Let's hope that it all takes place post NJO novels involving the Yuuzhan Vong. That way they can use the original actors and actresses to reprise their roles from the original films.
Easy does it there, Evil. Try not to get your panties in a bunch.
Not quite a stereotype, but call it what you will. I'd classify it more along the lines of a prejudice, but that's me. A stereotype would be if I were to say: "All Russians are ___". That's a stereotype. As far as per-capita and organized crime, Russia, since the fall, has it over the rest of the world, if the news is correct. But, I'm sure you'll say that's BS too.
How many users from each country combined with the unique number of users are using that service would be a more enlightening statistic than what you provided and it still wouldn't constitute "press". What you know about also doesn't demonstrate popularity either, thanks though for your opinion. In comparison, let's not forget that Apple has done over 100 million songs in sales in less than a year while this service you're talking about has 1.5 million hits, as you've pointed out. I'd say popularity-wise Apple is way ahead of Allofmp3.com.
Thanks for the Russian equivalent of the RIAA. And thank you for verifying that they could care less about US licensing. That doesn't change whose government you answer to, you still answer to your own government if you break the laws regarding the tracks.
I asked two questions, not a dozen. Thanks though. As for lazy comment, that would be your opinion again, for what it's worth.
As for legality in the US, maybe it would have helped if you read the information on the site. Follow their Legal Info link. "Users are responsible for any usage and distribution of all materials received from AllOFMP3.com. This responsibility depends on the local legislation of each user's country of residence. AllOFMP3.com's Administration does not keep up with the laws of different countries and is not responsible the actions of non-Russian users."
This doesn't say what you claim it does. Sorry. It still falls under RIAA licensing laws if you live in the US. So, don't kid yourself. If you are in the US, then you have to answer to the RIAA if you distribute the music you license from Allofmp3.com illegally, by the US laws.
Whatever you say. Only problem is that Russia is still a hotbed of illegal activity. I also don't know what you mean by "a LOT of press", until I saw this story, I'd never heard of them. What's the Russian equivalent of the RIAA? Why would they care about American licensing anyhow?
Oh, yeah. I'm sure you can trust that this company in, what is that Russia, has paid their licensing fees and everything is legal and on the up and up.
ROTFLMFAO
This whole thing is about DRM ubiquity. Real is scared to death of the Windows DRM so they go after Apple. Makes sense in a twisted sort of a way.
Real and Virgin are going after Apple for "not licensing Fairplay to them". The more likely scenario is that Apple wouldn't license Fairplay to them unless they used it exclusively and both Real and Virgin have their own DRM schemes and that wouldn't help them to get their DRMs into the market. Apple licensed Fairplay to Motorola. I'm sure that it is an exclusive contract that means that more users will be using Fairplay.
Real wants people to use their DRM and so does Virgin. So, they both complain that Apple refused to license Fairplay to them, when the more likely scenario is that Apple refused to license Fairplay to them without them agreeing to the contract, like Motorola did.
So, Real releases Harmony, which will allow their DRM'd files to be played on the number one media player, the iPod, by faking out the Fairplay DRM software to think that the Real DRM is the same as the Fairplay DRM. Whether this is legal or not stands to be proven. Then Real undercuts the standard prices by half and sets about creating FUD about how Apple is evil and won't let them play together and starts a "freedom of music" site designed to attack Apple only. Seems far fetched.
Virgin meanwhile attacks from their end, in France, and says that they've been shut out by Apple, the obvious monopoly (hardly) that they are.
This is a DRM war. The one that has more media that supports their DRM out in the market is going to win in the long run.
A couple of points that the Real site is misleading about: 1. The price to burn a track to CD is $0.79 not $0.49. 2. The price per album is 1/2 of what it cost before, as low as $4.99, so not all albums are $4.99.
Seems that they are trying to open the iPod to their proprietary DRM format, which isn't really open at all either.
Also bear in mind that Apple is guaranteed to release an update to the iPod software that will disable the Harmony software from helpiong to keep the DRM working on the iPod too.
iTunes also has over 1 million songs in their library while Real has almost 7 hundred thousand.
Who will win? Only time will tell. Seems to me that Real is playing dirty to try and make a minor inroad that won't pay off in the long run. How long can they support losing money in order to try to bring people over?
Forget IE. Go to ANY other browser, see what the great and powerful MS does then. Maybe they'll take some time away from fixing critical flaws and bugs to address IE issues.
That print bug exists in any explorer based program. When you use the help or the MSDN library or IE you get the same pitiful effect. It's been there for a long time and they never addressed it.
