>Bottom line: iTMS is the best way yet devised of selling and delivering digital music on demand.
Actually, the bottom line is that it is the most expensive way of buying and delivering digital music on demand.
Already at $10 US a disc it was priced higher than many albums (check a&b sound if you don't believe me). And so now I have to wait 20 minutes to get a usable disc? And I have to spend $1 on a decent CD-R? And I don't get art? And I don't get a case? *AND* I have to live with less than CD quality audio? **AND** I have to spend $1,000 to buy a Mac (like 90%+ of the population)?
So basically, iTunes costs more than owning a real CD, and gives me far less than owning a real CD. And, worse than that, it takes LONGER to own an iTunes album than it does to own a real CD. F*ck that noise. I'm going down to Price Club/HMV/whatever.
>Why would you want to burden an 11 year old with the complexities of Windows or Linux?
For the same reason most all first world countries burdened them with the complexity that is the English language. So that they can communicate with 95% of the people on earth (ok, a *slight* overexaggeration, but you get the picture).
>Hmmm, I wonder why the state wouldn't consider these?
Because, as usual, the government (actually, usually the Teacher's Board) is too stupid to consider the lifetime of _anything_ fragile in a 6th grader's hands.
I expect these 130,000 laptops to be reduced to 60,000 in the first year, and 5,000 by the second year. And that's just considering how badly beat up 1 and 2 year old _textbooks_ come back.
I should buy one of these models of laptops, though. There'll be at least 130,000 spare parts by the time I need some!
>Strange, the only way I can make my mac crash is by using unusual kernel extensions to make my serial adapter work.
That is strange, considering the serial port driver seems to be the only driver in windows that *doesn't* crash... how many of you can count how many times the printer port driver crashed older versions of windows, though?:-)
>here in Canada, where people apologize for everything, the telemarketers mumble an apology and dont call back. this kind of shows the fundamental differences between the two cultures.
Well, I'm living here in Canada. Had an ADAD phone me at work selling some cars (blatantly illegal activity there). Being not-an-asshole, rather than phone the police and have their line disco'ed, I called them back and let them know the law (it's in the phone book, too).
They said "Oh, well, our guy says that doesn't exist". Uhhuhh, yeah right. My phone book is pirated. That must be it. Well, anyways, they're not phoning me, probably because they know next time I'm calling the cops. But more apologetic? Please.
Good point, but he's not talking about censorship. He's talking about freedom of speech.
One could, for example, call running your lawnmower freedom of speech. Try doing it at 3:00 am. You won't be told to stop because of censorship. You'll be told to stop because you're disturbing the peace and preventing the lawful enjoyment of people's own property.
This is the same thing. Versign could certainly keep sitefinder.verisign.com running, *but* when they added all that noise, they disturbed the peace of the internet, and prevented people from enjoying what they (nowadays) are paying for. Ergo, no censorship, just vandalism.
>Isn't it a fucked up society we live in, where keeping an eye out for children's safety from child molestors is secondary to protecting the profits of the latest pop music regurgitation?
There's a *lot* more people violating copyright than molesting children.
If your shop were broken into 365 times a year, wouldn't you consider your case more important than even, say, catching a drunk driver?
While I think the methods of enforcement of copyright are crude and harsh, that doesn't mean real police (not RIAA goons) shouldn't investigate cases. Copyright does exist for good reasons.
>Manufacturers/programmers/whatever should never be responsible for what anyone does outside the intended uses.
HA!
Try telling that to the people that believe carrying hot coffee with your crotch should be your right, and that you deserve millions in compensation when you melt your privates.
>What happens when one person using challenge/response emails someone else using it?
If the sender's C/R system has any smarts, any _outgoing_ addresses are automatically whitelisted. Which means:
User #1: Mail sent to xyz@example.org. All incoming mail from xyz@example.org is now accepted. User #2: Mail received for xyz@example.org -- Account unrecognized. C/R email sent. User #3: C/R Mail from xyz@example.org accepted. User replies to this, and everything runs smoothly.:-)
HTH!
>What about mailing lists you want to be on?
Whitelist the mailing list domain before subscribing. One you have started receiving the list, tighten it up on that domain to limit it to now known mail addresses only.
Perahps I'm wrong, but unless you specifically compel someone to do something illegal, simply telling them to "do what it takes" doesn't carry an implied expectation that you can break the law.
Saying "Break any of the laws you have to break to get the job done" is different, and *isn't* what most shareholders ask for. What really needs to be asked it, how often are the shareholders lied to in this manner?
The quality level of a lot of writing paper nowadays likens itself to paper towels. Use decent, very smooth (but not glossy) paper to help keep the nib from getting stuffed up with fibers picked up from the paper. The $0.50 a ream three hole punched stuff is no good, as are most of the spiral bound graph paper books. A $1 or $2 writing pad is usually decent, though.
