You appear to be unaware of the ATI line of video cards. You can buy a component dongle for them, priced under $50 or build one yourself for around $10. The card generates the component signals directly, the dongle is just for cable conversion and software config convenience.
PS good s-video 480i vs component 480i is bare discernable to the uneducated eye, even with a high-quality display device - much less the average tv.
Thanks, that is exactly the response I had in mind.
Just as the marketplace rarely tolerates a car with the hooded welded shut, without copyright I (and from my reading of his writings, RMS) expect that the market would insist on source code by default.
He's responding to the inaccurate representation of the GPL that the original whiner made when he said, "If you support GPL, then you need to support the copyright it is based on." It is a common misrepresentation here on slashdot at least and deserves to be rebutted more often than it is.
As for making it hard for you to accuse "the other side" (as if the situation were even close to binary) of straw men, tough titties. It is the extremes that define the spectrum. If there weren't people advocating the outright abolishment of copyright for whatever reason, all it would do is make today's more "moderate" positions the extreme ones.
Unlike you, I have read the GPL and a lot of other writings by RMS. The GPL is a hack of copyright law, that should be clear to anyone who thinks about the name RMS choose for it - copyleft. The only reason the GPL even exists is because copyright is so wrong in the first place. If there were no copyright, there would be no need for the copyleft -- it would be the default. As it stands today, without the GPL, Free code would be easily abused through the copyright system - so the GPL must exist in that context. But that's all it is, a hack of the current status quo. Abolish copyright and the need for the GPL will disappear with it.
To argue that "copyright protects the GPL so copyright is GOOD" is to entirely miss the point - kind of in the way that "Open Source" is "Free Software" with the politics neutered.
YOU may not agree that the political agenda advanced by the GPL is good/right/correct/etc but to deny that the agenda even is exists is to totally miss the point.
That correction to "revisionist history" is a bit revisionist itself. For most of the time ReplayTV had those advantages it was also severely unreliable. Reboots, crashes, and hosed recordings were common. It was during that time that SonicBlue added automatic reboots once a week because that was easier than actually fixing the software.
Completely untrue. That first year's worth of software was quite stable. The only thing that repeatedly caused reboots was if you pushed the system into doing too much simultaneous i/o. For example, doing a full-speed network extraction and recording a show at the same time. As long as you kept your network transfers throttled to about 2MB/s crashes and reboots were very rare.
When they came out with the tivo-like pay-for-tv-scedule plan, bumped the model number to 4500 and added cryptographic hashing of their executables, then the system got realy flakey for a while. But that happened long after the 4000 had been available and performing solidly.
Also while it may make you feel like pseudo-macho liberal geek to call current Tivo and ReplayTV management "pussies" for not enabling show sharing, one of the reasons SonicBlue no longer exists is because of the lawsuits that feature invited.
No for two reasons. The lawsuits were about commercial skip, not show sharing. Maybe they would have got around to suing over show sharing, but that did not happen. Secondly, lots of noise (like yourself) was made about the lawsuits, but from a cost perspective, their direct effect on Replay's bottom line was quite small, and probably not even in the top ten reasons for their financial woes.
Furthermore, I'd rather buy from a company that is willing to push the edge - neither show sharing or commercial skip are illegal, they may be questionable but not illegal - so go ahead and be a real-pussy pseudo-geek AC and avoid the companies that understand who their customers are and are willing to do what they can to provide them the features they want.
(By the way, the solution to any ReplayTV problem is called Tivo. Even without dodgy deals, it's always been a better idea to get a Tivo than a ReplayTV)
That is a bit of historical revisionism. Maybe TODAY the current ReplayTV is suckeke but it wasn't always that way. The Replay 4000 units were shipping with functional ethernet almost a year before Tivo did the same. They also included automagic commercial detection and skip on playback - which works very well on "bright" shows and decently on "dark" shows (like buffy, for example). They also supported show-sharing across the interent to other R4000 owners, something Tivo (and Replay's current management) are way too big pussies to ever consider. Local network extraction of the mpeg files is also quite easy on the R4000 units and probably the R5000 too, I haven't checked. You could even do streaming playback on your PC direct from the replay with a player like videolan (vlc). Very handy for those of us with projectors on their PC's who want, for quality reasons, a full digital path to the screen.
