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iPod-Jacked
Rick and Roll writes "In a story on Wired, entitled Feel Free to Jack Into My iPod, an iPod owner shares experiences he has had with other iPod owners, namely the plugging of his headphones into a stranger's jack. It began when a woman in her 30's walked up to him while he was on a walk, unplugged her headphone jack from her iPod, and motioned for him to plug his in. They then listened to each other's music for about 30 seconds. He has then shared with about a dozen iPod listeners, with most of the strangers reciprocating. According to the article, the practice has also cropped up in other communities. Listeners acquire tastes for different kinds of music, just like on internet/LAN file sharing networks. An interesting read."
Warily unplugging his own earbuds, Crandall gingerly plugged them into the woman's iPod, and was greeted by a rush of techno.
"We listened for about 30 seconds," Crandall said. "No words were exchanged. We nodded and walked off."
Why do I get the feeling that this would make a great Apple commercial? I could see them playing this out and it still fitting into the clean and slick Apple marketing image.
The guitars sound good, now give me about 10db more on the cow bell.
That's quite cool.
"What are you listening to?" may end up being the 2000's version of "What's your sign?". It's a nice, safe, social sharing event without the drawbacks and risks of disease or mental impairment.
NB: I'm not saying that having an iPod will get
Trolling is a art,
I have "karma: excellent", so it feels ugly to say this, but:
I always thought Mac users were odd, and this proves it.
Wow! People listening to others' tastes in music, and getting interested in it? What a novel idea!
Seriously, this is just plain obvious behavior, and has _nothing_ to do with the iPod in particular.
Jacking into someone else's iPod...I mean.../me shivers
Has her headphones up all the way...I can hear what she's playing all day.
Right now it's Fifty Cent.
Only 84 minutes until 5:00pm...thank god it's a Friday.
But not unlikely. I rather like this idea. I've heard from several outlets (read: older generations) who insist that our current tastes for technology are leading the world to become impersonal. Quite the opposite, really. As demonstrated, I think we're more "connected" with each other (and not merely our machines as some would suggest) than ever before.
It's a small world afterall...and it's getting smaller every day.
Damon,
http://actionPlant.com
What would be nice is if it was bluetooth enabled, you could just have your iPod on constant broadcast mode, let people walking by snoop in on your listening... That way it wouldn't interrupt your listening.
... I thought this was a new move in GTA4
This sort of community thing is like people in like cars waving to eachother, or the motorcyclist wave, or what not.
I have to say though, this gives me nice warm feelings. Makes me want to go buy an iPod.
Pretty Pictures!
Sound transmitted disease? I could see this being the plot for a cheap cyberthriller.
funny munging
if only I can figure out how to make my SunBlade-150 talk to it....
...yup...
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Or it will be soon, once the RIAA pays off a few more people. Sharing is for communists, and thus wrong! Death to the communist music sharers!
but with my minidisc player, it had 2 output jacks, so I'd let other people listen in. I've always wanted to be able to hear what others were listening to in their cars. I thought about somehow boosting the range on a FM modulator and letting people listen in on my mp3s.
100% Pure Evil With The Look And Feel Of Wholesome Goodness
I want my money back!
Whenever I run into another iPod owner, all they ever ask is "what size is it?" No one ever offers to swap a little toonage.
And I bet these are the same people who say size doesn't matter.
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Err, I'm sorry, I thought that was your earphone plug.
Apple is missing a huge opportunity to be the first in implementing a solid portable broadcast addons for iPod. BT enabled, with ability to "Listen what others are listening".
I hope they implement this in the near future. Sounds like a killer app.
Don't ask me of the result, not a pleasing memory at all..
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
But I certainly would have plugged that woman in more way than one.
This reads like a line from some porn story.
Michael Loves Me!
Go buy a macintosh. And an IPod. I want some of this love. I want to feel like I belong. I want to honk at the other saturn owners and wave at the other harley riders. I'm a follower. This is so for me.
How long before this kind of thing also results in a lawsuit?
Wait till the RIAA hears about this one.
If you're wanting yet another way to discover new music, drive through the ghetto and pull up to a car with shiny chrome wheels. Odds are that they'll have something blaring through their speakers. It might not be good, but it's something.
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
It just doesn't sound right. They exchanged jacking into each other's Ipods. I think if I said that as a kid my mother would have sent me to my room . . .
I'm not sure when it's going to happen, but some new disease is going to crop up because of this new trend . . . I hope it's deadly. I want my boxy beige systems back that aren't easy to use by the common person.
People like to say they listen to deep, sophisticated music to impress people. What better way is there to pierce the facade than to jack into what they're playing that moment?
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Hey Baby, I love the vibe you're giving off; mind if I stick my jack into your iPod...
Are you telling me this is the best 'news for nerds, stuff that matters' /. could find?
This gets posted, but RMS firing the lead dev of the Hurd OS over license issues doesn't. Hell, RMS want a less free license and the Hurd lead wanted a more free license.
But I guess apple pays more.
Just damn.
With all that music, can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these???
... before the RIAA condemns this as stealing and starts sueing?
The article was worded in a way that made me feel all dirty. Standing around with a dozen strangers, yanking your plug in and out of their jacks, seems incredibly wrong.
So I advocate the use of a protection device like my new iCondom. A cheap, disposable adapter plug that has a 1/8" plug on one end, and a 1/8" jack on the other. Simply slip this on your iPod and throw away when the iPod-jack-orgy is over!
Really?
Will we read about flash mobs next ?
Sunny Dubey
Geez. It's not like the headphone was invented by Apple. We did this with walkmans 15-20 years ago. Hell, we bought splitters at Radio Shack so that more than one person could listen at a time.
How on Earth is this even interesting.
If you're jacking into a strange woman's iPod, wear protection.
I can already see RIAA lawyers scrambling to write up an amendment to thier copyright laws prohibiting the "temporary control of copyrighted material via the i-pod."
-Valiss
I love the idea...if anyone sees a tall guy walking around NC State with an iPod, feel free to approach me, I'm up for something like this
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Soon we'll all be jacking into each other's squeezeboxes.
coincidence? maybe. maybe not. Anyhow, last night I was at a party, and a girl asked if she could borrow my anal beads. Sure I replied, but only if I could borrow her butt-plug. Anyhow, we both learned new ways to pleasure ourselves. I suggest all slashdot readers go to an orgy now and then and try something new.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
This is almost as stupid as how jeep owners (especially jeep wrangler owners) wave to each other when they pass. Wooopppeee Fucken doo!
Ughh....
Casual Games/Downloads
Gosh and they never had headphone jacks with Walkmans, oh no.
I'd be more impressed if the iPods had something like the Neuros and could broadcast stuff, and you tune into other people's local broadcasts. Doesn't Apple have Rendezvous autoconfig software tech, couldn't they turn every iPod into a convenient super-local radio broadcaster? That would be a tech story.