If you purchase a product that harms you during normal use, you better damn well be giving more than a rat's ass.
If you install software on your computer that has code inside it to purposefully delete any file on your system remotely without even a password required, I'd say that's bordering on malicious. It's already gone way past negligence, that's for sure.
Too bad software makers (in general) can't be sued for dumb shit like this. It does not matter if it's free, or even if you pay someone to take it. If you offer a product which is advertised as being a fully functioning copy, and it harms people or their property on purpose, the price isn't important.
Just imagine if you put a sign outside that said "Free Very BlueBerry Koolaid" beside a jug of unlabeled antifreeze. The price isn't what matters. You'd be in just as much trouble as if the product cost $100 a glass.
>So why not ramble on about that type of spyware, where you spent something. Not about some cheesy p2p program of which you have umpteen million other free programs to choose from
Again, cost isn't an issue. If Ford gave the Pinto away, and advertised it as being a fully functioning car, they'd still be sued to high heaven.
In the case of sending serials back to the manufacturer, that's annoying, but hardly as serious as software being programmed to allow remote users to randomly delete your files! Imagine if your ISPs webpages were randomly deleted because of this! Sure, you'd fire the guy administrating the server, but that isn't the point.
>Ah, the joys of capitalism. Smaller stores with good products and service have people come in to browse and consume salesperson's time, but then the people go off to the megastore to actually spend money.
That's why the smaller stores need to offer something different.
Why would I want to compete with craptastic service? Is my service supposed to be worse? Is that how that game is played?
Shop at a small store and enjoy the difference customer service and actual special item ordering makes.
>Between the current speed advantage (8x vs 4x), and now the size advantage, is there any hope for the '-R' format?
Yeah, it's a hell of a lot cheaper per disc. And if you can find DVD+R bulk packs for under $1 per disc, I'd love to buy 'em (so many customers complain that their +R drives are so expensive per disc -- I'd carry them, but not at $2-$3 per disc I won't)!
>I thought that SATA was backwards compatible with Parallel ATA
As a serial ATA owner, I can honestly say that's a half truth.
The "backwards compatibility" is on the disk side. Using a relatively cheap adapter which includes some cheap chinese electronics, you can convert SATA to standard IDE. But that's where it ends. Considering the horrible problems with some of the recent linux kernel versions and serial ATA (I'm only a revision behind, and getting DMA to turn on is a crapshoot) I am sure it has no likeness to standard IDE. Or I *hope* it doesn't, because if it does, the Silicon Images 3112 controller is broken beyond belief.
Anyways, after all that, windows requires a "SCSI" driver to work with SATA drives, sorry.
>why continue to make enablers for a product that is no longer supported and has been end-of-lifed?
This is EXACTLY why Apple machines will never be used outside of graphics arts, video editing, and other professions where hardware changes constantly.
Try telling that one to a production manager at a manufacturing facility. You'd get laughed out of a job. Hell, try telling it to a bank. Or (insert large chain store here), etc, etc.
>So do you mean that doing science is not about "thouroughly understanding an idea to the point where you can develop on it"?
No, I suggested they're equally difficult, but they are based on fundamentally different concepts.
In science, a fact is a fact.
English (and other humanities studies) have a constantly changing information base, and while there are hard facts, a great many of them, even at the most basic level, are constantly changing. Heck, with english alone, you can't say how a word is meant to be pronounced without qualifying it to a few hundred miles radius.
However, basic facts in science are set. The speed of light does not change during a routine set of high school experiments.
And that's why I say english is based on concepts, and science based on facts. One can write a good english paper on a completely imaginary and made up topic and still get full marks, as long as the people reading it believe you have understood the concept of english. One cannot, however, write a quality science paper without sticking to well known facts, even if one appears to have grasped the basic concept of the experiement being done.
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>Bottom line: iTMS is the best way yet devised of selling and delivering digital music on demand.
Actually, the bottom line is that it is the most expensive way of buying and delivering digital music on demand.
Already at $10 US a disc it was priced higher than many albums (check a&b sound if you don't believe me). And so now I have to wait 20 minutes to get a usable disc? And I have to spend $1 on a decent CD-R? And I don't get art? And I don't get a case? *AND* I have to live with less than CD quality audio? **AND** I have to spend $1,000 to buy a Mac (like 90%+ of the population)?
So basically, iTunes costs more than owning a real CD, and gives me far less than owning a real CD. And, worse than that, it takes LONGER to own an iTunes album than it does to own a real CD. F*ck that noise. I'm going down to Price Club/HMV/whatever.
>Why would you want to burden an 11 year old with the complexities of Windows or Linux?
For the same reason most all first world countries burdened them with the complexity that is the English language. So that they can communicate with 95% of the people on earth (ok, a *slight* overexaggeration, but you get the picture).
