I'm not sure what you mean by "full", but I'm told it will plan encrypted wma files.
Windows Media Player for Mac OS X is slow, buggy, and incompatible with the latest WM formats. Both VideoLAN and MPlayer do a better job of playing Windows Media files on OS X.
As someone who never touched Napster (or KaZaA or whatever) and considers so-called "filesharing" to be blatant theft of service, I reject your premise outright. Thank you, please drive through...
Does Apple or anyone else post iTunes' best selling tracks and albums on a website?
Yes, both the top ten tracks and the top ten albums are listed on the iTMS "front page" (the page you go to when you select the iTMS in iTunes). As of this writing, they are:
Top Ten Tracks:
"Clocks" - Coldplay
"One I Love" - Coldplay
"Miss Independent" - Kelly Clarkson
"Hole In The World" - The Eagles
"Intuition" - Jewel
"Get The Party Started" - Pink
"Unwell (Live Acoustic)" - Matchbox Twenty
"Crazy In Love" - Beyonce & Jay-Z
"Calling All Angels" - Train
"Lose Yourself" - Eminem
Top Ten Albums:
"0304" - Jewel
"On And On" - Jack Johnson
"One Quiet Night" - Pat Methany
"A Rush Of Blood To The Head" - Coldplay
"Birds Of Pray" - Live
"Paper Monsters" - Dave Gahan
"These Are The Vistas" - The Bad Plus
"Greatest Hits" - The Doors
"The Very Best Of Sting & The Police" - Sting & The Police
"The Diva Series: Astrud Gilberto" - Astrud Gilberto
Of course, North American Mac users make for a serious skewed sample group, but, well... you can draw your own conclusions.
I remember providing input to a tech writer, then red-lining the first draft to the point that rewriting the entire document seemed necessary. While I would rather write PHP or scripts, there is no one who better understands code than its author.
You're right -- but it takes a LOT more than that to produce clean, usable documentation. And yes, I speak from experience; I've been a technical communicator for more than eight years, and I've spent the last two years just cleaning up existing documentation written by programmers.
The problem I've found is that programmers tend to write documentation the same way they write code: they see a project as an assemblage of individual features and widgets, and they put most of their effort towards ensuring each of those features works correctly. The fundamental concepts that tie the features together into an application are largely taken for granted.
As such, the documentation these programmers produce is technically complete and accurate but almost completely nonsensical from a real-world user's point of view. There's no unified flow or top-level view. The user is basically expected to already know what they want to do, so that all they need to do is look up how to do it.
That's why I don't trust these efforts to make documentation "modular." It's impossible to develop a coherent narrative in such a format, and you can't really educate the user without that narrative.
I don't know why so many people are having trouble with this setup; I've had SBC/Ameritech DSL for a year and a half now, and it's a straight PPPoE configuration under OS X. I'm using it right now as I type this.
Enternet was simply the PPPoE client that SBC bundled with their service for OS 9. You could've used any PPPoE client you wanted, but you would've had to pay for it yourself.
Given everything, you should be able to use any PPPoE-compliant router (including the Airport Base Station) to do what you want. When SBC says they won't "support" it, that simply means they don't have any certified Mac techs to help you. PPPoE is still PPPoE.
Err, do you know something the rest of us don't about Yoko Kanno? She's an all-purpose soundtrack composer who was best known for her symphonic, techno, and J-pop work prior to Cowboy Bebop. Bebop was her first real foray into jazz fusion, and even though her stuff is technically excellent, it is obviously derivative for at least the first several episodes of the series. It isn't until later that her own distinctive style gets folded back in.
So then, using your link, let's compare Fox/News Corp. to CBS/Viacom. Viacom owns at least as many television stations and many, many more radio stations.
As such, I ask again: why did the original poster use Fox as an example?
Umm, the original story -- and my reply to it -- was about television and radio station ownership. Your link is interesting but not on-topic.
Fox's stake in New York also makes it a pretty big influence.
That is a single market. Granted, it's the largest in the country, but it's still only one. Everywhere else, ABC/Disney and CBS/Viacom are much bigger fish. As such, my question remains: why did the original poster choose Fox as an example?
