While I agree that there's altogether too much whining, it could be easily solved by Apple agreeing to let others license Fairplay.
Can you imagine the reaction if other companies started dropping unencrypted music into iPods when it's easily retrievable? You'd basically have a black box that stripped DRM.
While this would save me the hassle of using TuneBite, I can't see the music companies being happy about it.
"The iPod also has its own encrypted key repository. Every time a FairPlay-protected track is copied onto the iPod, iTunes will copy the user key from its own key repository to the key repository on the iPod. This makes sure that the iPod has everything it needs to play the encrypted AAC audio stream."
Interesting. I could have sworn it was the DRM that Real had to crack before it could put its music onto the iPod. Can you fill me in on what was going on there?
Agreed. I don't know if Subscription Music is a viable market. Personally, I find it very handy for being able to try new music out, but I don't know if it enough other people feel the same way.
The only reason Apple is allowed to sell mainstream music is because they support DRM.
Yahoo will not be allowed to sell mainstream music without DRM. They cannot use DRM on the IPod. Therefore they cannot sell mainstream music for the IPod.
You're right! The market already has two players in it! It's saturated! Once consumers choose one technology they never change their minds! Nobody else can break in now - they're doomed to failure!
Write the tests as if the code _hadn't_ been written. Get the requirements and then write the tests from them.
Then if they fail the tests you'll have to discover if the requirements are wrong or if it's the code that's at fault. But at least you'll have something to start from - and you'll probably find some bugs they missed.
And have you thought that maybe sorting out _this_ planet might be an idea, while you're waiting for other planets to be terraformed (if such a thing is possible)
Yeah - considering that (say) Windows 95 is not quite 10 years old, the internet's mainstreaming, likewise. Home 3D graphics cards got kicked off in 1996 with the voodoo. All of this stuff is so new that it's not surprising we're still figuring out what to do with it.
Finding new _good_ ideas is a good thing. Using current _good_ ideas is a good thing.
Sure, feel free to try new things, but if you aren't producing something better than the current ideas then don't expect people to flock to you just because your idea is new.
Windows is currently idling at between 4 and 7% of CPU on my PC. Admittedly I'm running a 2.66GHz machine, but then again, according to the processes list that CPU tiem is mostly being taken up by a couple of apps sitting in the background (and 1% by me typing in IE).
Why on earth you would want to allocate an entire CPU to that, I have no idea.
Now you might want to allocate a whole CPU to Doom3 or HL2, but I suspect they'll pretty much get that anyway, as applications are assigned to the quietest CPU, as far as I understand it.
The people inside those suits _are_ ordinary Joes. You are an ordinary Joe. _Everyone_ is an ordinary Joe. They wear suits so that _they_ can feel like big shots too.
Steve Jobs is a big shot. He doesn't wear a suit. Larry Ellison is a big shot. He does wear a suit.
The suit doesn't make them a big shot. Being _them_ does.
treating your people BETTER usually results in BETTER software with BETTER profits...
Do you have a cite for that? What's the curve like? Does it flatten off if I spend too much on treating people better, or does treating them better mean better software even if it tends towards infinity?
Although CD-RWs didn't hit the market for over 10 years after CD-ROMs did (1985-1997)- and even then you can't use either of those like you do a floppy. For something with the same uses as a floppy you're looking at an Iomega Zip-disk, which was 100MB in size and came out in 1995.
I still remember installing Office from a foot-high stack of floppies...
I wish you guys the best of luck, but I think that given a GPL-incompatible license, you'll have a really hard time building a large developer community.
Because Java has a _tiny_ developer community. There's nobody interested in improving it at all.
That, sadly, is the way things tend to go with tech. You get the initial announcement that new technology X is a billion times better than old technology Y, and will be ready Real Soon Now.
Closer examination shows that Real Soon Now is, in fact, in about 5 years, by which point old technology Y has nearly caught up with new technology X. In addition the new technology has turned out to not be able to go into production quickly at its theoretical limits, but has to start out an order of magnitude slower/smaller.
There's frequently then a switchover, with the new technology having more space to improve than the old one, but there tends not to be a sudden huge leap from 5MB hard drives to 50GB hard drives - there's almost always lots of little steps in between.
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While I agree that there's altogether too much whining, it could be easily solved by Apple agreeing to let others license Fairplay.
Can you imagine the reaction if other companies started dropping unencrypted music into iPods when it's easily retrievable? You'd basically have a black box that stripped DRM.
While this would save me the hassle of using TuneBite, I can't see the music companies being happy about it.
"The iPod also has its own encrypted key repository. Every time a FairPlay-protected track is copied onto the iPod, iTunes will copy the user key from its own key repository to the key repository on the iPod. This makes sure that the iPod has everything it needs to play the encrypted AAC audio stream."
At least according to Wikipedia.
