You can copy files off of iPods. Use it as a firewire drive and use the Terminal (or any one of 10 or so share/freeware apps) and go digging in the 'hidden' folders. It's all there.
My guess is that the iPod firmware is simply set to ignore the DRM. Which means that if you could get it onto your iPod (as a file in the playlist library, not a file on the harddrive) you would be able to play a friend's AACs.
BUT...iTunes controls the uploading the iPod, and I believe it will simply skip over AAC that you aren't authorized to play.
Anyhow...it's $1 a song. I know of at least two ways to desroy the DRM (in a teensy lossy manner) but I'm not all that interested.
[...] $10 a month gets you unlimited access to their music database [...]
iTunes Music Service does not have a signup or monthly fee. $.99/song, or $10/album (can vary per album). Period.
[...] Unfortuantely, it does not let you save it to your computer so I have no idea what it really is. [...]
Apple is using the MPEG-4 standard AAC. It gets saved to your computer.
[...] You can only play it when you're logged on [...]
You get the song. You play it whenever you like.
[...] Most songs can be burned for $.99 a track. [...]
Apple's service allows you to burn a song unlimited amount of times, sync it with an unlimited number of iPods, and copy/play it on up to 3 computers. (Plus you can use Rendevouz or IP-based sharing to let other people listen to it from your computer.)
[...] Linux/Mac users need not apply. This is a Windows only app that runs [...]
Steve Jobs promised a Windows version by year-end.
[...] It sounds as though that Apple's using a similar business model here, only it goes to your iPod. [...]
Apple's service is nothing like what you describe. Sorry.
I haven't RTFA yet, but it seems that for this to really take off and reach the critical mass that it needs to enact a fundamental change in the way we all buy music, there needs to be a Windows client. It needn't be feature-wise equivalent, but it DOES need to be capable of buying songs, if not sharing them in a limited manner as well.
Steve Jobs promised Windows support by 'end of year'.
(I'm still skeptical about Music Store. If it turns out that the AACs are portable and unencumbered except by iTunes, then I'll be ok with it - but if they're locked to one iTunes client, no dice. Burn-rip is too much of a pain.)
I don't know about whether or not there's DRM inherent in the AAC itself, but even if there is it's not locked to one iTunes client. You are allowed to register up to three simultaneous computers to your account (and you can deactivate one and activate another) so you can use the same song you own at work, on your home desktop and home laptop.
Before everyone was hitting the service to play with it and destroying its load, I was searching for some songs. The selection seems kinda limited.
I'm not just talking about missing my friend-down-the-street's music, either. For example, there are only three songs by Primitive Radio Gods, from the same album of six. Not one of them is the was-very-popular-on-the-radio "Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth with Change in My Hand".
I hope Steve's side comment of "and more are being loaded every day" refers to 1000+ per day or so. And I hope more than the Big Five decide to get on the bandwagon, so smaller bands like "Towa Tei", or "Pizzicato Five" can get heard.
All I really want is Cocoa version of iTunes. [...] I just want the apps I use most on OS X to be true OS X apps
Cocoa is a newer framework and easier to develop for from scratch, but it's not any truer than Carbon. In truth, Cocoa is a higher level API than Carbon, which (I believe) implies that it's harder to get pure Cocoa apps to be faster than Carbon apps.
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Renaming files - as has always been the case with MacOS, either hit return to instantly start renaming, or click on the name and then jog your mouse to the side. You'll enter rename mode immediately.
Column view - yeah, sometimes I'd like to be able to sort by date. But...you don't SEE the date in the column. Sorting by some arbitrary attribute which you can't SEE to compare from one to the other is rightly omitted, IMO.
Save Dialogs - I don't know what your problem is here. You're annoyed by their modality? For applications properly using the OS X Sheet API the save sheet is attached the the window it is modal to and you can still access other items outside that window. If you're upset that it's modal, well then talk to the software developer who chose to make the Save dialog modal.
Labels - although I firmly believe that, just as spring loaded folders were added back in with Jaguar, we'll see labels and other tried-and-true features in 10.3 and later. BUT, for now, you can get this 100% effective haxie to give you labels in the finder.
My wife's Grandfather believes he has a very elegant two-page proof...or at least close enough to a proof to be what Fermat was probably thinking about.
The problem he has had is that no serious mathematician is willing to REALLY look at it beyond either dismissing the idea out of hand or saying "eh, looks kinda nice, maybe". (I'm not a serious mathematician so all I can say looking at it is "well, if these givens you assure me are true are so, then I can say that from each step to the next I think you're making a logical conclusion.")
Anyone know how an unpublished layman could get something like this seriously examined and/or published?
I don't think I'm an atypical user. I'm not talking about the speed of a Gaussian Blur or some other filter. I'm talking about the delay when I start dragging a layer. When I click a paintbrush. When I change the visual size of a brush before the the custom brush size cursor updates. That sometimes the cursor doesn't update to reflect the proper tool when switching in/out of Photoshop.
