"A lose-lose situation? How? If you aren't planning on giving derivative work back to the free software community in exchange for the free use of their software, they don't benefit."
That's exactly what I mean. I don't get to use a developed and tested software solution and the open source community doesn't get any derived work I may have come up with based upon that solution.
So what happens. I stop doing the work and someone else will do it. May be in the US or the UK, or may be in India or China. There will always be people who will do the work. At least I can try and get something useful out of the work and can at least ensure that the end product is reliable.
I know that everything I say will be considered heresy by the linux faithful so I expect to be modded down but I don't care.
The problem is that RMS is a spaced out hippy with not concept of the real world and there are an awful lot of people who think the same way. The GPL is a virus that infects any software it touches. GPLv3 is worse than GPLv2.
In my day to day work I avoid using any software that is GPLed because of commercial concerns (out side of my control) I cannot release details of software. So I have to reinvent everything and the open source community loses out on anything beneficial I may have done. A lose lose situation.
And why cannot release details of the software? Because its encryption libraries and DRM. Well don't DRM I hear you say. The real world situation is this. Media companies want DRM. I agree that its not useful and doesn't actually benefit the media companies but until their minds are changes its here to stay. Whether that's right or wrong its a fact. There's nothing we can do about that.
So using logic. The media companies want DRM. So any companies wanting to show their content have to comply with their requirements and use DRM. So don't show their content some may argue. But the providers are commercial companies. If Dish network didn't show Sci-Fi channel for example viewers may switch to DirecTV. So if providers are using DRM their software has to be proprietary which precludes GPLed code.
But what do I care. I get paid to be a consultant who works out how to get around such problems such as using publishable modifications within the GPL code which IPC to proprietary code. Or, more often, looking for the BSD equivalent which allows me to publish those bits I want to publish.
So yes, I can understand TiVo's concerns. And all that GPLv3 will achieve is forks in code (GPv3 vs GPv2 versions) or re-implementations dividing the effort and spreading the open source community thinner.
You are just so so wrong. Okay polyamorous relations need more work and a certain kind of sensibility but they work just as well as monogamous ones. In fact the moment you no longer have a problem with having more than one partner many walls are broken down. No you don't have shallower relationships. You have stronger ones because of the lack of walls.
I live with my two girlfriends. We share a bedroom. We do an awful lot together. I can talk a possible through with them because I know they will not be jealous. They know they have no right to be jealous since they can do the same. Since everything is in the open there is no distrust, no secrets, no infidelity. I often go abroad to work. I know my two girlfriends will look after one another while I'm gone. Similarly if one of them goes away I have one of my partners still at home. Also while I'm away I don't get worried but who they're with while I'm away. I know who they're with.
Lord Armstrong, a Victorian inventor and armaments manufacturer had one of, if not the first, electrically lit house in the work. Cragside" was lit (initially by carbon arc lamps but then by Joseph Swan's incandescent light bulbs) powered by hydroelectric power. During the day horses pumped water to a lake up the hill side. During the night that water generated electricity.
The table lamps replicated old oil lamps in style but had spikes which poked in to table clothes which were threaded with copper wire carrying current. This meant you could carry them around, put them down, and they would just light.
So they couldn't get in directly and had to use a hole in an Application. Just remind me how many holes have IE and Firefox had in the past?
OS-X is essentially BSD with a second layer on the top being the frameworks from Next and Apple and the applications. If they find vunerabilities in the lowest layer of code then Linux is in trouble too because there's an awful lot of shared code there. Anyone remember the ssh hole which allowed you to root a box? So the issue would be in the Apple provided layers.
As anyone who has designed, or worked at a high level, on a complete system knows you design as much as you like and you can use defensive coding as much as you can but there will always be edge cases and unfortunately the only way to find them is when something breaks or is broken. Then what you must do is fix them asap and not do what a certain OS company does is first deny they exist, then admit they exist and say it will be patched, and then finally release a patch some months later. Having said that they have been a bit better lately.
