I don't think it is necessarily any kind of "swindling." It is just the simple fact that they have no right to make you drink the Coke on the premises, or in the case of iTunes, only play music in iTunes/iPod.
I agree, but so far the courts are not agreeing with this viewpoint.
Right. What's the problem with that? If the store makes it too difficult for you to do what you want with the product you purchase, they should expect people to shop elsewhere.
The problem is people aren't accepting that and moving on. They're continuing to buy tracks from iTunes (giving business to the very store whose restrictions they despise) and then insisting Hymn glasses be allowed to exist. That's not a solution to the problem on either side.
If it is so small, why do they bother hassling the Hymn developers in the first place? I think they do care. DRM is proving to be a big problem for consumers.
If they don't do anything at all, they upset their Coke distributor. Which puts their entire soda business at risk.
But the pre-existing Fair Drinking law guarantees me the right to pour my Coke wherever I like, right?
I'm actually entirely on your side in this, but until a court actually forces a company to cut the chains off their Cokes, "Fair Drinking" is just words, nothing more. Until that day comes people get what they pay for. Don't want a Coke chained to the store? Don't buy one. Especially when there's a store selling them without chains right across the street.
Notwithstanding the other 6,000 posts in this thread jabbering about quality degradation, the real problem is she actually has a life and burning and ripping 50 or so cds (and ensuring the resultant files are tagged properly)
50?
Are her musical tastes that out there that the Gracenote lookup wasn't able to get the disc right? Actually, if iTunes actually had all the same albums for sale for her to buy, Gracenote would have definitely recognized them, and iTunes would have had the high resolution album art to go with them. 50 x $10 average album price on iTunes is $500 in music she bought twice. She could have sent her CDs off to one of those paid ripping services for less, which would have let her choose the format rather than get stuck with 128kbs Fairplay-wrapped AACs.
I have over 300 CDs and I ripped them all to 192kbps AAC. You just have to do them in batches, a few discs (maybe one artist's work) at a time, starting with the ones you listen to most.
What difference does it make whether or not you knew that Coke was chained to the store?
In one scenario the consumer is aware of the restriction before they purchase, in the other they weren't (in other words, it was a Gotcha! when it was too late). It's the whole justification for Hymn for some people. "I didn't know I couldn't play the iTMS purchases outside of iTunes or an iPod, I want to play them on my [other mp3 player] and my MythTV system. Therefore I'm going to use Hymn to free my tracks."
The original poster is putting forward the idea in his scenario that the consumer was not aware of the DRM (the chain) until after the purchase had been completed. So he's using the Hymn glass to overcome some perceived swindling that's occurred. That's bullshit. The restrictions on tracks purchased from the iTMS has been talked about enough in the media now it's common knowledge. What's really happening is the consumer is buying something they know very well they don't want (a soda chained to a store) with the intent of using the Hymn glass already decided. But now that the Hymn glass is no longer available they're threatening to shop somewhere else.
The store has already decided they aren't interested in selling sodas to drink outdoors, their addition of the chain shows this. Some people have trouble accepting that their segment of consumers is so small the company literally doesn't care if they have your business or not.
Or they said we're putting everything in place, we'll contact you shortly with the time. Although those examples raise the question of why don't you just get a warrant...
And what would they provide for justification for their warrant? Illegal recordings of telephone conversations?
Your analogy is flawed. A better analogy would be walking into a store and buying a coke. When the coke is bought you find out that it is, in fact, chained to the store and you have to drink it inside. Hymn is the glass you pour the coke into in order to be able to chill outside where you want to be.
Your analogy is also flawed. Because the fact the Coke was chained to the store was no secret. It's not something you didn't find out after you bought it. It's more like you bought the Coke knowing full well it was chained to the store but also knew that if you bought this special Hymn glass you could take the Coke outside, and you assumed you'd always be able to do that. But suddenly Apple came along and sent a C&D to the company making Hymn glasses.
but I do want to play my music on the Linux-powered media box in my living room. Is that really too much to ask?
Yes, because Apple isn't trying to sell music to Linux users, they're trying to sell iPods. Maybe there was a big need for Hymn back when the iTMS was the only store around with major recording artists (I mean ones you heard on top-40 stations, not college rock stations), but with Amazon's store seemingly redundant with Apple's catalog, why don't you just start using them instead?
We need to focusing on raising well adjusted physically fit people, that would drastically reduce the likelihood of any form of addiction. But I'm sure blowing research money on warning labels is just as good...
It's easier, that's why.
