1. It costs more to retrain for anything, so the fact the code is open has nothing to do with it. 2. Bugs and security problems are present in all software. 3. closed software sucks too, esp when it has remote kill switches, tilt bits, and forced updates. You must like working with boobytrapped tools.
Great, now they need to pay an additional 360 on top of everything else? Adobe should be giving the damn software to schools, for free, since they want grads to know their software when they enter the workforce..
Southern Poverty Law Center = more money for a bunch of entitlement whores who aren't afraid to use their pocketbooks to buy vengeful law. See? I can do it too.
Why should these kinds of people dictate who publishes and makes money? Apparently, the whole world needs put them and their 'issues' first, while they have no problem using engorged governments as weapons to inflict attacks on the civil rights of their (perceived or real) enemies. Gay rights activists, sexist feminists, racists (KKK and NAACP). Hypocrites all.
I hope the movie contains all the vitriol, brutality, and uncouth political/cultural conflict that's in the book, because those aspects are what really got me into the story: the characters were worth caring about and getting to know. If they tone it down (or remove it) and stick in more lense flares and sky diving scenes like they're doing with every other movie now, maybe they should just call it star trek III: bugger wars and be done with it. It would have about as much to do with star trek as the first two new movies, and might even make more money.
if I was depending on the software for a living, I wouldn't want any timebombs designed to prevent it from launching getting in my way.. Once it has that, the value drops to less than 1% of the last standalone version's cost. It's the difference between owning the arcade machine, and dropping $0.25 into someone else's.
All the invasive breakage in always on DRM schemes nowadays just ensures that the pirates will be the only ones with reliable software on their machines. There's no reason why I'd want to lose control over my configuration to the whims of adobe. It's not like they haven't done stupid shit in the past, and users were able to bypass those revisions until they were fixed. With this trend of ever increasing 'cloud' integration, the user loses that control, a bit at a time.
Simple. The incentive to upgrade comes from adobe's new innovations in current_version+1... Of course, if they don't intend to innovate much, then yes, forced obsolescence is the only way they'll get paid...until someone comes up with a good-enough alternative that isn't ruined by draconian control freak licensing.
No, it doesn't. Not if said professionals depend on the software being there the next day...amateurs too. i wouldn't want my video editing productivity killed off because the pos software can't authenticate when it decides it's time.
1. No, you don't need to constantly update your software.. It's just that people've been scared into a rut about doing so. As history has shown, the previous billion patches haven't made it secure, so why do you think the next round will be any better? This affects all software, not just adobe or windows. The answer is to assume it's not secure and operate on that assumption at all times. So, no, don't update if the updates remove needed functionality or create new, unneeded dependencies (always on DRM).
2. A little bit? I'd say it's a lot. Depending on your tools being there the next morning, and with the same capabilities as yesterday, is a fundamental part of getting anything done. I'd say this is as valuable as the tool capabilities themselves. Without the former, the tool is worthless, no matter how amazing the latter is. Always on DRM turns computing from empowering to enslaving. Screw that.
3. No matter how obsolete the software is, it's still better than the latest version tied down with remote kill switches...and I can guarantee you, in an always on DRM world, the ONLY people who will have self sufficient software stacks will be the pirates.
Yeah, it's pretty fucked up. America today is truly ruled by the ultimate example of timid, spineless humanity: the soccer mom. soccer moms (and their lapdog husbands) on the right (with religion) and left (with identity politics/cultural marxism) have managed to strip the spine from this country's culture, and it is really sad. Pushing religion, whitewashing media, gun/self defense rights, oppressive family courts, schools that teach permanent adolescence, are all examples where soccer moms vote to trade liberty for security, even when the latter is imaginary at best.
However, most countries have fucked up legal affairs.. In some places, you can lose your head if you say something about mohammed (or draw his picture), or have sex out of wedlock.. In other, more 'liberal' countries, you can go to jail just for saying certain things about certain cultures in public, never mind actually defend yourself from them when they bomb your subways. In such countries, 'liberal' politicians roll over backwards to allow immigrant thugs from these protected cultures to build ghettos, gain political mass, then vote to strip their own country of the civil rights used to justify bringing them there in the first place. How 'progressive'!
