The powerpoint viewer software is free, as is the playback component of flash, so if you go down either of those routes, you only need to *build* the presentation with the full version of the software, you don't need it to be on the playback machine.
It would help if you told us more about the presentation, does it need sound? interactivity (beyond the doorbell to start) etc.
Having read the previous stories, I didn't find anthing new here, it's just the same old whining dressed up in badly written legalese. Oh, and a badly scanned in black and white print of the website.
Actually, you don't need escape velocity to escape the earth. Any velocity will do if you carry on for long enough. Escape velocity is a measure of how fast you need to be moving to leave *if no additional thrust is applied*, which, given the fact that you are probably strapped to a huge big rocket if these things are relevant to you, is rarely the case.
Just because buymusic.com's managers were incompetent, it doesn't mean all the other music companies will go the same way.
There is more than 1 business model that makes sense here. Take a look at www.warprecords.com - they have an amazingly comprehensive roster of acts in a quite specialised market sector, and they have exclusive content. The chance of you liking any of their content is low, but if you do like it the chances are you will love all of it, and you'll go back and check it regularly for your next fix.
The EU court chose to look at this crime not because they picked WMP out as the worst or only abuse of Microsoft's monopoly, but simply because makers of competing products (Sun & Real) brought a valid complaint against Microsoft.
All other crimes are still open for discussion (and one assumes the defendant's existing criminal record will be taken into account when sentence is passed).
If you want to see Microsoft fined over the (much bigger) browser issue as well as the (small) media player issue, you would need to build and sell your own wondows compatible browser, and then file suit.
Useful links: Sourcecode for browser - http://www.mozilla.org/source.html Website of EU court - http://curia.eu.int Let us know how you get on - http://slashdot.org/submit.pl
Everyone on Slashdot knows Ghz isn't a good measure of speed, and that the G5s are very fast machines. Apple's problem isnt that these machines are slow, it's that the haven't got *any faster* for quite long time now. Steve Jobs promised us 3Ghz in the summer, so there are a lot of people putting off their purchases until the next speedbump, which is long overdue. Lots of long term apple users like me have been burned in the past, and now only buy in the week after a speedbump - either a cut-price old machine or a fast new one.
As for underestimating the number of people using OSX, that's not my estimate, it's Apple's. Remember Steve Jobs WWDC speech? He proudly stated that 40% of active Apple users have switched. Again, the slashdot crowd are going to be aware of the pros and cons, and are going to be among the early adopters. The 60% don;t have a voice round here. They are not generally the sort of people who read slashdot, they are luddites who bought an Apple beacuse it's simpler than a PC. I think everyone is underestimating how hard it will be to get those people to switch, especially the ones who experimented with the very first release of OSX and vowed never to touch it ever again.
I caught an interview about infinty
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on BBC radio 4 a few months back. A nice moment was when the mathematician recalled trying to explain infinity to a very young child:
Child: "what's the biggest number there is?" Mathematician: "what do you think it is" Child: "um, 380?" Mathematician: "but if you add one to that, don't you get 381"? Child: "Wow!" (pause, in which the mathematician assumes the child has grasped the idea that you can ALWAYS add 1 and get a bigger number) Child" "I was really close, wasn't I?"
Seems to ignore Apple's 2 biggest problems imho
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1) OS9 won't run on G5s
60% of mac users haven't moved to OSX. There is a LOT of resistance there, the people who bought a mac because it was simple to use REALLY don't want to learn a whole new OS, repurchase all their software and lose all the apps that haven't been ported.
2) Still stuck at 2Ghz.
I'm an Apple fanboy so I don't mind, but why has the PC contingent stopped being on Apple's case about being slow?
btw, I'd love to have read the article, but "The page you've requested is only available to current money magazine subscribers." and "Offer available to U.S./Canadian subscribers only." they won't even sell me the damn article because I'm British.
Actually, the Honda NSX (possibly marketed in the US an an Acura?) is in direct competition with the 911, as sporty 2 seaters with simliar prices and 6cyl engines at the back. The 911 is kicking the NSX's ass sales-wise too.
