That's a poorly designed format. You should make "greeting" a complex type and use elements to represent the greeting text and the greeting type. Then, the greeting type can be properly validated against a W3C XML Schema. There's no valid reason to use an attribute in cases like these.
You're his co-worker, aren't you? Glad to see you've calmed down a bit.
And you didn't back up your purchased music files because...?
...he didn't expect to need to? Considering you have to authorize a computer to play files to begin with why should there be any limits on the number of times you can download a file?
...because the RIAA charges Apple for each download instead of each song purchased? And he could have called Apple support and let them know about his issues and he probably would've been able to use his one free "re-download" to get all his music back instead of complaining in an internet forum.
Oh get off the grass. Almost every player EXCEPT the iPod uses the infinitely simpler method of drag & drop from the filesystem to put files onto it. No screwing around with a proprietary piece of software with all its quirks, just drag the mp3 from the filesystem, onto the device. Simple. It works without needing extra software installed whether you're on Linux, Windows, even another Mac. It doesn't GET any simpler than that, and that's what we already have for the majority of non-iPod players.
Apple may have claim to an easier UI in some parts of Mac OS X, but the iTunes to iPod interface is NOT one of them
Please explain how
1. plugging in the device
2. naviagte to my mp3 files
3. drag and drop mp3 files to mp3 player
4. if you have more music in other folders, go back to step 2
is "infinitely simpler" than
1. plug in ipod, itunes auto launches and auto syncs all my media
2. um, i'm all done, there is no step 2
By my math 3+ steps are not "infinitely simpler" than 1 step.
And iTunes isn't "extra" software. It's been pre-installed on at least the last five computers I've purchased.
How is this insightful? iTunes encodes in plain old MP3, WAV, and AIFF along with AAC and Apple Lossless. None of which has any DRM what so ever.
And what the hell does this mean?
So you cannot legally play iTunes-encoded music on the iPod
Don't you think that the RIAA would have done something (anything!!!) about this if it were even remotely true?
You are probably confused between:
iTunes- the program that manages your music, rips your CDs, burns CDs, downloads podcasts, syncs your iPod and lets your stream your music around your LAN
and
The iTunes Music Store- The service that allows you to buy songs that have a very lax DRM and are completely legal to tranfer to your iPod.
To add insult to injury, if your name even remotely resembles the name of a known or suspected "evildoer," you get flagged. My entire family now suffers an extra 45 minutes of screening at the airport, every single time we fly, because my dad's name matches that of some IRA gunman who was last active in the early 80's. (Before you go thinking this might be a valid concern, consider that we're talking about an extremely common name. "John Murphy" isn't exactly "Zaccarias Moussaoui.") And of course, all this color-coded rigmarole does not make us one bit safer, just more vulnerable to the constant fear-mongering coming out of Washington.
Try having your father include his middle initial and/or name when ordering plane tickets next time. I used to have the same problem, it because a running joke between myself and my girlfriend, who has a foreign issued passport from an "axis of evil" country which doesn't match her green card due to marriage, yet she goes through with out a second glance while I get my shoes taken away for closer inspection and patted down three times on my way to the gate. Finally, after being told that I had to leave the airport and comeback in through security after I missed a connection due to flight delays I asked about how to get my damn name off the list. The ticket lady said that it probably wouldn't happen since I had a very common name, but if I started using my middle initial that wouldn't raise any flags. And sure enough, it works. I just breeze through security now. Of course the last trip I took they raised the terror alert level after I was in the air and there was more security when we landed, obviously because I was able to slip by security, so homeland security provided more amusement to my girlfriend.
What's always seemed strange to me is that prostitution is illegal unless you film it.
In other words, I can pay a woman to have sex with me if she is an actor in my porn film. I just can't do it for my own private pleasure, I have to be making something for others to see. Bizarre.
Ah, but you're not paying for sex. You're paying for her time as an actress. If she happens to want to have sex with you then that is in no way related to her pay for the day. If she doesn't want to have sex with you, well, she probably won't be getting much work anymore.
This is the same reason why you see ads for "Escort Services" and not for "Hookers". You're buying time, not sex.
