I have a shuffle I seldom use. If I had an MP3 player of some other flavor, I'd just rip my music to CD format, then again to MP3. But Apple's DRM is mostly designed for Apple systems - and I'm happy with Apple systems. Even if I didn't have a shuffle, though, I'd still be OK with Apple's DRM because I could still listen to my media.
I really dislike the notion of region limited DVD releases, and that DVDs have regions. That pisses me off, in theory. In practice, I've never bumped into it because I live in America, and my tasted don't tend toward foreign movies. If I ever did bump into it, I'd buy one of those buggy unlockable DVD players or use some other hackaround. But the theory behind DVD DRM annoys me (in theory) much worse than Apple's.
Sigh. It makes me sad that I support the DVD business (though netflix), but not enough to stop.
DRM doesn't affect determined piracy of "classic" media (visual audio). It stops casual piracy, and piracy of closed digital systems (xbox was never really cracked).
I hate bad DRM as much as the next person. But Apple's DRM is just fine by me. I'm able to listen to what I want on any device I want (I can burn a CD, after all).
Go ahead, don't buy media with bad DRM. But I'll continue buying good DRM media - because I believe in reasonable precautions against piracy - which to me means non-intrusive.
To which you say "blah blah blah, cracked AAC, blah blah" - to which I say "get me the statistics on AAC media piracy vs. non-DRM piracy." Or "blah blah, burned CD not as good as regular CD, blah blah" - to which I say "CD's aren't as good as vinyl, and I don't much care."
This president has used the veto less than any other president in history... (that you know of, anyway)
A little research: Some Presidents who never vetoed a bill (in months): Thomas Jefferson: 96 George W. Bush: 62 John Adams: 48 John Quincy Adams: 48 Millard Filmore: 31
You shouldn't vent your frustrations by damaging things, living or otherwise. It's not good for your mental health and it's not an effective way of expressing anger, in fact it tends to make it worse.
I have a Roomba and a Scooba to do my bidding. This might surprise you - they actually work. I was skeptical at first, but goddamnit my floors are clean now. And if they can keep MY floors clean - I have 2 cats each with their own litter box - they can keep anyone's floor clean.
OK, I'm not yet sold, but willing to be sold.
I have rugs, furniture that comes to within 2" to the floor, plenty of chair and table legs to contend with, and most importantly: many of my rooms have floors that are as much of 3/4" higher or lower than the room next to it, meaning lots of thresholds.
That would be a great idea, except for the facts that the client can be spoofed (trivially), and that BitTyrant is simply selective about who it shares with - but it still shares.
No, TV without commercials wasn't the idea of cable. Cable was invented so that people who lived in places that couldn't properly get TV from an antenna could watch TV. The first cable-only channel, HBO, was commercial-free and still is, but the very next cable-only channel, TBS, had commercials. Please stop spreading that bullshit.
I don't suppose they'll ever sell me one, thank you, NetFlix.
Netflix carries all the TV I want to see - except Mythbusters, and the daily show on a nightly basis.
Hmm. I just got an iTunes card - that may take care of Daily Show! Mythbusters I've requested Netflix carry.
Cable failed to live up to it's early hype - TV without commercials (yeah, that was the idea). Now it is dead to me because of that failing.
Yeah, I'm still paying for the content, and that's fine with me.
The bottom line is: I won't be buying any TV content on disk, and I don't suppose it's worth anyone else doing so. I'd much rather have netflix and go through the content that way. I don't need to own it. Heck, the local library contains seasons of some content (including 6' under).
If I'm walking out the door, and someone coming in catches the door after I walk out, am I going to stop, turn around, go back in the building, stop the person on the way to the stairs, force him to follow me back to the badge reader, and wait to make sure his badge is accepted by the reader? No.
It was paper (briefly), then tapes, then disks, then floppies and more disks and more tapes and more floppies for a long time.
Then suddenly it was CDs! Then you could burn them! Then back to floppies and disks and even tape.
Then they all got dirt cheap.
Now it's DVDs! And you can burn them!
But more interestingly, it is now NVRAM, and the NVRAM is getting to be very cheap.
