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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.'"
1. Less power consumption
2. Less weight
3. Less space taken up by not having a motor
*woosh*
I'm fairly certain your parent post was pointing out how people bitched up a fit about the iMac not having that piece of junk back in 1998, not when the major PC builders finally dropped them from their standard configuration within the last 2 years.
I used to get high on life, but I developed a tolerance. Now I need something stronger.
Wish I had mod points to reward you. Today I saw: "Teenage girl suffering from allergies 'was killed by brushing her teeth'..."
Without clicking I just knew it was on the Daily Mail. I hovered my mouse over the link and sure enough it was. (No, I didn't bother clicking through.)
One just can't emphasize enough how much of a yellow rag that news source is.
The Splintered Mind - Overcoming
But where's the picture file? Um, show-in-Finder option? Nope.
um, yep.
in fact 2 options: show edited photo in finder or show a backed-up original.
Sorry, a lot of people claim this, but it just isn't there. I right-click (OOOPS!!!! not supposed to talk about right-clicking, it's a mac, all mac users have to have two hands so they can ctrl-click instead, if you're disabled and only have one hand, apple doesn't want your business you freak!) and that option doesn't show up, and it's not in any menu. I don't see anything about showing a backed up original.
you can also use export it if you want to resize or change format.
I *did* export it -- to iPhoto, where it doesn't seem to let me do anything with it except look at it in some useless album. I didn't think of dragging it to the desktop, but what would be the point? I don't want it in the desktop, I want it in a file I can easily refer to on upload without cluttering the desktop. Apparently, I'm supposed to go through the painstaking process of downsizing the iPhoto window, pulling up finder, and then dragging it to the right folder. MUCH easer than two clicks on "save as", right?
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
They just buy them from other parts manufactures. I'm sure there are other systems that use the drives and have the same problem its just happens to be in an apple product so people start pointing out its evil apple and their non-compliant drives.
And what other standards does apple not comply with that is keeping you from buying a Mac?