From the redbook standard information from wikipedia:
Recently, some major recording publishers have begun to sell CDs that violate the Red Book standard for the purposes of copy prevention, using systems like Copy control, or extra features such as DualDisc, which features a CD-layer and a DVD-layer. The CD-layer is much thinner, 0.9mm, than required by the Red Book, which stipulates 1.2mm. Philips and many other companies have warned them that including the Compact Disc Digital Audio logo on such non-conforming discs may constitute trademark infringement; either in anticipation or in response, the long-familiar logo is no longer to be seen on many recent CDs.
Any company can make any product and sell it for how much they like, but if they are going to make a "CD" then it must be a CD, which in turn will play on a Mac or Linux or any CD player with the CD logo on it. If a company wants to create something else, say SACD, DVD-A, it must be labeled and sold as such, and not as a CD.
Engineering and development costs per unit get smaller and smaller as more units are sold so they can't be predicted on a per unit basis until we know more about sales numbers.
OK, how about quality control then?
My experience with iPods is about zero, but I have heard from a number of online places where they talk about how great XYZ MP3 player is better than an iPod because it does ABC that the iPod does not do, but then they say that it was a PITA that the device only worked a couple of months.
Ever buy a harddisk from Sun? Ever look at the cost vs the normal retail cost of a SCSI disk? Buying a disk from Sun which are/were standard Fujitsu, IBM, Seagate, or whatever drives, but they cost about 2x what the normal drive costs. Why is that? I'm assuming quality control. I've got about 2 or 300 or so Sun disks downstairs that have had an extremely low failure rate (infant mortality and long term use), and some of the drives are 5+ years old. I've had a much higher failure rate with commodity drives from other companies, especially when just buying them off the shelf from some online company (as high as 50% failure rate in 2 months of use).
Also, there is a thing called supply and demand, and the whole phrase about "pricing a product at the maximum price that the market will bear" and other stuff that I just made up.
Again, I'm not saying that iPods are any good, because I have no interest in them because they don't do what I want. But when I look at other products, I commonly see "Its better than an iPod, but its too bad it does not work" all the time. That is why I have yet to of bought a portable music player.
FWIW, I'm looking for a player with a harddisk, digital inputs that record to wav or another lossless format at least 24/96 resolution. It must be reliable, preferably with 8+ hours of battery life, and preferably with the ability to play flac files and play files gaplessly, and cost <$500, preferably <$400. I've probably got other nit pick criteria that I can't think of. The closest was the iRiver H140 or similar, but the reliability was not there. The other was the Creative Jukebox 3, but I've heard that the reliability was not there either. Oh, and both of those are not in production anymore.
Option-arrow will skip over words in Cocoa apps. (Doesn't seem to work in Terminal, which sounds like it's where you live, though.)
In a terminal application, the key is to have ALL of the characters translated from the keyboard to the application that has keyboard input in the terminal.
There are to my knowledge, NO terminal commands in any terminal emulator that do anything besides send information to the end application (shell, editor, or whatever). Moving by word is a function of which shell you are using (if your at a prompt), or your editor, or whatever is accepting keyboard input, and they are different for most every shell (which can even be modified with an environment variable or changing the editing from vi or emacs or whatever).
The grandparent poster is a moron. I hate to be so strong, but thats MY FUCKING OPINION. I hope he gets moderated as such in the near future instead of "Informative".
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but there is NO FUCKING WAY you can change amongst those app's windows without using the mouse and going to the "window" menu or using "expose"
Try fucking using the Apple+` (backtick, right above the tab key) for switching between windows in an application. I believe there is a similar thing in windows as well, maybe Alt+`.
A requirement for my OS is that I have to be able to do most anything from the keyboard or the mouse, OS X fits that bill the best of any OS I've ever used.
"open" does whatever doubleclicking on its argument[s] would do. eg, if it's an application it launches it, if it's a document it launches the owning application and opens it, if it's a directory it opens it in a Finder window. It's one of the great examples of gui/cli synthesis that osx does uniquely well.
Windows does this too with the start.exe program. I was very glad that OS X had a similar mechanism, I use it all the time.
