For a moment I thought you said lower the refresh rate, which is a terrible idea. 60Hz (the default setting on many systems) hurts my eyes. Make sure you're using the highest refresh rate your monitor and video card will handle!
Music downloaded from Apple's iTunes online music store currently can only be played on iPods....and Macs and Windows PCs using any application that uses QuickTime, including iTunes and (I believe) recent versions of RealPlayer.
The law, if enacted, could prompt Apple to shut its iTunes store in France, some industry observers say, to keep from making songs vulnerable to conversion outside France, too.
If Apple had to shut down iTMS in France, its competition would have to shut down for the same reason.
"The person who will have converted iTunes songs will be able to make it available elsewhere," Marc Guez, head of the French Collecting Society for Music Producers rights (SCPP) told Reuters.
Not legally. The music is still protected by copyright law. Currently, the DRM can be removed illegally, and then the music can be illegally shared. Making the first step legal doesn't make the second step legal.
The law would also mean that other online French music retailers such as Fnac, part of PPR, would have to make iTunes songs available on their Web sites.
Can anyone translate this from journalist-speak to tech-speak for me? What exactly would Fnac have to make available?
Police agents can monitor music exchange Web sites and trace back the email address of beneficiaries by asking the Internet service provider for it through a court order.
Presumably they meant they can ask the ISP for the billing information of the customer who was using a particular IP address (not e-mail address), which the police agents obtained through monitoring P2P services (not Web sites).
It's the commercials that keep me away. It pisses me off to no end having to watch 20 minutes of commercials and previews for movies I have no interest in after I paid for a movie ticket. If I wanted to watch commercials, I could have stayed home and watched TV.
Indeed, you could have stayed home for an extra 20 minutes, before going to the theater. Just because they show 20 minutes of commercials doesn't mean you have to watch them.
I think by "old" they simply meant "existing" - they're planning to use cables that are already installed, instead of running new ones (regardless of whether the cables are fiber or copper).
There are web sites that won't render as they were intended, if you render them in a completely standards-compliant way, because the web site's code does not follow the standards. Sometimes you have to choose between rendering the web site the way it was intended, and rendering the web site according to the standard (which may make the site unusable).
I don't have cable. I tried pirating The Daily Show via BitTorrent for awhile, but when SuprNova and another web site went down, it just got to be too much trouble to try to find torrents on a regular basis, so I quit bothering. This is exactly what I want. Apple just got my money.
(Unfortunately due to technical difficulties, they have my money, but I don't have my Daily Show yet. Hopefully it'll be working soon.)
Well, your car won't stop you from driving off a cliff either...
Good analogy. That's why we have signs and guard rails and such - not to prevent you from driving off the cliff, but to help make sure you're aware of the danger and to help you not to drive off the cliff. These guys are trying to do the same thing for the Web.
Voting for a President who's the "lesser of two evils." I heard that line a lot in the last election. Just because something is not as bad as something else doesn't mean it's good. The same applies here. If even the legislators who are voting for this measure to pass admit it isn't all that great...why are they passing it?
Two reasons: first, as another poster said, anyone who votes against something called the "USA PATRIOT Act", regardless of what it actually does, is opening themselves up to easy attack in the next election, because the majority of the public is too apathetic to pay attention to anything past the title.
Second, because many of them genuinely believe renewing it to be, as you said, the lesser of two evils - in other words, they believe that allowing it to expire would be worse than renewing it, even though they know it has problems. Obviously most of us disagree with their judgment, but we're a small minority of the voting public. However, many of these senators really believe that the USA PATRIOT Act actualy does make the country significantly safer from terrorist attack, and that the likelihood of another 9/11 if the act isn't renewed outweighs the civil liberties problems. Ideally they'd like to keep the parts that (they believe) make America safer, but change the parts that infringe upon our civil liberties. That's a lot more complicated than it sounds, so they're willing to settle for renewing the whole thing for now.
Just so you're aware, the genetic relationship between dogs and wolves is perfectly consistent with the theory of Creation, which says all animals alive today are descended from only a few that survived the Flood about 4,000 years ago. Since that time*, natural selection has been at work, selecting traits that provide an advantage in whatever environment the creatures happen to be in. Combine that with geographical isolation, and you get dogs and wolves. Add deliberate breeding into the mix, and you get greyhounds and French poodles.
