On top of this, we're itching for a major breakthrough in another field. Technology seems like it's a very unusual race, wherein there's a discovery that starts a sprint that gradually tapers off. Once we've tapered ourselves to a certain speed, and matched nearly the rest of the pack, a new discovery comes along, and the sprint is on again.
Well, yeah. The higher courts don't have to worry about their own asses; they have job security nearly regardless of their ruling. They have to worry about getting it right, which is why the supreme court takes a godawful amount of time for a lot of their rulings. If the high courts don't get it right, they're also up against the powerful players who can actually afford to bring a case to that level, while lower courts are mostly up against people with public defenders.
They really should have judges trained in tech fields to be able to take care of cases like this. They have family court, and criminal court, and civil court, and appellate courts, why not Technology Court? I mean, it requires more of a specialized understanding of circumstances than other types of courts to be able to judge correctly in these cases.
Only once you publish. They give you the SDK free, and the ability to put the software on X number of specific phones free, if you have a (free) Apple ID. To get it on the store it costs $100.
The USB thing sucks, for sure. I definitely agree that they should change that. It's unlikely, however, since Apple never has been the type of company to conform to industry standards.
Implants are impractical for everyone to have. There's too much of a failure rate in all electronics, and the moment you have a dead pixel, I pity you. If someone doesn't like it, or needs an upgrade, you're screwed. Like the fact that they doubled the resolution since you got it? Too bad, your eye can't handle another surgery. Augmented reality belongs as just that: an augment, as in a set of glasses you can take off. There's no place in the human body for an upgrade slot.
It comes in a format which can be easily encoded in the latest and greatest lossy format without transcoding artefacts.
It doesn't include any DRM.
It provides a trivial way of proving that you paid for it if you're ever on the wrong end of an RIAA-style 'sue people based on almost no evidence' lawsuit.
It's generally cheaper than paying for a downloaded version (CDs I buy are usually about £4/album, while iTunes is around double that).
1. I can redownload it off torrents as a flavor of the day lossless after buying it from iTunes, to get my backup copy.
2. Taken care of by point #1
3. Taken care of by point #1
4. iTunes will let you see a list of everything you've purchased. I imagine it wouldn't be hard to print, and it would be very easy for them or the courts to check with iTunes themselves
5. Crazy European prices. iTunes will be USD $12-20 an album for me, whereas iTunes will be similar at 99c to $1.29 a song.
6. iTunes has a better selection of non-major label music than any store in my area. (Granted, this is a moot point about 1/3 to half of the time)
7. iTunes will be a near-instant download, even with the other download going, whereas to get an album from the store I'd have to drive there. (Trivial for me, as I live in a fairly densely populated area near a full mall. Not so trivial for someone out in the middle of nowhere, USA, where the nearest shop can easily be 3-4 hours away. That would make a drive out on release day completely impractical, and you may not get it for 2-3 weeks, which makes my #6 even better. I'd imagine in western Europe you wouldn't have this problem nearly as much.)
They shouldn't be able to trademark a set of 3 notes. You only need 343 trademarks, and there's no more combinations to go around. I mean, octave makes that in the range of, what, 2000ish? Still, that's completely fucked up that 2000 companies can each grab a set of notes, and nobody can use them in an ad.
Congrats, you just eliminated one of the 343 possible combinations of 3 notes from any use in advertising!
Without the instrument, they have no case. They can't just take over all use of the notes themselves. Otherwise, I couldn't do anything remotely similar to any song that's still under copyright.
If it has any 2-letter block in between periods that isn't "EN", it's not English. I don't know why people don't get that. Or get what TS and CAM mean. Or DivX. Or XviD. In fact, I don't get how people don't get anything about the way the good torrents are labeled.
Yeah, because they're going to sue everyone on p2p. Honestly, even they couldn't afford doing something like that. They would instantly become major douchebags in the eyes of the people (for suing so many), and even the government (for completely backlogging the courts for 5 years). They would bankrupt themselves (since they couldn't collect the majority of their judgments).
Very true. Coming from someone who used to download 24/7, there's no reason for me to download 90% of the time anymore. I have most of what I want already, and if something new comes out, then I'll hop back on a torrent. But those days seem to be moving farther and farther apart.
Because uTorrent is a no install, 30 seconds to port forward one port program that's completely free? If you have trouble setting up uTorrent, you don't belong here.
Games have stayed around the same size from year to year. The same has happened with movies and music. Only so much content is produced in a given year. Combined with the entire population that would be willing to download being actively engaged in it already, there won't be much growth.
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On top of this, we're itching for a major breakthrough in another field. Technology seems like it's a very unusual race, wherein there's a discovery that starts a sprint that gradually tapers off. Once we've tapered ourselves to a certain speed, and matched nearly the rest of the pack, a new discovery comes along, and the sprint is on again.
