It sounds like it can just stream any MPEG4 Apple Lossless file to an Airport Express. What that means is that people can develop their own software that uses Apple Lossless files (encouraging codec adoption) to power Apple Airport Express units (encouraging hardware sales). Apple is primarily a hardware company -- they make most of their money by selling machines of various sorts, be they computers, iPods, displays, or...wireless access points.
This will probably be obsoleted soon by an SDK anyway -- this does nothing to aid or abet copyright infringement, and third party software can only help move the merch.
(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, an accountant, or a suit of any sort. But I play one on Slashdot. Nor do I hold any stock whatsoever. I wrote this last night while the DB was down).
1. Apple. They're going into A/V right now with the iPods and the various iLife stuff including the music store. Still no DVR offering though, either as part of OS X or as a box. Solution: buy TiVo, including most of the employees. Either manage as a wholly owned subsidiary or even better bring it into the fold and get the fruit on the boxes. People know who Apple is and almost everyone has QuickTime and therefore generally sort of has reason to trust them.
2. Sony, Pioneer, or Toshiba. All of these have had relationships with TiVo, and I believe some or all may already own part of it. Again, these are brands people know even better than TiVo. Most people have had a positive experience with Sony and/or Toshiba, and Pioneer seems pretty well known.
3. A high-end audio company, such as Harman/Kardon or Bose. I think these guys are making money and are already in the stuff-you-use-with-your-TV business. Problem is that they don't have much retail distribution, so TiVo boxes would be in few more places beyond where they already are.
4. A non-Apple computer company, such as Dell or Gateway. Very unlikely, since most of these are more likely to be promoting Windows Media Center. Though Dell sells TiVo boxes on the side so among this crowd they'd be most likely, particularly if Media Center fails.
5. A media company, such as Viacom or Virgin. This would mean bigtime cuts in the relative user-respect of TiVo -- scratch the DVD burning &c plans.
6. An electronics company not listed above -- GE might be looking for a new market, to go along with telephones, light bulbs, and everything else known to man.
Because in 17 years or however long it is now, their technology will be obsolete anyways -- I see no reasonable reason to protect it as a trade secret.
Beepy electronic music may turn some people on, but it is not the best thing for the job often. The background audio on Baldur's Gate II was among the best I have ever heard -- the music was nothing that could not be reproduced by an orchestra, but it did its job admirably and sounded good to boot. The rest of the background was people muttering in English -- crowd chatter, salesmen and stuff. Yes, they COULD have pulled a Tolkien and invented some languages for the background chatter, and they could have hired Chip Davis to do the background music, but they didn't and it was still good -- excellent, even
Like I said, alternate between different sources...a significantly sized list. Multiple constitutions (US, Germany (translated to English), and the Magna Carta?)and a Bible or two (King James and the Latin Vulgate would be good choices since they are in the public domain). THen you'd be throwing several large documents at it. And perhaps block people for a while after 10 fails.
Then you just tell people that the password is "Genesis 1:5 KJV" and they can remember something like that, and look up the verse when they need to have root access to the server. Pick out a new verse from the Bible, or part of the Constitution or what have you ("Article I Section 2 clause 5" can be remembered better than "the house of representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers and shall have the sole power of impeachment," a very secure password for high-security systems.) Just change the password and source from time to time, perhaps weekly or monthly.
Exactly -- most people who'd be looking at the Inspiron XPS are probably college students and can save hundreds just by telling Apple where they go to school. Put the money saved towards a nice Athlon64 system, which is better for shoot-em-up gaming than any laptop.
The problem with Inspiron XPS is this:
Before rebates, and with XP Pro, DVD burner drive, wireless (WiFi and Bluetooth), an 80 GB hard drive, and a gig of RAM it's $3413. A 15" PowerBook with similar stats comes out at $2999, a significant difference. I won't even go into how it compares to Dell's own desktops. The PowerBook doesn't have as much oomph, but it actually will function well for purposes other than LAN parties -- few of us can afford a $3000 laptop at any rate, and I imagine that those who do want one that can at least be carried into a clasroom without breaking desks at 9+ lbs.
