So, I read the disposition, and the related articles. I don't get it. So the kid is on the downward trajectory. He's into drugs, stole a motorcycle, got in trouble for shooting someone with a pellet gun, and so on.
NONE OF THAT HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SOCIAL NETWORKS/CHILD PORN
And yet the court has the audacity to limit his use of computers/internet? I don't get it.
Seriously, if he's 'hacking' or whatever the term is these days and getting in trouble, sure I can dig that separating him from a computer isn't a bad idea, but give me a break. First, he's a 15yo kid. Second, he was on probation and got in trouble, that should tell the court their measures aren't working and they need to look at something else (which they did with the drug rehab thing). Third, he needs someone/something to give him a good kick in the pants, because he's going to end up in jail forever if he keeps this up. Finally, where the h*ll are the parents/guardians and so on that should be actively involved in rehabilitating this kid and getting him back on track.
Thank you. I keep coming to this, but there are just too many 'I'm pissed because it's cool to be pissed' people on/. and elsewhere. Who gives a damn if you like android or iphone. Being an ardent supporter/thorn to the competition, gets you NOTHING in return. How about this. Let's all just quit worrying about which platform we want to work with and just do some work. I work on what I'm paid to work on, and leave it at that. I take care to know about other platforms, but until I see $'s, I'm not going to be a supporter of anything.
That's great and all, but you do realize you don't own the software you are running on your device(s). The software is licensed, and unfortunately you agreed to this when you installed it, so to cry wolf now after the wolf has been let in and given his own master suite, is a little late don't you think?
On the other hand, you could just install linux and own the whole experience. Granted, you still don't really own any of the software, but at least if you need to change something, or understand how it works, you can now.
I definitely appreciate the spirit of the article, but I think the conclusion is wrong. Unlike the past, today there are many layers to tinker in. In the 'old days' when I, like the author, were learning about the Apple (I had an Apple II+ and later IIgs), the computer didn't much do anything. We learned the peeks & pokes, not because we were tinkerers, but because it was the ONLY WAY to do cool stuff. As much as I miss the old days, I don't really miss that. The nice thing about today is that you can work at a variety of different levels, from building theme/art work stuff, down to nitty gritty kernel development. Apple isn't stopping you from doing any of those things, and you don't have to buy the damn dev license (for ios devices) unless you plan to sell it on the apple store. I think software development has matured quite a bit since then, and although I too am concerned that developers coming up today know nothing about the hardware, I'm less concerned than I used to be.
Wow, score 1 for being obnoxious. I thought the guy's point was pretty good. This isn't about you, it's about others, and once you've signed up you don't really need to participate in the daily banter.
FB (and it's ilk) are the new internet. We used to all put up personal websites, but that was difficult and it sucked, then came lots of other crap, then Myspace/FB. It's funny that I have friends that don't even have published email addresses anymore and only communicate through FB's mail system.
That all being said, FB's privacy policy is still crap and, yeah, I don't like that they are becoming a central-authority for my ID.
I don't know about that. The average 'card-carrying member' won't cheer the downfall of the economy, but the folks in charge certainly do. Without the economy, they really don't have much of a leg to stand on, and even then most of the problems that created this mess are a direct result of their own policies.
Now, that all being said, I don't think politics will fix anything right now. The polarization in congress, the country and in general is ridiculous, and really needs to be sorted. The tea bagger people (although I personally think they are just an arm of the gop...) could have gathered so much more support if they had moved a little closer to the center instead of focusing entirely on hot button social issues. The truth is coming out, and the tea bagger candidates are being lambasted from both the right and the left as a result.
Oh, this was about patents... This whole mess sounds like derivative trading all over again. Good grief, it's not like these companies have nothing better to do with their money (like hire more people, build new product, change the world) and their cadre of retained lawyers.
This is it. I have a first gen Apple TV and although for the longest I was using it hacked and running xbmc and other packages. Today I simply watch what I've already got in iTunes streamed from the computer. Storing any of this crap on the Apple TV is just wrong anyway.
