About Wine/Vista: For starters, it'll be years before Vista becomes necessary for even a strong percent of games. In that time, a WINE for XP is fine, as long as it runs most software/games. And in three years, when Vista is semi-needed to play a decent number of popular games, I bet some progress on the WINE for Vista front will have been made.
OK, but what a lot of people want is a Windows that can use the video card too. Which VMWare apparently has issues with, and this version Linux-boot totally fails. So it's a long ways from working.
1) The GPL v3 isn't out yet. 2) What we've seen of the GPL v3 is a very rough draft, and subject to change for the better. 3) If and when GPL v3 comes out, it won't be mandatory. You'll probably be able to get a lot of software under GPL v2 for a while, especially if v3 is incompatible with v2.
In short, don't worry about v3 yet. Just read v2, and when you get to the part where output is not a derivative work, then you know you're clean. you can also check RMS's website, because he prolly has that in an FAQ somewhere.
It's not going to affect Apple's bottom line. Until someone with only moderate computer skills as opposed to advanced computer skills can pull this off, it'll have exactly no appeal. And Apple's going to break whatever they do with every update. Sure, it's nice for the few hundred people who do it, but otherwise, it's not a serious threat to Apple.
Wait. I've been looking at Asterisk. What am I missing? There has to be some sort of fee, right? I mean, to connect to out of network phones at least. Right?
Bingo. Apple isn't a monopoly because: 1) They don't block you from using other music on the iPod. They also don't block use of other OSes on the Mac. 2) It is the iTunes Music Store. That should give you the hint that it's designed for iTunes. Apple didn't create the iTMS as a standalone product, it was created as a feature of iTunes. Now, I don't expect to get Windows features (DirectX 9/10) on Linux or Mac, and I don't expect BMW to supply their features to Ford. You easily use a DRM-free music store to buy music and load it into iTunes. 3) It's really the RIAA's fault. If there was no DRM on iTMS songs, you could use them anywhere. Music that can't be loaded into iTunes can't be loaded because it has DRM from someone else on it that iTunes doesn't know how to break.
Regulation is not effective on the internet for this type of thing. We're seeing that with pr0n too. I know people under 18 who can easily get it, and no laws can easily change that, not even the one currently in the courts. Unless every porn site does "nofollow" on all their links (to stop image searches), there's nothing they can do on the internet end. And that doesn't stop torrents, etc. The only answer to pr0n is client-side control, and parental monitoring.
Ditto Spam. The only way to block spam is at the ISP or application level. Thunderbird has controls, and most mail providers have basic ones that'll block the crapfloods of non-English emails and stuff.
I meant that they're less likely to have hardware problems. And most consumers aren't going to be in a hurry to upgrade their computer in 2-3 years if it still works. It'll still do Office, Safari/Firefox, Mail/Thunderbird, iLife, etc.
Macs tend to last a lot longer than other PCs. We have a ten year old one that works fine (in the sense that it does everything my parents need and has never broken) running OS 7.5.1. We've also got a G3 iMac, which is itself getting up there in years (4 or so years I think). Again, no issues (except convincing them to switch to OS X). My friend got a new PC around the same time as my parents' iMac, and had to replace it 2 years ago.
That adds a whole element of risk for average users and brings the illegality of it home, I think. Also: $300 Xbox versus $1500 computer. Which would you risk screwing up on?
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Yeah, this could really blow for Macs (and I own one, but not thinking it'll get HD, it's an older iBook). I mean, the video cards are harder to upgrade for everything except the PowerMac. That'll be a lot of pissed iMac/MBP users if they don't support HDCP
Well, I think it's notable that not a single retail graphics card can do this like months before the launch of Vista and Blu-Ray, etc. I mean, if this was like a month post-HDCP announcement, it's a smaller deal, but people have been going out buying cards specifically to upgrade to deal with HDCP and got screwed.
Any situation that requires the "consumer"/"end user" to do hardware mods is going to be hard to get out there. I mean, anyone can use a software program, and most of us can even do some software/terminal work, but asking people to do hardware modding to avoid the DRM is going to cause a lot of them to just suck it up.
