Why would it slow down the pace of innovation? Apple uses its iTools to sell computers. If they were open-source, every company would use them and improve them (since it would boost sales for everyone). They wouldn't be able to use it as a competitive edge, but it would still increase sales, so they would contribute.
Basically, an open-source project cannot and should not innovate until it is out of the catching-up stage. Such projects, like the Linux kernel, are quite innovative. Projects which are behind their commercial counterparts cannot afford to do that.
Also, consider the following. Free software is kind of like the proverbial tortoise: it doesn't move very quickly, but it does catch up pretty fast if you sit still. So it stimulates commercial companies to make better products. Do you think Microsoft would ever make a solid desktop OS like WinXP if Linux didn't exist? I tend to doubt that.
Hey, dumbass, certificates cost money. Lots of money. If you want to pay through the ass to get every little e-mail server a certificate, then your idea is good. Otherwise, it's pretty stupid.
If you generate your own certificates, then there isn't much point in having the system, right smartass? Or do you think spammers would have a problem with generating a new certificate for every batch of spam?
Your argument doesn't hold water, either. LInspire competes on the basis of price and functionality, not on the basis of having a better MP3 player than somebody else. Therefore, it makes sense for them to copy stuff as much as possible and pass the savings on to the consumer.
Apple is competing on the basis of a better UI for a high price, and is losing to Microsoft (who innovates only as much as necessary to be one step ahead of Linux). I fail to see how innovation is the only path to success. Many companies succeed by just making rock-solid, reliable products.
If Linspire ever gets into a dominant position, it wouldn't have anyone to rip off of. But then they could actually afford to spend money on R&D, like Microsoft and Apple do.
Do you honestly think it is better for someone to be homeless and unemployed than to work in a "sweatshop" earning relatively substantial wages? Yes, many workers in third world countries earn tiny wages by US standards. However, keep in mind that the cost of living in the 3rd world is also tiny compared to US standards.
Another question: where the hell do you shop? It's damn near impossible to find U.S.-made products these days.
Now that states are trying out such asinine measures as yanking your DL for thing that have nothing to do with driving, it's time to re-assert the reasons why we delegate the power to control the roads to the state in the first place.
Why exactly do you think driving a car is some kind of natural right? If you don't pay parking tickets, you are breaking the law. Why exactly does the state have to let you keep your license? What do you suggest as an alternate and effective means of enforcement?
if you don't have a contract with Apple for the iTMS, you don't have a license to the music
I don't have to sign a contract when I buy a CD, and I don't agree to any contracts when I buy an AAC file from iTMS. I pay my money, I get my music. No contracts needed.
Why are you assuming that click-wrap agreements are bulletproof? I, for one, believe a contract is not valid unless both parties knowingly sign it. A mouse click is not a signature, and neither is a credit card transaction for that matter. I can buy a song from iTunes without signing a single piece of paper, so their EULA is not exactly a contract.
Also, burning to a CD and then ripping will inevitably degrade quality. It is also a hassle.
If the 128Kbps AAC files had any quality to begin with. Excuse me, but if you don't notice that the quality sucks, one of the following three things is true: - You are deaf - You have a very shitty pair of headphones or speakers - You don't listen to the music, and just use it as background noise
Try actually listening to some uncompressed music sometime and then to the compressed version. The difference is obvious.
You are basically saying that just because something may be illegal it is morally wrong. That is a fallacy. The abolitionists in the US in the 19th century routinely broke the law -- and did the right thing. So drop the legal argument.
DRM is wrong because you are essentially paying for a very volatile right under the guise of buying music. Think about it. If the labels talk Apple into restricting your rights some more (and they eventually will), then your expensive collection of DRM iTunes files suddenly becomes worthless with the next OS update. In a truly DRM world, it would become worthless as soon as someone changes one bit on one server somewhere.
Do you think this is right? I feel it is not. If I paid for an iTunes song, I should be able to do the same things with it as with a physical CD single. Why is converting a song from one format to another for your personal use somehow wrong? What if you want to listen to your iTunes song on a non-Apple player?
