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Apple Backing Away From FireWire
farmdwg was one of several readers to submit stories about Apple backing away from FireWire. The latest generation of iPods no longer ship with FireWire cables, but instead use USB 2... although FireWire can still be purchased seperately.
...they fired the fire wire wire!
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Apple *was* spending a lot of money licensing the FireWire name from...you know...that company that has the rights to the FireWire name.
pooptruck
Apple and USB 2 are in a fine restaurant, dining, smiling, laughing....when suddenly there appears at the table a disheveled, wild-eyed FireWire.
"I thought you loved me!", she hisses.
"Who is this?", asks a mildly surprised USB 2.
"Nobody, baby,", stammers Apple while backing stiff-legged away from the table where FireWire stands, quite clearly on the edge of tears, or homocide, or possibly both. "I ain't never seen this bitch before in my life...honest!"
(I'm currently on medication to control these sorts of images...note to self: remind my dealer^H^H^H^H^H^Hphysician to adjust my dosage.)
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You mean I didn't need that 8" thick diamond cable I bought for my digital optical transmissions? You can hear the diamonds! Hear them, I tell you!!!
Back to SCSI!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Because you still can't stand ZDNet and Cnet's forums? Admit it. You like Slashdot... ;)
"Piter, too, is dead."
Doesn't that make me awesome? I am an authority. It only came with firewire. I din't know what firewire was until I got an iPod. It was pretty fast. I liked the color. It was white like the iPod.
One time I left the wire at a friend's house. Long story, don't ask. It involved making a CD. And then I couldn't use the firewire. I had a conversation on the phone and gave a bunch of reasons why I needed the firewire. My friend thought his house was going to catch on fire and he got very scared.
Long story? NO it is very short. But the key thing is that USB is a bit easier to find at Circuit City. It takes longer to say. Maybe Fire wire can be shortened to FI WI.
Anyway. I love animals. I want to get a iPod Photo so I can keep pictures of deer on it. Does it take USB or FI WI?
THanks you president Washington.
When did IKEA start selling consumer electronics?
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Oh, Oh! And their backing away from displaying video display, because the Mac Mini doesn't ship with a display like the Imac does.
That settles it: I'm backing away from this article.
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
"We, as dedicated users and supporter of your hardware and software are completely dismayed at your recent decision to discontinue standard FireWire support for the iPod music player line," the petition states, going on to note that "It is very unfortunate that you have left your faithful out in the dark on this one."
"Completely dismayed??" Seriously? Not only do these people apparently have no lives such that the discontinuing of standard firewire support would leave them completely dismayed, but APPLE ISN'T EVEN DISCONTINUING FIREWIRE SUPPORT! They're just not including a cable in the box.
These people are dedicated Mac fans, spending the substantial sums you pay for Mac quality, but they can't bear to pay a little extra to get a firewire cable? Not only that, but if they have a previous iPod with a firewire cable, I'm sure they can continue to use that cable if they upgrade.
Now, I do think it would be nice if Apple gave an option between USB and Firewire, but this is really NOT a big deal.
Thinkin' Lincoln - a web comic of presidential proportions
With firewire at 800mbps and USB2 at 840mbps, why use firewire at all?
Do you plan on housing more than the max supported items on one USB channel (127 devices)?
Firewire supports only 63 devices...
SO why support a loosing standard?
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That settles it: I'm backing away from this article.
Easy for you to say. What are those poor Mac users supposed to do now that Apple has backed away from the keyboard and mouse because the Mac Mini doesn't have those either? Hit the back button? They don't have one!
[ insert no-button mouse joke here ]
Yes, you are right! The ipod shuffle has no display, either!
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
I know people buying Macs just because of iLife.
I knew some people need to get a life, but Mac prices these days...
Wow, you used Mbits/second, MB/s, and Mb/s all in the same post to mean the same thing.
A really low user ID, and that makes me cool.
Know what's fun? Holding your cool the umpteenth time someone on campus with a legacy Mac spots an old parallel printer lying around and thinks "Ooh! Free Printer!" and plugs it into the SCSI port...
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
[ insert no-button mouse joke here ]
Today Apple Computer again revolutionizes the computer industry again by unveiling the no-button mouse! This amazing breakthrough once again affirms apples commitment to simple computing interfaces "for the rest of us".
Easy: You get certain DVDs you put into the DVD-ROM drive. One of them is e.g. for "back". That's Apples new simplification of interface: Since you have to know how to insert DVDs anyway, why should you in addition learn how to use a keyboard and a mouse? Preliminary tests have shown that almost no user had problems with inserting DVDs (and those few who had generally had problems with the mouse as well).
.com, .net, and even common complete domain names like hotmail.com have their own DVDs for convenience; of course you can create your own DVD-Rs for complete email addresses you use more often, or even for more complete actions like "start email to mybestfriend@somewhere.org, add Dear Mybestfriend to the beginning and CU, MyName at the end"). Then insert DVDs for the letters of your mail (again, for common words, and even phrases, there are pre-made DVDs), and finally insert the "Send" DVD. That's all, and you really don't need any skill other than inserting DVDs.
Think about the wonderful implications of that interface! Now when writing your next email, you can feel like a disk jockey: First, insert "start email" DVD, then insert the DVDs for the letters of the email address (several common address part like
Of course it has a slight drawback: Since you get a few hundred DVDs for the interface, you need some space to store them. But then, you can impress everyone with your big DVD collection!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
I tried to insert the "eject DVD" disk, but I couldn't because there was already a DVD in the drive. Now what do I do?
Never mind Spamassassin. When's Spammerassassin coming out?