That takes a very limited definition of "value". I think you underestimate the number of people who would (informally) like to learn more. This provides a much easier avenue for doing just that. For some people, the line "learning is a lifelong experience" isn't just a line.
To the extent that a large part of classwork in school (from high school through college) is essentially a one-way lecture, I think this is a geat idea. For example, instead of a High School English teacher giving the same 30 min lecture to 5 different groups of kids, with 20 min left for questions, let all the kids watch a recording of the lecture, which they can "rewind" to catch things they would have otherwise missed. That means the teacher can spend his/her time in smaller groups helping with problems and answering questions.
Some of my most frustrating times in classes were when I couldn't keep up with taking notes and trying to understand the lecture at the same time. A "pause" button sure would have been helpful.
Not even the RIAA would dispute that you own the physical CD medium, and that it's your right to sell it.
That's not true, they have disputed it. I believe Garth Brooks was one big name performer who was trying to push, along with the RIAA, to make the used CD market illegal, vowing not to allow stores that dealt in used CDs to sell his new material.
I agree, but there's no way to actually "transfer" ownership of the files. Using iTMS for an example, unless the seller turns over the ID and password for their iTMS account, the buyer is left without the ability to validate a computer to play those files, so I don't think they could ever be transferred off of the iPod. Hopefully the buyer is aware of the limitations.
Unfortunately, I think what's going on on ebay is essentially selling the same music multiple times while still retaining the original. IOW making a profit off of illegal copying.
Based on my experience with the Mac port of mplayer, it handles all but the most recent WMV (WMV9?) format just fine. IOW its just the new stuff that's the problem.
I disagree on the performance. WMP has way more trouble keeping up without dropping frames/freezing than QT in my experience. And trying to fast-forward or "scrub through" video with WMP has always been pretty much useless (unlike doing the same in QT Player).
As a client, WMP has always been my last choice. Your pont about no full-screen without buying the Pro version is indeed a point off for Apple though.
You reminded me of another situation where I prefer an automatic transmission -the dreaded full stop while going up a very slippery hill. Yes, you can cheat and use the parking brake to prevent any backwards momentum from developing while moving the foot from the brake to the gas, but an automatic transmission makes it easier.
Actually, I think I prefer the automatic transmission for the initial second or so, but the standard tranny after that. If a tire starts spinning while trying to accelerate up the hill (after you've got a little forward momentum going) it seems easier to me to back off and ease back into it with the help of the clutch. That may just be me though, YMMV.
I think most drivers are "excellent" most of the time. The problem is, even the "Most Excellent" (the professional racer in your example) becomes a below-average driver the second they stop paying attention. Unfortunately, that happens to all of us at some time or another. I have to say I've been pretty lucky in having the other driver paying attention when I wasn't, and I know I've compensated for my fair share of drivers as well.
Speaking as someone who drives both, I disagree. Standard transmission does give more control is some situations, and it is "reflexive", but IMO an automatic transmission is better in a real squeeze. Nothing like trying to push the clutch, the brake, downshift and try to steer all at the same time... Even tightly belted into good seats, there's a limit on how many limbs can be applying the right touch to completely different controls.
Another idea, forwarded by Johny Carson (anybody remember him?) was that everyone be armed with dart guns that fired the suction-cup darts and had a "Stupid Driver" flag attached. Having 3 such darts stuck to your car yielded you a ticket for being a stupid driver.
Don't know where you're from, but everywhere I've been its the person in the economy car hitting the gas when the light turns green. Its the guy in the new, expesive sports car who never seems to realize there's a gas pedal in there somewhere that he only has to gaze at to smoke the economy car -but he never does.
IOW if you're in a hurry and you're coming up to a red light, you're usually better off getting behind the junker belching smoke than the new sports car. The guy in the junker is trying to get somewhere...
I have to say there have also been times I've accelerated out of trouble, like when someone tries to back out of a parking spot into the side of my car, or takes off from a stop sign without seeing me (angle to the left, accelerate, I'm out of the way). In both cases doing nothing or hitting the brakes would have meant a collision.
