Yeah, I haven't bought a 'label' CD for myself in nearly 8 years now. I've bought a couple as gifts, but that's all.
Of course, helping this is that most CDs are total crap. Even the remastered copies of old good albums are total crap as they have just cranked up the wave forms, sliced off the top and bottom, all in the effort to make it sound louder. It sounds like poo. For example, the new Led Zepplin "Mothership" is horrible.
Nice writeup about this at http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity
WTF do China sales of mobile phones have to do with anything at all? Is Apple selling iPhones in China? Nope. Is the number of units sold in China in anyway relevant? Nope.
Don't they have a right to a jury trial? No, of course not. You have a right to a jury trial in a criminal proceeding. No on has a right to a jury trial in a civil suit, and it is actually somewhat rare to have juries in a case of contract law, because it would be nearly impossible to seat a jury that could understand, and therefore render a fair decision, the intricacies of contact law.
Of course procmail can do that, and of course there are hundreds, if not thousands, of examples of prior art. Including in the procmail man pages (man procmailex). There is also vacation, which predates this patent as well and has rules to bypass the vacation message and forward important mail to a real person for immediate action.
The last HP printer I bought (for "Free") is the last HP printer I will ever buy. Black ink goes for $3000 per litre. Yes, that is not a typo, a 5ml cart cost $15; that's $3 per millilitre or, $3000/litre.
I don't need to support a company that pulls that kind of crap. Besides, they given rise to the single most common class of spam email, the ink refill spam that inundates my server (more that penis enlargement and erectile dysfunction combined).
No, they shoudln't. Should the phone comapny be allowed to cancell the hone service to any member of the KKK? Of course not.
Veriscum has shown their stripes many times in the past, this is just the latest in a long list of scummy things they've done, so no shock. But maybe, just maybe, this will turn into soemthing that will really do crippling damage to them, because they really deserve to die.
I'd love to see Canada yank their Common Carrier status over this and make them legally liable for every bit that crosses their network.
The real probem is that no one seems to know what paedophile actually means. It doesn't mean "attracted to legally forbidden minors" it means attracted to children and is defined as pre-pubescent children.
Of course, in the US that has come to mean any age from birth to 17 years, 364 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds
And this has nothing to do with censorship, which is all about prior restraint. To use your analogy, poor as it is, this is like not ebing admitted to the theatre because you might want to say "Fire."
-1 Troll
add a line to send an email, i'm not an OSX user, but i'm sure it's possible
Sure, you can do this, but it won't work. See, the mailserver is not enabled on OS X, and the vast majority of OS X installs will simply sit on that outgoing email forever, because the mail server is not running.
And no, you can't start it up yourself without getting privs.
The problem is that Windows computers cannot be connected to the Internet for long without getting infected by some nasty programs,
What's really funny[1] is how short a time that really is. The last new computer my Mom bought was infected and rendered inoperable within the first 90 seconds. She was trying to get the updates from windowsupdate and didn't manage to even finish the scan before the computer froze up so badly the OS had to be reinstalled (nearly 2 hours for that). We had to bring the computer over to my house and stick it behind the firewall just to get the critial updates installed.
A virus has to spred without interaction by the user. somethng that attaches itself to "boobies.jpg" and then the user emails boobies.jpg t his friend is NOT a virus.
It would have to mail itself, and attach itself to files on the friend's machine, and then spread itself to other machines.
So, putting a floppy in a machine, the virus copies itself to the boot sector and then that floppy becomes a carrier. Any machine the floppy goes to gets infected, WITHOUT interaction from the user(s).
Vye-ree-ee?
It's purnounced "Viri"
And yes, it's wrong (less wrong than octopi, but still wrong).
"virii" whould be the plural for "virius" which, if I recall correctly, doesn't exist.
The only word I know of in which both an es, i, and no change can all be the correct plural is cactus.
I have five cactus
I have five cacti
I have five cactuses
All correct.
Or you have a game like Civ IV where for many people the only way to actually get the game to work is to get the cracked copy. This is because the copy-protection is so fscking arsed that it prevents the game running on a lot of hardware.
I've not played the game because of its copy protection and it's less than glacial speeds, but a friend of mine who is a hardcore civ freak finally had to give up and return the game as defective.1
1 He obvioulsy doesn't live in the US where the software vendors have made this illegal.
And, as an aside, congratulations on reducing the words "replace" and "with" to 4 symbols, while destroying the legibilaty!
Really? It was perfectly legible to me. Course, I read it as "sub" instead of replace. For the record, I routinely use that sort of sed structure on IRC and posting on boards, editting in vim, or wanking on/.
And reading ahead, you're wrong, it's not regex, its sed. regex would be \d{3}-?\d{2}-?\d{4}
Whatever your skill set might be, marketing simply isn't a part of it. Marketing is the main reaon why people buy stuff. It's why VHS triumphed over Betamax, why the Atari Jaguar is on Video Game Boot Hill and why Coke2, a preferred product in blind taste tests could not supplant it's predecessor.
