An artist has every right to decide how to sell his or her own work. If I make a series of 3 paintings I am within my bounds to refuse to sell them individually. (hell, even those "trendy" art postcards at Ikea are only sold in 5 packs) Artists can't tell you how you should interpret their art, but how dare you tell them how they can sell something they created.
Um, every phone that I've owned in the last 5 years has had an airplane mode, to include the iphone. The problem with the iPhone is that a lot of iPhone users are coming from "normal" cells. They are used to hitting a button on the top edge of a phone, watching the screen turn off and being comfortable in the phone being off as well. People who have used smartphones before understand the difference between screen off and cellphone off.
The dilemma is, and always has been, the public harm to public good ratio. Cars are an intrinsic part of our every day life. There are commuters who rely on them and working mothers who couldn't bring their children to daycare without them. The fact that x people a day get seriously injured driving cars is outweighed by the benefits that they afford our modern day society.
The fact that x amount of people a day die from choking on food doesn't outweigh the obvious benefits inherent to eating... so despite the risks people continue to eat.
Stupid arm wrestling arcade games provide no public benefit (besides perhaps speeding the Japanese population towards having massive fiddler-crab-like right arms). The public harm of having a couple of people per day/week/month seriously injure themselves is certainly a valid reason to recall such a device.
Sometimes I have to question what some admins consider "good" password policy. I work in an environment where I have to access no less than 4 password protected systems on a daily basis. Each system requires the passwords to expire after 30 days, but since each system is independant the 30 day marks tend to vary 1 to 2 weeks from system to system.
Each system has seperate password requirements. Some require passwords with 15 or more letters, some balk at anything larger than 14. Some require 2 caps, 2 numbers, and 2 special characters. Some require more of one and less of the other. Many of them prevent you from recycling passwords and limit use of derivative passwords. In theory, all of these policies help to make the system as a whole stronger. In practice, people can't or aren't willing to remember 4 passwords that meet all of these requirements.
!L0v3MyW!f343v3R is a great password, but after 4 years of having to create 4 of these every month, creativity runs short. Of course if you guess too many times and you happen to lock yourself out of a system on a Friday afternoon you might as well sit on your hands and start whistling until Monday morning. As a result almost everyone resorts to writing passwords down on scraps of paper and stashing them within arms reach of their computers. (who here has seen a password taped under a keyboard?) All in all much less secure than slightly less restrictive passwords.
Admins worrying about security and productivity would push for a smartcard system wich allows for extremely secure logins without hassling the users with unbearable passwording schemes. Admins that simply push for more restrictive password policies are out of touch with actual users and harming that which they intended to strengthen.
Uhm... Photoshop is a native OSX app. The online version's addition to the Mac world is no more or less substantial than it's addition to the Windows world. I'll reserve judgement on how good this is for Linux users until I see it. Adobe has made little effort to court Linux users in the past and I seriously doubt they will go out of their way this time round.
The military issued Common Access Cards to all service members and DoD employees, that not only act as ID cards, but are smart cards which carry signing/encryption certificates. Slowly but surely the DoD is requiring these cards to simply log on to computers. Certain places have implimented a manditory signing policy requiring your private pin to send any mails. So to answer your question, many personel may not understand what exactly what signed e-mails are, but the powers at be aren't going to let that stop them from 100% implimentation.
Do you honestly think that someone working for the CIA doesn't sign documents wavering rights to talk about certain things? Do you think he has had over 30 articles proofed by the CIA because he wanted to? Last time I checked non disclosure agreements in positions such as what he had do not expire and are held on file for a minimum of 70 years. (With the assumption that even the youngest person eligible for such clearances/positions would likely be dead from old age or polonium before their NDAs get shredded)
Not everybody has freedom of speech... They just let you talk because you don't know anything that threatens them.
Any one of your scenarios for a non-exotic death allows for witnesses and a high probability of apprehension. A crime that isn't noticed until hours, days, or weeks later allows plenty of time for the criminal to get away. Considering the risks involved I could see Russia not wanting a captured agent to spill the beans.
