The reason it costs so much is you just outfitted your rig with some seriously serious hardware. You went close to top of the line of your own volition. The top-shelf stuff will always cost you a premium - one that doesn't usually scale to the increase in performance - because you're going for best of the best.
That's perfectly legitimate compression, if in your scheme "1" is actually equivilant to the Bible. 11 would then be a nice shorthand, highly compressed way of writing the Bible twice, back to back. 12 might mean the Bible, then the Koran.
Such a scheme wouldn't be very useful for general use, of course...
I actually oppose IP as a concept, but from a legal standpoint, you still remain unauthorized to distribute or recieve an unauthorized copy -- so it IS still pirating.
(unless you want to be pedantic and talk about how you're not wearing an eyepatch or carrying around a parrot when you do it).
Not what I said. I certainly don't support the expansion of eminent domain.
However, my feelings on the issue are entirely seperate from whether the court is right in finding that this sort of eminent domain is legal, within the framework set forth by the constitution. I have no idea whether the court's ruling is legally sound, because I'm no legal scholar and know only a little about the case.
People have a tendancy to want courts to rule in favor of their chosen policy perspectives. That's not the way courts are supposed to work. Courts are supposed to decide what is and isn't consistent with law - including higher law such as local constitutions, or the federal constitution.
For instance - I wholeheartedly support gay marriage (so long as its not manditory, to paraphrase Jon Stewart) but some courts may be right in saying their state constitutions do nothing to prevent the legislature from outlawing it. (Actually, I think government should get out of the marriage business altogether, and let it be an entirely social convention with the same legal weight as a bar mitzvah or confirmation, but I digress).
I'm not sure whether I agree with the court's ruling, but you don't think a healthy local economy can be in the public's good? What if it provides local jobs, or gives the neighborhood a nice downtown?
As a libertarian, I tend to say "fuck off" to government when it wants to curtail my liberties in the interest of the public good, even when I believe that interest might actually be served. But that aside, the court may have been right in finding commercial development MAY in some cases fall within the definition of public good.
So it's not just for pirating PSP games... it's also for pirating old carts:)
Actually, there's only so much benefit to being able to pirate PSP games, at least for now. Memory cards large enough to store them are more expensive than the games in many cases. Sure, you could have just one card and constantly swap new games to it, but that's somewhat inconvenient.
More than that, there's absolutely no way to enforce it.
Let's say someone comes up with a new e-mail protocol that calls for this. Why should I use it when the old way worked fine for me? Why shouldn't I use some new, easy-to-develop alternative protocol that will be produced by another party within days of the creation of the micropayment system? No one is going to bother with the micropayment system.
The only way a micropayment-mandatory system would work is if several HUGE ISPs and e-mail providers refused to work with anything else. Say, for instance, hotmail, yahoo, aol, gmail, earthlink, etc - you'd need hundreds of the big boys to sign off. And they'd all have some MAJORLY upset customers. Those who opt-out could advertise to the general public that e-mail is included free with their service - meaning there would still be enough legit regular e-mail out there to make the customers upset at the micropayment-required services for blocking legit mail.
Actually, there is some substantial difference between the Rhapsody/Next file selection process and what Itunes does. When you select a folder in Rhapsody, you got to chose from the subfolders within it in the next column.
When you choose an item in the iTunes browser, the list below filters out everything that doesn't match. Then you can select a second criteria from the browser, or a third.
The interfaces look similar, but they're functionally quite different.
While the review is generally positive, it's not all-out glowing. It notes weak points. Are you saying reviews of tech products aren't legitimately of interest to nerds/geeks?
Apple would be idiotic not to include something akin to VirtualPC - or maybe even more like VMWare - on these new macs, to let them run windows at near-native speeds on top of OS X. All the benefits of a Mac, all the security of a pre-existing Windows application base.
"Why does the defendant have a right to know how equipment used to obtain evidence works?"
Because a defendant, who may or may not be guilty, has a right to rebut and discredit the evidence - if the state or the company to which it contracts its breathalizers won't reveal that, the defendant is robbed of that right.
How do we know the third party is really impartial, thorough or accurate? The defendant gets a shot at evaluating the evidence too.
If apple can make more money on the ipods overall by getting a chunk of the money from subscribers, it MIGHT lower ipod costs for everybody, even those who don't use the subscriptions. Alternately, it might offer ipods for less to contracted subscribers - like cell phone companies do - to make up the profit on the monthly fee.
Much of the bulk of a XM receiver unit is to provide functionality already present in the iPod - the eqipment to decode encoded audio, and to play it back. It might be possible to build in the signal reciever without a significant difference in the size or weight of the overall unit.
Please elaborate on MS DRM being cracked. Is this something that applies to WMA files as well? The only thing that's stopped me from using online music stores is the lack of something akin to fairplay to ensure the files I purchase won't ultimately be rendered obsolete if/when I buy a new player that may or may not support the same DRM standards being used now.
MS developing anti-virus software to find the same viruses the company's own shoddy programming allowed to propogate is like the Slashdot editors developing a dupe search to find the same duplicates their own shoddy editing allowed to be posted.
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The reason it costs so much is you just outfitted your rig with some seriously serious hardware. You went close to top of the line of your own volition. The top-shelf stuff will always cost you a premium - one that doesn't usually scale to the increase in performance - because you're going for best of the best.
That's perfectly legitimate compression, if in your scheme "1" is actually equivilant to the Bible. 11 would then be a nice shorthand, highly compressed way of writing the Bible twice, back to back. 12 might mean the Bible, then the Koran.
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Such a scheme wouldn't be very useful for general use, of course
I actually oppose IP as a concept, but from a legal standpoint, you still remain unauthorized to distribute or recieve an unauthorized copy -- so it IS still pirating.
