Apple may have the right to use their DRM technology... which is pretty liberal for the most part, but it is pretty crummy of them not to release a version of iTunes that will work with Linux, considering how they are installing themselves as the digital messiahs of the music industry. If you are going to have a party, why not invite everyone to the table?
Apple will get no respect from me until they are more inclusive to Linux users, especially with the fact that they are bearing much fruit from open source work (like KHTML)!
Real get what they deserve, but so does Apple, because I will never start buying music online until I can listen to it on my Linux desktop.
I have to admit I find it a bit disingenuous when Steve Jobs starts talking about the "great karma" of buying music online, yet with their DRM and their refusal to support Linux systems, there is no legitimate way for Linux users to join in on their little "revolution".
If you are going to get up on the podium, and put on your Pharisee hat, at least have the guts to log in and post it, so we can stare at you and whistle in amazement.
Apple already benefits largely from open source technology that powers about 80% of their new Mac OS X (including their new web browser). I am not the one talking about "good karma" and the new iTMS being a revolutionary way to obtain music; Apple is. Maybe they should spread that "fuzzy feeling" around and provide Linux users (who are statistically significant, unlike Plan 9 users, har har) with a legal way to download music.
I don't think it will matter all that much, really, if it is QT or GTK based, as long as it works.
Frankenwine apps are never a good replacement for the Real Thing(TM). I played the WineX game for a while and it sucked. Apple needs to get off their collective arses and port iTunes to Linux.
Apple talks about a new way of sharing music, appealing to our sense of "karma" to encourage us not to steal. Yet they leave Linux desktop users in the cold. This seems somewhat disingenuous to me.
I would be excited about the iTunes music store launching in Canada (finally), if it wasn't for the fact that it won't work in my operating system of choice.
Do Linux users have any legal recourse in listening to digital music at the moment?
Don't they know which way the wind is blowing? Why use a browser engine that is being actively neglected by its parent? Puzzling only begins to describe this decision by AOL.
From what I remember of my Trek lore, the impulse engines were the ones that used fusion, wheras the warp engines were powered by the matter/anti-matter reactions.
Now we can all keenly anticipate the first episode of Enterprise to mention the almighty superconducting levitated torus that has powered Federation impulse drives all long.
Online subscriptions to content you don't own are such a "great" idea. A DRM crippled PC/game console will be ever so useful when this "company" goes belly up and you don't own any of the bits stored inside.
At least with X-Box the CD's would continue to work even if Microsoft decided to pull the plug on their X-Box division.
By the time I had taken a typing course in high school, it was far, far too late. Years of typing PEEK and POKE commands into my Commodore 64 pretty much ruined my ability to learn how to touch type. My brain was already trained to type my own way.
I think that if you are going to learn to teach youngsters how to touch type, you had better do it before their cerebellum has been ingrained with their own natural typing method.
The Evils of Hardware Digital Rights Management and Trustworthy Computing
Personal computers are amazing devices which have enhanced the productivity, the creativity, and even the cultural fabric of people the world over. One of the key strengths of personal computing technologies is that they allow users a fundamental degree of freedom to modify, upgrade, and operate their computers in any way they see fit. This affords users the power of choice when deciding which hardware peripheral, which operating system, and which program they wish to use on their computer. This choice and openness has helped foster innovation and creativity which has resulted in the Internet and the Internet culture that we enjoy today.
Sadly, there are short sighted persons in some large corporations in conjunction with certain government officials who wish to destroy the freedoms we currently enjoy. They wish to seize control of our personal computers and cripple them in order to create what they call a more "trustworthy" networked environment. They call this blatant trampling of consumer fair rights "Trustworthy Computing". There is nothing trustworthy about it.
Essentially they want to place controls in the hardware of your computer that will tell you which software you can and cannot run on it. Software you wish to run has to be "digitally signed and authenticated" by large media and software companies before you can use it on your computer. Want to make a backup copy of a song or a program on one of these new modified computers? Good luck. Digital Rights Management (DRM) will be built into these computers, restricting your ability to use and copy files as Hollywood executives see fit. Yes in essence you will no longer be the sole operator of your computer, you will in fact, have to seek electronic permission to run programs on it.
