I actually find it easier to just drag the file into Playfair and have it spit out a perfect non-DRM copy (ID3 tags and album art included) than it is to burn it to an audio CD, and then re-rip it to an mp3 and reenter any meta info that was lost in the process (e.g. album art).
Because they didn't pay for the rights to use the works and then use them. They just copied the works, got caught infringing on the copyrights, and settled with the publisher by paying them off -- as to avoid a lawsuit.
Because they more than likely bred the apples this way. So they more or less did invent this breed of apple. Now if this is some breed that they just happened to come across in nature, then they would not be able to patent it.
Because Linux is just as much of a competitor to Apple as it is to Microsoft. For all the reasons Microsoft doesn't want to do anything to help Linux on the desktop (e.g. porting applications), Apple really doesn't want to do anything to help Linux on the desktop. As I read elsewhere, it's all about mindset. Apple doesn't want people thinking "Linux vs. Microsoft" they want people thinking "Apple vs. Microsoft".
Who cares. You get one 30 second clip of the song. It's no different than what the RIAA themselves are distributing on p2p networks. The only difference is that these are not looped over and over again to make them appear as full songs.
Not that I don't think Apple will do everything they can to shut this service down -- just out of principle.
Given the fact that the iPod is patented left and right I doubt there will ever be an iPod "workalike". At most there will be players with similar features.
Well if you use a better theme (the screenshot shows the default theme for KDE) it wont look like a cheap copy of Windows 98. If you enable anti-aliasing the fonts wont look like crap either;). http://kde.org/screenshots/kde320shots.php
It's not necessarily about being zealious or anything like that. It's just a hobby project for now. Some Linux coders got to gether and thought it might be fun to do just for the hell of it. Just something to tinker with. Then again that's how Linux itself started out so who knows. I think it really does have some potential once it matures a little.
It's probably psychological. If they re-released 1.6 as 1.7 and just falsey said "It's now 40% faster due to new optimization techniques" most people would download it and go "Wow this/is/ faster!".
Then use/media/ipod, nobody is stopping you. I haven't checked it out yet but I'd be quite surprised if you are unable to configure where Rhythmbox looks for the iPod.
You have a choice to use another browser, so long as you don't try to access a website created used by Microsoft's products (which can result in minor glitches, to not being able to access links). You can use another operating system, so long as unreliable access to your documents from work is okay with you. You can choose to build and sell computers with another OS on them, so long as you don't think you're going to be able to provide compatibility with legacy applications by dual booting Windows. You can use another product to remotely control your Windows box, so long as -- oh wait, you can't. You can write software to interoperate with Windows for use on another OS, so long as you license your software how Microsoft wants.
It's a different product. Judges in some countries forced Lindows to not use that name because it conflicts with the trademark of another operating system. X/Y Windows is not an operating system, and therefore any outcome of Microsoft's case against Lindows is irrelevant to X/Y Windows.
Not by a long shot. Windows 3.1 is more elegant than what I've seen of that desktop by far. (and don't read any sarcasm into that comment because I mean that in all honesty)
First of all I would argue that none of those countries are actually communist. I would argue that they are simply dictatorships or monarchies that happen to refer to themselves as communist. However, let's just say that they are communist, does the fact that those group of communist countries happen to not have very free speech redefine what communism is? Many dictatorships censor their citizens as well. That does not mean that a dictatorship has anything to do with censoring. There are democracies that heavily censor their citizens -- does this redefine a democracy as a system of censorship?
Communism simply means that the every day people control the government, and that those people provide for each other's needs "From each his abilities, to each his needs". Hell the preamble to our (the United States') constitution has some very communist ideas, "a government of the people, by the people and for the people". It's just that over the years, and throughout the cold war, the word communism has been given an association with no less than "evil".
I think it's because the graphic card developers hit a previously untapped sweet spot with "value" hardware that's not necessarly $20 bargin bin kind of stuff, but not the greatest $600 card. So now that they've hit that they don't wanna risk losing it by pushing the higher end hardware. Game developers are affected by that sweet spot as well, as they don't want to push their games out of reach of that vast "sweet spot" market.
Back when all of this stuff wasn't nearly as mainstream as it is today, the geeky masses would be willing to spend the money necessary to allow the envelope to be pushed. When the vast majority of your market is geeks that have the lastest and greatest hardware, then the game developers feel comfortable creating games that require the latest and greatest hardware. On the otherhand, when the vast majority of your market has is Joe Sixpack, who isn't likely to know what a graphics card is, let alone purchase a better one if required -- game developers aren't going to feel comfortable requiring that high end hardware.
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I actually find it easier to just drag the file into Playfair and have it spit out a perfect non-DRM copy (ID3 tags and album art included) than it is to burn it to an audio CD, and then re-rip it to an mp3 and reenter any meta info that was lost in the process (e.g. album art).