Tivo has always had a more novice-friendly interface and they've got up on a lot, but not all, of the above features. But at the time, the R4000 was WAY ahead of the Tivo. Plus, no one has ever had to worry that their ReplayTV will think they are gay.
For privacy freaks this is old, old news. It is also one of things that give us freaks bad dreams and sleepless nights. The 911 justification has all the ear-marks of that tried-and-true privacy buster maxim - "If it will save the life of just one child, it will all be worth it!"
BUT, after cogitating on it for a few years now, I think that the decision to go with GPS has a lot of benefits for us freaks (and the criminals out there too). Since the trend is towards embedded GPS in cell phones, it is likely that all the typical anti-privacy black hats will build their uber-spying systems on the back of assuming the GPS data is valid. It does not have to be.
In fact, I envision a GPS "relocator" device becoming somewhat popular in the same stores that sell mini-spy cams, electronic bugs and electronic bug detectors. Just attach your relocator to your phone and it will overpower the signals from the GPS birds with its own false signals and convince the phone that it is really somewhere else. Similarly, I would expect to see software only hacks to future phones to do the same thing. As long as the dark powers that be are too lazy to cross reference the phone's own reported GPS location with the actual cell towers in use (and you know that such laziness *will* prevail it is government agencies we are talking about) then those people who want to appear as if they are somewhere else can do so easily. Thus invalidating much of the benefits (beyond the stupid 911 misdirection) to Big Brother and helping to maintain the privacy of the common man (and all those criminals the Feds thought they were going to be able to use this scheme against).
Hey, just because you wear a tinfoil hat doesn't mean you can't see the brighter side.
I read the Narnia books around the time I was in 5th grade. My family is not religious, never go to church, no praying before dinner, none of that etc. I didn't catch *any* of the christian allegory in Narnia and I still really, really liked the stories. (In fact I was really surprised to learn that CS Lewis was such the theological philosopher since I had heard stories of fundies trying to ban Narnia at the same time all the D&D-is-devil-worship hype was going on.) So, I think that these movies could be entirely successful if they just left the allegory as it is, let people the audience draw their own conclusions but don't try to hit them over the head with it.
I like to think I was a precocious kid (as opposed to the dimwit adult I grew up to be today) and given how well LCD type entertainment does nowadays, I figure that was interesting to a smart 5th grader will probably be interesting enough for the average American adult movie viewer (as well as most kids).
First of all, if you know what you're doing with a keyboard in any FPS, you would be using ASDF as your movement keys, or some kind of equivalent set of 4 in the same row.
HJKL - those vi skills I learned at the office are just as useful at home! The cheat code:%s/badguy/nicedoggy/g is real handy too!
I have *the* patent on lead-lined wallets (and tin-foiled lined ones too) so I say the sooner these wireless cards come to market the sooner I can become a rich man!
So yeah, maybe I don't let the developers have free reign, but we also have the best-performing, most available systems around.
A 600hp car with the keys locked inside isn't good for much other than looking at. Who cares about the uptime of development boxes? If your developers are so incompetent that they can't keep from permanently mucking up their own machines, then your company has other things to worry about.
Developers don't need root access. Simple. For what? Give me one good reason why.
tcpdump/snoop/ethereal - sometimes watching the packets on the wire is orders of magnitude faster than any other option for debugging a network app.
