>>Imagine if the only way to get movies for your Sony DVD player was from sony.
This doesn't apply at all! It's more like saying that the only movies you can buy from the Sony DVD Store are sold by Sony. The iPod doesn't come with up to 40gb so you can spend 10,000*0.99$ bucks re-buying all your music on the iTunes Music Store; it plays any mp3, m4a, wav, aiff, or ALAC file you throw at it! I have thousands and thousands of songs on my iPod, only ten of which came from the iTunes Music Store.
Do you get upset when your VHS player won't play Betamax? Or when your cassette player won't play CDs? Surely not! You simply buy the appropriate format for whatever player you happen to have. It's not like there's nowhere else in the world you can buy the Talking Heads' 77 album than iTMS. BUY THE CD! the iPod does now, and always will, support CD audio that you can buy at discount in buy-trade stores.
The iTunes Music Store is for selling a selection of music (that you could obtain in any number of other convenient, legal ways) specifically tailored to work with the iPod, by the same people that make the iPod.
Look. Apple couldn't and wouldn't stop Real if they simply sold their songs in plain-jane MP3 or even AAC. Apple doesn't threaten Kazaa when it purposely aids its users in downloading music to play on the iPod. The problem is that FairPlay is a component of Apple's Apple-specific, inclusive, private, small music store (from which they make no money). It's part of a tool that Apple uses exclusively to market the iPod. Real seems to have a reverse-midas touch; it cheapens anything associated with it. The last thing Apple needs is Real shouting from the tops of roofs that they're iPod-compatible -- Apple doesn't need that kind of negative publicity, and Apple doesn't want to have to support customers using Real's hacked version of their encryption. Apple probably can't attack Real with litigation, but Rob Glasser has to be crazy if he thinks Apple isn't going to end his evil scheme before it even gets off the ground -- Apple controls the platform! And one more karma-squashing thing: quit bitching about Apple forcing you to submit to their "closed-system". If you're so upset with the iTunes Music Store, BUY THE FUCKING CD!
I hope Rob Glasser is placing a gun in his mouth right now, because he and his children's children's children will regret his decision for the rest of their lives
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I just thought I'd add my 0.02$; The close buttons on Safari's tabs are a feature I can't live without. Call me petty, but I've used Firefox's one close button on the far right, and I feel limited when I can't open up twenty tabs without looking at each of them before I can close them. I have a huge list of people's blogs, and I open them all at the same time in countless tabs. There are some really boring people there, and I like being able to close the tab without having to view the page. It's those little things that matter. Also, you have to be really clumsy to accidentally click those tiny little exit buttons on the tabs.
They don't build players in to these CDs, they hire people to build them. They hire consultants who recommend contractors who get a lot of money thrown at them to develop some idea to modify the CD to prevent its pirating. In reality, there is no good way to stop piracy, but business types don't understand technology, and especially not business types who work in a non-technological industry. These RIAA businessmen don't listen to music on their computers, and they're too rich to empathize with ordinary people, so they go with statistics that indicate that everyone still listens to music on their CD players, and that a fair amount also steal music on their computers -- there are no statistics that say people want to legally listen to music on their computers. They're not concerned with selling music for computers, there's no money in that, they're concerned solely with stopping piracy.
Yes, this is RIAA stupidity, but it has nothing to do with making people buy their music again if they want to play it on their computers. The RIAA doesn't recognize that there are people who legitimately want to play music on their computers, and they're feebly trying everything they comprehend to stop real piracy. Online music is mere peanuts to the record industry; the suits want to stop piracy, even if they don't understand how to.
It's worth mentioning that Bungie once ported Marathon 1 to the Pippin. I'm not sure if they ever released it, but since the Pippin never got anywhere, no big loss. Someone reported seeing a copy of Marathon for Pippin once in Bungie HQ's webcam some time ago...
How windows-minded. It will never be 0? The impossibility of avoiding infection is a fundamental quality of the universe? No matter what one does, Linux nor any OS can be completely secure?
Wouldn't you agree that in any piece of code there is a finite number of buffer overflows, security oversights in any protocol, or incorrect configurations in any computer component? If there are indeed a finite number of security problems in any system (however huge that number might be), then surely it's at least possible to build a system from the ground up with no oversights or weaknesses at all.
A lot of friends have told me exactly the same, that viruses and such are fundamental concepts in computing, and it's sad to think that Microsoft has gotten its hooks so deep.
In the extremely unlikely event Apple should go out of business within the next few decades, all your music will still work without needing to re-authenticate so long as you don't move it to another machine. When and if Apple goes out of business, you shrug your shoulders, say "Well, I guess they had a good run" out loud, and burn off all your iTMS music to cds, where it will continue to play in an uncompressed state.
Not KEXT drivers, which can also be loaded and unloaded without restart. A faulty KEXT will panic your ass from here to tomorrow. It's easier to write drivers as KEXTs, but nobody has to use them, they could just as easilly write drivers outside of kernel space.
