To be perfectly clear, you are stating that Apple is a monopoly because they are the sole vendor of the hardware, software, and music, right?
Is Ford a monopoly of Tauruses? Yes. Does that make Ford a monopoly? No. There are competitors to iTunes. Music Match and Windows Media Player. There are competitors to iTunes. Walmart, Napster, and Rhapsody. There are competitors to the iPod. Dell Jukebox, iRivers, MuVos, and Nomads. There are even competitors to the Mac. HPs, IBMs, Dells, and Gateways.
You want an explanation for how Apple escapes the critcism Microsoft gets for proprietary and monopoly?
Apple hasn't utilized their sucess in the music field to dictate legal and contract issues with venders, oems, consumers, and suppliers. See Compaq, Netscape, Sun, etc.
Apple hasn't relied on monopoly status to carry them through. Otherwise known as resting on your laurels. Microsoft's biggest competition is older versions of OSes and Office suites. Apple has to contend with Windows and Linux and everything else. Ask everyone who's had a buggy, leaky, exploited OS and browser.
As for proprietary... How exactly do you mean that AAC is proprietary? Just because you can't figure out how to download a third party player that plays DRM AACs? There are at least two I know of:) How come MP3s and WAVs and CDs aren't proprietary? They are you know. When was the last time you wrote your own MP3 player or CD player? MP3s are just as legally bound as AACs.
Are you upset because you've bought into the Microsoft scheme and lost big (spyware, viruses, trojans, exploits, and flaky reliability)? Or because you are confused because Apple goods cost more, look better, and are otherwise unattainable in your world?
There's a good reason why Apple has 'smart' applications and functions, and not 'intelligent'. No piece of software is intelligent.
You want intelligent, where the program actually fools you into believing that it can think, where smart means it responds intelligently (but not autonomously). If you don't want to see the distinction, well, oh well.
Clippy is supposed to be intelligent. Everyone hates it. iTunes is supposed to be smart. Everyone likes it.
When software *second guesses* you, it is annoying. When software is automatable and automatic, it is helpful.
It's not even true, what you said. Not because all apps are from Apple will this help apply to all help applications, but because the help application that Apple provides in the OS has this feature, then all applications with a help system will have this feature.
Kind of like how all applications that use fonts get access to all the fonts installed on the system; not because all apps are Apple apps, but because Apple provides a systemwide set of fonts and an API and framework to make them accessible.
So web enabled help is a freebie because Apple integrated it into the Help Application (that's what it's called, in the Application folder.
No, like Window's Help and Support Center, in Windows XP, which also searches the web. The difference is that the OS X Help application is global and applies to all help applications, where in MS's case each app has it's own Help index, and for XP, Office, and Office XP, their own help tools. I'm pretty sure (don't have a copy yet, like you) that in Tiger, any and all apps will be able to search Apple's knowledge base as well as the web for stuff. The difference in implementation between Apple and Microsoft is scope and consistency.
Microsoft's web enabled help applications are selective.
You only mention that you can afford 500+ CDs, but you can't afford an iPod. Obviously then it's not a finance issue, but a finance accumulation issue. If you can get enough money to buy 20 CDs, you can get enough money to buy an iPod mini.
Hmm, if you have over 500 CDs most of which you never listen to, then that is your problem right there.
500 CDs at $10 each is $5,000. You could have saved yourself a lot of money by only buying 100 CDs you really do listen to ($1,000) plus an iPod ($399) and get all your music in a convenient 10 hour format.
That's what I did. Instead you've spent $50 on an mp3/cd player and $thousands on music.
I'm not exactly sure, having to look up SLP protocol in Google, but it sounds like Zeroconf is both distributed and p2p, where SLP still relies on directory agents to distribute information (like DNS servers or print servers?).
I didn't think their usage of ghost was particularly obscure, though maybe you didn't understand what a shell was: A shell was a body, and thus a ghost in the shell is a soul in a body.
And of course, the whole point of the movie, by the end, was the ghost outside the shell:)
If your skin is too dark and you lack a source of vitamin D, you will suffer from vD deficiency; especially the higher north in lattitude you travel. If you are genetically predisposed to a certain amount of melanin, then there's an optimal lattitude for you to live. Too far south and you increase chances of premature aging and skin cancer, too far north and you waste away from lack of vitamin D!
So if your genes predispose you to produce more melanin, you can live in a sunnier location than your peers, and you and your children precisely exhibit the founder effect.
Your own example confirms this:
Europeans are predominantly white due to the European lifestyle and climate, whereby considerable amounts of time are spent indoors, and (certianly in Britain), it isn't that sunny for most of the year. To quote Wikipedia: "As with peoples that migrated northward, those with light skin that migrated southward had to acclimate to the much stronger solar radiation."
