That's right, the world's first rackmount iPod. Fully fault-tolerant, so all of the people who worry about iPods skipping while they're jogging can give it a rest.
So if the record companies aren't paying for advances and the artist foots the bill for everything then what does the record company do again?
Well, I think the point is that the artist *is* footing the bill. The advance is just that, an advance on anticipated profits. If there are no profits, then the artist owes the record company. Live concerts are where the artist makes money for themselves, though the record companies are trying to get in on that too.
To me, it seems reasonable that the record companies would use some of their gross revenue to pay for promotion. However, they wouldn't have to worry about fronting advances, which would seem to me to present large cash-flow issues if an act doesn't work out. Likewise, established artists can pay for producing the record out of their revenues. Even the less well-known or wealthy artists are producing out of home studios anyways.
The rub comes from finding the new, truly hard-up acts that barely have enough money for a demo. Even then, labels could provide a small investment grant upfront without making it an advance. So the labels are R&D and marketing, but not using the tactics of those "payday loan" outfits, which is what has always seemed borderline shady to me.
There's no entitlement to 3 upgrades, nor have any packaging or marketing claims said so. Indeed, every Mac upgrade since 1997 (at least!) has been the same way. People who bought Macs in the interim period between announcement and release can get the latest OS for $19.95. For OS X 10 to 10.1, it was freely available from a reseller if you asked for it!
However, I do know what you're talking about. Those coupons are only proof-of-purchase coupons. I don't think I've seen any use for them ever, as Apple has usually asked for dated sales receipts rather than those coupons.
So here's my $50,000 question. Since the newest G4s were supposed to actually have USB 2.0 chipsets in them, but the software was throttling them back to 1.1, does this update magically turn the late G4 MDDs into USB 2.0 machines?
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> Dell - too expensive [one of the reasons for the project being so "hush hush" was that dell was exploring pricing options during bidding]
Here's my question, and no, I'm not trying to start a flame war...if they were going purely on a price/performance ratio, why didn't they let Dell "explore pricing options"? Presumably, Dell would have given them a better deal due to educational and/or prestige factors, if Dell really wanted the deal. If that was the case, the uni may have been better served with the Dell option.
I'm not saying that they *should* have done it that way, but if cost was an issue, one would think they would have put it out for a competitive bid. Unless, of course, Dell was trying to *raise* the prices...
While IANAL, it seems that most of the listed terms actually apply to the iTunes software itself, not the files that are downloaded by it. Meanwhile, while the iTunes Music Store restricts commercial use, I surmise that means if I were to use iTunes as Musak, or for a dance hall, or something to that effect.
So the question I have is this: is a downloaded.m4p file software, or a data file? Presumably, I can do what I want with the DRMed file (as I own it) except try to circumvent the DRM. Weird.
While an executive flying to LA won't be able to access the documents, I don't see why you'd have to open the firewall for hotel access. Any company that would want to deploy this would presumably have the infrastructure to give everyone who needs it VPN access.
I'm just not sure that this is so much better than password-protected files, or PDFs, for that matter. It would require a lot more infrastructure for a relatively small gain. Then again, I'm not someone who needs to have crazy security, though...
I agree whole-heartedly. That's why I stick to writing on paper instead of on a computer. The computer screen is just too slippery. Furthermore, though it boasts of a "refresh rate", mine just keeps the picture I draw on it!
I don't see this as a troll. Some people will read into it, and some won't. YMMV.
However, I do have to say that the farther away I am from having seen Reloaded, the more diappointed I become. In the first movie, the philosophy and action were integral to the plot. While there were kick-ass fighting set pieces, they were important to moving the story along. In the new movie, it feels like both the philosophy and the fighting were bolted on to a run-of-the-mill action pic (ex. A: Why is Neo fighting 100s of Smiths if he can just fly away?).
I'm willing to reserve full judgment until I see how it ends, but I'm a little more concerned and less jazzed about the next movie.
I presume that you're talking about this article. However, if I'm reading the article correctly, they aren't doing anything more than using the iPod in Target Disk mode, i.e. just a FireWire disk.
Specifically, the article mentions that ~2GB worth of Perl scripts make the configuration work. I doubt that the iPod is doing any real work (other than upping the "cool" factor).
