But why bother? The iTunes extentions to the aac format allow album art, all the information from liner notes, lyrics (although not synchronized lyrics AFAIK), and more to be embeded in a song. Heck, it even supports synchronized images to be muxed in along with the audio, and chapter marks to be inserted.
AAC isn't open, and neither is iTunes. Not everyone has, or even wants an iPod. Amazingly, if the labels make this an open format, it will be a significant improvement. Of course, the odds are against it.
I'm not a fan of Apple's walled garden approach either. If it's open, perhaps Amazon and others will adopt it. As long as it's not used to push DRM, it's not a bad idea.
Here's hoping that any format battle leads to an open format. We don't need another format that must be licensed or a fragmented market. There's no word in the article about whether or not either format supports or requires DRM.
The ridiculously short interval in most places is a huge part of the problem. It's asking people to do insecure things to make it more convenient. I read someone advocating lately to write your passwords down, but keep them in your wallet. Not a bad idea if you don't have the electronic means to do the same.
The best long term solution is probably some sort of revocable 2 factor authentication.
Don't use cleaning fluid, tissues, or even those special cloths. Use soap and water only. Run water over your lenses to get the larger dust particles off, then wet your fingers and apply a couple of drops of dish detergent to them. Use this to get any remaining dust and oily residue off the lenses by rubbing the lenses with your fingers. Rinse the lenses under running water. Repeat as required. You can shake most of the water droplets off, and if you want to get rid of all of them, dab the lenses with a soft cotton towel. You lenses should remain scratch free for years.
Well, the original post was actually meant to be from Steve Jobs to Eric, poking fun at Apple's Google Voice fiasco, which I consider at least bordering on the margins of Evil. Since the original post has been modded Interesting, Insightful, Flamebait, and Redundant, but not Funny, It was obviously poorly worded or aimed. It in no way meant that Google's "Don't Be Evil" policy was a bad idea... I think all companies (and people) live by it.
Beyond that, I think I'm going to give up on poking fun at Apple as I don't really have the karma for it.
They're nowhere near going down. Even if they get fined for anti-trust, they'll get past it and do fine. If they're forced to open up their app store, it may even be good for them in the long run. At this point it probably is just a routine conflict of interest, but the timing adds some entertainment value.
Intentionally tying patent encumbered software into open source would be one of the worst things you could do. The patent system in the US seems exceptionally broken, and this at best would start dragging open source companies into courts to define 'reasonable' on a case by case basis. It would get rid of the 'free' part of FOSS in two ways, not just one.
He has a point as well though. Because of the popularity of the platform, there's been a huge deluge of 'crapware', much like with the Wii. You've got to check reviews, as there is an abundance of... less than spectacular games. The lack of buttons is a limiting factor as well, although the touch screen does add capabilities as well. Personally, I think it would be a better gaming platform if it had a couple of hardware buttons. They'd be damn handy in many other situations as well.
My point was that if you say anything remotely bad, you are likely to get modded down. Check around on some other stories and I think you'll find it to be true.
You've got to be careful. Expressing an opinion on iPhone or other Apple products will get you modded down these days. It's getting close to the blind devotion normally associated with consoles, and seems to get worse when there's negative news in the media. It may settle down, but this is a bit of a volatile time with the Google Voice fiasco in the news as well.
TFA mentions Windows BitLocker as being effective at detecting this as it creates a hash of the MBR. Any Linux alternatives for this sort of functionality?
Exactly. Not every game needs the ability to choose the race, gender, age, height, weight, etc, of the hero(ine!). It's a damn story in most cases, let the writers tell it their way.
It would be an excellent time for the BluRay drive too. Although the newest boxes run dead-cold (mine anyway) and the fan is quiet (but not really quiet enough) the DVD drive is way too noisy. I nice quiet BluRay drive would go a long way to making it the media center device they seem to have in mind. Now if only the media companies would stop gouging for BluRay movies.
Because the large number of potential users who can buy your app allows the potential for one to become very rich... although at this point, the number of apps makes the odds about the same as many lotteries.
