Actually, I thought panel 7 was mocking the idealist position of "CD sales and rampant copying are both irrelevant, real artists make music because they enjoy it". Personal fulfillment is a poor substitute for paying heating bills (and putting food on the table).
Because Apple's DRM is not as bad as DVD restrictions. There are fewer practical objections and fewer people who are currently unable to do something they want because of Fairplay. Nearly everyone objecting objects on ideological grounds- they decided long ago that they will never, ever back down from their position on any form of DRM; everyone siding with Apple has decided it's not really a big deal and it's an acceptable tradeoff for the benefits of being able to buy what the ITMS is selling.
You can only play 480 songs per day (at 3 minutes on average), no matter how imaginative or honest the DJ is. That's still a tiny fraction of the station's library.
America's Army licensed the Unreal engine, which was produced by a private company over a period of years prior to AA's release. The fact that it already existed was what made it feasible for the government to develop.
We also wouldn't have these multimillion-dollar budget games and movies to pirate in the first place without the concentration of resources through capitalism. It may have its flaws but it's the best system we have.
Bad analogy. No one's time, effort, or resources were expended producing the air you breathe.
Copies do deprive someone of something- they deprive the copyright holder of the right to control how their work is copied. That's why it's called copyright. And maybe this doesn't apply to you or JWW, but there are a vast number of people who do download music, movies, and games but would pay for them if that was not an option. And if the companies producing these products are so despicable, why don't you stand behind your words and not use them at all? Oh, wait, that wouldn't let you have your cake and eat it too, which is obviously your God-given right.
The bit about the makers of UT is a non sequitur and has no bearing on whether copyright infringement is right or wrong. And the parent is absolutely correct- if it looks like Epic won't earn a profit on UT2K5 due to rampant piracy (or whatever), then there won't be a UT2K5 for anyone to pirate, and everyone loses.
Everyone who makes this joke is neglecting the fact that this part of the DMCA only applies to encryption added by the legitimate owner of the copyright on whatever is being protected. So, no, encrypting your Kazaa traffic will not let you countersue the RIAA when you get busted.
The most amazing thing about RVB is not anything about it being machinima. It's the exact opposite- the fact that it's filmed in a game is utterly irrelevant. They have good writing, good acting, and good direction, and that's why it's good. They could have done it in Halo or Quake or a 3D modeling program or a 2D animation program or with live actors. Machinima is not different from normal moviemaking at all, there's no difference in the skills and talents you need. It's just cheaper than production-quality CG, and it lowers the barrier to entry to the world of film, which is otherwise unchanged by its presence.
It's the vagaries of the situation, not a permanent inequality built into the system. If the country as a whole happens to be precisely tied at the moment you cast the last vote of the day (hey, could happen), your vote chooses the president. If the county is overwhelmingly in favor of one candidate, there's nothing you can do to prevent that candidate winning, which is as it should be.
Of course they're one-sided, they have to be because they're a major corporation. They can't toe the line and stir up controversy like individual hackers on the internet, they have a responsibility to their customers and shareholders to obey the law and get sued as little as possible.
Apple puts millions of dollars into UI research and design, why not copy their work?
Oh, I don't know... Copyright? Desire not to get sued? This shouldn't be done for the same reason Apple shouldn't take a bunch of GPLed projects, delete the license, and sell the binaries with OS X. That statement is a large part of why commercial software developers won't touch Linux with a ten-foot pole.
Also don't forget the characteristic of blogs that the Register kindly calls "incestuous"- news is endlessly linked or stolen outright instead of being found independently. There are very rarely multiple investigated, researched takes on a story; most of the time, every single "source" has exactly the same story, or consists of little more than a link to another site (which is probably a story of the same form).
They could hook up the reboot feature to your vocal cords and tactile sensations. So, to reset the chip, you'd just have to tap yourself in the chest twice and shout "REBOOT!"
It's a SAN clustering program. You run Xsan on each of your 4 Xserves, you plug a 3T Xserve RAID into each of them, and the whole backend appears to your G5 (and every other G5 on the network) as a single 12T volume that's faster than any single hardware unit, since Xsan also does load balancing.
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If God was truly omnipotent, he would not be bound by the laws and assumptions this conclusion was derived from.
What would you recommend he do? Turn down the job at MS and go flip burgers somewhere until the dotcom boom?
Can ah have a program?
No, ten> programs??
CAN AH HAVE TWENNY PROGRAMS?!
Only real performance matters. Don't get suckered by the Hertz Myth.
