Japan, Europe, Asia and so many other places have significantly more $
But unfortunately you can't get itunes in those places either. How is downloading a file from another country any different from importing a CD?
I follow your argument but I can't agree that it adds up to big sales of mini ipods. If you only need an hour or two of music to listen to at the gym or whatever then there are plenty of flash based players available that will fullfill that need for less than $150. If on the other hand you are the sort of person who wants their entire music collection in portable form then 4GB is woefully inadequate.
As far as I can see these are mainly going to be bought by fasion victims and people with lots of spare cash to throw around. This of course is sound marketing practice - extract the maximum amount of cash from rich kids and early adopter types and then drop the price when initial sales start to fall off.
But, there's lots of incredible World Music that I would have never known existed without using this method.
If everyone used that method then the music would not exist!
Eventually people will get bored with non-interactive 20th century music
If you want music to be interactive then you could do worse than to learn to play an instrument and make your own music. Also by the time people get fed up with 20th centuary music there will be a whole lot of 21st centuary music to listen to.
But I wouldn't rule out interactive musical forms emerging now that the technology is around to make it possible. In fact the idea has already emerged in the form of instalation pieces
I use 2 XP boxes and neither of them has ever crashed. But I do need to reboot them often because of swap file problems and leaky application code. But windows XP uptime is ultimately limited by the need to reboot to install the next security patch (sometimes as often as once a day)
But by the time the film actually starts the only remaining seats are either right at the front or back or on the end of a row behind someone with big hair.
I recently discovered the epitonic web site which seems to specialise in obscure stuff from otherwise unheard of bands. I'm not sure how easy it is to get your own stuff onto the site but I felt the design encouraged exploration of new sounds better than most sites I've encountered. Of course there is always iRate radio if you can figure out how to make it work.
I can't see how they can get the Palantir without going to Orthanc and if they do go to Orthanc then why leave out Saruman??? Unless they use the Palantir that Denethor has in Gondor? But then how is Pippin going to get to Gondor? I can't see Treebeard carrying him that far.
I guesse I'll just have to wait and see.
It's my theory that the whole Osgilliath detour was put in as a way of drawing Saurons attention towards Gondor. In the book it's Pippin looking into the Palantir that serves that purpose. The main thing I can't work out is how they are going to get Merry and Pippin back into the story without going to collect them from Orthanc. Not to mention the delightfull Flotsom and Jetsom scene. And If they do go to Orthanc how can they justify not talking to Saruman.
USB based mass storage devices don't need any special drivers. Anyway 5 years from now your iPod will be gathering dust in a draw along with all other 5 year old hard disk based media players. Instead you will be listening to uncompressed audio on your fag packet sized terabyte media player.
If you think that owning an iPod will enhance your sex life then you are mad.
Maybe we should'nt make illegal copies of recordings but the RIAA is exagerating the scale of the problem to cover for the dire quality of the music that they push out.
I heard a news item a couple of weeks ago about some recent study which had shown that people (in general) were downloading just as much music as they were buying legitimately. Well in the days when the only way to share music was by taping you mates records most people I knew probably had far more tapes that records. This scale of copying as been going on for years.
Personally I think that in the near future leaching your mates collections using hard disk based portable media players will totaly eclipse the whole mp3 download thing. And the RIAA won't have any way to prevent that.
If it was an achievement when the Rusians and Americans did it then it's still an acheivement now. They are just not the first to do it that's all. But then again neither were the Americans.
Wrong! Compulsory licensing means that there are certain uses for copyrighted works that must be allowed a license. e.g. if I want to start an internet radio station the RIAA can not refuse to grant me a license and the price of that license is as agreed by the library of congress.
Not fashionable but certainly not useless either. Just this morning, on the bus to the train station, I used my mobile phone to access real time train running information, Check the weather forcast and read the news headlines. I also use my mobile as a remote control for selecting MP3 files via a WAP page on my PC.
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And you didn't even get modded as insightfull!
Japan, Europe, Asia and so many other places have significantly more $ But unfortunately you can't get itunes in those places either. How is downloading a file from another country any different from importing a CD?
As far as I can see these are mainly going to be bought by fasion victims and people with lots of spare cash to throw around. This of course is sound marketing practice - extract the maximum amount of cash from rich kids and early adopter types and then drop the price when initial sales start to fall off.
If everyone used that method then the music would not exist!
Eventually people will get bored with non-interactive 20th century music
If you want music to be interactive then you could do worse than to learn to play an instrument and make your own music. Also by the time people get fed up with 20th centuary music there will be a whole lot of 21st centuary music to listen to.
But I wouldn't rule out interactive musical forms emerging now that the technology is around to make it possible. In fact the idea has already emerged in the form of instalation pieces
I was once told by a recruiter where I work that references are judged more by what they leave out than by what they say.
I use 2 XP boxes and neither of them has ever crashed. But I do need to reboot them often because of swap file problems and leaky application code. But windows XP uptime is ultimately limited by the need to reboot to install the next security patch (sometimes as often as once a day)
But by the time the film actually starts the only remaining seats are either right at the front or back or on the end of a row behind someone with big hair.
that you have disfunctional TVs in you bedroom?
I recently discovered the epitonic web site which seems to specialise in obscure stuff from otherwise unheard of bands. I'm not sure how easy it is to get your own stuff onto the site but I felt the design encouraged exploration of new sounds better than most sites I've encountered.
Of course there is always iRate radio if you can figure out how to make it work.
I wish time could flow backwards so that I could get back the time I wasted by reading that!
I can't see how they can get the Palantir without going to Orthanc and if they do go to Orthanc then why leave out Saruman??? Unless they use the Palantir that Denethor has in Gondor? But then how is Pippin going to get to Gondor? I can't see Treebeard carrying him that far.
I guesse I'll just have to wait and see.
It's my theory that the whole Osgilliath detour was put in as a way of drawing Saurons attention towards Gondor. In the book it's Pippin looking into the Palantir that serves that purpose. The main thing I can't work out is how they are going to get Merry and Pippin back into the story without going to collect them from Orthanc. Not to mention the delightfull Flotsom and Jetsom scene. And If they do go to Orthanc how can they justify not talking to Saruman.
I thought everybody knew that XP stood for eXtra Patronising.
try pointing your browser over here I think you might like it.
If you think that owning an iPod will enhance your sex life then you are mad.
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Someone please explain to me why "astroturfing" should be considered an insult.
Maybe we should'nt make illegal copies of recordings but the RIAA is exagerating the scale of the problem to cover for the dire quality of the music that they push out. I heard a news item a couple of weeks ago about some recent study which had shown that people (in general) were downloading just as much music as they were buying legitimately. Well in the days when the only way to share music was by taping you mates records most people I knew probably had far more tapes that records. This scale of copying as been going on for years. Personally I think that in the near future leaching your mates collections using hard disk based portable media players will totaly eclipse the whole mp3 download thing. And the RIAA won't have any way to prevent that.
Personally I would stand well back before igniting the charge.
I fail to understand the bond between you and your subservient quadruped.
The difference is that a passenger in the car can see when you are preocupied and react to hazardous road conditions by shutting the fcuk up.
If it was an achievement when the Rusians and Americans did it then it's still an acheivement now. They are just not the first to do it that's all. But then again neither were the Americans.
It's turtles all the way down
PS IANAL.
Not fashionable but certainly not useless either. Just this morning, on the bus to the train station, I used my mobile phone to access real time train running information, Check the weather forcast and read the news headlines. I also use my mobile as a remote control for selecting MP3 files via a WAP page on my PC.