Does this make sense to you? "... unlike Apple's iTunes Music Store, which offers music that is only compatible with Apple's iPod portable player, WMP 10 will work with songs from virtually any other online music store. "
It looks like the summary is comparing iTMS to WMP 10 (rather that iTunes and QuickTime Player to WMP 10). The author could be comparing "Apple's iPod portable player" to "virtually any other online music store." Again the comparison makes no sense.
I'm going to try to respond anyway, since it might make the grandparent post's joke make more sense to you. Here we go:
The iPod can play many formats including MP3, but not WMA.
The iTMS sells songs with drm that only works in QuickTime enabled applications residing on the same computer as an authorized instance of iTunes and on the iPod right now.
iTunes (the audio player) can play many audio file formats and has really nice organizational features.
QuickTime Player is a media player that can play virtually anything you throw at it given the appropriate codec plugin.
WMP 10 is a media player that supports many formats including protected WMA files. I don't know if it plays FairPlay protected AAC from the iTMS, but it could easily enough, the API is simple.
MOMS is Microsoft's IE based music store. It sells protected WMA files.
There are many players that support protected WMA.
Now back to the summary: "... unlike Apple's iTunes Music Store, which offers music that is only compatible with Apple's iPod portable player, WMP 10 will work with songs from virtually any other online music store. "
iTMS doesn't work with other stores -- neither does MOMS.
iTMS doesn't work with any portable players other than the iPod (and that upcoming phone). MOMS doesn't work with the iPod, but it does work with others.
The iPod doesn't work with WMA. It does work with AAC, MP3, AIFF, etc. iPod users can get music from any source that provides audio in those formats.
WMP 10 supports many formats, but requires you to drag a pc around with you. -- that was the funny part.
I think I've covered all the angles, but damn that sentence is hard to parse.
Cocoa apps also use emacs keybindings in all text input areas. Ctrl-a to go to the start of a line, ctrl-e to go to the end. Ctrl-k cuts from the cursor to eol. Ctrl-y pastes back what you cut, etc.
This is actually customizable. You can use other schemes if you want or invent your own. You can probably find instructions at macosxhints.com
Don't forget that you can also turn on full keyboard access to navigate menus w/out the mouse.
your point being that because the media in other countries are more liberal than the already liberal media here that the media here is in fact not liberal? Liberal and conservative are relative things. When used as an absolute, i.e. "the media is liberal," you must agree on a scale. My point in saying that the media here is considered conservative by others was to illustrate that the scale used to measure conservatism and liberalism in this country is skewed to the right to begin with. From the outside, the argument that the American media is liberal looks about as silly as an argument between a pair of ants over whose hill is higher would look to a human.
The funny thing is you say their was plenty of people with strong arguments against the war, yet you yourself provide no argument. You'll note that just as I did not provide any arguments about the war, I did not provide any arguments against the cancellation of Futurama. This is because I was neither writing about the war nor about Futurama. I was arguing about the characterization of the protesters provided by the mainstream media. In my previous post I was not arguing against the war, so I did not provide any arguments against it. The same goes for this post.
>Or how dissenting voices regarding the Iraq invasion were barely heard?
They were heard all the time, they just didn't make any convincing arguments. There wasn't a day that went by that I didn't see "protestors" in a newspaper, etc. The only problem was they were saying "Bush=Hitler" and "Oil Grab", nobody was saying they didn't have WMD, didn't hear it from France, Germany, Arab states, etc. If the best statement a person could give was to call a person another name (and extreme at that) with no facts you WILL get ignored.... >Or how media ownership is concentraed into the hands of a few vocal conservatives? And? Are you saying that dissenting opinion isn't on TV? I see desent all the time
You just proved his point. There were plenty of people with strong arguments against the war. The mainstream media only showed you folks that would be written off as nut-jobs. It's a variation on the straw-man argument. The media showed you that the opposition was a bunch of loons who only know how to yell and wave signs; but it ignored the reasons why these people were protesting just as it ignored the more intellectual opposition to the war.
People who complain about the liberal media don't know what liberal means. The media in this country is far to the right of the media in most nations.
