4 screw that I like bar blenders with two, low and high, thats all we ever needed anyway.
But I see what your saying here Im sure no one in a IT position was even consulted
Microsoft's vulnerable, wow I didnt know???
Granted every OS on the planet is vulnerable given enough time and research into it.
Now if someone would forward this little article to the Department of Homeland Security, maybe they might second guess their microsoft solution;-).
Actually, the only files DRM crippled out there are the one's that where purchased, hence any files produced by say me or my girlfriend or whoever are actually NOT crippled. So if you get a DRM AAC file, guess what, YOUR STEALING.
Im not one to say the RIAA is right cause I think there should be a smoking hole where they exist now, but here we finally have a buisness model I can live with THAT WORKS!!! and people dont like it cause its not free.
And as for why it wasnt included, Im sure you can read it in the multitude of other complaint threads here, but it wasnot included because its not AAC, this is compairing encoders NOT formats
yeah but thats only if they let you, very few of the tracks on the service are allowed to be burned if you read the fine print. I guess I should have made that a little more clear, sorry
For one thing, you cant burn the tracks to CD at all (well unless you hack the tracks you cant) , which is the whole cool thing about iTunes music, you can burn the tracks to multiple CD's.
Second you cant authorize more than one computer to play said tracks either. Although the same hacking rule applies here as well
Third ITS WINDOWS MEDIA!!!
I mean honestly Apple might be using their new.ACP or whatever extention it is, but when you look at it, all it is is a simple mp4 with some code added to it for rights protection, and even here your at least allowed to have it on a unlimited amount of CD's and Players that support it. Its only the computers your limited to, and even then its at least 3, and you can deauthorize at will if you change computer or need to for whatever reason.
As for more songs, true apple only had 200,000 at start, but I am sure they are close if not supassing that amount now.
Its a nice attempt to create a PC based music sales set-up, but I honestly do see it as a threat to the iTunes music sales. If they sell 5million in the first month maybe, but if they sell a lot the first few times then drop off, then we know what the answer to how well they did is.
But does anyone else see this as becoming increasingly dangerous. Microsoft has managed to delve out into just about every marketplace imaginable, with many of their efforts (.net, MS TV or whatever they are calling that set top browser now) failing and only surviving by getting more and more money shoved into advertising or other peoples pockets to force their way into the marketplace.
I mean honestly, many of Microsoft's products are sub-par at best (Even though I hate it, I will give them credit for both Windows and the x-Box) yet we are constantly forced to use it either because there is no other way, or more likely cause its cheaper, and or because other companies force us to (how often are we forced to use IE cause it wont load properly any other way!)
I mean yeah maybe Im a bitter Apple guy who cant leave the past alone, but even if I wasn't I think I would still be worried about a company who's had more anti-trust suit levied on it than sharks have teeth getting even more access to what I see and hear on TV.
We joked about it in another thread here, but think about it, what if when going to CNN a pop up screen said, "I see your going to CNN would you like to go to MSNBC instead." I mean thats an extreme case but there is nothing stopping them, the government has done a poor job at best, CHRIST even their computers are full of Microsoft's software.
I guess he must have missed the whole Palm OS can sync with anything that has Palm desktop information that was in his packet. Cause you know, not everyone uses a Windows PC
In terms of coolness factor its a 10,
But looking at all the pictures I have seen I am not sure how usable this really is. Sure it has all of the Palm features but its so small, my blind eyes would probably have trouble reading anything without stairing.
More impotantly for the price, I would rather have a refurb Handspring Edge and get one of those wallets that has room for my palm if I really needed to keep my palm with me all the time (which is infact how my current setup is.
I would rather the USB watch anyday over this one
Eh to the layman its all the same, I mean christ how the hell could have Microsoft existed as long as they have with such ugly code if they didnt put a nice face to it:-D
Shhhh!!!!! how do we know Apple didnt come up with it but Microsoft stole it and leaked it to make people think they developed it first?
