My point is that the Zune will add DRM to songs to received songs that one could legally possess if the sender has the copyright and allows it to be kept permanently, so it is improperly adding some DRM in circumstances where it shouldn't. Your original seemed to suggest otherwise, so I thought I'd point it out since even though there's a good chance you already know, others might not.
I wonder if someone could reasonably sue MS for 'usurping' someone's copyright due to this. I'm reasonably knowledgeable about copyright, but not that knowledgeable.
If you receive songs from other people wirelessly it will add DRM to the songs you receive because you may not legally own them.
Um, not necessarily. If I were to put my own music (as in, my own compositions that I recorded) for which I own the copyright on a Zune, then it is legally up to me whether the copy of that song sent to a different Zune can be kept indefinitely. However, a Zune will automatically put the 3/3 limit on it. There's not a choice. Frankly, that sucks.
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bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes...
They got those hoppy legs and twitchy little noses...
Clarification: It's not whether it's known to the manufacturer, it's whether it's known to the customer. If the customer expects and accepts failure within a couple of months, then it is not a quality issue if the product does just that.
The problem comes in when the manufacturer designs for months, but the customer expects years.
Bit of clarification. The Powerbook didn't die after 4 years. It's still going strong, and I rather expect it to indefinitely (except for maybe the HD).
And please, don't compare boots to electronics. It doesn't make the slightest bit of sense.
I wouldn't judge that a quality issue, but rather a marketing issue.
If something fails in an unexpected manner, that's a quality issue. For instance, one expects a multi-hundred dollar TV to not die after 2 years. When there is a known, guaranteed bit of obsolescence (sp?), such as a rechargeable battery, the only quality issue is not if it fails at all (since it will), but if it fails before it is expected to.
You might not be able to just throw gadgets around with impunity, but be a little careful with them and they'll last for at least a few years.
Examples: - Powerbook: 4+ years - Palm: 3 years, no problems - Cell phone: 2+ so far - iPod: almost 4 years. Battery is shot, but that's a physics issue, not a quality issue.
Um, both Fry's and Best Buy where I live have boxes and boxes of additional, no-game-included controllers. More of those than the actual game+controller boxes.
Free-market economics. There's a strong demand for entertainment (watching good athletes is enjoyable), but not much supply in the way of top-level athletics. If any schmuck could play Major League ball, salaries wouldn't be high (think janitors here). Since very few people are skilled enough, their pay is higher.
If you feel that their salaries have some intrinsic value, then you'll agree that all professions should be ranked according to 'worth' and payed accordingly, right?
Why do I get the feeling that Creative doesn't give a damn about the patents, but is doing this only for the chance that Apple will be prohibited from selling iPods for some time?
This is true if the flaw is an absolutely MASSIVE gouge in the wafer or something. The vast, vast majority of wafer flaws are very small; much smaller than an individual chip. Therefore, smaller chips == higher yield.
Take an example (numbers aren't necessarily realistic, but for educational purposes only): Average of 1 flaw per wafer. If you have 2 chips/wafer, then your average yield is approximately 50%. If you have 8 chips/wafer, then your average yield is approximately 87.5%. Math becomes stranger for >1 flaws/wafer (probably can't assume a uniform distribution of flaws), and different numbers of chips/wafer (non-useful sections of wafer), but the basic principle holds.
Grandparent is a bit off on the v600. Bluetooth itself needs to be on to use headsets and so forth, but discovery is turned off by default (and can only be turned on for 60 seconds at a time, after which it turns back off).
This means that under usual operating conditions, only devices that have previously paired with the phone can talk to it.
as similar investigations in the United States and Europe found it 'lawful and appropriate'
Surely he realizes that that doesn't matter, since United States and European laws and rulings do not apply in countries other than the U.S. and the European Union, respectively.
Motorola v600. MP3's as ringtones, assignment on a per-phonebook-entry basis, if you want (also just as a global ringtone). Also camera and Bluetooth (easy way to get those MP3's to the phone).
