All they have to do is just make it so that if you stop paying the subscription you still keep the songs.
Yah that's a good business model. Pay one montly fee get all the music for free and unsubsribe with your massive collection of digital music.
I can't see this working. People don't want to keep paying for ever to listen to music. If I quit the server I want to keep the music I've "purchased".
I never understood why the iPod doesn't have a line-in for recording, it just seems brain-dead to me for Apple to not included such a simple feature.
Because it's meant to be an uncluttered device that is easily useable and understandable by a large segment of the population... ie not techies.
It's not aimed at the technie market that wants it to do everything under the sun including be a clumsy cumbersume device with a million and one options.
Yeah, it's really bizarre. There are non-Apple-based movie stores that work just great and plenty of non-iPod portable players to watch them on (from Archos, Creative, etc.), but it's not interesting news until Apple is rumored to be doing it. Gimme a break.
True, but you know what? They will come out with a store and suite of apps that the non technical savy can and will want to use. I also doubt the movie store is going to be aimed at watching movies on your ipod, but it will most likely be an option. The main target is going to be the Mini Mac that's sitting next to your tv. Let's face it, few out side of the tech community will really want to watch movies on a 4 sqaure inch screen.
It will just work and you won't miss half of your show because XP Media Edition packed it in half way though. Assuming of course there is some sort of PVR fucntionality too it as well... seems like a logical addtion. The hardware involved does have a ceritain coolness/designy factor too (Mini Mac) that more non techies will actually want to have in their living rooms rather then some ugly pimped out PC piece of crap.
Don't forget the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion field either!
Just get enough RAM!! ... and don't buy RAM from Apple. Way too over priced. Just buy it from your local computer chop shop. I would just make sure it named brand and warrenteed.
You've missed out the monopoly element to the complaint. Try it like this:
"Judge, I bought 400 gallons of diesel fuel because that's the only kind of fuel I can buy not that Dieselco own all the gas stations, and NONE of it will work in my Honda Civic! MAKE the gas station sell normal gas too."
Now do you see the problem?
yah I see a problem, but don't go to that gastation unless you buy a car that runs on their gas. Pretty easy to figure out if you ask me.
The first time I saw "that our slots pay 98%" I thought wow I can win 98% of the time? Then thought out about it for minute and came to the same conclusion you did. That's ALOT of money. How many people don't make that second jump? That's what keeps the casino industry alive.
The players may win the ocasional pittance or enough to keep you giving them your money, but in the end the house wins. In this case the guys may have walked away with 1.3 million, but that's pretty insignificant given how much money goes into these places. It is enough to make the casinos take notice, ban them and figure out what they are doing and how to stop it though. They may be set for life, or a long while, but good luck every showing their face in any casino. Not that they need to. In the end, the house wins this one(ie they are banned). Same deal with the guys from the MIT black jack club. They can be arrested for trespassing if they set foot in pretty much any casino in the world. They'd probably be taking their life in their hands setting foot in some casinos. i.e. the house wins again.
If the casinos weren't winning they wouldn't be there.
Every last one of them was -- and still is -- theoretical.
So would you sooner have them wait until there are threats in the wild? I would call this rather proactive. Of course if you use your own compiled version of apache and are on top of it then you've probably patched these hole a long time ago.
But the signle to noise ratio of the rest of the world to the US is pretty low. Especially in the news arena. Or maybe it's the Quantity to Quality ratio....
Although, the Web does have some of this functionality already (anyone can publish), a central site would be excellent, especially for those of us in the US who realizes that a world exists outside the border and are sick of receiving less than a bare minimum of news from it.
And for those of us outside the US who are sick of getting nothing but American News.
Has the shuttle program been all it was cracked up to be? Probably not. But it does give us signifigant capabilities that other "industrial countries' space programs" still don't have.
Are you still driving your 1950 Buick to work too?
Know any other countries that could send not one, but two different robotic rovers to Mars and control them for over a year?
I have two thoughts on this. First, MS updates will break a lot of things, not just iTunes. I constantly hear horror stories of how each update breaks some program or another. Granted, it may break iTunes a bit "harder", but that's a price to pay. I also wonder if Apple could say "look, these guys are acting very uncompetitively and intentionally breaking our software".
I really don't think Microsquish intentionally "breaks" other software. Think about it. How man customers are you going to hang on to if you keep breaking things. Your average user doesn't really know what's broken when something isn't working. They just know they can't do thier job or play their game or buy their music.
How many of these things break because some third party software developer out there didn't stick to the API's and took some shortcuts?
I would hardly say that Apple trying to protect its relationship with the music content providers, which is the whole reason that the iTunes Music Store exists in the first place
The only reason the iTunes Music Stores exists, is to sell iPods. That's where Apple makes it's money.
For it to exist it has to keep the music industry happy. To help keep the music industry happy, they stop you from easily copying music off of you or your friends iPods.
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Seriously, could someone explain to me why similar remarks about Windows aren't modded up on stories about x86 hardware?
Because windows sucks ass and I think any excuse to run something else is a good one.
Easy. Because one may have a job developing code that has to tested on a Linux platform.
Then why not just by a $299 crappy PC from Dell rather then spending $499 on the mini mac.
Don't get me wrong, I'd rather have the mini mac myself, but I'd also rather have it running OS X.
All they have to do is just make it so that if you stop paying the subscription you still keep the songs.
Yah that's a good business model. Pay one montly fee get all the music for free and unsubsribe with your massive collection of digital music.
I can't see this working. People don't want to keep paying for ever to listen to music. If I quit the server I want to keep the music I've "purchased".