So in the past half dozen years, we've seen consumer acceptance of CD burning, the death of the floppy, we're seeing the acceptance of burning DVDs, we've seen the birth of the jump drive, and already they are dirt cheap.
All these things were headlines in the 90's - that was just a looong time ago... None of todays healines will matter next year, but it means next decade will continue to get smaller and faster and even cheaper. So take a quick nap, rumplestilskin. Set your alarm for 2012, and we'll see if todays headlines hit the market in another half dozen years.
This is obviously not true. The last movie I watched was Cars. It is just shy of 2 hours. The itunes store says that it is 1.39GB of data, but they are not full DVD quality (though they're close). Hell, let's be really generous and say that 1 hour of tele is.5GB of data.
Let's say that 10% of the US watches TV at the same time - from 6-7PM west coast time. Let's say that's about 30M users. Now it's time for the easy math:.5GB/user hour * 30M users hour = 500,000,000B/user hour * 30,000,000 users hour = 15,000,000,000,000,000B = 15,000 Terabytes of data that would be transmitted in this one hour window.
We can't server that much data. Neighborhoods can't throughput that much data. Hell, there are plenty of neighborhoods that get satellite or broadcast tele that can't get anywhere near the kind of data throughput to the doorstep needed to watch any tele over the internet.
It was if she was shopping for hair dye. It was if she was a frequent poster to the "blondes have more fun after 50" message boards.
No, the only information that is available is where your mom likes to hang out.
That information, when tied to a telephone number by your phone company, through records from your ISP are invaluable
Make up your mind. Either it is valueable and can be bought and sold - just like any normal information, or it is too valuable to be bought and sold.
It's usually companies that offer them their advertising services or user-tracking, and they have very sophisticated ways of tracking usage, some of which don't even require cookies, and many of which abuse techniques that integrate with the company's own cookie scheme.
(IP address, etc). More power to 'em. They want to tell each other who shops where, and what they are buying, isn't that their business? Are you saying that businesses should not be able to talk to each other?
First, there are ways to subvert your setup, and I guarantee that it's already being done without your knowledge.
FUD.
Handing off cookies between two sites that you visit, without issuing a cookie from a foreign site was a technology perfected in 1999 (maybe before, but that's when I first saw it in a technical document).
Either you're talking about multiple sites cooperating by sending each other cookie information, or you're talking about a broken browser, or you're quoting FUD. In any of those cases, I'd like to see a reference.
Second, even without handing off cookies, there are many abuses of your personal privacy that companies you deal with can engage in. All that is being said here is that there's a line you don't cross in terms of selling information about people's behavior. We're not even talking about going as far as the EU does (and boy, do they go to lengths to protect privacy!)
Where is that line? What is it you're suggesting?
Hosting doesn't matter. A US company that abuses the privacy of US citizens in a way that contradicts US law must answer for that abuse. The fact that they placed the servers in China has no brearing on that.
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You sound like a happy iPod customer.
I have a shuffle I seldom use. If I had an MP3 player of some other flavor, I'd just rip my music to CD format, then again to MP3. But Apple's DRM is mostly designed for Apple systems - and I'm happy with Apple systems. Even if I didn't have a shuffle, though, I'd still be OK with Apple's DRM because I could still listen to my media.
I really dislike the notion of region limited DVD releases, and that DVDs have regions. That pisses me off, in theory. In practice, I've never bumped into it because I live in America, and my tasted don't tend toward foreign movies. If I ever did bump into it, I'd buy one of those buggy unlockable DVD players or use some other hackaround. But the theory behind DVD DRM annoys me (in theory) much worse than Apple's.
Sigh. It makes me sad that I support the DVD business (though netflix), but not enough to stop.
DRM doesn't affect piracy
DRM doesn't affect determined piracy of "classic" media (visual audio). It stops casual piracy, and piracy of closed digital systems (xbox was never really cracked).
I hate bad DRM as much as the next person. But Apple's DRM is just fine by me. I'm able to listen to what I want on any device I want (I can burn a CD, after all).
Go ahead, don't buy media with bad DRM. But I'll continue buying good DRM media - because I believe in reasonable precautions against piracy - which to me means non-intrusive.
