I find it curious that 90+% of your downloads come from pirates as I wouldn't have thought the majority of iphones would be jail broken. Anyone know what the percentage is?
Out of interest how do you determine the percentage of your downloads that are attributed to pirates?
Nothing that I could do, or figure out how to do, would trigger the 'capture text for copying' function that I've inadvertently triggered in the past.
You're making a valid point here, I've had similar issues with it not quite working as I'd expected.
It's good that you've stepped forward to be the spokesperson for 'the fanboys' Baselbrush... but this is developers.slashdot.org not your usual apple.slashdot.org. Don't you feel kinda out of place here??
"But with all this, it is not surprising that Apple doesn't want flash anywhere near their new products even if this kills their former ally."
You haven't even touched on the reasons for this. It's not about lack of loyalty, business infidelity, or product bugginess, it's about Jobs's need to control all software that runs on the platform. With flash, applications can be downloaded and run on demand inside a browser. Apple can't have that.
Given that most of the functionality offered by flash can be duplicated in HTML5 which Apple supports your argument there seems a bit hollow. Sure Apple is trying to push the tech that they prefer but for good reason given the bugginess and performance issues with Flash. Fact is there are already a lot of "applications" out there that will run in the browser without Apples approval; just look at the offerings from google.
When searching for "links" on google the fourth result is:
Links@Sourceforge.net
Links is a text-based browser with support for HTML tables and frames. For Unix, OS/2, BeOS, MacOSX, Win32 (Beta).
links.sourceforge.net/
But surely if you pay the tax you should have unlimited acess to BBC content. So why should the BBC adopt DRM to limit access, it's public. The problem is that the BBC partners with a lot of others to create their content, and these other parties wouldn't be happy if the products that they have invested in became freely available to everyone.
Headsets or speaker phones being safer while driving is a myth. And what is the difference between having an intense conversation on a hands free phone system and having one with a passenger in the car? It seems that if the conversion is the main factor in distracting drivers then they should be banned from talking to the passengers as well.
"I can understand their concern where they don't want after-market apps taking down the whole phone network," said iClip developer John Casasanta, who called last week's comments by Jobs "fantastic." Wait... did this guy just insinuate that an app on one guy's iPhone is enough to take down all of AT&T/Cingular's network? Or did someone add the word "network" afterwards? Suddenly I have a lot less faith in iClip (whatever it is) being a quality app... Um, where exactly did he say that "one guy's iPhone" would take down the whole network. I think the point is that the same app on everyone's phone has the potential to take down the network if implemented badly which sounds like a valid point.
How can it be that a license that 1) MS has and never will agree to 2) that didn't exist when the deal was made be valid? I believe the point is that all new versions of the code will use GPL3. They will still be able to use previously licensed code as they are now but all new versions will be released under the new license. They could choose to branch all the code and keep development under GPL2 but they wouldn't be able to use all the work released under GPL3 so it's pretty unlikely that they'd do that.
Yeah well the problem isn't due to bad hardware but to bad third party drivers that weren't written by Microsoft. On the occasion that I've bothered to send a error report to MS the response is that the problem was caused by a third party driver. Frustrating yes but not their fault. Even so it does nothing to improve the experience of using Windows.
Give all students guns and this wouldn't have happened either. You realise that this was an elementary school don't you? I'm not sure about you but I think that giving a bunch of 11 year guns incase there is a terrorist attack mightn't be such a great idea.
Those who carry cash, jewelry, important documents, and weapons often go to great lengths to be discreet.
Jewellery, really? Bad example I think. People who wear jewellery tend to wear it to make a fashion statement. It's not something they tend to hide, rather they tend to flaunt it. Much like an ipod. Actually you say earlier that "it's because people wear them like big flashy pieces of jewelry", kind of conflicting your own argument.
As I understand it the reason that the BBC isn't making the content available in a DRM free format is that the licensing arrangements they have on most of their content is rather complex. A lot of BBC content is produced in conjunction with other parties who retain some rights to the content which means that the BBC is unable to make it freely available. It sucks but it sounds like there isn't much that they can do about it.
