"This puts limitations on proprietary owners as to choices they can make in utilities."
Yes, and that's where "libertarianism" suddenly shifts from people making their own decisions to people being forced to use more expensive and inferior services because it suits someone else. It's strange to me that it always seems to boil down to instead of individual freedom, it's always down to what some local clique has decided is best for their own pocket even if it damages everyone else's.
"Very few flat out block an alternative service choice"
Again, I'm only asking because where I live there's usually multiple services available, and you have a choice of ISP service even if the last mile infrastructure only comes from one provider. From my understand of the state of things in the US, because the monopolies have been retained instead of being dismantled by things like local loop unbundling and separating the service from the physical cable, people don't generally have that choice. Which doesn't exactly seem like the best choice for all, especially in areas where the average person can't actually buy property on the average wage.
"You know, or should have known, your options when you sign the rental contract."
Which is great, assuming options never change after you sign the contract or monopolies are so tight that you never have a choice of apartment building that's not under the same monopoly. It's great when people have a real choice of where to live and the ISP is a negotiating tool in that, but if you need somewhere to live and everyone's tied to the same monopoly because all the building owners have been bought, then that supposed choice becomes moot.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Some AI generated works shouldn't be public
"How is software any different?"
Because software that's actually in use is not in a fixed format. Unless you're using something that's truly obsolete, software is built on and remodelled all the time, which can range from fixing bugs to adding new features or even a complete rewrite of the engine under the hood. While this is happening, certain rules need to be applied as to how people interact with and (most importantly) release their changes in line with what everyone else is using, which requires licensing.
There's some similarities to other types of content on a superficial basis, but once you start talking about the code and not a compiled end binary, those similarities soon end.
...and some people are. While expressing their reasons to others while doing so. Some of these people are paying customers, some are artists who feel they can no longer have a business relationship with Spotify. Which is not a problem.
I love the way you're still arguing and presenting less than 70 tapes a month as being a significant win.
This is the very definition of a niche market, and the attempt to capture that market via a short run of a title that sells way more on DVD is the definition of a gimmick.
Of course there's a market. But, the current market probably doesn't even cover breakages on the typical DVD run, and DVD is dying apart from a niche market itself.
"Many have no clue just how integrated the modern computer systems in vehicles are."
Sure, but again it's down to which part fails. There shouldn't be any reason why a car would fail on any of its fundamental system because the central console dies, since the main purpose of that is to provide feedback to the driver and provide optional functions.
"There’s no manual override for any of the infotainment or comfort offerings.
Heated items are controlled by apps. Seat positions. Security settings. Safety. All apps."
Some of those things are not like the others. I haven't driver any of the cars you mention so it seems weird to me that things like seat positions can't be controlled manually, and that's is a safety concern. But, there's a vast difference between someone not being able to heat their seat or a mirror until they get a service and actual safety features going down because a screen is no longer available.
Appeal to authority is a fallacy no matter how you use it, but it's especially stupid if you post it anonymously without any evidence as to why you should be trusted.
I suppose it depends on how you define "unusable". Sure, they were able to be used as "dumb" bikes during the outage, but those bikes potentially cost 1/10 of what people are paying for the Pelaton. So, they weren't bricked, but people lost every advantage that made them choose to buy a more expensive bike.
Not disastrous, perhaps, but it's yet another reminder that if you're expected to pay a premium for something that can lose the value of the premium at a moment's notice for reasons beyond your control, you shouldn't be paying that premium.
The fact that the technical capability to have offline prerecorded sessions is absolutely there but they haven't bothered to implement it is the part that pushes this over the line from "oh well, everyone has problems now and again" to "what's the point in paying extra?".
Re: 'Greed is good' is technically a principle I guess...
Well said. If your principles are tied to how someone else uses your services, then you have no principles. People with actual principles would reserve the right to adjust or even refuse business with people who use their services for something that were against their principles.
"It turns out that when you don't make baseless claims and contribute to an organization, you get paid for it"
It also turns out that when you decide not to do that and instead go out on your own to create something of your own, and you forfeit that in return for greater autonomy and the possibility of greater returns later on down the road, then you also shoulder the risks. Such as, when you provide a product that doesn't sell, be that due to poor marketing or simply creating an inferior product, you lost the gamble you took and the correct course of action is to either cut your losses and work on something new or improve the product to a successful saleable state. Not to still be whining nearly decade later about how everyone else still owes you money because you put in time to make something that failed.
Therefore, the usual problem with our friend here. He failed, but he still wants to be paid as if he succeeded, even though the time from conception to millions of paying users for so many products took less time (and probably less writing) than he's spent here complaining that the market doesn't reward failure.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: get the license
The Amiga 500 demos he cribbed from late 80s discs to inspire what he shows on his front page didn't need curves, so maybe he thinks modern graphics don't need them either.
