Three things:
1. Is Tiger the actual name of OS X 10.4, or is it just an internal codename that got popularized? Apple could just argue that their product is OS X 10.4 and not called "tiger"
2. Doesn't a company that hold a trademark HAVE to defend it or chance losing their trademark. This could simply be TigerDirect just preventing the loss of the trademark
3. TigerDirect has waited already even though Tiger has been announced for several months now. Would they already lose their trademark?
there is a god:)
my favorite scene is definetely when Peter hits the golf ball into the china shop and the bull is standing there as everything gets destroyed!! "wait, i know what you're thinking.." ah, what perfection!
We've had these little devices on the streets of Minneapolis/St. Paul and the surrounding Metro areas for about 7 or so years now..
They're little sensors that (i believe) get activated by the lights on emergency vehicles.
yes, college students are certainly creative in their ideas, but MOST of them also tend to have the most naive and miscontrued vision of the world as well.
and before you press that damn reply button...I just graduated with my degree today.
That man is amazing! He's predicted many many things.. In addition to the GPS satellites, he's predicted life on europa (currently a theory), diamonds at the cores of large gaseous planets (also a viable theory), etc..
Sci Fi authors have been pretty successful in predicting emerging trends in science better than most researchers. Gene Roddenberry anyone?
Ah, I was wondering about that.. Here's my story. I ordered The Strokes "Is this it" in the afternoon sometime and then early the next morning I ordered another CD. I got an email a few hours later with a reciept for BOTH the CD in the same transaction. Pretty cool actually and keeps my credit card from having a bazillion different transactions
On the other hand.. the amount of money I'm spending on this service is ridiculous and maybe seeing all those transactions seperately might help restrain me better:)
Exactly, love them or hate them, they've shown time and time again that they are out to 'raise the bar' for the entire industry. When they come out with an idea, they have heads turning and competition scrambling to keep up (granted this hasn't always resulted in sales, but at least the quality of products has been raised).
Plus, I'm a lot more comfortable that a consumer-oriented company like Apple is spearheading this one. They've always been advocates of giving us more and restricting us less. Look at their track record... switching over to a BSD kernel, coming out with the ipod, releasing portions of their source code, giving out developer tools for free, giving us free software that is arguably the best out there (ilife). If that means I have to use their playerto use iTMS, then be it. It's better than Microsoft using WMP/IE/etc simply to further their proprietary format and giving us a shoddy media player at best (slowly slowly getting better, but playlists/vis/skins/library management is shoddy at best even at 9.0)
Yes, but after the coolness factor wears off, the chance for this to turn into a viable distribution tool is huge. Just look at all the rave reviews this service is getting. Not only from newspapers, just ask the average joe that has used iTMS what he/she thinks of it. Chances are they love it!
This kind of service, as well as all the ones that will be developed to compete could finally bring people back from stealing music to paying for it, albeit at a more resonable pricing structure.
Well the money is going to the record companies and it might be incredibly effective in helping them 'put the lease' on the RIAA since they now know that they can fight online sharing by simply providing a phenomenal service rather than implicating the average pirate
Hey,l even if Apple doesn't make a ton of money with this (or if you don't use it), I think the fact that they opened the floodgates to better things is reason enough that we should all be grateful.
Wow, finally a topic where people can hold a good discussion rather than the all-too-common MS vs Linux vs Apple "and what I use is best" crap that we always have on/.
oh no, engineering is not the only option for CS grads, there are many more applicable things. I was simply setting up an example as how the curriculum of engineering has been quite successful. We're taught exactly what you state, sciences and philosophy and problem-solving techniques along with some specific in the area of study, of course !
just another reason why i have incredible respect for applied mathematics majors and theoretical physics. thos guys are in a league of their own! they can do anything and for so many different fields! case and point: einstein and feynman.
There we go. The parent has hit it right on! However the software industry will not die (as long as its employees can expand and innovate)
But there is a fix to this as people have mentioned.. BROADEN YOUR SKILLSET!! Take another major that will help you leap beyond the standard CS or IS major when the market is saturated with them...
The great example of this are engineers. Engineers are still valuable in todays market because we are so damn adaptable. We're taught everything under the sun, Math, Science, Programming, and we still have to take Business, English, Etc just to fulfill a basic degree. Is all of this necessary? No, But it sure as hell makes us the chameleons that recruiters want to see.
The problem with most of the computer industry is that the value of labor itself has been degraded. Like the reasons above of free software, etc.. The simple fact that the barrier to entry in this industry is close to zero. All that's required to learn some of the core technologies in this industry is either an internet connection or your public library. BAM! You've picked up another language or.NET, etc.etc..
