since when is tape archival quality? It's barely backup quality. I've had way more properly stored tapes fail than I have properly stored optical media.
Treat optical media like magnetic media (store in cool dry place) and use high-quality media and you'll get far better results than tape.
Add in the speed at which tape drives become obsolete and tapes hard to obtain, while CD's are still readable. And I've found optical to be a superior archive medium.
If you examine the study cited you'll notice that the study is for optical media in harsh conditions. Additionally they specifically state "It is demonstrated here that CD-R and DVD-R media can be very stable (sample S4 for CD-R and sample D2 for DVD-R). Results suggest that these media types will ensure data is available for several tens of years and therefore may be suitable for archival uses."
to a certain degree I agree, however there are uses of PDF where it works great.
When the intent of the final output is paper PDF works better than html. HTML can't carry fonts along with the document, printing from HTML is a crap shoot, appearance changes from browser to browser.
we use pdf for engineering drawings. the infinite scalability of PDF vector graphics and, with acrobat 6 & 7, level control over the display, is impossible in pure html.
I do agree PDF is over used. If I want tech specs on a piece of equipment I could give a rats ass if it's pretty, I want the specs not a bunch of wasted time loading Acrobat and then showing me a sales brochure with no info in it.
seems to me the best hack will be to master a DVD with a media access key block version that is very very high. Then the player will take it as their own key tree, and ignore the one on all disks inserted later on.
The problem with this (at least in the US) is that assets are considered property and property taxes are considered "direct taxes" under the constitution. This means they must be apportioned among the states. Congress usually avoids these type of taxes because it's a pain to do the apportionment.
Yeah, but Apple installs for you. That's probably worth the extra $100 to many people. For me I'll install my own when my mini arrives.
Oh, and don't buy registered ECC, Mac mini won't support it. It needs to be unbuffered and unregistered memory for the Mac mini. You can use PC 3200 (DDR 400) but it runs at the slower speed.
the brain doesn't function real well when in intense pain. Let's see, my chest has been crushed by a steering wheel, my face smashed and burned by an airbag, and you want me to remember what the last mile marker I saw was? Add in the fact that the brain can block out a few minutes of memory around a severe accident and i don't see how "just remember where you are" is a solution.
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iTunes can encode to MP3 OR (non-DRM) AAC not just AAC. iPod can play both MP3 and AAC (non-DRM or fairplay encoded)
No playing Real content on a Mac just requires the mac version of Real player, this incorporates Real's own DRM system.
Real reverse engineered Fairplay DRM so they could encode Real content to play on the iPod.
Real could've have gone non-DRM MP3 and that content would play on a iPod just fine. But they wanted DRM protected stuff on the iPod so it had to be encoded in Fairplay, the only DRM format iPod supports.
Whoops looks like I mis-spoke on one part -- Virgin player does support MP3. If I didn't already have my iPod i'd go Rio Karma or an iRiver for the OGG support.
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not really, apple refuses to license fairplay DRM to anyone else. So Virgin can't make a player that plays fairplay encoded AA4 (they could've supported non-DRM AA4 but since they don't even support MP3 I doubt they would do that).
To make a player that plays fairplay DRM without an apple license would probably violate DCMA (there's a test case I'd like to see). Even Real didn't do that, they just came up with a way to encode their stuff to fairplay so an iPod would play it.
That said -- Apple made a player that supports more than one format, most of them non-DRM. Virgin didn't support any of those, so I'd say Virgin loses in the "open" player category.
I'm reading Andre Norton's Time Traders from the Baen Free Library using Mobireader on a Palm Zaire 72.
I'm not thrilled with it, preferring a real book, but it is readable and the ability (if I actually bought a dictionary for my palm) to look up words right there and make annotations is pretty cool.
Tech books seem more likely, but the convience of having a number of books at no additional weight is really nice, especially when I travel.
The biggest thing killing ebooks right now? High cost and DRM. I don't want to pay more (or even the same) for an e-book and I want to be able to read it on several devices.
Audible.com has better pricing (and they have to pay someone to read the thing) so I'm not sure why e-books don't.
If something "won't refuse" to do something, then it will do it. The sentence should either be "the required PLL (Phase Lock Loop) will reset and refuse to lock that frequency." or it should be "the required PLL (Phase Lock Loop) will reset and won't lock that frequency." but the way they wrote it means "the required PLL (Phase Lock Loop) will reset and will lock that frequency."
eh, closing the "security" holes was an add-on to this, not the main point. If apple hadn't been planning on releasing all the new features they would've just rolled out an iTunes 4.2.1 with just security updates. They just happened to coincide with an upcoming release so they put them in there.
an the "music pirates" will just burn to cd, re-encode to lossless format with no restrictions anyway....
