"Digital Rights Management (DRM) is another serious issue that many consumers are anxiously waiting to see how each new format handles. "As with Hollywood movies it is very important to protect our movies. We believe that both formats will offer an acceptable DRM solution. If they do not they will certainly have difficulty getting product," Hirsch [Vivid founder] said."
Flicker's CC material has over 8 million pictures now, all CC categories summarized. Even if you restrict yourself to the CC license subset Wikimedia uses, there's still more pictures on Flickr. However, Wikimedia possibly has a more "professional" set of pictures, rather than "here's me and my girlfriend on vacation" pictures, but with Flickr's powerful tagging system, I still recommend people looking for CC pictures suiting their license needs to check them out. I've found a surprising number of high quality photos there that suits Wikipedia perfectly, but keep in mind Wikipedia prefers CC material that is NOT restricted to non-commercial use only. When I use images from Flickr on Wikipedia, I usually use the most free license -- the Attribution license. Then it's a simple matter to attribute the picture with a link and author in the image description when you upload it.
Of course, don't forget Google's Advanced Search which nowadays support searching for CC licenses material too. If you're still looking, Wikipedia's public domain resource list is another good starting point.
OK, here goes some/. nitpicking but it was a funny title: Asynchronous Requests with JavaScript and Ajax. Someone need a reminder of what Ajax is again (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML).
How can RIAA/MPAA have any say in how electronic devices are made, and what they can support and can't? How can they even propose anything about it? They're just an organization, not owning electronics companies, and not a political party. I can understand *AA protecting their distributed discs as they have the rights to do so (because the record labels being so are members of *AA), and conversely they don't have any say in protecting discs where labels aren't members, but this is looking like power on a government level when not being part of the government.
What, you say? Everyone here bitching about Steve Jobs and his "hype" didn't even watch the keynote where Jobs honestly described the new Mac performance? I bet they don't read the articles either...
So, using your bolded quote, you're saying that on the most important benchmarks, it's 2-3 times faster?
What benchmark is more important than real life scenarios, I wonder?
I think Jobs' boasting and straying from the real world was unexpected as he, like most executives, enjoys doing things like these to promote their products. I also think it's not expected to see first-generations platforms of a new architecture be below par of what's maybe aimed for. Same thing happened with the first Pentium 1 PC's, the horrible FSB of the first Pentium 2's, not to mention the Pentium 4's where the former Pentium 3's were actually faster on many tests.
I expect greater fruits to come from Apple's Intel love later this year as they start transitioning to more powerful 64 bit systems and more mature architectures.
Should be caught with said files, it would be just as bad as if you had downloaded them using a P2P client for free.
Yes, and you may be caught with files having embedded digital signatures, but mp3's doesn't carry tracking information (besides the very easily manipulated file checksums), so being "caught with said mp3s" seems pretty far fetched.
As long as AllOfMp3.com themselves aren't monitored I don't see many risks pirates would take when downloading from there, and so far I'm not really aware of any subpoenas caused by AllOfMp3 downloading. Has to be on a very very small scale in that case.
As the Windows fans says "it only makes sense for Microsoft from a business perspective to give more reasons to purchase Vista, since it'll then be out earlier". And it does. But not from a security perspective, which happens to be what matters to the XP users.
I agree... Per person it sounds like very hard for a company to get something useful out of it. You won't necessarily represent the average behavior at all.
As a writer, I'd like to be paid for my work. I'd rather not make it easy for people to redistribute my work without compensating me. As a consumer, I'd like open access to the things I purchase.
Yes, but authors were compensated before the days of DRM, which was just a few years ago.
In large, I'm not sure DRM helps against piracy so much. Work is still pirated and distributed, and I for one is opting to not buy from online stores using DRM for exactly that reason. They'd sell more to me at least with less protections and more compatibility instead. I don't want to buy some proprietary WMA file or whatever and depend on how a specific *company* decide to support my culture.
I feel DRM comes at a far too great cost; hardware lock outs, software lock outs, fair use lock outs, and risks of software issues as with the Sony fiasco. Anyone proposing DRM usage should take these 4 issues and ask him/herself if the lack of product attractiveness from these put together still clearly make a somewhat better protection worth it.
In addition to paid search listings, websites also often receive search traffic from free, so-called organic listings. These visitors are obviously no problem, except that you can't count on them as a sustainable strategy, since organic listings can change without notice.
So in his eyes there are two major ways to be discovered on the web -- paid listings (according to him: "search engines") and free listings (but these aren't reliable).
And his problem is that competition inflates the prices they have to pay to get listed on "search engines".
