"...failing to license is a mistake that has already proved disasterous for Apple once (can you say: Mac vs. PC?)."
Failing to license hardware/software was NOT a mistake, nor was it disasterous for Apple. In fact, it was more likely a very shrewd decision. I suggest you read John Gruber's recent blog entries regarding this exact topic:
1) You agree to be locked in when you buy an iPod, just like you agree to be locked in to Memory Stick when you buy virtually any Sony consumer product, etc. There is nothing monopolistic about a vendor trying to lock you in.
Though you are right about the monopolistic part, but I think the comparison to the Memory Stick is a bad analogy.
The iPod plays many different audio file formats and plugs into many different platforms and devices.
If you do decide to buy music online and purchase music from another store besides iTMS, you can easily move it to the iPod by burning it to CD and importing it or using one of the many DRM removal apps out there.
Your anology of copyright infringement to a law that is designed to protect public safety is little off.
Filesharing songs does not endanger public safety.
Regardless, you completely missed my point, which was the question of what happens to people who are mistakenly accussed of illegal file sharing and raided? Where is innocent until proven guilty? Even with speeding tickets you are allowed the opportunity to appear in court and plead your case.
Raiding homes because you're engaged in non-commercial copyright infringement (not re-selling) of popular music IS an abuse of power. There isn't a huge leap from the government raiding someone because of misinformation, FUD or RIAA pressure.
And stop speeding... people that race down my neighborhood roads at 40mph while I'm mowing my grass need to be chained and whipped, not just ticketed:)
I'm seeding about 9GB of non-commercial, freely-distributed game mods to Gnutella (custom user-made maps for UT2004, Doom3, etc).
Every time I see one of these reports I get nervous thinking that they'll come busting my door down on the mistaken idea that because of the bandwidth I'm using that I must be swapping illegal content.
Of course, I have nothing to worry about, but the abuse of power is disgusting and there are much more important things in our country that need attending to.
The only other point I forgot to mention is that your term program will need at least ANSI color support (that you may have to tweak) for this to work right.
I've been slowly writing my own terminal program just because of the exact reason you've mentioned.
The trick in my case was simply to find a Mac font that contained the IBM Extended ASCII characters in the same sequence. There are two such fonts floating around that will do the trick -- IBMAC and ENCLAVE. IBMac works really well in my experience.
Usually, t's just a matter of putting them in your Fonts folder and telling your term program to use them for the display.
Note that they're bitmap fonts, so forget trying to view them in Fontbook.
If you'd like to give my extremly rough, full-ansi supporting work-in-progress term program a try I'd be more than happy to slap it up somewhere for you:)
While I agree that some of these elements have been wildly abused, there are instances in web-based app design where pop-ups facilitate a useful interface design, get around browser limitations with CSS/DHTML and can even limit the amount of requests to the server.
Suggesting that it be made a separate program is great when you're working in a closed environment.
Saying that scripting should not be able to do a pop-up or create windows without toolbars and/or status bars is silly and single-minded.
So have you emailed your friends and family yet with a short, non-techie paragraph, links to the CERT warning and your phone number so they can call you for help installing Firefox?
I've often been aware of the fact that some poor person might end up receiving tons of junk for using a potentially valid e-mail address.
So instead, I just use the domain name for the site that I'm signing up with. For example, if I'm visiting www.a.com and they need an address, I'll use nobody@a.com.
Of course, if I need to get an e-mail from the site I use a disposable email address from one of the various free services on the net.
Perhaps not, but I sent my immediate family a similar message. Yours in itself may not have circulated very much, but I'm sure at least a few hundred of us did start spreading the word (something that should have happened long ago)
All of this extreme anti-Google privacy concern crap is so suspicious.
Of all things to be concerned about in regards to privacy, a free, web-based email service seems hardly enough to even loose any sleep over. I can think of a TON of other privacy concerns that would and should come miles before a GMail account.
Which leads me to believe that there's more going on here than we know and realize. Specifically, at least two well-known companies with a lot^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ENORMOUS lobbying power would have reason to want Google's GMail to fail -- Hotmail, Yahoo. And we all know what kind of anti-competitive tactics one of those is known for.
All of this blatant extremist attitude towards GMail could stem from these facts. Since I'm wearing my hat, I'd wager that it probably does.
In any regard, if I was a California citizen, I would be e-mailing these so-called representatives and inform them that they would not be receiving my vote next election and that I would be spreading the word to my friends, neighbors and family.
So then instead of just downloading the wrong file or song, you'd download 10% of the wrong song, 30 seconds of some porn clip, a goatse.cx image and a chain letter in text form:)
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Odd, works fine in quite a few apps as-is. The terminal app must not support this type of bitmapped font for some reason.
I converted the IBMac font to a postscript font and was able to use it in the terminal (though it appeared a little out of wack).
Be sure to also read further commentary on the original article, the RealNetworks issue and direct comparisons with the iPod:
Why 2004 Won't Be Like 1984
The iPod plays many different audio file formats and plugs into many different platforms and devices.
If you do decide to buy music online and purchase music from another store besides iTMS, you can easily move it to the iPod by burning it to CD and importing it or using one of the many DRM removal apps out there.