Try to use that ctrl-click method to chord both left and right mouse buttons in an X11 app. What about x11 apps that use ctrl-click or ctrl-right-click? I hate the mouse button on my PowerBook for X11 use.
On the other hand, I do like the battery life and have watched two movies back-to-back on a long flight. The trick is to copy the DVDs to your HD before trying to play them (while under power). It takes less power to spin the HD than the DVD drive. Don't forget to set the system to low backlight, turn on power cycling, and turn off anything related to peripherals or networks.
I'm not a huge fan of software patents myself. I'm not 100% against them either, though. I just think they need to be better controlled. I don't think that its fair for someone to plunk down the cash (and effort) to do R&D and come up with a great idea only to have some one else rip it off. That's unfair.
Imagine if you spent a year of your life developing a new task scheduling algorithm. You incurred expenses, etc because you were inventing and developing rather than working a 9-5 job. You donate this to Linux and the community loves you. Then Microsoft says "Hey, that's a neat idea" and implements it in Windows. They didn't copy it, obviously since the apis are different. Copyright offers no protection here.
Another example: Apple pays some of its developers to solve a UI problem, namely how to display speech recognition confirmations without reducing the usable focus-space of the screen. These developers work hard and come up with the idea that was so poorly summarized by the editor who posted this article. Microsoft steals the idea and uses it to compete with Apple. What motivation does Apple have to continue innovating? If they think of something neat (spending money to do so) then their competition will just re-implement it but with out the burden of paying for R&D.
Copyright is broken. It lasts too long and only protects against duplication of content, not of methods. Patents are the only other option. They need to be fixed too, but they are currently the only reason that companies can justify R&D spending. They are also the only way for inventors to reap a reward for their work. The patent system needs to be updated to fit better in a world in which implementing an invention can be done in digital form rather than the slower manual way, but some protection for inventors must be retained.
Hey everybody, this is NOT a patent on translucent windows. It is a patent on fading windows. That's right, it covers windows that fade over time as their content remains static. Once their translucency reaches a certain point, they no longer receive focus from user input, instead it passes to the underlying UI elements.
Imagine if your console log was set to full screen, but behaved in this manner. As long as nothing is logged the window gradually fades out and you can use your other windows. As soon as something is logged it becomes more opaque and accepts user input again.
I suppose more people click on patent articles if they sound ridiculously easy to find prior art for or otherwise abusive, but this one actually sounds innovative.
I believe that it was a poor design choice on Apple's part, but iTunes performance degrades quickly in the presence of shoddy video drivers. This may have been your problem. Also, if you disable SoundCheck (or just let it finish running) performance improves dramatically. SoundCheck determines the volumes of your music files and has iTunes compensate for bad rips, etc.
iTunes on Windows is slow
FairPlay is the DRM system used on files from the iTMS. iTunes could care less what you do with any of your files that were acquired elsewhere. It will even let you stream audio across your network with almost zero setup.
Winamp 2.95 is fast, convenient, and smart.
It sure is better than the 3.x version, but it has zero library management functions. It takes no time to search for a song in my library in iTunes. If I want to hear a song, I can begin to type any part of its name or its artist's name or even the album name and the song list updates live with each keystroke. It often takes just one or two characters to bring the song you want into the window. That is the one feature that sets iTunes apart from Winamp for me. I really liked Winamp and Macamp but I hated trying to find a particular song. I had to use filesystem searches, but that's not good enough.
You might want to take a second look at iTunes after you update your video drivers. Since you want it to be light weight, turn off all of the music store and sound enhancement features (turn off SoundCheck!). Then you will have an awesome music library management program. I think that if you have a significant music library that you will appreciate the search feature so much that it will eclipse iTunes other shortcomings.
GNUstep won't help you port Carbon applications. It only works for some Cocoa apps. Carbon is not objective c based. QuickTime (and iTunes IIRC) are still Carbon at heart. Sure there are Cocoa interfaces to QuickTime, but the core is Carbon. Porting Carbon to Linux probably isn't high on Apple's priority list.
Text-to-speech technology is no substitute for an audio book. Audiobooks are read by humans. Humans use slightly different voices for different characters, and infuse their voices with emotion. Some audiobooks are dramatized, with different readers for each character.