My problem with understanding this is quite big -- all listings but the AdWords on e.g. Google are free and they use a PageRank model to put popular sites on top. The main space of search sites, yes, even that of MSN, is usually not dedicated to paid listings. Maybe around ~10-20% per page is. They're also usually clearly marked as ads so customers know they may not be directly related to their searches, but how much they paid.
I think he's grossly oversimplifying things to make his case. And if Google's unpaid listings are unreliable in the way his site may drop off the list because other get more popular, I think I'd rather side with the search engine for encouraging him to improve their service and make it more popular.
Haha, same here! I use my keyboard more than a lot others on the office, and also a lot at home, and there's nothing on the actual caps. I'd also like to know why some peoples have the infamous greasy brown/grey layers of whatever-it-is.
I'll just assume the whole bunch are car mechanics in their spare time for now.:-)
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Also, the "hate speech" laws in large due to Hitler's affection can be compared to Bush's terrorism laws due to Al Qaeda where even on the suspiciion of terrorism can you lose what was earlier seen as rather basic human rights. In both cases, I think it's pretty safe to say that politicians sometimes overreact.
Probably not more than what Google's national versions block in European countries. I.e. nothing special, if anything at all. It's been shown that Google is willing to comply the whim of governments when blocking stuff, so I can only see that this isn't considered harsh enough to be blocked by European countries. Please don't ask me what is though, and why this is how it is. IANAL.;-)
Over here, in Sweden, we however have government level blocking of (global) pedophilia imagery.
I agree; the new "Athlon" and its brand triggered the start of a new era for AMD. It didn't kill AMD. People generally read reviews and purchase what's good. That's why AMD is doing pretty well nowadays rather than getting killed off by that old brand change.
It's too bad many companies still don't understand that more important to know how to find ad affiliaties and where to show the ads is where to not show the ads, and which style of ads to pick. I can imagine them needing ads, sure, but although both these sites cover e.g. Computer RPG news and reviews, there's a difference between using IGN.com and RPGDot to get them. I couldn't even see much but ads on the entire front page of IGN.
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Was there another article to this that I missed?
It seems so.. The Vivid article:
"Digital Rights Management (DRM) is another serious issue that many consumers are anxiously waiting to see how each new format handles. "As with Hollywood movies it is very important to protect our movies. We believe that both formats will offer an acceptable DRM solution. If they do not they will certainly have difficulty getting product," Hirsch [Vivid founder] said."
Flicker's CC material has over 8 million pictures now, all CC categories summarized. Even if you restrict yourself to the CC license subset Wikimedia uses, there's still more pictures on Flickr. However, Wikimedia possibly has a more "professional" set of pictures, rather than "here's me and my girlfriend on vacation" pictures, but with Flickr's powerful tagging system, I still recommend people looking for CC pictures suiting their license needs to check them out. I've found a surprising number of high quality photos there that suits Wikipedia perfectly, but keep in mind Wikipedia prefers CC material that is NOT restricted to non-commercial use only. When I use images from Flickr on Wikipedia, I usually use the most free license -- the Attribution license. Then it's a simple matter to attribute the picture with a link and author in the image description when you upload it.
Of course, don't forget Google's Advanced Search which nowadays support searching for CC licenses material too. If you're still looking, Wikipedia's public domain resource list is another good starting point.
OK, here goes some /. nitpicking but it was a funny title: Asynchronous Requests with JavaScript and Ajax. Someone need a reminder of what Ajax is again (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML).
How can RIAA/MPAA have any say in how electronic devices are made, and what they can support and can't? How can they even propose anything about it? They're just an organization, not owning electronics companies, and not a political party. I can understand *AA protecting their distributed discs as they have the rights to do so (because the record labels being so are members of *AA), and conversely they don't have any say in protecting discs where labels aren't members, but this is looking like power on a government level when not being part of the government.
And that is, according to most statistics I've heard of, the actual standard for users.
What, you say? Everyone here bitching about Steve Jobs and his "hype" didn't even watch the keynote where Jobs honestly described the new Mac performance? I bet they don't read the articles either...
So, using your bolded quote, you're saying that on the most important benchmarks, it's 2-3 times faster?
What benchmark is more important than real life scenarios, I wonder?
I think Jobs' boasting and straying from the real world was unexpected as he, like most executives, enjoys doing things like these to promote their products. I also think it's not expected to see first-generations platforms of a new architecture be below par of what's maybe aimed for. Same thing happened with the first Pentium 1 PC's, the horrible FSB of the first Pentium 2's, not to mention the Pentium 4's where the former Pentium 3's were actually faster on many tests.
I expect greater fruits to come from Apple's Intel love later this year as they start transitioning to more powerful 64 bit systems and more mature architectures.
