That article doesn't bring into question my world view, it brings into question THEIR reading comprehension.
Jobs calls for an end to DRM, and instead of APPLAUDING him for being first "Captain of Industry" to point out the 2 Megaton, Flaming Flourescent Elephant in the Room (that DRM doesn't do ANYTHING but HURT the industry, and that MOST music is ALREADY distributed SANS DRM), and instead of REALIZING that, if DRM ends, ***AS JOBS HAS CALLED FOR*** Apple's so-called "lock-in" er, evaporates, some people are hell-bent on mischaracterizing this as some sort of "tactic". The only possible "tactic" being employed here is Jobs making the "big 4" put up or shut up regarding DRM.
He isn't saying that DRM is BAD, per se; he is just saying it's too COMPLICATED.
BIG difference!
Oh, and one look at Visturd(tm)will CLEARLY let you know where Mr. Gates' heart REALLY is on the subject of DRM.
Let me begin by saying that I agree wholeheartedly with the Jobster that the entire concept of DRM is ridiculous on its face.
However, speaking to the issue of "Why can't some things, like indie music, be NON-DRM at the iTS?", I don't think that Apple feels they can SAFELY do that, for the following reason:
Since the FairPlay DRM is actually added NOT at the iTS, but rather by the iTunes APPLICATION itself, it would probably open a gigantic, gaping, festering security hole in the entire scheme to have something as insubstantial as a "DRM flag" transmitted along with the song file during download. That sounds like JUST the thing that a "hacker" could leverage to defeat FairPlay on any subsequent downloaded music, as it downloads.
Um, with the Zune doing SOOOOO well , and Visturd(tm) just around the corner, I call shennanigans!
With the exception of the iTunes Store, I see absolutely NO effort to have "in your face" DRM in OS X.
Compare that with Vista's "sandbox" approach to multimedia I/O. No, we don't have Leopard yet to compare to, but methinks that the Mac developer community would be screaming bloody murder if the kind of Big Brotherism that exists in Vista was planned for OS X.
Just compare what you can do with a song purchased at the Zune store with what you can do with that same song purchased at the iTunes Store, and you'll immediately get my point.
Um, OS X has had read-only support for NTFS for quite some time. Here's an article regarding NTFS support in OS X.IV (Tiger). Writing and formatting are quite another matter.
Which is why no federal agency will ever release a report that even hints at the dangers of marijuana being previously overstated. If such evidence were ever discovered it would be promptly destroyed in order to keep from undermining the highly lucrative drug war.
Actually, you're wrong (sort of).
My mom, Ethel McIntosh, worked as the Executive Assistant to Chairman Raymond P. Shafer on the 1972 National Commission on Marihuana[sic] and Drug Abuse (sometimes called the "Shafer Commission").
Without going into all the fascinating details about how Nixon wouldn't let them present the Report to him in the Oval Office (as is the norm for these types of Commissions), but rather made them go to some little hotel on the other side of town to "present" it to an AIDE (thus GUARANTEEING zero Press coverage!), suffice it to say that this report p.o.'ed President Nixon SO badly that he BURIED the report. Which is why you could make your statement with a clear, but ill-informed, conscience.
BTW, I do agree that this report WAS buried for no good reason, and that the 'War On Drugs', just like every other 'War on [x]', is little more than an excuse for Gummint to encroach further and further upon our liberty as Amurikans.
Although I have not personally read this book (but I will now), apparently, the rejection and burial of the "Shafer Commission" report has been very well researched and documented in this book, Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure, by Dan Baum.
Re:...and it has shitty marketing!
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Even funnier, the first commercial (the "Picnic" one) shows a girl SHARING HER EARBUDS!!! (albeit with a dog) HAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!
Way to promote the WiFi "sharing" concept! I hope they didn't actually APPROVE those ads! Why didn't she just "Squirt" (I think that was Ballmer's term) her song at the DOG's Zune?!? That at least would have been humorous. This is just sad.
"Welcome to the Social" (a term for "gathering" that went out with petticoats, btw)...
"Welcome to the Social Disease!" you mean! Mwuahahahahahaaaa!
PlaysForSh** REMOVED from Zune!
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So, since the Zune is most assuredly just a re-branded (and slightly "enhanced") Toshiba GigaBeat, not only did Microslop not develop a "PlaysForSh**" DRM module for the Zune, they actually had to remove that capability.
Oh, and have you seen those "Zune Points"? No one in their right mind will trust that system.
Way to gain marketshare, guys!!! Jobs and Co. have to be dancing a jig at this "launch"...
Haven't the/. devs. learned about a DEVELOPMENT server? This horseshit of developing the "new comment system" on the LIVE SITE is bloody amateurish, and totally unneccessary.
The "Reply" bugs that everyone is bitching about have already eaten one of my posts today.
Amateurs. Go work for Microsoft. They actually EMPLOY coders like you!
