...not to mention all the unwatermarked MP3 players around. Be sure and buy yours before they impliment some crazy protection scheme on digital music players. I already got my portable and car MP3 players, and my computer powers my stereo, so I'm ready. Do your worst RIAA, it'll only alienate your customers, and give hackers something to work on (i.e. reverse engineering protection schemes). They are going to have to face the fact that they have lost control of media distribution, and work with the system by distributing their content themselves for free with advertising, or as a paid service without. If they continue to fight the internet and its new media distribution methods, they will only lose out, and make the artists they control pay by denying them this ever-increasing market, as well as have to pay all the legal fees involved in fighting this war. They are going to have to seriously rethink their distribution of content, and the incredibly profitable and unrealistic days of music on CDs are over. No longer will people be paying $14.99 for an album, or leaving their homes to get it. CDs will either disappear, or be drastically reduced in price ($5-$8 would be acceptable). It will be fun to see them crash and burn as they try to take on the internet; and truly underground stars are born naturally and gain enough prominence to go on national, possibly world tours. This will mark a turning point, where alternate media distribution has reached a critical mass to warrant commercial backing in a serious way. I'd say 3-4 years before enough americans on broadband connections and are net-aware enough to seek alternate media sources, ignoring the classic ones. For global internet stars, we probably will have to wait a bit longer as the internet is integrated into their society. Some countries in Northern Europe (Sweden, Norway) and a few Asian islands (Japan, Hong Kong) are about as connected as the USA, if not more so. Others will catch up. The main advantage of the internet is its global nature, allowing everyone to participate (theoretically), no matter their location. The New Media companies will be able to target much larger audiences, with much better feedback on what people are watching, how long before they zap sites, and much more information providing much more useful marketing data. Access to a site might require a registration, giving some basic info about yourself, and put a cookie in your browser tracking your activity, that they can later use for demographic studies, and targeted content, much better than current TV techniques. The internet way of doing things on the distribution side will really help everyone involved. The only people hurt are ones trying to preseve the old way, which is already dead. On the content creation side, this fits right in with internet distribution as now there is much more freedom, and someone can create content, both audio and video, on their own personal computers, and then distribute this on the internet. Due to this, we will be seeing much more creative and interesting content that we never would have experienced through any other medium. The people are now in control of the medium, as opposed to a small group of businessmen and lawyers. If artists want to protect their revenue stream, already known artists can use their exposure to sell their work directly on the internet, while lesser known artists can use sites like mp3.com and others, as well as streaming audio internet radio stations to gain prominence. The RIAA is either going to embrace the internet, or lose all their artists in the long run.
I, personally, have not bought a CD in about 4 years (since I got my CD burner). Thanks to the internet, I am discovering music I never would have found in a record store, and making CDs to fit my taste much better than any record company executive could. I know that as more people get into this way of getting music, the record companies are going to crash and burn. Yay for free music (free as in speech, NOT beer).
Struck a nerve, have I? A representative of the Trackpad Consortium, no doubt . . . Like I said, get a trackball for space concerns, there are some nice compact ones for that very purpose. Simma down, na!
So you get a USB mouse with as many buttons as you need (or get a trackball for space concerns). You can't do any serious mousing with a trackpad anyways. That's what everyone else does...
Probably more of a "RED ALERT!" "CAUTION!" "INTRUDER ALERT!". That would be the most effective... If you want to go with the theme, though, maybe a rattlesnake.
There is no per-download fee, only a subscription. This also has to be pretty cheap, as they are competing with scour, MX, OpenNap, and Gnutella, which are all free.
You get this for free because this is beta software. The final version has never come out, and they have not yet unveiled their final legitimate service. They have said from the beginning that the pricing was going to change in the future, when the Napster service moved out of its beta stage. Had they sold their client/server for a profit from the getgo, they would have been shut down by lawsuits immediately for making profits from copyrighted material.
Personally, I would have no problem paying around $5/month for this service, and would be glad to see this legitimized. BMG will have to open up server farms worldwide to distribute their content at high speeds and in good, controlled quality. A way of telling them apart will be necessary, perhaps by reserving the user name BMG for them, and an option in the search parameters will have to be added to search only BMG's music (plus others when they join in).
This is something that needed to happen for a long time. There will be Napster for the people who don't mind paying a subscription for legitimate, controlled content; and OpenNap for those who want the free media, digital freedom, yada yada yada. This is the only good possible outcome of this legal fiasco.
