I'd say Apple will respond by paying someone to get the story submitted to Slashdot with a link to the offending website, thereby ensuring no one will be able to download it.
Language shouldn't matter, and especially one with as much corporate interest behind it as Java. If the test was in C# instead, the outcry would last for weeks.
It'd be interesting if Sony added some features to the upcoming PS3 to included support for their music store. With game consoles gradually veering towards becoming "home media centers" (or whatever the buzz word is today), this seems like a possible move.
I've had alot of luck using Yahoo's shopping site, shopping.yahoo.com. There are tons of small shops out there that use Yahoo as their storefront and don't report to Pricewatch, etc. Occasionally, there are some good deals to be found. For example, one time I bought a car stereo off of there for about $10 less than anything I could find on the other price comparison engines (and yes, the shipping price was normal).
I haven't used it in a long time and I'm sure things have changed since then, but it's still worth a visit.
I wouldn't consider Pravda to "back up" anything. The front page has links to stories such as "alien visits Russians province", "Israel opens gates of Hell", and "Jesus Christ born in Ukraine".:)
Just click on him, hit "Options" in the dialog box he brings up, uncheck the "Use Office Assistant" box and Clippy dies a quick, painless death. Not exactly "digging through menus trying to disable him".
Your Tivo could record the digital stream directly, instead of taking the analog stream coming out your set top box and then reencoding it into digital.
This is how the DirecTV Tivo's work. They actually lack an encoder completely and just record the DirecTV stream directly. The advantage is that recorded shows have exactly the same quality as live TV unlike a regular Tivo where there is some quality loss.
I don't know about that scene, but I've heard rumors that in order to boost appeal, the scene where Darth Vader uses the Force to choke Admiral Motti will be replaced. In the new release, Darth Vader will cup his hand, wave it towards Motti, and yell "you're fired".
If things were different it was the Microsoft Music Store and you could download songs with the same exact DRM policy as what iTunes has now, would you still have a problem if someone released a program such as this?
So will we still call them CD burners? It'll be like Farenheit 451. CD burners will be used to destroy data and some of us will remember when CD burners actually wrote data.
The problem is that in the current paranoid political climate, anything like this can be turned against you. Witness the case a few weeks back where the FBI used OnStar systems in cars to eavesdrop on people.
If Ashcroft and company can find some way to turn this system into a tool for the "war against terrorism", you can damn well be sure they will.
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I went to real.com. Click on the "Download RealPlayer" image Click on "Download Free RealPlayer" link on the right The download starts right up without asking for any other info
Another reason why manufacturers limit horsepower is insurance costs. It's one of the reasons Toyota doesn't put the 180HP Celica engine in the MR-S, even though it should just drop right in (the engine in the MR-S is the same as the base engine in the Celica).
Technically, the music industry DID treat everyone as being honest. Until fairly recently, audio CDs had no protection on them whatsoever. That didn't stop Napster and Kazaa from booming as these "fundamentally honest" people began trading files in mass quantities.
Not that I support the RIAA or their actions, but it is important to remember that things WERE all rosy and DRM free at one time and it got abused.
WA5 always crashes on me when I try to play a video from Section-E. I believe their videos use MPEG-4 video and AC3 audio and something about that doesn't jibe with WA5. They play back fine in WiMP and PowerDVD.
WiMP is my player of choice usually since it has easily an easily accessible controls for adjusting brightness, contrast etc. of a video. My monitor is pretty dark for some reason and I always have to boost the brightness in order to see anything. WA5 doesn't have any controls for this as far as I could find.
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I'd say Apple will respond by paying someone to get the story submitted to Slashdot with a link to the offending website, thereby ensuring no one will be able to download it.
Yes, but the other 364 days a year it's supposed to make other sites useless.
Language shouldn't matter, and especially one with as much corporate interest behind it as Java. If the test was in C# instead, the outcry would last for weeks.
Are there any mature OSS anti-virus or firewall programs for Windows? I've never heard of any.
It'd be interesting if Sony added some features to the upcoming PS3 to included support for their music store. With game consoles gradually veering towards becoming "home media centers" (or whatever the buzz word is today), this seems like a possible move.
