I don't think that removing DRM would have a major impact on iPod sales. The iPod is successful not because people want to be able to play their iTunes music but because it looks great/is cool/has a fantastic UI.
"Without the DRM, you're free to buy from any online store and then you'd have more selection on the hardware too."
That's not true. Since iPods can already play non-DRMed music and can't play any DRMed music except for FairPlay, after removing DRM from iTunes the options in terms of sources of music would not change. Unless Apple ditching DRM was accompanied by all the WMA stores ditching it, and then of course they are still in WMA format which means they won't play on the iPod.
My bank (ING DIRECT, in Australia) makes me click past this message every time I log into their internet banking:
Look out for suspicious emails and fake websites claiming to be from ING DIRECT. We will never send you an email redirecting you to log on to our online banking website. Please call us immediately on 133 464 if you see anything suspicious.
I think if the recording industry allowed it Apple would ditch DRM in a fraction of a second.
There are lots of people around who don't buy songs from iTMS because of the DRM. Apple negotiated hard to get FairPlay to be so liberal, and to be able to be rid of it would be great for them.
But can you block that phoning home with your firewall? Does the program happily function with its phonehome capability blocked?
That is the key question.
Well FISA provides for (in civil cases) statutory damages of $1000 per wiretap. I'm not sure how relevant that is, since I think that would be more applicable in a case against the NSA, but at least it might serve as a guidline.
This is not useful untill/unless it is connected to a computer. With a connection to a laptop it would kick arse, but WiMAX or similar is probably more suited to that market.
There is just no use for that much data on a phone.
Really, a Windows licence isn't the major part of the cost of a new PC. So just using their own OS (with all the development costs) isn't going to save a huge amount of money per unit sold.
I imagine that there would be corrective optics built into the device, so your eye only has to focus at a relatively distant image. In this case, it is 12 feet, which is why it is touted as appearing like a 102-inch display at 12 feet rather than a 42 thousand inch screen at one mile or any other size/distance (as other posters have suggested).
I know there are a lot more than 13 things that don't make sense, such as free markets, but, oxymorons aside, this is an interesting list, nevertheless.
Free markets make perfect sense! They are the most logical, sensible system.
My sister had insomnia. I told her that I heard on a medical show on the radio that hitting oneself over the head with a hammer tends to help with sleeping.
No more insomnia! I just made that up. Who said placebos don't work?
Clean energy sources will become as cool as cool computer gadgets because they are themselves cool gagdets. I mean, come on, how cool is a wind generator floating in the air?
Predictions that didn't pan out:...
The release of Microsoft's next-generation operating system, Longhorn (now called Vista), will be delayed to 2007. (Microsoft says it plans to ship in the second half of 2006.)
I'd say given the number of delays already experienced (wasn't it originally meant to ship in 2003 or so?) that 2007 doesn't seem too far off the mark.
The reason I don't use RSS is because the sites I visit I tend to read every story. I visit a fairly small number of blogs/newsites that I know have quality content. I tend to get most of my news from the (hardcopy) newspaper, though, so on the web I'm mainly looking at blogs.
RSS is usefull if you want to sift through a lot of content (i.e. the user should have several tens of feeds for RSS to be usefull, and not read all the stories in all the feeds).
Blu-ray will take off and HD-DVD will be left wondering what happened. The predicted 'format war' will never happen except in the minds of a few HD-DVD fans.
Slashdot Mirror
But take a look at "Halo effect" vs "/. effect"
I don't think that removing DRM would have a major impact on iPod sales. The iPod is successful not because people want to be able to play their iTunes music but because it looks great/is cool/has a fantastic UI. "Without the DRM, you're free to buy from any online store and then you'd have more selection on the hardware too." That's not true. Since iPods can already play non-DRMed music and can't play any DRMed music except for FairPlay, after removing DRM from iTunes the options in terms of sources of music would not change. Unless Apple ditching DRM was accompanied by all the WMA stores ditching it, and then of course they are still in WMA format which means they won't play on the iPod.
I think if the recording industry allowed it Apple would ditch DRM in a fraction of a second. There are lots of people around who don't buy songs from iTMS because of the DRM. Apple negotiated hard to get FairPlay to be so liberal, and to be able to be rid of it would be great for them.
But can you block that phoning home with your firewall? Does the program happily function with its phonehome capability blocked? That is the key question.
Well FISA provides for (in civil cases) statutory damages of $1000 per wiretap. I'm not sure how relevant that is, since I think that would be more applicable in a case against the NSA, but at least it might serve as a guidline.
Surely the dupes on slashdot are evidence that the editors have been given early samples.
So how much evil radiation does the iPod really emit? Now we can know.
Roger that.
<mumble>remember: Google is my friend. Google is my friend. Google is my friend. </mumble>
Anyone else find it ironic that a company named corsair makes water-cooling units?
I saw a chem students' society T-Shirt that said
Ba(Na)2
Of course, the 2 was subscripted.
This is not useful untill/unless it is connected to a computer. With a connection to a laptop it would kick arse, but WiMAX or similar is probably more suited to that market. There is just no use for that much data on a phone.
Really, a Windows licence isn't the major part of the cost of a new PC. So just using their own OS (with all the development costs) isn't going to save a huge amount of money per unit sold.
I imagine that there would be corrective optics built into the device, so your eye only has to focus at a relatively distant image. In this case, it is 12 feet, which is why it is touted as appearing like a 102-inch display at 12 feet rather than a 42 thousand inch screen at one mile or any other size/distance (as other posters have suggested).
My sister had insomnia. I told her that I heard on a medical show on the radio that hitting oneself over the head with a hammer tends to help with sleeping. No more insomnia! I just made that up. Who said placebos don't work?
And here is that same google cache link without the annoying highlighting on every second word.
Clean energy sources will become as cool as cool computer gadgets because they are themselves cool gagdets. I mean, come on, how cool is a wind generator floating in the air?
The reason I don't use RSS is because the sites I visit I tend to read every story. I visit a fairly small number of blogs/newsites that I know have quality content. I tend to get most of my news from the (hardcopy) newspaper, though, so on the web I'm mainly looking at blogs. RSS is usefull if you want to sift through a lot of content (i.e. the user should have several tens of feeds for RSS to be usefull, and not read all the stories in all the feeds).
Blu-ray will take off and HD-DVD will be left wondering what happened. The predicted 'format war' will never happen except in the minds of a few HD-DVD fans.
Get AdBlock for firefox. Problem solved. Now there's one less obvious indicator of the dodginess of a website.
Patent PENDING. Maybe it won't be granted if its flimsy enough.
Gives you more space to play cricket. Or just to stuff around.