I've had MacOS X installed on my computer since DR2, when it still looked like OSX Server. DP3 was a drastic new interface, that unfortunately, had some very rough spots, and could not really replace the MacOS as the next viable interface. I complained to Apple about my problems, and most were fixed in DP4. I have DP4 installed, and I can say, that if there were more apps for it, I could drop the MacOS and survive in OSX. There are still a few problems, but if the progress from DP3 to DP4 is any indication, I strongly feel these will be addressed by the time it goes beta, and surely by the time it goes final next winter. DP4 is very usable, and they've really made some good changes since DP3. I think Apple will take a stance similar to ResEdit with the Terminal.app, having it available on its website, and not advertise it in any way, but make it available for their advanced users. The terminal is an essential tool for OSX, to compile apps, see and manipulate invisible files and folders, and do any other basic things you can't practically do in the GUI (or maybe you can, and a good way hasn't been implimented yet). This is going to be a great OS, no doubt about it. Even if Apple messes it up, the file that contains the interface resources has been located, and hackers are busy hacking away at it, and alternate interfaces will emerge soon enough, as well as all the tools to do anything. This OS is much more flexible and a much better foundation than the current MacOS by orders of magnitude. With the current one, it seems like it's one big hack, and there's so much crap in the Extensions folder, it's hard to keep track any more. It used to be really simple. Let's hope OSX gives us a good foundation to go on for a while into the future.
Well, I'm no developer, but I do have a copy of DP4 running on my G4, and I can tell you, it looks almost nothing like NeXT. The file browser is similar (columns view) which I like, services are still alive and thriving, packages are the way to distribute software, and then they're installed with InstallerX, a nice, streamlined installer proggie. There's no more application menu, and all open apps are located in the left side of the dock. Objective C is still a very viable development medium, and frameworks are a very big part of Cocoa programming. It is pretty much NeXT with some added APIs and a different interface and graphics system. Yay for progress.
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This makes us wonder how this will affect the industry as a whole. If M$ makes a version of Windows that'll run on top of that, and AMD is able to adapt that code to their needs, they could probably drop the x86 emulation unit, and just make an EFI emulation unit, which could be changed to suit their needs and make better processor designs. I'm sure, since the code is open, that AMD will be able to make a good EFI interpreter for their RISC core and make some nice, streamlined processors in the future. What do y'all think about that?
You have a WWDC pass and were contemplating not going? You gotta! It's going to be wonderful. Maybe the Q3 demo will work this time. . . If you don't want to go, sell me the ticket. It's gonna be a good one, just full of awesome workshops on OSX (of course all you need is some UNIX knowledge, and you'll do fine). Well, there is that freaky yellow box, full of goodies . . . what's it called this week, cocoa? You'd better be going if you really have a pass!
It's true, I've owned a Blue G3 and a G4, and the puck was the first thing to do. I think it's really irresponsible for Apple to ship Pro computers with such a crappy mouse, and for remaining with a one button mouse all this time. Multiple buttons are much more practical than a single one. Although it can be confusing for beginners, it is much more productive once you get the hang. Whenever I go to someone's mac and have to use a single-button mouse, I feel constrained and handicapped. One button = all bad. Fortunately, I can buy ANY mac or pc USB mouse to replace it. The piece of crap keyboard is a little different, in that you can only buy a Mac replacement keyboard, with the Mac-specific keys. There isn't too much choice, just a few different kinds of every style, but it's much better than the sorry excuse for a keyboard that came with the computer. So, Apple should really get its act together and release some real input devices with their computers. I have a 3 button USB mouse (ever try to play Q3 with the puck? Don't!). The point is, though, that most users use the input devices that came with their computers, and this is really annoying for Apple's customers.
My computer, which is connected through ethernet to my DSL modem (and my roommate's PC) is a gateway (software router) and has firewire ports. Seems like some good possibilities. . .
