The nerve of Steve Jobs is incredible. He is asking people to pay again for songs that they already bought!
Only if you want to increase the bitrate and drop the DRM, and he's only charging 30 cents more to do that.
Other services have been selling songs at a more reasonable bit-rate all along (eg. Yahoo was selling songs for a while at 79 cents for 192Kbps), only Apple was selling at 128Kbps. Even the NYT writer (who loves Apple) wrote that 128 is insufficient and that people were making a mistake to spend money on stuff at this quality. The loyal defenders insisted that when and if a higher quality became necessary and available it would be free for everyone who had already bought it.
Now you have to pay again just to get decent sound quality!
There's nothing wrong with AAC 128k. It fits onto portable devices quite well at an average of 1MB per minute of audio.
I think I'll stick to ripping from CD's.
Let me guess, you're ripping to 320K MP3, correct? If so, you are neither benefitting from the smaller size of a compressed audio file nor are you benefitting from the higher quality sound of a lossless CD. And on average you are paying more per album than the rest of us.
I hope you understand why your opinion is in the minority, considering the growing popularity of online sales and declining popularity of CD sales.
"You see this ring, kid? It was your father's ring. He had to wear it up his ass during the entire war of Middle Earth. Hundreds of leagues he travelled with this ring up his ass. And now it's yours."
Example: The mac mini is slightly underspec for a developer ( mainly: harddisk sucks, only 2 GB memory max ) and the design is completely irrelevant: we have all plenty of lost space under the desk. My company buys beige ibm/dell boxes with the same spec as the mini and roughly the same price, but the fact that the dell/ibm come with standard disk in a standard ugly box is seen as a benefit, unlike in my livingroom.
This is changing as well. My company is currently remodeling each floor as they go and the large cubes are either becoming smaller or are finding more ways to fit other things in there since we have been slowly trading all the CRTs out for flatpanels. The huge noisy box PCs are being replaced with laptops and port replicators. Something like the Mac mini would make sense in this setup.
Quoted from Hardy "So the real tragedy of Ramanujan was not his early death at the age of 32, but that in his most formative years, he did not receive proper training, and so a significant part of his work was rediscovery..."
And yes there were instances during his life when he struggled for money, even to eat.
I'm not saying rich or poor makes you smart. I'm saying being poor tends to keep you from being discovered by the rest of us. The immense contributions of Ramanujan could have been lost to us all if Hardy had not taken the chance to bring a total unknown to Cambridge.
From what I've read about Ramanujan, what I still can't understand is how a guy from a poor background with little to no formal schooling is able to just sit around and write in a notebook and come up with the equations he did. I just have to wonder what it was in nature that made him so more adapted to mathematics than the rest of us mere mortal humans. This guy was on a completely different level. Mozart comes to mind when I think of him.
I'm still somewhat of a Mac n00b, so perhaps I don't get it right now (using Tiger), but when I type in something in the search field at the top of a Finder window when I'm in a particular folder, why doesn't it just search in that folder instead of using Spotlight to search the entire computer?
NBC has been using YouTube to their advantage to drum up interest in their shows. Recent clips that come to mind are Lazy Sunday and D*** In a Box from SNL:
Perhaps it could be percieved by some Windows users as insulting since the effect of the ads might make them feel slighted for buying a PC.
But in comparison, they are likely way less offensive then Windows users who continually compare $499 Dells to $1100 Macs and then proclaim Macs as "too expensive".
Well I do. I believe it was an early attempt to do exactly what you're mentioning here with interactive movies/television with video games mixed in. I suppose one could argue the many reasons why it didn't catch on. One could also argue that it paved the way for the Sony Playstation to catch on during a time when Nintendo was king.
1) You have a choice of other online stores to fill your iPod with music other than the iTunes store. You don't have to be an iTunes customer to be an iPod customer.
2) Can I fill my iPod with music from the Zune Marketplace? If not, then why aren't we requiring the Microsoft to "open their DRM" as well?
"Someone even went and made a way to chat with Zunes over wifi. How? Well, it lets you share photos. So he created a set of pictures with every letter of the alphabet, plus common phrases and emoticons. So you share photos in a certain order and your recipient can view the pictures to put together the message. A staggering amount of effort... "
At work we have Windows 2000 workstations locked down to where we are not able to install anything. This is good, but it leaves us no choice but to use USB key drives and portable apps if we want to run things like Firefox.
I have an iPod formatted for Mac and YamiPod won't read it on those Windows 2000 machines, and I have no option of installing something like MacDrive on the machine to do so.
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It takes a long time to do this, especially when you are late for work. I've found it easier to convert the originals. :)
The nerve of Steve Jobs is incredible. He is asking people to pay again for songs that they already bought!
Only if you want to increase the bitrate and drop the DRM, and he's only charging 30 cents more to do that.
Other services have been selling songs at a more reasonable bit-rate all along (eg. Yahoo was selling songs for a while at 79 cents for 192Kbps), only Apple was selling at 128Kbps. Even the NYT writer (who loves Apple) wrote that 128 is insufficient and that people were making a mistake to spend money on stuff at this quality. The loyal defenders insisted that when and if a higher quality became necessary and available it would be free for everyone who had already bought it.
