CUT THE BULLSHIT, EVERYBODY! Europeans and Americans ALIKE.
I'm French, and I happen to support Chirac's position. And I do happen to hate W. Bush and his team, big time. But this shouldn't turn me into an enemy of the U.S. (or should it?)
Seen from France, anti-French sentiment in the U.S. is really beginning to look like mass hysteria. (I mean, I'm in college and some of my buddies are supposed to go to Columbia University next year; but somehow the decision to accept them got delayed, and some started suspecting Columbia University of barring french students... which is insane). And, I readily agree, the same can be said about this anti-U.S-resentment bullshit that sometimes erupts in France and Europe (and this anti-U.S.feeling is much less well-spread than most say).
Just because our respective governments happen do disagree (which happens now and then) shouldn't turn the populations against one another. It's OK to be proud of your country / region / whatever. But if you think "patriotism" means insulting everybody out there and stomping on everybody who happens to disagree, then fine, be a fucking sheep, go ahead and believe what your government tells you to. But at least shut the fuck up and leave the people who still want to go on exchanging *constructive* views across the Atlantic alone. These kinds of patriotism and nationalism have brought us nothing but endless wars. Do we really want war between Europe and the U.S.? With hundreds and thousands of H-bombs on both sides, I, for one, would rather not.
And, remember: what TV networks and newspapers say is bullshit, especially when it comes to national pride (we in France have apparently specialized in claiming that "we invented it first"). So don't take what Fox News (same for lots of newspapers here in Europe) is telling you for granted. All kinds of media have a common interest of keeping the hate-ratio high: it drives TV ratings & audiences UP.
Something similar happened to me (pressing command-Z to undo somehing I just wrote down on paper...)
What's weirder is that after a week desperately looking for some software on Carracho (a mac-only peer-to-peer program) I finally decided to spend a night outside; I went out and thought to myself: "hmmm... no more money: I need to download some cash", thinking about the ATM:-\
I since stopped looking for hard-to-find files on the web:)
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Isn't there a way to get those camera's signal through standard wi-fi equipment? Or do we need the assorted X10 video receiver (as the one shown in the article?)
Archos Jukebox had one (I had one of these machines... Huge, heavy, slow transfer rates, shitty hardware, buggy software, had it replaced twice in three monthes, and then swapped it with an iPod) Guess what? It was useless: whenever you try to record from the internal microphone, the hard disk would start spinning (and put itself in motion every 2 or 3 minutes). The noise would cover any sound coming from the microphone. Though I got to admit that I had the best MP3 records of a spinning hard disk... they were just soooooo accurate. There would be similar problems on the iPod (even though the iPod hard disk only has to spin every one and then, because it has so much more RAM).
The "record from line-in" feature was nifty, but I never really found an use for it...
The preview is some kind of streaming. It is not AAC (you need Quicktime 6.2 to listen to AAC: and you can preview the tunes even without Quicktime installed, so it can't be AAC).
I ripped some tunes in AAC (128 kbps and 160). I can't tell a difference with a CD (maybe the CD has a slightly better "spatialization", but it's almost undistinguishable). I'm using a Sennheiser headset, that sounds great. Don't know how they compare on a good hi-fi setup, though.
I don't really understand how you could port the Music Store to Windows without porting iTunes for windows... Technically, you *could*, but then they'd have done it already, in the form of a webpage. (musicstore=standard HTML, embedded in iTunes) It makes sense: Music store (1$ a song-> iTunes (free)-> iPod (299$ and up). The Music store isn't interesting if you don't have a way to manage all that music easily. Try doing that with musicmatch...
Apple is usually a lot better about keeping announcements this big under wraps.
Oh? So Steve Jobs announcing in front of the whole press that the iTunes Music Store will be available to Windows "by the end of the year" (actual quote, with big flashy Windows logo displayed behind him) is the best way to keep the announcement [...] under wraps?
Yes, but this feature has mainly been implemented because users of the old model iPods sent tons of feedback requesting it. This means WE have been working as testers (call it what you want), and now they implement this feature without "giving back" to the people who sent feedback.
I think the new iPods are attractive enough (expanded capacity, dock, USB 2.0, smaller, lighter, new design, etc) to sell "by themselves", without Apple needing to try to lure the first-time users into buying new models by NOT including new software features on the old models.
I mean, nobody in its right mind will shelf its 5, 10 or 20 GB iPod and buy one of the 10 (299$), 15(399$) or 30 (499$) GB models just to get on-the-fly playlists, text syncing and 2 crappy games?! Do you pay 299 bucks just to add a playlist feature to an iPod you already have? No, right?
