The problem is that there are too many standards to "bundle" into the machines you buy.... For a desktop, you can get a 1032801328-in-1 reader. For a laptop, most come with SD readers only (and sony gives you a memstick pro reader, puke)
It's really not possible to give every computer the readers they want. When will the next time be that you see an xD reader built into a laptop? Until fugi or olympus start making laptops, you probably never will.
Are you sure you are using their "Ultra" version? They are about $5-$10 more per card, but well worth the dramatic speed improvement...
And their standard speed cards are a heck of a pricepoint, no matter what way you look, you can't expect the cheapest/most compatible card on the market to whizz by at flaming speeds... I think you are expecting too much out of them. You should be glad that the SanDisk SD cards are actually compatible with just about anything out there. And their availability is.. just about everywhere locally and online.
" This actually is the only legitimate reason I can see to distinguish the two types of theft. However..."
Too bad it is not legally, morally, or even technically considered theft, even with the stretch of the imagination...
You might want to call it what it is next time: Copyright Infringement.
By definition, legally and morally, you must deprive the party you "stole" it from of the object. This is not the case in copyright infringement. The only way to steal music is to steal media containing it. Then and only then will you be depriving the origional owner.
That's the point. Real doesn't depend on Apple's cooperation. What they do depend on is that the compatibility layers that they write SPECIFICALLY for 3rd party players not be malaciously broken by said 3rd party player manufacturer.
This is exactly what apple did to the iPod upon finding out about Real's compatability layer.
Not only this, but the fact that they intentionally changed their iPod firmware to be INCOMPATIBLE with 3rd party music stores (such as real media music store) is double whammy. Not only is iTMS not compatible with 3rd party players intentionally, but iPod is intentionally not compatible with 3rd party music stores.
It has already been shown that apple has done these things intentionally, with a large enough marketshare to matter, which is exactly what the lawsuit is about.
"I don't care if Apple broke Harmony on purpose or not. They had no obligation not to break it. It's their product: They can do what they want with it. It's your money: You can do what you want with it."
I don't care if [Microsoft] broke [DR-DOS]on purpose or not. They had no obligation not to break it. It's their product: They can do what they want with it. It's your money: You can do what you want with it.
One thing to notice is that when MS did the changes to windows to prevent 3rd party DOS from working, they were also not a convicted monopolist, and did not even have the marketshare to be one at the time. But those tactics, combined with uncompetative behaviour, and eventual monopolistic marketshare, is what made it illegal for microsoft.
Apple's claim of 80% of the marketshare should definately be enough when compared to MS's origional windows marketshare of much less than 80% of operating systems at the time.
Remember, we are talking about windows for dos. Not windows XP/2K here. This all happened AGES ago before microsoft was a monopoly. And they were convicted of illegal practice for exactly that tactic.
"Locked out Real after Real cracked Apple's Fairplay code violating the license. Sure, any company would have done the same."
Same old arguments man... As if microsoft didn't have a "license" to protect DOS back when they illegally changed the API's.
Don't get me started. Real didn't break any legally binding "licenses" if any at all. They simply allowed their music to be played on the iPod. Period.
"No. It is not illegal until a company leverages their monopoly to prevent others from fairly competing."
Enter Real Audio software upgrade for iPods: Stiffled by apple illegal practices.
You can't argue that apple isn't changing their code to prevent their software and players to not be compabitle with 3rd parties. They have done it in the past. They currently do it. And they will continue to do it in the future until a judge says they can't. This is an almost IDENTICAL practice to what microsoft did to DOS and started it all way back when.
Actually, holding a yard sale is not income. In order for the yardsale to become income it would imply you are selling some value added product or manufactured and sold a product. A yard sale is liquidating personal property (which you purchased at a higher price) which means there is a negative cashflow. You cannot be (income) taxed on negative cashflow, even if you have a billion dollars of revenue. So unless you are selling an antique which you bought for 50c and sold for 20$ you DEFINATELY are not required legally to report it on your income tax forms.
In fact, Linux has a clause in it which specifically allows binary modules to be shipped with distributions with the GPL kernel. There are other software projects which add their own or take away their own things from the GPL. In fact, the FSF has never had a problem with people ammending the GPL to their use in their own projects.
