You're not alone. For some years now many people have been abandoning FM radio for internet radio because of at least a few of your feelings.
Yup.. i haven't listened to the radio for YEARS now. Once the iTMS came out and finally answered the challenge of '$0.99 tracks made easy', i've been buying in spades. At this point, i have 7500 tracks (all legal). They're on my laptop.. i can find anything instantly in iTunes. Most days i leave it on 'shuffle my 3+ rated songs', and go about my business.. or 'play anything i haven't heard in the last 90 days'.. etc. When i'm in the office i play it through my desk speakers.. living room, i shoot it to the AirPort Express. Everywhere else.. my music is on the iPod, which also connects beautifully to my car. I love listening to my music, my way. I gave up on radio a long time ago. I couldn't tell you squat about what might be going on there.. and by the discussion here, it doesn't sound like i'm missing much.
i agree that there's too much fanboy attitude here at slashdot.. absolutely. I have no problem holding apple accountable for lousy decisions (such as the 8500 case 'design'), but your opinion here is based on a 'missing' feature that is clearly available in the iTunes preferences:
How hard would it be to let you drag an mp3 from your hard drive to an iPod icon? Not hard. Why doesn't iTunes have this simple, emmensely useful feature?
you can tell iTunes to manually manage your iPod songs/playlists (instead of automatically). Done. Drag whatever you want from your Library over to the iPod icon.
Now, if you're upset that you can't drag from your desktop to the iPod, well.. it's intentionally designed that way.. for 2 reasons. 1.) to discourage piracy.. and 2.) to simplify organization (using a database). It's not suppposed to work like a floppy disk. If you could just drag/copy several thousand tracks in the way you describe, the labels wouldn't have allowed the iPod or the iTMS to exist. And dragging tracks from the desktop with no database/structure would make it difficult to use the iPod. Most people would rather just dock it and have their iTunes stuff 'magically' appear.. that's why apple designed that way. That's how nearly everyone wants it to work.. and several million iPods and hundreds of millions of iTMS songs appear to validate that. It wasn't designed specifically to piss you off. If you have a particular need, give apple some feedback and/or find some shareware to accomplish what you're asking.
Fuck You. What did I inturrupt your stream of +5 glowing reviews about iTunes which all say the same thing?
perhaps there's a reason for the stream of +5 glowing reviews.. I spoke up b/c you seem to think that there's a relationship between the number of times you bitch about something.. and the validity of your argument. Speak your peace, give your opinion/advice, certainly.. but then shut up. You remind me of my mother. There's no reason to echo the same rant again and again here.. no one cares after the first 2 or 3 times.
You want to get your facts straight, how about this fact: I hate iTunes. I find it to be a pain in the ass to use. Many other people hate iTunes as well. This hatred of iTunes has created a market for third party applications which replace it.
THEN GO GET ONE OF THESE THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS.. (OR WRITE ONE YOURSELF) AND SHUT THE *F* UP ALREADY.. I mean, christ.. we heard you the first dozen times, YOU HATE ITUNES.. we get it.
You want to get your facts straight, how about this fact: I hate iTunes. I find it to be a pain in the ass to use. Many other people hate iTunes as well. This hatred of iTunes has created a market for third party applications which replace it.
THEN GO GET ONE OF THESE THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS.. (OR WRITE ONE YOURELF) AND SHUT THE *F* UP ALREADY.. I mean, christ.. we heard you the first dozen times, we get it.
Having observed their behavior in the past, I fully believe that the music industry really believes that they are doing Apple a favor and that they can cut Apple off.
If they close iTunes, iPod users will just rip their own music (and share it) leaving 0 revenue.
I think you're exactly right. I refuse to pay more than $0.99 per track. The minute the labels begin messing with that number.. i'm done with them.. permanently. They can choose to continue receiving thousands of my dollars, or they can choose to see none of it. Since the iTMS store opened i've bought over 3000 tracks.. i don't buy discs anymore. I support the ITMS model because it works. I vote with my wallet to tell the labels (and Apple) that they/somebody findally got it right. If the labels reward that support by trying to extort me.. fuck 'em.. everything stops. I wont get angry and throw a fit about it, i'll just stop buying. I'll remove the store icon from iTunes, and get all of my music from Usenet, or from ripping friends/family CDs. Their response to this over the next couple months will decide their fate with me. I don't care anymore which way it goes.. really, i'm tired of it.
