What digital media formats work with PlaysForSure? PlaysForSure currently works with the Windows Media Format (WMA, WMV).
I don't know of any music stores that use protected MP3s, since the MP3 spec doesn't include DRM. I think one of Audible's formats might be based on MP3.
Sorry, no. The iPod can't play protected WMAs ("Playsforsure"). Napster, Wal-Mart, MSN, and the other Microsoft partners use this format.
To the best of my knowledge, the only protected music store that's compatible with the iPod is iTunes. (There are stores that use unprotected files such as eMusic, but they tend to have limited selections.)
I was in the Verizon store yesterday (for an hour and fifty minutes, argh, but that's another story) and saw several reasonably nice, small phones without cameras. Nothing as small as a razr, but a few things smaller than, say, my Motorola E815.
During my freshman year at RIT, I lived in a rather tiny dorm room. I kept my alarm clock on my bed, and one morning, the morning of a big CS exam, it got lodged between my bed and the wall, in such a manner that the snooze button was held down. I woke up about a minute into the exam, threw on some clothes, and hopped on a shuttle bus that was right outside my dorm. I got into the 1-hour test about 15 minutes late and was still the first one done. (I got a grade in the high 90's.)
(That was also the same class where the professor once checked his e-mail on the projector and a message with a From: line of SuicideGirls.com was visible.)
And yet your front doorkob still makes use of lock technology that's more than a century old! In unrelated news, I have a new dual core processor, with two 7800 GTX's running in SLI, 4 10,000 RPM Raptor Hard Drives in a RAID array running Windows x64 edition.
Cache may well be reaching the point of diminishing returns. I seem to recall reviewers' benchmarks of 1MB vs. 2MB showing almost no gain, although I'm sure Intel has a set of benchmarks showing massive improvements.
True enough, but the fact that I'm getting porn spam on an address I created specifically for the shuffle even though I didn't give them permission to redistribute my address doesn't endear them to me.
Cornell's law site backs him up; unordered merchandise belongs to the recipient. (Interestingly, I had that link handy because one of the free stuff sites accidentally sent me two iPod shuffles instead of one, and I wanted to know my legal status with regard to the second one.)
Here's a friend's accounting of how organized piracy is in HK: <genjzzz> there are several plazas in hk that sell only computer and video game stuff <genjzzz> a lot of grey market stuff there <genjzzz> and counterfeit stuff like ps accessories <genjzzz> ps2 that is <genjzzz> and oversea versions of consoles that have no reason to be in hk <genjzzz> i bought my cdrs from an organized group of individuals <genjzzz> maybe about 14 in all <genjzzz> anyway, inside one of the plazas, they have a corner shop set up with only color photocopies of the software they have available <genjzzz> about 300 or so <genjzzz> they have look outs at every entrance <genjzzz> so i walk in and find the software i want <genjzzz> and someone take the order and give me a slip with the software's stock numbers on it <genjzzz> then i walk to the other side of the plaza where there's a "cashier" standing around <genjzzz> i give him the slip and the money, he tells me who to see about pick up <genjzzz> usually a few stores away <genjzzz> the cashier gives me a slip with a number on it, that's my receipt to get the items <genjzzz> so the dude tells me where to pick up the software: down the street and up the stairs at some store <genjzzz> in about 15 minutes <genjzzz> so i wait and go up and see some guy with a bunch of cdrs in plastic bags with receipt numbers on them <genjzzz> i give him my receipt and get my software ~ <genjzzz> so they have seperate places for choosing, paying, information, and pick up <genjzzz> and the warehouse of the cdrs is never revealed
This isn't a case of a few guys selling cdrs to friends, it's a huge, well-established business.
My figure's probably a little high, I admit, but yours is with everything possible swapped out to disk. After you minimize notepad, switch back and it'll read from the page file to return some of the swapped pages to RAM and the RAM usage will go up. Then open a dialog box; another HD access, another increase. Repeat and your RAM usage increases. It's not ~2.7MB, but neither is it 212KB. It's probably about 1.3MB, by my guesses based on monitoring page file usage with a more sophisticated task info program.
Thanks for telling me that the figure reported by Task Manager is less than accurate, though.
Sorry, but Windows isn't responsible for Firefox's memory leaks. I use it on both Windows and Solaris, and the memory consumption problems are present on both. My brother runs it on Linux, my roommate runs it on Mac OS X...etc. Honestly, I think the memory leaks are the biggest problem with Firefox right now, and should be the first priority for the team.
No. It would be ironic if they'd posted a digital stream about the death of the digital stream industry. This would be an example of the opposite of irony; things occur in the way they'd be expected to occur.
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No, they're WMA. From the official site:
What digital media formats work with PlaysForSure?
PlaysForSure currently works with the Windows Media Format (WMA, WMV).
I don't know of any music stores that use protected MP3s, since the MP3 spec doesn't include DRM. I think one of Audible's formats might be based on MP3.
(Agreed about marketing talk, heh.)
Sorry, no. The iPod can't play protected WMAs ("Playsforsure"). Napster, Wal-Mart, MSN, and the other Microsoft partners use this format.
To the best of my knowledge, the only protected music store that's compatible with the iPod is iTunes. (There are stores that use unprotected files such as eMusic, but they tend to have limited selections.)
