Everything applies to Apple. It's a company one and the same and it does leak things. It's not special.
It is if you have an egomaniac for a CEO.
It takes a monumental amount of incompetence to leak a single page accidently on a site as mission critical as Apple's.
It takes a monumental amount of idiocy to lock a baby in a coin-operated washing machine, yet that still happened. CD-ROMs as cup holders? Mouse as pedals on the floor? Step off your high horse and realize there are idiots in this world.
The company would have at least one staging server, if not more. They'd have people double checking everything. When I worked at Dyson, every upload to the live site had me quaking in my boots, even after the three times I checked the stage server to make sure everything was working A-OK.
Good for you. Maybe you can now apply for the webmaster position at Apple's website since heads probably have been rolling at Cupertino since this morning.
We're only human. I suppose Microsoft staged the whole "accident" when Code Red infected all the Windows Update machines right? I mean, the company that makes the server doesn't even apply the patches themselves? Who would believe that? With 40 billion in the bank, who's to say my tin foil hat's wrong? "It's a company one and the same" right? Bad publicity is still good publicity, right?
why not cash in with a few tactical leaks here and there so they can get the word around?
because it's less effective? the speculation itself is actually so much more interesting for the fanboys than the actual product. Mac evangelists SPECULATING on what the product is actually generates more discussion than the product announcement itself. Mac Rumors was posting daily rumors and speculations on what's to be announced at WWDC. Now that the cat's out of the bag, are they going to keep talking about it? NO. We know the specs already, it's not going to change. Instead of speculating what the color it is, you're already told it's jet black. Not so interesting anymore.
Whenever some new hardware is coming soon, Apple always bump up the shipping dates.
Building up anticipation is one thing. Ruining the whole surprise is completely different.
If they wanted to be oh-so-careful, they wouldn't bother and give out false information on the public pages. Then on the customer account pages simply write something like the computer is still being built, rather than making it obvious what's going on.
They don't want to. They ENJOY having people guessing, because that hypes up the event.
Taking Safari again, if the leak was *gasp*, such a big deal, then maybe they'd have stopped on the developer seeding and taken legal action?
Use common sense. A) they still need a larger scale of beta testing to test the robustness of the products. B) the beta itself wasn't uniquely tagged for each person that downloads it (which makes sense for a large scale beta rollout, and even if it was, there would be a way to patch up the serial number to avoid liability) - how do you find the person who's responsible? sue the entire group of testers? and finally C) legal action? are you daft? what are they going to sue for? what monetary damages can they claim? Tabbed browsing? no that's been done by other browsers. Lost revenue? Safari was to be free from the very beginning.
Like you are any more likey to know this than the original poster knowing it was a leak on purpose.
Yes I am, because Michael has proven himself to be fairly clueless again and again as an editor on Slashdot.
Stop being so naive, this was leaked to gain some free media attention, and by the looks of it, this worked very well.
Riiight. Because if there were no leaks, NOBODY would talk about the new G5's when they're announced, and Apple would have to PAY on Monday to get people to write articles for them. You're almost as intelligent as Michael.
Apple's products are always the darlings of the press whenever they're announced - iMac, iPod, iTunes, Safari, etc etc. Your book-smart textbook theories on "intentional leaks to get free media attention" doesn't exactly apply to Apple.
No offense, but anyone who thinks it was a mistake or leak doesn't understand marketing.:) -- Michael
No offense, anyone who has half a clue is fully aware that Apple is particularly fascist and litigious regarding details of product launches leaking out. In particular, Steve Jobs simply loves the "wow" he gets from the audience by completely surprising them. In this case, few people actually expected DUAL 2Ghz PPC970 (G5) configurations available. Now, people are going to be less surprised on Monday.
Surely Michael is welcome to tell us how much he understands marketing and what products has he actually marketed, and we can see how much his credentials stack up against someone in charge of Apple and Pixar.
I wouldn't be surprised if Hilary Rosen would become more open to digital media in general.
