iTunes automatically converts WMA files (not DRM WMAs) to mp3s, to transfer to the iPod.
If iTMS stumbles (and this article claims it is the iPod stumbling, not iTMS), Apple simply has to license DRM WMA. But it does not seem iTMS is stumbling, far from it.
The article does not address the sales of other mp3 players, but suggests phones are killing the entire dedicated market (they give no numbers for this, either, and certainly my experience does not bear out millions of people currently using their phones as mp3 players).
Since beyond the drop in iPod sales the article is largely speculation, I think I can provide more intelligent speculation: the iPod was the hottest Christmas item, and like all hot Christmas items, it experienced a steep drop in sales after the buying season. By becoming a hot Christmas item, that quarter became abnormal.
I think a more accurate measure would be sales with Christmas excluded, or quarter to same last year. Unfortunately, the article doesn't provide that, either. A little disappointing for The Guardian.
Maybe. And you could say the same for Coca-Cola and Pepsi. But despite the fact that you can get supermarket cola for a quarter on Coke's dollar, you buy the brand-name every time.
Nobody wants an mp3 player. They want an iPod. That's the genius.
Believe it or not, this tactic is routine among police. I have seen police shout at anti-war protesters who were on the sidewalk to get on the sidewalk, then drag them off the sidewalk, and then charge them for disobeying a lawful police order.
I've also seen police box protesters in, order them to disperse, and since they can't, arrest them for failure to disperse.
I've seen these tactics many times. Sadly, they mostly get the charges to stick, and these guys get criminal records (probably the punishment the cops are trying to inflict).
It is nice to see more companies serious about helping to getting rid of our oil dependency.
Now all we have to do is get rid of our electronics, consumer products and innovations dependencies, and we can tell the rest of the world to take a hike!
If only all countries could have such a lack of inter-relatedness with their neighbors, imagine what a beautiful world it would be...
Maybe once the Israelis decimate Hezbollah, they can take some real control of their country.
Or maybe Hezbollah really does represent the country, at least the south? Kinda like Hamas really does represent Palestine? The inconvenient truth may be that you may not actually like your neighbor's governments, but you still have to learn to get along. Decimating them doesn't change how your neighbors feel. In any case, Israel hasn't been able to decimate them in almost 20 years despite their best efforts, what makes you think they can now?
...and it's a bit crass of him to ignore his own countrymen.
I think it's a bit crass to let lines on a map change your empathy for another human being.
There is a difference between a 7-11 stickup and the Mafia. If the FBI's organized crime division touted huge victories for catching a few stickup guys, you'd be right to be less than impressed. The beauty here is that the govt. can now seemingly call anything terrorism and receive applause.
Yes, we should prevent crazy homeless people from suddenly becoming motivated and actually scoping out the Sears Tower, then acquiring, planning, becoming expert in the use of, and planting explosives. But if we want to tremble in fear of every hypothetical, far-out possibility, we'd be attacking countries for simply purchasing aluminum tubes...
Surely there are better uses of detective resources than chasing loudmouths? Like getting the actual guys making the explosives? Like uncovering credible, imminent threats?
...is that you have to walk a backpack onto a subway train, whereas you can drive a truck into a tunnel. The payload in the latter case can be orders of magnitude larger.
Lebanese authorities captured an Al Qaeda member who confessed to the plot, and stated that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had pledged financial and other support for the operation.
When the only source of information is an alleged confession of an unknown person in the custody of a government that uses torture, you should be very skeptical. Countries like Pakistan are famous for trotting out suspects and victories in the "War Against Terror" whenever they are required for public consumption. In most cases, these suspects are not available for independent interrogation, and there is mysteriously no other evidence available.
Forgive me for the tinfoil hat, but after the last great victory in the War Against Terror which we were lead to believe targeted the Sears Tower, but subsequently turned out to be a bunch of crazy homeless people, I've started wearing said hat with pride.
Sorry to reply myself, but I also meant to make an observation. I can still remember my college days, and I remember getting very frustrated over small problems, such as forgetting something on the classpath. I remember thinking I could read the theory myself, but I needed the professor for the problems that arose.
In hindsight, perhaps the professor would have been best used for helping with elegant code. But do not leave the students to implement alone, unless you have a lab staffed with TAs on the weekend.
I think our field hasn't yet properly distinguished between the practice vs the theoretical. Other fields recognise the different subfields: medicine vs research, engineering vs science; but we do not.
