Then jump in the car and drive to those locations and see how much they have changed in the last few years of being stale. I bet not much. BTW, how often does the courthouse change?
I wonder if for the war effort, Google could be convinced to photoshop in a few bases and relocate a few by a couple blocks. A 4 mile away rocket attack may miss the compound entirely.
Time to set up ranks of inflatable tanks, buildings, and such and move them every week. By the time they pinpoint the tanks, they will find nothing.
Here is an article on the art of deception. I would love them to waste ammo and troups attacking the empty tents in the compound where all those inflatable tanks are. http://www.psywarrior.com/DeceptionH.html
I can play iTunes purchased songs on my car stereo and home dvd player too.
You can play purchased songs if you burn them as an audio CD. I'm talking about MP3's. The stuff you download from iTunes won't play on any of my CD MP3 players as an MP3 CD. They are not MP3's. I don't want the expense of money, materials, quality, and time to download digital music, burn a CD, rip the CD and then burn another digital music CD. Let's skip the un-nessary middle step. Let's skip the double conversion steps of converting to and burning a redbook CD and then ripping to MP3. Just sell me the MP3's in the first place.
I don't like getting up every hour to change the CD. I like stuffing in a jukebox load of MP3's in the player and letting it run all day.
A typical MP3 CD will play for about 8-12 hours, good for a full days work. Do you want to trade your 2 Gig Nano for the 64 Meg model that will only play an hour of music? That's why I play MP3 CD's.
even though I think it is funny that Microsoft can't even make a DRM that is compatible with their previous ones.
I think it's even funnier that emusic is the only online store selling legal MP3's that play on every MP3 player out there including my car stereo and living room DVD player.
As artists drop the RIAA and their lables and move to emusic, I expect things to get uncomfortable for the 4 labels in the cartel. They won't be able to sue and shut this down like they did Napster. They will have to adopt or die.
Microsoft used to promote its PlaysForSure copy-protection standard, but there must have been some difficulty with the "for sure" because the company has dropped it in favor of an entirely new copy-protection standard for its new Zune player, which, incidentally, is incompatible with the old one.
They got it part right in the article. The whole lawsuit is that one flavor of DRM is incompatible with another variety of player. While they were at it, why pick on just Apple and Microsoft. Toss in the Sony Minidisk and the Sony DRM format too.
They poked the lawsuit at the wrong end of the market. They complained that the players would not play each others incompatible formats. They should have gone the other way and insisted the Zune store, the Plays for Sure stores, and iTunes store all sold compatible MP3's instead of incompatible DRM files.
I just but the really cheep ones from the local dollar store @ $0.50. & portable test equipment
Use them in only cheap flashlights. I've seen too many cheap Ni-Cad batteries turn the spring contacts and wires into green powder. I would not want that in my digital camera or test equipment.
Too bad they can't be AAA-sized for some of my TV remotes
Very low average power use is not an application for rechargable batteries. Considering that rechargable batteries often die after less than 5 years use and self discharge in under 6 months, it is very hard to justify using rechargable batteries in things like a tv remote or smoke detector. A 5 year supply of batteries for a TV remote is less than 5 sets of batteries for most people. Unless you channel surf constantly, there isn't much draw on a TV remote's batteries.
The other place I don't use rechargable batteries is in the LED flashlights I keep next to the generator and electrical panel. I don't need to find self discharged batteries in a critical moment.
A good rule of thumb is use rechargable batteries in applications that would typicaly kill a battery in under a month of typical use. Good uses are MP3 players, digital cameras, CD players, laptop computers, cordless keyboard & mouse, cell phone, workbench flashlights, electric razors, and other higher current items. Don't use them in items where you change the battery once a year or so such as smoke detectors, emergency kit radios and flashlights, alarm sensors, watches, backup batteries for the clockradio, TV remote, etc.
By definition DRM would cause issues with legit useage.
I prefer the term, "incompatible". DRM simply makes media incompatible with most devices. If it were any other way, it would not be effective DRM.
