I don't know If anyone will read this among the flamewar but..
I'm not Republican or Democrat.
This was the first time I have been eligible to vote.
I voted for Bush for several reasons.
1: I think the Iraq war is necessary step needed to change the culture in that area. Without a culture change the problem will NEVER END. You cant talk them into thinking differently than the way they do. You are an infidel and must die, period.
Further more the UN are all spineless bastards that would still be playing games with Saddam if we hadn't gone in. We didn't find WMD for many reasons. That has nothing to do with attempting to get them. Yes, I know most people in Iraq aren't terrorists and aren't very religous.
2: "Bush is bad! I'm not bush!" doesn't show up on my radar as a clear plan for America.
3: I believe we have to deal with a deficit for now to get the economy going again.
3: Bush is a man of few words. Short and to the point, clear, consistent. This is crucial during war. As a result if Bush tells Iran/Korea "Disarm for face severe consequences." they damn well know he means it.
4: I agree abortion is wrong. In the age where we have birth control pills for men and women and day after pills you have no excuse other than parents not teaching their kids properly. If you are raped you can take a day after pill or give it up for adoption.
5: Woopie do, no federally funded stem cell research. Let states fund it. California passed funding for it this election. Didn't they just complain there was too much federal spending? Which way is it?
Thanks for reading and try to respect difference of opinion.
I have many democrat friends. During the election I was perfectly fine with their difference of opinion even when I thought Bush might loose.
Don't divide America. It is self defeating..
OS X will NEVER be as fast as OS 9. OS 9 was a corporative multitasking operating system.
Preemptive multitasking comes a great cost of speed. The finer the granularity of the preemptive multitasking the more loss there is.. Exponentially.
Preemptive multitasking interrupts processes in the middle of what it is doing, and lets the next task have the CPU.
Any data from the partial completion of the cycle is lost. Also, disk performance is degraded because the disk is now switching ( seeking, and waiting for the rotation of the platters ) between the I/O tasks.
To be completely honest, corporative multitasking is great. The problem is all is takes is one bad task to screw over the whole system.
The same also holds true when it comes to memory protection. Features always come at a cost. You cant get something from nothing.
Opinions on audio quality will always differ.. I'm not quite an "audiophile" but I'm definitely more picky about quality than joe six-pack for sure.
Personally, I find apple's AAC 128kps to be somewhere between 192 and 256 kps mp3 quality. I think its a fairly good tradeoff of download time, storage and quality.
You have to remember they are serving out a library of a very large size. 128 vs 160kps would be an enormous difference in storage requirements!
Put on headphones and encode a song in 128kps AAC in itunes and then do 160 and 256kps AAC and see if you think it would be the extra cost of storage for them.
Hate to tell you. OS X automatically checks for updates and asks the user to update out of the box already. It doesn't help much.
This of course does NOT stop the "click the close thingy so this thingy will go away." syndrome. I set up my sisters PC to auto-update when she got a cable modem at her house. She never clicked "OK" on the update once in 3 months. She even understands WHY she should update it.
So why doesn't she? Because when shes on the computer she wants to do something and be done.. So if it asks to update she clicks "NO" because shes busy right now! Then it does not ask again until the next time she uses the computer... Repeat.
Automatic updating wont work very well either. If there is a way to cancel it and the user is smart enough to figure it out they will cancel it or turn the computer off because the computer is running slowly.
A lot of users are on dialup and are very unlikely to leave the computer connected while it downloads for god knows how long..
The list goes on and on... This is not a problem that is magically going away with a firewall and a auto-update.. Not by a long shot.
Personally I think APE is useful. It does pose a security threat though. APE needs to require a password before activating new modules so a malicious module can't load on its own.
As far as Unsanity as a "company", I greatly dislike them. Most of their software is "Whine and bitch until you give me money - ware". Shapeshifter flashes the screen and puts large letters on the screen that ask you to register ( at short intervals even ).
It did that ( while I was playing a game ). the huge image with a alpha map renders slow.. Therefor I died in the MMORPG I was playing.. Thanks.
Their prices are OK.. Although a bit high for a "toy". I call it a toy because, would you use this on a computer you do *any* work on? Most of them are small changes that aren't complicated like the uh font module whatever its called.
I think the features they are talking about are nice..
But personally I still think their sub-pixel font anti-aliasing looks bad.
http://bluehalo.homeunix.org/text/
Shows the line from the PPT and the same thing typed in OS X.
I never thought I would see a mod worse than the "spray foam case" or the "PC in a G4 case" mods. About the only way people could make an more outrageous mod at this point would be a computer inside a cow pie.
It must have been one of those things that looks good on paper.. Or while drunk at 3am. I shouldn't have said anything about the cow pie case.. Now some weirdo will make one..:P
I have a 120gb 7200 rpm Maxtor drive in my fanless iMac.
