Yes, because a color coded circle next to the song title to indicate DRMness would really confuse users./sarcasm
Lets look at the users first: there are those who won't have the capacity to 'get it' (the concept of DRM) and they will be using their iPod so it won't matter if it's DRMed or not. Then there are those who aren't using an iPod, this group of people is smart enough to know what DRM is and what it means about what they are buying. Oh, but wait then there will be songs they can play on their (non-iPod) player from iTunes but others that they want to buy but cannot play because they are DRMed. Now they will start complaining to Apple with the argument "how come I can get this song without DRM but not this one, please make it not have DRM". The who argument about 'confusing users' is utter bull crap. It won't confuse users. Apple just doesn't want to deal with users complaining to them. This has been the case with Apple for a long time.
If college students as a whole can barely afford books, rent, food, etc, then how come so many of them have fancy cars and computer systems?
I think you answered your own question:
The student can make out even better if mommy and daddy give him/her a car and pay all tuition/room board plus give some extra.
I'd also argue that a vast majority of students do not have said niceties. I am currently a college student as a very large public university (#2 on the RIAA college pirating list) and I can verify that a very large majority of undergraduate students (the ones who live in the dorms using the campus network and getting the piracy letters) are lucky if they have a car, and very lucky if they have a car newer than 5 years old. Undergraduate students do NOT have much disposable income. The grad students may have a tough schedule, but at least they get paid for it. They (and the professors) are the ones who drive the nice cars around here. I don't know where you went to college or how recently, but what you are saying is simply not true at any of the state colleges in this state (I visit many of them around here to visit old friends) and I would imagine it would not be much different at most public schools.
Exceptionally talented in some circles is not always the same as in other circles such as the business circle. Did these people get interviews with Microsoft? How did they do in the interview? Being a successful employee often requires more than '1337' skills.
Do you believe everything Steve Jobs says? He is a salesman. You cannot trust most of what he says. Steve is using the bad reputation of the RIAA to try to blame anything bad about DRM on the music companies.
Apple hates DRM because it's an arms race that sucks up resources. Programmers that could be working on cool code are stuck ensuring that FairPlay doesn't get cracked, and that they get a patch up within the time framed dictated by their contract.
You don't seem to understand. Apple is not Google, programming for the joy of it. Apple is deep into hardware, the cost of a few programmers to develop and maintain the DRM is trivial compared to the profits from the number of extra iPods they will sell by requiring the purchase of an iPod to listen to the music a consumer purchases on iTMS. The average consumer is too lazy or not smart enough to burn the songs they purchase to cd and re-rip them. The average consumer is locked in by FairPlay. Apple does not want FairPlay cracked because that may allow users to easily port their purchased music to formats other mp3 players can play.
Without DRM, the iPod and iTunes codebases could be trimmed to run faster and possibly even allow for the API to be published.
The processing required for encryption/decryption is very small relative to everything else. And again, you simply do not understand: Apple does not want to be open! They will not open their API. Apple is a proprietary based company. That is how they make money, they are the same as Microsoft in more ways than most people want to admit.
I'm not completely familiar with the TPMs, but would it be practical for me to 'guess and check' keys until I got something in a trusted namespace? How big are the keys?
90% of people will not need the keyboard, so it would be bad design to have it there permanently fixed.
Think about that a little more. What you probably mean to say is that 90% of people will not need the keyboard 100% of the time. 100% of the people will need an complex input device (keyboard/numpad) a significant amount of time. When was the last time you used your phone without using the keypad on it? Voice recognition (does the iPhone have this?) will only get you so far on limited processing power.
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't MySQL 5.x supposed to include transactions and triggers among other things? I'll be the first to admit that I don't really keep up on the Postgre/MySQL battle, but you might want to keep up on current technology if you are going to make an inflammatory post like that.
I guess my point is: if you don't understand what the article is about from the given summary, then you are likely not going to be interested in the article.
Not since Fat Man (5 tons total weight, not bad). Nowadays, the warheads are relatively small. But yeah, even a hundred pounds of RDX will still do some damage, not to mention the nasty spread of the nuclear material.
Just live in the midwest. Here, in a fair sized city, I live two blocks from a bus route in a house that is less than $60k in a decent neighborhood. Granted it is not a new house and only has two bedrooms, I still think it is very comfortable and reasonably priced. Traffic's not bad, and it's only about a 15 minute drive to work about 10 miles away.
Yeah, just like CPU is some asinine buzzword for the processor in a computer. (BTW, GPU is a abbreviation meaning Graphics Processing Unit and is a standard term outside of the gaming circle and makes perfect sense)
Gems is the antiquated term used in the old "graphics gems" series of books
True enough.
which in and of itself is assinine
Not really, gems in this sense is used to mean something small that is of value. It's a common term, like: She's a gem of a daughter. Since the book if full of example programs for the shader unit in a GPU, GPU Gems is a good title, and not a worse title than most new books now-a-days anyway.