Let's distinguish between programming (the art) and computation (the science). If you're teaching computationalists, starting with theory is neccessary. But if you're training programmers, I think you need to dive into computers and programs and IDEs. The latter is at least partly because of the kind of people that would like to become programmers; if I was crazy about pottery, took a course, and it was all about clays and history and there was never an opportunity to touch a potters' wheel, I think I'd drop the course, maybe even give up on the field, and buy a wheel and teach myself.
I think both programmers and computationalists need to learn common concepts, but for the most part you are teaching people with different interests and aptitudes, and after the first couple of years, expect the neccessary courses to diverge significantly. Doctors and neuroscientists do not take even vaguely the same courses after the first few years.
Encrypted voice communications which the government can't crack are illegal. Do not enable encryption unless you wish to be a guest at one of our facilities.
Poor economic policies. It's easy to call them poor in hindsight, but many countries thought them a good idea at the time (witness the Soviets, with otherwise very impressive achievements). Also, these policies were born out of fear--India had been colonized by a company, and was very concerned about foreign trade and private companies.
Since the 1990s, India has changed economic course, with good results. The Indian government still believes that satelite communications forms an important part of basic infrastructure in a country that large, and studies have shown that it is cheaper for India to run its own space program than pay others to build and maintain satelites and infrastructure.
India spends $700 million a year on its space program. So the choice is: give each citizen less than a dollar a year, or build a modern communications and research infrastructure that enables enterprise and creates jobs. No country ever got rich off handouts.
The privatization pancea comes up on every space story, but science is not neccessarily profitable. That's why there has always been a strong government role in fundamental research. Hence government funding, and (even in the US) institutions like the NIH, CDC, and yes, NASA.
Of course, to them [NASA] it probably is a joke, since they've already been there.
A surprising number of people are expressing this sentiment. NASA "has already been there" with much older equipment, most of which was simply geared to keep humans alive. This mission gives the opportunity to do real science with modern equipment, and answer new questions, for instance Smart 1's survey of surface elements to confirm theories about the origin of the moon.
I purposely worded the phrase "another take on the/visit/" and not "another take on the story" because I found it interesting that while the BBC thought Griffin's visit important for the moon exploration cooperation, Sify (and others) thought the visit important as a sanctions ender.
I did see the link to the Sify story that reported on the MOU (it's clearly in the story I linked to), but thought the end of (most) sanctions to be an important story, too.
So Apple's clownboat lawyers have just spawned a wave of Anti-Apple publicity.
Only on Slashdot. Only amongst the/. crowd that has nothing better to do than follow every Apple story. Wake me up when this is being repeated every half-hour on CNN Headline News.
It's not being repeated every half-hour on CNN headline news? Guess what? Apple's lawyers won--in the real world, those fancy degrees were a lot better than your random geek postings after all.
Yes, $100 is quite a bit on a $500 device. 20% actually. In terms of inflation, that's quite a lot.
That's great that it's a nice machine now, but the mini was supposed to be the entry-level machine to compete with all those sub-$500 PCs. It is neither competitive now, nor even in the sub-$500 arena.
If the MacBooks cross $1000, they will have left an important market segment. There are many people who don't think it is reasonable anymore to spend more than that on a laptop, especially considering the alternatives.
I'm not sure why you think because "the industry does seen (sic) to be standardizing on the 13.3 screen" that "we will see a consolodation (sic) of the iBook and Powerbook". There are 12" iBooks and PowerBooks now. There is no reason there can't be same-sized MacBooks and MacBook Pros.
I'm not sure why you think the entire PowerMac segment will cease to exist. It is pretty clear it will be the last to be replaced, because of the terrific performance of the dual core G5. If they replaced them now, they would have no performance increase to show for it. That's probably why they replaced the oldest machines first, to be able to boast of a 2x-4x performance increase with the Core Duo. Whoop-de-do, so the latest dual core Intel is twice as fast as a single core, last gen G4? Am I supposed to be impressed?
I'm not sure why you were modded +5. Goes with the quality of the stories on the main page today, I suppose.
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I really hate comments like this. Do you have any real evidence proving that there was no plot?
No. And I don't have any real evidence proving you are not a terrorist.
GUARDS!
(Doesn't the government have a case to prove first? Or do you just believe everything they say?)
iTunes automatically converts WMA files (not DRM WMAs) to mp3s, to transfer to the iPod.
