I've been advocating this for some time. If linux wants to make a dent on the desktop, they have to do stuff like this.
Guys don't give me this crap about companies feeding off the work of Open source. These companies have worked hard on their closed source applications and want to be able to port their software as binaries to Linux. This is a good thing.
To use that analogy, would a developer releasing software for windows be feeding off the hard work of MSFT? This standard will help create a symboitic relationship between commercial developers and the linux platform.
The average joe does not want access to the source, all they care about is compatibility and interoperability of software. Open standards are something the average joe might support but they could care less about the source.
Uh. There is something called inflation see... and that $7 would be much more translated into today's dollars so you are not really paying more than you did back in the day. Wages are much higher than they were back then.
Does intel sell computers? I don't see anywhere where it said that Apple "invented" USB. Just that they were the first major manufacturer to "ship" USB on their entire product line.
Never heard of Dvork? or Paul Thurrott? I think Winders has its share of fanboys. How about the friendly people at neowin? They insisted on people installing SP2 of XP even "after" the bugs and security flaws were discovered.
If that's not rabid fanboy behavior, I don't know what is. They also don't seem to have a problem with Longhorn being a ghost of what it was promised to be. I don't think you would see any mac users praising Tiger if they cut half the features on it.
I never saw the point of obtaining focus while not raising to the top. I think that "feature" was there because of the lack of translucency.
If you have transparency, you can raise a partially transparent window and still be able to see some of what is going on below.
Having said that, I find this transparency feature to be mostly useless for me as I try to be more efficient with my window management and use dual monitors especially if I'm altering code in one window and watching the updates in the other.
Now the shadow thing, is really quite useful as a visual sign of which window has focus. On windows and OSX, the window with focus is the one with the largest shadow. If you have two windows which do not overlap, which is the top one?:)
focused != on top
That does not work if you have two windows that do not overlap. In that case, you do not have a clear indication of which window has focus other than perhaps a slight variation in title bar color.
Just because OSX and Windows had this feature a long time ago, you don't have to dismiss it out of hand. This is a good thing for X.
Well obviously, this guy was a stalker but I had a funny thing happen to me several years ago when I got the job I have now.
I was excited about the starting work at the company and went for a walk around town because I did not know what to do with myself. I ended up running into this one girl that worked at a local starbucks seven times in within a couple hours. It was really freaky and each time we would be coming from opposite directions or at cross paths at intersections. After the third or fourth time, I decided to get as far away from her and her date as I could and went to chinatown and then along the seawall on the other side of the harbour. When I got back, we ran into each other again.
She tried talking to me about it the next day and I told her "yeah that was really weird" and I ended up avoiding avoiding her as much as possible after that.
I was stalked by one of my ex-girlfriends before we had dated. She admitted it one night when she was drunk (hence the ex part). Looking back now I can see it but at the time, I thought it was just a chance meeting that happened a few days a week.
How the hell is that insightful? Of course it looks like GNOME since it is GNOME. Are you trying to say that the look and feel of GNOME is completely original?
If you did not notice, I was paying this new version of GNOME a compliment on the improvements in usability. What I don't like about older versions of GNOME and all versions of KDE is how they try to emulate windows so closely. It is good to see them borrowing some ideas from Apple for a change and coming up with a few ideas of their own.
Every computer is a console. Haven't you heard of "sitting at the computer console"?
Look up the word console.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=console
The c64 matches the criteria for a console (computing device interface such as a keyboard) and it played games. What did you use your c64 for mainly?
I thought that was implied when I said root was not enabled and that this "exploit" required root privileges, something no regular user would have by default including the first user created on the system during an install.
So I cannot play my Mp3's bought legally from emusic.com? Oh wait.... I think you mean that Apple prevents other DRM'ed formats from working with the iPod but if another service offers non-DRMed formats, you are good to go as long as the format is supported.
The same can be said for the other players which support WMA DRM. They do not support other DRM schemes other than Microsoft's.
How the hell is this insightful? How would this possibly be the fault of the DVD player software if it stopped working "after" the SP2 install and not before?
I'd love to hear you explain how a system restore would somehow prove that SP2 was the culprit whereas an uninstall of SP2 would not. They would have the same net effect. Are you an MS shill or something?