Phoenix Technologies, one of the largest makers of BIOS components for PC's (the BIOS is the basic ROM that controls your PC on a fundamental level) has announced their plans to launch their DRM enabled trustworthy computing BIOS. Customers who purchase computers with a Phoenix BIOS will be very limited when it comes to making certain choices on how they wish to operate their computer.
Video game consoles like the X-Box already work like this. The X-Box will only run software that is digitally signed by Microsoft using an encrypted key. If you try to run an application on your X-Box that isn't digitally signed, it simply will not work. Microsoft does this in the console market to attempt to prevent piracy and to prevent people from purchasing an X-Box and using it as an inexpensive x86 computer. The X-Box is in reality a modified Pentium III computer, and theoretically can run normal x86 applications that run on the Pentium computer in your home. In fact, those who have cracked the encrypted copy protection on the X-Box have managed to get Linux running on the system.
Microsoft and Phoenix want to cripple your personal computer so it acts more like the X-Box. Microsoft is calling this "Trustworthy Computing" initiative project Palladium. Salon.com as an excellent quote in an article they wrote regarding the motivations behind this initiative: "Perhaps, if we'll trust computers with our lives, we'll also trust them with our credit cards. And maybe, even more important, Hollywood will trust them with its movies. The Trustworthy Computing initiative is as much about securing intellectual property control as it is about "safety.""
This exposes the two main reasons that your computer is going to be crippled. To appease media companies in Hollywood in a futile attempt to combat piracy, and to protect Microsoft's desktop operating system monopoly. Companies like Microsoft and Phoenix do not state this of course, they are selling this to the public under the guise of a "safer" and "more reliable" computing enviornment. This is only a side effect of the true aims of this initiative.
Piracy of popular media such as software, music and movies is spreading rapidly
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Apple may have the right to use their DRM technology... which is pretty liberal for the most part, but it is pretty crummy of them not to release a version of iTunes that will work with Linux, considering how they are installing themselves as the digital messiahs of the music industry. If you are going to have a party, why not invite everyone to the table?
Apple will get no respect from me until they are more inclusive to Linux users, especially with the fact that they are bearing much fruit from open source work (like KHTML)!
Real get what they deserve, but so does Apple, because I will never start buying music online until I can listen to it on my Linux desktop.
I have to admit I find it a bit disingenuous when Steve Jobs starts talking about the "great karma" of buying music online, yet with their DRM and their refusal to support Linux systems, there is no legitimate way for Linux users to join in on their little "revolution".
If you are going to get up on the podium, and put on your Pharisee hat, at least have the guts to log in and post it, so we can stare at you and whistle in amazement.
Apple already benefits largely from open source technology that powers about 80% of their new Mac OS X (including their new web browser). I am not the one talking about "good karma" and the new iTMS being a revolutionary way to obtain music; Apple is.
Maybe they should spread that "fuzzy feeling" around and provide Linux users (who are statistically significant, unlike Plan 9 users, har har) with a legal way to download music.
I don't think it will matter all that much, really, if it is QT or GTK based, as long as it works.
Frankenwine apps are never a good replacement for the Real Thing(TM). I played the WineX game for a while and it sucked. Apple needs to get off their collective arses and port iTunes to Linux.
Apple talks about a new way of sharing music, appealing to our sense of "karma" to encourage us not to steal. Yet they leave Linux desktop users in the cold. This seems somewhat disingenuous to me.
I would be excited about the iTunes music store launching in Canada (finally), if it wasn't for the fact that it won't work in my operating system of choice.
Do Linux users have any legal recourse in listening to digital music at the moment?
Don't they know which way the wind is blowing? Why use a browser engine that is being actively neglected by its parent? Puzzling only begins to describe this decision by AOL.
Any possilility that a collider of this size could result in an exotic, yet disastrous incident that could that spell our sudden and premature demise?
