From TFA: "The study's authors didn't clarify whether "downloaded" implied illegal downloads or participation in legal services such as CinemaNow!"
It seems that the rather sensationalistic headline is contradicted by the article itself.
Not to mention that this seems like a typical Slashdot bias. Picture the reaction if one were to prefix the article with: "In a study conducted by the MPAA..." People would be falling all over themselves pointing out how the numbers have to be grossly overstated.
Either way, since the article didn't provide any information about how the study was conducted, how the 2,600 people were found, demographics, et.al., I have to believe the numbers are simply bogus. Cherry pick your starting group, and you can extrapolate to any absurd number.
That's because it sucks. The text is dim and low-contrast, hard to read except in bright light, and it has the exceedingly annoying habit of flickering the entire screen every time you "turn" a page. Add the proprietary DRM and the limited selection plus the full-boat retail prices of Sony's online store, and you've got the makings of yet another Sony disaster.
If you've got a list, make sure it stays at the bottom of it.
My fiction reading speed is on the order of 1200 WPM. As such I can go through a LOT of books when I'm bored. On several occasions I've taken an old iPaq that has about 100 Baen ebooks on it with me on vaction, though a year or so ago I joined Audible and now I have an iPod with about 90+ books there. The pod can be used in more situations, like when I'm working out or standing in line.
I've been waiting FOREVER, however, for Apple to get on the stick and add ebooks to their multimedia store. I guess the printed word just isn't as sexy as movies...
Your article fails to prove your point. To quote: "There are not enough records available to reconstruct global or even hemispheric mean temperature prior to about 600 years ago with a high degree of confidence. What records that do exist show is that there was no multi-century periods when global or hemispheric temperatures were the same or warmer than in the 20th century."
Which doesn't mean it couldn't have been "almost" as warm, or that it wasn't a localized phenomenon in the North Atlantic similar to the little ice age theorized for Europe should the North Atlantic convection currents shut down. Or in other words, we get warmer, they get snow. Flipping the latter, it would appear that all you need are stronger convection currents pulling warmer water from the equator to affect a localized change in the Northern Atlantic, without global or hemispheric temperatures rising significantly as a result.
It would seem that people with agendas are using whatever "facts" they can find. On both sides.
ITunes was DRM'ed long before the Intel switch, is still DRM'ed on both PPC and Intel, and doesn't require TPM to operate. So, in actuality, the Intel switch and the DRM issue are completely separate things, not related at all, and has nothing to Apple "going down the Intel DRM path."
"The reason Linux has made so little impact in the desktop market is largely because a fully open system tends to devolve into anarchy."
You're disputing this? There is no "Linux" in the marketplace. There's Red Hat and Debian, and Ubuntu and SUSE and Gentoo and hundreds of others. All with their own different distros and installers and package managers and so on. Heck, you can't even write something other than the simplest of applicatons to one single common GUI.
"... better understand the threat that it poses..."
What threat? Is open source so fragile that the mere possibility that someone will do a closed application or platform that much of a "threat"?
It's odd to me that the FOSS community gives so much lip service to concepts like freedom and choice... as long as that choice is the one THEY wanted. From my perspective, Apple is in a position to judge what they think is best for their products and their customers. If they're wrong, the market will tell them so, and they'll adjust, or not. If they're right, well, then that success simply shows that more than one model can be successful in the marketplace.
Or to put it another way, is my being a success preventing you from also being a success? Does a closed-source phone stop Linux from being successful elsewhere?
Of course, in a "proper" CMS, users have roles and the system doesn't present people with options they're not qualified to use and understand. Content people need to know how to enter articles. Period. They don't need to enter domains and setup sites; those roles are restricted to those who need and are trained to do so.
I had a friend the other day tell me that other drivers seem to be getting more and more rude. When I asked why, she said they're always honking their horns at her. Of course, she never considered what SHE might have been doing that caused them to honk their horns. Nope, in her mind it was all those "other" people who had problems.