Much like pbcopy/pbpaste: cli interfaces to the clipboard, something I wanted in linux for years.
wxcopy/wxpaste has been available for Linux for almost 10 years, maybe longer.
However, my *biggest* beef with OS X (this is an unrelated plea for help from anyone who knows) is that I cannot find a way to set up remote "raw" printers on OS X. I have a Linux print server, and I want CUPS on OS X to simply deliver Postscript to the CUPS server on Linux and let the Linux box render and print it. I can use the CUPS web admin interface on the Mac and set up the raw printer queues, and I can print test pages to them, but no OS X apps will print to them.
I have no direct experience doing this through OS X, but that sounds like basic LPR/LPD printing where your using the Linux box as the print spooler. I have no clue what the "CUPS web admin" is, but if you go to File->Print, choose a new printer, choose IP Printing, and LPR/PPD, and Generic printer type, and aim it at the Linux box, it should work just fine. I've done this from Windows to a Linux box.
If that does not work, then yeah, something is wrong with OS X, but its a fairly normal thing to do, and being that CUPS is what is behind OS X's printing subsystem, I don't see where it _should_ be any big deal printing to another CUPS enabled box as a print spooler. The last time someone was blaming OS X's normal functionality and how it would not do simple stuff like display X on a Linux box, it was because the Linux box had its firewall denying all access except SSH.
Write a single application that would run on all Windows systems, or six different ones, each with its own unique quality assurance and support problems?
Seems a little bit oversimplified. I'm not directly affected because I don't use Microsoft software, but I've heard where I work that it takes months to verify if every service pack for Windows will work with existing software. And when I was a Windows developer, we were doing some pretty low level stuff with the authentication subystem, and things were very different between Win 98, 2000, and NT 4 (was that really still around then?). Granted, for a simple GUI app, Windows is very portable across its products, but if you get a little lower into the OS, things get nasty quick.
It's only a matter of days before a hack will surface on how to bypass any anti-recording-flag. The underground TiVo community is huge and need not worry die hard TiVo fans. Will it prevent casual TV recording? Maybe. Will it hurt the TiVo company? Probably. Can we still record what ever we want? Sure!
The thing is that we have to go out of our way and break the law to do what is "normal" and has been allowed for over 20 years and TV stations are still in business.
"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
-- Hunter S. Thompson
And to invoke Godwin's law and end the discussion:
"It's so convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal."
There was a time when people used to sit around on the porch, in the living room (hence the term "living" room), the kitchen table, etc, and actually talk to each other deeply.
Hmm, TV or socializing with friends or family. You choose.
I think we humans need that kind of thing.
Yes, we do. Its a prerequisite to being "human", do a search or read about feral children if you don't believe me.
I own about $600 worth of their (and other manufactuerers- Levitron is my friend) equipment; and I say different. Works great IF you figure out how it works, and have the software and hardware ability to get it to work.
OK. Like I said, its been years and I've even moved 3 or so times since then so it may have been the phase issues. I remember looking into the phase issues, but don't remember any details beyond that.
The issues I had were 1) the light did not reliably dim up or down 2) the light did not reliably turn on or off 3) the light would randomly turn on or off 4) Back then, x10 was worse than most porn sites with popups and other cheesy stuff they did with their "marketing". Being that popups haven't been an issue for 4 years or so, I guess thats not a big deal anymore, but they were still annoying with HUGE animated gifs that were obnoxious.
At the time, I was not that terribly interested in learning how to be an electrician and whatnot just so I could dim a light while sitting on my couch. I guess I loose my geek merit badge for that. Since then, I bought a $100 ceiling fan with a light and I can dim the light and change the speed of the fan from my couch. Thats good enough for me.
Unless things have changed over the past 6 or 7 years, the X10 stuff is junk and they are/were popup crazy, obnoxious web trolls. I owned one of their starter kits back then, and it was not worth the 6 bucks I spent on it.
Private citizens were stripped of their ability to protect themselves by the very people who admitted they were unable to protect anyone.
How could they be stripped after they shot the police?
I'm not advocating violence or shooting in general, but if anybody comes on my property to take my constitutionally protected rights to bear arms, then they will be leaving in a body bag.