Yet, the majority in all of these countries (yes, including the USA) claim to be pro liberty/democracy/human rights/peace/tolerance! Hell, these countries are all members of various international human rights councils! Yes, it's truly a fucked up world we live in.
android is riddled with closed binaries for drivers and shell environments. the shells are one thing as they can be replaced, but the drivers truly hamper maintenance and development on hardware.
Those are your preferences.. I think anything over 24" is useless for desktop use as it requires too much neck panning and eyeball rolling. It's not just the number of pixels that matters, it's how many can be crammed into your visual range at a time. I'd like to see a 3840x2400 panel in 23-24", 120hz or better, no input lag/ghosting, and deep color support. Of course, this is unobtanium along with the gpu to drive it well, but everyone has different priorities.
uh wait what? no.. Bitmapped data (like an mpeg stream) will not show you more detail if simply scaled up. The detail has to be there in the first place. Some tvs and players can 'add' sharper edges and gradients, as well as add intermediate frames (temporal/motion smoothing) with filters, which are running at the higher resolution, but this is fake data added after the fact. Some people like this and some don't.
However, rendering native 3D graphics at higher resolutions reduces edge aliasing and tightens perspective correction filtering (anisotropy) on surfaces not parallel and/or very distant to the view frustum. Yes, lower resolution textures will cause the latter benefit to roll off faster as the display resolution increases, but the benefits are still there.
Yet she routinely engages in imbecilic behavior and shows a lack of aptitude in everything she does. I think this is due to a mix of (below) average intellect and spoiled brat syndrome. She was never encouraged to be independent because she never had to be.
Yeah.. or employers could hire dull minds, who were selected precisely because they willingly conform to every little managerial passive aggressive manipulation. Of course, these people are useless for anything but the most basic office work, but that's of secondary importance. The state set up our school system to produce these drones after all, and now even colleges are dumbing their programs down so these drones can get pieces of paper saying they're qualified computer scientists/programmers/engineers. These little drones are even encouraged to split themselves up into identity groups based on irrelevancies like race and gender! Now they have something else to bluster over when someone points out their mediocrity! Today's culture obviously values mindless obedience and adherence to every minor social convention over creative, adaptive, critically thinking minds. Too bad.
1. One of the benefits of this country is the lack of an official caste system. Unfortunately, an unofficial one is solidifying out of the economic downward spiral the country's going through. Why would you support either? It's likely that you would be in that lower caste and not able to work in technical fields even if you have the ability...and if you were born into an upper caste family and still had the time to post on slashdot, you'd be one of those dead-end children, like paris hilton.
2. What's a real company? You mean the ones with the 10000 office drones? Doesn't sound very motivating to me. Ones who bootstrap themselves are more likely to create their own companies rather than work for schlep, overprivileged, highschool/college football jocks who now run companies whose culture cares more about enforcing dress codes than getting any real work done...you know, those too big to fail companies that routinely take bailout money from the taxpayer? Yeah, what were you saying about lazy twats?
3. The funny thing is, it takes a minimum of two to get a job: the candidate must apply, and the employer must accept. There are more people than jobs these days, and that ratio is increasing over time. This fact makes your simplistic blame game an ad hominem attack. Wake up. If you're working for one of those 'real companies', guess what? You're just as replaceable as that beggar on the street probably was. Your employment status is not proof of your superiority. Get over yourself.
Yeah well no one's doing that well these days.. building computers into everything in order to enforce false scarcity will not fix this. Taking consumer ownership of access rights away will not fix this either, but that's what the big studios want to do, make once, charge forever.. To hell with that.
Artificial scarcity is never good for the consumer...ever, nor for the market. computer enforced artificial scarcity is no different. If it ends up as ubiquitous as some want it, consumers will be in pain every time they interface with a computer or any computer-shackled device..basically, to do almost anything.
here are some examples of this that DRM creates 1. unskippable/forced ads in purchased media
2. repurchasing the same media for different/new devices.
