I think you guys are confused. The Onion just publishes deliciously wonderful satire. Everything you quoted is simply their trademark wit. It's easy for someone that's never read The Onion to mistake it for sincere commentary.
The iPod runs for 10 hours because it has a 32MB buffer that it fills. The iPod then stops the hard drive and waits until the buffer needs to be refilled. Copying photos from a memory card to the iPod won't have the same benefits. The hard drive will run while the import is happening and you'll have reduced battery. I'd guess it'd be 5 hours maximum.
A 3GB microdrive doesn't compete with a 40GB iPod for photo storage. I have a Canon EOS Digital Rebel and had planned to buy this since I can only fit about 30 pictures on a 128MB CF card. If the transfers are as slow as they say, I'm definitely not a customer.
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Please, during the invasion of Iraq NPR was basically a mouthpiece for the Pentagon. It simply regurgitated "news" from military press conferences and that which they got from embedded "reporters."
For example, what sports cars do you have in your garage? Ferrari or Porsche I'd assume. And what's the brand of your kitchen sink? Eeeh, who cares, some crap made in China and purchased at Home Depot.
Apple's G nomenclature refers to the generation of the PowerPC architecture. Whenever they feel a PowerPC design has advanced significantly enough, it becomes the Gn processor.
Well, I wouldn't call their 3D effects more ambitious, but they are definitely more silly.:p I don't really want my windows to wave around like a flag while I move them across the screen. I like Mac OS better, our windows must have more starch.
It's sad (for Microsoft) that Apple was able to do this several years before Microsoft without even controlling their own graphics API like Microsoft.
The desktop will be hardware accelerated DirectX, so eyecandy won't slow things down.
Wow! Just like Macintosh has had for about a year now with Mac OS X Jaguar -- only using the industry standard OpenGL instead of a proprietary version.
Maybe he should look into getting a Mac, because they use Rendezvous to dynamically allocate renders, compiles, and the like across other Macs on the LAN.
The new artificial diamond labs are only in the gem selling game for as long as it takes to fund their semiconductor work until they can fab diamonds large enough to be used as semiconductor wafers.
It's in the Wired article which is a very interesting read.
I didn't say his decision was wrong. I just said he didn't completely research the situation. Plus, in the interview he states that Apple is partially owned by Microsoft, not that at the time of his decision Microsoft had some shares in Apple.
He certainly doesn't have a complete grasp of the situation.
He didn't do enough research, if he thinks Apple is partially owned by Microsoft. Microsoft bought $150 million worth of non-voting shares of Apple as part of a lawsuit settlement. Microsoft has since sold those shares.
"We regret that we were unable to reach mutually acceptable terms for a new arrangement with Apple QuickTime" is liberal NPR speak for "just because Al Gore is on your board doesn't mean shit to us. Don't think that we aren't closet free-marketers in real life, so give us free money, or we'll drop your ass."
NPR isn't liberal. They're propagandists. Were they liberal at best they would be providing a balanced report of the Iraq invasion, at worst they would provide the news with a leftist slant. What they are doing is acting as an unquestioning mouthpiece of the current administration.
For me it's precisely the fact that it keeps all the titles out of the task bar. It's not that big of a deal if all I'm doing is browsing, but if I'm switching between multiple apps and browsing at the same time, it's great to have my open web pages separate from my open apps.
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I think you guys are confused. The Onion just publishes deliciously wonderful satire. Everything you quoted is simply their trademark wit. It's easy for someone that's never read The Onion to mistake it for sincere commentary.
Oh wait, this wasn't in The Onion?
The iPod runs for 10 hours because it has a 32MB buffer that it fills. The iPod then stops the hard drive and waits until the buffer needs to be refilled. Copying photos from a memory card to the iPod won't have the same benefits. The hard drive will run while the import is happening and you'll have reduced battery. I'd guess it'd be 5 hours maximum.
With such long transfer periods, how long do you think the battery of your iPod will last?
A 3GB microdrive doesn't compete with a 40GB iPod for photo storage. I have a Canon EOS Digital Rebel and had planned to buy this since I can only fit about 30 pictures on a 128MB CF card. If the transfers are as slow as they say, I'm definitely not a customer.
Please, during the invasion of Iraq NPR was basically a mouthpiece for the Pentagon. It simply regurgitated "news" from military press conferences and that which they got from embedded "reporters."
See? It does matter.
Oh my god! Do you know how long its been since I've seen a User Friendly reference on Slashdot? Is that horrible excuse for a comic still around?
There are lots of dodgy GUI hacks for Mac OS X.
What the hell are you talking about? Altivec has nothing to do with the chip's word-length. It's the SIMD piece.
The G3 and G4 are 32bit chips, the G4 has Altivec. The G5 is a 64bit chip and has Altivec.
Apple's G nomenclature refers to the generation of the PowerPC architecture. Whenever they feel a PowerPC design has advanced significantly enough, it becomes the Gn processor.
Well, I wouldn't call their 3D effects more ambitious, but they are definitely more silly. :p I don't really want my windows to wave around like a flag while I move them across the screen. I like Mac OS better, our windows must have more starch.
It's sad (for Microsoft) that Apple was able to do this several years before Microsoft without even controlling their own graphics API like Microsoft.
If you're big into video editing, why are you using Premiere?
Maybe he should look into getting a Mac, because they use Rendezvous to dynamically allocate renders, compiles, and the like across other Macs on the LAN.
The new artificial diamond labs are only in the gem selling game for as long as it takes to fund their semiconductor work until they can fab diamonds large enough to be used as semiconductor wafers.
It's in the Wired article which is a very interesting read.
I didn't say his decision was wrong. I just said he didn't completely research the situation. Plus, in the interview he states that Apple is partially owned by Microsoft, not that at the time of his decision Microsoft had some shares in Apple.
He certainly doesn't have a complete grasp of the situation.
He didn't do enough research, if he thinks Apple is partially owned by Microsoft. Microsoft bought $150 million worth of non-voting shares of Apple as part of a lawsuit settlement. Microsoft has since sold those shares.
I used to listen to NPR a lot, until recently. They've been National Propaganda Radio ever since we invaded Iraq.
It gets its power from the FireWire port.
No way, the original Macintosh or the Lisa was the most influential PC of all time. 100% of the market wouldn't be where it is today without it.
If you didn't use tabs, you'd get this functionality with windows.
Now without a lame name.
I think this is Microsoft's plan. If Mono has to chop out pieces, it'll kind of be like embrace and extend in reverse.
Instead of extending the standard to work uniquely with Windows, they'll force other platforms to retract so the standard works uniquely with Windows.