So if you're continually getting emails about your system...
Sorry, but you don't understand the logic. iTunes is the only app that purchases and downloads the music and encrypts it. iTunes is the only app that validates players and transfers music to the iPod. The mechanism is secure.
Now, it may be that you cold have a third party player "support" FairPly... but how does the music get encrypted and get on their player? You'd have to provide every vendor with the code and encryption keys so their software could work with it. Every vendor would be able to authorize players.
And every time yo do that, you run a major risk of that code and those keys being "leaked" into the wild. To my mind, this isn't so much about "locking" the market, as it is locking the door. Every time I give someone a key and alarm code to my house I run the risk of compromising the entire system.
Are you not aware that the cell phone upgrade cycle is about 18 months on average? Longer for true upgrades, but shorter because they get dropped, break, are lost, or something cooler comes along (RAZR). I'm on my sixth at the moment, and third wireless provider.
So the fact that most people have phones now means little.
"...I would expect the other phone manus -already used to ripping each other off for ideas- to bring out multiple different models inspired by Apple, and do it all before Apple sells their first phone..."
You attempted to download a movie or song that obviously wasn't legal (Battalstar-Galactica-Episode-203.mp4) which means that you probably do this sort of thing often. Which is then grounds for a subpoena and identification of your account by your ISP, and then a search of your computer's HD. And when all of those "other" files are found...
Do you honestly believe that someone is giving away free cars? For that matter, how do you know the owner is the one that put the sign there? Do you really think you can just hop into a $10,000 vehicle and drive away, no questions asked? Sorry, but a measure of common sense comes into play here.
If you're torrenting a copy of LOTR off some site, is your first thought: "Wow. Nice of New Line to put this up for free."?
"On the contrary, if someone is offering me a free download, I have every reason to believe they are authorized to do so."
So when you download LOTR:ROTK from an anonymous torrent site, you honestly believe they're "authorized" to distribute it, and you're getting it a legal copy?
"The problem is that I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work..."
Think harder. The logic seems to be that we pump ambient heat from the air into the ground... which is where things seem to fall apart. For example, just how MUCH heat can we gather and store in the ground? What's the differential? How much can we get back?
More to the point, how do we keep the heat we pump into a point in the ground from radiating away and disapating?
"Rest assured, California is not the only state with barely enough power-generation capacity..."...at maximum load, which occurs during the day during business hours. Which is not the dead of night and way off-peak when most of these cars would be charging. Several companines have discussed timers and/or remote control switches such that the power company could "schedule" your recharge such that your car isn't on the grid at the same time with everyone else's.
And with a "Volt" type solution you don't need to recharge at work to make it home, assuming you live that far away. That's what the "hybrid" part is for.
But I do agree that people need to consider the whole system... and spend more than 60 seconds considering potential solutions before rejecting the entire concept.
Solar power for headlights and taillights. Solar power for headlights and taillights. Hmmm. Isn't there usually a lack of solar power available when the headlights are needed?
We use a lot more power during the daytime, and as demand deceases during the night much of the spare capacity available is wasted. Might as well put it to use, plus power plants are more efficient when run to produce a constant flow of power.
"I don't know which is actually more efficient..."
"This car is what a hybrid really is;... Not a multi-drive car, but an electric drive car powered from a gasoline/deisel generator."
I think you're picking nits and besides, from my perspective those other cars ARE hybrids. The Volt is an electric car... that just happens to carry around it's own backup generator.
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From TFA: "The study's authors didn't clarify whether "downloaded" implied illegal downloads or participation in legal services such as CinemaNow!"
It seems that the rather sensationalistic headline is contradicted by the article itself.
Not to mention that this seems like a typical Slashdot bias. Picture the reaction if one were to prefix the article with: "In a study conducted by the MPAA..." People would be falling all over themselves pointing out how the numbers have to be grossly overstated.