I get anoyed at people saying how secure OS-X is or Linux or what ever. There is no one true OS. All this my macho my OS is better that your OS pisses me off. People use different OSs because of the applications they want to use and their working style.
I have several requirements for my personal laptop (compared to my office one). It must be small and lightweight, easy to use, manage my arty hobbies (films, photography, music and other media), but also allow me to do my consultancy work if needed which is mainly *NIX development (C, C++ and Java) and writing reports, feasibility studies and the like. I don't play games that much and I have consoles for that (although since I now travel a lot a DS may be appear in my purse in the near future). So I have a Mac. It does all that I need.
I could use my works Dell but having to occasionally reboot from Linux in to XP and back again would anoy the hell out of me. Also its huge.
It may be 'funny' money but when I visit our poor cousins across the pond with their failing economy and two for one exchange rate it's great. My salary is worth twice as much!
Using the BSD license you would not only give one cookie to the bully but would give them all to the bully and allow him to hoard them all and sell them. Using the GPL you would only share with people who agreed to carry on the dead and share too. I would definately say the one who doesn't share with bullies would be better, they prevent the bullies from pushing people around.
This is software. If someone copies it they've copied it. It doesn't deny you that software. This is why I get so pissed with people who talk about software or media theft. It's not theft. It's wrong but its not theft.
I'm sorry but I consider the people who enforce the GPL bullies too. Just different kinds of bullies. They're not in it for money but for their egos.
And what's so wrong about selling software. If I write software and want to give it away I'm giving it away. What others do with it I don't care. If they want to make lots of money from it then fine. If I write software and want to sell it, then that's fine too. I use Linux in commercial development. I fully comply with the GPL where it holds and write proprietary closed software where that is required too. The open source community gains because I'm being paid to code software that is part of, or ends up as open source and without the closed proprietary software that earns my company profit I wouldn't have a salary to do it. I consider it like Pro Bono legal work.
Go to http://www.apple.com/uk/ and look at the spec and price of a mid range Mac Book. Then go to http://www.dell.co.uk/ and spec up a Dell Inspiron laptop with the same specs as that Mac Book and you'll find they actually come out with the Dell being a few quid more than the Mac (Spec 2Ghz Core 2 Duo, 1 Gb 667Mhz memory, bluetooth, wifi, shiny 1280 x 800 screen, integral graphics, Vista Ultimate) for the same functionality.
And that excludes the fact that OS-X is more memory and processor efficient than Vista on the same hardware so you actually need a faster processor and memory on the Windows machine. If you do the same exercise with a desktop machine and an iMac (2.13 Ghz Core Duo 2, 1Ghz Memory, etc. I can't find a Dell with a high enough spec graphics card and they don't support wifi and bluetooth on the model I picked), the iMac is even cheaper (about £100). The hardware cost no longer holds true when buying a computer from a reliable manufacture.
Generally when people say Macs are expensive they're thinking of the old days when they were prohibitively so. And when they argue its still true its because they're comparing a PC put together at home from components and forget about the cost of the software. When I looked through the feature sets of Vista I decided the only one I would want to have is Ultimate since its the only one that has everything I need. (I currently run XP Pro on my PC at home). Ultimate costs £300!
Who's better, someone who says I know you're the class bully but I'm going to give you a cookie anyway, and someone who says I'm not giving you any of my cookies you're a bully.
The whole issue here is not the code but egos. This could have been settle amicably but no, A gets pissed about B because B has used 'A's code (and A doesn't want C to use it because C is evil), and B is then getting pissed about A about the way A exhibited his feelings about B. They may all be inteligent but they're definitely not rational and to be honest are all rather childish.
So defending DRM is whining but complaining about it isn't? If you don't like what's out there go and make something you would like. That's your right. Just as it's my right to pay Apple to give me a device with DRM in. I'm not defending DRM I'm defending my right to choose what I do with my money without some sour busy body putting their oar in and spoiling it for me.