3. many schemes require closed hardware specifications. While this mainly applies for programmers, users benefit from these programmers' third party software as it is tailored to their (instead of corporate) interests whether it is gpl/bsd free or not. With every major software vendor pushing app stores today, it's obvious that if given the chance, these businesses would have it so the only place to get software for any consumer accessible computer technology would be an 'app store', complete with corporate (and government) censorship of any application giving users capability they don't want (or want to charge premiums for).
4. loss of control of access to critical software. What would a car mechanic do if his tools were inexplicably altered on a daily/weekly/monthly basis because the vendor's marketing team 'had a vision'...or maybe they were 'disappeared' and replaced with less capable or useless ones to force the purchase of an upgrade? That's the future of 'cloud' software deployment. It's the ultimate DRM scheme.
5. lease vs buy. It's nice to have options like you said above, but the former is rapidly becoming the ONLY choice. It's one thing to stipulate that the user doesn't own the software in the license, but it is another to have remote-yank ability on machines people depend on. always-online drm is another example.
6. Car consoles: this is a relatively new one, but I can guarantee it won't be long before corporates and governments start using this vector to stick their advertising/feature lockout/sanctimonious preaching in between you and the use of your car.
To answer the question of "how will artists make money?" Well first of all, artists can and do make money despite the lack of total DRM dystopia. The second answer is the one given to anyone in any other situation where they are complaining about lack of income for their pet projects/abilities: suck it up and get a real job. In this case 'real job' means one that generates genuine product with genuine scarcity that consumers can buy and optionally sell as property of their own.
True, but it doesn't negate the point of the argument. The only reason you can do that is because someone cracked the DVD protections, which is against the law. If it hadn't been, media player classic (and the rest of the players) would not have such features.
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1. It costs more to retrain for anything, so the fact the code is open has nothing to do with it.
2. Bugs and security problems are present in all software.
3. closed software sucks too, esp when it has remote kill switches, tilt bits, and forced updates. You must like working with boobytrapped tools.
Great, now they need to pay an additional 360 on top of everything else? Adobe should be giving the damn software to schools, for free, since they want grads to know their software when they enter the workforce..
So I suppose we should support the talking heads on NPR and MSNBC instead?
Southern Poverty Law Center = more money for a bunch of entitlement whores who aren't afraid to use their pocketbooks to buy vengeful law. See? I can do it too.
Why should these kinds of people dictate who publishes and makes money? Apparently, the whole world needs put them and their 'issues' first, while they have no problem using engorged governments as weapons to inflict attacks on the civil rights of their (perceived or real) enemies. Gay rights activists, sexist feminists, racists (KKK and NAACP). Hypocrites all.
I hope the movie contains all the vitriol, brutality, and uncouth political/cultural conflict that's in the book, because those aspects are what really got me into the story: the characters were worth caring about and getting to know. If they tone it down (or remove it) and stick in more lense flares and sky diving scenes like they're doing with every other movie now, maybe they should just call it star trek III: bugger wars and be done with it. It would have about as much to do with star trek as the first two new movies, and might even make more money.
These aren't "cloud" applications in the SaaS sense.
For now. This is where they want to be though. Better off to not support this mentality long term.
as opposed to betting the company on the whims of remote-updated, always-on DRM'd software?
if I was depending on the software for a living, I wouldn't want any timebombs designed to prevent it from launching getting in my way.. Once it has that, the value drops to less than 1% of the last standalone version's cost. It's the difference between owning the arcade machine, and dropping $0.25 into someone else's.
All the invasive breakage in always on DRM schemes nowadays just ensures that the pirates will be the only ones with reliable software on their machines. There's no reason why I'd want to lose control over my configuration to the whims of adobe. It's not like they haven't done stupid shit in the past, and users were able to bypass those revisions until they were fixed. With this trend of ever increasing 'cloud' integration, the user loses that control, a bit at a time.
Simple. The incentive to upgrade comes from adobe's new innovations in current_version+1... Of course, if they don't intend to innovate much, then yes, forced obsolescence is the only way they'll get paid...until someone comes up with a good-enough alternative that isn't ruined by draconian control freak licensing.
