Napster's DRM (Microsoft DRM) is entirely closed. Apple's DRM (Fairplay) is a room with an unlocked door. Fairplay cannot be "strengthened" after the market has widely embraced it. Fairplay consists of the AAC file I downloaded to my computer, and a key that I also downloaded to my computer. I can disconnect my computer from the Internet forever and it will forever play my music. I can, in fact, back up my key and my file.
I would argue against the headphones. I used to think the $80 Sony closed-ear headphones I purchased were really good because they sounded so much better than the Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 desktop theater speakers I had or any of the other headphones I have, but now I have a home audio setup and I realize how poor the headphones sound.
That being said, I've done blind switches between my 256Kbps MP3s and 160Kbps AACs and the original CD by playing the sources simultaneously and switching back and forth. I could identify a difference but it was very subtle and I probably could not have clearly identified the difference without switching back and forth. At the same time, my listening room, receiver, and speakers are not the best, and I was running analog L/R out of my iBook while my DVD player was running lPCM over the digital out. I am planning to get an M-Audio adapter so I can run digital lPCM from my iBook.
You do get artwork. It appears right there in iTunes. Not tried it, but you can most likely copy & paste (or just drag) it to save/print it. There's a host of programs (including AppleScripts for iTunes on the Mac) which makes automating that a breeze.
I printed the artwork out on CD labels to put on the CDs I burned of the music I bought from the iTMS. It is not print-quality, unfortunately, and it's also the jewel case cover and not the actual CD "label/image", but whatever.
Unfortunately, now that I have a decent home audio setup (spent over $10k on everything) I can hear the difference between 128Kbps AAC and the CD. So I'm planning to re-purchase in 44.1kHz/16-bit redbook format (i.e. original CDs) the music I purchased off the iTMS.
Not sure I'd be comfortable contracting or hiring someone who fudged their resume, lied, and bragged about themselves. Having the/. handle t0qer wouldn't help either.
I'm not trying to flame you or anything. Just being as honest about things as you are.
Are we as American technical workers shooting ourselves in the foot by helping to train our replacements in American academic institutions?
Are we, as human beings, so selfish that we would rather ensure personal superiority over another through regulation and control rather than hard work?
But show me where Christians or any other religious followers are blowing themselves up in the name of their faith for the purpose of killing people who presumably aren't of their faith.
Well, certain Christian groups will certainly kill people who they disagree with: see abortion clinic assassinations. From one viewpoint, this is even less respectable than suicide bombers, since you aren't willing to die for your beliefs.
I also don't think the suicide bombers are interested in converting anyone. Their objective is different, and so it doesn't make as much sense to compare it to the evanglistic efforts of Christians.
As well, historically Christians have done some horrible things that were sanctioned, encouraged, or even run by the Church. Of course, that's in the past, but I still have a severe lack of respect for the Catholic Church when they do not seem to regret or apologize for those things, and I would not trust the Church to put my interests ahead of their own.
Back to the evangelistic efforts, I don't think any religious organization has pushed themselves on others are hard as Christians. I don't remember anyone except Christians pretending to be my friend until it was clear I wasn't interested in converting. Or any Buddhist or Muslim religious flyers on my doorstep. Christians also seem to be the only ones telling me I'm going to burn in hell forever. Doesn't seem very nice of them.
If you make the biological systems analogy, you will also have to acknowledge that a diverse operating system ecosystem is critical to the health and well being of things, especially as the Internet becomes more widely available. We need Linux, IRIX, Solaris, Windows, OS X and embedded OS's to maintain the health of things.
What we really need is for Linux, IRIX, Solaris, Windows, OS X, and embedded OS's to start fornicating with each other like crazy, "go forth and multiply", and let the best children survive, while leaving the weak to die. So, open up all your ports, send massive amounts of data between the systems, and fire your sysadmins.
We pay grads $35k. Good workers make it up to $50k in two years, mediocre ones go nowhere and shitty ones get fired.
Makes sense to me. I don't see why Duff Beer would have any reason to pay someone with a Bachelor's more than $35k to mix beer or something like that. Especially in Springfield, where Homer Simpson (a complete doofus) can afford a house and support a wife and three kids.
