ANY transport or format of music or data is similar to DRM. People who have CDs have to have a CD player to play them, which might seem trivial now, but it may be an issue in 10 years time. I'm sure that the HD-DVD owners are unhappy! Whatever format you obtain your material in, there is always the risk that it may not be playable in the future. I have a couple of hundred DVDs at the moment, it occurred to me that with shifting consumer interest that it may not be aging of the discs that kills them, it may be that I no longer have a machine to play them on.
A niche market for religious 'phones, A phone that uses GPS to point to Mecca? a phone that changes background colour to suit the various festivals and seasons? First one to the patent office gets the prize.
so many times I have tried to make Speech Recog work without sounding like a 'Southern' Gentleman, I had a Lisa, I didn't get a Zune, and I notice that Win7 also comes in 32bit form, which it wasn't supposed to, a change that I put down to Vista. I occasionally install the latest Ubuntu, only to install something else a day later. To be fair, MS and Intel arn't the only people that fail, Apple promoted Sheec Recognition from the early days, and FireWire is there baby. I went back to corded Mice after using Apple Bluetooth mice, so it looks like the 3 of them have left us disapointed. Nice to see that someone still thinks that Linux is disappointing, free though it may be.
people who start to 'feel' too much during a game should consider giving up. It's just a GAME. There is enough to depress people in the NEWS on TV and in the 'papers. Go and play a nice game or read a book.
having seen the non apple demos, I would guess that the basic zoom and slide to scroll stuff would be covered by 'prior art', not to mention MS's efforts. I should also mention that about 15-17 years ago apple did some demos of gestures in the finder, which used a mouse instead of your finger and there are gestures in the 'ink' pen interface which they may translate into finger gestures, and the already have scrolling in their touch pads. So if you replace 'finger' with 'pointing device' apple has had stuff around for a while.
Apple is not under threat, they still sell bulk music, people still durn their own CDs etc. The difference here is that cracking DRM via an attack on the cryptography is illegal in most countries, while other, simpler methods, are in a grey area.
When Linux gets good support from hardware and software developers then it will fly. It's getting closer, but not there yet. ZERO to do with (NOT) being free.
(It costs to buy a disk or download the distro, then there is the learning time, searches for replacement software, etc, it ain't free)
I worked for a company, the biggest Telco in Australia, they really liked a particular terminal app, they bought a couple of copies, then just let illegal copies filter out through the org, not the only example but it meant that the company held 1000's of illegal copies of just one item, there were a whole lot more examples. My sister has worked for many companies on contract, one company actually boasted to her that they never buy any software, they just use stolen copies. They make money using stolen material. As I said, I have no sympathy for either side.
the curve ball, yes you can share, but only for scientific or educational purposes. While you sit in the courtroom, YOU have to prove that your open P2P connection was for 'educational' purposes. Good Luck.
I cannot use WMA DRM on my Mac. The only possible outcome, if successful, is a wider market for the iPod, and things like the MS Zune will be required to play Apple DRM. And as for monopoly, you can buy other players.
with the exception of built-in camera card slots, they have the same features, Apple builds the play-back controls into the keyboards, and as the man says, add the options to the iMac like wireless mouse and Keyboard and you have the same price and machine. As they are both Intel based I can't see wht similar hardware would be priced differently. The advantage that I see with the iMac is that you can run Win/Macos/Linux on the same hardware, and OS upgrades are cheaper. Does the Dell have a built-in camera? I missed that part.
if the news had said, 'Army moves to UN*X based Computing on Intel hardware, for security', it would never have even made it into/. but as soon as you say Mac, the fight is on. It's now a certified UN*X platform, you can run Windoze on it if you really need to.
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I'm guessing that it only runs on x86 plartforms?
wot? they had esc and del keys in the 19th century? surely you jest?
there was a game that layered the 'real world' video with CG characters.
