Really, *really* what's IPv6 going to do for me now or even in the next 4 years that my IPv4 and 192.168.x.x home network don't do for me?
For starters it will allow you to host a bunch of services on different machines without having to put them all on weird ass ports because you only have a single ip. Peer to peer software will work as intended without nasty hacks to poke holes through the nat.
It essentially stops the internet from becoming broken into a one-way thing, which is one of the side effects of nat.
ISPs are going to have to pay a lot of money for new hardware
Not really, it should have been part of the normal upgrade cycle of hardware. With a five year replacement cycle they could have started in 2007 and have had their entire organization ipv6 ready hardware wise by now. The problem has been known for long before that, it is simply preparing for the future.
The reason they abandoned it was because after looking at the fine print all game related profits where the media used was a cd would be going to sony... the profit from games was nintendo's bread and butter income.
Yet despite the novelty of the Wii remote, I still prefer the Dual Shock.
Which quite ironically, is pretty much just a snes pad with one extra l/r button with a knee jerk reaction to the n64's analog stick.
Personally I find the gamecube controller to be the most ergonomic of all controllers presently released that are typical gaming controllers. I admit it takes a bit of getting used to but as adament of a snes fan as I am it does just feel more comfortable once you are used to the layout.
So by that logic they should have been allowed to drone kill bush? After all he was responsible for the funding/training and arming of thousands with the intent to terrorize other nations.
Britain was on the verge of defeat when the Americans jumped in,
Perhaps you are forgetting that at that time Britain had the largest navy in the world? That was the biggest problem the nazi regime faced in getting a decent number of people onto the land. Sure the english were getting hit by air raids left right and centre, but the most significant damage done from that was psychological rather than physical. The enemy submarines were not much of a threat by the later stages of the war, their effectiveness diminished as sub detection equipment became better over the war.
This, and primarily a lack of understanding of how the topics he is speaking about work... to this day he still thinks a stable ABI for kernel interfaces would be a _good_ thing for the development of the kernel..... who cares that the results heavily limit improvement of the kernel, and that even with the _exact_ same sources you won't necessarily get a stable abi, depends on far too much being the exact same each build (even compiler, linker etc), and it destroys portability because your stable abi will not work between platforms obviously.
The manner of language used does not help either, it always sounds like there is far too much emotion and not enough rational thought. Calm and rational eloquent communication rarely gets downmodded even if wrong, at worst you just get responses explaining why you are wrong and/or why they disagree.
People who come across as a raving silly person that don't know what they are talking about tend to get down modded though.... I think that is the system working as intended.
I would have thought that generally by about that age most women would be looking at having children, and a fair chunk of women after they have a child wish to spend at least a few years looking after the thing.
Even if you were able to communicate and had your mental state preserved, there is no guarantee that you would be able to enjoy life or do much of anything. What would someone in that state do to pass the time?
In two words, 'the internet'
Many of us already spend considerable time learning new things and talking to new people over the net, once you have the ability to sort the crap information from the good there is far more to learn in this world than can possibly be done in a lifetime.
After several years of being trapped in a useless husk of a body and spending your days staring at the ceiling, would you still want to live?
Good old fashioned suicide solves that, if you no longer want to live.
Would people still come to see you after your friends and family passed on, assuming they didn't get the treatment?
Some people enjoy the peace and quiet of being alone, and while human psychology tends to like communication and interaction with others there will always be at least some interaction with others even if it's just the nurse that is looking after you.
Seneca taught that being able to face and accept inevitable death without fear is a sign of strength and wisdom.
Freaking out about death is pointless, but why let it happen when it can be avoided? As an analogy if you get an illness which when left naturally kills most people but when treated is harmless, why avoid the treatment?
Quality, not quantity of life is what matters.
I'd agree with that but quality is defined as fit for purpose, if your goal in life is to learn as much as you can and assist others in intellectual endeavours then having an ancient body doesn't hinder you too much.
Name one, because I'd set up sandisk and Cowon and Rio and just about every kind of MP3 and PMP known to man and I have NEVER actually seen on that preferred NFS
Here you go it's a fine player that plays anything format you could really want, but smb performance is abysmal, nfs is the only way to go for hd streaming over the network.
And as for NAS? that's what those cheapo HP WHS boxes are for. Its a HELL of a lot cheaper and unlike some jury rigged homebuilt it will actually be efficient and is actually BUILT for that job, its also great for media and file serving since it has a...drumroll...server OS!
