Yuck! If we're going to treat "allowing a computer to operate in an unapproved way" as grounds for shutting off service (whether or not the computer does in fact operate in an unapproved way), wouldn't that imply that anyone running Windows XPSP2 (or for that matter, most versions of Windows in general) should be summarily disconnect
Is it me, or is "retroactively blacklist" the most unpleasant piece of this? So if I am a good-user who does nothing untoward, I would risk having my TV no longer speak to my DVR because a nephew came over and had had his X-box-cum-torrent-seed plugged in? Yuck.
I prefer technology which makes it easier to do what one wants to do, rather than harder.
All of my mac laptops (G1MBP, G4iBook) wake from sleep nearly instantly. My mac desktop (a cube) wakes well, but takes a few seconds - basically, it wakes up before spinning up the drive, and only spins the drive when it needs to.
My pc laptop (Dell D600, Win 2k) blows chunks - getting it to go to sleep can take a 30 seconds, wakeup takes about the same, and startup takes more than a minute. Bleah!
I think that a multiprong approach is reasonable - my band (The Franchise) gives away a few songs on our website, sells DRM-free CDs, and then sells songs by track on all of the music stores which CDBaby will support.
So there's a matrix:
No DRM and Free No DRM and $ DRM and $
(nobody really supports DRM and free, 'cause it's silly).
Do you remember driving in a major US city in the 90's? I do, and there was a tremendous overbuild going on. In general, the availability of fiber in the street is not the thing which makes competition hard - it's really the connections from the street to individual homes or apartments. The phone and cablecos already have those, and look at how much innovation has gone into being able to cram more bits down those wires than they were originally designed to handle!
by that argument, if you're working on a novel, and I swipe it and publish it, I would not be guilty of copyright violations, right?
Or to take the petty theft out of the equation, if you throw away an early draft of a manuscript you're working on, am I allowed to publish it?
Current US Copyright law says "no," and as a musician, I think that's reasonable.
An example more pertinent to my own life is that my band will be working on another album soon, but we've got some new songs already. If someone bootlegged a show, and released a CD of the same in Japan (without asking, of course), would they be guilty of copyright violation if they only were releasing previously unreleased work?
This, to my mind, means that they should not be protected by copyright. If you intentionally exclude a region, then it is not in the best interests of that region to grant you a monopoly on distribution.
Copyright is more than just a monopoly on distribution: it also protects unpublished works. Copyright laws should apply whether or not a work is available legally. That said, copyright is also based in National law, and thus the particulars differ from country to country. It would be interesting to see a case go to court in country X, where a creator sued an unauthorized distributor, when the creator has only registered the copyright in country Y.
That doesn't mean that I disagree with your analysis in the other respects, however - I think that a country-based model doesn't make much sense for digital music. I'm glad that iTMS has such an easy way to get around it.
Apple is pretty friendly to independent music sources, as well - CDBaby has a deal where for a small fee they'll perform digital distribution, and I've noticed that iTMS is the overwhelming source of all of the digital purchases of my band's stuff.
Their payout rates to artists are as good or better than other services, as I discussed elsewhere.
So while no-DRM would be ideal, Apple's approach isn't unfriendly to indie musicians.
Very small nitpick in an excellent post: Chernobyl didn't blow up, it had a severe fire and meltdown. Between all of the various failures there, the containment was breached, and oodles of icky stuff was released.
Fortunately, the US neither builds reactors like that, nor would permit that type of crazy-ass testing. Hopefully we'll build lots more modern reactors soon.
Well said, with the caveat that I'm not sure that there really ever was a rational reason to fear nuclear power.
Hopefully we can get off our behinds and make some modern nuclear plants, and let's overturn the ban on reprocessing while we're at it - the key, as I see it, is to minimize the transit between the creation of the spent fuel and the reprocessing of same. Given that, the solution is obvious: build them near each other.
Hopefully the incoming congress will be positively disposed to this...
