"My rights to use my hardware to the fullest of its ability given that I own it."
No one is restricting your rights to use your hardware to it's fullest, your hardware works exactly as it was intended by the manufacturer. They have just as much right to sell you hardware that has DRM capability as the media companies have to sell you DRM'd content. If you don't like those restrictions find an alternative.
Also you are free to inform other people of the "evils" of DRM and bring them over to your cause, thus further swinging the demand to your side. Good luck though, most people don't even care enough to vote, so getting them to care about something as arcane and non-life threatening as DRM...
If enough people rise up against DRM, it won't be profitable for companies and they will be forced to try something else, that's how supply and demand works.
It's not a "new right", the producer of the work has always had the right to distribute their work as they see fit. They spent their money/resources to produce the work, they should be able to sell it and restrict it's use how they want.
As far as "fair use" goes, first of all we have to agree that the "BetaMax" ruling was a correct interpretation of US law, which plenty of people don't. Secondly, if you agree with "BetaMax", then you have to determine what the court meant by "fair use", again PLENTY of disagreement to go around here.
Selling DRM'd products is robbing no one. The person that produced the work is simply trying to protect their rights, and their rights include how they let you "consume" their creation. Your right is to choose to buy their product or not, if you don't like the restrictions they put on their product, DON'T BUY IT!!!
If you want to inform consumers about the restrictions of DRM'd products, knock yourself out, but you don't have a right to restrict people from selling DRM'd products.
Exactly. I have used MediaMVP's for years, unfortunately they are not HD. The Slingbox is HD, but even that isn't new, there are already several players in the HD space (Dvico TVIX, Mediagate, D-Link, Helios, etc).
One problem with boxes like Slingbox and iTV are their form factor, they look out of place with normal audio/video components. They look more like toys then serious AV components, which IMO is a mistake because AV geeks are the early adopters of technology like this and if the component doesn't fit nicely with everything else in the rack forget it.
I have read this as well, and was my first reaction when I read this. I heard this is a particular problem with FAT file systems, since every file write requires a master record update, which causes that place on the flash to "wear out".
"I have severe problems with the GPLv3 as-is; I feel they're trying to stuff a brand of morality and a system of thought down the throats of programmers who licensed their creations in good faith under the GPLv2"
The GPL and the Communist Software Foundation have always been about pushing their "brand of morality and system of thought", GPLv3 is just adapting to a changing world.
If you truly want to release free software use a BSD or similar license.
In the early 90's I worked for a software company that developed process control software for "sheet" (steel, paper, etc) manufacturers. On one of my install trips I was taken to the computer room, which was in a room at the top of one of the manufacturing buildings. Shortly after I arrived, there was a lot bang, followed by a fairly large tremor, I looked at my "contact" and he said "That was just a jumbo being dropped onto the cutter spindle, nothing to worry about". A "jumbo" is a large roll of paper, several tons. Half joking I asked if he had many disk failures, he said they didn't, probably because they used VAX's, built like tanks, and ran about as slow.;)
That was also my first exposure to 10Base5 and "vampire" taps, all I have to say is thank you for XBaseT.
You missed my point I log support calls all the time with Oracle, and when they ask what platform I am on I tell them RHEL, even though 99% of the time the problem was discovered on CentOS (but is always replicatible on RHEL)
Postgres is a great product and we use it on a couple of our smaller projects, but when we have tested them side by side on our high volume applications, Postgres falls short, not too short but enough to justify using Oracle instead. I really wanted Postgres to work for us, because it is a dream to maintain compared to Oracle and it would have saved us major money.
"This would be a configuration that's not supported by Oracle, so you're on your own if you have serious technical difficulties that you don't have immediate answers for and cannot be solved by googling for answers"
While that is true, how would Oracle know?
I run RHEL and Oracle on my production servers and CentOS and Oracle on my dev/test servers. When Oracle asks, the configuration is RHEL and Oracle, even though 99% of the time the problem has occurred on dev/test. I haven't seen a problem yet that occurs on CentOS that doesn't also occur on RHEL, they are the same OS, just compiled by different groups.