To be specific, it's 10 AFP (Apple File Protocol) client licenses. SMB and NFS are unlimited. The "unlimited" version allows unlimited AFP connections (though I believe there is a technological limit of 500 or so per server).
Of course, if you have OS X clients, you can always use SMB or NFS on the client to connect to an OS X server. Only OS 9 or lower Macs would use up the AFP client licenses. Go figure.
Maybe it's an Apple recorder. I seem to recall that Phillips announced Rendezvous/ZeroConf support a while ago at some Apple event. Give the recent release of Apple's IP FireWire kit, this should fuel various Mac rumors for quite some time. It seems more likely, though, that this would just be a nice way of getting rid of that phone line on a TiVo, as it could just use the cable broadband link (you *do* have cable instead of DSL, don't you?);)
Frankly, I'd be quite surprised if Apple comes out with a DVR, but stranger things have happened.
And yes, this does not negate the possibility of a DRM nightmare, but for Ma and Pa consumer, they don't have to get lots of those new-fangled cables for things to work. It just will, and with only 1 cable per device to boot. That they may not be able to do all of the things that they could before may not make a difference if the price of Video On Demand is relatively low.
If I recall correctly, yes, Kramnik did have access to games that Fritz had played previously. Also, Fritz is actually a commercial program that elite chess players can buy for training. Of course, I'd love to know what hardware Fritz is running on...
If you really want rumor, you can always check out RumorTracker; it covers all of the Mac rumor sites. Though the rumor sites are almost never 100% accurate, they do tend to have some good commentary, and they're a lot less rah-rah about Apple, and more balanced in coverage overall than they used to be.
Now, where are the sites to go for Gateway rumors?
Well, this is purely IMHO, but eWeek and ThinkSecret seem to have a pretty good track record in predicting future Apple moves. I don't have any data to back that up, though...and I'm not inclined to go looking right now.
That being said, it's been pretty well known that Apple seems to be taking a shining to corporate America more in recent months. A journaling file system would go a long way. Not as long as RAID 5 support in the Xserve would, but it would help. Yes, I know of the XRaid, but that's not here yet (or even officially announced, as far as I can tell). One wonders what Sun thinks of all of this...
Apple seems to "get" the corporate world now. I've heard nothing but positive comments about Apple's Server support from clients. Under AppleShareIP, it was all but useless, but they seem to have a good mix of Unix and Mac folks manning the lines.
If only Open Directory and AD integration were not such a chore. If I wasn't working on MSCE material, I think I'd be lost with Apple's Open Directory. High-level training of any kind still seems to be difficult to come by, though I think the certifications are on the right track. Hopefully, MacOS X's appeal to the alpha geeks and *nix cross-over will help there.
Interesting that this book is mentioned now, as many of the Apple lists that I'm on have a number of questions from Mac admins as to what are the essential books for getting up to speed on all the *nix-y goodness. It sound's like something many on those lists will be interested in.
So that being said, what books do/. folk suggest? I'm not talking advocacy of anything in particular, just good books on basic administration.
Me, I started with the big purple book, the Unix System Administration Handbook. I found it incredibly useful for getting my feet wet.
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That's right, the world's first rackmount iPod. Fully fault-tolerant, so all of the people who worry about iPods skipping while they're jogging can give it a rest.
However, it still won't support Ogg...
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Why not linux? Not enough support.
Well, I think the point is that the artist *is* footing the bill. The advance is just that, an advance on anticipated profits. If there are no profits, then the artist owes the record company. Live concerts are where the artist makes money for themselves, though the record companies are trying to get in on that too.
To me, it seems reasonable that the record companies would use some of their gross revenue to pay for promotion. However, they wouldn't have to worry about fronting advances, which would seem to me to present large cash-flow issues if an act doesn't work out. Likewise, established artists can pay for producing the record out of their revenues. Even the less well-known or wealthy artists are producing out of home studios anyways.
The rub comes from finding the new, truly hard-up acts that barely have enough money for a demo. Even then, labels could provide a small investment grant upfront without making it an advance. So the labels are R&D and marketing, but not using the tactics of those "payday loan" outfits, which is what has always seemed borderline shady to me.
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However, I do know what you're talking about. Those coupons are only proof-of-purchase coupons. I don't think I've seen any use for them ever, as Apple has usually asked for dated sales receipts rather than those coupons.
