If what you're saying is correct than it's good news for everybody. But I haven't seen the DMCA practiced like that. That would make DVD decryption legal to distibute, wouldn't it? If one copyright holder think it's ok to distribute programs to break the encryption then it's ok to do so?
DVD decryption isn't legal, and my example is very similiar.
Are these shows DRM free? It was my impression they where fairplay DRM? Am I mistaken? If DRM free, great job Apple!
If they have fairplay DRM, they are not yours at all. And who knows for how long and how they change the deal in the future. Remember, with fairplay apple can (and sometimes do) change the deal on already bought goods as they please.
When I recode my movies for watching on my portable gmini 400, my p4 3.0 does it in about 170fps. Or about 15 minutes a movie. The end result for an 2 hour movie is about 300Mb,300kbps mpeg4 video, 64kbps mp3 sound.
I think it's a very reasonable time. Can be done in the morning before I get on the bus to watch it. It should be noted that I already have all my movies on the hardrive, but I don't think the actual copying of the DVD is that expensive timewise.
Yes, this is singlepass and lowquality so the filesize is probably about the double of what it would be if it was done correctly but it's still very usable.
If I understand your comment correctly the license (RPL) does in fact place restriction of the use of the code effectively being a form of EULA. Is that really enforcable anywhere? The GPL only comes into play when distributing, the RPL comes into play when you change the code. There is a big difference and I think the GPL is a better choice.
I'm watching video everyday on my archos gmini 402 when traveling by buss, it's about the same size as an iPod. It doesn't tax the hardrive very much as it reads to memory in chunks. Im watching about 1.2 hours every day (and 30 mins of music) with lots of battery to spare, have never run out but I charge every day.
It's probably good to convert to small filesizes (as I do), the archos can play near DVD quality on external screen and with those files I can see it draining alot faster.
I can only say, anyone who says video portables are useless doesn't know what they are talking about. It works wonderfully and is just as fun as watching at home. I think Apple also realises this.
You don't seem to grasp at all what I was talking about. I want to buy music, period. I don't want to buy some contract no matter what it says. Most countries (even america) already have copyright law stating what you can/can't do with media you buy. That should be enough. If the law is not enough then change it, but I will never buy a contract when it's music I'm after.
To clarify, when you buy from iTms you buy a contract to do certain stuff with a mediafile. You don't buy the media itself, you don't own it, you can't sell it. You can't even sell the contract because in it it says you can't sell it. You can even say the media you buy is worthless once you pay for it (It no longer has any $$ value). If thats ok with you, shop on and be happy.
I'm waiting for some scheme that makes me own the tunes just as much as I own a CD I buy. Not something thats look like a lifetime rent.
5000 songs? At $0.99 that would give you 82 years of yahoo subscription. Those $0.99 songs are non transferable anyway so your relatives get nada when you die.
There is no such thing as liberal DRM as long as you don't own what you buy. I don't consider owning a licence to play on up to 5 computers simultaneously and being allowed to burn to cd without changing playlist 7 times as something i own.
Give me the power to resell the stuff I bought and I will reconsider. In this case I want to sell the licence.
iTunes has no subscription. Thats one staggering blow. I don't consider DRM music to ever be mine so it makes no sence trying to buy it, and certanly not for $0.99 a track. $4.99/month as yahoo has is much more reasonable.
Even so, I've never heard of a case (computers or real life) where monoculture is good for security. Maybe the Mac with OS X will prove me wrong although I doubt it.
Microsoft has to get windows to work with Intel and AMD chipsets that are jammed into boxes made by hundreds of different manufacturers.
Several Open source OS Like Linux, NetBSB and FreeBSD works on a even wider range of hardware. I don't think that make them more insecure, if anything it makes them more secure because the hacker / virii writer can't assume x86.
word of caution with regards to their extremely short terms of service and privacy policy, calling them "shady".
It should be a good thing to not have a long lawyerlike TOS. Terms of service is a way for companies to bypass the laws and shouldn't be needed at all. Period.