I'm not trolling or spreading FUD, but what is MythTV's legal status in regards to HD? I mean, if I was to consider such a solution (when I get a new Mac) over something like EyeTV, will it do broadcast flags if and when they come around?
>> So let's all just cancel our internet access for a month. No one use the internet at all for anything.
Problem: We have to pay huge severance fees if we do. If we change the agreement we have with our ISPs, we have to pay them for the inconvienence. If they change the terms of service on us, we have to deal. Yeah, it blows.
I actually did price it out. When you factor in that iMacs have free wireless built in, and Dells don't, as well as needing to buy the equivalents of iLife tools, and having to buy a 20 inch widescreen, and anti-virus plus a hardware firewall, as well as getting the same size hard-drive and the same RAM + graphics card, the Dell was slightly more expensive. Now, that was with both companies' educational discounts, but the point remains, Macs aren't that much more expensive.
I heard there is a Mac version of Black and White 2 coming. Would being bought by MS kill that? Granted, it's a port by another company, but the risk remains, right?
Don't compare this to portable DVD players. This (if it's real) could store 10 DVDs, and probably a lot more at the lower res or compressed. And it will likely fit in decent sized pockets. And also play music. So it's apples and oranges (no pun intended).
Apple has this doo-hickey patented that lets them have a screen covered with a layer of transparent plastic. They then fill the plastic with the touch receptors.
Very true. I work on the programming board at a university (I've mentioned it in previous posts, but won't here). Anyways, we often bring a certain act to the school, in the first or second week of school. It's a free event, and at most schools, it draws a relatively small crowd (a few hundred, making it somewhat worth the value). Here at my school, about 60-70 percent of the students go, and even camp out for it the whole day waiting. The act has been coming to our school for at least 20 years (we've actually lost the records that say how long, and that's as far as collective memory goes back), and we generally attribute that to its success.
>>How is 480i 99% of the quality of 1080i?
How many people have HDTVs with the right content protection? Like no one. Besides, you need a really big screen to notice the difference anyways.
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About Wine/Vista: For starters, it'll be years before Vista becomes necessary for even a strong percent of games. In that time, a WINE for XP is fine, as long as it runs most software/games. And in three years, when Vista is semi-needed to play a decent number of popular games, I bet some progress on the WINE for Vista front will have been made.
OK, but what a lot of people want is a Windows that can use the video card too. Which VMWare apparently has issues with, and this version Linux-boot totally fails. So it's a long ways from working.
1) The GPL v3 isn't out yet.
2) What we've seen of the GPL v3 is a very rough draft, and subject to change for the better.
3) If and when GPL v3 comes out, it won't be mandatory. You'll probably be able to get a lot of software under GPL v2 for a while, especially if v3 is incompatible with v2.
In short, don't worry about v3 yet. Just read v2, and when you get to the part where output is not a derivative work, then you know you're clean. you can also check RMS's website, because he prolly has that in an FAQ somewhere.
Hey! That (12/16/05) was actually my nineteenth birthday. What a lovely present!
It's not going to affect Apple's bottom line. Until someone with only moderate computer skills as opposed to advanced computer skills can pull this off, it'll have exactly no appeal. And Apple's going to break whatever they do with every update. Sure, it's nice for the few hundred people who do it, but otherwise, it's not a serious threat to Apple.
Wait. I've been looking at Asterisk. What am I missing? There has to be some sort of fee, right? I mean, to connect to out of network phones at least. Right?
Bingo. Apple isn't a monopoly because:
1) They don't block you from using other music on the iPod. They also don't block use of other OSes on the Mac.
2) It is the iTunes Music Store. That should give you the hint that it's designed for iTunes. Apple didn't create the iTMS as a standalone product, it was created as a feature of iTunes. Now, I don't expect to get Windows features (DirectX 9/10) on Linux or Mac, and I don't expect BMW to supply their features to Ford. You easily use a DRM-free music store to buy music and load it into iTunes.
3) It's really the RIAA's fault. If there was no DRM on iTMS songs, you could use them anywhere. Music that can't be loaded into iTunes can't be loaded because it has DRM from someone else on it that iTunes doesn't know how to break.
