The fact is, iTMS and the iPod are seamlessly integrated, but Apple has done nothing to prevent users from getting their music from other sources. (to be fair, they made no effort to encourage users to use other sources either)
That's not true, don't you remember what Apple did to Real when Real tried to sell music for the iPod?
Well, I keep my flash MP3 player happy with NiMH rechargable AA's. So I'm not pumping a continous stream of AA's into a landfill (and even when I did use standard AA's, they would keep the thing going for 20+ hours easy anyway). Plus, I have the bonus of not having to trash the MP3 player when it's non-replacable internal battery dies.
Go into Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services. From there, disable the Themes service. While you are in there, it's not a bad idea to disable other completely-stupid-to-have-running-by-default services like Remote Registry and Messenger.
Not to mention many car manufacturers now are integrating the radio/CD player with the navigation system/climate control systems in their cars. There is no longer a seperate stereo, it's now a small part of one giant inseperable mess of electronics.
Really? It's impossible for you to resell it? What did you buy? I collection of bits in a particular order readable by certain programs. What part of the DRM prevents you from physicaly transfering that collection of bits to any other person?
So you try to sell this DRM'd collection of bits to another person. So they give you money, and you email them the AAC file off your computer. What did they get, a song? Or a useless collection of bits that can't do anything but take up space?
So, you decide to let them play it - so you use up one of your computer authorizations to authorize their computer. Lets ignore the fact that you can only do this a small number of times, and the problem that will come up if their computer was already authorized. Have you sold them a song now - as in it is theirs to do whatever with, including resell it? Or did they just pay you money to "borrow" it for an unspecified amount of time?
The reality of the situation is, DRM'd files cannot be easily sold or transferred.
Actually, if you knew anything at all, you would know that the original iTMS plan didn't have any DRM built in at all. The problem was, without some sort of DRM, the big companies wouldn't go for it.
Yeah, but the reality of the situation is that the final product has DRM in it, and Apple has been changing the terms around (generally making it more restrictive in the process), and has used their power to lock out competition (see: Real).
I've had nothing but bad luck with Western Digital drives. I don't currently own one, because everyone one I have ever gotten my hands on has failed. Same with everyone I know who builds computers.
I have never had a bad Maxtor, but I have seen a couple of other people's drives fail. Rarely have I seen a failed Seagate either.
I agree, the IBM drives were terrible, but I never lost data to one. I could always tell when they were going out (the "click of doom") and have plenty of time to copy everything off of them, as opposed to Western Digital which would suddenly just stop working.
I also have two Samsung drives which have not given me any trouble either, though I have only had them for about a year or so.
If you thought someone should "Get a Dell" - as opposed to building their own, getting a good whitebox, or even getting a better name brand computer - then it's pretty unlikely they are going to benefit any from a 64bit chip. I'd not worry about it.
In UNIX. If a hacker kills your home space and you delete it and restore it You can be confident that the rest of the OS will work fine. And that means you will not have to re-install apps all over again (assuming you installed them using higher privs than user and they were installed in shared filesystem space like/usr)
If the user has access to a user's account on a Unix machine, they are usally only a small step away from root on that machine. Local root level exploits are a lot more common than remote ones. You can never really be sure about a compromised Unix machine, as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe all the great Windows developers all have jobs, while all the good Linux/Mac developers are sitting at home, unemployed, and ready to work at the drop of a hat?
At every price point, I can easily build a PC that will easily outperform the Apple in terms of performance. Sure, it won't have the cool form factor, nor will it run OSX. But really, I don't care about that stuff.
Oh, and by the way, both Sony and Gateway make all-in-one LCD PCs. They are both underpowered and pricy for what you get (in my opinion), but they do exist.
Any Windows PC with 256MB is going to "work fine" right out of the box too. But like OSX (and Linux), it's going to work better with 512MB of ram. Maybe 256MB is fine with you though, it just depends on what you do and how much swapping you are willing to put with.
On a somewhat related note, why is Apple so stingy with ram in it's configurations? I can understand the Mac Mini with 256MB, but the $2000 dual CPU 1.8Ghz G5 tower?
Well, unless you've been collecting those CDs out of other people's cars, those CDs have been costing you money, haven't they? I would say $10,000 is pretty accurate, though some people certainly have already made the investment before getting the iPod.
