Yes, I've heard the whining noise problem with the Macbook Pro, the tech blogs don't stop whining about the Macbook Pro;-)
(You should hear the fan noise that comes out of the Dell laptops where I work!)
When a microsoft "new" technology fails amusingly or embarrassingly at a demo, they benefit from a) all the free publicity of people like us laughing, and b) the failures create a mindset in non-technical user markets that "gee, it must be knew stuff, even the demo went buggy."
Apple had working, reliable speech recognition built-in to the OS way back in the early 90s with System 7.5. It didn't do dictation out of the box, but it provided alternative access methods to the OS, and could easily distinguish between words as different as "aunt" and "mother."
People will believe Microsoft are pushing the boundaries, when in fact they're just bloating Doze even more by shoe-horning computer lab curios into an already overloaded OS.
Then again, by even commenting, I guess I'm adding to the buzz (I roll my eyes as much at myself.)
Surveys with narrow, old-media-focused definitions aside, anybody who keeps a public journal is a journalist. Some are amateurs, some are professionals. I work in a newsroom in my day job, and the topic of what is and isn't news is regularly discussed, and anything of interest to the public is the basic common ground usually found in the debate. If I have 100 readers at my blog find it useful one month, 100 people find my blog to be "news", while one million readers probably find my employer's news pages useful - thus making me underground news and my employer, mainstream news.
It's really all about job protection and cartels, this talk of only 5% of bloggers being journalists.
YouTube may need to gain a right to your video through the terms in order to distrbute that video, but there's a difference between a right to distribute and a right excluding all other rights (ie taking over the copyright) which would be a lawyers' picnic if they tried that through a simple shrink-wrap agreement. I'd say if people don't like the terms, take their video down. Nothing to distribute, no rights over it, then let them sue if you put it up somewhere else, I doubt a judge or jury would extend that sort of right to any company (unless they were corrupt iand in the pay of the plaintiff.)
The argument that Mac OS is not a virus target because there aren't many people using it just doesn't hold water. Most PC users I know see me as "the enemy" spend much of their time explaining to me why I shouldn't use a Mac (largely the "lack" of software argument - where is Garage Band for Windows, then?) and being as arrogant about windows as Mac users are usually accused of being about Mac. If any of these people could code and had a personality disorder, they'd be dangerous.
I would say iLife and iPod are the Mac's reason to be, not nerds. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it doesn't matter that some people are switching to another OS (and Ubuntu looked like a fun thing to play with when I had a toy with it last year), but what is there on any Linux like Garage Band, iMovie and iDVD. Yeh, there are more powerful apps, but none so easy for those functions. (My expertise being mostly Garage Band, Logic and Audacity, but also some iMovie and Final Cut.) Frankly, if anybody thinks they'd rather use Audacity over Garage Band likes to do things the extremely hard way for the sake of it.
Can't see this causing a mass exodus to Ubuntu.
CDBaby and Tunecore. Weird Al should sack his label and do it independent. I'm a complete and utter unkown using Tunecore to get my music on iTunes and I get the whole lot of what Apple passes on - all 70% of it (I'm paying seriously low flat fees in advance for Tunecore's aggregation service.) Yeh, as an unkown, I don't have huge sales figures, but I see it all, every last penny the online stores send through. If Weird All told his label to go shove it, he'd be rolling in more money than Scrooge McDuck, simply because he's already a well known name. It's not iTunes who are to blame, it's the labels (as usual) who are ripping the musicians off.
Asked exactly the question I was pondering. Not to mention heirarchical navigation hsa been around since the dawn of user interfaces. (un)Creative are making a specious claim, it'll go the same way as Apple Corps' suit, as will (un)Creative.
I reckon if Apple do this, it'll be a variation on BitTorrent (rather than a more generall torrent engine) specifically for making iTunes purchased downloads faster.
I sort of think Cringely has a point here, and I'm one of his biggest detractors. (see my blog for my anti-cringely record.)
Remember Apple bought a prototype application from Macromedia a while back? It was called Final Cut Pro and they killed the Windows version completely.
Then they bought a very popular music app called Logic. Killed the windows version dead.
