I'm not a rube. I don't "want the damn job." But looking at the choices the company had available, I was the least sucky option. If you've always had great bosses, be happy. I've had my share of bad ones, and didn't want to inflict another one on myself and the rest of the team.
Ask him this question: What is a supervisor's duty to his subordinates?
Well said, Flamingcheeze! Now, to crimethinker, the original poster, here's the gut-check: if none of the candidates answer this question to your satisfaction, will you be willing to forego your desire to stay "hands-on" with the code, and throw your hat back into the ring? I found myself in a position very similar to yours recently. After six weeks passed with no good candidates appearing, I found myself morally obligated to apply for the job. I actually got the position over a more experienced candidate. I may not be doing the job I *want* to do, but team morale is better due to management making a promotion from within. Yes, if you get the job, you may be losing one of your most productive workers (yourself), but try to think of the big picture.
I hope this has Lucas' student short of THX (which was then remade into a feature length). I really preferred it honestly, and I haven't been able to find it in any consumer-oriented format previously.
You must not have been looking very hard. It's right here, and has been out for three years now.
Houston was the same way. I got hooked when my first three all won. Six out of the nine bottles I bought were winners. Then my wife, in an amazing display of pity, gave me an iTMS gift certificate because she knows how much I prefer Coke.
Sorry. I only tried it on my own AAC's from CDDA. Still, the fundamental idea that there's no way to get a DRM'ed AAC to mp3 is flawed. I use this method to get DRM'ed WMA's onto my iPod, as well. If you use a CD-RW, there's no wasted materials either.
How about playing the files on non apple hardware such as a portable mp3 player?
You would have to transcode the file to mp3, a function that iTunes already lets you do. No need to circumvent the DRM.
Or even to burn it to cd and play it in your car?
Uh, have you even looked at iTunes? That circle in the top-right corner that says "Burn to CD?"
What if you were searching for hidden messages and wanted to play it backwards?
Open it it QuickTime, and hold down the left-arrow button.
Or play it on your network-enabled-but-not-approved-by-apple-home-ste reo.
There are several options that don't involve circumventing the DRM. Besides the abovementioned burn-to CD option, you could try this (wireless), or this (wired).
Now, if you had said that you want to play your iTunes Music Store purchases on your Linux box, you'd actually have an argument.
Not the same thing. To paraphrase a famous Spaniard, "They keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what their marketing department thinks it means." That program allows ripping of the (PCM or MPEG-2) audio stream from a DVD-Video, NOT the audio stream from a DVD-Audio. Note that the screenshot shows a frame from the movie "Finding Nemo." The grandparent wants to find a way to access the uncompressed 5.1 sound on a music DVD-Audio.
...look at how James Cameron was sued by the estate of P. K. Dick over "Terminator" because Cameron stated that the movie was inspired in part by some P. K. Dick story, that was enough for the estate (which has nothing to do with him or his family) to sue for plagiarism, even though the similarities in stories were only superficial at best.
Absolutely wrong. Cameron was sued by the still-living (and extremely litigious, when he's not violent) Harlan Ellison.
As a space geek, I concur. There's a bad analogy in the story. It says "Made up of space history buffs, the group [Space Restoration Society] likens the Launch Umbilical Tower -- also known by the NASA acronym LUT -- to the piers from which Christopher Columbus set sail from in Palos de la Frontera, Spain with the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria."
Not so. The "piers," or launch pads, are still in use by the Space Shuttle program. The LUT's are more like the ropes that held the ships to the piers. Let 'em go, I say.
I know all the british folks pronounce the car a Jag-you-are
So do some Americans, but the parent was referring to the specific Apple implementation of the word as used to describe OX X 10.2 . Jag-wire, as in FireWire.
If you're not comfortable with the "automatic import and eject" feature (I know that I wasn't; I had a lot of tracks I wanted to merge before ripping, in order to avoid between-song gaps like in "Sgt. Pepper-With a Little Help from My Friends." Others might want to proofread the tags from CDDB before ripping, etc.), I asked for and got a custom Applescript from Doug Adams.
The "Rip CD's in a Row" script is perfect. I've used it on up to six optical drives at a time without an error.
And yes, I sent him 10 bucks by Paypal.
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The greatest books that ever used altered/mutated language as metaphors for the state of humanity were 1984 and A Clockwork Orange.
I take it that you've never read Riddley Walker. It handily trumps the abovementioned texts.
I'm going to be harsh here and tell you that failing to download a song you purchased strikes me as akin to flunking high school. I mean, how the...?
Long story short, I didn't consider it a critical component of my life, and decided to postpone the D/L until I signed up for broadband at home. It just so happened that I finally got DSL in October. A week later, I received their message to users that their business model was changing, and that all downloads under the previous terms of service should be completed by Halloween (you got that one, didn't you?). But by then, it was already too late. 40% of my purchased music was gone.
At the very LEAST, I would have considered it appropriate for emusic to have sent an e-mail saying "due to contractual obligations, our access to the following music will be ending in 30 days. Please download now or forever hold your peace." There was no warning.
