You have to pay $0.99/song to buy, but there's no extra charge for burning.
I can't keep the music I download. If I unsubscribe, I cannot play the music anymore.
iTMS has no subscription fee; you can keep playing songs you've bought without paying anything. There is DRM, so if Apple were to disappear off the face of the planet, there might be some issues down the road, but since Apple's business model isn't dependant on music sales at all, there's no reason why they should stop supporting their customers.
It uses a custom client. Linux users need not apply.
Ditto. Win2k/XP and Mac OS X.
Not every song is available for purchase, but on the plus side at least I can listen to it.
Every song they have is available for purchase. Of course, they don't have every song, but neither does anybody else.
I *must* be on-line to listen to the music.
As far as I know, the iTMS does not have this requirement. You must go online to "register" your computer, but once that's done, you can stay offline.
No uploading to your music player, unless ya burn the CD and re-encode it. Ouch.
Only the iPod (the most popular player) is currently supported. In theory, it should be possible for other companies to license AAC and FairPlay, but I'm not sure Apple wants this to happen (they'd rather everyone just bought an iPod). Of course you can burn and re-encode for free, but you lose quality.
The search engine's great. I'm able to find just about any song that intrigues me, and have it playing within moments. It's pretty good at helping me find other music I might like as well. It has everything neatly cross-referenced. "If you like Prodigy, you might like Chemical Brothers", etc.
Ditto. Apple's version is "Listeners who bought this album also bought..." They also have Celebrity Playlists - if you like Dave Brubeck's music, you can see that he likes particular songs by Louis Armstrong, Stan Kenton, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and others, and you can read about why.
Fast fast fast. It's not streaming in the RealPlayer sense. It starts downloading into a cache, and once a few blocks are down it starts playing. Rhapsody, by default, sets up a 1 gig cache to store the music in. So unless you have a LOT of songs on your playlist, they don't disappear. So it's not like you have to have broadband to listen to the music. (Though it helps for the initial download.)
Apple and Akami have a hell of a lot of bandwidth; on my DSL line at home, previews start playing about 4 seconds after double-clicking. There's no cache, since you can't listen to more than previews unless you buy the song. If your connection is slower than 128Kbps, you can set it to wait until it finishes downloading before playing.
That was my first thought too, but this is a different concept than the music sharing feature of iTunes 4: with iTunes, you get access to my entire music library and can pick and choose what you'd like to listen to; with TunA, it's as if I unplugged my headphones to let you listen with me.
In interviews that I conducted with several hundred subjects, I've found that the alarming trend that the introduction of new technology causes us to be more separate socially. We've seen it with office staff sending e-mail to individuals just a few cubicles away.
I've found that technology can cause us to be more separate physically, while allowing us to come together socially. I might chat online with a coworker a few cubicles away, but if I couldn't do that, I wouldn't be able to chat with them at all, because we're both busy working.
This is a different concept than the music sharing feature of iTunes 4: with iTunes, you get access to my entire music library and can pick and choose what you'd like to listen to; with TunA, it's as if I unplugged my headphones to let you listen with me.
I don't see why it should be limited to a wireless connection; surely it uses a higher-level protocol such as IP or NetBEUI or IPX or something that works just as well on Ethernet?
One question I do have: will the playback be synchronized? Normally when you stream audio, it's buffered, so there's a delay. If two people are listening to the same thing, but it's out of sync by half a second, it'll drive both of them crazy...
I've just received a fake "mailer daemon" rejection message with a viral attachment; although my a/v program caught it, I can see this tactic catching even the most suspicious of us...
Perhaps what really happened was:
Somebody sent out spam with a virus as an attachment, and they spoofed YOUR e-mail address on the "From:" line. Many of these were sent to e-mail addresses that don't work, and they bounced (user unknown, quota exceeded, etc.) back to what appeared to be the sender, which was you. The bounce messages contained a copy of the original message, for reference - including the attached virus, which of course your A/V program caught.
So, the messages you saw really WERE from legitimate mailer-daemons. They were legitimate bounce messages from actual undeliverable mail. Of course, for every bounce you see, hundreds or thousands more went through, with your e-mail address on them. It's called a "joe job"; look it up.
The record industry does have an equivalent, it's called a concert.
I disagree with this analogy - a concert is equivalent to a Broadway play, not to a movie. A concert or play can only be performed in one place at a time, while a movie can be distributed worldwide and shown several times a day every day for as long as there is demand.
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Are you talking about JavaScript itself, or a particular implementation of it?
The term 'Internet access service' means a service that enables users to access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the Internet, and may also include access to proprietary content, information, and other services as part of a package of services offered to consumers.
How are "consumers" defined? Members of the general public who pay money to receive these services? If it's something like that, then those of us who run mail (etc.) services only to non-consumers shouldn't be affected. Right?
...Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Popular uprising would, indeed, be required - and if we had that, we wouldn't need an actual revolt (our government is somewhat "long established and should not be changed for light and transient causes"). A majority of the population will still be listened to by our elected officials, but the majority is either ignorant, apathetic, or both ("more disposed to suffer"). Things will probably have to get much worse before they get better.
Actually you can define CSS rules for specific media types, including braille and aural. Whether your browser supports them is another issue - I wouldn't know.
Might as well go completely off-topic on a story like this.
The bonus question was, what's the capital of Assyria? One of the answers was Nineveh, which in the Bible is where God sent Jonah to warn the city's inhabitants of their impending destruction unless they repented of their evil ways. Jonah, who hated the Assyrians and didn't want Nineveh to have a chance to escape destruction, fled to Spain instead (about as far away as he could get), hoping God wouldn't be able to find him there. That obviously didn't work; Jonah was swallowed by a giant fish in the middle of the Mediterranean, then spit out whole; after sulking for awhile he did make the trip to Nineveh, told the people they were being wicked in the eyes of God, and to his dismay, they repented and changed their ways.
So my question to any Slashdotters who happen to be history geeks: is there a non-Biblical historical record of any such change in the attitude or behavior of the people of Nineveh ( or the Assyrian Empire in general) that would coincide with the story about a warning of doom from an Israeli prophet? Biblical stories are always so much more interesting in proper historical context, and I know nothing about the subject, and this isn't an appropriate place to ask, but what the hell, I've got more karma than I know what to do with anyway.:-)
CompuServe for Windows is Mozilla-based AOL for Mac OS X is Mozilla-based AOL for Windows is MSIE-based
AOL kept playing with beta versions of a Mozilla-based AOL for Windows, but as it turns out, it was just a ploy to scare Microsoft into giving them some money and a better licensing deal.
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Tell me how that isn't a breach of clause 176.
What recourse do you have if it is?
Thirsty?
FYI, comparison to Apple's iTunes Music Store:
For $1, I can burn a song to disc.
You have to pay $0.99/song to buy, but there's no extra charge for burning.
I can't keep the music I download. If I unsubscribe, I cannot play the music anymore.
iTMS has no subscription fee; you can keep playing songs you've bought without paying anything. There is DRM, so if Apple were to disappear off the face of the planet, there might be some issues down the road, but since Apple's business model isn't dependant on music sales at all, there's no reason why they should stop supporting their customers.
It uses a custom client. Linux users need not apply.
Ditto. Win2k/XP and Mac OS X.
Not every song is available for purchase, but on the plus side at least I can listen to it.
Every song they have is available for purchase. Of course, they don't have every song, but neither does anybody else.
I *must* be on-line to listen to the music.
As far as I know, the iTMS does not have this requirement. You must go online to "register" your computer, but once that's done, you can stay offline.
No uploading to your music player, unless ya burn the CD and re-encode it. Ouch.
Only the iPod (the most popular player) is currently supported. In theory, it should be possible for other companies to license AAC and FairPlay, but I'm not sure Apple wants this to happen (they'd rather everyone just bought an iPod). Of course you can burn and re-encode for free, but you lose quality.
The search engine's great. I'm able to find just about any song that intrigues me, and have it playing within moments. It's pretty good at helping me find other music I might like as well. It has everything neatly cross-referenced. "If you like Prodigy, you might like Chemical Brothers", etc.
Ditto. Apple's version is "Listeners who bought this album also bought..." They also have Celebrity Playlists - if you like Dave Brubeck's music, you can see that he likes particular songs by Louis Armstrong, Stan Kenton, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and others, and you can read about why.
Fast fast fast. It's not streaming in the RealPlayer sense. It starts downloading into a cache, and once a few blocks are down it starts playing. Rhapsody, by default, sets up a 1 gig cache to store the music in. So unless you have a LOT of songs on your playlist, they don't disappear. So it's not like you have to have broadband to listen to the music. (Though it helps for the initial download.)
Apple and Akami have a hell of a lot of bandwidth; on my DSL line at home, previews start playing about 4 seconds after double-clicking. There's no cache, since you can't listen to more than previews unless you buy the song. If your connection is slower than 128Kbps, you can set it to wait until it finishes downloading before playing.
How can you call a job requiring a degree low/unskilled?
You're suggesting that education == skill?
and I have not converted my songs to .ogg yet ...
I hope you don't mean convert them to ogg from mp3; that would be retarded.
That was my first thought too, but this is a different concept than the music sharing feature of iTunes 4: with iTunes, you get access to my entire music library and can pick and choose what you'd like to listen to; with TunA, it's as if I unplugged my headphones to let you listen with me.
In interviews that I conducted with several hundred subjects, I've found that the alarming trend that the introduction of new technology causes us to be more separate socially. We've seen it with office staff sending e-mail to individuals just a few cubicles away.
