Seems familiar... Take a lesson from sony, this should help:
Cue Ballmer: "If you can find a [copy of vista] anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than a few minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it."
That's what I've never gotten about music "licenses". If i have a "license" to a song, i should be able to walk into best buy and ask for my song. If they give me any trouble, I should say "i have a license, it's ok"
A "license" in the music industry has all the limitations of a typical software license but none of the perks. If i lose my VLK Windows CD, no problem. I can get a new CD easily (and legally) from MANY different places.
If we're going to be forced to have "licenses" rather than ownership of our music then we should have the same benefits.
I find this one especially funny: http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/8000/PX0863 6.pdf
"I bought the high end creative labs portable player. It was the NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra
I have to tell you my experience with our software and this device is really terrible. I expect you already knew this but I had not personally experienced it. Now I spent the time last night really playing with it. My goodness it is terrible. What I don't understand though is that I was told that the new Creative Labs device would be comparible to Apple. This is so not the case" (13 year-old girl emphasis mine)
This was a device already on the market that they endorsed. They knew they were slaughtered from the start and still unleashed playsforsure on us. Funny to see them admit how bad some of their own stuff is.
with the exception of DX10 (Which is a separate discussion alltogether), NONE of those are operating system upgrades or changes. Would the presses stop if Ubuntu added an application to it's default install package? No. No one would notice, it would just be there. So why is it revolutionary for Vista to have a DVD maker included? Improvements to the shell, kernel i/o scheduling, security... those are OS upgrades. Seems to me, the rest is just fluff. Anyway, I'm guessing that it pales in comparison to any of the other accepted tools out there.. nero, alcohol, even k3b. And the same goes for all of those other tools.
well, points 2 and 3 are (sometimes) easily fixed by using a newer distro. Ubuntu Edgy made some progress in wifi (i believe) and sudo is setup for the main user by default.
It's not these little phishing sites that scare me, it's the banking\credit union sites. For example, http://www.wamucards.com/ (DON'T ENTER YOUR INFO HERE!).
How do sites like these get SSL from Verisign? How could that slip though? There was a recent/. Headline about SSL Extended Validation and how it's needed: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/25/204 6225 In cases like these, i guess it makes sense
so the 3day/3play restriction didn't bother him. I'm wondering what happens if you try to share an mp3. Since it has no drm built-in will it convert on the fly? Are users forced to convert to.wma before transfer to the Zune anyway? Or will it simply refuse to share a non-drm'd file?
That's the kind of thing I like answered in a review...
I would love to be able to export an entire set of extensions for use one another machine. Just package them up, and install. I know i can just copy my profile, but i have lots of machines that i use on many different platforms.
This would allow for other fun things too. you could package several extensions together for distribution. Adblock+Filterset.G, anyone? or NoScript+Flashblock?
I think the extenstions are what make firefox so powerful. Let's see them extend the possibilities...
I like where this is going. If nothing else, it will eliminate 1 out of 1000 obnoxious ringtones i hear all day long. Maybe if you have a vibration alert strapped to your wrist, you won't have to crank your ringer up to max.
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I'm already preparing myself:
sudo apt-get remove DellSuperAwesomeMediaProgram DellSpyware DellFirefoxPlugin DellReminder NortonInternetSecurity
the last one obviously a joke, but yikes, think about that for 5 secs...
Seems familiar...
Take a lesson from sony, this should help:
Cue Ballmer: "If you can find a [copy of vista] anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than a few minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it."
That's what I've never gotten about music "licenses". If i have a "license" to a song, i should be able to walk into best buy and ask for my song. If they give me any trouble, I should say "i have a license, it's ok"
A "license" in the music industry has all the limitations of a typical software license but none of the perks. If i lose my VLK Windows CD, no problem. I can get a new CD easily (and legally) from MANY different places.
If we're going to be forced to have "licenses" rather than ownership of our music then we should have the same benefits.
Do a WHOIS on the domain... not sure how comfortable I am pasting it here.
Let's just say... it just oozes professionalism. And seems to have nothing to do with Microsoft
Internet2? Psshhh... I'm not buying into that. Everyone knows Internet3.0 will be out in 6 months.
Create an encryption scheme where the key is "1". Then, if anyone circumvents it I can claim that 1 is my protected work that only I can use.
Core 80? Psh. I'm waiting for Core2 80...
Though i'm tempted to wait for Core-Quad 80 extreme.... 320 cores!
If less CDs fly off the shelves, they'll blame it on rampant piracy. Always something with these guys.
This was a device already on the market that they endorsed. They knew they were slaughtered from the start and still unleashed playsforsure on us. Funny to see them admit how bad some of their own stuff is.
with the exception of DX10 (Which is a separate discussion alltogether), NONE of those are operating system upgrades or changes. Would the presses stop if Ubuntu added an application to it's default install package? No. No one would notice, it would just be there. So why is it revolutionary for Vista to have a DVD maker included? Improvements to the shell, kernel i/o scheduling, security... those are OS upgrades. Seems to me, the rest is just fluff. Anyway, I'm guessing that it pales in comparison to any of the other accepted tools out there.. nero, alcohol, even k3b. And the same goes for all of those other tools.
If it's $150/line, they should save some money by taking out the comments. That would save them a good $450 easy...
well, points 2 and 3 are (sometimes) easily fixed by using a newer distro. Ubuntu Edgy made some progress in wifi (i believe) and sudo is setup for the main user by default.
i nuxplugin
As for Earth From Space, check out: http://www.adobe.com/go/fp9_update_b1_installer_l
Just visited the site, works great for me in linux.
It's not these little phishing sites that scare me, it's the banking\credit union sites. For example, http://www.wamucards.com/ (DON'T ENTER YOUR INFO HERE!).
/. Headline about SSL Extended Validation and how it's needed: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/25/204 6225 In cases like these, i guess it makes sense
How do sites like these get SSL from Verisign? How could that slip though? There was a recent
so the 3day/3play restriction didn't bother him. I'm wondering what happens if you try to share an mp3. Since it has no drm built-in will it convert on the fly? Are users forced to convert to .wma before transfer to the Zune anyway? Or will it simply refuse to share a non-drm'd file?
That's the kind of thing I like answered in a review...
I would love to be able to export an entire set of extensions for use one another machine. Just package them up, and install. I know i can just copy my profile, but i have lots of machines that i use on many different platforms. This would allow for other fun things too. you could package several extensions together for distribution. Adblock+Filterset.G, anyone? or NoScript+Flashblock? I think the extenstions are what make firefox so powerful. Let's see them extend the possibilities...
I like where this is going. If nothing else, it will eliminate 1 out of 1000 obnoxious ringtones i hear all day long. Maybe if you have a vibration alert strapped to your wrist, you won't have to crank your ringer up to max.