>Hmmm, I wonder why the state wouldn't consider these?
Because, as usual, the government (actually, usually the Teacher's Board) is too stupid to consider the lifetime of _anything_ fragile in a 6th grader's hands.
I expect these 130,000 laptops to be reduced to 60,000 in the first year, and 5,000 by the second year. And that's just considering how badly beat up 1 and 2 year old _textbooks_ come back.
I should buy one of these models of laptops, though. There'll be at least 130,000 spare parts by the time I need some!
>Strange, the only way I can make my mac crash is by using unusual kernel extensions to make my serial adapter work.
:-)
That is strange, considering the serial port driver seems to be the only driver in windows that *doesn't* crash... how many of you can count how many times the printer port driver crashed older versions of windows, though?
>Of all the keys on the board, 'insert' is the only key other than 'scroll lock' and 'print screen/sysrq' that I *never* use.
No?
Shift-Insert, Ctrl-Insert -- These are your friends.
Shift-Del, well, that I'm not so fond of.
It will cause the right hand row of letters to become a "fake" keypad.
HTH!
>here in Canada, where people apologize for everything, the telemarketers mumble an apology and dont call back. this kind of shows the fundamental differences between the two cultures.
Well, I'm living here in Canada. Had an ADAD phone me at work selling some cars (blatantly illegal activity there). Being not-an-asshole, rather than phone the police and have their line disco'ed, I called them back and let them know the law (it's in the phone book, too).
They said "Oh, well, our guy says that doesn't exist". Uhhuhh, yeah right. My phone book is pirated. That must be it. Well, anyways, they're not phoning me, probably because they know next time I'm calling the cops. But more apologetic? Please.
Good point, but he's not talking about censorship. He's talking about freedom of speech.
One could, for example, call running your lawnmower freedom of speech. Try doing it at 3:00 am. You won't be told to stop because of censorship. You'll be told to stop because you're disturbing the peace and preventing the lawful enjoyment of people's own property.
This is the same thing. Versign could certainly keep sitefinder.verisign.com running, *but* when they added all that noise, they disturbed the peace of the internet, and prevented people from enjoying what they (nowadays) are paying for. Ergo, no censorship, just vandalism.
>While it may be very unfair business practice for Verisign to do this, we didn't see any reason to disable it.
I can give you one reason:
All your mail with mistyped domains has been "rejected" (probably read by a marketing bot) by verisign.
That's gotta be worth at _least_ blacklisting the IP, never mind messing with the DNS servers.
>Isn't it a fucked up society we live in, where keeping an eye out for children's safety from child molestors is secondary to protecting the profits of the latest pop music regurgitation?
There's a *lot* more people violating copyright than molesting children.
If your shop were broken into 365 times a year, wouldn't you consider your case more important than even, say, catching a drunk driver?
While I think the methods of enforcement of copyright are crude and harsh, that doesn't mean real police (not RIAA goons) shouldn't investigate cases. Copyright does exist for good reasons.
>Nope. Steal is the right word.
Nope, it ain't.
I think you'll find law in most other countries similarly clear on this issue.
>There is a difference between investing in something and buying it. Go get a dictionary, and then form a proper response to the above comment.
I did. The fact you required a dictionary to look up "investing" shows you probably aren't worth discussing the issue with.
HAND.
>Master of the straw-man argument, you are, judging by your other comments.
Fuck you very much, too. Now go away.
>Manufacturers/programmers/whatever should never be responsible for what anyone does outside the intended uses.
HA!
Try telling that to the people that believe carrying hot coffee with your crotch should be your right, and that you deserve millions in compensation when you melt your privates.
Trust me, they're lurking out there...
>What happens when one person using challenge/response emails someone else using it?
:-)
If the sender's C/R system has any smarts, any _outgoing_ addresses are automatically whitelisted. Which means:
User #1: Mail sent to xyz@example.org. All incoming mail from xyz@example.org is now accepted.
User #2: Mail received for xyz@example.org -- Account unrecognized. C/R email sent.
User #3: C/R Mail from xyz@example.org accepted. User replies to this, and everything runs smoothly.
HTH!
>What about mailing lists you want to be on?
Whitelist the mailing list domain before subscribing. One you have started receiving the list, tighten it up on that domain to limit it to now known mail addresses only.
>If you want mainstream, go overseas.
Looks awesome, but I can't seem to find any english version of that page. Is there one?
Perahps I'm wrong, but unless you specifically compel someone to do something illegal, simply telling them to "do what it takes" doesn't carry an implied expectation that you can break the law.
Saying "Break any of the laws you have to break to get the job done" is different, and *isn't* what most shareholders ask for. What really needs to be asked it, how often are the shareholders lied to in this manner?
