Peut-etre que les francais se rendent souvent en bataille, mais jamais en ce qui concerne la langue francais. Alors je crois bien plus probable qu'ils se seviraient du mot "rendons," apres le mot "nous" (deux fois).
But... surely hardware is only there to allow us to run software!
Component hardware, like hard discs and RAM and so on, is necessary to run software; peripheral hardware - like digital cameras, MIDI gear, graphics tablets etc. - isn't necessary for software to run, but can enable new applications for that software.
Just a thought.
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On a side note: I wonder... if such a filter is available for LookOut from a third party.
http://popfile.sourceforge.net - it's a local proxy, so it works with any POP3 mail client. And it is very elegantly conceived, and probably nearly simple enough even for those drooling technical have-nots in your neighbourhood. So go and download it, and be nice to the author.
Possibly a stupid and obvious thing to say, and probably not relevant to your circumstance, but... if you sent me an email saying there were too many periods in the subject line I probably wouldn't get your meaning either - because we call them "full stops" on this side of the Atlantic.
It may be surprising to you, but there are actually languages where the same word starting with a capital letter means something different than without.
I was once fired from an Eastern European cleaning product company for accidentally overwriting all our Polish sales data with polish sales data.
We just say "configure" - though I can't fault your deduction from "configuration" (which would be correct by analogy with "innovation," "enumeration," etc).
Of course, the noun from "configure" ought really to be "configurement" (by analogy with "procure"), "configurity" (by analogy with "secure"), "configury" (by analogy with "injure"), "configurance" (by analogy with "assure") or "configure" (by analogy with "cure").
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Actually, Oct 9 = Dec 11. Hey, that reminds me of a joke...
Here, we say 'confugure', there they say 'configurate'. Here we say 'commercial'. There, they say 'advert'. Here, we say 'color', there they say 'colour'. Here we say 'street sign'. There, they say 'street furniture'.
Speaking as a Briton: no we don't, yes we do, yes we do and no we don't, respectively. I've never heard anyone say "configurate" or "street furniture." Maybe it's a German thing?
Actually, in all of history and folklore, she's probably the person who most famously didn't know what to do. So afraid you're probably not going to get +1, Informative for that.;)
Presumably colour scanners do though. And once you have it on-screen you can change that blue to whatever you want before sticking it (either as graphics or OCR'd text) in your KaZaA shared directory.
You're not alone. Witness the success of Simon Fuller's empire (Spice Girls, S Club et al) - which has so far accounted for 23% of all single sales in the UK in 2002 - versus (insert your favourite acid jazz combo here).
How can you claim an unplayable disk is red-book compliant?
Apologies if someone's pointed this out before OR if it's utter rubbish: this is just what my own curiosity seems to have unearthed...
As I understand it, the red book standard for audio CDs uses the disc's TOC (table of contents) to determine what's on the CD. These protected discs contain a valid TOC which a red-book player will read and use to play the music correctly.
However, CD-ROM drives don't just use the red book TOC to determine a disc's contents: they support "multi-session", which takes into account any "updates" to the TOC subsequently found on the disc. (This is how CD writers can change the contents of a CD that already has a TOC, since obviously you can't overwrite the existing TOC.)
So to make a red-book compliant CD that only works in pure audio CD devices, you just give it a valid TOC, followed by an "update" that says "all files in the TOC have been deleted" (or, for greater confusion, is just full of illegal rubbish). Voila - your PC will see it as blank or incomprehensible.
Logically, though, I'm sure it shouldn't be impossible to write a ripping program that uses only the original TOC and ignores any multi-session data. In fact, I think it might exist this already - I have several hybrid CDs that my PC sees as pure data, but I can still rip the audio tracks with Nero. But I've yet to experience a CD that's actually deliberately crippled, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
At least in the good-ol-days you could just say "screw it" and install windows 98 or 2000 on however many machines you wanted. Now, with XP, those days are gone.