This is just lame. Doing a search for the "Leander Kahney" it seems there is no iPod story too trivial for s/he to write and for Wired to publish.
What's next? iPodders describe music they listen to as they poo? And we get to read about it? Ugh.
Da Blog
I was sent home for wearing a shirt that said "Feel free to Jack me". I thought I was just being friendly...
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my virgin jack!
From doing 10 years of telephone tech support I can assure that that easily 95 percent of my mac calls were from flaming gay men and women. It's the same reason straight men don't buy miatas or vw converatables or saabs.
How about "Feel free to jack off to my iPod" for a better title.
This kind of rampant theft of music must stop. Artists and producers can't afford to have thieves and pirates steal their hard work.
What if this "journalist" stole some music he was planning to buy, and didn't like it? He might never buy it! That's a lost sale.
I immediately demand that Apple Computer permanantly bolt the headphone jack into the iPod, and the headphones should not be removable from the ear once inserted. Also, the volume should be capped so that others nearby can't "listen in" (or steal, in other words).
We will sue one cute 12-year-old girl per week, until our demands are met. If our demands are not met after 60 days, we will begin issuing search warrants to 75-year-olds, to be carried out by federal marshals at 3am. If our demands aren't met after 120 days, then, well, I can't get into details, but the code-name for our plan is known as "OPERATION SELECTIVE SILENCE". It's pretty horrible.
Sincerely,
the new head of the RIAA
You forgot the Jackboots.
Everyone knows the RIAA Stormtroopers wear Jackboots!
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on my last jog same thing happened to be. luckily i had two condoms on me so we could enjoy safe listening. the last thing i need is my ipod to pickup some kind of an STD...
If this becomes a real trend, people will probably start adding headphone splitters so others can jack in easier. Adding one will become an open invitation. Then a backlash against Podmiscuity will develop...
Who is John Cabal?
In da club?
This is stupid.
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Obligatory Futarama Reference:
"Bender, are you jacking on again?"
Sorry, just can't help myself...
Fellas, be wary of strange women who offer you to plug into them. Chances are that you're not the first, and her tastes aren't discriminating!
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
I wish this could work that easily with intercourse. - "Hi mam, would you mind letting me jack your vagina?"
When you jack a girl's iPod you are jacking every iPod that she has jacked. Think about that for a while and clean your earbuds, dude!
She jacked something else...
He put his "jack" into another womans "iPod"?
AFAIK, even though firewire is a host less protocol you can't transfer files from one iPod to the next.
However, Creative jukeboxes can, and when the drab PC community catches up I wonder if people will not only listen to other people's music, but share it too- like a p2p network in flesh-space!
-Ryan
AUWYHSTOT (Acronyms are Useless When You Have to Spell Them Out Too)
That's the idea behind my site www.musicmobs.org. It takes your iTunes playlist and lets you see other people that have similar taste. It's a great way to find new music, and let other people check out what you are listening to.
As an aside, the very first Walkman *ever* introduced by Sony had a dual headphone setup. It cam equipped with a "Hotline" switch that either listener could push that would mute both headphones, so they could say something. For couples jogging close together or something like that.
The dual headphone feature remained for a couple of product iterations but was then dropped to save a few pennies on production when they realised virtually nobody ever used this music sharing feature.
The thinking is that Sony were wary of introducing an exclusively personal electronic device and wanted to be able to market as having *some* social aspect.
Da Blog
Or, perhaps Apple will just put two headphone jacks on future iPods... this has been done before for CD players, and would be a nice feature without adding much cost, size, or weight.
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In other news, today we have run out of news.
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Sounds like a marketing ploy by Apple, quietly released into the media, as a way to generate some "sexy" buzz about their product.
apple began offering applecare for the ipod as of today.
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
Nothing more than paid publicity
Actually, my iPod has gotten me laid. I met this girl on the bus, talked to her a bit, then when I opened my bag to get a pen and paper to write down her phone number, she spotted my iPod.
"Oooh, iPod!" she said. Turned out that she was very much into music, and my having an iPod showed her that I shared that. Also that I had large amounts of disposable income, which didn't hurt.
We spent at least a half-hour of our first date going through the music on my iPod. Dated for 6 months.
I spot folks with iPods all the time. Largely male, though. But you can bet that I'm going to start "sharing" my music with any female iPod owners I see from now on.
Will we read about flash mobs next ?
Right here, dude...
Going around sticking your thingy into the thingy of random strangers all willy nilly is certainly NOT a good idea these days.
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...that if HE had initiated the jack swap she would have pulled out her pepper spray?
Try that around here, you'll just get an odd look at best; most likely you'll lose your iPod.
"When I grow up, I want to be a weirdo"
How about bluetooth/wireless enabled mp3 players (which everybody will have shortly, it seems) that would randomly send songs to others in range?
Walk through a crowd and pick up 17 new pieces of music. Of course, the RIAA would never allow such a device to be made...so it is only a matter of time before somebody hacks up an existing one for this.
When everybody is carrying a PDA in their pocket, P2P will really start to drive copyright owners insane. I doubt Officer Krupke is going to be standing on the corner, watching for illegal EM file transfers.
you show me yours.
You do not, as they say, "Get It". With other players that's true but the iPod has a community and mindshare built around (as the story demonstrates) beyond the device itself. To call it only a small HD with a headphone jack is to ignore the Big Picture.
All Napster was was an application communicating over ports, like a thousand others before it...
This sounds cool, but the reality is that I'd feel like a total jackass making some hottie listen to 30 seconds of "Duran Duran".
Good stuff. Interesting that many of us can be instantly defined by the media that we consume. If you want to know someone, ask them, "What bands do you listen to? What TV shows do you watch?" The big question is, would you let others see what's on your TIVO?
Don't forget the possibilities for a manage a trois if you've got a headphone jack splitter handy.
Reminds me of when Sony sent out the people on the streets to pose as a couple wanting their pictures taken with a new phone camera.
Or when the game companies pay people to play the games in coffee houses.
Get people to go out and act like it is cool to have the thing.
I don't know - maybe I'm just cynical - but it sounds planned/rigged.
Either way, I'm still going to buy an iPod for my fiancee.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Why does this sound like another Wired attempt to make something hip?
I mean, isn't this like flash mobs, satellite radio, and Cue Cats?
I've never met anyone who'd want to "jack my Pod", and I think I'd probably slug anyone reaching for it.
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...sticking my plug into a strange woman's jack is my favorite pastime.
Spread the RC luvin'
Reminds me of what goes on in the back lounge of the tour bus on the last few tours I have done. I am a FOH engineer for a touring band and there were 5 or 6 laptops with us on the bus in adition to 4 or 5 ipods. There was an 1/8th inch plug with a 20 foot cable plugged into the stereo and people would simply plug in anyones computer or ipod and start djing. It was always intersting to hear what someone else would pick and play from the music I had stored on my computer or pod. It became a very communal thing and it was no big deal for one of us(there were about 10 on the bus)to pick up a laptop or ipod that was laying around and simply start playing music.
