It can't be any worse than the hundreds of articles that have been written comparing various Linux distros by running the installers and counting the number of applications that appear on the desktop.
This is what the movie cartel is complaining about as they try to make sure that all HD content has Digital Rights Infringement built into it, and all HD equipment be broken by design to enforce the infringement. When they finish buying congresscritters, you won't be able to record many programs in HD, and those that you can will have built-in expiration after a short time. So it won't have any advantage over the iTunes version.
Name another religion that was started by a guy that came out and said "Starting my own religion would be a good way to make money".
Not exactly a good way to make money, but if you are the prophet of a new religion, you can declare polygamy to be church doctrine and take all the cute young girls for yourself. I know of two times this has happened, but I’ll leave out the names because you know who I’m talking about.
Then there is another well-known religion begun and still operated to empower and protect male homosexuals. Their amassed fortune, in land, buildings and art, is just a side effect.
That sounds like your problem is with Rhapsody, not with Apple. Get your service, Rhapsody, to unlock their music so it can be used on other players, the way iTunes music can be unlocked to play on any mp3 player.
If you think Apple is missing a chance to make a lot of money, remember where you live and how this economy works. Start your own business using this model that you think Apple should be using. Instead of complaining about how Apple is not making the money it should be, make it for yourself. Kvetching about somebody else not making enough money is not just a waste of time, it is annoying. Put up or shut up.
If you ask me, Jobs is being really short-sighted. Unfortunately we'll never know until Apple actually tries.
Apple doesn’t need to try renting music. There have been dozens of other companies that have tried it, and many of them are out of business. Jobs can learn from the experience of others. That makes him wise, not short-sighted.
I suppose you could look at it that way, but what you are really doing in this case is hiring a service, just as you would any other deliveryman. I’m sure this is the way the cable company sees it, because that’s the way they describe the charges on my bill. I am neither buying nor renting the content, I am paying them to deliver “free” content.
If only the RIAA would take a note from this exercise. Both industries have similar problems.
That’s what I thought when I saw this headline and the one about Jobs’s statement that people would buy than rent their music.
This is exactly the same situation, where you buy the (full-priced) printer and own it so you can do what you want with it, even convert to off-brand ink, or you rent the (low-priced) printer by making regular payments for the higher-priced ink. If Jobs is right, and I think he is, then Kodak is doing the right thing. If only the RIAA could learn.
I don't know that I could trust you to use it responsibly
And there you have the crux of the matter. Since you don’t trust the other guy to use his gun responsibly, you should have your own -- just in case you are right. If just one of those kids in the classroom had been armed, he could have saved more than his own life.
Every one of those deaths belongs squarely on the shoulders of the gunman; but some of the blame has to run off onto the politicians who go around armed while they try to forbid everyone else to do the same, and onto the sheeple who don’t trust anyone else to have a gun and by doing so turn people into victims.
That's odd. Most of the Windows users I know can hit Ctrl-Alt-Del without looking at the keyboard. Usually they are too busy cussing to look at anything.
Qwerty is essentially random, so it's certainly not tuned for any particular language, except perhaps by accident.
Actually, it isn’t random. It is optimized to slow typing on mechanical typewriters to avoid collisions of the bars that strike the paper. Most random arrangements would actually be an improvement over Qwerty.
While it is true that the fastest typists with Qwerty are as fast as the fastest typists with Dvorak, Dvorak is learned more quickly, and is less fatiguing to the typist.
Uh, pkulak, AAC is Apple’s format. And the real point is that whether the next standard is AAC or MP3, it won’t be WMA - which means Gates won’t be collecting his percentage of every sale.
Go read the article you refer to. There is nothing there that suggests that Gates has anything but full support for DRM. His only problem is that it hasn't been done right yet. That means he thinks there is a right way to do it - which means he still supports DRM as fully as he ever has. There is a huge difference between doing it right and not doing it at all, even when not doing it at all is the only way to do it right.
You have slightly revised history. Go back to their original announcement, as reported here. In the original story, they were going to offer DRM-free music only after they were paid a “considerable advance payment” by the retailer. That is not anything like making it “available to anyone who wants it”. That was, and was seen as, pretending to make the offer without actually making it.
I don't see how it makes your life any easier. The only difference is that you have to produce a state government-issued document instead of a federal government-issued document. Either way, you still have to stop and wait for the border guard to ask for "your papers, please".
