This is stupid. You can't use the iTunes Music Store unless you have a credit card associated with a US address. So he should have known that. More important he should know you should back up files in a readable format before reinstalling. In the case of AAC protected files that means burning a CD.
What he did is the equivalent of losing the CDs, that's all. You bought them, you didn't protect them, you lose them...
He simply does not know how to do searches and, like a lot of people, complains about the tool. He doesn't even realize how many searches are for shopping and price comparison. I think he should have study the problem a lot more before writing...
Or, put even more simply: Give people what they want, not what you want to give them. In my, limited, experience this is almost always the wrong approach, people do not know what they want, they ignore there are options to the crap that Microsoft pushes on them. Sometimes showing something different makes them say... wow. Simplicity is a good principle, though.
This is my main beef with free software interfaces... They copy the windows interface which I think is very ugly
Invent your own or copy better interfaces, guys.
You have to know who to steal from...
Most people will never find out. They happily mix USB 1.1 with USB 2 devices reducing the speed of all devices in the change to that of USB 1.1...
Think Firewire... USB sucks.
After the dust settles in this suit and the one Apple vs. The Open Group (where Apple is claiming Unix has become a generic term), Unis shall be free...
And then a thousand flowers shall bloom!
Yes. El Gato EyeTV is a DVR without a subscription plan... It needs a computer (I use it with my Mac). But that is actually an advantage since the show you record become more portable than a VHS tape. It can also record VCDs of the shows for archiving...
Here is a denial from someone at Google who should know:
This shouldn't surprise many people, but as far as I know, Orlowski is full of crap. Again. If Google didn't find that blogs improved the results (and I don't know, I would assume they test these things, like, constantly), do you suppose they'd increase the frequency at which they crawl them, or decrease it? Yes, that's what I think.
Even better, with Watson from Karelia Software, you can use EyeTV anywhere in the world (well, you neep the PAL version if the country uses that system). You can get TV listings from the Watson channel and automagically program EyeTV with just one click... It's great!...
I thought the Music industry already had the best copy Protection available...
Make crappy music so nobody wants to copy it...
Clearly, Arista is a leader on that field. Further protection is redundant...
I have noooo idea...
But that's not the important quesstion. The important question is if Firewire is fast enough...
It is certainly fast enough for external hard drives... How much info passes from a CPU to a BUS? How fast is that?
I don't know. I'm just saying that most Mac users can't use a PCI card...
The problem is that most Macs sold today do not have a PCI Slot...
The right idea would be a small box with an Intel compatible CPU (transmeta? AMD? Not Intel, please), shraing verything with the Mac through a Firewire connectio... Would that be fast enough?
If it can be done in for about 300$, it could be a big hit...
No, the formula would depend on the algorithm to find the zeroes of the Zeta function. If that algorithm turns out to be hard the Riemann hypothesis won't help you factorize primes any faster... Though it will provide better understanding of how primes are distributed...
We, Venezuelans, do have the Maana concept... It doesn't translate as "tomorrow", but as "not today". As in President Chvez will step down tomorrow.
Is just that the concept of tomorrow doesn't have the urgency here you guys give to it...
It is not too tough to set up an SMTP server to require authentication, or at a minimum to run off a different port.
No, it is not. As a matter of fact, any spammer could do it. That is why you have to use filters... The idea that law will protect against this is as stupid as Micro$oft copy protection schemes. Everybody has to realize that the internet includes all of the world. There are countries were laws ar meaningless...
That's only done in the weak sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, etc.). In real intellectual stuff (Mathematics, Computer Science, etc.) use alphabetical order and no one gets listed for doing little, those just get thanks...
The article is misleading. Listen, if everybody in the US toss their coins a few would get a large number 6 heads in a row (1 in a 64 chance). Yes, that is the law of large numbers at play. But if you have a coin and toss it six times and you get six heads, teh reasonable thing, ask any statistician, is to have the coin check for fairness... Coincidence happens, yes, but that doesn't mean you should just shrug your shoulder and ignore them...
The case of death related to biotechnology should be investigate. It may be a coincidence, but after the investigation you can get clues as to whether it is just that.
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The book is good, but it's very hard to pass through the self propaganda, ego centric claims... The results are not that amazing. Though they are quite good. Pity Wolfram thought that by avoiding peer review he could inflate his results. Instead he is being ridiculed by lesser minds for saying silly things in a book that's too long and too much self advertising.
Read the book, with the clear idea that Wolfram is neither Newton, nor Darwin.
Instead of producing a revolution this book may delay it, as quacks start imitating Wolfram (who is, certainly, not a quack) approach to self publicize science. In 10 years this book will be forgotten...
I haven't read the book (already ordered it), but I have a bone to pick with it. The first thing that is new about it is that it avoids peer review prior to publication.
We all know that the best way to advance in an area of knowledge is by getting criticism to our new ideas. The reason to do so before publication is that any scientists know how easy it is to fool one self and tries to avoid it, not by asking a few friends to read our stuff, but by asking the biggest experts in the best magazines (or by posting for free in a web site so everybody gets a crack at it).
By failing to follow this procedure Dr. Wolfram has open himself up to criticism that his book is not a scientific enterprise, but a commercial one... Disclosure: I am a mathematician...
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This is stupid. You can't use the iTunes Music Store unless you have a credit card associated with a US address. So he should have known that. More important he should know you should back up files in a readable format before reinstalling. In the case of AAC protected files that means burning a CD.
What he did is the equivalent of losing the CDs, that's all. You bought them, you didn't protect them, you lose them...
