With the added wrinkle that it's an encrypted file that requires a gatekeeper to allow you to play it. The itunes decryption is mostly offline so while your installation is working and you've done nothing to make it think it should be rearming itself your "purchase" is the same as a DVD. But it's easier to hold onto a physical item that works in any DVD player than it is to manage both the digital files and the DRM system that's designed to stop you from restoring the decryption arbitrarily. If you have the file and your itunes account details I'd be confident it could all be restored to a playable state, so apple aren't that bad at this, but the whole setup gives me the yips.
There are several products that will remove the FairPlay DRM from iTunes movies. Here's an example picked at random:
tl;dr signal acquisition (especially of very small signals) requires both a "positive" and a "ground".
That's what was confusing me! I figured they had two electrodes and were using some sort of ECG field measurement. I have managed to get a signal out of the noise floor from as far down the arm as a bicep with tlectrodes 35mm apart, but it wasn't very good.
Do you know about using chopper-stabilized amplifiers, or Autocorrelation?
These techniques both work pretty well to retrieve signals that are actually BELOW the noise-floor. In fact, that's how Cellphones are even able to WORK at all! If you look at the raw signal to noise ratio, you'll just shake your head and go "no way"...
Well that's kind of the point of spying, doing it well means you don't get found out. Your iOS device is constantly sending encrypted information back to Apple but of course you will just believe them when they say "we aren't spying on you", we won't let you see the content of those data packets but just trust us.
Put your Packet-Sniffer where your mouth is, COWARD!
Apple had 61% of the smartwatch market in 2015 and 17% today. That's what I call falling behind, not taking the lead.
Imagine that - it essentially had no competition in 2015. Apple is the market leader now. It is growing faster than Xiaomi now. It introduced a new generation product now. How is Xiaomi "set to take the lead" exactly? You can't fall behind people that you're pulling away from.
IF that were the case, then it would still be Apple's fault for not negotiating a contract with the copyright holder that allowed them to deliver the goods they claimed to be selling.
If they had negotiated an appropriate license, then there would be no way for the copyright holder to renege.
18 hours would cover most people's awake day so if you put it on to charge while you sleep you'll be fine... but then they advertise sleep monitoring as a feature?
We need "one more thing..."
Introducing the iBed Mattress topper. Charge your Apple wearables while worn, as you sleep. It also doubles as an electric blanket and monitors your body movements as well.
Or the full iBedPlus Mattress with integrated smart speaker, lighting and full body massage... say "Goodnight Siri" and sleep well tonight before being woken by a gentle nudge at exactly the right temperature, lighting and point in your sleep cycle to start another great day.
What benchmarks? Nobody has any yet, there aren't even details about which ARM core the S4 uses. Until those details come out, Apple astroturfers will spin the "twice as fast" angle as hard as they can. My take on it: IPC differs only slightly between current 32 bit and 64 bit ARM cores, but power draw is significantly higher for 64 bit cores. Or to put it simply, the power draw penalty outweighs the IPC increase, if there actually any. To work around this, Apple will redefine the length of the day.
You're an illiterate retard.
There are two facts that point to the S4 being 64 bit:
1. Apple said so.
2. Apple is 64-bit "clean" across ALL of their OSes, except macOS. And the next version of macOS, Mojave, is supposed to be RELEASED in about a week from now is going to be the last macOS that will support 32-bit AT ALL. iOS kicked 32 bit to the curb a year ago with iOS 11.0.
TL;dr 32 bit is D-E-A-D at Apple; so it wouldn't make any sense for them to regress with the S4 and WatchOS 5.
Huh I see. So I just checked, it's only certified ECG when you touch a metal bit in it with your other hand. Yeah that's technically feasible for a single channel ECG. Not really sure how useful that is. It's certainly not a continuous monitoring device that's for sure.
They still have the optical heart rate sensor on the back. That IS continuous, and has already been credited with saving several lives.
How on earth would an ECG work off a single hand?! A circuit needs to be complete, which implies both arms.
That's why you have to touch the crown with a finger on the opposite hand from the one on which you are wearing the watch. The back of the case forms one side of the circuit, and your finger is the other.
They explained that in the Keynote. Pretty clever, actually.
So firstly 64 bit. What? But only x86 that was massively register starved in 32 bit mode.