Speaking of wrong terms. You don't buy things from iTunes. You licence the media to be played on max 5 authorized computers at a time. As soon as you licence the media the economic value of the media is zero since it's illegal to resell the licence to any other part. The licence for your old media sometimes changes retroactively as Apple makes new deals with the record companies. If Apple should decide for whatever reason to take away their licence servers your music is gone forever.
No, that doesn't sound like the old school term "buy" we use when we go to the candy store.
I don't really care if Apple (and the other music stores) change their ways of doing business but I think it's VERY dishonest to call someting "buy" when in fact it's more like renting. I want to really own stuff I buy, as it is now it's "you own it just as much as you need to listen to the music they way we say you are allowed to".
The subscription models is better in this regard since they don't confuse you to think you own the media when in fact you don't.
I think vanilla 2.6 is great when it comes to responsiveness (not counting microseconds though). I Even though I have world of warcraft eating 100% CPU in a window the overall responsiveness of the desktop environment doesn't change. same goes if you decide to start up 5 simultaneously playing movies in mplayer. Way better than 2.4 ever was.
Yes I have, I can see you point. But Solaris at least can run Apache with descent speed and mysql has at least in the past been targeted first for Solaris. It's not only Linux it runs good on.
So, show us the numbers on PostgreeSQL. Judging from the fact that OS X can't even handle Apache (According to the article) the problems seem to be a bit deeper than a fsync bug.
Apple told us that the problem lies in Apachebench (the client side), which stalls from time to time and thus generates too low of a load on the (Apache) server.
This sounds like a flat out lie from Apple. Not the kind of behaviuor you should expect from a *nix vendor.
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If what you're saying is correct than it's good news for everybody. But I haven't seen the DMCA practiced like that. That would make DVD decryption legal to distibute, wouldn't it? If one copyright holder think it's ok to distribute programs to break the encryption then it's ok to do so?
DVD decryption isn't legal, and my example is very similiar.
They will find way to still make money off it however
Can't be hard with the new tools their lawyers have.
If they encrypt the resulting documents using some lame encryption like ROT13 it would be against the law to Open them in anything but MS Office.
A commercial free program that is yours forever.
Are these shows DRM free? It was my impression they where fairplay DRM? Am I mistaken? If DRM free, great job Apple!
If they have fairplay DRM, they are not yours at all. And who knows for how long and how they change the deal in the future. Remember, with fairplay apple can (and sometimes do) change the deal on already bought goods as they please.
Is it true? Let's nuke the sun.
- G.W. Bush, Jr.
When I recode my movies for watching on my portable gmini 400, my p4 3.0 does it in about 170fps. Or about 15 minutes a movie. The end result for an 2 hour movie is about 300Mb,300kbps mpeg4 video, 64kbps mp3 sound.
I think it's a very reasonable time. Can be done in the morning before I get on the bus to watch it. It should be noted that I already have all my movies on the hardrive, but I don't think the actual copying of the DVD is that expensive timewise.
Yes, this is singlepass and lowquality so the filesize is probably about the double of what it would be if it was done correctly but it's still very usable.
That scenario isn't in line with any form of reality we live in. It's just you swallowing the MS fud.
If I understand your comment correctly the license (RPL) does in fact place restriction of the use of the code effectively being a form of EULA. Is that really enforcable anywhere? The GPL only comes into play when distributing, the RPL comes into play when you change the code. There is a big difference and I think the GPL is a better choice.
I'm watching video everyday on my archos gmini 402 when traveling by buss, it's about the same size as an iPod. It doesn't tax the hardrive very much as it reads to memory in chunks. Im watching about 1.2 hours every day (and 30 mins of music) with lots of battery to spare, have never run out but I charge every day.
It's probably good to convert to small filesizes (as I do), the archos can play near DVD quality on external screen and with those files I can see it draining alot faster.
I can only say, anyone who says video portables are useless doesn't know what they are talking about. It works wonderfully and is just as fun as watching at home. I think Apple also realises this.
You don't seem to grasp at all what I was talking about. I want to buy music, period. I don't want to buy some contract no matter what it says. Most countries (even america) already have copyright law stating what you can/can't do with media you buy. That should be enough. If the law is not enough then change it, but I will never buy a contract when it's music I'm after.
