"Do you own a PS2? Nintendo DS? Or any console for that matter?
If so welcome to the world of not necessarily being able to use your software/hardware in a way you'd like."
I own a GBA and an XROM cart adapter.
I can use that software how I please. Meanwhile, I can buy a different adapter for the DS to do something similar. My PS2 is mod-chipped, and I generally only play my backup discs, as I don't want to damage the originals.
Look at that. A manufacturer tried to circumvent fair use and the public got around it. Sound familiar?
Re:If you replace enough files...
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"*You* might not think it hurts Apple, but the only people in the position to *decide* that it hurts Apple - i.e., Apple - have decided that it *does* hurt Apple."
I've arbitrarily decided that your post hurts me. Do I get to have a gaggle of fanboys bitch at you now?
I like arTs. and dcop. and KDE. They're designed with some sense of... well, sense.
Seriously, for applications written for KDE, KDE is fast (even on my PoS 500MHz Dell). The file dialogs actually work well (unlike GTK's), the virtualized filesystem is so nice that its something I'd like to be ported to bash's userspace (ie: ftp://, smb://, media://, etc ), Konqueror is crap compared to Firefox, but make the world think it's Safari and it works with anything Safari works with (not to mention, I like to use KMozilla rather than KHTML).
Yeah. It's cluttered. So either clean out your K Menu or start with a distro that has only the essentials (like Slax).
By the way, what's KWallet? I never installed anything like that.
The question you have to ask yourself is "What value does this add?"
See, the only difference between competitive behavior and anticompetitive behavior is that anticompetitive behavior isn't innovation; it's simply trying to squash the competition.
Further, you have to ask, what does Skype get out of all this?
Its nice to see that people can still judge an unfinished product as crap, rather than enjoy what's been accomplished by it. I'm pretty sure people have been doing that since 1984 (start of the GNU project).
Actually, they're both kinda piss-poor. iTunes is just sucks its ass more prettily than WMP does.
Meanwhile, the interface is (supposed to be) skinnable. At the first hint of Apple saying 'you can't do that', they'll stop being lazy about the interface build and design a new default skin; Legal Eagles Declawed.
"'And you can't get music from multiple stores and play it all from the same player (without cracking it).' How is this any different than Songbird? If I download DRM'd music from random-music-store iTunes won't play it and neither will Songbird. If I download non-DRM from allofmp3.com, iTunes will play it and so will Songbird."
Plugins, baby, plugins. How long after the first pluggable release of songbird do you think it will be before there's a SongBird plugin for translating each and every major music stores content transparently into _real_ music files?
That's like saying if your mp3 player doesn't play ogg vorbis, then you have an inferior player.
Or, heavens forbid, if your mp3 player is built by Apple, then you have an inferior player (or at least you do compared to my PocketPC. Sure, your flashy new iPod video can play music and movies like my PPC, but can it play ScummVM games or read html-and pdf-encoded books? Didn't think so.)
An mp3 player is a device. It doesn't need to do anything but play mp3s and have a place to store them. If we're talking a pocket media player, that's different; it should have support for as much as possible.
But me? I stick to the standards. LAME MP3 for audio (with MAD for decoding, if I can choose); FFMPEG mpeg4 for video, preferably using the same lib for decoding; and AVI as the wrapper (why AVI? 'cos TCPMP, KPlayer, Media Player Classic, and just about everything except iTunes / Quicktime can demux it more quickly than any other media container.)
Yes. I like my media burrito hot and open. yeeah, baby.
Seriously, though dude. That's what you get for leaving them in a DRM'ed state for more than ten minutes. Or for having an iPod.
Really, I don't think they're worth the trouble.
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Hold on, passionate as that sounded you don't state two things: What is 'push-side' and 'pull-side' economically? And your last two semiparagraphs are confusingly stated; reiteration of 'same system different day', followed by a event-driven statement with no preceeding event statement.
What I infer: A 'pull-side' economy is an ideal free market (market as a noun, not 'free-market' as an adjective), one with a very large number of unassociated players all competing for a pool of consumers. (Known in economics as a 'contestable market'.)
