It depends. All things can be used for bad and for good. While it kind of sucks in this case that the records database got broken into there are some good points to this. If you were in an accident, it sure would be nice if the hospital was able to look up any prescriptions you were on before administering other drugs which may be harmful when used with you current medication.
There's tons of ways for little guys to get into the software market. I would say that with things like Steam and WiiWare, it's getting easier than it's been in the last 5-10 years. If you take a look at the really popular WiiWare (not virtual console) games, you will notice that most of them are done by small independent game studios. There are also tons of indie games on Steam. If you don't like those, it's extremely easy to set up a website where people can download your software and charge them via paypal.
Yeah, but with MP3, you are buying. If it was a rental for $0.50 a show, I could completely ditch cable, and save a tonne of money in the process. I'd have to watch 100 shows a month to equal my current cable bill. I don't watch anywhere near that amount of TV. Now that I think about it, at $2 a show, I'm getting pretty close to my cable bill. However, I'd lose the ability to channel surf, so I'm willing to pay a little extra for that.
Yes, but youtube doesn't offer that. That's like saying, would you pay to wait in line for 7 hours. The answer of course is no. Now would you pay to wait in line for 7 hours to receive a free car (assuming cost to wait is less than cost of car). You can't say, I'd pay for Youtube, but only if they compeletly change the content on their website. It doesn't make any sense.
Yeah, but what's the drug in this case? Lithium is just another metallic element like iron, calcium, sodium, and potassium. All of which are very important to the body operating properly.
Which brings up another important point. Even changing the DPI on the browser makes things move around quite a bit. How do these ACID tests handle cases where the user has changed from the default DPI, or even simpler, just turned up the text size. The point of browsers isn't really to be pixel perfect. Because users may change things like font sizes to fit their own preferences anyway.
Not that I think we need JS in acrobat either, but I bet someone said the exact same thing as you when someone told them about the idea of putting Javascript in web browsers.
In most cases where the company stays afloat, you would possibly be right. But if the company goes under, the for sure your stock is going to be worth squat. Since 1980, Nortel stock has been worth $10 +. However in the past 2 years, it has gone down from $20 to 32 cents. I guess that's 1 counter example for you.
It's not censorship unless it's banned by the government. That's like saying your local grocery store is censoring because they choose not to carry porn, or that best buy is censoring because they don't stock certain movies. As a corporation they have the right to host whatever content they feel like. And reject whichever content they don't want.
Personally, I've never quite enjoyed watching sports. However, If you can do something that causes 50,000 people to pack into a stadium and pay $25 (average i'm guessing, probably low ball) each for, and you can get them to do it 168 times a year, then you are probably worth whatever they are paying you. And that's not even counting TV viewings.
Ah yes, but by taking information from your system, such as mouse movements, cpu usage, memory usage, data from memory, temperature measurements from the chip, along with a bunch of other numbers, you can come up with a RNG that's really hard for them to replicate without having direct access to your computer. All cryptography today relies on the ability to generate random numbers that others can't guess. And they all use open/known algorithms. If what you're saying is true, we shouldn't be trusting any cryptography even SSL, because it relies on our computer generating random numbers.
Personally, I don't like to carry a whole stack of BluRay discs around in my computer bag either. What will make this holographic technology any better. Also, with 1 TB Hard drive, you can still fit 50-100 movies on a single disc. Also, your movie collection is small.
But your ISP still owns your email address. And if your ISP disappears, or changes the TOS, and you want to switch to another ISP, try bringing your email address with you. I along with many others have purchased my own domain name, and I have a hosting service, so I am able to keep my email address when/if I choose to switch. But this is not an option for most people. How is relying on Hotmail for your email service any worse than relying on Comcast. Either may stop offering the service at any time, or change to unreasonable terms forcing you to change your email address.
It's been said before but I guess I'll say it again. I already have a DVD player, Game console, digital cable box, and surround sound receiver sitting by my TV. I don't want yet another box sitting there, when one of the current ones has all the physical capabilities to perform this task. All we need is software
My game console is the Wii. Which is the weakest of the current gen systems. Using homebrew, I'm able to watch videos. It works great. There's some movies that don't play, either because of encoding errors, or unsupported codecs, and network is a little slow, but on the whole it works pretty good. If there was commercial software product that "just worked" and provided this functionality, I would be one of the first to buy it. I will get around to building a media centre box sometime, but until then we should at least let the boxes do what we all know they are capable of.
You forgot c). Which is of course, nobody makes money off of it. Or more rightly, anybody can sell copies of it for whichever price they feel covers their distribution and production costs, and people get the product for next to nothing. Originally copyright was 17 years. I personally believe that is quite long enough for the artist to make their money. After that, it should go into the public domain. The artist should have to produce some new works.
I wonder about the quality of the printing here too. If they print on demand, are they basically like spitting the book out of a laser printer? Are the books bound like a book you would buy off the shelf? What is the paper like. How long do you have to stand there while they print out your 300 pages? For out of print books, it might make a little sense, as there may be no other way to get the book, but for stuff you can still find on the shelf, I think this wouldn't be a good option.
