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I'm Rob M. by the way... I was really suprised that I could validate it (I wanted the MSI installer, and it's protected), but it worked...
NOTE: I have no connection with this article.
So $80 for unlimited data? Ouch.... I pay $20/mo on Cingular^WAT&T for unlimited data and I can tether (though I'm not supposed to;) ) and they have at least GPRS for all their coverage, and EDGE for most. And, their phones are relatively free of restrictions (I have a RAZR v3xx and I almost crapped my pants when I found out that it supported Bluetooth DUN out of the box). Sweet, and great coverage.
True dat. I have never not had coverage with my AT&T Wireless-then-Cingular-now-AT&T (yes, it's been a while). This includes rural Maine where there is even (slow, but still) GPRS. On top of that, it works anywhere in the world. I've never understood the vitriol directed at AT&T(Wireless)/Cingular, I've always found them reliable. Plus, they unlock your phones after being a subscriber for three months, no charge. That's sweet.
By the way, their data plans are t3h sh11z. $20/mo for unlimited data. They say that they'll cut you off if you tether, but nobody's ever had it happen to them. Means, WiFi anywhere.
And, they don't have the audacity to lock down useful features on their phones, like Bluetooth DUN, or even Audio Gateway. No hax required!
Now, I'm no fanboy(i), and it might be my residence in NNJ or my ~10yrs of giving them my money, but I've never had any crap from them. YMMV
BZZT. The iPhone is EDGE, which is not GPRS at all. And (in my experience) it's at least twice as fast. Fast enough to stream video with, anyways. And fast enough that browsing HTML would be, if not snappy, acceptable given someone were to make a device with a touchscreen running an AJAX browser, perhaps
Microsoft simply can't sue individual OSS developers or users. And anyways, if Samba works the best with Windows, OSX, and Linux, people will still be using MS's "standard". Same goes for Kerebos and any other embraced and extended protocols.
Linux (and OSS) needs to support Windows. To do that, (in theory) they need to infringe on MS patents. It really is in Microsoft's best interests to allow this to happen, as it keeps people on their protocols, and tied in to their software.
The point of the threat was to scare commercial OSS users (the ones that can't take the PR hit of a lawsuit) into buying the Novellisoft "covenant" thingy that people have been bitching about. They never would have even sued those companies the Novell deal targeted. It just doesn't make sense, and would destroy their image even more.
Their plan? They know the power of open-source software. They know how well it works together, and with proprietary software (I think you can even use a Samba server to be a PDC in a Windows domain). They just want to keep people using their software in some form, rather than not at all. (If I didn't want to get sued, I'd force Windows to work with NFS, not Linux to work with SMB, or become an all-ODF shop...) This way, they can still cling on.
A nearby GSM handset is usually the source of the "dit dit dit, dit dit dit, dit dit dit" signal that can be heard from time to time on home stereo systems, televisions, computers, and personal music devices. When these audio devices are in the near field of the GSM handset, the radio signal is strong enough that the solid state amplifiers in the audio chain function as a detector. The clicking noise itself represents the power bursts that carry the TDMA signal. These signals have been known to interfere with other electronic devices, such as car stereos and portable audio players. This is a form of RFI, and could be mitigated or eliminated by use of additional shielding and/or bypass capacitors in these audio devices[citation needed], however, the increased cost of doing so is difficult for a designer to justify.
Schroedinger's dick in a box [0 or 1 points. Maybe both if you don't open the box]
Seriously though, its nice to see that universities are still academic, but also just plain fun. Although it's pretty sad that we all get both parts of that joke...
First/. reference I've heard to the KB game! I have a grand total of 2 degrees of separation from the KB - my dad was a stagehand at a play, and a fellow stagehand was in a show that KB was in... Yes, OT whatever
When I said royalties, I meant a percentage of each song sold. There is none for AAC, and even if there is no monetary royalty for WMA, there are intangible royalties (lockin).
Both require license fees for en/de coders, but the 50C is passed to the consumer anyways.
I downloaded the (massive!) Creative driver. It works..... but not well. Since I don't need Vista for anything but Halo 2, I'm staying with XP for now. Hopefully, it will be fixed in a couple of months
No, we never actually stopped. The temperance movement (no booze) was a group of people (IIRC, mainly women) who were so damn convinced of their own morality, they tried to impose it on everybody. Eventually, they did, but not for long.
To see how well any mandated ban on anything would work (especially something people enjoy *wink*), just look at Prohibition. Wow, people sure stopped drinking, didn't they?
