Again, what makes you think that Apple is artificially degrading sound quality when you convert from AAC to AIFF? Do you even know how Quicktime works? Next topic: You cite the following clause to say that you have no rights to burn music for the purpose of listening to it:
Any burning or exporting capabilities are solely an accommodation to you and shall not constitute a grant or waiver (or other limitation or implication) of any rights of the copyright owners of any content, sound recording, underlying musical composition or artwork embodied in any Product.
What Apple is saying here is that when you burn or export copies of the music for personal use and thereby eliminate their DRM, that doesn't mean that you are then free to copy and distribute that version. The same rights you have of the AAC file you have of the CD, only the playing authorization restrictions are gone. You need to go re-learn about Fair Use rights. A copy for personal use, and ONLY personal use is permitted. Under the DCMA it is illegal to break copy protection and there is therefore no legal way to make backups. Apple offers you a way to make backups legally, therefore you are not bound by the DCMA. As for derivative works, laws regarding those only apply in cases of distribution and resale. Apple is only saying that you may not sell or distribute a CD burned from AAC files, not that you may not use one yourself. It is asinine to suggest that they encourage you to burn CDs that you are legally not permitted to use.
And my DVD analogy is valid. You have modification and resale rights on iTunes songs, there is just no way to resell them easily. Digital files are different. Remember that test case on EBay and statement from Apple about this matter?
"Apple's position is that it is impractical, though perhaps within someone's rights, to sell music purchased online," said Peter Lowe, Apple's director of marketing for applications and services.
In short Apple has no real way to resell songs built into their current system (as their DRM doesn't work on a per-song basis) but they don't rule out regular purchase rights from digital sales in the broad sense. Besides, you are misconstruing my analogy. I was only intending for it to illustrate the implications of the DMCA.
That is complete bunk. Firstly, there is absolutely zero loss in quality when converting AAC to AIFF, it's just not possible by definition. Similarly, there is absolutely no quality loss when converting AIFF to FLAC, it is by definition, a lossless codec. The bits encoded are the exact same bits decoded. Secondly, the following is taken directly from Apple's iTunes Music Store Terms of Sale
CONTENT USAGE RULES Your use of the Products is conditioned upon your prior acceptance of the terms of this Agreement.
You shall be authorized to use the Product only for personal, non-commercial use.
You shall be authorized to use the Product on three Apple authorized computers.
You shall be entitled to burn and export Products solely for personal, non-commercial use.
Any burning or exporting capabilities are solely an accommodation to you and shall not constitute a grant or waiver (or other limitation or implication) of any rights of the copyright owners of any content, sound recording, underlying musical composition or artwork embodied in any Product.
You agree that you will not attempt to, or encourage or assist any other person to, circumvent or modify any software required for use of the Service or any of the Usage Rules.
The delivery of a Product does not transfer to you any commercial or promotional use rights in the Product.
Refer to Terms of Sale for more detailed information on Usage Rules.
The emphasis is mine to point out the relevant section. You may convert and export the DRMed music files for the sole purpose of personal convenience. I'd say the authentication server dying due to Apple closing the store would be a major inconvenience. It says nothing about losing the right to the music if their service disappears. If MPEGLA and whoever owns CSS ever go out of business, I can't imagine losing the rights to play my DVD collection.
Huh? iTunes for Windows? CDs you've burnt? A FLAC rip of a CD burnt from an AAC file sounds exactly like the AAC file. I see no problem here.
I guess it would be a pain in the ass if Apple went out of business shut down their authentication servers but I'd assume they'd be forced to release a program that allows you to decrypt songs. Even if they didn't, if there was still no way to decrypt the songs, it would become legal under the DMCA to break the Fairplay copy protection system as no legal alternative would exist. With the millions of Fairplay AAC files out there, I'm certain someone would come through.
Welcome to the hall of corporate shame Mr Thomson and Mr Fraunhofer! Help yourself to the complimentary Crystal Pepsi and New Coke. In a few minutes, a waiter will swing by of a Segway with some Doritos 3D's and we'll start off the welcoming ceremony by awarding you metals made from recycled metric highway signs from the 70s. and top it off with a back to back showing of Gigli, Kangaroo Jack, and Glitter.
Well, there is pre-speech thought and there is conceptual thought. Aside from sounding like a jumblefuck of absolute nonsense, if any conceptual thought slipped into your little mental cellphone, you might have some trouble on your hands.
