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.Mac Storage Now 250MB
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even the original 100MB is plenty o'space. I think this a two pronged decision to (1) curb detractors with the Gmail comparison (totally Apples V. Oranges to me)
But the 100MB only applies to the iDisk. The previous email limit was 15MB for the entire mailbox! Trust me, that's an easy limit to hit, and hit, and hit.
This is all well and good that they upgraded, but I took my money elsewhere this year (my bank) because I feel that Apple did not treat its subscribers fairly by not informing us what to expect as far as upgrades go. A lot of people say that it's worth gambling on features in Tiger, but I say hooey to that. I'm paying for services, and if their services fail to meet my needs, I'll go elsewhere.
Now the services meet my needs, but I just spent the last 2 weeks switching my online identity, only to have the upgrade occur today. If they are okay with announcing products such as Tiger, or the iMac G5, or the Dual G5 PowerMac and making the consumer wait, why can't they respect a currently paying customer that's supposed to be a guaranteed money source by letting me know that my service needs will be fulfilled. That would have been fair to the initial subscribers (since the iTools ->.Mac switch occurred), and it wouldn't have lost any money. It'd be kind of a 2nd year anniversary party, and Apple's got gifts for everybody!
I'm not disagreeing to be contrary; I'm really just trying to say that transcoding is an issue that has an alternative. How frequently do new music codecs appear? It's not like you have to flash the WAP daily, and the firmware hack has the added benefit of not having to deal with QuickTime if you don't want to, since Apple Lossless is no longer part of the formula.
This is/. There will be some zealot who doesn't want to install QuickTime to interface with the Airport Express, and to my knowledge, nobody's got a free (as in not Apple) implementation of the ALS codec.
I actually agree it'd be easier to do in software, but it's the lack of a free codec, at this point in time, that makes me lean more toward the firmware hack.
And I still say you're not looking at the problem in its discrete form:
1. Stream Apple Lossless to Airport Express in a generic way.
This is the part that's solved.
2. Convert any music file from codec X to Apple Lossless.
Why is 1 more important than 2 in this case? Since the stream to the Airport Express is encrypted, only software that can send a properly encrypted stream can play. This much we all understand.
Now an important question to ask at this point is: Can someone figure out how to make the second question moot? IOW, if the Airport Express is powerful enough to handle the decryption and decoding of ALS smoothly, why can't it do the same with MP3 or ogg or any other format?
Alternatively, with the announcement by CodeWeavers that iTunes is coming to Linux (and by proxy QuickTime since QT6 is a prerequisite for iTunes), that means that Apple Lossless reencoding should be available on OSX, XP/2K, and now Linux as long as you know how to interface with QuickTime. That's why I said that the rest is left as an exercise for the reader, but now I've gone and theorized the solution for you anyway.
This is a proverbial "last mile" problem: How do I get any sound to the Airport Express? The known elements are that the Airport Express plays Apple Lossless streamed from the client computer running iTunes. So the solution to the "last mile" is to figure out how to stream any Apple Lossless file to the Airport Express and not rely on a specific program. The conversion to Apple Lossless is left as an exercise for the reader, as they say.
Yes, the number of iPod models offered has always been 3 for sufficiently large values of 1 (5GB first gen) or 2 (5GB and 10GB first gen), or sufficiently small values of 4 (4GB mini and 15/20/40GB third gen). Oh, and chocolate rations are up.
Wow, a correction to the original poster that is entirely wrong!
IIRC, Photoshop Elements was introduced at MWNY02, along with Jaguar and an update to iPhoto 1. This update included a new button that allowed you to select the action to perform when you double click a photo in iPhoto. One of the cool things you could do is open it in a different application to do other image processing that iPhoto didn't handle at the time. Photoshop Elements was introduced in early August 2002 to the market, as a PC/Mac OS X application in the same box (similar to WC3 a month before).
The application that you are looking for (that was mentioned explicitly in the keynote. You did watch the keynote, right?) is Photoshop Album.
Just a quick point that Bush the Elder was against the neo-con view in 1991 of going in. They did accomplish the mission at hand.
So, while from Bush the Younger's view, it may be a matter of finishing what daddy started, Bush the Elder has not been entirely thrilled at this precedent setting policy of invading a sovereign nation with first strike.
