The natives aren't doing the clearcutting. The multinational Timber Corporations are clearcutting the rainforests. Sure the corporations may be paying them squat to do the actual cutting, but these people were surviving just fine before the corporations showed up.
I've got an 80GB TiVo Series 2. I bought it last April. It does everything my wife wants. It records her shows. It does nothing I want. That is the ability to save my recorded shows to my computer. I can save them to my digital camcorder but thats a pain. TiVo-Togo is not the answer. I don't want to have to use some special software. Plus I want the ability to edit.
As soon as my cable company offers PVR which should cost about $10 a month, my TiVo is going on Ebay. Then I'll build a MythTV from one of my computers.
TiVo has no chance in the long run especially once the cable companies will offer the same ability at a low cost. TiVo is just way too expensive. $300 for the unit and $400 for a lifetime subscription fee.
They want to control what you access. They don't like how the internet works. Thats why they are limiting the upload speeds and now limiting the download speeds as well. They want internet to be web only and one direction only. They don't want you to use ftp, ssh, host webservers, bit torrent, or whatever. They just want your computer to be like a television. And they really want you to connect to their home page. Thats as far as they want you to go on the internet.
I've downloaded a lot of songs from iTunes. The quality is quite good actually. I have also burned my entire CD collection to AAC with 192bit rate. I can't tell the difference. In fact, I think some of the downloads from iTunes sound better. It might have something to do with them creating the AAC files from master recordings.
It now makes me wonder how much quality is in the CD's we buy. I'm still trying to determine if some of my older CD's from the 80's have begun to sound worse over time. Or were some just not recorded very well to start.
You're mistaken. AAC is an open standard MPEG-4. The DRM is proprietary. Its called Fairplay. If you convert a CD to AAC format in iTunes, it should play on any system that supports AAC. The DRM is only put on those AAC files that are on iTMS.
The songs I've bought off of iTMS sound far better than the ones I have ripped myself as high as 192 kbps. Says something about the quality of CD's if you ask me.
Why isn't marijuana legal? Because the beer companies and drug companies want to keep it that way. Therefore they pad the wallets of Congress. Same with hemp except its the cotton industry which pretty much keeps hemp from being legal.
They purchased 10% or so of the stock in 1996 in an agreement with Apple. It was mainly to show the gov't that Microsoft had competition by keeping Apple in business. Apple has since paid them back their investment and is totally free of Microsoft.
Step 1: Run video/audio out connection to your stereo receiver's video/audio in.
Step 2: Connect your digital camcorder to your stereo receivers video/audio out.
Step 3: Import video from camcorder into computer.
I tried connecting my camcorder directly to my TiVo, but the picture was scrambled. Going throught the stereo receiver fixes it. Of course its being converted from mpeg-2 to analog and back to digital then to whatever format you use on your computer. But the picture still looks pretty good using iMovie. I don't have the ability to create DVD's but I do make Quicktime movies from my tv shows.
Every benchmark test is basically useless. It really comes down to what machine can help you get more work done or play cool games on. If you are into games, get an Alienware with XP. If you are do video editing or photo manipulation, Apple is the way to go. Linux pretty much can handle the rest. I would just like to see Linux preinstalled at the stores. Me? I'm running Debian on my desktop at work. And I'll be purchasing a dual G5 in the spring for home because I'm really wanting to get more involved in video editing and my iBook just doesn't cut it.
I'd love to see Ogg Vorbis support in the iPod as well, but I don't think its going to happen. Apple paid a shitload of money for the rights to mpeg-4 which AAC is based on. So they want to try and make that the standard. Steve Jobs is one hard headed SOB. He would drive the company into the ground before he would admit to making a mistake.
I'm a proud owner of an iBook and an iPod by the way .
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The natives aren't doing the clearcutting. The multinational Timber Corporations are clearcutting the rainforests. Sure the corporations may be paying them squat to do the actual cutting, but these people were surviving just fine before the corporations showed up.
I've got an 80GB TiVo Series 2. I bought it last April. It does everything my wife wants. It records her shows. It does nothing I want. That is the ability to save my recorded shows to my computer. I can save them to my digital camcorder but thats a pain. TiVo-Togo is not the answer. I don't want to have to use some special software. Plus I want the ability to edit.
