I got that impression from the carbon-dev mailing list that Apple runs. There's this Quark India guy who often appears there, asking for help with the most elementary Mac OS development issues. This leaves me feeling none too sanguine about the future of the Macintosh product.
"I apologize for being a pioneer," Shuster said...
No need for apologies, Mr. Shuster. I'd be happy to go Legolas all over your ass, and you can count the arrows in your back later, like the pioneer that you are.
"But the easiest way to see that the songs contain the purchaser's name is this: open iTunes, click on a song you've purchased, and choose Get Info... and there's your name!"
I do hope you're being facetious with this point. Your name appears not once but twice, in the file's path (your account directory's name) as well as the file's ownership and permissions information. Neither of that has anything to do with DRM.
Remember when Microsoft was making so much noise about that? Its disingenuous bleat during the antitrust trials aside, I'm still waiting for them to innovate.
That they're now borrowing so heavily from the likes of Mac OS X recalls the days of 1990-1995, when Microsoft was playing catch-up with System 7. Now that was some kind of innovation, I tell ya!
"...and they'll have a devil of a time weeking out the true from the false responses."
'Weeking?' Are you saying that spammers use guinea pigs to process their replies?
('Wheeking' is the term given a guinea pig's loud, strident squeaks when, for example, they hear you rattling the plastic bag in which their timothy hay is packaged and know they're about to be fed.)
"Who needs ya'? Think about it baby, who needs you? Now you can save your lip, just pack your grip And leave a trail of smoke behind you Who needs ya'? Can you tell me baby, who needs you? Who needs you? Think about it baby Well, who needs you? Can you tell me please?"
...that if it's not one thing, it's another. Just when I had solved the problem of redeye in my digital photographs, now I have to deal with blue teeth?
I like Smints. They're really powerful mints. By the same token, are Speaches peachier or something?
I'm usually not one to fuss about spelling, but I guess I've seen so many instances of "speach" in news.admin.net-abuse.email that by now it kind of bothers me.
"Listen4ever has clearly located itself in China to avoid the ambit of United States copyright law," the suit said.
I'm certain that Listen4ever's alleged fixation on the United States explains those ads for ScottishPower and the Arsenal vs. Birmingham game.
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I read ZD's Stereo Review magazine for thirteen years before I ever heard of personal computers, so its impending bankruptcy seems especially poignant to me - even more so, the end of an era.
However, "poignant" != "too bad, I'll miss them," by any means. Cranks (such as Dvorak and Berst) posing as journalists really soured my opinion of their latter-day efforts.
I'd like to offer the funniest piece of 'real' documentation I've ever seen, a Technical Note from long ago. It's drenched in nerd humor. The original date has been removed, though I believe I first saw this particular Note back in 1988 (and it was probably written earlier than that). Apple, sadly, has purged the writing credits from all these early Notes, but I can remember the author's name: "Bo3b" Johnson.
This note was not only informative for its time, but it was damned funny. And because of its humor, I didn't just skim over it, I found myself savoring every bit of it. And the lessons it held are still with me to this very day. So there probably is a lot to be said for documentation having a sense of humor.
...through mp3.com, which required registration, and since this was a purchase, I had to submit my credit card information. Once I did, I was able to download the file. I now have it installed in my iTunes collection.
I then sent this note to Maverick:
Thank you for offering a 192 kbps mp3 file for a buck, a very reasonable price.
Thank you for not assuming (by not forcing copy protection measures on me) that I'm a thief. For what it's worth, you have my word I won't trade or sell this. I appreciate being treated fairly.
I never heard of Meshell Ndegeocello, but for the price, I figured I couldn't go too far wrong trying her music. If "Earth" is representative of her work, I'd say I like it very much.
Now that you've done this kind of thing once, I hope you'll do it again.
The more cynical among you may view this as sucking up, but I don't think so - after seeing schemes like pressplay.com, this is a breath of fresh air.
The track is 8:45 in length, and I guess you could call it dance music - in the same vein as Everything But The Girl (Ben Watt, who created this mix, worked with them). I thought this was easily worth a dollar.
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I got that impression from the carbon-dev mailing list that Apple runs. There's this Quark India guy who often appears there, asking for help with the most elementary Mac OS development issues. This leaves me feeling none too sanguine about the future of the Macintosh product.
Believe it or not, there once was a time when the RIAA concerned itself more with standards rather than litigation.
Was I the only one who read that to mean "stillborn", or "no activity?"
...this guy is going to be so upset.
