Last time I checked Disney was still raking in the cash and redefining copyright length to ensure their cash flow.
DRM does not work for a specific product, but backed with a vast array of lawyers and donations to lawmakers, it manages to persist and have a fairly high ROI - enough to give major bumps up to CEO pay.
Will it be defeated eventually? Sure.
Will it be defeated earlier by those who tend not to pay tons of money without thinking? Sure.
But it is intended to be an irritant to defeating reasonable copying. And on that score, for those markets that have the money to pay easily and the attention span of a gnat, it works fairly well.
Person A drives to work with a full charge, having used cheap energy generated at night by the nuclear fission reactors of Japan (where this study was located) at off-peak hours.
The commute uses about half their total charge. They now have 50 percent charge.
During the work day, their workplace (under Keiratsu cradle to grave concepts) charges their car for them, since they will need a full battery in case they have to go visit grandma at the farm.
If the battery is at 50 percent, they charge it up to 100 percent BY END OF THE WORK DAY. However, during the day, the actual vehicle battery charge may fluctuate from 50 to 100 percent depending on energy needs of the business. The goal is to have a full 100 percent charge by business close, with at least 70 percent charge by lunch (might have to do errands).
However, since the building is partially powered by wind turbines and solar panels - since this is Japan - the actual power available and the cost of power purchased fluctuates. So they may trickle charge the battery more during sunny periods when there is wind (purchased power is cheap then due to local power surplus from wind and solar) and use the battery to sell energy back during periods with no sun and no wind. When the battery drops to 50 percent during the day, they stop using it (so you can still drive it in case the kids get head lice or the wife is injured during a high speed rail accident). But it's still cheaper to use the car battery power (which may already be at 90-100 percent charge by 10 am) than purchased power from off site (during periods of no sun/wind).
In rural areas of Canada, sometime the "end of the block" is 2 miles away.
In cities filled with multi-story multi-family apartments this might not be such a big deal, but in a rural area this may mean you might as well drive into town (15 minute drive).
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Tears that used to weep at the blinding speed of 300 baud modems after my early 110 baud modem days.
You poor poor thing.
Hint: use the mobile website and turn off images.
Last time I checked Disney was still raking in the cash and redefining copyright length to ensure their cash flow.
DRM does not work for a specific product, but backed with a vast array of lawyers and donations to lawmakers, it manages to persist and have a fairly high ROI - enough to give major bumps up to CEO pay.
Will it be defeated eventually? Sure.
Will it be defeated earlier by those who tend not to pay tons of money without thinking? Sure.
But it is intended to be an irritant to defeating reasonable copying. And on that score, for those markets that have the money to pay easily and the attention span of a gnat, it works fairly well.
Personally, I hate it, but that's another matter.
I expect Edward Snowden will do some consulting work and make it easy for us to get the data from the IOC officials and their sponsors (bribers).
Have to agree.
I have no problem with the government using a specific court order on a small group of people.
I do have a problem with the government quartering troops in my cell phone, however.
This is so funny - we've had them since at least the 80s.
The fact that you think we don't have industrial espionage programs is amusing.
I use 8 inch CP/M disks like my IBM masters told me too - and I like it!
have to remember to insert them upside down, mind you.
You mean like DUI checkpoints?
DUI checkpoints are illegal in my state (Washington State).
Freedom - it's what's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Modern SUVs in Canada get about 30-40 mpg
They work perfectly fine for taking kids to hockey practice. Or soccer practice.
My electric bill was cut to about 1/4 the previous amount from the time I had incandescent bulbs to my current mix of LEDs and a few CFL bulbs.
I find the current LED bulbs are brighter than my old incandescent bulbs were, and much brighter than the CFL bulbs were.
Said the military contractor to the gullible public.
You really don't get how virtual machines and virtual servers work, do you?
"What happens in the cloud stays in the cloud"
or didn't you read your contract agreement?
There is no such thing as security - only lower risk.
Stop hating on reality because it's not "perfect".
Depends on your "cloud" needs.
Are you selling to millions of customers (lots of connections) or just maintaining internal databases for an organization (dramatically fewer).
Not everyone is external facing. Most "needs" are local or regional.
You fail to understand how little power the new green blade servers use.
Switching to SSD actually cuts heat, for example, and the largest efficiency gains come from intelligent design and the use of Direct Current.
Than in the century before it.
Just ask the PR spin doctors who can't code their way out of a bread basket.
meow meow f1rst p0st yeeha 10 years and going str0ng!
I see that you are a Cloud Engineer.
Do you have 25 years of experience in cloud computing and experience with mice?
oooh pretty clouds - must listen to advertisers and buy stuff we don't need - nom nom nom
Seriously, a 128 core blade server with tons of TB in DDR3 and a couple of SSD boxes are pretty darned cheap.
And then your data doesn't get "stolen" or "lost".
Person A drives to work with a full charge, having used cheap energy generated at night by the nuclear fission reactors of Japan (where this study was located) at off-peak hours.
The commute uses about half their total charge. They now have 50 percent charge.
During the work day, their workplace (under Keiratsu cradle to grave concepts) charges their car for them, since they will need a full battery in case they have to go visit grandma at the farm.
If the battery is at 50 percent, they charge it up to 100 percent BY END OF THE WORK DAY. However, during the day, the actual vehicle battery charge may fluctuate from 50 to 100 percent depending on energy needs of the business. The goal is to have a full 100 percent charge by business close, with at least 70 percent charge by lunch (might have to do errands).
However, since the building is partially powered by wind turbines and solar panels - since this is Japan - the actual power available and the cost of power purchased fluctuates. So they may trickle charge the battery more during sunny periods when there is wind (purchased power is cheap then due to local power surplus from wind and solar) and use the battery to sell energy back during periods with no sun and no wind. When the battery drops to 50 percent during the day, they stop using it (so you can still drive it in case the kids get head lice or the wife is injured during a high speed rail accident). But it's still cheaper to use the car battery power (which may already be at 90-100 percent charge by 10 am) than purchased power from off site (during periods of no sun/wind).
This is what happens.
I wouldn't panic.
If your dad was a hobo or only ate bratwurst, I might worry, but otherwise you're getting in a panic for no reason.
Diet for males is also code in health study for marital status and stability. Both of which highly affect birth outcomes.
You have to sue them (seller) to prove that they were delivered the wrong item.
Until actual lawsuit, possession remains with the buyer.
You can send threatening lawyer letters, but they don't have to do anything until a court - not the seller - forces them to.
Which they won't.
Money was accepted for a contracted purchase item.
If the seller sent it early, that is not a problem for the buyer, who completed the contract on receipt of the item once the money had cleared.
Tough for the sellers.
Yes, I know serfs in the US have no rights as consumers, but most of the world doesn't treat citizens as chattel like we do.
originally you could order a house by postal delivery in Canada through the Sears catalog - which you kept in your outhouse.
True story.
That was less than half a century ago.
In rural areas of Canada, sometime the "end of the block" is 2 miles away.
In cities filled with multi-story multi-family apartments this might not be such a big deal, but in a rural area this may mean you might as well drive into town (15 minute drive).