Apple vs. Real is not the same thing as 3rd Party Toner Makers vs. Lexmark or DVD John.
It would only be the same if Lexmark's printers already had open-compatible ways for 3rd party toner cart makers to sell toner cartridges that end users could put in their printers. And DVD Jon would have to have made a DVD burning app that let you create CSS DVDs with regional encoding.
The iPod supports AIFF, MP3, AAC, Apple-Lossless all unencumbered with DRM. Real isn't trying to get music on the iPod. Real is trying to make locks that match Apple's keys.
This is a very different issue, and I don't know how I feel about it. This actually is much more akin to a hacker trying to spoof a message's source than the slashdot community seems to want to acknowledge.
I don't think people should try to hold movies to any kind of "reality standard". Even the most grounded movie story is told by men wearing makeup that techies spent an hour carefully lighting. People stand on boxes to look taller, directors tell actors to step farther apart so that their distance will reflect their relationship, and no one ever has to go to the bathroom.
No one ever points it out as a "mistake" in movies, but Spider-Man 2 took a step closer to reality by choosing to not have every car that was overturned explode in a huge ball of flames.
FWIW, Sam Raimi directed the Evil Dead movies, which are cult classics despite having some of the largest movie mistakes to ever slip by audiences. (For ex: in Evil Dead 2 there is no ceiling in the house, and during some of the fast shots you can see techies heads poking over the tops of the walls. People never seem to notice this until someone tells them to look for it!)
So I was fixing some bugs in the Linux Kernel... and I couldn't think of any really good variable names... so I looked in this copy of the SCO Unix source I had lying around and oh boy, do I feel silly today!
Does anyone else find it ironic that the inside flap of the album is halfway filled up with copyright notices for all the samples the Beastie Boys used to create this album...
Would it have even been possible to make this album if the sources of those clips had been DRM restricted?
also, did anyone else notice the outer sleeve of the album states: "Although this product is intended to play on most CD players and operates on most personal computers... Capitol Records is not liable if it does not or if it damages any CD players, computers, peripherals, or data."
And instead of calling itself a CD it has a logo that says "Enhanced CD", and it's noted that "'Enahanced CD' is a certification mark of the RIAA."
I bought "To The 5 Boroughs" (cause I'm representin' Manhattan), and ripped all the tracks to my iPod with no problems. Just what does the DRM code do?
I'm on a Mac, is this another case where I'm missing out on the DRM fun because of platform neglect? (There IS a Mac partition on the disc, but all it seems to have on it is a Macromedia presentation with a QuickTime movie.)
If Microsoft can identify "pirate" copies by their serial number with Windows update, the answer is simple:
1) Let them download and install important security patches to their machine.
2) Detect the pirate serial number and activate a server on that machine that is capable of distributing the security updates.
3) Have Windows Update spread download requests across your network of pirate-Windows servers.
Over time, the pirates pay Microsoft for Windows with bandwidth costs, but they still feel like they're getting it for free. In the mean time they have patched boxes. Everybody wins! =)
I had a problem a while back where my 2nd generation iPod (only a few months old) would lose it's charge completely overnight. So I took it to the genius bar at my local Apple store and determined that:
1) I was leaving my iPod in my car overnight (this was wintertime) and the iPod would 'freeze', which at the very least causes the iPod to *think* the battery is dead. (I wasn't clear if the battery was actually dead from freezing, or if the iPod just 'though' it was dead.) The only way to get it back to useable condition was to warm it up and recharge it.
2) Apple has a special gizmo that can fully drain your iPod's battery to help reduce the memory effect. Apparently, when you see the iPod dead battery icon, there is still quite a bit of charge left in the battery... just not enough to spin up the hard disk, decode compressed audio and play through your headphones. If you take your iPod to an Apple store, they can *fully* discharge it overnight for free.
The only way an average user can fully drain the battery is to play songs until it shows the dead battery screen, then leave the iPod unused for a week while its internal clock slowly finishes off the draining. When it's fully drained, you won't see the dead battery screen anymore. It will be DEAD.
The genius further told me that it was NOT good to leave the iPod plugged into its charging adapter for long periods of time once it's charged. (Again, this is a second generation iPod.) My presumption is it would be OK to leave it plugged in as a mounted Firewire drive.
Finally, he said Apple had been getting a lot of complaints, that the iPod had been built and tested in a part California where it never got as cold as it did here in the North East, and they were "discovering" the limits of the batteries in cold weather. Luckily, I don't think the effects are premenant, and my iPod was just fine all last summer =)
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Apple vs. Real is not the same thing as 3rd Party Toner Makers vs. Lexmark or DVD John.
