Microsoft may be using their position to deliberately push Apple into a crisis.
Apple isn't the first competitor that MS has bullied into a crisis. It is going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Even more interesting will be what happens in the EU, the EU government may not let MS get away with pushing it's only major competitor in the portable music market into a crisis.
I suspect that the tactile joy of hold an object may extend beyond holding a CD in one's hand.
A vinyl record stores music as a physical impressions of the vibrations that make up the music. A CD holds a digital representation of the music. Some people consider being able to hold a vinyl record to be warmer and more intimate than to hold a cold shiny disk.
There is one factor beyond tactile joy that vinyl records has over CDs, and that is that as an archival media, vinyl records may have considerable advantages of digital media. Fifty or 100 years from now it may be difficult or impossible to find the necessary hardware and software to play back a CD. With a vinyl record, a playback device is not very difficult to figure out how to build at least a rudimentary record play (even if the builder has no technical documentation concerning how to play the record).
The Edison wax cylinder phonograph was introduced in 1888 (the tin foil phonograph was invented in 1877). Even if somebody who does not know what a wax cylinder phonograph looked like or the specifications for a wax cylinder record(?), as long as they knew the concepts behind the wax cylinder, they could reverse engineer a serviceable playback device.
Seems that FAA notification is easy
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In the US, notice/permission to launch ballons such as this can usually be done by calling the nearest FAA ATC facility 6 to 24 hours before beginning the operation and giving them the particulars. The applicable regulation is FAR Part 101. http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/faa_regula tions/
I had a Mercury Sable that got at least 30 MPG on the highway.
I curently drive an older 4wd 4 liter Ford Ranger extended cab that gets mid to high 20's MPG -- that is paid for. In the seven years that I have owned it, I have paid less than $1,000 for mainenace and repairs. I lucked out on the tires, they were recalled just as the first set wore out. The passenger seat may have been used a half dozen times. If I were to replace it, the difference in gas mileage wouldn't even pay for the interest for the car loan. I have a friend with a VW 4 door something that gets mid 30's MPG and has to taken to the dealer to get ANYTHING done on it. Each time she takes her VW to the dealer I figure out how many months I can drive my truck for what it cost to get her car fixed. I remember a time when VW's were inexpensive to repair and many things were designed to be done by the owner (American cars got 13 MPG or less then).
I would dearly love to be able get a single passenger car that has three wheels, a gasoline powered engine, decent performance, truck-like suspension, comfortable interior (I'm tall), and doesn't look silly. Odd looking, I can deal with, silly looking is out. Having three wheels instead of four has advantages in many localities.
"Young adults walking out of business school know that to hit somebody up with a wiretap is illegal and should not be done."
They may know that it is illegal, I am not sure that they are taught that it should not be done. It appears that they are taught how to have illegal things done while still maintaining plausable deniability.
That is another issue in the US. It seems that the cars that are available in Europe get significantly better fuel economy than what is available in the US. I understand that many Americans don't care about fuel economy and that causes car manufacturers to sell more gas hogs in the US than in EU. The relatively higher number of gashogs would explain a higher AVERAGE fuel usage for US cars, it does not explain the unavailability of higher fuel milage vehicles for those Americans who do want to conserve gasoline.
For now, gimics such as hybrids are not especially useful, depending upon how they are driven, the claimed fuel economy advantage of hybrid vehicles are very great -- and hybrid vehicles cost A LOT more than non-hybrid vehicles.
Electric cars have shown promise, but there really are not any affordable electric cars available in the US and many Americans don't have a parking place where they could install the necessary charging equipment.
Hydrogen fuel cell powered cars are a pipe dream.
LNG cars' advantage is that they have very low emissions, there really aren't any other advantages.
Unlike in EU, there are very few diesel powered cars available in the US. The US does have the infrastructure to provide fuel (although it would need to be expanded if significant numbers of people would go to diesel cars). Diesel powered cars stink much worse than gasoline powered cars and I don't want to smell more diesel exhaust fumes than ther already are.