Afterall, she was simply the talking head for RIAA - when Hilary Rosen speaks out against P2P, it's not because Rosen hates P2P, but rather it's because the five record companies tell her to do so. I recall reading articles on Rosen quietly expressing frustration at times with the record companies' unwillingness to compromise or embrace new business models.
She obvious has a very strong domain of knowledge in the recording industry, and now that she's free from the shackles of being the public face of RIAA, I'm actually looking forward to hear her personal opinion on digital distribution.
Deering went on to say that although there'll be no difference between the PSP consoles sold in PAL and NTSC territories, there will be regional encoding for movies, similar to that used on DVDs.
Great. Will there be regional encoding for games too?
Senator Hatch later today also proposed candy bars that can be remotely triggered to mix with hidden cyanide.
"There's no excuse for anyone stealing," Hatch said. "Unless we kill those pesky little kids who believe stealing is fun, there's no other solution around it."
SCO has made no secret in recent months that it hired high-profile attorney David Boies to spearhead its case against IBM, but the company's legal representation in Utah courts is also noteworthy. The company retained Brent O. Hatch and Mark F. James of the law firm Hatch, James & Dodge. Hatch is the son of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a representative for SCO confirmed Monday.
Obviously not,as you have PAID to have BestBuy transfer ownership of said media to you.
Doesn't mean squat - this is not a matter of an analogy breaking apart, but rather this is a matter of "Theft deprives the original owner of the property use of said property" being a idiotic and wrong definition.
Oh, that's right, it is the whiny sound of a million 733T jerk-offs trying to justify their 20 gig of copyright infringement.
But when they have a more substantial claim against IBM and Linux
wrong again. There's no evidence their claims are any more substantial. In fact, there's evidence that there isn't much of a case behind their lawsuit.
The SCO(R) Group (SCO), a leading provider of business software solutions...
should be:
The SCO(R) Group (SCO), a leading provider of frivolous lawsuits...
Also,
About SCO
The SCO Group helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses everyday. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a worldwide network of more than 11,000 resellers and 8,000 developers. SCO Global Services provides reliable localized support and services to partners and customers. For more information on SCO products and services, visit http://www.sco.com.
should be:
About SCO
The SCO Group helps several SCO executives in USA grow their declining SCO stock value everyday. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a worldwide network of more than 11,000 lawyers and 8,000 pending lawsuits. SCO Global Services provides reliable Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt to Linux and IBM partners and customers. For more information on SCO lies, damn lies and lawsuits, visit http://www.sco.com.
Cool, now define ``take'' sufficiently. Have I taken away the property of another if he still has it?
Wrong. Notice the definition is to "take the property", and not to "take away the property". Everything can be argued if you're going to add extra words to the definition...
You took it without right or permission, therefore you stole it.
But the original owner still has it and the effect on him is such that he can't possibly detect that it was ``stolen.''
if you can't detect that something is missing, it wasn't stolen (or taken, etc...)
Detection has nothing to do with it. Suppose I were to inherit a bag of gold coins, and I did not have the opportunity to calculate how much it's worth. If someone takes a coin from the bag, it would be stealing, even though there's no way I can "detect" the missing gold coin.
Because it's not. It's copyright infingement. It's still a crime, but it's not stealing. Theft deprives the original owner of the property use of said property.
Nonsense.
So if I buy a DVD from Best Buy, I'm stealing? Afterall, even though I gave them cash in exchange for the purchase of the DVD, I'm still depriving Best Buy the use of said property.
steal ( P ) Pronunciation Key (stl) v. stole, (stl) stoÂlen, (stln) stealÂing, steals v. tr.
1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
When you pirate, you have acquired the intangible IP of the game company without right or permission. Therefore it's stealing.
"But if the levels are already developed and present on the disk, then the publishers are inviting flak from the many Xbox gamers who don't have broadband."
Kinda like getting the "early peek" of unpublished news if you're a slashdot subscriber?
