Well, that's a moot point in my case because I don't buy music from iTunes. I rip MP3's from my own CDs at 256K (yes, it's a 60 GB iPod). I've tried 3 or 4 different players and I still prefer the iPod.
1) It's still pay-to-play (you stop paying, songs stop playing) 2) Won't play on 78% of the players in circulation (i.e. iPods) 3) It's AOL, for God's sake
I always thought Fort Smith was a great town. I was born in Walnut Ridge (ugh...) but most recently was a denizen of Russellville. (I live in Nashville now... TN that is)
On that we totally agree... the 'net is at its best when it serves as a bullshit-detection device. One really can't put crap out there into the universe anymore and not expect to be called on it.
My fear about political podcasting is that it will just be the same crap served up in a different dish.
When I finally see a politician who regularly updates his/her own blog, with his/her own fingers... now that will something remarkable.
So the L.A. Times thinks podcasting could turn the tide in the 2008 U.S. presidential election? Bwahahahaha... let's run the numbers:
One of the most optimistic predictions of a podcast audience comes Forrester Research Group, who says that 12 million people will regularly listen to podcasts by 2010. So let's roll that number back a bit and generously say that the 2008 podcasting audience is 10 million. Of that, maybe one-tenth will be tuned into anything political; the rest will be listening to crap like this.
So, a million political podcast listeners in 2008. Enough to swing an election? Maybe, if they are all from Texas and/or Florida. But of course, they won't be. And they won't all liberal, or all conservative.
The real advantage podcasting holds for pols is that it's a cost effective means of getting a message out, i.e. bandwidth is cheaper than broadcast air time, and is not subject to campaign finance law (not yet, anyway).
I have a good friend who is a senior comptroller for Time-Warner in Atlanta (worked his way up from Turner Sports). Shortly after the merger in 2000, AOL was looking for ways to "monetize" relationships with TW's vendors. They noticed that many millions of dollars were being payed each year to a satellite communications company.
"Tell them they must advertise on [the TW stations], or we'll open up a dialog with their leading competitor," they said. My friend had to explain to them, using very simple words, that this was the company which sent the TV signals to the cable systems around the world, and they had no need to advertise. It took multiple meetings with the PHB's from AOL to convince them that this would be a bad idea.
Parent poster is absolutely correct -- it just wasn't that funny. At times it was almost painful to watch -- reminded me a bit of when Don Imus was at the same event ten years ago while Clinton was in office.
I sympathise, Darth, but I must confess I've had Comcast's Motorola DVR for about 6 months now, and it's worked flawlessly. Records two programs at the same time, and setting up recordings with the on-screen schedule grid is so easy a three-year-old could do it. I must have gotten a "good" box. No complaints from me...
Wouldn't it be wild if we'd come to earth hundreds of thousands of years ago from Venus, seeded only by "Adam and Eve" who were a bit like breeding Superman(s), while the Venusian civilization died, and the one on Earth began to rebuild from scratch?
Wild, dude. BTW, pass that bong to me when you're done with it....
NASA scientists did confirm one long-held supposition: The sun is like really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, hot.
I don't think there's any such thing as an "unmanageable" company. Such a situation simply points to weak leadership. Which is why I'm confused about the (sub)title of this article - "The Peters Principle at Apple." If I'm not mistaken, the principle states that workers rise to their level of competence, and then remain there. Clearly Spindler was promoted way beyond his level of competence.
Most anyone who was a Mac aficionado in the early nineties does not associate Spindler with anything good. While working in IT for Prudential in '93 a team I was on received a private briefing on the "Pink" OS project in Cupertino. We were shown a bunch of pictures of possible desktop designs (nothing that actually ran). We were underwhelmed, to say the least.
And the low-end Macs of that era were of poor qaulity, slow and unreliable. Don't even get me started on the damn Newton, which could never recognize even 50% of my handwriting.
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Well, that's a moot point in my case because I don't buy music from iTunes. I rip MP3's from my own CDs at 256K (yes, it's a 60 GB iPod). I've tried 3 or 4 different players and I still prefer the iPod.
Sorry, no sale. Three reasons:
1) It's still pay-to-play (you stop paying, songs stop playing)
2) Won't play on 78% of the players in circulation (i.e. iPods)
3) It's AOL, for God's sake
"Don't worry; if Pluto is voted out of the Solar System, it'll run as an independent."
Quite agree... their current stock price is already inflated enough to weather this, so long as they come clean with the restatements, quickly.
In fact, if you'd bought AAPL two weeks ago at $53, and sold yesterday at $68, you would have pocketed a nice piece of change.
