I, for one, welcome our new online advertising overlords, and I'd like to remind them that as a trusted member of Slashdot, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground click farms.
Let's hope they go from selling movies online with DRM to selling movies online sans DRM. If the record labels (ok, EMI) went from no real online presence to the iTunes store to DRM-free music in less than five years, there's hope the movie studios can learn the same lesson.
Y'know, that's a big part of the success of the iTunes Store, and one that's getting overlooked in all this "iTunes is anti-Trust" hoohaa. Finding a good review of an online store other than iTunes is an almost impossible task. From Buy.com to the Zune store, they've pretty much stunk.
I second that sentiment. I'm not a mac-fanboy (well, I guess I play one on/. from time to time) -- I'm just constantly amazed at how Dvorak can be so wrong and yet so... noticed.
It's called "The Enderle Syndrome", and regrettably, we've yet to develop a cure for it...
Well, from reading some of the open-box reviews, it seems that it'll be easy to swap out the HD on it. Now, what that'll do to your OS, etc, God alone knows.
But in general, yes, I agree, DVR functionality is sorely needed, or at least a better, clearer way to turn, say, the iMac in my den into a DVR. I've been trying to sort out for a month what EyeTV/ Miglia add-on I need for my cable setup and which is the most compatible with AppleTV/iTunes. The door is WIDE open for 3rd party vendor to come charging thru on this.
"The Andromeda Strain" (1971)
"Silent Running" (1972)
"Soylent Green" (1973)
"West World" (1973)
"Futureworld" (1976)
"Rollerball" (1975)
"Omega Man" (?)
"Planet of the Apes"
All of which have visions of the future that makes eunthenasia seem happy. If "Thinking" = "AHHHH!!!!! WE'RE DOOMED! DOOMED, I SAY!!!!", count me amongst the happy people who want and are working for a better life for my kids than what I have now. Science fiction can and does give us hope that the future is someplace that I would want to spend the rest of my life.
Ummmn, how about now? As of the last Macworld, Paramount's announced they're onboard as well. Sony, of course, will be last to join (if ever), but I expect the others will join in.
I dunno. I think there's something to be said for the "always on" nature of radio, and this coming from someone who relies on podcasts and time-shifted TV for 95% of my entertainment. I think XM/Sirius is more of the future of radio than podcasts are.
Apple doesn't make money on the downloads and they don't make money off of iPod's because of iTunes.
They do make some money from downloads from iTunes, but not a whole lot. Best estimates are consistently coming in at about $.04 a track.
Yippee.
What the labels are REALLY pissed about here is there's a medium that's successful and popular and growing over which they have little control. They subverted the radio long ago by Payola and it's more sophisticated successors, and MTV became irrelevant the minute they stopped showing videos.
What they just can't seem to grasp is the iTunes is the least of their worries. Once more and more bands become popular via MySpace and the like and home recording gets better and better, the label's usefulness to a band will get smaller and smaller. They should be more worried about acts like Bare Naked Ladies taking their music to the web: That will hurt them more than Apple ever did.
But do the vast majority of enterprise users need more than MS Office (or the equivalent thereof), a calender/organizer, email, and a browser? Now, in the IT Department, I can see the need, but most business computers are little more than dumb terminals.
the Mac Mini was perfect for enterprise desktops. Small, competively priced, easy on power, and you can just plug in your old monitor, though you may want new mice and keyboards with them. And now with dual-booting and all the other things the article mentions, it seems pretty logical.
"I can't believe anyone is silly enough to pay full track prices for lossy-encoded music tracks when you can buy the CD and rip it into perfect WAV or FLAC files instead."
The 2 reasons why I use the iTunes Store don't have anything to do with sound quality:
Because sometimes, I want just *a* track, and not the whole darn album, especially if it's an artist I'm just finding out about.
Because at 10:30 at night, when I'm watching The Alternative on VH-1 Classic, it's a hell of a lot easier to open the iBook and buy that Stone Roses track I've been missing than to pop out to the local (closed) CD store, or wait for it to come via Amazon.
Sometimes, fast food is preferable over a nice dinner.
I think we'll see a lot of Wii's hooked up to HDTV's. We got our Wii last week, and it's hooked up to our 60" Sony (booo!) HDTV, surround sound system, blahblah.
I could have bought a PS/3 (There was one in Wal-Mart today. Poor thing. It looked so... lonely) or a xBox360, but I left button-pushing as a video game the day I stopped playing Tempest.
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I, for one, welcome our new online advertising overlords, and I'd like to remind them that as a trusted member of Slashdot, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground click farms.
But it's out of projectiles, and won't blow up anything, so this time, many Boethins WON'T die to give us this information.