Either that, or he uses free math libraries to do the thinking for him and he actually believes that there's no significant data points that matter since the free software he takes from does that for him...
Re: Re: Some AI generated works shouldn't be public domain.
"But I have a hard time looking at something that should be free as in freedom and then looking at all the rules that are attached to that."
Because, I suspect, that you don't understand the problem. If code is released public domain without restriction, then it will be quickly taken and locked up by proprietary corporate giants who have no incentive to collaborate or give back to the project, With the current licences, they have to do such things.
That is, paradoxically, by releasing the code totally free, you pretty much guarantee that it won't remain so, at least under the current copyright system.
Lol, of course you'd side with the corporate monopolies instead of the public.
"This is private property after all. Single entity ownership."
The whole building?
"Should renting an apartment for 1 month give you more rights than renting a hotel room for a month"
Is that a common thing in the US? I've never known a rental contract to be less than 6 months, and they're usually for 1 year, renewed annually where I live. But, what do I know - you also don't lose all rights just because you're renting and be forced in to a monopoly contract since no local monopolies exist where I live. For some reason, the owners of the both the building and the apartment I currently rent had no problem with me choosing my ISP from the several options available.
Yes, every president has issued executive orders, although Trump seems to have relied on them more than most modern presidents (he issued 220 in one term, while both W and Obama issued less than 300 in 2 terms).
So, what's your point here? EOs are bad, they're bad when a Democrat does something Trump wouldn't have liked, or something ese?
How deep into loving the taste of jackboot leather do you have to be to not think that flashbang grenades are not a military weapon that cause actual harm?
"How much do they actually rely on copyright to make money?"
Directly or indirectly? By directly enforcing them right now they probably don't. But, without copyright, major labels would certainly have no qualms about dipping into the public domain and taking songs wholesale, and the mainstream would never know that the song originate elsewhere. They could be on the hook for plagiarism if the originator wasn't credited, but without copyright there's no need for the labels to pay one cent to songwriters of any successful song they take.
Given that most of the public barely even understand that most pop artists don't write their own songs, let alone research who actually wrote them, that seems to me like a lot of musicians would be screwed - after all, if they think that new Rihanna song is the original, why would they buy the version from the guy they don't know wrote it?
It's not even just vaccines - the US got fairly lucky in a number of ways, ranging from the fact that a lot of vaccines had been administered before Delta took hold, and that when Omicron became rampant that its higher rate of contagion seems to have been coupled with milder symptoms, especially among the vaccinated. Combine with the fact that there seems to be a lot of people trying to fight on the side of the virus over there, and history could have turned a few of their deliberate superspreader events into a bloodbath.
Had Delta hit 6 months earlier, Omicron had been as deadly as it was transmissible, or if Trump had been re-elected, I have no doubt that 2 million would be a low ball estimate by this point
"My factual observation was it was Hollywood that created the digital format."
That's not the observation I was responding to, but whatever. I'm tired of this argument, which as usual has you changing the subject and making yet more easily disproven claims when cornered with facts. Hell, the above statement alone requires at least 3 questions to clarify what the hell you're on about so that I can present the evidence as to how you're factually wrong, but I really can't be arsed with this shit any longer.
...and, sorry, very limited runs on a small number of titles is a sales gimmick, whether you like it or not, and your feeble attempts to compare them to things like vinyl and hardback books are really missing the point of what's being said. Again.
"Most companies use third party radios that are secondary systems."
Yes, but again, modern central consoles often have a lot more functionality than simple playing the radio. How much they tie into the other safety features I don't know, but it should be the case that such features operate even if that console panel is not present, you just won't have as much detail on them. Although, this is not the time or place to start doing in depth research on exactly how Mazda design their systems.
"What surprises me is this requires parts replacement. And not an OTA update to the OS."
It depend on what actually broke. It's claimed that the part was "partially bricked", which suggests to me that either the OTA update function no longer works (or the OS doesn't start at all), or that it's designed to require physical intervention in the case of catastrophic failure. In the case of physical intervention, it's prudent to replace the unit, rather then just do a local fix and discover in 6 months that it caused another problem that wasn't identified before.
It's like if you discover that your server has been compromised by a rootkit or ransomware - you don't just remove the files you know were infected, you do at minimum a complete wipe and reinstall, and preferably replace the discs completely. Anything short of that leave you open to further infection by what you missed.
Why, are you finally joining us in realising that he's full of shit and that a lot of the things he says or promises will never and have never happened?
Let me guess - now that he's openly boasting about being on Russia's side of the Ukraine issue, you're trying to distance yourself from your previously claimed worship of the man?
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Re: Re: Re: Is this actually a good thing?
"This puts limitations on proprietary owners as to choices they can make in utilities."
