i'd like to get 4 of these in a 2x2 wall mounted configuration.
The 2405FPW features either 16ms or 12ms response. Which is okay, but nothing to write home about these days. For twitchy games I'd prefer something a little more snappy.
So his system seems to be just a labour-intensive process for manufacturing what are basically just glorified splogs? I think a fully automated system is more lucrative, and more scalable.
Azureus is a resource hog - slow, bloated, and imposes a vast footprint. If your platform is Windows, then smaller C++ clients like BitComet and uTorrent blow it away.
Notwithstanding the booster drivel, it both amuses and saddens me that "Web 2.0" is indeed turning out to be just another exit strategy and hype spew for tool makers, as many people said all along.
"When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which the young applaud the most insignificant improvements - the invention of some new valve or sprocket - while remaining heedless of the world's barbarism" (Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot)
The young and the naive at least have an excuse for credulous optimism. Those old enough to know better usually *do* know better, but have a vested interest in the whole bubble boosterism.
Notwithstanding the booster drivel, it both amuses and saddens me that "Web 2.0" is indeed turning out to be just another exit strategy and hype spew for tool makers, as many people said all along.
Yahoo is where good ideas go to die in its evil, uncaring corporate bosom of anti-user hostility. EGroups. Geocities. Broadcast. The list goes on and on.
"When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which the young applaud the most insignificant improvements - the invention of some new valve or sprocket - while remaining heedless of the world's barbarism" (Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot)
The young and the naive at least have an excuse for credulous optimism. Those old enough to know better usually *do* know better, but have a vested interest in the whole bubble boosterism.
now the thought of TiVo-ing Adult Swim to my iPod video for watching while I commute to/from work is just *too* tempting
Consider ReplayTV, with built-in ethernet. It's got a Java-based platform-neutral controller called DVArchive, and it produces MPGs suitable for transcoding to iPod or PSP with no DRM attached. Oh, and you can share and download thousands of shows from other ReplayTV owners using Poopli.
I can't see how Apple can get away for long with charging $1 for muddy sounding 128Kbits lossy when something like MusicGiants is charging only $1.29 for full quality, major label, lossless downloads. If the "premium" between the iTMS low quality and the "full" quality tracks is only 30 cents, then I am missing something. Either MusicGiants will be raising its prices soon, or Apple will be lowering its prices for 128Kbps or upping the quality.
My thinking on this is that if successful, it should prompt Apple to offer lossless downloads from the iTMS Service, if only because Apple likes to present a "high end" image, and having a competitor actively dissing iTMS by lumping it in, quality-wise, with "pirated music from p2p networks" has got to hurt.
This is what I think makes iTunes + iPod the best, being able to manage a large music collection in very powerful ways, with ease.
The iTunes smartlists are okay, but a bit simple and inflexible. Can you create calculated values from columns in one list table, and present them within another list for further operation? Try Media Center if you want some real customisation and flexibility. Personally, iTunes choked on me after 80K files or so. It has no headroom. I prefer software that is not afraid to take on really big libraries...
Apple's Smart Playlists are as close as any software gets to letting me run SQL queries on my music library to generate playlists.
The iTunes smartlists are okay, but a bit simple and inflexible. Can you create calculated values from columns in one list table, and present them within another list for further operation? Try Media Center if you want some real customisation and flexibility. Or, as other people have pointed out, if you want to run actual SQL...
When the carriers finally get enough bandwidth to deploy always-on streaming is when Apple really has to worry. With sufficient bandwidth for streaming, carriers can link up with cable/phone providers to sell "all you can eat", ala Napster-To-Go or Yahoo Unlimited subscription services. Offer to bill people an extra $10 monthly on their mobile bill for unlimited music or personalised radio? That's an easy sell. People can move their playlists between their phones, their HTPCs, their stereos, and their cars. With that system, the idea of paying per-item licence fees ala Apple will seem as quaint as laserdisc. And about as permanent a media investment.
Globally, the revenue of mobile phone ringtone sales dwarfs that of music downloads by around 15:1. That is, the total revenue of *all* music downloads combined (iTMS, Napster, Rhapsody, etc) accounts for less than 10% of the total revenue sales that mobile carriers are raking in from ringtones.
Remember, whereas Apple's sales of iPods are reckoned in single-digit millions per quarter, mobile phone sales are reckoned in hundred of millions per quarter. That's a lot of people buying "one or two" ringtones per phone. Now maybe a lot of people will buy "one or two" tunes per phone. Got doubts? Fire up your spreadsheet and run some numbers...
Also, Apple's revenues per iPod from iTGMS are scant - I think the figure is something around 20 tracks per iPod. So in terms of service revenue, iPods are not very profitable, whereas the *billions* of mobile phones deployed are veritable revenue engines.
