This is why I want a bluetooth iPod. No so much to transfer music to and from iTunes, but to connect it to the world around it. Ideally I would like to be able to use a iPod as a remote control for iTunes on my computer. I know you can use mobile phones and keyspan remotes for such, but I think using the iPods interface would be beyond perfect.
I don't know why everyone still comes back to what format porn prefers.
I can see it mattering back in the day with VHS vs Beta because it was a big step up for porn. I mean before that you were left with either with magazines or going to some sleazy dirty picture house. VHS was massive for porn because it was really the first time people could watch these movies at the comfort of their own home. Now HD porn isn't really that much of a step up. I mean there isn't that much of an advantage of HD porn over DVD porn. I can see early adopters getting a VCR just for porn so they can watch it at home, but I don't think many will update to HD just for porn. I doubt porn will really have much of an influence at all.
I'd say compared to Europe flying in North America is expensive. I mean sure its somewhat comparable for commercial travel but we just don't have the number and selection of discount airlines that Europe has. We don't have the ryanairs, the easyjets and the germanwings that those europeans have.
Sure its a pain in the ass to have to search 20 discount airlines for the one that flies where you want but its well worth your time. I wish we had one way flights for $20 with the taxs here. Sure there are some discount airlines here, but there prices are still expensive relative to what is offered elsewhere and are often linked to bundles.
Of course I'm from Canada so i'm even worse off than you americans as we no longer have discount airlines and only have two national carriers. Now its about the same to fly to Europe as it does to the next province. Well not the same, but pretty close.
My local megaplex has two screens have something i think is called RWCS that shows the text on a led text box mounted on the back of the theater. Its backwards so my guess is you bring a mirror with you to the theater and watch the texts reflection and the movie. I'm not deaf so i'm not 100% sure how it works. I've only seen it on the big movie that is playing on half a dozen screens so I don't know if every movie is supported.
Yes as I understand the article this is manly for car traffic, but also should effect Rockcliffe Airport (YRO), just north east of Ottawa. Maybe try YEG (Edmonton) or YYC (Calgary) since Alberta seems to like the states more , and be more like the state, than the rest of canada.
Are you sure about this? My problem with bittorrent is for every file im downloading I end up uploading two or three times as much. A few weeks ago I missed a certain race on tv, it ended up taking me 2 days to d/l the 700 MB file, in that time I had uploaded 4 GB. Because of this I think there is alot of real leaching going on where client download but don't upload.
I think its the guy in the suit that compares the seven
(I think they have seven albums, I might have missed a few) Massive Attack albums you bought to the million upper middle class white kids who downloaded the new fifty cent album instead of getting their mommies to buy it for them.
Couldn't agree more this guy is pretty dumb. I mean if that happened to me i'd be too embarrassed to make a claim, I'd just replace the lock. Even if he did make the claim, why not just fix it himself and keep bugging them to pay.
My school use to give my entire department's email list to MS every year. So I use to get all this crap from Microsoft. I thought I'd be clever so for my third year I updated my school email to a fuckmicrosoft.com forwarding account. I thought this would stop M$ from sendin me an email every couple weeks. Sadly it didn't and for a year and a half, until a prof told me my email was inappropriate, i use to get Microsoft junkmail through that fuckmicrosoft account.
Still pisses me off that my school would give my email address to companies. Of course I never got around to seeing if I could opt out, so I shouldn't complain too much.
Maybe its just where I am but FM is all music, where as AM is talk radio. Here I've never understood why I would want a FM tuner in a mp3 player. I mean I already have the music I want with me. Why would I want the crap on the radio? Live talk radio on the other hand is something useful to add to a music player. Maybe I'm on the go and want to hear the news, or the sports game.
Thats why I care less about FM, but would be interested in AM.
I would say that Jukebox is dead in the water on technical merits. Not just prior art. The patent is for:
"music jukebox which is configured for storing a music library". The device includes a "housing, audio input structure... for receiving audio signals, and a data storage structure... for storing audio signals".