Addition confusion may result from Cingular being owned by AT&T (stock symbol: "T"), while T-Mobile is owned by Deutch Telekom (T-Systems, not sure about the significance in German)
15-20 is the speed a cyclist can go if and only if there are no stop lights, stop signs, or yield signs which are obeyed. In Washington DC, cyclists treat traffic laws with about as much respect as a typical deadhead treated the war on drugs.
I admit that there have been lots of times when I as a pedestrian was pretty tempted to put a stick in the wheel of some cyclist who almost hit my dog...
The 10Mbps Ethernet (10-base-T) standard was published in 1990. The first Apple computer to offer an included Ethernet NIC was the Quadra 700, released in 1991.
Where exactly was the Microsoft innovation which Apple copied in this area?
Oh, and btw, Appletalk works just fine over Ethernet...
You're right that you're not exerting any newtons on most of your environment while idle, however, the earth is exerting 10m/s/s force on you, and you are exhibiting an equal and opposite force on the earth to avoid falling into the center.
Now, if you were in free fall, at terminal velocity, THEN you'd have 0 newtons net...;)
I disagree that it's not a huge issue: it means that you can't actually deploy an IPv6-native (i.e. no IPv4) service where there are ANY Windows XP hosts, unless you want to distribute host files (brrrrr....) or have some god-awful tunnelling enabled.
minor nitpick - the XP IPv6 stack bug isn't that it always uses IPv4, it's that it NEVER uses IPv6 for DNS queries. I verified this through lots of testing recently, and it totally cheesed me off...:(
And here I was so happy that they included the auto-config fec0:0:0:ffff::1 - 3 DNS server addresses, but XP won't send a request either to them or to a manually configured V6 server.
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Yuck! If we're going to treat "allowing a computer to operate in an unapproved way" as grounds for shutting off service (whether or not the computer does in fact operate in an unapproved way), wouldn't that imply that anyone running Windows XPSP2 (or for that matter, most versions of Windows in general) should be summarily disconnect
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Is it me, or is "retroactively blacklist" the most unpleasant piece of this? So if I am a good-user who does nothing untoward, I would risk having my TV no longer speak to my DVR because a nephew came over and had had his X-box-cum-torrent-seed plugged in? Yuck.
I prefer technology which makes it easier to do what one wants to do, rather than harder.
All of my mac laptops (G1MBP, G4iBook) wake from sleep nearly instantly. My mac desktop (a cube) wakes well, but takes a few seconds - basically, it wakes up before spinning up the drive, and only spins the drive when it needs to.
My pc laptop (Dell D600, Win 2k) blows chunks - getting it to go to sleep can take a 30 seconds, wakeup takes about the same, and startup takes more than a minute. Bleah!
-David
Given what happened to the Whitehouse entry, spam is a real worry - also, what if one's competitors write nasty reviews or submit fake information?
I don't get the sense that there is much protection from joe-jobs here...
-David
Sounds like a decent candidate for linux to me...
(heck, I've got webservers with less horsepower than that)
you re-installed Windows ME? on what, your enemy's computer?
I think that a multiprong approach is reasonable - my band (The Franchise) gives away a few songs on our website, sells DRM-free CDs, and then sells songs by track on all of the music stores which CDBaby will support.
So there's a matrix:
No DRM and Free
No DRM and $
DRM and $
(nobody really supports DRM and free, 'cause it's silly).
-David
Do you remember driving in a major US city in the 90's? I do, and there was a tremendous overbuild going on. In general, the availability of fiber in the street is not the thing which makes competition hard - it's really the connections from the street to individual homes or apartments. The phone and cablecos already have those, and look at how much innovation has gone into being able to cram more bits down those wires than they were originally designed to handle!
by that argument, if you're working on a novel, and I swipe it and publish it, I would not be guilty of copyright violations, right?
Or to take the petty theft out of the equation, if you throw away an early draft of a manuscript you're working on, am I allowed to publish it?
Current US Copyright law says "no," and as a musician, I think that's reasonable.
An example more pertinent to my own life is that my band will be working on another album soon, but we've got some new songs already. If someone bootlegged a show, and released a CD of the same in Japan (without asking, of course), would they be guilty of copyright violation if they only were releasing previously unreleased work?
