I had a relative who setup a kinda "blockbuster" type service recording things and offering them out for rental. It really took off for VHS when he got HBO and recorded movies and then rented those. It wasnt a very lucrative hustle but it was an instance of what they didnt want to have happen
Absolutely this happened, but would you say that was the primary use case of the recording capabilities?
I'm trying to understand how a judge would say that the only practical use of backups were copyright infringement, since that is completely contrary to both my experiences and what I believe to be common sense. If the answer to my confusion is that this actually was the major use case and my experiences were rare, then that's fine. Otherwise, I can't help believe this is yet another case in recent history where judges are completely backwards on technological understanding, or maybe even under influence from copyright holders.
This is the case that determined that recording TV broadcasts for your own personal use was not copyright infringement. They understood what the tech was used for, but they didn't know that this use was non-infringing until they made that decision.
> Absolutely this happened, but would you say that was the primary use case of the recording capabilities?
I don't think I can understate the amount that I hate this line of reasoning.
Suppose we apply this logic to writable CDs. Some drives could only read but not write CDs and those devices cost less than the ones that could write. Moreover, the early writable drives were stupid expensive and because of that most people in those days only had readers.
Then in those early days, the usage of the drives would skew more heavily towards piracy, because it would be more common to spend $1000+ more on a CD writer if you're operating a commercial piracy operation and keeping it busy than if you just want to write something to a single CD instead of an entire $20 box of floppy disks once or twice a year.
A few years later the price of the writable drives has come down to almost as low as the price of the read-only drives and everybody has them and is using them for all kinds of legitimate things. But that doesn't happen if pointing to a high initial rate of piracy can get them banned before they get widely adopted for other purposes.
There's a reason why they said "substantial non-infringing use" instead of asking what percent of existing use it is at some specific point in time.
If school busses can look both ways before crossing train tracks you'd think a firetruck would look both ways for airplanes coming down a runway. Don't want to blame the firemen though - this was a series of extrmeemly unfortuante scenarios and people trying to keep the airport running safely. For years people have been on soap boxes saying the FAA/NTSB needs to do better, and yet year after year they are poorly run and poorly funded.
A quick Google gives me that a 737 typically lands between 144 and 180 mph. I think that's quite a lot faster than most people are watching out for. Good news is they are bigger than cars and so easier to spot at a distance but I'm still skeptical that "look before you cross the runway" is sufficiently safe. Keep in mind that the planes may not even be on the ground yet - at the top end in 30s they could go from a 1.5 miles away in the sky (and up to 300-400ft in the air) to plowing through your position (iirc runways are about 2 miles long for jets).
I wonder if it'd even be reliable to see such a plane coming fast enough.
Now multiply that by the dozens of planes in your vicinity, and by the 100ish big US airports.
> I think that's quite a lot faster than most people are watching out for
That isn't even beyond the top speed of a car, which non-trained humans are very well capable of tracking by sight - to talk of airport workers that are specifically trained to look for air traffic. It really is not that hard to tell that an aircraft is on short final if you are actually looking at it.
With four miles of visibility in light rain at night, the aircraft should have been perfectly visible (in a vacuum); what remains to be determined is why the ARFF crew did not see it. The answer to that could range from "they didn't look at all" to "the orientation of the runway relative to the surrounding neighbourhoods meant that the CRJ's lights got lost in the city lights".
its the only path to go to be able to continue to support their pricing models - they've priced the consumer/pro-sumer out of the market prettymuch and so B2B is the more sustainable paying population.
> they've priced the consumer/pro-sumer out of the market prettymuch
I'd argue that (the low end of) Apple products are the cheapest they've ever been - the $599 iPhone 17e is below the inflation-adjusted price of the original iPhone, and at $599 the MacBook Neo is the cheapest launch price an Apple laptop has ever listed at (not even adjusting for inflation!)
The maximum amount you can spend at the high-end has certainly gone up over time, although the basic MacBook Pro Max config costs roughly the same as it's peer from 10-15 years ago - nobody's forcing folks to shell out for the 128GB of RAM (something that didn't exist on laptops at all till very recently)
None of that refutes anything that was said. macOS is a third-class citizen measured by market share, and the total sum of annual Mac profits is lower than what the iPad ecosystem makes in a year.
Consumers do not want the Mac. Datacenters don't want Apple Silicon. People want the iPhone, they want Airpods, but the M-series Macs have spent 5 years changing absolutely nothing.
> and the total sum of annual Mac profits is lower than what the iPad ecosystem makes in a year.
So the company that makes between 50-60% of all profits in personal computers has created a market where it makes 100% of the profits, but albeit smaller than the whole PC market. That's terrrrible, what was Apple thinking!
Market share is far from everything when people live in poverty and do not have money to spend on good hardware and software. Apple makes stuff for affluent people, and then makes a ton of money from those rich folks. Making Apple the most valuable company in the history of humanity. Boy, that's a terrible place to be in!
I shouldn't have to repeat myself; this still doesn't refute the claim that Apple has ceded the consumer compute market. Cheap Macs have flooded the used market for years, and people still gravitate towards plastic Wintel boxes and Chromebooks.
> Apple makes stuff for affluent people
is just repeating the original claim upthread:
>> they've priced the consumer/pro-sumer out of the market prettymuch and so B2B is the more sustainable paying population.
The fact Apple maximizes for profits, and does not care about market share, does not mean it has ceded the market at all. It’s the exact contrary. Apple’s making money akin to the #2 position while being #4 and that’s an issue for you?
Once again you retreat to anecdata; how can you prove that used Mac laptops are not popular?
Living in Portland I meet SOOOO many tech people that live across the river in Vancouver just because of the income tax - WA has none - OR has a healthily number of them (5 lines worth of various taxes show up on my paystub).
