Well, I imagine Canto (Cumullus) and Extensis (Portfolio) are probably quite pleased that it doesn't offer an image server function, although the iPhoto sharing ability is starting to impinge on the functionality of those guys' products.
MP3, AAC, Ogg, WMA and most (but not all) CODECs are 'lossy'. So, if you take a raw bit stream and encode it with ACC, you lose some quality. Not very much.
To play this back, you need to convert it back to raw bits again. Now, you can capture those bits (Audio Hijack does this), and save the file, but it will be huge. (You encoded using MP3 etc becuase you wanted to save space).
If you reencode this with any lossy CODEC, including the 'original', you will lose some more information. Probably enough that you will notice that the quality has degraded.
So, the DRM in AAC stops you making unlimited copies of the original file. (Well, you can copy them, but they will only play on a limited number of machines---keyed to the embedded DRM info.) You can of course burn the tracks to CD---which copies the raw bitstream. You can make an unlimited number of copies of this (though iTunes won't let you make more than 10 copoies of a playlist, but that is mere inconvenience). You can also re-encode using another DRM free CODEC, but if that CODEC is lossy, the quality will be degraded. Probably noticeably.
Note again though: any time you reencode between lossy CODECs, you will lose some quality. This has nothing to do with DRM.
In conclusion, you are right. A copy is going to be lossy, except if you burn to CD (which is easy).
Have you heard about Woz and his sheet of $2 bills?. If you like carrying $2 bills, then consider going the whole hog and really getting to know the local law enforcement personel.
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Or the merger of the International Time Recording Company, Computing Scale Company, and the Tabulating Machine Company.:)
Why not find a local photographic club---even before you have a camera, and ask their advice? Have a long talk with people at the club, not about the hardware they use, but about photography itself. Find out what interests you, what directions you find attractive, and then take some more advice on how to achieve those ends.
But it is the leg room that costs the airline. I doubt there is GBP1927-511 = 1416 difference in the cost of the food served between club and cattle classes. So, if you need to pack the passengers in like sardines, but charge them 'business class plus' rates, I imagine the airline can throw in business class food and in seat entertainment. Bear in mind that Singapore airlines already does the latter on their economy class.
For those passengers that want to feel better than 'the rest', there is always 1st class at majorly obscene pricing.
Expensive seats, champagne and porn on demand to your personal entertainment system are not that expensive. Fewer seats (i.e., larger seats), is.
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Compare the cost of cattle class vs business class for intercontinental flight. It's not 25% more, it's not 50% more.
Since we were referring to Concorde earlier, I used the calculator at British Airways for flights London (UK) to Sydney (Australia). That's a long flight, pretty much half way around the globe.
The cheapest economy fare is GBP 511-848 (return);, Business class is GBP 1,927-2,570; 1st class is GBP 2,891-3,220. That's a huge difference, yet people are willing to pay it, just for more leg room.
You don't think those same people would pay business class rates for cattle class seating---but get there in a few hours?
OK. OTOH, Megan claimed ignorance that she was sharing. According to the article, she understood that she was downloading, but not that others could download off her. Would that be a defense against willful (hence criminal) infringement?
It appears that in this particular case it is being treated as a civil matter, in that she is being sued, not charged with a criminal offense.
There once was a man called McBride
Who claimed he'd the Law on his side
But he made foes so numerous
And his claims proved so spurious
That soon SCO crashed, burned and then died.
But it didn't blow up, it burned. Spectacularly, but not explosively.
As a result of that, because of the picture and the radio commentary etched into peoples' minds, and the belief that Hydrogen was responsible, people stopped thinking about using Hydrogen for airships.
Um, the pressure required to make Hydrogen into Deuterium is a little higher than found in the typical airship. Plus you have a have a handy source of neutrons to squeeze into your nucleus. I think you might be a teeny bit confused. (Or else IHBT).
Sontag says SCO has provided 1 million pages of documents to IBM and that IBM in return has provided only 100,000 pages to SCO. "The foot-dragging is on the part of IBM," he says.
The mind boggles! Sontag is asking IBM to deluge him in paper? He only has 100,000 pages, and he wants IBM to see his million and raise it!
Groan, somewhere, a forest cries in pain as the log chippers are fired up.
Do not start a land war in Asia, do not enter a paper war with IBM. Sheesh!
It's a very common attitude: that spam is something that other people do. Our advertising is valuable and desirable and can't possibly be spam, so different rules apply.
It is really, really basic. It's a form of the Golden Rule. "Would this be acceptable to us if someone did it to us?" Or, "would our customers find this acceptable if another company did it?"
