They sell music in a format(aac) that they choose. You can choose to buy that music, or not.
They give away a player to listen to that music on a computer (MAC or PC running windows). You can choose to download that player, or not.
They sell a portable player that you can use to listen to mp3 or the music in the aac format (among others).
They are not a monopoly in any of those businesses, not even close, as a matter of fact.
They don't hide the fact that the itunes tunes won't play anywhere else...buyer beware. I'm not a big fan of apple, buy I am a big fan of taking responsibility for ones own actions.
Unless you are being actively deceived, you get what you bought.
Unless they are doing something purposeful in the conversion from compressed audio to uncompressed, the CD should sound almost exactly the same as you hear from the compressed file. The 'loss' occurs when you are encoding the file, not decoding it.
if that's the only thing (sounds like a fix, but I'm sure there someplace that it won't be that simple) then that's easy enough, except that you have to do that on every frickin' machine/device affected. Suddenly turns an 'all you have to do' into a 'how the f&^% can we do that???
The submitter's hysterical comments show an obvious distaste for this decision by TiVo, but his statement, "although it might help them in the short run it will most certainly backfire in the long run," displays a profound sense of arrogance; he knew about this for about 10 minutes before drawing a conclusion based on nothing more than gut, while TiVo Inc., has clearly thought about these issues and decided they were a net benenfit. I would like to know how the submitter became so "certain."
The submitter stated his opinion that this would backfire in the long run. You stated your opinion the TIVO inc has clearly thought about these issues. You'd like to think so, but often times decisions are skewed by external factors. Now the net benefit you speak of may be as simple as "we're screwed if we don't change something, so maybe this will work, even if we really don't think it will". ie the last ditch effort, hail mary, or whatever you want to call it.
You are right that it has nothing to do with Rights at all - I don't remember any inalienable right to be able to watch tv without commercials, or even just plain watch tv.
hmmm not sure who or what Markov is, but there's an old password cracking tool called Crack that read a dicitonary of standard words and allowed you to define rules to modify the words. ie you could have a rule to append '1' to the end of each word, or concatenate two 4 letter words, and then insert a numeric between them (ie take run and fun and create run4fun.)
Hydrocarbon-rich atmospheres bring the possibility of fuel-breathing jet engines. With a tank of oxygen or other oxidizer, a craft could scoop the fuel from the "air" and fly or run a powerplant.
So basically you are referring to the exact same thing as our jet engines here on earth, only we have to bring tanks of oxygen, instead of tanks of hydrocarbons.
I can see aliens from a hydrocarbon rich atmoshpere world saying - 'wow - earth has oxygen everywhere - we can build a jet engine to scoop up the oxygen, and and just have tanks of hydrocarbons to burn'
Are you assuming there is some point to not being obscure?
If I hook up my transmogrifier to the digital mitzoplexer and then filter that through Google and get what I want, then, no offence, but I couldn't care less that your grandmother doesn't, and probably won't have one in her car, I have one in my fernazerator, so there. If I feel like releasing it so others who want to tinker with it can, then I will. I don't hope to become rich and famous - just sharing with others who have similar interests. If you don't then, again, no offense, go away.
Trouble is, old laptops tend to have crap, if any, battery life. Wireless is great, but it still leaves you tied down.
Agreed, but most houses have power distributed throughout the house, but most don't have network cables distributed throughout. Put the laptop near an outlet and wail away without having to string cat5 around.
when will they stop making all this specialized crap and just make better software and hardware based on laptops or PDA's to do the same thing why reverse engineer things
When people stop buying them and/or it's no longer profitable????
Actually for offroading and rock crawling auto is king. Nothing like a foot on the brake and a foot on the gas to get you over nasty stuff.
So they are not far superior in 'every' way.
Also there's a thing called personal preference. My vette is a manual, my 928 is an auto. I like them both for a variety of different reasons. Sometimes I like have the option of downshifting when I want, and not when the car decides it is proper/safe/whatever, and sometimes I like just being able to smash the accelerator and watch whatever is in my rear view mirror get smaller.
I will agree that putting the car in Neutral would be the best bet, but were that not possible:
Losing power steering at a high rate of speed wouldn't affect you much - if you are going at a high rate of speed and need to turn enough to require power steering you are not going to make the turn anyways. A lot of sports cars have variable assist power steering that cuts the amount of assist in relation to your speed. The faster you go the less it assists. Give a much better feel at high speeds.
Regarding the power brakes, if the option is to allow your car to continue accelerating against the power braking effect or lose the acceleration and do manual braking, manual braking would be the preferred method. Just stomp harder!