This, to my mind, means that they should not be protected by copyright. If you intentionally exclude a region, then it is not in the best interests of that region to grant you a monopoly on distribution.
Copyright is more than just a monopoly on distribution: it also protects unpublished works. Copyright laws should apply whether or not a work is available legally. That said, copyright is also based in National law, and thus the particulars differ from country to country. It would be interesting to see a case go to court in country X, where a creator sued an unauthorized distributor, when the creator has only registered the copyright in country Y.
That doesn't mean that I disagree with your analysis in the other respects, however - I think that a country-based model doesn't make much sense for digital music. I'm glad that iTMS has such an easy way to get around it.
Very well said. The phrase "Word Art" should strike terror in the hearts of the masses.
Apple is pretty friendly to independent music sources, as well - CDBaby has a deal where for a small fee they'll perform digital distribution, and I've noticed that iTMS is the overwhelming source of all of the digital purchases of my band's stuff.
Their payout rates to artists are as good or better than other services, as I discussed elsewhere.
So while no-DRM would be ideal, Apple's approach isn't unfriendly to indie musicians.
Very small nitpick in an excellent post: Chernobyl didn't blow up, it had a severe fire and meltdown. Between all of the various failures there, the containment was breached, and oodles of icky stuff was released.
Fortunately, the US neither builds reactors like that, nor would permit that type of crazy-ass testing. Hopefully we'll build lots more modern reactors soon.
Well said, with the caveat that I'm not sure that there really ever was a rational reason to fear nuclear power.
Hopefully we can get off our behinds and make some modern nuclear plants, and let's overturn the ban on reprocessing while we're at it - the key, as I see it, is to minimize the transit between the creation of the spent fuel and the reprocessing of same. Given that, the solution is obvious: build them near each other.
Hopefully the incoming congress will be positively disposed to this...
Given the absurd numbers of rumours which abounded over the past few months, what is this "secret" of which you speak?
Addition confusion may result from Cingular being owned by AT&T (stock symbol: "T"), while T-Mobile is owned by Deutch Telekom (T-Systems, not sure about the significance in German)
Cingular and T-Mobile do not share the same network.
There are 4 major wireless networks in the USA currently:
Cingular
Verizon Wireless (CDMA)
Sprint/Nextel
T-Mobile
Cingular and T-Mobile do share the same network technology (GSM/GPRS), which might be what you're thinking of.
15-20 is the speed a cyclist can go if and only if there are no stop lights, stop signs, or yield signs which are obeyed. In Washington DC, cyclists treat traffic laws with about as much respect as a typical deadhead treated the war on drugs.
I admit that there have been lots of times when I as a pedestrian was pretty tempted to put a stick in the wheel of some cyclist who almost hit my dog...
The 10Mbps Ethernet (10-base-T) standard was published in 1990. The first Apple computer to offer an included Ethernet NIC was the Quadra 700, released in 1991.
Where exactly was the Microsoft innovation which Apple copied in this area?
Oh, and btw, Appletalk works just fine over Ethernet...
It is useless to be a resistor!
Hmm - on a Samsung x427m with Cingular GSM, #06# resulted in "not done."
You're right that you're not exerting any newtons on most of your environment while idle, however, the earth is exerting 10m/s/s force on you, and you are exhibiting an equal and opposite force on the earth to avoid falling into the center.
;)
Now, if you were in free fall, at terminal velocity, THEN you'd have 0 newtons net...
0 Newtons? Damn... you DO have an antigravity field... can I have one?
-David
I disagree that it's not a huge issue: it means that you can't actually deploy an IPv6-native (i.e. no IPv4) service where there are ANY Windows XP hosts, unless you want to distribute host files (brrrrr....) or have some god-awful tunnelling enabled.
-David
minor nitpick - the XP IPv6 stack bug isn't that it always uses IPv4, it's that it NEVER uses IPv6 for DNS queries. I verified this through lots of testing recently, and it totally cheesed me off... :(
And here I was so happy that they included the auto-config fec0:0:0:ffff::1 - 3 DNS server addresses, but XP won't send a request either to them or to a manually configured V6 server.
-David