I'm just guessing here, but the ISPs are probably keeping their DNS servers on their client's side of the wider net, and only accept queries from their own users to avoid being DOSed.
Why even bother with online? By definition, if you've got a disc with an updated keyspace, you've got a fair number of gigabytes of digital data. Add the update for the program (presumably you could even do a BIOS flash for a hardware player; I know my current DVD player is BIOS-updatable from disc) and most "legitimate" (read non-geek, unfortunately) owners aren't even going to notice it happen.
The only downside (and it's admittedly a fairly big one) is that you've then got to put at least as much security on encrypting the update, or someone will just grab the new player key straight away.
If it sounds like DiVX (and it only sounds that way because you've left out all the reasons that mean I'd rather go back to a CD Walkman than be stuck with any other company's mp3 player), then perhaps you should remember that we wiped that particular abomination from the face of the planet without any help from Congress whatsoever.
If you don't like iTunes, if you don't like the iPod, Buy Something Else.
"let's say you bought music online, from Sony's music store, and your Sony music player died and let's say Sony stopped producing their little mp3 music players. Say you had invested $2,000 worth of music, and you wanted to keep using the music files, but didn't want to kill the quality by moving it to another compressed format, like MP3. "
Then I'd say that
a) you're a fucking moron in the first place, but more importantly
b) you're just as utterly, completely fucked right in the arse as you are when Napster and it's "you pay the price of buying music, but you're only really renting it" model goes belly up.
You've got to be a complete and utter idiot to miss the information about what you're buying before you hand over your money, so none of this should be a surprise to anyone.
Besides, Apple, unlike many DRM-encumbered sites, allow you to shove all your music out to plain-jane CDDA and then import it anyway. So in the event of things dying, you're not out of pocket, just facing a shedload of work.
Of course the iPod can't actually play any sort of WMA, because they choose not to pay the charges to Microsoft for it. iTunes converts unencrypted files to a non-MS format for your Pod instead (you probably know that, but others might not).
Not having any WMA files, I can't say this bothered me when I bought my Mini.
To hit the problem with PS CS, you need a 64-bit processor, the 64-bit version of Windows, and NX enabled. As with the vast majority of SP2 problems, they are only 'problems' until you start digging around and change some of the default settings (usually firewall issues, with NX in second place).
"the only music download store iPod supports is the iTunes music store."
No, the only DRM it supports is Apple's. All those other stores you keep warbling about use Microsoft's DRM, which is just as much vendor lock in as Apple's.
Frankly, the only online music store I'd recommend is Warp's Bleep service, which supplies its files as unencrypted VBR mp3s, playable on any iPod without conversion, but cause every Creative player I've seen to lose its advance and rewind functions.
If I'm using a set-top player, though, I'm at home. The place where all the original CDs sit on the shelf, and contain all that lovely crisp sound quality, just waiting to be placed in my NAD dedicated CD player.
Lossy compression is for fitting lots of music on my iPod Mini, and for that purpose, using the headphones that came with it, outside where there is plenty of background noise, 128kb AAC does the job. It also copes with LAME --alt-preset-standard VBR encodes for anything that _does_ manage to fall apart on the lower bitrate, too.
iTunes playlisting is a piece of cake to do - either by smart playlists, or just dragging individual tunes to a standard one. iTunes won't make the Winamp-format playlist files that most mp3 players require, though.
hotsync-update to transfer your library is a horribly messy thing without an iPod, too. Though having said that, it's no worse than trying to use the hideous excuse for software that comes with most of these devices.
Quoth the AC "Is there anywhere in England or the whole of the UK where you can hit the beach in summer, get the surfing in, and make a run to the mountains and cool off in the snow? Hurricanes on one side, tsunamis on the other, and tornados down the middle."
Once again the American fails to understand distance. You could go surfing on the Cornish coast in the morning, and be hiking across Dartmoor within the hour. Good luck on getting anywhere at all in the US in that time.
I sucessfully fixed my Amiga 500 back in the day with exactly the same problem; one of the chips (I didn't look to see which) had worked part-way out of the socket, and a 6-inch drop onto a soft surface was enough to get it back again.
You can have iTMS tunes registered on up to 5 machines at once. If like me (and most people here) your "upgrading OS" involves a full uninstall/reinstall, just remember to deregister the old installation before you start, so you don't waste one of those 5 times.
The one part of the SMTP header you can't fake very well is the ip address of where it is coming from, even if you can mung the name and everything else.
This isn't bouncing the mail, it's hitting that ip directly.
Viewing figures may not be a perfect way to judge quality, but they are a fair-to-good indicator of whether or not anyone is interested in watching it.
I don't think the BBC ever particularly regarded Top Gear as "quality" television in the first place, so when it stopped being watched they had little worry about killing it.
Clarkson would probably hate me, too. The reason I kind of like him anyway is that even when I completely disagree with what he's saying, he at least argues his opinion and lets you know why he thinks that.
OK, sometimes the why is 'just because it looks cool', but sometimes it isn't, and it's more important to know that.
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Actually, he says that he named it Veritas to signify that they're plain speaking.
Because nothing says 'plain speaking' like a bit of Latin.
I'm just guessing here, but the ISPs are probably keeping their DNS servers on their client's side of the wider net, and only accept queries from their own users to avoid being DOSed.
Why even bother with online? By definition, if you've got a disc with an updated keyspace, you've got a fair number of gigabytes of digital data. Add the update for the program (presumably you could even do a BIOS flash for a hardware player; I know my current DVD player is BIOS-updatable from disc) and most "legitimate" (read non-geek, unfortunately) owners aren't even going to notice it happen.
