LOST is the only thing that's come close, and even then they're making it up as they go along; at least season by season.
The fact that a little tidbit dropped in one episode, which seemed to be nothing and would pass right by, and then, two seasons later suddenly become relevant made the show a colossal 'eater of time' for me.
From the interpretations of the DMCA I've heard, as long as any barrier is put in place, then that removes the burden from the manufacturer since 'casual' copying can no longer take place. The end user has to make a decision to override the copy protection, even if its as simple as disabling the 'copy to clipboard' function.
Its like police tape around a crime scene. The tape doesn't stop you. Respect for the law stops you.
(I'm not commenting on whether the law aught to be respected here.)
We really need to keep tabs on these special interest groups. Just because a small minority gets organized to maximize their effectiveness doesn't mean we should listen to them, change laws, remove items from public view, or pay any attention to them whatsoever.
As others have posted (and I didn't know) that AAC is an industry-developed codec, which makes it well accepted by the Industry. That MS has missed the boat on this one is significant, because they can't just "Netscape" the iPod.
MS is going to have to actually compete in this arena - something they are notoriously poor at.
It's nice to see an alternative to WMA catching on, and this deal with HP gives AAC a huge boost, breaking away from the perception that it is confined to the Mac world.
I've been looking at the choices in media media formats and I have not been very happy with the fact that WMA (WMA7 from what I have learned) has been showing up everywhere. I don't want to have a MS-proprietary format running everywhere. I know it's supposed to make my life easier (and make it easier for MS to extract more money from me later, and don't tell me they aren't trying to think of some way to do this).
With iPod Mini and iPod-HP, iTunes pre-installed on HP computers, with a very significant market share being carved out, and with AAC as the contendor to WMA it seems as though Apple has done the right thing at the right time. Once AAC is established as the popular everyman's format, then consumers will be locked into Apple's system.
This isn't something someone can just Netscape. Once someone is locked into a format, then any purchased music is stuck in that format. Unless the record store allows you to go back and download the media in an alternative format, you are stuck on that format (apart from burning / ripping yourself, but then you'll have aliasing issues to deal with).
It's clear that MS is exploring how to support their offensive on Linux, but why Sun? Same reason? I guess Solaris' greatest enemy is not MS anymore, but Linux.
Sure, now Macs are running Unix. But, before OSX, they had the strange OS where simple things were simple and hard things were impossible and there was absolutely nothing you could do to work around problems.
My IT department tried supporting the things, and it was not as simple as the marketing leads you to believe. Oh, sure, if you want to have a mac-only office, it's great. But, if you needed it to interoperate and share information with non Macs, you had extra software to load, configure, sometimes purchase. If you needed to print to anything other than an AppleTalk / EtherTalk printer, then you had the same problems.
We used page counting software for billing, and required print jobs to be submitted via lpr to a certain location. Not so easy as you might think.
Under MacOSX, a lot of that has changed considerably for the better. But, there are literally years of bad memories that system administrators have from dealing with yet another proprietary operating system that handheld you to the point of frustration. Not to mention having to deal with whiny Mac users who think the world is against them.
Been there. Done that. Had an Amiga. Loved it. Oh well...
So, yes, it's a new day, and now instead of competing with Windows on the network, it's competing with Linux and Windows. But, at least it has a chance to get some inroads.
It also gives Microsoft the advantage of being able to test the strength of the GPL while taking a very minimal amount of risk. The money they pumped into SCO is pocket change to them, but buys them a nice little guinea pig to bear the brunt of the legal costs. If buys SCO a year or so to play, and any legal debt they acquire will disappear in any bankruptcy proceedings.
well, now... finally we are getting to the heart of the matter. This latest maneuver is what this case has been about from the beginning: an attempt to kill the entire free software movement. This goes straight back to the Microsoft Halloween Letters, with the goal of finding some means of stopping Linux.
In fact, Halloween II raised the idea of pursuing exactly this: the effect patents and copyright in combatting Linux. Given the insightful analysis of one of our own, there is pretty good evidence that Microsoft is playing the wizard behind the curtain. This is precisely the arena they wanted to test Linux in.
It's the earbuds that bother me... I must be one of the few people who's ears can't take the earbuds... the shape of my ears doesn't give the bud anywhere to hold in place and they always fall out.
Does this mean we're ever going to see Windows XP Service pack 2? Seriously, is it my memory playing tricks on me, or did or did not Microsoft promise (hah!) to release service packs every six months? SP1 was released Sept 9, 2002. Sp1A was released Feb 3, 2003, with the only acknowledged change being that they ripped out Java.
Oct 25, 2001 - Windows XP ships Sept 9, 2002 - SP1 ships (10.5 months, or 4.5 months late) Sept ?, 2003 - SP2 ships (12 months, or 6 months late) Check out Mr. Allchin's comments.
