I dunno what the undocumented security fixes and fixes to social engineering exploits will be, but there were quite a lot of documented fixes, at least for being Microsoft.:-) Actually, most of that 70+ page document details security fixes.
You don't need to. You only need to distribute the.flac,.wav,.mp3, whatever.
Yep, and that's why when Apple is choosing to directly distribute AAC files, music companies will want to take their chance to make these harder to spread as they know people will spread them otherwise. A lot. That's kinda the point I'm trying to make.:-) Again, which sane music company would want to allow Apple to spread non-DRM'ed music online? Bah... And CD's was a mistake to bring up in this thread anyway as an example for unprotected CD's, since RIAA would love to see those protected as well, and are already trying their hardest to protect these too, which has been mentioned countless times on Slashdot.
Maybe you've heard of them? Or are you choosing to be dense?
Jeez... Speaking about being dense...
How do you distribute a physical CD over Kazaa?
Converting it to an ISO file would be possible, but compare the convenience to spread a NON-DRM'ed mp3 to the convenience to spread a 700 MB ISO over Kazaa containing the very same album, where the near-CD quality of the lossy encoded file is neglible to the average internet user.
But your conclusion was right. Are you choosing to be dense?
Have you ever heard of a little something called a compact disc?
Have you ever heard of the difference between a physical media and a file, especially the difference in the convenience and efficieny to spread them? Physical CD's aren't really thrown around across Kazaa clients in the order of thousands upon thousands per second, are they?
It's music ripped from CD's to files and spread over P2P networks that bothers them. The CD's on their own aren't the problem, although they're trying to protect those too. The big problem is *data files* though.
.. oh and I'm not talking about lossy *encoding* here, but the simple fact that you don't loose information by copying a file and spread it over Kazaa or whatever.:-) The lossy encoding is a one-time price you pay, so it's not really a biggie to most people who aren't audiophiles.
"At issue is the situation when a movie is released in one country several months before it is released in another"
Yeah, well, that was the point. So you can't watch a movie in one area when you can in another. That was the whole point with region codes. If you think that's an issue, you should have commented way earlier about it. Like before they were implemented. Just found the quote funny since it was very much like:
"at issue is the situation when a computer virus spread to other computers"
Of course, I agree in practice, as this eats CD-Rs like mad, and adds at least $0.02 per track, not including time-costs.
Time for someone to make a CD-R emulator in software? There are CD-ROM emulators to make.iso files look like real CD's to the computer, but I doubt anyone has made something to fool a computer it's burning to a CD-R when it's really burning to a.iso file (that can later have its sound tracks extracted)
In my opinion, if a subscription service doesn't conveniently gives you something you want periodically, it isn't useful as a subscription service. And a music service would have a hard time knowing exactly what kind of music I like since it might not be all tunes from the same genre, or all tunes from even the same artist. So it isn't fit as a subscription service. If I subscribed to a music service, I'd feel rushed to get some music in order to not just throw my money away on the subscription cost itself.
I think the only reason they keep trying those services with us is because it offers them a VERY nice source of income with the money keeping to steadily roll in as long as people are reasonably pleased with it. This is likely much easier for them than having to motivate the users to buy for each song or album. I also think users are more forgiving when subscribing to something, especially if it's rather cheap, due to laziness of having to unsubscribe etc.
"On Apple's iTunes site, Apple has announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 25 Million songs from the iTunes Music Store. It seems the launch of the ITMS on the Windows platform has boosted sales tremendously."
Jee, who could've known?:-)
I wonder if it has anything to do with platform usage.
However, this isn't that much when cosdering the rather low price / song. It's actually quite few. I wonder if Apple is making some money on iTunes *alone* in the end or if it's a way for Apple to get some PR and/or sell iPods? As some have said, it's pocket change to a company like Apple, and unfortunately probably to the RIAA as well.