So here's my $50,000 question. Since the newest G4s were supposed to actually have USB 2.0 chipsets in them, but the software was throttling them back to 1.1, does this update magically turn the late G4 MDDs into USB 2.0 machines? CC
> Dell - too expensive [one of the reasons for the project being so "hush hush" was that dell was exploring pricing options during bidding]
Here's my question, and no, I'm not trying to start a flame war...if they were going purely on a price/performance ratio, why didn't they let Dell "explore pricing options"? Presumably, Dell would have given them a better deal due to educational and/or prestige factors, if Dell really wanted the deal. If that was the case, the uni may have been better served with the Dell option.
I'm not saying that they *should* have done it that way, but if cost was an issue, one would think they would have put it out for a competitive bid. Unless, of course, Dell was trying to *raise* the prices...
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While IANAL, it seems that most of the listed terms actually apply to the iTunes software itself, not the files that are downloaded by it. Meanwhile, while the iTunes Music Store restricts commercial use, I surmise that means if I were to use iTunes as Musak, or for a dance hall, or something to that effect.
.m4p file software, or a data file? Presumably, I can do what I want with the DRMed file (as I own it) except try to circumvent the DRM. Weird.
So the question I have is this: is a downloaded
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I'm just not sure that this is so much better than password-protected files, or PDFs, for that matter. It would require a lot more infrastructure for a relatively small gain. Then again, I'm not someone who needs to have crazy security, though...
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However, I do have to say that the farther away I am from having seen Reloaded, the more diappointed I become. In the first movie, the philosophy and action were integral to the plot. While there were kick-ass fighting set pieces, they were important to moving the story along. In the new movie, it feels like both the philosophy and the fighting were bolted on to a run-of-the-mill action pic (ex. A: Why is Neo fighting 100s of Smiths if he can just fly away?).
I'm willing to reserve full judgment until I see how it ends, but I'm a little more concerned and less jazzed about the next movie.
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Specifically, the article mentions that ~2GB worth of Perl scripts make the configuration work. I doubt that the iPod is doing any real work (other than upping the "cool" factor).
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Of course, if you have OS X clients, you can always use SMB or NFS on the client to connect to an OS X server. Only OS 9 or lower Macs would use up the AFP client licenses. Go figure.
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Frankly, I'd be quite surprised if Apple comes out with a DVR, but stranger things have happened.
And yes, this does not negate the possibility of a DRM nightmare, but for Ma and Pa consumer, they don't have to get lots of those new-fangled cables for things to work. It just will, and with only 1 cable per device to boot. That they may not be able to do all of the things that they could before may not make a difference if the price of Video On Demand is relatively low.
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If you really want rumor, you can always check out RumorTracker; it covers all of the Mac rumor sites. Though the rumor sites are almost never 100% accurate, they do tend to have some good commentary, and they're a lot less rah-rah about Apple, and more balanced in coverage overall than they used to be.
Now, where are the sites to go for Gateway rumors?
Oh, sorry, I forgot! :)
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That being said, it's been pretty well known that Apple seems to be taking a shining to corporate America more in recent months. A journaling file system would go a long way. Not as long as RAID 5 support in the Xserve would, but it would help. Yes, I know of the XRaid, but that's not here yet (or even officially announced, as far as I can tell). One wonders what Sun thinks of all of this...
Apple seems to "get" the corporate world now. I've heard nothing but positive comments about Apple's Server support from clients. Under AppleShareIP, it was all but useless, but they seem to have a good mix of Unix and Mac folks manning the lines.
If only Open Directory and AD integration were not such a chore. If I wasn't working on MSCE material, I think I'd be lost with Apple's Open Directory. High-level training of any kind still seems to be difficult to come by, though I think the certifications are on the right track. Hopefully, MacOS X's appeal to the alpha geeks and *nix cross-over will help there.
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Whoa, that's heavy... :)
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So that being said, what books do /. folk suggest? I'm not talking advocacy of anything in particular, just good books on basic administration.
Me, I started with the big purple book, the Unix System Administration Handbook. I found it incredibly useful for getting my feet wet.
Thoughts?
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And you thought trying to keep track of your hotkeyed units in Warcraft was hard...
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