Rather than applying for a full-time position, have you considered forming your own independent consulting business? You would have to leverage your contacts in the industry, but there is a massive difference in the culture between hiring a 60-year-old technical lead and hiring a 60-year-old's consulting business. Vendor management contacts just won't care, in my opinion, if you're professional and can get results.
If he had defended himself in court, he could have argued this, and he would have reduced his damages significantly. Unfortunately, he did not appear, and the default judgement (exactly what it sounds like) is $150,000 apiece. For most people, even a 90% reduction in this amount would mean bankruptcy, so I can understand the option.
Not trying to flame you, but to what features do you refer? The Visualizer? iTunes DJ Shuffle? Ping? I would really love it if iTunes were streamlined for PC so I could quickly plug in my iPhone and sync, not much else. I like the iStore, so please keep that? I could kind of do without 30 modal popup window clicks every time an iPod is plugged in and not recognized. Or maybe, my iPod would always be recognized, like I ran on a Mac. That would be cool.
I prefer my cleaning method of turning the keyboard upside-down and shaking out bagel crumbs from three months ago and hair from a person that is definitely not me. I feel like it's really clean after about nine or ten good shakes.
I had problems upgrading my iPod touch and iPad to iOS5 as well, but this is not the problem talked about by the OP and not my main concern about the biased article. I recommend making sure your backup is safe before proceeding, and wish you the best of luck.
Even a light reading of the article reveals that iCloud is an impressive service but not targeted at business or enterprise users (shocking), a fact which the OP (who clearly does not like iCloud and/or Apple, in general) noticeably neglects to mention. If Slashdot is a news site, and news should objectively divulge facts, then I have to wonder why such a blatantly slanted article summary has once again been allowed to be posted. If you want me to not like iCloud, just draw attention to the shortcomings of the product, don't paraphrase a reasonable review into "is a shambles".
So you are using the ramifications of today's ruling as proof of your opinion when debating the merits of today's ruling? I think there's a word for that...
Because that is the state putting a restriction on speech which they are specifically denied the power to do.
The state is allowed to restrict free speech when it is rationally related to prohibiting what is in the state's best interests. Hate speech, potentially disruptive student speech, etc. are all totally legal to abridge and regulate. Maybe you should read the Constitution and the hundreds of cases of First Amendment case law that go along with a full understanding of the subject... or not spout pointless, melodramatic rhetoric about a subject which you clearly do not comprehend. Your pick.
As above, the binary will not be the same. You are shining an imperfect laser across a spinning disc. Everyone's rips will be different. Hell, ripping it yourself twice will result in different files.
It's because the process is physical, not digital. Every compact disc has millions and millions of pits, and there are tiny differences that would result in slightly different rips, even if two users were using the exact same disc reader. The odds of two rips being the exact same set of bytes is astronomical.
If you're going to reboot a universe, do it like Doctor Who did it, and not like Star Trek.
Yeah, Star Trek was a huge, unmitigated disaster that made $385 million in gross revenue. I can see how a corporation would find the Doctor Who model much more attractive.
Wrong. Amazon launched a cloud-based music locker. Google is launching a cloud-based music catalog that will not have a per-use fee, precisely what got mp3.com destroyed. Credit goes to Google.
I'm sure an iOS App will be forthcoming to replace any lost Flash functionality.
Nnnnnnnnope.
If not they risk losing the entire block of iOS users when Apple releases its own cloud service.
By releasing the service first, Google hopes to get users set up and entrenched before Apple. This is their only hope of competing against a platform that can and definitely will remove any app submitted that directly competes with their service.
So it's going to be a non-starter for a lot of devices including of course iOS devices
Exactly.
Not a good way to dive into a market that has a lot of big players going into it including Amazon and potentially Apple who are rumored, as they always are, to be working on something similar.
You mean exactly how they entered the market with their search engine? Have you visited Altavista lately?
What "science" class would discuss evolution anyway, except perhaps biology, where it's reasonably appropriate. Even so, it's a topic that would consume all of about 10 minutes.
The Theory of Evolution Syllabus
0:00-1:00: 60-second Summary of Charles Darwin's 502-page Origin of Species
1:00-2:00: 60-second Summary of Natural Selection
2:00-3:00: 60-second Summary of Heredity
3:00-4:00: 60-second Summary of Dominant vs. Recessive Genes
4:00-5:00: Bathroom Break
5:00-6:00: 60-second Summary of Mutation
6:00-7:00: 60-second Summary of Adaptation
7:00-8:00: 60-second Summary of Homology
8:00-9:00: 60-second Summary of Genetic Drift
9:00-10:00: Pop Quiz!
Afterwards there will be a class showing of the movie "Congo". Your 1-page papers on the comparative genetic analyses of tsetse flies and rhesus monkeys are due tomorrow. Be thorough.
You guys are missing the point. Amazon knows exactly what happened to MP3.com, and, regardless of what our intrepid online industry journalists tell us, Amazon is absolutely not suiting up to go to the mats against the recording industry in open court. That's crazy.