So, it would have been a nice extra for the existing user base (marketing-wise, "unexpected" extras are the BEST way to keep loyal users; they just did so with the PowerMac G4 Power supply exchange program, which nobody expected them to do.), and it wouldn't have undercut new iPod sales by a single unit.
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I've sent LOTS of feedback to Apple. About OS X. About the iPod. About iTunes. You'd be surprised how much features I requested have made their way to ulterior versions. No kidding. I asked for DVD backup on iTunes. It's there. I asked for a "queue" playlist on the iPod. It's there (but only on the new version: bastards!). I mentioned scores of bugs in OS X (started way before the beta); most of them are fixed. I've sent lots of suggestions to Safari.
My comments / suggestions alone did nothing, mind you: but added to thousands of similar requests, the feature finally makes its way.
Now, I realize that platform strategies have few to do with bug reports and user suggestions, but Apple has made great efforts towards the Open Source community (Darwin / Rendezvous, which is open sourced / Safari / X11 for OS X / etc...) They're trying to tie professional UNIXes and OS X together: same app catalog, same standards. If Linux users put enough pressure on Apple (through feedback), they might just listen to it and realise that there are opportunities to fight back Microsoft.
But then everybody would bitch about how Fairplay (Apple's DRM) is not open-sourced, and how the tracks are not open sourced.
I've sent LOTS of feedback to Apple. About OS X. About the iPod. About iTunes. You'd be surprised how much features I requested have made their way to ulterior versions. No kidding. I asked for DVD backup on iTunes. It's there. I asked for a "queue" playlist on the iPod. It's there (but only on the new version: bastards!). I mentioned scores of bugs in OS X (started way before the beta); most of them are fixed. I've sent lots of suggestions to Safari.
My comments / suggestions alone did nothing, mind you: but added to thousands of similar requests, the feature finally makes its way.
Now, I realize that platform strategies have few to do with bug reports and user suggestions, but Apple has made great efforts towards the Open Source community (Darwin / Rendezvous, which is open sourced / Safari / X11 for OS X / etc...) They're trying to tie professional UNIXes and OS X together: same app catalog, same standards. If Linux users put enough pressure on Apple (through feedback), they might just listen to it and realise that there is a demand from this platform. It's worth trying, anyway.
But then everybody would bitch about how Fairplay (Apple's DRM) is not open-sourced, and how the tracks are not open sourced.
Hadn't thought about it:) Silly me... It's probably how they do it.
Some people in the forums have stated that they can't make a MP3 CD backup with an AAC in it... Have you tried it yourself (I'm not in the U.S., so I can't use the servive yet. Bummer). If it is so, how it one supposed to backup its music collection (MP3's from pre-iTunes 4 days + encoded AAC's...) Any clue?
From the link you submitted:
"Note: Initializing the drive will not deauthorize the computer. If you will be initializing the drive, deauthorize the computer first, then initialize the drive. "
How the hell to they do that? Firmware?
No, but it comes with a dock->firewire port. Which means that it's exactly as before, you can still use it as a hard drive with any computer that is firewire-equipped, and charge it on AC through this cable. You just have to carry the cable around with you (which you always did before, because nobody seems to have extra firewire cables at home...)
Though, I'm not sure I like this "dock" idea. I hope there's no LED on that dock. At night, my bedroom is lit by LED's, you could almost read a book there:-)
A. I should be able to buy the songs I like, without having to buy the whole album.
B. I should be forced to buy the whole album. Apple's service lets you buy by song, OR by album. And most albums seem to be at 9.99 USD -> cheaper than retail:-) Be careful though: some are "partial albums" (but it is clearly stated on it when you browse on it).
The first version had a "clicker" (when turning the wheel)... Not the kind of noise that would make me wake up though...
Maybe they want you to have the iPod on its dock (which has audio out to your hi-fi setup) and act as an alarm? That would be cool:)
He he:)) I've been building my iTunes library for almost 2 years now (mostly legal CD's + copied from friends). I copy what i REALLY like, and delete the rest: result: 3039 songs...
You could buy CD's at 9.99 USD through applemusic.com... There seems to be a rebate on most full albums (even when it contains more than 10 songs).
But he just came back and said it has changed... they are allowing internet surfing
Nice to see things changing over there, even if it's "the burmese way": sloooooowly. The junta probably just figured out they needed internet to appeal to foreign investment and tourists? (the junta badly needs cash right now, and is trying to develop tourism and economic activity). bagan.net.mm is probably state-run, or at least tightly controlled. I wonder if they run some kind of filtering, like China does?
