Your first comment about purchasing a license is incorrect. When you buy a CD, you are flat-out purchasing the physical media and the information encoded on it. You own it, but copyright laws says you cannot distribute copies. Never get lead into an argument about "licenses," because there are none at the consumer's level, period.
I agree with you. iTunes is just another part of the mish-mash of choices and capabilities/restrictions to deal with. I guess the meaning in-between what I said is that even though WMA may be used in common by many stores, it might as well be several different formats due to the restriction issues.
For maximum portability, a plain CD is still the way to go, or a regular MP3 player.
The fact that there is no consistent DRM schema among different WMA-based music stores means you'll have a mish-mash of songs, some of which you can use on various devices, and some that you cannot. From what I've read of some stores, the DRM restrictions on various songs vary *within* the store itself...there is no consistency.
Instead of putting together a good mix for your car CD player or your WMA-enabled device, you'll spend time juggling the restrictions on the files you paid for. With iTMS, I know exactly what I'm getting because it's coming from one source. And it works on my PC and my Mac (we have 2 of each at home).
"If HP/Apple can get iPods to chat with HP Windows boxen..."
I'm sure someone out there with an HP system running Windows has an iPod running iTunes for Windows. So there is no "if," because it's already happening. All the iPod is is a portable firewire drive...so as long as your distro supports firewire, you can use it.
The *real* question how soon will it take for some enterprising individual to be able to play the songs they bought on iTunes Music Store under Linux?
...then you're back to standard copyright law, which means you *cannot* distribute any derived works. IMO, this is why the GPL is much stronger than a EULA. It doesn't try to restrict usage at all; and it grants you certain distribution rights if you're willing to play ball.
Every legitimate pop-up I've run into (ie zoom-ins for catalogs, image galleries, word definition pop-ups) has worked without error on both Moz & Opera with their normal pop-up blocking turned on.
I think you've just supported my point...Bionicle is a spoon-fed world, whereas with traditional Lego, it would be up to the child to use his or her imagination to come up with a world of their own.
Lego gave me a way to approach my job...little pieces that I can move around and make into different things. I write various financial reports all day and I treat all the paragraphs and general concepts as different kinds of bricks that I can use to build whatever I need. So, in my head, a certain kind of text has a unique "feel," which is akin to rumaging through a box of Lego for the right piece.
I hope this means the end of Lego's "Bionicle" line of toy robots. I've been a major Lego fan since I was little and, to me, the Bionicle line was the epitome of Lego dumbing down their toys and sucking every bit of fun out of them. A lot more fun and imagination happens in your head when you're given a cleaner canvas.
"Your colour vision would go all out of whack as you move from room to room"
I have this problem at home with the bathroom and hallway, both of which are lit with GE's "Pure White Light" bulbs. They're not actually white, more of a freakishly bright blue-ish, purple-ish color that hurts my eyes but I'm not the one that makes the household decor decisions. When I go to any other room, the normal incandecsent lighting makes the rooms look all yellow.
I have a Standalone Series 2 that uses a USB ethernet adapter instead of the phone line. However, your post conflicts with the reply above it, which says I do need to install vserver...who is right?
Where do you have a one-year lock-in for broadband service? Are you out of the US perhaps? Putting that issue aside, it is quite doable to wire up one's apartment for a LAN.
My cable modem is in the central hallway broom closet where the cable comes in. From there, my Linksys NAT box spits out a line to the home office/dining room where another 100Mbit switch handles our little fileserver, my desk (I plug in my Dell laptop when I get home), and my fiance's G3 Mac & Dell workstation. The Linksys box also sends out a line to the living room where I keep the wireless router for my iBook and TiVo is plugged into the swtich that's built into the wireless router.
All this takes is running two long CAT5 cables along the walls. We can nail retention clips into the baseboard without permission, but if you can't, just get creative with adhesives and couch legs to keep your wires snug.
I didn't see much detail on the site, but can this let me stream recorded programs on my TiVo through my LAN to my laptop, *without any modification to my TiVo?*
Hehe, I heard Howard Stern play the original song many years ago. For those who don't know, the original song said "Whitey is on the moon" and was sung by a Louis Farakhan-type individual.