It's not a grey area whether it's legal to purchase mp3 files. It's as legal as purchasing a PDF document.
Should be caught with said files, it would be just as bad as if you had downloaded them using a P2P client for free.
Yes, and you may be caught with files having embedded digital signatures, but mp3's doesn't carry tracking information (besides the very easily manipulated file checksums), so being "caught with said mp3s" seems pretty far fetched.
As long as AllOfMp3.com themselves aren't monitored I don't see many risks pirates would take when downloading from there, and so far I'm not really aware of any subpoenas caused by AllOfMp3 downloading. Has to be on a very very small scale in that case.
As the Windows fans says "it only makes sense for Microsoft from a business perspective to give more reasons to purchase Vista, since it'll then be out earlier". And it does. But not from a security perspective, which happens to be what matters to the XP users.
I agree... Per person it sounds like very hard for a company to get something useful out of it.
You won't necessarily represent the average behavior at all.
As a writer, I'd like to be paid for my work. I'd rather not make it easy for people to redistribute my work without compensating me.
As a consumer, I'd like open access to the things I purchase.
Yes, but authors were compensated before the days of DRM, which was just a few years ago.
In large, I'm not sure DRM helps against piracy so much. Work is still pirated and distributed, and I for one is opting to not buy from online stores using DRM for exactly that reason. They'd sell more to me at least with less protections and more compatibility instead. I don't want to buy some proprietary WMA file or whatever and depend on how a specific *company* decide to support my culture.
I feel DRM comes at a far too great cost; hardware lock outs, software lock outs, fair use lock outs, and risks of software issues as with the Sony fiasco. Anyone proposing DRM usage should take these 4 issues and ask him/herself if the lack of product attractiveness from these put together still clearly make a somewhat better protection worth it.
It's actually a really interesting history behind Sex.com!
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sex.com
In addition to paid search listings, websites also often receive search traffic from free, so-called organic listings. These visitors are obviously no problem, except that you can't count on them as a sustainable strategy, since organic listings can change without notice.
So in his eyes there are two major ways to be discovered on the web -- paid listings (according to him: "search engines") and free listings (but these aren't reliable).
And his problem is that competition inflates the prices they have to pay to get listed on "search engines".
My problem with understanding this is quite big -- all listings but the AdWords on e.g. Google are free and they use a PageRank model to put popular sites on top. The main space of search sites, yes, even that of MSN, is usually not dedicated to paid listings. Maybe around ~10-20% per page is. They're also usually clearly marked as ads so customers know they may not be directly related to their searches, but how much they paid.
I think he's grossly oversimplifying things to make his case. And if Google's unpaid listings are unreliable in the way his site may drop off the list because other get more popular, I think I'd rather side with the search engine for encouraging him to improve their service and make it more popular.
Haha, same here! I use my keyboard more than a lot others on the office, and also a lot at home, and there's nothing on the actual caps. I'd also like to know why some peoples have the infamous greasy brown/grey layers of whatever-it-is.
:-)
I'll just assume the whole bunch are car mechanics in their spare time for now.
You'd never call an email a webpage.
How did you survive the spame age!?
Unfortunately, no ;-)
*shakes head*
Don't forget .name and .coop :-)
.coop domain out there.
Of those, I don't think I ever saw a
Other than that, what is the point of running XP on a Mac/Intel box? To be cool?
Is this a trick question?
For one thing, it's the only legal way there is to (if possible) dual boot OS X and Windows.
Also, the "hate speech" laws in large due to Hitler's affection can be compared to Bush's terrorism laws due to Al Qaeda where even on the suspiciion of terrorism can you lose what was earlier seen as rather basic human rights. In both cases, I think it's pretty safe to say that politicians sometimes overreact.
Probably not more than what Google's national versions block in European countries. I.e. nothing special, if anything at all. It's been shown that Google is willing to comply the whim of governments when blocking stuff, so I can only see that this isn't considered harsh enough to be blocked by European countries. Please don't ask me what is though, and why this is how it is. IANAL. ;-)
Over here, in Sweden, we however have government level blocking of (global) pedophilia imagery.
I'd think more along the lines of http://www.quaero.eu/
I agree; the new "Athlon" and its brand triggered the start of a new era for AMD. It didn't kill AMD. People generally read reviews and purchase what's good. That's why AMD is doing pretty well nowadays rather than getting killed off by that old brand change.
It's too bad many companies still don't understand that more important to know how to find ad affiliaties and where to show the ads is where to not show the ads, and which style of ads to pick. I can imagine them needing ads, sure, but although both these sites cover e.g. Computer RPG news and reviews, there's a difference between using IGN.com and RPGDot to get them. I couldn't even see much but ads on the entire front page of IGN.