WTF??? You hate freedom? If you're in America, please get the fuck OUT. Now. Asshole.
Yes, I was offended by your stupid, asinine, childish, antiAmerican post.
Sorry bud... Free country and all, if you don't like it you're free to leave yourself. Freedom is nice, but in this case it's just a way of trolling for support. Sort of like "Think about the CHILDREN!", it can easily be abused.
Let's just quit the games and cries of "FWEEDOOOM!!!" and face the facts. This isn't about bloggers getting protection and freedom of the press, this is about NDA's and posting, yes, "trade secrets". This is already legally established for members of the press, journalists don't get protection when they break the law, neither should they. He'd be in the same legal trouble if he worked at the Washington Post, in fact he'd probably have lost his entire career over this.
The problem is not selling music without DRM... Apple could easily dump the DRM and sell straight AAC files. But then there's 2 problems, first of all, the music companies would never allow it. Secondly AAC has been avoided like "chocolate covered leprosy pills" by the competition. (Thank you whoever used that phrase here recently) So even IF Apple could sell AAC without DRM, everybody would STILL say they're not compatible with their players... getting where this is headed yet? The only way to make it work is by forming a committe and agreeing on a common DRM standard. Let's see here... Apple gets one chair on that committe... and ohhhh... a dozen or so PlaysForSure fans sit on that nice big round table. It's round so it's perfectly democratic. And they all vote... 11 to 1 in support of using PlaysForSure as the standard format... only one vote for AAC, strange. Now everybody else has to do NOTHING... NOTHING at all to be complient, and Apple has to update all iPod firmwares, and in addition start selling WMA files on their music store instead of the AAC they started their business with.
OR... everybody agrees to sell MP3's, which do you think is more likely? No, this isn't about evening the playing field, this is about punishing Apple, period. "Interoperable formats" is a codeword for "Destroy AAC". If Apple is allowed to keep their format, then they STILL have to add support for WMA, in order to respect subscription services. OR... add AAC subscription support.
Right here is what I haven't figured out yet... AAC's with subscripton support, and a utility to convert to WMA and back. What's the catch? Everything else totally screws Apple, I'm missing something here.
There was a multiprocessor extension that loaded if you had one. Sorta like the old system enablers. Most programs didn't use it though, they had to hook into it. Photoshop and stuff like that had support for it, but it wasn't like everything was load-balanced and both processors used equally like OS X does.
Paging STEVE JOBS please come to the information desk.
They actually came out with a new polymer covering for the Blu-Ray that's highly scratch-resistant. They did a demo a while back trying to jam a screwdriver into the disk and it was still fine. It's really quite an improvement.
Sorry sir, your iPod screen coating was lost and we found it looking for you.
iPod coating: "I'm sorry daddy, I won't get lost again." Steve: "I hate it when you embarass me in public like this!" iPod coating: "I love you daddy!" Steve: "Errrr... ummm.. yeah, me too."
Then why does homosexuality exist? Does anyone claim to be a "5th generation homosexual"?
No seriously, I'd like to see an honest discussion about homosexuality from a scientific viewpoint. If it's honestly some kind of problem then why is it so accepted instead of attempted to be cured?
Hard to find statistics on this... but is homosexuality growing or lessening?
I'd imagine its much easier to record a tapping sound from several feet away, or video someone doing the knock than it would be to snag a copy of the key or pick the lock.
To add the additional safety of handshaking before sending encrypted paaswords, you could add a little soundproof hold one could stick their arm in and securely knock inside. This adds the ability to handcuff and restrain false knockers at high security installations. Just hope somebody comes around to unlock ya before you starve.:-)
(Jesus speaking here) "Every kingdom divided against itself comes to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. In the same way, if Satan expels Satan, he has become divided against himself; how, then,, will his kingdom stand?"
Wow... Satan against Satan... Microsoft and Napster... how appropriate.;-) But seriously, if the PlaysForSure "party" starts fighting among themselves it's gonna fail miserably, technical problems or not.
Yeah man I heard ya... ever tried to find a copy of Milli Vanilli? They don't even EXIST anymore. GONE... DELETED... off to the great bit bucket in the sky. Can get em used of course... but "Out of print" doesn't begin to explain it.
