Sure, but it doesn't do all that a product can do. It's a nice simple solution, but with simplicity you lose the ability to do advanced things, such as:
Supports DVD Audio and Video formats using UDF (Universal Disk Format) * Supports data writes using UDF * Supports writing the CD Extra format * Supports writing of Video CDs * Direct CD to CD copy allows you to copy from any CD-ROM drive to your writer * Can cache Disc to Disc image file to hard disk prior to writing. * Supports disc verification after writing data discs * Supports mastering bootable CD-ROMs for Mac OS 9 * Allows true hybrid (HFS and ISO-9660) disc creation with HFS link to ISO partition for shared information * Multiple Orange book mastering modes including: Track-at-Once, Disc-at-Once, Multi-Session, and Multi-Volume * Supports ISO-9660 and ISO 9660 XA file formats with automatic and manual character conversion options * Firewire driver is iTunes and DiscBurner compatible and SDAP compliant, no need for multiple extensions sets to accomplish one task
I was reading Daily Variety a few days ago, and Valenti was quoted as saying that he almost left the MPAA over Oliver Stone's JFK, and the implication that LBJ was involved in the assasination.
He said that instead, Warner Bros. backed down and he chose to stay on with the MPAA.
Not only are legislative solutions being put forth, but technological ones are being used as well.
I own the Epson 777i. It's cartridges have a memory unit on them that stores how much ink they have. You can refill them as much as you like, but the printer will not allow you to use the cartridges because they remember that they're empty.
The only way around this is to put new cartridges in the printer, get the printer to release the cartridges and sneak the refilled ones in, fooling the printer into accepting the refilled cartridges. It then re-writes the memory on the cartridges as full.
Thankfully, cartridge memory isn't an access control for a copyrighted media, or I'd be in violation of the DMCA.
I am using SMB but not in conjunction with an iPod. I haven't tried dropping a folder of music files onto the iPod from an SMB-accessed share.
In all other respects, SMB is working great for me, but this is one I'll have to try. Sorry to hear it isn't successful for you-- I'm going to see if I can't replicate the problem, myself.
Funny,
I have EphPod working on a WinNT 4/sp6 machine, and have MediaFour's Xplay working on a win2k box. (Still waiting for development to firm up a bit on linux communications).
As for iTunes management, that's only if you have it be the primary machine. You can move music around without having to have it on the machine first.
Go to MetaMage.com and get EscapePod to move mp3s off the iPod to iTunes.
Because, it isn't primarily about privacy or Free Speech. It's about the doctrine of Fair Use (17 USC 107) and the doctrine of First Sale (the notion that once something has been sold, the buyer can do as he pleases with the bought item.)
Gateway wants to retain the freedom to manufacture computers as it pleases. It sees this as potentially hurting their sales when buyers no longer want computers that restrict a buyer's possible uses for the machine.
Buyers are the prize in one sense, but the greater prize is "who gets to keep and protect their business model" - the content companies, or the computer companies--
The Car doesn't have free will to stop running reliably if it doesn't like the divorcee who wins custody. The Buyer does.
In any case, once you decide that one site is offensive and should be de-listed, all sites are fair game, as all sites are offensive to somebody. Same goes for ad-words.
It is impossible for us to tell whether Teoma is technologically any better than Google, but if Google is going to remove links as possible results, then I expect they're crippling themselves and giving Teoma room to make that into an advantage for themselves.
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I don't believe I claimed that Teoma might be superior- I put forth the idea that Teoma might be worth using if they weren't spineless and indecisive like Google. Because the new Teoma isn't up at the time of this posting, it's a little hard to tell for certain.
Google is a fine search engine, but I much prefer the tools I use to not be influenced by what I consider to be poor politics and poor policies.
What next? France will ask Google to remove any links for neo-Nazi or pro-Nazi sites? Sites that detail history regarding Nazi Germany in any fashion?
Censorship is a slippery slope.
How can I judge what are relevant search results if the search engine is censoring some of the valid results? Certainly, a search engine's job is to display only sites it finds relevant, but out and out censorship should play no role in that task.
1) if they don't cave into the demands of the Co$ and delist sites whose outlook on Co$ is less than positive.
2) if they don't refuse adverts on a very arbitrary basis: they refused non-positive Co$ ads, as well as ads from businesses that sell night vision scopes (and not firearms.)
see: http://www.politechbot.com/p-03325.html - google rejects ads from Co$ critics
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03260.html google rejects ads from firearm-related merchant, accepts SPAM-WARE advertiser.
Check your facts- registered mail requires no signature at all.
Signature confirmation, does. There are two levels of signature confirmation, one where the recipient is simply required to sign for it, and the other where the sender actually gets a postcard with the signature on it returned to him.
Registered, Certified, and Insured all require no signatures at all, period. Geez, ask your postman!