Sorry if I'm way off base here, but I'm assuming the US Postal Service works similarly to the Canadian one. In Canada if you miss your package, they leave a receipt in your mail box, and tell you to pick it up at the nearest "post office". I put post office in quotes because the post office is usually the neighbourhood pharmacy or convenience store, where they have a little counter in the back where you can pick up your packages. I really don't understand why UPS, Fedex, et al couldn't work out a similar deal with local stores to act as pick up places for packages. It's not like there's some sort of law restricting this process. Dry cleaners do it all the time. My basic guess is, is that courier services really only care about delivering to businesses. They charge rates only businesses would pay, and therefore, their residential customers are almost nil. So they don't focus on the market, and for personal use, most people find that their service is terrible.
This sounds a lot like the reason I quit Zip.ca (Canadian Netflix). 3 DVDs within 3 months failed to end up win my locked mailbox (I live in an apartment). With all the time I spent with my account on hold while they investigated the lost DVDs, I didn't get to make very good use of my membership. I can only imagine the problem would be worse with games, where they are worth quite a bit more $50 vs. $20 (many DVDs are $10 or less). Also, with no signature required for the discs, I'm sure a lot of people are just reporting that the disc never made it to them, or saying they sent it back when they didn't, and keeping it for themselves.
I personally am not doing anything with my computer that I didn't do 10 years ago. Play a few games, watch movies, listen to music, do some work. I could watch the same movies (encoded at the same quality), listen to the same music, and do the same work on my old machine that I do now. The only real driving force is games. Sure it's nice to be able to encode a movie in real time, but hasn't really given me any new abilities. And even most games that are out now don't require the top of the line machines.
I think it's all a ploy. Most of the motherboards now come with overclocking options built right into the BIOS, and even tell you how to configure it in the manual. I've lost quite a bit of hardware to overclocking myself, and I will never do it again. It isn't worth the instability, or the broken parts. You're much better off to just spend the extra $100 for the better processor than to spend $400 on parts when everything else dies.
Exactly. I got a Hauppauge TV Tuner a few years back, and this is the way to do it. I can record and encode video all day long, and my processor doesn't even get affected. I'm recording something right now, and my idle process is at 88%. 10% for Firefox (damn flash) and 1% for BitTorrent. Remainder is for the 57 background processes that are running.
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It depends. All things can be used for bad and for good. While it kind of sucks in this case that the records database got broken into there are some good points to this. If you were in an accident, it sure would be nice if the hospital was able to look up any prescriptions you were on before administering other drugs which may be harmful when used with you current medication.
There's tons of ways for little guys to get into the software market. I would say that with things like Steam and WiiWare, it's getting easier than it's been in the last 5-10 years. If you take a look at the really popular WiiWare (not virtual console) games, you will notice that most of them are done by small independent game studios. There are also tons of indie games on Steam. If you don't like those, it's extremely easy to set up a website where people can download your software and charge them via paypal.
Yeah, but with MP3, you are buying. If it was a rental for $0.50 a show, I could completely ditch cable, and save a tonne of money in the process. I'd have to watch 100 shows a month to equal my current cable bill. I don't watch anywhere near that amount of TV. Now that I think about it, at $2 a show, I'm getting pretty close to my cable bill. However, I'd lose the ability to channel surf, so I'm willing to pay a little extra for that.
Yes, but youtube doesn't offer that. That's like saying, would you pay to wait in line for 7 hours. The answer of course is no. Now would you pay to wait in line for 7 hours to receive a free car (assuming cost to wait is less than cost of car). You can't say, I'd pay for Youtube, but only if they compeletly change the content on their website. It doesn't make any sense.
Yeah, but what's the drug in this case? Lithium is just another metallic element like iron, calcium, sodium, and potassium. All of which are very important to the body operating properly.
Which brings up another important point. Even changing the DPI on the browser makes things move around quite a bit. How do these ACID tests handle cases where the user has changed from the default DPI, or even simpler, just turned up the text size. The point of browsers isn't really to be pixel perfect. Because users may change things like font sizes to fit their own preferences anyway.
That's one thing I've always liked about Mandriva. Much easier to configure everything through the GUI.
Not that I think we need JS in acrobat either, but I bet someone said the exact same thing as you when someone told them about the idea of putting Javascript in web browsers.
In most cases where the company stays afloat, you would possibly be right. But if the company goes under, the for sure your stock is going to be worth squat. Since 1980, Nortel stock has been worth $10 +. However in the past 2 years, it has gone down from $20 to 32 cents. I guess that's 1 counter example for you.
Oblig. It's a trap!
It's not censorship unless it's banned by the government. That's like saying your local grocery store is censoring because they choose not to carry porn, or that best buy is censoring because they don't stock certain movies. As a corporation they have the right to host whatever content they feel like. And reject whichever content they don't want.
