I have a laptop with a Bluray drive, and I was tryign to watch a Bluray movie the other day. I kept getting this message that I couldn't play protected content on TV. Turns out the 'problem' was I was trying to watch it on 2 screens, Laptop screen and the TV. It's bloody ridiculous. movies will still be pirated. I left a sour taste in my mouth as someone who actually spent good money on a Bluray enabled laptop and a HDTV to enjoy it on.
I think users should be given more responsibility on what goes on their computers, but at the same time, make sure they get to feel the consequences of bad behaviour.
Just charge out extra support time to the line manager, and mess up his budget, and he will get the message and will make sure his staff is responsible.
By all means, make it harder for spyware to install itself, and give users tools to review their licenses, but let them take some responsibility. They can actually surprise you.
Failing that, you can delegate the authority to someone close to the user, like their line manager. Have users ask him to install new software before they do it. Works almost as well, and meets most of their needs.
Any PC hardware is upgradeable. As long as it can play the movie. What PC doesn't have network connectivity or 1GB on local storage space? What PC could you not connect a secondary video decoder card to?
Well, nothing. Given that most music is old, and not really selling well, they wouldn't mind. They don't make that much of it anyway. Your broadband provider might though. 2 million songs at approximately 4Mb each is like 8TB.
I think a hybrid model might be more useful though. Access to the catalogue for a monthly fee, and the new releases (from the past 2 years say) as normal.
Ebay sellers could just require you to escrow a certain amount to participate in the auction. If you win, and you do not pay up, then you lose your money. No need for sellers to leave negative feedback. So say you bid on a $100 item, and you escrow $10. If you decide not to pay up, you lose your $10.
He wasn't so much careless with it as he intentionally put in in a newspaper ad. Someone just obliged and set up a direct debit on his account. he will get the money back of course, but I am pretty confident he did it on an account he can live without, and which wouldn't have had too much money.
Until the studios start depositing HD films into every ISP, HD films are not going to be easily available over the internet. Most/.'ers probably download loads, but they are still a minority. When every Joe Sixpack (nothing against the Sixpacks) tries to get an HD film on demand every other night, then there will be issues.
It enables people to not have to change everything overnight. We have a big investment in carbon based fuel processes, so having away to create hydrocarbons which we then burn, and create CO2, then use solar energy to repeat the process means that hydrocarbons are now just an intermediate step, and that we have a dynamic equilibrium, and can forgo the pain of trying to get rid of all our petrol engines and replace them with fuel cell engines. At least, this won't have to be done overnight, and we actually do stop the increase in greenhouse gases, because we recycle them.
And what's wrong with shock and awe. I do like my big budget action flicks. I do appreciate the low budget flicks too like Memento and the Usual suspects where the actors take centre stage. But Hollywood is sustained by the big budget movies like Spiderman, Pirates and Lord of the Rings. Enough people watch them to make me think they have a place. If dollars are votes, then those big budget shock and awe flicks are winning.
Most people do not care to start their own search engine. And besides, Google has some really tough competitors to guard against, and the free/open source movement is not one of them. Seriously, even if the community had the source, I doubt they could do much of value with the software, at least in competition to Google. Google has invested into their infrastructure of servers and fat pipes, and that is where their competitive advantage lies.
Yes, competition is very good for getting us faster computers, and we have Intel/AMD and ATI/NVIDIA to thank for most of that. Which is the reason I worry right now if AMD continues to be unable to turn good profits.
But it is not deniable that because of the resource requirements of Windows, the lowest common denominator is now a pretty good machine. Most computers being sold now come with Vista (those I have seen anyway), and they will be pretty good for Linux I would imagine, since I am typing this on a 3 year old PC with "only" 512MB RAM and "only" 2GHz P4 processor, and I get decent, though not earth shattering performance with Linux.
Vista will sell very well because it will come preinstalled on 95% of PCs from big brand companies (for home anyway). If the decent amount of memory for those 95% of PCs is 1GB, then the price point for a 1GB stick of RAM will be quite low (it will become the standard very quickly) and those who are on system with lighter resource requirements will benefit big time.
