Meh, there is no accounting for human nature (see religion, sports, soap operas), there are likely 6 billion people eager to exchange their money (that Sony can do anything it wants with) for Sony DRM products ( with which they can only do what Sony wants ). It is better to moan about DRM than to curse some candles in the dark. Or something.
Of course not. The 'property' you have paid for is the right to access the content. You won't be able to actually _access_ the content, but you will still have the _right_ to do so.
Sony's DRM has succeeded mightily in stopping me spending money on their products. The Sony amp and speakers I bought in the 80's look embarrassed at the way their maker has pissed its good name away.
Smoothed and improved traffic flow can be observed whenever and wherever traffic signals cease operating. Assuming this new system has more downtime than the current traffic lights system, the new system will indeed improve traffic flow.
In the US, we have collectively decided, as a society, that some information should be kept secret, even from The People, and we have empowered and entrusted the government with the power to do so
When did 'we' decide this? I don't remember 'us' being asked. Was this decision made in perpetuity or are 'we' agreeing to an extension of it every time a president is elected even if it is with less than 50% of the vote? Maybe soon 'we' will decide to ban private firearm ownership, get tattoos and implants and right-size our dissidents?
I have been advocating a similar thing for years. The way forward would be to release a sample in full quality, then 'ransom' a low bitrate version for cheap, then 'ransom' the full thing. After you release the full thing you can still sell it to individuals that show up to the website.
Just to pick up on your point of 'a device that responds instantly and smoothly to your input', I have seen video of iPads and iPhones and they don't seem to respond instantly, they have zooming and sliding and all the other crap that I switch off on desktop machines. Can this crap be disabled on iPhone/iPad?
How do you buy applications to bring stuff over the wire if you don't use iTunes? Surely if you can get apps onto the thing without iTunes, you don't need an app to get stuff onto the iPad without itunes?
Well, my car radio has SD cards and so does my (somewhat clonky) camera and my phone(well, micro-sd). Thus I cram a micro-sd-in-an-sd-adaptor into the unsightly tiny slot in my laptop (suppressing a shudder at the sight of a small slot and an led in a plastic housing) and copy mp3 files onto it with whatever OS is to hand, then i can play my beloved bagpipe-ska-black-metal crossover music in either the car or the phone. Photos taken with either phone or camera go back the same way.
Why not use an adapter? Because someone will have borrowed and broken it, or it has been left plugged into some other box somewhere else. I have no desire to buy adapters in bulk, I do that with biros and i still have no biros where i need them.
I cunningly avoid having a gaping hole on the side/top/bottom of my sleek device by not having any sleek devices. Maybe you could get a skilled car body repair guy to fill and spray over the slots on your iMac?
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I was using a serial cable to configure an old device last week, perhaps you could explain what the word 'serial' means, or perhaps 'cable'.
Apple had 4 options with this airport doohickey:
1. Build in an http server so it is configurable by almost any machine (but possibly not beginner-friendly). 2. Build in an http server so it is configurable by almost any machine and also build in some protocol to connect with the current mac OS for 'easy-config' ( this is maybe a bit wasteful of bytes in the airport ) 3. Build in an http server so it is configurable by almost any machine and build an easy-config utility into the current mac OS that utilises the http service on the airport(best option, to my mind). 4. Build in a protocol that can only talk to some easy-config tool in the current mac OS, ( and versions apple release for whatever OS they can be bothered to ).
Using their 30+ years of experience apple plumped for 4, thus ensuring the minimum number of machines are able to configure the airport out-of-the-box and maximising fragility ( if apple decide to drop support of the airport, or the non-mac OS gets an update that breaks the apple easy-config tool you are SOL).
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Haha, you kill me. "embed a little http server on the device so you could use a web browser" you say? Amazing! I would never have thought of that! Oh, wait, that is the whole point of the story. You couldn't have, by default, OS X configure the device out of the box through said web interface?
I bet the engineers at Apple pull their turtlenecks over their ears to hide their blushes of shame while Marketing high-five and call the engineers 'bitches'.
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These idiots just keep finding more things to investigate, it is almost like they don't care that textbooks will need to be reprinted.
[make up your own lame pun involving wii]
Meh, there is no accounting for human nature (see religion, sports, soap operas), there are likely 6 billion people eager to exchange their money (that Sony can do anything it wants with) for Sony DRM products ( with which they can only do what Sony wants ).
It is better to moan about DRM than to curse some candles in the dark. Or something.
