You are also guilty in the other direction. The article avoided the political-right-religious inflamation while you purposefully have fanned it. Points to ponder:
- Most "religious right" groups and people that are against using aborted fetuses as sources for medical procedures recognize that there are special circumstances when execptions to a "no abortion" rule are warrented. - The source article at CNN and the Wikipedia article on Batten disease both point out that the neural tissue can be and is collected from natural miscarriages too.
Therefore, both of the above, even if an almost "no abortion" law was in effect, would be able to provide sufficient neural tissue for the treatment of a rare disease.
Your opinions on doing what it takes to save your children are laudable. No need to fan the religious flames in this case since I doubt you would be effected by it.
FLASH technology may or may not be a great idea either because of its relatively limited (compared to a HD) # of read/write cycles
I test flash all the time and have several tests running right now. I have some tests that will kill a hard drive, many times within 24 hours, but flash shrug off. The major weak spot of hard drives is the mechanical operation.
With the current write endurance and wear-leveling capabilities of flash and flash controllers, I would easily expect flash to outlast hard drives because the hard drive will mechanically fail before the flash will wear-out.
I sit corrected, I think. I'm not a gamer so video games did not enter my mind.
Do the latest games actually use hard DRM? If I buy the latest "Drive Around and Shoot Aliens 3" and install it on my desktop, can I also install it on my laptop? If my desktop computer fails and I replace it, can I install it on my new one?
Restrictions for these and other similar actions are what several of the current music services impose.
I can see how harder DRM for games would be more acceptable since one would not be expecting to take the game portable as much as music or movies. And if you did go portable, you'd have the game environment (ala GameBoy) with you.
If all the ins and outs are protected digital your "if i can see it I can record it" will be bunk. Unless you're talking shakey cam pointed at your TV;)
(and yes sure, drm can be cracked... but that's hardly the point)
If I cannot do with the content what I want to do with the content, I will not buy the content. If I cannot buy equipment that will let me do what I want with the content, I will not buy the equipment. DRM cracked or not, if the products (content and content players) restrict me from doing what I want, the producers will lose me as a customer.
There are vast numbers of ways to spend my time that I will not sacrifice my freedom at the alter of entertainment. Maybe I will end up in the minority from the mindless masses. That's my choice. But they (entertainment industry companies) face two dilemas getting this to come about.
1. The content producers and content player companies will always be at odds. The producers want more enforced control but the player companies know that less control will increase sales. This will not change. Even Sony's movie and music arms can't fully bring the electronic side in line.
2. Even "average" users expect to be able to move content around and watch it without having to jump through hoops. There are no examples of content and products with hard DRM that have been a success. iTunes and DVD do not have hard DRM. No one I know, for example, wants to buy a song that can only be played on one computer and not moved to a player or a new computer like some music services do.
I, therefore, feel pretty comfortable that full control DRM will not succeed in the marketplace. This is why those that want it are trying to get laws passed to mandate it.
What about the other direction?
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As an employer, what right would I have to expect advanced warning from an employee that is going to quit? If I train someone, on the job and with organized classes, if I create a business plan and development schedule or other expendature of resources around an employee, do I have the right to employee security to know a key employee will be there?
Many times "company loyalty" only goes one way with the employee giving it and the company giving the employee "the shaft." I have been there. However, I find it silly to expect that I can walk away from my job anytime, leaving my employer with ruined plans and wasted money but they must give me advanced notice before letting me go.
Don't get me wrong, an employer treating me right before letting me loose would be great! As an employee I should be willing to do the same for my employer should I start pursuing a career path away from them.
No. Granted, there are some general drivers concepts that can carry over from one platform to the next but not here. Especially not with W2K drivers. Get a W2K drivers book like "Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model" by Walter Oney (Microsoft Press). The author is even very responsive to email questions. www.oneysoft.com
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You are also guilty in the other direction. The article avoided the political-right-religious inflamation while you purposefully have fanned it. Points to ponder:
- Most "religious right" groups and people that are against using aborted fetuses as sources for medical procedures recognize that there are special circumstances when execptions to a "no abortion" rule are warrented.
- The source article at CNN and the Wikipedia article on Batten disease both point out that the neural tissue can be and is collected from natural miscarriages too.
Therefore, both of the above, even if an almost "no abortion" law was in effect, would be able to provide sufficient neural tissue for the treatment of a rare disease.
Your opinions on doing what it takes to save your children are laudable. No need to fan the religious flames in this case since I doubt you would be effected by it.
FLASH technology may or may not be a great idea either because of its relatively limited (compared to a HD) # of read/write cycles
I test flash all the time and have several tests running right now. I have some tests that will kill a hard drive, many times within 24 hours, but flash shrug off. The major weak spot of hard drives is the mechanical operation.
With the current write endurance and wear-leveling capabilities of flash and flash controllers, I would easily expect flash to outlast hard drives because the hard drive will mechanically fail before the flash will wear-out.
I sit corrected, I think. I'm not a gamer so video games did not enter my mind.
Do the latest games actually use hard DRM? If I buy the latest "Drive Around and Shoot Aliens 3" and install it on my desktop, can I also install it on my laptop? If my desktop computer fails and I replace it, can I install it on my new one?
Restrictions for these and other similar actions are what several of the current music services impose.
I can see how harder DRM for games would be more acceptable since one would not be expecting to take the game portable as much as music or movies. And if you did go portable, you'd have the game environment (ala GameBoy) with you.
Interesting... You make a good point.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=164248&cid=137 15878
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If all the ins and outs are protected digital your "if i can see it I can record it" will be bunk. Unless you're talking shakey cam pointed at your TV ;)
(and yes sure, drm can be cracked... but that's hardly the point)
If I cannot do with the content what I want to do with the content, I will not buy the content. If I cannot buy equipment that will let me do what I want with the content, I will not buy the equipment. DRM cracked or not, if the products (content and content players) restrict me from doing what I want, the producers will lose me as a customer.
There are vast numbers of ways to spend my time that I will not sacrifice my freedom at the alter of entertainment. Maybe I will end up in the minority from the mindless masses. That's my choice. But they (entertainment industry companies) face two dilemas getting this to come about.
1. The content producers and content player companies will always be at odds. The producers want more enforced control but the player companies know that less control will increase sales. This will not change. Even Sony's movie and music arms can't fully bring the electronic side in line.
2. Even "average" users expect to be able to move content around and watch it without having to jump through hoops. There are no examples of content and products with hard DRM that have been a success. iTunes and DVD do not have hard DRM. No one I know, for example, wants to buy a song that can only be played on one computer and not moved to a player or a new computer like some music services do.
I, therefore, feel pretty comfortable that full control DRM will not succeed in the marketplace. This is why those that want it are trying to get laws passed to mandate it.
Many times "company loyalty" only goes one way with the employee giving it and the company giving the employee "the shaft." I have been there. However, I find it silly to expect that I can walk away from my job anytime, leaving my employer with ruined plans and wasted money but they must give me advanced notice before letting me go.
Don't get me wrong, an employer treating me right before letting me loose would be great! As an employee I should be willing to do the same for my employer should I start pursuing a career path away from them.
No. Granted, there are some general drivers concepts that can carry over from one platform to the next but not here. Especially not with W2K drivers. Get a W2K drivers book like "Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model" by Walter Oney (Microsoft Press). The author is even very responsive to email questions. www.oneysoft.com