So the changes don't bug me so much (although I believe Apple is going to face anti-trust woes in the online music market if they don't open up the authentication mechanism at some point)
go to any city's paper and look in the local sections. Specifically look for articles containing "tax increment financing" or "TIF" (not the image format). This type of financing is an art form in the US.
Not compeletely. You can only listen to iTunes Music Store protected AAC files on iPods, Windows computers and Macintosh computers.
iTunes itself allows you to create unprotected MP3 and unprotected AAC from your own music collection and do whatever you want with them.
I do not believe Microsoft's Windows Media Player for the Mac allows listening to protected WMA files, so in that regard the WMA format is more locked in than AAC (currently).
Also if you look at Buy.com's music store you'll see that instead of Apple's flat and mild DRM policy (same policy all songs), music company's can restrict you to how often you can copy music to your player and how many times you can play a song and if you can burn it to CD (the ability to do this may be in AAC files, i'm not sure, but it has not been enabled)
so no, currently the itunes is not as restrictive as Windows Media Player, but the protected AAC's can only be played on iPod players (if Apple gains a large enough share of the online music world -- say 90%, there may be an anti-trust law suit against them for not allowing the songs to be played on non-Apple devices)
All the Prius hyrbrids have an LCD monitor in the dash that is normally used for displaying gas mileage and engine/battery components. But it also displays radio and cd information (you know, entertainment stuff).
Guess all the Prius are now illegal in california.
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since when is tape archival quality? It's barely backup quality. I've had way more properly stored tapes fail than I have properly stored optical media.
Treat optical media like magnetic media (store in cool dry place) and use high-quality media and you'll get far better results than tape.
Add in the speed at which tape drives become obsolete and tapes hard to obtain, while CD's are still readable. And I've found optical to be a superior archive medium.
If you examine the study cited you'll notice that the study is for optical media in harsh conditions. Additionally they specifically state "It is demonstrated here that CD-R and DVD-R media
can be very stable (sample S4 for CD-R and sample D2 for DVD-R). Results suggest that these media types will ensure data is available for several tens of years and therefore may be suitable for archival uses."
I was wondering the same thing. In science negative results are just as important as positive ones.
a) Apple released the source before
b) they've just added additional ways of accessing the source instead of a giant tarball
to a certain degree I agree, however there are uses of PDF where it works great.
When the intent of the final output is paper PDF works better than html. HTML can't carry fonts along with the document, printing from HTML is a crap shoot, appearance changes from browser to browser.
we use pdf for engineering drawings. the infinite scalability of PDF vector graphics and, with acrobat 6 & 7, level control over the display, is impossible in pure html.
I do agree PDF is over used. If I want tech specs on a piece of equipment I could give a rats ass if it's pretty, I want the specs not a bunch of wasted time loading Acrobat and then showing me a sales brochure with no info in it.
It's still available:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
I have a speakeasy DSL with no phone line in Southwestern Bell territory. I use Skype for VOIP.
seems to me the best hack will be to master a DVD with a media access key block version that is very very high. Then the player will take it as their own key tree, and ignore the one on all disks inserted later on.
The problem with this (at least in the US) is that assets are considered property and property taxes are considered "direct taxes" under the constitution. This means they must be apportioned among the states. Congress usually avoids these type of taxes because it's a pain to do the apportionment.
Yeah, but Apple installs for you. That's probably worth the extra $100 to many people. For me I'll install my own when my mini arrives.
Oh, and don't buy registered ECC, Mac mini won't support it. It needs to be unbuffered and unregistered memory for the Mac mini. You can use PC 3200 (DDR 400) but it runs at the slower speed.
Camino on OS X doesn't seem to be affected either, even with pop-up windows enabled.
the brain doesn't function real well when in intense pain. Let's see, my chest has been crushed by a steering wheel, my face smashed and burned by an airbag, and you want me to remember what the last mile marker I saw was? Add in the fact that the brain can block out a few minutes of memory around a severe accident and i don't see how "just remember where you are" is a solution.
iTunes can encode to MP3 OR (non-DRM) AAC not just AAC. iPod can play both MP3 and AAC (non-DRM or fairplay encoded)
No playing Real content on a Mac just requires the mac version of Real player, this incorporates Real's own DRM system.