The marketing types responsible for this are demonstrably liabilities to Belkin and should be dismissed. As if...
So, instead of guessing the PSK and plugging it into the formula to see if it works (dictionary attack), you run the PTK through a one way hash (MD5), and...do the same thing.
If you know or can guess that the equipment has this extra step, you can do it too.
Did you mean instead to suggest that the equipment should take the pass-phrase, permute it in some random fashion (i.e., use it as the seed to a random number generator), and then use the resultant output as the PSK? Of course, if you do this, you have to enter the generated output as the PSK on the other stations (or else an attacker could just do a dictionary attack).
But, if you do that, you might as well just get the system to generate a random key in the first place---which is his point.
From the iTunes Gift Certificates and Allowances Terms & Conditions:
3. Gift certificates and allowances must be redeemed through the iTunes Music Store, a music service integrated in Apple's iTunes software. The iTunes Music Store is open only to persons above the age of 13 in the US.
Can anyone verify that a gift certificate can transfer music to someone with an Apple ID that does not have a USA billing address? (Can, rather than may, i.e., is allowed by the legalese).
But iTMS is AAC 128, not 192. Even so, for some music, I for one can tell the difference. That's OK if I'm just playing background music through the so-so speakers attached to the computer. When I really want to concentrate and listen to the music I love, I go and do so on the stereo.
For that reason, I'd like the option to download in a lossless format like AIFF. However, I don't really care about that sort of quality for, say, "I Want My Baby Back"
Note though, that Apple does not own ZeroConf. It's now out into the IETF space where anyone can scrutinize, comment, criticise and suggest improvements. And this IMHO is a Good Thing.
MS could quickly ship a patch to IE/Windows (is that like GNU/Linux? Ah say, that's a joke son) that stopped the patent conflict. By stopping plugins. Windows would still work, and IE would still work, but without plugins.
Most people would loose access to embedded Flash (more than anything else---it's the most widely deployed plugin) and the web would go on.
This patent does not threaten Windows per se in that way.
However, significant numbers of corporates would also loose access to their in-house ActiveX components, and they would not be happy.
I suspect that's why MS has proposed the workaround it has---existing sites would work with an extra dialog box and click. They probably don't expect everybody to recode with the funky JavaScript to provide a seamless experience. However, they will suggest to the corporates that they CAN recode their intranets---and that even if they don't, at least the apps will still work (at the cost of an extra dialog box and click).
The main victim of this patent is Browser+ActiveX, which happens to be affect Windows a lot, and everything else not very much.
More information than you really wanted to know about Clarus, including references to the infamous TN13 and 1031. Should you care to read them, Google is your friend.
Note that the sex of Clarus is not disclosed in Technote 31, with gender neutral pronouns being used throughout.
Alas, the standards are ambiguous. Plus, there is all sorts of legacy brokenness that needs to be supported. Plus new brokenness from certain large companies with such influence that whatever they do becomes the standard---in some people's minds anyway.
Dave Hyatt says it much better in some of his recently archived blogging.
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Well, I imagine Canto (Cumullus) and Extensis (Portfolio) are probably quite pleased that it doesn't offer an image server function, although the iPhoto sharing ability is starting to impinge on the functionality of those guys' products.
To play this back, you need to convert it back to raw bits again. Now, you can capture those bits (Audio Hijack does this), and save the file, but it will be huge. (You encoded using MP3 etc becuase you wanted to save space).
If you reencode this with any lossy CODEC, including the 'original', you will lose some more information. Probably enough that you will notice that the quality has degraded.
So, the DRM in AAC stops you making unlimited copies of the original file. (Well, you can copy them, but they will only play on a limited number of machines---keyed to the embedded DRM info.) You can of course burn the tracks to CD---which copies the raw bitstream. You can make an unlimited number of copies of this (though iTunes won't let you make more than 10 copoies of a playlist, but that is mere inconvenience). You can also re-encode using another DRM free CODEC, but if that CODEC is lossy, the quality will be degraded. Probably noticeably.
Note again though: any time you reencode between lossy CODECs, you will lose some quality. This has nothing to do with DRM.
In conclusion, you are right. A copy is going to be lossy, except if you burn to CD (which is easy).
Have you heard about Woz and his sheet of $2 bills?. If you like carrying $2 bills, then consider going the whole hog and really getting to know the local law enforcement personel.
