You can have difficult to repair due to space constraints, and that's justifiable. Active denial systems and booby traps are a whole separate issue.
The later model Mac Books that are sealed actually have very easy to replace cells, there's nothing about them that would make a cordless phone style cell replacement (yes land line cordless), out of the question. It's protectionism 100%
I used to have an iPhone, company issued of course.
My iPhone had a smaller screen, was less capable with Bluetooth, required a special cable to charge, wouldn't charge in every USB charger and would bitch if I tried to use an unapproved 5v source and was also lacking an HDMI port.
Everything that's been through "the consumer air gap" has that potential. It has that potential even if it hasn't, but that's just experience seeing brown water come out of the tap well inside Houston.
An off-site backup and hosted streaming content is a benefit to the consumer. If you're like me you still have the disk to do with as you please, so there's no detriment to it - as in still free to make your own DRM-free rip.
I wouldn't say I'm the experienced technical expert you need, but I have a fairly good sense of right and wrong and what's fair for both media companies and consumers. If you need another coffee shop philosopher I'm in.
I'm not sure of all the rules, but I do know you CAN download movies to played locally. I don't know if it's a call home DRM or not, but I do know in some cases downloading and playing back later is allowed.
FYI, I am one of those people with a huge movie collection. So far the bulk of my losses have come from physical theft. I had to start over after having my house cleaned out, at least in that case I would still have my online digital copies. When I got robbed my computers AND the backup disk were stolen.
I keep all of my movies on a dedicated NAS drive now. With Ultraviolet properly implemented I don't even have that to worry about.
BTW, less than five years after the great robbery I became an Ike victim. Granted I only lost two commercial optical disk to the salt water, the rest I hosed down, I still lost all of my cartridges.
I apologize, it was Universal that gave me a freebie, not Paramount, though it was a Paramount movie I registered on Flixster that got me another freebie so I should have said Universal and Flixster or Universal and Paramount - I need to give credit where it's due.
Ultraviolet is rather decentralized, as a whole that sort of strengthens it, but it doesn't stop branches from dying off, individual media companies doing crappy things etc...
If it becomes successful enough and they decide to terminate it they will have to address the issue for paying customers, way too much lawsuit potential. Yes there is potential to get screwed, but under this particular setup you still have your disk and you're only out $2 each for those. It's the ones you bought on Ultraviolet you have to worry about the most. As it stands I have two movies on Ultraviolet only, they were freebie bonuses from Paramount and Flixster for activating their services. In those two cases I didn't pay for them anyways.
Remember, it's not necessarily the movies that are the products of the service, but the customers that can be seen as products. The dependent customer base can be sold along with the movie rights to another company.
I'm not a DRM fan, and Ultraviolet has problems which I have gone into detail mapping out in my link, but it really does seem like they may have found the customer/company balance here, especially if they work the problems out.
For as many problems as UltraViolet has I actually think this is a good idea. I would prefer $1 a movie as a token gesture, but $2 still accomplishes that. Considering I've paid $3 to $5 dollars for a large portion of my DVD's as outlets $2 is rather steep.
Ultraviolet has the potential to be the DRM system (they hate it when you call it that) that actually benefits consumers as much as it does the companies. It's hard to pirate an Ultraviolet movie - good for the studios, the movies are theoretically (though not in actuality see above link) accessible on everything you own, without lock in. The problem with the current digital copy system is you're stuck with Sony, Microsoft, or Apple with limited ability to copy/transfer in between the three. With Ultraviolet platform neutrality is the name of the game, except for Sony and Paramount. Sony refuses to allow Linux clients to log in, Paramount insist on Silverlight so everything but the last step - actually watching the movie - works.
I as concept don't like DRM, but if they address all the reasons I don't like it I don't have a problem with it since I'm not a pirate. I would gladly pay $2 each to have all of my DVD's accessible online so I didn't have to worry about storing the files or yet another theft. Ultraviolet comes close, enough people making fun of Sony might get them to fix their crap and Paramount to it's credit doesn't appear to be intentionally excluding anyone, it's just their crappy choice of streaming software.
