I still don't see any of the filesharing indexes having a truly non-infringing use.
Remember, the users only share whats's popular, and what's popular is rarely free. The few do-gooders who only share what can legitimately be shared may find themselves flooded out by the cheapskates who think it's their right to everything and anything they want for free.
And I doubt the Betamax decision comes into play, seeing as how limited the potential distribution was for anything copied via it. In fact, I hope that fact is highlighted, since it shows just how much things have changed in the past 20 or so years.
But what if I don't have a PS1? I can't play PS1 games without buying a PS2. I never had a PS1 before I bought my PS2 but in addition to many PS2 games I have quite a few PS1 games. If the PS3 is backwards compatible with the previous two generations, that gives Sony a massive library for their system.
As well, the backwards compatibility of the GBA gives it a massive library extending back to the original 1988 Tetris release. I love that cause it give me a chance to go back and play all the games I never got to (since my parents never bought me a console!)
If the Xbox2 isn't backwards compatible, that limits the library of available titles on release. People owning an XBOX will be fine, but if the console dies nothing else can play those games. See the Dreamcast and Saturn, where the only option is to actually find the old hardware. There are good games on the Saturn but it sucks I can't use my DC to play the old games. That and they're both dead, so the playability of the games is limited to the lifespan of all existing consoles.
Nintendo kinda gets an exception for their non-portable consoles because this is their first move away from cartriges, and I doubt adding N64 support to the thing would have benifited them in the slightest.
Backwards compatibility is only unimportant if you have no libarary of games.
You can be sure that Sony will in some way make the PS3 backwards compatible with the PS2, and likely even the PS1 (full software emulation maybe?)
I can see microsoft not including backwards compatibility because it's likely that anyone they get this time around won't own any form of XBox to start with.
I don't think I'll be buying an XBox, much less an XBox2, unless I see some "I'll die if I can't get it" games (which I haven't yet.)
Can Intel now sue Mendeleev for trademark violation?
This will be a black mark on the physics community for sure...
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By means of what app?
Remember, of course, that you're probably using an unencrypted WMA file. You could probably do the same thing with a 160kbps unencrypted AAC file.
Encrypt either and it's not easy at all. At least with the AAC file (namely protected ones from iTunes), you can use various utilities to write it out to CD/Virtual CD and re-encode. Who knows what permissions the WMA will have.
Of course, you're transcoding anyway. And it's not vendor lock-in when no one else makes players that support it (I don't recall Apple trying to fend off other AAC players you know.)
But that's not cut and paste. That's copy of text ONLY. What everyone wants is a CLIPBOARD, and that is what Windows and MacOS have.
In Windows, nothing is copied unless it is explicitly copied (ctrl-c to copy, ctrl-x to cut), and nothing is pasted unless it is explicitly pasted (ctrl-v).
Interestingly in Windows you even have built in one-shot undo (ctrl-z.) Albeit, features like the undo/redo and right-click menu would be best moved into the GUI toolkit (I say toolkit because then that supplies it to ALL programs that use the toolkit.)
But going back to the clipboard, what's better is that it's universal. It also works for binary data, so I can copy images, peices of sound files, pretty much anything and the clipboard will store it until I paste it into a program that understands it.
Basically what Linux needs is:
A clipboard capable of storing ANYTHING, with a series of universal keyboard commands (this is unix, afterall, we should be able to do anything without a mouse) for copy/cut/paste.
Gee, a DAEMON sounds like it could very well be a good thing to implement this in, since one could just make a call to clipd to store X, and it'd hold it in until it was told to dump it or it was restarted/shutdown. Or even longer (caching in case of crash? I'd imagine it'd be most used on a Desktop, after all.)
And for some of us the journey, while interesting, is not nearly as good as the end result.
I'd love to have an easy to use system that I could handle without much difficulty while still having the power of Unix at hand should I want it.
This is not Linux.
Apple has it down pat, but that requires an investment in their hardware. Mandrake, Redhat, and SUSE have the install process down pat. The issue comes in just general responsiveness (behavior with hardware, plug & play, getting software installed/uninstalled.)
The question is when we will see something like this for the PC. Who will create the PC equivalent of MacOS X?
Except for that "Ray" image the artist's name is in the top right corner.