/me ducks. ;-p
"Our main concern is with the consumer and not a particular technology"
I expect the MPAA Enforcement Squad to soon pay them a visit to correct this dangerous and subversive kind of slander.
Let's hope they go from selling movies online with DRM to selling movies online sans DRM. If the record labels (ok, EMI) went from no real online presence to the iTunes store to DRM-free music in less than five years, there's hope the movie studios can learn the same lesson.
Y'know, that's a big part of the success of the iTunes Store, and one that's getting overlooked in all this "iTunes is anti-Trust" hoohaa. Finding a good review of an online store other than iTunes is an almost impossible task. From Buy.com to the Zune store, they've pretty much stunk.
AAC isn't proprietary to Apple, it's part of the MPEG-4 standard.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Codin
This SEEMS like a good idea.
But we know where this is heading.
Well, from reading some of the open-box reviews, it seems that it'll be easy to swap out the HD on it. Now, what that'll do to your OS, etc, God alone knows.
But in general, yes, I agree, DVR functionality is sorely needed, or at least a better, clearer way to turn, say, the iMac in my den into a DVR. I've been trying to sort out for a month what EyeTV/ Miglia add-on I need for my cable setup and which is the most compatible with AppleTV/iTunes. The door is WIDE open for 3rd party vendor to come charging thru on this.
It will play on 480i, you just need component video to do it.
If "Thinking" = "AHHHH!!!!! WE'RE DOOMED! DOOMED, I SAY!!!!", count me amongst the happy people who want and are working for a better life for my kids than what I have now.
Science fiction can and does give us hope that the future is someplace that I would want to spend the rest of my life.
Ummmn, how about now? As of the last Macworld, Paramount's announced they're onboard as well. Sony, of course, will be last to join (if ever), but I expect the others will join in.
;-)
<Gerald Butler voice> "Read the article? THIS IS SLASHDOT!!!!!!!!!" </Gerald Butler voice>
:-)
"Yes, I have a response: 'Uhhh, what?' "
John Gruber is laughing his ass off.
I dunno. I think there's something to be said for the "always on" nature of radio, and this coming from someone who relies on podcasts and time-shifted TV for 95% of my entertainment. I think XM/Sirius is more of the future of radio than podcasts are.
It looks just *awesome* on the shelf in the local computer store.
I'm sure if I actually bought and installed it, though, I'd have a different opinion...
They do make some money from downloads from iTunes, but not a whole lot. Best estimates are consistently coming in at about $.04 a track.
Yippee.
What the labels are REALLY pissed about here is there's a medium that's successful and popular and growing over which they have little control. They subverted the radio long ago by Payola and it's more sophisticated successors, and MTV became irrelevant the minute they stopped showing videos.
What they just can't seem to grasp is the iTunes is the least of their worries. Once more and more bands become popular via MySpace and the like and home recording gets better and better, the label's usefulness to a band will get smaller and smaller. They should be more worried about acts like Bare Naked Ladies taking their music to the web: That will hurt them more than Apple ever did.
Let's see a robot deal with handing over his lunch money or threats of a wedgie. Then we'll have something!
But do the vast majority of enterprise users need more than MS Office (or the equivalent thereof), a calender/organizer, email, and a browser? Now, in the IT Department, I can see the need, but most business computers are little more than dumb terminals.
the Mac Mini was perfect for enterprise desktops. Small, competively priced, easy on power, and you can just plug in your old monitor, though you may want new mice and keyboards with them. And now with dual-booting and all the other things the article mentions, it seems pretty logical.
The 2 reasons why I use the iTunes Store don't have anything to do with sound quality:
- Because sometimes, I want just *a* track, and not the whole darn album, especially if it's an artist I'm just finding out about.
- Because at 10:30 at night, when I'm watching The Alternative on VH-1 Classic, it's a hell of a lot easier to open the iBook and buy that Stone Roses track I've been missing than to pop out to the local (closed) CD store, or wait for it to come via Amazon.
Sometimes, fast food is preferable over a nice dinner.I think we'll see a lot of Wii's hooked up to HDTV's. We got our Wii last week, and it's hooked up to our 60" Sony (booo!) HDTV, surround sound system, blahblah. I could have bought a PS/3 (There was one in Wal-Mart today. Poor thing. It looked so... lonely) or a xBox360, but I left button-pushing as a video game the day I stopped playing Tempest.
"Wii's total software sales reached almost a million units at 977,225, while total PS3 software sales came in at 662, 847."
Sony loses money on each PS/3, in the hopes that they'll make it up with licensing fees from the games they sell.
Nintendo doesn't. AFAIK, they've yet to sell any of their consoles at a loss in an effort to gain marketshare.
So Sony is losing money to Nintendo on the front end (hardware) and the back end (software).
That's gonna hurt...