No, it doesn't. Not if said professionals depend on the software being there the next day...amateurs too. i wouldn't want my video editing productivity killed off because the pos software can't authenticate when it decides it's time.
Having control of access IS valuable.
1. No, you don't need to constantly update your software.. It's just that people've been scared into a rut about doing so. As history has shown, the previous billion patches haven't made it secure, so why do you think the next round will be any better? This affects all software, not just adobe or windows. The answer is to assume it's not secure and operate on that assumption at all times. So, no, don't update if the updates remove needed functionality or create new, unneeded dependencies (always on DRM).
2. A little bit? I'd say it's a lot. Depending on your tools being there the next morning, and with the same capabilities as yesterday, is a fundamental part of getting anything done. I'd say this is as valuable as the tool capabilities themselves. Without the former, the tool is worthless, no matter how amazing the latter is. Always on DRM turns computing from empowering to enslaving. Screw that.
3. No matter how obsolete the software is, it's still better than the latest version tied down with remote kill switches...and I can guarantee you, in an always on DRM world, the ONLY people who will have self sufficient software stacks will be the pirates.
unless of course the freedoms that you want are verboten by that power..
Open mindedness is not the same thing as tolerance of baseless claims.
Yeah, it's pretty fucked up. America today is truly ruled by the ultimate example of timid, spineless humanity: the soccer mom. soccer moms (and their lapdog husbands) on the right (with religion) and left (with identity politics/cultural marxism) have managed to strip the spine from this country's culture, and it is really sad. Pushing religion, whitewashing media, gun/self defense rights, oppressive family courts, schools that teach permanent adolescence, are all examples where soccer moms vote to trade liberty for security, even when the latter is imaginary at best.
However, most countries have fucked up legal affairs.. In some places, you can lose your head if you say something about mohammed (or draw his picture), or have sex out of wedlock.. In other, more 'liberal' countries, you can go to jail just for saying certain things about certain cultures in public, never mind actually defend yourself from them when they bomb your subways. In such countries, 'liberal' politicians roll over backwards to allow immigrant thugs from these protected cultures to build ghettos, gain political mass, then vote to strip their own country of the civil rights used to justify bringing them there in the first place. How 'progressive'!
Yet, the majority in all of these countries (yes, including the USA) claim to be pro liberty/democracy/human rights/peace/tolerance! Hell, these countries are all members of various international human rights councils! Yes, it's truly a fucked up world we live in.
android is riddled with closed binaries for drivers and shell environments. the shells are one thing as they can be replaced, but the drivers truly hamper maintenance and development on hardware.
because then you're wasting visible space. 16:10 takes advantage of more vertical space in your field of view.
Those are your preferences.. I think anything over 24" is useless for desktop use as it requires too much neck panning and eyeball rolling. It's not just the number of pixels that matters, it's how many can be crammed into your visual range at a time. I'd like to see a 3840x2400 panel in 23-24", 120hz or better, no input lag/ghosting, and deep color support. Of course, this is unobtanium along with the gpu to drive it well, but everyone has different priorities.
uh wait what? no.. Bitmapped data (like an mpeg stream) will not show you more detail if simply scaled up. The detail has to be there in the first place. Some tvs and players can 'add' sharper edges and gradients, as well as add intermediate frames (temporal/motion smoothing) with filters, which are running at the higher resolution, but this is fake data added after the fact. Some people like this and some don't.
However, rendering native 3D graphics at higher resolutions reduces edge aliasing and tightens perspective correction filtering (anisotropy) on surfaces not parallel and/or very distant to the view frustum. Yes, lower resolution textures will cause the latter benefit to roll off faster as the display resolution increases, but the benefits are still there.
Yet she routinely engages in imbecilic behavior and shows a lack of aptitude in everything she does. I think this is due to a mix of (below) average intellect and spoiled brat syndrome. She was never encouraged to be independent because she never had to be.
Why wouldn't you? Especially if he likes doing that?
Many genius level IQ people find highschool an absolutely boring, dreary, mindless, and lonely existence.