Because they didn't pay for the rights to use the works and then use them. They just copied the works, got caught infringing on the copyrights, and settled with the publisher by paying them off -- as to avoid a lawsuit.
Because they more than likely bred the apples this way. So they more or less did invent this breed of apple. Now if this is some breed that they just happened to come across in nature, then they would not be able to patent it.
RTFA. It says that this is the first time legal means has been used to stop a free software project in India.
If that is your intention then there is nothing stopping you from just using iTunes itself for this purpose.
Because Linux is just as much of a competitor to Apple as it is to Microsoft. For all the reasons Microsoft doesn't want to do anything to help Linux on the desktop (e.g. porting applications), Apple really doesn't want to do anything to help Linux on the desktop. As I read elsewhere, it's all about mindset. Apple doesn't want people thinking "Linux vs. Microsoft" they want people thinking "Apple vs. Microsoft".
Who cares. You get one 30 second clip of the song. It's no different than what the RIAA themselves are distributing on p2p networks. The only difference is that these are not looped over and over again to make them appear as full songs.
Not that I don't think Apple will do everything they can to shut this service down -- just out of principle.
Given the fact that the iPod is patented left and right I doubt there will ever be an iPod "workalike". At most there will be players with similar features.
I guess one man's "cheap copy of" is another man's "improvement based on".
Well if you use a better theme (the screenshot shows the default theme for KDE) it wont look like a cheap copy of Windows 98. If you enable anti-aliasing the fonts wont look like crap either ;). http://kde.org/screenshots/kde320shots.php
It's not necessarily about being zealious or anything like that. It's just a hobby project for now. Some Linux coders got to gether and thought it might be fun to do just for the hell of it. Just something to tinker with. Then again that's how Linux itself started out so who knows. I think it really does have some potential once it matures a little.
It's probably psychological. If they re-released 1.6 as 1.7 and just falsey said "It's now 40% faster due to new optimization techniques" most people would download it and go "Wow this /is/ faster!".
It doesn't work.
Then use /media/ipod, nobody is stopping you. I haven't checked it out yet but I'd be quite surprised if you are unable to configure where Rhythmbox looks for the iPod.
You have a choice to use another browser, so long as you don't try to access a website created used by Microsoft's products (which can result in minor glitches, to not being able to access links). You can use another operating system, so long as unreliable access to your documents from work is okay with you. You can choose to build and sell computers with another OS on them, so long as you don't think you're going to be able to provide compatibility with legacy applications by dual booting Windows. You can use another product to remotely control your Windows box, so long as -- oh wait, you can't. You can write software to interoperate with Windows for use on another OS, so long as you license your software how Microsoft wants.
It's nice to see that you're such a big defender of your buddy Bill's individual rights. It's a shame he doesn't appear to agree with your philosophies.
Socialism != Stalinism
Fedora Core 2 Test 1 has 2.6 support out of the "box".
What the hell did Nintendo make in 1962??
It's a different product. Judges in some countries forced Lindows to not use that name because it conflicts with the trademark of another operating system. X/Y Windows is not an operating system, and therefore any outcome of Microsoft's case against Lindows is irrelevant to X/Y Windows.
Not by a long shot. Windows 3.1 is more elegant than what I've seen of that desktop by far. (and don't read any sarcasm into that comment because I mean that in all honesty)
That has to be the ugliest desktop I've ever seen.
fed-ore-uh
First of all I would argue that none of those countries are actually communist. I would argue that they are simply dictatorships or monarchies that happen to refer to themselves as communist. However, let's just say that they are communist, does the fact that those group of communist countries happen to not have very free speech redefine what communism is? Many dictatorships censor their citizens as well. That does not mean that a dictatorship has anything to do with censoring. There are democracies that heavily censor their citizens -- does this redefine a democracy as a system of censorship?
Communism simply means that the every day people control the government, and that those people provide for each other's needs "From each his abilities, to each his needs". Hell the preamble to our (the United States') constitution has some very communist ideas, "a government of the people, by the people and for the people". It's just that over the years, and throughout the cold war, the word communism has been given an association with no less than "evil".
Communism has absolutely nothing to do with censorship ;)
I think it's because the graphic card developers hit a previously untapped sweet spot with "value" hardware that's not necessarly $20 bargin bin kind of stuff, but not the greatest $600 card. So now that they've hit that they don't wanna risk losing it by pushing the higher end hardware. Game developers are affected by that sweet spot as well, as they don't want to push their games out of reach of that vast "sweet spot" market.
Back when all of this stuff wasn't nearly as mainstream as it is today, the geeky masses would be willing to spend the money necessary to allow the envelope to be pushed. When the vast majority of your market is geeks that have the lastest and greatest hardware, then the game developers feel comfortable creating games that require the latest and greatest hardware. On the otherhand, when the vast majority of your market has is Joe Sixpack, who isn't likely to know what a graphics card is, let alone purchase a better one if required -- game developers aren't going to feel comfortable requiring that high end hardware.