Ahh, here's a funny Iris story (as told to me by Graham Nash, yes that Graham Nash):
Mr. Nash at one point owned a few Iris printers (some "modified" to accept different kinds of papers) and a service bureau to make said machines available to whoever needed them. One of these people was an older woman who was getting ready to make some prints of one of her paintings. This is a big event for her, there's an big party planned as this is the first work she's sold on such a large scale. So her agent sends in her original painting and the bureau make a proof in a couple of days and sends the proof to the painter for, well, proofing. About a week later a package comes in and inside is the proof, all cut into hundreds of pieces. The bureau calls the painter to see what was wrong with the proof that would cause such a reaction. Well it seems that the painter thought that her original painting had been rejected and sent back to her and she was so mad at the agent for having her believe that it was going to be sold that she took a knife to it. Once everyone got on the phone and explained the situation to the painter she said that the proof was fine and to go ahead with the run.
My mother used to get all kinda of harrasing phone calls
because there was a women on her street with the same
first and last name. The collections people would
see on in,
and that was that.
And they would always assume that what she was telling them
was a lie to get them off her back.
For instance if you buy 1 pound of baking soda off a guy but he sells it to you as cocaine, that is illegal. If you take the baking soda and then (thinking it is cocaine) try and sell it to another individual as cocaine that is also illegal (you intended to sell an illegal drug). This is different from the sale of baking soda as cocaine (which is also a crime). I think that is sale of an imitation controlled substance.
But what about this...
You're sitting at home with a box of baking soda. You say "does that look like cocaine?" to your friend who just walked in the door. You of course know that it's baking soda. Your friend says "Yeah, it does look like cocaine. I'll give you (sum of money) for it." Is it a crime to take the money? Is it a crime to give someone baking soda if they think it might be cocaine?
"engineers" not "designers". I bet Ives will still be doing the look of the new powerbook. The Intel people will be there to make sure the insides work nicely in new design.
Too much work. I'm looking for six billion ears of corn right now.
More to the point, food producers don't have any claim of intellectual property over the food they sell. If you can find a cheaper way to produce it, they must either adopt your method or go bankrupt. Even if there ever was a patent on soybeans, it ran out about 6,000 years ago.
More to the point, music producers don't have any claim of intellectual property over the music they sell. If you can find a cheaper way to reproduce it, they must either adopt your method or go bankrupt. Even if there ever was a patent on the twelve notes musical instruments make, it ran out about 6,000 years ago.
When you buy clothes from a department store, the tag is removed and you are free to wear alter, and lend out the clothing however you see fit.
That's because their shirt can't instantly become six billion more shirts, which you can give away for free (or sell for next to nothing, like AllofMP3.com does) and take away any reason for anybody else to buy one from them.
Selling recorded music is a multi-million dollar industry, the owners of which surely don't want to just give up, just because technology has made it fantastically easy to rip them off.
If someone discovered a way to effortless create / duplicate food, I bet half the world would starve to death in a year.
"Selling food is a multi-million dollar industry, the owners of which surely don't want to just give up, just because technology has made it fantastically easy to rip them off."
Hmm, but the question is, are those useless 1s & 0s actually copyrighted material? If the download is not complete and/or the movie is not viewable does it count as infringement? And if it's movie studio or an agent of the studio doing the poisioning, are they not the original seeder? Therefor they are freely distributing the file and giving up their copyright? If you're walking down the street and someone working for a MGM says "Hey, would you like this DVD?" and you took it, could you be charged with theft? If the file is legit then they advertised it via the tracker and freely and knowingly allowed it's download, if it's not actually "The Wedding Crashers" and just 700mb of digital garbage then you haven't actually downloaded "The Wedding Crashers" and they have no case.
FEMA is required by law to make their site accessable to people with disabilities. Demanding that the all visitors to the site must use IE6 with javascript is in direct violation of that law. It's not "impossible" is "lazy" and "irrresponsible".
And if you try to file a claim by phone they will only send the paper work to your address, and if you're filing because of Katrina, your home probably doesn't exist anymore. There's going be enough lawsuits due to this to bankrupt the whole agency.
I came across some 486DX-33s a few years ago (around 1998-1999 or so) and wanted to set them up so my mom, sister and nieces could play network / internet scrabble on them (scrabble was BIG in my house). I tried installed Win2k on them but the install complained about the processor being too slow (I think it said it wanted 66 or 75mhz). I was able to install from another machine, P166 i thank, and swap the harddrives back to the 486s and it booted. It wasn't usable, but it "ran". I think I eventually switched them over to P90s I picked up for $10 each or so.