I guess we have to wait till Apple Expo this September to find out!!!!:-P
Honestly I dont even use my CD-r/rw all that much
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Seriously. I bought a combo-drive iBook expecting to use it a lot, and honestly with portable hard drives being so cheap and holding a lot more data, we have stopped using the cd burners in our office and just take a dual interface (USB2/Firewire) hard drive around to the schools to offload data too important to send over the network, or to back up the hard drives. If its a small file, just use our 30 dollar key disks.
I even thought I would use the drive to burn backups, but my iPod and my external 40 gig both have any data I need to save. I really cant see getting a DVD R for anything other than burning a movie from a DV camera.
Its actually funny if you think about it, if it wasnt for Apple and C64 users, AOL would never have been in a position to be the giant it is now (AOL was a Apple and C64 ONLY bbs system before version 3.0, and internet??? HA yeah right what was that).
I mean honestly, was there really a point of keeping open Mozilla AND Netscape? Mozilla being opens source was the way to go, and dumping Netscape was not that bad of an idea.
NOW AOL using Microsuck Exploder in future releases, thats a travisty. Did AOL really have that much to fear from Microsoft. If they had used netscape, none of their users would have known, and better, everyone on the net would have worked to provide FOR aol and netscape, and dumped MS's needlessly propitory gabage
If the situation is thus, NASA is way too bloated a govermental organization to keep things running smooth, maybe unmanned space flight for now is the only responce.
If you notice, many of the experiments performed on shuttles are ones that there is really no need for a human to be involved, you can have a robot or control from the ground do it fine and have it be both safer, and more cost effective than spaceflight. In fact its almost as if NASA is making busy work for astronauts now, with the fact most experiments can be done without human aid.
But is this really the case, is it maybe more, NASA scientists are unimaginative? I can think of tons of very valid and important human experiments yet to be performed in space that NASA never does for one reason or another. Not to mention a lot of the "future in space" projects they alwaysed perposed end up getting tossed for something else unimportant. We dont need to know stuff like how insects perform in space or GASP how fish f**k, We need to know stuff like staisis and how a better sleep system might be invented or creating artifisial gravity or other things that pertain more to humans living in space than anything else.
Which leads me to my next point, a lot of my suggestions are next to impossable right now cause we dont have enough data on them, so why dont we make it. Limit human spaceflight, study more things on the ground, and then when we are ready go back with the new data in HUMAN experiments. Go back to the old days of Apollo and Gemini and stuff where it was an exploration, not busy work.
perhaps GASP slow down and let science catch up!!!
First off, isn't the last OS they would want to use because it IS so insecure?
More importantly cant they go about it a different way. Making it a mult-platform application, or use JAVA or something!!!!
I have some understanding of why it would be for windows. Windows is used for a lot of the software the military uses, granted I still love to read about the destroyer that had to be towed back cause NT crashed and they couldn't start it up again.
But regardless, we live in society that constantly prints up in 10 million different languages for everyone in our country, yet refuses to code to the 4 or 5 different major OS's out there. Is it me or there something either very wrong with this, or more likely having a republican president in the office, very suspicious!!!
Well actually no, cause your right it IS just as bad. But the honest truth is if you take the time to talk to your kids, have dinner with them, hang out on the weekends, and just see what they are bringing home and stuff (you know cause I dont know about you but its kinda hard to hide a AK 47 like they did) your already a step closer.
What would actually be better is to not have guns in your house PERIOD, cause at least around here (NY area) you have plenty of ways to keep a gun if your a hunter and not have to have it enter your house (gun clubs, lockers at shooting ranges for guns etc.) I know its a much different culture out there from the east, but still after so many gun attacks taking place in middle america, I would think people might see the point already.
Exactly,
We had this issue at our school when I was a sophmore where kids where playing "vampire" drinking blood and all kinds of stuff, I wasnt one of them, but I was friends with a lot of them as well as boyfriend to one of them.
