Something worth thinking about is the idea of the merge between life experience and advertising. For example an advertisement might display a woman rollerblading or smiling. How would you be able to tell a difference between an "advertisement" that contained nothing but a picture of a womans face and a woman sitting still on a park bench, say... reading or something?
I watched the keynote and I have to say I was very impressed overall.
As a digital music creator (who up until now has used a Windows-based PC and Acid Pro) I cannot
tell you how excited I was by the demo John Mayer and Steve Jobs gave of GarageBand. From the
looks of it (and I know that looks can be deceiving) you can record instruments straight into the
computer without a digital interface... and it sounds amazing...I've tried this in the past
(recording through the audio-in port) on my PC and have never gotten good results.
I can't wait to get the new version of iLife.
However, I was a little dissapointed by the price of the new iPod mini. At $250 (just $50 less than
the (now) 15Gb iPod) I can't really see how it's worth it. I'll just pay another $50 and get an
iPod that can hold my entire music library. Not sure what they were thinking with that price.
Though I'm not effected that much by the Xserve G5 or the Xserve Raid for that matter, I was still
impressed by their cross-OS compatability.
Microsoft will NEVER create anything better than Apple. Period. The only thing that Microsoft's got on their side is the general public, which is stupid anyway.
I wouldn't buy one of these "Personal Media Center"s, if for no other reason, because they're made by Microsoft.
The PC manufacturer and seller, best known for its low-price desktops, this week
quietly introduced the T6000, a desktop built around Advanced Micro Devices'
64-bit-capable Athlon 64 processor.
It seems odd to me that if you were the first company to release an lower-end 64 bit
processor you'd be "quiet" about it. Does this hint at the possibility that they're not
very proud of this system? If I were a company that produced the first lower-end computer
flaunting a 64 bit processor, I'd be screaming at the top of my lungs to get people to
take notice.
Any Final Fantasy fans out there? I'm a big fan of the entire FF
series (my fav is still 7) and I'm trying to figure out what FF
X-2 is going to be like. Any insider bits?
Also, same thing for Tony Hawk: Underground. Does anyone know
if anything has changed other than the small bits mentioned in the blurb?
I've done a little research into Silent Hill 3 and I have to say that
it looks like it's going to be a great game. It actually looks like it might
have some of the best game-mode graphics I've seen on the PS2 yet.
Exactly! Call me a spoil sport but I have trouble accepting the fact that these people are smart enough to know when the Earth is going to end and why, but not smart enough to read an assimilate some basic design concepts and color theory? Come on.
Yes I read the article. However, I'm worried about what would be termed as "fouling up the search results". I don't always want to buy products from the BIG online stores. Sometimes I can find them cheaper AND get better service through the small, no-name individual sellers that Google is looking to remove from their results.
If the purpose of a search engine is to help us find the products/content we're looking for then why are they trying to
filter out worthwhile search results? About 50% of the time when I'm searching, I AM looking for vendors of a product in
order to do price comparisons. So, if Google turns their search engine into a search engine that ignores those
types of search results then they've just moved out of the No.1 position in my favorite search engine list. Maybe I'm
missing something....
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Ha ha, I bet you're right. I wouldn't be surprised. Here's the Lineup:
Single Jack Version: iPod
Dual Jack Version: BiPod
Trible Jack Version: TriPod
Six Jack Version: OrgiPod
This is about perfect. However, Apple wouldn't be that suggestive with thier advertising, they're too classy for that. Here's my take, it would have to be a follow-up for the first commercial with the guy walking down the street (from the article):
Cut to a darkened nightclub... fat, slobby iPod guy is approached by sultry woman in her mid-twenties. The guy's eyes widen and grow large as he realizes that she's going to speak to him. All of a sudden the girl leans into his neck to listen to what's playing on his earbuds. The man takes his iPod out of his pocket and holds it in front of him to offer to let her plug her earbuds in. However, the girl motions that she doesn't have an iPod. The man walks away from the woman disgusted.
Commercial?
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"She walked right up to me and got within my comfort field," Crandall stammered. "I was taken aback. She pulled out the earbuds on her iPod and
indicated the jack with her eyes."
Warily unplugging his own earbuds, Crandall gingerly plugged them into the woman's iPod, and
was greeted by a rush of techno.
"We listened for about 30 seconds," Crandall said. "No words were exchanged. We nodded and walked
off."
Why do I get the feeling that this would make a great Apple commercial? I could see them playing this out and it still fitting into the clean and slick Apple marketing image.
