First they drop videos for cartoons, then game shows, then video-related shows, then reality shows, and now space missions. Sure they hinted that this is where they were heading when they adopted the moon walk as a logo, but shouldn't they admit now that the M is for Miscellaneous and not Music?
This is already possible. Use Disk Copy to make a Disk Image with encryption. You can then make this as paranoid as you want - either highly: manual opening, and don't save the password in Keychain. Or low, with Applescripts to automatically open and close it during login and logout. Used with aliases and/or links it could probably be made fairly transparent. However, I've had one of these get hosed when it was automatically ejected after clearing a screen-saver, so your milage may vary.
Pixar was known in the film circles for their animated and award winning shorts. All Disney did was distribute Toy Story, it's mostly the movie itself that made Pixar famous. It can probably be argued that having Disney involved in merchandising and advertising did have a positive effect, but a) that wouldn't have mattered if they hadn't made a good movie, and b) that would have been a part of a deal with any distributor.
In other words, Pixar was MADE by Toy Story, which was made by Pixar exclusively. Disney was just the marketing tool who set the deal heavily in their own favor because they didn't think CGI movies would be as big as regular animation. (Of course, it's the plot/story that matters, but few distributors understand that.)
Whether IBM's or Keychain's is less secure is relative to one's paranoia. An office worker who walks away without locking their computer is probably the same kind that either uses an easy-to-guess password, or has that master password on a sticky note on their monitor. Both systems allow people to use complex passwords online without having to remember them, and both can be foiled from physical access and poor training.
A thought also occurs to me - both could also allow the system administrators to setup accounts with bizarre passwords (like 'fjew84gfmpaz32'), but not tell the user what their real password is. Then even if they tell someone 'my passwords are my kids' names', it really wouldn't help anyone else who can't get to their computer.
Apparently, he's unaware of simple restaurant economics. Doesn't a 32 oz pop cost like $.08 in materials, and most of that is the cup? A 99-cent cost item tied to Combo Meals would easily be profitable. After all, aren't Happy Meals priced less than their individual parts, and they include a toy? (Yes not a 99-cent toy, but a Happy Meal is cheaper than a Combo Meal.) If it draws in people who also bring in people who buy just other products, ka-ching!
Or, like they say in Catch-22:
- Milo, how can you make a profit selling 7-cent eggs for 5 cents?
- Volume!
Talk about jumping to conclusions. If they give away 'song credits' (so to speak), then they can be used on any $.99 song. So while Britney fans might go straight to her albums, presumably they'll have all of the available music. Maybe they'll follow the 'also bought' links and find something new.
On a (semi-)related note, I'm still waiting for the 6-Degrees-Of-Also-Bought. You know, people who bought A also bought B; people who bought B also bought C; people who bought C bought the Soundtrack to Flashdance with Kevin Bacon.
It can be the end even if they are still made. Consider that vinyl "ended" years ago, but new ones are still being pressed. The last Floyd album (Echoes) and a recent Pearl Jam album are two high-profile examples off the top of my head. I mean if you truly want lossless music and included art works, vinyl's the way to go.
I understand your point, I just look at it differently. The internet is not a Netscape, Microsoft, Apple or anyone's single product, so for one of them to prevent the others from using it, or even interfering in any way, is not a nice thing to do.
However, an iPod is an Apple product. Presumably, their troubleshooting is now done only against iTunes on both platforms, and they would prefer users on both platforms to only use iTunes to access it. As far as 'locking' the device, there may be a way or there may not, but from Apple's point of view they'd rather not. It's likely they are now shipping iPods with only iTunes and whatever deal they had with MusicMatch will soon be over. So MusicMatch is now just one of a dozen other music programs that can write a way to use the iPod if they want to, which Apple will probably eventually call unsupported and will start all support calls with 'Switch to iTunes'.
And whatever one may think of that, it is no more or less than what any company would do with their product. I haven't yet heard much about other MP3 players, but they likely come with their own software and will start there as well for support calls. And I could probably go on with mice, scanners, etc. but if I haven't belabored my point yet then I never will.
iTunes warns during install that it will disable Musicmatch. You're choices are a) iTunes for the iPod with Musicmatch not using it, or b) Musicmatch only. And Explorer most definately "diddles" with default browser settings. Hell, I ran the Word demo on my new Powerbook and suddenly Explorer was my default browser and I had never even launched it.