More like someone doesn't know Evangelion, and thus heard "Rei" as "Ray."
And for those of us who like Anime, a fair number of us expect that this will do no better than any other anime/game -> live action conversion, and suck.
Don't you just love it when politics can be cut into black and white with ONE PHRASE?!
I still think anyone who uses "conserviative" "liberal" and other one-word-describes-all phrases is full of shit and just wants to mouth off at "those people who are causing ALL the problems and getting nothing done."
Wow, great way to make yourself look like an uninformed fool. The battery in an iPod has always been replaceable with a minimum of effort, and for those afraid, Apple will do it for them.
Go take your misinformation and cram it elsewhere.
Quite honestly, the "free market" or "private market" won't do shit unless there's PROFIT TO BE HAD.
Frankly I have zero faith in the "free market" as that's gotten us where we are now. Sometimes you need the support of an entity that isn't out only doing stuff that generates a profit.
No OGG support is a trivial feature. It's an obscure format used by few individuals. It's nice but till much too obscure.
From my angle the battery life has been fine. And I honestly don't know why everyone says it has crappy sound. Sounds fine to me, both on the go and hooked to my stereo.
Or you can do it yourself for half that. I thought the Slashdot minions were an industrious bunch.
It wasn't designed to die after 18 months, that's pretty much the average lifetime for an Li-ION battery (which is why most laptop batteries only have a 1 year warranty.)
I still do not, at any moment, regret getting my iPod. It does its job, perfectly, and looks good to boot. Sure it doesn't have a billion whiz-bang features, but that's not what I was aiming to buy.
So in otherwords you like bending yourself over backwards to do tasks that could easily be automated.
Keep in mind, this is for the initial installation. Most people like the system to be up and running after an install, not partially functioning with a pile of kernel modules that need to be downloaded and compiled (like I was last time I tried Debian.)
The USER wants to use their system. They shouldn't have to manually configure every little bit of the OS just to get it useable. No other OS forces this (not Wwindows, not other distributions of Linux.) That's generally because doing so is like saying "we don't want anyone but the elite using this" which is a problem Debian faces.
I gave up on Debian because Debian's installer gave up on me before my system was up and running.
I'm still on windows though. Linux has other problems that need solutions before I move over (and I really wanna ditch XP.)
No, that thing looks about as tacky as tacky gets.
I, quite honestly, would not be caught dead using one of those things. They may be disposeable, but at least make them look decent (and not like fisher-price toys! Look, it's My First Cellphone!)
1 "Touchpad-like" controls- you touch it in a pocket, and it skips a song or does something else
There's a hold switch at the top. Use it. I do all the time (and instead use the remote.)
2 Sometimes those buttons don't respond- have to touch up to ten times (not sure if I got a bad unit, or this is typical)
The iPod's priority for memory is, from what I can tell, OS and Music. It keeps the track listings in an on-HD database, which is why you must use iTunes, or Ephpod like I do, to upload tracks. It has to spin up, read, and prepare the entire tracklisting before it moves between browse screens (and listing playlists) which may be the source of your lag.
3 Can't "drug and drop" mp3 files on iPod- must use a software
That'd be nice. Certainly could be a feature for later versions of other non-Apple software.
4 Doesn't understand file names or directories- identifies fiels only by ID3 tags
To this I say "get used to it." If you're ripping the music yourself (like I do in many cases) there's no excuse for bad or no ID3 tags. If you're not 100% legit (I don't claim to be,) put some effort into your tags.
5 Battery life- have to charge it as often as analog cell phone. Forget about overnight trips without a charger
Get one of the addon battery adaptors. Or take your adapter with you. I can't say I forsee myself running out of power (don't really go far) but I don't expect the battery to last insanely long periods of time (and my cell (CDMA) lasts about as long, maybe less, than my iPod.)
6 Forgets the last played track after being connected to a PC, sometimes does it for no reason at all. Very annoying to audiobook listeners.
Odd, never noticed this. But then I'm not an avid audiobook listener. Bug Apple, maybe they'll fix it in a patch?
7 Clip on the remote is designed in such a way that the controls face outside only when clipped to a shirt with buttons on the left- ladies style.Does it confirm a popular Slashdot opinion that Apple is for gays?