The minute things started to get out of hand where they might potentialy hurt others, or more importantly themselves, the Principal and Vise Principal ( who are actually my bosses now 6 years later) went right in called them all out of class and their parents and they sat down in the auditorium and discussed why everyone thought they could potentially hurt themselves and what is making them express their problems in a such a way.
you know what happened... aside from one or two who ended up dropping out cause mommy and daddy had money they all eventually realized that what they where doing was stupid and many of them actually went to seek help.
That how schools should be, teachers for the most part but able to intervein when they see a major problem comming through and prepared to do whatever is neccisary to make things work. Yes teachers are not supposed to be parents but in my city they have to be, because more often than not they see the students more than their parents ever could because everyone is middle to lower class and I had friends who's parents worked 60 hours a week.
Now I wont play the religion card, cause even though I feel religion is a major problem in us advancing as a species, for a lot of people they need something to beleive in and religion fills that void. Likewise Im not entiarly sure that you could pin it on religion because its not just that, the attitude of people from that area is MUCH different than say my east coast attitude.
The biggest thing you have to pin it on, is morals. And its obvious in that football driven society, they are lacking when parents and teachers allow such negativity and hatred for a fellow man to exist.
and you know what, its that mentality that let it become a scapegoat.
COLUMBINE WAS BAD PARENTING PLAIN AND SIMPLE
how do you NOT know your kid has a gun, you have to be a moron to not check up on them. It's your resposibility as a parent to do it.
you know I grew up in a inner city school, and if someone had a problem , the teachers knew, the parents knew and more importantly they made sure YOU knew they where there. They checked up on you and made sure you where ok.
reading everything I ever have on Columbine and what do I see, ever single person not caring cause they had other things too worry about. thats why it happened not video games.
Im sorry but I played doom and quake and wolfenstein from age 8 on, a) my dad was there both cheering me on for kicking nazi ass, and to make sure I understood it was a game. and b) never once though it would be cool to do in real life
ITs not to far off from what I do. But the honst truth is we are the bad guy.
We realize that yes these are legaly right reasons to download music, but what the RIAA would rather you have done was buy another CD, or listen to it in a non cd-rom player.
They dont like the fact that we, are too smart for our own good so they are going to argue that said laws dont apply because 9 time out of 10 the judge WONT realize that they are twisting the law, he will go with who makes the better argument and even if he's siding against the law he will allow it cause he's ignorant to that law thanks to technology progressing faster than people can understand.
I may be also just looking into this too much, but thats my honest what I think is happening
How was this offtopic, it was a joke based on the fact that the article talked about themes transend generations!!! ".history matters, and we want people to realize that Quake isn't an isolated phenomenon. Games back in the 1870s had similar themes, so did mid-century toy soldiers and H.G. Wells novels." "Humorous maybe but not offtopic... grrrrr
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4 screw that I like bar blenders with two, low and high, thats all we ever needed anyway. But I see what your saying here Im sure no one in a IT position was even consulted
Microsoft's vulnerable, wow I didnt know??? Granted every OS on the planet is vulnerable given enough time and research into it. Now if someone would forward this little article to the Department of Homeland Security, maybe they might second guess their microsoft solution ;-).
Actually, the only files DRM crippled out there are the one's that where purchased, hence any files produced by say me or my girlfriend or whoever are actually NOT crippled. So if you get a DRM AAC file, guess what, YOUR STEALING. Im not one to say the RIAA is right cause I think there should be a smoking hole where they exist now, but here we finally have a buisness model I can live with THAT WORKS!!! and people dont like it cause its not free.
And as for why it wasnt included, Im sure you can read it in the multitude of other complaint threads here, but it wasnot included because its not AAC, this is compairing encoders NOT formats
yeah but thats only if they let you, very few of the tracks on the service are allowed to be burned if you read the fine print. I guess I should have made that a little more clear, sorry
ment to say dont see it as a threat, fucking cant change posts around. DO'H
Second you cant authorize more than one computer to play said tracks either. Although the same hacking rule applies here as well
Third ITS WINDOWS MEDIA!!!
I mean honestly Apple might be using their new .ACP or whatever extention it is, but when you look at it, all it is is a simple mp4 with some code added to it for rights protection, and even here your at least allowed to have it on a unlimited amount of CD's and Players that support it. Its only the computers your limited to, and even then its at least 3, and you can deauthorize at will if you change computer or need to for whatever reason.