I guess this was a test to see who was really prepared to protect themselves from the government. Another victory for the government.
This is the first time I have heard of such a thing, and I am almost shocked to hear such a thing. And yes, this was entirely illegal to do under any circumstances in the USA at least.
Assumming the Wine team only worked 2 hour per day, they've been at least 5 years working on it, which means 3650 hours.
Its more like 12 years now. I've never had a reason or interest to run wine, but from what I understand its still a shot in the dark if an app works or not.
Because the current business model is how many of those tickets can you sell in the first two weeks (or so, that is what the movie studio gets all of the ticket sales, and then a greatly reduced amount after that).
A $100million movie, where a good percentage of that is marketing, is trying to hype the movie to reclaim its costs in a weekend.
Also, being that most theaters have multiple movies showing at the same time, I doubt they want to compete over price for viewing.
What Apple should do is start it's own label. They should buy Apple (the Beatles UK company)...
Hmm, being that the Apple label and Apple computers have been in court for about 30 years, I don't see this happening. Just recently, the Apple label again sued Apple computers because of iTunes and iPods (maybe another iSomething, does anybody know where the little 'i' comes from?).
Apple computers have explicitly agreed to not enter the music business under the Apple name. Its a trademark violation.
If so, can I collect some money too? The RIAA owns no copyrights, sells no albums, owns no recording studios, producers, they do not play music either.
How do they leverage getting 1/3 of the sales of something that they have nothing to do with?
Now if that 30 cents were going to the label, I would understand (kinda).
I wish the RIAA had more gold and platinum albums to award, so they aren't so bored into doing crap like this.
And for another topic?
What other forms of business where the business model is to put your product over the freely available air waves and then require the government to lessen the freedom's of its people in order to protect that business?
WTF?
Did the government decide VHS or beta? What about the DVD format?
Fortunately, this is a dying "feature" of CC transactions.
The cashier tells you the amount, asks you how you want to pay, you reach into your wallet and pull out your card, you swipe the card yourself, and then Do you really want to buy this? dialog question comes up. I've asked many a cashier if anybody has said "No", and none have.
That is the perfect example of a PHB wisdom at its finest.
I used to joke with him that Emacs needed foot pedals in addition to a keyboard.
That my friend is the control key:)
Of course vi can be difficult and cryptic with it single letter keystrokes and love affair with the escape key
I use vi, and it works fine for me. Back when I was studying the "Scientific Study of Common Sense" (aka "Human Factors Engineering"), I was kicking around the idea of measuring basic editing skills with a vi novice with a modified version of vi that would actually use a foot pedal that when depressed the editor would be in "command mode" and when not pressed the editor would be in "insert mode". I still wish I had such a setup from time to time. Back when I was a code monkey, I used vi so much that I started to get some kind of repetitive stress or carpal tunnel thing in my left hand from hitting the escape key all the time.
I really like just about everything about vi except for hitting the escape key all the time. It has a steep learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, you don't think about the commands, you just do them.
Perhaps every copy of this book (I own the 2nd. edition as well as the manual and references from GNU) should come with a vi quick ref just for good measure.
As a sysadmin, you have to know vi because you will never know if emacs is going to be installed. I really feel sorry for new *NIX users. There is so much to learn to begin with, and an editor is one. The only simple to use with little to no learning curve is pico, but again that is not always installed.
Wouldn't this market analysis reveal which music people are willing to pirate rather than purchase?
Yes, but this is raw data. Essentially the cost of all of the music is the same, so the only variable is the user's desire to download the particular artist, album, or track.
High downloads indicates something regarding the tracks, and low downloads should speak volumes:)
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From the redbook standard information from wikipedia:
Recently, some major recording publishers have begun to sell CDs that violate the Red Book standard for the purposes of copy prevention, using systems like Copy control, or extra features such as DualDisc, which features a CD-layer and a DVD-layer. The CD-layer is much thinner, 0.9mm, than required by the Red Book, which stipulates 1.2mm. Philips and many other companies have warned them that including the Compact Disc Digital Audio logo on such non-conforming discs may constitute trademark infringement; either in anticipation or in response, the long-familiar logo is no longer to be seen on many recent CDs.