Just because you don't like the choices doesn't mean they aren't there. Since iTunes likely launches when an iPod is plugged in having Musicmatch also recognize it probably causes problems. While one might lament that Apple had somehow worked it out that you could choose each time, I'd argue that they had no real motivation to and from an ease-of-use point of view went for iTunes taking over the iPod completely.
This helps back my (otherwise unfounded) theory that too many of these anti-bacterial cleaning supplies will doom the human race. Of course, I was looking at it from the point of view that if we raise children unexposed to filth they'll be far more susceptible once they are exposed. This study gives the possibility that there may be more naturally occuring aids that we are destroying through our ignorance.
Consider: if Alexander Fleming had been more conscientious about cleaning his petri dishes, he may never have found penicillin. (Reference - I'd heard it was an accident, but never knew it was on a dish in a sink waiting to be cleaned.) Reading this article, it also occurs to me that while no one can (probably) patent a naturally occuring virus, they probably can patent an effective growing/harvesting process.
Actually, iTunes does offer videos. Currently they are only 'Artist exclusives', but the last time I checked both R.E.M. and Bob Dylan each had one - just go to an artist's page to check. There are definitely others.
I don't know how likely it is for them to offer more in the future, whether Quicktime streaming or individual. Video licensing is at least as complicated as music licensing, and probably more difficult. Though if others have done it, than Apple probably could as well if they put their mind to it. Thinking further, it actually makes sense. They've been slowly losing ground in other streaming video areas, mostly because Quicktime is an addon to Windows. If iTunes succeeds in grabbing a large market it could pull Quicktime with it and combined with cheap xServes it could lead to an eventual comeback.
For the curious, here's an example of video licensing problems: The best parts of Beavis and Butthead were the music video commentaries, which aren't available on video/DVD due to licensing expenses*:
{Video of Balls to the Wall}
Beavis: Yah! Fire! Fire! Heh-heh.
Butthead: Dammit, Beavis, just because a video has fire doesn't make it cool.
They were the MST3K of videos.
*(As near as I can figure, the on air show could use virtually any video playing on MTV, since MTV already had the rights to broadcast. However, distribution would require aquiring rights for each video individually. Kind of a pain if each episode averaged 20-30+ 15 second clips. This is probably a main factor in preventing them from syndication. An interesting parallel is Daria, for which videos/DVD have some background music missing, but most of the episodes on Noggin are intact with just the occasional redone credits to remove songs.)
Would you accept a "free" phone service that could not be added to the DNC? I'm sure this is a market just waiting to happen.
As long as it has caller ID, or I can use an answering machine. What compels people to answer phones immediately, even when they have caller ID? If you're eating, just ignore the damn thing.
But the record industry has with the iTunes music store: it has uniform licensing for every song in the store from the big-5 labels.
What occurs to me here is that maybe this isn't exactly true, in that maybe the songs that Napster and the others are so restrictive about just aren't allowed on iTunes. It's no secret that some songs are 'Album only', and some (generally longer/multi disc) albums are more than $9.99. Has anyone checked the restricted songs to see if they are available for $.99 from iTunes? It would be good to know - if they are, it makes the 'iTunes has one price' argument a lot more meaningful.
Unless you're talking college, radio means Clearchannel or some other conglomeration that already is tied to the RIAA and rigidly controls what's on the air. Without going into all the reasons why that might not be good in general, specifically for your argument it means that number 4 is a very low visibility method. It would be better to perform local gigs and try to open for similar artists at small venues, though even that may be RIAA controlled depending on the venue/artist.
Given that there are wallpapers and the whole load of crap they've gotten on their own bbs, most likely they've been sitting on this for 4 months waiting for the day of release, and they could either use it or delay further for a new slogan.
You're forgetting that SCO's position is that Linux is a derivative of UNIX, and is therefore already their property to distribute as they wish. Obviously, contributing authors would contest SCO's appropriation of their work simply by labeling it 'derivative', but so far SCO has actually been consistent in this view. Consistent with themselves, that is - not with rational thought.