Either way, since the article didn't provide any information about how the study was conducted, how the 2,600 people were found, demographics, et.al., I have to believe the numbers are simply bogus. Cherry pick your starting group, and you can extrapolate to any absurd number.
".. the average Joe Sixpack .."
Which, BTW, is NOT the target market. Not to mention the fact that Joe Sixpack also tends not to be an early adopter.
That's because it sucks. The text is dim and low-contrast, hard to read except in bright light, and it has the exceedingly annoying habit of flickering the entire screen every time you "turn" a page. Add the proprietary DRM and the limited selection plus the full-boat retail prices of Sony's online store, and you've got the makings of yet another Sony disaster.
If you've got a list, make sure it stays at the bottom of it.
My fiction reading speed is on the order of 1200 WPM. As such I can go through a LOT of books when I'm bored. On several occasions I've taken an old iPaq that has about 100 Baen ebooks on it with me on vaction, though a year or so ago I joined Audible and now I have an iPod with about 90+ books there. The pod can be used in more situations, like when I'm working out or standing in line.
I've been waiting FOREVER, however, for Apple to get on the stick and add ebooks to their multimedia store. I guess the printed word just isn't as sexy as movies...
Heh. I should check my old system, 'cause I bet those autoexec changes are still there...
Your article fails to prove your point. To quote: "There are not enough records available to reconstruct global or even hemispheric mean temperature prior to about 600 years ago with a high degree of confidence. What records that do exist show is that there was no multi-century periods when global or hemispheric temperatures were the same or warmer than in the 20th century."
Which doesn't mean it couldn't have been "almost" as warm, or that it wasn't a localized phenomenon in the North Atlantic similar to the little ice age theorized for Europe should the North Atlantic convection currents shut down. Or in other words, we get warmer, they get snow. Flipping the latter, it would appear that all you need are stronger convection currents pulling warmer water from the equator to affect a localized change in the Northern Atlantic, without global or hemispheric temperatures rising significantly as a result.
It would seem that people with agendas are using whatever "facts" they can find. On both sides.
"and then buying the 2-gig machine at a post-xmas price"
Ah, it's Apple. The price is $2495 pre-Christmas, during Christmas, and after Christmas.
No, I hearken from the "drag the app from the DMG file to the applications folder" world (i.e. OS X).
ITunes was DRM'ed long before the Intel switch, is still DRM'ed on both PPC and Intel, and doesn't require TPM to operate. So, in actuality, the Intel switch and the DRM issue are completely separate things, not related at all, and has nothing to Apple "going down the Intel DRM path."
"The reason Linux has made so little impact in the desktop market is largely because a fully open system tends to devolve into anarchy."
You're disputing this? There is no "Linux" in the marketplace. There's Red Hat and Debian, and Ubuntu and SUSE and Gentoo and hundreds of others. All with their own different distros and installers and package managers and so on. Heck, you can't even write something other than the simplest of applicatons to one single common GUI.
"... better understand the threat that it poses..."
What threat? Is open source so fragile that the mere possibility that someone will do a closed application or platform that much of a "threat"?
It's odd to me that the FOSS community gives so much lip service to concepts like freedom and choice... as long as that choice is the one THEY wanted. From my perspective, Apple is in a position to judge what they think is best for their products and their customers. If they're wrong, the market will tell them so, and they'll adjust, or not. If they're right, well, then that success simply shows that more than one model can be successful in the marketplace.
Or to put it another way, is my being a success preventing you from also being a success? Does a closed-source phone stop Linux from being successful elsewhere?
Of course, in a "proper" CMS, users have roles and the system doesn't present people with options they're not qualified to use and understand. Content people need to know how to enter articles. Period. They don't need to enter domains and setup sites; those roles are restricted to those who need and are trained to do so.
