Link up to keynote stream will go up after the keynote finishes. LoopRumors says they'll link to it once it is available.
Fear not:) The stream will probably be QT MPEG-4 which I don't think mplayer supports yet (Strange because it supports quicktime containers and a variety of mpeg-4 based codecs). So keep windows up for another half-hour or so and start the stream when it appears.
How does that have anything to do with cutting edge technology? Its just the model under which the client was designed. Its a download app not a p2p client in the same sense as most pieces of software out there. You can chose which software you want to continue to share and which to not.
Unfortunately this results in some things becoming virtually unobtainable once people are no longer interested in a file, but there's usually at least a few people still seeding and leeching files even with somethings that are months old.
It was a bit of a rant, but it makes sense. The average level of education in this country as well as throughout the world is pathetic. Why do we have crappy TV shows? Because people freaking like it!
People live and operate on the same level as these shows. It even seems to be prevalent in those who have attended/are attending universities/grad school. I know quite a few people who are more curious about whats happening on the next sitcom than the rest of the world that surrounds them.
I'll admit that I'm a sucker for star trek and miscellaneous other sci-fi shows, but they don't run my life, and they aren't a primary focus of mine.
I disagree, in part, with the statement that we're replacing one proprietary browser with another. The front-end top level, safari gui may be proprietary but the web rendering engine WebCore is open source, is based on KHTML, and has an SDK so other developers can use it.
So the whole "standards compliant" portion of the browser is essentially free and open, plus apple is contributing it's fixes back to the KHTML project.
Worst comes to worst, no matter what its less proprietary than IE. I'll take Safari and WebCore over IE any day. I might take mozilla over Safari, but the UI is unbearably slow on OS X (its quite snappy under linux on the same machine though so thats really OS X's fault).
Judging from the current state of AlephOne maybe I _can_ actually get some multiplayer carnage.. after all these exams are done. Damn you quarter system! Damn you to hell!
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There's nothing inherent in AAC that makes it DRM friendly. Its the quicktime wrapper thats DRM friendly. It would not be difficult to slap some form of DRM on MP3s, you just wouldn't get that many users because none of the MP3 players would support it out-of-the-box. People want to be able to fire up their winamp (or *shudder* realplayer, wmp, etc) and play the files without hassal. SInce iTunes is the most popular mac audio player, its much easier to add DRM to a format that hasn't been used much. Players will implement fairplay and authorize tracks. Apple could have done the same damn thing with MP3s, called them something other tham mp3s and it would have worked perfectly fine.
AAC _is_ technically superior to MP3. The problem is we've had around 10 years now to refine and perfect our MP3 encoders while free/cheap AAC encoders are just coming onto the market. Give it time, once it reaches its prime it will provide quality that I'm sure will undeniably rival MP3.
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"You're missing the point of the car analogy. Ogg is a car that doesn't go where you want it to go. There's no Ogg support in QuickTime. There's no Ogg support on the iPod. It simply can't go places that people want to go."
Indeed. You've got a car, it can drive in any direction, but all of the terrain is impassable using said car. You either have to pave your own roads or wait until someone else does it because they've got enough spare time and want the road badly enough.
The paving materials and equipment are freely available, but someone has to invest the time to lay the infrastructure.
On the other hand you can pay some cash, get some other vehicle and use the roads/rails/whatever they've built using revenue from selling whatever vehicles they happen to be.
Frankly, I've got a mac. I've got an iPod. I already made the hardware investment (and software, but thats really just a sunk cost since the computer came with Jaguar, and the iPod came with its own little OS). Why not use it? AAC on high quality encoding at 128 kbits sounds pretty damn good to me. But then again, there's no reason you should take my word for it, as I don't have any "audiophile" equipment, and I've had a very mild case of tinnitus in my right ear (dammit!). It lets me store lots of music, and it sounds good to me. To boot, some other people seem to think it sounds pretty damn good to (and an equal if not greater number that dislike it either because it sounds bad to them or they've got some sort of political agenda that clashes with apple/dolby/patents/whatever).
You know I think this has more to do with the frequency of updates being made available for the linux kernel as compared with actual stability issues. I've NEVER had any linux servers crash on me or otherwise require a reboot due to something becoming irrecoverable.
Works great on my iBook with a Bluetooth dongle and my T68i. I've been using it to keep contacts in sync for the past 3 months with narry an issue. On top of that, it works great as a wireless remote using Salling Clicker. You can control anything that works with AppleScript. I've used it for presentations, controlling itunes, and playing DVDs. Sounds like the grass is greener here, than on the other side of the fence.