The problem is, there are a TON of moderators that will go and mod-bomb people because they don't like them, regardless of how well-reasoned their post is. Posts are supposed to be moderated, not individuals, but that's not how a lot of people do it.
Then does starting at +5 and going down really make a difference from starting at +1 and going down, in that respect?
Two problems I can think of: reading at +5-only becomes just as bad as reading at -1 until enough moderators run through the _entire_ thread culling out the stupid. The penalty for "voiding your warranty" (as proposed by the parent-parent) isn't worse than getting modded down regularly.
Possible solutions? Warranty puts you up to +X where X is a preference setting. Maybe the default threshold you read at. People who have liked what you said in the past will see you at +X+1 (friend/foe system). The first mod-down removes the warranty completely and pushes the post to +Y where Y is what the poster would have posted at without warranty.
Anyone know if the reason 15% of people falsely think they have an HDTV television is because they only have EDTV? Seems like a fair reason, since no one has heard of EDTV.
What all these gadgets really need is something like the Mac OS "Simple Finder", which hides all the extra goodies if you don't need them.
Another reason: placing the button on the scroll wheel, instead of in a separate row at the top, is a better user-interface. I know apple moved the buttons on the iPod up into a separate row because having those touch-sensitive next to the scroll wheel would cause problems, but that interface is not as good as the 1st and 2nd generation ones, or now the iPod Mini.
Wow, times have changed since I was a teen. I didn't know ANY TEENS with $1000 to blow on gadgets. I didn't know I was so old. Proves how STUPID teen girls you know are.
I'm not replying to toot my own horn, but I started making $300/mo. when I was 12 managing an accounts receivable database in FileMaker Pro. Legally. When I was 16 I started consulting and was making several thousand a year which I used to buy "gadgets".
That belief is rooted in a very limited exposure to programming languages: just because the only languages you (apparently) have seen are like C++ and Python, whose execution models are both fairly close to the machine, you assume that everything has to be that way. It isn't. There are plenty of languages where an understanding of machine language is of little help and whose execution model is completely different from machine language.
In fact, interpreting programming languages as machine code is likely to prevent you from fully exploiting the capabilities and concepts supported/exposed by the higher-level language. Sometimes a language has some capability that just seems like "magic", and anyone who is wasting time translating machine code to a higher language and vice versa (or whose understanding of how to use the higher language is limited in that fashion) is going to produce code that suffers from problems using a higher language is trying to avoid.
It's like saying that someone who understands the subject, verb, and direct object concept of language can be fluent in any language (with regards to that sentence structure). Some languages don't even work that way!
Must have experience with a write-only scripting language" which we all know refers to Perl:P
Spoken like someone who has never programed Bourne Shell, yet alone C shell or JCL.
Try MS-DOS batch, where you have to create functions on-the-fly by writing code that creates new MS-DOS batch files for you...I tell you that was horrible.
l_r_sensitive's point was that your original post seemed to imply that your interpretation of fair use rights had no limit. Which is also the way I read it. Your second post (the parent of this post) makes it clear that you didn't mean fair use rights are limitless.
People have been experimenting. This isn't the first time someone has put forth a suggestion (and sometimes with implementation details) on how to curb spam. Yahoo! is not the first entity to suggest the use of digital signatures at the sender or via SMTP. However, they have the weight and influence to make their choice/suggestion a reality.
Sony had a superior quality format for videotape (betamax), but wouldn't share with anyone. Meanwhile, Panasonic, Philips, and others all got together and agreed on VHS format. Competition brought lower priced machines, and eventually VHS killed betamax for home use.
So, seems like Apple is aware of this and thus sharing with quite a few people: Pepsi, Windows, HP, etc. And they certainly haven't been timid about signing up as many celebrities as they can to promote the iPod and the iTMS. It would've been kind of hard for a movie star to walk around with their betamax player, but the iPod is the new Air Jordan.
I in California (San Jose, to be exact) and getting DSL through an independent ISP over SBC. I am also required to have a voice line with SBC, but I'm only paying $5/mo. or so for the most basic plan. Might want to look and see if Verizon has a cheaper voice plan.
"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs."