I've found that technology can cause us to be more separate physically, while allowing us to come together socially. I might chat online with a coworker a few cubicles away, but if I couldn't do that, I wouldn't be able to chat with them at all, because we're both busy working.
This is a different concept than the music sharing feature of iTunes 4: with iTunes, you get access to my entire music library and can pick and choose what you'd like to listen to; with TunA, it's as if I unplugged my headphones to let you listen with me.
I don't see why it should be limited to a wireless connection; surely it uses a higher-level protocol such as IP or NetBEUI or IPX or something that works just as well on Ethernet?
One question I do have: will the playback be synchronized? Normally when you stream audio, it's buffered, so there's a delay. If two people are listening to the same thing, but it's out of sync by half a second, it'll drive both of them crazy...
I've just received a fake "mailer daemon" rejection message with a viral attachment; although my a/v program caught it, I can see this tactic catching even the most suspicious of us...
Perhaps what really happened was:
Somebody sent out spam with a virus as an attachment, and they spoofed YOUR e-mail address on the "From:" line. Many of these were sent to e-mail addresses that don't work, and they bounced (user unknown, quota exceeded, etc.) back to what appeared to be the sender, which was you. The bounce messages contained a copy of the original message, for reference - including the attached virus, which of course your A/V program caught.
So, the messages you saw really WERE from legitimate mailer-daemons. They were legitimate bounce messages from actual undeliverable mail. Of course, for every bounce you see, hundreds or thousands more went through, with your e-mail address on them. It's called a "joe job"; look it up.
Putting this rumor into perspective
The record industry does have an equivalent, it's called a concert.
I disagree with this analogy - a concert is equivalent to a Broadway play, not to a movie. A concert or play can only be performed in one place at a time, while a movie can be distributed worldwide and shown several times a day every day for as long as there is demand.
Are you talking about JavaScript itself, or a particular implementation of it?
So what's the difference between a regular CDR and an audio CDR?
I've been wondering this too.
The term 'Internet access service' means a service that enables users to access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the Internet, and may also include access to proprietary content, information, and other services as part of a package of services offered to consumers.
How are "consumers" defined? Members of the general public who pay money to receive these services? If it's something like that, then those of us who run mail (etc.) services only to non-consumers shouldn't be affected. Right?
and on any network provided service, including ssh (which is turned on by default in certain versions of the affected software).
I'm not aware that SSH was enabled by default in any version of Mac OS X.
I guess the administration couldn't get their way by "taking it to the people" so they just said "fuck the people" and did it anyway.
Kinda like how they tried "taking it to the UN" with the issue of Iraq's WMDs? It's a pattern, not an isolated incident.
Popular uprising would, indeed, be required - and if we had that, we wouldn't need an actual revolt (our government is somewhat "long established and should not be changed for light and transient causes"). A majority of the population will still be listened to by our elected officials, but the majority is either ignorant, apathetic, or both ("more disposed to suffer"). Things will probably have to get much worse before they get better.
capitalize stories according to title rules (not just every word)
Got a link for what these are? I don't remember which words don't get capitalized.
Actually you can define CSS rules for specific media types, including braille and aural. Whether your browser supports them is another issue - I wouldn't know.
Wait, is he that guy who got pregnant?
Can RFC 1149 (or the more advanced 2549) be related somehow?
Might as well go completely off-topic on a story like this.
:-)
The bonus question was, what's the capital of Assyria? One of the answers was Nineveh, which in the Bible is where God sent Jonah to warn the city's inhabitants of their impending destruction unless they repented of their evil ways. Jonah, who hated the Assyrians and didn't want Nineveh to have a chance to escape destruction, fled to Spain instead (about as far away as he could get), hoping God wouldn't be able to find him there. That obviously didn't work; Jonah was swallowed by a giant fish in the middle of the Mediterranean, then spit out whole; after sulking for awhile he did make the trip to Nineveh, told the people they were being wicked in the eyes of God, and to his dismay, they repented and changed their ways.
So my question to any Slashdotters who happen to be history geeks: is there a non-Biblical historical record of any such change in the attitude or behavior of the people of Nineveh ( or the Assyrian Empire in general) that would coincide with the story about a warning of doom from an Israeli prophet? Biblical stories are always so much more interesting in proper historical context, and I know nothing about the subject, and this isn't an appropriate place to ask, but what the hell, I've got more karma than I know what to do with anyway.
A gaggle of geeks and no one bothers to ask: European or African swallow?
That's because some of us read the article before posting.
I have a red sign on my door. It says "If this sign is blue, you're going too fast."
Is there a Doppler effect with light?
My understanding is:
CompuServe for Windows is Mozilla-based
AOL for Mac OS X is Mozilla-based
AOL for Windows is MSIE-based
AOL kept playing with beta versions of a Mozilla-based AOL for Windows, but as it turns out, it was just a ploy to scare Microsoft into giving them some money and a better licensing deal.