No. Born and raised in Europe, but Canadian Citizen. I just have no tolerance for people that are always blaming the wrong doings of the government for the barbaric deaths of innocent people. Enough is enough. We've heard it all before...many times. How can you say that UK or US or Spain...and tomorrow germany and Italy...etc etc...and eventually Canada deserve it? What have those people who are daily taking the trains and busses to try and get work done to radicals in the middle east? Why do they deserve it? It is the most baseless stupid comment/comparison one can make. How can you turn a blind eye and say *next* to something like that? Osama would like to have you believe it's the WESTS fault (and I guess he is suceeding) but the truth is that it is really his and only his fault (and his groups).
You need to read a history book(s).. I don't think anyone believes that any of the people who died 'deserved it',.. but it's ridiculous to assume that the policies of their government(s) had nothing to do with these, or any other (including 9/11) attacks. It's only bad when it happens to countries on our list of 'best friends' right? I mean, you were personally outraged when Saddam (the man the US armed to the teeth) killed all those iranians right?.. and when the US armed Osama/Taliban when they were killing those 'evil' communists, right?.. you need some perspective, desperately.
Why do people not count Hussein as a terrorist? How many hundreds of thousands of murders do you have to commit before people think you're a bad guy these days? Chemical weapons, torture, murder, mass graves, invading a neighboring country then burning the oil fields as he left...the list goes on and on. He was a terrorist.
He was an asshat, certainly.. but lets have some perspective, sall we? We were quite happy to arm this man and to look the other way when he gassed the iranians. We were also quite happy to arm Osama bin Laden/Taliban when they were fighting the 'evil commie bastards' in the soviet union. If you'd like to go back further, we managed to exterminate lots of indians with smallpox (no mustard qas available) and slaughtering buffalo (burning oil fields) while we occupied and later took their country from them. I love my county, but i do see our errors when they're in plain sight.. and we do have them, just like every other country in history.
And if the polls are showing people thinking Bush is "evil" I'm losing faith in the mindset of the left even more than ever. Just because you're not under attack on home ground and don't hear people running and screaming is no reason to get so content that you call the guy who kept the attacks from happening for 4 years evil.
i grow tired of this reaction from people.. if you are unable to separate 'disagreement with our current administration/foreign 'policy' with being unpatriotic or a flaming liberal.. that's your problem, not mine. I don't like terrorism either, but i don't think what we've been doing the last few years in iraq is helping.. AT ALL. What would help tremendously would be 2 things: 1.) stop making them f-ing RICH with our demand for their oil.. and 2.) quit arming these f**kers to begin with.
As to alternative business models, many have been tried and very few have been viable for content providers.
Where we are heading with this kind of "cold-war" attitude towards advertising online is that content providers will be forced to make viewing ads and receiving cookies (a related issue beyond the scope of this thread) part of the Terms of Service for the site. Then, if you block ads, they block you.
First of all, the internet had existed for MANY years before we were all subjected to this degree of abuse from advertisers. If that kind of behavior is in some way required to keep their 'business' running.. well, i guess that's too bad.. not my problem. Figure out how to exist without being an asshat.
Secondly.. if it becomes a requirement that i be abused in this manner simply to access the internet through a particular ISP.. well, then said ISP loses a customer
Sure, for a company to have an internet presence costs money.. get over it.. it's the cost of business. It's also far cheaper than the alternative (tv, radio, etc). Look, they're reaching a worldwide audience now AND saving more doing it.. to a greater extent than they were in the past. They can stop bitching anytime. I don't feel bad for any company who feels it necessary to treat their customers badly in order to stay in business. If they can't figure out another way, then they shouldn't be around..
I totally agree...I listen to cd's in my car all the time (I'm a loser with no car mp3 player) and I honestly don't think I will stop buying cd's for a long time. I went through my download phase, but I've gone back to cd's...even now when I download a song or two I usually end up buying the whole album anyway. It just seems so much more cohesive that way. And there's something great about being able to just hand someone a big 'ol book and telling them to put on some music.
There's also something great about having 7000+ songs (my entire library) with me on my laptop at home/work and on my ipod in the car. Or when i take the laptop to a party and can find/create a smart playlist to shuffle all of my 4 and 5 star songs.. in about 15 secs.. and when party goers can start typing in the itunes search field and instantly find a song, artist, or cd and queue it up next in the party shuffle with all of 2 clicks.. or being able to say 'shuffle all of my rock between 1970 and 1985'.. or 'only play stuff i havent heard/played for the last 100 days'.. you get the idea..
