Jobs has my vote just for his insight that DRM will fail, and his strong resolution to never integrate it into MacOS.
Can you link to the source of that information please? I may be behind the times, but I don't recall ever hearing and official statement regarding Apple's stance on DRM much less a "strong resolution to never integrate it into MacOS".
Please educate me because this would be the happiest news for awhile and the final piece of info to fully convince a few friends to not buy Windows machines as their next computers.
Could somebody please explain why somebody would willingly squint at a tiny screen, and peck at a tiny keyboard to type out some message, reminiscent of the days of the telegraph, instead of just dialing the same damn phone and, god forbid, actually *speak* to someone?
Here's a good reason: Have you ever ridden on a crowded train? Have you ever been to a movie theater? Have you ever been in a Library? Do you want to hear people yapping away on their phones in those places?
If you need to get a quick message out to someone or someone wants to get one out to you but doesn't want to disturb you or the others around you because they don't know if you are in a place like those mentioned above, then SMS/email is your friend (as common courtesy is a GOOD thing). Here in Japan, it is considered impolite to use your phone on the trains. Sure some people do, but it is not common at all. People tend to look out for each other.
And another thing. Everytime there is a story about a movie on Slashdot, there are a lot of posts about people who hate going to movies because of "some jerk with a cel-phone". Well, in Japan, EVERYONE has a mobile phone, and not once have I so much as even heard a phone go off in a movie theatre. Why? Common courtesy. We know how to use the Manner Mode on our phones here, and we know that it is incredibly rude to ruin someone else's movie experience.
But, if something is urgent, or the person who is trying communicate with you has no clue where you might be so doesn't know if it is OK to talk or not, SMS/email allows us to maintain common courtesy and communicate in such situations.
That is why we "willingly squint at a tiny screen, and peck at a tiny keyboard to type out some message, reminiscent of the days of the telegraph, instead of just dialing the same damn phone and, god forbid, actually *speak* to someone".
I hope I was able to successfully answer your question.
and typing kanji on those stupid little things is nuts..
You must be joking. Either that or you don't know Japanese very well. On these phones (i.e. the phones in Japan), it is quicker to type messages in Japanese (i.e. fewer keystrokes) and the messages tend to be shorter because of the bloat of the English language.
For example on a phone keypad:
English: "Let's meet at the station at 8:00." ==107 keystrokes
Japanese: 8ZzÉwÅïB == 45 keystrokes
BTW, you need to have Japanese encoding enabled to see that correctly. It is so much quicker to email in Japanese that I almost never email in English anymore on my phone.
And in Japan, using SMS/email makes a LOT of sense because in this country, most people are polite enough to not talk on their phones in places like trains and movie theaters. So, if you are on the train and your friend drops you a quick "DZH" ("Where are you now?") you can respond without bothering those around you. Of course, in this country, most people actually do care about bothering those around them. It is a good thing.
About the powerful desktop computers things, if you have been here, then you know full well that most Japanese apartments are the size of a saltines box (my own apartment included). Most people don't care enough to have a huge tower and monitor in their house when they mostly use their home computers for email, web-surfing, and maybe typing papers and letters and making greeting cards for New Year's. The don't need the power of a gaming machine because they use their Playstations to play games rather than their computers. Most people have to use computers at work and consider computers to be a work-only thing that they don't want to have at home.
As an iBook user (though I can only speak for myself) screen real estate is very limited and therefore a very precious resource. The iBook screen is only 1024x768, and though I try to target any web-pages I build to an 800x600 screen (because I like to have the extra space for other things), many people don't. So, web-browsing often requires a pretty big window.
IMHO, there is simply no room for a tray on the side of that window, especially if I want to interact with other programs. I feel that tabs, even though they take up precious vertical space, are a much better MDI (oh how happy I would be if the tab bar could be vertical, running down the left-side of the window...but I feel that the horizontal tab bar is more intuitive to use).
So, while a tray might seem like a great idea for users with high resolution screens, right now it seems like a huge part of Apple's market is laptop users, and unfortunately, our screens just don't have many pixels.
