Yeah, and Mars Global Surveyor was considered a stunning success too! This is an old spacecraft that was operating beyond its missions original lifespan. While its sad it can't continue its mission, it did achieve its original goals and then some.
I say NASA should mark this as a success, take the lessons learned from this mission and build the next probe to send to Mars to take Global Surveyor's place, like was part of the plan anyway.
I really hate seeing all the harping on NASA here when this was a REALLY successful mission.
Instructions for continuing to be able to use your (friken expensive) player.
1) Use your computer to download the latest firmware. 2) Burn a CD/DVD (you sure as hell had better not need to burn a blu-ray or hd dvd disk!!) 3) Insert in you player and power cycle and hope the upgrade works and doesn't leave you with a brick. 4) Continue to pay a premium for content for your player knowing that you'll probably have to do this firmware shuffle at least twice a year.
or
Don't by a blu-ray or hd dvd player... ever. Honestly, I really don't want one of these things at all. With the cracking of CSS I have total rights to use the content I own on DVD. I won't quickly give that up for a few more lines of resolution and their draconian changable key system. Screw em'.
I think the recording industry is going to be shocked, SHOCKED! at how well DRM free music it going to do on iTunes. Its the beginning of the end for DRM...
Who would be a paid shill for the "global warming is a serious threat to us all" side? And who is paying them?
Umm, lets see Universities, Government grants, the UN....
Lots of people are getting paid to come to the conclustion "global warming is a serious threat to us all".
And if you spout back to my post, "yeah, but the other side is paid for by big oil" or something like that, you're not helping. There is a serious issue here with respect to peer review and science. When name calling and ad-homenim attacks are substituted for real review it is a danger to all science.
I've got nfs share over wireless (802.11g) that randomly disconnects itself when idle.
Check the firmware on your router, or alternately check you DHCP server. I had a version of dd-wrt on my linksys whose DHCP would fail to hand out addresses after about a day, requiring me to reboot the router to get DHCP going again. Though for Myth, wired capability to the file server is always desirable.
and mythtv & the nfs & the wireless require a reboot to function.
It shouldn't require rebooting. Between the network startup and shutdown scripts, mount, and just stopping and starting mythbackend (which I actually have a watch script that checks to make sure its up that restarts it if necessary), none of these things should require a reboot.
There's a problem with that. Lots of people (me included) buy all of their music on iTunes. If the RIAA destroys iTunes, well then I guess there's always bittorrent and p2p out there.
Mark my words, if the RIAA revokes Apple's license to sell music, I will never, ever, buy online music again.
And if enough iTunes buyers do the same then thats it for the recording industry. End of story.
If a standard drm could be implemented that allowed the files to be played on all standards complient devices it could really allow online music distrobution to take off.
Yeah, they could use the same DRM they used on the CDs you mentioned earlier. NONE!!!!
A DRM free product is infinitely easier to build a large market for than a DRM constrained product.
Apparently anti-piracy efforts are proving highly effective in beating HD tuner cards to death.
HD-TV is the poster child for the kind of anemic, twisted, worthless marketplace you get when #$@%#$@% content providers get all pissy about protecting their #@$#@$$ content!!
The reason we don't run into aliens is because we can imagine and simulate them and they can imagine and simulate us and there's no point in actually confronting each other expensively IRL.
You do realize that you've basically argued that since we have Star Wars and Star Trek, we don't need to look for extra-terrestrial life, don't you?;-)
The basic fallacy of your argument is that we could simulate what we would find an actually be correct. I think the likelyhood we would be correct is infinitesimally small. That is unless we actually find some _real_ Klingons....
I completely disagree. I think there is enourmous demand for a widscreen touch screen iPod. In fact I think sales of the current video iPod are really going to suffer. I know have decided to wait an see about a widscreen iPod instead of buying one of the current video iPods.
I believe he's dead on on that one. Sometime either shortly before or shortly after June, Apple will NEED to release the new widescreen iPod, because not everyone will be willing (or able - thats me) to get an iPhone. All of these people do not want the current iPod video we want a widescreen iPod.
Also for some convergance is overratted, some people just want a music (and video, ok some convergance isn't overrattted) player.
I don't care about the market leader. I don't want to trade one DRM digital music store for another.
I want DRM out of the market entirely.
Their hardball is only helping less successful DRM get a stronger foothold. That is usless to the consumer.
My belief is that fairplay has the labels between a rock and a hard place. They know deep down that the only real way to win is to take DRM out of the game and sell their music directly to their customers as mp3s. But no matter how many billions of dollars they could make doing this , it is the very last thing they want to do. In fact, I think most of the RIAA members would rather shut down than offer mp3s. Oh well, on their current path they'll get what they want eventually.
