Everyone that wants an Apple computer should buy from the education store. Apple doesn't check most purchases, and most people know someone who is in school right? I bought mine this way, and Im surprised anyone buys at the regular store.
You'll run into trouble if/when you need support from Apple, and you find out that they have a different support system for their edu customers. It's much more difficult to pretend to have been deserving of the edu discount at that point.
I mean, I was listening to Beethoven's Ninth symphony this morning (maybe you've heard of it?), and I was beaming with pride knowing that Beethoven would be an unknown if not for the generous auspicies of BMI and ASCAP.
He would be unknown if not for his patrons, who would be considered the closest equivalent to the record labels for his time.
Any attempt to sell digital music while keeping the current cost model (where a huge part of the proceeds go to feeding record company structures) is going to be a loser.
That "huge part of the proceeds" goes to pay the debts of the musicians who created the music in the first place, debts the musicians agreed to when they signed the contract.
This is 2004, not 1904. If they've been dating for three months, he's already getting blowjobs, or better. A Valentines gift should be something special.
Then she should swallow. That always makes it special.
Kudos to the fact it was indeed the iPod, but it would be cheaper to use a generic portable hard drive, since this is movie footage and not soundtrack data. The iPod wasn't used for what it was designed for.
The iPod was designed from the very beginning as a data storage device.
Where else are you going to find something that small, with that much storage and speed, that also looks (to the general public) like nothing more than an mp3 player? For that price?
The laptop needn't have been a G4 either, and they stuck in iSight as well.
Professionals in the movie business use Macs because Macs can reliably do the job.
If you want to get mired in the "needn't have been" excuses, well, they needn't have bothered to with digital dailies at all. In fact, why bother even making the movie.
But one thing to note is that this decision will not have an immediate impact. "The Incredibles" due this year and "Cars", expected in 2005, will still be distributed by Disney.
This could actually hurt Pixar, as Disney has shown an uncanny ability to bury a good movie by withholding promotion and distribution. Remember last year's Oscar winner, Spirited Away? Disney "distributed" that one right into the ground so that it couldn't compete with their own offerings.
While anything you buy from iTunes can be played on a wonderful variety of devices:
1) iPod
2) iPod Mini
3) There's no #3
I don't know much about Microsoft's DRM product, but I do know that I can play 100% of anything I buy from the iTunes Music Store on any audio CD compatible player in the world.
Can you burn everything you buy with MS's music store to CD?
Read Robert Scoble on why Apple is locking users into the DRM only one product supports (iPod). Scoble works for Microsoft, for those, who didn't know.
As opposed to the one DRM that Microsoft wants to lock you into?
Yes, I do. I also understand that the terms are fully spelled-out in the contract that the artist signed in the beginning of the business relationship.
A couple weeks ago, a suit was trown out (because it was filed after the statute of limitations) when a boy died after swallowing a pin used to "shotgun" a soda.
RIAA gets a cut of almost every song sold on iTMS, just like when you buy most CD's.
Once again: RIAA members are like banks. They've loaned large amounts of money to bands for the purpose of recording, buying equipment, eating, etc. in exchange for distribution rights to the songs produced.
The money may "go to the RIAA", but in reality it's going to pay off the debts incurred by the bands.
What are the worst conditions you have ever had to work under?
In the middle of a crowd of 5000 bikers (Hell's Angels, etc.) when the headlining act (Steppenwolf, famous for Born To Be Wild, etc.) tells the crowd that there will be no concert because the idiot keyboard player set his laptop-controlled sequencer rig up in the sun, where both laptops proceeded to melt down. Crowd is understandably pissed off.
8:00 PM in a mexican ballroom in Texas: The crowd has been drinking since they were let in at 6PM. They were told at 8PM that the band (from Mexico) that they had paid $50 to see had been deported and would not be showing up. Took me less than 20 minutes to do 75 minutes worth of work getting my equipment back into my truck and getting my white ass out of there before bullets flew.
Some days I'd rather be in a cubical. Luckily, the feeling passes.
Well, sucks for Apple: they're not getting my $400 because they don't support Ogg Vorbis, the format in which my 1,200 CD's/14,000 tracks are all encoded in.
Well, sucks for Apple: they're not getting my $400 because they don't support Vinyl, the format in which my 1,200 LP's/14,000 tracks are all pressed in.
I don't want to give the RIAA my money, and distribution via the net doesn't change that at all. I buy the few CDs I want at concerts, in the hope that I'll still get legitimate music and the RIAA will get less money.
Unless you are buying music from unsigned bands at these concerts, then you're not doing anything different from buying at Walmart.
I think I could name about a billion pop/rock songs from the last decade that use a 1-5-6-4 progression for the verse, chorus or even the entire song, just as an example.
I could name millions of classic blues tunes that use the 1-4-5 progression for the entire song. So?
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FWIW, BMI and ASCAP are not publishers. They merely collect the funds owed to the songwriters by those who use and sell the music.
No, it's not perfect, but it's what we've got.
Where else are you going to find something that small, with that much storage and speed, that also looks (to the general public) like nothing more than an mp3 player? For that price?
Professionals in the movie business use Macs because Macs can reliably do the job.If you want to get mired in the "needn't have been" excuses, well, they needn't have bothered to with digital dailies at all. In fact, why bother even making the movie.
Can you burn everything you buy with MS's music store to CD?
If you are using your iPod with a Mac, you can:
Other mp3 players will never do most of that.
Hurray for Darwin.
The money may "go to the RIAA", but in reality it's going to pay off the debts incurred by the bands.
- In the middle of a crowd of 5000 bikers (Hell's Angels, etc.) when the headlining act (Steppenwolf, famous for Born To Be Wild, etc.) tells the crowd that there will be no concert because the idiot keyboard player set his laptop-controlled sequencer rig up in the sun, where both laptops proceeded to melt down. Crowd is understandably pissed off.
- 8:00 PM in a mexican ballroom in Texas: The crowd has been drinking since they were let in at 6PM. They were told at 8PM that the band (from Mexico) that they had paid $50 to see had been deported and would not be showing up. Took me less than 20 minutes to do 75 minutes worth of work getting my equipment back into my truck and getting my white ass out of there before bullets flew.
Some days I'd rather be in a cubical. Luckily, the feeling passes.Oops, pardon me. Someone's at the door...
Somehow, I don't think Apple will miss the money.
Sorry.
Best thing about their customization (for me) was that you can design a bag ugly enough that no one would dare try to walk away with it.
Their bags are incredibly well designed to handle most of the bad things that can happen in a day. I'm glad I found them.