beta-max was technically inferior to vhs in one vital area. the tapes only lasted an hour. so people chose the technical superiority of 2 hour VHS tapes.
picture quality is only metric of technical superiority.
It just sounds like a gang of impotent nerds waving their genitals into cyberspace as a feeble act of defiance against microsoft.
what legal grounds do these allegations, threats and demands hold?
absolutely none. i could write an open letter to george bush demanding that he produce evidence for weapons of mass destruction in iraq and he wouldn't have a valid response but that doesn't change the fact that he can do and did whatever the fuck he pleases despite anyone's demands for fairness and due process.
if anyone thinks this forthright proclamation of unfairness will have the slightest effect then they are naive beyond reckoning.
grow up, this isn't elementary school, and the world, let alone the US courts and/or patent system, aren't fair and shrill protestations on the internet won't change that the tiniest iota.
That's irrelevant. Imagine they went in to a gui software installer, and clicked "install nvidia drivers", and that didn't work. How would it being a GUI make it easier to figure out how to fix it than if it were a CLI?
When a computer goes wrong in an unexpected way, it doesnt matter if you were pasting text into a CLI or clicking a button on a GUI. You still have a mystery on your hands. In either situation, you use Google or IRC or a Forum to get some clues/some help.
Pasting a command into a CLI not inherently more likely to go wrong that clicking a button in a GUI. Composing your own commands is the thing that carries more risk, certainly if you dont understand what you are doing.
This is the distinction that people fail to make when having this argument.
"repeatedly hitting themselves and each other in the groin with a hammer. When we ask them to stop and re-think what they're doing, they just ask us for money to cover the medical expenses. And then they use that money to buy more fucking hammers."
nyuk nyuk nyuk... i'll licence yer technology ya chowder head! woobwoobwoobwoob woob! how d'ya like them apples?
Perhaps the market could adapt to being able to recoup investment and profit purely from box office takings and/or merchandising. I bet if push came to shove and DVD revenues completely dried up, they'd just stop paying actors millions of dollars, develop cheaper and more efficient methods of production, and carry on making movies. You dont have to spend $80,000,000 to make a good movie.
Just because their "lumbering giant" business model is going to collapse doesn't mean it's impossible to monetize the market under those conditions.
Personally, I think that assuming control of other people's hardware so that you can force them to "play along" with your technologically absurd business model is morally wrong.
Thats not how it works. They can't hack into your computer and install DRM. You get to choose if you install Vista or iTunes or whatever. You are volunteering to give them control of your computer.
if we got to the moon we would have a lower gravity environment in which to develop such technologies. i imagine making a space elevator on the moon is much easier than making one on earth. having a "sandbox" to develop this stuff in might expedite the process.
by train you mean tell them "if someone asks for the source code, mail them one of these CDs". that doesnt sound much more effort than putting a tarball on the server.
"But we can't do experiments on the Earth's climate, so the correcting mechanism is broken."
Well we can't control its state with any degree of precision, but we can certainly make observations of how it is behaving, and how it has behaved in the past. I mean, you can't do any experiments involving dinosaurs, but the scientific community is quite confident to state facts about them.
yeah - sometimes analogies just cloud the issue:) apparently my contrived car analogy hasnt been very successful:) i've been told visual studio is free nowadays. who would 'a thunk it.
in those circumstances, yes being able to go 200mph would be essential. but not everyone is in the indy 500. but apparently i'm told Visual Studio is free now, so that kind invalidates the entire analogy:)
no, but an IDE isnt a hammer. You are implying that Eclipse wont function as an IDE because it isnt finished yet. That isnt true. It simply hasnt matched every single feature of VS yet.
Put it this way - if someone offered you a moderately featured family sedan for free, would you turn it down because you'd rather buy a formula 1 car that can go 80mph faster?
perhaps you need to go 200mph. most people dont.
its an even more tempting proposition when you factor in the the family sedan maker will automatically upgrade you car every year until eventually it does go as fast a formula 1 car.
only if the total area of the screen occupied by those 19 hidden items is the nearly the same as the total area taken up by content. it could have blocked 19 64x64 gifs for all you know.
The thing is, even if you stop sharing as soon as your download is complete, you've still shared some of the file while it was downloading. So a lack of motivation to share has been trumped by the technical necessity to share at least some of the file. The fact the file is being seeded from an official server means the torrent is never going to run dry, and the fact you're paying for the download counteracts the cost of them picking up the slack from lack of benevolent seeding.
you're missing the point. the point is DVD and HD-DVD have more than one platform to exist on, therefore the fact the Xbox/Xbox360 only include players for them as an add-on will have almost no impact on their success as a format.
The problem here is the use of the word "worst". Worse and better are adjectives. You need a subject for them to be adjectives of. Perhaps it was the worst loss of financial investment. Perhaps it was the worst setback in terms of infrastructure to improve standards of living. It seems it wasn't the worst in terms of direct loss of life.
There is no meaningful "worst" in overall terms because there are so many independent apples and oranges metrics of which it could be the "worst".
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beta-max was technically inferior to vhs in one vital area. the tapes only lasted an hour. so people chose the technical superiority of 2 hour VHS tapes. picture quality is only metric of technical superiority.
oh sure, let's all do the same thing. that's the fucking definition of original.
growing?
for what in the name of holy hell do you need 100 tabs open?