If iTMS stumbles (and this article claims it is the iPod stumbling, not iTMS), Apple simply has to license DRM WMA. But it does not seem iTMS is stumbling, far from it.
The article does not address the sales of other mp3 players, but suggests phones are killing the entire dedicated market (they give no numbers for this, either, and certainly my experience does not bear out millions of people currently using their phones as mp3 players).
Since beyond the drop in iPod sales the article is largely speculation, I think I can provide more intelligent speculation: the iPod was the hottest Christmas item, and like all hot Christmas items, it experienced a steep drop in sales after the buying season. By becoming a hot Christmas item, that quarter became abnormal.
I think a more accurate measure would be sales with Christmas excluded, or quarter to same last year. Unfortunately, the article doesn't provide that, either. A little disappointing for The Guardian.
Maybe. And you could say the same for Coca-Cola and Pepsi. But despite the fact that you can get supermarket cola for a quarter on Coke's dollar, you buy the brand-name every time.
Nobody wants an mp3 player. They want an iPod. That's the genius.
Thanks for the tip.
Try WYEP.
Depends on what you mean by "better".
For some reason, it's the arts depts that have the women I am most attracted to, not the science.
Believe it or not, this tactic is routine among police. I have seen police shout at anti-war protesters who were on the sidewalk to get on the sidewalk, then drag them off the sidewalk, and then charge them for disobeying a lawful police order.
I've also seen police box protesters in, order them to disperse, and since they can't, arrest them for failure to disperse.
I've seen these tactics many times. Sadly, they mostly get the charges to stick, and these guys get criminal records (probably the punishment the cops are trying to inflict).
It is nice to see more companies serious about helping to getting rid of our oil dependency.
Now all we have to do is get rid of our electronics, consumer products and innovations dependencies, and we can tell the rest of the world to take a hike!
If only all countries could have such a lack of inter-relatedness with their neighbors, imagine what a beautiful world it would be...
Maybe once the Israelis decimate Hezbollah, they can take some real control of their country.
Or maybe Hezbollah really does represent the country, at least the south? Kinda like Hamas really does represent Palestine? The inconvenient truth may be that you may not actually like your neighbor's governments, but you still have to learn to get along. Decimating them doesn't change how your neighbors feel. In any case, Israel hasn't been able to decimate them in almost 20 years despite their best efforts, what makes you think they can now?
...and it's a bit crass of him to ignore his own countrymen.
I think it's a bit crass to let lines on a map change your empathy for another human being.There is a difference between a 7-11 stickup and the Mafia. If the FBI's organized crime division touted huge victories for catching a few stickup guys, you'd be right to be less than impressed. The beauty here is that the govt. can now seemingly call anything terrorism and receive applause.
Yes, we should prevent crazy homeless people from suddenly becoming motivated and actually scoping out the Sears Tower, then acquiring, planning, becoming expert in the use of, and planting explosives. But if we want to tremble in fear of every hypothetical, far-out possibility, we'd be attacking countries for simply purchasing aluminum tubes...
Surely there are better uses of detective resources than chasing loudmouths? Like getting the actual guys making the explosives? Like uncovering credible, imminent threats?
Finish your coffee before viewing.
...is that you have to walk a backpack onto a subway train, whereas you can drive a truck into a tunnel. The payload in the latter case can be orders of magnitude larger.
Lebanese authorities captured an Al Qaeda member who confessed to the plot, and stated that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had pledged financial and other support for the operation.
When the only source of information is an alleged confession of an unknown person in the custody of a government that uses torture, you should be very skeptical. Countries like Pakistan are famous for trotting out suspects and victories in the "War Against Terror" whenever they are required for public consumption. In most cases, these suspects are not available for independent interrogation, and there is mysteriously no other evidence available.
Forgive me for the tinfoil hat, but after the last great victory in the War Against Terror which we were lead to believe targeted the Sears Tower, but subsequently turned out to be a bunch of crazy homeless people, I've started wearing said hat with pride.
Lost cause. Next article please.
Sorry to reply myself, but I also meant to make an observation. I can still remember my college days, and I remember getting very frustrated over small problems, such as forgetting something on the classpath. I remember thinking I could read the theory myself, but I needed the professor for the problems that arose. In hindsight, perhaps the professor would have been best used for helping with elegant code. But do not leave the students to implement alone, unless you have a lab staffed with TAs on the weekend.
