Re: Re: Re: Re: categorically discounting drm is stupid
Disclaimer - I am a long-time Sirius subscriber that is letting his subscriptions run out this year because it it not worth the cost.
A bit of warning, start calling now to cancel, you will be billed, and they will put you into a queue an hour or so long as soon as you mention canceling. I wanted to cancel one of my radios a couple months back, keeping the other two, the experience was so frustrating, that I wound up canceling their services altogether. It took 3 calls, and nearly 3 hours of my time to do so. I think it was easier to get AOL canceled in the late 90's.
I have Cable One service in Prescott Valley. Their TOS says the'll cut the bandwidth in half after downloading X amount of content in a given day. What this basically means is if I watch two movies on Netflix, I can't watch Hulu or Netflix reliably the rest of the day. Despite the fact that 1/2 my bandwidth is still more than 2x what the stream takes. That's BS. The only reason I haven't switched to DSL is I'm planning on moving in the next couple months, and the DSL provider is nearly as bad.
If you catch then slap, you are able to catch at the right moment/position, and even correct during the slap. I think it is more of a case of the mind sometimes working faster than we realize.
1hr of 1080p video on MP4+AVC is usually around 4-5GB for minimal artifacting and loss.. @ 5 hrs, this winds up being closer to 20-25GB, not the 10-12GB suggested above.
If something done by a typical person, wouldn't be admonished by the vast majority of the population (99%+), then it probably shouldn't be illegal to begin with.
If this piece of SQL (A script for all intents and purposes) isn't copyrightable, then what is?
It's code meant to be compiled/parsed and executed by a computer. By the same logic as some here *NO* code can be under copyright protection (including GPL code). To be honest, it's pretty silly, but depends on the script in question.
If it's a fairly simple select statement, than no way... if it's a set of commands, and/or a sproc, then who knows. It's pretty gray afaik. And probably depends on the structure itself.
Honestly, I have legit Windows licenses, and WGA has never been an issue for me. There have been a couple instances where the WGA servers weren't available, that did affect a small handful of people, but that's actually pretty small.
As much as I dislike WGA in premise, it isn't that bad, and have a hard time believing it has done anything to slow you down, or interfere with your normal use of the OS.
This reminds me of a rather heated argument my wife and I had a few months ago regarding hardware hacking. I mentioned, in passing, that I wished I put the homebrew channel on our Wii before they closed the hole that allowed for it. She had mentioned that she didn't think it was right that I use hardware outside its' sold purpose, and that DMCA provisions enforcing this are good... I made the analogy that it's like restricting someone from changing the stereo in their car... She went on to state that's silly, the car companies don't do anything to stop you.
If the car companies could legally stop you from purchasing stereos from 3rd parties they would... More and more stereos have integrated dash panels that don't accept aftermarket equipment, and even beyond that, many have custom, proprietary adapters inside the panel. It's exactly the same problem.
People pirated television and movies, because they wanted a copy at a price point that was competitive more than they wanted it *free* (though free is nice). Take hulu for example, I'd be willing to pay, say a $0.10 sent micropayment to "rent" an episode for 24hrs. It'd probably be as much or more than they make from the ads, and still be convenient enough for me. Why more studios don't offer this is beyond me.
I have maybe 15 shows I watch a year, with staggered release schedules (usually 6-7 on a typical week). I'd rather pay 10-25 cents an episode on an a-la-cart plan than death with a skyrocketing cable/satellite plan. Offer the first 2-3 episodes of a show "free" with commercials, and make the rest a la cart. The iTunes $1 per episode is imho a bit overpriced, but 10-25 cents as a rental would be far more valuable to me. I don't need to own anything, I do buy DVDs of series I like to support those shows.. but I honestly only watch a given episode of a show maybe twice a decade... I'd rather pay another $3-5 a season every 5-6 years than have to worry about storing the thing.
I hate to take this side of the argument, but what about books that have newer revisions? If I write Math v1, and later release Math v2, does that mean since v1 is out of print I no longer have any rights? That's a poor example but still stands. I'm all for returning to a sane stance on copyright, but that's kind of absurd. The alternative would be to do a secondary run, the price of each copy is now $10,000 and it's no longer out of print... just insanely expensive... is that any better?