The problem with your analogy is that you don't weigh the benefits against the risks. You could say (made up numbers here) that 3 people die every year from Heavy List Fighting while 1214 die from choking on food. One becomes a necessary risk, however, while the other becomes a risk of extravagance. Getting sideswiped while on the way to a supermarket is a risk inherent to suburban life, getting ones neck snapped by a heavy ass weapon isn't
Perhaps you should re-read that part about Disney again, because your quote is simply refering to Apple's deal... It says nothing about Google and Disney.
While I do see Google's DRMed videos as a step in the wrong direction, I don't think you will find any studios willing to sell there works without it. Unfortunately content restrictions are the wave of the future. Economic Darwinism will find the closest balance between the restrictions the studios feel will earn them the most money, and the amount of BS consumers are willing to put up with.
We got a taste if that with DVDs and most people didn't care... now it's time for round two. Without a strengthening of the public domain and fair use portions of copyright laws this will be a quick battle with a grim end.
Right, and while we're at it can we please shut up about sloppy dressers, sweaty armpits, bad breath, and people who can't form a sentence that doesn't include swear words. Certainly how we present ourselves isn't as important in life as what we think of ourselves.
The difference, plain and simple, between Microsoft and Apple is that Microsoft is a monopoly and Apple is not. Legally they bear different burdens.
Apple has Safari/Webkit bundled with the OS, but as they only have single digit market share this bundled applications can not be used to twist anybodies arm. They can't make proprietary web extensions that fail to render on other peoples browsers, no developer would use them.
Microsoft, on the other hand, is the clear market leader. They can add some wonderful proprietary extension to Internet Explorer, tell developers that this new extension will function on 90% of the target clients browsers, and sit back and watch competitor's browsers get pushed out of the market.
Clear market leaders, like Microsoft, are legally expected to play by different rules, and for good reason.
Apple currently uses a non-standard (i.e. non-intel) processor. Just because there are not many OSs that will run natively on a G4/G5 processor does not mean that you are intentionally being locked in. As other responders have mentioned YellowDog linux is a great distro tailored specifically for Apple hardware.
Apple has even gone as far as saying that windows will run on its future Intel based systems. Don't blame Apple for other developers unwillingness to develop G4/G5 compatible OSs
UMDs are actually the same resolution as DVDs, however the psp scales them down for it smaller screen.
"SCEI has yet to announce UMD support in products beyond the PSP, but it has talked about the possibility of making it a common format for a family of gadgets. Should this happen, the UMD movies may benefit from future players with larger screens. The movies are stored on the discs at a resolution of 720 pixels by 480 pixels, says Chatani. That's the same resolution as DVD." http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,1201 13,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp (SCEI = Sony Computer Entertainment... Chatani = Masa Chatani, corporate executive and chief technology officer of SCEI)
Sony intended from the get go on standalone players and recorded the movies accordingly. Some question the size or the quality of a 1.8GB UMD disc compared to the average 7 GB DVD. Most UMDs don't feature the same amount of extra footage, although most contain at least some... Most of the extra storage is gained through the use of Mpeg4 compression, as opposed to the much older and less efficient Mpeg2 that DVDs use.
They are costly, but so is any new format. They are currently selling like hotcakes, and prices should drop to 12-15$ within the next year for the average movie.
Maybe I'm just missing something, as I just came off of a 12 hour nightshift, but where did I go wrong? I explained the system and why it is legal, and then explained why I felt that we were just to use it. I'm sure it's me missing something, but I have no idea where:-/
Very little of the money goes to artists. They pay a small pittance to an organization that allows radio stations to broadcast music without a per song royalty fee. This service however "broadcasts" in the form of downloadable files (mp3, ogg, flac... etc). The "product" is legal in Russia, and as there are no export restrictions on music files importing them is also legal. Just like buying a German book on Amazon.de might be cheeper than buying it on Amazon.com.
I have used the service and find it to be absolutely outstanding. The artists aren't getting a lot of money from the deal, but I'm not paying a lot for it. If this service can provide a song ripped however you choose at $0.01 per MB, how can a service like apple ($0.99 per song) not pull a profit? Because the RIAA is raping them, and us. They use loopholes in the system to limit the music we purchase and to inflate the prices we pay. Services like this allow us to legaly get what we want.
Ogg is a superior codec on more than just an ideoligical lever. I'm not an opensource zelot, I use what suits my needs best. Ogg sounds genuinely better than equal bitrate mp3s. You say that people would use Ogg if it were better, but how could that be the case if a majority of users have never heard of it. MP3 was first out of the door, but that doesn't make it better.
