The first spin is the fact that he chose the cutoff dates he did.
Well, I know I wouldn't welcome a resume from a species that basically said: "no noteworthy accomplishments for the past eight centuries; too busy with politically correct infighting."
Donald J. Trump... I would like a computer chip that I could attach to the brains of all my contractors so that they would know exactly what I wanted, when I wanted it, and at what price I wanted it. This would save me a lot of time and a lot of yelling.
Heck with contractors, I'd attach those chips to my wife and kids. For pretty much the same reasons. (Admit it, Donald, you'd do the same.)
Of note is that 92 percent of the new information was stored on magnetic media, which may create an interesting problem for historians and archaeologists of the future.
That's because about 57 percent of it was internet porn.
the PDC build have already revealed dozens of surprise changes like an improved Internet Explorer with for example anti-popup support, a new plugin architecture, and a new download manager, etc.
Great, so in two years MS will release a new version of IE that can finally match the feature set of every other browser available today.
If the Phantom version of Crusher XTreme sells for 30 bucks, and the PS2/GCN/XBOX versions all sell for 50, why not go with the Phantom one?
For the same reason people sometimes pay $15-$20 for a physical CD instead of paying $9.99 to download it at the iTunes Music Store: sometimes you'd rather own the thing permanently with no restrictions on how or where you use it.
They should look at it another way: if I can pay $50 for a game that I own, unrestricted, can play on my friends' consoles, can resell at half price, and can play at any time, why should I pay the same price for a downloadable version of the same game and a $10/month subscription on top of that?
Anybody who's gone beyond trigonometry in school into pre-calc and calculus. Anybody who uses calculus in the college classes on a regular basis.
You may not personally have any use for a handheld device that can integrate and differentiate symbolically, but those who do find these things indispensable.
...and it's auto-popup blocking is destroying the brothers' business model. Destroying it! I haven't seen a pop-under ad in almost a year!
I feel for their case, and dislike X10's business ethics, but let's face it: we all hate internet advertising and anyone who profits from it. The pot's calling the kettle black as far as I'm concerned.
Browsing Apple's pages, I noticed that USB 2.0 support was added to these iBooks. USB 2.0 was first supported by Apple in the new G5 towers (although unlike the G5s, the iBooks don't support FireWire 800, only FW 400).
It also ships with OS X 10.3 Panther, although this should surprise no one as Panther is set to ship within the week anyway.
You can purchase new music using the unit's built-in LCD display and hear it 'instantly'. No PC required.
It's been suggested that Apple should try this very thing -- Wi-Fi functionality built into an iPod that would allow it to download music from the iTunes Music Store via wireless broadband and making the computer entirely optional.
Nobody's said that Apple's actually pursuing the technology, but you gotta admit it's a mighty good idea.
"We know we can build 100 of them, but the one-time costs to meet all the licensing is beyond any one company or country," he said.
The main reason they want to build this for Alaskan villages, the article says, is because only a combined Japanese/U.S. investment can provide enough money to develop the thing. Just how much is this little miracle going to cost? The article calls it a "$20 million gift", but I'm assuming that's just the raw cost.
Microsoft's #1 complaint, although unspoken, is that while iTunes can play downloaded MP3s, it can't play the DRM'ed WMA files that Microsoft promotes. In that sense, it's at odds with Microsoft's designs. Songs downloaded from iTMS only play on iTunes and iPod players, while WMA songs downloaded from other legal services can't and probably never will.
In that sense, it's iTMS vs. every other MS-sponsored service, and iPods vs. every other MS-sponsored player. However, Apple hasn't closed the format. It's just as possible for other download services and MP3 player manufacturers to support AAC just like iTMS and the iPod do. They simply don't at this time.
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...what military threat does China possess? They're a major economic ally now, and they only seem to wave their swords when Hong Kong or Taiwan threatens independence or something.
There was a greater threat of space combat with the Soviets when the Cold War was on, and that obviously never materialized. I'm sure this is just another obvious tactic to get more military funding from an already-overstretched federal government.
Agreed -- except for a few minor accomodations to the Windows OS, iTunes for Windows is spot-on exactly like iTunes for Mac, from the interface to the customizability to the tag editing to the usability.
This application may be a few years overdue, but IMO it's light-years ahead of every other free MP3 jukebox for Windows, and most of the commercial ones as well.
(You know what amazes me, though? Even in jest, no one here has been whining about the lack of a Linux version yet....)
...at present. If (when) iTMS is a hit, you can bet other MP3 makers will be asking Apple how to include support for their hardware.
