Man, So now Eisner is worried about kids pirating his music? Hell, when I was old enough to like music Disney made I was trying to figure out where in the world Carmon San Diego was on my Apple 2.
But, anywho. Eisner is the head of one of the worlds largest media companies and he is simply trying to play the same game that the rest of the RIAA and MPAA tools are playing.
I'm starting to get quite sick of all of this garbage personally. These guys can't grasp the concept of change. They are fighting to maintain the industry in the same state that is has been for the past 60 years. It IS possible to develop sociological solutions that would benefit artists and the concept of "free" music. However short-term profits seem to be clouding the minds of these media executives.
Copy protection and all but banning the MP3 media format on one's desktop computer is not the way to go about things. It just annoys people like me because I am forced to buy non-standards compliment disks that don't play in my GD car or my computer at home (and I am a college student, so my computer IS my stereo at home, just like everyone else that I know).
A totally new business model is needed for the record industry. However hell will probably freeze over before I see one of these multi-idiot run media corporations use any part of their business degree brains that is the least bit creative.
I went to music city's home page, and a download for source code was right on the front page. Hell, it was easier to find then the compiled app they are dishing out.
No doubt, Jones' is person running for office, and this is legal since he is technically not a service or good.
Nevertheless it is tacky. Mass unsolicited emails are annoying, and routed ones are even more annoying.
I personally think Mr. Jones' soft-money-funded-self should be looked at like "product." I mean, lets get real here, I imagine any republican, democrat, or republicrat running for the governor of California is going to have his fare share of corporate interests residing in his political rectum. By electing someone like Mr. Jones' I can guarantee you that my tax dollars are going to purchase something crappy.
God I hate politicians. I think slashdot readers should pool geek salaries in order to buy a big island that was only run by geeks. Breading could be a problem though, every other person would be goofy looking and sterile from caffeine.
Ya, but OmniWeb seriously sucks with JS and CSS. Moreover, it rendering engine draws pages slower then IE or Mozilla.
The UI, and multithreading, and Quartz text to make the browser look and feel nice. But the rendering engine leaves much to be desired. Almost all of my heavy JS and CSS sites do not load properly in OmniWeb. I feel like I am developing for Netscape 4 or something.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who has the music from Level 1-1 in his head as he walks down the street... or the music from Level 1-2 as he walks down a dark ally.
Ya, I'm kind of down with the glass icons and lines as well (and no, this has nothing to do my forum-name). Slashdot could use a few more peices of flair:).
Moreover, I think Slashdot should cater to all *nix and or non-MS operating systems. I'm quite glad to see the "X" icon here now:).
I can understand why Apple ships machines with a one button mouse. MacOS has a global menu bar and, was design for one button mice...more or less. Things such as important desktop tasks are located in the finder's menu bar.
However a one button mouse with a windows or linux system would seriously annoy the hell out of me.
This is a nich market mouse that is probably only going to be bought by mac users or people building public terminals.
The whole point of MPEG 4 is that it is dyamic (you can pick you codec combos like.MOV) media format for the web that is going to work in any media player.
This means web developers like me will no longer have to write scripts that alow people to select their media player of choice (and most people on the web don't even know what a media player is). As long as they have SOME sort of recent media player MPEG 4 should play.... at least that is the idea behind it.
this thing really needs a good licence that is not going to force users to pay. It will never get adopted is users have to pay 2 cents and hour. We NEED a standard like this for the web. Could you imagine where we would be if HTTP, FTP, etc never got adopted as standards and websites worked like Windows Media, Real Video, or QuickTime Movies.... it would be hell. the web would not be as big as it is...for sure.
Let's just put it this way. More people use windows, more people want to exploit windows... and at the very least, from a social perspective, windows is bound to be less secure.
This last year the window community has really taken quite the widespread beating with viri (as usual). The linux community has not. Less people use linux, less people know what to do with linux, less people hate linux, less people wish to exploit it, and therefore less people are going to screw with it.
No operating system is perfect and or totally secure, however the more you scrutinize something the more apparent its flaws become. The Windows operating system has a hell of a lot more people looking at it under the micro scope...and that's an understatement. This, along with geek loathing and common software variables, is the reason why windows is less secure. The widespread common viri are just the result of all of this BS, and in my mind they totally prove that Windows is less secure. This is the same argument that us Mac diehards have been spitting out for years.
I don't mean to sound lik teh token Apple advocate, but I kind of like the little machine.
