[quote] It was payware for a long time, but Apple started giving it away about 5 years ago.[/quote]
And if you noticed, I was talking about 1984 not 1996. People in Mac retail outlets at that time still couldn't get past the "Command line? Why would you need one?" crap.
[quote] just hop to the "Terminal" and do a "cp -R/Volumes/[iPod Name]/Music/* ~/Music" [/quote]
This is funny. If macs had command interfaces back in 1984, the world might be a much different place today. I would've bought one instead of my Atari ST. Sure, the ST was a wannabe, but the lack of anything like SuperDOS or gulaam on the Mac is a primary reason why I eventually bought an XT instead of a mac.
I thought the official party line was that CLIs were "evil", like two-button mice...
On the contrary, it would allow us to hack the browsers to guarantee we were never charged for anything. Back to square one for you.
I worked for many years at a company that processed many terabytes of web log data, and we beat our heads over these issues time and again -- not from the standpoint of micropayment, but from the standpoint of determining which ad hits and clicks were legit and which were attempts by websites to drive up their click rates.
In my opinion, the current architecture will not support penny per page (and yes I've read the article in question) because neither party to the transaction (web site or user) can be trusted to report information honestly.
Without a third party -- say a proxy site with whom both parties have some kind of negotiated agreement on what's billable and what isn't -- there's no way to do it.
But how do you get there? The ad-supported model hasn't failed utterly and totally yet, so people won't pay for one portal site while myYahoo is still free, etc. If IMDB went exclusively to micropayment, I'd just go to movies.yahoo.com instead.
Kind of like a mob facing down a guy who only has one bullet in his gun. Who takes the first step?
"this is neither the time nor the place, and your selfishness is disgusting."
Your obtuseness is even more disgusting. Compromising our way of life, which our government has shown its eagerness to perpetrate upon us, is just what terrorists want to have happen.
It's perfectly reasonable to be shocked and horrified at the tragedy and STILL REMAIN VIGILANT against further government intrusion.
Do not presume to tell me when I can and cannot protect my rights.
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[quote] It was payware for a long time, but Apple started giving it away about 5 years ago.[/quote]
And if you noticed, I was talking about 1984 not 1996. People in Mac retail outlets at that time still couldn't get past the "Command line? Why would you need one?" crap.
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[quote] just hop to the "Terminal" and do a "cp -R /Volumes/[iPod Name]/Music/* ~/Music" [/quote]
This is funny. If macs had command interfaces back in 1984, the world might be a much different place today. I would've bought one instead of my Atari ST. Sure, the ST was a wannabe, but the lack of anything like SuperDOS or gulaam on the Mac is a primary reason why I eventually bought an XT instead of a mac.
I thought the official party line was that CLIs were "evil", like two-button mice...
On the contrary, it would allow us to hack the browsers to guarantee we were never charged for anything. Back to square one for you.
I worked for many years at a company that processed many terabytes of web log data, and we beat our heads over these issues time and again -- not from the standpoint of micropayment, but from the standpoint of determining which ad hits and clicks were legit and which were attempts by websites to drive up their click rates.
In my opinion, the current architecture will not support penny per page (and yes I've read the article in question) because neither party to the transaction (web site or user) can be trusted to report information honestly.
Without a third party -- say a proxy site with whom both parties have some kind of negotiated agreement on what's billable and what isn't -- there's no way to do it.
But how do you get there? The ad-supported model hasn't failed utterly and totally yet, so people won't pay for one portal site while myYahoo is still free, etc. If IMDB went exclusively to micropayment, I'd just go to movies.yahoo.com instead.
Kind of like a mob facing down a guy who only has one bullet in his gun. Who takes the first step?
"this is neither the time nor the place, and your selfishness is disgusting."
Your obtuseness is even more disgusting. Compromising our way of life, which our government has shown its eagerness to perpetrate upon us, is just what terrorists want to have happen.
It's perfectly reasonable to be shocked and horrified at the tragedy and STILL REMAIN VIGILANT against further government intrusion.
Do not presume to tell me when I can and cannot protect my rights.
YES YES YES.
People, remember that middle easterners were automatically blamed for the OK City federal building. This turned out to be one of our own.
RESERVE JUDGEMENT until the facts are in.