In addition from the "Deauthorize All" wisdom of other responses, may I also suggest investing in a CD-RW disc for the purposes of converting your iTunes song purchases to CD-DA tracks, then rip the tracks to MP3s.
Yes, I am well aware of the "damage" that happens when converting between lossless formats, but MP3s are a way to ensure your music investment is playable in the future, long after the iTMS verifcation server goes offline or a stricter form of DRM replaces FairPlay.
When you look at the history of NASA's space adventures, it's pretty clear that we sort of peaked with the the 1960s and early 1970s. Then they sort of went soft.
China's missions remind me of NASA's early days, when John Glenn and others made simple manned orbits. Sure, there was some scientific value to them, but the primary reason was: look what our country can do.
I not only hope China will continue to plan and conduct these manned missions -- but also I hope all of their missions are a tremendous success.
This and only this will spur NASA out of safety/budget land and go back to the cock&balls manned flights of yester-century.
The PS3 and Xbox 360 are going to sell in droves worldwide. That's a lot of PowerPC chipsets that need to be manufactured cheaply, quickly, and consistently by IBM.
While I don't agree with off-shoring, consider that many of the jobs that get off-shored are jobs that Americans either want too much pay/benefits for, or are jobs that are "below" them due to the scheduled_hours/tasks.
Foreign nationals in developing countries can easily snatch these jobs up for much less pay/benefits and are actually happy/proud to have the job.
In a capitalistic society, no one is born with the right to indefinite, free access_to/use_of a commercial product.
Download the demo, consume the free sample, read the free 1st chapter... whatever it is, if you will use the whole product, buy it (whether or not you like the product doesn't matter. If you're using the whole product, you should buy it).
Being financially challenged is not an excuse -- that's a stimulus to get a job, get a better job, or to tweak your lifestyle so as to be able to afford the things you're willing to steal or pirate.
It's too bad many who "try first" don't become "customers." Instead, they extend their trial period indefinitely, citing minor/imaginary flaws to be the reason for not purchasing the item.
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Not to troll or flame here, but Zeta looks like an OS that runs on old hardware.
People are used to the visual eye candy of OSX's Aqua and XP's Luna. Eye candy makes an OS seem more sophisticated.
While Zeta may be an excellent way to bring new life to an older machine, there's no way any Windows user (or Intel-Mac user) would switch to it. It just doesn't look like fun.
Great to see something new from the BeOS world, though.
Back in the day, when you had to do any remote work on a notebook, you had to suffer with a dial-up connection. Fine for Web browsing. Poor for large file transfers.
Wireless networking and the availability of free Wi-Fi everywhere definitely raised the bar for notebook use.
Also, don't forget that now notebooks come with DVD-ROMs and burners. This makes a notebook the ultimate portable DVD watching station (beats watching DVDs on the tiny screens of portable DVD players) and backing up your data is far sim-pler than the era of parallel port Zip drives.
Io, moon of Jupiter, is smaller than Mars and has ongoing tectonic activity. It has nothing to do with the mass of a body, it has everything to do with heat,
Io's in a purely unique situation from Mars.
Unlike Mars, Io is also being heavily irradiated and gravitationally tugged at by a massive gas giant (Jupiter). Depending on the composition and orbit of a Jovian moon, these forces alone can be the cause for Io's activity.
Jupiter's gravitational force is so strong, it's prevented the asteroid belt from forming into a planet between Mars and Jupiter.
While micropayments directly to content creators is an idyllic and very thoughtful way to compensate artists, the truth is, we live in a world full of distributors, packagers, and other fun middlemen.
As physical goods transform into electronic goods, perhaps the industry will find a means to phase out the middlemen. But it sure wouldn't be profitable and would possibly be devastating to the national economies of several nations.
Kind of why we still use petroleum for energy. Sure there are better (and cheaper, and cleaner) forms of energy, but switching to them would damage the established centuries-old petroleum-based energy industry and cause severe economic problems.
Back in the old days of console gaming, we had to buy cartidges and insert those cartidges into our consoles in order to play games.
The cartidges weren't cheap, either.
So we used a few unique ways to help make an informed purchase:
Rent the game from a video store.
Borrow your friend's cartridge.
Read game reviews in your trusted game magazine.
There was no "downloading" of these games possible. And certainly no burning ISOs to discs to "try" a game.
We had to buy the game (or at least incur the expense of renting it).
People today are using BT to download games for their modern consoles and PCs. Instead of relying on game reviews and rentals, they're making their own digital duplicates and then deciding if it's worth their money.
That's not how it's supposed to work.
You either make an informed decision or gamble. Either way, you pay for the game.
It's this step that never happens for the majority of BT users. It doesn't matter if the DVDs aren't sold/available_for their market. Copyrighted media is still copyrighted media.
I'm not sure what universe you live in, but the vast majority of those pirating materials on the Internet aren't doing so because of the lack of a well-thought-out legal distribution model.
The reason is that these people believe/expect that everything on the Internet is free.
These are many of the same people that believe people are born with the right to pirate their copy of Windows because Microsoft has tons of money.
