Isn't your mom lucky? She can participate in an opportunity she didn't have just a few days ago. Now she can buy a AK-47 (the weapon of choice for home-defense professionals in some of the worst places in the world, like Iraq and Afghanistan) with as many combat-style accessories as she wants. Just tell her to buy a Bushmaster and put a sign on the lawn saying "Tresspassers beware - I can shoot you in the ass 80 times in a minute and then bayonet your corpse from here to Denver"
I was just talking to the president of a small tech company in Texas. He told me that they don't hire anyone with over a 3.5 GPA and they hate Ph.D's. Apparently us edumacated people "don't move fast enough."
Oddly enough the company does a great deal of business with Dean Kamen.
I wonder how this will effect FIRST Lego League, the international robotics competition for middle-schoolers. FLL is a great program from Dean Kamen and the same people who run the FIRST Robotics Competition.
You know, thanks for posting that! Those tricksy NASA hobbits had me for a moment! I was especially impressed at how they were able to seamlessly fake the live CNN feed from JPL.
There are plenty of programs out there that will capture your computer's audio output. WireTap for example is a free Mac utility from Amrbosia that does this. You can also burn your music to audio CD and re-rip it as an MP3. I don't see why this is a big deal. Apple's DRM is fair and people who buy songs from iTunes already have the opportunity of using something like KaZaA but have chosen not to. This isn't going to make any exclusive content available on KaZaA or anything. Reading the description I think the whole point is just to try to humiliate Apple and the music industry. If thats the case its a bad thing, because Apple is FINALLY turning the music industry around on digital music.
Actually thats not true. Xerox didn't have the hardware to do anything with the GUI, and Xerox Corporate wasn't interested in the idea. Apple made them a deal, they got the technology in exchange for Apple stock. Later Apple recruited a lot of key people from PARC.
Microsoft just outright stole it from Apple.
At least thats how Woz describes it.
I hate SCO as much as the next guy (outside Redmond that is), but if they're going to pay me to buy that G5 I've always wanted then where do I sign up?
This was a definite non-denial denial. "There are no agreements to announce" doesn't say anything about agreements under consideration, etc.
Also, I seriously doubt that McDonalds would pay $1 billion for $1 billion songs, first there's gotta be a volume discount in the billions, second, not every song is going to be redeemed so it doesn't make any sense that they would pay for the songs that don't get bought.
This is bad news for everyone. Knowing Microsoft "sparkle" will undoubtedly be some kind of crap technology that will be bundled with Windows. Despite the fact that it sucks, developers will quickly adopt it because of Microsoft incentives, leaving Windows users with a crappy flash-replacement for IE which will be built into Longhorn and Mac/Linux/Mozilla people with nothing. This is exactly what the MS antitrust case was supposed to prevent. Maybe I'm not being fair to microsoft, but what can you expect given their trackrecord?
Believe me, I know full well that high tech companies should, and do take security VERY seriously. Even Apple fired a retail store employee who accidently left pictures of his login info to the support database on his website. (The pictures were then picked up by a particularly nasty rumor site) However, at least in that case IIRC the company had the common courtesy to be polite about it rather than telling someone "you're not welcome on the Microsoft campus." However, this issue is just anal. Microsoft's Mac Business Unit routinely brags about being the largest Mac software developer outside of Apple and having the largest Mac lab for development. It stands to reason that they might want G5's. Plus, the pictures don't really show anything other than the G5's themselves.
I can certainly see the reasoning behind this, after all kazaa has become so prevalent among kids that it is necessary to teach them about copyright law, etc. Remember the 12 year old girl sued by the RIAA? She thought what she was doing was legal because she'd paid $30 to kazaa gold.
However, this clumsy, idiotic attempt at "educating" kids is downright wrong. If you're going to explain complicated legal issues to kids you should have people who know what they're talking about do it, not your average teachers and certainly not industry trade groups. And making kids write essays about how filesharing is evil does nothing except extol the virtues of bullshitting your way through life 'cause someone told you to. This system IS downright soviet.
