How is it idiocy to raise alarms over a bunch of mysterious symbol-coded boxes appearing without warning throughout major population areas? If you leave a bulging paper sack on the floor in the middle of a crowded mall, people will get concerned. The advertisers should have known better.
If the boxes really were part of an organized campaign of planted explosives, the government would be cheered for its foresight and training. When it's nothing, people like you shrug it off because it didn't turn out tragic this time. That's the price the authorities pay for protecting the people as the people demand.
I speak for the vast majority of iPod users when I say "STFU about OGG and FLAC already." Seriously, only Slashdotters care about these formats. MP3 is what everybody uses. It won.
Some people do see all those signs, but on an intellectual level rather than an intuitive one. You learn to emulate those signs so you can interact. I agree that it's a little annoying when some folks cheerfully self-diagnose themselves as having Asperger's as some sort of Nerd Badge without recognizing what a real energy drain it is and how much it affects your life. Putting up social facades every day is exhausting and depressing.
This was obviously brought to you by the same people who gave us seven versions of Vista with names that are made up of at least four words. Ballmer (a marketing guy) and his marketing demons wanted to tie into their new Windows Live brand, but they didn't want to lose the brand value of Hotmail, so they just grafted them together with no thought given to aesthetic or marketability. Windows Live Hotmail? It looks and sounds stupid.
"Hey, guys, I'm using Windows Live Hotmail in Windows Internet Explorer on Windows Vista Home Premium Edition! REVEL IN THE BRANDING!"
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Yeah, uh, Vista RTMed last November. Zune didn't work with Vista on release.
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Vista RTMed last November. January isn't six months ago.
Its simply not true. Apple could have introduced a form of copy protection for those labels who insist on it which did not lock iTunes to iPods.
So you were sitting in on the negotiations and know exactly what the record labels were demanding?
All you need to do is some form of watermarking which ties the bought tune to a particular buyer, and so prevents copying and sharing.
Well, you must be happy with Apple then because that's what FairPlay does.
Jobs makes a pretty compelling point that Microsoft came to same realization described in the article, which is why they moved to the same DRM model Apple is using. To be able to meet the demands of the record companies, you have to have total control over your DRM scheme in the event it breaks.
The computer I originally downloaded them on no longer exists, so I have no way to deauthorize it.
You can deauthorize all your licensed machines through your account in iTunes. Then you just reauthorize your existing machine by typing in your password when iTunes asks for it.
If he honestly gave a damn, he'd realize that/he's/ the one who has the power and weight to fight those companies, not us. We have to exercise our force through him and his company, and similar companies.
Uh, what do you think he's doing? This public commentary is part of the fight. He can't just confront them and demand they remove DRM, all-or-nothing. Because then he'll get nothing, and we lose. But he can appeal to the public.
I bet Apple would have sold DRM-free music from the beginning if they could. The iTunes Store exists as a convenient way to avoid having to import a CD into iTunes when you could just buy the AAC files directly. Most music on people's iPods is still in MP3 or unprotected AAC format. The Store has done a lot, but Apple's iPod business doesn't rely on it. At least, not the music part.
Yeah, but the 360 has been out for a year. The Wii sold more consoles at launch than the 360 did, and the Wii is already close to half the 360's total sales in just four months, and that's with a constrained supply stream. There's a reason the Wii has been declared the winner of the next-gen console wars. The 360 doesn't even have a presence in Japan where all the big-name console developers are.
In other words, the Wii is selling at a higher rate than the 360 ever did. The 360 is another big, fat failure for Microsoft's XBox division. I don't think they're ever going to get out of the red on that thing.
Vista wasn't in beta. It had already gone gold and been released to corporate customers.
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How conveniently people forget that Microsoft's own Zune player app wasn't Vista compatible either. If Microsoft couldn't support their own OS with these "stable apis" of the last six months that you refer to, how can you expect Apple to?
What's wrong with people being able to treat their computers like appliances? Techno-nerds have forced people to deal with computer innards for far too long.
That's like saying it ran windows, just not the latest version. Microsoft hasn't been charging $100 for each service pack...