Just like yesterday with Congress thinking of buying out that banking patent for a billion taxpayer dollars instead of reforming the actual patent system to prevent the abuse.
Stickers and labels are much easier than trying to change people's behavior.
To a grand total of US$423.97 unless you want to burn more than one DVD. Seems a bit much.
For that much you could just go rebuy your movies in BluRay, then sell the HD-DVD versions to the schmuck who is still disillusioned. Or for less you could go buy this Sharp BluRay player (one of Amazon's best sellers) and keep your HD-DVD player and movies, too.
I would say feature-wise it would be a good Elements competitor, except I haven't worked with Elements since version 2 so I don't know what it's like now.
The Gimp still has a long way to go ease-of-use wise.
You are correct that nothing was censored in this case, but the tag is appropriate, as CNN is asserting that their employees must submit to censorship if they want to stay employed.
As corporations consolidate and grow, you end up with large numbers of citizens who are being censored by the same gov^H^H^Hemployer. What of free speech then?
The GIMP sucks! Stop bringing it up in every discussion about Photoshop.
Perhaps what you mean is:
Don't bring up the Gimp every time someone mentions the lack of a native Photoshop on Linux, and then claim the Gimp is not a Photoshop competitor when someone then cites a difference between the two.
Pull up any past debate about Photoshop vs. Gimp on Slashdot and you'll find a list on one of the posts of things a professional says they needed to do an couldn't on the Gimp.
I'd like a free rotate/resize tool myself, so I don't have to guess how many degrees or percentage I need to input on a dialog to get something the size and angle I want in relation to other layers.
The United States has been falling behind on the capacity game for a long time now, so it only makes sense that the ISPs and telcos there are crying the blues about the need for upgrades. Had they been upgrading all the way along as other countries have, they wouldn't have the capacity shortfall that they do now.
Gee, sounds just like the utility companies.
1) Neglect maintenance on national power grid in the name of short term profits. 2) Grid begins to fail in dangerous ways. 3) Request government bail-out to bring infrastructure up to par. 4) Profit! With taxpayers footing your decades-worth of deferred maintenance costs.
I personally think the new Eudora was meant to be part of a roadmap where Qualcomm's old product was absorbed into Thunderbird. Interface changes and feature crossover would have eventually made the two projects redundant. It's more an exercise in getting Eudora users to move to Thunderbird instead of going to O.E.
Whose "glitch"? What was the "apparent miscommunication, exactly? Did the FBI tell the ISP to give them the total access that the court hadn't authorized, or did the ISP make the mistake and give them total access when asked for only limited access? Maybe the FBI is citing that totally ambiguous blame, but what is the real story?
Two important questions here:
If the ISP actually misunderstood the surveillance request, why didn't they get confirmation? Asking for one person's email to be sent is one thing, but a request for the entire domain's email to be forwarded sounds too broad to be legitimate.
When the FBI found they were getting email from individuals other than those they wanted. Did they promptly delete the email unread and report to the admin? Or did they think, "Hmmmm. Well, since we're already getting it..."
So to stay private, then, one should print sensitive documents on yellow paper?
No, but I would argue you should not use the online registration option for your printer's warranty thats offered by the driver installer, or maybe not register at all.
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You mean like those people who don't own a television and find ways of working it into unrelated conversations.
That's only in the Special Edition version Lucas has planned.
No, more bandwidth for undersea-cable rape hentai.
I agree, but so far the courts are not agreeing with this viewpoint.
The problem is people aren't accepting that and moving on. They're continuing to buy tracks from iTunes (giving business to the very store whose restrictions they despise) and then insisting Hymn glasses be allowed to exist. That's not a solution to the problem on either side.
If they don't do anything at all, they upset their Coke distributor. Which puts their entire soda business at risk.
I would say "You must be new here" but your ID is pretty far down by today's standards.
I'm actually entirely on your side in this, but until a court actually forces a company to cut the chains off their Cokes, "Fair Drinking" is just words, nothing more. Until that day comes people get what they pay for. Don't want a Coke chained to the store? Don't buy one. Especially when there's a store selling them without chains right across the street.
50?
Are her musical tastes that out there that the Gracenote lookup wasn't able to get the disc right? Actually, if iTunes actually had all the same albums for sale for her to buy, Gracenote would have definitely recognized them, and iTunes would have had the high resolution album art to go with them. 50 x $10 average album price on iTunes is $500 in music she bought twice. She could have sent her CDs off to one of those paid ripping services for less, which would have let her choose the format rather than get stuck with 128kbs Fairplay-wrapped AACs.