As for more songs, true apple only had 200,000 at start, but I am sure they are close if not supassing that amount now.
Its a nice attempt to create a PC based music sales set-up, but I honestly do see it as a threat to the iTunes music sales. If they sell 5million in the first month maybe, but if they sell a lot the first few times then drop off, then we know what the answer to how well they did is.
I mean honestly, many of Microsoft's products are sub-par at best (Even though I hate it, I will give them credit for both Windows and the x-Box) yet we are constantly forced to use it either because there is no other way, or more likely cause its cheaper, and or because other companies force us to (how often are we forced to use IE cause it wont load properly any other way!)
I mean yeah maybe Im a bitter Apple guy who cant leave the past alone, but even if I wasn't I think I would still be worried about a company who's had more anti-trust suit levied on it than sharks have teeth getting even more access to what I see and hear on TV.
We joked about it in another thread here, but think about it, what if when going to CNN a pop up screen said, "I see your going to CNN would you like to go to MSNBC instead." I mean thats an extreme case but there is nothing stopping them, the government has done a poor job at best, CHRIST even their computers are full of Microsoft's software.
OK I will stop ranting now!
Oh they where all buddy buddy when AOL was forc... er I mean pursuaded to uses IE technology in its future versions.
No more like typing with my boss hovering over my workstation. ;-)
I guess he must have missed the whole Palm OS can sync with anything that has Palm desktop information that was in his packet. Cause you know, not everyone uses a Windows PC
In terms of coolness factor its a 10, But looking at all the pictures I have seen I am not sure how usable this really is. Sure it has all of the Palm features but its so small, my blind eyes would probably have trouble reading anything without stairing. More impotantly for the price, I would rather have a refurb Handspring Edge and get one of those wallets that has room for my palm if I really needed to keep my palm with me all the time (which is infact how my current setup is. I would rather the USB watch anyday over this one
Eh to the layman its all the same, I mean christ how the hell could have Microsoft existed as long as they have with such ugly code if they didnt put a nice face to it :-D
Shhhh!!!!! how do we know Apple didnt come up with it but Microsoft stole it and leaked it to make people think they developed it first? I guess we have to wait till Apple Expo this September to find out!!!! :-P
Seriously. I bought a combo-drive iBook expecting to use it a lot, and honestly with portable hard drives being so cheap and holding a lot more data, we have stopped using the cd burners in our office and just take a dual interface (USB2/Firewire) hard drive around to the schools to offload data too important to send over the network, or to back up the hard drives. If its a small file, just use our 30 dollar key disks. I even thought I would use the drive to burn backups, but my iPod and my external 40 gig both have any data I need to save. I really cant see getting a DVD R for anything other than burning a movie from a DV camera.
Yet they constantly screw mac users.
NOW AOL using Microsuck Exploder in future releases, thats a travisty. Did AOL really have that much to fear from Microsoft. If they had used netscape, none of their users would have known, and better, everyone on the net would have worked to provide FOR aol and netscape, and dumped MS's needlessly propitory gabage
wow my spelling was atrocious
If the situation is thus, NASA is way too bloated a govermental organization to keep things running smooth, maybe unmanned space flight for now is the only responce.
If you notice, many of the experiments performed on shuttles are ones that there is really no need for a human to be involved, you can have a robot or control from the ground do it fine and have it be both safer, and more cost effective than spaceflight. In fact its almost as if NASA is making busy work for astronauts now, with the fact most experiments can be done without human aid.
But is this really the case, is it maybe more, NASA scientists are unimaginative? I can think of tons of very valid and important human experiments yet to be performed in space that NASA never does for one reason or another. Not to mention a lot of the "future in space" projects they alwaysed perposed end up getting tossed for something else unimportant. We dont need to know stuff like how insects perform in space or GASP how fish f**k, We need to know stuff like staisis and how a better sleep system might be invented or creating artifisial gravity or other things that pertain more to humans living in space than anything else.
