Yeah, that and the congressional record. The qutoes from the parent's link come right out of the congressional record. Look it up. Don't be a sock puppet for any ideology, left or right. Get the facts then make up your mind.
What they found certainly wasn't ready made WMD as Bush and co. advertisided, but there is no doubt that Saddam was hiding enough to be able to reconstitute his WMD program when he felt the time was right.
Was that enough to go to war over? Probably not. Is it important to know about anyway? Yes.
You can continue using iTunes just as you have in the past if you don't upgrade to v4.5. v4.5 comes with new terms. If you want the 10 playlist burn count and 3 computer limit stick to 4.2, if you're ok with 7 playlist burns and 5 computers then move to 4.5.
If Apple makes some crappy license change in the future that I don't like then I'm burning all my purchased music to CD and re-ripping to AAC and then I can do whatever I please.
I (and I think many of us) consider Linux as embodying freedom (in both the RMS and and the beer senses) in the IT world. Now, I certainly won't put down some of the great work the major distro companies have done for us, but this goes a little too far - The difference between "added value" to "basically un-free (in both senses).
Hell yes it's a good thing! If you're at all serious about Linux adoption then it's a very, very, very good thing. There are all kinds of applications that will never be written by the open source community because they are needed by to small a group of users. Case in point, I work for a company that sells construction job cost accounting software, estimating software, project management software, service management software, etc. Basically all kinds of software packages tailored specifically to various areas of the construction industry. If proprietary software never really catches on in the Linux world then all of our customers are going to be stuck using Windows forever.
I don't expect that the open source community will ever produce software that can do the kinds of things that these types of Windows based packages can do. It simply won't happen because the software is so specialized. Think of how many other businesses are in the same boat. There are plenty of Windows applications out there tailor made to do the kinds of things that millions of businesses need done. Linux will never, ever catch on on the desktop if applications like these aren't ported, or similar properietary applications aren't created.
Bascially, with a no propietary, open source only strategy Linux will remain a power in the back office but only a toy for geeks on the desktop. If that's the case then guess who remains on top? Microsoft. Remember where Microsoft's real power comes from. It's their stranglehold on the desktop. I for one would like to shee that stranglehold broken. It's better for everyone. If Linux remains open source only, non-proprietary kiss any kind of wide ranging adoption on the desktop good bye.
I know what would help iPod: a battery that you could actually buy in most stores, and replace just by opening a hatch. No more problem of tossing out the iPod to buy a new one when the battery dies. That would be an advance, no other competitor has a thing like that!
It costs $50 bucks plus shipping to buy a replacement battery from a third party and it takes less than 5 minutes to install it yourself. If you don't want to deal with all of that you can fork out $100 to buy the battery from Apple and they will do the installation for you.
If you're really that concerned about the money, why in the world did you buy an iPod in the first place? Get a portable MP3 CD player that can read CD-RW's and takes regular AA batteries. Need more capacity? Easy, burn a few more CD-RW's and get a carrying case. Problem solved.
Rosie O'Donnell is going to fave a field day with this one!
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Stop reading drudge. Air America (though terribly pulpy - not nearly up to the level of NPR) was put back on the air, and your favorite tabloidnews website neglected to mention that update.
What was that again? Have a look at this article and then talk to me about not following up. Air America is dead. Cry me a river.
Yeah, this will really stop spammers! It's not like they can just move out of the USA and spam to their hearts content or anything like that... er... wait.
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Do you know that the US produces and consumes 25 percent of the world's power and yet has only 4 percent of the world's population? Yet you think that the US has a negative effect on CO2 production?
Where did you learn all the crap that you're spouting? A Halliburton "fact" sheet?
Ah, typical liberal crap. The funny thing is that it gets modded up. Moderators here don't have an agenda or anything do they? You just have to mention Haliburton. It's like a disease. Haliburton, Haliburton, Haliburton, Haliburton, Haliburton, Haliburton. Jesus H. Christ on a bicycle. It's time to put away your Democratic talking points, turn off Air America (which has been a resounding failure, already taken off the air in two markets) and come to the realization that nobody really gives a flying fuck about Haliburton.
You can bring it up as much as you want, scream it over and over again. Nobody gives a shit and I'm tired of hearing about it.
