So DUH if they couldn't best highway mpg. On a highway they aren't using their eletric engine, they're essentially using the gas engine plus lugging an extra several hundred pounds of batteries and motors.
The mileage ratings are only crocks if you drive like an idiot or suffer the misfortune of living in an extremely harsh environment, which is bad for ALL cars.
Do a little more research on the matter. 36mpg in the city for a SUV (for any car) is outstanding.
Right, except that for every handful of songs, Apple has probably sold an iPod to PLAY those songs.
So 100 million downloads = $10 million dollars, plus $180 million in iPods (they've sold about three million by now, and I'm just guessing at $60 profit per iPod. I hear they have 22% margin, so if the average iPod is $350, that would be about $77) and there's no reason they can't sell another four million iPods in the next year and another 400 million songs, what with *three* new music stores and two new distributors!
So Virgin wants to be able to sell Fairplay enabled AAC tracks.
BUT their store won't work with Mozilla, and I doubt it would work with Safari. I'll have to check that later, at home.
Who owns the content on their music store? If they do... why is it they can't sell their music through iTunes? I don't see why Apple wouldn't be happy to see a Virgin-iTMS if they get 10% of the cut!
Is it in players? Is it in content? Is it in distribution?
See, with players they're already licensing the iPod to HP and Motorola. In content they already have indies as well as major bands. In distribution they have iTMS for Windows, Mac, and soon Motorola.
If they license Fairplay, that means other people's content is allowed on the network; it also means other people can create their own networks, and it means other people can create their own players!
However if Apple licenses FP in such a way to generate network effects... I would expect Apple to license FP for other players, and maintain control over content and distribution!
Of course I did get a job in a Fortune 500 company right out of college, but that was my degree talking, too. My interview helped of course.
And you're right, it's important to keep learning and take interesting projects, but that was *exactly* what my degree offered me. If your degree doesn't, or if you don't pursue those opportunities, don't blame the degree before looking at yourself.
Anyway, I *like* that there is a driving license. I wish it were *more* difficult.
Marriage... that one is less useful now than it might have been 100 years ago. And with common law marriages, quite useless, though lots of states don't recognize common law marriage.
Fishing and hunting I'll agree too as I don't think we should have unlicensed folk with guns shooting at things. At the least, it limits them.
Essentially licensing is a force to limit, and in certain things I think that's good.
Maybe you went to the wrong school... but a lot of places seem to value the school you went to, and are willing to take 'college hires' and train them up to be fully productive.
I certainly got a lot from my degree... too bad you couldn't wring as much from yours.
Where I went to school frequently comes up in job interviews.
And I've only had four job interviews and two jobs since I graduated.
The degree can be seen as a statement from the school certifying you, in which case the value of the degree is entirely correlated to the school you got it from.
Think of a degree as legal tender, and each school as a different country. Does the country from which the banknote is issued make a difference in it's value?
Heck, my life is divided into thirds: Work for 40 hours a week Sleep for 60 hours a week Life for 68 hours a week
Seems to me that 'half the fluff removed that will have no bearing on real-world employment' has full applicability to living. Work is one of the least important parts of my life, strictly on an hourly basis, and if I could get away with even less I'd be even happier.
Of course, given you won't be scratching those anytime soon, 'backing up' becomes less of an issue, so much as 'space shifting' is when you have multiple PS3s in the household...
Because I'm not going to make all the improvements I want.
When you start with that premise, then the issue of value becomes, "What worth is it to have source you won't use, won't consider, won't touch?"
A house you can live in, but built by someone else, or a house you can do everything except wash the dishes and open the windows, except you have the blueprints?
What does Juk have over iTunes as far as managing you music collection?
iTunes is free (like Juke) iTunes is on v4.6 with the accompanying stability and polish iTunes has sound normalization iTunes has song ratings iTunes plays CDs, internet radio, and streaming music from other computers iTunes rips songs
Unless there's a version of Juk I don't know of... Juk doesn't rip songs or play CDs?
Why? It's more mature. It's more convenient. It's *still* free It gives you more capabilities with downloaded music:
Burn on 7 CDs before needing to alter your track order
Stream to 5 computers
Did I mention burning to CD was free?
You are right, Linux programmers *should* try to write a better iTunes. They haven't yet. Taking a look at Juk features... you do realize that 90% of the features they tout on their website was first implemented by iTunes? Inline search, tree view mode (though implemented as column browse mode), tag editor, vfolders, online tag lookup, as well as the file renamer:)
So the real question is... What does Juk do that's better than iTunes that would suggest anyone use Juk?
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Uh, hybrid's strengths are in the city.
So DUH if they couldn't best highway mpg. On a highway they aren't using their eletric engine, they're essentially using the gas engine plus lugging an extra several hundred pounds of batteries and motors.
The mileage ratings are only crocks if you drive like an idiot or suffer the misfortune of living in an extremely harsh environment, which is bad for ALL cars.
Do a little more research on the matter. 36mpg in the city for a SUV (for any car) is outstanding.
Also to point out that many hybrids do get the efficiency they claim.
Chalk it up to environmental differences (altitude, humidity, temperature) and driver training (behavior and patterns).
Of course it matters.
It'll have applications in quatum computing, fuel cells, nuclear engines, fusion reactors, and chemotherapy!
Right, except that for every handful of songs, Apple has probably sold an iPod to PLAY those songs.
