Apple controls 100% of the mp3 player market? Or 100% of the digital music market? Wow, I didn't realize that. That is what you were saying when you said there was an Apple monopoly, right?
100% of a market does not a monopoly make. Microsoft was convicted of illegally leveraging their monopoly on the desktop, yet there were other operating systems.
What if the URL is hijacked; via DNS poisoning, HOSTS, a BHO, site hacks, proxy hacks... a URL is unfortunetly, not 100% reliable.
Presumably the hijacker wouldn't have a signed cert, which should raise red flags on your browser.
Why should Verisign get special treatment?, because Microsoft used them as a CA?
Verisign didn't get special treatment. Microsoft put out an update that put the revoked "Microsoft Corporation" certificates in the CRL. This is because IE can be told to always trust signed executables by "Company Name", people with the fake "Microsoft Corporation" certs could have signed executables and had Internet Exploder automatically install stuff.
If anything it's Microsoft that got special treatment, since they are undoubtedly not the only one who has had certs issued in their name.
Depending on where your office is, this may be an option. Nextweb offers T1-equivalent (1.5Mbps) up to 6MBps.
As a contractor who has dealt with Nextweb for two of my customers, this should not be an option. Nextweb support is ridiculously undertrained on their own equipment, and the service provided is inconsistant at best.
I have since moved both of my customers off, and they've never been happier.
I can't believe the US is doing so poorly in their rate of piracy. I guess I'll have to start pirating twice as much software just to help us make up the slack on the rest of the world!
That's not even a fair comparison. The countries on top have 100 mbps fiber to the home for about ~$40. Here in the US, we are really living in the third world of the Internet. . .
I pay $55 bucks for 3 mbps from my cable company. And the Telco doesn't even want to talk to me unless I get a phone line as well. . .
The problem isn't that Windows XP ships with only the most common drivers, it's that Windows XP shipped 5 years ago.
Not true. Windows XP SP2 was released in August 2004. This is the install media shipped these days. The XP shipped 5 years ago is not the same, that version doesn't even support SATA drives. Windows XP SP2 can be installed on SATA drives, therefore it includes newer drivers.
There's obviously been A LOT of hardware released since then. The Linux fanboys usually conveniently leave that little tidbit out though, and then claim Linux has better driver support.
Linux does have better support. Windows XP SP2 doesn't even detect most Intel Gig-E nic's, any Linux distro from 2003 onward will do that just fine. The only thing they are on equal footing is with WiFi drivers. And on that end Windows is easier.
(often considered a low-point of linux support, but really, that's just WPA. Which lacks on everything).
Actually it's Linux Wireless G support which is considered the low point. It usually involves building a kernel module and loading the Windows NDIS driver.
FYI WPA works lovely on Windows and Mac. On Linux it kinda bites, with that stupid WPA Supplicant.
For you youngun's, MPC dictated a few basic features that a PC had to have to be considered capable of "multimedia". From memory, it required an Adlib compatible soundcard, a 1x CDROM and a VGA-capable video card.
Wow, I just had a major flashback. I remember spending 80 bucks on 4 megs of ram to bump my old 486 to MPC 2.
I wish it were something so simple. Apparently it's the bluetooth module, which sucks because I use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard.
Oh crap. I misread your sig. I thought you were saying that your mini crashes often, but your dell doesn't when running XP. IE that both were running XP.
LOL
By the way, you don't need the bang at the end of the command. That's only to force a quit when you have changes you want to abandon.
Maybe they don't anymore, but RHEL used to be full of closed source tools to run on the OS. Suse's YAST used to be in this category, and I know RedHat had their own stuff.
My mistake, RHEL does have a few closed source tools. But very few, and all distributed with legal licenses to do so. These tools include java, realplayer and adobe acrobat.
I was correct that Fedora does not include any closed source packages.
Red Hat has, however, release everything they own or buy. Even Netscape Directory is being released as oepn source (Fedora Directory). Definitely not in violation of the GPL.
Problems with MP3 has to do with patents, not copyright and the GPL.
I'm sorry, but perhaps you may have misread my post.
Red Hat doesn't even distribute basic mp3 players because they might violate someones license
Patents are licensed, correct? I mean when a ocmpany sues another over patent infringement, if they settle they are purchasing a license for the patent correct?
Please correct me if I have my terminology wrong, but this is my understanding.
I have a PIII running Windows 98SE with Windows Media Player 9 - it is very slow to load.