Not that Apple invented the use of "Computer" at the root of the file system browser or home directories (and the naming schemes of the home's subfolders), but it's nice to see Microsoft catching up to OS X.
For such a geek heavy site as/. you'd think a download link would be to a platform select page and not the windows installer.
Although many/. readers dislike Microsoft and/or their software, we all must run Windows in some form (be it directly or in a VM) to get certain things done.
For example, I have to boot Windows (on a Virtual PC) just to open up my company's MS Access Databases and to test Web sites natively under IE6.
My concern is that eventually, live Flash content will be insertable into PDFs. Java is already there.
That means, when you download a seemingly innocuous PDF file, a Java or Flash object can be used by the PDF's author to open a pop-up window (or other nuisance) without being intentially invoked by the user.
Paint.NET is also a formidable photo-editing and drawing app on non-professional desktops with a much more user-friendly interface than The GIMP and has features that echo Photoshop.
An astronaut is probably more likely to die in the plane ride from Wherever, USA to Florida.
And even more likely to die from a car accident on his/her commute from the airport to the Kennedy Space Center than from a shuttle reentry.
Another thing to consider, black boxes are resistant to destruction because they are small (small surface area to be charred or impacted) and compact (little space inside the box for dislodged components to move about and further destroy themselves or other internal components.) -- Something you can't do with an entire spacecraft, it's crew, or the experiment apparati onboard.
When the Blue & White G3s came out in 1999, people were shocked that it lacked a 3.5" floppy disk drive. They provided a workaround, though: use a USB floppy drive.
Apple did it again when they released Macs that can no longer boot into OS 9. The workaround: use Classic.
And again with Panther, which requires a G3 with built-in USB, forcing many legacy Mac users to use XPostFacto as a workaround.
Then came iLife '04, which refuses to install certain iLife applications if you don't have a G4 processor. Third-party processor upgrade cards were the workaround.
Considering that all of Apple's current lineup of computers have optical drives that support DVD-ROMs, perhaps Apple is also, in its own way, gently nudging it's market to move away from data CD-ROMs to DVD-ROMs.
Especially when you consider the installation scheme for the retail version of Panther -- 3 CDs must be swapped if you want to install everything and iLife '04 & Classic aren't even included.
The retail version of Tiger may likely need only the one DVD (since iLife '05 isn't included) for the OS + XCode2.
While the "Apple Store visit for CDs" may be an inconvenient workaround, at least there is one. It beats buying a Mac-bootable Combo- or SuperDrive and installing it.
Some applications further bloat other programs by installing plug-ins.
Word, Photoshop, and many other programs can take up much more RAM and require longer loading times just for plug-ins that may or may not be used that session.
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Yes, I am well aware of the "damage" that happens when converting between lossless formats, but MP3s are a way to ensure your music investment is playable in the future, long after the iTMS verifcation server goes offline or a stricter form of DRM replaces FairPlay.
When you look at the history of NASA's space adventures, it's pretty clear that we sort of peaked with the the 1960s and early 1970s. Then they sort of went soft.
China's missions remind me of NASA's early days, when John Glenn and others made simple manned orbits. Sure, there was some scientific value to them, but the primary reason was: look what our country can do.
I not only hope China will continue to plan and conduct these manned missions -- but also I hope all of their missions are a tremendous success.
This and only this will spur NASA out of safety/budget land and go back to the cock&balls manned flights of yester-century.
Just my 2 cents.
That depends on if the monitor-based DRM is a requirement of Windows Media-only DRM or an open standard that can be incorporated into QuickTime.
There's quite a few Cinema Display owners that won't drink the monitor-DRM Kool-aid.
I wonder if this will also be used in protecting Office documents and Acrobat-generated PDF files.
It would be a pain if monitor-DRM'd documents could no longer be OCR'd to an image file or Print Screen'd to the clipboard.
'nuff said.
The PS3 and Xbox 360 are going to sell in droves worldwide. That's a lot of PowerPC chipsets that need to be manufactured cheaply, quickly, and consistently by IBM.
While I don't agree with off-shoring, consider that many of the jobs that get off-shored are jobs that Americans either want too much pay/benefits for, or are jobs that are "below" them due to the scheduled_hours/tasks.
Foreign nationals in developing countries can easily snatch these jobs up for much less pay/benefits and are actually happy/proud to have the job.
Download the demo, consume the free sample, read the free 1st chapter... whatever it is, if you will use the whole product, buy it (whether or not you like the product doesn't matter. If you're using the whole product, you should buy it).
Being financially challenged is not an excuse -- that's a stimulus to get a job, get a better job, or to tweak your lifestyle so as to be able to afford the things you're willing to steal or pirate.
Not to troll or flame here, but Zeta looks like an OS that runs on old hardware.
People are used to the visual eye candy of OSX's Aqua and XP's Luna. Eye candy makes an OS seem more sophisticated.
While Zeta may be an excellent way to bring new life to an older machine, there's no way any Windows user (or Intel-Mac user) would switch to it. It just doesn't look like fun.
