The days are coming very soon now where wireless will be installed citywide, not just local to your home. While you are out running and listening to music, your wireless device will be syncing, simultaeneously. As you listen to songs, they will be removed from the device or whatever, and new ones will be put on. An simple extension of smart playlists on iPod would be to predict what songs you will be listening to on your run and have them preloaded to the device. If you don't listen to those songs there will be a brief delay while the device syncs the beginning of the song you want to listen to and then starts playing, while syncing the rest of the songs and playlist.
You don't even need to listen to songs you own. Large servers could be wirelessly linked citywide and you could listen to music whilst being microcharged on a per song basis. That or you could have certificates on your device saying you purchased the song at home and it could be broadcast wirelessly to you on your run from another server.
I don't think this is an 'iPod Killer'. The phrase iPod killer assumes that the development of the iPod will stand still at the current stage of development, which it obviously won't.
I think if Steve Jobs has any brains at all, wireless will make its way into the next iPod. I don't think that video (rumoured to be in the next iPod) is a killer app on portable units, but I could be wrong. I can see a future for video combined with wireless - the possibilities are endless here, especially with vehicle mountings.
That said the Aireo is certainly a nice unit. The original postings saying that a 1.5 gig drive is a disadvantage is completely wrong. When you have wireless, you have unlimited storage - it is just remote to the device.
The only thing the Aireo will have to overcome is the iPods strong branding. Kudos to the Aireo for being the strongest contender yet!!!
I'm not sure if this is good or not. Whilst the gentleman is correct (and his heart is in the right place) in believing that draconian laws won't stop the real offenders, the only other solutions are moral measures which hasn't worked in the past either (with the notable exclusion of the music stores) or technological restrictions.
There are only two results I can see out of this :
- ISP's will be asked to prevent the transmission of copyrighted material or
- The consumer internet can easily be replaced with a new set of protocols that monitors the transmission of such material. ISP's will be legislated to implement these new protocols for all consumers. Actually not as hard to do as it may sound.
We are now seeing evidence of technological development moving so fast that there is not time for a standard to naturally evolve.
What does this mean for the market? - it means consumers are going to have to commit to an unproven technology. Consumers are naturally unwilling to do this so they will stick with older technologies, waiting for a standard to evolve. Go back to first statement.
Well spotted, I thought this was the most interesting thing in the article too.
It suggests that there is a flag for WMA support in the iPod that has been switched off, yet the WMA support exists. After some consideration, I decided this couldn't be true.
Apple does not make profits from the iTunes Music Store (and AAC dowloads), but only from selling the iPods from association with the store. Apple are only going to sell a lot more iPods if WMA is enabled in the iPod which would add to Apples bottom line and market dominance, their core goal with the iPod. Why would they switch it off? The only issue would be with Microsoft refusing to licence WMA to Apple which I doubt is the case.
So I don't think WMA is in there. But no doubt a core element of l33t hax0rs are checking the Apple code to see if any WMA stuff is present and seeing if they can flick the flag and flash this back to the iPod!!
It is interesting to see the Voyagers and Pioneer spacecraft on there. It is a fascinating subject for me, I believe that our technology will advance at sufficient speed that we will actually catch up with these craft with some future technology, and the issue will come up as to whether we bring them back to Earth as museum pieces or leave them on their course with special protection orders on them.
Food for thought.
And on an unrelated topic - Be careful - there is an acronymic something called WMAP lurking just on the far side of the moon, obviously hiding from earth.
I'm sure it is waiting for the perfect moment to attack!
Looks like mud but it can't be mud?
It would be a beautiful thing if the Spirit Rover detected water by getting bogged down in mud as soon as it drove off the lander!!!
The Lander is probably only floating because of that airbag that won't deflate... Conspiracy as NASA refuse to tell us that the reason they won't retract the airbag is because it is the only thing keeping the lander afloat!
I can see the headlines : Spirit Rover detects water by sinking in Mud!
1. Win contract.
2. Base new software on Mr. Provos' work.
3. Profit!!
In an IT world where profit is linked to enterprise software, this will be a very interesting piece of work for somebody. Kudos to the winner. I would bid myself if I was a US citizen!
It is just the rules of supply and demand... if a set of consumers are willing to pay a higher price for some hardware, why not charge them that price?. I would if I was making graphic cards.
The fact is that most 80% of consumers are not going to flash thir bioses because they don't know how.
That saves NVidia dev costs, it immediately voids the warranty on the card so NVidia can make money that way, and a large quantity of the BIOS flashes may fail - no warranty refund in that case and the consumer has to go and buy another.
Its win-win for NVidia as far as I can see.
