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... Unfortunately. I was hoping Apple's lowest tier would still allow us to boot into 9 when necessary... Another case of Apple dragging us into the future, whether we like it or not.
Unfortunately there are many applications (including a few decent games) that don't boot, or run buggy from X running "classic." My faithful laser printer doesn't print from X running "classic." I can understand why it wouldn't work with a G5, but how difficult would it really be to allow dual-boot with the remaining G4 computers?
Marcomedia's done pretty well with artsy names... "Flash", "Fireworks" don't really tell you much. And when I hear "Dreamweaver", I don't think of weaving my HTML dreams into a website... I think of a ceesy 70's ballad.
The Zip Drive was a nice... novelty. I never purchased one as I thought the media was too slow and too overpriced. It was also introduced just as CD burners were becoming mainstream, and there's no doubt who won that war. A CD golds 6-7 times more data than a zip disk, is drastically cheaper than the aforementioned zip disk, and every computer can use the media (unlike said zip disk)!
The Zip was much, much more than a novelty in the mid 90's... They were the standard. They were around for years before CD burners were viable alternative, and even in the late 90's were widely used... CD media itself may have been cheaper, but for a long time CD burners were new, slow and prohibitely expensive (I can remember when you couldn't get one for less than $250-$300, more than twice as much as a Zip drive.)
Of course, the 100mb Zip's time has long passed and Iomega has failed miserably with every product since then... Personally I vowed to never buy another product after they dropped driver support for my Iomega CDRW when Mac OS upgraded from 9.04 to 9.1
That's assuming there won't be a size limit imposed on individual e-mails attachments... And I bet there will, the abuse potential otherwise is too great (just as an example, with 1gb of storage and no limits, I could mail you a full Photoshop CD.) I'd be very, very surprised if you could attach a 5mb+ file
The labels don't "pay" for these things. They front the money.
Talk to anyone who's ever been in a major-label band that put out a few albums, but didn't quite make it. It's extremely likely they're thousands and thousands of dollars in the hole to the label for all the costs listed above (and grossly inflated versions of them, at that.) With no hope of recovering it, often forced to abandon the band because they're not allowed to record another album or even continue to tour under the name. You can say "they should have signed better contracts", but unless multiple labels are bidding on you there's really no room to bargain. The smart ones at least incorporate the band so they're not personally liable.
The fact is, artists rarely see a dime from albums sold, even if the record goes gold. The labels gouge them for every cent-- just about any low-to-mid-level executive at a label makes more than 95% of their artists. The only way artists can hope to see money is from licensing songs to commercials and movies (and then, it's only to the guy who owns the writing credits.)
I worked at a record store in Brooklyn and knew guys from bands like Helmet, Offspring, Psychedelic Furs... As well as many who had a major-label shot but didn't make it. None of them have a dime to their name.
Well, at least we got the "buffering" joke out of the way right off the bat. Not that I blame you, it's a guaranteed "+5 Funny" in every Real-related thread.
My iBook, on the other hand, is on its second battery in 16 months and still is lucky to get 1 1/2 hours. I've gone back to toting my old Wallstreet around when I need long battery life. I can still get 7+ hours on the dual batteries, and swap with another charged one without even putting the system to sleep.
So if Steve's really listening, I beg of you. Bring back the Wallstreet/Lombard/Pismo's multi-purpose drive bays, or at least build TWO battery slots in the new i/Powerbooks (at least the 14"/15" and 17" models.)
... Because, it's a completely different situation. At least it was when the courts made the decision. Movie rentals are most often viewed only once. (Yeah I know you saw Star Wars 100 times but you know what I mean.) Music is meant to be listened to over and over, so a rented CD would most certainly be duplicated (you could say you were "trying it out", but we know how the RIAA likes that defense.)
Also note, at the time of the decision, VHS tapes weren't priced for consumers. As anyone who ever lost a Blockbuster rental could tell you, the stores paid $70, even $100 and up for their rental tapes. As opposed to $15 for a new CD.
