I'm reading a lot of "here go the greedy bastards again" and get the feeling folks would be happy if the labels died.
I'm no fan of that segment of the music industry. I do think they screw most musicians, they thing listeners/consumers are dolts and tend to cheat, steal, lie their way through most their enterprises.
But, I just don't see them going away or falling under the weight of their own incompetence/greed/evilness. Giant companies rarely just die, they need to be replaced. Oil lamps to light bulbs, horse and carriage to automobiles, typewriters to computers all had HUGE business that were completely eliminated by an improved product.
The recorded-music industry creates product that is unique in that it includes a service can be reused. The labels are most vulnerable to changes in the delivery of the service, yes? Clearly the Internet has changed that delivery a little, but apparently not enough to spawn a new industry to replace the existing one. iTMS is just an adjunct to the main delivery system. The labels still control almost all of the production process to be affected by a change in the delivery method, even though they are losing some control.
What brainiac is going to dream up a new better, anti-label way of "producing" the music -- finding musicians, developing them, promotion, concerts, recording, licensing?
With all apologies to smart, independent bands who've broken out from that cycle, until the "production" end of the industry is vastly revolutionized, its going to be same-old, same-old.
COMPLETELY OFFTOPIC: Okay, I know about Google as a calculator. But, looking at your equation, I though "Hmm, wonder if that is what you actually enter?" Probably not, how does google know to convert TB to megabit per second in hours. The poster did a couple rounds of google calc and formatted the result.
NO! Copy and paste "1TB / 19.2 megabit / second in hours" into Google and it computes.
Wow. Time to crawl back under my rock at the bottom of a well...
I don't know if this is on point or not, but two things come to mind. As a user of both platforms (with infinitely greater preference to OS X) it is also annoying to have the buttons and other widgets in different locations. Second, I'd bet those different locations came as a result of Microsoft knowing they couldn't completely rip-off the Mac's "look and feel" so they scrambled things way back in the day. Paid off since they won that court fight.
Setting aside all the hot talk about longitude of ascending nodes, arguments of periapsis, orbital inclinations, and trans-martian-injections, why worry about this at all?
Wander out to the desert late at night and wait for Them to take you there.
That's exactly why he's suggesting that they assign their most experienced engineers -- the ones who know best how the applications fit together and how all the little pieces interact -- to oversee the process of approving and applying those patches.
Haven't we seen this with the fake of a G5 "gutted" and filled with PC parts?. Then, didn't someone do the same with a mini? (Too lazy to Google....there's a T-shirt waiting to be sold.)
The cool hack will be running OS X 10.5 (which I suppose will be the first Intel compatible version) on a PC and making work all the flakey PCI cards, printers, wireless adapters, external drives and everything else that makes using a PC such a joy.
It is not just the Intel cpu. What about getting OS X to work with the zillions of freaky flavors of pci cards, video cards, ram of varying specs, other chipsets on the motherboard. Even if you can hack OS X to install on a random Dell box, how long will it run before this: Ouch?
I was under the impression that running the OS off an iPod is something Apple has been discouraging. Heat issues were a reason I saw floated a few years ago. Recently the Mini was ruled out as a bootable drive, would it be due to the CF card base of it?
The high disk access rate and the kind of work the iPod disk would run into as a booted drive generates too much heat in that sealed box it is in, as opposed to what playing music or audiobooks does. I thought the latest generations of iPods were purposefully made so they couldn't boot a machine. I didn't see in the article if they mucked with the firmware to overcome this.
Lets look at this situation from another angle, if Microsoft was the leading online music retailer and used a format that could only be played back on Microsoft hardware and software products, would people be defending them?
Not only that, MS would never employ a closed system to seek to advance its position as a monopoly.
Apple should be held to the same standard as a company with a 98% market share, because the way Steve Jobs & Co. conducts business is just unfair.
Make a nice product, sell a zillion of them, find a compromise with the RIAA....bastards!
I've flown a lot for work -- as a passenger. I've never gave much thought to crashes or accident. I never really ever wondered why to I didn't "fear" flying and some people did.
Lately, a little fear (getting old, now have kids, youthful invincibilty's been modded down...) had crept into my mind during turbulence or expected "events" and it took a why to figure out what really was behind this.
The last part of Ann Elk's comment "...you are just a passenger with no control over where or how the plane will land" is EXACTLY it.
Elk may not be willing to ever "pull the lever" but he better be believe we mere passengers will be reaching for that thing.