Did they get turned away or did they not agree to the licensing offered by Apple in the first place? Motorola has a long-standing relationship with Apple and most likely agreed to an exclusive DRM license deal that Apple agreed with and allowed them to distribute.
The long term goals of the iTMS and iPod appear to be getting the Fairplay DRM distributed to the masses without interference from some other competing DRM.
Time travel is Berman's lame answer to everything. Let's not forget how Voyager ended. No temproal issues created there... |:-P Rick Berman is terrible.
Does Microsoft tell you about somebody else's software? How about Sun pitching Photoshop? Maybe Red Hat tries to sell you Windows? What the heck are you talking about?
The thing you don't appear to get is that Apple is a whole company that develops the hardware and the software. Not one or the other. So, why would they sell somebody else's product?
It certainly wasn't to improve the product for the Mac market. It seems that they've run into more snags that make it unprofitable to continue the backwards compatibilty options for the XBox2. This might have something to do with why they've delayed the Office package for Macintosh that includes the new VPC for an undisclosed amount of time too.
So, at least they'll get their answer to anti-virus protection workaround in place soon. That should start a whole new slew of lawsuits from the security companies going this year. I have the feeling that Symantec and McAfee will go after MS after they release this Springboard thing. At the very least we'll see Zone Labs going after them, I would expect, seeing as how Springboard is a virtual duplication of their software.
What's the point? Following the current numbers, if Apple has only 3-4% of the market share, what is the point of this? Or is it just them being scared? Does Apple really pose that big of a threat to MS anymore? Sounds like Gates and company are getting scared of the small players in the market now.
Tom Lehrer mentioned a friend in one of his tracks that was named Henry, spelled Hen3ry. He said that the 3 was silent. He made this legendary statement back in 1958, slightly ahead of his time...
Those two devices that you mention are also virtually the same device. Not quite as easy to switch from Mac to Windows as it is to switch from Windows to Mac...
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Look again, there's both 17 and 20 inch models available.
Let's hope that it all takes place post NJO novels involving the Yuuzhan Vong. That way they can use the original actors and actresses to reprise their roles from the original films.
Easy does it there, Evil. Try not to get your panties in a bunch.
Not quite a stereotype, but call it what you will. I'd classify it more along the lines of a prejudice, but that's me. A stereotype would be if I were to say: "All Russians are ___". That's a stereotype. As far as per-capita and organized crime, Russia, since the fall, has it over the rest of the world, if the news is correct. But, I'm sure you'll say that's BS too.
How many users from each country combined with the unique number of users are using that service would be a more enlightening statistic than what you provided and it still wouldn't constitute "press". What you know about also doesn't demonstrate popularity either, thanks though for your opinion. In comparison, let's not forget that Apple has done over 100 million songs in sales in less than a year while this service you're talking about has 1.5 million hits, as you've pointed out. I'd say popularity-wise Apple is way ahead of Allofmp3.com.
Thanks for the Russian equivalent of the RIAA. And thank you for verifying that they could care less about US licensing. That doesn't change whose government you answer to, you still answer to your own government if you break the laws regarding the tracks.
I asked two questions, not a dozen. Thanks though. As for lazy comment, that would be your opinion again, for what it's worth.
As for legality in the US, maybe it would have helped if you read the information on the site. Follow their Legal Info link.
"Users are responsible for any usage and distribution of all materials received from AllOFMP3.com. This responsibility depends on the local legislation of each user's country of residence. AllOFMP3.com's Administration does not keep up with the laws of different countries and is not responsible the actions of non-Russian users."
This doesn't say what you claim it does. Sorry. It still falls under RIAA licensing laws if you live in the US. So, don't kid yourself. If you are in the US, then you have to answer to the RIAA if you distribute the music you license from Allofmp3.com illegally, by the US laws.
Whatever you say. Only problem is that Russia is still a hotbed of illegal activity. I also don't know what you mean by "a LOT of press", until I saw this story, I'd never heard of them. What's the Russian equivalent of the RIAA? Why would they care about American licensing anyhow?
Oh, yeah. I'm sure you can trust that this company in, what is that Russia, has paid their licensing fees and everything is legal and on the up and up. ROTFLMFAO
Let's also not forget that Apple has licensed the Fairplay DRM to HP also with the HP branded iPod.
This whole thing is about DRM ubiquity. Real is scared to death of the Windows DRM so they go after Apple. Makes sense in a twisted sort of a way.
Real and Virgin are going after Apple for "not licensing Fairplay to them". The more likely scenario is that Apple wouldn't license Fairplay to them unless they used it exclusively and both Real and Virgin have their own DRM schemes and that wouldn't help them to get their DRMs into the market. Apple licensed Fairplay to Motorola. I'm sure that it is an exclusive contract that means that more users will be using Fairplay.
