It looks like there's no transfer-to-Mac capabilities without purchasing Toast:
"Roxio is the exclusive official provider of TiVoToGo(TM) for the Mac--and Toast 8 Titanium is the way to get it and enjoy your favorite shows on the Mac, on DVD, and on-the-go."
I've done that with a credit card that really was like that, and 8 years later it keeps popping back up on my credit reports as "new" because I've gotten it removed as invalid so many times before, and its been sold to a different collection agency who considers it "new".
So in theory it sounds like a reasonable idea, but you still get screwed when it comes time to buy a car or a house, much worse than just paying the extortion fees.
I had a similar issue back when SprintPCS started in on the contract thing. I'd maintained service without a contract for years, then was preparing to switch to another carrier (before number portability), so I dropped to the cheapest service plan available to ride out a couple of months as people learned my new number. When I called to cancel, they said I'd entered a 2-year term by changing rate plans, even though I never heard of such a term and I'd changed the rate plan by calling their service center (no paperwork, no license agreement, nothing).
After trying to get them to drop it, it was obvious they wanted to make the $300 from me since I was leaving. So I began engaging their support personnel in several departments via telephone, writing letters, requesting documentation in writing, etc. for about 3 months. I know that in the end I cost them more money by using their support resources than they made from the $300 I finally sent them when they threatened to send it to collections.
I want to make sure that when I buy some HD-DVD movie that it'll play on the PS3 Blu-Ray drive. After all, I bought the rights to play that movie, so it should play on any device I ever get from any manufacturer regardless of the technology the manufacturer chooses to support, right?
If they thought scratch-tastic Nanos were an annoying issue, hundreds of lawsuits around the world will be worse.
If there's one thing Microsoft's antitrust suits have showed us, it's that even when you're found guilty (or forced to settle), there's more money to be made in maintaining the monopoly and fighting the lawsuits than there is in opening the product to competitors.
Imagine if Apple released an iPod to meet regulations just like MS did with XP non-media-edition..... They could make it some nasty color, give it a stupid name like iPod Offline, and distribute two to every iPod retailer in the world. After selling three in a year, Apple could claim they've complied and that the market has spoken for integration with the ITMS.
How many times have people written about some new device that's going to be THE iPod killer? Well, it hasn't happened yet. Who cares if it's a phone, a video jukebox, or a pocket toaster that plays MP3s, nothing's slowed down the iPod yet. I don't see any of the handset manufacturers getting there any time soon either.
I'm as much a techie as the next guy here, but I honestly want basic services like these to just work. Sure, I could engineer my own webDAV server, publish calendars, all that fun stuff, but for $100/year, it just works.
I'm a.Mac subscriber, and reading the suggestions here that it could be free if it showed advertisements makes me cringe. Am I the only one who will happily pay for something useful, and pay a premium to eliminate annoying ads?
It's like the iTMS video store. You get a decent quality episode of some TV show without ads for $1.99. If it had ads in it, they might be able to offer it for $0.99, but I'd still pay more to get the ad-free version.
I wonder how long before someone hacks into the OS/X code and does this...
Wouldn't they just have to change something at the assembly-language level and it would be difficult to reverse engineer? Or some incompatability in a core runtime library?
Digital Rights Restriction, such as Apple's ironically named "FairPlay," prevent consumers from exercising their right to copy their music to playback the device of their choice.
The iPod is my playback device of choice. I buy songs that work with it. I don't go to Real or Napster, buy music, and then try to work around their DRM to strip it and make it compatible with my iPod.
Why not come up with some software that will let me yank files from my Tivo, dump them into Final Cut / iMovie, and burn my own DVDs after I've edited out the commercials? That would make me happy.
Why can't you do it in XP anymore without iTunes? Here's the download page:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone/
I haven't tried it, so if it sneaks in iTunes after you've started the install, I'll agree that's crazy......
So what player do you use? VLC supports Quicktime's various files / codecs (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html), so does MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/info.htm l). Even RealPlayer will handle Quicktime movies once you install the codecs from Apple (See Real's customer support, Answer ID 3665). If you mean the fact that Windows Media doesn't play Quicktime, that's just a fact of life.
It's even worse when you encounter the opposite... Those who refuse to give up the Internet even though they've got hundreds of virii and spyware programs on their system.
A couple of months ago, I went into my dry cleaner and they said they couldn't take credit cards that day. The reason? Their credit card system (PCs on the Internet) wasn't working because of a virus. I thought about giving them a lecture on keeping credit transactions off the public Internet, but knew it wouldn't do any good so just paid cash and left.....
The Juniper Netscreen Neoteris IVE SSL-VPN application manager is incompatible with Windows XP SP2. The tech-doc on their support site says they maintained compatability through the beta process, but it was broken upon final release. Of course this functionality does wacky things to the TCP/IP stack, so all the network changes were likely to interfere somehow.....
Even Firefox still prints web pages awkwardly, not at all like they show up when viewed on the screen. Make it print out like you see it, almost like a screenshot, instead of printing without wrapping text properly, different frames on different pages, etc.....
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USERS paid developers over $1 billion, and Apple snatched over $300,000.
iOS developers get 70% of revenue from app sales, Apple gets 30%. 30% of $1 billion is $300 million (not $300,000).
Yep, I mine saved me too, along with the 60-day transition to DVORAK key mapping.
o mics/home/products/ergonomicmouse/
The main benefit that I see is that all the motion comes from your upper arm and shoulder, not from your wrist.
http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/ergon
It looks like there's no transfer-to-Mac capabilities without purchasing Toast:
"Roxio is the exclusive official provider of TiVoToGo(TM) for the Mac--and Toast 8 Titanium is the way to get it and enjoy your favorite shows on the Mac, on DVD, and on-the-go."
http://www.tivo.com/mactivotogo/
I may be wrong, but isn't MIPS its own company now, and this announcement is just that SGI will stop using MIPS chips in any systems they make?