The big thing I worry about is that their rental system is pretty messed up today. You start a download and then try to go do something else (like watch youtube videos or whatever) and then you find your download has been paused until you resume it (LAME). Throw in that their servers must be made out of Pentium 1s wired up with banyan vines or something from 20 years ago and you'll be lucky to watch a rented HD movie on your Apple TV 8 hours after starting the download. Frankly, they have to fix that if they want people to flock to this system.
Beyond that, they need to make i support other formats beyond the quicktime formats. I don't mean abandon what they have, but rather support the others and naturally other containers. It's stupid I have a bunch of movies I ripped years back that I can play in itunes (with addons etc) but can't be viewed on any of my itunes controlled devices. This is really the biggest problem I have with the whole itunes/idevices thing. I like the interface, I kind of like itms and I like that at least the music is drm free, but no out of the box support for other video formats and even some audio formats makes it kind of a pain to deal with for me.
In reality, the main appeal of Android operating systems is that they give phone manufacturers a serious competitor to Apple and they don't have to pay Microsoft. Not to mention, they probably don't care for Windows Mobile.
The problem is that what made the Android OS a serious competitor to Apple was that it wasn't locked. If a phone running Android is locked as tight as an Iphone, I may as well get the Iphone and the "coolness" of owning an Apple product.
Nah, openness had nothing to do with android being a serious competitor.
Gah, not you necessarily, but so many people latch on to a company/product just like they would a sports team. This isn't sport, this is business, and most people buy what's convenient (standing around at a phone store...walmart, radio shack etc...) and what is seemingly cool (shiny graphics... yay), and more and more, what is cheaper than their current stuff.
The coolness factor is probably a bigger factor than anything else. Apple has sexy commercials for their products. The lesson to be learned here is that sexy sells, technobabble mostly sucks by itself, but throw in cute people and wow, I gots to have that 10g phone with xyz widgets now!
A global law against spamming with punishment of death by axe in the face for proved involvement with spam e-mail would probably frighten many spammers enough to make them stop. Just a thought.
Agreed, however your mom would end up getting axed cuz she sent one of those damn emails with a ton of pictures and a billion forwarding headers and some lame thing about jesus or how obama is turning the country into a socialist state.
But seriously folks...the new iPhone hardware and many of the additions they are making to the OS are really great...but I'm sorry, I still can't get past the walled garden. Again, I know the app store would have everything I would likely need, but I just can't accept being told that an application would be inappropriate for me to use. And yes, I know I could just jailbreak it...but that's not the point. I don't care that I can get around it, I care that the walled garden exists in the first place. As a consumer, the best I can do is vote with my wallet.
This is only my opinion, I don't speak for others, YMMV, etc applies.
You are wrapped up in all the FUD. Take a step back, this isn't life or death and buying a phone doesn't necessarily mean anything in the grand scheme of things. Having principals is great, but you're abstaining from buying won't change anyone else's opinions, nor will it affect Apple's.
You do realize that most people use their real names for blogs and social media sites. It's not hard to find John Doe who lives in Dallas and works at a certain company.
Look at how they still aren't making a real two-button mouse. Look at how long it took them to get with the program, and get on the same processor architecture as the rest of the world had been on for years.
Apple may one day sell OS X on other companies' hardware, but that point is years off, if it ever arrives, due to Apple's sheer overwhelming arrogance.
No doubt their arrogant, but everyone is...
As far as multi-button mice are concerned, after living with a mac for a while you realize there is very little need to have a 2 button mouse. In fact depending on a right mouse button in windows just feels odd after moving to a mac full time.
You just need to give it a real go, and you'll appreciate the logic of a single button.
Pot is great, socially, but it is addictive (maybe not physically, I'll give you that). Long term use is devastating... Just like long term use of any of those drugs...
