Your car stereo just doesn't support AAC files. That has nothing to do with the DRM. My Alpine unit support WMA and MP3, but not AAC. I can rip un-DRMd files from my own CDs, and the unit still won't play them.
VLC said it was about 15 mins.. and I watched Episode 2, 3, and 4 last night. Equally painful. For some sadistic reason, I'll probably watch Ep 5 at lunch. heh.
I'm 13 minutes into Episode 1 and am about to fall asleep. Good. Fucking. Lord. I watched a video at Delta Air Lines about "Aircraft Doors and You" that was more exciting than this piece of shit.
I think that I should sue you now. That press release was funny enough to make me spew coffee all over my PowerBook. I demand you pay for the cleaning bill.:P~
Mainly it's where my apartment is. I have a studio apartment and the porch looks directly North...and there is also a line of redwood trees right in the way. If I had a place on the southern side of the complex with a view of the South, it'd be ok.:)
I just got cable when I moved to the south Bay Area because I can't attach my Dish to the apartment building. Bummer. The channel guide on Comcast is AWFUL! Channel 11, the "TV Guide Channel." 25% of the screen is a scrolling list of channels and what's on. The rest of it? Advertisements! Shouldn't it be the other way around? The guide on DirecTV and Dish Network is FAR superior to what currently exists on standard cable. I just want to know what's on TV, not more ads. Blah.
But the change was made in 2004. A year ago. The whole "just because they SAY they won't doesn't mean that they won't ever do it!" line is kind of old as well.
Welcome to the Internet. Slashdot can change its privacy policy at anytime. There are dozens of other companies out there that have almost identical AUP texts in place. Yahoo's AUP comes to mind. Nothing is stopping any internet company from doing whatever they want with the data. Fact is, AOL has no business need to monitor AIM conversations. Why would they? There's no profit to be made, so why would they implement infrastructure to read chat conversations? AOL keeps a "hands off" approach to chat rooms and chat conversations because if they DID monitor them, it'd be a huge liability for them. HUGE legal issues.
This didn't prove squat about corporations respecting us. Hate to tell you, but it was a tiny pebble in a huge pond.
(disclaimer: Back in 2000, I used to work for Netscape/AOL in AOL Network Services. This issue has been around for a LONG time.. way before the Blogosphere. It was stated way back then that chat conversations weren't going to be monitored then, and there were no plans to. 5 years later, AOL is still saying the same thing.)
Hate to tell you, but this really was a non-issue. Want to get bent out of shape by an AUP? Look at the crap Gratis shoves on people with these "freeipod.com" scams. Check out *that* AUP/TOS of you want something to fear.
Are there any more plans to put weight behind the calendaring solution?
I know that Sunbird exists and there's now Lightning but the project details are quite vague. The Mozilla Suite could benefit greatly from a fully functional calendar, especially in the small business realm.
Yes, I read the article. This seems to be a "fight fire with fire" solution and is probably just going to make things worse.
The stupid online poker comment spam *is* annoying, yes, but is Googlebombing Wikipedia really a viable solution?
The Wiki didn't come up 3rd when I looked a few minutes ago (it was 5th) and doesn't Google specifically say "Don't do stuff like this!" in their help documentation? I hope this doesn't backfire.
And they didn't turn around and say "Hey you creep, stop taking photos of us!" or something?
Friend that tried to do a photoblog of college students ran into that a *lot* - girls generally got really upset upon having their photos taken in public places.
I had a contract at a place that basically said "Any female that applies will get the job, as long as she has basic troubleshooting skills."
Why? No women were applying. Stack of 100 applications, not one female applied. This was for a $19/hr NOC monkey gig, too. This is bad because when one *does* apply, she'd get the job because of the fact that she was a *she* and not because she was the best fit for the position.
There's also a "Checkpoint Systems" that makes some sort of point of sale kind of stuff. The way things are going, they'll probably wind up in some hack or another eventually.:)
Ok, CmdrTaco. You finally have your mp3 player with your beloved FM tuner. Buy one and write up a review for us, ok?