I bet that fish is thinking "In SOVIET RUSSIA, seagull eat- OH, CRAP!"
Actually, I thought panel 7 was mocking the idealist position of "CD sales and rampant copying are both irrelevant, real artists make music because they enjoy it". Personal fulfillment is a poor substitute for paying heating bills (and putting food on the table).
Because Apple's DRM is not as bad as DVD restrictions. There are fewer practical objections and fewer people who are currently unable to do something they want because of Fairplay. Nearly everyone objecting objects on ideological grounds- they decided long ago that they will never, ever back down from their position on any form of DRM; everyone siding with Apple has decided it's not really a big deal and it's an acceptable tradeoff for the benefits of being able to buy what the ITMS is selling.
A battery is multiple lasers.
You can only play 480 songs per day (at 3 minutes on average), no matter how imaginative or honest the DJ is. That's still a tiny fraction of the station's library.
America's Army licensed the Unreal engine, which was produced by a private company over a period of years prior to AA's release. The fact that it already existed was what made it feasible for the government to develop.
We also wouldn't have these multimillion-dollar budget games and movies to pirate in the first place without the concentration of resources through capitalism. It may have its flaws but it's the best system we have.
Bad analogy. No one's time, effort, or resources were expended producing the air you breathe.
Copies do deprive someone of something- they deprive the copyright holder of the right to control how their work is copied. That's why it's called copyright. And maybe this doesn't apply to you or JWW, but there are a vast number of people who do download music, movies, and games but would pay for them if that was not an option. And if the companies producing these products are so despicable, why don't you stand behind your words and not use them at all? Oh, wait, that wouldn't let you have your cake and eat it too, which is obviously your God-given right.
The bit about the makers of UT is a non sequitur and has no bearing on whether copyright infringement is right or wrong. And the parent is absolutely correct- if it looks like Epic won't earn a profit on UT2K5 due to rampant piracy (or whatever), then there won't be a UT2K5 for anyone to pirate, and everyone loses.
Everyone who makes this joke is neglecting the fact that this part of the DMCA only applies to encryption added by the legitimate owner of the copyright on whatever is being protected. So, no, encrypting your Kazaa traffic will not let you countersue the RIAA when you get busted.
Just whatever you do, don't cross the streams.
The most amazing thing about RVB is not anything about it being machinima. It's the exact opposite- the fact that it's filmed in a game is utterly irrelevant. They have good writing, good acting, and good direction, and that's why it's good. They could have done it in Halo or Quake or a 3D modeling program or a 2D animation program or with live actors. Machinima is not different from normal moviemaking at all, there's no difference in the skills and talents you need. It's just cheaper than production-quality CG, and it lowers the barrier to entry to the world of film, which is otherwise unchanged by its presence.
Akami is also providing CPU cycles on all those servers, as in the Logitech example.
I think you just answered your own sig.
It's the vagaries of the situation, not a permanent inequality built into the system. If the country as a whole happens to be precisely tied at the moment you cast the last vote of the day (hey, could happen), your vote chooses the president. If the county is overwhelmingly in favor of one candidate, there's nothing you can do to prevent that candidate winning, which is as it should be.
Of course they're one-sided, they have to be because they're a major corporation. They can't toe the line and stir up controversy like individual hackers on the internet, they have a responsibility to their customers and shareholders to obey the law and get sued as little as possible.
You just wait until the stock market is driven crazy by all those dotlocals with impossible business plans.
Apple puts millions of dollars into UI research and design, why not copy their work?
Oh, I don't know... Copyright? Desire not to get sued? This shouldn't be done for the same reason Apple shouldn't take a bunch of GPLed projects, delete the license, and sell the binaries with OS X. That statement is a large part of why commercial software developers won't touch Linux with a ten-foot pole.
Also don't forget the characteristic of blogs that the Register kindly calls "incestuous"- news is endlessly linked or stolen outright instead of being found independently. There are very rarely multiple investigated, researched takes on a story; most of the time, every single "source" has exactly the same story, or consists of little more than a link to another site (which is probably a story of the same form).
It blew circles around his Pinnacle system.
I can't tell if that expression means it was good or bad...
They could hook up the reboot feature to your vocal cords and tactile sensations. So, to reset the chip, you'd just have to tap yourself in the chest twice and shout "REBOOT!"
It's a SAN clustering program. You run Xsan on each of your 4 Xserves, you plug a 3T Xserve RAID into each of them, and the whole backend appears to your G5 (and every other G5 on the network) as a single 12T volume that's faster than any single hardware unit, since Xsan also does load balancing.