Nothing against cds.. but i haven't touched a cd or the radio for months and i much prefer to do the above..
Think Secret is reporting that the entire iMac line will start with 512... i can only hope it is one dimm
i can tell you that the last powerbook revision indeed has all powerbooks with a single 512 chip.. so maybe (hopefully) they'll take this across their other models (ibook, towers, etc)
What you *can* do is put the DVD into one machine (a PowerBook you just happen to have knocking around, say) and boot it in target disk mode. Plug this into the firewire port of the machine you want to install onto and it will boot off the CD in the PowerBook and you'll be able to install like that.
Yes.. i've done this several times with 10.3 on older imacs. To clarify though, you connect the older (non DVD) Mac to a running newer (DVD) Mac and boot the OLD one with the "T" key down. Run the DVD install from your newer Mac and when it asks where you want it, select the older Mac hard disk, as it will now show in the list. This works quite well.. beats waiting/paying for a cdrom version..
Music is/not/ "*your* personal property". You do/not/ in the traditional/buy/ music any more. You license it. This has been the case for several decades already.
riiigghhtt.. that's why i'm able to promptly exchange my cds when they get scratched/worn out... or why i'm able to purchase my massive vinyl/cassette collection on CD at a discount (or better yet, for free).. since i have a license to listen. No, my friend, they want it both ways. I hear your point, but until i am able to upgrade my collection to CD for little to no cost.. then, to me, i'm not licensing anything.. it's a purchase. And if i've bought it once, i'm not buying it again just because they want me to.
If the US takes an isolationist stance, that's not a bad thing..
In the name of democracy ???
no.. more like 'in the name of premtively attacking/invading a soviergn country illegally.. because we think we know what's best for the region'. That entire part of the world has not known democracy.. well, pretty much forever. Expecting them to suddenly jump all over the idea is elitist, if not delusional. IF democracy takes hold there, that's great, but they're going to have to work it out.. having us install and/or support what is essentially a puppet government b/c we're too scared of who might be elected by the people.. well, that isn't very democratic. In that case they just traded one dictator for another in their eyes.
In my experience, NPR is better at reporting the facts in a story than almost any other news service (except maybe the BBC and the News Hour).
The key word i keep seeing is 'facts'.. I'm not picking on your post, but you bring up a good point. Personally, i spend a little time on BBC, Reuters and CNN.. and with lots of other people (family, friends, younger, older) because i enjoy gathering information and making up my *own* mind.. and each of those sources has something unique to offer the equation. Somewhere in the middle of all of this is the stuff most of us are looking for (ie. the truth).
I had a college professor who left me with a lasting opinion on how one gathers 'facts'.. from *any* source (in that case, music history texts). Any textbook, periodical, editorial, news station, 'commentary' station, website, etc.. this stuff is all written by PEOPLE. Hold them to task if they make questionable leaps in logic, i don't care if your talking to the fricking pope! Now i don't resort to name simply b/c i may disagree with someone, but just because they have a blazer on and a mic in their hand, a camera in their face, or a publisher in their corner doesn't give their message/ideology any more validity than yours or mine. It's your responsibility to question any statement laid down as an undisputed fact.. I don't enjoy folks attempting to lead me around by my nose, and don't require a news anchor, author, preacher to tell me what/how to think or what party's line to walk.
..while waiting for your girlfriend to finish getting ready...
This is Slashdot. Why are you here?
Silly, he's simply referring to the 90 seconds necessary to complete auto inflation.. you can't safely take her until she's at the proper air pressure. You risk injuring her, or yourself otherwise.. sheesh
Tough fight? Nah, it'll be a quick knockdown. All Julian Haight has to do is interrupt Scott Richter whenever he tries to say something with a hearty "YOU TOO COULD HAVE A HUGE P ENIS!", or "100% LEGAL POT! GET HIGH LEGALLY!!!!!11!". Eventually Scott will get so pissed off he'll ask the debate moderator to silence Julian, and Julian will just have to say "I rest my case".
oh my god.. if you had only posted this last week when i had a few (mod) points to unload. Somebody take care of this guy please!!