Maxtor has a new line of HDS with something called fluid dynamic bearings ( FDB ). The means the bearing basically floats on the spinning fluid ( correct me if I am wrong ).
Very very quiet. iMacs are full of vents and are mostly made of plastic. Before even the quiet HD in it was quite audible once inside the case. I dont even have it mounted with rubber rings or anything.
I also have an ancient AT box with an AMD 300mhz in it. No CPU fan. And I replaced the PSU fan with a stealth fan (automatically adjusts its speed to air temperature ). I also put foam-rubber around the ( somewhat quiet ) HD. I sleep with both computers ON or sometimes with the iMac in sleep mode.
It is along the lines of toll booths. They end up being there forever to pay the salary of the people that work collecting the money from them.
Now florida has "e-pass" available. Now the damn toll money is going to pay for e-pass equipment and employees like a sysadmins and repair contractors.
But, if a rich town majority wants it.. I think that is somewhat different. It may be a bad idea but the public has a right to make bad decisions;)
Oh, and thanks for the meaningful reply. Nice change of pace.
Annoying as they are.. Troll posts usually have a grain of truth in them.
I dont know if the submitter/mod put 1984 only in jest or seriousness.. But road-cameras have been around for a long time. Personally I dont like it. But recording your license plate with a camera in public isn't really trampling on your right to privacy. It has the possibility of it.. But I can record you with a camera on the side of my house to see you as you drive by.
The only real problem I see with public cameras is the line is more easily blurred. Who is to say a church isn't public property? Or public housing?
If the post wasn't in jest someone needs to take their meds or keep better track of the news.
A few national ISP like earthlink are shipping the client software with pop-up software.. More will follow. So there are people with pop-up blockers that didn't download and install them.
1000 songs is a lot. My library is about 1200 right now.. And I could easily drop it down to 800 or so. Sometimes price and size is worth more than just storage.
Some other one I cant remember the name of that was 4 hours long..:) I'd love to see an open-source machinima OpenGL engine.. Then they can just distrib the movie as a little binary with a data file.
Its always disappointed me that RvB hasn't done a better job with compression and size choices.
They really need to offer a smaller version for the modem people. Lots of my friends love RvB, but have a modem and can't wait forever to download it.
All the sound it voice, why didn't the quicktime qualicomm voice compression? 9:1 or even 20:1 compression.. And 44khz? Please.. The voice recordings are horrible.. 11khz would do just fine.
1: I can't believe the mouse the computer ships with would keep you from buying it if you wanted it. Have you ever not bought a prebuilt PC because it had a crappy mouse?
2: Single button mice are good for new users. They have no idea what a "contextual menu" is, therefore it is just another confusing complicated button they will undoubtedly press.
3: I understand more on laptops. Having a one button mouse on laptop is retarded, because it can't be reasonably upgraded.
I think the solution is simple. Apple should ship ALL macs with 2 buttons but make a recessed switch on the bottom of the mouse/laptop to toggle.
In the "Off" mode ( default ) both the left and right buttons act as a normal mouse press (mouse1). In the "On" mode the left and right buttons are the normal (mouse1, mouse2).
Personally, I use a 5 button scrolling optical mouse.
I can see why they stick by it so much though. My dad's iMac has the "the whole mouse is the button" apple optical mouse. He seemed to have a lot less problems using it with no scroll/right click to accidentally press. Additionally, it solves the "Why isn't it going? oh, my finger wasn't quite on the button" problem. Great for most people, bad for expert computer users.
You can't see it because using a mouse is like breathing for you. Try to get your grandmother to use a mouse or understand a modern cellphone.
I read the title and misread it.. Then thought.oO( WHAT?!?!? ) and re-read it.
Then I click the link and see a whole slew of people that misread it as well. Maybe we should study their ads for subliminal advertising or something...
You can call me a freak if you want. But one of my favorite music artists is Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.
Most of his major albums ( Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile ) were written as a continuous "story" or "fantasy" and are a flowing atmosphere.
Most music is in the "2-3 minute radio song" format, and for those types it really does not matter. But yes, there *are* exceptions.. But not necessarily a requirement either.
