Ah yes, because we all know that when you're crying and greiving over the loss of a fmaily member, you just love the lights and cameras being shoved in your face.
Look, if the media wants to interview the family members, they can. If the media wants to tape the funeral (assuming it isn't closed by teh families) they can. The only thing bush did here was keep military bases from becoming a media circus.
So, am I to understand that the same administration that was smart enough to rig an election, Smart enough to cause 9/11, Smart enough to forge evidence and go to war is the same administration that came up with the brilliant plan of HIDING information by putting it in a PUBLICALY availible file?
So wait, let me get this straight, the link describing the article was different from the headline of the article. Golly gee that must be a conspiracy to change history if I ever saw one.
So start writing to the game companies and tell them you want to see them writing for Mac and Linux. The support is there from Apple et al, it's the game companies that don't want to write.
Given teh advanced ability to network our traffic lights and stuff to a single grid, would it be prohibitively expensive for the city to network all the lights together and have the dispatcher control them?
hmm, what windows keyboard shorcut shows me all the open windows in an app?
What windows shortcut clears the entire screen of all windows, giving me access to my desktop and then restores all the windows once I've got the file I want.
What windows short cut shows me every open window and it's contents at the same time?
But let's be reasonable about the media too. You keep CDs for a long time, but I'm sure you're not using the same computer that you were using back inthe 80's it only makes sense that you would transfer those files. And if that's what you're worried about, archive the songs to CD or DVD, they'll last longer than on an HDD and you'll have more songs on a disc than if you bought plain audio.
Just to add to that, and that's only the bandwidth costs for downloads. Then there are previews, actual acessing of the store. The costs to maintain the systems, the costs of the lawers to continue to negotiate deals with new records, the cost of any tech support people they have. Transaction costs and so on and so forth
Bull shit it's uncompressed audio. What do you think digitizing music does? And you can quite easily convert from one format to another, you just take the digital signal from your computer. Get a program takes the output from your sound card, and reencodes it to another sound type. Not that fucking hard. Or, since your SliMP3 player supports raw CD format, why not just use that?
Question, if your hard drive goes tits up do you go to the iTMS and say, "Please let me have this file again for free?" No, if you didn't make a backup you're screwed. That's why I rip all my CD's to FLAC. I have them forever in a lossless format.
And this has what to do with the fact that Apple won't give you a free copy of the file if you lose it, just like a music store won't give you a free copy of a CD if you lose it?
b) Apple says they have over 100,000 songs from independent artists and lables. And claim over 400,000 songs total. So you could figure on roughly 25% of their songs being independent. That's a fairly large number and it's likely to go up.
They want you to upgrade yes, but your computer will not magicaly stop working, your software will not stop working, you'll probably be able to use some new apps, but obviously some apps will use features built into the new OS and as such will not likely run on your current OS, but such is life in the computer world. Besides, wait a month or two after the release and you will see the price in most places drop to at the most $99. If you have a friend who's a student, a teacher or works in an educational institution, they can get it for you for $79. I think the same applies to government employees.
Students, facualty, or really anyone that recieves a pay check from an educational institution. If your pay stub has an educational institution on it, you get the discount.
Out of curiosity, does expose explode tabs? By this I mean, when you tell it to show all windows, if I had say a safari window with a bunch of tabs, does each tab become it's own window in expose?
Apple reported under the mac only service roughly 500,000 song downloads per week (according to a Cnet article from when the iTMS was released for windws)
Assume an average download size of 2MB per song you get 1,000,000 MB per week or roughly 1000 GB of bandwidth per week. Would you care to guess how much 1,000 GB of bandwidth/week costs?
Then keep in mind that you still need to pay the Artists, and the producers, and the record lables (as much as we hate them, they still get paid). Somehow, $1 a song does't quite seem like a rip off does it?
Tell me, does your SliMP3 understand the format that music is on on the raw CD? Does it understand the format that music is in on Audio cassets? You mean to tell me you have to CONVERT your songs from CD or Audio Casset format to MP3 to play them on your SliMP3? The horror.
Question, if you accidentaly throw away your CD, or if your CD gets scratched beyond repiar, or your CD catches fire, can you go to the store and get a new copy for free?
Yes, let's punish all the artists and boycott the very services that have a chance to change things because the RIAA is involved in a portion of those services.
Hint: The RIAA makes up only a portion of the lables in the iTMS. Why don't you buy from the independent lables and thus show the RIAA that you are willing to buy music, but not at the expense of the artist.
Slashdot Mirror
Quicktime
DocMaker (or something like that)
ResEdit
Appleworks/CLarisworks
Hypercard
All of the DAs
Sherlock
there were actualy quite a few more, I just can't remember them off the top of my head.
Because I'm sure that there are plenty of embarrasing quotes in /immages/mrscheny/iraq
Ah yes, because we all know that when you're crying and greiving over the loss of a fmaily member, you just love the lights and cameras being shoved in your face.
Look, if the media wants to interview the family members, they can. If the media wants to tape the funeral (assuming it isn't closed by teh families) they can. The only thing bush did here was keep military bases from becoming a media circus.