The Norwegians decided that these sorts of arrangements amount to unfair business practices, so unless Apple wants to play by their rules, it appears Apple is free to go peddle their shit somewhere else.
Then everyone else should face the same issues. Currently I have an iPod and an iMac. I can't use Napster, playsforsure doesn't work for me. I can't buy anything from the Zune store. Your rebuy your music comment I'm sure really resonates with playsforsure buyers who got a Zune. Apples never yet caused iTunes music to not play on any iPod they've ever sold.
Apple is being setup. If the European union countries want to play tough with Apple on DRM they had sure as hell better play tough with everyone.
Or they could take the really high road and reap the adoration of the rest of the world and ban DRM oughtright. They could even mandate watermarks that don't affect playback and create a workable system with that technology.
Attacking only Apples DRM isn't really an attack on DRM, it actually becomes a battle to entrench more DRM that is even more draconian than fairplay.
In order to not be a bunch of posturing hypocrites Norway should ban all DRM. In reality their doing more to serve the RIAA's agenda here than they are showing concern for consumers.
I just find in unbelievable how everyone is so #@$@#$% up in arms over Apples 80% share in digital music. I mean c'mon Microsoft get a pass for operating systems 90% for most cases in most countries, but oh, yeah iTunes needs to be illegal because Apple has a large market share.
I really don't give a #$%#^ about all those whiners that think Apple's DRM is so damn unfair. Hello, thats what DRM is all about.
If Norway wants to take a stand for digital music outlaw ALL DRM, don't just posture against Apple.
It makes me wonder though, is the Zune store illegal in Norway too???
I think you've got something there. I think production of the wiimote might be whats slowing them down. You don't see any of them in stores either. Usually controllers are not so hard to come by.
Curently my list of games to pick up looks like: Zelda Redsteel Elebits (this is a questionable one) Exite Truck possibly maden, I really have to try it out first, and the same goes for DBZ (I want to paly it a bit more before hand).
I'm sure they'd love to stick it to Jobs, especially after he screwed them out of their variable pricing scheme.
But theres the rub. I believe that in order to dethrone iTunes record companies would have to sell DRM-free music for the same price or less. 99 cents is actually too much. Even without DRM, I would still buy from iTunes if DRM-free music was more expensive.
Although, if you couldn't iTunes purchases to CD, the equation would change. Apples movie store is unusable in my opinion because it lacks a burn to DVD feature.
I agree completely. I was flabbergasted at the whole article. It sets up Apple to rail against, but does actually take Microsoft to task for changing its DRM and screwing customers, but then goes on to include a quote about how "everyone should move to subscriptions". WTF?!!! every subscription service out there uses DRM to make sure that when you stop paying you lose _all_ of your music. Wait, wasn't that the articles big bitch about Apple, how you were locked it to iTunes?? If iTunes is bad, then subscriptions are pure evil. I want to own my music, which to me also means being able to free it form DRM, but I'll be damned if I'm going to RENT $#%#$% music!
I'm an independent, but if I had to choose between the two, I'd go with the one that doesn't get us into wars, so Democrats it is. I'd just feel really really dirty though.
Try saying that after the Democrat allowed *IAA police force comes and takes you out of your home and puts you in one of their copyright reeducation camps.;-)
I agree completely. Coming from somewhere with absolutely no Cingular presence whatsoever, I would be VERY interested in an iPhone that doesn't have any phone capability at all. I sure hope there are plans for an iPod with all these features except the phone bits. Oh and with a 30Gb capacity too:-)
I can understand where they'd want to introduce the full blown phone first as they appear to be going to the FCC for approval right now. So now they can go ahead and build an iPod with the same components and release that in June too.
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Yeah, and Mars Global Surveyor was considered a stunning success too! This is an old spacecraft that was operating beyond its missions original lifespan. While its sad it can't continue its mission, it did achieve its original goals and then some.
I say NASA should mark this as a success, take the lessons learned from this mission and build the next probe to send to Mars to take Global Surveyor's place, like was part of the plan anyway.
I really hate seeing all the harping on NASA here when this was a REALLY successful mission.
Oh, thats #$%#$% great, I can just see it now.
... ever. Honestly, I really don't want one of these things at all. With the cracking of CSS I have total rights to use the content I own on DVD. I won't quickly give that up for a few more lines of resolution and their draconian changable key system. Screw em'.
Instructions for continuing to be able to use your (friken expensive) player.
