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Cloudscout's Avatar Picture Cloudscout – December 16, 2007 02:54PM Reply Quote
"Digital hubs." iPod and its successors. (iPhone?) Convergence. How ridiculous will DRM get? Yep, put it all together and it just might make for a successful thread.
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John Willoughby – June 05, 2011 03:26PM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
The installed GPS units keep track of mileage and "guesstimate" where you are when there's no signal.

(GPS Pilot, where are you?)
El Jeffe – June 05, 2011 04:27PM Reply Quote
What a journey.
I would believe that. This is a portable GPS, though.
Cloudscout – June 05, 2011 04:28PM Reply Quote
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
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John Willoughby
Yeah, but go through a tunnel or on a plane and you're screwed. I like cloud as a supplement to local storage, not as a substitute. If iCloud is what we think it will be, and I get a MacBook Air, I will definitely use the cloud for my music there. My iPhone, probably not.

That's what this does. I can flag anything I want (playlists, albums, songs, etc.) to be kept in persistent storage instead of streaming. As long as I have an active data connection, it's completely transparent. Local tracks are played locally, tracks in the cloud are streamed. When there's no data connection, you just get what is either marked as persistent or already cached.
John Willoughby – June 06, 2011 07:41AM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
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Tony Leggett (Moderator) – June 06, 2011 07:04PM Reply Quote
That sums up my thoughts on the cloud beautifully.

On a tangent: Argh! Me hearty? or not?
John Willoughby – June 06, 2011 09:22PM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Amnesty for cash. Why not? It beats suing everybody under the sun. I'm worried that it will actually downgrade some of my music, that I ripped in Apple Lossless.
morganti – June 08, 2011 07:42AM Reply Quote
Not just suing everybody... How about all the ones you're not even aware of? The casual "300 songs I downloaded from Limewire back in the day" folks? Now you can get 25bux a year from them, instead of bupkis.

I think you have to "choose" to redownload. I dont think it will "shove it down your neck" if you have it on your Itunes. Now, I could imagine that your home iTunes has the Lossless track, but if you're on the road and didn't sync that track to your iPhone, that you could "redownload" it so you could play it without having to go home and sync to your home iTunes machine.

Morg "It really sounds like a pretty nice setup, all things considered." anti
John Willoughby – June 08, 2011 08:52AM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
I noticed that there was no reference to iCloud video. Massive amounts of content there, of course. Maybe Apple didn't want to start with multi-GB files, or maybe the potential licensing issues were just too much to deal with.
morganti – June 08, 2011 08:56AM Reply Quote
The movie industry is nowhere near as "in the thrall" regarding Apple as the music folks are. If the movie folks had their number 1 movie retailer being Apple, they would probably be more willing.

Though putting your brand spanking new service through that kind of bandwidth test on day one might be a bit of a bit bite to take. Although 4gb of Lion seems to be ok in their minds...

Morg "Im thinking the service wouldn't cost 24.99 with movies..." anti
Mokers (Moderator) – June 08, 2011 10:37AM Reply Quote
Formerly Remy Martin
https://inbox.influenceexplorer.com/

Wonder if they have a facebook version.
John Willoughby – June 09, 2011 08:19AM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
I didn't think about this... no iCloud for your country until Apple can get local licensing straightened out.



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John Willoughby – June 10, 2011 01:36PM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Screw this thread. Analog Lifestyle forever!
Tony Leggett (Moderator) – June 10, 2011 02:41PM Reply Quote
That. Is. Awesome.

Forget beige, go mahogany!
Cloudscout – June 21, 2011 04:17PM Reply Quote
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
This isn't good news.
El Jeffe – June 21, 2011 04:36PM Reply Quote
What a journey.
no it isn't / wasn't.
now anyone could have watched LOVE THE BEAST for free ! (sorry Tony)
Tony Leggett (Moderator) – June 21, 2011 04:45PM Reply Quote
Yup, that cloud computing stuff is so safe & secure.

At least with stuff stored locally on my computer I can set it up so people have to physically steal my computer to get access to my data.

On a tangent, I was watching Chopper - the other day. Arguably the movie that kicked off Bana's career. He really played the part of chopper so well.
tliet – June 21, 2011 08:32PM Reply Quote
Dropbox fell victim to the dogma that you need 50+ deployments on your production system per day to have your process count as 'cool'.

Maybe a proper regression testing process which is actually signed off on each point would come in handy. But yeah, you can only then do 1 deployment per week (if that), so you need to think about what you're going to put in a release.

Tony Leggett (Moderator) – June 21, 2011 10:20PM Reply Quote
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tliet
Dropbox fell victim to the dogma that you need 50+ deployments on your production system per day to have your process count as 'cool'.

Maybe a proper regression testing process which is actually signed off on each point would come in handy. But yeah, you can only then do 1 deployment per week (if that), so you need to think about what you're going to put in a release.

It doesn't really matter what the reason is (although I'm sure your theory is correct) the fact is with any cloud computing service, you're relying on the highly tenuous assumption that the staff maintaining such services are trained responsible adults rather than the mouthbreathing assclowns they seem to be at numerous cloud computing services (*Sony* cough *.mac* cough *mobileme* cough *dropbox*)

Wasn't dropbox only recently being championed as an example of cloud computing done right?
johnny k – June 22, 2011 05:10AM Reply Quote
"Mouthbreathing assclowns" - you mean human? I can't complain about the service when I paid nothing for 15GB. Everything has a trade-off. It is indeed cloud computing done right - actually easy enough to use. Like most people, I'd freak out a lot more if it lost my data than the occasional security flaw, each uncovered by a white hat - no different from most Mac exploits.

Do you actually use Dropbox? I treat it like a convenience - the cloud does not have my only copy, and I don't put anything critical on there. Dropbox saved my ass when my laptop was stolen and, like a mouthbreathing assclown, I hadn't backed up in the 4 months since I bought it.
tliet – June 22, 2011 05:51AM Reply Quote
Indeed, I do like DropBox. But this lapse did make me pause for a second.

Still, it's miles better than anything Apple has ever been able to provide with .mac
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