To prove that a claim is true, others must be able to arrive at the same conclusion given the same parameters/conditions. Nobody else has been able to get MS AntiSpyware to detect Firefox as spyware, so obviously the claim is false.
Ever known a everday use home PC that never needed a reinstall at some point in it's life? My point exactly.
One day when the OS needs to be reinstalled (Virus, spyware, general neglect, HDD upgrade etc) somebody is going to get very pissed off at having to spend a good 15 - 30 minutes trying to talk to a computer at MS over the phone.
This doesn't stop piracy in anyway. Product activation only disadvantages the honest customers and thats it. The ones who use pirated windows will still use pirated windows regardless.
I've serviced many PCs, and let me tell you, servicing the boxes that come with a bona fide windows installation are a much larger pain in the ass then the ones with pirated copies.
With the pirated ones i just reinstall windows and thats it. Reinstalling on an original box requires me to spend 15 minutes after the fact talking to a a machine in Singapore because the local Toll Free number for Microsoft was disconnected ages ago.
If anybody with a Creative soundcard would spend the time to figure out how much their card is capable of, they'd know that the driver itself supports this.
All you need to do is set the recording input as "What you Hear" then run any recording program and play back the music.
They got it from installing a Macromedia plug in. The Yahoo! toolbar is included with the (IIRC)Shockwave installer and it is installed by default. Although it's not too bad as you can choose not to as it asks you if you want it, but most people never bother to read the page and just click next.
You know a great feature would be the ability to run off a crank powered battery. Like that radio this guy invented that would run an hour off 5 cranks of a handle.
I'd buy one just so i don't have to find a power socket every 2 hours.
And I agree with you about selling in developed and richer countries. heck they could mark up enough that they can afford to sell the units at a loss for charity. now won't that be even sweeter?
Thats why I strongly believe that abstract ideas and concepts should NOT be patentable.
Allowing a method to do something be patentable is absolutely stupid. Can you imagine if the doctor who developed organ transplant surgery patented all his findings and demanded huge royalties each time a transplant was carried out?
See, to transfer funds the bank requires that I register my cell phone with them. This is only done once at an ATM. Then each time a transfer is requested, i press a button on the transfer page and an SMS is sent to my cell phone with an authorisation code. I have to type the code into the page before the transection will proceed. The code is only good for one transaction and only for the transaction for which the code was requested.
So the only way that an unauthorised fund transfer can take place is if the thieves managed to steal my cellphone and hacked my account before I contact my bank and deregister the phone.
I think you've got the nail on the head. The problem with the lack of software for the mac is a valid one. In teh course of my work i use many small apps that are made to do very specific tasks. Most of these apps can be downloaded for free and the things that they do are exacly like yours.
For instance, there are 101 functions a windows machine can do with a DVD burner that a Mac cannot, by virtue of the fact that more people write apps for Windows then Mac.
Then there are other thigs like image processors, file management related hacks etc.
If the kids can't buy them then they'll just download it. The big loosers here arn't the kids, they'll still have their fun. It isn't civil liberties.
The big loosers will be the MBA types and the politicians because they'll lose sales of the PC games and still not have found a solution to all that violance.
I agree with what you said about "the right mix" but that is what branding is. Any good design is about a balance of form and function. Apple simply found the sweet spot and it so happends that making a good mp3 player is more about it's form (pakaging, image, user experence etc) and less about it's function (fancy features).
The Apple brand is a lifestyle statement. You'd proudly display a Mac in a room as if it were a work of art (which it is), but you wouldn't do so with a regulay box PC, even if you spent way more money to spec it greatly more powerful then the Mac.
So in essence it is about branding and as you say features mean nothing. Which is why Sony has a fighting chance because the Sony brand is known for making desireable goods.
for instance, that processor thats just capable of mp3 playback and not much else.
Anyway, my point isn't that the iPod is a piece of shit or anything. It isn't. the iPod works, it does what it's supposed to. But then again many other players just work too. Features wise what is there to set it apart from it's competitors?