OS bugs - they aren't "suppossed" to exist but we all know that doing weird shit to a system can push it off into corner cases that the OS engineers haven't handled so well. Sometimes once in the corner, the only way out is to reboot. Until a patch shows up, letting the developers reboot the system after they dork it up trying to debug their own code is a real time-saver. Especially if they are working 2nd or 3rd shift when finding a sysadmin to reboot the system can be difficult or even painful for all parties (just love gettings those 3am pages to reboot a computer and if the system is classified you have to physically come in to do the reboot).
Too many full-time employees don't seem to be able to grasp the nature of contractual work and thus think contract workers are a bunch of over-paid good for nothings. But when the income is unpredictable you have to make up for the downtime in your base rate. $3oo/hr for 5o hours a month for 4 months out of the year is only $6oK and that is before tax, before cost of equipment, maintainence and supplies. Then realize that very few plowmen earn $3oo/hr and that cost of living in a state like Mass is relatively high compared to most of the country (it ain't silly valley, but it sure ain't Oky City either).
Then apply the fact that they have to be on call 24-7 during those months which limits what other jobs they can take as well as makes life generally difficult because of the extra restrictions put that maintaining that level of availability.
Seems to me that this GPS stuff is an attempt to squeeze blood from a stone. Out of 4 winters in MA, I've only experienced a lack of plowing for a couple of weeks at the end of a winter when the local town ran out of budget to pay for plowers. Otherwise all the streets that I regularly travel have always been plowed in a timely fashion. So, I say that as long as the results are good, then micromanaging the driver's movements will only prove useful as a tool for firing drivers that management has a beef with and not for real incompetence or the like.
He's right about DNS only distributing the very small torrent file and not the actual data the torrent points to, and since DNS is a hierarchy of caching servers the load ain't going to be very bad either, it should scale nicely so that any high-demand torrent will quickly end up cached at the users' local DNS servers.
Plus, the idea of applying lessons learned from the caching hierarchy of DNS and the dynamic join/leave handling of trackers and other p2p to come up with a better mousetrap for data distribution has merit.
I didn't realize that it was abuse to want to keep your code yours.
No, but using other people's code in ways that they have forbidden is abuse.
If it's so difficult, what are MODULE_LICENSE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for?
You are on the right track. If your drivers are dynamically loadable, not static and they avoid using any symbols marked with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), then you will be OK. Furthermore, no cheating and writing two drivers one a GPL'd one that exists to re-export the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL symbols and then the real driver that makes use of the re-exported symbols. More info available here.
As a rule of thumb, your company must offer (and make good on the offer) to provide source such that an end user can build the software as you've distributed it. Technically you don't have to provide the binaries for your own closed loadable modules, but if the user is able to extract them from the product/device then they better work with whatever kernel source and build configuration you do distribute to comply with the GPL. You can count on at least one person being motivated enough to test your company's compliance on this too, no matter how hard you may try to hide or protect the binary-only modules.
Considering that they mostly got away with stealing the xvid group's work with thier x-card, Sigma's got a history of ignoring licensing requirements on Free software. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they had been telling their customers that it was all their own proprietary code, no linux about it.
The problem with that interpretation, that "good" rulings are soley rooted in the law, is that it nullifies part of the checks and balances of the three-way division of powers. With a legislative branch out of control, an executive branch that, for its own reasons, is even further out of control, for the courts to simply rubberstamp even the most egregious abuses of the letter of the law does no one, except the abusers any good.
Of course the technically correct response is that the electorate needs to take back power via elections, but when the power bases that control 95% or more of the information that electorate is exposed to are the same power bases that are responsible for the legislative and executive branches being out of control in the first place, it makes it that much harder for the "peaceable revolution" of elections to happen. Only when life gets so bad that the truth can't be hidden from the general electorate, then revolution may be so abrupt that elections aren't fast enough. If we are lucky, it will be non-violent like what happened in Georgia the other day. If we aren't lucky, we'll see a modern civil war.
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Read up on the design of DVD+R it is inherently resistant to buffer under run problems. As in if you get an under-run and have to stop recording, you start recording again without wasting a single byte of space. The DVD-R isn't so well designed, but this drive only does 4x DVD-R.
