If you connect to iTunes after, say, a fresh install of iTunes and there are no music files, it should prompt you to login and then re-download everything you've ever bought based on matching your userID up to each uniqueSongID you downloaded.
You should try Napster. Despite what all the Apple apologists are saying about how how much it would cost Apple to let you do this (meanwhile, Apple lets you download 30MB movie trailers for free all day long), this is exactly how Napster works. You log in, click "sync" and it downloads everything you've ever bought to that particular machine.
The GameCube problem, as I understand it, is in software sales, not hardware sales. The Xbox and PS2 "attach rate" is supposedly significantly higher than the GC since GC tends to be a secondary console for most people.
In other words, you have an Xbox or PS2 and a GC, but you only buy first-party Nintendo games for your GC. Everything else (Splinter Cell, Madden, FPS, platformer, racer) gets bought on PS2 or Xbox, so the third-party developers are happier with those consoles (plus having dual analog sticks and online).
Or you can pay $5 a month and listen to whatever you want. I've never understood the "ignore the crap ones" model, because I'm not clairvoyant enough to know what the lackluster songs on an album are before I've actually heard them. 30 second previews are okay, but don't really tell you whether a song is good or not; just what the chorus sounds like.
More importantly than the two million subscribers is the fact that they'll go into the next generation console race with a huge built-in online userbase and a lot of experience under their belt.
I'm pretty sure the PS broadband adapter anomoly was an attempt to convince Sega to develop exclusively for Nintendo.
That's as good an explanation as any, but it still makes their whole "we don't believe in online" story sound bogus.
The ability to reduce the number of cables is absolutely outstanding. A console that can be attached to the Internet without having to run a wire from the router or wireless hub to the box is a godsend. The ping times might suffer a little, though, I bet.
They were up to a million as of a year ago (prior to Halo 2 or EA Sports).
What's odd about Nintendo's online stance is that they actually produced a broadband adapter, but then only a single game that actually works with it (Phantasy Star, as I recall). I'm not sure what you see as their strategy was as much intentional as it was a flameout.
Xbox Live is, I'd argue, the thing that pushed the Xbox past the Gamecube in sales. The top-selling games are consistently online-enabled and it's a real point of differentiation for that console. It's a very well-executed service.
Movielink has been doing downloadable Hollywood films for a long time now. Not sure why everyone overlooks them when talking about the iTunes Movie Store and NetFlix, but they've been in this game for a while.
Do you really think that's true "for most people"? I think it's the opposite -- most people would rather spend a little money (and get out of the house) or wait a while and buy/rent a movie for $15/$4 than go through the hassle of downloading a lousy copy of a movie shot by a camcorder.
My guess is that the market for low quality, shaky-cam movies is very, very small in reality. It's not like MP3s where you're usually listening to them in environments like your car. If you're watching downloaded movies, you're either watching them on a really sharp monitor or blown up on a TV. Either way, you're going to see every flaw.
And where do you get 'hundreds of thousands'? No number can be verified as to how many and even the most liberal estimates put it at only about 50,000 to 60,000.
McLaughlin Group this weekend reported north of 111,000 civilians killed in Iraq. Not hundreds of thousands, but double your liberal estimates.
The theory seems to be that "if you're not as bad off as the worst-off people in human history," you can't complain. Kind of a grim way to look at things, I'd say.
You're right, of course (a search would have done me good), but reading the reactionss to both posts shows my point. The Apple acquisition gets a thumbs up from the Slashdot community (even though Apple orphaned a lot of Windows users who had paid an assload of money for the product); the MS acquisition gets a thumbs down (even though it's almost certainly not a product anyone on Slashdot would ever buy).
Good catch, but either way, you know what I'm getting at.:)
I don't think he's arguing that. He's just saying that the people who are making this trouble are the problem, not the people who are making the software that tries to protect people.
Just because you park your car in a mall and only protect it with a piece of glass that's easily broken and an alarm that everyone will ignore doesn't make it your fault if someone breaks in and steals your car. It seems like a lot of folks, though, would blame GM for not making steel shields for your windows.
The virus/worm writers are the problem; how can anyone possibly defend them?
He said the allegations said more about the people making the claims than they did about his film.
"There is a group of fans for the films that doesn't like comic sidekicks. They want the films to be tough like Terminator, and they get very upset and opinionated about anything that has anything to do with being childlike.
"The movies are for children but they don't want to admit that. In the first film they absolutely hated R2 and C3-PO. In the second film they didn't like Yoda and in the third one they hated the Ewoks... and now Jar Jar is getting accused of the same thing."
Wow, that's a good story. Let me try, let me try: Linux gives you cancer. Yeah! I guess those people not wanting to get cancer can't understand why some customers seem to like getting cancer.
Even if that story is true (and maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but it sounds like typical FUD), who sends the CEO to a remote location during an "XP trial"? Sounds like a bad IT department as much as bad business practices by Microsoft.