Ah, this silliness again.
First, VHS triumphed over Beta for two reasons, 1) VHS had a 2 hour tape first and 2) Licensing Beta was more expensive, so the players were more expensive. More expensive + could hold a movie on one tape = failure. Beta's failure as a consumer product had nothing to do with marketing, it had to do with capabilities. As for beta being a failure, Beta is just now finally vanishing, and hung on far longer than VHS. It's just that it's success was limited to professionals, studios, TV news rooms, and things like that.
The Jaguar failed because Atari Computers was run by mind-numbingly stupid people who didn't understand that you had to sell the Jaguar to Computer City and Best Buy and not just to Vic's Atari Dealership, run by the Comic Guy from the Simpson's fatter twin brother and people with the sorts of geeks even other geeks find off-putting.
And as for coke, the trouble with New Coke was that a 'taste test' does not emulate in any way how people drink a coke. People don't pour a can of coke, take a sip, and then walk away. New Coke was sweeter that Coke, and so in a taste test it was guaranteed to perform better, because in a single taste, the feeling of 'too sweet' doesn't have a chance to overwhelm you.
The failure of New Coke had nothing to do with marketing, it had to do with New Coke tasting exactly like Pepsi. If Coke drinkers wanted Pepsi, they would have already been drinking it. If it was all about marketing, New Coke would have been a huge success since Coca-Cola spent about $1 billion testing and marketing New Coke.
The fact that it's hard to get music off the device is also driven by DRM concerns
HARD? It may be hard for Gramma, or n00busers, but seriously, cp -R/Volumes/iPod/iPod_Control/Music ~/Desktop/
And that's the hard way. There are dozens of programs out there that let you copy the music off yur iPod if you're too lame to figure it out yourself.
The reason that iTunes doesn't just copy all the mp3s off any old iPod has nothing to do with DRM, but with appeasing the asshat labels and preventing the iPod from being associated with Evil Pirates WHo Trade Music and deprive hungry asshats of more revenue than they've ever actually received.
Apple could have made it hard, they chose not to and instead merely made it so you had to put forth minimal effort.
So-called smart playlists is the dumbest idea I have ever seen. I don't need Jobs and cos. iTMS crapware algorithmically mis-predicting what I want to listen to.
You obviously have no fscking idea what a smart playlist is.
Genre is not "Audiobook"
Date Added is "Within last 30 days"
Play count is "0"
Limit to 200 tracks
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$ osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "touch /tmp.tmp"' /tmp.tmp" doesnÃÂÂ(TM)t understand the do shell script message. (-1708)
23:55: execution error: ARDAgent got an error: "touch
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23:47: execution error: ARDAgent got an error: "whoami" doesnÃÂÂ(TM)t understand the do shell script message. (-1708)
Yeah, I haven't bought a 'label' CD for myself in nearly 8 years now. I've bought a couple as gifts, but that's all. Of course, helping this is that most CDs are total crap. Even the remastered copies of old good albums are total crap as they have just cranked up the wave forms, sliced off the top and bottom, all in the effort to make it sound louder. It sounds like poo. For example, the new Led Zepplin "Mothership" is horrible. Nice writeup about this at http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity
WTF do China sales of mobile phones have to do with anything at all? Is Apple selling iPhones in China? Nope. Is the number of units sold in China in anyway relevant? Nope.
Of course procmail can do that, and of course there are hundreds, if not thousands, of examples of prior art. Including in the procmail man pages (man procmailex). There is also vacation, which predates this patent as well and has rules to bypass the vacation message and forward important mail to a real person for immediate action.
The last HP printer I bought (for "Free") is the last HP printer I will ever buy. Black ink goes for $3000 per litre. Yes, that is not a typo, a 5ml cart cost $15; that's $3 per millilitre or, $3000/litre.
I don't need to support a company that pulls that kind of crap. Besides, they given rise to the single most common class of spam email, the ink refill spam that inundates my server (more that penis enlargement and erectile dysfunction combined).
Take your own advice, why don't you? Might start with Wikipedia, since I seriosuly doubt you own a book.
No, they shoudln't. Should the phone comapny be allowed to cancell the hone service to any member of the KKK? Of course not.
Veriscum has shown their stripes many times in the past, this is just the latest in a long list of scummy things they've done, so no shock. But maybe, just maybe, this will turn into soemthing that will really do crippling damage to them, because they really deserve to die.
I'd love to see Canada yank their Common Carrier status over this and make them legally liable for every bit that crosses their network.
The real probem is that no one seems to know what paedophile actually means. It doesn't mean "attracted to legally forbidden minors" it means attracted to children and is defined as pre-pubescent children.