No, but the implication is that the game shouldn't be breaking the usability conventions by using Ctrl for crouch, which will break all the shortcuts that involve Ctrl.
Save should be ctrl-s (or apple-s) in every application. It should also be in roughly the same place in the leftmost menu as it is in every other app.
Why do you need a third way of saving? Do you feel the same need for a 'quit' icon?
I've only seen a few apps with save icons on the mac, generally from Microsoft, who either didn't understand the idea of Apple's user interface quitelines or decided to undermine them in a fit of envy. Luckily you can throw away the pointless save icon using tools>customise in the office apps. I recommend a thorough pruning with this trick to all office users - and you should also look through the other icons that are off by default to see if any do things that currently take up a lot of your time with menu-meandering.
I find slashdot works fine with images off. On my home (dialup) machine, I have images from slashdot blocked just to speed things up - the only downside is you lose the friend/foe system, and you have to remember where the logo is to get back to the main page.
As I was trying to explain, this is the PC=x86 issue. x86 machines have only included decidcated graphics coprocessors recently (as opposed to 'dumb' graphics cards which have of course been around since day 1) but graphics coprocessors like the ones you mention have been in a huge number of PCs from the Atari 400 and TI/99 right through to the Amiga. The article is correct if you define 'PC' as 'personal computer', but misleading if you are just thinking of PC as x86 boxes.
The Saturn is an oddity. Is the 2nd CPU there primarily to boost computing power or to help with memory bandwith issues?
Maybe you are thinking PC = x86 machine, the comment makes sense if you consider PC to mean simply 'Personal Computer'. Until the PS2's coprocessor-heavy architecture arrived, all consoles have been similar in architecture to personal computers - a single general purpose CPU doing all the work.
Considering the Xbox/GC as the last of the monolithic designs where clockspeed was the answer to everything, and PS2 and future consoles as multiprocessor dsp farms where memory bandwidth is the answer to everything makes a lot of sense to me.
As for the techniques mentioned being possible with current consoles, that's true - but only in the same way that the last of the Nintendo games ventured into 3-D - It's possible by clever programming pusing the envelope, but it's not what the next-gen N64 machine was designed from ther ground up to be capable of.
Here is the IS300 on the British Lexus site: http://www.lexus.co.uk/modelrange.php?model =is&var iant=300&area=modelhome...and here is the 'all cars' pace of the British Honda site: http://www.honda.co.uk/cars/newcars/showAll Cars.js p
Actually, as a European, I can tell you we do have the Toyota/Lexus split here, but not Honda/Acura - possibly because we don't (afaik) get any of the Acura-branded vehicles. We also have our Opels branded as Vauxhalls here in Britain.
The N-Gage would have been a flop whatever name was written on it, because it's a fatally flawed product.
The Lexus comparison is inappropriate. The reason Toyota created a different brand name for Lexus is because the knew there would be consumer resistance among executive car buyers to a very expensive Toyota, no matter how good it was. As the failure of the Volkswagen Phaeton shows, they were right.
The N-Gage isn't a premium product aimed at stuck-in-their-ways 50+ executives who are being asked to spend 6 months income in one go, it's a phone aimed at kids, so sticking a (formerly) respected phone company name on it is entirely appropriate.
Having said that, there *is* a really good reason the phone should not have had Nokia written on it that the article seems to have completely missed - there are a whole generation of kids growing up with 'Nokia = embarassingly bad design' lodged in their heads.
Simple... The legal right to do things like show that film in a cinema, sell soundtrack CDs and sell t-shirts with the characters on them are all (potentially) worth a lot of money.
If those rights were given to anyone who bought the dvd, then the film company wouldn't be able to sell those rights to rerun cinemas, record labels or t-shirt manufacturers.
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The powerpoint viewer software is free, as is the playback component of flash, so if you go down either of those routes, you only need to *build* the presentation with the full version of the software, you don't need it to be on the playback machine.
It would help if you told us more about the presentation, does it need sound? interactivity (beyond the doorbell to start) etc.