You should have been using a checking account all along. Savings accounts are restricted like that to *encourage* savings. A savings account is typically a low-activity account, where money builds up more often than it comes out. Dump your direct deposit into checking, and do an auto transfer of funds into savings on payday if you want to save money.
To put things into perspective, retirement accounts are even more restricted to encourage even longer-term saving.
I believe you are confusing TaxCut and TurboTax. TurboTax is published by Intuit. Btw, Quicken comes with all Macs and TurboTax runs on OS X, so at least one *nix system is covered:)
When it's all said and done, a "racial" minority is another word for an "ethnic" minority. Thus, the color of your skin doesn't necessarily matter, just your lineage.
Just before his third year of university, my brother discovered an obscure scholarship for people of at least partial Hungarian decent that no one had taken advantage of, nor had it been promoted. He applied for the scholarship and got his last two years of schooling paid in full, except books!
The lesson to be learned is that although it would be "cool" to get a scholarship based upon your academic preference, you need to play every angle out there.
It's important to note that while MCD was guilty of serving a product unfit for consumption, the woman's settlement was lowered because she was a dumbass for trying to drink it in her car. In other words, if she had spilled a normal cup of coffee or a cold soda, she would have received nothing.
They gave me Liquid Audio Jukebox when I got my laptop from them. It was an ad-laden piece of shit, so I deleted it immediately. IMO, WMP9 is a better product than Realplayer or Liquid Audio, with very straightforward privacy settings. However, haven't OEMs been putting Realplayer on computers even before the MS antitrust trial?
I've been reading on some other forums that the new Panther update is increasing the battery life of iBooks and Powerbooks by about an hour. That, right there, is Apple's ability to control its hardware and software together.
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The woman in the ad appears to have a double chin, too.
1945? Hey, on the upside, at least it's almost over then!
Your first comment about purchasing a license is incorrect. When you buy a CD, you are flat-out purchasing the physical media and the information encoded on it. You own it, but copyright laws says you cannot distribute copies. Never get lead into an argument about "licenses," because there are none at the consumer's level, period.
I agree with you. iTunes is just another part of the mish-mash of choices and capabilities/restrictions to deal with. I guess the meaning in-between what I said is that even though WMA may be used in common by many stores, it might as well be several different formats due to the restriction issues.
For maximum portability, a plain CD is still the way to go, or a regular MP3 player.
The fact that there is no consistent DRM schema among different WMA-based music stores means you'll have a mish-mash of songs, some of which you can use on various devices, and some that you cannot. From what I've read of some stores, the DRM restrictions on various songs vary *within* the store itself...there is no consistency.
Instead of putting together a good mix for your car CD player or your WMA-enabled device, you'll spend time juggling the restrictions on the files you paid for. With iTMS, I know exactly what I'm getting because it's coming from one source. And it works on my PC and my Mac (we have 2 of each at home).
"If HP/Apple can get iPods to chat with HP Windows boxen..."
I'm sure someone out there with an HP system running Windows has an iPod running iTunes for Windows. So there is no "if," because it's already happening. All the iPod is is a portable firewire drive...so as long as your distro supports firewire, you can use it.
The *real* question how soon will it take for some enterprising individual to be able to play the songs they bought on iTunes Music Store under Linux?
...then you're back to standard copyright law, which means you *cannot* distribute any derived works. IMO, this is why the GPL is much stronger than a EULA. It doesn't try to restrict usage at all; and it grants you certain distribution rights if you're willing to play ball.
Every legitimate pop-up I've run into (ie zoom-ins for catalogs, image galleries, word definition pop-ups) has worked without error on both Moz & Opera with their normal pop-up blocking turned on.
I think you've just supported my point...Bionicle is a spoon-fed world, whereas with traditional Lego, it would be up to the child to use his or her imagination to come up with a world of their own.
