By the way has anyone seen the new Dell laptop which can play media without booting into Windows?
Booting? Who wants a laptop you need to boot up before doing anything???
Mac users only boot after software updates. That's because when our computers are told to sleep, they sleep.
I can close the lid of my running iBook, open it a couple days later, and immediately watch an entire DVD movie off the battery. Any time I leave my Dell Latitude alseep any longer than a day or so, the battery turns into a paperweight... and when I do finally get it charged up again and open the lid, it bitches about my not having shut Windows down properly.
So yeah, I could see why non-Mac users would want a feature like that.
If Apple did this market analysts would predict the end of TVs as we know them and Mac daddys everywhere would cream themselves, but when Dell do it no-one raises an eyebrow.. That's the Steve Jobs effect.
Adding that to a Mac would get a big yawn out of the Mac community. It's a solution to a problem which we don't have.
There are several ways to get around seeing that screen. Do a little googling, and you'll find more than one reliable hack to get past it, if it bothers you that much.
.Mac? No. It's not worth $100/year to me, but it is to some people.
I'd rather not have the cost of three years or so of.Mac service quietly rolled into every Mac purchase I make.
Quicktime Pro, on the other hand, really should be made free. Charging $30 for a non-crippled version of their media player is a silly nickle-and-dime-us-to-death move, and beneath a company like Apple, which prides itself on charging a few extra bucks for a premier product.
Wow. So then artificial sweetners are the perfect cure for Type 2 diabetes!!! They promote insulin production! That's terrific. One less dibilitating disease to worry about. Thanks, Diet Coke!
I'll take the research of Snopes.com over any of those crackpot sites you linked to (which, for all I know, are paid astroturfers for Splenda), but thanks for playing.
Do you have any valid causative scientific studies to actually back up your extreme claims about the sugar substitute?
Perhaps you meant that as a rhetorical question, but the answer is no, no they don't. They don't have any because none exist in any serious, peer-reviewed scientific publication.
Popular speculation is that Brunching ended when he could no longer get along with the Self-Made Critic. It appears that his marriage to an avant-garde Japanese performance artist put a strain on their relationship.
Rumors of a reuinion finally ended when a crazed gunman shot and killed the Self-Made Critic outside his apartment. Some like to point out that this is strangely ironic as the final years of Brunching were peppered with constant "Lore is dead" rumors, which started with a mysterious phone call to a late-night DJ reporting that the Book of Ratings was full of clues that indicated that Lore had been killed in a car crash, and was replaced with an obscure humorist with a knack for creating flash cartoons. However, Lore is the one who lives on to this day.
Notice all the Nutrasweet bashing going on among health gurus over the last couple of years. It was the perfect sweetener, now it causes everything from headaches to severe thunderstorms.
Why? Because the patent ran out on aspertame. They want you to buy Splenda(TM) sucralose now, and nobody has much of a profit motive to counter the anti-aspertame FUD, because Equal no longer holds an exclusive patent on it.
Sure, and if I wanted to buy a schematic of a CPU to hang on my wall, I'd probably go with the PowerPC over any x86 chip.
But inside my computer, I want whichever one performs its job better, and that's the new dual-core Intel chip. I'll never see the convoluted motions it goes through to produce the results I ask for, I'll only see that it does so quickly without taxing my laptop battery much.
To insist on using a a poorer-performing chip for the sole reason that the concept behind it is more pretty (or, to be specific, marginally less ugly)... that doesn't make a lot of sense.
Yes, because what would really make iTunes a terrific application is even more annoying dialog boxes after each update.
While they are at it, they should put up a notice that using the GET TRACK NAMES feature (on by default) is sending CDDB information about which new CD you just put in your drive.
Oh, and every last web page you visit should ask for permission to see your IP address, so it knows where to send the response to your http request. Of course, it might be kind of tough for them to get the request to reach you...
Is it even their business what you play otherwise? And without giant warnings of what they're doing? I don't think so.
Giant warnings of what, exactly?
It's not like you're sending them your medical history or sexual orientation. All the app does is send a query to iTMS for songs related to the one you currently have selected, and only when you are browsing for selected tracks.
Really, you give away far more info about yourself by doing a Google Image Search or posting on Slashdot.
Yes, but that's while you are browsing their store.
