The first step in ANY copyright infringement discussion should be for the owners to offer a way to automate the checking of their copyrights. Perhaps a "whois" of copyright owners... maybe "whoowns"; whatever. Short of this, I see these bills and their kin as nonstarters.
Instead of bribing our elected officials, spend that money creating a database of registered copyright owners, their content, dates covered, etc... and guilt these companies into checking against it. As a bonus to the rest of us, it would also be nice to see what content is no longer under copyright.
The reason I don't like Office is it's buggy, counter-intuitive and expensive. The same might be said for any Adobe app. If another company were to jump into this market, I'd be way more interested. IMHO, Apple is doing a pretty good job along these lines with iWork.
"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies -- 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'" ~ God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
"Only one of the three had ever worked in music retailing -- until that person moved to a new division in August and was replaced by someone who previously bought Wal-Mart's salty snacks"
I might pay $15 for a CD of the conversations between music retailers and Wal-mart's salty snack guy... sounds like a hoot!
Of course, if SCO is successful in getting any part of their requested $3Bn in damages from IBM, the payday to the lawyers would be much greater."
Yeah, but they'd still just be Satan's fluffers... they could really only brag about it to other lawyers.
Looks like just me and the author...
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I don't listen to the radio at all but it looks like I'm the odd man out on this one. And here I thought it was already basically dead. I have listened to NPR in the past and consider it to be the exception but other than that, radio is crap.
I guess all the pirated music doesn't find it's way into people's cars. Hmm... strange that...
I develop exclusively on my Mac. On OS X, I'm able to have PHP, MySQL and Apache running on my iBook, none of which run extremely well on a PC. I test my code and sites on a PC but I wouldn't develop on one. Windows has the worst text editors I've ever used. I've got BBedit and emacs on my machine.
It's always disturbing to me when I realize that a person or organization that is a SOSC (Sucker of Satan's Cock) turns out to be smarter and even more devious than I originally imagined.
I really hoped they were taking a blanket "fear all change" policy and would eventually choke on the very cock they were sucking.
Unfortunately, it seems they are privately taking full advantage of that which they publicly are not trying to kill but rather trying to control!
First, I don't use sharing software for music because: 1. I like whole albums 2. People suck at encoding 3. Too time consuming
Second, I believe the RIAA is more interested in making a big stink to position itself to have new laws passed that will generate even MORE money for them (taxes, etc...).
Third, to sell more CDs, produce GOOD music and lower CD prices. $17-20 is a crock. CDs should be $10. 'nuff said.
Sounds like she is still blaming you for her network problems and expected you to solve it even though you aren't there anymore. Pretty ballsy... Also, you don't mention if you were laid off, fired or just quit. That information would contribute to the "how burned you just got" question.
The SuperDrives are just plain old Pioneer DVR drives. You can get a Cheap SuperDrive for $254.49 here or keep checking DealMac.com for falling prices.
You should be able to slip this drive into a G4 in either it's available drive bay or by replacing your existing DVD/CDRW/Combo/CD with it. The only difficult part of installing a SuperDrives in an eMac would be getting the case apart and then back together. I haven't taken an eMac apart so I can't comment on it's ease but having taken many iMacs apart, I can tell you it's not super easy. If it's like the iMac, you'll have to get in there pretty far to get at the drive bay. The trick is to go slow, think about it and remember where all the screws came from!
If the thought of taking a machine apart and/or voiding your warranty makes you squeamish, you may be able to put the Pioneer DVR into a Piranha FireWire case for an extra $55. You should give them a call first and make sure this case can handle removable media drives and is fast enough for a DVR.
I've been looking at all the other browsers for OS X and they're getting really close. I really want to have one less M$ product on my beloved iBook. As good as the Mactopia group's software is, it's still Microsoft and I don't like the way they do business period. I look forward to getting rid of the last of it...
I almost never swap music files, not because I have some high moral or ethical nature, but because the quality of the MP3s I typically find are crap. That and I prefer entire albums.
That said, this bandwidth cap really pisses me off. I will be one of the offenders for sure just on my normal day to day activity. I do a lot of work from home as well as working on various web sites both of which require me to move a lot of large files around. I guess we can forget downloading a Linux ISO image and cut back on watching movie trailers...
No, I think this is a terrible idea and the last straw before switching back to DSL.
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The first step in ANY copyright infringement discussion should be for the owners to offer a way to automate the checking of their copyrights. Perhaps a "whois" of copyright owners... maybe "whoowns"; whatever. Short of this, I see these bills and their kin as nonstarters.
Instead of bribing our elected officials, spend that money creating a database of registered copyright owners, their content, dates covered, etc... and guilt these companies into checking against it. As a bonus to the rest of us, it would also be nice to see what content is no longer under copyright.
It was a pleasure to work for you...
