Well, Earth is ~6 million years old, but that doesn't stop the Catholics from claiming their leader created it ~6 thousand years ago...why not beer too?
It is FUD, but it isn't. I find it rather humorous that we rave about iTunes and the iPod, a proprietary, un-cheap product (albeit a quality, attractive, and easy to use product) that has no competitive hardware, a la Apple's track record. We've all seen/heard/spouted off arguments that this helps hardware compatibility; I won't disagree. And frankly, I'm amazed Apple is willing to license the iPod to HP. It wouldn't surprise me to see an iPAQ/iPod combo down the road.
At the same time, we in actuality have more variety and choice with MS-based/third-party players. The pain is that NONE of them are compatible, thus showing MS's FUD, that they want a standard to be their standard. Ultimately, I perceive it as the same exact thing. It's just a question of which corporation/conglomerate of corporations do you want dictating the standard.
The same goes for AAC vs. WMA. Both are proprietary, both have licensing costs, and both produce higher-quality audio than 128k or 160k MP3 (and, IMO, ogg, but ogg is Open, is my preference because it is open, and I won't knock it here for fear of kharma-rape;) The fact that MS is bitching because HP wants to add WMA support to the iPod amazes me further; especially when they're getting their hands in the pot (to some extent) no matter what the standard becomes. And it amazes me even more that Apple would even consider adding support for WMA to the iPod.
Regardless, I'm just short of fascinated by this whole ordeal and wait with trepidation to see where it ends up.
I think you missed one thing. Rather, one thing is missing from the target audience of this device: a livingroom PC. My parents do not now, nor ever would, have a PC in their living room. They would buy a TiVO, they do have a DVD player, they do have a computer (several actually), and they would have wireless if they could get DSL or afford a Satellite Internet setup. When the DVD dies, and they get DSL, this is something that would tie it all together nicely. Whether they would use the streaming capabilities I question. But who knows?
Even better, can we hijack someone else's stream and force them to watch what we pump to their box? Imagine forcing someone to watch barney all the time? Then when they get near death from barney, they'll throw the new toy away for some peace and quiet and then nab it from the curb. Voila, free wireless AP/PVR/streaming server!
classic! Maybe it'll even make the user use File & Printer Sharing services in Windows for the movie transfer! How convenient would that be? Open access (maybe a bit of WEP, but AirSnort will take care of that) to everything. Muahahaha.
The thing is, in my opinion, of course, the majority of the people who vote or hold office of power more or less fit into the stereotype I mentioned above. So either the politicians are intelligent enough to know how they got there and not knock that, or they're oblivious all the way up to the president (wouldn't surprise me in the least...)
I agree with you that it creates classism, and in theory it's something we stand against. In theory, communism works. But in mother Russia, communism works you! (sorry, couldn't resist.)
Really though, what bulk? Apart from all the 256MB players out there, the iPod is tiny. Cutting.5"x.5"x.1" isn't that much of a reduction, but my point is it was small to begin with. The reduction in weight (if any, I forgot to look) might be of some value, but even then, I don't know if I'd buy that.
Regardless, they're pretty. But I think I'm in the "well, if I spend 250, might as well go 300 and get 11 more gigs" group. Of course, if I buy a case/remote/armband/other accessory, that's another chunk of change.
And the colors are "trend setting," not pastel! (See Apple's iPod page)
I think this is exactly the type of post the original poster was attempting to question.
I have several friends who knock frat/business school types because they buy their friends and buy their way into jobs and sail their way through life (his opinion, not necessarilly mine.) The question I asked them once was, what's so wrong with that? Sure, there's no pride in achieving anything yourself, but you've got a Benz, drinking buddies, and a six-figure income, for sitting behind a desk and pretending to know what you're doing. Granted, this is exteremely stereotypical, but most of us have met this type of person before. Being good at marketing and nothing else worked for them.
