My understanding is it takes line out and loops it back to line in and re-records it for later use on non-Apple devices with only a 5% degredation of sound?
How is this any different from taking the audio files, burning them to a cd and re-ripping them?
A bit of audio loss? Check.
Ripping to whatever format you choose? Check.
Avoiding DRM? Check.
Yay, I'm a hacker for figuring this out!:D
"According to the author, the reason is simple; Linux is free, and humans tend not to equate free things with being valuable."
Linux fails because it's _doesn't_ do anything significant.
Apple = iTunes, iPod, iPhone, Digital Monopoly
Windows = Gaming, Office, Corporate Environment, Desktop Monopoly
Where does Linux fit in among the current scheme of things? It does nothing well of the previously mentioned market space, so what does it have going for it? Those 8 things are probably 95% of what consumers do with computers so where and how will Linux compete?
I live in Portland and this is the first I've heard of various tech companies building along the Columbia. It kind of sucks to see Oregon becoming more popular - something like 95% of the state lives west of Portland. I don't want to see the state becoming like California.
So if you're thinking of moving to Oregon, remember: It rains here ALL THE TIME. There's hippies everywhere. Nearly half the women in Portland are lesbians too!
Actually, I didn't make that last line up.:(
*sigh* Ever our governor once said "Oregon: a nice place to visit, but please don't stay."
"Why not rip off the other guys? Rather than chase Windows, chase freakin' OS X. If Apple can make a glamorous OS based on Unix, why can't anyone make a glamorous OS based on Linux? Is it because Apple has those magical UI fairies? FOSS vs commercial shouldn't matter - people are ultimately the ones that make the stuff. Are you telling me there are no more best and brightest out there working in the FOSS world, that they're all snatched up and locked down for commercial project?"
NO. Someone else said it here before, and I saved the quote since it made a lot of sense...
"Wrong. If you want to work on interfaces, either go take a job with Apple and work on Aqua, or make up your own UI appearance. Aqua is the property of Apple Computer; it's a trademark, and nobody else has the right to make a user interface just like it.
That's fundamentally the problem with the open source community. By and large, they're more interested in stealing other people's ideas (Evolution looks so much like Outlook there ought to be royalties involved) than coming up with their own."
"...and the failure to cover events like [the] Kurt Cobain suicide (except as an Andy Rooney complaint piece)"
This is terrible, but the radio station where I lived at the time poked so much fun at the death of Kurt Cobain, that, well... the announcer went something like:
"AND NOW... another DOUBLE SHOT weekend of NIRVANA!" and then they'd play two Nirvana songs back to back. Man that still cracks me up.
"The Dvorak Death Watch is Slashdot's most popular column. That is just one of many items in Slashdot's review of yet another 'disappointing' year in Dvorak articles. 'We are not fans of 2007. It was another crappy Dvorak year--just the latest in a string of bad years dating back to... when he started writing. Let's see some of the highlights and lowlights in no particular order... The whopper for Dvorak, though, was his article on how the computer mouse would never catch on, which was a dog from the get-go and was dropped--finally. Somewhere along the way, Dvorak bought into the Vista Hype that Microsoft was capable of releasing a better Windows product. What a laugh. Luckily for Dvorak, he refocused on flaming the Apple fanboys and found himself in the driver's seat once again. Of course, Dvorak will fall off the wagon soon, of that you can be sure.'"
"The pre-iphone hysteria was touting the iphone as being the device that would liberate US consumers from the shackles of the telcos."
That's odd, since I remember them saying from a certain MacWorld conference that there would be exclusivity for a few years. I do remember "teh Steve" mentioning that one of the purposes of the iPhone was to make smartphones "smarter" and more available (less of a barrier of entry) for the masses.
"pay-twice-for-songs"
That last update to GarageBand should be quite a surprise then.
"Vista wasn't the most dissapointing product - we already new how crap it was going to be. The iPhone was, because prior to release, it bought a ray of hope to US cell-phone consumers that was cruelly dashed."
Vista was terrible because Microsoft promised the moon, and barely delivered. How long have they been touting WinFS? Since 1998 or so, maybe longer? Feature after feature was cut to make their deadline, and they wonder why people aren't storming down the gate to install it? Big surprise. Hell, I don't take anything Microsoft says for granted. Ever since Bill Gates had to add a chapter about the Internet (Internet? It'll never catch on!) to his book The Road Ahead, I've been wary about what future technology Microsoft sees for us.
In light of the eventual closure of Asheron's Call 2, what were the biggest lessons you and the rest of Turbine have learned?
I'm not a Turbine employee or affiliated in any way; Just a HUGE fan of the the original AC. If you look at the success of the original Asheron's Call, the lesson would be:
Don't fuck up a great game, and don't alienate your target audience.