Christ, deal with it - you pay extra for Xbox live, you're rewarded with extra levels. You pay for slashdot subscription, you're rewarded with banner-free pages and early peeks of articles. Same difference!
the publisher's name is Phenixsoft. It's only a matter of time before the Phoenix BIOS has a Street Fighter game builtin, and once they do, you know they're gonna sue the crap outta these guys.
Maybe the company should rename itself to FireBird.
the logical way to handle it is to use the "Artist's Website" feature of the music store to provide a link to an external site from which DRM-free MP3s can be downloaded.
Nope.
Quoted from the original article:
What you CAN'T do
* You can not sell an album as album-only format without allowing the purchase of single-songs. * Can't search by record label, although you can see the record label on the album info page. * There will be no links from iTunes to your website, or to buy the physical CD. * Right now there are no sub-genres, only big genres. (rock/jazz/etc.)
Thanks to Gamesdomain for posting an interview with the lead developer of FASA/Microsoft's Crimson Skies:High Road To Revenge for Xbox.
For a second there I thought "for Xbox" was part of the title, making the game title Crimson Skies:High Road To Revenge for Xbox. THAT actually got me interested in the game - the game is about Microsoft avenging their low xbox market share by building an airforce of the 30's to fight their enemies? WOW!!!
It would be out of character for Microsoft to send fighter jets to bomb Sony and Nintendo's headquarters, but then again, I wouldn't put it past them either...
The Fast TCP system, designed by a team of researchers at California Institute of Technology - Reuters
That is the promise from a team at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who have developed a system called Fast TCP. - New Scientist
Then you need to read what you wrote again.
this sounds like the sort of technical mumbo-jumbo that snake-oil salesmen were peddling back in the dot-com era
Equating highly-regarded CalTech researchers with snake-oil salesmen? Sounds like a troll to me.
And you seem to imply the technical details were somehow obscured and withheld, when it's obvious that publications like Reuters and New Scientist aren't going to explain TCP windows in detail for the general public.
A simple google search of "fast tcp caltech" yielded the home of the FAST protocols at the top of the search, which has enough technical details, simulations and results for any one competent enough to understand it.
What are you going to tell us next - BSD is dying?
without further technical details, this sounds like the sort of technical mumbo-jumbo that snake-oil salesmen were peddling back in the dot-com era.
The New Scientist makes it quite clear on how the Fast TCP is done, if you know anything about how TCP works (and how the window size halves in the event of packet losses)
shame on a relatively low-ID user making such trollish comments...
It has to do with more than just WASTE. He stated that the company controls what he does and that coding is a form of free expression to him. He basically doesn't want the company to control his free expression. WASTE is just one example.
Not just WASTE... sounds like you agree with the parent then, which stated:
This has everything to do with WASTE and any other projects that AOL canned.
I've made the entire album available in MP3 format on the Ephelian Records website to facilitate adoption, and I know some people have downloaded the songs, but I can't figure out why no one has pre-ordered the CD.
I suggest you encode it in pristine ogg VBR @ 320kbps. Also, include scans of the album cover and back, a nice.nfo describe the release, a.sfv that verifies the checksums, and all packaged in a nice RAR file. Now put it on Kazaa, and share it on "release" priority on eMule on the eDonkey network.
Oh, did you ask how to make money off it? Err, nevermind...
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Everything applies to Apple. It's a company one and the same and it does leak things. It's not special.
It is if you have an egomaniac for a CEO.
It takes a monumental amount of incompetence to leak a single page accidently on a site as mission critical as Apple's.
It takes a monumental amount of idiocy to lock a baby in a coin-operated washing machine, yet that still happened. CD-ROMs as cup holders? Mouse as pedals on the floor? Step off your high horse and realize there are idiots in this world.
The company would have at least one staging server, if not more. They'd have people double checking everything. When I worked at Dyson, every upload to the live site had me quaking in my boots, even after the three times I checked the stage server to make sure everything was working A-OK.