If Apple buy a major player like Adobe, make OS X capable of running Windows apps embedded and kill the windows versions of Photoshop, Premiere, etc, what does this do to Microsoft in a media rich world? It leaves them alienated and in serious trouble, that's what.
I reckon if the rumours that Apple are going to embed some sort of Windows compatibility layer (like "red box" or WINE or whatever) are taking off like they are, you can bet Apple has at least some sort of strategy involving making windows apps run native in Mac OS, but without the OS2 effect.
Remember, when IBM created OS2, they were playing PC catchup. They were learning the game ages after Microsoft and Apple already had learned it. Apple, if they go Doze compatible, it'll be with a market dominant strategy, and buying Adobe could well be part of that market domination plan.
We'll see. We'll see.
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Ugh! Telemarketers.
What I don't understand is why the namespace has to be forced into specific top levels. Why can't we map any word or words to an IP address? Why is it that the system can't be set up to allow something like bandmassa.music (subject to the user being the first to register it, of course) to take the user to what is currently registered as http://www.bandmassa.com/
Or why not anyword.anyword or anyword.anyword.anyword etc? Subject to the desired term not already being registered, of course.
The issue in Australia is not copyright or fair dealing under copyright (of which there's no guarantee under Australian law), rather the issue in Australia is that you may not make political comment without clear attribution of statement and authorship, even in parody. If you make any sort of public political statement you are required to clearly state that you are the person saying it, and if saying it on another's behalf, you must clearly state the name of that person, too. For example: this statement has been written and Authorised by Stephen Jay (AKA B&Massa) of Moonah, Tasmania. I would guess this site was taken down, not because of any censorship issue, mis-assigned copyright or by Melbourne IT bungling, I'd guess it was taken down because of unclear attribution. That's not censorship, that's ensuring political comment is accountable, and one can't honestly fight John Howard's lack of accuntability by being unaccountable themself. No, I'm not a Liberal Party supporter, I'm died-in-the-wool Labor - hate the little-hearted, lying toad, myself (written and authorised by Stephen Jay, AKA B&Massa, Moonah, Tasmania.)
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...just don't tell the labels ;-)
Yes, I've heard the whining noise problem with the Macbook Pro, the tech blogs don't stop whining about the Macbook Pro ;-)
(You should hear the fan noise that comes out of the Dell laptops where I work!)
LOL!
When a microsoft "new" technology fails amusingly or embarrassingly at a demo, they benefit from a) all the free publicity of people like us laughing, and b) the failures create a mindset in non-technical user markets that "gee, it must be knew stuff, even the demo went buggy." Apple had working, reliable speech recognition built-in to the OS way back in the early 90s with System 7.5. It didn't do dictation out of the box, but it provided alternative access methods to the OS, and could easily distinguish between words as different as "aunt" and "mother." People will believe Microsoft are pushing the boundaries, when in fact they're just bloating Doze even more by shoe-horning computer lab curios into an already overloaded OS. Then again, by even commenting, I guess I'm adding to the buzz (I roll my eyes as much at myself.)
Surveys with narrow, old-media-focused definitions aside, anybody who keeps a public journal is a journalist. Some are amateurs, some are professionals. I work in a newsroom in my day job, and the topic of what is and isn't news is regularly discussed, and anything of interest to the public is the basic common ground usually found in the debate. If I have 100 readers at my blog find it useful one month, 100 people find my blog to be "news", while one million readers probably find my employer's news pages useful - thus making me underground news and my employer, mainstream news. It's really all about job protection and cartels, this talk of only 5% of bloggers being journalists.
YouTube may need to gain a right to your video through the terms in order to distrbute that video, but there's a difference between a right to distribute and a right excluding all other rights (ie taking over the copyright) which would be a lawyers' picnic if they tried that through a simple shrink-wrap agreement. I'd say if people don't like the terms, take their video down. Nothing to distribute, no rights over it, then let them sue if you put it up somewhere else, I doubt a judge or jury would extend that sort of right to any company (unless they were corrupt iand in the pay of the plaintiff.)
The argument that Mac OS is not a virus target because there aren't many people using it just doesn't hold water. Most PC users I know see me as "the enemy" spend much of their time explaining to me why I shouldn't use a Mac (largely the "lack" of software argument - where is Garage Band for Windows, then?) and being as arrogant about windows as Mac users are usually accused of being about Mac. If any of these people could code and had a personality disorder, they'd be dangerous.
