Steve Jobs is quoted as saying the opposite and further than music companies are "greedy" for wanting this price flexibility.
I for one welcome flexible pricing because I think there is some music I would buy for less than $0.99 that I have not bought because of its current price. Pay more an a dollar for a single? That would have to be some great music, I doubt I would do it. Everyone has their price. mine feels like a dollar.
Forgive my ignorance, but if Apple hardware can dual boot into Windows, why would it not follow that corporations will ask their Mac users to book into Windows for Outlook, Office, 3rd aprty apps, instead of having to support OS X and Windows? would it not then follow that subsequent licenses would be only for Windows, since the Mac people can access it now? Does it then follow that without applications to run OS X on, OS X becauses as useless as OS/2 Warp?
So then, it seems the solution is to be able to run a "virtualized" windows OS in a WINDOWS, not dual boot it!
Wouldn't it be cool to have an active tamper resistance system. Something that acts upon "threat conditions" to borrow a Dept. of Homeland Security term.
As suspicious activity increases, additional security measures are employed until the system shuts down all but the most basic services to reduce the ability to exploit it.
I'm not saying that three missed root password attempts and TCP/IP is shut down for a webserver, but the system could flag suspicious activity and stop services.
Dude...check your/. number - 858xxx...I'm like 134xxx and I thought I got in on/. late in the game
Now it's a pack of dumbass, conspiracy laden, ideology addled lackwits. It's such a shame. Seriously, responding to the posts here is like conversing with random number generators. Most of the responses have had little to no relationship to what I actually posted. Sheesh...
Speaking on conversing with a random number generator...where's your point?
But does it really give you any benefit over standard full page GET/POST?
I wouldn't say the complexities of programming AJAX always outweigh the incremental speed benefit, but consider this example:
There is a "status" page that presents multiple tables of historical information on a single web page. Using AJAX allows the user to change the inputs to a single table (such as begin/end date or "location") and that table (and only that table) can be updated. Teh result is no wasted calls to Stored Proceedures (though the results are cached on the DB server) and no screen "flash" refresh for the user.
I'm now saying AJAX is right for every instance, but it does have its place.
Though I'm reading/. I should be working on my AJAX app for medical billing. AJAX allows us to send the structure of a complex billing system to the client, then update the data at the speed of clientside Javascript. Even allows us to pull scanned medical images ina fraction of the time it used to take because we are only loading the image selected, not all the thumbnails and other wrapper data.
But I don't get why Google Maps gets the credit for this. Microsoft (yuck!) developed this concept for web based Outlook years ago, and it has been implemented by many smaller developers since then.
Perhaps all this press will get Javascript behaving between browsers and platforms. That is the worst part of AJAX coding!!!
When OSX for Intel comes out, I plan on building a new machine that pretty much copies Apple hardware. CPU/Video Card/HD, etc -- so you'll have the same drivers. Same ram and everything too.
Then what are they going to do? It will save me god knows how much on Apple's blatantly overpriced hardware.
Sorry to drop this bomb on ya' but Apple has a pattern of having custom boards and chipsets built for their products. What makes you think you'll be able to go out a buy the motherboard Apple is shipping in the G6? Sure you can get the nVidia card and the optical drive, but that won't solve your issue.
And at the end of the day, all your hunting for a brew-your-own-mac will leave you with no support and bad karma from stealing from one of the only companies that has been able to hold back the high waters of Microsoft world dominance.
Why the constant assumption that people will only use pirated versions of Mac OS X on their x86 boxes?
Why the constant assumption that another option will exist? Apple has stated that they will not be selling OS X86 to run on non-Apple hardware. It's isn't an assumption, it's a statement from Apple.
So Apple is dedicating enough resources to make it difficult to run OS X on a non-Apple box, but isn't wasting it's time and money trying to totally secure it.
Brilliant
The people hacking OS x86 for non-Apple hardware aren't going to buy Macs anyway, they are in it for some other technical purpose.
The people who want OS X for business will go legit - too much risk for a company to steal like that.
The people who want OS X for a home aren't going to either know how to or want to take the time to fuss with some illicit download of the OS that won't be supported.
So the extreme hackers get OS X without buying an Apple box and maybe they even develop some cool apps with their pirated copy of Xcode too.
Dude, sounds like you are just being too rough with the iPod scroll wheel (and the SE phone you mentioned). I mean come on, if I slap my mouse around the desk I totally blow past the icon I am going for, but if I finness it...