Meta data is not the only advantage to FLAC over WAV. FLAC will do a loss-less compression of approximately 2:1. So you save hard drive space. Flac is also a good standard format because it supports hi quality 24 bit audio if needed (so does wav..)
The main thing is the compression. The second main thing is the meta data. The third main thing is that FLAC can be played without decompression being a middle step.
We have a bunch of Treo 600s (and some moving to 650's) and are having a hell of a time syncing our calendars with the server... So far all we can figure out is to sync to the desktop PC over the internet (GPRS) but this is riciulous as the calendering is stored on the server.
What type of software (server and client) can be used to sync calendars and everything else DIRECTLY to the server, without having to use the PC as the middle man? Right now we have to sync the PDA to the outlook client, which is totally unacceptable... Secretaries are adding appointments to people on the road all the time, and they need to be able to access this information... Any suggestions? Thanks for info if you know of any solutions (i searched google forever and closest thing I can find is SyncML standards, but no software which implements it on server and client ):
Seriously, I am trying to do self processing at a small shop. Just trying to get the store online with CC payments, and in store charge accounts... But everyone I have talked to says that unless your using a payment gateway to process the credit cards, it is a lawsuit waiting to happen. They say PGP emails are not good enough, and storing them on the server might be illegal or considered negligance.
What shopping cart software do you propose to use for this type of CC storage which would allow me to retrieve it and bill it using a hand processor? (being that it is a low volume web store which compliments a brick and mortar store...)
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But when using Acrobat Reader, you can't save the filled out forms.. Do you know how to do this to get around the crap?
thanks!
I can bitch whenever I want to. But that isn't the point. This guy is (rightfully) sueing Apple for anticompetative behaviour.
The judge will have to decide if apple has enough marketshare to make this practice illegal. But if they do, then they will lose.
The problem is that there are too many standards to "bundle" into the machines you buy.... For a desktop, you can get a 1032801328-in-1 reader. For a laptop, most come with SD readers only (and sony gives you a memstick pro reader, puke)
It's really not possible to give every computer the readers they want. When will the next time be that you see an xD reader built into a laptop? Until fugi or olympus start making laptops, you probably never will.
Are you sure you are using their "Ultra" version? They are about $5-$10 more per card, but well worth the dramatic speed improvement...
And their standard speed cards are a heck of a pricepoint, no matter what way you look, you can't expect the cheapest/most compatible card on the market to whizz by at flaming speeds... I think you are expecting too much out of them. You should be glad that the SanDisk SD cards are actually compatible with just about anything out there. And their availability is.. just about everywhere locally and online.
" This actually is the only legitimate reason I can see to distinguish the two types of theft. However..."
Too bad it is not legally, morally, or even technically considered theft, even with the stretch of the imagination...
You might want to call it what it is next time: Copyright Infringement.
By definition, legally and morally, you must deprive the party you "stole" it from of the object. This is not the case in copyright infringement. The only way to steal music is to steal media containing it. Then and only then will you be depriving the origional owner.
According to walmart.com you cannot use the iPod with walmart.com music store:
Important Note: This player is not compatible with Wal-Mart Music Downloads.
So this is not a solution to the problem.
garcia:
Thank you for typing out exactly what we all know and feel. Your post sums it up nicely.
thanks
That's the point. Real doesn't depend on Apple's cooperation. What they do depend on is that the compatibility layers that they write SPECIFICALLY for 3rd party players not be malaciously broken by said 3rd party player manufacturer.
This is exactly what apple did to the iPod upon finding out about Real's compatability layer.
Not only this, but the fact that they intentionally changed their iPod firmware to be INCOMPATIBLE with 3rd party music stores (such as real media music store) is double whammy. Not only is iTMS not compatible with 3rd party players intentionally, but iPod is intentionally not compatible with 3rd party music stores.
It has already been shown that apple has done these things intentionally, with a large enough marketshare to matter, which is exactly what the lawsuit is about.
At the risk of feeding a troll...
I never claimed to be any less ignorant than I realize.
The point is that if you want to buy online music for the iPod you bought, you can ONLY use iTMS. That is lockin.
Real tried to sell their online music to ipod users and apple immediately changed their code to be incompatible with it.
This is exactly what microsoft was convicted of. Breaking windows to not let it work on top of DR-DOS. Caldera got a huge settlement for it.