Hell I've learned Perl just because I had to use it for a Physics class. It took me about 30 minutes to "get it" from reading a tutorial on the internet. Granted I'm not doing any remakably complex, but to learn the basics and see its potential didn't take me very long. And the point is that in these classes, knowledge of a programming language is not assumed, however noone is going to teach it to you. This is where engineers excel, learning new skillsets from unrelated areas and still being able to solve problems...
Basically the important thing is that the software industry and its employees need to set themselves apart from the 12-15 yr old kids and other non-'software' majors that are coming up fast. Take up something, in addition, that is difficult to grasp but can be applied to your industry, like business or even applied mathematics (quite possibly the most useful major out there) and then see how far you'll go because you'll be able to adapt to whatever business conditions arise and not have to sacrifice yourself to being a codemonkey.
Any this is just a rant from someone that was going to go to college for Computer Science, but chose Engineering instead and is sick of people claiming the software industry is dead, its not dead but people need to realize that they can't simply code and get away with it anymore...
This would have been interesting.. A big risk for the students if they did get slapped with something large.
However one look into jury and telling them that their kids are probably "sharing music" as we speak, as well as their friends and relatives, and politely reminding the jury that the RIAA is free to inflict lawsuits on them as well if monetary damages or criminal charges are enforced.. I'm sure many people would waver in their decisions to implicate a group of 'innocent' college students.
So, hopefully we'll see someone with really large balls (and some $$ to boot) decide they've had enough and get the attention of the RIAA. Hell, I'd watch CourtTV just for the fireworks !
This is interesting.. Neither side actually wants to take this to a criminal trial, the RIAA to reduce tarnishing their reputation permanentally (oops.. too late), and the students can't afford it.. (from reading previous discussions)
Now if this does happen again, what are the chances for an organization such as the EFF or others to help hire a lawyer, or even find someone to go pro bono. I'm sure donations to any organization willing to front this would skyrocket!
Would simply being able to push the case to trial be enough to sway the RIAA to drop the case? At least it would force some kind of showdown that would discredit the RIAA permanentally?
Or has this happened already?.. the case, not the RIAA being discredited;)
Well in many cases patching actually ends up costing more because of incompatibilites and problems that crop up.. Hence the reason for the staging server mentioned above and well as the interesting fact that Microsoft often doesn't patch their own systems right away.
well, it's official. I've downloaded 3 albums in the span of 10 minutes.. i'm hooked. this thing is phenomenal and the quality of the songs is fantastic. i don't know what all the hubub is about. I've got a pretty good ear and I'm not hearing any difference between CD and AAC. I even checked by d/ling a song that I already had (i know $1 down the drain)... great job, apple!
I think its hilarious how the people that are fed up with the current music system and how little artists are recieving from their record sales are the FIRST ones to say that they would rather continue to use KaZaA and Gnutella since they are free UNTIL they know how the breakdown of payments is going.
I call this HYPOCRISY.
Support this service. It lets you D/L right away any song in their catalog wihtout having to pay a monthly fee. You're free to browse their entire collection as well as preview music before you buy. Hell, if I joined any of the other services out there paying a monthly fee, I'd be pretty pissed if they didn't have a song that I wanted, but another service did. I don't like getting locked in.
This service simply uses a different audio format. Closed, mind you, but it's got to start somewhere. As for me, I feel a lot better knowing that Apple is in control of this format than anyone else. They've already shown us with this music service that they DO have the needs of the average consumer at hand. (Average. not the crazy audiophiles that b**ch and moan about 128kbps and not the cheapo colege students freely copying music under the premise of rebelling against corporate america).
Support this service if you want to advance the music industry and show them that we ARE willing to pay for artistic expression and maybe others will follow suit. All it takes is a little tolerance to a closed audio format and an underdog computer company to change the entire music industry.
I think this is actually a great idea.. I agree that the old arcade in the malls are kinda out of date with all the new consoles out but the 21+ arcades, like Dave and Busters and Gameworks are GREAT moneymaking places for M$ to display their technology. I just hope the PS3 will have the same headstart that the PS2 enjoyed for so long...
Can't wait to get my hands on one of those powerbooks... once I can cough up the money.
With Safari, a lot of it's new features have been available on the Phoenix browser on PCs. Although i have to say that the new bookmark renaming and the snapback features are pretty cool. (Jobs failed to mention that Safari DOES block popup ads too, the website notes this at the bottom... see ya later IE!)
