Interesting thing is that bluray is actually *less* convenient than dvd, and in some ways less convenient than vhs... and it's all down to the draconian copy protection. Pirate copies have no such bullshit.
The one that I would like to see more of; but is basically certain to not happen outside of pirate circles, is greater adoption of the dubiously standard; but quite convenient, intermediate format of MP4 video recorded on DVDs. All the cheapness of DVD production; but better quality than MPEG-2 for the same size. Some DVD players support it, and computers have no trouble; but it is totally informal.
As always, the pirates have better technology and a better user experience than what you can buy from legitimate sources.
Sure, the disk will be unreadable using the standard heads present in the drive (not to mention the drive controller board also has a hole through it)... But the *DATA* is still intact on the vast majority of the platter surface, where specialised equipment will be able to recover it quite easily.
Won't piercing a hole in a hard drive just render data around the area of the hole difficult to read? I imagine that data in other areas of the platter will be unaffected, and subject to recovery by anyone with the appropriate tools/equipment to to do....
Personally, i've always destroyed old hard drives using thermite which ensures that the platters are totally melted down to form an alloy with the drive casing and the molten iron create by the thermite reaction.
And what becomes of bookstores and librarians and all of the jobs associated with paper?
The same thing that happened to blacksmiths and all of the jobs associated with the horse based transportation industry, they lose the mass market because people decide to move towards a newer and in many ways better replacement... They will be relegated to niche markets, of people who won't embrace change or enjoy the nostalgia of using an older technology.
The idea of artificially sustaining an obsolete technology and stifling its modern replacement is stupid, they tried the same thing with cars at one point too.
Often, people with a higher IQ will have been pushed down an academic path and had less time to do things like play with other kids.. They also often get shunned by other kids because they spend more time doing schoolwork.
As for arrogance, someone who is predisposed to being arrogant will use any aspect of themselves to demonstrate their superiority to someone else, be it intelligence, physical strength, money etc.
In the UK at least, i believe such agreements are non enforceable because they count as "restriction of trade". They are there to scare people, and don't have any actual legal weight.
A commercial fork doesn't really need to offer any additional features, it just needs to have a price tag and come with support... There are all kinds of companies that, with the right marketing, will quite happily buy openoffice from a big name like oracle but wouldn't even consider using the free version.
Less testing to be done since each update will bring with it less changes... You won't need to do more testing, you will need to do less testing more often.
Concorde was hardly risky, it had a better safety record than most other aircraft and the only major crash involving concorde was a result of debris going into the engine, something that could happen to any aircraft.
By train: 1 hour to london euston via tube, 5 hour train journey to glasgow ~ 6 hours (and good luck at weekends when the tube is often closed) By air: 15 mins to heathrow by taxi, check in 1 hour before flight, 50 minute flight, 25m baggage claim, 25m taxi to center of glasgow ~ 3 hours
I did this journey recently, only my final destination was close to the airport making the train even less practical. The flight (using BA) was cheaper than the train would have been too.
Incidentally, you don't need to check in 2 hours early for a european flight, and even at a busy airport like heathrow you don't spend 30 minutes taxiing to the runway!
Also, for someone who gets travelsick, 1 hour of travel time vs over 2 hours is a huge improvement, even if it does mean extra time waiting around.
So what your basically saying, is that for your money you get "a piece of shiny plastic and the possibility that at random points for a limited time the supplier of that shiny piece of plastic may allow you to play a game"...
If people knew what they were really getting for their money, they probably wouldn't pay. The problem is that these companies spend a lot of money on advertising and try to hide the true nature of what your paying for.
Phones today are already more powerful than PCs from a few years ago, and with the exception of a few small niches most people aren't doing things on their PCs which weren't possible years ago on hardware of a similar spec to todays smartphones... The problem, is ever increasing software bloat.
GPL restricts some freedoms in exchange for guaranteeing others...
Society does the same thing, for instance there are laws against murder so that people can go about their business feeling relatively safe.
Under an anarchistic society you would still be free to go about your business, but you'd be less likely to without an armed guard.
It's all about trade offs, would you sacrifice your right to kill people in exchange for being able to walk down the street in relative safety? If there was nothing to stop them, i imagine some people would try to kill you just for disagreeing with them online...
There's nothing to stop a commercial vendor from taking BSD code and creating their own intentionally incompatible closed source fork of it either, no guarantee of interoperability at all. At least if someone does that using GPL code, its easier to reverse engineer the changes they made.
With AD, the hash is equivalent to the plaintext anyway. There are various tools which will allow you to authenticate using the hash without ever knowing what the plaintext equivalent was.
In which case, you can now authenticate with the hash instead... So the hash becomes the equivalent of plaintext, thats the worst of both worlds.. Although you do mitigate that to some degree by changing the hash each time.
Just as good to be an admin who can fix a linux machine too... The fact is, no matter how easy a computer becomes, its still a complex device and will require servicing, just like cars and virtually all electrical appliances.
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MS are not really relevant in the mobile market right now, meaning it's pretty much a battle between Google and Apple.
Interesting thing is that bluray is actually *less* convenient than dvd, and in some ways less convenient than vhs... and it's all down to the draconian copy protection.
Pirate copies have no such bullshit.