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You can stream or create files for AAC without a license, but must pay license fees to create a codec.
I'm getting very tired of being modded "troll" when saying anything remotely against Apple.
AAC isn't open, and neither is iTunes. Not everyone has, or even wants an iPod. Amazingly, if the labels make this an open format, it will be a significant improvement. Of course, the odds are against it.
I'm not a fan of Apple's walled garden approach either. If it's open, perhaps Amazon and others will adopt it. As long as it's not used to push DRM, it's not a bad idea.
Here's hoping that any format battle leads to an open format. We don't need another format that must be licensed or a fragmented market. There's no word in the article about whether or not either format supports or requires DRM.
Actually, wouldn't this sort of battery make a letter bomb a lot harder to detect?
Just to clarify for the uninformed, that 'acronym' stands for 'HanDiCaP'.
That's ok. Compared to the typical post these days it's refreshingly informative.
The best long term solution is probably some sort of revocable 2 factor authentication.
We are not ... you big poopy-head.
Maybe the more meaningful part is the 'control' part.
It does have a keyboard though. No keyboard and no touch screen makes for an input challenge.
Don't use cleaning fluid, tissues, or even those special cloths. Use soap and water only. Run water over your lenses to get the larger dust particles off, then wet your fingers and apply a couple of drops of dish detergent to them. Use this to get any remaining dust and oily residue off the lenses by rubbing the lenses with your fingers. Rinse the lenses under running water. Repeat as required. You can shake most of the water droplets off, and if you want to get rid of all of them, dab the lenses with a soft cotton towel. You lenses should remain scratch free for years.
Beyond that, I think I'm going to give up on poking fun at Apple as I don't really have the karma for it.
They're nowhere near going down. Even if they get fined for anti-trust, they'll get past it and do fine. If they're forced to open up their app store, it may even be good for them in the long run. At this point it probably is just a routine conflict of interest, but the timing adds some entertainment value.
but that whole "Don't be Evil" thing is really starting to get in the way.
Intentionally tying patent encumbered software into open source would be one of the worst things you could do. The patent system in the US seems exceptionally broken, and this at best would start dragging open source companies into courts to define 'reasonable' on a case by case basis. It would get rid of the 'free' part of FOSS in two ways, not just one.
He has a point as well though. Because of the popularity of the platform, there's been a huge deluge of 'crapware', much like with the Wii. You've got to check reviews, as there is an abundance of ... less than spectacular games. The lack of buttons is a limiting factor as well, although the touch screen does add capabilities as well. Personally, I think it would be a better gaming platform if it had a couple of hardware buttons. They'd be damn handy in many other situations as well.
My point was that if you say anything remotely bad, you are likely to get modded down. Check around on some other stories and I think you'll find it to be true.
You've got to be careful. Expressing an opinion on iPhone or other Apple products will get you modded down these days. It's getting close to the blind devotion normally associated with consoles, and seems to get worse when there's negative news in the media. It may settle down, but this is a bit of a volatile time with the Google Voice fiasco in the news as well.
TFA mentions Windows BitLocker as being effective at detecting this as it creates a hash of the MBR. Any Linux alternatives for this sort of functionality?
I do think it would be hilarious to have a 90 year old woman as the main character in GTA though.
Exactly. Not every game needs the ability to choose the race, gender, age, height, weight, etc, of the hero(ine!). It's a damn story in most cases, let the writers tell it their way.
It would be an excellent time for the BluRay drive too. Although the newest boxes run dead-cold (mine anyway) and the fan is quiet (but not really quiet enough) the DVD drive is way too noisy. I nice quiet BluRay drive would go a long way to making it the media center device they seem to have in mind. Now if only the media companies would stop gouging for BluRay movies.
Well, they'd like you to continue renting after they break as well, but the marketing campaign for that one's still being worked on.
Because the large number of potential users who can buy your app allows the potential for one to become very rich ... although at this point, the number of apps makes the odds about the same as many lotteries.