Dude, just go onto KaZaA and download the Corporate Edition of XP. Problem solved.
(This information is provided for amusement only.)
Oh, I assure you, I'd love a computer that "just worked." And I'm not saying Apple should stop selling Macs that "just work" straight out of the box. I'm just commenting that, although a new Mac may not cost all that much more than a new PC, if you already have a PC (and a screwdriver), the cost differential can be far greater.
As for Apple's "target market": OS X is clearly intended to appeal to the tech-savvy as well as the idiot majority; and if you've ever opened up a G4 you'll know it was definitely designed to be easily upgraded with industry standard components. So it seems a bit harsh simply to say the Mac is "not for me." Their marketing may not be currently focusing on people like me, but the machine itself is by no means a bad fit.
A poster below says I can buy a "bare-bones" G4; maybe I'm just being dim, but the minimum spec I can choose on the Apple website seems to be a dual 867MHz with 256Mb, a 60Gb HD, DVD/CD-RW drive and no monitor. Total cost: £1,348.99. Have I missed something? All I'd want is maybe a single 700MHz G4 with none of that stuff (well, perhaps a very small hard disc and a tiny amount of RAM, just so it starts up out of the box). Based on the price of the eMac, I'd expect it to cost maybe £750.
(Which, incidentally, is how much Dell are charging for a complete new P4 2GHz system with 256Mb, 40Gb, DVD/CD-RW drive AND a 19" monitor.)
I've got a T39m and I reckon it's absolutely bloody useless. Just immediately, off the top of my head, here are some of the reasons I despise it:
The UI is very, VERY slow. When I'm typing text I often get five or six words ahead and have to sit and wait for the phone to catch up. If I've made a mistake it's agonisingly slow to move the cursor around. GRR.
Text edit mode always displays a space on one side of the cursor, even when there really is none. If you move, the space disappears, often joining two words together. In predictive text mode there is no way to get back to the centre of the word - you have to just delete the word on the right. GRRR!
After the phone's message boxes are full, incoming messages are automatically saved to your SIM. Selecting "Delete All" doesn't delete these - you have to delete (and confirm the deletion of) each one by hand. GRRR.
If someone sends you a message and you want to save their number, you have to close the message, leave the Messages menu, go into the "Phone Book" menu, select "Add Contact," enter the person's name... and then, when asked for the number, select "Unsaved Numbers" and select which of the (undocumented) numbers on the list you want. Intuitive, hey?
If you want to set the time, the option is under menu 4 (option 7: time and date). If you want to set an alarm, the options are under menu 5 (option 3: calendar or 7: time). Intuitive, hey?
The phone remembers only the last time someone called you - unless they don't send their number, in which case the phone doesn't record the time. Huh?
If there's a text field on a WAP page, you HAVE to enter some text in it before you can proceed from the page - otherwise you get a (usually false) "you have to fill something in" message.
Sometimes you have to press a key twice for it to take effect. This includes while you're playing games, so you generally end up dying for no reason.
This was my first non-Nokia phone. Never again. Ericsson have lost a customer for life. It's Nokia or nothing for me from now on.
(The T68i isn't so slow, but its UI is just as brainless - so I'm told by a friend of mine who let the gimmicks sway him into getting one instead of a Nokia 8310, and has been lamenting his mistake ever since.)
Isn't Broadcast Wave audio only? Looks to me like I'd have to export the MIDI from each song as a standard MIDI file, export the audio as Broadcast Wave, transfer them across and recombine the two in Cubase. That's quite a hassle (unless I'm misreading?), though admittedly still a lot better than nothing.
And of course I'd still have to learn to use Cubase and a whole new set of plug-ins. Though Cubase is a rather less daunting move than Logic, and I guess the plug-ins problem simply can't be helped.
