Joe Schmo should be able to make a copy or two for backup (fair use), but too often he seems to believe he also has the "right" to make twenty copies of a disc for his friends. Or on the internet, for 10,000 of his closest "friends".
And we try to prevent crime all the time, from signs to cameras to locks to tags to alarms to security guards. Without preventative measures, "shrinkage" can kill a business. So every time you go into a store you're watched and monitored. Why? Because they don't know you're NOT a crook.
Yes, DRM tends to assume you're going to abuse your "rights", but given current Kazaa and BT traffic levels, that assumption isn't too far wrong.
As to cars, you must not have seen this article. Just give it time.
Apple probably makes $150 on a $399 pod easy. Apple makes about $0.20 per song off itunes. So if you do the math, people need to buy 750 songs to equal the profit off a single pod.
And pods break, wear out, get lost or stolen, and like phones, get replaced every few years by newer models with cooler features. In a way it's a symbiosis. Pods make people want songs, who need pods to play them, who buy more songs...
Interesting thought. What if, embedded in the visual output of the TV display, there's some pattern a camcorder recognizes and refuses to record? Much like the way some printers these days refuse to print images containing US currency.
Don't bother. It's just another screed on why "natural law" means everyone is allowed to copy everything, and why companies need to develop "business" models whereby they give their content away for free. Only one sentence mentions (and doesn't discuss) fair use.
Your last paragraph nailed it. The intent is to raise the bar just high enough to discourage "casual" copying, much in the way that MacroVision did the same with commercial VHS movies. Yes, a few people, who bought an electronic black box stabilizer from somewhere, could copy a film. The vast majority of people, however, could not as it was too much trouble and too expensive. As such, if they really wanted a copy they bought their own tape.
The system doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to "work" most of the time for most of the people.
That's why it's called "intellectual" property. Nonetheless, there are physical manuscripts, recordings, and other material manifestations of those works that do exist and are very real.
And, not to disagree again, but there's also a large body of law that says it does.
"And, of course, if you find a flaw in an open source project and the maintainer does not want to know, you can always fork it."
Fine for you. But if, say, mySQL AB doesn't want to fix a bug or fix it in that way, you're right that you're free to fork your own, assuming you can. But that doesn't help all of the other people who will, in all probability, continue to use the mainstream product.
In other words, people, like Linus, or organizations, like mySQL AB, still control "their" projects.
And an implementation has implementation-specific choices made by the developer that have little or nothing to do with the spec. A developer's algorithm may parse x="1"y=2"2" correctly, even though the HTML spec says arguments must be separated by whitespace, and that unknown and non-parseable arguments and tags should be ignored.
A class may have exposed a specific document tree to the outside world. Is that part of the required spec? (DOM) Are the element names required or specific to this implementation?
Sorry, but a spec is meta-data over and above a specific implementation. A reference implementation gives people something to check against, but can be misleading.
The article states that this works by sending blocks of up to 128 instructions at a time to the processor, where "The processor "sees" and executes a block all at once, as if it were a single instruction..." Makes you wonder if they'd ever get close to that target, as IIRC, one instruction in seven on average is a conditional branch.
"If your goal was to implement an unambiguous parser than yes."
Huh? There are dozens of ways to implement parsers and grammars given a defined language. The Gecko engine is but one approach to solving HTML parsing and rendering, and not necessarily the best or most efficient approach. Further, there are implementation-dependent choices (font sizes, margins, etc.) which are not part of the HTML spec.
A reference implementation may be useful, but it is not a spec, and can't take the place of one.
Great. The "I have a friend who has a brother who once heard someone talking about this" expert. Thanks for sharing your personal, first-hand knowledge of the music business...
AMC Theaters, Denver, Colorado. As I said, previews start at the listed showtime, then the movie. Ads and music before the previews and before the listed showtime.
"They've always been trying to make popular movies -- they're just not any good at it."
Actually, I'd turn this around a bit and say that, "too many people think they're good at it." As mentioned earlier, movies are large, costly investments, and no one wants to lose their shirt and/or job. Thus, everyone provides "input" into the process, and the end result all too often is a least-common-denominator mess.
The cast of "The Simpsons" was on the Actor's Studio a while back, and one cast member attributed the show's success to "no notes" from the studio executives.
The studio's really need to step back from the process, and trust the director and writer's vision. After all, that's why they were hired....
Dude, chill. At the AMC I frequent the previews start at the advertised showtime, and the ads fill the time before that. And it's not a new thing, as they've been showing slide-show ads for years now.
Or are you saying that if you get there twenty minutes early you'd prefer to just stare at a blank screen? And pay higher ticket prices to boot.
In the "heyday" of VHS movies were hard to pirate because they were copy protected. Or have you never heard of MacroVision? Your average joe not only had no distribution mechanism, but probably couldn't copy them at all.