Here's a way I'm working on to get your iPod to have a dual Sony headphone jack AND that plastick-y yellow color!
The mighty rePod
I started kissing that girl and she was all, "mmph NO!" and then the cops kept hitting me....
/. where was this story YESTERDAY?
Goddamnit
This
I never thought I'd be writing to you, but...
[you knew this was going to happen. accept the horror.]
I'm the stranger...posting to
I can see it now, Apple making multiple jacks versions of I-Pod, there will be the romantic two jack wE-Pod and the six jack Party-Pod versions.
But ya know, you gotta have an iPod to do this. I mean, you cant walk up to someone listening to an iPod with an iPaq, Discman, or other portable music playing device. That would just be wrong, and nobody at wired would write about that
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
I mean, running around plugging your plug into some random person you met on the street's jack! I would hope Apple would provide protection for their users!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Cause, you know, it was impossible before the iPod to let other people listen to your music. I would imagine this kind of stuff, along w/ going to people's houses to listen to their systems has been going on since the walkman.
SIGFAULT
It's amazing what Mac users will stick their "plugs" into... :P
Maybe I'm missing something here, but people have been listening to portable music devices for years. They all use the same headphone jack.
I used to do this on the school bus when I was twelve. But I didn't think it had anything to do with the brand of walkman I was listening to.
Which brings me to the question: is this a news article or astroturf?
It breaks my pluginses, my precious!
In other news: Yuppie sevely beaten. At least the poster is honest. Still, this seems to be one of the stupidest social psudo-phenomina ever recorded. Worse even than the Lambada. Fortunatly: "It's not widespread at all... tried sharing iPods in New York's SoHo district with about six people he passed on the sidewalk. Three gave him dirty looks and moved quickly on, while the other three reciprocated." "Pod sharing is a legacy of online file sharing -- essentially the same thing, except offline" -Also it's like sharing tapes with your friends, except the people aren't your friends and music isn't actually being stored. (presumably) THERE IS NOTHING TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM DOING THIS WITH A WALKMAN!!! The Bluetooth option mentiond WOULD be cool. But it currently doesnt exist, and given the low bandwidth and short range of Bluetooth I doubt even that will go anywhere.
It's a culture thing, and that's what makes it notable. Ever see Walkman owners randomly share their music?
yeah, we go outside,
meet girls,....all kinds of "odd" stuff.
I like microcars
[*] Assuming that I was so hoplessly hip, and rich, to spend $400 for a personal stereo.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
So if you see someone with an iPod, you care more about the music they listen to than someone with a different player? If I'm sitting at the airport gate listening to my "old" Rio Volt, you're not interested in sharing?
I guess I'm just being cynical when I think that astro-turfing has hit a new low.
Ignorance is the root of all evil.
The article is paid advertising. You can tell by the way its written. If someone approached me to plug into my iPod for thirty seconds I'd just walk away. What a bunch of crazies.
mod him up cause he's right
It breaks my pluginses, my precious!
Ever see Walkman owners randomly share their music
No, nobody ever listeneed to another person's Walkman in the 1980s/19902. There were no boomboxes, no ghetto blasters, no tricked-out car stereos. Nobody ever made mix tapes, or DJd at College Radio stations, or broadcast bizarre video selections on Public Access.
There were no digital music players, no hard disk music players, no Internet streaming audio apps, no MP3s, and certainly no random sharing of music.
No, in fact we were all living in the Dark Ages of No Music Sharing Ever until Saint Steve showed us the way with the Holy iPod!
Da Blog
These crapple fanatics are beyond bizarre. Check this out
"Bender, were you jacking on?"
woah, no kidding?
Firstly, they're not doing anything anyone couldn't have done 20 years ago with a walkman (and it seems that they can't verify that this is a real phenomenon at all, given that the author called a few places and it seems he is still the only one the writers can track down who's done it). What makes this an iPod-specific phenomenon ? Why wouldn't regular MP3-toting people be into this as well ? What's so special about the iPod that it enables this ? Answer, nothing.
Second, IF true (and I have my doubts), what does this say about the conspicuous consumption which in this article at least seems to define iPod users ? Just exactly how do these 'iPod regulars' identify themselves to each other ? It seems to me, if I had an iPod, it would be in my breast pocket, and noone outside would know I had one. Unless these guys are wearing these things around their neck ("hey, look at me"), I can't see how people taking walks in parks would be able to identify each other - unless, of course, they're super ostenatious and obnoxious showoffs. Maybe these guys are using binoculars to examine the earbuds of their iPod colleagues, but if so, that is a special type of snob indeed.
If people really are carrying on like this, it sounds to me like the iPod is getting to be more and more like a Prada handbag - something brandished like a badge of status. Don't get me wrong, Prada makes a beautiful bag, but now the biggest reason to one one is for what doing so says about their owner than anything else.
this is the gayest thing i've ever heard of.
Ever see Walkman owners randomly share their music?
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Yes. During the 80s when walkmans we're the chic thing to have I can recall two instances where I listened to what someone else was listening to and they listened to mine. This was in the NYC subway and while I think I remember it as swapping headphones it's not much different.
I'm not currently in the market for an iPod, but yesterday I went to the electronics superstore and I saw all the iPods and iPod accessories stand...
Included among the iBaubles was a headphone Y jack splitter.
For some funny reason, I remembered that Sony thingie you've just described and I laughed out loud right then and there, causing a look of confusion to appear on the face of the clerk.
sounds like a good way to spread communicable ipod viruses.
Yeah, but what's the point? Apple users always seem to be out front with style and art. You would expect an iPod user to be listening to something cool, funky, and unusual (like all the people in the article).
By comparison PC users are the slack-jawed yokels of the computer world. This is true by design: Windows is intended to be a mass-market operating system. Get a bunch of PC users with iPod-equivalents, and what will they share? The latest bubblegum, sound-alike, pop drivel. And they will think it's cool.
When the PC world catches up, they will pummel this good idea into the ground. Mark my words.
Toronto-area transit rider? Rate your ride.
What I find interesting is that this didn't start way back when the original walkman was in use...
On a seperate note, why do they specifically use the iPod in the article and not MP3 players in general, that's the point of a UNIVERSAL headphone jack isn't it?
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What's next? iPodders describe music they listen to as they poo? And we get to read about it? Ugh.
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Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
if this was an attractive, 30ish woman listening to techno in an urban area (fitting the marketing profile of 'hip huppie' to a T), approaching a 51 year old male cto ... he's just been marketed to.
