in theory the movie would have some DRM so it can not be moved from the ipod? maybe it will be unusable in a few days? i don't think they would want you to transfers the movie off the iPod anyway.... you can hook up an iPod to a non-home computer and play the songs off it without actually moving them to the local drive. same could go for an iPod.
the only reason you can not drag files from the iPod is that the music is in a hidden folder. like somebody above said, in MS Windows you just have to make the folder visible, and the same goes for the Mac. the hack has been out there since the original iPods.
people came up with this hypothetical idea long before the iPod With Video even existed. it was born in the realm of "if you can not legally rip DVDs, what video content could you put on an iPod and how?" i know i read this idea, and it does not seem completely insane. you keep hearing rumors of Apple pondering physical kiosks where you can buy and load on music. that seems far more silly than this. for a lot of people, downloading a whole movie probably takes longer than driving to the store and loading the movie on the iPod.
it is out.... it's the public (iMac) version? yea?
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if this is the developer version of OS X running on those developer boxes then it is no big deal.... the site is down but i read it to imply they hacked the version of OS X that comes with the new iMacs. that's the only Mac in the public with an Intel chip till the MacBooks show up this week (started shipping today).
i did not see anything about how well it works. installing it and making it boot is an accomplishment, but if it does not acknowledge a lot of your hardware (like an ethernet card) then it is not a big help. that being said, at least in my experience on my AGP/PCI based G4, a lot of off the shelf aftermarket upgrade parts work in OS X (usb2.0 cards, firewire cards, IDE cards etc).
maybe store info calls it just 30 and 60 gig because that is all they sell now, but you can look at the "special deals" section of store.apple.com where they (sometimes) have a few generations of iPod they say "iPod with video" as opposed to "iPod with color display" or "iPod with Dock Connector" or "iPod with Click Wheel". it's also referred to that in tech documents and other places.
i am not saying that is definitive of anything, i am just saying that wording was something that people use as some basis for their speculation. that fact that they refer to the older models as "iPod with *******" it seems like a pattern of naming the full-sized iPods and not tricky wording pointing towards inevitable video playback oriented iPods. who knows.
really the G4 Cube was intended as a bridge between the G3 iMac and the G4 tower..... so a Mini-like machine with Pro-level processors would be nice. it may be a small niche, but there are people (like many graphics, or design people) that need all the horsepower but not the expandability of the full blown G5 towers. i know a LOT of people with towers that never did more than upgrade their memory. they wanted the fastest Mac they could afford, but have no need for multiple drives and expansion cards.
all sales failures aside, i think the cube was a good idea. maybe it was ahead of its time (since LCDs were soooo expensive back then).
1) Apple really was incorporated on April 1st (people don't seem to know that) and it will be the actual 30th birthday to the day.... though Steve Jobs was not at Apple for the 20th anniversary, there was a special Mac released.
2) the current iPod is referred to as "iPod with video" and not "video iPod" on Apple.com. that specific wording is why people think Apple is reserving "video iPod" for something new. i guess technically the iPod with Video is considered a modified version of the latest iPod, and not a flat out video playback device. it also may explain those patents that surfaced recently about a touchscreen-like thing that made the rumor site go bananas thinking an Apple tablet was coming. (here is one example). add the reoccurring "Apple to buy Palm" rumor and you could write a book full of speculation wrapping up all these rumors into one crazy device if you want.
anyway, that's the background on those two bits.....
i think the 512MB shuffle outsells the 1GB model, right? i would guess that is due to price? the shuffle is perfect for using it like a 8 or 16 hour mix tape (depending on the model). it is pretty adequate for most people to throw a ton of songs on their shuffle. i know a lot of people that have full sized iPods and also have a shuffle for running or the gym or whatever else. on the other hand i know people that bought a shuffle because they do not think they needed 30 days of music on had at all times...... and then realize they want their whole music collection. i guess some of the shuffle's use could be replaced by cell phones. i have a 512MB transflash card for my Motorola E815 that i could load up with MP3s considering i often have my phone on me, and moto makes those stereo headphones that are also a hands-free device. that also is not a perfect fix because i would never take my phone out running or want it if i was mowing the lawn or at a gym. even with the sport case, the shuffle is small.
