Just burn your iTunes music to an AUDIO CD and you have removed the DRM. Big deal.
The real worry should be by anyone who has purchased an audio format that has sold less than one billion songs because it will be one or more of those formats that will not be available in the future.
Your argument contains one small point of contention that really bothers me. The word "buy" implies ownership. When you buy something you can take it home and do as you will. Would you buy a car that required you to only go to one gas station? Would that be moral or even legal? That's the point but the problem here is the law which is not always moral, (remember slave ownership was legal)
So you are buying something you don't own? That sounds like deceptive tactics to me but they have been getting away with this for years. When you rent a car you sign a very long form a number of times and explicitly agree that you don't own the car and will bring it back undisturbed. This sounds a lot like what Apple wants but without the contract. Who is immoral?
The big problem here is the lousy law called the DMCA. The software companies have a law that gives them more powers that even that rental car contract allows for and you haven't even signed anything? That is a huge stick that is bound to be abused. If you want to be a good American and show the rest of the world how much you value freedom of the individual get rid of that law and any other law that treats people like cattle.
The real reason I followed this thread is because I'm following the linux on mac/intel progress. Running linux on quality hardware has interested me since linux first ran on alpha. OSX on cheap PCs, is that a double negative?;-)
It all starts with porn and before you know it you have no rights at all.
There was no connection? Some good examination should be done on what there is no connection to. Like all the abu Gareb torturers were working on thier own even though the White House condoned torture, or One of the reasons stated (at one time it was the main reason) for the attack on Iraq was Sadam had connections to Al Keida, totally proven false but no knee jerk firings followed. Now you have the precursor to a national thought police running into your library. "Homeland Security" being used against Americans? Who would have seen that connection? Show me those officers being fired and a press release denying the activity and I'll still be looking for connections.
Don't forget the words of wise men. "Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither." and "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" Oh, it was the same man! Would Thomas Jefferson have approved of a "preemptive attack" or imprisoning Americans with no charges and no trial for years? There were no phones to tap then but the Fourth Amendment is pretty clear about fishing trips too.
People like to point out the similarities between the DHS and the Nazis or to the ministries of George Orwell's "1984" but plenty of good examples exist today, like in Saudi Arabia they have the Matawa also known as "The Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices" they are government funded and travel around like a low budget police force. When they find law breakers they take out batons and smack the morality back into the masses. What crimes are they looking for? Unmarried couples, women not covering up, people not going to prayer, there's a big list as there usually is. I have seen their antics and see America as moving in this direction. In fact there are too many similarities between the views of the current White House and the House of Saud (or more precisely The current state of Saudi Arabia)
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What's with you guys. Next thing I'll find is the dupe.
From what I've been reading in the news what's the use of another stupid law when they can just get a couple of ex-Iraq army guys to torture the hell out of them. Most geeks I know would spill the beans as soon as these bad boys showed up. Especially if they show the "illegal key-holder" the film of the British soldiers battering, clubbing, kicking prisoners in Iraq. Isn't this what Tony Blair meant when he said "What's good for the goose is good for the gander"?
{I hate to have to include a disclaimer but this IS sarcasm}
Billions and billions have and are being spent on a fake and false attack on innocent people but the big problem is that YOU may be hiding a few quid on your computer. Fascism has taken over.
This is really telling. Part of the argument is that linux costs more because you have to pay your staff more. As a tech or someone planing on going to school to learn one or the other which would your choose? I'd rather make more and work with Linux but that's just my opinion. There must be some benefit to working in a windoze shop other than the low pay.
Apple added another supplier of CPUs. Many other manufacturers have more than one CPU supplier, what's the big deal? Notice the high end Mac is still the quad 64 bit G5? I don't see the core duo challenging that model. If IBM brings out a super 6"XX" processor I don't see why it couldn't make it into a new model Mac or even if a AMD made it into a Mac. This is more of a PC buyer mindset than a Mac mindset, we don't build our own and what chip Apple puts in is not a big deal for us. Our criteria is centered around getting our jobs done not bragging rights of the clock speed or how many pieces of software there are that we don't use. (and its nice ducking all those Windows problems our friends have)
Let Apple work out the hardware and the OS and give me a machine that just works. I don't want Apple to become a PC company and I don't want windows issues. I'm also an old SGI graphic workstation user, didn't they also supply the hardware and the OS and they changed chip suppliers a few times? boy I miss them, they were good machines and stable systems.