... guess what product people buy who wish to join a young, hip subculture?
by a paid representative (through an intermediary no doubt).
these things happen people, so when some cute chick approaches you and asks you to buy her a specific brand of vodka, or offers to loan you a particular brand of cigarette... she's isn't necessarily a normal person. judging by the situation, she's likely to be on the job. and she's selling you the product as much as any pestering salesman.
they sell a product, a brand, a community, a mindset. If young and hip people have a subculture that revolves uniquely around your product
what would be technologically cool, is limited wireless capability to honestly and easily perform this transaction. allow an owner to name their ipod, and be able to set it to allow clips to be wirelessly traded between other nearby users. maybe even by a physical switch so their connection isn't necessarily 'always on' and always drawing juice.
it sounds to me like the ipod already has the DRM to keep publishers from screaming about such a practice - so now it's just a matter of bluetooth or 802.11b?
// "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
I give it about a week before someone comes out with a little tiny condom that you can slide over your earbud plug. :)
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I'd rather not take sides until I hear the monkey's version - PHB
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...just hope you don't run into this guy.
That's how I met my "friend" Bob the other day.
If you'd consider coming over to play with the other team once in a while, you'd double your chances of getting a date. I tried it. I licked^H^H^H^Hked it.
What's the aural equivalent of goatse.cx? I have a really evil plan... ;-)
Apple users are fucking cultists....
This reminds me of the ST:TNG episode where the borg walks up and tries to interface with someone posing as a borg.
the Center for Disease Control issued a warning today stating that jacking into other peoples 'pods is dangerous.
Dr Smith of the Mayo Clinic warns "Remember, when you jack into somebody elses 'pod you're jacking with every other 'pod they've jacked too. Who knows what you might catch from this action of sharing. And we have to remember that it's not just the audiofiles that have anything to worry about. Anybody could catch anything from this dangerous behaviour."
The RIAA has also released a statement saying that people should "abstain" until they get their license.
I can't believe people do that!
So is this the 2000's version of casual sex?
I request Apple to add a feature to ipod -
When a guy with an ipod walks up to a hottie with an ipod, he must be able to point his ipod to hers, like hot-sync, and that'll automatically send the message "You wanna do it?" to her ipod.
She can then press the fastforward button for "Yes!", or the rewind button for "Get lost"
This feature facilitates ummm. mutual intercourse between ipod owners.
I am going to freak out if I don't see this (and file transfer) supported via Bluetooth, out of the box! This is really driving my nuts.
He's plugging his headset into other peoples iPods? That smacks of desperation!
Here's a repost of a post attached to the "Bluetooth is dead" story in October:
I ride the bus alot and everyday I see more and more people plugged into some kind of personal stereo. There are a lot of electronics out there that we don't really think too much about, but with wireless technology their ripe for revival (or renaissance).
Digital information is everywhere, but the exchange of digital information is still not what it could be. Why shouldn't it be seamless?
I guess I'm waiting for the day I can turn on my mp3 player and mark a folder 'share' as easily as if I where using Kazaa. Or allow people to eavesdrop on what I'm listening to. Or share a digital business card with a girl (or business contact!) I just met.
All the technologies are in place. In fact their common. We work with them every day.
Engineers?!
I mean one thing about enjoying music is enjoying sharing it. At the very least it can be very interesting. And in a digital age there is no excuse for it driving us further into isolation, except blind-sightedness.
Quack, quack.
...And for a history lesson on the walkman, go here
Kinda sad at the ripe old age of 26, but I find myself thinking that I don't understand why these crazy kids are doing this, and what do they really get out of it? I keep my iPod snuggled up in my belt holster protected (and protecting me) from all the crazies I have to walk by on the streets.
What world do these people live in?
Gosh, I wonder if anybody else thought of the micro-broadcasting. Like, uh, the author of the article.
How many Neuros-es (well there's an unfortunate plural) have been sold? How many iPods? Why are you surprised that the iPod gets more ink.
The iPod is a device that impacted the American pop culture. That makes it significant.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
until the RIAA hears about this!
President ISES
(International Society for Elimination of Sigs)
It's sick...
Sick, sick and wrong....
Evil even...
Anyone tries to do this to me will get a face full of boot!
All the creatures will die, And all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai. (Jubai, 1605)
Nice way to DOS a printer just keep printing until it is out of ink......
no transfer of bodily fluids.
i once swapped ipods with a hot latin lawyer on an airplane. and, um.. thats my story.
Damn...should heave read EVERY post first...some, PLEASE mod me redundant :P
President ISES
(International Society for Elimination of Sigs)
As for the name, how about "retroPod"? It's a little more descriptive, and the domain is currently available.
~Philly
The problem with a Walkman is that it's not expensive enough to put you in the "club" as it were.
Like Porsche, Corvette, and Mac owners. There may be a lot of them but they're "better" than everyone else.
Same holds for the gianormous, heavy, expensive iPod.
The ratio of people to cake is too big
Time, effort, and materials went into my Creative Nomad Jukebox, only Creative doesn't charge extra to pay their designers to sit around and jack off creating an "image."
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
wouldnt this stuff be cooler if it were wireless;y capable. probably BT since it's low power. but 802.11 could be nifty too.
sitting on the train to work you could check out the playlists of your co-commuters.
just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand!
screw that
This is America, damnit. Speak Spanish!
Next, the RIAA will follow around boomboxers and low-riders charging all the innocent passers-by for the music they are listening to. The boomboxer/low-rider will be summarily executed for unauthorized distribution of music and performing copyrighted works without license. Mothers humming to their babies will be given tit-twisters as punishment unless they pay ASCAP fees. Especially nursing mothers with sore nipples.
You know, I think I'd rather default to a booky than swap a song. After the Wired article, I think the mob treats people better than the RIAA.
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
What is so special about the iPod and swapping music for 30 secs. Couldn't I do this with any mp3 device or tape player? Or is this only for exclusive cult of Apple. My wife has an iPod and it is certainly a nice piece of industrial design, but what sharing music with another person that has an iPod.. Come on... Do people actually believe this fantasy about people sharing music? Initially I thought the article was going to be about an iPod listener could temporary listen to a passer-by music via wireless.
Is this what this society has come to? Next someone will have to have virus protection for safe sex on iPods. Jeez, live life, and don't analyze it to the nth detail.
My collection of industrial metal is poised to offend anyone foolish enough to 'jack in'. Imagine the suprise on their faces when they are rudely introduced to Tool's 'Prison Sex'.... I doubt you could find the lyrics to it anywhere on the net, but it fits the industrial metal genre quite appropriately.
You have to learn to laugh at the absurdness and flat-out ridiculous nature of rap. I mean, when DMX busts out about how he's about to deliver to you, it's hilarious. It's like he's wearing UPS brown shorts. "X gon' give it to ya! Sign here please!"
