They had a demo of this a long time ago on "60 Minutes" or a similar show. For samples they were using recordings of some polititians and scoring their "truthfulness". At the time they were pitching it as a PC program one could use to analyze recorded voices -I don't think it was quite real-time.
Just think what happens when everybody has access to this type of "tool". The possibilities for use, misuse and abuse is phenominal.
You're doing better than me if you had any idea of the scale. At first look I couldn't tell if it was a microscopic or macroscopic image. Finally reading the text I get "The picture shows a portion of a 1700 km long and 65 km wide swath" which gives me an idea (how big of a "portion"?), but I still wish these guys would put a simple scale bar on the images for people like me.
And its not just the weight of the humans -its everything needed to support them. Much cheaper if you don't have to worry about food, air, temperature, waste disposal...
I don't know if you remember the outcry when Apple started selling Macs with "only" 3 NuBus slots instead of 6. The PC press especially was "outraged".
Funny thing is, when Apple did a little research, they found that the overwhelming majority of users (particularly home users) never added an expansion card. It was extremely rare to find anyone who added more than two.
OTOH is it really worth getting any more worked up over this than when the author of a freeware app I've been using decides to charge a nominal fee for a new, improved version?
Yes, its disappointing, we all prefer free. But it isn't exactly time to dig out the torches and rope either.
I thought is was just iDVD that was too big. Just checked an iMovie is 45 MB and the iDVD folder is 1.7 GB. FWIW iMovie has been a free download, though I wouldn't want to download it by modem.
Like Jobs said, its the perfect solution for school computer labs where an entire class may need to create a DVD, but for budget reasons only a couple of the computers have Superdrives.
Actually they don't, unless they're too small. They are actually the window scaled down to fit in the dock (remember the keynote where Jobs showed the quicktime movie that continued playing when in the Dock?). The only problem is that when scaled down too much, one page full of words pretty much looks like any other page full of words. That's where Expose fits in.
But there is a tradeoff. You want info to distinguish which Word document is which, but doing so would require the Dock to take up even more space and be more obtrusive.
So, if you're Apple, you have to do your best to find the "sweet spot" between providing enough info, not providing too much to make it more difficult, and taking too much space. If Tog, or anyone else, can come up with a better way of doing it, I'd like to hear it. Then we can talk about how many ways that solution falls short too.
I'd say the communications lag is a biggie. I'm pretty sure much of the basic movements are automated (turn 15 degrees clockwise, move 10 cm foreward...). But I'd liken it to driving a car when you have to drive with your eyes shut and can only open them for 1 second out of every 5. How fast do you think you can drive without crashing?
I'm missing the distinction you're trying to make. And also, oxydation/reduction generally refers to the tranfer of an electron and doesn't necessarily require oxygen.
But at this point I'm thinking that only on/. would someone misreading "turns" as "burns" lead to a discussion of basic chemical reactions. To top it off, it probably won't be modereated -1 OffTopic either.
I understand what you're saying, but I'm just curious how you feel about AAC since you don't specifically mention it. Keep in mind that AAC is to mpg4 what mp3 is to mpg2. Both industry standards, just that AAC/mgp4 is the "next generation" standard.
Personally, I have mixed feelings about it. mp3 is everywhere, its great, but AAC is better. IMO there will eventually be a successor to mp3. The question is will it be AAC (a standard) or WMA (propriatary)? Or is there room for both?
They could radically expand their reach if they supported WMA and the various online music stores that are popping up.
That's exactly what HP has done. They've actually expanded support and given users an additional choice. You can use what came with Windows to handle all the WMA stuff (songs, online stores, portable music players) just like all the other PC makers, or you can also choose to use iTunes and the iTMS and an iPod -the industry leaders at present.
I really don't understand how HP adding iTunes and selling a rebranded iPod can possibly be said to limit choices.
AFAIK, there's nothing preventing another developer or portable music player and licensing the the same DRM scheme from FairPlay to make their own products compatible with the protected AAC files from the iTMS (iTunes Music Store).
Just a side note, it seems many people are still interchanging "iTunes", the application that's been used on the Mac for years to play/catalog/rip/mix/burn, and "iTunes Music Store" ( iTMS for short), which is an online music store that can be accessed using iTunes.
Also, just FYI, there is a plug-in that allows iTunes to play Ogg Vorbis (at least on the Mac). Granted its not "official support", but is that necessary for a 3rd party add-on?
I agree, we've gone back to the old way of making these settings from the application. Theoretically, all you need to do is fire up the app you want to use for mail or web browsing and use it's preferences to change the default. I know IE can (and always has) allowed this, but many apps were written in the interum based on the premise that there would always be a central place (the Internet pref pane) to make these selections, so haven't bothered including it as settable from within their application.
Bottom line is I can understand Apple's reasoning for having applications do this -it fits better with their "paradigm", but its a step back in end-user friendliness and choice.
Has anyone tried taking the Internet PrefPane from a Jaguar install and putting it in as a user-installable prefpane in Panther? I might have to give it a try.
Microsoft obviously believes that iPod users are locked into iTMS
How can they believe that? Its not like iPods don't play mp3's. Do they mean because they play industry standard AAC files instead of certain proprietary Microsoft audio format?
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They had a demo of this a long time ago on "60 Minutes" or a similar show. For samples they were using recordings of some polititians and scoring their "truthfulness". At the time they were pitching it as a PC program one could use to analyze recorded voices -I don't think it was quite real-time.
Just think what happens when everybody has access to this type of "tool". The possibilities for use, misuse and abuse is phenominal.
Given the apparent size of the features on Mars,
You're doing better than me if you had any idea of the scale. At first look I couldn't tell if it was a microscopic or macroscopic image. Finally reading the text I get "The picture shows a portion of a 1700 km long and 65 km wide swath" which gives me an idea (how big of a "portion"?), but I still wish these guys would put a simple scale bar on the images for people like me.
