I imagine building a robotic tank is considerably more expensive than building a robotic car. CMU probably got the contract because they won the DARPA challenge.
It's interesting to compare Ubuntu with other Linux distros, but when you compare Ubuntu with Vista here, you see that Ubuntu has remained comparatively level with Freemasonry.
Is this watermarking? Or is this an account-identifying atom (like the same atoms they use in DRMed iTMS songs)? If it's the latter, you can just extract the AAC samples and dump them in a fresh m4a file (with libmp4v2, for example).
There's an starkly anti-corporate atmosphere here at Slashdot, so I can see why you would assume that all businesses behave in a wicked, murderous, anti-christ-/nazi-worshiping way. Let me boil down my own Apple zealotry into a simple point: when I use Apple products, I get the distinct feeling that they're trying to make me happy. Apple's marketing strategy has always been about making customers happy with the belief that happy customers always return to buy pleasing products. I suppose only 5% (or whatever the Mac's marketshare is) of happy people return for new products, and Apple has widely received criticism for their strategy, but Steve Jobs is stubborn like that. Microsoft tosses out shit products that frustrate me more than any consumer product I've ever used in my life. It's reasons like this that so few people want to defend the numerous anti-Microsoft articles here. This Slashdot article smacks of misinformation, and we both know most people are only going to gloss over the blurb and remember, "Corporate monolith Apple Computers wants to take away freedom of speech from the common man," and what happy Apple-enthusiast wants the public to believe that nonsense?
unless Apple buys a mobile phone network, they have ZERO ability to get iTunes phones to market
Apple doesn't need Motorola because Apple doesn't need an iTunes phone. It's not like the entire portable music market is going to shift to phone-based players; those fucking phones are already cluttered beyond usability. An iTunes phone will only get more people to use the iTunes software , some of whom will use the iTunes Music Store, some of whom will be persuaded to buy an iPod.
They might not necessarily be losing money to Apple since the iPod supports plain-jane AAC and MP3 (and a bunch of other formats) in addition to music from the iTunes Music Store. Less than 1% of the music on my iPod came from iTMS. Also, I doubt Microsoft would be making any money off their online music store anyways (uninformed assumption), seeing as Apple doesn't make any money off its store.
I'm not at all sure how this relates to your parent comment. His comment was, "I'd sure like to see more old OS demos." Your comment was, "DRM is the angel of death bringing darkness to this world!"
Point me towards a DRM scheme that actually does what you just claimed. Software that normal, decent people can use to compress their personal videos, and that automatically restricts access to them based on the slightest possibility that the material contained therein is copyrighted by someone. Boy I'll bet you could sue the pants off a company that actually sold a a product like that, with or without their standard click-through license giving them the right to do whatever the hell they want.
You do know that iPod Linux has been out now for several years, don't you? The problem is that there is no Ogg decoder efficient enough to run on the iPod's underpowered CPU (under Linux).
Don't bring up the original iBook. That thing was built like a tank. The only user-servicable parts on that machine were memory and Airport cards, Apple didn't recommend users replacing the hard drive. I have a headless, caseless, keyboard and trackpad-less first gen ibook with a thirty gig drive running as a server now because i couldn't put the case back together after replacing the hard drive.
You are wrong for many reasons: 1: AAC is an open standard and there are open-source encoders/decoders. (http://faac.sourceforge.net/) 2: The m4a format Apple stores its AAC stream in is an extension of their QuickTime container which is an open standard (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTim e/) I've found that the m4a container is also compatible with the MPEG-4 file format, which is also an open standard and is derived from Apple's QuickTime format. 3: Apple has granted Fairplay licences to Motorola and Macrovision (or so I've heard). 4: Apple probably couldn't sue or demand money if a competitor implemented AAC, or as you're probably referring to, Fairplay. To date they have neither sued nor demanded money from anyone who has implemented Fairplay, AAC, or any of the other audio formats or encryption schemes that the iPod supports (though they have demanded that several sites hosting PlayFair/Hymn cease and desist).
The fossil fuel industry's going to buy it, develop it privately for ten years, and then use it stay filthy rich after they've mined and drilled the earth dry.
Your objection to "ruining" is undermined when the planet is already ruined. It's a long-held theory that solar wind blew the atmosphere right off the planet, making it totally uninhabitable. As an added bonus, there's no more geothermal energy to gain from the planet and it's too far away from the sun to farm a significant amount of solar energy, so one could say definitively that mars is here and forevermore useless. On a more general note, it frustrates me whenever I hear people comment that we shouldn't pollute the moon, or throw nuclear waste in to the sun -- as if these places had a delicate ecosystem that some human-defined "pollution" would upset. There is so much room in the universe; in the end, only loony environmentalists care whether a hundred thousand tons of used beanie babies end up "recycled" on earth, or dumped on the moon.
I don't think either Halo or the sequel have enough of a plot to shoot a half-decent movie around. Marathon though, I'd give both kidneys to see a movie based off that.
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"If there's a Bluetooth 2 that has higher bandwidth and better quality..."
- Steve Wozniak, Bluetooth expert
I anticipate Stallman may have a heart attack soon.
Massive corn clog in port seven!
You're right, we should never research diseases. We might infect ourselves with them.
I imagine building a robotic tank is considerably more expensive than building a robotic car. CMU probably got the contract because they won the DARPA challenge.