Great to see something new from the BeOS world, though.
Back in the day, when you had to do any remote work on a notebook, you had to suffer with a dial-up connection. Fine for Web browsing. Poor for large file transfers.
Wireless networking and the availability of free Wi-Fi everywhere definitely raised the bar for notebook use.
Also, don't forget that now notebooks come with DVD-ROMs and burners. This makes a notebook the ultimate portable DVD watching station (beats watching DVDs on the tiny screens of portable DVD players) and backing up your data is far sim-pler than the era of parallel port Zip drives.
Unlike Mars, Io is also being heavily irradiated and gravitationally tugged at by a massive gas giant (Jupiter). Depending on the composition and orbit of a Jovian moon, these forces alone can be the cause for Io's activity.
Jupiter's gravitational force is so strong, it's prevented the asteroid belt from forming into a planet between Mars and Jupiter.
While micropayments directly to content creators is an idyllic and very thoughtful way to compensate artists, the truth is, we live in a world full of distributors, packagers, and other fun middlemen.
As physical goods transform into electronic goods, perhaps the industry will find a means to phase out the middlemen. But it sure wouldn't be profitable and would possibly be devastating to the national economies of several nations.
Kind of why we still use petroleum for energy. Sure there are better (and cheaper, and cleaner) forms of energy, but switching to them would damage the established centuries-old petroleum-based energy industry and cause severe economic problems.
The cartidges weren't cheap, either.
So we used a few unique ways to help make an informed purchase:
- Rent the game from a video store.
- Borrow your friend's cartridge.
- Read game reviews in your trusted game magazine.
There was no "downloading" of these games possible. And certainly no burning ISOs to discs to "try" a game.We had to buy the game (or at least incur the expense of renting it).
People today are using BT to download games for their modern consoles and PCs. Instead of relying on game reviews and rentals, they're making their own digital duplicates and then deciding if it's worth their money.
That's not how it's supposed to work.
You either make an informed decision or gamble. Either way, you pay for the game.
BT is an excellent distribution model for open source software and operating systems.
It's too bad that those materials are in the minority of what materials the technology is really used to obtain.
I'm not sure what universe you live in, but the vast majority of those pirating materials on the Internet aren't doing so because of the lack of a well-thought-out legal distribution model.
The reason is that these people believe/expect that everything on the Internet is free.
These are many of the same people that believe people are born with the right to pirate their copy of Windows because Microsoft has tons of money.
Not that Apple invented the use of "Computer" at the root of the file system browser or home directories (and the naming schemes of the home's subfolders), but it's nice to see Microsoft catching up to OS X.
It only took 5 years.
System Shootouts does a more realistic comparison between processor lines.
Worth bookmarking.
For example, I have to boot Windows (on a Virtual PC) just to open up my company's MS Access Databases and to test Web sites natively under IE6.
My concern is that eventually, live Flash content will be insertable into PDFs. Java is already there.
That means, when you download a seemingly innocuous PDF file, a Java or Flash object can be used by the PDF's author to open a pop-up window (or other nuisance) without being intentially invoked by the user.
Paint.NET is also a formidable photo-editing and drawing app on non-professional desktops with a much more user-friendly interface than The GIMP and has features that echo Photoshop.
The price is also right (free).
An astronaut is probably more likely to die in the plane ride from Wherever, USA to Florida.
And even more likely to die from a car accident on his/her commute from the airport to the Kennedy Space Center than from a shuttle reentry.
Another thing to consider, black boxes are resistant to destruction because they are small (small surface area to be charred or impacted) and compact (little space inside the box for dislodged components to move about and further destroy themselves or other internal components.) -- Something you can't do with an entire spacecraft, it's crew, or the experiment apparati onboard.
When the Blue & White G3s came out in 1999, people were shocked that it lacked a 3.5" floppy disk drive. They provided a workaround, though: use a USB floppy drive.
Apple did it again when they released Macs that can no longer boot into OS 9. The workaround: use Classic.
And again with Panther, which requires a G3 with built-in USB, forcing many legacy Mac users to use XPostFacto as a workaround.
Then came iLife '04, which refuses to install certain iLife applications if you don't have a G4 processor. Third-party processor upgrade cards were the workaround.
Considering that all of Apple's current lineup of computers have optical drives that support DVD-ROMs, perhaps Apple is also, in its own way, gently nudging it's market to move away from data CD-ROMs to DVD-ROMs.
Especially when you consider the installation scheme for the retail version of Panther -- 3 CDs must be swapped if you want to install everything and iLife '04 & Classic aren't even included.
The retail version of Tiger may likely need only the one DVD (since iLife '05 isn't included) for the OS + XCode2.
While the "Apple Store visit for CDs" may be an inconvenient workaround, at least there is one. It beats buying a Mac-bootable Combo- or SuperDrive and installing it.
Some applications further bloat other programs by installing plug-ins.
Word, Photoshop, and many other programs can take up much more RAM and require longer loading times just for plug-ins that may or may not be used that session.