Look at the competition. For less money you get more hdd space, fm tuner, record and playback, dolby compliance, auto detection over most OS' as a USB mass storage device. Hech alot of them also support many other file formats and have no DRM and use rechargeable AAA or other standard cells instead of a hard to replace battery so that replacing it costs $9 not $99.
So obviously the iPod isn't winning because of it's technical merits. All I am saying that the iPod is king of the hill because of branding, and if anybody wants to unseat it, it has to have a strong brand.
No.. iTunes is after the fact. As geeks, you and I apreciate these things but the general public can't. What makes iPods sell is Apples superb marketing and advertising devision.
For instance, Creative bundles their MediaCentre, it works as well as iTunes, but what diffrence does it make? None.
People buy on "WOA! Cool! You have an iPod you lucky SOB you!" not "Wow such easy to use interface software"
Sony is about one of those companies seriously capable of making a real iPod killer.
iPods are by no means a superior product. it uses dated technology and lose out in terms of features and price to other players. What makes it sell is that it has the Apple brandname behind it.
I think Sony is about one of few competitors with the sort of brand that can compete if they get their act togather.
Thats what pisses me off, they wern't cops (our cops are fairly competant when it comes to discharging their weapons) and they were given weapons without the training cops get. The enforcement officers were just that. They are from the Ministry of Trade.
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To prove that a claim is true, others must be able to arrive at the same conclusion given the same parameters/conditions. Nobody else has been able to get MS AntiSpyware to detect Firefox as spyware, so obviously the claim is false.
What did they teach you in school?
Ever known a everday use home PC that never needed a reinstall at some point in it's life? My point exactly.
One day when the OS needs to be reinstalled (Virus, spyware, general neglect, HDD upgrade etc) somebody is going to get very pissed off at having to spend a good 15 - 30 minutes trying to talk to a computer at MS over the phone.
This doesn't stop piracy in anyway. Product activation only disadvantages the honest customers and thats it. The ones who use pirated windows will still use pirated windows regardless.
I've serviced many PCs, and let me tell you, servicing the boxes that come with a bona fide windows installation are a much larger pain in the ass then the ones with pirated copies.
With the pirated ones i just reinstall windows and thats it. Reinstalling on an original box requires me to spend 15 minutes after the fact talking to a a machine in Singapore because the local Toll Free number for Microsoft was disconnected ages ago.
sheesh...
If anybody with a Creative soundcard would spend the time to figure out how much their card is capable of, they'd know that the driver itself supports this.
All you need to do is set the recording input as "What you Hear" then run any recording program and play back the music.
The way the current season is going, you could say that the NX-02 - Columbia could be the Defiant of ST: Enterprise.
Also with the current story with the Romulans and an eventual alliance formed, maybe it's a precurser to the birth of the Federation?
They got it from installing a Macromedia plug in.
The Yahoo! toolbar is included with the (IIRC)Shockwave installer and it is installed by default. Although it's not too bad as you can choose not to as it asks you if you want it, but most people never bother to read the page and just click next.
You know a great feature would be the ability to run off a crank powered battery. Like that radio this guy invented that would run an hour off 5 cranks of a handle.
I'd buy one just so i don't have to find a power socket every 2 hours.
And I agree with you about selling in developed and richer countries. heck they could mark up enough that they can afford to sell the units at a loss for charity. now won't that be even sweeter?
yea. But then again, i don't deserve to keep getting huge sums of money for that one discovery for the next 90 years do i?
Nor is it fair of me to effectively condamn those who can't pay to die simply because i feel the need for huge compensation.
I think that laws passed should be for the greater benefit, not the benefit of a few.
Thats why I strongly believe that abstract ideas and concepts should NOT be patentable.
Allowing a method to do something be patentable is absolutely stupid. Can you imagine if the doctor who developed organ transplant surgery patented all his findings and demanded huge royalties each time a transplant was carried out?
Nope... sadly not a US bank. I'm Malaysian.
Agreed. My bank does it even better.
