Ironically, if they would just release older (say >10 years) material into the public domain; the collectors, fans, libraries, etc would have no trouble ensuring continuity of the data for hundreds of years.
Oh wait - that's right - it's about the future profit potential, not about altruistic archival of material for humanity. Personally, I make my living by copyright, as I'm guessing most Slashdot folks do. And yet, I maintain no illusions that my copyrights are going to maintain my income for the rest of my life, let alone my children's lives. This is just another example of how Hollywood feels they are somehow entitled to what the rest of the world has to work for.
Hey Hollywood: If you intend to make future profits from your copyrighted works, then fine - figure out the logistics of digital archival (and how to pay for it) yourselves. But don't think I'm going to shed so much as a single tear of sympathy over your "problems" of ensuring your future income.
At the risk of sounding lazy, I've have to say my biggest issue with the postal service is that it's just so much trouble to mail something. The simple act of sending a letter requires me to
1. Print out or write out whatever it is I want to send 2. Find an envelope of the correct size 3. Try to remember or look up what the current postal rate for first class mail is (and then reminisce for a couple minutes about how it used to be a tenth of that) 4. Drive to the post office to buy stamps of the correct denomination, since it changed since the last time I bought stamps 5. Find the nearest drop point (which are getting scarcer, judging by this article)
And don't even get me started on what an annoyance it is to mail a package. I avoid selling stuff on eBay & Half.com just because it means I have to actually drive to the post office (usually during business hours), wait in line for half an hour, and pay an outrageous fee to mail my stuff.
Instead of removing mail drop points, why not improve them? Make it so that instead of just dropping letters, you can drop letters without postage and small to midsize packages. The letters have to be sorted anyway, so just add in a step of the process to have someone calculate the charge for me and bill me. Come to think of it, why hasn't this been done yet?
Then again, this is the government we're talking about... Guess I'll just stick with email.
Yeah, but as a friend of mine (who is actually over in the Middle East) puts it: "This whole [Danish/Muslim] dispute is simply a lightning rod for a backward theocratic movement which is unable to successfully compete in a modern world of ideas and business."
In other words, it's like when you fight with your wife over the dishes. You're not really fighting about the dishes; it's just the symptom that manifests to indicate a deeper issue.
Personally, I think an iPod mod that made it function as a Geiger counter would be way cooler. After all, everyone's iPod already plays music - but to have yours detect radiation levels? How cool would that be?
Interesting speculation, but a lot of it just doesn't quite add up.
-The AirPort "Ultra" would "be able to stream video to your TV - in High Definition". Where is all this HD content coming from? Not from the iTMS, not from DVDs. Assuming this AirPort is running 802.11g, streaming HD content is iffy at best. Apple is known for making things easy. I don't see how this could possibly fly as a consumer product. Maybe in another year or two, with faster WiFi and more HD content.
-Jason reckons that the Intel PowerBooks won't be released because (despite all the engineering done) not all the pro software is written yet for Intel, and Rosetta emulation just isn't fun. But then his #1 prediction is for Intel iBooks? Doesn't make sense to me.
-Why are iLife & iWork updates so unlikely (10% and 4% odds, respectively)? Unless Apple is just willing to let this software die (unlikely given relations with Microsoft), this is practically a given. Maybe not until summer, but the odds of an announcement or mention are more likely on the order of 50% - 75%, IMO.
Sorry, I'm just not buying it. Guess I'll wait until next week to find out for sure.
Why does it take specifically 9 weeks to pump the water out? More specifically, why can't more pumping capacity (in the form of more powerful pumps, additional pumps, larger pipelines, etc.) be added?
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Ironically, if they would just release older (say >10 years) material into the public domain; the collectors, fans, libraries, etc would have no trouble ensuring continuity of the data for hundreds of years.
Oh wait - that's right - it's about the future profit potential, not about altruistic archival of material for humanity. Personally, I make my living by copyright, as I'm guessing most Slashdot folks do. And yet, I maintain no illusions that my copyrights are going to maintain my income for the rest of my life, let alone my children's lives. This is just another example of how Hollywood feels they are somehow entitled to what the rest of the world has to work for.
Hey Hollywood: If you intend to make future profits from your copyrighted works, then fine - figure out the logistics of digital archival (and how to pay for it) yourselves. But don't think I'm going to shed so much as a single tear of sympathy over your "problems" of ensuring your future income.
At the risk of sounding lazy, I've have to say my biggest issue with the postal service is that it's just so much trouble to mail something. The simple act of sending a letter requires me to
1. Print out or write out whatever it is I want to send
2. Find an envelope of the correct size
3. Try to remember or look up what the current postal rate for first class mail is (and then reminisce for a couple minutes about how it used to be a tenth of that)
4. Drive to the post office to buy stamps of the correct denomination, since it changed since the last time I bought stamps
5. Find the nearest drop point (which are getting scarcer, judging by this article)
And don't even get me started on what an annoyance it is to mail a package. I avoid selling stuff on eBay & Half.com just because it means I have to actually drive to the post office (usually during business hours), wait in line for half an hour, and pay an outrageous fee to mail my stuff.
Instead of removing mail drop points, why not improve them? Make it so that instead of just dropping letters, you can drop letters without postage and small to midsize packages. The letters have to be sorted anyway, so just add in a step of the process to have someone calculate the charge for me and bill me. Come to think of it, why hasn't this been done yet?
Then again, this is the government we're talking about... Guess I'll just stick with email.
Yeah, but as a friend of mine (who is actually over in the Middle East) puts it: "This whole [Danish/Muslim] dispute is simply a lightning rod for a backward theocratic movement which is unable to successfully compete in a modern world of ideas and business."
In other words, it's like when you fight with your wife over the dishes. You're not really fighting about the dishes; it's just the symptom that manifests to indicate a deeper issue.
Personally, I think an iPod mod that made it function as a Geiger counter would be way cooler. After all, everyone's iPod already plays music - but to have yours detect radiation levels? How cool would that be?
Interesting speculation, but a lot of it just doesn't quite add up.
-The AirPort "Ultra" would "be able to stream video to your TV - in High Definition". Where is all this HD content coming from? Not from the iTMS, not from DVDs. Assuming this AirPort is running 802.11g, streaming HD content is iffy at best. Apple is known for making things easy. I don't see how this could possibly fly as a consumer product. Maybe in another year or two, with faster WiFi and more HD content.
-Jason reckons that the Intel PowerBooks won't be released because (despite all the engineering done) not all the pro software is written yet for Intel, and Rosetta emulation just isn't fun. But then his #1 prediction is for Intel iBooks? Doesn't make sense to me.
-Why are iLife & iWork updates so unlikely (10% and 4% odds, respectively)? Unless Apple is just willing to let this software die (unlikely given relations with Microsoft), this is practically a given. Maybe not until summer, but the odds of an announcement or mention are more likely on the order of 50% - 75%, IMO.
Sorry, I'm just not buying it. Guess I'll wait until next week to find out for sure.
Why does it take specifically 9 weeks to pump the water out? More specifically, why can't more pumping capacity (in the form of more powerful pumps, additional pumps, larger pipelines, etc.) be added?