There is no need for ethernet, as Firewire can handle all the network protocols, and firewire networks can be set up at four times the speed of 100BT. I've set up a firewire network (between two macs) and it works super duper. I just hope (can't wait for) I can connect my PS2 to my G4 and at least display it on my computer, and hopefully have access to my DSL connection. I have the software to do this, if the PS2 has any networking capabilities, and with a HD, I'm sure something could be worked out;0) . . . there's just too many possibilities with the PS2, I sure something will be hacked up. Peace,
Actually, If the platters are about 3.5" in diameter (1.75" in radius), and there's about 1" in diameter lost in the middle, or.5" in radius, the area on this disk would be *(1.75^2) - *(.5^2) = 8.835 in^2 * 50 = 441.75 * (2*2) = 1767 or 1.767 TB
First of all, the technology promises 400 gigabits/in^2, which translates to 50 GB. Don't even bother to translate how much it would be if you made a hard drive out of it, because this technology will push us far beyond hard drives. Imagine something like Sony's memory sticks with 50 GB on it. You could throw about 10 DVDs on it. Buisiness cards, with 100 GB of storage on it. Little MP3 players with years of listening time. Hell, we could probably just have portable WAV players. This will be particularly interesting when compact computer parts like monitors become viable. If I could have a pair of glasses with a display, and a tiny DVD player the size of a pager, with piles of DVDs stored on tiny memory sticks, this would be ideal, and not too far off. You then unplug you display glasses from the DVD player and plug it in your wearable computer, and have access to a huge amount of pawer and data in a very small size. This brings us much closer to wearable and micro-portable electronics.
The previous poster was definately the dweeb (not stme, the other guy, whose name I don't feel like finding right now). That's really interesting, and I wonder how DP3 responds to that script. I'm sorry for my inexperience, but If I wanted to try that out in OSX DP3, how do I go about it? Do I just write out that script in the tc shell? I'll see what disasterous consequences it has on Apple's latest seed . . .
mmmmm, these brits really spent a lot of effort on this subject, something which I have known from my tender childhood. Why do they have to do these studies? Is it so that people who eat cold pizza can feel better about themselves? Are they gonna start to sell cold pizza in restaurants (you never know with those crazy brits)? I don't need a study to tell me cold pizza is good, what a waste of time and money. This is all a marketing ploy for all those pizza joints that sell cold, previous day pizza.
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I'm pretty sure he's referring to taking bong rips or something. Or you could just go and get a nice lobotomy (or are leukotomies in style now), and you could be the grand brainball master of the world!!! Think of the glory, or I guess you couldn't think about it too hard . . . 8)
several button mice ranging from 2-5 buttons are available for Macs and have been for several years. When a Mac user is ready, they can buy their own mouse, trackball, or whatever. Just thought I'd clarify . . .
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...not to mention all the unwatermarked MP3 players around. Be sure and buy yours before they impliment some crazy protection scheme on digital music players. I already got my portable and car MP3 players, and my computer powers my stereo, so I'm ready. Do your worst RIAA, it'll only alienate your customers, and give hackers something to work on (i.e. reverse engineering protection schemes). They are going to have to face the fact that they have lost control of media distribution, and work with the system by distributing their content themselves for free with advertising, or as a paid service without. If they continue to fight the internet and its new media distribution methods, they will only lose out, and make the artists they control pay by denying them this ever-increasing market, as well as have to pay all the legal fees involved in fighting this war. They are going to have to seriously rethink their distribution of content, and the incredibly profitable and unrealistic days of music on CDs are over. No longer will people be paying $14.99 for an album, or leaving their homes to get it. CDs will either disappear, or be drastically reduced in price ($5-$8 would be acceptable). It will be fun to see them crash and burn as they try to take on the internet; and truly underground stars are born naturally and gain enough prominence to go on national, possibly world tours. This will mark a turning point, where alternate media distribution has reached a critical mass to warrant commercial backing in a serious way. I'd say 3-4 years before enough americans on broadband connections and are net-aware enough to seek alternate media sources, ignoring the classic ones. For global internet stars, we probably will have to wait a bit longer as the internet is integrated into their society. Some countries in Northern Europe (Sweden, Norway) and a few Asian islands (Japan, Hong Kong) are about as connected as the USA, if not more so. Others will catch up. The main advantage of the internet is its global nature, allowing everyone to participate (theoretically), no matter their location. The New Media companies will be able to target much larger audiences, with much better feedback on what people are watching, how long before they zap sites, and much more information providing much more useful marketing data. Access to a site might require a registration, giving some basic info about yourself, and put a cookie in your browser tracking your activity, that they can later use for demographic studies, and targeted content, much better than current TV techniques. The internet way of doing things on the distribution side will really help everyone involved. The only people hurt are ones trying to preseve the old way, which is already dead. On the content creation side, this fits right in with internet distribution as now there is much more freedom, and someone can create content, both audio and video, on their own personal computers, and then distribute this on the internet. Due to this, we will be seeing much more creative and interesting content that we never would have experienced through any other medium. The people are now in control of the medium, as opposed to a small group of businessmen and lawyers. If artists want to protect their revenue stream, already known artists can use their exposure to sell their work directly on the internet, while lesser known artists can use sites like mp3.com and others, as well as streaming audio internet radio stations to gain prominence. The RIAA is either going to embrace the internet, or lose all their artists in the long run.