Giving away music for free or allowing it to be downloaded off Kazaa is not a workable business model
The world is flat. The moon is made out of cheese. Earth is the center of the universe. The worldwide market for computers is only 2 or 3. 640K is enough for anyone.
Ever hear of the street-performer protocol? Look it up - it is just the tip of the iceberg. Like I said originally. Just because YOU haven't figured out how to make money in an environment that fully exploits the functionality of digitization doesn't mean it can't be done. And as long as we keep trying to stuff the square pegs into the round holes, it is going to be that much harder for anyone to think up and try out new business models.
"I won't buy a car because I can't drive it on the sidewalk."
You misunderstand the analogy.
You can't drive a horse & buggy on the sidewalk nor can you drive a car on the sidewalk.
DRM == attempt to make new tech like old tech, for example legislating that all cars have a horse attached despite the engine being able to do better alone in almost all cases.
My post is like saying, "I will buy a car, and remove the horse, or just buy a black-market car without a horse to begin with. So when are we going to get rid of this stupid mandatory horse law?"
1. iTMS users were prevented from taking the music they'd downloaded, and then distributing it freely and widely by e-mailing it to all their friends or posting it on Kazaa.
Uh, no they weren't. Just burn it, rip it and share it. Use a cd-rw, or a virtual burner that just writes.iso image files and you don't even waste a disc. With the speed of cd-burners and rippers, nowadays, it hardly takes more time than just rippin from a B&M CD.
As far as I can tell, tools like this allow one to play their music anywhere without having to decode and re-encode, thus avoiding any artifacts that AAC re-encoded into MP3, Ogg or even ACC again will produce.
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You appear to be unaware of the ATI line of video cards. You can buy a component dongle for them, priced under $50 or build one yourself for around $10. The card generates the component signals directly, the dongle is just for cable conversion and software config convenience.
PS good s-video 480i vs component 480i is bare discernable to the uneducated eye, even with a high-quality display device - much less the average tv.
About one seventh of an avocado.
Thanks, that is exactly the response I had in mind.
Just as the marketplace rarely tolerates a car with the hooded welded shut, without copyright I (and from my reading of his writings, RMS) expect that the market would insist on source code by default.
He's responding to the inaccurate representation of the GPL that the original whiner made when he said, "If you support GPL, then you need to support the copyright it is based on." It is a common misrepresentation here on slashdot at least and deserves to be rebutted more often than it is.
As for making it hard for you to accuse "the other side" (as if the situation were even close to binary) of straw men, tough titties. It is the extremes that define the spectrum. If there weren't people advocating the outright abolishment of copyright for whatever reason, all it would do is make today's more "moderate" positions the extreme ones.
Unlike you, I have read the GPL and a lot of other writings by RMS. The GPL is a hack of copyright law, that should be clear to anyone who thinks about the name RMS choose for it - copyleft. The only reason the GPL even exists is because copyright is so wrong in the first place. If there were no copyright, there would be no need for the copyleft -- it would be the default. As it stands today, without the GPL, Free code would be easily abused through the copyright system - so the GPL must exist in that context. But that's all it is, a hack of the current status quo. Abolish copyright and the need for the GPL will disappear with it.
To argue that "copyright protects the GPL so copyright is GOOD" is to entirely miss the point - kind of in the way that "Open Source" is "Free Software" with the politics neutered.
YOU may not agree that the political agenda advanced by the GPL is good/right/correct/etc but to deny that the agenda even is exists is to totally miss the point.
Mod parent AC up. It is 10x more insightful than the GPL whiner he's responding to.
That correction to "revisionist history" is a bit revisionist itself. For most of the time ReplayTV had those advantages it was also severely unreliable. Reboots, crashes, and hosed recordings were common. It was during that time that SonicBlue added automatic reboots once a week because that was easier than actually fixing the software.