I'm not asking you to believe in Creation, but don't be thinking you've just disproved it.:-)
(* I don't mean to suggest that natural selection didn't exist during the 2,000 years or so between the Fall and the Flood, only that it doesn't really matter at this point since no other animals survived.)
It's funny how quick people are to throw out evolution.
I believe you've missed something:
People aren't quick to throw out evolution. They've thrown out evolution long ago, and are quick to jump on this and anything else they can find as evidence to support their existing beliefs.
(I don't believe the theory of evolution either, but I try not to jump on this sort of thing, because I have no doubt there will be a good explanation.)
That's precisely the same reason I haven't read any of the Harry Potter books.
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No dice. The ones that support FireWire 400 & 800 were too big. The ones that were the right size supported FireWire 400 & USB 2.0. Portable hard drives with FireWire 800 were just starting to come on the market when Apple dropped it.
FYI, if a drive supports FW800, it will also work with FW400 if you have an adapter; FW800 is backwards-compatible but uses a different connector (which is a big reason why nobody wants to use it).
Secondly, what do you propose to replace common ActiveX tools that require OS interaction (like Windows Update or TrendMicro's online virus scanner)?
How about downloading an application and executing it yourself? Why does it have to be on a web page? If I'm not mistaken, Microsoft has already said Windows Update in Vista won't be web-based.
You seem to have failed to grasp the distinction I was trying to point out.
If you reject the terms of Apple's license, but obtain a copy of their software anyway (whether by downloading it from a P2P network or going to a store and paying for a boxed copy), you are not permitted to use the software.
If you reject the terms of the GPL, but obtain a copy of some GPL'd software anyway (whether by downloading it from a P2P network or going to a store and paying for a boxed copy), you ARE permitted to use the software. The GPL is not a EULA; it has nothing to do with whether you're allowed to use the software, or how you're allowed to use it. Let me say it again: it is perfectly legal for you to use GPL'd software even if you reject the GPL, because the GPL does not apply to whether or not you can use the software.
It is not hypocritical to say it's unfair of Apple to try to restrict how people use their software, while supporting anyone's right to restrict under what circumstances people can redistribute their software.
(I'm not trying to take sides here, just trying to make it clear that the GPL is a completely different animal.)
I remember quite distinctly the horror I felt when I first got my mac and discovered that it automatically opened safe files... At least around 10.4.2 or so, this was default behavior. And this option has carried on with me to 10.4.5, but is disabled today.
The only problem with this feature has to do with OSX's definition of "safe". A real JPEG photo that will open in Preview is "safe", because it cannot harm your system. An executable shell script with a.jpg extension at the end of the filename should not be considered "safe", but OSX thinks it is due to a bug.
There's a good reason why the checkbox in Preferences doesn't say "automatically open all downloaded files."
I'm suprised they are going with a subscription based model. $7 for 4 episodes and I'll get billed monthly? While I'd consider a subscription for something like the Daily Show aren't podcasts more like songs i.e. something people are willing to spend 99 cents to purchase at will?
No, the entire point of podcasts is that they're subscription-based. You subscribe to a feed (whether free or not), and new content is downloaded automatically as it becomes available, for listening/watching at your leisure. If I wanted to download a single episode, I wouldn't need a podcast for that.
I highly recommend The Onion Radio News podcast, it's under a minute long and updated daily. Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie has a weekly video podcast which is pretty damn funny too.
Most PowerPC companies have thier own deal preventing other OS's running on thier hardware and the different Linux projects have worked arounf this. IBM has ROS on the pSeries and Apple has OpenFirmware.
I can't speak to ROS, but OpenFirmware is the opposite of what you've described. There's a reason it's called "Open"; it's flexible, hackable, programmable, and documented. OpenFirmware makes it MUCH EASIER to boot Linux on a Mac.
It might also interest you to know that before Apple started using OpenFirmware, they actively helped to port Linux to the PowerPC (MkLinux is a rather nasty hack, but it works, and at the time, nothing else did).
You are legally permitted to use GPL software without agreeing to or adhering to the terms of the GPL. However, you are not permitted to redistribute copies or derivatives of the software, as this would violate copyright law - unless you accept the terms of the GPL, which grants you a license to redistribute.
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For a moment I thought you said lower the refresh rate, which is a terrible idea. 60Hz (the default setting on many systems) hurts my eyes. Make sure you're using the highest refresh rate your monitor and video card will handle!
Music downloaded from Apple's iTunes online music store currently can only be played on iPods. ...and Macs and Windows PCs using any application that uses QuickTime, including iTunes and (I believe) recent versions of RealPlayer.