The original iMacs looked very cool, but they had a loud style to them... and loud styles don't last forever. If they did my pants would still be pegged and sporting a hyper color t-shirt. The old iMac's style was soooooo 1998.;)
But seriously now. Go back in time 5 years ago and walk into an IKEA or something. The furniture really fit what what the iMac was going for. Everything was plastic, translucent, bright colored, and oddly shaped. Now furniture seems to be sharp, simple, solid, and not brightly colored. It's what's in style now... and Apple's new product designs seem to fit into this style well.
As much as you may have liked the style of the old iMac, I know it is something we are all going to have a good laugh at 30 years down the line. That's how style works.
But enough about "how stuff looks." As for what you said about the new iMacs in schools and whatnot....
When I first saw that thing, the first thing that came to my mind was "this would be great for consoles." People WILL make console stands for these this. Trust me. There were a million of the damn things for the first iMac. Perhaps they could fit in a glass case with the monitor fitted flush on the top.
As for schools. Well, the new iMac comes with a lock slot in the back... just like every other damn computer in the world. No one is going to jack the thing unless they was to start hacking away at metal cables tied to desks.
I've heard that MacOS was not reading these CDs...however I don't know if I really trust this rumor.
I think this rumor started when some tech jounalist noted that the included special copy protection player does not run on MacOS (or linux for that matter) since it is a windows app.
I have yeat to buy that dumb movie soundtrack that comes protected...however I have a feeling that my mac will be able to read the disk just fine out of my DVD and my CDRW drives.
I've now put this on my to-do-list. I want to find this out for sure.
Man... universial is sooo god damn stupid. I mean... if these disks don't play in my computer I am going to be forced to download their music in order to play in the my computer, the best stereo I have. These RIAA recording companies need to change how they do business. What they have been doing for all these years no longer works with the technology we have. They need to find new was of making a buck with music... and this can be done.
I love linux, but there are way to many hardware and software variables for it to ever become a good consumer OS. Consumers do not want to deal with different distros, supported (or not supported) hardware/software, different (and typically complex) installs, yada yada yada. Lets get real here, a lot of distributers and hardware manufacturers are going to have to agree to some realistic consumer oriented standards before linux is able to become a possibility in the consumer market. No doubt, the linux community has linux has done a great job at standardizing certain technological foundations, but that is only one slice of the pie.
Homer using church to skip town since PBS was hunting hime down.
His church tossed him on a plane and Homer was forced to become a missionary on a island paradise. (by the way, during the whole episode Homer referred to Jesus as "Jebus.")
Homer, of course, brought the island people western culture (and casinos). Soon enough the island paradise had gone to crap. Island folks began gambling so they could strike it rich and to an island paradise (since they no longer lived in one).
Eventually the island folk were forced to adopt Homer's religion in order to be forgiven for there sins (which they never had until homer came along).
Humm. I think the Simpsons is actually a fairly intelligent show. The humor expressed within the last 4 seasons has been high-brow to say the least. They constantly mock pop culture, as well as classic examples of stupid americans.
And don't forget religion... the writers for the Simpsons are constantly mocking the lame protestant church that the Simpsons and Ned constantly visit. One of my favorite episodes was when Homer finally became smart (after the removal of a crayon from his brain) and in his spare time he proved that God did not exist;).
The Simposons' have come a long way since the "Don't have a cow man" days.
Hehe... I doubt this story took much skill to write. I have 2 stoner room mates that could have done the same.
No doubt, I probably end up watching the movie for some dumb reason... and I'll probably laugh my ass off. I kind of had to be dragged into see scary movie, but that turned out to be somewhat ok. Isn't this movie made by the same folks?
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Man, So now Eisner is worried about kids pirating his music? Hell, when I was old enough to like music Disney made I was trying to figure out where in the world Carmon San Diego was on my Apple 2.
:)
But, anywho. Eisner is the head of one of the worlds largest media companies and he is simply trying to play the same game that the rest of the RIAA and MPAA tools are playing.
I'm starting to get quite sick of all of this garbage personally. These guys can't grasp the concept of change. They are fighting to maintain the industry in the same state that is has been for the past 60 years. It IS possible to develop sociological solutions that would benefit artists and the concept of "free" music. However short-term profits seem to be clouding the minds of these media executives.
