What I really want is a convenient way for the RIAA to keep track of every song I download, when and how long I am online, who downloads it from me, and how often. Yes, that definitely sounds like a service I would like to pay for. Sign me up.
My point was not that Appe would drop OS X, Im saying that after bragging to developers for months about having a stable API set, this would be tantamount to saying, "Hah, fooled you! Its not going to take a patch to make your software run on 10.5, your going to have to recode it from the ground up."
I realize darwin (publicly or privately) has been kept up to date with cross platform development, so the transition to x86 is totally feasible for apple, but the same is not true for the miriad developers who make software for said operating system. A 1 year notice on an architecture switch on the heels a major OS overhaul is not the way you win friends.
Did no one read at least part of the massive ARS technica article on Tiger just a few weeks ago? Its not something that can produce a lot of mainstream hype like dashboard widgets, but half the point of Tiger is that the APIs have FINALLY been stabilized with a gradual deprication system. So future upgrades to the OS will no longer break existing software. It has taken us SO LONG to get this far, would Apple really toss 4 years of development out the window a month after Tiger hits the shelves? That makes no sense. Think people, think.
[quote]...all of which have battled over Webmail storage and features over the past year.[/quote]
battled? whatev. Google pwned. people were ready to sell their children for gmail accounts there for a while. ms and yahoo are still crying in the corner.
the similarities between aspergers and attention defecit disorder is surprising to me. a lot of the same quirks. i dont know if its ADD, or its just me, but the main difference seems that I hate the concrete and prefer abstraction.
Launch a fresnel lens the size of Australia at the sun adjustable to keep its focus on the red planet. then videotape all the little green guys as they crawl out of the ground with their heads on fire.
Im not really fed up with iTunes. Ive got a lot of high quality music videos i pulled off for free. Some songs that came with a pay pal account. Some that were handed out free each week. Some more I traded for my friends pepsi caps. Ben&Jerry's gave me a few more. I think i also might have bought a song or two at some point. And none of them are DRM'd. Hymn is pretty damn easy to use. Its a lot less trouble than driving to a record store and then having to rip the cd once ive paid for it.
Honestly, it doesnt really bother me to pay $1/track for songs every once in a while, but I haven't got any space on my 40GB iPod (none of which, might I add, came from kazaa, napster, or any other 'illicit' download service), so I'm not in dire need of more music at the moment.
why not take the Powerbook and ditch the PC all together. Plug in a monitor/mouse/keyboard at home and not worry about which file and software are on which computer.
and honestly, I dont do much with video, but i do need the G4, not to mention higher screen resolution in the smaller package. with any combination of MatLab, Mathematica, Photoshop, iTunes, web browser(s), chat clients, various X11 apps, etc...i'll fork over the couple hundred bucks extra for the bells and whistles.
you also didnt consider the rest of the world. most of asia cant afford to pay 200 bucks for an iPod mini, but everyone has one of those silly flash based thingies that holds 2 cds worth of mp3s at a time, even 60 year olds. Apple needs to capitalize on that demand.
Just how "tiny" is the PTC. They have enough people to witness 240,000 individual broadcast events in one year, and enough of them motivated to file a complaint for every one of them. To me, that sounds like a substantial political voice.
No political lobby is made up of a large portion of the population. Tobacco and alcohol are the largest lobbies (I think the NRA is number 3) and they represent just a hand full of corporations. Their impact is due to the dollars they spend, not the people they represent.
I dont see that much money being made by lodging FCC complaints. Just a bunch of people saying what they think needs to be said. Regardless of what you think of their opinions, the PTC is the closest thing to a legitimate political voice a democracy can hope for. Unfortunatly for them, Americans now communicate with Washington more by putting their asses on a couch than by writing letters.
maybe if disney gives eisener's spot to steve, and steve abandons apple (how many companies can you CEO at once?), then maybe this could happpen. otherwise, no way. jobs would never go for it. evil geniuses dont like to share.
just as well in my opinion. IBM would homogenize apple. it would be like the gil amelio days all over again.
It seems like Apple and Google would be better off working together on this. There is nothing preventing me from using both services. Safari already has google web searching built in, so why cant spot light integrate google file search technology. While they are at it, Mail could do the same-creating an elegant way to access and store gmail account data locally with the same search functionality you get by accessing it online.
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thats like saying Henry Ford "stole" his basic idea from the bicycle.
1. Ski Resort in Death Valley
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
What I really want is a convenient way for the RIAA to keep track of every song I download, when and how long I am online, who downloads it from me, and how often. Yes, that definitely sounds like a service I would like to pay for. Sign me up.
How do you mod down an entire thread?
My point was not that Appe would drop OS X, Im saying that after bragging to developers for months about having a stable API set, this would be tantamount to saying, "Hah, fooled you! Its not going to take a patch to make your software run on 10.5, your going to have to recode it from the ground up."