-- Bill Gates, from "OS/2 Programmer's Guide" (forward by Bill Gates)
I don't think it's that hard to believe Bill Gates thought OS/2 would be destined to be the most important OS of all time. OS/2 sure gave Microsoft a whole lot of free IBM research and development when they backstabbed IBM and launched Windows 95. OS/2 was ahead of its time, in terms of the technology and capabilities. In a lot of ways the hardware just wasn't there yet. But OS/2 certainly created an incredible opportunity for Microsoft.
Why is BigPond trying to identify a spammer from just 10 minutes of traffic. Or even just 15 minutes? I would think it would be much better to have a metric like 1000 emails in a single day. Or 10,000 emails over a week?
I can very easily go through 20 emails in 10 minutes just because I might be having one of those back-and-forth email conversations. I don't know if I could do 400 in a 15-minute period, unless I was running a mailing list (well, which I do, but that's why I use "personal" business ISPs).
This sort of metric just seems extremely silly. Is someone putting pressure on BigPond, or is one of their executives being an idiot?
I hardly think India sees the "downside" to this "globalization". Being forced to compete with others is not a downside. It's called a reality check. Quite simply, you're not as important and good as you thought you were.
I think that yes, in this case, the prices are lower due to piracy, but maybe not for the reason most people think. It's not "fair" competition and while perhaps Sony and Nintendo will raise prices or compensate for it in other countries, I think the actual approach is akin to dumping.
Sony and Nintendo are dumping their product, likely below cost given this is a completely new market, to gain mind share, compete against each other, and establish their supply chains and business partners in mainland China.
Once things are set up, and only if they can find enough people to purchase non-pirated software, then they will break out the economic calculators to figure out at what price point they can both continue pulling people away from stealing and maximize their profit.
[And all you idiots who are going to yell at me "copyright infringement not stealing", I use stealing in the ethical sense. Yes, sometimes I define things according to my ethics, and not the dictionary. Great how I have to put in this little disclaimer.]
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Napster's DRM (Microsoft DRM) is entirely closed. Apple's DRM (Fairplay) is a room with an unlocked door. Fairplay cannot be "strengthened" after the market has widely embraced it. Fairplay consists of the AAC file I downloaded to my computer, and a key that I also downloaded to my computer. I can disconnect my computer from the Internet forever and it will forever play my music. I can, in fact, back up my key and my file.
I would argue against the headphones. I used to think the $80 Sony closed-ear headphones I purchased were really good because they sounded so much better than the Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 desktop theater speakers I had or any of the other headphones I have, but now I have a home audio setup and I realize how poor the headphones sound.
That being said, I've done blind switches between my 256Kbps MP3s and 160Kbps AACs and the original CD by playing the sources simultaneously and switching back and forth. I could identify a difference but it was very subtle and I probably could not have clearly identified the difference without switching back and forth. At the same time, my listening room, receiver, and speakers are not the best, and I was running analog L/R out of my iBook while my DVD player was running lPCM over the digital out. I am planning to get an M-Audio adapter so I can run digital lPCM from my iBook.
You do get artwork. It appears right there in iTunes. Not tried it, but you can most likely copy & paste (or just drag) it to save/print it. There's a host of programs (including AppleScripts for iTunes on the Mac) which makes automating that a breeze.
I printed the artwork out on CD labels to put on the CDs I burned of the music I bought from the iTMS. It is not print-quality, unfortunately, and it's also the jewel case cover and not the actual CD "label/image", but whatever.
Unfortunately, now that I have a decent home audio setup (spent over $10k on everything) I can hear the difference between 128Kbps AAC and the CD. So I'm planning to re-purchase in 44.1kHz/16-bit redbook format (i.e. original CDs) the music I purchased off the iTMS.
Not sure I'd be comfortable contracting or hiring someone who fudged their resume, lied, and bragged about themselves. Having the /. handle t0qer wouldn't help either.
I'm not trying to flame you or anything. Just being as honest about things as you are.
Are we as American technical workers shooting ourselves in the foot by helping to train our replacements in American academic institutions?
Are we, as human beings, so selfish that we would rather ensure personal superiority over another through regulation and control rather than hard work?
But show me where Christians or any other religious followers are blowing themselves up in the name of their faith for the purpose of killing people who presumably aren't of their faith.
