If someone in my country was doing something illegal in another country -- something that nearly every country in the world had a law against -- I would support extraditing them so they get a proper punishment. If some studio in Sweden produced music that Americans were stealing, the Americans should be held absolutely accountable and face Swedish justice.
To give a real world example, some years back an American was going to get caned in Singapore for a crime. I had absolutely no problem with that. If you break the law, you deserve the punishmen
You just made the argument yourself.
If the American breaks teh Singapore law in the US though he won't be caned. If a swede, living in the US, runs the tracker s/he is subject to the american law as well.
Someone who lives in a foreign country is not accountable to the law in another counry, only to local laws.
Besides, the "American music" that is being stolen isn't really american. There is a Swedish company in sweden that distributes the music, so it is a swedish, not an american problem.
This is why I as a Canadian are not allowed to go to the iTunes music store in Germany and buy an album there, territorial rights, even if the artist has no distribution in Canada, though I can of course order a CD from Amazon.de.
On the Windows side the ATI drivers are garbage as usual, Wi-Fi is a chore to set up, most of my USB devices required me to install software for them except for the external hard drives (I had to really DIG in Google to find a FUBAR way to get my digital camera to work with XP despite the fact the camera comes with XP drivers which for some reason don't want to work), and installing software can sometimes be a pain.
A couple of weeks ago I was moving and didn't had any Internet at home, so I ended up drinking way too much coffee and using free WiFi. The funniest thing was that on several occasions I had people in Windows PCs come up to me and ask me how I was able to connect to the Wireless network as they tried and couldn't make it work.
My answer? "I just logged in, it saw the access point and logged in, nothing I had to do really." The look on their faces was priceless.
Does it matter where the artists get paid? I can travel to Russia buy a CD there (or to Germany, UK etc. etc.) from the US and nobody (besides the *IAA) would tell me I broke the law by buying the media in another country.
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What's your gripe with AAC? Sure you can add DRM to it (as you can with MP3) but by default it is as open of a standard as MP3.
Never understood why people seem to love MP3 but have a problem with the newer version known as Advanced Audio Codec or AAC.
Redhat pretty much only gives support to corporate customers, while Suse Novell are a bit more mainstream, but Linux is not mainstream, so the people who call in are a bit more technical savy.
Mac OS X would see a lot more diverse customers, much less technical.
Yeah, Apple is supporting now. On THEIR Hardware where they know every little thing. They deliver the entire System end to End.
Did it ever occur to you that Microsoft is NOT supporting Windows? They let the OEM take care of that. Sure, they have Enterprise Support, but again, this is mostly done by third parties (e.g. Dell).
Apple does not have the same market penetration to make this feasable, they would not only need a larger Customer Support team but also a much larger Hardware Lab. That assumes they only bundle OS X with a specific Hardware, if they just put boxes into Best Buy all bets are off.
No, Apple would hurt badly if they did this. The onlyl reason this system works for Microsoft is because they somehow managed to get all of the support pieces rolled over toe the HW dealers.
the one thing that still irks me with Canadian banks though is that they have those abitrary cutoff times / dates.
Heck, most computer systems from large institutions run 24/7, why can't they process a payment on the weekend? There is no real reason WHY they have to hold it (they do take the money out of your account after all right that instant).
I think Price sells first and foremost, the rest is just added "convinience", that is if they see it.
Personally I mainly worked on notebooks for almost three years, but there are some advantages to desktop.
Apple with iMac has shown for the last 8 years that you can have a very pleasing Desktop PC that does not get in the way, and I know quite a few people who look at my PowerMac and tell me it's too big, but at the same time eye the iMac.
I agree though, looks are important, but I guess I left the Windows World (and thus beige boxes) behind 6 years ago and have lost a bit of touch since the.
Interestingly enough, people are still approaching me when they see me working on the Powerbook even though you see quite a few more out there these days.
I am not sure Desktops are dead. I have a PowerMac G5 at home as my main workstation and a Powerbook G4 with me right now in a coffee shop. They compliment each other nicely.
The PowerMac has a lot of data on it and I use it do the "heavy lifting" (e.g. video compression / editing) while the Powerbook is good to stay in contact "on the road" and doe photo editing etc.
Granted, I don't think I fall into the "normal" user space category, but many people really just use email and browse the web and they could care less if it is a notebook or a Desktop.
I guarantee you that even if they would "up the ante" by being more high end people would still not want to go out of the same reasons. Obnoxious neighbours, that's a cultural thing more so than anything you can do in theater design.
Movie theaters haven't really changed since the 1920s when they were first invented, so why is it all of the sudden the theater that's the problem? It's a society issue, nothing more, nothing less.
