DRM is acceptable to me in a situation with cheap all you can eat services like Rhapsody, though I don't think Rhapsody is cheap enough to be attractive/acceptable.
A large part of the value of a piece of digital media is the ability to faithfully reproduce it for backups, repurposing, mixing, media shifting, etc... as the consumer sees fit.
You're going to have to make that 99 cent song 5-10 cents per year rental or $5/month to make me happy with losing those abilities, and I'll still only rent the most ephemeral items.
My wife bugs me because I have an extensive DVD collection that includes a lot of black and white classics she has no interest in. I look at it as a library, much like books. If the DVD format goes away (which it will, eventually), I don't want to have to repurchase my library on the next format. I want my kids to be able to enjoy Casablanca or Citizen Kane or Bringing Up Baby without having to poop out another $20 per title to the MPAA and the studios who did nothing to earn the additional payment other than point a recording device at a strip of celluloid and hit record.
He did work on the hardware for the mouse if I recall correctly. There was a possibly apocryphal story of him being brought in and simplifying the design dramatically in a weekend.
Look, these guys are selling you on the "first hit is free" plan. Once Tivo is gone, watch your rights go. I don't watch American Idol either, but I did read the story where Comcast boxes wouldn't fast forward on that ONE PARTICULAR show.
That sounds like a test run to me and like big trouble in the future.
$99 is expensive? That's what I've seen Series II boxes going for.
The cable company product most definitely is NOT a better product. Can you fast forward through American Idol? Not on some Comcast supplied boxes. That's just a preview of what you can expect in the future as your ability to fast forward, skip commercials, retain recordings for long times, etc.. is stripped from those boxes.
Tivo's problems are proof that you can not meet the RIAA/MPAA/advertisers halfway. They will screw you.
You either have to roll over completley or get ready for a long hard battle that you will win. TIVO wimped out and tried to make everyone happy, in the process making very few people happy.
They'll get bought by someone. I'd like it to be Apple, but I'm skeptical.
Well, because apparently, they aren't going to be honored.
The U.S. debt is backed by those securities and the "trust fund" that was established to keep Social Security solvent is really a series of these IOU's from one part of the government to the other.
Now, if Bush is saying that these debts are not going to be paid back to the fund, then he's declaiming the validity of these debt (in direct contradiction to the fourth paragraph of the 14th amendment, by the way).
I love 401K's. I have one with over a year's gross salary in it right now and I max contribute to it. I'm counting on it to help me live in the style to which I am accustomed after I retire.
But if I'm horribly wrong and my diverse investments all tank, I know I won't be left during my old age with absolutely nothing. That's why the "security" part of social security is so important.
If we were, then the idea of privitizing Social Security would be no big deal. If someone misinvested by putting all his retirement money into Tyco or Enron stock, fine. We let him die broke and impoverished and that's that.
But we're not savages and we won't do that. If a person screws up and loses all their retirement we'll cover them some other way via state or local government instead of via the Feds. You'll still pay for that person's retirement, just not in a predictable way, and it'll be more expensive as more poverty retakes America's elderly.
Social Security is the SINGLE most effective government program ever. Elderly poverty was endemic in the 1930's and before. Unless you were really rich, you stood a really good chance of dying poor and dragging your children down with you. Now, that's much less prevelant.
You object because you want to invest in a free market? Great. Most investors lose money, but if you really want to invest outside of the SS program, what's stopping you? Go ahead. You just can't risk this small percentage of your earnings. That goes to make sure you won't be too much of a burden on the rest of us when you get old.
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This is a belated April Fool's joke, right? That's the dumbest name since International Harvester became Navistar.
Heeyyyyyy! I keeed, I keeed.
DRM is acceptable to me in a situation with cheap all you can eat services like Rhapsody, though I don't think Rhapsody is cheap enough to be attractive/acceptable.
A large part of the value of a piece of digital media is the ability to faithfully reproduce it for backups, repurposing, mixing, media shifting, etc... as the consumer sees fit.
You're going to have to make that 99 cent song 5-10 cents per year rental or $5/month to make me happy with losing those abilities, and I'll still only rent the most ephemeral items.