"No mom, I haven't filled out the job application yet!fuckingshitfilledpieceofdeathuselesskillhatrid noneedjobgetweedsmoke"
"What the HELL was that you were thinking?!"
"Umm.. ahh, I think the electrodes are malfunctioning... wait... uhh, hold on, you're breaking up. I have to go bitchlifesuckingcun...." [transmission has ended]
Because some people would actually like to pay for music but don't like being reamed by the gross overpricing and inconvenience of CDs.
Hell, I'd pay my $5 if it meant unlimited legal music downloads from any service in my format of choice.
And if you're so cynical to say that people would hop on to another network just so they wouldn't have to pay, think of what would happen if the gnutella, fast track, eDonkey, and BitTorrent networks were to start encouraging people to pay if they were going to download commercial music? There would be those who would never pay but I'm sure a great deal of people would.
I don't think you understand. This proposal involves no DRM, no centralized corporation, no hybrid collection-agency and Peer to Peer network or anything. This suggestion is to simply kindly ask music sharers to pay $5 a month ($60 a year). If written into law, I'm sure most mainstream filesharing programs wouldn't mind integrating with a collection agency's servers to manage payment.
If an artist opts out of the collection agency, they'll continue to receive what they currently receive from online music trading: absolutely nothing. If a user stops paying his fees, he will still own all the music he downloaded while still paying because they'll just be MP3/M4P/FLAC or whatever format he used to download them. Whether it's moral to pay $5 one month, then go on a downloading spree to last several months is up to the user to decide. (Though I doubt it, seeing as the main cause for piracy is the sheer convenience) The whole system is voluntary,
In short: P2P networks stay as they are but optionally hook into a non-profit collection agency. Think of it as a filesharing tax to help artists.
I personally think the plan sounds awesome but leaving payment to the goodwill of music fans makes me think it hasn't a snowball's chance in hell as long as the RIAA maintains its vice grip over the artists' throats.
I figure I'll karma whore and explain my system for passcodes. When you reached a certain part of the game, you'd write down the passcode it gave you on a sheet of paper, then reboot your iPod (to go listen to music or whatever). The next time you opened the game, on the first screen there would be an option to enter in your passcode. Clicking on it brought you to a screen that looked like this:
1 - - - 2 3 4 5
1 through 5 being links. Each number, say, 4, would lead to a document inside the folder named after it with that number, containing another file that said:
4 - - - - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
It would go on like that until the last number, of which each contained its own file. For invalid numbers, it would say "Invalid Passcode" with a link back to the title screen. Valid passcodes linked to whatever state and location the game was in when you read off the code.
I guess it might be fitting to discuss the method I used for my game. Each time you decided to perform an action, you'd be linked to a different world state (or folder). That way you could actually interact with the game even though the notes feature does not have access to anything more than basic HTML (no scripting at all). Luckily, most world states were only a few files large because the action would usually trigger a puzzle that wouldn't allow you to leave a room. One of the biggest troubles was just keeping all the wold states straight amongst what grew to literally hundreds of thousands of files. If you broke a vase in your house in the game and were allowed to leave, a whole "broken vase" world had to be created. Every single text file for the game had to be duplicated and scrubbed through by a script to make sure that the game "remembered you had broken the vase. This is the main reason why I gave up on the game. Every insignificant event that wasn't self-correcting had to have its own world branch in which that task was completed! Oh, if only for some basic, basic scripting. Or perhaps a game making tool that simulated scripting by allowing me to program with it, then generated all of the event branches and HTML files for me. Then, I'd make a game. A good one. Hell, maybe I'll write the tool! Some day. Alas, for enough free time...
I tried making a similar game a while back. Mine was text and ASCII "art" based though (mostly used for maps but there were other graphics). I got pretty far into making the game before losing interest but I always had one problem. After you navigate about 300 pages, there is no way to get back to the iPod's main features without hitting back 300 times! How did these folks solve the problem? Do you have to reboot the iPod every time you get bored with the game? How do you save your game? (I used an ingenuous little trick for entering 4 digit level checkpoint passcodes)
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It's not that it isn't registering the return, it's just that the dock animation is getting priority. If your machine is too fast or too slow (I forget the way it works, probably both ways) the command will not go through in time to stop the window. A better solution is to, after executing the command to kill the dock, start clicking at the slowly moving window animation to slow it down even more to give the kill command time to execute. In addition, the effect on a window is far cooler if the dock is to the right or left, rather than at the bottom.