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
I think AC might be on to something here. We all know Mac users are gay - this is just inserting a phallic symbol into a hole that isn't a vagina.
I see a surge of sales in white apple earbuds. I mean, my Sony MD is sexy too, just because it's not white and made by Apple, would you turn me down?.
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."- Friedrich Nietzsche
Bunch of damned perverts!!!
...we are from the government - we are here to help...
"I've probably bought half a dozen CDs based on what I've heard. It's like finding a new radio station."
That's exactly what I do, if after I've downloaded a bunch of MP3s by an artist and like what I hear- I go out and buy their CD.
Different scenario, same idea.
Fuck off, RIAA.
-- Two in the pink, one in the sink.
This is boring enough to be on one of those *sarcasm* 'edgy' vignettes on NPR's all things considered.
Wow, people cross-listening to music what an innovation.
We need DRM on those headphone things QUICK! They're sharing files without using a LAN or anything... think of the lost revenue if just anyone can LISTEN to music without buying it and an approved playback device!
Come to think of it, the REAL problem is those eardrum things that most humans have illegally acquired through evolution. There are literally BILLIONS of UNREGISTERED eardrums wandering around the planet, listening to God only knows what, and all of it illegal.
Stop the piracy! DRM for Human Eardrums!
iPod has worked for WIndows for a long time now...
That being said, as a pretty dedicated Mac user myself I must say that yes, many of the other Mac users I've met are very, very stange folk indeed. I'm sure that speaks volumes about me as well.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
Sharing music is great.. but having to fumble around plugging stuff into eachother's iPod's can get tedious.
Wireless would obviously be a better solution but how can a person regulate it? One idea is that a person can designate a sample of a song on their iPod in which nearby iPod users (connecting by BlueTooth I suppose) can 'tap' in and listen.
Some time constraints, number of concurrent accesses, and number of times one person A can connect to person B should be in order.
Using samples as opposed to just letting people listen to entire songs should keep the RIAA at bay (somewhat) and save battery power (assuming that the longer a person is connected takes up more power on the connectee's iPod).
Uncle Jim: "Hey Ned, are you jacking off?!"
Ned: "Mmmm, Kinda..."
My first instinct (if I owned an iPod and were taking part in this so-called "jacking") would be to carry a short firewire cable so we could "share" the songs even longer.
You know what I mean: so we each could listen to our new songs and decide whether or not to buy the record, then throw out the illegal "shared" files, of course.
Sounds like Apple could start a whole new line of "accessories", like the iProd - a vibrator with a sleek classy plastic case and a nice wavy curve shape. Now, the commercials for that would be something to talk about at the water cooler.
www.voiceofthehive.com - Beekeeping and Honeybees for those who don't.
This is the closest any Apple user will ever get to sex with an actual human being.
The whole story smacks of dubiousness (OW!). They quote this one guy, Crandall, about 15 times. They reference his blog. The publisher of some ipod web thingy has heard of it... from the same guy. There's an unnamed Pixar spokeswoman who's never heard of it... but she's too busy to look into it? What the heck?
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:-) Nothing against the sub-sub-genre of indigenous music from northern Europe, ok, but I doubt he's really into it... all the time... and has been for the last ten years.
Wired reporter: I need one source that doesn't flow directly from this Crandall joker. I think I'll phone up Pixar.
*ring* *ring*
Pixar: Hello?
Wired reporter: Hello! Ipod jacking, blah, blah, blah...
Pixar: Uh... look... I'm really busy with... umm, the Finding Nemo DVD release! Yeah!
*click*
--
OK, why on earth should I believe even one word from this story?
The guy's blog, says that they thank each other:
We then stand and listen to each other's music for a minute or so, unjack, thank the other person and move on... (from: http://tingilinde.typepad.com/starstuff/2003/09/i
The Wired article says they don't speak at all:
"We listened for about 30 seconds," Crandall said. "No words were exchanged. We nodded and walked off."
OK, so some people say thanks and others don't. Fine.
But here's the clincher: He listens to indigenous music from northern Europe all the time, and has never heard trance. Yeah, right! Indigenous music from northern Europe?!
This monkey Crandall desperately wants attention. He desperately wants people to let him listen to their iPods. So he decides to start a trend. So he calls up Wired and plants a story, and the reporter doesn't think to question the fact that noone else has heard of this...
(Tinfoil hat time: And maybe he's traveling to Cambridge soon, so he nudges them a bit, saying he's heard it's starting there, too, so they'll be ready when he gets there!?)
OK, I'm done ranting now.
zach
can't believe no one has mentioned that this is... ... ipodse.cx
badump-ba!
Once I get the headphones sorted ouf I'm thinking of getting some t-shirts printed.
I just hope that you can't spread music viruses through this method...
...Nothing interesting here. Just move along...
It's just a matter of time before you, as /. geek, jack in to a particularly willing and sensuous owner of ipod and find yourself listening to a poda-marketer.
--- What?
Do those little gadgets come with a way to actually trade music?
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Just remember: You're jacking every iPod they've ever jacked. Be sure to practice safe jacking.
If you mod me down, I shall become less powerful than you could possibly imagine.
2002: It starts with innocent sharing of music, Johnny thinks it's swell.
2006: Apple announces a series of biometric implants that will do radio and mp3s connected directly to your brain stem. This has the noble intent to allow coma patients to listen to music and speeches, to allow people to learn while asleep and always have music in the background. I would personally add the law and order "BUM-BUM" to my head whenever I entered a room. My friend, Johnny, likes music, and so he gets one in his head to listen to the Ramones all the time.
2008: The Franchise Wars. All fast food restaurants become Taco Bell.
2009: Apple and XM Radio combine forces to form new form of an always-on IPOD downloadable songs via satellite, they call it SkyNet.
2011: SkyNet launches, and promptly kills my friend, John Connor.
2015: BORG COLLECTIVE!
2236: The Borg matrix unravels after Bobcat Goldwaithe's program falls into a terminal loop. Some fools credit this to a 'prophet' named Neo.
...is going to be a camera phone for just this reason. I'm going to take a shot of my ass* and send it to everyone I can. I don't know if it's quite "bluejacqing" or whatever, but I bet it'd be fun.
:)
*Actually, I might send a picture of something slightly more... personal.
Why would this be any more widespread with another mp3 player? or a discman or anything for christ sake?
Seems like every geek with a fashion crisis has to spend money on apple products these days.
Sounds like San Francisco circa 1980. I wonder when iPod AIDS will turn up?
or does this sound like some new sexual fantasy?
"Then his fingertips slowly slid off her headphone jack, filling her with his sweet music"
So iPod owners have better taste in music, too? It's well established that they are smarter and hipper than everyone else.
Personal music players have been around for decades. Suddenly they invent a new way to experience new music thanks to the iPod. I don't think so.