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I don't know If anyone will read this among the flamewar but.. I'm not Republican or Democrat. This was the first time I have been eligible to vote. I voted for Bush for several reasons. 1: I think the Iraq war is necessary step needed to change the culture in that area. Without a culture change the problem will NEVER END. You cant talk them into thinking differently than the way they do. You are an infidel and must die, period. Further more the UN are all spineless bastards that would still be playing games with Saddam if we hadn't gone in. We didn't find WMD for many reasons. That has nothing to do with attempting to get them. Yes, I know most people in Iraq aren't terrorists and aren't very religous. 2: "Bush is bad! I'm not bush!" doesn't show up on my radar as a clear plan for America. 3: I believe we have to deal with a deficit for now to get the economy going again. 3: Bush is a man of few words. Short and to the point, clear, consistent. This is crucial during war. As a result if Bush tells Iran/Korea "Disarm for face severe consequences." they damn well know he means it. 4: I agree abortion is wrong. In the age where we have birth control pills for men and women and day after pills you have no excuse other than parents not teaching their kids properly. If you are raped you can take a day after pill or give it up for adoption. 5: Woopie do, no federally funded stem cell research. Let states fund it. California passed funding for it this election. Didn't they just complain there was too much federal spending? Which way is it? Thanks for reading and try to respect difference of opinion. I have many democrat friends. During the election I was perfectly fine with their difference of opinion even when I thought Bush might loose. Don't divide America. It is self defeating..
On my connection your mirror is much slower.
The large PNG would not even finish loading.
I think the new logo is much better than the old one.
But, I think it much too plain. Keep the same idea but add something memorable.
OS X will NEVER be as fast as OS 9.
OS 9 was a corporative multitasking operating system.
Preemptive multitasking comes a great cost of speed.
The finer the granularity of the preemptive multitasking the more loss there is.. Exponentially.
Preemptive multitasking interrupts processes in the middle of what it is doing, and lets the next task have the CPU.
Any data from the partial completion of the cycle is lost. Also, disk performance is degraded because the disk is now switching ( seeking, and waiting for the rotation of the platters ) between the I/O tasks.
To be completely honest, corporative multitasking is great.
The problem is all is takes is one bad task to screw over the whole system.
The same also holds true when it comes to memory protection.
Features always come at a cost. You cant get something from nothing.
Go read up on it.
Opinions on audio quality will always differ.. I'm not quite an "audiophile" but I'm definitely more picky about quality than joe six-pack for sure.
Personally, I find apple's AAC 128kps to be somewhere between 192 and 256 kps mp3 quality. I think its a fairly good tradeoff of download time, storage and quality.
You have to remember they are serving out a library of a very large size. 128 vs 160kps would be an enormous difference in storage requirements!
Put on headphones and encode a song in 128kps AAC in itunes and then do 160 and 256kps AAC and see if you think it would be the extra cost of storage for them.
Hate to tell you. OS X automatically checks for updates and asks the user to update out of the box already. It doesn't help much.
This of course does NOT stop the "click the close thingy so this thingy will go away." syndrome. I set up my sisters PC to auto-update when she got a cable modem at her house. She never clicked "OK" on the update once in 3 months. She even understands WHY she should update it.
So why doesn't she? Because when shes on the computer she wants to do something and be done.. So if it asks to update she clicks "NO" because shes busy right now! Then it does not ask again until the next time she uses the computer... Repeat.
Automatic updating wont work very well either. If there is a way to cancel it and the user is smart enough to figure it out they will cancel it or turn the computer off because the computer is running slowly.
A lot of users are on dialup and are very unlikely to leave the computer connected while it downloads for god knows how long..
The list goes on and on...
This is not a problem that is magically going away with a firewall and a auto-update.. Not by a long shot.
Personally I think APE is useful. It does pose a security threat though. APE needs to require a password before activating new modules so a malicious module can't load on its own.
As far as Unsanity as a "company", I greatly dislike them.
Most of their software is "Whine and bitch until you give me money - ware". Shapeshifter flashes the screen and puts large letters on the screen that ask you to register ( at short intervals even ).
It did that ( while I was playing a game ). the huge image with a alpha map renders slow.. Therefor I died in the MMORPG I was playing.. Thanks.
Their prices are OK.. Although a bit high for a "toy". I call it a toy because, would you use this on a computer you do *any* work on? Most of them are small changes that aren't complicated like the uh font module whatever its called.
I got sick of the whole deal and deleted APE...
I think the features they are talking about are nice.. But personally I still think their sub-pixel font anti-aliasing looks bad. http://bluehalo.homeunix.org/text/ Shows the line from the PPT and the same thing typed in OS X.
That is one hell of an ugly mod. Amazing.
:P
I never thought I would see a mod worse than the "spray foam case" or the "PC in a G4 case" mods.
About the only way people could make an more outrageous mod at this point would be a computer inside a cow pie.
It must have been one of those things that looks good on paper.. Or while drunk at 3am.
I shouldn't have said anything about the cow pie case.. Now some weirdo will make one..
So your saying BSD isn't a real OS? ;)
I have a 120gb 7200 rpm Maxtor drive in my fanless iMac.
Maxtor has a new line of HDS with something called fluid dynamic bearings ( FDB ).
The means the bearing basically floats on the spinning fluid ( correct me if I am wrong ).
Very very quiet. iMacs are full of vents and are mostly made of plastic.
Before even the quiet HD in it was quite audible once inside the case.
I dont even have it mounted with rubber rings or anything.
