Your non techie friends will start buying Mac like there is no tomorrow.. trust you me, you will be happier with this, because you woun't have to do support service for them.
do you really believe that every single one of the twenty five thousand Microsoft employees have some sort of mp3 player?
do you really believe, that there are 16.000 iPods on campus?
will you totally disregard the possibility, that only one of the two lines in article is correct? (making #3 in your comment slightly incorrect and disregarding #2 as a comment)
an 80% iPod market share among Microsoft employees is not really news, considering that 80% of the marked is what the iPod has..
yeah, there are a couple of lines in the article that will clash seriously, when both are asumed 100% true. I find it very hard to believe, that there shold be 16.000 iPods on the Microsoft Campus. Whereas a claim that 80% of the mp3 owners have selected the iPod is more believable and follows the current trends in mp3 market shares.
"The source estimated 80 percent of Microsoft employees have a music player."
No, that's what you say it says. What it says is
About 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a portable music player have an iPod
note the "who have" in that sentence?
That is, for every 5 people you see lurking around with earbuds in their heads, 4 will be iPod owners (regardless of the color of those earbuds, which is touched upon later)
I actually read the article.. both before I posted and before it was refered by slashdot.
...well, blocking iTunes in the company firewall is not unheard of.. that's what the company I work for do. Not being in an iTunesMusicStore certified country, I don't mind, I've just noticed, that's all..
Yeah, that's true.. at least the very first, the PowerBook 100, was designed by Sony. That little machine was brilliant. It had something that current labtops lag; you could put it in sleep mode, change the battery and wake it up again without loosing anything.. Honestly, I don't know if current PowerBooks can do that, but my current IBM T30 can't..
I'm from Denmark and all keyboards are QWERTY. We DO have 3 extra letters, so,;.:-_ have been moved around a bit, nothing fancy. We have a computer produced in Spain, which uses QWERTY as well. Adding the specific spanish upside down ?'s and !'s and the ~ in easy to reach positions.
Basic layout is QWERTY, though some keyboards do have DELETE,HOME, INSERT, PAGE UP/DOWN etc written in Danish (or Spanish), again nothing too confusing..
yes! I like to be able to hit somebody (hard) with my keyboard aswell! I suppose that we can rearrange the keys on the Model M to fit this new design?.. back to seek and peck?.. not!
The newest version of iTunes is running fine on both my T30 and my ThinkPad 600E, both running Windows 2000 Professional. The program takes up about 10MB of memory, which I thought was a lot, until I realized that I could both rip, play and burn with it.
Anyway, EphPod is another program that interfaces with the iPod, but in my book it's less userfriendly.. your book might be different;-)
Sony has some nice digital cameras, but they have theese MemorySticks, that are extreemely expensive. There are a lot of other products on the marked spotting the same Zeiss lens and CMOS/CCD.
Sony DVD players are supposedly dificult to set to Region 0.
Sony doesn't really have any significant harddisc based music players.. the last product I can remember is a new type of miniDisc with a 1GB capacity and a lot of hoops to prevent you from transfering your own damn music to it.
Sony does have some really nice headsets for portable music devices (MDR-EX71SL) this is probably the only product I would consider buying.. they have 25 years of experience and I guess that the headset department doesn't have many "conflicts of interests", so they are allowed to put out a good product.. they are even producing that specific model in WHITE for some strange reason!:-)
But yeah, Sony isn't was it was when I bought my first walkman in 1983..
I think "copyright" was invented to give the printshop a chance (only a few years) to print books, to ensure that as many books as possible would be printet and not only the popular once... today, we are loosing a part of our current history because copyright holders hold too tight on some things, that's so sad..
no,/. is filled with Linux wannabees (like me) who are bound to Windows for corporate reasons, use Linux (or Solaris) for their real work while listening to their iPods, dreaming about an Apple computer..
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Your non techie friends will start buying Mac like there is no tomorrow .. trust you me, you will be happier with this, because you woun't have to do support service for them.
..can't that little chip just turn off the damn song?
Now THAT is a service I would pay for!
Damn, secretly placed bets! :-)
do you really believe that every single one of the twenty five thousand Microsoft employees have some sort of mp3 player?
do you really believe, that there are 16.000 iPods on campus?
will you totally disregard the possibility, that only one of the two lines in article is correct? (making #3 in your comment slightly incorrect and disregarding #2 as a comment)
an 80% iPod market share among Microsoft employees is not really news, considering that 80% of the marked is what the iPod has..
yeah, there are a couple of lines in the article that will clash seriously, when both are asumed 100% true.
