That's why he's promoting proposition 56 which reduces the requirement that the state legislature have a 2/3 majority on tax increases down to a slim 55%.
Just try blaming that on Democrats!
When I've tried to video conference with my brother-in-law (who has a satellite provider), I've found that the bursty nature of satellite providers to be a problem. You get very high throughput, but in pulses. This works poorly for real-time applications like video conferencing where just buffering to smooth things out adds an unacceptable delay. Apple's iChatAV just gives up and says the connection is too low data rate.
Maybe if there was a way for an RFID to act as a one-way hash function- the receiver would send out a unique signal, and the tag would somehow transform this probe signal into a response using its own unique method that cannot be deduced by knowing both the probe signal and the response. Perhaps this is what they already do?
Nope. Just a unique serial number is transmitted. RFID was not invented for security reasons, but for inventory.
I want to pass an RFID receiver over everybody's watches (especially at gas stations), collect the RFID, and then transmit it every time I need some gas. Cool - free gas, MacDonalds, etc.
1) If the law says "thou shalt not make a product that can copy money"...
2) The law says you can't kill people. But we still have guns...
These arguments are NOT equivalent. The law does not say you can't make a PRODUCT that can kill people. The gun argument is equivalent to "thou shall not USE a product to copy money."
Your final line is nearly identical to James Joyce comment two comments above. Are you schizo (logging in under two names) or a plagiarist? No quotes are indicated.
BTW - I'm always suspicious of book review comments as the author/significant others/rabid fans/competition comments always pile on.
Better check your math. Perhaps you have a 5% loan, but that's on the BALANCE, not on the payment. Didn't you read the truth in lending statement that you got when you bought the place? If you had, you'd see that you're paying several times the loan over by the time you're done. With $100K balance, I assure you that you're paying more than 5% to someone else.
DVD release dates are generally timed so that they come X months after theatrical release, Y months before the sequel's theatrical release, Z months before a major holiday, etc. Not only might it be desireable for X,Y,Z to be different, but the dates of theatrical releases may be different by region.
Would you want your favorite movie availability be held up to allow the theatrical release a full run in some far-off country?
If you RTFA, you'll see it's not about content sharing it's about advertising sharing. Users can share information about the content, but not the content itself. This is a non-event.
Note, the DB functions described in the manual are not available at this time, as the index can not be created with Mac OS. This means that Album, Artist, Genre, and Title searching will not be available.
If you look at the other stores I bet they all have something that you can't get at the others. But at least with a WMA player you have a choice of which store to shop at (or all of them), Apple only gives you the one choice.
Actually, BuyMusic and Napster only give you one choice - you can't even browse the music selection if you're not running Windows!
Well napster is making money on napster branded music players.
I wonder why their website doesn't advertise them then.
And the DRM on AAC bought from the iTMS is a proprietary format owned by apple. If it wasn't you'd see hundreds of other players supporting it.
Yet, Musicmatch doesn't support plain old AAC.
Why does any other store have less clout than Apple?
Read before ranting! I didn't say any other store. I said The stores you mention have SO MUCH LESS CLOUT than Apple. That is, BuyMusic, Napster, MusicMatch. Yes, the Microsoft empire will probably move in like the hulking elephant it is, but until then, iTMS is the cross-platform solution.
SRS surround sound will work through headphones, or when you hook it up to a stereo.
Surround sound is useless with music recorded in two channels or played in two channels (headphones).
What if you don't have firewire? USB 2.0 is backwards compatible with USB 1.1 which everyone should have.
Everyone should have? I think everyone should have firewire! Especially since sync'ing over USB 1.1 would take 3.5 lifetimes.
Say I'm on my way to work and want to flip over to NPR to hear the news
So your car doesn't have a radio in it, huh?
So, you can harp on features you think our [sic] dumb but then say a feature a lot of other people think is dumb is great?
I wasn't claiming that the PDA-like features were some sort of dealmaker. If you check my post, I said that the original iRiver poster's comments were one-sided. I pointed out some pluses about the iPod that he did not. I do not pretend to have presented a balanced view. I was presenting the other side that he omitted.
iPod does not play music from buymusic.com, napster 2.0, musicmatch, or any of the future music stores that are going to use WMA.
I'm sorry, but that comment is just downright hilarious! WMA is a proprietary format owned by Microsoft. The stores you mention have SO MUCH LESS CLOUT than Apple to make deals with the record labels and don't have anything I can't get from iTMS. Not to mention the restrictive DRM. Any future store that uses WMA? Oh, there's a catch-all. Apple can make zippo on music and still make money on the iPods; the other stores you mention can't do that.