As for the ECG you're right , but it only works when you touch the watch with your other hand. I'd assumed naively that any ECG watch was a watch that monitored ECG just on your wrist, not a watch with a rather standard single channel ECG bolted on. My mistake though. But I don't think you'll find it very useful.
It still has the optical heart rate sensor. This is just a more accurate sensor. They explained in the keynote: when you touch your finger to the crown, it completes a circuit with the back of the watch. That's how it is able to read the WAVEFORM, rather than just the RATE.
That's the same reason that that $99 ECG device has TWO pads, one for a finger on your left hand, and the other for the right hand.
tl;dr signal acquisition (especially of very small signals) requires both a "positive" and a "ground".
And may I point out, Apple claims "up to" 18 hours. You can be sure it is less. Reality: if you have this watch then you need to charge it multiple times per day, and get used to wearing a brick for those times you forget. These guys have the right idea.
Unlike all the other LYING OEMs, Apple has a reputation for being the ONLY tech-device manufacturer that even APPROACHES their st stead battery life.
You need to do less Spewing of that Bile, and do some more Research.
What apple should do is transfer an undeletable copy to the users personal icloud that they can use forever (or until apple goes tits up). Then it doesnt matter if they stop offering it from their main servers, users who have bought it will always have a copy.
Other Posters on here have said that Apple DOES transfer a downloaded file to you when you Purchase a movie. You just have to be savvy enough to squirrel it away somewhere.
You didn't purchase movies. You entered into an agreement which allows you access to content as long as Apple feels like providing it. LOL. Silly users, thinking you "owned" movies.
Listen, Hater COWARD:
It wasn't APPLE that didn't "feel like providing it". It was the COPYRIGHT HOLDER!!!
Go point your MISDIRECTED HATRED toward the PROPER PARTY!!!
I was buying Mac's for my daily driver laptops because of the high quality hardware. Well, I had been since 2003. Sadly, while I still have a PowerBook (PPC based) that works fine and one 2011 that sorts works okay my latest laptops have all died.
The last MacBook Pro I had was especially troubling. See, I'm a hardware engineer so I figured I could fix it. Nope. What died? A proprietary power management IC that also does some copy protection crap for Apple. I can't buy it or even get a data sheet on it.
My answer was to buy a ThinkPad and put Linux on it. It's faster and works better. Maybe I'll even try to run Altium in Wine rather than in a VM -- which may be nicer than it was on my MBP.
So yeah, the only endearing quality (well built HW) for crApple products is now gone I see no reason to buy anything from them. They want to be a phone company but their phone offering (iOS) is abysmal.
Read TFA. Had he downloaded the movies and kept the downloads, he would have been able to watch them.
What he could no longer do was obtain a new copy from the cloud storage.
Effectively, he had a license to use his downloaded copies forever.
Serious question: Is there ACTUALLY a downloaded file transferred to your device when you "Purchase" (or even "Rent") a movie from iTunes?
If so, where is it stored, and can you actually access the file if your purchase/rent is made on something like an iPad or AppleTV, or do you need to do your iTunes Rental/Purchasing on a Computer for that to be possible?
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With the added wrinkle that it's an encrypted file that requires a gatekeeper to allow you to play it. The itunes decryption is mostly offline so while your installation is working and you've done nothing to make it think it should be rearming itself your "purchase" is the same as a DVD. But it's easier to hold onto a physical item that works in any DVD player than it is to manage both the digital files and the DRM system that's designed to stop you from restoring the decryption arbitrarily. If you have the file and your itunes account details I'd be confident it could all be restored to a playable state, so apple aren't that bad at this, but the whole setup gives me the yips.
There are several products that will remove the FairPlay DRM from iTunes movies. Here's an example picked at random:
https://www.convert-apple-musi...
tl;dr signal acquisition (especially of very small signals) requires both a "positive" and a "ground".
That's what was confusing me! I figured they had two electrodes and were using some sort of ECG field measurement. I have managed to get a signal out of the noise floor from as far down the arm as a bicep with tlectrodes 35mm apart, but it wasn't very good.
Do you know about using chopper-stabilized amplifiers, or Autocorrelation?
These techniques both work pretty well to retrieve signals that are actually BELOW the noise-floor. In fact, that's how Cellphones are even able to WORK at all! If you look at the raw signal to noise ratio, you'll just shake your head and go "no way"...