I got a new PC, just before the new year (so I got the express upgrade). I do not have an XBox, and Halo 2 (which I am excited about) will only work on Vista. Everything worked pretty well, although it was disk thrashing the pagefile pretty hard for about two hours (btw, the installer is sweet). Then, it seemed to run pretty well, until I got to my sound card. I have a Creative SB Live! External, and I'd heard bad things about Creative's Vista support in general. They barely worked. I installed them, and rebooted (for about the 15th time... wtf?). My computer crashed right after login with a BSOD. So, I rebooted but unplugged my sound card first. It worked, and I even was able to plug it in. Then, CMSS (surround upmix) wouldn't work, because Creative's drivers couldn't access the soundcard. Vista prevents application access to the soundcard. Apparently, this is because of DRM, but I can't confirm it. What the hell is this? So I restarted to XP (which is only my primary OS because of games). Although the eyecandy was nice, I was completely unimpressed with it, as Beryl can do the same thing on much worse hardware. So, I left it on my machine, but have no intention of using it until H2 comes out, when hopefully the drivers would be fixed.
PS. I've read that Creative plans on emulating the CMSS in the driver software, with a big CPU performance hit (even though the hardware does it "for free", so it seems like a waste)
That's what's cool about PCs. If you can read the bits off of anything (they could), who gives a crap about having the right format? Write a software program to do it! It gets even easier if you have the specifications of the original player, but that isn't even necessary! It's like building a physical machine, but you have infinite space and every specialized part you need!
Not really, at least no time soon. The 2 broadband intertubes there are nowadays (cable and DSL) utilized existing, and crazy expensive, infrastructure. The companies owning said ridiculously expensive infrastructure aren't opening their circuits. Cable's, well, cable was already in place. It wasn't much work to add a box in the cable office and connect it to some T3s or such. Same thing with DSL.
Unless wireless takes off in a big way, itself another crazy expensive infrastructure problem, for any real coverage, I don't see there really being any competition.
FWIW, I recently switched from Verizon DSL (768kbps, was teh shizz about 5yrs ago when I signed up) to Covad DSL (rebranded by AT&T). "Opening the local loop", or something, allowed this. This is what needs to happen with cable, I think.
Aside from the false positives, they aren't stupid. They only act like they want DRM to stop the 'theifs'. It's really just another way to make money. A year or so ago, there was an article on the slashdots about some music exec who said people should have a seperate license for use on their MP3 player. DRM allows this... it's really only about screwing the customer for more $$$s
Seconded. I've used Edgy since release and after the first ~3 days, I have Beryl and everything (WPA encryption with builtin Intel card, Flash 9, Wine...) working perfectly. I think GP's trying to troll.
But, if you can back up your accusations, I'd like to hear it.
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I'm Rob M. by the way... I was really suprised that I could validate it (I wanted the MSI installer, and it's protected), but it worked...
NOTE: I have no connection with this article.
So $80 for unlimited data? Ouch.... I pay $20/mo on Cingular^WAT&T for unlimited data and I can tether (though I'm not supposed to ;) ) and they have at least GPRS for all their coverage, and EDGE for most. And, their phones are relatively free of restrictions (I have a RAZR v3xx and I almost crapped my pants when I found out that it supported Bluetooth DUN out of the box). Sweet, and great coverage.
True dat. I have never not had coverage with my AT&T Wireless-then-Cingular-now-AT&T (yes, it's been a while). This includes rural Maine where there is even (slow, but still) GPRS. On top of that, it works anywhere in the world. I've never understood the vitriol directed at AT&T(Wireless)/Cingular, I've always found them reliable. Plus, they unlock your phones after being a subscriber for three months, no charge. That's sweet.
By the way, their data plans are t3h sh11z. $20/mo for unlimited data. They say that they'll cut you off if you tether, but nobody's ever had it happen to them. Means, WiFi anywhere.
And, they don't have the audacity to lock down useful features on their phones, like Bluetooth DUN, or even Audio Gateway. No hax required!
Now, I'm no fanboy(i), and it might be my residence in NNJ or my ~10yrs of giving them my money, but I've never had any crap from them. YMMV
BZZT. The iPhone is EDGE, which is not GPRS at all. And (in my experience) it's at least twice as fast. Fast enough to stream video with, anyways. And fast enough that browsing HTML would be, if not snappy, acceptable given someone were to make a device with a touchscreen running an AJAX browser, perhaps
Microsoft simply can't sue individual OSS developers or users. And anyways, if Samba works the best with Windows, OSX, and Linux, people will still be using MS's "standard". Same goes for Kerebos and any other embraced and extended protocols.
Linux (and OSS) needs to support Windows. To do that, (in theory) they need to infringe on MS patents. It really is in Microsoft's best interests to allow this to happen, as it keeps people on their protocols, and tied in to their software.
The point of the threat was to scare commercial OSS users (the ones that can't take the PR hit of a lawsuit) into buying the Novellisoft "covenant" thingy that people have been bitching about. They never would have even sued those companies the Novell deal targeted. It just doesn't make sense, and would destroy their image even more.