I strongly believe, unfortunately, that Bush & co lied to the entire world. And got Blair to do so as well. I can't understand the reason behind needing to go so far as to lie to start a war though. Was it for some "we saved Iraq from their horrible dictator" PR? That sounds weird since countries seldom spontaneously launch a massive attack against a country just to make things democratic over there. Or maybe it was because of Bush's paranoia, thinking Saddam was funding Al-Qaeda to a great extent? But that's still risking to cause a whole lot of trouble for themselves if they're completely wrong. Hmm
There is a difference between being wrong and lieing. The administration thought Iraq had chemical and biological weapons, so did the rest of the world. It appears they were all wrong.
I'd still say they lied, since IIRC, Powell had a press conference about their evidence against Saddam that would give them good reasons to start a war. Evidence being the key word here.
Umm.. there's something called Real Life.. It's a hoot, I suggest you disconnect for a while and try it out.
Bah... Troll modded high...:-/
I bet he was only saying this: "nice to see there are other movies than RotK to look forward to after that one", and not "ah, cool, that will give me something else to do than sit on my butt and browsing Slashdot". But of course, I can't be 100% sure, and neither can you. I could basically say the same to you, as you're posting on Slashdot. That must mean you're posting on Slashdot all day long and are just waiting to pay for the right hooker to get over to you? Right?:-/
No need to attack someone just because of your personal prejudices...
I see that in essence you're saying that Ralph Bashki's script was superior and that Peter Jackson isn't anything special. Sure, that's fine with me, but I personally believe that Peter Jackson has visualized the Lord of the Rings extremely well, but then again, I'm watching it with an open mind, not looking for deviations from the book in the script. I find it far more enjoyable to watch that way. I find a reviewer put it best:
"Tolkien purists will be as disgruntled with The Return of the King as they were with The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, but this isn't made for them. This is Tolkien's saga as filtered through Jackson's fertile imagination, not some dry, slavishly faithful adaptation (although it is probably as true to the books in both spirit and narrative as any movie version could be). If you want rigorous adherence to the text, wait for the next Harry Potter movie."
Over thousand comments and you guys have still not even got his name right. What a great illustration of the sloppiness of the slashdot editors doing everything in their power to turn the articles into amateur quality.:-P
He borrows storylines or concepts, plasters them into massively hyped pop hollywood blockbusters. Not that this doesn't take a certain talent, but talent of a completely different sort of that of Tolkien.
And exactly *how* does that make him worse than Tolkien? It wouldn't surprise me if Tolkien would suck at film making. You see, writing books and directing movies are two entirely different tasks. Tolkien was an excellent author of a book, and obviously good at inventing a story too. Jackson is an excellent director, and I have rarely seen anyone better than him at adapting a story to a movie like he has done. And that's exactly one of the things directors do and get paid for doing right. He would be borrowing ideas if he made movies very similar to other movies, though. But no one has illustrated this story on the movie screen as well as Jackson before, and that makes him a brilliant director IMHO.
I doubt piracy is a huge catalyst for music sales. I'm certainly not buing as much music as I would if I wouldn't download music. But I guess many discovers new good music when downloading it and thus "trialing" it, and thinks "what the heck, I'll just buy the whole album and be sure I easily get it all in high quality".
So the truth probably lies somewhere in between. Music companies don't lose massive amounts of sales, piracy don't boost sales, but maybe... piracy makes a negligible difference?
I think unit names should directly follow the value, without a space between. Moz probably considers "pt" to be a font name and the sole "8" as a font size in pixels, or whatever default it uses. I don't think this is a biggie really, since it seems to be pretty uncommon. I can actually not remember seeing a bug caused by a CSS mistake like this before.
Just use the workaround the other replier mentioned for now.
Slashdot Mirror
Mozilla Firebird works quite well too, and isn't shareware either. And I heard you get a browser that's better than IE as a special offer! :-D
I dunno what the undocumented security fixes and fixes to social engineering exploits will be, but there were quite a lot of documented fixes, at least for being Microsoft. :-) Actually, most of that 70+ page document details security fixes.
Unfortunately, Microsoft hasn't designed a presentational format for documents (not counting PowerPoint as it's more for slideshows).
Until they design their own proprietary closed-source format I think we'll have to live with DOC.
"How do you distribute a physical CD over Kazaa?"
.flac, .wav, .mp3, whatever.
