If you're running multiple OSes (linux, solaris, windows etc) you may WANT an independant player for your VM, in order to give you flexibility. Not to say MS can't make some progress pushing their way in, but it's not so easy for MS any more. The days of double space etc, are long gone.
I can't see the ambiguity. Believe me, I've been trying to think of one. It says you can't run them in a VM. Pretty clear. The only hope I can see is ambiguity in what a VM actually is, although I'm not sure I could actually get away with that in court either, especially when you are running it in "VM"ware.
Microsoft is pissing everyone off again. I'm running Vista Home Premium here on my Mac under vmware because I've got an app that I need to run once in a blue moon. I tried Crossover, but it doesn't work reliably for me. But like as if I'm going to spend $AUD 700 for Vista ultimate for a bunch of features I could care less about.
Even 20 years ago, we were using rdist on Solaris (or is it rsync?) to totally automate updating of clients, and then we were NFS mounting the home directories, so that they are on the server and backed up. So you get most of the benefits of local computing with local CPU etc, and the benefits of no client maintenance because it's all automated and the home directories are backed up. Why does Windows make it so hard?
Given the rumours coming out of Cupertino, I suspect Apple is making iTunes to be the "iTunes for books". Maybe they'll tell all when a widescreen ipod comes out.
Every iPod sold, even the little shuffle, has a tendency to lock users into iTunes. Thus buy a shuffle today, next year it may be a full size model iPod, rather than a zune.
Umm, simple web pages are low bandwidth yet provide a much richer interface than curses. And you'll actually be living in the 21st century by using it with programmers who like to program it and have experience with it. And you can upgrade it slowly over time if and when bandwidth inproves. What is the problem? But an ncurses solution one say will probably have to be abandoned wholesale one day.
Yeah, but if you have a gracenote style database it could check a hundred versions in a millisecond. Of course, your pressing may not be in the database yet, but this is hardly going to stop the hard core pirates.
I started hating MS because it took them something like 9 years between the 386 being released and releasing a decent consumer OS that used the 386 to make a proper safe OS. Or was it more than 9 years?
I continued hating MS because still in 2007 they have the most crappy command line in ever conceived based on command.com. Unix shell isn't perfect, but it is like a zillion times better than command.com, and was invented much earlier.
I still hate MS because everything they do is so darned proprietary, trying to keep you locked into their stuff, which might not be so bad if their stuff was state of the art.
I will continue to hate MS, because of their bad reputation for immoral business practices, and products that at best are a yawn, and at worst are a joke.
You can restore the single close button with a change to the prefs.js. Yeah, it should be an option available in the gui, but at least you can get what you want.
So you had a 1st generation ipod, and it died. So then you bought another 1st gen ipod, and it too died. Gee, ya think maybe it's time to upgrade to a 5th gen??
I don't really see the problem with all this. Microsoft and Novell can say and do anything they like about patents, but it doesn't make a patent problem arise where there was none, nor does a lack of agreement make one disappear if there was one. Novell got a few hundred million bucks out of MS, and it doesn't affect anybody else one whit. Why not let em have it?
"Will I be able to share my music collection with a friend?
No. You will not be able to sell, loan or give away any format-shift copy you make in a different format, but a friend can listen to your music with you."
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If you're running multiple OSes (linux, solaris, windows etc) you may WANT an independant player for your VM, in order to give you flexibility. Not to say MS can't make some progress pushing their way in, but it's not so easy for MS any more. The days of double space etc, are long gone.
I can't see the ambiguity. Believe me, I've been trying to think of one. It says you can't run them in a VM. Pretty clear. The only hope I can see is ambiguity in what a VM actually is, although I'm not sure I could actually get away with that in court either, especially when you are running it in "VM"ware.
What the hell are you talking about?
Microsoft is pissing everyone off again. I'm running Vista Home Premium here on my Mac under vmware because I've got an app that I need to run once in a blue moon. I tried Crossover, but it doesn't work reliably for me. But like as if I'm going to spend $AUD 700 for Vista ultimate for a bunch of features I could care less about.
