That $0.10 gets split up amoung the individuals in the band along with who owns the different rights for the songs. So that $0.10 doesn't usually go to any ONE person.
Steve jobs has said It starts with the music and ends with the music. The interesting thing is, if it's really about the MUSIC doesn't that mean it's also about the artists? I personally know an artist that has stated they make only $0.01 per song sold on the iTMS. His last months check entailed less than $1.00 from songs sold on the iTMS. $1.00 per month for a whole year doesn't add up to much.
If this becomes more and more popular and radio stations play less and less commercial music, these "professional musicians" will end up even more broke than they already are. Radio play is the bulk of the artists paychecks.
Not really that hard to get that number with every APPLE device and a handfull of variant big named companies with bluetooth enabled phones, keyboards, and mice. But whether or not people use those features in their phones or other devices that have bluetooth is another question. I thought bluetooth would be awesome. But the bandwidth is too low to do anything great with it.
Could you imagine if Microsoft enjoys the PowerPC platform so much that they end up porting Windows to the MORE STABLE PowerPC platform? I mean they're going to have to port their APIs and such to make this sort of move easy for the developers anyway. This would enable consumers to buy any random intel box or buy a nice IBM Box. This would rekindle the love/hate relationship that DOS encouraged. IBM would sell the machines, microsoft would supply the OS. Most of the intel systems IBM sells are for Linux these days. The PowerPC systems run AIX. IBM has been phasing out Microsoft as much as possible. But if microsoft would embrace the PowerPC platform and promote sales of IBM's more expensive hardware, I'm sure IBM would be on that band wagon.
So it looks like they are forcing me to either move to Redhat Enterprise to get security updates from them. It looks like I would have to stump up two lots of $379 just to get a two copies of Enterprise and 12 months of update for my two boxes.
Or maybe you should migrate to OSX where updates are free.... well, except for the $129 to get the latest software, but it sounds like you're buying software every 18 months from redhat anyway.
a sleek design and makes exploring new music a pleasure.
I guess you could call looking for music in a browser with 8 funky frames a "sleek design". And if you like hunting through lists that are unalphabetized and extremely slow a "pleasure" then, enjoy!
I personally thought it looked horrible and was very unfunctional. The lists aren't in any particular order when you browse by genre. The interface is pretty much a nightmare. It looks like it was put together by a bunch of monkeys on typewriters. I'm glad that Microsoft is so worried about the consumer's having options but for some reason it just seems like Microsoft really doesn't care. I know that is hard to believe, but I don't think there are any plans for Napster to be on MacOSX ever. Strange huh?
No doubt. It's been saying it would hit Wednesday sometime, but my wifi network at home has been acting wacky already since like 11:30am today (tuesday). Is it possible to be screwing things up already?
I wish I had bought a Mac last year and not a damn PC.
I'm glad I bought my first mac last year instead of another PC. I get enough headaches at work from SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, and Windows. It feels good to be able to do my own personal stuff (ie. short films, home videos, photo albums, record friend's bands, etc) without having lockups, bad updates, driver incompatibilities, or viruses waste my time.
I know there was an update (10.2.8) that broke networking on some older systems, but I dodged that one. The last year has been effortless for me.
Ok, I went to a few websites, and after configuring my computer to match the stats you posted, here's what I got
Well, thats the point.. you now have the pains of buying the hardware from all different places, putting it all together, having incompatibilities of drivers and chipsets, dealing with any RMA's of bad hardware with all different vendors. And plus your factors haven't included compatible software (ie iDVD and iMovie). Microsoft gives out some software, but it's horrid, I've actually tried using it before.
Apple should never go with OSX. People would only bitch and moan that it doesn't support X chipset or Y device. Apple can make the best systems in the industry because they only have a real specific number of configurations. The x86 world is instant death to apple. People would instantly have problems because of driver support then loose their confidence in Apple. Apple believes in the whole user experiance. They do not care if you get to play on your Pentium 90MHz computer. They want you to be able to use the technology the easiest and most efficient way possible.
Macs are expensive to try. I wouldn't waste 1000$ just to see if I like the OS or not. That's the problem with 'em. Most people aren't going to take the risk that they're not going to like mac and lose 1000$.
Well, don't waste the $1000+... do I what I did, goto a place that gives you 30 - 90 days to return it. Some places are 15 days. But you can buy it for two weeks, then take it back. no money lost and you get to use a real operating system.
Unlike the G5, though, it only costs about $500 to put one together. The cheapest G5 is $1999. So, I saved about $1499. So, not only can I go to the store and actually find software for my system, but I also have the money to buy it with.
You obviously have never owned a mac. The cost savings of a cheap machine running microsoft or linux is not worth the time wasted trying to get things done.