The actual issue is that some of the 802.11 protocol has to be done at speeds that all possible connecting units can understand. What this amounts to is that 'handshaking' is done at B speeds to allow B units to communicate, while the actual data transfer for G units is done at G speeds.
This causes some slowdown for G units. If an access point has proper settings, you should be able to make it do G only, thereby speeding up all G units at the expense of disallowing B units from connecting at all.
At least, the 802.11 protocol allows this, don't know if APs do or not.
You're ignoring the statistics of sampling. With a properly chosen sample group of 1000, you can predict with a certain confidence how correct the results are. For 1000 properly chosen people, most of these kind of studies have an uncertainty around 5%.
Which means that you might be able to interpret this as being (77 +/- 5)%, which is meaningful.
I know. That is why I said that 64-bit apps will probably perform better. I was commenting on the fact that the author of the article seems to be under the common assumption that a 64-bit processor will automatically perform worse on 32-bit apps than a 32-bit-only processor (despite the fact that Opteron does run 32-bit apps natively, rather than emulated like Itanium). For an example of this (not Opteron-related, but thematically the same), check out some Mac boards from before the release of the G5, where some posters insisted that every app would have to be recompiled for 64-bits or else they'd perform badly.
The Opteron may have compatibility for 32-bit programs, but it won't be as effective as its native 64-bit mode.
I'm sick of people making the mistake that a '64-bit' processor will automatically perform poorly at apps compiled for 32-bits. In the case of the Opteron, a 64-bit app will probably run better due to more general purpose registers (32 vs. 8), but by his tone, the author of the article seems to think that 32-bit app performance will be unimpressive (like Itanium).
This just ain't the case with Opteron or Athlon64.
Generally speaking, this is true. However, AMD has added more registers that can only be accessed when running in x86-64 mode. I think the register count goes from 8 to 32.
This could make a big performance difference if an application is compiled with these additional registers in mind.
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My point is that the Zune will add DRM to songs to received songs that one could legally possess if the sender has the copyright and allows it to be kept permanently, so it is improperly adding some DRM in circumstances where it shouldn't. Your original seemed to suggest otherwise, so I thought I'd point it out since even though there's a good chance you already know, others might not.
I wonder if someone could reasonably sue MS for 'usurping' someone's copyright due to this. I'm reasonably knowledgeable about copyright, but not that knowledgeable.
Um, not necessarily. If I were to put my own music (as in, my own compositions that I recorded) for which I own the copyright on a Zune, then it is legally up to me whether the copy of that song sent to a different Zune can be kept indefinitely. However, a Zune will automatically put the 3/3 limit on it. There's not a choice. Frankly, that sucks.
bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes...
They got those hoppy legs and twitchy little noses...
Clarification: It's not whether it's known to the manufacturer, it's whether it's known to the customer. If the customer expects and accepts failure within a couple of months, then it is not a quality issue if the product does just that.
The problem comes in when the manufacturer designs for months, but the customer expects years.
Bit of clarification. The Powerbook didn't die after 4 years. It's still going strong, and I rather expect it to indefinitely (except for maybe the HD).
And please, don't compare boots to electronics. It doesn't make the slightest bit of sense.
I wouldn't judge that a quality issue, but rather a marketing issue.
If something fails in an unexpected manner, that's a quality issue. For instance, one expects a multi-hundred dollar TV to not die after 2 years. When there is a known, guaranteed bit of obsolescence (sp?), such as a rechargeable battery, the only quality issue is not if it fails at all (since it will), but if it fails before it is expected to.
You might not be able to just throw gadgets around with impunity, but be a little careful with them and they'll last for at least a few years.
Examples:
- Powerbook: 4+ years
- Palm: 3 years, no problems
- Cell phone: 2+ so far
- iPod: almost 4 years. Battery is shot, but that's a physics issue, not a quality issue.
Almost all current astronauts are engineers and/or scientists, with PhD's and such.
Um, both Fry's and Best Buy where I live have boxes and boxes of additional, no-game-included controllers. More of those than the actual game+controller boxes.