You mean someone in the entertainment industry would lie to us? Looks to me that they have a policy to lie. "We can't test it so it must be true" These guys would not make good engineers
What is going to happen next, will the President lie to us?
You sir sound like the rare competent server operator, clearly above the norm and posting as AC you are cleverly obscuring your servers from any attacks that flames may cause. But for you to compare published vulnerabilities in closed and open systems is clearly laughable. How many MS patch de jour were released during the same time fixing (and breaking) who know what? How many known (but not yet published) vulnerabilities still exsist?
That's like comparing the production rate figures of the US and Russia during the Cold War or assessing the damage of last year's tidal wave between Malaysia and Burma using official numbers. The closed source government of Burma reported no injuries and no effect. The tidal wave just stopped at the border. Did I just compare M$ to two evil dictatorships? Oops.
I for one will be exploiting this flaw in my continued effort to replace windows machines at my clients and another link to the problems of running a stand alone single user OS in the internet world would be appreciated. I've been installing *nix OSes since '98 and I'm still waiting for the day when that vulnerability comes by that can't be handled or there is no patch for.
What's an MCSE worth? Less than half my rate and I have more time to work for other clients because most of my calls can be fixed over the net. How about this, let's have a race to totally rebuild a production machine or back up a running machine or even to find all the users files and move them to a new machine.
--The best way to accelerate Windows is at -9.8 m/s^2
I for one loved The Prisoner and visited Portmerion just because it was in the show but...
Entertainment is a business, business does not have a creative bone its body.
People who work in entertainment want to get paid.
Those whose job title contains the word creative have to convince those with no creativity to open up the purse and invest in some project that has appears to have some chance of making a profit.
By regurgitating classics you are saying "this made money in the past and can again" to those who would not understand and would most likely be scared by a truly creative idea.
The result is those working in entertainment get jobs, business gets a return on investment, nothing more.
Were going to have to avoid the theatre and contest fake reviewers for giving positive reviews to all this remake crap if we want to ever see an original idea again.
Kind of reminds me of GM in the 70's and 80's when they rebadged poorly designed and built Chevys as Cadalliacs. They were using the remaining past glory of the Cadalliac to sell the imposter, it worked for a few years until they burnt enough people that the line had to be slowed and cars started to pile up on lots while customers switched to Lexus and BMWs.
"Microsoft's head of platform strategy"? Sounds like a marketing position doesn't is. Well I guess you could never say M$ was run by engineers, run by weenies is more like it. How hard would it be to port Office for OSX to linux? You see this is where marketing knowledge comes in handy, they know few would buy it and those that did would be using it to reduce or eliminate windows desktops. Too bad the DOJ did not force them to do it.
CEO Bob Wright said Tuesday. 'We're raking in billions of dollars and we have to be careful that we remain in a position of power, shouldn't be too hard since we also control the White House too,' he said.'"
I just watched "Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning" (downloaded via the torrent) and throughly enjoyed it and ordered a shirt online. I find almost all of the Hollywood movies are trash and insulting. I don't blame Bob for trying to hang on to one of the easiest and best paying jobs in the world being a CEO of a GE company. He has to learn like the "music industry" is learning, the "music" is fine it's just the "industry" that has to go. Nobody became a musician (or film maker) to make a bunch of guys (and they are mostly men) in suits rich. In most cases it no longer takes millions to make and distribute good entertainment, most of the suits should get a real job in some other industry and not hang around runing this one.
I was hoping to see a bunch of links to modern linux software for using those cheap Poloroid distance sensors. Imagine waving a sensor a few times to get a picture something like a Sonogram or Diagnostic Ultrasound image. That would be cool.
