So I'll stick to covnerting my music in TRUE open non-DRM'ed format (and at the bitrate I decide) that will play with EVERY company's player, software or hardware.
so you're simulatneously touting the fact that you don't have to deal with any restrictions AND complaining about the restrictions that come with buying music from Apple. Remind me again who it is who's threatening that Apple will be the only available music store in the future?
No, he did the work. And he already knew the Pythagorean theorem. But all of the references out there on index of refraction use trig. I just had to show him what a trig function means on a right-triangle, and he did the rest. And by the day of his presentation, he could take an arbitrary translucent material, and tell you its index. If you call that "doing his work for him," I pity your children.
It wasn't intended to give rise to unique insights. It was intended to simplify the teaching and calculation of geometry.
And it certainly isn't ground-breaking either. My 10-year old son and I derived these equations last year so he could demonstrate his 5th grade science fair project on index of refraction without having to resort to sines and cosines (which he's not supposed to understand yet).
given that the iPod is in large part an accessory for Windows users it seems to me that Apple needlessly complicated the issue just to be different.
I still don't think you're quite getting it. The fact that the uncompressed CD-DA audio files appear as normal to a MacOS computer means that there's nothing physically wrong with the CD. The fact that Windows users can't see them means that Microsoft has done something to the operating system to block this access. MS claims that they're helping you with your portable player by providing thosw files in WMA format so you don't "need" to see the uncompressed audio. Unfortunately, they won't license protected WMA to Apple for inclusion in iTunes or iPod. The fact that a piece of Apple software can't see a file that the OS is blocking is the responsibility of MS. Absolutely none of this problem can be laid at the feet of Apple.
If I were a Windows user (which I'm not) and I owned this CD (which I don't), I'd take a different approach (which would result avoiding re-compressing already lossy sound files, and in better quality audio on my iPod):
Download a Linux Live CD (Knoppix looks good);
boot into Linux;
Copy the CD-DA files to my HD as WAV or AIFF, then either;
Burn a new, unrestricted CD using those files, or;
Boot back into Windows and convert the WAV or AIFF uncompressed files for my iPod.
Look at http://www.dmband.com/news/news_popup_iPod.asp to see what one legit band had to tell its legit customers to do to listen to their legit CDs -- the band (these are the folks DRM supposedly protects!) even asks customers to beg Apple to fix its unnecessarily restrictive DRM scheme!
I don't see this as Apple's responsibility. Look what it says:
Information regarding Downloading Stand Up Songs to iPods
Please follow the instructions below in order to move your content into iTunes and onto an iPod:
If you have a Mac computer you can copy the songs using your iTunes Player as you would normally do.
All of those other gyrations needed aren't Apple's fault, they're a combination of Microsoft and the RIAA.
The site says that a Mac needs to be running Tiger in order for it to share a printer with Windows machines. I am not an early adopter, so Tiger is at least six months out for me. What about the reverse? Will an XP machine with SP2 and Bonjour be able to share a printer with Panther-loaded Macs?
We expect that our digital media will far outlast what we have on other permanent storage mediums, such as microfiche, which go back to 1972. If the "antiquated" microfiche can hold up that long why not our records stored on the digital media?
The "antiquated" methods really don't hold up that long either. When I was in college in the mid-80's, I had a work-study job at the Graduate Library's preservation office that alternated between searching for books with brittle pages (and sending them off to be microfilmed, after researching and determining that no other major library had done that already ), and inspecting the microfilm for spots of fungus (and sending *those* off for cleaning/duplication). It all felt a bit Sisyphean.
They seemed able to just about keep pace with the aging of the colleciton by having four of us on the job every semester. I would pray that by now, with PC-based scanning, this Intarweb thingie to help them know what other libraries are up to, and optical digital backup media, that they would have been able to dump the film/fiche, and keep away entropy with just 1-2 students.
The difference between auto mechanics and computer repairmen is that the mechanics have a union which forces licensing on its members to boost the price of labor.
Does your muvo micro n200 play Audible.com files? If you like 'books on tape,' getting a used SonicBlue Rio 500 with 512 MB worth of memory (swappable with one 128 MB SmartMedia card at a time) will still set you back over $150.
It all depends on which "few other things" are most important to you.