As far as tabs go, I wish Mozilla's tabs were a bit narrower and I wish I could shrink the font of the page titles to gain a few more precious lines back. Currently, I have found (for my browsing style) using the PinBall theme with icon only buttons gives me the most real-estate to work with.
But this is all just my own humble opinion, and I cannot speak for all iBook users. Cheers.:-)
But it's a while before we see a device like this replicate itself. That is the turning point.
Interesting. So, if it does come to this point, and can replicate itself under its own power (i.e. gathering the materials itself), could it be considered alive?
My biology is a little rusty, but this seems like a big step in the direction of being defined as alive:
(1). Organisms tend to be complex and highly organized. Chemicals found within their bodies are synthesized through metabolic processes into structures that have defined purposes. Cells and their various organelles are examples of such structures. Cells are also the basic functioning unit of life. Cells are often organized into organs to create higher levels of complexity and function.
(2). Living things have the ability to take energy from their environment and change it from one form to another. This energy is usually used to facilitate their growth and reproduction. We call the process that allows for this facilitation metabolism.
(3). Organisms tend to be homeostatic. In other words, they regulate their bodies and other internal structures to certain normal parameters.
(4). Living creatures respond to stimuli. Cues in their environment cause them to react through behavior, metabolism, and physiological change.
(5). Living things reproduce themselves by making copies of themselves. Reproduction can either be sexual or asexual. Sexual reproduction involves the fusing of haploid genetic material from two individuals. This process creates populations with much greater genetic diversity.
(6). Organisms tend to grow and develop. Growth involves the conversion of consumed materials into biomass, new individuals, and waste.
(7). Life adapts and evolves in step with external changes in the environment through mutation and natural selection. This process acts over relatively long periods of time.
If a device like this does come to the point where it can replicate itself, then it would seem to satisfy points 1, 2, 3, and 5 IMHO.
Who is going to play mad-scientist and program in 4, 6, and 7? Would such a device be "alive"? The lines will blur...
Posts like this one make me wish that some posts on/. could exceed the +5 limit. This hits the nail on the head.
I left the US about a year and a half ago (and if the current trends continue, I may never return), and now I am teaching English in Japan. My students often ask me what I think about what I think of North Korea developing nuclear weapons (as well as US vs. Iraq, the "War on Free^H^H^H^HTerror" and other things), and I usually tell them that I am not worried about North Korea. I am much more worried about what the number one manufacturer of nuclear weapons in the world is trying to do. They often ask me what Japan can do to improve its economy, and I usually tell them that Japan needs to get all of its eggs out of the US Economic basket and spread them around, so if that basket falls, not all of the eggs will break. They often ask me why I don't like the US and I usually respond by asking them why they aren't afraid of George W. Bush.
I know I am getting way off-topic here, but I'm in a ranty mood and I have karma to burn. I read recently (maybe a few weeks ago) in the Daily Yomiuri (a Japanese newspaper) that President(emperor?) Bush wanted to reserve the right to pre-emptively use nuclear weapons against enemies he feels are a direct threat to the United States. Umm...hello...if that isn't the scariest thing you have heard in a long time then you are not listening. Of course, what do Americans think about nuclear weapons? Well, according to my sister (a school teacher in upstate New York...so take this with as much salt as you like), there was recently a poll in some paper (yeah, I know...how much more vague can I get) which stated that 80% of those polled said they would agree with and support an nuclear retaliatory attack on anyone who attacked (whether the poll specified nuclear or not, I don't know) the US.
Ok, so, now I am off topic, quoting unreliable sources, and not backing up anything I am saying...goodbye karma, I knew you well...but honestly, I am becoming very afraid of the position that the US federal government is trying to take within and outside of its own borders. And living in the only country in the world to ever be attacked with a nuclear weapon has helped me put a different perspective on things.
If President Bush gets re-elected, how long before he "dissolves the imperial senate" so to speak? Will the ACLU and the EFF be enough of a "rebel alliance" to restore peace, or will we find out how Star Wars could have ended? (sorry for the Star Wars references, but Bush reminds me so much of Palpatine)
Ok...sorry for the rant. I usually don't but this has been sitting inside for a long time. Feel free to mod me down through the floor boards, but mod the parent up...I think I'll just start sending my students to that post.
