This is true if all you do is play a list of songs. But if you want management, you need iTunes or its equivalent. Just for one example, with a couple of mouse clicks and a few key strokes, I can create a smart playlist that finds 1 gig of songs that I've rated 3 stars or higher, that meet certain specified genre conditions, and that I haven't heard in the last two months. This is updated dynamically and then used to fill my shuffle. Hardly something you can do easily by drag and drop.
There is a very easy solution for this. It's called Master Looter. If you don't know the group, insist on it, and you can't be ninja'd (unless you pick a ninja for the master looter, of course).
it means that people who thing there is a micropayment problem simply don't see the solution.
Ah, so you didn't bother to look up any of the links I suggested, because if you did, you would see that some of the finest minds in the world are working on this, that virtually all companies who take payments admit it's a huge issue, and that no completely satisfactory solution exists at present. Unfortunately I don't debate people who believe that their uninformed opinion is better than actual knowledge, and who can't even be bothered to do a bit of basic research.
I suppose you think that means something, but I think all it means is that you don't really know much about the whole micropayment problem. It really does exist, and if you do as I suggested and google for it, you'll find that a great deal of brainpower has been thrown at it, with less than stellar results. Wikipedia is not a bad place to start, just look up micropayments there.
The cost of downloading a song on the Internet is pennies
but the cost of processing the transaction is not nearly as cheap. Google for terms such as micropayment and you'll see what I mean. This is one of the biggest challanges to cheaper pricing in general.
There are literally thousands of hex grid wargames out there. Avalon Hill, the long defunct SPI, etc. Many of those are still great games. Also many rules for tabletop miniatures which give hours of fun painting the figures, building scenery, etc
He only invented Algol W, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, and Oberon. Pascal was only used to teach structured programming to am entire generation of students, and without Pascal there would have been no TeX or even original Mac OS. Probably the morons that voted on the list never heard of him either.
What you say makes sense for Xerox, partly because if you quit paying for the service you still keep all your old documents. All you lose is future service.
But what do you do if when you quit paying your "Word service tax" you can no longer open any of your existing documents?
Farfetched? Perhaps, but keep in mind that it would be totally possible with a web based service model, and don't forget the DRM they are already putting in Office documents. Lose the ability to decode the document and you can't use it at all.
This is not new. I was at a conference over two years ago and heard a talk about.net from some MS developer. Every other word out of his mouth was "software as a service".
What I took home from this was the notion that MS wanted to migrate everything they do to web services... why?
They claim it's because all updates will happen automatically and be transparant to the user.
My theory is that it's really because it gives them total control over what you can do. You will never own anything. Just rent the service. You will always be trapped in the "pay your MS tax or you can't even open your own documents" nightmare. What a terrible plan for the users.
Just read a post on the Apple Support forums from an Apple Employee who says that it will be possible to send different streams to different AE boxes under Panther by starting multiple instances of iTunes under fast user switching and letting each one stream to a seperate box (assuming your bandwidth can take it). Sounds pretty cool to me.
My guess is that in order to keep the RIAA happy, Apple has to "fix" FairPlay anytime a drm-breaking scheme comes up. No matter that what you said makes perfect sense, you have to remember we are talking RIAA here, and making sense doesn't seem to be in their playbook.
It had to do with sharing large libraries over a network. Different people reported problems at different sizes (size and number of tracks). There were work-arounds by limiting the number of playlists shared but some had reverted to 4.2 instead.
From what I've read you'll be able to stream to each of them, but not at the same time. If what I've read is correct then the audio output will only be sent one place at a time... which includes the host computer, so if you stream to a stereo, you won't have speakers working on the computer at that time.
It does exatly what it says it does, plays a playlist to your stereo without a line connection to it. Nothing more, Nothing less.
Actually it does a lot more than that. It can be an 11g base station, it can function as a repeater, it has Ethernet and USB connections and can be used to share a printer over your whole network.
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This is true if all you do is play a list of songs. But if you want management, you need iTunes or its equivalent. Just for one example, with a couple of mouse clicks and a few key strokes, I can create a smart playlist that finds 1 gig of songs that I've rated 3 stars or higher, that meet certain specified genre conditions, and that I haven't heard in the last two months. This is updated dynamically and then used to fill my shuffle. Hardly something you can do easily by drag and drop.
the ninjas really, really piss me off
There is a very easy solution for this. It's called Master Looter. If you don't know the group, insist on it, and you can't be ninja'd (unless you pick a ninja for the master looter, of course).
Wow, just think of all the things Ellen can't do. What a great public service from Yahoo!
it means that people who thing there is a micropayment problem simply don't see the solution.