I always thought Fort Smith was a great town. I was born in Walnut Ridge (ugh...) but most recently was a denizen of Russellville. (I live in Nashville now... TN that is)
Without having RTFA I can tell you that's probably Fort Smith, Arkansas (or Fort Worth, Texas, though that seems less likely).
This can only end in fire...
"...We are going to have a core around online..."
What the hell does this mean? If the core is the center, how can a core be "around" anything... jeez, never mind.
On that we totally agree... the 'net is at its best when it serves as a bullshit-detection device. One really can't put crap out there into the universe anymore and not expect to be called on it.
My fear about political podcasting is that it will just be the same crap served up in a different dish.
When I finally see a politician who regularly updates his/her own blog, with his/her own fingers... now that will something remarkable.
So the L.A. Times thinks podcasting could turn the tide in the 2008 U.S. presidential election? Bwahahahaha... let's run the numbers:
One of the most optimistic predictions of a podcast audience comes Forrester Research Group, who says that 12 million people will regularly listen to podcasts by 2010. So let's roll that number back a bit and generously say that the 2008 podcasting audience is 10 million. Of that, maybe one-tenth will be tuned into anything political; the rest will be listening to crap like this.
So, a million political podcast listeners in 2008. Enough to swing an election? Maybe, if they are all from Texas and/or Florida. But of course, they won't be. And they won't all liberal, or all conservative.
The real advantage podcasting holds for pols is that it's a cost effective means of getting a message out, i.e. bandwidth is cheaper than broadcast air time, and is not subject to campaign finance law (not yet, anyway).
"It's like AOL gone bad."
But of course, you repeat yourself...
!No mas! Please, I'm begging you, no more faked-moon-walk replies. 95% of this comment page should be modded "redundant."
However, it would seem to jive with this tidbit of information leaked last month by the Taiwanese press:
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http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/06/2006061510
er, uh... "paid" I meant to say. No, I can't spell.
I have a good friend who is a senior comptroller for Time-Warner in Atlanta (worked his way up from Turner Sports). Shortly after the merger in 2000, AOL was looking for ways to "monetize" relationships with TW's vendors. They noticed that many millions of dollars were being payed each year to a satellite communications company.
"Tell them they must advertise on [the TW stations], or we'll open up a dialog with their leading competitor," they said. My friend had to explain to them, using very simple words, that this was the company which sent the TV signals to the cable systems around the world, and they had no need to advertise. It took multiple meetings with the PHB's from AOL to convince them that this would be a bad idea.
Like Ron White says, you can't fix stupid...
... I'll need them to run Windows Vista.
...MS Propaganda Week on /. ?
Parent poster is absolutely correct -- it just wasn't that funny. At times it was almost painful to watch -- reminded me a bit of when Don Imus was at the same event ten years ago while Clinton was in office.
Watch the whole routine -- he basically bombed.
...we don't see any nationwide days of protest directed toward the technical support industry.
... terrabyte hard drives, here we come!
Intellectually, I'm curious what that makes the rest of them.
In-duh-viduals.
I sympathise, Darth, but I must confess I've had Comcast's Motorola DVR for about 6 months now, and it's worked flawlessly. Records two programs at the same time, and setting up recordings with the on-screen schedule grid is so easy a three-year-old could do it. I must have gotten a "good" box. No complaints from me...
Wouldn't it be wild if we'd come to earth hundreds of thousands of years ago from Venus, seeded only by "Adam and Eve" who were a bit like breeding Superman(s), while the Venusian civilization died, and the one on Earth began to rebuild from scratch?
Wild, dude. BTW, pass that bong to me when you're done with it....
NASA scientists did confirm one long-held supposition: The sun is like really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, hot.
I don't think there's any such thing as an "unmanageable" company. Such a situation simply points to weak leadership. Which is why I'm confused about the (sub)title of this article - "The Peters Principle at Apple." If I'm not mistaken, the principle states that workers rise to their level of competence, and then remain there. Clearly Spindler was promoted way beyond his level of competence.
Most anyone who was a Mac aficionado in the early nineties does not associate Spindler with anything good. While working in IT for Prudential in '93 a team I was on received a private briefing on the "Pink" OS project in Cupertino. We were shown a bunch of pictures of possible desktop designs (nothing that actually ran). We were underwhelmed, to say the least.
And the low-end Macs of that era were of poor qaulity, slow and unreliable. Don't even get me started on the damn Newton, which could never recognize even 50% of my handwriting.
Good riddance...