So...it is pointless because you folks over in the states can't use it? Gimme a break...
In the country where this is being marketed, there is already an "actual 3G network" in place, so this isn't pointless technology. I am currently a DoCoMo customer who happens to be in the market for a new phone, and I must say, I am quite excited about this. It will be nice to have the media that my phone uses play nicely with my iBook, unlike the format that J-Phone uses, which if sent to a computer, can only be viewed on a PC.
And this technology is not entirely useless in the US. My family happens to live there, and with this, I will be able to send them quicktime movies from my phone...sure, it is a novelty, but it sounds good to me.:D
Hell, I wish Mozilla would put up a dialog that says "oops, this site uses pop-ups, stay the fuck away". Then everybody wins!
Hrmmm...a window that appears on my screen to give me some information that I have to click on before it goes away...
Wait! This gives me a great idea for a new advertising scheme! I think I'll call them "put up" ads!!! I'll make millions!!:D
Heh...just kidding. Actually, I am quite happy w/ Mozilla just blocking the pop-ups. I would probably be kind of annoyed if everytime I came to a site which uses pop-ups (which I don't see anyway because they are blocked) a dialoge popped up at me asking me if I want to block that site. The cookie one is annoying enough as it is for me. But I put up with that one because I want to know what sites are trying to put on my computer.
Much, much more secure. The use of a cellphone allows my location to be tracked. Currently, it can be tracked within a few miles. Soon, by a new FCC regulation ostensibly for E911 purposes, my location will be tracked within a few yards.
Uhm...correct me if I am wrong, but if you are using a Landline, can they not find your exact location w/in a few tens of centimeters, depending on the length of the cord from the hand-set to the base.
Of course, if you are using a cordless phone, it may be more difficult for them to find your exact location...that is, unless you ever need to use the base to recharge the phone.
I believe the iTunes Library file itself is quite small. Surely small enough to not make a dent on a multi-gig drive.
My "iTunes 3 Music Library" (which is an iTunes Database File) weighs in at 2.5MB and my "iTunes Music Library.xml" file weighs in at 2.9MB, and those are for a library of (currently) 1886 songs (7.7GB).
So, at worst, you might have to leave out 2 or 3.mp3 files if you want to store your library file on the iPod...
Though I am still unclear on exactly why you would want to...
This is still the X11 version. Sure, it'll be nice to try it, but it won't have Mac look and feel, and certainly won't obey the Human Interface Guidelines yet.
I know the Apple HIG are meant to guide people developing Macintosh software, but why don't more developer's use them to help when designing GUI based software regardless of the platform?
IMHO, Apple knows what they are talking about when it comes designing an interface, so the HIG seem to be a great resource for anyone to use.So, any of you programmers for windows and *nix pay any attention to them?
A lot of people talk about trying to get linux on the desktop and how to do it...call me crazy but perhaps if developers kept the HIG in mind it would push things forward quite a bit as far as linux usability goes...
note: I am not saying the HIG must be followed to the letter but it seems like it would be a great starting point for developers of any GUI based software...
Any thoughts on this? Can the HIG be a valuable resource for anyone?
I'd be willing to bet that you don't call Mac OS X "Mach", though that's the kernel it uses, and is a shorter name.
Well, I don't say that because the kernel being used is officially called "Darwin".
But, I am pretty sure that I am not the only one who refers to a lot of the CLI and XFree86 software capable of running on that kernel (including a lot of GNU stuff) as being OK for Darwin/MacOS X.
But this is just my humble opinion and IANAProgrammer but only a user, so take what I say w/ whatever amount of salt you require to make it taste acceptable.
My point is that Apple has made an error here by forcing one to boot into OSX. I don't want to do that. Why should I have to do that? Why will I have to change my bootloader and dump OSX off my machine? Why don't I have a choice if I am technically challanged?
I'm sorry to tell you this, but Apple is not forcing you to boot into OS X. As a Mac user, you still have the choice to continue using your current system if it is serving you well. As a Mac user, you should know full well that the latest, greatest, and fastest doesn't always equal the best, or you would be using a 2.8GHz P4 right now.
