Nokia - purveyors of buggiest software in known universe
It's just another Nokia bug. Nokia produce the buggiest software known to man. If Nokia had been in charge of the Moon Landing program, the rocket would have left Cape Canaveral and landed in Hemel Hempstead. (Perhaps no bad thing.)
I mean, has anyone had ANY success with their new Ovi Suite? On 3 different XP SP3 PCs the NMT media transfer driver doesn't work at all - so no installing the 100 new DRM-riddled songs I got with my phone. Perhaps no bad thing either. Their Mac software is unfortunately no better - I asked it to delete a folder of music on my card and it did, but also tried to delete the Nokia internal memory drive C: and also delete the entire SD card E:. Luckily the phone said "I'm not going to do that", so the Nokia Multimedia Transfer app on the Mac reported this as an error ("Can't delete C:\") Nokia's response? "It seems problem is with file in your device. Please reset your phone to factory settings, reformat your SD card, and try again." Looks like they don't know about pathname quoting in Nokia Towers.
I emailed them to say that perhaps they should consider replacing the 'u' in "Ovi Suite" with a 'h'. No reply so far.
Umm, 310 quid is the *unsubsidised* price for a phone you can use anywhere, on any network. I'm not sure what the unsubsidised price of the iPhone is, but it doesn't matter, you can't get one.
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
See http://www.tomrobinson.com/records/music/index.htm
"A download on iTunes costs 79p per track. The Performer gets 7%, the Writer 8%, Credit Card company 9%, Apple 15%, and Record Company 61%. Go figure."
That's 61% straight to the record company, Mr Gordon, every penny of which goes to their corporate coffers, without the incovenience of having to pay any of those dratted "artists".
>> "I believe Universal is right in seeking a royalty on electronics sales."
Just a FYI: you forgot to mention that the 17" MBP has a high-resolution 1920x1200 display available as a build-to-order option. That's a lot of pixels-per-inch!
It's all a bit one-sided, isn't it? The benefits of Globalisation appear to be available only to corporations. *They* can quite happily move production to where it's cheaper, at the cost of local jobs. Us consumers, on the other hand, *cannot* legally buy from where it is cheaper: we are obliged to accept the prices set in our market by those same corporations/cartels.
And haven't the BPI already gotten their cut from the sale of their CDs in Hong Kong? Presumably the UK cut is much bigger.
Best of luck to CD-WOW.
Here's hoping that in the not too distant future, the British Phonographic Industry will be as anachronistic as its name implies.
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Nokia - purveyors of buggiest software in known universe
It's just another Nokia bug. Nokia produce the buggiest software known to man. If Nokia had been in charge of the Moon Landing program, the rocket would have left Cape Canaveral and landed in Hemel Hempstead. (Perhaps no bad thing.)
I mean, has anyone had ANY success with their new Ovi Suite? On 3 different XP SP3 PCs the NMT media transfer driver doesn't work at all - so no installing the 100 new DRM-riddled songs I got with my phone. Perhaps no bad thing either. Their Mac software is unfortunately no better - I asked it to delete a folder of music on my card and it did, but also tried to delete the Nokia internal memory drive C: and also delete the entire SD card E:. Luckily the phone said "I'm not going to do that", so the Nokia Multimedia Transfer app on the Mac reported this as an error ("Can't delete C:\") Nokia's response? "It seems problem is with file in your device. Please reset your phone to factory settings, reformat your SD card, and try again." Looks like they don't know about pathname quoting in Nokia Towers.
I emailed them to say that perhaps they should consider replacing the 'u' in "Ovi Suite" with a 'h'. No reply so far.
Lego
I'm looking forward to seeing Lester's Lego version of this.
Nonsense
Yet another valuable lesson on why Software Patents are a nonsense.
@Outraged Merkins
To those who are complaining about El Reg running political articles you disagree with - there is a solution!
Try not reading the article. Otherwise you'll get all worked up, and it'll be for nothing, you know :-)
http://xkcd.com/386/
@ AC "Intellectual Property"
>> "700 years is only 5.8 generations of copyright under the present Sony Bono system. It's already not that long"
I was going to correct you and say it was the SONNY Bono act, but then I saw you were right all along.
Wingnut
Not another "Wingnut Tim" article. You're getting as bad as slashdot.
Girls Aloud???
Can you imagine the scene down the pub: "Well, lads, I got disconnected from BT's broadband today."
"Jaysus, what for? Movies? Warez? Porn?"
"Err, no, actually, it was Girls Aloud."
*Barely suppressed snorts of derision*
But then I suspect that anyone sharing Girls Aloud would be too young to be in a pub...
Re: price way too high
Umm, 310 quid is the *unsubsidised* price for a phone you can use anywhere, on any network. I'm not sure what the unsubsidised price of the iPhone is, but it doesn't matter, you can't get one.
Puritanism
Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H.L. Mencken.
The Music Business
As the late great Hunter S. Thomson said:
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
Maglev Chair
Doesn't this just make it easier for Ballmer?
Apple doesn't keep 30%
Dunno where Mr. Gordon gets his 30% from.
See http://www.tomrobinson.com/records/music/index.htm
"A download on iTunes costs 79p per track. The Performer gets 7%, the Writer 8%, Credit Card company 9%, Apple 15%, and Record Company 61%. Go figure."
That's 61% straight to the record company, Mr Gordon, every penny of which goes to their corporate coffers, without the incovenience of having to pay any of those dratted "artists".
>> "I believe Universal is right in seeking a royalty on electronics sales."
Go on, tell us -- for doing what, exactly?
17" High-resolution display
Just a FYI: you forgot to mention that the 17" MBP has a high-resolution 1920x1200 display available as a build-to-order option. That's a lot of pixels-per-inch!
The benefits of Globalisation
It's all a bit one-sided, isn't it? The benefits of Globalisation appear to be available only to corporations. *They* can quite happily move production to where it's cheaper, at the cost of local jobs. Us consumers, on the other hand, *cannot* legally buy from where it is cheaper: we are obliged to accept the prices set in our market by those same corporations/cartels.
And haven't the BPI already gotten their cut from the sale of their CDs in Hong Kong? Presumably the UK cut is much bigger.
Best of luck to CD-WOW.
Here's hoping that in the not too distant future, the British Phonographic Industry will be as anachronistic as its name implies.