Maybe he can buy the Stargate series and do Stargate C3PO or something......I can see Daniel Jackson and C3PO translating ancient writings.......and Han Solo hitting on Sam Carter...
But, yeah, SciFi needs some help. They should have taken up Firefly as a series again.....or continue the Farscape saga....
oh, NOW he figures it out. That quality matters. Perhaps if the script for Episodes 1-3 didn't SUCK. Or maybe he figured out that people actually thought the scripts sucked for those episodes.
Anyhow, there is supposedly a Star Wars TV series coming....correct? I think it would be better to keep it as an animated series on Cartoon Network.....
Yeah. That shooting yesterday was MySpace related. The guy researched his victims on there.
MySpace is a total cesspool. It reminds me when everyone had to have a Domain name and a webpage.
I don't think Microsoft is going to win on this. Apple is easily 3 steps ahead of Microsoft, they just have not thought people would want or use this. And they are right. The idea of "beaming" my songs to someone is like beaming contact information on Palm handhelds. Yeah, neat, but not really all that useful.
What would be MORE useful is a broadcast feature, where you can look and see other iPod devices near you, and listen in on what they are listening to. That would be pretty cool....
Why? AAC files are higher quality sonically than anything LAME ever produced for me. I can get away with a 160 bit AAC that sounds as good, and is smaller, than a 192 LAME encoded MP3.
I can play Ogg files on.......nothing that I own. So....moving on.....
There is support for AAC VBRing. Perhaps iTunes Store should offer 160 AACs with VBR?
Windows Maintenance is a pain. It's not easy at all. Easiest OS to maintain is OS X or FreeBSD. FreeBSD is simple is so many was. Ports, rebuilding the whole system. Easy.
I see/hear this all the time. It's called a DUB. American companies taking a perfectly good foreign film or cartoon (Anime) and butchering it. Latest example would be Bleach.....
Point A, true. I did not specify AAC VBR. Actually, it was NOT AAC VBR. If it was, the result would have been smaller.
Point B. Ok, It does occupy the same amount of diskspace. But, it does sound better. To get something that sounds as good as an 160 AAC you need to have MP3 encode at 192 or higher. So, the file size is higher then.
Dell's situation is totally revelant (at least spell the word right moron).
There were a few bad iPod batteries. Ok. So, lets look at your statement again.
"Now, whether or not it was a small incident blown out of proportion or a real wide scale problem, is completely besides the point. It could be just ONE DEVICE that malfunctioned but it's malfunctioning story propogated across the media worldwide and things got exagerated."
So Dell is irrevelant? I don't think so. I think the Dell thing has gotten as much bad press as the iPod battery issue if not MORE.
"The iPod's ability to see how much power is left in the battery simply does not exist."
Really? Huh. My iPod says I have a lot of battery power left. I guess your point there is gone.
"Battery problems with the iPod are very well known, yet iPod is still the winner because of marketing savvy."
So you cite battery problems, but then say it's marketing savvy that makes an iPod a winner? Interesting argument. Faulty, but interesting. For 3 years I owned an iPod 3rd Generation, and it did start losing it's charge. However, that is to be expected. You cannot keep recharing a battery infinitely (plus some info on batteries for you).
I don't even think it has much to do with iTunes either, because the iPod was the focus of attention, not iTunes.
Really now. You think? No figging way. Maybe it was the EASE in which people can import and manage audio with the combination of iTunes and an iPod? Naw....that would be EASY.
"Like I said, I completely agree that the iPod's form and function are superior, but that DEFINATELY was not the deciding factor in iPod's success."
You really didn't give anything to support any of your claims. Seriously. Go back and try again.
Yup. Exactly. I did a blind test as well, and found AACs to sound great at 160, hence that is where my iTunes encoding setting is set. PLUS, they are smaller than MP3s. I generally encoded things at 192 or higher using MP3, and used the LAME encoder as well, but......not anymore.
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Maybe he can buy the Stargate series and do Stargate C3PO or something......I can see Daniel Jackson and C3PO translating ancient writings.......and Han Solo hitting on Sam Carter...
But, yeah, SciFi needs some help. They should have taken up Firefly as a series again.....or continue the Farscape saga....
oh, NOW he figures it out. That quality matters. Perhaps if the script for Episodes 1-3 didn't SUCK. Or maybe he figured out that people actually thought the scripts sucked for those episodes.
Anyhow, there is supposedly a Star Wars TV series coming....correct? I think it would be better to keep it as an animated series on Cartoon Network.....
Yeah. That shooting yesterday was MySpace related. The guy researched his victims on there.
MySpace is a total cesspool. It reminds me when everyone had to have a Domain name and a webpage.