I realize darwin (publicly or privately) has been kept up to date with cross platform development, so the transition to x86 is totally feasible for apple, but the same is not true for the miriad developers who make software for said operating system. A 1 year notice on an architecture switch on the heels a major OS overhaul is not the way you win friends.
Did no one read at least part of the massive ARS technica article on Tiger just a few weeks ago? Its not something that can produce a lot of mainstream hype like dashboard widgets, but half the point of Tiger is that the APIs have FINALLY been stabilized with a gradual deprication system. So future upgrades to the OS will no longer break existing software. It has taken us SO LONG to get this far, would Apple really toss 4 years of development out the window a month after Tiger hits the shelves? That makes no sense. Think people, think.
I thought we were talking about a new Hyundai.
what fuckhead modded me down for that?
I care!
Oh wait, no I don't.
[quote]...all of which have battled over Webmail storage and features over the past year.[/quote]
battled? whatev. Google pwned. people were ready to sell their children for gmail accounts there for a while. ms and yahoo are still crying in the corner.
the similarities between aspergers and attention defecit disorder is surprising to me. a lot of the same quirks. i dont know if its ADD, or its just me, but the main difference seems that I hate the concrete and prefer abstraction.
i just hope they dont find one of those damn dutch toilets with the weird fecal shelf thing. god, that would be an embarassing legacy.
Launch a fresnel lens the size of Australia at the sun adjustable to keep its focus on the red planet. then videotape all the little green guys as they crawl out of the ground with their heads on fire.
Im not really fed up with iTunes. Ive got a lot of high quality music videos i pulled off for free. Some songs that came with a pay pal account. Some that were handed out free each week. Some more I traded for my friends pepsi caps. Ben&Jerry's gave me a few more. I think i also might have bought a song or two at some point. And none of them are DRM'd. Hymn is pretty damn easy to use. Its a lot less trouble than driving to a record store and then having to rip the cd once ive paid for it.
Honestly, it doesnt really bother me to pay $1/track for songs every once in a while, but I haven't got any space on my 40GB iPod (none of which, might I add, came from kazaa, napster, or any other 'illicit' download service), so I'm not in dire need of more music at the moment.
why not take the Powerbook and ditch the PC all together. Plug in a monitor/mouse/keyboard at home and not worry about which file and software are on which computer.
and honestly, I dont do much with video, but i do need the G4, not to mention higher screen resolution in the smaller package. with any combination of MatLab, Mathematica, Photoshop, iTunes, web browser(s), chat clients, various X11 apps, etc...i'll fork over the couple hundred bucks extra for the bells and whistles.
It was the 4 drive RAID and 8 processors that impressed me.
correlation is causation. correlation is causation. keep telling yourself that.
you also didnt consider the rest of the world. most of asia cant afford to pay 200 bucks for an iPod mini, but everyone has one of those silly flash based thingies that holds 2 cds worth of mp3s at a time, even 60 year olds. Apple needs to capitalize on that demand.
Just how "tiny" is the PTC. They have enough people to witness 240,000 individual broadcast events in one year, and enough of them motivated to file a complaint for every one of them. To me, that sounds like a substantial political voice.
No political lobby is made up of a large portion of the population. Tobacco and alcohol are the largest lobbies (I think the NRA is number 3) and they represent just a hand full of corporations. Their impact is due to the dollars they spend, not the people they represent.
I dont see that much money being made by lodging FCC complaints. Just a bunch of people saying what they think needs to be said. Regardless of what you think of their opinions, the PTC is the closest thing to a legitimate political voice a democracy can hope for. Unfortunatly for them, Americans now communicate with Washington more by putting their asses on a couch than by writing letters.
maybe if disney gives eisener's spot to steve, and steve abandons apple (how many companies can you CEO at once?), then maybe this could happpen. otherwise, no way. jobs would never go for it. evil geniuses dont like to share.
just as well in my opinion. IBM would homogenize apple. it would be like the gil amelio days all over again.
and misspell antidisestablishmentarianistic.
Is it me, or is that not the most attractively named color scheme araound?
nice ripped-off aqua UI though.
i dont know if its still there, but this is a good quote i came across on the spam.com website:
"Ultimately, we are trying to avoid the day when the consuming public asks, "Why would Hormel Foods name its product after junk e-mail?"
-Hormel Foods
http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm
It seems like Apple and Google would be better off working together on this. There is nothing preventing me from using both services. Safari already has google web searching built in, so why cant spot light integrate google file search technology. While they are at it, Mail could do the same-creating an elegant way to access and store gmail account data locally with the same search functionality you get by accessing it online.
I recognize all those words, but have no idea what they mean collectively.