I'm not going to say you are catagorically wrong because I'm not a lawyer, but I think your suggestion of no fair use is misleading. My understanding is that there is such a requirement implicit within copyright law. If this was not the case then how could they justify placing an additioanl royalty cost on audio cassesttes, MDs and audio CDRs. That would be very similar to putting a compensation cost on say...bolt cutters because they might be used illegally by thiefs.
A friend at work was one of those early adopters. Unfortunately he did through ignorance rather than anticipation of the new features. I've been playing around with it this morning and it really is as bad as the reviewer says.
At first glance you think it might be a good version of PocketPC (Which I think has become pretty good now), but then it becomes obvious that the phone just isn't up to it.
I think it further pushes the arguement for having two devices for this sort of thing. I PDA with a reasonble size screen, software for browsing and e-mail, and IrDA and/or Bluetooth along with a basic phone that makes calls and SMS but has GPRS and IrDA and/or Bluetooth. You can take both with you at work or when you go away, but you have a simple, small, reliable and cheap phone to take out in the evenings when you really don't need net connection and e-mail and want the battery to last you until you miss the last train and have to call a taxi.
Make much more sense.
I'd always been a Windows man, then a couple of years ago I started with Linux, and since then have always kept a distro installed for day to day use and switching to windows for mainly gaming.
Then my girlfriend says she wants a laptop for work. Not wanting to spend hours comforting her after she loses weeks of work with a windows crash I recommend she looks at an iBook, nice and simple and user friendly. The iBook 466 Firewire she gets may be a bit bulky but it is a fantastic bit of kit. Since then I've used it more than her, and even gone as far as buying myself an old 5500 all in one unit to play with. So the monitor is tiny and it only runs os8.5 (Could be 9.0), but this thing is superb. It's in jet black a comes with built in TV/FM radio, 100Mbps ethernet, 56k Modem and av input. It runs so well considering it only has an old 275mhz 603ev chip.
I can feel a twinge of Macfanatic coming over me, won't be long, especially if windows continues to eat Mhz as they develop it! General apps open quicker on the Mac from 1997 than my AMD 1900+ with winXP running!
Have a google mate. There are plenty of sites dedicated to multi-region mac's. Nice and easy, some need the drive to be flashed though. The fixes for the software work nicely as well.
Mate, why don't you go and buy yourself a display with no reciever. Your console and DVD will have RGB so just go and get something without recieving capabilities, that way you don't have to pay. Seeing as you manage to get by without watching any BBC tele and don't care about news I can only assume you work very hard and can afford a £6000 plasma screen. They don't have recievers, and Mr License man can't do anything about it. Unless you have a VCR, but who does now anyway!
I see the logic behind your arguement but I dread the day when all we get is commercial or subscription TV. Of the 200 - 300 channels on sky only about 10 are worth watching and 4 of these are BBC (BBC1, BBC2, BBCChoice, BBC News).
Personally I don't know much about SPDIF to PC speaker packages, but I do know that I appreciate being able to digital out to superior DAC which resides in my Hi-Fi stack. If the digital out is corrupted then the only option is to use the DAC in the soundcard, which unless you have an exceptional card and a terrible Hi-fi, will mean poorer output. But I suppose if it is wma at 192, then who really cares anyway.
But if this is to extend to a permenant setup with the PC or similar device playing digital music are we forced to always use the best PCI card we can find rather than proper audiophile equipment to do the hard digital conversion work, this is afterall (before amplification) where all the loss happens (Assuming not a compressed format).
How can you compare something that takes away a life (Gun) to something that takes away a bit of cash from a record label/recording artist. This stints of the worst kind of capatalism when money is as important as life. This kind of thinking should be discouraged in forums such as/. not encouraged.
I have to agree. I spent a year working in a Hi-fi and home cinema shop. The amount of these we trashed putting up and dismantling demos was worrying. Mind you we were v.slack.
