I think that "permanent back-up" that you mention is very real to most of us. Most people around have experienced computer failure of some sort or another, and it would be horrible losing that to a computer failure.
Sure, the physical copies can be damaged if there is a fire or what not... but it is probably also generally easier to document physical evidence of having CDs for insurance reasons than it is for digital copies.
How have you guys dealt with loss claims in regards to digital only music when dealing with your insurance companies?
Actually, the music on my computer tha is converted to iTunes all came from CD. Nothing from the store. It might be semi-convenient, but if you already have a good collection and enjoy hitting up the music store now and then you probably won't invest too much in iTunes.
Never... and I don't really plan on doing so. I just like having a CD of my music, produced professionally, etc. Perhaps I'm behind the times, but the only stuff I get from iTunes is my podcasts.
If iTunes remembered online that I owned the rights toa piece of software and could download it again at a later time perhaps I would use it (thats me speaking blindly, I haven't even looked into it that much). My wife has downloaded a few songs from iTunes if I recall, but we both have a decent CD collection and tend to support the artists that we like by getting their whole CD.
Is it just me, or was the new iTunes release a step down from the last one? I just don't like the interface as much.
While I can understand that there is a slightly dubious use of the word "genuine" with MS, I don't believe its as big a deal as all that. For the most part it does fit given definitions. However, every day we twist language to our own use in an attempt to communicate. MS adding a bit of branding is their attempt to fulfill a dual function. One is marketing, and the other is to attach an every day term to validate our purchasing software instead of pirating it.
That said, every marketing campaign aimed at branding a word or term is bound to devalue it linguistically.
It always seems like we never have enough energy to accomplish as much as we want to. I mean, really... its the limiting factor in so many of the things we do:
1. On a car trip you have to pull over and get more gas. 2. You can only listen to your mp3 player so many times before you have to recharg it. 3. Etc
Beyond those every day things, it has even more drastic affects on our goals. For instance, how many of us are going to make it into space? Not many... why? We have the technology to do everything we want to in regards to space flight, except for being able to supply energy cheaply. Will we ever figure out a way to do that? I certainly hope so. Perhaps we wont though, and the most effective way we will get around that is to utilize energy more efficiently.
In regards to this technology, it is interesting... and perhaps it will actually bear some fruit in the next few years. That said, 100x the battery life we have now is a great advance, but it is no where near what we will need in the future.
Good post, erm, whoever you are. I was at first writing a response to him, but then figured it wasn't worth the time to.
However, the general attitude that "people are stupid" is silly, and really isn't the way it works in real life. That attitude works making a post on Slashdot, but there are a large number of intelligent people in this world... many of whom completely understand what regional encoding is. In fact, I don't recall the last time that it was brought up and the person looked at me awe-struck and said "Gee Wiz, whats that?".
So anyways, AC, thanks for your response to the previous post. I for one am tired of people walking around with the attitude that people in general are stupid.
Of course they don't... which then allows me to complain about it to everyone and refuse to buy their product.
Sure its only a loss of $400 or $500 to them over time, but it goes to show that in a very real way I don't particularily care about their special needs.
You know, the main problem that I have with Nintendo locking regions is that I travel quite a bit. Why shouldn't I be able to pick up a game that I come across while I am in Europe, or wherever else? It just makes it less convenient.
Or if I end up moving to another country for work for a while... should I have to have relatives purchase the games for me and ship them over whenever I need a new one? C'mon.
Yes, that is the resounding sond of Booohs heard across the world. Come on Nintendo, if you're going to play the $250 console card and appeal to the customers, at least do it right.
Actually, I think having a good rubberized case would be much better. As other posters have stated, these things really aren't "bullet proof" or "mortar proof". Why? Whoops, we left the screen and touch pad uncovered. Thats a bit of a weakness in the system right there.
Anyways, the rubber cases work great, and I definitely recommend them. You can usually pick some decent ones up on Amazon for about $15-$20... and you won't have to hear this:
LT: How'd Jim Bob die? Sarge: Sir, the enemies attacked and he wasn't able to get over the fence with that new iPod case of his, sir!
Was it just me or was the one with the headphone jack sticking into the back end of a cat a bit disturbing?
Humor aside, there are some great cases out there... and with with alot of the iPods, providing protection is not only necessary because they scratch so easily, but also because they aren't so hard to drop.
I use a Green Apple case when I run, and a Belkin leather case for around the home or when I am out an about.
What kind of cases do you guys use?
Oh, and as an end note. How much do those heavy metal cases weigh? Doesn't that kind of ruin the point of creating a small, easy to carry music player?
Of course, there are much worse out there. How do I know, I see it every time a new person wants to start a fan site about something stupid.
