Now factor in that it's almost exclusively among people who have contracts with carriers that don't offer iPhones. Now factor in that it's for the US only. Now factor in that it's doesn't mention that Apple sells other devices (iPods, iPads) that are part of the same 'ecosystem' as the iPhone.
I think you're declaring this competition over a little prematurely.
There is nothing about a codec that makes it amenable to DRM. This is uninformed fear-mongering.
DRM is incorporated at the wrapper level. For example, the 'Fairplay' DRM used by Apple is proprietary to Apple and has nothing whatsoever to do with H264.
From what I understood (correct me if I'm wrong!), the movie 'cars' was actually done using a ray tracer, which for pixar was a first.
You're wrong. Renderman has options for ray tracing, it's still using it's rasterization for most stuff. Doing everything with raytracing would be incredibly inefficient, and wouldn't look any better.
If you knew anything about the case in question, you wouldn't have any sympathy period.
Anthony Walker was a nice black kid, waiting at a bus stop with a couple of white friends when a bunch of thugs starting shouting racist abuse at them. After they attempted to walk away from the abuse, the thugs chased then down, and murdered Walker by plunging an ice pick into his head.
It was a shockingly brutal and unprovoked attack that shocked the vast majority of people in the country.
Then less than a week after this happens, this guy anonymously posts on a memorial website that white people should celebrate the murder, that Anthony's family should be burned and made references to slavery and a "banana boat".
You're correct that Programming Ruby (The pickaxe book) is an excellent introduction to Ruby.
But it wasn't written by Matz.
About The Authors
Dave Thomas is a cornerstone of the Ruby community, and is personally responsible for many of its innovative directions and initiatives. He and original co-author Andy Hunt are founders of the Pragmatic Programmers and the Pragmatic Bookshelf. Chad Fowler is co-director of Ruby Central, Inc., and remains an active, driving force in the Ruby community.
Unless you're after something from Fink - a third-party effort which exists because...? Anyone...? [distant chorus: Apple's packaging is deficient]
I use darwinports.
The implication behind the diskimage install is that either the Apple apps have no dependencies (interesting concept), or everything gets shipped statically linked. Do your DMGs automatically upgrade with the rest of your system?
Yes they do. Application packages include a version of needed libraries, but the system will link against the latest major version of the libraries in question available in the system.
The GIF and PNG image formats are both intended for use in compressing 'line-art' style images - the sort you'd produce in flash or illustrator.
These images tend to have a lot of areas of block colour, and hence a small colour palette. Even with anti-aliasing, it's still likely to use 256 colours.
JPEG is for use in images which don't fit the above description, like photographs.
You say with confidence that the iPod is overpriced, but in what sense? From the sales figures it would appear that it's priced at a level the market can accomodate. Would you like Apple to reduce the price to parts costs as a charitable gesture?
If you mean that it costs more than other products which fulfill a similar function, then you should understand that design costs money.
Because transcoding from one lossy codec to another results in quality loss. Even if I transcoded to 20 billion kb/s ATRAC the best quality I could get would be the same as the original mp3.
So if I transcode all my mp3s to ATRAC, I'm reducing the audio quality of my entire digital music collection.
Then lets say in 3 years time, Sony abandons ATRAC and switches to AAC (for example). Then I have to convert my collection back, with the further quality loss that entails.
I could probably get more tracks on a flash based player if I encoded them at 4Kb/s, but they'd still sound like flatulence in a reverberation chamber.
As someone that supports an extremely heterogenic network, my experience is completely the opposite of yours.
In general, the Macs work out of the box with hardware that isn't even supposed to be supported. Windows works most of the time, and Linux is extremely hit and miss (it can normally be made to work but not without some suffering).
Basically what I'm saying is, your anecdotal evidence is no better than mine.
Case sensitivity is available on HFS+, it's just not the default.
You can also use UFS.
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Indeed, infact to quote from a recent EU report as detailed on arstechnica:
Nevertheless, included in the report is a more significant smoking gun in the eyes of the EC: an internal Microsoft memo written by C++ General Manager Aaron Contorer in 1997 that that speaks strongly about the company's reliance on the Windows API for strength in the marketplace.
"The Windows API is so broad, so deep, and so functional that most ISVs would be crazy not to use it. And it is so deeply embedded in the source code of many Windows apps that there is a huge switching cost to using a different operating system instead. [...] It is this switching cost that has given customers the patience to stick with Windows through all our mistakes, our buggy drivers, our high TCO, our lack of a sexy vision at times, and many other difficulties. [...] Customers constantly evaluate other desktop platforms, [but] it would be so much work to move over that they hope we just improve Windows rather than force them to move. In short, without this exclusive franchise called the Windows API, we would have been dead a long time ago. The Windows franchise is fueled by application development which is focused on our core APIs."
So I take issue with some of the posters here lauding Microsoft's business savvy as though it were the only (or even dominant) factor in their success.
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I wasn't listing 'features'. I was listing reasons the published growth rates might not necessarily be indicative of future performance.
In other words, Apple could end the exclusivity deal and immediately sell a bunch of iPhones to non AT&T users.
Let's take that Android growth rate.
Now factor in that it's almost exclusively among people who have contracts with carriers that don't offer iPhones.
Now factor in that it's for the US only.
Now factor in that it's doesn't mention that Apple sells other devices (iPods, iPads) that are part of the same 'ecosystem' as the iPhone.
I think you're declaring this competition over a little prematurely.
There is nothing about a codec that makes it amenable to DRM. This is uninformed fear-mongering.
