This is pretty cool- I've been using the development release for a little while its been pretty solid the kinks have been bad enough that I haven't been able to use it as much as I'd like. If it's stable then then only thing I'll use mac os for will be midi and quicktime stuff. I hope/wish they'd package the video input drivers with the distribution. Now I'll be watching their ftp site for it to pop up - can't wait!
...is the amount of time that sales dept dickheads spend at this fucking site and not making calls. if they have a dba that can't manage that monster then i hope they keep him.
"I don't want to name names," he said, "But it's fair to say the Unix and Linux crowds are causing most of the headaches. It seems to be the hacker mentality." Well that's pretty thinly veiled. Whatever- get it together before you launch such an ambitious project. The linux and mac boxes I have working on it have been chugging along (45 units returned) for a couple weeks, that sucks if they're just chewing on redundant data.
I kind of got a kick out of buying Public Enemy's new release for 8 bucks in mp3 form off of www.atomicpop.com yesterday. They have a pretty smart approach- instead of purchasing it directly online you download an application where you put in credit card info and it unlocks the files. They didn't have an app for unix users though, so you have to have a mac or windows box at this point to purchase it. As for the mp3 player and RIAA's position on it, I could really care less. That organisation has no interest in protecting artists rights, only label's royalties; labels are put in the position they are now in by trating their artists work like proprietary bigmacs- they don't care about music for arts sake, they care about cashflow. I can't recall hearing any artists complain about mp3 (enlighten if you know different) - in fact the music community seems pretty into it, so screw the RIAA.
A "kill switch" that would disable my ability to play mp3's? Now that seems criminal to me. My opinion is that labels that don't embrace and actually use mp3's (ala atmoic pop or good noise) as a distribution medium will fold within a decade. I mean, c'mon, remember when dat decks came out? All of the sudden recording companies were getting a cut of of sales to make up for 'lost mechanical royalties', and it didn't even make it into home use hardly at all. That sure as hell isn't the case here! Well, anyway, I won't - and I don't know anybody who would - use a technology that renders mp3 unusable. What greedy, fearful, bastards.
The more pieces that software that support mp3 the more viable it becomes for artists to use as a distribution medium, so my thought (as someone who is into mp3s and wants them to stick around) is the more the better. quicktime was a great score for the mp3 format - the real player would be as well. Hope they integrate shoutcast streaming- still wating for apple to get that into qt4.
It's pretty cool that quicktime 4 supports mp3. seems like it'll make mp3 even hotter than they've been yet since the install takes care of the dirty work of setting up the browser to play them. thats a first for the mac, as well as playing a mp3 from a url. hopefully them owning the codec will expedite shoutcast support, which mac users still don't have. correct me if i'm wrong on that, please! think it'll pop up under apsl?
I hope your right about them losing hold. Recording costs have fallen considerably in the last several years with adat and digital audio i/o cards showing up in more and more peoples home rigs. MP3 kind of completes the circle, so we've got low cost production and distribution. The one area that won't be wrested from them so easily anytime soon is their marketing muscle and influence on radio. They're going to have to do something soon though because this tide is turning fast.
notice: i worked on a commercial shoot for pop rocks as a pa about ten years ago. i snagged a box of assorted flavors that i experimented with for about a year. sticking them between your upper lip and gum and then taking a shot of jagermeister has been proven to induce automatic vomiting, no matter what.
Statistically, children are more likely to have an airplane fall out of the sky and kill them than they are to be shot in school, despite the staggering amount of media coverage. I'd sure like to see the data to back that up.
I think quake is a great game, and don't think you can blame what happened on it, but I can't help thinking that it may have had to do with the way it went down. Running around in halls and shooting whoever was in site and refilling on ammo they'd stashed around the building. Sounds familiar. I dunno. In principle my feeling is that stimuli shouldn't be censored, that wide open and absolute free-speech is the best policy, but in practice it doesn't always seem so healthy. I don't have the faintest idea on how how to deal with it- I guess it starts with the parent. I've liked some of mr. Katz's writing but this piece didn't tell us anything any of us don't already know and offered nothing helpful to a community that's pretty freaked out by what happened. Hell, everybody is. To title the piece Why Kids Kill and go on and do nothing but discount what the talking heads are saying about it seems in opportunistic and in poor taste.