They will not go bust, just back to more traditional forms of media sales. If you can't buy your media online anywhere then you'll have to buy them either as CDs or whatever.
I don't have any moral instances on DRM either. In the end it's my decision as to whether I want to go that route or not. If enough people don't like DRM and no one buys it then the companies will go bust. If people buy DRMed media then they wont.
Surely in a free market and a free country companies have a right to sell what they like and people to buy what they like. If you don't want to play the game then fine. But that doesn't mean other people don't want to play the game. So stop spoiling it for them.
It's kind of like democracy. A person is intelligent but people are idiots or how else will some of our leaders be elected. But what's the alternative. We can't go around saying, you can't vote for X, or you're not intelligent enough to vote, etc. That way leads the path to dictatorship. If you want a free market economy which gives you those cheap consumer devices you desire then you're going to have to put up with the rough as well as the smooth.
What no one gets is that DRM is a big compromise. Like all security its a balance between keeping things usable and keeping the media suppliers and the customers happy.
In a commercial world commercial companies have no requirement to sell anything to any one. So if you say I'll not buy it because it has X or does Y then that's your prerogative. It's the company's prerogative not to sell you something. It is the company's commercial decision to decide how many sales they are happy to lose that way.
So if this goes through. That doesn't suddenly mean that you'll be able to buy any media from any store and play it on any player. All that will happen is that some products will lose their DRM and others will be taken off of the market and online stores will close because the media companies wont be happy to allow their wares to be out there unprotected regardless.
So who will win from this? A bunch of evangelistic techie nerds who put their own principles over pragmatism. And who will lose? Basically you average Joe who's one of the many who's bought an iPod and one of the 2b downloads from iTunes say. And for us in between? I'll not lose out because DRM doesn't affect the CD rips I do and I never download pirated music anyway since most of the bands I listen to are small independent ones who sell CDs directly or through small record companies and who need every penny they can get...
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Even if there isn't an ARM version of the kernel, and who's to say there isn't. Apple do not have to follow their own licence. That doesn't preclude the rest of the operating system being standard OS-X libraries compiled for ARM. The video iPod is also ARM and some time ago Apple were advertising for a quicktime expert with ARM experience which suggests that at least quicktime has been ported to ARM. If you can have Linux on an AMD-64 and an ARM 7 why not OS-X?
I've reading all the threads defending Imperial units but the US doesn't use them. Imperial units are so called because they were the units used by the Empire! The British Empire. This means 20 floz to the pint, 16lbs to the stone, 112lbs to the hundred weight (cwt), 2240lbs to the ton, etc...
The US uses their own bastardisation of the units.
So great. You can get a box from vendor X and put it on network Y. You wont see anything on it though. Apart from the differing protocols used in the US on digital cable (unlike DVB in Europe). They have different encryption standards too. You can put your card in but you wont decrypt anything because the box wont support that network. And I can really see the cable companies ditching all their legacy equipment to standardise on one system. It's cheaper just to pay fines.
You *could* have a box that supported all the networks but you'd have to get the encryption companies working together which isn't going to happen in a month of Sundays. They are arch rivals who keep their IP extremely secret. Many aren't American and so aren't tied by the laws there either so don't give a shit what the FCC say.
300 million. Not bad but no where near, China, India or even the EU. I can tell from your reply you've never done economics. In the end growth comes from exports being greater than imports and use of resources. When your resources run out and when no one wants to buy from you your economy will collapse.
It's worse than that. If that happens to me and I use a taxi and come up as a false positive, being a non US citizen and since the abolition of Habeus Corpus for non US citizens, I can be locked up and will have no right to defence at all.
Just pray that you never have a job that actually requires you to travel anywhere. Actually it's already affecting US business and many companies are looking elsewhere. When you're an isolated third world country that no one visits and everyone trades else where will you still want to stay at home?