Good for you. Maybe you can now apply for the webmaster position at Apple's website since heads probably have been rolling at Cupertino since this morning.
We're only human. I suppose Microsoft staged the whole "accident" when Code Red infected all the Windows Update machines right? I mean, the company that makes the server doesn't even apply the patches themselves? Who would believe that? With 40 billion in the bank, who's to say my tin foil hat's wrong? "It's a company one and the same" right? Bad publicity is still good publicity, right?
why not cash in with a few tactical leaks here and there so they can get the word around?
because it's less effective? the speculation itself is actually so much more interesting for the fanboys than the actual product. Mac evangelists SPECULATING on what the product is actually generates more discussion than the product announcement itself. Mac Rumors was posting daily rumors and speculations on what's to be announced at WWDC. Now that the cat's out of the bag, are they going to keep talking about it? NO. We know the specs already, it's not going to change. Instead of speculating what the color it is, you're already told it's jet black. Not so interesting anymore.
Whenever some new hardware is coming soon, Apple always bump up the shipping dates.
Building up anticipation is one thing. Ruining the whole surprise is completely different.
If they wanted to be oh-so-careful, they wouldn't bother and give out false information on the public pages. Then on the customer account pages simply write something like the computer is still being built, rather than making it obvious what's going on.
They don't want to. They ENJOY having people guessing, because that hypes up the event.
Taking Safari again, if the leak was *gasp*, such a big deal, then maybe they'd have stopped on the developer seeding and taken legal action?
Use common sense. A) they still need a larger scale of beta testing to test the robustness of the products. B) the beta itself wasn't uniquely tagged for each person that downloads it (which makes sense for a large scale beta rollout, and even if it was, there would be a way to patch up the serial number to avoid liability) - how do you find the person who's responsible? sue the entire group of testers? and finally C) legal action? are you daft? what are they going to sue for? what monetary damages can they claim? Tabbed browsing? no that's been done by other browsers. Lost revenue? Safari was to be free from the very beginning.
Like you are any more likey to know this than the original poster knowing it was a leak on purpose.
Yes I am, because Michael has proven himself to be fairly clueless again and again as an editor on Slashdot.
Stop being so naive, this was leaked to gain some free media attention, and by the looks of it, this worked very well.
Riiight. Because if there were no leaks, NOBODY would talk about the new G5's when they're announced, and Apple would have to PAY on Monday to get people to write articles for them. You're almost as intelligent as Michael.
Apple's products are always the darlings of the press whenever they're announced - iMac, iPod, iTunes, Safari, etc etc. Your book-smart textbook theories on "intentional leaks to get free media attention" doesn't exactly apply to Apple.
No offense, but anyone who thinks it was a mistake or leak doesn't understand marketing. :) -- Michael
No offense, anyone who has half a clue is fully aware that Apple is particularly fascist and litigious regarding details of product launches leaking out. In particular, Steve Jobs simply loves the "wow" he gets from the audience by completely surprising them. In this case, few people actually expected DUAL 2Ghz PPC970 (G5) configurations available. Now, people are going to be less surprised on Monday.
Surely Michael is welcome to tell us how much he understands marketing and what products has he actually marketed, and we can see how much his credentials stack up against someone in charge of Apple and Pixar.
I wouldn't be surprised if Hilary Rosen would become more open to digital media in general.
Afterall, she was simply the talking head for RIAA - when Hilary Rosen speaks out against P2P, it's not because Rosen hates P2P, but rather it's because the five record companies tell her to do so. I recall reading articles on Rosen quietly expressing frustration at times with the record companies' unwillingness to compromise or embrace new business models.
She obvious has a very strong domain of knowledge in the recording industry, and now that she's free from the shackles of being the public face of RIAA, I'm actually looking forward to hear her personal opinion on digital distribution.
Deering went on to say that although there'll be no difference between the PSP consoles sold in PAL and NTSC territories, there will be regional encoding for movies, similar to that used on DVDs.