And, according to this link there are almost 300 issues addressed in this long-overdue patch.
What exactly are they going to charge for? Fixes, or enhancements? Apple charges for their regular updates - OSX 10.1, OSX 10.2, OSX 10.3, but they are also ENHANCING the product significantly with every release. Is this something MS intends to do, because I certainly don't mind paying for updates to the software as long as it actually ENHANCES things. I'll be pretty ticked off if I have to pay for FIXES.
This is the axe that was used by George Washington to cut down the cherry tree. Oh, it looks new to you? Well, the handle has been replace five times, and the head has been replaced twice.
I am surprised, actually. I shouldn't be, I guess. I didn't notice that the links to the books were to affiliate programs! I'm sure I'm not the first, nor will I be the last.
Write a glowing review, and post a link and watch the balance in your affiliate account grow! What's wrong with making some spare change on the side? Except, the original review is tainted - it can't be objective because the author has something to gain.
Did you know that many retail stores make more income off the interest on their credit cards than they do off of what people buy directly out of the store? There are whole industries built on deception - and what they appear to do and what they actually do are two different things. Follow the money and you'll see what they actually do.
It wouldn't work if this was mounted in the dash, unless you were never selling your car to anyone outside the Puget Sound area.
There are no maps beyond what you see in the display. The world on this device ends at Renton and at Lynwood.
I can see this kind of thing customized and used by regional transit authorities in order to reduce the amount of roads that need to be built.
This is a very vertical device at this point of time, but an excellent proof-of-concept. Convergence... we MUST have convergence - digital maps, DOT information standardized, information all transmitted over UWB in each region, all standards-driven so that there can be a variety of devices, always updated and up-to-date in a given region. That new road that was just built... just got downloaded to your DOT-device when the engineers checked in with city hall, marking the roadway extension as complete.
At least it settles the eternal question of whether you should have taken another route home, or if all "rush" hour traffic is at a standstill.
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LOST is the only thing that's come close, and even then they're making it up as they go along; at least season by season.
The fact that a little tidbit dropped in one episode, which seemed to be nothing and would pass right by, and then, two seasons later suddenly become relevant made the show a colossal 'eater of time' for me.
From the interpretations of the DMCA I've heard, as long as any barrier is put in place, then that removes the burden from the manufacturer since 'casual' copying can no longer take place. The end user has to make a decision to override the copy protection, even if its as simple as disabling the 'copy to clipboard' function.
Its like police tape around a crime scene. The tape doesn't stop you. Respect for the law stops you.
(I'm not commenting on whether the law aught to be respected here.)
The exit interview wasn't nearly as "dishy" as I expected it to be.
Didn't Babylon 5 have an ISN? Things didn't go so well for them...
One unintended side-effect might be for hacker types to try to get a mention on ISN as a vanity thing.
We really need to keep tabs on these special interest groups. Just because a small minority gets organized to maximize their effectiveness doesn't mean we should listen to them, change laws, remove items from public view, or pay any attention to them whatsoever.
I think SCO is waiting for the media outlets to sign and return the NDA before they let them know who the lawsuits are against.
As others have posted (and I didn't know) that AAC is an industry-developed codec, which makes it well accepted by the Industry. That MS has missed the boat on this one is significant, because they can't just "Netscape" the iPod.
MS is going to have to actually compete in this arena - something they are notoriously poor at.
It's nice to see an alternative to WMA catching on, and this deal with HP gives AAC a huge boost, breaking away from the perception that it is confined to the Mac world.
I've been looking at the choices in media media formats and I have not been very happy with the fact that WMA (WMA7 from what I have learned) has been showing up everywhere. I don't want to have a MS-proprietary format running everywhere. I know it's supposed to make my life easier (and make it easier for MS to extract more money from me later, and don't tell me they aren't trying to think of some way to do this).
With iPod Mini and iPod-HP, iTunes pre-installed on HP computers, with a very significant market share being carved out, and with AAC as the contendor to WMA it seems as though Apple has done the right thing at the right time. Once AAC is established as the popular everyman's format, then consumers will be locked into Apple's system.
This isn't something someone can just Netscape. Once someone is locked into a format, then any purchased music is stuck in that format. Unless the record store allows you to go back and download the media in an alternative format, you are stuck on that format (apart from burning / ripping yourself, but then you'll have aliasing issues to deal with).
It's clear that MS is exploring how to support their offensive on Linux, but why Sun? Same reason? I guess Solaris' greatest enemy is not MS anymore, but Linux.
no... no...
The question is:
How many engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? No... I mean to REALLY change it?
Sure, now Macs are running Unix. But, before OSX, they had the strange OS where simple things were simple and hard things were impossible and there was absolutely nothing you could do to work around problems.