I wasn't aware that the clip direction made any reference to the wearer's sexuality (or that there was a "mens" and "womens" way of wearing clip-on remotes.)
This, too, is not my first mp3 player. But compared to my Rio Volt 150 (what a flying peice of crap it is), it's a godsend.
The only groups that will be doing the new movie are warez groups, because all the respectable groups won't touch it because its licensed.
Right now fansubbing groups do work that far surpasses commercial releases in terms of translation accuracy and subbing quality.
Right now fansubbing is at its lowest point since its inception, focusing on SPEED and quantity over quality. As I've said before, fansub translations these days are equal or poorer than any official translation.
I've heard no argument to the contrary that can't be whittled down to "I'm an elitist who hasn't a clue" for its origin.
Most fansubs have equal to poorer translations than the official ones because they're working off audio only (no notes from the producers) and hell groups like the Anime Junkies most often go Japanese -> Korean -> English.
And most of the "cultural" notes are the same damn notes over various small phrases that they all do. I've only seen a few extra notes and they're often hard to read and they disappear too quickly.
It's already been picked up for an English release by Dreamworks. If you don't want to support Dreamworks, buy the legit R2 (Japan, Europe) DVD release and pray it comes with English subtitles or the dub (neither is likely.)
And I'll contest the accuracy of any fansubber and their notes, especially the loads of crap groups that are out there today. Maybe we'll get lucky and get another "mass naked child event" just like we got in GitS: SAC! Yay for fansubbers!
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I still don't see any of the filesharing indexes having a truly non-infringing use.
Remember, the users only share whats's popular, and what's popular is rarely free. The few do-gooders who only share what can legitimately be shared may find themselves flooded out by the cheapskates who think it's their right to everything and anything they want for free.
And I doubt the Betamax decision comes into play, seeing as how limited the potential distribution was for anything copied via it. In fact, I hope that fact is highlighted, since it shows just how much things have changed in the past 20 or so years.
But what if I don't have a PS1? I can't play PS1 games without buying a PS2. I never had a PS1 before I bought my PS2 but in addition to many PS2 games I have quite a few PS1 games. If the PS3 is backwards compatible with the previous two generations, that gives Sony a massive library for their system.
As well, the backwards compatibility of the GBA gives it a massive library extending back to the original 1988 Tetris release. I love that cause it give me a chance to go back and play all the games I never got to (since my parents never bought me a console!)
If the Xbox2 isn't backwards compatible, that limits the library of available titles on release. People owning an XBOX will be fine, but if the console dies nothing else can play those games. See the Dreamcast and Saturn, where the only option is to actually find the old hardware. There are good games on the Saturn but it sucks I can't use my DC to play the old games. That and they're both dead, so the playability of the games is limited to the lifespan of all existing consoles.
Nintendo kinda gets an exception for their non-portable consoles because this is their first move away from cartriges, and I doubt adding N64 support to the thing would have benifited them in the slightest.
Backwards compatibility is only unimportant if you have no libarary of games.
You can be sure that Sony will in some way make the PS3 backwards compatible with the PS2, and likely even the PS1 (full software emulation maybe?)
I can see microsoft not including backwards compatibility because it's likely that anyone they get this time around won't own any form of XBox to start with.
I don't think I'll be buying an XBox, much less an XBox2, unless I see some "I'll die if I can't get it" games (which I haven't yet.)
Excuse me, I'm stupid.
And I have a headache at 3:25 AM. So sue me.
Can Intel now sue Mendeleev for trademark violation?
This will be a black mark on the physics community for sure...
By means of what app?
Remember, of course, that you're probably using an unencrypted WMA file. You could probably do the same thing with a 160kbps unencrypted AAC file.
Encrypt either and it's not easy at all. At least with the AAC file (namely protected ones from iTunes), you can use various utilities to write it out to CD/Virtual CD and re-encode. Who knows what permissions the WMA will have.
Of course, you're transcoding anyway. And it's not vendor lock-in when no one else makes players that support it (I don't recall Apple trying to fend off other AAC players you know.)
It'd be interesting to see how the contacts branch from the original 12,000 people.
