Those are some good points & I'm quite aware of all the legal hoops they would probably make someone go through for such information...
They (the car companies) would have to know that if they standardized their OS that someone would be willing & able to reverse-engineer the API & create a cleanroom implementation of it to distribute & use.
So if you could authorize an unlimited number of machines, the ipod would have the authorization key (read: password) encrypted on it & you could authorize your iPod on as many computers as you like by punching in your password. Of course, if you lose your password all you should have to do is tell iTunes (or whatever) to reset your password back to default or blank, thereby turning this functionality/feature off.
Maybe I'm missing something (or not) but this doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. The RIAA gets to encrypt & restrict MY music, why not at least give me the ability to encrypt and/or restrict my iPod??
http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/faq.mspx'>Thei r OSS site's FAQ
It (their investment in OSS) is totally bogus.
We don't even know what OSS licenses they are advocating.
I really doubt this is going to go anywhere. They are trying to jump on the OSS bandwagon and follow suit similar to companies like Sun and Intel but are doing it their normal kludgy way of anything. Ripoffs and emulations aside, The past year of MS releases (ideas & products alike) have been really seeming like these bastardized & frankenstein-ed ideas that someone came up with before & did a better job with.
What do you expect them to say if they are under pressure from users?
I would expect them to come up with a better lie than that, especially if the pressure aspect is public. I understand that marketing is BS but at least BS in a way that placates your savvy consumers while exciting your gullible ones.
I read my agreement with Comcast and I don't see anything specific about this. Is there any way to get verifiable information which ISPs may be doing this? The article does not give any. If I were to find my ISP doing this I would probably switch ISPs. I do a lot of sensitive govt. work via my home ISP and this would violate the terms my contracts are based on.
Someone like The Consumerist would be a place where I would expect a list... just got off the phone with my provider. The CSR on the other end of the line could barely speak let alone understand what I was asking about. Do ISPs farm out their CS phone centers to 3rd world countries where ESL to obscure & hide things like this??
I miss DEC.
I learned how to program with Turbo Pascal & C on a VAX machine when I was a kid on DEC machines in the hospital my dad worked at & would drag me to when he had me for the weekends...
And then came along the SPARC Station in his office... was it running Solaris? I can't remember... omg!! That thing was leaps and bounds ahead of anything I use today...
Who would have thought that a developer would have had a better environment to work with when he was 8 than when he's 30??
Why would Moore's Law (suggestion? possibility?) have anything to do with a budget laptop aimed at getting have-nots in the world a chance to access knowledge and information. These laptops aren't about to replace my ThinkPad or my wife's Compaq. I need the power for the kludgy development I'm asked to do, she needs it for encoding songs on iTunes and spyware.
As time goes on and for whatever I have to aggregate more information at a single time I would say it's a pretty safe wager to say that I'm gonna need more processing power not less. Or better processing power anyway...
Hopefully their compiler will follow suit.
This sounds like a great move for Intel especially since the lion's share of income is from processors & semi-conductors this will encourage more people to use their tools.
I'm no fanboi. I'll give the Zune a chance when MS offers something that is better than the iPod. I'm not looking for something as good as the iPod or an iPod with BIGGER features. How about some real innovations like:
-more HD space is always nice, how about beating Apple with a 100GB or 120GB Zune?:)
-intelligent shuffle that actually uses play counts, last-played, ratings & play-selection-order (and who knows what else) to intuitively determine what songs would fit together? Sort of a moodlogic for people instead of idiots & jerks?
-non-platform specific compatibility
-better firmware customization (that iPod linux thing is a worthy try but come on)
-something that doesn't look like a blatant ripoff of the iPod
-custom codec installation
-API for application construction & integration
I could go on & on...
Yay. Another tax. If a product is invented, you can be rest assured that the people whos' salaries are paid for by taxes will apply a tax to it!! Let's see, we'll tax your commerce, your income, your morality, your charity... is there anything left???
Unless someone else comes out with Six-Minute Abs...
George Costanza was also smitten with the Seven if people remember...
MS is really in a strange position these days- they design, write & promote a software engineering mess meanwhile their B2B departments must be really keen because they've fooled so many hardware manufacturers in to near (or sometimes complete) exclusivity contracts so they are virtually guaranteed a cash flow while they continue to pump out hit-or-miss products. I don't know why this is news but I'm sure that just like Longhor-erhm Vista, '7' will have a long and public development cycle that I strangely remember MS stating they were not going to be so public in the future...
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Those are some good points & I'm quite aware of all the legal hoops they would probably make someone go through for such information... They (the car companies) would have to know that if they standardized their OS that someone would be willing & able to reverse-engineer the API & create a cleanroom implementation of it to distribute & use.
Hehe, that would be amusing... and neato at the same time actually. Who knows how many useful & dangerous apps could be made...
you should be able to use your ipod on multiple machines
You can.
If I can't add, remove, edit songs on any machine I am not interested.
Be interested then, you can.
