Not mandating it would mean that some playes may or may not support it.
So in other words, if I want to make a player, it must include this closed codec, possibly requiring license fees. There's no good reason for this, and no benefit to anyone other than Microsoft. It's not like this is some magic technology that can't be easily matched with an open solution.
As long as we're extending this bad analogy, it's actually more like he puts the "free pizza" sign on the door while you watch, and explains to you that there's a "free pizza" sign on the door, and that unless you remove it, people are going to show up for pizza.
Installing network devices without reading the instructions is unforgivable these days.
In the U.S. at least, the laws related to credit fraud are all heavily slanted towards the consumer (I know it's a rare case these days, but that's how it currently is). Basically, you just have to say you didn't buy the stuff and the company has to reverse the charges.
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Dead-on. This is also the same reason analog recordings sound very different from digital . . . tape saturation causes certain dynamic effects.
So you still carry a mobile timepiece; it's just not attached to your wrist.
Actually, more.
Do go on.
Breaking a window is a hell of a lot easier than that.
Yep, the new watchword in American 'security': "Who needs respectable technology when you've got the DMCA?"
50+% is a simple majority. The word you're looking for is "plurality".
Of course. What's unreasonable is that a "standard" would include a closed codec at all.
So in other words, if I want to make a player, it must include this closed codec, possibly requiring license fees. There's no good reason for this, and no benefit to anyone other than Microsoft. It's not like this is some magic technology that can't be easily matched with an open solution.
Installing network devices without reading the instructions is unforgivable these days.
In the U.S. at least, the laws related to credit fraud are all heavily slanted towards the consumer (I know it's a rare case these days, but that's how it currently is). Basically, you just have to say you didn't buy the stuff and the company has to reverse the charges.
OOOOOHHH, a 4-digit code, encrypted! Let's see, how long would it take to do a dictionary attack against 10,000 possible matches? 1 second, you say?!
People do this for fun. This has nothing to do with productivity, the bottom line, or actualizing organizational synergy.
And where, exactly, does the demand for programming services go up threefold? I must have missed that part.
That was a beautiful analogy. The world needs more obscure references to 80s DOS games.
Yeah, that, or in the hospital with a concussion, and a mom with a broken leg grieving over her dead son in the next room. Either way.
And you usually actually find what it is you're looking for. ZING!
Shhh, you might reveal the pointlessness of the Department of Homeland Security!
Thank you. I fully expect to hear these on Fox News tonight.
Then they'll just use the DMCA to put these evil, depraved lunatics behind bars where they can't hurt anyone else.
If by "free speech" you mean "speech approved by the corporation paying for the advertising".
And the price people pay for it has been steadily rising since the 80s. Very few people actually pull their signals for free from the air these days.
A lot of cities and towns ban billboards entirely.
One man's "tasteful" is another man's "extremely annoying".
NetHack, rather. Fuck.