..."While I won't use the word 'monopoly,' you can see the dangers of that type of widespread control," he said.
Microsoft/Intel just don't get it. The reason why Passport didn't make it is because no one trusts anyone who has everything centrally stored anywhere.
Why should DRM be any different?
I think this is further evidence that there are really no more killer apps out there to create. The DRM, while it would take care of a few business needs for a few select groups such as the RIAA and certain totalitarian regimes, is potentially too restrictive for the people it would affect - which means it has less of a chance of adoption and a greater chance to leave a crater when it falls.
I don't see it happening. I see Jimmy Buffet killing the record industry once musicians start to unionize and form a confederacy of their own labels.
The cracks are showing people... just dig in and hope it all works out.
"Users of the local Redmond Winword 6.0 Users Group rejoice that their obsolete software does not have the "stolen file" security flaw."
Bill Gates was unavailable for comment as he was working with lawyers regarding changing the verbage of the end user license agreement for the soon-to-be-announced Word 97 patch.
Doesn't XP do this? If it's already dialing Microsoft up, isn't there someone at the wheel at the other end of the line?
What About Independent Artists?
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My question is this: If I am an independent artist and I directly create MP3's on my own, do I have to pay some corporate entity somewhere for a watermark? Does this turn into a domain name kind of thing where a corporate entity doles out certificates?
Regardless...
I don't mind watermarking in principle. We all know its going to get hacked with the tech equivalent of a $0.99 marking pen, but in principle, I'm okay with this.
It may even be desirable for some people to get music straight from the source instead of from Joe Napster's hard drive.
Dang. My VB.Net binding is coming down the pike sooner than I thought.:-)
If someone gave me OOP Basic on KDE, I'd be writing all sorts of KDE apps. C# is a step in the right direction in terms of opening the field to develop for Linux.
Reach to the ignorant masses, and the ignorant masses will reach for you.
I do agree with you (and a number of the other people that have kind enough to reply to my post)... the upgrade path is rediculously short any more.
I remember when you could count on upgrading an OS (Windows anyone) every two years and now I'm patching twice a week if I want to run it?
All I'm saying is that I don't expect a corporation to cater to older or "substandard" versions of browsers. It would be nice if the new ones did what they were supposed to, but they don't.
Will XML and CSS and SOAP and other acronmyms save the day? Probably not.
What I do expect, however, is if I do have the latest version of a browser, that it formats reasonably well. I run Opera 6.* myself, and I am amazed at how much nonstandard stuff is out there that I wouldn't picked up on through our corporate IE browser set up. On my Linux Box, I also run Opera (paid) after I was a little unsatisified with Konqueror's performance.
And since I design pages on the side, I've been doing my small part to make everything look reasonably good on 4.x+ browsers....
And Jeffrey Zeldman will help us fix the errors or our ways! Anyone check Amazon for the price on this baby?
Who on earth is running a browser earlier than 4.x? Do you expect stuff to be rendered right if you use an older version of IE/Netscape/Opera? Do advertisers want to sell to people that refuse to use the latest and greatest thing? Don't you have to try real hard to even find an older version of any of these browsers?
Sounds like a cheap way to sell a book - and a little extra helping of FUD thrown in.
So when I lose my car keys, I should also lose my house keys, building access to my job, keys for my bike lock, my bank account information, and my medical records?
Yeah, it would be nice if we could throw it all in one place, but if that one source of information goes down or gets sabatoged either by a code bug/virus/spammer, you will find all that convenience came at a high price.
Slashdot Mirror
... kind of like today.
..."While I won't use the word 'monopoly,' you can see the dangers of that type of widespread control," he said.
Microsoft/Intel just don't get it. The reason why Passport didn't make it is because no one trusts anyone who has everything centrally stored anywhere.
Why should DRM be any different?
I think this is further evidence that there are really no more killer apps out there to create. The DRM, while it would take care of a few business needs for a few select groups such as the RIAA and certain totalitarian regimes, is potentially too restrictive for the people it would affect - which means it has less of a chance of adoption and a greater chance to leave a crater when it falls.
I don't see it happening. I see Jimmy Buffet killing the record industry once musicians start to unionize and form a confederacy of their own labels.