They're all minor delays, and not always there. But they happen often enough that I feel disconnected using PS on OS X.
I'm working right now on both a dual-GHz PowerMac G4 with 512MB RAM running 10.2.4, as well as a 1.8GHz P4 laptop with 512MB RAM running XP. (I have a KVM switcher for the middle shared screen of 3.)
I have used MacOS since late versions of System 6. I have only recently, in the last couple years, been using Windows full-time.
I feel like a traitor, but I have to say that, personally, I too prefer Windows when using Adobe apps. I don't know if it's the OS itself or shoddy programming for OS X, but Photoshop and Illustrator both seem slow to interact with uder OS X, whereas they seem snappy on XP.
I prefer OS X over XP in almost all other areas, but I feel that someone (probably a combination of Apple and Adobe) has seriously dropped the ball for Photoshop and Illustrator under OS X. It's just not as usable, IMO.
While theoretically correct, your problem is that it's probably going to be REALLY far into Pi before you find the right string.
Even if you can generate that string instantly, and look it up instantly, you still have to indicate where that position is. I'm not a math major, but TANSTAAFL tells me that it's quite likely that the amount of storage space you would need simply to represent the location in Pi and the offset would end up being larger than the data itself (on average).
Let's take a stacked example. Say you were looking to convey the data "020873". You need to say "start at location 286178, and then 6 more chars" and (even if you somehow found a way to transmit only as much information as you need, perhaps with some implicit stop char delimiting them) you have now been forced to transmit 7 characters to represent 6.
...and since cracking an iBook or PowerBook open can be a little daunting...
I can't speak for the the iBook, but as for the PowerBook: Daunting? For your mother, yes. But IMO it's as easy or easier to install RAM in a PowerBook (G3 Bronze or G4 Ti) than it is to install in a PowerMac tower. No kidding, honestly. Much as I'd love to see Apple succeed, don't buy additional RAM from Apple where the markup is HUGE. Get your own for 1/3 the price or so and drop that second chunk in yourself.
Not what you are directly asking for, but: The arrow keys on the powerbook are on the lower-right corner of the screen, and pgup/pgdn are the fn modified versions of them.
Because IE supports scrolling the view by just holding down the arrow key, and it's so darned easy to use fn+up/down arrow to page up/down in other applications (or IE for fast 'scrolling') I think you may find that you can live without that mini mini scroll area.
There was a lot of outrage on the mailing lists and version tracker as to why this version (including 5.2.0) of IE used an installer (and such an annoying one at that) rather than drag-and-drop. The response from Dan Crevier (below) over at MS shows that they're not a bunch of mindless dolts, and that we power users who hate installers over drag-and-drop need to remember that sometimes installers can actually be better for novices (if done right):
Novice users are likely to drag the new IE software somewhere on their
machine but then click on the Dock icon to launch IE. Unfortunately, this
will launch the old version. Users need to either install it over the old
version or they have to update their Dock. We're still trying to figure out
the best solution that's easy for novice users and not incredibly annoying
for experienced users.
IMO, the ideal solution would be drag and drop, where running an old copy of the program quietly checked to see if a newer version was installed and took some 'appropriate' action if one was found. (Auto-update aliases? Probably bad for folks with multiple installs for testing purposes. Hrm...)
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You can copy files off of iPods. Use it as a firewire drive and use the Terminal (or any one of 10 or so share/freeware apps) and go digging in the 'hidden' folders. It's all there.
My guess is that the iPod firmware is simply set to ignore the DRM. Which means that if you could get it onto your iPod (as a file in the playlist library, not a file on the harddrive) you would be able to play a friend's AACs.
BUT...iTunes controls the uploading the iPod, and I believe it will simply skip over AAC that you aren't authorized to play.
Anyhow...it's $1 a song. I know of at least two ways to desroy the DRM (in a teensy lossy manner) but I'm not all that interested.
I'm not just talking about missing my friend-down-the-street's music, either. For example, there are only three songs by Primitive Radio Gods, from the same album of six. Not one of them is the was-very-popular-on-the-radio "Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth with Change in My Hand".
I hope Steve's side comment of "and more are being loaded every day" refers to 1000+ per day or so. And I hope more than the Big Five decide to get on the bandwagon, so smaller bands like "Towa Tei", or "Pizzicato Five" can get heard.
Although good luck trying to get into it.
Doubling after release? I think you meant before. ;)
-1 Offtopic, +1 FunnyYou can turn it off. Set it to 'Standard - Best for CRT'. That uses standard, not sub-pixel, anti-aliasing.
Renaming files - as has always been the case with MacOS, either hit return to instantly start renaming, or click on the name and then jog your mouse to the side. You'll enter rename mode immediately.
