I totally did not claim that records were inferior - I said they were restrictive. I listened to Abbey Road last night on vinyl:) I was drawing a comparison that if you wanted to buy the Beatles catalog *again* - why do it with DRM'd AAC? Go vinyl.
You just might - I have a T60 that I picked up about a year and a half ago and it looks as new as the day I pulled it out of the box. I've upgraded the RAM and gave it a 7,200 RPM drive, but other than that it's been nothing short of magnificent. I've owned a few earlier models (T20 in college, T40 after that) and I have to say that the T60 (technically now by Lenovo) has by far held up the best out of all of them.
This one will be different, as there is a *superb* backstory to draw on already, thanks to the efforts of Eric Nylund (and a few others) with the Halo book series. I'd definitely recommend them to anyone who enjoys military sci-fi, and anyone who is remotely intrigued about the Covenant and the Forerunners. There's a new one out this week actually - the 5th in the series so far.
I have mod points but unfortunately "troll" doesn't quite fit, "offtopic" is too light, and there's no mod option for "horribly unfunny" or "epic fail", so I opted instead to comment.
Well this is where I completely agree with you - as I said it's a very big deal if FedEX suddenly makes their ground service suck. That should not preclude them from offering faster services for more money howerver, and that's what the DoJ is saying. In addition, this is where the market helps regulate. If FedEX is stupid enough to lower the QoS on their ground service, people will move to UPS ground.
If Comcast starts filtering Fark and Slashdot, I'll move to Verizon.
This is the DoJ saying it's legal to have different levels and quality of service. A good analogy would be "should I have the option of paying UPS more to get my package to its destination faster". The answer is an obvious yes - there's nothing wrong with priority traffic. If you want to pay to have your data moved faster, why shouldn't you be able to?
This is already the case with a lot of webhosting providers - many run two networks, one with quality bandwidth blends that cost more for them to operate and result in lower ping times and higher throughput, and one with inexpensive (read: crappy) Cogent bandwidth.
This whole price to performance thing has been around forever - there are already massive tiers of quality built into the internet, both on the consumer end and the content provider end. Take a look at Akamai and Limelight - you'll pay absurd amounts of money to have your content hosted on their CDN - sometimes several dollars per GB transfered.
Then take a look at a webhost like Colo4Dallas, Voxel, or The Planet and you'll find that they as well offer expensive fast bandwidth, or cheap slower bandwidth. Also keep in mind that you can pay Time Warner, Optimum Online, or Verizon an extra monthly fee to bump up your speed. Should that be against the rules?
Prioritizing web traffic isn't really the major issue. I think your original analogy doesn't apply to this particular article, however it's a good analogy which hits on another core issue of "net neutrality" - ie the type of filtering that Comcast has been caught doing over the last few days.
I think the headline is a bit misleading, as the DoJ isn't coming out against Net Neutrality - they're coming out and saying this is already how shit works, and there's nothing wrong with it. Now if they came out and said what Comcast is doing is alright, that would certainly justify the headline...
After flirting with Ubuntu on my laptop for about a year, and using Vista at home on my desktop for about 6 months I've had it, and I'll be switching the desktop to Linux as soon as I get some spare time.
It's unfortunate, but I'm among those users so horribly scarred by Real so long ago that I'll just never use another product by them. I think it's the name - it just makes me nauseous now. It could be the best app on the planet - but unless they change the name I just won't go near it. End of story.
The phone doesn't need to understand trackers, many popular sites have links directly to the.torrent file - you'd just need to copy and paste a link to a.torrent file and be done with it. I'm sure if the phone can throttle the bandwidth on a torrent it can handle that...
Here's what's going to happen to your post:
You're going to get modded flaimbait or troll, and some people will respond and tell you that you're too young and you've never played Final Fantasy VI, then they'll mention the subpar translation and the rushed third disc...
Then someone will mod you funny just because, and then someone overrated just because you've got points... But then a few people will come along and remember how they felt playing VII for the first time, when they first visited the Golden Saucer and found minigames as deep and fun as other *complete* PS1 games, the chill they got when they were under the sea in the submarine - stopping dead in your tracks as you saw Emerald Weapon lurking in the distance for the first time, and the epic theme you were treated to just sitting on the world map marveling at the most fantastic soundtrack Uematsu has ever written - and you'll be modded up.
The whole point of DRM is to stop people from pirating it. If your name is attached to it I'd say that's a pretty good deterrent. Beyond that, you can download the music, burn it, transfer it from your home PC to your office PC - you can do what you want with it... the only restriction is that you can't illegally share it online. It's focusing on punishing people who share music illegally, while at the same time not hassling the end users who just want to use their music. This is exactly what DRM should be.
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DRM'd AAC/WMV has the same analog loophole, nothing new, and not exactly convenient. I also have my record player hooked up to my soundcard FWIW.
I totally did not claim that records were inferior - I said they were restrictive. I listened to Abbey Road last night on vinyl :) I was drawing a comparison that if you wanted to buy the Beatles catalog *again* - why do it with DRM'd AAC? Go vinyl.
If you want to repurchase any of the Beatles catalog in a restrictive format that you can't do anything with, I suggest going with vinyl.