The cracks are showing people... just dig in and hope it all works out.
the levi's tinfoil
gave me a third nut, I thought -
alas, a leg mass.
how professional -
"candy stores of infringement"
why not burn casettes?
"Users of the local Redmond Winword 6.0 Users Group rejoice that their obsolete software does not have the "stolen file" security flaw."
Bill Gates was unavailable for comment as he was working with lawyers regarding changing the verbage of the end user license agreement for the soon-to-be-announced Word 97 patch.
Timmmmmmm-ay!
Sorry... couldn't resist.
Actually, I was thinking of 'croup', which is a nasty little cough kids get from hanging out with other kids.
Hopefully this doesn't have a reference to future viral infections with the software.
This does sound pretty sweet though....
Doesn't XP do this? If it's already dialing Microsoft up, isn't there someone at the wheel at the other end of the line?
My question is this: If I am an independent artist and I directly create MP3's on my own, do I have to pay some corporate entity somewhere for a watermark? Does this turn into a domain name kind of thing where a corporate entity doles out certificates? Regardless... I don't mind watermarking in principle. We all know its going to get hacked with the tech equivalent of a $0.99 marking pen, but in principle, I'm okay with this. It may even be desirable for some people to get music straight from the source instead of from Joe Napster's hard drive.
You can do all this fancy blocking of portions of webpages and screen things out and we can't get rid of spam?
Schneikies!
I didn't see MonoBasic listed at the mono site.... do you have a link lying around?
:-)
Thanks!
Dang. My VB.Net binding is coming down the pike sooner than I thought. :-)
If someone gave me OOP Basic on KDE, I'd be writing all sorts of KDE apps. C# is a step in the right direction in terms of opening the field to develop for Linux.
Reach to the ignorant masses, and the ignorant masses will reach for you.
Nanotweezers! The next great invention!
... they started doing random drug tests on the RC'ers. The free agent market also picked up and the agents for the 'bots started getting greedy.
I think they canceled the show before there would be a labor strike, personally.
Isn't Disney going to have a show on it, sans Carmen?
... (snaps suspenders)
I've got a 9 nm transmitter right here in my pocket I just whipped up the other day.
I do agree with you (and a number of the other people that have kind enough to reply to my post)... the upgrade path is rediculously short any more. I remember when you could count on upgrading an OS (Windows anyone) every two years and now I'm patching twice a week if I want to run it? All I'm saying is that I don't expect a corporation to cater to older or "substandard" versions of browsers. It would be nice if the new ones did what they were supposed to, but they don't. Will XML and CSS and SOAP and other acronmyms save the day? Probably not. What I do expect, however, is if I do have the latest version of a browser, that it formats reasonably well. I run Opera 6.* myself, and I am amazed at how much nonstandard stuff is out there that I wouldn't picked up on through our corporate IE browser set up. On my Linux Box, I also run Opera (paid) after I was a little unsatisified with Konqueror's performance. And since I design pages on the side, I've been doing my small part to make everything look reasonably good on 4.x+ browsers....
And Jeffrey Zeldman will help us fix the errors or our ways! Anyone check Amazon for the price on this baby?
Who on earth is running a browser earlier than 4.x? Do you expect stuff to be rendered right if you use an older version of IE/Netscape/Opera? Do advertisers want to sell to people that refuse to use the latest and greatest thing? Don't you have to try real hard to even find an older version of any of these browsers?
Sounds like a cheap way to sell a book - and a little extra helping of FUD thrown in.
Yeah, just like how it might be unfortunate that it will probably run through *their* media player through *their* browser.
I'm hopeful that we can disable Palladium with a $.99 laundry marker.
... I'm glad I'm using something so obselete that not only does it not need a patch, you couldn't apply one to it to begin with.
So when I lose my car keys, I should also lose my house keys, building access to my job, keys for my bike lock, my bank account information, and my medical records?
Yeah, it would be nice if we could throw it all in one place, but if that one source of information goes down or gets sabatoged either by a code bug/virus/spammer, you will find all that convenience came at a high price.
Centralization is bad. Keep things separate.