Of course the original Star Trek was never overtly sexual. was it?
And its not just the weight of the humans -its everything needed to support them. Much cheaper if you don't have to worry about food, air, temperature, waste disposal...
I don't know if you remember the outcry when Apple started selling Macs with "only" 3 NuBus slots instead of 6. The PC press especially was "outraged".
Funny thing is, when Apple did a little research, they found that the overwhelming majority of users (particularly home users) never added an expansion card. It was extremely rare to find anyone who added more than two.
HOWEVER, since these are no longer free
Just wanted to point out that upgrades for the app you're talking about, iDVD, have never been free.
Not that I disagree with the sentiment that licensing terms should be worked out so iDVD would work with 3rd party drives.
OTOH is it really worth getting any more worked up over this than when the author of a freeware app I've been using decides to charge a nominal fee for a new, improved version?
Yes, its disappointing, we all prefer free. But it isn't exactly time to dig out the torches and rope either.
Looking under the System Requirements on http://www.apple.com/ilife/ it states:
"DVD drive required to install GarageBand and iDVD"
I'm guessing because they are both installed from a DVD (I've never seen iDVD on anything but a DVD).
I thought is was just iDVD that was too big. Just checked an iMovie is 45 MB and the iDVD folder is 1.7 GB. FWIW iMovie has been a free download, though I wouldn't want to download it by modem.
Like Jobs said, its the perfect solution for school computer labs where an entire class may need to create a DVD, but for budget reasons only a couple of the computers have Superdrives.
like all the Dock widgets looking the same
Actually they don't, unless they're too small. They are actually the window scaled down to fit in the dock (remember the keynote where Jobs showed the quicktime movie that continued playing when in the Dock?). The only problem is that when scaled down too much, one page full of words pretty much looks like any other page full of words. That's where Expose fits in.
Yeah, you should have heard me when Sys 7 came out!
What the heck do we need all this eye candy for? 3D buttons just soak up CPU cycles and don't do anything useful...
And to that I say, Helloooo Expose!
But there is a tradeoff. You want info to distinguish which Word document is which, but doing so would require the Dock to take up even more space and be more obtrusive.
So, if you're Apple, you have to do your best to find the "sweet spot" between providing enough info, not providing too much to make it more difficult, and taking too much space. If Tog, or anyone else, can come up with a better way of doing it, I'd like to hear it. Then we can talk about how many ways that solution falls short too.
I'd say the communications lag is a biggie. I'm pretty sure much of the basic movements are automated (turn 15 degrees clockwise, move 10 cm foreward...). But I'd liken it to driving a car when you have to drive with your eyes shut and can only open them for 1 second out of every 5. How fast do you think you can drive without crashing?
In general, doesn't corrode==oxidize?
/. would someone misreading "turns" as "burns" lead to a discussion of basic chemical reactions. To top it off, it probably won't be modereated -1 OffTopic either.
I'm missing the distinction you're trying to make. And also, oxydation/reduction generally refers to the tranfer of an electron and doesn't necessarily require oxygen.
But at this point I'm thinking that only on
I understand what you're saying, but I'm just curious how you feel about AAC since you don't specifically mention it. Keep in mind that AAC is to mpg4 what mp3 is to mpg2. Both industry standards, just that AAC/mgp4 is the "next generation" standard.
Personally, I have mixed feelings about it. mp3 is everywhere, its great, but AAC is better. IMO there will eventually be a successor to mp3. The question is will it be AAC (a standard) or WMA (propriatary)? Or is there room for both?
They could radically expand their reach if they supported WMA and the various online music stores that are popping up.
That's exactly what HP has done. They've actually expanded support and given users an additional choice. You can use what came with Windows to handle all the WMA stuff (songs, online stores, portable music players) just like all the other PC makers, or you can also choose to use iTunes and the iTMS and an iPod -the industry leaders at present.
I really don't understand how HP adding iTunes and selling a rebranded iPod can possibly be said to limit choices.
Let's say 95% of the population were hopelessly hooked to Coke because of unknown addictive agents within it
Like, say... cocaine?
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp
AFAIK, there's nothing preventing another developer or portable music player and licensing the the same DRM scheme from FairPlay to make their own products compatible with the protected AAC files from the iTMS (iTunes Music Store).
Just a side note, it seems many people are still interchanging "iTunes", the application that's been used on the Mac for years to play/catalog/rip/mix/burn, and "iTunes Music Store" ( iTMS for short), which is an online music store that can be accessed using iTunes.
Also, just FYI, there is a plug-in that allows iTunes to play Ogg Vorbis (at least on the Mac). Granted its not "official support", but is that necessary for a 3rd party add-on?
I agree, we've gone back to the old way of making these settings from the application. Theoretically, all you need to do is fire up the app you want to use for mail or web browsing and use it's preferences to change the default. I know IE can (and always has) allowed this, but many apps were written in the interum based on the premise that there would always be a central place (the Internet pref pane) to make these selections, so haven't bothered including it as settable from within their application.
Bottom line is I can understand Apple's reasoning for having applications do this -it fits better with their "paradigm", but its a step back in end-user friendliness and choice.
Has anyone tried taking the Internet PrefPane from a Jaguar install and putting it in as a user-installable prefpane in Panther? I might have to give it a try.
Microsoft obviously believes that iPod users are locked into iTMS
How can they believe that? Its not like iPods don't play mp3's. Do they mean because they play industry standard AAC files instead of certain proprietary Microsoft audio format?
No, but if I hear someone from Microsoft use "choice" and "innnovation" in the same sentence...
No spare hoses until they finish building the garage.
I believe the correct way to spell his name is D'arl, is it not?