For me the scrollwheel doesn't work in the prefs pane with FF. Same with Thunderbird, but that is probably the best mailnews client for the Mac, so I use it nonetheless.
You want things to be free of restrictions, and then you make it so people can't make any money to create them.
In what way does restriction-freeness, of a CD or an AAC file, prevent you from making money? You do know that people will still have to pay for an iTunes download, do you??
Study some business of marketing, get some brains and common sense. If you offer a product that satisfies the users' needs, at a (perceived) fair price, they will buy it, you will make money.
Offer a solution that's crippled (aka DRM-restricted), that has only 128k quality, that is encoded in constant bitrate only, with the only alternative being CDs that won't rip anymore, or CDs that take two weeks to ship to your place. But if you do that, don't complain that people use free (illegal) downloads instead.
Actually since this media type never existed, the Protected AAC is not removing anything you couldn't do before. Apple's FairPlay system was designed to serve as a substitute for purchasing the physical CD. Think about it: if you buy a physical CD, you can't give it to a friend and listen to it at the same time, right? You can't listen to it in your home theater CD player and your car at the same time, right? This is because the physical medium exists in one place at a time.
You mean, I can't rip a CD and burn it a 100 times, and I also can't rip it and lend it to a friend?
I certainly can't do that with FairPlay files.
In fact, while I sometimes rip a friend's CDs, I usually buy music I want, but only if the price is right: $15/CD --> about one CD bought per year by me. $8-12 (CD on sale) --> about 8 CDs bought by me in a year.
On which option does the MI maximize profits? This seems like a grave case of business 101 that the MI just doesn't get. There's a concept called price elasticity, and there's an optimum price that maximizes profits. $15 it ain't.
If a consumer makes a choice not to buy products, like overpriced CDs, and it shows with shrinking revenues for the MI, then you would think that the MI would adapt. Instead they ridicule customers, offer online crippleware music sales (aka DRM) encoded in constant bitrate, and expect piracy to go away.
Piracy is not a disease, it's just the symptom. It only goes away when an equally attractive solution is offered: high-quality downloads for a fair price with no DRM strings attached. You pay for your download, in return you don't get sued.
And what if I have a cellphone that plays AAC, but doesn't support Apple's "FairPlay" DRM?
Am I supposed to play fair and get an iPod for $300?
Sorry, but my choices as a consumer don't go that way.
I only bought one song on iTunes so far, and deleted it, since later I bought (CD) and ripped the whole album. When I find a nice Mac OS X package of PyMusique, I'll download two or three albums, just to give a signal to Apple and the MI.
Yes, we're willing to pay. Yes, we want to have the same rights and possibilities with a download is with a CD.
When download services don't offer that convenience, people will -- as you suggest -- not use that download service. Instead, they will just use the illegal download service, that even offers better quality (often 192k MP3, ofter VBR files), and all that without DRM.
/* What they're doing is saying "Scrabble is ours." */
As you say, trademark law forbids them calling themselves e-scrabble. Ok, so far I'm fine with the law. But is it really that you can't even *implement* a game anymore, just because someone else invented it?
That would be almost worse than software patents!
You may not publish that piece of music you wrote, because the last three chords were already patented by Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, AND Bernstein! Hah!
You know that that's (for some reason) what Firefox and Mozilla do?
Any file you download is named jkbkc3ek32.exe first. When you click on the desktop (making it update itself) the files get renamed to bla.avi.part and when it's done bla.avi.
If you use Unix (no trojans) and never go to fake websites (I never did that; why should I??), you are unaffected by the two described possible workarounds.
Ok, maybe someone could manipulate a DNS account, but let's hope that gets fixed.
Yes, but once a game starts using a fancy 3D graphics engine, it introduces running around in 3D, controls for circling the view around. Generally I feel that lots of games lose much playability compared to a simple, nice 2D version.
One example: Final Fantasy 7+8 compared to 4-6 (okay, it's not just the running around, but these games are too much special FX and too little flair (or flare:D) for my taste).
Looking at the (meager) performance of the VIA CPUs (had one for a year) and then looking at the AMD Geode NX (6W @ 1GHz), I think the VIA is toast.
The Geode does out-of-order execution and can issue more than one instruction per cycle; AFAIK the VIA is a simple pipelined architecture, so it's 2-3x slower in a lot of cases.
is that everybody is free to change the software to his or her needs. When a desired feature isn't implemented, the right way to go is not to bitch that nobody implemented that feature *in their free time*, but to hire a developer to do it.
It's competition in a free market baby! Take it or leave it. Now I was pretty content when I used GNOME (I fell for a Mac...).
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For me the scrollwheel doesn't work in the prefs pane with FF. Same with Thunderbird, but that is probably the best mailnews client for the Mac, so I use it nonetheless.
OMG. That looks as ugly as KDE, and possibly worse than Konqueror!
Have you hade a look at Epiphany for Gnome?
Trailblazer
Exactly. I'm not too familiar with current (Windows+Linux) search tools, but a graphical frontend to locate, find, grep etc could do similar.
But of course then you could just as well use a normal search/find dialog (which is perfectly sufficient for me).
If Mac OS Tiger increases its system requirements, I'll keep running the good-ole system I have (10.3).
I think it would be a bit too big for that. And it could use more curves, to be sure.
;)
BTW, does Linux run on vibrators? Would be cool if they had WLAN and you could hack into them. Make the kid next door jump
for more than $2000(!), would you really buy a 12" machine, and not, say, a slick Vaio, Powerbook, or ThinkPad?
does it run Linux?
