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I'd love one please to try it out... If anyone has one going please invite me - chchpete@hotmail.com!!
I'll reply to this post when I get one, so you know you're not wasting your time!
Thanks in advance,
Pete!
I think most of the features (ie Video playback) of this player are unnecessary and are not things I would miss when comparing a purchase of this to an iPod.
The iPod will have a colour screen for sure, but it will be used for displaying album artwork and visualisations - you'll be able to plug the ipod into a TV so the visulalisations and the artwork can be displayed to people dancing - a real party device. (PS I'm guessing, but Steve jobs is right when he says no-one wants to watch video on these things - he won't have video playback in iPod)
Perhaps more useful than yet another pointless scaremongering exercise would be for the company that now owns the drives to go back to the companies that they bought them off to find out how they were erased so we could find out how not to do it, and where they were not successful in recovering info to go back to those companies to find out how they did wipe that info properly.
The point is to learn something from it.
Just for you, I found it. It is here,
EULA
in section 2A. And you should consider the fact that many people owe the quality of their life to people paying for software, and therefore get the privilege and pleasure of working with computers in order to earn an income. Some do it for free, I'd prefer not to:)
Many other stories are fairly gray, but I'm pretty sure the license to use OSX pretty much says that you are only allowed to install it on Apple hardware (although correct me if I'm wrong). This is promoting a fairly blatant breach of the license (Pear doesn't actually breach that license by existing).
Nah, it comes down to not wanting to play the same game lots. I have an N64, and I played the two Zeldas on that... they were a step up. The cube Zelda isn't a step up - I didn't want to play it because it is the same as the other two.
This new one looks like what the doctor ordered...
I am a big Nintendo fan, and I have nearly bought a cube many times over. I have religously bought and played the F-Zeros and Zeldas as they have been released.
I haven't been compelled to buy a cube though - Windwaker nearly pushed me over the edge, and F-Zero is amazing - but this Zelda is the one that is finally going to get me to buy!
If an article is written that makes an assertion, and then completely fails to back up that assertion, then it is fairly likely that the article is not worth reading and is full of falsehoods.
Don't publicize such articles by posting them on Slashdot.
They fixed the reversing order smart playlist bug?? Man, that one bug has been annoying me so much on my iPod - I had seen no-one else complaining about it and thought it was only me!!
I think that someone is trying to make an argument here where none exists. Stream ripping is like recording off the radio - it might be good for kiddies but you'll never get a quality recording.
Sure its possible to do it, but it is like switching back to recording analog data.
The real reason P2P took off is that it was easy for Joe Averages to use and the results were immediate. With this, you have to cut up the streams etc to get individual songs, missing endings etc. Pretty dumb really. Anonymous Coward in this case must be 13 years old or something.
I'm a tech, and I know that with most stuff on slashdot I can see how it works and how it would be implemented, but I can't see how with this.
If this was April 1st I would understand.
The article has been slashdotted so I can't read it - is there a tech article on the database or the technology behind this acheivement somewhere? A database which contains portions of every song would be fairly incredible, not to mention the fact that it is recognizing songs over a crackly phone line. Perhaps it is recognizing watermarking in the audio?
How does it handle sampling? If I was to play 'You can't touch this' by MC Hammer at it, and then play 'Superfreak' by 70's artist I don't remember, how does it know what song it is as one samples the other for fairly long portions?
Steve Jobs certainly would not want to associate Apple with the bloated software that Real produces. Apple associated itself with Musicmatch, and I absolutely hate the fact that Musicmatch goes and puts adverts for itself in the music libraries, and they transferred across to the iPod. Apple saved me from that by releasing iTunes.
Hopefully Mr. Jobs will just ignore Mr. Glasers desperately selfish attempts to save his own company. Apple nearly went broke when they licensed their technology last time, Apples strategy now is clearly to control their own product and production from end to end. I hope they succeed. I like quality.
When Apple want to open up their technology to other Music stores, they'll simply enable WMA on the device. Problem solved.
This has been pretty obvious for several years now - breaking the law is not an exceptional circumstance, it is part of regular business, and the fines and lawyers fees etc. are just a regular business expense.
When you have large quantities of money and can afford infinite legal resources, unlike your competitors, manipulation of the law becomes a regular business process that could even be documented.
The only way that this can be changed is for fines for offences to be relative to the revenue of the company concerned and deliberately hurtful.
It is unlikely that this will occur though as such companies are too valuable to the US economy.
In other words we can't do anything about this - we are held to ransom by such behaviour.