Free speech is garanteed, correct. But where does the constitution say anything about garanteeing an audience?? If you do not like a public debate, you leave.
exactly right.. and if they don't want to leave you alone, you get something similar to how i dealt with a street corner 'preacher' downtown one afternoon. Despite my initial 'leave me alone' stare, he felt he needed an audience with me.. surely to tell me that i was damned, or somesuch nonsense. Well, the crazy bastard kept on my heels for about a block or so, reciting his unsolicited 'message' (ie. spam).. until i stopped, turned around and informed him that if i had to turn around again, that it wasn't going to be to talk shop about redemption. I also made him aware that i was, in fact, being nice in providing him an opportunity to leave (ie. opt-out) rather than just spinning around and busting him in the mouth. And to those who say 'the law prohibits that'.. well, the law is free to deal with me however it likes, but only *after* you're on the ground looking for your teeth. If i feel that the potential consequences are worth you losing your teeth, then no law (in and of itself) *prevents* it from happening..
what's worse is when people like this get behind a steering wheel or a computer terminal. You'd think they were invincible or something. You'd never get away with that kind of personal affront when standing face to face with someone. And if you can't pull it off in those surroundings, you have no business attempting it while hiding behind your car, office desk, or someone else's hijacked domain.
To me, that means that Microsoft must have a strategy for if/when Open Source becomes the norm. Though it might be 5-10 years down the line, and Microsoft battling every step of the way, if/when Open Source Software becomes the norm, they must have plans to adjust their business. It'll be interesting to see how things play out...
I think you overestimate their insight.. Microsoft has been behind/following the companies actually blazing the technoolgy trail for years... hell, decades even. They practically missed the Internet party and scurried to catch up with a browser.. earlier than that, they were (and still are for that matter) behind Apple and many other companies.. but they (MS) have the cash to sit back and wait for other companies to do their work for them. I don't see that as 'having a plan'. They don't create much of anything.. other than the near absolute contempt for their business. I don't think they're ahead of the 'open source boom', or that they have a plan for dealing with any of it..
That's right. Marathon runners are vulnerable to hyponatremia. Massive sweat + intake of unsalted water leads to sodium ion imbalance inside the body. It's one of those nasty conditions where the brain gets disoriented so the victim doesn't realize that they are headed for death. I know the Slashdot stereotype is that nobody *here* has to worry about such things, but actually, I bet there are people in the Slashdot community who run this far and this hard.
..only if chased by the RIAA or CIA, or somesuch organization.. =)
Face it -- if our cars broke down as frequently as Windows (or Linux or whatever), we'd be suing the auto industry out of business.
If our VCRs ate every tenth tape and only played tapes from the same manufacturer as the VCR with any quality, they'd all be returned to Circuit City.
But for software, we grit our teeth and say, well, I just don't understand computers, and reach for the power switch.
While i wont disagree that ms makes far too much money on second (or third) rate software, i must take issue with the analogy about "if cars were this flaky, we would.."
part of the computer problem is what people do *after* they turn the box on.. they install all manner of commercial software and other shareware.. they buy peripherals and upgrade their box with more memory, etc.. I liken this to if consumers were to attempt replacing their own transmission in the car, especially with non-mfg parts.. and then became upset that something doesn't work quite the same
if folks just set up their box stock and didn't go around mod'ding it with software/hardware all the damn time (i agree this is hardly practical, but for the sake of arguement..), they'd probably have a much lower failure/crash rate. They're no less complicated than a car, but computers are asked to be much more flexible in their task. That flexibility is going to introduce more potential problems..
1) The interface is great, much better than working through the web (aka amazon) to buy, especially for sampling. However browsing can be tricky with so many bands, so searching is a must.
I stumbled across this when i was browsing last night.. when you're in the Music Store, click the 'browse' button next to the 'search' field.. their entire library in a text/columnar layout.. very nice.
2) Like amazon, there should be the ability to post reviews, suggestions, and personal playlists (based on iTunes playlists, naturally, possibly automatically culled). Also it would be nice to have the option to buy the CD, although that would best be addressed with a tie in link. Oh yeah, links to official band/album websites would be nice.
can't leave a review yet.. but you can request a song be made available. As more people use this you'll see more suggestions (if you like this, you'll also like that..). Links to the artist's website are in fact there.. not for everyone, but for many that i saw
3) $0.99 for a song is not unreasonable, if you're only going to buy a couple of songs off an album. $9.99 for an album is probably more than it could be. No doubt there are actuaries in the works. In fact, for $0.99 is probably too little for albums where the songs are all long, depressing the price of the album. This includes mainly Jazz and Classical works. Really, prices for individual songs and albums should be much more variable, based on the set album cost and the song length, with the popular songs boosted in price a bit over that number.
there is a little variance.. i like the.99/track at a flat rate, it's easier for apple to the sell the idea that way, than if the track prices were all over the map.. IMHO
4) There isn't enough content. I couldn't find even half of what I was looking for. There ought to be a way for small labels and independents to get in on the action. Allowing them to host their own music and samples through the iTunes music store interface would be the most reasonable way.