Well, certain Christian groups will certainly kill people who they disagree with: see abortion clinic assassinations. From one viewpoint, this is even less respectable than suicide bombers, since you aren't willing to die for your beliefs.
I also don't think the suicide bombers are interested in converting anyone. Their objective is different, and so it doesn't make as much sense to compare it to the evanglistic efforts of Christians.
As well, historically Christians have done some horrible things that were sanctioned, encouraged, or even run by the Church. Of course, that's in the past, but I still have a severe lack of respect for the Catholic Church when they do not seem to regret or apologize for those things, and I would not trust the Church to put my interests ahead of their own.
Back to the evangelistic efforts, I don't think any religious organization has pushed themselves on others are hard as Christians. I don't remember anyone except Christians pretending to be my friend until it was clear I wasn't interested in converting. Or any Buddhist or Muslim religious flyers on my doorstep. Christians also seem to be the only ones telling me I'm going to burn in hell forever. Doesn't seem very nice of them.
If you make the biological systems analogy, you will also have to acknowledge that a diverse operating system ecosystem is critical to the health and well being of things, especially as the Internet becomes more widely available. We need Linux, IRIX, Solaris, Windows, OS X and embedded OS's to maintain the health of things.
What we really need is for Linux, IRIX, Solaris, Windows, OS X, and embedded OS's to start fornicating with each other like crazy, "go forth and multiply", and let the best children survive, while leaving the weak to die. So, open up all your ports, send massive amounts of data between the systems, and fire your sysadmins.
I think that's when I got it...perhaps my memory is really bad.
We pay grads $35k. Good workers make it up to $50k in two years, mediocre ones go nowhere and shitty ones get fired.
Makes sense to me. I don't see why Duff Beer would have any reason to pay someone with a Bachelor's more than $35k to mix beer or something like that. Especially in Springfield, where Homer Simpson (a complete doofus) can afford a house and support a wife and three kids.
The problem is, there are a TON of moderators that will go and mod-bomb people because they don't like them, regardless of how well-reasoned their post is. Posts are supposed to be moderated, not individuals, but that's not how a lot of people do it.
Then does starting at +5 and going down really make a difference from starting at +1 and going down, in that respect?
Two problems I can think of: reading at +5-only becomes just as bad as reading at -1 until enough moderators run through the _entire_ thread culling out the stupid. The penalty for "voiding your warranty" (as proposed by the parent-parent) isn't worse than getting modded down regularly.
Possible solutions? Warranty puts you up to +X where X is a preference setting. Maybe the default threshold you read at. People who have liked what you said in the past will see you at +X+1 (friend/foe system). The first mod-down removes the warranty completely and pushes the post to +Y where Y is what the poster would have posted at without warranty.
The Beige G3/300 with Rage IIc is actually from 1996, not 1999. :) At least, that's when I got mine.
Anyone know if the reason 15% of people falsely think they have an HDTV television is because they only have EDTV? Seems like a fair reason, since no one has heard of EDTV.
What all these gadgets really need is something like the Mac OS "Simple Finder", which hides all the extra goodies if you don't need them.
Another reason: placing the button on the scroll wheel, instead of in a separate row at the top, is a better user-interface. I know apple moved the buttons on the iPod up into a separate row because having those touch-sensitive next to the scroll wheel would cause problems, but that interface is not as good as the 1st and 2nd generation ones, or now the iPod Mini.
Wow, times have changed since I was a teen. I didn't know ANY TEENS with $1000 to blow on gadgets. I didn't know I was so old. Proves how STUPID teen girls you know are.
I'm not replying to toot my own horn, but I started making $300/mo. when I was 12 managing an accounts receivable database in FileMaker Pro. Legally. When I was 16 I started consulting and was making several thousand a year which I used to buy "gadgets".
Maybe those teenage girls aren't so stupid, hm?
That belief is rooted in a very limited exposure to programming languages: just because the only languages you (apparently) have seen are like C++ and Python, whose execution models are both fairly close to the machine, you assume that everything has to be that way. It isn't. There are plenty of languages where an understanding of machine language is of little help and whose execution model is completely different from machine language.
