I use a bluetooth mighty mouse daily.. it's default still is one button.. multi-button ergonomics has obviously been sacrificed.. individual action zones are not very acurate, for example. Job's ego shines thought.
I, personally, a perfectly fine with Internet radio as-is, and I'd rather fill my hard drive with other things. If I wanted to download songs, I'm perfectly capable of downloading them myself; I listen to Internet radio because I want a mix of songs delivered to me without the space or time overhead required to maintain a large collection.
Yes, this exactly what people want! And this is exactly what's provided by automated downloading and deleting of songs coupled with semi-live mixing instructions broadcast by stations.
Any non-live content will be delivered much more reliably & less expensively by such a system sharing the distribution. All you lose out on is true live content like sports & political events. But you can fall back on the old system for live content since there's not copyright debate.
I don't buy it. He says himself that adding cut & paste is harder than adding arrows & such.
I also don't believe Apple will add cut & paste via software update. We're seeing the 1 button mouse "my vision is right" idiocy of Jobs again. Mac's still ship with 1 button mice you know! Cut & paste will end up as crummy crash inducing hacks.
Infact there is only really one solution to crummy user interfaces : make closed source software ineligible for copyright protection. If all is open source, then all small changes have their chance. A closed source word is slave to to many human failings.
.. but they also don't care about a few bucks. So rich kids will do whatever's easiest. And this was always piracy prior to iTunes store. I've no idea now.
I'm not sure what "badly integrated" means. Isn't the iPhone inherently "badly integrated" with itself because it lacks cut & paste? No cut & paste means the iPhone doesn't even qualify as a "smartphone" or "feature phone", period. Guess what feature one'll find on the Chinese iClone? lol
Now you really can say "my computer is just showing porn and I can't shut it off." Of course it'll probably be gay porn & screem "I'm looking at porn".
Geez, your going on & on about tons of total non-issues. Yes, I know you'll need a huge buffer in the forward direction, that goes without saying. duh! The point is "automated downloading of songs" is just better than streaming. Lets say 2 gigs (1 day) forward and 8 gigs (4 days) backwards?
If it helps you wrap yout head around the idea, don't view it as traditional radio, view it as "distributed DJing." A DJ says "here's the stuff I'm playing today & tomarrow", your computer downoads it, and plays it when he says to play it.. and obviously he could mix in live streams for sports & such. OR Your computer downloads it, takes a poll of various DJs, and automatically remixes those DJs based upon your tastes. In fact you don't even care about syncronizing people's playback unless the DJ is mixing in live streams.
For example, if your connection isn't very reliable so live streams sound bad, but your favorite station mixes in live performances, you could tell your computer to block and live content by mixing in another preloaded station. If your connection is really bad, you could ask it to use mixing instructions from 100 net-DJs when possible, but restrict the content to files on your machine. It could even cache these mixing instructions and attempt to weave a path through your collection using them.
You want to buffer huge amounts of data, obviously. Users could permenently save music hours after downloading. Stations could share torrents to increase availability. etc.
It's essentially one big ever changing torrent for all currently popular music relevant to your tastes, but using auto-deletion if you don't explicity save it and it goes out of style.. plus massive numbers of DJs sending out mixes via mixing instructions.
You obviously want a ridiculously large "buffer"!!! Indeed listeners should be able to permanently save music hours after listening. And other stations should be able to piggy back on your listeners. 5-10gig maybe?
You might also create a flexible format which allowed "bit skipping" for mindless bitrate degradation, i.e. you could listen to the low bit rate version of the p2p, but any songs you marked to save are bumped up to the full bitrate torrent, and the data you already have is still useful.
Yes and no, you'd have a very stronge case for not paying them, but you'd need good lawyers if they sued you.. maybe SoundExchange vs. Magnatune.
In fact this won't kill internet radio, just current protocols. Instead we'll see superior p2p protocols where stations broadcast only torrent files and mixing instructions.
p2p radio has many advantages : - near zero bandwidth cost for broadcasters because listeners pay both directions - synchronous usage keeps bandwidth prices down - stations can learn/feed off one another more easily - time shifting and ripping music are easier etc.
It's not about his music being good or bad. It's about him not understading technology. He's very very far removed from the world younger people live in today.
If your a writer, why take advice about computer use from some famous writer who doesn't use one? Elton doesn't even use a mobile phone or ipod. Can you say irrelevant advice?
Also, the founder, Jimmy Wales, has commented many a time on the fact that Wikipedians should just remove unreferenced statements that are potentially controversial or that someone disagrees with.
But this is quite rude in practice. It's best to leave some sources needed tags on each questional sentence, they suffice for showing that the material is suspect.
fyi, you'd be crucified for deleting unsorced material without proper edit sumery.
