On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:02:12AM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > it's "rights management."
>
> The first thing to understand about the Orwellian term
> "rights management" is that it is not about your rights.
In Soviet Russia you have rights.
In the USA rights have you.
Nicholas Clark
From what I remember, the default is to *not* automatically synchronise
when you plug the thing in, but to synchronise if you run iTunes when
the thing is plugged in. So I rather think that someone told the
machine to do that.
Unfortunately the default is _also_ to run iTunes when you plug it i
I'm not sure how anything that's actually syncing, rather than
installing/copying/whatever, could behave differently. If you use a
conduit on the Palm that does syncing (i.e., _not_ "install", which is
one-way) it absolutely will delete a record from your Palm if you
delete it on the computer,
On 5-Dec-06, at 3:35 AM, sabrina downard wrote:
the really sad thing is that, all this notwithstanding, i'm still
pathetic enough to want one of the new tiny clippy shuffles. there's
a word for people like me.
Having never had an original shuffle, I don't know if this is
different, and ma
> it's "rights management."
The first thing to understand about the Orwellian term
"rights management" is that it is not about your rights.
le
would get removed from the iPod.
> it's "rights management." i first enountered the data deletion (and
> posted the original post in the "DRM can bite my ass" thread) when i
> was just trying to recharge my shuffle, and plugged it into a handy
> USB port one
On 5 Dec 2006, at 13:24, Nik Clayton wrote:
Robert Rothenberg wrote:
On 05/12/06 04:27 Peter da Silva wrote:
"iTunes shouldn't be removing files from my iPod"
If you really do want it to sync your music collection to your
iPod, and
you plug your iPod in when its idea of your music collecti
Robert Rothenberg wrote:
On 05/12/06 04:27 Peter da Silva wrote:
"iTunes shouldn't be removing files from my iPod"
If you really do want it to sync your music collection to your iPod, and
you plug your iPod in when its idea of your music collection is wrong, then
it's going to do the wrong thi
* sabrina downard [2006-12-05 12:40]:
> the really sad thing is that, all this notwithstanding, i'm
> still pathetic enough to want one of the new tiny clippy
> shuffles. there's a word for people like me.
>
> b,
> --s.
Heh. I have an old shuffle, and I think it's actually about the
leas
or AAC, but
it's "rights management." i first enountered the data deletion (and
posted the original post in the "DRM can bite my ass" thread) when i
was just trying to recharge my shuffle, and plugged it into a handy
USB port one day, not expecting that it was going to d
On 05/12/06 10:41 Matt McLeod wrote:
> On 12/5/06, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
>> On 05/12/06 04:27 Peter da Silva wrote:
>> > This isn't anything to do with DRM, it's all about syncing.
>>
>> I disagree. ...
>>
>> When I use rsync, by default it does not delete unless given the option.
>
> You miss
On 12/5/06, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
On 05/12/06 04:27 Peter da Silva wrote:
> This isn't anything to do with DRM, it's all about syncing.
I disagree. When I used to use a Palm pilot years ago, the default
configuration was not to delete anything (or to ask before deleting things).
When I use
On 04/12/06, sabrina downard wrote:
stupid iTunes. stupid iPod. stupid Apple.
iTunes is the most hateful sack of shit that I have ever had the
misfortune and displeasure to encounter on a semi-regular basis.
--
Earle Martin
http://downlode.org/
http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/
On 05/12/06 04:27 Peter da Silva wrote:
> "iTunes shouldn't be removing files from my iPod"
>
> If you really do want it to sync your music collection to your iPod, and
> you plug your iPod in when its idea of your music collection is wrong, then
> it's going to do the wrong thing whether your fi
> no, i was saying that iTunes shouldn't be removing files from my iPod
This is where you stop. Or it's where I stop, anyway.
