I saw the PA cartoon when it came out, thought it was funny, but also thought "they're going to get slammed if the SS owners find out"
I saw it and wondered what a Strawberry Shortcake was (i thought it must have been a char from Alice in Wonderland), but I must say, all I knew was that I surely wanted one of my own.
Unless apple hurries up quickly with the powerpc970 they will be in big trouble. Motorolla screwed them royally in the ass. If I were Steve Jobs I would never do bussiness with them again no matter what they offer.
That would be kind of silly to do something so final. *IF* (and thats a bloody big if) motorola were to come up with "THE KILLER" chip, and offered it to apple, apple would be completely stupid not to consider using it, the whole cutting ones nose to spite ones face thing. (Ok, itll be a cold day in hell, but...)
The interface on Quicktime is truly awful. Media player isn't great, especially since they started with the skinning, but at least you can easily watch videos full screen. Trying to watch trailers from apple.com in a pokey little window that won't scale is rubbish. Why can't I have a full-screen mode damnit.
Unless I am very much mistaken (which may be the case), i believe that you can get this with the full registered version of quicktime. Not free, and a pain the the butt, but at least it is an available option. This is about the only reason in my opinion to register quicktime.
I think the show is still fairly fresh... Daniel's departure has allowed them to do a few completely new things, and there's still a lot to explore (who created the Stargate system, for instance?). And come on, guys, this is a popular TV series that's managed to handle seriously abstract concepts like Von Neuman machines, and turn them into major plot elements! I do agree that they should recognize when it's time to quit gracefully, but I don't think that time has come yet.
On DVD 5 - Title "The fifth race" the anients are the ones who created the stargate system. The asgaurd refer to them as the ancients, they buggered off exploring the far reaches of the universe, yadda yadda. Aparantly when we evolvle/mature the Tauriee (humans) will become the fifth race - an allegience between The Ancients, The Asgaurd and XX and XX.
Congrats to MGM for screwing up the DVDs. The damn things are not in seasonal eposodic order. Now I have to get another HDD, rip, divX (>1000kbps) if I want to watch them in the correct order, grrr! (Well and get the other 6 DVDs available in Australia).
Second, it's not exactly passive cooling he has there. I've seen the fan-shaped CPU heatsink before (just can't seem to get Google to spit out who makes it) and he has it in a shroud connected to a fan. Alphas did the same thing - my PWS500a has no heat sink fan, but is cooled by the same
"...said the kind of activities Red Hat could engage in are in no way equivalent to what Microsoft could pull off. "Things like Product Activation and more stringent end-user license agreements would drive Red Hat customers away in a heartbeat..."
Does any one here believe that if Microsoft get WPA to work, that within a few years people will begin to be driven to Linux based OSes? I say in a few years, when new apps no longer work on Win2K or similar scenarios?
I am slowing moving to linux for that reason (partialially), as I dont consider a Win32 to be a good value proposition, yet i enjoy gaming so I keep a Win2K partition around, which I admit, is what I generally use. But slowly I am booting into linux more and more, and using it for the every day things that I would use Win2K for. So when i read that line in the article, i wondered if people will eventually get fed up enough to like me start to make a switch, which could end up becoming permenant.
Do you mean Hyundai Excel or Dihatsu Charade? I poked around a bit and could not find exactly what you are talking about. Being from Australia, Adelaide at that, there is definately no Hyundai Charade sold here!
You forgot to mention that Di-Hydrogen Monoxide is also highly addictive, and this addiction can be passed along to children by parents at the moment of conception.
DHO is one nasty chemical. Wont someone ban it for the sake of the children???!?!
it'll be like the old Matrox G400 - runs decent and looks great. I guess it all comes down to speed vs. pretty.