Any company can make any product and sell it for how much they like, but if they are going to make a "CD" then it must be a CD, which in turn will play on a Mac or Linux or any CD player with the CD logo on it. If a company wants to create something else, say SACD, DVD-A, it must be labeled and sold as such, and not as a CD.
End of story.
Engineering and development costs per unit get smaller and smaller as more units are sold so they can't be predicted on a per unit basis until we know more about sales numbers.
OK, how about quality control then?
My experience with iPods is about zero, but I have heard from a number of online places where they talk about how great XYZ MP3 player is better than an iPod because it does ABC that the iPod does not do, but then they say that it was a PITA that the device only worked a couple of months.
Ever buy a harddisk from Sun? Ever look at the cost vs the normal retail cost of a SCSI disk? Buying a disk from Sun which are/were standard Fujitsu, IBM, Seagate, or whatever drives, but they cost about 2x what the normal drive costs. Why is that? I'm assuming quality control. I've got about 2 or 300 or so Sun disks downstairs that have had an extremely low failure rate (infant mortality and long term use), and some of the drives are 5+ years old. I've had a much higher failure rate with commodity drives from other companies, especially when just buying them off the shelf from some online company (as high as 50% failure rate in 2 months of use).
Also, there is a thing called supply and demand, and the whole phrase about "pricing a product at the maximum price that the market will bear" and other stuff that I just made up.
Again, I'm not saying that iPods are any good, because I have no interest in them because they don't do what I want. But when I look at other products, I commonly see "Its better than an iPod, but its too bad it does not work" all the time. That is why I have yet to of bought a portable music player.
FWIW, I'm looking for a player with a harddisk, digital inputs that record to wav or another lossless format at least 24/96 resolution. It must be reliable, preferably with 8+ hours of battery life, and preferably with the ability to play flac files and play files gaplessly, and cost <$500, preferably <$400. I've probably got other nit pick criteria that I can't think of. The closest was the iRiver H140 or similar, but the reliability was not there. The other was the Creative Jukebox 3, but I've heard that the reliability was not there either. Oh, and both of those are not in production anymore.
Option-arrow will skip over words in Cocoa apps. (Doesn't seem to work in Terminal, which sounds like it's where you live, though.)
In a terminal application, the key is to have ALL of the characters translated from the keyboard to the application that has keyboard input in the terminal.
There are to my knowledge, NO terminal commands in any terminal emulator that do anything besides send information to the end application (shell, editor, or whatever). Moving by word is a function of which shell you are using (if your at a prompt), or your editor, or whatever is accepting keyboard input, and they are different for most every shell (which can even be modified with an environment variable or changing the editing from vi or emacs or whatever).
The grandparent poster is a moron. I hate to be so strong, but thats MY FUCKING OPINION. I hope he gets moderated as such in the near future instead of "Informative".
but there is NO FUCKING WAY you can change amongst those app's windows without using the mouse and going to the "window" menu or using "expose"
Try fucking using the Apple+` (backtick, right above the tab key) for switching between windows in an application. I believe there is a similar thing in windows as well, maybe Alt+`.
A requirement for my OS is that I have to be able to do most anything from the keyboard or the mouse, OS X fits that bill the best of any OS I've ever used.
"open" does whatever doubleclicking on its argument[s] would do. eg, if it's an application it launches it, if it's a document it launches the owning application and opens it, if it's a directory it opens it in a Finder window. It's one of the great examples of gui/cli synthesis that osx does uniquely well.
Windows does this too with the start.exe program. I was very glad that OS X had a similar mechanism, I use it all the time.
Much like pbcopy/pbpaste: cli interfaces to the clipboard, something I wanted in linux for years.
wxcopy/wxpaste has been available for Linux for almost 10 years, maybe longer.
However, my *biggest* beef with OS X (this is an unrelated plea for help from anyone who knows) is that I cannot find a way to set up remote "raw" printers on OS X. I have a Linux print server, and I want CUPS on OS X to simply deliver Postscript to the CUPS server on Linux and let the Linux box render and print it. I can use the CUPS web admin interface on the Mac and set up the raw printer queues, and I can print test pages to them, but no OS X apps will print to them.