I'm a huge fan of the early work. I was in High School during the mid-late 80s and thought Metallica ruled (as they say). The Black Album wasn't Ride the Lightening, but it was good, damn good. Like Justice, it was more refined, but it still rocks hard and yet is consumer friendly.
Alcohol, like all drugs, may help an artist take a few steps in their work they wouldn't otherwise have tried, but if it takes hold, instead of opening your mind to new things, you simply become a drunk and it's game over. Metallica's downfall in musicianship is kind of an example of that, in my opinion. The study doesn't entirely reveal that, but it's true. Now that they are sober, hopefully, they can find something else that will knock our socks off.
First of all, it's income they wouldn't likely have otherwise, so they are happy about that. They want more income, and all this raising of hands and outlandish statements are a means of trying to get a bigger slice.
Second, they do maintain control over what is sold through iTunes, regardless of what they might say in the public, so Jobs isn't their master (although he possibly should be, given their stupidity). They, the majority of labels, enforce the DRM which actually hurts iTunes more than helps it for people who choose to use other devices. Not many people, likely, buy an iPod because of their existing iTunes library of music. Most average people, I presume, use iTunes because they bought an iPod.
Labels are dealing with the reality that their control over music is falling away because the world is changing and people do in fact have more options available to them.
I still maintain that music should be free and used as a means of getting people to see the artists perform. CD's and hard-media should still be sold and a profit should still be taken from it, but the content itself has no more value than the mp3 that I got off some random download site. That does mean the super-stars will have to tighten their belt (one less bentley in the garage, oh my), but it will truly free the artist and the public.
In other words, musicians are paid for their performance. If they want to get rich, use the profit from performance and cd sales to market their brand (their name or whatever). Kiss is a grand example of this. Kiss isn't music, it's a brand. I doubt they make a ton of money on cd sales anymore, but their is a whole generation of people who out of nostalgia go see their shows and buy their stuff.
I think the RIAA and distributors have approached the problem all wrong, and let me run this by people for their thoughts.
All recorded music should be free of copyright and freely available and copyable. Recorded music is not unlike a GMC truck commercial. The objective is to draw people's interest into the product, which in the case of music is the performance, which is today definitely profitable. The actual song composition, words etc are clearly restricted, but the recording itself is an advertisement for the musician/composer. The sale of CDs should continue, but the content on those CDs should be free of any DRM or restrictions of use.
Simply put, a band is only as good as their performance. It is true there are musicians who stick to the studio only and potentially some forms of music that just don't play well to an audience (although, I would love to see some of Eno's early work live in a dark room etc), however if musicians were paid for their performance instead of their skill with a recording device, bands like Nightranger would never had made a penny (they sucked, btw in concert the times I saw them, YMMV).
I recently read an interesting speech my cousin sent to me yesterday by Paul McGuinness.
It's an excellent 'on the go' laptop or for the office if you are meeting locked most of your day. It's small, light and probably next to silent. I'm impressed. Reminds me of my old n505ve!
1) They don't ban people who buy the gold, they ban the people who sell the gold. 2) I agree with this. The problem with the wow-world is that it is still very static. Mobs move on predestined paths and the mobs are always there. Would be far more interesting, for example, if npcs would have some randomness to their path, starting/ending location. Sure it eliminates people who use coordinates to find named mobs for quests, but in the end it makes the world more alive. Beyond that, there needs to be more mob vs mob interaction. They already have some notion of this with wolves attacking squirrels and the like, but there should be more. Make it feel like a real world kind of.
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So, I read the disposition, and the related articles. I don't get it. So the kid is on the downward trajectory. He's into drugs, stole a motorcycle, got in trouble for shooting someone with a pellet gun, and so on.
NONE OF THAT HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SOCIAL NETWORKS/CHILD PORN
And yet the court has the audacity to limit his use of computers/internet? I don't get it.