Bigger impact im sure will be Seattle but the impact to Portland is not insignificant. I'm sure the WA tax would be less than the OR one though so I don't see the moves stopping, but probably akin to whats happened in CA where people moved to NV or AZ to escape some of the taxes (not a significant number but ive met enough to wonder). As people retire, they moved away to those places as they think they will be taxed less
These people are literal leeches on society. Like I get it, nobody likes paying tax. But the simple fact is: if society would crumble due to everyone acting the way you act, then you're a leech. Whether it's paying taxes, running scams, or doing crime.
It's frustrating to me that people shirk responsibility for their actions when they act in the way that economic models would predict. As if acting like a rational agent within a system voids any responsibility you have as a member of society.
See any/all of the following and tell me how often you hear similar lines of thinking among techies:
* "Well, I can get rich quick by running this scam, and it's not technically illegal, so, me being a rational agent, I'll run this scam"
* "Sure, Facebook may be contributing in large part to the downfall of western society but those RSUs taste so sweet"
* "I'll use the Oregon infrastructure but if I live across the river then I don't have to pay for it. And I can buy things without sales tax in Oregon!"
In short: "You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole."
They are lifelong drugs though - you go off it and the weight and “food noise” come back. If you grow to used to them you have to switch from ozempic to moniourno to whatever diff thing then circle around again.
Not saying the effort is the same just that its def not a decision to take lightly and just start doing thinking its a few shots and bam your down 50 lbs forever - still have to do the mental reprogramming to not eat the bad stuff and exercise regularly
I can hear russia/iran now “darn they thwarted our plans to take out el paso and that mountain. There are absolutely zero other targets in the vicinity we can fly to. Zero in a 100 mile radius our drone has a capability to get to within 10 days. I mean if we had 11 days sure but how do they know 10 days???”
My psychiatrist is really interested in how it affects anxiety and depression as he has now seena number of improvements from a bunch of patients (including myself) who use the drug. Im on meds for both and only after i started on monjourno did i feel a signifigant change. The food cravings gone due to the nuerological effects but the stress levels lower as it seems to be impacting seratonin levels in ways as you increase dose.
The most surprising effect of Mounjaro, at least initially was that it drastically reduced by desire to drink beer, and when I started, my drinking was at a very unhealthy level (beer calories being a major factor in my weight problem). But maybe I'm an odd case, as I had a real beer habit but don't like wine and very rarely touched spirits.
Actually losing some weight as well as cutting my drinking down, helped me with depression far more than SSRIs (which had previously led to even faster weight gain)
Unfortunately, the effects started to diminish somewhat after about a year on it, as if I was building up a bit of a tolerance to the drug. And then I switched to Wegovy (=Ozempic) after big UK price hikes to Mounjaro, and found it much less effective, started gaining weight again (winter/xmas didn't help). Switching back to Mounjaro at the moment, but having to slowly step back up from a lower dose. Not expecting to see the initial near-miraculous effects again, expecting to have to combine it with some actual willpower and more exercise going forwards.
The really beautiful thing now is that, with the evidence from GLP-1 drugs as a class, we're seeing 3 things: new targets for all kinds of things, that were previously discarded as "too difficult to make into medication", and in addition, injectable treatments - for a long, long time anything that required injections was just ruled out at the mechanism level. The third thing is that pharmaceutical industry has learned how to hit multiple targets with a single drug - previously most drugs were formulated to hit at most one or two receptors, and now we're seeing work on quad or 5-way drugs.
I'm super optimistic, the pipeline for future medications in these classes and other related ones are enormous. Huge effects both for me personally but for the world as a whole, a world in which obesity and other chronic behavioral conditions are treated more like cancer than smoking - even smoking itself!
I've had a similar experience where I'd be craving a beer, but not really craving alcohol since wine or spirits didn't sound appealing at all. I think it might actually be the hops and not the alcohol.
I don't know if it's common in the UK, but in the US, a lot of breweries have started making hop water. I've found that it can really scratch that itch. Even just a hop tea might work if you can't find pre-made hop water.
It sounds weird, but it's actually delicious with nice floral and citrus notes and just enough bitterness that you don't drink it too quickly.
It’s not just you. I’ve known several people who lost their desire to drink beer specifically on these drugs. I didn’t personally experience it, but then I am more of a whiskey guy.
Mounjaro is widely known to cause bad hangovers and side effects while drinking isn't it? That's what I gleaned from my research. I'm a little surprised you didn't come across that
Curious also if you're considering staying on the lowest dose for cost purposes? I've ignored all advice to step up from 2.5mg and I can even go 10-14 days without noticing too much, but weight loss is slow compared to others (12kg in 6 months). But that's how I want it to be honest.
Though I guess lower dose for longer might work out more expensive
> a number of improvements from a bunch of patients (including myself) who use the drug.
Does that include people who haven't lost weight on the drug? I imagine a lot of people will start to feel better when they look better and are healthier.
Semaglutide has a warning about not being suitable for folks with depression. I don't think I've seen any changes to my moods. I'm type-II bipolar and if anything my depression episodes are slightly worse now.
The most noticeable jump has been at 10mg but i started noticing it from the beginning of 2.5 to 5 to 7.5 over a 6 month period but something about 10 just hit different but only on my 2nd month of it now. Less anxiety about things i was hit by before and mood improved overall
Some forms of magnesium trigger more stool my movement than others. And there are many forms.
I had opposite problem with it, tried ti find what won't cause it since I have a problem with it too behind with. Also sour kraut triggers me almost always and instant toilet break.
You mentioned elsewhere that milk of magnesia worked, so is it possible that you received a bunk product? I know this is a common issue with supplements and there are some neutral third-party test labs for this.
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