I think this may be moot. Apple isn't selling music online, iTunes is. The only times I hear the Apple name come up is in news stories about the service, when it gets referred to a "Apple's iTunes".
Apple refers to it religiously as the "iTunes Music Store".
If they were calling it "Apple's iMusic Store" Apple Corp Records might have a stronger case.
I second this post. I saw the special on PBS. It was either NOVA or Secrets of the Dead.
They started with an analysis of the film footage. The very visible orange flames clearly race along the Hindenberg's shell 3/4 of the length of the airship before it begins to lose significant lift from burning gas cells.
They went on to exhaustively explain the chemistry and ignition characteristics of the outer panel structure.
The Hindenberg burned because an arc from a charged panel to the frame ignited the doping (which was basically thermite).
If some of you doubters would switch from American Idol to PBS once in a while, you'd already know this;^)
I've been taking Ritalin for about 10 years. No side effects at all. No tolerance increases. Nothing but a leveling of mood and increased ability to stay on task. Great stuff.
Wellbutrin gave me this huge feeling of optimism and direction, then made me itch all over for two straight days. My doctor was out of town at the time, which made it worse. Nasty.
I think the chemistry of Attention Deficit varies from person to person. What works well for one person sucks for another.
I just got fed up with my stupid Mac mouse at home (never would double-click correctly, and I was getting killed in games because of it.
Well, I assumed my alter ego of Pissed Pissedofferson, and broke the little beast. No mouse.
So I ran to my shop and grabbed a Hewlett Packard three button scrolling USB mouse and stuck it on. I also nabbed a Mac USB mouse, but I figured the HP would at least let me click through to where I could download a proper driver for it. If not, I had the Mac mouse to back me up.
So I plugged it in, and voila! instant recognition, Control-Click mapped automatically to the right mouse button, and the scroller worked perfectly. I have never had a multi-button mouse connected to this particular computer before, and this was a Hewlett Packard OEM mouse. It just works.
The only thing standing between a Mac OSX user and left button support is the willingness to spend $9 on a two or three button mouse.
I heartily concur with others who report that starting newbies off with a multi-button mouse is the source of great confusion, and much clumsy verbiage for technical writers.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure you can install Linux on pretty much any Mac as well.
Re: the competition angle.
Yes, it will happen eventually, but Apple is making the easy bucks and establishing themselves as the premium brand right now. That's very important.
Also, Apple signed agreements with the big labels for distribution rights. For a certain period of time, Apple has a lock on the majority of the Walmart demographic (don't know how long that will last, but I bet it's for a year or two). That creates a slippery slope for the competitors to climb.
So if Apple is giving the "artist" (probably the Label) 65 cents a song, they're keeping 34 cents for themselves. How much money could you make if you got paid 34 cents for every 10megabyte download you generated, expecially if you had already paid for the servers you'd be using? The bricks and mortar aspect of Apple's venture is pretty cheap. It's not like they're storing the data in a warehouse on the outskirts of Cupertino.
I think Apple has a sweet business model going, at least for the next few years. After that, it's on to the next groovy thang! Innovation can become habit forming.
Not true. The highest recorded wave was caused by an earthquake induced collapse of a glaciar in Lituya Bay, Alaska. The top of the wave reached a height of 1720 feet as it roared out of the narrow channel.
Three boats were in the bay when the event ocurred. One of the boats (a fishing trawler--very seaworthy) survived the wave. One of the others was lost with all hands, and the third was washed out to sea and sank, but the crew was rescued.
The height of the wave was determined by measuring how high up on the opposite cliff the trees were washed away.
Here's a modeling of the event. Notice that the terminus of the wave washing on the shore (at 36 seconds) is higher than the mid-bay maximum at 16 seconds.
http://www.sthjournal.org/205/lituya.pdf
But at the same time, Flash has caused an explosion of amateur animator's work to be available online. A lot of it is awful, but some of it is good.
Absolutely true. One site, www.orisinal.com, has some interesting and innovative games based on Flash. Notable games on the site are Bottom of the Sea, Pocket Full of Stars, and a game where you get to be a amateur UFO sleuth armed with a camcorder. Getting the best footage wins you money and a high score.
Based on the high scores for these games, some people are practically living there. All of this is free and done be a one artist, Ferry Halim.
