Easy, Apple is good and Microsoft is evil. More accurately "Not Microsoft" is good and Microsoft is evil.
That's the official party line at least.
I don't see Apple's music service aimed at destroying the existing music services (at least not the legitimate ones. The P2P is clearly in it's sights) while a Microsoft bundling operation is (history clearly demonstrates) clearly aimed at the extinction of someone elses software.
Your point isn't bad but fails to take into account the patterns Microsoft follows when deciding to add something to their 800lb gorilla.
Zelda "Original Recipe" was it. I played that friggin game until my friends who owned the Nintendo told me to GO THE FUCK HOME ALREADY!. Seriously. We got to their apartment, put the new game in, played it for a couple of hours, and then eventually Ed and his wife said "We're going to bed, when you get tired you can crash on the couch. They woke up the next mornin and I was still playing. By noon it was intervention time.
I left their apartment, went straight to the store and bought a Nintendo and another copy of Zelda. Then I went back to their places to swap carts with them so I could pick up where I left off.
Good points. I'm sure it's quite possible to get a good vinyl rip though I admit I made the assumption it wasn't. In fact I'm not in posession of a turntable of any kind right now (though I got a box of lp's stuck somewhere around here from back when I did) so I don't have any way of even attempting to make a vinyl rip. Not that I would know what I'm doing if I did try it.
I wonder if anyone has ever attempted the "I own it on _______ (insert out of date format of your choice) and thus I should be entitled to download this mp3 of that song" defense. I can see pretty good arguments both for and against it and I wish someone would give it a shot so we could have some clarification. If it did work and they were able to argue that ownership of that old album gave you the right to the mp3's it would make for some interesting times at the flea market used lp stands.
And add to that the people (like myself) who often download music to get a good, digital copy of something I've long since bought and paid for.
If own an album in LP form and collect all the tracks off Kazaa in order to get it on my iPod without going through the hassle of ripping the vinyl (and thus getting a pretty lousy sounding bunch of mp3's) then I'm pretty much well within my rights but the RIAA is counting that as just more money they've lost to those pesky music pirates.
No, you've got that confused with the sound that you make when Mr Garrison puts the tube from the bunsen burner in your ass and sicks Mr Lemmiwinks on your depraved gay bowels.
Likely the only mouth you pump full of cum is your own. At least until the daily autoerotic asphyxiation sessions mistakenly end in your death. Then, leaving the world no poorer you will pass away but more than likely your obviously cock stretched mouth will inspire a mortician to send you to your way with one last "creamy filling" behind those sewn shut, dong smoking lips.
If you find this difficult to use (my 5 downloads last night were in mp3 format in no time at all) then you're probably better off not using the service. I'm not sure how DRM that's this easy to bypass is "aggravating" but if it bugs you then do what you got to do and don't mess with it.
I do not have the most critical ear for music but I can usually (not always, depends on the particular song for some reason, anyone know why?) tell the difference between mp3's at 128, 192, 256, and 320 and admit that at 320 I cease to be able to tell the difference between the mp3 and the CD I ripped it from.
I grabbed five songs from the Apple Music Store last night and listened to them. I thought that they sounded comparable to my 192-256 mp3's on my crappy computer speakers. I then burned them to a regular CD and took them downstairs to throw in my stereo. I don't believe they sounded as good as the CD's I've burned using 320 mp3's but they were certainly much better sounding than the 128 dreck I've picked up on Kazaa in the past. They sounded good. Same thing in my car stereo. I then took the CD and stuck it in my PC where I ripped it to 320/mp3 using CDeX and the resulting mp3's sounded exactly like the AAC's I started with. They also sounded great coming through the Audiotron.
I don't think it loses enough in the AAC - CD - MP3 process to be worth noting. I'm sold on the service, now I just want to see it get some depth of product. Lots of good songs but lots of holes too. Those partial albums need to be completed and some more artists need to be added. Record labels need to get onboard this bigtime. Jobs is tossing them one last line to get on board the new business model and if they waver on this it's going to get ugly for them.
M$ is a time honored way of referencing Microsoft and I hardly think it's a 12 year olds tactic. Frankly most 12 year olds merely want their X-Box and games and don't care the least bit about where the money goes or about Microsoft's motivations.
"WorstBuy" on the other hand makes little sense to me since often it is a pretty good price I find there. "WorstService" maybe but usually not a bad price. Just a long wait while the kid working the one register that's open helps the 14 people standing in line.
But don't dismiss my beloved "M$". It's a classic!
Last night I downloaded a bunch of tracks off of Apple's Music Store Service. I then played them (along with several tracks I already had in OGG and mp3) through my computers $9.95 speakers while holding my portable cassette recorder very, very close to the speaker (For the technical out there I was holding it close to the LEFT speaker and even turned the TV down some to get the best possible sound) and then replayed them all back on the same portable cassette recorder.
