While these mid-fidelity alternatives are a good fit for things like personal players, and perhaps even low-end car stereo's, I see a real emphasis away from good quality sound, SACD and DVD-Audio to the contrary.
Perhaps the next generation of technology will have convenience and fidelity?
" If macintosh computers and OSX got as popular as Windows [...]"
Sure, but part of the point is they won't. Ever. So its like Ken Beatrice used to say "If 'ifs' and 'buts' were candies and nuts, oh what a party we'd have".
If you use OS X, you're simply not going to be subjected to attacks that way.
the MP3 or AAC or whatever is used today is a shadow of the music. Don't get me wrong, I listen to them, but when I want the real deal, I listen to the CD.
For me, $1 a song is too much, because its missing the art work, liner notes, and the ability to be turned into an MP3, AAC, APE, FLAC or whatever is in vogue this month. Get the price down on these things, and it will add value. Today, I don't think it does.
There have been articles in the computer press lately discussing that in Japan 20Mb/s download is the norm for approximately $20-30 a month, and Korea features 26Mb/s for the same price.
We get 1.5 and we're supposed to be *grateful*?
Your comparison with T1's is faulty for a couple of reasons: 1) The cost of T1's is artifically high because of the way the local loop is priced. Its a huge profit center, and the phone company has always positioned it as a way to subsidize residential service.
2) T1's have SLA's. Your DSL or Cable line does not.
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That's not terribly important to Darl; isn't the idea to drag this out long enough so that SCO appears to have 4 consecutive "profitable" quarters?
I've said for years, I don't care if record or movie companies put on copy protection. I don't understand why the FBI has to be the enforcement arm of these entities.
Its perfectly legitimate to put on any kind of weird protection scheme they want. It should be just as valid for me to get around those schemes, as long as the end result is, or could be legal.
To use the example in the article, if I want to copy a DVD to my laptop to save battery life, then that should be legitimate.
What I truly object to is as a result of laws like DCMA, content companies want to have every bit of content as a subscription fee. You won't buy a CD anymore; you'll rent it.
But the market will decide, and I suspect it won't be to the content provider's liking (see DIVX, the real one, not the CODEC).
"But in this case, music purchased from iTMS can be burned to CD and played on home stereos and in cars."
So if what you're saying it true (and I don't use iTMS), then why does this hack even matter? I mean, you're saying that you can do this anyway.
Then if you're correct then Apple should provide this functionality in the first place, since its no different that burning it to a CD and re-ripping, if I understand you correctly.
Because if you're intent on pirating commercially, you'll just buy the CD in the first place. What's $12 for a CD if you're intending on ripping off the thing and selling it illegally?
"A lot of working families are a heck of a lot better off because discount stores like walmart help them stretch their dollars farther"
My own unscientific study shows me that Wal Mart prices are pretty much the same as everywhere else; and in most cases you can get far better prices if you're willing to shop at discount stores.
I'm not anti-walmart; I think they have a decent selection of stuff and have brought that selection to a lot of small towns, but their pricing is nothing to write home about.
"Problem with the Chinese strategy is that they don't have any content."
It can still succeed because the MPAA and DVD consortium has left a huge hole in the market.
That is, what is a way to record HDTV content in a relatively open format that allows easy copying? Nothing. All the planned formats and technologies have DRM basic to their nature.
EVD can word as the recording medium of choice, and get a foothold everywhere. All you need is the ability to manufacture consumer units, PC units, and drivers for Windows/Mac/Linux so the filesystem can be read by PC's.
All it needs is a big country willing to take the initial hit by buying marketshare.
One of the reasons to hire a lawyer is to give yourself plausible deniability. If I want to cause you pain, you hire a lawyer, sue you, and then claim "Its not me, its the lawyer". The lawyer doesn't care; its his job, and you get to pretend like you're an innocent bystander.
Really, think it through. Darl has the strategy, the lawyer is providing tactics, but ultimately, Darl is approving of those tactics, regardless of what he says in public.
I'm more shocked that people are surprised that Darl is lying. Darl is lying every time he makes a public utterance. Darl doesn't care about Unix, Linux, bits, bytes, he's only trying to raise money, and if you look at it through that immoral mindset, then you say anything as long as it maximizes profits.
"It took Apple *how long* to get a fully preemptive operating system with protected memory?"