A 'push-side' economy is a market failure or near market failure where a small number of very large companies (oligopoly) cooperate in an effort to behave as a monopoly (thus creating a non-contestable market).
With new technology, the music market is migrating from a monopoly market failure to other market failures: information asymmetry market failure (Consumers are increasingly unaware of the problems with the products they buy, re Sony DRM Rootkit)
externality market failure (the business of music distribution is compromised by widely available distribution channels that are outside of the music industry's control; the business of music production is compromised by widely available music production tools that are outside of the music industry's control; the business of music marketing is increasingly becoming compromised by services such as MySpace Music, grass-roots advertising, etc)
public good market failure (a public good is defined as a good that is nonexcludable and nondepletable; p2p filesharing becomes an excellent example of this; my download of 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' doesn't preclude another person from downloading the same file - in fact, it helps - and you can make infinite copies of the same file without degredation)
moral hazard market failures (there are two examples here: one is, of course, the consumers, practicing the morally ambiguous action of downloading music they love; the other is the music industry trying to lock out fair use in an effort to prevent piracy)
Now for the nitty and the gritty: You can't have that many market failures in the same place without the market infrastructure (ie: the system built to exploit a market) collapsing. Essentially, the RIAA is presently on VERY shaky ground and trying desperately not to die.
Course, like a man in quicksand, if they stop thrashing and take a look at the situation, they might be able to save themselves. Or not.
I for one say goodbye to our corporate RIAA masters and greet our millions of new Independant Musician Overlords with open arms.
Wait, you can afford DSL, but you can't afford the five extra bucks a month for cable?
Meanwhile, just 'cos Verizon owns your lines doesn't mean you can't still go with EarthLink or something similar. You can't tell me Verizon's the only provider in your area.
Nah. Verizon will smarten up pretty quick when they see the customers with stakes in Google (ie: a gmail account, addiction to Google's simple search engine, personalized home, groups, etc) leave them in droves. And by then it'll be too late to attract them back.
Meanwhile, I theorize that Google will light up its dark fibre once each endpoint has been connected to a 802.11g WAP, and start the biggest ISP mankind has ever seen.
Atkins and South beach don't actually make you lose weight. They contribute to the ability of your body to burn through energy. It's the whole 'carbs give you a boost, but leave you more tired' thing. Atkins goes crazy and leaves you throwing keytones forever, while SB only makes you do that for a week to jump start you.
But d'you know what happens when you start getting high-potential ATP molecules (read: Human Fuel) in your bloodstream, yet remain sedentary?
They get restored to your cells as fat tissue, to be used again when they're actually needed.
In the end, it's ALWAYS the excercise that loses the weight for you. It's the diet that releases the energy, but it's still up to you to use it. That's why it's always 'Diet AND excercise'. Excercise does you no good if you don't have the energy to do it, and diet does you know good if you're not burning off calories.
I've been in love with one for the last two years. She's a practical artsy chick (ie: does it for a living, doesn't starve, and takes it about as seriously as I take programming). The impractical ones ARE a bitch to deal with, but I stay away from them.
Meanwhile, the 'pretty smart' means that she's got a little geek to her. For example, my girlie can write javascript and actionscript, and (used to) work for Tootsie Roll as a package designer (they kinda dumped their art department in december).
My point is: No, the ability to perform an HTTP request manually is not a requirement in a soulmate. So, when you're doing your selection of girls, do the gene pool a favor and find one with complementary skills to your own.
And don't try to impress her with your mizad hacking skizills. Try being a pleasant, receptive human first.
Meanwhile, god-DAMN, I hate it when people shove words in my mouth. Seriously. You, personally, do the gene pool a favor and remain celibate.
Meanwhile, has it occurred to anyone that studios (music and movie) are generally attempting to impose their original price points on a low-cost distribution medium?
What I mean is, what right do they have to try and charge DVD prices when, if we want to write these to DVD, we'd need to purchase our own media?