if you are going to measure their humanitarian efforts do you look at total $ they donate, or percent of their income? it may be more of a sacrifice for me to give $2000/year to a charity, but obviously that's not going to help stop the spread of anything.
what about people that actually do humanitarian work and not just donate some money that is probably a tax write-off and obviously used as a PR campaign anyway. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ you have to wonder when people have to keep reminding you about all the charitable things they do.
i can't listen to NPR for an hour without being reminded of what a good humanitarian effort the Gates foundation makes, or constant reports from the microsoft owned online magazine slate.com.
then again the same goes for NPR mentioning the kind grants from the walmart foundation, and we all know that that money is all donated by employees, not the Walton family. you can look up the charitable contributions of the actual family members and it is astonishing low. Gates is obviously far ahead of them on the decency scale.
people are lamenting the loss of the PC card slot, but they are forgetting that the MacBook is not yet shipping. at the same MacWorld where the MacBook was announced there were plenty of vendors saying they will have ExpressCard versions of stuff ready when the MacBook is. offhand Verizon was there talking about an Expresscard EVDO, and claimed it would ship by the time the MacBook does. i am sure there will be plenty of Expresscard adapters for camera flash memory as well. i don't know if there is a need for an expresscard modem when there is a USB dongle already available. if you have to plug in a phone line, then putting an adapter inline doesn't seem like a big deal, and you can keep your card slot open.
i will say of all the people i personally know with powerbooks, i only know of one person that uses their PC card slot and that is for internet access while traveling (by van) around the country with his band (and still being able to work since he's online the whole time).
no, the MacBook Pro is the replacement for the 15" Powerbook. i guess technically the MacBook is not yet out, and the 15" Powerbook G4 is still available from Apple. i am pretty sure Apple said they have stopped, or will very soon stop, manufacturing the 15" Powerbooks and sell off remaining inventory to people not ready to do the Intel hop.... and i guess stash some for AppleCare replacements?
i have no idea if it's true but i heard some places only really get access to pieces on the code.... unless there is somebody in house that divides up code to the specific people that need parts of it. i know somebody that tests the software after the engineers molest it and that is how he described it. that may be an in-house decision, but the individuals don't ever have the whole source code available. it seemed inefficient for debugging, but i guess they don't want to mess around. kind of like the recipe for coca cola or something?
there go my dreams of a M$ Vista-only replacement for flash so that i, as an unsupported Mac user, would never have to look at an annoyingly blinky banner ad again. that in itself might be worth losing access to sites that were purely written for this new magical thing. oh well....
there was the case of the guy selling his iTMS songs (just to see what would happen), but he sold the only copies of the DRM'd AAC files and transfered his iTMS store account to a disposable email address and a giftcard or some sort of visa card like thing that he could pass along.
nobody stopped that auction (iirc) and he even said he did it to see if he would be told to cease, and what grounds they would cite. he outlined that he ensured that the songs were only for the buyer (deautherized his computer to play them etc).
if these people just rip CDs/DVDs and don't include the original then it is pretty much a digital bootleg. there are services that will rip and iPod your whole CD collection but they are for the exceptionally lazy/busy and only rip and load music off real CDs.
i think the understanding is that Intel was way ahead in processors for portables, or small devices (Mac Mini etc). either they are today, or their roadmap looks better. if it was about the all out power of Intel vs AMD for desktop towers they would probably still be using IBM chips. there were issues with ramp up speeds of the G5 chips, but the G5 tower is a FAST machine. the problem was cramming that power (read: heat, power draw) into a laptop.