I have over 300 CDs and I ripped them all to 192kbps AAC. You just have to do them in batches, a few discs (maybe one artist's work) at a time, starting with the ones you listen to most.
In one scenario the consumer is aware of the restriction before they purchase, in the other they weren't (in other words, it was a Gotcha! when it was too late). It's the whole justification for Hymn for some people. "I didn't know I couldn't play the iTMS purchases outside of iTunes or an iPod, I want to play them on my [other mp3 player] and my MythTV system. Therefore I'm going to use Hymn to free my tracks."
The original poster is putting forward the idea in his scenario that the consumer was not aware of the DRM (the chain) until after the purchase had been completed. So he's using the Hymn glass to overcome some perceived swindling that's occurred. That's bullshit. The restrictions on tracks purchased from the iTMS has been talked about enough in the media now it's common knowledge. What's really happening is the consumer is buying something they know very well they don't want (a soda chained to a store) with the intent of using the Hymn glass already decided. But now that the Hymn glass is no longer available they're threatening to shop somewhere else.
The store has already decided they aren't interested in selling sodas to drink outdoors, their addition of the chain shows this. Some people have trouble accepting that their segment of consumers is so small the company literally doesn't care if they have your business or not.
And what would they provide for justification for their warrant? Illegal recordings of telephone conversations?
Well anime fans sure aren't annoyed. Japan and the U.S. are in the same BluRay region.
Your analogy is also flawed. Because the fact the Coke was chained to the store was no secret. It's not something you didn't find out after you bought it. It's more like you bought the Coke knowing full well it was chained to the store but also knew that if you bought this special Hymn glass you could take the Coke outside, and you assumed you'd always be able to do that. But suddenly Apple came along and sent a C&D to the company making Hymn glasses.
Yes, because Apple isn't trying to sell music to Linux users, they're trying to sell iPods. Maybe there was a big need for Hymn back when the iTMS was the only store around with major recording artists (I mean ones you heard on top-40 stations, not college rock stations), but with Amazon's store seemingly redundant with Apple's catalog, why don't you just start using them instead?
Yes, it might be a collector's item someday.
It's easier, that's why.
Just like yesterday with Congress thinking of buying out that banking patent for a billion taxpayer dollars instead of reforming the actual patent system to prevent the abuse.
Stickers and labels are much easier than trying to change people's behavior.
For that much you could just go rebuy your movies in BluRay, then sell the HD-DVD versions to the schmuck who is still disillusioned.
Or for less you could go buy this Sharp BluRay player (one of Amazon's best sellers) and keep your HD-DVD player and movies, too.
I would say feature-wise it would be a good Elements competitor, except I haven't worked with Elements since version 2 so I don't know what it's like now.
The Gimp still has a long way to go ease-of-use wise.
As corporations consolidate and grow, you end up with large numbers of citizens who are being censored by the same gov^H^H^Hemployer. What of free speech then?
Perhaps what you mean is:
Don't bring up the Gimp every time someone mentions the lack of a native Photoshop on Linux, and then claim the Gimp is not a Photoshop competitor when someone then cites a difference between the two.
Pull up any past debate about Photoshop vs. Gimp on Slashdot and you'll find a list on one of the posts of things a professional says they needed to do an couldn't on the Gimp.
I'd like a free rotate/resize tool myself, so I don't have to guess how many degrees or percentage I need to input on a dialog to get something the size and angle I want in relation to other layers.
Gee, sounds just like the utility companies.
1) Neglect maintenance on national power grid in the name of short term profits.
2) Grid begins to fail in dangerous ways.
3) Request government bail-out to bring infrastructure up to par.
4) Profit! With taxpayers footing your decades-worth of deferred maintenance costs.
Do you have a source for that?
From what I saw of the news postings, the idea of Mozilla taking over Eudora was never so they could enhance the existing codebase, it was to create a new version of Eudora based on Thunderbird.
I personally think the new Eudora was meant to be part of a roadmap where Qualcomm's old product was absorbed into Thunderbird. Interface changes and feature crossover would have eventually made the two projects redundant. It's more an exercise in getting Eudora users to move to Thunderbird instead of going to O.E.
Actually there were other companies besides Sony that made Minidisc players. Sharp and Panasonic to name two. I also recall a Kenwood brand car deck.
Two important questions here:
Reminder: Public opinion and Linux Fanboi opinion are two different things.
No, but I would argue you should not use the online registration option for your printer's warranty thats offered by the driver installer, or maybe not register at all.