They'll pobably just tell you to go use the iTunes Music Store :)
... here are some apps that might be of assistance (use at your own risk, blahbity blah blah):
LinkUp
Puts a little "light" in your menu bar
or
Skwonk!
Makes sounds depending upon the types of packets going through. There's even a barnyard sounds pack you can use with it
Your anology of copyright infringement to a law that is designed to protect public safety is little off.
Filesharing songs does not endanger public safety.
Regardless, you completely missed my point, which was the question of what happens to people who are mistakenly accussed of illegal file sharing and raided? Where is innocent until proven guilty? Even with speeding tickets you are allowed the opportunity to appear in court and plead your case.
Raiding homes because you're engaged in non-commercial copyright infringement (not re-selling) of popular music IS an abuse of power. There isn't a huge leap from the government raiding someone because of misinformation, FUD or RIAA pressure.
And stop speeding... people that race down my neighborhood roads at 40mph while I'm mowing my grass need to be chained and whipped, not just ticketed
I'm seeding about 9GB of non-commercial, freely-distributed game mods to Gnutella (custom user-made maps for UT2004, Doom3, etc).
Every time I see one of these reports I get nervous thinking that they'll come busting my door down on the mistaken idea that because of the bandwidth I'm using that I must be swapping illegal content.
Of course, I have nothing to worry about, but the abuse of power is disgusting and there are much more important things in our country that need attending to.
Argh. Someday I'll learn - preview first, then submit.
f onts.sit
http://homepage.mac.com/kiddailey/files/misc/ibm-
The only other point I forgot to mention is that your term program will need at least ANSI color support (that you may have to tweak) for this to work right.
I've been slowly writing my own terminal program just because of the exact reason you've mentioned.
The trick in my case was simply to find a Mac font that contained the IBM Extended ASCII characters in the same sequence. There are two such fonts floating around that will do the trick -- IBMAC and ENCLAVE. IBMac works really well in my experience.
Usually, t's just a matter of putting them in your Fonts folder and telling your term program to use them for the display.
I've slapped them up on my
http://homepage.mac.com/kiddailey/files/misc/ib
Note that they're bitmap fonts, so forget trying to view them in Fontbook.
If you'd like to give my extremly rough, full-ansi supporting work-in-progress term program a try I'd be more than happy to slap it up somewhere for you
If the author was really smart, he/she incorporated banners ads from a pay-per-click plan they signed up for before releasing the plugin
While I agree that some of these elements have been wildly abused, there are instances in web-based app design where pop-ups facilitate a useful interface design, get around browser limitations with CSS/DHTML and can even limit the amount of requests to the server.
Suggesting that it be made a separate program is great when you're working in a closed environment.
Saying that scripting should not be able to do a pop-up or create windows without toolbars and/or status bars is silly and single-minded.
How can you say that the trailer doesn't reveal anything when right in plain sight is the answer to life the universe and everything!!!
And before that ChiliSoft ASP - now owned by Sun Systems and refered to Sun Java System Active Server Pages (though it's only classic ASP compatible).
I guess even Bill Gates doesn't even use spell check (that, or he wrote the memo while speaking with an Italian accent).
So have you emailed your friends and family yet with a short, non-techie paragraph, links to the CERT warning and your phone number so they can call you for help installing Firefox?
I have, and I know other techies have as well.
I've often been aware of the fact that some poor person might end up receiving tons of junk for using a potentially valid e-mail address.
So instead, I just use the domain name for the site that I'm signing up with. For example, if I'm visiting www.a.com and they need an address, I'll use nobody@a.com.
Of course, if I need to get an e-mail from the site I use a disposable email address from one of the various free services on the net.
She's a keeper ;)
Perhaps not, but I sent my immediate family a similar message. Yours in itself may not have circulated very much, but I'm sure at least a few hundred of us did start spreading the word (something that should have happened long ago)
Firefox is not bare, it's just not bombarding you with a 100 useless icons and task-bars.
Of all the default button crap on my copy of IE, the only ones I use regularly are back, forward, stop and refresh.
What's affecting their bottom line is the unbelieably poorly designed website.
Ugh. Crappy use of Flash aside, the interface and archtecture of that thing is aweful!
All of this extreme anti-Google privacy concern crap is so suspicious.
Of all things to be concerned about in regards to privacy, a free, web-based email service seems hardly enough to even loose any sleep over. I can think of a TON of other privacy concerns that would and should come miles before a GMail account.
Which leads me to believe that there's more going on here than we know and realize. Specifically, at least two well-known companies with a lot^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ENORMOUS lobbying power would have reason to want Google's GMail to fail -- Hotmail, Yahoo. And we all know what kind of anti-competitive tactics one of those is known for.
All of this blatant extremist attitude towards GMail could stem from these facts. Since I'm wearing my hat, I'd wager that it probably does.
In any regard, if I was a California citizen, I would be e-mailing these so-called representatives and inform them that they would not be receiving my vote next election and that I would be spreading the word to my friends, neighbors and family.
Well, of course it will only be $50.
It'll be released in 10 years along with their next "killer OS" using the same tech the iPod uses today
So then instead of just downloading the wrong file or song, you'd download 10% of the wrong song, 30 seconds of some porn clip, a goatse.cx image and a chain letter in text form :)
My favorite part of the site is the Legal Terms of Servce with its light gray on white text