This is no different from Microsoft's traditional way of doing business -- wait until somebody has created a market, then steal the idea, step into that market and sue the actual innovator for using MS's idea.
Perhaps you were wasted all the time, but you know nothing about depression. Depression is a disease, not a choice. Do you tell people with diabetes "just forget all about yourself for a while"? No, you tell them to watch what they eat and take their medicine. That is the same thing you should tell people with depression. It is ignorant blather like this that makes depressed people turn suicidal.
So pretend you have your shit together, as you claim, and only offer your opinions on matters you actually know something about. That way, you won't be killing people with your ignorance.
RIAA doesn't need to win this case. All they need to do is drag it out while Allofmp3.com bleeds to death paying legal bills. Even if the court eventually decides in favor of the company, they're still out of business.
There is a very simple rule for figuring how secure a system needs to be: It should cost more to break into the system than the information it contains is worth.
A lot of day to day information doesn't need much security because it will be obsolete at the end of the day. On the other end, there are secrets that are the entire basis of your business, and these have to have real security. An example of this would be the formula for Coca-Cola. There is no way it belongs on any networked computer, because the entire multi-billion dollar corporation depends on it, despite whatever trouble this makes for users.
It sounds like you want to do something like this. That way, you have a separate root account for each person who needs it, and you just delete the account of the person who left. No one else ever knows or cares that anything changed.
Praising the Church for preserving ancient knowledges is like praising Hitler for preserving a few Jews. The destruction that the palimpset survived was the intentional destruction of ancient writing by the Church. It is completely ridiculous that the Church gets so much credit for saving the few classics that we have by over-writing them, which was meant as destruction, instead of any blame for the greater mass that were lost forever when the Church burned them. Anything from the ancients that survived the Dark Ages was not because the Church preserved them, but simply because they failed to complete their plan to burn all the ancient books, just as Hitler failed to complete his plan to burn all the European Jews.
Screw Godwin's Law. This is one of those rare times when the comparison is appropriate.
But must we automatically condemn everything they do as an act of a despotic, evil dictator?
They have a well established pattern of evil. It would be stupid to expect them to change without having seen evidence of change. Even if this is a genuine change, I say "show me. Then show me a pattern demonstrating change." They have said before they would obey the law. They still haven't done it.
Then there should be no discussion of iTunes wrt DRM, since you buy tunes from the iTune Store, not rent it. It is not like the places that you rent WMA tunes from that are only playable as long as you keep paying for them.
The timing of these measurements is interesting, in that the date when the magnetic field began to fall is about the same time as the global temperature began to climb. Although I wouldn't dare suggest a mechanism for the relationship, it appears possible that there is one: and it is even mentioned in the article - as the magnetic field weakens, less solar radiation is deflected. What isn't mentioned is that as more radiation hits Earth, the warmer it gets. This relationship is certainly something worth investigating.
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It can't be any worse than the hundreds of articles that have been written comparing various Linux distros by running the installers and counting the number of applications that appear on the desktop.
This is what the movie cartel is complaining about as they try to make sure that all HD content has Digital Rights Infringement built into it, and all HD equipment be broken by design to enforce the infringement. When they finish buying congresscritters, you won't be able to record many programs in HD, and those that you can will have built-in expiration after a short time. So it won't have any advantage over the iTunes version.
Then there is another well-known religion begun and still operated to empower and protect male homosexuals. Their amassed fortune, in land, buildings and art, is just a side effect.
A Mac Mini has 2 USB ports and a Firewire port. Add cables and hubs, and you have all the disk space you want.
That sounds like your problem is with Rhapsody, not with Apple. Get your service, Rhapsody, to unlock their music so it can be used on other players, the way iTunes music can be unlocked to play on any mp3 player.
If you think Apple is missing a chance to make a lot of money, remember where you live and how this economy works. Start your own business using this model that you think Apple should be using. Instead of complaining about how Apple is not making the money it should be, make it for yourself. Kvetching about somebody else not making enough money is not just a waste of time, it is annoying. Put up or shut up.
I suppose you could look at it that way, but what you are really doing in this case is hiring a service, just as you would any other deliveryman. I’m sure this is the way the cable company sees it, because that’s the way they describe the charges on my bill. I am neither buying nor renting the content, I am paying them to deliver “free” content.
That’s what I thought when I saw this headline and the one about Jobs’s statement that people would buy than rent their music.