Because many more drivers in the US don't wear seat belts the assumption is the driver *will not* be wearing a seat belt and the strength of airbags in cars destined for American markets its far far greater than say those for European markets where it is assumed the driver *will* be wearing a seat belt.
American air bags can kill children. European ones dont. If an air bag goes off in a European spec car it is there just to cushion the blow and the seat belt will keep the driver under control and do most of the restraining work. When someone side swiped my Volvo the air bag went off which resulted in friction burns but I had no trouble retaining my hold on the wheel and the car under control.
So you're statement is only true because of an assumption about the drivers. If people wore seat belts, they could reduce the strength of air bags and you could keep the car under control!
All you ever get here is Microsoft is bad, Apple is bad, DRM is bad, Linux is the one true god, yadda yadda yadda... No one actually assesses anything logically...
Everything is a compromise. I too am a goth. I have one 'additional' piercing, my nose, which is a compromise. It does cause comment although in my industry (embedded software development) I have no problem.
I have a works laptop top. It is a Dell with XP and Ubuntu installed. The former because I have to work with other companies and so need to run standard apps (And no Open Office is not yet good enough. Try taking a document generated in word, amend it, and convert if back to word intact!). If I developed Windows code I'd only use XP but because I don't I have Ubuntu. I picked Ubuntu due to use friendliness. It's still not perfect but for most things I do not have to spend our configuring Linux just to get certain aspects of my laptop to work (although WiFi/WPA on Linux is still a crock of shit).
I mainly use Apples. I have a G4 desktop and a 12" iBook because its small and unobtrusive and will fit in a back pack and leave room for other stuff. I used to use Macs years ago and when OS-X came out it gave me a *NIX like operating system but one which had been finished. When I was a professional academic I used IRIX (and do have an Indy at home) so I'm used to professional unixes. Linux is not a professional unix but OS-X as everything just works and that's not the case with Linux. I don't have time. I do have money so time is precious. I have one PC running XP and Ubuntu, mainly for work, but also for games playing. It hardly gets used.
I bought myself a 60Gb iPod. I bought it as a media player and as a portable hard drive. I back up my source trees on to it when travelling. The video play back was a bonus that gets used on trans-atlantic flights. The new games facility is also a bonus for those train journeys I take. The Zune may be better. It may have more codecs, functionality etc. But I don't need the wi-fi since I have to plug the thing in to charge it anyway it can sync at the same time. I don't need WMA because I still buy my media on CD/DVD. I use iTunes to manage my media because it runs on both OS-X and Windows and because I find it useable.
I work in the digital television industry. I'll tell you now that DRM is not going away. As I've said, everything is a compromise. Many here don't like DRM. If I could only play my purchased tracks on one machine I would agree. It would be great if I could play them on everything but that will never happen. The media companies would never allow it. So the choice is have some media available to actually download or no DRM. I would rather the former. So the next step, given there will be DRM (its a fact of life), is how restrictive should it be. For me the Apple one is fine (others may think differently). I can play my stuff on my Apple Desktop, my home PC, my works PC, my iPod, my housemates' machines via the network, and through to the front room via Airport express. It's not restrictive at all. No I can't give the tunes to my mates but I wouldn't anyway. I have many friends who in bands. Most are on independent labels. Even those who get in to the charts don't generally make enough to live on full time. Not everyone is a Robbie Williams. So I don't begrudge paying for CD's and would give music away because they need the money.
So please people be individuals and assess this thing not because its Microsoft, or because its a competitor to Apple, or because it's the latest toy, or because it's cool to be different, but purely on its merits or otherwise...
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"A lose-lose situation? How? If you aren't planning on giving derivative work back to the free software community in exchange for the free use of their software, they don't benefit."
That's exactly what I mean. I don't get to use a developed and tested software solution and the open source community doesn't get any derived work I may have come up with based upon that solution.