If you're certain that this technology will only tear apart the foundations of society and plunge the world into the iron-fisted world of 1984 style government oppression, and since we know that this technology is bound to be invented sooner or later, then shouldn't we be glad that pure-hearted Woz is the inventor? Maybe Woz will make this technology (which would be invented sooner or later) work for the people rather than against, after all, isn't that was he's famous for?
Ahem... You sound as if Apple's dead. Betamax died out long ago. In the realm of videocassettes, there was a competition, and within a few years, consumers chose VHS. Apple created their market, and has been going for nearly thirty years. They're not dead and nor are they dying. Apple has a user base, Betamax does not. Don't drag Apple's good name through a comparison with Betamax.
Steve Jobs isn't that narrow minded. It's not like all their sales will be done in a month. What about if I see the movie on DVD a few years later and want to have the sound track. I'll look around and find that i can only get it on iTMS.
Not that any benchmark can truly be accurate these days, but when you throw in proprietary, highly optimized compilers, you're just benchmarking the compilers. How do you know NASA doesn't intent to write in assembly? Just because intel chips have a kickass compiler and the G5 doesn't, doesn't mean the G5 is necessarily less powerful.
My own network could get better range if the antenna was made out of wood. I can't see the network on the far ends of my residence with an ibook, and certainly not from outside, though i suppose someone with serious equipment could haxx0r it. Likewise, anyone smart enough and malicious enough to spend the time finding whatever subnet your network runs on, is probably also smart enough to use a de-WEP-ulator of some sort. A much more effective solution is MAC filtering, but surely there are some cases where this sort of security through obscurity is appropriate. No one can see my network, and so i assume it is safe.
If you just don't want to come up with a 128bit key, write a small script or app to generate a random key for you
Jeez oh man! Coming up 128 random bits is so flipping complicated! It drives me out of my mind, i can't sleep, i can't eat, i don't know what to do! But reading your comment has given me the courage i need to 'write a small script or app' to come up with one right on the spot! It's such a simple and elegant solution, much easier than throwing dice or flipping a coin 128 times. Perhaps i'll go spend the effort to write a shell script, or C app right now. I had considered mashing the keys with my palm, or just closing my eyes and typing randomly with one finger, but your amazing hassle-free solution is just what i need. Thank you! Moderate me troll, but come on, if the above comment isn't karma-whoring, i don't know what is. WEP is insecure, and more of a hassle if your network isn't in danger of being compromised.
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>>Imagine if the only way to get movies for your Sony DVD player was from sony.
This doesn't apply at all!
It's more like saying that the only movies you can buy from the Sony DVD Store are sold by Sony. The iPod doesn't come with up to 40gb so you can spend 10,000*0.99$ bucks re-buying all your music on the iTunes Music Store; it plays any mp3, m4a, wav, aiff, or ALAC file you throw at it! I have thousands and thousands of songs on my iPod, only ten of which came from the iTunes Music Store.
Do you get upset when your VHS player won't play Betamax? Or when your cassette player won't play CDs? Surely not! You simply buy the appropriate format for whatever player you happen to have. It's not like there's nowhere else in the world you can buy the Talking Heads' 77 album than iTMS. BUY THE CD! the iPod does now, and always will, support CD audio that you can buy at discount in buy-trade stores.
The iTunes Music Store is for selling a selection of music (that you could obtain in any number of other convenient, legal ways) specifically tailored to work with the iPod, by the same people that make the iPod.
What the hell is so sinful about that?!
Look.
Apple couldn't and wouldn't stop Real if they simply sold their songs in plain-jane MP3 or even AAC. Apple doesn't threaten Kazaa when it purposely aids its users in downloading music to play on the iPod. The problem is that FairPlay is a component of Apple's Apple-specific, inclusive, private, small music store (from which they make no money). It's part of a tool that Apple uses exclusively to market the iPod. Real seems to have a reverse-midas touch; it cheapens anything associated with it. The last thing Apple needs is Real shouting from the tops of roofs that they're iPod-compatible -- Apple doesn't need that kind of negative publicity, and Apple doesn't want to have to support customers using Real's hacked version of their encryption.
Apple probably can't attack Real with litigation, but Rob Glasser has to be crazy if he thinks Apple isn't going to end his evil scheme before it even gets off the ground -- Apple controls the platform!
And one more karma-squashing thing: quit bitching about Apple forcing you to submit to their "closed-system". If you're so upset with the iTunes Music Store, BUY THE FUCKING CD!
He's going to increase the value of a dollar? That hardly seems likely. Or is he going to decrease the value of the euro...
Beautiful syntactical simplicity.
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I just thought I'd add my 0.02$;
The close buttons on Safari's tabs are a feature I can't live without. Call me petty, but I've used Firefox's one close button on the far right, and I feel limited when I can't open up twenty tabs without looking at each of them before I can close them.
I have a huge list of people's blogs, and I open them all at the same time in countless tabs. There are some really boring people there, and I like being able to close the tab without having to view the page.
It's those little things that matter.
Also, you have to be really clumsy to accidentally click those tiny little exit buttons on the tabs.