Bloat at its finest. . .
Most of the time that I open Windows Media Player, it is to watch a quick video clip - for this, I don't need the whole music guide and library to load.
This really pisses me off. I use iTunes to manage my music library (got an iPod), but WMP detects my podcasts trying to download and wants to takeover. I stream some radio shows from the east coast (I love JV & Elvis on 92.3 FreeFM in NY, they use to be in SF). Because of this WMP is running for a few hours per day, but it always tries to fight with my iTunes.
It would be nice if Microsoft would make two separate players - one to quickly play short clips, and one to manage my library.
They have one, but it doesn't work with the latest windows codecs. It's called mplayer2. Go to start/run and type mplayer2, the original media player. I still use it from time to time on my Pentium M 2.13 GHz w/ 2 gigs of ram laptop.
RedHat, SuSe, LinSpire and every other company that makes a profit selling Linux Distros include lots of binary only proprietary software that is not GPL, and Linus has said for years that they are perfectly alright in doing so.
Red Hat doesn't even distribute basic mp3 players because they might violate someones license. I can't think of a single file or package distributed with Fedora or RHEL that is not available in source to all.
I disagree. Reality TV is already rapidly dwindling, with only a few (Survivor, American Idol, etc.) remaining popular (did anyone actually watch Unanimous?)
I disagree. It is still in the process of being shoved in front of the people because it's cheap for them to produce. Ever wonder why so many new reality tv shows keep coming, but very few good tv shows are released?
Quality actors like Hugh Laurie (House) and John C. McGinley (Scrubs) are creating a rennaisance in network television, reminiscent of the pre-reality tv era, when you could pay big bucks for talent and still turn a tidy profit (The Cosby Show, Friends, Seinfeld, etc.)
I'm a big fan of Scrubs, and it's on the chopping block. My Name Is Earl has been cancelled. I like Numb3rs too, but imagine that willl soon be cancelled. Just about every show that people consider good ends up getting dropped because the average American is too damn busy. Productivity is up big time, we are beating the Japanese in output. Because of this, people aren't getting involved with TV like they used to. They want something stupid to watch and tune out, maybe even while they are doing other work. And reality tv fits the bill better. Face it, we fans of quality acting and good shows are screwed . . .
The Reality TV fad is dead. Basing an entire revenue stream on it would be financial suicide.
I disagree. As much as I wish that were true, I strongly disagree . . .
Great point regarding "reality TV" as a precursor for "video blogs". I never thought of that, but it makes perfect sense.
Thanks:)
However, the big question remains, how does YouTube intend to make money from all of this? Ads? Selling content (a la Google Video)?
That's probably going to take something creative. I have no clue other than ads. All that matters is how the ads are done, it could be done very tactfully.
For example, people tag the hell out of these videos. All they need to do is write a channel engine that will allow people to "tune in". Say I am a fan of Skater vids, it would be trivial for them to write an engine to stream video after video of skater videos. Now how much is a skater channel worth to a company that makes skateboards or skater clothes?
Perhaps they'll just get sponsors that in turn get to run their own tag based channels, commercial free or otherwise? Who knows. . .
As others have mentioned, the technology is easy, the hard part is a profitable logistics model that works.
Who knows what YouTube will do to monetize the technology
I think that YouTube is going to be a major player in the near term. The tv companies have completely shot themselves in the foot and someone is going to dethrone them as the king of captive eyeballs.
Fact #1)The TV industry has changed from real productions to idiots with camera's (aka reality tv). By doing that alone, they've dropped the cost of creating a show to little more than a camera, a stupid idea and idiots. Fact #2) Digital Cameras have gotten extremely cheap Fact #3) There are millions of untapped idiots with their own camera's worldwide
By shoving reality tv down everyones throat, they've basically commoditized the creation of television content. YouTube is poised to make a killing, if just by putting basic ads on idiots doing stupid shit on camera, the same thing the tv companies do except over ip.
Already old media is feeling the force of podcasts, converting their existing shows to allow users to listen to what they want when they want it (and usually commercial free). It's only a matter of time before YouTube (or someone else) does the same to video. Keeping the clips short seems to be a good idea since most people don't have much of an attention span these days (if you've read this far, you're probably ahead of the curve).
ITMs is not the same price as CD's its a different unit. A CD contains multiple songs. If you count the total it would be same price as CD.
I didn't realize you couldn't click "Buy Album" on iTMS anymore... Thanks for the heads up.