Is that not how nVidia toppled 3Dfx's Voodoo2 or 3? The original TNT was slower than the 3Dfx card (i can not remember exactly which one), but the TNT looked so much nicer &tc, that the TNT have massive uptake? Of course it was probably a lot more price compeditive than the current offering. I am sort of interested in one, but I think bang for buck my GF2MX will be replaced with a Ti4200:(. I am most intruiged as to why matrox were saying that they could take a Ti4600 prior to launch, perhaps when this thing is clocked better it performs like a champ (maybe manuf. issues prevent higher clocks), or maybe he was just talking out his waste disposal unit?
for me to buy an xbox. 199 price and mod chips on the horizon, is there anything better?
Stay away from the Dark Side of the force young DaHat, what perchanse if this mod chip is just a microsoft scam to sell more X-Boxes, sure they'll be running linux, but the X-Box platform will become much, much more popular than it deserves.
Well I blame Telstra to a degree. They have set a precedent for data charging in Australia, and do they charge like wounded bulls. (19c p/1x10^6 B minimum). Optus would have to be paying Telstra *some* money. Sure they may be able to get away to a degree but not completely.
Then there is the whole economy of scale aspect to consider, with people defecting from Hell$tra to Optus (at least where it is available), it would have to be placing some strain on the Optus network, this is where the scale comes into play, it does not make economic sense to purchase extra bandwidth/machines/infrastructure to support the additional users, who would only be adding a marginal profit to their existing base (to be fair companies do deserve to make a profit).
I have a feeling that the scale aspect is part of why I do not have any Optus cable available to me in Adelaide, simply put there would not be enough people to justify the cost. (The other aspect are the whinging fools in snob suburbs who did not want that one extra wire haning off their poles, *grrr*).
The only option I seem to have available to me would be the Internode ADSL (if i can get it in my area), $70AU per month, 3G Download (unlimited upload, PPPoE, allowed to run services), then they start charging for excess MB, (18c I iirc), but would prefer the Optus cost structure, as it would mean that regardless of how much i download, i know that there will be no extra charge.
My other gripe with Telstra is that they wish to charge an extra $10 per phone line rental (ie: every phone [all use telstra's exchange's so all carriers are affected]) after posting a 4 billion dollar (AU) profit. WTF? How can they justify that?
I was sitting in my seat waiting for starwars - Ep2 to start. I was fortunate in that my cinema had a reserved seating policy, and that my friends and i had purchased our tickets within the first 6 sold. The previous 2 tickets sold, the people chose to sit in the back row. (WTF were they thinking?!?!?)
I would have to say that AotC was very much better than the first, but agree with a few of the gripes that others posted. The "love" scenes, ugh! wtf was lucas thinking, what he got was surely what he wanted, but why did he want that.
The scene where Amidala eats the pear like fruit after anakin cuts it, is so obviously CGI, i mean the "bite" occours about 5-15mm from her mouth.
Mace Windu is obviously sexually frustrated, something Anakin seems intent on not repeating, because i mean, purple light sabre?!?!?!
But Yoda, hot diggity damn, that little puppet can really move!
1) I suppose RC5-64 seeing as that is the one thing i seem to care about at the moment. DAMN, a keyrate of 20.7 M/Keys/sec is faaast. and 48x that in a rack, makes me wish i had much money to blow. DnetcDB
2) Thats a server, woah! They *look* good.Blue PCB inside, sweet metal stylings outside, i know that i should not look at these things and think it is good or anything like that, but i can not help myself.
3) Cooling: This is my only concern, they do not appear to have a decent air intake system at the front of the rack, to cool the internal componantry.Sure the G4 is relatively cool, but there are the HDDs and 48 of them in a stack would be a lot of heat.
4)Comparable to PC offerings. At lest our new racks we are purchasing in the next few weeks are only PIII 1.3G machines, the speed differences of these new apple servers are negligable. To what it used to be
I think that it will be most interesting to see how much penetration into the rack-space market share apple are able to achieve.
Was that the one where there were no aliens whatsoever? You spent the entire level wandering around, jumping around corners expecting to be killed, only to find that you'd got to the end without a scratch.