I, personally, have not bought a CD in about 4 years (since I got my CD burner). Thanks to the internet, I am discovering music I never would have found in a record store, and making CDs to fit my taste much better than any record company executive could. I know that as more people get into this way of getting music, the record companies are going to crash and burn. Yay for free music (free as in speech, NOT beer).
Struck a nerve, have I? A representative of the Trackpad Consortium, no doubt . . . Like I said, get a trackball for space concerns, there are some nice compact ones for that very purpose. Simma down, na!
Yep, their FTP site is DOWN. It might be to priviledge ones with special accounts or something, but the populace has no access to the FTP server...
Actually, I found the installer for iTunes on my iDisk. Load yours to get the installer. . . As for OS 9.1 update . . .
All their software download servers are down, I can't get iTunes or OS9.1 . . .
So you get a USB mouse with as many buttons as you need (or get a trackball for space concerns). You can't do any serious mousing with a trackpad anyways. That's what everyone else does...
Probably more of a "RED ALERT!" "CAUTION!" "INTRUDER ALERT!". That would be the most effective... If you want to go with the theme, though, maybe a rattlesnake.
Well, that was . . . interesting . . .
There is no per-download fee, only a subscription. This also has to be pretty cheap, as they are competing with scour, MX, OpenNap, and Gnutella, which are all free.
You get this for free because this is beta software. The final version has never come out, and they have not yet unveiled their final legitimate service. They have said from the beginning that the pricing was going to change in the future, when the Napster service moved out of its beta stage. Had they sold their client/server for a profit from the getgo, they would have been shut down by lawsuits immediately for making profits from copyrighted material.
Personally, I would have no problem paying around $5/month for this service, and would be glad to see this legitimized. BMG will have to open up server farms worldwide to distribute their content at high speeds and in good, controlled quality. A way of telling them apart will be necessary, perhaps by reserving the user name BMG for them, and an option in the search parameters will have to be added to search only BMG's music (plus others when they join in).
This is something that needed to happen for a long time. There will be Napster for the people who don't mind paying a subscription for legitimate, controlled content; and OpenNap for those who want the free media, digital freedom, yada yada yada. This is the only good possible outcome of this legal fiasco.
I've had MacOS X installed on my computer since DR2, when it still looked like OSX Server. DP3 was a drastic new interface, that unfortunately, had some very rough spots, and could not really replace the MacOS as the next viable interface. I complained to Apple about my problems, and most were fixed in DP4. I have DP4 installed, and I can say, that if there were more apps for it, I could drop the MacOS and survive in OSX. There are still a few problems, but if the progress from DP3 to DP4 is any indication, I strongly feel these will be addressed by the time it goes beta, and surely by the time it goes final next winter. DP4 is very usable, and they've really made some good changes since DP3. I think Apple will take a stance similar to ResEdit with the Terminal.app, having it available on its website, and not advertise it in any way, but make it available for their advanced users. The terminal is an essential tool for OSX, to compile apps, see and manipulate invisible files and folders, and do any other basic things you can't practically do in the GUI (or maybe you can, and a good way hasn't been implimented yet). This is going to be a great OS, no doubt about it. Even if Apple messes it up, the file that contains the interface resources has been located, and hackers are busy hacking away at it, and alternate interfaces will emerge soon enough, as well as all the tools to do anything. This OS is much more flexible and a much better foundation than the current MacOS by orders of magnitude. With the current one, it seems like it's one big hack, and there's so much crap in the Extensions folder, it's hard to keep track any more. It used to be really simple. Let's hope OSX gives us a good foundation to go on for a while into the future.
Well, I'm no developer, but I do have a copy of DP4 running on my G4, and I can tell you, it looks almost nothing like NeXT. The file browser is similar (columns view) which I like, services are still alive and thriving, packages are the way to distribute software, and then they're installed with InstallerX, a nice, streamlined installer proggie. There's no more application menu, and all open apps are located in the left side of the dock. Objective C is still a very viable development medium, and frameworks are a very big part of Cocoa programming. It is pretty much NeXT with some added APIs and a different interface and graphics system. Yay for progress.
This makes us wonder how this will affect the industry as a whole. If M$ makes a version of Windows that'll run on top of that, and AMD is able to adapt that code to their needs, they could probably drop the x86 emulation unit, and just make an EFI emulation unit, which could be changed to suit their needs and make better processor designs. I'm sure, since the code is open, that AMD will be able to make a good EFI interpreter for their RISC core and make some nice, streamlined processors in the future. What do y'all think about that?