To which you say "blah blah blah, cracked AAC, blah blah" - to which I say "get me the statistics on AAC media piracy vs. non-DRM piracy." Or "blah blah, burned CD not as good as regular CD, blah blah" - to which I say "CD's aren't as good as vinyl, and I don't much care."
OK, not that I'm from the show me state (forget which M state that is), but...
Show me one case where they've done such a thing?
Edimicate me. Can they do that?
In Pauly's worst-case-scenario, the SEC prosecutes Apple, and the board is forced to oust Jobs.
Forced, how? Because if they oust Jobs, Apple's future looks brighter? It's stock goes up? You're kidding, right?
This president has used the veto less than any other president in history...
(that you know of, anyway)
A little research:
Some Presidents who never vetoed a bill (in months):
Thomas Jefferson: 96
George W. Bush: 62
John Adams: 48
John Quincy Adams: 48
Millard Filmore: 31
You shouldn't vent your frustrations by damaging things, living or otherwise. It's not good for your mental health and it's not an effective way of expressing anger, in fact it tends to make it worse.
You're doing it wrong.
I have a Roomba and a Scooba to do my bidding. This might surprise you - they actually work. I was skeptical at first, but goddamnit my floors are clean now. And if they can keep MY floors clean - I have 2 cats each with their own litter box - they can keep anyone's floor clean.
OK, I'm not yet sold, but willing to be sold.
I have rugs, furniture that comes to within 2" to the floor, plenty of chair and table legs to contend with, and most importantly:
many of my rooms have floors that are as much of 3/4" higher or lower than the room next to it, meaning lots of thresholds.
Can a Roomba keep my floors clean?
That would be a great idea, except for the facts that the client can be spoofed (trivially), and that BitTyrant is simply selective about who it shares with - but it still shares.
No, TV without commercials wasn't the idea of cable. Cable was invented so that people who lived in places that couldn't properly get TV from an antenna could watch TV. The first cable-only channel, HBO, was commercial-free and still is, but the very next cable-only channel, TBS, had commercials. Please stop spreading that bullshit.
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Sure enough! No need to be impolite.
Thanks.
I don't suppose they'll ever sell me one, thank you, NetFlix.
Netflix carries all the TV I want to see - except Mythbusters, and the daily show on a nightly basis.
Hmm. I just got an iTunes card - that may take care of Daily Show! Mythbusters I've requested Netflix carry.
Cable failed to live up to it's early hype - TV without commercials (yeah, that was the idea). Now it is dead to me because of that failing.
Yeah, I'm still paying for the content, and that's fine with me.
The bottom line is: I won't be buying any TV content on disk, and I don't suppose it's worth anyone else doing so. I'd much rather have netflix and go through the content that way. I don't need to own it. Heck, the local library contains seasons of some content (including 6' under).
"Robots Could Some Day Demand Legal Rights"
Well, or "Robots Could Some Day all kill themselves"
Or how about "Robots Could Some Day Demand Kurt be promoted to godhood"
Editors, if there is nothing worth posting, just don't post.
Future hubs may also allow wireless sharing of peripherals.
/. give me free advertising, too?
Oh yeah? My future hubs may also allow wireless sharing of peripherals you don't even have.
Will
Can you think of any possible reason why...
You have a memory smasher on Intel that either behaves differently or correctly on PPC.
That's the one that jumps first to mind...
I'm thinking that you're not the only person who sorts arrays using sortUsingSelector on an intel machine.
I'm also thinking that they probably haven't done anything with that particular code in the past 8 years.
I am thinking that it is a problem with your code.
Lucky for me I don't have mod points. Otherwise I'd be torn between Funny, Insightful, and Just Plain Sad.
My mother-in-law got a PC because she knew it from work. It's been 4ish years, now, and her next machine (soon) will be a mac.
She hates her PC, just as she has always hated PCs.
See if your mom has hated her work machines - if so, you really ought to consider a mac.
After all, there are just about 2-3 programs they will use out of the box: browser, email, maybe a text editor to print letters.
Eventually they may figure out that there is also iPhoto, iTunes, and all that other cool stuff (tm).
With all your extra effort and "rude" behavior, you still haven't made your company more secure. You're just peeing in the ocean.
I don't think so. I was also stopped, and also accosted in the hallway without my badge. But we had pretty good security.