And honestly, I think Apple will provide it (for a modest fee, natch), because while iPod sales are great, iTMS sales are also great. If Apple was only interested in selling their own hardware, they wouldn't have made iTMS/iPod Windows-compatible at all.
But I am not allowed to convert these files to, say, mp3 so that I can play them in my car.
You have an MP3 player in your car, but not a CD player? gripe to the manufacturer, then, and tell them you want a firmware update to support AAC files. It's not Apple's fault they can't add DRM support to the MP3 file format.
New iPod accessories include a $100 media reader that lets you save digital photos to your iPod and a $50 voice recorder that lets you save memos or lectures to the hard drive and sync them directly to iTunes. Both courtesy of Belkin.
The media reader seems overpriced to me, but a good idea for photo nuts. If I bought my high-school-age daughter an iPod in the near future, though, I'd get her the voice recorder at the same time. (I'm a viral geek; I have little use for an iPod myself, but I'd love to get her one and let her discover all the fun stuff you can do with it.)
If I'm not mistaken, iTunes works with MP3 players other than the iPod. You just need an iPod to play iTMS AAC tracks and to support AutoSync of your music library.
Complaining about city planning is fruitless -- no metropolis can just redesign their roadways. Some, like Rome and Tokyo, have had their layout literally for centuries. Computerized assistance is the only way anyone can get anywhere.
Do you think that Microsoft would sooner give up server OS sales or desktop OS sales?
Consumer desktop or business workstation? If you mean consumer, then yes, they'd rather give that up and keep their business customers without any question. Corporate sales are where the most money is.
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If Lotka Curves were known since early last century, why do I find just one occurance of "Lotka Curve" (in quotes) on Google?
Not everything that's worth knowing is available on the Internet, no matter what Microsoft thinks.
The first spin is the fact that he chose the cutoff dates he did.
Well, I know I wouldn't welcome a resume from a species that basically said: "no noteworthy accomplishments for the past eight centuries; too busy with politically correct infighting."
Donald J. Trump... I would like a computer chip that I could attach to the brains of all my contractors so that they would know exactly what I wanted, when I wanted it, and at what price I wanted it. This would save me a lot of time and a lot of yelling.
Heck with contractors, I'd attach those chips to my wife and kids. For pretty much the same reasons. (Admit it, Donald, you'd do the same.)
Of note is that 92 percent of the new information was stored on magnetic media, which may create an interesting problem for historians and archaeologists of the future.
That's because about 57 percent of it was internet porn.
While you're at Best Buy why don't you just buy the CD? It would certainly be cheaper than $14.85.
Because the card is good for any 15 singles you want, while the CD is good for one album with maybe one or two singles you want.
the PDC build have already revealed dozens of surprise changes like an improved Internet Explorer with for example anti-popup support, a new plugin architecture, and a new download manager, etc.
Great, so in two years MS will release a new version of IE that can finally match the feature set of every other browser available today.
I'm impressed, truly, I am.
If the Phantom version of Crusher XTreme sells for 30 bucks, and the PS2/GCN/XBOX versions all sell for 50, why not go with the Phantom one?
For the same reason people sometimes pay $15-$20 for a physical CD instead of paying $9.99 to download it at the iTunes Music Store: sometimes you'd rather own the thing permanently with no restrictions on how or where you use it.
They should look at it another way: if I can pay $50 for a game that I own, unrestricted, can play on my friends' consoles, can resell at half price, and can play at any time, why should I pay the same price for a downloadable version of the same game and a $10/month subscription on top of that?
...at about 2:00 AM, Daylight Savings Time ends and I get to take a whole hour back from my cruel corporate masters.
Of course, my cruel infant masters are still going to wake me up after ten hours of sleep no matter what the clock says.
IMHO, the biggest con for all of them is that none of them (that I'm aware of) consolidates ALL music. Every song ever recorded.
Good luck finding anything that does that. Even with Gnutella or KaZaA, you're not going to find an archive that complete.
I don't know about anyone else, but personally, I'm not using one of these things until they stop putting restrictions on the file usage.
You know, when Steve Jobs announced that "Hell froze over" when iTunes for Windows was announced, he was just kidding.
who needs that much in a calculator?
Anybody who's gone beyond trigonometry in school into pre-calc and calculus. Anybody who uses calculus in the college classes on a regular basis.
You may not personally have any use for a handheld device that can integrate and differentiate symbolically, but those who do find these things indispensable.