I cannot think of anything more useless these days than an FM tuner. Here in the SF Bay Area, most radio stations are absolute trash. 2 songs, ad break, 1 more song, more ads. It's just terrible. An FM tuner is a totally worthless addition to a portable mp3 player, imho. Generally, folks buy mp3 players so they can listen to their mp3s, and they're listening to the mp3s because they're sick to death of radio!
I'm also surprised that nobody tried to call this the "iPod Killer" this time. Heh. the new Sony devices look nice, but do they work well with iTunes? Do they include some Sony software that's Windows-only? I think that the iTunes + iPod integration and ease of use is a huge selling point. Piling on more mp3 applications to support various devices is only going to make a mess of things.
I think that they just turned it into another issue for bloggers to whine about. I mean, after all, they're the Time Magzine "People of the Year!" How can you fire the "People of the Year" for doing what made then the People of the Year. When that "award" was given out and the issue published, I pointed out that it'd inflate the egos of a lot of people. It did, and now some of them are confused when they lose their jobs. Let's not forget the "Bloggers Bill of Rights." Please. There are far more important things deserving a "Bill of Rights" in the workplace.
I'm still baffled as to how anyone that sits there and bitches/divulges secrets/etc about their company can be shocked when they get fired.
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Your car stereo just doesn't support AAC files. That has nothing to do with the DRM. My Alpine unit support WMA and MP3, but not AAC. I can rip un-DRMd files from my own CDs, and the unit still won't play them.
It's not the DRM in that case. It's AAC vs MP3.
VLC said it was about 15 mins.. and I watched Episode 2, 3, and 4 last night. Equally painful. For some sadistic reason, I'll probably watch Ep 5 at lunch. heh.
I'm 13 minutes into Episode 1 and am about to fall asleep. Good. Fucking. Lord. I watched a video at Delta Air Lines about "Aircraft Doors and You" that was more exciting than this piece of shit.
Another absolute must is a triumphant calendar. :P
:)
Although, I suspect that you can just get users to upgrade by doing some Windows logon script voodoo. It works most of the time.
At the very very very least, it proves that there really *is* legitimate content on BitTorrent.
More of this kind of stuff needs to get out there.
I think that I should sue you now. That press release was funny enough to make me spew coffee all over my PowerBook. I demand you pay for the cleaning bill. :P~
Mainly it's where my apartment is. I have a studio apartment and the porch looks directly North...and there is also a line of redwood trees right in the way. If I had a place on the southern side of the complex with a view of the South, it'd be ok. :)
I tried to open gspotmail.com but some damn domain squatter already had it taken.
:|
Man, I could have made a fortune off of that one.
I just got cable when I moved to the south Bay Area because I can't attach my Dish to the apartment building. Bummer. The channel guide on Comcast is AWFUL! Channel 11, the "TV Guide Channel." 25% of the screen is a scrolling list of channels and what's on. The rest of it? Advertisements! Shouldn't it be the other way around? The guide on DirecTV and Dish Network is FAR superior to what currently exists on standard cable.
I just want to know what's on TV, not more ads. Blah.
But the change was made in 2004. A year ago. The whole "just because they SAY they won't doesn't mean that they won't ever do it!" line is kind of old as well.
Welcome to the Internet. Slashdot can change its privacy policy at anytime. There are dozens of other companies out there that have almost identical AUP texts in place. Yahoo's AUP comes to mind. Nothing is stopping any internet company from doing whatever they want with the data.
Fact is, AOL has no business need to monitor AIM conversations. Why would they? There's no profit to be made, so why would they implement infrastructure to read chat conversations? AOL keeps a "hands off" approach to chat rooms and chat conversations because if they DID monitor them, it'd be a huge liability for them. HUGE legal issues.
This didn't prove squat about corporations respecting us. Hate to tell you, but it was a tiny pebble in a huge pond.
(disclaimer: Back in 2000, I used to work for Netscape/AOL in AOL Network Services. This issue has been around for a LONG time.. way before the Blogosphere. It was stated way back then that chat conversations weren't going to be monitored then, and there were no plans to. 5 years later, AOL is still saying the same thing.)