My wife bugs me because I have an extensive DVD collection that includes a lot of black and white classics she has no interest in. I look at it as a library, much like books. If the DVD format goes away (which it will, eventually), I don't want to have to repurchase my library on the next format. I want my kids to be able to enjoy Casablanca or Citizen Kane or Bringing Up Baby without having to poop out another $20 per title to the MPAA and the studios who did nothing to earn the additional payment other than point a recording device at a strip of celluloid and hit record.
Yep.
(I had to wait 20 seconds to post that "Yep". Thanks, Slashdot!)
He did work on the hardware for the mouse if I recall correctly. There was a possibly apocryphal story of him being brought in and simplifying the design dramatically in a weekend.
It's a trick! Get an axe.
+1 incomprehensible.
I think the point is you go to yaho.com by accident of fat fingers, not that its picked up by search engines.
Look, these guys are selling you on the "first hit is free" plan. Once Tivo is gone, watch your rights go. I don't watch American Idol either, but I did read the story where Comcast boxes wouldn't fast forward on that ONE PARTICULAR show.
That sounds like a test run to me and like big trouble in the future.
$99 is expensive? That's what I've seen Series II boxes going for.
The cable company product most definitely is NOT a better product. Can you fast forward through American Idol? Not on some Comcast supplied boxes. That's just a preview of what you can expect in the future as your ability to fast forward, skip commercials, retain recordings for long times, etc.. is stripped from those boxes.
Tivo's problems are proof that you can not meet the RIAA/MPAA/advertisers halfway. They will screw you.
You either have to roll over completley or get ready for a long hard battle that you will win. TIVO wimped out and tried to make everyone happy, in the process making very few people happy. They'll get bought by someone. I'd like it to be Apple, but I'm skeptical.
Of course, there's that little thing called the Industrial Revolution that also helped...
I don't think telling people that the kids waving the cars in on the West side of Chicago near Madison and Ashland are selling crack is illegal.
If you're relying on writeable CD's to last a long time you've already got problems.
Recopy them every three or so years at a slow speed if you really want to keep the data,
So the Wright Brothers' plane was wrong, too? I don't think they sold many units.
Damn, I wish I had mod points to give you a +1 Funny.
It was a perfectly clean post, but I feel dirty having read that.
Deconstruction is kinda trendy these days, ain't it, Poindexter?
That'll save us the time of breaking a bunch of new schemes.
For Christ's sake, how about working on the content instead of the wrapper?
You think they'd put a software on/off switch on that thing.
I guess it'll be there for the next mission...
Well, because apparently, they aren't going to be honored.
The U.S. debt is backed by those securities and the "trust fund" that was established to keep Social Security solvent is really a series of these IOU's from one part of the government to the other.
Now, if Bush is saying that these debts are not going to be paid back to the fund, then he's declaiming the validity of these debt (in direct contradiction to the fourth paragraph of the 14th amendment, by the way).
I love 401K's. I have one with over a year's gross salary in it right now and I max contribute to it. I'm counting on it to help me live in the style to which I am accustomed after I retire.
But if I'm horribly wrong and my diverse investments all tank, I know I won't be left during my old age with absolutely nothing. That's why the "security" part of social security is so important.
The NRO is just to the right of Mussolini.
We aren't savages.
If we were, then the idea of privitizing Social Security would be no big deal. If someone misinvested by putting all his retirement money into Tyco or Enron stock, fine. We let him die broke and impoverished and that's that.
But we're not savages and we won't do that. If a person screws up and loses all their retirement we'll cover them some other way via state or local government instead of via the Feds. You'll still pay for that person's retirement, just not in a predictable way, and it'll be more expensive as more poverty retakes America's elderly.
Social Security is the SINGLE most effective government program ever. Elderly poverty was endemic in the 1930's and before. Unless you were really rich, you stood a really good chance of dying poor and dragging your children down with you. Now, that's much less prevelant.
You object because you want to invest in a free market? Great. Most investors lose money, but if you really want to invest outside of the SS program, what's stopping you? Go ahead. You just can't risk this small percentage of your earnings. That goes to make sure you won't be too much of a burden on the rest of us when you get old.
I knew Apple had problems satisfying demand, but if you're just gettign your Apple II+ now, I'd complain.
Who knows, you might get a free DuoDrive out of it.
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Redeem this coupon before January 30 or you might just suffer an unfortunate mass mailing virus infestation. What was your spouse's e-mail address again...?