Having read the previous stories, I didn't find anthing new here, it's just the same old whining dressed up in badly written legalese. Oh, and a badly scanned in black and white print of the website.
Over here it's 129.00, which at today's rates is 234.58 United States Dollars.
here, however, I suspect this may have leaked out 3 days too early.
Actually, you don't need escape velocity to escape the earth. Any velocity will do if you carry on for long enough. Escape velocity is a measure of how fast you need to be moving to leave *if no additional thrust is applied*, which, given the fact that you are probably strapped to a huge big rocket if these things are relevant to you, is rarely the case.
Just because buymusic.com's managers were incompetent, it doesn't mean all the other music companies will go the same way.
There is more than 1 business model that makes sense here. Take a look at www.warprecords.com - they have an amazingly comprehensive roster of acts in a quite specialised market sector, and they have exclusive content. The chance of you liking any of their content is low, but if you do like it the chances are you will love all of it, and you'll go back and check it regularly for your next fix.
It's called the PSX, and you can already buy it in Japan
www.psx.sony.co.jp
The EU court chose to look at this crime not because they picked WMP out as the worst or only abuse of Microsoft's monopoly, but simply because makers of competing products (Sun & Real) brought a valid complaint against Microsoft.
All other crimes are still open for discussion (and one assumes the defendant's existing criminal record will be taken into account when sentence is passed).
If you want to see Microsoft fined over the (much bigger) browser issue as well as the (small) media player issue, you would need to build and sell your own wondows compatible browser, and then file suit.
Useful links:
Sourcecode for browser - http://www.mozilla.org/source.html
Website of EU court - http://curia.eu.int
Let us know how you get on - http://slashdot.org/submit.pl
Everyone on Slashdot knows Ghz isn't a good measure of speed, and that the G5s are very fast machines. Apple's problem isnt that these machines are slow, it's that the haven't got *any faster* for quite long time now. Steve Jobs promised us 3Ghz in the summer, so there are a lot of people putting off their purchases until the next speedbump, which is long overdue. Lots of long term apple users like me have been burned in the past, and now only buy in the week after a speedbump - either a cut-price old machine or a fast new one.
As for underestimating the number of people using OSX, that's not my estimate, it's Apple's. Remember Steve Jobs WWDC speech? He proudly stated that 40% of active Apple users have switched. Again, the slashdot crowd are going to be aware of the pros and cons, and are going to be among the early adopters. The 60% don;t have a voice round here. They are not generally the sort of people who read slashdot, they are luddites who bought an Apple beacuse it's simpler than a PC. I think everyone is underestimating how hard it will be to get those people to switch, especially the ones who experimented with the very first release of OSX and vowed never to touch it ever again.
on BBC radio 4 a few months back. A nice moment was when the mathematician recalled trying to explain infinity to a very young child:
Child: "what's the biggest number there is?"
Mathematician: "what do you think it is"
Child: "um, 380?"
Mathematician: "but if you add one to that, don't you get 381"?
Child: "Wow!"
(pause, in which the mathematician assumes the child has grasped the idea that you can ALWAYS add 1 and get a bigger number)
Child" "I was really close, wasn't I?"
1) OS9 won't run on G5s
60% of mac users haven't moved to OSX. There is a LOT of resistance there, the people who bought a mac because it was simple to use REALLY don't want to learn a whole new OS, repurchase all their software and lose all the apps that haven't been ported.
2) Still stuck at 2Ghz.
I'm an Apple fanboy so I don't mind, but why has the PC contingent stopped being on Apple's case about being slow?
btw, I'd love to have read the article, but "The page you've requested is only available to current money magazine subscribers." and "Offer available to U.S./Canadian subscribers only." they won't even sell me the damn article because I'm British.
Actually, the Honda NSX (possibly marketed in the US an an Acura?) is in direct competition with the 911, as sporty 2 seaters with simliar prices and 6cyl engines at the back. The 911 is kicking the NSX's ass sales-wise too.
Hooray for xenophobia!
Just because your American legal system does whatever big business tells it to, doesn't mean our European one does.
