Download caps will effectively prevent that -- which is probably the REAL reason Comcast etc. are implementing download caps. They do not want to happen to them what happened to the phone companies vs. cellular and VOIP. They want to continue to deliver television programming.
When it came to DVD, it won over VHS and Laserdisc because on the VHS side, wear and smeared playback and eaten tapes came to an end; take care of a DVD and it will last virtually forever. It won over laserdisc because DVDs are not 12" in diameter and don't need to be swapped one to three times for a movie (yeah it's true some single-layer DVDs might have needed to be flipped but I have never seen one).
However, early adopters got screwed; buyers of early $300+ high-end DVD players were the victims of bad runs, and manufacturers (read:Sony) denied issues existed. I replaced a high-end Sony player with a no-name Apex player, and the Apex player was vastly superior (not to mention region-free and macrovision-free). People who bought into DIVX got equally screwed, by paying as much as or more than a "Basic DVD" player and then losing access to all of their movies.
With Blu-Ray, players are overpriced, and people have to pay more for the same content. Why bother when upsampling DVD players work pretty darn well to make the difference indistinguishable for casual viewers at 720p, noticeable only to pixel peepers? Not only that but a lot of content (old TV shows, older movies, etc.) were either videotaped at NTSC resolution or are on old, grainy film, where encoding at 1080i or 1080p would actually create distractions from actually enjoying the story.
Lastly, what the hell is up with HDCP? If you are an early HDTV adopter and have a DVI flat screen that doesn't talk HDCP or has an early HDCP device which doesn't like to handshake properly with players, you're locked out of the content. You have to turn to either composite, S-video, or if you're lucky, component (if you invested in a large monitor-only device with only DVI and VGA, no YPbPr, you're screwed).
Bring the players down to $125 to $150 or so and limit the Blu-Ray content premium to 10% or so over DVD, and you'll see uptake quickly increase.
As of September 2008, the total U.S. federal debt was approximately $9.7 trillion[2], about $31,700 per capita (that is, per U.S. resident). Of this amount, debt held by the public was roughly $5.3 trillion.[3]. If, in addition, unfunded Medicaid, Social Security, Medicare, etc. promises are added, this figure rises to a total of $59.1 trillion, or $516,348 per household.[4] In 2007, the public debt was 36.9 percent of GDP [5], with a total debt of 65.5 percent of GDP.[6] The CIA ranked the total percentage as 26th in the world.[7]
Of course, I am not responsible for this debt. Don't blame me; I voted for Kodos.
The sort of "multitasking" you refer to is exactly how we (The USA) racked up a national debt of $9.7 TRILLION dollars -- squandering monies extorted from citizens to pay for various frivolous projects.
Fry: "Back in the 20th century I had all five of your albums." Ad-Rock: "That was a thousand years ago! Now we got seven." Fry: "Cool! Can I borrow the new ones? And a couple of blank tapes?"
I think Ray would want a slam-dunk case rather than drag it out, because this suit has the potential to silence him on the issue until it is resolved. He has been an invaluable contributor here and other public sites and I would rather see him back here to contribute as quickly as possible.
So far he hasn't posted to this thread and I would be surprised to see him participate here or any other thread where the RIAA is the topic until this case goes to trial.
Link to Ray's blog with "RIAA" or "The truth about the RIAA" as the anchor text, and with "RIAA" as the title text. Writing a a few paragraphs of commentary about the situation will help further improve his page ranking as it increases the relevance of the links.
I think Ray has been chomping at the bit, baiting the RIAA every step of the way to go head to head against them to bring to a very public light what a sham their propoganda is. The RIAA loves to preach copyright, and yet they conveniently ignore and even go so far as to claim the Fair Use clause and rights defined under the Home Recording Act do not apply to anyone. Ray, might RICO apply in this case here?:)
Ray, thank you for your hard work. I do not think that copyright holders should be deprived of their just income, but not all copying is copyright infringement (even when bypassing technical measures, the DMCA allows provisions for interoperability, which transcoding/ripping IS FOR). Also, the "punishment" for casual "infringement" is not only unjust (hundreds of thousands of dollars for one $.99 track?) but is illegal in the case where the MP3/MPA/AAC file has been burned/copied/etc. to media (Music CD-R, DAT, etc.) where levies have been paid to the RIAA. Those levies pay for the copyright, which makes it legal for you to make a mix tape for your gf/bf/etc.