...yet. There will be more content added regularly, and especially so if they get a good reponse. Granted, I couldn't find quite everything I was looking for either, but what's out there is all good quality and easy to get. I agree about the indie stuff, i think you'll see an indie category at some point
5) There are way too many partial albums. I have no idea why you would only put up some songs off an album - did they not have all the source recordings for the entire album?
Again, i think you'll see some of this change when they get a bearing on the response. In the meantime, use the store front to request tracks that you don't currently see
7).. snip.. I have a feeling the big 5 made them jump through more than a few hoops to get where they are now, and are still calling a lot of the shots with regard to what is actually offered.
I think you're right.. hopefully they'll see a good response and begin to warm to the idea that people *will* actually use this and start expanding their catalog..
All in all, I think Apple did a fantastic job on this whole thing. It was SLOW yesterday as I expected, but today is much better.. and it's so damn easy, very Apple. Good job guys. .
These figures you have stated show how undervalued the company is.
If the market cap is $5.1B, and they have $4.4B in liquid bank assets, that means the Tech and patent portfolio, "Apple" brand, outstanding accounts receivable, Plant, Property, and Equipment are only worth $700M.
Go get the stock now... the Mac OS is probably worth $500M in development and marketing alone.
Exactly.. which is why I'm sitting on 300 shares of our beloved fruit company at this time =)
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You're not alone. For some years now many people have been abandoning FM radio for internet radio because of at least a few of your feelings.
Yup.. i haven't listened to the radio for YEARS now. Once the iTMS came out and finally answered the challenge of '$0.99 tracks made easy', i've been buying in spades. At this point, i have 7500 tracks (all legal). They're on my laptop.. i can find anything instantly in iTunes. Most days i leave it on 'shuffle my 3+ rated songs', and go about my business.. or 'play anything i haven't heard in the last 90 days'.. etc. When i'm in the office i play it through my desk speakers.. living room, i shoot it to the AirPort Express. Everywhere else.. my music is on the iPod, which also connects beautifully to my car. I love listening to my music, my way. I gave up on radio a long time ago. I couldn't tell you squat about what might be going on there.. and by the discussion here, it doesn't sound like i'm missing much.
i agree that there's too much fanboy attitude here at slashdot.. absolutely. I have no problem holding apple accountable for lousy decisions (such as the 8500 case 'design'), but your opinion here is based on a 'missing' feature that is clearly available in the iTunes preferences:
How hard would it be to let you drag an mp3 from your hard drive to an iPod icon? Not hard. Why doesn't iTunes have this simple, emmensely useful feature?
you can tell iTunes to manually manage your iPod songs/playlists (instead of automatically). Done. Drag whatever you want from your Library over to the iPod icon.
Now, if you're upset that you can't drag from your desktop to the iPod, well.. it's intentionally designed that way.. for 2 reasons. 1.) to discourage piracy.. and 2.) to simplify organization (using a database). It's not suppposed to work like a floppy disk. If you could just drag/copy several thousand tracks in the way you describe, the labels wouldn't have allowed the iPod or the iTMS to exist. And dragging tracks from the desktop with no database/structure would make it difficult to use the iPod. Most people would rather just dock it and have their iTunes stuff 'magically' appear.. that's why apple designed that way. That's how nearly everyone wants it to work.. and several million iPods and hundreds of millions of iTMS songs appear to validate that. It wasn't designed specifically to piss you off. If you have a particular need, give apple some feedback and/or find some shareware to accomplish what you're asking.
Fuck You. What did I inturrupt your stream of +5 glowing reviews about iTunes which all say the same thing?
perhaps there's a reason for the stream of +5 glowing reviews.. I spoke up b/c you seem to think that there's a relationship between the number of times you bitch about something.. and the validity of your argument. Speak your peace, give your opinion/advice, certainly.. but then shut up. You remind me of my mother. There's no reason to echo the same rant again and again here.. no one cares after the first 2 or 3 times.
You want to get your facts straight, how about this fact: I hate iTunes. I find it to be a pain in the ass to use. Many other people hate iTunes as well. This hatred of iTunes has created a market for third party applications which replace it.