No, you dumb fuck. Hydroelectric energy originates from the Sun (which causes water to evaporate and thus keeps the flow going). The only gravitational field that does anything is that of the moon (which causes tides).
The GNOME people seem to be completely, totally, and utterly clueless with regard to GUI design. That the spatial nautilus concept is horrible is evident from merely reading the description. Window memory? Double-clicking the middle button?? Holding shift while double-middle-clicking? What the hell were they thinking?
This is not an intuitive interface, it's just a bad interface. It is another case where some feature got implemented simply because the developer thought it would be cool or whatever. If it takes a proficient user a WEEK to adjust to it, then it means that it is bad.
I think GNOME developers better stick to copying features from Windows or MacOS because they do not have the slightest clue with regard to interface design. This is not a troll, just an observation that GNOME is heading in a completely wrong direction.
Wrong. Conspiracy theories cannot be *proved*. You don't start by assuming that 1=2 and then trying to disprove it. If you think 1=2, you have to prove it.
Very easily. The magnet is shielded with metal, so the field does not reach the platters. By the way, you can have pretty strong magnetic fields outside the hard drive that won't do jack shit because the hard drive has a metal case.
How do you know he had that power? He did not own title to the software, so he did not have that power. It's extremely shaky legal ground as far as I am concerned. As in, VIA is taking a major lawsuit risk here should AOL care to pursue the matter. It would be much easier to implement a clean-room clone than to try to legalize the original codebase.
If some Microsoft employee posts the Windows code under the GPL, that will not make the code GPL. If Frankel had no power to approve the release under the GPL, then it was unauthorized and the GPL does not apply.
Why are you arguing about whether apple is a miserable failure? I said they are a niche player, which is obvious. This thread was about processors, anyway. And you said the same thing I was saying - people don't care much about processor architecture when buying a computer.
I have the following suggestions for you: - Don't change your password over the wireless network - Don't stir shit up too much. Complain to somebody in the IT department, and then complain to someone in a position of authority (the dean, etc). - If that doesn't produce the desired results, forget about it. DO NOT threaten anyone with anything, and don't tell anyone you sniffed passwords. Doing that can land you in jail pretty easily, assuming the network administrator is sufficiently incompetent.
Otherwise, just forget about the whole thing. SSNs and DOBs are not very hard to obtain, you know.
iTunes is still very much overpriced. 99c is NOT a decent cost for a crappy 128Kbps protected compressed file. It might be borderline OK for a lossless FLAC file with no DRM, but it would still be borderline. Not to mention that you do not get media or CD artwork if you buy songs from iTunes.
The only reason iTunes is somewhat successful is because Apple users are used to paying high prices for everything, so naturally they think it's "reasonable". Try to extrapolate that to the non-Mac crowd, and it will fail miserably. There's a reason why Apple is not bragging much about Windows ITMS sales. That's because they are miniscule.
Please shut the fuck up. You probably bitch about how the MS EULA is illegal (after all, you are an Apple user), yet a clickwrap license on iTMS is somehow a legal contract now. One word. Hypocrite.
Apple zealots are so hypocritical. They see nothing wrong with DeCSS, everything wrong with the DMCA, and yet a program which is exactly like DeCSS is somehow MORALLY wrong. You people look like regular idiots.
The problem here has nothing to do with the headphone jack. It has to do with not using a ribbon cable between two circuit boards.
There's only one board in the mini as far as I can tell from the pictures.
Is it really possible that adding a drop of epoxy (if the headphone jack were the problem in the first place) could make or break a product this expensive?
Yes, if they already have a production run started. The ipod is a low-margin product according to Apple, so a few extra bucks will add up fast.
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Why would it slow down the pace of innovation? Apple uses its iTools to sell computers. If they were open-source, every company would use them and improve them (since it would boost sales for everyone). They wouldn't be able to use it as a competitive edge, but it would still increase sales, so they would contribute.