"I don't care if Apple broke Harmony on purpose or not. They had no obligation not to break it. It's their product: They can do what they want with it. It's your money: You can do what you want with it."
I don't care if [Microsoft] broke [DR-DOS]on purpose or not. They had no obligation not to break it. It's their product: They can do what they want with it. It's your money: You can do what you want with it.
One thing to notice is that when MS did the changes to windows to prevent 3rd party DOS from working, they were also not a convicted monopolist, and did not even have the marketshare to be one at the time. But those tactics, combined with uncompetative behaviour, and eventual monopolistic marketshare, is what made it illegal for microsoft.
Apple's claim of 80% of the marketshare should definately be enough when compared to MS's origional windows marketshare of much less than 80% of operating systems at the time.
Remember, we are talking about windows for dos. Not windows XP/2K here. This all happened AGES ago before microsoft was a monopoly. And they were convicted of illegal practice for exactly that tactic.
the same obligation that microsoft cannot modify windows to make 3rd party DOS not work with it.
"Locked out Real after Real cracked Apple's Fairplay code violating the license. Sure, any company would have done the same."
Same old arguments man... As if microsoft didn't have a "license" to protect DOS back when they illegally changed the API's.
Don't get me started. Real didn't break any legally binding "licenses" if any at all. They simply allowed their music to be played on the iPod. Period.
"No. It is not illegal until a company leverages their monopoly to prevent others from fairly competing."
Enter Real Audio software upgrade for iPods: Stiffled by apple illegal practices.
You can't argue that apple isn't changing their code to prevent their software and players to not be compabitle with 3rd parties. They have done it in the past. They currently do it. And they will continue to do it in the future until a judge says they can't. This is an almost IDENTICAL practice to what microsoft did to DOS and started it all way back when.
Actually, holding a yard sale is not income. In order for the yardsale to become income it would imply you are selling some value added product or manufactured and sold a product. A yard sale is liquidating personal property (which you purchased at a higher price) which means there is a negative cashflow. You cannot be (income) taxed on negative cashflow, even if you have a billion dollars of revenue. So unless you are selling an antique which you bought for 50c and sold for 20$ you DEFINATELY are not required legally to report it on your income tax forms.
Incorrect.
In fact, Linux has a clause in it which specifically allows binary modules to be shipped with distributions with the GPL kernel. There are other software projects which add their own or take away their own things from the GPL. In fact, the FSF has never had a problem with people ammending the GPL to their use in their own projects.
Look at nVidia vs the rest... ATI, 3dFX, S3
Now they are the biggest, and it has only been a few years.
Meta data is not the only advantage to FLAC over WAV. FLAC will do a loss-less compression of approximately 2:1. So you save hard drive space. Flac is also a good standard format because it supports hi quality 24 bit audio if needed (so does wav..)
The main thing is the compression. The second main thing is the meta data. The third main thing is that FLAC can be played without decompression being a middle step.
Actually, Starbucks charges your CC before you are allowed to get online in their coffee shop...
We have a bunch of Treo 600s (and some moving to 650's) and are having a hell of a time syncing our calendars with the server... So far all we can figure out is to sync to the desktop PC over the internet (GPRS) but this is riciulous as the calendering is stored on the server.
What type of software (server and client) can be used to sync calendars and everything else DIRECTLY to the server, without having to use the PC as the middle man? Right now we have to sync the PDA to the outlook client, which is totally unacceptable... Secretaries are adding appointments to people on the road all the time, and they need to be able to access this information... Any suggestions? Thanks for info if you know of any solutions (i searched google forever and closest thing I can find is SyncML standards, but no software which implements it on server and client ):
What kind of security is required to hold credit card numbers on the database like this?
How to prevent leaked credit cards?
Seriously, I am trying to do self processing at a small shop. Just trying to get the store online with CC payments, and in store charge accounts... But everyone I have talked to says that unless your using a payment gateway to process the credit cards, it is a lawsuit waiting to happen. They say PGP emails are not good enough, and storing them on the server might be illegal or considered negligance.
What shopping cart software do you propose to use for this type of CC storage which would allow me to retrieve it and bill it using a hand processor? (being that it is a low volume web store which compliments a brick and mortar store...)
thanks if you can help!