They're essentially asking us to pay for our peers' bandwidth. That's annoying. Not illegal mind you, just another transparent attempt to squeeze money out from where it's undeserved.
Rar.
I can understand paying maybe $2.50 a pop over the media cost for a CD and maybe $5 a pop over media for a DVD, but this $20 and $30 shit is rediculous. Media can't possibly cost that much. Now they're asking for ten bucks of my hard-earned just so I can watch what is, increasingly often, not worth the plastic it's printed on, let alone my money.
Nah. Do what I do. Rent the stuff from NetFlix and rip lq copies (320xN, medium bitrate) for convenient viewing purposes.
This is probably a violation of copyright, but since I don't share and it's not a criminal offense, I don't care. I have something that's Good Enough for my purposes (playing on long flights on my Dell Axim), and if I want to watch it proper or really like the movie, I'll get the DVD. If I hate the movie, I just delete the rip. In the meanwhile, I save cash on media (I get about 4-6 hours to the gig at my 'lq' settings, which are about equivalent to a VCR on it's middle quality setting).
Works like a charm, and using FFMPEG, any random DeCSS code, and some creative bash scripting (utilizing bc for the math), I have it doing it in a click.
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"Do you own a PS2? Nintendo DS? Or any console for that matter?
If so welcome to the world of not necessarily being able to use your software/hardware in a way you'd like."
I own a GBA and an XROM cart adapter.
I can use that software how I please. Meanwhile, I can buy a different adapter for the DS to do something similar. My PS2 is mod-chipped, and I generally only play my backup discs, as I don't want to damage the originals.
Look at that. A manufacturer tried to circumvent fair use and the public got around it. Sound familiar?
"*You* might not think it hurts Apple, but the only people in the position to *decide* that it hurts Apple - i.e., Apple - have decided that it *does* hurt Apple."
I've arbitrarily decided that your post hurts me. Do I get to have a gaggle of fanboys bitch at you now?
"I don't think there is any excusable way in any jurisdiction to run Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, since you *must* pirate Mac OS X to do so."
Really? I own a pretty intel mac and a very nice PC that I built myself.
You're saying I have to pirate my own OSX disc?
Wow, this is weird.
I like arTs. and dcop. and KDE. They're designed with some sense of... well, sense.
Seriously, for applications written for KDE, KDE is fast (even on my PoS 500MHz Dell). The file dialogs actually work well (unlike GTK's), the virtualized filesystem is so nice that its something I'd like to be ported to bash's userspace (ie: ftp://, smb://, media://, etc ), Konqueror is crap compared to Firefox, but make the world think it's Safari and it works with anything Safari works with (not to mention, I like to use KMozilla rather than KHTML).
Yeah. It's cluttered. So either clean out your K Menu or start with a distro that has only the essentials (like Slax).
By the way, what's KWallet? I never installed anything like that.
Feh. I'm just wondering how long it takes to fix the firmware in an AMD telecommunications chip to handle 10-node conference calls.
I mean, come on. Unless the software is burned into ROM, it's just software.
The question you have to ask yourself is "What value does this add?"
See, the only difference between competitive behavior and anticompetitive behavior is that anticompetitive behavior isn't innovation; it's simply trying to squash the competition.
Further, you have to ask, what does Skype get out of all this?
While what you say is possible, what is the possibility of using something like this as part of a nuclear waste recycling process?
The offtopic isn't fair; the referenced article isn't even really on topic.
Seriously; I can understand if the readers don't read TFA, but shouldn't the editors?
Its nice to see that people can still judge an unfinished product as crap, rather than enjoy what's been accomplished by it. I'm pretty sure people have been doing that since 1984 (start of the GNU project).
Actually, they're both kinda piss-poor. iTunes is just sucks its ass more prettily than WMP does.
Meanwhile, the interface is (supposed to be) skinnable. At the first hint of Apple saying 'you can't do that', they'll stop being lazy about the interface build and design a new default skin; Legal Eagles Declawed.
