If the original version isn't readily available, then I would have a problem. In this case, making a "clean" version doesn't hurt the availability of the standard commercial release, so I don't see a problem from that perspective. There aren't a whole lot of movies that are a social commentary such that they need to have the profanity and violence intact.
There is the copyright issue, which I understand, but I don't understand is the studio's resistance to offering what the market wants. As someone else mentioned, I don't buy the artistic vision bit because studios themselves authorize cut and modified versions for television and in-flight movies. The studios themselves offer cropped or pan and scan movies as well, and I would call that a violation of artistic integrity too, as it crops out a part of the image that the film crew intended to be in the movie. The studios sold that part of artistic integrity up the creek too. In fact, so few movies are art movies, they are generally entertainment movies.
Personally, I'd buy the extended version whenever possible, but I don't see a legitimate argument (in my opinion) that the studios shouldn't also offer cut-down movies.
I don't see how this applies, this system is using wind as a supplement, not as its main or only source of propulsion. I really don't know how feasible this is, but it would be interesting to try. It assumes that the wind is blowing faster than the ship would move under its own power, and assumes the ship isn't fighting the wind. Whether the useful wind makes up for the cost of buying and operating some sort of sails is unknown.
Frankly, I see "rebate" and that turns me off, even if it's legitimate. I've only been screwed out of a rebate once and that was because the post office didn't put a clear postmark on the envelope, so that was an easy out for Seagate to not send me my $40. There's no way I can prove that I did mail it on time, so that's it. That sort of shenanigans is why I don't bother much with rebates anymore. Since then, the stores I've bought from offered instant rebates, applied at the checkout. I ignore everything else because I don't like wasting my time filling out paperwork that I shouldn't have to mail. Given that OfficeMax says it's their #1 complaint, I can imagine that I'm not alone in this. I'd be glad to switch brands or what store I go to if I get a sense that they are trying to screw me over.
One discussion I had with someone is that people that sign on to be CEO that require a "buyout" of their contract to fire them is that they have a track record of successful management in that position. Carly walked away with something like four million with a company in shambles, which is an injustice to say the least. I couldn't find her track record other than having worked some for Lucent Technologies, which to me, didn't bode well for the hiring.
Since we're not able currently even to build a spaceship capable of making it to the moon
What? NASA and other space agencies routinely send probes to the rest of the solar system, what is so hard about the moon? Cassini-Huygens was the size of a bus and it went to Saturn.
You seem to suggest that this needs a manned mission, but the article doesn't suggest this. Human operations would probably interfere with the experiment, if it was possible.
Not only that, Lagrange points aren't necessarily stable. The article mentions L2, which is one of the unstable lagrange points, meaning that it requires station keeping (occasional thruster firing), I'd think that would interfere with this experiment.
Really, I resent the fact that some DVD players block image capture for the occasional still frame. I would hate to see the software players remove the feature from the high def software players because some clueless weenie had to announce it to the world.
It probably should be pointed out that many software RAID systems use a dedicated channel for every drive. RAID-5 on a SCSI hardware RAID adapter doesn't do this. The more drives you operate on the same channel, the bigger the issue can get. This could be an easy explaination as to why software RAID would be faster in your circumstance.
OK, so you have the initial costs. What does it cost over the entire service life, including maintainance and electricity? I'm not giving up Windows, but my Mac is far easier to keep going with a lot less work.
I see this as another example of two (or more) sides not listening to each other, and then the fringes of each camp come up with contrived explainations that back up their sides, refusing to to accept or acknowledge that all the facts are on your side. For the copyright infringement side, there's arguments like the claims made in the article summery, for the industry's side, they claim that every copy loses them full retail price, which is another absurdity as well.
That's a weird reason to switch. The iTunes library files only matter to iTunes for managing or indexing how iTunes handles the media. It's an iTunes-specific file, complaining about that is kind of like complaining that WinAMP plug-ins aren't compatible with other programs. All the audio tracks that iTunes supports, save the files purchased over iTMS, is readily accessible and playable by any other program program in existence, and those other programs have the opportunity to spider the music heirarchy just like any other program.