The slashdot/hax0r crowd see a way of getting something for nothing - NVidia aren't stupid and are aware that thye won't lose as much $$$ as we think they will.
The new mini iPod comes with a USB2.0 cable (an optional extra for the full size iPod).
I read this as the first full acknowledgement of Apple to the windows market. I bet they had a lot of support calls with people buying full iPods and then finding they couldn't plug it into their USB only PC's.
Not a good point on your behalf. As Google is used by a very large cross section of internet users irrespective of OS, the statistics are probably very valid. In fact they are probably the best usage statistics you will get. These statistics were also used in the article on Windows 98 obsolescence last Sunday on Slashdot.
As for the rest of my points, they are very valid and the best solutions to the previous posters problems. XP (and Office) already have these features built in internally so his friends problems would be solved automatically without any requirement for further intervention on his part.
Advise your friends to turn on automatic patching. You'll never have to worry again.
Outlook has features to disable running of executable attachements. These are enabled by default. I'm not sure about Outlook Express, but I would be surprised if this wasn't the case.
If a third party product doesn't have those features then it is the third party products problem. It is obviously not feasible to stop a user running programs at the operating system level. The whole point of a computer is to allow users to run programs.
Over 40% of the computer users in the world use XP, and most have no trouble with Blaster or random spywares, or indeed security hacks.
There are a lot of posters in here who claim to have had so many problems with XP. Obviously then it is a lack of knowledge and experience on your part. Just because you can't get it going well doesn't mean it is a problem with the OS. Lots of Joe Home Users are very happy with it. I am a very happy XP user, and have absolutely none of the problems that are bleated on about here. Turn into real users.
Not affiliated with Microsoft at all!! No doubt I will be called a troll by the Linux zealots in here!
Steve Jobs is well known for keeping a clean image on his products - it seems strange to me that he would allow rainbow iPods. Rumour has it he objected to the coloured backgrounds in the iPod adverts.
It seems strange that he would dilute the iPod brand at such a critical point in its existence.
Yup, you think that would be one of the first things they would have fixed... I suspect if you manually set the settings rather than use the auto config file it will work, but because the auto config file only sets the proxies internally and doesn't make them visible in IE, I don't think iTunes is able to see them. It may well be a security issue.
And who modded me as flamebait - whats that all about? Someone doesn't like genuine criticism!!!
Well, downloaded the Windows version 4.2.0.72
- I still can't configure iTunes to access the music store over my companies proxy servers - I don't think iTunes detects proxy servers automatically like it should - It should handle IE automatic configuration files properly?
- You can now minimise iTunes properly rather than to the miniplayer (yay!)
- Hopefully the bug in iTunes where it would sync with iPod but sometimes get the smart playlists inverted is fixed - I wait with baited breath... but have to go home to sync the iPod - no way I'm having any 'music libraries' on the corporate LAN!
I'm biased though - I love anything that might make my iPod happier. I am exactly what Steve Jobs loves - I would buy Apple next time, and burn my PC in a bonfire...
This slashdot article has got to be the poorest analysis of a newspaper article I have seen. I though slashdot was reasonably intelligent. The government of New Zealand is obviously aware of the effects of piracy otherwise they wouldn't have mentioned it!!
I live in New Zealand, and a lot of people I know have a bit of an edict - they buy New Zealand music to support the local artists, and they pirate the foreign stuff. I personally only buy my music as I haven't bought a foreign album in months - the quality of New Zealand music is awesome.
Well, this is the first time I have seen written on Slashdot that iTunes was not available to non US citizens. I had no idea. This is important news to anyone who is non USA! I am a New Zealander - and it just goes to show how USA biased Slashdot is. It also makes me realise that while the IT world might be in ruins in the USA, the rest of the IT world may in fact be a happy place to be. Yay!. Made me realise that I shouldn't place too much weight on what I read on Slashdot.
This is just so obviously a way for Eolas to get income off their patent. They are just trying to get Microsoft to buy a license rather than remove their infringing Eolas technology.
Microsoft have made it clear that they are removing the technology, Eolas weren't expecting this and thought Microsoft would pay up, so now Eolas are trying every trick in their bag to get Microsoft to buy the license.
The spirit of the law should stop this one. Any sane judge would see through it and let Microsoft remove the technology as they are doing!
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Wow, look at all the flamebait here - Could use up all my mod points on flamebait alone!!!
The days are coming very soon now where wireless will be installed citywide, not just local to your home. While you are out running and listening to music, your wireless device will be syncing, simultaeneously. As you listen to songs, they will be removed from the device or whatever, and new ones will be put on. An simple extension of smart playlists on iPod would be to predict what songs you will be listening to on your run and have them preloaded to the device. If you don't listen to those songs there will be a brief delay while the device syncs the beginning of the song you want to listen to and then starts playing, while syncing the rest of the songs and playlist.