So Sony won't allow Apple to sell their tunes library, (about a quarter of the big five's recorded music), in Japan and now Australia/New Zeland. interesting. And ABC (Disney) is the only TV network willing to sell their TV Shows, Pixar only willing to debut a few (very cool) shorts.
This is very important everyone. the content providers are VERY SCARED. First they were scared the medium wouldn't be popular enough to thwart file sharing, now they are scared it is SO POPULAR it will thwart their very role in distribution!
I for one welcome the medium - The quality of "Lost" is totally acceptable for the price and download time, actual movies should only be provided in a hgher quality though.
Sometimes I forget how big the entertainment market is and it takes articles like this to remind me.
I sit on the exact oposite side of the fence.
I can't stand that I have to pay Charter Cable $60 a month so I can Tivo reruns of the King of Queens, watch new releases of Law and Order (Regular/SVU/CI) and the occasional news and sports.
I have never seen Lost (and sadly, had hardly heard of it) but I just bought Season 1 (25 episodes for $35). I did it partly to support the medium because I have so enjoyed iTunes Music Store but also because I have wanted this for so long. If I could buy these shows (yeah, I know there are a few seasons on DVD now) but if I could buy them on-line, I would have no need - NO NEED - for cable and my $60/mo bill. I would happily spend the same money each month on $1.99 episodes (hey, that's 30 for $60!) if I was actually OWNING the content.
Oh, and about that new iPod, I think it's cool it plays video, but I mostly like it for it's slimmer size, and larger, higher resolution screen ancased in Death-Star-Remote-Control-Black.
Maybe it's closer to the first of April than I realize, but this sounds very innovative of Microsoft. Actually, it sounds like something Apple should be making.
In the spirit of even-a-broken-watch-is-right-twice-a-day, I applaud Microsoft.
my office mate has a black Nano and he has been laughing at these screen scratch/break issues. He doesn't even do anything particularly special to protect his, just wraps the headphones around the screen and shoves it in his pocket. - I've seen this. He has no scratches and even fingerprints/smudges don't show on the black like some have said. We are both puzzled as to how these devices are getting abused so badly.
Based on all the reports though, he has recently puchased the iPod Socks for the mini from Apple because they fit both Nanos and Minis. He kept the dark grey and gave me the green one for my green mini. Cool! Thanks!
This is a poor article that has taken an interesting topic and given it a half-asses review.
I use iTunes and own an iPod, so I was interested in what they said about it. Here goes... iTunes is one of the best and also the most frustrating services.. "Why?" I wondered as I read on. Well keep reading. The only thing the author goes into is that iTunes Music Store is only compatible with iTunes and iPod (and Real Harmony). The author doesn't say what makes this the most frustrating, other than implying that were their format available from more services, it would somehow make this service less frustrating. Stupid.
Then there is the GLARRING oversight of what I think is one of the coolest things about iTunes (forgive me if other services like MusicMatch offer something similar) - the music store is built into the music manager - no need to go to a website, download songs, then import them into your music library. With iTunes, I can even drag songs I want into play lists and buy them later. I can also select complete albums or iMix playlists, drag them to a playlist in iTunes, and it will find the songs in the playlist I have already purchased and make the rest links to buy them later. Sweet!
In summary - I'd love to read a complete review of these systems not written by some "Plays for Sure" supporter who is trying to drive people away from the lagest (2 million) catalog of on-line music with the best software that plays on the most popular device with the most accessories.
Damn, this webcast has started and I'm still mucking around with Real Player, trying to get it to open the connection. The help is no use "Clear yoru cache" well I just INSTALLED Real Player so I doubt there's anything in the cache but here goes...
Seriously, I hope this isn't indicative of their web-service's availability!
Symantec is trying to sell a product that doesn't really apply in the Linux/OS X environments.
I'm not saying Viri and Worms don't or couldn't exist on a *nix platform. What I am saying is that security patches are released within the same timeframes as virus updates, so why not just set your box to auto-update those patches and skip the Anti-virus software route all together?
On other vendor's platforms, there are both a greater frequency of attacks and longer delays between patches (probably due to the shear number) so Anti-virus software serves a market there.
So it isn't hubris that the Linux and OS X are imune, it is that the OSS community and Apple work quickly to patch any vulnerability ASAP.
The thing is, Music execs would be more willing to go through with cutting Apple off (and rightly so, I mean the music _should_ have variable pricing relative to market demand) but Apple so has them by the balls.