Oh, you mean like the dedicated cheapo home storage boxes that were already installed when i arrived? it handled four disks at the time and achieved a maximum throughput over the network of 4mb/sec. When I made the linux nas (with the only new hardware being an extra plain sata controller, rest he already had) he wanted some more storage so it now uses five drives and pretty much saturates gigabit ethernet (sequential read speeds of between 320-350mb/sec too).
Oh and that dedicated embedded nas box ran an ancient version of linux with softraid, so reading the old drives and updating/using them was not a problem.
For the jobs you have it would frankly be insane to use a desktop because its not designed to support the connections you require
It would be insane to use a typically installed windows, linux works fine and dandy as both server and desktop, the people understand that they have to leave that machine on in order for the media hardware to access it (there are five 40+ inch tv's in that house with some form of network playback device attached). But it also functions to access the internet and end user purposes also.
look up the versions of NT/2K and you'll see they had Enterprise and Data Center for the jobs you listed and NT/2K pro was for workstation.
Yes, because we all love paying more for the os than we do the entirety of the hardware, and only to still have more limitations.... win2k enterprise edition was damn expensive
The only difference between server and client is which one is providing information, the hardware is not typically a limitation, a modern i5 or i7 has no trouble serving up many a webpage or media, on a modern machine the software is the limitation. In fact half the reason it was setup this way was the abysmal performance and lack of flexibility with embedded solutions.
With windows you have this arbitrary line between 'this is used for a server' and 'this is used for a desktop' with linux, it will do whatever you damn well want it to do, which isn't that the point after all? for software to do what the user wants?
As far as power consumption is concerned, having a bunch of disks spinning already consumes a fair bit of power, the extra overhead of the machine is balanced with the immediate availablility of a machine that is always on and ready to do what you wish, with more flexibility and performance superior to any cheap and nasty embedded nas device.
The windows home server 2011 you listed is decent value. It still presents quite a few limitations that are not present in a linux solution but to most these would be moot, although it isn't windows 7 which was what the topic was originally about. With that kind of pricing I fail to see why desktop users aren't simply using windows home server as their primary desktop os. Cheaper than windows 7 and with less restrictions.
But really, C, with their fancy "structs" and "flow control" just leads to unnecessary cruft, we should just stick with ASM and Goto, b/c that's way more maintainable;)
I know this was said in jest, but I've always considered c as pretty much portable assembly, it is certainly one of the more directly translateable languages once you have calling conventions etc down.
What are these devices ? Why would any "embedded media playback device" preference NFS over SMB, when the proportion of the target audience who even had an NFS-capable data source would be fractions of one percent ?
I cannot remember the brand off hand it was a company that specializes in such embedded devices on the higher end of the scale. It did technically support smb but even in the menu system it forewarned that the performance penalty to do so was pretty nasty and that hd stream throughput may suffer for it. Tried smb then nfs and there was a night and day difference, so nfs stayed. They were quite nice devices though and if interested I can post what it was after i visit them next.
No, your bitching is about how Microsoft isn't supporting your niche requirements.
Almost everyones niche is someone elses mainstream, my grandmother spends most of her time on the computer playing solitaire, creative people can spend a lot of time in photoshop, and so on and so forth.
Most of these niches are covered by third party applications, however the fundamental stuff like filesystems and standardized lowish level communication protocols should be handled by the kernel abstraction layers. Unlike other functionality this is hard to replace, thankfully since it is so simple microsoft have had it done internally for ages, but they choose to ream you over the coals if you want to use it...
They are entitled to release whatever they like, as am I to say the released core functionality of their os is a decade behind others, and if anything they intend on only further restrictions. (Hell, my sister got a netbook a short while ago that had windows 7 starter, the thing both ran like a dog without running anything and actually artificially limited her from running more than two programs).
If you run linux you don't have to worry about what it is going on or what it is going to be used for as you are free to do with the os whatever you wish. One less thing to think about. Technical problems are solvable, social and legal problems caused by artificial limitations and nasty licensing agreements are a damn bitch.
I'd say most of the people who have older model embedded media playback devices that only support it, that is why I have had to go that route on several home networks.
How many are running a home built NAS?
Mostly people with home theater setups and the like, I wouldn't call it every mom and pop but among pc enthusiasts (and as you mention, even gamers) it is extremely common now compared to ten years ago.
Shock! Actually use a server or enterprise software for server or enterprise features?
