wouldn't you have to obtain a credit card with american billing address first?
uh, meaning would i have to? i have one. i live in the US. where japanese import CDs are often $30 and would benefit from a little apple-style online distribution.
before people figure out how to circumvent the continent-locator widget and start ordering music from overseas or canada or mexico. there's a lot of smart people out there, and whether it'll be through spoofing their ip address or whatever, they'd better be on top of it before some heavy duty euro-riaa equivalent starts whining about apple cutting into their revenue.
I'll second you on the tactics-- i think i probably invested more time on that game than any other, including FF7 (maxed out timer, hard to tell after a couple gold chocobos).
as far as a game actually affecting me-- i'd say that the end of the relationship i was in could be directly attributed to FF7. not something i'm terribly proud of.
insofar as visualizing yourself in a videogame setting, i'd have to say that for a while i was looking at the tops of buildings and wondering if there were any shotgun shells or medipacks ala tomb raider I. that passed mercifully quickly...
i keep hearing that too. i just hope it's soon-- i might have ben reading too much into steve's comments in the brief time interview, but it sounds as if the independent labes were busting his door down.
if that really want to reform the whole biz, independents would be a good place to start-- apple should be all up in their maiboxes. but i digress.
i'm just impatient-- i want my instant gratification now!
the only reason i haven't gone absolutely nuts with my song buying is the lack of harder stuff-- i couldn't find a single earache band. i don't think for a second that the average joe wants to listen to morbid angel or the berzerker but i'd like the opportunity to economically inspire my preferred genre via itunes. i'm hammering that "suggestions" button as fast as i can...
i've been pounding on the "requests" button every time i can't find a band-- i suspect a lot of the omissions have to do with licensing but it's a shame labels like AT (jello biafra/dead kennedys) aren't on there. they have free mp3s for download on their site-- i would think they'd jump on something like this, since their servers seem to be perpetually hammered.
welp. the previews seem to stream fine, but it won't accept my credit card (timeouts, not insufficient funds, by the way...). i'm anxious to demonstrate my willingness to put my money where my mouth is, so to speak, but between the relative paucity of non-mainstream bands (in my very biased opinion-- no matches for automator, autechre, godflesh, cradle of filth, cowboy bebop, ayumi, sharkalligator. i finally found a ventures song i didn't have and a few abba tracks) and my inability to give apple (and the bands, of course) my money, i'm a bit frustrated. is anyone else experiencing technical issues?
to be honest, i'm a bit tired of hearing the back-and-forth about DRM, apple's prices, macbashing, mac gushing and whatnot. haven't we covered most of this before?
i mean, i'm as disappointed as the next guy that apple's not supporting ogg, but i maintain that itunes is one of the single best applications i have ever used in terms of... well, everything.
and yeah, i heart my mac but i'm also not blind to the shortcomings of the machine and apple.
my music store's not working. i'm getting a we could not complete your music store request (504) there was an error in the music store. please try again later.
i wonder if google has already seen this coming (i've seen that grub fellow in my logs a number of times and sort of wondered about it), and is going to use their own distributed search engine once they get the bugs hammered out...
the selection of artists seems to me intentionally selected to appeal to the exact type of person who:
owns a windows machine and doesn't suspect there are alternatives
is the least likely to hack/reverse engineer the drm in the copy protection
couldn't care less about drm or fair use rights, and doesn't bother using kazaa...
i mean come on, folks. the average kenny g listener (sorry, dad) probably doesn't give a rat's ass about any of this baloney, which is exactly why it will be successful and touted as the solution to piracy after n number of albums have been released with all this copy protection and nobody complains.
think they don't have a profile of what your average linux using ogg vorbis encoding windows bashing music fan listens to? of course they do. are you surprised that none of those bands are on this list?
safari seems to identify itself as v0.8.2 and v0.9 in the "open as..." menu. try it with an HTML document. i wonder if that means apple intends to release it as v1.0 soon...
