I don't believe I mentioned the quality of movies, or whatever. What I suggested is that the only way to stop downloading, you must make paying for the product to be a more compelling option than downloading it. You claimed cost and convenience as the driving force behind downloading content and I merely countered that making the physical product more convenient and cheaper would solve the issue.
DRM is nothing like debt collection. If I didn't pay my electricity supplier, they'd just stop supplying. Like it or not, the majority of people are basically law abiding. Now, whether you agree with those laws is another matter, but you're wrong - most people who download now, would not continue to do so if the content was a better match for what they are looking for. Using your movie example - you only have to look at the record opening weekend figures announced to understand. Going to a theatre to see a movie and sharing the experience is still a huge plus for many people. Sure, they may continue to download the movie afterwards, but the value proposition of going to the theatre and seeing it is enough to make them want to pay. That's the whole point - make your consumers want to pay instead of treating them like criminal scum, and they will pay.
So give people something worth paying for. Make the physical product fit with what people (the market) are demanding. Make the DVD cheaper and more convenient. Sooner or later, whether through unofficial downloads or consumer apathy, the "entertainment" industry is just gonna have to change their broken business methods or they will die.
That's a simple fact in an environment where people no longer buy what they are selling. No, one download does not equal one lost sale, but the genuine lost sales - the people who are disillusioned with the product, they are the ones who will destroy the industry, because they are the ones whose money will buy some other form of distraction instead.
DRM is like a debt collection department - a necessary evil of any corporation to protect their income stream.
That is provably false. DRM only affects the people who have already paid for the protected content. Please explain the need to protect an income stream that you have already received. Once your product has been paid for - it's no longer an income stream, it's assets. The only way to protect an income stream is to ensure that it continues. DRM does not do this.
Actually, they are bare-metal hypervisors. In the latest versions and probably the last couple of versions too, the Linux management console you speak of is in fact a VM running on the ESX hypervisor.
You do realise that the CPU is the flat square thing that may or may not have hundreds of little pins sticking out of it, is far smaller than a hard drive and that sits inside the CASE don't you?
I guess you're American? In the UK, HR always conducts one interview, usually the final interview to vet your "soft skills". Over here, HR don't know enough about most jobs to vet the CV, the recruitment agent does that, and they work for a totally different company usually.
Of course, you tell them what they want to hear and nobody minds. The HR interview is usually just a formality, but it's not good to "fail" the HR interview in most companies.
Um, if you get rooted, the attacker has total access to the physical machine regardless of operating system. It doesn't matter if Windows can read a Linux filesystem - if your attacker can natively read it then its game over, and there are plenty of tools out there to allow read/write access of ext2/3/4 filesystems from Windows. Just ask Google Ext2/3/4 is not the partition - it's the filesystem.
Windows is not able to natively see/read/access ext2 and ext3 partitions.
It's a partition - Windows can see/read/access any partition. It's the filesystem it has no native support for.
Don't be ridiculous. You have six months, and you are required by law to inform the sender. They are obliged to collect it at their expense, but if they haven't within six months, then and only then, is it yours to do with as you please. The fact that it was not addressed to you, regardless of being sent to your address, means that you just committed an act of treason in the UK.
128. Subsection (3) makes it an offence for a person, intending to act to a person's detriment and without reasonable excuse, to open a postal packet which he knows or suspects has been incorrectly delivered to him.
Why would it become your property after 28 days when the sender doesn't even know it didn't get to the intended recipient?
Even if the phone is duly reported lost or stolen after the 28 days then sorry, UK law permits the sale so it is entirely legal. I just wish they had sent me more phones;)
So now you are seriously telling us that it is legal to sell stolen property, so long as the police don't catch you within 28 days?
Here in the UK, VAT registered companies do not pay VAT - at the end of the fiscal year, they get a rebate for all the VAT paid. It is only consumers that pay VAT.
For what it's worth, yes we do pay more for goods in the UK, but that's only partially because of VAT. mainly it's because of market forces - we are stupid enough to pay the higher prices so thats what we get charged.
The thing is, despite what the name suggests, the Big Bang wasn't an explosion, so matter is not being ejected from anywhere. What is happening is that the space-time that the matter is present in is expanding and therefore every piece of matter is moving away from every other piece of matter and there is no centre to this.
Think of a balloon, you draw dots all over it and then inflate it - the dots all move away from each other with no dot being in the centre - the "space-time" or balloon is expanding so there is no centre that all the dots are being ejected from.
I've had this problem where you cannot activate even on exactly the same hardware because MS have arbitrarily decided you have used Windows too often.
I have found, however, that if you go through the wizard to telephone MS and activate over the phone, but instead opt to enter a new product ID, enter your current, valid, legal product ID and then try to activate over the Internet.
If it doesn't work, try a couple more times. Every time I've reinstalled Windows on the same hardware and failed the first activation, the new installation ID that is generated by this procedure solves the activation problem.
Here in the UK at least, I can call myself anything I want to. The only times I am obliged to use my legal name is on such things as government communications, passports, driving licenses, etc.
When dealing with private companies I could call myself "Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last years Mr. Madman competition"
Just using an assumed name is not of itself identity fraud, since any given name cannot be said to uniquely identify any individual person. Calling up the phone company claiming to be John Smith, living at a particular address could be considered identity fraud since you have now identified yourself a that particular John Smith with the intention of getting access to information that only that John Smith should have access to.
