On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Chris Dunford <[email protected]>wrote:
> >> DRM probably is the answer to M$ woes in Zune2K9 debacle. > >> It needs to be able to know your license is current for > >> the subscription service. Can't have you hearing licensed > >> music after your license has expired. > > > > It is just like designing electronic door locks that won't > > open when the building loses power. The mindset is to always > > protect the goods even if it may turn the customers into > > crispy critters. > > As usual, stated without evidence. You have no reason whatsoever to assume > that this has anything at all to do with DRM. Hey it is a best guess and I stated it that way; although, I would put a quatloo or two on that Thrall. Everything bad comes from DRM.... or Redmond. Plus if it is a DRM thing it is sort of forgivable. What other reason on god's green earth would a programmer ever think to tie the function of an audio device to a calendar? I can understand a clock but not a calendar. The Zune subscription plan has a monthly payment due so it should to be expected to stop playing the subscription stuff when that time has passed but the radio should still work, and the non-DRM music. A date comes up that doesn't exist in the programming so it doesn't work. Not all that shocking. Now writing a calendar that flawed is sort of shocking. Of course I got an audio download of a Library book that requires Windows Media Player and should have timed out last year after a month but still plays nearly a year on. But that is a different software base so it can be expected to be screwed up in ways all it's own. > > And your comment equating this bug with a car not starting because its > clock > is set wrong is more evidence to me that you really don't understand very > well how computers operate and how they are, in fact, not cars. > > The clock software in the Zune is a driver. When a driver in a computer > goes > whack, anything can happen, including a freeze, which is in fact what did > happen. If you are going to tell me that your iPods and iPhones and Macs > will all go merrily on their way as if nothing happened when their drivers > go belly up, well, I just don't know what else to say. We bitch when Apple screws up too. It is just easier to see M$ berated because M$ does more things dumbly. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