I find it very hard to believe, that there shold be 16.000 iPods on the Microsoft Campus. Whereas a claim that 80% of the mp3 owners have selected the iPod is more believable and follows the current trends in mp3 market shares.
Well, here is a piece on iPod related mugging early last year here
Furthermore other sources have reported simmilar cases
"The source estimated 80 percent of Microsoft employees have a music player."
.. both before I posted and before it was refered by slashdot.
No, that's what you say it says. What it says is
About 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a portable music player have an iPod
note the "who have" in that sentence?
That is, for every 5 people you see lurking around with earbuds in their heads, 4 will be iPod owners (regardless of the color of those earbuds, which is touched upon later)
I actually read the article
...well, blocking iTunes in the company firewall is not unheard of .. that's what the company I work for do. Not being in an iTunesMusicStore certified country, I don't mind, I've just noticed, that's all..
Well, it also asumes that 100% of all Microsoft employees have a music player, which I seriously doubt.
...
White earbuds are seen and frowned upon because it's an Apple product, so what?
It should actually be frowned upon because it's a high capacity/speed storage device ideal for industrial espionage
about PowerBook 100 the link I should have provided and you probably already found by doing a google search ..
Yeah, that's true .. at least the very first, the PowerBook 100, was designed by Sony. That little machine was brilliant. It had something that current labtops lag; you could put it in sleep mode, change the battery and wake it up again without loosing anything .. Honestly, I don't know if current PowerBooks can do that, but my current IBM T30 can't..
where are all those nice jails?
I mean, yes, a prison is not nice if you don't understand the language, but hey, that's just part of the whole prison experience.
What do you want, a brochure?
Check the law and don't expect "the right to remain silent" anywhere else but the US of A.
I'm from Denmark and all keyboards are QWERTY. We DO have 3 extra letters, so ,;.:-_ have been moved around a bit, nothing fancy.
We have a computer produced in Spain, which uses QWERTY as well. Adding the specific spanish upside down ?'s and !'s and the ~ in easy to reach positions.
Basic layout is QWERTY, though some keyboards do have DELETE,HOME, INSERT, PAGE UP/DOWN etc written in Danish (or Spanish), again nothing too confusing..
yes! I like to be able to hit somebody (hard) with my keyboard aswell! I suppose that we can rearrange the keys on the Model M to fit this new design? .. back to seek and peck? .. not!
The most resent tsunami just earth's way of saying; Hey, quit poking me there!
Next time it will be; I said 'stop it'!
If you ARE a monkey, you don't understand that the jungle has problems..
That is actually true for all senses of the word!
She is probably only half-pregnant :-)
We, as a race, will not change until we have no other option. Maybe a big breakdown is what we need?
The newest version of iTunes is running fine on both my T30 and my ThinkPad 600E, both running Windows 2000 Professional. The program takes up about 10MB of memory, which I thought was a lot, until I realized that I could both rip, play and burn with it.
;-)
Anyway, EphPod is another program that interfaces with the iPod, but in my book it's less userfriendly.. your book might be different
And I won't even go into how good iTunes is here.
Yeah, this is usually the part people forget about, when they talk about Yet Another iPod Killer..
Sony has some nice digital cameras, but they have theese MemorySticks, that are extreemely expensive. There are a lot of other products on the marked spotting the same Zeiss lens and CMOS/CCD.
:-)
Sony DVD players are supposedly dificult to set to Region 0.
Sony doesn't really have any significant harddisc based music players.. the last product I can remember is a new type of miniDisc with a 1GB capacity and a lot of hoops to prevent you from transfering your own damn music to it.
Sony does have some really nice headsets for portable music devices (MDR-EX71SL) this is probably the only product I would consider buying.. they have 25 years of experience and I guess that the headset department doesn't have many "conflicts of interests", so they are allowed to put out a good product.. they are even producing that specific model in WHITE for some strange reason!
But yeah, Sony isn't was it was when I bought my first walkman in 1983..
I think "copyright" was invented to give the printshop a chance (only a few years) to print books, to ensure that as many books as possible would be printet and not only the popular once... today, we are loosing a part of our current history because copyright holders hold too tight on some things, that's so sad..
200 million legally sold songs says they can't drop AAC support.
.. easily..
one million songs in their online music store says that they can't switch from AAC now.
BUT, they could start offering WMA DRM'ed files as an alternative
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no, /. is filled with Linux wannabees (like me) who are bound to Windows for corporate reasons, use Linux (or Solaris) for their real work while listening to their iPods, dreaming about an Apple computer ..