If the music companies stop suppling Apple with their tunes, Apple will issue a statement that "due to the demands of the record companies to increase pricing beyond $0.99 per song, foobar has not renued their contract." People would go ape shit. Some would certainly start poycotting Foobar Records all together. Others would vow to only download illegally and music Foobar Records ever puts out just to "show 'em".
The only possibility I see is that they insist on the ability to lower prices, not raise them. That would win over the hearts and minds of the people. But then Apple might just call them on it and go along.
The desktop most certainly can deliver mobility, contrarty to the article's statements.
The trick is to use a portable hard drive to carry a user profile with you. Then, any capable desktop becomes your desktop.
Apple did this but for unknown reasons nixed the feature from iPods years ago, just days before it was launched. Perhaps it muddied the "music only" nature of the device.
Still, it is a great idea - one I welcome Apple to revisit.
Yeah, "I know" - as in, I have read in the above link - "that Blu-Ray is supposed to be" - because there aren't any devices released yet to be able to say what it "is" or "is not".
From the tables in the Engadget article the capacities are 30GB to 50Gb, HD DVD to Blu-Ray.
The lowest cost and most compatible format would be to stay with existing DVD technology!
If you are creating a new technology that will require new hardware and new investments in manufacturing, why make it an incremental step? There are so many players in this format war I can't keep up, but I know that Blu-Ray is supposed to be higher capacity and will prevent HD movies from requiring a media change (no one liked that with Laser Disc flipping half way through a movie).
I say if the industry is going to expect the public to pay for a format change, we get a complete change, not some semi-compatible almost change that will require yet another change for additional capacity far sooner than the alternative that exists today.
Plus, I read that HD DVD is hitting timing issues that mean it won't be out until Blu-Ray anyway.
You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have?
Even years after his plee, the government hasn't hit the proverbial nail on the head yet.
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Steve Jobs is quoted as saying the opposite and further than music companies are "greedy" for wanting this price flexibility.
I for one welcome flexible pricing because I think there is some music I would buy for less than $0.99 that I have not bought because of its current price. Pay more an a dollar for a single? That would have to be some great music, I doubt I would do it. Everyone has their price. mine feels like a dollar.
said it aint so, they have actually inc the size of the office toolbar! It's in all the screen shots! Why have they done this? Is it not possible to just make intuitive menus or keyboard shortcuts to popup windows? The MS Office for OS X people did a nice job with an expandable/colapsable tooltray that floats so you can see the page you are working on.
This version is too much fluff, not enough practicality.
Forgive my ignorance, but if Apple hardware can dual boot into Windows, why would it not follow that corporations will ask their Mac users to book into Windows for Outlook, Office, 3rd aprty apps, instead of having to support OS X and Windows? would it not then follow that subsequent licenses would be only for Windows, since the Mac people can access it now? Does it then follow that without applications to run OS X on, OS X becauses as useless as OS/2 Warp?
So then, it seems the solution is to be able to run a "virtualized" windows OS in a WINDOWS, not dual boot it!
Wouldn't it be cool to have an active tamper resistance system. Something that acts upon "threat conditions" to borrow a Dept. of Homeland Security term.
As suspicious activity increases, additional security measures are employed until the system shuts down all but the most basic services to reduce the ability to exploit it.
I'm not saying that three missed root password attempts and TCP/IP is shut down for a webserver, but the system could flag suspicious activity and stop services.
the geek community used to be so sharp!
/. number - 858xxx...I'm like 134xxx and I thought I got in on /. late in the game
Dude...check your
Now it's a pack of dumbass, conspiracy laden, ideology addled lackwits. It's such a shame. Seriously, responding to the posts here is like conversing with random number generators. Most of the responses have had little to no relationship to what I actually posted. Sheesh...
Speaking on conversing with a random number generator...where's your point?
I'll bet you failed the section on the SAT that had the "A is to B as C is to ____" type questions.
I'll bet you feel like an idiot now
But does it really give you any benefit over standard full page GET/POST?
I wouldn't say the complexities of programming AJAX always outweigh the incremental speed benefit, but consider this example:
There is a "status" page that presents multiple tables of historical information on a single web page. Using AJAX allows the user to change the inputs to a single table (such as begin/end date or "location") and that table (and only that table) can be updated. Teh result is no wasted calls to Stored Proceedures (though the results are cached on the DB server) and no screen "flash" refresh for the user.
