Reading profiles and looking at friend lists will get old for any given user in the demographic social networking sites cater to. However, the users in that demographic keep cycling. One person gets bored and phases out, at least one new user discovers this wonderous new (to them) site and phases in.
Take sex or rebellion. Every generation thinks they've invented both. By the time they realize they haven't, an entire new generations begins the process again.
So while the individual users may get bored or move on, the demographic as a whole is always in the same state of interest.
Minish Cap is a whole lot of fun. Also provides insight as to where the green hat comes from. It'a a great GBA game. If you don't have a DS already, you should really get one. The DS Lite is a nice little device. Plus "New Super Mario Bros," "Mark Kart," "Brain Age," and "Trauma Center" are great games to pick up for it. Definitely worth while.
That's what we call flame bait. It almost sounds like she heard a few people complaining about DRM and decided she wanted in too. Though she has a wonderful technique. It goes like this:
her: I know you'll hate me, but your band sucks!
band: Why?
her: Well, your xylophone player is horrible. No talent at all!
band: Um, we don't even have a xylophone player. We're a three piece garage band: guitar, bass, drums.
her: Well, I knew you'd hate me. But let me finish! You have a mastery of Nirvana covers.
Something along those lines. It's the "You'll say I'm flaming because I am, but I'll acknowledge that I'm flaming and say some good things to cover it up so I won't look like I'm writing a flame bait article to drive hits to our web site!" technique.
As per the battery issue. I know people who have mobile phones "a couple years old" that have to charge up every day as well. Batteries will do that if you don't take care of them.
Then there was this little gem:
I've spent hours of my life convincing iTunes I should be allowed to play songs I either ripped from lawfully bought CDs or purchased from Apple itself on my laptop or my iPod. (emphasis mine)
That little gem right there leads me to believe this is more flame bait than anything else. And I stopped reading there. If you are honestly having difficulty ripping a CD and getting it to work in iTunes or on your iPod, I don't think you are qualified to be writing this article. I'm aware she's trying to be balanced and even mentions a few times about "flaming" and so-on, but seriously? You can't get ripped songs to play in iTunes? </soapbox >
As for the rumored iPhone itself... I'm sure it will look slick and hopefully just work (tm), but it has to be pretty damn good to survive in the saturated mobile market. People have to really want it (which they will) and continue to want it (that's the kicker). I know a guy who's on his 32nd mobile phone. He got his first in 1998. That's 4 phones a year. While he's on the extreme end of the scale, it reflects how fickle people can be about their mobile phones. It's going to be a tough market for Apple to work with.
I think the big deal is that it seems odd for a system to tout its HD capabilities and not come with cables to display an HD signal out of the box.
Are cables cheap? Yes. But for a $500 system (and who's only standard a/v connections are HDMI and TOSLINK), I'd expect it to at least have component cables bundled.
You might want to try Senuti. You don't have to deal with hidden folders.
I've used it for a while, seems to work well. It even imports the songs directly into iTunes.
You do realize that daylight savings time is now over, not starting, right?
As an example, without daylight saving's time, the sunrise in Chicago on July 2nd this year would have been 4:19am and sunset would have been 7:29pm (instead of 5:19/8:29 by applying DST). The piont of DST was to make better use of the daylight in the morning during the Summer months and give us more light in the evening.
The original question did mention specifically SDI or YUV-Component video signals. I'm assuming the broadcast will still be analog.
However, there's yet another kink in this whole system: frame accuracy. First of all, everything needs to be in drop frame timecode to even ensure your programs aren't stretching too much. (You'd be off by 3 seconds and 18 frames every hour if you're looking at everything in non-drop-frame. That adds up quickly.) Once you get past that, you need to ensure the same frame accuracy on switching between video feeds. Even if there's a 1 frame delay between each switch, that adds up quickly, too. If these aren't done right, within a week you'll be starting your 7:30pm show at at 7:40pm or later.
I hate Microsoft for trying to come into video games and buy a slice.
I'm not defending Microsoft here, because this is exactly what they are doing. However, you are aware that Sony was doing the same thing with the Playstation, right?
It's really a moot point, though, since any new console maker will be trying to "buy into" the gaming market. (You have to spend money to make money.) The recent trend of the loss leader/razors and blades business models in gaming is even more evidence of this.
I feel bad for you*. If I ever forget my iPod, I listen to WMSE 91.7, FM 102.1, or WUWM 89.7. All of them are independently run... well, sort of. 91.7 and 89.7 are run be two local colleges. 102.1 is completely independent (and plays everything from NIN to Cake to Gnarles Barkely to Cyrpess Hill to 30 Seconds to Mars to..... ah, you get the idea.
*Go ahead, once you see that the stations are in Milwaukee, comment that you feel bad for me living in Milwaukee....
Actually, when they fist introduced the iPod, they mentioned their intention to port it to Windows:
"We have thought than when we get a little spare time, we will look at taking it to Windows. We know the experience won't be as good, but we will probably look at that down the road."
...and the packaging makes the images look far more crisp than the actual device.
I am shocked... shocked I tell you to learn that the image on the package looks better than the actual device. How could this possibly have happened? Who would dream of such a thing?