Granted I know almost nothing about Lindows/Linspire, but in general isn't this a big "selling" point for any Linux install "runs well on old a.k.a. slow hardware"?
The other side of the coin is, couldn't you jam a 512 stick of RAM in (assuming there is at least still one open slot on the mb), wipe the drive and install a nice, fast distro and wind up with a very usable machine for email, web, word-processing (the usual.)
Which makes me wonder what folks would put on a machine like this instead of Linspire to get an environment that will be as supposedly easy for a civilian as Linspire purports to be?
How about this: "give" a DVD - barebones no extras, just a dupe of the film -- to everyone buying a ticket to the movie in the theatre.
Right away you think: first one in line is going to turn around and pirate the DVD. Sure, but then think about how many more people will go to a movie because of the value added by the DVD. Beside, why pass up a nicely pressed DVD for some torrent/p2p download hassle when you get to see the movie on the big screen to boot?
Wouldn't this offset the "lost revenue" from bootleg/pirated DVDs?
In the abscence of a good sperm/scrotum joke, one thing I wonder about (as I'm in the midst of trying for child #2) is the how WiFi affects the little wigglers? I remember reading about motorcycle cops who placed their radar gun between their legs or on their laps while working speed traps and experiencing fertility problems. (I don't recall if it was permanent.) WiFi isn't radar, but does anyone know which is worse hot or irradiated ?
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I'm reading a lot of "here go the greedy bastards again" and get the feeling folks would be happy if the labels died.
I'm no fan of that segment of the music industry. I do think they screw most musicians, they thing listeners/consumers are dolts and tend to cheat, steal, lie their way through most their enterprises.
But, I just don't see them going away or falling under the weight of their own incompetence/greed/evilness. Giant companies rarely just die, they need to be replaced. Oil lamps to light bulbs, horse and carriage to automobiles, typewriters to computers all had HUGE business that were completely eliminated by an improved product.
The recorded-music industry creates product that is unique in that it includes a service can be reused. The labels are most vulnerable to changes in the delivery of the service, yes? Clearly the Internet has changed that delivery a little, but apparently not enough to spawn a new industry to replace the existing one. iTMS is just an adjunct to the main delivery system. The labels still control almost all of the production process to be affected by a change in the delivery method, even though they are losing some control.
What brainiac is going to dream up a new better, anti-label way of "producing" the music -- finding musicians, developing them, promotion, concerts, recording, licensing?
With all apologies to smart, independent bands who've broken out from that cycle, until the "production" end of the industry is vastly revolutionized, its going to be same-old, same-old.
RDF?
Great, now they're outsourcing MY job.
Sincerely,
The Hampster
COMPLETELY OFFTOPIC: Okay, I know about Google as a calculator. But, looking at your equation, I though "Hmm, wonder if that is what you actually enter?" Probably not, how does google know to convert TB to megabit per second in hours. The poster did a couple rounds of google calc and formatted the result.
NO! Copy and paste "1TB / 19.2 megabit / second in hours" into Google and it computes.
Wow. Time to crawl back under my rock at the bottom of a well...
I don't know if this is on point or not, but two things come to mind. As a user of both platforms (with infinitely greater preference to OS X) it is also annoying to have the buttons and other widgets in different locations.
Second, I'd bet those different locations came as a result of Microsoft knowing they couldn't completely rip-off the Mac's "look and feel" so they scrambled things way back in the day. Paid off since they won that court fight.
Setting aside all the hot talk about longitude of ascending nodes, arguments of periapsis, orbital inclinations, and trans-martian-injections, why worry about this at all?
Wander out to the desert late at night and wait for Them to take you there.
don't bother me with such ramblings.
busy trying to decern the origin of a retangular plastic object with a delicate ribbon of black at one end.
strangely stamped: Best of B.T.O
the aliens are among us!
That's exactly why he's suggesting that they assign their most experienced engineers -- the ones who know best how the applications fit together and how all the little pieces interact -- to oversee the process of approving and applying those patches.
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Even that, apparently, wouldn't help!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/28/18382
Wired: "Fabled iPod halo effect"
Tired: "Steve Jobs reality distortion field."
They could move the Search box to the top of the page so Editors can more easily find and then use it.
..not to mention, these places -- like say an airport -- are unlikely to be stand alone stations.
Even the most slack-jawed TSA worker is going to notice when dude slaps down a diembodied hand on the old scanner.