Six months ago I would've thought that a video ipod wasn't a very good idea. Now, I don't have to commute on public transportation everyday, nor do I have long down times in airports, etc., which is where I hear most of uses for portable DVD players, PSPs, etc. However, my gym has recently installed LCD screens on a few of their elliptical machines which are fed a basic cable feed. Those machines are always packed. I've used them a few times and it's great to skip around the channels with my head phones in watching the daily show or other stuff that's on around 7-8pm, but I really miss my tivo at home when I can skip channels or go back and watch that episode of mythbusters from two months ago. Now a video ipod would be wonderful for this. if I could load my own content on. I don't need video all the time, but I do use a regular music iPod pretty much all day at work, and that ipod is getting a little old (orig. 5gb) so a replacement might be on the horizon. tivotogo + handbrake + video ipod = happy me.
My work email address was in the whois for several domains about 6-7 years ago which gave me a "medium" amount of spam, probably 10-20 a day. Just that little bit made me angry enough to use some spam reporting software, and after a year or so of that, plus clients that had my email address in their outlook contacts when they got nailed by worms and virii, my spam load grew out of control due to joe jobs and the like. I now have about 2,500-3,000 spams a day that get through the blacklist and caught by spamassassin. I would love to change the address, but there's so many people and other things that use that address that the headache to change it isn't larger than the spam problem.
Metallica also has a home video called "Cliff 'Em All" that has live performances and stuff from before '87 or so. There's one segment filmed by one of the band members that shows the other three walking into a convenience store, going to the beverage cooler, grabbing a few armloads of beer and then shoplifting them.
So, remember, it's ok for Metallica to steal real-life, non-duplicateable physical, goods from small stores because "hey, it's funny", but it's bad for you to copy Metallica's "intellectual property" because, you know they're artists and stuff.
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You're his co-worker, aren't you? Glad to see you've calmed down a bit.
Oh get off the grass. Almost every player EXCEPT the iPod uses the infinitely simpler method of drag & drop from the filesystem to put files onto it. No screwing around with a proprietary piece of software with all its quirks, just drag the mp3 from the filesystem, onto the device. Simple. It works without needing extra software installed whether you're on Linux, Windows, even another Mac. It doesn't GET any simpler than that, and that's what we already have for the majority of non-iPod players.
Apple may have claim to an easier UI in some parts of Mac OS X, but the iTunes to iPod interface is NOT one of them
Please explain how
1. plugging in the device
2. naviagte to my mp3 files 3. drag and drop mp3 files to mp3 player
4. if you have more music in other folders, go back to step 2
is "infinitely simpler" than
1. plug in ipod, itunes auto launches and auto syncs all my media
2. um, i'm all done, there is no step 2
By my math 3+ steps are not "infinitely simpler" than 1 step.
And iTunes isn't "extra" software. It's been pre-installed on at least the last five computers I've purchased.
How is this insightful? iTunes encodes in plain old MP3, WAV, and AIFF along with AAC and Apple Lossless. None of which has any DRM what so ever.
And what the hell does this mean?
So you cannot legally play iTunes-encoded music on the iPod
Don't you think that the RIAA would have done something (anything!!!) about this if it were even remotely true?
You are probably confused between:
iTunes- the program that manages your music, rips your CDs, burns CDs, downloads podcasts, syncs your iPod and lets your stream your music around your LAN
and
The iTunes Music Store- The service that allows you to buy songs that have a very lax DRM and are completely legal to tranfer to your iPod.
I think he's one of the ones who coded the original DOOM
And he did it all in GWBasic too.
To add insult to injury, if your name even remotely resembles the name of a known or suspected "evildoer," you get flagged. My entire family now suffers an extra 45 minutes of screening at the airport, every single time we fly, because my dad's name matches that of some IRA gunman who was last active in the early 80's. (Before you go thinking this might be a valid concern, consider that we're talking about an extremely common name. "John Murphy" isn't exactly "Zaccarias Moussaoui.") And of course, all this color-coded rigmarole does not make us one bit safer, just more vulnerable to the constant fear-mongering coming out of Washington.