Yeah.. or employers could hire dull minds, who were selected precisely because they willingly conform to every little managerial passive aggressive manipulation. Of course, these people are useless for anything but the most basic office work, but that's of secondary importance. The state set up our school system to produce these drones after all, and now even colleges are dumbing their programs down so these drones can get pieces of paper saying they're qualified computer scientists/programmers/engineers. These little drones are even encouraged to split themselves up into identity groups based on irrelevancies like race and gender! Now they have something else to bluster over when someone points out their mediocrity! Today's culture obviously values mindless obedience and adherence to every minor social convention over creative, adaptive, critically thinking minds. Too bad.
1. One of the benefits of this country is the lack of an official caste system. Unfortunately, an unofficial one is solidifying out of the economic downward spiral the country's going through. Why would you support either? It's likely that you would be in that lower caste and not able to work in technical fields even if you have the ability...and if you were born into an upper caste family and still had the time to post on slashdot, you'd be one of those dead-end children, like paris hilton.
2. What's a real company? You mean the ones with the 10000 office drones? Doesn't sound very motivating to me. Ones who bootstrap themselves are more likely to create their own companies rather than work for schlep, overprivileged, highschool/college football jocks who now run companies whose culture cares more about enforcing dress codes than getting any real work done...you know, those too big to fail companies that routinely take bailout money from the taxpayer? Yeah, what were you saying about lazy twats?
3. The funny thing is, it takes a minimum of two to get a job: the candidate must apply, and the employer must accept. There are more people than jobs these days, and that ratio is increasing over time. This fact makes your simplistic blame game an ad hominem attack. Wake up. If you're working for one of those 'real companies', guess what? You're just as replaceable as that beggar on the street probably was. Your employment status is not proof of your superiority. Get over yourself.
Yeah well no one's doing that well these days.. building computers into everything in order to enforce false scarcity will not fix this. Taking consumer ownership of access rights away will not fix this either, but that's what the big studios want to do, make once, charge forever.. To hell with that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX
Artificial scarcity is never good for the consumer...ever, nor for the market. computer enforced artificial scarcity is no different. If it ends up as ubiquitous as some want it, consumers will be in pain every time they interface with a computer or any computer-shackled device..basically, to do almost anything.
here are some examples of this that DRM creates
1. unskippable/forced ads in purchased media
2. repurchasing the same media for different/new devices.
3. many schemes require closed hardware specifications. While this mainly applies for programmers, users benefit from these programmers' third party software as it is tailored to their (instead of corporate) interests whether it is gpl/bsd free or not. With every major software vendor pushing app stores today, it's obvious that if given the chance, these businesses would have it so the only place to get software for any consumer accessible computer technology would be an 'app store', complete with corporate (and government) censorship of any application giving users capability they don't want (or want to charge premiums for).
4. loss of control of access to critical software. What would a car mechanic do if his tools were inexplicably altered on a daily/weekly/monthly basis because the vendor's marketing team 'had a vision'...or maybe they were 'disappeared' and replaced with less capable or useless ones to force the purchase of an upgrade? That's the future of 'cloud' software deployment. It's the ultimate DRM scheme.
5. lease vs buy. It's nice to have options like you said above, but the former is rapidly becoming the ONLY choice. It's one thing to stipulate that the user doesn't own the software in the license, but it is another to have remote-yank ability on machines people depend on. always-online drm is another example.
6. Car consoles: this is a relatively new one, but I can guarantee it won't be long before corporates and governments start using this vector to stick their advertising/feature lockout/sanctimonious preaching in between you and the use of your car.
To answer the question of "how will artists make money?" Well first of all, artists can and do make money despite the lack of total DRM dystopia. The second answer is the one given to anyone in any other situation where they are complaining about lack of income for their pet projects/abilities: suck it up and get a real job. In this case 'real job' means one that generates genuine product with genuine scarcity that consumers can buy and optionally sell as property of their own.
True, but it doesn't negate the point of the argument. The only reason you can do that is because someone cracked the DVD protections, which is against the law. If it hadn't been, media player classic (and the rest of the players) would not have such features.