In addition to that, why would I buy from a site that I can't buy from in my money? I am in Canada, and Amazon UnBox is not available on Amazon.ca.
I agree with other posters that this was rushed out, perhaps in advance of Apple's announcement next week.
Tying the sale of something as simple as a movie to particular hardware is as stupid as the VHS/Beta war. Oops! I forgot about HD/Blu-ray!
Apple's style of DRM that allows me to make an un-DRMmed backup on a Music CD is the only type I'll accept. Anything more restrictive can be shoved where the sun don't shine.
I agree about trespassing. That stood out like a sore thumb in the linked article. It's apples and oranges. Shopping malls are private property and it's their right to say what goes on on their property, I believe.
I work in the newspaper business, and I've been asked by relatives and police at car crash scenes not to take photographs on many occasions, but I've always politely refused. No one's taken it any further, thankfully.
The key, I feel is to not aggressively assert one's "right" to photograph stuiff in public places, but to be discreet. This means no close-in wide angle shots if you know they're ticked off at you. Yes, this changes the final image, but you still get an image and your camera isn't broken.
If people buy this camera, it will just encourage Sony. If consumers punish then for the other Sony hardware with crappy DRM built in -- from MiniDisc to SACD -- diminishing profits for the entire company, parhaps that will force the suits to act. Not I'm not even addressing the Software DRM here.
There are 1,001 different digital cameras out there, including dozens of that blow the doors off this model. This is not a camera for professionals. How many non-pros need 10 megapixel resolution? If it's for a website, 5 MP is already overkill.
According to DPreview, This camera offers both Memory Stick/Memory Stick Pro and Compact Flash Type I/II. Isn't Memory Stick chock full of DRM goodies? While CF is also available, isn't a DRM storage method bad? Help me out here, people!
I "back up" everything I buy from iTMS by burning the songs to a music CD and putting the disc on a spindle. I worried about that too, but that's my solution...
You've articulated the problem I have with this. Software glitch or human data entry error? Even if it's some kind of coding error, it's still human-based...
Politically, Cosh agrees with what the content could do to our government. If he was against the message -- if it hurt the political side he supports -- the story might be very different. He illustrates this repeatedly in his blog.
He's a good writer, and uses his talent to twist words to serve his ends.
There are two issues here that cross with this posting -- a) information will be free, and b) I hate Canadian Liberals. Cosh is the latter, and a poor example for this story.
I think information will be free. Whatever the fallout, so be it.
Wow -- from the blank recording tax to our health system. Anyone want to have a go at same-sex marriage? No, please, I don't really want to hear about it!
There's a lot of flaming about what this means. But the question is about what people who do this all the time use.
A slide/negative scanner is best. Cheap models are available on EBay. Most shooters in my industry -- newspapers -- have moved from negative film and Nikon scanners to digital and card readers today. We would only use a flatbed scanner for negs or chrome in an emergency.
The majority of us use Mac/Photoshop, with a small number of Windows papers and a few dedicated systems (but the shooters probably have Macs).
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What about the Mac OS? Surely, Apple sells more than .001 per cent...
I agree with other posters that this was rushed out, perhaps in advance of Apple's announcement next week.
Tying the sale of something as simple as a movie to particular hardware is as stupid as the VHS/Beta war. Oops! I forgot about HD/Blu-ray!
Apple's style of DRM that allows me to make an un-DRMmed backup on a Music CD is the only type I'll accept. Anything more restrictive can be shoved where the sun don't shine.
I ran one app more useful than any other on 3.1 -- WordPerfect 5.1.
Me, too. Obviously we know we're smart. We just don't know if we're fast and smart.
I agree about trespassing. That stood out like a sore thumb in the linked article. It's apples and oranges. Shopping malls are private property and it's their right to say what goes on on their property, I believe.
I work in the newspaper business, and I've been asked by relatives and police at car crash scenes not to take photographs on many occasions, but I've always politely refused. No one's taken it any further, thankfully.
The key, I feel is to not aggressively assert one's "right" to photograph stuiff in public places, but to be discreet. This means no close-in wide angle shots if you know they're ticked off at you. Yes, this changes the final image, but you still get an image and your camera isn't broken.
Torvalds may be a millionaire, but Bill Gates is many times a billionaire. Big diffrerence
There are 1,001 different digital cameras out there, including dozens of that blow the doors off this model. This is not a camera for professionals. How many non-pros need 10 megapixel resolution? If it's for a website, 5 MP is already overkill.
According to DPreview, This camera offers both Memory Stick/Memory Stick Pro and Compact Flash Type I/II. Isn't Memory Stick chock full of DRM goodies? While CF is also available, isn't a DRM storage method bad? Help me out here, people!
I "back up" everything I buy from iTMS by burning the songs to a music CD and putting the disc on a spindle. I worried about that too, but that's my solution...
You've articulated the problem I have with this. Software glitch or human data entry error? Even if it's some kind of coding error, it's still human-based...
He's a good writer, and uses his talent to twist words to serve his ends.
There are two issues here that cross with this posting -- a) information will be free, and b) I hate Canadian Liberals. Cosh is the latter, and a poor example for this story.
I think information will be free. Whatever the fallout, so be it.
And yet, their commercials promise "a better Internet" because they give users a virus scanner?
Wow -- from the blank recording tax to our health system. Anyone want to have a go at same-sex marriage? No, please, I don't really want to hear about it!
A slide/negative scanner is best. Cheap models are available on EBay. Most shooters in my industry -- newspapers -- have moved from negative film and Nikon scanners to digital and card readers today. We would only use a flatbed scanner for negs or chrome in an emergency.
The majority of us use Mac/Photoshop, with a small number of Windows papers and a few dedicated systems (but the shooters probably have Macs).
Hope this helps.