I'm sorry, but doesn't Israel have bigger problems to worry about, like terrorist nations who want to exterminate the Jews and push them into the ocean? Aren't Arab states constantly lobbing missiles and sending suicide bombers over the border? In light of the constant threat of war, it seems silly to me that they're cracking down so hard on dog poop. Yes, dog doo in the street is annoying, but it's not something I'd ever want tax dollars spent on were I an Israeli citizen.
Then you're running single-threaded applications. Try running multithreaded applications and you can pin both cores at 100%.
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Except, I'm not there to provide them with that info.
Right. There are very competent IT managers who know next to nothing about technology but know a hell of a lot about managing people - and that is managing not bullying or intimidating.
Also, what about IT managers with sysadmin experience? The average network engineer deals with hardware, installations/deployments, etc. and with modern systems may not have done much beyond DOS/NT CMD batch files. This does not make an IT manager incompetent at all. I prefer that the command line be used to automate everything possible through scripts but some shops buy management apps to do all the work - which is fine, until things break and then everything is proprietary, but I digress.
Not really. I'm there to provide them with "this is how long it will take me" or "this is how long I think it should take". That's not necessarily the same thing as how long it should take, what it should cost, etc.
A good manager will defer to subordinates when putting together the schedule. In a development environment, a VP will include at minimum the development director, chief architect, lead developers, QA director and QA leads in the scheduling process. Some time needs to be allotted to a discovery phase:
- What parts are suspected to be problem/unknown areas? Is doing $FOO feasible in ANY amount of time? Time to prototype BEFORE the schedule is determined.
- If third party controls are involved, can QA access those controls through automation? Time to prototype BEFORE the schedule is determined.
- Designing custom controls? Get prototypes to QA and make sure THOSE can be accessed through your automation harness.
- Is there a process in place to adjust the schedule in the event of feature creep?
Also, is the delivery date based on development of desired features, or is it a fixed date where the features are cropped based on that date? It makes no sense for execs to say "We need to deliver a product doing A, B, and C by septober 42nd in 3481, the year of our spaghetti" when it is possible for development to develop only A on time, or a tiny unstable subset of A, B, and C by that date.
If a manager defers to their subordinates and gets their counsel before committing to major decisions such as delivery dates, chances are that manager is an EXCELLENT IT manager, regardless of whether that person knows the difference between Microsoft Excel, OOo Calc, and (iWork) Numbers. The manager is there to manage, not implement. However, knowing the basics DOES help and is an asset of course, but if I had to choose between a technically-savvy pointy-haired egomaniac douchebag and a technophobe but skilled people person as a manager, I'd choose the latter. Technology can be learned, but megalomaniacal douchebaggery is all too often an innate trait in manangement types.
You don't own it.... you own a license to view what's on the disk. See how they get you there.
Incorrect. It's true if you are renting it might be true (it IS true in that event) but when you BUY it you:
1. Are purchasing an off-the-shelf commodity good
2. Are doing the exact same as buying a book
3. Are agreeing to the transaction advertised: "Own $MOVIE on DVD today!" in every TV ad, store kiosk, marquee/poster, and radio ad they smother us with. Their marketing departments KNOW the law and that you OWN that copy, and yet their lawyers are trying to brainwash the courts otherwise.
You OWN the copy of the content; you simply do not have a license (or the right) to redistribute outside of Fair Use provisions.
For the purpose of interoperability it is legal to circumvent technical measures. Getting it to work with your backup program is an interoperability situation.
For that one particular instance of infringement, yes, but you do not lose your copyright on it as you would your trademark protection -- or am I mistaken? Estoppel is different from losing your copyright.