Perhaps CmdrTaco was referring to the OS on his box. I sure wish apple would release this for unix/linux.. I guess that osX will help them broaden their release platforms eventually...
with samba and netatalk (both running off a linux box) our network at my job is a pretty happy family of windows nt/95/98, mac, solaris, and linux. it's great for developers who have to use windows or mac beause of some middleware that gets run that don't have an *nix development environment. just filesharing instead of using ftp makes everything so much more rapid.We've been using it (and linux) as a mission critical piece of our setup for about seven months. the linux box is so stable that samba interruptions from reboots or crashes aren't a factor- they don't happen. i think it's been up for about four months now, and the reason it went down then was the power went out on a weekend and nobody got there by the time the ups pooped out.
Even though Rex Baldazo pretty much gave the nod to Linux as the more customizable and scalable server he complained a little about programability, talking about how IIS has an easy interface for novice admins. I wish someone had given him a heads up about commanche, which if I remember is available in the red hat distribution. Or warpaint for web based administration. Also, he noted that cold fusion isn't available for linux. Isn't it being ported? Am I dreaming, or is it maybe in beta already? Positive on the whole, though.
If you could download an mp4 that was like the first 45 seconds or minute and a half or whatever and a full cut was like less than a dollar. I usually buy a cd based on three or less tracks- this would maybe lure me to spend money on music online. hmmm.
If Mp3's are "killing the music industry", then bring on the MP3's!
Record company executives are biting the hand that feeds them on this (although I'm sure they see it the other way around). The music industry is so conservative and formulaic these days- anyone notice a lack of growth in any genre? Mp3's are a breath of fresh air in an industry where distribution and promotion have defined an atrist's success or lack therof.
I'd heard that OSX server had gone GM. Anyone know if it's getting any prominence at macworld? Also, what about the quicktime server (open?) that jobs was maybe going to demo at the keynote?
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This is pretty cool- I've been using the development release for a little while its been pretty solid the kinks have been bad enough that I haven't been able to use it as much as I'd like. If it's stable then then only thing I'll use mac os for will be midi and quicktime stuff.
I hope/wish they'd package the video input drivers with the distribution.
Now I'll be watching their ftp site for it to pop up - can't wait!
...is the amount of time that sales dept dickheads spend at this fucking site and not making calls. if they have a dba that can't manage that monster then i hope they keep him.
"I don't want to name names," he said, "But it's fair to say the Unix and Linux crowds are causing most of the headaches. It seems to be the hacker mentality."
Well that's pretty thinly veiled.
Whatever- get it together before you launch such an ambitious project.
The linux and mac boxes I have working on it have been chugging along (45 units returned) for a couple weeks, that sucks if they're just chewing on redundant data.
I kind of got a kick out of buying Public Enemy's new release for 8 bucks in mp3 form off of www.atomicpop.com yesterday. They have a pretty smart approach- instead of purchasing it directly online you download an application where you put in credit card info and it unlocks the files. They didn't have an app for unix users though, so you have to have a mac or windows box at this point to purchase it.
As for the mp3 player and RIAA's position on it, I could really care less. That organisation has no interest in protecting artists rights, only label's royalties; labels are put in the position they are now in by trating their artists work like proprietary bigmacs- they don't care about music for arts sake, they care about cashflow. I can't recall hearing any artists complain about mp3 (enlighten if you know different) - in fact the music community seems pretty into it, so screw the RIAA.
A "kill switch" that would disable my ability to play mp3's? Now that seems criminal to me. My opinion is that labels that don't embrace and actually use mp3's (ala atmoic pop or good noise) as a distribution medium will fold within a decade. I mean, c'mon, remember when dat decks came out? All of the sudden recording companies were getting a cut of of sales to make up for 'lost mechanical royalties', and it didn't even make it into home use hardly at all. That sure as hell isn't the case here! Well, anyway, I won't - and I don't know anybody who would - use a technology that renders mp3 unusable. What greedy, fearful, bastards.
www.serbia-info.com seems to be up, but I've noticed that net access to yugo has been sporadic at best since the bombings started.