This is the big question in the register story. I would argue that iTunes does not receive audio signals but digital data. iTunes does not have any means to directly record audio signals, only to convert data from one format to another (either from a digital medium known as a CD, or from another file format) , and of course to output audio signals. Same with an iPod. They both do not except input of audio signals only input of digital data. Maybe i'm making too much of a connection between acoustic sounds and audio signals
Anyone with a better background in audio want to weigh in?
The problem is that if Apple did this they would be out of business in a week. No one would buy a mac. All they would be left with is iPod sales. With no money to fund the rest of the company, the the OS X team would all get pink slips.
Six Months later where would we be? A free version of OS X that doesn't run very well on Intel/AMD because its not possible to support all the hardware properly, like it did on a mac. That said alot of people would jump ship from linux to this buggy version of OS X on the desktop. Linux thus gets a big hit to their user base.
Two years later where would we be? All the linux users would give up on OS X because its slow as hell on the $400 box they built, but linux hasn't got any new users in the last two years so its lost all momentum. Apple is dead. Jobs is in hiding because of all the class action lawsuits from their now penny-less shareholders. MS is stronger than ever due to the death of the Mac, and the loss of Linux's momentum. Not to mention they won the media war, because Apple died and couldn't cheerlead standard formats.
I know thats your not actually saying, but I have to shake my head when I see people saying that Apple should port to Intel, or give away the os source for free. Yah I know its a big rant, and a hyperbole at that.
1) Virgin Radio offer free streaming radio
2) Virgin Mobile charges users users £ ? a MB for data.
3) Unknowing parents get kid's £10,000 phone bill
4) Profit
Wow thats really good, my carrier wants $7 a MB. Their largest plan is 2 MB for $12. They use to have unlimited for $50 a month, but they got rid of that about a year ago.
They try to mislead you by putting a tiny internet plan in a bundle and calling it "Mobile Internet". You have to read the small print to understand that in your $9 "Voicemail, Call Display, and Mobile Internet" bundle you only get 1/4 of a MB of internet, and everything after that is $7/MB. This can really add up when on ringtones not only do they hit you for $2 each, but also the bandwidth. They also do lots of crooked stuff like put big (for a cellphone) pictures on their wap pages. I think the idea is not make money on people using the service over time, but to bleed them dry the first month of use.
I can say thats its a big shock when you end up with a $200 data bill on your phone bill, when all you did was download two ringtones, and check sports scores about once a day. Lucky I didn't have bluetooth at the time. I can't imagine how large my bill would have been if I had use the phone's internet with my labtop.
So Apple doesn't give back the source for their proprietary GUI, in which they did NOT get from BSD but is their own. They did do, with Darwin, is release all the code they used and changed with BSD. The way I look at it is that they gave back exactly what they used, and kept their complete original work to themselves.
Its like a bakery who takes a cake recipe changes it, lets anyone have their new recipe for the cake, but not the recipe for their new icing. You still have to buy the cake from them to get that.
Compare this to MS who took something and gave back nothing. That said Apple took alot more than MS. Apple gives back more than just Darwin check it out : http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/
It should be also noted that you can very easily get XFree86 running on Darwin.
Forget using this for security. Can I use to this to get the phone to remember girls names for me?
Just take a picture and up comes the girls name or it speaks it. Maybe even better if it reminds me where I know her from. Gone is the embarrassment of not remembering her name, leaving me only the embarrassment of trying to make conversation.
The one of these that I use works with any card. I doesn't even have to be magnetic, as I've use a card w/o a stripe to get in. My guess is its just the allusion of safety, or it slows down whoever is opening the door enough for the video camera to get a good look at them.
Im not saying that Apple is pushing anything, by my iTunes loves the band Hole. Now I have two Hole albums out of 37 days of Music in iTunes. But if I use random on my entire library ever hour or two I hear... you guessed it Hole. Only about one in four hundred songs should be Hole if it really is random, but with iTunes random its more like one in forty. Stupid iTunes, I mean really couldn't it have picked a better band?