Please learn the difference between AAC and MP3
Now you have to pay again just to get decent sound quality!
There's nothing wrong with AAC 128k. It fits onto portable devices quite well at an average of 1MB per minute of audio.
I think I'll stick to ripping from CD's.
Let me guess, you're ripping to 320K MP3, correct? If so, you are neither benefitting from the smaller size of a compressed audio file nor are you benefitting from the higher quality sound of a lossless CD. And on average you are paying more per album than the rest of us.
I hope you understand why your opinion is in the minority, considering the growing popularity of online sales and declining popularity of CD sales.
What's the argument for the lower bit-rates at all?
You can fit more songs onto an iPod shuffle at AAC 128K. At 256K you'll only get half the amount of songs on there.
Relax. Leopard is coming. This will probably happen all the same time the iPhone comes out in June.
Why not get a player that supports AAC? Just saying "WMA" makes me cringe.
...that things are "kinda dead over here".
"You see this ring, kid? It was your father's ring. He had to wear it up his ass during the entire war of Middle Earth. Hundreds of leagues he travelled with this ring up his ass. And now it's yours."
Example: The mac mini is slightly underspec for a developer ( mainly: harddisk sucks, only 2 GB memory max ) and the design is completely irrelevant: we have all plenty of lost space under the desk. My company buys beige ibm/dell boxes with the same spec as the mini and roughly the same price, but the fact that the dell/ibm come with standard disk in a standard ugly box is seen as a benefit, unlike in my livingroom.
This is changing as well. My company is currently remodeling each floor as they go and the large cubes are either becoming smaller or are finding more ways to fit other things in there since we have been slowly trading all the CRTs out for flatpanels. The huge noisy box PCs are being replaced with laptops and port replicators. Something like the Mac mini would make sense in this setup.
Perhaps we will get more choices of BBC news video to watch than in RealPlayer format.
I only ask this because I believe RealPlayer is Satan's media player.
Sounds like Mr Grumpy Grumps needs a Mac with Xtorrent on it.
Quoted from Hardy "So the real tragedy of Ramanujan was not his early death at the age of 32, but that in his most formative years, he did not receive proper training, and so a significant part of his work was rediscovery..."
And yes there were instances during his life when he struggled for money, even to eat.
I'm not saying rich or poor makes you smart. I'm saying being poor tends to keep you from being discovered by the rest of us. The immense contributions of Ramanujan could have been lost to us all if Hardy had not taken the chance to bring a total unknown to Cambridge.
From what I've read about Ramanujan, what I still can't understand is how a guy from a poor background with little to no formal schooling is able to just sit around and write in a notebook and come up with the equations he did. I just have to wonder what it was in nature that made him so more adapted to mathematics than the rest of us mere mortal humans. This guy was on a completely different level. Mozart comes to mind when I think of him.
I'm still somewhat of a Mac n00b, so perhaps I don't get it right now (using Tiger), but when I type in something in the search field at the top of a Finder window when I'm in a particular folder, why doesn't it just search in that folder instead of using Spotlight to search the entire computer?
Or am I missing something?
They bought their PC from Wal-Mart and won't be able to "upgrade" to IE6 or above for this Wal-Mart video site.
How interesting.
Is there any way in the new Yahoo mail beta to mark a message as spam without it displaying the message? Because that's a pain.
Feel free to compare a $499 Dell to an $1100 iMac. I will then respond with my laughter.
NBC has been using YouTube to their advantage to drum up interest in their shows. Recent clips that come to mind are Lazy Sunday and D*** In a Box from SNL:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=NBC
Viacom should be taking notes.
Perhaps it could be percieved by some Windows users as insulting since the effect of the ads might make them feel slighted for buying a PC.
But in comparison, they are likely way less offensive then Windows users who continually compare $499 Dells to $1100 Macs and then proclaim Macs as "too expensive".
CDi as in CD Interactive?
Well I do. I believe it was an early attempt to do exactly what you're mentioning here with interactive movies/television with video games mixed in. I suppose one could argue the many reasons why it didn't catch on. One could also argue that it paved the way for the Sony Playstation to catch on during a time when Nintendo was king.
I believe you underestimate what Windows users are willing to put up with.
Music purchased from Rhapsody works on iPods too.
1) You have a choice of other online stores to fill your iPod with music other than the iTunes store. You don't have to be an iTunes customer to be an iPod customer.
2) Can I fill my iPod with music from the Zune Marketplace? If not, then why aren't we requiring the Microsoft to "open their DRM" as well?
Give us a break, spiders have about a 400 million year head start on us.
"Someone even went and made a way to chat with Zunes over wifi. How? Well, it lets you share photos. So he created a set of pictures with every letter of the alphabet, plus common phrases and emoticons. So you share photos in a certain order and your recipient can view the pictures to put together the message. A staggering amount of effort... "
This made me shudder. Oh, the technology...
At work we have Windows 2000 workstations locked down to where we are not able to install anything. This is good, but it leaves us no choice but to use USB key drives and portable apps if we want to run things like Firefox.
I have an iPod formatted for Mac and YamiPod won't read it on those Windows 2000 machines, and I have no option of installing something like MacDrive on the machine to do so.
Perhaps I could use something like FUSE.