There is fast forward and rewind. You need to install the (Creative-supplied) new firmware. A few of your other problems will also be solved this way. Go to nomadworld.
OK, you get home around 7 and there's a stack of fruit on the floor. Some are kinda old, moldy, some are green, some are red. You want to throw away the oldest ones, a few of them, but not too many. And definitely all the purple ones.
So you tell your roommate: "Get rid of all the old fruit and all the purple fruit."
Type that in to your CLI:
$ get rid of all the old fruit and all the purple fruit
It won't work. NLP, sadly, just isn't there yet. We need a GUI for these choose-and-do tasks. It makes sense, honestly. If you can drag a lasso around the old fruit (sorted by date via the sort bar, one click) and then eyeball the purple ones, (click-click-click), that is the most natural way of getting things done Communicate? You're not communicating, you are giving orders.
Oh, believe me, I've RTFM. I've used OF. I've held down every godforsaken key on this damned keyboard when booting. Trying to boot from the OS9 partition (either using OF or holding the option key) gets me the 'Disk Question' icon. I've tried reinstalling OS9 with no luck. The only thing I can do is start up w/ OSX.
Is getting a little tiring, because it won't let me go back to OS9! Cripes, I knew this thing was going to be beta, but I thought they'd at least check if you could uninstall the damn thing! I'm now for all intents and purposes (save wiping the entire drive) stuck with OSX as the only bootable OS (yep, that includes LinuxPPC) left on my Powerbook.
Now, is it pretty? Hell yeah. Love seeing a native tcsh shell with antialiased fonts and all. And running ifconfing on a Mac gives some strange satisfaction. I applaud AppleCo 10x for biting the bullet and jumping a couple of evolutions, but I'm simultaneously kicking myself for swallowing it.
The View Source button in every web browser is a tool for stealing! It should be banned IMMEDIATELY! Just think -- ANYONE can go to your PRIVATE homepage and download the source code! You worked DAYS on that font size -4 text with the bright yellow background! That javascript fade background code took MINUTES of removing the comments!
I have yet to see a single web page design WORTH stealing, geez.
Check out Wacom's PL Series. You hook them up like a monitor and you can draw on them. Very cool, and very useful. Not positive about Linux support, but I'm sure someone is working on it.
Although you think you have immense amounts of numbers (the outright reliance almost on the "Slashdot Effect" as scare-tactic), the 'rights / computer / lifestyle' crowd here composes such a tiny fraction of the music-buying public that it won't even be a drip on the RIAA's brow. Seriously.
And this 'boycott' would be incredibly hard to suggest to other people, especially those who never use Napster or any other P2P system. Again, The World is Not Filled With Angry Young Men.
Bottom line: if you disagree with something like this, a boycott is not going to do a whit of good except maybe proving to RIAA demog peeps that "heavy internet users" no longer buy as many CDs. That's just grease for their fire.
Serious suggestions:
Actually get involved. Congresspeople, letter writing. Slashdot: get interviews with important people, have everyone here grill them.
Use your media contacts to get articles published including key quotes from upset visionaries.
Do something about Napster. Come on! Everyone knows what Napster is for, and the only way we can change that stigma is to CHANGE NAPSTER. Actually get artists involved who can profit from it. Don't sugarcoat Napster, no one believes it. But if it actually worked as a distribution plan, then... maybe heads will listen.
Paul P. did this much earlier (mid 80s if I recall correctly)... you can find it on CD at better record stores (look under the 20th Century Composers section if they have one, if not, get out of Sam Goody) -- He did it manually instead of over a network, but the sound and "message" remained the same.
You certainly can hook your Darla up to your Powerbook. You can get a cardbus PCI extension bus... they extend out to these 2U 3-pci card free boxes that you can do whatever you'd like with. They cost upwards of $1k, but if you need them, you need them.
You can build your own MIDI interface for $10, or get cheaper ones, they're out there. What's cool about this SwivelSystems box though is that it makes the sounds for you, instead of having an external synth. But if you want to make "real" sounds, and not $5 general midi chip sounds, build your own midi interface and hook it up to your synth or sampler or softsynth.
Does anyone here have *in their possesion* (not on order, or their friend etc etc) an MP3 capable portable CD player?
I've read more press releases than I care to talk about concerning a product like this, but I have as of yet not seen one for sale. This MamboX thing looks nice, but alas is not shipping.
If you actually have one, where did you get it? How much did it cost?
One very strange thing the TiVO does is delay all "live TV" about 4 seconds. This is when you are in "watch live TV mode," without pausing or rewinding or anything. If you put to TVs side by side, one going through a TiVO and one not, the TiVo TV has a 4-second delay. It's really odd. You'd never know it unless you had two TVs in a room.
