"If this ships with three real CPUs that are mostly similar to the ones that Apple uses, for less than $500, lots of Apple fanbois, myself included, are going to wonder wtf is up with that, and why Apple can't do the same. "
how many times do people on/. have to answer this question.
supply and demand have little to do with pricing.
perhaps you've heard of "what the market will bear"?
they sell it for that price because they can.
and you buy it at that price because you vote with your wallet...
they were the instant some evil sob realized that, probably the very early part of this century, soon after they realized what a wonderful propoganda machine it was.
they clearly made far more than that on the first run and then to make things absurd, makes gigantic profits each year from syndication.
(btw, 1 season of any star trek = 100 bucks?! wtf are you smoking to think that anyone but the most rich could afford that... or would even if they could)
give it to me for 5 bucks per season and be happy that i'm willing to buy it AGAIN. i already paid for it once by watching it on tv and then again during syndication.
apart from a few shows (and even thats negotiable), tv is garbage.
the issue isn't your strawman argument but whether giving the code changes back in a huge, poorly documented dump or doing the minimal amount of work to allow the kde folks to be able to decipher the changes.
i wonder if our overlords will allow us to "own" the hardware we pay good money for in the forseeable future.
they lock it up tight with DRM and digital signatures to insure that we don't have access to the hardware that we bought. i assume they don't consider us owners, only merely renters.
now that next gen consoles have vast multimedia capabilities, we are essentially being forced legally and technically to give up our rights to our property.
i want full access to all those cpus and video processors. i paid for them. i DON'T want to copy games or infringe on your lousy copyright, i want direct access to the hardware i purchased.
and "mod" chips and the like don't count. they are legally obligated to provide any purchaser the ability to program the machine if they so choose.
and please don't give me the rubbish about how "people except consoles to be closed" deal. if you pay for hardware, it's yours. true, they don't have to provide you documentation, code snippets, etc but they MUST allow you to run unsigned code.
essentially this is illegal as hell by anyone who has a shred of reason/intelligence. but of course, it'll remain unchanged for some time to come.
let me reiterate one more time I DO NOT want to infringe copyright, i just want to own my own hardware.
this is one of the big issues that allows consoles to suck as far as computing devices goes. PC hardware you own, console harware you pay the privilege of renting it.
not buying it is actually not a solution. because unless there is a written contract which i have signed, i am buying the hardware to be fully usable by me. this is definitely against the law... now we just need someone to challenge it.
maybe when you and i were kids, we couldn't see that among the cool new games.
and please don't trivialize buying "virtual" items unless you also do the same for any "virtual" objects aka computer code/games/software/music/video.
if you don't want to participate (welcome to the club) then don't but don't try the bullshit fallacious argument that only stupid people would buy "virtual" items.
seeing as how the ipod market is dwarfed by the worldwide sales of normal portable digital music players, well you can see how yahoo might have a chance at a much bigger market.
not everyone has oodles of money to spend on ipod and itunes.
but of course, you'd never know that considering how much disposable money you have.
ipod does't playback any other drm formats than its own. so either you go with ipod+itunes or you go somewhere else.
and since no other online music service uses itunes' drm format...
seeing as how apple has changed "the rules" several times since it's inception and no doubt their "legal contract" EULA mentions that you cannot object to them changing the "contract" at their whim and that you still agree to it therein, theni don't see how ANY drm is worth a damn.
don't need to mention to me that most if not all EULA's industry wide adopt the same sickening disgraceful wording.
only a complete simpleton won't be able to figure out how to use their sound card to record the stream while it's playing in their drm-approved-check-the-server-for-a-key player. once it's in wav/mp3, it's all over.
and then it WILL play on an ipod.
of course if your bastard sound card manufacturer has a "secure audio path" driver... it'll be a tiny bit more complicated but still easily doable.
how about a copyright limit between 4 years and 6 years long?
maybe we could come up with a word for it, like "5" years.
and absolutely no renewal bullshit, thats how we got to where we are today.
copyright is an inherinetly evil thing, and the only reason it can even remotely be viewed as serving the public is that the term be LIMITED. by which i mean a length of time no greater than 5 years.
did i mention NO RENEWALS?
and thats just for starters. but thats good enough to start with.
not that it matters, you'll never see in our lifetimes or your great grandchildrens lifetimes anything even remotely resembling reasonable copyright laws.
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what does "off the shelf" have to do with making bad hardware?
just say "i'm a beligerant f**boy and i'm proud of my stupidity".
if you like "innovative" hw, then look at the hard to program ps2/saturn/ps3.
well proven hw also matches up well to solid reliable software (usually).
i hope all of them die with their new fangled DRM systems with add-on gameplay.
the fuckers won't even let you use the hw you purchased.
having multiple cpus and massive bw... which you cannot access.
all of them should lose as far as i'm concerned.
"If this ships with three real CPUs that are mostly similar to the ones that Apple uses, for less than $500, lots of Apple fanbois, myself included, are going to wonder wtf is up with that, and why Apple can't do the same. "
/. have to answer this question.
how many times do people on
supply and demand have little to do with pricing.
perhaps you've heard of "what the market will bear"?
they sell it for that price because they can.
and you buy it at that price because you vote with your wallet...
and the content producers' rights are for reasonable limits on copyright durations. (not to mention DMCA alikes)
and hence, when one side breaks a contract, it becomes null and void.
torrents suck, at least most of the ones i've ever used.
usually the number of people needed to reach a reasonable dl speed is never approached.
and yes the ports on my firewall are open for torrents.
if copyright laws were limited, it'd already be public domain.
when copyright starts to be sensible, then you may have some ground to stand on.
but seeing as how copyright is inherently unsensible, it'll never happen.
preventing others from taking from the same source "authors" take, is absurd as hell.
tv shows are BECOMING?
they were the instant some evil sob realized that, probably the very early part of this century, soon after they realized what a wonderful propoganda machine it was.
why should you pay them 45 or 29.99?
they clearly made far more than that on the first run and then to make things absurd, makes gigantic profits each year from syndication.
