Downloading fiscally just isn't a big deal. Out here in the real-world, not that many people download, and those who do definitely wouldn't consider buying the movie. Movie rentals are barely impacted by downloading - as a movie rental is a choice of convenience rather than pure economic consideration.
It doesn't matter to the big manufacturers that their DRM will be broken by super geeks and the disgruntled tech savvy will download their movies. The actual number of paying customers that choose to download instead is fairly small. DRM just needs to make it inconvenient for the average, perhaps even below average user. How many of our parents would download and burn a copy of a movie to watch it on the downstairs TV - instead of just renting it. DRM is not an all or nothing battle. Its not whether it can be hacked, but how comfortable the hacking process is for the majority of *paying* customers.
That said, if it ties down to one player when you put it in, people will rebel! I don't believe that the discs will do that - afterall - video rental would be over. The infrastructure isnt quite in place for all digital delivery yet.
Your logic with the DC Fairfax comparison is not conclusive. Sure, in Fairfax people having guns results in some successful deterrances and defenses, while that doesn't happen in DC. But things could still be better in both places with tighter gun restrictions, as the guns that people use for self defense eventually trickle through society and end up in the hands of those who use them for assault / robbery. I think it is too late to try and take the guns back out of society, we will only manage to take the guns from law abiding citizens and further unbalance the law vs crime arms ratio. We need to starve them out. Massive ammunition taxes on sold ammunition, I'm thinking so that it costs you $400-600 a bullet, would decrease the use of dangerous weapons in small time robberies, in columbine style killing sprees, etc.
Thats because Canada is 90% good guys, and every tenth bill they let their hair down and do something crazy (evil!)
Kinda like buy 9 burritos get the tenth covered in evil.
the jury's still out on teflon? this teflon condom I rigged has been causing hella itch recently- i wish I'd known that earlier. Maybe it just needs a wash.
Why would DOJ want access to student internet, at the flip of a switch? Simple - tired of searching for their own free porn, the DOJ have decided to use colleges and students across the country as a giant, hand-searching web-crawling porn cartographer!
well, yes, creationists - when we have constructed life - will point out that we have failed to conjure forth mass from nothing. When we have constructed mass - they will point out that we have only converted some other energy into mass. The difference between creation and construction is entirely political and insubstantial - if we believe first life arose on its own, in the primordial ooze, we still believe that that it was constructed of smaller particles....
I don't think intelligence is any more complex a problem than any other part of an organism. We don't have to create intelligence - we have to copycat the system of self-connecting neurons that leads to intelligence.
You can say that it's because coders have no lives, and need imaginary ones to feel good about themselves - might be true for some.
You can say we game because we are inherently more creative than the general population - also might be true for some.
I think the coding - gaming connection comes from imagination. Not to say that we have better imaginations than other people, but to say that gaming requires maintaining another world in your head, and coding requires maintaining another world in your head - in this case one made of variables and interwoven systems. Variables and interwoven systems - could be characters and political alignments, etc. I think the act of coding because it relies so much on keeping track of an invented, possibly not implemented yet system in your head, is rather like DMing an RPG, keeping track of a system, implementing it part by part (telling the players) adapting it to bugs (player behavior) and simulating and estimating what it will do (response to player behavior.)
Sure, even if you believe a fetus is a human being - if it comes to one life for another, the potential to be a human shouldn't surpass an actual, living human in need of help!
The counterclaim has sometimes been: We aren't gods! Giving life to Jimmy at the expense of the fetus is arrogance in the face of God!