Or the most basic: A sold vulnerability market also supports honest scurity researchers financially. Security will become a higher priority for venders if they must bid against black hats. etc.
Big security problems currently come from people not installing patches. You can't fix this since you can't write perfect code. But you can help by writing better code. So we must make venders see the real costs.
"When artists don't get paid properly, they cannot spend the amount of time they need to to make great work."
Yes, this is true, but if your not getting paid properly its for two reasons : the RIAA has killed all the easy ways to make money doing it, and your not smart enough to find another one. Why not see if your good enough for Magnatune?
Yes, this will only have two effects: short term : it'll improve the quality of internet radio by cutting out the Americans long term : it'll force the technology to develop better & extra-legally
Future internet radio station will only broadcast mixing instructions & torrent files. Your player will download & cache upcomming music on your system. Of course this cache may be gigabytes in size. And you'll easily replay & save previous songs. You might even automatte the saving of old songs, i.e. save any song I skip. In fact you won't even need to change the channel to avoid bad soungs, you'll just sip into the future, the DJ can always put out more music than time allows. And this new technology will reduce the cost to radio operators.
Also any technology prefering synchronous to asynchronous bandwidth is better for the internet.
Rocket's must spend fuel to carry more fuel. Space elevators can run entirely on electricity via solar or nuclear.
It's all just a question about carbon nano-tubules technology, which will have many other applications. A good president would just order NASA to prioritize this technology for the next 25 years.
GPS is not the N95's killer app. GPS is just the next essential phone feature. Nokia got it first cuz Nokia is better than everyone else, including Apple. No news here.
N95s are cool cuz they do everything better than every other current phone, including the iPhone, period. N95s also have video output which seems potentially quite important.
But N95s are kinda clunky and short on battery life. Otoh Apple's iPhone is actually physically larger in your pocket. Apple's chart is obviously biased to avoid admitting that their phone is larger in other dimensions.
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I use a bluetooth mighty mouse daily.. it's default still is one button.. multi-button ergonomics has obviously been sacrificed.. individual action zones are not very acurate, for example. Job's ego shines thought.
Infact "do no evil" is alive & well : this make DRM harder to sell.
I, personally, a perfectly fine with Internet radio as-is, and I'd rather fill my hard drive with other things. If I wanted to download songs, I'm perfectly capable of downloading them myself; I listen to Internet radio because I want a mix of songs delivered to me without the space or time overhead required to maintain a large collection.
Yes, this exactly what people want! And this is exactly what's provided by automated downloading and deleting of songs coupled with semi-live mixing instructions broadcast by stations.
Any non-live content will be delivered much more reliably & less expensively by such a system sharing the distribution. All you lose out on is true live content like sports & political events. But you can fall back on the old system for live content since there's not copyright debate.
Your better suited to being CTO at a start up.
I don't buy it. He says himself that adding cut & paste is harder than adding arrows & such.
I also don't believe Apple will add cut & paste via software update. We're seeing the 1 button mouse "my vision is right" idiocy of Jobs again. Mac's still ship with 1 button mice you know! Cut & paste will end up as crummy crash inducing hacks.
Infact there is only really one solution to crummy user interfaces : make closed source software ineligible for copyright protection. If all is open source, then all small changes have their chance. A closed source word is slave to to many human failings.
.. but they also don't care about a few bucks. So rich kids will do whatever's easiest. And this was always piracy prior to iTunes store. I've no idea now.
I'm not sure what "badly integrated" means. Isn't the iPhone inherently "badly integrated" with itself because it lacks cut & paste? No cut & paste means the iPhone doesn't even qualify as a "smartphone" or "feature phone", period. Guess what feature one'll find on the Chinese iClone? lol
Now you really can say "my computer is just showing porn and I can't shut it off." Of course it'll probably be gay porn & screem "I'm looking at porn".
How does Mac OS X handle atime? Is their a noatime option?
Geez, your going on & on about tons of total non-issues. Yes, I know you'll need a huge buffer in the forward direction, that goes without saying. duh! The point is "automated downloading of songs" is just better than streaming. Lets say 2 gigs (1 day) forward and 8 gigs (4 days) backwards?
If it helps you wrap yout head around the idea, don't view it as traditional radio, view it as "distributed DJing." A DJ says "here's the stuff I'm playing today & tomarrow", your computer downoads it, and plays it when he says to play it.. and obviously he could mix in live streams for sports & such. OR Your computer downloads it, takes a poll of various DJs, and automatically remixes those DJs based upon your tastes. In fact you don't even care about syncronizing people's playback unless the DJ is mixing in live streams.
