CDs and DVDs are also sealed in clean rooms...take a dremel and you will corrupt the disc. (this also includes blank media--they're made in a very similar fashion to the pressed discs).
Plus, if we're talking burned discs...you'll just peel the reflective layer and the recording dye (once the seal from the lacquer is compromised, the top layer becomes really easy to peel, on its own), while you're cutting it with the dremel.
But there are Macs in the district now. Teachers still have them (they were allowed to keep them). Someone has to know how to support these, at least I would guess.
Seeing as the newest PowerMacs are apparently using USB 2.0 host chips already (just not USB 2.0 enabled), it might be the same cost (or even cheaper).
Insigna used to produce a Windows emulator called SoftWindows. This was purely designed to emulate Windows (not a PC).
When Connectix brought out VirtualPC, it was designed to emulate PC hardware. RealPC was Insigna's version of this...emulating the PC hardware (of course, you could run Windows on this, too). They are not the same product, nor is one an update of the other.
No, no, no, everything's Microsoft's fault even when things go right.
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Are you sure XP supports this? The last time I used XP's built in burning program, it was just like using Apple's DiscBurner. Basically, you copy the files you want to a cache (on your hard drive), but it looks like you're copying it to the CD (you go through a CD icon). When you're ready to burn, you select the burn option and then it records from the hard drive cache to the CD. Granted, it's been at least 4 months since I've used XP's burning program (I prefer Nero myself).
I have had trouble mounting CD-R discs made by DirectCD (or Drag to CD as it's called in Roxio 6) that weren't closed in OS X, but not with UDF formatted CD-RW discs (or UDF formatted DVD-RAM and -RW discs for that matter).
Not just Sonys. Many of the newer TVs are coming with it (Panasonic, Toshiba, and Samsung are among the other ones I've seen with the vertical compression). They'll call it 16:9 mode, or something like that (depends on the manufacturer).
Better than having the DVD player generate the black bars and combining lines of video (reducing the vertical resolution).
"Now, not being a Mac geek, I'm not up on AIFF files. But I thought they were uncompressed as well."
AFAIK, AIFF is just a container format, it could contain compressed signals (lossy or lossless). The ones I normally run into are uncompressed (LPCM), however.
The Miyazaki directed film was Castle of Cagliostro and is not part of the Studio Ghibli/Disney deal (primarily because Studio Ghibli didn't exist when it was made and doesn't have the rights to that movie). It's already released in R1 DVD by Manga Entertainment.
Disney does not have all the rights to Miyazaki's films. Go here (nausicaa.net) for which films were included in the deal.
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CDs and DVDs are also sealed in clean rooms...take a dremel and you will corrupt the disc. (this also includes blank media--they're made in a very similar fashion to the pressed discs).
Plus, if we're talking burned discs...you'll just peel the reflective layer and the recording dye (once the seal from the lacquer is compromised, the top layer becomes really easy to peel, on its own), while you're cutting it with the dremel.
Same reason they use things like GUI. Generic doesn't mean useless.
But there are Macs in the district now. Teachers still have them (they were allowed to keep them). Someone has to know how to support these, at least I would guess.
Isn't that the Swiss? For their Army? :D
Yeah, flawlessly, with all of the new "features". ^_^
You obviously have no idea how it is in the publishing industry. :P
I'm not sure about that. I thought VMX was the original name (code name or developmental name, perhaps?) of the SIMD unit.
This (simdtech.org) and this (haxor.dk) seem to back this up.
Seeing as the newest PowerMacs are apparently using USB 2.0 host chips already (just not USB 2.0 enabled), it might be the same cost (or even cheaper).
Insigna used to produce a Windows emulator called SoftWindows. This was purely designed to emulate Windows (not a PC).
When Connectix brought out VirtualPC, it was designed to emulate PC hardware. RealPC was Insigna's version of this...emulating the PC hardware (of course, you could run Windows on this, too). They are not the same product, nor is one an update of the other.
FWB bought those products from Insignia in 1999.
Well, maybe in the future, there'll be gift certificates?
No, no, no, everything's Microsoft's fault even when things go right.
Are you sure XP supports this? The last time I used XP's built in burning program, it was just like using Apple's DiscBurner. Basically, you copy the files you want to a cache (on your hard drive), but it looks like you're copying it to the CD (you go through a CD icon). When you're ready to burn, you select the burn option and then it records from the hard drive cache to the CD. Granted, it's been at least 4 months since I've used XP's burning program (I prefer Nero myself).
I have had trouble mounting CD-R discs made by DirectCD (or Drag to CD as it's called in Roxio 6) that weren't closed in OS X, but not with UDF formatted CD-RW discs (or UDF formatted DVD-RAM and -RW discs for that matter).
There is a big difference between the graphics industry mostly uses Macs and most Mac are used in the graphics industry. One does not imply the other.
The graphics industry may mostly use Macs, but most of the Mac users don't come from the graphics industry.
Or do you the graphics professionals were the ones buying all those gumdrop iMacs?
Who's the idiot now?
Not just Sonys. Many of the newer TVs are coming with it (Panasonic, Toshiba, and Samsung are among the other ones I've seen with the vertical compression). They'll call it 16:9 mode, or something like that (depends on the manufacturer).
Better than having the DVD player generate the black bars and combining lines of video (reducing the vertical resolution).
"Now, not being a Mac geek, I'm not up on AIFF files. But I thought they were uncompressed as well."
AFAIK, AIFF is just a container format, it could contain compressed signals (lossy or lossless). The ones I normally run into are uncompressed (LPCM), however.
The issue over the name is gone. It's no longer an issue (the name is in the public domain in the US).
For details, you can go here (lupinthethird.org).
The Miyazaki directed film was Castle of Cagliostro and is not part of the Studio Ghibli/Disney deal (primarily because Studio Ghibli didn't exist when it was made and doesn't have the rights to that movie). It's already released in R1 DVD by Manga Entertainment.
Disney does not have all the rights to Miyazaki's films. Go here (nausicaa.net) for which films were included in the deal.
Because the technology requires new drives/players to read the discs and new media to burn to? What would be the point of a blue laser "CD"?
Tis only a DVD in name.
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Of course, you meant kil o byte.
IIRC, those three are played by Kotono Mitsuishi (Misato), Megumi Hayashibara (Rei) and Yuko Miyamura (Asuka). The actual voice actresses.
No, ATA-100 can only address 137GB (if the controller lacks LBA)
ATA-133 controllers (maxtor.com) include the LBA (long-block addressing) needed to use the larger drives correctly.
I always thought it was the loose nut behind the keyboard.
He said SPIRT was marred by Brian Adams, not SPIRITED AWAY. Slow down and read a little more slowly.
It's the same in my area--Charter Communications is partnered with Earthlink (Pasadena/San Gabriel Valley area in SoCal).
Heh...it was actually McCardell vs. Garner (McCardell beat Garner 28-8).