No one is forcing you to buy a new mac, and if your machine is good enough for you to do what you are doing now (which I assume to be digital music based on the amount of audio stuff you put in your post) then why should that change. Assuming you are making music, then what is wrong with your system now that you can't keep using it the same way you have been until everything you need is there for OS X and you feel like buying a new machine?
Remember...all Apple is doing here is updating their hardware and not updating their legacy software to support it. Should they have to? Should Microsoft have to update Win95 to run on the latest hardware (which is meant for WinXP)? IMHO, no.
So, my advice to you is to stick with what is working perfectly for you right now, let Apple build their future, and when everything you need is in place, you can join them in that future (or stay where you are, or switch to a different platform)...see? You have a lot of choices.;-)
The individual files are as large as 700 megabytes and can take as long as two hours to download even over high-speed broadband connections. They contain digital locks that prevent the files from being copied. The license expires after 24 hours, rendering the file useless unless the license is renewed.
Emphasis mine. Have these wonderful "digital locks" already been broken? If not, then it will take some effort to copy these files, which would make me think that the average user won't be doing it.
Strangely enough, I actually don't mind the use of DRM in this situation. It is basically an online video rental shop (remember when most video stores were only one day rentals?). Just as it was supposed to be difficult (too difficult to be worthwhile) to copy video tapes, it is supposed to be too difficult to be worthwhile to copy these files.
Sure the determined user will probably find away around this, just as people defeated macrovision, and sure it will become easy, just as dual-deck VCRs made copying videos easy. But, even though it is possible to copy the videos that you rent from the shop, most people don't. Perhaps it will be the same with this system.
Perhaps this is actually a viable business model for DRM.
Note: I only say this is viable from the "video rental" standpoint. I do not and will not agree with the DRM-ing of anything I buy. Cheers.:-)
I actually didn't clik on your link lest this would add to my company unauthorized access log record...
(or lest this'd lead to some goatse thing which is probably not the case;-)
Heh...well, it isn't...but I'm sure I could hunt up the Google cache for it if you want.;)
Anyway, you aren't missing much by not seeing the images. The top is just the EFF logo. Then, under "EFF Needs You", the first is kind of a funky looking shiny side of a CD, and the Second is Sen. Hollings on a cartoonish TV set. On the right is a small b&w of Larry Lessig and below that the Tinsel Town Club logo.
This is about software piracy or violating license agreements.
No really. It is not possible to legally get a free copy of iDVD without the purchase of a Super-Drive equipped Macintosh. You cannot download it for free off of Apple's servers. Of course, you can buy it from the Apple Store but if you notice the system requirements, it says
* Any Power Macintosh G4 or G4 iMac equipped with a built-in Apple SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW drive).
So, Apple has it spelled out pretty clearly (IMHO, and I am willing to bet that it is also somewhere in the EULA but perhaps not as clearly...any iDVD owners wish to clarify?) that iDVD is only for use with a super-drive equipped Macintosh.
Now, is this a DMCA issue? It probably shouldn't have been. I would bet that Apple could have probably just asked nicely* and Other World would have stopped...I base that on this quote:
O'Connor said his company values its close relationship with Apple--it's been a dealer since 1988--and backed down immediately. "No. 1, we don't want to get into a fight with Apple," O'Connor said Wednesday. "No. 2, we're an Apple certified developer. We're not out there to offend Apple."
IMHO, Apple is not in the wrong here as far as protecting themselves. But they probably shouldn't have used the DMCA to do it. They could have probably done it much more gracefully and in a way that wouldn't piss off the/. crowd.
*of course, I am often a naive fool, so maybe asking nicely wouldn't have worked in the real world...
Typing in English on a phone keypad is definitely a lot of trouble. But, in Japanese, it can be fairly quick and efficient (granted, it isn't as quick as a computer keyboard).
During my first several months here in Japan, when my phone was my only contact to the outside world (went 8 months w/out internet), I eventually gave up emailing my family and friends in English, but instead would email my Mom in Japanese (one of her co-workers would translate) because it was taking 10-20 minutes to type a message in English that would only take 2-5 minutes in Japanese.
