Really the ones you should be thanking are ABC. They had the balls to finally let somebody try real Internet distribution. Miraculously they didn't form a cartel with the other big networks to make unreasonable demands, they didn't go around "consulting" everybody to see if they thought it was a good idea, they put their biggest hits on the line, they didn't include ads, and they agreed on a quite reasonable price. ABC had all the power here and they did the right thing with it.
Connect the dots together,man... ABC is owned by Disney. Disney has a reckoning coming with Pixar, who has single-handedly saved their animation ass, and they need to renegotiate the contracts. Pixar is owned by Jobs. The last boss at Disney decided to play hardball with Jobs, and now that guy's gone. New guy won't make the same mistake.
Makes you wonder: When did Apple and Disney (ABC) become friends again? Smart move by Disney in my opinion.
Answer: as soon as Eisner quit. Make no bones, Jobs (and Roy Disney) hated Eisner, not Disney the company... I'm sure that the new management @ Disney know that Jobs has the advantage here, and well, he has been good for business lately.
Bad news: Triton lives on as a rendering engine for Netscape... still vulnerable, and if your parents get one of these new HPs, you might still have to do the ad-aware ritual on Thanksgiving.
Good news: IE's marketshare drops again. More sites will feel pressure to accept non-IE browsers (making it easier for your family to use non-IE browsers for all tasks). Microsoft feels pressure to make IE7 better, and Steve Ballamer destroys another chair;-)
Amen to that brother. Case in point: Nethack. Why would anyone even think of playing this or other text-based roguelikes in today's age of cutting edge computer graphics? Maybe because it's one of the most re-playable games EVAR? My fav games include Nethack, ADOM, Starcraft and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri... all games pretty much ran on PCs/Macs from 5 years ago.
Sorry, man, only version I have is on a really old cassette tape:-)
I suggest allofmp3.com... I went there once when I absolutely could not find any reference on iTMS, the cd on ebay or amazon/etc (Cafe Del Mar 2 - Ibiza - kick ass ambient). If you're interested in the Iron Maiden CD, you can probably get a used cd off ebay... the album is called "Powerslave".
btw, Iron Maiden did some really nice epic/ballads... Where Eagles Dare, Dune ("To tame a land"), Alexander the Great, The Prisoner, Stranger in a Strange Land, among others.... a real thinking man's metal band.
Just to show that I got the reference, and for those wondering.. "from the google-google everywhere dept." is a reference to The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by sir Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
That's the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, btw... and it'as a kick-ass Iron Maiden song too (also note the albatross reference in Serenity... it's about the same poem:-)
When a company first goes public people are excited and the possibilites are limitless. But as time goes by Google will be increasingly pressured to cut costs, lose the fat, concentrate on the core revenue earner (ads) and kill off any development projects that are not generating revenue, and maximize the revenue of popular features like Google Maps (expect to see advertising attached to the maps sometime in the near future).
Actually, you're describing any NORMAL company that is public. Keep in mind that Google shares are NOT voting shares, are only a percentage of the entire company value, and thus, have no real power to change the company other than to exert pressure on options packages and overall free capital. If google went down in value tomorrow to half of their current value, their busines would not be severely affected. If the same happened at a different company, head would roll.
It's clear that the RIAA doesn't want Apple/iTMS to be dominant... and to be able to squeeze every last penny from their victims^Wcustomers. How best to get both of these to happen? Glad you asked:
Reduce popularity of iTunes w/r/t the othery crufty online music stores
Make licensing complex so that profits can be maximized (ie, now you can pay $X for a limited-license piece of music, or $X+Y for the same song, "full rights enabled")... note these are the same tricks used by software industry giants (MSFT, ORCL, etc).
Obviously, the best way to acheive both of these is to apply monopoly/cartel power against Apple, and see if you can topple/suppress the king of the hill. RIAA's wet dream: all your online music licensed like Yahoo's model (bonus: subscription price increases every year, once there are no viable alternatives!)
Wow, this looks really cool. I especially like the AA batteries.
Damn, this does look cool... but Actually, I'm not so hot for AA's, since standard AA's aren't recylable, and NiMH rechargeables have bad power curves and frequent charge requirements.
However, if the AA case happens to support CR-V3 batteries, then I could add a rechargeable CR-V3 Lithium-Ion... which would probably take the battery life to stratospheric heights... not to mention the incredible shelf-life of lithium.
Is this just marketing speak, has it truly included scsi features, or could it actually be better performing than SCSI in a RAID array?