I looked at the MusicMatch site to get an idea how similar it is to iTMS from Apple. It's pretty close, except for a real problem: Deactivating a computer is permanent. That, and I couldn't find out what format the songs from MusicMatch are (or a list of players for the "legal" music).
I don't think that you can really call, MusicMatch's service or Napster 2.0 a P2P service. They're all really just a new way of the corps selling stuff to consumers. There's nothing peer here. Move along.
that's probably an indication of Apple moving away from the six year old processor.
That may be the case, but if I'm reading the information about the 750GX correctly, it's actually a brand new processor[1]! It's not really that surprising though, because I then realized if the 750GX had been available 6 years ago, Apple would have had a nice kit at the time.
[1] based on an older design with minor improvements to bring it in line with other contemporary chips.
This year when I paid taxes online, I had to use IE for Mac. Turbotax wouldn't render properly in Safari or Camino, because of some strange dropdown that only worked in IE.
However, I do think that it wouldn't feel very pleasant for a small company (in comparison to MS or Apple) to have Apple come down and bitchslap you for having a crappy web application, which is pretty much what I see the "Bug button" is used for. What's Apple going to do for those few web applications that just won't render regardless of what David Hyatt and company do to the WebCore? I figure it's a squeezeplay, with the users complaining and Apple complaining. I do my part.
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even the original 100MB is plenty o'space. I think this a two pronged decision to (1) curb detractors with the Gmail comparison (totally Apples V. Oranges to me)
.Mac switch occurred), and it wouldn't have lost any money. It'd be kind of a 2nd year anniversary party, and Apple's got gifts for everybody!
But the 100MB only applies to the iDisk. The previous email limit was 15MB for the entire mailbox! Trust me, that's an easy limit to hit, and hit, and hit.
This is all well and good that they upgraded, but I took my money elsewhere this year (my bank) because I feel that Apple did not treat its subscribers fairly by not informing us what to expect as far as upgrades go. A lot of people say that it's worth gambling on features in Tiger, but I say hooey to that. I'm paying for services, and if their services fail to meet my needs, I'll go elsewhere.
Now the services meet my needs, but I just spent the last 2 weeks switching my online identity, only to have the upgrade occur today. If they are okay with announcing products such as Tiger, or the iMac G5, or the Dual G5 PowerMac and making the consumer wait, why can't they respect a currently paying customer that's supposed to be a guaranteed money source by letting me know that my service needs will be fulfilled. That would have been fair to the initial subscribers (since the iTools ->
I'm sorry, but I never gave you permission to use my bandwidth to send me ads.
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Yes, because you live in some magickal world where the browser fairy takes you to unwanted sites and fills your screen with advertisements.
Er, rather, you requested content from a site that looked like:
GET
And it gave you page.html and all that it entails. So, at least from a httpd server point of view, you did request the advertisements.
if Apple just sold a computer for 600$ I think it would catch fire like the iPod has.
No, you're thinking of that other story posted on slashdot
I'm not disagreeing to be contrary; I'm really just trying to say that transcoding is an issue that has an alternative. How frequently do new music codecs appear? It's not like you have to flash the WAP daily, and the firmware hack has the added benefit of not having to deal with QuickTime if you don't want to, since Apple Lossless is no longer part of the formula.
/. There will be some zealot who doesn't want to install QuickTime to interface with the Airport Express, and to my knowledge, nobody's got a free (as in not Apple) implementation of the ALS codec.
This is
I actually agree it'd be easier to do in software, but it's the lack of a free codec, at this point in time, that makes me lean more toward the firmware hack.
But if you're upsampling from AAC or MP3 or whatever, that's just extra computation that isn't required. Why not just use the underlying format?
And I still say you're not looking at the problem in its discrete form:
1. Stream Apple Lossless to Airport Express in a generic way.
This is the part that's solved.
2. Convert any music file from codec X to Apple Lossless.
Why is 1 more important than 2 in this case? Since the stream to the Airport Express is encrypted, only software that can send a properly encrypted stream can play. This much we all understand.
Now an important question to ask at this point is: Can someone figure out how to make the second question moot? IOW, if the Airport Express is powerful enough to handle the decryption and decoding of ALS smoothly, why can't it do the same with MP3 or ogg or any other format?