I'm perfectly happy with my 2-button & "clickable-scroll" mouse. Logitech, USB. Can't remember the price. No driver needed in OS X, all works fine (including scrolling). And when switching back to OS 9, which you probably do since you're a musician, there are good drivers which let you configure what you want to do with all these buttons.
Yup... I noticed www.bagan.net.mm... Did a traceroute to that IP. The program I use (iFoundU for OS X) has it ending up in... Milton, Australia. (The program might be wrong, though, and showing the location of the ISP rather than the one of the IP itself; only IP I could find that pointed to rangoon was www.e-application.com.mm, which are government-run.)
Though, it's a good idea to document what kind of procedures you go through to be able to host a webserver over there...
but the whole point of this is to show that the Internet is not the free medium everybody seems to think it is. Just looking at the traces alone in the past day shows that either hardly anybody in Africa reads Slashdot or Africa hardly has access to the Internet at all. The Middle Eastern countries seem very detached as well
Absolutely right: not much has changed in Burma, it's still a brutal and repressive military regime - one that almost makes Saddam Hussain look like Abraham Lincoln. Hmmm... this is exagerated, at the least. I don't want to compare two juntas in two totally different contexts, but I don't think Saddam's regime was any milder than the burmese's is. Both are equally horrid.
This is one country that could really use regime change.
Yeah, but guess what? There's no oil in Burma, so I don't think Burma is in the DoD's or the State Departement's radar. There's plenty of gas, though, but Unocal is there already (with TotalFinaElf + the local state-run company), so there's no need to launch a war there. Which is all the best, because the last thing the Burmese need is war.
I'm confident that in the end, the people in Burma will topple the regime by themselves. The junta is fragilized internally (generals rivalling each other) and externally. For example, the junta can no longer afford to incarcerate Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi (the historical democratic opponent to the regime, who's been around since 1988) as they did before: because of the international outcry it would cause, and because a vast majority of the Burmese back her.
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OK, I'll try to keep it plain & simple:
CUT THE BULLSHIT, EVERYBODY! Europeans and Americans ALIKE.
I'm French, and I happen to support Chirac's position. And I do happen to hate W. Bush and his team, big time. But this shouldn't turn me into an enemy of the U.S. (or should it?)
Seen from France, anti-French sentiment in the U.S. is really beginning to look like mass hysteria. (I mean, I'm in college and some of my buddies are supposed to go to Columbia University next year; but somehow the decision to accept them got delayed, and some started suspecting Columbia University of barring french students... which is insane).
And, I readily agree, the same can be said about this anti-U.S-resentment bullshit that sometimes erupts in France and Europe (and this anti-U.S.feeling is much less well-spread than most say).
Just because our respective governments happen do disagree (which happens now and then) shouldn't turn the populations against one another.
It's OK to be proud of your country / region / whatever. But if you think "patriotism" means insulting everybody out there and stomping on everybody who happens to disagree, then fine, be a fucking sheep, go ahead and believe what your government tells you to. But at least shut the fuck up and leave the people who still want to go on exchanging *constructive* views across the Atlantic alone. These kinds of patriotism and nationalism have brought us nothing but endless wars. Do we really want war between Europe and the U.S.? With hundreds and thousands of H-bombs on both sides, I, for one, would rather not.
And, remember: what TV networks and newspapers say is bullshit, especially when it comes to national pride (we in France have apparently specialized in claiming that "we invented it first"). So don't take what Fox News (same for lots of newspapers here in Europe) is telling you for granted. All kinds of media have a common interest of keeping the hate-ratio high: it drives TV ratings & audiences UP.
Fuck the bullshit!
"Gentlemans' club" and "racist, hating type deal" are not necessarily uncompatible...
Quicktime (on OS X): probably has DRM since version 6.2 (related to "iTunes Music Store" DRMed songs.) But maybe only iTunes has the DRM.
Something similar happened to me (pressing command-Z to undo somehing I just wrote down on paper...)
:-\
:)
What's weirder is that after a week desperately looking for some software on Carracho (a mac-only peer-to-peer program) I finally decided to spend a night outside; I went out and thought to myself: "hmmm... no more money: I need to download some cash", thinking about the ATM
I since stopped looking for hard-to-find files on the web
Isn't there a way to get those camera's signal through standard wi-fi equipment? Or do we need the assorted X10 video receiver (as the one shown in the article?)
Archos Jukebox had one (I had one of these machines... Huge, heavy, slow transfer rates, shitty hardware, buggy software, had it replaced twice in three monthes, and then swapped it with an iPod) Guess what? It was useless: whenever you try to record from the internal microphone, the hard disk would start spinning (and put itself in motion every 2 or 3 minutes). The noise would cover any sound coming from the microphone. Though I got to admit that I had the best MP3 records of a spinning hard disk... they were just soooooo accurate. There would be similar problems on the iPod (even though the iPod hard disk only has to spin every one and then, because it has so much more RAM).
