DRM was required by the recording industry. Back when iTunes was the little guy and RIA held all the cards it was a different story. Cut to today and iTunes is huge. It sets the industry standard for track pricing and is arguably a primary source for music online. Apple actually leveraged iTunes and it's substantial market share to get the RIA to drop DRM. Jobs has always disliked DRM. Only after agreeing to allow the RIA to hike the costs for individual tracks beyond the typical 99 cents.
That and I don't believe the data itself is lost is it? Only the capacity to erase the data and re-write it is lost? In other words, it would essentially turn that it into a read-only device in those 'bad' blocks?
Any utility can be written and accessed via shell though. For instance a command line SSH tool could easily be called via PowerShell. I also wouldn't be surprised if someone didn't simply write a plugin to add native support which would be ideal. I have no idea how difficult the plugin structure is in regards to designing something from scratch.
I have to agree about the speed, but for most tasks, speed isn't mission critical. It's still miles above batch..(sorry, I just threw up a little in my mouth...lol).
Hopefully I won't get flamed for this (from both sides of the spectrum..lol). Regarding your comment about combining and recombining tools in the OS: What your describing in regards to scripting OS apps together to form new tools sounds like PowerShell for Windows. I'm actually excited that it will be included in Windows 7 from an IT perspective. I've had to program in it heavily for our Exchange 2007 migration and I've actually come to admire this tool. We were able to migrate 40,000 users to Exchange 2007 all in a fully automated fashion using load balancing on the target servers and totally seamless to the end user. It allows piping of just about anything, and it hooks extensively into the OS. It also supports plugins (although I've only had experience with the Exchange plugin). It makes it easy to pick up and hard to put down. Even doing something as simple as a directory info (DIR) and piping that output into a hash table becomes simplicity itself ($mydir = dir c:\). From there it's extremely easy to parse the $mydir hash for individual properties like filenames, access dates, file size, etc. The same is true for grabbing system tasks using Get-Process. Everything is exposed in a hash table with a single command and that easily piped into yet another command to mangle to your hearts content. After years of starving for a good shell, I think MS finally got this one right. If you haven't looked at it yet and you work in an MS IT shop, your missing out.
I can't say that I'm overly impressed with Windows 7 (yet...time will tell). It seems to run on par with XP performance wise, which in itself isn't necessarily a bad thing. It does so with more security at least. I don't really care about the UI changes as they mostly seem cosmetic in nature. A few things moved around or a tad easier to navigate to or around, but nothing I'm finding is a must-have. The RC I've been using has been flakey in regards to bluetooth support, but generally the OS has been stable overall. I'm sure the bluetooth will be solid by release. I'm taking the same approach as I'm sure many folks who were burned with Vista are doing.. Wait and see. That said, the price seems very steep for a more secure XP with some window dressing. Make no mistake that although the feature set may be extensive for the techie crowd (depending on what articles you read), for the typical Joe User who only knows what he can see and feel, it's a more stable 'Vista'. Again that is not necessarily a bad thing (think Windows 2000/XP).
Arguably, with the right software and hardware, XP could be secured for typical use of browsing and e-mail leaving only the GUI changes lacking for Joe User on XP. It just seems extremely costly for all of these changes that the basic home user probably won't care about.
Typical Joe Users just wants to check their e-mail and get to their online poker game going with their buddies or what not. My only decision going forward will be if I want to continue to invest in Microsoft at home (work is a given at this point), or switch the last of my Windows machines to Mac. The pilot Mac I bought for my family has actually done rather well and the adjustment wasn't nearly as difficult as I thought it would be. It makes me want to take a harder swag at Linux as well given the easy transition I've had with Leopard. If Vista accomplished anything, it was to make people more aware of alternatives which is never a bad thing.
Considering the combustion engine is over 100 years old and highly refined by market demand over that time, it's not surprising. What is surprising is that they are making leaps like this with an electric car in what is arguably a technology that is still in it's infancy (not the electric motor itself, but rather the underlying technology for charging, and efficiency in a compact size).
The summary indicated it could rival what other manufacturers are doing in the field, not rival a combustion vehicle. Poor wording in the summary perhaps but it appears to me they were referring to what other auto makers were doing with electric cars with the end goal to produce something with 'similar performance capabilities' of a combustion variant. The summary is accurate as far as that goes.
The Model-T Ford got about 200 mile range from a tank of gas and about 20-25 mpg @ 35 miles per hour. It appears the majority of the refinement on combustion engines has been in power, and speed where an electric automobile has to do the opposite and concentrate more on range.
