Zonk's being rude. The first story that he linked to very clearly uses the word "may" as in "Microsoft *may* charge for this product." It was never definite that they would. Then again, this is Slashdot. sigh.
Considering that the electrical grid would be gone and I couldn't charge my iPod anymore... I guess it wouldn't really matter ultimately, eh? Besides, if there was a catastrophic nuclear war I think the last thing that would ever cross my mind would be "you know, if only my children could've heard Britney Spears..."
You're missing an absolutely critical component of this whole issue, though. Whether or not subscription-based music stores existed before the iTunes Music Store is not important. The crux of this issue is that there has not been a single major service like this that supports pushing content to portable devices. That was part of why iTMS was such a big breakthrough, and that is why Napster-to-Go is such a big deal. I could really give two shits about the rest of the Napster service; on that level it is no different than Rhapsody or any of those other things. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay $15/month to be able to listen to music at my computer. That's why I own an iPod today, and that's why I'm buying a Janus-compatible device tomorrow (well, not tomorrow literally, but in about 2 weeks).
Besides, you're pushing what amounts to a flawed argument, ultimately, by implying that 'everything's already been done before' (Had there been a demand for them, someone would have found a way just as there are Video/DVD rental places.). "Need I remind you" that, by definition, there must always be a first-mover in any market, regardless of what that market is. The first-mover tends to die off, it seems, but they still must have existed by definition.
Ultimately, if I could go to my public library and borrow Radiohead, The Beatles, Outkast, Green Day, and anything else I listen to on a regular basis, then I sure as hell wouldn't pay for my music. The fact is that the popularity of public libraries as music vendors is so low due to their generally underwhelming selection of content.
I think you've mixed up your causal agents here. There have never been any stores (physical or otherwise) for people to rent music from. Since this service has never been available, people have never rented CDs. According to your theory, this means that people must not have wanted to rent CDs, not that the facilities didn't exist. I cannot even begin to tell you what I saw last year in theaters that was good. However, I was listening to the first of Ben Folds's new EPs about a year ago, that much I know.
I'm being lectured about confused consumers by a guy who wants my help getting a free Mac mini from a pyramid scheme? You've gotta be kidding. Besides, it says on the front page of Napster.com that: "It is necessary to maintain a Napster subscription in order to continue access to songs downloaded through the Napster service". If this information wasn't on there, the FTC would be all over their asses.
The article in this case really didn't help explain the situation at all. Try reading Shawn Burke's weblog instead. As he put it, "The comments need to be scrubbed not because I know there is anything bad in there (I don't think there really is), it's that I can't be sure that there isn't. So getting rid of them completely is a brute-force approach to making sure nothing slips through. You have to understand that I'm operating in a very risk-averse environment."
I'm not quite sure what to say to this. I get the distinct feeling that we don't see eye to eye on just about anything.
thanks for calling me a whore, by the way, I appreciate the warm fuzzy feeling that it gives me. I'd like to think that the time I've spent teaching little kids how to use computers, donations to various organizations that do a lot of good, and other such things "contributes to all mankind" as well, but you've proved me wrong.
Who's paying for a new version? I haven't charged my customers for an upgrade *ever*. Nor will I for iRooster. They've paid their money, and I don't feel any urge to make them pay money twice.
I can't speak for the reliability of MS SQL Server 2000's Enterprise Manager, since I've never used it before. Besides, it's not like MS actually charges for service packs. The other issue you cite is a user experience problem, which is unfortunate, but not exactly a bug.
Also, as long as we're on the topic of closed-source software pushing down bug fixes, I think the best new::cough:: feature of XCode 1.5, which I use to develop iRooster, is the fact that it doesn't crash on a regular basis anymore.
So, as a software developer, you can appreciate that no one writes bug-free code, right? I'm no better, certainly. I'd be interested to know what you've worked on in the past. I tried going to your listed website and discovered a parked domain that's selling for $3000.
So just go download Fink and be done with it, then. You'll be able to get all of your favorite bits of open source software.