My conclusion is that all three sound like complete shit.
This makes me wonder something. Ok, so say I've got an LP at home. Call it Eagles/Hotel California. I bought that LP a long time ago and now I want to go hit Kazaa and download mp3's of the songs because I'm wanting 320's that will sound good on a CD and don't feel like making a vinyl rip out of my old, scratched up, 20+ year old record (and I don't even own a turntable anymore so I couldn't if I wanted to).
I would assume that since I bought those songs all those years ago that I can legally download those mp3's. Now say I went and bought a song on this new Apple music service. It's good stuff and I'm enjoying listening to my song on my iPod but I decide that I would rather have that music in a higher quality. Am I still standing on reasonably solid ground if I go pull it down on Kazaa at 320?
More crybaby spoiler-nazi propaganda. Why would anyone even consider getting internet access if they wanted to live their lives in a perfect, spoiler-free environment?
Everywhere you go online you find someone bitching about someone else mentioning how "inconsiderate" someone else is being because they gave away some pitifully small detail about their favorite bit of escapism. Newsflash, this was going to be common knowledge long before you ever even whiffed the scent of a trailer for this movie. Get over it.
Well, if the assumptions that Apple can make a *working* DRM system are correct and it's because Apple has control of their stuff from one end to the other then it could be possible that the content providers will see that the Apple system works and accept nothing less than that standard.
But your right about the failing. It will fail. It's inevitable.
He said "controls an entire consumer hardware platform" not "makes" one. Show me the Sony OS that lets Sony control the hardware they make the way OSX controls the Mac hardware and you've got a point. I don't think it exists though.
Microsoft "controls" Sony hardware right now just like they control pretty much everyone elses hardware.
One thing I've observed in the past couple of years though is the way pretty much every major computer maker has stopped including that generic Windows 95/98/ME CD and moved to a "system restore CD" or some such bullshit that refuses to install on anything not appropriate.
For instance the Dell boxes we get here at work come with this green "Reinstallation CD" that refuses to install on anything other than a Dell. I haven't seen it get particular about which Dell it works on but it goes apeshit if you try and use it on an HP/Compaq.
If it's not an already moot point it will be soon. MS licenses bought with computers not only won't be legal to use on another machine, they won't be possible to use either.
What about other MS software though? Is your copy of Works, Encarta, or Word that was bundled similarly crippled? If they aren't now they will be soon.
Point very well made. Of course it was meant to be a trilogy all along. That's the official party line whenever something successful prompts a stampede to cash in.
Lucas and his 1, no wait 3, no 9, no 6, err..ok 6 movies is the friggin poster child for this kind of thing. And every creaming fanboy believes it too. Every single fucking time it's done.
At it's best hopefully it (Matrix sequals) might be equal to the original in enough ways to impress. More than likely it's going to be a cinematic abortion of massive proportions. I'm praying they don't screw up too bad with this and that's about the extent of my optimism at this point.
A little aluminum foil over the ports in your computer will take care of this just as easily and with less effort then downloading some suspect "patch" that's probably nothing more than a way for "them" to get control of your box and then eventually of course you.
Yeah but EC you aren't getting a Mac for $650. You're getting some of a Mac. You're still going to have to spring for a pretty good portion of it even after you buy this. By the time you are finished you will have spent enough money to have bought a Mac from Apple. Maybe not the top end but certainly something very nice. Of course with this guys plan you aren't getting the top end either.
If all you want is a Mac you can find working G4 Sawtooth models for very close to your $650 price point. These actually come with a CPU and work when you get them in your hot little hands. They are just as upgradeable as the machine this man proposes to sell as well.
This is an interesting story and if they were cool enough and filled a form factor that Apple no longer does (like a "real" desktop case or something akin to the old pizza box then I would probably be interested in one as well but it's hardly a good deal or cheap way to check out the platform.
Why not just look at it with a little common sense? "red eye" is an abysmal analogy at best.
Altered images have no business being passed off as reality. Even the hint of that happening (and this was a very minor transgression) could undermine a newspaper or magazines credibility. That might not matter to Sports Illustrated or Vogue but it certainly means something to the legitimate press.
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Easy, Apple is good and Microsoft is evil. More accurately "Not Microsoft" is good and Microsoft is evil.
That's the official party line at least.
I don't see Apple's music service aimed at destroying the existing music services (at least not the legitimate ones. The P2P is clearly in it's sights) while a Microsoft bundling operation is (history clearly demonstrates) clearly aimed at the extinction of someone elses software.
Your point isn't bad but fails to take into account the patterns Microsoft follows when deciding to add something to their 800lb gorilla.
