Well hope your not using Amazon either, because they and emusic and the rest of the DRM free ones put your data or a code linked to you into the song you bought as well.
a Library of Congress is a term of data size roughly equivalent to 20 terabytes of data. Not actually accurate since the Library has much more than that and it was estimated to be this much based solely on books and not other media, but it is a somewhat used unit of measurement in terms of data size when not speaking scientifically.
The difference is timing and nature. She did it when the Internet was still a seldom used tool that hardly got a notice in fact the whole of records of email for the Clinton era probably could fill a 100gig drive and still have a ton of room left over. Also she flat out admitted the reason why, because a email of hers she had forgotten about came back to haunt her in Florida, you have to remmeber at the time email had barely even been used in court cases, no one knew email was for all purposes like putting it down on paper. Hell I know a company who had a very similar thing happen in regards to AIM around 98, a IM chat cam back to haunt a manager. Thus ended the companies allowance for using AIM.
Bush's administration used it and used in leu of the publicly paid for system to deceive the public. they for all purposes created a shadow organization to prevent people from seeing through the official records what they where really up to. In their case we are talking about whole Library of Congress sized amounts of data secretly being sent back and forth through all branches of government and people of intrest, especially since by this point email supplanted voice and paper record for doing things.
But then you knew that before you posted this and went ahead with it anyway.
because it costs school districts and thus taxpayers thousands of dollars to support Office when free products exist and let those thousands go to other academic support, in our case upgrading 5+ year old servers.
Thats good for you, guess what, no one cares. Its about as significant a alteration as getting your grubby hands on a CD or Tape and the cops using it to find your DNA. It does nothing to change the sound quality and merely exists so your dumb ass wont think "huh huh now let go fire up that limewire." Transcode it to MP3 or use ANY of the free editors that where made OVER A YEAR AGO to remove the data and guess what, no more data in your AAC file.
Same thing in education too. I tried SO hard to move people from Microsoft Office to Open Office, but even though it worked fine with office docs, in the end people felt comfortable with MS Office. The only way that would change is through a policy change and when your administration doesnt care about what they spend money on and whats better, why the hell would they sign off on such a change.
Lawyers are not lobbyists. They MAY be the scum of the earth, but they are a hired hitter and often have no real opinion one way or another about a case except winning. In reality this is WHY they are as scummy as they are, they have scruples and no loyalties or moralities to anything unless it could ultimately hurt them like knowing a client is guilty through the clients own admission but hiding this fact.
Last I checked you where not talking to millions of people you asshat. Bill Steve, all of them take months to prepare the speeches, hell at Apple they used to start preparing Macworld NY when they still attended it DURING Macworld SF.
well one of the biggest issues now is what I call Lazy coders. Programers who instead of taking the time to learn languages easily ported subscribe to the windows way of doing things and thus are out of their element when it comes to portable code for OS X/Linux.
ARE they legal investigators in other states? That was one of the whole points with Mediasentry, they where illegally doing what they where doing in a number of states the RIAA had cases in. If this new company does the same shit then guess what, nothing changes and the RIAA is again violating the law.
pointed or not ITS A KITCHEN KNIFE. I mean really you are really trying to justify that? Thats like saying you cant drink too much water because it will kill you so we will BAN water.
and who is to say MMO players DONT do this as well?
I garden (well ok its a aerogarden being a apartment and all lol) go to the gym 4 times a week for 1+hours depending on the routine that day model, read, cook, clean my apartment, AND play FFXI about 2-3 hours a night. I hang out with friends, I go to work, have a wonderful wife who also games, and in general have no problems with things. So this idea that MMO players ONLY play MMOs needs to die. I am sure there are people like tha but in general all of them I know have NO issues in their lives if they are over the age of 21 and thus able to manage their time.
but I am sure you have bought batteries, memory cards or film, case, lenses other than your initial one, transportation costs to go to the places you do, print being made etc.
Average that out and see what you get.
Well my modeling hobby costs WELL more than 20 a month when you average i out. Just building my Enterprise refit alone will be costing me around 100-300 dollars depending on how cheap I can get some of the chips for the lights and other parts, not to mention paint, airbrush supplies, and a few other parts I need. So really thats a bullshit comment because EVERYONES hobbies cost them something, be it in a sporting item, gas for travel, maybe paint paintball gun and safety device. Etc.
didnt Apple also release a notice to users telling them to apply the new firmware over the old one and to download it if software update didn't show it.
Not apologizing for the mixup, but Apple DID make notice to users about the mixup and what to do. Its now on the users not RTFN to be faulted. Funny how ignorance of a law cant be used as a defense against said law, but ignorance of a notice all of sudden makes it the companies fault and not the stupid users?
the problem was it was a faulty firmware that slipped through software update and was pulled a half hour later. It was replaced with the right firmware but a few people needing to be on the BLEEDING EDGE of updates never reapplied the right firmware, and thus are the ones complaining now.
your assuming they update. Give them a standard account and configure it not to update unless you tell it to and leave it at that. I update maybe 3 times a year for our district. Unlike Windows rarely is a update ever critical.