Anyone know how Yahoo's service is doing? That might give us a pretty good clue as to how Microsoft's likely to fare.
I use Yahoo's service and it's pretty darn cool. The client that you use is only so-so, but it's still in beta. It's true, though, you can download whatever the hell you want and go bonkers with it. I don't have a portable player that is compatible (have an iPod), but I'm thinking about getting one to take my music with me.
If you spend a lot of time at your desk, though, it's worth it just to have a huge library of songs you can play at will in front of you.
You can buy tracks for $.79 ea to burn them, if that's something you're hot to do. At $5/mo., though, the service is a great deal.
I really can't tell if this message is supposed to be a (+1, funny) or if you're actually serious.
If your credit card is so maxed out that you can't afford Yahoo Music's $5/mo. unlimited plan, you've got bigger problems than your music not working.
As for your other questions about travelling, getting seriously hurt and whatnot, I really don't get what you're saying. Again, if I get seriously hurt and can't afford my $5 a month Yahoo subscription, I think I'll have bigger worries.
Sorry I want the music to play as long as i have a player. You are now tied to napster for your music. You can't say no, you have no choice but to pay them forever.
You can still buy the music you really like. The great thing about the subscription services is that, for $5-15 a month, you can listen to whatever you want for as long as you're a subscriber (think Netflix). If you find something you really like, buy it from whatever service you want or on CD so you can own it.
For the vast majority of stuff, though, that you might like for a while, then cast aside, subscription services are ideal. It's also great if you like to sample new music in more than 30 second snippets.
I have a Dell 8600 which has very similar specs (Radeon 9600 Pro gfx card instead of the x300). It's a great, fast machine. Little on the heavy side, but it's extremely powerful, especially for a laptop. Optional 60GB 7200rpm drive probably has a lot to do with that.
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If you connect to iTunes after, say, a fresh install of iTunes and there are no music files, it should prompt you to login and then re-download everything you've ever bought based on matching your userID up to each uniqueSongID you downloaded.
You should try Napster. Despite what all the Apple apologists are saying about how how much it would cost Apple to let you do this (meanwhile, Apple lets you download 30MB movie trailers for free all day long), this is exactly how Napster works. You log in, click "sync" and it downloads everything you've ever bought to that particular machine.
Number of versions of Star Wars released on DVD: 1.
/.: 3,720 to 1
Number of versions of Evil Dead 2 released on DVD: 4? 5? 6? Another new one just came out with yet another screaming rubber cover.
Ratio of "George Lucas milks it" to "Sam Raimi milks it" posts on
The GameCube problem, as I understand it, is in software sales, not hardware sales. The Xbox and PS2 "attach rate" is supposedly significantly higher than the GC since GC tends to be a secondary console for most people.
In other words, you have an Xbox or PS2 and a GC, but you only buy first-party Nintendo games for your GC. Everything else (Splinter Cell, Madden, FPS, platformer, racer) gets bought on PS2 or Xbox, so the third-party developers are happier with those consoles (plus having dual analog sticks and online).
That depends... is it a Google app?
Or you can pay $5 a month and listen to whatever you want. I've never understood the "ignore the crap ones" model, because I'm not clairvoyant enough to know what the lackluster songs on an album are before I've actually heard them. 30 second previews are okay, but don't really tell you whether a song is good or not; just what the chorus sounds like.
Sorry... looks like it's closer to 2 million.
More importantly than the two million subscribers is the fact that they'll go into the next generation console race with a huge built-in online userbase and a lot of experience under their belt.
I'm pretty sure the PS broadband adapter anomoly was an attempt to convince Sega to develop exclusively for Nintendo.
That's as good an explanation as any, but it still makes their whole "we don't believe in online" story sound bogus.
Xbox only beat GameCube in North America, however. GameCube came out on top in both japan and Europe.
Xbox is ahead of GameCube in N.A., Europe and overall. Japan, you're right though.
The ability to reduce the number of cables is absolutely outstanding. A console that can be attached to the Internet without having to run a wire from the router or wireless hub to the box is a godsend. The ping times might suffer a little, though, I bet.
Get a wireless bridge and you can have your godsend today. It's a miracle!
They were up to a million as of a year ago (prior to Halo 2 or EA Sports).
What's odd about Nintendo's online stance is that they actually produced a broadband adapter, but then only a single game that actually works with it (Phantasy Star, as I recall). I'm not sure what you see as their strategy was as much intentional as it was a flameout.
Xbox Live is, I'd argue, the thing that pushed the Xbox past the Gamecube in sales. The top-selling games are consistently online-enabled and it's a real point of differentiation for that console. It's a very well-executed service.
Movielink has been doing downloadable Hollywood films for a long time now. Not sure why everyone overlooks them when talking about the iTunes Movie Store and NetFlix, but they've been in this game for a while.