Would you take the script of a play or a movie, run it through tts and then say it was even a passable substitute for the original?
Perhaps I'm overconfident, but I'm fairly sure that nobody's going to show up at my house and demand a check to pay for the continued use of my iPod.
Of course not. Apple already paid it for you -- which means you paid when you bought it. All legal mp3 players have to pay for a license. They just pass it on to you in the price of your player. Windows users don't have to pay the "Microsoft Tax" themselves when they buy a new computer, it's included in the price.
I think I changed. I started out programming in HyperTalk and AppleSoft Basic. Then I started doing Mac Toolbox programming in Pascal and C++.
During the.com boom I started with Java and JavaScript and moved to perl on *nix. Now I do C++ on *nix (and others). I've still been developing for Macs all the way through. So I'm an "old school" Mac programmer who is now a *nix programmer who loves OS X.
OS X is the one thing that kept me from making my Linux machine my primary computer.
I don't know if I'm indicative of other Mac programmers; but could it be that rather than just more *nix developers moving to Apple, some Apple developers are changing into *nix developers too?
Paul might fund the first private space launch, but Darl's IP strategy reminds me more of Harriman's style. Remember "we own the moon because it passes over us?" Does that remind you of anyone's definition of derivative works? Canopy is even structured like Harriman's corporations.
I've been doing it for years. It actually is quite easy if you are willing to pay for good software or find a good free replacement for the MSFT (or Windows only) software you think you need. For example, there are lots of office suites out there and more individual spreadsheets and word processors that are office compatible.
In any case, if you are running a Sun OS, what is the likelihood that you have any MS products on it? Didn't IE for Solaris get discontinued years ago?
I still have my Cosmic Osmo box. I think there are 10 floppies in that thing. I loved that game. It might be worth the hassle of getting a one of my old machines with a floppy drive onto my network. I wonder if there's any way to get it to run on OS X?
Linux's share of new paid license shipments in 2002 increased to 23.1 percent from 22.4 percent in 2001. Unix systems accounted for 11 percent of the 5.7 million total shipments in 2002. Novell Inc.'s NetWare captured 9.9 percent and other products the remaining 1 percent.
Those are for paid licences. Those numbers have little weight with me since Linux and the BSDs have been freely available for a long time now. Also consider that just buying a support contract for a Linux server does not count toward the "paid license shipments" number.
What the heck is a paid linux license anyway? The article implied offerings such as RHEL and SLES make up that number.
I stand by my assertion that *nix owns the server market. Additionally, if we focus on the web (we started out talking Apache vs IIS, right?), then that position is uncontested.
The point is that the worms targeted IIS and MSSQL as opposed to Apache and whatever DB is most popular on webservers. This means that the worm writers chose a less popular but more vulnerable target. This factual evidence was presented to counter the supposition that *nix worms would become popular if *nix displaced Windows on the desktop.
To put it simply, *nix owns the server market, but server worm authors target Windows. There is no guarantee that if *nix ruled the desktop, desktop worm authors would suddenly stop targeting Windows and start attacking *nix machines.
Why doesn't the finder give you the full path to the item you have selected so you can copy it and paste it elsewhere.?
Have you tried dragging the icon to where you want the pathname pasted? This works for the terminal and many html editors. It probably won't help with a word processor though, since it might try to embed the file.
Personally, I think the new Finder blows compared to even the old System 6 version. I want a real Finder replacement that brings back all of the keyboard navigability (and key bindings) of the old one. I don't think it would be for everyone, but it would be great for people like me who keep hitting cmd-n only to close the window and hit shift-cmd-n. I want my old Finder Secrets back.
Strange. On my system, YaST warns that it won't change hand-altered files and instead creates a file with a similar name containing its suggestions. This is a rather old installation, so that may no longer be a feature. On the other hand it could be an option that I set long ago and forgot about.
IIRC, the "10x better" means 10x lower failure rate. The wording almost seems meant to deceive. The idea is that if you misidentify 10 messages out of 100, the filter would only misidentify 1. Since you made 10x as many mistakes, the filter was 10x as accurate as you were.
The scene in the trailer with all of the robots attacking people makes no sense. My guess is that the writers have never read any of Asimov's robot books at all. I'll usually see a movie based on a book I like no matter how bad it looks just to get someone else's interpretation of the story. This looks more like pure fabrication than interpretation.