The law, if enacted, could prompt Apple to shut its iTunes store in France, some industry observers say, to keep from making songs vulnerable to conversion outside France, too.
If Apple had to shut down iTMS in France, its competition would have to shut down for the same reason.
"The person who will have converted iTunes songs will be able to make it available elsewhere," Marc Guez, head of the French Collecting Society for Music Producers rights (SCPP) told Reuters.
Not legally. The music is still protected by copyright law. Currently, the DRM can be removed illegally, and then the music can be illegally shared. Making the first step legal doesn't make the second step legal.
The law would also mean that other online French music retailers such as Fnac, part of PPR, would have to make iTunes songs available on their Web sites.
Can anyone translate this from journalist-speak to tech-speak for me? What exactly would Fnac have to make available?
Police agents can monitor music exchange Web sites and trace back the email address of beneficiaries by asking the Internet service provider for it through a court order.
Presumably they meant they can ask the ISP for the billing information of the customer who was using a particular IP address (not e-mail address), which the police agents obtained through monitoring P2P services (not Web sites).
Correct.
It's the commercials that keep me away. It pisses me off to no end having to watch 20 minutes of commercials and previews for movies I have no interest in after I paid for a movie ticket. If I wanted to watch commercials, I could have stayed home and watched TV.
Indeed, you could have stayed home for an extra 20 minutes, before going to the theater. Just because they show 20 minutes of commercials doesn't mean you have to watch them.
I think by "old" they simply meant "existing" - they're planning to use cables that are already installed, instead of running new ones (regardless of whether the cables are fiber or copper).
There are web sites that won't render as they were intended, if you render them in a completely standards-compliant way, because the web site's code does not follow the standards. Sometimes you have to choose between rendering the web site the way it was intended, and rendering the web site according to the standard (which may make the site unusable).
I don't have cable. I tried pirating The Daily Show via BitTorrent for awhile, but when SuprNova and another web site went down, it just got to be too much trouble to try to find torrents on a regular basis, so I quit bothering. This is exactly what I want. Apple just got my money.
(Unfortunately due to technical difficulties, they have my money, but I don't have my Daily Show yet. Hopefully it'll be working soon.)
...but when the competition sits there throwing around meaningless numbers, one of the only choices is to join in and play the same game...
One of the other choices is to not join in and play the same game.
Press D to download, select "Save to disk" from the menu, press enter to confirm the filename... it's not harder than anything else in Lynx!
Well, your car won't stop you from driving off a cliff either...
Good analogy. That's why we have signs and guard rails and such - not to prevent you from driving off the cliff, but to help make sure you're aware of the danger and to help you not to drive off the cliff. These guys are trying to do the same thing for the Web.
I'm not saying it'll work, but it's a good idea.
Firefox won't stop you from deliberately installing software you're too stupid to realize is malware.
Voting for a President who's the "lesser of two evils." I heard that line a lot in the last election. Just because something is not as bad as something else doesn't mean it's good. The same applies here. If even the legislators who are voting for this measure to pass admit it isn't all that great...why are they passing it?
Two reasons: first, as another poster said, anyone who votes against something called the "USA PATRIOT Act", regardless of what it actually does, is opening themselves up to easy attack in the next election, because the majority of the public is too apathetic to pay attention to anything past the title.
Second, because many of them genuinely believe renewing it to be, as you said, the lesser of two evils - in other words, they believe that allowing it to expire would be worse than renewing it, even though they know it has problems. Obviously most of us disagree with their judgment, but we're a small minority of the voting public. However, many of these senators really believe that the USA PATRIOT Act actualy does make the country significantly safer from terrorist attack, and that the likelihood of another 9/11 if the act isn't renewed outweighs the civil liberties problems. Ideally they'd like to keep the parts that (they believe) make America safer, but change the parts that infringe upon our civil liberties. That's a lot more complicated than it sounds, so they're willing to settle for renewing the whole thing for now.
The powered speakers on my computer do that too, even if the computer isn't plugged into them.
Not just receive emergency calls - what if the guy next to you has a heart attack, and you can't call 911?
Just so you're aware, the genetic relationship between dogs and wolves is perfectly consistent with the theory of Creation, which says all animals alive today are descended from only a few that survived the Flood about 4,000 years ago. Since that time*, natural selection has been at work, selecting traits that provide an advantage in whatever environment the creatures happen to be in. Combine that with geographical isolation, and you get dogs and wolves. Add deliberate breeding into the mix, and you get greyhounds and French poodles.