Still, okay, you've allayed my fears a bit. Thanks.:)
Sure, I/could/ afford a Mac; but, as the parent to your post implied, I'd be paying for extra stuff I don't need. If they sold G4s without a monitor, RAM, hard disc or CD-drive, they could make them (say) £200 cheaper and it's a lot more likely I'd buy one. As it is, it's much more cost effective for me to buy a new bare-bones PC and move most of my existing hardware over to it. Of course, not everyone wants to shunt hardware around; but, as this story shows, Apple wants to encourage Windows users to switch platforms. Selling bare-bones Macs aimed at technically competent Wintel users certainly wouldn't hurt that effort.
What about Sonar? Sure, I could move to Logic, but I'd be writing off all my existing songs, not to mention years of experience and a whole load of plug-ins.
If Twelve Tone made Sonar for MacOS X, it's maybe 80% likely I'd end up with a Mac within a year. Since they don't, it's more like 10%.
Stuff like: "you agree that you are over 18 and are allowed to sign this eula" is simply ridiculous since a person younger than 18 CANNOT BE HELD BY IT anyway...
Maybe it's different in the US, but certainly in the UK there's no general reason why minors can't enter into legal agreements. Otherwise (just off the top of my head) they wouldn't be legally able to walk into a shop and buy sweets, or indeed to buy and install a copy of Windows.
Am I missing something here? Even if a drive doesn't have an external digital output, surely an application can still access the raw digits on a CD and encode those? Unless you're telling me that when I'm reading data from my CD-ROM drive, it's actually making "crackle crackle" sounds down the IDE cable?? I mean, I know that's how things used to be in the days of the Spectrum / C64, but...:)
It's a shame you weren't there to put this into action - you could really have set the cat among the pigeons. I very much doubt the proposition could have recovered from the serious damage this would have done to their argument.
Still, I like the way you describe how you'd do it: the capital letters really convey a sense of forceful communication, which naturally encourages the reader to agree with you. The "" interjections are a nice touch too; they leave the reader in no doubt that you're a musically sensitive person, ensuring your opinions will be valued and taken seriously.
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Peut-etre que les francais se rendent souvent en bataille, mais jamais en ce qui concerne la langue francais. Alors je crois bien plus probable qu'ils se seviraient du mot "rendons," apres le mot "nous" (deux fois).
But... surely hardware is only there to allow us to run software!
Component hardware, like hard discs and RAM and so on, is necessary to run software; peripheral hardware - like digital cameras, MIDI gear, graphics tablets etc. - isn't necessary for software to run, but can enable new applications for that software.
Just a thought.
On a side note: I wonder ... if such a filter is available for LookOut from a third party.
http://popfile.sourceforge.net - it's a local proxy, so it works with any POP3 mail client. And it is very elegantly conceived, and probably nearly simple enough even for those drooling technical have-nots in your neighbourhood. So go and download it, and be nice to the author.
Possibly a stupid and obvious thing to say, and probably not relevant to your circumstance, but... if you sent me an email saying there were too many periods in the subject line I probably wouldn't get your meaning either - because we call them "full stops" on this side of the Atlantic.
POPFile is a very nice Bayesian solution for Windows users (and everyone else).
Forced upgrades are a bad idea to start with.
Tell it to Steve Jobs.
It may be surprising to you, but there are actually languages where the same word starting with a capital letter means something different than without.
I was once fired from an Eastern European cleaning product company for accidentally overwriting all our Polish sales data with polish sales data.
We just say "configure" - though I can't fault your deduction from "configuration" (which would be correct by analogy with "innovation," "enumeration," etc).
Of course, the noun from "configure" ought really to be "configurement" (by analogy with "procure"), "configurity" (by analogy with "secure"), "configury" (by analogy with "injure"), "configurance" (by analogy with "assure") or "configure" (by analogy with "cure").
Actually, Oct 9 = Dec 11. Hey, that reminds me of a joke...
Here, we say 'confugure', there they say 'configurate'. Here we say 'commercial'. There, they say 'advert'. Here, we say 'color', there they say 'colour'. Here we say 'street sign'. There, they say 'street furniture'.