Which leads me to my next point, a lot of my suggestions are next to impossable right now cause we dont have enough data on them, so why dont we make it. Limit human spaceflight, study more things on the ground, and then when we are ready go back with the new data in HUMAN experiments. Go back to the old days of Apollo and Gemini and stuff where it was an exploration, not busy work.
perhaps GASP slow down and let science catch up!!!
First off, isn't the last OS they would want to use because it IS so insecure?
More importantly cant they go about it a different way. Making it a mult-platform application, or use JAVA or something!!!!
I have some understanding of why it would be for windows. Windows is used for a lot of the software the military uses, granted I still love to read about the destroyer that had to be towed back cause NT crashed and they couldn't start it up again.
But regardless, we live in society that constantly prints up in 10 million different languages for everyone in our country, yet refuses to code to the 4 or 5 different major OS's out there. Is it me or there something either very wrong with this, or more likely having a republican president in the office, very suspicious!!!
What would actually be better is to not have guns in your house PERIOD, cause at least around here (NY area) you have plenty of ways to keep a gun if your a hunter and not have to have it enter your house (gun clubs, lockers at shooting ranges for guns etc.) I know its a much different culture out there from the east, but still after so many gun attacks taking place in middle america, I would think people might see the point already.
The minute things started to get out of hand where they might potentialy hurt others, or more importantly themselves, the Principal and Vise Principal ( who are actually my bosses now 6 years later) went right in called them all out of class and their parents and they sat down in the auditorium and discussed why everyone thought they could potentially hurt themselves and what is making them express their problems in a such a way.
you know what happened... aside from one or two who ended up dropping out cause mommy and daddy had money they all eventually realized that what they where doing was stupid and many of them actually went to seek help.
That how schools should be, teachers for the most part but able to intervein when they see a major problem comming through and prepared to do whatever is neccisary to make things work. Yes teachers are not supposed to be parents but in my city they have to be, because more often than not they see the students more than their parents ever could because everyone is middle to lower class and I had friends who's parents worked 60 hours a week.
Now I wont play the religion card, cause even though I feel religion is a major problem in us advancing as a species, for a lot of people they need something to beleive in and religion fills that void. Likewise Im not entiarly sure that you could pin it on religion because its not just that, the attitude of people from that area is MUCH different than say my east coast attitude.
The biggest thing you have to pin it on, is morals. And its obvious in that football driven society, they are lacking when parents and teachers allow such negativity and hatred for a fellow man to exist.
COLUMBINE WAS BAD PARENTING PLAIN AND SIMPLE
how do you NOT know your kid has a gun, you have to be a moron to not check up on them. It's your resposibility as a parent to do it.
you know I grew up in a inner city school, and if someone had a problem , the teachers knew, the parents knew and more importantly they made sure YOU knew they where there. They checked up on you and made sure you where ok.
reading everything I ever have on Columbine and what do I see, ever single person not caring cause they had other things too worry about. thats why it happened not video games.
Im sorry but I played doom and quake and wolfenstein from age 8 on, a) my dad was there both cheering me on for kicking nazi ass, and to make sure I understood it was a game. and b) never once though it would be cool to do in real life
im sorry, but your post is just flame bait imho
We realize that yes these are legaly right reasons to download music, but what the RIAA would rather you have done was buy another CD, or listen to it in a non cd-rom player.
They dont like the fact that we, are too smart for our own good so they are going to argue that said laws dont apply because 9 time out of 10 the judge WONT realize that they are twisting the law, he will go with who makes the better argument and even if he's siding against the law he will allow it cause he's ignorant to that law thanks to technology progressing faster than people can understand.
I may be also just looking into this too much, but thats my honest what I think is happening
How was this offtopic, it was a joke based on the fact that the article talked about themes transend generations!!! ".history matters, and we want people to realize that Quake isn't an isolated phenomenon. Games back in the 1870s had similar themes, so did mid-century toy soldiers and H.G. Wells novels." "Humorous maybe but not offtopic... grrrrr