One thing I found once in doom, was when i thought i had cleaned out a whole level, and having problems working out how to leave it, i was just running around trying to work out what to do next, i came to an area that i had already cleaned out and got the crap kicked out of me by a mob that i did not expect at all, not to mention the crap scared outta me too. A combo to your suggestion/reccolecction came to me..., sometimes nothing should appear on a certain (relatively small level), and other times (randomly), some (1 to whatever) should appear. Could be amusing.
Seems like the resources that'll get dumped into Doom 3 could be put towards something new and exciting; although I guess in the economic climate the easy decision is to revisit what's been successful...
I have a feeling that it will look sweet and be enjoyable. Look at QuakeIII not really that much different from QuakeII (ok so the AI improved, and there were not single player "levels"), but really down low there were not that many enhancements on QII, excepting visual boundries being pushed. The QIII engine was licenced to other companies and we have things such as MOHAA, and IDs on RTCW based on the QIII engine. Along comes DoomIII, new engine, takes advantage of new technologies, starts to push the envelope a little visually, same plot, same style of play, perhaps slightly better AI. Overall not a huge change really but it too will spawn other games that push the envelope in other ways by licening the engine.
Personally I will wait and see how well a GeForce4 Ti4x00 goes before i invest in either the game or the card its self, as I love visual things, game play is good too, but i will play a really good looking game compared to a crap ugly one. (UT and QIII, UT did it for me, but i *was* addicted, but @ lans, QIII is more popular and rocks just as much!).
Why the education market only. Well lets look at the benefits that it has over the iMac(2)
* Higher Resolution
* Price. (Highest end eMac has 512 MB RAM) Lowest end iMac(2) has 128 MB.
* Combo Drive (DVD/CDRW) The lowest end iMac(2) does not even have a DVD drive (reader).
The reason that they are tying this to the.edu market is so that they do not have sales of the iMac(2) and other products cannabalised. I am glad that I am a student, but at 3161 Aussie dollah, i think that my 700 Aussie dollah PC upgrade is more justifiable. *Sigh*. I am most irritated by the fact that the plastic stand that apple sells for the thing is $117 AUD. I mean for plastic. *grrrr*. I suppose that I could save money and get the model down from top, (basically no stand and only 128MB RAM), and upgrade the RAM my self. And use a phonebook. I mean RAM yeah, apple are charging almost too much for it, (not so sure now though, with SDRAM becoming more expensive than DDR in.AU) and that stand does look oooh so much better than a phone book...
I think you will find that the PPC 750cx (G3 used in the iMac CRT / current iBooks) was designed and manufactured by IBM, and is capable of scaling beyond what it currently runs at.
I was under the impression that Motorola would not allow IBM access to the AlitVec without significant cost.
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2. People don't want 100 miles of solar panels...anywhere, it doesn't matter if we try to stick them in texas/Arizona, they will still be in somebodies backyard. And those people won't want them there.
An idea, people do not wish to have solar panels in "their back yard". What about on their roof. If every house had a solar panel on it, it would reduce the power drain (not remove it completely, but ease the pressure we are placing on our resources/leading to less nuclear pollution). I have a feeling that it would be a s**t load cheaper to cover many many roofs on the earth that it would be to build/ship/manufacture/create these panels to cover 1% of the moon (even if it could be done in place). There will be no big microwave cannon to target, no single point of failure, and who knows may even alleviate the supply problems such as those in california.
Just an idea. Most rooves are just wasted space covering a dwelling, perhaps if a way was found to make the cells differing colours it would be accpted by more people.
Note: I am from Australia, where it is usually very sunny, and most people abide in homes, usually single story (no stairs) and some two story homes. Few people live in apartment complexes &tc, but none the less, is this still not more practical.
Wind farms are a wonderful idea too, and all a hell of a lot more environmentally friendly than launching a shuttle into space. If only we could all get over the NIMBY problem. (Not In My Back Yard).
here's another fascinating article [piacipr.com] about this sort of "digital watermarking". Ogg is looking more impressive too, but mp3's are just so entrenched it'll be tough to get the average user to convert.