The difference here of course is that there is nothing stopping you from backing up all the data locally on your own PC. Indeed having all your data stored only in one place whether local or remote is always going to be a problem.
If japanese law is that japanese politics goes only through japanese TV, then the japanese politicians and supporters who put up the japanese politics are the ones to be reprimanded under japanese law, not YouTube.
Very good point and one that I totally agree with. However how exactly are they meant to find out who posted the video? Google is a US company and under no legal obligation to reveal who posted the video. Indeed if they did there would be an even bigger outcry. And what if the person who posted it lives outside Japan? Given the type of content we are talking about this is admittedly unlikely, but if this were the case then the poster would be unreachable by Japanese law. And if not this time then how soon would it be before they started circumventing the law this way? Not long I'd imagine. At which point the only recourse the Japanese government would have would be to block YouTube.
If I can't download it and watch it when I want, I won't watch. That is why I stopped watching the show.
I only watched the show towards the end but I just subscribed to the video podcast and watched it when I felt like it.
Actually it doesn't work very well in firefox. While you could view the site it was a total mess and you apparently had to do a hard refresh for the site to be readable. Apparently rather than make it viewable they have simply made it inaccessable.
Yeah I have both and personally I have fastmail set up to just forward my email to gmail. It's a matter of preference but I find the gmail interface a lot easier to use than the fastmail one. As far as spam goes gmail does a great job of stopping it from getting to my inbox.
The reason that I still use the fastmail account is because it still checks my other email accounts - especially my hotmail account - that I have stopped using but still have the odd email sent to. Gmail doesn't offer the same way of checking other email accounts but having fastmail forward to gmail works just as well.
Even if everyone gets a dual format player for free from the government tomorrow, consumers will still buy more of one format than the other until people stop making one format. Actually I would have thought that if they know that consumers can play their discs regardless of format then they would just continue making them using whatever format they were before. In this case you would expect neither format to really win or loose. Blue-ray would have an advantage in that it can hold more data but then HD-DVD would have an advantage as it is cheaper to make.
So it's still important to note that the deal with Cingular applies only to the US market because it opens up the possibility that the iPhone will be available to users in other countries. Given that Apple on day one that they were going to release to Europe at the end of the year and Asia next year this was already obvious.
I have a new Lenovo laptop and I can confirm that VT is disabled and that there is no BIOS option to turn it on. From what I've read they didn't make it availble because they hadn't tested it but were planning on enabling in newer models some time this year.
For me this was really annoying as I wanted to run 64bit Solaris in VMWare but wasn't able to because VT was disabled.
It says nothing about him not doing a hobbit film for other studio, as is apparently favoured by some of the tolkien family. So enough with the cheap selling news, ok? Umm, New Line currently own the rights to the Hobbit films so no one else can make them no matter how much they want to.
Also I think what most people aren't impressed about is that New Line is trying to cast Jackson in a bad light saying that he is greedy, just wants more money and won't even talk to them. Since he has said that he just wants to have an audit on their accounting as it doesn't match what they expected this seems a little unfair. Basically the impression you get is that they are trying to screw him out of money that he is legally entitled to and are saying that he shouldn't be worried about it because they have already given him a lot. Really it seems that they are the ones who are greedy and refuse to talk.
... they could have easily said that you could only put licenced music on the iPod that was purchased through iTunes in order to protect the 'rights' of artists, but they didn't. Given that the store didn't even exist when the ipod was released that would have been a little hard for them to do. Still you are right and they could have forced you to rip your CDs into a DRMed format before they would play.
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I find it curious that 90+% of your downloads come from pirates as I wouldn't have thought the majority of iphones would be jail broken. Anyone know what the percentage is? Out of interest how do you determine the percentage of your downloads that are attributed to pirates?
Nothing that I could do, or figure out how to do, would trigger the 'capture text for copying' function that I've inadvertently triggered in the past.
You're making a valid point here, I've had similar issues with it not quite working as I'd expected.
It's good that you've stepped forward to be the spokesperson for 'the fanboys' Baselbrush... but this is developers.slashdot.org not your usual apple.slashdot.org. Don't you feel kinda out of place here??
But you've turned into a troll by the end.