the lesson from this seems to be that, given the mac's proportionally smaller user base, mac users seem to often get the short end of the stick when it comes to cross-platform drivers &c. the makers of vuescan and macbibble can probably attest to this. bibble, as i recall, was originally inspired by nikon's hideously buggy/crash-prone driver software for their D1, which set a few bars in terms of digital camera hardware but was well-nigh unuseable by mac users because of the software (which you had to buy separately!). we're seeing the same thing these days with quark, albeit in stronger language.
granted, this is pretty much the way it's going to be as long as mac users make up 5-10% (depending on who you ask) of the desktop computer using population, but it's still a drag.
here in the US, orange is trademarked by fedex. actually it's what they call a proprietary custom pantone, and supposedly only fedex and pantone know what the mix is. same goes for almost any major corporate color, and is usually described in the standards manual.
SmartDisk FirePower will be demonstrated at SmartDisk's booth at MacWorld Expo in
Las Vegas this week, the company said in its original release. With a capacity of 200G bytes, FirePower can store large files, such as those used in digital video authoring and other multimedia applications, it said.
there's another macworld this week in vegas? they have been busy over there at apple, haven't they?
they're not really two projects. the quicktime component folks had a message up on the front page for months that said that oggs didn't play under QT6. from what i can tell, this guy came by, familiarized himself with QuickTime over a weekend, and fixed the component, which is now here.
ps. if you have an ipod and would like to join a bunch of other people in trying to convince apple to support oggs in ipod hardware (probably in vain), there's a petition. it is theoretically possible via tremor, for you FP naysayers.
so uh what are the chances of vorbis/tremor support finding their way onto ipods? just because, you know, that is what's keeping me from getting one at the moment...
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i just want them to get their licensing act together so i can start ordering non-american music. i hate spending US30 on anime soudtracks or ayumi.
before people figure out how to circumvent the continent-locator widget and start ordering music from overseas or canada or mexico. there's a lot of smart people out there, and whether it'll be through spoofing their ip address or whatever, they'd better be on top of it before some heavy duty euro-riaa equivalent starts whining about apple cutting into their revenue.
I'll second you on the tactics-- i think i probably invested more time on that game than any other, including FF7 (maxed out timer, hard to tell after a couple gold chocobos).
as far as a game actually affecting me-- i'd say that the end of the relationship i was in could be directly attributed to FF7. not something i'm terribly proud of.
insofar as visualizing yourself in a videogame setting, i'd have to say that for a while i was looking at the tops of buildings and wondering if there were any shotgun shells or medipacks ala tomb raider I. that passed mercifully quickly...
i keep hearing that too. i just hope it's soon-- i might have ben reading too much into steve's comments in the brief time interview, but it sounds as if the independent labes were busting his door down.
if that really want to reform the whole biz, independents would be a good place to start-- apple should be all up in their maiboxes. but i digress.
i'm just impatient-- i want my instant gratification now!
the only reason i haven't gone absolutely nuts with my song buying is the lack of harder stuff-- i couldn't find a single earache band. i don't think for a second that the average joe wants to listen to morbid angel or the berzerker but i'd like the opportunity to economically inspire my preferred genre via itunes. i'm hammering that "suggestions" button as fast as i can...
cheers
paul
ps. no warp records artists, either. gah.
anyone else notice that there's now a "BPM" (beats per minute) field in the view options? that, uh, wasn't there before, was it?
i've been pounding on the "requests" button every time i can't find a band-- i suspect a lot of the omissions have to do with licensing but it's a shame labels like AT (jello biafra/dead kennedys) aren't on there. they have free mp3s for download on their site-- i would think they'd jump on something like this, since their servers seem to be perpetually hammered.