Amen to that, i am not the average user, but i know from personal experience that it is difficult to move from mp3s. I have a large collection of MP3s that took me many hours to rip and encode to MP3. I do not fancy re ripping them and moving 100% to OGG. I try to ensure that any new CDs i get i rip to OGG, but even that can be difficult to remember to do. And support for OGGs as far as Hardware players, ripping/encoding software is in the case of H/W players not readilly available, and ogg based software is not quite mature enough. It is also hard to try and convince someone to go with something new, when "everyone else" uses mp3s!.
Just an aside, would it not be possible to impliment watermarks in OGG any ways? I mean it is an open, free and more importantly PATENT free audio compression algoithm. (Not that I support watermarking, just a thought).
1) Price. I can upgrade my PC for a fraction of the cost of even apples cheapest G4 (i do not like the CRT iMac, and i barely like the LCD one).
2) See Point 1.
3) DivX out of the Box. The best available "hack" is to convert a DivX to a.MOV, grrr.
4) Lack of cusomisation to OS X. I dont wanna use whats best. I do NOT like the new menu styles. (I ran X for 6 months on an iBook 366 SE, so i have actually used X)
5) Antialiased X on LCDs looks crap! The buttons look ugly. They are trying to shove round things into rectanular pixels.
6) Yes, the mouse. I want a scroll wheel and two buttons. (I KNOW I can buy any USB mouse, but i think apple should listen, coz i dont wanna go out and but a 3rd party mouse!!)
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I saw the PA cartoon when it came out, thought it was funny, but also thought "they're going to get slammed if the SS owners find out"
I saw it and wondered what a Strawberry Shortcake was (i thought it must have been a char from Alice in Wonderland), but I must say, all I knew was that I surely wanted one of my own.
Unless apple hurries up quickly with the powerpc970 they will be in big trouble. Motorolla screwed them royally in the ass. If I were Steve Jobs I would never do bussiness with them again no matter what they offer.
That would be kind of silly to do something so final. *IF* (and thats a bloody big if) motorola were to come up with "THE KILLER" chip, and offered it to apple, apple would be completely stupid not to consider using it, the whole cutting ones nose to spite ones face thing. (Ok, itll be a cold day in hell, but...)
The interface on Quicktime is truly awful. Media player isn't great, especially since they started with the skinning, but at least you can easily watch videos full screen. Trying to watch trailers from apple.com in a pokey little window that won't scale is rubbish. Why can't I have a full-screen mode damnit.
Unless I am very much mistaken (which may be the case), i believe that you can get this with the full registered version of quicktime. Not free, and a pain the the butt, but at least it is an available option. This is about the only reason in my opinion to register quicktime.
I think the show is still fairly fresh... Daniel's departure has allowed them to do a few completely new things, and there's still a lot to explore (who created the Stargate system, for instance?). And come on, guys, this is a popular TV series that's managed to handle seriously abstract concepts like Von Neuman machines, and turn them into major plot elements! I do agree that they should recognize when it's time to quit gracefully, but I don't think that time has come yet.
On DVD 5 - Title "The fifth race" the anients are the ones who created the stargate system. The asgaurd refer to them as the ancients, they buggered off exploring the far reaches of the universe, yadda yadda. Aparantly when we evolvle/mature the Tauriee (humans) will become the fifth race - an allegience between The Ancients, The Asgaurd and XX and XX.
Congrats to MGM for screwing up the DVDs. The damn things are not in seasonal eposodic order. Now I have to get another HDD, rip, divX (>1000kbps) if I want to watch them in the correct order, grrr! (Well and get the other 6 DVDs available in Australia).
Second, it's not exactly passive cooling he has there. I've seen the fan-shaped CPU heatsink before (just can't seem to get Google to spit out who makes it) and he has it in a shroud connected to a fan. Alphas did the same thing - my PWS500a has no heat sink fan, but is cooled by the same
The cooler is made by Zalman
"...said the kind of activities Red Hat could engage in are in no way equivalent to what Microsoft could pull off. "Things like Product Activation and more stringent end-user license agreements would drive Red Hat customers away in a heartbeat..."