Weren't you talking about Xiaomi being "set to take the lead?" Oh wait, we're moving the goalposts again.
Asks the man-child who's been posting in the Apple product announcement threads for ten and a half hours.
You're projecting.
I warned you not to engage. He's actually clinically insane.
But that was a good retort, anyway... ;-)
Kudos!
I get updates about every other week for my Samsung Note 8... Last update was September 5th, in fact.
IIRC, Samsung's policy for updates is 18 months.
Meanwhile, even the iPhone 5s can run iOS 12.
Well that's kind of the point of spying, doing it well means you don't get found out. Your iOS device is constantly sending encrypted information back to Apple but of course you will just believe them when they say "we aren't spying on you", we won't let you see the content of those data packets but just trust us.
Put your Packet-Sniffer where your mouth is, COWARD!
Proof or GTFO.
Imagine that - it essentially had no competition in 2015. Apple is the market leader now. It is growing faster than Xiaomi now. It introduced a new generation product now. How is Xiaomi "set to take the lead" exactly? You can't fall behind people that you're pulling away from.
Really, The Hate is strong with ToughLove.
He is as stupid as he is ugly.
Don't waste your time on him.
Without Qualcomm, Android would not be grinding Apple down towards single digit market share right now.
You are pathetic.
GTFO
Hm,, interesting.
So it IS essentially a PURCHASE (at least as much as buying a DVD makes you "own" the movie).
"Apple's Legal documents are written in plain English. Maybe it is YOU that needs some tutoring on the subject."
It's still 56 pages worth which is pretty excessive to "buy" a $10 movie.
Especially when I can go to the store and buy a movie, give them $10, and they give me a movie.
So do so.
And I would bet that 54 of those 56 pages are there at the insistence of the Copyright Holers, not Apple.
IF that were the case, then it would still be Apple's fault for not negotiating a contract with the copyright holder that allowed them to deliver the goods they claimed to be selling.
If they had negotiated an appropriate license, then there would be no way for the copyright holder to renege.
Sorry, the real world doesn't work like that.
Presumably you don't wear it while you sleep.
Not this one, it doesn't give you that option.
I suggest you look into one of those whole-room wireless chargers.
Works great, Plus you'll get a nice tan!
18 hours would cover most people's awake day so if you put it on to charge while you sleep you'll be fine... but then they advertise sleep monitoring as a feature?
We need "one more thing..."
Introducing the iBed Mattress topper. Charge your Apple wearables while worn, as you sleep. It also doubles as an electric blanket and monitors your body movements as well.
Or the full iBedPlus Mattress with integrated smart speaker, lighting and full body massage... say "Goodnight Siri" and sleep well tonight before being woken by a gentle nudge at exactly the right temperature, lighting and point in your sleep cycle to start another great day.
Ooh, a Haptic Mattress-Topper!
Count me in!!!
What benchmarks? Nobody has any yet, there aren't even details about which ARM core the S4 uses. Until those details come out, Apple astroturfers will spin the "twice as fast" angle as hard as they can. My take on it: IPC differs only slightly between current 32 bit and 64 bit ARM cores, but power draw is significantly higher for 64 bit cores. Or to put it simply, the power draw penalty outweighs the IPC increase, if there actually any. To work around this, Apple will redefine the length of the day.
You're an illiterate retard.
There are two facts that point to the S4 being 64 bit:
1. Apple said so.
2. Apple is 64-bit "clean" across ALL of their OSes, except macOS. And the next version of macOS, Mojave, is supposed to be RELEASED in about a week from now is going to be the last macOS that will support 32-bit AT ALL. iOS kicked 32 bit to the curb a year ago with iOS 11.0.
TL;dr 32 bit is D-E-A-D at Apple; so it wouldn't make any sense for them to regress with the S4 and WatchOS 5.
Huh I see. So I just checked, it's only certified ECG when you touch a metal bit in it with your other hand. Yeah that's technically feasible for a single channel ECG. Not really sure how useful that is. It's certainly not a continuous monitoring device that's for sure.
They still have the optical heart rate sensor on the back. That IS continuous, and has already been credited with saving several lives.
How on earth would an ECG work off a single hand?! A circuit needs to be complete, which implies both arms.