This is exactly the same situation, where you buy the (full-priced) printer and own it so you can do what you want with it, even convert to off-brand ink, or you rent the (low-priced) printer by making regular payments for the higher-priced ink. If Jobs is right, and I think he is, then Kodak is doing the right thing. If only the RIAA could learn.
Every one of those deaths belongs squarely on the shoulders of the gunman; but some of the blame has to run off onto the politicians who go around armed while they try to forbid everyone else to do the same, and onto the sheeple who don’t trust anyone else to have a gun and by doing so turn people into victims.
That's odd. Most of the Windows users I know can hit Ctrl-Alt-Del without looking at the keyboard. Usually they are too busy cussing to look at anything.
While it is true that the fastest typists with Qwerty are as fast as the fastest typists with Dvorak, Dvorak is learned more quickly, and is less fatiguing to the typist.
Uh, pkulak, AAC is Apple’s format. And the real point is that whether the next standard is AAC or MP3, it won’t be WMA - which means Gates won’t be collecting his percentage of every sale.
Go read the article you refer to. There is nothing there that suggests that Gates has anything but full support for DRM. His only problem is that it hasn't been done right yet. That means he thinks there is a right way to do it - which means he still supports DRM as fully as he ever has. There is a huge difference between doing it right and not doing it at all, even when not doing it at all is the only way to do it right.
You have slightly revised history. Go back to their original announcement, as reported here. In the original story, they were going to offer DRM-free music only after they were paid a “considerable advance payment” by the retailer. That is not anything like making it “available to anyone who wants it”. That was, and was seen as, pretending to make the offer without actually making it.
I don't see how it makes your life any easier. The only difference is that you have to produce a state government-issued document instead of a federal government-issued document. Either way, you still have to stop and wait for the border guard to ask for "your papers, please".
Somebody, please, rate this Hilarious.
This is no different from Microsoft's traditional way of doing business -- wait until somebody has created a market, then steal the idea, step into that market and sue the actual innovator for using MS's idea.
Perhaps you were wasted all the time, but you know nothing about depression. Depression is a disease, not a choice. Do you tell people with diabetes "just forget all about yourself for a while"? No, you tell them to watch what they eat and take their medicine. That is the same thing you should tell people with depression. It is ignorant blather like this that makes depressed people turn suicidal.
So pretend you have your shit together, as you claim, and only offer your opinions on matters you actually know something about. That way, you won't be killing people with your ignorance.
RIAA doesn't need to win this case. All they need to do is drag it out while Allofmp3.com bleeds to death paying legal bills. Even if the court eventually decides in favor of the company, they're still out of business.
There is a very simple rule for figuring how secure a system needs to be: It should cost more to break into the system than the information it contains is worth.
A lot of day to day information doesn't need much security because it will be obsolete at the end of the day. On the other end, there are secrets that are the entire basis of your business, and these have to have real security. An example of this would be the formula for Coca-Cola. There is no way it belongs on any networked computer, because the entire multi-billion dollar corporation depends on it, despite whatever trouble this makes for users.
It sounds like you want to do something like this. That way, you have a separate root account for each person who needs it, and you just delete the account of the person who left. No one else ever knows or cares that anything changed.
Praising the Church for preserving ancient knowledges is like praising Hitler for preserving a few Jews. The destruction that the palimpset survived was the intentional destruction of ancient writing by the Church. It is completely ridiculous that the Church gets so much credit for saving the few classics that we have by over-writing them, which was meant as destruction, instead of any blame for the greater mass that were lost forever when the Church burned them. Anything from the ancients that survived the Dark Ages was not because the Church preserved them, but simply because they failed to complete their plan to burn all the ancient books, just as Hitler failed to complete his plan to burn all the European Jews.
Screw Godwin's Law. This is one of those rare times when the comparison is appropriate.
They have said before they would obey the law. They still haven't done it.
Then there should be no discussion of iTunes wrt DRM, since you buy tunes from the iTune Store, not rent it. It is not like the places that you rent WMA tunes from that are only playable as long as you keep paying for them.
The timing of these measurements is interesting, in that the date when the magnetic field began to fall is about the same time as the global temperature began to climb. Although I wouldn't dare suggest a mechanism for the relationship, it appears possible that there is one: and it is even mentioned in the article - as the magnetic field weakens, less solar radiation is deflected. What isn't mentioned is that as more radiation hits Earth, the warmer it gets. This relationship is certainly something worth investigating.