Does any one here believe that if Microsoft get WPA to work, that within a few years people will begin to be driven to Linux based OSes? I say in a few years, when new apps no longer work on Win2K or similar scenarios?
I am slowing moving to linux for that reason (partialially), as I dont consider a Win32 to be a good value proposition, yet i enjoy gaming so I keep a Win2K partition around, which I admit, is what I generally use. But slowly I am booting into linux more and more, and using it for the every day things that I would use Win2K for. So when i read that line in the article, i wondered if people will eventually get fed up enough to like me start to make a switch, which could end up becoming permenant.
So stop bitching, download the source from the the Neonapster website NeoAudioSource here and do it back to them, sans spyware or what not.
(This comment is completely redundant if at time the parent was posted this source was not available.)
a Hyundai Charade
Do you mean Hyundai Excel or Dihatsu Charade? I poked around a bit and could not find exactly what you are talking about. Being from Australia, Adelaide at that, there is definately no Hyundai Charade sold here!
You forgot to mention that Di-Hydrogen Monoxide is also highly addictive, and this addiction can be passed along to children by parents at the moment of conception.
DHO is one nasty chemical. Wont someone ban it for the sake of the children???!?!
it'll be like the old Matrox G400 - runs decent and looks great. I guess it all comes down to speed vs. pretty.
:(. I am most intruiged as to why matrox were saying that they could take a Ti4600 prior to launch, perhaps when this thing is clocked better it performs like a champ (maybe manuf. issues prevent higher clocks), or maybe he was just talking out his waste disposal unit?
Is that not how nVidia toppled 3Dfx's Voodoo2 or 3? The original TNT was slower than the 3Dfx card (i can not remember exactly which one), but the TNT looked so much nicer &tc, that the TNT have massive uptake? Of course it was probably a lot more price compeditive than the current offering. I am sort of interested in one, but I think bang for buck my GF2MX will be replaced with a Ti4200
for me to buy an xbox. 199 price and mod chips on the horizon, is there anything better?
Stay away from the Dark Side of the force young DaHat, what perchanse if this mod chip is just a microsoft scam to sell more X-Boxes, sure they'll be running linux, but the X-Box platform will become much, much more popular than it deserves.
Well I blame Telstra to a degree. They have set a precedent for data charging in Australia, and do they charge like wounded bulls. (19c p/1x10^6 B minimum). Optus would have to be paying Telstra *some* money. Sure they may be able to get away to a degree but not completely.
Then there is the whole economy of scale aspect to consider, with people defecting from Hell$tra to Optus (at least where it is available), it would have to be placing some strain on the Optus network, this is where the scale comes into play, it does not make economic sense to purchase extra bandwidth/machines/infrastructure to support the additional users, who would only be adding a marginal profit to their existing base (to be fair companies do deserve to make a profit).
I have a feeling that the scale aspect is part of why I do not have any Optus cable available to me in Adelaide, simply put there would not be enough people to justify the cost. (The other aspect are the whinging fools in snob suburbs who did not want that one extra wire haning off their poles, *grrr*).
The only option I seem to have available to me would be the Internode ADSL (if i can get it in my area), $70AU per month, 3G Download (unlimited upload, PPPoE, allowed to run services), then they start charging for excess MB, (18c I iirc), but would prefer the Optus cost structure, as it would mean that regardless of how much i download, i know that there will be no extra charge.
My other gripe with Telstra is that they wish to charge an extra $10 per phone line rental (ie: every phone [all use telstra's exchange's so all carriers are affected]) after posting a 4 billion dollar (AU) profit. WTF? How can they justify that?
I was sitting in my seat waiting for starwars - Ep2 to start. I was fortunate in that my cinema had a reserved seating policy, and that my friends and i had purchased our tickets within the first 6 sold. The previous 2 tickets sold, the people chose to sit in the back row. (WTF were they thinking?!?!?)