Give everyone a Knoppix disk and a printed sheet of "Challanges" like; -Get to level 3 in Lbreakout -Conntect to the internet and surf to the company web page -Open a SMB serve and copy some files -Edit a spreadsheet in openoffice Make up whatever tasks you feel are approiate for your group.
This is what we have come to expect from the whole PC market. Although it is good to see a legacy hardware free pc I am still looking for a legacy OS free pc like the machine. The main reason that some PCs are cheaper than macs is that those PCs are built with low quality or highly reproduced components. what happens to the price of a PC when you use all custom boards and case?
I have the 270 which looks the same but uses SIM cards. If you upgrade the pen software and with some training and practice you can type faster with the pen input than the little keyboard which I hardly use now. It is easier and more accurate to use the pen (graffiti) then the keyboard if you are walking or moving in a vehicle
I have never had trouble getting my notes uploaded by using the USB/serial cable, the IR port, email, SMS or SSL. Knoppix and Mandrake have an easy time talking to it as well as those other OSes. It is a lot of fun to surprise someone who has an IR equipped printer and does not know it.
I have my Treo around the world with local SIM cards and use it almost every night to read ebooks and articles before going to sleep. Palm PDAs can be had cheaply and I have seen new ones on clear out for less than $50.
This should be no surprise as anytime there was a Light Saber fight in the movie someone ended up dead or missing limbs. Reality mirrors art. Do you think StarWars should have a disclamer? "Don't try this at home, dummy" Admission to movies may need an IQ test.
If I should worry about Firefox on Linux let me know but until then would the editors please label these kind of things as non-critical due to it affects Windoze users who have learned to accept this kind of thing and do nothing:)
Sitdown? We don't need no stinkin' sitdown. You can interoperate with our code a lot easier then we have been able to interoperate with your code. The only reason you can even call it your code is the fact of weak free licences like the BSD and your ability buy code innovated by others.
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Just burn your iTunes music to an AUDIO CD and you have removed the DRM. Big deal.
The real worry should be by anyone who has purchased an audio format that has sold less than one billion songs because it will be one or more of those formats that will not be available in the future.
Your argument contains one small point of contention that really bothers me. The word "buy" implies ownership. When you buy something you can take it home and do as you will. Would you buy a car that required you to only go to one gas station? Would that be moral or even legal? That's the point but the problem here is the law which is not always moral, (remember slave ownership was legal)
;-)
So you are buying something you don't own? That sounds like deceptive tactics to me but they have been getting away with this for years. When you rent a car you sign a very long form a number of times and explicitly agree that you don't own the car and will bring it back undisturbed. This sounds a lot like what Apple wants but without the contract. Who is immoral?
The big problem here is the lousy law called the DMCA. The software companies have a law that gives them more powers that even that rental car contract allows for and you haven't even signed anything? That is a huge stick that is bound to be abused. If you want to be a good American and show the rest of the world how much you value freedom of the individual get rid of that law and any other law that treats people like cattle.
The real reason I followed this thread is because I'm following the linux on mac/intel progress. Running linux on quality hardware has interested me since linux first ran on alpha. OSX on cheap PCs, is that a double negative?
It all starts with porn and before you know it you have no rights at all.
There was no connection? Some good examination should be done on what there is no connection to. Like all the abu Gareb torturers were working on thier own even though the White House condoned torture, or One of the reasons stated (at one time it was the main reason) for the attack on Iraq was Sadam had connections to Al Keida, totally proven false but no knee jerk firings followed. Now you have the precursor to a national thought police running into your library. "Homeland Security" being used against Americans? Who would have seen that connection? Show me those officers being fired and a press release denying the activity and I'll still be looking for connections.
Don't forget the words of wise men. "Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither." and "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" Oh, it was the same man! Would Thomas Jefferson have approved of a "preemptive attack" or imprisoning Americans with no charges and no trial for years? There were no phones to tap then but the Fourth Amendment is pretty clear about fishing trips too.
