Well, this music "officianado" knows the difference between iTunes (a library program) and the iTunes Music Store (never bought anything there), and when I rip my music it's to MP3 and there's no DRM. (I don't have an iPod either.)
Yes, MP3 is a lossy codec, and I can hear the difference even with my "brass ears", but as a medium for sharing an 85% approximation and discovering new music (through Legaltorrents, for example) by artists I would never find in a CD store it's perfectly adequate. Plus, having 5500+ pieces of music in my personal jukebox gives me a lot of choices for what I want to hear.
A true music lover only buys the music he/she likes and listens to it on a reasonable player where he/she can just sit down, relax and just concentrate on the music
You make yourself sound like someone who would go to a rock show and yell at people to shut up, or would go to a concert and strangle the musicians if their chairs creaked or the keys on their bassoon clicked too loud. Good luck!
[...] when I want to watch something, well I have Blockbuster and NetFlix.
Not for long. If Universal gets away with this deep-sixing the "first sale" doctrine and making DVD rentals illegal would likely be another item on the agenda. A EULA for DVDs? I wouldn't be surprised in the least.
With Apple, you're left without these options. Want something a little better than on-board video in that 17" iMac? Sorry - no can do. Don't need that WebCam? Sorry, you're forced to pay for it. Thinking about adding a second hard drive, or new that new HD DVD drive? Nope, you need a new computer!
Dude, if you want that you buy a desktop machine instead of a consumer model or laptop. They've got slots and plenty of HD/optical drive space.
Hmmm, is there a whole web site there, or is it just a random anonymous accusation?
Interesting that the accusation is not only anonymous but entirely personal (ad hominem) and makes no attempt to engage RD's arguments on whatever merits they may have. RD seems to have stepped on somebody's toes.
Why can't the content come streaming from my own neighborhood, or one down the road?
I seem to recall Cringely (among others) suggesting that the easiest, or maybe the only, way to distribute mass media (TV and movies) via the Net was P2P. Too bad the mass media companies want to make that illegal.
Why does it sound to me like you're trying to lump him in with holocaust deniers?
Must be some kind of projection on your part. Unless you think that global climate change is going to be a holocaust, in which case you'd be arguing against yourself.
Hey, if they're virulent, they're virulent, I don't care which "side" they're on (there's usually more than two sides when it comes to anything important, and "side"s aren't monolithic). I, for one, believe that while the world is wide and vasty, it is factual and can be debated in good faith. Hyper-emotional assertions (you know, offhand accusations of genocide, comparisons to Nazis, et cet) are usually intended to derail that debate, not contribute to it.
Seems to me that all the vitriol-tossing around here is that of those confronters you refer to. (I liked the one where the Kyoto agreements [upon which I make no judgements] were intended to end Western Civilization -- apparently somebody's goal, though it smells of desperate straw. And did I catch a confronter declaring some miscellaneous guy had said that he was working towards killing 90% of the people on the planet, or was that another recent post?)
It's a curious thing that global climate change posts on Slashdot have historically brought out the most virulent and impassioned commenters, 80% of them declaring it impossible, immaterial, and just plain not true. (Evidently not investors in ski resorts or sea-level property.) But then I suspect they think Bush v 1.5 served honorably in the Texas National Guard, or wish to convince others that he did. Enjoy the Kool-Aid(TM)!
Javascript as-is is pretty much in a "sandbox", for obvious (and sane) security reasons; Adobe's extended it to offer a cross-platform scripting language in addition to Visual Basic and Applescript. And yeah, it's in the application. (Dunno if the interpreter is installed only once or for each CS program.)
Sorry, guy. History shows that some of us geeks are actually leading-edge users of the future. We're intelligent, social, and tech-savvy enough that we're what your audience will be in five years, if your plans follow through. You toss a whole lot of cheap and articulate info out if you paint us all with the same brush. Remember the Cube?
Bzzzt! Ted Turner doesn't own any networks any more, he sold them to Time Warner. Comedy Central is owned by Viacom and Time Warner, who don't own NBC (that would be GE). (Try that Google search-thingy sometime, an enquiring mind like yours could probably find real info there.) And those Viet vets can't even keep their stories straight.
I looked at just three of your assertions and they're false, which doesn't bode well for the rest of them....Enough wasted time for one night. Thanks for playing, and be sure to tip the teachers at your indoctrination center!
Err, starting in 1978 you had to file for copyright in order to get greater damages for infringement, though you still had copyright (US-wise, though the idea was to harmonize US copyright law with the Berne [international] Convention) inherent in an item's creation and could get (lower) damages for that. The MT-32 came after that, somewhere between 1985 and 1990, IIRC.
PS: Derivations of the MT-32 sounds were licensed to Apple for QuickTime's software synth.
So members of the "stalking community" can call each others stalkers, but the rest of us can't cuz we ain't on the down-low? Well, maybe you're right. But then, doesn't your example presuppose that Luskin *is* a stalker? In which case, shouldn't Slashdot be expecting another threatening letter from Luskin's hired dog-lawyer?
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Well, this music "officianado" knows the difference between iTunes (a library program) and the iTunes Music Store (never bought anything there), and when I rip my music it's to MP3 and there's no DRM. (I don't have an iPod either.)
Yes, MP3 is a lossy codec, and I can hear the difference even with my "brass ears", but as a medium for sharing an 85% approximation and discovering new music (through Legaltorrents, for example) by artists I would never find in a CD store it's perfectly adequate. Plus, having 5500+ pieces of music in my personal jukebox gives me a lot of choices for what I want to hear.