Where is that, a 33MHz chip and a drive that spins at 500 RPM? All for TWICE the battery life? No thanks.
Not if you want to use SSL.
You just might - I have a T60 that I picked up about a year and a half ago and it looks as new as the day I pulled it out of the box. I've upgraded the RAM and gave it a 7,200 RPM drive, but other than that it's been nothing short of magnificent. I've owned a few earlier models (T20 in college, T40 after that) and I have to say that the T60 (technically now by Lenovo) has by far held up the best out of all of them.
I think that actually means it's *your* loss.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vybyj1ETieE The future is now - BMW seems to be 10 years ahead of GM.
This one will be different, as there is a *superb* backstory to draw on already, thanks to the efforts of Eric Nylund (and a few others) with the Halo book series. I'd definitely recommend them to anyone who enjoys military sci-fi, and anyone who is remotely intrigued about the Covenant and the Forerunners. There's a new one out this week actually - the 5th in the series so far.
Who's your sister? At least give her a plug.
Ha! I use Windows, I don't even have a noatime parameter!
1000000 according to Excel.
I have mod points but unfortunately "troll" doesn't quite fit, "offtopic" is too light, and there's no mod option for "horribly unfunny" or "epic fail", so I opted instead to comment.
If Comcast starts filtering Fark and Slashdot, I'll move to Verizon.
This is already the case with a lot of webhosting providers - many run two networks, one with quality bandwidth blends that cost more for them to operate and result in lower ping times and higher throughput, and one with inexpensive (read: crappy) Cogent bandwidth.
This whole price to performance thing has been around forever - there are already massive tiers of quality built into the internet, both on the consumer end and the content provider end. Take a look at Akamai and Limelight - you'll pay absurd amounts of money to have your content hosted on their CDN - sometimes several dollars per GB transfered.
Then take a look at a webhost like Colo4Dallas, Voxel, or The Planet and you'll find that they as well offer expensive fast bandwidth, or cheap slower bandwidth. Also keep in mind that you can pay Time Warner, Optimum Online, or Verizon an extra monthly fee to bump up your speed. Should that be against the rules?
Prioritizing web traffic isn't really the major issue. I think your original analogy doesn't apply to this particular article, however it's a good analogy which hits on another core issue of "net neutrality" - ie the type of filtering that Comcast has been caught doing over the last few days. I think the headline is a bit misleading, as the DoJ isn't coming out against Net Neutrality - they're coming out and saying this is already how shit works, and there's nothing wrong with it. Now if they came out and said what Comcast is doing is alright, that would certainly justify the headline...
After flirting with Ubuntu on my laptop for about a year, and using Vista at home on my desktop for about 6 months I've had it, and I'll be switching the desktop to Linux as soon as I get some spare time.
It's unfortunate, but I'm among those users so horribly scarred by Real so long ago that I'll just never use another product by them. I think it's the name - it just makes me nauseous now. It could be the best app on the planet - but unless they change the name I just won't go near it. End of story.
- IRC
- SSH
- MMS
- Blackberry Messenger (this one is so key)
- integration with Exchange or Zimbra
- A filesystem that lets you save things, like pictures and audio
- a rich e-mail client that lets you send things from said filesystem
- custom backgrounds that display at times other than when the phone is locked
- custom ringtones
- a keyboard with tactile feedback
- a keyboard with an ea easily accessibly period (.)
- COPY AND PASTE
And for record the built in browser, Opera Mini, and Google Maps are all fantastic on the blackberry.
The phone doesn't need to understand trackers, many popular sites have links directly to the .torrent file - you'd just need to copy and paste a link to a .torrent file and be done with it. I'm sure if the phone can throttle the bandwidth on a torrent it can handle that...
... games cost $90 and we had to play them on the Sega Saturn.
720p is superior to 1080i.
Here's what's going to happen to your post: You're going to get modded flaimbait or troll, and some people will respond and tell you that you're too young and you've never played Final Fantasy VI, then they'll mention the subpar translation and the rushed third disc... Then someone will mod you funny just because, and then someone overrated just because you've got points... But then a few people will come along and remember how they felt playing VII for the first time, when they first visited the Golden Saucer and found minigames as deep and fun as other *complete* PS1 games, the chill they got when they were under the sea in the submarine - stopping dead in your tracks as you saw Emerald Weapon lurking in the distance for the first time, and the epic theme you were treated to just sitting on the world map marveling at the most fantastic soundtrack Uematsu has ever written - and you'll be modded up.
And what are you doing with your 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo? What's more important - 2% of your dual core CPU, or 100% of your normally non-redundant data?
The whole point of DRM is to stop people from pirating it. If your name is attached to it I'd say that's a pretty good deterrent. Beyond that, you can download the music, burn it, transfer it from your home PC to your office PC - you can do what you want with it... the only restriction is that you can't illegally share it online. It's focusing on punishing people who share music illegally, while at the same time not hassling the end users who just want to use their music. This is exactly what DRM should be.
... I never thought I'd say it, but this is tugging on my nostalgia strings pretty hard - I may just give this a shot.