Even stranger is it use to love this one song, Closet Romantic by Damon Albarn from the TrainSpotting Soundtrack. My iTunes use to play this one song very often on random, always in the first say eight hour of randomness. This all stopped about a year ago when I added another 50 so albums so my best guess is that song was on some algorithm sweet spot.
I would really like to see how iTunes random really works though, as I might be over analyzing, but it seems to throw in alot of double-shots.
On BC Ferries (Operates in the waters around Vancouver) the cafeteria use to (might still do this) print not only your entire CC number but also your expiry date on the receipt. To make matters worse, instead of letting you dump the contents of your finished tray into a trash, they have shelves to put your empty trays on. So if your were not paying attention you would leave your receipt on the tray, where anyone could grab it.
Over the years I complained to everyone from the cashier, to the chief Stewart, to the Consumer Relations guy. Never say a change. Don't know if they ever fixed the problem, as I don't catch the ferry very often now, and when I do I'm cash only. Now that I think of it I'm catching the ferry on Sunday to visit my brother, maybe I'll check to see if they still do, and if they do I'll write into the local papers as well as their head office.
What I think makes Danger Mouse so important is the fact that his album was never* released in the conventional channel, but still was in many critics best albums of the year lists. Its a pretty impressive feat to have an album that sold no* copies, and had no conventional advertisement was able to complete in the critics ratings. Pure word of mouth, and still look how huge the Grey Album became.
That and the album itself is great, far better then the original Jay-Z album. I agree that there are better "mash-ups", but for people like myself who love classic rock (Like the Beatles) and a little current pop-hip-hop (Like Jay-Z) this album is really great,
*Yes I know that something like 600 preview copies were pressed and distributed before the Beatles shut the it down, but thats not really a release.
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This is why I want a bluetooth iPod. No so much to transfer music to and from iTunes, but to connect it to the world around it. Ideally I would like to be able to use a iPod as a remote control for iTunes on my computer. I know you can use mobile phones and keyspan remotes for such, but I think using the iPods interface would be beyond perfect.
I don't know why everyone still comes back to what format porn prefers.
I can see it mattering back in the day with VHS vs Beta because it was a big step up for porn. I mean before that you were left with either with magazines or going to some sleazy dirty picture house. VHS was massive for porn because it was really the first time people could watch these movies at the comfort of their own home. Now HD porn isn't really that much of a step up. I mean there isn't that much of an advantage of HD porn over DVD porn. I can see early adopters getting a VCR just for porn so they can watch it at home, but I don't think many will update to HD just for porn. I doubt porn will really have much of an influence at all.
Games have never been as good they are now. I just got this new game, Tetris and I can't tear myself away.
I'd say compared to Europe flying in North America is expensive. I mean sure its somewhat comparable for commercial travel but we just don't have the number and selection of discount airlines that Europe has. We don't have the ryanairs, the easyjets and the germanwings that those europeans have.
Sure its a pain in the ass to have to search 20 discount airlines for the one that flies where you want but its well worth your time. I wish we had one way flights for $20 with the taxs here. Sure there are some discount airlines here, but there prices are still expensive relative to what is offered elsewhere and are often linked to bundles.
Of course I'm from Canada so i'm even worse off than you americans as we no longer have discount airlines and only have two national carriers. Now its about the same to fly to Europe as it does to the next province. Well not the same, but pretty close.
My local megaplex has two screens have something i think is called RWCS that shows the text on a led text box mounted on the back of the theater. Its backwards so my guess is you bring a mirror with you to the theater and watch the texts reflection and the movie. I'm not deaf so i'm not 100% sure how it works. I've only seen it on the big movie that is playing on half a dozen screens so I don't know if every movie is supported.
My wife caught me.
Yes as I understand the article this is manly for car traffic, but also should effect Rockcliffe Airport (YRO), just north east of Ottawa. Maybe try YEG (Edmonton) or YYC (Calgary) since Alberta seems to like the states more , and be more like the state, than the rest of canada.
Apple from what I've heard is pretty good about this. Just go to http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/authorization. html
I think they will turn off all your authentications. And you just have to relogin with the machine you want to use.
Good Luck
This is Slashdot! Forget CSS, Windows is IE7s the weakest link.