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MS increased it's PAC budget from $16,000 in 1995 to $1.6 Million in 2000, according to Edward Roeder, founder of Sunshine Press Services, an agency devoted to investigating money in politics.
So, yes, they did donate to campaigns prior to 1999-2000, but it was a pittance compared to more recent years.
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It appears that Hollywood and Congress in their ignorance are demanding solutions in the name of copy protection.
It also appears that they are shouting down anyone who objects as enabling criminal activities.
Tech Industry players don't want to be seen as supporting criminals, and don't have the guts to stand up for enabling the user (Other than Intel, who got beaten up for it)
So, in the name of not looking bad, and not getting more bad law, it is a foregone conclusion that we will have copy-protection- it's just a question of whether it will have force of industry, or force of law, behind it.
As much as I hate bought legislation, why didn't the Tech Industry buy off their own Congressmen to compete with this foolishness?
I know MS only started contributing to campaigns in the last presidential election, and they've already patented the DRM OS, and IBM stands on moral and ethical ground of not getting involved- Compaq and HP are too busy fighting to merge to get involved-
By the time they realize what they've lost it will be too late to turn the tide. At least Intel tried.
Do you want to point to documentation or some authoritative source that SHOWS that El Al does this?
I've flown many times with them as an American, and I think you're full of it. I've done their interviews and security checks, which all consisted of a few simple questions and seeing my passport when I checked in.
In fact, flying El Al is easier and less troublesome than any of the ineffective crap that has been instituted in the US since September.
I just received a letter from my senator, John Edwards (D-NC) on this very matter.
He says "Thanks for contacting me to share your thoughts on the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA.) I appreciate hearing from you."
"As you know, this legislation, which has not yet been officially introduced in the Senate, would prohibit the manufacture of digital devices which do not include government-sanctioned copyright-protection technologies. A number of people have expressed concerns that this proposed measure is overbroad and that its restrictions on the duplication and distribution of digital content could be harmful to the technology industry. I understand your concerns."
"As a member of the Commerce Committee and the Judiciary Committee, I will keep your thoughts in mind should the SSSCA or similar legislation come before the Senate. I will also continue to consider ways to improve our copyright and internet security laws so they better serve the public. Your letter will help me in that work."
"Again, thank you for contacting me. Please let me know if I can be of assistance in the future."
"Yours sincerely, John Edwards"
What scares me here is, the continued work to improve our copyright and internet security laws....
I went and scheduled a meeting with the manager, and then the second line manager (higher-up.) As a performance review.
I said I simply wanted to get some feedback on how they thought I was doing and how I could continue to meet their expectations.
I said I felt I was doing well at meeting my goals, but I wanted to make sure that I was doing all that I could, and wanted their opinions on my performance.
The first job I ever did this at, it was wonderful. I heard better things about myself than I could have guessed. This was at a small company.
The next time I did this, it was at a large multinational corporation. The manager brought my team leader into the meeting even though I hadn't wanted it. The team leader was a micromanager who changed my priorities daily, took away whatever I was working on and finished it himself, without giving feedback about what I was or wasn't doing, even when asked. So, he lit into a speech about how I managed to contribute no value to the team. (Despite other team members sending notes praising me to the manager. I was copied on those.)
I was given a chance to respond, and I fell for it- I showed clearly how every point was an unfair assessment. I won the battle, but lost the war. I've not been fired, but I do have weekly meetings with my manager now.
He gets good feedback via notes from my new team leader, and other members of the team. I tell him how I've met my deadlines, and what I'm working on next and when the deadline is for it. He nods and smiles and comes up with something esoteric to criticise, like, did I improve customer satisfaction this past week? To which I say, yes, I met my deadline and excelled at providing the customer with a better 'X'....
So, be careful, learn from my experiences. However, it does look good to be proactive and seek out ways- just be careful to not get ambushed as I did, and in doing so, don't get sucked into winning the battle...
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Sure, but it doesn't do all that a product can do. It's a nice simple solution, but with simplicity you lose the ability to do advanced things, such as:
Supports DVD Audio and Video formats using UDF (Universal Disk Format)
* Supports data writes using UDF
* Supports writing the CD Extra format
* Supports writing of Video CDs
* Direct CD to CD copy allows you to copy from any CD-ROM drive to your writer
* Can cache Disc to Disc image file to hard disk prior to writing.
* Supports disc verification after writing data discs
* Supports mastering bootable CD-ROMs for Mac OS 9
* Allows true hybrid (HFS and ISO-9660) disc creation with HFS link to ISO partition for shared information
* Multiple Orange book mastering modes including: Track-at-Once, Disc-at-Once, Multi-Session, and Multi-Volume
* Supports ISO-9660 and ISO 9660 XA file formats with automatic and manual character conversion options
* Firewire driver is iTunes and DiscBurner compatible and SDAP compliant, no need for multiple extensions sets to accomplish one task
The full sig:
A host is a host
from coast to coast
but no one uses the host that's close
unless the host that isn't close
is busy, hung, or dead.