By the way, I compare buying on iTMS to buying a cd because that's what Apple does. Users have called in to Leo Laporte's KFI Tech Guy complaining that they lost their music because they didn't backup. What were they told when they called for support? Buying from iTunes is like buying a cd, lose it and you have to buy again. Doh!
you have to pay for the vehicle and the gas to get to the store. (at least many of us)
Right, but your analogy is flawed. For it to make sense you'd have to deliver some groceries to a few of the people on your route home for the privilege of buying at the store. In addition, you'd not be allowed to share any food you bought with any of your family in the house, they'd have to buy their own food. And it'd all virtual food that you can't touch, but would cost the same as the more filling regular food.
Come to think of it, this analogy really sucks.
actually this is a just a ploy. when it flops because fewer people pay full price for less of a product, WB will say: see, that doesnt work, they just want to pirate.
Not necessarily. Look at the success of the iTunes music store. Same price as CD + DRM, yet still a success. If the user interface is good, who knows. I think the fact that porn companies are doing downloadable DVD 5/9 for less than the cost of the DVD itself may revolutionize the industry. Remember porn always leads the way.
Funny that on THE EXACT PAGE I LINKED TO, there is a picture of a laptop WITH THE IBM LOGO ON IT!!!! It's the most prominent thing on the page! Did you even bother looking into what you were saying? The Lenovo company itself calls their PCs IBMs. I know, they call me every damned day.
Dude, they bought the name. Those PC's are not made by IBM. Their frontpage may show an IBM Logo, but their products page says Lenovo. Even Lenovo has dropped the IBM name. Face it, there are no IBM PC's anymore! Why is this so hard for you to admit?
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Apple controls 100% of the mp3 player market? Or 100% of the digital music market? Wow, I didn't realize that. That is what you were saying when you said there was an Apple monopoly, right?
100% of a market does not a monopoly make. Microsoft was convicted of illegally leveraging their monopoly on the desktop, yet there were other operating systems.
Windows peer networking is still balky.
What does Balky Bartokomous have to do with this?
Cousin Larry's gonna be pissed . . .
Of course, some of us run cron at night.
I tend to run cron 24/7. Otherwise my midnight cron jobs wouldn't run.
What if the URL is hijacked; via DNS poisoning, HOSTS, a BHO, site hacks, proxy hacks... a URL is unfortunetly, not 100% reliable.
Presumably the hijacker wouldn't have a signed cert, which should raise red flags on your browser.
Why should Verisign get special treatment?, because Microsoft used them as a CA?
Verisign didn't get special treatment. Microsoft put out an update that put the revoked "Microsoft Corporation" certificates in the CRL. This is because IE can be told to always trust signed executables by "Company Name", people with the fake "Microsoft Corporation" certs could have signed executables and had Internet Exploder automatically install stuff.
If anything it's Microsoft that got special treatment, since they are undoubtedly not the only one who has had certs issued in their name.
1. You can vote from your phone for American Idol, you have to trudge out to the polls to vote for the next president, on a work day on top of it.
The people don't vote for the Presidency.
Depending on where your office is, this may be an option. Nextweb offers T1-equivalent (1.5Mbps) up to 6MBps.
As a contractor who has dealt with Nextweb for two of my customers, this should not be an option. Nextweb support is ridiculously undertrained on their own equipment, and the service provided is inconsistant at best.
I have since moved both of my customers off, and they've never been happier.
I can't believe the US is doing so poorly in their rate of piracy. I guess I'll have to start pirating twice as much software just to help us make up the slack on the rest of the world!
That's not even a fair comparison. The countries on top have 100 mbps fiber to the home for about ~$40. Here in the US, we are really living in the third world of the Internet. . .
I pay $55 bucks for 3 mbps from my cable company. And the Telco doesn't even want to talk to me unless I get a phone line as well. . .
The problem isn't that Windows XP ships with only the most common drivers, it's that Windows XP shipped 5 years ago.
Not true. Windows XP SP2 was released in August 2004. This is the install media shipped these days. The XP shipped 5 years ago is not the same, that version doesn't even support SATA drives. Windows XP SP2 can be installed on SATA drives, therefore it includes newer drivers.
There's obviously been A LOT of hardware released since then. The Linux fanboys usually conveniently leave that little tidbit out though, and then claim Linux has better driver support.
Linux does have better support. Windows XP SP2 doesn't even detect most Intel Gig-E nic's, any Linux distro from 2003 onward will do that just fine. The only thing they are on equal footing is with WiFi drivers. And on that end Windows is easier.
