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IMHO they should use a fluorinated carbon of some kind - something that won't react with the processor nor participate in significant electrolysis.

You mean, like this? More likely they'd use something like commercial antifreeze solutions seen in vehicle radiators. But you still need to maintain the fluid (draining, replacing and what not.)

Next up, oil changes for your PC (cue stupid car analogies).

Seattle is a lot of things, but it's not South America.

"Had another funny call with a media outlet this morning. When I called them back on the Apple/EMI news, first question was. "Do you think this is a bad thing for Apple and EMI." When I said "no, it's a good thing", they said "thanks for calling but we only want to talk to someone who thinks this is a bad thing."

Michael Gartenberg is giving the credit where it is due: "It is a good step forward for consumers but more importantly, it showed Apple at the forefront of acting as "champion" for consumer interests. After all, it wasn't Rob Glaser or Bill Gates up there with EMI. "

Not sure Steve kicked started it, but I'm not complaining. According to the BBC Report Today Almost two-thirds of music industry executives think removing digital locks from downloadable music would make more people buy the tracks, finds a survey. The surveys author Mark Mulligan claims to have beaten Jobs to the anti-DRM stance.

I totally agree with you that broadcast television is ultimately doomed. On demand is the future. The question is how will we get on demand. Will it be streamed? Or will we download it and view it at our convenience.

Actually broadcast is not doomed, not for at least the next 20 years or so while people adjust to having more 'on demand' content and while bandwith at the local loop level is still an issue. Think of trying to stream different - non multicasted - HD quality streams to millions of households at the same time or even just a few thousand at a single exchange point - ouch, that's some serious bandwith (and at 1-1 contention as users won't put up with anything less for TV). Sure you can store copes of the movies at the local POP to reduce load on the core network, but even then your still going to get quite a few users pulling down unique content you don't have cached.

The answer to your question is a mixture of both.

People will love being able to not be tied so closely to TV schedules just to see shows they like (and just stream them when they get home), but they will also want to be able to just sit back and relax and be entertained when they turn on the TV - and of course still be able to catch their favourite shows as soon as they air (and so still providing a valuable revenue stream to the media companies - and a great way to promote new shows, as they do now). Certainly rolling specialist channels - such as news, music, cartoon, comedy, history (etc.) - are likely to remain popular, and if they exist it's likely that premier channels that exist today will also remain - though lesser channels may well disappear, unless they find that operating costs drop sufficently to allow them to stay viable.

A lot of content (for popular shows, movies) is likley to be preloaded locally on your PVR - providers like Sky (prop. J. Murdoch) already reserve a large portion of HD space on their Sky+ TiVo-esque Satellite units in order to allow 'instant on' activation of pay-per-view movies. They have also been publically discussing their plans to cache and save hit shows automatically, not unlike TiVo suggestions. Their HD units (which are demoing now, and are expected to start shipping Q1/Q2 next year) have Ethernet ports too, and there are no prizes for guessing why that might be (and in fact, the High Definition capable X-Box 360 is already download movies and games, including HD movies, and can do on demand delivery and billing via your X-Box Live account).

The fact is we have no idea what they meant. Proprietary research bugs me a bit because you can read press articles about it, but you can't actually read the report yourself to determine whether the reporter mangled the conclusions of the study or whether the study was worth the paper it was printed on in the first place. Forget about being able to detect any bias.

What really suprises me is that although the Macworld article is dated July 21, there's no press release from JupiterResearch announcing the study (see http://www.jupiterresearch.com/bin/item.pl/press:r eleases/), and on the analyst's page - well, the analyst quoted in the macworld article - there's no mention of the report at all (see http://www.jupiterresearch.com/bin/item.pl/company :analyst/jup/id=4569/).

So, we have second hand information that is impossible to confirm in any way, shape, or form.

Nothing to see here, move along.

The fact is we have no idea what they meant. Proprietary research bugs me a bit because you can read press articles about it, but you can't actually read the report yourself to determine whether the reporter mangled the conclusions of the study or whether the study was worth the paper it was printed on in the first place. Forget about being able to detect any bias.