"'And you can't get music from multiple stores and play it all from the same player (without cracking it).'
How is this any different than Songbird? If I download DRM'd music from random-music-store iTunes won't play it and neither will Songbird. If I download non-DRM from allofmp3.com, iTunes will play it and so will Songbird."
Plugins, baby, plugins. How long after the first pluggable release of songbird do you think it will be before there's a SongBird plugin for translating each and every major music stores content transparently into _real_ music files?
That's like saying if your mp3 player doesn't play ogg vorbis, then you have an inferior player.
Or, heavens forbid, if your mp3 player is built by Apple, then you have an inferior player (or at least you do compared to my PocketPC. Sure, your flashy new iPod video can play music and movies like my PPC, but can it play ScummVM games or read html-and pdf-encoded books? Didn't think so.)
An mp3 player is a device. It doesn't need to do anything but play mp3s and have a place to store them. If we're talking a pocket media player, that's different; it should have support for as much as possible.
But me? I stick to the standards. LAME MP3 for audio (with MAD for decoding, if I can choose); FFMPEG mpeg4 for video, preferably using the same lib for decoding; and AVI as the wrapper (why AVI? 'cos TCPMP, KPlayer, Media Player Classic, and just about everything except iTunes / Quicktime can demux it more quickly than any other media container.)
Yes. I like my media burrito hot and open. yeeah, baby.
Seriously, though dude. That's what you get for leaving them in a DRM'ed state for more than ten minutes. Or for having an iPod.
Really, I don't think they're worth the trouble.
Hold on, passionate as that sounded you don't state two things:
What is 'push-side' and 'pull-side' economically?
And your last two semiparagraphs are confusingly stated; reiteration of 'same system different day', followed by a event-driven statement with no preceeding event statement.
What I infer:
A 'pull-side' economy is an ideal free market (market as a noun, not 'free-market' as an adjective), one with a very large number of unassociated players all competing for a pool of consumers. (Known in economics as a 'contestable market'.)
A 'push-side' economy is a market failure or near market failure where a small number of very large companies (oligopoly) cooperate in an effort to behave as a monopoly (thus creating a non-contestable market).
With new technology, the music market is migrating from a monopoly market failure to other market failures:
information asymmetry market failure (Consumers are increasingly unaware of the problems with the products they buy, re Sony DRM Rootkit)
externality market failure (the business of music distribution is compromised by widely available distribution channels that are outside of the music industry's control; the business of music production is compromised by widely available music production tools that are outside of the music industry's control; the business of music marketing is increasingly becoming compromised by services such as MySpace Music, grass-roots advertising, etc)
public good market failure (a public good is defined as a good that is nonexcludable and nondepletable; p2p filesharing becomes an excellent example of this; my download of 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' doesn't preclude another person from downloading the same file - in fact, it helps - and you can make infinite copies of the same file without degredation)
moral hazard market failures (there are two examples here: one is, of course, the consumers, practicing the morally ambiguous action of downloading music they love; the other is the music industry trying to lock out fair use in an effort to prevent piracy)
Now for the nitty and the gritty: You can't have that many market failures in the same place without the market infrastructure (ie: the system built to exploit a market) collapsing. Essentially, the RIAA is presently on VERY shaky ground and trying desperately not to die.
Course, like a man in quicksand, if they stop thrashing and take a look at the situation, they might be able to save themselves. Or not.
I for one say goodbye to our corporate RIAA masters and greet our millions of new Independant Musician Overlords with open arms.
viva la revolucion.
Wait, you can afford DSL, but you can't afford the five extra bucks a month for cable?
Meanwhile, just 'cos Verizon owns your lines doesn't mean you can't still go with EarthLink or something similar. You can't tell me Verizon's the only provider in your area.
Nah. Verizon will smarten up pretty quick when they see the customers with stakes in Google (ie: a gmail account, addiction to Google's simple search engine, personalized home, groups, etc) leave them in droves. And by then it'll be too late to attract them back.