Discribe for OS X is a great product- simple, does the job, without DRM hassles.
Even better-
I was reading Daily Variety a few days ago, and Valenti was quoted as saying that he almost left the MPAA over Oliver Stone's JFK, and the implication that LBJ was involved in the assasination.
He said that instead, Warner Bros. backed down and he chose to stay on with the MPAA.
Imagine if Warner had held their ground?
Not only are legislative solutions being put forth, but technological ones are being used as well.
I own the Epson 777i. It's cartridges have a memory unit on them that stores how much ink they have. You can refill them as much as you like, but the printer will not allow you to use the cartridges because they remember that they're empty.
The only way around this is to put new cartridges in the printer, get the printer to release the cartridges and sneak the refilled ones in, fooling the printer into accepting the refilled cartridges. It then re-writes the memory on the cartridges as full.
Thankfully, cartridge memory isn't an access control for a copyrighted media, or I'd be in violation of the DMCA.
I am using SMB but not in conjunction with an iPod. I haven't tried dropping a folder of music files onto the iPod from an SMB-accessed share.
In all other respects, SMB is working great for me, but this is one I'll have to try. Sorry to hear it isn't successful for you-- I'm going to see if I can't replicate the problem, myself.
Beg your pardon, I misunderstood your needs.
I have EphPod working on a WinNT 4/sp6 machine, and have MediaFour's Xplay working on a win2k box. (Still waiting for development to firm up a bit on linux communications).
As for iTunes management, that's only if you have it be the primary machine. You can move music around without having to have it on the machine first.
Go to MetaMage.com and get EscapePod to move mp3s off the iPod to iTunes.
Or, get iPod Free File Sync...
Or, get PodMaster...
So, there are a range of options you haven't tried to make managing your music a little more flexible.
Because, it isn't primarily about privacy or Free Speech. It's about the doctrine of Fair Use (17 USC 107) and the doctrine of First Sale (the notion that once something has been sold, the buyer can do as he pleases with the bought item.)
Gateway wants to retain the freedom to manufacture computers as it pleases. It sees this as potentially hurting their sales when buyers no longer want computers that restrict a buyer's possible uses for the machine.
Buyers are the prize in one sense, but the greater prize is "who gets to keep and protect their business model" - the content companies, or the computer companies--
The Car doesn't have free will to stop running reliably if it doesn't like the divorcee who wins custody. The Buyer does.
Dangit, hit submit instead of preview.
In any case, once you decide that one site is offensive and should be de-listed, all sites are fair game, as all sites are offensive to somebody.
Same goes for ad-words.
It is impossible for us to tell whether Teoma is technologically any better than Google, but if Google is going to remove links as possible results, then I expect they're crippling themselves and giving Teoma room to make that into an advantage for themselves.
I don't believe I claimed that Teoma might be superior- I put forth the idea that Teoma might be worth using if they weren't spineless and indecisive like Google. Because the new Teoma isn't up at the time of this posting, it's a little hard to tell for certain.
Google is a fine search engine, but I much prefer the tools I use to not be influenced by what I consider to be poor politics and poor policies.
What next? France will ask Google to remove any links for neo-Nazi or pro-Nazi sites? Sites that detail history regarding Nazi Germany in any fashion?
Censorship is a slippery slope.
How can I judge what are relevant search results if the search engine is censoring some of the valid results? Certainly, a search engine's job is to display only sites it finds relevant, but out and out censorship should play no role in that task.
Reasons why anyone should use Teoma over Google:
1) if they don't cave into the demands of the Co$ and delist sites whose outlook on Co$ is less than positive.
2) if they don't refuse adverts on a very arbitrary basis: they refused non-positive Co$ ads, as well as ads from businesses that sell night vision scopes (and not firearms.)
see:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03325.html - google rejects ads from Co$ critics
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03260.html
google rejects ads from firearm-related merchant, accepts SPAM-WARE advertiser.
Gee, thanks google!
The human body is a system.
A system is composed of multiple machines. A machine can be replaced, but only if it still fits within the context of the greater system.
The reverse is also true:
;-)
If the Mac is characterized as a graphical environment with easy to use productivity applications and applications for other common uses--
All PCs are Macs; some of them happen to be better implementations than others
Really?
A quick look at Apple's site shows that Windows is a supported OS for QuickTime Pro, so it must run on x86.
So, we're back to the $30 dinner.
I want to know where this country is- I'll consider moving.
Check your facts- registered mail requires no signature at all.
Signature confirmation, does. There are two levels of signature confirmation, one where the recipient is simply required to sign for it, and the other where the sender actually gets a postcard with the signature on it returned to him.