Great. Will there be regional encoding for games too?
Senator Hatch later today also proposed candy bars that can be remotely triggered to mix with hidden cyanide.
"There's no excuse for anyone stealing," Hatch said. "Unless we kill those pesky little kids who believe stealing is fun, there's no other solution around it."
that's because Senator Hatch is the BASTARD CHILD OF THE ANTI-CHRIST!!!
Proof:
SCO has made no secret in recent months that it hired high-profile attorney David Boies to spearhead its case against IBM, but the company's legal representation in Utah courts is also noteworthy. The company retained Brent O. Hatch and Mark F. James of the law firm Hatch, James & Dodge. Hatch is the son of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a representative for SCO confirmed Monday.
The whole family works for the devil!!!!
[/tongue in cheek]
Obviously not,as you have PAID to have BestBuy transfer ownership of said media to you.
Doesn't mean squat - this is not a matter of an analogy breaking apart, but rather this is a matter of "Theft deprives the original owner of the property use of said property" being a idiotic and wrong definition.
Oh, that's right, it is the whiny sound of a million 733T jerk-offs trying to justify their 20 gig of copyright infringement.
I agree... Now if you would just stop whining...
Dear SCO employee,
So, when SCO sues Microsoft over DR-DOS (and wins)
wrong. Caldera didn't win - they settled.
But when they have a more substantial claim against IBM and Linux
wrong again. There's no evidence their claims are any more substantial. In fact, there's evidence that there isn't much of a case behind their lawsuit.
Thanks for playing! Bye!
hehe..
"IBM! Sue! ooogla-boogla!" - Darl MeatHead
The SCO(R) Group (SCO), a leading provider of business software solutions...
.
should be:
The SCO(R) Group (SCO), a leading provider of frivolous lawsuits...
Also,
About SCO
The SCO Group helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses everyday. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a worldwide network of more than 11,000 resellers and 8,000 developers. SCO Global Services provides reliable localized support and services to partners and customers. For more information on SCO products and services, visit http://www.sco.com
should be:
About SCO
The SCO Group helps several SCO executives in USA grow their declining SCO stock value everyday. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a worldwide network of more than 11,000 lawyers and 8,000 pending lawsuits. SCO Global Services provides reliable Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt to Linux and IBM partners and customers. For more information on SCO lies, damn lies and lawsuits, visit http://www.sco.com.
Cool, now define ``take'' sufficiently. Have I taken away the property of another if he still has it?
Wrong. Notice the definition is to "take the property", and not to "take away the property". Everything can be argued if you're going to add extra words to the definition...
You took it without right or permission, therefore you stole it.
But the original owner still has it and the effect on him is such that he can't possibly detect that it was ``stolen.''
if you can't detect that something is missing, it wasn't stolen (or taken, etc...)
Detection has nothing to do with it. Suppose I were to inherit a bag of gold coins, and I did not have the opportunity to calculate how much it's worth. If someone takes a coin from the bag, it would be stealing, even though there's no way I can "detect" the missing gold coin.
Because it's not. It's copyright infingement. It's still a crime, but it's not stealing. Theft deprives the original owner of the property use of said property.
Nonsense.
So if I buy a DVD from Best Buy, I'm stealing? Afterall, even though I gave them cash in exchange for the purchase of the DVD, I'm still depriving Best Buy the use of said property.
steal ( P ) Pronunciation Key (stl)
v. stole, (stl) stoÂlen, (stln) stealÂing, steals
v. tr.
1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
When you pirate, you have acquired the intangible IP of the game company without right or permission. Therefore it's stealing.
Best Buy - Fuji 10-Pack 2.4x DVD-R Discs with Jewel Cases - $24.99
I hate it when people won't admit they're wrong... The price of DVD-R media has gone down from $10/DVD-R for a LONG TIME now.
What ever happens to locked out copies sold on e-bay?
