Okay all you folks who said, "I'd pay for music rather than steal it" if they would just remove the DRM now's the time to go visit puretracks. In the future I want to see every post complaining about Apple DRM or MS DRM state an oath at the bottom that they have actually bought music from puretrack. Otherwise you will be condsidered a hypocrit and ignored.
And to everyton else please make sure you reply to all such posters with a question" How many puretracks recordings do you own"?
Even if their selection is small you are obliged to buy something to support the movement and show the world this giant latent market of people who really dont want to steal music and would really pay but are currently rightteously protesting DRM and thus are forced to steal. Show them the market for righteous people like yourself exists. This is the first one to put major bands on it's free list in quatitity. If you dont' support them no then there wont be more...
I have noticed the same. it's the one language that sticks with me despite breaks. And anything I forget is in the man pages in plain english not to auto-matically generated document.
Another way to lock a set of keys that works at "compile" time rather than runtime (that is it works on the class and not the instance, is to use pseudohashes. This actually makes the code faster too. Effectively what it is doing is using an array rather than a hash and all the keys are like enums. But all that's hidden behind a layer of syntactic sugar so it looks just like a normal perl hash-based object.
and two guys that are each half black and half white, but on oposite sides of their faces, oh and a big cache guns. The ark arrives empty aside for kryton, an evolved cat, a hologram, a sentient computer, and the last man alive_ a vending machine repair man.
on mars the viking landers made a suprising discovery. Once every year the temperature and pressure conditions cause the entire atmosphere to shake globally. The seasonal cylce is not symmetric so it only happens once a year and it happens very close to the same day every year. This might seem weird but the martian atmosphere is about 100th as dense as ours so the sound waves can get pretty huge. I happen to known this because I helped discover it (using fortran 4!)
if I understood it correctly, this mandatory cooling off period during which returns must be accepted would only apply to content that has interoperability problems. In other words, it is very likely that it would only apply to DRM-protected content.
So it would obviously not apply to Ogg Vorbis or MP3 music files because these are not tied to specific devices.
How do you figure. Ogg vorbis must be the least interoperable format in existence, playing only on amost immeasurably small number of players. MP3 only plays on players whose companies have paid the Fraunhoffer folks for a liscence so it's not interopeable unless of course you are want to force people to use an unliscenced player (e.g. Linux).
So the question is, when do we draw the line and say that something should work for most folks. As it stands, there are many pure MP3 Players and an even greater number of AAC/MP3 players. Surely the number of AAC players is sufficient to say the expectation of operability is very high.
My library has this and the librarians are clueless how bad this is. The main problem is this the company and the librarians and the broshures they hand out say it's for MP3 players. well it's not: it only plays on WMA 10 compabtible devices. This means no ipods, very few Mp3 players even the ones that play the older WMA files. It won't play on a mac and it won't play on linux computers. And it won't even play on older windows machines that don't have WM player 10. Sure you can download it but is granny gonna do that?
Also the way the check out works is that you can check it out once for two weeks, renew it once for two weeks, and then you can never check out the same book a second time, making it essential to have multiple fake library IDs if you want to get through some long book.
Now given that the libraries have fixed budgets I'm sure this resulting in the purchase of fewer CDs . The 95% of the world that does not have a WMA 10 compatible "MP3" player is subsidizing this.
If you want to use it you have to not only buy a WMP 10 compaitble Music player, but now you also have to use some new music management system different from the one you use for your other players to transfer the audio. You have to have a windows computer too.
I guess the most galling thing to me was that librarians kept showing me the printed broshure from the company saying it worked with any Mp3 player and insisting I must be mistaken.
BY the way, there is an ancient market-based solution to this conundrum where a socially good activity is not perused because of insufficient profit margin. Rather than revert to socialized, state sponsorship which is paid from the people's existing wealth, the state can instead create new wealth by granting a monopoly on the activity. In this case, granting a limited term monopoly, perhaps with second source requirements, to the high bidder drug company, will ensure that the drug is studied sufficiently and brought to market.
This goes way back. England used to grant monopolies on piracy markets to so-called "privateers" who where effectively an extension of the navy to perform what was considered as a public service of checking spanish adventurism and harassing the spanish colonies.
There's also an interesting, perhaps cautionary, market based tale of woe regarding privateering. In the earliest ever stockmarket boom, really at it's infancy in england, the south sea company was formed to supposedly bankroll privateers to raid spanish treasure ships. The apparent return on investment was huge and it sucked up nearly all of the free investment wealth. At one point the company was so flush with cash on hand that in return for favors and grants from the government it in turn absorbed the entire national debt of england. As you are probably guess by now this turned out to be a ponzi scheme with new investors money being paid to old investors to fake a high rate of return. When it collapsed if was known as the South Sea Bubble crisis.