Anyway, compared to the offerings on phones here in Japan, that phone doesn't seem like much...not to mention it is huge. Of course, I don't really have much use for a walkie-talkie so this kind of thing isn't really for me.
Slashdot Mirror
So, where should the balance be?
Please educate me because this would be the happiest news for awhile and the final piece of info to fully convince a few friends to not buy Windows machines as their next computers.
Cheers. :)
If you need to get a quick message out to someone or someone wants to get one out to you but doesn't want to disturb you or the others around you because they don't know if you are in a place like those mentioned above, then SMS/email is your friend (as common courtesy is a GOOD thing). Here in Japan, it is considered impolite to use your phone on the trains. Sure some people do, but it is not common at all. People tend to look out for each other.
And another thing. Everytime there is a story about a movie on Slashdot, there are a lot of posts about people who hate going to movies because of "some jerk with a cel-phone". Well, in Japan, EVERYONE has a mobile phone, and not once have I so much as even heard a phone go off in a movie theatre. Why? Common courtesy. We know how to use the Manner Mode on our phones here, and we know that it is incredibly rude to ruin someone else's movie experience.
But, if something is urgent, or the person who is trying communicate with you has no clue where you might be so doesn't know if it is OK to talk or not, SMS/email allows us to maintain common courtesy and communicate in such situations.
That is why we "willingly squint at a tiny screen, and peck at a tiny keyboard to type out some message, reminiscent of the days of the telegraph, instead of just dialing the same damn phone and, god forbid, actually *speak* to someone".
I hope I was able to successfully answer your question.
For example on a phone keypad:
English: "Let's meet at the station at 8:00." ==107 keystrokes
Japanese: 8ZzÉwÅïB == 45 keystrokes
BTW, you need to have Japanese encoding enabled to see that correctly. It is so much quicker to email in Japanese that I almost never email in English anymore on my phone.
And in Japan, using SMS/email makes a LOT of sense because in this country, most people are polite enough to not talk on their phones in places like trains and movie theaters. So, if you are on the train and your friend drops you a quick "DZH" ("Where are you now?") you can respond without bothering those around you. Of course, in this country, most people actually do care about bothering those around them. It is a good thing.
About the powerful desktop computers things, if you have been here, then you know full well that most Japanese apartments are the size of a saltines box (my own apartment included). Most people don't care enough to have a huge tower and monitor in their house when they mostly use their home computers for email, web-surfing, and maybe typing papers and letters and making greeting cards for New Year's. The don't need the power of a gaming machine because they use their Playstations to play games rather than their computers. Most people have to use computers at work and consider computers to be a work-only thing that they don't want to have at home.
Just my two yen.
IMHO, there is simply no room for a tray on the side of that window, especially if I want to interact with other programs. I feel that tabs, even though they take up precious vertical space, are a much better MDI (oh how happy I would be if the tab bar could be vertical, running down the left-side of the window...but I feel that the horizontal tab bar is more intuitive to use).
So, while a tray might seem like a great idea for users with high resolution screens, right now it seems like a huge part of Apple's market is laptop users, and unfortunately, our screens just don't have many pixels.
As far as tabs go, I wish Mozilla's tabs were a bit narrower and I wish I could shrink the font of the page titles to gain a few more precious lines back. Currently, I have found (for my browsing style) using the PinBall theme with icon only buttons gives me the most real-estate to work with.
But this is all just my own humble opinion, and I cannot speak for all iBook users. Cheers. :-)
My biology is a little rusty, but this seems like a big step in the direction of being defined as alive:
from http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/contents/9a.htm l
If a device like this does come to the point where it can replicate itself, then it would seem to satisfy points 1, 2, 3, and 5 IMHO.Who is going to play mad-scientist and program in 4, 6, and 7? Would such a device be "alive"? The lines will blur...
Just some rampant speculation...cheers. :-)
Blue! no, yelLOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWAAAAAAAHHHH!!!
ok...so I watch too much Monty Python...
"And what, apart from wood, also floats on water?"
"Apples!"
"Gravy!"
