You could also get your iPod colored however you want from ColorWare. or buy one pre-colored from them direct. Looks pretty cool.
Yeah, but they paint the click wheel, too. That... seems wrong. I'd love to see one done that leaves the wheel itself grey; just the white parts done in black.
if the Apple store starts to jack up the prices, there is nowhere else you can legimately purchase the AAC files that they sell.
Magnatune sells AAC files. It is true that they carry only independent artists, so no Britney or Garth for you there, but I suspect this will change. If not at Magnatune, elsewhere.
Even if it doesn't, though, that isn't the only format the iPod supports.
I tried the ipod desktop client once in a store. It sucked (It actually crashed when I was using it).
I'll see your anecdote and raise you: I've been using iTunes pretty much every day for something like a year, and less often before that, on Mac and Windows. And it's never crashed. Not even once.
So I geuss an agressive patent portfolio is only good when its on the side of Linux?
Yes, you have it exactly correct. I'll assume by "Linux" you actually mean Open Source, since that's really what this is about.
It is not the tool that is at issue here, or even the manner in which it is used. It's the reason behind the action Novell intends to take that you need to look at.
Other companies are attempting to use their patent portfolios to choke off innovation and expansion in the software field, to maintain their market position. They are defending an outmoded and outdated business model. They're fighting to maintain the status quo.
Novell wants to use this same tool to help protect the Open Source community, to allow it to grow and expand. They are fighting for what they see is the future.
The same tool, yes - a patent portfolio. The same tactics, even - litigation, whether in defense of another's actions, or taking action themselves. But it is why they do so that makes it different. It's what makes it a good thing.
A wonderful example is Ani DiFranco. Whether you like her music is irrelevent. She's 100% self promoted, from albums to concerts. It's her production and her money and it's worked out very well.
Righteous Babe, Ani's label, now carries other artists as well. She has indeed shown that you can do it the "right way" and still be successful.
Of course (and this is just my opinion), being an incredibly talented musician also helped her early on. A -lot- of people heard about her from people who had seen her perform. If you haven't had the opportunity, I recommend it.
What a wonderful new way to get customers. You know what, I feel like going out and buying a Mac right now...
Aye, if this is his way of winning my heart and mind, he's barking up the wrong tree.
I already have a Mac, and this makes me want to go buy another one. And a new iPod for my girlfriend. And wipe Windows off the last PC I have that runs it, and go through the pain of getting my TV card working in Linux.
I guess suing your customer base isn't enough for corporate morons these days, we have to accuse our potential customers of committing crimes!
Oh, and... 2238 songs. All from our own CDs, musicians I know, or purchased from the iTunes Music Store.
I try to go hiking every once in awhile, and am having a harder and harder time of getting out of cell phone range...
I know this might sound trite, and I do understand the point you're making, but I have to say: You can leave the cell phone at home.
I had to learn this myself, after carrying one for so long I feel undressed without it. But I'm better now. If I'm not going somewhere I'm likely to need it, it stays home.
The ultimate cause is that unnamed politicians, but didn't Dr. Heywood Floyd accept the blame since he have HAL the instruction that caused the logic conflict?
Yes, they all take their cut. Because printing, advertisement, research, distribution, promotion, transportation, development, bandwidth, storage, administration, and a million other things along the way (depending on whether you're Apple or MCA or a record store or a truck driver) all cost money.
I know musicians who are in the self-publishing space. They don't have labels, or promoters, or any of that stuff, and they're not on iTunes. So, not only are their choices for distribution more limited, but what they get in exchange for doing all of this themselves is a whole lot less free time, in which to write/play/record. They may make a bit more on each CD they sell--and it's not a LOT more, since none of the things they have to do are any more free than they are for the labels--but it costs them time to do it, and they have to run their own business besides.
It's unfortunate that music is so popular that it requires an industry to feed it, and it's doubly unfortunate that the cost breakdown pays back based on the actual percentage expense of doing your part, rather than the effort, and triply so that that is abused by the labels, and I do hope the internet is going to change that, and soon. I think iTunes is one step along that road toward transforming the music business, but it won't happen overnight.
That's why I raised the question of the definition of "native", because it seems like under my normal definition, it would exclude Transitive's stuff, too
Yup, it would exclude Transitive, too. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply it wouldn't. I don't like stretching the definition of native too far, which to me means it stops at making direct system calls. If anything is needed between the app and the system which doesn't ship/install with the app or the system, it's not native.
For the record, I think this includes Wine, Cedega/Transgaming (same thing, really), CXO (ditto), and even *BSD's Linux ABI.
Of course, we're getting into semantics, but we are in fact discussing the definition of the word. =)
Define 'natively'. Because Crossover Office can run Office 2003 on Linux just fine, today.
I'd define "native" as "not needing Crossover Office."
For example, MS Office 2003 runs natively on Mac OS X, if you buy the Mac version. Admittedly, what CXO gives you is close to native performance, but it's still another software package that's allowing it to work, which is non-native, as far as I'm concerned.
Many workstation-class machines have intrusion detection.
Any company that needs to worry about file copying to the extent that they will lock out USB storage devices should already have mechanisms in place to prevent or restrict alternate O/S booting - and more importantly, the policies to fire your rogue ass should you choose to circumvent them.
What is wrong with them? More money than God and they still can't manage to find a visual design that isn't completely retarded. Reversed text mixed with plain. Tabs - which don't look like tabs - separated by an arbitrary hierarchy. All controls with meaningful functions crammed into a too-small area at the bottom of the window, which sits mashed nicely against your taskbar, which is usually crammed with widgetry as well.
Nail on the head, there, my friend. This has to be the best example of bad UI design I've seen come from Microsoft.