Long live Firefox! Long live Linux! Burn Bill Gates Alive!
or as now also exceptable
Long live Safari! Long live OS X! Burn Bill Gates Alive!
or not to forget the lynx or links people
long live lynx/21 long live sunos v.4.1/21 burn bill gates alive/21
Are you sure about this? My problem with bittorrent is for every file im downloading I end up uploading two or three times as much. A few weeks ago I missed a certain race on tv, it ended up taking me 2 days to d/l the 700 MB file, in that time I had uploaded 4 GB. Because of this I think there is alot of real leaching going on where client download but don't upload.
I think its the guy in the suit that compares the seven (I think they have seven albums, I might have missed a few) Massive Attack albums you bought to the million upper middle class white kids who downloaded the new fifty cent album instead of getting their mommies to buy it for them.
Couldn't agree more this guy is pretty dumb. I mean if that happened to me i'd be too embarrassed to make a claim, I'd just replace the lock. Even if he did make the claim, why not just fix it himself and keep bugging them to pay.
My school use to give my entire department's email list to MS every year. So I use to get all this crap from Microsoft. I thought I'd be clever so for my third year I updated my school email to a fuckmicrosoft.com forwarding account. I thought this would stop M$ from sendin me an email every couple weeks. Sadly it didn't and for a year and a half, until a prof told me my email was inappropriate, i use to get Microsoft junkmail through that fuckmicrosoft account.
Still pisses me off that my school would give my email address to companies. Of course I never got around to seeing if I could opt out, so I shouldn't complain too much.
Maybe its just where I am but FM is all music, where as AM is talk radio. Here I've never understood why I would want a FM tuner in a mp3 player. I mean I already have the music I want with me. Why would I want the crap on the radio? Live talk radio on the other hand is something useful to add to a music player. Maybe I'm on the go and want to hear the news, or the sports game.
Thats why I care less about FM, but would be interested in AM.
I would say that Jukebox is dead in the water on technical merits. Not just prior art. The patent is for :
"music jukebox which is configured for storing a music library". The device includes a "housing, audio input structure... for receiving audio signals, and a data storage structure... for storing audio signals".
This is the big question in the register story. I would argue that iTunes does not receive audio signals but digital data. iTunes does not have any means to directly record audio signals, only to convert data from one format to another (either from a digital medium known as a CD, or from another file format) , and of course to output audio signals. Same with an iPod. They both do not except input of audio signals only input of digital data. Maybe i'm making too much of a connection between acoustic sounds and audio signals
Anyone with a better background in audio want to weigh in?
The problem is that if Apple did this they would be out of business in a week. No one would buy a mac. All they would be left with is iPod sales. With no money to fund the rest of the company, the the OS X team would all get pink slips.
Six Months later where would we be? A free version of OS X that doesn't run very well on Intel/AMD because its not possible to support all the hardware properly, like it did on a mac. That said alot of people would jump ship from linux to this buggy version of OS X on the desktop. Linux thus gets a big hit to their user base.
Two years later where would we be? All the linux users would give up on OS X because its slow as hell on the $400 box they built, but linux hasn't got any new users in the last two years so its lost all momentum. Apple is dead. Jobs is in hiding because of all the class action lawsuits from their now penny-less shareholders. MS is stronger than ever due to the death of the Mac, and the loss of Linux's momentum. Not to mention they won the media war, because Apple died and couldn't cheerlead standard formats.
I know thats your not actually saying, but I have to shake my head when I see people saying that Apple should port to Intel, or give away the os source for free.
Yah I know its a big rant, and a hyperbole at that.
Its really smart for them
1) Virgin Radio offer free streaming radio
2) Virgin Mobile charges users users £ ? a MB for data.
3) Unknowing parents get kid's £10,000 phone bill 4) Profit
Wow thats really good, my carrier wants $7 a MB. Their largest plan is 2 MB for $12. They use to have unlimited for $50 a month, but they got rid of that about a year ago.
