Fairplay doesn't have the capability to expire songs once you stop paying for the subscription.
Actually, there have been reports of iPods that stopped playing songs bought from the iTunes Music Store after not having been synced with iTunes for some time (e.g. during an extended holiday). So I guess there is something like this in Fairplay somewhere...
The record companies would be shooting themselves in the foot.
The (major) record companies have been shooting themselves in the foot for years now and still haven't made the connection that pointing down the gun and pulling the trigger is directly responsible for that stabbing pain...
Ok, well...one, the first is that this is a dupe with different references.
No, it's not a dupe. That other story was about yesterday's development that the members of the EU parliament seemed to unite on the side of those that are opposed to software patents.
Today, and that's what this story is about, they really shot down software patents. So after several months of back and forth, this is really the end of the initiative to introduce software patents in the EU.
I see this all the time on a website I'm administrating. Mostly from Blogspot and free subdomain providers. You can even follow certain individuals hopping from one such service to the next. And Blogspot is so far one of the worst to follow up on abuse complaints...
Well, I guess the good thing about PHP as a teaching language is that - when used for websites - it's interactive and gives you immediate feedback. It's also making it easy to come up with a useful program with just a few lines of code. So your students will be motivated and may even come up with something they'll use on their own websites.
On the other hand I tend to think that from the point of language design, PHP is not a very nice language to learn. It's a bit like the old Basic languages - everything is built in, so you'll end up with a language with a huge vocabulary.
What's worse, IMO, is that it's missing consistency. Some functions expecpt their parameters in one order, while other, related functions, expect them in another order. The lack of strong typing is also something that may not be the best for beginners. It might be easier to grasp at first but you'll run into all sorts of problems once your programs get more complex.
Mind you that I'm actually maintaining an open source project written in PHP...
I think as a first language, for beginners, Python may actually be a better choice. It also offers the interactive bit and has a much cleaner design.
It leaves me puzzled why they are still shipping 256 Mb on the Power Macs
You seem to have missed last week's upgrade of the PowerMac line. They, too, now ship with 512 MB (with the exception of the single processor model, which is a bit odd, addmittedly).
It's not as wrong as you may think. The Windows version of iTunes can convert DRM-free WMA files to MP3 (or whatever you prefer), so it's sort-of "supported".
Also, the chip in the iPod could play WMA files natively (don't know if it would support DRM, though). But Apple would have to pay license fees to Microsoft, so...
as iPod is limited to iTunes when it comes to purchasing music online
Nonsense. Most of the music on my iPod is actually from eMusic.com, who sell nice DRM-free MP3 files. I only use the iTunes Music Store for the occassional dip into mainstream music.
Yes, they post comments which are basically just a list of URLs with lost of links to their sites. The theory being that this will increase their page rank. Luckily, MT already has a blacklist to filter those out but it has to be updated constantly.
The funny thing is that we (another weblog system, but suffering from the same problem) are seeing a lot of spam posts recently where they put the link text into the href attribute and the actual URL as the link text. Not sure what they're trying to accomplish with that - maybe it's just more proof that spammers are actually stupid...
.tv is used a lot for TV stations - for the obvious reason. But it wasn't invented for that, it is the TLD for the island of Tuvalu and has been around for a while.
The book "C Traps And Pitfalls" by Andrew Koenig (yes, that Andrew Koenig) starts with his first experiences in C and how he managed to have 2 bugs in his "Hello world" program...
Slashdot Mirror
Try magnatune.com, they do.
Can someone please explain the thinking behind goodies like this:
<div id="slogan">
<h2>
News for nerds, stuff that matters
</h2>
</div>
What's with the extra DIVs all over the place? What's wrong with applying the id and class attributes directly, like so:
<h2 id="slogan">
News for nerds, stuff that matters
</h2>
This seems to be a common misconception - "going CSS" doesn't mean that you have to wrap everything in a DIV.
It's an option in the "Security" panel of the System Preferences.
No, it's not a dupe. That other story was about yesterday's development that the members of the EU parliament seemed to unite on the side of those that are opposed to software patents.
Today, and that's what this story is about, they really shot down software patents. So after several months of back and forth, this is really the end of the initiative to introduce software patents in the EU.
I see this all the time on a website I'm administrating. Mostly from Blogspot and free subdomain providers. You can even follow certain individuals hopping from one such service to the next. And Blogspot is so far one of the worst to follow up on abuse complaints ...
Maybe you were thinking about Sony's earlier players that converted everything to ATRAC?
Vox aired a few random episodes at an impossible time (around 11am, IIRC) a couple of years ago. No wonder it wasn't a success ...
403 is "Access denied", so that would explain a lot ...
I assume you meant "301".
Well, I guess the good thing about PHP as a teaching language is that - when used for websites - it's interactive and gives you immediate feedback. It's also making it easy to come up with a useful program with just a few lines of code. So your students will be motivated and may even come up with something they'll use on their own websites.
...
On the other hand I tend to think that from the point of language design, PHP is not a very nice language to learn. It's a bit like the old Basic languages - everything is built in, so you'll end up with a language with a huge vocabulary.
What's worse, IMO, is that it's missing consistency. Some functions expecpt their parameters in one order, while other, related functions, expect them in another order. The lack of strong typing is also something that may not be the best for beginners. It might be easier to grasp at first but you'll run into all sorts of problems once your programs get more complex.
Mind you that I'm actually maintaining an open source project written in PHP
I think as a first language, for beginners, Python may actually be a better choice. It also offers the interactive bit and has a much cleaner design.
HTH
You seem to have missed last week's upgrade of the PowerMac line. They, too, now ship with 512 MB (with the exception of the single processor model, which is a bit odd, addmittedly).
As anyone going over to Google News can easily find out, this as already been denied by Mr. McNealy himself ...
See Forbes, for example.
Where's the "-1, Eww" moderation option when you need it?
But this is actually off-topic, since the book is about pre-Macintosh computers ...
It's not as wrong as you may think. The Windows version of iTunes can convert DRM-free WMA files to MP3 (or whatever you prefer), so it's sort-of "supported".
Also, the chip in the iPod could play WMA files natively (don't know if it would support DRM, though). But Apple would have to pay license fees to Microsoft, so ...
Erm, ever heard of BCC?
Yes, they post comments which are basically just a list of URLs with lost of links to their sites. The theory being that this will increase their page rank. Luckily, MT already has a blacklist to filter those out but it has to be updated constantly.
...
The funny thing is that we (another weblog system, but suffering from the same problem) are seeing a lot of spam posts recently where they put the link text into the href attribute and the actual URL as the link text. Not sure what they're trying to accomplish with that - maybe it's just more proof that spammers are actually stupid
.tv is used a lot for TV stations - for the obvious reason. But it wasn't invented for that, it is the TLD for the island of Tuvalu and has been around for a while.
Erm, .tv is a country TLD ...
.biz is actually useful - for recognizing spam :-)
And