Greenpeace takes in about $145,000,000 per year in donations. WTF do you do with the money? And it doesn't sound like you are doing anything that matters, I mean WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? All you are doing is making people, who might agree with your views but not your methods, not like you or your views.
If, of the top of your head, you can not name three things GP has done then they most not have done very much.
Some Navy ships can pump over 6,000,000 Million watts out their rader. And it can be focused on a small area, IOW it can be used as a weapon if need be.
LOOKING ABROAD. According to one of those chipmakers and to industry analysts, worldwide shipments of digital-music-player chips hit about 15 million last year. An April, 2004, report from investment bank CIBC on this market estimated global sales of flash and hard-drive music players at 17 million. If that's true, then the 1.5 million iPods sold in 2003 gives Apple 8% to 10% of the global market. In fact, SigmaTel alone sold 9 million chips specifically designed for rival digital-music players, dwarfing iPod sales.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/m ay 2004/tc20040527_8900_tc056.htm
American and Japanese Semiconductor Chip Companies join Sony in promoting "ATRAC 3TM" Sound Compression Technology
February 26, 2000 - Sony Corporation today announced plans to license the LSI codec of the "ATRAC 3" sound compression technology developed by Sony to the following seven companies: Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi Ltd., Motorola, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois), NEC Corporation, ROHM CO., LTD., SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Texas Instruments, Inc. (Texas, USA).
Licensing will allow these companies to develop and commercialize "ATRAC 3" compliant LSI, which will smoothen the development and commercialization of "ATRAC 3" compliant audio devices by hardware manufacturers.
"ATRAC 3" is a sound compression technology based on "ATRACTM" used for MiniDisc. Compared with "ATRAC", "ATRAC3" features a higher compression rate, while maintaining the same level of sound quality. It has been highly anticipated as a compression technology that enables music distribution with high sound quality. "ATRAC 3" has been commercialized through Memory Stick WalkmanTM and the "bitmusicTM" music distribution service by Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Inc. since December 1999.
"Today's announcement further demonstrates the capability of 'ATRAC 3' to link to a variety of electronics devices and recording media in addition to packaged media such as 'MiniDisc' and 'Memory Stick'. We believe that collaboration with a host of LSI manufacturers will play a key role for the wide acceptance of 'ATRAC 3' business especially because it is essential for us to have a variety of LSI codec specifications" said Shizuo Takashino, Corporate Senior Executive Vice President of Sony Corporation.
"Making a family of our Hi-perion DSP products compliant with 'ATRAC 3' as an audio codec will allow us to exponentially expand our DSP business in the silicon audio market in the future" said Joji Murakami, Doctor of Engineering General Manager, System Micro Division, Fujitsu Limited.
"We have already commercialized a system LSI compliant with 'Memory Stick', and we believe that today's announcement will help to further develop a wide rage of products" said Seiichi Ueda, General Manager of System LSI Marketing Division, Semiconductor & Integrated Circuits, Hitachi Ltd.
"We place a high value on digital AV business in consumer devices, and we anticipate to further expand our business through emergence of Sony's 'ATRAC 3' and our IP core/process technology" said Toshio Nakajima, General Manager of 1st System LSI Division, System LSI Operations Unit, NEC Corporation.
"We anticipate to quickly comply with a variety of data compression applications for users by incorporating Sony's 'ATRAC 3' sound compression technology in the future" said by Toshio Asai, Director of LSI Product Development Headquarters, ROHM CO., LTD.
"We have developed an ATRAC decoder featuring low-power consumption. We believe that utilizing the feature will enable to develop 'ATRAC 3' compliant devices and help to gain wide application" said Yasuhiko Okuyama, Deputy General Manager of MOS-LSI Division, Semiconductor Company, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
One, maybe two, things they have in common are that they almost always talk about the look of the ipod and the high cost of the ipod. It's like the stupid audiophiles, it doesn't matter how the music sounds, its about the design of the unit and the 'flavor' of the music.
IOW, it is OK for you to use these tools because you think it's for a good reason, but when others uses these same tools, they are on a quest to rid the Earth of life.
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The AC was/is right. You don't respond with facts, you respond with hype.
And please do not mail bomb me again.
Greenpeace takes in about $145,000,000 per year in donations. WTF do you do with the money? And it doesn't sound like you are doing anything that matters, I mean WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? All you are doing is making people, who might agree with your views but not your methods, not like you or your views.
If, of the top of your head, you can not name three things GP has done then they most not have done very much.
IOW, when customers bother you as much as you bother customers (to sell those 'service' plans) it upsets you?
If it was fox news, the story would have been interupted no less than 3 times with a Fox News Alert about a car chase or the peterson trial.
Careful complaining about /. It will get you removed from the moderator pool.
I should know, I haven't had mod points in about 4 months.
That should have been 6,000,000 NOT 6,000,000 Million.
opps.
Some Navy ships can pump over 6,000,000 Million watts out their rader. And it can be focused on a small area, IOW it can be used as a weapon if need be.
Because rader units just not float in the air. They have to be put someplace, what do you thing the control towers use?