And where do you think those annoying people come from? Right, because people aren't around other people.
If I can just "walk away" I don't hone my social skills, the fact that people usually do NOT spend a lot of time with a lot of people in the same room, that there is no density is part of the problem.
Look at a country like Japan, people are crammed on top of each other, and thus they do know when they become obnoxious, because they experience it when the other one is doing it.
A movie theater can provide an excellent experience, but let's face it. Most North Americans living in the 'burbs don't WANT anybody nearby. Heck, other humans might be evil.
This is one of the problems with the theaters, we have become so insular that we fear our own neighbours, so why spend 2 hours with them in an enclosed space?
It doesn't matter HOW effective it is, the moment there is DRM or copy protection on it, the law tells you that you cannot make a copy. Simple as that, not even a bit by bit copy.
First of all, as mentioned, I like the UI, it is clean, easy to grasp.
Then there is clearly the form factor. A device that is light (maybe ePaper?) and "folds" like a book would be converting me.
Then lastly there really is that I find eBooks rather cumbersum. I read a lot online (Web pages, PDFs) but books tend to be nicer to read in a dead tree format.
Again that depends on how it is arranged. There is (unfortunatly) no easy formula I think. I have some classical music encoded in 128AAC and it sounds good enough (at least on consumer equipment), and I have some more "generic" stuff that sounds just horrible.
Having said that, encoders have made great strides in the last 10 years.
128KBit MP3 years ago was horrible. The 128KBit ACC from the iTune store are "okay".
The problem is: A lot depends on the song as well. I know there are many people out there who say they cannot hear a difference between a compressed file and a "pure" file even on expensive equipment. For me it truly depends on the song.
But one thing to keep in mind (in my opinion) is the "feeling" a song produce in the room, if I play it back on a pair of 10K speakers then I am more likely to hear any artifcats or "feel" the missing pieces then when I listen to it on my $50 Boombox.
I still don't quite buy into the "you can't hear any difference" piece. Mainly because I think music is more than just listening but also feeling, presence etc.
Compare a live concert in a small venue vs. the same recording in your living room, something seems to be missing. Or maybe I am just imagining this:)
Then I suggest you go and stand in their living room and read your podcast to them, because as soon as they have the file they can do with it as they please.
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You just made the argument yourself.
If the American breaks teh Singapore law in the US though he won't be caned. If a swede, living in the US, runs the tracker s/he is subject to the american law as well.
Someone who lives in a foreign country is not accountable to the law in another counry, only to local laws.
Besides, the "American music" that is being stolen isn't really american. There is a Swedish company in sweden that distributes the music, so it is a swedish, not an american problem.
This is why I as a Canadian are not allowed to go to the iTunes music store in Germany and buy an album there, territorial rights, even if the artist has no distribution in Canada, though I can of course order a CD from Amazon.de.
$1K for a HD-DVD Player? I saw one yesterday at Futureshop from Toshiba for $699 (Canadian that is).
Not that it overly impressed me with the Video, but it's far from $1K.
A couple of weeks ago I was moving and didn't had any Internet at home, so I ended up drinking way too much coffee and using free WiFi. The funniest thing was that on several occasions I had people in Windows PCs come up to me and ask me how I was able to connect to the Wireless network as they tried and couldn't make it work.
My answer? "I just logged in, it saw the access point and logged in, nothing I had to do really." The look on their faces was priceless.
In who's mind? The industries? The artist?
Does it matter where the artists get paid? I can travel to Russia buy a CD there (or to Germany, UK etc. etc.) from the US and nobody (besides the *IAA) would tell me I broke the law by buying the media in another country.
What's your gripe with AAC? Sure you can add DRM to it (as you can with MP3) but by default it is as open of a standard as MP3.
Never understood why people seem to love MP3 but have a problem with the newer version known as Advanced Audio Codec or AAC.
It is still not mainstream though.
Redhat pretty much only gives support to corporate customers, while Suse Novell are a bit more mainstream, but Linux is not mainstream, so the people who call in are a bit more technical savy.
Mac OS X would see a lot more diverse customers, much less technical.
Yeah, Apple is supporting now. On THEIR Hardware where they know every little thing. They deliver the entire System end to End.
Did it ever occur to you that Microsoft is NOT supporting Windows? They let the OEM take care of that. Sure, they have Enterprise Support, but again, this is mostly done by third parties (e.g. Dell).
Apple does not have the same market penetration to make this feasable, they would not only need a larger Customer Support team but also a much larger Hardware Lab. That assumes they only bundle OS X with a specific Hardware, if they just put boxes into Best Buy all bets are off.