Ah, so you didn't bother to look up any of the links I suggested, because if you did, you would see that some of the finest minds in the world are working on this, that virtually all companies who take payments admit it's a huge issue, and that no completely satisfactory solution exists at present. Unfortunately I don't debate people who believe that their uninformed opinion is better than actual knowledge, and who can't even be bothered to do a bit of basic research.
I suppose you think that means something, but I think all it means is that you don't really know much about the whole micropayment problem. It really does exist, and if you do as I suggested and google for it, you'll find that a great deal of brainpower has been thrown at it, with less than stellar results. Wikipedia is not a bad place to start, just look up micropayments there.
The cost of downloading a song on the Internet is pennies
but the cost of processing the transaction is not nearly as cheap. Google for terms such as micropayment and you'll see what I mean. This is one of the biggest challanges to cheaper pricing in general.
Who is this person? Why did they get their free loaner (to advertise here perhaps), and why is there no link to anything useful about the machine?
go buy a TiVo and a video iPod... oh wait, I don't have cable or satellite either. This is going to be really expensive!
There are literally thousands of hex grid wargames out there. Avalon Hill, the long defunct SPI, etc. Many of those are still great games. Also many rules for tabletop miniatures which give hours of fun painting the figures, building scenery, etc
So I can't spell... of course it's Niklaus. geez
He only invented Algol W, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, and Oberon. Pascal was only used to teach structured programming to am entire generation of students, and without Pascal there would have been no TeX or even original Mac OS. Probably the morons that voted on the list never heard of him either.
What good is a warranty on a product with a dead battery?
Because if the warranty is in effect, they will replace the dead battery. Duh!
What you say makes sense for Xerox, partly because if you quit paying for the service you still keep all your old documents. All you lose is future service.
But what do you do if when you quit paying your "Word service tax" you can no longer open any of your existing documents?
Farfetched? Perhaps, but keep in mind that it would be totally possible with a web based service model, and don't forget the DRM they are already putting in Office documents. Lose the ability to decode the document and you can't use it at all.
This is not new. I was at a conference over two years ago and heard a talk about .net from some MS developer. Every other word out of his mouth was "software as a service".
What I took home from this was the notion that MS wanted to migrate everything they do to web services... why?
They claim it's because all updates will happen automatically and be transparant to the user.
My theory is that it's really because it gives them total control over what you can do. You will never own anything. Just rent the service. You will always be trapped in the "pay your MS tax or you can't even open your own documents" nightmare. What a terrible plan for the users.
I got the bookmarklet from their site and put it in the bookmark bar of Safari. Works like a charm
i ew.php?mode=bookmarklet&url='+escape(location),'Bu gMeNot','location=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollb ars=yes,resizable=yes,width=385,height=450'))
javascript:void(window.open('http://bugmenot.comv
(Except for the random spaces that were inserted when I pasted into Slashdot)
Well, there is more than one Berlin in the world. Perhaps it was specified to be precise?
Yep, and all you have to do is look on Ebay at the iPod minis selling for over the list price to realize how poorly they are selling. Geez....
No Charlie Brown visible, but if you do watch the video, and observe this fellow's kite flying "skills", you will quickly see why it crashed.
Just read a post on the Apple Support forums from an Apple Employee who says that it will be possible to send different streams to different AE boxes under Panther by starting multiple instances of iTunes under fast user switching and letting each one stream to a seperate box (assuming your bandwidth can take it). Sounds pretty cool to me.
I'm not quite sure why Apple did this.
My guess is that in order to keep the RIAA happy, Apple has to "fix" FairPlay anytime a drm-breaking scheme comes up. No matter that what you said makes perfect sense, you have to remember we are talking RIAA here, and making sense doesn't seem to be in their playbook.
It had to do with sharing large libraries over a network. Different people reported problems at different sizes (size and number of tracks). There were work-arounds by limiting the number of playlists shared but some had reverted to 4.2 instead.
From what I've read you'll be able to stream to each of them, but not at the same time. If what I've read is correct then the audio output will only be sent one place at a time... which includes the host computer, so if you stream to a stereo, you won't have speakers working on the computer at that time.
Have not used Hymn so can't verify, but another poster on the same thread claims to be playing de-DRMed songs just fine in 4.6
They are also reporting over on the Apple Discussions that the problems with sharing large (somewhere over 50 gig) libraries has been fixed.
It does exatly what it says it does, plays a playlist to your stereo without a line connection to it. Nothing more, Nothing less.
Actually it does a lot more than that. It can be an 11g base station, it can function as a repeater, it has Ethernet and USB connections and can be used to share a printer over your whole network.