I think it's a little late to say that a support industry is about to ignite for iPods and other music players. The last 20% of every issue of MacWorld has been full of iPod accessories for well over a year now. I'd say that the support industry ignited some time ago, and now has lots of nice coals for cooking.
I am one of those people. OS X 10.4, new Quicken and new iLife, purchased separately, would cost almost as much as a Mac mini.
As soon as Mac mini's are shipping with OS X 10.4, I'm ordering one. And if they're shipping with a coupon, or OS X 10.3 on the HD with a 10.4 updater, even better! It will make it easier to install 10.4 on my other Macs.
I managed to pull that one off a few years ago when I bought my iMac G4 17". It had 10.1 on the HD with a 10.2 updater disc in the box.
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Are you sure about JHymn? I don't think it re-encodes.
Of course corporations care more about money than music -- they are businesses. Now, they probably care more about music than say, General Motors, which cares more about cars, but ultimately cares more about money than cars.
I make web applications for a living, and enjoy my work, but the day they stop paying me is the day I stop making their web applications!
Even the guy playing guitar on the corner has a hat out...
We bought a satellite-based PVR in November 2001. We subscribe to the movie channels, and watch every good movie that is released. We have hardly seen a commercial in the past 4 years. No DVD player in my house.
Can't wait until the iTunes Music Store starts selling movies.
No, Joe Consumer, in 2005, wants his buddy to burn him a copy. In the 80s and 90s, he wanted his buddy to tape it for him. Sometimes he just turns the radio on. "They mostly play good stuff," he says.
My Dad runs OS X 10.3 on my old Beige G3 Desktop. He used XPostFacto to get the 10.3 installer to work. It has 768 megs of ram, and has been upgraded with an ATI Rage 128, a 5-port USB 2.0 card, CD burner and 40 gig HD. It is surprisingly responsive.
The first thing I thought when I heard the "Bring it on" comment was: "Finally!"
Terrorist = Bully, and the only way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them and fight.
Look at yourself, sitting behind your computer. You're thinking about attacking me for what I just said, but you don't want to attack murderers for the murders they committed! Give your head a shake.
I've read estimates that there were as many Canadians who volunteered to fight with the U.S. Army as there were Americans who fled to Canada to avoid the draft. Just that fact alone can start to explain why the U.S. has grown keener to participate in overseas wars, while Canada has grown less inclined.
In World War I, Canada sent 600,000 troops to fight in Europe. In World War II, Canada sent 1.5 million troops. To put this into perspective, you need to understand that the population of Canada during World War I was 6,000,000 people. The population during World War II was 15,000,000 people. That means that in each of the two world wars, Canada sent 10% of its population to fight in someone else's war.
How about VOIP? Or video-conferencing? My wife and I are expecting our first baby in July, and her mother is out of town. We will be buying an iSight so we can keep in touch more often. Now, will we drag the baby upstairs to our office, or will we buy a Mac mini and hook it up to the TV in the living room? Hmmm...
Wow, you must be crazy smart, I hear CPU's are real hard to make from scratch.
You don't know the half of it! One time I was painstakingly hand-soldering a 68040, when I accidentally dropped my pince-nez. Well, when I got back to my work, I had inadvertently given the chip a half turn, and before I knew it I connected pin 25965 to 52692! That took me even longer to figure out than the time I baked the hard drive platters a little too long.
My reply was partly a joke, and partly an honest observation. I had to really think about the last time I bought software that came on a CD, and after a bit of thinking realized that it was Warcraft III, and I bought it around 18 months ago.
Who else remembers when a "new game" was typed in from source code printed in a magazine like Compute?
Cringely is absolutely right, and I know that he is right because I figured out the exact same thing, but couldn't see the forest for the trees. I think that's Cringely's greatest ability -- to step back and see the big picture.
I recently bought an El Gato Eyehome. It's a $200 (now $150) device that grabs pictures, music and movies from Mac over ethernet. I loved my Eyehome, until the Mac mini was announced. At that point, I realized that I gave up the beautiful UI for something that was merely functional. Of course $200 vs a budget price Mac was too great a price difference last fall. Now, however, I'd certainly go to $500 for a living room computer.
What never occurred to me, but did occur to Cringely, is that I'm not the only one who feels that way. Millions of others will too. Bring on the iTunes Movie Store! For a preview, check out some of the music videos on the iTMS and pretend that they are movies you want to see!
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the people who develop and/or use the alternatives, tend to be of a different mindset to those who use MS offerings.
You got that right. It took me years to convince the people I work for to leave ASP/MS SQL for PHP/MySQL. Every time I said "PHP/MySQL is a better platform because it puts less load on the server, it is easier to develop for, there are more open source libraries and utilities, and everything is free," I might as well have said, "But this amp goes to 11!"
Luckily, for me, there was a happy ending. When it came time to 'upgrade' MS SQL and a bunch of other Microsoft stuff, the $20k needed just wasn't available, and now we are close to 100% PHP/MySQL, and a slew of other open source stuff.
Here's something to keep people fighting the good fight: Encouraging open source is good for the economy. Every company who avoids the "Microsoft Tax" is more productive, more profitable, and more resilient to downturns. Every dollar saved on software can go to company profits, and ultimately, people's wages.
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I think it's a little late to say that a support industry is about to ignite for iPods and other music players. The last 20% of every issue of MacWorld has been full of iPod accessories for well over a year now. I'd say that the support industry ignited some time ago, and now has lots of nice coals for cooking.
I am one of those people. OS X 10.4, new Quicken and new iLife, purchased separately, would cost almost as much as a Mac mini.