:-)
I'm not asking you to believe in Creation, but don't be thinking you've just disproved it.
(* I don't mean to suggest that natural selection didn't exist during the 2,000 years or so between the Fall and the Flood, only that it doesn't really matter at this point since no other animals survived.)
It's funny how quick people are to throw out evolution.
I believe you've missed something:
People aren't quick to throw out evolution. They've thrown out evolution long ago, and are quick to jump on this and anything else they can find as evidence to support their existing beliefs.
(I don't believe the theory of evolution either, but I try not to jump on this sort of thing, because I have no doubt there will be a good explanation.)
That's precisely the same reason I haven't read any of the Harry Potter books.
No dice. The ones that support FireWire 400 & 800 were too big. The ones that were the right size supported FireWire 400 & USB 2.0. Portable hard drives with FireWire 800 were just starting to come on the market when Apple dropped it.
FYI, if a drive supports FW800, it will also work with FW400 if you have an adapter; FW800 is backwards-compatible but uses a different connector (which is a big reason why nobody wants to use it).
Dual-booting would work much better for games, which don't generally run as well inside a virtual environment like VMWare or VirtualPC.
Secondly, what do you propose to replace common ActiveX tools that require OS interaction (like Windows Update or TrendMicro's online virus scanner)?
How about downloading an application and executing it yourself? Why does it have to be on a web page? If I'm not mistaken, Microsoft has already said Windows Update in Vista won't be web-based.
You seem to have failed to grasp the distinction I was trying to point out.
If you reject the terms of Apple's license, but obtain a copy of their software anyway (whether by downloading it from a P2P network or going to a store and paying for a boxed copy), you are not permitted to use the software.
If you reject the terms of the GPL, but obtain a copy of some GPL'd software anyway (whether by downloading it from a P2P network or going to a store and paying for a boxed copy), you ARE permitted to use the software. The GPL is not a EULA; it has nothing to do with whether you're allowed to use the software, or how you're allowed to use it. Let me say it again: it is perfectly legal for you to use GPL'd software even if you reject the GPL, because the GPL does not apply to whether or not you can use the software.
It is not hypocritical to say it's unfair of Apple to try to restrict how people use their software, while supporting anyone's right to restrict under what circumstances people can redistribute their software.
(I'm not trying to take sides here, just trying to make it clear that the GPL is a completely different animal.)
I remember quite distinctly the horror I felt when I first got my mac and discovered that it automatically opened safe files... At least around 10.4.2 or so, this was default behavior. And this option has carried on with me to 10.4.5, but is disabled today.
.jpg extension at the end of the filename should not be considered "safe", but OSX thinks it is due to a bug.
The only problem with this feature has to do with OSX's definition of "safe". A real JPEG photo that will open in Preview is "safe", because it cannot harm your system. An executable shell script with a
There's a good reason why the checkbox in Preferences doesn't say "automatically open all downloaded files."
I'm suprised they are going with a subscription based model. $7 for 4 episodes and I'll get billed monthly? While I'd consider a subscription for something like the Daily Show aren't podcasts more like songs i.e. something people are willing to spend 99 cents to purchase at will?
No, the entire point of podcasts is that they're subscription-based. You subscribe to a feed (whether free or not), and new content is downloaded automatically as it becomes available, for listening/watching at your leisure. If I wanted to download a single episode, I wouldn't need a podcast for that.
I highly recommend The Onion Radio News podcast, it's under a minute long and updated daily. Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie has a weekly video podcast which is pretty damn funny too.
Most PowerPC companies have thier own deal preventing other OS's running on thier hardware and the different Linux projects have worked arounf this. IBM has ROS on the pSeries and Apple has OpenFirmware.
I can't speak to ROS, but OpenFirmware is the opposite of what you've described. There's a reason it's called "Open"; it's flexible, hackable, programmable, and documented. OpenFirmware makes it MUCH EASIER to boot Linux on a Mac.
It might also interest you to know that before Apple started using OpenFirmware, they actively helped to port Linux to the PowerPC (MkLinux is a rather nasty hack, but it works, and at the time, nothing else did).
You are legally permitted to use GPL software without agreeing to or adhering to the terms of the GPL. However, you are not permitted to redistribute copies or derivatives of the software, as this would violate copyright law - unless you accept the terms of the GPL, which grants you a license to redistribute.