You don't even need to listen to songs you own. Large servers could be wirelessly linked citywide and you could listen to music whilst being microcharged on a per song basis. That or you could have certificates on your device saying you purchased the song at home and it could be broadcast wirelessly to you on your run from another server.
But I won't give away all my ideas!!
I don't think this is an 'iPod Killer'. The phrase iPod killer assumes that the development of the iPod will stand still at the current stage of development, which it obviously won't.
I think if Steve Jobs has any brains at all, wireless will make its way into the next iPod. I don't think that video (rumoured to be in the next iPod) is a killer app on portable units, but I could be wrong. I can see a future for video combined with wireless - the possibilities are endless here, especially with vehicle mountings.
That said the Aireo is certainly a nice unit. The original postings saying that a 1.5 gig drive is a disadvantage is completely wrong. When you have wireless, you have unlimited storage - it is just remote to the device.
The only thing the Aireo will have to overcome is the iPods strong branding. Kudos to the Aireo for being the strongest contender yet!!!
I'm not sure if this is good or not. Whilst the gentleman is correct (and his heart is in the right place) in believing that draconian laws won't stop the real offenders, the only other solutions are moral measures which hasn't worked in the past either (with the notable exclusion of the music stores) or technological restrictions.
There are only two results I can see out of this :
- ISP's will be asked to prevent the transmission of copyrighted material or
- The consumer internet can easily be replaced with a new set of protocols that monitors the transmission of such material. ISP's will be legislated to implement these new protocols for all consumers. Actually not as hard to do as it may sound.
I think I would stick with the draconian laws.
We are now seeing evidence of technological development moving so fast that there is not time for a standard to naturally evolve.
What does this mean for the market? - it means consumers are going to have to commit to an unproven technology. Consumers are naturally unwilling to do this so they will stick with older technologies, waiting for a standard to evolve. Go back to first statement.
A vicious circle.
Well spotted, I thought this was the most interesting thing in the article too.
It suggests that there is a flag for WMA support in the iPod that has been switched off, yet the WMA support exists. After some consideration, I decided this couldn't be true.
Apple does not make profits from the iTunes Music Store (and AAC dowloads), but only from selling the iPods from association with the store. Apple are only going to sell a lot more iPods if WMA is enabled in the iPod which would add to Apples bottom line and market dominance, their core goal with the iPod. Why would they switch it off? The only issue would be with Microsoft refusing to licence WMA to Apple which I doubt is the case.
So I don't think WMA is in there. But no doubt a core element of l33t hax0rs are checking the Apple code to see if any WMA stuff is present and seeing if they can flick the flag and flash this back to the iPod!!
It is interesting to see the Voyagers and Pioneer spacecraft on there. It is a fascinating subject for me, I believe that our technology will advance at sufficient speed that we will actually catch up with these craft with some future technology, and the issue will come up as to whether we bring them back to Earth as museum pieces or leave them on their course with special protection orders on them.
Food for thought.
And on an unrelated topic - Be careful - there is an acronymic something called WMAP lurking just on the far side of the moon, obviously hiding from earth.
I'm sure it is waiting for the perfect moment to attack!
With 500k graphical images to download you can be sure that by the time you read this you are too late - its been slashdotted!!
Looks like mud but it can't be mud? It would be a beautiful thing if the Spirit Rover detected water by getting bogged down in mud as soon as it drove off the lander!!! The Lander is probably only floating because of that airbag that won't deflate... Conspiracy as NASA refuse to tell us that the reason they won't retract the airbag is because it is the only thing keeping the lander afloat! I can see the headlines : Spirit Rover detects water by sinking in Mud!
Linus sighted?
This puts Linus right up there with the Yeti, UFO's and Elvis.
I saw Linus buying hair shampoo at the local 7/11!!!
1. Win contract.
2. Base new software on Mr. Provos' work.
3. Profit!!
In an IT world where profit is linked to enterprise software, this will be a very interesting piece of work for somebody. Kudos to the winner. I would bid myself if I was a US citizen!
It is just the rules of supply and demand... if a set of consumers are willing to pay a higher price for some hardware, why not charge them that price?. I would if I was making graphic cards. The fact is that most 80% of consumers are not going to flash thir bioses because they don't know how. That saves NVidia dev costs, it immediately voids the warranty on the card so NVidia can make money that way, and a large quantity of the BIOS flashes may fail - no warranty refund in that case and the consumer has to go and buy another. Its win-win for NVidia as far as I can see. The slashdot/hax0r crowd see a way of getting something for nothing - NVidia aren't stupid and are aware that thye won't lose as much $$$ as we think they will.