Otherwise, the TiVO is damn impressive. It really does revolutionize how television is watched, if you care about that sort of stuff. The interface is pretty, lots of audio and visual feedback for UI selections... the collab filtering part is a little gimmicky but fun. The Season Pass feature needs a bit more intelligence about how syndication works. An ethernet jack would make those midnight phone calls shorter and less intrusive.
The II was the Palm Professional, yes. The first one was actually the "US Robotics Palm Pilot." The IV was skipped *presumably* for Japan's sake, which we also see a lot of in the music technology industry (there's no Akai s4000 or Roland 404..., etc.) The VI was skipped to indicate that the VII was in a completely new class, ahead of its time. Makes sense to me...
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Yeah, but it doesn't work.. at least LinuxPPC (the company) recommends against using it, saying something about how it's not compatible. Idono, I had my share of bad mac partioning experiences, I stayed the heck away and just used pdisk.
Most of the music on MP3.com is music both recorded and performed by groups that do not exist in the 'classic' commercial music industry. That is, the music is not recorded on large desks by trained engineers, nor is it produced by the latest visionary...
You and I don't care, sure, of course we don't. It's all about the music, right?
For the majority of the music-buying public, production values and major-label safety net backing are as important, if not more, than the quality of the music itself. Since these MP3.com types make their music with a portastudio or, if they're lucky, with a home-protools setup, and since it's not sold in a rack next to other CDs, no one places any real value on it. "It's not worth buying, really. I'll download a few tracks and put it on my harddrive along with all those crappy MODs I got that one time..."
I've put out a record - a real honest-to-god record here! Sold in real stores with worldwide distribution! It sold out. Had this been on mp3.com instead, I probably would have sold 5 or 6 copies. That's the truth. I know because I also have an mp3.com site. No one goes there. Is my music bad? Depends on your viewpoint, I guess, but the bottom line is specifically because of the medium the music exists in, no one thinks it's important.
Why?
This is MP3.com's biggest marketing problem now: getting rid of the 'bad music' stigma. Until then, people will still rely on normal music stores for their commerce.
Where in that linked article is Slashdot mentioned? I don't see it. I didn't look too carefully, but I just saw a mention of "free-speech advocates," nothing explicitly about Slashdot.
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Apple's (great) iTunes also supports the NJB, so it's not a case of Creative only allowing people to use their (crappy) PlayCenter software.
Just FYI.
OK, you get home around 7 and there's a stack of fruit on the floor. Some are kinda old, moldy, some are green, some are red. You want to throw away the oldest ones, a few of them, but not too many. And definitely all the purple ones.
So you tell your roommate: "Get rid of all the old fruit and all the purple fruit."
Type that in to your CLI:
$ get rid of all the old fruit and all the purple fruit
It won't work. NLP, sadly, just isn't there yet. We need a GUI for these choose-and-do tasks. It makes sense, honestly. If you can drag a lasso around the old fruit (sorted by date via the sort bar, one click) and then eyeball the purple ones, (click-click-click), that is the most natural way of getting things done Communicate? You're not communicating, you are giving orders.
Oh, believe me, I've RTFM. I've used OF. I've held down every godforsaken key on this damned keyboard when booting. Trying to boot from the OS9 partition (either using OF or holding the option key) gets me the 'Disk Question' icon. I've tried reinstalling OS9 with no luck. The only thing I can do is start up w/ OSX.
MAGMA makes this for Powerbooks-- a pcmcia card that extends to sort of a PCI backplane -- it's patented, too! (gulp)
Now, is it pretty? Hell yeah. Love seeing a native tcsh shell with antialiased fonts and all. And running ifconfing on a Mac gives some strange satisfaction. I applaud AppleCo 10x for biting the bullet and jumping a couple of evolutions, but I'm simultaneously kicking myself for swallowing it.
Is this the same guy who did all that great Atari ST stuff back in the day? The name sounds very familar.
The View Source button in every web browser is a tool for stealing! It should be banned IMMEDIATELY! Just think -- ANYONE can go to your PRIVATE homepage and download the source code! You worked DAYS on that font size -4 text with the bright yellow background! That javascript fade background code took MINUTES of removing the comments!
I have yet to see a single web page design WORTH stealing, geez.
Check out Wacom's PL Series. You hook them up like a monitor and you can draw on them. Very cool, and very useful. Not positive about Linux support, but I'm sure someone is working on it.
And this 'boycott' would be incredibly hard to suggest to other people, especially those who never use Napster or any other P2P system. Again, The World is Not Filled With Angry Young Men.