Hate to tell you, but this really was a non-issue. Want to get bent out of shape by an AUP? Look at the crap Gratis shoves on people with these "freeipod.com" scams. Check out *that* AUP/TOS of you want something to fear.
Actually, it's more like "A bunch of bloggers got their panties in a knot over basically nothing" - that went into place over a *year* ago.
Are there any more plans to put weight behind the calendaring solution?
I know that Sunbird exists and there's now Lightning but the project details are quite vague. The Mozilla Suite could benefit greatly from a fully functional calendar, especially in the small business realm.
Yes, I read the article. This seems to be a "fight fire with fire" solution and is probably just going to make things worse.
The stupid online poker comment spam *is* annoying, yes, but is Googlebombing Wikipedia really a viable solution?
The Wiki didn't come up 3rd when I looked a few minutes ago (it was 5th) and doesn't Google specifically say "Don't do stuff like this!" in their help documentation?
I hope this doesn't backfire.
Knight Ridder bought out several of the free papers in this area... (Silicon Valley)
And they didn't turn around and say "Hey you creep, stop taking photos of us!" or something?
Friend that tried to do a photoblog of college students ran into that a *lot* - girls generally got really upset upon having their photos taken in public places.
My old IP block showed up as being in New York.
:(
I'm near San Francisco. GeoIP stuff doesn't seem to be very useful.
I had a contract at a place that basically said "Any female that applies will get the job, as long as she has basic troubleshooting skills."
Why? No women were applying. Stack of 100 applications, not one female applied. This was for a $19/hr NOC monkey gig, too.
This is bad because when one *does* apply, she'd get the job because of the fact that she was a *she* and not because she was the best fit for the position.
Not the first time I've run into this, either.
Can't Lockheed-Martin or some other private agency take it over? Or would the red tape screw everything up?
Hughes Aerospace? DirecTV? Burt Rutan? Someone that knows about satellites, step up to the plate and buy this stuff!
Sad thing is that the marketers and creditors have a lot more pull with Congresscritters than "We the People" do these days. :-(
Check out the recent bankruptcy law changes that are basically a thinly veiled gift to banks and credit card companies.
It sucks. All of our data should be opt-in only, but who knows how bad it'll have to get before that happens.
There's also a "Checkpoint Systems" that makes some sort of point of sale kind of stuff. The way things are going, they'll probably wind up in some hack or another eventually. :)
Ok, CmdrTaco. You finally have your mp3 player with your beloved FM tuner. Buy one and write up a review for us, ok?
I cannot think of anything more useless these days than an FM tuner. Here in the SF Bay Area, most radio stations are absolute trash. 2 songs, ad break, 1 more song, more ads. It's just terrible. An FM tuner is a totally worthless addition to a portable mp3 player, imho.
Generally, folks buy mp3 players so they can listen to their mp3s, and they're listening to the mp3s because they're sick to death of radio!
I'm also surprised that nobody tried to call this the "iPod Killer" this time. Heh. the new Sony devices look nice, but do they work well with iTunes? Do they include some Sony software that's Windows-only? I think that the iTunes + iPod integration and ease of use is a huge selling point. Piling on more mp3 applications to support various devices is only going to make a mess of things.
Dude, it's because you said "fire" to a redneck. That's why he's using it. Duh. :P
I think that they just turned it into another issue for bloggers to whine about. I mean, after all, they're the Time Magzine "People of the Year!" How can you fire the "People of the Year" for doing what made then the People of the Year. When that "award" was given out and the issue published, I pointed out that it'd inflate the egos of a lot of people. It did, and now some of them are confused when they lose their jobs.
Let's not forget the "Bloggers Bill of Rights."
Please. There are far more important things deserving a "Bill of Rights" in the workplace.
I'm still baffled as to how anyone that sits there and bitches/divulges secrets/etc about their company can be shocked when they get fired.
The article can be found here
Except that trojans are often illegal, and you're not paying for them. You are, however, paying for your VoIP service.