Because Apple (not Mac) has not been found guilty of leveraging their monopoly in hardware sales to unfairly compete against competitors such as Real, Microsoft, etc.
Yeah I went to a show on Sunday. The thing was, I couldn't buy any CDs from any of the artists there. I could buy a tshirt (one design/size) but that was it.
It must have most something when posted. Sonmebody posted the "correct" url in a reply, but it looks exactly the same as my post with the space between the 1s
If the DRM is at the OS level they can hide it legally via DMCA and trade secrets. The agreement between MS and the Feds allow DRM technologies specifically to not be released to anybody. Most peopel are not goign to be hackign around with system level components whereas if they can just attach a dongle to their USB port to disable DRM they will.
You can bet the DRM OS will be Windows. Maybe not for another 3-5 years given MS timetables, but it *will* be Windows and not an addon.
Perhaps. I agree that products that restrict content access will fail in a free market. But really, do we have a free market? If 90% of the consumer electronics market make DRM interoperable then I believe most people will continue to buy it. Not everybody, but a lot of people buy MS for no other reason then everybody else does.
Hey the Consumer Electronics industry and the software industry isn't against DRM and copy protection per se. They just don't want to have the method dictated by the government.
Remember MS received a patent on a DRM OS. They will use that to court everybody who wants to restrict information access, and use it internally to sell/control their own software.
Is you want to use POP you must pay for the privilige. This was either on C|Net or a yahoo announcement. Since I never used the POP feature it was no big deal
IBM owns the most patents and is rewarded the most patents the past few years in the US. What happens if IBM employees have control of the patents? Wouldn't IBM be pretty screwed since they'd have to modify nearly all their products based on negoitiations with the (new) patent holders? How would such a company deal with suddenly being required to negoitate the use of thousands of patents simultaneously? Could a disgruntled (ex)employee withhold use merely out of spite making product recalls mandatory?
Just curious as to how this would affect the companies with the largest amounts of patents.
Uh. It is retroactive to the point the DMCA was enacted. The fees agreed to at the end of February applied retroactively to 1998. CARP is now in the process of determining the fees from then to the present.
The smaller stations already do get a break in the CARP recommendation. There are different rates for simultaneous broadcast users, non-profit broadcasters such as college radio and internet only broadcasters.
I suggest you read up a bit more on CARP before making such basic erroneous statements. Nothing personal, but your comments have been addressed in nearly every article I have seen on this topic.
I think you're supposed to know what you want beforehand. If they were really smart they'd be pushing their streams as a means to have customers identify new material. That's what I use streams for.
OTOH, most objections I have seen to the service would suggest people already know what they want, they just have to go and get it.
I think the idea is people want to download singles, not albums. The vast majority of people complaining about prices whine "there's only one or two good songs on an album". That's the market for these services, not people like me who enjoy the whole album.
Nevertheless I think the limit is shortsighted and will eventually be dropped.
I agree with everything you said up until that last paragraph. Donnie can't direct movies. He can choreograph them, yes, but he should not be allowed to ever direct again, especially movies in which he stars such as Ballistic Kiss and New Fist of Fury (or whatever the US title is this week).
It's realy too bad since his career looked promising with Woo Ping as his mentor. But a messy divorce kept the number of his films down.
Having him killed offscreen was a travesty in my opinion.
Maybe the military can use it as target practice for their anti-satellite tests. They've done so well with those rigged tests maybe a mislaunched satellite would resemble something launched from a "rogue nation"
Your experience was shared by a woman commenting ont he merger on last night's MArketplace radio program. She said she wavered many times, but her final decision was based on Fiorna's public mudslinging and the way she conducted herself in public.
Of course she said it just wasn't the "HP way" of doing things.
I think the editor/submitter likes anime too much and was just wanted to flout that knowledge. It certainly didn't seem like a joke to me, more like somebody wanting to be cute.
Since this is "obviously" anime inspired (and not just sci-fi in general) does it include colored hair for detecting airborne pathogens? Youknow, hair changes color when dangerous substance found. What about wildly contrasting colors that act as camoflage - not to hide from but to distort the enemies' aim.
