While I like and use Listen, it's most definitely a resource hog. It doesn't seem to have memory leaks though, it stabilizes at about 300Mb of ram usage. Good thing I have 2 gigs:) It's under active development and I hope it will improve in that respect. In the meantime, if you can spare the ram, it's the closest thing to a good music player on linux right now IMHO.
"The titles will be protected by digital rights management software to prevent the programmes being traded illegally on the internet."
...no, I guess not. And it goes without saying that whatever stupid DRM format they come up with will only run on windows, so I couldn't use it even if I wanted to. Back to getting BBC shows from emule for me (got to get that Top Gear fix:)
Because the artists in a position to do this don't need to. If you get to be as big as U2, you have enough bargaining power to get a good deal from the label. It's the little guys that get screwed over by the labels. (No surprise there.) That said, I still have hope it will happen eventually.
Bruce Tognazzini has covered this kind of stupidity before.
"I've been watching security people for years as they've slowly increased the security of everything they can get their hands on until any idiot can wander in. (...) My wife, the Doctor, was working over the summer at a local hospital. They are fiercely into security, requiring no fewer than four sets of passwords to navigate their system. And why not? There are confidential patient records on those systems! By golly, they ought to have eight sets of passwords, and really make things secure!"
Read it: http://asktog.com/columns/058SecurityD'ohlts.html. Better yet, have the people who are implementing this policy read it. Point out it's by one of the leading usability experts in the world. Odds are it won't change anything, but hey at least you tried...
Actualy it *is* slightly better than the competition, because you can choose the search engine. I set it to google and find it rather useful. I suppose an option to turn it off wouldn't hurt though...
I use both versions regularly and the UI
performance in Linux is much worse than windows.
In some places it becomes almost unusable under
linux - the bookmarks window and the time it takes
to display the font preferences are the worst
cases.
Page rendering is pretty fast in both platforms
though.
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While I like and use Listen, it's most definitely a resource hog. It doesn't seem to have memory leaks though, it stabilizes at about 300Mb of ram usage. Good thing I have 2 gigs :)
It's under active development and I hope it will improve in that respect. In the meantime, if you can spare the ram, it's the closest thing to a good music player on linux right now IMHO.
"The titles will be protected by digital rights management software to prevent the programmes being traded illegally on the internet."
Because the artists in a position to do this don't need to. If you get to be as big as U2, you have enough bargaining power to get a good deal from the label. It's the little guys that get screwed over by the labels. (No surprise there.)
That said, I still have hope it will happen eventually.
Well, .cat obviously stands for Catalunya. I wonder how they got a TLD. Last time I looked Catalunya wasn't a country.
:)
Anyway, the organization in charge of the domain is here: http://www.puntcat.org/
And cool.cat appears to be available
Bruce Tognazzini has covered this kind of stupidity before.
. Better yet, have the people who are implementing this policy read it. Point out it's by one of the leading usability experts in the world. Odds are it won't change anything, but hey at least you tried...
"I've been watching security people for years as they've slowly increased the security of everything they can get their hands on until any idiot can wander in.
(...)
My wife, the Doctor, was working over the summer at a local hospital. They are fiercely into security, requiring no fewer than four sets of passwords to navigate their system. And why not? There are confidential patient records on those systems! By golly, they ought to have eight sets of passwords, and really make things secure!"
Read it: http://asktog.com/columns/058SecurityD'ohlts.html
Actualy it *is* slightly better than the competition, because you can choose the search engine. I set it to google and find it rather useful. I suppose an option to turn it off wouldn't hurt though...
I use both versions regularly and the UI
performance in Linux is much worse than windows.
In some places it becomes almost unusable under
linux - the bookmarks window and the time it takes
to display the font preferences are the worst
cases.
Page rendering is pretty fast in both platforms
though.