Seems suspicious of course, why would someone compress a JPEG? That's pretty odd, emailing a JPEG would let it show on the email but "Please unzip this image first to view" should raise a few alarms. Then again I'm sure plenty of "power users" regularly zip single image files before emailing them.;-) That step was to both conceal that it wasn't an image and to keep the false icon on the executable.
Not milk chocolate. Serious, dark chocolate. Even then... meh... the effect is certainly less in men than it is in women, for example, and yea, there's probably a genetic variation from person to person.
Meh... I don't like dark chocolate... that could be it right there.
unimportant to you intellectually, and so you've become very good at tuning them out, to the point where you've forgotten that they ever were there, or they just bug you and you'd rather not pay attention... very Vulcan of you. Or slightly autistic... either way...
Aren't geeks all mildly autistic anyways? Y'know all those autistic kids borne of geek/geek relationships in Silicone Valley... isn't being a geek simply an obsession with details that other folks wouldn't find interesting?
which they're now calling "Antisocial personality disorder" and perhaps you should look into that wikipedia article I just posted...;-) he, nice sociopath... he.../backs away slowly...
Now THAT'S interesting... notice the MacDonald trio : a longer-than-usual period of bedwetting cruelty to animals pyromania.
2 outta 3 ain't bad... I ran over a pigeon once and felt so bad about it all day I couldn't eat, guess I'm no Panzram.:-)...
I gotta say, I've never understood this... when people eat chocolate they actually FEEL something? They get the warm and fuzzies? I sure don't... it tastes nice and all, but that's it. Maybe in a similar way to how I'm immune to caffeine (Drink 3 Jolts and go right to sleep) I don't FEEL the chemical for love? People have said I'm cold and heartless a few times, I guess chemical sensitivity affects our personalities more than we think. Perhaps some don't feel love or other positive affections and simply have no desire to be a nice person. A new way to stay out jail perhaps? Instead of "He had a bad childhood" we'll hear "He simply doesn't have the chemical receptors for love."
As has already been posted, this is a well known theory and as far as I know what the currently accepted evolutionary model suggests.
I think the point he's making is that it's simply not being taught. I know plenty of people (especially on Slashdot) who still believe the old "millions of years of small gradual changes" bit. Natural selection and gradual modification MAKE SENSE to most people and seems fairly persuasive, but it's not really what happened. Honestly I think it's a bit of bait 'n switch... explain evolution one way to a person, then later on "Oh by the way nobody really believes that."
There has been a 19.4% increase in the mean annual concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere from 1959 to 2004.
That's fine and all... but I want to know the increase of the nice annual concentration of CO2, please don't only focus on the mean kind. Perhaps the nice kind is preventing the mean kind from causing global warming?
So if MS covers windows developers... and IBM (Or was it Novell?) Covers Linux developers... does this mean Apple has to be next? Where is all this silliness heading?
Man I wish I could find that Steve Jobs quote right now about great ideas slowly being killed as they work their ways through accounting and marketing departments.
MS RowBoat (TM) Will NOT come with a bailing bucket as previously speculated, however their new SpoonCare service will send users a new BailingSpoon (TM) update every month. Those who decide not to subscribe to SpoonCare will still be provided with a free monthly CorkPlug Update.
Heh... well *I* thought it was funny.:-) Seriously though deaf people sign that all the time "You hear what happened?" that's what happens to culture when you don't have your own little country to isolate yourselves in. Oh well.
Guess it's time to add the old "P.S. I'm deaf" to my applications? I've noticed in the past whenever I mention my hearing I get ZERO responses... when I leave it out I often get interviews or an email asking for more info. Regardless, once they find out I never hear back from them. I even had a friend who was a (non-tech) recruiter and showed it to someone at their office who covered the tech jobs. "Wow! Great stuff, can't wait to meet him!" then he HAD to say "Oh, but there is one little thing"... I never heard from them. Now he knows never to mention it either. So what shall I do? If diversity is required why aren't they all over me? Anybody with more experience on this kind of thing have some advice for me? How do you tell them?
