but it simply is more than I need. When I download pictures off my camera, I use EXIF-Renamer to rename the photos based on the date and time they were taken. I use JView to view them and if I want to order hard copies, I use Ofoto via Safari. Should I need to manipulate the images, I have GraphicConverter.
The best thing about this is they there are no installers to run; they are "drag and drop" installed applications. But I can also understand why people like iPhoto.
Wouldn't Linux/BSD work well in this too? Add a shitload of RAM, install the OS and make all partitions read only except/var and/tmp, which would be mounted on a ramdisk.
(I always thought that this kind of setup would make a nice system to read GnuPG messages with since the decrypted messages are never written to a harddisk and are deleted from the ramdisk when the system is shut off.)
I like Mail but it took a huge step backwards when it lost its ability to use standard Unix mailspools/mboxes. I also don't care for the way Mail stores its mail.
I personally think this is bullshit. Why the fuck should I need to install 300MB of crap just to configure Sendmail? M4 and the files to configure Sendmail should be included in the base install.
Most people who Zip now-a-days doesn't use new versions of PKzip. They either use an old shareware version, winzip, or the version built into Windows XP.
The founder of PKWare is dead. Maybe it's time for the company to die as well.
More importantly if you are taking your computer with you, it doesn't matter as other posts have pointed out here.
Unless, knock on wood, you end up having to reinstall your computer. Plus, you need to have internet access to reauthorize, unless there is some work around for this (As a Mac/iTunes user, I would love to hear it if there is)
I'm sure someone will write a code to allow a open source MP3 player or other such stuff work with AAC's.
I'm not so sure. If a open source developer tries to create a third party player that allows this, I wonder if Apple will go after them. (I'm talking about being able to play iTunes Music Store files, not the unprotected AAC files the end user creates.)
Company with about 4 billion in the bank... yeah they are going bye bye sometime soon.
I didn't say they were going anywhere nor do you know the future. My point is that buying music from Apple in this format makes us dependent upon Apple (and its continued support) in the future. What will happen should Apple decide at some point in the future that the iTunes Music Store is not profitable and close it. I think about this because I have CDs that I bought in 1986 that I still listen to and that makes me wonder if I will be able to listen to my iTunes tracks in 2020.
Now, don't get me wrong. I like the iTunes Music Store and I use it occasionally myself but I also know that the Music Store is no subsitute for owning a CD.
1.) You can't reauthorize songs you purchaed if you move out of the country.
2.) You can't listen to them on anything that can't run iTunes (Macs, and soon Windows).
3.) You are dependent on the continued existence of Apple to be able to authorize the playback of them.
Yes, I know that you can burn them to CDs but those CDs will not sound as good as the ones you buy in the stores, unless you have poor hearing. In my opinion, CDs are still the best option, although copy protection threatens those of us who like to listen to them on open source
I like using the Bayesian filter Bogofilter to filter out my spams. It works pretty well and I like the ideas behind it.
But there doesn't seem to be any testing on the effectiveness of one Bayesian filter in comparison to another (for example, Bogofilter's effectiveness comparted to POPFile's), or to Bayesian Chain Rule filters such as CRM114's Mailfilter or Dspam.
but I don't see these laws really doing much about Spam, especially since people can just spam from other states or countries. I think that we will need to change the way Internet email works before we see some real relief.
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but it simply is more than I need. When I download pictures off my camera, I use EXIF-Renamer to rename the photos based on the date and time they were taken. I use JView to view them and if I want to order hard copies, I use Ofoto via Safari. Should I need to manipulate the images, I have GraphicConverter.
The best thing about this is they there are no installers to run; they are "drag and drop" installed applications. But I can also understand why people like iPhoto.
IMHO, A and C are legal if you have some proof of purchasing the CD. B probably is not.
I think that this is one of the reasons that they are so afraid of digital copying: it eliminates the need to rebuy the same music in a new format.
"The most significant example is probably when a certain period of time -- the copyright term -- expires"
Dude, that never happens anymore. Copyrights will outlive us all.
I hadn't thought about it that way. Thanks.
but I don't how this adds anything that wasn't already said.
Yeah but if you are a normal consumer, Apple doesn't have to honor it, although you would be due a refund for Applecare.
Could you give more info on your system? (Parts, how you use it) Using CF to create a bootable ramdisk based system is interesting to me.
I'm thinking about getting an IDE to CF connector and doing something like this with a cheap laptop.
Wouldn't Linux/BSD work well in this too? Add a shitload of RAM, install the OS and make all partitions read only except /var and /tmp, which would be mounted on a ramdisk.
(I always thought that this kind of setup would make a nice system to read GnuPG messages with since the decrypted messages are never written to a harddisk and are deleted from the ramdisk when the system is shut off.)
I think that it could be useful for single-spindle systems like the IBM Thinkpad X31.
"some users might prefer to go with a more 'truer' Unix distro."
That's what the BSDs are for!
"No, it proves anyone who buys a Dummies book really is a complete idiot"
No, there is another line of books for Complete Idiots!
I like Mail but it took a huge step backwards when it lost its ability to use standard Unix mailspools/mboxes. I also don't care for the way Mail stores its mail.
I personally think this is bullshit. Why the fuck should I need to install 300MB of crap just to configure Sendmail? M4 and the files to configure Sendmail should be included in the base install.
Most people who Zip now-a-days doesn't use new versions of PKzip. They either use an old shareware version, winzip, or the version built into Windows XP.
The founder of PKWare is dead. Maybe it's time for the company to die as well.
Now, don't get me wrong. I like the iTunes Music Store and I use it occasionally myself but I also know that the Music Store is no subsitute for owning a CD.
1.) You can't reauthorize songs you purchaed if you move out of the country.
2.) You can't listen to them on anything that can't run iTunes (Macs, and soon Windows).
3.) You are dependent on the continued existence of Apple to be able to authorize the playback of them.
Yes, I know that you can burn them to CDs but those CDs will not sound as good as the ones you buy in the stores, unless you have poor hearing. In my opinion, CDs are still the best option, although copy protection threatens those of us who like to listen to them on open source
Yeah but if this guy purchased it legally in the US, the tunes should work regardless of where he resides in the future.
Or you could get your own domain name. That's why I did, as in 3 years I've gone from Media 1 to AT&T to Comcast.
I like using the Bayesian filter Bogofilter to filter out my spams. It works pretty well and I like the ideas behind it.
But there doesn't seem to be any testing on the effectiveness of one Bayesian filter in comparison to another (for example, Bogofilter's effectiveness comparted to POPFile's), or to Bayesian Chain Rule filters such as CRM114's Mailfilter or Dspam.
duh!
but I don't see these laws really doing much about Spam, especially since people can just spam from other states or countries. I think that we will need to change the way Internet email works before we see some real relief.