So what happens. I stop doing the work and someone else will do it. May be in the US or the UK, or may be in India or China. There will always be people who will do the work. At least I can try and get something useful out of the work and can at least ensure that the end product is reliable.
I know that everything I say will be considered heresy by the linux faithful so I expect to be modded down but I don't care.
The problem is that RMS is a spaced out hippy with not concept of the real world and there are an awful lot of people who think the same way. The GPL is a virus that infects any software it touches. GPLv3 is worse than GPLv2.
In my day to day work I avoid using any software that is GPLed because of commercial concerns (out side of my control) I cannot release details of software. So I have to reinvent everything and the open source community loses out on anything beneficial I may have done. A lose lose situation.
And why cannot release details of the software? Because its encryption libraries and DRM. Well don't DRM I hear you say. The real world situation is this. Media companies want DRM. I agree that its not useful and doesn't actually benefit the media companies but until their minds are changes its here to stay. Whether that's right or wrong its a fact. There's nothing we can do about that.
So using logic. The media companies want DRM. So any companies wanting to show their content have to comply with their requirements and use DRM. So don't show their content some may argue. But the providers are commercial companies. If Dish network didn't show Sci-Fi channel for example viewers may switch to DirecTV. So if providers are using DRM their software has to be proprietary which precludes GPLed code.
But what do I care. I get paid to be a consultant who works out how to get around such problems such as using publishable modifications within the GPL code which IPC to proprietary code. Or, more often, looking for the BSD equivalent which allows me to publish those bits I want to publish.
So yes, I can understand TiVo's concerns. And all that GPLv3 will achieve is forks in code (GPv3 vs GPv2 versions) or re-implementations dividing the effort and spreading the open source community thinner.
You are just so so wrong. Okay polyamorous relations need more work and a certain kind of sensibility but they work just as well as monogamous ones. In fact the moment you no longer have a problem with having more than one partner many walls are broken down. No you don't have shallower relationships. You have stronger ones because of the lack of walls.
I live with my two girlfriends. We share a bedroom. We do an awful lot together. I can talk a possible through with them because I know they will not be jealous. They know they have no right to be jealous since they can do the same. Since everything is in the open there is no distrust, no secrets, no infidelity. I often go abroad to work. I know my two girlfriends will look after one another while I'm gone. Similarly if one of them goes away I have one of my partners still at home. Also while I'm away I don't get worried but who they're with while I'm away. I know who they're with.
Lord Armstrong, a Victorian inventor and armaments manufacturer had one of, if not the first, electrically lit house in the work. Cragside" was lit (initially by carbon arc lamps but then by Joseph Swan's incandescent light bulbs) powered by hydroelectric power. During the day horses pumped water to a lake up the hill side. During the night that water generated electricity.
The table lamps replicated old oil lamps in style but had spikes which poked in to table clothes which were threaded with copper wire carrying current. This meant you could carry them around, put them down, and they would just light.
Slug plus USB web cam plus USB wifi stick anyone!
So they couldn't get in directly and had to use a hole in an Application. Just remind me how many holes have IE and Firefox had in the past?
OS-X is essentially BSD with a second layer on the top being the frameworks from Next and Apple and the applications. If they find vunerabilities in the lowest layer of code then Linux is in trouble too because there's an awful lot of shared code there. Anyone remember the ssh hole which allowed you to root a box? So the issue would be in the Apple provided layers.
As anyone who has designed, or worked at a high level, on a complete system knows you design as much as you like and you can use defensive coding as much as you can but there will always be edge cases and unfortunately the only way to find them is when something breaks or is broken. Then what you must do is fix them asap and not do what a certain OS company does is first deny they exist, then admit they exist and say it will be patched, and then finally release a patch some months later. Having said that they have been a bit better lately.
I get anoyed at people saying how secure OS-X is or Linux or what ever. There is no one true OS. All this my macho my OS is better that your OS pisses me off. People use different OSs because of the applications they want to use and their working style.