It's interesting to compare Ubuntu with other Linux distros, but when you compare Ubuntu with Vista here, you see that Ubuntu has remained comparatively level with Freemasonry.
Is this watermarking? Or is this an account-identifying atom (like the same atoms they use in DRMed iTMS songs)?
If it's the latter, you can just extract the AAC samples and dump them in a fresh m4a file (with libmp4v2, for example).
Wrong codec
If you read the second paper, you'll see the cells are clearly alive. The only question is whether they came from space.
Because it's Apple-related
I believe kiddy pr0n also gets you 10-100 years in prison, and gets you put on some national do-not-hire list.
There's an starkly anti-corporate atmosphere here at Slashdot, so I can see why you would assume that all businesses behave in a wicked, murderous, anti-christ-/nazi-worshiping way. Let me boil down my own Apple zealotry into a simple point: when I use Apple products, I get the distinct feeling that they're trying to make me happy.
Apple's marketing strategy has always been about making customers happy with the belief that happy customers always return to buy pleasing products. I suppose only 5% (or whatever the Mac's marketshare is) of happy people return for new products, and Apple has widely received criticism for their strategy, but Steve Jobs is stubborn like that.
Microsoft tosses out shit products that frustrate me more than any consumer product I've ever used in my life. It's reasons like this that so few people want to defend the numerous anti-Microsoft articles here.
This Slashdot article smacks of misinformation, and we both know most people are only going to gloss over the blurb and remember, "Corporate monolith Apple Computers wants to take away freedom of speech from the common man," and what happy Apple-enthusiast wants the public to believe that nonsense?
Apple doesn't need Motorola because Apple doesn't need an iTunes phone. It's not like the entire portable music market is going to shift to phone-based players; those fucking phones are already cluttered beyond usability. An iTunes phone will only get more people to use the iTunes software , some of whom will use the iTunes Music Store, some of whom will be persuaded to buy an iPod.
It's not MAC, it's Mac. It's an abbreviation Macintosh, not an acronym.
They might not necessarily be losing money to Apple since the iPod supports plain-jane AAC and MP3 (and a bunch of other formats) in addition to music from the iTunes Music Store. Less than 1% of the music on my iPod came from iTMS. Also, I doubt Microsoft would be making any money off their online music store anyways (uninformed assumption), seeing as Apple doesn't make any money off its store.
I'm not at all sure how this relates to your parent comment.
His comment was, "I'd sure like to see more old OS demos."
Your comment was, "DRM is the angel of death bringing darkness to this world!"
Point me towards a DRM scheme that actually does what you just claimed. Software that normal, decent people can use to compress their personal videos, and that automatically restricts access to them based on the slightest possibility that the material contained therein is copyrighted by someone. Boy I'll bet you could sue the pants off a company that actually sold a a product like that, with or without their standard click-through license giving them the right to do whatever the hell they want.
You do know that iPod Linux has been out now for several years, don't you? The problem is that there is no Ogg decoder efficient enough to run on the iPod's underpowered CPU (under Linux).
Did you even RTFA? They tore the button-pad off in a (probably) non-repairable way.
Don't bring up the original iBook. That thing was built like a tank. The only user-servicable parts on that machine were memory and Airport cards, Apple didn't recommend users replacing the hard drive. I have a headless, caseless, keyboard and trackpad-less first gen ibook with a thirty gig drive running as a server now because i couldn't put the case back together after replacing the hard drive.
You are wrong for many reasons:m e/) I've found that the m4a container is also compatible with the MPEG-4 file format, which is also an open standard and is derived from Apple's QuickTime format.
1: AAC is an open standard and there are open-source encoders/decoders. (http://faac.sourceforge.net/)
2: The m4a format Apple stores its AAC stream in is an extension of their QuickTime container which is an open standard (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTi
3: Apple has granted Fairplay licences to Motorola and Macrovision (or so I've heard).
4: Apple probably couldn't sue or demand money if a competitor implemented AAC, or as you're probably referring to, Fairplay. To date they have neither sued nor demanded money from anyone who has implemented Fairplay, AAC, or any of the other audio formats or encryption schemes that the iPod supports (though they have demanded that several sites hosting PlayFair/Hymn cease and desist).
The fossil fuel industry's going to buy it, develop it privately for ten years, and then use it stay filthy rich after they've mined and drilled the earth dry.
Your objection to "ruining" is undermined when the planet is already ruined. It's a long-held theory that solar wind blew the atmosphere right off the planet, making it totally uninhabitable. As an added bonus, there's no more geothermal energy to gain from the planet and it's too far away from the sun to farm a significant amount of solar energy, so one could say definitively that mars is here and forevermore useless.
On a more general note, it frustrates me whenever I hear people comment that we shouldn't pollute the moon, or throw nuclear waste in to the sun -- as if these places had a delicate ecosystem that some human-defined "pollution" would upset. There is so much room in the universe; in the end, only loony environmentalists care whether a hundred thousand tons of used beanie babies end up "recycled" on earth, or dumped on the moon.
I liked Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within! (Score:2, Funny)
That is funny...
I don't think either Halo or the sequel have enough of a plot to shoot a half-decent movie around.
Marathon though, I'd give both kidneys to see a movie based off that.
Oh Bungie...
can you sink any lower?