Fox is owned by News Corp... which owns the following (and you'll probably recognize some of them)
Umm, the original story -- and my reply to it -- was about television and radio station ownership. Your list is interesting but not on-topic. As such, my question remains: why did the original poster choose Fox as an example?
I can understand Clear Channel, but why did the poster choose Fox as an example? They are so far down the Big Media totem pole that they barely qualify as an outllet at all. ABC/Disney and CBS/Viacom both own many, many more television and radio stations, so... why Fox, hmm?
Even though the gross factual errors in the parent have already been noted and corrected by other respondents, I still want to know how the heck the parent got modded up in the first place. Are you Slashbots really so eager to see Macs get bad-mouthed like that?
No, the person who started this thread argued that anime will never win because it's nothing but adolescent "chicks with guns" fantasies. Of course, 'GitS' does have a chick with a gun, but at it's heart it is an exercise in existentialism (what makes us human, can we judged by how we treat others, blah blah blah). Sounds pretty adult to me.
Now, whether or not the movie is actually any good is a completely different issue...
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I think the fear that our [american] economy will collapse if jobs move out of the geographic country is naive, in that it doesn't properly examine whether or not the money actually flows in different directions: if the money still comes into the US eventually, it works.
America makes its money by being at the ultimate junction point of capital, intellectual property, communications, and business management. We're the deal-makers and the facilitators. We don't build anything ourselves because we're content to skim a little bit off the top of everything that passes through our hands.
However, sooner or later, all those other countries to which we've outsourced our industrial base will realise that they really don't need us. When they get their acts together, they'll just start dealing directly with each other. And when that happens, watch this Pax Americana come to a screeching halt.
I predict it will happen within the next 50 years, if all things continue as they are now...
Maybe if I was willing to shell out $4k (USD) for a newer mac platform...
See, it's crap like this that tells me most Mac bashers really have no clue what they're talking about. The absolute supreme top-of-the-line PowerMac that was just introduced this past Tuesday only costs $3800. You have to add bloody RAID array to the configuration to even crack $4000...
...and that's only through Apple's own online store. Buy it anywhere else and you can get another $300 to $500 worth of free scanners, printers, cameras, and/or software.
So I accidentally transposed two characters while typing. If that alone destroys a person's credibility, then the whole Slashdot community is screwed...
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Windows Media Player for Mac OS X is slow, buggy, and incompatible with the latest WM formats. Both VideoLAN and MPlayer do a better job of playing Windows Media files on OS X.
And yes, I speak from experience.
As someone who never touched Napster (or KaZaA or whatever) and considers so-called "filesharing" to be blatant theft of service, I reject your premise outright. Thank you, please drive through...
Linkin Park, Radiohead, and Madonna aren't available through the iTunes Music Store.
Are obsolete IDSL bridges welcome? (Thanks a heap, Northpoint...)
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Yes, both the top ten tracks and the top ten albums are listed on the iTMS "front page" (the page you go to when you select the iTMS in iTunes). As of this writing, they are:
Of course, North American Mac users make for a serious skewed sample group, but, well... you can draw your own conclusions.
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Look at the "20" in the bottom-right corner on the current $20 bill.
Look closely...
Thank you for actually getting it. You're my new best friend. ^_^
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You're right, you didn't, and I wasn't accusing you of it, either. What you mentioned was theft of service...
C'mon, it's not that hard...
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"Theft of service." Hmm...
How is it that sending spam such a heinous crime while "sharing" MP3s is a service to Mankind?
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You're right -- but it takes a LOT more than that to produce clean, usable documentation. And yes, I speak from experience; I've been a technical communicator for more than eight years, and I've spent the last two years just cleaning up existing documentation written by programmers.
The problem I've found is that programmers tend to write documentation the same way they write code: they see a project as an assemblage of individual features and widgets, and they put most of their effort towards ensuring each of those features works correctly. The fundamental concepts that tie the features together into an application are largely taken for granted.
As such, the documentation these programmers produce is technically complete and accurate but almost completely nonsensical from a real-world user's point of view. There's no unified flow or top-level view. The user is basically expected to already know what they want to do, so that all they need to do is look up how to do it.