Caveat Emptor. Don't buy them on ebay then.
"But if the levels are already developed and present on the disk, then the publishers are inviting flak from the many Xbox gamers who don't have broadband."
Kinda like getting the "early peek" of unpublished news if you're a slashdot subscriber?
Christ, deal with it - you pay extra for Xbox live, you're rewarded with extra levels. You pay for slashdot subscription, you're rewarded with banner-free pages and early peeks of articles. Same difference!
the publisher's name is Phenixsoft. It's only a matter of time before the Phoenix BIOS has a Street Fighter game builtin, and once they do, you know they're gonna sue the crap outta these guys.
Maybe the company should rename itself to FireBird.
the logical way to handle it is to use the "Artist's Website" feature of the music store to provide a link to an external site from which DRM-free MP3s can be downloaded.
Nope.
Quoted from the original article:
What you CAN'T do
* You can not sell an album as album-only format without allowing the purchase of single-songs.
* Can't search by record label, although you can see the record label on the album info page.
* There will be no links from iTunes to your website, or to buy the physical CD.
* Right now there are no sub-genres, only big genres. (rock/jazz/etc.)
Thanks to Gamesdomain for posting an interview with the lead developer of FASA/Microsoft's Crimson Skies:High Road To Revenge for Xbox.
For a second there I thought "for Xbox" was part of the title, making the game title Crimson Skies:High Road To Revenge for Xbox. THAT actually got me interested in the game - the game is about Microsoft avenging their low xbox market share by building an airforce of the 30's to fight their enemies? WOW!!!
It would be out of character for Microsoft to send fighter jets to bomb Sony and Nintendo's headquarters, but then again, I wouldn't put it past them either...
You need to read the articles again.
The Fast TCP system, designed by a team of researchers at California Institute of Technology - Reuters
That is the promise from a team at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who have developed a system called Fast TCP. - New Scientist
Then you need to read what you wrote again.
this sounds like the sort of technical mumbo-jumbo that snake-oil salesmen were peddling back in the dot-com era
Equating highly-regarded CalTech researchers with snake-oil salesmen? Sounds like a troll to me.
And you seem to imply the technical details were somehow obscured and withheld, when it's obvious that publications like Reuters and New Scientist aren't going to explain TCP windows in detail for the general public.
A simple google search of "fast tcp caltech" yielded the home of the FAST protocols at the top of the search, which has enough technical details, simulations and results for any one competent enough to understand it.
What are you going to tell us next - BSD is dying?
without further technical details, this sounds like the sort of technical mumbo-jumbo that snake-oil salesmen were peddling back in the dot-com era.
The New Scientist makes it quite clear on how the Fast TCP is done, if you know anything about how TCP works (and how the window size halves in the event of packet losses)
shame on a relatively low-ID user making such trollish comments...
It has to do with more than just WASTE. He stated that the company controls what he does and that coding is a form of free expression to him. He basically doesn't want the company to control his free expression. WASTE is just one example.
Not just WASTE... sounds like you agree with the parent then, which stated:
This has everything to do with WASTE and any other projects that AOL canned.
Why aren't we seeing the same for Daikatana?
:-( :-( :-(
Where exactly are fans of Daikatana? Please help make Daikatana better!
Those mechanical frogs are the best
eMule and DC++ - very popular P2P clients
And you just proved the parent poster's point - they too are used to download copyrighted files. (Oh please, you know that's true)
I've made the entire album available in MP3 format on the Ephelian Records website to facilitate adoption, and I know some people have downloaded the songs, but I can't figure out why no one has pre-ordered the CD.
.nfo describe the release, a .sfv that verifies the checksums, and all packaged in a nice RAR file. Now put it on Kazaa, and share it on "release" priority on eMule on the eDonkey network.
I suggest you encode it in pristine ogg VBR @ 320kbps. Also, include scans of the album cover and back, a nice
Oh, did you ask how to make money off it? Err, nevermind...