But how else would they get AirTunes? The standard basestations don't support AirTunes and don't have an audio jack. I own a small business with a small office and I'll be ordering a half dozen of these for myself and employees offices so that we can hook up shelf stereos. Internet radio, iTunes sharing, etc without headphones.
Oh sorry, I shoulda been more clear. I meant to hack it for themselves. I was suggesting some firmware hack that people could apply to their own/their businesses AirportExpress devices to remove this 10 client limit. I didn't mean that someone would go into business selling hacked AEs. I can see a law office or something needing 21 clients but wanting to use one of these devices.
Many people are going on about how they want to remotely control an iTunes server to play into their AirTunes/AirPort Express. Some have proposed a VNC from a laptop to their server to change music selections, etc.
However, you are forgetting one thing (at least if your laptop has iTunes as well) , but your laptop already can see all of the playlists from the server if you turn on sharing on the server machine. Presumably, you can view your tunes and playlists on the laptop as they reside on the server and AirTunes them to the stereo. The only drawback to this setup is that your laptop has to stay on. I think this is a solution that a majority of users will opt for. This is especially attractive as your buff server is noisy and your laptop is quiet.
I noticed one of the bigger differences is that it supports 10 clients and not 50 like the base stations. I wonder if there will be a way to hack away the limitation since I assume its a firmware limitation. Not that most home users will care. But some businesses might want to do it.
i have more than enough data to put on a 60GB ipod along with at least 30GB of music. lots of people live in small houses/apartments (hello New Yorkers and Tokyoites!) that being able to pack 5 boxes of CDs and ship it off to moms house in the burbs is a huge win. all the while having access to listen to all of it on demand without hunting for a particular disk.
of course, another reason one might have huge amounts of tunez is this.
>Since water does a fairly decent job of muffling sound, the answer is obvious: build yourself a cubiquarium. A few sheets of plexiglass, a snorkel and a standard garden hose should get you started.
i LOVE that this was moderated "Informative". thats even funnier than the original post!
>The thing that companies haven't figured out yet is that nobody wants to watch movies on portable devices with tiny screens. It's an application looking for a market.
yeah right, next thing you'll be telling me is that people dont want to play games and take pictures with their phones and would rather actually hear the people they are talking to!;-)
doesnt there need to be a 'sudo' in there somewhere and wouldnt that require admin password? perhaps this would work for home directory of the current user though.
this gadget will be a godsend to people in public relations, politics, marketing... basically anyone generally in the media relations fields. i know a number of people who scan constantly all TV and radio stations for mention of their issues. also, they need to be able to review, discuss with peers, and make transscripts of everything.
Someone on/. commented that Windows users would be "silent carriers" of these infected files. But if it requires a resource fork, the Windows machines would have stripped them off. These files would only be viable if copied from HFS to HFS, right? Dropping these mp3s onto any other file system would effecively 'kill' them.
The press release doesn't mention if the OS supports the G5 fans correctly. Will all 8-9 fans (+1 for the 9800 Pro if upgraded) be blowing full throttle the entire time? My understanding is that current non-OS X installations do this.
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how is AAC obscure? other players like Winamp 5 support it natively (both ripping and playback). it's put out by the same organization who created mp3 specifically as an improvement over the ancient mp3 format. sure, it's not as widely known by the masses as the term 'mp3', but these are the same people who refer to IE as "The Internet".
> No virtual desktops. It is completely beyond me why such a simple feature is missing; clever as Expose might be, it is just a crutch for missing virtual desktops.
90% of the computer users out there are still the type that keeps all windows maximized at all times. (don't look at me, i don't get it either). these people barely understand looking at more than one window at a time much less things like dragging from one window to another. can you even imagine what would happen if these people were given virtual desktops? yikes!
i've never understood why people assume that OSX on x86 would be any (or much) more affordable than on a mac. theres no reason why steve doesnt charge $1000 for an x86 license of OSX. and another $500 for each point upgrade. not to mention that instead of charging $50 for stuff like iLife, he might charge $100-$500. after all, if macs have a 'tax' on them, why would he let software only purchasers get away with not paying it?
of course, parent said that they would be 'running it'. perhaps i was assuming wrongly that they would be paying for it.
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> keep hearing about how Apple doesn't make that much money off of the music, but instead from iPod sales.
True (probably) but remember, the money that MS is after is not the selling of the music from a music store. It's from the licensing of the format (which the MPEG group is getting from each AAC song sold on the iTunes Store) and the DRM (which VeriDisk is getting for each song sold from iTMS). Both of these are pure profit and MS would love to replace themselves in both of these categories.
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If MS wants WMA on the iPod badly enough (big if), I wonder if they could write an app that allows users to add the codec to the player? And if so, would it be a violation of the DMCA? Some kinda reverse engineering violation.
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But how else would they get AirTunes? The standard basestations don't support AirTunes and don't have an audio jack. I own a small business with a small office and I'll be ordering a half dozen of these for myself and employees offices so that we can hook up shelf stereos. Internet radio, iTunes sharing, etc without headphones.
Oh sorry, I shoulda been more clear. I meant to hack it for themselves. I was suggesting some firmware hack that people could apply to their own/their businesses AirportExpress devices to remove this 10 client limit. I didn't mean that someone would go into business selling hacked AEs. I can see a law office or something needing 21 clients but wanting to use one of these devices.