That's why I don't trust these efforts to make documentation "modular." It's impossible to develop a coherent narrative in such a format, and you can't really educate the user without that narrative.
C'mon, this is obviously just a publicity stunt for the upcoming release of X2...
I don't know why so many people are having trouble with this setup; I've had SBC/Ameritech DSL for a year and a half now, and it's a straight PPPoE configuration under OS X. I'm using it right now as I type this.
Enternet was simply the PPPoE client that SBC bundled with their service for OS 9. You could've used any PPPoE client you wanted, but you would've had to pay for it yourself.
Given everything, you should be able to use any PPPoE-compliant router (including the Airport Base Station) to do what you want. When SBC says they won't "support" it, that simply means they don't have any certified Mac techs to help you. PPPoE is still PPPoE.
I didn't even know they offered a Quicktime stream. Everything on their Web site is done with RealAudio...
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Err, do you know something the rest of us don't about Yoko Kanno? She's an all-purpose soundtrack composer who was best known for her symphonic, techno, and J-pop work prior to Cowboy Bebop. Bebop was her first real foray into jazz fusion, and even though her stuff is technically excellent, it is obviously derivative for at least the first several episodes of the series. It isn't until later that her own distinctive style gets folded back in.
Fair enough.
So then, using your link, let's compare Fox/News Corp. to CBS/Viacom. Viacom owns at least as many television stations and many, many more radio stations.
As such, I ask again: why did the original poster use Fox as an example?
You make a good point, but I do not respond to name-calling Anonymous Cowards. Sorry.
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Umm, the original story -- and my reply to it -- was about television and radio station ownership. Your link is interesting but not on-topic.
That is a single market. Granted, it's the largest in the country, but it's still only one. Everywhere else, ABC/Disney and CBS/Viacom are much bigger fish. As such, my question remains: why did the original poster choose Fox as an example?
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Umm, the original story -- and my reply to it -- was about television and radio station ownership. Your list is interesting but not on-topic. As such, my question remains: why did the original poster choose Fox as an example?
I can understand Clear Channel, but why did the poster choose Fox as an example? They are so far down the Big Media totem pole that they barely qualify as an outllet at all. ABC/Disney and CBS/Viacom both own many, many more television and radio stations, so... why Fox, hmm?
Even though the gross factual errors in the parent have already been noted and corrected by other respondents, I still want to know how the heck the parent got modded up in the first place. Are you Slashbots really so eager to see Macs get bad-mouthed like that?
No, the person who started this thread argued that anime will never win because it's nothing but adolescent "chicks with guns" fantasies. Of course, 'GitS' does have a chick with a gun, but at it's heart it is an exercise in existentialism (what makes us human, can we judged by how we treat others, blah blah blah). Sounds pretty adult to me.
Now, whether or not the movie is actually any good is a completely different issue...
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...or 'Wings of Honneamise'.
...or 'Perfect Blue'.
...or 'Robot Carnival'.
...or 'Ghost in the Shell'.
...or 'Jin-Roh: the Wolf Brigade'.
...or 'Serial Experiment Lain'.
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America makes its money by being at the ultimate junction point of capital, intellectual property, communications, and business management. We're the deal-makers and the facilitators. We don't build anything ourselves because we're content to skim a little bit off the top of everything that passes through our hands.
However, sooner or later, all those other countries to which we've outsourced our industrial base will realise that they really don't need us. When they get their acts together, they'll just start dealing directly with each other. And when that happens, watch this Pax Americana come to a screeching halt.
I predict it will happen within the next 50 years, if all things continue as they are now...
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See, it's crap like this that tells me most Mac bashers really have no clue what they're talking about. The absolute supreme top-of-the-line PowerMac that was just introduced this past Tuesday only costs $3800. You have to add bloody RAID array to the configuration to even crack $4000...
...and that's only through Apple's own online store. Buy it anywhere else and you can get another $300 to $500 worth of free scanners, printers, cameras, and/or software.
Enough with the FUD already.
So I accidentally transposed two characters while typing. If that alone destroys a person's credibility, then the whole Slashdot community is screwed...