Wow, I'm glad I live out of the USA.
Obviously the pursuit of the USA freedom value means lack of privacy.
I hear you can't even go to the toilet on certain air flights any more. Crazy! Not my idea of freedom.
Its the same as Windows - the reason I don't use Linux is because its always a couple of steps behind!
The new mini iPod comes with a USB2.0 cable (an optional extra for the full size iPod).
I read this as the first full acknowledgement of Apple to the windows market. I bet they had a lot of support calls with people buying full iPods and then finding they couldn't plug it into their USB only PC's.
Well done Apple for getting that one right.
Not a good point on your behalf. As Google is used by a very large cross section of internet users irrespective of OS, the statistics are probably very valid. In fact they are probably the best usage statistics you will get. These statistics were also used in the article on Windows 98 obsolescence last Sunday on Slashdot.
As for the rest of my points, they are very valid and the best solutions to the previous posters problems. XP (and Office) already have these features built in internally so his friends problems would be solved automatically without any requirement for further intervention on his part.
Source : http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist_nov03.html
Advise your friends to turn on automatic patching. You'll never have to worry again.
Outlook has features to disable running of executable attachements. These are enabled by default. I'm not sure about Outlook Express, but I would be surprised if this wasn't the case.
If a third party product doesn't have those features then it is the third party products problem. It is obviously not feasible to stop a user running programs at the operating system level. The whole point of a computer is to allow users to run programs.
A lot of people on here give XP a bad name.
Over 40% of the computer users in the world use XP, and most have no trouble with Blaster or random spywares, or indeed security hacks.
There are a lot of posters in here who claim to have had so many problems with XP. Obviously then it is a lack of knowledge and experience on your part. Just because you can't get it going well doesn't mean it is a problem with the OS. Lots of Joe Home Users are very happy with it. I am a very happy XP user, and have absolutely none of the problems that are bleated on about here. Turn into real users.
Not affiliated with Microsoft at all!! No doubt I will be called a troll by the Linux zealots in here!
Can this be true?
Steve Jobs is well known for keeping a clean image on his products - it seems strange to me that he would allow rainbow iPods. Rumour has it he objected to the coloured backgrounds in the iPod adverts.
It seems strange that he would dilute the iPod brand at such a critical point in its existence.
Hmm.
Small iPods - no hard drives, only RAM based??
Yup, you think that would be one of the first things they would have fixed... I suspect if you manually set the settings rather than use the auto config file it will work, but because the auto config file only sets the proxies internally and doesn't make them visible in IE, I don't think iTunes is able to see them. It may well be a security issue. And who modded me as flamebait - whats that all about? Someone doesn't like genuine criticism!!!
Well, downloaded the Windows version 4.2.0.72
- I still can't configure iTunes to access the music store over my companies proxy servers - I don't think iTunes detects proxy servers automatically like it should - It should handle IE automatic configuration files properly?
- You can now minimise iTunes properly rather than to the miniplayer (yay!)
- Hopefully the bug in iTunes where it would sync with iPod but sometimes get the smart playlists inverted is fixed - I wait with baited breath... but have to go home to sync the iPod - no way I'm having any 'music libraries' on the corporate LAN!
I'm biased though - I love anything that might make my iPod happier. I am exactly what Steve Jobs loves - I would buy Apple next time, and burn my PC in a bonfire...
This slashdot article has got to be the poorest analysis of a newspaper article I have seen. I though slashdot was reasonably intelligent. The government of New Zealand is obviously aware of the effects of piracy otherwise they wouldn't have mentioned it!!
I live in New Zealand, and a lot of people I know have a bit of an edict - they buy New Zealand music to support the local artists, and they pirate the foreign stuff. I personally only buy my music as I haven't bought a foreign album in months - the quality of New Zealand music is awesome.
Well, this is the first time I have seen written on Slashdot that iTunes was not available to non US citizens. I had no idea. This is important news to anyone who is non USA! I am a New Zealander - and it just goes to show how USA biased Slashdot is. It also makes me realise that while the IT world might be in ruins in the USA, the rest of the IT world may in fact be a happy place to be. Yay!. Made me realise that I shouldn't place too much weight on what I read on Slashdot.
This is just so obviously a way for Eolas to get income off their patent. They are just trying to get Microsoft to buy a license rather than remove their infringing Eolas technology. Microsoft have made it clear that they are removing the technology, Eolas weren't expecting this and thought Microsoft would pay up, so now Eolas are trying every trick in their bag to get Microsoft to buy the license. The spirit of the law should stop this one. Any sane judge would see through it and let Microsoft remove the technology as they are doing!
Swapping music and videos was the fad. The technology is never the fad, it is what you can do with it that drvies popularity.