On each system you should do the following. Time how long it takes to take a new computer out of the box, configure it the way you like it, patch it, dump DV footage to it, edit it, burn it to DVD. Once both are done, compare the quality of the finished project which was done on each system and compare the times. The mac will be a few hours of time with $0 extra spent for the software, and the system comes with a free DVD actually. The PC will be maybe close to 12 hours of time spent, cost you an extra $300 - $1000 for software. The mac finished project will look about 300 times more professional.
OSX 10.3 now has 'secure delete' build into the OS. You can remove files using secure delete and it deletes the data and then nulls out the actual data on the drive with like 3 passes.
I tried to watch the presentation on my work supplied Windows XP Pentium 4 laptop thinking it'd best to view a 'Windows Media' presentation on it's own. Talk about a piece of trash. Windows media blows so hard. I have VDSL, I have seen countless Apple Keynotes without loosing even 1 frame.. where as this one would crap out every few seconds, flicker, and eventually crashed. I got about 1 minute of audible info within about 3 minutes of playing until it finally just crashed.
I'm pleased to hear adobe has a new suite of products, but I see them drifting more and more to Microsoft. I think it'll catch up to them in the end to hurt them, like it has everyone else.
I know graphics shops used to be 90% or more Macs, is that still true today? Adobe has really pushed to show that Windows computers are just as fast if not faster then the G4 line of computers.
Damn though, somehow I think if I end up doing this my time will come out being worth about $0.05 an hour... all for the fun of it;-)
Well, thats still more then something like counterstrike or equiv can offer. Pay $40 for the game, play for hundreds of hours, and get nothing back in return except for a few broken mice, carpal tunnel, blood shot eyes, etc.
Well, i have a few bluetooth devices. As far as I know bluetooth's range is about 15 feet from your device. Now I'm sure you could boost it's range with antanas and such, but if you want something easy without needing to tweek, you might be looking in the wrong area. I'd go with just a regular wi-fi for robotics.
Anyone remember the "HYPE" of "GINGER"? Oh my gosh. "Revolutionary", "We're not sure what it is, but it fits in a backpack and is going to change transportation as we know it." Those were phrases on the tips of everyone's tongue a few years ago.
Once the segway finally was revealed it was a huge downer. So it's a scooter you stand on instead of sit down on. Big deal. I hope we get true innovation someday in the mass transportation sector.
What if we spent a couple of billion to create an updated and efficient (and redundant) power grid for the nation, and built a solar field in Nevada to power the entire nation (I believe the figure is currently that a 5x5 mile field could literally power the entire nation)?
Got anyone who can do math on that statement? If it's not 5x5 to power the whole nation, how much would 5x5 mile field power? 1/2 nation? that's still pretty damn good. We could throw three 5x5 blocks up... one east cost somewhere, one central, one west coast (nevada)..
I know of mile blocks here in Arizona that contain AC power equipment and solar panes. I'm sure if there was an effort to make the powergrid all based on solar power, those could be revamped.
I would imagine that getting enough solar panes to feed the power grid wouldn't be the biggest problem. I would imagine the biggest problem would be to have a nations worth of battery power around for a few weeks of 'bad weather' or what not. Right now the power grid is fead 'realtime' from what I understand. If the grid gets hungry, more generators are turned on, if it's FULL it turns some generators to 'low'. There is no 'storage' of power.
I dunno. It kinda' pisses me off that we have set our goals so low these days. I bet the top engineers of the 50's - 60's would be pissed if they found out what has happened to our technology.
If you were old enough to remember 1940-1960 you would imagine that 2004 would look pretty different than it does today. Innovation was happening every hour back then. Companies were not driven by the all mighty dollar. It was driven by "Brand Identity". They would spend millions on something that would be a "loss leader", it would not make back all the money they put into it, but they figured they would get the return on other products. That doesn't happen any more. Every product today is analized by the return on the dividends for the stock holder and what the company needs to do as a whole to keep the CEO in power.
The rate we were going was amazing if you look back historically. These days we're getting "FASTER" processors, but who the hell cares, the GUI's just keep slowing it back down. But to go from a world with no CPU to a world with a CPU is amazing.
I wish we could continue with innovation driven by top engineers like it was in the 60s, not CEOs or budgets.
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That $0.10 gets split up amoung the individuals in the band along with who owns the different rights for the songs. So that $0.10 doesn't usually go to any ONE person.
If this becomes more and more popular and radio stations play less and less commercial music, these "professional musicians" will end up even more broke than they already are. Radio play is the bulk of the artists paychecks.
Not really that hard to get that number with every APPLE device and a handfull of variant big named companies with bluetooth enabled phones, keyboards, and mice. But whether or not people use those features in their phones or other devices that have bluetooth is another question. I thought bluetooth would be awesome. But the bandwidth is too low to do anything great with it.
Could you imagine if Microsoft enjoys the PowerPC platform so much that they end up porting Windows to the MORE STABLE PowerPC platform? I mean they're going to have to port their APIs and such to make this sort of move easy for the developers anyway. This would enable consumers to buy any random intel box or buy a nice IBM Box. This would rekindle the love/hate relationship that DOS encouraged. IBM would sell the machines, microsoft would supply the OS. Most of the intel systems IBM sells are for Linux these days. The PowerPC systems run AIX. IBM has been phasing out Microsoft as much as possible. But if microsoft would embrace the PowerPC platform and promote sales of IBM's more expensive hardware, I'm sure IBM would be on that band wagon.
