"With high quality digital video equipment getting cheaper, one day all I'll need is a decent camera, boom mike, power Linux box and some college drama students who will work for less than minimum wage."
Uhhhh, since you didn't clarify, will you be filming the screen play you mentioned earlier or a low budget porn flick?
`Cause I'm ready to help with a Paypal donation. For the porn flick, that is.
"The four-gigabyte nano costs $50 more than the mini of the same capacity, but it is even more stylish and easier to carry, and it includes a color screen where the mini's was monochrome. It also displays the album title for every song you play, which the mini omitted."
I wonder how much the color screen on the new iPods affect the battery life? I currently own a mini and the battery life is very impressive; Showing the album title isn't that big of a deal for me, but I guess others might like that option.
One downside I've noticed on my mini is that the screen is VERY bright while driving around at night. I'll sometimes DD for my friends and it's entertaining when the backlight kicks on while the drunks are trying to get some sleep during the ride home. "Dude, turn that shit off!" which usually sounds something more like "Douf, urn tha shy awf!" *wretch*
"...force on their customers via Digital Rights Management (DRM) laden music files and End User License Agreements (EULAs)"
Force onto their customer? They held me up at gunpoint so I had no choice but to buy from the iTMS? If you buy music from iTunes, you're going to have DRM'ed files. Don't like it? Don't buy it.
It's not like music isn't available from other sources (both brick and mortar and online). But remember, those "easily" converted music CDs are starting to include DRM mechanisms as well.
"Google... the rapidly growing online-search company that promises to 'organize the world's information,' announced Monday the latest step in their expansion effort: a far-reaching plan to destroy all the information it is unable to index."
"Windows software is made to be professional looking, and easy to use."
Whoa. Whoa. Just back the fucking truck up right there. Easy to use? With Clippy annoying users every 3 seconds? Yeah, that's the ticket.
"Even with the inovation of the luna themes, many still go back to classic at the work place. You would rarely see a law office using a mac simply because it doesn't look professional that when you delete an icon off the dock it poofs away like a cloud."
Huh? I know of many, MANY professional offices that use Macs BECAUSE they don't look / act like Windows. "For work, get a Mac, for play, get a Windows machine..." As far as the visual feedback, ever been deaf? News Flash, you can't hear anything! A visual feedback might be the only chance you have to see that an icon has been removed from the Dock.
Overall, the PC is professional, and because buttons don't blink, glow, and fly around the screen does not mean we PC users are lacking innovation...
Sorta like what's coming in Longhorn? Innovation, yeah...
"For smaller companies that may not want to invest the time or the US$1,000 to rent the Intel system, a company called Advenio has a service in which it will do the necessary porting work. As an indication of the relative time involved, the company is charging a flat US$100 fee to create a universal binary of a Cocoa application; the fee for porting a Carbonised program starts at US$500 and depends on the amount of work involved."
" Computer control system and user interface for media playing devices
Abstract
A computer system and method for controlling a media playing device. The system provides a user interface for allowing a user access to media pieces stored in a media database. The interface is also for controlling a media playing device, like a player piano or movie playing video device, that is coupled to the computer to play the accessed or selected piece of media. In one embodiment there is a computer interface that allows a user to display only music that relates to a selected category, like jazz or classical music. Another embodiment allows the user to direct the media playing device to automatically play selected music pieces that are related to a selected music category. Another embodiment allows a user to direct the media playing device to automatically play selected music pieces that are related to the selected music composer or artist."
My only question is: Where are the lawsuits against Microsoft's WMP, Realplayer, the Microsoft XBox Media Player, MusicMatch, etc?
iTunes has been out for over 4 years, and just now there's a lawsuit? I understand it takes time to find a lawyer that will accept a case, but *4* years? Hmmm, right at the height of popularity too, kinda amazing how it worked out like that...
For Ogg, I got an iAudio and after a firmware upgrade, it works really. I'm quite pleased with it. If you're looking for Ogg or FLAC support (the HD unit) check out iAudio."
You ogg users must be happy to hear this. All three of you.
"Steve Jobs said he liked the potato chips he was offered during an Intel presentation, and plans to sell the same chips in Apple's cafeteria as well.:-)
Jobs is a vegetarian and very health conscious, potato chips are too bourgeois for his reality distortion field.
Along the same lines, I was complaining to a co-worker a few days ago about how my Firewire drive was on it's last legs... It's a 100g drive and nearing capacity so I needed to buy a new one anyway.
He was blown away that I had that many files as it was, and I was about to make a humorous comment about the boatloads of porn I have on it, when a female co-worker walked in...
"Oh, it's all Photoshop documents that I've done! Some of `em are almost 400 megs each!"
Except everyone in the office knows I can't draw to save my life. Now she won't even talk to me.:(
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How many of those Mozilla exploits compromise the entire OS?
Uhhhh, since you didn't clarify, will you be filming the screen play you mentioned earlier or a low budget porn flick?
`Cause I'm ready to help with a Paypal donation. For the porn flick, that is.