What was particularly remarkable about this even was that because of it's run-away investment attraction it drove out many other public offerings for other companies. Two such offerings were for 1) a concept for an automatic machine gun that "shoots round and square" bullets 2) steam powered high speed troop transport ships. These technologies were not brought to market. Notably these ideas languished till well after the revolutionary war in the colonies.
If the british had had rapidly deployable troop transports, and machine guns, in 1776, it's a fair bet that the queen still would be on the united states money and people in the US would speak english.
in short market forces are powerful. they can be used for bad but they can be used for good too. Only idiots would assert that free-information, lack of patents and property rights, and freedom from monopolies, is somehow a superior state of existence.
If this drug were patentable then it would be worth the cost of bringing it to market, setting up factories, distributing it, and undertaking the risks if it caused harm. But it's not so the drug founders. It might not even be any good after. But we'll never know because the research to really test it in clinical trials won't get done.
One could bring this to market through a socialized medicine scheme of course. Or one could let third world countries implicitly test it for us for safety and efficacy.
It's a really good example of why patents and intellectual property are good things. They encourage private investment in the public interest by creating a profit incentive.
Forget the religious wackos.
Now instead of one handed cell phone using drivers were going to have people diving with their knees while they use the other hand to choke their chicken.
Insurance rates on teenage drivers are higher. We don't say all cars must be accident free but we recognize group risks are higher for some identifiable groups. insurance rates are higher if you own a race car.
ISP connection fees should be regulated so that if you own a windows computer you are treated as astonomically more likely to poison the internet than if you don't.
Note I'm not saying that because that windows machines pay more because there are more windows botnets. That would not be fair since there are more windows machines out there so naturally they have more instances of botnets. The second thing is that windows Bot's hurt other windows users more than they hurt the rest of us. So they cant be penalized for that either.
What I am saying is that 1) per captita windows machines have more bots than other systems 2) that bots don't just hurt windows user but do affect others.
it says 1 in 4 are infected. But lets drill down. First take out all the mac and linux and Unix computers since the botnet rate, while not zero, is probably not signiciant. We can also exlcude most but not all embedded system. Since mac and linux and Unix , and embedded systems acocunt for more than a quarter of the market this means that most Windows computers are infected at a rate closer to 1 in 3.
Next remove all the server clusters and the majority of computers in highly active IT bussiness envirmonments. We can probably exclude most military computers. That takes out another quarter of the machines.
So basically your personal computer at home or poorly maintained bussiness machines are carrying the bulk of the infection and it's not entirely way off to say the botnet rate is 1 in 2 for windows.
I'm just guessing here but it seems to me that there was an easy way to implement this. Namely for any short search typed in, append the word "googlebomb". anything that has become a google bomb is likely to have sites discussing how the term has become a google bomb. Then they can give negative page ranks to any site pointed to from a site discussing "googlebombs".
Two points: How about buying a ROKR then. And my main point was this. Apple is not stopping anyone from implementing a player since they provide itunes players that run on windows. If all the implementation suck then is that apple's faults.
This baords will run windows and Quicktime, I note that the Norweigans banned aipods because they claimed there were no portable players for Fairplay other than ipods. Well this system will play fairplay. So will the OQO and other pocket system, as will even tinier battery powered systems. Why do they say that Fairplay is ipod only?
Itunes/fairplay plays on lots of devices.
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Every windowsOS device that runs quicktime plays apple fairplay drm. for example an OQO is a pocket itunes playing device. What do they mean fairlplay only plays on ipods. Conversely you don't have to buy fairplay music to play it on your ipod. You can buy or load MP3s.
So I don't get it. You can play itunes/fairplay on tonnes of devices not made by apple. and you don't have to buy itunes software.
Moreover here's a hypothetical. Suppose the itunes software had two buttons on it. One button was marked "load my ipod with some music I bought at the itunes store" and the other button was marked "load my non-apple music player with some music I bought at the itunes music store".
Would that satisfy the norweigans? well itunes already has those features, just the buttons are marked differently. The second button is marked "convert my itunes music to something my non-apple player can play".
So does that mean that Zune and Sony's Atrak and WMA are also banned? All of those only play on one brand of machine or operating system.
Well what about software that only runs on one operating system? After Ipods can run other operating system sso it's not the ipod that is doing the lock-in it's the operating system on the ipod.
By that reasoning all windows software is windows only and must be banned.
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Okay all you folks who said, "I'd pay for music rather than steal it" if they would just remove the DRM now's the time to go visit puretracks. In the future I want to see every post complaining about Apple DRM or MS DRM state an oath at the bottom that they have actually bought music from puretrack. Otherwise you will be condsidered a hypocrit and ignored.