Apple owners constantly seek ways to validate that they are smarter and cooler than everyone else. Apple pumps that image to their benefit. You wouldn't see an article like this about Nomad Jukebox owners, whould you?
This story is simply another pathetic attempt to justify the absurd notion that Apple's got the mojo and everything they do is gold. Nothing more to it than that.
There's another way to listen to other people's music. It's called radio.
Yeah, little clue for the Wired guy.
SHE WAS HITTING ON YOU!
Ever wonder why you don't get dates?
That would be it...
*sheesh*
Sounds very creepy and cultish, like Apple's whole image in general.
jack's bicycle is music to my ears
You know, the article inspired me. I love Ben&Jerry's iScream. So today I was walking down the street licking my rocky road cone, and then I saw this pretty lady walking toward me doing same, also B&J's. We made iContact and I offered her to have a lick of mine.
Unfortunately, it didn't work as well as with iPods in the article. She refused to reciprocate. I only got to sniff some of her pepper spray, that's all.
wake me up when the iPOD is able to transmit via bluetooth ( or similar ) and a ppl with in a short radius are able to share.
Then walk down the street in promiscuious (listen) mode and hear to a wide range of tunes, because each person is a tiny radio station.
RIAA lawyers on street corners with iPod's and mp3 capable phones. Motioning kids over, no it's cool. No one has to know. Just jack in.
Young, and too naive to be afraid your twelve year old son, or fifteen year old daughter relent. In the face of peer pressure, curiosity about new things, and our species instinct to explore, especially that which is forbidden, your parental wisdom loses in that moment.
Slowly, hands trembling, Megan (just fifteen) with a last, wary, sidelong glance fumbles inserting her mini-plug into this swarthy stranger's Nomad. At that moment to on her left the soft dull 'clink' of a rolling can draws her attention. A brilliant light and concussive blast that reverberates in her limbs and torso. Her eyes full of star-bursts, ears ringing, the world seems far away, but with the rush adrenalin, it's moving slowly. Terrified and confused she turns and bolts for where she remembers the alley to be. She knows she must escape, she doesn't want to end up like Franklin. He stole a sample of a Buck 50's single, his parents couldn't pay and he, now ten, was making Nike's in Malaysia. He was lucky too, he'd gotten a reduced sentence because of his age, and only had to work off a million dollars. She was FIFTEEN! She had to escape!
Dazed she could feel the man's hand on her arm, halting her. She'd been prepared, her instincts took over. Even though slightly nauseous, deaf and half blind, she spun around reaching and unfurling her butterfly knife in her off hand she stab viciously where she imagined his waist to be. His grip spasmed, finally loosening as she finished the motion with a hard twist of one the handles. Through her palm, she could feel the dull crack of the breaking knife blade. She was a juvenile, not yet subject to the criminal courts. Three years in juvie against an uncertain future? Her father's instructions were crystal clear.
She launched into long strides, the air filling her burning lungs, the sweet acid smell of the grenade clinging to her. The star-bursts had faded, her world was no longer washed out. But she knew it was clearly uneven as she pushed off the brick wall of the alley in an effort to find her balance mid sprint. Behind her, she could hear footsteps and distorted voices. Tears welling up, she desperately hoped someone would help her. Sometimes that still happened in cities.
As the ringing faded, the sounds of cars up ahead promised to her, her silent prayer had been heard. Above her, the rhythmic crisp notes of someone heavy stomping on the fire escape caused her to look. She could still only see mushy shapes, but knew a man was moving towards her. Swaying she barely noticed the soft pop from behind her, although she would recall it distinctly later. That same moment her knee was stinging, and on fire, as if a rock from the street had jumped up and bit her. As gravity, fear, and despair all conspired to draw her to the ground, she reflexively turned to catch herself. She tried to kneel, but her injured knee, throbbing and tender had other ideas; pitching her on her left side. The alley cold and damp against her from last nights rain smelled rancid sweet from garbage, and ammonia. She could feel the grime clinging too her, and now more or less clearly see the men running. It looked like a S.W.A.T. team like in the movies. This was so surreal. Calmly abstractly, she wondered if she might wakeup. Maybe it was almost time to get ready for school, and her mom was just opening her bedroom door.
From the periphery of her vision she saw a flash of shadow. Turning her gaze just in time to see the largest man she'd ever seen in mid air about to land on her. She'd wake up in a hospital, some hours later, with a mild concussion, and a knee bandaged where the rubber bullet struck her. But the end of it she would never remember. And few people would witness.
The EMT's already had put Agent Martinez, the man who enticed her, in the ambulance. He was on his way to the same place she was. But as she
This is SO Bullshit. or in /. speak tis stry si teh ghey!
If you're old enough to remember when the first little Honda Civics came out in the US... I got one the second year they were available. Anytime you came upon another Civic owner in the street, you'd exchange honks. It only lasted the first couple of years. Then the novelty wore off. It was the same with the old beetles. I suspect it's the same mentality with the iPod.
To do this safely, you need to have a supply of plastic plug-tip covers, so you don't have to worry about dirty jacks. Of course, everybody knows this dulls the sound.
Wake Me Up, Before You GoGo.mp3
...plug it in. Now. i need you to plug me real good now... yes... that right....
ARGH!!!! MICHAEL JACKSON?!??
*smack*
We're all very seperated now, and bluetooth broadcasting would just KEEP us seperated.
Excuse me? I think you've missed some of the finer points of human contact. Sharing a common interest (or any compelling interest) is a way in which we are introduced (or, introduce ourselves) to new people. How many conversations have you entered because they involved something you felt passionately about?
Bluetooth would be one way to take our passion and share it, if even casually.
Don't interupt me just because you read something in a magazine.
Quack, quack.
... from the iTunes sharing of tunes over the LAN? No copies are made to the receiving party, after all (even less of a copy even, if you consider that you could record the incoming stream from iTunes), and the "listen only" model might just encourage the listener to buy the new music they just heard.
now I'm not gonna share my kool-aid with you!
Gianormous? I'd love to see a similar capacity MP3 player that's substantially smaller.
You seem to think that any club you're not in shouldn't exist.
Your statements all sound like sour grapes to me. Get used to the idea that you are not a member of communities that you are not a member of. You probably don't drive a Miata or a Jeep. You might not play golf, or tennis, or racquetball. You might not be able to speak a foreign language. All of these activities come with groups of people with similar interests. They might well form a community. What's wrong with that?
With an attitude like yours, I wouldn't be surprised if you were not a member of a lot of communities.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
...when you can't get laid.
Join Tor today!
I'm sure a song that has had all sorts of MTV play is just going to make peoples heads explode in disgust. Next time you want to piss people off download some of The Mentors or Kill Allen Wrench. Those two never fail to offend people on one or more levels.
Somehow the RIAA will attack this as illegal.