Consoles are proprietary to one company and are ruled over with an iron fist by said company.
On the other hand my BlueRay player has very basic (crappy) gaming ability built in, and the same apps that work on it will work on the TV's that run the same firmware. Android is already going into set-top boxes and have the potential to really take over the generic system gaming market. Bluetooth support is in the life blood of Android and is a great way to put game controls and other interfaces into the mix.
If gaming become part of the TV itself because the TV is running Android (especially if modularly upgradable TV's actually do happen) and the on-board processors, memory, and graphics can handle it - not far of a stretch from what we have today, I'm all for the console croaking. This concept isn't that far out.
We will know we've won when Nintendo becomes a game designer and content provider, like they were in the early Donkey Kong days and like Sega did years ago post Dream Cast.
I am very concerned about stability, as a matter of fact I dedicate myself to not crashing my vehicles. Installing Windows on my vehicle is an incredibly counter intuitive when it comes to achieving that goal. I would be like putting bricks and eggs in the same shipping container to protect the eggs from outside dangers.
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I smell a shill.
Red Herring.
You can have difficult to repair due to space constraints, and that's justifiable. Active denial systems and booby traps are a whole separate issue.
The later model Mac Books that are sealed actually have very easy to replace cells, there's nothing about them that would make a cordless phone style cell replacement (yes land line cordless), out of the question. It's protectionism 100%
A comma, understand it.
I used to have an iPhone, company issued of course.
My iPhone had a smaller screen, was less capable with Bluetooth, required a special cable to charge, wouldn't charge in every USB charger and would bitch if I tried to use an unapproved 5v source and was also lacking an HDMI port.
Apple fails at being user friendly.
Then there is no gray water.
Everything that's been through "the consumer air gap" has that potential. It has that potential even if it hasn't, but that's just experience seeing brown water come out of the tap well inside Houston.
Don't buy anything with a locked bootloader (that can't be unlocked)
Don't buy anything that requires a non-standard data cable, such as micro USB.
Don't buy anything you can't change your own battery in using much more than a screw driver.
My EVO passes the test, so does my netbook and all the Bluetooth (not Logitech proprietary wireless USB) peripherals.
Shower, bathroom sink, maybe clothes washer - not toilet.
An off-site backup and hosted streaming content is a benefit to the consumer. If you're like me you still have the disk to do with as you please, so there's no detriment to it - as in still free to make your own DRM-free rip.
In this case the consumer still benefits.
I wouldn't say I'm the experienced technical expert you need, but I have a fairly good sense of right and wrong and what's fair for both media companies and consumers. If you need another coffee shop philosopher I'm in.
Yeah, their console bombed. (I'm mobile right now or I would look it up and post a link.)
I was thinking of every console maker.
I'm not sure of all the rules, but I do know you CAN download movies to played locally. I don't know if it's a call home DRM or not, but I do know in some cases downloading and playing back later is allowed.
That being said I still rip my own disks.
FYI, I am one of those people with a huge movie collection. So far the bulk of my losses have come from physical theft. I had to start over after having my house cleaned out, at least in that case I would still have my online digital copies. When I got robbed my computers AND the backup disk were stolen.
I keep all of my movies on a dedicated NAS drive now. With Ultraviolet properly implemented I don't even have that to worry about.
BTW, less than five years after the great robbery I became an Ike victim. Granted I only lost two commercial optical disk to the salt water, the rest I hosed down, I still lost all of my cartridges.
I apologize, it was Universal that gave me a freebie, not Paramount, though it was a Paramount movie I registered on Flixster that got me another freebie so I should have said Universal and Flixster or Universal and Paramount - I need to give credit where it's due.
This thought has crossed my mind.
Ultraviolet is rather decentralized, as a whole that sort of strengthens it, but it doesn't stop branches from dying off, individual media companies doing crappy things etc...