That's why you have to touch the crown with a finger on the opposite hand from the one on which you are wearing the watch. The back of the case forms one side of the circuit, and your finger is the other.
They explained that in the Keynote. Pretty clever, actually.
So firstly 64 bit. What? But only x86 that was massively register starved in 32 bit mode.
As for the ECG you're right , but it only works when you touch the watch with your other hand. I'd assumed naively that any ECG watch was a watch that monitored ECG just on your wrist, not a watch with a rather standard single channel ECG bolted on. My mistake though. But I don't think you'll find it very useful.
It still has the optical heart rate sensor. This is just a more accurate sensor. They explained in the keynote: when you touch your finger to the crown, it completes a circuit with the back of the watch. That's how it is able to read the WAVEFORM, rather than just the RATE.
That's the same reason that that $99 ECG device has TWO pads, one for a finger on your left hand, and the other for the right hand.
tl;dr signal acquisition (especially of very small signals) requires both a "positive" and a "ground".
I bet that you can't name one modern chip design firm designing new 32 bit SOCs.
You lose. Qualcomm's latest smartwatch SoC uses Cortex A7, a 32 bit processor.
Proving once again the Qualcomm is a fucking joke when it comes to microcontrollers/SoCs.
And may I point out, Apple claims "up to" 18 hours. You can be sure it is less. Reality: if you have this watch then you need to charge it multiple times per day, and get used to wearing a brick for those times you forget. These guys have the right idea.
Unlike all the other LYING OEMs, Apple has a reputation for being the ONLY tech-device manufacturer that even APPROACHES their st stead battery life.
You need to do less Spewing of that Bile, and do some more Research.
Yes but it's thinner while keeping the same battery life
Thinner while still being gigantic. Same battery life, which is still too little. Little wonder that Apple keeps losing share in this category.
And yet, they not only have the best-selling Smartwatch, they have the best-selling watch, PERIOD!
Tim Cock is using iWatch to lube a dildo in his stupid butthole.
What are you, like six years old?
What apple should do is transfer an undeletable copy to the users personal icloud that they can use forever (or until apple goes tits up). Then it doesnt matter if they stop offering it from their main servers, users who have bought it will always have a copy.
Other Posters on here have said that Apple DOES transfer a downloaded file to you when you Purchase a movie. You just have to be savvy enough to squirrel it away somewhere.
a battery with about the capacity of 3-4 old-Sokol "D" cell flashlight batteries
Sokol batteries? So a bunch of Czech gymnasts turn up and run on a treadmill to power your flashlight?
Haha!
Obviously, I meant the slang-term "SKOOL"
You didn't purchase movies. You entered into an agreement which allows you access to content as long as Apple feels like providing it. LOL. Silly users, thinking you "owned" movies.
Listen, Hater COWARD:
It wasn't APPLE that didn't "feel like providing it". It was the COPYRIGHT HOLDER!!!
Go point your MISDIRECTED HATRED toward the PROPER PARTY!!!
I was buying Mac's for my daily driver laptops because of the high quality hardware. Well, I had been since 2003. Sadly, while I still have a PowerBook (PPC based) that works fine and one 2011 that sorts works okay my latest laptops have all died.
The last MacBook Pro I had was especially troubling. See, I'm a hardware engineer so I figured I could fix it. Nope. What died? A proprietary power management IC that also does some copy protection crap for Apple. I can't buy it or even get a data sheet on it.
My answer was to buy a ThinkPad and put Linux on it. It's faster and works better. Maybe I'll even try to run Altium in Wine rather than in a VM -- which may be nicer than it was on my MBP.
So yeah, the only endearing quality (well built HW) for crApple products is now gone I see no reason to buy anything from them. They want to be a phone company but their phone offering (iOS) is abysmal.
Jeebus!
OFFTOPIC Much???
Read TFA. Had he downloaded the movies and kept the downloads, he would have been able to watch them.
What he could no longer do was obtain a new copy from the cloud storage.
Effectively, he had a license to use his downloaded copies forever.
Serious question: Is there ACTUALLY a downloaded file transferred to your device when you "Purchase" (or even "Rent") a movie from iTunes?
If so, where is it stored, and can you actually access the file if your purchase/rent is made on something like an iPad or AppleTV, or do you need to do your iTunes Rental/Purchasing on a Computer for that to be possible?