Speaking as a Briton: no we don't, yes we do, yes we do and no we don't, respectively. I've never heard anyone say "configurate" or "street furniture." Maybe it's a German thing?
Actually, in all of history and folklore, she's probably the person who most famously didn't know what to do. So afraid you're probably not going to get +1, Informative for that. ;)
Presumably colour scanners do though. And once you have it on-screen you can change that blue to whatever you want before sticking it (either as graphics or OCR'd text) in your KaZaA shared directory.
You might need a guitar as well.
You're not alone. Witness the success of Simon Fuller's empire (Spice Girls, S Club et al) - which has so far accounted for 23% of all single sales in the UK in 2002 - versus (insert your favourite acid jazz combo here).
How can you claim an unplayable disk is red-book compliant?
Apologies if someone's pointed this out before OR if it's utter rubbish: this is just what my own curiosity seems to have unearthed...
As I understand it, the red book standard for audio CDs uses the disc's TOC (table of contents) to determine what's on the CD. These protected discs contain a valid TOC which a red-book player will read and use to play the music correctly.
However, CD-ROM drives don't just use the red book TOC to determine a disc's contents: they support "multi-session", which takes into account any "updates" to the TOC subsequently found on the disc. (This is how CD writers can change the contents of a CD that already has a TOC, since obviously you can't overwrite the existing TOC.)
So to make a red-book compliant CD that only works in pure audio CD devices, you just give it a valid TOC, followed by an "update" that says "all files in the TOC have been deleted" (or, for greater confusion, is just full of illegal rubbish). Voila - your PC will see it as blank or incomprehensible.
Logically, though, I'm sure it shouldn't be impossible to write a ripping program that uses only the original TOC and ignores any multi-session data. In fact, I think it might exist this already - I have several hybrid CDs that my PC sees as pure data, but I can still rip the audio tracks with Nero. But I've yet to experience a CD that's actually deliberately crippled, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
At least in the good-ol-days you could just say "screw it" and install windows 98 or 2000 on however many machines you wanted. Now, with XP, those days are gone.
Dude, just go onto KaZaA and download the Corporate Edition of XP. Problem solved.
(This information is provided for amusement only.)
Oh, I assure you, I'd love a computer that "just worked." And I'm not saying Apple should stop selling Macs that "just work" straight out of the box. I'm just commenting that, although a new Mac may not cost all that much more than a new PC, if you already have a PC (and a screwdriver), the cost differential can be far greater.
As for Apple's "target market": OS X is clearly intended to appeal to the tech-savvy as well as the idiot majority; and if you've ever opened up a G4 you'll know it was definitely designed to be easily upgraded with industry standard components. So it seems a bit harsh simply to say the Mac is "not for me." Their marketing may not be currently focusing on people like me, but the machine itself is by no means a bad fit.
A poster below says I can buy a "bare-bones" G4; maybe I'm just being dim, but the minimum spec I can choose on the Apple website seems to be a dual 867MHz with 256Mb, a 60Gb HD, DVD/CD-RW drive and no monitor. Total cost: £1,348.99. Have I missed something? All I'd want is maybe a single 700MHz G4 with none of that stuff (well, perhaps a very small hard disc and a tiny amount of RAM, just so it starts up out of the box). Based on the price of the eMac, I'd expect it to cost maybe £750.
(Which, incidentally, is how much Dell are charging for a complete new P4 2GHz system with 256Mb, 40Gb, DVD/CD-RW drive AND a 19" monitor.)
- The UI is very, VERY slow. When I'm typing text I often get five or six words ahead and have to sit and wait for the phone to catch up. If I've made a mistake it's agonisingly slow to move the cursor around. GRR.
- Text edit mode always displays a space on one side of the cursor, even when there really is none. If you move, the space disappears, often joining two words together. In predictive text mode there is no way to get back to the centre of the word - you have to just delete the word on the right. GRRR!