Of course not. The 'property' you have paid for is the right to access the content. You won't be able to actually _access_ the content, but you will still have the _right_ to do so.
Sony's DRM has succeeded mightily in stopping me spending money on their products. The Sony amp and speakers I bought in the 80's look embarrassed at the way their maker has pissed its good name away.
Meh to bluray. Meh I say! I shall buy bluray when there is no other option and the title i want is in the remainders bin for £1.
So, maybe 2014?
I don't use social networks (no friends) but i assumed the information would all be false, or at least flattering, anyway.
Smoothed and improved traffic flow can be observed whenever and wherever traffic signals cease operating. Assuming this new system has more downtime than the current traffic lights system, the new system will indeed improve traffic flow.
When did 'we' decide this? I don't remember 'us' being asked. Was this decision made in perpetuity or are 'we' agreeing to an extension of it every time a president is elected even if it is with less than 50% of the vote? Maybe soon 'we' will decide to ban private firearm ownership, get tattoos and implants and right-size our dissidents?
Damn you, I was going to post the same thing (only i was going to say 'gay rockets').
Oy, what a choice!
I have been advocating a similar thing for years. The way forward would be to release a sample in full quality, then 'ransom' a low bitrate version for cheap, then 'ransom' the full thing. After you release the full thing you can still sell it to individuals that show up to the website.
I was trying to remember what I used :-) was it yellow and blue? That is how i remember it.
My thinkpad 600x has a gui bios for the date/time, this is about 1993 vintage. Back then apple were trying to sell tablet devices.
Speaking of sigs, what about government's bodyguards? Their guns could be used on the people they are supposed to protect. well, I say 'people'....
Ah, thank you. It sounds better than other touchscreens i have used.
Just to pick up on your point of 'a device that responds instantly and smoothly to your input', I have seen video of iPads and iPhones and they don't seem to respond instantly, they have zooming and sliding and all the other crap that I switch off on desktop machines. Can this crap be disabled on iPhone/iPad?
Can you connect an iPad to a projector? I didn't think it had much in the way of connectors.
If only I could pay for it with the illusion of taxpaying.
Just use multiple waveguides everywhere, duh!
Ah! Thank you. I thought itunes _was_ the app store.
How do you buy applications to bring stuff over the wire if you don't use iTunes? Surely if you can get apps onto the thing without iTunes, you don't need an app to get stuff onto the iPad without itunes?
Well, my car radio has SD cards and so does my (somewhat clonky) camera and my phone(well, micro-sd).
Thus I cram a micro-sd-in-an-sd-adaptor into the unsightly tiny slot in my laptop (suppressing a shudder at the sight of a small slot and an led in a plastic housing) and copy mp3 files onto it with whatever OS is to hand, then i can play my beloved bagpipe-ska-black-metal crossover music in either the car or the phone. Photos taken with either phone or camera go back the same way.
Why not use an adapter? Because someone will have borrowed and broken it, or it has been left plugged into some other box somewhere else. I have no desire to buy adapters in bulk, I do that with biros and i still have no biros where i need them.
I cunningly avoid having a gaping hole on the side/top/bottom of my sleek device by not having any sleek devices. Maybe you could get a skilled car body repair guy to fill and spray over the slots on your iMac?
I was using a serial cable to configure an old device last week, perhaps you could explain what the word 'serial' means, or perhaps 'cable'.
Apple had 4 options with this airport doohickey:
1. Build in an http server so it is configurable by almost any machine (but possibly not beginner-friendly).
2. Build in an http server so it is configurable by almost any machine and also build in some protocol to connect with the current mac OS for 'easy-config' ( this is maybe a bit wasteful of bytes in the airport )
3. Build in an http server so it is configurable by almost any machine and build an easy-config utility into the current mac OS that utilises the http service on the airport(best option, to my mind).
4. Build in a protocol that can only talk to some easy-config tool in the current mac OS, ( and versions apple release for whatever OS they can be bothered to ).
Using their 30+ years of experience apple plumped for 4, thus ensuring the minimum number of machines are able to configure the airport out-of-the-box and maximising fragility ( if apple decide to drop support of the airport, or the non-mac OS gets an update that breaks the apple easy-config tool you are SOL).
Haha, you kill me. "embed a little http server on the device so you could use a web browser" you say? Amazing! I would never have thought of that! Oh, wait, that is the whole point of the story. You couldn't have, by default, OS X configure the device out of the box through said web interface?
I bet the engineers at Apple pull their turtlenecks over their ears to hide their blushes of shame while Marketing high-five and call the engineers 'bitches'.