It's getting to the point where the best solution is to start making your own music - the RIAA is doing their best to make their member's products (music) undesirable ones.
Time to dust off my trombone, get some more GarageBand loops, a decent mic...
Konqueror, I believe, passes ACID2. Safari does in CVS, but the release version doesn't. Not sure about Opera.
How much do you want to bet that the release of Safari that passes the ACID2 is being strategically planned to be released with a 10.4.x update that coincides with the IE7 beta release? For bragging/PR/marketing reasons.
As I've been saying all day, the Mac Mini is just a bluetooth remote and an iLife application away from being a PVR with content served from a not-yet-but-soon iTMS. That's iTV Movie Store.
You're not the only one that noticed that. For everyone else, watch for Mirage's business card and look for the number! Probably a clever bit of marketing at the other end of the number... if we can read it!!!
Hmmmm, "Are we the message?" Humanity is the messenger, Angels=Messengers, Humans are the 18th Angel - sounds like a Neon Genesis Evangelion reference to me...
I think it's safe to say that by the time lifespans become long enough that this *could* become a problem, genetic "enhancements" could expand our brain capabilities/memory.
Overclocking, eh?
BTW, IMHO, I believe it is a necessary part of any "learning system" (be it biological or digital or "whatever") that it possesses the capability to forget knowledge. Without this ability, growth of knowledge - true learning - isn't possible. I mean, it's GOOD to forget the wrong way to do things (sometimes) and have reinforced the right way of doing things.
For example, depression treatment therapy/counseling wouldn't do any good if your memories of depressing mindsets remained entrenched and unforgetable.
I've had a Palm for 5 years now. I've recently let the recharable batteries go to nothing (for got to charge it) and I don't miss it. My iPod has all my contacts in it and calendar too. Yeah, it's not as slick to navigate as it SHOULD be, but I am tired of Palm not going anywhere as a platform. Palm is the next Borland, IMHO; a company that I loved and wanted to destroy M$, but because of their stupidity blew it.
I have to wonder if this might be the beginning of the growing support for AAC that might get it supported by more hardware devices/players. The day that Rio's start playing AAC's is the day WMA loose the race.
This isn't quite the same thing but I have a story/illustration to tell...
I was asked at my old job to help out in a pinch to burn *30* DVD's of an agency presentation for a big client pitch the next day. Now, yes, the workstation burning an image took only 20 minutes to do so (burn plus verify - we were quite paranoid), but I didn't have a "robot" to re-load the burner with fresh media - I was the robot.
What was I to do? I needed to be careful - nothing could go wrong or get mixed up like sending a blank disc out the door because of mixed-up of media, for instance. I feel that the more monotonous the task, the greater the risk of blowing it. So it wasn't something that I could pay half-attention to.
What could I usefully get started on and accomplish in 20-minutes before I had to get up from my desk and walk over to feed the burner again? Anyone that's read Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow" will know that it really can't effectively be done. So I spent an 8-hour day burning DVD's, assembling cases and got no coding done.
This is something that some managers and people who "just have never done something like it themselves" don't get. Interleaving work isn't always possible or effective.
You can't check an album to know if it was produced by an RIAA member, unless you memorize the list of RIAA members.
BUT for online transactions, you can try out RIAA Radar to see if an album listed at Amazon was produced by an RIAA member. Or you just use the tool before making that trip to Circuit City.
Or if they have demonstration Internet access at the store, you could do it there... Which I am sure some people (not necessarily Circuit City staff) would not be to happy to hear is happening. =)
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It's getting to the point where the best solution is to start making your own music - the RIAA is doing their best to make their member's products (music) undesirable ones.
Time to dust off my trombone, get some more GarageBand loops, a decent mic...
Konqueror, I believe, passes ACID2. Safari does in CVS, but the release version doesn't. Not sure about Opera.
How much do you want to bet that the release of Safari that passes the ACID2 is being strategically planned to be released with a 10.4.x update that coincides with the IE7 beta release? For bragging/PR/marketing reasons.
Heck, I would do that. ^_^
Chances are it will use H.264 mp4's, and it is not infeasible that it wouldn't support non-DRM media at all.
But then you wouldn't be able to play your own home edited iMovie's and that is not what the Digital Lifestyle is about.
If and when an iPod Video comes out, it will play custom authored content.