Or you could rip... sorry "backup" your purchased DVD to your computer, removing all the extra stuff, and then stream it where you wish. Disks are cheap, and there are a good number of media devices that can be used to stream media to your TV.
I stopped going to movies long ago, because two tickets cost as much as the DVD, and I have to watch it with 50-500 other people (and their rudeness).
Try finding a rental company that have SUV's or trucks with hitches, none of them do. I unfortunately had to try and find one, when my transmission went. U-Haul is one of the few, if you have a class I-III type trailer, if you have a fifth wheel, forget it, their pickups are all 1/2 tons and no fifth wheel.
Rental companies aren't interesting in helping out recreational types, they put too much wear on a vehicle to be worth it for them.
The best are most elegant technology doesn't always win. Most people felt that Motorola 68Ks were better architectually than x86s, but 68Ks certainly aren't used in desktops/servers anymore.
Yes, CNN had an exit poll that showed exactly this, I don't remember the exact numbers, but I remember that in both cases more than 50% of the votes for either candidate were because "he was the other guy".
Haven't you ever heard anyone say "I voted for the lesser of two evils"? Sadly most people I talk to confirm this statistic, rarely do I find someone that actually voted FOR a particular candidate, but against the other candidate.
Concerning third parties, I have found this to not be true. Largely people that vote third party tend to actually be voting for that candidate. Not that it actually helps much, since most voters can't break out of the cycle of "voting for the lessor of TWO evils".
"The fact of the matter is the general populace likes the system [democrat|republican] that are in place"
I disagree. If you look at the polling data from the last presidential election, more than half of the people that voted for either candidate voted for that candidate to keep the other one out.
Most people aren't voting FOR a candidate they are voting for them because the don't like the other candidate! Ultimately that says they don't like either choice, they just happen to dislike the person they voted for less. This also means they would never vote for someone they might actually like, aka a third party candidate, because that would mean the guy they REALLY hate might be elected, because thier vote wasn't cast for the strongest, opposition, candidate.
My impression is that people hate the current situation, but are so polarized and wrapped up in it that they can't see another way, which is exactly the way the RepubliCrats want it to stay.
At least in Ohio, CDLs have different classes based on your needs. For instance "air brakes" is an additional qualification that not all CDL holders need nor get. Also as I mentioned some states do require class A motorhome operators to have a CDL, but judging by how most are driven (and by whom), unfortunately most do not.:(
In 20+ years of driving I have been involved in 3 accidents, all rear-enders, all the other drivers fault. In 2 of the 3 their cars were totaled, in the third it might as well have been, my vehicle suffered minor dents, scratches and one bent receiver hitch (which I left stuck in their radiator). While I agree that my vehicle caused greater damage to their vehicles, THEY caused the accident, so why should my libility insurance be more?
As the power to weight ratio on bikes has gone through the roof, the liability premiums have as well, not unlike the muscle cars of the 60-70's, if gas prices hadn't killed them, the insurance companies would have.
That will never fly. You do realize that body on frame vehicles are the only correct way to tow large boats and RV trailers, right? While I don't disagree that CDL's should be required (in most states they are not hard to get and in some states, are required for class a motorhomes), requiring commerical insurance so that a family can take a vacation seems a bit extreme.
So if we follow that logic should motorcyclists pay the least insurance, since from a damage to life and property motorcyclists face the greatest danager in any collison. Or you could flip it around and since motorcycles are lighter and in collisons they (or the riders) tend to become dangerous flying objects, perhaps we charge them more?
Also I won't argue that body on frame vehicles cause more damage to other vehicle(s), but you have to base libility premiums on whose at fault more often, and I have to think, based on the rates, that body on frame vehicles are at fault less often. Of the five vehicles I insure, two are body on frame, I pay more in libility for the unibody vehicles than the body on frame, which tells me that some statistics must show that unibody vehicles are at fault more often.
