There are a lot of people in this world who can hear the difference and suggest that the CD format is severely limited in terms of it's frequency range.
Maintainance costs are seldom if ever cheaper when you go in-house.
Obviously there is a lot of in-house developed and maintained software, and that's generally because it is specific to the way you do business and the excess cost can therefore be jstified.
Well if it's any help, it's not a user-tracking technology.
.Net is an application framework, it involves how your write applications and how those applications can communicate with one another over the network.
There is nothing about SDMI that will strongarm you into buying new players or new collections, as I understand it. Your CD player will still work, your current CD's will still work, and music will still continue to be sold in the CD format for many years to come.
I believe one of the theories behind SDMI is that the player requires no decoding software, it just plays the music as it is written.
SDMI detection is part of the recording process. Presumably to limit the number of copies of a song that can be made. i.e. you can make a copy from the original, but not from a copy of a copy.
The DVD-Audio format is being held up for this technology, along with an improved CSS like implementation to encode the digital bits.
Actually music has been available on DVD discs for a couple of years now. It's not been terribly popular, however, because few recording studios support it and it hasn't gained widespread acceptance for fear a new format that is just around the corner.
Even when DVD-Audio comes into being, again you will not be forced to go out and buy new collections. The DVD-Audio players will play older CD media, just as current DVD players do. In fact I suspect you'll just see the DVD-Audio spec wrapped into DVD players such that you'll have a device capable of playing several different audio and video formats.
There seems to be a lot of confusion and frankly, FUD, being spread by the anti-music-industry groups.
I don't care about copy protection, as long as it doesn't get in my way. Unfortunately the macrovision on video, and this new SDMI both corrupt the purity of the source and affect the potentional enjoyment.
Looks to me like all of the front end servers are running Win2k. source: netcraft
Netcraft reported they were migrating about two months ago, and it's conveivable they have all been replaced.
As far as the back end servers. Sounds like sour grapes. I was responding regarding the point that the front end servers were not running Windows 2000.
You can't stop Lazy and inexperienced users from using your product.
Look at slashdot.org, it's a prime example of lazy and iexperienced people using Linux to host a website, as evidenced by the hacked site last week from a clear text password stored in code.
Who is working to prevent lazy and inexperienced people from using Linux?
If you need a bar code scanner, the inconvenience of buying one for $100-200 is that great? What happens if you need a printer, do you spend $99 or do you wait until someone gives one away for free?
Or are you just so enthralled with being able to look up books you already own on Amazon.com by swiping in the bar code off them?
Ohhhhh.... Ahhhhh... I'm so excited.
You're absolutely right, the Digital Convergence business plan is seriously flawed and offers nothing that anybody needs or wants.
I still don't see the point of all of this. I don't have a CueCat, don't want a CueCat, don't need a CueCat and do not intend to obtain a CueCat.
The only inconvenience to my life the CueCat represents is reading a bunch of temper tantrums thrown by children on slashdot.org.
How are my consumer rights being eroded?
I don't have a CueCat and don't plan on obtaining one... I really see no value in what they are offering as a service and fully suspect the idea will die of it's own accord.
Besides, what kind of interoperability do you need with this device to foster competition? All it does is scan barcodes, that is easily accomplished with any number of other competing bar code scanners.
You're wasting your time on this issue, it's not important.
There are many companies that offer bar code scanners that plug into PS/2 keyboard ports and require no extra drivers.
I don't see how wasting your time with this device helps. About the only thing being accomplished is to give Linux users a bad name... once again following the zealotry route that Amiga and OS/2 users did.
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First off MP3's sound like crap...
As far as how to sell this to the mass market. I think the DVD spec provides a means to really add value to the music disc.
The disc could contain pictures, live video, it could even be recorded in 5 channel.
That's what I suspect we'll see.
It's basically like the CD-Extra format, only better.
There are a lot of people in this world who can hear the difference and suggest that the CD format is severely limited in terms of it's frequency range.
It's not as simple as you claim.
The Defense Department mandates that any software built for them has to also include the source code so that they can do whatever they want to it.
:)
They also mandate you write it in Ada...
Maintainance costs are seldom if ever cheaper when you go in-house.
Obviously there is a lot of in-house developed and maintained software, and that's generally because it is specific to the way you do business and the excess cost can therefore be jstified.
I don't know where you came up with that baloney.
Well if it's any help, it's not a user-tracking technology.
.Net is an application framework, it involves how your write applications and how those applications can communicate with one another over the network.
Hmm, I think you might be a little bit confused.
There is nothing about SDMI that will strongarm you into buying new players or new collections, as I understand it. Your CD player will still work, your current CD's will still work, and music will still continue to be sold in the CD format for many years to come.
I believe one of the theories behind SDMI is that the player requires no decoding software, it just plays the music as it is written.
SDMI detection is part of the recording process. Presumably to limit the number of copies of a song that can be made. i.e. you can make a copy from the original, but not from a copy of a copy.
The DVD-Audio format is being held up for this technology, along with an improved CSS like implementation to encode the digital bits.
Actually music has been available on DVD discs for a couple of years now. It's not been terribly popular, however, because few recording studios support it and it hasn't gained widespread acceptance for fear a new format that is just around the corner.