"iTunes shouldn't be removing files from my iPod"
If you really do want it to sync your music collection to your iPod, and
you plug your iPod in when its idea of your mus
On 12/5/06, sabrina downard wrote:
> so what you're saying is that you didn't use the tools provided, or
> pay attention to the backup you were trying to use?
no, i was saying that iTunes shouldn't be removing files from my iPod
without any iWarning based on an iFaulty assumption, but perhaps i
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:57:34AM +1030, Bill Page wrote:
> On 12/4/06, sabrina downard wrote:
> > [Apple hate]
> so what you're saying is that you didn't use the tools provided
Would those be the Apple tools that "forget" to copy some things and so
are to all intents and purposes useless?
My t
so what you're saying is that you didn't use the tools provided, or
pay attention to the backup you were trying to use?
no, i was saying that iTunes shouldn't be removing files from my iPod
without any iWarning based on an iFaulty assumption, but perhaps i
should have taken more time to make tha
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:57:34AM +1030, Bill Page wrote:
> so what you're saying is that you didn't use the tools provided, or
> pay attention to the backup you were trying to use?
Unsubscribe.
so what you're saying is that you didn't use the tools provided, or
pay attention to the backup you were trying to use?
this doesn't sound like software hate to me, this sounds like self-love.
On 12/4/06, sabrina downard wrote:
On 7/10/06, sabrina downard wrote:
> Dear Apple:
[snip]
> Okay.
On 7/10/06, sabrina downard wrote:
Dear Apple:
[snip]
Okay. Whatever. I have that album on this laptop and I don't know
why you're whinging about it anyways, as I didn't ask you to "copy"
anything. 'Cos it was already *there* and all. But whatever, I
didn't want to listen to that band at t
Earle Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:29:31AM -0500, sabrina downard wrote:
>> But I've got to tell you, this iPod destructive mind-meld "link" to a
>> specific computer, or whatever the hell it is, is just fucking stupid.
>
> What the fuck happened to that Apple that used to produce no
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:27:32PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi said:
> I guess they fired those developers because they had to pay the salaries
> of the Brushed Metal Clan.
http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/anthropomorphized
http://daringfireball.net/2006/01/brushed_metal
Earle Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:29:31AM -0500, sabrina downard wrote:
>> But I've got to tell you, this iPod destructive mind-meld "link" to a
>> specific computer, or whatever the hell it is, is just fucking stupid.
>
> What the fuck happened to that Apple that used to produce no
i honestly have no idea what you lot are complaining about - i have
had no troubles copying music from an ipod to a computer and back, all
around the place
my ipod is a filthy whore, let me tell you
well, with the aid of "super-lube" senuti to copy stuff off an ipod
On 7/11/06, Earle Martin wrot
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:29:31AM -0500, sabrina downard wrote:
> But I've got to tell you, this iPod destructive mind-meld "link" to a
> specific computer, or whatever the hell it is, is just fucking stupid.
What the fuck happened to that Apple that used to produce non-insane
software? You know,
> What I'm assuming happened here is that my iPod, named 'wee' (what?
> it *is*!), had some sort of sympathetic bond with my old laptop,
> "shiny." It liked shiny. It was evidently involved in a fiercely
> monogamous relationship with shiny.
That's the problem... you're assuming that your iPod
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:50:57AM -0500, sabrina downard wrote:
> >So if you want to pay money to get broken features unbroken, it's
> >possible that you can deal with this soon.
> is it too early in the morning to start drinking?
Never (says he, the wrong side of some whisky. and beer, and wine)
So if you want to pay money to get broken features unbroken, it's
possible that you can deal with this soon.
is it too early in the morning to start drinking?
(if it is, it's probably software's fault)
--s.
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:50:57AM -0500, sabrina downard said:
> is it too early in the morning to start drinking?
The sun is over the yard arm somewhere in the world, I say go for it.
On 2006-07-10 at 10:29 -0500, sabrina downard wrote:
> But I've got to tell you, this iPod destructive mind-meld "link" to a
> specific computer, or whatever the hell it is, is just fucking stupid.
I read The Register (I'm not proud of it and yes I need help); I believe
that they recently had an a
Dear Apple:
As I'm sure you know, I've been a pretty unrepentant Mac fangirl for a
while. I like shiny things. I like your laptops. I like your
operating system (and I used to like your old one, too). I like my
transparent terminal windows. I like not having to run OpenOffice
just to read th
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