Arguably, many of us (/.ers) consider MS a company good at marketing, not at software. That hasn't stopped them yet, has it? Just trying to play devil's advocate here...
Why even log in? Make X go straight to a config utility with the option to jump to console (Alt-Ctrl-F1) if you're more of a power user.
This kinda has me thinking now. A KNOPPIX clone installed on a hard drive that comes with webmin or some other simple config utility setup to run file services for a non-power user. FTP, HTTP, Samba, BackupPC, MP3, Tivo stuff perhaps...
Anyone seen anything like this? Any thoughts on why it would be a good or bad idea?
Perhaps they're banking on income from iTunes, the same way video game console makers bank on income from game sales? Far-fetched, but it wouldn't shock me.
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My question is: how long did this guy spend putting this together? And his boss's question is: Did you do this during company time?
If I had a cube and not an office, I would consider doing something like this...I wouldn't forget a door though.
...this is exactly the sort of shit that MS is talking about when it brings up it's FUD...
Bet'cha five bucks these guys are under-cover MS operatives ordered to spoil the image of open-source developers by writing shitty code to break people's operating systems. Wait, why would they have to be undercover?
Actually probably not. I don't think you can click on a link in correctly. (well, right-click, I suppose, but I digress) Both IE and firebird did not connect. I found (and posted) a link from a Winamp forum with the IP instead of DNS name, which worked. Why it worked, I don't know...
Maybe more Kazaa users should get up and vote, then we might have a little more sway over our elected officials. (Not trying to be inflamatory here, but I see a hole in your sig's logic...)
What about the flipside: could you implement this driver somehow so that it followed permissions at some level? Can you modify nfts permissions from Linux? (Never messed with this...) Does windows have any problem if I were to create a file on an NTFS partition from Linux and then move to Windows? In this situation, what are the default permissions for any files created? (Wide open, inherited, etc.)
At the Univ. I worked at before, this would have completely mitigated the effects of Blaster, et. al. and saved us (support staff) two weeks of dealing with the sys. engineers' mis-configurations...
One of my HS friend's brother was a comm. dude for the Army, and he claimed that the beeps actually meant something...he never said what though, so he could've easily been full of shit.
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Well, Earth is ~6 million years old, but that doesn't stop the Catholics from claiming their leader created it ~6 thousand years ago...why not beer too?
At the same time, we in actuality have more variety and choice with MS-based/third-party players. The pain is that NONE of them are compatible, thus showing MS's FUD, that they want a standard to be their standard. Ultimately, I perceive it as the same exact thing. It's just a question of which corporation/conglomerate of corporations do you want dictating the standard.
The same goes for AAC vs. WMA. Both are proprietary, both have licensing costs, and both produce higher-quality audio than 128k or 160k MP3 (and, IMO, ogg, but ogg is Open, is my preference because it is open, and I won't knock it here for fear of kharma-rape ;) The fact that MS is bitching because HP wants to add WMA support to the iPod amazes me further; especially when they're getting their hands in the pot (to some extent) no matter what the standard becomes. And it amazes me even more that Apple would even consider adding support for WMA to the iPod.
Regardless, I'm just short of fascinated by this whole ordeal and wait with trepidation to see where it ends up.
I think you missed one thing. Rather, one thing is missing from the target audience of this device: a livingroom PC. My parents do not now, nor ever would, have a PC in their living room. They would buy a TiVO, they do have a DVD player, they do have a computer (several actually), and they would have wireless if they could get DSL or afford a Satellite Internet setup. When the DVD dies, and they get DSL, this is something that would tie it all together nicely. Whether they would use the streaming capabilities I question. But who knows?
Even better, can we hijack someone else's stream and force them to watch what we pump to their box? Imagine forcing someone to watch barney all the time? Then when they get near death from barney, they'll throw the new toy away for some peace and quiet and then nab it from the curb. Voila, free wireless AP/PVR/streaming server!
classic! Maybe it'll even make the user use File & Printer Sharing services in Windows for the movie transfer! How convenient would that be? Open access (maybe a bit of WEP, but AirSnort will take care of that) to everything. Muahahaha.
