I'm used to it...this is after all Slashdot, where all DRM, no matter how unrestrictive, is evil and anyone who suggests otherwise is just deluded or stupid.
In a way it's even sneakier though, as it teaches the public that DRM is ok.
Because people knowing about a fair(er) form of DRM and agreeing with it is SO evil.
iTunes' DRM is very acceptable to most people, as its limits aren't very strict, and it only applies to music. Trusted Computing or whatever bollocks they call it now isn't in the same ballpark.
I thought Konqueror strictly adhered to the same standards... If that renders the page fine, why doesn't Opera with its supposedly strictly adhered to standards?
In any event, even the shoddiest coding shouldn't result in page content being erased completely when the scroll bar is moved.
First off, a lot of that code isn't broken. I just checked the errors and the first few are errors relating to the SCRIPT tag, which afaic shouldn't be errors at all. Then there's the lots of errors about "You can't have a DIV" there which are frankly bollocks; again, browsers render this just fine. A lot of it is due to WordPress's internal code, mind you; if you look at a page which isn't generated by WordPress, say this one from the same site, you get only the JavaScript errors (which are probably due to some case-sensitivity on the validators part) and some admittedly boneheaded mistakes which I think are part of me using id divs instead of class divs.
How I love thee, except for one small problem. My website. It doesn't render properly in Opera, on any platforms. Scrolling erases all the content, and I have no idea why. If anyone can work out why this happens, I'd love to know...
Waitrose don't. One Stop don't. My local record place doesn't. Even my local dodgy computer hardware (£3.99 for a keyboard) don't swipe the card first. It just goes straight in the reader, enter PIN, wait 30 seconds, remove card.
On the contrary, Tesco's self service tills (a fine example of making things more complicated than they need to be) require that you swipe your card (and no authorisation is needed! No signature, pin etc...). No chip needed. I haven't been in Sainsbury's for ages, but I'd hazard a guess that they're much the same.
A good question would be: if Waitrose, One Stop, Track Records and that dodgy place all don't need to swipe, why does Tesco?
Wrong. iPod can play music from one store: the iTunes one. Z5 can play music from god knows how many stores using Windows Media (hint: competition). Therefore, winner is Z5.
I recently had a discussion with a relative about her wanting to get some music off the net. I linked her to iTunes and Yahoo's music subscription service (ranting about DRM aside, it's what she wants; shitloads of music). She gave up in the end and just said she wanted free stuff like she used to get off Kazaa.
You cannot compete with that. If you tell most teenagers that they'd be better off paying for downloads, they'll look at you funny, laugh their asses off and go back to using LimeWire.
The horse and buggy distro system of funny plastic disks has been superceded by an Internet. Tune in or drop out.
Correction. The horse and buggy distro system of people paying for a CD with liner notes has been superseded by people leeching MP3s off torrent sites for free. There's no way any label or artist can compete with that.
This is about INTERNAL desktops. i.e, IBM's employees will mostly be using Linux systems to do their day to day work. They can still recommend Windows to clients.
Aha! And spyware is like the Half Life 2 zombies, cos when you blast one to pieces there's another little niggling bit that comes back to bite you in the ass (or on the face, whatever).
Or maybe I'm reading too much into it, as well as playing too much HL2.
BitTorrent has legal uses, yes. But OVERWHELMINGLY it is used illegally. Not just in a minority or half of cases, overwhelmingly. Surely, if people don't want BT to be blocked/banned, maybe they should, you know, do something about all the people using it for illegal purposes?
Why attack bittorrent for supposedly encouraging piracy when it has decidedly legitimate user as well, and there are many, many technologies out there being developed that are solely for the purposes of piracy, spam & exploitation.
Perhaps because its illegal uses are also the most popular uses?
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There, fixed that for ya. As we all know, DRM is unfair by definition because it is incapable of accounting for Fair Use.
Please tell me how FairPlay DRM restricts fair use. You can burn it to CD, you can listen to it...where precisely is the problem?
I'm used to it...this is after all Slashdot, where all DRM, no matter how unrestrictive, is evil and anyone who suggests otherwise is just deluded or stupid.
It's not like that. The gateway drug thing didn't hold true for marijuana, and it doesn't for DRM.
In a way it's even sneakier though, as it teaches the public that DRM is ok.
Because people knowing about a fair(er) form of DRM and agreeing with it is SO evil.
iTunes' DRM is very acceptable to most people, as its limits aren't very strict, and it only applies to music. Trusted Computing or whatever bollocks they call it now isn't in the same ballpark.
I thought Konqueror strictly adhered to the same standards... If that renders the page fine, why doesn't Opera with its supposedly strictly adhered to standards?