Neither has Apple, as each major version is far, far more than a mere "service pack," especially Tiger.
on the otherhand upgrading to the new OS is about $150.
Actually, it's $120. Hell, getting a functional version of Vista is at least $200. $400 if you want all the Ultimate features...at that point, you could just throw in another hundred and get a Mac mini.
Alex is now quite nervous about what an army of lawyers backed by draconian copyright laws could do to him if he released the details
Enough with the word "draconian." Without copyright law, the GPL wouldn't have a leg to stand on. The copyright system is just fine--you should be attacking Microsoft and Microsoft alone, for they have the right to do this, but we have the right as consumers to reject it. That's how it works.
Is Microsoft just running down a list of crappy things to do that make me dislike Vista even less? I mean, aside from having 20 different versions with separate 32-bit and 64-bit editions (apparently Apple's engineers are much smarter than Microsoft's since they've packaged it all in one version)?
This prediction is particularly stupid because it's not that clever. We already have iTunes and TV shows, streaming devices, and so forth. The revolution is already here. It's odd to see this Gates prediction being reported in the media as if it is groundbreaking or forward-thinking.
That contradicts my usual experience with every Wikipedia article I come across, which is a hundred or so "[citation needed]" markers. Not to mention typos, grammar errors, and a weird obsession every article has with maintaining a gigantic "Cultural References" section at the end. It's like every nerd wants to prove how many Simpsons references they've memorized for the current article. I consider Wikipedia a big nerd/pop culture encyclopedia with some dense biology articles contributed by the random medical student here and there.
I don't think one exists, but I don't know if software companies are prohibited from obtaining PlaysForSure licenses for software players on other operating systems.
How lovely for Microsoft! Now everybody must come to them and license their DRM scheme as dictated by the government. What an improvement over Apple simply offering DRM tracks in an optional store you don't have to use. Ever heard of buying a CD and ripping it into MP3s, like most people do in iTunes?
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while many people are getting more and more annoyed at DRM, Norway actually did something about it
By "many people," you mean Slashdotters and blog writers who think their obsessive DRM concerns have any presence outside their little media bubble. Regular consumers don't give a hoot, and most rip their CDs into MP3s in iTunes.
Why should Apple be forced to provide service to competitors? Should HD-DVDs be forced to play in Blu-ray players? Should Sony be forced to allow its PS2 games to play on the Nintendo Wii? Should Ford be forced to make vehicle parts for Toyota?
What a load of crap. NOBODY IS FORCING ANYBODY TO BUY MUSIC FROM THE ITUNES STORE. Case closed.
I'm not surprised more than half of Americans spend more time with their PCs. A lot of us work computer jobs, so we're in front of a computer all day. My dad worked at a potash mine when I was growing up; he worked 9 to 5, so he spent more time with the potash mine than my mom. Call me crazy, but I'm guessing people spend time with lots of work-related things more than their significant others. It's called having a day job.
I don't believe I did. He was implying that the fact the Republicans were opposed to something made it good. I referenced a typically pro-Democrat mainstream group that was also opposed to it to prove that it wasn't some great thing only the evil conservatives were opposed to, and that it wasn't--or shouldn't be, rather--a party issue.
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How is it idiocy to raise alarms over a bunch of mysterious symbol-coded boxes appearing without warning throughout major population areas? If you leave a bulging paper sack on the floor in the middle of a crowded mall, people will get concerned. The advertisers should have known better.
If the boxes really were part of an organized campaign of planted explosives, the government would be cheered for its foresight and training. When it's nothing, people like you shrug it off because it didn't turn out tragic this time. That's the price the authorities pay for protecting the people as the people demand.
I speak for the vast majority of iPod users when I say "STFU about OGG and FLAC already." Seriously, only Slashdotters care about these formats. MP3 is what everybody uses. It won.
Someone named Lord Dweomer has a girlfriend? What's her name, Queen Barenziana of the Outer Realm?
Some people do see all those signs, but on an intellectual level rather than an intuitive one. You learn to emulate those signs so you can interact. I agree that it's a little annoying when some folks cheerfully self-diagnose themselves as having Asperger's as some sort of Nerd Badge without recognizing what a real energy drain it is and how much it affects your life. Putting up social facades every day is exhausting and depressing.
