Apparently the extra value eBay brings to the table in China has been priced above its actual worth. Nice to see them essentially admit this in not so many words.
would be aligning themselves with what has become the industry standard.
I call Bullshit.
How is anything an industry standard when only one company sells it? Even Motorola has dropped it from their ROKR phones. Something becomes an industry standard when an entire industry adopts it, and not just because the largest current player in that market uses it.
Even the claim in this article that MS should make their own MP3 player is bogus. By definition an MP3 player doesn't user FairPlay. It plays MP3 files. A FairPlay player uses FairPlay.
Now that you've gotten the CPU to run 3X faster, why don't you leave that alone and work on the other aspects of the system? This way you can use the savings as Core Duo prices fall in the light of newer, faster chips to help the rest of the system catch up with no overall increase in price. After all, from this point forward, faster CPU's alone will show little improvement overall.
Sometimes standards are extremely difficult to follow. Now, the RSS standard isn't an overly large one. But there are some industrial standards that when printed run to five or six volumes, 900 pages each. It's very difficult for one person to have a solid grasp of all that material, especially when there are deadlines to meet.
Okay, let me get my head around this one. Because other standards are big -- really big -- that completely explains the failure to follow this much smaller one that you've already successfully implemented in several other products.
You actually are insinuating that Apple intentionally and maliciously wants to kill RSS and XML, two critical open standards it holds quite dear across all of its products, from iTunes and iPod to Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server, by inserting new elements to support "photocasting" in iPhoto?
Lt. Colombo: Oh, excuse me, but there's just one thing still bothering me. How is it that you managed to get this right on every other important product, but botched it so badly here? I'd just really like to know.
No, that's Sony you were thinking of, not Apple...
I respectfully disagree. Whatever Sony does is necessary. Necessary to protect corporate profits and d@mn the consumer in the process, since the true pirates are the ones who actually have bought our product in the first place!
Look at Jobs. He even sells DRM (FairPlay) as a good thing.
Just remember that whole "intellectually honest" thing... i know many of you hate to play by those rules, but this is a case where you can prove me wrong by not just jumping in line.
Oh come now. You're making Apple fanboys sound like Democrats.
I assume they'll do the same for iPhoto, and they just haven't gotten around to it yet.
Winer, whom you gratuitously insult petty name-calling in your post may actually have a grudge -- or not. You, however, come off sounding like an apologist for Apple for things you admit you only assume to be true.
If Apple is going to do this, they should have done it already.
This is not a Troll. It accurately reflects the views promulgated by many Apple fanboys upon the rest of us ad nauseum about every latest pronouncement from Steve Jobs -- no matter how much he contradicts what he was saying only last year, month, or week.
If they can do this over the accurate issue of a name, then Wikipedia will just be shut down every other week over some trivial issue or another and essentially become useless.
What I don't understand is:
1: Why didn't they just ask to have the offending reference removed, instead of the forwarding domain?
2: Don't these fools realize no single country can shut down information on the Internet. Sites absolutely thrive in posting information banned on one country or another, and it's a Whack-a-Mole to try and ever get them all.
And btw, IMHO these parents really offend easily. Too easily! Judges shouldn't give in so easily to hurt feelings or nobody will be allowed to say anything. As it looks now, some Germans still want to rewrite history -- which is a very bad habit to get into.
What are the top reasons cables go bye bye on the ocean?
Based on this article, I'd hazard it's either:
1: Backhoes falling off ships transporting them hitting cables.
2: Submarines with backhoes, no doubt performing black ops at the time.
We'll never know the true cost of an Intel Mac because estimates of processor prices can't take into account the true kickbacks of Intel Marketing Money.
For Intel, however, it would be a great deal if they gave the chips to Apple for free. The single most vocal critic of their microprocessors -- along with all its fanboys -- has now been silenced.
In the meanwhile, IBM will likely sell 10 processors for game consoles for every lost Apple processor sale.
Intel sometimes acts like they're a government agency.
Not true at all. If Intel were a government agency, AMD would simply be regulated out of existence by requiring them to provide all the same benefits, unions, and paperwork that government agencies put on themselves.
Which would be followed by the Pure Food & Processor Act requiring them to list the contents of their processor, and would not allow them to claim to be Intel compatible unless they ran exactly as badly as the Intel processor itself does.
Which is actually more effective? A law or a filter?
A filter will stop some reasonable percentage of this material right at the computer, provided that the kids don't know more about computers than their parents do. Do the filtering at a family-friendly ISP and it will be rather hard to work around.
A law stops nothing. It only attempts to prevent availability by the threat of punishing such behavior otherwise. For search engines outside the law's reach (e.g. other countries) it is likely ineffective, unless combined with filter software to prevent access to foreign sources.
A reasonable compromise IMHO (IANAL or Congresscritter) is a law requiring Truth in Labeling of Porn to make filters more effective for those who choose to use them. Porn stays available without punishment (the likely secret agenda of laws like the original one is to punish porn), filters are more effective, consumers have more choice, and things work better.