I would say iLife and iPod are the Mac's reason to be, not nerds. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it doesn't matter that some people are switching to another OS (and Ubuntu looked like a fun thing to play with when I had a toy with it last year), but what is there on any Linux like Garage Band, iMovie and iDVD. Yeh, there are more powerful apps, but none so easy for those functions. (My expertise being mostly Garage Band, Logic and Audacity, but also some iMovie and Final Cut.) Frankly, if anybody thinks they'd rather use Audacity over Garage Band likes to do things the extremely hard way for the sake of it. Can't see this causing a mass exodus to Ubuntu.
CDBaby and Tunecore. Weird Al should sack his label and do it independent. I'm a complete and utter unkown using Tunecore to get my music on iTunes and I get the whole lot of what Apple passes on - all 70% of it (I'm paying seriously low flat fees in advance for Tunecore's aggregation service.) Yeh, as an unkown, I don't have huge sales figures, but I see it all, every last penny the online stores send through. If Weird All told his label to go shove it, he'd be rolling in more money than Scrooge McDuck, simply because he's already a well known name. It's not iTunes who are to blame, it's the labels (as usual) who are ripping the musicians off.
...and why I hate the dozer on my desk at work.
Asked exactly the question I was pondering. Not to mention heirarchical navigation hsa been around since the dawn of user interfaces. (un)Creative are making a specious claim, it'll go the same way as Apple Corps' suit, as will (un)Creative.
I reckon if Apple do this, it'll be a variation on BitTorrent (rather than a more generall torrent engine) specifically for making iTunes purchased downloads faster.
I sort of think Cringely has a point here, and I'm one of his biggest detractors. (see my blog for my anti-cringely record.) Remember Apple bought a prototype application from Macromedia a while back? It was called Final Cut Pro and they killed the Windows version completely. Then they bought a very popular music app called Logic. Killed the windows version dead. If Apple buy a major player like Adobe, make OS X capable of running Windows apps embedded and kill the windows versions of Photoshop, Premiere, etc, what does this do to Microsoft in a media rich world? It leaves them alienated and in serious trouble, that's what. I reckon if the rumours that Apple are going to embed some sort of Windows compatibility layer (like "red box" or WINE or whatever) are taking off like they are, you can bet Apple has at least some sort of strategy involving making windows apps run native in Mac OS, but without the OS2 effect. Remember, when IBM created OS2, they were playing PC catchup. They were learning the game ages after Microsoft and Apple already had learned it. Apple, if they go Doze compatible, it'll be with a market dominant strategy, and buying Adobe could well be part of that market domination plan. We'll see. We'll see.
Ugh! Telemarketers. What I don't understand is why the namespace has to be forced into specific top levels. Why can't we map any word or words to an IP address? Why is it that the system can't be set up to allow something like bandmassa.music (subject to the user being the first to register it, of course) to take the user to what is currently registered as http://www.bandmassa.com/ Or why not anyword.anyword or anyword.anyword.anyword etc? Subject to the desired term not already being registered, of course.
The issue in Australia is not copyright or fair dealing under copyright (of which there's no guarantee under Australian law), rather the issue in Australia is that you may not make political comment without clear attribution of statement and authorship, even in parody. If you make any sort of public political statement you are required to clearly state that you are the person saying it, and if saying it on another's behalf, you must clearly state the name of that person, too. For example: this statement has been written and Authorised by Stephen Jay (AKA B&Massa) of Moonah, Tasmania. I would guess this site was taken down, not because of any censorship issue, mis-assigned copyright or by Melbourne IT bungling, I'd guess it was taken down because of unclear attribution. That's not censorship, that's ensuring political comment is accountable, and one can't honestly fight John Howard's lack of accuntability by being unaccountable themself. No, I'm not a Liberal Party supporter, I'm died-in-the-wool Labor - hate the little-hearted, lying toad, myself (written and authorised by Stephen Jay, AKA B&Massa, Moonah, Tasmania.)
With the western idea of "maturity" comes the death of creativity. Never grow up!
Can I launch a class action against people who launch class actions instead of taking responsibility for their own actions? Sheesh!