THEN GO GET ONE OF THESE THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS.. (OR WRITE ONE YOURSELF) AND SHUT THE *F* UP ALREADY.. I mean, christ.. we heard you the first dozen times, YOU HATE ITUNES.. we get it.
You want to get your facts straight, how about this fact: I hate iTunes. I find it to be a pain in the ass to use. Many other people hate iTunes as well. This hatred of iTunes has created a market for third party applications which replace it.
THEN GO GET ONE OF THESE THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS.. (OR WRITE ONE YOURELF) AND SHUT THE *F* UP ALREADY.. I mean, christ.. we heard you the first dozen times, we get it.
Having observed their behavior in the past, I fully believe that the music industry really believes that they are doing Apple a favor and that they can cut Apple off. If they close iTunes, iPod users will just rip their own music (and share it) leaving 0 revenue.
I think you're exactly right. I refuse to pay more than $0.99 per track. The minute the labels begin messing with that number.. i'm done with them.. permanently. They can choose to continue receiving thousands of my dollars, or they can choose to see none of it. Since the iTMS store opened i've bought over 3000 tracks.. i don't buy discs anymore. I support the ITMS model because it works. I vote with my wallet to tell the labels (and Apple) that they/somebody findally got it right. If the labels reward that support by trying to extort me.. fuck 'em.. everything stops. I wont get angry and throw a fit about it, i'll just stop buying. I'll remove the store icon from iTunes, and get all of my music from Usenet, or from ripping friends/family CDs. Their response to this over the next couple months will decide their fate with me. I don't care anymore which way it goes.. really, i'm tired of it.
No. Born and raised in Europe, but Canadian Citizen. I just have no tolerance for people that are always blaming the wrong doings of the government for the barbaric deaths of innocent people. Enough is enough. We've heard it all before...many times. How can you say that UK or US or Spain...and tomorrow germany and Italy...etc etc...and eventually Canada deserve it? What have those people who are daily taking the trains and busses to try and get work done to radicals in the middle east? Why do they deserve it? It is the most baseless stupid comment/comparison one can make. How can you turn a blind eye and say *next* to something like that? Osama would like to have you believe it's the WESTS fault (and I guess he is suceeding) but the truth is that it is really his and only his fault (and his groups).
You need to read a history book(s).. I don't think anyone believes that any of the people who died 'deserved it',.. but it's ridiculous to assume that the policies of their government(s) had nothing to do with these, or any other (including 9/11) attacks. It's only bad when it happens to countries on our list of 'best friends' right? I mean, you were personally outraged when Saddam (the man the US armed to the teeth) killed all those iranians right?.. and when the US armed Osama/Taliban when they were killing those 'evil' communists, right?.. you need some perspective, desperately.
He was an asshat, certainly.. but lets have some perspective, sall we? We were quite happy to arm this man and to look the other way when he gassed the iranians. We were also quite happy to arm Osama bin Laden/Taliban when they were fighting the 'evil commie bastards' in the soviet union. If you'd like to go back further, we managed to exterminate lots of indians with smallpox (no mustard qas available) and slaughtering buffalo (burning oil fields) while we occupied and later took their country from them. I love my county, but i do see our errors when they're in plain sight.. and we do have them, just like every other country in history.
i grow tired of this reaction from people.. if you are unable to separate 'disagreement with our current administration/foreign 'policy' with being unpatriotic or a flaming liberal.. that's your problem, not mine. I don't like terrorism either, but i don't think what we've been doing the last few years in iraq is helping .. AT ALL. What would help tremendously would be 2 things: 1.) stop making them f-ing RICH with our demand for their oil.. and 2.) quit arming these f**kers to begin with.
First of all, the internet had existed for MANY years before we were all subjected to this degree of abuse from advertisers. If that kind of behavior is in some way required to keep their 'business' running.. well, i guess that's too bad.. not my problem. Figure out how to exist without being an asshat.
Secondly.. if it becomes a requirement that i be abused in this manner simply to access the internet through a particular ISP.. well, then said ISP loses a customer
Sure, for a company to have an internet presence costs money.. get over it.. it's the cost of business. It's also far cheaper than the alternative (tv, radio, etc). Look, they're reaching a worldwide audience now AND saving more doing it.. to a greater extent than they were in the past. They can stop bitching anytime. I don't feel bad for any company who feels it necessary to treat their customers badly in order to stay in business. If they can't figure out another way, then they shouldn't be around..