Onto the device itself. I'm glad to see it develop and that it's more than just a concept. The technology is still in its infancy and it will take time for it to improve and come down to an affordable level. I'm looking forward to the day I can get a full keyboard like this.
I think the problem is that your mixing up terms. HTTP and FTP are protocols, which essentially serve the same purpose for most people. RSS is a type of XML file. RSS and HTTP cannot be interchanged. You don't "download files over RSS" like you stated in your original post. You're still using (for the most part) port 80 with good old HTTP to fetch the RSS file (which I'm not sure are still officially RSS files with all the iTunes markup that's in so many now), then HTTP again to download the audio file.
Is it really a podcast then? It was my understanding that in a podcast the RSS file pointed to an audio file to be downloaded, much the way a traditional rss file points to a web page. In the case of the PDFs for Makezine, isn't it just a RSS file that points to PDF files instead of HTML?
I'm not trying to say you're wrong, I'm just genuinely curious of that form of PDF distribution is indeed termed a 'podcast.' If it is, why isn't a regular RSS feed a podcast? After all, it points to a file and your browser does indeed download it.
I probably should clarify. I wasn't really expecting anything more than what the discs were. However, I really wanted to see the score released. Not that I thought any of these discs would be the score from the film.
Actually, a podcast is just RSS feed + audio file. The support for chapters and chapter art with hyperlinks is only available in the AAC format.
As always, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. It may be available in other formats, but I haven't personally seen it in anything other than AAC... definitely not in MP3.
They're not going after peopel who create podcasts. They're going after Infostructure Solutions LLC and Podcast Ready Inc. over the terms 'Mypodder' and 'Podcast Ready' which were recently filed for trademarks.
While Apple, of course, has no general objections to the proper use of the descriptive term "podcast" as part of a trademark for goods and services offerend in the podcasting field, it cannot allow marks that go beyond this legitimate use and infringe on Apple's rights in POD and IPOD.
I'm an Apple kid. I grew up on Macs. I own an iPod or two. I'm not necessarily defending Apple in their aggressive attack on everything 'pod' ('ipod' I can understand...). However, it looks as though they're not going after the term 'podcasting.'
The problem comes in because 'pod' can be derived from both iPod and podcast.
Going against Mypodder, I can understand (just say the name out-loud). But I'm not so sure about Podcast Ready. It seems to go against the section I just quoted.
I still have several gallons of electricity from before the y2k scare. They're stocked up in a storage closet in the basement. Luckily, I bought it at $.27/gallon before the price was driven up.
Hmmm... I wonder what the shelf life of a gallon of electricity is. Maybe I should divide them into quarts or pints. Maybe even sell it off at $.45/gallon and make a profit!
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Reading profiles and looking at friend lists will get old for any given user in the demographic social networking sites cater to. However, the users in that demographic keep cycling. One person gets bored and phases out, at least one new user discovers this wonderous new (to them) site and phases in.
Take sex or rebellion. Every generation thinks they've invented both. By the time they realize they haven't, an entire new generations begins the process again.
So while the individual users may get bored or move on, the demographic as a whole is always in the same state of interest.
Minish Cap is a whole lot of fun. Also provides insight as to where the green hat comes from. It'a a great GBA game. If you don't have a DS already, you should really get one. The DS Lite is a nice little device. Plus "New Super Mario Bros," "Mark Kart," "Brain Age," and "Trauma Center" are great games to pick up for it. Definitely worth while.
I was actually just making dates up for an example. But I forgot about Phantom Hourglass.
Unless it's a Zelda game. Then something like "July 2007" may mean "sometime in 2009"... maybe... if you're lucky.
That's what we call flame bait. It almost sounds like she heard a few people complaining about DRM and decided she wanted in too. Though she has a wonderful technique. It goes like this:
her: I know you'll hate me, but your band sucks!
band: Why?
her: Well, your xylophone player is horrible. No talent at all!
band: Um, we don't even have a xylophone player. We're a three piece garage band: guitar, bass, drums.
her: Well, I knew you'd hate me. But let me finish! You have a mastery of Nirvana covers.
Something along those lines. It's the "You'll say I'm flaming because I am, but I'll acknowledge that I'm flaming and say some good things to cover it up so I won't look like I'm writing a flame bait article to drive hits to our web site!" technique.
As per the battery issue. I know people who have mobile phones "a couple years old" that have to charge up every day as well. Batteries will do that if you don't take care of them. Then there was this little gem:
That little gem right there leads me to believe this is more flame bait than anything else. And I stopped reading there. If you are honestly having difficulty ripping a CD and getting it to work in iTunes or on your iPod, I don't think you are qualified to be writing this article. I'm aware she's trying to be balanced and even mentions a few times about "flaming" and so-on, but seriously? You can't get ripped songs to play in iTunes? /soapbox >
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As for the rumored iPhone itself... I'm sure it will look slick and hopefully just work (tm), but it has to be pretty damn good to survive in the saturated mobile market. People have to really want it (which they will) and continue to want it (that's the kicker). I know a guy who's on his 32nd mobile phone. He got his first in 1998. That's 4 phones a year. While he's on the extreme end of the scale, it reflects how fickle people can be about their mobile phones. It's going to be a tough market for Apple to work with.