You could see how they branch, what countries they cross into, and how people relate to each other (interests, age, etc.)
I wonder if this'd be something sociologists would like to watch...?
I don't like the fact that you can't select anything arbitrarily without it being "copied" for pasting elsewhere.
One thing I like to do is select a bit of text and paste something in. This erases what was selected and puts the clipboard text in its place.
Or selecting something just to delete it. I like clicking in the address bar of my browser and doing - Shift-Home Ctrl-V.
And it still ONLY covers text.
But that's not cut and paste. That's copy of text ONLY. What everyone wants is a CLIPBOARD, and that is what Windows and MacOS have.
In Windows, nothing is copied unless it is explicitly copied (ctrl-c to copy, ctrl-x to cut), and nothing is pasted unless it is explicitly pasted (ctrl-v).
Interestingly in Windows you even have built in one-shot undo (ctrl-z.) Albeit, features like the undo/redo and right-click menu would be best moved into the GUI toolkit (I say toolkit because then that supplies it to ALL programs that use the toolkit.)
But going back to the clipboard, what's better is that it's universal. It also works for binary data, so I can copy images, peices of sound files, pretty much anything and the clipboard will store it until I paste it into a program that understands it.
Basically what Linux needs is:
A clipboard capable of storing ANYTHING, with a series of universal keyboard commands (this is unix, afterall, we should be able to do anything without a mouse) for copy/cut/paste.
Gee, a DAEMON sounds like it could very well be a good thing to implement this in, since one could just make a call to clipd to store X, and it'd hold it in until it was told to dump it or it was restarted/shutdown. Or even longer (caching in case of crash? I'd imagine it'd be most used on a Desktop, after all.)
And for some of us the journey, while interesting, is not nearly as good as the end result.
I'd love to have an easy to use system that I could handle without much difficulty while still having the power of Unix at hand should I want it.
This is not Linux.
Apple has it down pat, but that requires an investment in their hardware. Mandrake, Redhat, and SUSE have the install process down pat. The issue comes in just general responsiveness (behavior with hardware, plug & play, getting software installed/uninstalled.)
The question is when we will see something like this for the PC. Who will create the PC equivalent of MacOS X?
Except for that "Ray" image the artist's name is in the top right corner.
More like someone doesn't know Evangelion, and thus heard "Rei" as "Ray."
And for those of us who like Anime, a fair number of us expect that this will do no better than any other anime/game -> live action conversion, and suck.
Too bad. Eva's got a decent story.
All the Liberals! Liberals! Liberals! Liberals!
Don't you just love it when politics can be cut into black and white with ONE PHRASE?!
I still think anyone who uses "conserviative" "liberal" and other one-word-describes-all phrases is full of shit and just wants to mouth off at "those people who are causing ALL the problems and getting nothing done."
*cough*iPod*cough*
Wow, great way to make yourself look like an uninformed fool. The battery in an iPod has always been replaceable with a minimum of effort, and for those afraid, Apple will do it for them.
Go take your misinformation and cram it elsewhere.
Quite honestly, the "free market" or "private market" won't do shit unless there's PROFIT TO BE HAD.
Frankly I have zero faith in the "free market" as that's gotten us where we are now. Sometimes you need the support of an entity that isn't out only doing stuff that generates a profit.
So long as you tolerate:
No OGG support is a trivial feature. It's an obscure format used by few individuals. It's nice but till much too obscure.
From my angle the battery life has been fine. And I honestly don't know why everyone says it has crappy sound. Sounds fine to me, both on the go and hooked to my stereo.
Or you can do it yourself for half that. I thought the Slashdot minions were an industrious bunch.
It wasn't designed to die after 18 months, that's pretty much the average lifetime for an Li-ION battery (which is why most laptop batteries only have a 1 year warranty.)
I still do not, at any moment, regret getting my iPod. It does its job, perfectly, and looks good to boot. Sure it doesn't have a billion whiz-bang features, but that's not what I was aiming to buy.
So in otherwords you like bending yourself over backwards to do tasks that could easily be automated.
Keep in mind, this is for the initial installation. Most people like the system to be up and running after an install, not partially functioning with a pile of kernel modules that need to be downloaded and compiled (like I was last time I tried Debian.)
