Yup. I had one Mac disk that took me through all of college in the eighties. That 3.5" contained the system software, Macwrite, Macdraw, MacPaint and all my files. In the third year I had to buy a second one though. I thought I was so extravagant having two, kinda decadent.
I've looked into this too. Seems that the culprit has to be the early owners of the stock who stand to gain when the stock rises. It's a classic scam and has been going on well before email arrived. I think it must be unscrupulous brokerage firms and maybe larger hedge funds. There's been such growth in hedge funds it would surprise me if they weren't involved.
they certainly code their Windows-based stuff poorly. Itunes on Windows uses more juice than nearly every other application I run.
They've got to sort that out. It gives such a bad impression to wannabe PC switchers. Same for the nagware status of QT player. The only Apple s/w PC users see is those two and they get the wrong idea. I have this conversation frequently with PC users.
Microsoft and its partners failed to come up with compelling hardware and had difficulty getting software to properly connect music collections on computers with their devices.'
I'm just wondering why did they have problems connecting to computers? What the voodoo techniques didn't work? They needed more chicken's feet? Surely you connect via USB2 (or other fast connection protocol) and hook into a piece of software that's already cataloged the drive for music files. How is that so hard for a company with so many crack programmers and engineers? I don't understand but then again I didn't RTFA.
Reasonable question. I think the answer has to be marketeers half understanding the tech market. They probably looked at/. one day and saw the iPod being critiqued for not having wireless capabilities and thought "We know how to beat this iPod thing, we'll add WiFi". They then tell this to someone higher up who says "Let's go for it, great idea" and then the box is developed. Then at the final meeting when all the different sections of the 'team' get together it slowly dawns on them they haven't thought about permissions from third parties. But, of course, they are stuck as there's already been hype and press releases so they have to stay on schedule (especially given MSFTs reputation for 'slippage') and the Zune gets released. So embarrassed are they about the failings of their USP (unique selling point) they decide to keep it quiet and hope for the best. Someone pipes up that isn't such a good idea and is quickly silenced. And here they are now.
I've been running Vista on a MacBook for about five months. I have to support both systems for my job.
I like Vista a lot, and I think it is better than Mac OS X. Personally, I think Mac OS X is less stable but simpler. Windows doesn't have font issues, changing permissions on the fly, and disk errors every so often. With Vista's heightened security, you can't argue that [point] anymore.
The only thing I hear from Mac people is the computers look nicer. Personally, I don't care how nice they look. (Nice, have you seen the Acer Ferrari??) Mac OS is simpler, but to me it looks like a little kid's toy with the icons. You can run all the creative applications just as well on a PC. I once had a user tell me how bad iTunes looks on a PC. They look exactly alike. They think their system is sooo cool and hip, and then they have to bring it to the Genius Bar in the Apple Store.
Vista really looks like you want to do business with it. Yes, they did steal a few things from Mac OS X, but it still doesn't look as silly. I have nothing against Apple -- that iPhone is awesome and I have an iPod. The computer battle belongs to Windows hands down, though. If you want to just surf the Internet, buy a Mac. But if you want to do that and a whole lot more, more efficiently, stick with Windows.
Jeesh, where do you start with that. BSD is a toy? Disk errors (he implies this is the fault of the OS?) Font issues? Great stuff . . .
No, just about no one uses Appletalk anymore. It's still in OSX and I use it on one of the networks I run so an old printer can work. It's very stable but has been superceded by TCP/IP and rendezvous/bonjour. It's such a great trollish comment because it's about 10 years out of date as a criticism. Bit like me saying," Windows BSODs every 5 minutes".
It doesn't (it's up to 15 now I hear. Relax keyboard commandos - I'm joking 8-)
mmm, I've just read the article properly and I think I should have substitued 'demoscene' for 'tempest' through my post.
The big point is sue the publishers not Geffen firstly. If the output came from a SID player it must be all about musical notes which is the publishers major area. It's not sampling technically if you take the player file and rerecord it with your own SID device. It would be impossible to prove that wasn't the case. No wonder Geffen aren't too bothered. They would only be bothered if tempest had heavyweight management or publishing. They think he's a kid that will just go away. The (unnamed) publishers of Timbalands music will be much more worried.
Timbaland's track will be published by a music publisher. The airplay royalties are collected by the publisher and split between the artist and themselves. The record label normally owns the mechanical copyright, which is to say the sound recording (they paid for it or licensed it). In this case Demoscene should try to sue the publisher (if the intellectual work is infringed/stolen) or the label (if the material has been sampled and reproduced) or both.
