I think they have it backwards. Why would I pay MORE for a song that I can hear played to death on any radio I happen to walk by? I'd actually be willing to pay more for a song or album from 10 years ago that I really liked, but don't ever hear on the radio anymore.
Give away the new stuff. Charge for the vintage stuff.
After all, they don't pre-announce completely new devices (such as the new Airport Express) or new software packages (iTunes for Windows was almost a surprise).
Your kidding, right? The Airport Express was pre-announced by over a month (it just started shipping), and they announced iTunes for Windows nearly 6 months before it was released!
There is a good reason for this lag. Most Linux users (1% of all PC users) don't require slick UI to get their tasks done. Linux users primarily still use the terminal window and considering that KDE is ahead of Windows, I'd say they are doing pretty well.
Good attitude to have if you want to keep usage down to that 1% that don't require a usable (read: consistent) GUI.
Since apple went through the trouble to start a new brand name as opposed to simply calling the AirPort Express "iTunes Enabled" I have a feeling that they are going to be allowing other manufacturers to add this functionality to their products.
Imagine home electronics with a built-in WIFI receiver that is able to decode Protected-AAC and will show up in iTunes automatically as soon as you plug it in!
I can't wait to buy a AirTunes iPod.
Sure, they will have their own devices, but I bet it will also be a new "port" for other companies to use - same as FireWire has become so ubiquitous on video equipment.
And for all you audiophiles out there, remember, iTunes can play apple's loss-less compressed format and the AirPort Express does have a digital audio out, so don't whine about the sound quality of playing compressed audio through your $40,000 stereo.
Instead, I'll suspect you'll do something like plug it in, hit it with a web browser or even iTunes 4.6 and say "find new device" and it will autoconfigure.
You don't even have to do that!
From Apple:
"All you have to do is connect your sound system to the audio port on the AirPort Express Base Station using an audio cable . . . iTunes automatically detects the connection of your remote speakers, so you just have to select them in the popup list that appears at the bottom of the iTunes window and click play."
Don't you think you ruin all the fun by calling the GNU mascot a wildebeest instead of a gnu?
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The fans in a G5 are NOT solely controlled by temperature. They are also controlled by the CPU itself based on usage. (proactive cooling as opposed to purely reactive)
"Abnormally Hot" - maybe for many machines giving the processor(s) a workout is abnormal, but for many video/adudio professionals we are maxing out the CPU(s) on a regular basis.
My Dual 2.0 G5 sits on my desk in a well cooled room with both covers securly and properly in place with no restricted airflow. ANY time the CPU usage ramps up, the fan ramps up as well. When I render a FCP sequence or encode a DVD, or even when my Folding@Home screen saver kicks in, the fan picks up speed too. It is an immediate response - as soon as I move the mouse and the screensaver quits, the fans slow down immediately.
If you are performing Analalog to Digital audio coversion in software, then you are going to see some increased processor usage and therefor faster (louder) fans.
I love the fact that while I'm just browsing the internet or using Word or Excel, my mac is almost silent, but as soon as I start making it work, it gets loud.
If you install Microsoft Office v.X as a non-admin user, it does NOT ask you for a password, it just creates and installs Office in an Applications directory INSIDE the user's home directory.
Leave it to Microsoft to "extend" the concept of a home directory.
I haven't run into any other installers that use/create a ~/Applications directory, but you never know...
In the newspaper industry, advertising is sold based on CPM (cost per thousand) READERS. Not subscribers, not sales. READERS.
It is *expected* that each newspaper will have more than one reader. Whether it is Mom and Dad both reading the same paper, or the paper you leave behind on the table at McDonalds that someone else picks up.
Newspaper circulation is multiplied by an industry standard number of readers-per-paper-circulated to determine how may total readers there are and it is that number that is used to calculate the price of advertising space.
Why can't the Broadcast Media work on the same principle. Example: 10 million watch a show when broadcast. 10% record it and watch it again or share it with an average of 1 other person. This means actual viewership is 11 million. (Who's really going to go through the trouble of removing the commercials? Some will, but not many)
Also, I don't buy the premise that just because it is a "perfect" copy, it will be bootlegged.
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Why oh why did I register with InstaTrace?
I think they have it backwards. Why would I pay MORE for a song that I can hear played to death on any radio I happen to walk by? I'd actually be willing to pay more for a song or album from 10 years ago that I really liked, but don't ever hear on the radio anymore.
Give away the new stuff. Charge for the vintage stuff.
DVD player
Okay, I'm wrong. It is a DVD Recorder, but it is a standard DVD+/-R, not HD-DVD or Blu-ray so dvd recordings will be down-sampled to SD.
The person writing TFA is incorrect. It is a DVR with a DVD player built in.
From TFA: "...for the one-terabyte recorder, which stores data on two 500 gigabyte hard disk drives."
There's a far better write-up over at MacWorld UK.
They're made out of meat
You've got to love how easy some Mac software is to use. (and, no, I am in no way affiliated with them, other than I'm about to own their software.)