Seriously, if he's 'hacking' or whatever the term is these days and getting in trouble, sure I can dig that separating him from a computer isn't a bad idea, but give me a break. First, he's a 15yo kid. Second, he was on probation and got in trouble, that should tell the court their measures aren't working and they need to look at something else (which they did with the drug rehab thing). Third, he needs someone/something to give him a good kick in the pants, because he's going to end up in jail forever if he keeps this up. Finally, where the h*ll are the parents/guardians and so on that should be actively involved in rehabilitating this kid and getting him back on track.
Thank you. I keep coming to this, but there are just too many 'I'm pissed because it's cool to be pissed' people on /. and elsewhere. Who gives a damn if you like android or iphone. Being an ardent supporter/thorn to the competition, gets you NOTHING in return. How about this. Let's all just quit worrying about which platform we want to work with and just do some work. I work on what I'm paid to work on, and leave it at that. I take care to know about other platforms, but until I see $'s, I'm not going to be a supporter of anything.
That's great and all, but you do realize you don't own the software you are running on your device(s). The software is licensed, and unfortunately you agreed to this when you installed it, so to cry wolf now after the wolf has been let in and given his own master suite, is a little late don't you think?
On the other hand, you could just install linux and own the whole experience. Granted, you still don't really own any of the software, but at least if you need to change something, or understand how it works, you can now.
I definitely appreciate the spirit of the article, but I think the conclusion is wrong. Unlike the past, today there are many layers to tinker in. In the 'old days' when I, like the author, were learning about the Apple (I had an Apple II+ and later IIgs), the computer didn't much do anything. We learned the peeks & pokes, not because we were tinkerers, but because it was the ONLY WAY to do cool stuff. As much as I miss the old days, I don't really miss that. The nice thing about today is that you can work at a variety of different levels, from building theme/art work stuff, down to nitty gritty kernel development. Apple isn't stopping you from doing any of those things, and you don't have to buy the damn dev license (for ios devices) unless you plan to sell it on the apple store. I think software development has matured quite a bit since then, and although I too am concerned that developers coming up today know nothing about the hardware, I'm less concerned than I used to be.
Just because Sculley didn't know about computers at the time, he assumes that nobody did?
He was referring to joe sixpack, not necessarily you.
Wow, score 1 for being obnoxious. I thought the guy's point was pretty good. This isn't about you, it's about others, and once you've signed up you don't really need to participate in the daily banter.
FB (and it's ilk) are the new internet. We used to all put up personal websites, but that was difficult and it sucked, then came lots of other crap, then Myspace/FB. It's funny that I have friends that don't even have published email addresses anymore and only communicate through FB's mail system.
That all being said, FB's privacy policy is still crap and, yeah, I don't like that they are becoming a central-authority for my ID.
I don't know about that. The average 'card-carrying member' won't cheer the downfall of the economy, but the folks in charge certainly do. Without the economy, they really don't have much of a leg to stand on, and even then most of the problems that created this mess are a direct result of their own policies.
Now, that all being said, I don't think politics will fix anything right now. The polarization in congress, the country and in general is ridiculous, and really needs to be sorted. The tea bagger people (although I personally think they are just an arm of the gop...) could have gathered so much more support if they had moved a little closer to the center instead of focusing entirely on hot button social issues. The truth is coming out, and the tea bagger candidates are being lambasted from both the right and the left as a result.
Oh, this was about patents... This whole mess sounds like derivative trading all over again. Good grief, it's not like these companies have nothing better to do with their money (like hire more people, build new product, change the world) and their cadre of retained lawyers.
This is it. I have a first gen Apple TV and although for the longest I was using it hacked and running xbmc and other packages. Today I simply watch what I've already got in iTunes streamed from the computer. Storing any of this crap on the Apple TV is just wrong anyway.
The big thing I worry about is that their rental system is pretty messed up today. You start a download and then try to go do something else (like watch youtube videos or whatever) and then you find your download has been paused until you resume it (LAME). Throw in that their servers must be made out of Pentium 1s wired up with banyan vines or something from 20 years ago and you'll be lucky to watch a rented HD movie on your Apple TV 8 hours after starting the download. Frankly, they have to fix that if they want people to flock to this system.