...and this is a crazy thought, but what if they saw the sub coming all along. Nothing like getting the Chinese all excited about their sub being oh so advanced when in reality you can see it coming miles away.
Which is why Redhat concentrates on the server business. Most time if your windows desktop crashes and you have to restart, the losses are minimal. Annoying, but hardly earth shattering.
If a company has to be down the whole day because your servers are down, then that is a bit more of a problem.
It's not so much that they want someone to sue, but companies have to demonstrate that they took care to avoid unnecessary losses. Having a support contract with a company such as Redhat goes a long way to absolving managers of responsibility if something bad happens.
...but I don't think the study shows that P2P increases music sales or anything like that.
The correlation may simply be because people who like music download it more and buy it more. But I don't think this shows that downloading music makes you more likely to buy it.
This woman had to give up her previous life completely. I do not know if that is as bad as being locked up, but she couldn't even see her children from her life before being in prison. The fact that she was a fugitive makes her life less appealing, and that should be enough of a deterrent for most people. I am sure that is quite some punishment, even if she inflicted it on herself.
I think there should be a law on the books that says that if a convicted criminal escapes prison and evades capture for the duration of their sentence, and does not commit any crimes again, they should get a let off. Give them an incentive not to commit crime again at the very least. Not that the police should not look for them, but I think prison space is needed for real dangers to society, not 65 year old grandmothers
Well, that is why he said it is a good presentation format. Because what you are describing is probably best achieved by republishing in PDF with the correct fonts and all.
A PDF basically guarantees that what you see is what you get. Well, better than almost any other document format at least. No, image formats do not count.
A little late, but my other theory is that there is probably a good source of cheap 40GB hard drives out there who no one else will buy. Sony probably managed to get a very good deal on those. I mean, who would actually buy a 40GB HD now. Going for a 120 GB one puts them right where they probably don't want to be, competing with the lap top makers and paying top dollar.
There are a couple of things preventing price discrimination.
Resaleability, and laws against price discrimination.
I might be willing to pay more for my electricity than my neighbour, but I certainly don't want to be charged more than my neighbour for it.
There is nothing in his argument about the economic actors being rational. Economical rationality is very limited form of rationality anyway. A buyer does not need perfect information to make a choice. Some people buy PS3s at launch, and some for more than $2,000 at launch knowing full well that the high street price is $600. They have (more or less) perfect information, but still make a choice some would consider irrational because they could wait. Not economically though. The only rational thing one can do is not to pay a higher price when someone else is selling the exact same thing for a lower price. Now that would be irrational.
The empirical evidence that trade happens when both parties want it to happen is that trade happened. If either party didn't want trade to happen, then it wouldn't have happened.
You absolutely do not have buy your library all over again. If anything, it shall be an easier, quicker and less painful transition than VHS to DVD. You can play your old DVDs (they kept the same form factor for more than just passing familiarity). You can play your old DVDs on the PS3, any HD DVD player , any Bluray player. But if you want the best picture on a TV set larger than 32 inches, HD DVD is the way to go.
I think derivative has to be read in a limited way. If I create a program that run on BSD, and happens to also run on some GPLv3 OS, how does it then become a derivative work. This is the same argument people use to show that Nvidia is not violating any license by distributing its driver. Because the same driver is used on Windows, hence it cannot be a derivative.
Once a hypervisor is created that runs Windows unmodified in a Linux environment, say under the GPLv3, there is no way you could claim in court that any program installed on that becomes GPLv3 licensed.
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HDCP is evil. There, I said it.
I have a laptop with a Bluray drive, and I was tryign to watch a Bluray movie the other day. I kept getting this message that I couldn't play protected content on TV. Turns out the 'problem' was I was trying to watch it on 2 screens, Laptop screen and the TV. It's bloody ridiculous. movies will still be pirated. I left a sour taste in my mouth as someone who actually spent good money on a Bluray enabled laptop and a HDTV to enjoy it on.