The USER wants to use their system. They shouldn't have to manually configure every little bit of the OS just to get it useable. No other OS forces this (not Wwindows, not other distributions of Linux.) That's generally because doing so is like saying "we don't want anyone but the elite using this" which is a problem Debian faces.
I gave up on Debian because Debian's installer gave up on me before my system was up and running.
I'm still on windows though. Linux has other problems that need solutions before I move over (and I really wanna ditch XP.)
No, that thing looks about as tacky as tacky gets.
I, quite honestly, would not be caught dead using one of those things. They may be disposeable, but at least make them look decent (and not like fisher-price toys! Look, it's My First Cellphone!)
1 "Touchpad-like" controls- you touch it in a pocket, and it skips a song or does something else
There's a hold switch at the top. Use it. I do all the time (and instead use the remote.)
2 Sometimes those buttons don't respond- have to touch up to ten times (not sure if I got a bad unit, or this is typical)
The iPod's priority for memory is, from what I can tell, OS and Music. It keeps the track listings in an on-HD database, which is why you must use iTunes, or Ephpod like I do, to upload tracks. It has to spin up, read, and prepare the entire tracklisting before it moves between browse screens (and listing playlists) which may be the source of your lag.
3 Can't "drug and drop" mp3 files on iPod- must use a software
That'd be nice. Certainly could be a feature for later versions of other non-Apple software.
4 Doesn't understand file names or directories- identifies fiels only by ID3 tags
To this I say "get used to it." If you're ripping the music yourself (like I do in many cases) there's no excuse for bad or no ID3 tags. If you're not 100% legit (I don't claim to be,) put some effort into your tags.
5 Battery life- have to charge it as often as analog cell phone. Forget about overnight trips without a charger
Get one of the addon battery adaptors. Or take your adapter with you. I can't say I forsee myself running out of power (don't really go far) but I don't expect the battery to last insanely long periods of time (and my cell (CDMA) lasts about as long, maybe less, than my iPod.)
6 Forgets the last played track after being connected to a PC, sometimes does it for no reason at all. Very annoying to audiobook listeners.
Odd, never noticed this. But then I'm not an avid audiobook listener. Bug Apple, maybe they'll fix it in a patch?
7 Clip on the remote is designed in such a way that the controls face outside only when clipped to a shirt with buttons on the left- ladies style.Does it confirm a popular Slashdot opinion that Apple is for gays?
I wasn't aware that the clip direction made any reference to the wearer's sexuality (or that there was a "mens" and "womens" way of wearing clip-on remotes.)
This, too, is not my first mp3 player. But compared to my Rio Volt 150 (what a flying peice of crap it is), it's a godsend.
Bullshit.
The only groups that will be doing the new movie are warez groups, because all the respectable groups won't touch it because its licensed.
Right now fansubbing groups do work that far surpasses commercial releases in terms of translation accuracy and subbing quality.
Right now fansubbing is at its lowest point since its inception, focusing on SPEED and quantity over quality. As I've said before, fansub translations these days are equal or poorer than any official translation.
I've heard no argument to the contrary that can't be whittled down to "I'm an elitist who hasn't a clue" for its origin.
Yay, so we can give the creators a nice big "Fuck you!" or what?
Yay for greed, it works both ways.
You give them too much credit.
Most fansubs have equal to poorer translations than the official ones because they're working off audio only (no notes from the producers) and hell groups like the Anime Junkies most often go Japanese -> Korean -> English.
And most of the "cultural" notes are the same damn notes over various small phrases that they all do. I've only seen a few extra notes and they're often hard to read and they disappear too quickly.
It's already been picked up for an English release by Dreamworks. If you don't want to support Dreamworks, buy the legit R2 (Japan, Europe) DVD release and pray it comes with English subtitles or the dub (neither is likely.)
And I'll contest the accuracy of any fansubber and their notes, especially the loads of crap groups that are out there today. Maybe we'll get lucky and get another "mass naked child event" just like we got in GitS: SAC! Yay for fansubbers!
Those networks and cable tv stations make money from advertising.
They take the money from advertising to license other programs, and pay for operations and all other costs.
P2P programs are used by people who want something for free.
I'd tell you you're an idiot but I'm sure it's been said before.