With services like Spotify and Apple Music where you can listen to pretty much any song ever released any time for only a few bucks a month, is music piracy still such a big problem?
Services like Spotify and Apple Music have failed to provide lossless quality, despite demand for it. So one reason piracy is still around could be attributed to that. Which raises a question; if you are paying for said service, and the song or songs are provided by said service, does downloading a lossless version of those songs constitute a violation so long as service is maintained?
People who bought an iPhone because of compatibility with FairPlay DRM on pre-2009 iTMS purchases ended up additionally locked into the App Store once iOS 2 came out..
To be clear, fault for FairPlay does not reside entirely on Apple; DRM was a condition of being able to sell music electronically imposed by the labels. Between 2007 and 2009 the option to purchase non-DRMed tracks was available, and by 2009 most of the DRM had been removed entirely.
So, if you combined this with the 31.4 trillion digits of Pi computed recently (setting a new record), you'd end up with 31,399,968,600 hours of music. That's 1,308,332,025 days, if you divide that by 365.24 days in a year, you get 3,582,116 years of music.
That's compared to the 41,667 days (114 years) that you'll get with the current web applet....
Hope this doesn't give the RIAA any ideas; they couldn't possibly want Copyright to be shorter than a song!
The whole point of being on DST permanently is to not get up any earlier and shift that hour of daylight to the evening. People don't care so much if they go to work in the dark, they want their own personal time to be in daylight.
Who cares! I work from home and it's super dark in my parents' basement./jk
Presumably all those Apple haters out there will maintain full self-consistency by boycotting any hardware incorporating USB4 since it now integrates EEEEEVIL Apple tech!
Hopefully they know Thunderbolt (Light Peak) is an Intel thing.
... A few years later and every game had a tutorial, often unskippable....
Every single GD Match 3 game on this good earth, despite being clones of clones of clones of Bejewelled, insist on teaching you the exact same fraking mechanics.
They have Trump Derangement Syndrome. It is common with the mental disorder that is liberalism. To activate, wave an American flag at them.
That's odd. Trump pounding out nonsense tweets is well known, observable and quite frequent. You can acknowledge he does so whether you wear or hate MAGA hats. You on the other hand take a perfectly valid (and funny) observation and twist it into yet more partisan drivel. I would hope that any level headed Republican would also see it's a problem.
Sometimes you only know something is going to be completely useless once you get to the very end. I don't think there's harm in them sharing the work, so long as someone doesn't think it should be used for production.
I admit I downloaded it, fired it up, instantly hated it the same as I did when it was released and freed up the drive space shortly afterwards.
I don't think anyone implied it's a good idea. Just because is reason enough and hats off to those involved for their efforts. Reminds me of the good ol' days of trying to run Linux on anything just because.
It's a developer beta, for crying out loud. There's nothing to say it will be in the next developer beta, nor the public beta, nor the release. There could be any of a number of reasons why it's there in beta 2. Unless it's carried forward, how about toning down the sensationalism?
LDS speeds up the refresh rate of your brain. You might "see" the object every 50ms normally. With LSD you "see" the object every 5ms; you're paying more attention more often, and we measure time by attention....
It would be so nice if to post as AC, you needed to be logged in to a valid account. Might cut down on the tiring spam. Better yet, a valid account with good karma.
I think you grossly underestimate what Disney owns; Marvel, Lucasarts, ABC, ESPN, A&E (and its children.) That’s off the top of my head. You won’t just be missing out on Aladdin part 12.
With Disney poised to launch their offering, not only will a great deal of movies and shows begin to dry up at Netflix, but viewers might have a compelling alternative.
Netflix could also become a victim of the monster they created. The worthwhile Netflix originals tend to be between 6 and 13 episodes. If there are 4 or 5 such shows in a year, people might start subscribing for one month, binge watch those, then cancel their subscriptions until the next seasons are done.
Which was necessary when calculating the national vote was not a practical thing to do in a short amount of time (days, even). We can tally the national vote in hours or less now. Results don't have to be transported on foot, by horse, or even by rail.
The national vote needs to be calculated, then and now, to select the electoral college. You don't need days - the electoral vote is a full month after the presidential election.
I'm 30% over my cap: ~1.2TB used on a 900GB cap...
This is mostly video streaming (much of which is 4k)- but both my fiance and I work from home as well and I do use quite a bit a bandwidth for that.
Several years ago I convinced my wife to cancel our cable subscription. We used the money allocated to that to upgrade our internet to the fastest we could get at the time, and with unlimited internet. After all that we still pocketed $40.
Apple is just being difficult because they want you to buy their hardware. The solder in their RAM, use special dongles and drop headphone jacks for the same reason.
How do any of those things encourage one to buy their hardware? BTW, there's nothing special about the dongle, nor is dropping the decades old headphone jack unique to Apple.
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But i got a chuckle out of stackoverflow this morning
With services like Spotify and Apple Music where you can listen to pretty much any song ever released any time for only a few bucks a month, is music piracy still such a big problem?
Services like Spotify and Apple Music have failed to provide lossless quality, despite demand for it. So one reason piracy is still around could be attributed to that. Which raises a question; if you are paying for said service, and the song or songs are provided by said service, does downloading a lossless version of those songs constitute a violation so long as service is maintained?
...most of PHP's user base are low IQ Wordpress extension hackers ...