My IT department tried supporting the things, and it was not as simple as the marketing leads you to believe. Oh, sure, if you want to have a mac-only office, it's great. But, if you needed it to interoperate and share information with non Macs, you had extra software to load, configure, sometimes purchase. If you needed to print to anything other than an AppleTalk / EtherTalk printer, then you had the same problems.
We used page counting software for billing, and required print jobs to be submitted via lpr to a certain location. Not so easy as you might think.
Under MacOSX, a lot of that has changed considerably for the better. But, there are literally years of bad memories that system administrators have from dealing with yet another proprietary operating system that handheld you to the point of frustration. Not to mention having to deal with whiny Mac users who think the world is against them.
Been there. Done that. Had an Amiga. Loved it. Oh well...
So, yes, it's a new day, and now instead of competing with Windows on the network, it's competing with Linux and Windows. But, at least it has a chance to get some inroads.
It also gives Microsoft the advantage of being able to test the strength of the GPL while taking a very minimal amount of risk. The money they pumped into SCO is pocket change to them, but buys them a nice little guinea pig to bear the brunt of the legal costs. If buys SCO a year or so to play, and any legal debt they acquire will disappear in any bankruptcy proceedings.
well, now... finally we are getting to the heart of the matter. This latest maneuver is what this case has been about from the beginning: an attempt to kill the entire free software movement. This goes straight back to the Microsoft Halloween Letters, with the goal of finding some means of stopping Linux.
In fact, Halloween II raised the idea of pursuing exactly this: the effect patents and copyright in combatting Linux. Given the insightful analysis of one of our own, there is pretty good evidence that Microsoft is playing the wizard behind the curtain. This is precisely the arena they wanted to test Linux in.
You're too late... I already did.
Fortunately they returned it with most of the important parts still intact.
By development methods, do they mean "use of the vi editor"?
It's the earbuds that bother me... I must be one of the few people who's ears can't take the earbuds... the shape of my ears doesn't give the bud anywhere to hold in place and they always fall out.
Spreading lies about a person can only be considered libel or slander.
Lies about a product is called marketing.
It sounds to me that SCO effectively released code into the GPL, although it was at best unintentially released. They believe they own that code.
I think I've heard GPL described as a viral license. I wonder if this test is intended to put an end to that effect.
This happens now, doesn't it?
Does this mean we're ever going to see Windows XP Service pack 2? Seriously, is it my memory playing tricks on me, or did or did not Microsoft promise (hah!) to release service packs every six months? SP1 was released Sept 9, 2002. Sp1A was released Feb 3, 2003, with the only acknowledged change being that they ripped out Java.
Oct 25, 2001 - Windows XP ships
Sept 9, 2002 - SP1 ships (10.5 months, or 4.5 months late)
Sept ?, 2003 - SP2 ships (12 months, or 6 months late) Check out Mr. Allchin's comments.
And, according to this link there are almost 300 issues addressed in this long-overdue patch.
What exactly are they going to charge for? Fixes, or enhancements? Apple charges for their regular updates - OSX 10.1, OSX 10.2, OSX 10.3, but they are also ENHANCING the product significantly with every release. Is this something MS intends to do, because I certainly don't mind paying for updates to the software as long as it actually ENHANCES things. I'll be pretty ticked off if I have to pay for FIXES.
Reminds me of the joke...
This is the axe that was used by George Washington to cut down the cherry tree. Oh, it looks new to you? Well, the handle has been replace five times, and the head has been replaced twice.
Write a glowing review, and post a link and watch the balance in your affiliate account grow! What's wrong with making some spare change on the side? Except, the original review is tainted - it can't be objective because the author has something to gain.
Did you know that many retail stores make more income off the interest on their credit cards than they do off of what people buy directly out of the store? There are whole industries built on deception - and what they appear to do and what they actually do are two different things. Follow the money and you'll see what they actually do.
It wouldn't work if this was mounted in the dash, unless you were never selling your car to anyone outside the Puget Sound area.
There are no maps beyond what you see in the display. The world on this device ends at Renton and at Lynwood.
I can see this kind of thing customized and used by regional transit authorities in order to reduce the amount of roads that need to be built.
This is a very vertical device at this point of time, but an excellent proof-of-concept. Convergence... we MUST have convergence - digital maps, DOT information standardized, information all transmitted over UWB in each region, all standards-driven so that there can be a variety of devices, always updated and up-to-date in a given region. That new road that was just built... just got downloaded to your DOT-device when the engineers checked in with city hall, marking the roadway extension as complete.
At least it settles the eternal question of whether you should have taken another route home, or if all "rush" hour traffic is at a standstill.
This adds a whole new level of meaning to crash and burn!
I read fiction to escape from my life... not to be put back into it again!
Sounds as if it's like dreaming that you're dreaming that you're dreaming. Only you are awake and you can't wake up...
Urm... Maybe I should check it out!