DRM is incorporated at the wrapper level. For example, the 'Fairplay' DRM used by Apple is proprietary to Apple and has nothing whatsoever to do with H264.
found != stolen
finder != thief
finders keepers, losers weepers.
Remind me never to hire you as my attorney.
From what I understood (correct me if I'm wrong!), the movie 'cars' was actually done using a ray tracer, which for pixar was a first.
You're wrong. Renderman has options for ray tracing, it's still using it's rasterization for most stuff. Doing everything with raytracing would be incredibly inefficient, and wouldn't look any better.
... on the subject, from someone that doesn't have a vested interest in seeing real time ray tracing in games becoming a reality.
http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog/?p=38
I agree. Once the dust settles I'm expecting spore to turn out to be another resource management RTS game, something I can do without.
It was an ice pick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Walker
If you knew anything about the case in question, you wouldn't have any sympathy period.
Anthony Walker was a nice black kid, waiting at a bus stop with a couple of white friends when a bunch of thugs starting shouting racist abuse at them. After they attempted to walk away from the abuse, the thugs chased then down, and murdered Walker by plunging an ice pick into his head.
It was a shockingly brutal and unprovoked attack that shocked the vast majority of people in the country.
Then less than a week after this happens, this guy anonymously posts on a memorial website that white people should celebrate the murder, that Anthony's family should be burned and made references to slavery and a "banana boat".
You're correct that Programming Ruby (The pickaxe book) is an excellent introduction to Ruby.
But it wasn't written by Matz.
About The Authors
Dave Thomas is a cornerstone of the Ruby community, and is personally responsible for many of its innovative directions and initiatives. He and original co-author Andy Hunt are founders of the Pragmatic Programmers and the Pragmatic Bookshelf. Chad Fowler is co-director of Ruby Central, Inc., and remains an active, driving force in the Ruby community.
Unless you're after something from Fink - a third-party effort which exists because...? Anyone...? [distant chorus: Apple's packaging is deficient]
I use darwinports.
The implication behind the diskimage install is that either the Apple apps have no dependencies (interesting concept), or everything gets shipped statically linked. Do your DMGs automatically upgrade with the rest of your system?
Yes they do. Application packages include a version of needed libraries, but the system will link against the latest major version of the libraries in question available in the system.
It doesn't have onboard video.
specs
Worldwide, Linux machines probably marginally beat Macs in the desktop space. Domestically, Macs are a bit ahead, for now....
Do you have any evidence to back this up?
The GIF and PNG image formats are both intended for use in compressing 'line-art' style images - the sort you'd produce in flash or illustrator.
These images tend to have a lot of areas of block colour, and hence a small colour palette. Even with anti-aliasing, it's still likely to use 256 colours.
JPEG is for use in images which don't fit the above description, like photographs.
You say with confidence that the iPod is overpriced, but in what sense? From the sales figures it would appear that it's priced at a level the market can accomodate. Would you like Apple to reduce the price to parts costs as a charitable gesture?
If you mean that it costs more than other products which fulfill a similar function, then you should understand that design costs money.
'Smart Folders' are to normal folders what SQL Views are to normal SQL Tables.
I suspect that is the origin.
This is true, the native Minidisc bitrate is 320Kb/s, at which ATRAC3 sounds great.
Unfortunately, Minidisc isn't the future, and for portable playback on the go, 128Kb/s using a modern codec is acceptable.
Because transcoding from one lossy codec to another results in quality loss. Even if I transcoded to 20 billion kb/s ATRAC the best quality I could get would be the same as the original mp3.
So if I transcode all my mp3s to ATRAC, I'm reducing the audio quality of my entire digital music collection.
Then lets say in 3 years time, Sony abandons ATRAC and switches to AAC (for example). Then I have to convert my collection back, with the further quality loss that entails.
I could probably get more tracks on a flash based player if I encoded them at 4Kb/s, but they'd still sound like flatulence in a reverberation chamber.
Actually NTFS supports symlinks (or something very similar).
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Here you go
I don't think you understand what anecdotal evidence means. The fact you give an example of a problem is irrelevant.
anecdotal evidence
I could have backed my statements up with examples, but I couldn't be bothered. It wasn't the point I was trying to make.
As someone that supports an extremely heterogenic network, my experience is completely the opposite of yours.
In general, the Macs work out of the box with hardware that isn't even supposed to be supported. Windows works most of the time, and Linux is extremely hit and miss (it can normally be made to work but not without some suffering).
Basically what I'm saying is, your anecdotal evidence is no better than mine.
Case sensitivity is available on HFS+, it's just not the default.
You can also use UFS.
Indeed, infact to quote from a recent EU report as detailed on arstechnica:
Nevertheless, included in the report is a more significant smoking gun in the eyes of the EC: an internal Microsoft memo written by C++ General Manager Aaron Contorer in 1997 that that speaks strongly about the company's reliance on the Windows API for strength in the marketplace.
"The Windows API is so broad, so deep, and so functional that most ISVs would be crazy not to use it. And it is so deeply embedded in the source code of many Windows apps that there is a huge switching cost to using a different operating system instead. [...] It is this switching cost that has given customers the patience to stick with Windows through all our mistakes, our buggy drivers, our high TCO, our lack of a sexy vision at times, and many other difficulties. [...] Customers constantly evaluate other desktop platforms, [but] it would be so much work to move over that they hope we just improve Windows rather than force them to move. In short, without this exclusive franchise called the Windows API, we would have been dead a long time ago. The Windows franchise is fueled by application development which is focused on our core APIs."
So I take issue with some of the posters here lauding Microsoft's business savvy as though it were the only (or even dominant) factor in their success.