I write shareware for the Mac in my spare time, and I'm asked occasionally why I don't GPL the thing and give it away. The reason why I refuse to do this is because I've invested a lot of my time and energy into this software and I want just compensation for my time. I do not feel that ESR's notion of "egoboo" would be a worthwhile payment for the sweat equity I've put into my software.
You can find free, open source applications out there that compete directly with my app, but they simply don't have the level of polish and dedication that you can see in the commercial variants (which includes, but is not limited to, mine).
Yes, XP ran a hell of a lot better than Panther. The systems in comparison, btw, were a 400MHz Celeron with 128MB ram and a shitty ATI 8MB video card, and an iBook G3 500 with 128MB ram and whatever shitty video card was in that thing (I think it actually was a 16MB ATI). And specifically, the problems I would run into were directly tied to Quartz rendering.
You haven't spent much time trying to use Panther on an older Mac have you? Chug, chug, chug. Apple may *claim* that Quartz/Quartz Extreme work fine without a great video card, but it'd take a whole lotta kool-aid for me to buy into that.
This isn't to say that I live in my parents' basement, or anything else along those lines. I finished up my B.S. degree over a year ago, and I work full-time for a large corporation doing software development. But still, attempting to label myself as an adult in comparison to some of the people I work with (especially those with kids) is just a joke.
It's good to hear that returning veterans are being treated better and more rapidly than in the past, and that technological improvements are going to improve their quality of life. Nonetheless, if it wasn't for the failed war policies of this administration, kids our age (and yes, at 22 I definitely consider myself a kid) wouldn't be put into this sort of horribly traumatic situation in the first place.
Mod me down as flamebait or a troll if you want, so be it, slashdot karma isn't worth glorifying the mess our great nation has ended up in due to the arrogance of a small group of people in Washington.
Yep. I had Firefox installed for a while at work over in devdiv land. I got sick of a couple of UI/Ux consistency issues and went back to IE 6. I try FF out every few months to see if my issues have been fixed, but so far no dice.
I get a couple hundred emails every day at work. We use Outlook, and I need something that does quick, accurate full-text searches of all of my email. The default search tool in XP doesn't provide for this, unfortunately. Maybe in Longhorn, we can always hope...
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Zonk's being rude. The first story that he linked to very clearly uses the word "may" as in "Microsoft *may* charge for this product." It was never definite that they would. Then again, this is Slashdot. sigh.
Considering that the electrical grid would be gone and I couldn't charge my iPod anymore... I guess it wouldn't really matter ultimately, eh? Besides, if there was a catastrophic nuclear war I think the last thing that would ever cross my mind would be "you know, if only my children could've heard Britney Spears..."
Besides, you're pushing what amounts to a flawed argument, ultimately, by implying that 'everything's already been done before' (Had there been a demand for them, someone would have found a way just as there are Video/DVD rental places.). "Need I remind you" that, by definition, there must always be a first-mover in any market, regardless of what that market is. The first-mover tends to die off, it seems, but they still must have existed by definition.
Ultimately, if I could go to my public library and borrow Radiohead, The Beatles, Outkast, Green Day, and anything else I listen to on a regular basis, then I sure as hell wouldn't pay for my music. The fact is that the popularity of public libraries as music vendors is so low due to their generally underwhelming selection of content.
I think you've mixed up your causal agents here. There have never been any stores (physical or otherwise) for people to rent music from. Since this service has never been available, people have never rented CDs. According to your theory, this means that people must not have wanted to rent CDs, not that the facilities didn't exist. I cannot even begin to tell you what I saw last year in theaters that was good. However, I was listening to the first of Ben Folds's new EPs about a year ago, that much I know.
I'm being lectured about confused consumers by a guy who wants my help getting a free Mac mini from a pyramid scheme? You've gotta be kidding. Besides, it says on the front page of Napster.com that: "It is necessary to maintain a Napster subscription in order to continue access to songs downloaded through the Napster service". If this information wasn't on there, the FTC would be all over their asses.