On the other hand, there are lots of cool sites. www.stickdeath.com used to be cool, until they started using annoying pop ups (yay for blockers) and what not. Funny site though. There are tons of others... so, my suggestion, when you come to talk some trash about how bad those sites are and add your list, throw out a site you think is cool as well.
btw, just as some mention about ways that we communicate without the internet:
1. Messaging services 2. VOIP 3. Camera 4. Blogging 5./. 6. etc
Don't get me wrong, e-mail is important... its one of the few mediums we have that can be both personal and impersonal, stored for short of long term, and each different thought line/send has its own subject line. However, with the web, there is the possibility of thinking up another method to accomplish this.
AS said, this should be easy. Think about the limitations of each of these. E-mail is a relatively unimportant medium as compared to the web I believe.. The web is so much more than that. If we didn't have e-mail, how many other ways are there that we could communicate?
Shopping on the web, data we enter... the accessibility that it gives us in so many different things. Without e-mail we would find another way to communicate effectively. Without the web, life as we know it would change drastically.
Good ideas. I think we all need to take responsibility for our money, and just because it is in a bank doesn't mean that we should run around giving information about it to everyone just because it has in the past been protected.
The amazing thing is that these scheme actually work... and that there are people out there willing to give their account information to somebody they don't know in a country half way around the world because that person says they have some money to throw at them. Perhaps they need to offer seminars online or something that the government can give out to its citizen to make them aware of this kind of thing.
The responsibility for these sort of things though should fall upon the customer if they fail to act responsibly. On the other hand, if somebody breaks into your house and steals your information from your account information from your filing system, well.. a bank should do its best to cover that loss.
Anyways, good heads up about checking that on future banks.
Slashdot Mirror
MySpace users actually have passwords? Well, I'm more impressed than I was.
Trying to get to the site... and not sure if we /.ed them or if they yanked the plug and ran away when they saw the story linking to them.
Looking forward to when the page is back up^^
Good post Spartacus, I agree with that. The mobility that having a CD gives us is definitely worth something.
I think that "permanent back-up" that you mention is very real to most of us. Most people around have experienced computer failure of some sort or another, and it would be horrible losing that to a computer failure.
Sure, the physical copies can be damaged if there is a fire or what not... but it is probably also generally easier to document physical evidence of having CDs for insurance reasons than it is for digital copies.
How have you guys dealt with loss claims in regards to digital only music when dealing with your insurance companies?
Actually, the music on my computer tha is converted to iTunes all came from CD. Nothing from the store. It might be semi-convenient, but if you already have a good collection and enjoy hitting up the music store now and then you probably won't invest too much in iTunes.
Never... and I don't really plan on doing so. I just like having a CD of my music, produced professionally, etc. Perhaps I'm behind the times, but the only stuff I get from iTunes is my podcasts.
If iTunes remembered online that I owned the rights toa piece of software and could download it again at a later time perhaps I would use it (thats me speaking blindly, I haven't even looked into it that much). My wife has downloaded a few songs from iTunes if I recall, but we both have a decent CD collection and tend to support the artists that we like by getting their whole CD.
Is it just me, or was the new iTunes release a step down from the last one? I just don't like the interface as much.
Justin
http://hatchedeggs.blogspot.com/
I've never seen /.ers back up Microsoft so much before until these pompous linguists came along.
Bloody word jockies!
Mistah Mistah, would you like to buy one of these genuine Rolex's from me?
While I can understand that there is a slightly dubious use of the word "genuine" with MS, I don't believe its as big a deal as all that. For the most part it does fit given definitions. However, every day we twist language to our own use in an attempt to communicate. MS adding a bit of branding is their attempt to fulfill a dual function. One is marketing, and the other is to attach an every day term to validate our purchasing software instead of pirating it.
That said, every marketing campaign aimed at branding a word or term is bound to devalue it linguistically.
It always seems like we never have enough energy to accomplish as much as we want to. I mean, really... its the limiting factor in so many of the things we do:
1. On a car trip you have to pull over and get more gas.
2. You can only listen to your mp3 player so many times before you have to recharg it.
3. Etc
Beyond those every day things, it has even more drastic affects on our goals. For instance, how many of us are going to make it into space? Not many... why? We have the technology to do everything we want to in regards to space flight, except for being able to supply energy cheaply. Will we ever figure out a way to do that? I certainly hope so. Perhaps we wont though, and the most effective way we will get around that is to utilize energy more efficiently.
In regards to this technology, it is interesting... and perhaps it will actually bear some fruit in the next few years. That said, 100x the battery life we have now is a great advance, but it is no where near what we will need in the future.