Would you want to be sitting in seat 12B (middle) when the laptop in seat 12C (aisle) bursts into flames in the manner shown in the videos? There is also likely to be quite a bit of toxic smoke generated. Airplane cabins can and do burn, one example is the 1983 Air Canada in-flight fire aboard a DC-9.
What does it matter whether whether Apple wanted DRM or not? It down't matter who is to blame for the DRM on iTunes, the fact is that the content on iTunes is DRM'ed.
It is not really a security issue but it is a real fire hazard problem. Dell batteries have a documented history (some with pictures or videos) of bursting into flames, and I would not want to be on an airplane at 40,000 feet when somebody's Dell bursts into flame. I know that the recall is only for certain models but it would be too onerous for the flightcrew to sort out which Dells or Apples could become airborn flambeaus.
I don't think that politicians invented the Russian Communists or the Islamic terrorists, I believe that they exagerate their threat and use the threat to further their own agendas. If one wants to put on a foil hat, it could be possible that the Iron Curtain came down because it was no longer useful to US politicians.
I now have to go to goatse to get that melange of hideous images out of my mind. As far as I can tell, hosanna1.com is a site for born again afghan dogs.
I served in the Air Force Strategic Air Command in the mid to late 70's working on B-52's that had one purpose -- to nuke Russia (Vietnam was over). I worked on a B-52 that had a patch in a wing where a Russian Surface to Air Missle had punched through it. I can't say that I rooted for the downfall of communism although I believed that the Russians and their allies were the enemy and that the Russian government was a terrible evil. I grew up knowing people who had nuclear bomb shelters. We did "duck and cover" excercises and watched movies of building being destroyed by nuclear blasts in school. There were Public Service Announcements on TV about the danger of nations falling like dominoes to the communists. The Vietnam war was a war against Communism and it was as much or more of a topic of discussion as Iraq is now. Six American college students at Kent State University were killed (two were bayonetted and 4 were shot) by National Guard troops because some of the students were protesting the bombing of Cambodia. In my first job after getting out of the Air Force, I worked in an underground telephone building that housed a military Autovon switch -- and one of my duties was to make sure that the batteries in the radiological defense kits were fresh. Yeah, I was affected every day by politicians who wanted us to worry about the Russians.
The Iron Curtain has crumbled and the Russian boogy man has been replaced by the Muslim terrorist boogy man.
"When you buy a copy of something you have rights in the copy, that's it. No metaphysical rights to listen, reproduce additional copies, etc. I don't know what gives you this idea."
I believe that the question comes from the fact that an increasing amount of music is purchased as a download, there is no physical form of the music purchased, you are buying a license. Computer software companies are insisting that all a person "owns" is the license to USE the software in accordance with the EULA. In some cases in the past, software companies have reinforced the concept of buying a license to use the software by providing replacement media at or near the cost of the media. It is becoming impossible to see any difference between computer software and music. The computer software based DRM and root kits that record companies have been putting on physical music "CDs" has further blurred the lines between selling physical media and selling a license to listen to music.
To me, "we will give you credit for discovering it" implied "first". Only the FIRST person to discover something can say that they discovered it. There isn't a whole lot of use to be simply one of the people to discover a vulnerability. I agree that this would be the sort of program that MS would love to have, especially because they hold all of the cards, and they are the dealer -- until one of the players gets tired of playing Microsoft's game.
Researcher A discovers the vulnerability first and reports it to MS. Researcher B does the responsible thing after he also discovers the vulnerability, he reports it to MS. Researcher B waits however long he decides is fair to wait after notifying MS and then he publicly releases the vulnerability. Researcher B gets the credit for discovering the vulnerability; researcher A MIGHT get $10,000, someday. NOBODY is going to care IF MS claims that researcher A reported it to them first. To a great many researchers, discovering a vulnerability is worth A LOT more to them than whatever bounty MS would pay.
If you found a security vulnerability in Windows, why would you trust Microsoft?
In your example, Microsoft has a $10,000 incentive to NEVER release a patch or give you credit for discovering it.