I'm curious what your solution would be for commerically owned vehicles, because first of all it is ridculously simple to setup a business in the US and second, many of the largest SUVs were purchased through a tax loophole (since been closed) to businesses and hence those SUVs are business owned, commerical vehicles.
The only time I had a Seagate drive fail is when we migrated a datacenter and had to turn off ~2TB of storage. We suffered about 40% failure, in most cases the drive wouldn't spin back up, BUT before they were turned off these drives had been on, 24x7x365, for 6-8 years. This was actually a better failure rate then we had antisipated, and the only reason we even tried to bring them back up, was to ease the copying of the data to the new arrays, instead of restoring everything from tape.
As for Maxtor and WD drives I have never had one last longer then 3 years, and they all failed while they were running. Most of them started loosing sectors and corrupting data, a couple started to grind really bad and then freeze, and I had two get so hot they caught some of the cabling in the array on fire!
I will never use a Maxtor or WD drive in a production environment again. They may be ok for desktops and home users, but in a 24x7x365 environment you are asking for trouble.
The problem is mostly social.
You now have millions of people on the Internet that barely understand what it is, and while from a technical persons point of view IPv6 is "no big deal", from this groups point of view this is a "big scary", and something they wouldn't think of doing on their own. So I suspect the majority of ISP's have realized this and are not ready for the customer service nightmare that changing would cause.
Sure you can upgrade your Linksys to handle IPv6, but how many people even know the device CAN be upgraded at all, let alone know how to do it...
True, but IMO not the best way to handle wiring, overhead runs are much easier and cleaner. Every raised floor environment I have worked in was a mess under the floor and a nightmare to run new cables through.
If cooling is not a concern, concrete slab with overhead runs is the best way. If cooling is an issue, use raised floor, for cooling only and overhead runs for cables.
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"My rights to use my hardware to the fullest of its ability given that I own it."
No one is restricting your rights to use your hardware to it's fullest, your hardware works exactly as it was intended by the manufacturer. They have just as much right to sell you hardware that has DRM capability as the media companies have to sell you DRM'd content. If you don't like those restrictions find an alternative.
Also you are free to inform other people of the "evils" of DRM and bring them over to your cause, thus further swinging the demand to your side. Good luck though, most people don't even care enough to vote, so getting them to care about something as arcane and non-life threatening as DRM...
If enough people rise up against DRM, it won't be profitable for companies and they will be forced to try something else, that's how supply and demand works.
It's not a "new right", the producer of the work has always had the right to distribute their work as they see fit. They spent their money/resources to produce the work, they should be able to sell it and restrict it's use how they want.
As far as "fair use" goes, first of all we have to agree that the "BetaMax" ruling was a correct interpretation of US law, which plenty of people don't. Secondly, if you agree with "BetaMax", then you have to determine what the court meant by "fair use", again PLENTY of disagreement to go around here.
Selling DRM'd products is robbing no one. The person that produced the work is simply trying to protect their rights, and their rights include how they let you "consume" their creation. Your right is to choose to buy their product or not, if you don't like the restrictions they put on their product, DON'T BUY IT!!!
If you want to inform consumers about the restrictions of DRM'd products, knock yourself out, but you don't have a right to restrict people from selling DRM'd products.
Would that signal the start of the Armageddon? Since surely releasing Windows source code upon humanity would constitute a plague of some sort.
Exactly. I have used MediaMVP's for years, unfortunately they are not HD. The Slingbox is HD, but even that isn't new, there are already several players in the HD space (Dvico TVIX, Mediagate, D-Link, Helios, etc).
One problem with boxes like Slingbox and iTV are their form factor, they look out of place with normal audio/video components. They look more like toys then serious AV components, which IMO is a mistake because AV geeks are the early adopters of technology like this and if the component doesn't fit nicely with everything else in the rack forget it.
I have read this as well, and was my first reaction when I read this. I heard this is a particular problem with FAT file systems, since every file write requires a master record update, which causes that place on the flash to "wear out".