The 12" powerbook completes the last empty segment in apple's product lineup.. the ultraportable superpowerful laptop.. IBM has had their X series for a while now, but I have to say that the apple laptops are lightyears ahead of any PC laptop. (I say this as I write on an IBM Thinkpad).
Those iLife apps are all topnotch. They all work wonderfully and to see them work together is even better. I don't believe Windows Media Player even comes close to the ease of use as iTunes (not to mention WMP looks like a$$)
I've always been a WinTel user, but you can consider me a "Switcher"
those new shirts and pants that repel water-based liquids. They use a similar idea, add a bunch of hydrophobic polymers to the surface of a fabric in such a surface density that water cannot penetrate the fabric. However, this only applies to water-based liquids (i.e. wine, juices, etc..)
Check it out, there's an article at Business 2.0.
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Three things: 1. Is Tiger the actual name of OS X 10.4, or is it just an internal codename that got popularized? Apple could just argue that their product is OS X 10.4 and not called "tiger" 2. Doesn't a company that hold a trademark HAVE to defend it or chance losing their trademark. This could simply be TigerDirect just preventing the loss of the trademark 3. TigerDirect has waited already even though Tiger has been announced for several months now. Would they already lose their trademark?
don't forget FireWire, and also really popularizing USB, and getting rid of stupid floppy drives, and Mice for that matter. The list goes on and on.
Haha!! maybe to it's Mesons and well.. nevermind
there is a god :)
my favorite scene is definetely when Peter hits the golf ball into the china shop and the bull is standing there as everything gets destroyed!! "wait, i know what you're thinking.." ah, what perfection!
We've had these little devices on the streets of Minneapolis/St. Paul and the surrounding Metro areas for about 7 or so years now.. They're little sensors that (i believe) get activated by the lights on emergency vehicles.
yes, college students are certainly creative in their ideas, but MOST of them also tend to have the most naive and miscontrued vision of the world as well. and before you press that damn reply button...I just graduated with my degree today.
Sci Fi authors have been pretty successful in predicting emerging trends in science better than most researchers. Gene Roddenberry anyone?
On the other hand.. the amount of money I'm spending on this service is ridiculous and maybe seeing all those transactions seperately might help restrain me better :)
kudos to apple for making this
Plus, I'm a lot more comfortable that a consumer-oriented company like Apple is spearheading this one. They've always been advocates of giving us more and restricting us less. Look at their track record... switching over to a BSD kernel, coming out with the ipod, releasing portions of their source code, giving out developer tools for free, giving us free software that is arguably the best out there (ilife). If that means I have to use their playerto use iTMS, then be it. It's better than Microsoft using WMP/IE/etc simply to further their proprietary format and giving us a shoddy media player at best (slowly slowly getting better, but playlists/vis/skins/library management is shoddy at best even at 9.0)
This kind of service, as well as all the ones that will be developed to compete could finally bring people back from stealing music to paying for it, albeit at a more resonable pricing structure.
Hey,l even if Apple doesn't make a ton of money with this (or if you don't use it), I think the fact that they opened the floodgates to better things is reason enough that we should all be grateful.
Just my 2cents
we all deserve a pat on the back :)
First a fault by giving students/employees a false sense of success
Second, by not driving students/employees to expand their horizons and apply learned skills to previously unknown areas.
just another reason why i have incredible respect for applied mathematics majors and theoretical physics. thos guys are in a league of their own! they can do anything and for so many different fields! case and point: einstein and feynman.
But there is a fix to this as people have mentioned.. BROADEN YOUR SKILLSET!! Take another major that will help you leap beyond the standard CS or IS major when the market is saturated with them...
The great example of this are engineers. Engineers are still valuable in todays market because we are so damn adaptable. We're taught everything under the sun, Math, Science, Programming, and we still have to take Business, English, Etc just to fulfill a basic degree. Is all of this necessary? No, But it sure as hell makes us the chameleons that recruiters want to see.
The problem with most of the computer industry is that the value of labor itself has been degraded. Like the reasons above of free software, etc.. The simple fact that the barrier to entry in this industry is close to zero. All that's required to learn some of the core technologies in this industry is either an internet connection or your public library. BAM! You've picked up another language or .NET, etc.etc..