I'd hardly consider nfs support an enterprise feature, considering windows xp had it. The features listed should all be standard fare for operating systems these days, it is no longer 1998 when having a web browser preloaded on the os was an awesome feature. Hell back then smp support was an enterprise feature, nowadays every home machine has several cores.
Basically my primary bitching is about how microsoft artificially limits its own software, and doesn't get with the times.
Operating systems are a commodity product these days, the primary features were down pat quite some time ago, we should not have to pay for technology that is several decades old.
I've dealt with enough gamers who royally fucked their entire setup by going with software RAID to know that if you give a shit about your data you do NOT fuck with it, you get a decent RAID controller and let IT handle the RAID, PERIOD.
So when the raid controller dies in a couple years time and is no longer made, the data is completely irretrievable? that sounds very irresponsible.
I've had plenty of failed disks and even disk controllers using linux softraid, recovery back to a non-degraded state works just fine and dandy.
Besides, 32-bit Windows 7 can and does run 16-bit DOS applications.
No it cannot, try running something like kknd, syndicate wars or the like on 32-bit windows 7, it won't even try to start up let alone work properly.
Things like that need proper dos (or an emulated environment like dosbox, or a VM with dos on it), which no version of windows has supplied since windows ME.
As for running ppc apps while having lion installed, here provides a few solutions. Mostly it is either virtualization or dual booting.
But hey, dual booting win98/win2k or win98/winXP was how people remedied wanting to play their dos games too, and you've already said that work-arounds such as dos box and virtualization are acceptable.
Pet peeves with what limited windows 7 use I've had (generally integrating it into others networks)
1 - lack of NFS support unless you use ultimate/enterprise editions, most machines don't come with ultimate, so that is $189 AUD per copy straight up just to get it to work decently with network shares. (and no, smb is not an adequate solution)
2 - The control panel reimagination, no windows, I don't want you to try to fix the problem for me, I know the problem, but let me find the dialog to fix it myself please instead of fighting me the whole time.
3 - lack of native software raid5 support, completely rules it out for NAS usage.
If you want to do anything not in the realm of playing computer games or using office stuff etc, you can pull it off with only a level of inelegant nasty hackery that makes linux look like childsplay.
Using windows server 2008 instead remedies a fair bit, but introduces it's own set of problems. For starters the $700 price tag for standard edition with only five client access licenses. I've encountered instances in a reasonable size home network of a large family that this has been hit, not to mention having to actually track licensing usage etc.
In short, if you are doing anything more than playing games, watching youtube videos and office stuff, why deal with with windows bullshit?
(I can still run the 25 year old Commander Keen on Windows 7. I cannot say the same for OS X)
I call bullshit, windows 7 has no dos stuff in it. The only way to run commander keen on windows 7 is to use dosbox to do it (If you purchase it new from id software, it comes bundled with dosbox to run it) the very same open source dos box which can be used on both mac and linux.
The benefits compared to now would already be mostly being realised through the lower copyright lengths. The differences between three years vs five mean little to the public compared to five vs 70 after death.
Family has less incentive to murder than people who have printing presses lined up ready to make a cool few million from mass production who have never met the guy.
It also shouldn't persist past the death of the copyright holder.
I agree with single digit years, hell I'd even maybe agree with 15, but death should have nothing to do with whether it goes into public domain, if a man dies a year after he publishes a work, it should still have copyright. If it didn't that would give people motive to murder others.
With gpl software you are pretty much guaranteed long term stability, as the worst case scenario is it simply stagnates. With proprietary software at any moment the company can pull the rug from underneath you and no longer support your platform, change functionality in a negative way whereby you can no longer access the older version, etc etc. The benefits are numerous.
There is no situation in which the energy efficiency of an incandescent bulb is better than a system designed to heat.
But thats the thing, you are suggesting they get a system designed for heating when all they may want is an extra 2-3 degrees in a small room. Any kind of dedicated heat system will be extreme overkill for such a situation.
Problem with your theory is the vast majority of cams save as.MP4 which Nbox don't play,
So one button transcoding to a format it accepts is so much harder now? The content is still legal.
But the point is rather, there is legal content that can be played these days, what with every man and his dog having varying degrees of video recording available to them.
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He was talking about his ***HOME*** network.
Did you read what I wrote, especially towards the end?
Peer to peer software will work as intended without nasty hacks to poke holes through the nat.
So you are saying home users don't use peer to peer software? That's a pretty bold claim.
And of course, you're *ASSUMING* static ip addresses.
Static ips aren't needed for peer too peer stuff, and dymanic dns has been around for ages.