(btw, 1 season of any star trek = 100 bucks?! wtf are you smoking to think that anyone but the most rich could afford that... or would even if they could)
give it to me for 5 bucks per season and be happy that i'm willing to buy it AGAIN. i already paid for it once by watching it on tv and then again during syndication.
apart from a few shows (and even thats negotiable), tv is garbage.
are you just stupid or a shill?
the issue isn't your strawman argument but whether giving the code changes back in a huge, poorly documented dump or doing the minimal amount of work to allow the kde folks to be able to decipher the changes.
i'll be happy when everyone from babies to grandparents know full well what bullshit "intellectual property" is.
for reporting the truth?
lying to start a war ought not to be a misdemeanor.
in most civilized cultures, that's high treason.
do you remember the "emotion engine"?
i know for a fact it will not live up to anywhere near the hype.
i wonder if our overlords will allow us to "own" the hardware we pay good money for in the forseeable future.
they lock it up tight with DRM and digital signatures to insure that we don't have access to the hardware that we bought. i assume they don't consider us owners, only merely renters.
now that next gen consoles have vast multimedia capabilities, we are essentially being forced legally and technically to give up our rights to our property.
i want full access to all those cpus and video processors. i paid for them. i DON'T want to copy games or infringe on your lousy copyright, i want direct access to the hardware i purchased.
and "mod" chips and the like don't count. they are legally obligated to provide any purchaser the ability to program the machine if they so choose.
and please don't give me the rubbish about how "people except consoles to be closed" deal. if you pay for hardware, it's yours. true, they don't have to provide you documentation, code snippets, etc but they MUST allow you to run unsigned code.
essentially this is illegal as hell by anyone who has a shred of reason/intelligence. but of course, it'll remain unchanged for some time to come.
let me reiterate one more time I DO NOT want to infringe copyright, i just want to own my own hardware.
this is one of the big issues that allows consoles to suck as far as computing devices goes. PC hardware you own, console harware you pay the privilege of renting it.
not buying it is actually not a solution. because unless there is a written contract which i have signed, i am buying the hardware to be fully usable by me. this is definitely against the law... now we just need someone to challenge it.
games have always been about money.
maybe when you and i were kids, we couldn't see that among the cool new games.
and please don't trivialize buying "virtual" items unless you also do the same for any "virtual" objects aka computer code/games/software/music/video.
if you don't want to participate (welcome to the club) then don't but don't try the bullshit fallacious argument that only stupid people would buy "virtual" items.
you mean like those people who submitted completely fake articles to journals and got published?
Gb = gigabit
GB = gigabyte
notice the little g and big G.
some people think it's ok to mix the two interchangably...
wma-drm supporting devices far outstrip fairplay supporting devices.
seeing as how the ipod market is dwarfed by the worldwide sales of normal portable digital music players, well you can see how yahoo might have a chance at a much bigger market.
not everyone has oodles of money to spend on ipod and itunes.
but of course, you'd never know that considering how much disposable money you have.
ipod does't playback any other drm formats than its own. so either you go with ipod+itunes or you go somewhere else.
and since no other online music service uses itunes' drm format...
you've hit the nail on the cranium.
no one on this blue planet of ours OWNS !any! music.
that's how it has been since campbell's primordial soup.
information can NEVER be owned.
it can only be artificially hoarded/boxed in/restricted/etc.
this is even more so in the age of "intellectual property" bullshit.
seeing as how apple has changed "the rules" several times since it's inception and no doubt their "legal contract" EULA mentions that you cannot object to them changing the "contract" at their whim and that you still agree to it therein, theni don't see how ANY drm is worth a damn.
don't need to mention to me that most if not all EULA's industry wide adopt the same sickening disgraceful wording.
the only good drm is a dead drm.
only a complete simpleton won't be able to figure out how to use their sound card to record the stream while it's playing in their drm-approved-check-the-server-for-a-key player. once it's in wav/mp3, it's all over.
and then it WILL play on an ipod.
of course if your bastard sound card manufacturer has a "secure audio path" driver... it'll be a tiny bit more complicated but still easily doable.
they can suck my privates , thats what they are entitled to.
information can be copied, so either change the laws of the universe or shut the hell up and be reasonable or we'll make you.
how's that for a start?
go read what copyright actually is before you start spewing your shit on here.
welcome to shilldot, where the shills are as high as an elephant's eye.
i totally and wholeheartedly agree with your limited term point.
i do want to amend it to a slightly more reasonable time limit though.
like say lifetime of the author plus 984 years or when mickey mouse falls into the public domain, whichever comes first.
NO RENEWALS
thats how we got the bullshit we have today.
let me reiterate,
NO RENEWALS!
under no circumstances.
if you don't like it, tough. copyright is an unnatural practice of hoarding information which is inherently EVIL.
how about a copyright limit between 4 years and 6 years long?
maybe we could come up with a word for it, like "5" years.
and absolutely no renewal bullshit, thats how we got to where we are today.
copyright is an inherinetly evil thing, and the only reason it can even remotely be viewed as serving the public is that the term be LIMITED. by which i mean a length of time no greater than 5 years.
did i mention NO RENEWALS?
and thats just for starters. but thats good enough to start with.
not that it matters, you'll never see in our lifetimes or your great grandchildrens lifetimes anything even remotely resembling reasonable copyright laws.
definition and demonstrable.
let me ask you then, what did YOU mean by your sig?