The only downside (and it's admittedly a fairly big one) is that you've then got to put at least as much security on encrypting the update, or someone will just grab the new player key straight away.
That's the Hitbox I've got blocked at DNS level, yes?
Why would I to let them set cookies?
If it sounds like DiVX (and it only sounds that way because you've left out all the reasons that mean I'd rather go back to a CD Walkman than be stuck with any other company's mp3 player), then perhaps you should remember that we wiped that particular abomination from the face of the planet without any help from Congress whatsoever.
If you don't like iTunes, if you don't like the iPod, Buy Something Else.
It's a fundamental principle of a Public Limited Company - no amount of money is "enough".
"let's say you bought music online, from Sony's music store, and your Sony music player died and let's say Sony stopped producing their little mp3 music players. Say you had invested $2,000 worth of music, and you wanted to keep using the music files, but didn't want to kill the quality by moving it to another compressed format, like MP3. "
Then I'd say that
a) you're a fucking moron in the first place, but more importantly
b) you're just as utterly, completely fucked right in the arse as you are when Napster and it's "you pay the price of buying music, but you're only really renting it" model goes belly up.
You've got to be a complete and utter idiot to miss the information about what you're buying before you hand over your money, so none of this should be a surprise to anyone.
Besides, Apple, unlike many DRM-encumbered sites, allow you to shove all your music out to plain-jane CDDA and then import it anyway. So in the event of things dying, you're not out of pocket, just facing a shedload of work.
Warp? Domino? One Little Indian? K7? Go see Bleep. It's lovely.
Of course the iPod can't actually play any sort of WMA, because they choose not to pay the charges to Microsoft for it. iTunes converts unencrypted files to a non-MS format for your Pod instead (you probably know that, but others might not).
Not having any WMA files, I can't say this bothered me when I bought my Mini.
The main point stands, though - my ringtone, wallpaper etc. on my Sony T610 were just transferred by Bluetooth instead.
To hit the problem with PS CS, you need a 64-bit processor, the 64-bit version of Windows, and NX enabled. As with the vast majority of SP2 problems, they are only 'problems' until you start digging around and change some of the default settings (usually firewall issues, with NX in second place).
"the only music download store iPod supports is the iTunes music store."
No, the only DRM it supports is Apple's. All those other stores you keep warbling about use Microsoft's DRM, which is just as much vendor lock in as Apple's.
Frankly, the only online music store I'd recommend is Warp's Bleep service, which supplies its files as unencrypted VBR mp3s, playable on any iPod without conversion, but cause every Creative player I've seen to lose its advance and rewind functions.
If I'm using a set-top player, though, I'm at home. The place where all the original CDs sit on the shelf, and contain all that lovely crisp sound quality, just waiting to be placed in my NAD dedicated CD player.
Lossy compression is for fitting lots of music on my iPod Mini, and for that purpose, using the headphones that came with it, outside where there is plenty of background noise, 128kb AAC does the job. It also copes with LAME --alt-preset-standard VBR encodes for anything that _does_ manage to fall apart on the lower bitrate, too.
iTunes playlisting is a piece of cake to do - either by smart playlists, or just dragging individual tunes to a standard one. iTunes won't make the Winamp-format playlist files that most mp3 players require, though.
hotsync-update to transfer your library is a horribly messy thing without an iPod, too. Though having said that, it's no worse than trying to use the hideous excuse for software that comes with most of these devices.
Quoth the AC "Is there anywhere in England or the whole of the UK where you can hit the beach in summer, get the surfing in, and make a run to the mountains and cool off in the snow? Hurricanes on one side, tsunamis on the other, and tornados down the middle."
Once again the American fails to understand distance. You could go surfing on the Cornish coast in the morning, and be hiking across Dartmoor within the hour. Good luck on getting anywhere at all in the US in that time.
I sucessfully fixed my Amiga 500 back in the day with exactly the same problem; one of the chips (I didn't look to see which) had worked part-way out of the socket, and a 6-inch drop onto a soft surface was enough to get it back again.
88 Dollars an Hour? Do the users end up in 1955 a lot?
Quoth the AC "And if you upgrade to GNU/Linux?"
Then, depending on what DVD Jon is up to on any given week, you'll probably have substantially fewer problems than when I upgraded from VHS to DVD.
Different systems sometimes require different media. Bear that in mind when you consider changing platforms.
You can have iTMS tunes registered on up to 5 machines at once. If like me (and most people here) your "upgrading OS" involves a full uninstall/reinstall, just remember to deregister the old installation before you start, so you don't waste one of those 5 times.
As my brother-poster pointed out, your phrase is about 15 years old.
"Oh Snap!" may date back a lot longer, but the mighty Bree Van Den Camp said it a lot more recently. And you do NOT want to fuck with the Bree.
Log On As A Service, unsurprisingly...
The one part of the SMTP header you can't fake very well is the ip address of where it is coming from, even if you can mung the name and everything else.
This isn't bouncing the mail, it's hitting that ip directly.
Viewing figures may not be a perfect way to judge quality, but they are a fair-to-good indicator of whether or not anyone is interested in watching it.
I don't think the BBC ever particularly regarded Top Gear as "quality" television in the first place, so when it stopped being watched they had little worry about killing it.
Clarkson would probably hate me, too. The reason I kind of like him anyway is that even when I completely disagree with what he's saying, he at least argues his opinion and lets you know why he thinks that.
OK, sometimes the why is 'just because it looks cool', but sometimes it isn't, and it's more important to know that.
The difference being that in this case, the "getting it for free" method involves bothering to set your freeview recorder for 8:30pm on Mondays.
No way am I paying money to download a programme that is normally available free-to-air as an mpeg2.