This is one of the standard/. argument why copying music/video/software is not theft. (I realize you are not making the argument here) I think it is wrong - even if you could magically replicate a Ferrari - the creator of the original has not been compensated for his work in creating it - and so suffers a loss. That to me is theft.
is buying a second hand ferrari theft? money changes hands but the creator got none of it. did they suffer a loss because you bought it second hand instead of buying a new from them?
And since I don't use it, I don't want to see it. It's just taking up space.
so turn it off. it's right there in the preferences (show genre when browsing) and has been since at least itunes4, possible earlier. you just seem to be digging for reasons to dislike itunes
Now, I'm sure that you've never wanted iTunes to group your compilation discs together properly, which is how many broadway musical and classical discs are tagged, but I find the whole thing an exercise in frustration.
I did, so I ticked the "part of a compilation" checkbox and to quoteth jobs, "boom", it was grouped properly.
i dunno, i think a touch screen interface is fine and dandy for a pda/phone style device, but if something is going to replace my aging 12" powerbook it's going to need a real keyboard and it's going to have to run real apps. the touchpod looks like a nice device, but a sub-notebook it is not
surely thats an underestimation? your average divx'd movie (1-1.5 hours) comes in at 700mb; with the lower resolution needed for the ipod plus h.264 I'd be surprised if you couldnt at least match that
BUT... by creating a huge demand for flash (or other suitable) memory, there's more motivation to produce higher capacity & lower prices thereon.
I was thinking about this recently and it occured to me that with all these flash ipods and the (hopefully) imminent flash based mac sub-notebook, apple is probably one of the (if not the) largest buyers of flash memory in the world. I look forward to affordable solid-state laptops with glee.
Also, what happens when Apple pushes out an update that disables this hack.
Since the iphone is only "supposed" to be on at&t's network, one would assume that updates are hosted by at&t themselves, on their network, to keep bandwidth costs down. the updates might even be restricted so only people on at&t have access to them, raising another issue of possibly no longer being able to update the phone leaving it vulnerable to holes patched by updates. this is just speculation of course, there isnt even a launch date for the things in Australia yet. I definitely have no first hand experience with the devices or at&t's network
devils advocate here, but if he downloads it via bittorrent while uploading to no one, and then when he's done burns a cdr and gives that to a coworker, isnt his real world sharing ratio 1:1? he's received 1 copy and given someone else 1 copy... is there some problem that he's not distributing it to random people he doesnt know?
speak for yourself. I live outside the USA and watch TV shows hours after they are broadcast in the states. this is the real world, the one you speak of has been artificially created by the corporations, for the corporations. If they don't want to play by our rules they can go fuck themselves. the customer is always right after all. If itms had no borders (ie. people outside the usa could actually purchase tv shows) it still wouldn't be enough. they are competing with free, higher res copies of the show. the very least I would consider paying for would be equal quality to what I can get for free. in that situation it would be a purely moral choice (I pay for the content or I don't, either way it's the same quantity), but in the current situation the paid for content, that isn't even available to me personally, is inferior to that which I get for nothing. why would any sane person pay more for less? welcome to the real world, dont let the door hit you on the way back to idealismland
see, that sounds like net neutrality. you pay for what you use. if the ISPs ran it the way they'd like to run the internet, you'd pay different amounts for the water used to flush your toilet, the water that came out of your shower and the water that came out of your garden hose, even though it's all the same product. and when there wasnt enough pressure to use all of them at once, your plumbing may slow to a trickle while someone else who pays for a premium water service would have their pressure flowing at full speed.
see that would never fly, but not because it's entirely different (it's not, i agree with you on that), but because the luddites in power understand that water is an essential service. they understand that they need water to have a shower in the morning, and they need water to flush their toilet. but the internet... in their minds nobody NEEDS the internet, after all isnt it all just porn and email? why is that important? (their thinking, not mine)
Throw the Australian telco, Telstra, in amongst the examples and the debate continues to swing towards privatization of public utilities being a terrible idea. now instead of having a government run monopoly of the telco infrastructure, you have a privately owned monopoly that owns all the infrastructure. and cries to the government any time competitors want access to the network built by our tax dollars. Telecommunications in Australia has severely stagnated since privatization. sure you can argue that they should have kept the infrastructure and privatized the retail side of the business, but sadly the folk in power here were/are short-sighted morons; and by the time it becomes obvious to the average Australian that they've been duped, the people who did it are retired on their fat superannuation payout.
I cant say it's true for all apple products, but the externally visible screws on my powerbook are all allen screws (the hexagon ones), which are very common. a whole set of allen keys would be expensive if it costs you $5, the things are common as mud. my xbox was held together with torx screws (the star ones), they're less common, but not hard to find the keys for them either.
playing devil advocate here, but suppose the gp owns music bought from itms, how does amarok help? putting mp3s on the ipod isnt the _only_ thing itunes does
something found it's way into the drive slot on my powerbook about a year ago and now any disc that goes in there comes out wrecked. hence I've been using the laptop as though it had no optical drive for 12 months, and like you, I havent missed it at all. I'd love to either have more battery cells in place of it for better battery life, or just have a thinner notebook.
if someone wants to believe that their weak encryption grants them security, the rest of the world is under no obligation to make their belief a reality. weak encryption is weak encryption. the sooner people stop using it the better.
