Read again. The discussion is on iTune and Amazon. Give me a way of legally listening to Apple's DRMed music without buying the cool toy called ipod? Yes, I know itune has something like itune plus, but it came way later and sucks in its range and they expect you to pay premium on that.
Now tell me again - how would I listen to Apple's DRMed songs on an non-ipod player? I am waiting.
iTunes came out around the time I had bought an mp3 player. I was ready to jump into buying digital music (yes, I know vinyl is the best and mp3 is the last, forgive me) when I saw iTunes. But no - Apple just rejected me as a customer by their businessmindedness when they included DRM, and also tried to force me buying iPod.
For all these years, I have been buying CDs when I wanted the music, ripping it off to mp3 (and later ogg when I learned about it) and putting it to my jukebox (iRiver H320) - while waiting for an alternate to iTunes. Yes, I have tried eMusic, I have tried Magnatune with Amarok, and I have bought songs from them. Pretty decent services - coz I was getting off the high horse of mainstream music and was discovering wonderful world of underground/secondary music scene - no complaints there. But I never found some of the mainstream music (and some not-so) anywhere.
Amazone comes and fills the gap so nicely. If at all I want to buy a Pink Floyd again, nothing prevents me now. If at all I want to buy Asian Underground, nothing prevents me anymore. Same is true for (east) Indian classical music, for which I never had any option whatsover, and now I have at least 500 albums to choose from. And guess what, as long as I have a browser on my system, I have the music - no matter if its Ubuntu or Windows or anything else.
I thought they have made it pretty much clear that My 5 works only on select phones - the ones clearly marked to be enabled for My 5. Agree that the store guys fucked it up probably for you - but then they don't call them 'geniuses', do they?
Well, you know what - I have tested T-mobile Edge on a non-iPhone phone, and AT&T Edge on an iPhone - and I dont see any difference whatsoever. So stop bullshitting there.
And no - the none of those five have tired to go to T-mobile - just third party apps. (Check video on Gizmodo - I am too lazy to dig that out right now).
I get 4 bars of signal with AT&T, in my _basement_. Verizon, at my house, I was lucky to get a call that wouldn't drop in a few minutes.
Well, I get 4 bars of signal with T-mobile, in my _basement_. AT&T and others, at my house, I was lucky to get a call that wouldn't drop in a few minutes. Not only that, T-mobile has excellent customer service, which lets me UNLOCK my any phone within 5 minutes of first call to them. Dream on for that with your God-gifted AT&T. Also, try getting 19.99$ unlimited dataplan with your God-gifted AT&T.
I don't have dozens of third-party apps installed on my iPhone?
Not the five people _I know_ who have got the shiny brick to show off. Now who is wrong?
May be there were too many "fuck"s in GP's post, but sheer blind faith in a corporate hell-bent on sucking last penny out of its customer definitely is not _my_ criteria for selection of technology. Go and play with N95 for fuck sake and then talk about technology. Just having a touch-screen does not make something better than anything under the sun.
Now go back and create some more lame defenses for Apple and Steve Wonder Jobs.
Flamebait? How? It is rigt on target showing the hypocrisy on the part of the person who asked the original question. Never mind - I see/. is an american website.
Decoying. This, in a nutshell, is the serving of fake files that are generally empty or contain a trailer. The goal is to make legitimate content a needle in a haystack, so MediaDefender works hard to ensure that its copies of files show up in the top ten spots when certain keywords are searched for. Everything about the file is tailored to look like the work of pirates, from the file size (movies are often compressed enough to fit on a CD) to the naming conventions to the pirate scene tag. With massive bandwidth and plenty of servers, the company has little trouble in getting these decoy files to appear at the top of search results, but decoying has a down side: the bandwidth. Because MediaDefender actually serves these large but bogus files, it incurs a significant bandwidth bill by using this technique.
Spoofing. Spoofing sends searchers down dead ends. MediaDefender coders have written their own software that interacts with the various P2P protocols and sends bogus returns to search requests, usually directing people to nonexistent locations. Because most people only look at the top five search results, MediaDefender tries to frustrate their first attempts to download a file in hopes that they will just give up.
Interdiction. While the first two techniques try to prevent searchers from locating files, interdiction prevents distributors from serving them. The tool is generally used when media is leaked or newly released; the goal is to slow its spread in those crucial first days. MediaDefender servers attempt to create constant connections to the files in question, saturating the provider's upstream bandwidth and preventing anyone else from grabbing the data.
Swarming. Though he acknowledges the BitTorrent networks can be hard to disrupt, Lee points out that MediaDefender can use "swarming" to make life more difficult for users trying to download copyrighted content. BitTorrent works by using a hash file to reassemble a file from many pieces, each of which may have been downloaded from a different user. MediaDefender simply serves up its chunks of these files, but instead of providing the proper data, its chunks contain static or nothing at all. When the file is eventually reassembled by the user, it may contain clicks, silent spaces, or odd skips. This can make the viewing/listening experience less pleasurable, but it's most effective with software downloads since even small errors can prevent programs from running.