Beyond that, they need to make i support other formats beyond the quicktime formats. I don't mean abandon what they have, but rather support the others and naturally other containers. It's stupid I have a bunch of movies I ripped years back that I can play in itunes (with addons etc) but can't be viewed on any of my itunes controlled devices. This is really the biggest problem I have with the whole itunes/idevices thing. I like the interface, I kind of like itms and I like that at least the music is drm free, but no out of the box support for other video formats and even some audio formats makes it kind of a pain to deal with for me.
In reality, the main appeal of Android operating systems is that they give phone manufacturers a serious competitor to Apple and they don't have to pay Microsoft. Not to mention, they probably don't care for Windows Mobile.
The problem is that what made the Android OS a serious competitor to Apple was that it wasn't locked. If a phone running Android is locked as tight as an Iphone, I may as well get the Iphone and the "coolness" of owning an Apple product.
Nah, openness had nothing to do with android being a serious competitor.
Gah, not you necessarily, but so many people latch on to a company/product just like they would a sports team. This isn't sport, this is business, and most people buy what's convenient (standing around at a phone store...walmart, radio shack etc...) and what is seemingly cool (shiny graphics... yay), and more and more, what is cheaper than their current stuff.
The coolness factor is probably a bigger factor than anything else. Apple has sexy commercials for their products. The lesson to be learned here is that sexy sells, technobabble mostly sucks by itself, but throw in cute people and wow, I gots to have that 10g phone with xyz widgets now!
A global law against spamming with punishment of death by axe in the face for proved involvement with spam e-mail would probably frighten many spammers enough to make them stop. Just a thought.
Agreed, however your mom would end up getting axed cuz she sent one of those damn emails with a ton of pictures and a billion forwarding headers and some lame thing about jesus or how obama is turning the country into a socialist state.
Its not the first time its been said on this website but US != The World
You didn't get the memo did you?
Goatse.
But seriously folks...the new iPhone hardware and many of the additions they are making to the OS are really great...but I'm sorry, I still can't get past the walled garden. Again, I know the app store would have everything I would likely need, but I just can't accept being told that an application would be inappropriate for me to use. And yes, I know I could just jailbreak it...but that's not the point. I don't care that I can get around it, I care that the walled garden exists in the first place. As a consumer, the best I can do is vote with my wallet.
This is only my opinion, I don't speak for others, YMMV, etc applies.
You are wrapped up in all the FUD. Take a step back, this isn't life or death and buying a phone doesn't necessarily mean anything in the grand scheme of things. Having principals is great, but you're abstaining from buying won't change anyone else's opinions, nor will it affect Apple's.
You do realize that most people use their real names for blogs and social media sites. It's not hard to find John Doe who lives in Dallas and works at a certain company.
Okay, that's about .0001% of the market they lost there.
Maybe next they'll invent some way to dial a phone with just some sort of rotary wheel...
You sir made me belly laugh! Thank you for that.
Look at how they still aren't making a real two-button mouse. Look at how long it took them to get with the program, and get on the same processor architecture as the rest of the world had been on for years.
Apple may one day sell OS X on other companies' hardware, but that point is years off, if it ever arrives, due to Apple's sheer overwhelming arrogance.
No doubt their arrogant, but everyone is...
As far as multi-button mice are concerned, after living with a mac for a while you realize there is very little need to have a 2 button mouse. In fact depending on a right mouse button in windows just feels odd after moving to a mac full time.
You just need to give it a real go, and you'll appreciate the logic of a single button.
You've not met many long-term pot-heads have you?
Pot is great, socially, but it is addictive (maybe not physically, I'll give you that). Long term use is devastating... Just like long term use of any of those drugs...