Really, *really* what's IPv6 going to do for me now or even in the next 4 years that my IPv4 and 192.168.x.x home network don't do for me?
For starters it will allow you to host a bunch of services on different machines without having to put them all on weird ass ports because you only have a single ip. Peer to peer software will work as intended without nasty hacks to poke holes through the nat.
It essentially stops the internet from becoming broken into a one-way thing, which is one of the side effects of nat.
ISPs are going to have to pay a lot of money for new hardware
Not really, it should have been part of the normal upgrade cycle of hardware. With a five year replacement cycle they could have started in 2007 and have had their entire organization ipv6 ready hardware wise by now. The problem has been known for long before that, it is simply preparing for the future.
The reason they abandoned it was because after looking at the fine print all game related profits where the media used was a cd would be going to sony... the profit from games was nintendo's bread and butter income.
Yet despite the novelty of the Wii remote, I still prefer the Dual Shock.
Which quite ironically, is pretty much just a snes pad with one extra l/r button with a knee jerk reaction to the n64's analog stick.
Personally I find the gamecube controller to be the most ergonomic of all controllers presently released that are typical gaming controllers. I admit it takes a bit of getting used to but as adament of a snes fan as I am it does just feel more comfortable once you are used to the layout.
So by that logic they should have been allowed to drone kill bush? After all he was responsible for the funding/training and arming of thousands with the intent to terrorize other nations.
Britain was on the verge of defeat when the Americans jumped in,
Perhaps you are forgetting that at that time Britain had the largest navy in the world? That was the biggest problem the nazi regime faced in getting a decent number of people onto the land. Sure the english were getting hit by air raids left right and centre, but the most significant damage done from that was psychological rather than physical. The enemy submarines were not much of a threat by the later stages of the war, their effectiveness diminished as sub detection equipment became better over the war.
This, and primarily a lack of understanding of how the topics he is speaking about work... to this day he still thinks a stable ABI for kernel interfaces would be a _good_ thing for the development of the kernel..... who cares that the results heavily limit improvement of the kernel, and that even with the _exact_ same sources you won't necessarily get a stable abi, depends on far too much being the exact same each build (even compiler, linker etc), and it destroys portability because your stable abi will not work between platforms obviously.
The manner of language used does not help either, it always sounds like there is far too much emotion and not enough rational thought. Calm and rational eloquent communication rarely gets downmodded even if wrong, at worst you just get responses explaining why you are wrong and/or why they disagree.
People who come across as a raving silly person that don't know what they are talking about tend to get down modded though.... I think that is the system working as intended.
It's why most of us leave by the time we're 25.
I would have thought that generally by about that age most women would be looking at having children, and a fair chunk of women after they have a child wish to spend at least a few years looking after the thing.
Even if you were able to communicate and had your mental state preserved, there is no guarantee that you would be able to enjoy life or do much of anything. What would someone in that state do to pass the time?
In two words, 'the internet'
Many of us already spend considerable time learning new things and talking to new people over the net, once you have the ability to sort the crap information from the good there is far more to learn in this world than can possibly be done in a lifetime.
After several years of being trapped in a useless husk of a body and spending your days staring at the ceiling, would you still want to live?
Good old fashioned suicide solves that, if you no longer want to live.
Would people still come to see you after your friends and family passed on, assuming they didn't get the treatment?
Some people enjoy the peace and quiet of being alone, and while human psychology tends to like communication and interaction with others there will always be at least some interaction with others even if it's just the nurse that is looking after you.
Seneca taught that being able to face and accept inevitable death without fear is a sign of strength and wisdom.
Freaking out about death is pointless, but why let it happen when it can be avoided? As an analogy if you get an illness which when left naturally kills most people but when treated is harmless, why avoid the treatment?
Quality, not quantity of life is what matters.
I'd agree with that but quality is defined as fit for purpose, if your goal in life is to learn as much as you can and assist others in intellectual endeavours then having an ancient body doesn't hinder you too much.
Who would want to live in a broken-down, aged body forever, kept alive only by a steady stream of stem cells?
So long as my mind is intact, fully functional and I have a decent means to communicate with the outside world? I would.
Name one, because I'd set up sandisk and Cowon and Rio and just about every kind of MP3 and PMP known to man and I have NEVER actually seen on that preferred NFS
Here you go it's a fine player that plays anything format you could really want, but smb performance is abysmal, nfs is the only way to go for hd streaming over the network.