1) Use your computer to download the latest firmware.
2) Burn a CD/DVD (you sure as hell had better not need to burn a blu-ray or hd dvd disk!!)
3) Insert in you player and power cycle and hope the upgrade works and doesn't leave you with a brick.
4) Continue to pay a premium for content for your player knowing that you'll probably have to do this firmware shuffle at least twice a year.
or
Don't by a blu-ray or hd dvd player
I think the recording industry is going to be shocked, SHOCKED! at how well DRM free music it going to do on iTunes. Its the beginning of the end for DRM...
Yep, I think this might answer the whole question of which format will win question....
The answer is neither....
When screw the customer is one of the FEATURES of a product the people selling it are #$#$%$% morons!
Hell, out of 5 wireless networks I can "see" from my house, two have no encryption on whatsoever.
I mean, no matter how bad WEP is, you'll never be able to hack into a WEP network as fast as you can an open one.
It may be where I live, but around town there are open networks virtually EVERYWHERE.
Who would be a paid shill for the "global warming is a serious threat to us all" side? And who is paying them?
Umm, lets see Universities, Government grants, the UN....
Lots of people are getting paid to come to the conclustion "global warming is a serious threat to us all".
And if you spout back to my post, "yeah, but the other side is paid for by big oil" or something like that, you're not helping. There is a serious issue here with respect to peer review and science. When name calling and ad-homenim attacks are substituted for real review it is a danger to all science.
I've got nfs share over wireless (802.11g) that randomly disconnects itself when idle.
Check the firmware on your router, or alternately check you DHCP server. I had a version of dd-wrt on my linksys whose DHCP would fail to hand out addresses after about a day, requiring me to reboot the router to get DHCP going again. Though for Myth, wired capability to the file server is always desirable.
and mythtv & the nfs & the wireless require a reboot to function.
It shouldn't require rebooting. Between the network startup and shutdown scripts, mount, and just stopping and starting mythbackend (which I actually have a watch script that checks to make sure its up that restarts it if necessary), none of these things should require a reboot.
There's a problem with that. Lots of people (me included) buy all of their music on iTunes. If the RIAA destroys iTunes, well then I guess there's always bittorrent and p2p out there.
Mark my words, if the RIAA revokes Apple's license to sell music, I will never, ever, buy online music again.
And if enough iTunes buyers do the same then thats it for the recording industry. End of story.
If a standard drm could be implemented that allowed the files to be played on all standards complient devices it could really allow online music distrobution to take off.
Yeah, they could use the same DRM they used on the CDs you mentioned earlier. NONE!!!!
A DRM free product is infinitely easier to build a large market for than a DRM constrained product.
You know, maybe the RIAA actually has a point here, maybe the entire industry should use the same DRM.
Hey I have an idea, they could call it CSS!! Yeah, that would be a great name for an "open" (heh, in more ways than one) DRM.
Apparently anti-piracy efforts are proving highly effective in beating HD tuner cards to death.
HD-TV is the poster child for the kind of anemic, twisted, worthless marketplace you get when #$@%#$@% content providers get all pissy about protecting their #@$#@$$ content!!
The reason we don't run into aliens is because we can imagine and simulate them and they can imagine and simulate us and there's no point in actually confronting each other expensively IRL.
;-)
You do realize that you've basically argued that since we have Star Wars and Star Trek, we don't need to look for extra-terrestrial life, don't you?
The basic fallacy of your argument is that we could simulate what we would find an actually be correct. I think the likelyhood we would be correct is infinitesimally small. That is unless we actually find some _real_ Klingons....
Agreed, and that is why NASA should drop the "man on Mars" crap and refocus on our own biosphere.
You know, I really fail to understand why we can't do both. The Earth facing missions really aren't that expensive in comparison.
I think you're confused: that demand isn't for an iPod at all... it's for a new Newton.
To paraphrase one of the Mac vs. PC ads. Touche....
I completely disagree. I think there is enourmous demand for a widscreen touch screen iPod. In fact I think sales of the current video iPod are really going to suffer. I know have decided to wait an see about a widscreen iPod instead of buying one of the current video iPods.
I believe he's dead on on that one. Sometime either shortly before or shortly after June, Apple will NEED to release the new widescreen iPod, because not everyone will be willing (or able - thats me) to get an iPhone. All of these people do not want the current iPod video we want a widescreen iPod.
Also for some convergance is overratted, some people just want a music (and video, ok some convergance isn't overrattted) player.
I don't care about the market leader. I don't want to trade one DRM digital music store for another.