I don't know, this is pretty amusing - it has been a slow news day on Slashdot. Lets face it, someone posted frontpage news that says that they've skinned Longhorn this morning - an operating system that isn't out for 2-3 years, and then said it is going to change format anyway - I mean, what did they achieve? Bugger all except putting together some BMP's and an XML probably. I think the word matters lost all meaning today.
Yeah, I'm sure its great for you, but you've missed the point entirely.
Now that Apple AAC is an insecure format you won't be able to download the songs anyway because the songs are now easily decrypted. How long before someone puts the code onto the front end of iTunes and decryption occurs automatically?
The only reason Apple provides the downloads is because of DRM. Now that there effectively isn't any, they will have to withdraw because there is no protection for the RIAA or the artists income.
Its a little sad that a forum that generally celebrates Apples acheivements has a whole pile of posts on how to correctly configure the tool that will easily destroy them.
I can appreciate it from the technical point of view, but perhaps a post on what this is now going to do to Apples future fortune now that AAC is not secure is more appropriate, especially as Apples growth recently has been on the back of achievements in the audio area.
I find it curious that when Nullsoft patch a security bug and release it that it receives a positive sounding 'good on you' report for doing it the right way, however if Microsoft do exactly the same thing they receive collective hatred for having the bug in the first place.
Are you folk biased against Microsoft? I suspect nothing could change your opinion.
P.S. Normal practice is for you to now mod me down to 0 and suck my karma for daring to say something negative about the Slashdot community, or positive about Microsoft.
Diclaimer : I don't work for Microsoft but I don't have too many complaints about their software either.
Well, I've just looked at this page and they're all rubbish pretty muh on the communication front. There was a story I saw recently where some fella in the UK is making $$$ out of catching older guys chatting up kids in teenage chatrooms by having a bot pretending to be some available teenager which proceeds lets him chat the bot up, then nabs him. Now there must be some sophistication behind that - that must be the winner of this contest for sure.
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I'd love one please to try it out... If anyone has one going please invite me - chchpete@hotmail.com!! I'll reply to this post when I get one, so you know you're not wasting your time! Thanks in advance, Pete!
.. participants reported a very bare room with only a TV screen showing a movie entitled 'Gigli'. Within 15 minutes most of those that entered...
I think most of the features (ie Video playback) of this player are unnecessary and are not things I would miss when comparing a purchase of this to an iPod.
The iPod will have a colour screen for sure, but it will be used for displaying album artwork and visualisations - you'll be able to plug the ipod into a TV so the visulalisations and the artwork can be displayed to people dancing - a real party device. (PS I'm guessing, but Steve jobs is right when he says no-one wants to watch video on these things - he won't have video playback in iPod)
Perhaps more useful than yet another pointless scaremongering exercise would be for the company that now owns the drives to go back to the companies that they bought them off to find out how they were erased so we could find out how not to do it, and where they were not successful in recovering info to go back to those companies to find out how they did wipe that info properly.
The point is to learn something from it.
Just for you, I found it. It is here, EULA in section 2A. And you should consider the fact that many people owe the quality of their life to people paying for software, and therefore get the privilege and pleasure of working with computers in order to earn an income. Some do it for free, I'd prefer not to :)
Many other stories are fairly gray, but I'm pretty sure the license to use OSX pretty much says that you are only allowed to install it on Apple hardware (although correct me if I'm wrong). This is promoting a fairly blatant breach of the license (Pear doesn't actually breach that license by existing).
Nah, it comes down to not wanting to play the same game lots. I have an N64, and I played the two Zeldas on that... they were a step up. The cube Zelda isn't a step up - I didn't want to play it because it is the same as the other two.
This new one looks like what the doctor ordered...
I am a big Nintendo fan, and I have nearly bought a cube many times over. I have religously bought and played the F-Zeros and Zeldas as they have been released.
I haven't been compelled to buy a cube though -
Windwaker nearly pushed me over the edge, and F-Zero is amazing - but this Zelda is the one that is finally going to get me to buy!
Yay for Nintendo for getting this Zelda right!
Fair call. All power to you.
If an article is written that makes an assertion, and then completely fails to back up that assertion, then it is fairly likely that the article is not worth reading and is full of falsehoods.
Don't publicize such articles by posting them on Slashdot.
They fixed the reversing order smart playlist bug?? Man, that one bug has been annoying me so much on my iPod - I had seen no-one else complaining about it and thought it was only me!!
Yay for Apple!!
When I click on the link I get a .CS file that says I should have received the GPL license with it - I certainly didn't!
Is having this link on Slashdot agaisnt the GPL?
