Try to watch an iTMS video file on your Zune. No? What about any other portable device that isn't made by Apple or a laptop running iTunes?
This *shouldn't* be a problem that consumers have to deal with.
It sounds like it's not so much preventing you from watching it on anything you want as preventing you from even *thinking* about watching it on anything else.
DRM is only there if you want it there. It's not some dirty little secret like it is with the subscription services.
How exactly is a subscription service business model at all functional without DRM? In order to have access to the entire music library *as long as you pay the monthly fee* it is assumed that the music will "expire" when you don't renew the contract.
Pretending like paying for a download is a purchase is when DRM becomes a dirty little secret. Subscription services are like rentals. DRM downloads are not like purchases, however.
The worst part about the iTMS DRM is that it locks you into Apple products forever unless you want to abandon your "purchase."
I agree. That's a horrible, horrible reason. First of all, you have to wait for things to get in portage (or an overlay if you using one), and if you're slightly sane you'll wait till it gets marked stable instead of unmasking it. That generally takes a while.
Or you could, you know, work to add it to portage or your favorite overlay, or make your own overlay. You can unmask the packages that you want the latest versions of. I started using Firefox 2.0 in the RC days this way. It required unmasking some dependencies as well, and it was nice that portage identified that for me and allowed me to have control of exactly how it was resolved.
Gentoo was my first distro, and I use it on my media server, and in most other situations where Linux is required/desired. I'm sick of people dismissing the idea that it teaches you about Linux. No, the compiler output is not a significant part of the learning process. The simple fact is that if you never have to pay attention to init scripts, you will never be aware of them. If the entire system is installed and configured for you, you won't know where to start if you want to change anything. Gentoo is not for everyone. Gentoo forces you to make choices. The documentation clearly explains these choices in most cases. It's certainly not for those who want a turnkey system, but it is very easy to maintain for those who go through the trouble of the initial setup, and it does force you to learn a thing or two.
No. You can, however, get the source which is GPL2 "or later", make changes to it (or not) and release it as GPL3 (or later, if you wish). You cannot go backward, however.
You suggest that since we have other, more important (or at least more sensational) problems, we should totally ignore the lesser ones, and focus exclusively on the few big problems that you list here.
Have you ever tried cooking more than one thing at a time? You don't ignore all of your dishes except the most important. Try doing that at a Thanksgiving dinner, and the turkey might turn out okay, but every other dish, having been ignored, will be horrid. Besides, some of the problems you mention *are* being dealt with, but in a more laissez-faire manner than you personally would prefer. Overattention to the turkey might even cause it to be undercooked.
I agree that this is a ridiculous bill, but I would rather have this bill on the books than have people who agree with your reasoning leading my country.
You make some valid points, and then you just go off the deep end. There is no reason to believe he denies the holocaust whatsoever, and the connection you attempt to make between ignoring ancient history (which you simply assert that he is doing) and denying recent history is laughable.
Perhaps you mean well. In the future, could you please make your comments in a way that shows respect for other human beings. They were, after all, created in the image of God.
Well, it can, but you have to do them both and in that order. They're still working out problems with the flavor. And the smell: Jobs was pretty upset about the smell.
Last Sunday morning I stood in line in front of Target. I got there an hour and a half early, but those who got there right at opening time still got a Wii. I was 21st in line, and there were 99 Wiis.
I could kick anyone's ass using Pikachu, except for my neighbor, who had mastered Jigglypuff. He used to routinely defeat me and his little brother. That little pink ball is meaner than it looks.
Even if he had, the techniques used to protect them should be sufficient to protect the data from someone who knows the encryption process. PGP is secure, even if the cracker has access to the source. His argument is that the key is too easy to obtain.
But a gun only has one purpose: To hurt living things.
All a gun can ever do is hurt people, be it for good or evil. Arguably shooting someone is never a good thing even if it is in self defense. Comparing guns to computers is a highly flawed analogy.
Always remember, if guns make people safe then why isn't the United States the safest place on earth?
Guns aren't just for hurting people, they're also for protecting people, by threatening voilence to those who would otherwise be voilent. One of the purposes of government is to be a "terror to evil."
No one is suggesting that unrestricted access to guns is the answer to all of society's problems. We're just trying to correct your irrational classification of them as pure evil. None of us think of them as pure good.
In your opinion. As long as we're using guns to kill or harm other humans I see them as evil, certainly in the hands of the general public. I'm very glad to live in a country with extremely strict firearms laws, in fact I don't think I know a single person who owns a gun.
And how do you suppose those strict firearms laws are upheld? Magical fairies?
The best way to target advertisments would be to listen to the radio stations and advertise products based on what's discussed--at least for talk radio. That's pretty much what they already do with web pages, only those are much easier for a computer to read.
I don't know if you meant to make this point, but I have to say, "good point". If you were really open-sourcing yourself, wouldn't that mean that you'd have to allow others the right to edit you? Not edit your writings or anything else, but edit you?
Not quite. It allows you to copy his implementation to whatever degree you feel like in your own implementation. Just because $SOFTWARE is open source doesn't give me the right or ability to modify it upstream.
The only way to do this is to either burn a CD and then rip the tracks back as MP3, or do what I do, which is use a little program called WireTap [ambrosiasw.com] that writes all audio output of the computer to an AIFF file, and then use iTunes to rip that file to MP3.
The reason this is less than desirable is that re-encoding degrades the quality of the tracks. Have you ever heard of myFairTunes? I don't "buy" DRM'd music, but my understanding is that this little program waits for iTunes to decode the software, and then grabs the un-DRM'd file (encoded in AAC) off of the RAM.
