I know this is mostly regarding the streamable Netflix movies, but I'd like to point out that their Que is worth the price. I haven't seen anything like that on Apple's service, but I may be mistaken.
One other thing that Netflix has over Apple, is no 30 day wait after a new release. Sure, there may be a few days wait in some cases, but it's not 30. (Piratebay also has no such restrictions. The movie studios probably wanted to strike a good deal with those jolly rogers. Great move studios, nothing like waiting 30 days after a region-encrusted release...)
On the other side, Apple has a convenient way to transfer movies to my iPod touch, which is excellent.
I'm a Netflix subscriber, and I'm pretty sure I'll stay with them, but I think Apple may get some of my money here and there too.
Bad move vbraga. this is a us-centric site, and the rule here is basically "he who apollogizes first, loses." You've just deeply lost your whole argument.
This is fantastic news for those who need extra accessibility features. It may be fine for you or me to hit any key, but there are many other folks with various disabilities for whom such a task is not an easy one. So it may make more sense for them to use their voice and move on.
If any of us were to lose fingers or hands in an accident, I bet we'd all be using something like Dragon to continue our work, rather than try to become a tap dancer.
And let's not forget about accessibility in the workplace. This is great news for Mac shops, as now there is one less reason for having to support a rogue Windows machine...
So you're assuming that windows would just magically compile the drivers for all the new hardware they may be introducing in their ultraportable? For all we know that thing may well have a multitouch screen. What use would your bootcamp be for that then?
Unless the windows table version is included into whatever version of windows you're intending on running on the new ultrap.
Not only does it seem obvious, but it seemed obvious 5 years ago! And in all those years, they could have slaughtered the market, considering their media library.
That they don't have this capability, to at least distribute their own movies, to this day, is way beyond my simple way of thinking...
Absolutely, but unfortunately no one at Sony believes that there is any future to Moving pictures. For something like that to succeed, Sony would need: -a large catalog of moving pictures, - some form of a magical network connection for distribution, and lastly -a device connected to a TV Sadly, none of those things are yet feasible.
Microsoft, on the other hand doesn't have neither the money or clout to do something like that. Their true strengths are search, web-mail, MP3 players and Live. The moving pictures - on demand are not yet a very lucrative market.
Not stupid at all. I'm a Netflix subscriber, and having a nice organized Que is very convenient. If they found a way to stream that to my TV, I'd have no problems renting/buying another device for my "home theatre". AppleTV doesn't appeal to me that much, because of it's too-tight integration to iTunes and iTMS, so a nice "open" device tied to my Netflix que would fit the bill perfectly. And Steve may have been too late on the ball regarding the whole rental and movies deal. Yes, my iPod touch displays videos beautifully, but guess how many of them I've watched? Maybe 2 hours of NBC's office (thanks trackers). Videos on the go, just aren't something that most people (other than the bus/train riders) would have enough time to do.
It will be a battle of content, and I'd rather rent movies from Netflix than from iTunes, considering Netflix's excellent customer service and ease of use.
Open source and free are not mutually exclusive as most of us know. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is free, but I don't think is open source. Maybe it is, it is based on either Q2 or Q3 engine, and Q2 engine is open sourced (or GPLed), maybe Q3 engine is as well. But anyway, it seems as if the summary equates open source with free and free with open source.
As a huge OS X fan I must say that I think this is a bad move on Apple's part. For me, part of the excitement about Apple is all the hype and "can they really manufacture that?" attitude that comes in the months preceding a product launch.
Thinksecret was a major part of the hype machine, for better or worse, and I'm sure Steve realizes that all of us fanatics enjoy the hype and wonder. I understand they need to protect their trade secrets and should do so, but it would be nice if the site could have stayed in business.
Of course, I didn't RTFA, so maybe I'm way off base... (+5 informative then)
Vista plays MP3s just fine. Vista plays AVIs of your favorite shows just fine. Vista plays DVDs just fine. You can run software to rip DVDs on Vista. You can rip CD audio on Vista. You can convert your DVD movies to AVIs on Vista.
After all these years of research, I feel that microsoft have outdone themselves. These truly are features that in year of our lord 2007, almost 2008, users will salivate over. I hope that by 2015 Microsoft will sell us an operating system capable of all those things plus a few others!
(I can't comment on TFA, it seems slashdotted but here's my opinion.)
I can say that they are both impressive, and both have their share of problems. Both could learn from each other (OS X probably more so from Linux)
OS X.. it's polished, integrated, (UNIX) powerful, and easy to use (stays out of my way). But if you have a problem... start hunting for preference files and deleting them. Why an addressbook would completely crash mail and iChat, in this day and age is beyond me. Restarts due to updates are entirely too frequent.