Personally, I've never quite enjoyed watching sports. However, If you can do something that causes 50,000 people to pack into a stadium and pay $25 (average i'm guessing, probably low ball) each for, and you can get them to do it 168 times a year, then you are probably worth whatever they are paying you. And that's not even counting TV viewings.
Ah yes, but by taking information from your system, such as mouse movements, cpu usage, memory usage, data from memory, temperature measurements from the chip, along with a bunch of other numbers, you can come up with a RNG that's really hard for them to replicate without having direct access to your computer. All cryptography today relies on the ability to generate random numbers that others can't guess. And they all use open/known algorithms. If what you're saying is true, we shouldn't be trusting any cryptography even SSL, because it relies on our computer generating random numbers.
Personally, I don't like to carry a whole stack of BluRay discs around in my computer bag either. What will make this holographic technology any better. Also, with 1 TB Hard drive, you can still fit 50-100 movies on a single disc. Also, your movie collection is small.
But your ISP still owns your email address. And if your ISP disappears, or changes the TOS, and you want to switch to another ISP, try bringing your email address with you. I along with many others have purchased my own domain name, and I have a hosting service, so I am able to keep my email address when/if I choose to switch. But this is not an option for most people. How is relying on Hotmail for your email service any worse than relying on Comcast. Either may stop offering the service at any time, or change to unreasonable terms forcing you to change your email address.
It's been said before but I guess I'll say it again. I already have a DVD player, Game console, digital cable box, and surround sound receiver sitting by my TV. I don't want yet another box sitting there, when one of the current ones has all the physical capabilities to perform this task. All we need is software
My game console is the Wii. Which is the weakest of the current gen systems. Using homebrew, I'm able to watch videos. It works great. There's some movies that don't play, either because of encoding errors, or unsupported codecs, and network is a little slow, but on the whole it works pretty good. If there was commercial software product that "just worked" and provided this functionality, I would be one of the first to buy it. I will get around to building a media centre box sometime, but until then we should at least let the boxes do what we all know they are capable of.
You forgot c). Which is of course, nobody makes money off of it. Or more rightly, anybody can sell copies of it for whichever price they feel covers their distribution and production costs, and people get the product for next to nothing. Originally copyright was 17 years. I personally believe that is quite long enough for the artist to make their money. After that, it should go into the public domain. The artist should have to produce some new works.
I wonder about the quality of the printing here too. If they print on demand, are they basically like spitting the book out of a laser printer? Are the books bound like a book you would buy off the shelf? What is the paper like. How long do you have to stand there while they print out your 300 pages? For out of print books, it might make a little sense, as there may be no other way to get the book, but for stuff you can still find on the shelf, I think this wouldn't be a good option.
I don't play true HD content on my computer, and I don't really feel much of a need to.
Sorry if I'm way off base here, but I'm assuming the US Postal Service works similarly to the Canadian one. In Canada if you miss your package, they leave a receipt in your mail box, and tell you to pick it up at the nearest "post office". I put post office in quotes because the post office is usually the neighbourhood pharmacy or convenience store, where they have a little counter in the back where you can pick up your packages. I really don't understand why UPS, Fedex, et al couldn't work out a similar deal with local stores to act as pick up places for packages. It's not like there's some sort of law restricting this process. Dry cleaners do it all the time. My basic guess is, is that courier services really only care about delivering to businesses. They charge rates only businesses would pay, and therefore, their residential customers are almost nil. So they don't focus on the market, and for personal use, most people find that their service is terrible.
This sounds a lot like the reason I quit Zip.ca (Canadian Netflix). 3 DVDs within 3 months failed to end up win my locked mailbox (I live in an apartment). With all the time I spent with my account on hold while they investigated the lost DVDs, I didn't get to make very good use of my membership. I can only imagine the problem would be worse with games, where they are worth quite a bit more $50 vs. $20 (many DVDs are $10 or less). Also, with no signature required for the discs, I'm sure a lot of people are just reporting that the disc never made it to them, or saying they sent it back when they didn't, and keeping it for themselves.
I personally am not doing anything with my computer that I didn't do 10 years ago. Play a few games, watch movies, listen to music, do some work. I could watch the same movies (encoded at the same quality), listen to the same music, and do the same work on my old machine that I do now. The only real driving force is games. Sure it's nice to be able to encode a movie in real time, but hasn't really given me any new abilities. And even most games that are out now don't require the top of the line machines.
I think it's all a ploy. Most of the motherboards now come with overclocking options built right into the BIOS, and even tell you how to configure it in the manual. I've lost quite a bit of hardware to overclocking myself, and I will never do it again. It isn't worth the instability, or the broken parts. You're much better off to just spend the extra $100 for the better processor than to spend $400 on parts when everything else dies.
Definitely a lot less impressive than those wood cars.
Exactly. I got a Hauppauge TV Tuner a few years back, and this is the way to do it. I can record and encode video all day long, and my processor doesn't even get affected. I'm recording something right now, and my idle process is at 88%. 10% for Firefox (damn flash) and 1% for BitTorrent. Remainder is for the 57 background processes that are running.