In any event, even the shoddiest coding shouldn't result in page content being erased completely when the scroll bar is moved.
First off, a lot of that code isn't broken. I just checked the errors and the first few are errors relating to the SCRIPT tag, which afaic shouldn't be errors at all. Then there's the lots of errors about "You can't have a DIV" there which are frankly bollocks; again, browsers render this just fine. A lot of it is due to WordPress's internal code, mind you; if you look at a page which isn't generated by WordPress, say this one from the same site, you get only the JavaScript errors (which are probably due to some case-sensitivity on the validators part) and some admittedly boneheaded mistakes which I think are part of me using id divs instead of class divs.
Aside from that, Opera still fails.
I'll bite. Every browser I've tried, from IE to Konqueror, renders that page fine. Opera doesn't. Are you *sure* it's my fault and not Opera's?
How I love thee, except for one small problem. My website. It doesn't render properly in Opera, on any platforms. Scrolling erases all the content, and I have no idea why. If anyone can work out why this happens, I'd love to know...
To be fair, if you increase the font size in Firefox most pages aren't much better. Opera is the only browser that scales gracefully.
Doesn't work for me under Opera for Windows. Not that I care (homepages are generally useless to me).
Waitrose don't. One Stop don't. My local record place doesn't. Even my local dodgy computer hardware (£3.99 for a keyboard) don't swipe the card first. It just goes straight in the reader, enter PIN, wait 30 seconds, remove card.
On the contrary, Tesco's self service tills (a fine example of making things more complicated than they need to be) require that you swipe your card (and no authorisation is needed! No signature, pin etc...). No chip needed. I haven't been in Sainsbury's for ages, but I'd hazard a guess that they're much the same.
A good question would be: if Waitrose, One Stop, Track Records and that dodgy place all don't need to swipe, why does Tesco?
I was under the impression that eMusic was MP3 (not sure about the rest). So it would play on the Z5 as well.
Nice try. You might as well go around saying that AllOfMP3.com is a Linux store, because they offer Ogg.
Wrong. iPod can play music from one store: the iTunes one. Z5 can play music from god knows how many stores using Windows Media (hint: competition). Therefore, winner is Z5.
Give steve jobs some of his own cancer
I'm fairly sure that if Steve Jobs had cancer, it would already be his own. Bill wouldn't need to do anything.
Of course they are. They can't compete with free.
I recently had a discussion with a relative about her wanting to get some music off the net. I linked her to iTunes and Yahoo's music subscription service (ranting about DRM aside, it's what she wants; shitloads of music). She gave up in the end and just said she wanted free stuff like she used to get off Kazaa.
You cannot compete with that. If you tell most teenagers that they'd be better off paying for downloads, they'll look at you funny, laugh their asses off and go back to using LimeWire.
The horse and buggy distro system of funny plastic disks has been superceded by an Internet. Tune in or drop out.
Correction. The horse and buggy distro system of people paying for a CD with liner notes has been superseded by people leeching MP3s off torrent sites for free. There's no way any label or artist can compete with that.
Or when one man with a crowbar tries to save the wor...
I need to stop playing that damn game.
800MB? When Win2K runs in 128MB, with Winamp and Opera etc?
Fuck that. That's so crap, I doubt even the warez kiddies will want it.
Did you RTFA? Or even TFS (the fucking summary)?
This is about INTERNAL desktops. i.e, IBM's employees will mostly be using Linux systems to do their day to day work. They can still recommend Windows to clients.
Mod -1 The Implications Make Me Shudder
My ISP can read each and every one of my emails. As can my hosting provider, who I get my email from, or my college, who also give me email...
Not to be a fanboy, but at least Google tells you they're scanning your email for marketing keywords.
Mod parent up. I doubt many here have much idea of what a record company does and how much it costs, and this post sums it up neatly.
Aha! And spyware is like the Half Life 2 zombies, cos when you blast one to pieces there's another little niggling bit that comes back to bite you in the ass (or on the face, whatever).
Or maybe I'm reading too much into it, as well as playing too much HL2.
Yes.
BitTorrent has legal uses, yes. But OVERWHELMINGLY it is used illegally. Not just in a minority or half of cases, overwhelmingly. Surely, if people don't want BT to be blocked/banned, maybe they should, you know, do something about all the people using it for illegal purposes?
Why attack bittorrent for supposedly encouraging piracy when it has decidedly legitimate user as well, and there are many, many technologies out there being developed that are solely for the purposes of piracy, spam & exploitation.
Perhaps because its illegal uses are also the most popular uses?