I think users should be given more responsibility on what goes on their computers, but at the same time, make sure they get to feel the consequences of bad behaviour.
Just charge out extra support time to the line manager, and mess up his budget, and he will get the message and will make sure his staff is responsible.
By all means, make it harder for spyware to install itself, and give users tools to review their licenses, but let them take some responsibility. They can actually surprise you.
Failing that, you can delegate the authority to someone close to the user, like their line manager. Have users ask him to install new software before they do it. Works almost as well, and meets most of their needs.
Any PC hardware is upgradeable. As long as it can play the movie. What PC doesn't have network connectivity or 1GB on local storage space? What PC could you not connect a secondary video decoder card to?
Well, nothing. Given that most music is old, and not really selling well, they wouldn't mind. They don't make that much of it anyway. Your broadband provider might though. 2 million songs at approximately 4Mb each is like 8TB.
I think a hybrid model might be more useful though. Access to the catalogue for a monthly fee, and the new releases (from the past 2 years say) as normal.
One word. Escrow.
Ebay sellers could just require you to escrow a certain amount to participate in the auction. If you win, and you do not pay up, then you lose your money. No need for sellers to leave negative feedback. So say you bid on a $100 item, and you escrow $10. If you decide not to pay up, you lose your $10.
Ebay (the company) could operate the escrow.
Churches are not doing it for profit. And there is no reason you couldn't have a non profit bar/night club.
He wasn't so much careless with it as he intentionally put in in a newspaper ad. Someone just obliged and set up a direct debit on his account. he will get the money back of course, but I am pretty confident he did it on an account he can live without, and which wouldn't have had too much money.
You should look up "Contention Ratio".
/.'ers probably download loads, but they are still a minority. When every Joe Sixpack (nothing against the Sixpacks) tries to get an HD film on demand every other night, then there will be issues.
Until the studios start depositing HD films into every ISP, HD films are not going to be easily available over the internet. Most
It enables people to not have to change everything overnight. We have a big investment in carbon based fuel processes, so having away to create hydrocarbons which we then burn, and create CO2, then use solar energy to repeat the process means that hydrocarbons are now just an intermediate step, and that we have a dynamic equilibrium, and can forgo the pain of trying to get rid of all our petrol engines and replace them with fuel cell engines. At least, this won't have to be done overnight, and we actually do stop the increase in greenhouse gases, because we recycle them.
If it works, it is a clever solution.
And what's wrong with shock and awe. I do like my big budget action flicks. I do appreciate the low budget flicks too like Memento and the Usual suspects where the actors take centre stage. But Hollywood is sustained by the big budget movies like Spiderman, Pirates and Lord of the Rings. Enough people watch them to make me think they have a place. If dollars are votes, then those big budget shock and awe flicks are winning.
Most people do not care to start their own search engine. And besides, Google has some really tough competitors to guard against, and the free/open source movement is not one of them. Seriously, even if the community had the source, I doubt they could do much of value with the software, at least in competition to Google. Google has invested into their infrastructure of servers and fat pipes, and that is where their competitive advantage lies.
And if the show you are suddenly interested in is no longer airing, and you hadn't recorded it.
I love my DVR, it allows me to record and watch my shows at my pleasure, but a real on demand service for stuff that has aired would be even better.
Yes, competition is very good for getting us faster computers, and we have Intel/AMD and ATI/NVIDIA to thank for most of that. Which is the reason I worry right now if AMD continues to be unable to turn good profits.
But it is not deniable that because of the resource requirements of Windows, the lowest common denominator is now a pretty good machine. Most computers being sold now come with Vista (those I have seen anyway), and they will be pretty good for Linux I would imagine, since I am typing this on a 3 year old PC with "only" 512MB RAM and "only" 2GHz P4 processor, and I get decent, though not earth shattering performance with Linux.