As soon as Mac mini's are shipping with OS X 10.4, I'm ordering one. And if they're shipping with a coupon, or OS X 10.3 on the HD with a 10.4 updater, even better! It will make it easier to install 10.4 on my other Macs.
I managed to pull that one off a few years ago when I bought my iMac G4 17". It had 10.1 on the HD with a 10.2 updater disc in the box.
Are you sure about JHymn? I don't think it re-encodes.
Jinx Freeze!
I don't know what that means. It's something we said, as kids, when two people said the same thing at the same time.
Of course corporations care more about money than music -- they are businesses. Now, they probably care more about music than say, General Motors, which cares more about cars, but ultimately cares more about money than cars.
I make web applications for a living, and enjoy my work, but the day they stop paying me is the day I stop making their web applications!
Even the guy playing guitar on the corner has a hat out...
Using a Mac means never having to move the mouse to see what you just typed.
We bought a satellite-based PVR in November 2001. We subscribe to the movie channels, and watch every good movie that is released. We have hardly seen a commercial in the past 4 years. No DVD player in my house.
Can't wait until the iTunes Music Store starts selling movies.
No, Joe Consumer, in 2005, wants his buddy to burn him a copy. In the 80s and 90s, he wanted his buddy to tape it for him. Sometimes he just turns the radio on. "They mostly play good stuff," he says.
My Dad runs OS X 10.3 on my old Beige G3 Desktop. He used XPostFacto to get the 10.3 installer to work. It has 768 megs of ram, and has been upgraded with an ATI Rage 128, a 5-port USB 2.0 card, CD burner and 40 gig HD. It is surprisingly responsive.
The first thing I thought when I heard the "Bring it on" comment was: "Finally!"
Terrorist = Bully, and the only way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them and fight.
Look at yourself, sitting behind your computer. You're thinking about attacking me for what I just said, but you don't want to attack murderers for the murders they committed! Give your head a shake.
...Microsoft begins developing spyware for FireFox.
Do they hate those things? Or do they just think that they are the devil?
I've read estimates that there were as many Canadians who volunteered to fight with the U.S. Army as there were Americans who fled to Canada to avoid the draft. Just that fact alone can start to explain why the U.S. has grown keener to participate in overseas wars, while Canada has grown less inclined.
In World War I, Canada sent 600,000 troops to fight in Europe. In World War II, Canada sent 1.5 million troops. To put this into perspective, you need to understand that the population of Canada during World War I was 6,000,000 people. The population during World War II was 15,000,000 people. That means that in each of the two world wars, Canada sent 10% of its population to fight in someone else's war.
Now THAT'S a warlike nation!
No, THAT'S the most fucked-up thing I've seen all day.
You plan on buying an Apple iRobot? For half that money, you could throw RedRobotHat on some hardware you built yourself!
Don't forget their lusty ways! I'm sure we all welcome our LUSTY robot overlords!
How about VOIP? Or video-conferencing? My wife and I are expecting our first baby in July, and her mother is out of town. We will be buying an iSight so we can keep in touch more often. Now, will we drag the baby upstairs to our office, or will we buy a Mac mini and hook it up to the TV in the living room? Hmmm...
Kensington has a nice deal on a keyboard and mouse for the new Mac mini. The mouse is a two-button scroll-wheel deal.
Wow, you must be crazy smart, I hear CPU's are real hard to make from scratch.
You don't know the half of it! One time I was painstakingly hand-soldering a 68040, when I accidentally dropped my pince-nez. Well, when I got back to my work, I had inadvertently given the chip a half turn, and before I knew it I connected pin 25965 to 52692! That took me even longer to figure out than the time I baked the hard drive platters a little too long.
My reply was partly a joke, and partly an honest observation. I had to really think about the last time I bought software that came on a CD, and after a bit of thinking realized that it was Warcraft III, and I bought it around 18 months ago.
Who else remembers when a "new game" was typed in from source code printed in a magazine like Compute?
But will it learn to say: "WTF? How can paper beat a rock?"
You buy software? And it comes on a CD? Dude! WTF?
Cringely is absolutely right, and I know that he is right because I figured out the exact same thing, but couldn't see the forest for the trees. I think that's Cringely's greatest ability -- to step back and see the big picture.
I recently bought an El Gato Eyehome. It's a $200 (now $150) device that grabs pictures, music and movies from Mac over ethernet. I loved my Eyehome, until the Mac mini was announced. At that point, I realized that I gave up the beautiful UI for something that was merely functional. Of course $200 vs a budget price Mac was too great a price difference last fall. Now, however, I'd certainly go to $500 for a living room computer.
What never occurred to me, but did occur to Cringely, is that I'm not the only one who feels that way. Millions of others will too. Bring on the iTunes Movie Store! For a preview, check out some of the music videos on the iTMS and pretend that they are movies you want to see!
Good for you!
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the people who develop and/or use the alternatives, tend to be of a different mindset to those who use MS offerings.
You got that right. It took me years to convince the people I work for to leave ASP/MS SQL for PHP/MySQL. Every time I said "PHP/MySQL is a better platform because it puts less load on the server, it is easier to develop for, there are more open source libraries and utilities, and everything is free," I might as well have said, "But this amp goes to 11!"
Luckily, for me, there was a happy ending. When it came time to 'upgrade' MS SQL and a bunch of other Microsoft stuff, the $20k needed just wasn't available, and now we are close to 100% PHP/MySQL, and a slew of other open source stuff.
Here's something to keep people fighting the good fight: Encouraging open source is good for the economy. Every company who avoids the "Microsoft Tax" is more productive, more profitable, and more resilient to downturns. Every dollar saved on software can go to company profits, and ultimately, people's wages.