After all, they don't pre-announce completely new devices (such as the new Airport Express) or new software packages (iTunes for Windows was almost a surprise).
Your kidding, right? The Airport Express was pre-announced by over a month (it just started shipping), and they announced iTunes for Windows nearly 6 months before it was released!
There is a good reason for this lag. Most Linux users (1% of all PC users) don't require slick UI to get their tasks done. Linux users primarily still use the terminal window and considering that KDE is ahead of Windows, I'd say they are doing pretty well.
Good attitude to have if you want to keep usage down to that 1% that don't require a usable (read: consistent) GUI.
Since apple went through the trouble to start a new brand name as opposed to simply calling the AirPort Express "iTunes Enabled" I have a feeling that they are going to be allowing other manufacturers to add this functionality to their products.
Imagine home electronics with a built-in WIFI receiver that is able to decode Protected-AAC and will show up in iTunes automatically as soon as you plug it in!
I can't wait to buy a AirTunes iPod.
Sure, they will have their own devices, but I bet it will also be a new "port" for other companies to use - same as FireWire has become so ubiquitous on video equipment.
And for all you audiophiles out there, remember, iTunes can play apple's loss-less compressed format and the AirPort Express does have a digital audio out, so don't whine about the sound quality of playing compressed audio through your $40,000 stereo.
You don't even have to do that!
From Apple: "All you have to do is connect your sound system to the audio port on the AirPort Express Base Station using an audio cable . . . iTunes automatically detects the connection of your remote speakers, so you just have to select them in the popup list that appears at the bottom of the iTunes window and click play."
Classic Apple Plug and Play.
Don't you think you ruin all the fun by calling the GNU mascot a wildebeest instead of a gnu?
The fans in a G5 are NOT solely controlled by temperature. They are also controlled by the CPU itself based on usage. (proactive cooling as opposed to purely reactive)
"Abnormally Hot" - maybe for many machines giving the processor(s) a workout is abnormal, but for many video/adudio professionals we are maxing out the CPU(s) on a regular basis.
My Dual 2.0 G5 sits on my desk in a well cooled room with both covers securly and properly in place with no restricted airflow. ANY time the CPU usage ramps up, the fan ramps up as well. When I render a FCP sequence or encode a DVD, or even when my Folding@Home screen saver kicks in, the fan picks up speed too. It is an immediate response - as soon as I move the mouse and the screensaver quits, the fans slow down immediately.
If you are performing Analalog to Digital audio coversion in software, then you are going to see some increased processor usage and therefor faster (louder) fans.
I love the fact that while I'm just browsing the internet or using Word or Excel, my mac is almost silent, but as soon as I start making it work, it gets loud.
You're new here, right?
Or the same one it always has.
You mean another one?!
Ohhhh.... Why did I sign up for instatrace?
Let me see... one wheel... rider above wheel... "a high-performance braking system,"
Dental insurance?
Have you seen most Canadians? Looks like they've been riding one all their lives.
iCab is just getting too slow
Hmmm...could it be all the filtering rules it has to process just to open a URL?
You can give it to all users on the machine by putting it in /Library instead of ~/Library
Okay, I'm an idiot. It only works if there is a ~/Library/PDF Services.
BUT - If you have it in both places, you see double entries in the print dialog. I guess this is probably one of the reasons it isn't documented yet.
You can give it to all users on the machine by putting it in /Library instead of ~/Library
If you install Microsoft Office v.X as a non-admin user, it does NOT ask you for a password, it just creates and installs Office in an Applications directory INSIDE the user's home directory.
Leave it to Microsoft to "extend" the concept of a home directory.
I haven't run into any other installers that use/create a ~/Applications directory, but you never know...
Um, growing an apple tree from a seed will, almost without exception, produce a fruit that is totaly inedible.
All commercial apples for human consumption are splices (clones) from the 1 original tree (for each "variety").
All those Red Delicious apples? Grown from the same tree, or clones there of.
The way to counter "offensive" speech is not less speech, but more.
While we can all debate the "Which is better" question forever, the real point is that Microsoft has come up with a solid competitor for Java.
Nothing sparks innovation like the fear that someone will beat you to it.
Sparks are flying!
In the newspaper industry, advertising is sold based on CPM (cost per thousand) READERS. Not subscribers, not sales. READERS.
It is *expected* that each newspaper will have more than one reader. Whether it is Mom and Dad both reading the same paper, or the paper you leave behind on the table at McDonalds that someone else picks up.
Newspaper circulation is multiplied by an industry standard number of readers-per-paper-circulated to determine how may total readers there are and it is that number that is used to calculate the price of advertising space.
Why can't the Broadcast Media work on the same principle. Example: 10 million watch a show when broadcast. 10% record it and watch it again or share it with an average of 1 other person. This means actual viewership is 11 million. (Who's really going to go through the trouble of removing the commercials? Some will, but not many)
Also, I don't buy the premise that just because it is a "perfect" copy, it will be bootlegged.