Wait a moment - when has it not been ok to choose one life over another? Where was the religious right during the cold war? Or the Iraq war? Or capital punishment? Surprise - life vs life decisions are made all the time, for a variety of reasons, convenience among others - by those same people who will tell you that they can't choose in the case of "fetus 4971 Vrs Jimmy"
Drug companies like to whine about how much money they spend in R&D for a given drug - but they don't spend that much money. The money goes into marketing, and into profit. Developing a fancy shmancy drug might involve a 6 million dollar large scale surveys, it might involve 20 senior scientists and 40 assistants for 2 years. If the senior scientists make 200,000 a year and the assistants make 100,000 lets say R&D salary is 16 million then. Perhaps there are 20 million in facilities costs, property taxes on those facilities, which is a one time cost for the company as they can reuse their facilities. being enormously generous, and factoring in lots of mishaps, lets say there is a 10 million dollar budget for materials - including buying time on electron scanners, glassware, test monkeys, cable TV for the break room, etc,
This still all adds up for a startup R&D cost of 52 million dollars, and a running cost of 32 million dollars. Ive probably overlooked lots of costs, and been naive about others, lets jump the R&D cost up to 100 million dollars just to be safe - this still doesn't require 40 years of price gouging patent control to be profitable.
Rather, companies skimp on the R&D and spend on the advertising. Their ultimate goal is to sell drugs - whether those drugs are better or worse than the competition is 80% in the mind of the consumer. If a new class of drugs comes out, to compete, they can just buy a patent from a smaller group. The money goes into competitive advertising, the R&D that sells drugs is in the minds of the consumer.
GJ Thailand!
I think this could be most interesting with regard to dual boots - especially with regard to Mactels with Windows onboard. You can switch operating systems without rebooting, or without going through all the loading and calculation involved with rebooting.
Virtual PC has a "Save PC state on shutdown" option which already does this. When you quit virtual PC, everything its doing is simply stored, and recalled very fast when you reopen this. Implementing this for x operating systems on your Mactel can't be impossible. Each OS stores itself and then restores the one you want before terminating itself - you could switch from Linux to OS-X to XP in as little as 20 seconds each change!
I think the name for this kind of request is "Protection Money."
The record companies are used to being the biggest kid on the block, they are used to winning unbalanced cases with hoards of lawyers, if the gloves really come off in this fight Apple will be more than they can handle.
Steve has already publicly called them greedy - but what if built into the iTunes music store when you went to buy music was a brief explanation of why people can't buy their music, and a signup page for a CD sales boycott? How about a link to lime-wire? What if through iTunes, I can start a musician account with Apple, upload my music to them and make 15 cents a download?
The record companies need to realize just how much backlash there could be.
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Downloading fiscally just isn't a big deal. Out here in the real-world, not that many people download, and those who do definitely wouldn't consider buying the movie. Movie rentals are barely impacted by downloading - as a movie rental is a choice of convenience rather than pure economic consideration. It doesn't matter to the big manufacturers that their DRM will be broken by super geeks and the disgruntled tech savvy will download their movies. The actual number of paying customers that choose to download instead is fairly small. DRM just needs to make it inconvenient for the average, perhaps even below average user. How many of our parents would download and burn a copy of a movie to watch it on the downstairs TV - instead of just renting it. DRM is not an all or nothing battle. Its not whether it can be hacked, but how comfortable the hacking process is for the majority of *paying* customers. That said, if it ties down to one player when you put it in, people will rebel! I don't believe that the discs will do that - afterall - video rental would be over. The infrastructure isnt quite in place for all digital delivery yet.
Your logic with the DC Fairfax comparison is not conclusive. Sure, in Fairfax people having guns results in some successful deterrances and defenses, while that doesn't happen in DC. But things could still be better in both places with tighter gun restrictions, as the guns that people use for self defense eventually trickle through society and end up in the hands of those who use them for assault / robbery. I think it is too late to try and take the guns back out of society, we will only manage to take the guns from law abiding citizens and further unbalance the law vs crime arms ratio. We need to starve them out. Massive ammunition taxes on sold ammunition, I'm thinking so that it costs you $400-600 a bullet, would decrease the use of dangerous weapons in small time robberies, in columbine style killing sprees, etc.
Thats because Canada is 90% good guys, and every tenth bill they let their hair down and do something crazy (evil!) Kinda like buy 9 burritos get the tenth covered in evil.
the jury's still out on teflon? this teflon condom I rigged has been causing hella itch recently- i wish I'd known that earlier. Maybe it just needs a wash.