Everybody knows Bush is an incompetent fuckwit. His actions, not his running mate's former business associates, have proven this. I'm so sick of hearing big oil this, big business that, special interst this. Who the hell do you think the Democrat's are beholden to, huh? Try trial lawyers, environmentalists, Jesse Jackson. This country was bought and paid for along time ago. Haliburton, or any other company for that matter, has little to do with it. It's the fucking system itself that's the problem. Don't blame businesses, who put our fucking food on the table, for the problem. The problem is lazy assholes who would rather bitch and moan about how shitty things are then get of their fat, lazy, Walmart frequenting asses then vote.
How many computers do you have? You can authorize the files to be played on up to three computers, and if you have more than that, just set up a iTunes server. I have one box that has iTunes which I buy the music from. Then I just leave iTunes running all the time and I can then access the music from any computer in my house.
(you can also just burn the song to CD and rip it back as mp3...)
While what you say is true, there are those that are concerned that one day something may happen to the iTMS and they might not be able to access the music they've purchased.
Now, as you pointed out, you can simply burn the files to a CD and then re-rip them as MP3's, AAC's or whatever format you like. However, the act of burning and re-ripping is circumventing the DRM, which is a violation of Apple's license agreement and possibly the DCMA. Since a user would be in violation of Apple's license if they burn and re-rip or if they use PlayFair to strip the original of the DRM, why would you not just make your life easier and use PlayFair? It eliminates some steps and ensures that the quality of the audio won't be degraded. In either circumstance, PlayFair or burning and re-ripping, you're circumventing DRM. Since that's the case, it's better to do it the easy way.
Republican, Democrat, Independent or alien... you've got to check out this movie. It's posted in Windows Media, Quicktime and RealVideo. It's one heck of a funny editing job.
I'm happy when a software actually takes the time to release a secure product instead of shoving it out the door a year early to make the public beta testers just so they don't tick of the licensee's they've fooled into believing that they'll produce quality worthwhile upgrades every two years.
Well then... fuck Alabama, fuck California, fuck Connecticut, fuck Idaho, fuck Indiana, fuck Kentucky, fuck Louisiana, fuck Maine, fuck Massachusetts, fuck Michigan, fuck New Jersey, fuck New York, fuck North Carolina, fuck Ohio (and while I'm at it fuck the Buckeyes), fuck Rhode Island, fuck South Carolina, fuck Utah, fuck Vermont, fuck Virginia, fuck Wisconsin, and last but not least, fuck these bloodsucking politicians who think that they are entitled to take a piece of every god damned penny I earn, every god damned penny I save, and every god damned penny I spend but have no problem if large corporations don't pay a damn thing.
Microsoft's core market consists of people who cannot install patches, who don't know the different between spams and real emails, and who have a finite capacity for being hit by malware before they will abandon the Internet or find alternative platforms.
Exactly. Remember the old adage, "wait for Service Pack 1", when it comes to deploying Microsoft products. Given their horrible track record as of late it has now become "wait for Service Pack 2".
I recently had to do a fresh installation of Windows XP from a CD. This version of XP included Service Pack 1. I was absolutely stunned at the amount of time I had to spend patching the thing. There were literally 20+ patches, security roll-ups and service packs to applications (Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, etc.) that had to be downloaded from Windows Update. If I wouldn't have had a broadband connection I would have been online forever downloading it all.
That is just simply unacceptable. I won't be recommending that anyone who is stuck using Microsoft products upgrade to a new release until Service Pack 2 from this point forward. Microsoft needs to just chill out on the operating system releases and get everything patched and tightened down in the current OS. Once they've gotten their bases covered, then use that secure code base as the basis for the next operating system. The problem is that as soon as Microsoft releases an OS they are already working on the next one. Security holes propagate from one OS to the next generation OS which can cause even more unforeseen problems in features being worked on in the next generation OS.
Microsoft really needs to cease all work on Longhorn, tighten down XP, merge the security fixes back into the Longhorn code base, and then work from there. The problem is their stupid new licensesing scheme. Forcing users to buy into "Software Assurance" in order to get future upgrade at a discounted rate has really forced Microsoft's hand. If thy were to stop and shore up their current code base before releasing their next OS (thus delaying it further), all of the customers who have bought into their new licensing scheme are going to be very unhappy. If they continue their current way of doing things, they are going to continue alienating their customers with security problem after security problem. They are really damned if they do and damned if they don't hear, but it is their own fault They got themselves into this mess with sloppy software engineering practices and a stupid licensing scheme that forces their them into delivering upgrades within a certain timetable.