Copy protection and all but banning the MP3 media format on one's desktop computer is not the way to go about things. It just annoys people like me because I am forced to buy non-standards compliment disks that don't play in my GD car or my computer at home (and I am a college student, so my computer IS my stereo at home, just like everyone else that I know).
A totally new business model is needed for the record industry. However hell will probably freeze over before I see one of these multi-idiot run media corporations use any part of their business degree brains that is the least bit creative.
Errr. I need to win the lotto and start a lable
I went to music city's home page, and a download for source code was right on the front page. Hell, it was easier to find then the compiled app they are dishing out.
:)
It helps to read before posting doesn't it
No doubt, Jones' is person running for office, and this is legal since he is technically not a service or good.
Nevertheless it is tacky. Mass unsolicited emails are annoying, and routed ones are even more annoying.
I personally think Mr. Jones' soft-money-funded-self should be looked at like "product." I mean, lets get real here, I imagine any republican, democrat, or republicrat running for the governor of California is going to have his fare share of corporate interests residing in his political rectum. By electing someone like Mr. Jones' I can guarantee you that my tax dollars are going to purchase something crappy.
God I hate politicians. I think slashdot readers should pool geek salaries in order to buy a big island that was only run by geeks. Breading could be a problem though, every other person would be goofy looking and sterile from caffeine.
I dig opera... but the OS X version needs work. It is one of my least favorite OS X browser by far.
Ya, but OmniWeb seriously sucks with JS and CSS. Moreover, it rendering engine draws pages slower then IE or Mozilla.
The UI, and multithreading, and Quartz text to make the browser look and feel nice. But the rendering engine leaves much to be desired. Almost all of my heavy JS and CSS sites do not load properly in OmniWeb. I feel like I am developing for Netscape 4 or something.
6 Gigs!.. wohhh. No movie is worth THAT download. ;)
Glad to know I'm not the only one who has the music from Level 1-1 in his head as he walks down the street... or the music from Level 1-2 as he walks down a dark ally.
Ya, I'm kind of down with the glass icons and lines as well (and no, this has nothing to do my forum-name). Slashdot could use a few more peices of flair :).
:) .
Moreover, I think Slashdot should cater to all *nix and or non-MS operating systems. I'm quite glad to see the "X" icon here now
But, hey, where does this leave macslash.org?
I can understand why Apple ships machines with a one button mouse. MacOS has a global menu bar and, was design for one button mice...more or less. Things such as important desktop tasks are located in the finder's menu bar.
However a one button mouse with a windows or linux system would seriously annoy the hell out of me.
This is a nich market mouse that is probably only going to be bought by mac users or people building public terminals.
Hehe... that's Awesome :)
The whole point of MPEG 4 is that it is dyamic (you can pick you codec combos like .MOV) media format for the web that is going to work in any media player.
This means web developers like me will no longer have to write scripts that alow people to select their media player of choice (and most people on the web don't even know what a media player is). As long as they have SOME sort of recent media player MPEG 4 should play.... at least that is the idea behind it.
this thing really needs a good licence that is not going to force users to pay. It will never get adopted is users have to pay 2 cents and hour. We NEED a standard like this for the web. Could you imagine where we would be if HTTP, FTP, etc never got adopted as standards and websites worked like Windows Media, Real Video, or QuickTime Movies.... it would be hell. the web would not be as big as it is...for sure.
Let's just put it this way. More people use windows, more people want to exploit windows... and at the very least, from a social perspective, windows is bound to be less secure.
This last year the window community has really taken quite the widespread beating with viri (as usual). The linux community has not. Less people use linux, less people know what to do with linux, less people hate linux, less people wish to exploit it, and therefore less people are going to screw with it.
No operating system is perfect and or totally secure, however the more you scrutinize something the more apparent its flaws become. The Windows operating system has a hell of a lot more people looking at it under the micro scope...and that's an understatement. This, along with geek loathing and common software variables, is the reason why windows is less secure. The widespread common viri are just the result of all of this BS, and in my mind they totally prove that Windows is less secure. This is the same argument that us Mac diehards have been spitting out for years.
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People that point out dumb typos annoy me. ie Korgull.
I don't mean to sound lik teh token Apple advocate, but I kind of like the little machine.
;)
The original iMacs looked very cool, but they had a loud style to them... and loud styles don't last forever. If they did my pants would still be pegged and sporting a hyper color t-shirt. The old iMac's style was soooooo 1998.
