There were several video capture cards on the end of the 90s that delivered mpeg output to the disk. But they were not general-purpose video cards. Well, who knows, I am no lawyer.
Before openGL? I beg your pardon? We were doing this since the 90s. My graduation work on the university was about that. I wrote a prototype mpeg2 encoder for a voodoo4 card by myself back then (not in opengl, sure, it was WAAAY closer to bare metal) . It was not fast, but let the cpu idle, which was enough.
Being Sony, they will just allow you to play psp1 games on the first batch. Then they will release psp2 slim, a bit cheaper and without the option to run psp1 games.
That's the usual way to say it in english. Doesn't mean that other languages follow. Latin languages usually say the day, then the month, then, if it is the case, year.
Objective-C on the Mac has had garbage collection for quite some time now. They say it would make things too slow on the iphone. When I read this, the most recent thing was the iphone 3g, which is quite pale in comparison to the new one. It seems a matter of time (and raw processing power/memory) for the iphone/ipad etc to have garbage collection as well.
You should have a look outside the us. On the rest of the world, it's pretty much people who can pay an iphone, android, and who doesn't want a smartphone (eg cheap, students, older people)
Consistency is a strength for iphone's customers: the general public. Carriers swallow the iphone because it's worse not having it. Differently from apple, the android and winmo 7's customers are mobile carriers.
Think of yourself as a mobile carrier: do you prefer a free and customizable thing where you can touch as you wish, or a paid locked-down experience? Do you understand why Android is getting so big?
No - you can run today's google chrome/firefox on the 11 year-old os, on the 11 year-old computer. You cannot do that in a mac.
Not that MS didn't try to do the same - they tried to force everyone to upgrade to Vista. They tried to EOL windows XP, and had to retreat.
The only thing that impeded MS to do EXACTLY the same as apple do is market force - meaning that people just did not see value in upgrading when MS wanted. On the other hand, people rushed to upgrade to Leopard from Tiger, and even to Snow Leopard. I know that I had to go to the FNAC store six or seven times to find a single copy, as it was sold out every day.
So, being able to run new software on old windows is just reflecting the perceiving lack of value of upgrading ms products.
You can buy similar hardware (from my favorite company HP or even many others such as Asus)
I beg to differ.
Albeit the processor/memory/hard drive/video card are the same, I see little innovation coming from individual PC vendors. They basically imitate each other. It almost seems as they are collaborating instead of competing, each one improving in a small step that everyone else will then copy.
I wouldn't mention that other pc makers wouldn't probably even exist without the apple 2. And Windows also, without the Macintosh, the mouse they got from xerox and made useful in people's computers, and the Mac OS.
No, I will talk about the notebooks.
Before Apple entered the notebook business, notebooks had the keyboard touching the outer border, with no wrist rest. The back of the keyboard was so useless than canon even managed to stick a printer in there [1]. So you can account for the wrist rest. Oh, and also the trackpad. Because my HP notebook had a button that would spit an imitation of a mouse to the left side [2].
Let's take the more recent computers. They brought to market the glass screens, backlit keyboard (not sure about this one), webcams with a little light to warn you they are in use (in a notebook), the multi-touch trackpad for scrolling first - the other manufacturers' solution was to waste space on the right side. The vents on the hinge, so the computer won't blow at you or at your desk and its innards are a little bit more protected, the magnetic latch, the first general-purpose notebooks with 6+ hours of battery life, batteries with a button to see its charge without turning the computer on, the transparent metal for the sleep light, the removal of the useless lights/sticks/extra buttons leaving the computer with what it needs, the metal casing, the unibody casing... So they are innovating on engineering, and as far as I see, much more than anyone else.
HP has nice research with memristors. Let's hope they finish it. I would like to see every computer manufacturer bringing so much innovation to their products as Apple does. But for the last 30 years, that's not the case.
So no, you cannot buy similar hardware, when they bring a new thing. You have to wait for hp/asus/whatever to catch up. Besides, the main innovation on the engineering process was made not by the brands themselves, but by the engineering team in east asia (mostly taiwan) who builds the machines for the american companies, like foxconn with desktop chassis for dell/hp/compaq, quanta with notebooks for everyone else, and so on.
Now apple is using stainless steel, too (on the old ipod shuffle and now on the iphone), a new manufacturing process for the glass for the iphone's screen, and that liquidmetal thing. Let's see what they come up with these, and how long it will take for the rest of the market to get up with.
Technically possible but not practical for economic reasons.
How removing the network cable from the back of a pair of nearby wifi routers can be unpractical for economic reasons? The wifi network is still there, but leads to nowhere. It's even better than jamming the signal.
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My head just exploded.
Apple and amazon sell drm-free music.
you mean, like opening iphoto? Mine is dead for a full minute then. Won't even talk about opening windows 7 in vmware...
Except that it has been in use in navigation for centuries. It was meant to avoid the fibers loosing up and also to insert on sail holes etc.
http://pita.mine.nu/cne/site/Material%20escutista/Images/nos/americana.gif
....WHOOOOSH!
There were several video capture cards on the end of the 90s that delivered mpeg output to the disk. But they were not general-purpose video cards. Well, who knows, I am no lawyer.