However, all that being said, IANAL.
Also watch for cheap paper.
The quality level of a lot of writing paper nowadays likens itself to paper towels. Use decent, very smooth (but not glossy) paper to help keep the nib from getting stuffed up with fibers picked up from the paper. The $0.50 a ream three hole punched stuff is no good, as are most of the spiral bound graph paper books. A $1 or $2 writing pad is usually decent, though.
If you purchase a product that harms you during normal use, you better damn well be giving more than a rat's ass.
If you install software on your computer that has code inside it to purposefully delete any file on your system remotely without even a password required, I'd say that's bordering on malicious. It's already gone way past negligence, that's for sure.
Too bad software makers (in general) can't be sued for dumb shit like this. It does not matter if it's free, or even if you pay someone to take it. If you offer a product which is advertised as being a fully functioning copy, and it harms people or their property on purpose, the price isn't important.
Just imagine if you put a sign outside that said "Free Very BlueBerry Koolaid" beside a jug of unlabeled antifreeze. The price isn't what matters. You'd be in just as much trouble as if the product cost $100 a glass.
>So why not ramble on about that type of spyware, where you spent something. Not about some cheesy p2p program of which you have umpteen million other free programs to choose from
Again, cost isn't an issue. If Ford gave the Pinto away, and advertised it as being a fully functioning car, they'd still be sued to high heaven.
In the case of sending serials back to the manufacturer, that's annoying, but hardly as serious as software being programmed to allow remote users to randomly delete your files! Imagine if your ISPs webpages were randomly deleted because of this! Sure, you'd fire the guy administrating the server, but that isn't the point.
>Ah, the joys of capitalism. Smaller stores with good products and service have people come in to browse and consume salesperson's time, but then the people go off to the megastore to actually spend money.
That's why the smaller stores need to offer something different.
Why would I want to compete with craptastic service? Is my service supposed to be worse? Is that how that game is played?
Shop at a small store and enjoy the difference customer service and actual special item ordering makes.
>Between the current speed advantage (8x vs 4x), and now the size advantage, is there any hope for the '-R' format?
Yeah, it's a hell of a lot cheaper per disc. And if you can find DVD+R bulk packs for under $1 per disc, I'd love to buy 'em (so many customers complain that their +R drives are so expensive per disc -- I'd carry them, but not at $2-$3 per disc I won't)!
>I thought that SATA was backwards compatible with Parallel ATA
As a serial ATA owner, I can honestly say that's a half truth.
The "backwards compatibility" is on the disk side. Using a relatively cheap adapter which includes some cheap chinese electronics, you can convert SATA to standard IDE. But that's where it ends. Considering the horrible problems with some of the recent linux kernel versions and serial ATA (I'm only a revision behind, and getting DMA to turn on is a crapshoot) I am sure it has no likeness to standard IDE. Or I *hope* it doesn't, because if it does, the Silicon Images 3112 controller is broken beyond belief.
Anyways, after all that, windows requires a "SCSI" driver to work with SATA drives, sorry.
>Fluoride poison [fluorideaction.org]
End DHMO poison now!
Oh, sorry, didn't realize that fluoride site was actually trying to be serious on such a laughing matter. That's so sad.
>why continue to make enablers for a product that is no longer supported and has been end-of-lifed?
This is EXACTLY why Apple machines will never be used outside of graphics arts, video editing, and other professions where hardware changes constantly.
Try telling that one to a production manager at a manufacturing facility. You'd get laughed out of a job. Hell, try telling it to a bank. Or (insert large chain store here), etc, etc.
A totally separate thing. I only brought them up while I was on the topic of software modifying my basic files.
Inetd uses several files, actually. A few from the top of my head:
- /etc/inetd.conf
- /etc/services
- /etc/hosts.allow (ok, ok, used by tcpd which uses inetd)
- /etc/hosts.deny (same again)
I am glad gentoo doesn't do this. My experience with other Sys V init linux systems tells me this is unusual behaviour, though. But still good.>So do you mean that doing science is not about "thouroughly understanding an idea to the point where you can develop on it"?
No, I suggested they're equally difficult, but they are based on fundamentally different concepts.
In science, a fact is a fact.
English (and other humanities studies) have a constantly changing information base, and while there are hard facts, a great many of them, even at the most basic level, are constantly changing. Heck, with english alone, you can't say how a word is meant to be pronounced without qualifying it to a few hundred miles radius.
However, basic facts in science are set. The speed of light does not change during a routine set of high school experiments.
And that's why I say english is based on concepts, and science based on facts. One can write a good english paper on a completely imaginary and made up topic and still get full marks, as long as the people reading it believe you have understood the concept of english. One cannot, however, write a quality science paper without sticking to well known facts, even if one appears to have grasped the basic concept of the experiement being done.