I also have an ancient AT box with an AMD 300mhz in it.
No CPU fan.
And I replaced the PSU fan with a stealth fan (automatically adjusts its speed to air temperature ).
I also put foam-rubber around the ( somewhat quiet ) HD.
I sleep with both computers ON or sometimes with the iMac in sleep mode.
Very true.
;)
It is along the lines of toll booths. They end up being there forever to pay the salary of the people that work collecting the money from them.
Now florida has "e-pass" available. Now the damn toll money is going to pay for e-pass equipment and employees like a sysadmins and repair contractors.
But, if a rich town majority wants it.. I think that is somewhat different.
It may be a bad idea but the public has a right to make bad decisions
Oh, and thanks for the meaningful reply. Nice change of pace.
Annoying as they are.. Troll posts usually have a grain of truth in them.
I dont know if the submitter/mod put 1984 only in jest or seriousness..
But road-cameras have been around for a long time. Personally I dont like it.
But recording your license plate with a camera in public isn't really trampling on your right to privacy.
It has the possibility of it.. But I can record you with a camera on the side of my house to see you as you drive by.
The only real problem I see with public cameras is the line is more easily blurred.
Who is to say a church isn't public property? Or public housing?
If the post wasn't in jest someone needs to take their meds or keep better track of the news.
Mac OS 8 ( maybe earlyier? ) had contextual menus that appeared if you did a click-and-hold..
The list goes on.
A few national ISP like earthlink are shipping the client software with pop-up software..
More will follow. So there are people with pop-up blockers that didn't download and install them.
I am pretty damn picky on compression artifacts.
:).
128kps AAC is good enough.
192kps MP3 is good enough.
Therefore I re-ripped my entire collection as 128kps AAC
AAC sound much much better than MP3.
I've heard lots of people say it sounds bad.. Try it in quicktime/iTunes.. Your encoder must suck.
Mirror anyone?
1000 songs is a lot. My library is about 1200 right now.. And I could easily drop it down to 800 or so.
Sometimes price and size is worth more than just storage.
Yeah thats it. :) Good movie.
Blahbalicious, Ranger gone plaid..
:) I'd love to see an open-source machinima OpenGL engine..
Some other one I cant remember the name of that was 4 hours long..
Then they can just distrib the movie as a little binary with a data file.
Its always disappointed me that RvB hasn't done a better job with compression and size choices.
They really need to offer a smaller version for the modem people. Lots of my friends love RvB, but have a modem and can't wait forever to download it.
All the sound it voice, why didn't the quicktime qualicomm voice compression? 9:1 or even 20:1 compression.. And 44khz?
Please.. The voice recordings are horrible.. 11khz would do just fine.
But other than that is freaking hilarious.
1: I can't believe the mouse the computer ships with would keep you from buying it if you wanted it. Have you ever not bought a prebuilt PC because it had a crappy mouse?
2: Single button mice are good for new users. They have no idea what a "contextual menu" is, therefore it is just another confusing complicated button they will undoubtedly press.
3: I understand more on laptops. Having a one button mouse on laptop is retarded, because it can't be reasonably upgraded.
I think the solution is simple. Apple should ship ALL macs with 2 buttons but make a recessed switch on the bottom of the mouse/laptop to toggle.
In the "Off" mode ( default ) both the left and right buttons act as a normal mouse press (mouse1).
In the "On" mode the left and right buttons are the normal (mouse1, mouse2).
Personally, I use a 5 button scrolling optical mouse.
I can see why they stick by it so much though.
My dad's iMac has the "the whole mouse is the button" apple optical mouse.
He seemed to have a lot less problems using it with no scroll/right click to accidentally press.
Additionally, it solves the "Why isn't it going? oh, my finger wasn't quite on the button" problem.
Great for most people, bad for expert computer users.
You can't see it because using a mouse is like breathing for you. Try to get your grandmother to use a mouse or understand a modern cellphone.
Apple made a music service. If you dont like it, dont use it.
Time to revise it, methinks.
I read the title and misread it.. Then thought .oO( WHAT?!?!? ) and re-read it.
Then I click the link and see a whole slew of people that misread it as well.
Maybe we should study their ads for subliminal advertising or something...
Or, you could just hurdle the junk into the largest *free* incinerator ever made..
:P.
DUN DUN DUN!!!... <Dramatic pause>
THE SUN!
Or any sing one of the trillions of stars in the universe will do really.
Sometimes the problem is things can be "blindingly obvious" (pun intended).
Oh, and my sig will go quite well with my post
You can call me a freak if you want.
But one of my favorite music artists is Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.
Most of his major albums ( Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile ) were written as a continuous "story" or "fantasy" and are a flowing atmosphere.
Most music is in the "2-3 minute radio song" format, and for those types it really does not matter.
But yes, there *are* exceptions.. But not necessarily a requirement either.