I can't help but think that should Network Solutions disappear tomorrow, within a day, there would be a whole slew of companies willing to fill the void.
That and they could have tried probably about 300 hundred dogs and of those, probably at least a 100 of those that were in that 30 percentile that were 'good sniffers'. Instead they have 16. Granted, there would be training costs, but given the huge number advantage from just buying dogs and getting a 3rd of them that are good sniffers it seems like a waste of time and resources.
I know hearing from friends that have visited London that they do take special care not to use anything taxing during the day. The house my friends stayed at while there actually scolded them for drying clothes during prime time. I don't know if that's the norm for the UK or not, but they may be targeting a more global appeal with this type of technology.
And yet the BBC as well as the Police failed to mention that rave was found? Don't you think a situation as embarrassing as this would have prompted to the police to at least mention the fact that they found ANY rave gear at all to prevent this very type of public outcry?
What's even more frightening is that they modded you informative when it's public record that he voted to strip the immunity provisions out although the amendment failed.
Yes, he did vote for the larger bill with the amendments that basically put the warrant requirements back in for any American they may have eavesdropped on whether on US soil or abroad.
These to my mind are excellent analogies. Vendor locking in certain hardware to their network. Don't get me wrong, I have no issues with AT&T other than the ridiculous texting rates but all of the carriers are guilty of that sin. That doesn't mean I don't want or need a choice of going to someone else should I get totally pissed at AT&T.
There was no music playing, there was a BBQ set up, it was 4PM in the afternoon, and not a single person was arrested (such arrests would have been legal under the law had it been determined to be a rave).
Actually the Facebook bit was just an afterthought. If you follow the links to the original BBC article, you would see that the local neighbors actually called the police when they saw a group of unfamiliar people gather in the same are where a rave previously took place a few days before. They called the police, who apparently then went out and investigated.
That doesn't excuse what the police did after the fact. It should have taken at least a low grade moron to see that these people were having a BBQ. It's kind of frightening how far out of control things have gotten across the pond. It seems far worse than the US. They have surrendered some very basic liberties to the government and they don't appear to be screaming to get them back which is also confusing. This is obviously some very bad legislation that needs to be revisited. Are the elements that got this type of legislation passed still in control over there?
Actually I think they can revoke a players right to play a blu-ray disk by revoking the decryption keys, in effect making the movie useless if they revoked the keys that a player uses. Eventually a player would stop functioning all together for any new disks, making it essentially useless.
Exactly. Rather than complaining about WMP not going out of it's way to support iPod, Apple simply wrote their own Sync software. They had no expectation that WMP would put out an update that allowed it to sync an iPod. I simply don't understand the issue here. Palm should have never released a product without sync software, either their own, or an open source choice that actually planned to support the device. Instead, they relied on another competing vendor's and also presented the device as the competitors brand in that competitors software.
Microsoft didn't go out of it's way to make the iPod compatible with WMP, and no one expected it to. I would actually be shocked to the core if MS went out of their way to sync an iPod. Apple also didn't make it's iPod look like a Zune in WMP. If they had, you wouldn't have had time to exhale before a lawsuit was slapped on Apple. It simply doesn't make sense for competing vendors to support their competitors hardware.
There are third party products where it does make sense, but it does not make sense from a vendor that makes it's money from the hardware, not the software.
No, not trolling. I'm making a point. Apple didn't try to represent the iPod as a 'Zune' device in WMP. They simply wrote their own software instead.
Everyone seems to expect that it is required that Apple support a competing product in iTunes. This is not some sort of charity case here and iTunes is not an Operating System. It's an Apple application. It has no requirement to be compatible with other vendor's products, especially those competing directly with it's own products. This is business. In addition, the Palm shows up as an 'iPod' in iTunes. I wouldn't allow that either. It mis-represents itself and uses the Apple branded 'iPod'.
If they don't like it, they can use any open source sync tool, or they could just use Palm's sync software..oh wait. Palm didn't write one. Do you see my point? This is no different than Windows prevent iPod from syncing with WMP. Apple didn't cry about it. They wrote their own sync software.
if Palm was so interested in syncing a Palm device in iTunes, they should have approached Apple and worked with them to allow the 'Palm' to show up as a sync-able device in iTunes. They should not have tried to fake the system and represented it as an 'iPod' device.
You don't think the Palm presenting itself as an 'iPod' device in iTunes is hijacking Apple's tech? If the experience isn't up to Apple's standards, then it just makes the 'iPod' brand look bad.