This iPod activity doesn't violate RIAA members' copyrights, as U.S. copyright laws affect only sound recording performances that involve digital transmission, but it may violate the songwriters'. According to 17 USC 101, a public performance is one put on for somebody outside of family and social acquaintances. According to 17 USC 106, it takes the authorization of the owner of copyright in a musical work to authorize a public performance of the work. (Read the text of the law at Cornell's U.S. Code archive.) Songwriters and their publishers typically license performance rights through organizations such as BMI, ASCAP, and SESAC.
Mothers humming to their babies will be given tit-twisters as punishment unless they pay ASCAP fees.
This, on the other hand, is within friends and family and thus doesn't fall within the performance rights organizations' powers.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Older Walkman/Discmans (generically speaking) used to have two jacks for this exact reason. And many older Walkman style headphones used to have an extra jack built in to the cord to connect a second set of phones.
She's trying to pick him up - he's writing a website about his experience. what a dumbass.
Well if they had that kind of money.
"Hey, what are you listening to?"
"Some MP3s. Tune your radio to 88.7 and listen"
*Neuros owner activates FM broadcast*
"Wow."
"Oh, I also recorded this hilarious interview with Triumph the insult comic dog on NPR."
"WOw you can record radio?"
"Sure."
Dont know about anyone else, but plugging into someone else's headphone jack doesnt sound impressive or important, you could do that since the first days of the walkman. The cult of iPod is strong, but when everyone and their brother owns one (we're almost there) no one is going to "jack in" and listen to your Garth Brooks or Clean-Channel approved content.
Once upon a time in a Slashdot post, a Slashdot poster said the following:
"It's been 20 years and Google draws a blank. So, it's Ask Slashdot time - as part of sharing the pain I just went through this morning, I defy anyone, even knowing the rules, (download "Slizang Thizang" off your fave P2P network and transcribe) to figure out what the complete lyrics to the "Double Dutch Bus" are, and to pizost 'em hizere, if yizou've gizot the bizallz."
Someone please alliviate my servere mental disabilities, by telling me what he was on about!
But I didn't think it had anything to do with the brand of walkman I was listening to.
All "walkman" players are the same brand, and this is Sony. The iPod pocket stereo system is not a Walkman product.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Boring
someone to make a bad joke laced with sexual innuendo. Yes, that would be original.
I just don't think its realistic. I am passionate about music, you have a much better chance of me talking to you because we share interst in an obscure artist then you are to find me sidling up to you and sliding my headphones into your walkman.
You see?
Quack, quack.
Because TV is flat and smallish, while real life is big and intrusive, and generally less interesting. It's okay -- sometimes I have trouble telling them apart too.
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haha... Right. I was mearly pointing out why the Walkman never had a "club" like the iPod does.
The rest was just filling which you fell for. Hook, line, and sinker... 2 points!
...in San Francisco. Particularly for people who had Walkmans with two earphone jacks in them...I think they were made that way in early days.
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Read the second page of the article. They go into more interesting detail about iPods, Bluetooth and Rendezvous than you did.
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That is all. As you were.
The REAL jabber has the user id: 13196
What you do today will cost you a day of your life
Worst. Slashdot. Story. Ever.
PLEASE post something relevant.
There is something of a culture attached to iPods, and it is not quite the same as the culture attached to macs. It overlaps a bit with the hipster community; some have even suggested that there is a style of dress associated with it.
The result of this culture is that, in general, iPod owners are somewhat more likely to have a greater degree of refinement in their musical taste than the general population. Their tastes are diverse enough that CDs become a drag and they want lots of choice, and in general are unlikely to want to listen to commercial radio. People who don't have these values are less likely to want the specific advantages of the iPod over other music media.
There is something more to this, as well. Both the iPod and hipster groups overlap with the blogging community, which of course has been publicizing its listening habits online for ages now.
Result? You have an unusually large portion of the groups most likely to want to share their music with others represented among iPod users. Hence the plugging.
Sony acheived such high market penetration with their Walkman product that people began to refer to any generic-brand portable tape player as a "walkman." What with Apple's unique marketing image, I doubt that's going to happen with portable digital players; but the original poster's point is still valid: it's all based on standardized technology, the brand doesn't really matter.
Anyone stop to consider how this might have been (will be?) how the Borg got started?
To-do List: Receive telemarketing call during a tornado warning. Check.
Wow, since the woman didn't pay for the music she was listening to, wouldn't the RIAA come after her now??? Might as well, they've come after everyone else.....
Upon reading this, it struck me that it's just a case of some folks trying too hard to do something "cool" and "trendy".
Here's the thing.... We talk about this being a great example of technology bringing people closer together and all that. But all in all, the idea of walking around in public with your ears plugged up with earbud headphones seems pretty anti-social to begin with. You're basically showing the world that you'd rather hear the music you brought with you, piped into your head, than hear anything else happening around you.
Honestly, when I see someone listening to headphones, I automatically try my best not to interrupt them. It's just like someone deeply engrossed in reading a book.
Not only that, but I'd presume that most people "techno-savvy" enough to purchase an iPod and able to download music to it also have a good handle on where to go on the net to download/preview all sorts of interesting and different music.
It's not that likely that some stranger on the bus is going to "blow my mind" by giving me a 30 second listen to their choice of iPod music. I have much better chances of discovering something new by doing some browsing around for it online.
Just because you've got money doesn't mean parking is convenient at home or near the office. (And if this was San Francisco, and you've got a van, parking is especially inconvenient :-)
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
Bluetooth headsets are mostly designed for cell phones, not music - not only mono as opposed to stereo, but they're a pretty low frequency band (I think 3kHz or something.) A friend of mine at Apple says that they're too low-res to run Apple speech recognition on, unfortunately, because otherwise that BT-enabled 802.11-enabled Mac in your backpack would be a hands-free voice PDA plus VOIP-phone.
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I was also going to post a suggestion about Apple putting dual jacks on the phone. But until they do, a Y-cable is a cheap and simple substitute.
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That was very funny, thank you!
Congratulations on the stupidest, gayest shit I've ever heard in my life. Go hug a fucking tree.
I like to listen to Poopship Destoyer by Ween, now whether i listen to the 3 minute version or the 26 minute version depends on how I'm feeling
Headphones were invented by Apple...?? WOW! Steve Jobs is even better than Al Gore
Will code a sig generator for food
Come on, Wired has had a "what's on your iPod" adverisem ... I mean section forever already. I wonder how much the marketing department got paid for this.
Ever notice how Apple doesn't put a toll-free number to call at the end of their commercials? Wouldn't wanna increase market share any, now would we?
This just reinforces my belief that Apple is a religion. Plugging one's jack into another's socket (with no obscene metaphor intended) has been technologically feasible since the first battery-operated portable tape recorders, even well before the first battery-operated tape recorder people didn't look at you funny for carrying around (the Sony Walkman). So why didn't this cult practice catch on before now? Simple. Think different. Think Moonie. ;-)
A Different Kind of Company, A Different Kind of Car... A Different Kind of Company, A Different Kind of Car... Consume... Consume... Consume...