Except for the bulk of students (easily 99% of them) it IS office suits. And they dont even do that well.
Computer Science is NOT something that should be taught any sooner than 9th grade IMHO. And certainly should not be a general ed requirement. It is not a general skill most people need and certainly should not be thought of as that way. I know this is slashdot so people are going to disagree with that, but the honest truth is its hard enough now to get kids to learn real life skills, teaching them something from a field most dont even have a inkling of want to be in and those who do will already know more than any teacher will be able to teach them is just another subject that waters down basic education.
I highly doubt it since for all purposes that could be taken further to the point of saying EVERY version update by every software publisher in the world invalidated their software.
First off, your kidding yourself if you think your laptops dont have DRM on them. Go play something HD on a older digital monitor with a older connection and talk to us. Hell scre that you using XP? Yeah I thought so.
Second you think Apple actually WANTS DRM? Apple isnt in the music making buisness, nor or they in the video making buisness. They sell machines to do it, tools to do it, but ultimately they are not making movies and music. So where is it for them to WANT DRM? They want to sell you shit. Its the people they deal with, the major labels who WANT to make sure you get their crap and dont steal it. Apple practically makes nothing off the stuff they sell in the store. So little that the labels play to raise their rates a while back basically was countered with Apple saying "fine we will close the store then." They didnt even flinch when NBC left them, which says a lot about how much money they are really making with these deals that 1-2 especially when you consider that Apple is the one paying the hosting fee and maintenance fees for running the store, not the labels who just provide the song or video.
So really what you think your doing in boycotting them is just being stupid and showing your lack of knowledge of the situation. Because Apple really isnt in the business to DRM crap, and your saying they are just shows you to be a idiot.
Seriously. How many "boycotts" have people had against iTunes at this point. And didnt it just get announced a couple months ago that iTunes is now #1 in all music sales? Not for nothing but I hate DRM, I really do, and when I can avoid I do, which is why I dont by anything but indie music that comes as DRM free. But going up against iTunes is kinda a waste when ultimately its the studios behind the DRM, and they are now using it to leverage better royalty rates on music against Apple (thus despite having stores who have all DRM free music, Apple still has to put up with having DRM from some of the major players)
The only real way to get rid of DRM is to just STOP BUYING CRAP MUSIC. But then that was the only way to stop it years ago and you people still dont get it through your skull to stop supporting any artist on a major label.
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Well hope your not using Amazon either, because they and emusic and the rest of the DRM free ones put your data or a code linked to you into the song you bought as well.
a Library of Congress is a term of data size roughly equivalent to 20 terabytes of data. Not actually accurate since the Library has much more than that and it was estimated to be this much based solely on books and not other media, but it is a somewhat used unit of measurement in terms of data size when not speaking scientifically.
The difference is timing and nature. She did it when the Internet was still a seldom used tool that hardly got a notice in fact the whole of records of email for the Clinton era probably could fill a 100gig drive and still have a ton of room left over. Also she flat out admitted the reason why, because a email of hers she had forgotten about came back to haunt her in Florida, you have to remmeber at the time email had barely even been used in court cases, no one knew email was for all purposes like putting it down on paper. Hell I know a company who had a very similar thing happen in regards to AIM around 98, a IM chat cam back to haunt a manager. Thus ended the companies allowance for using AIM.
Bush's administration used it and used in leu of the publicly paid for system to deceive the public. they for all purposes created a shadow organization to prevent people from seeing through the official records what they where really up to. In their case we are talking about whole Library of Congress sized amounts of data secretly being sent back and forth through all branches of government and people of intrest, especially since by this point email supplanted voice and paper record for doing things.
But then you knew that before you posted this and went ahead with it anyway.
because it costs school districts and thus taxpayers thousands of dollars to support Office when free products exist and let those thousands go to other academic support, in our case upgrading 5+ year old servers.
Thats good for you, guess what, no one cares. Its about as significant a alteration as getting your grubby hands on a CD or Tape and the cops using it to find your DNA. It does nothing to change the sound quality and merely exists so your dumb ass wont think "huh huh now let go fire up that limewire." Transcode it to MP3 or use ANY of the free editors that where made OVER A YEAR AGO to remove the data and guess what, no more data in your AAC file.
Nothing I hate more that geek hippies.
Same thing in education too. I tried SO hard to move people from Microsoft Office to Open Office, but even though it worked fine with office docs, in the end people felt comfortable with MS Office. The only way that would change is through a policy change and when your administration doesnt care about what they spend money on and whats better, why the hell would they sign off on such a change.
Lawyers are not lobbyists. They MAY be the scum of the earth, but they are a hired hitter and often have no real opinion one way or another about a case except winning. In reality this is WHY they are as scummy as they are, they have scruples and no loyalties or moralities to anything unless it could ultimately hurt them like knowing a client is guilty through the clients own admission but hiding this fact.
Last I checked you where not talking to millions of people you asshat. Bill Steve, all of them take months to prepare the speeches, hell at Apple they used to start preparing Macworld NY when they still attended it DURING Macworld SF.
well one of the biggest issues now is what I call Lazy coders. Programers who instead of taking the time to learn languages easily ported subscribe to the windows way of doing things and thus are out of their element when it comes to portable code for OS X/Linux.