Interesting. I could have sworn it was the DRM that Real had to crack before it could put its music onto the iPod. Can you fill me in on what was going on there?
Agreed. I don't know if Subscription Music is a viable market. Personally, I find it very handy for being able to try new music out, but I don't know if it enough other people feel the same way.
It's the routing bashing that annoys me.
The only reason Apple is allowed to sell mainstream music is because they support DRM.
Yahoo will not be allowed to sell mainstream music without DRM. They cannot use DRM on the IPod. Therefore they cannot sell mainstream music for the IPod.
It's not complicated.
You're right! The market already has two players in it! It's saturated! Once consumers choose one technology they never change their minds! Nobody else can break in now - they're doomed to failure!
When that portable player doesn't allow anyone else to support them, what else do you suggest?
And Apple survives on 5% of the home computer market - why can't Yahoo survive on the 20% of the portable player market?
Morse code is all capital letters. It also doesn't have hyphens, brackets or other useful punctuation.
I'm not surprised that it's slightly faster than sending an SMS, but it also requires even more memorisation of key presses.
Write the tests as if the code _hadn't_ been written. Get the requirements and then write the tests from them.
Then if they fail the tests you'll have to discover if the requirements are wrong or if it's the code that's at fault. But at least you'll have something to start from - and you'll probably find some bugs they missed.
Where, exactly, are you planning to go?
And have you thought that maybe sorting out _this_ planet might be an idea, while you're waiting for other planets to be terraformed (if such a thing is possible)
And it does that wirelessly?
Twas also used as part of City of Death.
Yeah - considering that (say) Windows 95 is not quite 10 years old, the internet's mainstreaming, likewise.
Home 3D graphics cards got kicked off in 1996 with the voodoo. All of this stuff is so new that it's not surprising we're still figuring out what to do with it.
They sold _you_ a membership - they want to know that _you_ are making use of it. What's the problem with you identifying yourself?
Personally, not having to carry around numerosu bits of plastic that don't actually identify me is going to be a relief.
Why should revolution be a good thing?
Finding new _good_ ideas is a good thing. Using current _good_ ideas is a good thing.
Sure, feel free to try new things, but if you aren't producing something better than the current ideas then don't expect people to flock to you just because your idea is new.
Couple of hundred bucks for a MS support call...
You do, however, get it back if it turns out the fault was in their system, not a mistake you made.
I do.
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Check out:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/andrewduck
it's a bunch of RSS/Atom feeds read in by Livejournal and presented to me on one page.
S'dead handy. And I can do this with any RSS feed, anywhere on the interweb.
I am at work. Installing my own software is a sackable offence. I have no choice what browser I use on the desktop.
And the browser I use makes _no difference_ to the truth of what I was saying.
Surely those kinds of apps are more memory bound than CPU bound?
Windows is currently idling at between 4 and 7% of CPU on my PC. Admittedly I'm running a 2.66GHz machine, but then again, according to the processes list that CPU tiem is mostly being taken up by a couple of apps sitting in the background (and 1% by me typing in IE).
Why on earth you would want to allocate an entire CPU to that, I have no idea.
Now you might want to allocate a whole CPU to Doom3 or HL2, but I suspect they'll pretty much get that anyway, as applications are assigned to the quietest CPU, as far as I understand it.
The people inside those suits _are_ ordinary Joes. You are an ordinary Joe. _Everyone_ is an ordinary Joe. They wear suits so that _they_ can feel like big shots too.
Steve Jobs is a big shot. He doesn't wear a suit.
Larry Ellison is a big shot. He does wear a suit.
The suit doesn't make them a big shot. Being _them_ does.
treating your people BETTER usually results in BETTER software with BETTER profits...
Do you have a cite for that? What's the curve like? Does it flatten off if I spend too much on treating people better, or does treating them better mean better software even if it tends towards infinity?
Good point.
Although CD-RWs didn't hit the market for over 10 years after CD-ROMs did (1985-1997)- and even then you can't use either of those like you do a floppy. For something with the same uses as a floppy you're looking at an Iomega Zip-disk, which was 100MB in size and came out in 1995.
I still remember installing Office from a foot-high stack of floppies...
I wish you guys the best of luck, but I think that given a GPL-incompatible license, you'll have a really hard time building a large developer community.
Because Java has a _tiny_ developer community. There's nobody interested in improving it at all.
That, sadly, is the way things tend to go with tech. You get the initial announcement that new technology X is a billion times better than old technology Y, and will be ready Real Soon Now.
Closer examination shows that Real Soon Now is, in fact, in about 5 years, by which point old technology Y has nearly caught up with new technology X. In addition the new technology has turned out to not be able to go into production quickly at its theoretical limits, but has to start out an order of magnitude slower/smaller.
There's frequently then a switchover, with the new technology having more space to improve than the old one, but there tends not to be a sudden huge leap from 5MB hard drives to 50GB hard drives - there's almost always lots of little steps in between.