"I have severe problems with the GPLv3 as-is; I feel they're trying to stuff a brand of morality and a system of thought down the throats of programmers who licensed their creations in good faith under the GPLv2"
The GPL and the Communist Software Foundation have always been about pushing their "brand of morality and system of thought", GPLv3 is just adapting to a changing world.
If you truly want to release free software use a BSD or similar license.
In the early 90's I worked for a software company that developed process control software for "sheet" (steel, paper, etc) manufacturers. On one of my install trips I was taken to the computer room, which was in a room at the top of one of the manufacturing buildings. Shortly after I arrived, there was a lot bang, followed by a fairly large tremor, I looked at my "contact" and he said "That was just a jumbo being dropped onto the cutter spindle, nothing to worry about". A "jumbo" is a large roll of paper, several tons. Half joking I asked if he had many disk failures, he said they didn't, probably because they used VAX's, built like tanks, and ran about as slow. ;)
That was also my first exposure to 10Base5 and "vampire" taps, all I have to say is thank you for XBaseT.
"try log a support call :)"
You missed my point I log support calls all the time with Oracle, and when they ask what platform I am on I tell them RHEL, even though 99% of the time the problem was discovered on CentOS (but is always replicatible on RHEL)
Postgres is a great product and we use it on a couple of our smaller projects, but when we have tested them side by side on our high volume applications, Postgres falls short, not too short but enough to justify using Oracle instead. I really wanted Postgres to work for us, because it is a dream to maintain compared to Oracle and it would have saved us major money.
"This would be a configuration that's not supported by Oracle, so you're on your own if you have serious technical difficulties that you don't have immediate answers for and cannot be solved by googling for answers"
While that is true, how would Oracle know?
I run RHEL and Oracle on my production servers and CentOS and Oracle on my dev/test servers. When Oracle asks, the configuration is RHEL and Oracle, even though 99% of the time the problem has occurred on dev/test. I haven't seen a problem yet that occurs on CentOS that doesn't also occur on RHEL, they are the same OS, just compiled by different groups.
Or you could rip... sorry "backup" your purchased DVD to your computer, removing all the extra stuff, and then stream it where you wish. Disks are cheap, and there are a good number of media devices that can be used to stream media to your TV.
I stopped going to movies long ago, because two tickets cost as much as the DVD, and I have to watch it with 50-500 other people (and their rudeness).
Good to hear the tradition of grumpy, unhelpful *nix administrators is continuing and being passed along to a new generation of CS professionals.
So they bring more people into one of the poorest countries in the world, if you think its so great, go live there.
Seems a little high for an incomplete structure with limited, inconsistant transportation to and from...
Try finding a rental company that have SUV's or trucks with hitches, none of them do. I unfortunately had to try and find one, when my transmission went. U-Haul is one of the few, if you have a class I-III type trailer, if you have a fifth wheel, forget it, their pickups are all 1/2 tons and no fifth wheel.
Rental companies aren't interesting in helping out recreational types, they put too much wear on a vehicle to be worth it for them.
I certainly hope you were being sarcastic.
The best are most elegant technology doesn't always win. Most people felt that Motorola 68Ks were better architectually than x86s, but 68Ks certainly aren't used in desktops/servers anymore.
Yes, CNN had an exit poll that showed exactly this, I don't remember the exact numbers, but I remember that in both cases more than 50% of the votes for either candidate were because "he was the other guy".
Haven't you ever heard anyone say "I voted for the lesser of two evils"? Sadly most people I talk to confirm this statistic, rarely do I find someone that actually voted FOR a particular candidate, but against the other candidate.
Concerning third parties, I have found this to not be true. Largely people that vote third party tend to actually be voting for that candidate. Not that it actually helps much, since most voters can't break out of the cycle of "voting for the lessor of TWO evils".
"The fact of the matter is the general populace likes the system [democrat|republican] that are in place"
I disagree. If you look at the polling data from the last presidential election, more than half of the people that voted for either candidate voted for that candidate to keep the other one out.