Identity Fraud|Theft isn't just about direct financial gain. It's about getting anything that only the person you are impersonating should have access to
Ironically, in cases like this older technology tends to me more reliable. When PCs and 3.5 inch disks and drives became more and more popular, manufacturing quality tended to drop due to mass-production. Why bother making something reliable when it only costs £0.10 (around 0.19 USD) to buy a new one? 10 years ago I never had a problem with floppy disks that cost around £1 each. 5 years ago I had at least a 10% failure rate on disks that cost around £0.10 each. I still have a floppy drive on my computer at home but I almost never use it except in extreme cases such as when Windows needs third party drivers before it will install on my hardware since it refuses to check my USB memory stick for additional files.
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I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!
I don't believe I mentioned the quality of movies, or whatever. What I suggested is that the only way to stop downloading, you must make paying for the product to be a more compelling option than downloading it. You claimed cost and convenience as the driving force behind downloading content and I merely countered that making the physical product more convenient and cheaper would solve the issue.
DRM is nothing like debt collection. If I didn't pay my electricity supplier, they'd just stop supplying. Like it or not, the majority of people are basically law abiding. Now, whether you agree with those laws is another matter, but you're wrong - most people who download now, would not continue to do so if the content was a better match for what they are looking for. Using your movie example - you only have to look at the record opening weekend figures announced to understand. Going to a theatre to see a movie and sharing the experience is still a huge plus for many people. Sure, they may continue to download the movie afterwards, but the value proposition of going to the theatre and seeing it is enough to make them want to pay. That's the whole point - make your consumers want to pay instead of treating them like criminal scum, and they will pay.
So give people something worth paying for. Make the physical product fit with what people (the market) are demanding. Make the DVD cheaper and more convenient. Sooner or later, whether through unofficial downloads or consumer apathy, the "entertainment" industry is just gonna have to change their broken business methods or they will die.
That's a simple fact in an environment where people no longer buy what they are selling. No, one download does not equal one lost sale, but the genuine lost sales - the people who are disillusioned with the product, they are the ones who will destroy the industry, because they are the ones whose money will buy some other form of distraction instead.
DRM is like a debt collection department - a necessary evil of any corporation to protect their income stream.
That is provably false. DRM only affects the people who have already paid for the protected content. Please explain the need to protect an income stream that you have already received. Once your product has been paid for - it's no longer an income stream, it's assets. The only way to protect an income stream is to ensure that it continues. DRM does not do this.
Actually, they are bare-metal hypervisors. In the latest versions and probably the last couple of versions too, the Linux management console you speak of is in fact a VM running on the ESX hypervisor.
You do realise that the CPU is the flat square thing that may or may not have hundreds of little pins sticking out of it, is far smaller than a hard drive and that sits inside the CASE don't you?
Of course, you tell them what they want to hear and nobody minds. The HR interview is usually just a formality, but it's not good to "fail" the HR interview in most companies.
It's both funny and tragic because it's true.
Windows is not able to natively see/read/access ext2 and ext3 partitions.
It's a partition - Windows can see/read/access any partition. It's the filesystem it has no native support for.
So long as they don't try to resurrect Lotus as OpenOffice, I'll be happy. Especially not that abomination Lotus notes.
Please see section 84 of The Postal Services Act 2000 which states:
128. Subsection (3) makes it an offence for a person, intending to act to a person's detriment and without reasonable excuse, to open a postal packet which he knows or suspects has been incorrectly delivered to him.
Why would it become your property after 28 days when the sender doesn't even know it didn't get to the intended recipient?
Even if the phone is duly reported lost or stolen after the 28 days then sorry, UK law permits the sale so it is entirely legal. I just wish they had sent me more phones ;)
So now you are seriously telling us that it is legal to sell stolen property, so long as the police don't catch you within 28 days?
You sir, are an ass.
Ripping the CD you just bought is making a backup copy. Downloading a copy from the Internet is making an unauthorised copy.
* Disclaimer: I actually don't agree with the RIAAs actions and think they have a lot to answer for.
Here in the UK, VAT registered companies do not pay VAT - at the end of the fiscal year, they get a rebate for all the VAT paid. It is only consumers that pay VAT.
For what it's worth, yes we do pay more for goods in the UK, but that's only partially because of VAT. mainly it's because of market forces - we are stupid enough to pay the higher prices so thats what we get charged.
Meh!
Think of a balloon, you draw dots all over it and then inflate it - the dots all move away from each other with no dot being in the centre - the "space-time" or balloon is expanding so there is no centre that all the dots are being ejected from.
I have found, however, that if you go through the wizard to telephone MS and activate over the phone, but instead opt to enter a new product ID, enter your current, valid, legal product ID and then try to activate over the Internet.
If it doesn't work, try a couple more times. Every time I've reinstalled Windows on the same hardware and failed the first activation, the new installation ID that is generated by this procedure solves the activation problem.
This is just my experience, but of course, YMMV.
When dealing with private companies I could call myself "Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last years Mr. Madman competition"
Just using an assumed name is not of itself identity fraud, since any given name cannot be said to uniquely identify any individual person. Calling up the phone company claiming to be John Smith, living at a particular address could be considered identity fraud since you have now identified yourself a that particular John Smith with the intention of getting access to information that only that John Smith should have access to.
Identity Fraud|Theft isn't just about direct financial gain. It's about getting anything that only the person you are impersonating should have access to
Of course, IANAL so YMMV.
Ironically, in cases like this older technology tends to me more reliable. When PCs and 3.5 inch disks and drives became more and more popular, manufacturing quality tended to drop due to mass-production. Why bother making something reliable when it only costs £0.10 (around 0.19 USD) to buy a new one? 10 years ago I never had a problem with floppy disks that cost around £1 each. 5 years ago I had at least a 10% failure rate on disks that cost around £0.10 each. I still have a floppy drive on my computer at home but I almost never use it except in extreme cases such as when Windows needs third party drivers before it will install on my hardware since it refuses to check my USB memory stick for additional files.
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Though I agree, it's a no-brainer to retreive data from C64 format media.