They can't really do that because one of Apple's trademarks is system independence. You can remove your Mac's hard drive and place it in a completely different machine, any machine capable of booting it's OS, and have it work perfectly. I'd say that the boot loader, etc would choose, not the installer.
My God... YES. The Windows version of the iPod has been out for ages. Since the first generation, in fact. It used to work with MusicMatch, now it runs on iTunes for Windows. There are even a few Linux tools to work it already. Hell, it can even RUN Linux if you want.
You could open up the iPod as per the instructions to replace the battery and bend the contact on the inside of the jack back out. (In? at any rate, the way towards the headphone male plug.)
I agree that you don't need to encrypt the network. I have a linksys (b and g) wireless/4 port wired switch/router that I bought at Best Buy. It works perfectly and has enough features to allow you to block/open ports via a web-based interface. From that same interface you manage the wireless network. Here's a breakdown of what you can do according to the Linksys documentation.
Filters
The Filters screen allows you to block or allow specific kinds of Internet usage. You can set up Internet access policies for specific PCs and set up filters by using network port numbers.
Internet Access Policy
This feature allows you to customize up to ten different Internet Access Policies for particular PCs, which are identified by their IP or MAC addresses. For each policy designated PCs, during the days and time periods specified. (Which includes denying access altogether to offending machines)
Filtered Internet Port Range
To filter PCs by network port number, select Both, TCP, or UDP, depending on which protocols you want to filter. Then enter the port numbers you want to filter into the port number fields. PCs connected to the Router will no longer be able to access any port number listed here. To disable a filter, select Disable.
Check all the values and click Save Settings to save your settings. Click the Cancel Settings button to cancel your unsaved changes.
Pretty powerful features. It also allows you to look up clients on the DHCP table, etc.. Plus, it only cost $79. With the Linksys, you could then even allow wired connections for people at the table sitting closest to the device. And yes, remote administration is an option too. And I don't work for Linksys if you're wondering; I'm just endorsing a product I bought a few days ago and have been very happy with.
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You must be one of those Mac freaks by your response. I had an Ipod and I didn't like it for the reasons listed. My post was my opinion not the absolut truth according to humans.
Mmmm, vodka...
I want something truely portable. Ever try playing sports, physical sports, with an external hd strapped to your arm? IT SUCKS! Maybe if you were an actual athlete who worked out a lot you would have understood my post but your being so defensive protecting your precious mac product you can't even understand that it's my opinion. I'm just going to copy your type of response now that I think about it...
Eh.... ok. I go running with my iPod. I mean, I wouldn't recommend any contact sports for bringing the iPod along but biking, running and stuff are fine. The hard drive is very well protected and it doesn't get damaged if it's spinning up whilst the player is bouncing. If you drop it or something, maybe, but that goes without saying, even for solid state players.
Got Duct Tape?
Yes but I'd prefer to use something like this if I wanted to look like a dork with an MP3 player on my arm.
It's an issue if you're active in physical sports and not doing the nuckle shuffle on your piss pump while glancing at pron divx's with repulsive cheeto stains around your mouth.
I'd say that the iPod is appropriate for both sports and secret eating and masturbation to depraved sex acts. The solid state buttons and seamless case make it quite easy to clear of any accidental spurting man-juices. The ample rubber padding around the HD makes it great for time at the gym and "time at the gym."
Good for fucking you...that's not what I need hence my opinion as stated all through out my posts.
So you're dumping on the iPod why then? Because you don't need/want one? That makes no sense.
Once again refer to my being active in sports and not "net" sports. I'm sure playing any really active sport is condusive to strapping an external laptop to my arm with ducktape. Yea I wanna look like tech boy getting active...that's the look I'm shooting for plus I want to get hit hard enough to break my $300+ investment.
Wait, so you ARE playing contact sports with an MP3 player! We've been over this! Or are you projecting again?
What the fuck is apple paying you for this bullshit? I think you are Apple's equivalent of Iraq's ex-minister of information...or better yet...mis-information.
I'm sure you've met with every Ipod user in various town meetings, bbs discussions, and neighborhood teleconferences on a daily basis to compile your information right? Fucking idiot.
He has far more information than you have. Alert to any children currently reading Slashdot: Basic literacy counts. Stay in school.