Also, how would this work for reselling? I guess you resell with the same charger, or something.
No hardware dongle necessary. If they make it password-based.
So if you could authorize an unlimited number of machines, the ipod would have the authorization key (read: password) encrypted on it & you could authorize your iPod on as many computers as you like by punching in your password. Of course, if you lose your password all you should have to do is tell iTunes (or whatever) to reset your password back to default or blank, thereby turning this functionality/feature off.
Maybe I'm missing something (or not) but this doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. The RIAA gets to encrypt & restrict MY music, why not at least give me the ability to encrypt and/or restrict my iPod??
http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/faq.mspx'>Thei r OSS site's FAQ
It (their investment in OSS) is totally bogus.
We don't even know what OSS licenses they are advocating.
I really doubt this is going to go anywhere. They are trying to jump on the OSS bandwagon and follow suit similar to companies like Sun and Intel but are doing it their normal kludgy way of anything. Ripoffs and emulations aside, The past year of MS releases (ideas & products alike) have been really seeming like these bastardized & frankenstein-ed ideas that someone came up with before & did a better job with.
I use Thnderbird at home. Every day @ work using Outlook reminds me why I prefer Thunderbird.
I do have some gripes when it comes to the way most extensions and plugins are handled for it though, much like other people are saying...
I'd rather see it stay in the Mozilla foundation but if it must leave then I would prefer the third option as well. The second one really sucks...
What do you expect them to say if they are under pressure from users?
I would expect them to come up with a better lie than that, especially if the pressure aspect is public. I understand that marketing is BS but at least BS in a way that placates your savvy consumers while exciting your gullible ones.
I read my agreement with Comcast and I don't see anything specific about this. Is there any way to get verifiable information which ISPs may be doing this? The article does not give any. If I were to find my ISP doing this I would probably switch ISPs. I do a lot of sensitive govt. work via my home ISP and this would violate the terms my contracts are based on.
Someone like The Consumerist would be a place where I would expect a list... just got off the phone with my provider. The CSR on the other end of the line could barely speak let alone understand what I was asking about. Do ISPs farm out their CS phone centers to 3rd world countries where ESL to obscure & hide things like this??
I'm pretty agitated about this actually....
"'We just think it's a great license,' "
If they're under pressure why would they say that??
I miss DEC. I learned how to program with Turbo Pascal & C on a VAX machine when I was a kid on DEC machines in the hospital my dad worked at & would drag me to when he had me for the weekends... And then came along the SPARC Station in his office... was it running Solaris? I can't remember... omg!! That thing was leaps and bounds ahead of anything I use today... Who would have thought that a developer would have had a better environment to work with when he was 8 than when he's 30??
This is silly.
Why would Moore's Law (suggestion? possibility?) have anything to do with a budget laptop aimed at getting have-nots in the world a chance to access knowledge and information. These laptops aren't about to replace my ThinkPad or my wife's Compaq. I need the power for the kludgy development I'm asked to do, she needs it for encoding songs on iTunes and spyware.
As time goes on and for whatever I have to aggregate more information at a single time I would say it's a pretty safe wager to say that I'm gonna need more processing power not less. Or better processing power anyway...
Hopefully their compiler will follow suit. This sounds like a great move for Intel especially since the lion's share of income is from processors & semi-conductors this will encourage more people to use their tools.
Pls forgive me but that is not real I hope... :)
I'm no fanboi. I'll give the Zune a chance when MS offers something that is better than the iPod. I'm not looking for something as good as the iPod or an iPod with BIGGER features. How about some real innovations like: -more HD space is always nice, how about beating Apple with a 100GB or 120GB Zune? :)
-intelligent shuffle that actually uses play counts, last-played, ratings & play-selection-order (and who knows what else) to intuitively determine what songs would fit together? Sort of a moodlogic for people instead of idiots & jerks?
-non-platform specific compatibility
-better firmware customization (that iPod linux thing is a worthy try but come on)
-something that doesn't look like a blatant ripoff of the iPod
-custom codec installation
-API for application construction & integration
I could go on & on...
Yay. Another tax. If a product is invented, you can be rest assured that the people whos' salaries are paid for by taxes will apply a tax to it!! Let's see, we'll tax your commerce, your income, your morality, your charity... is there anything left???
Unless someone else comes out with Six-Minute Abs... George Costanza was also smitten with the Seven if people remember... MS is really in a strange position these days- they design, write & promote a software engineering mess meanwhile their B2B departments must be really keen because they've fooled so many hardware manufacturers in to near (or sometimes complete) exclusivity contracts so they are virtually guaranteed a cash flow while they continue to pump out hit-or-miss products. I don't know why this is news but I'm sure that just like Longhor-erhm Vista, '7' will have a long and public development cycle that I strangely remember MS stating they were not going to be so public in the future...
I love the will it blend videos but should this be the the first article on the front page?
That's wonderful!! Be safe & careful. I hope you're taking lots of pics.