Registered, Certified, and Insured all require no signatures at all, period. Geez, ask your postman!
MS increased it's PAC budget from $16,000 in 1995 to $1.6 Million in 2000, according to Edward Roeder, founder of Sunshine Press Services, an agency devoted to investigating money in politics.
So, yes, they did donate to campaigns prior to 1999-2000, but it was a pittance compared to more recent years.
It appears that Hollywood and Congress in their ignorance are demanding solutions in the name of copy protection.
It also appears that they are shouting down anyone who objects as enabling criminal activities.
Tech Industry players don't want to be seen as supporting criminals, and don't have the guts to stand up for enabling the user (Other than Intel, who got beaten up for it)
So, in the name of not looking bad, and not getting more bad law, it is a foregone conclusion that we will have copy-protection- it's just a question of whether it will have force of industry, or force of law, behind it.
As much as I hate bought legislation, why didn't the Tech Industry buy off their own Congressmen to compete with this foolishness?
I know MS only started contributing to campaigns in the last presidential election, and they've already patented the DRM OS, and IBM stands on moral and ethical ground of not getting involved- Compaq and HP are too busy fighting to merge to get involved-
By the time they realize what they've lost it will be too late to turn the tide. At least Intel tried.
Do you want to point to documentation or some authoritative source that SHOWS that El Al does this?
I've flown many times with them as an American, and I think you're full of it. I've done their interviews and security checks, which all consisted of a few simple questions and seeing my passport when I checked in.
In fact, flying El Al is easier and less troublesome than any of the ineffective crap that has been instituted in the US since September.
Well, yes, and Palm knows it-
They've been sending me emails on their developer list for months about their next gen, ARM-based Palm device.
Incorrect-
On several occasions, Jesse Helms (R-NC) wrote me letters thanking me for my opinion, but that he wholly disagreed with me.
The last one I got with this sentiment was when I wrote protesting the extreme measures that Ashcroft asked for in USA PATRIOT.
Helms wrote that he sided with Ashcroft.
I just received a letter from my senator, John Edwards (D-NC) on this very matter.
He says "Thanks for contacting me to share your thoughts on the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA.) I appreciate hearing from you."
"As you know, this legislation, which has not yet been officially introduced in the Senate, would prohibit the manufacture of digital devices which do not include government-sanctioned copyright-protection technologies. A number of people have expressed concerns that this proposed measure is overbroad and that its restrictions on the duplication and distribution of digital content could be harmful to the technology industry. I understand your concerns."
"As a member of the Commerce Committee and the Judiciary Committee, I will keep your thoughts in mind should the SSSCA or similar legislation come before the Senate. I will also continue to consider ways to improve our copyright and internet security laws so they better serve the public. Your letter will help me in that work."
"Again, thank you for contacting me. Please let me know if I can be of assistance in the future."
"Yours sincerely, John Edwards"
What scares me here is, the continued work to improve our copyright and internet security laws....
Lessig was right in shaming us here in his Slashdot interview responses;
Am I the only one who declined to see LoTR and every other movie for the past year as a means of not giving money to the MPAA and its members?
Sure, you guys talk a tough fight when DMCA and De-CSS come up, but get a movie like LoTR, and you all go see it. No principles, the lot of you.
Phooey.
I went and scheduled a meeting with the manager, and then the second line manager (higher-up.) As a performance review.
I said I simply wanted to get some feedback on how they thought I was doing and how I could continue to meet their expectations.
I said I felt I was doing well at meeting my goals, but I wanted to make sure that I was doing all that I could, and wanted their opinions on my performance.
The first job I ever did this at, it was wonderful. I heard better things about myself than I could have guessed. This was at a small company.
The next time I did this, it was at a large multinational corporation. The manager brought my team leader into the meeting even though I hadn't wanted it. The team leader was a micromanager who changed my priorities daily, took away whatever I was working on and finished it himself, without giving feedback about what I was or wasn't doing, even when asked. So, he lit into a speech about how I managed to contribute no value to the team. (Despite other team members sending notes praising me to the manager. I was copied on those.)
I was given a chance to respond, and I fell for it- I showed clearly how every point was an unfair assessment. I won the battle, but lost the war. I've not been fired, but I do have weekly meetings with my manager now.
He gets good feedback via notes from my new team leader, and other members of the team. I tell him how I've met my deadlines, and what I'm working on next and when the deadline is for it. He nods and smiles and comes up with something esoteric to criticise, like, did I improve customer satisfaction this past week? To which I say, yes, I met my deadline and excelled at providing the customer with a better 'X'.
So, be careful, learn from my experiences. However, it does look good to be proactive and seek out ways- just be careful to not get ambushed as I did, and in doing so, don't get sucked into winning the battle...