Ever heard of the song entitled "867-5309/Jenny" by Tommy Tutone, in which the telephone number 867-5309 is repeated circa 16 times? There are people who have that number...I think I once heard of a Jenny with that number. I guess "555-0139" didn't have enough flair to it.
But supposing you are not using Windows, and such control is absent. I don't know how DVDs are on OS X, Linux, or Solaris, but I imagine that a *NIX cp does not discriminate between DVD video and any other data.
Firstly, DVDs aren't DRMed -- and even if they were, a DRM system that doesn't allow for copying would prevent a copy from working. The FairPlay system used with iTunes just lets you use cp or equivalent to make your copies, but it still only plays on authorized players.
Secondly, there is really no "arguably" about it -- a dd doesn't produce any unencrypted copies. It's simply recreating the cyphertext. But on the other hand, if you stick it up on KaZaa it's still infringement.
No, you can put Linux on an iBook or PowerBook and it runs just fine, though unless you got a blank one and didn't want to buy OS X I don't see much point to it, when the hardware comes with a specialized BSD that natively runs most commonly used nongame software -- and GNU chess is probably better for your brain than solitaire anyhow.
I suppose you haven't seen the eMac or iBook, then. Yes, you can get a Dell for less, but are the bottom Dells as good? Will they hold up as well or last as long? Are the batteries as good?
Frankly, most encyclopedias aren't that much better than a wiki -- someone writes an article off of a few sources of varying quality and often an old version of the article. An edit board or what have you oversees the process. With Wikipedia, you occasionally get a BS article -- but I imagine that if you looked through an unabridged Britannica, you'd find at least a couple biased or seriously erroneous articles as well. The main differences are that Wikipedians are often not experts on the topic of the article or anything near it, there are more editors, and a new edition comes out every few milliseconds. General encyclopedias are basically collections of common knowledge -- if you are doing heavy scholarly work you should use more specialized sources than World Book or Wikipedia, be it a specialized encyclopedia or a nonencyclopedic work.
Microsoft is the biggest threat, with their near monopoly on desktop operating systems and office suites. Just about every PC or Mac has Microsoft application software on it, and with CrossOver you can even run MS Office on Linux. Terrorists (or spies!) at Microsoft would be a very dangerous situation.
But yes, an undesirable subversive at (in alphabetical order) AOL, Apple, Avaya, Oracle, Real, Roxio, or any other company with a lot of proprietary software out there could be similarly devastating.
Slashdot and FreeBSD have confirmed it, XFree86 is dying. With even the venerable FreeBSD jumping ship, joining the ilk of Red Hat and Debian, we can expect XFree to go out of business momentarily. This, folks, is what becomes of the administrators of a free software project when they mess with the license, screwing the community in the process. May the ill-ridden tale of XFree86 serve as a warning to us all. Requiescat in pacem.
Since the purpose really mandates 802.11g (and for a certain segment, Ethernet, though with wireless being increasingly common and highly cost-effective...), it probably wasn't much trouble for Apple to add access point functionality, thus vastly increasing value for many people. Indeed, I imagine that many who are buying it are buying for the "wireless access point I can take with me to a hotel" or "WDS repeater with a printer port" side of things rather than for AirTunes.
For those with computers near their stereos, the logical course of action is to just run a cable from the line-out, S/P-DIF, or whatever you use on the sound card to the stereo.
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It sounds like it can just stream any MPEG4 Apple Lossless file to an Airport Express. What that means is that people can develop their own software that uses Apple Lossless files (encouraging codec adoption) to power Apple Airport Express units (encouraging hardware sales). Apple is primarily a hardware company -- they make most of their money by selling machines of various sorts, be they computers, iPods, displays, or...wireless access points.