Of course, in the US that has come to mean any age from birth to 17 years, 364 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds
poedophiles? No, poedophiles are people who are attarceted to CHILDREN, not "minors"
Having the hots for the 16yo cheerleader is no pedophilia, it's normal. It's illegal in the US, but it's STILL normal.
Remember, it wasn't that long ago that 16 was considered a prefectly good age to get married and start having kids.
And this has nothing to do with censorship, which is all about prior restraint. To use your analogy, poor as it is, this is like not ebing admitted to the theatre because you might want to say "Fire." -1 Troll
I run all my macs as a unpriveledged user.
Sure, you can do this, but it won't work. See, the mailserver is not enabled on OS X, and the vast majority of OS X installs will simply sit on that outgoing email forever, because the mail server is not running.
And no, you can't start it up yourself without getting privs.
What's really funny[1] is how short a time that really is. The last new computer my Mom bought was infected and rendered inoperable within the first 90 seconds. She was trying to get the updates from windowsupdate and didn't manage to even finish the scan before the computer froze up so badly the OS had to be reinstalled (nearly 2 hours for that). We had to bring the computer over to my house and stick it behind the firewall just to get the critial updates installed.
[1] Not funny "ha ha" of course.
If I had mod points I'd mod this up for Humor's sake. Serieously, second funniest thing I've read today.
A virus has to spred without interaction by the user. somethng that attaches itself to "boobies.jpg" and then the user emails boobies.jpg t his friend is NOT a virus.
It would have to mail itself, and attach itself to files on the friend's machine, and then spread itself to other machines.
So, putting a floppy in a machine, the virus copies itself to the boot sector and then that floppy becomes a carrier. Any machine the floppy goes to gets infected, WITHOUT interaction from the user(s).
Vye-ree-ee? It's purnounced "Viri" And yes, it's wrong (less wrong than octopi, but still wrong). "virii" whould be the plural for "virius" which, if I recall correctly, doesn't exist. The only word I know of in which both an es, i, and no change can all be the correct plural is cactus. I have five cactus I have five cacti I have five cactuses All correct.
Or you have a game like Civ IV where for many people the only way to actually get the game to work is to get the cracked copy. This is because the copy-protection is so fscking arsed that it prevents the game running on a lot of hardware.
I've not played the game because of its copy protection and it's less than glacial speeds, but a friend of mine who is a hardcore civ freak finally had to give up and return the game as defective.1
1 He obvioulsy doesn't live in the US where the software vendors have made this illegal.Really? It was perfectly legible to me. Course, I read it as "sub" instead of replace. For the record, I routinely use that sort of sed structure on IRC and posting on boards, editting in vim, or wanking on /.
And reading ahead, you're wrong, it's not regex, its sed. regex would be \d{3}-?\d{2}-?\d{4}
Apple Corp had their asses handed to them.
Well, Parallels is $80 and requires you to also buy Windows.
I'd rather virtualise the API instead of virtualising the entire OS. Especially wehn the OS in question is teh craptacular Windows.
Ah, this silliness again.
First, VHS triumphed over Beta for two reasons, 1) VHS had a 2 hour tape first and 2) Licensing Beta was more expensive, so the players were more expensive. More expensive + could hold a movie on one tape = failure. Beta's failure as a consumer product had nothing to do with marketing, it had to do with capabilities. As for beta being a failure, Beta is just now finally vanishing, and hung on far longer than VHS. It's just that it's success was limited to professionals, studios, TV news rooms, and things like that.
The Jaguar failed because Atari Computers was run by mind-numbingly stupid people who didn't understand that you had to sell the Jaguar to Computer City and Best Buy and not just to Vic's Atari Dealership, run by the Comic Guy from the Simpson's fatter twin brother and people with the sorts of geeks even other geeks find off-putting.
And as for coke, the trouble with New Coke was that a 'taste test' does not emulate in any way how people drink a coke. People don't pour a can of coke, take a sip, and then walk away. New Coke was sweeter that Coke, and so in a taste test it was guaranteed to perform better, because in a single taste, the feeling of 'too sweet' doesn't have a chance to overwhelm you.
The failure of New Coke had nothing to do with marketing, it had to do with New Coke tasting exactly like Pepsi. If Coke drinkers wanted Pepsi, they would have already been drinking it. If it was all about marketing, New Coke would have been a huge success since Coca-Cola spent about $1 billion testing and marketing New Coke.
HARD? It may be hard for Gramma, or n00busers, but seriously, cp -R /Volumes/iPod/iPod_Control/Music ~/Desktop/
And that's the hard way. There are dozens of programs out there that let you copy the music off yur iPod if you're too lame to figure it out yourself.
The reason that iTunes doesn't just copy all the mp3s off any old iPod has nothing to do with DRM, but with appeasing the asshat labels and preventing the iPod from being associated with Evil Pirates WHo Trade Music and deprive hungry asshats of more revenue than they've ever actually received.
Apple could have made it hard, they chose not to and instead merely made it so you had to put forth minimal effort.