The IXI System report and the 1981 patent explains how the whole idea revolved around distributing music electronically down telephone lines, this was many years before the internet had been invented.
Hogwash. The Internet was invented in October 1969 if you take ARPANet's going live into account, or 1983 if you want to consider the cutover to TCP/IP the birth date of the Internet. Considering that the basic infrastructure was the same and it was merely a cutover to a new protocol, I'd consider the ARPANet to be the birth of the Internet. In any case, 1979 does not predate 1969 at all, and if you want to consider the cutover to TCP/IP to be the birth of the Internet (sorry, it doesn't; internet email predates TCP/IP), 1979 is not "many" years prior to 1983.
What a crappy sensationalist rag. By their logic, I'd consider Tracy Dick to be the origin of the cellphone because he had a wrist telephone back in what, the 1930s? (1931; I just googled to verify). Also, what about wireless sound/data gadgets in Star Trek or even buck rogers? Both predate that "ipod" drawing by more than a decade (in the case of Buck Rogers, it's many decades).
A doodle != an invention, IMHO. If it is, then the time machine has already been invented, along with interstellar spacecraft and death stars.
Actually "karma" is one of the neatest checks in/.'s moderation system. Chances are if a user is modded down often enough, the user is a douchebag no one wants to read.
Everyone gets modded down from time to time. Post in a political forum, or a religious forum, etc. you'll invariably be modded down by someone who is "offended" because you posted an opinion not in line with their own. Or, you could post a "witty" comment which is taken the wrong way. It happens to everyone now and then. However, the occasional "flamebait" or "troll" mod won't affect you at all if those posts are in the minority because your average is hardly affected (and meta moderators should correct that eventually).
As you post you build an average score: thankfully those who go mental on here tend to hover at the -1 or less level. Once you reach that point (as you probably will today) no one needs to mod your posts any more to avoid reading your drivel; their threshold settings will keep moronic posts hidden.
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Download caps will effectively prevent that -- which is probably the REAL reason Comcast etc. are implementing download caps. They do not want to happen to them what happened to the phone companies vs. cellular and VOIP. They want to continue to deliver television programming.
Don't run any Microsoft or Apple operating system either, then. Both of them expressly declare there is no warranty.
Blu-Ray is failing due to pricing vs. benefit.
When it came to DVD, it won over VHS and Laserdisc because on the VHS side, wear and smeared playback and eaten tapes came to an end; take care of a DVD and it will last virtually forever. It won over laserdisc because DVDs are not 12" in diameter and don't need to be swapped one to three times for a movie (yeah it's true some single-layer DVDs might have needed to be flipped but I have never seen one).
However, early adopters got screwed; buyers of early $300+ high-end DVD players were the victims of bad runs, and manufacturers (read:Sony) denied issues existed. I replaced a high-end Sony player with a no-name Apex player, and the Apex player was vastly superior (not to mention region-free and macrovision-free). People who bought into DIVX got equally screwed, by paying as much as or more than a "Basic DVD" player and then losing access to all of their movies.
With Blu-Ray, players are overpriced, and people have to pay more for the same content. Why bother when upsampling DVD players work pretty darn well to make the difference indistinguishable for casual viewers at 720p, noticeable only to pixel peepers? Not only that but a lot of content (old TV shows, older movies, etc.) were either videotaped at NTSC resolution or are on old, grainy film, where encoding at 1080i or 1080p would actually create distractions from actually enjoying the story.
Lastly, what the hell is up with HDCP? If you are an early HDTV adopter and have a DVI flat screen that doesn't talk HDCP or has an early HDCP device which doesn't like to handshake properly with players, you're locked out of the content. You have to turn to either composite, S-video, or if you're lucky, component (if you invested in a large monitor-only device with only DVI and VGA, no YPbPr, you're screwed).
Bring the players down to $125 to $150 or so and limit the Blu-Ray content premium to 10% or so over DVD, and you'll see uptake quickly increase.
Try $59 TRILLION!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt
Of course, I am not responsible for this debt. Don't blame me; I voted for Kodos.