Do you really think that's true "for most people"? I think it's the opposite -- most people would rather spend a little money (and get out of the house) or wait a while and buy/rent a movie for $15/$4 than go through the hassle of downloading a lousy copy of a movie shot by a camcorder.
My guess is that the market for low quality, shaky-cam movies is very, very small in reality. It's not like MP3s where you're usually listening to them in environments like your car. If you're watching downloaded movies, you're either watching them on a really sharp monitor or blown up on a TV. Either way, you're going to see every flaw.
And where do you get 'hundreds of thousands'? No number can be verified as to how many and even the most liberal estimates put it at only about 50,000 to 60,000.
McLaughlin Group this weekend reported north of 111,000 civilians killed in Iraq. Not hundreds of thousands, but double your liberal estimates.
The theory seems to be that "if you're not as bad off as the worst-off people in human history," you can't complain. Kind of a grim way to look at things, I'd say.
They also make you pay for your own dinner and charge you a 30% markup.
I kid! I kid!
Here comes another (-1, troll)...
You're right, of course (a search would have done me good), but reading the reactionss to both posts shows my point. The Apple acquisition gets a thumbs up from the Slashdot community (even though Apple orphaned a lot of Windows users who had paid an assload of money for the product); the MS acquisition gets a thumbs down (even though it's almost certainly not a product anyone on Slashdot would ever buy).
:)
Good catch, but either way, you know what I'm getting at.
I'm sure that if Apple did the same thing, that Slashdot would post a story, right?
I don't think he's arguing that. He's just saying that the people who are making this trouble are the problem, not the people who are making the software that tries to protect people.
Just because you park your car in a mall and only protect it with a piece of glass that's easily broken and an alarm that everyone will ignore doesn't make it your fault if someone breaks in and steals your car. It seems like a lot of folks, though, would blame GM for not making steel shields for your windows.
The virus/worm writers are the problem; how can anyone possibly defend them?
Tomorrow's Technology today!
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He said the allegations said more about the people making the claims than they did about his film.
"There is a group of fans for the films that doesn't like comic sidekicks. They want the films to be tough like Terminator, and they get very upset and opinionated about anything that has anything to do with being childlike.
"The movies are for children but they don't want to admit that. In the first film they absolutely hated R2 and C3-PO. In the second film they didn't like Yoda and in the third one they hated the Ewoks... and now Jar Jar is getting accused of the same thing."
Uh... are you saying that Archos is a bloated, monopolist, bloodthirsty company? Compared with Apple?
Wow, that's a good story. Let me try, let me try: Linux gives you cancer. Yeah! I guess those people not wanting to get cancer can't understand why some customers seem to like getting cancer.
Even if that story is true (and maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but it sounds like typical FUD), who sends the CEO to a remote location during an "XP trial"? Sounds like a bad IT department as much as bad business practices by Microsoft.
Anyone know how Yahoo's service is doing? That might give us a pretty good clue as to how Microsoft's likely to fare.
I use Yahoo's service and it's pretty darn cool. The client that you use is only so-so, but it's still in beta. It's true, though, you can download whatever the hell you want and go bonkers with it. I don't have a portable player that is compatible (have an iPod), but I'm thinking about getting one to take my music with me.
If you spend a lot of time at your desk, though, it's worth it just to have a huge library of songs you can play at will in front of you.
You can buy tracks for $.79 ea to burn them, if that's something you're hot to do. At $5/mo., though, the service is a great deal.
I really can't tell if this message is supposed to be a (+1, funny) or if you're actually serious.
If your credit card is so maxed out that you can't afford Yahoo Music's $5/mo. unlimited plan, you've got bigger problems than your music not working.
As for your other questions about travelling, getting seriously hurt and whatnot, I really don't get what you're saying. Again, if I get seriously hurt and can't afford my $5 a month Yahoo subscription, I think I'll have bigger worries.
Sorry I want the music to play as long as i have a player. You are now tied to napster for your music. You can't say no, you have no choice but to pay them forever.
You can still buy the music you really like. The great thing about the subscription services is that, for $5-15 a month, you can listen to whatever you want for as long as you're a subscriber (think Netflix). If you find something you really like, buy it from whatever service you want or on CD so you can own it.
For the vast majority of stuff, though, that you might like for a while, then cast aside, subscription services are ideal. It's also great if you like to sample new music in more than 30 second snippets.
Mac OS was designed with security in mind
Whew! I sure am glad I didn't get this from my network admin this morning:
TITLE:
Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15481
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15481/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
Unknown, Security Bypass, Exposure of system information, Exposure of
sensitive information, Privilege escalation, DoS, System access
I have a Dell 8600 which has very similar specs (Radeon 9600 Pro gfx card instead of the x300). It's a great, fast machine. Little on the heavy side, but it's extremely powerful, especially for a laptop. Optional 60GB 7200rpm drive probably has a lot to do with that.