What's difficult is that there are completely different distributors in Canada, so in order for Apple to sell music in Canada it needs license agreements with the Canadian distributors. Unfortunately this hasn't happened yet. Rumor has it iTunes Music Store Canada and Europe will happen early next year.
I don't understand how people think this virus looks professional. The text is filled with typos and garbled and confusing to an experienced computer user like myself, it must come across as utterly incomprehesible to an inexperienced computer user. A presitgious software developer like Microsoft would never design such a crappy interface!
Millions of people are feeling entitled to steal music, and the music industry is terrified. They have good reason to be, CD sales are down significantly and piracy is absolutely rampant. My cousin just announced that she's stopped buying CDs, she burns her own, she's computer illiterate, not a geek at all, and their are probably millions like her. If a huge portion of the recording industry's customers stop buying CDs, how is the industry supposed to make money?
People use filesharing apps like kazza because they are free and there is just about no risk of getting caught. Most people (probably including myself depending on the circumstances) will do something morally wrong for their own benefit if they have no fear of getting caught.
What the RIAA is trying to do is save the music industry by making people afraid of filesharing. So far it seems to be working. A friend of mine is now terrified to use Kazaa, she's afraid of being sued.
I know I'll be modded down for this, but I don't think the RIAA is doing something particularly terrible. They are simply trying to save the music industry. Personally I think they should approach the problem differently. They should seek legislation making music piracy a criminal offense, and they should promote easy to use and affordable alternatives like the iTunes music store. Instead they are inciting a massive backlash against the industry.
I don't mean to be self-righteous. I pirate music too. But no matter how you justify it, if you are using a product that someone sells without paying for it, you are stealing it. The RIAA is being mean and hard-hearted, but they are simply doing their job and they aren't in the wrong.
Launch System Preferences go to International and select Input Menu. Select whatever keyboard layout you want (I use Spanish and English). Whenever you need to use that keyboard layout hit option-cmd-space to go to the next keyboard layout. It's a little cumbersome but when you get used to it its very quick.
Yes, the record labels take advantage of artists, promote crap and pull all sorts of nasty tricks and yes the RIAA has completely bungled the whole p2p issue for years and they are mean to their customers (to say the least) but that doesn't give anyone the right to steal from them.
Just because the owner of a store is a jerk, or charges too much, or whatever, doesn't give me the right to steal from him.
I certainly don't believe the "trial period" arguement either, you can't just drive a car out of a dealership and claim that its okay because you'll return the car if you don't like it.
There are certain rules that keep society from falling apart. Unfortunately the internet has become a magic invisibillity ring that allows anyone to break the rules and get away with it.
The least we can do is stop pretending that the RIAA is the issue and own up to the fact that we are stealing music. If the RIAA wants to spam or prosecute offenders or otherwise make their lives miserable that's completely their perogative. The music industry is finally getting around to providing fair alternatives to piracy (the iTunes Music Store) and it is in everyone's interest that we use them.
If the internet continues to be a place where responsibillity is non-existent and theft is rampant than The Powers That Be will be forced to control the internet much more tightly and that's in nobody's best interest.
Dvorak is the grumpy old man of tech journalism. His MO is to take his own oversimplifications and biases, mix them with rumors everyone else was talking about months ago and add a dash of self-promotion. He's almost as bad as Geraldo Rivera or Olliver North.
This is a classic politicians trick. Are you on awkward territory with the liberals? Throw them an environmental policy they'll like. But the trick is make it so far fetched that nothing will happen for 20 years by which time you'll be conveniently out of office. Remember the Hydrogen Care initiative at El Presidente's State of The Union? Next up - a space elevator!
Apple likes it when journalists claim Apple is going out of buisness. It rouses fan loyalty, raises Apples underdog image, gets other journalists to praise Apples good financial management and gets people nostalgic about their old Macs.