I would have to say that AotC was very much better than the first, but agree with a few of the gripes that others posted. The "love" scenes, ugh! wtf was lucas thinking, what he got was surely what he wanted, but why did he want that.
The scene where Amidala eats the pear like fruit after anakin cuts it, is so obviously CGI, i mean the "bite" occours about 5-15mm from her mouth.
Mace Windu is obviously sexually frustrated, something Anakin seems intent on not repeating, because i mean, purple light sabre?!?!?!
But Yoda, hot diggity damn, that little puppet can really move!
1) I suppose RC5-64 seeing as that is the one thing i seem to care about at the moment. DAMN, a keyrate of 20.7 M/Keys/sec is faaast. and 48x that in a rack, makes me wish i had much money to blow. DnetcDB
2) Thats a server, woah! They *look* good.Blue PCB inside, sweet metal stylings outside, i know that i should not look at these things and think it is good or anything like that, but i can not help myself.
3) Cooling: This is my only concern, they do not appear to have a decent air intake system at the front of the rack, to cool the internal componantry.Sure the G4 is relatively cool, but there are the HDDs and 48 of them in a stack would be a lot of heat.
4)Comparable to PC offerings. At lest our new racks we are purchasing in the next few weeks are only PIII 1.3G machines, the speed differences of these new apple servers are negligable. To what it used to be
I think that it will be most interesting to see how much penetration into the rack-space market share apple are able to achieve.
Was that the one where there were no aliens whatsoever? You spent the entire level wandering around, jumping around corners expecting to be killed, only to find that you'd got to the end without a scratch.
One thing I found once in doom, was when i thought i had cleaned out a whole level, and having problems working out how to leave it, i was just running around trying to work out what to do next, i came to an area that i had already cleaned out and got the crap kicked out of me by a mob that i did not expect at all, not to mention the crap scared outta me too. A combo to your suggestion/reccolecction came to me..., sometimes nothing should appear on a certain (relatively small level), and other times (randomly), some (1 to whatever) should appear. Could be amusing.
Seems like the resources that'll get dumped into Doom 3 could be put towards something new and exciting; although I guess in the economic climate the easy decision is to revisit what's been successful...
I have a feeling that it will look sweet and be enjoyable. Look at QuakeIII not really that much different from QuakeII (ok so the AI improved, and there were not single player "levels"), but really down low there were not that many enhancements on QII, excepting visual boundries being pushed. The QIII engine was licenced to other companies and we have things such as MOHAA, and IDs on RTCW based on the QIII engine. Along comes DoomIII, new engine, takes advantage of new technologies, starts to push the envelope a little visually, same plot, same style of play, perhaps slightly better AI. Overall not a huge change really but it too will spawn other games that push the envelope in other ways by licening the engine.
Personally I will wait and see how well a GeForce4 Ti4x00 goes before i invest in either the game or the card its self, as I love visual things, game play is good too, but i will play a really good looking game compared to a crap ugly one. (UT and QIII, UT did it for me, but i *was* addicted, but @ lans, QIII is more popular and rocks just as much!).
My take on the flat screen eMac...
.edu market is so that they do not have sales of the iMac(2) and other products cannabalised. I am glad that I am a student, but at 3161 Aussie dollah, i think that my 700 Aussie dollah PC upgrade is more justifiable. *Sigh*. I am most irritated by the fact that the plastic stand that apple sells for the thing is $117 AUD. I mean for plastic. *grrrr*. I suppose that I could save money and get the model down from top, (basically no stand and only 128MB RAM), and upgrade the RAM my self. And use a phonebook. I mean RAM yeah, apple are charging almost too much for it, (not so sure now though, with SDRAM becoming more expensive than DDR in .AU) and that stand does look oooh so much better than a phone book...
Why the education market only. Well lets look at the benefits that it has over the iMac(2)
* Higher Resolution
* Price. (Highest end eMac has 512 MB RAM) Lowest end iMac(2) has 128 MB.
* Combo Drive (DVD/CDRW) The lowest end iMac(2) does not even have a DVD drive (reader).
