In some/. interview with a dev for MS, the guy said they have Linux computers with every major distribution, and various other Unices, and even boxes running BeOS! Although that guy got fired for showing Microsoft loading some Macs, so I think it's supposed to be a secret.
Why can't we have both? Why can't we have insanely configurable products with reasonable defaults? My guess is that there's some mafia killing anyone who tries. Or it's a quantum impossibility that will cause the developer's head to explode.
I'm going to have to wait until someone tabulates how much money was unable to get to Africa due to the Intellectual Property laws Gates pushed before counting that. It's really hard to tell, although Gates may have pushed those laws not realizing how hard it would have made it for poor Africans to get medicine without any help. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt but either way he isn't the hero in shining armor freeing all Africans from slavery or anything.
That's wrong in so many different ways that I have to first stop and ridicule you before I can get to rebutting you.
Now that that's done:
Apple was fairly powerful when IBM and Microsoft came on the scene
IBM could easily have chosen just about anyone else over Microsoft and then nobody would buy Microsoft and it would be just your average company
Compaq, by building a "clone" of the IBM PC, was the real driver for making competition in the hardware market and making computers cheaper and ergo ubiquituous.
In a nutshell: MS was in the right place at the right time. No more, no less.
I don't know, I was quoting that from the FAQ on their website. I own a 4th gen, it doesn't have Linux on it although I am interested in Linux on the iPod.
What about all that music from before DRM was instated? And what about all the music that is already being produced without having to pay for it? And what about the fact that there are still un-DRMed copies of most CDs(it's simply impossible for something to continue to play in old CD players while having DRM on your computer, for obvious reasons) today? But that would rebutt your silly pro-DRM arguments, wouldn't it?
Every time I see a schematic drawing of the internet, it's a cloud. How do you attack a cloud? It's like, shooting at rainbows, or declaring war on an idea.
Nirvana is Buddhist, not Hinduist.(It's also grunge, but that's a different Nirvana:P). Hinduism, like Buddhism, believes in karma/reincarnation, but it seeks to be one with brahman.
For personal MySpaces you're probably correct--it's mostly chain letters. For bands, MySpace is a good idea, even if the implementation is bad. Someone needs to write something like the band-promotion stuff in MySpace without the personal fluff, and make it not suck. (For example, without the millions of pictures people post, you could probably post more than 4 tracks per band)
The only DRM files on my iPod are iTMS files bought with a $15 dollar iTunes gift card I was given for Christmas.
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Usually, people listening to music don't care much about the label making it. Even so, Apple Records hasn't made the Beatles for many years. As proof, I found a Beatles record to see what it said. It had "EMI" in moderate-sized letters(but still incredibly small compared to the actual record) and "Apple" in small letters the size of the rest of the printing of the lyrics. Also, my Green Day shirt has "GREEN DAY" in huge letters, and you can barely see "(c) 2005 Reprise Records" because it's in the font sleazy businesses use for small print.
And I doubt he's never seen a Mac. Surely he's passed by a computer store, maybe on his way to buy more Beatles records which rarely mention Apple except in fairly small print one has to go looking for to find.
Oh, and in footnoteness, this is about a breach of contract--basically whether Apple's distribution of music files under the name iTunes counts as physical media because most of the AACs put on iTMS are primarily distributed on CDs. I think that it's not a breach of contract, but our opinions don't matter, only the judge's does.
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Anti-Google. Which, when it comes in contact with Google, will cause an explosion that will destroy all companies in the world.
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Or something quite similar to that. I may be wrong.
If being in a book makes something true, than most Christians are in deep, deep doo-doo. Hint: "the Da Vinci Code". :D
In some /. interview with a dev for MS, the guy said they have Linux computers with every major distribution, and various other Unices, and even boxes running BeOS! Although that guy got fired for showing Microsoft loading some Macs, so I think it's supposed to be a secret.
Why can't we have both? Why can't we have insanely configurable products with reasonable defaults? My guess is that there's some mafia killing anyone who tries. Or it's a quantum impossibility that will cause the developer's head to explode.
There are zealots for everything. Even antizealotry zealots, which isn't contradictory at all when you know what hypocrisy is.
What about Das Keyboard users, you insensitive clod?
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Didn't he have some Forth program he was advocating, or has he forgotten about that and now is going for his new failed mind fad du jour?
I'm going to have to wait until someone tabulates how much money was unable to get to Africa due to the Intellectual Property laws Gates pushed before counting that. It's really hard to tell, although Gates may have pushed those laws not realizing how hard it would have made it for poor Africans to get medicine without any help. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt but either way he isn't the hero in shining armor freeing all Africans from slavery or anything.
Now that that's done:
I don't know, I was quoting that from the FAQ on their website. I own a 4th gen, it doesn't have Linux on it although I am interested in Linux on the iPod.
What about all that music from before DRM was instated? And what about all the music that is already being produced without having to pay for it? And what about the fact that there are still un-DRMed copies of most CDs(it's simply impossible for something to continue to play in old CD players while having DRM on your computer, for obvious reasons) today? But that would rebutt your silly pro-DRM arguments, wouldn't it?
Agent CmdrTaco? Is that related to Agent Smith?
Nirvana is Buddhist, not Hinduist.(It's also grunge, but that's a different Nirvana :P). Hinduism, like Buddhism, believes in karma/reincarnation, but it seeks to be one with brahman.
For personal MySpaces you're probably correct--it's mostly chain letters. For bands, MySpace is a good idea, even if the implementation is bad. Someone needs to write something like the band-promotion stuff in MySpace without the personal fluff, and make it not suck. (For example, without the millions of pictures people post, you could probably post more than 4 tracks per band)
It also has to kill tech columnists. Okay, it doesn't *have* to, but that would be a good idea. And they'd get much praise for it.
Actually, they can if you install Linux on them, although only the 4th gen iPods and above can play it real-time for processing power reasons.
The only DRM files on my iPod are iTMS files bought with a $15 dollar iTunes gift card I was given for Christmas.
Usually, people listening to music don't care much about the label making it. Even so, Apple Records hasn't made the Beatles for many years. As proof, I found a Beatles record to see what it said. It had "EMI" in moderate-sized letters(but still incredibly small compared to the actual record) and "Apple" in small letters the size of the rest of the printing of the lyrics. Also, my Green Day shirt has "GREEN DAY" in huge letters, and you can barely see "(c) 2005 Reprise Records" because it's in the font sleazy businesses use for small print.
And I doubt he's never seen a Mac. Surely he's passed by a computer store, maybe on his way to buy more Beatles records which rarely mention Apple except in fairly small print one has to go looking for to find.
Oh, and in footnoteness, this is about a breach of contract--basically whether Apple's distribution of music files under the name iTunes counts as physical media because most of the AACs put on iTMS are primarily distributed on CDs. I think that it's not a breach of contract, but our opinions don't matter, only the judge's does.
Some more:
Whoever owns the rights to Nirvana since Cobain died v. Buddhism
Universal Records v. the whole universe
Island Records v. the Bahamas
Warner Brothers v. anybody/anything that ever warned anybody/anything about anybody/anything.