They need drivers to show up as a hard drive,need special software to upload and download music, don't support any form of lossless encoding (WMA-lossless doesn't work on most portables), they are slightly bulky, they don't support AAC (most popular format for paid DLs last time I checked), do you want me to do on?
The iPod isn't perfect imho by any stretch, but I think you're really scraping the barrel with creative: Archos, iRiver or Rio might be better choices (they are probably between apple and creative in pricing).
Granted, you probably won't notice any differences while playing music, but it is great for movies (you can actually watch a movie, not the player's shinny animated buttons while fighting with the interface).
What are you talking about? Winamp DOES have ratings and automatic playlists. If anything winamp's smart playlists offer more options than iTunes:
In iTunes you can only use either a big list of simple terms joined with OR, or a big list of terms joined with AND. Up until 4.5 or so you couldn't do something like (rating>=3 AND gengre=rock) OR (rating>=4 and genre!=pop and genre!=commedy) OR (rating=5 and genre!=commedy) to get a rock-biased playlist.
In the last few versions you can "nest" queries because you can use "is on FOO playlist" as a term, but it will clutter your playlist list bigtime (Hey, apple, how about user folders in sources the list?)
Try giving winamp another chance. Version 3 was crap: in a way it felt like mozilla (coincidence ?) around the time of the single-digit milestones. V5 is as light as v2 if you don't use the purty skins (although unless you have an old PC you'll never notice, iTunes are heavier anyway), and the music library works well.
Also, they're making a single window skin for the people who like iTunes:
http://www.cockos.com/~steve/photos/single/libra ry mode.png
Amen to that, and before anybody says 'you buy an motherboard that supports SLI, get one 6600 @ $200 now then add a second one when you need more speed', you'll probably have a hard time tracking down the exact same model 18 months later, not to mention you might be better off selling your old card, and just buying whatever mid-range is polpular then.
You'll probably come on top performance-wise and you won't have to pay the extra $$ for an SLI motherboard. From what I've seen, if you want a motherboard that does SLI, you'll have to pay for the ULTRA 3XTREME PLATINUM GT LX++ model with all sorts of bells and whistles you might or might not need.
According to Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple: "The most common format of audio files on an windows system is 'warezed'." He appears convinced Apple will lead the way in Digital Rights Management and also believes Apple will steal a march on Microsoft in making the digital home a reality because Microsoft "doesn't have the volumes". "There is no way that you can get there with Microsoft. The critical mass has to come from the iPod, or a next-generation video device"
I've been actually asked exactly that by the friendly folks at our local mac shop: "are you actually interested in buying an iPod ?".
Now, I admit, that I'm a 20 y.o. maths major, and look like it (beard, jeans & t-shirt, a sweater if you're lucky), but the fun part is I wasn't even at their store! They had booked a hall in the university to use as a showroom for a day. Who did they expect?
(needless to say, they didn't get any money from me)
The sheer stupidity of most apple retailers I've visited* makes me really happy about Apple oppening retail stores in Europe.
*My only experience is in Ireland (see above) and Greece (absolutely terrible).
Burning AAC to cd and re-ripping is NOT lossless. At best you will get something as good as the original AAC, but in practice different codecs will throw out different pieces of information, so you will lose more.
It might sound great to you, but it is not lossless.
This is somewhat unfair to blizzard. Most mmorgs have an open or semi-open (eg. fileplanet members only) beta for the last month before launch.
Also, I don't think you are guaranteed a place. I seem to recall searching through forums for a Diablo II open beta (or was it Strees Test) cd-key because I didn't get in.
No, if you look at s60 phones, up until recently they were not aimed at people who "just want to make phone calls" as they were rather big and kind of ugly.
They were mostly aimed at geeks/ mobile phreaks (or wannabes), people with way too much disposable income, and those who got the most expensive phone they could afford without starving to death in order to show off.
Fair point, however I DO want more features on my cellphone. I'd love an applet that lets you use your phone as a remote via IR/BT (and such an applet indeed exists for S60 phones), a GB/GBA emulator, a dice roller app for pen-paper-and-phone rpgs, and there's also another app that remotely controls emule.
Ok, I admit that a lot (most?) of people who buy an expensive phone would be better off buying last year's (month's ?) model for half the money, but some people out there actually want the blinkenlights.
(Now if only Apple gets the 6230 working with iSync...)
>Why not just make a phone that is secure in the first place and >can't get viruses. This has to be the worst marketing ploy ever.
Because people want more and more features. Series 60 phones from nokia can run user-installed programs, and we all know what happens when you mix ease of installation (browse to a WAP/web page) and clueless users.
Still, the right aproach would be educating users and using some kind of sandbox model:
"pr0napplet wants to make a phone call" [Allow] [Deny] [Always] [Never]
But I completely agree that bundling snakeoil is NOT the way to go. Moving the antivirus arms race to mobile phones will only hurt the phone market in the long run: when your PC gets 0wned, most of the time you just lose the use of your bandwidth: the spam you send does not immediately hurt you. Should your phone get 0wned, you'll probaly run a service bill in the thousands of dollars (or euros). Once word gets out, some people will be too scared to use a smartphone.
