The damage inflicted by Israel is so much more clearly demonstrated here: http://www.moiz.ca/coffin.htm one wonders what the motivation was?
One of the primary impacts of the digital revoution on photography has been an enormous rise in the quantity of photos taken. This doesn't mean that the quality of photos has increased, or the number of quality photos has -- it does mean that the editors are Reuters are reviewing thousands of photos on a computer, rather than hundredes of photos on a light table.
Will stuff sneak through? Yes. Is this a particularly heinous example? Who knows. Expect this to only get worse.
This is a great idea for the music industry, and solves their copy protection problems.
It's a horrible idea for consumers. Sure I have a DVD player at home but not in my car. This is risk that the music industry faces every time they change formats.
It's sure better than suing people who have purchased your product in an unencrypted format for using it appropriately though. It's your fault for not encyrpting it in the first place.
DVD audio will be ripped anyway, so this is really a crutch.
"DRM is shorthand for "you really don't own this piece of music you paid $1 for, and that you can't share it, or copy it, or use it on a different computer.""
Arguably you never have owned this piece of music.
The real problem is that while there is only *one* source of DRM (yes there are many, but for the sake of argument follow it) there are multiple forms of copyright. Most DRM policies initiate in the U.S., which essentially means that although I am in Canada I'm subjected to some form of U.S. copyright policy.
DRM is not inherently bad -- we just argue over the definition of fair use.
Ask anyone who owned a Newton -- ok, maybe not the FIRST generation but the later ones -- and this is not remarkable. Newton's worked extremely well, and functioned as my only "personal" computer when I had my First Real Job(tm)
It's a shame really, because Steve killed them as much -- I think -- out of spite for John Sculley as anything else. I'm not saying I *blame* him -- I can only BUY a Mac because Steve did what he did -- but the motivation was very clearly personal on some level.
Ah, Pismo. Lo the heady days when that laptop was a viable machine. They were really nice. I bet mine is still running nicely for some UBC student, with only an upgraded Samsung 40GB hard drive (which I installed myself -- EASILY.)
Unfortunately, tiny form factors ( 1 inch thick) and easy to upgrade modular computers are not a very common combination.
> So you want millions of uninformed uncaring citizens to start determining national policy?
They already do.
This will do nothing to encourage voter turnout though. Voter apathy is a much more complex issue.
Historically, one of the most effective ways to increase voter turnout is to force people to live under dictatorial rule for an extended period of time.
Me? I keep voting in order to AVOID that. Usually it works.
Exactly my point, and my original post was not a troll. The CBC is a public broadcaster and should NOT be excluding the Mac or Linux using public from their streams.
Sure there's a compatible player now, but Windows Streaming Media is NOT going to last for other platforms.
Quicktime would have been a better choice, even, as it supports a large number of "open" codecs. Vidoe's could be streamed as MPEG and audio could be streamed as MP3 (or MP4 and AAC or any of a number of other more widely available formats.)
The Darwin streaming media server would have been a decent platform to build on. Freely available.
Those tax dollars could have gone somewhere other than Redmond, even if they went to Redmond via Toronto first.
Podcasts indeed. CBC podcasts fill much of my iPod. Now I just want the Sunday Edition every week. (I am, after all, already paying for it with my tax dollars...I might as well be able to listen to it at my convenience....all 3 hours.)
The Wii is mentioned so often because, for the first time since....when?...the N64?...somebody is Thinking Different about the input side.
I remember when Lucasfilm released their first N64 game and they were asked if there was something that could have been done differently to the hardware to improve the game. Jokingly, the answer was "More buttons."
N64 seriously changed the controller. Playstation followed (with the late addition of analog control) as did Xbox. Noboby's change the interface substantially since then.
It's nice to see something new, even if I'm not likely to buy a Wii (I don't fit Nintendo's demographic, really.)
Reminds me of the heady days when I was young of separatist debates between Trudeau an dLevesque. Levesque always refered to himself as a Quebecer, not a Canadian.
I suspect Alberta will do the same, at least until the oil is too hard to extract from the tar sands.
The only kingdom ruled by Windows Media is built on a crumbling foundation.
Microsoft has never been a leader is streaming, and they certainly aren't now.
Radio 3 streams in MP3 and is available through iTunes (as well as a number of other ways.) It's also not "always excellent": sometimes Grant Lawrence hosts it.
Yes, it's nice to see Open Source Software being used -- not becuase it's free and I don't want my tax dollars going to waste, but because it does the job better.
But seriously...Windows Media for streaming? That's not open. It doesn't even work well.