"Dropped my ssh public key in various root or admin accounts that I was given "one shot access to - here's the password that we'll change after you log in"."
If I EVER find an employee dropping backdoors into a system his ass is grass.
"$500 worth of computer software and hardware, $50 worth of materials from the home improvement store, and that guest bedroom becomes an in-home audio recording studio studio."
That and five-to-ten years of practice will make you a halfway decent recording engineer...
Following the same logic thread, why would I want to use a bandwidth-intensive, server-intensive solution that's likely to be overloaded the second I really need to use it.
There's a REASON a lot of the common office applications and services migrated away from terminals and mainframes.
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And we try to prevent crime all the time, from signs to cameras to locks to tags to alarms to security guards. Without preventative measures, "shrinkage" can kill a business. So every time you go into a store you're watched and monitored. Why? Because they don't know you're NOT a crook.
Yes, DRM tends to assume you're going to abuse your "rights", but given current Kazaa and BT traffic levels, that assumption isn't too far wrong.
As to cars, you must not have seen this article. Just give it time.
Most of the visuals were just fine. Hold them too long, and I tend to burst into laughter at the sight of that overweight "duck" of a spaceship.
And pods break, wear out, get lost or stolen, and like phones, get replaced every few years by newer models with cooler features. In a way it's a symbiosis. Pods make people want songs, who need pods to play them, who buy more songs...
Interesting thought. What if, embedded in the visual output of the TV display, there's some pattern a camcorder recognizes and refuses to record? Much like the way some printers these days refuse to print images containing US currency.
Don't bother. It's just another screed on why "natural law" means everyone is allowed to copy everything, and why companies need to develop "business" models whereby they give their content away for free. Only one sentence mentions (and doesn't discuss) fair use.
The system doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to "work" most of the time for most of the people.
In that sense, DRM does work.
And, not to disagree again, but there's also a large body of law that says it does.
Fine for you. But if, say, mySQL AB doesn't want to fix a bug or fix it in that way, you're right that you're free to fork your own, assuming you can. But that doesn't help all of the other people who will, in all probability, continue to use the mainstream product.
In other words, people, like Linus, or organizations, like mySQL AB, still control "their" projects.
Un huh. And the extra processing time the required "cleaner" takes up shouldn't be charged to the overall speed, much like Java's GC?
A class may have exposed a specific document tree to the outside world. Is that part of the required spec? (DOM) Are the element names required or specific to this implementation?
Sorry, but a spec is meta-data over and above a specific implementation. A reference implementation gives people something to check against, but can be misleading.
The article states that this works by sending blocks of up to 128 instructions at a time to the processor, where "The processor "sees" and executes a block all at once, as if it were a single instruction..." Makes you wonder if they'd ever get close to that target, as IIRC, one instruction in seven on average is a conditional branch.
Huh? There are dozens of ways to implement parsers and grammars given a defined language. The Gecko engine is but one approach to solving HTML parsing and rendering, and not necessarily the best or most efficient approach. Further, there are implementation-dependent choices (font sizes, margins, etc.) which are not part of the HTML spec.
A reference implementation may be useful, but it is not a spec, and can't take the place of one.
Great. The "I have a friend who has a brother who once heard someone talking about this" expert. Thanks for sharing your personal, first-hand knowledge of the music business...
AMC Theaters, Denver, Colorado. As I said, previews start at the listed showtime, then the movie. Ads and music before the previews and before the listed showtime.
Might refine that search. A $1,900 EOS-1 is a film, not digital, camera. EOS-1 series DIGITAL cameras are the 1D, 1Ds, 1D MII, and 1Ds MII.
Actually, I'd turn this around a bit and say that, "too many people think they're good at it." As mentioned earlier, movies are large, costly investments, and no one wants to lose their shirt and/or job. Thus, everyone provides "input" into the process, and the end result all too often is a least-common-denominator mess.
The cast of "The Simpsons" was on the Actor's Studio a while back, and one cast member attributed the show's success to "no notes" from the studio executives.
The studio's really need to step back from the process, and trust the director and writer's vision. After all, that's why they were hired....
Yeah. That explains all the torrents. People love to spend hours downloading and listening to music that sucks.
Silly mortal. The big bang was God, snapping his fingers...
Or are you saying that if you get there twenty minutes early you'd prefer to just stare at a blank screen? And pay higher ticket prices to boot.
In the "heyday" of VHS movies were hard to pirate because they were copy protected. Or have you never heard of MacroVision? Your average joe not only had no distribution mechanism, but probably couldn't copy them at all.
And besides, it just pops the fundamental question up a level, from who made us... to who made Him?
If I EVER find an employee dropping backdoors into a system his ass is grass.
That and five-to-ten years of practice will make you a halfway decent recording engineer...
There's a REASON a lot of the common office applications and services migrated away from terminals and mainframes.
It's not going to happen by someone selling a product whose feature set is a subset of the leader's.