With iTunes it's the same thing. It only scans your currently selected song and offers suggested titles based on it while you have the suggested songs window open.
If you were an artist, I would respect your "design does matter" defense a lot more. I would expect an engineer to be a little more practical. When you're using your computer for actual tasks, you're not going to sit around admiring the way data is piped through the CPU. All that matters is how efficiently it produces the correct result.
An inelegant design which outperforms an elegant one is the superior technology.
The point is exactly this "Except that it's enabled by default and doesn't tell you that it's doing it in the first place."
Except that it does tell you what it's doing. Unless you think your suggested tracks related to the song you are currently listening to are the result of some kind of magic powers.
I want the tool to look at what I actually listen to, not just what I buy from them. It's far more likely to give me good suggestions that way.
This tool looks at what song is currently playing, and suggests possible other albums you might like. It's actually kind of nice, when you want to use it, and does nothing when you don't. Win.
Again: If the chip in the MacBook does everything faster than the chip in the powerbook, with less power consumption, I should care about the maker and/or archetecture... why?
Yes, the PowerPC is a better chip design concept, but in the real world, Intel surpassed their performance on consumer level chips via brute forece and ignorance, and performance is all that really matters.
This isn't going to take off the way the iPod did. The iPod is sexy. The glasses are more like an ersatz contraceptive.
But if nobody was looking, I would try them out for sure!
Who cares what they look like? If I'm on a plane, and having these means I can sit back and enjoy a movie or two on (the illusion of) a nice-sized screen, I don't care if they're pink with little purple skulls on them. I'm putting them on!
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Why keep a second computer around for games if you can make the Mac dual-boot?
Of course, the only non-console game I still play is World of Warcraft, so it's a non-issue for me.
Then you probably should check out http://www.bookofratings.com/ for your old-school Brunching fix.
By the way has anyone seen the new Dell laptop which can play media without booting into Windows?
Booting? Who wants a laptop you need to boot up before doing anything???
Mac users only boot after software updates. That's because when our computers are told to sleep, they sleep.
I can close the lid of my running iBook, open it a couple days later, and immediately watch an entire DVD movie off the battery. Any time I leave my Dell Latitude alseep any longer than a day or so, the battery turns into a paperweight... and when I do finally get it charged up again and open the lid, it bitches about my not having shut Windows down properly.
So yeah, I could see why non-Mac users would want a feature like that.
If Apple did this market analysts would predict the end of TVs as we know them and Mac daddys everywhere would cream themselves, but when Dell do it no-one raises an eyebrow.. That's the Steve Jobs effect.
Adding that to a Mac would get a big yawn out of the Mac community. It's a solution to a problem which we don't have.
There are several ways to get around seeing that screen. Do a little googling, and you'll find more than one reliable hack to get past it, if it bothers you that much.
.Mac? No. It's not worth $100/year to me, but it is to some people.
.Mac service quietly rolled into every Mac purchase I make.
I'd rather not have the cost of three years or so of
Quicktime Pro, on the other hand, really should be made free. Charging $30 for a non-crippled version of their media player is a silly nickle-and-dime-us-to-death move, and beneath a company like Apple, which prides itself on charging a few extra bucks for a premier product.
Wow. So then artificial sweetners are the perfect cure for Type 2 diabetes!!! They promote insulin production! That's terrific. One less dibilitating disease to worry about. Thanks, Diet Coke!
Pffft!
It must be true because t3h gub'mint is trying to SUPPRESS it!!!!1!one!!!
Would care for another layer of tin-foil on that hat? Can't be too safe, you know.
Ahem.
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http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.as
I'll take the research of Snopes.com over any of those crackpot sites you linked to (which, for all I know, are paid astroturfers for Splenda), but thanks for playing.
Do you have any valid causative scientific studies to actually back up your extreme claims about the sugar substitute?
Perhaps you meant that as a rhetorical question, but the answer is no, no they don't. They don't have any because none exist in any serious, peer-reviewed scientific publication.
Build a database of the entire (current) iTMS library into iTunes? You're kidding, right?
Popular speculation is that Brunching ended when he could no longer get along with the Self-Made Critic. It appears that his marriage to an avant-garde Japanese performance artist put a strain on their relationship.