He simply does not know how to do searches and, like a lot of people, complains about the tool. He doesn't even realize how many searches are for shopping and price comparison. I think he should have study the problem a lot more before writing...
Or, put even more simply: Give people what they want, not what you want to give them.
In my, limited, experience this is almost always the wrong approach, people do not know what they want, they ignore there are options to the crap that Microsoft pushes on them. Sometimes showing something different makes them say... wow. Simplicity is a good principle, though.
This is my main beef with free software interfaces... They copy the windows interface which I think is very ugly
Invent your own or copy better interfaces, guys.
You have to know who to steal from...
Most people will never find out. They happily mix USB 1.1 with USB 2 devices reducing the speed of all devices in the change to that of USB 1.1...
Think Firewire... USB sucks.
After the dust settles in this suit and the one Apple vs. The Open Group (where Apple is claiming Unix has become a generic term), Unis shall be free...
And then a thousand flowers shall bloom!
There is a Windows Media Player for Mac and it's not a new thing...
Nope. The current version of Explorer for Mac is 5.2.2... Presumably 5.2.3 will come out on monday...
Yes. El Gato EyeTV is a DVR without a subscription plan... It needs a computer (I use it with my Mac). But that is actually an advantage since the show you record become more portable than a VHS tape. It can also record VCDs of the shows for archiving...
This shouldn't surprise many people, but as far as I know, Orlowski is full of crap. Again. If Google didn't find that blogs improved the results (and I don't know, I would assume they test these things, like, constantly), do you suppose they'd increase the frequency at which they crawl them, or decrease it? Yes, that's what I think.
Even better, with Watson from Karelia Software, you can use EyeTV anywhere in the world (well, you neep the PAL version if the country uses that system). You can get TV listings from the Watson channel and automagically program EyeTV with just one click... It's great!...
I thought the Music industry already had the best copy Protection available...
Make crappy music so nobody wants to copy it...
Clearly, Arista is a leader on that field. Further protection is redundant...
I have noooo idea...
But that's not the important quesstion. The important question is if Firewire is fast enough...
It is certainly fast enough for external hard drives... How much info passes from a CPU to a BUS? How fast is that?
I don't know. I'm just saying that most Mac users can't use a PCI card...
That's why I said most instead of all...
Check Apple Sales, Powerbooks+iMacs outsell towers...
The problem is that most Macs sold today do not have a PCI Slot...
The right idea would be a small box with an Intel compatible CPU (transmeta? AMD? Not Intel, please), shraing verything with the Mac through a Firewire connectio... Would that be fast enough?
If it can be done in for about 300$, it could be a big hit...
If you account for all personal tastes, the percentage is 100%. Everything is kinky to someone...
No, the formula would depend on the algorithm to find the zeroes of the Zeta function. If that algorithm turns out to be hard the Riemann hypothesis won't help you factorize primes any faster... Though it will provide better understanding of how primes are distributed...
We, Venezuelans, do have the Maana concept... It doesn't translate as "tomorrow", but as "not today". As in President Chvez will step down tomorrow.
Is just that the concept of tomorrow doesn't have the urgency here you guys give to it...
I can post thru email... My mobile phone can send email... I've been able to post from my phone to my weblog since last year...
What's the big deal?
No, it is not. As a matter of fact, any spammer could do it. That is why you have to use filters... The idea that law will protect against this is as stupid as Micro$oft copy protection schemes. Everybody has to realize that the internet includes all of the world. There are countries were laws ar meaningless...
This is a consequence of Octavio's Theorem that states:
Given any slightly controversial topic about half of /. readers will be for it, the rest will be against
and don't forget the Lack of Internal COnsistency Corollary:
About a third of /. readers will hold both positions simultaneously without being troubled by the contradiction.
That's only done in the weak sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, etc.). In real intellectual stuff (Mathematics, Computer Science, etc.) use alphabetical order and no one gets listed for doing little, those just get thanks...
The article is misleading. Listen, if everybody in the US toss their coins a few would get a large number 6 heads in a row (1 in a 64 chance). Yes, that is the law of large numbers at play. But if you have a coin and toss it six times and you get six heads, teh reasonable thing, ask any statistician, is to have the coin check for fairness... Coincidence happens, yes, but that doesn't mean you should just shrug your shoulder and ignore them...
The case of death related to biotechnology should be investigate. It may be a coincidence, but after the investigation you can get clues as to whether it is just that.
The book is good, but it's very hard to pass through the self propaganda, ego centric claims... The results are not that amazing. Though they are quite good. Pity Wolfram thought that by avoiding peer review he could inflate his results. Instead he is being ridiculed by lesser minds for saying silly things in a book that's too long and too much self advertising.
Read the book, with the clear idea that Wolfram is neither Newton, nor Darwin.
Instead of producing a revolution this book may delay it, as quacks start imitating Wolfram (who is, certainly, not a quack) approach to self publicize science. In 10 years this book will be forgotten...
I haven't read the book (already ordered it), but I have a bone to pick with it. The first thing that is new about it is that it avoids peer review prior to publication.
We all know that the best way to advance in an area of knowledge is by getting criticism to our new ideas. The reason to do so before publication is that any scientists know how easy it is to fool one self and tries to avoid it, not by asking a few friends to read our stuff, but by asking the biggest experts in the best magazines (or by posting for free in a web site so everybody gets a crack at it).
By failing to follow this procedure Dr. Wolfram has open himself up to criticism that his book is not a scientific enterprise, but a commercial one...
Disclosure: I am a mathematician...