If Safari is SO broken, why was it the first (and still one of the only) browsers to pass the Acid2 test?
I have been using Safari EXCLUSIVELY for 3 years now, and with the exception of the tax prep service I use, it works FLAWLESSLY with every single website I browse. Trust me, I wouldn't use it otherwise, and, FYI, I use FireFox on my hideous XP system at work.
Before I get slammed, in the post above, I meant to say "Quartz Extreme" has been in OS X for over 4 years. I know that the Quartz compositing engine has been in OS X since 10.0.0 (nearly SEVEN years!). I am just too lazy to go figure out whether it did 2D/3D compositing from the get-go. Quartz Extreme is Quartz running with GPU acceleration.
I had the same thing happen while iTunes was still scanning my library for Gapless. I relaunched iTunes and it was fine. Probably reusing a buffer, and didn't think about it. All in all, I am pleased as punch about Gapless, and ESPECIALLY that it works for ALL ALL ALL items in your Library! I am listening to Jeff Beck "Blow by Blow" the way it was intended... Finally! (100% gapless)
I'm pretty sure it initially scans through your entire library, sorted by ALBUM, "listening" to the end of one song, vs. the beginning of the "next" song. If it detects no fade-out at the end of the "starting" song, it says, "ok, we will make this gapless with the next song". If this works with OLD iPods, then I think that it must indeed be doing SOMEthing to the audio files affected, but I can't figure out exactly how. All I know is that it works PERFECTLY playing from iTunes itself.
They can remove the "Crossfade" slider now. I'm done with it...
Apple's implementation of Gapless must work without database intervention, because it worked on all my old Emerson, Lake & Palmer "gapless" albums, for example "Pictures at an Exhibition", which is NOT in the iTS (we have to drop the "M" now, I guess), plus my String Cheese Incident "Carnival '99" live album, which is ALSO NOT IN THE STORE.
I heard that communicator sound, too! I thought "What a great, strange loop!". Like at the end of last season's BL, when Denny and Allan are sitting on the balcony, discussing the next season of BL.
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Jobs calls for an end to DRM, and instead of APPLAUDING him for being first "Captain of Industry" to point out the 2 Megaton, Flaming Flourescent Elephant in the Room (that DRM doesn't do ANYTHING but HURT the industry, and that MOST music is ALREADY distributed SANS DRM), and instead of REALIZING that, if DRM ends, ***AS JOBS HAS CALLED FOR*** Apple's so-called "lock-in" er, evaporates, some people are hell-bent on mischaracterizing this as some sort of "tactic". The only possible "tactic" being employed here is Jobs making the "big 4" put up or shut up regarding DRM.
How can that possibly be cast as "Evil"???
And in who's court is the ball in now?
So, if Apple could disappear ... and it would have zero effect on anything that [you] do...
What are you doing READING, let alone COMMENTING, on this Article?
Gotcha!
He isn't saying that DRM is BAD, per se; he is just saying it's too COMPLICATED. BIG difference! Oh, and one look at Visturd(tm)will CLEARLY let you know where Mr. Gates' heart REALLY is on the subject of DRM.
Let me begin by saying that I agree wholeheartedly with the Jobster that the entire concept of DRM is ridiculous on its face. However, speaking to the issue of "Why can't some things, like indie music, be NON-DRM at the iTS?", I don't think that Apple feels they can SAFELY do that, for the following reason: Since the FairPlay DRM is actually added NOT at the iTS, but rather by the iTunes APPLICATION itself, it would probably open a gigantic, gaping, festering security hole in the entire scheme to have something as insubstantial as a "DRM flag" transmitted along with the song file during download. That sounds like JUST the thing that a "hacker" could leverage to defeat FairPlay on any subsequent downloaded music, as it downloads.
Um, with the Zune doing SOOOOO well , and Visturd(tm) just around the corner, I call shennanigans!
With the exception of the iTunes Store, I see absolutely NO effort to have "in your face" DRM in OS X.
Compare that with Vista's "sandbox" approach to multimedia I/O. No, we don't have Leopard yet to compare to, but methinks that the Mac developer community would be screaming bloody murder if the kind of Big Brotherism that exists in Vista was planned for OS X.
Just compare what you can do with a song purchased at the Zune store with what you can do with that same song purchased at the iTunes Store, and you'll immediately get my point.
Um, when have you seen a 750GB LAPTOP drive.
Moron.
I thought that VERY thing myself when I first heard the announcement a couple of weeks ago regarding the "Month of Bugs".
Well, reportedly, every single Blogger showed up with a Macbook . As you might expect, this apparently floored Gates.
Now, MacroSuck(tm) sends out Winblows laptops to....?
Coincidence? I think not.
Um, OS X has had read-only support for NTFS for quite some time. Here's an article regarding NTFS support in OS X.IV (Tiger). Writing and formatting are quite another matter.
Actually, you're wrong (sort of).