10-15 million mp3 chipsets are sold each year.
m ay 2004/tc20040527_8900_tc056.htm
Apple is playing with the numbers.
LOOKING ABROAD. According to one of those chipmakers and to industry analysts, worldwide shipments of digital-music-player chips hit about 15 million last year. An April, 2004, report from investment bank CIBC on this market estimated global sales of flash and hard-drive music players at 17 million. If that's true, then the 1.5 million iPods sold in 2003 gives Apple 8% to 10% of the global market. In fact, SigmaTel alone sold 9 million chips specifically designed for rival digital-music players, dwarfing iPod sales.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/
What is the ipods market share? Please provide links to your sources.
People used to say the EXACT same thing about apple and the educational market.
Opps.
What is the market share of the ipod? Please include sources.
Sony to License "ATRAC 3 TM"
American and Japanese Semiconductor Chip Companies join Sony in promoting "ATRAC 3TM" Sound Compression Technology
February 26, 2000 - Sony Corporation today announced plans to license the LSI codec of the "ATRAC 3" sound compression technology developed by Sony to the following seven companies: Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi Ltd., Motorola, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois), NEC Corporation, ROHM CO., LTD., SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Texas Instruments, Inc. (Texas, USA).
Licensing will allow these companies to develop and commercialize "ATRAC 3" compliant LSI, which will smoothen the development and commercialization of "ATRAC 3" compliant audio devices by hardware manufacturers.
"ATRAC 3" is a sound compression technology based on "ATRACTM" used for MiniDisc. Compared with "ATRAC", "ATRAC3" features a higher compression rate, while maintaining the same level of sound quality. It has been highly anticipated as a compression technology that enables music distribution with high sound quality. "ATRAC 3" has been commercialized through Memory Stick WalkmanTM and the "bitmusicTM" music distribution service by Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Inc. since December 1999.
"Today's announcement further demonstrates the capability of 'ATRAC 3' to link to a variety of electronics devices and recording media in addition to packaged media such as 'MiniDisc' and 'Memory Stick'. We believe that collaboration with a host of LSI manufacturers will play a key role for the wide acceptance of 'ATRAC 3' business especially because it is essential for us to have a variety of LSI codec specifications" said Shizuo Takashino, Corporate Senior Executive Vice President of Sony Corporation.
"Making a family of our Hi-perion DSP products compliant with 'ATRAC 3' as an audio codec will allow us to exponentially expand our DSP business in the silicon audio market in the future" said Joji Murakami, Doctor of Engineering General Manager, System Micro Division, Fujitsu Limited.
"We have already commercialized a system LSI compliant with 'Memory Stick', and we believe that today's announcement will help to further develop a wide rage of products" said Seiichi Ueda, General Manager of System LSI Marketing Division, Semiconductor & Integrated Circuits, Hitachi Ltd.
"We place a high value on digital AV business in consumer devices, and we anticipate to further expand our business through emergence of Sony's 'ATRAC 3' and our IP core/process technology" said Toshio Nakajima, General Manager of 1st System LSI Division, System LSI Operations Unit, NEC Corporation.
"We anticipate to quickly comply with a variety of data compression applications for users by incorporating Sony's 'ATRAC 3' sound compression technology in the future" said by Toshio Asai, Director of LSI Product Development Headquarters, ROHM CO., LTD.
"We have developed an ATRAC decoder featuring low-power consumption. We believe that utilizing the feature will enable to develop 'ATRAC 3' compliant devices and help to gain wide application" said Yasuhiko Okuyama, Deputy General Manager of MOS-LSI Division, Semiconductor Company, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
Please point out where I lied.
AAC and MP3 aren't open standards, like ATRAC they require patent licenses to use in a commerical product.
Read the reviews.
Read the user comments.
One, maybe two, things they have in common are that they almost always talk about the look of the ipod and the high cost of the ipod. It's like the stupid audiophiles, it doesn't matter how the music sounds, its about the design of the unit and the 'flavor' of the music.
Then perhaps greenpeace needs to rething the way it does things, but you act like a bunch of spoiled rich kids living on other peoples money.
I mean, what has greenpeace DONE that really matters in the past 3 years?
Yes, we all do that. But most of the people who use those things don't want the rest of the world to stop using them.
Greenpeace does.
Yes you are
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It's a shame they didn't sink your boat. I am saying this because it is a BAD, EVIL, OLD diesel boat that puts of lots of EVIL, BAD, SMELLY polution.
After all, one would not want the environment polluted...
IOW, it's OK to use fossil fuels if it helps you, but others are just trying to fuck up the Earth if they use them?
Let me guess, you are a big believer in everyone is equal, just some are more equal than others?
Yes, and airplanes like that damn old boat, release LOTS of pollution into the air.
IOW, generating pollution is OK if they are doing it, and wrong if other do.
IOW, it is OK for you to use these tools because you think it's for a good reason, but when others uses these same tools, they are on a quest to rid the Earth of life.
That doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense.
So?
Sometimes one has to make sacrifices to accomplish ones goals.