Good for fucking you! It's amazing how people like you are all on Apple's dick. You pay them for a product, they don't pay you and you would take it in the ass from them if you could. I bet you can't even hold shit down anymore right? The Ipod is a product not a life altering event so get a fucking clue, a life, a preferably some sex from a non-animal species and wake the fuck up "Apple Bitch Boy":D
While the prospect of taking it up the butt from "Apple" as a collective, apparently, sounds quite appealing, I'll have to pass on the offer. The iPod is a good, solid product. From the sounds of it, the person you're speaking with owns an iPod himself. He's not sucking Apple's dick, he's calling you an idiot for decrying something you know nothing about. I
Umax owners (victims?) rejoice! You no longer need to take snapshots of documents with your digital camera, the old USB scanner that's been rotting in your basement has a new lease on life!
I was thinking the same thing. Someone could write a program to convert protected AAC (that you have authorization for) to PCM audio on the fly for the player. I mean, Toast does this already why you go to burn an audio CD of protected tracks, how hard could it be?
You are insane! I wanted an _MP3 player_, not a handheld media player that streams video over cellphone networks, takes memos and has a battery that cannot possibly exist right now. I said the iPod was a best-in-class MP3 player. You can't change the rules to a device that doesn't exist so you win. Best-in-class does not mean flawless, it means best-in-class.
You've brought up several point and several different players, confirming my point that not one player matches the iPod as a whole. Karma for size, Rockbox for games, DellDJ for backlight, iRiver for optical output... it goes on. The product for you, as a demanding consumer does not exist... well it does. It's called a Sony Viao notebook. A bit on the large side and I hear the battery life isn't all that great compared with other players...;) Oh, and I've played with the DellDj player, the gen 3 iPod's backlight is a lot better; you can even use it as a flashlight.
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Again, what makes you think that Apple is artificially degrading sound quality when you convert from AAC to AIFF? Do you even know how Quicktime works? Next topic: You cite the following clause to say that you have no rights to burn music for the purpose of listening to it:
Any burning or exporting capabilities are solely an accommodation to you and shall not constitute a grant or waiver (or other limitation or implication) of any rights of the copyright owners of any content, sound recording, underlying musical composition or artwork embodied in any Product.
What Apple is saying here is that when you burn or export copies of the music for personal use and thereby eliminate their DRM, that doesn't mean that you are then free to copy and distribute that version. The same rights you have of the AAC file you have of the CD, only the playing authorization restrictions are gone. You need to go re-learn about Fair Use rights. A copy for personal use, and ONLY personal use is permitted. Under the DCMA it is illegal to break copy protection and there is therefore no legal way to make backups. Apple offers you a way to make backups legally, therefore you are not bound by the DCMA. As for derivative works, laws regarding those only apply in cases of distribution and resale. Apple is only saying that you may not sell or distribute a CD burned from AAC files, not that you may not use one yourself. It is asinine to suggest that they encourage you to burn CDs that you are legally not permitted to use.
And my DVD analogy is valid. You have modification and resale rights on iTunes songs, there is just no way to resell them easily. Digital files are different. Remember that test case on EBay and statement from Apple about this matter?
"Apple's position is that it is impractical, though perhaps within someone's rights, to sell music purchased online," said Peter Lowe, Apple's director of marketing for applications and services.
In short Apple has no real way to resell songs built into their current system (as their DRM doesn't work on a per-song basis) but they don't rule out regular purchase rights from digital sales in the broad sense. Besides, you are misconstruing my analogy. I was only intending for it to illustrate the implications of the DMCA.
That is complete bunk. Firstly, there is absolutely zero loss in quality when converting AAC to AIFF, it's just not possible by definition. Similarly, there is absolutely no quality loss when converting AIFF to FLAC, it is by definition, a lossless codec. The bits encoded are the exact same bits decoded. Secondly, the following is taken directly from Apple's iTunes Music Store Terms of Sale
CONTENT USAGE RULES
Your use of the Products is conditioned upon your prior acceptance of the terms of this Agreement.
You shall be authorized to use the Product only for personal, non-commercial use.
You shall be authorized to use the Product on three Apple authorized computers.
You shall be entitled to burn and export Products solely for personal, non-commercial use.
Any burning or exporting capabilities are solely an accommodation to you and shall not constitute a grant or waiver (or other limitation or implication) of any rights of the copyright owners of any content, sound recording, underlying musical composition or artwork embodied in any Product.