To clarify, when you buy from iTms you buy a contract to do certain stuff with a mediafile. You don't buy the media itself, you don't own it, you can't sell it. You can't even sell the contract because in it it says you can't sell it. You can even say the media you buy is worthless once you pay for it (It no longer has any $$ value). If thats ok with you, shop on and be happy.
I'm waiting for some scheme that makes me own the tunes just as much as I own a CD I buy. Not something thats look like a lifetime rent.
5000 songs? At $0.99 that would give you 82 years of yahoo subscription. Those $0.99 songs are non transferable anyway so your relatives get nada when you die.
There is no such thing as liberal DRM as long as you don't own what you buy. I don't consider owning a licence to play on up to 5 computers simultaneously and being allowed to burn to cd without changing playlist 7 times as something i own.
Give me the power to resell the stuff I bought and I will reconsider. In this case I want to sell the licence.
If not, it's just a glorified renting system.
iTunes has no subscription. Thats one staggering blow. I don't consider DRM music to ever be mine so it makes no sence trying to buy it, and certanly not for $0.99 a track. $4.99/month as yahoo has is much more reasonable.
Even so, I've never heard of a case (computers or real life) where monoculture is good for security. Maybe the Mac with OS X will prove me wrong although I doubt it.
Microsoft has to get windows to work with Intel and AMD chipsets that are jammed into boxes made by hundreds of different manufacturers.
Several Open source OS Like Linux, NetBSB and FreeBSD works on a even wider range of hardware. I don't think that make them more insecure, if anything it makes them more secure because the hacker / virii writer can't assume x86.
word of caution with regards to their extremely short terms of service and privacy policy, calling them "shady".
It should be a good thing to not have a long lawyerlike TOS. Terms of service is a way for companies to bypass the laws and shouldn't be needed at all. Period.
Speaking of wrong terms. You don't buy things from iTunes. You licence the media to be played on max 5 authorized computers at a time. As soon as you licence the media the economic value of the media is zero since it's illegal to resell the licence to any other part. The licence for your old media sometimes changes retroactively as Apple makes new deals with the record companies. If Apple should decide for whatever reason to take away their licence servers your music is gone forever.
No, that doesn't sound like the old school term "buy" we use when we go to the candy store.
I don't really care if Apple (and the other music stores) change their ways of doing business but I think it's VERY dishonest to call someting "buy" when in fact it's more like renting. I want to really own stuff I buy, as it is now it's "you own it just as much as you need to listen to the music they way we say you are allowed to".
The subscription models is better in this regard since they don't confuse you to think you own the media when in fact you don't.
Most of all programs in Linux, about 99.99% is distribution supplied and isn't likely to have virus/trojan/spyware in them.
Apple's future is bright, but they need to focus on keeping their products tightly controlled.
Shouldn't be a problem with DRM, DMCA, stupid patents and all other new tools mainly used (and designed) for anti-competitive behaviour.
Regular wine works best for wow, just grab latest. Use OSS for sound (or alsa OSS emulation) and use -opengl switch for wow.
Try playing WoW on a dual head setup with video playing on one screen and the game in the other
I do that every day, works great for me.
I think vanilla 2.6 is great when it comes to responsiveness (not counting microseconds though). I Even though I have world of warcraft eating 100% CPU in a window the overall responsiveness of the desktop environment doesn't change. same goes if you decide to start up 5 simultaneously playing movies in mplayer. Way better than 2.4 ever was.
This is Slashdot afterall, where "Bush = Monkey" gets 5+ insightful EVERY time.
Anything more elaborate and Bush wouldn't understand what you where talking about.
No, I believe they are refering to the USA interpretation of to sovereign "puppy of America".
Yes I have, I can see you point. But Solaris at least can run Apache with descent speed and mysql has at least in the past been targeted first for Solaris. It's not only Linux it runs good on.
So, show us the numbers on PostgreeSQL. Judging from the fact that OS X can't even handle Apache (According to the article) the problems seem to be a bit deeper than a fsync bug.
Apple told us that the problem lies in Apachebench (the client side), which stalls from time to time and thus generates too low of a load on the (Apache) server.
This sounds like a flat out lie from Apple. Not the kind of behaviuor you should expect from a *nix vendor.