If it becomes successful enough and they decide to terminate it they will have to address the issue for paying customers, way too much lawsuit potential. Yes there is potential to get screwed, but under this particular setup you still have your disk and you're only out $2 each for those. It's the ones you bought on Ultraviolet you have to worry about the most. As it stands I have two movies on Ultraviolet only, they were freebie bonuses from Paramount and Flixster for activating their services. In those two cases I didn't pay for them anyways.
Remember, it's not necessarily the movies that are the products of the service, but the customers that can be seen as products. The dependent customer base can be sold along with the movie rights to another company.
I'm not a DRM fan, and Ultraviolet has problems which I have gone into detail mapping out in my link, but it really does seem like they may have found the customer/company balance here, especially if they work the problems out.
For as many problems as UltraViolet has I actually think this is a good idea. I would prefer $1 a movie as a token gesture, but $2 still accomplishes that. Considering I've paid $3 to $5 dollars for a large portion of my DVD's as outlets $2 is rather steep.
Ultraviolet has the potential to be the DRM system (they hate it when you call it that) that actually benefits consumers as much as it does the companies. It's hard to pirate an Ultraviolet movie - good for the studios, the movies are theoretically (though not in actuality see above link) accessible on everything you own, without lock in. The problem with the current digital copy system is you're stuck with Sony, Microsoft, or Apple with limited ability to copy/transfer in between the three. With Ultraviolet platform neutrality is the name of the game, except for Sony and Paramount. Sony refuses to allow Linux clients to log in, Paramount insist on Silverlight so everything but the last step - actually watching the movie - works.
I as concept don't like DRM, but if they address all the reasons I don't like it I don't have a problem with it since I'm not a pirate. I would gladly pay $2 each to have all of my DVD's accessible online so I didn't have to worry about storing the files or yet another theft. Ultraviolet comes close, enough people making fun of Sony might get them to fix their crap and Paramount to it's credit doesn't appear to be intentionally excluding anyone, it's just their crappy choice of streaming software.
Consoles need to die.
Consoles are proprietary to one company and are ruled over with an iron fist by said company.
On the other hand my BlueRay player has very basic (crappy) gaming ability built in, and the same apps that work on it will work on the TV's that run the same firmware. Android is already going into set-top boxes and have the potential to really take over the generic system gaming market. Bluetooth support is in the life blood of Android and is a great way to put game controls and other interfaces into the mix.
If gaming become part of the TV itself because the TV is running Android (especially if modularly upgradable TV's actually do happen) and the on-board processors, memory, and graphics can handle it - not far of a stretch from what we have today, I'm all for the console croaking. This concept isn't that far out.
We will know we've won when Nintendo becomes a game designer and content provider, like they were in the early Donkey Kong days and like Sega did years ago post Dream Cast.
What can I say?
I only rented it.
I never could get past that lava jet ski level!
I could whoop up all the way there and I kept getting just a little bit further, but then, nothin.
I'll bet the final baoss wasn't that hard!
Only if it's a VM on a server.
Then only if the server is named LeatherFace or something akin to it.
THEN only if the other VMs are named something like Wesley, CousinOliver and Bombadil.
THEN only if the VMs are used for testing viruses, malware and intrusion.
I am very concerned about stability, as a matter of fact I dedicate myself to not crashing my vehicles. Installing Windows on my vehicle is an incredibly counter intuitive when it comes to achieving that goal. I would be like putting bricks and eggs in the same shipping container to protect the eggs from outside dangers.
Well, at least if anyone ask you can just say they're My Little Pony names.
I sent email to the web developer and never got a reply. My guess is that's who was responsible.
Wooosh!
Is this built up from the years of pent-up frustration developed by not having Sigourney Weaver in your lap?
I know the Pokémon names are going to get old fast.
Star Wars, Star Trek, even Battlestar Galactica are great sources for names. JigglyPuff is NOT a server name!