You agree that you will not attempt to, or encourage or assist any other person to, circumvent or modify any software required for use of the Service or any of the Usage Rules.
The delivery of a Product does not transfer to you any commercial or promotional use rights in the Product.
Refer to Terms of Sale for more detailed information on Usage Rules.
The emphasis is mine to point out the relevant section. You may convert and export the DRMed music files for the sole purpose of personal convenience. I'd say the authentication server dying due to Apple closing the store would be a major inconvenience. It says nothing about losing the right to the music if their service disappears. If MPEGLA and whoever owns CSS ever go out of business, I can't imagine losing the rights to play my DVD collection.
Huh? iTunes for Windows? CDs you've burnt? A FLAC rip of a CD burnt from an AAC file sounds exactly like the AAC file. I see no problem here.
I guess it would be a pain in the ass if Apple went out of business shut down their authentication servers but I'd assume they'd be forced to release a program that allows you to decrypt songs. Even if they didn't, if there was still no way to decrypt the songs, it would become legal under the DMCA to break the Fairplay copy protection system as no legal alternative would exist. With the millions of Fairplay AAC files out there, I'm certain someone would come through.
Welcome to the hall of corporate shame Mr Thomson and Mr Fraunhofer! Help yourself to the complimentary Crystal Pepsi and New Coke. In a few minutes, a waiter will swing by of a Segway with some Doritos 3D's and we'll start off the welcoming ceremony by awarding you metals made from recycled metric highway signs from the 70s. and top it off with a back to back showing of Gigli, Kangaroo Jack, and Glitter.
Well, there is pre-speech thought and there is conceptual thought. Aside from sounding like a jumblefuck of absolute nonsense, if any conceptual thought slipped into your little mental cellphone, you might have some trouble on your hands.
d noneedjobgetweedsmoke"
"No mom, I haven't filled out the job application yet!fuckingshitfilledpieceofdeathuselesskillhatri
"What the HELL was that you were thinking?!"
"Umm.. ahh, I think the electrodes are malfunctioning... wait... uhh, hold on, you're breaking up. I have to go bitchlifesuckingcun...." [transmission has ended]
Because some people would actually like to pay for music but don't like being reamed by the gross overpricing and inconvenience of CDs.
Hell, I'd pay my $5 if it meant unlimited legal music downloads from any service in my format of choice.
And if you're so cynical to say that people would hop on to another network just so they wouldn't have to pay, think of what would happen if the gnutella, fast track, eDonkey, and BitTorrent networks were to start encouraging people to pay if they were going to download commercial music? There would be those who would never pay but I'm sure a great deal of people would.
I don't think you understand. This proposal involves no DRM, no centralized corporation, no hybrid collection-agency and Peer to Peer network or anything. This suggestion is to simply kindly ask music sharers to pay $5 a month ($60 a year). If written into law, I'm sure most mainstream filesharing programs wouldn't mind integrating with a collection agency's servers to manage payment.
If an artist opts out of the collection agency, they'll continue to receive what they currently receive from online music trading: absolutely nothing. If a user stops paying his fees, he will still own all the music he downloaded while still paying because they'll just be MP3/M4P/FLAC or whatever format he used to download them. Whether it's moral to pay $5 one month, then go on a downloading spree to last several months is up to the user to decide. (Though I doubt it, seeing as the main cause for piracy is the sheer convenience) The whole system is voluntary,
In short: P2P networks stay as they are but optionally hook into a non-profit collection agency. Think of it as a filesharing tax to help artists.
I personally think the plan sounds awesome but leaving payment to the goodwill of music fans makes me think it hasn't a snowball's chance in hell as long as the RIAA maintains its vice grip over the artists' throats.
I figure I'll karma whore and explain my system for passcodes. When you reached a certain part of the game, you'd write down the passcode it gave you on a sheet of paper, then reboot your iPod (to go listen to music or whatever). The next time you opened the game, on the first screen there would be an option to enter in your passcode. Clicking on it brought you to a screen that looked like this:
1 - - -
2
3
4
5
1 through 5 being links. Each number, say, 4, would lead to a document inside the folder named after it with that number, containing another file that said:
4 - - -
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
It would go on like that until the last number, of which each contained its own file. For invalid numbers, it would say "Invalid Passcode" with a link back to the title screen. Valid passcodes linked to whatever state and location the game was in when you read off the code.