:-) Again, which sane music company would want to allow Apple to spread non-DRM'ed music online? Bah... And CD's was a mistake to bring up in this thread anyway as an example for unprotected CD's, since RIAA would love to see those protected as well, and are already trying their hardest to protect these too, which has been mentioned countless times on Slashdot.
You don't need to. You only need to distribute the
Yep, and that's why when Apple is choosing to directly distribute AAC files, music companies will want to take their chance to make these harder to spread as they know people will spread them otherwise. A lot. That's kinda the point I'm trying to make.
YES YES YES YES.
They're called "CDs".
Maybe you've heard of them? Or are you choosing to be dense?
Jeez... Speaking about being dense...
How do you distribute a physical CD over Kazaa?
Converting it to an ISO file would be possible, but compare the convenience to spread a NON-DRM'ed mp3 to the convenience to spread a 700 MB ISO over Kazaa containing the very same album, where the near-CD quality of the lossy encoded file is neglible to the average internet user.
But your conclusion was right. Are you choosing to be dense?
Have you ever heard of a little something called a compact disc?
Have you ever heard of the difference between a physical media and a file, especially the difference in the convenience and efficieny to spread them? Physical CD's aren't really thrown around across Kazaa clients in the order of thousands upon thousands per second, are they?
It's music ripped from CD's to files and spread over P2P networks that bothers them. The CD's on their own aren't the problem, although they're trying to protect those too. The big problem is *data files* though.
.. oh and I'm not talking about lossy *encoding* here, but the simple fact that you don't loose information by copying a file and spread it over Kazaa or whatever. :-) The lossy encoding is a one-time price you pay, so it's not really a biggie to most people who aren't audiophiles.
Like tapes? Or radio?
That's because they're lossy formats.
Digital media isn't lossy and a copy is identical to the original. That's why the music companies feel the need to be DRM it.
"At issue is the situation when a movie is released in one country several months before it is released in another"
Yeah, well, that was the point. So you can't watch a movie in one area when you can in another. That was the whole point with region codes. If you think that's an issue, you should have commented way earlier about it. Like before they were implemented. Just found the quote funny since it was very much like:
"at issue is the situation when a computer virus spread to other computers"
Of course, I agree in practice, as this eats CD-Rs like mad, and adds at least $0.02 per track, not including time-costs.
.iso files look like real CD's to the computer, but I doubt anyone has made something to fool a computer it's burning to a CD-R when it's really burning to a .iso file (that can later have its sound tracks extracted)
Time for someone to make a CD-R emulator in software? There are CD-ROM emulators to make
Also, Kazaa not only distributes music, but "warez" as well, i.e. games and applications
:-)
And porn. But porn was never a big among downloaders, right?
In my opinion, if a subscription service doesn't conveniently gives you something you want periodically, it isn't useful as a subscription service. And a music service would have a hard time knowing exactly what kind of music I like since it might not be all tunes from the same genre, or all tunes from even the same artist. So it isn't fit as a subscription service. If I subscribed to a music service, I'd feel rushed to get some music in order to not just throw my money away on the subscription cost itself.
I think the only reason they keep trying those services with us is because it offers them a VERY nice source of income with the money keeping to steadily roll in as long as people are reasonably pleased with it. This is likely much easier for them than having to motivate the users to buy for each song or album. I also think users are more forgiving when subscribing to something, especially if it's rather cheap, due to laziness of having to unsubscribe etc.
Why treat your paying customers like (prospective) criminals, when the pirates will simply continue to use uncrippled formats?
Because they have to?
Do you seriously think the music companies would agree on letting a company distribute non-DRM'ed music?
But the option could of course be to not sell music. But maybe Apple wish to sell music.
"On Apple's iTunes site, Apple has announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 25 Million songs from the iTunes Music Store. It seems the launch of the ITMS on the Windows platform has boosted sales tremendously."
:-)
Jee, who could've known?
I wonder if it has anything to do with platform usage.
However, this isn't that much when cosdering the rather low price / song. It's actually quite few. I wonder if Apple is making some money on iTunes *alone* in the end or if it's a way for Apple to get some PR and/or sell iPods? As some have said, it's pocket change to a company like Apple, and unfortunately probably to the RIAA as well.