Why would DOJ want access to student internet, at the flip of a switch? Simple - tired of searching for their own free porn, the DOJ have decided to use colleges and students across the country as a giant, hand-searching web-crawling porn cartographer!
well, yes, creationists - when we have constructed life - will point out that we have failed to conjure forth mass from nothing. When we have constructed mass - they will point out that we have only converted some other energy into mass. The difference between creation and construction is entirely political and insubstantial - if we believe first life arose on its own, in the primordial ooze, we still believe that that it was constructed of smaller particles....
I don't think intelligence is any more complex a problem than any other part of an organism. We don't have to create intelligence - we have to copycat the system of self-connecting neurons that leads to intelligence.
You can say that it's because coders have no lives, and need imaginary ones to feel good about themselves - might be true for some. You can say we game because we are inherently more creative than the general population - also might be true for some. I think the coding - gaming connection comes from imagination. Not to say that we have better imaginations than other people, but to say that gaming requires maintaining another world in your head, and coding requires maintaining another world in your head - in this case one made of variables and interwoven systems. Variables and interwoven systems - could be characters and political alignments, etc. I think the act of coding because it relies so much on keeping track of an invented, possibly not implemented yet system in your head, is rather like DMing an RPG, keeping track of a system, implementing it part by part (telling the players) adapting it to bugs (player behavior) and simulating and estimating what it will do (response to player behavior.)
Sure, even if you believe a fetus is a human being - if it comes to one life for another, the potential to be a human shouldn't surpass an actual, living human in need of help! The counterclaim has sometimes been: We aren't gods! Giving life to Jimmy at the expense of the fetus is arrogance in the face of God! Wait a moment - when has it not been ok to choose one life over another? Where was the religious right during the cold war? Or the Iraq war? Or capital punishment? Surprise - life vs life decisions are made all the time, for a variety of reasons, convenience among others - by those same people who will tell you that they can't choose in the case of "fetus 4971 Vrs Jimmy"
Drug companies like to whine about how much money they spend in R&D for a given drug - but they don't spend that much money. The money goes into marketing, and into profit. Developing a fancy shmancy drug might involve a 6 million dollar large scale surveys, it might involve 20 senior scientists and 40 assistants for 2 years. If the senior scientists make 200,000 a year and the assistants make 100,000 lets say R&D salary is 16 million then. Perhaps there are 20 million in facilities costs, property taxes on those facilities, which is a one time cost for the company as they can reuse their facilities. being enormously generous, and factoring in lots of mishaps, lets say there is a 10 million dollar budget for materials - including buying time on electron scanners, glassware, test monkeys, cable TV for the break room, etc, This still all adds up for a startup R&D cost of 52 million dollars, and a running cost of 32 million dollars. Ive probably overlooked lots of costs, and been naive about others, lets jump the R&D cost up to 100 million dollars just to be safe - this still doesn't require 40 years of price gouging patent control to be profitable. Rather, companies skimp on the R&D and spend on the advertising. Their ultimate goal is to sell drugs - whether those drugs are better or worse than the competition is 80% in the mind of the consumer. If a new class of drugs comes out, to compete, they can just buy a patent from a smaller group. The money goes into competitive advertising, the R&D that sells drugs is in the minds of the consumer. GJ Thailand!
I think this could be most interesting with regard to dual boots - especially with regard to Mactels with Windows onboard. You can switch operating systems without rebooting, or without going through all the loading and calculation involved with rebooting. Virtual PC has a "Save PC state on shutdown" option which already does this. When you quit virtual PC, everything its doing is simply stored, and recalled very fast when you reopen this. Implementing this for x operating systems on your Mactel can't be impossible. Each OS stores itself and then restores the one you want before terminating itself - you could switch from Linux to OS-X to XP in as little as 20 seconds each change!
I think the name for this kind of request is "Protection Money." The record companies are used to being the biggest kid on the block, they are used to winning unbalanced cases with hoards of lawyers, if the gloves really come off in this fight Apple will be more than they can handle. Steve has already publicly called them greedy - but what if built into the iTunes music store when you went to buy music was a brief explanation of why people can't buy their music, and a signup page for a CD sales boycott? How about a link to lime-wire? What if through iTunes, I can start a musician account with Apple, upload my music to them and make 15 cents a download? The record companies need to realize just how much backlash there could be.