And to everyton else please make sure you reply to all such posters with a question" How many puretracks recordings do you own"?
Even if their selection is small you are obliged to buy something to support the movement and show the world this giant latent market of people who really dont want to steal music and would really pay but are currently rightteously protesting DRM and thus are forced to steal. Show them the market for righteous people like yourself exists. This is the first one to put major bands on it's free list in quatitity. If you dont' support them no then there wont be more...
I have noticed the same. it's the one language that sticks with me despite breaks. And anything I forget is in the man pages in plain english not to auto-matically generated document.
Another way to lock a set of keys that works at "compile" time rather than runtime (that is it works on the class and not the instance, is to use pseudohashes. This actually makes the code faster too. Effectively what it is doing is using an array rather than a hash and all the keys are like enums. But all that's hidden behind a layer of syntactic sugar so it looks just like a normal perl hash-based object.
and two guys that are each half black and half white, but on oposite sides of their faces, oh and a big cache guns. The ark arrives empty aside for kryton, an evolved cat, a hologram, a sentient computer, and the last man alive_ a vending machine repair man.
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reference and here and here's a picture of the spare lander that was never launched the boom on it is the meteorology sensor
on mars the viking landers made a suprising discovery. Once every year the temperature and pressure conditions cause the entire atmosphere to shake globally. The seasonal cylce is not symmetric so it only happens once a year and it happens very close to the same day every year. This might seem weird but the martian atmosphere is about 100th as dense as ours so the sound waves can get pretty huge. I happen to known this because I helped discover it (using fortran 4!)
So it would obviously not apply to Ogg Vorbis or MP3 music files because these are not tied to specific devices.
How do you figure. Ogg vorbis must be the least interoperable format in existence, playing only on amost immeasurably small number of players. MP3 only plays on players whose companies have paid the Fraunhoffer folks for a liscence so it's not interopeable unless of course you are want to force people to use an unliscenced player (e.g. Linux).So the question is, when do we draw the line and say that something should work for most folks. As it stands, there are many pure MP3 Players and an even greater number of AAC/MP3 players. Surely the number of AAC players is sufficient to say the expectation of operability is very high.
It surely be pirates, jim lad. Never a truer tale been told. All this shows is that pirate decline may be associated with cosmic rays.
It's well know that the decline of seafaring pirates correlates the rise of global warming me hearties. sunspots too
My library has this and the librarians are clueless how bad this is.
The main problem is this the company and the librarians and the broshures they hand out say it's for MP3 players. well it's not: it only plays on WMA 10 compabtible devices. This means no ipods, very few Mp3 players even the ones that play the older WMA files. It won't play on a mac and it won't play on linux computers. And it won't even play on older windows machines that don't have WM player 10. Sure you can download it but is granny gonna do that?
Also the way the check out works is that you can check it out once for two weeks, renew it once for two weeks, and then you can never check out the same book a second time, making it essential to have multiple fake library IDs if you want to get through some long book.
Now given that the libraries have fixed budgets I'm sure this resulting in the purchase of fewer CDs . The 95% of the world that does not have a WMA 10 compatible "MP3" player is subsidizing this.
If you want to use it you have to not only buy a WMP 10 compaitble Music player, but now you also have to use some new music management system different from the one you use for your other players to transfer the audio. You have to have a windows computer too.
I guess the most galling thing to me was that librarians kept showing me the printed broshure from the company saying it worked with any Mp3 player and insisting I must be mistaken.
Nah, they are just waiting for Steve Jobs to show them how to make it insanely great and find a market for them
BY the way, there is an ancient market-based solution to this conundrum where a socially good activity is not perused because of insufficient profit margin. Rather than revert to socialized, state sponsorship which is paid from the people's existing wealth, the state can instead create new wealth by granting a monopoly on the activity. In this case, granting a limited term monopoly, perhaps with second source requirements, to the high bidder drug company, will ensure that the drug is studied sufficiently and brought to market.
This goes way back. England used to grant monopolies on piracy markets to so-called "privateers" who where effectively an extension of the navy to perform what was considered as a public service of checking spanish adventurism and harassing the spanish colonies.
There's also an interesting, perhaps cautionary, market based tale of woe regarding privateering. In the earliest ever stockmarket boom, really at it's infancy in england, the south sea company was formed to supposedly bankroll privateers to raid spanish treasure ships. The apparent return on investment was huge and it sucked up nearly all of the free investment wealth. At one point the company was so flush with cash on hand that in return for favors and grants from the government it in turn absorbed the entire national debt of england. As you are probably guess by now this turned out to be a ponzi scheme with new investors money being paid to old investors to fake a high rate of return. When it collapsed if was known as the South Sea Bubble crisis.