Oh and don't forget the huge eyes that are obviously being used to detect hidden dangers like IR tripwires.
And don't forget that at least 50% of the soldiers wearing this gear are going to be females with more curves than a Jan and Dean song.
My whole problem with the free-speech protects me from liability argument is the fact that all benefits flow to the programmer/seller and none to the consumer.
Now if you don't charge for a product then I can see how liability wouldn't be an issue. However, if you sell me a product you have engaged in a market contract. I am buying the product assuming it will perform as advertised.
Take the iPod/iTunes fiasco. When i-Pod was released there was an update to iTunes which, in some circumstances, erased the user's hard drive. Since iTunes was a free download the responsibility is on the owner. But if Apple sold that piece of sftware they should be liable because I obviously didn't pay for software that would delete my harddrive upon installation.
Yes, small software developers would be hit the most. That is regrettable. OTOH, I have found software written by smaller companies to have, in general, fewer bugs.
I'm not asking for perfect software, but users should have a reasonable expectation that software they willingly have purchased will not cause losses. If I buy a car I just assume the tires will not blow if I take a corner fast. Likewise, if a software bug is known and nothing done to resolve it in a timely manner, then I should be able to collect damages commiserate with my losses.
There is no easy answer. Saying people should just move to Open Source or do more shopping are not operating within the business realities of contemporary America.
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Because Apple (not Mac) has not been found guilty of leveraging their monopoly in hardware sales to unfairly compete against competitors such as Real, Microsoft, etc.
Yeah I went to a show on Sunday. The thing was, I couldn't buy any CDs from any of the artists there. I could buy a tshirt (one design/size) but that was it.
And I was willing to drop $40 too.
It must have most something when posted. Sonmebody posted the "correct" url in a reply, but it looks exactly the same as my post with the space between the 1s
*shrug*
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100012/stories/2002/04/1 1/applescriptForGoogleApi.html
has some Applescript for your use
If the DRM is at the OS level they can hide it legally via DMCA and trade secrets. The agreement between MS and the Feds allow DRM technologies specifically to not be released to anybody. Most peopel are not goign to be hackign around with system level components whereas if they can just attach a dongle to their USB port to disable DRM they will.
You can bet the DRM OS will be Windows. Maybe not for another 3-5 years given MS timetables, but it *will* be Windows and not an addon.
Perhaps. I agree that products that restrict content access will fail in a free market. But really, do we have a free market? If 90% of the consumer electronics market make DRM interoperable then I believe most people will continue to buy it. Not everybody, but a lot of people buy MS for no other reason then everybody else does.
Hey the Consumer Electronics industry and the software industry isn't against DRM and copy protection per se. They just don't want to have the method dictated by the government.
Remember MS received a patent on a DRM OS. They will use that to court everybody who wants to restrict information access, and use it internally to sell/control their own software.
Is you want to use POP you must pay for the privilige. This was either on C|Net or a yahoo announcement. Since I never used the POP feature it was no big deal
IIRC the fee is $20/year.
HTH
Hey, I'm all for this, but a here's a question.
IBM owns the most patents and is rewarded the most patents the past few years in the US. What happens if IBM employees have control of the patents? Wouldn't IBM be pretty screwed since they'd have to modify nearly all their products based on negoitiations with the (new) patent holders? How would such a company deal with suddenly being required to negoitate the use of thousands of patents simultaneously? Could a disgruntled (ex)employee withhold use merely out of spite making product recalls mandatory?
Just curious as to how this would affect the companies with the largest amounts of patents.
My senators and rep fully support the thing.
They *know* I can't do shit to get them reelected whereas a lot of $ will certainly help.
Uh. It is retroactive to the point the DMCA was enacted. The fees agreed to at the end of February applied retroactively to 1998. CARP is now in the process of determining the fees from then to the present.
The smaller stations already do get a break in the CARP recommendation. There are different rates for simultaneous broadcast users, non-profit broadcasters such as college radio and internet only broadcasters.