"Very small rocks!"
"Churches! Churches!"
"A DUCK!"
"Precisely. So..."
"...if she...ways the same as a duck...then she's made of wood..."
"And, therefore..."
"a WITCH!!!!"
I left the US about a year and a half ago (and if the current trends continue, I may never return), and now I am teaching English in Japan. My students often ask me what I think about what I think of North Korea developing nuclear weapons (as well as US vs. Iraq, the "War on Free^H^H^H^HTerror" and other things), and I usually tell them that I am not worried about North Korea. I am much more worried about what the number one manufacturer of nuclear weapons in the world is trying to do. They often ask me what Japan can do to improve its economy, and I usually tell them that Japan needs to get all of its eggs out of the US Economic basket and spread them around, so if that basket falls, not all of the eggs will break. They often ask me why I don't like the US and I usually respond by asking them why they aren't afraid of George W. Bush.
I know I am getting way off-topic here, but I'm in a ranty mood and I have karma to burn. I read recently (maybe a few weeks ago) in the Daily Yomiuri (a Japanese newspaper) that President(emperor?) Bush wanted to reserve the right to pre-emptively use nuclear weapons against enemies he feels are a direct threat to the United States. Umm...hello...if that isn't the scariest thing you have heard in a long time then you are not listening. Of course, what do Americans think about nuclear weapons? Well, according to my sister (a school teacher in upstate New York...so take this with as much salt as you like), there was recently a poll in some paper (yeah, I know...how much more vague can I get) which stated that 80% of those polled said they would agree with and support an nuclear retaliatory attack on anyone who attacked (whether the poll specified nuclear or not, I don't know) the US.
Ok, so, now I am off topic, quoting unreliable sources, and not backing up anything I am saying...goodbye karma, I knew you well...but honestly, I am becoming very afraid of the position that the US federal government is trying to take within and outside of its own borders. And living in the only country in the world to ever be attacked with a nuclear weapon has helped me put a different perspective on things.
If President Bush gets re-elected, how long before he "dissolves the imperial senate" so to speak? Will the ACLU and the EFF be enough of a "rebel alliance" to restore peace, or will we find out how Star Wars could have ended? (sorry for the Star Wars references, but Bush reminds me so much of Palpatine)
Ok...sorry for the rant. I usually don't but this has been sitting inside for a long time. Feel free to mod me down through the floor boards, but mod the parent up...I think I'll just start sending my students to that post.
Peace On Earth. Purity Of Essence. and all that.
nudge nudge knowwhatImean?
ok...bad joke...but I got karma to burn...
In the country where this is being marketed, there is already an "actual 3G network" in place, so this isn't pointless technology. I am currently a DoCoMo customer who happens to be in the market for a new phone, and I must say, I am quite excited about this. It will be nice to have the media that my phone uses play nicely with my iBook, unlike the format that J-Phone uses, which if sent to a computer, can only be viewed on a PC.
And this technology is not entirely useless in the US. My family happens to live there, and with this, I will be able to send them quicktime movies from my phone...sure, it is a novelty, but it sounds good to me. :D
Just my 2 yen.
No...I didn't really say that...go read some other comments or something.
oh, I'm so confused. ;)
Wait! This gives me a great idea for a new advertising scheme! I think I'll call them "put up" ads!!! I'll make millions!! :D
Heh...just kidding. Actually, I am quite happy w/ Mozilla just blocking the pop-ups. I would probably be kind of annoyed if everytime I came to a site which uses pop-ups (which I don't see anyway because they are blocked) a dialoge popped up at me asking me if I want to block that site. The cookie one is annoying enough as it is for me. But I put up with that one because I want to know what sites are trying to put on my computer.
Just MHO...cheers. :)
Of course, if you are using a cordless phone, it may be more difficult for them to find your exact location...that is, unless you ever need to use the base to recharge the phone.
Just a thought.
So, at worst, you might have to leave out 2 or 3 .mp3 files if you want to store your library file on the iPod...
Though I am still unclear on exactly why you would want to...
IMHO, Apple knows what they are talking about when it comes designing an interface, so the HIG seem to be a great resource for anyone to use.So, any of you programmers for windows and *nix pay any attention to them?
