It's only been a few years and people are already quoting incorrect information about this...
You think Amazon just decided unilaterally to sell non-DRM'ed music? You think Apple wanted DRM'ed music?
1. Apple asked the record companies to remove DRM. The companies refused.
2. The record companies were getting more and more afraid of Apple's hold on the market. That's why they gave Amazon the authorization to sell non-DRM'ed MP3 files (not to mention compatibility problems with the huge installed base of portable players if they had insisted on such a thing for MP3). The record companies wanted to break Apple's hold on the music download market by allowing Amazon to sell "better files".
3. After seeing that, Apple demanded to remove DRM from the music files too, but also asked to sell higher bitrates in the process, that's why it's now 256kbits AAC instead of 128kbps AAC.
4. All the iPods suddenly had half the storage space, tune-count wise. The iTunes files went back to being the superior files (MP3@128kbps vs AAC@256kbps). More profits for Apple for still having the best music files to sell and selling bigger iPods to customers.
In addition, they count all 'data streams' received as being consumed, despite the chances of occurring at the same time. It's like saying that a hydroelectric car consumes all water that passes it - whether it passes through the turbines or over the causeway.
Screw complicated BCD functions and opcodes... I just do a look-up table. Even with a microcontroller that only has 4KiB you can spare 100 bytes for a look-up table that you can write in seconds instead of wasting 40 bytes and hours of coding and testing and debugging. And don't tell me it's easy to do because not all microcontrollers have enough registers and opcodes to make BCD an easy task.
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AAC is better than MP3, but thanks for the correction about the bitrate. And at least iTunes isn't limited to four countries.
It's only been a few years and people are already quoting incorrect information about this...
You think Amazon just decided unilaterally to sell non-DRM'ed music? You think Apple wanted DRM'ed music?
1. Apple asked the record companies to remove DRM. The companies refused.
2. The record companies were getting more and more afraid of Apple's hold on the market. That's why they gave Amazon the authorization to sell non-DRM'ed MP3 files (not to mention compatibility problems with the huge installed base of portable players if they had insisted on such a thing for MP3). The record companies wanted to break Apple's hold on the music download market by allowing Amazon to sell "better files".
3. After seeing that, Apple demanded to remove DRM from the music files too, but also asked to sell higher bitrates in the process, that's why it's now 256kbits AAC instead of 128kbps AAC.
4. All the iPods suddenly had half the storage space, tune-count wise. The iTunes files went back to being the superior files (MP3@128kbps vs AAC@256kbps). More profits for Apple for still having the best music files to sell and selling bigger iPods to customers.
Maybe I'm missing something but you really don't need Adobe to output Ogg Theora and H.264 video files.
Sure, here you go buddy.
Wait until they start offering SMS in HD.
Everybody knows there's a shortage.
What do you mean "*2"? Shouldn't that be "*3"? Or do you think video was limited to 65536 colors?
Oh yeah, because Adobe Flash sure plays nice on Mac OS X. /sarcasm
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Screw complicated BCD functions and opcodes... I just do a look-up table. Even with a microcontroller that only has 4KiB you can spare 100 bytes for a look-up table that you can write in seconds instead of wasting 40 bytes and hours of coding and testing and debugging. And don't tell me it's easy to do because not all microcontrollers have enough registers and opcodes to make BCD an easy task.
Even easier would be to base all the system on cents. After that it's extremely easy to convert that cents value into a dollar/cents string.
Maybe he submitted 10 000 apps.
He's a taxman.
You just broke the first rule: "The LEGO brand name should always be written in capital letters".
But if his car is electric then he's going to need two cables instead of one.
That's ok, the Flargnorgs don't really care for Shakespeare anyway.
Maybe Gopal.V is colorblind, you insensitive clod!
Dude, now is not the time to buy clothes!
Aren't you afraid of having DRM on your car?
What do you mean? RIAA of real-world numbers?
But everyone who has LEGO bricks potentially has a model gun. Obligatory xkcd.
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