You guys are all a litte strange. lol. I've removed my website link from my profile, are you happy? It's not even my website, I built it for my cousin, who is a meathead. You guys are a little crazy.
I wonder if the minor speed improvements will be enough
to silence the people that talk about how MySQL is better
because "it's faster"? If there was neglibable difference in
speed before, shouldn't this new release of Postgres be faster
than MySQL?
This might also be a good time for the developers working on phpPgAdmin
to create a new version that rivals phpMyAdmin in functionality.
Good point. I forgot about the whole SWK thing. Yeah, if I were him I would have been devistated at first, but then I would have liked it once I realized that people thought that was "cool" because everyone had seen "the movie".
Wow. Man am I glad that I didn't have to worry about
this stuff when I was in elementary school. I was a
fat kid that got picked on by two scrawny girls I now
call the "Joslin Twins". I don't think I could have
handled it if they would have setup a website detailing
all of my shortcomings and reasons why other people
should hate me since I was fat. It's a good thing
that they've forgotten about me and they're white trash.
They wouldn't even begin to know how to put up a
website.
Does Front Page Express still come free with Windows? I hope not...
Personally I think personal websites are a great idea. I use mine to keep in touch with my friends and family as well as a place to archive all of my worthwhile works. It's also a great place to keep a journal if you don't mind others reading it. I found an interesting article here that deals specifically with this topic.
This post doesn't say anything about sharing copywritten music. If you knew what this school was like this wouldn't be that big-a-deal. Their students are all top-notch performers and thus any works/music they create are highly sought-after by other musicians. The students are trading their works with eachother, not copywritten materials.
You bring up a very good point with studio time. However, if there was a way to easily produce these chips from a home studio (like CDs) then not only would the artist be able to record the album with no costs (other than studio equipment) but they would also be able to create and distribute very high quality recordings (the chips) that wouldn't loose quality over time.
I've tried to create my own cds and then burn them on to store-bought CDRs and I've noticed that they don't work very well on low-end CD players. If I could create my own high-quality chips that never loose quality and will sound the same on every "player" that would be the way to go.
these things for software distribution. If they start using this chip as a replacement for CD and DVD ROM and no one can afford a "paper-thin chip burner" how will we copy and redistribute software? Of course, this assumes that the machines that make these chips are expensive and wouldn't fit into a typical home office.
One thing I can't help but wonder is how these changes in the medium we distribute music on will effect the low-budget independant musician. As a musician that's tried to produce albums without the help of a record label I have to wonder if a medium like this could do wonders for bands with no money and big dreams.
I know a few years back it was rather expensive just to produce cds in bulk and cds are very inexpensive. But now, if they have these little polymer chips, it should be of almost no cost to the musician.
Anyone else follow my thinking?
at the size of Microsoft's family jewels...
Here they had the perfect chance to step aside and allow someone else to have a chunk of the pie and NO! they had to gobble that up too!
They're just asking for people to scream MONOPOLY in their faces.
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Something worth thinking about is the idea of the merge between life experience and advertising. For example an advertisement might display a woman rollerblading or smiling. How would you be able to tell a difference between an "advertisement" that contained nothing but a picture of a womans face and a woman sitting still on a park bench, say... reading or something?
As a digital music creator (who up until now has used a Windows-based PC and Acid Pro) I cannot tell you how excited I was by the demo John Mayer and Steve Jobs gave of GarageBand. From the looks of it (and I know that looks can be deceiving) you can record instruments straight into the computer without a digital interface... and it sounds amazing...I've tried this in the past (recording through the audio-in port) on my PC and have never gotten good results.
I can't wait to get the new version of iLife.
However, I was a little dissapointed by the price of the new iPod mini. At $250 (just $50 less than the (now) 15Gb iPod) I can't really see how it's worth it. I'll just pay another $50 and get an iPod that can hold my entire music library. Not sure what they were thinking with that price.
Though I'm not effected that much by the Xserve G5 or the Xserve Raid for that matter, I was still impressed by their cross-OS compatability.
I wouldn't buy one of these "Personal Media Center"s, if for no other reason, because they're made by Microsoft.
It seems odd to me that if you were the first company to release an lower-end 64 bit processor you'd be "quiet" about it. Does this hint at the possibility that they're not very proud of this system? If I were a company that produced the first lower-end computer flaunting a 64 bit processor, I'd be screaming at the top of my lungs to get people to take notice.
Maybe it's just me...
Also, same thing for Tony Hawk: Underground. Does anyone know if anything has changed other than the small bits mentioned in the blurb?