I think our field hasn't yet properly distinguished between the practice vs the theoretical. Other fields recognise the different subfields: medicine vs research, engineering vs science; but we do not.
Let's distinguish between programming (the art) and computation (the science). If you're teaching computationalists, starting with theory is neccessary. But if you're training programmers, I think you need to dive into computers and programs and IDEs. The latter is at least partly because of the kind of people that would like to become programmers; if I was crazy about pottery, took a course, and it was all about clays and history and there was never an opportunity to touch a potters' wheel, I think I'd drop the course, maybe even give up on the field, and buy a wheel and teach myself.
I think both programmers and computationalists need to learn common concepts, but for the most part you are teaching people with different interests and aptitudes, and after the first couple of years, expect the neccessary courses to diverge significantly. Doctors and neuroscientists do not take even vaguely the same courses after the first few years.
DVI, VGA, S-video and composite out all require adapters (sold separately, of course).
Encrypted voice communications which the government can't crack are illegal. Do not enable encryption unless you wish to be a guest at one of our facilities.
Thank you, and have a beautiful day.
Poor economic policies. It's easy to call them poor in hindsight, but many countries thought them a good idea at the time (witness the Soviets, with otherwise very impressive achievements). Also, these policies were born out of fear--India had been colonized by a company, and was very concerned about foreign trade and private companies.
Since the 1990s, India has changed economic course, with good results. The Indian government still believes that satelite communications forms an important part of basic infrastructure in a country that large, and studies have shown that it is cheaper for India to run its own space program than pay others to build and maintain satelites and infrastructure.
India spends $700 million a year on its space program. So the choice is: give each citizen less than a dollar a year, or build a modern communications and research infrastructure that enables enterprise and creates jobs. No country ever got rich off handouts.
The privatization pancea comes up on every space story, but science is not neccessarily profitable. That's why there has always been a strong government role in fundamental research. Hence government funding, and (even in the US) institutions like the NIH, CDC, and yes, NASA.
Of course, to them [NASA] it probably is a joke, since they've already been there.
A surprising number of people are expressing this sentiment. NASA "has already been there" with much older equipment, most of which was simply geared to keep humans alive. This mission gives the opportunity to do real science with modern equipment, and answer new questions, for instance Smart 1's survey of surface elements to confirm theories about the origin of the moon.
I purposely worded the phrase "another take on the /visit/" and not "another take on the story" because I found it interesting that while the BBC thought Griffin's visit important for the moon exploration cooperation, Sify (and others) thought the visit important as a sanctions ender.
I did see the link to the Sify story that reported on the MOU (it's clearly in the story I linked to), but thought the end of (most) sanctions to be an important story, too.
So Apple's clownboat lawyers have just spawned a wave of Anti-Apple publicity.
Only on Slashdot. Only amongst the /. crowd that has nothing better to do than follow every Apple story. Wake me up when this is being repeated every half-hour on CNN Headline News.
It's not being repeated every half-hour on CNN headline news? Guess what? Apple's lawyers won--in the real world, those fancy degrees were a lot better than your random geek postings after all.
Yes, $100 is quite a bit on a $500 device. 20% actually. In terms of inflation, that's quite a lot.
That's great that it's a nice machine now, but the mini was supposed to be the entry-level machine to compete with all those sub-$500 PCs. It is neither competitive now, nor even in the sub-$500 arena.
If the MacBooks cross $1000, they will have left an important market segment. There are many people who don't think it is reasonable anymore to spend more than that on a laptop, especially considering the alternatives.
I'm not sure why you think because "the industry does seen (sic) to be standardizing on the 13.3 screen" that "we will see a consolodation (sic) of the iBook and Powerbook". There are 12" iBooks and PowerBooks now. There is no reason there can't be same-sized MacBooks and MacBook Pros.
I'm not sure why you think the entire PowerMac segment will cease to exist. It is pretty clear it will be the last to be replaced, because of the terrific performance of the dual core G5. If they replaced them now, they would have no performance increase to show for it. That's probably why they replaced the oldest machines first, to be able to boast of a 2x-4x performance increase with the Core Duo. Whoop-de-do, so the latest dual core Intel is twice as fast as a single core, last gen G4? Am I supposed to be impressed?
I'm not sure why you were modded +5. Goes with the quality of the stories on the main page today, I suppose.
St Louis? Where is that?