I have several requirements for my personal laptop (compared to my office one). It must be small and lightweight, easy to use, manage my arty hobbies (films, photography, music and other media), but also allow me to do my consultancy work if needed which is mainly *NIX development (C, C++ and Java) and writing reports, feasibility studies and the like. I don't play games that much and I have consoles for that (although since I now travel a lot a DS may be appear in my purse in the near future). So I have a Mac. It does all that I need.
I could use my works Dell but having to occasionally reboot from Linux in to XP and back again would anoy the hell out of me. Also its huge.
LOL. Troll! How dare I debunk a Slashdot myth. At this rate I'd be praising Windows and criticising Linux next!
It may be 'funny' money but when I visit our poor cousins across the pond with their failing economy and two for one exchange rate it's great. My salary is worth twice as much!
I agree its relative but at the time it was prohibitively expensive to me and I could get a 32 bit RISC powered machine (Acorn) for a third the price.
Using the BSD license you would not only give one cookie to the bully but would give them all to the bully and allow him to hoard them all and sell them. Using the GPL you would only share with people who agreed to carry on the dead and share too. I would definately say the one who doesn't share with bullies would be better, they prevent the bullies from pushing people around.
This is software. If someone copies it they've copied it. It doesn't deny you that software. This is why I get so pissed with people who talk about software or media theft. It's not theft. It's wrong but its not theft.
I'm sorry but I consider the people who enforce the GPL bullies too. Just different kinds of bullies. They're not in it for money but for their egos.
And what's so wrong about selling software. If I write software and want to give it away I'm giving it away. What others do with it I don't care. If they want to make lots of money from it then fine. If I write software and want to sell it, then that's fine too. I use Linux in commercial development. I fully comply with the GPL where it holds and write proprietary closed software where that is required too. The open source community gains because I'm being paid to code software that is part of, or ends up as open source and without the closed proprietary software that earns my company profit I wouldn't have a salary to do it. I consider it like Pro Bono legal work.
It's not more expensive hardware.
Go to http://www.apple.com/uk/ and look at the spec and price of a mid range Mac Book. Then go to http://www.dell.co.uk/ and spec up a Dell Inspiron laptop with the same specs as that Mac Book and you'll find they actually come out with the Dell being a few quid more than the Mac (Spec 2Ghz Core 2 Duo, 1 Gb 667Mhz memory, bluetooth, wifi, shiny 1280 x 800 screen, integral graphics, Vista Ultimate) for the same functionality.
And that excludes the fact that OS-X is more memory and processor efficient than Vista on the same hardware so you actually need a faster processor and memory on the Windows machine. If you do the same exercise with a desktop machine and an iMac (2.13 Ghz Core Duo 2, 1Ghz Memory, etc. I can't find a Dell with a high enough spec graphics card and they don't support wifi and bluetooth on the model I picked), the iMac is even cheaper (about £100). The hardware cost no longer holds true when buying a computer from a reliable manufacture.
Generally when people say Macs are expensive they're thinking of the old days when they were prohibitively so. And when they argue its still true its because they're comparing a PC put together at home from components and forget about the cost of the software. When I looked through the feature sets of Vista I decided the only one I would want to have is Ultimate since its the only one that has everything I need. (I currently run XP Pro on my PC at home). Ultimate costs £300!
Who's better, someone who says I know you're the class bully but I'm going to give you a cookie anyway, and someone who says I'm not giving you any of my cookies you're a bully.
The whole issue here is not the code but egos. This could have been settle amicably but no, A gets pissed about B because B has used 'A's code (and A doesn't want C to use it because C is evil), and B is then getting pissed about A about the way A exhibited his feelings about B. They may all be inteligent but they're definitely not rational and to be honest are all rather childish.
So defending DRM is whining but complaining about it isn't? If you don't like what's out there go and make something you would like. That's your right. Just as it's my right to pay Apple to give me a device with DRM in. I'm not defending DRM I'm defending my right to choose what I do with my money without some sour busy body putting their oar in and spoiling it for me.
