Of course paying hackers is a good idea, if you want to generate any interesting code...
Oh, wait a minute. Slashdot has bought into the lowest common denominator usage of "hacker" to mean a cracker. And here I thought my opinion of the Slashdot moderators couldn't get any lower, after I had moderation privs revoked for daring to criticize them on other matters...
A couple of months ago when he published his DRM views, it was "yeah, right. Until you start selling DRM-free tunes on iTunes, you have no credibility." Now, it's "gimme DRM-free Video from a public company where you're a tiny (a few percent) shareholder, NOW!"
What the hell is it with you people? He's used his influence and control (which everybody constantly complains about) to engineer the largest single rollback of existing DRM in history - can you see Bill Gates doing that? Cut him some fucking slack.
Yeah. I have a few TB of spinning RAID Infrant NAS boxes here in my home, and I use.Mac all the time. There's no substitute for off-site backup of my business' Quickbooks files (we'd be truly screwed if we lost those), and being able to access both my most critical files and my bookmarks from other computers when I'm on the road is well worth the price of admission
As is very common in amateur technology analysis, this guy is suffering from a huge shortage of imagination in how people really use these services.
So what? Non-profits can't themselves make money, but they can and often do pay their employees (like, say, their executives) huge salaries based on the corporations financials.
This is why it's really, really important to examine reputable third-party audits of any "charitable" organizations to which one is tempted to donate.
Kids are able to just look at anything they turn their eyes towards, whether or not it's appropriate! They just look, look, look. All day long, even if their parents aren't present!
Studies show that most porn enjoyed by children is primarily through their eyes. Clearly, light is out of control. There ought to be a law.
720p is "true" HDTV, 1080i, and 1080p are "true" HDTV, and if additional higher resolution standard follow under the HDTV rubrik, they will be "true" HDTV.
Perhaps I should make up a new acronym for pedants who get mad when I use the term HD improperly. Perhaps "HDDSD" (High Defenition Downsized to Standard Definition)
Whatever, but saying, "I've also not had a problem recording HD content" on "my shuttle with MCE 2005" is clearly misleading, especially when you're already being snotty bout details.
This is not just a technicality, "HD content" means something that looks a hell of a lot better than anything you can record on your Windows box, which was the entire fucking point.
It CAN NOT PLAY HD CONTENT, it is NOT DESIGNED TO.
How interesting, considering I'm doing it right now. Downloaded 720p content, transcoded to H.264 by Quicktime Pro, plays just fine from an ATV on my 720p set.
If the light from an event hasn't reached us yet, physicists don't say that it's happened in the past. They only talk about events as having occured in the past when we are in the event's "light cone."
There are competing interpretations of relativity, but they all pretty much agree that you can only really say that something happen in an observer's absolute past if the light from an event has already met the observer. Your "dead mother" example really only works in a cartesian universe (and we don't happen to live in one).
Well, if you really wanted to push it you could say that Nuclear *is* a result of a star's fusion processes, just not the Sun's. Those heavy metals didn't just make themselves out of hydrogen, you know...
And heck, geothermal comes from both nuclear and compressive gravitational... and that gravitational energy is just itself coming from ancient supernovae, when stars converted their thermal and photonic energy into a whole lot of gravitational potential!
So I guess one could say that it's all stellar, if not actually solar.
Man, I gotta cut down on the Nyquil-Coffee coctails.
The mini is designed like apple's DRM; it prevents the casual tinkerer from getting inside of it, voiding their warranty, then having a fit on the phone.
Don't be silly. People learned about DRM when they ecountered its limitations. That was why it mattered - if so many people weren't personally limited by DRM, it would be a non-issue.
Just how many people do you think heard, read, or otherwise encountered anything the Defective people did?
How many do you think read Jobs' letter, or media coverage directly resulting from that letter?
If you think the first number is anything greater than several orders of magnitude smaller than the second, you're seriously deluded.
Thank yourself, thank the community, thank DefectiveByDesign and the FSF
You've got to be kidding. And just who do you think they inconvenienced? How many pennies do you think they cost the record labels? What incentive did they offer to the labels to drop EMI? It's truly ludicrous to believe that they had any impact whatsoever on this.
Did you see Jobs out on the street with those DefectiveByDesign chaps?