Bottom line: if you disagree with something like this, a boycott is not going to do a whit of good except maybe proving to RIAA demog peeps that "heavy internet users" no longer buy as many CDs. That's just grease for their fire.
Serious suggestions:
Apple reportedly will clothe the system in a new chassis that is more streamlined than the current generation of G3 PowerBooks.
More streamlined? Jeez, I hope it doesn't hurt anybody. Pretty soon all Apple products will either be completely round or 2-dimensional.
Paul P. did this much earlier (mid 80s if I recall correctly)... you can find it on CD at better record stores (look under the 20th Century Composers section if they have one, if not, get out of Sam Goody) -- He did it manually instead of over a network, but the sound and "message" remained the same.
You certainly can hook your Darla up to your Powerbook. You can get a cardbus PCI extension bus... they extend out to these 2U 3-pci card free boxes that you can do whatever you'd like with. They cost upwards of $1k, but if you need them, you need them.
You can build your own MIDI interface for $10, or get cheaper ones, they're out there. What's cool about this SwivelSystems box though is that it makes the sounds for you, instead of having an external synth. But if you want to make "real" sounds, and not $5 general midi chip sounds, build your own midi interface and hook it up to your synth or sampler or softsynth.
Marumari is one guy, not a "they."
Well, when I first got my CD-R, standard recordable-once-only discs were $8. Now they're easily under $1.
Does anyone here have *in their possesion* (not on order, or their friend etc etc) an MP3 capable portable CD player?
I've read more press releases than I care to talk about concerning a product like this, but I have as of yet not seen one for sale. This MamboX thing looks nice, but alas is not shipping.
If you actually have one, where did you get it? How much did it cost?
One very strange thing the TiVO does is delay all "live TV" about 4 seconds. This is when you are in "watch live TV mode," without pausing or rewinding or anything. If you put to TVs side by side, one going through a TiVO and one not, the TiVo TV has a 4-second delay. It's really odd. You'd never know it unless you had two TVs in a room.
Otherwise, the TiVO is damn impressive. It really does revolutionize how television is watched, if you care about that sort of stuff. The interface is pretty, lots of audio and visual feedback for UI selections... the collab filtering part is a little gimmicky but fun. The Season Pass feature needs a bit more intelligence about how syndication works. An ethernet jack would make those midnight phone calls shorter and less intrusive.
The press release says the base model costs $5500 US. http://www.poetictech.com/news/news.html.
The II was the Palm Professional, yes. The first one was actually the "US Robotics Palm Pilot." The IV was skipped *presumably* for Japan's sake, which we also see a lot of in the music technology industry (there's no Akai s4000 or Roland 404..., etc.) The VI was skipped to indicate that the VII was in a completely new class, ahead of its time. Makes sense to me...
Yeah, but it doesn't work.. at least LinuxPPC (the company) recommends against using it, saying something about how it's not compatible. Idono, I had my share of bad mac partioning experiences, I stayed the heck away and just used pdisk.
Wow, news about news about news! Keep flying around the web like this, and it starts to resemble a sick game of Operator!
"Tom's said that Ars' said that ZDNet said that Wired said that PCWorld said that Jane's said that... Corel is buying Amiga? Woo-hoo!"
Seriously-- should Intel be concerned about the Japan market and their 4-aversion? Are they going to call it the Pentium III+?
Most of the music on MP3.com is music both recorded and performed by groups that do not exist in the 'classic' commercial music industry. That is, the music is not recorded on large desks by trained engineers, nor is it produced by the latest visionary...
You and I don't care, sure, of course we don't. It's all about the music, right?
For the majority of the music-buying public, production values and major-label safety net backing are as important, if not more, than the quality of the music itself. Since these MP3.com types make their music with a portastudio or, if they're lucky, with a home-protools setup, and since it's not sold in a rack next to other CDs, no one places any real value on it. "It's not worth buying, really. I'll download a few tracks and put it on my harddrive along with all those crappy MODs I got that one time..."
I've put out a record - a real honest-to-god record here! Sold in real stores with worldwide distribution! It sold out. Had this been on mp3.com instead, I probably would have sold 5 or 6 copies. That's the truth. I know because I also have an mp3.com site. No one goes there. Is my music bad? Depends on your viewpoint, I guess, but the bottom line is specifically because of the medium the music exists in, no one thinks it's important.
Why?
This is MP3.com's biggest marketing problem now: getting rid of the 'bad music' stigma. Until then, people will still rely on normal music stores for their commerce.
Where in that linked article is Slashdot mentioned? I don't see it. I didn't look too carefully, but I just saw a mention of "free-speech advocates," nothing explicitly about Slashdot.
All you naysayers about Vinyl vs. MP3 should take a look at this...
http://www.n2it.net/finalscratch/
There.