The difference is that lots of people have 5-10GB of MP3s now and want to rip every CD they buy, whether or not they share. Music is much easier to use once ripped; video isn't, at least to the same extent.
If a CD won't rip to MP3 I won't buy it, because I won't be able to listen to it the way I prefer to (on iPod). There are millions others like me.
by the menswear industry, which is fucked because people have figured out that they don't need to spend $500 on a suit to look professional. At least here in California dresscodes are dead, dead, dead.
Nobody uses Airfone because the cost is ridiculously high. The idea behind this project is to (a) offer service on a plane at a less ridiculous cost; and (b) to allow customers to receive calls in the air, which currently can only happen if you call Airfone, which is a major pain.
AT&T Wireless quit the airfone business because nobody uses it, and they tried to sell it but nobody was buying; hence the deactivation.
it's bad practice, and not a nice thing to do, to exclude the blind. but it's not illegal, since the ADA did not explicitly cover the web. that's the difference.
MPAA (or members thereof) will be happy that you bought the DVD player, because many of them are also members of DVD Forum and holders of patents, and therefore collectors of royalties.
RIAA (or members thereof) will be unhappy that you didn't buy their crippled CDs.
Of course some companies (e.g. AOL Time Warner) are members of both - and one distributes leading mp3 software (Nullsoft Winamp/Shoutcast).
Ditto. I use mine all the time, so as long as their subscription service pays for itself (how the fuck could it possibly not?!) I don't see them going anywhere.
Now as for some future HDTiVo, sure, that might require new equipment, service, etc. - if the HDTV/DTV switchover happens as scheduled in 2006 or later, which in my opinion will occur if/when pigs fly.
The Internet is a big tent and should be able to support many different models of operation ranging from highly protected information to completely open information.
Cerf's comments are pretty inscrutable, but I am inclined to think Cerf is on the wrong side of this issue, given that he is not standing up for users' ability to control their PCs.
It was around 1983 or so. The name "Datsun" was only used in North America, and so they changed it to Nissan to match the name used around the world. Sales dropped rapidly as the new name didn't have the same recognition as the old (remember the old Datsun 240Z) and it took some years to recover from this decision.
In Japanese, it means "Made in Japan." Other Japanese companies (e.g. Nissan Stainless) also use the name.
Now it's not the same word as that used on other products to mean "Made in Japan" (that word is kokusan, "made in our nation") but it is definitely somewhat generic.
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If a CD won't rip to MP3 I won't buy it, because I won't be able to listen to it the way I prefer to (on iPod). There are millions others like me.
Something's rotten in Denmark!
I want to make backup copies of my Certificates of Deposit! And then cash them all in.
by the menswear industry, which is fucked because people have figured out that they don't need to spend $500 on a suit to look professional. At least here in California dresscodes are dead, dead, dead.
Just make sure that you're showing your pictures, not your (um) pictures on the screensaver.
On the MSN thing: doesn't that guy look like The Tick - and just as ugly-as-sin?
Put 'em in your journal.
AT&T Wireless quit the airfone business because nobody uses it, and they tried to sell it but nobody was buying; hence the deactivation.
and it would be excessively amusing!
it's bad practice, and not a nice thing to do, to exclude the blind. but it's not illegal, since the ADA did not explicitly cover the web. that's the difference.
Washlet!
Bug? You might want to email the Editor or Sourceforge.
RIAA (or members thereof) will be unhappy that you didn't buy their crippled CDs.
Of course some companies (e.g. AOL Time Warner) are members of both - and one distributes leading mp3 software (Nullsoft Winamp/Shoutcast).
HTH, HAND.
it will be like Digital TV, whose five or six current viewers are now wondering where all those promised signals are.
Fluorescent pants are still optional, except for you.
*BSD is.
Now as for some future HDTiVo, sure, that might require new equipment, service, etc. - if the HDTV/DTV switchover happens as scheduled in 2006 or later, which in my opinion will occur if/when pigs fly.
Why? Credit cards work fine.
or logging into a computer network over the unsecured Internet
Yes. SecurID works like a charm.
So what's the need for something new that will surely add cost and reduce anonymity? I don't see it.
I think you mean the People's Republic of China, though your argument applies as well to the ROC, which is Taiwan.
Cerf's comments are pretty inscrutable, but I am inclined to think Cerf is on the wrong side of this issue, given that he is not standing up for users' ability to control their PCs.
It was around 1983 or so. The name "Datsun" was only used in North America, and so they changed it to Nissan to match the name used around the world. Sales dropped rapidly as the new name didn't have the same recognition as the old (remember the old Datsun 240Z) and it took some years to recover from this decision.
Now it's not the same word as that used on other products to mean "Made in Japan" (that word is kokusan, "made in our nation") but it is definitely somewhat generic.
the server gets wiped out.
Where's your car? With that attitude I'm sure you'd be happy to let me spraypaint it.