I see bias there too, in many areas.
Who knows about the mysterious search results?
I am troubled by the vocal support they get on the web, as if this new medium has yeilded
some new breed of human.
This from the same folks who routinely believe nothing,see evil conspiracy under every rug.
Trusting Google is a mistake. Don't trust any group with that much money and power.
The real problem right now is, what can anyone do about it?
Both lose.
Everyone alive has already been burned. Wasted cash on thousands of millions of VHS tapes,Beta tapes,8MM film, Polaroid cameras,CD's,DVD's,cassette tapes,8 Tracks,Reel to reel,Phono records,45s,78's.
But the biggest issue is the tech crowd,early adopters, the ones who drive and influence family and friends, are already on HDD systems,have multiple player/gadgets, iPods, XBMC, Media Centers,Myth setups,NAS gadgets, TiVo, on and on.
They are too little, too late, for too much.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ The bill includes the cost savings by releasing 2400 prisoners. They will Not be given iPods. Instead, each will get a confiscated weapon if they promise to move to Ohio. Not yet made public is a clause that makes Detroit part of Canada. "We are hoping that the change does Detroit good, moving to a new place can have that effect, you know, and Canada is really very nice,really."
I am not a fan,but Jobs/EMI deserve credit for this effort.
A 30% price increase? Apple fans will forgive it,heaping praise and glory, others (me) will see it as a bigger ripoff.
There is plenty more to do, something for Linux folk, and there remains now less than no justification for DRM'd Indies.
Questions I am curious about:
Are the new non DRMers watermarked?
Who gets the extra money?
DRM vs nonDRM sales of same tunes?
How many new and old customers will buy mainly/exclusively non DRM material?
How many old customers will stick to the 99 centers?
Will EMI sales spike and sustain at iTunes?
How soon before 1.29 becomes the new fix, for everyone, DRM or not?
predicto-matic:
post deal spin: the 30 cent finger will be pointed at EMI, "who wanted more money, for the extra risk". Flamewars will follow.
Other sevices will offer "higher quality" with DRM pretty soon. It amounts to too much cash to leave on the table.
Jobs will in the long term get the credit, and merits the credit for negotiating the move that finally pulled the finger from the dike.
Same as forever. Ads built media, newspapers,radio,TV and Google.
It is not direct competition for youtube.
But content providers creating thier own sites
will prevent youtube from growing beyond funny home videos.
My lock is on my door, DRM is thier lock on my stuff.
Remove DRM and piracy continues,paying customers still pay,but more will be interested. Keep DRM and piracy continues,but over time more paying customers are alienated.
3G iPhone could arrive overseas by early 2008
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2520
Expect higher prices at release:
TFA 1% of 26% buy sight unseen,or.26%
World usage "estimated at 2.14 billion in 2005"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone
Over 5 million,buy sight unseen,2005 numbers.
So first year 10 million looks like cake.Hotcakes, actually.
Early production/distribution will fall short of demand,driving ebay crazies
The retail increase will be promoted/accepted by inclusion of widgets of some kind.
If it has simple Vid Phone setup, the pretty girly girls will all Need That.
Gauranteed.
Apple's target,he top 1% do not care about costs. Certainly not cost in Hundreds. It is all junk, a thing to flaunt, to show off. That will be enough. The peasant classes
will tag along. This is a complete no-brainer.
This is embarrasing,unintentionally condescending,patronizing,and hilarious. Sitting under the desert sun,eating dried camel dung Omar discovers Fractals,begins doing integral calculus in the sand. Perhaps the chimpanzee with his bush baby chop stick demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of aerodynmics and ancient Chinese traditions?
In other news,
prehistoric men taught anatomy and physiology in Cave Art Schools.
Credit Reuters for mentioning "Images" were banned by God,so art/design was forced into the abstract.But, along with these idiot academics,they do not even realise they are looking down thier noses,by being amazed that the people of the time did something interesting.
It is completely over the top,a pathetic effort to say merely hey people, in spite of all the evidence, Muslims once had a clue.
