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Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives
FST777 writes "The British Mail on Sunday published its latest DVD giveaway on the EcoDisc, a thin and bendable DVD format that is supposed to be more environmentally-friendly than regular DVDs. Despite the clear warning against using them in Apple slot drives, some Mac users decided to give it a go. The result? A brisk trade for repair shops in the UK. 'The EcoDisc's manufacturer, ODS, insists the disc won't break drives. "We've produced over ten million of these discs — we've had less than a dozen phone calls," says managing director, Ray Wheeler. "There are ways to get the discs out." Wheeler says the problem stems from Apple's slot-loading drives. "It uses an ejection system that doesn't get approval from the DVD Forum." He claims the EcoDisc should work in other types of slot-loading drive, although admits that it hasn't been tested in the PlayStation 3.'"
American Rush Limbaugh is one the loudest non paid apple supporters out there. Bush has been known to carry an iPod, I don't know which computer he uses though.
Oddly enough Al Gore is also one.
Basically if you have a little extra cash and don't mind paying for quailty hardware there is a greater chance of one being a Mac Fan.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
I don't know about that but everyone on /. knows your mom.
(sorry that was gratuitous)
(did she say)
\u262D = \u5350
Why did you feel the need to qualify your ownership of an iPod, when you posted as an anonymous coward anyway?
Okay, that's fair. I'll give you that. A slot loading drive: great idea, great interface, great design.
Now we're going to list BAD interface designs on the MacBook:
-email client: Why the hell are the subject lines all darkened? Nothing in help about this. Ah, must be a "mail rule". Oh, there it is, I'll just turn it off. Wait, that option is all the way at the bottom of the screen, on top of the program launch icons. *click* No, I didn't want to load that program. Okay, I'll scroll down so that the button is in the middle screen and I can click it without launching another app. Wait, no scroll option? ****! Okay, how do I turn the lower app launch bar off? *search search search* Okay, there we go. Wait, they're still darkened. Oh, okay, I've got to tell it to apply to all. [finds option somewhere] Now, how do I get the bottom bar to come back...
-iMovie: I want to export some video captures from a video I made. Let's see, right click on the point in the video I want to use, where's the export-frame option? Nowhere. Okay, help search: "video capture". Nothing. Okay, "frame". Ahah, 8th option, how to make a frame into a clip. Closest option. I go to the frame I want and then ctrl-click it. Hm, OH, wait, I can right-click too! Why hide this option from me? Oh yes, I forgot: people who prefer using one hand (or are disabled losers) need not apply.
I grab the frame, and it makes me put it as a non-moving clip somewhere in the video. So, I do a few of these from different pictures. Now where are they? Okay, I get to dig through finder again. Now, let me move them all to one folder for easy upload. Wait, the second one I moved (and the rest) have the same name as the first. Okay, so let me choose a different name on moving it. I can't? Okay, fine, I'll rename them all, THEN move them.
-I took a photo of myself in PhotoBooth. Now I want to crop it and upload it. Okay, click on iPhoto. Crop image. Great, now I have it in an album. But where's the picture file? Um, show-in-Finder option? Nope. Save cropped picture somewhere? Nope. I have to go deep into the directory, photos->iphoto library->various weird folder -> copy it to a more useful place, then upload.
-Now I want to make the cropped image my ichat buddy icon. Drag to chat pic? No, that would imply interoperability. Export to ichat? No. I have to go to the buddy icon and then load it from the useful place I moved it to.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
Ich brauch nur:
1) einen Grund, warum das Window fuer die Mailregeln zu gross ist.
2) eine Erklaerung darueber, wie meine Bilder leicht zu Photobucket zu uploaden, wenn sie in einem iPhoto Album steht. (Jedes gegebene Method dauert sehr lang!)
3) einen Grund, warum ich keine Stills direkt abspeichern kann, sondern ein neues Clip machen muss (das ich dann entfernen muss).
Es gibt viel gutes ueber das MacBook, aber die obenerwaehnten sind unakzeptabel (sp).
Ich danke dir fuer die guten Woerten ueber mein Deutsch, aber mein Wortschatz ist echt klein, und ich spreche Deutsch nicht regelmaessig. Hat mein Deutschkentnisse dich verursacht, mich zu ent"foe"en?
Apology to Ubuntu forum.