(often considered a low-point of linux support, but really, that's just WPA. Which lacks on everything).
Actually it's Linux Wireless G support which is considered the low point. It usually involves building a kernel module and loading the Windows NDIS driver.
FYI WPA works lovely on Windows and Mac. On Linux it kinda bites, with that stupid WPA Supplicant.
For you youngun's, MPC dictated a few basic features that a PC had to have to be considered capable of "multimedia". From memory, it required an Adlib compatible soundcard, a 1x CDROM and a VGA-capable video card.
Wow, I just had a major flashback. I remember spending 80 bucks on 4 megs of ram to bump my old 486 to MPC 2.
For more info go to http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_PC
Rhapsody's all you can eat MP3 service is one kick ass combination.
Sweet. I didn't even know Rhapsody had an mp3 service. I'll be getting this for my iPod.
Ah, ah ah.... Free SSL certificates are available here, and browsers trust them.
.5%.
http://www.cacert.org/
Bullshit! CaCert is not trusted by any browser with any marketshare above
The only free ssl certs you can get are usually limited to 30 days.
I wish it were something so simple. Apparently it's the bluetooth module, which sucks because I use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard.
Oh crap. I misread your sig. I thought you were saying that your mini crashes often, but your dell doesn't when running XP. IE that both were running XP.
LOL
By the way, you don't need the bang at the end of the command. That's only to force a quit when you have changes you want to abandon.
Or if the file you are writing is read-only.
My Mini crashes every other day. My Dell with XP, not once in seven months.
:)
Maybe if you ran OSX on your mini it wouldn't crash so much. Just because XP runs on a Mac these days, doesn't mean it will run well.
Now you're just showing off...
Naw, it's a Dell.
Maybe they don't anymore, but RHEL used to be full of closed source tools to run on the OS. Suse's YAST used to be in this category, and I know RedHat had their own stuff.
My mistake, RHEL does have a few closed source tools. But very few, and all distributed with legal licenses to do so. These tools include java, realplayer and adobe acrobat.
I was correct that Fedora does not include any closed source packages.
Red Hat has, however, release everything they own or buy. Even Netscape Directory is being released as oepn source (Fedora Directory). Definitely not in violation of the GPL.
Problems with MP3 has to do with patents, not copyright and the GPL.
I'm sorry, but perhaps you may have misread my post.
Red Hat doesn't even distribute basic mp3 players because they might violate someones license
Patents are licensed, correct? I mean when a ocmpany sues another over patent infringement, if they settle they are purchasing a license for the patent correct?
Please correct me if I have my terminology wrong, but this is my understanding.
I have a PIII running Windows 98SE with Windows Media Player 9 - it is very slow to load.
Bloat at its finest. . .
Most of the time that I open Windows Media Player, it is to watch a quick video clip - for this, I don't need the whole music guide and library to load.
This really pisses me off. I use iTunes to manage my music library (got an iPod), but WMP detects my podcasts trying to download and wants to takeover. I stream some radio shows from the east coast (I love JV & Elvis on 92.3 FreeFM in NY, they use to be in SF). Because of this WMP is running for a few hours per day, but it always tries to fight with my iTunes.
It would be nice if Microsoft would make two separate players - one to quickly play short clips, and one to manage my library.
They have one, but it doesn't work with the latest windows codecs. It's called mplayer2. Go to start/run and type mplayer2, the original media player. I still use it from time to time on my Pentium M 2.13 GHz w/ 2 gigs of ram laptop.
RedHat, SuSe, LinSpire and every other company that makes a profit selling Linux Distros include lots of binary only proprietary software that is not GPL, and Linus has said for years that they are perfectly alright in doing so.
Red Hat doesn't even distribute basic mp3 players because they might violate someones license. I can't think of a single file or package distributed with Fedora or RHEL that is not available in source to all.
I disagree. Reality TV is already rapidly dwindling, with only a few (Survivor, American Idol, etc.) remaining popular (did anyone actually watch Unanimous?)
I disagree. It is still in the process of being shoved in front of the people because it's cheap for them to produce. Ever wonder why so many new reality tv shows keep coming, but very few good tv shows are released?
Quality actors like Hugh Laurie (House) and John C. McGinley (Scrubs) are creating a rennaisance in network television, reminiscent of the pre-reality tv era, when you could pay big bucks for talent and still turn a tidy profit (The Cosby Show, Friends, Seinfeld, etc.)