Rumors of a reuinion finally ended when a crazed gunman shot and killed the Self-Made Critic outside his apartment. Some like to point out that this is strangely ironic as the final years of Brunching were peppered with constant "Lore is dead" rumors, which started with a mysterious phone call to a late-night DJ reporting that the Book of Ratings was full of clues that indicated that Lore had been killed in a car crash, and was replaced with an obscure humorist with a knack for creating flash cartoons. However, Lore is the one who lives on to this day.
He's been writing stuff, on and off, for Wired for some time now.
He's also still doing his comics at http://www.lorebrandcomics.com/ and the occasional flash cartoon at http://www.bandwidththeater.com/ (although it's been several months since he's come up with anything there.)
If you really want to obsess over this obscure web humor icon, he's got a blog of sorts too.
http://slumbering.lungfish.com/
Infamous?
;)
So, I take it you're a Miami fan.
Actually, patents still do.
Notice all the Nutrasweet bashing going on among health gurus over the last couple of years. It was the perfect sweetener, now it causes everything from headaches to severe thunderstorms.
Why? Because the patent ran out on aspertame. They want you to buy Splenda(TM) sucralose now, and nobody has much of a profit motive to counter the anti-aspertame FUD, because Equal no longer holds an exclusive patent on it.
Apparently, nor would you understand them. /thread OFF
Indeed. The fact that you've resorted to ad homenem attacks pretty much underscores the total lack of sensible support for what you are saying.
Sure, and if I wanted to buy a schematic of a CPU to hang on my wall, I'd probably go with the PowerPC over any x86 chip.
But inside my computer, I want whichever one performs its job better, and that's the new dual-core Intel chip. I'll never see the convoluted motions it goes through to produce the results I ask for, I'll only see that it does so quickly without taxing my laptop battery much.
To insist on using a a poorer-performing chip for the sole reason that the concept behind it is more pretty (or, to be specific, marginally less ugly)... that doesn't make a lot of sense.
Yes, because what would really make iTunes a terrific application is even more annoying dialog boxes after each update.
While they are at it, they should put up a notice that using the GET TRACK NAMES feature (on by default) is sending CDDB information about which new CD you just put in your drive.
Oh, and every last web page you visit should ask for permission to see your IP address, so it knows where to send the response to your http request. Of course, it might be kind of tough for them to get the request to reach you...
Is it even their business what you play otherwise? And without giant warnings of what they're doing? I don't think so.
Giant warnings of what, exactly?
It's not like you're sending them your medical history or sexual orientation. All the app does is send a query to iTMS for songs related to the one you currently have selected, and only when you are browsing for selected tracks.
Really, you give away far more info about yourself by doing a Google Image Search or posting on Slashdot.
Yes, but that's while you are browsing their store.
With iTunes it's the same thing. It only scans your currently selected song and offers suggested titles based on it while you have the suggested songs window open.
Yeah, but it won't be in High-Def.
If you were an artist, I would respect your "design does matter" defense a lot more. I would expect an engineer to be a little more practical. When you're using your computer for actual tasks, you're not going to sit around admiring the way data is piped through the CPU. All that matters is how efficiently it produces the correct result.
An inelegant design which outperforms an elegant one is the superior technology.
The point is exactly this "Except that it's enabled by default and doesn't tell you that it's doing it in the first place."
Except that it does tell you what it's doing. Unless you think your suggested tracks related to the song you are currently listening to are the result of some kind of magic powers.
I want the tool to look at what I actually listen to, not just what I buy from them. It's far more likely to give me good suggestions that way.
This tool looks at what song is currently playing, and suggests possible other albums you might like. It's actually kind of nice, when you want to use it, and does nothing when you don't. Win.
Again: If the chip in the MacBook does everything faster than the chip in the powerbook, with less power consumption, I should care about the maker and/or archetecture... why?
Yes, the PowerPC is a better chip design concept, but in the real world, Intel surpassed their performance on consumer level chips via brute forece and ignorance, and performance is all that really matters.
This isn't going to take off the way the iPod did. The iPod is sexy. The glasses are more like an ersatz contraceptive.
But if nobody was looking, I would try them out for sure!
Who cares what they look like? If I'm on a plane, and having these means I can sit back and enjoy a movie or two on (the illusion of) a nice-sized screen, I don't care if they're pink with little purple skulls on them. I'm putting them on!