In snort, without NCQ, SATA drives are going to be slower than SCSI. The other two features probably just offset/mitigate the speed differences, but I would probably hold out for something that has NCQ (or just go SCSI) if I were building a RAID today.
Any good Eclipse JDBC client plugins (esp. with Oracle package/object support)? That's the only thing keeping me from switching from JDeveloper... which isn't bad, but hey, it isn't Eclipse:)
Other than the fact that your analogies are way off base, you do bring up an interesting point:
The evil is the EXACT SAME! The only differeence is that one company is smaller than the other, does that make it less evil?
According to Lord Acton, if "Power Corrupts, Absolute power corrupts absolutely"... then the answer to your question is:
Yes. Size does matter... the more power a company wields, the less likely the rest of us will be able to stop them when they choose to do something bad (which they will be forced to do, to continue "growing" to satisfy their investors). The best situation is lots of similar sized, innovative companies that jockey for your dollars, creating new markets, and making everyone's lives better.
The myth that large companies are "kinder" is a trick of the mind: Their *massive* marketing dollars at work.
Very interesting given questions of how porn drives technology. The article, and the graph.
Two obvious points
Primarly now... think about how (audio) erotica podcasts are the sound equivalent to amateur/homegrown porn.
The other obvious kicker is that women are stimulated/excited by sound/voice much more than sight/looks (with respect to men).
Put those two together, and you have a giant potential opportunity for enterprising individuals. Lots of untapped talent, lots of potential audience... could be the start of something beautiful:-)
they do not show a tendency to prey on other manufacturers at the expense of the customer.
Then why can't I play songs purchased from iTunes on my Creative player?
Same reason you can't see AIM buddies on your yahoo IM tool. Apple *created* their own network (iTunes). It's theirs to use. No other company has the RIGHT to inherently have their products work with with it. Compare and contrast this with Microsoft who has repeatedly *actively sabotaged* other companies' products from working with their system, especially when that system was pre-existing and open (hint: microsoft.com sent bad headers toOpera browsers).
Both Apple and Microsoft are evil to some degree, but the depth of their evil is entire leagues apart.
Isn't it about time that any link that is included in an article is coralized first? Makes the site admins happy, makes the readers happy.
But wait, that might require effort, or even a very small perl script...
WANTED: Someone to write a nice Firefox extenstion that auto-coralizes all links (or outgoing http requests from page links) either going to a domain, or when the referrer is a certain domain (ie, slashdot).
Call it something like "atoll" or "barrier reef":-)
Etymotic, Shure and Koss all make noise isolating headphones, which are generally cheaper and have higher quality sound than noise cancelling gimmicks like the Bose headsets.
Not sure if this is the case with noise-isolators, but I have a pair of the early (gimmicky) Sony ND-5's (noicse canceling)... but they're impossible to use with the noise-cancelling on in a car... the anti-noise circuit is too slow, resulting in a choppy sound... happens sometimes in planes too, but only if I'm near the wing.
One other thing: Noise cancellers abosolutely rule for eavesdropping in the office. Without the whine of the workstations, people who are wispering or talking softly in cubes near your you sound loud and clear if you turn your music down >:)
Apple and Nintendo do this a lot. They release the same products over and over again, with identical functionalities, hoping that people will be vain or stylish enough to want something that looks sleeker.
Hoping??? The GBA and iPod are two *very* successful products... and they have to keep repackaging them because most consumers have ADHD (or seem like it). Simple economics, if they keep repackaging (as you say) the same shit, then why does that shit keep selling? I think the original models were hella innovative for both of these products, and that fact bears out when you good sales on "rehashed" versions.
In fact, almost all successful consumer-product companies do this (sony- walkman, microsoft- word, palm -pda, etc).
Whilst I don't think software patents are a good idea generally and this particular patent is insane, I feel a certain....lack of sympathy toward apple for opening this entire can of worms in the first place.
Stop feeling any amount of sympathy for Apple, as in the end it will be the customers who lose when Apple and Creative sign cross-liscencing deals/etc.
It's not Apple who loses here, it's the customer, every time one of these bogus over-reaching patents gets brought up and cross-lisenced to raise the barrier to entry and exclude players who aren't already in the game.
Sorry, you misundestood. I meant All the Photoshop OSX code is running under rosetta. Which is most definitely true, unless you work for Adobe and have started compilation of the next mac photoshop version.
Jeebus, this is a no-brainer. Obviously windows... the OSX code is all running under rosetta, unless someone has a nifty CS3 beta or something lying around. What would be more interesting is if someone who writes a cross platform win/mac software could test speed of their app across the two platforms after compiling for intel on OSX...