ARE they legal investigators in other states? That was one of the whole points with Mediasentry, they where illegally doing what they where doing in a number of states the RIAA had cases in. If this new company does the same shit then guess what, nothing changes and the RIAA is again violating the law.
pointed or not ITS A KITCHEN KNIFE. I mean really you are really trying to justify that? Thats like saying you cant drink too much water because it will kill you so we will BAN water.
Expect no, will get? usually. Apple has either repaired or given a reduced price on a replacement iPod to 1st gen owners for a few years now.
not any more difficult than tapes. Both are bulky but depending on how much data you have tapes can be much more so.
and who is to say MMO players DONT do this as well?
I garden (well ok its a aerogarden being a apartment and all lol) go to the gym 4 times a week for 1+hours depending on the routine that day model, read, cook, clean my apartment, AND play FFXI about 2-3 hours a night. I hang out with friends, I go to work, have a wonderful wife who also games, and in general have no problems with things. So this idea that MMO players ONLY play MMOs needs to die. I am sure there are people like tha but in general all of them I know have NO issues in their lives if they are over the age of 21 and thus able to manage their time.
but I am sure you have bought batteries, memory cards or film, case, lenses other than your initial one, transportation costs to go to the places you do, print being made etc. Average that out and see what you get.
Well my modeling hobby costs WELL more than 20 a month when you average i out. Just building my Enterprise refit alone will be costing me around 100-300 dollars depending on how cheap I can get some of the chips for the lights and other parts, not to mention paint, airbrush supplies, and a few other parts I need. So really thats a bullshit comment because EVERYONES hobbies cost them something, be it in a sporting item, gas for travel, maybe paint paintball gun and safety device. Etc.
The charts from them are extremely American centric. I would just chalk it up to a western bias and have it at that.
didnt Apple also release a notice to users telling them to apply the new firmware over the old one and to download it if software update didn't show it. Not apologizing for the mixup, but Apple DID make notice to users about the mixup and what to do. Its now on the users not RTFN to be faulted. Funny how ignorance of a law cant be used as a defense against said law, but ignorance of a notice all of sudden makes it the companies fault and not the stupid users?
the problem was it was a faulty firmware that slipped through software update and was pulled a half hour later. It was replaced with the right firmware but a few people needing to be on the BLEEDING EDGE of updates never reapplied the right firmware, and thus are the ones complaining now.
your assuming they update. Give them a standard account and configure it not to update unless you tell it to and leave it at that. I update maybe 3 times a year for our district. Unlike Windows rarely is a update ever critical.
CS100 level stuff IS taught now. What people here are talking about is beyond basic computer understanding.
Except for the bulk of students (easily 99% of them) it IS office suits. And they dont even do that well.
Computer Science is NOT something that should be taught any sooner than 9th grade IMHO. And certainly should not be a general ed requirement. It is not a general skill most people need and certainly should not be thought of as that way. I know this is slashdot so people are going to disagree with that, but the honest truth is its hard enough now to get kids to learn real life skills, teaching them something from a field most dont even have a inkling of want to be in and those who do will already know more than any teacher will be able to teach them is just another subject that waters down basic education.
I highly doubt it since for all purposes that could be taken further to the point of saying EVERY version update by every software publisher in the world invalidated their software.
First off, your kidding yourself if you think your laptops dont have DRM on them. Go play something HD on a older digital monitor with a older connection and talk to us. Hell scre that you using XP? Yeah I thought so.
Second you think Apple actually WANTS DRM? Apple isnt in the music making buisness, nor or they in the video making buisness. They sell machines to do it, tools to do it, but ultimately they are not making movies and music. So where is it for them to WANT DRM? They want to sell you shit. Its the people they deal with, the major labels who WANT to make sure you get their crap and dont steal it. Apple practically makes nothing off the stuff they sell in the store. So little that the labels play to raise their rates a while back basically was countered with Apple saying "fine we will close the store then." They didnt even flinch when NBC left them, which says a lot about how much money they are really making with these deals that 1-2 especially when you consider that Apple is the one paying the hosting fee and maintenance fees for running the store, not the labels who just provide the song or video.
So really what you think your doing in boycotting them is just being stupid and showing your lack of knowledge of the situation. Because Apple really isnt in the business to DRM crap, and your saying they are just shows you to be a idiot.
Seriously. How many "boycotts" have people had against iTunes at this point. And didnt it just get announced a couple months ago that iTunes is now #1 in all music sales? Not for nothing but I hate DRM, I really do, and when I can avoid I do, which is why I dont by anything but indie music that comes as DRM free. But going up against iTunes is kinda a waste when ultimately its the studios behind the DRM, and they are now using it to leverage better royalty rates on music against Apple (thus despite having stores who have all DRM free music, Apple still has to put up with having DRM from some of the major players)
The only real way to get rid of DRM is to just STOP BUYING CRAP MUSIC. But then that was the only way to stop it years ago and you people still dont get it through your skull to stop supporting any artist on a major label.