Completely untrue. That first year's worth of software was quite stable. The only thing that repeatedly caused reboots was if you pushed the system into doing too much simultaneous i/o. For example, doing a full-speed network extraction and recording a show at the same time. As long as you kept your network transfers throttled to about 2MB/s crashes and reboots were very rare.
When they came out with the tivo-like pay-for-tv-scedule plan, bumped the model number to 4500 and added cryptographic hashing of their executables, then the system got realy flakey for a while. But that happened long after the 4000 had been available and performing solidly.
Also while it may make you feel like pseudo-macho liberal geek to call current Tivo and ReplayTV management "pussies" for not enabling show sharing, one of the reasons SonicBlue no longer exists is because of the lawsuits that feature invited.
No for two reasons. The lawsuits were about commercial skip, not show sharing. Maybe they would have got around to suing over show sharing, but that did not happen. Secondly, lots of noise (like yourself) was made about the lawsuits, but from a cost perspective, their direct effect on Replay's bottom line was quite small, and probably not even in the top ten reasons for their financial woes.
Furthermore, I'd rather buy from a company that is willing to push the edge - neither show sharing or commercial skip are illegal, they may be questionable but not illegal - so go ahead and be a real-pussy pseudo-geek AC and avoid the companies that understand who their customers are and are willing to do what they can to provide them the features they want.
(By the way, the solution to any ReplayTV problem is called Tivo. Even without dodgy deals, it's always been a better idea to get a Tivo than a ReplayTV)
That is a bit of historical revisionism. Maybe TODAY the current ReplayTV is suckeke but it wasn't always that way. The Replay 4000 units were shipping with functional ethernet almost a year before Tivo did the same. They also included automagic commercial detection and skip on playback - which works very well on "bright" shows and decently on "dark" shows (like buffy, for example). They also supported show-sharing across the interent to other R4000 owners, something Tivo (and Replay's current management) are way too big pussies to ever consider. Local network extraction of the mpeg files is also quite easy on the R4000 units and probably the R5000 too, I haven't checked. You could even do streaming playback on your PC direct from the replay with a player like videolan (vlc). Very handy for those of us with projectors on their PC's who want, for quality reasons, a full digital path to the screen.
Tivo has always had a more novice-friendly interface and they've got up on a lot, but not all, of the above features. But at the time, the R4000 was WAY ahead of the Tivo. Plus, no one has ever had to worry that their ReplayTV will think they are gay.
All the world is not a FLOP. GPU = Graphics Processing Unit, not General Purpose Unit.
For privacy freaks this is old, old news. It is also one of things that give us freaks bad dreams and sleepless nights. The 911 justification has all the ear-marks of that tried-and-true privacy buster maxim - "If it will save the life of just one child, it will all be worth it!"
BUT, after cogitating on it for a few years now, I think that the decision to go with GPS has a lot of benefits for us freaks (and the criminals out there too). Since the trend is towards embedded GPS in cell phones, it is likely that all the typical anti-privacy black hats will build their uber-spying systems on the back of assuming the GPS data is valid. It does not have to be.
In fact, I envision a GPS "relocator" device becoming somewhat popular in the same stores that sell mini-spy cams, electronic bugs and electronic bug detectors. Just attach your relocator to your phone and it will overpower the signals from the GPS birds with its own false signals and convince the phone that it is really somewhere else. Similarly, I would expect to see software only hacks to future phones to do the same thing. As long as the dark powers that be are too lazy to cross reference the phone's own reported GPS location with the actual cell towers in use (and you know that such laziness *will* prevail it is government agencies we are talking about) then those people who want to appear as if they are somewhere else can do so easily. Thus invalidating much of the benefits (beyond the stupid 911 misdirection) to Big Brother and helping to maintain the privacy of the common man (and all those criminals the Feds thought they were going to be able to use this scheme against).
Hey, just because you wear a tinfoil hat doesn't mean you can't see the brighter side.