From what I remember of my Trek lore, the impulse engines were the ones that used fusion, wheras the warp engines were powered by the matter/anti-matter reactions.
At least that is what Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise said... if memory serves me correctly.
Now we can all keenly anticipate the first episode of Enterprise to mention the almighty superconducting levitated torus that has powered Federation impulse drives all long.
Online subscriptions to content you don't own are such a "great" idea. A DRM crippled PC/game console will be ever so useful when this "company" goes belly up and you don't own any of the bits stored inside.
At least with X-Box the CD's would continue to work even if Microsoft decided to pull the plug on their X-Box division.
I'll pass.
By the time I had taken a typing course in high school, it was far, far too late. Years of typing PEEK and POKE commands into my Commodore 64 pretty much ruined my ability to learn how to touch type. My brain was already trained to type my own way.
I think that if you are going to learn to teach youngsters how to touch type, you had better do it before their cerebellum has been ingrained with their own natural typing method.
The Evils of Hardware Digital Rights Management and Trustworthy Computing
Personal computers are amazing devices which have enhanced the productivity, the creativity, and even the cultural fabric of people the world over. One of the key strengths of personal computing technologies is that they allow users a fundamental degree of freedom to modify, upgrade, and operate their computers in any way they see fit. This affords users the power of choice when deciding which hardware peripheral, which operating system, and which program they wish to use on their computer. This choice and openness has helped foster innovation and creativity which has resulted in the Internet and the Internet culture that we enjoy today.
Sadly, there are short sighted persons in some large corporations in conjunction with certain government officials who wish to destroy the freedoms we currently enjoy. They wish to seize control of our personal computers and cripple them in order to create what they call a more "trustworthy" networked environment. They call this blatant trampling of consumer fair rights "Trustworthy Computing". There is nothing trustworthy about it.
Essentially they want to place controls in the hardware of your computer that will tell you which software you can and cannot run on it. Software you wish to run has to be "digitally signed and authenticated" by large media and software companies before you can use it on your computer. Want to make a backup copy of a song or a program on one of these new modified computers? Good luck. Digital Rights Management (DRM) will be built into these computers, restricting your ability to use and copy files as Hollywood executives see fit. Yes in essence you will no longer be the sole operator of your computer, you will in fact, have to seek electronic permission to run programs on it.
Phoenix Technologies, one of the largest makers of BIOS components for PC's (the BIOS is the basic ROM that controls your PC on a fundamental level) has announced their plans to launch their DRM enabled trustworthy computing BIOS. Customers who purchase computers with a Phoenix BIOS will be very limited when it comes to making certain choices on how they wish to operate their computer.
Video game consoles like the X-Box already work like this. The X-Box will only run software that is digitally signed by Microsoft using an encrypted key. If you try to run an application on your X-Box that isn't digitally signed, it simply will not work. Microsoft does this in the console market to attempt to prevent piracy and to prevent people from purchasing an X-Box and using it as an inexpensive x86 computer. The X-Box is in reality a modified Pentium III computer, and theoretically can run normal x86 applications that run on the Pentium computer in your home. In fact, those who have cracked the encrypted copy protection on the X-Box have managed to get Linux running on the system.
Microsoft and Phoenix want to cripple your personal computer so it acts more like the X-Box. Microsoft is calling this "Trustworthy Computing" initiative project Palladium. Salon.com as an excellent quote in an article they wrote regarding the motivations behind this initiative: "Perhaps, if we'll trust computers with our lives, we'll also trust them with our credit cards. And maybe, even more important, Hollywood will trust them with its movies. The Trustworthy Computing initiative is as much about securing intellectual property control as it is about "safety.""
This exposes the two main reasons that your computer is going to be crippled. To appease media companies in Hollywood in a futile attempt to combat piracy, and to protect Microsoft's desktop operating system monopoly. Companies like Microsoft and Phoenix do not state this of course, they are selling this to the public under the guise of a "safer" and "more reliable" computing enviornment. This is only a side effect of the true aims of this initiative.
Piracy of popular media such as software, music and movies is spreading rapidly