As I've been saying all day, the Mac Mini is just a bluetooth remote and an iLife application away from being a PVR with content served from a not-yet-but-soon iTMS. That's iTV Movie Store.
Look for it at MacExpo 2006.
Because he's CmdrTaco and that's what we've come to expect out of him :\
You're not the only one that noticed that. For everyone else, watch for Mirage's business card and look for the number! Probably a clever bit of marketing at the other end of the number ... if we can read it!!!
The thing the article didn't mention was that the team kept on finding these initials ("A.S.") along the cave walls periodically.
Hmmmm, "Are we the message?" Humanity is the messenger, Angels=Messengers, Humans are the 18th Angel - sounds like a Neon Genesis Evangelion reference to me...
I think it's safe to say that by the time lifespans become long enough that this *could* become a problem, genetic "enhancements" could expand our brain capabilities/memory.
Overclocking, eh?
BTW, IMHO, I believe it is a necessary part of any "learning system" (be it biological or digital or "whatever") that it possesses the capability to forget knowledge. Without this ability, growth of knowledge - true learning - isn't possible. I mean, it's GOOD to forget the wrong way to do things (sometimes) and have reinforced the right way of doing things.
For example, depression treatment therapy/counseling wouldn't do any good if your memories of depressing mindsets remained entrenched and unforgetable.
According to http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csneal/HPM/alpha.html...
G4 - 33 million
G5 - 52 million
And from IBM...
G3 (750cx) - 22 million
<Simpsons Comic Book Store Guy>Worst... pun... ever...</Simpsons Comic Book Store Guy>
Oh would LOVE to buy a "Firefly Treatment" Edition of the whole of Max Headroom on DVD... Does anyone know anything about this...?
I've had a Palm for 5 years now. I've recently let the recharable batteries go to nothing (for got to charge it) and I don't miss it. My iPod has all my contacts in it and calendar too. Yeah, it's not as slick to navigate as it SHOULD be, but I am tired of Palm not going anywhere as a platform. Palm is the next Borland, IMHO; a company that I loved and wanted to destroy M$, but because of their stupidity blew it.
I have to wonder if this might be the beginning of the growing support for AAC that might get it supported by more hardware devices/players. The day that Rio's start playing AAC's is the day WMA loose the race.
This isn't quite the same thing but I have a story/illustration to tell...
I was asked at my old job to help out in a pinch to burn *30* DVD's of an agency presentation for a big client pitch the next day. Now, yes, the workstation burning an image took only 20 minutes to do so (burn plus verify - we were quite paranoid), but I didn't have a "robot" to re-load the burner with fresh media - I was the robot.
What was I to do? I needed to be careful - nothing could go wrong or get mixed up like sending a blank disc out the door because of mixed-up of media, for instance. I feel that the more monotonous the task, the greater the risk of blowing it. So it wasn't something that I could pay half-attention to.
What could I usefully get started on and accomplish in 20-minutes before I had to get up from my desk and walk over to feed the burner again? Anyone that's read Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow" will know that it really can't effectively be done. So I spent an 8-hour day burning DVD's, assembling cases and got no coding done.
This is something that some managers and people who "just have never done something like it themselves" don't get. Interleaving work isn't always possible or effective.
I thought it was stuffing that was evil? (re:Good Eats-Food Network) ;)
http://www.cluetrain.com
I've ripped albums on my Mac and have used them at work on Winamp w/AAC plug-in. In short: No DRM for your rips, only TMS tracks.
If the rumors are true, iTunes for Windows and The Apple Music Store should be available next week.
Tough timing.
You can't check an album to know if it was produced by an RIAA member, unless you memorize the list of RIAA members.
BUT for online transactions, you can try out RIAA Radar to see if an album listed at Amazon was produced by an RIAA member. Or you just use the tool before making that trip to Circuit City.
Or if they have demonstration Internet access at the store, you could do it there... Which I am sure some people (not necessarily Circuit City staff) would not be to happy to hear is happening. =)
ROTFL! I wish I had mod points for you!
The funny thing is, it won't be too long before these specs are considered run-o'the-mill for DVR's!
Half a terabyte in a box you put on your TV, geez...
I just remembered - Chilledbeats.org is VERY much like I suggested. But very specific in it's focus. I was thinking more general.
Gee, that's a REALLY good idea! We should look into that... =)
That's just gotta be a connectivity provider. Roadrunner business or something.
I can't believe that Rusty has something to do with AOL/TimeWarner.