Q: Is the software industry dead?
A: Yes, next?
Q: What is the fastest land animal?
A: The Cheeta, next?
Q: Should I fake my orgasms?
A: Yes, next?
With apologies to the writers of the movie Airplane.
Zelda "Original Recipe" was it. I played that friggin game until my friends who owned the Nintendo told me to GO THE FUCK HOME ALREADY!. Seriously. We got to their apartment, put the new game in, played it for a couple of hours, and then eventually Ed and his wife said "We're going to bed, when you get tired you can crash on the couch. They woke up the next mornin and I was still playing. By noon it was intervention time.
I left their apartment, went straight to the store and bought a Nintendo and another copy of Zelda. Then I went back to their places to swap carts with them so I could pick up where I left off.
"...that can be used on many, many different kinds of computers."
In order to make them crash in such a way that they all appear to be the exact same kind of computer maybe?
Admit it, they all look the same when that BSOD is staring back at you.
Good points. I'm sure it's quite possible to get a good vinyl rip though I admit I made the assumption it wasn't. In fact I'm not in posession of a turntable of any kind right now (though I got a box of lp's stuck somewhere around here from back when I did) so I don't have any way of even attempting to make a vinyl rip. Not that I would know what I'm doing if I did try it.
I wonder if anyone has ever attempted the "I own it on _______ (insert out of date format of your choice) and thus I should be entitled to download this mp3 of that song" defense. I can see pretty good arguments both for and against it and I wish someone would give it a shot so we could have some clarification. If it did work and they were able to argue that ownership of that old album gave you the right to the mp3's it would make for some interesting times at the flea market used lp stands.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar you know. That's what he's trying to say.
And add to that the people (like myself) who often download music to get a good, digital copy of something I've long since bought and paid for.
If own an album in LP form and collect all the tracks off Kazaa in order to get it on my iPod without going through the hassle of ripping the vinyl (and thus getting a pretty lousy sounding bunch of mp3's) then I'm pretty much well within my rights but the RIAA is counting that as just more money they've lost to those pesky music pirates.
No, you've got that confused with the sound that you make when Mr Garrison puts the tube from the bunsen burner in your ass and sicks Mr Lemmiwinks on your depraved gay bowels.
Likely the only mouth you pump full of cum is your own. At least until the daily autoerotic asphyxiation sessions mistakenly end in your death. Then, leaving the world no poorer you will pass away but more than likely your obviously cock stretched mouth will inspire a mortician to send you to your way with one last "creamy filling" behind those sewn shut, dong smoking lips.
Hillary is that you?
If you find this difficult to use (my 5 downloads last night were in mp3 format in no time at all) then you're probably better off not using the service. I'm not sure how DRM that's this easy to bypass is "aggravating" but if it bugs you then do what you got to do and don't mess with it.
I do not have the most critical ear for music but I can usually (not always, depends on the particular song for some reason, anyone know why?) tell the difference between mp3's at 128, 192, 256, and 320 and admit that at 320 I cease to be able to tell the difference between the mp3 and the CD I ripped it from.
I grabbed five songs from the Apple Music Store last night and listened to them. I thought that they sounded comparable to my 192-256 mp3's on my crappy computer speakers. I then burned them to a regular CD and took them downstairs to throw in my stereo. I don't believe they sounded as good as the CD's I've burned using 320 mp3's but they were certainly much better sounding than the 128 dreck I've picked up on Kazaa in the past. They sounded good. Same thing in my car stereo. I then took the CD and stuck it in my PC where I ripped it to 320/mp3 using CDeX and the resulting mp3's sounded exactly like the AAC's I started with. They also sounded great coming through the Audiotron.
I don't think it loses enough in the AAC - CD - MP3 process to be worth noting. I'm sold on the service, now I just want to see it get some depth of product. Lots of good songs but lots of holes too. Those partial albums need to be completed and some more artists need to be added. Record labels need to get onboard this bigtime. Jobs is tossing them one last line to get on board the new business model and if they waver on this it's going to get ugly for them.
Bill? Is that you?
M$ is a time honored way of referencing Microsoft and I hardly think it's a 12 year olds tactic. Frankly most 12 year olds merely want their X-Box and games and don't care the least bit about where the money goes or about Microsoft's motivations.
"WorstBuy" on the other hand makes little sense to me since often it is a pretty good price I find there. "WorstService" maybe but usually not a bad price. Just a long wait while the kid working the one register that's open helps the 14 people standing in line.
But don't dismiss my beloved "M$". It's a classic!
