You're thinking of the Long-Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF). It stayed up for almost 6 years, well in excess of the design. There has been an amazing pile o' data compiled from this experiment.
That's what happens *now*, when you sell without Apple's involvement. There's no legal requirement for Apple to get into in the loop, and even though "it's all software," there's no reason that they'd charge less than a buck a song for the resale. Hence, the whole thing is moot.
If they deliberately attach the sold item to you, shouldn't they then provide you with the key to the padlock, so you can then sell the book?
They do. The key is your Apple ID and password, which also contain access to your credit card info. Why don't people get this? RTFA. Apple is saying that you are within your rights to re-sell an iTunes song, but that they cannot be responsible for what happens to your financial information once you deliberately release it.
The problem is that the songs from Apple come with measures to prevent resale.
This is just dead wrong. The fact is that the songs come with absolutely nothing to prevent resale, but they do come with measures that make resale extremely impractical and incredibly dumb. Palm Digital Media (formerly PeanutPress) e-books come the same way. The book is encrypted. The username is your name as it appears on your credit card. The password is your credit card number. You would have to be an absolute dolt to re-sell one of these books, but there's nothing preventing you from doing so.
(long, complicated technical description of ownership transfer mechanism to be carried out on Apple's servers)
And you think that this can be carried out for less than 99 cents? Please. The whole point is that Apple has lowered the financial bar, and raised the technological bar to a point where it's just not cost-effective to re-sell your iTunes music. Add to that the fact that you put your credit card info at risk in the transfer process, and you've got a perfect model. Sure it's legal, but *why* would you want to do it?
Right now I've come up with a couple ways that the transfer of ownership could take place.
It's simple. I've already moved an iTunes purchase to a second computer. You just have to enter your Apple ID and password on the second Mac to authorize it. Now, here's the fun part: once somebody has your Apple ID and password, he can go hog-wild at the Apple Store online, buy anything he wants, and it will be charged to your credit card. This includes hardware and software purchases too, not just iTunes music.
So, in addition to deleting the original file from his computer, the seller will first have to:
De-authorize his computer from iTunes (so that the song will have its full, legal ability to be authorized on three machines)
Copy the file to whatever media he's using for transfer
Delete the original
Cancel the credit card used to purchase the song
Send the song, the Apple ID and password to the buyer
I used to run the original Apple ][ "Castle Wolfenstein" under OS 9, using "Stop the Madness." Haven't done anything with it since X came out. Has anybody tried KEGS?
Sorry, it was the only phrase that came to mind. It is similar to a Ponzi scheme in that Professional Engineering perpetuates the myth that they have something you need, when in reality the goal is their own financial enrichment. Sort of like Microsoft, right? Why should thay work hard to fix their bugs and security flaws? If they made an OS that actually worked, the IT industry would shrink by two thirds.
Sorry, but I call BS on this. You don't have to be a certified PE to design a defective house/dam/building/bridge/etc. Anybody with a degree can be hired to do those tasks. You *do* need to be a PE to testify in court as an expert witness. It's like the state took a look at the consulting fees charged by expert witnesses, and said, "Let's get us a piece of that action."
Look at the above-referenced document, paragraph 131.52. Notice a conspicuously-absent specialty? That's right. In Texas, there is no such thing as an aeronautical or aerospace engineer. These have just as much "ability to kill" as a civil engineer, and yet they don't merit a certification. If proteciton of the public were the primary concern of this program, the list would be comprehensive.
in Texas you can't claim to be an Engineer unless you really are one
Just to clarify, in Texas, "really are one" does not mean "hold an engineering degree" either. According to the Texas Engineering Practice Act, it means "passed the EIT and Professional Engineer exams for that specialty, and are an active, dues-paying Professional Engineer." It seems like a big scam to support the PE Ponzi scheme.
...everybody else that Orchard is still infringing against by leaving their stuff on BuyMusic? Have you gotten assurances from them that they're looking at the *rest* of the catalogue for trouble spots, or are they just sitting around waiting for squeaky wheels like you?
Anyone know a way to add a internal dvd burner to a ibook?
Don't know if this is bait, but I'll bite: In addition to all of the above caveats about using an internal burner, there's one more important one: iDVD won't run on a G3 either. I have a G3, and use the Formac Devideon external drive. It costs more than the LaCie external mentioned above, but the DVD authoring software has one HUGE feature that CaptyDVD doesn't: the ability to save your file, quit, and resume coding later. This is important when you realize that it'll take 60 hours to encode a 2-hour DVD on a G3, and you actually want to use your computer for something else.
His strategy does not have this flaw and is sustainable and legal.
I seriously doubt it. IANAL, but there's a fundamental flaw in his logic. He likens "Snapster" to a mutual fund, but he somehow concludes that *every shareholder* is entitled to the full value of the fund. In what universe is this true?
Let me use a more concrete example (and yes, I fully realize that there's a fundamental difference between intellectual property and physical property, but stick with me). He's offering a timeshare condo to a million people. In the *real* world, this would entitle each shareholder to live for there for 31.5 seconds per year. But Cringely is telling them that all of them can all live there all day, every day, as long as they want. How many community associations would put up with *that*?
