in and kicks the mud off of his Timberlands. He checks his Colt M-4 carbine with an Aimpoint sight at the front and saunters over to the bar. "Barkeep, gimme a Bass Ale and a shot of Stoli". He then takes out his Zippo lighter and starts puffing on a sligtly damp and crimped Cohiba...
Well if the game were programmed such that when you died, your last view of the world was the ad, and that view lasted until the ad completed, then that would probably be prime real estate.
I hope it works faster than realtime, or you'll be capturing data for the next 40 years.
Hmm. When my cordless phone rreceives a call, it needs to send a signal to the handset to ring. This no doubt increases the power used by the phone and therefore I am incurring a small expense for the extra electricity.
Wouldn't it be nice if that argument worked?