I never understood why the iPod doesn't have a line-in for recording, it just seems brain-dead to me for Apple to not included such a simple feature.
Because it's meant to be an uncluttered device that is easily useable and understandable by a large segment of the population... ie not techies.
It's not aimed at the technie market that wants it to do everything under the sun including be a clumsy cumbersume device with a million and one options.
Yeah, it's really bizarre. There are non-Apple-based movie stores that work just great and plenty of non-iPod portable players to watch them on (from Archos, Creative, etc.), but it's not interesting news until Apple is rumored to be doing it. Gimme a break.
True, but you know what? They will come out with a store and suite of apps that the non technical savy can and will want to use. I also doubt the movie store is going to be aimed at watching movies on your ipod, but it will most likely be an option. The main target is going to be the Mini Mac that's sitting next to your tv. Let's face it, few out side of the tech community will really want to watch movies on a 4 sqaure inch screen.
It will just work and you won't miss half of your show because XP Media Edition packed it in half way though. Assuming of course there is some sort of PVR fucntionality too it as well... seems like a logical addtion. The hardware involved does have a ceritain coolness/designy factor too (Mini Mac) that more non techies will actually want to have in their living rooms rather then some ugly pimped out PC piece of crap.
Don't forget the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion field either!
Just get enough RAM!!
If I were Apple I'd be a bit concerned at the powerbook line - the iBooks deliver so much for so little now the powerbooks don't look very attractive.
That will change this year. They are a bit long in the tooth so I would be expecting either a duel core G4 or possibly a G5 powerbook.
$399 Dell PC: "No Wireless"
$499 Minimac: "AirPort Extreme- and Bluetooth-ready"
So.... that'd be the "no wireless" option for the minimac too?
Sure the Dell is cheaper, but you have to put up with Windoze and a piece of $%#^ Dell product.
You have those glowing blue lights under your souped up Honda Civic too don't you?
So quit whining and upgrade the hard drive yourself to a 60GB 7.6k Travelstar.
You've missed out the monopoly element to the complaint. Try it like this:
"Judge, I bought 400 gallons of diesel fuel because that's the only kind of fuel I can buy not that Dieselco own all the gas stations, and NONE of it will work in my Honda Civic! MAKE the gas station sell normal gas too."
Now do you see the problem?
yah I see a problem, but don't go to that gastation unless you buy a car that runs on their gas. Pretty easy to figure out if you ask me.
After burning them he could even rip them back into what ever format he wants for what every music player he wants.
Maybe commonly available, but not commonly known.
The first time I saw "that our slots pay 98%" I thought wow I can win 98% of the time? Then thought out about it for minute and came to the same conclusion you did. That's ALOT of money. How many people don't make that second jump? That's what keeps the casino industry alive.
The players may win the ocasional pittance or enough to keep you giving them your money, but in the end the house wins. In this case the guys may have walked away with 1.3 million, but that's pretty insignificant given how much money goes into these places. It is enough to make the casinos take notice, ban them and figure out what they are doing and how to stop it though. They may be set for life, or a long while, but good luck every showing their face in any casino. Not that they need to. In the end, the house wins this one(ie they are banned). Same deal with the guys from the MIT black jack club. They can be arrested for trespassing if they set foot in pretty much any casino in the world. They'd probably be taking their life in their hands setting foot in some casinos. i.e. the house wins again.
If the casinos weren't winning they wouldn't be there.
Sounds like a good way to get yourself banned from every Casino on earth. The house ALWAYS wins, just ask the MIT blackjack team.
Every last one of them was -- and still is -- theoretical.
So would you sooner have them wait until there are threats in the wild? I would call this rather proactive.
Of course if you use your own compiled version of apache and are on top of it then you've probably patched these hole a long time ago.
why not just read the The Onion?
But the signle to noise ratio of the rest of the world to the US is pretty low. Especially in the news arena. Or maybe it's the Quantity to Quality ratio....
Although, the Web does have some of this functionality already (anyone can publish), a central site would be excellent, especially for those of us in the US who realizes that a world exists outside the border and are sick of receiving less than a bare minimum of news from it.
And for those of us outside the US who are sick of getting nothing but American News.
We're going to join EU any way so it doesn't matter.
watch out for that dented submarine the Brits suckered us into buying... no wait it caught fire.
-it's one of the few common substances that we see in all 3 phases. (i.e. you don't see solid vodka around, nor gaseous iron, etc)
I didn't know vodka was an element now.
Has the shuttle program been all it was cracked up to be? Probably not. But it does give us signifigant capabilities that other "industrial countries' space programs" still don't have.
Are you still driving your 1950 Buick to work too?
Know any other countries that could send not one, but two different robotic rovers to Mars and control them for over a year?
In how many tries? But at least you are trying.
I have two thoughts on this. First, MS updates will break a lot of things, not just iTunes. I constantly hear horror stories of how each update breaks some program or another. Granted, it may break iTunes a bit "harder", but that's a price to pay. I also wonder if Apple could say "look, these guys are acting very uncompetitively and intentionally breaking our software".
I really don't think Microsquish intentionally "breaks" other software. Think about it. How man customers are you going to hang on to if you keep breaking things. Your average user doesn't really know what's broken when something isn't working. They just know they can't do thier job or play their game or buy their music.
How many of these things break because some third party software developer out there didn't stick to the API's and took some shortcuts?
I would hardly say that Apple trying to protect its relationship with the music content providers, which is the whole reason that the iTunes Music Store exists in the first place
The only reason the iTunes Music Stores exists, is to sell iPods. That's where Apple makes it's money.
For it to exist it has to keep the music industry happy. To help keep the music industry happy, they stop you from easily copying music off of you or your friends iPods.