You have a WWDC pass and were contemplating not going? You gotta! It's going to be wonderful. Maybe the Q3 demo will work this time. . . If you don't want to go, sell me the ticket. It's gonna be a good one, just full of awesome workshops on OSX (of course all you need is some UNIX knowledge, and you'll do fine). Well, there is that freaky yellow box, full of goodies . . . what's it called this week, cocoa? You'd better be going if you really have a pass!
It's true, I've owned a Blue G3 and a G4, and the puck was the first thing to do. I think it's really irresponsible for Apple to ship Pro computers with such a crappy mouse, and for remaining with a one button mouse all this time. Multiple buttons are much more practical than a single one. Although it can be confusing for beginners, it is much more productive once you get the hang. Whenever I go to someone's mac and have to use a single-button mouse, I feel constrained and handicapped. One button = all bad. Fortunately, I can buy ANY mac or pc USB mouse to replace it. The piece of crap keyboard is a little different, in that you can only buy a Mac replacement keyboard, with the Mac-specific keys. There isn't too much choice, just a few different kinds of every style, but it's much better than the sorry excuse for a keyboard that came with the computer. So, Apple should really get its act together and release some real input devices with their computers. I have a 3 button USB mouse (ever try to play Q3 with the puck? Don't!). The point is, though, that most users use the input devices that came with their computers, and this is really annoying for Apple's customers.
My computer, which is connected through ethernet to my DSL modem (and my roommate's PC) is a gateway (software router) and has firewire ports. Seems like some good possibilities. . .
There is no need for ethernet, as Firewire can handle all the network protocols, and firewire networks can be set up at four times the speed of 100BT. I've set up a firewire network (between two macs) and it works super duper. I just hope (can't wait for) I can connect my PS2 to my G4 and at least display it on my computer, and hopefully have access to my DSL connection. I have the software to do this, if the PS2 has any networking capabilities, and with a HD, I'm sure something could be worked out ;0) . . . there's just too many possibilities with the PS2, I sure something will be hacked up. Peace,
Actually, If the platters are about 3.5" in diameter (1.75" in radius), and there's about 1" in diameter lost in the middle, or .5" in radius, the area on this disk would be *(1.75^2) - *(.5^2) = 8.835 in^2 * 50 = 441.75 * (2*2) = 1767 or 1.767 TB
First of all, the technology promises 400 gigabits/in^2, which translates to 50 GB. Don't even bother to translate how much it would be if you made a hard drive out of it, because this technology will push us far beyond hard drives. Imagine something like Sony's memory sticks with 50 GB on it. You could throw about 10 DVDs on it. Buisiness cards, with 100 GB of storage on it. Little MP3 players with years of listening time. Hell, we could probably just have portable WAV players. This will be particularly interesting when compact computer parts like monitors become viable. If I could have a pair of glasses with a display, and a tiny DVD player the size of a pager, with piles of DVDs stored on tiny memory sticks, this would be ideal, and not too far off. You then unplug you display glasses from the DVD player and plug it in your wearable computer, and have access to a huge amount of pawer and data in a very small size. This brings us much closer to wearable and micro-portable electronics.
The previous poster was definately the dweeb (not stme, the other guy, whose name I don't feel like finding right now). That's really interesting, and I wonder how DP3 responds to that script. I'm sorry for my inexperience, but If I wanted to try that out in OSX DP3, how do I go about it? Do I just write out that script in the tc shell? I'll see what disasterous consequences it has on Apple's latest seed . . .
mmmmm, these brits really spent a lot of effort on this subject, something which I have known from my tender childhood. Why do they have to do these studies? Is it so that people who eat cold pizza can feel better about themselves? Are they gonna start to sell cold pizza in restaurants (you never know with those crazy brits)? I don't need a study to tell me cold pizza is good, what a waste of time and money. This is all a marketing ploy for all those pizza joints that sell cold, previous day pizza.
I'm pretty sure he's referring to taking bong rips or something. Or you could just go and get a nice lobotomy (or are leukotomies in style now), and you could be the grand brainball master of the world!!! Think of the glory, or I guess you couldn't think about it too hard . . . 8)
that didn't make much sense, but since this is way off topic anyways, I'm not even gonna bother correcting myself . . . ha!
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several button mice ranging from 2-5 buttons are available for Macs and have been for several years. When a Mac user is ready, they can buy their own mouse, trackball, or whatever. Just thought I'd clarify . . .