I love iTunes and the iTMS but if prices are raised on singles to anything more than 99 cents or if I'm forced to buy bundles then I'll be going back to Kazaa Lite.
As the sidebar in the article says "If fans of iPod-like devices can be convinced to drop the idea of owning song files, they could shift to paying a subscription fee for ongoing access..."
iPod owners don't rent their music. Once you purchase a song from the iTMS you own that track and can listen to it forever on up to three PC's and an unlimited number of iPods. If Microsoft is looking to the success of iTunes and the iTMS as justification for their DRM rental scheme they are going to be sorely dissapointed with the ultimate results. Most users want to own their music, not rent it. iTunes and the iTMS is ownership with restictions which is a very different model then rental.
That law makes alot of sense, as the bushes are profiting from the United States being turned into a prison-state.
What you said makes absolutely no sense. George W. Bush and his family don't profit if someone goes to jail. 99.9999% of companies out there don't make a dime if someone is in prison. In fact, it actually hurts them as that is one less potential customer. The only companies that benefit from an increased prison population are companies that provide products or services to the prisons themselves. That would be a very, very small percentages of the businesses in this country.
Does it not bother you Americans to see these modern reincarnations of hitler/goebbels/himmler wiping their collective asses with your constitution? It scares the hell outta me!
Right, because George W. Bush, just like Hitler, has personally ordered the extermination of 6 million people. You whack jobs really crack me up.
You want to know what scares me? It's the fact that people as ignorant as you can, and probably do, vote. That's what is scary.
The timing of the international legal attacks is especially interesting in light of the recent study that indicates file-sharing has a negligible impact on music sales
Oh please! The study was just released a few days ago. I'm no fan of any of these organizations or their tactics but come on. These lawsuite take a little time to prepare you know. It's not like they saw the study and decided, ok, now we'll sue some people. This has all been in the works for some time.
That solution has worked since the early days of Windows 95 and NT... its kindof sad that they still didn't manage to provide somethign better while also aiming at the non technical user.
Very sad indeed, but it is important to remember that it's Microsoft were talking about here. It's funny because I'm sure the Microsoft big wigs sit back and wonder why it is that they aren't having more luck penetrating the market for business critical servers while Linux market share in that department is growing consistantly. Doh, you can't even make a secure workstation that is easily upgradable, no one in their right mind is going to trust your software on a business critical server that needs to be secure, reliable and highly available.
While mostly true, I have seen some weird things happen after an upgrade to XP. That's why I always suggest doing a clean install of XP if weird things start happening after an upgrade. A clean install of XP usually takes care of everything.
Oh, that'll show them. I can just see China's head of information management saying to himself "I never thought it would come to this! Black weblogs! Damn those clever bastards!"
Webloggers have always had a hugely inflated sense of self-importance, but this is just ridiculous.
Yeah, Webloggers and the U.N. both. I'm sure China is quaking in it's pants. "Oh no, a U. N. declaration, we better reverse our policies or we'll be in real trouble". The U.N. is a joke.
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Yeah, that and the congressional record. The qutoes from the parent's link come right out of the congressional record. Look it up. Don't be a sock puppet for any ideology, left or right. Get the facts then make up your mind. What they found certainly wasn't ready made WMD as Bush and co. advertisided, but there is no doubt that Saddam was hiding enough to be able to reconstitute his WMD program when he felt the time was right. Was that enough to go to war over? Probably not. Is it important to know about anyway? Yes.
Now I can fit twice as much High Def porn on my hard drive!
You can continue using iTunes just as you have in the past if you don't upgrade to v4.5. v4.5 comes with new terms. If you want the 10 playlist burn count and 3 computer limit stick to 4.2, if you're ok with 7 playlist burns and 5 computers then move to 4.5.
If Apple makes some crappy license change in the future that I don't like then I'm burning all my purchased music to CD and re-ripping to AAC and then I can do whatever I please.
I bet it'll be less than a month!