I want DRM out of the market entirely.
Their hardball is only helping less successful DRM get a stronger foothold. That is usless to the consumer.
My belief is that fairplay has the labels between a rock and a hard place. They know deep down that the only real way to win is to take DRM out of the game and sell their music directly to their customers as mp3s. But no matter how many billions of dollars they could make doing this , it is the very last thing they want to do. In fact, I think most of the RIAA members would rather shut down than offer mp3s. Oh well, on their current path they'll get what they want eventually.
The Norwegians decided that these sorts of arrangements amount to unfair business practices, so unless Apple wants to play by their rules, it appears Apple is free to go peddle their shit somewhere else.
Then everyone else should face the same issues. Currently I have an iPod and an iMac. I can't use Napster, playsforsure doesn't work for me. I can't buy anything from the Zune store. Your rebuy your music comment I'm sure really resonates with playsforsure buyers who got a Zune. Apples never yet caused iTunes music to not play on any iPod they've ever sold.
Apple is being setup. If the European union countries want to play tough with Apple on DRM they had sure as hell better play tough with everyone.
Or they could take the really high road and reap the adoration of the rest of the world and ban DRM oughtright. They could even mandate watermarks that don't affect playback and create a workable system with that technology.
Attacking only Apples DRM isn't really an attack on DRM, it actually becomes a battle to entrench more DRM that is even more draconian than fairplay.
In order to not be a bunch of posturing hypocrites Norway should ban all DRM. In reality their doing more to serve the RIAA's agenda here than they are showing concern for consumers.
I just find in unbelievable how everyone is so #@$@#$% up in arms over Apples 80% share in digital music. I mean c'mon Microsoft get a pass for operating systems 90% for most cases in most countries, but oh, yeah iTunes needs to be illegal because Apple has a large market share.
I really don't give a #$%#^ about all those whiners that think Apple's DRM is so damn unfair. Hello, thats what DRM is all about.
If Norway wants to take a stand for digital music outlaw ALL DRM, don't just posture against Apple.
It makes me wonder though, is the Zune store illegal in Norway too???
I think you've got something there. I think production of the wiimote might be whats slowing them down. You don't see any of them in stores either. Usually controllers are not so hard to come by.
Curently my list of games to pick up looks like:
Zelda
Redsteel
Elebits (this is a questionable one)
Exite Truck
possibly maden, I really have to try it out first, and the same goes for DBZ (I want to paly it a bit more before hand).
Get Madden, it rocks...
I have used Windows, 5 different distros of Linux (SUSE, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Mandrake, and Gentoo) AND OSX. And you know what?
;-)
I like Windows the most.
I believed you right up until that OSX part
I'm sure they'd love to stick it to Jobs, especially after he screwed them out of their variable pricing scheme.
But theres the rub. I believe that in order to dethrone iTunes record companies would have to sell DRM-free music for the same price or less. 99 cents is actually too much. Even without DRM, I would still buy from iTunes if DRM-free music was more expensive.
Although, if you couldn't iTunes purchases to CD, the equation would change. Apples movie store is unusable in my opinion because it lacks a burn to DVD feature.
I agree completely. I was flabbergasted at the whole article. It sets up Apple to rail against, but does actually take Microsoft to task for changing its DRM and screwing customers, but then goes on to include a quote about how "everyone should move to subscriptions". WTF?!!! every subscription service out there uses DRM to make sure that when you stop paying you lose _all_ of your music. Wait, wasn't that the articles big bitch about Apple, how you were locked it to iTunes?? If iTunes is bad, then subscriptions are pure evil. I want to own my music, which to me also means being able to free it form DRM, but I'll be damned if I'm going to RENT $#%#$% music!
I'm an independent, but if I had to choose between the two, I'd go with the one that doesn't get us into wars, so Democrats it is. I'd just feel really really dirty though.
;-)
Try saying that after the Democrat allowed *IAA police force comes and takes you out of your home and puts you in one of their copyright reeducation camps.
I agree with that, but think they made a pretty big mistake while doing so.
;-)
That mistake being...calling it the iPhone.
I have to agree, they definitely should have called it the MacPhone Pro!!
I agree completely. Coming from somewhere with absolutely no Cingular presence whatsoever, I would be VERY interested in an iPhone that doesn't have any phone capability at all. I sure hope there are plans for an iPod with all these features except the phone bits. Oh and with a 30Gb capacity too :-)
I can understand where they'd want to introduce the full blown phone first as they appear to be going to the FCC for approval right now. So now they can go ahead and build an iPod with the same components and release that in June too.