No, but the implication is that the game shouldn't be breaking the usability conventions by using Ctrl for crouch, which will break all the shortcuts that involve Ctrl.
Save should be ctrl-s (or apple-s) in every application. It should also be in roughly the same place in the leftmost menu as it is in every other app.
Why do you need a third way of saving? Do you feel the same need for a 'quit' icon?
I've only seen a few apps with save icons on the mac, generally from Microsoft, who either didn't understand the idea of Apple's user interface quitelines or decided to undermine them in a fit of envy. Luckily you can throw away the pointless save icon using tools>customise in the office apps. I recommend a thorough pruning with this trick to all office users - and you should also look through the other icons that are off by default to see if any do things that currently take up a lot of your time with menu-meandering.
I find slashdot works fine with images off. On my home (dialup) machine, I have images from slashdot blocked just to speed things up - the only downside is you lose the friend/foe system, and you have to remember where the logo is to get back to the main page.
I'm disappointed to only be getting about 47mpg in my Smart Roadster
Then again we pay about $6 per gallon over for petrol here in England.
As I was trying to explain, this is the PC=x86 issue. x86 machines have only included decidcated graphics coprocessors recently (as opposed to 'dumb' graphics cards which have of course been around since day 1) but graphics coprocessors like the ones you mention have been in a huge number of PCs from the Atari 400 and TI/99 right through to the Amiga. The article is correct if you define 'PC' as 'personal computer', but misleading if you are just thinking of PC as x86 boxes.
The Saturn is an oddity. Is the 2nd CPU there primarily to boost computing power or to help with memory bandwith issues?
Yes, I missed the word 'super' out of my original post. It's a pity that slashcode isn't advanced enough to allow editing for typos.
Maybe you are thinking PC = x86 machine, the comment makes sense if you consider PC to mean simply 'Personal Computer'. Until the PS2's coprocessor-heavy architecture arrived, all consoles have been similar in architecture to personal computers - a single general purpose CPU doing all the work.
Considering the Xbox/GC as the last of the monolithic designs where clockspeed was the answer to everything, and PS2 and future consoles as multiprocessor dsp farms where memory bandwidth is the answer to everything makes a lot of sense to me.
As for the techniques mentioned being possible with current consoles, that's true - but only in the same way that the last of the Nintendo games ventured into 3-D - It's possible by clever programming pusing the envelope, but it's not what the next-gen N64 machine was designed from ther ground up to be capable of.
Maybe you are thinking of Japan?
l =is&var iant=300&area=modelhome ...and here is the 'all cars' pace of the British Honda site:l Cars.js p
Here is the IS300 on the British Lexus site:
http://www.lexus.co.uk/modelrange.php?mode
http://www.honda.co.uk/cars/newcars/showAl
Actually, as a European, I can tell you we do have the Toyota/Lexus split here, but not Honda/Acura - possibly because we don't (afaik) get any of the Acura-branded vehicles. We also have our Opels branded as Vauxhalls here in Britain.
The N-Gage would have been a flop whatever name was written on it, because it's a fatally flawed product.
The Lexus comparison is inappropriate. The reason Toyota created a different brand name for Lexus is because the knew there would be consumer resistance among executive car buyers to a very expensive Toyota, no matter how good it was. As the failure of the Volkswagen Phaeton shows, they were right.
The N-Gage isn't a premium product aimed at stuck-in-their-ways 50+ executives who are being asked to spend 6 months income in one go, it's a phone aimed at kids, so sticking a (formerly) respected phone company name on it is entirely appropriate.
Having said that, there *is* a really good reason the phone should not have had Nokia written on it that the article seems to have completely missed - there are a whole generation of kids growing up with 'Nokia = embarassingly bad design' lodged in their heads.
Simple... The legal right to do things like show that film in a cinema, sell soundtrack CDs and sell t-shirts with the characters on them are all (potentially) worth a lot of money.
If those rights were given to anyone who bought the dvd, then the film company wouldn't be able to sell those rights to rerun cinemas, record labels or t-shirt manufacturers.
Original /. article from 3 days ago is here