Well, AUX was around in early nineties, so not really that long. Remember that Apple also had to switch from the 680x0 chips to PPC, and that took a lot of effort.
And frankly, Microsoft didn't really accomplish the feat of marrying a decent UI to fully premptive/protected memory until Windows 2000. I suppose you could argue Windows 95 met that criteria, but it was not terribly stable. And you could argue Windows NT 3.5 Workstation met that criteria, but the interface was pretty horrible (win3.1), and it lacked compatibility with most hardware and Win16 software.
So Microsoft can't boat about their track record either.
Now to be clear, Mac OS 9 was pretty awful IMHO, but with OS X, Apple really has a home run. Its really good, is very stable, and about the only complaint you could make is that it runs marginally on the G3 chip.
But as much you want to dislike apple, they write really outstanding software for the most part. And their hardware is quite striking.
When Costco is selling phonecards for long distance at 2.9 cents a minute, then we're not that far from long distance and local calls blending together.
For most people, for $20, you can get almost 10 hours of long distance. I suspect that 10 hours will carry most people's long distance needs for several months.
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"iPodHacks [ipodhacks.com] warns that booting off your iPod might be considered "abuse" by Apple if you have problems later."
Why would you tell apple you did it?
I could not have said it better.
While these mid-fidelity alternatives are a good fit for things like personal players, and perhaps even low-end car stereo's, I see a real emphasis away from good quality sound, SACD and DVD-Audio to the contrary.
Perhaps the next generation of technology will have convenience and fidelity?
It asks if I want to add my media, it does so, and crashes when it attempts to access the internet.
Gee, and I was all set to pay them $15. Maybe release 5.1.
I said yesterday, Groklaw (a *LAW* site) was not an authority on computer attacks.
I was mod'ed troll.
" If macintosh computers and OSX got as popular as Windows [...]"
Sure, but part of the point is they won't. Ever. So its like Ken Beatrice used to say "If 'ifs' and 'buts' were candies and nuts, oh what a party we'd have".
If you use OS X, you're simply not going to be subjected to attacks that way.
Is Groklaw now the authority on computer security?
That's what the article seems to imply.
Nope, I'm in complete agreement.
the MP3 or AAC or whatever is used today is a shadow of the music. Don't get me wrong, I listen to them, but when I want the real deal, I listen to the CD.
For me, $1 a song is too much, because its missing the art work, liner notes, and the ability to be turned into an MP3, AAC, APE, FLAC or whatever is in vogue this month. Get the price down on these things, and it will add value. Today, I don't think it does.
" They're both overpriced for what you get? "
Absolutely.
There have been articles in the computer press lately discussing that in Japan 20Mb/s download is the norm for approximately $20-30 a month, and Korea features 26Mb/s for the same price.
We get 1.5 and we're supposed to be *grateful*?
Your comparison with T1's is faulty for a couple of reasons:
1) The cost of T1's is artifically high because of the way the local loop is priced. Its a huge profit center, and the phone company has always positioned it as a way to subsidize residential service.
2) T1's have SLA's. Your DSL or Cable line does not.
That's not terribly important to Darl; isn't the idea to drag this out long enough so that SCO appears to have 4 consecutive "profitable" quarters?
Lets see what he really says
"...During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the internet.."
I have it recorded for all posterity.
and I mean that in the yellow journalism sense. At best this is making complete guesses; at worst, its feeding the SCO publicity mill.
There's nothing concrete to back this up other than unnamed sources; that's pretty weak.
I've said for years, I don't care if record or movie companies put on copy protection. I don't understand why the FBI has to be the enforcement arm of these entities.
Its perfectly legitimate to put on any kind of weird protection scheme they want. It should be just as valid for me to get around those schemes, as long as the end result is, or could be legal.
To use the example in the article, if I want to copy a DVD to my laptop to save battery life, then that should be legitimate.
What I truly object to is as a result of laws like DCMA, content companies want to have every bit of content as a subscription fee. You won't buy a CD anymore; you'll rent it.
But the market will decide, and I suspect it won't be to the content provider's liking (see DIVX, the real one, not the CODEC).
"But in this case, music purchased from iTMS can be burned to CD and played on home stereos and in cars."
So if what you're saying it true (and I don't use iTMS), then why does this hack even matter? I mean, you're saying that you can do this anyway.