Just like Open Source, true innovation results when lots of folks get a chance to do stuff based on their own creativity, without a lot of deadlines and marketing guidelines to stifle their ideas.
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I think this may be moot. Apple isn't selling music online, iTunes is. The only times I hear the Apple name come up is in news stories about the service, when it gets referred to a "Apple's iTunes". Apple refers to it religiously as the "iTunes Music Store". If they were calling it "Apple's iMusic Store" Apple Corp Records might have a stronger case.
I second this post. I saw the special on PBS. It was either NOVA or Secrets of the Dead.
;^)
They started with an analysis of the film footage. The very visible orange flames clearly race along the Hindenberg's shell 3/4 of the length of the airship before it begins to lose significant lift from burning gas cells.
They went on to exhaustively explain the chemistry and ignition characteristics of the outer panel structure.
The Hindenberg burned because an arc from a charged panel to the frame ignited the doping (which was basically thermite).
If some of you doubters would switch from American Idol to PBS once in a while, you'd already know this
I've been taking Ritalin for about 10 years. No side effects at all. No tolerance increases. Nothing but a leveling of mood and increased ability to stay on task. Great stuff.
Wellbutrin gave me this huge feeling of optimism and direction, then made me itch all over for two straight days. My doctor was out of town at the time, which made it worse. Nasty.
I think the chemistry of Attention Deficit varies from person to person. What works well for one person sucks for another.
I just got fed up with my stupid Mac mouse at home (never would double-click correctly, and I was getting killed in games because of it.
Well, I assumed my alter ego of Pissed Pissedofferson, and broke the little beast. No mouse.
So I ran to my shop and grabbed a Hewlett Packard three button scrolling USB mouse and stuck it on. I also nabbed a Mac USB mouse, but I figured the HP would at least let me click through to where I could download a proper driver for it. If not, I had the Mac mouse to back me up.
So I plugged it in, and voila! instant recognition, Control-Click mapped automatically to the right mouse button, and the scroller worked perfectly. I have never had a multi-button mouse connected to this particular computer before, and this was a Hewlett Packard OEM mouse. It just works.
The only thing standing between a Mac OSX user and left button support is the willingness to spend $9 on a two or three button mouse.
I heartily concur with others who report that starting newbies off with a multi-button mouse is the source of great confusion, and much clumsy verbiage for technical writers.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure you can install Linux on pretty much any Mac as well.
Now what will you find to complain about?
Re: the competition angle. Yes, it will happen eventually, but Apple is making the easy bucks and establishing themselves as the premium brand right now. That's very important. Also, Apple signed agreements with the big labels for distribution rights. For a certain period of time, Apple has a lock on the majority of the Walmart demographic (don't know how long that will last, but I bet it's for a year or two). That creates a slippery slope for the competitors to climb. So if Apple is giving the "artist" (probably the Label) 65 cents a song, they're keeping 34 cents for themselves. How much money could you make if you got paid 34 cents for every 10megabyte download you generated, expecially if you had already paid for the servers you'd be using? The bricks and mortar aspect of Apple's venture is pretty cheap. It's not like they're storing the data in a warehouse on the outskirts of Cupertino. I think Apple has a sweet business model going, at least for the next few years. After that, it's on to the next groovy thang! Innovation can become habit forming.
Not true. The highest recorded wave was caused by an earthquake induced collapse of a glaciar in Lituya Bay, Alaska. The top of the wave reached a height of 1720 feet as it roared out of the narrow channel. Three boats were in the bay when the event ocurred. One of the boats (a fishing trawler--very seaworthy) survived the wave. One of the others was lost with all hands, and the third was washed out to sea and sank, but the crew was rescued. The height of the wave was determined by measuring how high up on the opposite cliff the trees were washed away. Here's a modeling of the event. Notice that the terminus of the wave washing on the shore (at 36 seconds) is higher than the mid-bay maximum at 16 seconds. http://www.sthjournal.org/205/lituya.pdf
Based on the high scores for these games, some people are practically living there. All of this is free and done be a one artist, Ferry Halim.
Just like Open Source, true innovation results when lots of folks get a chance to do stuff based on their own creativity, without a lot of deadlines and marketing guidelines to stifle their ideas.