And Ogg as the only alternative, in limited numbers?
Gimme a break. Give us a platform independent technology neutral streaming solution. MP3 would even be fine -- it might not be the best solution, but it is the lingua franca of the encoded music world at the moment.
Yes yes. I agree. I increasingly think that growth will finally begin to come from non-PC looking devices.
I say "finally" because this has, of course, been predicted for some time but but has not yet quite come true. Apple still makes more money selling computers than iPods.
There's also a great semantic argument to be had about what is a "PC" but I think it's clear that the beige/grey/black/strawberry coloured box is a PC and a handheld is only partly a PC.
Or maybe "mostly a PC."
Anyway -- I dislike engaging in semantic warfare, preferring instead a good medival siege.
It makes sense because we've hit the tipping point.
As somebody above indicated, we've achieved a point where "Fast Enough" is a meaningful term.
We're doing the same things with computers we did 10 years ago, we're just doing them faster. There needs to be a revolution of functionality to spur demand.
My PowerBook G4 does everything I need it to fairly speedily.
It does a horrible job of decoding and playing back HDTV signals though...it's just not compelling enough to make me update yet.
If you're only hook is negative, it's tough to market.
Chances are your market has experience with what you're up against -- they've used it, maybe they've bought it, they've certainly heard of it otherwise you wouldn't be running up that hill.
Mac OS 9, to cite an example, got no traction with "Switch" because Mac OS 9 was a somewhat dated dog. Mac OS X has some...how much traction has yet to be determined, but it does have some traction.
Until Sega had Sonic, Nintendo's little plumber kept winning the battle. Sonic is still a Sega star, he just doesn't play on their hardware anymore.
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The damage inflicted by Israel is so much more clearly demonstrated here:
http://www.moiz.ca/coffin.htm
one wonders what the motivation was?
One of the primary impacts of the digital revoution on photography has been an enormous rise in the quantity of photos taken. This doesn't mean that the quality of photos has increased, or the number of quality photos has -- it does mean that the editors are Reuters are reviewing thousands of photos on a computer, rather than hundredes of photos on a light table.
Will stuff sneak through? Yes. Is this a particularly heinous example? Who knows. Expect this to only get worse.
> "Is Microsoft purely incompetent and tone-deaf to customers -- or simply counting on IE's non-compliance remaining a de-facto standard?"
I didn't think rhetorical questions had any place on a public discussion board.
This is a great idea for the music industry, and solves their copy protection problems.
It's a horrible idea for consumers. Sure I have a DVD player at home but not in my car. This is risk that the music industry faces every time they change formats.
It's sure better than suing people who have purchased your product in an unencrypted format for using it appropriately though. It's your fault for not encyrpting it in the first place.
DVD audio will be ripped anyway, so this is really a crutch.
Better not charge me any more money either.
"DRM is shorthand for "you really don't own this piece of music you paid $1 for, and that you can't share it, or copy it, or use it on a different computer.""
Arguably you never have owned this piece of music.
The real problem is that while there is only *one* source of DRM (yes there are many, but for the sake of argument follow it) there are multiple forms of copyright. Most DRM policies initiate in the U.S., which essentially means that although I am in Canada I'm subjected to some form of U.S. copyright policy.
DRM is not inherently bad -- we just argue over the definition of fair use.
Creamy goodness?
You're obviously running a different Windows XP than I am.
It seems to depend on the amount and chemical composition of sweat. It used to happen to iBooks.
If yours isn't discolouring it could be because you're not sweating as much: try typing faster.
It ain't done had no effect on me. I'm gonna IM 4ever.
Careful where you keep that chat history active though. Never know what your sysadmin finds interesting.
That's not fair. I'm still free to own a gun -- or several.
Given how Microsoft's security track record has gone, I think I shall take my online books business to a new vendor.
Ask anyone who owned a Newton -- ok, maybe not the FIRST generation but the later ones -- and this is not remarkable. Newton's worked extremely well, and functioned as my only "personal" computer when I had my First Real Job(tm)
It's a shame really, because Steve killed them as much -- I think -- out of spite for John Sculley as anything else. I'm not saying I *blame* him -- I can only BUY a Mac because Steve did what he did -- but the motivation was very clearly personal on some level.
Ah, Pismo. Lo the heady days when that laptop was a viable machine. They were really nice. I bet mine is still running nicely for some UBC student, with only an upgraded Samsung 40GB hard drive (which I installed myself -- EASILY.)
Unfortunately, tiny form factors ( 1 inch thick) and easy to upgrade modular computers are not a very common combination.