What really suprises me is that although the Macworld article is dated July 21, there's no press release from JupiterResearch announcing the study (see http://www.jupiterresearch.com/bin/item.pl/press:r eleases/), and on the analyst's page - well, the analyst quoted in the macworld article - there's no mention of the report at all (see http://www.jupiterresearch.com/bin/item.pl/company :analyst/jup/id=4569/).

So, we have second hand information that is impossible to confirm in any way, shape, or form.

Nothing to see here, move along.

Yes, he did. Have a look:

Under the DMCA it is a felony to (1) circumvent a technical measure such as an encryption lock that copyright owners use to control access to their works or prevent copying of their works, (2) make or distribute a tool that circumvents access controls, or (3) make or distribute a tool that bypasses other technical measures used by copyright owners to protect rights in copyrighted works. 17 USC 1201, 1204.

He used a software circumvention tool to gain access to locked media files for which he does not hold the copyright. We have his confession. This is an open and shut case. Why has he not been pursued by law enforcement? Further, he linked to the program that allowed him to do this. Linking to circumvention devices was ruled illegal in Universal v. Reimerdes. The decision was upheld on appeal. In short, I believe that's two felony counts under the DMCA. He has since removed the link and destroyed the evidence of his crime:

So for now, I'm deleting the files and the program and will inquire of folks who know more about the legal aspects.

I'm not entirely certain of the seriousness of this crime, but, given his actions, he is a serious threat to our 'Intellectual Property' based society. He should be dealt with swiftly, yet this happened almost a month ago. He is still out there roaming the internet! What good are laws if they aren't enforced? As upright citizens of this great nation, we should DEMAND justice. This criminal is loose out there somewhere and needs to be imprisoned before he hurts any other intellectual property holders. Please! Won't someone think of the intellectual property holders!?

Am I the only person that finds the latest blog entry by this person quite interesting in light of this story?

This is a quite old story (06/21) and he took time to write a follow-up on his blog :

My Last word on DRM... today
Here's my last word on drm. I repeat, I'm not against the concept and most consumers aren't either unless they bump into it while trying to use content they purchased in a legitimate way. I am against the way msft has supported folks using their Reader software and being locked out of my content. Some of you also suggest I may have violated the dmca when I posted my solution. I don't know. Honestly. It seems to me the program does nothing to the files, they are quite protected and must be run on an activated computer that reads them. The DRM is not stripped out at all. That's more akin to ouputting my iTunes files to a CD or a cassette tape. But maybe not. So for now, I'm deleting the files and the program and will inquire of folks who know more about the legal aspects.

No comment...

To actually RTFR you'll need to be a "JupiterResearch client" but here's a link to more than just that press release: Municipal Wireless.

There's not much there, though a few other places have picked up bits, no one has the actual important parts that could tell us is this report is worth the bits its printed on.
We're supposed to trust research "reported on" in a press release?

This time for sure... Presto! (About 16,600 English pages for apple's demise death with Safesearch on via Google.)

Here we go again...

Ah, the weekly "OMG Users havn't switched from the last version of windows yet!" /. post :).

I recommend following a site like Microsoft Monitor for some insights about this - its referred to as Windows Fragmentation and its been going on for quite some time.

In fact, its probably why Microsoft is taking its pretty time with Longhorn - a lot of business havn't switched yet - and while they wait for Longhorn the businesses switch to XP, thus giving MS another upgrade opprotunity (XP->LH).

So that's why if MS used Apple's model for instance (every 2 years or so) they would have a LOT of fragmentation (people using different/older systems) which is generally not good for profits I'm assuming...

As for 2000 - personally I switched to XP a week ago and it fixed one big problem for me - as I usually use some shell extensions that crash sometimes. On Win2k sometimes the explorer would crash and never come back - but on XP it always comes back correctly after a crash. XP does have a wierd bug where sometimes you can't force a program to quit though.

http://www.gartner.com/
http://www.metagroup.com/
http://www.idc.com/
http://www.forrester.com/
http://www.idg.com/
http://www.jupiterresearch.com/
http://www.yankeegroup.com/
http://www.aberdeen.com/
http://www.amrresearch.com/

And yes, they all cost money. If you're an enterprise and you want input on how to spend you tens-of-thousands to multi-million-dollar IT budget, you can shell out a few more dollars to get some research.

