"screwed" in what sense? In the same sense that anybody who buys a PC in the next year or two is going to be when USB4 comes out?
I guess people that have an urgent need for the bandwidth provided by USB3 will have to spend a little more money than people who think the bandwidth will be a nice add-on to the baseline feature set, but your description of the situation is simply hyperbolic.
I don't really buy it either, as I would guess that a lot of people who sell used Apple products are going to use the proceeds to buy new Apple products (so participating in the Apple market ends up making more dollars available to Apple).
There is a caveat -- given the presence of an interventionist government, corporations have shown that they cannot self regulate.
I don't think the world would be better without government regulation, but the current crisis is as much a result of poor government regulation as it is a result of poor self regulation, and it doesn't really say anything about an unregulated marketplace. Call not for more regulation, but for better regulation. Judge results, not page counts.
(Two major things are that without the SEC, the stock market would not be as big as it is, and without Fannie and Freddie, the mortgage market would not be nearly as liquid as it is (was...).)
Because it wouldn't know what else to do. From the spiders point of view, it doesn't look for food and then build a web in a suitable place, it builds a web and lives or dies based on whether there is any food.
It appears to extend beyond BD, but I'm pretty sure that they will eventually support BD, so "It shouldn't be there at all" isn't really an option.
I imagine that this particular issue will shake out as an implementation problem (the computer should fall back to sending lower resolution video, or at least indicate that this is an option); it isn't even clear if the content that this guy attempted to play required HDCP.
Hopefully the final resolution is widespread deployment of firmware updates to disable HDCP after someone busts the PS3 (I guess Sony can probably update them with new firmware, but one successful attack would suggest a boring arms race).
I don't own a 360, so I could give a shit (well, I would factor the behavior into purchasing decisions and so on).
Really, there isn't any reason Sony should worry about Netflix going exclusive or whatever, they should be licensing the movies at a price where they make money and not worry about it after that (making contracts that try to create revenues for other divisions is what I am talking about with the gibbering baboons).
I don't like the idea that Netflix would sign such an exclusive agreement, but given the availability of upteen other devices that work nearly identically, I suspect that the term is rather short, or that it is only exclusive on Microsoft's side (that is, Microsoft agreed not to bring in a competitor and Netflix is free to do whatever).
Does it have Blu-ray? Is Blu-ray an option, or does it come with everything (I have no idea...)?
HDCP is part of the Blu-ray spec, so if you want Blu-ray, the DRM isn't really an option. Apple's implementation appears to go further than that, but if they want to offer Blu-ray, 'not there' isn't an option.
It makes more sense to measure things in fun/Watt than it does to measure them in Masturbatory-graphics-number/Watt. That is, measure what they do, not what they are capable of.
My point was more that making optimization decisions that cost a huge amount of ram is a sane thing to do at this point.
Vista is probably incredibly sub-optimal. It is probably a lot less efficient than Linux. Neither of those things really inform whether 4 gigabytes is reasonable, whereas costing $50 suggests that it isn't particularly worrisome.
So again, I'm not trying to say that 4 gigs is reasonable, or that Vista is o.k., or that Linux is great or that Vista is great, or that Vista is cheddar cheese, I'm saying that given current prices, requiring 4 gigabytes of ram isn't really a check mark against something, at least on its own (which is probably why I said "Without really addressing your point", as your point was that you didn't think a sane operating system should possibly require that much memory).
Without really addressing your point, the fact that 4 gigs of ram costs less than $100 (or $50...) cuts down on how unreasonable it is to require 4 gigs of ram. A lot.
In general, funding oversight should focus on inputs and outputs, not process.
Assuming that the committee will know better than each and every researcher is a bad idea, and inputs and outputs are easy to measure, meaning that monitoring them will probably require less bureaucracy than making sure that all dollars are spent in 'approved' ways.
A significant percentage of the human population (in the United States) wants illegal drugs.
Spam is driven by the people purchasing the spam runs, not by the people who get the spam. I guess there might be several million people who repeatedly buy penis enlargement pills and other drugs over the internet, but I don't really think so.
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"screwed" in what sense? In the same sense that anybody who buys a PC in the next year or two is going to be when USB4 comes out?
I guess people that have an urgent need for the bandwidth provided by USB3 will have to spend a little more money than people who think the bandwidth will be a nice add-on to the baseline feature set, but your description of the situation is simply hyperbolic.
That's quite the fine line you walk.
I don't really buy it either, as I would guess that a lot of people who sell used Apple products are going to use the proceeds to buy new Apple products (so participating in the Apple market ends up making more dollars available to Apple).