Pretty hard to ban a tool that just dumps memory. It's as simple as it gets.
Even 20 years ago, we were using rdist on Solaris (or is it rsync?) to totally automate updating of clients, and then we were NFS mounting the home directories, so that they are on the server and backed up. So you get most of the benefits of local computing with local CPU etc, and the benefits of no client maintenance because it's all automated and the home directories are backed up. Why does Windows make it so hard?
Do they also charge more for a car if you intend to drive it on your farm, instead of the interstate?
See here, it works with other versions of Vista....
a c/index.php
http://www.macworld.com/2007/02/firstlooks/vistam
Whether it all falls over if you install it in boot camp AND parallels because of MS's phone home registration, we are yet to find out.
So are they going to start charging astronauts $25000 too?
x86-64 isn't just for AMD anymore you know!
Given the rumours coming out of Cupertino, I suspect Apple is making iTunes to be the "iTunes for books". Maybe they'll tell all when a widescreen ipod comes out.
Every iPod sold, even the little shuffle, has a tendency to lock users into iTunes. Thus buy a shuffle today, next year it may be a full size model iPod, rather than a zune.
You are wrong. I successfully recovered the space when I deleted windows, via bootcamp.
A PSP doesn't have a hard drive which makes it a fairly limited music box. But the Zune appears to be a lot less hacker friendly than the iPod.
Umm, simple web pages are low bandwidth yet provide a much richer interface than curses. And you'll actually be living in the 21st century by using it with programmers who like to program it and have experience with it. And you can upgrade it slowly over time if and when bandwidth inproves. What is the problem? But an ncurses solution one say will probably have to be abandoned wholesale one day.
Yeah, but if you have a gracenote style database it could check a hundred versions in a millisecond. Of course, your pressing may not be in the database yet, but this is hardly going to stop the hard core pirates.
I started hating MS because it took them something like 9 years between the 386 being released and releasing a decent consumer OS that used the 386 to make a proper safe OS. Or was it more than 9 years?
I continued hating MS because still in 2007 they have the most crappy command line in ever conceived based on command.com. Unix shell isn't perfect, but it is like a zillion times better than command.com, and was invented much earlier.
I still hate MS because everything they do is so darned proprietary, trying to keep you locked into their stuff, which might not be so bad if their stuff was state of the art.
I will continue to hate MS, because of their bad reputation for immoral business practices, and products that at best are a yawn, and at worst are a joke.
You can restore the single close button with a change to the prefs.js. Yeah, it should be an option available in the gui, but at least you can get what you want.
So you had a 1st generation ipod, and it died. So then you bought another 1st gen ipod, and it too died. Gee, ya think maybe it's time to upgrade to a 5th gen??
I don't really see the problem with all this. Microsoft and Novell can say and do anything they like about patents, but it doesn't make a patent problem arise where there was none, nor does a lack of agreement make one disappear if there was one. Novell got a few hundred million bucks out of MS, and it doesn't affect anybody else one whit. Why not let em have it?
http://www.ag.gov.au/agd/WWW/MinisterRuddockHome.n sf/Page/Media_Releases_2006_Second_Quarter_14_May_ 2006_-_Major_Copyright_Reforms_Strike_Balace_-_088 2006
"Will I be able to share my music collection with a friend?
No. You will not be able to sell, loan or give away any format-shift copy you make in a different format, but a friend can listen to your music with you."
That means the Zune 3 day sharing is illegal!
To be outsold by iPod is to be expected. To be outsold by Sandisk is a spanking.
You come back to earth in a bucket of effluent and shit?
Summary: "This licence can't be used to create unlicenced copies".
DUH. That doesn't rule out much. You can't do that on the GPL either.
Looks like Altec Lansing's dock is locked into the current model Zune. But ipod docks can cater for various age/mode ipods.