I for one have requested FLAC support, and hopefully other lossless audio geeks have as well.
This one I don't think is a very big deal, since iPods do have a lossless codec now. Yes, it means that existing FLAC files require conversion, but it's (obviously) a lossless conversion.
I told them indirectly in a similar fashion as the parent poster: I bought an iRiver.
The Economist recently published sales figures for the various HD and flash players -- the number of sales lost to iRiver is at the statistical noise level.
Why this matters is interop. If most people can't make good use of your favorite format, you'll continue to see a limited amount of material available in that format. If you want to get the majority vendors' attention, flying under their radar doesn't accomplish much. That's why it's good to contact them.
You may not have noticed, but most people who put Linux onto their personal machines aren't doing so because they have to. They're putting it on there so that they can play with it. Of course all kinds useful things are done with Linux today, but it was originally written as a plaything, and that's still a perfectly good way to use it now.
Sorry, if you can't pay a few megabucks for the license & machines and some more kilobucks for making a few thousand individual watermarked DVDs, then the academy award is not for you.
It's not all that bad, the cost is $25,000 per studio.
Isn't it possible to route the output of the DVD unit to another recorder that would burn the film onto [video] tape or DVD?
One of the S-View features is the ability to disable the player's analog outputs. Presumably this means that the players have integrated displays, reducing the possibilities to a cam job.
ASBC eventually morphed into the software business. For a while they were known as Viagrafix (unfortunate choice, given what else appeared under a similar name), and today they still sell DesignCAD and some other stuff under the name Upperspace.
They're still in Pryor OK, and even kept the same phone number over the years.
This may not be the case for some people, but it IMO, why would you wan't to store ALL of your songs on the IPOD.
Social lubricant [FNARR]. It's fun to carry one around with an iTrip, and to be able to play anything that comes to mind on a nearby radio. It's a way to help start conversations, or just to get people to smile and say "hey, I remember that one," etc. etc.
Okay, so the concept of socializing might be lost on many slashdot readers, but a few might understand.
What makes MacOS X so good is consistency. Every application works with every other application. Drag and drop. Services. Cut and paste. Application ownership of files. And every application operates in the same way. Fonts, colors, panels, widgets, dialog boxes. They're all the same. You don't have to memorize five hundred different ways of frobbing a scroll bar. Apple has put a lot of work into this, establishing standards and creating tools to make it as easy as possible to get your app working with those standards. Apple's even taken pains to make odd-men-out (MacOS 9 apps, Java AWT/Swing apps) work as similarly as is possible to the Aqua interface.
Ugh, if all that were only true in OS X.
Sometimes clicking on the X button closes the current window and leaves an application running. Sometimes it quits the application. Sometimes the + does a best fit, sometimes it does something completely random, sometimes it maximizes, and in iTunes it changes to a completely different view (isn't that kind of alteration what the white jellybean is for?).
Programs with minimal carbonization still have font and style menus that work the OS 7-9 way, other programs use the OS X pickers. The patchwork of interface styles in GraphicConverter is especially jarring, it's got modern toolbar thingies while the basic batch convert window still looks and acts like it came from System 6, while using modern navigation services elsewhere. There is a jumble of old-style modal dialogs and new flip-down alerts all over the place. Some programs use scroll wheels, others don't. Ditto for anti-aliasing.
I don't think Apple's HyperCard ever ran on Windows, but I know there were plenty of HyperCard clones that did. They probably ported it to one of those for the Windows version.
The PC version used Macromind Director. Director's Lingo bears a strong resemblance to Hypertalk, and porting wouldn't be so horrible.
Last time I saw a thread like this, consensus was that the general public wouldn't know what a hard drive looked like if you tried to use that.
Sure they would - it's that big tower under their desk!
The big box under the desk is known as the "stick." The thing that looks like a TV set is called a "computer." Those little square things with the sliding doors are called "square things," while their larger softer predecessors are known as "sloppy disks." All this terminology comes from Mom, so I trust its accuracy implicitly.
Didn't EV1 just revoke their own right to use (or at least distribute) Linux? Since they have attached extra provisions to the GPL (which is forbidden) for themsleves, and since they license access to others they are, by extension, acting to add provisions to the GPL for those other persons...
If EV1 were to try and redistribute the stuff to others with the same restrictions, they would be naughty, but otherwise they're free to buy all the expensive paper they like.
SCOX, on the other hand, are now unquestionably infringing copyrights if they continue to provide any Linux-based software or updates.
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Why this matters is interop. If most people can't make good use of your favorite format, you'll continue to see a limited amount of material available in that format. If you want to get the majority vendors' attention, flying under their radar doesn't accomplish much. That's why it's good to contact them.
At the 28 April iTunes anniversary conference call, Arik Hesseldahl from Forbes asked Teh Steve about that.
So, if support for that format is something that would make you buy and iPod, it might be a good idea to tell them!
It's a little-known fact that Jonathan Ive used to design sets for Spinal Tap.
The first thing I thought about was Lotus Jazz, especially with the Moto angle.
I don't know what that's about, Rosyna looks pretty ordinary to me....
I always thought of Apache as a continuation of NCSA httpd. Wasn't that more like 1993?
They're still in Pryor OK, and even kept the same phone number over the years.
Is that machine part Akamai? They do lots of colocation like that, and iTMS relies pretty heavily on Akamai.
Social lubricant [FNARR]. It's fun to carry one around with an iTrip, and to be able to play anything that comes to mind on a nearby radio. It's a way to help start conversations, or just to get people to smile and say "hey, I remember that one," etc. etc.
Okay, so the concept of socializing might be lost on many slashdot readers, but a few might understand.
Ugh, if all that were only true in OS X.
Sometimes clicking on the X button closes the current window and leaves an application running. Sometimes it quits the application. Sometimes the + does a best fit, sometimes it does something completely random, sometimes it maximizes, and in iTunes it changes to a completely different view (isn't that kind of alteration what the white jellybean is for?).
Programs with minimal carbonization still have font and style menus that work the OS 7-9 way, other programs use the OS X pickers. The patchwork of interface styles in GraphicConverter is especially jarring, it's got modern toolbar thingies while the basic batch convert window still looks and acts like it came from System 6, while using modern navigation services elsewhere. There is a jumble of old-style modal dialogs and new flip-down alerts all over the place. Some programs use scroll wheels, others don't. Ditto for anti-aliasing.
Classic programs don't even try to fit in.
If EV1 were to try and redistribute the stuff to others with the same restrictions, they would be naughty, but otherwise they're free to buy all the expensive paper they like.
SCOX, on the other hand, are now unquestionably infringing copyrights if they continue to provide any Linux-based software or updates.
What's wrong with a little perversity? Some people run Xserves at home, and a packed BladeServer chassis would make the Joneses green with envy!