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Re: Demon-Haunted World

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Post by eridius »

loup-vaillant wrote: post #233
eridius wrote: post #122

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Sony didn't really have a choice. They have to protect the integrity of their system as best they can, which means closing any holes that are used to circumvent the copyright restrictions. Besides just being important to protect sales on their platform, it wouldn't surprise me if there aren't contractual obligations here as well.

The integrity of the Win-tel platform is not preserved at all, yet games are still being sold there.

That doesn't really have any bearing on Sony's contractual obligations as a console vendor. And you'll note PC games are often DRM-laden, and the DRM vendors surely have their own contractual obligations to do as much as they can to prevent their DRM platform from being compromised. Similarly, I know for sure that back when Apple sold DRM-laden music, they had contractual obligations to the music labels to fix any FairPlay holes they could.

Re: Demon-Haunted World

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Post by eridius »

loup-vaillant wrote: post #235
eridius wrote: post #108

> like the iTunes and Kindle ‘‘updates’’ that have removed features the products were sold with Anyone know what iTunes update he's talking about? I don't remember anything that fits this description.

May have been the one that "helpfully" deleted your music, and replaced it by compressed version, even if you didn't bought it via iTunes . Or deleted your files period , if it detected a not so "equivalent" version you could download. Supposedly to save local disk space. I recall an accounting of a composer losing his work file that way —they got compressed behind his back. Thank goodness he had a backup.

That was never an iTunes feature. That was a bug, that affected a relatively low number of people, and was fixed IIRC within a week.

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Post by cezart »

hutzlibu wrote: post #260
mcguire wrote: post #249

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As an exercise, list everything you have bought in the last month or so; food, gas, electronics, whatever. Now list all the ways those products could be adulterated, fraudulently modified, or faked. Now list the specialized knowledge and skills you would need to detect the fraud. Now try to get some work done while you are caveat emptoring.

why should I know everything? There are many other experts, hackers, organizations, newspapers, etc. I can google before making a purchase. Just like it allready is, only with more responsibility for everyone, but therefore hopefully better marketpositions for nice companys.

But google could be cheating you as well. How would you know they don't keep you in an information bubble?

Re: Demon-Haunted World

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Post by depressedpanda »

zlynx wrote: post #79
emerongi wrote: post #64

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I still have the original Nexus 7 and it's unbelievable how unusable it has become. I use a slim ROM of KitKat (the Android version it came with) and it's still so freaking sluggish. I only use it for watching videos now, it's unbearable for anything interactive. It used to be quite nice with the slim ROMs, but at this point nothing has helped to get it back to run like it used to. 4years of light use (99% of time si…

The biggest problem on some of these is the lack of TRIM support in the hardware and/or operating system. After the device has written its complete 32 GB or whatever, it drops into slow mode on the storage Flash. There are ways to get the storage performance back, just search for Nexus 7 and trim.

I've had great success with ParrotMod[1] on one of my devices. But the dev doesn't have the device any longer, and the mod doesn't seem to work on Nougat.

This Android 7 Nougat build[2] should have many of the ParrotMod optimizations out of the box, however. It works great on my other Nexus 7.

[1]: https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7/orig-development/pa... [2]: https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7/development/rom-and...

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Post by Nomentatus »

andrewjl wrote: post #265
hutzlibu wrote: post #209

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"on the beat, and Trump vowing to fire more regulators, that's what's changed. " I don't really like to defend trumps sayings, but in this case I don't think there are government regulators needed. The company acted shitty and you took the consequences and quit and avoid this company. That's how market works. No need for regulation here. The "only" problem with this in general today is, that most people do not unders…

Government regulations exist to fix market failure, usually due to information asymmetry. In the old days it was milk in chalk, in the modern day it's closed source code riddled with spyware and engine firmware that cheats emissions tests. Market failure in my book. We need more, smarter regulations, not less. EDIT: I don't think it's reasonable to expect everyone to educate themselves on every technical advance. Tha…

We've become Mexico, we cheerful pass bushel-baskets of regulations and laws we have no intention of enforcing at all; just for show. So we end up penalizing honest businessmen, should any survive.