And as for NAS? that's what those cheapo HP WHS boxes are for. Its a HELL of a lot cheaper and unlike some jury rigged homebuilt it will actually be efficient and is actually BUILT for that job, its also great for media and file serving since it has a ...drumroll...server OS!
Oh, you mean like the dedicated cheapo home storage boxes that were already installed when i arrived? it handled four disks at the time and achieved a maximum throughput over the network of 4mb/sec. When I made the linux nas (with the only new hardware being an extra plain sata controller, rest he already had) he wanted some more storage so it now uses five drives and pretty much saturates gigabit ethernet (sequential read speeds of between 320-350mb/sec too).
Oh and that dedicated embedded nas box ran an ancient version of linux with softraid, so reading the old drives and updating/using them was not a problem.
For the jobs you have it would frankly be insane to use a desktop because its not designed to support the connections you require
It would be insane to use a typically installed windows, linux works fine and dandy as both server and desktop, the people understand that they have to leave that machine on in order for the media hardware to access it (there are five 40+ inch tv's in that house with some form of network playback device attached). But it also functions to access the internet and end user purposes also.
look up the versions of NT/2K and you'll see they had Enterprise and Data Center for the jobs you listed and NT/2K pro was for workstation.
Yes, because we all love paying more for the os than we do the entirety of the hardware, and only to still have more limitations.... win2k enterprise edition was damn expensive
The only difference between server and client is which one is providing information, the hardware is not typically a limitation, a modern i5 or i7 has no trouble serving up many a webpage or media, on a modern machine the software is the limitation. In fact half the reason it was setup this way was the abysmal performance and lack of flexibility with embedded solutions.
With windows you have this arbitrary line between 'this is used for a server' and 'this is used for a desktop' with linux, it will do whatever you damn well want it to do, which isn't that the point after all? for software to do what the user wants?
As far as power consumption is concerned, having a bunch of disks spinning already consumes a fair bit of power, the extra overhead of the machine is balanced with the immediate availablility of a machine that is always on and ready to do what you wish, with more flexibility and performance superior to any cheap and nasty embedded nas device.
The windows home server 2011 you listed is decent value. It still presents quite a few limitations that are not present in a linux solution but to most these would be moot, although it isn't windows 7 which was what the topic was originally about. With that kind of pricing I fail to see why desktop users aren't simply using windows home server as their primary desktop os. Cheaper than windows 7 and with less restrictions.
But really, C, with their fancy "structs" and "flow control" just leads to unnecessary cruft, we should just stick with ASM and Goto, b/c that's way more maintainable ;)
I know this was said in jest, but I've always considered c as pretty much portable assembly, it is certainly one of the more directly translateable languages once you have calling conventions etc down.
What are these devices ? Why would any "embedded media playback device" preference NFS over SMB, when the proportion of the target audience who even had an NFS-capable data source would be fractions of one percent ?
I cannot remember the brand off hand it was a company that specializes in such embedded devices on the higher end of the scale. It did technically support smb but even in the menu system it forewarned that the performance penalty to do so was pretty nasty and that hd stream throughput may suffer for it. Tried smb then nfs and there was a night and day difference, so nfs stayed. They were quite nice devices though and if interested I can post what it was after i visit them next.
No, your bitching is about how Microsoft isn't supporting your niche requirements.
Almost everyones niche is someone elses mainstream, my grandmother spends most of her time on the computer playing solitaire, creative people can spend a lot of time in photoshop, and so on and so forth.
Most of these niches are covered by third party applications, however the fundamental stuff like filesystems and standardized lowish level communication protocols should be handled by the kernel abstraction layers. Unlike other functionality this is hard to replace, thankfully since it is so simple microsoft have had it done internally for ages, but they choose to ream you over the coals if you want to use it...
They are entitled to release whatever they like, as am I to say the released core functionality of their os is a decade behind others, and if anything they intend on only further restrictions. (Hell, my sister got a netbook a short while ago that had windows 7 starter, the thing both ran like a dog without running anything and actually artificially limited her from running more than two programs).
If you run linux you don't have to worry about what it is going on or what it is going to be used for as you are free to do with the os whatever you wish. One less thing to think about. Technical problems are solvable, social and legal problems caused by artificial limitations and nasty licensing agreements are a damn bitch.
How many home users need NFS?
I'd say most of the people who have older model embedded media playback devices that only support it, that is why I have had to go that route on several home networks.
How many are running a home built NAS?