Pixar HATES that Disney makes something like Finding Nemo 7 a DVD only thing that is just using the name to sell a few copies. that was part of the reason that the partnership was in bad shape (as reported here on/.). Disney did not consider sequels part of the contracted number of movies, and would not invest the money or time into them. Steve Jobs and Pixar felt it diluted the brand and quality associated with the original.
not that i care much of anything about Disney, but maybe Pixar will teach them how to expand instead of digging through their closets and wringing every bit of potential out of pre-existing ideas. tons of crappy sequels, movies based on 50 year old rides etc seems like they lack some good ideas.
that 2 has nothing to do with the quality of this specific post. it is because i have posted enough stuff over time that got moderated positively so anything posted starts at a 2. i guess it goes back to having an account long enough to prove you are not a troll or spammer? notice it just said score: 2 and not something like "insightful" or "funny" after it. the moderation system has been tweaked in the time i have had an account, and i am sure is well documented somewhere on here.
i never watched the keynote (because it wasn't live and i know how it ends?) but i read the live play by play feeds on Mac news sites. i remembered SJ said the keynote was done on an Intel machine, but i was not actually looking at it for 90 minutes, so i forgot it was an iMac.
i don't think the iPod would exist if somebody else made a half decent music player that integrated well with the Mac OS. there were (and are) other brands that support drag and drop on the Mac OS, but none seemed to really work as cleanly. same can be said for the iPod's interface. the iPod was far from the first MP3 player, but they simplified it, and more importantly, let Mac users play along. remember the iPod was a hit before the MS Windows support was anywhere near what it is today.
the same thinking could possibly also say:
iTMS would not exist if the other music stores were iPod friendly, and had relatively lenient DRM (like Apple was eventually able to wrangle). iTMS was not created to be a huge financial hit, it HAD to exist because Apple could not let their iPods have no access to legal digital music sales. Apple never intended it to make much money, and flat out said so in their quarterly earnings reports and in interviews.
i am sure it could be overclocked and i bet somebody will try really soon. it is worth noting that people report the chip is in a socket, so it could be swapped out in the future. the G5 iMac chips were soldered down.
over the years Apple machines have bounced between sockets, daughter cards and the chips being soldered down. it would be great if they are all in sockets, but i assume the specific design will call for that. some of this may have been waiting till the last second to have the chips delivered and installed?
Jobs ran photoshop in the keynote, and Adobe has not yet released a "universal" binary (built for intel and PPC chips) of anything so it is run through rosetta(PPC chip emulation). it works, but it is not zippy. i guess some of it was that it took a little time to start up (also loading rosetta), maybe how classic would load in OS X. i know the keynote was done on Intel chipped machines, but i am not sure what kind of machine? these user reports are done on iMacs, and as decent as they seem, they are still considered consumer level machines.
i do agree though, it would be interesting to see some side by side tests of what the iMac is made for, on software that is universal. like an iLife06 shootout of a new iMac versus what they were selling at Christmas. that would be pretty real world comparisons for the average iMac user.
geeze, everyone knows System 7.x is the peak of the classic OS. the last system that will boot off a floppy drive because it did not have the "bloat" (features?) of 8 and 9.
a lot of people have been assuming that, but the chips Apple is using (so far in the iMac and MacBook Pro) are actually more expensive then their PPC counterparts. Apple jumped to Intel for something more than cost, Jobs said it was the Intel roadmap, and ability to provide powerful chips for portables etc. the Power and PPC chips are workhorses, but have not scaled down well to cool running low power consumption chips... or not as well as hoped?
the true side-by-side comparisons of Mac vs PC hardware will really start when the towers come out. you can not compare a $2000 Mac tower to a $400 eMachine and scream what a rip off the Apple one is just because both can connect to ebay.
i think people want to run Windows just to be first, but otherwise there is a market for virtualPC on the Mac. some people work at companies that have software custom written for windows, or software that just does not exist for OS X. if the speed is there, maybe games too? Mac gamers often complain about lagging behind. in general i think it would be for that rare occasion that one may need to run a windows app, and the need does not justify having two machines.... or if they need windows for their job, but prefer Mac OS for personal use.
i suppose it is also theoretically an easier hack than the flipside of getting OS X on commodity PS hardware.