Yup, the shuffle is easier to pocket, but a display screen, nested folders, WMA playback and an FM tuner kick in features Apple is to elitist to include.
Fuck that. I don't want a shit-ass FM receiver, nor do I give any number of shits for WMA. Anyone who doesn't realize that mp3 is THE standard for portable music is on crack. I'm don't hear much whining that other players don't put AAC playback on *their* players.
Nuclear power is generally referred to as the cheapiest cleaniest source but that's mostly because the US government generally picks up the clean up bill. The nuclear clean up programs are running billions of dollars a year with no end in sight.
The government is doubly guilty here:
They spend billions on cleanup programs that go nowhere
They fail to allow nuclear reprocessing, which would turn most of the waste into reusable nuclear fuel
Why do France and Japan have sizable nuclear infrastructures? Because they reprocess.. and make money doing it for other countries.
Check out this great frontline that describes the whole reprocessing issue.
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Connect the dots together,man... ABC is owned by Disney. Disney has a reckoning coming with Pixar, who has single-handedly saved their animation ass, and they need to renegotiate the contracts. Pixar is owned by Jobs. The last boss at Disney decided to play hardball with Jobs, and now that guy's gone. New guy won't make the same mistake.
Answer: as soon as Eisner quit. Make no bones, Jobs (and Roy Disney) hated Eisner, not Disney the company... I'm sure that the new management @ Disney know that Jobs has the advantage here, and well, he has been good for business lately.
Link: http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=158323 324&p=y583z4x3x
But MPEG-4 is not H.264... but MPEG4.10 is.
Bad news:
;-)
Triton lives on as a rendering engine for Netscape... still vulnerable, and if your parents get one of these new HPs, you might still have to do the ad-aware ritual on Thanksgiving.
Good news:
IE's marketshare drops again. More sites will feel pressure to accept non-IE browsers (making it easier for your family to use non-IE browsers for all tasks). Microsoft feels pressure to make IE7 better, and Steve Ballamer destroys another chair
Amen to that brother. Case in point: Nethack. Why would anyone even think of playing this or other text-based roguelikes in today's age of cutting edge computer graphics? Maybe because it's one of the most re-playable games EVAR? My fav games include Nethack, ADOM, Starcraft and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri... all games pretty much ran on PCs/Macs from 5 years ago.
Sorry, man, only version I have is on a really old cassette tape :-)
I suggest allofmp3.com... I went there once when I absolutely could not find any reference on iTMS, the cd on ebay or amazon/etc (Cafe Del Mar 2 - Ibiza - kick ass ambient). If you're interested in the Iron Maiden CD, you can probably get a used cd off ebay... the album is called "Powerslave".
btw, Iron Maiden did some really nice epic/ballads... Where Eagles Dare, Dune ("To tame a land"), Alexander the Great, The Prisoner, Stranger in a Strange Land, among others.... a real thinking man's metal band.
That's the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, btw... and it'as a kick-ass Iron Maiden song too (also note the albatross reference in Serenity... it's about the same poem :-)
Actually, you're describing any NORMAL company that is public. Keep in mind that Google shares are NOT voting shares, are only a percentage of the entire company value, and thus, have no real power to change the company other than to exert pressure on options packages and overall free capital. If google went down in value tomorrow to half of their current value, their busines would not be severely affected. If the same happened at a different company, head would roll.
- Reduce popularity of iTunes w/r/t the othery crufty online music stores
- Make licensing complex so that profits can be maximized (ie, now you can pay $X for a limited-license piece of music, or $X+Y for the same song, "full rights enabled")... note these are the same tricks used by software industry giants (MSFT, ORCL, etc).
Obviously, the best way to acheive both of these is to apply monopoly/cartel power against Apple, and see if you can topple/suppress the king of the hill. RIAA's wet dream: all your online music licensed like Yahoo's model (bonus: subscription price increases every year, once there are no viable alternatives!)Damn, this does look cool... but Actually, I'm not so hot for AA's, since standard AA's aren't recylable, and NiMH rechargeables have bad power curves and frequent charge requirements.
However, if the AA case happens to support CR-V3 batteries, then I could add a rechargeable CR-V3 Lithium-Ion... which would probably take the battery life to stratospheric heights... not to mention the incredible shelf-life of lithium.
I found something here, just searching the title text you provided. Of course, you probably don't need it now that you've already read it :-)
In snort, without NCQ, SATA drives are going to be slower than SCSI. The other two features probably just offset/mitigate the speed differences, but I would probably hold out for something that has NCQ (or just go SCSI) if I were building a RAID today.