See, I still physically own the first two CDs I've ever bought. I've "borrowed" and lost CDs since then, but back in 1989, I picked up "Mother's Milk" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and "Disintegration" by The Cure. Over the last eighteen years, I've listened to them, well, thousands of times. I've played them in my car(s), at home, on airplanes, while mowing the grass, riding my bike, and on and on and on. I've listened to those songs alone, sometimes with friends, and with people I hold close to my heart. I've listened to those songs with a woman whom I should have married, but ended up breaking up with. I've sang along with those songs while happy, sad, frustrated, and angry. Sometimes all those feelings at once. They've been there whenever I wanted to listen to them, and they always bring back a flood of memories. They remind of what life was like when I was a teenager, a youthfulness you can never recapture.
So, for me, music is not worth renting. It defines me, who I am, where I came from, and the time I spent with the people that I love. So fuck you RIAA, rental services and the like; The only music I will pay for will be the music that I own.
"They don't need a guy with a vision because they have Linux Torvalds to follow and continue to lead them."
Uh.... ?
I think Linux is where it is, because it has a vision (a free software philosphy) only because Linus has chosen to lead Linux towards that path. I guess I'm confused by the above observation.
"All's an M4 is, is an M16 with a 14.5" barrel and a tele-stock (which basically has the same recoil buffer tube as the M16, but without the extra plastic around it to protect it)."
Try firing that M16 + full-sized stock with full body armor, a RBR helmet and assorted ammo pouches in close quarters (IE, clearing a room inside of a building). That shorter barrel sure makes moving around corners a LOT easier (it's not in the way and catching on things) and the collapsable stock means a shorter distance from "weapon ready" to firing position. Oh, and it's lighter to boot.
"Even worse most of what they say is blantantly false."
See the Vista security ad by chance? Seems relevant. "You are coming to a sad realization. Cancel or Allow?"
"What Mac has said in their last round of commercials has hurt it because people started smelling the BS, and because people looked into it and see the problems."
This will be the MOST secure Windows ever. We promise. Well... Maybe next time. See: Windows 3.1. 3.11. Win 95. Win 98. Win ME. Win 2k. Win XP.
"People still don't want to do everything by hand, they want the comfort of Windows, and XP has given them a perfect surrounding."
Indeed. Like removing spyware. Or messing around with the registry. All good times.
"Realize that people don't use dos based systems any more because..."
I couldn't come up with anything here. The irony killed me.
"Backward compatibility through the Apple line is less than stellar"
Holy fucking bullshit, Batman. I still have a copy of Word 5.x that'll load in classic in case a client needs it to be reformatted. The program is over 12 YEARS OLD. As an experiment, I goofed around and ran Cyberdog under classic as well. I think Cyberdog was relevant in circa 1995 or so. Backwards compatible? Don't get angry at Apple for not allowing shit to run that's over 20 years old on their current operating system, be angry at MicroSoft because of their shitty stalling tactics.
"'By the end of the year the OpenSolaris community will be widely recognized as larger and more active than the Linux community.' Is 2007 the year of the OpenSolaris desktop?"
I could replace the word OpenSolaris with Linux. Or Mac OS X. Or BeOS. Or Amiga.
Face it, Windows is the defacto standard and will be for many, many years. Until businesses change (from running Windows) every other operating system ever created will be second fiddle to the Microsoft monopoly. You know what? Who cares? Do you think Porsche executives stay up late at night thinking "Jesus Christ, Ford has really got us by the balls. How the fuck are we going to compete againt the new Escort?"
I don't care about Microsoft and what they're doing. If it wasn't for their stranglehold on the computing industry, they'd be 10 years behind the technological curve. Natch. They ARE 10 years behind the curve. They just (currently) have the money right NOW to stay relevant.
"When will you get it through your head that these are computer scientists trying to do something within their reach for these people?"
Maybe it's just me, but the last time I donated something, it was cold, hard cash. Not one complained.
Giving less fortunate people laptops is a great idea, except that laptops don't pay the bills. Or buy food. Or keep people dry. Or warm a home (unless you burn it). Maybe we should just be sending those people in need some money instead? I'm sure they can use it.
Microsoft innovation helps programmers, managers and engineers. It's creating a new programming language or helping people keep track of projects and deadlines in an easy fashion. Stuff used on a daily basis by millions of people who use computers, yet is basically ignored by 99.9% of the people who use the technology. I bet the person who invented four stroke engine in my truck was pretty damn innovative too, but I don't give a shit; I just crank the engine and off I drive. They've become the Henry Ford in an Enzo Ferrari world. They used to be relevant, and have been surpassed.
Companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, Dell, they're the ones I find innovative. Apple for actually producing an operating system and peripherals that I *want* to use, Google for making the pr0n^H^H^H^H information on the internet accessible for nearly everyone, Amazon for making shopping in the web not suck so bad (anyone remember what it was like buying an item over the internet in like, 1995? Wow, that blew.) and Dell for making computers affordable for just about anyone.
That's innovation. Making tier one, power users happy is "innovative". Giving non-techie people like my mother (who'll be 60 next year) the ability to search for the information she's looking for, or throwing together a movie of when I was a kid - that's innovation.
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My understanding is it takes line out and loops it back to line in and re-records it for later use on non-Apple devices with only a 5% degredation of sound? How is this any different from taking the audio files, burning them to a cd and re-ripping them? A bit of audio loss? Check. Ripping to whatever format you choose? Check. Avoiding DRM? Check. Yay, I'm a hacker for figuring this out! :D
"According to the author, the reason is simple; Linux is free, and humans tend not to equate free things with being valuable." Linux fails because it's _doesn't_ do anything significant. Apple = iTunes, iPod, iPhone, Digital Monopoly Windows = Gaming, Office, Corporate Environment, Desktop Monopoly Where does Linux fit in among the current scheme of things? It does nothing well of the previously mentioned market space, so what does it have going for it? Those 8 things are probably 95% of what consumers do with computers so where and how will Linux compete?
I live in Portland and this is the first I've heard of various tech companies building along the Columbia. It kind of sucks to see Oregon becoming more popular - something like 95% of the state lives west of Portland. I don't want to see the state becoming like California.
:(
So if you're thinking of moving to Oregon, remember: It rains here ALL THE TIME. There's hippies everywhere. Nearly half the women in Portland are lesbians too!
Actually, I didn't make that last line up.
*sigh* Ever our governor once said "Oregon: a nice place to visit, but please don't stay."
I had mod points but thought I should reply.
"Why not rip off the other guys? Rather than chase Windows, chase freakin' OS X. If Apple can make a glamorous OS based on Unix, why can't anyone make a glamorous OS based on Linux? Is it because Apple has those magical UI fairies? FOSS vs commercial shouldn't matter - people are ultimately the ones that make the stuff. Are you telling me there are no more best and brightest out there working in the FOSS world, that they're all snatched up and locked down for commercial project?"
NO. Someone else said it here before, and I saved the quote since it made a lot of sense...
"Wrong. If you want to work on interfaces, either go take a job with Apple and work on Aqua, or make up your own UI appearance. Aqua is the property of Apple Computer; it's a trademark, and nobody else has the right to make a user interface just like it.
That's fundamentally the problem with the open source community. By and large, they're more interested in stealing other people's ideas (Evolution looks so much like Outlook there ought to be royalties involved) than coming up with their own."
I thought he made some very good points.
"I don't need pictures of the movie: If I'm interested enough, I'll click the freaking link..."
No one, and I mean no one, reads the f*cking articles here. Click the picture. n00b.
Oh I can see it coming... "OMG fsking WALL HAX N00BZ!" ...shouted right before you get shelled by 16 pound bowling balls. :(
You should see the origin of the original article posted yesterday. ./
This is terrible, but the radio station where I lived at the time poked so much fun at the death of Kurt Cobain, that, well... the announcer went something like:
"AND NOW... another DOUBLE SHOT weekend of NIRVANA!" and then they'd play two Nirvana songs back to back. Man that still cracks me up.
Somehow, that makes more sense.
That's odd, since I remember them saying from a certain MacWorld conference that there would be exclusivity for a few years. I do remember "teh Steve" mentioning that one of the purposes of the iPhone was to make smartphones "smarter" and more available (less of a barrier of entry) for the masses.
"pay-twice-for-songs"
That last update to GarageBand should be quite a surprise then.
"Vista wasn't the most dissapointing product - we already new how crap it was going to be. The iPhone was, because prior to release, it bought a ray of hope to US cell-phone consumers that was cruelly dashed."
Vista was terrible because Microsoft promised the moon, and barely delivered. How long have they been touting WinFS? Since 1998 or so, maybe longer? Feature after feature was cut to make their deadline, and they wonder why people aren't storming down the gate to install it? Big surprise. Hell, I don't take anything Microsoft says for granted. Ever since Bill Gates had to add a chapter about the Internet (Internet? It'll never catch on!) to his book The Road Ahead, I've been wary about what future technology Microsoft sees for us.
But it has the same resolution as the video iPod's screen.
In light of the eventual closure of Asheron's Call 2, what were the biggest lessons you and the rest of Turbine have learned?
I'm not a Turbine employee or affiliated in any way; Just a HUGE fan of the the original AC. If you look at the success of the original Asheron's Call, the lesson would be:
Don't fuck up a great game, and don't alienate your target audience.