This will probably be obsoleted soon by an SDK anyway -- this does nothing to aid or abet copyright infringement, and third party software can only help move the merch.
(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, an accountant, or a suit of any sort. But I play one on Slashdot. Nor do I hold any stock whatsoever. I wrote this last night while the DB was down).
1. Apple. They're going into A/V right now with the iPods and the various iLife stuff including the music store. Still no DVR offering though, either as part of OS X or as a box. Solution: buy TiVo, including most of the employees. Either manage as a wholly owned subsidiary or even better bring it into the fold and get the fruit on the boxes. People know who Apple is and almost everyone has QuickTime and therefore generally sort of has reason to trust them.
2. Sony, Pioneer, or Toshiba. All of these have had relationships with TiVo, and I believe some or all may already own part of it. Again, these are brands people know even better than TiVo. Most people have had a positive experience with Sony and/or Toshiba, and Pioneer seems pretty well known.
3. A high-end audio company, such as Harman/Kardon or Bose. I think these guys are making money and are already in the stuff-you-use-with-your-TV business. Problem is that they don't have much retail distribution, so TiVo boxes would be in few more places beyond where they already are.
4. A non-Apple computer company, such as Dell or Gateway. Very unlikely, since most of these are more likely to be promoting Windows Media Center. Though Dell sells TiVo boxes on the side so among this crowd they'd be most likely, particularly if Media Center fails.
5. A media company, such as Viacom or Virgin. This would mean bigtime cuts in the relative user-respect of TiVo -- scratch the DVD burning &c plans.
6. An electronics company not listed above -- GE might be looking for a new market, to go along with telephones, light bulbs, and everything else known to man.
7. Microsoft. I'll let this speak for itself.
IBM model M, by any chance, or a Dell "QuietKey"?
Because in 17 years or however long it is now, their technology will be obsolete anyways -- I see no reasonable reason to protect it as a trade secret.
Beepy electronic music may turn some people on, but it is not the best thing for the job often. The background audio on Baldur's Gate II was among the best I have ever heard -- the music was nothing that could not be reproduced by an orchestra, but it did its job admirably and sounded good to boot. The rest of the background was people muttering in English -- crowd chatter, salesmen and stuff. Yes, they COULD have pulled a Tolkien and invented some languages for the background chatter, and they could have hired Chip Davis to do the background music, but they didn't and it was still good -- excellent, even
That's a Dimension XPS Desktop.
Like I said, alternate between different sources...a significantly sized list. Multiple constitutions (US, Germany (translated to English), and the Magna Carta?)and a Bible or two (King James and the Latin Vulgate would be good choices since they are in the public domain). THen you'd be throwing several large documents at it. And perhaps block people for a while after 10 fails.
Then you just tell people that the password is "Genesis 1:5 KJV" and they can remember something like that, and look up the verse when they need to have root access to the server. Pick out a new verse from the Bible, or part of the Constitution or what have you ("Article I Section 2 clause 5" can be remembered better than "the house of representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers and shall have the sole power of impeachment," a very secure password for high-security systems.) Just change the password and source from time to time, perhaps weekly or monthly.
Exactly -- most people who'd be looking at the Inspiron XPS are probably college students and can save hundreds just by telling Apple where they go to school. Put the money saved towards a nice Athlon64 system, which is better for shoot-em-up gaming than any laptop.
Actually, scratch $100 or so from the Dell's price; I forgot to remove the 3 year warranty.
The problem with Inspiron XPS is this: Before rebates, and with XP Pro, DVD burner drive, wireless (WiFi and Bluetooth), an 80 GB hard drive, and a gig of RAM it's $3413. A 15" PowerBook with similar stats comes out at $2999, a significant difference. I won't even go into how it compares to Dell's own desktops. The PowerBook doesn't have as much oomph, but it actually will function well for purposes other than LAN parties -- few of us can afford a $3000 laptop at any rate, and I imagine that those who do want one that can at least be carried into a clasroom without breaking desks at 9+ lbs.