Or the merger of the International Time Recording Company, Computing Scale Company, and the Tabulating Machine Company. :)
Of course, it's still an good bet. M&A are always risky and often fail, but you did ask for a counter-example...
Why not find a local photographic club---even before you have a camera, and ask their advice? Have a long talk with people at the club, not about the hardware they use, but about photography itself. Find out what interests you, what directions you find attractive, and then take some more advice on how to achieve those ends.
What did you have in mind, with respect to dress?
For those passengers that want to feel better than 'the rest', there is always 1st class at majorly obscene pricing.
Expensive seats, champagne and porn on demand to your personal entertainment system are not that expensive. Fewer seats (i.e., larger seats), is.
Since we were referring to Concorde earlier, I used the calculator at British Airways for flights London (UK) to Sydney (Australia). That's a long flight, pretty much half way around the globe.
The cheapest economy fare is GBP 511-848 (return);, Business class is GBP 1,927-2,570; 1st class is GBP 2,891-3,220. That's a huge difference, yet people are willing to pay it, just for more leg room.
You don't think those same people would pay business class rates for cattle class seating---but get there in a few hours?
It appears that in this particular case it is being treated as a civil matter, in that she is being sued, not charged with a criminal offense.
The RIAA is more akin to Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabris, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
There once was a man called McBride
Who claimed he'd the Law on his side
But he made foes so numerous
And his claims proved so spurious
That soon SCO crashed, burned and then died.
As a result of that, because of the picture and the radio commentary etched into peoples' minds, and the belief that Hydrogen was responsible, people stopped thinking about using Hydrogen for airships.
Um, the pressure required to make Hydrogen into Deuterium is a little higher than found in the typical airship. Plus you have a have a handy source of neutrons to squeeze into your nucleus. I think you might be a teeny bit confused. (Or else IHBT).
The mind boggles! Sontag is asking IBM to deluge him in paper? He only has 100,000 pages, and he wants IBM to see his million and raise it!
Groan, somewhere, a forest cries in pain as the log chippers are fired up.
Do not start a land war in Asia, do not enter a paper war with IBM. Sheesh!
It is really, really basic. It's a form of the Golden Rule. "Would this be acceptable to us if someone did it to us?" Or, "would our customers find this acceptable if another company did it?"
The marketing types responsible for this are demonstrably liabilities to Belkin and should be dismissed. As if...
If you know or can guess that the equipment has this extra step, you can do it too.
Did you mean instead to suggest that the equipment should take the pass-phrase, permute it in some random fashion (i.e., use it as the seed to a random number generator), and then use the resultant output as the PSK? Of course, if you do this, you have to enter the generated output as the PSK on the other stations (or else an attacker could just do a dictionary attack).
But, if you do that, you might as well just get the system to generate a random key in the first place---which is his point.
From the iTunes Gift Certificates and Allowances Terms & Conditions:
Can anyone verify that a gift certificate can transfer music to someone with an Apple ID that does not have a USA billing address? (Can, rather than may, i.e., is allowed by the legalese).For that reason, I'd like the option to download in a lossless format like AIFF. However, I don't really care about that sort of quality for, say, "I Want My Baby Back"
Read up where ZeroConf came from.
Note though, that Apple does not own ZeroConf. It's now out into the IETF space where anyone can scrutinize, comment, criticise and suggest improvements. And this IMHO is a Good Thing.
Most people would loose access to embedded Flash (more than anything else---it's the most widely deployed plugin) and the web would go on.
This patent does not threaten Windows per se in that way.
However, significant numbers of corporates would also loose access to their in-house ActiveX components, and they would not be happy.
I suspect that's why MS has proposed the workaround it has---existing sites would work with an extra dialog box and click. They probably don't expect everybody to recode with the funky JavaScript to provide a seamless experience. However, they will suggest to the corporates that they CAN recode their intranets---and that even if they don't, at least the apps will still work (at the cost of an extra dialog box and click).
The main victim of this patent is Browser+ActiveX, which happens to be affect Windows a lot, and everything else not very much.
And you know this, how?
"Yes, now there is a god".
From The Answer by Frederick Brown (1954).
More information than you really wanted to know about Clarus, including references to the infamous TN13 and 1031. Should you care to read them, Google is your friend. Note that the sex of Clarus is not disclosed in Technote 31, with gender neutral pronouns being used throughout.
Alas, the standards are ambiguous. Plus, there is all sorts of legacy brokenness that needs to be supported. Plus new brokenness from certain large companies with such influence that whatever they do becomes the standard---in some people's minds anyway. Dave Hyatt says it much better in some of his recently archived blogging.