>No Signs of Intelligent Life

>

So NASA found water on Mars.

ZZZZzzzz…..

You know what would turn a few heads?

If they found beer.

No Signs of Intelligent Life

So NASA found water on Mars.

ZZZZzzzz…..

You know what would turn a few heads?

If they found beer.

>Totally. Awsome.

>

More info here.

Totally. Awsome.

More info here.

>The iPhone Is Not A Phone

>And this is not a radio station.

Old media is dying; their electronic toll roads and controlled distribution have been usurped. I don’t watch news at 11. I can’t bear the false drama and carefully timed commercial breaks. Controversy replaced Journalism in order to sell more advertising.

Technology renders Technology obsolete.

The cloud will not be downloaded. There’s little need. The cloud can be streamed. And the millions upon millions that record companies paid to the RIAA to sue the parents of kids raised on Tivo would have been better spent finding the next Dylan/Zepplin/Stones/Doors/Joplin/etc/etc/etc.

But the record companies realize that this is not about controlling the revenue due to their artist. It’s about controlling distribution. They make money because they stand between what is wanted and those who want.

Their control over distribution is being usurped.

Suckas.

Radio is ubiquitous – but you have control over genre, not specific content. And the advertisers were clever enough to stand between the content and the listener.
–
Satellite radio simply generated revenue by charging the listener rather than the advertiser.
–
The iPod allowed you to control content without advertisers – but you paid (mostly…be honest) to get the content into your little white box, that still limits selection to around 25,000 songs. Sure, that’s a lot of selection (figure 3MB per song = 300 per GB = 25,000 songs on an 80GB iPod). But who has the time to rip and burn that much content? Figuring 1 minute per song for 25,000 songs? Over 400 hours. Over 17 days. Fugettaboutit.

But what if content was ubiquitous, you could control it, there were not advertisers and it was free? What if everyone just played their music and everyone else could just listen?

Well. That would make record execs shutter. They’d say things like, “The internet has opened a ‘Pandora’s Box’.” Because they think the moral to the story of Pandora’s Box was that all this bad stuff got out that could never be put back in. Because they’re motivated by fear.

But the moral of Pandora’s Box was a single word: Hope.

http://www.pandora.com/

The iPhone Is Not A Phone

And this is not a radio station.

Old media is dying; their electronic toll roads and controlled distribution have been usurped. I don’t watch news at 11. I can’t bear the false drama and carefully timed commercial breaks. Controversy replaced Journalism in order to sell more advertising.

Technology renders Technology obsolete.

The cloud will not be downloaded. There’s little need. The cloud can be streamed. And the millions upon millions that record companies paid to the RIAA to sue the parents of kids raised on Tivo would have been better spent finding the next Dylan/Zepplin/Stones/Doors/Joplin/etc/etc/etc.

But the record companies realize that this is not about controlling the revenue due to their artist. It’s about controlling distribution. They make money because they stand between what is wanted and those who want.

Their control over distribution is being usurped.

Suckas.

Radio is ubiquitous – but you have control over genre, not specific content. And the advertisers were clever enough to stand between the content and the listener.
–
Satellite radio simply generated revenue by charging the listener rather than the advertiser.
–
The iPod allowed you to control content without advertisers – but you paid (mostly…be honest) to get the content into your little white box, that still limits selection to around 25,000 songs. Sure, that’s a lot of selection (figure 3MB per song = 300 per GB = 25,000 songs on an 80GB iPod). But who has the time to rip and burn that much content? Figuring 1 minute per song for 25,000 songs? Over 400 hours. Over 17 days. Fugettaboutit.

But what if content was ubiquitous, you could control it, there were not advertisers and it was free? What if everyone just played their music and everyone else could just listen?

Well. That would make record execs shutter. They’d say things like, “The internet has opened a ‘Pandora’s Box’.” Because they think the moral to the story of Pandora’s Box was that all this bad stuff got out that could never be put back in. Because they’re motivated by fear.

But the moral of Pandora’s Box was a single word: Hope.

http://www.pandora.com/

>World’s Greatest BIM Manager

>Pat even bought a new shiny 16GB 3G iPhone to celebrate.

But he won’t let me anywhere near it.

Happy Birthday sir. It’s an honor working with you. Keep kicking arse and taking names!

World’s Greatest BIM Manager

Pat even bought a new shiny 16GB 3G iPhone to celebrate.

But he won’t let me anywhere near it.

Happy Birthday sir. It’s an honor working with you. Keep kicking arse and taking names!

>Thank You Thomas Carter! No…er…wait…iPhone Dev Team!

>More info here. Hunter – don’t panic. Smooth sailing ahead. 🙂 Basically – don’t take the easy path. It’s all pretty pictures but doesn’t always work. Well it didn’t work for me. After I took the expert route it all clicked.

Check out the very useful comments by Frederick231 in the comments section here. I had used Zibri’s Ziphone hack up until 1.1.4 (this morning). There were some warnings on his page about upgrading. The iPhone Dev Team’s comments section removed that concern.

Instructions start off by upgrading to official Apple 2.0 software. This will lock (but doesn’t brick) your phone. By the time it was finished I was able to re-sync and recover all settings, music, photos, etc.

Earlier 3rd party apps and games are gone. The one really useful tool: “Search” by Polar Bear Farms – has been replaced by actual functionality.

1Gen iPhones only (for now).

Mac only (for now).

Thank You Thomas Carter! No…er…wait…iPhone Dev Team!

More info here. Hunter – don’t panic. Smooth sailing ahead. 🙂 Basically – don’t take the easy path. It’s all pretty pictures but doesn’t always work. Well it didn’t work for me. After I took the expert route it all clicked.

Check out the very useful comments by Frederick231 in the comments section here. I had used Zibri’s Ziphone hack up until 1.1.4 (this morning). There were some warnings on his page about upgrading. The iPhone Dev Team’s comments section removed that concern.

Instructions start off by upgrading to official Apple 2.0 software. This will lock (but doesn’t brick) your phone. By the time it was finished I was able to re-sync and recover all settings, music, photos, etc.

Earlier 3rd party apps and games are gone. The one really useful tool: “Search” by Polar Bear Farms – has been replaced by actual functionality.

1Gen iPhones only (for now).

Mac only (for now).