Basically, an open-source project cannot and should not innovate until it is out of the catching-up stage. Such projects, like the Linux kernel, are quite innovative. Projects which are behind their commercial counterparts cannot afford to do that.
Also, consider the following. Free software is kind of like the proverbial tortoise: it doesn't move very quickly, but it does catch up pretty fast if you sit still. So it stimulates commercial companies to make better products. Do you think Microsoft would ever make a solid desktop OS like WinXP if Linux didn't exist? I tend to doubt that.
Hey, dumbass, certificates cost money. Lots of money. If you want to pay through the ass to get every little e-mail server a certificate, then your idea is good. Otherwise, it's pretty stupid.
If you generate your own certificates, then there isn't much point in having the system, right smartass? Or do you think spammers would have a problem with generating a new certificate for every batch of spam?
Your argument doesn't hold water, either. LInspire competes on the basis of price and functionality, not on the basis of having a better MP3 player than somebody else. Therefore, it makes sense for them to copy stuff as much as possible and pass the savings on to the consumer.
Apple is competing on the basis of a better UI for a high price, and is losing to Microsoft (who innovates only as much as necessary to be one step ahead of Linux). I fail to see how innovation is the only path to success. Many companies succeed by just making rock-solid, reliable products.
If Linspire ever gets into a dominant position, it wouldn't have anyone to rip off of. But then they could actually afford to spend money on R&D, like Microsoft and Apple do.
Nice job replying as an AC. You BOTH are the biggest retards on slashdot.
Do you honestly think it is better for someone to be homeless and unemployed than to work in a
"sweatshop" earning relatively substantial wages? Yes, many workers in third world countries earn tiny wages by US standards. However, keep in mind that the cost of living in the 3rd world is also tiny compared to US standards.
Another question: where the hell do you shop? It's damn near impossible to find U.S.-made products these days.
Now that states are trying out such asinine measures as yanking your DL for thing that have nothing to do with driving, it's time to re-assert the reasons why we delegate the power to control the roads to the state in the first place.
Why exactly do you think driving a car is some kind of natural right? If you don't pay parking tickets, you are breaking the law. Why exactly does the state have to let you keep your license? What do you suggest as an alternate and effective means of enforcement?
if you don't have a contract with Apple for the iTMS, you don't have a license to the music
I don't have to sign a contract when I buy a CD, and I don't agree to any contracts when I buy an AAC file from iTMS. I pay my money, I get my music. No contracts needed.
Why are you assuming that click-wrap agreements are bulletproof? I, for one, believe a contract is not valid unless both parties knowingly sign it. A mouse click is not a signature, and neither is a credit card transaction for that matter. I can buy a song from iTunes without signing a single piece of paper, so their EULA is not exactly a contract.
Also, burning to a CD and then ripping will inevitably degrade quality. It is also a hassle.
If the 128Kbps AAC files had any quality to begin with. Excuse me, but if you don't notice that the quality sucks, one of the following three things is true:
- You are deaf
- You have a very shitty pair of headphones or speakers
- You don't listen to the music, and just use it as background noise
Try actually listening to some uncompressed music sometime and then to the compressed version. The difference is obvious.
You are basically saying that just because something may be illegal it is morally wrong. That is a fallacy. The abolitionists in the US in the 19th century routinely broke the law -- and did the right thing. So drop the legal argument.
DRM is wrong because you are essentially paying for a very volatile right under the guise of buying music. Think about it. If the labels talk Apple into restricting your rights some more (and they eventually will), then your expensive collection of DRM iTunes files suddenly becomes worthless with the next OS update. In a truly DRM world, it would become worthless as soon as someone changes one bit on one server somewhere.
Do you think this is right? I feel it is not. If I paid for an iTunes song, I should be able to do the same things with it as with a physical CD single. Why is converting a song from one format to another for your personal use somehow wrong? What if you want to listen to your iTunes song on a non-Apple player?