"Um...Sir..."
"No worries, just a old, nagging football injury, I'm fine. Cheerio!"
Seems fairly implausible even before considering whether a detached hand would scan at all.
Since you didn't specify a capacity (or you did and I didn't notice, bygones...)
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Check out the FW->Dock Connector adapter to avoid another specialty cable. Pocketdock http://www.sendstation.com/us/products/pd_combo.h
If you can do less than 6 gigs, the iPod Mini is way small.
Now, if you want small and CHEAP, well...
Haven't we seen this with the fake of a G5 "gutted" and filled with PC parts?. Then, didn't someone do the same with a mini? (Too lazy to Google....there's a T-shirt waiting to be sold.)
The cool hack will be running OS X 10.5 (which I suppose will be the first Intel compatible version) on a PC and making work all the flakey PCI cards, printers, wireless adapters, external drives and everything else that makes using a PC such a joy.
Do that an You da man! Until then...not so much.
Dude, it's Linda Lovelace! I mean really...haven't you read any history?
It is not just the Intel cpu. What about getting OS X to work with the zillions of freaky flavors of pci cards, video cards, ram of varying specs, other chipsets on the motherboard.
Even if you can hack OS X to install on a random Dell box, how long will it run before this:
Ouch?
I was under the impression that running the OS off an iPod is something Apple has been discouraging. Heat issues were a reason I saw floated a few years ago. Recently the Mini was ruled out as a bootable drive, would it be due to the CF card base of it?
The high disk access rate and the kind of work the iPod disk would run into as a booted drive generates too much heat in that sealed box it is in, as opposed to what playing music or audiobooks does.
I thought the latest generations of iPods were purposefully made so they couldn't boot a machine. I didn't see in the article if they mucked with the firmware to overcome this.
Leftie? Hmm...oh! Just turn it over.
Okay, this might be a dumb answer, but can't you pretty easily spoof that? I don't know about NIC, but routers can be cloned with any MAC.
Not only that, MS would never employ a closed system to seek to advance its position as a monopoly.
Apple should be held to the same standard as a company with a 98% market share, because the way Steve Jobs & Co. conducts business is just unfair.
Make a nice product, sell a zillion of them, find a compromise with the RIAA....bastards!
Apple Fanboy #242
All the better for exploits to run at "double speed."
Well, Windows may have problems..er, issues. But it is still popular..
I've flown a lot for work -- as a passenger. I've never gave much thought to crashes or accident. I never really ever wondered why to I didn't "fear" flying and some people did.
Lately, a little fear (getting old, now have kids, youthful invincibilty's been modded down...) had crept into my mind during turbulence or expected "events" and it took a why to figure out what really was behind this.
The last part of Ann Elk's comment "...you are just a passenger with no control over where or how the plane will land" is EXACTLY it.
Elk may not be willing to ever "pull the lever" but he better be believe we mere passengers will be reaching for that thing.
Granted I know almost nothing about Lindows/Linspire, but in general isn't this a big "selling" point for any Linux install "runs well on old a.k.a. slow hardware"?
The other side of the coin is, couldn't you jam a 512 stick of RAM in (assuming there is at least still one open slot on the mb), wipe the drive and install a nice, fast distro and wind up with a very usable machine for email, web, word-processing (the usual.)
Which makes me wonder what folks would put on a machine like this instead of Linspire to get an environment that will be as supposedly easy for a civilian as Linspire purports to be?
How about this: "give" a DVD - barebones no extras, just a dupe of the film -- to everyone buying a ticket to the movie in the theatre.
Right away you think: first one in line is going to turn around and pirate the DVD. Sure, but then think about how many more people will go to a movie because of the value added by the DVD. Beside, why pass up a nicely pressed DVD for some torrent/p2p download hassle when you get to see the movie on the big screen to boot?
Wouldn't this offset the "lost revenue" from bootleg/pirated DVDs?
I think it would be worth an experiement.
In the abscence of a good sperm/scrotum joke, one thing I wonder about (as I'm in the midst of trying for child #2) is the how WiFi affects the little wigglers? I remember reading about motorcycle cops who placed their radar gun between their legs or on their laps while working speed traps and experiencing fertility problems. (I don't recall if it was permanent.) WiFi isn't radar, but does anyone know which is worse hot or irradiated ?
As of 10:22 Mountain Time, the "Fair Use" provision still existed. This is what the Print and Email options are covered by.