People with light skin had to take active steps to thrive in the sunny south. They had 'adapted' to live in the less sunny north. Vs the natives of the south, they would have had to stay in the shade more, dress appropriately, and use sunscreen. The only other way to acclimate to stronger solar radiation is to tan, and have you noticed how impossible it is for Irish and Scandanavians to tan?:)
Just because it's legal or illegal doesn't make it right or wrong. I think buying from AoM is wrong because the artists aren't getting paid (or paid much less).
In the same way I view 'our' exploitation of our own economy as a natural outgrowth of people wanting to buy more and pay less. I am perfectly willing to pay more and buy less; there is very little material good in this world that is truly important, so paying a little more and buying a little less is not bad or evil or inconvenient at all.
> They don't count because they are not paying the musicians for the music they are selling.
Russia has compulsory licensing and AllOfMP3 pays royalties to the collection agency.
Whether any of that money is ever paid to artists is a different matter, but AllOfMP3 does pay.
So... parent poster says it doesn't count because the musicians aren't being paid.
You reply off topic by saying AllOfMP3 pays royalties to a collection agency, but on the very topic of whether AoM pays musicians, you say that's a different matter. That is the very matter the parent poster is bringing up!
So the best you can say is, "AoM pays royalties to the collection agency, but I don't know if any of that money goes to the musicians. As such then it is vague and ambiguous if AoM counts."
No, unlike Motorola, if Apple had stuck with the 680x0 architecture.
At that time there was no guarantee that AMD and Intel would have taken off as it did; it very well could have been IBM and Motorola instead of Intel and IBM that won over the desktop.
So history was: Apple used Motorola for 680x0 Apple switched to IBM+Motorola for PPC
Previous poster was speculating on how we don't know how Apple would have fared if Apple had stuck to the 680x0 for another few generations.
My rebuttal was that there was a real benefit to switching, over performance, and that was having two vendors.
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That is not what we call a monopoly :)
:) How come MP3s and WAVs and CDs aren't proprietary? They are you know. When was the last time you wrote your own MP3 player or CD player? MP3s are just as legally bound as AACs.
To be perfectly clear, you are stating that Apple is a monopoly because they are the sole vendor of the hardware, software, and music, right?
Is Ford a monopoly of Tauruses? Yes. Does that make Ford a monopoly? No. There are competitors to iTunes. Music Match and Windows Media Player. There are competitors to iTunes. Walmart, Napster, and Rhapsody. There are competitors to the iPod. Dell Jukebox, iRivers, MuVos, and Nomads. There are even competitors to the Mac. HPs, IBMs, Dells, and Gateways.
You want an explanation for how Apple escapes the critcism Microsoft gets for proprietary and monopoly?
Apple hasn't utilized their sucess in the music field to dictate legal and contract issues with venders, oems, consumers, and suppliers. See Compaq, Netscape, Sun, etc.
Apple hasn't relied on monopoly status to carry them through. Otherwise known as resting on your laurels. Microsoft's biggest competition is older versions of OSes and Office suites. Apple has to contend with Windows and Linux and everything else. Ask everyone who's had a buggy, leaky, exploited OS and browser.
As for proprietary... How exactly do you mean that AAC is proprietary? Just because you can't figure out how to download a third party player that plays DRM AACs? There are at least two I know of
Are you upset because you've bought into the Microsoft scheme and lost big (spyware, viruses, trojans, exploits, and flaky reliability)? Or because you are confused because Apple goods cost more, look better, and are otherwise unattainable in your world?
Like Clippy, then?
You're a sick, sick, man.
There's a good reason why Apple has 'smart' applications and functions, and not 'intelligent'. No piece of software is intelligent.
You want intelligent, where the program actually fools you into believing that it can think, where smart means it responds intelligently (but not autonomously). If you don't want to see the distinction, well, oh well.
Clippy is supposed to be intelligent. Everyone hates it.
iTunes is supposed to be smart. Everyone likes it.
When software *second guesses* you, it is annoying. When software is automatable and automatic, it is helpful.
Suspicions only mark yourself as suspicious :)
It's not even true, what you said. Not because all apps are from Apple will this help apply to all help applications, but because the help application that Apple provides in the OS has this feature, then all applications with a help system will have this feature.
Kind of like how all applications that use fonts get access to all the fonts installed on the system; not because all apps are Apple apps, but because Apple provides a systemwide set of fonts and an API and framework to make them accessible.
So web enabled help is a freebie because Apple integrated it into the Help Application (that's what it's called, in the Application folder.
You can also see this in action in, of all things, iTunes (for Windows or Macs) in Smart Playlists
No, like Window's Help and Support Center, in Windows XP, which also searches the web. The difference is that the OS X Help application is global and applies to all help applications, where in MS's case each app has it's own Help index, and for XP, Office, and Office XP, their own help tools. I'm pretty sure (don't have a copy yet, like you) that in Tiger, any and all apps will be able to search Apple's knowledge base as well as the web for stuff. The difference in implementation between Apple and Microsoft is scope and consistency.
Microsoft's web enabled help applications are selective.