I have no direct experience doing this through OS X, but that sounds like basic LPR/LPD printing where your using the Linux box as the print spooler. I have no clue what the "CUPS web admin" is, but if you go to File->Print, choose a new printer, choose IP Printing, and LPR/PPD, and Generic printer type, and aim it at the Linux box, it should work just fine. I've done this from Windows to a Linux box.
If that does not work, then yeah, something is wrong with OS X, but its a fairly normal thing to do, and being that CUPS is what is behind OS X's printing subsystem, I don't see where it _should_ be any big deal printing to another CUPS enabled box as a print spooler. The last time someone was blaming OS X's normal functionality and how it would not do simple stuff like display X on a Linux box, it was because the Linux box had its firewall denying all access except SSH.
but:
Write a single application that would run on all Windows systems, or six different ones, each with its own unique quality assurance and support problems?
Seems a little bit oversimplified. I'm not directly affected because I don't use Microsoft software, but I've heard where I work that it takes months to verify if every service pack for Windows will work with existing software. And when I was a Windows developer, we were doing some pretty low level stuff with the authentication subystem, and things were very different between Win 98, 2000, and NT 4 (was that really still around then?). Granted, for a simple GUI app, Windows is very portable across its products, but if you get a little lower into the OS, things get nasty quick.
What law would I be breaking?
DMCA for one.
It's only a matter of days before a hack will surface on how to bypass any anti-recording-flag. The underground TiVo community is huge and need not worry die hard TiVo fans. Will it prevent casual TV recording? Maybe. Will it hurt the TiVo company? Probably. Can we still record what ever we want? Sure!
The thing is that we have to go out of our way and break the law to do what is "normal" and has been allowed for over 20 years and TV stations are still in business.
"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
-- Hunter S. Thompson
And to invoke Godwin's law and end the discussion:
"It's so convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal."
-- Adolf Hitler
There was a time when people used to sit around on the porch, in the living room (hence the term "living" room), the kitchen table, etc, and actually talk to each other deeply.
Hmm, TV or socializing with friends or family. You choose.
I think we humans need that kind of thing.
Yes, we do. Its a prerequisite to being "human", do a search or read about feral children if you don't believe me.
I own about $600 worth of their (and other manufactuerers- Levitron is my friend) equipment; and I say different. Works great IF you figure out how it works, and have the software and hardware ability to get it to work.
OK. Like I said, its been years and I've even moved 3 or so times since then so it may have been the phase issues. I remember looking into the phase issues, but don't remember any details beyond that.
The issues I had were 1) the light did not reliably dim up or down 2) the light did not reliably turn on or off 3) the light would randomly turn on or off 4) Back then, x10 was worse than most porn sites with popups and other cheesy stuff they did with their "marketing". Being that popups haven't been an issue for 4 years or so, I guess thats not a big deal anymore, but they were still annoying with HUGE animated gifs that were obnoxious.
At the time, I was not that terribly interested in learning how to be an electrician and whatnot just so I could dim a light while sitting on my couch. I guess I loose my geek merit badge for that. Since then, I bought a $100 ceiling fan with a light and I can dim the light and change the speed of the fan from my couch. Thats good enough for me.
Unless things have changed over the past 6 or 7 years, the X10 stuff is junk and they are/were popup crazy, obnoxious web trolls. I owned one of their starter kits back then, and it was not worth the 6 bucks I spent on it.
Private citizens were stripped of their ability to protect themselves by the very people who admitted they were unable to protect anyone.
How could they be stripped after they shot the police?
I'm not advocating violence or shooting in general, but if anybody comes on my property to take my constitutionally protected rights to bear arms, then they will be leaving in a body bag.
I guess this was a test to see who was really prepared to protect themselves from the government. Another victory for the government.
This is the first time I have heard of such a thing, and I am almost shocked to hear such a thing. And yes, this was entirely illegal to do under any circumstances in the USA at least.
I don't see many people during a disaster...
Come on. Everybody has their priorities, especially under duress like an emergency.
1) Electronic gadgets must be powered on.