From there, the publisher may deny the charge meaning the next step is to commission an independent musicologists report (probably paid for by demoscene) arguing the point from a technical musical basis. If the publisher doesn't want any trouble they may offer some sort of split deal, like 50/50. Then a bunch of lawyers get together and hack out an agreement. Royalties should be backdated in their entirety. The same process then applies to the record company if any of the sound recording has been stolen.
All it will take is a keen music lawyer and it should all be sorted out - there seems to be proof of prior art and everyone in the business knows hiphop is full of stealing and accept it as part of the business (and one of the problems). Demoscene should eventually come away with a decent amount of money and that will be that.
I'm a published music writer and have been sued once and sued someone else once. It's a normal procedure. There's an old music business saying - "where there's a hit, there's a writ"
But it is slightly different when the world's effectively rigged up to blow at the touch of a button or two.
Even though the 'traditional' war threats are not present today it doesn't mean that part of our history is resolved and put away. Personally I'm not particularly worried about nuclear weapons, bigger threats I see in biowarfare and climate change.
I live in the UK and it's mostly metric now although there are few things which you need to be 'bi-lingual' in for older people. Like distances, your weight and height. There's confusion with drugs dealers too. Marajuana is sold in ounces always but coke in grams - same in America I believe.
Tubbs and Crockett always used to go about busting 'kees' which I always thought was very progressive and European.
People don't seem to realise that An Inconvenient Truth is actually an elaborate commercial for Apple's Keynote. I mean, seriously, did you see the resolution of that big screen!!?
no, ok, I accept that. It would be scientifically wrong to imply causation from that data in the absence of a theory to explain why the two variables seem to be linked, but we do have that theory ('greenhouse effect').
Slashdot Mirror
It's been going on this month - the Month of Apple Bugs.
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/
Not a single instance of anything 'in the wild' though.
Actually Microsoft has there own version of Aqua Teen Hunger Force called Luna Teen Hunger Force. Most people at slashdot are against it though.
Yup. I had one Mac disk that took me through all of college in the eighties. That 3.5" contained the system software, Macwrite, Macdraw, MacPaint and all my files. In the third year I had to buy a second one though. I thought I was so extravagant having two, kinda decadent.
is like saying an overflowing ashtray is a sign of productivity
Ha, you've never worked in the music business then!
Very annoying. It's a bit censorious of Google (once again).
Two days ago typing in 'Liar' to Google and using 'I feel lucky' would bring you to the autobiography of Tony Blair. Not so anymore. A sad day.
I've looked into this too. Seems that the culprit has to be the early owners of the stock who stand to gain when the stock rises. It's a classic scam and has been going on well before email arrived. I think it must be unscrupulous brokerage firms and maybe larger hedge funds. There's been such growth in hedge funds it would surprise me if they weren't involved.
they certainly code their Windows-based stuff poorly. Itunes on Windows uses more juice than nearly every other application I run.
They've got to sort that out. It gives such a bad impression to wannabe PC switchers. Same for the nagware status of QT player. The only Apple s/w PC users see is those two and they get the wrong idea. I have this conversation frequently with PC users.
yeh, I'm not even looking at the platform until it's got a least a 12" screen and maybe color.
Microsoft and its partners failed to come up with compelling hardware and had difficulty getting software to properly connect music collections on computers with their devices.'
I'm just wondering why did they have problems connecting to computers? What the voodoo techniques didn't work? They needed more chicken's feet? Surely you connect via USB2 (or other fast connection protocol) and hook into a piece of software that's already cataloged the drive for music files. How is that so hard for a company with so many crack programmers and engineers? I don't understand but then again I didn't RTFA.
Reasonable question. I think the answer has to be marketeers half understanding the tech market. They probably looked at /. one day and saw the iPod being critiqued for not having wireless capabilities and thought "We know how to beat this iPod thing, we'll add WiFi". They then tell this to someone higher up who says "Let's go for it, great idea" and then the box is developed. Then at the final meeting when all the different sections of the 'team' get together it slowly dawns on them they haven't thought about permissions from third parties. But, of course, they are stuck as there's already been hype and press releases so they have to stay on schedule (especially given MSFTs reputation for 'slippage') and the Zune gets released. So embarrassed are they about the failings of their USP (unique selling point) they decide to keep it quiet and hope for the best. Someone pipes up that isn't such a good idea and is quickly silenced. And here they are now.
That said, though, in the end the only reason I still have a WinXP machine is so I can play Sims 2 on it. Seriously.
Everything else I have works on Linux or my Mac Mini with OS X.
Well, you know what to do if you have an Intel mini!
