I loved iPhoto until my iPhoto database got corrupted one day ... I loved iTunes until my iTunes database got corrupted, too.
These two things have never happened to me, and I've been using X since before it went live (exclusively fulltime since 10.1). I'm not sure that he's not the problem and not the mac itself.
[as I] drooled over the beautiful, beautiful hardware, all I could think was how much work it would take to twiddle with the default settings, install third-party software, and hide all the commercial tie-ins so I could pretend I was in control of my own computer.
a) you will NEVER have complete control over your computer. Get used to it. Having the source != knowing, comprehending, and understanding all of it.
b) you are ALWAYS going to twiddle settings, install non-included apps, etc. If you're not doing that, what are you doing with a computer anyway?
c) who are you, again?
I'm not as sure as you that they'll miss eyes. They'll try to, but most of us take pictures by raising the camera to our face... lawsuits galore from the cooked retinas, disabled camera equipment (in a public place), etc.
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(unless you're the city manager of some dust-bowl bible-belt 'burgh that sees nothing but hackers on teh intarweb)
Now the terrorist/. downtime commences at Tuttle-ok.gov...
He dredges up crap every six months or so in order to get clicks from the Mac Faithful to read his article. It's the same old schtick. This time I'd rather be ignorant than help fill his coffers.
Apple can't even say thanks without getting blasted? How cynical is that? 'Boo hoo hoo, apple didn't do x' or 'apple could easily have done this since they're a supermegacorp and those're eeeeevil'.
Jesus. Get over it. If you never get "gifted" in life, maybe the problem is you.
My first job out of college in 1996 was as a help desk rep for a south florida ISP. Because our sales staff were mainly retirees, we had a disproportionately huge number of geriatric users (try walking them through Dial Up Scripting).
Anyway, I remember taking many calls (sometimes several calls per night) from old fogies who 'just bought the internet and wanted to get to the dirty pictures'. Of course, YMMV, but I think porn did fund a lot of the internet's growth well before amazon.com started luring users...
Florida does indeed have a sales tax. No income tax, but 6% sales tax on non-essential items (most food isn't taxed, but just about everything else is)
Why should I, as a resident of another state, be forced to subsidize your state's government? You wouldn't want to pay my 7% sales tax (6.5% for the state,.5% county) instead of your own, where you get none of it applied to your local infrastructure....
If your idea took hold, Oregon, NH, and other no-tax states would get lots of new fedex depots.....
I was about to say "that's what's so great about sci-fi: minimal product placement advertisements!", then I remembered the Zima placement on Babylon 5....
I think it can bear the mark in this case. DRM software is not contrary to the spec, as it's just another application that's on the CD.
Now there are certain kinds of DRM that knowingly screws up the directory on the CD in the hopes that computers can't read it (but less-sophisticated players ignore the errors). Since the discs contain intentional invalid formatting, it's not adhering to spec. I think an example of this is the one that was famously defeated with a Sharpie a few years ago...
IANAL, YMMV, EIEIO
Applying stickers only prevent claims against warranty. Any sticker that's going to discourage hacking is going to have to be a helluva sticker. Like, explosive or something.
Unless they're going to do random raids... "Ma'am, we're from Microsoft and we're here to see Timmy's XBOX 360. We have reason to believe he's opened the case."
At least I see that his message is clear:
"illegal file-sharing is a bad, bad thing[...]You, despite your enthusiasm, should be ashamed"
"I would put my pilot out on the internet in a heartbeat."
Wow. that clears shit up nicely. in fact, I bet that he did put it up there.
>> The RIAA couldn't manage a Dairy Queen.
Sure they could! They'd just change the lines from "Order Here" and "Cashier" to "Orders you may or may not place" and "Out-of-court Settlements".
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I loved iTunes until my iTunes database got corrupted, too.
These two things have never happened to me, and I've been using X since before it went live (exclusively fulltime since 10.1). I'm not sure that he's not the problem and not the mac itself.
[as I] drooled over the beautiful, beautiful hardware, all I could think was how much work it would take to twiddle with the default settings, install third-party software, and hide all the commercial tie-ins so I could pretend I was in control of my own computer.
a) you will NEVER have complete control over your computer. Get used to it. Having the source != knowing, comprehending, and understanding all of it.
b) you are ALWAYS going to twiddle settings, install non-included apps, etc. If you're not doing that, what are you doing with a computer anyway?
c) who are you, again?
The Spanish people are now justified in copying whatever the hell they want. If they're being taxed for it, they might as well get to enjoy it.
A little research is a wonderful thing /. All the news that's fit to print several days ago.
. Ahh,
well done. If I had the mod point, it would be yours.
(unless you're the city manager of some dust-bowl bible-belt 'burgh that sees nothing but hackers on teh intarweb)
Now the terrorist /. downtime commences at Tuttle-ok.gov...
What a great way to build a free library without all those nasty copyright negotiations. Selling it off as a public service makes it even better.
He dredges up crap every six months or so in order to get clicks from the Mac Faithful to read his article. It's the same old schtick. This time I'd rather be ignorant than help fill his coffers.
Jesus. Get over it. If you never get "gifted" in life, maybe the problem is you.
Anyway, I remember taking many calls (sometimes several calls per night) from old fogies who 'just bought the internet and wanted to get to the dirty pictures'. Of course, YMMV, but I think porn did fund a lot of the internet's growth well before amazon.com started luring users...
Florida does indeed have a sales tax. No income tax, but 6% sales tax on non-essential items (most food isn't taxed, but just about everything else is)
If your idea took hold, Oregon, NH, and other no-tax states would get lots of new fedex depots.....
I can quit any time I want to.
well, shit.
I think it can bear the mark in this case. DRM software is not contrary to the spec, as it's just another application that's on the CD. Now there are certain kinds of DRM that knowingly screws up the directory on the CD in the hopes that computers can't read it (but less-sophisticated players ignore the errors). Since the discs contain intentional invalid formatting, it's not adhering to spec. I think an example of this is the one that was famously defeated with a Sharpie a few years ago... IANAL, YMMV, EIEIO
Applying stickers only prevent claims against warranty. Any sticker that's going to discourage hacking is going to have to be a helluva sticker. Like, explosive or something.
Unless they're going to do random raids... "Ma'am, we're from Microsoft and we're here to see Timmy's XBOX 360. We have reason to believe he's opened the case."
What term should FSM'ers use? Was the salmon shark touched by His Noodly Appendage?
Why would you want to call his house, when you can visit it?
...and the Amish are all a-twitter over TPM.
Call me when Halo 3 is released for the damn thing. Then I'll consider it.
I'm a fanboy, but I'm right.
The only proper response to the WAPTOC argument is (re-word slightly if female and/or not so inclined):
"I didn't fuck your wife, I'm not raising your kids."
I really wish I knew who said that first. I owe that person many beers.
I'll buy when Halo 3 is out.
At least I see that his message is clear: "illegal file-sharing is a bad, bad thing[...]You, despite your enthusiasm, should be ashamed" "I would put my pilot out on the internet in a heartbeat." Wow. that clears shit up nicely. in fact, I bet that he did put it up there.
Does that mean that they can put it back in the dictionary?
>> The RIAA couldn't manage a Dairy Queen. Sure they could! They'd just change the lines from "Order Here" and "Cashier" to "Orders you may or may not place" and "Out-of-court Settlements".