Ever heard of the song entitled "867-5309/Jenny" by Tommy Tutone, in which the telephone number 867-5309 is repeated circa 16 times? There are people who have that number...I think I once heard of a Jenny with that number. I guess "555-0139" didn't have enough flair to it.
Easy. Retcon it to "GNU's Now Unix"
But supposing you are not using Windows, and such control is absent. I don't know how DVDs are on OS X, Linux, or Solaris, but I imagine that a *NIX cp does not discriminate between DVD video and any other data.
The difference is that now a creature of Congress says it's okay
Two things to keep in mind:
Firstly, DVDs aren't DRMed -- and even if they were, a DRM system that doesn't allow for copying would prevent a copy from working. The FairPlay system used with iTunes just lets you use cp or equivalent to make your copies, but it still only plays on authorized players.
Secondly, there is really no "arguably" about it -- a dd doesn't produce any unencrypted copies. It's simply recreating the cyphertext. But on the other hand, if you stick it up on KaZaa it's still infringement.
...can't the job of DVD X-Copy be done with dd anyhow?
...to reduce his sentence, as I recall. Back before any judges could tell it's a crock.
No, you can put Linux on an iBook or PowerBook and it runs just fine, though unless you got a blank one and didn't want to buy OS X I don't see much point to it, when the hardware comes with a specialized BSD that natively runs most commonly used nongame software -- and GNU chess is probably better for your brain than solitaire anyhow.
CSS? Then we'd have to use DeCSS to read it on Linux! Oh, THAT CSS :)
I suppose you haven't seen the eMac or iBook, then. Yes, you can get a Dell for less, but are the bottom Dells as good? Will they hold up as well or last as long? Are the batteries as good?
Frankly, most encyclopedias aren't that much better than a wiki -- someone writes an article off of a few sources of varying quality and often an old version of the article. An edit board or what have you oversees the process. With Wikipedia, you occasionally get a BS article -- but I imagine that if you looked through an unabridged Britannica, you'd find at least a couple biased or seriously erroneous articles as well. The main differences are that Wikipedians are often not experts on the topic of the article or anything near it, there are more editors, and a new edition comes out every few milliseconds. General encyclopedias are basically collections of common knowledge -- if you are doing heavy scholarly work you should use more specialized sources than World Book or Wikipedia, be it a specialized encyclopedia or a nonencyclopedic work.
Microsoft is the biggest threat, with their near monopoly on desktop operating systems and office suites. Just about every PC or Mac has Microsoft application software on it, and with CrossOver you can even run MS Office on Linux. Terrorists (or spies!) at Microsoft would be a very dangerous situation.
But yes, an undesirable subversive at (in alphabetical order) AOL, Apple, Avaya, Oracle, Real, Roxio, or any other company with a lot of proprietary software out there could be similarly devastating.
Slashdot and FreeBSD have confirmed it, XFree86 is dying. With even the venerable FreeBSD jumping ship, joining the ilk of Red Hat and Debian, we can expect XFree to go out of business momentarily. This, folks, is what becomes of the administrators of a free software project when they mess with the license, screwing the community in the process. May the ill-ridden tale of XFree86 serve as a warning to us all. Requiescat in pacem.
(I know, bad joke)
Since the purpose really mandates 802.11g (and for a certain segment, Ethernet, though with wireless being increasingly common and highly cost-effective...), it probably wasn't much trouble for Apple to add access point functionality, thus vastly increasing value for many people. Indeed, I imagine that many who are buying it are buying for the "wireless access point I can take with me to a hotel" or "WDS repeater with a printer port" side of things rather than for AirTunes.
For those with computers near their stereos, the logical course of action is to just run a cable from the line-out, S/P-DIF, or whatever you use on the sound card to the stereo.