2) Food
3) Water
4) Safety of yourself and others
Get with the program!
The LSB officially supports at least ia32-64 and ia64 for 64bit architectures. Here is some info on multiple architectures: http://www.linuxbase.org.nyud.net:8090/LSBWiki/Mul tiArch.
Assumming the Wine team only worked 2 hour per day, they've been at least 5 years working on it, which means 3650 hours.
Its more like 12 years now. I've never had a reason or interest to run wine, but from what I understand its still a shot in the dark if an app works or not.
Then why do all movies cost the same?
Because the current business model is how many of those tickets can you sell in the first two weeks (or so, that is what the movie studio gets all of the ticket sales, and then a greatly reduced amount after that).
A $100million movie, where a good percentage of that is marketing, is trying to hype the movie to reclaim its costs in a weekend.
Also, being that most theaters have multiple movies showing at the same time, I doubt they want to compete over price for viewing.
we've become a society of cowards, insisting on safety above all.
Bravo!
Except, I would be a little more bold and say we're becoming a society of pussies, but well put.
Men just aren't really men anymore, and women are flourishing.
What Apple should do is start it's own label. They should buy Apple (the Beatles UK company)...
Hmm, being that the Apple label and Apple computers have been in court for about 30 years, I don't see this happening. Just recently, the Apple label again sued Apple computers because of iTunes and iPods (maybe another iSomething, does anybody know where the little 'i' comes from?).
Apple computers have explicitly agreed to not enter the music business under the Apple name. Its a trademark violation.
Reportedly, the RIAA gets 30 cents
Are you sure about this?
If so, can I collect some money too? The RIAA owns no copyrights, sells no albums, owns no recording studios, producers, they do not play music either.
How do they leverage getting 1/3 of the sales of something that they have nothing to do with?
Now if that 30 cents were going to the label, I would understand (kinda).
I wish the RIAA had more gold and platinum albums to award, so they aren't so bored into doing crap like this.
And for another topic?
What other forms of business where the business model is to put your product over the freely available air waves and then require the government to lessen the freedom's of its people in order to protect that business?
WTF?
Did the government decide VHS or beta? What about the DVD format?
Beef, its what's for dinner!
forgetting to press ok to confirm transaction
Fortunately, this is a dying "feature" of CC transactions.
The cashier tells you the amount, asks you how you want to pay, you reach into your wallet and pull out your card, you swipe the card yourself, and then Do you really want to buy this? dialog question comes up. I've asked many a cashier if anybody has said "No", and none have.
That is the perfect example of a PHB wisdom at its finest.
I used to joke with him that Emacs needed foot pedals in addition to a keyboard.
:)
That my friend is the control key
Of course vi can be difficult and cryptic with it single letter keystrokes and love affair with the escape key
I use vi, and it works fine for me. Back when I was studying the "Scientific Study of Common Sense" (aka "Human Factors Engineering"), I was kicking around the idea of measuring basic editing skills with a vi novice with a modified version of vi that would actually use a foot pedal that when depressed the editor would be in "command mode" and when not pressed the editor would be in "insert mode". I still wish I had such a setup from time to time. Back when I was a code monkey, I used vi so much that I started to get some kind of repetitive stress or carpal tunnel thing in my left hand from hitting the escape key all the time.
I really like just about everything about vi except for hitting the escape key all the time. It has a steep learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, you don't think about the commands, you just do them.
Perhaps every copy of this book (I own the 2nd. edition as well as the manual and references from GNU) should come with a vi quick ref just for good measure.
As a sysadmin, you have to know vi because you will never know if emacs is going to be installed. I really feel sorry for new *NIX users. There is so much to learn to begin with, and an editor is one. The only simple to use with little to no learning curve is pico, but again that is not always installed.
Wouldn't this market analysis reveal which music people are willing to pirate rather than purchase?
:)
Yes, but this is raw data. Essentially the cost of all of the music is the same, so the only variable is the user's desire to download the particular artist, album, or track.
High downloads indicates something regarding the tracks, and low downloads should speak volumes
Maybe in the US...
No software patents in the rest of the world.
http://www.mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html
I counted at least 33 different countries.