I don't think Microsoft is going to win on this. Apple is easily 3 steps ahead of Microsoft, they just have not thought people would want or use this. And they are right. The idea of "beaming" my songs to someone is like beaming contact information on Palm handhelds. Yeah, neat, but not really all that useful.
What would be MORE useful is a broadcast feature, where you can look and see other iPod devices near you, and listen in on what they are listening to. That would be pretty cool....
Seriously. Slashdot calling something ugly? That is totally the Pot calling the kettle black.
Most torrent sites seem to be designed with two things in mind. Functionality and Ads. That's it.
Well, that makes no sense. However, the argument about hearing/feeling over the CD standard 20kHz is an interesting debate though.......
Why? AAC files are higher quality sonically than anything LAME ever produced for me. I can get away with a 160 bit AAC that sounds as good, and is smaller, than a 192 LAME encoded MP3.
I can play Ogg files on.......nothing that I own. So....moving on.....
There is support for AAC VBRing. Perhaps iTunes Store should offer 160 AACs with VBR?
You have made my day/week/month. ;-)
Oh yes! Like the little snip during the Diet Coke/Mentos Myth a couple of weeks ago. My God. CUTE! Have her conduct all her Myths in that outfit! ;-)
What about Keri. I want to know about my favorite Redhead......
Windows Maintenance is a pain. It's not easy at all. Easiest OS to maintain is OS X or FreeBSD. FreeBSD is simple is so many was. Ports, rebuilding the whole system. Easy.
Until Dvorak or Enderle say so, it is NOT so.
Yeah, I'm a little concerned about this as well.....
Isn't everything Microsoft has out there a RC or a Beta?
Media Player, Vista, this, that and the other thing?
I see/hear this all the time. It's called a DUB. American companies taking a perfectly good foreign film or cartoon (Anime) and butchering it. Latest example would be Bleach.....
Oops, relevant not revelant or irrelevent. My bad. Typed it wrong.
Point A, true. I did not specify AAC VBR. Actually, it was NOT AAC VBR. If it was, the result would have been smaller.
Point B. Ok, It does occupy the same amount of diskspace. But, it does sound better. To get something that sounds as good as an 160 AAC you need to have MP3 encode at 192 or higher. So, the file size is higher then.
Dell's situation is totally revelant (at least spell the word right moron).
There were a few bad iPod batteries. Ok. So, lets look at your statement again.
"Now, whether or not it was a small incident blown out of proportion or a real wide scale problem, is completely besides the point. It could be just ONE DEVICE that malfunctioned but it's malfunctioning story propogated across the media worldwide and things got exagerated."
So Dell is irrevelant? I don't think so. I think the Dell thing has gotten as much bad press as the iPod battery issue if not MORE.
Your whole argument is still MIA.
VBR is Variable Bit Rate. Why is that an "idiotic comparison"? AAC has VBR in it as well.
Nope. A 2:38 minute song encoded as AAC is 3132KB, and as a VBR MP3 at 160 is 3252KB.
So.....that's the same size? Nope.
So, we can say all Dell's have battery problems that cause it to burst into flames?
Your point and argument are still Missing in Action (MIA).
"The iPod's ability to see how much power is left in the battery simply does not exist."
Really? Huh. My iPod says I have a lot of battery power left. I guess your point there is gone.
"Battery problems with the iPod are very well known, yet iPod is still the winner because of marketing savvy."
So you cite battery problems, but then say it's marketing savvy that makes an iPod a winner? Interesting argument. Faulty, but interesting. For 3 years I owned an iPod 3rd Generation, and it did start losing it's charge. However, that is to be expected. You cannot keep recharing a battery infinitely (plus some info on batteries for you).
I don't even think it has much to do with iTunes either, because the iPod was the focus of attention, not iTunes.
Really now. You think? No figging way. Maybe it was the EASE in which people can import and manage audio with the combination of iTunes and an iPod? Naw....that would be EASY.
"Like I said, I completely agree that the iPod's form and function are superior, but that DEFINATELY was not the deciding factor in iPod's success."
You really didn't give anything to support any of your claims. Seriously. Go back and try again.
Faulty reasoning, again here on Slashdot. Go figure.
Where do you get the idea that CREATIVE is far superior and cheaper? Got numbers to back it up? Facts? Figures? Reviews?
Facts? Statistics? Hear of them? Care to share with us? Otherwise, we should dismiss your faulty argument and reason.
Hell, I could make the same claim that a number of ex-Linux users run OS X. I just pulled the facts out of thin air.
Dood, April is months away. But thanks for the laugh. Microsoft. They are such kidders.
Yup. Exactly. I did a blind test as well, and found AACs to sound great at 160, hence that is where my iTunes encoding setting is set. PLUS, they are smaller than MP3s. I generally encoded things at 192 or higher using MP3, and used the LAME encoder as well, but......not anymore.