The headline in anti-Apple, pro-WMV press hands will do more damage than the actual program. It's not that big a deal.
1. It is not like you can use it do steal songs from the iTunes store. THAT would be a problem.
2. It sounds like an app. that would not be used by the general population. Like the various patches that allow you to download FROM the iPod (which I believe are a greater threat to RIAA, as they actually allow massive selections of mp3's to be easily swapped) the casual user will likely not know, or care the app. exists.
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Unfortunately there are many applications (including a few decent games) that don't boot, or run buggy from X running "classic." My faithful laser printer doesn't print from X running "classic." I can understand why it wouldn't work with a G5, but how difficult would it really be to allow dual-boot with the remaining G4 computers?
Adobe's probably a lost cause, but Macromedia would do well to port its projects over. Dreamweaver, Flash, Freehand, Fireworks...
Marcomedia's done pretty well with artsy names... "Flash", "Fireworks" don't really tell you much. And when I hear "Dreamweaver", I don't think of weaving my HTML dreams into a website... I think of a ceesy 70's ballad.
Perhaps because they're abandoned support for your OS?
The Zip was much, much more than a novelty in the mid 90's... They were the standard. They were around for years before CD burners were viable alternative, and even in the late 90's were widely used... CD media itself may have been cheaper, but for a long time CD burners were new, slow and prohibitely expensive (I can remember when you couldn't get one for less than $250-$300, more than twice as much as a Zip drive.)
Of course, the 100mb Zip's time has long passed and Iomega has failed miserably with every product since then... Personally I vowed to never buy another product after they dropped driver support for my Iomega CDRW when Mac OS upgraded from 9.04 to 9.1
I'm gonna try to grab the name "Mike Rowe", just to teach that smartass kid a lesson.
That's assuming there won't be a size limit imposed on individual e-mails attachments... And I bet there will, the abuse potential otherwise is too great (just as an example, with 1gb of storage and no limits, I could mail you a full Photoshop CD.) I'd be very, very surprised if you could attach a 5mb+ file
Talk to anyone who's ever been in a major-label band that put out a few albums, but didn't quite make it. It's extremely likely they're thousands and thousands of dollars in the hole to the label for all the costs listed above (and grossly inflated versions of them, at that.) With no hope of recovering it, often forced to abandon the band because they're not allowed to record another album or even continue to tour under the name. You can say "they should have signed better contracts", but unless multiple labels are bidding on you there's really no room to bargain. The smart ones at least incorporate the band so they're not personally liable.
The fact is, artists rarely see a dime from albums sold, even if the record goes gold. The labels gouge them for every cent-- just about any low-to-mid-level executive at a label makes more than 95% of their artists. The only way artists can hope to see money is from licensing songs to commercials and movies (and then, it's only to the guy who owns the writing credits.)
I worked at a record store in Brooklyn and knew guys from bands like Helmet, Offspring, Psychedelic Furs... As well as many who had a major-label shot but didn't make it. None of them have a dime to their name.
... Pretty obvious, I say.
And no, these aren't actually "Read Only Memory." But they are dumps from arcade machines, so it's not such an imbelicic "fad word."
Well, at least we got the "buffering" joke out of the way right off the bat. Not that I blame you, it's a guaranteed "+5 Funny" in every Real-related thread.
So if Steve's really listening, I beg of you. Bring back the Wallstreet/Lombard/Pismo's multi-purpose drive bays, or at least build TWO battery slots in the new i/Powerbooks (at least the 14"/15" and 17" models.)
Also note, at the time of the decision, VHS tapes weren't priced for consumers. As anyone who ever lost a Blockbuster rental could tell you, the stores paid $70, even $100 and up for their rental tapes. As opposed to $15 for a new CD.
1. It is not like you can use it do steal songs from the iTunes store. THAT would be a problem.
2. It sounds like an app. that would not be used by the general population. Like the various patches that allow you to download FROM the iPod (which I believe are a greater threat to RIAA, as they actually allow massive selections of mp3's to be easily swapped) the casual user will likely not know, or care the app. exists.