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in theory the movie would have some DRM so it can not be moved from the ipod? maybe it will be unusable in a few days? i don't think they would want you to transfers the movie off the iPod anyway.... you can hook up an iPod to a non-home computer and play the songs off it without actually moving them to the local drive. same could go for an iPod.
the only reason you can not drag files from the iPod is that the music is in a hidden folder. like somebody above said, in MS Windows you just have to make the folder visible, and the same goes for the Mac. the hack has been out there since the original iPods.
people came up with this hypothetical idea long before the iPod With Video even existed. it was born in the realm of "if you can not legally rip DVDs, what video content could you put on an iPod and how?" i know i read this idea, and it does not seem completely insane. you keep hearing rumors of Apple pondering physical kiosks where you can buy and load on music. that seems far more silly than this. for a lot of people, downloading a whole movie probably takes longer than driving to the store and loading the movie on the iPod.
if this is the developer version of OS X running on those developer boxes then it is no big deal.... the site is down but i read it to imply they hacked the version of OS X that comes with the new iMacs. that's the only Mac in the public with an Intel chip till the MacBooks show up this week (started shipping today).
i did not see anything about how well it works. installing it and making it boot is an accomplishment, but if it does not acknowledge a lot of your hardware (like an ethernet card) then it is not a big help. that being said, at least in my experience on my AGP/PCI based G4, a lot of off the shelf aftermarket upgrade parts work in OS X (usb2.0 cards, firewire cards, IDE cards etc).
some would say Apple's founders were actively hacking before you were born.
maybe store info calls it just 30 and 60 gig because that is all they sell now, but you can look at the "special deals" section of store.apple.com where they (sometimes) have a few generations of iPod they say "iPod with video" as opposed to "iPod with color display" or "iPod with Dock Connector" or "iPod with Click Wheel". it's also referred to that in tech documents and other places.
i am not saying that is definitive of anything, i am just saying that wording was something that people use as some basis for their speculation. that fact that they refer to the older models as "iPod with *******" it seems like a pattern of naming the full-sized iPods and not tricky wording pointing towards inevitable video playback oriented iPods. who knows.
really the G4 Cube was intended as a bridge between the G3 iMac and the G4 tower..... so a Mini-like machine with Pro-level processors would be nice. it may be a small niche, but there are people (like many graphics, or design people) that need all the horsepower but not the expandability of the full blown G5 towers. i know a LOT of people with towers that never did more than upgrade their memory. they wanted the fastest Mac they could afford, but have no need for multiple drives and expansion cards.
all sales failures aside, i think the cube was a good idea. maybe it was ahead of its time (since LCDs were soooo expensive back then).
1) Apple really was incorporated on April 1st (people don't seem to know that) and it will be the actual 30th birthday to the day.... though Steve Jobs was not at Apple for the 20th anniversary, there was a special Mac released.
2) the current iPod is referred to as "iPod with video" and not "video iPod" on Apple.com. that specific wording is why people think Apple is reserving "video iPod" for something new. i guess technically the iPod with Video is considered a modified version of the latest iPod, and not a flat out video playback device. it also may explain those patents that surfaced recently about a touchscreen-like thing that made the rumor site go bananas thinking an Apple tablet was coming. (here is one example). add the reoccurring "Apple to buy Palm" rumor and you could write a book full of speculation wrapping up all these rumors into one crazy device if you want.
anyway, that's the background on those two bits.....
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because jobs in that field are generally guaranteed to last?
i think the 512MB shuffle outsells the 1GB model, right? i would guess that is due to price?
the shuffle is perfect for using it like a 8 or 16 hour mix tape (depending on the model). it is pretty adequate for most people to throw a ton of songs on their shuffle. i know a lot of people that have full sized iPods and also have a shuffle for running or the gym or whatever else. on the other hand i know people that bought a shuffle because they do not think they needed 30 days of music on had at all times...... and then realize they want their whole music collection.