A lot of people talk about trying to get linux on the desktop and how to do it...call me crazy but perhaps if developers kept the HIG in mind it would push things forward quite a bit as far as linux usability goes...
note: I am not saying the HIG must be followed to the letter but it seems like it would be a great starting point for developers of any GUI based software...
Any thoughts on this? Can the HIG be a valuable resource for anyone?
But, I am pretty sure that I am not the only one who refers to a lot of the CLI and XFree86 software capable of running on that kernel (including a lot of GNU stuff) as being OK for Darwin/MacOS X.
But this is just my humble opinion and IANAProgrammer but only a user, so take what I say w/ whatever amount of salt you require to make it taste acceptable.
No one is forcing you to buy a new mac, and if your machine is good enough for you to do what you are doing now (which I assume to be digital music based on the amount of audio stuff you put in your post) then why should that change. Assuming you are making music, then what is wrong with your system now that you can't keep using it the same way you have been until everything you need is there for OS X and you feel like buying a new machine?
Remember...all Apple is doing here is updating their hardware and not updating their legacy software to support it. Should they have to? Should Microsoft have to update Win95 to run on the latest hardware (which is meant for WinXP)? IMHO, no.
So, my advice to you is to stick with what is working perfectly for you right now, let Apple build their future, and when everything you need is in place, you can join them in that future (or stay where you are, or switch to a different platform)...see? You have a lot of choices. ;-)
Cheers. :-)
Strangely enough, I actually don't mind the use of DRM in this situation. It is basically an online video rental shop (remember when most video stores were only one day rentals?). Just as it was supposed to be difficult (too difficult to be worthwhile) to copy video tapes, it is supposed to be too difficult to be worthwhile to copy these files.
Sure the determined user will probably find away around this, just as people defeated macrovision, and sure it will become easy, just as dual-deck VCRs made copying videos easy. But, even though it is possible to copy the videos that you rent from the shop, most people don't. Perhaps it will be the same with this system.
Perhaps this is actually a viable business model for DRM.
Note: I only say this is viable from the "video rental" standpoint. I do not and will not agree with the DRM-ing of anything I buy. Cheers. :-)
Anyway, you aren't missing much by not seeing the images. The top is just the EFF logo. Then, under "EFF Needs You", the first is kind of a funky looking shiny side of a CD, and the Second is Sen. Hollings on a cartoonish TV set. On the right is a small b&w of Larry Lessig and below that the Tinsel Town Club logo.
Cheers. :)
Google Cache of the EFF main page
Hope this helps. Cheers. :-)
No really. It is not possible to legally get a free copy of iDVD without the purchase of a Super-Drive equipped Macintosh. You cannot download it for free off of Apple's servers. Of course, you can buy it from the Apple Store but if you notice the system requirements, it says
So, Apple has it spelled out pretty clearly (IMHO, and I am willing to bet that it is also somewhere in the EULA but perhaps not as clearly...any iDVD owners wish to clarify?) that iDVD is only for use with a super-drive equipped Macintosh.Now, is this a DMCA issue? It probably shouldn't have been. I would bet that Apple could have probably just asked nicely* and Other World would have stopped...I base that on this quote:
IMHO, Apple is not in the wrong here as far as protecting themselves. But they probably shouldn't have used the DMCA to do it. They could have probably done it much more gracefully and in a way that wouldn't piss off the*of course, I am often a naive fool, so maybe asking nicely wouldn't have worked in the real world...
Cheers. :)
Of course, there is definitely some "Steve" in that name as well, eh? ;-)
During my first several months here in Japan, when my phone was my only contact to the outside world (went 8 months w/out internet), I eventually gave up emailing my family and friends in English, but instead would email my Mom in Japanese (one of her co-workers would translate) because it was taking 10-20 minutes to type a message in English that would only take 2-5 minutes in Japanese.
Anyway, compared to the offerings on phones here in Japan, that phone doesn't seem like much...not to mention it is huge. Of course, I don't really have much use for a walkie-talkie so this kind of thing isn't really for me.
Cheers. :)