In either event, power steering and power brakes generally have NO dependency on electrical power through the ignition (unless you are in a car with brake by wire, and in that case I believe the brakes still have a mechanical component for emergencies). Power steering is simply a pump spun by the drivebelt and power brakes are are 'powered' by engine vacuum. If you are in gear and your wheels are spinning, you should still have power steering as the drivebelt is spinning, and you will still have power brakes as the pistons will still be moving up and down generating vacuum.
So let us use a bit more sensible units than "shuttle fuel tanks".
Kilotonnes of TNT is a more sensible unit??? Common becuase of it's ancestry, but comparing anything that requires 20 kilotonnes of it is hardly sensible!!!
I thought windows was the Harley - overpriced, slow and generally annoying!!!
OSX would probably be the modern crotch rocket - works like a dream out of the box, super fast and easy to use
Linux is like an old 1960s Triumph - work like a dog to get it running, will put a big smile on your face,but not something you'd recommend to your mother for a daily driver.
partly true, but they sell at a discount to Rio because Rio will thousands at a time and probably sign deals involving guarantees of future purchases as well.
Try buying other elextronic components bulk - it's not unusual to get a 50% or more discount per unit if you buy 1000 at a time.
most DSLRs can take upwards of 500 or even 600 pictures with a single battery. More if you aren't using the lcd. So if they are now 8 megapixel pics (ie Canon 20D) you are approacing 5GB on a single battery.
Plus having to carry extra batteries AND extra media is one more thing to carry (and thus forget to bring)
Also according to dpreview, the dsc-v1 has 'average battery life' (they'd "recommend a second battery") so your needs with the V1 would certainly vary from others.
give me a break - they are interested in selling units and making money. True that there might be a bit of advertising involved in that, but if they were given the equivalent of a buying slashdotting with millions of units being sold (and then ripped apart), they'd take the cash from selling units in that fashion just the same.
Slashdot Mirror
How is Apple in the wrong?
They sell music in a format(aac) that they choose. You can choose to buy that music, or not.
They give away a player to listen to that music on a computer (MAC or PC running windows). You can choose to download that player, or not.
They sell a portable player that you can use to listen to mp3 or the music in the aac format (among others).
They are not a monopoly in any of those businesses, not even close, as a matter of fact.
They don't hide the fact that the itunes tunes won't play anywhere else...buyer beware. I'm not a big fan of apple, buy I am a big fan of taking responsibility for ones own actions.
Unless you are being actively deceived, you get what you bought.
Unless they are doing something purposeful in the conversion from compressed audio to uncompressed, the CD should sound almost exactly the same as you hear from the compressed file. The 'loss' occurs when you are encoding the file, not decoding it.
'The ONLY thing'????
if that's the only thing (sounds like a fix, but I'm sure there someplace that it won't be that simple) then that's easy enough, except that you have to do that on every frickin' machine/device affected. Suddenly turns an 'all you have to do' into a 'how the f&^% can we do that???
Are you willing to bet $10,000 (or whatever your card limit happens to be) that it will be that easy next time???
Of course, such meddling would imply the Great One couldn't design a universe that ran according to The Plan without intervention - such impudence.
TAKE IT BACK!!!! Wayne Gretzky can do ANYTHING!!!!
The submitter's hysterical comments show an obvious distaste for this decision by TiVo, but his statement, "although it might help them in the short run it will most certainly backfire in the long run," displays a profound sense of arrogance; he knew about this for about 10 minutes before drawing a conclusion based on nothing more than gut, while TiVo Inc., has clearly thought about these issues and decided they were a net benenfit. I would like to know how the submitter became so "certain."
The submitter stated his opinion that this would backfire in the long run. You stated your opinion the TIVO inc has clearly thought about these issues. You'd like to think so, but often times decisions are skewed by external factors. Now the net benefit you speak of may be as simple as "we're screwed if we don't change something, so maybe this will work, even if we really don't think it will". ie the last ditch effort, hail mary, or whatever you want to call it.
You are right that it has nothing to do with Rights at all - I don't remember any inalienable right to be able to watch tv without commercials, or even just plain watch tv.
Personally I think this is a bad thing for consumers that rely on data backups.
Was there something in the article that said the discs last any less time than a traditional blu ray dvd?
hmmm not sure who or what Markov is, but there's an old password cracking tool called Crack that read a dicitonary of standard words and allowed you to define rules to modify the words. ie you could have a rule to append '1' to the end of each word, or concatenate two 4 letter words, and then insert a numeric between them (ie take run and fun and create run4fun.)
used it back in the uni days
Hydrocarbon-rich atmospheres bring the possibility of fuel-breathing jet engines. With a tank of oxygen or other oxidizer, a craft could scoop the fuel from the "air" and fly or run a powerplant.
So basically you are referring to the exact same thing as our jet engines here on earth, only we have to bring tanks of oxygen, instead of tanks of hydrocarbons.