Past history suggests that you'll probably get tired of the next 40 CDs...
:)
Anyway, you like it that way, fine. My next 40 CDs, like my last 100, will live happily on my half full iPod
Not at all.
You only mention that you can afford 500+ CDs, but you can't afford an iPod. Obviously then it's not a finance issue, but a finance accumulation issue. If you can get enough money to buy 20 CDs, you can get enough money to buy an iPod mini.
Where can I buy a MythTV box?
I'm sure :)
$250 doesn't accumulate overnight either.
Hmm, if you have over 500 CDs most of which you never listen to, then that is your problem right there.
500 CDs at $10 each is $5,000. You could have saved yourself a lot of money by only buying 100 CDs you really do listen to ($1,000) plus an iPod ($399) and get all your music in a convenient 10 hour format.
That's what I did. Instead you've spent $50 on an mp3/cd player and $thousands on music.
How many CDs do you own?
If you own more than 100 (over $1,000 in music), then the iPod is really just a cd jukebox that fits in the palm of your hand.
If you only have 10 CDs, then of course the iPod is overkill.
And lest you were stuck in a cave, APple did release an affordable digital music player for the rest of us... the $250 iPod Mini.
Eww, skip the wma, please, for my sake.
The less the world is tied to Microsoft standards, the better off we'll all be, I think.
Why do you think this will be a noisy, chatty, protocol?
And Rendezvous, if I recall correctly, uses multicast DNS, icmp, and a couple common ones. What it does is piggyback on top of existing protocols.
Which means you would have to block existing protocols...
I'm not exactly sure, having to look up SLP protocol in Google, but it sounds like Zeroconf is both distributed and p2p, where SLP still relies on directory agents to distribute information (like DNS servers or print servers?).
What, are you trying to troll every single topic imaginable?
OS X exploits, charging for yearly releases, BSD Unix, Tiger, emulation and lawyers, Longhorn, and what else?
My outdated 400MHz 15" Powerbook doesn't :P
It's only three years old now, 4 when Tiger comes out.
You don't know what a ghost is?
:)
I didn't think their usage of ghost was particularly obscure, though maybe you didn't understand what a shell was: A shell was a body, and thus a ghost in the shell is a soul in a body.
And of course, the whole point of the movie, by the end, was the ghost outside the shell
If your skin is too dark and you lack a source of vitamin D, you will suffer from vD deficiency; especially the higher north in lattitude you travel. If you are genetically predisposed to a certain amount of melanin, then there's an optimal lattitude for you to live. Too far south and you increase chances of premature aging and skin cancer, too far north and you waste away from lack of vitamin D!
So if your genes predispose you to produce more melanin, you can live in a sunnier location than your peers, and you and your children precisely exhibit the founder effect.
Your own example confirms this:
People with light skin had to take active steps to thrive in the sunny south. They had 'adapted' to live in the less sunny north. Vs the natives of the south, they would have had to stay in the shade more, dress appropriately, and use sunscreen. The only other way to acclimate to stronger solar radiation is to tan, and have you noticed how impossible it is for Irish and Scandanavians to tan?
So you're saying it's better in the end to just shortchange everyone of every $$ and download it from AoMP3?
I generally don't buy CDs. There's no nobility in supporting the RIAA.
Face facts. People who buy *can't* meaningfully tell that it is 128kbps, or don't care.
If they did, it wouldn't sell. It does sell; therefore the price and convenience outweight the quality and sound.
You've got it wrong yourself too :P
You're confusing laws with ethics.
Just because it's legal or illegal doesn't make it right or wrong. I think buying from AoM is wrong because the artists aren't getting paid (or paid much less).
In the same way I view 'our' exploitation of our own economy as a natural outgrowth of people wanting to buy more and pay less. I am perfectly willing to pay more and buy less; there is very little material good in this world that is truly important, so paying a little more and buying a little less is not bad or evil or inconvenient at all.
So... parent poster says it doesn't count because the musicians aren't being paid.
You reply off topic by saying AllOfMP3 pays royalties to a collection agency, but on the very topic of whether AoM pays musicians, you say that's a different matter. That is the very matter the parent poster is bringing up!
So the best you can say is, "AoM pays royalties to the collection agency, but I don't know if any of that money goes to the musicians. As such then it is vague and ambiguous if AoM counts."
Why do you believe music is a global art when poetry, literature, and even cinema isn't?
Or are all of these also global arts?
No, unlike Motorola, if Apple had stuck with the 680x0 architecture.
At that time there was no guarantee that AMD and Intel would have taken off as it did; it very well could have been IBM and Motorola instead of Intel and IBM that won over the desktop.
So history was:
Apple used Motorola for 680x0
Apple switched to IBM+Motorola for PPC
Previous poster was speculating on how we don't know how Apple would have fared if Apple had stuck to the 680x0 for another few generations.
My rebuttal was that there was a real benefit to switching, over performance, and that was having two vendors.