Today, I keep driving a car without assistance (except for airbags)
Where do you find a car with airbags but without power assisted brakes and steering?
And yes, the difference between power brakes and not sounds just like you described. Tech assisted driving has been going on for many decades. Today's drivers simply take ABS and TCS for granted in the same way they do power steering and brakes,
No, Apple Dashboard ripped off Apple Desk Accessories, which is what Konfabulator ripped off when Apple dropped their old Desk Accessory model for a model where each Desk Accessory simply became a separate program.
No, because then they become an agent of the government and are held to the same rules.
A police officer can't ask someone else to do something (perform a search) that they are not permitted to do. IANAL but I assume any evidence gained in this fashion would be thrown out of any court trial.
It doesn't have to be an undercover agent, or the agent who gets killed. It potentially puts any informants the agent (undercover or not) talks to in jeopardy.
So what? Journalists use the most extreme examples they can find for everything.
There are (and have been) research teams across the globe trying to do just that -reproduce the results. That's a vital part of science research.
What this team is doing (if I understand correctly) is going through his lab's actual raw data to see if they have actually done the expreiments and collected the data presented.
Another real bummer about the whole fiasco (if the results are falsified) is that the researchers I alluded to in the first paragraph may have transferred resources being used to develop other methods in order to try to reproduce the "successful" method given. A lot of (potentially) wasted time, effort and $$$.
For me, the ultimate game experience would be to have all the games on the hard drive so I don't even have to bother with the disks -that's for the PC or console.
I think its rather ironic that people don't see that needing what used to be called a "key disk" in order to play a game is one of the oldest forms of DRM.
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That takes a very limited definition of "value". I think you underestimate the number of people who would (informally) like to learn more. This provides a much easier avenue for doing just that. For some people, the line "learning is a lifelong experience" isn't just a line.
To the extent that a large part of classwork in school (from high school through college) is essentially a one-way lecture, I think this is a geat idea. For example, instead of a High School English teacher giving the same 30 min lecture to 5 different groups of kids, with 20 min left for questions, let all the kids watch a recording of the lecture, which they can "rewind" to catch things they would have otherwise missed. That means the teacher can spend his/her time in smaller groups helping with problems and answering questions.
Some of my most frustrating times in classes were when I couldn't keep up with taking notes and trying to understand the lecture at the same time. A "pause" button sure would have been helpful.
Not even the RIAA would dispute that you own the physical CD medium, and that it's your right to sell it.
That's not true, they have disputed it. I believe Garth Brooks was one big name performer who was trying to push, along with the RIAA, to make the used CD market illegal, vowing not to allow stores that dealt in used CDs to sell his new material.
I agree, but there's no way to actually "transfer" ownership of the files. Using iTMS for an example, unless the seller turns over the ID and password for their iTMS account, the buyer is left without the ability to validate a computer to play those files, so I don't think they could ever be transferred off of the iPod. Hopefully the buyer is aware of the limitations.
Unfortunately, I think what's going on on ebay is essentially selling the same music multiple times while still retaining the original. IOW making a profit off of illegal copying.
they claim the copying was justified because their employees' privacy may have been voilated
If that's a valid defense, I'd say all Sony/BMG CDs are up for grabs. I believe they violated many people's privacy.
Yeah, normally they just crash WMP...
Based on my experience with the Mac port of mplayer, it handles all but the most recent WMV (WMV9?) format just fine. IOW its just the new stuff that's the problem.
Yes.
Doesn't WMP play H.264? It is an mpeg standard IIRC, not an Apple standard, so I would assume WMP would handle it, but I could be wrong.
I disagree on the performance. WMP has way more trouble keeping up without dropping frames/freezing than QT in my experience. And trying to fast-forward or "scrub through" video with WMP has always been pretty much useless (unlike doing the same in QT Player).
As a client, WMP has always been my last choice. Your pont about no full-screen without buying the Pro version is indeed a point off for Apple though.