They will not go bust, just back to more traditional forms of media sales. If you can't buy your media online anywhere then you'll have to buy them either as CDs or whatever.
I don't have any moral instances on DRM either. In the end it's my decision as to whether I want to go that route or not. If enough people don't like DRM and no one buys it then the companies will go bust. If people buy DRMed media then they wont.
Surely in a free market and a free country companies have a right to sell what they like and people to buy what they like. If you don't want to play the game then fine. But that doesn't mean other people don't want to play the game. So stop spoiling it for them.
It's kind of like democracy. A person is intelligent but people are idiots or how else will some of our leaders be elected. But what's the alternative. We can't go around saying, you can't vote for X, or you're not intelligent enough to vote, etc. That way leads the path to dictatorship. If you want a free market economy which gives you those cheap consumer devices you desire then you're going to have to put up with the rough as well as the smooth.
What no one gets is that DRM is a big compromise. Like all security its a balance between keeping things usable and keeping the media suppliers and the customers happy.
In a commercial world commercial companies have no requirement to sell anything to any one. So if you say I'll not buy it because it has X or does Y then that's your prerogative. It's the company's prerogative not to sell you something. It is the company's commercial decision to decide how many sales they are happy to lose that way.
So if this goes through. That doesn't suddenly mean that you'll be able to buy any media from any store and play it on any player. All that will happen is that some products will lose their DRM and others will be taken off of the market and online stores will close because the media companies wont be happy to allow their wares to be out there unprotected regardless.
So who will win from this? A bunch of evangelistic techie nerds who put their own principles over pragmatism. And who will lose? Basically you average Joe who's one of the many who's bought an iPod and one of the 2b downloads from iTunes say. And for us in between? I'll not lose out because DRM doesn't affect the CD rips I do and I never download pirated music anyway since most of the bands I listen to are small independent ones who sell CDs directly or through small record companies and who need every penny they can get...
Even if there isn't an ARM version of the kernel, and who's to say there isn't. Apple do not have to follow their own licence. That doesn't preclude the rest of the operating system being standard OS-X libraries compiled for ARM. The video iPod is also ARM and some time ago Apple were advertising for a quicktime expert with ARM experience which suggests that at least quicktime has been ported to ARM. If you can have Linux on an AMD-64 and an ARM 7 why not OS-X?
I've reading all the threads defending Imperial units but the US doesn't use them. Imperial units are so called because they were the units used by the Empire! The British Empire. This means 20 floz to the pint, 16lbs to the stone, 112lbs to the hundred weight (cwt), 2240lbs to the ton, etc...
The US uses their own bastardisation of the units.
So great. You can get a box from vendor X and put it on network Y. You wont see anything on it though. Apart from the differing protocols used in the US on digital cable (unlike DVB in Europe). They have different encryption standards too. You can put your card in but you wont decrypt anything because the box wont support that network. And I can really see the cable companies ditching all their legacy equipment to standardise on one system. It's cheaper just to pay fines.
You *could* have a box that supported all the networks but you'd have to get the encryption companies working together which isn't going to happen in a month of Sundays. They are arch rivals who keep their IP extremely secret. Many aren't American and so aren't tied by the laws there either so don't give a shit what the FCC say.
This will run and run.
Er, no they don't. I'm with O2 and my SE K750i is basically vanilla and I can do what I like with it.
300 million. Not bad but no where near, China, India or even the EU. I can tell from your reply you've never done economics. In the end growth comes from exports being greater than imports and use of resources. When your resources run out and when no one wants to buy from you your economy will collapse.
It's worse than that. If that happens to me and I use a taxi and come up as a false positive, being a non US citizen and since the abolition of Habeus Corpus for non US citizens, I can be locked up and will have no right to defence at all.
Just pray that you never have a job that actually requires you to travel anywhere. Actually it's already affecting US business and many companies are looking elsewhere. When you're an isolated third world country that no one visits and everyone trades else where will you still want to stay at home?