The one that I would like to see more of; but is basically certain to not happen outside of pirate circles, is greater adoption of the dubiously standard; but quite convenient, intermediate format of MP4 video recorded on DVDs. All the cheapness of DVD production; but better quality than MPEG-2 for the same size. Some DVD players support it, and computers have no trouble; but it is totally informal.
As always, the pirates have better technology and a better user experience than what you can buy from legitimate sources.
Sure, the disk will be unreadable using the standard heads present in the drive (not to mention the drive controller board also has a hole through it)...
But the *DATA* is still intact on the vast majority of the platter surface, where specialised equipment will be able to recover it quite easily.
http://www.ev4.org/thermite/
3 hard drives we destroyed a few years ago...
Won't piercing a hole in a hard drive just render data around the area of the hole difficult to read?
I imagine that data in other areas of the platter will be unaffected, and subject to recovery by anyone with the appropriate tools/equipment to to do....
Personally, i've always destroyed old hard drives using thermite which ensures that the platters are totally melted down to form an alloy with the drive casing and the molten iron create by the thermite reaction.
And what becomes of bookstores and librarians and all of the jobs associated with paper?
The same thing that happened to blacksmiths and all of the jobs associated with the horse based transportation industry, they lose the mass market because people decide to move towards a newer and in many ways better replacement... They will be relegated to niche markets, of people who won't embrace change or enjoy the nostalgia of using an older technology.
The idea of artificially sustaining an obsolete technology and stifling its modern replacement is stupid, they tried the same thing with cars at one point too.
There are a few factors at play here...
Often, people with a higher IQ will have been pushed down an academic path and had less time to do things like play with other kids.. They also often get shunned by other kids because they spend more time doing schoolwork.
As for arrogance, someone who is predisposed to being arrogant will use any aspect of themselves to demonstrate their superiority to someone else, be it intelligence, physical strength, money etc.
In the UK at least, i believe such agreements are non enforceable because they count as "restriction of trade". They are there to scare people, and don't have any actual legal weight.
A commercial fork doesn't really need to offer any additional features, it just needs to have a price tag and come with support... There are all kinds of companies that, with the right marketing, will quite happily buy openoffice from a big name like oracle but wouldn't even consider using the free version.
Less testing to be done since each update will bring with it less changes...
You won't need to do more testing, you will need to do less testing more often.
Not always...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMyr4zV-ZAI
Concorde was hardly risky, it had a better safety record than most other aircraft and the only major crash involving concorde was a result of debris going into the engine, something that could happen to any aircraft.
From my house (just outside london) to glasgow..
By train: 1 hour to london euston via tube, 5 hour train journey to glasgow ~ 6 hours (and good luck at weekends when the tube is often closed)
By air: 15 mins to heathrow by taxi, check in 1 hour before flight, 50 minute flight, 25m baggage claim, 25m taxi to center of glasgow ~ 3 hours
I did this journey recently, only my final destination was close to the airport making the train even less practical. The flight (using BA) was cheaper than the train would have been too.
Incidentally, you don't need to check in 2 hours early for a european flight, and even at a busy airport like heathrow you don't spend 30 minutes taxiing to the runway!
Also, for someone who gets travelsick, 1 hour of travel time vs over 2 hours is a huge improvement, even if it does mean extra time waiting around.
Only if the DRM servers are up to authorize your armor...
And how do you read that page when you are *in* the game shop reading the back of the box? And do advertisements provide a link to these terms?
So what your basically saying, is that for your money you get "a piece of shiny plastic and the possibility that at random points for a limited time the supplier of that shiny piece of plastic may allow you to play a game"...
If people knew what they were really getting for their money, they probably wouldn't pay. The problem is that these companies spend a lot of money on advertising and try to hide the true nature of what your paying for.
Phones today are already more powerful than PCs from a few years ago, and with the exception of a few small niches most people aren't doing things on their PCs which weren't possible years ago on hardware of a similar spec to todays smartphones...
The problem, is ever increasing software bloat.
GPL restricts some freedoms in exchange for guaranteeing others...
Society does the same thing, for instance there are laws against murder so that people can go about their business feeling relatively safe.
Under an anarchistic society you would still be free to go about your business, but you'd be less likely to without an armed guard.
It's all about trade offs, would you sacrifice your right to kill people in exchange for being able to walk down the street in relative safety? If there was nothing to stop them, i imagine some people would try to kill you just for disagreeing with them online...
There's nothing to stop a commercial vendor from taking BSD code and creating their own intentionally incompatible closed source fork of it either, no guarantee of interoperability at all. At least if someone does that using GPL code, its easier to reverse engineer the changes they made.
Run the open source build of chrome - chromium, need not worry about privacy issues then.
Which is why Ubuntu uses dates for the version number...
With AD, the hash is equivalent to the plaintext anyway. There are various tools which will allow you to authenticate using the hash without ever knowing what the plaintext equivalent was.
In which case, you can now authenticate with the hash instead... So the hash becomes the equivalent of plaintext, thats the worst of both worlds.. Although you do mitigate that to some degree by changing the hash each time.
Just as good to be an admin who can fix a linux machine too...
The fact is, no matter how easy a computer becomes, its still a complex device and will require servicing, just like cars and virtually all electrical appliances.