The ACLU has an agenda alright, just that it has nothing to do with the constitution. It has everything to do with what their political objectives are. And right now, they are everything anit-Bush administration.
Like I wrote, the ACLU protects American civil liberties. So what does your last point mean?
I hate to say this, but you might have the highest "weasel" factor of any/. id. Sorry, but while your post make a lot of sense, your id reduces it down to -1 Posted by a Weasel.
Um, the ACLU does have an agenda, the protection of individual rights and liberties granted to Americans by the Constitution. These are not conservative nor liberal protection or a political agenda. They are just Constitution rights.
The ACLU does not care if you are gay, black, white, poor, rich, or a member of the KKK (remember Skokie, IL?). All Americans are equally protected by the Constitution
Sony's Super AIT (SAIT) tapes are out; 500 GB uncompressed, 1.3 TB compressed. So far, it seems that there are being used in pretty big backup systems. Trying to find a vendor to sell only a single tape drive and some tapes can be relatively difficult (at least I couldn't find one).
Throughput is suppose to be about 30 MB/s (uncompressed).
The drives (and I suppose, the tapes) aren't cheap.
One thing that is not emphasized in all of this is the American music industry's "acceptance" of Apple's scheme for DRM. When iTMS opened up, it was Mac only with a major reason being Apple's small base of users. This was a test case and it was pointed out that this was not necessarily a permanent agreement between Apple and the biggies in the music industry.
With iTMS and iTunes for the much bigger base of Windows users (albeit without Win9X), it would seem to me that this experiment is working. The music industry has given the green light to this type of music distribution and this type of DRM.
Microsoft does not like this. They can duplicate what Apple did but I would have to surmise that Apple has applied for patents. Microsoft could come up another more restrictive scheme (consumers won't like this) or a less restrictive scheme (music industry probably won't like this). Or they would have to devise (hah, innovate!) a scheme different than Apple, but one that satisfies both the consumer and music industry.
Nonetheless, Apple's model for music DRM sets a certain baseline for the legal distribution of music via the internet.
I don't have the windows version, so I don't know if this is available to you. Besides the Minimize/Maximize button that others have mentioned, there might be one more.
On the Mac version, I can shrink the iTunes app by hitting the green button (minimize/maximize). After it is minimized (small), I can click in the lower-right corner where is the option for resizing an application window. Voila, only the control buttons are displayed; the song info or equalizer window disappears.
Probably not related to your problem, but this is something that several people have experienced; big slow-down with iTunes acting as a resource hog.
One source of this "problem" can initially occur after importing a relative good size music library. If you have Sound Check turned on (Preference->Effects on a Mac), then iTunes scans your files checking the volume levels of the songs. I believe that this is a one time action per file. Things will be better when this task is finished.
The out of memory error is related to a firewall or some types of proxy servers. There has been a continuous stream of messages like yours on the Apple discussion web site.
Are you running Norton firewall? Is it set up to act as a proxy server?
The selection at the iTunes store has about double since its inception (as the other poster pointed out). You should have seen the comments about missing artists/bands back then (e.g., Beattles?).
Some of the problem is in the licencing agreements with the record companies and the individual artists. There are a few songs that I would buy but they're not available. The album that has the song only has a partial selection.
Time to buy your parents a new computer.:-)
I don't know about the Windows version, but check out the music videos (QuickTime) that are available for some artists (e.g. Cheryl Crow). The audio is not the best (tho not too bad).
The iTunes store indicates the top ten downloads for a particular artist/band, a list of the top downloaded albums for that artist, and a top ten "Listeners also bought" list. For a particular album, there is a short list of "Listeners who bought this also bought."
The home page of the iTunes store and for each genre has lists of New Releases, Exclusives, Pre-Releases, Just Added, and Staff Favorites. There are also a lists of today's top songs, and today's top albums.
Many people do not know that Edison was a key person with regard to the early implementation of the electric chair.
In this case Edison was a proponent of DC electrical power, while Westinghouse was pushing AC power. This was not with supposed to be related to the electric chair, but instead was related to how to set up a commercial electrical grid.
However, to demonstrate the dangers related to AC power, Edison tried to show that an AC powered electric chair was more lethal than a DC powered execution device. He was wrong. Needless to say, there were some "experiments" performed.
Thanks for your comments. I think that most people believe that a religion means that one recognizes (and likely worships) a god. This is obviously not the case.