Lego gave me a way to approach my job...little pieces that I can move around and make into different things. I write various financial reports all day and I treat all the paragraphs and general concepts as different kinds of bricks that I can use to build whatever I need. So, in my head, a certain kind of text has a unique "feel," which is akin to rumaging through a box of Lego for the right piece.
I hope this means the end of Lego's "Bionicle" line of toy robots. I've been a major Lego fan since I was little and, to me, the Bionicle line was the epitome of Lego dumbing down their toys and sucking every bit of fun out of them. A lot more fun and imagination happens in your head when you're given a cleaner canvas.
"...as the smallest independent state in the world,..."
Isn't the smallest nation is The Principality of Sealand, which has received coverage on /. quite a few times for the hosting company that runs on it?
A Libertarian wouldn't have even asked the question in which he lied in his answer.
"Your colour vision would go all out of whack as you move from room to room"
I have this problem at home with the bathroom and hallway, both of which are lit with GE's "Pure White Light" bulbs. They're not actually white, more of a freakishly bright blue-ish, purple-ish color that hurts my eyes but I'm not the one that makes the household decor decisions. When I go to any other room, the normal incandecsent lighting makes the rooms look all yellow.
I have a Standalone Series 2 that uses a USB ethernet adapter instead of the phone line. However, your post conflicts with the reply above it, which says I do need to install vserver...who is right?
Where do you have a one-year lock-in for broadband service? Are you out of the US perhaps? Putting that issue aside, it is quite doable to wire up one's apartment for a LAN.
My cable modem is in the central hallway broom closet where the cable comes in. From there, my Linksys NAT box spits out a line to the home office/dining room where another 100Mbit switch handles our little fileserver, my desk (I plug in my Dell laptop when I get home), and my fiance's G3 Mac & Dell workstation. The Linksys box also sends out a line to the living room where I keep the wireless router for my iBook and TiVo is plugged into the swtich that's built into the wireless router.
All this takes is running two long CAT5 cables along the walls. We can nail retention clips into the baseboard without permission, but if you can't, just get creative with adhesives and couch legs to keep your wires snug.
The point is that without a paper trail, you cannot even begin to safely assume one way or another.
I didn't see much detail on the site, but can this let me stream recorded programs on my TiVo through my LAN to my laptop, *without any modification to my TiVo?*
Hehe, I heard Howard Stern play the original song many years ago. For those who don't know, the original song said "Whitey is on the moon" and was sung by a Louis Farakhan-type individual.
You should have been using a checking account all along. Savings accounts are restricted like that to *encourage* savings. A savings account is typically a low-activity account, where money builds up more often than it comes out. Dump your direct deposit into checking, and do an auto transfer of funds into savings on payday if you want to save money.
To put things into perspective, retirement accounts are even more restricted to encourage even longer-term saving.
I believe you are confusing TaxCut and TurboTax. TurboTax is published by Intuit. Btw, Quicken comes with all Macs and TurboTax runs on OS X, so at least one *nix system is covered :)
When it's all said and done, a "racial" minority is another word for an "ethnic" minority. Thus, the color of your skin doesn't necessarily matter, just your lineage.
Just before his third year of university, my brother discovered an obscure scholarship for people of at least partial Hungarian decent that no one had taken advantage of, nor had it been promoted. He applied for the scholarship and got his last two years of schooling paid in full, except books!
The lesson to be learned is that although it would be "cool" to get a scholarship based upon your academic preference, you need to play every angle out there.
It's important to note that while MCD was guilty of serving a product unfit for consumption, the woman's settlement was lowered because she was a dumbass for trying to drink it in her car. In other words, if she had spilled a normal cup of coffee or a cold soda, she would have received nothing.
They gave me Liquid Audio Jukebox when I got my laptop from them. It was an ad-laden piece of shit, so I deleted it immediately. IMO, WMP9 is a better product than Realplayer or Liquid Audio, with very straightforward privacy settings. However, haven't OEMs been putting Realplayer on computers even before the MS antitrust trial?
I've been reading on some other forums that the new Panther update is increasing the battery life of iBooks and Powerbooks by about an hour. That, right there, is Apple's ability to control its hardware and software together.