I'm sick of people claiming this or that thing is dead, or is going to be dead. As long as it works well for someone, and fits a niche better than any other product its alive! As long as its supported by OS X, I'll be using it. And from the looks of Apple's front page, as well as their inclusion of bluetooth adapters in their recent machines it looks like it'll be around for quite some time.
Hmm, denied access for me, but when I nmap it and try and fingerprint my DI-614+:
Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Interesting ports on (192.168.0.1): (The 1600 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 80/tcp open http Remote operating system guess: LinkSys WAP11 wireless AP firmware ver. 2.2
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 8 seconds
I didn't know you could run anything on a MAC. I thought they were just alphanumeric strings used as hardware addresses.
(note: It's a joke, I'm using an iBook and am currently downloading one of these images from a less slashdotted mirror. Though they are doing pretty well considering the oregon state server just had some hardware issues.)
The touch wheel and buttons are not flush with the surface, they're set in about a milimeter or so. Its not all that bad, but I think I like the buttons surrounding the wheel better, and you don't really need the lighted buttons in that case since one develops a memory more easily of the functionality of each button.
Bah. Radio 1 dumped Solid Steel and replaced it with a stupid talk show.
I think radio in general is pretty bad in most places. They always play whatever the top 100 most popular tracks are which tend to be all pretty much the same drivel.
How about some real "alternative," some stuff from independent labels that have music that isn't as bad?!
he sure fooled us? I hope you're being sarchastic. The only person attempting the fooling was the US government (or Dubya), using "weapons of mass destruction" as an excuse. The only person being fooled were people who voted for our current president (at least those not regretting their choice).
Sorry if this sounds like a troll but I felt they were lying in the first place, and they have yet to prove anyone wrong.
Copyrights and patents are protection against strangers. Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with. From a legal standpoint, contracts end up being far stronger than anything you could do with copyrights. (emphasis added)
So, the entire point of a contract is to sue other people, and patents/copyrights are to protection you from "strangers"?
What? Is some shady guy in a van with candy going to take your patents away?
I don't think we'll be seeing these guys around for long.
The whole tone of that release leads me to believe that the people behind this company are as immature as are their actions.
Since your WinAMP/WMP/MusicMatch does this too? Sure you can broadcast shoutcast/icecast streams, but this was on-demand streaming of tracks.
This is hardly much of a change in digital rights management. If you want to share your music from elsewhere then either run an ssh tunnel, use vpn, or set up your itunes folder as a share and connect to it remotely.
Apple stated its original intent was for families to be able to share libraries within the house. That hasn't changed. They went beyond this with the original implementation allowing users to connect to their libraries from work easily, and without hassal. Since everyone went and used it to share music with random people, and then on top of that people used it for music piracy, Apple removed this extra feature that wasn't even mentioned in the original announcement Jobs made.
If Apple had, say, changed the number of tracks you could authorize iTMS tracks on, then that would be leaning more towards draconian DRM methods that we love to loathe.
Your comment is a troll, and has already been moderated as such (by others.. I never seem to have mod points when I need them;)
"Who came out with a standard API that ALL manufactures could use without resorting to the arcane obfuscation of OpenGL? That's right, cuntfaces...
It was Microsoft."
Right. All manufacturers... whose hardware works with windows. I'll take cross platform compatability thank you very much.
Before you might argue that nobody uses OpenGL, what about all those licensees of the Quake 3 engine? And what about all those who will license the Doom 3 engine?
I just tried this out, and it works pretty much as described in the docs. One thing though: it takes a while for it to do the pattern matching. Generating a playlist of all the "indie" genre'd stuff in my library took like 5-6 seconds before "Now Playing" came up. Hopefully they'll speed this up a bit and also work out the couple of annoying bugs in the firmware:)
All around the new revs are great, though I've already manged to scratch the face and back in a few places. I wish they'd put some sort of scratch resistant coating on these things ala eyeglasses.
Yes, but I don't know if you really would want to bother. I've tried getting it running on a 1400 (which came after the 5300 and it was somewhat painful to install, and the media bays wouldn't work. Perhaps the 5300 is better supported. I don't know)
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:) The stream will probably be QT MPEG-4 which I don't think mplayer supports yet (Strange because it supports quicktime containers and a variety of mpeg-4 based codecs). So keep windows up for another half-hour or so and start the stream when it appears.
Link up to keynote stream will go up after the keynote finishes. LoopRumors says they'll link to it once it is available.
Fear not
How does that have anything to do with cutting edge technology? Its just the model under which the client was designed. Its a download app not a p2p client in the same sense as most pieces of software out there. You can chose which software you want to continue to share and which to not.