So I'd prefer this approach to trying to make the original law work.
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Apparently the extra value eBay brings to the table in China has been priced above its actual worth. Nice to see them essentially admit this in not so many words.
This probably also explains the Chinese Moon program. They plan to go up there and steal all the Helium-3 before we can get it for ourselves.
I call Bullshit.
How is anything an industry standard when only one company sells it? Even Motorola has dropped it from their ROKR phones. Something becomes an industry standard when an entire industry adopts it, and not just because the largest current player in that market uses it.
Even the claim in this article that MS should make their own MP3 player is bogus. By definition an MP3 player doesn't user FairPlay. It plays MP3 files. A FairPlay player uses FairPlay.
This is just badly written all around.
Especially when considering current Intel frontside bus architectures!
Now that you've gotten the CPU to run 3X faster, why don't you leave that alone and work on the other aspects of the system? This way you can use the savings as Core Duo prices fall in the light of newer, faster chips to help the rest of the system catch up with no overall increase in price. After all, from this point forward, faster CPU's alone will show little improvement overall.
Steve Jobs at the next MacWorld wearing mouse ears. Now there's a sight I can't wait to see.
Okay, let me get my head around this one. Because other standards are big -- really big -- that completely explains the failure to follow this much smaller one that you've already successfully implemented in several other products.
Lt. Colombo: Oh, excuse me, but there's just one thing still bothering me. How is it that you managed to get this right on every other important product, but botched it so badly here? I'd just really like to know.
I respectfully disagree. Whatever Sony does is necessary. Necessary to protect corporate profits and d@mn the consumer in the process, since the true pirates are the ones who actually have bought our product in the first place!
Look at Jobs. He even sells DRM (FairPlay) as a good thing.
Oh come now. You're making Apple fanboys sound like Democrats.
Winer, whom you gratuitously insult petty name-calling in your post may actually have a grudge -- or not. You, however, come off sounding like an apologist for Apple for things you admit you only assume to be true.
If Apple is going to do this, they should have done it already.
Tried that already via an RSS feed. It broke!
This is not a Troll. It accurately reflects the views promulgated by many Apple fanboys upon the rest of us ad nauseum about every latest pronouncement from Steve Jobs -- no matter how much he contradicts what he was saying only last year, month, or week.
Hey, we're Apple! Whatever we do is by definition Right. Now go change the standard to conform.
Can't wait to see someone run this through the Encheferizer
What I don't understand is:
1: Why didn't they just ask to have the offending reference removed, instead of the forwarding domain?
2: Don't these fools realize no single country can shut down information on the Internet. Sites absolutely thrive in posting information banned on one country or another, and it's a Whack-a-Mole to try and ever get them all.
And btw, IMHO these parents really offend easily. Too easily! Judges shouldn't give in so easily to hurt feelings or nobody will be allowed to say anything. As it looks now, some Germans still want to rewrite history -- which is a very bad habit to get into.
Ah, so this might explain the problems Google is having with their new video download service.
It's always good when someone big, quickly stands up to this nonsense.
Is that The Sharpie, or The Shift Key?
Actually they both sound about the same.
Based on this article, I'd hazard it's either:
1: Backhoes falling off ships transporting them hitting cables.
2: Submarines with backhoes, no doubt performing black ops at the time.
That's like saying that the gun kills, and not the person holding the gun. So much for another Slashdot article title.
For Intel, however, it would be a great deal if they gave the chips to Apple for free. The single most vocal critic of their microprocessors -- along with all its fanboys -- has now been silenced.
In the meanwhile, IBM will likely sell 10 processors for game consoles for every lost Apple processor sale.
Not true at all. If Intel were a government agency, AMD would simply be regulated out of existence by requiring them to provide all the same benefits, unions, and paperwork that government agencies put on themselves.
Which would be followed by the Pure Food & Processor Act requiring them to list the contents of their processor, and would not allow them to claim to be Intel compatible unless they ran exactly as badly as the Intel processor itself does.
Dell losing desktop market share to AMD system vendors.
Then something interesting might happen.
A filter will stop some reasonable percentage of this material right at the computer, provided that the kids don't know more about computers than their parents do. Do the filtering at a family-friendly ISP and it will be rather hard to work around.
A law stops nothing. It only attempts to prevent availability by the threat of punishing such behavior otherwise. For search engines outside the law's reach (e.g. other countries) it is likely ineffective, unless combined with filter software to prevent access to foreign sources.
A reasonable compromise IMHO (IANAL or Congresscritter) is a law requiring Truth in Labeling of Porn to make filters more effective for those who choose to use them. Porn stays available without punishment (the likely secret agenda of laws like the original one is to punish porn), filters are more effective, consumers have more choice, and things work better.
So I'd prefer this approach to trying to make the original law work.