What a horrible name. Did they get the name consultants from the bargain bin? (Maybe the consultants who briefly brought us "Monday" as the future IBM consulting?)
Not because the app is crap - it's probably fine - but because of all the rock & roll clip-art that will begin to seep out onto the airwaves and P2P networks of the modern world.
Think "Mr. Tambourine Man" by Shatner is bad? Just wait for the version by pudge!
but also RMS' beard. Send the Fab Five to do something about it!
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Frankly this is of little interest to anyone who is not a Macintosh programmer
Not entirely. Users of Microsoft Excel across Mac and Windows platforms at least used to have to compensate for the 1904 (Mac) or 1900 (Win) date systems when copying data. It was a major pain to always have to add or subtract 1462 days to get the dates to work properly.
If the new standard is that much better, even the studios will have to respond to consumer demand. That's the studios' story - that they won't release without copy protection - yet 20 years of CD audio has proven that when the superior format is unprotected the content providers have to suck it up and take it.
media player manufacturers can't sell their hardware
The vast majority of DVD devices are made in China now. Perhaps Apex includes CN-HD-DVD (or whatever it's called) in the next version at some very low additional cost - maybe $20 more than the $20 it will cost for a basic one (think of $29 DVD players at Wal-Mart this year). Even if it sells first in China, it will eventually make its way here - in the same way that all DVD players play VCDs even though they are not standard here. Then once they have tons of players already installed, Hollywood will have no choice but to release movies this way or be beaten by the pirates.
While it sucks, it's not so bad. Opt-out can be automated, and reporting of continued spams from opted-out spammers to the FTC could be automated as well. I bet the guys behind the excellent spam filters in Apple's mail.app (for example) could come up with a way to do that.
Yes. But the best thing they can do is have a talkfest accomplishing nothing, like all the other UN world summits. As long as they issue some bland communique talking about how we need to make technology better for the children, that is fine. If the ITU tries to take over the internet, the US needs to shitcan that treaty faster than Kyoto.
(If they don't like the internet, they can always build their own. I hear Minitel is a nice technology built by an ITU member.)
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What a horrible name. Did they get the name consultants from the bargain bin? (Maybe the consultants who briefly brought us "Monday" as the future IBM consulting?)
Not because the app is crap - it's probably fine - but because of all the rock & roll clip-art that will begin to seep out onto the airwaves and P2P networks of the modern world.
Think "Mr. Tambourine Man" by Shatner is bad? Just wait for the version by pudge!
but also RMS' beard. Send the Fab Five to do something about it!
Not entirely. Users of Microsoft Excel across Mac and Windows platforms at least used to have to compensate for the 1904 (Mac) or 1900 (Win) date systems when copying data. It was a major pain to always have to add or subtract 1462 days to get the dates to work properly.
media player manufacturers can't sell their hardware
The vast majority of DVD devices are made in China now. Perhaps Apex includes CN-HD-DVD (or whatever it's called) in the next version at some very low additional cost - maybe $20 more than the $20 it will cost for a basic one (think of $29 DVD players at Wal-Mart this year). Even if it sells first in China, it will eventually make its way here - in the same way that all DVD players play VCDs even though they are not standard here. Then once they have tons of players already installed, Hollywood will have no choice but to release movies this way or be beaten by the pirates.
Go China! Down with the DVD cartel!
Yes, 640,000 songs ought to be enough for anyone, at least at this point.
my iPod, ordered the day it was announced, still works perfectly. Knock on scratched Lucite.
I had one of those in my days in Japan. A lifesaver. Sadly mine has long since died.
You can run over a Windows laptop very effectively with a Pontiac Firebird. (Unless it's a Toughbook, of course.)
No, the teetotalers write the alcohol laws, which is why 18 year olds can die for their country but can't legally have a drink.
While it sucks, it's not so bad. Opt-out can be automated, and reporting of continued spams from opted-out spammers to the FTC could be automated as well. I bet the guys behind the excellent spam filters in Apple's mail.app (for example) could come up with a way to do that.
Um, use the wrong file, and you can wind up emailing the collected works of Led Zeppelin to your whole address book.
You'd think people would think carefully before compiling code belonging to others.
As in "Science Fiction, Double"? Kind of old-school for slashdot, don't you think?
Yes it is!
Just release them into Lake Tahoe on the Nevada side. Of course they will freeze to death, but that is a different issue.
Hard drives for prescription drugs!
Of course, in California, we feed them to the bears. Not sure what happens in Maryland, though - can't be pretty.
I demand a spear through the heart! (Delivered by a bare breasted maiden, of course.)
First they claim they own Linux, and now DOS! What's next, CP/M?
as in, better ability for the CCP to spy on dissidents, throw democrats in jail, and execute them, making the family pay for the bullet? No thanks.
Getting YOU FAIL IT! instead of first.
And that has what, exactly, to do with the ITU's attempted (and probably failed before it starts) internet power grab?
(If they don't like the internet, they can always build their own. I hear Minitel is a nice technology built by an ITU member.)
Use MPlayer or VideoLan Client.
He did eat his column afterwards.