It's "NULL", not "/0" (Or ^@ if you prefer.)
I was in the Verizon store yesterday (for an hour and fifty minutes, argh, but that's another story) and saw several reasonably nice, small phones without cameras. Nothing as small as a razr, but a few things smaller than, say, my Motorola E815.
During my freshman year at RIT, I lived in a rather tiny dorm room. I kept my alarm clock on my bed, and one morning, the morning of a big CS exam, it got lodged between my bed and the wall, in such a manner that the snooze button was held down. I woke up about a minute into the exam, threw on some clothes, and hopped on a shuttle bus that was right outside my dorm. I got into the 1-hour test about 15 minutes late and was still the first one done. (I got a grade in the high 90's.)
(That was also the same class where the professor once checked his e-mail on the projector and a message with a From: line of SuicideGirls.com was visible.)
And yet your front doorkob still makes use of lock technology that's more than a century old!
In unrelated news, I have a new dual core processor, with two 7800 GTX's running in SLI, 4 10,000 RPM Raptor Hard Drives in a RAID array running Windows x64 edition.
That's not a P4-m, that's a Pentium M. Similar names, big difference.
Cache may well be reaching the point of diminishing returns. I seem to recall reviewers' benchmarks of 1MB vs. 2MB showing almost no gain, although I'm sure Intel has a set of benchmarks showing massive improvements.
It's GNU/LCARS, dammit!
Seems like most spyware has the same level of "informed approval" that store-bought commercial software does: An EULA that nobody reads.
It's a feel-good law.
Good point, thanks.
True enough, but the fact that I'm getting porn spam on an address I created specifically for the shuffle even though I didn't give them permission to redistribute my address doesn't endear them to me.
Cornell's law site backs him up; unordered merchandise belongs to the recipient. (Interestingly, I had that link handy because one of the free stuff sites accidentally sent me two iPod shuffles instead of one, and I wanted to know my legal status with regard to the second one.)
It's been done on the Xbox. I'm not good at that system myself, but I understand there are some people who can use it to type quite quickly.
You might try getting the EFF in on this.
Here's a friend's accounting of how organized piracy is in HK:
<genjzzz> there are several plazas in hk that sell only computer and video game stuff
<genjzzz> a lot of grey market stuff there
<genjzzz> and counterfeit stuff like ps accessories
<genjzzz> ps2 that is
<genjzzz> and oversea versions of consoles that have no reason to be in hk
<genjzzz> i bought my cdrs from an organized group of individuals
<genjzzz> maybe about 14 in all
<genjzzz> anyway, inside one of the plazas, they have a corner shop set up with only color photocopies of the software they have available
<genjzzz> about 300 or so
<genjzzz> they have look outs at every entrance
<genjzzz> so i walk in and find the software i want
<genjzzz> and someone take the order and give me a slip with the software's stock numbers on it
<genjzzz> then i walk to the other side of the plaza where there's a "cashier" standing around
<genjzzz> i give him the slip and the money, he tells me who to see about pick up
<genjzzz> usually a few stores away
<genjzzz> the cashier gives me a slip with a number on it, that's my receipt to get the items
<genjzzz> so the dude tells me where to pick up the software: down the street and up the stairs at some store
<genjzzz> in about 15 minutes
<genjzzz> so i wait and go up and see some guy with a bunch of cdrs in plastic bags with receipt numbers on them
<genjzzz> i give him my receipt and get my software ~
<genjzzz> so they have seperate places for choosing, paying, information, and pick up
<genjzzz> and the warehouse of the cdrs is never revealed
This isn't a case of a few guys selling cdrs to friends, it's a huge, well-established business.
My figure's probably a little high, I admit, but yours is with everything possible swapped out to disk. After you minimize notepad, switch back and it'll read from the page file to return some of the swapped pages to RAM and the RAM usage will go up. Then open a dialog box; another HD access, another increase. Repeat and your RAM usage increases. It's not ~2.7MB, but neither is it 212KB. It's probably about 1.3MB, by my guesses based on monitoring page file usage with a more sophisticated task info program.
Thanks for telling me that the figure reported by Task Manager is less than accurate, though.
According to Task Manager, Notepad on Windows XP takes up 2,768KB of memory when you start it without a file loaded.
Mind-blowing, isn't it? If anyone has stats for analagous programs on OS X or X, I'd be curious to see them.
The last time I read something that bad, I was surrounded by Vogons.
I think he meant he bought official commercial releases after having seen the fansubs.
Sell the iPods at a loss and make up for it with iTunes. Sell iTunes at a loss and make up for it with iPods. Then make up for both with volume!
Actually, it was a joke then, and it still is now. Internal company joke, to be specific.
Or when their team wins.
Sorry, but Windows isn't responsible for Firefox's memory leaks. I use it on both Windows and Solaris, and the memory consumption problems are present on both. My brother runs it on Linux, my roommate runs it on Mac OS X...etc.
Honestly, I think the memory leaks are the biggest problem with Firefox right now, and should be the first priority for the team.
No. It would be ironic if they'd posted a digital stream about the death of the digital stream industry. This would be an example of the opposite of irony; things occur in the way they'd be expected to occur.