You reminded me of another situation where I prefer an automatic transmission -the dreaded full stop while going up a very slippery hill. Yes, you can cheat and use the parking brake to prevent any backwards momentum from developing while moving the foot from the brake to the gas, but an automatic transmission makes it easier.
Actually, I think I prefer the automatic transmission for the initial second or so, but the standard tranny after that. If a tire starts spinning while trying to accelerate up the hill (after you've got a little forward momentum going) it seems easier to me to back off and ease back into it with the help of the clutch. That may just be me though, YMMV.
I think most drivers are "excellent" most of the time. The problem is, even the "Most Excellent" (the professional racer in your example) becomes a below-average driver the second they stop paying attention. Unfortunately, that happens to all of us at some time or another. I have to say I've been pretty lucky in having the other driver paying attention when I wasn't, and I know I've compensated for my fair share of drivers as well.
IMO if you pay attention, and have a basic, intuitive idea of the laws of physics, you're an above average driver.
Yes, there's some physical aptitide involved, but IMO nothing replaces knowing and understanding what you're doing (for many things).
Speaking as someone who drives both, I disagree. Standard transmission does give more control is some situations, and it is "reflexive", but IMO an automatic transmission is better in a real squeeze. Nothing like trying to push the clutch, the brake, downshift and try to steer all at the same time... Even tightly belted into good seats, there's a limit on how many limbs can be applying the right touch to completely different controls.
Another idea, forwarded by Johny Carson (anybody remember him?) was that everyone be armed with dart guns that fired the suction-cup darts and had a "Stupid Driver" flag attached. Having 3 such darts stuck to your car yielded you a ticket for being a stupid driver.
Don't know where you're from, but everywhere I've been its the person in the economy car hitting the gas when the light turns green. Its the guy in the new, expesive sports car who never seems to realize there's a gas pedal in there somewhere that he only has to gaze at to smoke the economy car -but he never does.
IOW if you're in a hurry and you're coming up to a red light, you're usually better off getting behind the junker belching smoke than the new sports car. The guy in the junker is trying to get somewhere...
I have to say there have also been times I've accelerated out of trouble, like when someone tries to back out of a parking spot into the side of my car, or takes off from a stop sign without seeing me (angle to the left, accelerate, I'm out of the way). In both cases doing nothing or hitting the brakes would have meant a collision.
Today, I keep driving a car without assistance (except for airbags)
Where do you find a car with airbags but without power assisted brakes and steering?
And yes, the difference between power brakes and not sounds just like you described. Tech assisted driving has been going on for many decades. Today's drivers simply take ABS and TCS for granted in the same way they do power steering and brakes,
No, Apple Dashboard ripped off Apple Desk Accessories, which is what Konfabulator ripped off when Apple dropped their old Desk Accessory model for a model where each Desk Accessory simply became a separate program.
Yes, and Desk Accessories (introduced with the first Mac) predate Konfabulator.
No, because then they become an agent of the government and are held to the same rules.
A police officer can't ask someone else to do something (perform a search) that they are not permitted to do. IANAL but I assume any evidence gained in this fashion would be thrown out of any court trial.
It doesn't have to be an undercover agent, or the agent who gets killed. It potentially puts any informants the agent (undercover or not) talks to in jeopardy.
So what? Journalists use the most extreme examples they can find for everything.
There are (and have been) research teams across the globe trying to do just that -reproduce the results. That's a vital part of science research.
What this team is doing (if I understand correctly) is going through his lab's actual raw data to see if they have actually done the expreiments and collected the data presented.
Another real bummer about the whole fiasco (if the results are falsified) is that the researchers I alluded to in the first paragraph may have transferred resources being used to develop other methods in order to try to reproduce the "successful" method given. A lot of (potentially) wasted time, effort and $$$.
Hmmm. I always got the impression that Gates was a wannabe Jobs.
Yes!!!!
For me, the ultimate game experience would be to have all the games on the hard drive so I don't even have to bother with the disks -that's for the PC or console.
I think its rather ironic that people don't see that needing what used to be called a "key disk" in order to play a game is one of the oldest forms of DRM.