> So you want millions of uninformed uncaring citizens to start determining national policy?
They already do.
This will do nothing to encourage voter turnout though. Voter apathy is a much more complex issue.
Historically, one of the most effective ways to increase voter turnout is to force people to live under dictatorial rule for an extended period of time.
Me? I keep voting in order to AVOID that. Usually it works.
You mean my car can't fly?
Oh crap. This is going to be a problem.
> Yes, I'm aware of Nucular, Hydro, Wind, Tidal, Natrual Gas.
You've got two typos here, so I'm not sure if it was meant ironically.
I feel compelled to point out that it's NUCLEAR!
Of course is you had spelt it properly, I was going to jokingly correct it to Nucular.
It says a lot about the world of 24 hour news that this even qualifies.
Exactly my point, and my original post was not a troll. The CBC is a public broadcaster and should NOT be excluding the Mac or Linux using public from their streams.
Sure there's a compatible player now, but Windows Streaming Media is NOT going to last for other platforms.
Quicktime would have been a better choice, even, as it supports a large number of "open" codecs. Vidoe's could be streamed as MPEG and audio could be streamed as MP3 (or MP4 and AAC or any of a number of other more widely available formats.)
The Darwin streaming media server would have been a decent platform to build on. Freely available.
Those tax dollars could have gone somewhere other than Redmond, even if they went to Redmond via Toronto first.
Podcasts indeed. CBC podcasts fill much of my iPod. Now I just want the Sunday Edition every week. (I am, after all, already paying for it with my tax dollars...I might as well be able to listen to it at my convenience....all 3 hours.)
The Wii is mentioned so often because, for the first time since....when?...the N64?...somebody is Thinking Different about the input side.
I remember when Lucasfilm released their first N64 game and they were asked if there was something that could have been done differently to the hardware to improve the game. Jokingly, the answer was "More buttons."
N64 seriously changed the controller. Playstation followed (with the late addition of analog control) as did Xbox. Noboby's change the interface substantially since then.
It's nice to see something new, even if I'm not likely to buy a Wii (I don't fit Nintendo's demographic, really.)
I like how you called Theo an "Albertan."
Reminds me of the heady days when I was young of separatist debates between Trudeau an dLevesque. Levesque always refered to himself as a Quebecer, not a Canadian.
I suspect Alberta will do the same, at least until the oil is too hard to extract from the tar sands.
The only kingdom ruled by Windows Media is built on a crumbling foundation.
Microsoft has never been a leader is streaming, and they certainly aren't now.
Radio 3 streams in MP3 and is available through iTunes (as well as a number of other ways.) It's also not "always excellent": sometimes Grant Lawrence hosts it.
Yes, it's nice to see Open Source Software being used -- not becuase it's free and I don't want my tax dollars going to waste, but because it does the job better.
But seriously...Windows Media for streaming? That's not open. It doesn't even work well.
And Ogg as the only alternative, in limited numbers?
Gimme a break. Give us a platform independent technology neutral streaming solution. MP3 would even be fine -- it might not be the best solution, but it is the lingua franca of the encoded music world at the moment.
Yes yes. I agree. I increasingly think that growth will finally begin to come from non-PC looking devices.
I say "finally" because this has, of course, been predicted for some time but but has not yet quite come true. Apple still makes more money selling computers than iPods.
There's also a great semantic argument to be had about what is a "PC" but I think it's clear that the beige/grey/black/strawberry coloured box is a PC and a handheld is only partly a PC.
Or maybe "mostly a PC."
Anyway -- I dislike engaging in semantic warfare, preferring instead a good medival siege.
It makes sense because we've hit the tipping point.
As somebody above indicated, we've achieved a point where "Fast Enough" is a meaningful term.
We're doing the same things with computers we did 10 years ago, we're just doing them faster. There needs to be a revolution of functionality to spur demand.
My PowerBook G4 does everything I need it to fairly speedily.
It does a horrible job of decoding and playing back HDTV signals though...it's just not compelling enough to make me update yet.
Those bastards.
If you're only hook is negative, it's tough to market.
Chances are your market has experience with what you're up against -- they've used it, maybe they've bought it, they've certainly heard of it otherwise you wouldn't be running up that hill.
Mac OS 9, to cite an example, got no traction with "Switch" because Mac OS 9 was a somewhat dated dog. Mac OS X has some...how much traction has yet to be determined, but it does have some traction.
Until Sega had Sonic, Nintendo's little plumber kept winning the battle. Sonic is still a Sega star, he just doesn't play on their hardware anymore.