If you want to call it DRM, you're free to do so. I am NOT a big music listener, so I don't have the same perspective, but the restrictions on ITMS seem so light that they're only there at all to keep RIAA-types from complaining.
I'm amazed they even have a webmail form page. The administration said at the very beginning of his term that the President would not be dealing with email. Spin it for the + or - as you will, but you will hear of no requests for the President's emails from any investigating agencies for anything... There isn't any.
OK then... Granted, if that's their goal, then Panther reading/writing.doc files is a good start. But it sure doesn't help when I try to take a Mac into work and I can't access the office email system because of Exchange. Sure, POP/IMAP work, but what about all the public folders I need and Calendar stuff? I ran it in Classic for a year or two and it worked great, but it sure was nice hearing how it's supposedly coming for OS X so I might not be the office oddity.
And the MSIE discontinuation was a shot across the bow. If Apple continues this trend, they will convince MS that they are not needed. The rumored Exchange client will die in its infancy and Office will go bye-bye./panic attack
Having worked the abuse@ email address for a DSL provider, I've been seeing this for a couple of years. It's interesting that the mainstream news is finally giving lip service to the problem, though. I heard a commentator on the ABC radio network mention open relays on mail servers the other day during morning rush hour. Someone (by someone, I mean companies that put out SMTP servers with a large share of the market) should strike while the iron is hot and take it a step further by airing some simple PSA's during a small assortment of shows. Maybe some must see TV "The More You Know" type thing...
Maybe... The Government is the one that can't do anything other than maybe lock him up as a material witness or something crazy like that. Companies could threaten him with a DMCA lawsuit and keep him bankrupt and hesitant to talk for a few years.
Thank God they only do media-like applications. Imagine what would happen if they were responsible for system-level applications or the operating system. A company that drags its feet to this degree in patching security holes could really be a problem. I just can't imagine what that would be like. Can you?
Aren't the government and big business pretty much stuck asking him to be 'patriotic' about the whole thing? Isn't it a pointless argument unless he's taken a security oath of some sort?
By 20 seconds into the flight, the shuttle has completed it roll and is accelerating through the atmosphere at about a 78 degree angle. Stress on the shuttle caused by its speed through the atmosphere is further relieved by powering back the main engines. By 45 seconds into the flight, the shuttle breaks the sound barrier. A minute into the flight, the pressure on the orbiter decreases and so the shuttle engines are returned to full power. At this point, the shuttle is traveling at an incredible 1,609 kilometers per hour (1,000 mph) or about Mach 1.5. By the end of the next minute, it will triple this speed!
No way was there much atmosphere at ALL at 81 seconds. I'm not sure where the troposphere meets the ionosphere, etc, but at that speed, they've got to be out of it.
At least, I didn't see anyone point this out... The math of this is that air drag is proportional to the square of the speed....blah blah blah. Lots of people trying to calculate this... In two words: What air? Way up there, there's little or no air. Read up on what happens when you drop a feather and a hammer in a vacuum. They hit the ground at the same time. No wind resistance. It might as we have been a 1.5 lb hammer.
I wonder how frequently we forget we know this stuff. What are we in? One percentage of the population? I called in to Matt Drudge's radio show one night and discussed the RIAA, and the MPAA and how they were getting in with state governments and their DMCA's and MP3's and TiVo's... After I got off the phone, I listened to it again and wondered what percentage of his audience must have understood... My mother and sister just sort of looked at me funny. "Huh?"
Yeah, it's sad. It's unfortunate. Especially for those of us who upgraded and spent money to keep current, but I'm kind of relieved. It will force a lot of us to put the nose to the grindstone and get into FCP. Also something to note, Premiere had more features in the PC version even at version 6. MPEG imports/exports, for example. It kinda sucked to have bought a shiny new copy of Premiere for a badass new Power Mac DP Ghz G4 and find that features were just "missing."
Time to check out FCP lite and FCP Pro to see if they can put the PC version to shame...
I think you're right. I just wonder how much prior art might exist out there. If none, this sounds like something worthy of pursuit.
If they get really ambitious, they could introduce human elements into it that could assist in case of a snafu. Maybe on a subscription basis or something.