1) Okay, so iHP-120 is cheaper by a whopping $29 (aka 7%) Big deal.
2) Surround sound? Are you telling me you're setting up a surround system to a PORTABLE music player. Ha! And since when is surround sound important for MUSIC?
3) USB2.0? Who frigging cares? Firewire kicks ass.
4) Built in radio? Um, with up to 40 gigs of music I LIKE on hand, I am NOT tuning to some commercial-laden mainstream swill music.
5) WMA support - irrelevant.
6) iPod is practically a PDA - storing your contacts, calendar, notes.
7) iPod plays songs from iTunes Music Store - iRiver does not.
The real problem is that biometrics cannot be changed if they are compromised. This makes them the worst idea for security since hiding your key under your welcome mat.
Fact: locks will always be compromised, no matter how good. If you can't re-key the lock you WILL be screwed over someday.
They can (and I'm sure they DO) make you sign confidentiality agreements as a part of the application process that make you liable in some way for revealing the particulars of the exams. They can probably prosecute you if you break them, but don't bother unless you publish a detailed book or something. Do you really want to be facing a federal crime?
If spammers are attacking national assets (the internet, e-mail, communications in general) isn't this a form of terrorism? Perhaps the EFF or ACLU should team up with the Poindexter types and declare spam attacks, worms, viruses, ddos attacks, etc to be terrorism. Once a few of these people are held at Gitbay awhile maybe the attacks would decline.
Actually, changing direction without changing yaw, though impressive, seems problematic to me. Imagine the guy in the next lane taking the curve while his car still points straight. Isn't he going to hit my car since the LANE curves while the body of his car doesn't?
When I want to talk to somebody and there's someone in their office, I use the phone to get a priority interrupt. When the phone is busy, I use IM, allowing me the chance of an even higher interrupt.
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That's why he's promoting proposition 56 which reduces the requirement that the state legislature have a 2/3 majority on tax increases down to a slim 55%. Just try blaming that on Democrats!
When I've tried to video conference with my brother-in-law (who has a satellite provider), I've found that the bursty nature of satellite providers to be a problem. You get very high throughput, but in pulses. This works poorly for real-time applications like video conferencing where just buffering to smooth things out adds an unacceptable delay. Apple's iChatAV just gives up and says the connection is too low data rate.
Maybe if there was a way for an RFID to act as a one-way hash function- the receiver would send out a unique signal, and the tag would somehow transform this probe signal into a response using its own unique method that cannot be deduced by knowing both the probe signal and the response. Perhaps this is what they already do?
Nope. Just a unique serial number is transmitted. RFID was not invented for security reasons, but for inventory.
I want to pass an RFID receiver over everybody's watches (especially at gas stations), collect the RFID, and then transmit it every time I need some gas. Cool - free gas, MacDonalds, etc.
Personally, I'd like to meet the guy. Maybe he could give me copies of future releases.
1) If the law says "thou shalt not make a product that can copy money"...
2) The law says you can't kill people. But we still have guns...
These arguments are NOT equivalent. The law does not say you can't make a PRODUCT that can kill people. The gun argument is equivalent to "thou shall not USE a product to copy money."
Reporter Todd Bishop enhances and extends the P-I's regular Microsoft coverage with this online journal.
That's from their website. Any chance they're a bunch of Microsofties?
Any coincidence in the fact that a newspaper in SEATTLE is calling it an iPod killer?
Your final line is nearly identical to James Joyce comment two comments above. Are you schizo (logging in under two names) or a plagiarist? No quotes are indicated.
BTW - I'm always suspicious of book review comments as the author/significant others/rabid fans/competition comments always pile on.
only 5% of what I pay goes to someone else
Better check your math. Perhaps you have a 5% loan, but that's on the BALANCE, not on the payment. Didn't you read the truth in lending statement that you got when you bought the place? If you had, you'd see that you're paying several times the loan over by the time you're done. With $100K balance, I assure you that you're paying more than 5% to someone else.
DVD release dates are generally timed so that they come X months after theatrical release, Y months before the sequel's theatrical release, Z months before a major holiday, etc. Not only might it be desireable for X,Y,Z to be different, but the dates of theatrical releases may be different by region.
Would you want your favorite movie availability be held up to allow the theatrical release a full run in some far-off country?
With 55 OS's, there can't be any room left for applications.
Sindows - as in it's sinful to emulate Windows. You could also use Windex and violate two trademarks at once.