The more pieces that software that support mp3 the more viable it becomes for artists to use as a distribution medium, so my thought (as someone who is into mp3s and wants them to stick around) is the more the better. quicktime was a great score for the mp3 format - the real player would be as well. Hope they integrate shoutcast streaming- still wating for apple to get that into qt4.
X11amp does.
It's pretty cool that quicktime 4 supports mp3. seems like it'll make mp3 even hotter than they've been yet since the install takes care of the dirty work of setting up the browser to play them. thats a first for the mac, as well as playing a mp3 from a url. hopefully them owning the codec will expedite shoutcast support, which mac users still don't have. correct me if i'm wrong on that, please! think it'll pop up under apsl?
I hope your right about them losing hold. Recording costs have fallen considerably in the last several years with adat and digital audio i/o cards showing up in more and more peoples home rigs. MP3 kind of completes the circle, so we've got low cost production and distribution. The one area that won't be wrested from them so easily anytime soon is their marketing muscle and influence on radio. They're going to have to do something soon though because this tide is turning fast.
notice: i worked on a commercial shoot for pop rocks as a pa about ten years ago. i snagged a box of assorted flavors that i experimented with for about a year. sticking them between your upper lip and gum and then taking a shot of jagermeister has been proven to induce automatic vomiting, no matter what.
guess it's time to get a rage card
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
it uses bsd with a mach kernel
Statistically, children are more likely to have an airplane fall out of the sky and kill them than they are to be shot in school, despite the staggering amount of media coverage.
I'd sure like to see the data to back that up.
I think quake is a great game, and don't think you can blame what happened on it, but I can't help thinking that it may have had to do with the way it went down. Running around in halls and shooting whoever was in site and refilling on ammo they'd stashed around the building. Sounds familiar. I dunno. In principle my feeling is that stimuli shouldn't be censored, that wide open and absolute free-speech is the best policy, but in practice it doesn't always seem so healthy. I don't have the faintest idea on how how to deal with it- I guess it starts with the parent.
I've liked some of mr. Katz's writing but this piece didn't tell us anything any of us don't already know and offered nothing helpful to a community that's pretty freaked out by what happened. Hell, everybody is. To title the piece Why Kids Kill and go on and do nothing but discount what the talking heads are saying about it seems in opportunistic and in poor taste.
Perhaps CmdrTaco was referring to the OS on his box. I sure wish apple would release this for unix/linux.. I guess that osX will help them broaden their release platforms eventually...
with samba and netatalk (both running off a linux box) our network at my job is a pretty happy family of windows nt/95/98, mac, solaris, and linux. it's great for developers who have to use windows or mac beause of some middleware that gets run that don't have an *nix development environment. just filesharing instead of using ftp makes everything so much more rapid.We've been using it (and linux) as a mission critical piece of our setup for about seven months.
the linux box is so stable that samba interruptions from reboots or crashes aren't a factor- they don't happen. i think it's been up for about four months now, and the reason it went down then was the power went out on a weekend and nobody got there by the time the ups pooped out.
Even though Rex Baldazo pretty much gave the nod to Linux as the more customizable and scalable server he complained a little about programability, talking about how IIS has an easy interface for novice admins. I wish someone had given him a heads up about commanche, which if I remember is available in the red hat distribution. Or warpaint for web based administration.
Also, he noted that cold fusion isn't available for linux. Isn't it being ported? Am I dreaming, or is it maybe in beta already?
Positive on the whole, though.
If you could download an mp4 that was like the first 45 seconds or minute and a half or whatever and a full cut was like less than a dollar. I usually buy a cd based on three or less tracks- this would maybe lure me to spend money on music online. hmmm.
If Mp3's are "killing the music industry", then bring on the MP3's!
Record company executives are biting the hand that feeds them on this (although I'm sure they see it the other way around). The music industry is so conservative and formulaic these days- anyone notice a lack of growth in any genre? Mp3's are a breath of fresh air in an industry where distribution and promotion have defined an atrist's success or lack therof.
duh- the keynote doesn't happen until tomorrow. hopefully some slashdotter will attend and let us know if anything important is rolled out.
I'd heard that OSX server had gone GM. Anyone know if it's getting any prominence at macworld? Also, what about the quicktime server (open?) that jobs was maybe going to demo at the keynote?