Unfortunately this results in some things becoming virtually unobtainable once people are no longer interested in a file, but there's usually at least a few people still seeding and leeching files even with somethings that are months old.
Can you recommend any liturature on it? I've had difficulty finding anything comprehensive on using netinfo.
It was a bit of a rant, but it makes sense. The average level of education in this country as well as throughout the world is pathetic. Why do we have crappy TV shows? Because people freaking like it!
People live and operate on the same level as these shows. It even seems to be prevalent in those who have attended/are attending universities/grad school. I know quite a few people who are more curious about whats happening on the next sitcom than the rest of the world that surrounds them.
I'll admit that I'm a sucker for star trek and miscellaneous other sci-fi shows, but they don't run my life, and they aren't a primary focus of mine.
I disagree, in part, with the statement that we're replacing one proprietary browser with another. The front-end top level, safari gui may be proprietary but the web rendering engine WebCore is open source, is based on KHTML, and has an SDK so other developers can use it.
So the whole "standards compliant" portion of the browser is essentially free and open, plus apple is contributing it's fixes back to the KHTML project.
Worst comes to worst, no matter what its less proprietary than IE. I'll take Safari and WebCore over IE any day. I might take mozilla over Safari, but the UI is unbearably slow on OS X (its quite snappy under linux on the same machine though so thats really OS X's fault).
Marathon as in 1, 2 or âz (infinity)?
Judging from the current state of AlephOne maybe I _can_ actually get some multiplayer carnage.. after all these exams are done. Damn you quarter system! Damn you to hell!
There's nothing inherent in AAC that makes it DRM friendly. Its the quicktime wrapper thats DRM friendly. It would not be difficult to slap some form of DRM on MP3s, you just wouldn't get that many users because none of the MP3 players would support it out-of-the-box. People want to be able to fire up their winamp (or *shudder* realplayer, wmp, etc) and play the files without hassal. SInce iTunes is the most popular mac audio player, its much easier to add DRM to a format that hasn't been used much. Players will implement fairplay and authorize tracks. Apple could have done the same damn thing with MP3s, called them something other tham mp3s and it would have worked perfectly fine.
AAC _is_ technically superior to MP3. The problem is we've had around 10 years now to refine and perfect our MP3 encoders while free/cheap AAC encoders are just coming onto the market. Give it time, once it reaches its prime it will provide quality that I'm sure will undeniably rival MP3.
"You're missing the point of the car analogy. Ogg is a car that doesn't go where you want it to go. There's no Ogg support in QuickTime. There's no Ogg support on the iPod. It simply can't go places that people want to go."
Indeed. You've got a car, it can drive in any direction, but all of the terrain is impassable using said car. You either have to pave your own roads or wait until someone else does it because they've got enough spare time and want the road badly enough.
The paving materials and equipment are freely available, but someone has to invest the time to lay the infrastructure.
On the other hand you can pay some cash, get some other vehicle and use the roads/rails/whatever they've built using revenue from selling whatever vehicles they happen to be.
Frankly, I've got a mac. I've got an iPod. I already made the hardware investment (and software, but thats really just a sunk cost since the computer came with Jaguar, and the iPod came with its own little OS). Why not use it? AAC on high quality encoding at 128 kbits sounds pretty damn good to me. But then again, there's no reason you should take my word for it, as I don't have any "audiophile" equipment, and I've had a very mild case of tinnitus in my right ear (dammit!). It lets me store lots of music, and it sounds good to me. To boot, some other people seem to think it sounds pretty damn good to (and an equal if not greater number that dislike it either because it sounds bad to them or they've got some sort of political agenda that clashes with apple/dolby/patents/whatever).
You know I think this has more to do with the frequency of updates being made available for the linux kernel as compared with actual stability issues. I've NEVER had any linux servers crash on me or otherwise require a reboot due to something becoming irrecoverable.
Works great on my iBook with a Bluetooth dongle and my T68i. I've been using it to keep contacts in sync for the past 3 months with narry an issue. On top of that, it works great as a wireless remote using Salling Clicker. You can control anything that works with AppleScript. I've used it for presentations, controlling itunes, and playing DVDs. Sounds like the grass is greener here, than on the other side of the fence.
I'm sick of people claiming this or that thing is dead, or is going to be dead. As long as it works well for someone, and fits a niche better than any other product its alive! As long as its supported by OS X, I'll be using it. And from the looks of Apple's front page, as well as their inclusion of bluetooth adapters in their recent machines it looks like it'll be around for quite some time.