The soap in put in mine claims to be anti-bacterial. I suppose that might get rid of some of it while I'm building up a lather in the thing.
Alot of people here are offended if the title of a show merely contains the letters "a" and "d" in it.
I've had alot of luck using Yahoo's shopping site, shopping.yahoo.com. There are tons of small shops out there that use Yahoo as their storefront and don't report to Pricewatch, etc. Occasionally, there are some good deals to be found. For example, one time I bought a car stereo off of there for about $10 less than anything I could find on the other price comparison engines (and yes, the shipping price was normal).
I haven't used it in a long time and I'm sure things have changed since then, but it's still worth a visit.
I wouldn't consider Pravda to "back up" anything. The front page has links to stories such as "alien visits Russians province", "Israel opens gates of Hell", and "Jesus Christ born in Ukraine". :)
Oddly enough, Metallica, the former poster child of the anti-Napster crowd, has a system like that: www.livemetallica.com.
DRM-free FLAC files can be downloaded with a few days of a concert happening.
It's hard to turn off Clippy? Really?
Just click on him, hit "Options" in the dialog box he brings up, uncheck the "Use Office Assistant" box and Clippy dies a quick, painless death. Not exactly "digging through menus trying to disable him".
Your Tivo could record the digital stream directly, instead of taking the analog stream coming out your set top box and then reencoding it into digital.
This is how the DirecTV Tivo's work. They actually lack an encoder completely and just record the DirecTV stream directly. The advantage is that recorded shows have exactly the same quality as live TV unlike a regular Tivo where there is some quality loss.
I don't know about that scene, but I've heard rumors that in order to boost appeal, the scene where Darth Vader uses the Force to choke Admiral Motti will be replaced. In the new release, Darth Vader will cup his hand, wave it towards Motti, and yell "you're fired".
If things were different it was the Microsoft Music Store and you could download songs with the same exact DRM policy as what iTunes has now, would you still have a problem if someone released a program such as this?
So will we still call them CD burners? It'll be like Farenheit 451. CD burners will be used to destroy data and some of us will remember when CD burners actually wrote data.
The problem is that in the current paranoid political climate, anything like this can be turned against you. Witness the case a few weeks back where the FBI used OnStar systems in cars to eavesdrop on people.
If Ashcroft and company can find some way to turn this system into a tool for the "war against terrorism", you can damn well be sure they will.
Barring that, Intel could have simply browsed to AMD's web page and downloaded it themselves.
In Slashdot Utopia we could mark this article as "-1, Yellow Journalism".
Play the files in Linux without the quality loss from transcoding and without wasting a CD-R.
This issue actually had a partial fix checked in a few days ago. Here's the bug:
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I went to real.com.
Click on the "Download RealPlayer" image
Click on "Download Free RealPlayer" link on the right
The download starts right up without asking for any other info
Another reason why manufacturers limit horsepower is insurance costs. It's one of the reasons Toyota doesn't put the 180HP Celica engine in the MR-S, even though it should just drop right in (the engine in the MR-S is the same as the base engine in the Celica).
Technically, the music industry DID treat everyone as being honest. Until fairly recently, audio CDs had no protection on them whatsoever. That didn't stop Napster and Kazaa from booming as these "fundamentally honest" people began trading files in mass quantities.
Not that I support the RIAA or their actions, but it is important to remember that things WERE all rosy and DRM free at one time and it got abused.
WA5 always crashes on me when I try to play a video from Section-E. I believe their videos use MPEG-4 video and AC3 audio and something about that doesn't jibe with WA5. They play back fine in WiMP and PowerDVD.
WiMP is my player of choice usually since it has easily an easily accessible controls for adjusting brightness, contrast etc. of a video. My monitor is pretty dark for some reason and I always have to boost the brightness in order to see anything. WA5 doesn't have any controls for this as far as I could find.
So combine this with the giant boring machine off of EBay and you could bore square tunnels wherever your heart desires.
Will this new version support RFC 3514? The original one didn't and that's been a major barrier to adoption in the corporate world.