If we only listen to the people that agree with us, then we will never get anywhere... It takes people pushing new ideas for them to get a foothold. To assume that products propagate from computer to computer on their own just because they are best is foolish at best.
The problem with OGG is that it is an incrimental upgrade, not groundbreaking like mp3. Most people would still be using the first versions of Internet Explorer if there wasn't an 800 lb. gorilla forcing newer versions on people.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease... De facto standards are not necessarily the best options. Without people advocating choice many people would never know that such a choice exists.
Animals have been going extinct long before humans were around to blame ourselves for it. All animals alter their environments to suit their needs. Other species will either adapt or fail. So is evolution, so is life. The very fact that there are only three albino butt spanking chimps in the world probably points to them no longer being suited to their environments.
The Earth has plunged into ice ages and thawed all on its own, and animals survived. I think all of these tree hugging hippies need to get a grip.
The Americas is a generic term that refers to both north and south America... How and why would a generic name for a landmass be restricted in its use?
... the beagle2 is laughing at your post all the way from mars
In all seriousness it's nice to see some other serious large-scale attempts being made by countries other than the US and Russia. As with all things scientific, the more head working together the more we all learn.
Name one "true" democracy then... A system where everybody votes for everything is doomed to failure for multiple reasons.
First and formost, the majority of people can't create an effective longterm agenda. They can't decide what they want for lunch, but are expected to vote for fiscal policies that will take them into the next 10 years. Any popular vote for a raise in taxes will be killed because people would rather have the extra 5 dollars/euros a day in their wallets then fix am ailing power grid that works 99.98% of the time... A country needs a leader/many "sub"leaders to dish out the tough love. To say "this might be painful now, but is necessary for the future".
A more fundemental flaw lies in voter apathy... We can barely get 50% of registered voters to vote for president when we only ask them to do it every 4 years.... When we ask them to vote on every piece of legislation, every law, everything that passes the desks of our lawmakers, interest in voting would die. The "excitement" of elections would rival that of paying the water bill. A law brought forth by Montana land owners with National implications would be ignored by almost everyone except the Montana land owners that proposed it certainly killing any of the objectivity that voting should entail.
Then we are ignoring the fact that not everyone has the time, interest, or intelligence level to research laws as thoroughly as they should. You talk to them about mercury levels in batteries, and they'll think more about the battery life of their walkman then about public safety. Some would argue that our present day law maker don't have the time, interest, or intelligence to do it, but as long as it is their fulltime job the chances increase substantially.
And all of these points ignore the Santa Clause effect that would be necessary for everyone to have enough time to vote on every law and still have time to work, sleep, and eat.
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An artist has every right to decide how to sell his or her own work. If I make a series of 3 paintings I am within my bounds to refuse to sell them individually. (hell, even those "trendy" art postcards at Ikea are only sold in 5 packs) Artists can't tell you how you should interpret their art, but how dare you tell them how they can sell something they created.
Um, every phone that I've owned in the last 5 years has had an airplane mode, to include the iphone. The problem with the iPhone is that a lot of iPhone users are coming from "normal" cells. They are used to hitting a button on the top edge of a phone, watching the screen turn off and being comfortable in the phone being off as well. People who have used smartphones before understand the difference between screen off and cellphone off.
The fact that x amount of people a day die from choking on food doesn't outweigh the obvious benefits inherent to eating... so despite the risks people continue to eat.
Stupid arm wrestling arcade games provide no public benefit (besides perhaps speeding the Japanese population towards having massive fiddler-crab-like right arms). The public harm of having a couple of people per day/week/month seriously injure themselves is certainly a valid reason to recall such a device.
Each system has seperate password requirements. Some require passwords with 15 or more letters, some balk at anything larger than 14. Some require 2 caps, 2 numbers, and 2 special characters. Some require more of one and less of the other. Many of them prevent you from recycling passwords and limit use of derivative passwords. In theory, all of these policies help to make the system as a whole stronger. In practice, people can't or aren't willing to remember 4 passwords that meet all of these requirements.