I guess it'd be bad form to point out that apple still ownz that maket, eh?

This biog of analyst Joe Wilcox who produced the report for Jupiter Research:

As a senior analyst with Jupiter Research, Joe Wilcox largely focuses on Microsoft and illuminating the right strategies for efficiently deploying Microsoft products, smartly partnering with the software giant or competing more effectively with the fast-moving rival. Wilcox is part of Jupiter Research's Microsoft Monitor team. He is main contributor to the Microsoft Monitor Weblog, which, as a companion to the larger service, offers spot analysis on breaking Microsoft news or shifting strategies. Wilcox's Microsoft experience dates back to his work as a high-tech news reporter, where he honed skills for ferreting out the "real meaning" behind companies' product and business strategies. Most recently, he worked for CNET News.com, first as the reporter covering Compaq, Dell, Gateway, HP and IBM and later Microsoft. As the lead reporter covering Microsoft, Wilcox developed a reputation for to-the-point news analysis. He also took charge of CNET News.com's legal coverage, particularly Microsoft's government, European Union and private antitrust cases.

Given the close ties to MS suggested by the biog the report wasn't as rabidly anti OO.org as it could have been. What do you folks think?

It appears this may be just affecting MSN's older protocols (MSNP7 and below). See this post and this link, which is referenced in the post.

BTW, I use Miranda and think it's a great Open Source alternative to Trillian. Check it out.

Just spend some time reading Microsoft's own product announcements, interviews, etc... they don't make any effort to hide any of this. You'd pretty much have to be blind not to see what's going on... oh wait, that pretty much describes most of /. poster community.

First, there's Longhorn...
TechWeb
WinSuperSite

But don't forget to research Jupiter, Yukon and Kodiak, and be sure to look at the extended feature sets of these products and how they can interoperate.

A quick search for some time lines got me this, but there are lots of places that keep track of this stuff:
Internet.com

Some general info on Jupiter
JupiterResearch

...and don't forget MS' own efforts to push rights enabled content into the marketplace:

for one example there is...
Microsoft
...but don't forget, games, their deal with small movie studios, etc...

MS is working with British Telecom to develop online applications and media support including appication rental that can be used for an added nominal monthly fee... all of this is web browser accessable, and while the dot's are pretty thin to find, I've heard in the developer circles that once it is stablized around MSN 9, MS is looking to offer this service out to XBox live subscribers.
news.com"

...and then there is the MIIS layer that just was released to support data tracking.
MetaConnections
"MIIS has its own data store (the metaverse) into which it consolidates information drawn from the connected systems. Rules can be applied to determine how objects in a connected system are projected into, or join with objects already in, the metaverse and to create objects in the connected system (i.e. provisioning). Other rules specify how each attribute within the object should flow into or out of the metaverse. The sophistication of these rules allows customers to create fully automated identity data integration solutions."

...or this quote:
TheWhir
"Customers have told us they need an end-to-end solution for managing identity information and access rights," said Bill Veghte, corporate vice president for the Windows Server Group at Microsoft. "With today's delivery of MIIS, we bring provisioning and metadirectory capabilities together in a single solution that enables customers to create and manage user identities with a single consistent view across the enterprise and throughout the complete life cycle of identity management."

I would point you to the Market announcements on the MS site, but they are oddly missing... but then Google saves the day here...
MS care of Google #1
MS care of Google #2

...and on and on and on... Do I really need to give you more links... I suppose it's pointless because with most of the people who can't see this, I could drop a bible of text proof in your face and you'd still denign it.

Microsoft makes no efforts to hide what they're planning, and doing. It's all out there in your face if you bother to take the time to read it.

Big business wants start-to-end accountability for ALL DATA, and they are going to get it, and Microsoft is going