I wonder how much the color screen on the new iPods affect the battery life? I currently own a mini and the battery life is very impressive; Showing the album title isn't that big of a deal for me, but I guess others might like that option.
One downside I've noticed on my mini is that the screen is VERY bright while driving around at night. I'll sometimes DD for my friends and it's entertaining when the backlight kicks on while the drunks are trying to get some sleep during the ride home. "Dude, turn that shit off!" which usually sounds something more like "Douf, urn tha shy awf!" *wretch*
Force onto their customer? They held me up at gunpoint so I had no choice but to buy from the iTMS? If you buy music from iTunes, you're going to have DRM'ed files. Don't like it? Don't buy it.
It's not like music isn't available from other sources (both brick and mortar and online). But remember, those "easily" converted music CDs are starting to include DRM mechanisms as well.
You misspelled IIS.
That's petroleum transfer engineer you insensitive clod!
Have you ever wanted to pull Bill Gates aside, and discreetly inquire why someone with more money than God has such a shitty haircut?
Steve Ballmer seems to sweat a lot, especially while dancing; Do you think he has to sleep on a sponge?
Not that I, uh, know much about it but I think Kazaa and such have the monopoly on that specific content.
On a side note, imagine the contest like Apple just did with their 500th million song...
And the winner is John Smith, who downloaded 'Sweet Cheeks and Sticky Buns IV'!
No love for Pitch Black?
Besides, Vin Diesel can kick Chewbacca's ass. He can do anything.
Will tentacles being shoved into Tux's every orifice really be the screen `o death users will want to see?
I keed, I keed!
Whoa. Whoa. Just back the fucking truck up right there. Easy to use? With Clippy annoying users every 3 seconds? Yeah, that's the ticket.
"Even with the inovation of the luna themes, many still go back to classic at the work place. You would rarely see a law office using a mac simply because it doesn't look professional that when you delete an icon off the dock it poofs away like a cloud."
Huh? I know of many, MANY professional offices that use Macs BECAUSE they don't look / act like Windows. "For work, get a Mac, for play, get a Windows machine..." As far as the visual feedback, ever been deaf? News Flash, you can't hear anything! A visual feedback might be the only chance you have to see that an icon has been removed from the Dock.
Overall, the PC is professional, and because buttons don't blink, glow, and fly around the screen does not mean we PC users are lacking innovation...
Sorta like what's coming in Longhorn? Innovation, yeah...
3rd paragraph from the bottom.
"For smaller companies that may not want to invest the time or the US$1,000 to rent the Intel system, a company called Advenio has a service in which it will do the necessary porting work. As an indication of the relative time involved, the company is charging a flat US$100 fee to create a universal binary of a Cocoa application; the fee for porting a Carbonised program starts at US$500 and depends on the amount of work involved."
http://www.advenio.com/
Abstract
A computer system and method for controlling a media playing device. The system provides a user interface for allowing a user access to media pieces stored in a media database. The interface is also for controlling a media playing device, like a player piano or movie playing video device, that is coupled to the computer to play the accessed or selected piece of media. In one embodiment there is a computer interface that allows a user to display only music that relates to a selected category, like jazz or classical music. Another embodiment allows the user to direct the media playing device to automatically play selected music pieces that are related to a selected music category. Another embodiment allows a user to direct the media playing device to automatically play selected music pieces that are related to the selected music composer or artist."
My only question is: Where are the lawsuits against Microsoft's WMP, Realplayer, the Microsoft XBox Media Player, MusicMatch, etc?
iTunes has been out for over 4 years, and just now there's a lawsuit? I understand it takes time to find a lawyer that will accept a case, but *4* years? Hmmm, right at the height of popularity too, kinda amazing how it worked out like that...
Why?
I can't wait for your reply...
You know what else helps? Having a HUGE fucking penis.
I'm so broke. :(
Original? Bondi Blue? Try the Flower Power, man!
DO NOT EAT THE BROWN iMAC! DO NOT EAT THE BROWN iMAC!
How does the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 roadmap look? Thanks for looking so foward into the future.
This flipflopping must stop! I don't know who to worship anymore!"
Stop fucking posting GWB. Kerry's behind you. Win that "war" you're fighting and get our people out of there.
You ogg users must be happy to hear this. All three of you.
Shouldn't that be: "Korganizer Kas Kpart Kof Kontact Kdoes Ka Kdecent Kjob Kand Kit Kactually Kintegrates Kwith Kexchange."
bork bork bork?
Have you been to Hollywood?
Jobs is a vegetarian and very health conscious, potato chips are too bourgeois for his reality distortion field.
They were Apple crisps.
He was blown away that I had that many files as it was, and I was about to make a humorous comment about the boatloads of porn I have on it, when a female co-worker walked in...
"Oh, it's all Photoshop documents that I've done! Some of `em are almost 400 megs each!"
Except everyone in the office knows I can't draw to save my life. Now she won't even talk to me. :(
Oh, I dunno... Maybe the remote possibility of RUNNING OUT OF OXYGEN AND DYING?
What if the mission to send replacement parts fails? What if the escape vehicle doesn't work?
I get a little stressed when we run out of coffee at work, to each their own I guess.