ANY transport or format of music or data is similar to DRM. People who have CDs have to have a CD player to play them, which might seem trivial now, but it may be an issue in 10 years time. I'm sure that the HD-DVD owners are unhappy! Whatever format you obtain your material in, there is always the risk that it may not be playable in the future. I have a couple of hundred DVDs at the moment, it occurred to me that with shifting consumer interest that it may not be aging of the discs that kills them, it may be that I no longer have a machine to play them on.
silly me for thinking that my G5 was good enough
A niche market for religious 'phones, A phone that uses GPS to point to Mecca? a phone that changes background colour to suit the various festivals and seasons? First one to the patent office gets the prize.
so many times I have tried to make Speech Recog work without sounding like a 'Southern' Gentleman, I had a Lisa, I didn't get a Zune, and I notice that Win7 also comes in 32bit form, which it wasn't supposed to, a change that I put down to Vista. I occasionally install the latest Ubuntu, only to install something else a day later. To be fair, MS and Intel arn't the only people that fail, Apple promoted Sheec Recognition from the early days, and FireWire is there baby. I went back to corded Mice after using Apple Bluetooth mice, so it looks like the 3 of them have left us disapointed. Nice to see that someone still thinks that Linux is disappointing, free though it may be.
I have had both of them and rarely, once a month? or less, reset them.
use the 'password reset' utility on the install disk,
GUI elements from NeXTSTEP, TrueType from Apple :)
It gave rise to millions of useless Hypercard stacks, similar to the millions of useless video clips that fill youtube.
Most remembered Hypercard items were the Serial Port tool kit and the Lisp extensions.
if you are buying an old machine and you want to travel, look carefully at battery life and replacements.
people who start to 'feel' too much during a game should consider giving up. It's just a GAME. There is enough to depress people in the NEWS on TV and in the 'papers. Go and play a nice game or read a book.
having seen the non apple demos, I would guess that the basic zoom and slide to scroll stuff would be covered by 'prior art', not to mention MS's efforts. I should also mention that about 15-17 years ago apple did some demos of gestures in the finder, which used a mouse instead of your finger and there are gestures in the 'ink' pen interface which they may translate into finger gestures, and the already have scrolling in their touch pads. So if you replace 'finger' with 'pointing device' apple has had stuff around for a while.
I see many rich lawyers ahead...
Apple is not under threat, they still sell bulk music, people still durn their own CDs etc. The difference here is that cracking DRM via an attack on the cryptography is illegal in most countries, while other, simpler methods, are in a grey area.
part of the problem, you only need to look 1 or 2 years ahead to see significant changes, not 20-30.
When Linux gets good support from hardware and software developers then it will fly. It's getting closer, but not there yet. ZERO to do with (NOT) being free.
(It costs to buy a disk or download the distro, then there is the learning time, searches for replacement software, etc, it ain't free)
He was condemned for content and not method (internet) It's also good to note that this is the gov that is being supported by the UN/USA
I worked for a company, the biggest Telco in Australia, they really liked a particular terminal app, they bought a couple of copies, then just let illegal copies filter out through the org, not the only example but it meant that the company held 1000's of illegal copies of just one item, there were a whole lot more examples. My sister has worked for many companies on contract, one company actually boasted to her that they never buy any software, they just use stolen copies. They make money using stolen material. As I said, I have no sympathy for either side.
the curve ball, yes you can share, but only for scientific or educational purposes. While you sit in the courtroom, YOU have to prove that your open P2P connection was for 'educational' purposes. Good Luck.
either pay for the software that you use or use open source. Sorry no-one gets my support in this type of issue.
like father, like son (sorry about the gender bias)
I cannot use WMA DRM on my Mac. The only possible outcome, if successful, is a wider market for the iPod, and things like the MS Zune will be required to play Apple DRM. And as for monopoly, you can buy other players.
with the exception of built-in camera card slots, they have the same features, Apple builds the play-back controls into the keyboards, and as the man says, add the options to the iMac like wireless mouse and Keyboard and you have the same price and machine. As they are both Intel based I can't see wht similar hardware would be priced differently. The advantage that I see with the iMac is that you can run Win/Macos/Linux on the same hardware, and OS upgrades are cheaper. Does the Dell have a built-in camera? I missed that part.
if the news had said, 'Army moves to UN*X based Computing on Intel hardware, for security', it would never have even made it into /. but as soon as you say Mac, the fight is on. It's now a certified UN*X platform, you can run Windoze on it if you really need to.