Brilliant analogy. The DRM is the PiMP, and the computer is your ... whore? At least that's how Microsoft would have you believe.
Unless you follow the path of open love and trust... which is what Linux and F/OSS preach.
Any good Eclipse JDBC client plugins (esp. with Oracle package/object support)? That's the only thing keeping me from switching from JDeveloper... which isn't bad, but hey, it isn't Eclipse :)
The evil is the EXACT SAME! The only differeence is that one company is smaller than the other, does that make it less evil?
According to Lord Acton, if "Power Corrupts, Absolute power corrupts absolutely"... then the answer to your question is:
Yes. Size does matter... the more power a company wields, the less likely the rest of us will be able to stop them when they choose to do something bad (which they will be forced to do, to continue "growing" to satisfy their investors). The best situation is lots of similar sized, innovative companies that jockey for your dollars, creating new markets, and making everyone's lives better.
The myth that large companies are "kinder" is a trick of the mind: Their *massive* marketing dollars at work.
Two obvious points
- Primarly now... think about how (audio) erotica podcasts are the sound equivalent to amateur
/homegrown porn. - The other obvious kicker is that women are stimulated/excited by sound/voice much more than sight/looks (with respect to men).
Put those two together, and you have a giant potential opportunity for enterprising individuals. Lots of untapped talent, lots of potential audience... could be the start of something beautifulThen why can't I play songs purchased from iTunes on my Creative player?
Same reason you can't see AIM buddies on your yahoo IM tool. Apple *created* their own network (iTunes). It's theirs to use. No other company has the RIGHT to inherently have their products work with with it. Compare and contrast this with Microsoft who has repeatedly *actively sabotaged* other companies' products from working with their system, especially when that system was pre-existing and open (hint: microsoft.com sent bad headers toOpera browsers).
Both Apple and Microsoft are evil to some degree, but the depth of their evil is entire leagues apart.
But wait, that might require effort, or even a very small perl script...
WANTED: Someone to write a nice Firefox extenstion that auto-coralizes all links (or outgoing http requests from page links) either going to a domain, or when the referrer is a certain domain (ie, slashdot).
Call it something like "atoll" or "barrier reef" :-)
Etymotic, Shure and Koss all make noise isolating headphones, which are generally cheaper and have higher quality sound than noise cancelling gimmicks like the Bose headsets.
Not sure if this is the case with noise-isolators, but I have a pair of the early (gimmicky) Sony ND-5's (noicse canceling)... but they're impossible to use with the noise-cancelling on in a car... the anti-noise circuit is too slow, resulting in a choppy sound... happens sometimes in planes too, but only if I'm near the wing.
One other thing: Noise cancellers abosolutely rule for eavesdropping in the office. Without the whine of the workstations, people who are wispering or talking softly in cubes near your you sound loud and clear if you turn your music down >:)
Hoping??? The GBA and iPod are two *very* successful products... and they have to keep repackaging them because most consumers have ADHD (or seem like it). Simple economics, if they keep repackaging (as you say) the same shit, then why does that shit keep selling? I think the original models were hella innovative for both of these products, and that fact bears out when you good sales on "rehashed" versions.
In fact, almost all successful consumer-product companies do this (sony- walkman, microsoft- word, palm -pda, etc).
Stop feeling any amount of sympathy for Apple, as in the end it will be the customers who lose when Apple and Creative sign cross-liscencing deals/etc.
It's not Apple who loses here, it's the customer, every time one of these bogus over-reaching patents gets brought up and cross-lisenced to raise the barrier to entry and exclude players who aren't already in the game.
Sorry, you misundestood. I meant All the Photoshop OSX code is running under rosetta. Which is most definitely true, unless you work for Adobe and have started compilation of the next mac photoshop version.
Jeebus, this is a no-brainer. Obviously windows... the OSX code is all running under rosetta, unless someone has a nifty CS3 beta or something lying around. What would be more interesting is if someone who writes a cross platform win/mac software could test speed of their app across the two platforms after compiling for intel on OSX...
Fuck that. I don't want a shit-ass FM receiver, nor do I give any number of shits for WMA. Anyone who doesn't realize that mp3 is THE standard for portable music is on crack. I'm don't hear much whining that other players don't put AAC playback on *their* players.
The government is doubly guilty here:
- They spend billions on cleanup programs that go nowhere
- They fail to allow nuclear reprocessing, which would turn most of the waste into reusable nuclear fuel
Why do France and Japan have sizable nuclear infrastructures? Because they reprocess.. and make money doing it for other countries.Check out this great frontline that describes the whole reprocessing issue.