This technique of overlaying GPS trails on maps are the basis of most moving map programs, e.g. Oziexplorer
I recommend Geocahing.com for more fun and games, as well as other games : GPSGames
My little yellow Garmin, my Palm m130 and I keep ourselves quite happy thanks... GPS has quite a following in NZ - GPS.org.nz
I think that someone is trying to make an argument here where none exists. Stream ripping is like recording off the radio - it might be good for kiddies but you'll never get a quality recording.
Sure its possible to do it, but it is like switching back to recording analog data.
The real reason P2P took off is that it was easy for Joe Averages to use and the results were immediate. With this, you have to cut up the streams etc to get individual songs, missing endings etc. Pretty dumb really. Anonymous Coward in this case must be 13 years old or something.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world still uses tins and strings/smoke signals to communicate (apparently).
I'm a tech, and I know that with most stuff on slashdot I can see how it works and how it would be implemented, but I can't see how with this.
:)
If this was April 1st I would understand.
The article has been slashdotted so I can't read it - is there a tech article on the database or the technology behind this acheivement somewhere? A database which contains portions of every song would be fairly incredible, not to mention the fact that it is recognizing songs over a crackly phone line. Perhaps it is recognizing watermarking in the audio?
How does it handle sampling? If I was to play 'You can't touch this' by MC Hammer at it, and then play 'Superfreak' by 70's artist I don't remember, how does it know what song it is as one samples the other for fairly long portions?
More information is appreciated
Steve Jobs certainly would not want to associate Apple with the bloated software that Real produces. Apple associated itself with Musicmatch, and I absolutely hate the fact that Musicmatch goes and puts adverts for itself in the music libraries, and they transferred across to the iPod. Apple saved me from that by releasing iTunes.
Hopefully Mr. Jobs will just ignore Mr. Glasers desperately selfish attempts to save his own company. Apple nearly went broke when they licensed their technology last time, Apples strategy now is clearly to control their own product and production from end to end. I hope they succeed. I like quality.
When Apple want to open up their technology to other Music stores, they'll simply enable WMA on the device. Problem solved.
This has been pretty obvious for several years now - breaking the law is not an exceptional circumstance, it is part of regular business, and the fines and lawyers fees etc. are just a regular business expense.
When you have large quantities of money and can afford infinite legal resources, unlike your competitors, manipulation of the law becomes a regular business process that could even be documented.
The only way that this can be changed is for fines for offences to be relative to the revenue of the company concerned and deliberately hurtful.
It is unlikely that this will occur though as such companies are too valuable to the US economy.
In other words we can't do anything about this - we are held to ransom by such behaviour.
I don't know, this is pretty amusing - it has been a slow news day on Slashdot. Lets face it, someone posted frontpage news that says that they've skinned Longhorn this morning - an operating system that isn't out for 2-3 years, and then said it is going to change format anyway - I mean, what did they achieve? Bugger all except putting together some BMP's and an XML probably. I think the word matters lost all meaning today.
I liked the dead badger picture.
Yeah, I'm sure its great for you, but you've missed the point entirely.
Now that Apple AAC is an insecure format you won't be able to download the songs anyway because the songs are now easily decrypted. How long before someone puts the code onto the front end of iTunes and decryption occurs automatically?
The only reason Apple provides the downloads is because of DRM. Now that there effectively isn't any, they will have to withdraw because there is no protection for the RIAA or the artists income.
Its a little sad that a forum that generally celebrates Apples acheivements has a whole pile of posts on how to correctly configure the tool that will easily destroy them.
I can appreciate it from the technical point of view, but perhaps a post on what this is now going to do to Apples future fortune now that AAC is not secure is more appropriate, especially as Apples growth recently has been on the back of achievements in the audio area.
With the name of episode IV being "A New Hope" it sounds like episode III is going to be really tragic mess. George Lucas already foretold it!!
I find it curious that when Nullsoft patch a security bug and release it that it receives a positive sounding 'good on you' report for doing it the right way, however if Microsoft do exactly the same thing they receive collective hatred for having the bug in the first place.
Are you folk biased against Microsoft? I suspect nothing could change your opinion.
P.S. Normal practice is for you to now mod me down to 0 and suck my karma for daring to say something negative about the Slashdot community, or positive about Microsoft.
Diclaimer : I don't work for Microsoft but I don't have too many complaints about their software either.
Well, I've just looked at this page and they're all rubbish pretty muh on the communication front. There was a story I saw recently where some fella in the UK is making $$$ out of catching older guys chatting up kids in teenage chatrooms by having a bot pretending to be some available teenager which proceeds lets him chat the bot up, then nabs him. Now there must be some sophistication behind that - that must be the winner of this contest for sure.
Documentation. That is not even a deliverable to the customer. Death by documentation. I'd better get right back to it :(