The reason that they are tying this to the
Its still there, it has simply been renamed.
n an oflash/flash.save
It seems that they just renamed the files
the movie (which was an mpeg is here)
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/NewsComm/sub/Pressimgs/
I think you will find that the PPC 750cx (G3 used in the iMac CRT / current iBooks) was designed and manufactured by IBM, and is capable of scaling beyond what it currently runs at.
I was under the impression that Motorola would not allow IBM access to the AlitVec without significant cost.
2. People don't want 100 miles of solar panels...anywhere, it doesn't matter if we try to stick them in texas/Arizona, they will still be in somebodies backyard. And those people won't want them there.
An idea, people do not wish to have solar panels in "their back yard". What about on their roof. If every house had a solar panel on it, it would reduce the power drain (not remove it completely, but ease the pressure we are placing on our resources/leading to less nuclear pollution). I have a feeling that it would be a s**t load cheaper to cover many many roofs on the earth that it would be to build/ship/manufacture/create these panels to cover 1% of the moon (even if it could be done in place). There will be no big microwave cannon to target, no single point of failure, and who knows may even alleviate the supply problems such as those in california.
Just an idea. Most rooves are just wasted space covering a dwelling, perhaps if a way was found to make the cells differing colours it would be accpted by more people.
Note: I am from Australia, where it is usually very sunny, and most people abide in homes, usually single story (no stairs) and some two story homes. Few people live in apartment complexes &tc, but none the less, is this still not more practical.
Wind farms are a wonderful idea too, and all a hell of a lot more environmentally friendly than launching a shuttle into space. If only we could all get over the NIMBY problem. (Not In My Back Yard).
In my head.
:)
I am anal retentive about things like that
I know that I could use them, but it just does not "feel" right.
Im weird right?
here's another fascinating article [piacipr.com] about this sort of "digital watermarking". Ogg is looking more impressive too, but mp3's are just so entrenched it'll be tough to get the average user to convert.
Amen to that, i am not the average user, but i know from personal experience that it is difficult to move from mp3s. I have a large collection of MP3s that took me many hours to rip and encode to MP3. I do not fancy re ripping them and moving 100% to OGG. I try to ensure that any new CDs i get i rip to OGG, but even that can be difficult to remember to do. And support for OGGs as far as Hardware players, ripping/encoding software is in the case of H/W players not readilly available, and ogg based software is not quite mature enough. It is also hard to try and convince someone to go with something new, when "everyone else" uses mp3s!.
Just an aside, would it not be possible to impliment watermarks in OGG any ways? I mean it is an open, free and more importantly PATENT free audio compression algoithm. (Not that I support watermarking, just a thought).
1) Price. I can upgrade my PC for a fraction of the cost of even apples cheapest G4 (i do not like the CRT iMac, and i barely like the LCD one).
.MOV, grrr.
2) See Point 1.
3) DivX out of the Box. The best available "hack" is to convert a DivX to a
4) Lack of cusomisation to OS X. I dont wanna use whats best. I do NOT like the new menu styles. (I ran X for 6 months on an iBook 366 SE, so i have actually used X)
5) Antialiased X on LCDs looks crap! The buttons look ugly. They are trying to shove round things into rectanular pixels.
6) Yes, the mouse. I want a scroll wheel and two buttons. (I KNOW I can buy any USB mouse, but i think apple should listen, coz i dont wanna go out and but a 3rd party mouse!!)
Are you sure? I mean these are all the articles that were posted on April 02. Yes I am not in the US!
Konqueror's Javascript Continues To Improve KDEPosted by Hemos on Tuesday April 02, @11:06
April Fools Wrap Up It's funny. Laugh.Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 02, @09:29
Blizzard removes Orcs from Warcraft III GamesPosted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 02, @08:36
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nVidia/AMD Merger Announced AMDPosted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 02, @04:05
Developers: Rootkit Packaged for Debian DebianPosted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 02, @03:21
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Google's Pageranking Explained The InternetPosted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 02, @00:59
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