Will MS claim that the vulnerability was discovered in-house DAYS before you told them of it? What happens if you tell MS about the vulnerability and another researcher publishes the vulnerability while you have been patiently waiting several months for a patch and your check? If you tell MS about the vulnerability and another researcher had already told MS of the vulnerability, does MS tell you that it has already been reported, or do you wait for your check after the patch has been released? If MS tells you that it had already been reported, how do you know that is true? What if MS tells you that they don't consider it to be a vulnerability and then silently fixes it?
If a student has a valid reason for missing a lecture (as determined by the instructor/professor or by school policy), the student should still have the ability to discuss the absence with the instructor/professor and make up the classwork as had been usual prior to the availability of the lecture recordings. It would be a nice gesture if the instructor/professor would make the recording available without charge to a student who had a valid reason (as determined by the instructor/professor) to miss the lecture.
I have been to classes where the "extra materials" (including Xerox's of magazine articles) used in class had to be purchased as a package at the bookstore. The prices were far more than the cost of Xerox'ing. There is a difference between audio copies of lectures and test booklets; having audio recordings of lectures is not a requirement to pass the course (although some students may feel that they need them, especially if they didn't attend a lecture), whereas completing test(s) may be a requirement to pass the course.
Different schools and professors have wildly different policies regarding if and how they make lecture notes and Power Point decks available to students and to the public.
My how times change. One of my junior high school English classrooms had "The Catcher In The Rye" in the classroom library, along with 1984, F451, and probably other books that have been challenged since I was in that classroom. You know that you are getting old when all of your high school teachers have retired.
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Microsoft may be using their position to deliberately push Apple into a crisis.
Apple isn't the first competitor that MS has bullied into a crisis. It is going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Even more interesting will be what happens in the EU, the EU government may not let MS get away with pushing it's only major competitor in the portable music market into a crisis.
It seems that the Zune has a use after all, as a method to get Apple to reduce it's prices on the iPod.
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http://www.needledoctor.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.44
http://www.garage-a-records.com/adapters.html
History of 45 RPM adaptor inserts:
http://members.aol.com/clctrmania/cm-adapt.html
I suspect that the tactile joy of hold an object may extend beyond holding a CD in one's hand.
A vinyl record stores music as a physical impressions of the vibrations that make up the music. A CD holds a digital representation of the music. Some people consider being able to hold a vinyl record to be warmer and more intimate than to hold a cold shiny disk.
There is one factor beyond tactile joy that vinyl records has over CDs, and that is that as an archival media, vinyl records may have considerable advantages of digital media. Fifty or 100 years from now it may be difficult or impossible to find the necessary hardware and software to play back a CD. With a vinyl record, a playback device is not very difficult to figure out how to build at least a rudimentary record play (even if the builder has no technical documentation concerning how to play the record).
The Edison wax cylinder phonograph was introduced in 1888 (the tin foil phonograph was invented in 1877). Even if somebody who does not know what a wax cylinder phonograph looked like or the specifications for a wax cylinder record(?), as long as they knew the concepts behind the wax cylinder, they could reverse engineer a serviceable playback device.
In the US, notice/permission to launch ballons such as this can usually be done by calling the nearest FAA ATC facility 6 to 24 hours before beginning the operation and giving them the particulars. The applicable regulation is FAR Part 101. http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/faa_regula tions/
Paid links on the search engine that pops up when you enter a bad url.
I had a Mercury Sable that got at least 30 MPG on the highway.
I curently drive an older 4wd 4 liter Ford Ranger extended cab that gets mid to high 20's MPG -- that is paid for. In the seven years that I have owned it, I have paid less than $1,000 for mainenace and repairs. I lucked out on the tires, they were recalled just as the first set wore out. The passenger seat may have been used a half dozen times. If I were to replace it, the difference in gas mileage wouldn't even pay for the interest for the car loan. I have a friend with a VW 4 door something that gets mid 30's MPG and has to taken to the dealer to get ANYTHING done on it. Each time she takes her VW to the dealer I figure out how many months I can drive my truck for what it cost to get her car fixed. I remember a time when VW's were inexpensive to repair and many things were designed to be done by the owner (American cars got 13 MPG or less then).