So, am I to understand that the same administration that was smart enough to rig an election, Smart enough to cause 9/11, Smart enough to forge evidence and go to war is the same administration that came up with the brilliant plan of HIDING information by putting it in a PUBLICALY availible file?
ah, yes the dead are not noticed, the daily death toll report from CNN et all every hour isn't telling us that people die.
So wait, let me get this straight, the link describing the article was different from the headline of the article. Golly gee that must be a conspiracy to change history if I ever saw one.
So start writing to the game companies and tell them you want to see them writing for Mac and Linux. The support is there from Apple et al, it's the game companies that don't want to write.
Suggestion for cutting back on CPU and memory usage:
Turn off the sound enhancer and volume limiter.
What happens if we answered Era to the question?
Given teh advanced ability to network our traffic lights and stuff to a single grid, would it be prohibitively expensive for the city to network all the lights together and have the dispatcher control them?
Check dealmac.com for the refurbs and such. Smalldog has some too usualy.
hmm, what windows keyboard shorcut shows me all the open windows in an app?
What windows shortcut clears the entire screen of all windows, giving me access to my desktop and then restores all the windows once I've got the file I want.
What windows short cut shows me every open window and it's contents at the same time?
But let's be reasonable about the media too. You keep CDs for a long time, but I'm sure you're not using the same computer that you were using back inthe 80's it only makes sense that you would transfer those files. And if that's what you're worried about, archive the songs to CD or DVD, they'll last longer than on an HDD and you'll have more songs on a disc than if you bought plain audio.
If your CD gets damaged in a player, it's not your fault either, but the store won't give you a free copy in that situation either.
As for sampling vs compression, yes, it's different, but in the end, you're still loosing sound quality from the original sound.
Just to add to that, and that's only the bandwidth costs for downloads. Then there are previews, actual acessing of the store. The costs to maintain the systems, the costs of the lawers to continue to negotiate deals with new records, the cost of any tech support people they have. Transaction costs and so on and so forth
So $340 a week.
Bull shit it's uncompressed audio. What do you think digitizing music does? And you can quite easily convert from one format to another, you just take the digital signal from your computer. Get a program takes the output from your sound card, and reencodes it to another sound type. Not that fucking hard. Or, since your SliMP3 player supports raw CD format, why not just use that?
Question, if your hard drive goes tits up do you go to the iTMS and say, "Please let me have this file again for free?" No, if you didn't make a backup you're screwed. That's why I rip all my CD's to FLAC. I have them forever in a lossless format.
And this has what to do with the fact that Apple won't give you a free copy of the file if you lose it, just like a music store won't give you a free copy of a CD if you lose it?
a) You don't have to buy an iPod
b) Apple says they have over 100,000 songs from independent artists and lables. And claim over 400,000 songs total. So you could figure on roughly 25% of their songs being independent. That's a fairly large number and it's likely to go up.
They want you to upgrade yes, but your computer will not magicaly stop working, your software will not stop working, you'll probably be able to use some new apps, but obviously some apps will use features built into the new OS and as such will not likely run on your current OS, but such is life in the computer world. Besides, wait a month or two after the release and you will see the price in most places drop to at the most $99. If you have a friend who's a student, a teacher or works in an educational institution, they can get it for you for $79. I think the same applies to government employees.
Students, facualty, or really anyone that recieves a pay check from an educational institution. If your pay stub has an educational institution on it, you get the discount.
Out of curiosity, does expose explode tabs? By this I mean, when you tell it to show all windows, if I had say a safari window with a bunch of tabs, does each tab become it's own window in expose?
Hmm, do out the math a bit:
Apple reported under the mac only service roughly 500,000 song downloads per week (according to a Cnet article from when the iTMS was released for windws)
Assume an average download size of 2MB per song you get 1,000,000 MB per week or roughly 1000 GB of bandwidth per week. Would you care to guess how much 1,000 GB of bandwidth/week costs?
Then keep in mind that you still need to pay the Artists, and the producers, and the record lables (as much as we hate them, they still get paid). Somehow, $1 a song does't quite seem like a rip off does it?
You can convert it to play it on your SliMP3.
Tell me, does your SliMP3 understand the format that music is on on the raw CD? Does it understand the format that music is in on Audio cassets? You mean to tell me you have to CONVERT your songs from CD or Audio Casset format to MP3 to play them on your SliMP3? The horror.
Question, if you accidentaly throw away your CD, or if your CD gets scratched beyond repiar, or your CD catches fire, can you go to the store and get a new copy for free?
You can't? BLASPHEMY!
Yes, let's punish all the artists and boycott the very services that have a chance to change things because the RIAA is involved in a portion of those services.
Hint: The RIAA makes up only a portion of the lables in the iTMS. Why don't you buy from the independent lables and thus show the RIAA that you are willing to buy music, but not at the expense of the artist.
I would be ticked at myself for not looking into the upgrade cycle of Macs and failing to realize that the iBooks were due for an update.