No, Apple would hurt badly if they did this. The onlyl reason this system works for Microsoft is because they somehow managed to get all of the support pieces rolled over toe the HW dealers.
the one thing that still irks me with Canadian banks though is that they have those abitrary cutoff times / dates.
Heck, most computer systems from large institutions run 24/7, why can't they process a payment on the weekend? There is no real reason WHY they have to hold it (they do take the money out of your account after all right that instant).
You may want to complain about that to Microsoft, not Apple.
I think Price sells first and foremost, the rest is just added "convinience", that is if they see it.
Personally I mainly worked on notebooks for almost three years, but there are some advantages to desktop.
Apple with iMac has shown for the last 8 years that you can have a very pleasing Desktop PC that does not get in the way, and I know quite a few people who look at my PowerMac and tell me it's too big, but at the same time eye the iMac.
I agree though, looks are important, but I guess I left the Windows World (and thus beige boxes) behind 6 years ago and have lost a bit of touch since the.
Interestingly enough, people are still approaching me when they see me working on the Powerbook even though you see quite a few more out there these days.
I am not sure Desktops are dead. I have a PowerMac G5 at home as my main workstation and a Powerbook G4 with me right now in a coffee shop. They compliment each other nicely.
The PowerMac has a lot of data on it and I use it do the "heavy lifting" (e.g. video compression / editing) while the Powerbook is good to stay in contact "on the road" and doe photo editing etc.
Granted, I don't think I fall into the "normal" user space category, but many people really just use email and browse the web and they could care less if it is a notebook or a Desktop.
I guarantee you that even if they would "up the ante" by being more high end people would still not want to go out of the same reasons. Obnoxious neighbours, that's a cultural thing more so than anything you can do in theater design.
Movie theaters haven't really changed since the 1920s when they were first invented, so why is it all of the sudden the theater that's the problem? It's a society issue, nothing more, nothing less.
At least I am not a Coward and put my name to my postings.
And where do you think those annoying people come from? Right, because people aren't around other people.
If I can just "walk away" I don't hone my social skills, the fact that people usually do NOT spend a lot of time with a lot of people in the same room, that there is no density is part of the problem.
Look at a country like Japan, people are crammed on top of each other, and thus they do know when they become obnoxious, because they experience it when the other one is doing it.
My point stands.
Just because you don't know that you break the law doesn't mean you are getting away with it.
;)
The law does not only apply when you willingly break it, otherwise people would just be utterly ignorant
A movie theater can provide an excellent experience, but let's face it. Most North Americans living in the 'burbs don't WANT anybody nearby. Heck, other humans might be evil.
This is one of the problems with the theaters, we have become so insular that we fear our own neighbours, so why spend 2 hours with them in an enclosed space?
Other cultures aren't quite yet so humanphobe.
It doesn't matter HOW effective it is, the moment there is DRM or copy protection on it, the law tells you that you cannot make a copy. Simple as that, not even a bit by bit copy.
True,
unless there is somse kind of copy protection on the content, in this case you are not legally allowed to copy the CD / DVD etc.
So, CSS? Sorry, can't (legally) make a copy.
First of all, as mentioned, I like the UI, it is clean, easy to grasp.
;)
Then there is clearly the form factor. A device that is light (maybe ePaper?) and "folds" like a book would be converting me.
Then lastly there really is that I find eBooks rather cumbersum. I read a lot online (Web pages, PDFs) but books tend to be nicer to read in a dead tree format.
Plus, they can help stabilize the dinner table
Again that depends on how it is arranged. There is (unfortunatly) no easy formula I think. I have some classical music encoded in 128AAC and it sounds good enough (at least on consumer equipment), and I have some more "generic" stuff that sounds just horrible.
Having said that, encoders have made great strides in the last 10 years.
128KBit MP3 years ago was horrible. The 128KBit ACC from the iTune store are "okay".
The problem is: A lot depends on the song as well. I know there are many people out there who say they cannot hear a difference between a compressed file and a "pure" file even on expensive equipment. For me it truly depends on the song.
But one thing to keep in mind (in my opinion) is the "feeling" a song produce in the room, if I play it back on a pair of 10K speakers then I am more likely to hear any artifcats or "feel" the missing pieces then when I listen to it on my $50 Boombox.
I still don't quite buy into the "you can't hear any difference" piece. Mainly because I think music is more than just listening but also feeling, presence etc.
:)
Compare a live concert in a small venue vs. the same recording in your living room, something seems to be missing. Or maybe I am just imagining this
How does legal music piracy look like?
Then I suggest you go and stand in their living room and read your podcast to them, because as soon as they have the file they can do with it as they please.