See, to transfer funds the bank requires that I register my cell phone with them. This is only done once at an ATM. Then each time a transfer is requested, i press a button on the transfer page and an SMS is sent to my cell phone with an authorisation code. I have to type the code into the page before the transection will proceed. The code is only good for one transaction and only for the transaction for which the code was requested.
So the only way that an unauthorised fund transfer can take place is if the thieves managed to steal my cellphone and hacked my account before I contact my bank and deregister the phone.
I think you've got the nail on the head. The problem with the lack of software for the mac is a valid one. In teh course of my work i use many small apps that are made to do very specific tasks. Most of these apps can be downloaded for free and the things that they do are exacly like yours.
For instance, there are 101 functions a windows machine can do with a DVD burner that a Mac cannot, by virtue of the fact that more people write apps for Windows then Mac.
Then there are other thigs like image processors, file management related hacks etc.
They don't have to. They can get the porn, movies and games off the net. Which is why this plan in practice, won't work.
There arn't any ethics and/or conflicts of interest to consider.
If the kids can't buy them then they'll just download it. The big loosers here arn't the kids, they'll still have their fun. It isn't civil liberties.
The big loosers will be the MBA types and the politicians because they'll lose sales of the PC games and still not have found a solution to all that violance.
Sonoma, soon to cause insomnia.
And if the season turned out to be really fantastic, it could spawn a new Star Trek meme on Slashdot.
The horror.
I agree with what you said about "the right mix" but that is what branding is. Any good design is about a balance of form and function. Apple simply found the sweet spot and it so happends that making a good mp3 player is more about it's form (pakaging, image, user experence etc) and less about it's function (fancy features).
The Apple brand is a lifestyle statement. You'd proudly display a Mac in a room as if it were a work of art (which it is), but you wouldn't do so with a regulay box PC, even if you spent way more money to spec it greatly more powerful then the Mac.
So in essence it is about branding and as you say features mean nothing. Which is why Sony has a fighting chance because the Sony brand is known for making desireable goods.
for instance, that processor thats just capable of mp3 playback and not much else.
Anyway, my point isn't that the iPod is a piece of shit or anything. It isn't. the iPod works, it does what it's supposed to. But then again many other players just work too. Features wise what is there to set it apart from it's competitors?
Look at the competition. For less money you get more hdd space, fm tuner, record and playback, dolby compliance, auto detection over most OS' as a USB mass storage device. Hech alot of them also support many other file formats and have no DRM and use rechargeable AAA or other standard cells instead of a hard to replace battery so that replacing it costs $9 not $99.
So obviously the iPod isn't winning because of it's technical merits. All I am saying that the iPod is king of the hill because of branding, and if anybody wants to unseat it, it has to have a strong brand.
No.. iTunes is after the fact. As geeks, you and I apreciate these things but the general public can't. What makes iPods sell is Apples superb marketing and advertising devision.
For instance, Creative bundles their MediaCentre, it works as well as iTunes, but what diffrence does it make? None.
People buy on "WOA! Cool! You have an iPod you lucky SOB you!" not "Wow such easy to use interface software"
Sony is about one of those companies seriously capable of making a real iPod killer.
iPods are by no means a superior product. it uses dated technology and lose out in terms of features and price to other players. What makes it sell is that it has the Apple brandname behind it.
I think Sony is about one of few competitors with the sort of brand that can compete if they get their act togather.
Well for one, they arn't trained enough. See the enforcement officers aren't cops, they are civillians from the Ministry of Trade enforcement unit.
Nope.. sadly i'm not kidding.
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Article here : http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1
As for the marijuana, we only hang traffickers. IIRC the distiction between posession and trafficking is weight though IANAL, so i'm not too sure.
Thats what pisses me off, they wern't cops (our cops are fairly competant when it comes to discharging their weapons) and they were given weapons without the training cops get. The enforcement officers were just that. They are from the Ministry of Trade.
Here we go:
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http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005
Link as requested by sibling poster. I read this in the physical paper before the online edition was updated.
gimmi an hour. The online edition of the paper i read it in should be updated in a hours time.