Look at the new Vista OS and the new HD content. Notice the sheer volume of incomptabile high defenition displays there are. Notice the number of incompatible DVR's there are.
You are only allowed to 'tie' the iPod to one computer. If you take it to another computer it will ask you if you would like to erase it and connect it to the current computer.
Not my idea of a friendly playback device. I'll stick with my Coby. It attaches as a thumb drive and plays MP3's that are drag and dropped in the memory. It's even compatible with my Ubuntu machine, has voice recording and records off the radio. Sometimes at work, I'll find a podcast MP3 of a show I don't have time to listen to and I'll drop it onto the player. Since I'm not permitted to install software at work, even this is an advantage over an iPod. I connect my player to my Ubunto box, my Laptop, and my Work PC. I don't have to delete everything in the process.
Someday someone will get the idea that I can't play legal downloaded mainstream music on my MP3 players. Therefore I don't buy it due to the incompatibility. Emusic sells legal MP3's. Unfortunately I can't find any artists that I'm familiar with.
It's first in LEGAL downloads fourth over all in LEGAL ways to obtain music.
Thanks for noticing. If another legal source sold MP3's from the same catalog at the same price next to the DRM stuff for the rest of us to buy, do you think Apple would be the number one in legal downloads. They are there simply because there is no mainstream non-DRM MP3 downloads. Many people unable to find compatible music for MP3 players (including car decks and DVD players that play MP3 CD's) and use the only sources of compatible music in existance. There is no LEGAL alternative for mainstream music in MP3 format. The closest is iTunes where you burn a CD then rip it at an additional expense of money, time, and quality.
Show me the Legal mainstream MP3 download service and I'll show you what will take Apple's business.
Would this protection from "illegal copying" also prevent me from legal copying?
Sounds like if water were not wet, would we still drink it?
Either the format is compatible or it's incompatible with most stuff. DRM is simply incompatible with most stuff. It even makes the popular I-tunes format incompatible with 5 nines of the I-Pods out there. Don't believe me. Do you have an I-Pod? I'll send you an I-tunes song. I betcha it doesn't work on your I-pod.
Any DRM scheme is incompatible in a mixed environment. If that were not the case, then it isn't effective DRM. This brings me back to the original question, Would you drink water that isn't wet?
Compatibliity and DRM are on oposite sides of the fence.
That's usually a showstopper for people. DRM forces you to be tied down to once device.
I point out DRM is for the most part simply incompatible with any non-propritory player. It is single vendor lock-in and nothing more. I don't do single vendor formats.
The bottom line is that Apple, Microsoft, et al may be shipping insidious DRM technologies, but there's no obligation to use them.
You must have missed the chapter on the internet regarding cable TV, PVR, and Windows Media Player 11 on Vista and Windows Media Player 8 on Windows 2K.
Hint, one of them simply displays the words Protected Content instead of recording and playing back the movie.
Both tests were done on the same movie.
It's no longer an option.
I'm too lazy to look up the link of the review, but a search sould find it including screen captures.
In short, if you want to use Windows as a PVR, for cable TV, use Windows Media Player 8 on Windows 2K. Don't use Media Player 11 on Vista.
Most people are aware by now of the limitations they face with iTMS files, and yet it's the 4th biggest source of music worldwide (first for downloads).
Nice figures on the first for downloads.. Care to share the source of the data? From what I've seen, Apple DRM music is a far second to the DRM free alternatives (many not legal). Apple sells lots of 30 Gig I-Pods. Many people have extensive playlists. On average, how many I-Tunes songs does the average I-Pod owner have? Last time I heard it was way less than 50 songs per I-Pod. So just where are all these songs coming from? Some come from real CD's. Some come from real CD's borrowed from someone. Some come from Kazza, Limewire, etc. How do the download numbers from P-P compare to I-tunes sales? From average I-Tunes sales per I-pod, the I-pods don't need to be bigger than 512K in size to hold all the I-tunes songs sold.