The sort of "multitasking" you refer to is exactly how we (The USA) racked up a national debt of $9.7 TRILLION dollars -- squandering monies extorted from citizens to pay for various frivolous projects.
Fry: "Back in the 20th century I had all five of your albums."
Ad-Rock: "That was a thousand years ago! Now we got seven."
Fry: "Cool! Can I borrow the new ones? And a couple of blank tapes?"
I think Ray would want a slam-dunk case rather than drag it out, because this suit has the potential to silence him on the issue until it is resolved. He has been an invaluable contributor here and other public sites and I would rather see him back here to contribute as quickly as possible.
So far he hasn't posted to this thread and I would be surprised to see him participate here or any other thread where the RIAA is the topic until this case goes to trial.
hose levies pay for the copyright,
s/copyright/royalty(-ies) or license(s)/
sorry about the brain fart.
Link to Ray's blog with "RIAA" or "The truth about the RIAA" as the anchor text, and with "RIAA" as the title text. Writing a a few paragraphs of commentary about the situation will help further improve his page ranking as it increases the relevance of the links.
Read the truth about the RIAA here.
I think Ray has been chomping at the bit, baiting the RIAA every step of the way to go head to head against them to bring to a very public light what a sham their propoganda is. The RIAA loves to preach copyright, and yet they conveniently ignore and even go so far as to claim the Fair Use clause and rights defined under the Home Recording Act do not apply to anyone. Ray, might RICO apply in this case here? :)
Ray, thank you for your hard work. I do not think that copyright holders should be deprived of their just income, but not all copying is copyright infringement (even when bypassing technical measures, the DMCA allows provisions for interoperability, which transcoding/ripping IS FOR). Also, the "punishment" for casual "infringement" is not only unjust (hundreds of thousands of dollars for one $.99 track?) but is illegal in the case where the MP3/MPA/AAC file has been burned/copied/etc. to media (Music CD-R, DAT, etc.) where levies have been paid to the RIAA. Those levies pay for the copyright, which makes it legal for you to make a mix tape for your gf/bf/etc.
You ought to have posted that as AC, because the RIAA will be suing you next for calling them pointless and annoying. ;)
I'm sorry, but doesn't Israel have bigger problems to worry about, like terrorist nations who want to exterminate the Jews and push them into the ocean? Aren't Arab states constantly lobbing missiles and sending suicide bombers over the border? In light of the constant threat of war, it seems silly to me that they're cracking down so hard on dog poop. Yes, dog doo in the street is annoying, but it's not something I'd ever want tax dollars spent on were I an Israeli citizen.
Then you're running single-threaded applications. Try running multithreaded applications and you can pin both cores at 100%.
Right. There are very competent IT managers who know next to nothing about technology but know a hell of a lot about managing people - and that is managing not bullying or intimidating.
Also, what about IT managers with sysadmin experience? The average network engineer deals with hardware, installations/deployments, etc. and with modern systems may not have done much beyond DOS/NT CMD batch files. This does not make an IT manager incompetent at all. I prefer that the command line be used to automate everything possible through scripts but some shops buy management apps to do all the work - which is fine, until things break and then everything is proprietary, but I digress.
A good manager will defer to subordinates when putting together the schedule. In a development environment, a VP will include at minimum the development director, chief architect, lead developers, QA director and QA leads in the scheduling process. Some time needs to be allotted to a discovery phase:
- What parts are suspected to be problem/unknown areas? Is doing $FOO feasible in ANY amount of time? Time to prototype BEFORE the schedule is determined.
- If third party controls are involved, can QA access those controls through automation? Time to prototype BEFORE the schedule is determined.
- Designing custom controls? Get prototypes to QA and make sure THOSE can be accessed through your automation harness.
- Is there a process in place to adjust the schedule in the event of feature creep?
Also, is the delivery date based on development of desired features, or is it a fixed date where the features are cropped based on that date? It makes no sense for execs to say "We need to deliver a product doing A, B, and C by septober 42nd in 3481, the year of our spaghetti" when it is possible for development to develop only A on time, or a tiny unstable subset of A, B, and C by that date.