Ubuntu... it's good, again (UNIX) powerful, extremely easy to keep updated. Editing config files is a blessing and a curse. With one edit of a file, I've configured a Microsoft mouse (they make good mice) in under 30 secs. On OS X I had to download a file, install, restart and configure.. yawn. I needed to connect to the Mac for file sharing and Ubuntu presented me with a GUI scp! I hadn't been that excited about an os, since working on UNIX for the first time. I was very impressed. But on the other side, my screen resolution is different each time I restart...
Considering that I only use Ubuntu for one thing and one thing only (ET:QW) it doesn't bother me too much, since the game sets its own resolution.
All that being said, they are both light years ahead of at least XP. Not sure about Vista, since I've never used it.
Well we start with the literal religious based court system, move on to morality police and mutilated women's bodies coming out of prisons with the explanation "died of a heart attack" and extrapolate from there. We're all glad you'll be sending your daughter there to educate them about women's rights and religious tolerance! (In addition to nuclear technology and armament.)
You're just jealous because you played the whole Origami ARG and ended up buying one. And then, a month before iPhone was announced you placed an order for 2 Microsoft tables, a wireless router and 3 Zunes.;)
Luckily Mr. Negroponte is an intelligent man who is not interested in profits, but in doing the right thing, and can happily tell them to fuck the hell off. That's what I'd do anyway.
Who in the right mind would try to educate young kids about computers while using Windows? Yes, a lot of us new geeks started on Windows, but as soon as we got to "know Unix" we jumped that crappy ship and never looked back.
GNU/Linux and FOSS are the way of the future. It's like p2p networks and RIAA. You can't magically stop the spread of open knowledge.
Negroponte will give them a stable and innovative learning platform that will benefit both their computing skills and more importantly their general education and knowledge.
Just the other day I thought about making a bumper sticker or a shirt that says "Microsoft is the reason you suck at computers." (I've just trademarked that.) (Or is it copyrighted? WTH, I'll do both.)
I dunno much, but ISO 32000 ought to be able to record photos in the very darkest of dark places. It's too bad they'll be saved as PDFs, I prefer to shoot RAW.
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I know this is mostly regarding the streamable Netflix movies, but I'd like to point out that their Que is worth the price.
I haven't seen anything like that on Apple's service, but I may be mistaken.
One other thing that Netflix has over Apple, is no 30 day wait after a new release. Sure, there may be a few days wait in some cases, but it's not 30.
(Piratebay also has no such restrictions. The movie studios probably wanted to strike a good deal with those jolly rogers. Great move studios, nothing like waiting 30 days after a region-encrusted release...)
On the other side, Apple has a convenient way to transfer movies to my iPod touch, which is excellent.
I'm a Netflix subscriber, and I'm pretty sure I'll stay with them, but I think Apple may get some of my money here and there too.
Bad move vbraga. this is a us-centric site, and the rule here is basically "he who apollogizes first, loses." You've just deeply lost your whole argument.
For a mention of those you'd have to read the article, grasshopper. ;)
This, then, is probably the last thing a person like you would like to hear, but thank you sir.
This is fantastic news for those who need extra accessibility features.
It may be fine for you or me to hit any key, but there are many other folks with various disabilities for whom such a task is not an easy one. So it may make more sense for them to use their voice and move on.
If any of us were to lose fingers or hands in an accident, I bet we'd all be using something like Dragon to continue our work, rather than try to become a tap dancer.
And let's not forget about accessibility in the workplace. This is great news for Mac shops, as now there is one less reason for having to support a rogue Windows machine...
So you're assuming that windows would just magically compile the drivers for all the new hardware they may be introducing in their ultraportable?
For all we know that thing may well have a multitouch screen. What use would your bootcamp be for that then?
Unless the windows table version is included into whatever version of windows you're intending on running on the new ultrap.
Not only does it seem obvious, but it seemed obvious 5 years ago!
And in all those years, they could have slaughtered the market, considering their media library.
That they don't have this capability, to at least distribute their own movies, to this day, is way beyond my simple way of thinking...
Absolutely,
but unfortunately no one at Sony believes that there is any future to Moving pictures. For something like that to succeed, Sony would need:
-a large catalog of moving pictures,
- some form of a magical network connection for distribution, and lastly
-a device connected to a TV
Sadly, none of those things are yet feasible.
Microsoft, on the other hand doesn't have neither the money or clout to do something like that. Their true strengths are search, web-mail, MP3 players and Live.
The moving pictures - on demand are not yet a very lucrative market.
Not stupid at all.
I'm a Netflix subscriber, and having a nice organized Que is very convenient. If they found a way to stream that to my TV, I'd have no problems renting/buying another device for my "home theatre".
AppleTV doesn't appeal to me that much, because of it's too-tight integration to iTunes and iTMS, so a nice "open" device tied to my Netflix que would fit the bill perfectly.
And Steve may have been too late on the ball regarding the whole rental and movies deal.
Yes, my iPod touch displays videos beautifully, but guess how many of them I've watched? Maybe 2 hours of NBC's office (thanks trackers). Videos on the go, just aren't something that most people (other than the bus/train riders) would have enough time to do.
