You could summarize what you said with a quote from Mark Twain: "When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business."
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
Wether you're for or against things like copyrights, or the fact that it's been twisted and corrupted way beyond the original goal, you need to acknowledge that there's two kinds of files. The ones you create and the ones you buy. This means there is a difference between your property vs the property of other people.
As far as your own files are concerned, in my opinion Apple is not a bad guy, far from it.
Apple supports a lot of formats, some of them licensed and others completely open: - Screen captures are in 32-bit PNG - iCal supports regular.ical files - Mail supports regular pop3 accounts - Address Book supports vCard files - iTunes supports AIFF, WAV, MP3, AAC, MPEG-4 and H.264 and their own proprietary Apple Lossless format - Keynote has its own proprietary format but can export to Quicktime, Microsoft PowerPoint, PDF, images in JPEG/PNG/TIFF, Flash, HTML and even a format for iPods. - Pages has its own proprietary format but can export to PDF, Microsoft Word, RTF and plain text. - Numbers has its own proprietary format but can export to PDF, Microsoft Excel and plain CSV text with three choices of text encoding, one of them being UTF-8. - iChat supports AIM, Jabber and Google Talk. - Preview supports a shitload of formats - Any program that can print can create a PDF file
Last week I just discovered that you can even Quick Look a Collada file and rotate the object while still in Quick Look mode, for crying out loud.
Some people will bitch that Apple doesn't support OGG Vorbis or OGG Theora, so let me the 1000th to bitch that such stupid names were bound to fail at grabbing any sensible marketshare. The idiots who thought of those names should be forced to watch this Simpsons episode every day for a year.
In contrast, Microsoft created BMP at a time when there was already at least 10+ graphic formats available, WAV at a time when there was at least 3+ audio formats available and AVI at a time when there was at least 2+ video formats available.
If there's someone who's disrupting your abilities to quit their platforms by chaining down your own documents, it's Microsoft a hell of a lot more than it is Apple.
Media that you paid for, however, is a completely different story. But don't only blame Apple, blame the media companies and remember that there hasn't been DRM on audio files from iTunes for the last five years or so. Just because these people will never understand that you can't lock down bit patterns doesn't mean they won't keep trying.
Tricia Takanawa: Here comes Mayor Adam West himself. Mr. West, do you have any words for our viewers? Mayor Adam West: Yes: box, toaster, aluminum, maple syrup- no I take that one back. I'm gonna hold on to that one. Tricia Takanawa: Thank you, Mayor West.
Why the hell do people want an Apple TV set? What would that add to the equation? The Apple TV is already here and it's a small low-cost box that you can connect to ANY modern television or computer monitor.
I'm a Nintendo fan, at least for Zelda and Metroid, but the parent is right. Until Nintendo has lesser requirements about who gets to write games for their systems, you won't be seeing real indie games on any Nintendo console.
From the photos, I'd say this is the holy grail of backlighting for arcade marquees! Cut to the dimensions of your marquee and you have even lighting across the whole image!
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22nm die: I was in the pool! I was in the pool!
Screw the 3D printers, I'm going to mill my own SoC. All I need is a sub-micron, square end mill bit.
Stinking phones? I knew we shouldn't have sent the phone sanitizers to another planet!
What you just said is a quote from Mark Twain: "When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business."
Slashdot. Raspberry Pi for nerds, Bitcoins that matters.
You could summarize what you said with a quote from Mark Twain: "When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business."
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
Wether you're for or against things like copyrights, or the fact that it's been twisted and corrupted way beyond the original goal, you need to acknowledge that there's two kinds of files. The ones you create and the ones you buy. This means there is a difference between your property vs the property of other people.
As far as your own files are concerned, in my opinion Apple is not a bad guy, far from it.
Apple supports a lot of formats, some of them licensed and others completely open: .ical files
- Screen captures are in 32-bit PNG
- iCal supports regular
- Mail supports regular pop3 accounts
- Address Book supports vCard files
- iTunes supports AIFF, WAV, MP3, AAC, MPEG-4 and H.264 and their own proprietary Apple Lossless format
- Keynote has its own proprietary format but can export to Quicktime, Microsoft PowerPoint, PDF, images in JPEG/PNG/TIFF, Flash, HTML and even a format for iPods.
- Pages has its own proprietary format but can export to PDF, Microsoft Word, RTF and plain text.
- Numbers has its own proprietary format but can export to PDF, Microsoft Excel and plain CSV text with three choices of text encoding, one of them being UTF-8.
- iChat supports AIM, Jabber and Google Talk.
- Preview supports a shitload of formats
- Any program that can print can create a PDF file
Last week I just discovered that you can even Quick Look a Collada file and rotate the object while still in Quick Look mode, for crying out loud.
Some people will bitch that Apple doesn't support OGG Vorbis or OGG Theora, so let me the 1000th to bitch that such stupid names were bound to fail at grabbing any sensible marketshare. The idiots who thought of those names should be forced to watch this Simpsons episode every day for a year.
In contrast, Microsoft created BMP at a time when there was already at least 10+ graphic formats available, WAV at a time when there was at least 3+ audio formats available and AVI at a time when there was at least 2+ video formats available.
If there's someone who's disrupting your abilities to quit their platforms by chaining down your own documents, it's Microsoft a hell of a lot more than it is Apple.
Media that you paid for, however, is a completely different story. But don't only blame Apple, blame the media companies and remember that there hasn't been DRM on audio files from iTunes for the last five years or so. Just because these people will never understand that you can't lock down bit patterns doesn't mean they won't keep trying.
Mad lobster disease, anyone?
Tricia Takanawa: Here comes Mayor Adam West himself. Mr. West, do you have any words for our viewers?
Mayor Adam West: Yes: box, toaster, aluminum, maple syrup- no I take that one back. I'm gonna hold on to that one.
Tricia Takanawa: Thank you, Mayor West.
Soylent Red is lobsters!!!!
Blame the long contracts with other media providers, not Netflix.
The parent is right, I don't know why people don't use this simple method.
Here's how to crack the password for the Win98 login: press [Esc].
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The earliest known dinosaur — a creature no bigger than a Labrador retriever[...].
Why the hell do people want an Apple TV set? What would that add to the equation? The Apple TV is already here and it's a small low-cost box that you can connect to ANY modern television or computer monitor.
If anything, this highlights how Samsung are probably the ones making trouble in the Apple vs Samsung trials.
I'm a Nintendo fan, at least for Zelda and Metroid, but the parent is right. Until Nintendo has lesser requirements about who gets to write games for their systems, you won't be seeing real indie games on any Nintendo console.
Great, new features added to Steam. But their OS X client is still the slowest and most bloated software I've ever used.
Oh yeah, that makes sense.
Not to mention their "no heat" claim to be considered for this application.
From the photos, I'd say this is the holy grail of backlighting for arcade marquees! Cut to the dimensions of your marquee and you have even lighting across the whole image!
Whoever designed the photo album viewer never heard of XMLHttpRequest.
The day we finally hit atomic limits for our technology is the day that trend will start happening. Maybe.
Why the fuck would we want our phones to be so thin? Do they think we want to cut vegetables and shoes with our phones?
Won't somebody please think of the hemophiliac children!