You mean when you download it legally from Transgaming?
Folk, this is exactly what is holding linux back on the desktop. Commercial software on linux. Companies will not invest in linux ports if they perceive the linux community as a bunch of pirates who want everything for free.
You will be sure to have it from a reliable source if you legally obtain it from the transgaming servers.
Nah, they just can't code worth shit. I've seen some good ports and some really lousy ports. If they could write decent code, they could make some cash on publishing a mac version. ID knows all the ubergeeks on PCs are slobbering for Doom3 and are willing to upgrade no matter the cost.
It's a fricken game for crying out loud. It should not require that much power.
I'm waiting for computer game developer to wake up and start coding fast and "playable" games again.
Perhaps you should look up profit motive and capitalism. Also look up "fair use". I'm sure it does not give you the right to make verbatim copies of works suitable for resale and/or redistribution.
Examples of fair use:
Photocopies
Tape to Tape copies
CD to Tape
iTMS to CD to MP3
Store bought CD to whatever format you wish.
I was on my way to work and my spellchecker changed it on me.
DRM is no different than the physical barrier tapes had to creating perfect copies. Stop spreading lies about what fair use means. Photocopiers don't create perfect copies of books.
What is up with this culture of theft?
"I wholeheartedly support Jon and I hope he continues to crack these DRMs. After he cracked FairPlay, I actually bought a few iTMS songs (which I wouldn't before) and then transcoded them into MP3 to play in my car deck."
You did not need Jon to do that, all you needed was a blank CDR.
"Until companies trust their customers, the world of digital media is going to suck, BADLY."
This is not about trust but what the law allows for fair use. Fair use does not give you the right to duplicate and exact copy which could be used for illegal distribution. If it did, it would be called unlimited use.
I used to think exactly like you until I started getting involved in music on the weekends in a band. That experience has given me a new appreciation for artists and what they do. Being creative is hard work.
"Fairplay DRM may be one of the fairest rights management systems out there, but that's just an excellent example of why all DRM is stupid. When I buy a physical CD and rip it to MP3s, I can do all sorts of wonderful things with the music that I paid for: such as stream it to my TiVo."
What prevents you from burning the songs to CD and ripping to Mp3? Even ripping from a store bought CD involves re-encoding from PCM to AIFF to MP3.
"The whole point of copyright is to encourage authors to share their creations."
You are not the author and so they are allowed to determine the licensing terms for their creations.
But you are wrong about it's purpose. The point of copyright is to ensure rights of the author are persevered and control over duplication/sales and performance remain in the hands of the artist or their agents.
Without copyright, you would have every Tom, Dick or Harry selling copies of songs on the street without giving anything back to the original artist.
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Guys don't give me this crap about companies feeding off the work of Open source. These companies have worked hard on their closed source applications and want to be able to port their software as binaries to Linux. This is a good thing.
To use that analogy, would a developer releasing software for windows be feeding off the hard work of MSFT? This standard will help create a symboitic relationship between commercial developers and the linux platform.
The average joe does not want access to the source, all they care about is compatibility and interoperability of software. Open standards are something the average joe might support but they could care less about the source.
Uh. There is something called inflation see... and that $7 would be much more translated into today's dollars so you are not really paying more than you did back in the day. Wages are much higher than they were back then.
Does intel sell computers? I don't see anywhere where it said that Apple "invented" USB. Just that they were the first major manufacturer to "ship" USB on their entire product line.
If that's not rabid fanboy behavior, I don't know what is. They also don't seem to have a problem with Longhorn being a ghost of what it was promised to be. I don't think you would see any mac users praising Tiger if they cut half the features on it.
If you have transparency, you can raise a partially transparent window and still be able to see some of what is going on below.
Having said that, I find this transparency feature to be mostly useless for me as I try to be more efficient with my window management and use dual monitors especially if I'm altering code in one window and watching the updates in the other.
Now the shadow thing, is really quite useful as a visual sign of which window has focus. On windows and OSX, the window with focus is the one with the largest shadow. If you have two windows which do not overlap, which is the top one? :)
Just because OSX and Windows had this feature a long time ago, you don't have to dismiss it out of hand. This is a good thing for X.