It will be a battle of content, and I'd rather rent movies from Netflix than from iTunes, considering Netflix's excellent customer service and ease of use.
Open source and free are not mutually exclusive as most of us know.
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is free, but I don't think is open source. Maybe it is, it is based on either Q2 or Q3 engine, and Q2 engine is open sourced (or GPLed), maybe Q3 engine is as well.
But anyway, it seems as if the summary equates open source with free and free with open source.
Most unfortunate.
/. has mentioned it yet.
Prepare for stroggification then.
Makron will not be pleased. As you will soon discover, when he eats you!
http://enemyterritory.com/
With a free demo and a terrific Linux support, being set in id's Quake universe, I'm surprised no one on
you guys are n00bs... Portal? Mario? what happened to all the cool fraggers on /.?
ETQW ftw!
Excellent Linux support too!
ET>*
They could have downloaded half a dozen songs of the internet!
As a huge OS X fan I must say that I think this is a bad move on Apple's part.
For me, part of the excitement about Apple is all the hype and "can they really manufacture that?" attitude that comes in the months preceding a product launch.
Thinksecret was a major part of the hype machine, for better or worse, and I'm sure Steve realizes that all of us fanatics enjoy the hype and wonder.
I understand they need to protect their trade secrets and should do so, but it would be nice if the site could have stayed in business.
Of course, I didn't RTFA, so maybe I'm way off base... (+5 informative then)
Best image ever:
/Cylon Mark I Voice
Cylon Mark I Voice
Khaaaaan!!!!!
Vista plays MP3s just fine.
Vista plays AVIs of your favorite shows just fine.
Vista plays DVDs just fine.
You can run software to rip DVDs on Vista.
You can rip CD audio on Vista.
You can convert your DVD movies to AVIs on Vista.
After all these years of research, I feel that microsoft have outdone themselves.
These truly are features that in year of our lord 2007, almost 2008, users will salivate over.
I hope that by 2015 Microsoft will sell us an operating system capable of all those things plus a few others!
The side buttons don't.
(I can't comment on TFA, it seems slashdotted but here's my opinion.)
I can say that they are both impressive, and both have their share of problems. Both could learn from each other (OS X probably more so from Linux)
OS X.. it's polished, integrated, (UNIX) powerful, and easy to use (stays out of my way).
But if you have a problem... start hunting for preference files and deleting them.
Why an addressbook would completely crash mail and iChat, in this day and age is beyond me. Restarts due to updates are entirely too frequent.
Ubuntu... it's good, again (UNIX) powerful, extremely easy to keep updated. Editing config files is a blessing and a curse. With one edit of a file, I've configured a Microsoft mouse (they make good mice) in under 30 secs. On OS X I had to download a file, install, restart and configure.. yawn.
I needed to connect to the Mac for file sharing and Ubuntu presented me with a GUI scp! I hadn't been that excited about an os, since working on UNIX for the first time. I was very impressed.
But on the other side, my screen resolution is different each time I restart...
Considering that I only use Ubuntu for one thing and one thing only (ET:QW) it doesn't bother me too much, since the game sets its own resolution.
All that being said, they are both light years ahead of at least XP. Not sure about Vista, since I've never used it.
As a longtime OS X user, I have to say, Holy Crap! Welcome to the past!
Congratulations!
Ah, now let's get a flood of people asking me where the right click button is...
Well we start with the literal religious based court system, move on to morality police and mutilated women's bodies coming out of prisons with the explanation "died of a heart attack" and extrapolate from there.
We're all glad you'll be sending your daughter there to educate them about women's rights and religious tolerance! (In addition to nuclear technology and armament.)
Not if you use Bush's alfabet!
You're just jealous because you played the whole Origami ARG and ended up buying one. ;)
And then, a month before iPhone was announced you placed an order for 2 Microsoft tables, a wireless router and 3 Zunes.
Luckily Mr. Negroponte is an intelligent man who is not interested in profits, but in doing the right thing, and can happily tell them to fuck the hell off.
That's what I'd do anyway.
Who in the right mind would try to educate young kids about computers while using Windows?
Yes, a lot of us new geeks started on Windows, but as soon as we got to "know Unix" we jumped that crappy ship and never looked back.
GNU/Linux and FOSS are the way of the future. It's like p2p networks and RIAA. You can't magically stop the spread of open knowledge.
Negroponte will give them a stable and innovative learning platform that will benefit both their computing skills and more importantly their general education and knowledge.
Just the other day I thought about making a bumper sticker or a shirt that says "Microsoft is the reason you suck at computers."
(I've just trademarked that.) (Or is it copyrighted? WTH, I'll do both.)
I dunno much, but ISO 32000 ought to be able to record photos in the very darkest of dark places.
It's too bad they'll be saved as PDFs, I prefer to shoot RAW.
What would be scary is if ATT could have a mechanism to do that.
Did I mention that I just woke up from a coma and am still stuck in 1999? I can't wait for the Y2K...