I'm a big fan of Scrubs, and it's on the chopping block. My Name Is Earl has been cancelled. I like Numb3rs too, but imagine that willl soon be cancelled. Just about every show that people consider good ends up getting dropped because the average American is too damn busy. Productivity is up big time, we are beating the Japanese in output. Because of this, people aren't getting involved with TV like they used to. They want something stupid to watch and tune out, maybe even while they are doing other work. And reality tv fits the bill better. Face it, we fans of quality acting and good shows are screwed . . .
The Reality TV fad is dead. Basing an entire revenue stream on it would be financial suicide.
I disagree. As much as I wish that were true, I strongly disagree . . .
Great point regarding "reality TV" as a precursor for "video blogs". I never thought of that, but it makes perfect sense.
:)
Thanks
However, the big question remains, how does YouTube intend to make money from all of this? Ads? Selling content (a la Google Video)?
That's probably going to take something creative. I have no clue other than ads. All that matters is how the ads are done, it could be done very tactfully.
For example, people tag the hell out of these videos. All they need to do is write a channel engine that will allow people to "tune in". Say I am a fan of Skater vids, it would be trivial for them to write an engine to stream video after video of skater videos. Now how much is a skater channel worth to a company that makes skateboards or skater clothes?
Perhaps they'll just get sponsors that in turn get to run their own tag based channels, commercial free or otherwise? Who knows. . .
As others have mentioned, the technology is easy, the hard part is a profitable logistics model that works.
Who knows what YouTube will do to monetize the technology
I think that YouTube is going to be a major player in the near term. The tv companies have completely shot themselves in the foot and someone is going to dethrone them as the king of captive eyeballs.
Fact #1)The TV industry has changed from real productions to idiots with camera's (aka reality tv). By doing that alone, they've dropped the cost of creating a show to little more than a camera, a stupid idea and idiots.
Fact #2) Digital Cameras have gotten extremely cheap
Fact #3) There are millions of untapped idiots with their own camera's worldwide
By shoving reality tv down everyones throat, they've basically commoditized the creation of television content. YouTube is poised to make a killing, if just by putting basic ads on idiots doing stupid shit on camera, the same thing the tv companies do except over ip.
Already old media is feeling the force of podcasts, converting their existing shows to allow users to listen to what they want when they want it (and usually commercial free). It's only a matter of time before YouTube (or someone else) does the same to video. Keeping the clips short seems to be a good idea since most people don't have much of an attention span these days (if you've read this far, you're probably ahead of the curve).
ITMs is not the same price as CD's its a different unit. A CD contains multiple songs. If you count the total it would be same price as CD.
I didn't realize you couldn't click "Buy Album" on iTMS anymore... Thanks for the heads up.
By the way, I compare buying on iTMS to buying a cd because that's what Apple does. Users have called in to Leo Laporte's KFI Tech Guy complaining that they lost their music because they didn't backup. What were they told when they called for support? Buying from iTunes is like buying a cd, lose it and you have to buy again. Doh!
you have to pay for the vehicle and the gas to get to the store. (at least many of us)
Right, but your analogy is flawed. For it to make sense you'd have to deliver some groceries to a few of the people on your route home for the privilege of buying at the store. In addition, you'd not be allowed to share any food you bought with any of your family in the house, they'd have to buy their own food. And it'd all virtual food that you can't touch, but would cost the same as the more filling regular food.
Come to think of it, this analogy really sucks.
actually this is a just a ploy. when it flops because fewer people pay full price for less of a product, WB will say: see, that doesnt work, they just want to pirate.
Not necessarily. Look at the success of the iTunes music store. Same price as CD + DRM, yet still a success. If the user interface is good, who knows. I think the fact that porn companies are doing downloadable DVD 5/9 for less than the cost of the DVD itself may revolutionize the industry. Remember porn always leads the way.
Funny that on THE EXACT PAGE I LINKED TO, there is a picture of a laptop WITH THE IBM LOGO ON IT!!!! It's the most prominent thing on the page! Did you even bother looking into what you were saying? The Lenovo company itself calls their PCs IBMs. I know, they call me every damned day.
Dude, they bought the name. Those PC's are not made by IBM. Their frontpage may show an IBM Logo, but their products page says Lenovo. Even Lenovo has dropped the IBM name. Face it, there are no IBM PC's anymore! Why is this so hard for you to admit?