For my household, we don't buy I-Tunes songs simply because they have severe incompatibility problems. They don't play on my Coby, Panasonic, or Ubuntu machine. They don't play on my son's RCA Lyra, or Creative Zen. They will play on my wife's XP machine and my daughters Apple Nano. The problem is my Wife doesn't let the kids use her machine because she doesn't want anything to happen to her bookkeeping and the Daughter doesn't have a credit card. She has an I-Pod but has no I-tunes songs.
We do rip all our CD's to MP3's and load from the pool.
My kids borrow friends CD's and add to the mix. They simply don't have the budget for a large CD library. After my son's problems with some WMA DRM files and the Lyra, he's sticking to MP3's only. He's once burned by DRM.
He was at a friends house and loaded some of his friends music on his player. It would not play them. The player is a Plays for Sure compatible device. The songs were WMA files. They had a lock icon on them. He couldn't delete them due to a permission problem. WTF??? It is his player. The songs won't play and he can't delete them!!! WTF??? Even the Linux PC couldn't remove the files from the USB drive due to the lock. He had to take the player back over to his friends house to delete the songs from his computer. After that, there is no interest in DRM files here. They are nothing but trouble. This is the facts, not FUD. The DRM WMA files can not be deleted from another computer. The lesson is well learned. MP3's play for sure. WMA is a problem.
Does anyone know if Apple and I-tunes DRM suffers these same kind of problems?
Don't tell me I can burn a DRM free CD. Why must I go to the time and expense? Lets skip the burn a CD and go straight to transcode to MP3. Even better would be skip the transcode loss and simply download a quality MP3.
Nice idea, but that is not near as much of a problem as my tax returns, all my bank and credit card details including passphrases, pins, account numbers, contact numbers, etc.
If I am gone and the home alarm goes off, it drops power to the SOHO server locking the filesystem. Home burglaries do happen. Having someone get your porn collection is not a big deal. Having someoone steal your identity is a big deal.
The alarm interface is simple. The alarm output operates a relay between the SOHO server and the UPS.
don't assume data security equals illegal activity
I see lots of talk of illegal stuff on my drive and going to jail. To set matters straight, the drive is my SOHO server. It contains my Turbo Tax returns, all my banking information including account numbers, routing, card numbers, pin's, bank contact information including passphrases.
This is stuff that I want to die when the alarm goes off. Home robberies do happen and easy access to all that information is not something I want laying around unencrypted. If I am truly dead, it being locked is not a problem. My will in the safe deposit box takes care of it. If I am gone for a while and I have a break-in, the data is secure. If there is a court order for the data, at least I know who gets the information.
Don't assume data security equals illegal activity.
What happens if you get into a severe accident and end up in the hospital without the ability to 'check in' with it? What happens if you are stranded at an airport with a snowstorm? What if you are stranded at a ski lodge in the mountains in the middle of a snow storm? etc...
Mine simply locks the encrypted filesystem if the power is interupted. A raid on my premisis while I'm gone locks things up tight. Forcing the door drops power. When I'm back, I can enter the encryption key and restore normal operation.
I hope they start putting on the Compact Disc logo so I can find real CD's again. Hopefully they won't be over compressed to sound loud. How about some SN ratio and Dynamic range?
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Then jump in the car and drive to those locations and see how much they have changed in the last few years of being stale. I bet not much. BTW, how often does the courthouse change?
I wonder if for the war effort, Google could be convinced to photoshop in a few bases and relocate a few by a couple blocks. A 4 mile away rocket attack may miss the compound entirely.
Time to set up ranks of inflatable tanks, buildings, and such and move them every week. By the time they pinpoint the tanks, they will find nothing.
Here is an article on the art of deception. I would love them to waste ammo and troups attacking the empty tents in the compound where all those inflatable tanks are.
http://www.psywarrior.com/DeceptionH.html
I can play iTunes purchased songs on my car stereo and home dvd player too.