Mostly people with home theater setups and the like, I wouldn't call it every mom and pop but among pc enthusiasts (and as you mention, even gamers) it is extremely common now compared to ten years ago.
Shock! Actually use a server or enterprise software for server or enterprise features?
I'd hardly consider nfs support an enterprise feature, considering windows xp had it. The features listed should all be standard fare for operating systems these days, it is no longer 1998 when having a web browser preloaded on the os was an awesome feature. Hell back then smp support was an enterprise feature, nowadays every home machine has several cores.
Basically my primary bitching is about how microsoft artificially limits its own software, and doesn't get with the times.
Operating systems are a commodity product these days, the primary features were down pat quite some time ago, we should not have to pay for technology that is several decades old.
I've dealt with enough gamers who royally fucked their entire setup by going with software RAID to know that if you give a shit about your data you do NOT fuck with it, you get a decent RAID controller and let IT handle the RAID, PERIOD.
So when the raid controller dies in a couple years time and is no longer made, the data is completely irretrievable? that sounds very irresponsible.
I've had plenty of failed disks and even disk controllers using linux softraid, recovery back to a non-degraded state works just fine and dandy.
Besides, 32-bit Windows 7 can and does run 16-bit DOS applications.
No it cannot, try running something like kknd, syndicate wars or the like on 32-bit windows 7, it won't even try to start up let alone work properly.
Things like that need proper dos (or an emulated environment like dosbox, or a VM with dos on it), which no version of windows has supplied since windows ME.
As for running ppc apps while having lion installed, here provides a few solutions. Mostly it is either virtualization or dual booting.
But hey, dual booting win98/win2k or win98/winXP was how people remedied wanting to play their dos games too, and you've already said that work-arounds such as dos box and virtualization are acceptable.
Pet peeves with what limited windows 7 use I've had (generally integrating it into others networks)
1 - lack of NFS support unless you use ultimate/enterprise editions, most machines don't come with ultimate, so that is $189 AUD per copy straight up just to get it to work decently with network shares. (and no, smb is not an adequate solution)
2 - The control panel reimagination, no windows, I don't want you to try to fix the problem for me, I know the problem, but let me find the dialog to fix it myself please instead of fighting me the whole time.
3 - lack of native software raid5 support, completely rules it out for NAS usage.
If you want to do anything not in the realm of playing computer games or using office stuff etc, you can pull it off with only a level of inelegant nasty hackery that makes linux look like childsplay.
Using windows server 2008 instead remedies a fair bit, but introduces it's own set of problems. For starters the $700 price tag for standard edition with only five client access licenses. I've encountered instances in a reasonable size home network of a large family that this has been hit, not to mention having to actually track licensing usage etc.
In short, if you are doing anything more than playing games, watching youtube videos and office stuff, why deal with with windows bullshit?
(I can still run the 25 year old Commander Keen on Windows 7. I cannot say the same for OS X)
I call bullshit, windows 7 has no dos stuff in it. The only way to run commander keen on windows 7 is to use dosbox to do it (If you purchase it new from id software, it comes bundled with dosbox to run it) the very same open source dos box which can be used on both mac and linux.
The benefits compared to now would already be mostly being realised through the lower copyright lengths. The differences between three years vs five mean little to the public compared to five vs 70 after death.
Family has less incentive to murder than people who have printing presses lined up ready to make a cool few million from mass production who have never met the guy.
It also shouldn't persist past the death of the copyright holder.
I agree with single digit years, hell I'd even maybe agree with 15, but death should have nothing to do with whether it goes into public domain, if a man dies a year after he publishes a work, it should still have copyright. If it didn't that would give people motive to murder others.
I would like to know how Flickr would even know who was using what camera
Digital cameras often embed exif data about the camera into the files.
With gpl software you are pretty much guaranteed long term stability, as the worst case scenario is it simply stagnates. With proprietary software at any moment the company can pull the rug from underneath you and no longer support your platform, change functionality in a negative way whereby you can no longer access the older version, etc etc. The benefits are numerous.
There is no situation in which the energy efficiency of an incandescent bulb is better than a system designed to heat.
But thats the thing, you are suggesting they get a system designed for heating when all they may want is an extra 2-3 degrees in a small room. Any kind of dedicated heat system will be extreme overkill for such a situation.
Problem with your theory is the vast majority of cams save as .MP4 which Nbox don't play,
So one button transcoding to a format it accepts is so much harder now? The content is still legal.
But the point is rather, there is legal content that can be played these days, what with every man and his dog having varying degrees of video recording available to them.