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Try to watch an iTMS video file on your Zune. No? What about any other portable device that isn't made by Apple or a laptop running iTunes?
This *shouldn't* be a problem that consumers have to deal with.
It sounds like it's not so much preventing you from watching it on anything you want as preventing you from even *thinking* about watching it on anything else.
How exactly is a subscription service business model at all functional without DRM? In order to have access to the entire music library *as long as you pay the monthly fee* it is assumed that the music will "expire" when you don't renew the contract.
Pretending like paying for a download is a purchase is when DRM becomes a dirty little secret. Subscription services are like rentals. DRM downloads are not like purchases, however.
The worst part about the iTMS DRM is that it locks you into Apple products forever unless you want to abandon your "purchase."
Or you could, you know, work to add it to portage or your favorite overlay, or make your own overlay. You can unmask the packages that you want the latest versions of. I started using Firefox 2.0 in the RC days this way. It required unmasking some dependencies as well, and it was nice that portage identified that for me and allowed me to have control of exactly how it was resolved.
Gentoo was my first distro, and I use it on my media server, and in most other situations where Linux is required/desired. I'm sick of people dismissing the idea that it teaches you about Linux. No, the compiler output is not a significant part of the learning process. The simple fact is that if you never have to pay attention to init scripts, you will never be aware of them. If the entire system is installed and configured for you, you won't know where to start if you want to change anything. Gentoo is not for everyone. Gentoo forces you to make choices. The documentation clearly explains these choices in most cases. It's certainly not for those who want a turnkey system, but it is very easy to maintain for those who go through the trouble of the initial setup, and it does force you to learn a thing or two.
No. You can, however, get the source which is GPL2 "or later", make changes to it (or not) and release it as GPL3 (or later, if you wish). You cannot go backward, however.
Your argument is absurd.
You suggest that since we have other, more important (or at least more sensational) problems, we should totally ignore the lesser ones, and focus exclusively on the few big problems that you list here.
Have you ever tried cooking more than one thing at a time? You don't ignore all of your dishes except the most important. Try doing that at a Thanksgiving dinner, and the turkey might turn out okay, but every other dish, having been ignored, will be horrid. Besides, some of the problems you mention *are* being dealt with, but in a more laissez-faire manner than you personally would prefer. Overattention to the turkey might even cause it to be undercooked.
I agree that this is a ridiculous bill, but I would rather have this bill on the books than have people who agree with your reasoning leading my country.
You make some valid points, and then you just go off the deep end. There is no reason to believe he denies the holocaust whatsoever, and the connection you attempt to make between ignoring ancient history (which you simply assert that he is doing) and denying recent history is laughable. Perhaps you mean well. In the future, could you please make your comments in a way that shows respect for other human beings. They were, after all, created in the image of God.
Well, it can, but you have to do them both and in that order. They're still working out problems with the flavor. And the smell: Jobs was pretty upset about the smell.
Last Sunday morning I stood in line in front of Target. I got there an hour and a half early, but those who got there right at opening time still got a Wii. I was 21st in line, and there were 99 Wiis.
There were only 3 PS3s. Haha.
I agree that that must be the reasoning, since everything else makes less sense, but yeah, K=1000, M=1000K, G=1000M, etc.
It might be from Latin-based languages, where "mille" means thousand.
Here in the USA they have contracts too, but they also want the extra assurances provided by making your phone useless with any other provider.
I could kick anyone's ass using Pikachu, except for my neighbor, who had mastered Jigglypuff. He used to routinely defeat me and his little brother. That little pink ball is meaner than it looks.
Even if he had, the techniques used to protect them should be sufficient to protect the data from someone who knows the encryption process. PGP is secure, even if the cracker has access to the source. His argument is that the key is too easy to obtain.
Mod parent up! The iPod is already proprietary enough.
The anti-phishing blacklist is supplied by Google, or anyone else you want, AFAIK.
Guns aren't just for hurting people, they're also for protecting people, by threatening voilence to those who would otherwise be voilent. One of the purposes of government is to be a "terror to evil."
No one is suggesting that unrestricted access to guns is the answer to all of society's problems. We're just trying to correct your irrational classification of them as pure evil. None of us think of them as pure good.
And how do you suppose those strict firearms laws are upheld? Magical fairies?
Guns are powerful things. Power and evil, while often correlated, are not the same thing.
Yes, it is. Firefox is tri-licensed under MPL, GPL, and LGPL.
The word "allot" is a verb, meaining to assign a portion (or lot).
The adverbial phrase "a lot" means "a [substantial] amount."
Please refrain from inflicting further damage on the English language. I would like for it to make as much sense as possible.
The best way to target advertisments would be to listen to the radio stations and advertise products based on what's discussed--at least for talk radio. That's pretty much what they already do with web pages, only those are much easier for a computer to read.
If you really think so, maybe you should exercise your right to copy everything he does, but wear heels.
What? You thought you could modify the upstream source? That would be a wiki, which is totally different.
Not quite. It allows you to copy his implementation to whatever degree you feel like in your own implementation. Just because $SOFTWARE is open source doesn't give me the right or ability to modify it upstream.
You're thinking of a wiki.
The reason this is less than desirable is that re-encoding degrades the quality of the tracks. Have you ever heard of myFairTunes? I don't "buy" DRM'd music, but my understanding is that this little program waits for iTunes to decode the software, and then grabs the un-DRM'd file (encoded in AAC) off of the RAM.
They won't be selling Sony PlayStation(TM) 3's or PSPs, they'll be selling generic gaming console units.
I have never seen the day before the month when the year is listed first. Ever.