The beige G3 isn't officially supported because of it's overall architecture - the processor is a minor part of that. The main difference between that G3 and current G3's is speed, but the differences in the motherboard, standard graphics, ports, harddrive, etc. is far greater. When you throw in the fact that people still using those machines have almost certainly upgraded most of those factors QA goes out the window. From what I've heard Panther will probably work, they just haven't tested it and won't help - not unreasonable for a 5 year old machine, considering how many OS's versions have worked for it.
Older Floyd CDs still goes for 15-30, depending on the CD and which remastering it is. Other mega-groups aren't much better. What group are you thinking of? The only CDs I've seen for 3 bucks are singles, and even those are usually more.
You're forgetting one important comparison: quantity. Let's say 1 out of 2 of Apple users buy online, whereas 1 out of 40 Windows users do. Going by a 3% market share vs. 90% market share, there are 30 Windows users for each Apple user.....
Ya know, those numbers are now confusing me. My point was trying to be that the ratio of Windows users to Apple users is much greater than the difference in how many of each would buy online, so their sales will almost certainly rise. Especially if you factor in the fear of RIAA lawsuits leading parents to look for legal ways to allow their children to download music, and even give them allowances to do so - an iTunes Music Store feature.
If I lose the music downloaded on my computer (which my fiancee did at one point) I don't have the right to download it again.
Counterpoint: If you lose a CD, can you walk in to Best Buy and just take a replacement? No? Not even if you have the receipt? How odd!
If you are worried about losing your downloads, backup your hard-drive. Or burn them to a CD. Apple has made it inconvenient to move or share music, but not impossible or even difficult. The worst that can be said about it is that it is tedious.
This is exactly why it took so long, and why it was always going to be a problem for Apple when they did this. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of possible cpu/video/memory combinations that could be out there. The best they can do is test it on base systems that they get, and hope for the best.
As for your father, doesn't Sony put it's own video/sound software on there machines? And use custom chips? And only 3 months old? I doubt this is the only piece of audio/visual software that won't work on that thing.
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First they drop videos for cartoons, then game shows, then video-related shows, then reality shows, and now space missions. Sure they hinted that this is where they were heading when they adopted the moon walk as a logo, but shouldn't they admit now that the M is for Miscellaneous and not Music?
This is already possible. Use Disk Copy to make a Disk Image with encryption. You can then make this as paranoid as you want - either highly: manual opening, and don't save the password in Keychain. Or low, with Applescripts to automatically open and close it during login and logout. Used with aliases and/or links it could probably be made fairly transparent. However, I've had one of these get hosed when it was automatically ejected after clearing a screen-saver, so your milage may vary.
Pixar was known in the film circles for their animated and award winning shorts. All Disney did was distribute Toy Story, it's mostly the movie itself that made Pixar famous. It can probably be argued that having Disney involved in merchandising and advertising did have a positive effect, but a) that wouldn't have mattered if they hadn't made a good movie, and b) that would have been a part of a deal with any distributor.
In other words, Pixar was MADE by Toy Story, which was made by Pixar exclusively. Disney was just the marketing tool who set the deal heavily in their own favor because they didn't think CGI movies would be as big as regular animation. (Of course, it's the plot/story that matters, but few distributors understand that.)
Whether IBM's or Keychain's is less secure is relative to one's paranoia. An office worker who walks away without locking their computer is probably the same kind that either uses an easy-to-guess password, or has that master password on a sticky note on their monitor. Both systems allow people to use complex passwords online without having to remember them, and both can be foiled from physical access and poor training.
A thought also occurs to me - both could also allow the system administrators to setup accounts with bizarre passwords (like 'fjew84gfmpaz32'), but not tell the user what their real password is. Then even if they tell someone 'my passwords are my kids' names', it really wouldn't help anyone else who can't get to their computer.
Really? To me it's more like the Robin Hood one, with Darl as Daffy and IBM as the guy on the horse. I guess Gates would be Porky.
Apparently, he's unaware of simple restaurant economics. Doesn't a 32 oz pop cost like $.08 in materials, and most of that is the cup? A 99-cent cost item tied to Combo Meals would easily be profitable. After all, aren't Happy Meals priced less than their individual parts, and they include a toy? (Yes not a 99-cent toy, but a Happy Meal is cheaper than a Combo Meal.) If it draws in people who also bring in people who buy just other products, ka-ching!