If people are stupid enough to pay that much for a polyphonic midi of a song then they might have a niche business.
Globally, the revenue of mobile phone ringtone sales dwarfs that of music downloads by around 15:1. That is, the total revenue of *all* music downloads combined (iTMS, Napster, Rhapsody, etc) accounts for less than 10% of the total revenue sales that mobile carriers are raking in from ringtones.
Remember, whereas Apple's sales of iPods are reckoned in single-digit millions per quarter, mobile phone sales are reckoned in hundred of millions per quarter. That's a lot of people buying "one or two" ringtones per phone.
Looney Tunes. They're old, and I don't think they are regularly broadcast anywhere.
Funny thing about Looney Tunes, they have been available for years on DVD. So it was a simple job over the last few years to rip them to a video Archos and enjoy them, Or on a Treo. Or a phone. Or a PSP. I'm sorry for so many people that it's taken the iPod so long to finally get some kind of video playback. Portable cartoons rule. It's nice having complete runs of Simpsons and Futurama ready to go at the click of a button...
90% of the DNA is never used, and so Joe has a 90% chance of having inserted himself into a string of rubbish that will never be transcribed.
That's not quite true. Many retroviruses and retrotransposons carry their own promoter sequences with them, so they increase the chance of transcription by the cellular machinery. It gets trickier when you have something like SINES, however, which lack promoter elements. They basically cluster near LINES, which carry promoter activity, so that the SINES get transcribed along with the LINES.
the hard drive upgradeability is what brought me to TiVo
For me, the built-in autoconfig ethernet of ReplayTV is what attracted me. I could, it is true, upgrade the hard drive inside the box. But it's probably easier just to hang another RAID-1 500GB box on the network, couple it to a DVArchive JVM, and let the ReplayTVs use that. Oh, that and the automatic commercial skip and internet show sharing.
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i'd like to get 4 of these in a 2x2 wall mounted configuration.
The 2405FPW features either 16ms or 12ms response. Which is okay, but nothing to write home about these days. For twitchy games I'd prefer something a little more snappy.
So his system seems to be just a labour-intensive process for manufacturing what are basically just glorified splogs? I think a fully automated system is more lucrative, and more scalable.
Azureus is the best!
Azureus is a resource hog - slow, bloated, and imposes a vast footprint. If your platform is Windows, then smaller C++ clients like BitComet and uTorrent blow it away.
Notwithstanding the booster drivel, it both amuses and saddens me that "Web 2.0" is indeed turning out to be just another exit strategy and hype spew for tool makers, as many people said all along.
"When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which the young applaud the most insignificant improvements - the invention of some new valve or sprocket - while remaining heedless of the world's barbarism"
(Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot)
The young and the naive at least have an excuse for credulous optimism. Those old enough to know better usually *do* know better, but have a vested interest in the whole bubble boosterism.
Notwithstanding the booster drivel, it both amuses and saddens me that "Web 2.0" is indeed turning out to be just another exit strategy and hype spew for tool makers, as many people said all along.
Yahoo is where good ideas go to die in its evil, uncaring corporate bosom of anti-user hostility. EGroups. Geocities. Broadcast. The list goes on and on.
"When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which the young applaud the most insignificant improvements - the invention of some new valve or sprocket - while remaining heedless of the world's barbarism"
(Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot)
The young and the naive at least have an excuse for credulous optimism. Those old enough to know better usually *do* know better, but have a vested interest in the whole bubble boosterism.
Lots of what they are doing is in line with the Agile Work Axioms and agile practices.
I find your astroturfing... disturbing.
P4s have held the content-creation benchmark record in Windows over AMD's parts for a long time
Em, no, at least, not now.
iTunes is really the only good way to buy classical.
Classical at 128Kbps? What does that sound like?
now the thought of TiVo-ing Adult Swim to my iPod video for watching while I commute to/from work is just *too* tempting
Consider ReplayTV, with built-in ethernet. It's got a Java-based platform-neutral controller called DVArchive, and it produces MPGs suitable for transcoding to iPod or PSP with no DRM attached. Oh, and you can share and download thousands of shows from other ReplayTV owners using Poopli.
I can't see how Apple can get away for long with charging $1 for muddy sounding 128Kbits lossy when something like MusicGiants is charging only $1.29 for full quality, major label, lossless downloads. If the "premium" between the iTMS low quality and the "full" quality tracks is only 30 cents, then I am missing something. Either MusicGiants will be raising its prices soon, or Apple will be lowering its prices for 128Kbps or upping the quality.
My thinking on this is that if successful, it should prompt Apple to offer lossless downloads from the iTMS Service, if only because Apple likes to present a "high end" image, and having a competitor actively dissing iTMS by lumping it in, quality-wise, with "pirated music from p2p networks" has got to hurt.