As soon as my cable company offers PVR which should cost about $10 a month, my TiVo is going on Ebay. Then I'll build a MythTV from one of my computers.
TiVo has no chance in the long run especially once the cable companies will offer the same ability at a low cost. TiVo is just way too expensive. $300 for the unit and $400 for a lifetime subscription fee.
The cost of labor is far less for executives in foreign countries.
Even if it was a better codec(which its not), I would not support it since it is under the total control of one company.
Thats a load of crap. God I wish these hardware companies would stop supporting WMA.
They want to control what you access. They don't like how the internet works. Thats why they are limiting the upload speeds and now limiting the download speeds as well. They want internet to be web only and one direction only. They don't want you to use ftp, ssh, host webservers, bit torrent, or whatever. They just want your computer to be like a television. And they really want you to connect to their home page. Thats as far as they want you to go on the internet.
That commercial reminds me of the chess playing kid on The X-Files.
He's a Microsoft stooge. Always bashing Apple. This is a total joke. No way is this an iPod killer.
I've got you beat. I paid $300 in 1985 I think to upgrade my Compaq Deskpro's memory from 256K to 640K.
I don't buy albums. If I want an album, I buy the CD. But I do buy individual songs from artists that I would never buy their album.
I've downloaded a lot of songs from iTunes. The quality is quite good actually. I have also burned my entire CD collection to AAC with 192bit rate. I can't tell the difference. In fact, I think some of the downloads from iTunes sound better. It might have something to do with them creating the AAC files from master recordings.
It now makes me wonder how much quality is in the CD's we buy. I'm still trying to determine if some of my older CD's from the 80's have begun to sound worse over time. Or were some just not recorded very well to start.
So she believes its too complicated to use iTMS so she'll continue to download music illegally because it works with her MP3 player?
Whatever.
instead of shareware, he wouldn't be in this mess now.
You're mistaken. AAC is an open standard MPEG-4. The DRM is proprietary. Its called Fairplay. If you convert a CD to AAC format in iTunes, it should play on any system that supports AAC. The DRM is only put on those AAC files that are on iTMS.
OS X is a far better desktop experience than Windows. Its what the Linux desktops should be striving for.
I don't know if they were "forced" but they took the safe route.
The songs I've bought off of iTMS sound far better than the ones I have ripped myself as high as 192 kbps. Says something about the quality of CD's if you ask me.
Yeah, Christians have been much more civilized throughout history.
Why isn't marijuana legal? Because the beer companies and drug companies want to keep it that way. Therefore they pad the wallets of Congress. Same with hemp except its the cotton industry which pretty much keeps hemp from being legal.
They purchased 10% or so of the stock in 1996 in an agreement with Apple. It was mainly to show the gov't that Microsoft had competition by keeping Apple in business. Apple has since paid them back their investment and is totally free of Microsoft.
Yeah, but how much was your NAS?
Step 1: Run video/audio out connection to your stereo receiver's video/audio in.
Step 2: Connect your digital camcorder to your stereo receivers video/audio out.
Step 3: Import video from camcorder into computer.
I tried connecting my camcorder directly to my TiVo, but the picture was scrambled. Going throught the stereo receiver fixes it. Of course its being converted from mpeg-2 to analog and back to digital then to whatever format you use on your computer. But the picture still looks pretty good using iMovie. I don't have the ability to create DVD's but I do make Quicktime movies from my tv shows.
Every benchmark test is basically useless. It really comes down to what machine can help you get more work done or play cool games on. If you are into games, get an Alienware with XP. If you are do video editing or photo manipulation, Apple is the way to go. Linux pretty much can handle the rest. I would just like to see Linux preinstalled at the stores. Me? I'm running Debian on my desktop at work. And I'll be purchasing a dual G5 in the spring for home because I'm really wanting to get more involved in video editing and my iBook just doesn't cut it.
There's a sucker born every minute.
I'd love to see Ogg Vorbis support in the iPod as well, but I don't think its going to happen. Apple paid a shitload of money for the rights to mpeg-4 which AAC is based on. So they want to try and make that the standard. Steve Jobs is one hard headed SOB. He would drive the company into the ground before he would admit to making a mistake.
I'm a proud owner of an iBook and an iPod by the way .