Yeah, that helps. I'm going to shoot some people and scream at the top of my lungs about gun safety.
Es brennt!
You sure?
See, I still physically own the first two CDs I've ever bought. I've "borrowed" and lost CDs since then, but back in 1989, I picked up "Mother's Milk" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and "Disintegration" by The Cure. Over the last eighteen years, I've listened to them, well, thousands of times. I've played them in my car(s), at home, on airplanes, while mowing the grass, riding my bike, and on and on and on. I've listened to those songs alone, sometimes with friends, and with people I hold close to my heart. I've listened to those songs with a woman whom I should have married, but ended up breaking up with. I've sang along with those songs while happy, sad, frustrated, and angry. Sometimes all those feelings at once. They've been there whenever I wanted to listen to them, and they always bring back a flood of memories. They remind of what life was like when I was a teenager, a youthfulness you can never recapture.
So, for me, music is not worth renting. It defines me, who I am, where I came from, and the time I spent with the people that I love. So fuck you RIAA, rental services and the like; The only music I will pay for will be the music that I own.
Uh.... ?
I think Linux is where it is, because it has a vision (a free software philosphy) only because Linus has chosen to lead Linux towards that path. I guess I'm confused by the above observation.
Try firing that M16 + full-sized stock with full body armor, a RBR helmet and assorted ammo pouches in close quarters (IE, clearing a room inside of a building). That shorter barrel sure makes moving around corners a LOT easier (it's not in the way and catching on things) and the collapsable stock means a shorter distance from "weapon ready" to firing position. Oh, and it's lighter to boot.
Hey Grandpa, you forgot to add the feature where the phone shouts "Get the fuck offa my lawn!" when any kids come `round.
See the Vista security ad by chance? Seems relevant. "You are coming to a sad realization. Cancel or Allow?"
"What Mac has said in their last round of commercials has hurt it because people started smelling the BS, and because people looked into it and see the problems."
This will be the MOST secure Windows ever. We promise. Well... Maybe next time. See: Windows 3.1. 3.11. Win 95. Win 98. Win ME. Win 2k. Win XP.
"People still don't want to do everything by hand, they want the comfort of Windows, and XP has given them a perfect surrounding."
Indeed. Like removing spyware. Or messing around with the registry. All good times.
"Realize that people don't use dos based systems any more because..."
I couldn't come up with anything here. The irony killed me.
Will the UN protocol include raping the meteor?
Holy fucking bullshit, Batman. I still have a copy of Word 5.x that'll load in classic in case a client needs it to be reformatted. The program is over 12 YEARS OLD. As an experiment, I goofed around and ran Cyberdog under classic as well. I think Cyberdog was relevant in circa 1995 or so. Backwards compatible? Don't get angry at Apple for not allowing shit to run that's over 20 years old on their current operating system, be angry at MicroSoft because of their shitty stalling tactics.
"'By the end of the year the OpenSolaris community will be widely recognized as larger and more active than the Linux community.' Is 2007 the year of the OpenSolaris desktop?"
I could replace the word OpenSolaris with Linux. Or Mac OS X. Or BeOS. Or Amiga.
Face it, Windows is the defacto standard and will be for many, many years. Until businesses change (from running Windows) every other operating system ever created will be second fiddle to the Microsoft monopoly. You know what? Who cares? Do you think Porsche executives stay up late at night thinking "Jesus Christ, Ford has really got us by the balls. How the fuck are we going to compete againt the new Escort?"
I don't care about Microsoft and what they're doing. If it wasn't for their stranglehold on the computing industry, they'd be 10 years behind the technological curve. Natch. They ARE 10 years behind the curve. They just (currently) have the money right NOW to stay relevant.
It'll change. Maybe not now, but soon.
SCO is hiring? I'm so in there...
"When will you get it through your head that these are computer scientists trying to do something within their reach for these people?"
Maybe it's just me, but the last time I donated something, it was cold, hard cash. Not one complained.
Giving less fortunate people laptops is a great idea, except that laptops don't pay the bills. Or buy food. Or keep people dry. Or warm a home (unless you burn it). Maybe we should just be sending those people in need some money instead? I'm sure they can use it.
Companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, Dell, they're the ones I find innovative. Apple for actually producing an operating system and peripherals that I *want* to use, Google for making the pr0n^H^H^H^H information on the internet accessible for nearly everyone, Amazon for making shopping in the web not suck so bad (anyone remember what it was like buying an item over the internet in like, 1995? Wow, that blew.) and Dell for making computers affordable for just about anyone.
That's innovation. Making tier one, power users happy is "innovative". Giving non-techie people like my mother (who'll be 60 next year) the ability to search for the information she's looking for, or throwing together a movie of when I was a kid - that's innovation.