Because many more drivers in the US don't wear seat belts the assumption is the driver *will not* be wearing a seat belt and the strength of airbags in cars destined for American markets its far far greater than say those for European markets where it is assumed the driver *will* be wearing a seat belt.
American air bags can kill children. European ones dont. If an air bag goes off in a European spec car it is there just to cushion the blow and the seat belt will keep the driver under control and do most of the restraining work. When someone side swiped my Volvo the air bag went off which resulted in friction burns but I had no trouble retaining my hold on the wheel and the car under control.
So you're statement is only true because of an assumption about the drivers. If people wore seat belts, they could reduce the strength of air bags and you could keep the car under control!
Hooray! Mod parent up.
All you ever get here is Microsoft is bad, Apple is bad, DRM is bad, Linux is the one true god, yadda yadda yadda... No one actually assesses anything logically...
Everything is a compromise. I too am a goth. I have one 'additional' piercing, my nose, which is a compromise. It does cause comment although in my industry (embedded software development) I have no problem.
I have a works laptop top. It is a Dell with XP and Ubuntu installed. The former because I have to work with other companies and so need to run standard apps (And no Open Office is not yet good enough. Try taking a document generated in word, amend it, and convert if back to word intact!). If I developed Windows code I'd only use XP but because I don't I have Ubuntu. I picked Ubuntu due to use friendliness. It's still not perfect but for most things I do not have to spend our configuring Linux just to get certain aspects of my laptop to work (although WiFi/WPA on Linux is still a crock of shit).
I mainly use Apples. I have a G4 desktop and a 12" iBook because its small and unobtrusive and will fit in a back pack and leave room for other stuff. I used to use Macs years ago and when OS-X came out it gave me a *NIX like operating system but one which had been finished. When I was a professional academic I used IRIX (and do have an Indy at home) so I'm used to professional unixes. Linux is not a professional unix but OS-X as everything just works and that's not the case with Linux. I don't have time. I do have money so time is precious. I have one PC running XP and Ubuntu, mainly for work, but also for games playing. It hardly gets used.
I bought myself a 60Gb iPod. I bought it as a media player and as a portable hard drive. I back up my source trees on to it when travelling. The video play back was a bonus that gets used on trans-atlantic flights. The new games facility is also a bonus for those train journeys I take. The Zune may be better. It may have more codecs, functionality etc. But I don't need the wi-fi since I have to plug the thing in to charge it anyway it can sync at the same time. I don't need WMA because I still buy my media on CD/DVD. I use iTunes to manage my media because it runs on both OS-X and Windows and because I find it useable.
I work in the digital television industry. I'll tell you now that DRM is not going away. As I've said, everything is a compromise. Many here don't like DRM. If I could only play my purchased tracks on one machine I would agree. It would be great if I could play them on everything but that will never happen. The media companies would never allow it. So the choice is have some media available to actually download or no DRM. I would rather the former. So the next step, given there will be DRM (its a fact of life), is how restrictive should it be. For me the Apple one is fine (others may think differently). I can play my stuff on my Apple Desktop, my home PC, my works PC, my iPod, my housemates' machines via the network, and through to the front room via Airport express. It's not restrictive at all. No I can't give the tunes to my mates but I wouldn't anyway. I have many friends who in bands. Most are on independent labels. Even those who get in to the charts don't generally make enough to live on full time. Not everyone is a Robbie Williams. So I don't begrudge paying for CD's and would give music away because they need the money.
So please people be individuals and assess this thing not because its Microsoft, or because its a competitor to Apple, or because it's the latest toy, or because it's cool to be different, but purely on its merits or otherwise...
Brian - "You are all different!"
Crowd - "We are all different!"
Man - "I'm not!"
I'm a goth, not because I want to be one of the Goth crowd, or because I want to be 'different', just because I want to be me. Be individuals...