Then if you're correct then Apple should provide this functionality in the first place, since its no different that burning it to a CD and re-ripping, if I understand you correctly.
Because if you're intent on pirating commercially, you'll just buy the CD in the first place. What's $12 for a CD if you're intending on ripping off the thing and selling it illegally?
This is kind of a tempest in a teapot, really.
"A lot of working families are a heck of a lot better off because discount stores like walmart help them stretch their dollars farther"
My own unscientific study shows me that Wal Mart prices are pretty much the same as everywhere else; and in most cases you can get far better prices if you're willing to shop at discount stores.
I'm not anti-walmart; I think they have a decent selection of stuff and have brought that selection to a lot of small towns, but their pricing is nothing to write home about.
When you serve Tea or Coffee at 180 degrees out of the tap, it cools off too fast. You have to keep microwaving the thing to enjoy it.
"Problem with the Chinese strategy is that they don't have any content."
It can still succeed because the MPAA and DVD consortium has left a huge hole in the market.
That is, what is a way to record HDTV content in a relatively open format that allows easy copying? Nothing. All the planned formats and technologies have DRM basic to their nature.
EVD can word as the recording medium of choice, and get a foothold everywhere. All you need is the ability to manufacture consumer units, PC units, and drivers for Windows/Mac/Linux so the filesystem can be read by PC's.
All it needs is a big country willing to take the initial hit by buying marketshare.
Seriously, this could work.
"Anybody else shocked?"
No, because he's lying.
One of the reasons to hire a lawyer is to give yourself plausible deniability. If I want to cause you pain, you hire a lawyer, sue you, and then claim "Its not me, its the lawyer". The lawyer doesn't care; its his job, and you get to pretend like you're an innocent bystander.
Really, think it through. Darl has the strategy, the lawyer is providing tactics, but ultimately, Darl is approving of those tactics, regardless of what he says in public.
I'm more shocked that people are surprised that Darl is lying. Darl is lying every time he makes a public utterance. Darl doesn't care about Unix, Linux, bits, bytes, he's only trying to raise money, and if you look at it through that immoral mindset, then you say anything as long as it maximizes profits.
"Where does that put linux?"
Up there with the Volkswagon Beetle.
Of course, the smart people bought Edsels. They knew that price was equal to value.
This claim seems less ridiculous than "One-Click Shopping", so maybe NASA should pay?
"So a camera costing hundreds of dollars and provided on a rent and return basis can effectively be stolen and the company goes bust?"
Hundreds of dollars? US, American dollars?
Are these mil spec? Or are they just made of solid platinum? I read the article and it says it has a plastic lens.
So to put this in perspective, Ritz has paid "hundreds of dollars" for a 1.3MP camera with a plastic lens?
If true, I think worrying about hackers is the least of Ritz's problems.
I remember playing with a SOMA cube in my youth; I've not heard of it in decades, but somehow I enjoyed this puzzle far more than Rubick's cube.
Does anyone know if they're still available?
I googled for it, but apparently, somebody markets a drug with the same name, and it resists googling around it (Brave New World?).
Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
"It took Apple *how long* to get a fully preemptive operating system with protected memory?"
Well, AUX was around in early nineties, so not really that long. Remember that Apple also had to switch from the 680x0 chips to PPC, and that took a lot of effort.
And frankly, Microsoft didn't really accomplish the feat of marrying a decent UI to fully premptive/protected memory until Windows 2000. I suppose you could argue Windows 95 met that criteria, but it was not terribly stable. And you could argue Windows NT 3.5 Workstation met that criteria, but the interface was pretty horrible (win3.1), and it lacked compatibility with most hardware and Win16 software.
So Microsoft can't boat about their track record either.
Now to be clear, Mac OS 9 was pretty awful IMHO, but with OS X, Apple really has a home run. Its really good, is very stable, and about the only complaint you could make is that it runs marginally on the G3 chip.
But as much you want to dislike apple, they write really outstanding software for the most part. And their hardware is quite striking.
"History teaches us that the greatest thieves and criminal got caught "
No, history teaches us that the clumsy get caught. You never hear about the greatest criminals.
When Costco is selling phonecards for long distance at 2.9 cents a minute, then we're not that far from long distance and local calls blending together.
For most people, for $20, you can get almost 10 hours of long distance. I suspect that 10 hours will carry most people's long distance needs for several months.