There were electric cars on the streets 90 years ago.
Before openGL? I beg your pardon? We were doing this since the 90s. My graduation work on the university was about that. I wrote a prototype mpeg2 encoder for a voodoo4 card by myself back then (not in opengl, sure, it was WAAAY closer to bare metal) . It was not fast, but let the cpu idle, which was enough.
Being Sony, they will just allow you to play psp1 games on the first batch. Then they will release psp2 slim, a bit cheaper and without the option to run psp1 games.
Happened before, more than once.
sounds like what every anti-virus should be doing.
Hey, it's all flash now! Haven't you seen ANY of those press releases from Adobe? Gosh...
I suppose he's counting on urinary
That's the usual way to say it in english. Doesn't mean that other languages follow. Latin languages usually say the day, then the month, then, if it is the case, year.
You GOT to be kidding.
Just use a wireless mouse.
No, they can't do 1080p IN REAL TIME.
Given the AC explained it to you already, I must say:
WHOOOOSH!
Objective-C on the Mac has had garbage collection for quite some time now. They say it would make things too slow on the iphone. When I read this, the most recent thing was the iphone 3g, which is quite pale in comparison to the new one. It seems a matter of time (and raw processing power/memory) for the iphone/ipad etc to have garbage collection as well.
http://www.gnustep.org/
You should have a look outside the us. On the rest of the world, it's pretty much people who can pay an iphone, android, and who doesn't want a smartphone (eg cheap, students, older people)
Consistency is a strength for iphone's customers: the general public. Carriers swallow the iphone because it's worse not having it. Differently from apple, the android and winmo 7's customers are mobile carriers.
Think of yourself as a mobile carrier: do you prefer a free and customizable thing where you can touch as you wish, or a paid locked-down experience? Do you understand why Android is getting so big?
No - you can run today's google chrome/firefox on the 11 year-old os, on the 11 year-old computer. You cannot do that in a mac.
Not that MS didn't try to do the same - they tried to force everyone to upgrade to Vista. They tried to EOL windows XP, and had to retreat.
The only thing that impeded MS to do EXACTLY the same as apple do is market force - meaning that people just did not see value in upgrading when MS wanted. On the other hand, people rushed to upgrade to Leopard from Tiger, and even to Snow Leopard. I know that I had to go to the FNAC store six or seven times to find a single copy, as it was sold out every day.
So, being able to run new software on old windows is just reflecting the perceiving lack of value of upgrading ms products.
You can buy similar hardware (from my favorite company HP or even many others such as Asus)
I beg to differ.
Albeit the processor/memory/hard drive/video card are the same, I see little innovation coming from individual PC vendors. They basically imitate each other. It almost seems as they are collaborating instead of competing, each one improving in a small step that everyone else will then copy.
I wouldn't mention that other pc makers wouldn't probably even exist without the apple 2. And Windows also, without the Macintosh, the mouse they got from xerox and made useful in people's computers, and the Mac OS.
No, I will talk about the notebooks.
Before Apple entered the notebook business, notebooks had the keyboard touching the outer border, with no wrist rest. The back of the keyboard was so useless than canon even managed to stick a printer in there [1]. So you can account for the wrist rest. Oh, and also the trackpad. Because my HP notebook had a button that would spit an imitation of a mouse to the left side [2].
Let's take the more recent computers. They brought to market the glass screens, backlit keyboard (not sure about this one), webcams with a little light to warn you they are in use (in a notebook), the multi-touch trackpad for scrolling first - the other manufacturers' solution was to waste space on the right side. The vents on the hinge, so the computer won't blow at you or at your desk and its innards are a little bit more protected, the magnetic latch, the first general-purpose notebooks with 6+ hours of battery life, batteries with a button to see its charge without turning the computer on, the transparent metal for the sleep light, the removal of the useless lights/sticks/extra buttons leaving the computer with what it needs, the metal casing, the unibody casing... So they are innovating on engineering, and as far as I see, much more than anyone else.
HP has nice research with memristors. Let's hope they finish it. I would like to see every computer manufacturer bringing so much innovation to their products as Apple does. But for the last 30 years, that's not the case.
So no, you cannot buy similar hardware, when they bring a new thing. You have to wait for hp/asus/whatever to catch up. Besides, the main innovation on the engineering process was made not by the brands themselves, but by the engineering team in east asia (mostly taiwan) who builds the machines for the american companies, like foxconn with desktop chassis for dell/hp/compaq, quanta with notebooks for everyone else, and so on.
Now apple is using stainless steel, too (on the old ipod shuffle and now on the iphone), a new manufacturing process for the glass for the iphone's screen, and that liquidmetal thing. Let's see what they come up with these, and how long it will take for the rest of the market to get up with.
Please correct me where I am wrong.
[1] http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/hardware-hoarders/2009/06/dan-darcys-1993-canon-bj-notebook-bn22.html
[2] http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/cgi-bin/sitewise.pl?act=big&p=3405&pic=2
You can make WiFi unusable, however.
Technically possible but not practical for economic reasons.
How removing the network cable from the back of a pair of nearby wifi routers can be unpractical for economic reasons? The wifi network is still there, but leads to nowhere. It's even better than jamming the signal.
The PR department of any corporation just became useless.