(unless you want to be pedantic and talk about how you're not wearing an eyepatch or carrying around a parrot when you do it).
Not what I said. I certainly don't support the expansion of eminent domain.
However, my feelings on the issue are entirely seperate from whether the court is right in finding that this sort of eminent domain is legal, within the framework set forth by the constitution. I have no idea whether the court's ruling is legally sound, because I'm no legal scholar and know only a little about the case.
People have a tendancy to want courts to rule in favor of their chosen policy perspectives. That's not the way courts are supposed to work. Courts are supposed to decide what is and isn't consistent with law - including higher law such as local constitutions, or the federal constitution.
For instance - I wholeheartedly support gay marriage (so long as its not manditory, to paraphrase Jon Stewart) but some courts may be right in saying their state constitutions do nothing to prevent the legislature from outlawing it. (Actually, I think government should get out of the marriage business altogether, and let it be an entirely social convention with the same legal weight as a bar mitzvah or confirmation, but I digress).
I'm not sure whether I agree with the court's ruling, but you don't think a healthy local economy can be in the public's good? What if it provides local jobs, or gives the neighborhood a nice downtown?
As a libertarian, I tend to say "fuck off" to government when it wants to curtail my liberties in the interest of the public good, even when I believe that interest might actually be served. But that aside, the court may have been right in finding commercial development MAY in some cases fall within the definition of public good.
So it's not just for pirating PSP games ... it's also for pirating old carts :)
Actually, there's only so much benefit to being able to pirate PSP games, at least for now. Memory cards large enough to store them are more expensive than the games in many cases. Sure, you could have just one card and constantly swap new games to it, but that's somewhat inconvenient.
More than that, there's absolutely no way to enforce it.
Let's say someone comes up with a new e-mail protocol that calls for this. Why should I use it when the old way worked fine for me? Why shouldn't I use some new, easy-to-develop alternative protocol that will be produced by another party within days of the creation of the micropayment system? No one is going to bother with the micropayment system.
The only way a micropayment-mandatory system would work is if several HUGE ISPs and e-mail providers refused to work with anything else. Say, for instance, hotmail, yahoo, aol, gmail, earthlink, etc - you'd need hundreds of the big boys to sign off. And they'd all have some MAJORLY upset customers. Those who opt-out could advertise to the general public that e-mail is included free with their service - meaning there would still be enough legit regular e-mail out there to make the customers upset at the micropayment-required services for blocking legit mail.
The KING! OF! SPAIN!
However, they were just fine with Firefoux.
Clearly, these Rhapsody people need to sue Apple.
Actually, there is some substantial difference between the Rhapsody/Next file selection process and what Itunes does. When you select a folder in Rhapsody, you got to chose from the subfolders within it in the next column.
When you choose an item in the iTunes browser, the list below filters out everything that doesn't match. Then you can select a second criteria from the browser, or a third.
The interfaces look similar, but they're functionally quite different.
Ummm ...
While the review is generally positive, it's not all-out glowing. It notes weak points. Are you saying reviews of tech products aren't legitimately of interest to nerds/geeks?
Apple would be idiotic not to include something akin to VirtualPC - or maybe even more like VMWare - on these new macs, to let them run windows at near-native speeds on top of OS X. All the benefits of a Mac, all the security of a pre-existing Windows application base.
"Why does the defendant have a right to know how equipment used to obtain evidence works?"
Because a defendant, who may or may not be guilty, has a right to rebut and discredit the evidence - if the state or the company to which it contracts its breathalizers won't reveal that, the defendant is robbed of that right.
How do we know the third party is really impartial, thorough or accurate? The defendant gets a shot at evaluating the evidence too.
I would argue reproducing any of what the Olive Garden passes along as Italian food is a crime. I'd argue it's a crime when the Olive Garden does it.
Hospitaliano indeed.
"Why bother, when you can ask your robot to go get whatever you want?
Obesity and muscle wastage, here we come *..."
To avoid being obese and wasting your muscles?
That's like saying why meet in person when you can talk online or on the phone - because there are still recognized benefits to meeting in person.
Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't.
If apple can make more money on the ipods overall by getting a chunk of the money from subscribers, it MIGHT lower ipod costs for everybody, even those who don't use the subscriptions. Alternately, it might offer ipods for less to contracted subscribers - like cell phone companies do - to make up the profit on the monthly fee.
Much of the bulk of a XM receiver unit is to provide functionality already present in the iPod - the eqipment to decode encoded audio, and to play it back. It might be possible to build in the signal reciever without a significant difference in the size or weight of the overall unit.
Tell her to stop reading those braille porn sites.
Please elaborate on MS DRM being cracked. Is this something that applies to WMA files as well? The only thing that's stopped me from using online music stores is the lack of something akin to fairplay to ensure the files I purchase won't ultimately be rendered obsolete if/when I buy a new player that may or may not support the same DRM standards being used now.
Yes. Unauthorized distribution of someone else's copyright-protected work is copyright infringement.
Personally, I'm super-wacko anti-intellectual property as a concept, and don't think copyright should even exist, but that's the law.
If there's any accent in this conversation, it should be "criché."
With unpatched windows xp machines surfing the web LOOKING to be tripped up, I'd say there's still plenty chance of shit-fights.
MS developing anti-virus software to find the same viruses the company's own shoddy programming allowed to propogate is like the Slashdot editors developing a dupe search to find the same duplicates their own shoddy editing allowed to be posted.
Quiet, Contiki boy.
Wouldn't killing off those that seem most human-like arguably be most unethical?
DVD Jon wasn't in the US. He probably would have been dragged over the coals in the US, too, though.