...and it's auto-popup blocking is destroying the brothers' business model. Destroying it! I haven't seen a pop-under ad in almost a year!
I feel for their case, and dislike X10's business ethics, but let's face it: we all hate internet advertising and anyone who profits from it. The pot's calling the kettle black as far as I'm concerned.
From the linked page: "The single most important characteristic of the smart phone is that it represents the development of a smart phone...."
As opposed to all those smart phones out there that are actually lizards with antennas strapped to their backs, I suppose.
Browsing Apple's pages, I noticed that USB 2.0 support was added to these iBooks. USB 2.0 was first supported by Apple in the new G5 towers (although unlike the G5s, the iBooks don't support FireWire 800, only FW 400).
It also ships with OS X 10.3 Panther, although this should surprise no one as Panther is set to ship within the week anyway.
You can purchase new music using the unit's built-in LCD display and hear it 'instantly'. No PC required.
It's been suggested that Apple should try this very thing -- Wi-Fi functionality built into an iPod that would allow it to download music from the iTunes Music Store via wireless broadband and making the computer entirely optional.
Nobody's said that Apple's actually pursuing the technology, but you gotta admit it's a mighty good idea.
"We know we can build 100 of them, but the one-time costs to meet all the licensing is beyond any one company or country," he said.
The main reason they want to build this for Alaskan villages, the article says, is because only a combined Japanese/U.S. investment can provide enough money to develop the thing. Just how much is this little miracle going to cost? The article calls it a "$20 million gift", but I'm assuming that's just the raw cost.
Microsoft's #1 complaint, although unspoken, is that while iTunes can play downloaded MP3s, it can't play the DRM'ed WMA files that Microsoft promotes. In that sense, it's at odds with Microsoft's designs. Songs downloaded from iTMS only play on iTunes and iPod players, while WMA songs downloaded from other legal services can't and probably never will.
In that sense, it's iTMS vs. every other MS-sponsored service, and iPods vs. every other MS-sponsored player. However, Apple hasn't closed the format. It's just as possible for other download services and MP3 player manufacturers to support AAC just like iTMS and the iPod do. They simply don't at this time.
...what military threat does China possess? They're a major economic ally now, and they only seem to wave their swords when Hong Kong or Taiwan threatens independence or something.
There was a greater threat of space combat with the Soviets when the Cold War was on, and that obviously never materialized. I'm sure this is just another obvious tactic to get more military funding from an already-overstretched federal government.
Agreed -- except for a few minor accomodations to the Windows OS, iTunes for Windows is spot-on exactly like iTunes for Mac, from the interface to the customizability to the tag editing to the usability.
This application may be a few years overdue, but IMO it's light-years ahead of every other free MP3 jukebox for Windows, and most of the commercial ones as well.
(You know what amazes me, though? Even in jest, no one here has been whining about the lack of a Linux version yet....)
...at present. If (when) iTMS is a hit, you can bet other MP3 makers will be asking Apple how to include support for their hardware.
And honestly, I think Apple will provide it (for a modest fee, natch), because while iPod sales are great, iTMS sales are also great. If Apple was only interested in selling their own hardware, they wouldn't have made iTMS/iPod Windows-compatible at all.
But I am not allowed to convert these files to, say, mp3 so that I can play them in my car.
You have an MP3 player in your car, but not a CD player? gripe to the manufacturer, then, and tell them you want a firmware update to support AAC files. It's not Apple's fault they can't add DRM support to the MP3 file format.
New iPod accessories include a $100 media reader that lets you save digital photos to your iPod and a $50 voice recorder that lets you save memos or lectures to the hard drive and sync them directly to iTunes. Both courtesy of Belkin.
The media reader seems overpriced to me, but a good idea for photo nuts. If I bought my high-school-age daughter an iPod in the near future, though, I'd get her the voice recorder at the same time. (I'm a viral geek; I have little use for an iPod myself, but I'd love to get her one and let her discover all the fun stuff you can do with it.)
If I'm not mistaken, iTunes works with MP3 players other than the iPod. You just need an iPod to play iTMS AAC tracks and to support AutoSync of your music library.
Complaining about city planning is fruitless -- no metropolis can just redesign their roadways. Some, like Rome and Tokyo, have had their layout literally for centuries. Computerized assistance is the only way anyone can get anywhere.
Do you think that Microsoft would sooner give up server OS sales or desktop OS sales?
Consumer desktop or business workstation? If you mean consumer, then yes, they'd rather give that up and keep their business customers without any question. Corporate sales are where the most money is.