BitLocker is disk encryption, to which the user retains full control and which the user can (as far as I can tell) opt to remove if desired. It's not DRM.
How, precisely, will Vista infect ANYTHING with DRM? Other than allowing you to play DRMed music and movies, obviously. Infection implies that everything you have will suddenly be DRMed, which is patently bullshit.
So come on; infected with DRM. How are they going to do that exactly?
So you can customise the install disc yourself and slipstream software into it? Surely that's been possible with every single distro of Linux for the last few years or so now? Could put malware into a custom Ubuntu CD, couldn't you? Not a new thing.
More to the point, unless you download your version of Vista from some obscure warez site, it's very unlikely to have malware slipstreamed into it; UNLESS YOU PUT IT IN YOURSELF.
Just because something has the capability to have malware put into it does not make it bad. This is a stupid fuss being made of nothing. I'd say I expect better from Slashdot, but considering the number of Microsoft/Zune/Vista bashing troll articles that are getting posted these days I'd be lying.
It feels like sacrilege, but I have all of my music at 128kbps AAC (saves storage space and battery power on the iPod). Doesn't sound too bad, and if I really want to hear my music losslessly I can just go to the CDs on my shelf. Done.
Gotta say though, if you really want high quality you can't go wrong with Musepack...nothing really plays it, but the quality is fantastic in a fairly small file size.
People have been whining that they can't legally download movies for a while. Now they're making a way in which you can, and they're whining that it's easier to go to a rental store.
I've yet to see a single person say "yes, I'm illegally filesharing and I'm willing to take the legal consequences as a symbol protest." Instead all I hear is "b-b-but it's not stealing, it's sharing! Everybody does it! Your business model is outdated and you're *mean*! Lower your prices! Britney sucks!"
That's because what you have in the latter case is someone driven more by not wanting to pay a reasonable, or indeed any, price for something than any kind of overriding moral commitment. They tend to be the ones who have 200GB of MP3s off BitTorrent and no intention of paying for any of it whatsoever (as opposed to the "try before you buy" type people, who I have infinitely more time for, and may just have more of a point.) They wouldn't want to take a stand, because they're not in it to make a stand. "It's not stealing"/"Everybody does it"/"Outdated business model"/"High prices"/"Shit music" is just a convenient justification (esp. the last one...the RIAA's music is so shit...except for the stuff you've downloaded. Right.)
The RIAA called his employer. This alone is a call for concern (no pun intended)...seriously, defaming someone to their employer? For fucks sake.
If they settle out of court, they are down thousands of dollars. If they don't, fight the case and lose, they are down thousands of dollars. If they do, fight the case and win, they still have legal fees to pay.
Maybe this is not Nazi Germany style terror, or Soviet Union style terror, but to these families right now they are shit fucking scared of how their future, not only their financial future but also their career, (thanks to the lawyers calling someone's employer...seriously, that's disgusting) is going to pan out. To them, this is terror. Any legal action from a large corporation against a normal family is largely going to make you 1) shit scared 2) fucked up financially for a loong while.
And this is speaking as someone who defends the RIAA (not the lawsuits, understand) all the time...this is scumbag behaviour.
I've dropped my iPod on a variety of surfaces (ranging from concrete to tiles) and it still works without a hitch. Same goes for my Motorola RAZR.
Interestingly, my old Archos GMini died without much dropping at all (in a strange coincidence, it died right after I bought my iPod...). Depends really.
Everyone here seems to think everything MS does is a sure failure.
You MUST be new here. You can't have missed the endless numbers of people...well, Slashdotters...all ready to piss on Zune's corpse months before it was released, or even before they'd seen a picture of it.
Crime IS a long term problem. It's been going on for centuries (despite what the tabloids would have you believe), it has social repercussions on a massive scale...maybe the crimes themselves are short term, but "crime" itself, as a social problem, is long term.
But then again, can you read Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Sanskrit or any other non-latin language? no? Then your usability isn't in question here.
However if you can read those languages, and you want to go to a website in that language using your Latin-alphabet keyboard, you may be a little screwed.
It depends, really. It depends if you have to retrain staff to use the new systems, if you need to hire extra support personnel, if you need to buy hardware that works with Linux... all sorts of things could affect the overall cost, not just the license cost.
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Point taken. Replace "some obscure warez site" with "ThePirateBay" or something :)
I think this is going beyond dumbness and into malice. I can't see any other reason explaining the surge in MS bashing articles.
BitLocker is disk encryption, to which the user retains full control and which the user can (as far as I can tell) opt to remove if desired. It's not DRM.
Try again.
How, precisely, will Vista infect ANYTHING with DRM? Other than allowing you to play DRMed music and movies, obviously. Infection implies that everything you have will suddenly be DRMed, which is patently bullshit.
So come on; infected with DRM. How are they going to do that exactly?