I suggest you read up a bit more on CARP before making such basic erroneous statements. Nothing personal, but your comments have been addressed in nearly every article I have seen on this topic.
I think you're supposed to know what you want beforehand. If they were really smart they'd be pushing their streams as a means to have customers identify new material. That's what I use streams for.
OTOH, most objections I have seen to the service would suggest people already know what they want, they just have to go and get it.
*shrug*
Who am I to challenge the sagacity of the Big 5?
Independent Internet Radio will soon be dead.
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Read this for a start: http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/26/web_radi
I think the idea is people want to download singles, not albums. The vast majority of people complaining about prices whine "there's only one or two good songs on an album". That's the market for these services, not people like me who enjoy the whole album.
Nevertheless I think the limit is shortsighted and will eventually be dropped.
I agree with everything you said up until that last paragraph. Donnie can't direct movies. He can choreograph them, yes, but he should not be allowed to ever direct again, especially movies in which he stars such as Ballistic Kiss and New Fist of Fury (or whatever the US title is this week).
It's realy too bad since his career looked promising with Woo Ping as his mentor. But a messy divorce kept the number of his films down.
Having him killed offscreen was a travesty in my opinion.
Then you could have little people following around a guy in a white suit exclaiming "Smiles everyone, smiles!"
"I just have been too busy to reboot."
Does that mean you're too busy to play as well?
for the PHP install try this: http://www.entropy.ch/software/MacOSx/php/
Should be everything you need. It has some FAQs as well. If you used textedit to edit your php.config file, it is likely the culprit.
I hope you find this useful.
To make Civ III playable turn off Aqua rendering in the preferences.
For PHP have you tried:
stepwise.
Maybe the military can use it as target practice for their anti-satellite tests. They've done so well with those rigged tests maybe a mislaunched satellite would resemble something launched from a "rogue nation"
I didn't think it was funny either.
IIRC, Toshiba has been selling notebooks/laptops with BlueTooth support for over a year.
Your experience was shared by a woman commenting ont he merger on last night's MArketplace radio program. She said she wavered many times, but her final decision was based on Fiorna's public mudslinging and the way she conducted herself in public.
Of course she said it just wasn't the "HP way" of doing things.
I think the editor/submitter likes anime too much and was just wanted to flout that knowledge. It certainly didn't seem like a joke to me, more like somebody wanting to be cute.
Since this is "obviously" anime inspired (and not just sci-fi in general) does it include colored hair for detecting airborne pathogens? Youknow, hair changes color when dangerous substance found. What about wildly contrasting colors that act as camoflage - not to hide from but to distort the enemies' aim.
Oh and don't forget the huge eyes that are obviously being used to detect hidden dangers like IR tripwires.
And don't forget that at least 50% of the soldiers wearing this gear are going to be females with more curves than a Jan and Dean song.
My whole problem with the free-speech protects me from liability argument is the fact that all benefits flow to the programmer/seller and none to the consumer.
Now if you don't charge for a product then I can see how liability wouldn't be an issue. However, if you sell me a product you have engaged in a market contract. I am buying the product assuming it will perform as advertised.
Take the iPod/iTunes fiasco. When i-Pod was released there was an update to iTunes which, in some circumstances, erased the user's hard drive. Since iTunes was a free download the responsibility is on the owner. But if Apple sold that piece of sftware they should be liable because I obviously didn't pay for software that would delete my harddrive upon installation.
Yes, small software developers would be hit the most. That is regrettable. OTOH, I have found software written by smaller companies to have, in general, fewer bugs.
I'm not asking for perfect software, but users should have a reasonable expectation that software they willingly have purchased will not cause losses. If I buy a car I just assume the tires will not blow if I take a corner fast. Likewise, if a software bug is known and nothing done to resolve it in a timely manner, then I should be able to collect damages commiserate with my losses.
There is no easy answer. Saying people should just move to Open Source or do more shopping are not operating within the business realities of contemporary America.
Thank you for the chance for discussion.