What I want to know is would it be possible to fly backwards around the sun faster than the speed of light and travel back in time?
The thing is, in my opinion, of course, the majority of the people who vote or hold office of power more or less fit into the stereotype I mentioned above. So either the politicians are intelligent enough to know how they got there and not knock that, or they're oblivious all the way up to the president (wouldn't surprise me in the least...)
I agree with you that it creates classism, and in theory it's something we stand against. In theory, communism works. But in mother Russia, communism works you! (sorry, couldn't resist.)
Really though, what bulk? Apart from all the 256MB players out there, the iPod is tiny. Cutting .5"x.5"x.1" isn't that much of a reduction, but my point is it was small to begin with. The reduction in weight (if any, I forgot to look) might be of some value, but even then, I don't know if I'd buy that.
Regardless, they're pretty. But I think I'm in the "well, if I spend 250, might as well go 300 and get 11 more gigs" group. Of course, if I buy a case/remote/armband/other accessory, that's another chunk of change.
And the colors are " trend setting ," not pastel! (See Apple's iPod page)
If you check apple's ipod site, it lists battery life as the same as the regular ipods.
I have several friends who knock frat/business school types because they buy their friends and buy their way into jobs and sail their way through life (his opinion, not necessarilly mine.) The question I asked them once was, what's so wrong with that? Sure, there's no pride in achieving anything yourself, but you've got a Benz, drinking buddies, and a six-figure income, for sitting behind a desk and pretending to know what you're doing. Granted, this is exteremely stereotypical, but most of us have met this type of person before. Being good at marketing and nothing else worked for them.
Arguably, many of us (/.ers) consider MS a company good at marketing, not at software. That hasn't stopped them yet, has it? Just trying to play devil's advocate here...
This kinda has me thinking now. A KNOPPIX clone installed on a hard drive that comes with webmin or some other simple config utility setup to run file services for a non-power user. FTP, HTTP, Samba, BackupPC, MP3, Tivo stuff perhaps...
Anyone seen anything like this? Any thoughts on why it would be a good or bad idea?
Perhaps they're banking on income from iTunes, the same way video game console makers bank on income from game sales? Far-fetched, but it wouldn't shock me.
My question is: how long did this guy spend putting this together? And his boss's question is: Did you do this during company time?
If I had a cube and not an office, I would consider doing something like this...I wouldn't forget a door though.
Two Bulova watches. Unless you bought them from a guy in a trench-coat, I'd guess that rang a sizeable bill.
Actually probably not. I don't think you can click on a link in correctly. (well, right-click, I suppose, but I digress) Both IE and firebird did not connect. I found (and posted) a link from a Winamp forum with the IP instead of DNS name, which worked. Why it worked, I don't know...
That link wasn't working for me either. Try this:e xe
http://64.12.168.244/winamp/client/winamp50_full.
*sigh* if only!
Maybe more Kazaa users should get up and vote, then we might have a little more sway over our elected officials. (Not trying to be inflamatory here, but I see a hole in your sig's logic...)
[I think] Netmeeting is still present in XP, though I'd have to go to ntfs.org or another power-user site to remember what the exe is called.
What about the flipside: could you implement this driver somehow so that it followed permissions at some level? Can you modify nfts permissions from Linux? (Never messed with this...) Does windows have any problem if I were to create a file on an NTFS partition from Linux and then move to Windows? In this situation, what are the default permissions for any files created? (Wide open, inherited, etc.)
At the Univ. I worked at before, this would have completely mitigated the effects of Blaster, et. al. and saved us (support staff) two weeks of dealing with the sys. engineers' mis-configurations...
One of my HS friend's brother was a comm. dude for the Army, and he claimed that the beeps actually meant something...he never said what though, so he could've easily been full of shit.
Check yer math, son...still, you're not as far off as Cliff.