WinFS, I'd be the first to say, is very ambitious. Nobody has ever brought together the world of documents, media and structured information in giving you one simple set of verbs that lets you richly find, move around and replicate those things.
So? It's still $50 whether you pre-register or not, the only difference is that you have to pay with cash at the door, instead of using your credit card to preregister.
And for those who don't like using cash: considering that most major banks have ATMs within a block of Penn station and the Hotel, it's not like you're risking much to take out $50 and carry it a few hundred meters;)
Yes, because you know, Disney had so much to do with the creation of Spirited Away...
Oh, wait a second--that was all Studio Ghibli's doing! Disney just bought the rights to make money off of Spirited Away's theatre runs in the US, that's all.
So, grandparent poster's point still stands.
From the viewpoint of copyright owners--i.e. the corporations--you're only a consumer. You should not have the right to share your music with anybody, because then they lose out. They want the situation wherein they charge everybody to listen to the music. They want you, your wife, your kids, and everyone else to pay for *their own copy* of the music.
DRM helps them to enforce this eventual goal. It also helps them get around the entire 'sharing' issue. This is a problem that, at least from the perspective of the copyright holders, absolutely must be addressed.
Before the rise of the Internet, sharing was contained. Copying was not as easy, neither was distributing copies if they were made. You bought music (or any other content) and could only share it with family and friends, regardless of whether you made them copies or literally lent out the single instance.
But nowadays, if you can share an item *at all*, digitally, your one copy can be shared with the entire world. There no longer exist the previous boundaries which kept close-relationship sharing in check.
The content companies ran into this problem when someone showed them Napster. And now you've run into it on the opposite end--because you could share it with everyone, the only solution the companies can come up with is to allow you to not share it with anyone, give or take a few computers and an iPod.
There is no easy middle ground anymore, and that's the problem. As for a solution, I don't have one myself; some people say everything should be freely copy-able, and while I'm not sure I agree with that entirely, I also don't think DRM is a great solution either.
Finally, to return to my sarcastic tone at the beginning--if the large companies had their way, they'd have you pay for each time anyone bloody listened to the music, let alone obtained a copy of the CD. And because of their influence in government, we are rapidly approaching a culture where we are more and more thought of as 'consumers', and any rights we have as humans or citizens falls by the wayside.
That's a good point; however, my understanding is that one of the primary reasons people write in C (other than personal preference and/or just because everything ELSE in UNIX is written in C) is because of the control and the potential for speed. C's low-level aspects and lack of 'safety' features do certainly lead to buffer overflows and their ilk; but they also mean that a piece of network software written in C can run *much faster* than can apps written in just about any other language.
Especially compared to Java; while I understand that Java is not *necessarily* always as slow as many people like to bash it for being, it's still dog-slow compared to C. I'm not sure how well it would hold up providing a heavy-load service on a busy server...
So...if cigarettes aren't intended to be harmful to your health, why the arsenic, formaldehyde, and other various nasty chemicals? And I know they make less-harmful cigarettes, so why haven't all of them been switched to that particular type?
Besides, the only reason cigarettes are legal is because of the extreme ingrained status they have in our society...if someone tried to *start* selling such a product today, I rather think the FDA would shoot it down right off:P
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WinFS, I'd be the first to say, is very ambitious. Nobody has ever brought together the world of documents, media and structured information in giving you one simple set of verbs that lets you richly find, move around and replicate those things.
*cough*
Microsoft still can't come up with shit until Apple has done it better, first. Sad.
So? It's still $50 whether you pre-register or not, the only difference is that you have to pay with cash at the door, instead of using your credit card to preregister. And for those who don't like using cash: considering that most major banks have ATMs within a block of Penn station and the Hotel, it's not like you're risking much to take out $50 and carry it a few hundred meters ;)
Yes, because you know, Disney had so much to do with the creation of Spirited Away... Oh, wait a second--that was all Studio Ghibli's doing! Disney just bought the rights to make money off of Spirited Away's theatre runs in the US, that's all. So, grandparent poster's point still stands.
From the viewpoint of copyright owners--i.e. the corporations--you're only a consumer. You should not have the right to share your music with anybody, because then they lose out. They want the situation wherein they charge everybody to listen to the music. They want you, your wife, your kids, and everyone else to pay for *their own copy* of the music.
DRM helps them to enforce this eventual goal. It also helps them get around the entire 'sharing' issue. This is a problem that, at least from the perspective of the copyright holders, absolutely must be addressed.
Before the rise of the Internet, sharing was contained. Copying was not as easy, neither was distributing copies if they were made. You bought music (or any other content) and could only share it with family and friends, regardless of whether you made them copies or literally lent out the single instance.
But nowadays, if you can share an item *at all*, digitally, your one copy can be shared with the entire world. There no longer exist the previous boundaries which kept close-relationship sharing in check.
The content companies ran into this problem when someone showed them Napster. And now you've run into it on the opposite end--because you could share it with everyone, the only solution the companies can come up with is to allow you to not share it with anyone, give or take a few computers and an iPod.
There is no easy middle ground anymore, and that's the problem. As for a solution, I don't have one myself; some people say everything should be freely copy-able, and while I'm not sure I agree with that entirely, I also don't think DRM is a great solution either.
Finally, to return to my sarcastic tone at the beginning--if the large companies had their way, they'd have you pay for each time anyone bloody listened to the music, let alone obtained a copy of the CD. And because of their influence in government, we are rapidly approaching a culture where we are more and more thought of as 'consumers', and any rights we have as humans or citizens falls by the wayside.
Fucking Republicans.
Especially compared to Java; while I understand that Java is not *necessarily* always as slow as many people like to bash it for being, it's still dog-slow compared to C. I'm not sure how well it would hold up providing a heavy-load service on a busy server...
So...if cigarettes aren't intended to be harmful to your health, why the arsenic, formaldehyde, and other various nasty chemicals? And I know they make less-harmful cigarettes, so why haven't all of them been switched to that particular type? Besides, the only reason cigarettes are legal is because of the extreme ingrained status they have in our society...if someone tried to *start* selling such a product today, I rather think the FDA would shoot it down right off :P
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