People like to point out the similarities between the DHS and the Nazis or to the ministries of George Orwell's "1984" but plenty of good examples exist today, like in Saudi Arabia they have the Matawa also known as "The Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices" they are government funded and travel around like a low budget police force. When they find law breakers they take out batons and smack the morality back into the masses. What crimes are they looking for? Unmarried couples, women not covering up, people not going to prayer, there's a big list as there usually is. I have seen their antics and see America as moving in this direction. In fact there are too many similarities between the views of the current White House and the House of Saud (or more precisely The current state of Saudi Arabia)
What's with you guys. Next thing I'll find is the dupe.
From what I've been reading in the news what's the use of another stupid law when they can just get a couple of ex-Iraq army guys to torture the hell out of them. Most geeks I know would spill the beans as soon as these bad boys showed up. Especially if they show the "illegal key-holder" the film of the British soldiers battering, clubbing, kicking prisoners in Iraq. Isn't this what Tony Blair meant when he said "What's good for the goose is good for the gander"?
{I hate to have to include a disclaimer but this IS sarcasm}
Billions and billions have and are being spent on a fake and false attack on innocent people but the big problem is that YOU may be hiding a few quid on your computer. Fascism has taken over.
This is really telling. Part of the argument is that linux costs more because you have to pay your staff more. As a tech or someone planing on going to school to learn one or the other which would your choose? I'd rather make more and work with Linux but that's just my opinion. There must be some benefit to working in a windoze shop other than the low pay.
Apple added another supplier of CPUs. Many other manufacturers have more than one CPU supplier, what's the big deal? Notice the high end Mac is still the quad 64 bit G5? I don't see the core duo challenging that model. If IBM brings out a super 6"XX" processor I don't see why it couldn't make it into a new model Mac or even if a AMD made it into a Mac. This is more of a PC buyer mindset than a Mac mindset, we don't build our own and what chip Apple puts in is not a big deal for us. Our criteria is centered around getting our jobs done not bragging rights of the clock speed or how many pieces of software there are that we don't use. (and its nice ducking all those Windows problems our friends have)
Let Apple work out the hardware and the OS and give me a machine that just works. I don't want Apple to become a PC company and I don't want windows issues. I'm also an old SGI graphic workstation user, didn't they also supply the hardware and the OS and they changed chip suppliers a few times? boy I miss them, they were good machines and stable systems.
You mean someone in the entertainment industry would lie to us?
Looks to me that they have a policy to lie. "We can't test it so it must be true" These guys would not make good engineers
What is going to happen next, will the President lie to us?
You sir sound like the rare competent server operator, clearly above the norm and posting as AC you are cleverly obscuring your servers from any attacks that flames may cause. But for you to compare published vulnerabilities in closed and open systems is clearly laughable. How many MS patch de jour were released during the same time fixing (and breaking) who know what? How many known (but not yet published) vulnerabilities still exsist?
That's like comparing the production rate figures of the US and Russia during the Cold War or assessing the damage of last year's tidal wave between Malaysia and Burma using official numbers. The closed source government of Burma reported no injuries and no effect. The tidal wave just stopped at the border. Did I just compare M$ to two evil dictatorships? Oops.
I for one will be exploiting this flaw in my continued effort to replace windows machines at my clients and another link to the problems of running a stand alone single user OS in the internet world would be appreciated. I've been installing *nix OSes since '98 and I'm still waiting for the day when that vulnerability comes by that can't be handled or there is no patch for.
What's an MCSE worth? Less than half my rate and I have more time to work for other clients because most of my calls can be fixed over the net. How about this, let's have a race to totally rebuild a production machine or back up a running machine or even to find all the users files and move them to a new machine.
--The best way to accelerate Windows is at -9.8 m/s^2
I for one loved The Prisoner and visited Portmerion just because it was in the show but...
Entertainment is a business, business does not have a creative bone its body.
People who work in entertainment want to get paid.
Those whose job title contains the word creative have to convince those with no creativity to open up the purse and invest in some project that has appears to have some chance of making a profit.