Or, like they say in Catch-22:
- Milo, how can you make a profit selling 7-cent eggs for 5 cents?
- Volume!
Talk about jumping to conclusions. If they give away 'song credits' (so to speak), then they can be used on any $.99 song. So while Britney fans might go straight to her albums, presumably they'll have all of the available music. Maybe they'll follow the 'also bought' links and find something new.
On a (semi-)related note, I'm still waiting for the 6-Degrees-Of-Also-Bought. You know, people who bought A also bought B; people who bought B also bought C; people who bought C bought the Soundtrack to Flashdance with Kevin Bacon.
It can be the end even if they are still made. Consider that vinyl "ended" years ago, but new ones are still being pressed. The last Floyd album (Echoes) and a recent Pearl Jam album are two high-profile examples off the top of my head. I mean if you truly want lossless music and included art works, vinyl's the way to go.
I understand your point, I just look at it differently. The internet is not a Netscape, Microsoft, Apple or anyone's single product, so for one of them to prevent the others from using it, or even interfering in any way, is not a nice thing to do.
However, an iPod is an Apple product. Presumably, their troubleshooting is now done only against iTunes on both platforms, and they would prefer users on both platforms to only use iTunes to access it. As far as 'locking' the device, there may be a way or there may not, but from Apple's point of view they'd rather not. It's likely they are now shipping iPods with only iTunes and whatever deal they had with MusicMatch will soon be over. So MusicMatch is now just one of a dozen other music programs that can write a way to use the iPod if they want to, which Apple will probably eventually call unsupported and will start all support calls with 'Switch to iTunes'.
And whatever one may think of that, it is no more or less than what any company would do with their product. I haven't yet heard much about other MP3 players, but they likely come with their own software and will start there as well for support calls. And I could probably go on with mice, scanners, etc. but if I haven't belabored my point yet then I never will.
iTunes warns during install that it will disable Musicmatch. You're choices are a) iTunes for the iPod with Musicmatch not using it, or b) Musicmatch only. And Explorer most definately "diddles" with default browser settings. Hell, I ran the Word demo on my new Powerbook and suddenly Explorer was my default browser and I had never even launched it.
Just because you don't like the choices doesn't mean they aren't there. Since iTunes likely launches when an iPod is plugged in having Musicmatch also recognize it probably causes problems. While one might lament that Apple had somehow worked it out that you could choose each time, I'd argue that they had no real motivation to and from an ease-of-use point of view went for iTunes taking over the iPod completely.
This helps back my (otherwise unfounded) theory that too many of these anti-bacterial cleaning supplies will doom the human race. Of course, I was looking at it from the point of view that if we raise children unexposed to filth they'll be far more susceptible once they are exposed. This study gives the possibility that there may be more naturally occuring aids that we are destroying through our ignorance.
Consider: if Alexander Fleming had been more conscientious about cleaning his petri dishes, he may never have found penicillin. (Reference - I'd heard it was an accident, but never knew it was on a dish in a sink waiting to be cleaned.) Reading this article, it also occurs to me that while no one can (probably) patent a naturally occuring virus, they probably can patent an effective growing/harvesting process.
Actually, iTunes does offer videos. Currently they are only 'Artist exclusives', but the last time I checked both R.E.M. and Bob Dylan each had one - just go to an artist's page to check. There are definitely others.
I don't know how likely it is for them to offer more in the future, whether Quicktime streaming or individual. Video licensing is at least as complicated as music licensing, and probably more difficult. Though if others have done it, than Apple probably could as well if they put their mind to it. Thinking further, it actually makes sense. They've been slowly losing ground in other streaming video areas, mostly because Quicktime is an addon to Windows. If iTunes succeeds in grabbing a large market it could pull Quicktime with it and combined with cheap xServes it could lead to an eventual comeback.
For the curious, here's an example of video licensing problems: The best parts of Beavis and Butthead were the music video commentaries, which aren't available on video/DVD due to licensing expenses*:
{Video of Balls to the Wall}
Beavis: Yah! Fire! Fire! Heh-heh.
Butthead: Dammit, Beavis, just because a video has fire doesn't make it cool.
They were the MST3K of videos.