In fact, interpreting programming languages as machine code is likely to prevent you from fully exploiting the capabilities and concepts supported/exposed by the higher-level language. Sometimes a language has some capability that just seems like "magic", and anyone who is wasting time translating machine code to a higher language and vice versa (or whose understanding of how to use the higher language is limited in that fashion) is going to produce code that suffers from problems using a higher language is trying to avoid.
It's like saying that someone who understands the subject, verb, and direct object concept of language can be fluent in any language (with regards to that sentence structure). Some languages don't even work that way!
Must have experience with a write-only scripting language" which we all know refers to Perl :P
Spoken like someone who has never programed Bourne Shell, yet alone C shell or JCL.
Try MS-DOS batch, where you have to create functions on-the-fly by writing code that creates new MS-DOS batch files for you...I tell you that was horrible.
l_r_sensitive's point was that your original post seemed to imply that your interpretation of fair use rights had no limit. Which is also the way I read it. Your second post (the parent of this post) makes it clear that you didn't mean fair use rights are limitless.
People have been experimenting. This isn't the first time someone has put forth a suggestion (and sometimes with implementation details) on how to curb spam. Yahoo! is not the first entity to suggest the use of digital signatures at the sender or via SMTP. However, they have the weight and influence to make their choice/suggestion a reality.
Sony had a superior quality format for videotape (betamax), but wouldn't share with anyone. Meanwhile, Panasonic, Philips, and others all got together and agreed on VHS format. Competition brought lower priced machines, and eventually VHS killed betamax for home use.
So, seems like Apple is aware of this and thus sharing with quite a few people: Pepsi, Windows, HP, etc. And they certainly haven't been timid about signing up as many celebrities as they can to promote the iPod and the iTMS. It would've been kind of hard for a movie star to walk around with their betamax player, but the iPod is the new Air Jordan.
I in California (San Jose, to be exact) and getting DSL through an independent ISP over SBC. I am also required to have a voice line with SBC, but I'm only paying $5/mo. or so for the most basic plan. Might want to look and see if Verizon has a cheaper voice plan.
"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs."
-- Bill Gates, from "OS/2 Programmer's Guide" (forward by Bill Gates)
I don't think it's that hard to believe Bill Gates thought OS/2 would be destined to be the most important OS of all time. OS/2 sure gave Microsoft a whole lot of free IBM research and development when they backstabbed IBM and launched Windows 95. OS/2 was ahead of its time, in terms of the technology and capabilities. In a lot of ways the hardware just wasn't there yet. But OS/2 certainly created an incredible opportunity for Microsoft.
Why is BigPond trying to identify a spammer from just 10 minutes of traffic. Or even just 15 minutes? I would think it would be much better to have a metric like 1000 emails in a single day. Or 10,000 emails over a week?
I can very easily go through 20 emails in 10 minutes just because I might be having one of those back-and-forth email conversations. I don't know if I could do 400 in a 15-minute period, unless I was running a mailing list (well, which I do, but that's why I use "personal" business ISPs).
This sort of metric just seems extremely silly. Is someone putting pressure on BigPond, or is one of their executives being an idiot?
Globalization has its downside you know...
I hardly think India sees the "downside" to this "globalization". Being forced to compete with others is not a downside. It's called a reality check. Quite simply, you're not as important and good as you thought you were.
Fusion reactors can and are being made by amateurs. I'm making one myself at the moment, still in the design stages though :)
:D
None of these produce any usable power of course.
Well, I'm sure amateur nuclear physicist looks good on your resume anyway.
I think that yes, in this case, the prices are lower due to piracy, but maybe not for the reason most people think. It's not "fair" competition and while perhaps Sony and Nintendo will raise prices or compensate for it in other countries, I think the actual approach is akin to dumping.
Sony and Nintendo are dumping their product, likely below cost given this is a completely new market, to gain mind share, compete against each other, and establish their supply chains and business partners in mainland China.
Once things are set up, and only if they can find enough people to purchase non-pirated software, then they will break out the economic calculators to figure out at what price point they can both continue pulling people away from stealing and maximize their profit.
[And all you idiots who are going to yell at me "copyright infringement not stealing", I use stealing in the ethical sense. Yes, sometimes I define things according to my ethics, and not the dictionary. Great how I have to put in this little disclaimer.]