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From: Rowland McDonnell on 2 Mar 2010 10:25 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > I think it's more that you class as `non existent' problems you spot but > > identify as `trival' - which irritates many. > > Only you, Rowland. Only you. Hmm? So you're so sure about the rest of the human race, are you Peter? Think you know what everyone else in the world thinks and feels, do you Peter? Thinking of changing your name to `God', are you Peter? Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 2 Mar 2010 11:21 On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:53:11 +0000, me32(a)privacy.net (R) wrote: >Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > >> Except for the AAC format, which is an Apple format, innit? > >Apple use it. So, in that sense, yes, it is an Apple format. Apple >didn't create AAC, though (Sony and others were involved). > >> Yer iPod >> can play it, yer iTunes can play it, but you've gotta go via Apple to >> play yer AACs, yeah? > >I wouldn't think so. It's used by numerous non-Apple devices >including the PS3. I'd always though AAC was a Sony thing originally, designed to allow MiniDiscs (remember them?) to fit an album on in 200meg or so. Reading the Wikipee page on it, I see this is largely incorrect. I'll have to try and get over this lingering distrust of and aversion to using it. I've never liked Sony. Cheers - Jaimie -- SMBC's Guide To Surviving The Nuclear War: Things to Avoid Thing One: Nuclear Missiles
From: Woody on 2 Mar 2010 12:00 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > Except for the AAC format, which is an Apple format, innit? > > > > Apple use it. So, in that sense, yes, it is an Apple format. Apple > > didn't create AAC, though (Sony and others were involved). > > Oh. Coo. > > > > Yer iPod > > > can play it, yer iTunes can play it, but you've gotta go via Apple to > > > play yer AACs, yeah? > > > > I wouldn't think so. It's used by numerous non-Apple devices > > including the PS3. > > Righto - so it's just the unfair consumer rights restriction tech to > which Apple gave the Newspeak name `Fairplay' that's Apple-only, then? That is theirs, although I didn't think they used it any more? -- Woody
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 2 Mar 2010 12:03 On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:00:43 +0000, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: >Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > >> >> Righto - so it's just the unfair consumer rights restriction tech to >> which Apple gave the Newspeak name `Fairplay' that's Apple-only, then? > >That is theirs, although I didn't think they used it any more? And yes, it's the DRM that's Apple only. It is *very* Newspeak. But it's not as comedy as MS's "PlaysForSure" DRM tech, that they didn't even bother to put in all versions of Windows and Zunes that were supposed to play the same stuff. Cheers - Jaimie -- I think I'm too sarcastic to believe in myself. -- Nietzsche
From: Jim on 2 Mar 2010 12:10
On 2010-03-02, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > > And yes, it's the DRM that's Apple only. > > It is *very* Newspeak. But it's not as comedy as MS's "PlaysForSure" > DRM tech, that they didn't even bother to put in all versions of > Windows and Zunes that were supposed to play the same stuff. To the best of my knowledge I've only ever once run into a situation where Fairplay prevented me from playing something, and that was because I'd somehow authorised five computers. Still not entirely sure how I did that. Easy enough fix though. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "Get over here. Now. Might be advisable to wear brown trousers and a shirt the colour of blood." Malcolm Tucker, "The Thick of It" |