Reminds me of when i was in college -- the flunk courses were graded on a curve. And there were these fuckers who were always cheating and I could never score half as well as they did. So i worked hard for C's and D's, while people who were cheating were getting easy A's and B's. Then I realized -- the people who were cheating were *SETTING* the curve which I was being judged by. So I became a cheater to.
Why didn't you just rat them out? Or where they the football players and the school didn't care?
That would be too obvious. The best thing to do would be to take the original film and insert a few frames of pornography here and there, and see anyone notices.
The Pentium III Celerons are not that bad of a chip. The Pentium 4 based Celerons really do hurt for L2 cache though, and don't really run cooler than their P4 brothers.
The big problem with the Celeron is that a system with a Celeron probably also has a motherboard with yesterday's chipset, not enough slow shitty ram, Intel extreme graphics, and a 5400RPM system drive. So it's no wonder people think of the Celeron as slow.
Not that I would get a Celeron anyway, when an AMD Athlon XP costs about the same.
Currently, some of the Celeron D's are just Pentium 4's with a bank of L2 cache disabled (presumably because that bank didn't pass quality control). I have yet to hear of anyone who has managed to reenable the bank and get themselves a full blown P4 out of it. Likewise, the 486SX was a 486DX with the FPU disabled. I never heard of anyone reenabling the FPU on their SX either. So what makes you think people will be able to reenable half of a disabled dual core chip?
My guess is the few things defect chips are used in like digital answering machines don't come anywhere close to using up the supply out there. So most defective chips are still getting trashed/recycled.
Some people like to play around, experiment, and try different things. Linux is free, so why not? Debian, Mandrake, Redhat, Fedora, Mepis, Knoppix, Ubuntu...
With that said, Linux.iso's still don't count for a huge part of my downloading.
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The fact is, iTMS and the iPod are seamlessly integrated, but Apple has done nothing to prevent users from getting their music from other sources. (to be fair, they made no effort to encourage users to use other sources either)
That's not true, don't you remember what Apple did to Real when Real tried to sell music for the iPod?
Well, I keep my flash MP3 player happy with NiMH rechargable AA's. So I'm not pumping a continous stream of AA's into a landfill (and even when I did use standard AA's, they would keep the thing going for 20+ hours easy anyway). Plus, I have the bonus of not having to trash the MP3 player when it's non-replacable internal battery dies.
Or in other words, you have to get a Shuffle thanks to Apple's lock in. I'll pass.
Go into Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services. From there, disable the Themes service. While you are in there, it's not a bad idea to disable other completely-stupid-to-have-running-by-default services like Remote Registry and Messenger.
Not to mention many car manufacturers now are integrating the radio/CD player with the navigation system/climate control systems in their cars. There is no longer a seperate stereo, it's now a small part of one giant inseperable mess of electronics.
Why not fuck with Walmart or M$ or Napster or Real?! Why Apple?!
For the some reason people make worms and viruses for Windows. It's the most obvious target.
Really? It's impossible for you to resell it? What did you buy? I collection of bits in a particular order readable by certain programs. What part of the DRM prevents you from physicaly transfering that collection of bits to any other person?
So you try to sell this DRM'd collection of bits to another person. So they give you money, and you email them the AAC file off your computer. What did they get, a song? Or a useless collection of bits that can't do anything but take up space?
So, you decide to let them play it - so you use up one of your computer authorizations to authorize their computer. Lets ignore the fact that you can only do this a small number of times, and the problem that will come up if their computer was already authorized. Have you sold them a song now - as in it is theirs to do whatever with, including resell it? Or did they just pay you money to "borrow" it for an unspecified amount of time?
The reality of the situation is, DRM'd files cannot be easily sold or transferred.
Actually, if you knew anything at all, you would know that the original iTMS plan didn't have any DRM built in at all. The problem was, without some sort of DRM, the big companies wouldn't go for it.
Yeah, but the reality of the situation is that the final product has DRM in it, and Apple has been changing the terms around (generally making it more restrictive in the process), and has used their power to lock out competition (see: Real).
I've had nothing but bad luck with Western Digital drives. I don't currently own one, because everyone one I have ever gotten my hands on has failed. Same with everyone I know who builds computers.
I have never had a bad Maxtor, but I have seen a couple of other people's drives fail. Rarely have I seen a failed Seagate either.