The "record from line-in" feature was nifty, but I never really found an use for it...
The preview is some kind of streaming. It is not AAC (you need Quicktime 6.2 to listen to AAC: and you can preview the tunes even without Quicktime installed, so it can't be AAC).
I ripped some tunes in AAC (128 kbps and 160). I can't tell a difference with a CD (maybe the CD has a slightly better "spatialization", but it's almost undistinguishable). I'm using a Sennheiser headset, that sounds great. Don't know how they compare on a good hi-fi setup, though.
OK, I get it now... Thanks a lot :)
I don't really understand how you could port the Music Store to Windows without porting iTunes for windows... Technically, you *could*, but then they'd have done it already, in the form of a webpage. (musicstore=standard HTML, embedded in iTunes)
It makes sense: Music store (1$ a song-> iTunes (free)-> iPod (299$ and up). The Music store isn't interesting if you don't have a way to manage all that music easily. Try doing that with musicmatch...
So I'm supposed to make a DVD backup of all my MP3's, but not my -purchased, owned, etc- AAC's? It's plain stupid, or am I missing something here?
:)
Anyways, thanks for the answer
Apple is usually a lot better about keeping announcements this big under wraps.
Oh? So Steve Jobs announcing in front of the whole press that the iTunes Music Store will be available to Windows "by the end of the year" (actual quote, with big flashy Windows logo displayed behind him) is the best way to keep the announcement [...] under wraps?
Yes, but this feature has mainly been implemented because users of the old model iPods sent tons of feedback requesting it. This means WE have been working as testers (call it what you want), and now they implement this feature without "giving back" to the people who sent feedback.
I think the new iPods are attractive enough (expanded capacity, dock, USB 2.0, smaller, lighter, new design, etc) to sell "by themselves", without Apple needing to try to lure the first-time users into buying new models by NOT including new software features on the old models.
I mean, nobody in its right mind will shelf its 5, 10 or 20 GB iPod and buy one of the 10 (299$), 15(399$) or 30 (499$) GB models just to get on-the-fly playlists, text syncing and 2 crappy games?! Do you pay 299 bucks just to add a playlist feature to an iPod you already have? No, right?
So, it would have been a nice extra for the existing user base (marketing-wise, "unexpected" extras are the BEST way to keep loyal users; they just did so with the PowerMac G4 Power supply exchange program, which nobody expected them to do.), and it wouldn't have undercut new iPod sales by a single unit.
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how about making it work with Linux!?
Write to Apple. Bitch about Linux support (Quicktime / iTunes) 24/7. Eventually they might listen.
I've sent LOTS of feedback to Apple. About OS X. About the iPod. About iTunes. You'd be surprised how much features I requested have made their way to ulterior versions. No kidding. I asked for DVD backup on iTunes. It's there. I asked for a "queue" playlist on the iPod. It's there (but only on the new version: bastards!). I mentioned scores of bugs in OS X (started way before the beta); most of them are fixed. I've sent lots of suggestions to Safari. My comments / suggestions alone did nothing, mind you: but added to thousands of similar requests, the feature finally makes its way.
Now, I realize that platform strategies have few to do with bug reports and user suggestions, but Apple has made great efforts towards the Open Source community (Darwin / Rendezvous, which is open sourced / Safari / X11 for OS X / etc...) They're trying to tie professional UNIXes and OS X together: same app catalog, same standards. If Linux users put enough pressure on Apple (through feedback), they might just listen to it and realise that there are opportunities to fight back Microsoft.
But then everybody would bitch about how Fairplay (Apple's DRM) is not open-sourced, and how the tracks are not open sourced.
Write to Apple. Bitch about Linux support (Quicktime / iTunes) 24/7. Eventually they might listen.
I've sent LOTS of feedback to Apple. About OS X. About the iPod. About iTunes. You'd be surprised how much features I requested have made their way to ulterior versions. No kidding. I asked for DVD backup on iTunes. It's there. I asked for a "queue" playlist on the iPod. It's there (but only on the new version: bastards!). I mentioned scores of bugs in OS X (started way before the beta); most of them are fixed. I've sent lots of suggestions to Safari. My comments / suggestions alone did nothing, mind you: but added to thousands of similar requests, the feature finally makes its way.
Now, I realize that platform strategies have few to do with bug reports and user suggestions, but Apple has made great efforts towards the Open Source community (Darwin / Rendezvous, which is open sourced / Safari / X11 for OS X / etc...) They're trying to tie professional UNIXes and OS X together: same app catalog, same standards. If Linux users put enough pressure on Apple (through feedback), they might just listen to it and realise that there is a demand from this platform. It's worth trying, anyway.