!L0v3MyW!f343v3R is a great password, but after 4 years of having to create 4 of these every month, creativity runs short. Of course if you guess too many times and you happen to lock yourself out of a system on a Friday afternoon you might as well sit on your hands and start whistling until Monday morning. As a result almost everyone resorts to writing passwords down on scraps of paper and stashing them within arms reach of their computers. (who here has seen a password taped under a keyboard?) All in all much less secure than slightly less restrictive passwords.
Admins worrying about security and productivity would push for a smartcard system wich allows for extremely secure logins without hassling the users with unbearable passwording schemes. Admins that simply push for more restrictive password policies are out of touch with actual users and harming that which they intended to strengthen.
Uhm... Photoshop is a native OSX app. The online version's addition to the Mac world is no more or less substantial than it's addition to the Windows world. I'll reserve judgement on how good this is for Linux users until I see it. Adobe has made little effort to court Linux users in the past and I seriously doubt they will go out of their way this time round.
The military issued Common Access Cards to all service members and DoD employees, that not only act as ID cards, but are smart cards which carry signing/encryption certificates. Slowly but surely the DoD is requiring these cards to simply log on to computers. Certain places have implimented a manditory signing policy requiring your private pin to send any mails. So to answer your question, many personel may not understand what exactly what signed e-mails are, but the powers at be aren't going to let that stop them from 100% implimentation.
Do you honestly think that someone working for the CIA doesn't sign documents wavering rights to talk about certain things? Do you think he has had over 30 articles proofed by the CIA because he wanted to? Last time I checked non disclosure agreements in positions such as what he had do not expire and are held on file for a minimum of 70 years. (With the assumption that even the youngest person eligible for such clearances/positions would likely be dead from old age or polonium before their NDAs get shredded)
Not everybody has freedom of speech... They just let you talk because you don't know anything that threatens them.
Any one of your scenarios for a non-exotic death allows for witnesses and a high probability of apprehension. A crime that isn't noticed until hours, days, or weeks later allows plenty of time for the criminal to get away. Considering the risks involved I could see Russia not wanting a captured agent to spill the beans.
The problem with your analogy is that you don't weigh the benefits against the risks. You could say (made up numbers here) that 3 people die every year from Heavy List Fighting while 1214 die from choking on food. One becomes a necessary risk, however, while the other becomes a risk of extravagance. Getting sideswiped while on the way to a supermarket is a risk inherent to suburban life, getting ones neck snapped by a heavy ass weapon isn't
While I do see Google's DRMed videos as a step in the wrong direction, I don't think you will find any studios willing to sell there works without it. Unfortunately content restrictions are the wave of the future. Economic Darwinism will find the closest balance between the restrictions the studios feel will earn them the most money, and the amount of BS consumers are willing to put up with.
We got a taste if that with DVDs and most people didn't care... now it's time for round two. Without a strengthening of the public domain and fair use portions of copyright laws this will be a quick battle with a grim end.
Right, and while we're at it can we please shut up about sloppy dressers, sweaty armpits, bad breath, and people who can't form a sentence that doesn't include swear words. Certainly how we present ourselves isn't as important in life as what we think of ourselves.
Apple has Safari/Webkit bundled with the OS, but as they only have single digit market share this bundled applications can not be used to twist anybodies arm. They can't make proprietary web extensions that fail to render on other peoples browsers, no developer would use them.
Microsoft, on the other hand, is the clear market leader. They can add some wonderful proprietary extension to Internet Explorer, tell developers that this new extension will function on 90% of the target clients browsers, and sit back and watch competitor's browsers get pushed out of the market.
Clear market leaders, like Microsoft, are legally expected to play by different rules, and for good reason.
Apple has even gone as far as saying that windows will run on its future Intel based systems. Don't blame Apple for other developers unwillingness to develop G4/G5 compatible OSs
UMDs are actually the same resolution as DVDs, however the psp scales them down for it smaller screen.