I will definitely admit to having some troubles and frustrations with OS X, but the fixes or workarounds are almost always easier than the fix for similar problems in Windows or Linux.
I'm understand or see where the hypocrisy is, I haven't seen a good explaination. The reason that superior/subordinate relationships can cause problems is of potential for blackmail or favoritism, as well as the risk for sexual harrassment lawsuit.
Who is going to pay the million bucks to get the wiring from the DFW area to Austin?
I thought this is about the last mile, not the backbone. You can tie into the the internet without having to make your own connections between two major cities.
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"Owning the last mile" is a beautiful vision and expresses the American dream in the digital age...unless you they have already outlawed it in your area.
Please state where it is illegal to set up a new commercial ISP. I don't think you need an ISP owned by the local government, which is really what telco & cableco fought against. They didn't outlaw commercial internet services. You can try competing against them as an actual business not funded by the local government, which is probably a better way to go anyway.
I didn't know that a state senator was going so cheaply these days. Maybe buying off an Alaskan state senator might be cheaper than a high-priced Eskimo hooker.
I think it is an issue of deliberate lock-in. We wouldn't dream of buying a Sony CD, much less having to buy Sony's CD player in order to use Sony's CD. Then if you bought a Philips CD, you'd have to use a Philips player. It is a regression of formats to go from something that was open and now it is either locked to a certain brand product or you have to degrade the quality to play it in some other device. That Tunebite program is only a loop-back reencoder, it doesn't just strip the protection, it also degrades audio quality again to use it in some other product.
Another concern brought up by the Scandinavian cases is that Apple reserves the right to change the terms of the use of the product after you've paid for it, and you get no recourse if you don't like what they do.
On the other hand, it's probably best to not feed the trolls. It reads like a diatribe of Pac Man promoting raves, you know, it's dark with bright flashing colors and encouraging the player to eat pills.
I think you both underestimate how price-concious the console market is. If the Wii is half the price of the PS3 and a lot less than a XB360, with just as many good games, then it should be easy to see that the Wii could very well have a very strong advantage.
I'm not making a prediction though, I think it's way to early to do that when two of the systems in question aren't even available. I'm just saying that it's a pretty big wild card, all three companies are placing pretty big bets on the future of the industry, and the one that's right stands to get the most users. MS and Sony are both betting on variations on an HD path, and Nintendo is angling to grow by expanding the market to include more people not considered conventional gamers.
I agree. One can use both services. Zen Cart offers several different payment module options which the customer can choose how to pay. Now what someone needs to do is code a Google Checkout option.
While I don't generally recommend avoiding entire brands, Linksys products have annoyed me too much. I've used six or seven different models of various Linksys wired and wireless network products and they've all been an unnecessary hassle to set up and use.
Developpers will migrate from one project to another as interest and popularity shifts etc
That gets the developers what the developers want. No project, commercial or free, is going to gain much traction if there isn't a commitment to maintain it for an acceptable amount of time. Also, any need that isn't popular among developers may simply be ignored because there's no incentie. I think the OSS movement could use more "bounty coding", though I don't know if that's going to get quality code or not, because implementing a feature so that it works on some minimal level is easier than polishing it and making sure it is solid, reliable code.
I don't see anything in the articles about that, but that seems to be the most reasonable way to go. One price for a direct download, and a discount, credit or returned payment for successful uploading the same amount of data. I think this is one way the competing video services can differentiate themselves, in part by quality offered, download speed and cost. Bittorrent is generally limited by the upload speeds of the collective torrenters of a given file, particularly if the seeders are slow.
I personally would not want to leave my computer on overnight as well as potentially clog my outbound pipe just to save a commercial service a little money.
