AAC is a superior format in terms of packing in audio clarity into a lower bitrate. As long as it's DRM-free AAC, you're just dealing with an inferior player.
I wish they would spend their time focusing on blocking re-uploads. There's nothing like trying to find the "orginal" upload of a once popular video. There's all kinds of videos on there with the same title and often even the same thumbnail. But these copies are at best inferior quality, and at worst are complete re-edits or have other crap thrown on top of it, or have the uploader's stupid re-recorded audio.
And if you're googling keywords that are in a question, how is Google going to know that the rest of the words on the page are a correct answer? That wouldn't require gaming the algorithms at all. They just have a large amount of content.
They seem to be pretty vague on what cookies are allowed. Cookies that maintain shopping carts are specifically allowed, but I see nothing in the article about cookies to maintain a login session. So even logging into GMail would require asking permission to store a cookie, and users would think that it's only for advertising tracking. So just to use most sites, you'd have to grant them free access to write cookies anyway.
Quite obviously, it's all about harassment and nothing else.
And free old electronics recycling, apparently. It can get expensive to properly dispose of those lead filled CRT monitors.
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Now, as for printing a CD label (ie: for on the disk), I think those things are terrible (the labels). and avoid them at all costs. Printing directly on a CD/DVD (even if not as glossy) looks much more professional - and for a truly professional look, buying a true CD/DVD printer (not an inkjet with a CD print tray) is even better.
The matte labels look terrible, and I avoid those at all costs. The super-thin glossy ones look like they are part of the disc. If you do full-color printing, the gloss coating ensures that you don't see individual ink drops. It looks like 4-color printing directly on the disc (minus the ability to have the shiny show through).
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Show me a glossy CD/DVD label I can print with a laser. That's why I have inkjet. The matte labels are too thick and add too much weight unbalance to the disc.
To be fair, telnet.exe is still present in Vista/7 and even Server 2008. It just dumbly became an optional component you have to install separately from the "Turn Windows Features On/Off" screen.
Despite telnet being a dead protocol, I use the telnet client in Windows as a general troubleshooter for any TCP plaintext protocol (SMTP, POP, etc.).
The US is a democratic republic, not a democracy. We elect people to do our thinking for us. If we don't like their decisions, then we get to elect someone better next time. The reality, of course, is that we put very little effort in finding the right people to elect, and that we really like being able to blame the people we do elect.
Even then, "Windows" is more of a creative name than "Window System." If they had called it "Window System" and tried to trademark that, they'd have a smaller chance of getting it.
The "the" makes all the difference. That makes it a name rather than a generic designation. If Apple wanted to name their store "The App Store," I'd support their defending it, as long as they leave the other guy's like "Bob's App Store" alone.
It's not entirely meaningless. You forget what a complete lack of trademarks would look like. Counterfeiting everywhere. Just look at China. Go to a store there and buy an "iPad." Good luck getting one that's actually an iPad.
I'm not talking about mashing up words or finding new applications of terms. Where do you buy tools? At the hardware store. Where do you buy groceries? At the grocery store. Where do you buy apps? At the app store.
For Apple to successfully defend their trademark, they really need a trademark on "App." Without that, anyone using "app store" (lowercase) to refer to their app markets should be left alone.
I'm not saying it's not trademarkable. I'm saying it's more generic than Windows. Both the words "app" and "store" have pretty well established meaning. Combining the two words and saying nobody ever called it quite that before is not as unique as naming your whole product after a single UI convention.
Microsoft can easily sue over the Windows trademark. Linspire didn't call their product Windows. Lindows just sounds a little similar to Windows, which is a borderline threat to the trademark.
The only issue at hand is whether or not "app store" is a generic phrase. Microsoft claims yes. Apple claims no.
It's more generic than "Windows." If Microsoft named their product "MIcrosoft Operating System," they probably wouldn't have much chance of getting a trademark either. Despite that "Windows" is a generic word, it's certainly not normally used to represent operating systems.
I did my 2010 taxes 2 weeks ago using TurboTax Snaptax for iOS. It took me literally 15 minutes to enter all my info and that's only because I don't have an iPhone 4 with a camera (or I could take a picture of my W2). The app itself was free. After I saw the amount of my tax refund, I made an in-app purchase of $14.99 to actually file my taxes. It all happened so fast, that I didn't even think twice about the cost - well worth it.
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AAC is a superior format in terms of packing in audio clarity into a lower bitrate. As long as it's DRM-free AAC, you're just dealing with an inferior player.
I wish they would spend their time focusing on blocking re-uploads. There's nothing like trying to find the "orginal" upload of a once popular video. There's all kinds of videos on there with the same title and often even the same thumbnail. But these copies are at best inferior quality, and at worst are complete re-edits or have other crap thrown on top of it, or have the uploader's stupid re-recorded audio.