Regulation is not effective on the internet for this type of thing. We're seeing that with pr0n too. I know people under 18 who can easily get it, and no laws can easily change that, not even the one currently in the courts. Unless every porn site does "nofollow" on all their links (to stop image searches), there's nothing they can do on the internet end. And that doesn't stop torrents, etc. The only answer to pr0n is client-side control, and parental monitoring.
Ditto Spam. The only way to block spam is at the ISP or application level. Thunderbird has controls, and most mail providers have basic ones that'll block the crapfloods of non-English emails and stuff.
I meant that they're less likely to have hardware problems. And most consumers aren't going to be in a hurry to upgrade their computer in 2-3 years if it still works. It'll still do Office, Safari/Firefox, Mail/Thunderbird, iLife, etc.
Macs tend to last a lot longer than other PCs. We have a ten year old one that works fine (in the sense that it does everything my parents need and has never broken) running OS 7.5.1. We've also got a G3 iMac, which is itself getting up there in years (4 or so years I think). Again, no issues (except convincing them to switch to OS X). My friend got a new PC around the same time as my parents' iMac, and had to replace it 2 years ago.
That adds a whole element of risk for average users and brings the illegality of it home, I think. Also: $300 Xbox versus $1500 computer. Which would you risk screwing up on?
Yeah, this could really blow for Macs (and I own one, but not thinking it'll get HD, it's an older iBook). I mean, the video cards are harder to upgrade for everything except the PowerMac. That'll be a lot of pissed iMac/MBP users if they don't support HDCP
Well, I think it's notable that not a single retail graphics card can do this like months before the launch of Vista and Blu-Ray, etc. I mean, if this was like a month post-HDCP announcement, it's a smaller deal, but people have been going out buying cards specifically to upgrade to deal with HDCP and got screwed.
It might involve some hardware hacking
Any situation that requires the "consumer"/"end user" to do hardware mods is going to be hard to get out there. I mean, anyone can use a software program, and most of us can even do some software/terminal work, but asking people to do hardware modding to avoid the DRM is going to cause a lot of them to just suck it up.
I'm not trolling or spreading FUD, but what is MythTV's legal status in regards to HD? I mean, if I was to consider such a solution (when I get a new Mac) over something like EyeTV, will it do broadcast flags if and when they come around?
>> So let's all just cancel our internet access for a month. No one use the internet at all for anything.
Problem: We have to pay huge severance fees if we do. If we change the agreement we have with our ISPs, we have to pay them for the inconvienence. If they change the terms of service on us, we have to deal. Yeah, it blows.
I actually did price it out. When you factor in that iMacs have free wireless built in, and Dells don't, as well as needing to buy the equivalents of iLife tools, and having to buy a 20 inch widescreen, and anti-virus plus a hardware firewall, as well as getting the same size hard-drive and the same RAM + graphics card, the Dell was slightly more expensive. Now, that was with both companies' educational discounts, but the point remains, Macs aren't that much more expensive.
I thought we were talking legally here.
I heard there is a Mac version of Black and White 2 coming. Would being bought by MS kill that? Granted, it's a port by another company, but the risk remains, right?
You can get the Windows patch here. And after you do that, the Office patch is right here.
I'm actually using Google to back up a lot of my word (well, OOo now) files, MP3s, and PDFs. At least most of the ones under 10 MB.
Don't compare this to portable DVD players. This (if it's real) could store 10 DVDs, and probably a lot more at the lower res or compressed. And it will likely fit in decent sized pockets. And also play music. So it's apples and oranges (no pun intended).
Apple has this doo-hickey patented that lets them have a screen covered with a layer of transparent plastic. They then fill the plastic with the touch receptors.
Very true. I work on the programming board at a university (I've mentioned it in previous posts, but won't here). Anyways, we often bring a certain act to the school, in the first or second week of school. It's a free event, and at most schools, it draws a relatively small crowd (a few hundred, making it somewhat worth the value). Here at my school, about 60-70 percent of the students go, and even camp out for it the whole day waiting. The act has been coming to our school for at least 20 years (we've actually lost the records that say how long, and that's as far as collective memory goes back), and we generally attribute that to its success.
>>How is 480i 99% of the quality of 1080i? How many people have HDTVs with the right content protection? Like no one. Besides, you need a really big screen to notice the difference anyways.