Nothing against cds.. but i haven't touched a cd or the radio for months and i much prefer to do the above..
Yes.. i've done this several times with 10.3 on older imacs. To clarify though, you connect the older (non DVD) Mac to a running newer (DVD) Mac and boot the OLD one with the "T" key down. Run the DVD install from your newer Mac and when it asks where you want it, select the older Mac hard disk, as it will now show in the list. This works quite well.. beats waiting/paying for a cdrom version..
cheers
I don't get it...Could someone please tell me what the secret message is? i am we todd did =)
riiigghhtt.. that's why i'm able to promptly exchange my cds when they get scratched/worn out... or why i'm able to purchase my massive vinyl/cassette collection on CD at a discount (or better yet, for free).. since i have a license to listen. No, my friend, they want it both ways. I hear your point, but until i am able to upgrade my collection to CD for little to no cost.. then, to me, i'm not licensing anything.. it's a purchase. And if i've bought it once, i'm not buying it again just because they want me to.
The key word i keep seeing is 'facts'.. I'm not picking on your post, but you bring up a good point. Personally, i spend a little time on BBC, Reuters and CNN.. and with lots of other people (family, friends, younger, older) because i enjoy gathering information and making up my *own* mind.. and each of those sources has something unique to offer the equation. Somewhere in the middle of all of this is the stuff most of us are looking for (ie. the truth).
I had a college professor who left me with a lasting opinion on how one gathers 'facts'.. from *any* source (in that case, music history texts). Any textbook, periodical, editorial, news station, 'commentary' station, website, etc.. this stuff is all written by PEOPLE. Hold them to task if they make questionable leaps in logic, i don't care if your talking to the fricking pope! Now i don't resort to name simply b/c i may disagree with someone, but just because they have a blazer on and a mic in their hand, a camera in their face, or a publisher in their corner doesn't give their message/ideology any more validity than yours or mine. It's your responsibility to question any statement laid down as an undisputed fact.. I don't enjoy folks attempting to lead me around by my nose, and don't require a news anchor, author, preacher to tell me what/how to think or what party's line to walk.
Silly, he's simply referring to the 90 seconds necessary to complete auto inflation.. you can't safely take her until she's at the proper air pressure. You risk injuring her, or yourself otherwise.. sheesh
=)oh my god.. if you had only posted this last week when i had a few (mod) points to unload. Somebody take care of this guy please!!
exactly right.. and if they don't want to leave you alone, you get something similar to how i dealt with a street corner 'preacher' downtown one afternoon. Despite my initial 'leave me alone' stare, he felt he needed an audience with me.. surely to tell me that i was damned, or somesuch nonsense. Well, the crazy bastard kept on my heels for about a block or so, reciting his unsolicited 'message' (ie. spam).. until i stopped, turned around and informed him that if i had to turn around again, that it wasn't going to be to talk shop about redemption. I also made him aware that i was, in fact, being nice in providing him an opportunity to leave (ie. opt-out) rather than just spinning around and busting him in the mouth. And to those who say 'the law prohibits that'.. well, the law is free to deal with me however it likes, but only *after* you're on the ground looking for your teeth. If i feel that the potential consequences are worth you losing your teeth, then no law (in and of itself) *prevents* it from happening..
what's worse is when people like this get behind a steering wheel or a computer terminal. You'd think they were invincible or something. You'd never get away with that kind of personal affront when standing face to face with someone. And if you can't pull it off in those surroundings, you have no business attempting it while hiding behind your car, office desk, or someone else's hijacked domain.
boy, i must be having a bad day or something.. =)
To me, that means that Microsoft must have a strategy for if/when Open Source becomes the norm. Though it might be 5-10 years down the line, and Microsoft battling every step of the way, if/when Open Source Software becomes the norm, they must have plans to adjust their business. It'll be interesting to see how things play out...
I think you overestimate their insight.. Microsoft has been behind/following the companies actually blazing the technoolgy trail for years... hell, decades even. They practically missed the Internet party and scurried to catch up with a browser.. earlier than that, they were (and still are for that matter) behind Apple and many other companies.. but they (MS) have the cash to sit back and wait for other companies to do their work for them. I don't see that as 'having a plan'. They don't create much of anything.. other than the near absolute contempt for their business. I don't think they're ahead of the 'open source boom', or that they have a plan for dealing with any of it..