Column view - yeah, sometimes I'd like to be able to sort by date. But...you don't SEE the date in the column. Sorting by some arbitrary attribute which you can't SEE to compare from one to the other is rightly omitted, IMO.
Save Dialogs - I don't know what your problem is here. You're annoyed by their modality? For applications properly using the OS X Sheet API the save sheet is attached the the window it is modal to and you can still access other items outside that window. If you're upset that it's modal, well then talk to the software developer who chose to make the Save dialog modal.
Labels - although I firmly believe that, just as spring loaded folders were added back in with Jaguar, we'll see labels and other tried-and-true features in 10.3 and later. BUT, for now, you can get this 100% effective haxie to give you labels in the finder.
But their site sucks so hard I can't get past the first quarter screen.
Damnation, if you have a gripe, at least make a CLEAN organized case to explain it.
My wife's Grandfather believes he has a very elegant two-page proof...or at least close enough to a proof to be what Fermat was probably thinking about.
The problem he has had is that no serious mathematician is willing to REALLY look at it beyond either dismissing the idea out of hand or saying "eh, looks kinda nice, maybe". (I'm not a serious mathematician so all I can say looking at it is "well, if these givens you assure me are true are so, then I can say that from each step to the next I think you're making a logical conclusion.")
Anyone know how an unpublished layman could get something like this seriously examined and/or published?
I don't think I'm an atypical user. I'm not talking about the speed of a Gaussian Blur or some other filter. I'm talking about the delay when I start dragging a layer. When I click a paintbrush. When I change the visual size of a brush before the the custom brush size cursor updates. That sometimes the cursor doesn't update to reflect the proper tool when switching in/out of Photoshop.
They're all minor delays, and not always there. But they happen often enough that I feel disconnected using PS on OS X.
I'm working right now on both a dual-GHz PowerMac G4 with 512MB RAM running 10.2.4, as well as a 1.8GHz P4 laptop with 512MB RAM running XP. (I have a KVM switcher for the middle shared screen of 3.)
I have used MacOS since late versions of System 6. I have only recently, in the last couple years, been using Windows full-time.
I feel like a traitor, but I have to say that, personally, I too prefer Windows when using Adobe apps. I don't know if it's the OS itself or shoddy programming for OS X, but Photoshop and Illustrator both seem slow to interact with uder OS X, whereas they seem snappy on XP.
I prefer OS X over XP in almost all other areas, but I feel that someone (probably a combination of Apple and Adobe) has seriously dropped the ball for Photoshop and Illustrator under OS X. It's just not as usable, IMO.
While theoretically correct, your problem is that it's probably going to be REALLY far into Pi before you find the right string.
Even if you can generate that string instantly, and look it up instantly, you still have to indicate where that position is. I'm not a math major, but TANSTAAFL tells me that it's quite likely that the amount of storage space you would need simply to represent the location in Pi and the offset would end up being larger than the data itself (on average).
Let's take a stacked example. Say you were looking to convey the data "020873". You need to say "start at location 286178, and then 6 more chars" and (even if you somehow found a way to transmit only as much information as you need, perhaps with some implicit stop char delimiting them) you have now been forced to transmit 7 characters to represent 6.
I know I'm scarred. Is that what you meant? Or did you perhaps mean scary? :p
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure ignorance of the law is never a reason which excuses behavior (except for 'not knowing' due to insanity).
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How's 200MB/s sound?
I can't speak for the the iBook, but as for the PowerBook: Daunting? For your mother, yes. But IMO it's as easy or easier to install RAM in a PowerBook (G3 Bronze or G4 Ti) than it is to install in a PowerMac tower. No kidding, honestly. Much as I'd love to see Apple succeed, don't buy additional RAM from Apple where the markup is HUGE. Get your own for 1/3 the price or so and drop that second chunk in yourself.
Not what you are directly asking for, but:
The arrow keys on the powerbook are on the lower-right corner of the screen, and pgup/pgdn are the fn modified versions of them.
Because IE supports scrolling the view by just holding down the arrow key, and it's so darned easy to use fn+up/down arrow to page up/down in other applications (or IE for fast 'scrolling') I think you may find that you can live without that mini mini scroll area.
There was a lot of outrage on the mailing lists and version tracker as to why this version (including 5.2.0) of IE used an installer (and such an annoying one at that) rather than drag-and-drop. The response from Dan Crevier (below) over at MS shows that they're not a bunch of mindless dolts, and that we power users who hate installers over drag-and-drop need to remember that sometimes installers can actually be better for novices (if done right):
IMO, the ideal solution would be drag and drop, where running an old copy of the program quietly checked to see if a newer version was installed and took some 'appropriate' action if one was found. (Auto-update aliases? Probably bad for folks with multiple installs for testing purposes. Hrm...)
According to this website, Cat5e is 350MHz and designed for gigabit ethernet. What am I missing? Is Cat6 or 7 needed for gigabit?