I'm sorry, but where does it say that Apple must support every player on the market with iTunes? It is designed to work with an iPod, an iPod Touch, or an iPhone. If Palm wants to write their own software, they are perfectly capable of doing so. There are also numerous free open source apps that do the same thing on http://sourceforge.net/
Perhaps if Palm hadn't claimed it was an 'iPod' when syncing, they wouldn't have gotten their hand slapped? Why should Apple allow someone else to use the iPod brand (the Palm does show up as an iPod in iTunes) without any control over content or quality with the experience? It's trivial to read and write to the XML files for the iTunes library.
So true. I had to chew my father out for just that sort of activity. He loves sending out 'joke' e-mails every morning, and initially he was just sending with everyone's name in the TO field. He now understands how how easy it is to harvest addresses from such e-mails and uses BCC for everything.
I also found the bit in the article about harvesting e-mails by crawling a website intersting. I have to wonder why websites would allow anyone to crawl through their info to begin with. I would think adding the IP ranges used by the major search engines would be sufficient. A white list for who you trust, and prevent anyone else from crawling. It's kind of like inviting complete strangers into your house to comb through your belongings. Is it due to a need for someone's web site to be more visible that they leave them exposed to crawling? Are there ways to prevent anonymous crawling and how effective are they?
There is no way a manufacturer is going to produce a drive with Sata 2 specs that would exceed 300 Mb/sec. It would be a waste of money on their part (pearls before swine). Give a proper pipeline and room to breath and watch competition force the issue. ANY increase in pipeline is a good thing because the manufacturer's will move in to fill the pipe or lose out on the performance game.
I would guess that many corporations are the one's clinging to IE6 and they haven't upgraded due to compatibility concerns. I know my current workplace is in this same boat as well. All of these non-standard browser apps that simply won't run on a newer browser. I suspect most home users have long ago upgraded themselves or automatically via update or OS upgrade.
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DRM was required by the recording industry. Back when iTunes was the little guy and RIA held all the cards it was a different story. Cut to today and iTunes is huge. It sets the industry standard for track pricing and is arguably a primary source for music online. Apple actually leveraged iTunes and it's substantial market share to get the RIA to drop DRM. Jobs has always disliked DRM. Only after agreeing to allow the RIA to hike the costs for individual tracks beyond the typical 99 cents.
http://www.macworld.com/article/138009/2009/01/drm_free.html
That and I don't believe the data itself is lost is it? Only the capacity to erase the data and re-write it is lost? In other words, it would essentially turn that it into a read-only device in those 'bad' blocks?
Any utility can be written and accessed via shell though. For instance a command line SSH tool could easily be called via PowerShell. I also wouldn't be surprised if someone didn't simply write a plugin to add native support which would be ideal. I have no idea how difficult the plugin structure is in regards to designing something from scratch.
I have to agree about the speed, but for most tasks, speed isn't mission critical. It's still miles above batch..(sorry, I just threw up a little in my mouth...lol).
Hopefully I won't get flamed for this (from both sides of the spectrum..lol). Regarding your comment about combining and recombining tools in the OS: What your describing in regards to scripting OS apps together to form new tools sounds like PowerShell for Windows. I'm actually excited that it will be included in Windows 7 from an IT perspective. I've had to program in it heavily for our Exchange 2007 migration and I've actually come to admire this tool. We were able to migrate 40,000 users to Exchange 2007 all in a fully automated fashion using load balancing on the target servers and totally seamless to the end user. It allows piping of just about anything, and it hooks extensively into the OS. It also supports plugins (although I've only had experience with the Exchange plugin). It makes it easy to pick up and hard to put down. Even doing something as simple as a directory info (DIR) and piping that output into a hash table becomes simplicity itself ($mydir = dir c:\). From there it's extremely easy to parse the $mydir hash for individual properties like filenames, access dates, file size, etc. The same is true for grabbing system tasks using Get-Process. Everything is exposed in a hash table with a single command and that easily piped into yet another command to mangle to your hearts content. After years of starving for a good shell, I think MS finally got this one right. If you haven't looked at it yet and you work in an MS IT shop, your missing out.
I can't say that I'm overly impressed with Windows 7 (yet...time will tell). It seems to run on par with XP performance wise, which in itself isn't necessarily a bad thing. It does so with more security at least. I don't really care about the UI changes as they mostly seem cosmetic in nature. A few things moved around or a tad easier to navigate to or around, but nothing I'm finding is a must-have. The RC I've been using has been flakey in regards to bluetooth support, but generally the OS has been stable overall. I'm sure the bluetooth will be solid by release. I'm taking the same approach as I'm sure many folks who were burned with Vista are doing.. Wait and see. That said, the price seems very steep for a more secure XP with some window dressing. Make no mistake that although the feature set may be extensive for the techie crowd (depending on what articles you read), for the typical Joe User who only knows what he can see and feel, it's a more stable 'Vista'. Again that is not necessarily a bad thing (think Windows 2000/XP).