My mom, Ethel McIntosh, worked as the Executive Assistant to Chairman Raymond P. Shafer on the 1972 National Commission on Marihuana[sic] and Drug Abuse (sometimes called the "Shafer Commission").
Their report, Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding, which was QUITE well researched, concluded that MARIJUANA SHOULD BE DECRIMINALIZED.
Without going into all the fascinating details about how Nixon wouldn't let them present the Report to him in the Oval Office (as is the norm for these types of Commissions), but rather made them go to some little hotel on the other side of town to "present" it to an AIDE (thus GUARANTEEING zero Press coverage!), suffice it to say that this report p.o.'ed President Nixon SO badly that he BURIED the report. Which is why you could make your statement with a clear, but ill-informed, conscience.
BTW, I do agree that this report WAS buried for no good reason, and that the 'War On Drugs', just like every other 'War on [x]', is little more than an excuse for Gummint to encroach further and further upon our liberty as Amurikans.
Although I have not personally read this book (but I will now), apparently, the rejection and burial of the "Shafer Commission" report has been very well researched and documented in this book, Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure, by Dan Baum.
Could this be part of the evil Zune conspiracy?
Way to promote the WiFi "sharing" concept! I hope they didn't actually APPROVE those ads! Why didn't she just "Squirt" (I think that was Ballmer's term) her song at the DOG's Zune?!? That at least would have been humorous. This is just sad.
"Welcome to the Social" (a term for "gathering" that went out with petticoats, btw)...
"Welcome to the Social Disease!" you mean! Mwuahahahahahaaaa!
Oh, and have you seen those "Zune Points"? No one in their right mind will trust that system.
Way to gain marketshare, guys!!! Jobs and Co. have to be dancing a jig at this "launch"...
Haven't the /. devs. learned about a DEVELOPMENT server? This horseshit of developing the "new comment system" on the LIVE SITE is bloody amateurish, and totally unneccessary.
The "Reply" bugs that everyone is bitching about have already eaten one of my posts today.
Amateurs. Go work for Microsoft. They actually EMPLOY coders like you!
No, but Steve Jobs will!
If Safari is SO broken, why was it the first (and still one of the only) browsers to pass the Acid2 test?
I have been using Safari EXCLUSIVELY for 3 years now, and with the exception of the tax prep service I use, it works FLAWLESSLY with every single website I browse. Trust me, I wouldn't use it otherwise, and, FYI, I use FireFox on my hideous XP system at work.
http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.20/20. 02/PICMicrocontroller/index.html
http://polarfront.org/archives/000537.html
http://blog.paddlefish.net/archives/2004/12/usb_pi ckit_tool.html
http://robrohan.com/projects/PIConOSX/
http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/22/011123 8
http://www.teammojo.org/PICkit/pickit1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPUTILS
http://lawlor.cs.uaf.edu/~olawlor/projects/2003/mi crochip/
http://www.gnupic.org/
A Plowed Service of the Lost Electrical Reclamation League!
Before I get slammed, in the post above, I meant to say "Quartz Extreme" has been in OS X for over 4 years. I know that the Quartz compositing engine has been in OS X since 10.0.0 (nearly SEVEN years!). I am just too lazy to go figure out whether it did 2D/3D compositing from the get-go. Quartz Extreme is Quartz running with GPU acceleration.
Boy, how innovative! Too bad that "new" Windows DWM sounds suspiciously like the Quartz compositing engine that's been in OS X for over four years now (see "Jaguar" release date)...
I had the same thing happen while iTunes was still scanning my library for Gapless. I relaunched iTunes and it was fine. Probably reusing a buffer, and didn't think about it. All in all, I am pleased as punch about Gapless, and ESPECIALLY that it works for ALL ALL ALL items in your Library! I am listening to Jeff Beck "Blow by Blow" the way it was intended... Finally! (100% gapless)
I'm pretty sure it initially scans through your entire library, sorted by ALBUM, "listening" to the end of one song, vs. the beginning of the "next" song. If it detects no fade-out at the end of the "starting" song, it says, "ok, we will make this gapless with the next song". If this works with OLD iPods, then I think that it must indeed be doing SOMEthing to the audio files affected, but I can't figure out exactly how. All I know is that it works PERFECTLY playing from iTunes itself.
They can remove the "Crossfade" slider now. I'm done with it...
Apple's implementation of Gapless must work without database intervention, because it worked on all my old Emerson, Lake & Palmer "gapless" albums, for example "Pictures at an Exhibition", which is NOT in the iTS (we have to drop the "M" now, I guess), plus my String Cheese Incident "Carnival '99" live album, which is ALSO NOT IN THE STORE.
I laughed 'til I peed! That's GREAT!
I heard that communicator sound, too! I thought "What a great, strange loop!". Like at the end of last season's BL, when Denny and Allan are sitting on the balcony, discussing the next season of BL.
Um, if you are worried about holes in launchd, why not audit the source code yourself? http://launchd.macosforge.org/