Try having your father include his middle initial and/or name when ordering plane tickets next time. I used to have the same problem, it because a running joke between myself and my girlfriend, who has a foreign issued passport from an "axis of evil" country which doesn't match her green card due to marriage, yet she goes through with out a second glance while I get my shoes taken away for closer inspection and patted down three times on my way to the gate. Finally, after being told that I had to leave the airport and comeback in through security after I missed a connection due to flight delays I asked about how to get my damn name off the list. The ticket lady said that it probably wouldn't happen since I had a very common name, but if I started using my middle initial that wouldn't raise any flags. And sure enough, it works. I just breeze through security now. Of course the last trip I took they raised the terror alert level after I was in the air and there was more security when we landed, obviously because I was able to slip by security, so homeland security provided more amusement to my girlfriend.
What's always seemed strange to me is that prostitution is illegal unless you film it.
In other words, I can pay a woman to have sex with me if she is an actor in my porn film. I just can't do it for my own private pleasure, I have to be making something for others to see. Bizarre. Ah, but you're not paying for sex. You're paying for her time as an actress. If she happens to want to have sex with you then that is in no way related to her pay for the day. If she doesn't want to have sex with you, well, she probably won't be getting much work anymore.
This is the same reason why you see ads for "Escort Services" and not for "Hookers". You're buying time, not sex.
Ahh, here's a funny Iris story (as told to me by Graham Nash, yes that Graham Nash):
Mr. Nash at one point owned a few Iris printers (some "modified" to accept different kinds of papers) and a service bureau to make said machines available to whoever needed them. One of these people was an older woman who was getting ready to make some prints of one of her paintings. This is a big event for her, there's an big party planned as this is the first work she's sold on such a large scale. So her agent sends in her original painting and the bureau make a proof in a couple of days and sends the proof to the painter for, well, proofing. About a week later a package comes in and inside is the proof, all cut into hundreds of pieces. The bureau calls the painter to see what was wrong with the proof that would cause such a reaction. Well it seems that the painter thought that her original painting had been rejected and sent back to her and she was so mad at the agent for having her believe that it was going to be sold that she took a knife to it. Once everyone got on the phone and explained the situation to the painter she said that the proof was fine and to go ahead with the run.
Name similarity.
,
My mother used to get all kinda of harrasing phone calls
because there was a women on her street with the same
first and last name. The collections people would
see on in
and that was that.
And they would always assume that what she was telling them
was a lie to get them off her back.
Is that a haiku?
In NY it is. It is called sale of an imitation controlled substance.
So baking soda cannot be sold in NY? How about sugar? Oregano?
For instance if you buy 1 pound of baking soda off a guy but he sells it to you as cocaine, that is illegal. If you take the baking soda and then (thinking it is cocaine) try and sell it to another individual as cocaine that is also illegal (you intended to sell an illegal drug). This is different from the sale of baking soda as cocaine (which is also a crime). I think that is sale of an imitation controlled substance.
But what about this...
You're sitting at home with a box of baking soda. You say "does that look like cocaine?" to your friend who just walked in the door. You of course know that it's baking soda. Your friend says "Yeah, it does look like cocaine. I'll give you (sum of money) for it." Is it a crime to take the money? Is it a crime to give someone baking soda if they think it might be cocaine?
RYFQ (Read You F-ing Quote)
"engineers" not "designers". I bet Ives will still be doing the look of the new powerbook. The Intel people will be there to make sure the insides work nicely in new design.
A major one.
Sigh....I have a 360 and nope no crashes, no problems, no inner need-to-bash-microsoft for the sake of it.
Haven't taken it out of the box yet, huh?
Step 2. Wait a few months.
Too much work. I'm looking for six billion ears of corn right now.
More to the point, food producers don't have any claim of intellectual property over the food they sell. If you can find a cheaper way to produce it, they must either adopt your method or go bankrupt. Even if there ever was a patent on soybeans, it ran out about 6,000 years ago.
More to the point, music producers don't have any claim of intellectual property over the music they sell. If you can find a cheaper way to reproduce it, they must either adopt your method or go bankrupt. Even if there ever was a patent on the twelve notes musical instruments make, it ran out about 6,000 years ago.