You can play purchased songs if you burn them as an audio CD. I'm talking about MP3's. The stuff you download from iTunes won't play on any of my CD MP3 players as an MP3 CD. They are not MP3's. I don't want the expense of money, materials, quality, and time to download digital music, burn a CD, rip the CD and then burn another digital music CD. Let's skip the un-nessary middle step. Let's skip the double conversion steps of converting to and burning a redbook CD and then ripping to MP3. Just sell me the MP3's in the first place.
I don't like getting up every hour to change the CD. I like stuffing in a jukebox load of MP3's in the player and letting it run all day.
A typical MP3 CD will play for about 8-12 hours, good for a full days work. Do you want to trade your 2 Gig Nano for the 64 Meg model that will only play an hour of music? That's why I play MP3 CD's.
timbaland? who the hell is that?
Is this the same guy that was involved in an FCC action due to some wardrobe malfunction with somone else?
even though I think it is funny that Microsoft can't even make a DRM that is compatible with their previous ones.
I think it's even funnier that emusic is the only online store selling legal MP3's that play on every MP3 player out there including my car stereo and living room DVD player.
As artists drop the RIAA and their lables and move to emusic, I expect things to get uncomfortable for the 4 labels in the cartel. They won't be able to sue and shut this down like they did Napster. They will have to adopt or die.
Microsoft used to promote its PlaysForSure copy-protection standard, but there must have been some difficulty with the "for sure" because the company has dropped it in favor of an entirely new copy-protection standard for its new Zune player, which, incidentally, is incompatible with the old one.
They got it part right in the article. The whole lawsuit is that one flavor of DRM is incompatible with another variety of player. While they were at it, why pick on just Apple and Microsoft. Toss in the Sony Minidisk and the Sony DRM format too.
They poked the lawsuit at the wrong end of the market. They complained that the players would not play each others incompatible formats. They should have gone the other way and insisted the Zune store, the Plays for Sure stores, and iTunes store all sold compatible MP3's instead of incompatible DRM files.
I just but the really cheep ones from the local dollar store @ $0.50. & portable test equipment
Use them in only cheap flashlights. I've seen too many cheap Ni-Cad batteries turn the spring contacts and wires into green powder. I would not want that in my digital camera or test equipment.
Too bad they can't be AAA-sized for some of my TV remotes
Very low average power use is not an application for rechargable batteries. Considering that rechargable batteries often die after less than 5 years use and self discharge in under 6 months, it is very hard to justify using rechargable batteries in things like a tv remote or smoke detector. A 5 year supply of batteries for a TV remote is less than 5 sets of batteries for most people. Unless you channel surf constantly, there isn't much draw on a TV remote's batteries.
The other place I don't use rechargable batteries is in the LED flashlights I keep next to the generator and electrical panel. I don't need to find self discharged batteries in a critical moment.
A good rule of thumb is use rechargable batteries in applications that would typicaly kill a battery in under a month of typical use. Good uses are MP3 players, digital cameras, CD players, laptop computers, cordless keyboard & mouse, cell phone, workbench flashlights, electric razors, and other higher current items. Don't use them in items where you change the battery once a year or so such as smoke detectors, emergency kit radios and flashlights, alarm sensors, watches, backup batteries for the clockradio, TV remote, etc.
By definition DRM would cause issues with legit useage.
I prefer the term, "incompatible". DRM simply makes media incompatible with most devices. If it were any other way, it would not be effective DRM.
Look at the new Vista OS and the new HD content. Notice the sheer volume of incomptabile high defenition displays there are. Notice the number of incompatible DVR's there are.
Any questions?
DRM = mostly incompatible by design. No thanks!
You are only allowed to 'tie' the iPod to one computer. If you take it to another computer it will ask you if you would like to erase it and connect it to the current computer.
