The political part is in defining exactly what "user's rights" might be. Self-evidently, DRM cannot deny your rights if you don't have the right to do what it's denying.
one could argue that without Microsoft, PC's would not be common place to the layman but only expensive machines running in the backrooms of company computer rooms. Microsoft and Apple an be credited for making computing common. No one else. Not SUN, not HP, not IBM.
What about the home computers of the early 1980s? Machines such as the Sinclair Spectrum and the Commodore 64, followed later by the Atari ST and the Amiga, introduced generations to a relatively powerful computing platform at about one tenth the price of the PC and Mac offerings.
If anything, the dominance of Microsoft had the effect of wiping out this competition, thus making home computing less accessible and more expensive.
Someone else just posted: Software developers are really in a bind with Linux. If you don't create software for Linux, Linux people whine that you are not supporting them. Create software for Linux, Linux people whine that its not open source.
I guess they didn't count on comments like yours.
"Create open source software for Linux, Linux people whine that it's not the right kind of project".
No proof is in the article - presumably not wanting to prejudice the court case. The MPAA deny it, of course:
"These claims (by Torrentspy) are false," Kori Bernards, the MPAA's vice president of corporate communications, said in an e-mail to CNET News.com. "Torrentspy is trying to obscure the facts to hide the fact that they are facilitating thievery. We are confident that our lawsuit against them will be successful because the law is on our side."
Conceivably both lawsuits will succeed, both parties allege (different) illegal activities. The question is, whose suit will attract the most damages - one stolen spreadsheet or a few million stolen movies?
If you use a browser like firefox... then Ctrl - + increases the font size.
That's not the point! I've already set my browser up so it displays text at a comfortable size; The point is why the hell should your design mean I have to adjust it every time I visit slashdot? And put it back again every time I visit anywhere else.
Look people - for pity's sake leave the default paragraph text size alone, and use only relative changes for everything else: I know my monitor and my eyes better than you do!
The ad is very clever: it says that last year there were 114,000 viruses written for PCs - not Macs - but it doesn't mention any other numbers. It doesn't claim there are no Mac viruses, so it isn't really a bait since there's nothing to prove wrong.
Even if people manage to get 100 MacOS viruses out into the wild this year, that's still 113,900 fewer than Windows on average.
And he co-wrote the first series of Black Books, as well, which had a core cast of three.
One thing that may be unfamiliar to American readers, is that the usual model of British TV sit-coms is that a series lasts for just six or eight episodes, very tightly scripted (normally by just one or two writers) and concentrated: the best of them will fit as many laughs into three hours of TV, as a typical American sitcom will get in a 26 episode run.
Short series mean there's less danger of ideas getting stale; on the other hand, a new programme can't afford to spend more than one or two episodes setting up the situation - with a longer season you could have filmed ten episodes before the writers or cast have really hit their stride, but that's just not an option for a producer in the UK.
For what it's worth, they've changed the site now. £1779 was the price of the 1.83GHz MacBook Pro; the $1999 one now only costs £30 more than the $1999 PowerMac.
I did make it as clear as I could, that the two items were both in the UK. That is, the PowerMac and the MacBookPro are the same price in the US, and different prices in the UK. I assure you the PowerMac attracts just as much VAT as the MacBookPro.
Man, I wish I were Apple's accountant. There's something a bit screwy about the price of the new MacBook Pro (apart from the name sounding like a word processing application, rather than a computer):
Now, I know not to expect UK/USA price parity (taxes different, working conditions expensive, all the rest of that) but why are two products the same price in one country, at an almost £400 difference in another?
Personally I'd have said this was a dead certain - all the previous versions have come in at MacWorld with an annual release cycle. Surely the only question is what new features will be in it?
Front Row?
New program providing PVR functionality?
Blogging tool? - actually no, that should go in.Mac instead.
One of the new features just introduced in the iTunes Music Store is "just for you" (beta) - a suggestion service which, given a record of what music purchases you've already made, will list some other albums you might like to try.
Apple, being Apple, have approached this problem in a different way to the rest of the industry. Where their more pedestrian competitors might offer albums similar to the ones you already own, Apple's groundbreaking system leads me in a much more creative and original direction, offering albums from genres entirely unlike the albums I've bought so far.
You bought The Shadows, Live at the Paris Olympia. We recommend Basement Jaxx, Kish Kash.
You bought Vangelis, Heaven & Hell. We recommend Motörhead, Iron Fist.
I think the internet will soon be abuzz with compliments to this most innovative scheme.
... sensible rules for IDN (which imo means no international stuff in.com/.org/.net
Let me guess: you're an American?.com,.org and.net are supposed to exist for international sites. There is a top level domain.us but when did you last see anyone using it?
if i were running a dns server i'd be very very inclined to set it up to simply block requests to IDN urls.
There may be a way to solve the problem of spoofed URLs using internationalized characters, but it isn't by pretending that other languages don't exist.
Slashdot Mirror
You should ask if they'll let you book you pre-order in advance.
The political part is in defining exactly what "user's rights" might be. Self-evidently, DRM cannot deny your rights if you don't have the right to do what it's denying.
one could argue that without Microsoft, PC's would not be common place to the layman but only expensive machines running in the backrooms of company computer rooms. Microsoft and Apple an be credited for making computing common. No one else. Not SUN, not HP, not IBM.
What about the home computers of the early 1980s? Machines such as the Sinclair Spectrum and the Commodore 64, followed later by the Atari ST and the Amiga, introduced generations to a relatively powerful computing platform at about one tenth the price of the PC and Mac offerings.