I had a friend the other day tell me that other drivers seem to be getting more and more rude. When I asked why, she said they're always honking their horns at her. Of course, she never considered what SHE might have been doing that caused them to honk their horns. Nope, in her mind it was all those "other" people who had problems.
So if you're continually getting emails about your system...
Sorry, but you don't understand the logic. iTunes is the only app that purchases and downloads the music and encrypts it. iTunes is the only app that validates players and transfers music to the iPod. The mechanism is secure.
Now, it may be that you cold have a third party player "support" FairPly... but how does the music get encrypted and get on their player? You'd have to provide every vendor with the code and encryption keys so their software could work with it. Every vendor would be able to authorize players.
And every time yo do that, you run a major risk of that code and those keys being "leaked" into the wild. To my mind, this isn't so much about "locking" the market, as it is locking the door. Every time I give someone a key and alarm code to my house I run the risk of compromising the entire system.
Are you not aware that the cell phone upgrade cycle is about 18 months on average? Longer for true upgrades, but shorter because they get dropped, break, are lost, or something cooler comes along (RAZR). I'm on my sixth at the moment, and third wireless provider.
So the fact that most people have phones now means little.
BTW, anyone want to buy a RAZR come June?
"...I would expect the other phone manus -already used to ripping each other off for ideas- to bring out multiple different models inspired by Apple, and do it all before Apple sells their first phone..."
200 patents?
Tasks and to-to's are part of the new Mail/Calendar system in Leopard, so I'd expect them to sync up, since Calendar syncing was also mentioned.
You attempted to download a movie or song that obviously wasn't legal (Battalstar-Galactica-Episode-203.mp4) which means that you probably do this sort of thing often. Which is then grounds for a subpoena and identification of your account by your ISP, and then a search of your computer's HD. And when all of those "other" files are found...
Do you honestly believe that someone is giving away free cars? For that matter, how do you know the owner is the one that put the sign there? Do you really think you can just hop into a $10,000 vehicle and drive away, no questions asked? Sorry, but a measure of common sense comes into play here.
If you're torrenting a copy of LOTR off some site, is your first thought: "Wow. Nice of New Line to put this up for free."?
I think not.
"On the contrary, if someone is offering me a free download, I have every reason to believe they are authorized to do so."
So when you download LOTR:ROTK from an anonymous torrent site, you honestly believe they're "authorized" to distribute it, and you're getting it a legal copy?
I really, really, REALLY want you to try that argument in front of a judge sometime...
"The problem is that I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work..."
Think harder. The logic seems to be that we pump ambient heat from the air into the ground... which is where things seem to fall apart. For example, just how MUCH heat can we gather and store in the ground? What's the differential? How much can we get back?
More to the point, how do we keep the heat we pump into a point in the ground from radiating away and disapating?
"Rest assured, California is not the only state with barely enough power-generation capacity..." ...at maximum load, which occurs during the day during business hours. Which is not the dead of night and way off-peak when most of these cars would be charging. Several companines have discussed timers and/or remote control switches such that the power company could "schedule" your recharge such that your car isn't on the grid at the same time with everyone else's.
And with a "Volt" type solution you don't need to recharge at work to make it home, assuming you live that far away. That's what the "hybrid" part is for.
But I do agree that people need to consider the whole system... and spend more than 60 seconds considering potential solutions before rejecting the entire concept.
Solar power for headlights and taillights. Solar power for headlights and taillights. Hmmm. Isn't there usually a lack of solar power available when the headlights are needed?
We use a lot more power during the daytime, and as demand deceases during the night much of the spare capacity available is wasted. Might as well put it to use, plus power plants are more efficient when run to produce a constant flow of power.
"I don't know which is actually more efficient..."
Precisely.
"This car is what a hybrid really is; ... Not a multi-drive car, but an electric drive car powered from a gasoline/deisel generator."
I think you're picking nits and besides, from my perspective those other cars ARE hybrids. The Volt is an electric car... that just happens to carry around it's own backup generator.