Vista will sell very well because it will come preinstalled on 95% of PCs from big brand companies (for home anyway). If the decent amount of memory for those 95% of PCs is 1GB, then the price point for a 1GB stick of RAM will be quite low (it will become the standard very quickly) and those who are on system with lighter resource requirements will benefit big time.
...and this is a crazy thought, but what if they saw the sub coming all along. Nothing like getting the Chinese all excited about their sub being oh so advanced when in reality you can see it coming miles away.
Just a thought.
Which is why Redhat concentrates on the server business. Most time if your windows desktop crashes and you have to restart, the losses are minimal. Annoying, but hardly earth shattering.
If a company has to be down the whole day because your servers are down, then that is a bit more of a problem.
It's not so much that they want someone to sue, but companies have to demonstrate that they took care to avoid unnecessary losses. Having a support contract with a company such as Redhat goes a long way to absolving managers of responsibility if something bad happens.
...but I don't think the study shows that P2P increases music sales or anything like that.
The correlation may simply be because people who like music download it more and buy it more. But I don't think this shows that downloading music makes you more likely to buy it.
This woman had to give up her previous life completely. I do not know if that is as bad as being locked up, but she couldn't even see her children from her life before being in prison. The fact that she was a fugitive makes her life less appealing, and that should be enough of a deterrent for most people. I am sure that is quite some punishment, even if she inflicted it on herself.
I think there should be a law on the books that says that if a convicted criminal escapes prison and evades capture for the duration of their sentence, and does not commit any crimes again, they should get a let off. Give them an incentive not to commit crime again at the very least. Not that the police should not look for them, but I think prison space is needed for real dangers to society, not 65 year old grandmothers
Well, that is why he said it is a good presentation format. Because what you are describing is probably best achieved by republishing in PDF with the correct fonts and all.
A PDF basically guarantees that what you see is what you get. Well, better than almost any other document format at least. No, image formats do not count.
A little late, but my other theory is that there is probably a good source of cheap 40GB hard drives out there who no one else will buy. Sony probably managed to get a very good deal on those. I mean, who would actually buy a 40GB HD now. Going for a 120 GB one puts them right where they probably don't want to be, competing with the lap top makers and paying top dollar.
Actually, that is not nonsense.
There are a couple of things preventing price discrimination.
Resaleability, and laws against price discrimination.
I might be willing to pay more for my electricity than my neighbour, but I certainly don't want to be charged more than my neighbour for it.
There is nothing in his argument about the economic actors being rational. Economical rationality is very limited form of rationality anyway. A buyer does not need perfect information to make a choice. Some people buy PS3s at launch, and some for more than $2,000 at launch knowing full well that the high street price is $600. They have (more or less) perfect information, but still make a choice some would consider irrational because they could wait. Not economically though. The only rational thing one can do is not to pay a higher price when someone else is selling the exact same thing for a lower price. Now that would be irrational.
The empirical evidence that trade happens when both parties want it to happen is that trade happened. If either party didn't want trade to happen, then it wouldn't have happened.
And what is an impoverished set of axioms anyway.
You absolutely do not have buy your library all over again. If anything, it shall be an easier, quicker and less painful transition than VHS to DVD. You can play your old DVDs (they kept the same form factor for more than just passing familiarity). You can play your old DVDs on the PS3, any HD DVD player , any Bluray player. But if you want the best picture on a TV set larger than 32 inches, HD DVD is the way to go.
I think derivative has to be read in a limited way. If I create a program that run on BSD, and happens to also run on some GPLv3 OS, how does it then become a derivative work. This is the same argument people use to show that Nvidia is not violating any license by distributing its driver. Because the same driver is used on Windows, hence it cannot be a derivative.
Once a hypervisor is created that runs Windows unmodified in a Linux environment, say under the GPLv3, there is no way you could claim in court that any program installed on that becomes GPLv3 licensed.
Jettison it off to the sun, or the moon. If Iran wants to follow it there to bring it back, then they should be encouraged.