i guess some of the shuffle's use could be replaced by cell phones. i have a 512MB transflash card for my Motorola E815 that i could load up with MP3s considering i often have my phone on me, and moto makes those stereo headphones that are also a hands-free device. that also is not a perfect fix because i would never take my phone out running or want it if i was mowing the lawn or at a gym. even with the sport case, the shuffle is small.
what if they have an army of backhoes? http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/19/164 3215/
if you are going to measure their humanitarian efforts do you look at total $ they donate, or percent of their income? it may be more of a sacrifice for me to give $2000/year to a charity, but obviously that's not going to help stop the spread of anything.
what about people that actually do humanitarian work and not just donate some money that is probably a tax write-off and obviously used as a PR campaign anyway. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/
you have to wonder when people have to keep reminding you about all the charitable things they do.
i can't listen to NPR for an hour without being reminded of what a good humanitarian effort the Gates foundation makes, or constant reports from the microsoft owned online magazine slate.com.
then again the same goes for NPR mentioning the kind grants from the walmart foundation, and we all know that that money is all donated by employees, not the Walton family. you can look up the charitable contributions of the actual family members and it is astonishing low. Gates is obviously far ahead of them on the decency scale.
people are lamenting the loss of the PC card slot, but they are forgetting that the MacBook is not yet shipping. at the same MacWorld where the MacBook was announced there were plenty of vendors saying they will have ExpressCard versions of stuff ready when the MacBook is. offhand Verizon was there talking about an Expresscard EVDO, and claimed it would ship by the time the MacBook does.
i am sure there will be plenty of Expresscard adapters for camera flash memory as well. i don't know if there is a need for an expresscard modem when there is a USB dongle already available. if you have to plug in a phone line, then putting an adapter inline doesn't seem like a big deal, and you can keep your card slot open.
i will say of all the people i personally know with powerbooks, i only know of one person that uses their PC card slot and that is for internet access while traveling (by van) around the country with his band (and still being able to work since he's online the whole time).
no, the MacBook Pro is the replacement for the 15" Powerbook. i guess technically the MacBook is not yet out, and the 15" Powerbook G4 is still available from Apple. i am pretty sure Apple said they have stopped, or will very soon stop, manufacturing the 15" Powerbooks and sell off remaining inventory to people not ready to do the Intel hop.... and i guess stash some for AppleCare replacements?
i have no idea if it's true but i heard some places only really get access to pieces on the code.... unless there is somebody in house that divides up code to the specific people that need parts of it. i know somebody that tests the software after the engineers molest it and that is how he described it. that may be an in-house decision, but the individuals don't ever have the whole source code available. it seemed inefficient for debugging, but i guess they don't want to mess around.
kind of like the recipe for coca cola or something?
there go my dreams of a M$ Vista-only replacement for flash so that i, as an unsupported Mac user, would never have to look at an annoyingly blinky banner ad again. that in itself might be worth losing access to sites that were purely written for this new magical thing. oh well....
there was the case of the guy selling his iTMS songs (just to see what would happen), but he sold the only copies of the DRM'd AAC files and transfered his iTMS store account to a disposable email address and a giftcard or some sort of visa card like thing that he could pass along.
nobody stopped that auction (iirc) and he even said he did it to see if he would be told to cease, and what grounds they would cite. he outlined that he ensured that the songs were only for the buyer (deautherized his computer to play them etc).
if these people just rip CDs/DVDs and don't include the original then it is pretty much a digital bootleg. there are services that will rip and iPod your whole CD collection but they are for the exceptionally lazy/busy and only rip and load music off real CDs.
i think the understanding is that Intel was way ahead in processors for portables, or small devices (Mac Mini etc). either they are today, or their roadmap looks better.
if it was about the all out power of Intel vs AMD for desktop towers they would probably still be using IBM chips. there were issues with ramp up speeds of the G5 chips, but the G5 tower is a FAST machine. the problem was cramming that power (read: heat, power draw) into a laptop.