1 13,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp (SCEI = Sony Computer Entertainment... Chatani = Masa Chatani, corporate executive and chief technology officer of SCEI)
"SCEI has yet to announce UMD support in products beyond the PSP, but it has talked about the possibility of making it a common format for a family of gadgets. Should this happen, the UMD movies may benefit from future players with larger screens. The movies are stored on the discs at a resolution of 720 pixels by 480 pixels, says Chatani. That's the same resolution as DVD." http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,120
Sony intended from the get go on standalone players and recorded the movies accordingly. Some question the size or the quality of a 1.8GB UMD disc compared to the average 7 GB DVD. Most UMDs don't feature the same amount of extra footage, although most contain at least some... Most of the extra storage is gained through the use of Mpeg4 compression, as opposed to the much older and less efficient Mpeg2 that DVDs use.
They are costly, but so is any new format. They are currently selling like hotcakes, and prices should drop to 12-15$ within the next year for the average movie.
Some Cherry OS developers would say you can "fork" even if you thought your development process was inferior (ex: non-existant)
There is only a small tab of plastic that differentiates the DS from SP batteries... snip of the tab and you're in business
Maybe I'm just missing something, as I just came off of a 12 hour nightshift, but where did I go wrong? I explained the system and why it is legal, and then explained why I felt that we were just to use it. I'm sure it's me missing something, but I have no idea where :-/
Very little of the money goes to artists. They pay a small pittance to an organization that allows radio stations to broadcast music without a per song royalty fee. This service however "broadcasts" in the form of downloadable files (mp3, ogg, flac... etc). The "product" is legal in Russia, and as there are no export restrictions on music files importing them is also legal. Just like buying a German book on Amazon.de might be cheeper than buying it on Amazon.com.
I have used the service and find it to be absolutely outstanding. The artists aren't getting a lot of money from the deal, but I'm not paying a lot for it. If this service can provide a song ripped however you choose at $0.01 per MB, how can a service like apple ($0.99 per song) not pull a profit? Because the RIAA is raping them, and us. They use loopholes in the system to limit the music we purchase and to inflate the prices we pay. Services like this allow us to legaly get what we want.
If we only listen to the people that agree with us, then we will never get anywhere... It takes people pushing new ideas for them to get a foothold. To assume that products propagate from computer to computer on their own just because they are best is foolish at best.
The problem with OGG is that it is an incrimental upgrade, not groundbreaking like mp3. Most people would still be using the first versions of Internet Explorer if there wasn't an 800 lb. gorilla forcing newer versions on people.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease... De facto standards are not necessarily the best options. Without people advocating choice many people would never know that such a choice exists.
I looked for ages for an extension like this
Animals have been going extinct long before humans were around to blame ourselves for it. All animals alter their environments to suit their needs. Other species will either adapt or fail. So is evolution, so is life. The very fact that there are only three albino butt spanking chimps in the world probably points to them no longer being suited to their environments. The Earth has plunged into ice ages and thawed all on its own, and animals survived. I think all of these tree hugging hippies need to get a grip.
The Americas is a generic term that refers to both north and south America... How and why would a generic name for a landmass be restricted in its use?
In all seriousness it's nice to see some other serious large-scale attempts being made by countries other than the US and Russia. As with all things scientific, the more head working together the more we all learn.
First and formost, the majority of people can't create an effective longterm agenda. They can't decide what they want for lunch, but are expected to vote for fiscal policies that will take them into the next 10 years. Any popular vote for a raise in taxes will be killed because people would rather have the extra 5 dollars/euros a day in their wallets then fix am ailing power grid that works 99.98% of the time... A country needs a leader/many "sub"leaders to dish out the tough love. To say "this might be painful now, but is necessary for the future".
A more fundemental flaw lies in voter apathy... We can barely get 50% of registered voters to vote for president when we only ask them to do it every 4 years.... When we ask them to vote on every piece of legislation, every law, everything that passes the desks of our lawmakers, interest in voting would die. The "excitement" of elections would rival that of paying the water bill. A law brought forth by Montana land owners with National implications would be ignored by almost everyone except the Montana land owners that proposed it certainly killing any of the objectivity that voting should entail.
Then we are ignoring the fact that not everyone has the time, interest, or intelligence level to research laws as thoroughly as they should. You talk to them about mercury levels in batteries, and they'll think more about the battery life of their walkman then about public safety. Some would argue that our present day law maker don't have the time, interest, or intelligence to do it, but as long as it is their fulltime job the chances increase substantially.
And all of these points ignore the Santa Clause effect that would be necessary for everyone to have enough time to vote on every law and still have time to work, sleep, and eat.