I (and a lot of other people) would submit that DS9 could have gone a season or two longer. Some of the actors wanted off, certainly, but I think they probably could have gotten away with one or two more departures without the series suffering too much. (Terry Farrell was/is a damn fool.) We never really heard anyone talk seriously about an eighth season just because their contracts ran out. Too bad. The 3rd season was when it really started to pick up. So maybe they owe us for seasons 1 and 2?:)
Absolutely. Steven Ira Behr just got off a job, so he might be available to take over for Berman and Braga. He and Robert H. Wolfe and perhaps Ron Moore should be brought in to finish off Enterprise and start development (sloooowly) for another series. Probably in the early 25th century, a few years after everyone from TNG, VOY, and DS9 are retired or whatever. It would take a few years, but in the meantime, nobody has to worry about an odd-numbered movie farking everything up! And doggone it, if they ever do a new series, how about NOT lying to the fans about the premise? Berman kept denying the premise of Enterprise, while fans like us were freaking out, saying no no no, don't do that.
ARGH. Interplay... Must... Die. I'm one of the many ticked off Mac users from the Star Trek: 25th Anniv. game where they kept promising and promising the Mac users would be able to do battle with the PC users. Same game, different versions. They'd release a patch for one, and then not the other. When they released a patch for the other, it STILL had them out of sync. They had a message board on the MacPlay site. It was a bloodbath. They had to shut it down because we were raking them over the coals. Don't even get me started on the expansion packs they sold for PC only. On the plus side, Descent 1 and 2 were great.
hope I live long enough to see the day when all advertising is banned. All commercial speech. Banned. Eventually, if they keep this shit up, the government will have a compelling interest in shutting them up, and banning it will be the most narrowly-tailored way of achieving that goal. Champagne's on me.
Wow. Yours is a great post to read right after watching Family Guy on Adult Swim at 11:30/10:30 Central on The Cartoon Network! I kept on thinking, "Wow, is this guy Stewie or what?"
You're going to give the United States Congress too many ideas. Or worse, California... And thanks heaps to Cliff for posting this where politicians might see it!:)
"We call it aqua because it looks so good, you want to lick it." -Steve Jobs. MacWorld San Francisco Keynote. OS X's first big demo.
So what now? We lick the metal-brushed windows? They'd better be nice and smooth or I'll get metal splinters in my tongue. Wait... What if they're not warm enough? I don't want to get those things frozen stuck on my tongue! Give me my aqua, por favor.
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If you want to call it DRM, you're free to do so. I am NOT a big music listener, so I don't have the same perspective, but the restrictions on ITMS seem so light that they're only there at all to keep RIAA-types from complaining.
You beat me to it... But you spelled it wrong. "Lego Bricks"
I'm amazed they even have a webmail form page.
The administration said at the very beginning of his term that the President would not be dealing with email. Spin it for the + or - as you will, but you will hear of no requests for the President's emails from any investigating agencies for anything... There isn't any.
OK then... Granted, if that's their goal, then Panther reading/writing .doc files is a good start. But it sure doesn't help when I try to take a Mac into work and I can't access the office email system because of Exchange. Sure, POP/IMAP work, but what about all the public folders I need and Calendar stuff? I ran it in Classic for a year or two and it worked great, but it sure was nice hearing how it's supposedly coming for OS X so I might not be the office oddity.
And the MSIE discontinuation was a shot across the bow. If Apple continues this trend, they will convince MS that they are not needed. The rumored Exchange client will die in its infancy and Office will go bye-bye. /panic attack
It might be a good thing...
Having worked the abuse@ email address for a DSL provider, I've been seeing this for a couple of years. It's interesting that the mainstream news is finally giving lip service to the problem, though. I heard a commentator on the ABC radio network mention open relays on mail servers the other day during morning rush hour.
Someone (by someone, I mean companies that put out SMTP servers with a large share of the market) should strike while the iron is hot and take it a step further by airing some simple PSA's during a small assortment of shows. Maybe some must see TV "The More You Know" type thing...
Hehe.. Yeah, I was afraid I was being too subtle. :)
I learned on it, I did my sister's wedding video on it, I paid ~$300 to upgrade to version 6. I Assure you, I'm a little sad.
Or is it pissed?
But I do look forward to forcing myself to learn FCP
Maybe...
The Government is the one that can't do anything other than maybe lock him up as a material witness or something crazy like that.
Companies could threaten him with a DMCA lawsuit and keep him bankrupt and hesitant to talk for a few years.
Sadly, yes. Seriously... But just Premiere. So far. Too much competition from Final Cut Pro.
Thank God they only do media-like applications. Imagine what would happen if they were responsible for system-level applications or the operating system. A company that drags its feet to this degree in patching security holes could really be a problem. I just can't imagine what that would be like. Can you?
Aren't the government and big business pretty much stuck asking him to be 'patriotic' about the whole thing? Isn't it a pointless argument unless he's taken a security oath of some sort?