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I'm not going to say you are catagorically wrong because I'm not a lawyer, but I think your suggestion of no fair use is misleading. My understanding is that there is such a requirement implicit within copyright law. If this was not the case then how could they justify placing an additioanl royalty cost on audio cassesttes, MDs and audio CDRs. That would be very similar to putting a compensation cost on say...bolt cutters because they might be used illegally by thiefs.
A friend at work was one of those early adopters. Unfortunately he did through ignorance rather than anticipation of the new features. I've been playing around with it this morning and it really is as bad as the reviewer says. At first glance you think it might be a good version of PocketPC (Which I think has become pretty good now), but then it becomes obvious that the phone just isn't up to it. I think it further pushes the arguement for having two devices for this sort of thing. I PDA with a reasonble size screen, software for browsing and e-mail, and IrDA and/or Bluetooth along with a basic phone that makes calls and SMS but has GPRS and IrDA and/or Bluetooth. You can take both with you at work or when you go away, but you have a simple, small, reliable and cheap phone to take out in the evenings when you really don't need net connection and e-mail and want the battery to last you until you miss the last train and have to call a taxi. Make much more sense.
Phew....Pleased I was working in a small window. Just caught the top bit.
I'd always been a Windows man, then a couple of years ago I started with Linux, and since then have always kept a distro installed for day to day use and switching to windows for mainly gaming. Then my girlfriend says she wants a laptop for work. Not wanting to spend hours comforting her after she loses weeks of work with a windows crash I recommend she looks at an iBook, nice and simple and user friendly. The iBook 466 Firewire she gets may be a bit bulky but it is a fantastic bit of kit. Since then I've used it more than her, and even gone as far as buying myself an old 5500 all in one unit to play with. So the monitor is tiny and it only runs os8.5 (Could be 9.0), but this thing is superb. It's in jet black a comes with built in TV/FM radio, 100Mbps ethernet, 56k Modem and av input. It runs so well considering it only has an old 275mhz 603ev chip. I can feel a twinge of Macfanatic coming over me, won't be long, especially if windows continues to eat Mhz as they develop it! General apps open quicker on the Mac from 1997 than my AMD 1900+ with winXP running!
Have a google mate. There are plenty of sites dedicated to multi-region mac's. Nice and easy, some need the drive to be flashed though. The fixes for the software work nicely as well.
Mate, why don't you go and buy yourself a display with no reciever. Your console and DVD will have RGB so just go and get something without recieving capabilities, that way you don't have to pay. Seeing as you manage to get by without watching any BBC tele and don't care about news I can only assume you work very hard and can afford a £6000 plasma screen. They don't have recievers, and Mr License man can't do anything about it. Unless you have a VCR, but who does now anyway! I see the logic behind your arguement but I dread the day when all we get is commercial or subscription TV. Of the 200 - 300 channels on sky only about 10 are worth watching and 4 of these are BBC (BBC1, BBC2, BBCChoice, BBC News).
Personally I don't know much about SPDIF to PC speaker packages, but I do know that I appreciate being able to digital out to superior DAC which resides in my Hi-Fi stack. If the digital out is corrupted then the only option is to use the DAC in the soundcard, which unless you have an exceptional card and a terrible Hi-fi, will mean poorer output. But I suppose if it is wma at 192, then who really cares anyway. But if this is to extend to a permenant setup with the PC or similar device playing digital music are we forced to always use the best PCI card we can find rather than proper audiophile equipment to do the hard digital conversion work, this is afterall (before amplification) where all the loss happens (Assuming not a compressed format).
How can you compare something that takes away a life (Gun) to something that takes away a bit of cash from a record label/recording artist. This stints of the worst kind of capatalism when money is as important as life. This kind of thinking should be discouraged in forums such as /. not encouraged.
I have to agree. I spent a year working in a Hi-fi and home cinema shop. The amount of these we trashed putting up and dismantling demos was worrying. Mind you we were v.slack.