What was particularly remarkable about this even was that because of it's run-away investment attraction it drove out many other public offerings for other companies. Two such offerings were for 1) a concept for an automatic machine gun that "shoots round and square" bullets 2) steam powered high speed troop transport ships. These technologies were not brought to market. Notably these ideas languished till well after the revolutionary war in the colonies.
If the british had had rapidly deployable troop transports, and machine guns, in 1776, it's a fair bet that the queen still would be on the united states money and people in the US would speak english.
in short market forces are powerful. they can be used for bad but they can be used for good too. Only idiots would assert that free-information, lack of patents and property rights, and freedom from monopolies, is somehow a superior state of existence.
If this drug were patentable then it would be worth the cost of bringing it to market, setting up factories, distributing it, and undertaking the risks if it caused harm. But it's not so the drug founders. It might not even be any good after. But we'll never know because the research to really test it in clinical trials won't get done.
One could bring this to market through a socialized medicine scheme of course. Or one could let third world countries implicitly test it for us for safety and efficacy.
It's a really good example of why patents and intellectual property are good things. They encourage private investment in the public interest by creating a profit incentive.
Hey thank you for pointing this out. I did not know about this. JSON and YAML are pretty nice.
Forget the religious wackos. Now instead of one handed cell phone using drivers were going to have people diving with their knees while they use the other hand to choke their chicken.
The nice thing about the internet is no one knows you're a dog.
Insurance rates on teenage drivers are higher. We don't say all cars must be accident free but we recognize group risks are higher for some identifiable groups. insurance rates are higher if you own a race car.
ISP connection fees should be regulated so that if you own a windows computer you are treated as astonomically more likely to poison the internet than if you don't.
Note I'm not saying that because that windows machines pay more because there are more windows botnets. That would not be fair since there are more windows machines out there so naturally they have more instances of botnets. The second thing is that windows Bot's hurt other windows users more than they hurt the rest of us. So they cant be penalized for that either.
What I am saying is that
1) per captita windows machines have more bots than other systems
2) that bots don't just hurt windows user but do affect others.
it says 1 in 4 are infected. But lets drill down. First take out all the mac and linux and Unix computers since the botnet rate, while not zero, is probably not signiciant. We can also exlcude most but not all embedded system. Since mac and linux and Unix , and embedded systems acocunt for more than a quarter of the market this means that most Windows computers are infected at a rate closer to 1 in 3.
Next remove all the server clusters and the majority of computers in highly active IT bussiness envirmonments. We can probably exclude most military computers. That takes out another quarter of the machines.
So basically your personal computer at home or poorly maintained bussiness machines are carrying the bulk of the infection and it's not entirely way off to say the botnet rate is 1 in 2 for windows.
I'm just guessing here but it seems to me that there was an easy way to implement this. Namely for any short search typed in, append the word "googlebomb". anything that has become a google bomb is likely to have sites discussing how the term has become a google bomb. Then they can give negative page ranks to any site pointed to from a site discussing "googlebombs".
Two points: How about buying a ROKR then. And my main point was this. Apple is not stopping anyone from implementing a player since they provide itunes players that run on windows. If all the implementation suck then is that apple's faults.
What about a ROKR? it plays itunes music.
This baords will run windows and Quicktime, I note that the Norweigans banned aipods because they claimed there were no portable players for Fairplay other than ipods. Well this system will play fairplay. So will the OQO and other pocket system, as will even tinier battery powered systems. Why do they say that Fairplay is ipod only?
Every windowsOS device that runs quicktime plays apple fairplay drm. for example an OQO is a pocket itunes playing device. What do they mean fairlplay only plays on ipods. Conversely you don't have to buy fairplay music to play it on your ipod. You can buy or load MP3s.
So I don't get it. You can play itunes/fairplay on tonnes of devices not made by apple. and you don't have to buy itunes software.
Moreover here's a hypothetical. Suppose the itunes software had two buttons on it. One button was marked "load my ipod with some music I bought at the itunes store" and the other button was marked "load my non-apple music player with some music I bought at the itunes music store".
Would that satisfy the norweigans? well itunes already has those features, just the buttons are marked differently. The second button is marked "convert my itunes music to something my non-apple player can play".
So does that mean that Zune and Sony's Atrak and WMA are also banned? All of those only play on one brand of machine or operating system.
Well what about software that only runs on one operating system? After Ipods can run other operating system sso it's not the ipod that is doing the lock-in it's the operating system on the ipod.
By that reasoning all windows software is windows only and must be banned.