welp. the previews seem to stream fine, but it won't accept my credit card (timeouts, not insufficient funds, by the way...). i'm anxious to demonstrate my willingness to put my money where my mouth is, so to speak, but between the relative paucity of non-mainstream bands (in my very biased opinion-- no matches for automator, autechre, godflesh, cradle of filth, cowboy bebop, ayumi, sharkalligator. i finally found a ventures song i didn't have and a few abba tracks) and my inability to give apple (and the bands, of course) my money, i'm a bit frustrated. is anyone else experiencing technical issues?
to be honest, i'm a bit tired of hearing the back-and-forth about DRM, apple's prices, macbashing, mac gushing and whatnot. haven't we covered most of this before?
i mean, i'm as disappointed as the next guy that apple's not supporting ogg, but i maintain that itunes is one of the single best applications i have ever used in terms of... well, everything.
and yeah, i heart my mac but i'm also not blind to the shortcomings of the machine and apple.
it's better now. and hecka fast on the search. i wonder if they have a little google action in there...
my music store's not working. i'm getting a
we could not complete your music store request (504)
there was an error in the music store. please try again later.
i hope this doen't bode ill...
i wonder if google has already seen this coming (i've seen that grub fellow in my logs a number of times and sort of wondered about it), and is going to use their own distributed search engine once they get the bugs hammered out...
it seems that this might have some useful application, if i understand the copy protection scheme right.
of course, i haven't tried adding digital output to my discman, and i pretty much prefer vinyl over cds in most cases anyway.
p.
the selection of artists seems to me intentionally selected to appeal to the exact type of person who:
owns a windows machine and doesn't suspect there are alternatives
is the least likely to hack/reverse engineer the drm in the copy protection
couldn't care less about drm or fair use rights, and doesn't bother using kazaa...
i mean come on, folks. the average kenny g listener (sorry, dad) probably doesn't give a rat's ass about any of this baloney, which is exactly why it will be successful and touted as the solution to piracy after n number of albums have been released with all this copy protection and nobody complains.
think they don't have a profile of what your average linux using ogg vorbis encoding windows bashing music fan listens to? of course they do. are you surprised that none of those bands are on this list?
offtopic? huh. well, the link was offtopic, sort of. the freshmeat project is here.
sort of.
swaret
safari seems to identify itself as v0.8.2 and v0.9 in the "open as..." menu. try it with an HTML document. i wonder if that means apple intends to release it as v1.0 soon...
very handy. does anyone else think that the tabs which are in the background are really hard to read, though?
the FF2K is where it's at if you want your juice robotically prepared. there's even a t-shirt of it.
X11.dmg isn't mounting anywhere i can see. is anyone else having this problem?
the lesson from this seems to be that, given the mac's proportionally smaller user base, mac users seem to often get the short end of the stick when it comes to cross-platform drivers &c. the makers of vuescan and macbibble can probably attest to this. bibble, as i recall, was originally inspired by nikon's hideously buggy/crash-prone driver software for their D1, which set a few bars in terms of digital camera hardware but was well-nigh unuseable by mac users because of the software (which you had to buy separately!). we're seeing the same thing these days with quark, albeit in stronger language.
granted, this is pretty much the way it's going to be as long as mac users make up 5-10% (depending on who you ask) of the desktop computer using population, but it's still a drag.
here in the US, orange is trademarked by fedex. actually it's what they call a proprietary custom pantone, and supposedly only fedex and pantone know what the mix is. same goes for almost any major corporate color, and is usually described in the standards manual.
there's another macworld this week in vegas? they have been busy over there at apple, haven't they?
they're not really two projects. the quicktime component folks had a message up on the front page for months that said that oggs didn't play under QT6. from what i can tell, this guy came by, familiarized himself with QuickTime over a weekend, and fixed the component, which is now here.
ps. if you have an ipod and would like to join a bunch of other people in trying to convince apple to support oggs in ipod hardware (probably in vain), there's a petition. it is theoretically possible via tremor, for you FP naysayers.
so uh what are the chances of vorbis/tremor support finding their way onto ipods? just because, you know, that is what's keeping me from getting one at the moment...