So, back to Snapster. The fair-use reality is that legally, I'd guess that each shareholder would be entitled to have about 1.5 albums worth of music downloaded to their hard drive at a time. And while that persion holds a given set of songs, nobody else can have them. When the songs are "returned," the next person can get them.
I usually enjoy and respect Cringely, but he's dead wrong on this one.
As others have already pointed out, you probably meant sodium. Magnesium will put on a pretty fantastic show, if you can get it to burn, but as this NeXT-torching geek discovered, that's not quite so simple.
I'm coming late to the thread, but the parent deserves a virtual "insightful" mod. I'll think about retiring my 531 frame when it breaks, or I lose 15 pounds from *my* frame.
As far as Shimano's planned obsolescence goes, I dread the day that I'm forced to updrade. I did a 150-mile charity ride this spring, with 10,000 riders, and besides my own, I only saw one other bike with downtube shifters.
MP3.com is a convenient portal for finding the talent, by genre, location, or whatever. What do you suggest I do: Google for "unsigned ska band Houston?" No way. I've bought two CD's from mp3.com, and I guess it's time to pick up several more. Anything to keep the site going. We NEED this resource!
P.S. And just where are the free web hosts that will let a band serve up anywhere near 1 GB a month (and that's only for ~250 downloads)?
Of course, there's public radio, which I guess qualifies as nagware. I'd buy XM or Sirius if it would let me turn off the NPR begging after I made my pledge...
Federal copyright law prohibits advanced program schedules for radio broadcasts
Huh? You shouldn't speak in such absolutes. There is a HUGE class exemped from this requirement, and I quote: "or if such advance program schedule is a schedule of classical music programming."
Every year, I send a check to my local NPR station, and each and every month, they send me a complete guide.
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I suspect that "Burn this book" is a running gag of sorts. It's what Mr. Pratchett wrote in *my* copy.
- De-authorize his computer from iTunes (so that the song will have its full, legal ability to be authorized on three machines)
- Copy the file to whatever media he's using for transfer
- Delete the original
- Cancel the credit card used to purchase the song
- Send the song, the Apple ID and password to the buyer
Simple!I used to run the original Apple ][ "Castle Wolfenstein" under OS 9, using "Stop the Madness." Haven't done anything with it since X came out. Has anybody tried KEGS?
Try again. I think what you mean is: idiot = i*i*dot = -dot
Sorry, it was the only phrase that came to mind. It is similar to a Ponzi scheme in that Professional Engineering perpetuates the myth that they have something you need, when in reality the goal is their own financial enrichment. Sort of like Microsoft, right? Why should thay work hard to fix their bugs and security flaws? If they made an OS that actually worked, the IT industry would shrink by two thirds.
Look at the above-referenced document, paragraph 131.52. Notice a conspicuously-absent specialty? That's right. In Texas, there is no such thing as an aeronautical or aerospace engineer. These have just as much "ability to kill" as a civil engineer, and yet they don't merit a certification. If proteciton of the public were the primary concern of this program, the list would be comprehensive.
...everybody else that Orchard is still infringing against by leaving their stuff on BuyMusic? Have you gotten assurances from them that they're looking at the *rest* of the catalogue for trouble spots, or are they just sitting around waiting for squeaky wheels like you?
Let me use a more concrete example (and yes, I fully realize that there's a fundamental difference between intellectual property and physical property, but stick with me). He's offering a timeshare condo to a million people. In the *real* world, this would entitle each shareholder to live for there for 31.5 seconds per year. But Cringely is telling them that all of them can all live there all day, every day, as long as they want. How many community associations would put up with *that*?
So, back to Snapster. The fair-use reality is that legally, I'd guess that each shareholder would be entitled to have about 1.5 albums worth of music downloaded to their hard drive at a time. And while that persion holds a given set of songs, nobody else can have them. When the songs are "returned," the next person can get them.
I usually enjoy and respect Cringely, but he's dead wrong on this one.
As others have already pointed out, you probably meant sodium. Magnesium will put on a pretty fantastic show, if you can get it to burn, but as this NeXT-torching geek discovered, that's not quite so simple.
This is why we missed Mars.
As far as Shimano's planned obsolescence goes, I dread the day that I'm forced to updrade. I did a 150-mile charity ride this spring, with 10,000 riders, and besides my own, I only saw one other bike with downtube shifters.
MP3.com is a convenient portal for finding the talent, by genre, location, or whatever. What do you suggest I do: Google for "unsigned ska band Houston?" No way. I've bought two CD's from mp3.com, and I guess it's time to pick up several more. Anything to keep the site going. We NEED this resource! P.S. And just where are the free web hosts that will let a band serve up anywhere near 1 GB a month (and that's only for ~250 downloads)?
Of course, there's public radio, which I guess qualifies as nagware. I'd buy XM or Sirius if it would let me turn off the NPR begging after I made my pledge...