Hell I've learned Perl just because I had to use it for a Physics class. It took me about 30 minutes to "get it" from reading a tutorial on the internet. Granted I'm not doing any remakably complex, but to learn the basics and see its potential didn't take me very long. And the point is that in these classes, knowledge of a programming language is not assumed, however noone is going to teach it to you. This is where engineers excel, learning new skillsets from unrelated areas and still being able to solve problems...
Basically the important thing is that the software industry and its employees need to set themselves apart from the 12-15 yr old kids and other non-'software' majors that are coming up fast. Take up something, in addition, that is difficult to grasp but can be applied to your industry, like business or even applied mathematics (quite possibly the most useful major out there) and then see how far you'll go because you'll be able to adapt to whatever business conditions arise and not have to sacrifice yourself to being a codemonkey.
Any this is just a rant from someone that was going to go to college for Computer Science, but chose Engineering instead and is sick of people claiming the software industry is dead, its not dead but people need to realize that they can't simply code and get away with it anymore...
Please respond to this..
However one look into jury and telling them that their kids are probably "sharing music" as we speak, as well as their friends and relatives, and politely reminding the jury that the RIAA is free to inflict lawsuits on them as well if monetary damages or criminal charges are enforced.. I'm sure many people would waver in their decisions to implicate a group of 'innocent' college students.
So, hopefully we'll see someone with really large balls (and some $$ to boot) decide they've had enough and get the attention of the RIAA. Hell, I'd watch CourtTV just for the fireworks !
Now if this does happen again, what are the chances for an organization such as the EFF or others to help hire a lawyer, or even find someone to go pro bono. I'm sure donations to any organization willing to front this would skyrocket!
Would simply being able to push the case to trial be enough to sway the RIAA to drop the case? At least it would force some kind of showdown that would discredit the RIAA permanentally?
Or has this happened already?.. the case, not the RIAA being discredited ;)
Well in many cases patching actually ends up costing more because of incompatibilites and problems that crop up.. Hence the reason for the staging server mentioned above and well as the interesting fact that Microsoft often doesn't patch their own systems right away.
well, it's official. I've downloaded 3 albums in the span of 10 minutes.. i'm hooked. this thing is phenomenal and the quality of the songs is fantastic. i don't know what all the hubub is about. I've got a pretty good ear and I'm not hearing any difference between CD and AAC. I even checked by d/ling a song that I already had (i know $1 down the drain)... great job, apple!
I call this HYPOCRISY.
Support this service. It lets you D/L right away any song in their catalog wihtout having to pay a monthly fee. You're free to browse their entire collection as well as preview music before you buy. Hell, if I joined any of the other services out there paying a monthly fee, I'd be pretty pissed if they didn't have a song that I wanted, but another service did. I don't like getting locked in.
This service simply uses a different audio format. Closed, mind you, but it's got to start somewhere. As for me, I feel a lot better knowing that Apple is in control of this format than anyone else. They've already shown us with this music service that they DO have the needs of the average consumer at hand. (Average. not the crazy audiophiles that b**ch and moan about 128kbps and not the cheapo colege students freely copying music under the premise of rebelling against corporate america).
Support this service if you want to advance the music industry and show them that we ARE willing to pay for artistic expression and maybe others will follow suit. All it takes is a little tolerance to a closed audio format and an underdog computer company to change the entire music industry.
I think this is actually a great idea.. I agree that the old arcade in the malls are kinda out of date with all the new consoles out but the 21+ arcades, like Dave and Busters and Gameworks are GREAT moneymaking places for M$ to display their technology. I just hope the PS3 will have the same headstart that the PS2 enjoyed for so long...
With Safari, a lot of it's new features have been available on the Phoenix browser on PCs. Although i have to say that the new bookmark renaming and the snapback features are pretty cool. (Jobs failed to mention that Safari DOES block popup ads too, the website notes this at the bottom... see ya later IE!)
The 12" powerbook completes the last empty segment in apple's product lineup.. the ultraportable superpowerful laptop.. IBM has had their X series for a while now, but I have to say that the apple laptops are lightyears ahead of any PC laptop. (I say this as I write on an IBM Thinkpad).
Those iLife apps are all topnotch. They all work wonderfully and to see them work together is even better. I don't believe Windows Media Player even comes close to the ease of use as iTunes (not to mention WMP looks like a$$)
I've always been a WinTel user, but you can consider me a "Switcher"
those new shirts and pants that repel water-based liquids. They use a similar idea, add a bunch of hydrophobic polymers to the surface of a fabric in such a surface density that water cannot penetrate the fabric. However, this only applies to water-based liquids (i.e. wine, juices, etc..) Check it out, there's an article at Business 2.0.