If you RTFA, you'll see it's not about content sharing it's about advertising sharing. Users can share information about the content, but not the content itself. This is a non-event.
Note, the DB functions described in the manual are not available at this time, as the index can not be created with Mac OS. This means that Album, Artist, Genre, and Title searching will not be available.
Um, that is not support.
If you look at the other stores I bet they all have something that you can't get at the others. But at least with a WMA player you have a choice of which store to shop at (or all of them), Apple only gives you the one choice.
Actually, BuyMusic and Napster only give you one choice - you can't even browse the music selection if you're not running Windows!
Well napster is making money on napster branded music players.
I wonder why their website doesn't advertise them then.
And the DRM on AAC bought from the iTMS is a proprietary format owned by apple. If it wasn't you'd see hundreds of other players supporting it.
Yet, Musicmatch doesn't support plain old AAC.
Why does any other store have less clout than Apple?
Read before ranting! I didn't say any other store. I said The stores you mention have SO MUCH LESS CLOUT than Apple. That is, BuyMusic, Napster, MusicMatch. Yes, the Microsoft empire will probably move in like the hulking elephant it is, but until then, iTMS is the cross-platform solution.
SRS surround sound will work through headphones, or when you hook it up to a stereo.
Surround sound is useless with music recorded in two channels or played in two channels (headphones).
What if you don't have firewire? USB 2.0 is backwards compatible with USB 1.1 which everyone should have.
Everyone should have? I think everyone should have firewire! Especially since sync'ing over USB 1.1 would take 3.5 lifetimes.
Say I'm on my way to work and want to flip over to NPR to hear the news
So your car doesn't have a radio in it, huh?
So, you can harp on features you think our [sic] dumb but then say a feature a lot of other people think is dumb is great?
I wasn't claiming that the PDA-like features were some sort of dealmaker. If you check my post, I said that the original iRiver poster's comments were one-sided. I pointed out some pluses about the iPod that he did not. I do not pretend to have presented a balanced view. I was presenting the other side that he omitted.
iPod does not play music from buymusic.com, napster 2.0, musicmatch, or any of the future music stores that are going to use WMA.
I'm sorry, but that comment is just downright hilarious! WMA is a proprietary format owned by Microsoft. The stores you mention have SO MUCH LESS CLOUT than Apple to make deals with the record labels and don't have anything I can't get from iTMS. Not to mention the restrictive DRM. Any future store that uses WMA? Oh, there's a catch-all. Apple can make zippo on music and still make money on the iPods; the other stores you mention can't do that.
Your comparison to the iPod is pretty one-sided.
1) Okay, so iHP-120 is cheaper by a whopping $29 (aka 7%) Big deal.
2) Surround sound? Are you telling me you're setting up a surround system to a PORTABLE music player. Ha! And since when is surround sound important for MUSIC?
3) USB2.0? Who frigging cares? Firewire kicks ass.
4) Built in radio? Um, with up to 40 gigs of music I LIKE on hand, I am NOT tuning to some commercial-laden mainstream swill music.
5) WMA support - irrelevant.
6) iPod is practically a PDA - storing your contacts, calendar, notes.
7) iPod plays songs from iTunes Music Store - iRiver does not.
If you shopped the day after Thanksgiving in an Apple store, you got 10% off on an iPod. Sorry you missed it.
The real problem is that biometrics cannot be changed if they are compromised. This makes them the worst idea for security since hiding your key under your welcome mat. Fact: locks will always be compromised, no matter how good. If you can't re-key the lock you WILL be screwed over someday.
Hijacking computers, destroying data, disrupting communications, intentionally inflicting mayhem - making people FEAR mail attachments, etc.
They can (and I'm sure they DO) make you sign confidentiality agreements as a part of the application process that make you liable in some way for revealing the particulars of the exams. They can probably prosecute you if you break them, but don't bother unless you publish a detailed book or something. Do you really want to be facing a federal crime?
If spammers are attacking national assets (the internet, e-mail, communications in general) isn't this a form of terrorism? Perhaps the EFF or ACLU should team up with the Poindexter types and declare spam attacks, worms, viruses, ddos attacks, etc to be terrorism. Once a few of these people are held at Gitbay awhile maybe the attacks would decline.
Actually, changing direction without changing yaw, though impressive, seems problematic to me. Imagine the guy in the next lane taking the curve while his car still points straight. Isn't he going to hit my car since the LANE curves while the body of his car doesn't?
When I want to talk to somebody and there's someone in their office, I use the phone to get a priority interrupt. When the phone is busy, I use IM, allowing me the chance of an even higher interrupt.