Frankly, shit idea, shit implementation.
It just sounds like a gang of impotent nerds waving their genitals into cyberspace as a feeble act of defiance against microsoft.
what legal grounds do these allegations, threats and demands hold?
absolutely none. i could write an open letter to george bush demanding that he produce evidence for weapons of mass destruction in iraq and he wouldn't have a valid response but that doesn't change the fact that he can do and did whatever the fuck he pleases despite anyone's demands for fairness and due process.
if anyone thinks this forthright proclamation of unfairness will have the slightest effect then they are naive beyond reckoning.
grow up, this isn't elementary school, and the world, let alone the US courts and/or patent system, aren't fair and shrill protestations on the internet won't change that the tiniest iota.
That's irrelevant. Imagine they went in to a gui software installer, and clicked "install nvidia drivers", and that didn't work. How would it being a GUI make it easier to figure out how to fix it than if it were a CLI?
When a computer goes wrong in an unexpected way, it doesnt matter if you were pasting text into a CLI or clicking a button on a GUI. You still have a mystery on your hands. In either situation, you use Google or IRC or a Forum to get some clues/some help.
Pasting a command into a CLI not inherently more likely to go wrong that clicking a button in a GUI. Composing your own commands is the thing that carries more risk, certainly if you dont understand what you are doing.
This is the distinction that people fail to make when having this argument.
"repeatedly hitting themselves and each other in the groin with a hammer. When we ask them to stop and re-think what they're doing, they just ask us for money to cover the medical expenses. And then they use that money to buy more fucking hammers."
nyuk nyuk nyuk... i'll licence yer technology ya chowder head! woobwoobwoobwoob woob! how d'ya like them apples?
in what possible way could this be a trap?
didnt the article say word viewer was affected too?
Perhaps the market could adapt to being able to recoup investment and profit purely from box office takings and/or merchandising. I bet if push came to shove and DVD revenues completely dried up, they'd just stop paying actors millions of dollars, develop cheaper and more efficient methods of production, and carry on making movies. You dont have to spend $80,000,000 to make a good movie.
Just because their "lumbering giant" business model is going to collapse doesn't mean it's impossible to monetize the market under those conditions.
Personally, I think that assuming control of other people's hardware so that you can force them to "play along" with your technologically absurd business model is morally wrong.
Thats not how it works. They can't hack into your computer and install DRM. You get to choose if you install Vista or iTunes or whatever. You are volunteering to give them control of your computer.
if it occurs that infrequently then there isn't any harm in them asking someone in charge what to do.
if we got to the moon we would have a lower gravity environment in which to develop such technologies. i imagine making a space elevator on the moon is much easier than making one on earth. having a "sandbox" to develop this stuff in might expedite the process.
by train you mean tell them "if someone asks for the source code, mail them one of these CDs". that doesnt sound much more effort than putting a tarball on the server.
"But we can't do experiments on the Earth's climate, so the correcting mechanism is broken."
Well we can't control its state with any degree of precision, but we can certainly make observations of how it is behaving, and how it has behaved in the past. I mean, you can't do any experiments involving dinosaurs, but the scientific community is quite confident to state facts about them.
but that still doesn't tell us what most companies are doing. maybe it was a legitimate joke.
yeah - sometimes analogies just cloud the issue :) apparently my contrived car analogy hasnt been very successful :) i've been told visual studio is free nowadays. who would 'a thunk it.
in those circumstances, yes being able to go 200mph would be essential. but not everyone is in the indy 500. but apparently i'm told Visual Studio is free now, so that kind invalidates the entire analogy :)
oh well that's fair enough then.
no, but an IDE isnt a hammer. You are implying that Eclipse wont function as an IDE because it isnt finished yet. That isnt true. It simply hasnt matched every single feature of VS yet.
Put it this way - if someone offered you a moderately featured family sedan for free, would you turn it down because you'd rather buy a formula 1 car that can go 80mph faster?
perhaps you need to go 200mph. most people dont.
its an even more tempting proposition when you factor in the the family sedan maker will automatically upgrade you car every year until eventually it does go as fast a formula 1 car.
only if the total area of the screen occupied by those 19 hidden items is the nearly the same as the total area taken up by content. it could have blocked 19 64x64 gifs for all you know.
The thing is, even if you stop sharing as soon as your download is complete, you've still shared some of the file while it was downloading. So a lack of motivation to share has been trumped by the technical necessity to share at least some of the file. The fact the file is being seeded from an official server means the torrent is never going to run dry, and the fact you're paying for the download counteracts the cost of them picking up the slack from lack of benevolent seeding.
you're missing the point. the point is DVD and HD-DVD have more than one platform to exist on, therefore the fact the Xbox/Xbox360 only include players for them as an add-on will have almost no impact on their success as a format.
The problem here is the use of the word "worst". Worse and better are adjectives. You need a subject for them to be adjectives of. Perhaps it was the worst loss of financial investment. Perhaps it was the worst setback in terms of infrastructure to improve standards of living. It seems it wasn't the worst in terms of direct loss of life.
There is no meaningful "worst" in overall terms because there are so many independent apples and oranges metrics of which it could be the "worst".
i think you're being called a spammer because you're advertising for commercial services in a discussion forum.