I don't get it. How did he get a password? They don't really transmit passwords in cleartext for something, do they?
If I'm walking out the door, and someone coming in catches the door after I walk out, am I going to stop, turn around, go back in the building, stop the person on the way to the stairs, force him to follow me back to the badge reader, and wait to make sure his badge is accepted by the reader? No.
I have.
Fair enough, but still...
It was paper (briefly), then tapes, then disks, then floppies and more disks and more tapes and more floppies for a long time.
Then suddenly it was CDs! Then you could burn them! Then back to floppies and disks and even tape.
Then they all got dirt cheap.
Now it's DVDs! And you can burn them!
But more interestingly, it is now NVRAM, and the NVRAM is getting to be very cheap.
So in the past half dozen years, we've seen consumer acceptance of CD burning, the death of the floppy, we're seeing the acceptance of burning DVDs, we've seen the birth of the jump drive, and already they are dirt cheap.
All these things were headlines in the 90's - that was just a looong time ago... None of todays healines will matter next year, but it means next decade will continue to get smaller and faster and even cheaper. So take a quick nap, rumplestilskin. Set your alarm for 2012, and we'll see if todays headlines hit the market in another half dozen years.
No kidding! I mean, it's been nearly 2 years since storage capacities have doubled. What the hell is taking them so long?
The mods are idiots.
.5GB of data.
.5GB/user hour * 30M users hour =
This is obviously not true. The last movie I watched was Cars. It is just shy of 2 hours. The itunes store says that it is 1.39GB of data, but they are not full DVD quality (though they're close). Hell, let's be really generous and say that 1 hour of tele is
Let's say that 10% of the US watches TV at the same time - from 6-7PM west coast time. Let's say that's about 30M users. Now it's time for the easy math:
500,000,000B/user hour * 30,000,000 users hour =
15,000,000,000,000,000B =
15,000 Terabytes of data that would be transmitted in this one hour window.
(note http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl says that about 130M people watched some part of the last big game)
We can't server that much data.
Neighborhoods can't throughput that much data.
Hell, there are plenty of neighborhoods that get satellite or broadcast tele that can't get anywhere near the kind of data throughput to the doorstep needed to watch any tele over the internet.
It was if she was shopping for hair dye. It was if she was a frequent poster to the "blondes have more fun after 50" message boards.
No, the only information that is available is where your mom likes to hang out.
That information, when tied to a telephone number by your phone company, through records from your ISP are invaluable
Make up your mind. Either it is valueable and can be bought and sold - just like any normal information, or it is too valuable to be bought and sold.
It's usually companies that offer them their advertising services or user-tracking, and they have very sophisticated ways of tracking usage, some of which don't even require cookies, and many of which abuse techniques that integrate with the company's own cookie scheme.
(IP address, etc). More power to 'em. They want to tell each other who shops where, and what they are buying, isn't that their business? Are you saying that businesses should not be able to talk to each other?
First, there are ways to subvert your setup, and I guarantee that it's already being done without your knowledge.
FUD.
Handing off cookies between two sites that you visit, without issuing a cookie from a foreign site was a technology perfected in 1999 (maybe before, but that's when I first saw it in a technical document).
Either you're talking about multiple sites cooperating by sending each other cookie information, or you're talking about a broken browser, or you're quoting FUD. In any of those cases, I'd like to see a reference.
Second, even without handing off cookies, there are many abuses of your personal privacy that companies you deal with can engage in. All that is being said here is that there's a line you don't cross in terms of selling information about people's behavior. We're not even talking about going as far as the EU does (and boy, do they go to lengths to protect privacy!)
Where is that line? What is it you're suggesting?
Hosting doesn't matter. A US company that abuses the privacy of US citizens in a way that contradicts US law must answer for that abuse. The fact that they placed the servers in China has no brearing on that.
Hi, this is Joe's Hosting Company, located in . I hear you have some web pages you'd like hosted. Sure, we'd be happy to send you a summary/detailed information about all the visitors to your pages, cross-indexed with all the other sites we host. For an extra $5/month, we'll x-index those with the pages at Jane's hosting, too. For x-indexing with Bobs Hot Porn Hosting, you will have to pay an extra $10/month.