For example, if your connection isn't very reliable so live streams sound bad, but your favorite station mixes in live performances, you could tell your computer to block and live content by mixing in another preloaded station. If your connection is really bad, you could ask it to use mixing instructions from 100 net-DJs when possible, but restrict the content to files on your machine. It could even cache these mixing instructions and attempt to weave a path through your collection using them.
You want to buffer huge amounts of data, obviously. Users could permenently save music hours after downloading. Stations could share torrents to increase availability. etc.
It's essentially one big ever changing torrent for all currently popular music relevant to your tastes, but using auto-deletion if you don't explicity save it and it goes out of style.. plus massive numbers of DJs sending out mixes via mixing instructions.
You obviously want a ridiculously large "buffer"!!! Indeed listeners should be able to permanently save music hours after listening. And other stations should be able to piggy back on your listeners. 5-10gig maybe?
You might also create a flexible format which allowed "bit skipping" for mindless bitrate degradation, i.e. you could listen to the low bit rate version of the p2p, but any songs you marked to save are bumped up to the full bitrate torrent, and the data you already have is still useful.
Yes, but near friction-less movement is even more important at those scales.
Yes and no, you'd have a very stronge case for not paying them, but you'd need good lawyers if they sued you.. maybe SoundExchange vs. Magnatune.
In fact this won't kill internet radio, just current protocols. Instead we'll see superior p2p protocols where stations broadcast only torrent files and mixing instructions.
p2p radio has many advantages :
- near zero bandwidth cost for broadcasters because listeners pay both directions
- synchronous usage keeps bandwidth prices down
- stations can learn/feed off one another more easily
- time shifting and ripping music are easier
etc.
It's not about his music being good or bad. It's about him not understading technology. He's very very far removed from the world younger people live in today.
If your a writer, why take advice about computer use from some famous writer who doesn't use one? Elton doesn't even use a mobile phone or ipod. Can you say irrelevant advice?
Also, the founder, Jimmy Wales, has commented many a time on the fact that Wikipedians should just remove unreferenced statements that are potentially controversial or that someone disagrees with.
But this is quite rude in practice. It's best to leave some sources needed tags on each questional sentence, they suffice for showing that the material is suspect.
fyi, you'd be crucified for deleting unsorced material without proper edit sumery.
I'm pretty sure I've HURD of this userland driver idea before.
Or the most basic: A sold vulnerability market also supports honest scurity researchers financially. Security will become a higher priority for venders if they must bid against black hats. etc.
Big security problems currently come from people not installing patches. You can't fix this since you can't write perfect code. But you can help by writing better code. So we must make venders see the real costs.
In fact this will be very very good for you! It'll prompt the development of p2p internet radio. So your bandwidth costs will go way way down.
"When artists don't get paid properly, they cannot spend the amount of time they need to to make great work."
Yes, this is true, but if your not getting paid properly its for two reasons : the RIAA has killed all the easy ways to make money doing it, and your not smart enough to find another one. Why not see if your good enough for Magnatune?
Yes, this will only have two effects:
short term : it'll improve the quality of internet radio by cutting out the Americans
long term : it'll force the technology to develop better & extra-legally
Future internet radio station will only broadcast mixing instructions & torrent files. Your player will download & cache upcomming music on your system. Of course this cache may be gigabytes in size. And you'll easily replay & save previous songs. You might even automatte the saving of old songs, i.e. save any song I skip. In fact you won't even need to change the channel to avoid bad soungs, you'll just sip into the future, the DJ can always put out more music than time allows. And this new technology will reduce the cost to radio operators.
Also any technology prefering synchronous to asynchronous bandwidth is better for the internet.
Rocket's must spend fuel to carry more fuel. Space elevators can run entirely on electricity via solar or nuclear.
It's all just a question about carbon nano-tubules technology, which will have many other applications. A good president would just order NASA to prioritize this technology for the next 25 years.
Her settlement might be larger if the judge seriously considers vacating the copyrights. Stock price is about greed & fear.
:P
So, if you want to help, you can just troll the message boards for these companies stocks.
You should have stayed with 2000. 2000 was the best Windows ever made. It's all been & will be down hill after.
You've a nice healthy Mac or Linux waiting when you next need a machine. I'll be peaceful & pleasent.
GPS is not the N95's killer app. GPS is just the next essential phone feature. Nokia got it first cuz Nokia is better than everyone else, including Apple. No news here.
N95s are cool cuz they do everything better than every other current phone, including the iPhone, period. N95s also have video output which seems potentially quite important.
But N95s are kinda clunky and short on battery life. Otoh Apple's iPhone is actually physically larger in your pocket. Apple's chart is obviously biased to avoid admitting that their phone is larger in other dimensions.
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