I'm now saying AJAX is right for every instance, but it does have its place.
Though I'm reading /. I should be working on my AJAX app for medical billing. AJAX allows us to send the structure of a complex billing system to the client, then update the data at the speed of clientside Javascript. Even allows us to pull scanned medical images ina fraction of the time it used to take because we are only loading the image selected, not all the thumbnails and other wrapper data.
But I don't get why Google Maps gets the credit for this. Microsoft (yuck!) developed this concept for web based Outlook years ago, and it has been implemented by many smaller developers since then.
Perhaps all this press will get Javascript behaving between browsers and platforms. That is the worst part of AJAX coding!!!
When OSX for Intel comes out, I plan on building a new machine that pretty much copies Apple hardware. CPU/Video Card/HD, etc -- so you'll have the same drivers. Same ram and everything too.
Then what are they going to do? It will save me god knows how much on Apple's blatantly overpriced hardware.
Sorry to drop this bomb on ya' but Apple has a pattern of having custom boards and chipsets built for their products. What makes you think you'll be able to go out a buy the motherboard Apple is shipping in the G6? Sure you can get the nVidia card and the optical drive, but that won't solve your issue.
And at the end of the day, all your hunting for a brew-your-own-mac will leave you with no support and bad karma from stealing from one of the only companies that has been able to hold back the high waters of Microsoft world dominance.
Why the constant assumption that people will only use pirated versions of Mac OS X on their x86 boxes?
Why the constant assumption that another option will exist? Apple has stated that they will not be selling OS X86 to run on non-Apple hardware. It's isn't an assumption, it's a statement from Apple.
So Apple is dedicating enough resources to make it difficult to run OS X on a non-Apple box, but isn't wasting it's time and money trying to totally secure it.
Brilliant
The people hacking OS x86 for non-Apple hardware aren't going to buy Macs anyway, they are in it for some other technical purpose.
The people who want OS X for business will go legit - too much risk for a company to steal like that.
The people who want OS X for a home aren't going to either know how to or want to take the time to fuss with some illicit download of the OS that won't be supported.
So the extreme hackers get OS X without buying an Apple box and maybe they even develop some cool apps with their pirated copy of Xcode too.
The big winner is still Apple (and OS X users).
hah! I love it...
Dude, sounds like you are just being too rough with the iPod scroll wheel (and the SE phone you mentioned). I mean come on, if I slap my mouse around the desk I totally blow past the icon I am going for, but if I finness it...
So Sony won't allow Apple to sell their tunes library, (about a quarter of the big five's recorded music), in Japan and now Australia/New Zeland. interesting. And ABC (Disney) is the only TV network willing to sell their TV Shows, Pixar only willing to debut a few (very cool) shorts.
This is very important everyone. the content providers are VERY SCARED. First they were scared the medium wouldn't be popular enough to thwart file sharing, now they are scared it is SO POPULAR it will thwart their very role in distribution!
I for one welcome the medium - The quality of "Lost" is totally acceptable for the price and download time, actual movies should only be provided in a hgher quality though.
Sometimes I forget how big the entertainment market is and it takes articles like this to remind me.
I sit on the exact oposite side of the fence.
I can't stand that I have to pay Charter Cable $60 a month so I can Tivo reruns of the King of Queens, watch new releases of Law and Order (Regular/SVU/CI) and the occasional news and sports.
I have never seen Lost (and sadly, had hardly heard of it) but I just bought Season 1 (25 episodes for $35). I did it partly to support the medium because I have so enjoyed iTunes Music Store but also because I have wanted this for so long. If I could buy these shows (yeah, I know there are a few seasons on DVD now) but if I could buy them on-line, I would have no need - NO NEED - for cable and my $60/mo bill. I would happily spend the same money each month on $1.99 episodes (hey, that's 30 for $60!) if I was actually OWNING the content.
Oh, and about that new iPod, I think it's cool it plays video, but I mostly like it for it's slimmer size, and larger, higher resolution screen ancased in Death-Star-Remote-Control-Black.
Maybe it's closer to the first of April than I realize, but this sounds very innovative of Microsoft. Actually, it sounds like something Apple should be making.
In the spirit of even-a-broken-watch-is-right-twice-a-day, I applaud Microsoft.
my office mate has a black Nano and he has been laughing at these screen scratch/break issues. He doesn't even do anything particularly special to protect his, just wraps the headphones around the screen and shoves it in his pocket. - I've seen this. He has no scratches and even fingerprints/smudges don't show on the black like some have said. We are both puzzled as to how these devices are getting abused so badly.