If anything, the dominance of Microsoft had the effect of wiping out this competition, thus making home computing less accessible and more expensive.
These games are going to port themselves to a new console, huh?
And as we all know, bandwidth is free.
I've already decided what size I want my paragraph font to display. Why do you think you are clever making it smaller?
Will you people learn to use RELATIVE CHANGES to font size?!
Someone else just posted:
Software developers are really in a bind with Linux. If you don't create software for Linux, Linux people whine that you are not supporting them. Create software for Linux, Linux people whine that its not open source.
I guess they didn't count on comments like yours.
"Create open source software for Linux, Linux people whine that it's not the right kind of project".
No proof is in the article - presumably not wanting to prejudice the court case. The MPAA deny it, of course:
"These claims (by Torrentspy) are false," Kori Bernards, the MPAA's vice president of corporate communications, said in an e-mail to CNET News.com. "Torrentspy is trying to obscure the facts to hide the fact that they are facilitating thievery. We are confident that our lawsuit against them will be successful because the law is on our side."
Conceivably both lawsuits will succeed, both parties allege (different) illegal activities. The question is, whose suit will attract the most damages - one stolen spreadsheet or a few million stolen movies?
If you use a browser like firefox... then Ctrl - + increases the font size.
That's not the point! I've already set my browser up so it displays text at a comfortable size; The point is why the hell should your design mean I have to adjust it every time I visit slashdot? And put it back again every time I visit anywhere else.
Look people - for pity's sake leave the default paragraph text size alone, and use only relative changes for everything else: I know my monitor and my eyes better than you do!
The ad is very clever: it says that last year there were 114,000 viruses written for PCs - not Macs - but it doesn't mention any other numbers. It doesn't claim there are no Mac viruses, so it isn't really a bait since there's nothing to prove wrong.
Even if people manage to get 100 MacOS viruses out into the wild this year, that's still 113,900 fewer than Windows on average.
For me the eyes-burning pink-colored css-styled atrocity that is today's main page was kind of a giveaway.
After games.slashdot.org, nothing would surprise me.
Hur hur hur.
He said 'hor'. Sounds like "whore".
Hur Hur Hur.
And he co-wrote the first series of Black Books, as well, which had a core cast of three.
One thing that may be unfamiliar to American readers, is that the usual model of British TV sit-coms is that a series lasts for just six or eight episodes, very tightly scripted (normally by just one or two writers) and concentrated: the best of them will fit as many laughs into three hours of TV, as a typical American sitcom will get in a 26 episode run.
Short series mean there's less danger of ideas getting stale; on the other hand, a new programme can't afford to spend more than one or two episodes setting up the situation - with a longer season you could have filmed ten episodes before the writers or cast have really hit their stride, but that's just not an option for a producer in the UK.
Include the URL. Don't say "The article about Novell" because there might be 3 in the last 2 days.
Yes, there might. But the second two will be dupes of the first one.
For what it's worth, they've changed the site now. £1779 was the price of the 1.83GHz MacBook Pro; the $1999 one now only costs £30 more than the $1999 PowerMac.
Much more reasonable...
What, you mean you have to do that every time someone says MacBook?
I did make it as clear as I could, that the two items were both in the UK. That is, the PowerMac and the MacBookPro are the same price in the US, and different prices in the UK. I assure you the PowerMac attracts just as much VAT as the MacBookPro.
Man, I wish I were Apple's accountant. There's something a bit screwy about the price of the new MacBook Pro (apart from the name sounding like a word processing application, rather than a computer):
USA:
PowerMac G5 Dual 2GHz: $1999
MacBook Pro dualcore 1.67 GHz: $1999
UK:
PowerMac G5 Dual 2GHz: £1399
MacBook Pro dualcore 1.67 GHz: £1779
Now, I know not to expect UK/USA price parity (taxes different, working conditions expensive, all the rest of that) but why are two products the same price in one country, at an almost £400 difference in another?
There's actually only 44 things in the list, and about half of those are duplicates of each other (perfect for /. then...)
Careful - if you try other page numbers at random, that could be interpreted as an attempt to hack in and you might get arrested! Like this guy.
One of the new features just introduced in the iTunes Music Store is "just for you" (beta) - a suggestion service which, given a record of what music purchases you've already made, will list some other albums you might like to try.
Apple, being Apple, have approached this problem in a different way to the rest of the industry. Where their more pedestrian competitors might offer albums similar to the ones you already own, Apple's groundbreaking system leads me in a much more creative and original direction, offering albums from genres entirely unlike the albums I've bought so far.
You bought The Shadows, Live at the Paris Olympia. We recommend Basement Jaxx, Kish Kash.
You bought Vangelis, Heaven & Hell. We recommend Motörhead, Iron Fist.
I think the internet will soon be abuzz with compliments to this most innovative scheme.
Isn't this the sort of thing IP is usually used for anyway? Like TCPoIP, that sort of thing....
What's new about this?
Your language. (Score:-1, Not big, Not clever)
Did you post that before watching the video?
... sensible rules for IDN (which imo means no international stuff in .com/.org/.net
.com, .org and .net are supposed to exist for international sites. There is a top level domain .us but when did you last see anyone using it?
Let me guess: you're an American?
if i were running a dns server i'd be very very inclined to set it up to simply block requests to IDN urls.
There may be a way to solve the problem of spoofed URLs using internationalized characters, but it isn't by pretending that other languages don't exist.