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Isn't your mom lucky? She can participate in an opportunity she didn't have just a few days ago. Now she can buy a AK-47 (the weapon of choice for home-defense professionals in some of the worst places in the world, like Iraq and Afghanistan) with as many combat-style accessories as she wants. Just tell her to buy a Bushmaster and put a sign on the lawn saying "Tresspassers beware - I can shoot you in the ass 80 times in a minute and then bayonet your corpse from here to Denver"
Unless Weta decided to change software in the middle of development than they bought Shake before the Mac version was an option.
I was just talking to the president of a small tech company in Texas. He told me that they don't hire anyone with over a 3.5 GPA and they hate Ph.D's. Apparently us edumacated people "don't move fast enough." Oddly enough the company does a great deal of business with Dean Kamen.
I wonder how this will effect FIRST Lego League, the international robotics competition for middle-schoolers. FLL is a great program from Dean Kamen and the same people who run the FIRST Robotics Competition.
You know, thanks for posting that! Those tricksy NASA hobbits had me for a moment! I was especially impressed at how they were able to seamlessly fake the live CNN feed from JPL.
There are plenty of programs out there that will capture your computer's audio output. WireTap for example is a free Mac utility from Amrbosia that does this. You can also burn your music to audio CD and re-rip it as an MP3. I don't see why this is a big deal. Apple's DRM is fair and people who buy songs from iTunes already have the opportunity of using something like KaZaA but have chosen not to. This isn't going to make any exclusive content available on KaZaA or anything. Reading the description I think the whole point is just to try to humiliate Apple and the music industry. If thats the case its a bad thing, because Apple is FINALLY turning the music industry around on digital music.
Actually thats not true. Xerox didn't have the hardware to do anything with the GUI, and Xerox Corporate wasn't interested in the idea. Apple made them a deal, they got the technology in exchange for Apple stock. Later Apple recruited a lot of key people from PARC. Microsoft just outright stole it from Apple. At least thats how Woz describes it.
I hate SCO as much as the next guy (outside Redmond that is), but if they're going to pay me to buy that G5 I've always wanted then where do I sign up?
This was a definite non-denial denial. "There are no agreements to announce" doesn't say anything about agreements under consideration, etc.
Also, I seriously doubt that McDonalds would pay $1 billion for $1 billion songs, first there's gotta be a volume discount in the billions, second, not every song is going to be redeemed so it doesn't make any sense that they would pay for the songs that don't get bought.
This is bad news for everyone. Knowing Microsoft "sparkle" will undoubtedly be some kind of crap technology that will be bundled with Windows. Despite the fact that it sucks, developers will quickly adopt it because of Microsoft incentives, leaving Windows users with a crappy flash-replacement for IE which will be built into Longhorn and Mac/Linux/Mozilla people with nothing. This is exactly what the MS antitrust case was supposed to prevent. Maybe I'm not being fair to microsoft, but what can you expect given their trackrecord?
Believe me, I know full well that high tech companies should, and do take security VERY seriously. Even Apple fired a retail store employee who accidently left pictures of his login info to the support database on his website. (The pictures were then picked up by a particularly nasty rumor site) However, at least in that case IIRC the company had the common courtesy to be polite about it rather than telling someone "you're not welcome on the Microsoft campus." However, this issue is just anal. Microsoft's Mac Business Unit routinely brags about being the largest Mac software developer outside of Apple and having the largest Mac lab for development. It stands to reason that they might want G5's. Plus, the pictures don't really show anything other than the G5's themselves.
I can certainly see the reasoning behind this, after all kazaa has become so prevalent among kids that it is necessary to teach them about copyright law, etc. Remember the 12 year old girl sued by the RIAA? She thought what she was doing was legal because she'd paid $30 to kazaa gold. However, this clumsy, idiotic attempt at "educating" kids is downright wrong. If you're going to explain complicated legal issues to kids you should have people who know what they're talking about do it, not your average teachers and certainly not industry trade groups. And making kids write essays about how filesharing is evil does nothing except extol the virtues of bullshitting your way through life 'cause someone told you to. This system IS downright soviet.
What's difficult is that there are completely different distributors in Canada, so in order for Apple to sell music in Canada it needs license agreements with the Canadian distributors. Unfortunately this hasn't happened yet. Rumor has it iTunes Music Store Canada and Europe will happen early next year.