And in case anyone is wondering, the shader unit is a mathematical unit in GPUs that are usually used to 'shade' a scene, meaning to translate a 3d model into a meaningful 2d representation. Shader units can also be used for other tasks, such as physics, because of their ability to do floating point calculations en masse quickly.\
I hope that helps clear things up.
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And how do we transport it in sufficient quantities and distances without infrastructure and machines?
Yes, because a color coded circle next to the song title to indicate DRMness would really confuse users. /sarcasm
Lets look at the users first: there are those who won't have the capacity to 'get it' (the concept of DRM) and they will be using their iPod so it won't matter if it's DRMed or not. Then there are those who aren't using an iPod, this group of people is smart enough to know what DRM is and what it means about what they are buying. Oh, but wait then there will be songs they can play on their (non-iPod) player from iTunes but others that they want to buy but cannot play because they are DRMed. Now they will start complaining to Apple with the argument "how come I can get this song without DRM but not this one, please make it not have DRM". The who argument about 'confusing users' is utter bull crap. It won't confuse users. Apple just doesn't want to deal with users complaining to them. This has been the case with Apple for a long time.
Exceptionally talented in some circles is not always the same as in other circles such as the business circle. Did these people get interviews with Microsoft? How did they do in the interview? Being a successful employee often requires more than '1337' skills.
You don't seem to understand. Apple is not Google, programming for the joy of it. Apple is deep into hardware, the cost of a few programmers to develop and maintain the DRM is trivial compared to the profits from the number of extra iPods they will sell by requiring the purchase of an iPod to listen to the music a consumer purchases on iTMS. The average consumer is too lazy or not smart enough to burn the songs they purchase to cd and re-rip them. The average consumer is locked in by FairPlay. Apple does not want FairPlay cracked because that may allow users to easily port their purchased music to formats other mp3 players can play. The processing required for encryption/decryption is very small relative to everything else. And again, you simply do not understand: Apple does not want to be open! They will not open their API. Apple is a proprietary based company. That is how they make money, they are the same as Microsoft in more ways than most people want to admit.
You sir, have given one of the most intelligent responses I have seen for this thread.
I can't decide whether or not you misspelled 'heard' or if you did a clever pun on the iPod/iPhone herd mentality, could you clarify?
I'm not completely familiar with the TPMs, but would it be practical for me to 'guess and check' keys until I got something in a trusted namespace? How big are the keys?
Could you not alter the TPM key the VMware server uses? Also, is this true for other virtualization, Xen etc., as well?
No, we complain when the government tries to be just like Big Brother. We hold parents at least partially accountable for thier children.
Oh, ok I admit, I completely missed that and deserve a good flogging. He makes a good point when read in a sarcastic light.
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't MySQL 5.x supposed to include transactions and triggers among other things? I'll be the first to admit that I don't really keep up on the Postgre/MySQL battle, but you might want to keep up on current technology if you are going to make an inflammatory post like that.
I guess my point is: if you don't understand what the article is about from the given summary, then you are likely not going to be interested in the article.
The name of the function explains it pretty well: it is the inverse square root function.
Just to make sure, I did RTFA and it says it in the first paragraph or so.
Woah! A whole 15 pages? That must be rough. Who do they have running those polling stations?
Oh, I guess that explains some of the phyche of the people running the polls in California.
Now that sir, was indeed hilarious. Oh, how I wish I had some mod points.
Just live in the midwest. Here, in a fair sized city, I live two blocks from a bus route in a house that is less than $60k in a decent neighborhood. Granted it is not a new house and only has two bedrooms, I still think it is very comfortable and reasonably priced. Traffic's not bad, and it's only about a 15 minute drive to work about 10 miles away.
True enough.
Not really, gems in this sense is used to mean something small that is of value. It's a common term, like: She's a gem of a daughter. Since the book if full of example programs for the shader unit in a GPU, GPU Gems is a good title, and not a worse title than most new books now-a-days anyway.
And in case anyone is wondering, the shader unit is a mathematical unit in GPUs that are usually used to 'shade' a scene, meaning to translate a 3d model into a meaningful 2d representation. Shader units can also be used for other tasks, such as physics, because of their ability to do floating point calculations en masse quickly.\ I hope that helps clear things up.
I hate to be too picky about your spelling, but I talked to the marketing guys and it will be called "Xtreaming DSL Quadro".
It's sad when a human being doesn't know how to appreciate art in any of its forms. Some may even argue that they are no longer human at that point.
Have you tried the drop-kick repair method? Sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesn't... Ok, it usually doesn't, but it's still kinda fun!