Instead, they see two fantastic outs for them: first, since Google and Apple are now behind the curve, both of them will go crazy trying to finalize their licensing agreements with the industry so they can release their locker services. Every moment they wait will be another customer lost because he or she is intractably set up in Amazon's cloud and reluctant to switch, both for the inconvenience and the upfront payments of a yearly subscription. When they finally do come up with licensing, Amazon need only say, "Well, just give us whatever you gave to Google and Apple and we'll sign up."
Or, if the RIAA moves faster than that (files an injunction or something), all Amazon needs to do is show them their magnificently profitable business model and amazing infrastructure and say, "You could sue our pants off for a decent amount of money and we can shut this down, or you can sit down with us and we can figure out a way so we both can make even more money over an infinite period of time."
Amazon knows what's coming. They're just betting that the recording industry has figured out how much money they lost in the last decade trying to stick with their traditional goods model and is willing to try something progressive.
Boy, lots of snobby hipsters reply to you. I'm in a similar boat. I haven't gotten everything out of what I already own. Why beat my head against the wall looking for more.
I'll stick my snobby hipster nose out for this one: because there's something out there you haven't heard that you will like better? Damn my snobby hipster logic!
First off, I am quite surprised that this post has been scored well since it is decidedly off-topic. This goes beyond not bothering to read the original post; you are simply spewing a manifesto about how you like music so much that you don't need any more, when Amazon's new cloud is not offering new music, only a new, convenient place to store it. If you would rather carry an Android device with a high data plan capacity or rely on a computer with an internet connection instead of whatever portable music player you now carry, the actual subject of this thread decidedly does have something to offer you. This seems to have escaped you.
I also find it amazing that you have such lust for the extremely high quality recordings of this music that you profess to enjoy so much and of which you obviously hold a very high opinion, but have concluded that you have already heard everything worth hearing. Similar logic could allow a seventeen-year-old underachiever from backwater western Pennsylvania to forsake higher education and never leave his podunk town in the middle of nowhere because he's "seen it all, what else is there to see?"
To put it bluntly, if you consume any aesthetic, be it music, movies, art, food, or basically anything requiring abstract thought to understand, and one day reach an opinion that there will never be anything better than this, that you have attained some sort of curmudgeon nirvana in which the future of your artform is worthless even though you no longer explore it and therefore lack any authority to judge it so, you missed the entire point of beauty to begin with. To say you are a connoisseur of late 20th century hard rock is pointless if you cannot compare and contrast it to earlier and later works or expound on the influences on the genre or the effects on current artists. I award you zero points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Slashdot Mirror
It's gonna suck.
Rather than applying for a full-time position, have you considered forming your own independent consulting business? You would have to leverage your contacts in the industry, but there is a massive difference in the culture between hiring a 60-year-old technical lead and hiring a 60-year-old's consulting business. Vendor management contacts just won't care, in my opinion, if you're professional and can get results.
If he had defended himself in court, he could have argued this, and he would have reduced his damages significantly. Unfortunately, he did not appear, and the default judgement (exactly what it sounds like) is $150,000 apiece. For most people, even a 90% reduction in this amount would mean bankruptcy, so I can understand the option.
Not trying to flame you, but to what features do you refer? The Visualizer? iTunes DJ Shuffle? Ping? I would really love it if iTunes were streamlined for PC so I could quickly plug in my iPhone and sync, not much else. I like the iStore, so please keep that? I could kind of do without 30 modal popup window clicks every time an iPod is plugged in and not recognized. Or maybe, my iPod would always be recognized, like I ran on a Mac. That would be cool.
What is your fondest memory of Christopher Hitchens?
The funny part is everything but the bun is good for you...
No, the funny part is you believe that.
I prefer my cleaning method of turning the keyboard upside-down and shaking out bagel crumbs from three months ago and hair from a person that is definitely not me. I feel like it's really clean after about nine or ten good shakes.
Expert witnesses get paid. What planet do you live on?
I had problems upgrading my iPod touch and iPad to iOS5 as well, but this is not the problem talked about by the OP and not my main concern about the biased article. I recommend making sure your backup is safe before proceeding, and wish you the best of luck.
Even a light reading of the article reveals that iCloud is an impressive service but not targeted at business or enterprise users (shocking), a fact which the OP (who clearly does not like iCloud and/or Apple, in general) noticeably neglects to mention. If Slashdot is a news site, and news should objectively divulge facts, then I have to wonder why such a blatantly slanted article summary has once again been allowed to be posted. If you want me to not like iCloud, just draw attention to the shortcomings of the product, don't paraphrase a reasonable review into "is a shambles".
I did that already.
So you are using the ramifications of today's ruling as proof of your opinion when debating the merits of today's ruling? I think there's a word for that...
Apparently it did change something. It changed the interpretation of the Constitution. But please, go on. I'm enthralled.
Because that is the state putting a restriction on speech which they are specifically denied the power to do.