Glonoinha said "iPod will be the 'Vista killer'
This could prove correct if drawn out for some time, at least for a percentage point or two in converts to OSX by pissed of iPodders. Blaming big bad evil microsoft for the entire thing would be as bonus.
I cannot see microsoft risking Vista to try and move Zunes, given as mentioned above the number of iPod fans out there. So if it is intentional, it is most likely Apple's work.
Family of four, two teenagers, four TV's. No deal.
Free wireless broadcast TV. Imagine that?
Choice of cable providers? No.
Choice of which stations, with variable pricing? No.
So, because folks are routinely getting soaked,pay per view of public broadcast TV can be a deal.
Best scam, ESPN. They get paid advertising, get paid by the cable companies for every subscriber, watching or not. They charge for content on the website, and now want to charge the ISP's too. Having live programming, they look very solid.
Digital cable boxes give all viewing info to the cable co, which they sell. For this we are charged extra.
It is horrible, out of control.
Having a xxx domain would be more like having it not openly displayed in a store, or in a seperate area. It is a good idea. It does not prevent access, just labels it.
lmlloyd:
"The only reason anyone even knows about this story, is because when Apple tried to patent some really obvious aspects of an MP3 player, they were told that they couldn't have the patent because Microsoft had beat them to it!"
Yup. Its mine, you cant use it. The Apple standard.
This increases the chances of a standardized system.
With Apple/Sony,unwanted expensive proprietary deviation is the standard.
Apple is the worst.
The Worst.
I am so happy I am screaming.
Thank you.
"BTW, Chris Pirillo, the guy who wrote this, he's the one who couldn't make the cut as a TechTV ScreenSaver, isn't that right?"
Yup. Been looking at softwre for years, he sounds burn't out, staring at his little PSP all day.
****
Here is the super dooper mac for three grand at musicians friend. Come on. This is Apple to me, it represents a kind of anti-corporate/rich kid solution. This is especially true of the iPod at my sons school. He mentions to the kids that his gadget player cost 1/10th the price, and does more than the Apple, they shrug. Style over substance.
OSX seems for real though. Looking forward to running the future hacked OSX on my PC, without Steve's hardware tax.
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I see bias there too, in many areas. Who knows about the mysterious search results? I am troubled by the vocal support they get on the web, as if this new medium has yeilded some new breed of human. This from the same folks who routinely believe nothing,see evil conspiracy under every rug. Trusting Google is a mistake. Don't trust any group with that much money and power. The real problem right now is, what can anyone do about it?
Both lose. Everyone alive has already been burned. Wasted cash on thousands of millions of VHS tapes,Beta tapes,8MM film, Polaroid cameras,CD's,DVD's,cassette tapes,8 Tracks,Reel to reel,Phono records,45s,78's. But the biggest issue is the tech crowd,early adopters, the ones who drive and influence family and friends, are already on HDD systems,have multiple player/gadgets, iPods, XBMC, Media Centers,Myth setups,NAS gadgets, TiVo, on and on. They are too little, too late, for too much.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/
The bill includes the cost savings by releasing 2400 prisoners. They will Not be given iPods. Instead, each will get a confiscated weapon if they promise to move to Ohio.
Not yet made public is a clause that makes Detroit part of Canada. "We are hoping that the change does Detroit good, moving to a new place can have that effect, you know, and Canada is really very nice,really."
A 30% price increase? Apple fans will forgive it,heaping praise and glory, others (me) will see it as a bigger ripoff.
There is plenty more to do, something for Linux folk, and there remains now less than no justification for DRM'd Indies.
Questions I am curious about:
Are the new non DRMers watermarked?
Who gets the extra money?
DRM vs nonDRM sales of same tunes?
How many new and old customers will buy mainly/exclusively non DRM material?
How many old customers will stick to the 99 centers?
Will EMI sales spike and sustain at iTunes?
How soon before 1.29 becomes the new fix, for everyone, DRM or not?
predicto-matic:
post deal spin: the 30 cent finger will be pointed at EMI, "who wanted more money, for the extra risk". Flamewars will follow.
Other sevices will offer "higher quality" with DRM pretty soon. It amounts to too much cash to leave on the table.