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Does this make sense to you? "... unlike Apple's iTunes Music Store, which offers music that is only compatible with Apple's iPod portable player, WMP 10 will work with songs from virtually any other online music store. "
It looks like the summary is comparing iTMS to WMP 10 (rather that iTunes and QuickTime Player to WMP 10). The author could be comparing "Apple's iPod portable player" to "virtually any other online music store." Again the comparison makes no sense.
I'm going to try to respond anyway, since it might make the grandparent post's joke make more sense to you. Here we go:
The iPod can play many formats including MP3, but not WMA.
The iTMS sells songs with drm that only works in QuickTime enabled applications residing on the same computer as an authorized instance of iTunes and on the iPod right now.
iTunes (the audio player) can play many audio file formats and has really nice organizational features.
QuickTime Player is a media player that can play virtually anything you throw at it given the appropriate codec plugin.
WMP 10 is a media player that supports many formats including protected WMA files. I don't know if it plays FairPlay protected AAC from the iTMS, but it could easily enough, the API is simple.
MOMS is Microsoft's IE based music store. It sells protected WMA files.
There are many players that support protected WMA.
Now back to the summary: "... unlike Apple's iTunes Music Store, which offers music that is only compatible with Apple's iPod portable player, WMP 10 will work with songs from virtually any other online music store. "
iTMS doesn't work with other stores -- neither does MOMS.
iTMS doesn't work with any portable players other than the iPod (and that upcoming phone). MOMS doesn't work with the iPod, but it does work with others.
The iPod doesn't work with WMA. It does work with AAC, MP3, AIFF, etc. iPod users can get music from any source that provides audio in those formats.
WMP 10 supports many formats, but requires you to drag a pc around with you. -- that was the funny part.
I think I've covered all the angles, but damn that sentence is hard to parse.
Cocoa apps also use emacs keybindings in all text input areas. Ctrl-a to go to the start of a line, ctrl-e to go to the end. Ctrl-k cuts from the cursor to eol. Ctrl-y pastes back what you cut, etc.
This is actually customizable. You can use other schemes if you want or invent your own. You can probably find instructions at macosxhints.com
Don't forget that you can also turn on full keyboard access to navigate menus w/out the mouse.
Just use xterm with an ANSI font. You already have the app if you installed X11.
your point being that because the media in other countries are more liberal than the already liberal media here that the media here is in fact not liberal?
Liberal and conservative are relative things. When used as an absolute, i.e. "the media is liberal," you must agree on a scale. My point in saying that the media here is considered conservative by others was to illustrate that the scale used to measure conservatism and liberalism in this country is skewed to the right to begin with. From the outside, the argument that the American media is liberal looks about as silly as an argument between a pair of ants over whose hill is higher would look to a human.
The funny thing is you say their was plenty of people with strong arguments against the war, yet you yourself provide no argument.
You'll note that just as I did not provide any arguments about the war, I did not provide any arguments against the cancellation of Futurama. This is because I was neither writing about the war nor about Futurama. I was arguing about the characterization of the protesters provided by the mainstream media. In my previous post I was not arguing against the war, so I did not provide any arguments against it. The same goes for this post.
You just proved his point. There were plenty of people with strong arguments against the war. The mainstream media only showed you folks that would be written off as nut-jobs. It's a variation on the straw-man argument. The media showed you that the opposition was a bunch of loons who only know how to yell and wave signs; but it ignored the reasons why these people were protesting just as it ignored the more intellectual opposition to the war.
People who complain about the liberal media don't know what liberal means. The media in this country is far to the right of the media in most nations.
Try to use that ctrl-click method to chord both left and right mouse buttons in an X11 app. What about x11 apps that use ctrl-click or ctrl-right-click? I hate the mouse button on my PowerBook for X11 use.
On the other hand, I do like the battery life and have watched two movies back-to-back on a long flight. The trick is to copy the DVDs to your HD before trying to play them (while under power). It takes less power to spin the HD than the DVD drive. Don't forget to set the system to low backlight, turn on power cycling, and turn off anything related to peripherals or networks.