But then everybody would bitch about how Fairplay (Apple's DRM) is not open-sourced, and how the tracks are not open sourced.
Hadn't thought about it :) Silly me... It's probably how they do it.
Some people in the forums have stated that they can't make a MP3 CD backup with an AAC in it... Have you tried it yourself (I'm not in the U.S., so I can't use the servive yet. Bummer). If it is so, how it one supposed to backup its music collection (MP3's from pre-iTunes 4 days + encoded AAC's...) Any clue?
From the link you submitted: "Note: Initializing the drive will not deauthorize the computer. If you will be initializing the drive, deauthorize the computer first, then initialize the drive. " How the hell to they do that? Firmware?
No, but it comes with a dock->firewire port. Which means that it's exactly as before, you can still use it as a hard drive with any computer that is firewire-equipped, and charge it on AC through this cable. You just have to carry the cable around with you (which you always did before, because nobody seems to have extra firewire cables at home...)
:-)
Though, I'm not sure I like this "dock" idea. I hope there's no LED on that dock. At night, my bedroom is lit by LED's, you could almost read a book there
A. I should be able to buy the songs I like, without having to buy the whole album.
B. I should be forced to buy the whole album. :-)
Apple's service lets you buy by song, OR by album. And most albums seem to be at 9.99 USD -> cheaper than retail
Be careful though: some are "partial albums" (but it is clearly stated on it when you browse on it).
Microsoft Windows version coming "before the end of the year", according to The Boss Himself.
Linux users, it's time for your voices to be heard! Oh, but wait, iTunes is based on Quicktime. Nah, ok, forget it.
The first version had a "clicker" (when turning the wheel)... Not the kind of noise that would make me wake up though... Maybe they want you to have the iPod on its dock (which has audio out to your hi-fi setup) and act as an alarm? That would be cool :)
He he :))
I've been building my iTunes library for almost 2 years now (mostly legal CD's + copied from friends). I copy what i REALLY like, and delete the rest: result: 3039 songs...
You could buy CD's at 9.99 USD through applemusic.com... There seems to be a rebate on most full albums (even when it contains more than 10 songs).
But he just came back and said it has changed... they are allowing internet surfing
Nice to see things changing over there, even if it's "the burmese way": sloooooowly.
The junta probably just figured out they needed internet to appeal to foreign investment and tourists? (the junta badly needs cash right now, and is trying to develop tourism and economic activity). bagan.net.mm is probably state-run, or at least tightly controlled.
I wonder if they run some kind of filtering, like China does?
I'm perfectly happy with my 2-button & "clickable-scroll" mouse. Logitech, USB. Can't remember the price. No driver needed in OS X, all works fine (including scrolling). And when switching back to OS 9, which you probably do since you're a musician, there are good drivers which let you configure what you want to do with all these buttons.
Yup... I noticed www.bagan.net.mm... Did a traceroute to that IP. The program I use (iFoundU for OS X) has it ending up in ... Milton, Australia. (The program might be wrong, though, and showing the location of the ISP rather than the one of the IP itself; only IP I could find that pointed to rangoon was www.e-application.com.mm, which are government-run.)
Though, it's a good idea to document what kind of procedures you go through to be able to host a webserver over there...
but the whole point of this is to show that the Internet is not the free medium everybody seems to think it is. Just looking at the traces alone in the past day shows that either hardly anybody in Africa reads Slashdot or Africa hardly has access to the Internet at all. The Middle Eastern countries seem very detached as well
Ok... I understand better now.
Absolutely right: not much has changed in Burma, it's still a brutal and repressive military regime - one that almost makes Saddam Hussain look like Abraham Lincoln.
Hmmm... this is exagerated, at the least. I don't want to compare two juntas in two totally different contexts, but I don't think Saddam's regime was any milder than the burmese's is. Both are equally horrid.
This is one country that could really use regime change.
Yeah, but guess what? There's no oil in Burma, so I don't think Burma is in the DoD's or the State Departement's radar. There's plenty of gas, though, but Unocal is there already (with TotalFinaElf + the local state-run company), so there's no need to launch a war there. Which is all the best, because the last thing the Burmese need is war.
I'm confident that in the end, the people in Burma will topple the regime by themselves. The junta is fragilized internally (generals rivalling each other) and externally. For example, the junta can no longer afford to incarcerate Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi (the historical democratic opponent to the regime, who's been around since 1988) as they did before: because of the international outcry it would cause, and because a vast majority of the Burmese back her.