Jobs will in the long term get the credit, and merits the credit for negotiating the move that finally pulled the finger from the dike.
(videos of that to remain DRM'd for now)
Same as forever. Ads built media, newspapers,radio,TV and Google. It is not direct competition for youtube. But content providers creating thier own sites will prevent youtube from growing beyond funny home videos.
My lock is on my door, DRM is thier lock on my stuff.
Remove DRM and piracy continues,paying customers still pay,but more will be interested. Keep DRM and piracy continues,but over time more paying customers are alienated.
3G iPhone could arrive overseas by early 2008 http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2520 Expect higher prices at release: TFA 1% of 26% buy sight unseen,or .26%
World usage "estimated at 2.14 billion in 2005"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone
Over 5 million,buy sight unseen,2005 numbers.
So first year 10 million looks like cake.Hotcakes, actually.
Early production/distribution will fall short of demand,driving ebay crazies
The retail increase will be promoted/accepted by inclusion of widgets of some kind.
If it has simple Vid Phone setup, the pretty girly girls will all Need That.
Gauranteed.
Apple's target,he top 1% do not care about costs. Certainly not cost in Hundreds. It is all junk, a thing to flaunt, to show off. That will be enough. The peasant classes
will tag along. This is a complete no-brainer.
This is embarrasing,unintentionally condescending,patronizing,and hilarious. Sitting under the desert sun,eating dried camel dung Omar discovers Fractals,begins doing integral calculus in the sand. Perhaps the chimpanzee with his bush baby chop stick demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of aerodynmics and ancient Chinese traditions? In other news, prehistoric men taught anatomy and physiology in Cave Art Schools. Credit Reuters for mentioning "Images" were banned by God,so art/design was forced into the abstract.But, along with these idiot academics,they do not even realise they are looking down thier noses,by being amazed that the people of the time did something interesting. It is completely over the top,a pathetic effort to say merely hey people, in spite of all the evidence, Muslims once had a clue.
Glonoinha said "iPod will be the 'Vista killer' This could prove correct if drawn out for some time, at least for a percentage point or two in converts to OSX by pissed of iPodders. Blaming big bad evil microsoft for the entire thing would be as bonus. I cannot see microsoft risking Vista to try and move Zunes, given as mentioned above the number of iPod fans out there. So if it is intentional, it is most likely Apple's work.
Family of four, two teenagers, four TV's. No deal. Free wireless broadcast TV. Imagine that? Choice of cable providers? No. Choice of which stations, with variable pricing? No. So, because folks are routinely getting soaked,pay per view of public broadcast TV can be a deal. Best scam, ESPN. They get paid advertising, get paid by the cable companies for every subscriber, watching or not. They charge for content on the website, and now want to charge the ISP's too. Having live programming, they look very solid. Digital cable boxes give all viewing info to the cable co, which they sell. For this we are charged extra. It is horrible, out of control.
Having a xxx domain would be more like having it not openly displayed in a store, or in a seperate area. It is a good idea. It does not prevent access, just labels it.
lmlloyd: "The only reason anyone even knows about this story, is because when Apple tried to patent some really obvious aspects of an MP3 player, they were told that they couldn't have the patent because Microsoft had beat them to it!" Yup. Its mine, you cant use it. The Apple standard. This increases the chances of a standardized system. With Apple/Sony,unwanted expensive proprietary deviation is the standard. Apple is the worst. The Worst. I am so happy I am screaming. Thank you.
"BTW, Chris Pirillo, the guy who wrote this, he's the one who couldn't make the cut as a TechTV ScreenSaver, isn't that right?"
Yup. Been looking at softwre for years, he sounds
burn't out, staring at his little PSP all day.
****
Here is the super dooper mac for three grand at musicians friend. Come on.
This is Apple to me, it represents a kind of anti-corporate/rich kid solution. This is especially true of the iPod at my sons school. He mentions to the kids that his gadget player cost 1/10th the price, and does more than the Apple, they shrug.
Style over substance.
OSX seems for real though.
Looking forward to running the future hacked OSX on my PC, without Steve's hardware tax.