I read the Narnia books around the time I was in 5th grade. My family is not religious, never go to church, no praying before dinner, none of that etc. I didn't catch *any* of the christian allegory in Narnia and I still really, really liked the stories. (In fact I was really surprised to learn that CS Lewis was such the theological philosopher since I had heard stories of fundies trying to ban Narnia at the same time all the D&D-is-devil-worship hype was going on.) So, I think that these movies could be entirely successful if they just left the allegory as it is, let people the audience draw their own conclusions but don't try to hit them over the head with it.
I like to think I was a precocious kid (as opposed to the dimwit adult I grew up to be today) and given how well LCD type entertainment does nowadays, I figure that was interesting to a smart 5th grader will probably be interesting enough for the average American adult movie viewer (as well as most kids).
First of all, if you know what you're doing with a keyboard in any FPS, you would be using ASDF as your movement keys, or some kind of equivalent set of 4 in the same row.
:%s/badguy/nicedoggy/g is real handy too!
HJKL - those vi skills I learned at the office are just as useful at home! The cheat code
I have *the* patent on lead-lined wallets (and tin-foiled lined ones too) so I say the sooner these wireless cards come to market the sooner I can become a rich man!
There were places to get indie music before iTMS (like mp3 com). Their (lack of) success ought to tell you something.
That being litigated to the brink of death by companies with 100x deeper pockets than you, who then buy you out is the American way?
So yeah, maybe I don't let the developers have free reign, but we also have the best-performing, most available systems around.
A 600hp car with the keys locked inside isn't good for much other than looking at. Who cares about the uptime of development boxes? If your developers are so incompetent that they can't keep from permanently mucking up their own machines, then your company has other things to worry about.
Developers don't need root access. Simple.
For what? Give me one good reason why.
tcpdump/snoop/ethereal - sometimes watching the packets on the wire is orders of magnitude faster than any other option for debugging a network app.
OS bugs - they aren't "suppossed" to exist but we all know that doing weird shit to a system can push it off into corner cases that the OS engineers haven't handled so well. Sometimes once in the corner, the only way out is to reboot. Until a patch shows up, letting the developers reboot the system after they dork it up trying to debug their own code is a real time-saver. Especially if they are working 2nd or 3rd shift when finding a sysadmin to reboot the system can be difficult or even painful for all parties (just love gettings those 3am pages to reboot a computer and if the system is classified you have to physically come in to do the reboot).
That's two reasons. There are more.
Too many full-time employees don't seem to be able to grasp the nature of contractual work and thus think contract workers are a bunch of over-paid good for nothings. But when the income is unpredictable you have to make up for the downtime in your base rate. $3oo/hr for 5o hours a month for 4 months out of the year is only $6oK and that is before tax, before cost of equipment, maintainence and supplies. Then realize that very few plowmen earn $3oo/hr and that cost of living in a state like Mass is relatively high compared to most of the country (it ain't silly valley, but it sure ain't Oky City either).
Then apply the fact that they have to be on call 24-7 during those months which limits what other jobs they can take as well as makes life generally difficult because of the extra restrictions put that maintaining that level of availability.
Seems to me that this GPS stuff is an attempt to squeeze blood from a stone. Out of 4 winters in MA, I've only experienced a lack of plowing for a couple of weeks at the end of a winter when the local town ran out of budget to pay for plowers. Otherwise all the streets that I regularly travel have always been plowed in a timely fashion. So, I say that as long as the results are good, then micromanaging the driver's movements will only prove useful as a tool for firing drivers that management has a beef with and not for real incompetence or the like.
Mod Parent Up.
He's right about DNS only distributing the very small torrent file and not the actual data the torrent points to, and since DNS is a hierarchy of caching servers the load ain't going to be very bad either, it should scale nicely so that any high-demand torrent will quickly end up cached at the users' local DNS servers.
Plus, the idea of applying lessons learned from the caching hierarchy of DNS and the dynamic join/leave handling of trackers and other p2p to come up with a better mousetrap for data distribution has merit.