Yes, and that's where "libertarianism" suddenly shifts from people making their own decisions to people being forced to use more expensive and inferior services because it suits someone else. It's strange to me that it always seems to boil down to instead of individual freedom, it's always down to what some local clique has decided is best for their own pocket even if it damages everyone else's.
"Very few flat out block an alternative service choice"
Again, I'm only asking because where I live there's usually multiple services available, and you have a choice of ISP service even if the last mile infrastructure only comes from one provider. From my understand of the state of things in the US, because the monopolies have been retained instead of being dismantled by things like local loop unbundling and separating the service from the physical cable, people don't generally have that choice. Which doesn't exactly seem like the best choice for all, especially in areas where the average person can't actually buy property on the average wage.
"You know, or should have known, your options when you sign the rental contract."
Which is great, assuming options never change after you sign the contract or monopolies are so tight that you never have a choice of apartment building that's not under the same monopoly. It's great when people have a real choice of where to live and the ISP is a negotiating tool in that, but if you need somewhere to live and everyone's tied to the same monopoly because all the building owners have been bought, then that supposed choice becomes moot.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Some AI generated works shouldn't be public
"How is software any different?"
Because software that's actually in use is not in a fixed format. Unless you're using something that's truly obsolete, software is built on and remodelled all the time, which can range from fixing bugs to adding new features or even a complete rewrite of the engine under the hood. While this is happening, certain rules need to be applied as to how people interact with and (most importantly) release their changes in line with what everyone else is using, which requires licensing.
There's some similarities to other types of content on a superficial basis, but once you start talking about the code and not a compiled end binary, those similarities soon end.
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"If you don’t like it go elsewhere."
...and some people are. While expressing their reasons to others while doing so. Some of these people are paying customers, some are artists who feel they can no longer have a business relationship with Spotify. Which is not a problem.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Donâ
I love the way you're still arguing and presenting less than 70 tapes a month as being a significant win.
This is the very definition of a niche market, and the attempt to capture that market via a short run of a title that sells way more on DVD is the definition of a gimmick.
Of course there's a market. But, the current market probably doesn't even cover breakages on the typical DVD run, and DVD is dying apart from a niche market itself.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Weighted fault
"Many have no clue just how integrated the modern computer systems in vehicles are."
Sure, but again it's down to which part fails. There shouldn't be any reason why a car would fail on any of its fundamental system because the central console dies, since the main purpose of that is to provide feedback to the driver and provide optional functions.
"There’s no manual override for any of the infotainment or comfort offerings.
Heated items are controlled by apps. Seat positions. Security settings. Safety. All apps."
Some of those things are not like the others. I haven't driver any of the cars you mention so it seems weird to me that things like seat positions can't be controlled manually, and that's is a safety concern. But, there's a vast difference between someone not being able to heat their seat or a mirror until they get a service and actual safety features going down because a screen is no longer available.
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Appeal to authority is a fallacy no matter how you use it, but it's especially stupid if you post it anonymously without any evidence as to why you should be trusted.
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I suppose it depends on how you define "unusable". Sure, they were able to be used as "dumb" bikes during the outage, but those bikes potentially cost 1/10 of what people are paying for the Pelaton. So, they weren't bricked, but people lost every advantage that made them choose to buy a more expensive bike.
Not disastrous, perhaps, but it's yet another reminder that if you're expected to pay a premium for something that can lose the value of the premium at a moment's notice for reasons beyond your control, you shouldn't be paying that premium.
The fact that the technical capability to have offline prerecorded sessions is absolutely there but they haven't bothered to implement it is the part that pushes this over the line from "oh well, everyone has problems now and again" to "what's the point in paying extra?".
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Re: 'Greed is good' is technically a principle I guess...
Well said. If your principles are tied to how someone else uses your services, then you have no principles. People with actual principles would reserve the right to adjust or even refuse business with people who use their services for something that were against their principles.
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"It turns out that when you don't make baseless claims and contribute to an organization, you get paid for it"
It also turns out that when you decide not to do that and instead go out on your own to create something of your own, and you forfeit that in return for greater autonomy and the possibility of greater returns later on down the road, then you also shoulder the risks. Such as, when you provide a product that doesn't sell, be that due to poor marketing or simply creating an inferior product, you lost the gamble you took and the correct course of action is to either cut your losses and work on something new or improve the product to a successful saleable state. Not to still be whining nearly decade later about how everyone else still owes you money because you put in time to make something that failed.
Therefore, the usual problem with our friend here. He failed, but he still wants to be paid as if he succeeded, even though the time from conception to millions of paying users for so many products took less time (and probably less writing) than he's spent here complaining that the market doesn't reward failure.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: get the license
The Amiga 500 demos he cribbed from late 80s discs to inspire what he shows on his front page didn't need curves, so maybe he thinks modern graphics don't need them either.
Either that, or he uses free math libraries to do the thinking for him and he actually believes that there's no significant data points that matter since the free software he takes from does that for him...