Meanwhile, I theorize that Google will light up its dark fibre once each endpoint has been connected to a 802.11g WAP, and start the biggest ISP mankind has ever seen.
Who said the ISP market isn't contestable.
You know what? Gay people had a harder time in medieval times than the bashing they get on WoW. Tell 'em to stop their fucking whining.
Atkins and South beach don't actually make you lose weight. They contribute to the ability of your body to burn through energy. It's the whole 'carbs give you a boost, but leave you more tired' thing. Atkins goes crazy and leaves you throwing keytones forever, while SB only makes you do that for a week to jump start you.
But d'you know what happens when you start getting high-potential ATP molecules (read: Human Fuel) in your bloodstream, yet remain sedentary?
They get restored to your cells as fat tissue, to be used again when they're actually needed.
In the end, it's ALWAYS the excercise that loses the weight for you. It's the diet that releases the energy, but it's still up to you to use it. That's why it's always 'Diet AND excercise'. Excercise does you no good if you don't have the energy to do it, and diet does you know good if you're not burning off calories.
You have to understand, man. Most of us have never touched a boobie.
*snort*
"artsy chick = burning emotional trainwreck .... geek hotties, why must you be so rare? (and so damned unstable when i do find you?)"
Hm. Seems you just attract the slightly unscrewed.
Yes! A massive distributed Infantrymind!
Christina Applegate is a mensa genius.
That aside, I know the stereotype: brains x beauty = constant
I've been in love with one for the last two years. She's a practical artsy chick (ie: does it for a living, doesn't starve, and takes it about as seriously as I take programming). The impractical ones ARE a bitch to deal with, but I stay away from them.
?
Wow, YOU can read between the lines.
btw, who are Kernighan & Ritchie?
Meanwhile, the 'pretty smart' means that she's got a little geek to her. For example, my girlie can write javascript and actionscript, and (used to) work for Tootsie Roll as a package designer (they kinda dumped their art department in december).
My point is: No, the ability to perform an HTTP request manually is not a requirement in a soulmate. So, when you're doing your selection of girls, do the gene pool a favor and find one with complementary skills to your own.
And don't try to impress her with your mizad hacking skizills. Try being a pleasant, receptive human first.
Meanwhile, god-DAMN, I hate it when people shove words in my mouth. Seriously. You, personally, do the gene pool a favor and remain celibate.
I don't know.
Meanwhile, has it occurred to anyone that studios (music and movie) are generally attempting to impose their original price points on a low-cost distribution medium?
What I mean is, what right do they have to try and charge DVD prices when, if we want to write these to DVD, we'd need to purchase our own media?
They're essentially asking us to pay for our peers' bandwidth. That's annoying. Not illegal mind you, just another transparent attempt to squeeze money out from where it's undeserved.
Rar.
I can understand paying maybe $2.50 a pop over the media cost for a CD and maybe $5 a pop over media for a DVD, but this $20 and $30 shit is rediculous. Media can't possibly cost that much. Now they're asking for ten bucks of my hard-earned just so I can watch what is, increasingly often, not worth the plastic it's printed on, let alone my money.
Nah. Do what I do. Rent the stuff from NetFlix and rip lq copies (320xN, medium bitrate) for convenient viewing purposes.
This is probably a violation of copyright, but since I don't share and it's not a criminal offense, I don't care. I have something that's Good Enough for my purposes (playing on long flights on my Dell Axim), and if I want to watch it proper or really like the movie, I'll get the DVD. If I hate the movie, I just delete the rip. In the meanwhile, I save cash on media (I get about 4-6 hours to the gig at my 'lq' settings, which are about equivalent to a VCR on it's middle quality setting).
Setting: Width=320; Height=320*originalH/originalW; Framerate=OriginalFR; Bitrate=Width*Height*Framerate/5000; Video: mpeg4; Audio: mp3 abr/64k mono
Works like a charm, and using FFMPEG, any random DeCSS code, and some creative bash scripting (utilizing bc for the math), I have it doing it in a click.