So 100 million downloads = $10 million dollars, plus $180 million in iPods (they've sold about three million by now, and I'm just guessing at $60 profit per iPod. I hear they have 22% margin, so if the average iPod is $350, that would be about $77) and there's no reason they can't sell another four million iPods in the next year and another 400 million songs, what with *three* new music stores and two new distributors!
So Virgin wants to be able to sell Fairplay enabled AAC tracks.
BUT their store won't work with Mozilla, and I doubt it would work with Safari. I'll have to check that later, at home.
Who owns the content on their music store? If they do... why is it they can't sell their music through iTunes? I don't see why Apple wouldn't be happy to see a Virgin-iTMS if they get 10% of the cut!
Right, they haven't licensed the iPod to HP, and they haven't licensed iTunes for Motorola's cell phones, right?
And isn't that the point in licensing it for other players? Get revenue in licensing and network effects, while minimising manufacturing costs?
If everything you say is true, then WMA is pointless.
Especially since iTunes will transcode unprotected WMA... Not the BEST solution, but it is a solution.
Well, it depends on where the market lies...
Is it in players?
Is it in content?
Is it in distribution?
See, with players they're already licensing the iPod to HP and Motorola.
In content they already have indies as well as major bands.
In distribution they have iTMS for Windows, Mac, and soon Motorola.
If they license Fairplay, that means other people's content is allowed on the network; it also means other people can create their own networks, and it means other people can create their own players!
However if Apple licenses FP in such a way to generate network effects... I would expect Apple to license FP for other players, and maintain control over content and distribution!
What a contrast from my experiences...
Of course I did get a job in a Fortune 500 company right out of college, but that was my degree talking, too. My interview helped of course.
And you're right, it's important to keep learning and take interesting projects, but that was *exactly* what my degree offered me. If your degree doesn't, or if you don't pursue those opportunities, don't blame the degree before looking at yourself.
Go run for office and fix it already!
Anyway, I *like* that there is a driving license. I wish it were *more* difficult.
Marriage... that one is less useful now than it might have been 100 years ago. And with common law marriages, quite useless, though lots of states don't recognize common law marriage.
Fishing and hunting I'll agree too as I don't think we should have unlicensed folk with guns shooting at things. At the least, it limits them.
Essentially licensing is a force to limit, and in certain things I think that's good.
Maybe you went to the wrong school... but a lot of places seem to value the school you went to, and are willing to take 'college hires' and train them up to be fully productive.
I certainly got a lot from my degree... too bad you couldn't wring as much from yours.
Where I went to school frequently comes up in job interviews.
And I've only had four job interviews and two jobs since I graduated.
The degree can be seen as a statement from the school certifying you, in which case the value of the degree is entirely correlated to the school you got it from.
Think of a degree as legal tender, and each school as a different country. Does the country from which the banknote is issued make a difference in it's value?
I would have to say yes.
Heck, my life is divided into thirds:
Work for 40 hours a week
Sleep for 60 hours a week
Life for 68 hours a week
Seems to me that 'half the fluff removed that will have no bearing on real-world employment' has full applicability to living. Work is one of the least important parts of my life, strictly on an hourly basis, and if I could get away with even less I'd be even happier.
Why don't you assume that people use PS2s for DVD players?
:)
I know I do that
What scratches?
With this?
Of course, given you won't be scratching those anytime soon, 'backing up' becomes less of an issue, so much as 'space shifting' is when you have multiple PS3s in the household...
Because I'm not going to make all the improvements I want.
When you start with that premise, then the issue of value becomes, "What worth is it to have source you won't use, won't consider, won't touch?"
A house you can live in, but built by someone else, or a house you can do everything except wash the dishes and open the windows, except you have the blueprints?
And you'd wake up tired, irritable, and cranky, seeing as you only had 3 hours of sleep!
Well, at the time I switched to iTunes, Winamp didn't have a Pro which had rip/burn features. I had to use CD n Go for those functions.
I think it was WA 2.9x when I switched to iTunes. Obviously WA has progressed since then.
Oops, your're right, iTunes is not free like Juk, but Juk is free like iTunes. The transitivity is one way here.
Why do you need one program to do everything? Uh... well, I suppose it's because CDs are music too.
Why is it Juk doesn't play *those* music files?
What does Juk have over iTunes as far as managing you music collection?
iTunes is free (like Juke)
iTunes is on v4.6 with the accompanying stability and polish
iTunes has sound normalization
iTunes has song ratings
iTunes plays CDs, internet radio, and streaming music from other computers
iTunes rips songs
Unless there's a version of Juk I don't know of... Juk doesn't rip songs or play CDs?
Why?
:)
It's more mature.
It's more convenient.
It's *still* free
It gives you more capabilities with downloaded music:
Burn on 7 CDs before needing to alter your track order
Stream to 5 computers
Did I mention burning to CD was free?
You are right, Linux programmers *should* try to write a better iTunes. They haven't yet. Taking a look at Juk features... you do realize that 90% of the features they tout on their website was first implemented by iTunes? Inline search, tree view mode (though implemented as column browse mode), tag editor, vfolders, online tag lookup, as well as the file renamer
So the real question is... What does Juk do that's better than iTunes that would suggest anyone use Juk?
Well, see, with iTMS the artists will see the money, unlike allofmp3 :P
You use it because it's the best music management app out there.
People generally want to use the best if they can, right? Now you (and other Linux-folk) can.
The real question is... Why wouldn't you use it? It's free, it's powerful, it's easy, it's simple!