Big pharma has a buddy relationship going with the domestic regulators. They like a fairly high and expensive regulatory barrier to entry. It keeps competitors out and prices high. They have a fairly captive customer base of people who want to stay alive and healthy.
I have a Mattel Aquarius over on the other side of this room. In original box and I think it may have never been used. It's something that I got in an auction years ago that I've never done anything more with yet.
A lot of people seem to think that Slashdot is only supposed to be about IT, even though IT is just the most uninteresting part of computer technology. It's the janitor part of computers.
It's not cool to hate on Apple. All the 'cool' people suck the apple crap down like you wouldn't believe. This is Slashdot. We're seldom cool here. But we know what Apple is, and it's as slick as Coca-Cola.
I could care less how apple manages to make money. That's really their problem, not mine. Care how Apple makes their money enough to want to help them enforce their DRM mechanism against competitors? Now you're getting ridiculous. Fuck 'em.
Not hardly. I buy entire albums second-hand and on sale, on CD media. I generally pay $2-5 for them. Who in their right mind would pay a whole fucking dollar for each track???
And piracy? You can download torrents that have thousands of 'songs' on them. That's less convenient that putting $1000 on your credit card??
The library on the iPod is a mirror of the one on the computer. The computer is the master device, and if you make changes to the library on the iPod, they will not be kept unless they are also made on the master library.
That's typical for Apple, to assume the hardware is entirely their domain and wipe and delete it's contents and only restore what was installed with their 'approved' application.
What would we be saying if a Windows device did this?
Oh, this is apple.slashdot.org, though, not the real slashdot. Does apple pay for this domain or just have a half dozen fulltime employees stalking it as signed in slashdot users?
If that was even possible. Lots of CDROM drives in earlier times had firmware that blocked digital transfer of Redbook data. There used to be online databases of the 'good' models of CD-ROM drives that would allow you to rip the audio.
I have never used anything but pop.gmail.com to connect and download my email to Sylpheed anyway. So this 'Inbox' change should be completely transparent, correct? Although maybe they'll take it as the opportunity to shut off their POP server.
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It might be useful nail polish to use to tack down a trimpot. It seems like it has some metal content so might not be usable in a pinch for coil dope.
Get your frickin' binaries out of our feeds, thankyouverymuch.
This is a site for nerds, not IT types.
Do you know what a LASCR is, and how and why you might use it to slave a photoflash? If not, GTFO.
Wiki for 3-Demon is here.
Download 3-Demon here. It's a 19 kilobyte download.
3Demon was a 3D version of Pacman that played on PCs in the 8088 era. It plays 'too fast' on a '286. It's wireframe 3D.
That is long before Doom or Wolf 3D.
USB dongles are a lot more transparent and can be chained all over the machine using hubs.
Bill Gates 1976 letter was more of a scold than a crackdown.
Big pharma has a buddy relationship going with the domestic regulators. They like a fairly high and expensive regulatory barrier to entry. It keeps competitors out and prices high. They have a fairly captive customer base of people who want to stay alive and healthy.
I have a Mattel Aquarius over on the other side of this room. In original box and I think it may have never been used. It's something that I got in an auction years ago that I've never done anything more with yet.
A lot of people seem to think that Slashdot is only supposed to be about IT, even though IT is just the most uninteresting part of computer technology. It's the janitor part of computers.
There are multiple alternative desktop apps you can use to synch music to your iPod. I posted a few just above this thread.
iTunes is optional. Apple might not like it, but that's the deal.
Not necessarily. There are multiple other syncing software packages that you can use instead of iTunes to put and maintain the music on your iPod.
Two examples found immediately with a quick google search:
How to Put Music on Your iPhone Without Using iTunes
Hereâ(TM)s Five Alternatives to iTunes 10 for Easily Managing Your iPod
Why did you change the subject? Nobody mentioned a Windows box wiping a Mac filesystem. Does Apple really still use a proprietary filesystem??
You can even use Apple playback hardware and not use any of Apple's host software to rip and sync the music to it.
Copy-Trans Manager is the software I used to use when I synched an iPod touch to my PC.
It's not cool to hate on Apple. All the 'cool' people suck the apple crap down like you wouldn't believe. This is Slashdot. We're seldom cool here. But we know what Apple is, and it's as slick as Coca-Cola.
Here, let me squirt that to you from my Zune.
I still haven't found what I'm looking for. (Negativland)
You can also shitcan Apple's iTunes client and use something like CopyTrans Manager to sync your iPod instead.
It's a really smart thing to do, and partially de-infests your computer of malware.
why do you think you have the right to consume
Even if I burp after 'consuming' it I really didn't consume it, because it's still there for anybody else to enjoy.
I could care less how apple manages to make money. That's really their problem, not mine. Care how Apple makes their money enough to want to help them enforce their DRM mechanism against competitors? Now you're getting ridiculous. Fuck 'em.
Not hardly. I buy entire albums second-hand and on sale, on CD media. I generally pay $2-5 for them. Who in their right mind would pay a whole fucking dollar for each track???
And piracy? You can download torrents that have thousands of 'songs' on them. That's less convenient that putting $1000 on your credit card??
Your scare tactics won't work. My computer has never been infected by a virus from an MP3 file. I am fairly certain yours hasn't either.
Now get back under Cooks desk.
The library on the iPod is a mirror of the one on the computer. The computer is the master device, and if you make changes to the library on the iPod, they will not be kept unless they are also made on the master library.
That's typical for Apple, to assume the hardware is entirely their domain and wipe and delete it's contents and only restore what was installed with their 'approved' application.
What would we be saying if a Windows device did this?
Oh, this is apple.slashdot.org, though, not the real slashdot. Does apple pay for this domain or just have a half dozen fulltime employees stalking it as signed in slashdot users?
If that was even possible. Lots of CDROM drives in earlier times had firmware that blocked digital transfer of Redbook data. There used to be online databases of the 'good' models of CD-ROM drives that would allow you to rip the audio.
I have never used anything but pop.gmail.com to connect and download my email to Sylpheed anyway. So this 'Inbox' change should be completely transparent, correct? Although maybe they'll take it as the opportunity to shut off their POP server.