MacUser points to ShutDownDay.org, which asks if you can go 24 hours without your computer.
A: No.
I’ve been needing to send my MacBook Pro in to have some work done on the network card for 6 months now. I haven’t sent it in because I need it. Every day. Not only that, but [...]
Their crime wasn’t in committing the act, but rather in photographing it. And the funny part is that these laws were put in place to protect children, not prosecute them. Well, not “haha” funny.
Wil Shipley tears into Ballmer’s recent comments regarding Vista and piracy.
Damn, that’s a fine idea, Steve! Those freaking Chinese are sitting on piles of gold! They pirate your software because they are a greedy, greedy people, not because Windows Vista Basic costs $295 in China and laborers rake in about $160 a month.
Read the whole [...]
Grant Robertson nails it:
DRM is a lot like hiring Barney Fife to guard your record store. He irritates the paying customers while the shoplifters just laugh behind his back and walk away with the merchandise. How much longer can the Fife-like DRM hang on to a job it does so poorly?
(Via Daring Fireball.)
Michael Tsai details his problems getting the hard drive replaced in his MacBook Pro. There really is no excuse for this level of service, particularly when it entails shipping the laptop back and forth to the company. I’ve come to expect poor service from Dell. It’s Dell’s new standard. But not [...]
This is one of the funniest plays on the I’m a PC, I’m a Mac commercials I’ve ever seen. One picture and no commentary needed.
Prelude, or A High Level Overview of How We Got Here
The 1990’s, along with almost every preceding decade, caught the music industry completely off guard. In the 70’s, they weren’t prepared for the cassette tape. In the 80’s during the MTV video boom, it was the VCR. In the 90’s, they were [...]
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, sounding oddly like a Vegas odds maker, says there is less than a 25% chance the major labels will drop DRM. I think this completely misses the point. I’ve read and re-read Job’s open letter and I don’t think he intended to convince the labels of anything. [...]
So Steve Jobs has posted his thoughts on music which, as Gruber at Daring Fireball points out, is really his thoughts on DRM. Gruber’s analysis is good, but I prefer Cory’s at Boing Boing. It’s less forgiving.
In support of his argument against licensing FairPlay, Jobs writes:
However, a key provision of our agreements with [...]
When someone asks me, What’s the size of the mail queue?, my response is going to be the number of email in the queue. And when you think about it, that makes sense. In geek jargon, a queue is defined as a FIFO-organized sequence of items, as data, messages, jobs, or the like, [...]