A true music lover only buys the music he/she likes and listens to it on a reasonable player where he/she can just sit down, relax and just concentrate on the music
You make yourself sound like someone who would go to a rock show and yell at people to shut up, or would go to a concert and strangle the musicians if their chairs creaked or the keys on their bassoon clicked too loud. Good luck!
[...] when I want to watch something, well I have Blockbuster and NetFlix.
Not for long. If Universal gets away with this deep-sixing the "first sale" doctrine and making DVD rentals illegal would likely be another item on the agenda. A EULA for DVDs? I wouldn't be surprised in the least.
Awesome sig, isn't that from Laumer's The Great Time Machine Hoax?
With Apple, you're left without these options. Want something a little better than on-board video in that 17" iMac? Sorry - no can do. Don't need that WebCam? Sorry, you're forced to pay for it. Thinking about adding a second hard drive, or new that new HD DVD drive? Nope, you need a new computer!
Dude, if you want that you buy a desktop machine instead of a consumer model or laptop. They've got slots and plenty of HD/optical drive space.
Actually, it's Firefox 2 that sucks on OS X (Tiger), 1.5.0.8 works fine and (as has been mentioned elsewhere) Camino's pretty good too.
Give Firefox 2 a couple of point-revs and it should work, too.
When I plugged my thumb drive into a friend's HP PC two weeks ago it worked like this:
1) Plug it in
2) XP downloads a driver
3) Reboot
4) It works!
(PS: It was formatted for Windows)
Hmmm, is there a whole web site there, or is it just a random anonymous accusation?
Interesting that the accusation is not only anonymous but entirely personal (ad hominem) and makes no attempt to engage RD's arguments on whatever merits they may have. RD seems to have stepped on somebody's toes.
"iPod-killer wannabe" or "wannabe iPod-killer" work, depending on where you want to put the conceptual emphasis.
Why can't the content come streaming from my own neighborhood, or one down the road?
I seem to recall Cringely (among others) suggesting that the easiest, or maybe the only, way to distribute mass media (TV and movies) via the Net was P2P. Too bad the mass media companies want to make that illegal.
Why does it sound to me like you're trying to lump him in with holocaust deniers?
Must be some kind of projection on your part. Unless you think that global climate change is going to be a holocaust, in which case you'd be arguing against yourself.
Hey, if they're virulent, they're virulent, I don't care which "side" they're on (there's usually more than two sides when it comes to anything important, and "side"s aren't monolithic). I, for one, believe that while the world is wide and vasty, it is factual and can be debated in good faith. Hyper-emotional assertions (you know, offhand accusations of genocide, comparisons to Nazis, et cet) are usually intended to derail that debate, not contribute to it.
Seems to me that all the vitriol-tossing around here is that of those confronters you refer to. (I liked the one where the Kyoto agreements [upon which I make no judgements] were intended to end Western Civilization -- apparently somebody's goal, though it smells of desperate straw. And did I catch a confronter declaring some miscellaneous guy had said that he was working towards killing 90% of the people on the planet, or was that another recent post?)
It's a curious thing that global climate change posts on Slashdot have historically brought out the most virulent and impassioned commenters, 80% of them declaring it impossible, immaterial, and just plain not true. (Evidently not investors in ski resorts or sea-level property.) But then I suspect they think Bush v 1.5 served honorably in the Texas National Guard, or wish to convince others that he did. Enjoy the Kool-Aid(TM)!
I was reading his bold-name gossip column in Infoworld back in 1982. Don't think he's gotten better since.
But which genes are involved when you post a comment to an unrelated story?
Semi-OT, but re your sig, I didn't know that Jonathan Ive had worked on OS X. You must really be into Apple!
Javascript as-is is pretty much in a "sandbox", for obvious (and sane) security reasons; Adobe's extended it to offer a cross-platform scripting language in addition to Visual Basic and Applescript. And yeah, it's in the application. (Dunno if the interpreter is installed only once or for each CS program.)
Sorry, guy. History shows that some of us geeks are actually leading-edge users of the future. We're intelligent, social, and tech-savvy enough that we're what your audience will be in five years, if your plans follow through. You toss a whole lot of cheap and articulate info out if you paint us all with the same brush. Remember the Cube?
Looks like he has serious credibility problems.
Bzzzt! Ted Turner doesn't own any networks any more, he sold them to Time Warner. Comedy Central is owned by Viacom and Time Warner, who don't own NBC (that would be GE). (Try that Google search-thingy sometime, an enquiring mind like yours could probably find real info there.) And those Viet vets can't even keep their stories straight.
...Enough wasted time for one night. Thanks for playing, and be sure to tip the teachers at your indoctrination center!
I looked at just three of your assertions and they're false, which doesn't bode well for the rest of them.
You obviously didn't hear about Pat Schroeder.
Err, starting in 1978 you had to file for copyright in order to get greater damages for infringement, though you still had copyright (US-wise, though the idea was to harmonize US copyright law with the Berne [international] Convention) inherent in an item's creation and could get (lower) damages for that. The MT-32 came after that, somewhere between 1985 and 1990, IIRC.
PS: Derivations of the MT-32 sounds were licensed to Apple for QuickTime's software synth.
So members of the "stalking community" can call each others stalkers, but the rest of us can't cuz we ain't on the down-low? Well, maybe you're right. But then, doesn't your example presuppose that Luskin *is* a stalker? In which case, shouldn't Slashdot be expecting another threatening letter from Luskin's hired dog-lawyer?
You seem to have misspelled "GIMP". HTH.
There's a TON of great music being made. You just won't hear it on radio or TV. Heck, there may even be some decent boy bands out there.
Buy for cheap while you can. I understand the price of DVDs is likely to go up (a la VHS) once the format is well-established.