I think MIPS has a huge market in embedded devices and network gear like routers.
I still don't see any proof that Apple's lawyers have done anything.
I can imply very loudly that Microsoft has been threatening me for years, but that doesn't mean they even know I exist.
I've done that with a credit card that really was like that, and 8 years later it keeps popping back up on my credit reports as "new" because I've gotten it removed as invalid so many times before, and its been sold to a different collection agency who considers it "new".
So in theory it sounds like a reasonable idea, but you still get screwed when it comes time to buy a car or a house, much worse than just paying the extortion fees.
I had a similar issue back when SprintPCS started in on the contract thing. I'd maintained service without a contract for years, then was preparing to switch to another carrier (before number portability), so I dropped to the cheapest service plan available to ride out a couple of months as people learned my new number. When I called to cancel, they said I'd entered a 2-year term by changing rate plans, even though I never heard of such a term and I'd changed the rate plan by calling their service center (no paperwork, no license agreement, nothing).
After trying to get them to drop it, it was obvious they wanted to make the $300 from me since I was leaving. So I began engaging their support personnel in several departments via telephone, writing letters, requesting documentation in writing, etc. for about 3 months. I know that in the end I cost them more money by using their support resources than they made from the $300 I finally sent them when they threatened to send it to collections.
I want to make sure that when I buy some HD-DVD movie that it'll play on the PS3 Blu-Ray drive. After all, I bought the rights to play that movie, so it should play on any device I ever get from any manufacturer regardless of the technology the manufacturer chooses to support, right?
If they thought scratch-tastic Nanos were an annoying issue, hundreds of lawsuits around the world will be worse.
If there's one thing Microsoft's antitrust suits have showed us, it's that even when you're found guilty (or forced to settle), there's more money to be made in maintaining the monopoly and fighting the lawsuits than there is in opening the product to competitors.
Imagine if Apple released an iPod to meet regulations just like MS did with XP non-media-edition..... They could make it some nasty color, give it a stupid name like iPod Offline, and distribute two to every iPod retailer in the world. After selling three in a year, Apple could claim they've complied and that the market has spoken for integration with the ITMS.
How many times have people written about some new device that's going to be THE iPod killer? Well, it hasn't happened yet. Who cares if it's a phone, a video jukebox, or a pocket toaster that plays MP3s, nothing's slowed down the iPod yet. I don't see any of the handset manufacturers getting there any time soon either.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/07/ 207215
Maybe it's news because a lot of people forgot about it, but this is the continuation of a lawsuit that's been delayed for a long time.....
I'm as much a techie as the next guy here, but I honestly want basic services like these to just work. Sure, I could engineer my own webDAV server, publish calendars, all that fun stuff, but for $100/year, it just works.
I'm a .Mac subscriber, and reading the suggestions here that it could be free if it showed advertisements makes me cringe. Am I the only one who will happily pay for something useful, and pay a premium to eliminate annoying ads?
It's like the iTMS video store. You get a decent quality episode of some TV show without ads for $1.99. If it had ads in it, they might be able to offer it for $0.99, but I'd still pay more to get the ad-free version.
From this picture of a Wang, it looks like you'll need a much bigger Lik-Sang for your Wang.
I wonder how long before someone hacks into the OS/X code and does this...
Wouldn't they just have to change something at the assembly-language level and it would be difficult to reverse engineer? Or some incompatability in a core runtime library?
Hmmm, I wonder if the Google campus is missing too?
Google now occupies the SGI Shoreline campus. Not sure when that was built though.....
Put in a phone number and get a reverse-phone-lookup result, complete with link to map of the address. Talk about stalking via caller id.
Digital Rights Restriction, such as Apple's ironically named "FairPlay," prevent consumers from exercising their right to copy their music to playback the device of their choice.
The iPod is my playback device of choice. I buy songs that work with it. I don't go to Real or Napster, buy music, and then try to work around their DRM to strip it and make it compatible with my iPod.
Why not come up with some software that will let me yank files from my Tivo, dump them into Final Cut / iMovie, and burn my own DVDs after I've edited out the commercials? That would make me happy.
I do very well in testing situations. Where does that put me?
Why can't you do it in XP anymore without iTunes? Here's the download page: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone /
I haven't tried it, so if it sneaks in iTunes after you've started the install, I'll agree that's crazy......
So what player do you use? VLC supports Quicktime's various files / codecs (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html), so does MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/info.htm l). Even RealPlayer will handle Quicktime movies once you install the codecs from Apple (See Real's customer support, Answer ID 3665). If you mean the fact that Windows Media doesn't play Quicktime, that's just a fact of life.
It's even worse when you encounter the opposite... Those who refuse to give up the Internet even though they've got hundreds of virii and spyware programs on their system.
A couple of months ago, I went into my dry cleaner and they said they couldn't take credit cards that day. The reason? Their credit card system (PCs on the Internet) wasn't working because of a virus. I thought about giving them a lecture on keeping credit transactions off the public Internet, but knew it wouldn't do any good so just paid cash and left.....
The Juniper Netscreen Neoteris IVE SSL-VPN application manager is incompatible with Windows XP SP2. The tech-doc on their support site says they maintained compatability through the beta process, but it was broken upon final release. Of course this functionality does wacky things to the TCP/IP stack, so all the network changes were likely to interfere somehow.....
Even Firefox still prints web pages awkwardly, not at all like they show up when viewed on the screen. Make it print out like you see it, almost like a screenshot, instead of printing without wrapping text properly, different frames on different pages, etc.....