When you buy clothes from a department store, the tag is removed and you are free to wear alter, and lend out the clothing however you see fit.
That's because their shirt can't instantly become six billion more shirts, which you can give away for free (or sell for next to nothing, like AllofMP3.com does) and take away any reason for anybody else to buy one from them.
Selling recorded music is a multi-million dollar industry, the owners of which surely don't want to just give up, just because technology has made it fantastically easy to rip them off.
If someone discovered a way to effortless create / duplicate food, I bet half the world would starve to death in a year.
"Selling food is a multi-million dollar industry, the owners of which surely don't want to just give up, just because technology has made it fantastically easy to rip them off."
Hmm, but the question is, are those useless 1s & 0s actually copyrighted material? If the download is not complete and/or the movie is not viewable does it count as infringement? And if it's movie studio or an agent of the studio doing the poisioning, are they not the original seeder? Therefor they are freely distributing the file and giving up their copyright? If you're walking down the street and someone working for a MGM says "Hey, would you like this DVD?" and you took it, could you be charged with theft? If the file is legit then they advertised it via the tracker and freely and knowingly allowed it's download, if it's not actually "The Wedding Crashers" and just 700mb of digital garbage then you haven't actually downloaded "The Wedding Crashers" and they have no case.
FEMA is required by law to make their site accessable to people with disabilities. Demanding that the all visitors to the site must use IE6 with javascript is in direct violation of that law. It's not "impossible" is "lazy" and "irrresponsible".
And if you try to file a claim by phone they will only send the paper work to your address, and if you're filing because of Katrina, your home probably doesn't exist anymore. There's going be enough lawsuits due to this to bankrupt the whole agency.
I came across some 486DX-33s a few years ago (around 1998-1999 or so) and wanted to set them up so my mom, sister and nieces could play network / internet scrabble on them (scrabble was BIG in my house). I tried installed Win2k on them but the install complained about the processor being too slow (I think it said it wanted 66 or 75mhz). I was able to install from another machine, P166 i thank, and swap the harddrives back to the 486s and it booted. It wasn't usable, but it "ran". I think I eventually switched them over to P90s I picked up for $10 each or so.
Six months ago I would've thought that a video ipod wasn't a very good idea. Now, I don't have to commute on public transportation everyday, nor do I have long down times in airports, etc., which is where I hear most of uses for portable DVD players, PSPs, etc. However, my gym has recently installed LCD screens on a few of their elliptical machines which are fed a basic cable feed. Those machines are always packed. I've used them a few times and it's great to skip around the channels with my head phones in watching the daily show or other stuff that's on around 7-8pm, but I really miss my tivo at home when I can skip channels or go back and watch that episode of mythbusters from two months ago. Now a video ipod would be wonderful for this. if I could load my own content on. I don't need video all the time, but I do use a regular music iPod pretty much all day at work, and that ipod is getting a little old (orig. 5gb) so a replacement might be on the horizon. tivotogo + handbrake + video ipod = happy me.
assuming they ported to OSX "properly" there should be no problems.
Quark... hahaha, wait wait, sorry, Quark ported "properly".., hahahahahaha... oh boy. "no problems" bwahahahhaah. that's a good one. whew.
My work email address was in the whois for several domains about 6-7 years ago which gave me a "medium" amount of spam, probably 10-20 a day. Just that little bit made me angry enough to use some spam reporting software, and after a year or so of that, plus clients that had my email address in their outlook contacts when they got nailed by worms and virii, my spam load grew out of control due to joe jobs and the like. I now have about 2,500-3,000 spams a day that get through the blacklist and caught by spamassassin. I would love to change the address, but there's so many people and other things that use that address that the headache to change it isn't larger than the spam problem.
Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?
Metallica also has a home video called "Cliff 'Em All" that has live performances and stuff from before '87 or so. There's one segment filmed by one of the band members that shows the other three walking into a convenience store, going to the beverage cooler, grabbing a few armloads of beer and then shoplifting them. So, remember, it's ok for Metallica to steal real-life, non-duplicateable physical, goods from small stores because "hey, it's funny", but it's bad for you to copy Metallica's "intellectual property" because, you know they're artists and stuff.
Well, that and Sony wouldn't license Beta Max to the porn companies, so all the porn came out on VHS.