My company recently upgraded from Office 97 to Office XP. They subsequently spent large sums of money determining who need to be trained to what level on which Office products. An outside training firm was then hired to run weeks of training sessions.
Actually once you convert it to DC it would take a switch mode converter to step it up and a switch mode converter would be more efficient to step it down to. The fact that voltage can easily be stepped up and down with a simple transformer is one of the main reasons that distribution is done with AC. Also as you go to the lower voltages current would go up requiring some huge wires to be pulled. I used to work with railroad signalling gear with a 48v bus and we pulled a lot of 000 gauge wire.
That is fine in the hypothetical, but my point is that the artists aren't clamoring for DRM the distributors are. The only time they show any real concern for the rights of artists is when their own bottom line is jeopordized.
The fact is that DRM is not designed to protect content creators. It is designed to protect the profits of the publishers and distributors that have a near monopoly on the channels of distribution. This gives them the ability to say take it or leave it to both consumers and the artists. This also allows them to keep the vast majority of talented artists out of the distribution channels artificially keeping supply out of balance with demand and inflating their profits. Their biggest fear is the loss of control of the distribution channels not that the artists will be cheated. Here At Roland we are awash in talented musicians that can't make a living at their art because the channels are controlled so tightly. Most of them don't expect to become rich, they just want their music heard.
The problem is that these schemes ultimately redefine fair use in a much more restrictive fashion than what exists with traditional media. The net result is encouraging the piracy that they are trying to combat no matter how legitimate their claims may be.
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My company recently upgraded from Office 97 to Office XP. They subsequently spent large sums of money determining who need to be trained to what level on which Office products. An outside training firm was then hired to run weeks of training sessions.
Actually once you convert it to DC it would take a switch mode converter to step it up and a switch mode converter would be more efficient to step it down to. The fact that voltage can easily be stepped up and down with a simple transformer is one of the main reasons that distribution is done with AC. Also as you go to the lower voltages current would go up requiring some huge wires to be pulled. I used to work with railroad signalling gear with a 48v bus and we pulled a lot of 000 gauge wire.
That is fine in the hypothetical, but my point is that the artists aren't clamoring for DRM the distributors are. The only time they show any real concern for the rights of artists is when their own bottom line is jeopordized.
The fact is that DRM is not designed to protect content creators. It is designed to protect the profits of the publishers and distributors that have a near monopoly on the channels of distribution. This gives them the ability to say take it or leave it to both consumers and the artists. This also allows them to keep the vast majority of talented artists out of the distribution channels artificially keeping supply out of balance with demand and inflating their profits. Their biggest fear is the loss of control of the distribution channels not that the artists will be cheated. Here At Roland we are awash in talented musicians that can't make a living at their art because the channels are controlled so tightly. Most of them don't expect to become rich, they just want their music heard.
The problem is that these schemes ultimately redefine fair use in a much more restrictive fashion than what exists with traditional media. The net result is encouraging the piracy that they are trying to combat no matter how legitimate their claims may be.