I would dearly love to be able get a single passenger car that has three wheels, a gasoline powered engine, decent performance, truck-like suspension, comfortable interior (I'm tall), and doesn't look silly. Odd looking, I can deal with, silly looking is out. Having three wheels instead of four has advantages in many localities.
"Young adults walking out of business school know that to hit somebody up with a wiretap is illegal and should not be done."
They may know that it is illegal, I am not sure that they are taught that it should not be done. It appears that they are taught how to have illegal things done while still maintaining plausable deniability.
That is another issue in the US. It seems that the cars that are available in Europe get significantly better fuel economy than what is available in the US. I understand that many Americans don't care about fuel economy and that causes car manufacturers to sell more gas hogs in the US than in EU. The relatively higher number of gashogs would explain a higher AVERAGE fuel usage for US cars, it does not explain the unavailability of higher fuel milage vehicles for those Americans who do want to conserve gasoline.
For now, gimics such as hybrids are not especially useful, depending upon how they are driven, the claimed fuel economy advantage of hybrid vehicles are very great -- and hybrid vehicles cost A LOT more than non-hybrid vehicles.
Electric cars have shown promise, but there really are not any affordable electric cars available in the US and many Americans don't have a parking place where they could install the necessary charging equipment.
Hydrogen fuel cell powered cars are a pipe dream.
LNG cars' advantage is that they have very low emissions, there really aren't any other advantages.
Unlike in EU, there are very few diesel powered cars available in the US. The US does have the infrastructure to provide fuel (although it would need to be expanded if significant numbers of people would go to diesel cars). Diesel powered cars stink much worse than gasoline powered cars and I don't want to smell more diesel exhaust fumes than ther already are.
If suspect that this crap won't go very far as I suspect that it won't be difficult to circumvent.
Would you want to be sitting in seat 12B (middle) when the laptop in seat 12C (aisle) bursts into flames in the manner shown in the videos? There is also likely to be quite a bit of toxic smoke generated. Airplane cabins can and do burn, one example is the 1983 Air Canada in-flight fire aboard a DC-9.
What does it matter whether whether Apple wanted DRM or not? It down't matter who is to blame for the DRM on iTunes, the fact is that the content on iTunes is DRM'ed.
It is not really a security issue but it is a real fire hazard problem. Dell batteries have a documented history (some with pictures or videos) of bursting into flames, and I would not want to be on an airplane at 40,000 feet when somebody's Dell bursts into flame. I know that the recall is only for certain models but it would be too onerous for the flightcrew to sort out which Dells or Apples could become airborn flambeaus.
m lp -explodes-in-flames-182257.phpl _fire.html
http://wcco.com/consumer/local_story_148150249.ht
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops/dell-lapto
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/08/del
I don't think that politicians invented the Russian Communists or the Islamic terrorists, I believe that they exagerate their threat and use the threat to further their own agendas. If one wants to put on a foil hat, it could be possible that the Iron Curtain came down because it was no longer useful to US politicians.
You have to see the popunder (that was blocked when I used Firefox) for the full effect. The filename for the popunder picture is "CDC_SPAM_AD.gif".
My vote is that the site is a spoof.
I now have to go to goatse to get that melange of hideous images out of my mind. As far as I can tell, hosanna1.com is a site for born again afghan dogs.
I served in the Air Force Strategic Air Command in the mid to late 70's working on B-52's that had one purpose -- to nuke Russia (Vietnam was over). I worked on a B-52 that had a patch in a wing where a Russian Surface to Air Missle had punched through it. I can't say that I rooted for the downfall of communism although I believed that the Russians and their allies were the enemy and that the Russian government was a terrible evil. I grew up knowing people who had nuclear bomb shelters. We did "duck and cover" excercises and watched movies of building being destroyed by nuclear blasts in school. There were Public Service Announcements on TV about the danger of nations falling like dominoes to the communists. The Vietnam war was a war against Communism and it was as much or more of a topic of discussion as Iraq is now. Six American college students at Kent State University were killed (two were bayonetted and 4 were shot) by National Guard troops because some of the students were protesting the bombing of Cambodia. In my first job after getting out of the Air Force, I worked in an underground telephone building that housed a military Autovon switch -- and one of my duties was to make sure that the batteries in the radiological defense kits were fresh. Yeah, I was affected every day by politicians who wanted us to worry about the Russians.