I can see aliens from a hydrocarbon rich atmoshpere world saying - 'wow - earth has oxygen everywhere - we can build a jet engine to scoop up the oxygen, and and just have tanks of hydrocarbons to burn'
Not sure why this is interesting...
Can anyone else think of any other ways to save money on such an item to yield it for the lowest price?
Steal it
(Sexual Skills)*(Attractiveness)/(Price)*(Number of STDs)=(Hookosity Index) (The higher the rating, the more preferable the hooker.)
:)
following precedence rules of math, this equation means that the more STDs a prostitute has, the more preferable she (he) is!!!
I've never looked at my digital camera and thought "gee, I wish I could plug my headphones into that!"
Really, I have! Many times...well not your digital camera, my digital camera, but you get the idea.
Are you assuming there is some point to not being obscure?
If I hook up my transmogrifier to the digital mitzoplexer and then filter that through Google and get what I want, then, no offence, but I couldn't care less that your grandmother doesn't, and probably won't have one in her car, I have one in my fernazerator, so there. If I feel like releasing it so others who want to tinker with it can, then I will. I don't hope to become rich and famous - just sharing with others who have similar interests. If you don't then, again, no offense, go away.
assuming 100mb for the operating system, you could serve up a web site of about 600mb from a single boot cd. be a bit slow, but usable.
an authentication server doesn't require much disk space. Either does a print server.
Much more than just "having a server".
Trouble is, old laptops tend to have crap, if any, battery life. Wireless is great, but it still leaves you tied down.
Agreed, but most houses have power distributed throughout the house, but most don't have network cables distributed throughout. Put the laptop near an outlet and wail away without having to string cat5 around.
when will they stop making all this specialized crap and just make better software and hardware based on laptops or PDA's to do the same thing why reverse engineer things
When people stop buying them and/or it's no longer profitable????
Actually for offroading and rock crawling auto is king. Nothing like a foot on the brake and a foot on the gas to get you over nasty stuff.
So they are not far superior in 'every' way.
Also there's a thing called personal preference. My vette is a manual, my 928 is an auto. I like them both for a variety of different reasons. Sometimes I like have the option of downshifting when I want, and not when the car decides it is proper/safe/whatever, and sometimes I like just being able to smash the accelerator and watch whatever is in my rear view mirror get smaller.
I will agree that putting the car in Neutral would be the best bet, but were that not possible:
Losing power steering at a high rate of speed wouldn't affect you much - if you are going at a high rate of speed and need to turn enough to require power steering you are not going to make the turn anyways. A lot of sports cars have variable assist power steering that cuts the amount of assist in relation to your speed. The faster you go the less it assists. Give a much better feel at high speeds.
Regarding the power brakes, if the option is to allow your car to continue accelerating against the power braking effect or lose the acceleration and do manual braking, manual braking would be the preferred method. Just stomp harder!
In either event, power steering and power brakes generally have NO dependency on electrical power through the ignition (unless you are in a car with brake by wire, and in that case I believe the brakes still have a mechanical component for emergencies). Power steering is simply a pump spun by the drivebelt and power brakes are are 'powered' by engine vacuum. If you are in gear and your wheels are spinning, you should still have power steering as the drivebelt is spinning, and you will still have power brakes as the pistons will still be moving up and down generating vacuum.
So let us use a bit more sensible units than "shuttle fuel tanks".
Kilotonnes of TNT is a more sensible unit??? Common becuase of it's ancestry, but comparing anything that requires 20 kilotonnes of it is hardly sensible!!!
ick...
I thought windows was the Harley - overpriced, slow and generally annoying!!!
OSX would probably be the modern crotch rocket - works like a dream out of the box, super fast and easy to use
Linux is like an old 1960s Triumph - work like a dog to get it running, will put a big smile on your face,but not something you'd recommend to your mother for a daily driver.
So is that less than a basic 100 watt light bulb or less than a basic 25 watt lightbulb?
Good idea on the no fans...
ummmm no - we were talking about women - sane doesn't apply. :)
partly true, but they sell at a discount to Rio because Rio will thousands at a time and probably sign deals involving guarantees of future purchases as well.
Try buying other elextronic components bulk - it's not unusual to get a 50% or more discount per unit if you buy 1000 at a time.
most DSLRs can take upwards of 500 or even 600 pictures with a single battery. More if you aren't using the lcd. So if they are now 8 megapixel pics (ie Canon 20D) you are approacing 5GB on a single battery.
Plus having to carry extra batteries AND extra media is one more thing to carry (and thus forget to bring)
Also according to dpreview, the dsc-v1 has 'average battery life' (they'd "recommend a second battery") so your needs with the V1 would certainly vary from others.
give me a break - they are interested in selling units and making money. True that there might be a bit of advertising involved in that, but if they were given the equivalent of a buying slashdotting with millions of units being sold (and then ripped apart), they'd take the cash from selling units in that fashion just the same.