The state is allowed to restrict free speech when it is rationally related to prohibiting what is in the state's best interests. Hate speech, potentially disruptive student speech, etc. are all totally legal to abridge and regulate. Maybe you should read the Constitution and the hundreds of cases of First Amendment case law that go along with a full understanding of the subject... or not spout pointless, melodramatic rhetoric about a subject which you clearly do not comprehend. Your pick.
This is my reaction too. I wouldn't want to hire someone who is always looking for shortcuts.
I, myself, am extremely wary of anyone who thinks their high school humanities courses covered any topic "in great detail".
As above, the binary will not be the same. You are shining an imperfect laser across a spinning disc. Everyone's rips will be different. Hell, ripping it yourself twice will result in different files.
It's because the process is physical, not digital. Every compact disc has millions and millions of pits, and there are tiny differences that would result in slightly different rips, even if two users were using the exact same disc reader. The odds of two rips being the exact same set of bytes is astronomical.
If you're going to reboot a universe, do it like Doctor Who did it, and not like Star Trek.
Yeah, Star Trek was a huge, unmitigated disaster that made $385 million in gross revenue. I can see how a corporation would find the Doctor Who model much more attractive.
Wrong. Amazon launched a cloud-based music locker. Google is launching a cloud-based music catalog that will not have a per-use fee, precisely what got mp3.com destroyed. Credit goes to Google.
I'm sure an iOS App will be forthcoming to replace any lost Flash functionality.
Nnnnnnnnope.
If not they risk losing the entire block of iOS users when Apple releases its own cloud service.
By releasing the service first, Google hopes to get users set up and entrenched before Apple. This is their only hope of competing against a platform that can and definitely will remove any app submitted that directly competes with their service.
So it's going to be a non-starter for a lot of devices including of course iOS devices
Exactly.
Not a good way to dive into a market that has a lot of big players going into it including Amazon and potentially Apple who are rumored, as they always are, to be working on something similar.
You mean exactly how they entered the market with their search engine? Have you visited Altavista lately?
What "science" class would discuss evolution anyway, except perhaps biology, where it's reasonably appropriate. Even so, it's a topic that would consume all of about 10 minutes.
The Theory of Evolution Syllabus
Afterwards there will be a class showing of the movie "Congo". Your 1-page papers on the comparative genetic analyses of tsetse flies and rhesus monkeys are due tomorrow. Be thorough.
You guys are missing the point. Amazon knows exactly what happened to MP3.com, and, regardless of what our intrepid online industry journalists tell us, Amazon is absolutely not suiting up to go to the mats against the recording industry in open court. That's crazy.
Instead, they see two fantastic outs for them: first, since Google and Apple are now behind the curve, both of them will go crazy trying to finalize their licensing agreements with the industry so they can release their locker services. Every moment they wait will be another customer lost because he or she is intractably set up in Amazon's cloud and reluctant to switch, both for the inconvenience and the upfront payments of a yearly subscription. When they finally do come up with licensing, Amazon need only say, "Well, just give us whatever you gave to Google and Apple and we'll sign up."
Or, if the RIAA moves faster than that (files an injunction or something), all Amazon needs to do is show them their magnificently profitable business model and amazing infrastructure and say, "You could sue our pants off for a decent amount of money and we can shut this down, or you can sit down with us and we can figure out a way so we both can make even more money over an infinite period of time."
Amazon knows what's coming. They're just betting that the recording industry has figured out how much money they lost in the last decade trying to stick with their traditional goods model and is willing to try something progressive.
Boy, lots of snobby hipsters reply to you. I'm in a similar boat. I haven't gotten everything out of what I already own. Why beat my head against the wall looking for more.
I'll stick my snobby hipster nose out for this one: because there's something out there you haven't heard that you will like better? Damn my snobby hipster logic!
First off, I am quite surprised that this post has been scored well since it is decidedly off-topic. This goes beyond not bothering to read the original post; you are simply spewing a manifesto about how you like music so much that you don't need any more, when Amazon's new cloud is not offering new music, only a new, convenient place to store it. If you would rather carry an Android device with a high data plan capacity or rely on a computer with an internet connection instead of whatever portable music player you now carry, the actual subject of this thread decidedly does have something to offer you. This seems to have escaped you.
I also find it amazing that you have such lust for the extremely high quality recordings of this music that you profess to enjoy so much and of which you obviously hold a very high opinion, but have concluded that you have already heard everything worth hearing. Similar logic could allow a seventeen-year-old underachiever from backwater western Pennsylvania to forsake higher education and never leave his podunk town in the middle of nowhere because he's "seen it all, what else is there to see?"
To put it bluntly, if you consume any aesthetic, be it music, movies, art, food, or basically anything requiring abstract thought to understand, and one day reach an opinion that there will never be anything better than this, that you have attained some sort of curmudgeon nirvana in which the future of your artform is worthless even though you no longer explore it and therefore lack any authority to judge it so, you missed the entire point of beauty to begin with. To say you are a connoisseur of late 20th century hard rock is pointless if you cannot compare and contrast it to earlier and later works or expound on the influences on the genre or the effects on current artists. I award you zero points, and may God have mercy on your soul.