If you're saying that "our product is the same as Coke", then you're admitting that Coke is the best, and everyone will continue to buy Coke. By creating copycat products, you validate the competitors product.
yeah, see how well that worked with people "pirating" movies/software in asia. "oh look, their product is the same as but 1/100th the cost, but the fact it's the same validates me paying 100x as much for the genuine article!"
I've always felt that the people around me have been far too longwinded. I've always wondered why people chose to use 100 words to say what could have been said more clearly in 15 words. sounds like I should have been born in finland
you have to admit, it's entirely plausible the guy has no vulnerability exploit and is just trying to get hits for his blog. "not enough hits this week, I'll post that I'm getting death threats... that oughta work!"
sure, maybe he does really have the exploit but his failure to disclose it to anyone makes him un-credible to many. there's no proof to lend weight to either argument right now
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i dunno, i think a touch screen interface is fine and dandy for a pda/phone style device, but if something is going to replace my aging 12" powerbook it's going to need a real keyboard and it's going to have to run real apps. the touchpod looks like a nice device, but a sub-notebook it is not
now that you mention it I think I have heard someone say that before, which pretty much invalidates most of my comment... oh well.
devils advocate here, but if he downloads it via bittorrent while uploading to no one, and then when he's done burns a cdr and gives that to a coworker, isnt his real world sharing ratio 1:1? he's received 1 copy and given someone else 1 copy... is there some problem that he's not distributing it to random people he doesnt know?
speak for yourself. I live outside the USA and watch TV shows hours after they are broadcast in the states. this is the real world, the one you speak of has been artificially created by the corporations, for the corporations. If they don't want to play by our rules they can go fuck themselves. the customer is always right after all. If itms had no borders (ie. people outside the usa could actually purchase tv shows) it still wouldn't be enough. they are competing with free, higher res copies of the show. the very least I would consider paying for would be equal quality to what I can get for free. in that situation it would be a purely moral choice (I pay for the content or I don't, either way it's the same quantity), but in the current situation the paid for content, that isn't even available to me personally, is inferior to that which I get for nothing. why would any sane person pay more for less? welcome to the real world, dont let the door hit you on the way back to idealismland
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see, that sounds like net neutrality. you pay for what you use. if the ISPs ran it the way they'd like to run the internet, you'd pay different amounts for the water used to flush your toilet, the water that came out of your shower and the water that came out of your garden hose, even though it's all the same product. and when there wasnt enough pressure to use all of them at once, your plumbing may slow to a trickle while someone else who pays for a premium water service would have their pressure flowing at full speed.
alright then, perhaps it is just the luddites in power here in australia that give me that impression
see that would never fly, but not because it's entirely different (it's not, i agree with you on that), but because the luddites in power understand that water is an essential service. they understand that they need water to have a shower in the morning, and they need water to flush their toilet. but the internet... in their minds nobody NEEDS the internet, after all isnt it all just porn and email? why is that important? (their thinking, not mine)
google you say? the same company that gives these scam sites the first 10x pages worth of results for most search queries? how very helpful
Throw the Australian telco, Telstra, in amongst the examples and the debate continues to swing towards privatization of public utilities being a terrible idea. now instead of having a government run monopoly of the telco infrastructure, you have a privately owned monopoly that owns all the infrastructure. and cries to the government any time competitors want access to the network built by our tax dollars. Telecommunications in Australia has severely stagnated since privatization. sure you can argue that they should have kept the infrastructure and privatized the retail side of the business, but sadly the folk in power here were/are short-sighted morons; and by the time it becomes obvious to the average Australian that they've been duped, the people who did it are retired on their fat superannuation payout.
playing devil advocate here, but suppose the gp owns music bought from itms, how does amarok help? putting mp3s on the ipod isnt the _only_ thing itunes does
something found it's way into the drive slot on my powerbook about a year ago and now any disc that goes in there comes out wrecked. hence I've been using the laptop as though it had no optical drive for 12 months, and like you, I havent missed it at all. I'd love to either have more battery cells in place of it for better battery life, or just have a thinner notebook.
if someone wants to believe that their weak encryption grants them security, the rest of the world is under no obligation to make their belief a reality. weak encryption is weak encryption. the sooner people stop using it the better.
I've always felt that the people around me have been far too longwinded. I've always wondered why people chose to use 100 words to say what could have been said more clearly in 15 words. sounds like I should have been born in finland
that's a fantastic argument! I'm going to start using that :P protecting the interests of my shareholders... love it!
you have to admit, it's entirely plausible the guy has no vulnerability exploit and is just trying to get hits for his blog. "not enough hits this week, I'll post that I'm getting death threats... that oughta work!"
sure, maybe he does really have the exploit but his failure to disclose it to anyone makes him un-credible to many. there's no proof to lend weight to either argument right now