3D subway? I'd call that an airplane.
The not-a-corporation-but-not-a-hoodrat category.
Well, yeah. The higher courts don't have to worry about their own asses; they have job security nearly regardless of their ruling. They have to worry about getting it right, which is why the supreme court takes a godawful amount of time for a lot of their rulings. If the high courts don't get it right, they're also up against the powerful players who can actually afford to bring a case to that level, while lower courts are mostly up against people with public defenders.
Logic doesn't always work when it comes to the almighty government.
Occam's Razor; 1 point - incompetence.
They really should have judges trained in tech fields to be able to take care of cases like this. They have family court, and criminal court, and civil court, and appellate courts, why not Technology Court? I mean, it requires more of a specialized understanding of circumstances than other types of courts to be able to judge correctly in these cases.
They could have also hired a new network engineer by the time those passwords were given up.
So I guess the only people allowed out of jail are those with a moderate amount of computer knowledge?
Too bad we can't get that law passed.
Only once you publish. They give you the SDK free, and the ability to put the software on X number of specific phones free, if you have a (free) Apple ID. To get it on the store it costs $100.
The USB thing sucks, for sure. I definitely agree that they should change that. It's unlikely, however, since Apple never has been the type of company to conform to industry standards.
Then there's an upgrade, or a dead pixel, and you're now too old for anesthesia. Dead unit, then you have a small cold? Screwed.
Implants are impractical for everyone to have. There's too much of a failure rate in all electronics, and the moment you have a dead pixel, I pity you. If someone doesn't like it, or needs an upgrade, you're screwed. Like the fact that they doubled the resolution since you got it? Too bad, your eye can't handle another surgery. Augmented reality belongs as just that: an augment, as in a set of glasses you can take off. There's no place in the human body for an upgrade slot.
1. I can redownload it off torrents as a flavor of the day lossless after buying it from iTunes, to get my backup copy.
2. Taken care of by point #1
3. Taken care of by point #1
4. iTunes will let you see a list of everything you've purchased. I imagine it wouldn't be hard to print, and it would be very easy for them or the courts to check with iTunes themselves
5. Crazy European prices. iTunes will be USD $12-20 an album for me, whereas iTunes will be similar at 99c to $1.29 a song.
6. iTunes has a better selection of non-major label music than any store in my area. (Granted, this is a moot point about 1/3 to half of the time)
7. iTunes will be a near-instant download, even with the other download going, whereas to get an album from the store I'd have to drive there. (Trivial for me, as I live in a fairly densely populated area near a full mall. Not so trivial for someone out in the middle of nowhere, USA, where the nearest shop can easily be 3-4 hours away. That would make a drive out on release day completely impractical, and you may not get it for 2-3 weeks, which makes my #6 even better. I'd imagine in western Europe you wouldn't have this problem nearly as much.)
They shouldn't be able to trademark a set of 3 notes. You only need 343 trademarks, and there's no more combinations to go around. I mean, octave makes that in the range of, what, 2000ish? Still, that's completely fucked up that 2000 companies can each grab a set of notes, and nobody can use them in an ad.
Congrats, you just eliminated one of the 343 possible combinations of 3 notes from any use in advertising!
Without the instrument, they have no case. They can't just take over all use of the notes themselves. Otherwise, I couldn't do anything remotely similar to any song that's still under copyright.
I would hope it wasn't just inside....
If it has any 2-letter block in between periods that isn't "EN", it's not English. I don't know why people don't get that. Or get what TS and CAM mean. Or DivX. Or XviD. In fact, I don't get how people don't get anything about the way the good torrents are labeled.
There's nothing too specific about my ports. They're up in the 58000 area. I change every few days and keep them above 10000.
Yeah, that's one thing I've been liking about Netflix. Big library of streams included with the subscription.
Yeah, because they're going to sue everyone on p2p. Honestly, even they couldn't afford doing something like that. They would instantly become major douchebags in the eyes of the people (for suing so many), and even the government (for completely backlogging the courts for 5 years). They would bankrupt themselves (since they couldn't collect the majority of their judgments).
You have a CD collection? Someone, help me pull him out of 2000!
Very true. Coming from someone who used to download 24/7, there's no reason for me to download 90% of the time anymore. I have most of what I want already, and if something new comes out, then I'll hop back on a torrent. But those days seem to be moving farther and farther apart.
Because uTorrent is a no install, 30 seconds to port forward one port program that's completely free? If you have trouble setting up uTorrent, you don't belong here.
Games have stayed around the same size from year to year. The same has happened with movies and music. Only so much content is produced in a given year. Combined with the entire population that would be willing to download being actively engaged in it already, there won't be much growth.