Many people are going on about how they want to remotely control an iTunes server to play into their AirTunes/AirPort Express. Some have proposed a VNC from a laptop to their server to change music selections, etc.
However, you are forgetting one thing (at least if your laptop has iTunes as well) , but your laptop already can see all of the playlists from the server if you turn on sharing on the server machine. Presumably, you can view your tunes and playlists on the laptop as they reside on the server and AirTunes them to the stereo. The only drawback to this setup is that your laptop has to stay on. I think this is a solution that a majority of users will opt for. This is especially attractive as your buff server is noisy and your laptop is quiet.
I noticed one of the bigger differences is that it supports 10 clients and not 50 like the base stations. I wonder if there will be a way to hack away the limitation since I assume its a firmware limitation. Not that most home users will care. But some businesses might want to do it.
welcome our iTunes Overlords?
i have more than enough data to put on a 60GB ipod along with at least 30GB of music. lots of people live in small houses/apartments (hello New Yorkers and Tokyoites!) that being able to pack 5 boxes of CDs and ship it off to moms house in the burbs is a huge win. all the while having access to listen to all of it on demand without hunting for a particular disk.
of course, another reason one might have huge amounts of tunez is this.
>Since water does a fairly decent job of muffling sound, the answer is obvious: build yourself a cubiquarium. A few sheets of plexiglass, a snorkel and a standard garden hose should get you started.
i LOVE that this was moderated "Informative". thats even funnier than the original post!
> She asked me what I do on my computer and I told her that I was teaching myself programming in Scheme.
Is that the best thing you could think of to keep from telling her about the pr0n?
>The thing that companies haven't figured out yet is that nobody wants to watch movies on portable devices with tiny screens. It's an application looking for a market.
;-)
yeah right, next thing you'll be telling me is that people dont want to play games and take pictures with their phones and would rather actually hear the people they are talking to!
doesnt there need to be a 'sudo' in there somewhere and wouldnt that require admin password? perhaps this would work for home directory of the current user though.
this gadget will be a godsend to people in public relations, politics, marketing... basically anyone generally in the media relations fields. i know a number of people who scan constantly all TV and radio stations for mention of their issues. also, they need to be able to review, discuss with peers, and make transscripts of everything.
Someone on /. commented that Windows users would be "silent carriers" of these infected files. But if it requires a resource fork, the Windows machines would have stripped them off. These files would only be viable if copied from HFS to HFS, right? Dropping these mp3s onto any other file system would effecively 'kill' them.
The press release doesn't mention if the OS supports the G5 fans correctly. Will all 8-9 fans (+1 for the 9800 Pro if upgraded) be blowing full throttle the entire time? My understanding is that current non-OS X installations do this.
Coffee is rather high in Dihydrogen Monoxide and 100 cups will surely kill you.
Your computer must be authorized using iTunes and you must have iTunes installed.
perhaps there would be no proliferation of incredibly cheap hardware that makes Linux extremely affordable for the bulk of people?
does it support Ogg????!?!
;-)
i'm not gettin'n one unless it does!
and why would i pay $250 for an iPod mini when for a mere $450-$550 more i can get so much more disk space?
Yeah, thats what they said! "1/2 - to 1/3-times as expensive" means its half to one third the price!!! ;-)
how is AAC obscure? other players like Winamp 5 support it natively (both ripping and playback). it's put out by the same organization who created mp3 specifically as an improvement over the ancient mp3 format. sure, it's not as widely known by the masses as the term 'mp3', but these are the same people who refer to IE as "The Internet".
> it's the UI that really makes it - the fact that you can get to
;-) and where can I get some?
> any one of 10k songs really really quickly and easily, with one
> hand.
what are you listening to that you need one hand free?
> And now you can pry OSX off my mac from my cold, dead hands.
;-)
Are you saying that OS X killed you? if that's not a good enough reason to use Linux instead, i don't know what is.
> No virtual desktops. It is completely beyond me why such a simple feature is missing; clever as Expose might be, it is just a crutch for missing virtual desktops.
90% of the computer users out there are still the type that keeps all windows maximized at all times. (don't look at me, i don't get it either). these people barely understand looking at more than one window at a time much less things like dragging from one window to another. can you even imagine what would happen if these people were given virtual desktops? yikes!
i've never understood why people assume that OSX on x86 would be any (or much) more affordable than on a mac. theres no reason why steve doesnt charge $1000 for an x86 license of OSX. and another $500 for each point upgrade. not to mention that instead of charging $50 for stuff like iLife, he might charge $100-$500. after all, if macs have a 'tax' on them, why would he let software only purchasers get away with not paying it?
of course, parent said that they would be 'running it'. perhaps i was assuming wrongly that they would be paying for it.
> keep hearing about how Apple doesn't make that much money off of the music, but instead from iPod sales.
True (probably) but remember, the money that MS is after is not the selling of the music from a music store. It's from the licensing of the format (which the MPEG group is getting from each AAC song sold on the iTunes Store) and the DRM (which VeriDisk is getting for each song sold from iTMS). Both of these are pure profit and MS would love to replace themselves in both of these categories.
If MS wants WMA on the iPod badly enough (big if), I wonder if they could write an app that allows users to add the codec to the player? And if so, would it be a violation of the DMCA? Some kinda reverse engineering violation.