There is a caveat -- given the presence of an interventionist government, corporations have shown that they cannot self regulate.
I don't think the world would be better without government regulation, but the current crisis is as much a result of poor government regulation as it is a result of poor self regulation, and it doesn't really say anything about an unregulated marketplace. Call not for more regulation, but for better regulation. Judge results, not page counts.
(Two major things are that without the SEC, the stock market would not be as big as it is, and without Fannie and Freddie, the mortgage market would not be nearly as liquid as it is (was...).)
Because it wouldn't know what else to do. From the spiders point of view, it doesn't look for food and then build a web in a suitable place, it builds a web and lives or dies based on whether there is any food.
Not a junior, huh?
It appears to extend beyond BD, but I'm pretty sure that they will eventually support BD, so "It shouldn't be there at all" isn't really an option.
I imagine that this particular issue will shake out as an implementation problem (the computer should fall back to sending lower resolution video, or at least indicate that this is an option); it isn't even clear if the content that this guy attempted to play required HDCP.
Hopefully the final resolution is widespread deployment of firmware updates to disable HDCP after someone busts the PS3 (I guess Sony can probably update them with new firmware, but one successful attack would suggest a boring arms race).
I don't own a 360, so I could give a shit (well, I would factor the behavior into purchasing decisions and so on).
Really, there isn't any reason Sony should worry about Netflix going exclusive or whatever, they should be licensing the movies at a price where they make money and not worry about it after that (making contracts that try to create revenues for other divisions is what I am talking about with the gibbering baboons).
I don't like the idea that Netflix would sign such an exclusive agreement, but given the availability of upteen other devices that work nearly identically, I suspect that the term is rather short, or that it is only exclusive on Microsoft's side (that is, Microsoft agreed not to bring in a competitor and Netflix is free to do whatever).
Please do not call treating customers like gibbering baboons "smart and prescient".
Does it have Blu-ray? Is Blu-ray an option, or does it come with everything (I have no idea...)?
HDCP is part of the Blu-ray spec, so if you want Blu-ray, the DRM isn't really an option. Apple's implementation appears to go further than that, but if they want to offer Blu-ray, 'not there' isn't an option.
If your memory does not match reality, question reality.
Frequencies and outputs change at the transition. The first step is to wait until then.
It makes more sense to measure things in fun/Watt than it does to measure them in Masturbatory-graphics-number/Watt. That is, measure what they do, not what they are capable of.
You mean effective and/or cheap. A computer is pretty much equally efficient as any other electric heater.
Actually, he is happy to use the $3 to keep his console on standby.
He probably doesn't care that the actual figure is probably closer to $50, either.
My point was more that making optimization decisions that cost a huge amount of ram is a sane thing to do at this point.
Vista is probably incredibly sub-optimal. It is probably a lot less efficient than Linux. Neither of those things really inform whether 4 gigabytes is reasonable, whereas costing $50 suggests that it isn't particularly worrisome.
So again, I'm not trying to say that 4 gigs is reasonable, or that Vista is o.k., or that Linux is great or that Vista is great, or that Vista is cheddar cheese, I'm saying that given current prices, requiring 4 gigabytes of ram isn't really a check mark against something, at least on its own (which is probably why I said "Without really addressing your point", as your point was that you didn't think a sane operating system should possibly require that much memory).
Any top 10% bottom 10% ranking system that doesn't include 'ability to work with others' isn't worth very much.
You will never bake an apple pie by measuring strawberries.
The fun part is that he will continue to collect the $200 for the rest of his life.
K5.
Without really addressing your point, the fact that 4 gigs of ram costs less than $100 (or $50...) cuts down on how unreasonable it is to require 4 gigs of ram. A lot.
It is likely that Apple treats the OS installed onto a new machine as a cost and thus makes no profit on it.
You could play semantic games and argue that the OS justifies some part of the markup on the machine, but that's just a semantic game.
In general, funding oversight should focus on inputs and outputs, not process.
Assuming that the committee will know better than each and every researcher is a bad idea, and inputs and outputs are easy to measure, meaning that monitoring them will probably require less bureaucracy than making sure that all dollars are spent in 'approved' ways.
No longer in plain ascii, now in high resolution jpeg.
You obviously don't run Windows much (and I say that from the point of view of running XP as my day to day OS).
Have you had any cases of something attempting to install itself?
I run AVG, but all it has done is quarantine a few files that it didn't like, that were not threats.
A significant percentage of the human population (in the United States) wants illegal drugs.
Spam is driven by the people purchasing the spam runs, not by the people who get the spam. I guess there might be several million people who repeatedly buy penis enlargement pills and other drugs over the internet, but I don't really think so.