They try to mislead you by putting a tiny internet plan in a bundle and calling it "Mobile Internet". You have to read the small print to understand that in your $9 "Voicemail, Call Display, and Mobile Internet" bundle you only get 1/4 of a MB of internet, and everything after that is $7/MB. This can really add up when on ringtones not only do they hit you for $2 each, but also the bandwidth. They also do lots of crooked stuff like put big (for a cellphone) pictures on their wap pages. I think the idea is not make money on people using the service over time, but to bleed them dry the first month of use.
I can say thats its a big shock when you end up with a $200 data bill on your phone bill, when all you did was download two ringtones, and check sports scores about once a day. Lucky I didn't have bluetooth at the time. I can't imagine how large my bill would have been if I had use the phone's internet with my labtop.
I just woke up and w/o my glasses mis-read "Powerful Galaxies Found in Ireland"
My first thought was Slashdot editors are getting worse by the minute, turns out im just blind as a bat.
So Apple doesn't give back the source for their proprietary GUI, in which they did NOT get from BSD but is their own. They did do, with Darwin, is release all the code they used and changed with BSD. The way I look at it is that they gave back exactly what they used, and kept their complete original work to themselves.
Its like a bakery who takes a cake recipe changes it, lets anyone have their new recipe for the cake, but not the recipe for their new icing. You still have to buy the cake from them to get that.
Compare this to MS who took something and gave back nothing. That said Apple took alot more than MS. Apple gives back more than just Darwin check it out : http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/
It should be also noted that you can very easily get XFree86 running on Darwin.
Forget using this for security. Can I use to this to get the phone to remember girls names for me?
Just take a picture and up comes the girls name or it speaks it. Maybe even better if it reminds me where I know her from. Gone is the embarrassment of not remembering her name, leaving me only the embarrassment of trying to make conversation.
The one of these that I use works with any card. I doesn't even have to be magnetic, as I've use a card w/o a stripe to get in. My guess is its just the allusion of safety, or it slows down whoever is opening the door enough for the video camera to get a good look at them.
Im not saying that Apple is pushing anything, by my iTunes loves the band Hole. Now I have two Hole albums out of 37 days of Music in iTunes. But if I use random on my entire library ever hour or two I hear... you guessed it Hole. Only about one in four hundred songs should be Hole if it really is random, but with iTunes random its more like one in forty. Stupid iTunes, I mean really couldn't it have picked a better band?
Even stranger is it use to love this one song, Closet Romantic by Damon Albarn from the TrainSpotting Soundtrack. My iTunes use to play this one song very often on random, always in the first say eight hour of randomness. This all stopped about a year ago when I added another 50 so albums so my best guess is that song was on some algorithm sweet spot.
I would really like to see how iTunes random really works though, as I might be over analyzing, but it seems to throw in alot of double-shots.
On BC Ferries (Operates in the waters around Vancouver) the cafeteria use to (might still do this) print not only your entire CC number but also your expiry date on the receipt. To make matters worse, instead of letting you dump the contents of your finished tray into a trash, they have shelves to put your empty trays on. So if your were not paying attention you would leave your receipt on the tray, where anyone could grab it.
Over the years I complained to everyone from the cashier, to the chief Stewart, to the Consumer Relations guy. Never say a change. Don't know if they ever fixed the problem, as I don't catch the ferry very often now, and when I do I'm cash only. Now that I think of it I'm catching the ferry on Sunday to visit my brother, maybe I'll check to see if they still do, and if they do I'll write into the local papers as well as their head office.
What I think makes Danger Mouse so important is the fact that his album was never* released in the conventional channel, but still was in many critics best albums of the year lists. Its a pretty impressive feat to have an album that sold no* copies, and had no conventional advertisement was able to complete in the critics ratings. Pure word of mouth, and still look how huge the Grey Album became.
That and the album itself is great, far better then the original Jay-Z album. I agree that there are better "mash-ups", but for people like myself who love classic rock (Like the Beatles) and a little current pop-hip-hop (Like Jay-Z) this album is really great,
*Yes I know that something like 600 preview copies were pressed and distributed before the Beatles shut the it down, but thats not really a release.