IIRC, Quake 3 was like that, and I was fine with it. It was "fair enough" and un-obtrusive. It's good enough for games that rely on a set of servers for interaction.
if you had told me in 1999 that a significant portion of my job would be supporting mobile phones, i would have told you that you were crazy.
Funny, I'd have thought it was a natural progression, after spending a little time dealing with creating a Palm application, and seeing Handspring in use.
I'm really against how copyrights, patents, and trademarks are abused. But the original contract terms clearly stated a payment amount per use. Once said contract was up, they should have negotiated a new contract, or stopped using the clothing.
Either pay up front, with transfer of any and all rights, or deal with the consequences. These are the consequences.
How about this, you can't follow more than 50 people unless someone follows you. You can't follow 10000% more people than follow you. That would resolve a lot of the spammy accounts on twitter.
Allow/encourage federal employees to make use of social networks. Charge those that spam and distribute malware with felony charges, throw their asses in prison for 10 years. If an infection of a government system can be shown (even if an assistant's desktop), charge with treason, and shoot the bastard.
The rest will sort itself out... I keep saying that once spammers start showing up with bullets in their head, there will be fewer spammers.
So, if there's a music tax, and I create a little diddy, and release it out there, I'll get a royalty check each month without doing anything else? Sounds like welfare to me.
I'm far from a grammar Nazi, but it really does irritate me when a professional work, that I pay to read has simple spelling and grammatical errors. I think it's far worse today that 20 years ago. Where is the editorial staff in publishing? Isn't it their job to proofread the content they intend to put to print?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: categorically discounting drm is stupid
A bit of warning, start calling now to cancel, you will be billed, and they will put you into a queue an hour or so long as soon as you mention canceling. I wanted to cancel one of my radios a couple months back, keeping the other two, the experience was so frustrating, that I wound up canceling their services altogether. It took 3 calls, and nearly 3 hours of my time to do so. I think it was easier to get AOL canceled in the late 90's.
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Bandwidth Shaping
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call in the air, and let it fall
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Video use...
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Why shouldn't SQL be copyrightable?
It's code meant to be compiled/parsed and executed by a computer. By the same logic as some here *NO* code can be under copyright protection (including GPL code). To be honest, it's pretty silly, but depends on the script in question.
If it's a fairly simple select statement, than no way... if it's a set of commands, and/or a sproc, then who knows. It's pretty gray afaik. And probably depends on the structure itself.
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Re: WGA
As much as I dislike WGA in premise, it isn't that bad, and have a hard time believing it has done anything to slow you down, or interfere with your normal use of the OS.
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What ever happened to...
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Heh..
If the car companies could legally stop you from purchasing stereos from 3rd parties they would... More and more stereos have integrated dash panels that don't accept aftermarket equipment, and even beyond that, many have custom, proprietary adapters inside the panel. It's exactly the same problem.
People pirated television and movies, because they wanted a copy at a price point that was competitive more than they wanted it *free* (though free is nice). Take hulu for example, I'd be willing to pay, say a $0.10 sent micropayment to "rent" an episode for 24hrs. It'd probably be as much or more than they make from the ads, and still be convenient enough for me. Why more studios don't offer this is beyond me.
I have maybe 15 shows I watch a year, with staggered release schedules (usually 6-7 on a typical week). I'd rather pay 10-25 cents an episode on an a-la-cart plan than death with a skyrocketing cable/satellite plan. Offer the first 2-3 episodes of a show "free" with commercials, and make the rest a la cart. The iTunes $1 per episode is imho a bit overpriced, but 10-25 cents as a rental would be far more valuable to me. I don't need to own anything, I do buy DVDs of series I like to support those shows.. but I honestly only watch a given episode of a show maybe twice a decade... I'd rather pay another $3-5 a season every 5-6 years than have to worry about storing the thing.
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Tax Intelectual Property
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Funny, I'd have thought it was a natural progression, after spending a little time dealing with creating a Palm application, and seeing Handspring in use.
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Siding with the designer here...
Either pay up front, with transfer of any and all rights, or deal with the consequences. These are the consequences.
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XYZ Corp is not evil
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Dear twitter...
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The answer is simple...
The rest will sort itself out... I keep saying that once spammers start showing up with bullets in their head, there will be fewer spammers.
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Re: Violating their own terms of service
Unfortunately, there's that little piece in place.
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Hmmm..
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I think it depends on a given context...
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