- After the phone's message boxes are full, incoming messages are automatically saved to your SIM. Selecting "Delete All" doesn't delete these - you have to delete (and confirm the deletion of) each one by hand. GRRR.
- If someone sends you a message and you want to save their number, you have to close the message, leave the Messages menu, go into the "Phone Book" menu, select "Add Contact," enter the person's name... and then, when asked for the number, select "Unsaved Numbers" and select which of the (undocumented) numbers on the list you want. Intuitive, hey?
- If you want to set the time, the option is under menu 4 (option 7: time and date). If you want to set an alarm, the options are under menu 5 (option 3: calendar or 7: time). Intuitive, hey?
- The phone remembers only the last time someone called you - unless they don't send their number, in which case the phone doesn't record the time. Huh?
- If there's a text field on a WAP page, you HAVE to enter some text in it before you can proceed from the page - otherwise you get a (usually false) "you have to fill something in" message.
- Sometimes you have to press a key twice for it to take effect. This includes while you're playing games, so you generally end up dying for no reason.
This was my first non-Nokia phone. Never again. Ericsson have lost a customer for life. It's Nokia or nothing for me from now on.(The T68i isn't so slow, but its UI is just as brainless - so I'm told by a friend of mine who let the gimmicks sway him into getting one instead of a Nokia 8310, and has been lamenting his mistake ever since.)
Isn't Broadcast Wave audio only? Looks to me like I'd have to export the MIDI from each song as a standard MIDI file, export the audio as Broadcast Wave, transfer them across and recombine the two in Cubase. That's quite a hassle (unless I'm misreading?), though admittedly still a lot better than nothing.
:)
And of course I'd still have to learn to use Cubase and a whole new set of plug-ins. Though Cubase is a rather less daunting move than Logic, and I guess the plug-ins problem simply can't be helped.
Still, okay, you've allayed my fears a bit. Thanks.
Sure, I /could/ afford a Mac; but, as the parent to your post implied, I'd be paying for extra stuff I don't need. If they sold G4s without a monitor, RAM, hard disc or CD-drive, they could make them (say) £200 cheaper and it's a lot more likely I'd buy one. As it is, it's much more cost effective for me to buy a new bare-bones PC and move most of my existing hardware over to it. Of course, not everyone wants to shunt hardware around; but, as this story shows, Apple wants to encourage Windows users to switch platforms. Selling bare-bones Macs aimed at technically competent Wintel users certainly wouldn't hurt that effort.
What about Sonar? Sure, I could move to Logic, but I'd be writing off all my existing songs, not to mention years of experience and a whole load of plug-ins.
If Twelve Tone made Sonar for MacOS X, it's maybe 80% likely I'd end up with a Mac within a year. Since they don't, it's more like 10%.
Stuff like: "you agree that you are over 18 and are allowed to sign this eula" is simply ridiculous since a person younger than 18 CANNOT BE HELD BY IT anyway...
Maybe it's different in the US, but certainly in the UK there's no general reason why minors can't enter into legal agreements. Otherwise (just off the top of my head) they wouldn't be legally able to walk into a shop and buy sweets, or indeed to buy and install a copy of Windows.
Am I missing something here? Even if a drive doesn't have an external digital output, surely an application can still access the raw digits on a CD and encode those? Unless you're telling me that when I'm reading data from my CD-ROM drive, it's actually making "crackle crackle" sounds down the IDE cable?? I mean, I know that's how things used to be in the days of the Spectrum / C64, but... :)
Little bits of cheese.
It's a shame you weren't there to put this into action - you could really have set the cat among the pigeons. I very much doubt the proposition could have recovered from the serious damage this would have done to their argument.
Still, I like the way you describe how you'd do it: the capital letters really convey a sense of forceful communication, which naturally encourages the reader to agree with you. The "" interjections are a nice touch too; they leave the reader in no doubt that you're a musically sensitive person, ensuring your opinions will be valued and taken seriously.