Heres a Google translation:
F %2Ffocus.msn.de%2Fdigital%2Fnetguide%2Finternet_ni d_35628.html&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UT F-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2
Yes, it doesn't translate exactly, but you can get the general idea.
Read the other responses... regional encoding has negative effects on alot of people. Not just Europeans that want to get access to material quickly.
Good post, erm, whoever you are. I was at first writing a response to him, but then figured it wasn't worth the time to.
However, the general attitude that "people are stupid" is silly, and really isn't the way it works in real life. That attitude works making a post on Slashdot, but there are a large number of intelligent people in this world... many of whom completely understand what regional encoding is. In fact, I don't recall the last time that it was brought up and the person looked at me awe-struck and said "Gee Wiz, whats that?".
So anyways, AC, thanks for your response to the previous post. I for one am tired of people walking around with the attitude that people in general are stupid.
Of course they don't... which then allows me to complain about it to everyone and refuse to buy their product.
Sure its only a loss of $400 or $500 to them over time, but it goes to show that in a very real way I don't particularily care about their special needs.
You know, the main problem that I have with Nintendo locking regions is that I travel quite a bit. Why shouldn't I be able to pick up a game that I come across while I am in Europe, or wherever else? It just makes it less convenient.
Or if I end up moving to another country for work for a while... should I have to have relatives purchase the games for me and ship them over whenever I need a new one? C'mon.
Yes, that is the resounding sond of Booohs heard across the world. Come on Nintendo, if you're going to play the $250 console card and appeal to the customers, at least do it right.
Actually, I think having a good rubberized case would be much better. As other posters have stated, these things really aren't "bullet proof" or "mortar proof". Why? Whoops, we left the screen and touch pad uncovered. Thats a bit of a weakness in the system right there.
Anyways, the rubber cases work great, and I definitely recommend them. You can usually pick some decent ones up on Amazon for about $15-$20... and you won't have to hear this:
LT: How'd Jim Bob die?
Sarge: Sir, the enemies attacked and he wasn't able to get over the fence with that new iPod case of his, sir!
That'd be a bummer.
Gotcha, so the case weighs 1lb. Thats a bit of a pain.
Was it just me or was the one with the headphone jack sticking into the back end of a cat a bit disturbing?
Humor aside, there are some great cases out there... and with with alot of the iPods, providing protection is not only necessary because they scratch so easily, but also because they aren't so hard to drop.
I use a Green Apple case when I run, and a Belkin leather case for around the home or when I am out an about.
What kind of cases do you guys use?
Oh, and as an end note. How much do those heavy metal cases weigh? Doesn't that kind of ruin the point of creating a small, easy to carry music player?
Of course, there are much worse out there. How do I know, I see it every time a new person wants to start a fan site about something stupid.
On the other hand, there are lots of cool sites. www.stickdeath.com used to be cool, until they started using annoying pop ups (yay for blockers) and what not. Funny site though. There are tons of others... so, my suggestion, when you come to talk some trash about how bad those sites are and add your list, throw out a site you think is cool as well.
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http://hatchedeggs.blogspot.com/
Ouch, another mistype. The above should read:
btw, just as some mention about ways that we communicate without e-mail.
btw, just as some mention about ways that we communicate without the internet:
/.
1. Messaging services
2. VOIP
3. Camera
4. Blogging
5.
6. etc
Don't get me wrong, e-mail is important... its one of the few mediums we have that can be both personal and impersonal, stored for short of long term, and each different thought line/send has its own subject line. However, with the web, there is the possibility of thinking up another method to accomplish this.
AS said, this should be easy. Think about the limitations of each of these. E-mail is a relatively unimportant medium as compared to the web I believe.. The web is so much more than that. If we didn't have e-mail, how many other ways are there that we could communicate?
Shopping on the web, data we enter... the accessibility that it gives us in so many different things. Without e-mail we would find another way to communicate effectively. Without the web, life as we know it would change drastically.
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http://hatchedeggs.blogspot.com/
Its not a bug, its a FEATURE!
Good ideas. I think we all need to take responsibility for our money, and just because it is in a bank doesn't mean that we should run around giving information about it to everyone just because it has in the past been protected.
The amazing thing is that these scheme actually work... and that there are people out there willing to give their account information to somebody they don't know in a country half way around the world because that person says they have some money to throw at them. Perhaps they need to offer seminars online or something that the government can give out to its citizen to make them aware of this kind of thing.
The responsibility for these sort of things though should fall upon the customer if they fail to act responsibly. On the other hand, if somebody breaks into your house and steals your information from your account information from your filing system, well.. a bank should do its best to cover that loss.
Anyways, good heads up about checking that on future banks.
________________________________________
http://hatchedeggs.blogspot.com/