No, you dumb fuck. Hydroelectric energy originates from the Sun (which causes water to evaporate and thus keeps the flow going). The only gravitational field that does anything is that of the moon (which causes tides).
An even simpler explanation: you would be CREATING ENERGY. Which is impossible.
The GNOME people seem to be completely, totally, and utterly clueless with regard to GUI design. That the spatial nautilus concept is horrible is evident from merely reading the description. Window memory? Double-clicking the middle button?? Holding shift while double-middle-clicking? What the hell were they thinking?
This is not an intuitive interface, it's just a bad interface. It is another case where some feature got implemented simply because the developer thought it would be cool or whatever. If it takes a proficient user a WEEK to adjust to it, then it means that it is bad.
I think GNOME developers better stick to copying features from Windows or MacOS because they do not have the slightest clue with regard to interface design. This is not a troll, just an observation that GNOME is heading in a completely wrong direction.
Wrong. Conspiracy theories cannot be *proved*. You don't start by assuming that 1=2 and then trying to disprove it. If you think 1=2, you have to prove it.
Very easily. The magnet is shielded with metal, so the field does not reach the platters. By the way, you can have pretty strong magnetic fields outside the hard drive that won't do jack shit because the hard drive has a metal case.
How do you know he had that power? He did not own title to the software, so he did not have that power. It's extremely shaky legal ground as far as I am concerned. As in, VIA is taking a major lawsuit risk here should AOL care to pursue the matter. It would be much easier to implement a clean-room clone than to try to legalize the original codebase.
If some Microsoft employee posts the Windows code under the GPL, that will not make the code GPL. If Frankel had no power to approve the release under the GPL, then it was unauthorized and the GPL does not apply.
Actually, it's called FERPA. Sarbanes-Oxley has nothing to do with privacy or colleges.
Why are you arguing about whether apple is a miserable failure? I said they are a niche player, which is obvious. This thread was about processors, anyway. And you said the same thing I was saying - people don't care much about processor architecture when buying a computer.
I have the following suggestions for you:
- Don't change your password over the wireless network
- Don't stir shit up too much. Complain to somebody in the IT department, and then complain to someone in a position of authority (the dean, etc).
- If that doesn't produce the desired results, forget about it. DO NOT threaten anyone with anything, and don't tell anyone you sniffed passwords. Doing that can land you in jail pretty easily, assuming the network administrator is sufficiently incompetent.
Otherwise, just forget about the whole thing. SSNs and DOBs are not very hard to obtain, you know.
iTunes is still very much overpriced. 99c is NOT a decent cost for a crappy 128Kbps protected compressed file. It might be borderline OK for a lossless FLAC file with no DRM, but it would still be borderline. Not to mention that you do not get media or CD artwork if you buy songs from iTunes.
The only reason iTunes is somewhat successful is because Apple users are used to paying high prices for everything, so naturally they think it's "reasonable". Try to extrapolate that to the non-Mac crowd, and it will fail miserably. There's a reason why Apple is not bragging much about Windows ITMS sales. That's because they are miniscule.
Please shut the fuck up. You probably bitch about how the MS EULA is illegal (after all, you are an Apple user), yet a clickwrap license on iTMS is somehow a legal contract now. One word. Hypocrite.
Apple zealots are so hypocritical. They see nothing wrong with DeCSS, everything wrong with the DMCA, and yet a program which is exactly like DeCSS is somehow MORALLY wrong. You people look like regular idiots.
The problem here has nothing to do with the headphone jack. It has to do with not using a ribbon cable between two circuit boards.
There's only one board in the mini as far as I can tell from the pictures.
Is it really possible that adding a drop of epoxy (if the headphone jack were the problem in the first place) could make or break a product this expensive?
Yes, if they already have a production run started. The ipod is a low-margin product according to Apple, so a few extra bucks will add up fast.
Problem #1: D&D is for teenage faggots and smelly nerds. Need I say more?