I'm still waiting for that bug-free OS we were promised years ago
Did I miss something or did Bill Gates promise Windows 95 to be bug free?
I strongly believe, unfortunately, that Bush & co lied to the entire world. And got Blair to do so as well. I can't understand the reason behind needing to go so far as to lie to start a war though. Was it for some "we saved Iraq from their horrible dictator" PR? That sounds weird since countries seldom spontaneously launch a massive attack against a country just to make things democratic over there. Or maybe it was because of Bush's paranoia, thinking Saddam was funding Al-Qaeda to a great extent? But that's still risking to cause a whole lot of trouble for themselves if they're completely wrong. Hmm
There is a difference between being wrong and lieing. The administration thought Iraq had chemical and biological weapons, so did the rest of the world. It appears they were all wrong.
I'd still say they lied, since IIRC, Powell had a press conference about their evidence against Saddam that would give them good reasons to start a war. Evidence being the key word here.
Umm.. there's something called Real Life.. It's a hoot, I suggest you disconnect for a while and try it out.
:-/
:-/
Bah... Troll modded high...
I bet he was only saying this: "nice to see there are other movies than RotK to look forward to after that one", and not "ah, cool, that will give me something else to do than sit on my butt and browsing Slashdot". But of course, I can't be 100% sure, and neither can you. I could basically say the same to you, as you're posting on Slashdot. That must mean you're posting on Slashdot all day long and are just waiting to pay for the right hooker to get over to you? Right?
No need to attack someone just because of your personal prejudices...
I see that in essence you're saying that Ralph Bashki's script was superior and that Peter Jackson isn't anything special. Sure, that's fine with me, but I personally believe that Peter Jackson has visualized the Lord of the Rings extremely well, but then again, I'm watching it with an open mind, not looking for deviations from the book in the script. I find it far more enjoyable to watch that way. I find a reviewer put it best:
"Tolkien purists will be as disgruntled with The Return of the King as they were with The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, but this isn't made for them. This is Tolkien's saga as filtered through Jackson's fertile imagination, not some dry, slavishly faithful adaptation (although it is probably as true to the books in both spirit and narrative as any movie version could be). If you want rigorous adherence to the text, wait for the next Harry Potter movie."
"Saddam Hissein was arrested"
:-P
Over thousand comments and you guys have still not even got his name right. What a great illustration of the sloppiness of the slashdot editors doing everything in their power to turn the articles into amateur quality.
He borrows storylines or concepts, plasters them into massively hyped pop hollywood blockbusters. Not that this doesn't take a certain talent, but talent of a completely different sort of that of Tolkien.
And exactly *how* does that make him worse than Tolkien? It wouldn't surprise me if Tolkien would suck at film making. You see, writing books and directing movies are two entirely different tasks. Tolkien was an excellent author of a book, and obviously good at inventing a story too. Jackson is an excellent director, and I have rarely seen anyone better than him at adapting a story to a movie like he has done. And that's exactly one of the things directors do and get paid for doing right. He would be borrowing ideas if he made movies very similar to other movies, though. But no one has illustrated this story on the movie screen as well as Jackson before, and that makes him a brilliant director IMHO.
I doubt piracy is a huge catalyst for music sales. I'm certainly not buing as much music as I would if I wouldn't download music. But I guess many discovers new good music when downloading it and thus "trialing" it, and thinks "what the heck, I'll just buy the whole album and be sure I easily get it all in high quality".
So the truth probably lies somewhere in between. Music companies don't lose massive amounts of sales, piracy don't boost sales, but maybe... piracy makes a negligible difference?
It still did for me though. :-/
Checked after I had posted that, out of curiosity.
I was using IE 6 on Windows 2000, version 6.0.2800.1106
I think unit names should directly follow the value, without a space between. Moz probably considers "pt" to be a font name and the sole "8" as a font size in pixels, or whatever default it uses. I don't think this is a biggie really, since it seems to be pretty uncommon. I can actually not remember seeing a bug caused by a CSS mistake like this before.
Just use the workaround the other replier mentioned for now.
Does a html page with a single row:
<input type>