The reason I don't like Office is it's buggy, counter-intuitive and expensive. The same might be said for any Adobe app. If another company were to jump into this market, I'd be way more interested. IMHO, Apple is doing a pretty good job along these lines with iWork.
"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies -- 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'" ~ God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Bill, you're on next...
"Only one of the three had ever worked in music retailing -- until that person moved to a new division in August and was replaced by someone who previously bought Wal-Mart's salty snacks"
I might pay $15 for a CD of the conversations between music retailers and Wal-mart's salty snack guy... sounds like a hoot!
Choose Print from the menu (or cmd-p) and then from the print dialog, click the "Save as PDF" button.
Oh wait, that's an OS X feature... never mind.
Write your own letter to your Congress Folks... but read this first!
In addition to everything else, iLife also contains about 2GBs of loops, instruments and sounds for use with GarageBand...
No matter what this M$ fluffer says, there is no way Apple will be supporting WMA.
Now some kind of on-the-fly conversion of WMAs to AAC? That is FAR more likely...
Of course, if SCO is successful in getting any part of their requested $3Bn in damages from IBM, the payday to the lawyers would be much greater."
Yeah, but they'd still just be Satan's fluffers... they could really only brag about it to other lawyers.
I don't listen to the radio at all but it looks like I'm the odd man out on this one. And here I thought it was already basically dead. I have listened to NPR in the past and consider it to be the exception but other than that, radio is crap.
I guess all the pirated music doesn't find it's way into people's cars. Hmm... strange that...
I've thought this about other posts but have always been able to stop myself from posting it...
This article is fucking stupid.
Sometimes the best article is no article.
After reading all the comments, it's clear that everyone thinks they know the right way to do things... and I thought it was only guitar players.
I guess he kind of misunderstood that one. Buying no; Bashing yes.
I develop exclusively on my Mac. On OS X, I'm able to have PHP, MySQL and Apache running on my iBook, none of which run extremely well on a PC. I test my code and sites on a PC but I wouldn't develop on one. Windows has the worst text editors I've ever used. I've got BBedit and emacs on my machine.
I think you all have it backwards...
It's always disturbing to me when I realize that a person or organization that is a SOSC (Sucker of Satan's Cock) turns out to be smarter and even more devious than I originally imagined.
I really hoped they were taking a blanket "fear all change" policy and would eventually choke on the very cock they were sucking.
Unfortunately, it seems they are privately taking full advantage of that which they publicly are not trying to kill but rather trying to control!
First, I don't use sharing software for music because:
1. I like whole albums
2. People suck at encoding
3. Too time consuming
Second, I believe the RIAA is more interested in making a big stink to position itself to have new laws passed that will generate even MORE money for them (taxes, etc...).
Third, to sell more CDs, produce GOOD music and lower CD prices. $17-20 is a crock. CDs should be $10. 'nuff said.
Lastly, the RIAA are evil annoying idiot fucks...
Sigh...
OS X Updates always kill PHP. I wish they would stop overwriting my httpd.conf and killing off my PHP setup.
Sounds like she is still blaming you for her network problems and expected you to solve it even though you aren't there anymore. Pretty ballsy... Also, you don't mention if you were laid off, fired or just quit. That information would contribute to the "how burned you just got" question.
Apple's Streaming Server does not just run on OS X! You can run Darwin Streaming Server (same features as QTSS) on Linux, Solaris and Windows 2000/NT.
You should be able to slip this drive into a G4 in either it's available drive bay or by replacing your existing DVD/CDRW/Combo/CD with it. The only difficult part of installing a SuperDrives in an eMac would be getting the case apart and then back together. I haven't taken an eMac apart so I can't comment on it's ease but having taken many iMacs apart, I can tell you it's not super easy. If it's like the iMac, you'll have to get in there pretty far to get at the drive bay. The trick is to go slow, think about it and remember where all the screws came from!
If the thought of taking a machine apart and/or voiding your warranty makes you squeamish, you may be able to put the Pioneer DVR into a Piranha FireWire case for an extra $55. You should give them a call first and make sure this case can handle removable media drives and is fast enough for a DVR.
to msn.com. Jackasses...
I've been looking at all the other browsers for OS X and they're getting really close. I really want to have one less M$ product on my beloved iBook. As good as the Mactopia group's software is, it's still Microsoft and I don't like the way they do business period. I look forward to getting rid of the last of it...
I wonder if this wouldn't be a great way to catch (and charge) people using their AT&T broadband connection to get free basic cable TV as well.
I almost never swap music files, not because I have some high moral or ethical nature, but because the quality of the MP3s I typically find are crap. That and I prefer entire albums.
That said, this bandwidth cap really pisses me off. I will be one of the offenders for sure just on my normal day to day activity. I do a lot of work from home as well as working on various web sites both of which require me to move a lot of large files around. I guess we can forget downloading a Linux ISO image and cut back on watching movie trailers...
No, I think this is a terrible idea and the last straw before switching back to DSL.