ReplayTV's DVArchive is Java-based and platform agnostic.
That is a recipe for piracy and pornography
Minitel was *always* all about the porn.
I would drop it in an instant if I could have a nice open source digital music player
iRiver with open-source Rockbox...
This is what I think makes iTunes + iPod the best, being able to manage a large music collection in very powerful ways, with ease.
The iTunes smartlists are okay, but a bit simple and inflexible. Can you create calculated values from columns in one list table, and present them within another list for further operation? Try Media Center if you want some real customisation and flexibility. Personally, iTunes choked on me after 80K files or so. It has no headroom. I prefer software that is not afraid to take on really big libraries...
Apple's Smart Playlists are as close as any software gets to letting me run SQL queries on my music library to generate playlists.
The iTunes smartlists are okay, but a bit simple and inflexible. Can you create calculated values from columns in one list table, and present them within another list for further operation? Try Media Center if you want some real customisation and flexibility. Or, as other people have pointed out, if you want to run actual SQL...
When the carriers finally get enough bandwidth to deploy always-on streaming is when Apple really has to worry. With sufficient bandwidth for streaming, carriers can link up with cable/phone providers to sell "all you can eat", ala Napster-To-Go or Yahoo Unlimited subscription services. Offer to bill people an extra $10 monthly on their mobile bill for unlimited music or personalised radio? That's an easy sell. People can move their playlists between their phones, their HTPCs, their stereos, and their cars. With that system, the idea of paying per-item licence fees ala Apple will seem as quaint as laserdisc. And about as permanent a media investment.
Globally, the revenue of mobile phone ringtone sales dwarfs that of music downloads by around 15:1. That is, the total revenue of *all* music downloads combined (iTMS, Napster, Rhapsody, etc) accounts for less than 10% of the total revenue sales that mobile carriers are raking in from ringtones.
Remember, whereas Apple's sales of iPods are reckoned in single-digit millions per quarter, mobile phone sales are reckoned in hundred of millions per quarter. That's a lot of people buying "one or two" ringtones per phone. Now maybe a lot of people will buy "one or two" tunes per phone. Got doubts? Fire up your spreadsheet and run some numbers...
Also, Apple's revenues per iPod from iTGMS are scant - I think the figure is something around 20 tracks per iPod. So in terms of service revenue, iPods are not very profitable, whereas the *billions* of mobile phones deployed are veritable revenue engines.
If people are stupid enough to pay that much for a polyphonic midi of a song then they might have a niche business.
Globally, the revenue of mobile phone ringtone sales dwarfs that of music downloads by around 15:1. That is, the total revenue of *all* music downloads combined (iTMS, Napster, Rhapsody, etc) accounts for less than 10% of the total revenue sales that mobile carriers are raking in from ringtones.
Remember, whereas Apple's sales of iPods are reckoned in single-digit millions per quarter, mobile phone sales are reckoned in hundred of millions per quarter. That's a lot of people buying "one or two" ringtones per phone.
I laugh more at cowardly assholes. If you're going to say something, put a name to your opinion.
Today only the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar have not officially switched to the metric system.
You're in good company there - what is that, like 4% of the world? Well done!
You've just got to laugh at "scientific" publications that print their data in Fahrenheit.
How many roods to the hogshead is that anyway?
ultimately what we need for IPTV is for the internet to become everyone's video collection, everyone's DVR timeshifter
It's been done for years with Poopli for ReplayTV.
AVS Forum gets down'n'dirty...
Same for the ReplayTV -> PSP...
Looney Tunes. They're old, and I don't think they are regularly broadcast anywhere.
Funny thing about Looney Tunes, they have been available for years on DVD. So it was a simple job over the last few years to rip them to a video Archos and enjoy them, Or on a Treo. Or a phone. Or a PSP. I'm sorry for so many people that it's taken the iPod so long to finally get some kind of video playback. Portable cartoons rule. It's nice having complete runs of Simpsons and Futurama ready to go at the click of a button...
90% of the DNA is never used, and so Joe has a 90% chance of having inserted himself into a string of rubbish that will never be transcribed.
That's not quite true. Many retroviruses and retrotransposons carry their own promoter sequences with them, so they increase the chance of transcription by the cellular machinery. It gets trickier when you have something like SINES, however, which lack promoter elements. They basically cluster near LINES, which carry promoter activity, so that the SINES get transcribed along with the LINES.
the hard drive upgradeability is what brought me to TiVo
For me, the built-in autoconfig ethernet of ReplayTV is what attracted me. I could, it is true, upgrade the hard drive inside the box. But it's probably easier just to hang another RAID-1 500GB box on the network, couple it to a DVArchive JVM, and let the ReplayTVs use that. Oh, that and the automatic commercial skip and internet show sharing.