It would only be the same if Lexmark's printers already had open-compatible ways for 3rd party toner cart makers to sell toner cartridges that end users could put in their printers. And DVD Jon would have to have made a DVD burning app that let you create CSS DVDs with regional encoding.
The iPod supports AIFF, MP3, AAC, Apple-Lossless all unencumbered with DRM. Real isn't trying to get music on the iPod. Real is trying to make locks that match Apple's keys.
This is a very different issue, and I don't know how I feel about it. This actually is much more akin to a hacker trying to spoof a message's source than the slashdot community seems to want to acknowledge.
I don't think people should try to hold movies to any kind of "reality standard". Even the most grounded movie story is told by men wearing makeup that techies spent an hour carefully lighting. People stand on boxes to look taller, directors tell actors to step farther apart so that their distance will reflect their relationship, and no one ever has to go to the bathroom.
No one ever points it out as a "mistake" in movies, but Spider-Man 2 took a step closer to reality by choosing to not have every car that was overturned explode in a huge ball of flames.
FWIW, Sam Raimi directed the Evil Dead movies, which are cult classics despite having some of the largest movie mistakes to ever slip by audiences. (For ex: in Evil Dead 2 there is no ceiling in the house, and during some of the fast shots you can see techies heads poking over the tops of the walls. People never seem to notice this until someone tells them to look for it!)
So I was fixing some bugs in the Linux Kernel... and I couldn't think of any really good variable names... so I looked in this copy of the SCO Unix source I had lying around and oh boy, do I feel silly today!
Does anyone else find it ironic that the inside flap of the album is halfway filled up with copyright notices for all the samples the Beastie Boys used to create this album...
Would it have even been possible to make this album if the sources of those clips had been DRM restricted?
also, did anyone else notice the outer sleeve of the album states: "Although this product is intended to play on most CD players and operates on most personal computers ... Capitol Records is not liable if it does not or if it damages any CD players, computers, peripherals, or data."
And instead of calling itself a CD it has a logo that says "Enhanced CD", and it's noted that "'Enahanced CD' is a certification mark of the RIAA."
I bought "To The 5 Boroughs" (cause I'm representin' Manhattan), and ripped all the tracks to my iPod with no problems. Just what does the DRM code do?
I'm on a Mac, is this another case where I'm missing out on the DRM fun because of platform neglect? (There IS a Mac partition on the disc, but all it seems to have on it is a Macromedia presentation with a QuickTime movie.)
So are we gonna have Windows running on the PowerPC, or will the Xbox 2 be running Mac OS X?
XBox 2 SDK released on PowerMac G5s
XBox 2 to sport 3 64-bit IBM Chips
Microsoft leaks details about XBox Next
XBox 2 innards laid bare on web
Just think of the implications of Microsoft producing a PowerPC based PC...
If Microsoft can identify "pirate" copies by their serial number with Windows update, the answer is simple: 1) Let them download and install important security patches to their machine. 2) Detect the pirate serial number and activate a server on that machine that is capable of distributing the security updates. 3) Have Windows Update spread download requests across your network of pirate-Windows servers. Over time, the pirates pay Microsoft for Windows with bandwidth costs, but they still feel like they're getting it for free. In the mean time they have patched boxes. Everybody wins! =)
I had a problem a while back where my 2nd generation iPod (only a few months old) would lose it's charge completely overnight. So I took it to the genius bar at my local Apple store and determined that:
... just not enough to spin up the hard disk, decode compressed audio and play through your headphones. If you take your iPod to an Apple store, they can *fully* discharge it overnight for free.
1) I was leaving my iPod in my car overnight (this was wintertime) and the iPod would 'freeze', which at the very least causes the iPod to *think* the battery is dead. (I wasn't clear if the battery was actually dead from freezing, or if the iPod just 'though' it was dead.) The only way to get it back to useable condition was to warm it up and recharge it.
2) Apple has a special gizmo that can fully drain your iPod's battery to help reduce the memory effect. Apparently, when you see the iPod dead battery icon, there is still quite a bit of charge left in the battery
The only way an average user can fully drain the battery is to play songs until it shows the dead battery screen, then leave the iPod unused for a week while its internal clock slowly finishes off the draining. When it's fully drained, you won't see the dead battery screen anymore. It will be DEAD.
The genius further told me that it was NOT good to leave the iPod plugged into its charging adapter for long periods of time once it's charged. (Again, this is a second generation iPod.) My presumption is it would be OK to leave it plugged in as a mounted Firewire drive.
Finally, he said Apple had been getting a lot of complaints, that the iPod had been built and tested in a part California where it never got as cold as it did here in the North East, and they were "discovering" the limits of the batteries in cold weather. Luckily, I don't think the effects are premenant, and my iPod was just fine all last summer =)