That's right. Marathon runners are vulnerable to hyponatremia. Massive sweat + intake of unsalted water leads to sodium ion imbalance inside the body. It's one of those nasty conditions where the brain gets disoriented so the victim doesn't realize that they are headed for death. I know the Slashdot stereotype is that nobody *here* has to worry about such things, but actually, I bet there are people in the Slashdot community who run this far and this hard.
..only if chased by the RIAA or CIA, or somesuch organization.. =)
Face it -- if our cars broke down as frequently as Windows (or Linux or whatever), we'd be suing the auto industry out of business.
If our VCRs ate every tenth tape and only played tapes from the same manufacturer as the VCR with any quality, they'd all be returned to Circuit City.
But for software, we grit our teeth and say, well, I just don't understand computers, and reach for the power switch.
While i wont disagree that ms makes far too much money on second (or third) rate software, i must take issue with the analogy about "if cars were this flaky, we would.."
part of the computer problem is what people do *after* they turn the box on.. they install all manner of commercial software and other shareware.. they buy peripherals and upgrade their box with more memory, etc.. I liken this to if consumers were to attempt replacing their own transmission in the car, especially with non-mfg parts.. and then became upset that something doesn't work quite the same
if folks just set up their box stock and didn't go around mod'ding it with software/hardware all the damn time (i agree this is hardly practical, but for the sake of arguement..), they'd probably have a much lower failure/crash rate. They're no less complicated than a car, but computers are asked to be much more flexible in their task. That flexibility is going to introduce more potential problems..
The proceeds could go to maintain and expand bandwidth
1) The interface is great, much better than working through the web (aka amazon) to buy, especially for sampling. However browsing can be tricky with so many bands, so searching is a must.
I stumbled across this when i was browsing last night.. when you're in the Music Store, click the 'browse' button next to the 'search' field.. their entire library in a text/columnar layout.. very nice.
2) Like amazon, there should be the ability to post reviews, suggestions, and personal playlists (based on iTunes playlists, naturally, possibly automatically culled). Also it would be nice to have the option to buy the CD, although that would best be addressed with a tie in link. Oh yeah, links to official band/album websites would be nice.
can't leave a review yet.. but you can request a song be made available. As more people use this you'll see more suggestions (if you like this, you'll also like that..). Links to the artist's website are in fact there.. not for everyone, but for many that i saw
3) $0.99 for a song is not unreasonable, if you're only going to buy a couple of songs off an album. $9.99 for an album is probably more than it could be. No doubt there are actuaries in the works. In fact, for $0.99 is probably too little for albums where the songs are all long, depressing the price of the album. This includes mainly Jazz and Classical works. Really, prices for individual songs and albums should be much more variable, based on the set album cost and the song length, with the popular songs boosted in price a bit over that number.
there is a little variance.. i like the .99/track at a flat rate, it's easier for apple to the sell the idea that way, than if the track prices were all over the map.. IMHO
4) There isn't enough content. I couldn't find even half of what I was looking for. There ought to be a way for small labels and independents to get in on the action. Allowing them to host their own music and samples through the iTunes music store interface would be the most reasonable way.
...yet. There will be more content added regularly, and especially so if they get a good reponse. Granted, I couldn't find quite everything I was looking for either, but what's out there is all good quality and easy to get. I agree about the indie stuff, i think you'll see an indie category at some point
5) There are way too many partial albums. I have no idea why you would only put up some songs off an album - did they not have all the source recordings for the entire album?
Again, i think you'll see some of this change when they get a bearing on the response. In the meantime, use the store front to request tracks that you don't currently see
7).. snip.. I have a feeling the big 5 made them jump through more than a few hoops to get where they are now, and are still calling a lot of the shots with regard to what is actually offered.
I think you're right.. hopefully they'll see a good response and begin to warm to the idea that people *will* actually use this and start expanding their catalog..
All in all, I think Apple did a fantastic job on this whole thing. It was SLOW yesterday as I expected, but today is much better.. and it's so damn easy, very Apple. Good job guys. .
These figures you have stated show how undervalued the company is. If the market cap is $5.1B, and they have $4.4B in liquid bank assets, that means the Tech and patent portfolio, "Apple" brand, outstanding accounts receivable, Plant, Property, and Equipment are only worth $700M. Go get the stock now... the Mac OS is probably worth $500M in development and marketing alone.
Exactly.. which is why I'm sitting on 300 shares of our beloved fruit company at this time =)