Glad this wasn't settled out of court
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This is a great example of the kind of problems our patent system causes. I hope that this gets more and more press. I'm tired of being alone when it comes to my outrage at software patents.
While I'm not naive enough to think that the problem will get fixed any time soon, at least this will add another straw, and eventaully enough straws will be added to break the camel's back.
Oh, and by the way, NTP are bastards. I don't care about their cute little story. Nobody should be able to do a half-assed job and get hundreds of millions.
For the shuffle, in order to store data, you need to go into iTunes and tell it to allocate some space for files. Once you've done that, you can use the space on any PC without installing drivers. So presumably they use VFAT once that's been done. And there would probably be a hardware component, as mentioned in other posts, to migrate the FAT so the same area doesn't get written to with every write.
AOL has tried a couple of times to get its users switched off the Microsoft OS and Browser. They do have a lot of users, so given the right technology, perhaps AOL could convince people to switch to Linux and Netscape.
If they hurt Microsoft's platform strategy, that means more sales for both AOL and Google.
I could be wrong about this, and probably am, but this is one possible explanation.
Otherwise, Google's just gone and alienated some of their geeky users in exchange for some short term profit and traffic. Not a good move.
This doesn't fix the fact that the MS format sucks. It's a lot more confusing for programmers than the OpenDocument format.
Also, it still isn't as open as OpenDocument. Partly for the reason that Microsoft isn't open to contributions to the format, and that they dictate what the format will be like.
Saying the MS format might not be available in 5-10 years might be a stretch, but stranger things have happened. The point is that the workings of Word are out of the control of Massachusetts, or the control of a free market (since Microsoft is a monopolist). On the other hand, the OpenDocument format is truly open. But with Microsoft, at any time Microsoft raises the price of Word, or forces migration by making the software change to new formats, things become available to fewer users.
I'm seeing that a lot of posters here are bringing good reasons why the RIAA is obsolete. I haven't got into any indie music yet, but I hope I will find something I like soon.
For a lot stuff, for the forseeable future, I will have to deal with the options in a market owned by the RIAA. Right now I get my Weird Al music on iTunes, but if they go above 99 cents, I'm going back to piracy!
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While I'm not naive enough to think that the problem will get fixed any time soon, at least this will add another straw, and eventaully enough straws will be added to break the camel's back.
Oh, and by the way, NTP are bastards. I don't care about their cute little story. Nobody should be able to do a half-assed job and get hundreds of millions.
I prefer "It's hard to fly like an eagle when you're surrounded by a bunch of fucktards."
Oh so ronery...
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For the shuffle, in order to store data, you need to go into iTunes and tell it to allocate some space for files. Once you've done that, you can use the space on any PC without installing drivers. So presumably they use VFAT once that's been done. And there would probably be a hardware component, as mentioned in other posts, to migrate the FAT so the same area doesn't get written to with every write.
That doesn't make you a geek. That makes you a VC pig.
There are websites out there accessible by IE only.
AOL didn't have the courage then to stop using IE and hope people switch.
They were thinking about it, though. They bought Netscape, and at times put a couple of press releases out suggesting they'd be switching over to it.
They didn't do it then, but times have changed and now MS has less than 90% of the browser market.
Plus Google is really picking up steam.
AOL would really like to be where google is right now.
But they have to settle for just a piece of the action.
If they hurt Microsoft's platform strategy, that means more sales for both AOL and Google.
I could be wrong about this, and probably am, but this is one possible explanation.
Otherwise, Google's just gone and alienated some of their geeky users in exchange for some short term profit and traffic. Not a good move.
That's what it would take to shut my young siblings up.
He'll do it again. Once a chair thrower, always a chair thrower.
That's surprising. If it were OpenBSD, you would have got an off-list email from Theo De Raadt asking you to stop wasting the developers' time.
Also, it still isn't as open as OpenDocument. Partly for the reason that Microsoft isn't open to contributions to the format, and that they dictate what the format will be like.
Thank you.
Get out that 1500 SAT score and check it out.
I first read that met my wife on Match.com. Beautiful, busy career women sometimes have trouble finding good dates too.
a) pirate
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b) rip CD's by using Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows with autorun turned off
PART 2
When CD's are obsolete be switched over to independent music for almost all new stuff. Good artists don't need the RIAA anymore.
But if it passed, and there wasn't a huge backlash, it would pretty much be Nineteen Fucking Eighty-Four.
And I was hoping we could stave it off for another fifty years.
Maybe someone in Washington will Finally Fucking Notice (tm).
OO.o
Saying the MS format might not be available in 5-10 years might be a stretch, but stranger things have happened. The point is that the workings of Word are out of the control of Massachusetts, or the control of a free market (since Microsoft is a monopolist). On the other hand, the OpenDocument format is truly open. But with Microsoft, at any time Microsoft raises the price of Word, or forces migration by making the software change to new formats, things become available to fewer users.
Oh noes, he doesn't like Microsoft. What could have provoked that?
Maybe seeing how much better, cheaper, and easier the alternatives are.
He might be biased, but for good reason.
No, you got right, assuming you had the orinial post. 'm' 'v'.
Let me rephrase that.
Distribution of Java with competing technology is verboten by Sun.
I'm seeing that a lot of posters here are bringing good reasons why the RIAA is obsolete. I haven't got into any indie music yet, but I hope I will find something I like soon.
For a lot stuff, for the forseeable future, I will have to deal with the options in a market owned by the RIAA. Right now I get my Weird Al music on iTunes, but if they go above 99 cents, I'm going back to piracy!