It takes a true patriot to love his country enough to try to improve it. "This Land is Your Land" is a very patriotic song.
I think Guthrie would have loved JibJab's version. I wonder what Arlo has to say about lawsuits over his father's song.
I'm not a huge fan of software patents myself. I'm not 100% against them either, though. I just think they need to be better controlled. I don't think that its fair for someone to plunk down the cash (and effort) to do R&D and come up with a great idea only to have some one else rip it off. That's unfair.
Imagine if you spent a year of your life developing a new task scheduling algorithm. You incurred expenses, etc because you were inventing and developing rather than working a 9-5 job. You donate this to Linux and the community loves you. Then Microsoft says "Hey, that's a neat idea" and implements it in Windows. They didn't copy it, obviously since the apis are different. Copyright offers no protection here.
Another example: Apple pays some of its developers to solve a UI problem, namely how to display speech recognition confirmations without reducing the usable focus-space of the screen. These developers work hard and come up with the idea that was so poorly summarized by the editor who posted this article. Microsoft steals the idea and uses it to compete with Apple. What motivation does Apple have to continue innovating? If they think of something neat (spending money to do so) then their competition will just re-implement it but with out the burden of paying for R&D.
Copyright is broken. It lasts too long and only protects against duplication of content, not of methods.
Patents are the only other option. They need to be fixed too, but they are currently the only reason that companies can justify R&D spending. They are also the only way for inventors to reap a reward for their work. The patent system needs to be updated to fit better in a world in which implementing an invention can be done in digital form rather than the slower manual way, but some protection for inventors must be retained.
Hey everybody, this is NOT a patent on translucent windows. It is a patent on fading windows. That's right, it covers windows that fade over time as their content remains static. Once their translucency reaches a certain point, they no longer receive focus from user input, instead it passes to the underlying UI elements.
Imagine if your console log was set to full screen, but behaved in this manner. As long as nothing is logged the window gradually fades out and you can use your other windows. As soon as something is logged it becomes more opaque and accepts user input again.
I suppose more people click on patent articles if they sound ridiculously easy to find prior art for or otherwise abusive, but this one actually sounds innovative.
iTunes on Windows is slow
I believe that it was a poor design choice on Apple's part, but iTunes performance degrades quickly in the presence of shoddy video drivers. This may have been your problem. Also, if you disable SoundCheck (or just let it finish running) performance improves dramatically. SoundCheck determines the volumes of your music files and has iTunes compensate for bad rips, etc.
iTunes on Windows is slow
FairPlay is the DRM system used on files from the iTMS. iTunes could care less what you do with any of your files that were acquired elsewhere. It will even let you stream audio across your network with almost zero setup.
Winamp 2.95 is fast, convenient, and smart.
It sure is better than the 3.x version, but it has zero library management functions. It takes no time to search for a song in my library in iTunes. If I want to hear a song, I can begin to type any part of its name or its artist's name or even the album name and the song list updates live with each keystroke. It often takes just one or two characters to bring the song you want into the window. That is the one feature that sets iTunes apart from Winamp for me. I really liked Winamp and Macamp but I hated trying to find a particular song. I had to use filesystem searches, but that's not good enough.
You might want to take a second look at iTunes after you update your video drivers. Since you want it to be light weight, turn off all of the music store and sound enhancement features (turn off SoundCheck!). Then you will have an awesome music library management program. I think that if you have a significant music library that you will appreciate the search feature so much that it will eclipse iTunes other shortcomings.
Other than the moral part, there's no advantage in using itunes over anything else
iTMS is a music store. iTunes is a kick-ass audio player/organizer. It is second to none, imho. No winamp user I know who tried iTunes ever went back.
GNUstep won't help you port Carbon applications. It only works for some Cocoa apps. Carbon is not objective c based. QuickTime (and iTunes IIRC) are still Carbon at heart. Sure there are Cocoa interfaces to QuickTime, but the core is Carbon. Porting Carbon to Linux probably isn't high on Apple's priority list.
Text-to-speech technology is no substitute for an audio book. Audiobooks are read by humans. Humans use slightly different voices for different characters, and infuse their voices with emotion. Some audiobooks are dramatized, with different readers for each character.