I was excited about the starting work at the company and went for a walk around town because I did not know what to do with myself. I ended up running into this one girl that worked at a local starbucks seven times in within a couple hours. It was really freaky and each time we would be coming from opposite directions or at cross paths at intersections. After the third or fourth time, I decided to get as far away from her and her date as I could and went to chinatown and then along the seawall on the other side of the harbour. When I got back, we ran into each other again.
She tried talking to me about it the next day and I told her "yeah that was really weird" and I ended up avoiding avoiding her as much as possible after that.
I was stalked by one of my ex-girlfriends before we had dated. She admitted it one night when she was drunk (hence the ex part). Looking back now I can see it but at the time, I thought it was just a chance meeting that happened a few days a week.
If you did not notice, I was paying this new version of GNOME a compliment on the improvements in usability. What I don't like about older versions of GNOME and all versions of KDE is how they try to emulate windows so closely. It is good to see them borrowing some ideas from Apple for a change and coming up with a few ideas of their own.
This might have window dressing of windows but it's layout and some of the ideas they have seem more like OSX than Windows.
It's not the instructions but rather the fact that PPC is general register rich.
Every computer is a console. Haven't you heard of "sitting at the computer console"?
Look up the word console.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=console
The c64 matches the criteria for a console (computing device interface such as a keyboard) and it played games. What did you use your c64 for mainly?
I thought that was implied when I said root was not enabled and that this "exploit" required root privileges, something no regular user would have by default including the first user created on the system during an install.
The same can be said for the other players which support WMA DRM. They do not support other DRM schemes other than Microsoft's.
Don't run as root.
Nobody in their right mind would run as root in OSX, in fact root is disabled by default.
Are you a troll or are you clueless?
I'd love to hear you explain how a system restore would somehow prove that SP2 was the culprit whereas an uninstall of SP2 would not. They would have the same net effect. Are you an MS shill or something?
Folk, this is exactly what is holding linux back on the desktop. Commercial software on linux. Companies will not invest in linux ports if they perceive the linux community as a bunch of pirates who want everything for free.
You will be sure to have it from a reliable source if you legally obtain it from the transgaming servers.
It's a fricken game for crying out loud. It should not require that much power.
I'm waiting for computer game developer to wake up and start coding fast and "playable" games again.
Back to my Game Cube I guess.
He made a lot of money off our beautiful scenery.
Ok, then. Why does he do it? Why does he target only Fairplay and not the draconian WMA DRM and WMA Janus DRM?
Examples of fair use:
Photocopies
Tape to Tape copies
CD to Tape
iTMS to CD to MP3
Store bought CD to whatever format you wish.
DRM is no different than the physical barrier tapes had to creating perfect copies. Stop spreading lies about what fair use means. Photocopiers don't create perfect copies of books.
What is up with this culture of theft?
"I wholeheartedly support Jon and I hope he continues to crack these DRMs. After he cracked FairPlay, I actually bought a few iTMS songs (which I wouldn't before) and then transcoded them into MP3 to play in my car deck."
You did not need Jon to do that, all you needed was a blank CDR.
"Until companies trust their customers, the world of digital media is going to suck, BADLY."
This is not about trust but what the law allows for fair use. Fair use does not give you the right to duplicate and exact copy which could be used for illegal distribution. If it did, it would be called unlimited use.
I used to think exactly like you until I started getting involved in music on the weekends in a band. That experience has given me a new appreciation for artists and what they do. Being creative is hard work.
One more thing, did you have to reconfigure your stereo when CDs came out or were you able to play them through your tape deck?
"The whole point of copyright is to encourage authors to share their creations."
You are not the author and so they are allowed to determine the licensing terms for their creations.
But you are wrong about it's purpose. The point of copyright is to ensure rights of the author are persevered and control over duplication/sales and performance remain in the hands of the artist or their agents.
Without copyright, you would have every Tom, Dick or Harry selling copies of songs on the street without giving anything back to the original artist.
Maybe you should spend less time thinking about the spelling of others and more time reading the content.
No, you have to agree to a TOC before, you sign up for an account and you also have to agree to the sales contract when you make the purchase.