I think the big deal is that it seems odd for a system to tout its HD capabilities and not come with cables to display an HD signal out of the box.
Are cables cheap? Yes. But for a $500 system (and who's only standard a/v connections are HDMI and TOSLINK), I'd expect it to at least have component cables bundled.
You might want to try Senuti. You don't have to deal with hidden folders.
I've used it for a while, seems to work well. It even imports the songs directly into iTunes.
You do realize that daylight savings time is now over, not starting, right?
As an example, without daylight saving's time, the sunrise in Chicago on July 2nd this year would have been 4:19am and sunset would have been 7:29pm (instead of 5:19/8:29 by applying DST). The piont of DST was to make better use of the daylight in the morning during the Summer months and give us more light in the evening.
That's why there's a classic controller with a d-pad, two analog sticks, B/A/Y/X and L/R/Z buttons.
I think they had to throw a Spinal Tap song in there since the amps on GH1 go to 11.
Slashdot: where repeating an article in a post is "+5 Insightful"
Apparently my sig is almost true.
The original question did mention specifically SDI or YUV-Component video signals. I'm assuming the broadcast will still be analog.
However, there's yet another kink in this whole system: frame accuracy. First of all, everything needs to be in drop frame timecode to even ensure your programs aren't stretching too much. (You'd be off by 3 seconds and 18 frames every hour if you're looking at everything in non-drop-frame. That adds up quickly.) Once you get past that, you need to ensure the same frame accuracy on switching between video feeds. Even if there's a 1 frame delay between each switch, that adds up quickly, too. If these aren't done right, within a week you'll be starting your 7:30pm show at at 7:40pm or later.
I'm not defending Microsoft here, because this is exactly what they are doing. However, you are aware that Sony was doing the same thing with the Playstation, right?
It's really a moot point, though, since any new console maker will be trying to "buy into" the gaming market. (You have to spend money to make money.) The recent trend of the loss leader/razors and blades business models in gaming is even more evidence of this.
I came into this duscussion to say the same thing. Ars pretty much just summed up the first three pages of the round-table with Iwata.
URL bears repeating: http://wii.nintendo.com/iwata_asks_vol1_p1.html
*Go ahead, once you see that the stations are in Milwaukee, comment that you feel bad for me living in Milwaukee....
Actually, when they fist introduced the iPod, they mentioned their intention to port it to Windows:
...from the Macword live coverage of the event on October 23, 2001.
I am shocked... shocked I tell you to learn that the image on the package looks better than the actual device. How could this possibly have happened? Who would dream of such a thing?
Onto the device itself. I'm glad to see it develop and that it's more than just a concept. The technology is still in its infancy and it will take time for it to improve and come down to an affordable level. I'm looking forward to the day I can get a full keyboard like this.
I think the problem is that your mixing up terms. HTTP and FTP are protocols, which essentially serve the same purpose for most people. RSS is a type of XML file. RSS and HTTP cannot be interchanged. You don't "download files over RSS" like you stated in your original post. You're still using (for the most part) port 80 with good old HTTP to fetch the RSS file (which I'm not sure are still officially RSS files with all the iTunes markup that's in so many now), then HTTP again to download the audio file.
Is it really a podcast then? It was my understanding that in a podcast the RSS file pointed to an audio file to be downloaded, much the way a traditional rss file points to a web page. In the case of the PDFs for Makezine, isn't it just a RSS file that points to PDF files instead of HTML?
I'm not trying to say you're wrong, I'm just genuinely curious of that form of PDF distribution is indeed termed a 'podcast.' If it is, why isn't a regular RSS feed a podcast? After all, it points to a file and your browser does indeed download it.
I probably should clarify. I wasn't really expecting anything more than what the discs were. However, I really wanted to see the score released. Not that I thought any of these discs would be the score from the film.
Actually, a podcast is just RSS feed + audio file. The support for chapters and chapter art with hyperlinks is only available in the AAC format.
As always, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. It may be available in other formats, but I haven't personally seen it in anything other than AAC... definitely not in MP3.
They're not going after peopel who create podcasts. They're going after Infostructure Solutions LLC and Podcast Ready Inc. over the terms 'Mypodder' and 'Podcast Ready' which were recently filed for trademarks.
From the letter:
I'm an Apple kid. I grew up on Macs. I own an iPod or two. I'm not necessarily defending Apple in their aggressive attack on everything 'pod' ('ipod' I can understand...). However, it looks as though they're not going after the term 'podcasting.'
The problem comes in because 'pod' can be derived from both iPod and podcast.
Going against Mypodder, I can understand (just say the name out-loud). But I'm not so sure about Podcast Ready. It seems to go against the section I just quoted.
I still have several gallons of electricity from before the y2k scare. They're stocked up in a storage closet in the basement. Luckily, I bought it at $.27/gallon before the price was driven up.
Hmmm... I wonder what the shelf life of a gallon of electricity is. Maybe I should divide them into quarts or pints. Maybe even sell it off at $.45/gallon and make a profit!