Their plan? They know the power of open-source software. They know how well it works together, and with proprietary software (I think you can even use a Samba server to be a PDC in a Windows domain). They just want to keep people using their software in some form, rather than not at all. (If I didn't want to get sued, I'd force Windows to work with NFS, not Linux to work with SMB, or become an all-ODF shop...) This way, they can still cling on.
Tag as -1troll... I haven't seen a more flamebaitey/trolly article in a while... and I visit slashdot!
You're right. It is, of course, in the best interest of the RIAA to go and start a land war in Asia. That can only be good, right?
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Seriously though, its nice to see that universities are still academic, but also just plain fun. Although it's pretty sad that we all get both parts of that joke...
i didnt mean that mod!
First /. reference I've heard to the KB game! I have a grand total of 2 degrees of separation from the KB - my dad was a stagehand at a play, and a fellow stagehand was in a show that KB was in... Yes, OT whatever
When I said royalties, I meant a percentage of each song sold. There is none for AAC, and even if there is no monetary royalty for WMA, there are intangible royalties (lockin).
Both require license fees for en/de coders, but the 50C is passed to the consumer anyways.
Licensing. AAC doesn't require royalties (it's a MPEG standard), but WMA is proprietary.
I downloaded the (massive!) Creative driver. It works..... but not well. Since I don't need Vista for anything but Halo 2, I'm staying with XP for now. Hopefully, it will be fixed in a couple of months
No, we never actually stopped. The temperance movement (no booze) was a group of people (IIRC, mainly women) who were so damn convinced of their own morality, they tried to impose it on everybody. Eventually, they did, but not for long.
To see how well any mandated ban on anything would work (especially something people enjoy *wink*), just look at Prohibition. Wow, people sure stopped drinking, didn't they?
I got a new PC, just before the new year (so I got the express upgrade). I do not have an XBox, and Halo 2 (which I am excited about) will only work on Vista.
Everything worked pretty well, although it was disk thrashing the pagefile pretty hard for about two hours (btw, the installer is sweet). Then, it seemed to run pretty well, until I got to my sound card. I have a Creative SB Live! External, and I'd heard bad things about Creative's Vista support in general. They barely worked. I installed them, and rebooted (for about the 15th time... wtf?). My computer crashed right after login with a BSOD. So, I rebooted but unplugged my sound card first. It worked, and I even was able to plug it in. Then, CMSS (surround upmix) wouldn't work, because Creative's drivers couldn't access the soundcard.
Vista prevents application access to the soundcard. Apparently, this is because of DRM, but I can't confirm it. What the hell is this? So I restarted to XP (which is only my primary OS because of games). Although the eyecandy was nice, I was completely unimpressed with it, as Beryl can do the same thing on much worse hardware. So, I left it on my machine, but have no intention of using it until H2 comes out, when hopefully the drivers would be fixed.
PS. I've read that Creative plans on emulating the CMSS in the driver software, with a big CPU performance hit (even though the hardware does it "for free", so it seems like a waste)
So that's why I let my girlfriend take all my money...
That's what's cool about PCs. If you can read the bits off of anything (they could), who gives a crap about having the right format? Write a software program to do it! It gets even easier if you have the specifications of the original player, but that isn't even necessary! It's like building a physical machine, but you have infinite space and every specialized part you need!
This sounds like ... vaporware!
*ducks*
Not really, at least no time soon. The 2 broadband intertubes there are nowadays (cable and DSL) utilized existing, and crazy expensive, infrastructure. The companies owning said ridiculously expensive infrastructure aren't opening their circuits. Cable's, well, cable was already in place. It wasn't much work to add a box in the cable office and connect it to some T3s or such. Same thing with DSL.
Unless wireless takes off in a big way, itself another crazy expensive infrastructure problem, for any real coverage, I don't see there really being any competition.
FWIW, I recently switched from Verizon DSL (768kbps, was teh shizz about 5yrs ago when I signed up) to Covad DSL (rebranded by AT&T). "Opening the local loop", or something, allowed this. This is what needs to happen with cable, I think.
Aside from the false positives, they aren't stupid. They only act like they want DRM to stop the 'theifs'. It's really just another way to make money. A year or so ago, there was an article on the slashdots about some music exec who said people should have a seperate license for use on their MP3 player. DRM allows this... it's really only about screwing the customer for more $$$s
Seconded. I've used Edgy since release and after the first ~3 days, I have Beryl and everything (WPA encryption with builtin Intel card, Flash 9, Wine...) working perfectly. I think GP's trying to troll.
But, if you can back up your accusations, I'd like to hear it.
Exactly. Take a 128kbps MP3 and encode it as a FLAC or convert it to wav. It's still the same exact audio data.