Hell yes it's a good thing! If you're at all serious about Linux adoption then it's a very, very, very good thing. There are all kinds of applications that will never be written by the open source community because they are needed by to small a group of users. Case in point, I work for a company that sells construction job cost accounting software, estimating software, project management software, service management software, etc. Basically all kinds of software packages tailored specifically to various areas of the construction industry. If proprietary software never really catches on in the Linux world then all of our customers are going to be stuck using Windows forever.
I don't expect that the open source community will ever produce software that can do the kinds of things that these types of Windows based packages can do. It simply won't happen because the software is so specialized. Think of how many other businesses are in the same boat. There are plenty of Windows applications out there tailor made to do the kinds of things that millions of businesses need done. Linux will never, ever catch on on the desktop if applications like these aren't ported, or similar properietary applications aren't created.
Bascially, with a no propietary, open source only strategy Linux will remain a power in the back office but only a toy for geeks on the desktop. If that's the case then guess who remains on top? Microsoft. Remember where Microsoft's real power comes from. It's their stranglehold on the desktop. I for one would like to shee that stranglehold broken. It's better for everyone. If Linux remains open source only, non-proprietary kiss any kind of wide ranging adoption on the desktop good bye.
It costs $50 bucks plus shipping to buy a replacement battery from a third party and it takes less than 5 minutes to install it yourself. If you don't want to deal with all of that you can fork out $100 to buy the battery from Apple and they will do the installation for you.
If you're really that concerned about the money, why in the world did you buy an iPod in the first place? Get a portable MP3 CD player that can read CD-RW's and takes regular AA batteries. Need more capacity? Easy, burn a few more CD-RW's and get a carrying case. Problem solved.
Rosie O'Donnell is going to fave a field day with this one!
What was that again? Have a look at this article and then talk to me about not following up. Air America is dead. Cry me a river.
Yeah, this will really stop spammers! It's not like they can just move out of the USA and spam to their hearts content or anything like that ... er ... wait.
Ah, typical liberal crap. The funny thing is that it gets modded up. Moderators here don't have an agenda or anything do they? You just have to mention Haliburton. It's like a disease. Haliburton, Haliburton, Haliburton, Haliburton, Haliburton, Haliburton. Jesus H. Christ on a bicycle. It's time to put away your Democratic talking points, turn off Air America (which has been a resounding failure, already taken off the air in two markets) and come to the realization that nobody really gives a flying fuck about Haliburton.
You can bring it up as much as you want, scream it over and over again. Nobody gives a shit and I'm tired of hearing about it.
Everybody knows Bush is an incompetent fuckwit. His actions, not his running mate's former business associates, have proven this. I'm so sick of hearing big oil this, big business that, special interst this. Who the hell do you think the Democrat's are beholden to, huh? Try trial lawyers, environmentalists, Jesse Jackson. This country was bought and paid for along time ago. Haliburton, or any other company for that matter, has little to do with it. It's the fucking system itself that's the problem. Don't blame businesses, who put our fucking food on the table, for the problem. The problem is lazy assholes who would rather bitch and moan about how shitty things are then get of their fat, lazy, Walmart frequenting asses then vote.
Now, as you pointed out, you can simply burn the files to a CD and then re-rip them as MP3's, AAC's or whatever format you like. However, the act of burning and re-ripping is circumventing the DRM, which is a violation of Apple's license agreement and possibly the DCMA. Since a user would be in violation of Apple's license if they burn and re-rip or if they use PlayFair to strip the original of the DRM, why would you not just make your life easier and use PlayFair? It eliminates some steps and ensures that the quality of the audio won't be degraded. In either circumstance, PlayFair or burning and re-ripping, you're circumventing DRM. Since that's the case, it's better to do it the easy way.
Republican, Democrat, Independent or alien ... you've got to check out this movie. It's posted in Windows Media, Quicktime and RealVideo. It's one heck of a funny editing job.
Of the $500 dollars I spent at the Bunny Ranch last time I was in Vegas?
I'm happy when a software actually takes the time to release a secure product instead of shoving it out the door a year early to make the public beta testers just so they don't tick of the licensee's they've fooled into believing that they'll produce quality worthwhile upgrades every two years.