I guess it might be fitting to discuss the method I used for my game. Each time you decided to perform an action, you'd be linked to a different world state (or folder). That way you could actually interact with the game even though the notes feature does not have access to anything more than basic HTML (no scripting at all). Luckily, most world states were only a few files large because the action would usually trigger a puzzle that wouldn't allow you to leave a room. One of the biggest troubles was just keeping all the wold states straight amongst what grew to literally hundreds of thousands of files. If you broke a vase in your house in the game and were allowed to leave, a whole "broken vase" world had to be created. Every single text file for the game had to be duplicated and scrubbed through by a script to make sure that the game "remembered you had broken the vase. This is the main reason why I gave up on the game. Every insignificant event that wasn't self-correcting had to have its own world branch in which that task was completed! Oh, if only for some basic, basic scripting. Or perhaps a game making tool that simulated scripting by allowing me to program with it, then generated all of the event branches and HTML files for me. Then, I'd make a game. A good one. Hell, maybe I'll write the tool! Some day. Alas, for enough free time...
I tried making a similar game a while back. Mine was text and ASCII "art" based though (mostly used for maps but there were other graphics). I got pretty far into making the game before losing interest but I always had one problem. After you navigate about 300 pages, there is no way to get back to the iPod's main features without hitting back 300 times! How did these folks solve the problem? Do you have to reboot the iPod every time you get bored with the game? How do you save your game? (I used an ingenuous little trick for entering 4 digit level checkpoint passcodes)
Hey, I actually didn't try to take credit for this! My story actually got rejected and the directions part cut and paste into a double story.
2004-02-11 02:46:28 Crazy Window Effects (apple,osx) (rejected)
It's not that it isn't registering the return, it's just that the dock animation is getting priority. If your machine is too fast or too slow (I forget the way it works, probably both ways) the command will not go through in time to stop the window. A better solution is to, after executing the command to kill the dock, start clicking at the slowly moving window animation to slow it down even more to give the kill command time to execute. In addition, the effect on a window is far cooler if the dock is to the right or left, rather than at the bottom.
They can't really do that because one of Apple's trademarks is system independence. You can remove your Mac's hard drive and place it in a completely different machine, any machine capable of booting it's OS, and have it work perfectly. I'd say that the boot loader, etc would choose, not the installer.
My God... YES. The Windows version of the iPod has been out for ages. Since the first generation, in fact. It used to work with MusicMatch, now it runs on iTunes for Windows. There are even a few Linux tools to work it already. Hell, it can even RUN Linux if you want.
Wait.. what? I would fill up the gas in my car if my sister wasn't a lesbian.
You could open up the iPod as per the instructions to replace the battery and bend the contact on the inside of the jack back out. (In? at any rate, the way towards the headphone male plug.)
I agree that you don't need to encrypt the network. I have a linksys (b and g) wireless/4 port wired switch/router that I bought at Best Buy. It works perfectly and has enough features to allow you to block/open ports via a web-based interface. From that same interface you manage the wireless network. Here's a breakdown of what you can do according to the Linksys documentation.
Filters
The Filters screen allows you to block or allow specific kinds of Internet usage. You can set up Internet access policies for specific PCs and set up filters by using network port numbers.
Internet Access Policy
This feature allows you to customize up to ten different Internet Access Policies for particular PCs, which are identified by their IP or MAC addresses. For each policy designated PCs, during the days and time periods specified. (Which includes denying access altogether to offending machines)
Filtered Internet Port Range
To filter PCs by network port number, select Both, TCP, or UDP, depending on which protocols you want to filter. Then enter the port numbers you want to filter into the port number fields. PCs connected to the Router will no longer be able to access any port number listed here. To disable a filter, select Disable.
Check all the values and click Save Settings to save your settings. Click the Cancel Settings button to cancel your unsaved changes.
Pretty powerful features. It also allows you to look up clients on the DHCP table, etc.. Plus, it only cost $79. With the Linksys, you could then even allow wired connections for people at the table sitting closest to the device. And yes, remote administration is an option too. And I don't work for Linksys if you're wondering; I'm just endorsing a product I bought a few days ago and have been very happy with.
Are you driving through there right now? Your post seems to be breaking up. :)
Dreamweaver's renderer is atrocious. Dreamweaver's syntax coding is lacking. Dreamweaver butchers code. Dreamweaver is slower than death on a bender. It's awesome for PHP code.