I've done a little research into Silent Hill 3 and I have to say that it looks like it's going to be a great game. It actually looks like it might have some of the best game-mode graphics I've seen on the PS2 yet.
Exactly! Call me a spoil sport but I have trouble accepting the fact that these people are smart enough to know when the Earth is going to end and why, but not smart enough to read an assimilate some basic design concepts and color theory? Come on.
Got it. I must have misunderstood the article. Thanks for the clarification.
Yes I read the article. However, I'm worried about what would be termed as "fouling up the search results". I don't always want to buy products from the BIG online stores. Sometimes I can find them cheaper AND get better service through the small, no-name individual sellers that Google is looking to remove from their results.
If the purpose of a search engine is to help us find the products/content we're looking for then why are they trying to filter out worthwhile search results? About 50% of the time when I'm searching, I AM looking for vendors of a product in order to do price comparisons. So, if Google turns their search engine into a search engine that ignores those types of search results then they've just moved out of the No.1 position in my favorite search engine list. Maybe I'm missing something....
Ha ha, I bet you're right. I wouldn't be surprised. Here's the Lineup: Single Jack Version: iPod Dual Jack Version: BiPod Trible Jack Version: TriPod Six Jack Version: OrgiPod
Cut to a darkened nightclub... fat, slobby iPod guy is approached by sultry woman in her mid-twenties. The guy's eyes widen and grow large as he realizes that she's going to speak to him. All of a sudden the girl leans into his neck to listen to what's playing on his earbuds. The man takes his iPod out of his pocket and holds it in front of him to offer to let her plug her earbuds in. However, the girl motions that she doesn't have an iPod. The man walks away from the woman disgusted.
Warily unplugging his own earbuds, Crandall gingerly plugged them into the woman's iPod, and was greeted by a rush of techno.
"We listened for about 30 seconds," Crandall said. "No words were exchanged. We nodded and walked off."
Why do I get the feeling that this would make a great Apple commercial? I could see them playing this out and it still fitting into the clean and slick Apple marketing image.
You guys are all a litte strange. lol. I've removed my website link from my profile, are you happy? It's not even my website, I built it for my cousin, who is a meathead. You guys are a little crazy.
I'm not quite sure why you're calling me a troll... I think I made a valid point. Also, I don't sell steroids, I sell nutritional supplements.
This might also be a good time for the developers working on phpPgAdmin to create a new version that rivals phpMyAdmin in functionality.
Good point. I forgot about the whole SWK thing. Yeah, if I were him I would have been devistated at first, but then I would have liked it once I realized that people thought that was "cool" because everyone had seen "the movie".
Life's lessons can be a beautiful thing if you respond positively.
Yeah, but anybody with a computer and Front Page can put together a website (albiet a bad one).
Does Front Page Express still come free with Windows? I hope not...
Personally I think personal websites are a great idea. I use mine to keep in touch with my friends and family as well as a place to archive all of my worthwhile works. It's also a great place to keep a journal if you don't mind others reading it. I found an interesting article here that deals specifically with this topic.
This post doesn't say anything about sharing copywritten music. If you knew what this school was like this wouldn't be that big-a-deal. Their students are all top-notch performers and thus any works/music they create are highly sought-after by other musicians. The students are trading their works with eachother, not copywritten materials.
You bring up a very good point with studio time. However, if there was a way to easily produce these chips from a home studio (like CDs) then not only would the artist be able to record the album with no costs (other than studio equipment) but they would also be able to create and distribute very high quality recordings (the chips) that wouldn't loose quality over time.
I've tried to create my own cds and then burn them on to store-bought CDRs and I've noticed that they don't work very well on low-end CD players. If I could create my own high-quality chips that never loose quality and will sound the same on every "player" that would be the way to go.
Just my $0.02
these things for software distribution. If they start using this chip as a replacement for CD and DVD ROM and no one can afford a "paper-thin chip burner" how will we copy and redistribute software? Of course, this assumes that the machines that make these chips are expensive and wouldn't fit into a typical home office.
One thing I can't help but wonder is how these changes in the medium we distribute music on will effect the low-budget independant musician. As a musician that's tried to produce albums without the help of a record label I have to wonder if a medium like this could do wonders for bands with no money and big dreams. I know a few years back it was rather expensive just to produce cds in bulk and cds are very inexpensive. But now, if they have these little polymer chips, it should be of almost no cost to the musician. Anyone else follow my thinking?
at the size of Microsoft's family jewels... Here they had the perfect chance to step aside and allow someone else to have a chunk of the pie and NO! they had to gobble that up too! They're just asking for people to scream MONOPOLY in their faces.