Pixar HATES that Disney makes something like Finding Nemo 7 a DVD only thing that is just using the name to sell a few copies. that was part of the reason that the partnership was in bad shape (as reported here on /.). Disney did not consider sequels part of the contracted number of movies, and would not invest the money or time into them. Steve Jobs and Pixar felt it diluted the brand and quality associated with the original.
not that i care much of anything about Disney, but maybe Pixar will teach them how to expand instead of digging through their closets and wringing every bit of potential out of pre-existing ideas. tons of crappy sequels, movies based on 50 year old rides etc seems like they lack some good ideas.
that 2 has nothing to do with the quality of this specific post.
it is because i have posted enough stuff over time that got moderated positively so anything posted starts at a 2. i guess it goes back to having an account long enough to prove you are not a troll or spammer? notice it just said score: 2 and not something like "insightful" or "funny" after it. the moderation system has been tweaked in the time i have had an account, and i am sure is well documented somewhere on here.
i never watched the keynote (because it wasn't live and i know how it ends?) but i read the live play by play feeds on Mac news sites. i remembered SJ said the keynote was done on an Intel machine, but i was not actually looking at it for 90 minutes, so i forgot it was an iMac.
i don't think the iPod would exist if somebody else made a half decent music player that integrated well with the Mac OS. there were (and are) other brands that support drag and drop on the Mac OS, but none seemed to really work as cleanly. same can be said for the iPod's interface. the iPod was far from the first MP3 player, but they simplified it, and more importantly, let Mac users play along. remember the iPod was a hit before the MS Windows support was anywhere near what it is today.
the same thinking could possibly also say:
iTMS would not exist if the other music stores were iPod friendly, and had relatively lenient DRM (like Apple was eventually able to wrangle). iTMS was not created to be a huge financial hit, it HAD to exist because Apple could not let their iPods have no access to legal digital music sales. Apple never intended it to make much money, and flat out said so in their quarterly earnings reports and in interviews.
i am sure it could be overclocked and i bet somebody will try really soon. it is worth noting that people report the chip is in a socket, so it could be swapped out in the future. the G5 iMac chips were soldered down.
over the years Apple machines have bounced between sockets, daughter cards and the chips being soldered down. it would be great if they are all in sockets, but i assume the specific design will call for that. some of this may have been waiting till the last second to have the chips delivered and installed?
Jobs ran photoshop in the keynote, and Adobe has not yet released a "universal" binary (built for intel and PPC chips) of anything so it is run through rosetta(PPC chip emulation). it works, but it is not zippy. i guess some of it was that it took a little time to start up (also loading rosetta), maybe how classic would load in OS X. i know the keynote was done on Intel chipped machines, but i am not sure what kind of machine? these user reports are done on iMacs, and as decent as they seem, they are still considered consumer level machines.
i do agree though, it would be interesting to see some side by side tests of what the iMac is made for, on software that is universal. like an iLife06 shootout of a new iMac versus what they were selling at Christmas. that would be pretty real world comparisons for the average iMac user.
geeze, everyone knows System 7.x is the peak of the classic OS. the last system that will boot off a floppy drive because it did not have the "bloat" (features?) of 8 and 9.
a lot of people have been assuming that, but the chips Apple is using (so far in the iMac and MacBook Pro) are actually more expensive then their PPC counterparts. Apple jumped to Intel for something more than cost, Jobs said it was the Intel roadmap, and ability to provide powerful chips for portables etc. the Power and PPC chips are workhorses, but have not scaled down well to cool running low power consumption chips... or not as well as hoped?
the true side-by-side comparisons of Mac vs PC hardware will really start when the towers come out. you can not compare a $2000 Mac tower to a $400 eMachine and scream what a rip off the Apple one is just because both can connect to ebay.
i think people want to run Windows just to be first, but otherwise there is a market for virtualPC on the Mac. some people work at companies that have software custom written for windows, or software that just does not exist for OS X. if the speed is there, maybe games too? Mac gamers often complain about lagging behind. in general i think it would be for that rare occasion that one may need to run a windows app, and the need does not justify having two machines.... or if they need windows for their job, but prefer Mac OS for personal use.
i suppose it is also theoretically an easier hack than the flipside of getting OS X on commodity PS hardware.