This was obviously brought to you by the same people who gave us seven versions of Vista with names that are made up of at least four words. Ballmer (a marketing guy) and his marketing demons wanted to tie into their new Windows Live brand, but they didn't want to lose the brand value of Hotmail, so they just grafted them together with no thought given to aesthetic or marketability. Windows Live Hotmail? It looks and sounds stupid.
"Hey, guys, I'm using Windows Live Hotmail in Windows Internet Explorer on Windows Vista Home Premium Edition! REVEL IN THE BRANDING!"
Yeah, uh, Vista RTMed last November. Zune didn't work with Vista on release.
Next.
Vista RTMed last November. January isn't six months ago.
Jobs makes a pretty compelling point that Microsoft came to same realization described in the article, which is why they moved to the same DRM model Apple is using. To be able to meet the demands of the record companies, you have to have total control over your DRM scheme in the event it breaks.
I bet Apple would have sold DRM-free music from the beginning if they could. The iTunes Store exists as a convenient way to avoid having to import a CD into iTunes when you could just buy the AAC files directly. Most music on people's iPods is still in MP3 or unprotected AAC format. The Store has done a lot, but Apple's iPod business doesn't rely on it. At least, not the music part.
Yeah, but the 360 has been out for a year. The Wii sold more consoles at launch than the 360 did, and the Wii is already close to half the 360's total sales in just four months, and that's with a constrained supply stream. There's a reason the Wii has been declared the winner of the next-gen console wars. The 360 doesn't even have a presence in Japan where all the big-name console developers are.
In other words, the Wii is selling at a higher rate than the 360 ever did. The 360 is another big, fat failure for Microsoft's XBox division. I don't think they're ever going to get out of the red on that thing.
Vista wasn't in beta. It had already gone gold and been released to corporate customers.
How conveniently people forget that Microsoft's own Zune player app wasn't Vista compatible either. If Microsoft couldn't support their own OS with these "stable apis" of the last six months that you refer to, how can you expect Apple to?
What's wrong with people being able to treat their computers like appliances? Techno-nerds have forced people to deal with computer innards for far too long.
Is Microsoft just running down a list of crappy things to do that make me dislike Vista even less? I mean, aside from having 20 different versions with separate 32-bit and 64-bit editions (apparently Apple's engineers are much smarter than Microsoft's since they've packaged it all in one version)?
This prediction is particularly stupid because it's not that clever. We already have iTunes and TV shows, streaming devices, and so forth. The revolution is already here. It's odd to see this Gates prediction being reported in the media as if it is groundbreaking or forward-thinking.
That contradicts my usual experience with every Wikipedia article I come across, which is a hundred or so "[citation needed]" markers. Not to mention typos, grammar errors, and a weird obsession every article has with maintaining a gigantic "Cultural References" section at the end. It's like every nerd wants to prove how many Simpsons references they've memorized for the current article. I consider Wikipedia a big nerd/pop culture encyclopedia with some dense biology articles contributed by the random medical student here and there.
Why should Apple be forced to provide service to competitors? Should HD-DVDs be forced to play in Blu-ray players? Should Sony be forced to allow its PS2 games to play on the Nintendo Wii? Should Ford be forced to make vehicle parts for Toyota?
What a load of crap. NOBODY IS FORCING ANYBODY TO BUY MUSIC FROM THE ITUNES STORE. Case closed.
I'm not surprised more than half of Americans spend more time with their PCs. A lot of us work computer jobs, so we're in front of a computer all day. My dad worked at a potash mine when I was growing up; he worked 9 to 5, so he spent more time with the potash mine than my mom. Call me crazy, but I'm guessing people spend time with lots of work-related things more than their significant others. It's called having a day job.
I don't believe I did. He was implying that the fact the Republicans were opposed to something made it good. I referenced a typically pro-Democrat mainstream group that was also opposed to it to prove that it wasn't some great thing only the evil conservatives were opposed to, and that it wasn't--or shouldn't be, rather--a party issue.
Liberal means Nazi?