Most people aren't voting FOR a candidate they are voting for them because the don't like the other candidate! Ultimately that says they don't like either choice, they just happen to dislike the person they voted for less. This also means they would never vote for someone they might actually like, aka a third party candidate, because that would mean the guy they REALLY hate might be elected, because thier vote wasn't cast for the strongest, opposition, candidate.
My impression is that people hate the current situation, but are so polarized and wrapped up in it that they can't see another way, which is exactly the way the RepubliCrats want it to stay.
At least in Ohio, CDLs have different classes based on your needs. For instance "air brakes" is an additional qualification that not all CDL holders need nor get. Also as I mentioned some states do require class A motorhome operators to have a CDL, but judging by how most are driven (and by whom), unfortunately most do not. :(
In 20+ years of driving I have been involved in 3 accidents, all rear-enders, all the other drivers fault. In 2 of the 3 their cars were totaled, in the third it might as well have been, my vehicle suffered minor dents, scratches and one bent receiver hitch (which I left stuck in their radiator). While I agree that my vehicle caused greater damage to their vehicles, THEY caused the accident, so why should my libility insurance be more?
As the power to weight ratio on bikes has gone through the roof, the liability premiums have as well, not unlike the muscle cars of the 60-70's, if gas prices hadn't killed them, the insurance companies would have.
That will never fly. You do realize that body on frame vehicles are the only correct way to tow large boats and RV trailers, right? While I don't disagree that CDL's should be required (in most states they are not hard to get and in some states, are required for class a motorhomes), requiring commerical insurance so that a family can take a vacation seems a bit extreme.
So if we follow that logic should motorcyclists pay the least insurance, since from a damage to life and property motorcyclists face the greatest danager in any collison. Or you could flip it around and since motorcycles are lighter and in collisons they (or the riders) tend to become dangerous flying objects, perhaps we charge them more?
Also I won't argue that body on frame vehicles cause more damage to other vehicle(s), but you have to base libility premiums on whose at fault more often, and I have to think, based on the rates, that body on frame vehicles are at fault less often. Of the five vehicles I insure, two are body on frame, I pay more in libility for the unibody vehicles than the body on frame, which tells me that some statistics must show that unibody vehicles are at fault more often.
"all vehicles that are not commercially owned "
I'm curious what your solution would be for commerically owned vehicles, because first of all it is ridculously simple to setup a business in the US and second, many of the largest SUVs were purchased through a tax loophole (since been closed) to businesses and hence those SUVs are business owned, commerical vehicles.
The only time I had a Seagate drive fail is when we migrated a datacenter and had to turn off ~2TB of storage. We suffered about 40% failure, in most cases the drive wouldn't spin back up, BUT before they were turned off these drives had been on, 24x7x365, for 6-8 years. This was actually a better failure rate then we had antisipated, and the only reason we even tried to bring them back up, was to ease the copying of the data to the new arrays, instead of restoring everything from tape.
As for Maxtor and WD drives I have never had one last longer then 3 years, and they all failed while they were running. Most of them started loosing sectors and corrupting data, a couple started to grind really bad and then freeze, and I had two get so hot they caught some of the cabling in the array on fire!
I will never use a Maxtor or WD drive in a production environment again. They may be ok for desktops and home users, but in a 24x7x365 environment you are asking for trouble.
The problem is mostly social. You now have millions of people on the Internet that barely understand what it is, and while from a technical persons point of view IPv6 is "no big deal", from this groups point of view this is a "big scary", and something they wouldn't think of doing on their own. So I suspect the majority of ISP's have realized this and are not ready for the customer service nightmare that changing would cause. Sure you can upgrade your Linksys to handle IPv6, but how many people even know the device CAN be upgraded at all, let alone know how to do it...
"I happen to think the clothes look good"
I'm sure that is what the "weight challenged" women wearing the mini skirt said to herself as well...
True, but IMO not the best way to handle wiring, overhead runs are much easier and cleaner. Every raised floor environment I have worked in was a mess under the floor and a nightmare to run new cables through.
If cooling is not a concern, concrete slab with overhead runs is the best way. If cooling is an issue, use raised floor, for cooling only and overhead runs for cables.