Well then ... fuck Alabama, fuck California, fuck Connecticut, fuck Idaho, fuck Indiana, fuck Kentucky, fuck Louisiana, fuck Maine, fuck Massachusetts, fuck Michigan, fuck New Jersey, fuck New York, fuck North Carolina, fuck Ohio (and while I'm at it fuck the Buckeyes), fuck Rhode Island, fuck South Carolina, fuck Utah, fuck Vermont, fuck Virginia, fuck Wisconsin, and last but not least, fuck these bloodsucking politicians who think that they are entitled to take a piece of every god damned penny I earn, every god damned penny I save, and every god damned penny I spend but have no problem if large corporations don't pay a damn thing.
Oh, and you can quote me on that.
Exactly. Remember the old adage, "wait for Service Pack 1", when it comes to deploying Microsoft products. Given their horrible track record as of late it has now become "wait for Service Pack 2".
I recently had to do a fresh installation of Windows XP from a CD. This version of XP included Service Pack 1. I was absolutely stunned at the amount of time I had to spend patching the thing. There were literally 20+ patches, security roll-ups and service packs to applications (Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, etc.) that had to be downloaded from Windows Update. If I wouldn't have had a broadband connection I would have been online forever downloading it all.
That is just simply unacceptable. I won't be recommending that anyone who is stuck using Microsoft products upgrade to a new release until Service Pack 2 from this point forward. Microsoft needs to just chill out on the operating system releases and get everything patched and tightened down in the current OS. Once they've gotten their bases covered, then use that secure code base as the basis for the next operating system. The problem is that as soon as Microsoft releases an OS they are already working on the next one. Security holes propagate from one OS to the next generation OS which can cause even more unforeseen problems in features being worked on in the next generation OS.
Microsoft really needs to cease all work on Longhorn, tighten down XP, merge the security fixes back into the Longhorn code base, and then work from there. The problem is their stupid new licensesing scheme. Forcing users to buy into "Software Assurance" in order to get future upgrade at a discounted rate has really forced Microsoft's hand. If thy were to stop and shore up their current code base before releasing their next OS (thus delaying it further), all of the customers who have bought into their new licensing scheme are going to be very unhappy. If they continue their current way of doing things, they are going to continue alienating their customers with security problem after security problem. They are really damned if they do and damned if they don't hear, but it is their own fault They got themselves into this mess with sloppy software engineering practices and a stupid licensing scheme that forces their them into delivering upgrades within a certain timetable.
Linux is looking better and better by the minute.
I love iTunes and the iTMS but if prices are raised on singles to anything more than 99 cents or if I'm forced to buy bundles then I'll be going back to Kazaa Lite.
The O'Franken Factor is a joke. It'll be off the air in less than a year. Mark my words.
iPod owners don't rent their music. Once you purchase a song from the iTMS you own that track and can listen to it forever on up to three PC's and an unlimited number of iPods. If Microsoft is looking to the success of iTunes and the iTMS as justification for their DRM rental scheme they are going to be sorely dissapointed with the ultimate results. Most users want to own their music, not rent it. iTunes and the iTMS is ownership with restictions which is a very different model then rental.
What you said makes absolutely no sense. George W. Bush and his family don't profit if someone goes to jail. 99.9999% of companies out there don't make a dime if someone is in prison. In fact, it actually hurts them as that is one less potential customer. The only companies that benefit from an increased prison population are companies that provide products or services to the prisons themselves. That would be a very, very small percentages of the businesses in this country.
Right, because George W. Bush, just like Hitler, has personally ordered the extermination of 6 million people. You whack jobs really crack me up.
You want to know what scares me? It's the fact that people as ignorant as you can, and probably do, vote. That's what is scary.
Very sad indeed, but it is important to remember that it's Microsoft were talking about here. It's funny because I'm sure the Microsoft big wigs sit back and wonder why it is that they aren't having more luck penetrating the market for business critical servers while Linux market share in that department is growing consistantly. Doh, you can't even make a secure workstation that is easily upgradable, no one in their right mind is going to trust your software on a business critical server that needs to be secure, reliable and highly available.
While mostly true, I have seen some weird things happen after an upgrade to XP. That's why I always suggest doing a clean install of XP if weird things start happening after an upgrade. A clean install of XP usually takes care of everything.
Yeah, Webloggers and the U.N. both. I'm sure China is quaking in it's pants. "Oh no, a U. N. declaration, we better reverse our policies or we'll be in real trouble". The U.N. is a joke.