Of course. I'm amazed that the original post was modded "Insightful"
I don't understand how people think this virus looks professional. The text is filled with typos and garbled and confusing to an experienced computer user like myself, it must come across as utterly incomprehesible to an inexperienced computer user. A presitgious software developer like Microsoft would never design such a crappy interface!
Millions of people are feeling entitled to steal music, and the music industry is terrified. They have good reason to be, CD sales are down significantly and piracy is absolutely rampant. My cousin just announced that she's stopped buying CDs, she burns her own, she's computer illiterate, not a geek at all, and their are probably millions like her. If a huge portion of the recording industry's customers stop buying CDs, how is the industry supposed to make money? People use filesharing apps like kazza because they are free and there is just about no risk of getting caught. Most people (probably including myself depending on the circumstances) will do something morally wrong for their own benefit if they have no fear of getting caught. What the RIAA is trying to do is save the music industry by making people afraid of filesharing. So far it seems to be working. A friend of mine is now terrified to use Kazaa, she's afraid of being sued. I know I'll be modded down for this, but I don't think the RIAA is doing something particularly terrible. They are simply trying to save the music industry. Personally I think they should approach the problem differently. They should seek legislation making music piracy a criminal offense, and they should promote easy to use and affordable alternatives like the iTunes music store. Instead they are inciting a massive backlash against the industry. I don't mean to be self-righteous. I pirate music too. But no matter how you justify it, if you are using a product that someone sells without paying for it, you are stealing it. The RIAA is being mean and hard-hearted, but they are simply doing their job and they aren't in the wrong.
Launch System Preferences go to International and select Input Menu. Select whatever keyboard layout you want (I use Spanish and English). Whenever you need to use that keyboard layout hit option-cmd-space to go to the next keyboard layout. It's a little cumbersome but when you get used to it its very quick.
A good day for apple (Stock up 12%) and FIRST POST!
Yes, the record labels take advantage of artists, promote crap and pull all sorts of nasty tricks and yes the RIAA has completely bungled the whole p2p issue for years and they are mean to their customers (to say the least) but that doesn't give anyone the right to steal from them.
Just because the owner of a store is a jerk, or charges too much, or whatever, doesn't give me the right to steal from him.
I certainly don't believe the "trial period" arguement either, you can't just drive a car out of a dealership and claim that its okay because you'll return the car if you don't like it.
There are certain rules that keep society from falling apart. Unfortunately the internet has become a magic invisibillity ring that allows anyone to break the rules and get away with it.
The least we can do is stop pretending that the RIAA is the issue and own up to the fact that we are stealing music. If the RIAA wants to spam or prosecute offenders or otherwise make their lives miserable that's completely their perogative. The music industry is finally getting around to providing fair alternatives to piracy (the iTunes Music Store) and it is in everyone's interest that we use them.
If the internet continues to be a place where responsibillity is non-existent and theft is rampant than The Powers That Be will be forced to control the internet much more tightly and that's in nobody's best interest.
Dvorak is the grumpy old man of tech journalism. His MO is to take his own oversimplifications and biases, mix them with rumors everyone else was talking about months ago and add a dash of self-promotion. He's almost as bad as Geraldo Rivera or Olliver North.
This is a classic politicians trick. Are you on awkward territory with the liberals? Throw them an environmental policy they'll like. But the trick is make it so far fetched that nothing will happen for 20 years by which time you'll be conveniently out of office. Remember the Hydrogen Care initiative at El Presidente's State of The Union? Next up - a space elevator!
Maybe now Apple will hold a going out of buisness sale!
Apple likes it when journalists claim Apple is going out of buisness. It rouses fan loyalty, raises Apples underdog image, gets other journalists to praise Apples good financial management and gets people nostalgic about their old Macs.
Oh what tangled webs we weave When first we practice to deceive. But with practice, we get better.
So all this time sitting in front of my computer refreshing /. to say FIRST POST is bad for me??? ...sorry...