I can understand that the music might go away, and if they were actually sorry, I might even be willing to forgive them for failing to notify me of that fact. But my big issue right now is the fact that they've "lost" their records of what I have and have not downloaded. So, while they're not calling me a liar, they are refusing to even let me exchange the missing music for something else in their catalog.
They were nice while they lasted, but I won't be going back.
unless a superior cost-competive online independent music distributor that provides unrestricted files happens to pop up, I'm sticking with emusic.
iTunes has indies, and I buy them all of the time. For freebies, I'm using Epitonic (which seems to be down today) and iRate (which is a heck of a lot of work, because no matter how many hundreds of Techno songs I rate "This Sux!", it still keeps feeding me more...) I'm too cheap to actually buy satellite radio (and I only live two miles from work), but following the links provided by XM's "unsigned" channel has provided some good stuff.
emusic.com keeps track of every song you've ever downloaded and allows you to redownload them as many times as you want for free.
Untrue. I am currently working with the San Diego BBB, trying to get access to Emusic.com songs that I purchased, but *never downloaded*. It turns out that many of the licenses thay have procured are extremely short-term, and they DO NOT notify their customers when said music is set to vanish from the catalog. So far, they have told me that because I failed to download the files when they were available, I am SOL. No download, no refund, no "exchange." I used to recommend Emusic, but now I say beware!
What legitimate need does a single person have when downloading 40 gigs of data over a short period of time?
Using this file as a baseline, I'd guess that the human genome as a text file would take up about 7 GB. If you got a CRC error on the first five tries, well there you go!
It was Apple. the iTunes installer updates or rewrites some DLL's, which effectively disables MusicMatch's ability to sync with iPods. This is not a huge surprise (certainly not as bizarre as the fact that Norton Antivirus can break Roxio's EZ-CD Creator). There are a few problems with the analogy:
MusicMatch still works fine on its own, and you couldn't have transferred/listened to MusicMatch purchased songs on an iPod anyway.
If you were a Windows iPod user who downloaded iTunes, there must have been some deficiency in MusicMatch to begin with, or you wouldn't have bothered.
If you decide you hate iTunes, you can fix the problem by simply re-installing MusicMatch.
Actually, Apple won't start making a profit on this until they sell several songs to each downloader of the iTunes software. Remember that because it includes mp3 and AAC encoders, they've got to pay Fraunhofer $2.50 for each download (that's assuming that they're not getting a volume discount), and Dolby about 12 cents.
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I'm not a rube. I don't "want the damn job." But looking at the choices the company had available, I was the least sucky option. If you've always had great bosses, be happy. I've had my share of bad ones, and didn't want to inflict another one on myself and the rest of the team.
I seriously doubt that the colors are as intense as shown in the publicity photo. Look how "purple" the model's skin is!
And I wouldn;t exactly call Amime Unleashed or Robot Wars "original," either, as they're both just repackaged.
I have no idea how much it costs; it was preloaded on my Sony TH55.
Houston was the same way. I got hooked when my first three all won. Six out of the nine bottles I bought were winners. Then my wife, in an amazing display of pity, gave me an iTMS gift certificate because she knows how much I prefer Coke.
Sorry. I only tried it on my own AAC's from CDDA. Still, the fundamental idea that there's no way to get a DRM'ed AAC to mp3 is flawed. I use this method to get DRM'ed WMA's onto my iPod, as well. If you use a CD-RW, there's no wasted materials either.
Now, if you had said that you want to play your iTunes Music Store purchases on your Linux box, you'd actually have an argument.
...did you see the attribution on the Houston Chronicle site? "Assocaited" Press.
If only you had used the correct word. It's elicit, not illicit.
Not so. The "piers," or launch pads, are still in use by the Space Shuttle program. The LUT's are more like the ropes that held the ships to the piers. Let 'em go, I say.
The "Rip CD's in a Row" script is perfect. I've used it on up to six optical drives at a time without an error.
And yes, I sent him 10 bucks by Paypal.
At the very LEAST, I would have considered it appropriate for emusic to have sent an e-mail saying "due to contractual obligations, our access to the following music will be ending in 30 days. Please download now or forever hold your peace." There was no warning.
I can understand that the music might go away, and if they were actually sorry, I might even be willing to forgive them for failing to notify me of that fact. But my big issue right now is the fact that they've "lost" their records of what I have and have not downloaded. So, while they're not calling me a liar, they are refusing to even let me exchange the missing music for something else in their catalog.
They were nice while they lasted, but I won't be going back.
iTunes has indies, and I buy them all of the time. For freebies, I'm using Epitonic (which seems to be down today) and iRate (which is a heck of a lot of work, because no matter how many hundreds of Techno songs I rate "This Sux!", it still keeps feeding me more...) I'm too cheap to actually buy satellite radio (and I only live two miles from work), but following the links provided by XM's "unsigned" channel has provided some good stuff.Shouldn't that be c over lambda?
Actually, Apple won't start making a profit on this until they sell several songs to each downloader of the iTunes software. Remember that because it includes mp3 and AAC encoders, they've got to pay Fraunhofer $2.50 for each download (that's assuming that they're not getting a volume discount), and Dolby about 12 cents.
For another couple of weeks, Emusic.