I didn't realize that it was abuse to want to keep your code yours.
No, but using other people's code in ways that they have forbidden is abuse.
If it's so difficult, what are MODULE_LICENSE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for?
You are on the right track. If your drivers are dynamically loadable, not static and they avoid using any symbols marked with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), then you will be OK. Furthermore, no cheating and writing two drivers one a GPL'd one that exists to re-export the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL symbols and then the real driver that makes use of the re-exported symbols. More info available here.
As a rule of thumb, your company must offer (and make good on the offer) to provide source such that an end user can build the software as you've distributed it. Technically you don't have to provide the binaries for your own closed loadable modules, but if the user is able to extract them from the product/device then they better work with whatever kernel source and build configuration you do distribute to comply with the GPL. You can count on at least one person being motivated enough to test your company's compliance on this too, no matter how hard you may try to hide or protect the binary-only modules.
Considering that they mostly got away with stealing the xvid group's work with thier x-card, Sigma's got a history of ignoring licensing requirements on Free software. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they had been telling their customers that it was all their own proprietary code, no linux about it.
In Umberto's case, the best argument against paper is that you won't accidentally poison yourself turning the pages of an electronic document.
The problem with that interpretation, that "good" rulings are soley rooted in the law, is that it nullifies part of the checks and balances of the three-way division of powers. With a legislative branch out of control, an executive branch that, for its own reasons, is even further out of control, for the courts to simply rubberstamp even the most egregious abuses of the letter of the law does no one, except the abusers any good.
Of course the technically correct response is that the electorate needs to take back power via elections, but when the power bases that control 95% or more of the information that electorate is exposed to are the same power bases that are responsible for the legislative and executive branches being out of control in the first place, it makes it that much harder for the "peaceable revolution" of elections to happen. Only when life gets so bad that the truth can't be hidden from the general electorate, then revolution may be so abrupt that elections aren't fast enough. If we are lucky, it will be non-violent like what happened in Georgia the other day. If we aren't lucky, we'll see a modern civil war.
Read up on the design of DVD+R it is inherently resistant to buffer under run problems. As in if you get an under-run and have to stop recording, you start recording again without wasting a single byte of space. The DVD-R isn't so well designed, but this drive only does 4x DVD-R.
Giving away music for free or allowing it to be downloaded off Kazaa is not a workable business model
The world is flat. The moon is made out of cheese. Earth is the center of the universe. The worldwide market for computers is only 2 or 3. 640K is enough for anyone.
Ever hear of the street-performer protocol? Look it up - it is just the tip of the iceberg. Like I said originally. Just because YOU haven't figured out how to make money in an environment that fully exploits the functionality of digitization doesn't mean it can't be done. And as long as we keep trying to stuff the square pegs into the round holes, it is going to be that much harder for anyone to think up and try out new business models.
"I won't buy a car because I can't drive it on the sidewalk."
You misunderstand the analogy.
You can't drive a horse & buggy on the sidewalk nor can you drive a car on the sidewalk.
DRM == attempt to make new tech like old tech, for example legislating that all cars have a horse attached despite the engine being able to do better alone in almost all cases.
My post is like saying, "I will buy a car, and remove the horse, or just buy a black-market car without a horse to begin with. So when are we going to get rid of this stupid mandatory horse law?"
1. iTMS users were prevented from taking the music they'd downloaded, and then distributing it freely and widely by e-mailing it to all their friends or posting it on Kazaa.
.iso image files and you don't even waste a disc. With the speed of cd-burners and rippers, nowadays, it hardly takes more time than just rippin from a B&M CD.
Uh, no they weren't. Just burn it, rip it and share it. Use a cd-rw, or a virtual burner that just writes
As far as I can tell, tools like this allow one to play their music anywhere without having to decode and re-encode, thus avoiding any artifacts that AAC re-encoded into MP3, Ogg or even ACC again will produce.