I'm pasting this one from the trolling thread
I've been running Vista on a MacBook for about five months. I have to support both systems for my job.
I like Vista a lot, and I think it is better than Mac OS X. Personally, I think Mac OS X is less stable but simpler. Windows doesn't have font issues, changing permissions on the fly, and disk errors every so often. With Vista's heightened security, you can't argue that [point] anymore.
The only thing I hear from Mac people is the computers look nicer. Personally, I don't care how nice they look. (Nice, have you seen the Acer Ferrari??) Mac OS is simpler, but to me it looks like a little kid's toy with the icons. You can run all the creative applications just as well on a PC. I once had a user tell me how bad iTunes looks on a PC. They look exactly alike. They think their system is sooo cool and hip, and then they have to bring it to the Genius Bar in the Apple Store.
Vista really looks like you want to do business with it. Yes, they did steal a few things from Mac OS X, but it still doesn't look as silly. I have nothing against Apple -- that iPhone is awesome and I have an iPod. The computer battle belongs to Windows hands down, though. If you want to just surf the Internet, buy a Mac. But if you want to do that and a whole lot more, more efficiently, stick with Windows.
Jeesh, where do you start with that. BSD is a toy? Disk errors (he implies this is the fault of the OS?) Font issues? Great stuff . . .
No, just about no one uses Appletalk anymore. It's still in OSX and I use it on one of the networks I run so an old printer can work. It's very stable but has been superceded by TCP/IP and rendezvous/bonjour. It's such a great trollish comment because it's about 10 years out of date as a criticism. Bit like me saying," Windows BSODs every 5 minutes".
It doesn't (it's up to 15 now I hear. Relax keyboard commandos - I'm joking 8-)
Was Ogg's second name Vorbis? Bloody better be round here.
Oh yes they were!
Love that cartoon
mmm, I've just read the article properly and I think I should have substitued 'demoscene' for 'tempest' through my post.
The big point is sue the publishers not Geffen firstly. If the output came from a SID player it must be all about musical notes which is the publishers major area. It's not sampling technically if you take the player file and rerecord it with your own SID device. It would be impossible to prove that wasn't the case. No wonder Geffen aren't too bothered. They would only be bothered if tempest had heavyweight management or publishing. They think he's a kid that will just go away. The (unnamed) publishers of Timbalands music will be much more worried.
Timbaland's track will be published by a music publisher. The airplay royalties are collected by the publisher and split between the artist and themselves. The record label normally owns the mechanical copyright, which is to say the sound recording (they paid for it or licensed it). In this case Demoscene should try to sue the publisher (if the intellectual work is infringed/stolen) or the label (if the material has been sampled and reproduced) or both.
From there, the publisher may deny the charge meaning the next step is to commission an independent musicologists report (probably paid for by demoscene) arguing the point from a technical musical basis. If the publisher doesn't want any trouble they may offer some sort of split deal, like 50/50. Then a bunch of lawyers get together and hack out an agreement. Royalties should be backdated in their entirety. The same process then applies to the record company if any of the sound recording has been stolen.
All it will take is a keen music lawyer and it should all be sorted out - there seems to be proof of prior art and everyone in the business knows hiphop is full of stealing and accept it as part of the business (and one of the problems). Demoscene should eventually come away with a decent amount of money and that will be that.
I'm a published music writer and have been sued once and sued someone else once. It's a normal procedure. There's an old music business saying - "where there's a hit, there's a writ"
But it is slightly different when the world's effectively rigged up to blow at the touch of a button or two.
Even though the 'traditional' war threats are not present today it doesn't mean that part of our history is resolved and put away. Personally I'm not particularly worried about nuclear weapons, bigger threats I see in biowarfare and climate change.
I live in the UK and it's mostly metric now although there are few things which you need to be 'bi-lingual' in for older people. Like distances, your weight and height. There's confusion with drugs dealers too. Marajuana is sold in ounces always but coke in grams - same in America I believe.
Tubbs and Crockett always used to go about busting 'kees' which I always thought was very progressive and European.
More Escher-like I'd say. ;-p
People don't seem to realise that An Inconvenient Truth is actually an elaborate commercial for Apple's Keynote. I mean, seriously, did you see the resolution of that big screen!!?
Obviously I'm joking but I was impressed.
. . . until his spoilt brat kids get their hands on it and get a coke habit . . .
lol
exactly. It's a large logical flaw in the debate. But, it is what happens when you run into denial.
no, ok, I accept that. It would be scientifically wrong to imply causation from that data in the absence of a theory to explain why the two variables seem to be linked, but we do have that theory ('greenhouse effect').