What, the, fuck?
So you can customise the install disc yourself and slipstream software into it? Surely that's been possible with every single distro of Linux for the last few years or so now? Could put malware into a custom Ubuntu CD, couldn't you? Not a new thing.
More to the point, unless you download your version of Vista from some obscure warez site, it's very unlikely to have malware slipstreamed into it; UNLESS YOU PUT IT IN YOURSELF.
Just because something has the capability to have malware put into it does not make it bad. This is a stupid fuss being made of nothing. I'd say I expect better from Slashdot, but considering the number of Microsoft/Zune/Vista bashing troll articles that are getting posted these days I'd be lying.
This is Windows XP. :-p
How about an example which doesn't make my eyes want to die?
Jesus, when making XP themes people seem to be completely incapable of making something that eyesplittingly gaudy...
I get you completely.
It feels like sacrilege, but I have all of my music at 128kbps AAC (saves storage space and battery power on the iPod). Doesn't sound too bad, and if I really want to hear my music losslessly I can just go to the CDs on my shelf. Done.
Gotta say though, if you really want high quality you can't go wrong with Musepack...nothing really plays it, but the quality is fantastic in a fairly small file size.
People who don't care about you and just want you for friend count?
FFS, why pay? I got those free when I first joined MySpace...
You might as well just run Opera proper...or maybe an old version of it. Opera is pretty light as it is.
People have been whining that they can't legally download movies for a while. Now they're making a way in which you can, and they're whining that it's easier to go to a rental store.
Good old Slashdot.
Here in the UK, we can do that.
Wouldn't be my employment law, i'm a Brit...point taken tho.
I've yet to see a single person say "yes, I'm illegally filesharing and I'm willing to take the legal consequences as a symbol protest." Instead all I hear is "b-b-but it's not stealing, it's sharing! Everybody does it! Your business model is outdated and you're *mean*! Lower your prices! Britney sucks!"
That's because what you have in the latter case is someone driven more by not wanting to pay a reasonable, or indeed any, price for something than any kind of overriding moral commitment. They tend to be the ones who have 200GB of MP3s off BitTorrent and no intention of paying for any of it whatsoever (as opposed to the "try before you buy" type people, who I have infinitely more time for, and may just have more of a point.) They wouldn't want to take a stand, because they're not in it to make a stand. "It's not stealing"/"Everybody does it"/"Outdated business model"/"High prices"/"Shit music" is just a convenient justification (esp. the last one...the RIAA's music is so shit...except for the stuff you've downloaded. Right.)
Bullshit.
The RIAA called his employer. This alone is a call for concern (no pun intended)...seriously, defaming someone to their employer? For fucks sake.
If they settle out of court, they are down thousands of dollars. If they don't, fight the case and lose, they are down thousands of dollars. If they do, fight the case and win, they still have legal fees to pay.
Maybe this is not Nazi Germany style terror, or Soviet Union style terror, but to these families right now they are shit fucking scared of how their future, not only their financial future but also their career, (thanks to the lawyers calling someone's employer...seriously, that's disgusting) is going to pan out. To them, this is terror. Any legal action from a large corporation against a normal family is largely going to make you 1) shit scared 2) fucked up financially for a loong while.
And this is speaking as someone who defends the RIAA (not the lawsuits, understand) all the time...this is scumbag behaviour.
I've dropped my iPod on a variety of surfaces (ranging from concrete to tiles) and it still works without a hitch. Same goes for my Motorola RAZR.
Interestingly, my old Archos GMini died without much dropping at all (in a strange coincidence, it died right after I bought my iPod...). Depends really.
Surely the safest thing to do, then, is to unplug from the 'net and get CDs instead?
Anything that encourages Cliff Richard personally to make new works is a bad idea, IMHO...
Everyone here seems to think everything MS does is a sure failure.
You MUST be new here. You can't have missed the endless numbers of people...well, Slashdotters...all ready to piss on Zune's corpse months before it was released, or even before they'd seen a picture of it.
Crime IS a long term problem. It's been going on for centuries (despite what the tabloids would have you believe), it has social repercussions on a massive scale...maybe the crimes themselves are short term, but "crime" itself, as a social problem, is long term.
I won't mention AIDS, chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes or indeed anything like that then...
Better be kevlar and carbonite in there as well.
In fact, fuck it, I'll just buy a really big test tube.
5 condoms? Just 5?
My friend, you are dicing with death.
But then again, can you read Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Sanskrit or any other non-latin language? no? Then your usability isn't in question here.
However if you can read those languages, and you want to go to a website in that language using your Latin-alphabet keyboard, you may be a little screwed.
To cope with the new system. Duh.
It depends, really. It depends if you have to retrain staff to use the new systems, if you need to hire extra support personnel, if you need to buy hardware that works with Linux... all sorts of things could affect the overall cost, not just the license cost.