I lived in Providence, RI where there is the first Baptist Church. IIRC, Rhode Island (and the Baptist Church) was established by Roger Williams to escape a the ruling religious majority in Massachusetts. Massachusetts was settled by people who came to America to escape the religous majority in England.
BTW, when I moved to Providence I was astounded by the presence of "Blue Laws" that placed restrictions on what commercial entities that could operate on Sunday. WTF? Something about the Sabbath to keep it holy. These laws were later rescinded.
I was raised as a Buddhist and a Protestant. Yeah, go figure, I'm kind of screwed up.
While Buddhism is a major religion in parts of Asia, it has a smaller presence in the US. However, it is not some cult religion that sprung up yesterday. It is an established religion.
There is no God in Buddhism.
Freedom of religion means, if someone is a Buddhist, that there is no God, and that the US Government should not impose the concept of a God on them. If the US Government wants to declare that Buddhism is not a religion, then this obviously causes another problem.
Personally, I pledge allegiance to the US and the Constitution that governs me. I believe that the writers of the Constitution, while being very religious, understood the dangers of a majority religion imposing its will on the government. The Puritans, Quakers, etc... came to America because of this.
What the writers of the Constitution likely did not know was that there was a religion that did not worship a God.
Right now, Bruce Perens seems to be the "biggest name" that posts comments here. I remember a few from Rob Pegoraro, who is a tech columnist for the Washington Post. Somebody from abcnews.com also use to post a few comments.
A long time ago,/. ran an interview of one of the lead developers for some OS project. Perusing the comments to the story, I ran across a "First Post!" that was modded up to +5 Funny. Huh? Oh, it was the interviewee! Absolutely hilarious.
FYI. Tom Christiansen (54829) used to post comments here. He stopped because of the crap associated with the story on the death of Richard Stevens. Search for Christiansen to read his parting words.
First IPC I saw was in 1991. A new faculty member got one. The rest of the people had pizza boxes (Sparc 1 and 1+, 2 soon to come). The IPC sort of look like what is now known as a Nintendo Game Cube (not really, but sort of).
I just retired an Indigo colored Indigo with a R3000 MIPS CPU. The sucker would not die. That also goes for a couple of R4000 Indigo colored Indigos.
Then again, we still have a Personal Iris (R2000) that is being used as a print server (parallel port). We have provisions to replace this print server, but for some odd reason nobody wants to pull the plug on this old (circa 1988) computer. I can't. It is odd, but I somehow find that pulling the plug would be cruel.
Then again, this use to be my desktop system over ten years ago. I wrote a lot of code on that ancient computer (X11? Motif?, nah, GL and NeWS).
I still have my father's old slide rules and I still know how to use them. If people do not understand some of the basic principles behind a slide rule then the don't know the linear nature of logrithmic functions. A*B is equivalent to Log(A)+Log(B) on a slide rule. The same holds for divisions.
I know that you know this.
The amazing thing is that my father's slide rules still work. They still slide smoothly and still look relatively new. He mostly used lower priced slides rules from Japan that were made from bamboo! The German (Dietzgen?) ones were more expensive. I have some triangular rules from the latter. These devices likely date back to the 60's.
He did make some mistakes and his approach could have been better. He did okay on some things and screwed up on others.
What I found disturbing was that didn't think about using the "Connect to Server" option (he accidentally found this). You have to think that this would be an obvious option to pursue.
The self styled 'chief hacking officer' of U.S.-based eEye Digital Security, which has been responsible for the discovery of a plethora of vulnerabilities in Microsoft products, says that Internet Explorer has been insecure for a long time.
How does this sequence go now? One, a couple, few, some, many, a whole lot, sh*tload, f*cking unbelievable amount,...then plethora? I think that's it.
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The ACLU helped to fight racial segregation. The ACLU also fought to allow the KKK to march in Skokie , IL. Go figure.
The ACLU position is that it protect individual rights not those of a well-regulated militia.
This can be debate ad nauseum, but as I wrote in my original post, individual rights.
The ACLU has an agenda alright, just that it has nothing to do with the constitution. It has everything to do with what their political objectives are. And right now, they are everything anit-Bush administration.
Like I wrote, the ACLU protects American civil liberties. So what does your last point mean?