Hmm, denied access for me, but when I nmap it and try and fingerprint my DI-614+:
Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Interesting ports on (192.168.0.1):
(The 1600 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
Port State Service
80/tcp open http
Remote operating system guess: LinkSys WAP11 wireless AP firmware ver. 2.2
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 8 seconds
hmm..
"All the girls I've met have hated Macs...but then they always think Linux geeks are sexy, for some reason. "
;)
So... does that mean my chances are good if I've got an iBook and am a Linux sysadmin/geek?
Posting this from konqui, and have mac os x running on another vt. Sweet.
I didn't know you could run anything on a MAC. I thought they were just alphanumeric strings used as hardware addresses.
(note: It's a joke, I'm using an iBook and am currently downloading one of these images from a less slashdotted mirror. Though they are doing pretty well considering the oregon state server just had some hardware issues.)
The touch wheel and buttons are not flush with the surface, they're set in about a milimeter or so. Its not all that bad, but I think I like the buttons surrounding the wheel better, and you don't really need the lighted buttons in that case since one develops a memory more easily of the functionality of each button.
Bah. Radio 1 dumped Solid Steel and replaced it with a stupid talk show.
I think radio in general is pretty bad in most places. They always play whatever the top 100 most popular tracks are which tend to be all pretty much the same drivel.
How about some real "alternative," some stuff from independent labels that have music that isn't as bad?!
Indeed this is OT.
he sure fooled us? I hope you're being sarchastic. The only person attempting the fooling was the US government (or Dubya), using "weapons of mass destruction" as an excuse. The only person being fooled were people who voted for our current president (at least those not regretting their choice).
Sorry if this sounds like a troll but I felt they were lying in the first place, and they have yet to prove anyone wrong.
Use of Weapons was quite good, but the end was indeed rather disturbing (read The Wasp Factory if you want something more disturbing).
I've found the UK editions at borders on occasion, even with the "Not for resale in the US" printed on them. Oh well.
All of these SF books are pretty good. He writes pretty good fiction as well.
Reading "Consider Phlebas" (title is a nod to T S Eliot's "The Waste Land") right now.
With comments like:
Copyrights and patents are protection against strangers. Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with. From a legal standpoint, contracts end up being far stronger than anything you could do with copyrights.
(emphasis added)
So, the entire point of a contract is to sue other people, and patents/copyrights are to protection you from "strangers"?
What? Is some shady guy in a van with candy going to take your patents away?
I don't think we'll be seeing these guys around for long.
The whole tone of that release leads me to believe that the people behind this company are as immature as are their actions.
Since your WinAMP/WMP/MusicMatch does this too? Sure you can broadcast shoutcast/icecast streams, but this was on-demand streaming of tracks.
;)
This is hardly much of a change in digital rights management. If you want to share your music from elsewhere then either run an ssh tunnel, use vpn, or set up your itunes folder as a share and connect to it remotely.
Apple stated its original intent was for families to be able to share libraries within the house. That hasn't changed. They went beyond this with the original implementation allowing users to connect to their libraries from work easily, and without hassal. Since everyone went and used it to share music with random people, and then on top of that people used it for music piracy, Apple removed this extra feature that wasn't even mentioned in the original announcement Jobs made.
If Apple had, say, changed the number of tracks you could authorize iTMS tracks on, then that would be leaning more towards draconian DRM methods that we love to loathe.
Your comment is a troll, and has already been moderated as such (by others.. I never seem to have mod points when I need them
"Who came out with a standard API that ALL manufactures could use without resorting to the arcane obfuscation of OpenGL? That's right, cuntfaces...
It was Microsoft."
Right. All manufacturers... whose hardware works with windows. I'll take cross platform compatability thank you very much.
Before you might argue that nobody uses OpenGL, what about all those licensees of the Quake 3 engine? And what about all those who will license the Doom 3 engine?
I just tried this out, and it works pretty much as described in the docs. One thing though: it takes a while for it to do the pattern matching. Generating a playlist of all the "indie" genre'd stuff in my library took like 5-6 seconds before "Now Playing" came up. Hopefully they'll speed this up a bit and also work out the couple of annoying bugs in the firmware :)
All around the new revs are great, though I've already manged to scratch the face and back in a few places. I wish they'd put some sort of scratch resistant coating on these things ala eyeglasses.
I tinted my terminal green after seeing it, so don't feel so ashamed ;)
Yes, but I don't know if you really would want to bother. I've tried getting it running on a 1400 (which came after the 5300 and it was somewhat painful to install, and the media bays wouldn't work. Perhaps the 5300 is better supported. I don't know)
The kernel needed can be found here