"But with all this, it is not surprising that Apple doesn't want flash anywhere near their new products even if this kills their former ally."
You haven't even touched on the reasons for this. It's not about lack of loyalty, business infidelity, or product bugginess, it's about Jobs's need to control all software that runs on the platform. With flash, applications can be downloaded and run on demand inside a browser. Apple can't have that.
Given that most of the functionality offered by flash can be duplicated in HTML5 which Apple supports your argument there seems a bit hollow. Sure Apple is trying to push the tech that they prefer but for good reason given the bugginess and performance issues with Flash. Fact is there are already a lot of "applications" out there that will run in the browser without Apples approval; just look at the offerings from google.
Sounds like you might find this monitor useful.
Yeah well the Fiat costs a lot more as well. Remember that these are aimed the Indian market where price is a lot more importatnt.
Yeah well the problem isn't due to bad hardware but to bad third party drivers that weren't written by Microsoft. On the occasion that I've bothered to send a error report to MS the response is that the problem was caused by a third party driver. Frustrating yes but not their fault. Even so it does nothing to improve the experience of using Windows.
Jewellery, really? Bad example I think. People who wear jewellery tend to wear it to make a fashion statement. It's not something they tend to hide, rather they tend to flaunt it. Much like an ipod. Actually you say earlier that "it's because people wear them like big flashy pieces of jewelry", kind of conflicting your own argument.
As I understand it the reason that the BBC isn't making the content available in a DRM free format is that the licensing arrangements they have on most of their content is rather complex. A lot of BBC content is produced in conjunction with other parties who retain some rights to the content which means that the BBC is unable to make it freely available. It sucks but it sounds like there isn't much that they can do about it.
The difference here of course is that there is nothing stopping you from backing up all the data locally on your own PC. Indeed having all your data stored only in one place whether local or remote is always going to be a problem.
Very good point and one that I totally agree with. However how exactly are they meant to find out who posted the video? Google is a US company and under no legal obligation to reveal who posted the video. Indeed if they did there would be an even bigger outcry. And what if the person who posted it lives outside Japan? Given the type of content we are talking about this is admittedly unlikely, but if this were the case then the poster would be unreachable by Japanese law. And if not this time then how soon would it be before they started circumventing the law this way? Not long I'd imagine. At which point the only recourse the Japanese government would have would be to block YouTube.
I only watched the show towards the end but I just subscribed to the video podcast and watched it when I felt like it.
Actually it doesn't work very well in firefox. While you could view the site it was a total mess and you apparently had to do a hard refresh for the site to be readable. Apparently rather than make it viewable they have simply made it inaccessable.
Yeah I have both and personally I have fastmail set up to just forward my email to gmail. It's a matter of preference but I find the gmail interface a lot easier to use than the fastmail one. As far as spam goes gmail does a great job of stopping it from getting to my inbox.
The reason that I still use the fastmail account is because it still checks my other email accounts - especially my hotmail account - that I have stopped using but still have the odd email sent to. Gmail doesn't offer the same way of checking other email accounts but having fastmail forward to gmail works just as well.
I have a new Lenovo laptop and I can confirm that VT is disabled and that there is no BIOS option to turn it on. From what I've read they didn't make it availble because they hadn't tested it but were planning on enabling in newer models some time this year.
For me this was really annoying as I wanted to run 64bit Solaris in VMWare but wasn't able to because VT was disabled.
Also I think what most people aren't impressed about is that New Line is trying to cast Jackson in a bad light saying that he is greedy, just wants more money and won't even talk to them. Since he has said that he just wants to have an audit on their accounting as it doesn't match what they expected this seems a little unfair. Basically the impression you get is that they are trying to screw him out of money that he is legally entitled to and are saying that he shouldn't be worried about it because they have already given him a lot. Really it seems that they are the ones who are greedy and refuse to talk.
... they could have easily said that you could only put licenced music on the iPod that was purchased through iTunes in order to protect the 'rights' of artists, but they didn't. Given that the store didn't even exist when the ipod was released that would have been a little hard for them to do. Still you are right and they could have forced you to rip your CDs into a DRMed format before they would play.