Not my idea of a friendly playback device. I'll stick with my Coby. It attaches as a thumb drive and plays MP3's that are drag and dropped in the memory. It's even compatible with my Ubuntu machine, has voice recording and records off the radio. Sometimes at work, I'll find a podcast MP3 of a show I don't have time to listen to and I'll drop it onto the player. Since I'm not permitted to install software at work, even this is an advantage over an iPod. I connect my player to my Ubunto box, my Laptop, and my Work PC. I don't have to delete everything in the process.
Someday someone will get the idea that I can't play legal downloaded mainstream music on my MP3 players. Therefore I don't buy it due to the incompatibility. Emusic sells legal MP3's. Unfortunately I can't find any artists that I'm familiar with.
It's first in LEGAL downloads fourth over all in LEGAL ways to obtain music.
Thanks for noticing. If another legal source sold MP3's from the same catalog at the same price next to the DRM stuff for the rest of us to buy, do you think Apple would be the number one in legal downloads. They are there simply because there is no mainstream non-DRM MP3 downloads. Many people unable to find compatible music for MP3 players (including car decks and DVD players that play MP3 CD's) and use the only sources of compatible music in existance. There is no LEGAL alternative for mainstream music in MP3 format. The closest is iTunes where you burn a CD then rip it at an additional expense of money, time, and quality.
Show me the Legal mainstream MP3 download service and I'll show you what will take Apple's business.
Would this protection from "illegal copying" also prevent me from legal copying?
Sounds like if water were not wet, would we still drink it?
Either the format is compatible or it's incompatible with most stuff. DRM is simply incompatible with most stuff. It even makes the popular I-tunes format incompatible with 5 nines of the I-Pods out there. Don't believe me. Do you have an I-Pod? I'll send you an I-tunes song. I betcha it doesn't work on your I-pod.
Any DRM scheme is incompatible in a mixed environment. If that were not the case, then it isn't effective DRM. This brings me back to the original question, Would you drink water that isn't wet?
Compatibliity and DRM are on oposite sides of the fence.
Why not choose to use some third-party software which works on Vista?
For me it is not an issue. I don't have a PVR, or cable. I do have a broadband connection and a Linux PC.
That's usually a showstopper for people. DRM forces you to be tied down to once device.
I point out DRM is for the most part simply incompatible with any non-propritory player. It is single vendor lock-in and nothing more. I don't do single vendor formats.
The bottom line is that Apple, Microsoft, et al may be shipping insidious DRM technologies, but there's no obligation to use them.
You must have missed the chapter on the internet regarding cable TV, PVR, and Windows Media Player 11 on Vista and Windows Media Player 8 on Windows 2K.
Hint, one of them simply displays the words Protected Content instead of recording and playing back the movie.
Both tests were done on the same movie.
It's no longer an option.
I'm too lazy to look up the link of the review, but a search sould find it including screen captures.
In short, if you want to use Windows as a PVR, for cable TV, use Windows Media Player 8 on Windows 2K. Don't use Media Player 11 on Vista.
Most people are aware by now of the limitations they face with iTMS files, and yet it's the 4th biggest source of music worldwide (first for downloads).
Nice figures on the first for downloads.. Care to share the source of the data? From what I've seen, Apple DRM music is a far second to the DRM free alternatives (many not legal). Apple sells lots of 30 Gig I-Pods. Many people have extensive playlists. On average, how many I-Tunes songs does the average I-Pod owner have? Last time I heard it was way less than 50 songs per I-Pod. So just where are all these songs coming from? Some come from real CD's. Some come from real CD's borrowed from someone. Some come from Kazza, Limewire, etc. How do the download numbers from P-P compare to I-tunes sales? From average I-Tunes sales per I-pod, the I-pods don't need to be bigger than 512K in size to hold all the I-tunes songs sold.
For my household, we don't buy I-Tunes songs simply because they have severe incompatibility problems. They don't play on my Coby, Panasonic, or Ubuntu machine. They don't play on my son's RCA Lyra, or Creative Zen. They will play on my wife's XP machine and my daughters Apple Nano. The problem is my Wife doesn't let the kids use her machine because she doesn't want anything to happen to her bookkeeping and the Daughter doesn't have a credit card. She has an I-Pod but has no I-tunes songs.