They don't build players in to these CDs, they hire people to build them. They hire consultants who recommend contractors who get a lot of money thrown at them to develop some idea to modify the CD to prevent its pirating. In reality, there is no good way to stop piracy, but business types don't understand technology, and especially not business types who work in a non-technological industry.
These RIAA businessmen don't listen to music on their computers, and they're too rich to empathize with ordinary people, so they go with statistics that indicate that everyone still listens to music on their CD players, and that a fair amount also steal music on their computers -- there are no statistics that say people want to legally listen to music on their computers.
They're not concerned with selling music for computers, there's no money in that, they're concerned solely with stopping piracy.
Yes, this is RIAA stupidity, but it has nothing to do with making people buy their music again if they want to play it on their computers. The RIAA doesn't recognize that there are people who legitimately want to play music on their computers, and they're feebly trying everything they comprehend to stop real piracy.
Online music is mere peanuts to the record industry; the suits want to stop piracy, even if they don't understand how to.
It's worth mentioning that Bungie once ported Marathon 1 to the Pippin. I'm not sure if they ever released it, but since the Pippin never got anywhere, no big loss. Someone reported seeing a copy of Marathon for Pippin once in Bungie HQ's webcam some time ago...
Wouldn't you agree that in any piece of code there is a finite number of buffer overflows, security oversights in any protocol, or incorrect configurations in any computer component? If there are indeed a finite number of security problems in any system (however huge that number might be), then surely it's at least possible to build a system from the ground up with no oversights or weaknesses at all.
A lot of friends have told me exactly the same, that viruses and such are fundamental concepts in computing, and it's sad to think that Microsoft has gotten its hooks so deep.
I didn't know microsoft PR droids were allowed to expose themselves on slashdot.
Or raped 10,000 times.
On my mac, mplayer can handle m4a files just fine, but the zaurus port cannot. Perhaps someone needs to turn on .mov and aac support on zaurus?
I'm sure Steve's just itching to shake hands and have a casual friendly lunch with Scully.
In the extremely unlikely event Apple should go out of business within the next few decades, all your music will still work without needing to re-authenticate so long as you don't move it to another machine. When and if Apple goes out of business, you shrug your shoulders, say "Well, I guess they had a good run" out loud, and burn off all your iTMS music to cds, where it will continue to play in an uncompressed state.
Not KEXT drivers, which can also be loaded and unloaded without restart. A faulty KEXT will panic your ass from here to tomorrow. It's easier to write drivers as KEXTs, but nobody has to use them, they could just as easilly write drivers outside of kernel space.
If you're certain that this technology will only tear apart the foundations of society and plunge the world into the iron-fisted world of 1984 style government oppression, and since we know that this technology is bound to be invented sooner or later, then shouldn't we be glad that pure-hearted Woz is the inventor? Maybe Woz will make this technology (which would be invented sooner or later) work for the people rather than against, after all, isn't that was he's famous for?
And their dsl service is unreliable. Punks.
Ahem... You sound as if Apple's dead.
Betamax died out long ago. In the realm of videocassettes, there was a competition, and within a few years, consumers chose VHS. Apple created their market, and has been going for nearly thirty years. They're not dead and nor are they dying. Apple has a user base, Betamax does not.
Don't drag Apple's good name through a comparison with Betamax.
Steve Jobs isn't that narrow minded. It's not like all their sales will be done in a month. What about if I see the movie on DVD a few years later and want to have the sound track. I'll look around and find that i can only get it on iTMS.
Not that any benchmark can truly be accurate these days, but when you throw in proprietary, highly optimized compilers, you're just benchmarking the compilers. How do you know NASA doesn't intent to write in assembly? Just because intel chips have a kickass compiler and the G5 doesn't, doesn't mean the G5 is necessarily less powerful.
My own network could get better range if the antenna was made out of wood. I can't see the network on the far ends of my residence with an ibook, and certainly not from outside, though i suppose someone with serious equipment could haxx0r it. Likewise, anyone smart enough and malicious enough to spend the time finding whatever subnet your network runs on, is probably also smart enough to use a de-WEP-ulator of some sort. A much more effective solution is MAC filtering, but surely there are some cases where this sort of security through obscurity is appropriate. No one can see my network, and so i assume it is safe.
If you just don't want to come up with a 128bit key, write a small script or app to generate a random key for you
Jeez oh man! Coming up 128 random bits is so flipping complicated! It drives me out of my mind, i can't sleep, i can't eat, i don't know what to do! But reading your comment has given me the courage i need to 'write a small script or app' to come up with one right on the spot! It's such a simple and elegant solution, much easier than throwing dice or flipping a coin 128 times. Perhaps i'll go spend the effort to write a shell script, or C app right now. I had considered mashing the keys with my palm, or just closing my eyes and typing randomly with one finger, but your amazing hassle-free solution is just what i need. Thank you!
Moderate me troll, but come on, if the above comment isn't karma-whoring, i don't know what is. WEP is insecure, and more of a hassle if your network isn't in danger of being compromised.
Linux runs like a dog on PPC, and Darwin runs like a dog on x86.
I'm not entirely sure how Apple does this, but apparently someone with Ethereal discovered the voice data travels through an AOL server.