No need for apologies, Mr. Shuster. I'd be happy to go Legolas all over your ass, and you can count the arrows in your back later, like the pioneer that you are.
"But the easiest way to see that the songs contain the purchaser's name is this: open iTunes, click on a song you've purchased, and choose Get Info... and there's your name!"
I do hope you're being facetious with this point. Your name appears not once but twice, in the file's path (your account directory's name) as well as the file's ownership and permissions information. Neither of that has anything to do with DRM.
Remember when Microsoft was making so much noise about that? Its disingenuous bleat during the antitrust trials aside, I'm still waiting for them to innovate.
That they're now borrowing so heavily from the likes of Mac OS X recalls the days of 1990-1995, when Microsoft was playing catch-up with System 7. Now that was some kind of innovation, I tell ya!
"...and they'll have a devil of a time weeking out the true from the false responses."
'Weeking?' Are you saying that spammers use guinea pigs to process their replies?
('Wheeking' is the term given a guinea pig's loud, strident squeaks when, for example, they hear you rattling the plastic bag in which their timothy hay is packaged and know they're about to be fed.)
Not to pick nits, but we no longer have the ears of Hillary Rosen in which to screw light bulbs. She took them with her when she resigned.
"No one will ever need more than 640K." - Bill Gates
"it's unclear where Apple is going to actually *use* said chip"
This reminded me of an exchange from the animated series "Freakazoid," when Douglas Douglas received a long-coveted computer chip for Christmas.
"Can I put it in, Mom?" he asked.
"Okay, but only in your computer."
(Well, I thought it was just as silly...)
"They will either succeed in destroying the Internet in the US (and turning America into an intellectual backwater in the process) or die trying."
Then let them die, and may they be quick about it.
...is precisely because of crap similar to this. Some of the tracks were encoded using Liquid Audio. No thanks!
Otherwise, I couldn't care less about this situation.
"Who needs ya'? Think about it baby, who needs you?
Now you can save your lip, just pack your grip
And leave a trail of smoke behind you
Who needs ya'? Can you tell me baby, who needs you?
Who needs you? Think about it baby
Well, who needs you? Can you tell me please?"
...but naming a hard disk "Fireball" for some reason doesn't bolster my confidence in using a product so named.
...that if it's not one thing, it's another. Just when I had solved the problem of redeye in my digital photographs, now I have to deal with blue teeth?
Forget this. I'm going back to 35mm photography.
"...sign language into audble speach..."
I like Smints. They're really powerful mints. By the same token, are Speaches peachier or something?
I'm usually not one to fuss about spelling, but I guess I've seen so many instances of "speach" in news.admin.net-abuse.email that by now it kind of bothers me.
"Listen4ever has clearly located itself in China to avoid the ambit of United States copyright law," the suit said.
I'm certain that Listen4ever's alleged fixation on the United States explains those ads for ScottishPower and the Arsenal vs. Birmingham game.
I read ZD's Stereo Review magazine for thirteen years before I ever heard of personal computers, so its impending bankruptcy seems especially poignant to me - even more so, the end of an era.
However, "poignant" != "too bad, I'll miss them," by any means. Cranks (such as Dvorak and Berst) posing as journalists really soured my opinion of their latter-day efforts.
Disturbing, no. Quixotic, yes.
Three weeks ago, Maverick offered a Meshell Ndegeocello track in a 192 kbps mp3 file for 99 cents. I haven't seen anyone mention the Slashdot story.
Maverick did it right, as far as I'm concerned. Phooey on this Liquid Audio crap.
I'd like to offer the funniest piece of 'real' documentation I've ever seen, a Technical Note from long ago. It's drenched in nerd humor. The original date has been removed, though I believe I first saw this particular Note back in 1988 (and it was probably written earlier than that). Apple, sadly, has purged the writing credits from all these early Notes, but I can remember the author's name: "Bo3b" Johnson.
This note was not only informative for its time, but it was damned funny. And because of its humor, I didn't just skim over it, I found myself savoring every bit of it. And the lessons it held are still with me to this very day. So there probably is a lot to be said for documentation having a sense of humor.
I then sent this note to Maverick:
The more cynical among you may view this as sucking up, but I don't think so - after seeing schemes like pressplay.com, this is a breath of fresh air.
The track is 8:45 in length, and I guess you could call it dance music - in the same vein as Everything But The Girl (Ben Watt, who created this mix, worked with them). I thought this was easily worth a dollar.
"A Microsoft Corp. spokesman...also said Microsoft did not focus on potential security flaws."
As if we didn't already know that!