Free-market economics. There's a strong demand for entertainment (watching good athletes is enjoyable), but not much supply in the way of top-level athletics. If any schmuck could play Major League ball, salaries wouldn't be high (think janitors here). Since very few people are skilled enough, their pay is higher.
If you feel that their salaries have some intrinsic value, then you'll agree that all professions should be ranked according to 'worth' and payed accordingly, right?
Why do I get the feeling that Creative doesn't give a damn about the patents, but is doing this only for the chance that Apple will be prohibited from selling iPods for some time?
Sounds like some dirty tactics to me.
The bold was intended to denote sarcasm, which the 'funny' mods will attest to.
Frankly, I'm surprised it got modded so highly...
What games could possibly resist that?
The ones who are too mature, and need violence/sex all the time, that's who...
This is true if the flaw is an absolutely MASSIVE gouge in the wafer or something. The vast, vast majority of wafer flaws are very small; much smaller than an individual chip. Therefore, smaller chips == higher yield. Take an example (numbers aren't necessarily realistic, but for educational purposes only): Average of 1 flaw per wafer. If you have 2 chips/wafer, then your average yield is approximately 50%. If you have 8 chips/wafer, then your average yield is approximately 87.5%. Math becomes stranger for >1 flaws/wafer (probably can't assume a uniform distribution of flaws), and different numbers of chips/wafer (non-useful sections of wafer), but the basic principle holds.
This would effectively remove any reason to buy a Mac. Won't happen unless Apple feels they can survive solely as a consumer-electronics company.
Only if you were silly enough to not back them up to separate media.
Grandparent is a bit off on the v600. Bluetooth itself needs to be on to use headsets and so forth, but discovery is turned off by default (and can only be turned on for 60 seconds at a time, after which it turns back off).
This means that under usual operating conditions, only devices that have previously paired with the phone can talk to it.
Starship Troopers...
as similar investigations in the United States and Europe found it 'lawful and appropriate'
Surely he realizes that that doesn't matter, since United States and European laws and rulings do not apply in countries other than the U.S. and the European Union, respectively.
Motorola v600. MP3's as ringtones, assignment on a per-phonebook-entry basis, if you want (also just as a global ringtone). Also camera and Bluetooth (easy way to get those MP3's to the phone).
I like mine.
The actual issue is that some of the 802.11 protocol has to be done at speeds that all possible connecting units can understand. What this amounts to is that 'handshaking' is done at B speeds to allow B units to communicate, while the actual data transfer for G units is done at G speeds.
This causes some slowdown for G units. If an access point has proper settings, you should be able to make it do G only, thereby speeding up all G units at the expense of disallowing B units from connecting at all.
At least, the 802.11 protocol allows this, don't know if APs do or not.
You're ignoring the statistics of sampling. With a properly chosen sample group of 1000, you can predict with a certain confidence how correct the results are. For 1000 properly chosen people, most of these kind of studies have an uncertainty around 5%.
Which means that you might be able to interpret this as being (77 +/- 5)%, which is meaningful.
I know. That is why I said that 64-bit apps will probably perform better. I was commenting on the fact that the author of the article seems to be under the common assumption that a 64-bit processor will automatically perform worse on 32-bit apps than a 32-bit-only processor (despite the fact that Opteron does run 32-bit apps natively, rather than emulated like Itanium). For an example of this (not Opteron-related, but thematically the same), check out some Mac boards from before the release of the G5, where some posters insisted that every app would have to be recompiled for 64-bits or else they'd perform badly.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I'm sick of people making the mistake that a '64-bit' processor will automatically perform poorly at apps compiled for 32-bits. In the case of the Opteron, a 64-bit app will probably run better due to more general purpose registers (32 vs. 8), but by his tone, the author of the article seems to think that 32-bit app performance will be unimpressive (like Itanium).
This just ain't the case with Opteron or Athlon64.
Generally speaking, this is true. However, AMD has added more registers that can only be accessed when running in x86-64 mode. I think the register count goes from 8 to 32.
This could make a big performance difference if an application is compiled with these additional registers in mind.