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If the original version isn't readily available, then I would have a problem. In this case, making a "clean" version doesn't hurt the availability of the standard commercial release, so I don't see a problem from that perspective. There aren't a whole lot of movies that are a social commentary such that they need to have the profanity and violence intact.
There is the copyright issue, which I understand, but I don't understand is the studio's resistance to offering what the market wants. As someone else mentioned, I don't buy the artistic vision bit because studios themselves authorize cut and modified versions for television and in-flight movies. The studios themselves offer cropped or pan and scan movies as well, and I would call that a violation of artistic integrity too, as it crops out a part of the image that the film crew intended to be in the movie. The studios sold that part of artistic integrity up the creek too. In fact, so few movies are art movies, they are generally entertainment movies.
Personally, I'd buy the extended version whenever possible, but I don't see a legitimate argument (in my opinion) that the studios shouldn't also offer cut-down movies.
I don't see how this applies, this system is using wind as a supplement, not as its main or only source of propulsion. I really don't know how feasible this is, but it would be interesting to try. It assumes that the wind is blowing faster than the ship would move under its own power, and assumes the ship isn't fighting the wind. Whether the useful wind makes up for the cost of buying and operating some sort of sails is unknown.
Frankly, I see "rebate" and that turns me off, even if it's legitimate. I've only been screwed out of a rebate once and that was because the post office didn't put a clear postmark on the envelope, so that was an easy out for Seagate to not send me my $40. There's no way I can prove that I did mail it on time, so that's it. That sort of shenanigans is why I don't bother much with rebates anymore. Since then, the stores I've bought from offered instant rebates, applied at the checkout. I ignore everything else because I don't like wasting my time filling out paperwork that I shouldn't have to mail. Given that OfficeMax says it's their #1 complaint, I can imagine that I'm not alone in this. I'd be glad to switch brands or what store I go to if I get a sense that they are trying to screw me over.
One discussion I had with someone is that people that sign on to be CEO that require a "buyout" of their contract to fire them is that they have a track record of successful management in that position. Carly walked away with something like four million with a company in shambles, which is an injustice to say the least. I couldn't find her track record other than having worked some for Lucent Technologies, which to me, didn't bode well for the hiring.
Since we're not able currently even to build a spaceship capable of making it to the moon
What? NASA and other space agencies routinely send probes to the rest of the solar system, what is so hard about the moon? Cassini-Huygens was the size of a bus and it went to Saturn.
You seem to suggest that this needs a manned mission, but the article doesn't suggest this. Human operations would probably interfere with the experiment, if it was possible.
Not only that, Lagrange points aren't necessarily stable. The article mentions L2, which is one of the unstable lagrange points, meaning that it requires station keeping (occasional thruster firing), I'd think that would interfere with this experiment.
I suppose this means there won't be a yellow PSP. Kutaragi would be hung for sure.
Really, I resent the fact that some DVD players block image capture for the occasional still frame. I would hate to see the software players remove the feature from the high def software players because some clueless weenie had to announce it to the world.
It probably should be pointed out that many software RAID systems use a dedicated channel for every drive. RAID-5 on a SCSI hardware RAID adapter doesn't do this. The more drives you operate on the same channel, the bigger the issue can get. This could be an easy explaination as to why software RAID would be faster in your circumstance.
OK, so you have the initial costs. What does it cost over the entire service life, including maintainance and electricity? I'm not giving up Windows, but my Mac is far easier to keep going with a lot less work.
I see this as another example of two (or more) sides not listening to each other, and then the fringes of each camp come up with contrived explainations that back up their sides, refusing to to accept or acknowledge that all the facts are on your side. For the copyright infringement side, there's arguments like the claims made in the article summery, for the industry's side, they claim that every copy loses them full retail price, which is another absurdity as well.
That's a weird reason to switch. The iTunes library files only matter to iTunes for managing or indexing how iTunes handles the media. It's an iTunes-specific file, complaining about that is kind of like complaining that WinAMP plug-ins aren't compatible with other programs. All the audio tracks that iTunes supports, save the files purchased over iTMS, is readily accessible and playable by any other program program in existence, and those other programs have the opportunity to spider the music heirarchy just like any other program.