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Re: Re: Some AI generated works shouldn't be public domain.
"But I have a hard time looking at something that should be free as in freedom and then looking at all the rules that are attached to that."
Because, I suspect, that you don't understand the problem. If code is released public domain without restriction, then it will be quickly taken and locked up by proprietary corporate giants who have no incentive to collaborate or give back to the project, With the current licences, they have to do such things.
That is, paradoxically, by releasing the code totally free, you pretty much guarantee that it won't remain so, at least under the current copyright system.
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Re: Is this actually a good thing?
Lol, of course you'd side with the corporate monopolies instead of the public.
"This is private property after all. Single entity ownership."
The whole building?
"Should renting an apartment for 1 month give you more rights than renting a hotel room for a month"
Is that a common thing in the US? I've never known a rental contract to be less than 6 months, and they're usually for 1 year, renewed annually where I live. But, what do I know - you also don't lose all rights just because you're renting and be forced in to a monopoly contract since no local monopolies exist where I live. For some reason, the owners of the both the building and the apartment I currently rent had no problem with me choosing my ISP from the several options available.
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Re: Re: Facepalm
Yes, every president has issued executive orders, although Trump seems to have relied on them more than most modern presidents (he issued 220 in one term, while both W and Obama issued less than 300 in 2 terms).
So, what's your point here? EOs are bad, they're bad when a Democrat does something Trump wouldn't have liked, or something ese?
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How deep into loving the taste of jackboot leather do you have to be to not think that flashbang grenades are not a military weapon that cause actual harm?
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"I have no evidence either way. And don’t care enough to go looking."
Yet, your self-proclaimed ignorance never stops you from have an opinion, does it?
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Re: Re: There might be a strawman there.
"How much do they actually rely on copyright to make money?"
Directly or indirectly? By directly enforcing them right now they probably don't. But, without copyright, major labels would certainly have no qualms about dipping into the public domain and taking songs wholesale, and the mainstream would never know that the song originate elsewhere. They could be on the hook for plagiarism if the originator wasn't credited, but without copyright there's no need for the labels to pay one cent to songwriters of any successful song they take.
Given that most of the public barely even understand that most pop artists don't write their own songs, let alone research who actually wrote them, that seems to me like a lot of musicians would be screwed - after all, if they think that new Rihanna song is the original, why would they buy the version from the guy they don't know wrote it?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Future
It's not even just vaccines - the US got fairly lucky in a number of ways, ranging from the fact that a lot of vaccines had been administered before Delta took hold, and that when Omicron became rampant that its higher rate of contagion seems to have been coupled with milder symptoms, especially among the vaccinated. Combine with the fact that there seems to be a lot of people trying to fight on the side of the virus over there, and history could have turned a few of their deliberate superspreader events into a bloodbath.
Had Delta hit 6 months earlier, Omicron had been as deadly as it was transmissible, or if Trump had been re-elected, I have no doubt that 2 million would be a low ball estimate by this point
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Don’t know
"My factual observation was it was Hollywood that created the digital format."
That's not the observation I was responding to, but whatever. I'm tired of this argument, which as usual has you changing the subject and making yet more easily disproven claims when cornered with facts. Hell, the above statement alone requires at least 3 questions to clarify what the hell you're on about so that I can present the evidence as to how you're factually wrong, but I really can't be arsed with this shit any longer.
...and, sorry, very limited runs on a small number of titles is a sales gimmick, whether you like it or not, and your feeble attempts to compare them to things like vinyl and hardback books are really missing the point of what's being said. Again.
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Re: Re: Re: Weighted fault
"Most companies use third party radios that are secondary systems."
Yes, but again, modern central consoles often have a lot more functionality than simple playing the radio. How much they tie into the other safety features I don't know, but it should be the case that such features operate even if that console panel is not present, you just won't have as much detail on them. Although, this is not the time or place to start doing in depth research on exactly how Mazda design their systems.
"What surprises me is this requires parts replacement. And not an OTA update to the OS."
It depend on what actually broke. It's claimed that the part was "partially bricked", which suggests to me that either the OTA update function no longer works (or the OS doesn't start at all), or that it's designed to require physical intervention in the case of catastrophic failure. In the case of physical intervention, it's prudent to replace the unit, rather then just do a local fix and discover in 6 months that it caused another problem that wasn't identified before.
It's like if you discover that your server has been compromised by a rootkit or ransomware - you don't just remove the files you know were infected, you do at minimum a complete wipe and reinstall, and preferably replace the discs completely. Anything short of that leave you open to further infection by what you missed.
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Re: Wait…
Why, are you finally joining us in realising that he's full of shit and that a lot of the things he says or promises will never and have never happened?
Let me guess - now that he's openly boasting about being on Russia's side of the Ukraine issue, you're trying to distance yourself from your previously claimed worship of the man?
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