We do rip all our CD's to MP3's and load from the pool.
My kids borrow friends CD's and add to the mix. They simply don't have the budget for a large CD library. After my son's problems with some WMA DRM files and the Lyra, he's sticking to MP3's only. He's once burned by DRM.
He was at a friends house and loaded some of his friends music on his player. It would not play them. The player is a Plays for Sure compatible device. The songs were WMA files. They had a lock icon on them. He couldn't delete them due to a permission problem. WTF??? It is his player. The songs won't play and he can't delete them!!! WTF??? Even the Linux PC couldn't remove the files from the USB drive due to the lock. He had to take the player back over to his friends house to delete the songs from his computer. After that, there is no interest in DRM files here. They are nothing but trouble. This is the facts, not FUD. The DRM WMA files can not be deleted from another computer. The lesson is well learned. MP3's play for sure. WMA is a problem.
Does anyone know if Apple and I-tunes DRM suffers these same kind of problems?
Don't tell me I can burn a DRM free CD. Why must I go to the time and expense? Lets skip the burn a CD and go straight to transcode to MP3. Even better would be skip the transcode loss and simply download a quality MP3.
Rather than lugging a server and searching it
My server isn't that big.
http://www.simpleshare.com/
It isn't always the thief you worry about. It's the buyer of used hard drives on e-bay. Many times they buy drives to datamine.
several TB of porn.
Nice idea, but that is not near as much of a problem as my tax returns, all my bank and credit card details including passphrases, pins, account numbers, contact numbers, etc.
If I am gone and the home alarm goes off, it drops power to the SOHO server locking the filesystem. Home burglaries do happen. Having someone get your porn collection is not a big deal. Having someoone steal your identity is a big deal.
The alarm interface is simple. The alarm output operates a relay between the SOHO server and the UPS.
don't assume data security equals illegal activity
I pratice prudent data security.
I see lots of talk of illegal stuff on my drive and going to jail. To set matters straight, the drive is my SOHO server. It contains my Turbo Tax returns, all my banking information including account numbers, routing, card numbers, pin's, bank contact information including passphrases.
This is stuff that I want to die when the alarm goes off. Home robberies do happen and easy access to all that information is not something I want laying around unencrypted. If I am truly dead, it being locked is not a problem. My will in the safe deposit box takes care of it. If I am gone for a while and I have a break-in, the data is secure. If there is a court order for the data, at least I know who gets the information.
Don't assume data security equals illegal activity.
You do know that Apple and OSX will have exact same DRM requirements as Vista to play HD-DVD/B-R content that have the HDCP flag enabled.
... DVD. The new stuff is simply another incompatible format.
Which means to most people the Blu-Ray and HD DVD war will be won by
You can also buy an off the shelf engineered package such as this one that will do the job.
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http://www.goldenfuelsystems.com/products_solar.p
What happens if you get into a severe accident and end up in the hospital without the ability to 'check in' with it? What happens if you are stranded at an airport with a snowstorm? What if you are stranded at a ski lodge in the mountains in the middle of a snow storm? etc...
Mine simply locks the encrypted filesystem if the power is interupted. A raid on my premisis while I'm gone locks things up tight. Forcing the door drops power. When I'm back, I can enter the encryption key and restore normal operation.
However, to have a few shares of SCO stock on your wall would make for an interesting conversation piece in a decade.
With most conversations starting with "Boy were you a fool!".
they're technically no longer even "audio CDs"...
I hope they start putting on the Compact Disc logo so I can find real CD's again. Hopefully they won't be over compressed to sound loud. How about some SN ratio and Dynamic range?
Some good music should help too.
I'll stick to my vacuum tubes.
Just stay away from the wet electrolyte capacitors that used to launch the metal case out the top of the cabinet.