Re:what about a Ulead Photo Express 3.0 rip-off?
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MOD parent up! I have refused to use Photoshop for the same reason - I don't want to pay the price, and I don't want to pirate it either. I have been trying to use GIMP for over 2 yrs. But there is something in GIMP which prevents me opening it frequently. Off late, I have also tried the tutorial, but I am still not comfortable with it. It may be GUI, or something else - but for quick edits, I always end up using Picasa.
*time to lose some karma*
>>I'm surprised there isn't as much of an uproar about this on Slashdot.
I am not. When it comes to Apple, the fanatics will gang up on anybody complaining even a slight bit about Apple. They don't see the irony that Apple has become Microsoft of the DAP market. Force is very strong on them.
What amuses me is that after all above, there are thousands of fools in Verizon stores THIS moment, signing up "I hereby give Verizon all the rights to fuck me from various direction using all the various holes in my body while being tied to painful things with painful things, gagged with various organic and inorganic materials. I accept, that in return, Verizon will let me make some phone calls for which I will have to pay out of my sore ass."
But then, I should not be surprised by this. After all, its just genetics at work - coming from AT&T.
I am just thankful to T-mobile for just existing in this country. In case they go down, I will just stop using mobile phones.
this could provide a channel for showing (or not) that third party applications doesn't automatically mean disruption of the provider network.
If you can take a look around and see other PHONES with other SERVICE PROVIDERS, you may just find out that its already been shown, proven and people are using a lot of apps. Its just that the Apple + AT&T world is a little different.
Please note who said what: "But Apple's chief patent counsel said the US patent system was 'not broken' and 'not in crisis,' calling it 'the best in the world'."
Because T-mobil is more customer oriented then other AT&T family? Before anybody starts, I know, a business entity has to make money - but some companies out there do it without sucking their customers to death.
To Woz, about Steve and Woz and Apple:"You guys are Adam and Eve of nerds."
Its funny, interesting, insightful and can also be flamebait/troll at the same time.
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Sir, I may be too dense to Read The Fucking Title, but then you are not so bright as to Read The Fucking Parent To My Dense Reply To Which You Replied (RTFPTMDPTWYR).
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Wait, you are saying all these people stood in the queues for hours and paid 599$ to lease that phone? TO LEASE? Seriously??
I am sure Steve wont say that for a real lawsuit filed in New York on Sep 24th.
Read again. The discussion is on iTune and Amazon. Give me a way of legally listening to Apple's DRMed music without buying the cool toy called ipod? Yes, I know itune has something like itune plus, but it came way later and sucks in its range and they expect you to pay premium on that.
Now tell me again - how would I listen to Apple's DRMed songs on an non-ipod player? I am waiting.
Right on!
iTunes came out around the time I had bought an mp3 player. I was ready to jump into buying digital music (yes, I know vinyl is the best and mp3 is the last, forgive me) when I saw iTunes. But no - Apple just rejected me as a customer by their businessmindedness when they included DRM, and also tried to force me buying iPod.
For all these years, I have been buying CDs when I wanted the music, ripping it off to mp3 (and later ogg when I learned about it) and putting it to my jukebox (iRiver H320) - while waiting for an alternate to iTunes. Yes, I have tried eMusic, I have tried Magnatune with Amarok, and I have bought songs from them. Pretty decent services - coz I was getting off the high horse of mainstream music and was discovering wonderful world of underground/secondary music scene - no complaints there. But I never found some of the mainstream music (and some not-so) anywhere.
Amazone comes and fills the gap so nicely. If at all I want to buy a Pink Floyd again, nothing prevents me now. If at all I want to buy Asian Underground, nothing prevents me anymore. Same is true for (east) Indian classical music, for which I never had any option whatsover, and now I have at least 500 albums to choose from. And guess what, as long as I have a browser on my system, I have the music - no matter if its Ubuntu or Windows or anything else.
I thought they have made it pretty much clear that My 5 works only on select phones - the ones clearly marked to be enabled for My 5. Agree that the store guys fucked it up probably for you - but then they don't call them 'geniuses', do they?
Well, you know what - I have tested T-mobile Edge on a non-iPhone phone, and AT&T Edge on an iPhone - and I dont see any difference whatsoever. So stop bullshitting there.
And no - the none of those five have tired to go to T-mobile - just third party apps. (Check video on Gizmodo - I am too lazy to dig that out right now).
Well, I get 4 bars of signal with T-mobile, in my _basement_. AT&T and others, at my house, I was lucky to get a call that wouldn't drop in a few minutes. Not only that, T-mobile has excellent customer service, which lets me UNLOCK my any phone within 5 minutes of first call to them. Dream on for that with your God-gifted AT&T. Also, try getting 19.99$ unlimited dataplan with your God-gifted AT&T.
Not the five people _I know_ who have got the shiny brick to show off. Now who is wrong?