Arguably, with the right software and hardware, XP could be secured for typical use of browsing and e-mail leaving only the GUI changes lacking for Joe User on XP. It just seems extremely costly for all of these changes that the basic home user probably won't care about.
Typical Joe Users just wants to check their e-mail and get to their online poker game going with their buddies or what not. My only decision going forward will be if I want to continue to invest in Microsoft at home (work is a given at this point), or switch the last of my Windows machines to Mac. The pilot Mac I bought for my family has actually done rather well and the adjustment wasn't nearly as difficult as I thought it would be. It makes me want to take a harder swag at Linux as well given the easy transition I've had with Leopard. If Vista accomplished anything, it was to make people more aware of alternatives which is never a bad thing.
Considering the combustion engine is over 100 years old and highly refined by market demand over that time, it's not surprising. What is surprising is that they are making leaps like this with an electric car in what is arguably a technology that is still in it's infancy (not the electric motor itself, but rather the underlying technology for charging, and efficiency in a compact size).
The summary indicated it could rival what other manufacturers are doing in the field, not rival a combustion vehicle. Poor wording in the summary perhaps but it appears to me they were referring to what other auto makers were doing with electric cars with the end goal to produce something with 'similar performance capabilities' of a combustion variant. The summary is accurate as far as that goes.
The Model-T Ford got about 200 mile range from a tank of gas and about 20-25 mpg @ 35 miles per hour. It appears the majority of the refinement on combustion engines has been in power, and speed where an electric automobile has to do the opposite and concentrate more on range.
I can't help but think that should Network Solutions disappear tomorrow, within a day, there would be a whole slew of companies willing to fill the void.
That and they could have tried probably about 300 hundred dogs and of those, probably at least a 100 of those that were in that 30 percentile that were 'good sniffers'. Instead they have 16. Granted, there would be training costs, but given the huge number advantage from just buying dogs and getting a 3rd of them that are good sniffers it seems like a waste of time and resources.
I know hearing from friends that have visited London that they do take special care not to use anything taxing during the day. The house my friends stayed at while there actually scolded them for drying clothes during prime time. I don't know if that's the norm for the UK or not, but they may be targeting a more global appeal with this type of technology.
Any comments from our neighbors across the pond?
Make that "mention that any rave equipment was found". I need more coffee...
And yet the BBC as well as the Police failed to mention that rave was found? Don't you think a situation as embarrassing as this would have prompted to the police to at least mention the fact that they found ANY rave gear at all to prevent this very type of public outcry?
Actually he voted against immunity for telecoms but the amendment failed (see the post below).
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/11/obama.netroots/index.html
What's even more frightening is that they modded you informative when it's public record that he voted to strip the immunity provisions out although the amendment failed.
Yes, he did vote for the larger bill with the amendments that basically put the warrant requirements back in for any American they may have eavesdropped on whether on US soil or abroad.
Mod up. If I had points, I'd use em.
These to my mind are excellent analogies. Vendor locking in certain hardware to their network. Don't get me wrong, I have no issues with AT&T other than the ridiculous texting rates but all of the carriers are guilty of that sin. That doesn't mean I don't want or need a choice of going to someone else should I get totally pissed at AT&T.
There was no music playing, there was a BBQ set up, it was 4PM in the afternoon, and not a single person was arrested (such arrests would have been legal under the law had it been determined to be a rave).
Actually the Facebook bit was just an afterthought. If you follow the links to the original BBC article, you would see that the local neighbors actually called the police when they saw a group of unfamiliar people gather in the same are where a rave previously took place a few days before. They called the police, who apparently then went out and investigated.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8155441.stm
That doesn't excuse what the police did after the fact. It should have taken at least a low grade moron to see that these people were having a BBQ. It's kind of frightening how far out of control things have gotten across the pond. It seems far worse than the US. They have surrendered some very basic liberties to the government and they don't appear to be screaming to get them back which is also confusing. This is obviously some very bad legislation that needs to be revisited. Are the elements that got this type of legislation passed still in control over there?
They are in a very slippery slope.
