Sony also doesn't want to offer other operating systems. They are selling their product, part of which happens to be the Windows operating system.
Why did Sony, maker of the PlayStation video game console, choose to offer only a PC product containing a major, inseparable component made by Microsoft, maker of the competing Xbox video game console?
I can understand why the court would side with the seller: there's plenty of other mac and cheese vendors.
But which major non-Windows laptop brands other than Apple are sold in stores? It's not like you can walk into a Best Buy and walk out with a System76 laptop.
There's no guarantee that Doubleclick or any of the other ad networks numbers are accurate, either.
Trust can come from scale. If a major ad network such as DoubleClick is screwing its advertisers, then everyone's getting screwed the same. At least DoubleClick is more widely deployed than any particular publisher's self-hosted ad inventory, and people are more likely to notice faults in it.
Besides, people still advertise on the TV and the radio, and there are no numbers at all from those mediums.
For one thing, TV and radio have third parties in the business of calculating ratings, or estimated audience size for a program. These are the old-media counterpart to web analytics. For another, an advertiser might be willing to spend more on web than on TV or radio because web is more targeted (due to tracking) and has more precise ratings.
Almost no homebrew DVR users want to upload pirated TV. So, if they do DRM, their opponents are "every geek with a homebrew DVR or other legitimate need for uncrippled media access, plus the few people who want to upload pirated TV".
It's not necessarily even about uploading. It's about keeping a rental longer than the agreed-upon rental period.
How good is the video captured by a smartphone's rear camera? Is it pristine even up to 1920x1080, with correct color balance? And how easy is it to keep aligned with the display?
Telesyncing the display in this manner is "difficult". It requires a suitable camcorder, which most don't already have and aren't willing to buy just to keep a rented movie past the due date.
If publishers (operators of ad-supported websites) sell their own ad space directly to advertisers and serve ads from the publisher's own server, how can the advertiser know that the view and click counts are accurate and not fraudulently padded? Paper newspapers had circulation numbers that were hard to pad because each copy had a more substantial cost to manufacture than a web hit. And advertisers are willing to spend more on online ad space precisely because of richer reach statistics.
Without digital restrictions management, how can the publisher enforce the contractual requirement that the subscriber not keep a usable copy after the subscription has expired?
If you use GNU Coreutils plus two other major components (such as Bash, Emacs, GCC, glibc), I'd say you're running GNU. Cygwin, for instance, stands for Cygnus GNU/Windows.
Unless you're of the opinion "digital restrictions management should not exist, and therefore rentals and subscriptions should not exist", how is CDM "not much of an improvement" over Flash Player? The CDM is a much smaller piece of code with a much smaller scope than the entirety of Flash Player. It also runs in a sandbox that can only do a few things, such as receive encrypted data from the browser and send decrypted and decoded video to the operating system.
Hmm. While your browser seems to support WebGL, it is disabled or unavailable. If possible, please ensure that you are running the latest drivers for your video card.
It turns out that WebGL requires at least OpenGL 2.0, and the Intel GMA 3150 in my laptop is stuck on OpenGL 1.4. WebGL should be fine if you know PC users will come in with at least Intel HD Graphics (the successor to GMA), if not NVIDIA or AMD graphics.
The music labels require the flash DRM to stream music. Google had an HTML5 option in the settings but its been greyed out for about a year because the labels had a hissy fit.
Was this hissy fit prior to the availability of the Widevine CDM for HTML5 EME? (Google owns Widevine.)
Without camera access, a bank's app can't scan the front and back of paper checks you receive to deposit them to your account. I don't know about contacts, but that might be related to a "Send Money to Friend through ACH" feature. Or should features that need specific permissions be delegated to specific other apps that the bank's main app launches, such as an app that only makes check deposits or an app that only sends an ACH?
I agree that having an app for banking is if not stupid at least restricting your ability to do banking from the device of your choice.
Other than through an app that can access a device's rear camera, how else is the banking interface supposed to scan the front and back of a paper check in order to deposit it to your account? I occasionally receive personal checks from family members not technically inclined enough to set up PayPal, and for years, I received payroll checks from an employer that was for some reason incapable of direct deposit. Or are you instead recommending biking to an ATM that takes deposits?
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Sony also doesn't want to offer other operating systems. They are selling their product, part of which happens to be the Windows operating system.
Why did Sony, maker of the PlayStation video game console, choose to offer only a PC product containing a major, inseparable component made by Microsoft, maker of the competing Xbox video game console?
The EULA that comes with Windows specifically allows customers to return it for a refund.
"It" being the entire computer.
Or show me the wording in the EULA that allows returning the Windows license separately from the entire computer.
If the goal is a laptop without Windows OS, how is it "a pain in the ass" to find the nearest Apple authorized reseller and buy a MacBook?