I'm a huge fan of the early work. I was in High School during the mid-late 80s and thought Metallica ruled (as they say). The Black Album wasn't Ride the Lightening, but it was good, damn good. Like Justice, it was more refined, but it still rocks hard and yet is consumer friendly.
Alcohol, like all drugs, may help an artist take a few steps in their work they wouldn't otherwise have tried, but if it takes hold, instead of opening your mind to new things, you simply become a drunk and it's game over. Metallica's downfall in musicianship is kind of an example of that, in my opinion. The study doesn't entirely reveal that, but it's true. Now that they are sober, hopefully, they can find something else that will knock our socks off.
That's kind of a crock.
First of all, it's income they wouldn't likely have otherwise, so they are happy about that. They want more income, and all this raising of hands and outlandish statements are a means of trying to get a bigger slice.
Second, they do maintain control over what is sold through iTunes, regardless of what they might say in the public, so Jobs isn't their master (although he possibly should be, given their stupidity). They, the majority of labels, enforce the DRM which actually hurts iTunes more than helps it for people who choose to use other devices. Not many people, likely, buy an iPod because of their existing iTunes library of music. Most average people, I presume, use iTunes because they bought an iPod.
Labels are dealing with the reality that their control over music is falling away because the world is changing and people do in fact have more options available to them.
I still maintain that music should be free and used as a means of getting people to see the artists perform. CD's and hard-media should still be sold and a profit should still be taken from it, but the content itself has no more value than the mp3 that I got off some random download site. That does mean the super-stars will have to tighten their belt (one less bentley in the garage, oh my), but it will truly free the artist and the public.
In other words, musicians are paid for their performance. If they want to get rich, use the profit from performance and cd sales to market their brand (their name or whatever). Kiss is a grand example of this. Kiss isn't music, it's a brand. I doubt they make a ton of money on cd sales anymore, but their is a whole generation of people who out of nostalgia go see their shows and buy their stuff.
Um...
No, this guy shouldn't be let off this easily.
His code connects to your gmail account, in the process he sends your gmail account info to another account which is hard-coded in the program.
What could he possibly be debugging? Seriously???
I think the RIAA and distributors have approached the problem all wrong, and let me run this by people for their thoughts.
All recorded music should be free of copyright and freely available and copyable. Recorded music is not unlike a GMC truck commercial. The objective is to draw people's interest into the product, which in the case of music is the performance, which is today definitely profitable. The actual song composition, words etc are clearly restricted, but the recording itself is an advertisement for the musician/composer. The sale of CDs should continue, but the content on those CDs should be free of any DRM or restrictions of use.
Simply put, a band is only as good as their performance. It is true there are musicians who stick to the studio only and potentially some forms of music that just don't play well to an audience (although, I would love to see some of Eno's early work live in a dark room etc), however if musicians were paid for their performance instead of their skill with a recording device, bands like Nightranger would never had made a penny (they sucked, btw in concert the times I saw them, YMMV).
I recently read an interesting speech my cousin sent to me yesterday by Paul McGuinness.
http://www.u2.com/news/index.php?mode=full&news_id=2196
It's this kind of thinking you are facing from the RIAA. We are the criminals and there is no compromise.
Very well put revscat!
It's an excellent 'on the go' laptop or for the office if you are meeting locked most of your day. It's small, light and probably next to silent. I'm impressed. Reminds me of my old n505ve!
1) They don't ban people who buy the gold, they ban the people who sell the gold.
2) I agree with this. The problem with the wow-world is that it is still very static. Mobs move on predestined paths and the mobs are always there. Would be far more interesting, for example, if npcs would have some randomness to their path, starting/ending location. Sure it eliminates people who use coordinates to find named mobs for quests, but in the end it makes the world more alive. Beyond that, there needs to be more mob vs mob interaction. They already have some notion of this with wolves attacking squirrels and the like, but there should be more. Make it feel like a real world kind of.
Seriously... Kids at that age love those games. World of Warcrack is a perfect example.