Actually I think they can revoke a players right to play a blu-ray disk by revoking the decryption keys, in effect making the movie useless if they revoked the keys that a player uses. Eventually a player would stop functioning all together for any new disks, making it essentially useless.
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/tech/news/article_1289226.php/AACS_revokes_released_HD-DVD_and_Blu-ray_keys
Exactly. Rather than complaining about WMP not going out of it's way to support iPod, Apple simply wrote their own Sync software. They had no expectation that WMP would put out an update that allowed it to sync an iPod. I simply don't understand the issue here. Palm should have never released a product without sync software, either their own, or an open source choice that actually planned to support the device. Instead, they relied on another competing vendor's and also presented the device as the competitors brand in that competitors software.
Microsoft didn't go out of it's way to make the iPod compatible with WMP, and no one expected it to. I would actually be shocked to the core if MS went out of their way to sync an iPod. Apple also didn't make it's iPod look like a Zune in WMP. If they had, you wouldn't have had time to exhale before a lawsuit was slapped on Apple. It simply doesn't make sense for competing vendors to support their competitors hardware.
There are third party products where it does make sense, but it does not make sense from a vendor that makes it's money from the hardware, not the software.
So you believe it is the Apple's responsibility to support competing products in iTunes AND allow those products to present themselves as an 'iPod'?
I believe there are many different mp3 players that sync in iTunes without issue, but they do not present themselves as an 'iPod'.
No, not trolling. I'm making a point. Apple didn't try to represent the iPod as a 'Zune' device in WMP. They simply wrote their own software instead.
Everyone seems to expect that it is required that Apple support a competing product in iTunes. This is not some sort of charity case here and iTunes is not an Operating System. It's an Apple application. It has no requirement to be compatible with other vendor's products, especially those competing directly with it's own products. This is business. In addition, the Palm shows up as an 'iPod' in iTunes. I wouldn't allow that either. It mis-represents itself and uses the Apple branded 'iPod'.
If they don't like it, they can use any open source sync tool, or they could just use Palm's sync software..oh wait. Palm didn't write one. Do you see my point? This is no different than Windows prevent iPod from syncing with WMP. Apple didn't cry about it. They wrote their own sync software.
if Palm was so interested in syncing a Palm device in iTunes, they should have approached Apple and worked with them to allow the 'Palm' to show up as a sync-able device in iTunes. They should not have tried to fake the system and represented it as an 'iPod' device.
You don't think the Palm presenting itself as an 'iPod' device in iTunes is hijacking Apple's tech? If the experience isn't up to Apple's standards, then it just makes the 'iPod' brand look bad.
I'm sorry, but where does it say that Apple must support every player on the market with iTunes? It is designed to work with an iPod, an iPod Touch, or an iPhone. If Palm wants to write their own software, they are perfectly capable of doing so. There are also numerous free open source apps that do the same thing on http://sourceforge.net/
Perhaps if Palm hadn't claimed it was an 'iPod' when syncing, they wouldn't have gotten their hand slapped? Why should Apple allow someone else to use the iPod brand (the Palm does show up as an iPod in iTunes) without any control over content or quality with the experience? It's trivial to read and write to the XML files for the iTunes library.
Palm is just being lazy.
Do you mean like Windows did with Windows Media Player the iPod?
So true. I had to chew my father out for just that sort of activity. He loves sending out 'joke' e-mails every morning, and initially he was just sending with everyone's name in the TO field. He now understands how how easy it is to harvest addresses from such e-mails and uses BCC for everything.
I also found the bit in the article about harvesting e-mails by crawling a website intersting. I have to wonder why websites would allow anyone to crawl through their info to begin with. I would think adding the IP ranges used by the major search engines would be sufficient. A white list for who you trust, and prevent anyone else from crawling. It's kind of like inviting complete strangers into your house to comb through your belongings. Is it due to a need for someone's web site to be more visible that they leave them exposed to crawling? Are there ways to prevent anonymous crawling and how effective are they?
Beat me to it ;)
There is no way a manufacturer is going to produce a drive with Sata 2 specs that would exceed 300 Mb/sec. It would be a waste of money on their part (pearls before swine). Give a proper pipeline and room to breath and watch competition force the issue. ANY increase in pipeline is a good thing because the manufacturer's will move in to fill the pipe or lose out on the performance game.
I would guess that many corporations are the one's clinging to IE6 and they haven't upgraded due to compatibility concerns. I know my current workplace is in this same boat as well. All of these non-standard browser apps that simply won't run on a newer browser. I suspect most home users have long ago upgraded themselves or automatically via update or OS upgrade.