I once had a girlfriend with serious "wake-up issues." I got her something like this, which seems to accomplish the same goal as Clocky, but does it by launching a projectile across the room, and requiring you to re-insert it to turn off the alarm.
If you use the word Music to describe Led Zeppelin, or Iron Maiden, you can't use the same word for this guy.
Interesting comparison. My iPod, with 5000 songs, contains two by MC Chris (Fett's Vette, I Want Candy), one by Led Zep (Fool in the Rain), and zero by Iron Maiden. So, the answer is yes. If you consider those other two to be "music," by my subjective standards, MC Chris counts just as much.
Sort of. He could only have violated the TOS if he had agreed to them through the iTunes EULA. Since this program wasn't using iTunes, the Terms of Service weren't invoked.
I'm with you. I was hoping that I could use this "portable" function to move a USB keychain between my Powerbook, my wife's XP machine, and a Linux box. It does not appear to support multiple platforms. As it sits now, I'm much better off with the set of Applescripts that I use to push/pull bookmark files in order to synchronize them manually. If I got energetic enough to make the script ignore the "last viewed" part of the differences between these files, I could do a multi-sync every night over TCP/IP.
it was almost a year before 98 had USB capabilitys
Nope. I'm a huge Apple fan, but Windows USB support arrived with Windows 95 Service Pack 1. 98 had it right out of the starting gate. Widespread hardware support, on the other hand, started to appear about a year after Win98 (coinciding with the iMac ramp-up).
It's just a media difference. The codec is the same for both media. What's interesting is that just a few weeks ago, Cringely predicted that Apple would straddle the fence for as long as possible.
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No, he did the work. And he already knew the Pythagorean theorem. But all of the references out there on index of refraction use trig. I just had to show him what a trig function means on a right-triangle, and he did the rest. And by the day of his presentation, he could take an arbitrary translucent material, and tell you its index. If you call that "doing his work for him," I pity your children.
If I were a Windows user (which I'm not) and I owned this CD (which I don't), I'd take a different approach (which would result avoiding re-compressing already lossy sound files, and in better quality audio on my iPod):
. Yeah, but consider the alternatives. Sticking with 'web origins only,' they could have picked Biker Fox or pixyland.org.
The site says that a Mac needs to be running Tiger in order for it to share a printer with Windows machines. I am not an early adopter, so Tiger is at least six months out for me. What about the reverse? Will an XP machine with SP2 and Bonjour be able to share a printer with Panther-loaded Macs?
- Google 7873
- Yahoo 3163
- MSN 199
- AOL 65
- Dogpile 44
- Unknown 41
- Earth Link 28
- AltaVista 16
- Excite 14
- A9.com 9
- Others 77
...which comes out to about 2% MSN.
They seemed able to just about keep pace with the aging of the colleciton by having four of us on the job every semester. I would pray that by now, with PC-based scanning, this Intarweb thingie to help them know what other libraries are up to, and optical digital backup media, that they would have been able to dump the film/fiche, and keep away entropy with just 1-2 students.
It all depends on which "few other things" are most important to you.
I once had a girlfriend with serious "wake-up issues." I got her something like this, which seems to accomplish the same goal as Clocky, but does it by launching a projectile across the room, and requiring you to re-insert it to turn off the alarm.
Sort of. He could only have violated the TOS if he had agreed to them through the iTunes EULA. Since this program wasn't using iTunes, the Terms of Service weren't invoked.
I'm with you. I was hoping that I could use this "portable" function to move a USB keychain between my Powerbook, my wife's XP machine, and a Linux box. It does not appear to support multiple platforms. As it sits now, I'm much better off with the set of Applescripts that I use to push/pull bookmark files in order to synchronize them manually. If I got energetic enough to make the script ignore the "last viewed" part of the differences between these files, I could do a multi-sync every night over TCP/IP.
My in-laws are approaching 70, and have the same aversion to cell phones. 7-11's prepaid plans, while not the cheapest, are good for a whole year.
I'm not sure what you mean by "proprietary" in this case, as the PSP uses MPEG-4, which is No more proprietary than MPEG-2, your counter-example.
I didn't realize that CleverNickName had a second user account.
It's just a media difference. The codec is the same for both media. What's interesting is that just a few weeks ago, Cringely predicted that Apple would straddle the fence for as long as possible.
That's just the lameness filter. Remove extra spaces and try again.