May be there were too many "fuck"s in GP's post, but sheer blind faith in a corporate hell-bent on sucking last penny out of its customer definitely is not _my_ criteria for selection of technology. Go and play with N95 for fuck sake and then talk about technology. Just having a touch-screen does not make something better than anything under the sun.
Now go back and create some more lame defenses for Apple and Steve Wonder Jobs.
Flamebait? How? It is rigt on target showing the hypocrisy on the part of the person who asked the original question. Never mind - I see /. is an american website.
The MacPlanet. You see, the force is strong there and hence the 450M km.
From ARSTechnica article in the "News" section of Mediadefender.com - http://www.mediadefender.com/news/20070318_ARSTechnica.pdf)
Four main methods
Decoying. This, in a nutshell, is the serving of fake files that are generally empty or contain a trailer. The goal is to make legitimate content a needle in a haystack, so MediaDefender works hard to ensure that its copies of files show up in the top ten spots when certain keywords are searched for. Everything about the file is tailored to look like the work of pirates, from the file size (movies are often compressed enough to fit on a CD) to the naming conventions to the pirate scene tag. With massive bandwidth and plenty of servers, the company has little trouble in getting these decoy files to appear at the top of search results, but decoying has a down side: the bandwidth. Because MediaDefender actually serves these large but bogus files, it incurs a significant bandwidth bill by using this technique.
Spoofing. Spoofing sends searchers down dead ends. MediaDefender coders have written their own software that interacts with the various P2P protocols and sends bogus returns to search requests, usually directing people to nonexistent locations. Because most people only look at the top five search results, MediaDefender tries to frustrate their first attempts to download a file in hopes that they will just give up.
Interdiction. While the first two techniques try to prevent searchers from locating files, interdiction prevents distributors from serving them. The tool is generally used when media is leaked or newly released; the goal is to slow its spread in those crucial first days. MediaDefender servers attempt to create constant connections to the files in question, saturating the provider's upstream bandwidth and preventing anyone else from grabbing the data.
Swarming. Though he acknowledges the BitTorrent networks can be hard to disrupt, Lee points out that MediaDefender can use "swarming" to make life more difficult for users trying to download copyrighted content. BitTorrent works by using a hash file to reassemble a file from many pieces, each of which may have been downloaded from a different user. MediaDefender simply serves up its chunks of these files, but instead of providing the proper data, its chunks contain static or nothing at all. When the file is eventually reassembled by the user, it may contain clicks, silent spaces, or odd skips. This can make the viewing/listening experience less pleasurable, but it's most effective with software downloads since even small errors can prevent programs from running.
MOD parent up! I have refused to use Photoshop for the same reason - I don't want to pay the price, and I don't want to pirate it either. I have been trying to use GIMP for over 2 yrs. But there is something in GIMP which prevents me opening it frequently. Off late, I have also tried the tutorial, but I am still not comfortable with it. It may be GUI, or something else - but for quick edits, I always end up using Picasa.
I am in the same boat as the GP, and no - Paint.NET does not cut it - its far from GIMP.
iriver H3xx have proved to be excellent devices. Unfortunately not available anymore. Combining both facts, good luck finding someone selling it.
*time to lose some karma* >>I'm surprised there isn't as much of an uproar about this on Slashdot.
I am not. When it comes to Apple, the fanatics will gang up on anybody complaining even a slight bit about Apple. They don't see the irony that Apple has become Microsoft of the DAP market. Force is very strong on them.
What amuses me is that after all above, there are thousands of fools in Verizon stores THIS moment, signing up "I hereby give Verizon all the rights to fuck me from various direction using all the various holes in my body while being tied to painful things with painful things, gagged with various organic and inorganic materials. I accept, that in return, Verizon will let me make some phone calls for which I will have to pay out of my sore ass."
But then, I should not be surprised by this. After all, its just genetics at work - coming from AT&T.
I am just thankful to T-mobile for just existing in this country. In case they go down, I will just stop using mobile phones.
Bullshit. Check Thinkpad again.
Because Apple thinks the US patent system is the best in the world?
Blasphemy! And now he is mad!
Lame excuse to save Apple's ass.
Please note who said what: "But Apple's chief patent counsel said the US patent system was 'not broken' and 'not in crisis,' calling it 'the best in the world'."
Because T-mobil is more customer oriented then other AT&T family? Before anybody starts, I know, a business entity has to make money - but some companies out there do it without sucking their customers to death.
To Woz, about Steve and Woz and Apple :"You guys are Adam and Eve of nerds."
Its funny, interesting, insightful and can also be flamebait/troll at the same time.
Sir, I may be too dense to Read The Fucking Title, but then you are not so bright as to Read The Fucking Parent To My Dense Reply To Which You Replied (RTFPTMDPTWYR).
Thought so. Now I am sure this is original, but not sure you would go with "Steve-Jobs'-wet-dream" either.
Yes. Activation = Bricking.
Its funny some of the hippies were pissed off when it took them 24 to 36 hrs in queue for, er, bricking their phone.