The Iron Curtain has crumbled and the Russian boogy man has been replaced by the Muslim terrorist boogy man.
It's early yet; the Iron Curtain lasted what, 45 years? We are already up to about 50,000 killed in Iraq.
US politicians lost their boogey man when the Iron Curtain crumbled. They have found that terrorists make a dandy substitute.
"When you buy a copy of something you have rights in the copy, that's it. No metaphysical rights to listen, reproduce additional copies, etc. I don't know what gives you this idea."
I believe that the question comes from the fact that an increasing amount of music is purchased as a download, there is no physical form of the music purchased, you are buying a license. Computer software companies are insisting that all a person "owns" is the license to USE the software in accordance with the EULA. In some cases in the past, software companies have reinforced the concept of buying a license to use the software by providing replacement media at or near the cost of the media. It is becoming impossible to see any difference between computer software and music. The computer software based DRM and root kits that record companies have been putting on physical music "CDs" has further blurred the lines between selling physical media and selling a license to listen to music.
To me, "we will give you credit for discovering it" implied "first". Only the FIRST person to discover something can say that they discovered it. There isn't a whole lot of use to be simply one of the people to discover a vulnerability. I agree that this would be the sort of program that MS would love to have, especially because they hold all of the cards, and they are the dealer -- until one of the players gets tired of playing Microsoft's game.
Researcher A discovers the vulnerability first and reports it to MS. Researcher B does the responsible thing after he also discovers the vulnerability, he reports it to MS. Researcher B waits however long he decides is fair to wait after notifying MS and then he publicly releases the vulnerability. Researcher B gets the credit for discovering the vulnerability; researcher A MIGHT get $10,000, someday. NOBODY is going to care IF MS claims that researcher A reported it to them first. To a great many researchers, discovering a vulnerability is worth A LOT more to them than whatever bounty MS would pay.
If you found a security vulnerability in Windows, why would you trust Microsoft?
In your example, Microsoft has a $10,000 incentive to NEVER release a patch or give you credit for discovering it.
Will MS claim that the vulnerability was discovered in-house DAYS before you told them of it? What happens if you tell MS about the vulnerability and another researcher publishes the vulnerability while you have been patiently waiting several months for a patch and your check? If you tell MS about the vulnerability and another researcher had already told MS of the vulnerability, does MS tell you that it has already been reported, or do you wait for your check after the patch has been released? If MS tells you that it had already been reported, how do you know that is true? What if MS tells you that they don't consider it to be a vulnerability and then silently fixes it?
Oh, I see that you are British.
Add ", including Blair," after "Necons", leave the "our", and delete "Constitutional ".
It should then read: "Neocons, including Blair, who are willing and able to give away all of our rights and freedoms.
If a student has a valid reason for missing a lecture (as determined by the instructor/professor or by school policy), the student should still have the ability to discuss the absence with the instructor/professor and make up the classwork as had been usual prior to the availability of the lecture recordings. It would be a nice gesture if the instructor/professor would make the recording available without charge to a student who had a valid reason (as determined by the instructor/professor) to miss the lecture.
I have been to classes where the "extra materials" (including Xerox's of magazine articles) used in class had to be purchased as a package at the bookstore. The prices were far more than the cost of Xerox'ing. There is a difference between audio copies of lectures and test booklets; having audio recordings of lectures is not a requirement to pass the course (although some students may feel that they need them, especially if they didn't attend a lecture), whereas completing test(s) may be a requirement to pass the course.
Different schools and professors have wildly different policies regarding if and how they make lecture notes and Power Point decks available to students and to the public.
My how times change. One of my junior high school English classrooms had "The Catcher In The Rye" in the classroom library, along with 1984, F451, and probably other books that have been challenged since I was in that classroom. You know that you are getting old when all of your high school teachers have retired.