*(As near as I can figure, the on air show could use virtually any video playing on MTV, since MTV already had the rights to broadcast. However, distribution would require aquiring rights for each video individually. Kind of a pain if each episode averaged 20-30+ 15 second clips. This is probably a main factor in preventing them from syndication. An interesting parallel is Daria, for which videos/DVD have some background music missing, but most of the episodes on Noggin are intact with just the occasional redone credits to remove songs.)
Would you accept a "free" phone service that could not be added to the DNC? I'm sure this is a market just waiting to happen.
As long as it has caller ID, or I can use an answering machine. What compels people to answer phones immediately, even when they have caller ID? If you're eating, just ignore the damn thing.
But the record industry has with the iTunes music store: it has uniform licensing for every song in the store from the big-5 labels.
What occurs to me here is that maybe this isn't exactly true, in that maybe the songs that Napster and the others are so restrictive about just aren't allowed on iTunes. It's no secret that some songs are 'Album only', and some (generally longer/multi disc) albums are more than $9.99. Has anyone checked the restricted songs to see if they are available for $.99 from iTunes? It would be good to know - if they are, it makes the 'iTunes has one price' argument a lot more meaningful.
Unless you're talking college, radio means Clearchannel or some other conglomeration that already is tied to the RIAA and rigidly controls what's on the air. Without going into all the reasons why that might not be good in general, specifically for your argument it means that number 4 is a very low visibility method. It would be better to perform local gigs and try to open for similar artists at small venues, though even that may be RIAA controlled depending on the venue/artist.
I wonder if they cut the part where it went 'Beep beep beep' and ate her paper.
Given that there are wallpapers and the whole load of crap they've gotten on their own bbs, most likely they've been sitting on this for 4 months waiting for the day of release, and they could either use it or delay further for a new slogan.
But where's my flying car?
Oh wait - that was IBM. Got my Star Trek references mixed up.
You're forgetting that SCO's position is that Linux is a derivative of UNIX, and is therefore already their property to distribute as they wish. Obviously, contributing authors would contest SCO's appropriation of their work simply by labeling it 'derivative', but so far SCO has actually been consistent in this view. Consistent with themselves, that is - not with rational thought.
The beige G3 isn't officially supported because of it's overall architecture - the processor is a minor part of that. The main difference between that G3 and current G3's is speed, but the differences in the motherboard, standard graphics, ports, harddrive, etc. is far greater. When you throw in the fact that people still using those machines have almost certainly upgraded most of those factors QA goes out the window. From what I've heard Panther will probably work, they just haven't tested it and won't help - not unreasonable for a 5 year old machine, considering how many OS's versions have worked for it.
Older Floyd CDs still goes for 15-30, depending on the CD and which remastering it is. Other mega-groups aren't much better. What group are you thinking of? The only CDs I've seen for 3 bucks are singles, and even those are usually more.
You're forgetting one important comparison: quantity. Let's say 1 out of 2 of Apple users buy online, whereas 1 out of 40 Windows users do. Going by a 3% market share vs. 90% market share, there are 30 Windows users for each Apple user. ....
Ya know, those numbers are now confusing me. My point was trying to be that the ratio of Windows users to Apple users is much greater than the difference in how many of each would buy online, so their sales will almost certainly rise. Especially if you factor in the fear of RIAA lawsuits leading parents to look for legal ways to allow their children to download music, and even give them allowances to do so - an iTunes Music Store feature.
If I lose the music downloaded on my computer (which my fiancee did at one point) I don't have the right to download it again.
Counterpoint: If you lose a CD, can you walk in to Best Buy and just take a replacement? No? Not even if you have the receipt? How odd!
If you are worried about losing your downloads, backup your hard-drive. Or burn them to a CD. Apple has made it inconvenient to move or share music, but not impossible or even difficult. The worst that can be said about it is that it is tedious.
This is exactly why it took so long, and why it was always going to be a problem for Apple when they did this. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of possible cpu/video/memory combinations that could be out there. The best they can do is test it on base systems that they get, and hope for the best.
As for your father, doesn't Sony put it's own video/sound software on there machines? And use custom chips? And only 3 months old? I doubt this is the only piece of audio/visual software that won't work on that thing.
So what you're saying is that a five ounce database (MSSQL) can not carry a one pound filesystem (NTFS)?