What will you do if all (>90%) cars were sold with an insurance you don't want
Continue to rely on a Trek bicycle.
I can understand why the court would side with the seller: there's plenty of other mac and cheese vendors.
But which major non-Windows laptop brands other than Apple are sold in stores? It's not like you can walk into a Best Buy and walk out with a System76 laptop.
pre-installed software -- Windows Vista Home Premium operating system -- that he did not wish to use on a laptop.
buy a computer somewhere else or build your own.
How many people actually build a laptop?
There's no guarantee that Doubleclick or any of the other ad networks numbers are accurate, either.
Trust can come from scale. If a major ad network such as DoubleClick is screwing its advertisers, then everyone's getting screwed the same. At least DoubleClick is more widely deployed than any particular publisher's self-hosted ad inventory, and people are more likely to notice faults in it.
Besides, people still advertise on the TV and the radio, and there are no numbers at all from those mediums.
For one thing, TV and radio have third parties in the business of calculating ratings, or estimated audience size for a program. These are the old-media counterpart to web analytics. For another, an advertiser might be willing to spend more on web than on TV or radio because web is more targeted (due to tracking) and has more precise ratings.
Almost no homebrew DVR users want to upload pirated TV. So, if they do DRM, their opponents are "every geek with a homebrew DVR or other legitimate need for uncrippled media access, plus the few people who want to upload pirated TV".
It's not necessarily even about uploading. It's about keeping a rental longer than the agreed-upon rental period.
How good is the video captured by a smartphone's rear camera? Is it pristine even up to 1920x1080, with correct color balance? And how easy is it to keep aligned with the display?
Telesyncing the display in this manner is "difficult". It requires a suitable camcorder, which most don't already have and aren't willing to buy just to keep a rented movie past the due date.
Before DRM, making a copy required substantial investment, and following the money to find whom to sue was more practical.
DRM deters breach by making breach so difficult in practice that most will not try. I said most.
I am aware of the possibility to run Flash Player in a VM. I was referring to somenickname's suggestion to "Go somewhere else" rather than doing so.
If publishers (operators of ad-supported websites) sell their own ad space directly to advertisers and serve ads from the publisher's own server, how can the advertiser know that the view and click counts are accurate and not fraudulently padded? Paper newspapers had circulation numbers that were hard to pad because each copy had a more substantial cost to manufacture than a web hit. And advertisers are willing to spend more on online ad space precisely because of richer reach statistics.
Is it impossible to put non-anemic hardware into a 10 inch laptop chassis?
Without digital restrictions management, how can the publisher enforce the contractual requirement that the subscriber not keep a usable copy after the subscription has expired?
If you use GNU Coreutils plus two other major components (such as Bash, Emacs, GCC, glibc), I'd say you're running GNU. Cygwin, for instance, stands for Cygnus GNU/Windows.
I'm told Evince and Okular can fill in PDF forms. Or can they fill them in but just not submit them?
Unless you're of the opinion "digital restrictions management should not exist, and therefore rentals and subscriptions should not exist", how is CDM "not much of an improvement" over Flash Player? The CDM is a much smaller piece of code with a much smaller scope than the entirety of Flash Player. It also runs in a sandbox that can only do a few things, such as receive encrypted data from the browser and send decrypted and decoded video to the operating system.
WebGL
From get.webgl.org:
It turns out that WebGL requires at least OpenGL 2.0, and the Intel GMA 3150 in my laptop is stuck on OpenGL 1.4. WebGL should be fine if you know PC users will come in with at least Intel HD Graphics (the successor to GMA), if not NVIDIA or AMD graphics.
What's the alternative to Dagobah, Albino Blacksheep, Newgrounds, and Weebl's Stuff? To which "somewhere else" do you refer?
The music labels require the flash DRM to stream music. Google had an HTML5 option in the settings but its been greyed out for about a year because the labels had a hissy fit.
Was this hissy fit prior to the availability of the Widevine CDM for HTML5 EME? (Google owns Widevine.)
Without camera access, a bank's app can't scan the front and back of paper checks you receive to deposit them to your account. I don't know about contacts, but that might be related to a "Send Money to Friend through ACH" feature. Or should features that need specific permissions be delegated to specific other apps that the bank's main app launches, such as an app that only makes check deposits or an app that only sends an ACH?
I agree that having an app for banking is if not stupid at least restricting your ability to do banking from the device of your choice.
Other than through an app that can access a device's rear camera, how else is the banking interface supposed to scan the front and back of a paper check in order to deposit it to your account? I occasionally receive personal checks from family members not technically inclined enough to set up PayPal, and for years, I received payroll checks from an employer that was for some reason incapable of direct deposit. Or are you instead recommending biking to an ATM that takes deposits?
Why do you insist that something that sucks should to be made better, when the better solution already exists?
And what might said "better solution" be? Native applications that are exclusive to a platform other than the one you use?