I will definitely admit to having some troubles and frustrations with OS X, but the fixes or workarounds are almost always easier than the fix for similar problems in Windows or Linux.
I'm understand or see where the hypocrisy is, I haven't seen a good explaination. The reason that superior/subordinate relationships can cause problems is of potential for blackmail or favoritism, as well as the risk for sexual harrassment lawsuit.
That was never intended to be a genetic claim but a spiritual one. Think of it something like adoption.
Who is going to pay the million bucks to get the wiring from the DFW area to Austin?
I thought this is about the last mile, not the backbone. You can tie into the the internet without having to make your own connections between two major cities.
"Owning the last mile" is a beautiful vision and expresses the American dream in the digital age...unless you they have already outlawed it in your area.
Please state where it is illegal to set up a new commercial ISP. I don't think you need an ISP owned by the local government, which is really what telco & cableco fought against. They didn't outlaw commercial internet services. You can try competing against them as an actual business not funded by the local government, which is probably a better way to go anyway.
I didn't know that a state senator was going so cheaply these days. Maybe buying off an Alaskan state senator might be cheaper than a high-priced Eskimo hooker.
I think it is an issue of deliberate lock-in. We wouldn't dream of buying a Sony CD, much less having to buy Sony's CD player in order to use Sony's CD. Then if you bought a Philips CD, you'd have to use a Philips player. It is a regression of formats to go from something that was open and now it is either locked to a certain brand product or you have to degrade the quality to play it in some other device. That Tunebite program is only a loop-back reencoder, it doesn't just strip the protection, it also degrades audio quality again to use it in some other product.
Another concern brought up by the Scandinavian cases is that Apple reserves the right to change the terms of the use of the product after you've paid for it, and you get no recourse if you don't like what they do.
On the other hand, it's probably best to not feed the trolls. It reads like a diatribe of Pac Man promoting raves, you know, it's dark with bright flashing colors and encouraging the player to eat pills.
I think you both underestimate how price-concious the console market is. If the Wii is half the price of the PS3 and a lot less than a XB360, with just as many good games, then it should be easy to see that the Wii could very well have a very strong advantage.
I'm not making a prediction though, I think it's way to early to do that when two of the systems in question aren't even available. I'm just saying that it's a pretty big wild card, all three companies are placing pretty big bets on the future of the industry, and the one that's right stands to get the most users. MS and Sony are both betting on variations on an HD path, and Nintendo is angling to grow by expanding the market to include more people not considered conventional gamers.
I agree. One can use both services. Zen Cart offers several different payment module options which the customer can choose how to pay. Now what someone needs to do is code a Google Checkout option.
While I don't generally recommend avoiding entire brands, Linksys products have annoyed me too much. I've used six or seven different models of various Linksys wired and wireless network products and they've all been an unnecessary hassle to set up and use.
Wow, thanks for making a post dripping in ad hominem attacks.
Developpers will migrate from one project to another as interest and popularity shifts etc
That gets the developers what the developers want. No project, commercial or free, is going to gain much traction if there isn't a commitment to maintain it for an acceptable amount of time. Also, any need that isn't popular among developers may simply be ignored because there's no incentie. I think the OSS movement could use more "bounty coding", though I don't know if that's going to get quality code or not, because implementing a feature so that it works on some minimal level is easier than polishing it and making sure it is solid, reliable code.
I don't see anything in the articles about that, but that seems to be the most reasonable way to go. One price for a direct download, and a discount, credit or returned payment for successful uploading the same amount of data. I think this is one way the competing video services can differentiate themselves, in part by quality offered, download speed and cost. Bittorrent is generally limited by the upload speeds of the collective torrenters of a given file, particularly if the seeders are slow.
I personally would not want to leave my computer on overnight as well as potentially clog my outbound pipe just to save a commercial service a little money.