Real reverse engineered Fairplay DRM so they could encode Real content to play on the iPod.
Real could've have gone non-DRM MP3 and that content would play on a iPod just fine. But they wanted DRM protected stuff on the iPod so it had to be encoded in Fairplay, the only DRM format iPod supports.
Whoops looks like I mis-spoke on one part -- Virgin player does support MP3. If I didn't already have my iPod i'd go Rio Karma or an iRiver for the OGG support.
not really, apple refuses to license fairplay DRM to anyone else. So Virgin can't make a player that plays fairplay encoded AA4 (they could've supported non-DRM AA4 but since they don't even support MP3 I doubt they would do that).
To make a player that plays fairplay DRM without an apple license would probably violate DCMA (there's a test case I'd like to see). Even Real didn't do that, they just came up with a way to encode their stuff to fairplay so an iPod would play it.
That said -- Apple made a player that supports more than one format, most of them non-DRM. Virgin didn't support any of those, so I'd say Virgin loses in the "open" player category.
I'm reading Andre Norton's Time Traders from the Baen Free Library using Mobireader on a Palm Zaire 72.
I'm not thrilled with it, preferring a real book, but it is readable and the ability (if I actually bought a dictionary for my palm) to look up words right there and make annotations is pretty cool.
Tech books seem more likely, but the convience of having a number of books at no additional weight is really nice, especially when I travel.
The biggest thing killing ebooks right now? High cost and DRM. I don't want to pay more (or even the same) for an e-book and I want to be able to read it on several devices.
Audible.com has better pricing (and they have to pay someone to read the thing) so I'm not sure why e-books don't.
god i'm a retard. I just got the joke. no more cough medicine for me today (hmmm, or maybe more!)
it's a double negative.
If something "won't refuse" to do something, then it will do it. The sentence should either be "the required PLL (Phase Lock Loop) will reset and refuse to lock that frequency." or it should be "the required PLL (Phase Lock Loop) will reset and won't lock that frequency." but the way they wrote it means "the required PLL (Phase Lock Loop) will reset and will lock that frequency."
eh, closing the "security" holes was an add-on to this, not the main point. If apple hadn't been planning on releasing all the new features they would've just rolled out an iTunes 4.2.1 with just security updates. They just happened to coincide with an upcoming release so they put them in there.
an the "music pirates" will just burn to cd, re-encode to lossless format with no restrictions anyway....
So the changes don't bug me so much (although I believe Apple is going to face anti-trust woes in the online music market if they don't open up the authentication mechanism at some point)
go to any city's paper and look in the local sections. Specifically look for articles containing "tax increment financing" or "TIF" (not the image format). This type of financing is an art form in the US.
old ipod firmware you could return to neutral by turning the ipod back off and back on. There was no stop.
new ipods do not have this feature, if you turn off and back on it picks up where it left off.
so you can only pause. at all times (paused or playing) you can use the menu button to browse for a new song and immediately switch to playing it.
Not compeletely. You can only listen to iTunes Music Store protected AAC files on iPods, Windows computers and Macintosh computers.
iTunes itself allows you to create unprotected MP3 and unprotected AAC from your own music collection and do whatever you want with them.
I do not believe Microsoft's Windows Media Player for the Mac allows listening to protected WMA files, so in that regard the WMA format is more locked in than AAC (currently).
Also if you look at Buy.com's music store you'll see that instead of Apple's flat and mild DRM policy (same policy all songs), music company's can restrict you to how often you can copy music to your player and how many times you can play a song and if you can burn it to CD (the ability to do this may be in AAC files, i'm not sure, but it has not been enabled)
so no, currently the itunes is not as restrictive as Windows Media Player, but the protected AAC's can only be played on iPod players (if Apple gains a large enough share of the online music world -- say 90%, there may be an anti-trust law suit against them for not allowing the songs to be played on non-Apple devices)
Kevin
It's a freaking web bug in an HTML e-mail. You know, open the message, the image gets downloaded. Bang you've got the IP address.
This is not freaking high tech.
All the Prius hyrbrids have an LCD monitor in the dash that is normally used for displaying gas mileage and engine/battery components. But it also displays radio and cd information (you know, entertainment stuff).
Guess all the Prius are now illegal in california.
Your url has an extra space in it. Run the base defs into one word and it'll work.
e defs/errno.h.html#tag_13_10
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/bas