By 20 seconds into the flight, the shuttle has completed it roll and is accelerating through the atmosphere at about a 78 degree angle. Stress on the shuttle caused by its speed through the atmosphere is further relieved by powering back the main engines. By 45 seconds into the flight, the shuttle breaks the sound barrier. A minute into the flight, the pressure on the orbiter decreases and so the shuttle engines are returned to full power. At this point, the shuttle is traveling at an incredible 1,609 kilometers per hour (1,000 mph) or about Mach 1.5. By the end of the next minute, it will triple this speed!
No way was there much atmosphere at ALL at 81 seconds. I'm not sure where the troposphere meets the ionosphere, etc, but at that speed, they've got to be out of it.
At least, I didn't see anyone point this out...
The math of this is that air drag is proportional to the square of the speed....blah blah blah. Lots of people trying to calculate this...
In two words:
What air? Way up there, there's little or no air.
Read up on what happens when you drop a feather and a hammer in a vacuum. They hit the ground at the same time. No wind resistance. It might as we have been a 1.5 lb hammer.
I wonder how frequently we forget we know this stuff. What are we in? One percentage of the population? I called in to Matt Drudge's radio show one night and discussed the RIAA, and the MPAA and how they were getting in with state governments and their DMCA's and MP3's and TiVo's... After I got off the phone, I listened to it again and wondered what percentage of his audience must have understood... My mother and sister just sort of looked at me funny. "Huh?"
Agreed. Please tell me you have The Steve's ear?
(digging out my copy of Premiere 6)
Yeah, it's sad. It's unfortunate. Especially for those of us who upgraded and spent money to keep current, but I'm kind of relieved. It will force a lot of us to put the nose to the grindstone and get into FCP.
Also something to note, Premiere had more features in the PC version even at version 6. MPEG imports/exports, for example. It kinda sucked to have bought a shiny new copy of Premiere for a badass new Power Mac DP Ghz G4 and find that features were just "missing."
Time to check out FCP lite and FCP Pro to see if they can put the PC version to shame...
I think you're right. I just wonder how much prior art might exist out there. If none, this sounds like something worthy of pursuit.
If they get really ambitious, they could introduce human elements into it that could assist in case of a snafu. Maybe on a subscription basis or something.
I (and a lot of other people) would submit that DS9 could have gone a season or two longer. Some of the actors wanted off, certainly, but I think they probably could have gotten away with one or two more departures without the series suffering too much. (Terry Farrell was/is a damn fool.) :)
We never really heard anyone talk seriously about an eighth season just because their contracts ran out. Too bad. The 3rd season was when it really started to pick up. So maybe they owe us for seasons 1 and 2?
Absolutely. Steven Ira Behr just got off a job, so he might be available to take over for Berman and Braga. He and Robert H. Wolfe and perhaps Ron Moore should be brought in to finish off Enterprise and start development (sloooowly) for another series. Probably in the early 25th century, a few years after everyone from TNG, VOY, and DS9 are retired or whatever.
It would take a few years, but in the meantime, nobody has to worry about an odd-numbered movie farking everything up!
And doggone it, if they ever do a new series, how about NOT lying to the fans about the premise? Berman kept denying the premise of Enterprise, while fans like us were freaking out, saying no no no, don't do that.
ARGH. Interplay... Must... Die.
I'm one of the many ticked off Mac users from the Star Trek: 25th Anniv. game where they kept promising and promising the Mac users would be able to do battle with the PC users. Same game, different versions. They'd release a patch for one, and then not the other. When they released a patch for the other, it STILL had them out of sync. They had a message board on the MacPlay site. It was a bloodbath. They had to shut it down because we were raking them over the coals. Don't even get me started on the expansion packs they sold for PC only.
On the plus side, Descent 1 and 2 were great.
Please.
Elite Force a lot of people seemed to like...
Armada 1 and 2 were both a lot of fun.
Bridge Commander was great...
What games are YOU talking about?
hope I live long enough to see the day when all advertising is banned. All commercial speech. Banned. Eventually, if they keep this shit up, the government will have a compelling interest in shutting them up, and banning it will be the most narrowly-tailored way of achieving that goal. Champagne's on me.
Wow. Yours is a great post to read right after watching Family Guy on Adult Swim at 11:30/10:30 Central on The Cartoon Network! I kept on thinking, "Wow, is this guy Stewie or what?"
You're going to give the United States Congress too many ideas. Or worse, California... :)
And thanks heaps to Cliff for posting this where politicians might see it!
"We call it aqua because it looks so good, you want to lick it." -Steve Jobs. MacWorld San Francisco Keynote. OS X's first big demo.
So what now? We lick the metal-brushed windows? They'd better be nice and smooth or I'll get metal splinters in my tongue. Wait... What if they're not warm enough? I don't want to get those things frozen stuck on my tongue!
Give me my aqua, por favor.