No. Of course not, he was indoors talking to the decision makers who mattered - offering them $.30/track to drop DRM. Everybody who has had anything to do with these negotiations, on either side of the table, has said that Jobs has argued against DRM from the beginning.
don't kid yourselves; for all the hype, iTunes sells a tiny fraction of all music bought. It's not mainstream
Uh, right. In the same way that Amzon.com isn't mainstream. The iTS sells more music than Amazon.com does - the only people selling more are Wal-Mart, Target, and Best-Buy. So the only way you're right is if you only consider Wal-Mart, Target, and Best-Buy to be mainstream.
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Of course paying hackers is a good idea, if you want to generate any interesting code... Oh, wait a minute. Slashdot has bought into the lowest common denominator usage of "hacker" to mean a cracker. And here I thought my opinion of the Slashdot moderators couldn't get any lower, after I had moderation privs revoked for daring to criticize them on other matters...
Oh my fucking god, you people are unbelievable.
A couple of months ago when he published his DRM views, it was "yeah, right. Until you start selling DRM-free tunes on iTunes, you have no credibility." Now, it's "gimme DRM-free Video from a public company where you're a tiny (a few percent) shareholder, NOW!"
What the hell is it with you people? He's used his influence and control (which everybody constantly complains about) to engineer the largest single rollback of existing DRM in history - can you see Bill Gates doing that? Cut him some fucking slack.
Yeah. I have a few TB of spinning RAID Infrant NAS boxes here in my home, and I use .Mac all the time. There's no substitute for off-site backup of my business' Quickbooks files (we'd be truly screwed if we lost those), and being able to access both my most critical files and my bookmarks from other computers when I'm on the road is well worth the price of admission
As is very common in amateur technology analysis, this guy is suffering from a huge shortage of imagination in how people really use these services.
I wouldn't have bothered to correct this, except it's the third time I've seen this idiotic mistake on Slashdot in two days.
So what? Non-profits can't themselves make money, but they can and often do pay their employees (like, say, their executives) huge salaries based on the corporations financials.
This is why it's really, really important to examine reputable third-party audits of any "charitable" organizations to which one is tempted to donate.
No.
Now go read TFA.
Huh? Why would "haha" be appropriate?
No Mac users were hurt, no Macs compromised.
When any substantial number of Macs are compromised, that will be the time to say, "haha."
Kids are able to just look at anything they turn their eyes towards, whether or not it's appropriate! They just look, look, look. All day long, even if their parents aren't present!
Studies show that most porn enjoyed by children is primarily through their eyes. Clearly, light is out of control. There ought to be a law.
(Nod to the W. reference) There is a Klingon saying:
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, you're radioactive goo.
Ah, I see. You're a moron, that explains it.
720p is "true" HDTV, 1080i, and 1080p are "true" HDTV, and if additional higher resolution standard follow under the HDTV rubrik, they will be "true" HDTV.
HDTV is a set of standards that includes 720p, there's no wiggle room there.
I'm picking a nit, but Congress can remove Supreme Court justices, too.
This is not just a technicality, "HD content" means something that looks a hell of a lot better than anything you can record on your Windows box, which was the entire fucking point.
By the way, it's worth knowing that Handbrake was finally recently recently upgraded in conjunction with a merge with Mediafork.
It's more than that, though.
If the light from an event hasn't reached us yet, physicists don't say that it's happened in the past. They only talk about events as having occured in the past when we are in the event's "light cone."
There are competing interpretations of relativity, but they all pretty much agree that you can only really say that something happen in an observer's absolute past if the light from an event has already met the observer. Your "dead mother" example really only works in a cartesian universe (and we don't happen to live in one).
Well, if you really wanted to push it you could say that Nuclear *is* a result of a star's fusion processes, just not the Sun's. Those heavy metals didn't just make themselves out of hydrogen, you know...
And heck, geothermal comes from both nuclear and compressive gravitational... and that gravitational energy is just itself coming from ancient supernovae, when stars converted their thermal and photonic energy into a whole lot of gravitational potential!
So I guess one could say that it's all stellar, if not actually solar.
Man, I gotta cut down on the Nyquil-Coffee coctails.
About 30 miles. I love it.
Not true. The Quad G5 uses DDR2 ECC DIMMS.
No. Installing memory in a Mac Mini does not void the warranty.
Just how many people do you think heard, read, or otherwise encountered anything the Defective people did?
How many do you think read Jobs' letter, or media coverage directly resulting from that letter?
If you think the first number is anything greater than several orders of magnitude smaller than the second, you're seriously deluded.
Ahah! Modern postism!