Does that mean that the kids of two geeks will not read /. ?
since I'm using Linux/BSD/Mac, is called locate.
Yes, it's not integrated into the OS as Spotlight on the Mac will be, but it does a good job.
No fancy bloated technology for me.
Farting is easy.
/. reader)
The hard/interesting part is doing it so that nobody hears/smells it!
(especially if you're surrounded by sweeet ladies, like the usual
AFAIK iTunes limits you to burn a playlist seven times...
I've never tried that, though.
You want things to be free of restrictions, and then you make it so people can't make any money to create them.
In what way does restriction-freeness, of a CD or an AAC file, prevent you from making money? You do know that people will still have to pay for an iTunes download, do you??
Study some business of marketing, get some brains and common sense. If you offer a product that satisfies the users' needs, at a (perceived) fair price, they will buy it, you will make money.
Offer a solution that's crippled (aka DRM-restricted), that has only 128k quality, that is encoded in constant bitrate only, with the only alternative being CDs that won't rip anymore, or CDs that take two weeks to ship to your place. But if you do that, don't complain that people use free (illegal) downloads instead.
Actually since this media type never existed, the Protected AAC is not removing anything you couldn't do before. Apple's FairPlay system was designed to serve as a substitute for purchasing the physical CD. Think about it: if you buy a physical CD, you can't give it to a friend and listen to it at the same time, right? You can't listen to it in your home theater CD player and your car at the same time, right? This is because the physical medium exists in one place at a time.
You mean, I can't rip a CD and burn it a 100 times, and I also can't rip it and lend it to a friend?
I certainly can't do that with FairPlay files.
In fact, while I sometimes rip a friend's CDs, I usually buy music I want, but only if the price is right: $15/CD --> about one CD bought per year by me.
$8-12 (CD on sale) --> about 8 CDs bought by me in a year.
On which option does the MI maximize profits? This seems like a grave case of business 101 that the MI just doesn't get. There's a concept called price elasticity, and there's an optimum price that maximizes profits. $15 it ain't.
If a consumer makes a choice not to buy products, like overpriced CDs, and it shows with shrinking revenues for the MI, then you would think that the MI would adapt. Instead they ridicule customers, offer online crippleware music sales (aka DRM) encoded in constant bitrate, and expect piracy to go away.
Piracy is not a disease, it's just the symptom. It only goes away when an equally attractive solution is offered: high-quality downloads for a fair price with no DRM strings attached. You pay for your download, in return you don't get sued.
And what if I have a cellphone that plays AAC, but doesn't support Apple's "FairPlay" DRM?
Am I supposed to play fair and get an iPod for $300?
Sorry, but my choices as a consumer don't go that way.
I only bought one song on iTunes so far, and deleted it, since later I bought (CD) and ripped the whole album. When I find a nice Mac OS X package of PyMusique, I'll download two or three albums, just to give a signal to Apple and the MI.
Yes, we're willing to pay. Yes, we want to have the same rights and possibilities with a download is with a CD.
When download services don't offer that convenience, people will -- as you suggest -- not use that download service. Instead, they will just use the illegal download service, that even offers better quality (often 192k MP3, ofter VBR files), and all that without DRM.
/* What they're doing is saying "Scrabble is ours." */
As you say, trademark law forbids them calling themselves e-scrabble. Ok, so far I'm fine with the law. But is it really that you can't even *implement* a game anymore, just because someone else invented it?
That would be almost worse than software patents!
You may not publish that piece of music you wrote, because the last three chords were already patented by Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, AND Bernstein! Hah!
1. Censor all internet access ...
2. Open up an underground internet cafe.
4. Profit!
You know that that's (for some reason) what Firefox and Mozilla do?
;)
Any file you download is named jkbkc3ek32.exe first. When you click on the desktop (making it update itself) the files get renamed to bla.avi.part and when it's done bla.avi.
There nothing to be afraid of
If you use Unix (no trojans) and never go to fake websites (I never did that; why should I??), you are unaffected by the two described possible workarounds.
Ok, maybe someone could manipulate a DNS account, but let's hope that gets fixed.
Multithreading is really cool. Maybe it's about time programmers took a look at CSP, CCS, the pi-calculus and other parallel programming languages.
:D
Maybe the transputer and OCCAM will even return
Why don't you just use files and a http/ftp/webdav or whatever server?
Don't make things more complicated than you have to!
Yes, but once a game starts using a fancy 3D graphics engine, it introduces running around in 3D, controls for circling the view around. Generally I feel that lots of games lose much playability compared to a simple, nice 2D version.
:D) for my taste).
One example: Final Fantasy 7+8 compared to 4-6 (okay, it's not just the running around, but these games are too much special FX and too little flair (or flare
Looking at the (meager) performance of the VIA CPUs (had one for a year) and then looking at the AMD Geode NX (6W @ 1GHz), I think the VIA is toast.
The Geode does out-of-order execution and can issue more than one instruction per cycle; AFAIK the VIA is a simple pipelined architecture, so it's 2-3x slower in a lot of cases.
is that everybody is free to change the software to his or her needs. When a desired feature isn't implemented, the right way to go is not to bitch that nobody implemented that feature *in their free time*, but to hire a developer to do it.
It's competition in a free market baby! Take it or leave it.
Now I was pretty content when I used GNOME (I fell for a Mac...).
will be called Hyperdrive!
My mac has kernel 7.2.1 (for Mac OS X 10.3.something).