I hate to say this, but you might have the highest "weasel" factor of any /. id. Sorry, but while your post make a lot of sense, your id reduces it down to -1 Posted by a Weasel.
Plus your user id number is too high.:-)
Um, the ACLU does have an agenda, the protection of individual rights and liberties granted to Americans by the Constitution. These are not conservative nor liberal protection or a political agenda. They are just Constitution rights.
The ACLU does not care if you are gay, black, white, poor, rich, or a member of the KKK (remember Skokie, IL?). All Americans are equally protected by the Constitution
Sony's Super AIT (SAIT) tapes are out; 500 GB uncompressed, 1.3 TB compressed. So far, it seems that there are being used in pretty big backup systems. Trying to find a vendor to sell only a single tape drive and some tapes can be relatively difficult (at least I couldn't find one).
Throughput is suppose to be about 30 MB/s (uncompressed).
The drives (and I suppose, the tapes) aren't cheap.
One thing that is not emphasized in all of this is the American music industry's "acceptance" of Apple's scheme for DRM. When iTMS opened up, it was Mac only with a major reason being Apple's small base of users. This was a test case and it was pointed out that this was not necessarily a permanent agreement between Apple and the biggies in the music industry.
With iTMS and iTunes for the much bigger base of Windows users (albeit without Win9X), it would seem to me that this experiment is working. The music industry has given the green light to this type of music distribution and this type of DRM.
Microsoft does not like this. They can duplicate what Apple did but I would have to surmise that Apple has applied for patents. Microsoft could come up another more restrictive scheme (consumers won't like this) or a less restrictive scheme (music industry probably won't like this). Or they would have to devise (hah, innovate!) a scheme different than Apple, but one that satisfies both the consumer and music industry.
Nonetheless, Apple's model for music DRM sets a certain baseline for the legal distribution of music via the internet.
I don't have the windows version, so I don't know if this is available to you. Besides the Minimize/Maximize button that others have mentioned, there might be one more.
On the Mac version, I can shrink the iTunes app by hitting the green button (minimize/maximize). After it is minimized (small), I can click in the lower-right corner where is the option for resizing an application window. Voila, only the control buttons are displayed; the song info or equalizer window disappears.
Probably not related to your problem, but this is something that several people have experienced; big slow-down with iTunes acting as a resource hog.
One source of this "problem" can initially occur after importing a relative good size music library. If you have Sound Check turned on (Preference->Effects on a Mac), then iTunes scans your files checking the volume levels of the songs. I believe that this is a one time action per file. Things will be better when this task is finished.
Actually you have to first burn a CD when converting the ACC's from the iTMS. Conversion to mp3's is not allowed for protected files.
QuickTime Pro also does not allow one to export a protected AAC file to another format.
This with iTunes4, MacOS X.2, and QT-Pro 6.X.
The out of memory error is related to a firewall or some types of proxy servers. There has been a continuous stream of messages like yours on the Apple discussion web site.
Are you running Norton firewall? Is it set up to act as a proxy server?
The selection at the iTunes store has about double since its inception (as the other poster pointed out). You should have seen the comments about missing artists/bands back then (e.g., Beattles?).
Some of the problem is in the licencing agreements with the record companies and the individual artists. There are a few songs that I would buy but they're not available. The album that has the song only has a partial selection.
Time to buy your parents a new computer.:-)
I don't know about the Windows version, but check out the music videos (QuickTime) that are available for some artists (e.g. Cheryl Crow). The audio is not the best (tho not too bad).
There seems to be a problem accessing the iTunes store if you are using the Norton firewall program. People are reporting getting the memory msg.
Check out the Apple Discussion web site for more details. Select iTunes, then iTunes for Windows.
The iTunes store indicates the top ten downloads for a particular artist/band, a list of the top downloaded albums for that artist, and a top ten "Listeners also bought" list. For a particular album, there is a short list of "Listeners who bought this also bought."
The home page of the iTunes store and for each genre has lists of New Releases, Exclusives, Pre-Releases, Just Added, and Staff Favorites. There are also a lists of today's top songs, and today's top albums.
What's happening up there in Red Sox Nation?
Many people do not know that Edison was a key person with regard to the early implementation of the electric chair.
In this case Edison was a proponent of DC electrical power, while Westinghouse was pushing AC power. This was not with supposed to be related to the electric chair, but instead was related to how to set up a commercial electrical grid.