I can just imagine that in a thought bubble above his head in a nearest-neighbor extrapolated 8-pixel high font.
:-} ::snerk::
lol.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
...YOU guys grew up in, but back in the day, getting your walkman "jacked" involved about 8-10 kids with butterfly knives.
By accentuating the physical differences to hyperbole, we can cut to the heart of Apple's message: Powerbooks are suitable for everyone. It makes the "sameness" stand out.
They're all fags^H^H^H^Happle-users at heart.
Awwwww...
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
I so absolutely do not work for NBC Studios.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
gay gay gay.
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
Wow! I feel instant relief!
And I'm sure all you old Napsrer lovers feel the same.
This is the In Search of Supidity thread. Right?
i was at this girls house comforting her because she'd stacked her car that day, and had my ipod hooked up to her stereo.. going through listening to ben harper's sexual healing, sade's lover's rock, norah jones, etc in front of the fire, talking and listening for hours.... fuck that was good...
she was sooo hot..
19902...wow, that's a long shot!
[SIG] Remember Mattel handheld games?
It's official: iPod users are fucking weird.
[o]_O
LoveStinks.mp3
What's next? iPodders describe music they listen to as they poo? And we get to read about it? Ugh.
Listen to music? As they poo? Don't be silly: that's what the Parachute game is for. Of course, you run the risk of spending so long trying to get the high score that you get that "dry-ass" condition which makes wiping all the more painful.
Note to owners of older iPods: If you don't have the Parachute game, don't worry about it. You can still make up fun iPod games to pass the time while making stinky in the bathroom. For instance, view all of your songs in one big list, scroll from top to bottom as fast as you can, and then try to beat your time! Or, scroll through your contacts list and try to rank whom you'd kill first, second, third, etc., if you could do it without getting caught. Enjoy!
Is this by chance the most score:5's ever? how about score:5 funny's?
It began when a woman in her 30's walked up to him while he was on a walk, unplugged her headphone jack from her iPod, and motioned for him to plug his in. They then listened to each other's music for about 30 seconds. He has then shared with about a dozen iPod listeners
RIAA is on the way. Go ahead and write the check.
Oh, come on already, you clearly are missing the "gay community building" aspect of this story... The beleagured homosexual community needs support at every opportunity.
A blonde haired big breasted woman walked right over to me and plugged into my ipod. We asked senate minority leader Tom Daschale how this affected global warming....
Yes, they are interfacing their eDongs in a peer-to-peer piss-sharing application.
Is there something wrong with that??
'jackbooted thugs'- get it right people!
Never pet a burning dog.
Everyone knows that Geeks don't have girlfriends!
There's a portable mp3 player that transmits music via FM. It even looks sorta like an iPod too with white casing and blue/purplish screen. Check out their English page at http://www.nextway.co.kr/english/product/nmp_612t. htm.
Anyways, so there's this female, she's human, right? Well, anyways, to make a long lie...er, story short. She gives me this hand-gesture, and suddendly, out of nowhere, I get it. We switch our headphone jacks on our cd-players.
Let me tell you something, I have experienced the future of human relations, and it is 44khz audio baby!
Suddendly, I knew that she liked dave maththews, bjork, and that one song from the mazda commercial.
I mean, think about it gents. Ten years ago this would still have been possible, but, get this, it wouldn't have been on this fabulous thing called the Sony Cd Walkman. Sound shmound, the brand has made the future of life as we know it!
Hehe
Many Thanks,
Luke
and the standards of what it means to be human and decent are cranked down yet another notch
Given the convergence of how this sounded like the start of a Penthouse letter with music, I'm greatly enthused that it also reminded me of one of my favorite songs:
A woman came up to me and said
"I'd like to poison your mind, with wrong ideas that appeal to you though I am not unkind."
('Whistling In The Dark' TMBG)
Go get this intruder. He is not a real ./'er. He got laid.
is the cost of an Ipod.
... full of system images of my friends iPods' ...
... iPod is *HIGH BANDWIDTH*, damn!
Super great fun, just copying an entire record collection in one fell swoop. Never mind this one-at-a-time-mp3-downloading rubbish
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
... THE BROWN NOISE ;P
my 15+ year old walkman has 2 headphone sockets.
I've always shared my music.
Lift her skirt and I'll share my plug with her jack.
I can only imagine that the RIAA will have hords of legal folk trying to figure out if they can own both iPods and the first-born of those "jacking."
What exactly causes this phenomenon to be specific to Ipods? It could happen equally well with walkmen or anything having a headphone socket. Is it just because Ipod users are more likely to blog about it and to read others' blogs, causing the practice to take off?
BTW - Ipods are quite expensive, this sounds like a good way to mug people for them.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
the iPod uses standard headphone inputs - unless Apple's using another accursed proprietary input type, which would be utterly moronic in this case. Since the jacks are standard, ANYBODY with ANY MP3/Diskman/Walkman/Radio can plug into anybody else... the only difference here being that Apple users view themselves as an oppressed subculture, much like the Jews, and stick together against the rest of society. They have an instant bond because they both suffer the same tech-indignities at BestBuy. Which is why they came up with this as opposed to anybody else. Nobody else in society feels a strong bond with strangers just because they use a Dell, because EVERYBODY uses a Dell.
New commercial: George Michael music in the background (maybe "I want your sex"), two effeminent men walk up next to each other in a park, touch hips, jack-in to each other's iPods, listen for a few, then just walk off.
PERFECT.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
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THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
God. Flamebait? Come on. It's a fricking joke. You know, it's stereotypical slashdot talk. Your ego hurt? Awww...
And Lunix users have Yoda dolls up their asses, and BSD users are out raising the dead, and Windows users sUx0r5!$ Billy Gat3$.
And such a late mod. Someone has a grudge.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
Then again, I only really date creative types so that does incline them to liking music a lot, so it does help in that department.
i remember back in about '98 i saw a minidisc player with a special headphone socket, it was really small and you had to get an adapter to use it with a normal set of headphones. which reminds me that my dr7 minidisc recorder uses a newer more efficient headphone output that uses four leads instead of the standard three, but it is backward compatable.
When I read this article, my immediate thought, but maybe it's because I'm a (part-time) screenwriter is, this would make a great idea for a love story movie!
;-)
A guy gets approached by a girl who jacks into his iPod, and they do it again, and he starts to do it with other people, and with her again many times, and he's fascinated by her beauty and the strange music she listens to, and after a while musters up the courage to ask her name, take her out for a cup of coffee...
But hey, that's me. I see this, I think of love, lambda geek sees this, he thinks of product placement.