Alternatively, with the announcement by CodeWeavers that iTunes is coming to Linux (and by proxy QuickTime since QT6 is a prerequisite for iTunes), that means that Apple Lossless reencoding should be available on OSX, XP/2K, and now Linux as long as you know how to interface with QuickTime. That's why I said that the rest is left as an exercise for the reader, but now I've gone and theorized the solution for you anyway.
This is a proverbial "last mile" problem: How do I get any sound to the Airport Express? The known elements are that the Airport Express plays Apple Lossless streamed from the client computer running iTunes. So the solution to the "last mile" is to figure out how to stream any Apple Lossless file to the Airport Express and not rely on a specific program. The conversion to Apple Lossless is left as an exercise for the reader, as they say.
Reverse engineering the copy protection is legal for interoperability.
Yeah, ask Johannsen about that. Better yet, ask Valenti's successor why we still can't play DVDs on Linux legally, if the above statement is true.
Yes, the number of iPod models offered has always been 3 for sufficiently large values of 1 (5GB first gen) or 2 (5GB and 10GB first gen), or sufficiently small values of 4 (4GB mini and 15/20/40GB third gen). Oh, and chocolate rations are up.
Do you mean we should actually read the article linked in the story? Or are you just k-whoring?
Yeah, that part about using Apple WebKit means that it's using the framework automatically provided by the OS.
Have you ever considered taking your Kensington Keyboard out of the box? I imagine it might feel better that way.
Wow, a correction to the original poster that is entirely wrong!
IIRC, Photoshop Elements was introduced at MWNY02, along with Jaguar and an update to iPhoto 1. This update included a new button that allowed you to select the action to perform when you double click a photo in iPhoto. One of the cool things you could do is open it in a different application to do other image processing that iPhoto didn't handle at the time. Photoshop Elements was introduced in early August 2002 to the market, as a PC/Mac OS X application in the same box (similar to WC3 a month before).
The application that you are looking for (that was mentioned explicitly in the keynote. You did watch the keynote, right?) is Photoshop Album.
Well, it is alpha software.
Just a quick point that Bush the Elder was against the neo-con view in 1991 of going in. They did accomplish the mission at hand.
So, while from Bush the Younger's view, it may be a matter of finishing what daddy started, Bush the Elder has not been entirely thrilled at this precedent setting policy of invading a sovereign nation with first strike.
iTunes 2 wasn't really a security patch, now was it?
I hate Pod 6. Why does Pod 6 need a Pro Shop?
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go play the hammer game.
Which would be fantastic, if we were talking about Apple and not a company that distributes a product that happens to simply run on Macs...
I looked at the MusicMatch site to get an idea how similar it is to iTMS from Apple. It's pretty close, except for a real problem: Deactivating a computer is permanent. That, and I couldn't find out what format the songs from MusicMatch are (or a list of players for the "legal" music).
I don't think that you can really call, MusicMatch's service or Napster 2.0 a P2P service. They're all really just a new way of the corps selling stuff to consumers. There's nothing peer here. Move along.
Ahem!
This is the same price as a low end iMac.
Any more baseless questions?
that's probably an indication of Apple moving away from the six year old processor.
That may be the case, but if I'm reading the information about the 750GX correctly, it's actually a brand new processor[1]! It's not really that surprising though, because I then realized if the 750GX had been available 6 years ago, Apple would have had a nice kit at the time.
[1] based on an older design with minor improvements to bring it in line with other contemporary chips.
I didn't mention SE did I?
Oops? Read parent, I don't think you meant this as a response to me.
As of last summer, that didn't matter anymore. In case you were under a rock, that site doesn't support Windows 95/98 anymore.
This year when I paid taxes online, I had to use IE for Mac. Turbotax wouldn't render properly in Safari or Camino, because of some strange dropdown that only worked in IE.
However, I do think that it wouldn't feel very pleasant for a small company (in comparison to MS or Apple) to have Apple come down and bitchslap you for having a crappy web application, which is pretty much what I see the "Bug button" is used for. What's Apple going to do for those few web applications that just won't render regardless of what David Hyatt and company do to the WebCore? I figure it's a squeezeplay, with the users complaining and Apple complaining. I do my part.