However, to demonstrate the dangers related to AC power, Edison tried to show that an AC powered electric chair was more lethal than a DC powered execution device. He was wrong. Needless to say, there were some "experiments" performed.
Thanks for your comments. I think that most people believe that a religion means that one recognizes (and likely worships) a god. This is obviously not the case.
I lived in Providence, RI where there is the first Baptist Church. IIRC, Rhode Island (and the Baptist Church) was established by Roger Williams to escape a the ruling religious majority in Massachusetts. Massachusetts was settled by people who came to America to escape the religous majority in England.
BTW, when I moved to Providence I was astounded by the presence of "Blue Laws" that placed restrictions on what commercial entities that could operate on Sunday. WTF? Something about the Sabbath to keep it holy. These laws were later rescinded.
I was raised as a Buddhist and a Protestant. Yeah, go figure, I'm kind of screwed up.
While Buddhism is a major religion in parts of Asia, it has a smaller presence in the US. However, it is not some cult religion that sprung up yesterday. It is an established religion.
There is no God in Buddhism.
Freedom of religion means, if someone is a Buddhist, that there is no God, and that the US Government should not impose the concept of a God on them. If the US Government wants to declare that Buddhism is not a religion, then this obviously causes another problem.
Personally, I pledge allegiance to the US and the Constitution that governs me. I believe that the writers of the Constitution, while being very religious, understood the dangers of a majority religion imposing its will on the government. The Puritans, Quakers, etc... came to America because of this.
What the writers of the Constitution likely did not know was that there was a religion that did not worship a God.
Right now, Bruce Perens seems to be the "biggest name" that posts comments here. I remember a few from Rob Pegoraro, who is a tech columnist for the Washington Post. Somebody from abcnews.com also use to post a few comments.
/. ran an interview of one of the lead developers for some OS project. Perusing the comments to the story, I ran across a "First Post!" that was modded up to +5 Funny. Huh? Oh, it was the interviewee! Absolutely hilarious.
A long time ago,
FYI. Tom Christiansen (54829) used to post comments here. He stopped because of the crap associated with the story on the death of Richard Stevens. Search for Christiansen to read his parting words.
IIRC, then came karma.
First IPC I saw was in 1991. A new faculty member got one. The rest of the people had pizza boxes (Sparc 1 and 1+, 2 soon to come). The IPC sort of look like what is now known as a Nintendo Game Cube (not really, but sort of).
I just retired an Indigo colored Indigo with a R3000 MIPS CPU. The sucker would not die. That also goes for a couple of R4000 Indigo colored Indigos.
Then again, we still have a Personal Iris (R2000) that is being used as a print server (parallel port). We have provisions to replace this print server, but for some odd reason nobody wants to pull the plug on this old (circa 1988) computer. I can't. It is odd, but I somehow find that pulling the plug would be cruel.
Then again, this use to be my desktop system over ten years ago. I wrote a lot of code on that ancient computer (X11? Motif?, nah, GL and NeWS).
I still have my father's old slide rules and I still know how to use them. If people do not understand some of the basic principles behind a slide rule then the don't know the linear nature of logrithmic functions. A*B is equivalent to Log(A)+Log(B) on a slide rule. The same holds for divisions.
I know that you know this.
The amazing thing is that my father's slide rules still work. They still slide smoothly and still look relatively new. He mostly used lower priced slides rules from Japan that were made from bamboo! The German (Dietzgen?) ones were more expensive. I have some triangular rules from the latter. These devices likely date back to the 60's.
He did make some mistakes and his approach could have been better. He did okay on some things and screwed up on others.
What I found disturbing was that didn't think about using the "Connect to Server" option (he accidentally found this). You have to think that this would be an obvious option to pursue.
I believe that he said that he had to connect to an older version of Exchange Server (5.5) and needed the ability to do stuff like scheduling.
Straight from the horse's mouth is this bit of info.
Server-side requirements for Microsoft Entourage X
Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 with Service Pack 2 or later.
The self styled 'chief hacking officer' of U.S.-based eEye Digital Security, which has been responsible for the discovery of a plethora of vulnerabilities in Microsoft products, says that Internet Explorer has been insecure for a long time.
...then plethora? I think that's it.
How does this sequence go now?
One, a couple, few, some, many, a whole lot, sh*tload, f*cking unbelievable amount,