By regurgitating classics you are saying "this made money in the past and can again" to those who would not understand and would most likely be scared by a truly creative idea.
The result is those working in entertainment get jobs, business gets a return on investment, nothing more.
Were going to have to avoid the theatre and contest fake reviewers for giving positive reviews to all this remake crap if we want to ever see an original idea again.
Kind of reminds me of GM in the 70's and 80's when they rebadged poorly designed and built Chevys as Cadalliacs. They were using the remaining past glory of the Cadalliac to sell the imposter, it worked for a few years until they burnt enough people that the line had to be slowed and cars started to pile up on lots while customers switched to Lexus and BMWs.
This is an attempt to stop free internet access from competing with big telco. It's all about the bucks, don't you know?
"Microsoft's head of platform strategy"? Sounds like a marketing position doesn't is. Well I guess you could never say M$ was run by engineers, run by weenies is more like it. How hard would it be to port Office for OSX to linux? You see this is where marketing knowledge comes in handy, they know few would buy it and those that did would be using it to reduce or eliminate windows desktops. Too bad the DOJ did not force them to do it.
btw, Without OpenDocument who wants it?
CEO Bob Wright said Tuesday.
'We're raking in billions of dollars and we have to be careful that we remain in a position of power, shouldn't be too hard since we also control the White House too,' he said.'"
I just watched "Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning" (downloaded via the torrent) and throughly enjoyed it and ordered a shirt online. I find almost all of the Hollywood movies are trash and insulting. I don't blame Bob for trying to hang on to one of the easiest and best paying jobs in the world being a CEO of a GE company. He has to learn like the "music industry" is learning, the "music" is fine it's just the "industry" that has to go. Nobody became a musician (or film maker) to make a bunch of guys (and they are mostly men) in suits rich. In most cases it no longer takes millions to make and distribute good entertainment, most of the suits should get a real job in some other industry and not hang around runing this one.
I was hoping to see a bunch of links to modern linux software for using those cheap Poloroid distance sensors. Imagine waving a sensor a few times to get a picture something like a Sonogram or Diagnostic Ultrasound image. That would be cool.
Give everyone a Knoppix disk and a printed sheet of "Challanges" like;
-Get to level 3 in Lbreakout
-Conntect to the internet and surf to the company web page
-Open a SMB serve and copy some files
-Edit a spreadsheet in openoffice
Make up whatever tasks you feel are approiate for your group.
If your "rioters" hold steel plates could you bounce the waves back.
Hey, I got email from McAfee sent to root, should I open it?
This is what we have come to expect from the whole PC market. Although it is good to see a legacy hardware free pc I am still looking for a legacy OS free pc like the machine. The main reason that some PCs are cheaper than macs is that those PCs are built with low quality or highly reproduced components. what happens to the price of a PC when you use all custom boards and case?
I have never had trouble getting my notes uploaded by using the USB/serial cable, the IR port, email, SMS or SSL. Knoppix and Mandrake have an easy time talking to it as well as those other OSes. It is a lot of fun to surprise someone who has an IR equipped printer and does not know it.
I have my Treo around the world with local SIM cards and use it almost every night to read ebooks and articles before going to sleep. Palm PDAs can be had cheaply and I have seen new ones on clear out for less than $50.
This should be no surprise as anytime there was a Light Saber fight in the movie someone ended up dead or missing limbs. Reality mirrors art. Do you think StarWars should have a disclamer? "Don't try this at home, dummy" Admission to movies may need an IQ test.
Complain in the name of the company who operates your mail server.
If I should worry about Firefox on Linux let me know but until then would the editors please label these kind of things as non-critical due to it affects Windoze users who have learned to accept this kind of thing and do nothing :)
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/08/14
Sitdown? We don't need no stinkin' sitdown. You can interoperate with our code a lot easier then we have been able to interoperate with your code. The only reason you can even call it your code is the fact of weak free licences like the BSD and your ability buy code innovated by others.
So now you want a sit down.
GO AWAY!
If I add information unfavorable to the Chinese government to my web sites will spam sent from China be blocked? ;)