Yes they are... DVDs are all encrypted.
There's no difference between this and netflix, yet millions of people subscribe to that.
No, I think he was talking about the people who *actually* write explorer.exe.
The article in this case really didn't help explain the situation at all. Try reading Shawn Burke's weblog instead. As he put it, "The comments need to be scrubbed not because I know there is anything bad in there (I don't think there really is), it's that I can't be sure that there isn't. So getting rid of them completely is a brute-force approach to making sure nothing slips through. You have to understand that I'm operating in a very risk-averse environment."
thanks for calling me a whore, by the way, I appreciate the warm fuzzy feeling that it gives me. I'd like to think that the time I've spent teaching little kids how to use computers, donations to various organizations that do a lot of good, and other such things "contributes to all mankind" as well, but you've proved me wrong.
let's take this offline. I'd like to chat with you about this some more. aaron {at} bretSPAMSPAMSPAMhorsting {dot} com.
I can't speak for the reliability of MS SQL Server 2000's Enterprise Manager, since I've never used it before. Besides, it's not like MS actually charges for service packs. The other issue you cite is a user experience problem, which is unfortunate, but not exactly a bug.
Also, as long as we're on the topic of closed-source software pushing down bug fixes, I think the best new ::cough:: feature of XCode 1.5, which I use to develop iRooster, is the fact that it doesn't crash on a regular basis anymore.
So, as a software developer, you can appreciate that no one writes bug-free code, right? I'm no better, certainly. I'd be interested to know what you've worked on in the past. I tried going to your listed website and discovered a parked domain that's selling for $3000.
I write shareware for the Mac in my spare time, and I'm asked occasionally why I don't GPL the thing and give it away. The reason why I refuse to do this is because I've invested a lot of my time and energy into this software and I want just compensation for my time. I do not feel that ESR's notion of "egoboo" would be a worthwhile payment for the sweat equity I've put into my software.
You can find free, open source applications out there that compete directly with my app, but they simply don't have the level of polish and dedication that you can see in the commercial variants (which includes, but is not limited to, mine).
amen.
yes, the siren on top of the starbucks building disturbs me every time i'm driving to or from sea-tac...
Yes, XP ran a hell of a lot better than Panther. The systems in comparison, btw, were a 400MHz Celeron with 128MB ram and a shitty ATI 8MB video card, and an iBook G3 500 with 128MB ram and whatever shitty video card was in that thing (I think it actually was a 16MB ATI). And specifically, the problems I would run into were directly tied to Quartz rendering.
How you have to upgrade to the latest service pack to get USB support?
You mean when we all had to upgrade to Win 95 OSR2 *8 Years* Ago??? Jeez, it's not like SPs actually cost money.
You haven't spent much time trying to use Panther on an older Mac have you? Chug, chug, chug. Apple may *claim* that Quartz/Quartz Extreme work fine without a great video card, but it'd take a whole lotta kool-aid for me to buy into that.
This isn't to say that I live in my parents' basement, or anything else along those lines. I finished up my B.S. degree over a year ago, and I work full-time for a large corporation doing software development. But still, attempting to label myself as an adult in comparison to some of the people I work with (especially those with kids) is just a joke.
Mod me down as flamebait or a troll if you want, so be it, slashdot karma isn't worth glorifying the mess our great nation has ended up in due to the arrogance of a small group of people in Washington.
Yep. I had Firefox installed for a while at work over in devdiv land. I got sick of a couple of UI/Ux consistency issues and went back to IE 6. I try FF out every few months to see if my issues have been fixed, but so far no dice.
i can understand that. I feel the same way with Civ 3, which is only on pc.
I get a couple hundred emails every day at work. We use Outlook, and I need something that does quick, accurate full-text searches of all of my email. The default search tool in XP doesn't provide for this, unfortunately. Maybe in Longhorn, we can always hope...
Use it, love it. The UI is rather ugly, but it is the best damned source navigation tool available for Windows today. (Link)