We're on to you Trump.
People who bought an iPhone because of compatibility with FairPlay DRM on pre-2009 iTMS purchases ended up additionally locked into the App Store once iOS 2 came out..
To be clear, fault for FairPlay does not reside entirely on Apple; DRM was a condition of being able to sell music electronically imposed by the labels. Between 2007 and 2009 the option to purchase non-DRMed tracks was available, and by 2009 most of the DRM had been removed entirely.
So, if you combined this with the 31.4 trillion digits of Pi computed recently (setting a new record), you'd end up with 31,399,968,600 hours of music. That's 1,308,332,025 days, if you divide that by 365.24 days in a year, you get 3,582,116 years of music.
That's compared to the 41,667 days (114 years) that you'll get with the current web applet....
Hope this doesn't give the RIAA any ideas; they couldn't possibly want Copyright to be shorter than a song!
Tool, specifically Aenima, was great music for ye olde Quake. Music to gib by.
One of my top two Quake albums. The other was the soundtrack to Spawn.
Or, get a really super small viewing space!
The whole point of being on DST permanently is to not get up any earlier and shift that hour of daylight to the evening. People don't care so much if they go to work in the dark, they want their own personal time to be in daylight.
Who cares! I work from home and it's super dark in my parents' basement. /jk
Presumably all those Apple haters out there will maintain full self-consistency by boycotting any hardware incorporating USB4 since it now integrates EEEEEVIL Apple tech!
Hopefully they know Thunderbolt (Light Peak) is an Intel thing.
... A few years later and every game had a tutorial, often unskippable....
Every single GD Match 3 game on this good earth, despite being clones of clones of clones of Bejewelled, insist on teaching you the exact same fraking mechanics.
If I'm not completely off, I believe there are 5000 qubits, and each qubit can be connected to 15 other qubits.
Disclaimer, I'm not a rocket doctor.
"Destroys"
Slashdot editors are 7th graders. It's a wonder they aren't posting shit in Text Speak.
Should have been pwns, obviously!
Leftists don't wear MAGA hats. That's proof right? That or superior fashion sense.
Does avoiding Fox News count? (In all seriousness for once, I think an affinity for Fox News certainly indicates something, but not education.)
They have Trump Derangement Syndrome. It is common with the mental disorder that is liberalism. To activate, wave an American flag at them.
That's odd. Trump pounding out nonsense tweets is well known, observable and quite frequent. You can acknowledge he does so whether you wear or hate MAGA hats. You on the other hand take a perfectly valid (and funny) observation and twist it into yet more partisan drivel. I would hope that any level headed Republican would also see it's a problem.
Oh I don't disagree.
Sometimes you only know something is going to be completely useless once you get to the very end. I don't think there's harm in them sharing the work, so long as someone doesn't think it should be used for production.
I admit I downloaded it, fired it up, instantly hated it the same as I did when it was released and freed up the drive space shortly afterwards.
I don't think anyone implied it's a good idea. Just because is reason enough and hats off to those involved for their efforts. Reminds me of the good ol' days of trying to run Linux on anything just because.
It's a developer beta, for crying out loud. There's nothing to say it will be in the next developer beta, nor the public beta, nor the release. There could be any of a number of reasons why it's there in beta 2. Unless it's carried forward, how about toning down the sensationalism?
LDS speeds up the refresh rate of your brain. You might "see" the object every 50ms normally. With LSD you "see" the object every 5ms; you're paying more attention more often, and we measure time by attention....
Damned LPBs.
It would be so nice if to post as AC, you needed to be logged in to a valid account. Might cut down on the tiring spam. Better yet, a valid account with good karma.
I think you grossly underestimate what Disney owns; Marvel, Lucasarts, ABC, ESPN, A&E (and its children.) That’s off the top of my head. You won’t just be missing out on Aladdin part 12.
With Disney poised to launch their offering, not only will a great deal of movies and shows begin to dry up at Netflix, but viewers might have a compelling alternative.
Netflix could also become a victim of the monster they created. The worthwhile Netflix originals tend to be between 6 and 13 episodes. If there are 4 or 5 such shows in a year, people might start subscribing for one month, binge watch those, then cancel their subscriptions until the next seasons are done.
Which was necessary when calculating the national vote was not a practical thing to do in a short amount of time (days, even). We can tally the national vote in hours or less now. Results don't have to be transported on foot, by horse, or even by rail.
The national vote needs to be calculated, then and now, to select the electoral college. You don't need days - the electoral vote is a full month after the presidential election.
But anyone that trusts their privacy to Ring gets what they deserve.
Similarly Alexa, though this privacy violation far exceeds the former as far as creepiness is concerned.
I'm 30% over my cap: ~1.2TB used on a 900GB cap...
This is mostly video streaming (much of which is 4k)- but both my fiance and I work from home as well and I do use quite a bit a bandwidth for that.
Several years ago I convinced my wife to cancel our cable subscription. We used the money allocated to that to upgrade our internet to the fastest we could get at the time, and with unlimited internet. After all that we still pocketed $40.
Apple is just being difficult because they want you to buy their hardware. The solder in their RAM, use special dongles and drop headphone jacks for the same reason.
How do any of those things encourage one to buy their hardware? BTW, there's nothing special about the dongle, nor is dropping the decades old headphone jack unique to Apple.