I agree, the IBM drives were terrible, but I never lost data to one. I could always tell when they were going out (the "click of doom") and have plenty of time to copy everything off of them, as opposed to Western Digital which would suddenly just stop working.
I also have two Samsung drives which have not given me any trouble either, though I have only had them for about a year or so.
So someone breaks some company's DRM, and now he's the bad guy? What is wrong with slashdot these days?
Right, because I can count the number of G5 based clusters in the top 500 with 2 fingers.
Sure are a lot of Intel Xeons in there though.
If you thought someone should "Get a Dell" - as opposed to building their own, getting a good whitebox, or even getting a better name brand computer - then it's pretty unlikely they are going to benefit any from a 64bit chip. I'd not worry about it.
ATI used to have a fairly reasonable system where the first number represented the DirectX version the card supported.
7xxx = DirectX 7
8xxx = DirectX 8
9xxx = DirectX 9
Xxxx = DirectX 10?
But then they had to mess that up too. Like the Radeon 9200 is DirectX 8. Argh.
In UNIX. If a hacker kills your home space and you delete it and restore it You can be confident that the rest of the OS will work fine. And that means you will not have to re-install apps all over again (assuming you installed them using higher privs than user and they were installed in shared filesystem space like /usr)
If the user has access to a user's account on a Unix machine, they are usally only a small step away from root on that machine. Local root level exploits are a lot more common than remote ones. You can never really be sure about a compromised Unix machine, as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe all the great Windows developers all have jobs, while all the good Linux/Mac developers are sitting at home, unemployed, and ready to work at the drop of a hat?
Dell, who said anything about Dell?
At every price point, I can easily build a PC that will easily outperform the Apple in terms of performance. Sure, it won't have the cool form factor, nor will it run OSX. But really, I don't care about that stuff.
Oh, and by the way, both Sony and Gateway make all-in-one LCD PCs. They are both underpowered and pricy for what you get (in my opinion), but they do exist.
Any Windows PC with 256MB is going to "work fine" right out of the box too. But like OSX (and Linux), it's going to work better with 512MB of ram. Maybe 256MB is fine with you though, it just depends on what you do and how much swapping you are willing to put with.
On a somewhat related note, why is Apple so stingy with ram in it's configurations? I can understand the Mac Mini with 256MB, but the $2000 dual CPU 1.8Ghz G5 tower?
Well, unless you've been collecting those CDs out of other people's cars, those CDs have been costing you money, haven't they? I would say $10,000 is pretty accurate, though some people certainly have already made the investment before getting the iPod.
Reminds me of when i was in college -- the flunk courses were graded on a curve. And there were these fuckers who were always cheating and I could never score half as well as they did. So i worked hard for C's and D's, while people who were cheating were getting easy A's and B's. Then I realized -- the people who were cheating were *SETTING* the curve which I was being judged by. So I became a cheater to.
Why didn't you just rat them out? Or where they the football players and the school didn't care?
That would be too obvious. The best thing to do would be to take the original film and insert a few frames of pornography here and there, and see anyone notices.
Perhaps, but mine was posted in a readable fashion. You know, capitalization, grammar, that sort of thing. Makes a difference, you know.
The Pentium III Celerons are not that bad of a chip. The Pentium 4 based Celerons really do hurt for L2 cache though, and don't really run cooler than their P4 brothers.
The big problem with the Celeron is that a system with a Celeron probably also has a motherboard with yesterday's chipset, not enough slow shitty ram, Intel extreme graphics, and a 5400RPM system drive. So it's no wonder people think of the Celeron as slow.
Not that I would get a Celeron anyway, when an AMD Athlon XP costs about the same.
Currently, some of the Celeron D's are just Pentium 4's with a bank of L2 cache disabled (presumably because that bank didn't pass quality control). I have yet to hear of anyone who has managed to reenable the bank and get themselves a full blown P4 out of it. Likewise, the 486SX was a 486DX with the FPU disabled. I never heard of anyone reenabling the FPU on their SX either. So what makes you think people will be able to reenable half of a disabled dual core chip?
My guess is the few things defect chips are used in like digital answering machines don't come anywhere close to using up the supply out there. So most defective chips are still getting trashed/recycled.
Some people like to play around, experiment, and try different things. Linux is free, so why not? Debian, Mandrake, Redhat, Fedora, Mepis, Knoppix, Ubuntu...
.iso's still don't count for a huge part of my downloading.
With that said, Linux