Based on all the reports though, he has recently puchased the iPod Socks for the mini from Apple because they fit both Nanos and Minis. He kept the dark grey and gave me the green one for my green mini. Cool! Thanks!
This is a poor article that has taken an interesting topic and given it a half-asses review.
.. "Why?" I wondered as I read on. Well keep reading. The only thing the author goes into is that iTunes Music Store is only compatible with iTunes and iPod (and Real Harmony). The author doesn't say what makes this the most frustrating, other than implying that were their format available from more services, it would somehow make this service less frustrating. Stupid.
I use iTunes and own an iPod, so I was interested in what they said about it. Here goes...
iTunes is one of the best and also the most frustrating services
Then there is the GLARRING oversight of what I think is one of the coolest things about iTunes (forgive me if other services like MusicMatch offer something similar) - the music store is built into the music manager - no need to go to a website, download songs, then import them into your music library. With iTunes, I can even drag songs I want into play lists and buy them later. I can also select complete albums or iMix playlists, drag them to a playlist in iTunes, and it will find the songs in the playlist I have already purchased and make the rest links to buy them later. Sweet!
In summary - I'd love to read a complete review of these systems not written by some "Plays for Sure" supporter who is trying to drive people away from the lagest (2 million) catalog of on-line music with the best software that plays on the most popular device with the most accessories.
Damn, this webcast has started and I'm still mucking around with Real Player, trying to get it to open the connection. The help is no use "Clear yoru cache" well I just INSTALLED Real Player so I doubt there's anything in the cache but here goes...
Seriously, I hope this isn't indicative of their web-service's availability!
Symantec is trying to sell a product that doesn't really apply in the Linux/OS X environments.
I'm not saying Viri and Worms don't or couldn't exist on a *nix platform. What I am saying is that security patches are released within the same timeframes as virus updates, so why not just set your box to auto-update those patches and skip the Anti-virus software route all together?
On other vendor's platforms, there are both a greater frequency of attacks and longer delays between patches (probably due to the shear number) so Anti-virus software serves a market there.
So it isn't hubris that the Linux and OS X are imune, it is that the OSS community and Apple work quickly to patch any vulnerability ASAP.
The thing is, Music execs would be more willing to go through with cutting Apple off (and rightly so, I mean the music _should_ have variable pricing relative to market demand) but Apple so has them by the balls.
If the music companies stop suppling Apple with their tunes, Apple will issue a statement that "due to the demands of the record companies to increase pricing beyond $0.99 per song, foobar has not renued their contract." People would go ape shit. Some would certainly start poycotting Foobar Records all together. Others would vow to only download illegally and music Foobar Records ever puts out just to "show 'em".
The only possibility I see is that they insist on the ability to lower prices, not raise them. That would win over the hearts and minds of the people. But then Apple might just call them on it and go along.
It's a no win situation for Foobar Records.
The desktop most certainly can deliver mobility, contrarty to the article's statements.
The trick is to use a portable hard drive to carry a user profile with you. Then, any capable desktop becomes your desktop.
Apple did this but for unknown reasons nixed the feature from iPods years ago, just days before it was launched. Perhaps it muddied the "music only" nature of the device.
Still, it is a great idea - one I welcome Apple to revisit.
"but I know that Blu-Ray is supposed to be ..."
Yeah, "I know" - as in, I have read in the above link - "that Blu-Ray is supposed to be" - because there aren't any devices released yet to be able to say what it "is" or "is not".
From the tables in the Engadget article the capacities are 30GB to 50Gb, HD DVD to Blu-Ray.
The lowest cost and most compatible format would be to stay with existing DVD technology!
If you are creating a new technology that will require new hardware and new investments in manufacturing, why make it an incremental step? There are so many players in this format war I can't keep up, but I know that Blu-Ray is supposed to be higher capacity and will prevent HD movies from requiring a media change (no one liked that with Laser Disc flipping half way through a movie).
I say if the industry is going to expect the public to pay for a format change, we get a complete change, not some semi-compatible almost change that will require yet another change for additional capacity far sooner than the alternative that exists today.
Plus, I read that HD DVD is hitting timing issues that mean it won't be out until Blu-Ray anyway.
Even years after his plee, the government hasn't hit the proverbial nail on the head yet.