But seriously now. Go back in time 5 years ago and walk into an IKEA or something. The furniture really fit what what the iMac was going for. Everything was plastic, translucent, bright colored, and oddly shaped. Now furniture seems to be sharp, simple, solid, and not brightly colored. It's what's in style now... and Apple's new product designs seem to fit into this style well.
As much as you may have liked the style of the old iMac, I know it is something we are all going to have a good laugh at 30 years down the line. That's how style works.
But enough about "how stuff looks." As for what you said about the new iMacs in schools and whatnot....
When I first saw that thing, the first thing that came to my mind was "this would be great for consoles." People WILL make console stands for these this. Trust me. There were a million of the damn things for the first iMac. Perhaps they could fit in a glass case with the monitor fitted flush on the top.
As for schools. Well, the new iMac comes with a lock slot in the back... just like every other damn computer in the world. No one is going to jack the thing unless they was to start hacking away at metal cables tied to desks.
We turned it on, and it said to get tech help. I laughed, and we just got a new one.
rev A devices always have bugs.... as do MS products.
This is something that should be posted to MOSR.com or something.
Moreover, I recall seeing these iWalk photos earlier. They are obviouse fakes and they were made by some 13 year old mac user.
they have been on the net for days and Apple legal has not pulled them. That means a lot.
Motorola and Apple really have the jump on this one. And it is about time, because the g4 has not been holding its ground for a while now.
Apple is going to use an MPC85xx. Here is one, if not the, chip apple will use MPC8540 info
64/32 bit processing, 333mhz DDR, Rapid I/O, etc.
Hypertransport will probably also find it's way into the new motherboard designs. That's been done for a while now.
I've heard that MacOS was not reading these CDs...however I don't know if I really trust this rumor.
I think this rumor started when some tech jounalist noted that the included special copy protection player does not run on MacOS (or linux for that matter) since it is a windows app.
I have yeat to buy that dumb movie soundtrack that comes protected...however I have a feeling that my mac will be able to read the disk just fine out of my DVD and my CDRW drives.
I've now put this on my to-do-list. I want to find this out for sure.
Man... universial is sooo god damn stupid. I mean... if these disks don't play in my computer I am going to be forced to download their music in order to play in the my computer, the best stereo I have. These RIAA recording companies need to change how they do business. What they have been doing for all these years no longer works with the technology we have. They need to find new was of making a buck with music... and this can be done.
not all of us spend as much time as you surfing the web 24/7 for interesting geek news. Some of us work, have sex, etc. ;)
I love linux, but there are way to many hardware and software variables for it to ever become a good consumer OS. Consumers do not want to deal with different distros, supported (or not supported) hardware/software, different (and typically complex) installs, yada yada yada. Lets get real here, a lot of distributers and hardware manufacturers are going to have to agree to some realistic consumer oriented standards before linux is able to become a possibility in the consumer market. No doubt, the linux community has linux has done a great job at standardizing certain technological foundations, but that is only one slice of the pie.
Ya, but if you have a spare PC or PPC 604/603 around it's still kind of fun to give BeOS a whirl. BeOS still impresses me.... it's really really fast.
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Ohh and hey.... anyone remember this one?
Homer using church to skip town since PBS was hunting hime down.
His church tossed him on a plane and Homer was forced to become a missionary on a island paradise. (by the way, during the whole episode Homer referred to Jesus as "Jebus.")
Homer, of course, brought the island people western culture (and casinos). Soon enough the island paradise had gone to crap. Island folks began gambling so they could strike it rich and to an island paradise (since they no longer lived in one).
Eventually the island folk were forced to adopt Homer's religion in order to be forgiven for there sins (which they never had until homer came along).
Humm. I think the Simpsons is actually a fairly intelligent show. The humor expressed within the last 4 seasons has been high-brow to say the least. They constantly mock pop culture, as well as classic examples of stupid americans.
;).
And don't forget religion... the writers for the Simpsons are constantly mocking the lame protestant church that the Simpsons and Ned constantly visit. One of my favorite episodes was when Homer finally became smart (after the removal of a crayon from his brain) and in his spare time he proved that God did not exist
The Simposons' have come a long way since the "Don't have a cow man" days.
Hehe... I doubt this story took much skill to write. I have 2 stoner room mates that could have done the same.
No doubt, I probably end up watching the movie for some dumb reason... and I'll probably laugh my ass off. I kind of had to be dragged into see scary movie, but that turned out to be somewhat ok. Isn't this movie made by the same folks?