Koch market-based ethics (see their books) really means - ignore the law, if the market allows you to cut any corner, cut it hard. That's where you end up, with third-world economic rules, and in time results. (Starting with vicious inequality.)

Re: Demon-Haunted World

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Post by hutzlibu »

cezart wrote: post #273
hutzlibu wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why should I know everything? There are many other experts, hackers, organizations, newspapers, etc. I can google before making a purchase. Just like it allready is, only with more responsibility for everyone, but therefore hopefully better marketpositions for nice companys.

But google could be cheating you as well. How would you know they don't keep you in an information bubble?

because there are still information sources besides google. And so far google did not cheat on me.

Re: Demon-Haunted World

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Post by middleorigin »

eridius wrote: post #271
loup-vaillant wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The integrity of the Win-tel platform is not preserved at all, yet games are still being sold there.

That doesn't really have any bearing on Sony's contractual obligations as a console vendor. And you'll note PC games are often DRM-laden, and the DRM vendors surely have their own contractual obligations to do as much as they can to prevent their DRM platform from being compromised. Similarly, I know for sure that back when Apple sold DRM-laden music, they had contractual obligations to the music labels to fix any Fa…

...which are again on Sony for signing in the first place.

I mean it's their right to be a purely gaming console, but they should also accept blame for tanking their reputation with the open source community.

Re: Demon-Haunted World

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

mahyarm wrote: post #267
52-6F-62 wrote: post #154

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You guessed right. I figured that aging of the tech vs package size would be an issue, including the growing size of the OS... but do you think this is a problem even in long-life applications? I mean, surely AAC and MP3 files haven't bloated so significantly in the past 5 - 10 years. I haven't worked much yet in Swift and wasn't aware of those differences vs Objective-C, though. That's interesting.

MP3 hasn't changed as a standard or probably as a codebase for decades. Your apps are changing every week, and apps tend to grow in size as more and more code & features are added to them. It's a natural consequence of most software projects. The binary size of swift projects doesn't catch most people, only large projects with > 400k lines of code as they go over the cellular download limit. It's the new hotness, so…

That's an interesting problem. Do you find it's that bad for a new project as well? I've otherwise heard nothing but good things about working with Swift, and it's the only macOS/iOS-specific language I've actually worked with a little bit for its rather quick learning curve.

So I guess the problem is pretty simple, if not immediately obvious for the details of it.

I sigh and guess that means I just have to upgrade soon...

Re: Demon-Haunted World

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Post by eridius »

middleorigin wrote: post #277
eridius wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't really have any bearing on Sony's contractual obligations as a console vendor. And you'll note PC games are often DRM-laden, and the DRM vendors surely have their own contractual obligations to do as much as they can to prevent their DRM platform from being compromised. Similarly, I know for sure that back when Apple sold DRM-laden music, they had contractual obligations to the music labels to fix any Fa…

...which are again on Sony for signing in the first place. I mean it's their right to be a purely gaming console, but they should also accept blame for tanking their reputation with the open source community.

They should be given kudos for even trying, not blame for failing at what appears to be an impossible task. Sony thought they could offer Linux-on-PS3 and still keep the PS3 secure. For a while it seemed to work, but eventually it was demonstrated that Linux-on-PS3 broke the security model of the PS3. Sony really had no choice, because it's a gaming console first and foremost and they had to protect that. Yeah it sucks for everyone who was interested in using it as a Linux machine, but if you can't recognize that Sony had an obligation to protect the gaming console over the Linux support, I don't really know what to say to you.

Re: Demon-Haunted World

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Post by middleorigin »

eridius wrote: post #279
middleorigin wrote: post #277

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...which are again on Sony for signing in the first place. I mean it's their right to be a purely gaming console, but they should also accept blame for tanking their reputation with the open source community.

They should be given kudos for even trying, not blame for failing at what appears to be an impossible task. Sony thought they could offer Linux-on-PS3 and still keep the PS3 secure. For a while it seemed to work, but eventually it was demonstrated that Linux-on-PS3 broke the security model of the PS3. Sony really had no choice, because it's a gaming console first and foremost and they had to protect that. Yeah it suc…

However you view it, the damage is done.
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