Would you take the script of a play or a movie, run it through tts and then say it was even a passable substitute for the original?
Perhaps I'm overconfident, but I'm fairly sure that nobody's going to show up at my house and demand a check to pay for the continued use of my iPod.
Of course not. Apple already paid it for you -- which means you paid when you bought it. All legal mp3 players have to pay for a license. They just pass it on to you in the price of your player. Windows users don't have to pay the "Microsoft Tax" themselves when they buy a new computer, it's included in the price.
I think I changed. I started out programming in HyperTalk and AppleSoft Basic. Then I started doing Mac Toolbox programming in Pascal and C++.
.com boom I started with Java and JavaScript and moved to perl on *nix. Now I do C++ on *nix (and others). I've still been developing for Macs all the way through. So I'm an "old school" Mac programmer who is now a *nix programmer who loves OS X.
During the
OS X is the one thing that kept me from making my Linux machine my primary computer.
I don't know if I'm indicative of other Mac programmers; but could it be that rather than just more *nix developers moving to Apple, some Apple developers are changing into *nix developers too?
Paul might fund the first private space launch, but Darl's IP strategy reminds me more of Harriman's style. Remember "we own the moon because it passes over us?" Does that remind you of anyone's definition of derivative works? Canopy is even structured like Harriman's corporations.
Boycotting MSFT is not easy/practical
I've been doing it for years. It actually is quite easy if you are willing to pay for good software or find a good free replacement for the MSFT (or Windows only) software you think you need. For example, there are lots of office suites out there and more individual spreadsheets and word processors that are office compatible.
In any case, if you are running a Sun OS, what is the likelihood that you have any MS products on it? Didn't IE for Solaris get discontinued years ago?
I still have my Cosmic Osmo box. I think there are 10 floppies in that thing. I loved that game. It might be worth the hassle of getting a one of my old machines with a floppy drive onto my network. I wonder if there's any way to get it to run on OS X?
Holy Mackerel!
Many people magically got it to go past level 3.
Those are for paid licences. Those numbers have little weight with me since Linux and the BSDs have been freely available for a long time now. Also consider that just buying a support contract for a Linux server does not count toward the "paid license shipments" number.
What the heck is a paid linux license anyway? The article implied offerings such as RHEL and SLES make up that number.
I stand by my assertion that *nix owns the server market. Additionally, if we focus on the web (we started out talking Apache vs IIS, right?), then that position is uncontested.
The point is that the worms targeted IIS and MSSQL as opposed to Apache and whatever DB is most popular on webservers. This means that the worm writers chose a less popular but more vulnerable target. This factual evidence was presented to counter the supposition that *nix worms would become popular if *nix displaced Windows on the desktop.
To put it simply, *nix owns the server market, but server worm authors target Windows. There is no guarantee that if *nix ruled the desktop, desktop worm authors would suddenly stop targeting Windows and start attacking *nix machines.
Why doesn't the finder give you the full path to the item you have selected so you can copy it and paste it elsewhere.?
Have you tried dragging the icon to where you want the pathname pasted? This works for the terminal and many html editors. It probably won't help with a word processor though, since it might try to embed the file.
Personally, I think the new Finder blows compared to even the old System 6 version. I want a real Finder replacement that brings back all of the keyboard navigability (and key bindings) of the old one. I don't think it would be for everyone, but it would be great for people like me who keep hitting cmd-n only to close the window and hit shift-cmd-n. I want my old Finder Secrets back.
Strange. On my system, YaST warns that it won't change hand-altered files and instead creates a file with a similar name containing its suggestions. This is a rather old installation, so that may no longer be a feature. On the other hand it could be an option that I set long ago and forgot about.
IIRC, the "10x better" means 10x lower failure rate. The wording almost seems meant to deceive. The idea is that if you misidentify 10 messages out of 100, the filter would only misidentify 1. Since you made 10x as many mistakes, the filter was 10x as accurate as you were.
The scene in the trailer with all of the robots attacking people makes no sense. My guess is that the writers have never read any of Asimov's robot books at all. I'll usually see a movie based on a book I like no matter how bad it looks just to get someone else's interpretation of the story. This looks more like pure fabrication than interpretation.