Even when DVD-Audio comes into being, again you will not be forced to go out and buy new collections. The DVD-Audio players will play older CD media, just as current DVD players do. In fact I suspect you'll just see the DVD-Audio spec wrapped into DVD players such that you'll have a device capable of playing several different audio and video formats.
There seems to be a lot of confusion and frankly, FUD, being spread by the anti-music-industry groups.
I don't care about copy protection, as long as it doesn't get in my way. Unfortunately the macrovision on video, and this new SDMI both corrupt the purity of the source and affect the potentional enjoyment.
I don't understand why you would want to have waited until after music was being released in this format for it to be broken.
The watermark concept is technically undesirable as it has an effect on the quality of the sound.
I'd rather see the whole concept killed before it get's implemented into the marketplace rather than afterwards.
You don't appear to have any concept as to what .Net is.
They started switching the web servers over to Win2k a little over a month ago and appear to be complete.
Check out www.netcraft.com, point it to www.hotmail.com and see what they are running today.
There never was a migration to NT4 that failed miserably, but nice of you to fall hook line and sinker for that tale.
An exception of the type 'java/lang/NullPointerException' was not handled.
Would you like to debug?
Man, I've got to turn off that Javascript debugger...
Looks to me like all of the front end servers are running Win2k. source: netcraft
Netcraft reported they were migrating about two months ago, and it's conveivable they have all been replaced.
As far as the back end servers. Sounds like sour grapes. I was responding regarding the point that the front end servers were not running Windows 2000.
Hotmail has been running Windows 2000 on their web servers for at least the past month.
I'm serving my ADSL connection to my home via a Win2k server using the routing service.
It is also pretty common to see NT machines acting as firewalls using commercial firewall products.
"I don't think"
Yes, you are correct, you don't.
The administration functions are available through scripting. You can modify the registry, user identities, permissions, network parameters, etc.
Man, you'd think after blowing all my moderator points modding up references to the ABC at Iowa State on the story last week, Hemos would know better.
I guess after posting stories nobody bothers to read the comments?
To summarize:
The ABC was the First Electronic Digital Computer.
It had several signifigant advances which directly relate to modern day computing:
- Regenerative memory
- Binary(base-2) number system
ENIAC used a decimal(base-10) number system, not binary.
ENIAC was signifigant as a large general purpose computer. Colossus was signifigant as a large code breaking computer.
But the designation of First Electronic Computer belongs to neither.
Steve
Iowa State Alumni, Computer Science
You can't stop Lazy and inexperienced users from using your product.
Look at slashdot.org, it's a prime example of lazy and iexperienced people using Linux to host a website, as evidenced by the hacked site last week from a clear text password stored in code.
Who is working to prevent lazy and inexperienced people from using Linux?
You are talking about Application architecture issues.
I could make the same exact mistakes with a Unix solution... they wouldn't be the fault of Unix, they would be the fault of my mistakes.
Microsoft copy it? Most of the cool little features I've seen in the demos are already in Windows 2000.
If you need a bar code scanner, the inconvenience of buying one for $100-200 is that great? What happens if you need a printer, do you spend $99 or do you wait until someone gives one away for free?
Or are you just so enthralled with being able to look up books you already own on Amazon.com by swiping in the bar code off them?
Ohhhhh.... Ahhhhh... I'm so excited.
You're absolutely right, the Digital Convergence business plan is seriously flawed and offers nothing that anybody needs or wants.
I still don't see the point of all of this. I don't have a CueCat, don't want a CueCat, don't need a CueCat and do not intend to obtain a CueCat.
The only inconvenience to my life the CueCat represents is reading a bunch of temper tantrums thrown by children on slashdot.org.
How are my consumer rights being eroded? I don't have a CueCat and don't plan on obtaining one... I really see no value in what they are offering as a service and fully suspect the idea will die of it's own accord. Besides, what kind of interoperability do you need with this device to foster competition? All it does is scan barcodes, that is easily accomplished with any number of other competing bar code scanners. You're wasting your time on this issue, it's not important.
Interesting.
The Findings of Fact actually contain some pretty blatant errors, and I would hardly call the government's case technically adept.
However it's also a fault of Microsoft that they did a pretty lousy job at pointing out the technical ineptitude of the government's case.
So I'd really have to say both sides bungled this job.
That you claim it's cut and dry is solely because of your prior bias.
There are many companies that offer bar code scanners that plug into PS/2 keyboard ports and require no extra drivers.
I don't see how wasting your time with this device helps. About the only thing being accomplished is to give Linux users a bad name... once again following the zealotry route that Amiga and OS/2 users did.
I've even upgraded it with a 2 gig drive, keyboard, mouse and 10baseT ethernet. Runs Debian Linux just swell.
If you buy today, I'll throw in a second PS/2!
That's right! Two PS/2's for the price of one!
I'm only asking $300, which is more than fair seeing as how you'll be getting my PS/2 a month before Sony releases their PS/2.
It's really simple. The Napster executives could have said "Wow, that's really cool", let's go ask the RIAA for their permission.
At that point the RIAA could have said yes or no, and perhaps Napster could have made their plans a reality.
But instead they took the approach of promoting blatant piracy with the thought that it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
They should have known better.
Not investing money in the company would be a much easier way to kill off applications.
I'm not a big fan of conspiracy theories that make no sense, much less conspiracy theories in general.