Last night I downloaded a bunch of tracks off of Apple's Music Store Service. I then played them (along with several tracks I already had in OGG and mp3) through my computers $9.95 speakers while holding my portable cassette recorder very, very close to the speaker (For the technical out there I was holding it close to the LEFT speaker and even turned the TV down some to get the best possible sound) and then replayed them all back on the same portable cassette recorder.
My conclusion is that all three sound like complete shit.
This makes me wonder something. Ok, so say I've got an LP at home. Call it Eagles/Hotel California. I bought that LP a long time ago and now I want to go hit Kazaa and download mp3's of the songs because I'm wanting 320's that will sound good on a CD and don't feel like making a vinyl rip out of my old, scratched up, 20+ year old record (and I don't even own a turntable anymore so I couldn't if I wanted to).
.02 cents on that?
I would assume that since I bought those songs all those years ago that I can legally download those mp3's. Now say I went and bought a song on this new Apple music service. It's good stuff and I'm enjoying listening to my song on my iPod but I decide that I would rather have that music in a higher quality. Am I still standing on reasonably solid ground if I go pull it down on Kazaa at 320?
Anyone got an answer or
More crybaby spoiler-nazi propaganda. Why would anyone even consider getting internet access if they wanted to live their lives in a perfect, spoiler-free environment?
Everywhere you go online you find someone bitching about someone else mentioning how "inconsiderate" someone else is being because they gave away some pitifully small detail about their favorite bit of escapism. Newsflash, this was going to be common knowledge long before you ever even whiffed the scent of a trailer for this movie. Get over it.
Maybe not in high regard but at the very least feared. Sometimes feared is good enough.
"unusable"?
You got to be kidding me. Define "unusable" for me please?
It's time we took some people and dragged their butts back to the world of DOS. Check out the font smoothing in that baby! You will friggin LOVE it!
It's not pretty so it's "unusable". Makes no sense to me.
Well, if the assumptions that Apple can make a *working* DRM system are correct and it's because Apple has control of their stuff from one end to the other then it could be possible that the content providers will see that the Apple system works and accept nothing less than that standard.
But your right about the failing. It will fail. It's inevitable.
He said "controls an entire consumer hardware platform" not "makes" one. Show me the Sony OS that lets Sony control the hardware they make the way OSX controls the Mac hardware and you've got a point. I don't think it exists though.
Microsoft "controls" Sony hardware right now just like they control pretty much everyone elses hardware.
One thing I've observed in the past couple of years though is the way pretty much every major computer maker has stopped including that generic Windows 95/98/ME CD and moved to a "system restore CD" or some such bullshit that refuses to install on anything not appropriate.
For instance the Dell boxes we get here at work come with this green "Reinstallation CD" that refuses to install on anything other than a Dell. I haven't seen it get particular about which Dell it works on but it goes apeshit if you try and use it on an HP/Compaq.
If it's not an already moot point it will be soon. MS licenses bought with computers not only won't be legal to use on another machine, they won't be possible to use either.
What about other MS software though? Is your copy of Works, Encarta, or Word that was bundled similarly crippled? If they aren't now they will be soon.
Point very well made. Of course it was meant to be a trilogy all along. That's the official party line whenever something successful prompts a stampede to cash in.
Lucas and his 1, no wait 3, no 9, no 6, err..ok 6 movies is the friggin poster child for this kind of thing. And every creaming fanboy believes it too. Every single fucking time it's done.
At it's best hopefully it (Matrix sequals) might be equal to the original in enough ways to impress. More than likely it's going to be a cinematic abortion of massive proportions. I'm praying they don't screw up too bad with this and that's about the extent of my optimism at this point.
A little aluminum foil over the ports in your computer will take care of this just as easily and with less effort then downloading some suspect "patch" that's probably nothing more than a way for "them" to get control of your box and then eventually of course you.
Yeah but EC you aren't getting a Mac for $650. You're getting some of a Mac. You're still going to have to spring for a pretty good portion of it even after you buy this. By the time you are finished you will have spent enough money to have bought a Mac from Apple. Maybe not the top end but certainly something very nice. Of course with this guys plan you aren't getting the top end either.
If all you want is a Mac you can find working G4 Sawtooth models for very close to your $650 price point. These actually come with a CPU and work when you get them in your hot little hands. They are just as upgradeable as the machine this man proposes to sell as well.
This is an interesting story and if they were cool enough and filled a form factor that Apple no longer does (like a "real" desktop case or something akin to the old pizza box then I would probably be interested in one as well but it's hardly a good deal or cheap way to check out the platform.
Why not just look at it with a little common sense? "red eye" is an abysmal analogy at best.
Altered images have no business being passed off as reality. Even the hint of that happening (and this was a very minor transgression) could undermine a newspaper or magazines credibility. That might not matter to Sports Illustrated or Vogue but it certainly means something to the legitimate press.