Fun fact: tcpip.sys used to be mostly BSD code.
Is that why MS has "etc" in their path to hosts? I always wondered about that.
And if you're googling keywords that are in a question, how is Google going to know that the rest of the words on the page are a correct answer? That wouldn't require gaming the algorithms at all. They just have a large amount of content.
They seem to be pretty vague on what cookies are allowed. Cookies that maintain shopping carts are specifically allowed, but I see nothing in the article about cookies to maintain a login session. So even logging into GMail would require asking permission to store a cookie, and users would think that it's only for advertising tracking. So just to use most sites, you'd have to grant them free access to write cookies anyway.
Quite obviously, it's all about harassment and nothing else.
And free old electronics recycling, apparently. It can get expensive to properly dispose of those lead filled CRT monitors.
Now, as for printing a CD label (ie: for on the disk), I think those things are terrible (the labels). and avoid them at all costs. Printing directly on a CD/DVD (even if not as glossy) looks much more professional - and for a truly professional look, buying a true CD/DVD printer (not an inkjet with a CD print tray) is even better.
The matte labels look terrible, and I avoid those at all costs. The super-thin glossy ones look like they are part of the disc. If you do full-color printing, the gloss coating ensures that you don't see individual ink drops. It looks like 4-color printing directly on the disc (minus the ability to have the shiny show through).
Show me a glossy CD/DVD label I can print with a laser. That's why I have inkjet. The matte labels are too thick and add too much weight unbalance to the disc.
To be fair, telnet.exe is still present in Vista/7 and even Server 2008. It just dumbly became an optional component you have to install separately from the "Turn Windows Features On/Off" screen.
Despite telnet being a dead protocol, I use the telnet client in Windows as a general troubleshooter for any TCP plaintext protocol (SMTP, POP, etc.).
I didn't say that I liked how things were set up, I said that it IS how things are set up.
True, but we live in an era of cowards. The thought of being a martyr is enough to scare most people away.
The US is a democratic republic, not a democracy. We elect people to do our thinking for us. If we don't like their decisions, then we get to elect someone better next time. The reality, of course, is that we put very little effort in finding the right people to elect, and that we really like being able to blame the people we do elect.
Yeah. I'd agree with that. I went in to correct a typo on an article one day, and the change was reverted. Why? I guess I'm not important enough.
Even then, "Windows" is more of a creative name than "Window System." If they had called it "Window System" and tried to trademark that, they'd have a smaller chance of getting it.
I'm with you on that, the "the" makes all the difference. I don't think I would defend "Shoe Store" without the article as worthy of trademark either.
They don't have a trademark on the word App. That's the only thing that would make a trademark on "app store" even remotely logical.
The "the" makes all the difference. That makes it a name rather than a generic designation. If Apple wanted to name their store "The App Store," I'd support their defending it, as long as they leave the other guy's like "Bob's App Store" alone.
It's not entirely meaningless. You forget what a complete lack of trademarks would look like. Counterfeiting everywhere. Just look at China. Go to a store there and buy an "iPad." Good luck getting one that's actually an iPad.
Where did I reason that apple's combination of terms is associated with Apple by the public?
I'm not talking about mashing up words or finding new applications of terms. Where do you buy tools? At the hardware store. Where do you buy groceries? At the grocery store. Where do you buy apps? At the app store.
For Apple to successfully defend their trademark, they really need a trademark on "App." Without that, anyone using "app store" (lowercase) to refer to their app markets should be left alone.
Yeah, if you create Bindows, you're infringing, but Lindows changed their name only after Microsoft settled with them.
I'm not saying it's not trademarkable. I'm saying it's more generic than Windows. Both the words "app" and "store" have pretty well established meaning. Combining the two words and saying nobody ever called it quite that before is not as unique as naming your whole product after a single UI convention.
Microsoft can easily sue over the Windows trademark. Linspire didn't call their product Windows. Lindows just sounds a little similar to Windows, which is a borderline threat to the trademark.
The only issue at hand is whether or not "app store" is a generic phrase. Microsoft claims yes. Apple claims no.
It's more generic than "Windows." If Microsoft named their product "MIcrosoft Operating System," they probably wouldn't have much chance of getting a trademark either. Despite that "Windows" is a generic word, it's certainly not normally used to represent operating systems.
I did my 2010 taxes 2 weeks ago using TurboTax Snaptax for iOS. It took me literally 15 minutes to enter all my info and that's only because I don't have an iPhone 4 with a camera (or I could take a picture of my W2). The app itself was free. After I saw the amount of my tax refund, I made an in-app purchase of $14.99 to actually file my taxes. It all happened so fast, that I didn't even think twice about the cost - well worth it.