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WTF??? You hate freedom? If you're in America, please get the fuck OUT. Now. Asshole.
Yes, I was offended by your stupid, asinine, childish, antiAmerican post.
Sorry bud... Free country and all, if you don't like it you're free to leave yourself. Freedom is nice, but in this case it's just a way of trolling for support. Sort of like "Think about the CHILDREN!", it can easily be abused.
Let's just quit the games and cries of "FWEEDOOOM!!!" and face the facts. This isn't about bloggers getting protection and freedom of the press, this is about NDA's and posting, yes, "trade secrets". This is already legally established for members of the press, journalists don't get protection when they break the law, neither should they. He'd be in the same legal trouble if he worked at the Washington Post, in fact he'd probably have lost his entire career over this.
luk aite 2 me
The problem is not selling music without DRM... Apple could easily dump the DRM and sell straight AAC files. But then there's 2 problems, first of all, the music companies would never allow it. Secondly AAC has been avoided like "chocolate covered leprosy pills" by the competition. (Thank you whoever used that phrase here recently) So even IF Apple could sell AAC without DRM, everybody would STILL say they're not compatible with their players... getting where this is headed yet? The only way to make it work is by forming a committe and agreeing on a common DRM standard. Let's see here... Apple gets one chair on that committe... and ohhhh... a dozen or so PlaysForSure fans sit on that nice big round table. It's round so it's perfectly democratic. And they all vote ... 11 to 1 in support of using PlaysForSure as the standard format... only one vote for AAC, strange. Now everybody else has to do NOTHING... NOTHING at all to be complient, and Apple has to update all iPod firmwares, and in addition start selling WMA files on their music store instead of the AAC they started their business with.
OR... everybody agrees to sell MP3's, which do you think is more likely? No, this isn't about evening the playing field, this is about punishing Apple, period. "Interoperable formats" is a codeword for "Destroy AAC". If Apple is allowed to keep their format, then they STILL have to add support for WMA, in order to respect subscription services. OR... add AAC subscription support.
Right here is what I haven't figured out yet... AAC's with subscripton support, and a utility to convert to WMA and back. What's the catch? Everything else totally screws Apple, I'm missing something here.
There was a multiprocessor extension that loaded if you had one. Sorta like the old system enablers. Most programs didn't use it though, they had to hook into it. Photoshop and stuff like that had support for it, but it wasn't like everything was load-balanced and both processors used equally like OS X does.
prepare for the vengeance of an IT Guy ... in bed.
YIKES! What kind of IT shop are YOU running?
Sorry sir, your iPod screen coating was lost and we found it looking for you.
iPod coating: "I'm sorry daddy, I won't get lost again."
Steve: "I hate it when you embarass me in public like this!"
iPod coating: "I love you daddy!"
Steve: "Errrr... ummm.. yeah, me too."
Then why does homosexuality exist? Does anyone claim to be a "5th generation homosexual"?
No seriously, I'd like to see an honest discussion about homosexuality from a scientific viewpoint. If it's honestly some kind of problem then why is it so accepted instead of attempted to be cured?
Hard to find statistics on this... but is homosexuality growing or lessening?
I'd imagine its much easier to record a tapping sound from several feet away, or video someone doing the knock than it would be to snag a copy of the key or pick the lock.
:-)
To add the additional safety of handshaking before sending encrypted paaswords, you could add a little soundproof hold one could stick their arm in and securely knock inside. This adds the ability to handcuff and restrain false knockers at high security installations. Just hope somebody comes around to unlock ya before you starve.
Mt. 12:25,26
Wow... Satan against Satan... Microsoft and Napster... how appropriate.
You're behind on the times... Wine runs on Intel Macs.
Yeah man I heard ya... ever tried to find a copy of Milli Vanilli? They don't even EXIST anymore. GONE... DELETED... off to the great bit bucket in the sky. Can get em used of course... but "Out of print" doesn't begin to explain it.
Musta been the rain... tsk.
Seems suspicious of course, why would someone compress a JPEG? That's pretty odd, emailing a JPEG would let it show on the email but "Please unzip this image first to view" should raise a few alarms. Then again I'm sure plenty of "power users" regularly zip single image files before emailing them. ;-) That step was to both conceal that it wasn't an image and to keep the false icon on the executable.