Real wants people to use their DRM and so does Virgin. So, they both complain that Apple refused to license Fairplay to them, when the more likely scenario is that Apple refused to license Fairplay to them without them agreeing to the contract, like Motorola did.
So, Real releases Harmony, which will allow their DRM'd files to be played on the number one media player, the iPod, by faking out the Fairplay DRM software to think that the Real DRM is the same as the Fairplay DRM. Whether this is legal or not stands to be proven. Then Real undercuts the standard prices by half and sets about creating FUD about how Apple is evil and won't let them play together and starts a "freedom of music" site designed to attack Apple only. Seems far fetched.
Virgin meanwhile attacks from their end, in France, and says that they've been shut out by Apple, the obvious monopoly (hardly) that they are.
This is a DRM war. The one that has more media that supports their DRM out in the market is going to win in the long run.
A couple of points that the Real site is misleading about:
1. The price to burn a track to CD is $0.79 not $0.49.
2. The price per album is 1/2 of what it cost before, as low as $4.99, so not all albums are $4.99.
Seems that they are trying to open the iPod to their proprietary DRM format, which isn't really open at all either.
Also bear in mind that Apple is guaranteed to release an update to the iPod software that will disable the Harmony software from helpiong to keep the DRM working on the iPod too.
iTunes also has over 1 million songs in their library while Real has almost 7 hundred thousand.
Who will win? Only time will tell. Seems to me that Real is playing dirty to try and make a minor inroad that won't pay off in the long run. How long can they support losing money in order to try to bring people over?
Forget IE. Go to ANY other browser, see what the great and powerful MS does then. Maybe they'll take some time away from fixing critical flaws and bugs to address IE issues.
That print bug exists in any explorer based program. When you use the help or the MSDN library or IE you get the same pitiful effect. It's been there for a long time and they never addressed it.
Did they get turned away or did they not agree to the licensing offered by Apple in the first place? Motorola has a long-standing relationship with Apple and most likely agreed to an exclusive DRM license deal that Apple agreed with and allowed them to distribute. The long term goals of the iTMS and iPod appear to be getting the Fairplay DRM distributed to the masses without interference from some other competing DRM.
You ignorant fucknut!!!
Time travel is Berman's lame answer to everything. Let's not forget how Voyager ended. No temproal issues created there... |:-P Rick Berman is terrible.
Because, with Berman at the helm, they're just going to flash back through time and say that Enterprise didn't happen.
No human was supposed to have seen a Klingon in STTNG form before the "Trouble with Tribbles" either. They re-established this in DS9.
Rick Berman is wrecking the whole ST universe.
Does Microsoft tell you about somebody else's software? How about Sun pitching Photoshop? Maybe Red Hat tries to sell you Windows? What the heck are you talking about?
The thing you don't appear to get is that Apple is a whole company that develops the hardware and the software. Not one or the other. So, why would they sell somebody else's product?
Come up with an original way to criticize you lazy hack. Price drives the world. :P
Shame on Slashdot for posting this re-hashed useless BS as if it were news.
Not if I stole your computer... :P
Halo suxors
It certainly wasn't to improve the product for the Mac market. It seems that they've run into more snags that make it unprofitable to continue the backwards compatibilty options for the XBox2. This might have something to do with why they've delayed the Office package for Macintosh that includes the new VPC for an undisclosed amount of time too.
This is why they bought VirtualPC.
Then there will be many more issues due to cones that start moving around the road, seemingly independantly of the road crews control.
:D
We'll see cones lined up across all lanes of traffic and cones that just randomly start moving.
That won't cause too many problems, now will it...
Careful, with talk like that they might sue you...
So, at least they'll get their answer to anti-virus protection workaround in place soon. That should start a whole new slew of lawsuits from the security companies going this year. I have the feeling that Symantec and McAfee will go after MS after they release this Springboard thing. At the very least we'll see Zone Labs going after them, I would expect, seeing as how Springboard is a virtual duplication of their software.
More AntiTrust suits around the corner.
What's the point? Following the current numbers, if Apple has only 3-4% of the market share, what is the point of this? Or is it just them being scared? Does Apple really pose that big of a threat to MS anymore? Sounds like Gates and company are getting scared of the small players in the market now.
Tom Lehrer mentioned a friend in one of his tracks that was named Henry, spelled Hen3ry. He said that the 3 was silent. He made this legendary statement back in 1958, slightly ahead of his time...
Those two devices that you mention are also virtually the same device. Not quite as easy to switch from Mac to Windows as it is to switch from Windows to Mac...