But that's the reason it's so funny!
You must be one of those Mac freaks by your response. I had an Ipod and I didn't like it for the reasons listed. My post was my opinion not the absolut truth according to humans.
Mmmm, vodka...
I want something truely portable. Ever try playing sports, physical sports, with an external hd strapped to your arm? IT SUCKS! Maybe if you were an actual athlete who worked out a lot you would have understood my post but your being so defensive protecting your precious mac product you can't even understand that it's my opinion. I'm just going to copy your type of response now that I think about it...
Eh.... ok. I go running with my iPod. I mean, I wouldn't recommend any contact sports for bringing the iPod along but biking, running and stuff are fine. The hard drive is very well protected and it doesn't get damaged if it's spinning up whilst the player is bouncing. If you drop it or something, maybe, but that goes without saying, even for solid state players.
Got Duct Tape?
Yes but I'd prefer to use something like this if I wanted to look like a dork with an MP3 player on my arm.
It's an issue if you're active in physical sports and not doing the nuckle shuffle on your piss pump while glancing at pron divx's with repulsive cheeto stains around your mouth.
I'd say that the iPod is appropriate for both sports and secret eating and masturbation to depraved sex acts. The solid state buttons and seamless case make it quite easy to clear of any accidental spurting man-juices. The ample rubber padding around the HD makes it great for time at the gym and "time at the gym."
Good for fucking you...that's not what I need hence my opinion as stated all through out my posts.
So you're dumping on the iPod why then? Because you don't need/want one? That makes no sense.
Once again refer to my being active in sports and not "net" sports. I'm sure playing any really active sport is condusive to strapping an external laptop to my arm with ducktape. Yea I wanna look like tech boy getting active...that's the look I'm shooting for plus I want to get hit hard enough to break my $300+ investment.
Wait, so you ARE playing contact sports with an MP3 player! We've been over this! Or are you projecting again?
What the fuck is apple paying you for this bullshit? I think you are Apple's equivalent of Iraq's ex-minister of information...or better yet...mis-information.
I guess I must be getting kickback from Apple too because I'd like to point out this site where you can get a do-it-yourself iPod battery replacement for $49 and this site where Apple offers to do it for you for $99
I'm sure you've met with every Ipod user in various town meetings, bbs discussions, and neighborhood teleconferences on a daily basis to compile your information right? Fucking idiot.
He has far more information than you have. Alert to any children currently reading Slashdot: Basic literacy counts. Stay in school.
Good for fucking you! It's amazing how people like you are all on Apple's dick. You pay them for a product, they don't pay you and you would take it in the ass from them if you could. I bet you can't even hold shit down anymore right? The Ipod is a product not a life altering event so get a fucking clue, a life, a preferably some sex from a non-animal species and wake the fuck up "Apple Bitch Boy":D
While the prospect of taking it up the butt from "Apple" as a collective, apparently, sounds quite appealing, I'll have to pass on the offer. The iPod is a good, solid product. From the sounds of it, the person you're speaking with owns an iPod himself. He's not sucking Apple's dick, he's calling you an idiot for decrying something you know nothing about. I
Umax owners (victims?) rejoice! You no longer need to take snapshots of documents with your digital camera, the old USB scanner that's been rotting in your basement has a new lease on life!
I was thinking the same thing. Someone could write a program to convert protected AAC (that you have authorization for) to PCM audio on the fly for the player. I mean, Toast does this already why you go to burn an audio CD of protected tracks, how hard could it be?
10.2.x was not affected by this bug.
You are insane! I wanted an _MP3 player_, not a handheld media player that streams video over cellphone networks, takes memos and has a battery that cannot possibly exist right now. I said the iPod was a best-in-class MP3 player. You can't change the rules to a device that doesn't exist so you win. Best-in-class does not mean flawless, it means best-in-class.
You've brought up several point and several different players, confirming my point that not one player matches the iPod as a whole. Karma for size, Rockbox for games, DellDJ for backlight, iRiver for optical output... it goes on. The product for you, as a demanding consumer does not exist... well it does. It's called a Sony Viao notebook. A bit on the large side and I hear the battery life isn't all that great compared with other players... ;) Oh, and I've played with the DellDj player, the gen 3 iPod's backlight is a lot better; you can even use it as a flashlight.