I personally thought it looked horrible and was very unfunctional. The lists aren't in any particular order when you browse by genre. The interface is pretty much a nightmare. It looks like it was put together by a bunch of monkeys on typewriters. I'm glad that Microsoft is so worried about the consumer's having options but for some reason it just seems like Microsoft really doesn't care. I know that is hard to believe, but I don't think there are any plans for Napster to be on MacOSX ever. Strange huh?
No doubt. It's been saying it would hit Wednesday sometime, but my wifi network at home has been acting wacky already since like 11:30am today (tuesday). Is it possible to be screwing things up already?
I know there was an update (10.2.8) that broke networking on some older systems, but I dodged that one. The last year has been effortless for me.
Recording Project all done in my Home Studio
Friends Website done on spare time
And much more...
Doesn't something like this enable people in canada/japana/europe/etc buy from the US iTMS?
Well, thats the point
Opps.
On each system you should do the following. Time how long it takes to take a new computer out of the box, configure it the way you like it, patch it, dump DV footage to it, edit it, burn it to DVD. Once both are done, compare the quality of the finished project which was done on each system and compare the times.
The mac will be a few hours of time with $0 extra spent for the software, and the system comes with a free DVD actually. The PC will be maybe close to 12 hours of time spent, cost you an extra $300 - $1000 for software. The mac finished project will look about 300 times more professional.
I think the only option to fighting spam is changing email as a whole as specified at www.spamnazi.org.
OSX 10.3 now has 'secure delete' build into the OS. You can remove files using secure delete and it deletes the data and then nulls out the actual data on the drive with like 3 passes.
OK, who thinks 10meters across is a "SMALL HOUSE"? More like the size of a Van than a small house.
I tried to watch the presentation on my work supplied Windows XP Pentium 4 laptop thinking it'd best to view a 'Windows Media' presentation on it's own. Talk about a piece of trash. Windows media blows so hard. I have VDSL, I have seen countless Apple Keynotes without loosing even 1 frame .. where as this one would crap out every few seconds, flicker, and eventually crashed. I got about 1 minute of audible info within about 3 minutes of playing until it finally just crashed.
I'm pleased to hear adobe has a new suite of products, but I see them drifting more and more to Microsoft. I think it'll catch up to them in the end to hurt them, like it has everyone else.
I know graphics shops used to be 90% or more Macs, is that still true today? Adobe has really pushed to show that Windows computers are just as fast if not faster then the G4 line of computers.
Now, dude, you weren't supposed to post the link to the answer of the encrypted message.
Well, i have a few bluetooth devices. As far as I know bluetooth's range is about 15 feet from your device. Now I'm sure you could boost it's range with antanas and such, but if you want something easy without needing to tweek, you might be looking in the wrong area. I'd go with just a regular wi-fi for robotics.
Anyone remember the "HYPE" of "GINGER"? Oh my gosh. "Revolutionary", "We're not sure what it is, but it fits in a backpack and is going to change transportation as we know it." Those were phrases on the tips of everyone's tongue a few years ago.
Once the segway finally was revealed it was a huge downer. So it's a scooter you stand on instead of sit down on. Big deal. I hope we get true innovation someday in the mass transportation sector.
I know of mile blocks here in Arizona that contain AC power equipment and solar panes. I'm sure if there was an effort to make the powergrid all based on solar power, those could be revamped.
I would imagine that getting enough solar panes to feed the power grid wouldn't be the biggest problem. I would imagine the biggest problem would be to have a nations worth of battery power around for a few weeks of 'bad weather' or what not. Right now the power grid is fead 'realtime' from what I understand. If the grid gets hungry, more generators are turned on, if it's FULL it turns some generators to 'low'. There is no 'storage' of power.
I dunno. It kinda' pisses me off that we have set our goals so low these days. I bet the top engineers of the 50's - 60's would be pissed if they found out what has happened to our technology.
If you were old enough to remember 1940-1960 you would imagine that 2004 would look pretty different than it does today. Innovation was happening every hour back then. Companies were not driven by the all mighty dollar. It was driven by "Brand Identity". They would spend millions on something that would be a "loss leader", it would not make back all the money they put into it, but they figured they would get the return on other products. That doesn't happen any more. Every product today is analized by the return on the dividends for the stock holder and what the company needs to do as a whole to keep the CEO in power.
The rate we were going was amazing if you look back historically. These days we're getting "FASTER" processors, but who the hell cares, the GUI's just keep slowing it back down. But to go from a world with no CPU to a world with a CPU is amazing.
I wish we could continue with innovation driven by top engineers like it was in the 60s, not CEOs or budgets.