Wow... Your sig request came true... Happy now?
Not milk chocolate. Serious, dark chocolate. Even then... meh... the effect is certainly less in men than it is in women, for example, and yea, there's probably a genetic variation from person to person.
;-) he, nice sociopath... he... /backs away slowly...
:-) ...
Meh... I don't like dark chocolate... that could be it right there.
unimportant to you intellectually, and so you've become very good at tuning them out, to the point where you've forgotten that they ever were there, or they just bug you and you'd rather not pay attention... very Vulcan of you. Or slightly autistic... either way...
Aren't geeks all mildly autistic anyways? Y'know all those autistic kids borne of geek/geek relationships in Silicone Valley... isn't being a geek simply an obsession with details that other folks wouldn't find interesting?
which they're now calling "Antisocial personality disorder" and perhaps you should look into that wikipedia article I just posted...
Now THAT'S interesting... notice the MacDonald trio :
a longer-than-usual period of bedwetting
cruelty to animals
pyromania.
2 outta 3 ain't bad... I ran over a pigeon once and felt so bad about it all day I couldn't eat, guess I'm no Panzram.
(No I don't still wet the bed)
I gotta say, I've never understood this... when people eat chocolate they actually FEEL something? They get the warm and fuzzies? I sure don't... it tastes nice and all, but that's it. Maybe in a similar way to how I'm immune to caffeine (Drink 3 Jolts and go right to sleep) I don't FEEL the chemical for love? People have said I'm cold and heartless a few times, I guess chemical sensitivity affects our personalities more than we think. Perhaps some don't feel love or other positive affections and simply have no desire to be a nice person. A new way to stay out jail perhaps? Instead of "He had a bad childhood" we'll hear "He simply doesn't have the chemical receptors for love."
As has already been posted, this is a well known theory and as far as I know what the currently accepted evolutionary model suggests.
I think the point he's making is that it's simply not being taught. I know plenty of people (especially on Slashdot) who still believe the old "millions of years of small gradual changes" bit. Natural selection and gradual modification MAKE SENSE to most people and seems fairly persuasive, but it's not really what happened. Honestly I think it's a bit of bait 'n switch... explain evolution one way to a person, then later on "Oh by the way nobody really believes that."
There has been a 19.4% increase in the mean annual concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere from 1959 to 2004.
That's fine and all... but I want to know the increase of the nice annual concentration of CO2, please don't only focus on the mean kind. Perhaps the nice kind is preventing the mean kind from causing global warming?
So if MS covers windows developers... and IBM (Or was it Novell?) Covers Linux developers... does this mean Apple has to be next? Where is all this silliness heading?
Would be a shame if someone sued you over it.
Man I wish I could find that Steve Jobs quote right now about great ideas slowly being killed as they work their ways through accounting and marketing departments.
MS RowBoat (TM) Will NOT come with a bailing bucket as previously speculated, however their new SpoonCare service will send users a new BailingSpoon (TM) update every month. Those who decide not to subscribe to SpoonCare will still be provided with a free monthly CorkPlug Update.
Ohh GOOD IDEA! Let's put a huge nuke on the other side of the moon and see if it hits the earth. Who needs a stable orbit anyways?
Heh... well *I* thought it was funny. :-) Seriously though deaf people sign that all the time "You hear what happened?" that's what happens to culture when you don't have your own little country to isolate yourselves in. Oh well.
Guess it's time to add the old "P.S. I'm deaf" to my applications? I've noticed in the past whenever I mention my hearing I get ZERO responses... when I leave it out I often get interviews or an email asking for more info. Regardless, once they find out I never hear back from them. I even had a friend who was a (non-tech) recruiter and showed it to someone at their office who covered the tech jobs. "Wow! Great stuff, can't wait to meet him!" then he HAD to say "Oh, but there is one little thing"... I never heard from them. Now he knows never to mention it either. So what shall I do? If diversity is required why aren't they all over me? Anybody with more experience on this kind of thing have some advice for me? How do you tell them?