Of course, since it's Apple doing it, it must be OK . ..
When did Apple start using its Monopolistic power to lock people into a particular technology?
Since you are some kind of crazy MS zealot, you were blinded by the fact that I didn't even say it was OK for Apple to do what they did. Instead, you have an unhealthy protective reflex for your MS leaders.
That said, I haven't seen where it says that the AAC format will be kept secret. It looks to me like AAC is just as proprietary as any other MPEG format. Also consider that it's a major feat to store every song in multiple formats, just so that windows people will be happy, especially when AAC has been shown to be of a superior quality.
Especially since they are claiming that private companies can do better than:
b.root-servers.net USC/Information Sciences Institute c.root-servers.net PSI.NET (bankrupted, now part of cogent) d.root-servers.net University of Maryland e.root-servers.net NASA f.root-servers.net ISC g.root-servers.net DoD h.root-servers.net army.mil... and so on.
QoS is certainly handy on the _backbone_ carrier if they want to carry a great deal of VoIP connections and even pretend to offer the same quality as POTS.
I sit on the fence. On one hand, I would find it horribly distracting to have a gadget in front of me. However, it's nearly as distracting as all of the other people in the world who are so important that they need to be fucking with their cell phones at every moment of the day. Perhaps the PDA would at least turn their attention away from a device that does a poor rendition of Beethoven's Fifth everytime someone calls.
It's not a naive comment. I GO to libraries from time to time to do research. It's very infrequent that I check a book out.
Usually I do as much as I can on the Internet, then I supplement it with what I can find at the library, which usually isn't that great to begin with.
However, I still think libraries are becoming less useful. Sure, some are great, like those on big campuses, but local libraries often suck for anything but a quiet place to read.
I agree, of course, that they really shouldn't be digging through your book records.
But seriously, who checks out books at libraries anymore?
(OK, I went to the eng library to get a book on distributed systems, but for the most part general public libraries have a shit selection in my opinion.)
"When the RIAA announced they were going on this litigation crusade, we knew there was going to be someone like Sarah Ward," said Cindy Cohn, legal director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet privacy group in San Francisco that has advised Ward and others sued by the music industry. "And we think were will be more."
Can we get a journalist who actually reads their articles before posting, rather than relying on Word's spellcheck? I mean, you're quoting someone. Doesn't that warrant any attention?
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I love when I get an e-mail from someone on Windows saying the message they sent has been recalled.
My mbox doesn't seem to care though.
Of course, since it's Apple doing it, it must be OK . . .
When did Apple start using its Monopolistic power to lock people into a particular technology?
Since you are some kind of crazy MS zealot, you were blinded by the fact that I didn't even say it was OK for Apple to do what they did. Instead, you have an unhealthy protective reflex for your MS leaders.
That said, I haven't seen where it says that the AAC format will be kept secret. It looks to me like AAC is just as proprietary as any other MPEG format. Also consider that it's a major feat to store every song in multiple formats, just so that windows people will be happy, especially when AAC has been shown to be of a superior quality.
a Windows-based version of iTunes will still remain a closed system
The vendor of arguably the biggest closed system ever preaching that others ought not close their systems.
Especially since they are claiming that private companies can do better than:
... and so on.
b.root-servers.net USC/Information Sciences Institute
c.root-servers.net PSI.NET (bankrupted, now part of cogent)
d.root-servers.net University of Maryland
e.root-servers.net NASA
f.root-servers.net ISC
g.root-servers.net DoD
h.root-servers.net army.mil
What a bunch of fly by night volunteers.
Yep, bme was 10, hme 100.
Wow you are so stupid or just a really bad troll or C) all of the above.
Anyone remember Happy Meal Ethernet and Big Mac Ethernet?
No. No. Yes.
repeatedly crashed during installation and brought down the entire computer with it.
Sounds like a bug in the operating system as well.
Surely the OS was sophisticated enough to allow you to kill the errant process and resume working as normal.
as well as from the students' information technology fee.
I always loved that about going to a University. I was paying for them to keep up their Windows addiction.
Bzzt!
QoS is certainly handy on the _backbone_ carrier if they want to carry a great deal of VoIP connections and even pretend to offer the same quality as POTS.
I lo....vve.. my Voi...ce...over....IP.
Can't wait for the first car worm.
They need these.
Oh right, these are Dell.
Properties?
It sits among "Copy" "Paste" and some other keys that are suspiciously Wordprocessoresque.
Long live Stop-A.
Yeah and theatre geeks are upset.
I sit on the fence. On one hand, I would find it horribly distracting to have a gadget in front of me. However, it's nearly as distracting as all of the other people in the world who are so important that they need to be fucking with their cell phones at every moment of the day. Perhaps the PDA would at least turn their attention away from a device that does a poor rendition of Beethoven's Fifth everytime someone calls.
It's not a naive comment. I GO to libraries from time to time to do research. It's very infrequent that I check a book out.
Usually I do as much as I can on the Internet, then I supplement it with what I can find at the library, which usually isn't that great to begin with.
However, I still think libraries are becoming less useful. Sure, some are great, like those on big campuses, but local libraries often suck for anything but a quiet place to read.
I agree, of course, that they really shouldn't be digging through your book records.
But seriously, who checks out books at libraries anymore?
(OK, I went to the eng library to get a book on distributed systems, but for the most part general public libraries have a shit selection in my opinion.)
Smart? Who needs smart when you setup your mortar on an upside down chair and a block of wood?
"We also propose a specific way of fixing it"
Namely, removing it.
But someone might use it for Tourism!
We must fight Tourists with closed source software.
I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T.
"When the RIAA announced they were going on this litigation crusade, we knew there was going to be someone like Sarah Ward," said Cindy Cohn, legal director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet privacy group in San Francisco that has advised Ward and others sued by the music industry. "And we think were will be more."
Can we get a journalist who actually reads their articles before posting, rather than relying on Word's spellcheck? I mean, you're quoting someone. Doesn't that warrant any attention?
Hehe. Yeah, at OLS in his keynote, he spoke about how he likes to send the kstrdup patch to Linus whenever Linus pisses him off.
That talk was easily the highlight of OLS too. Hilarious.