If a manager defers to their subordinates and gets their counsel before committing to major decisions such as delivery dates, chances are that manager is an EXCELLENT IT manager, regardless of whether that person knows the difference between Microsoft Excel, OOo Calc, and (iWork) Numbers. The manager is there to manage, not implement. However, knowing the basics DOES help and is an asset of course, but if I had to choose between a technically-savvy pointy-haired egomaniac douchebag and a technophobe but skilled people person as a manager, I'd choose the latter. Technology can be learned, but megalomaniacal douchebaggery is all too often an innate trait in manangement types.
You are circumventing technical measures for the express purpose of interoperability (with your backup software). Perfectly legal.
Incorrect. It's true if you are renting it might be true (it IS true in that event) but when you BUY it you:
1. Are purchasing an off-the-shelf commodity good
2. Are doing the exact same as buying a book
3. Are agreeing to the transaction advertised: "Own $MOVIE on DVD today!" in every TV ad, store kiosk, marquee/poster, and radio ad they smother us with. Their marketing departments KNOW the law and that you OWN that copy, and yet their lawyers are trying to brainwash the courts otherwise.
You OWN the copy of the content; you simply do not have a license (or the right) to redistribute outside of Fair Use provisions.
For the purpose of interoperability it is legal to circumvent technical measures. Getting it to work with your backup program is an interoperability situation.
1. Boot from floppy, optical media, network, etc. /mnt -o rw /mnt
2. mount [/dev/sda1|/dev/hda1]
3. chroot
4. passwd root [password]
5. ??????
6. PROFIT!
No yanking to do. A reboot and 5 minutes of down time. Bang. Dead. Done.
For that one particular instance of infringement, yes, but you do not lose your copyright on it as you would your trademark protection -- or am I mistaken? Estoppel is different from losing your copyright.
That is true when it comes to trademark protection and patent protection, but NOT copyright protection.
Hogwash. The Internet was invented in October 1969 if you take ARPANet's going live into account, or 1983 if you want to consider the cutover to TCP/IP the birth date of the Internet. Considering that the basic infrastructure was the same and it was merely a cutover to a new protocol, I'd consider the ARPANet to be the birth of the Internet. In any case, 1979 does not predate 1969 at all, and if you want to consider the cutover to TCP/IP to be the birth of the Internet (sorry, it doesn't; internet email predates TCP/IP), 1979 is not "many" years prior to 1983.
What a crappy sensationalist rag. By their logic, I'd consider Tracy Dick to be the origin of the cellphone because he had a wrist telephone back in what, the 1930s? (1931; I just googled to verify). Also, what about wireless sound/data gadgets in Star Trek or even buck rogers? Both predate that "ipod" drawing by more than a decade (in the case of Buck Rogers, it's many decades).
A doodle != an invention, IMHO. If it is, then the time machine has already been invented, along with interstellar spacecraft and death stars.
Well, if they dropped idle, Das Modell might not have had his mental meltdown happen today, and THEN what would slashdotters have done for entertainment this afternoon? ;)
Perhaps, but those with MORE than half a brain can see that it is not broken. ;)
Actually "karma" is one of the neatest checks in /.'s moderation system. Chances are if a user is modded down often enough, the user is a douchebag no one wants to read.
Everyone gets modded down from time to time. Post in a political forum, or a religious forum, etc. you'll invariably be modded down by someone who is "offended" because you posted an opinion not in line with their own. Or, you could post a "witty" comment which is taken the wrong way. It happens to everyone now and then. However, the occasional "flamebait" or "troll" mod won't affect you at all if those posts are in the minority because your average is hardly affected (and meta moderators should correct that eventually).
As you post you build an average score: thankfully those who go mental on here tend to hover at the -1 or less level. Once you reach that point (as you probably will today) no one needs to mod your posts any more to avoid reading your drivel; their threshold settings will keep moronic posts hidden.
All in all, it is a great system.
The system works; it keeps people like you filtered out when we want to read quality posts.