You need look no further than iTunes on Windows for a counterexample. Apple does a better job of making a UI work in Windows than MS does? Heh. I might agree that iTunes' interface clashes with Windows overall look, but at least it's not as ugly as this, and to me it actually fits in better.
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This is what it will take, I think. A big-name band like U2 or Pearl Jam, maybe REM, saying "screw the system, we're going straight to digital".
Once it's shown that the electronic distribution model can work - and it may take a big name to try it and see - others will follow suit.
Yeah, but they paint the click wheel, too. That... seems wrong. I'd love to see one done that leaves the wheel itself grey; just the white parts done in black.
This is why good writers have good editors. =)
Magnatune sells AAC files. It is true that they carry only independent artists, so no Britney or Garth for you there, but I suspect this will change. If not at Magnatune, elsewhere.
Even if it doesn't, though, that isn't the only format the iPod supports.
I'll see your anecdote and raise you: I've been using iTunes pretty much every day for something like a year, and less often before that, on Mac and Windows. And it's never crashed. Not even once.
Yes, you have it exactly correct. I'll assume by "Linux" you actually mean Open Source, since that's really what this is about.
It is not the tool that is at issue here, or even the manner in which it is used. It's the reason behind the action Novell intends to take that you need to look at.
Other companies are attempting to use their patent portfolios to choke off innovation and expansion in the software field, to maintain their market position. They are defending an outmoded and outdated business model. They're fighting to maintain the status quo.
Novell wants to use this same tool to help protect the Open Source community, to allow it to grow and expand. They are fighting for what they see is the future.
The same tool, yes - a patent portfolio. The same tactics, even - litigation, whether in defense of another's actions, or taking action themselves. But it is why they do so that makes it different. It's what makes it a good thing.
Righteous Babe, Ani's label, now carries other artists as well. She has indeed shown that you can do it the "right way" and still be successful.
Of course (and this is just my opinion), being an incredibly talented musician also helped her early on. A -lot- of people heard about her from people who had seen her perform. If you haven't had the opportunity, I recommend it.
Fair enough. Where did Paul Allen get the money?
Aye, if this is his way of winning my heart and mind, he's barking up the wrong tree.
I already have a Mac, and this makes me want to go buy another one. And a new iPod for my girlfriend. And wipe Windows off the last PC I have that runs it, and go through the pain of getting my TV card working in Linux.
I guess suing your customer base isn't enough for corporate morons these days, we have to accuse our potential customers of committing crimes!
Oh, and... 2238 songs. All from our own CDs, musicians I know, or purchased from the iTunes Music Store.
1) Burn the cd image (hikarunix-XX.iso) to a CD (full sized or a 210MB miniCD).
Looks like its = 210MB.
I know this might sound trite, and I do understand the point you're making, but I have to say: You can leave the cell phone at home.
I had to learn this myself, after carrying one for so long I feel undressed without it. But I'm better now. If I'm not going somewhere I'm likely to need it, it stays home.
Have you tried googling for it? I think I'm only half kidding. =)
The ultimate cause is that unnamed politicians, but didn't Dr. Heywood Floyd accept the blame since he have HAL the instruction that caused the logic conflict?
Make it illegal to sell products that are advertised in that manner, and prosecute the sellers. As has been said many times here, follow the money.
Everyone has windows in their house. And office building or other workplace. And their car. Etc., so on and so forth.
Could be they're not talking about MS Windows when they say "windows".
I know musicians who are in the self-publishing space. They don't have labels, or promoters, or any of that stuff, and they're not on iTunes. So, not only are their choices for distribution more limited, but what they get in exchange for doing all of this themselves is a whole lot less free time, in which to write/play/record. They may make a bit more on each CD they sell--and it's not a LOT more, since none of the things they have to do are any more free than they are for the labels--but it costs them time to do it, and they have to run their own business besides.
It's unfortunate that music is so popular that it requires an industry to feed it, and it's doubly unfortunate that the cost breakdown pays back based on the actual percentage expense of doing your part, rather than the effort, and triply so that that is abused by the labels, and I do hope the internet is going to change that, and soon. I think iTunes is one step along that road toward transforming the music business, but it won't happen overnight.
Yup, it would exclude Transitive, too. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply it wouldn't. I don't like stretching the definition of native too far, which to me means it stops at making direct system calls. If anything is needed between the app and the system which doesn't ship/install with the app or the system, it's not native.
For the record, I think this includes Wine, Cedega/Transgaming (same thing, really), CXO (ditto), and even *BSD's Linux ABI.
Of course, we're getting into semantics, but we are in fact discussing the definition of the word. =)
Either it's native, or it's not. This isn't.
This is answered (in part) on Badnarik's website, here.
I'd define "native" as "not needing Crossover Office."
For example, MS Office 2003 runs natively on Mac OS X, if you buy the Mac version. Admittedly, what CXO gives you is close to native performance, but it's still another software package that's allowing it to work, which is non-native, as far as I'm concerned.
Ah, you are fortunate, then. Or just careful. Or something. =)
What law enforcement agency can we suggest this to?
I postulate a great deal of that "luck" comes from being a dialup user instead of a cable/DSL connection with a static IP, connected 24/7.
I would suspect dialup IP blocks aren't the primary target of spambots, since they're only online intermittently.
Any company that needs to worry about file copying to the extent that they will lock out USB storage devices should already have mechanisms in place to prevent or restrict alternate O/S booting - and more importantly, the policies to fire your rogue ass should you choose to circumvent them.
Nail on the head, there, my friend. This has to be the best example of bad UI design I've seen come from Microsoft.
You need look no further than iTunes on Windows for a counterexample. Apple does a better job of making a UI work in Windows than MS does? Heh. I might agree that iTunes' interface clashes with Windows overall look, but at least it's not as ugly as this, and to me it actually fits in better.
He got it out of a box called "humor".