A few months ago, they started using JS to load iframes with the torrent listings. If you already know what you are looking for, use search.suprnova.org
>IIRC, everytime something is installed on a windows >machine, an entry is placed in install.log
You don't. install.log is mostly used so an unistaller can now what to delete. A typical install.log resides inside a program's directory. I did a quick search in my hdd, and out of 28 install.log files, 26 where in \program files\foo and two where in \windows\system32\macromed\ (BAD macromedia).
The macrovision people get extra credit for dumping a file in the root directory.
I generaly like google, but I think that their (over)use of JS is more of a bug than a feature: It breaks stuff like the forward button, and 'middle click to open in a new tab' and they also don't support opera.
I know it's in beta, but you'd think they'd start by getting the basics down before going on to all the blinkenlights. I admit their JS blinkenlights are very nice, bordering on uber (autocomplete and of course the keyboard shortcuts), but having a simple lite (no JS, or any fancy tricks) cross-browser version can't be that tough.
I'm also concerned with this, although google seems to do the same thing from time to time (actually quite rarely)
But they do seem to have something for the tinfoil hat crowd: generic.a9.com. They claim that they dont keep any info from searches done through there.
If you would prefer not to be recognized on our site, we recommend that you use our alternate service located at generic.A9.com. On generic.a9.com, we will not recognize your A9.com or Amazon.com cookie. Information we gather on generic.a9.com will not be used in our data analysis (other than to detect abuse) and will not be used to personalize the services we offer you.[link]
[Nice troll, being a winamp fanboi, i can't help but reply]
Have you actually tried winamp 5 or are you talking out of your ass?
Seriously, winamp 5 is winamp 2 with winamp3 skin support (which is where most of the hogging comes from, and you can even disable it by uninstalling the "modern skins support" plugin) plus ripping and burning support (depending on who you ask -- it was added in an unofficial 2.x version)
On my athlon 2100+ system, winamp5 takes up 2.5 megs of ram while playing with a classic skin and less than 1% cpu (task manager says 0%) and while it jumps up to 15 megs with the default modern skin, cpu use stays the same.
On the new functionality thing, modern skins are a huge plus, as they have better international/ unicode support, they can alpha blend (try always on top + transparency with auto opaque on focus/hover). Also, classic skins feel very very small on 1280x1024 and up. The music library is better too, and the global hotkeys are kind of useful. I personally don't care about ripping and burning but i guess someone could like them.
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You are thinking about the creative muvo.
Define 'good':
They need drivers to show up as a hard drive,need special software to upload and download music, don't support any form of lossless encoding (WMA-lossless doesn't work on most portables), they are slightly bulky, they don't support AAC (most popular format for paid DLs last time I checked), do you want me to do on?
The iPod isn't perfect imho by any stretch, but I think you're really scraping the barrel with creative: Archos, iRiver or Rio might be better choices (they are probably between apple and creative in pricing).
You are wrong about the iPod. It shows up as a mass storage device (aka removable drive w/o any drivers).
You only 'need' itunes to upload music to it. (You can get your music back even without itunes)
You *are* right about the zen.
If you like wmp 6.4, you'll love media player classic.
Granted, you probably won't notice any differences while playing music, but it is great for movies (you can actually watch a movie, not the player's shinny animated buttons while fighting with the interface).
What are you talking about? Winamp DOES have ratings and automatic playlists. If anything winamp's smart playlists offer more options than iTunes:
a ry mode.png
In iTunes you can only use either a big list of simple terms joined with OR, or a big list of terms joined with AND. Up until 4.5 or so you couldn't do something like (rating>=3 AND gengre=rock) OR (rating>=4 and genre!=pop and genre!=commedy) OR (rating=5 and genre!=commedy) to get a rock-biased playlist.
In the last few versions you can "nest" queries because you can use "is on FOO playlist" as a term, but it will clutter your playlist list bigtime (Hey, apple, how about user folders in sources the list?)
Try giving winamp another chance. Version 3 was crap: in a way it felt like mozilla (coincidence ?) around the time of the single-digit milestones. V5 is as light as v2 if you don't use the purty skins (although unless you have an old PC you'll never notice, iTunes are heavier anyway), and the music library works well.
Also, they're making a single window skin for the people who like iTunes:
http://www.cockos.com/~steve/photos/single/libr
Amen to that, and before anybody says 'you buy an motherboard that supports SLI, get one 6600 @ $200 now then add a second one when you need more speed', you'll probably have a hard time tracking down the exact same model 18 months later, not to mention you might be better off selling your old card, and just buying whatever mid-range is polpular then.
You'll probably come on top performance-wise and you won't have to pay the extra $$ for an SLI motherboard. From what I've seen, if you want a motherboard that does SLI, you'll have to pay for the ULTRA 3XTREME PLATINUM GT LX++ model with all sorts of bells and whistles you might or might not need.
No, it goes second.
Then again IANAG
This just in:
According to Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple: "The most common format of audio files on an windows system is 'warezed'." He appears convinced Apple will lead the way in Digital Rights Management and also believes Apple will steal a march on Microsoft in making the digital home a reality because Microsoft "doesn't have the volumes". "There is no way that you can get there with Microsoft. The critical mass has to come from the iPod, or a next-generation video device"
I've been actually asked exactly that by the friendly folks at our local mac shop: "are you actually interested in buying an iPod ?".
Now, I admit, that I'm a 20 y.o. maths major, and look like it (beard, jeans & t-shirt, a sweater if you're lucky), but the fun part is I wasn't even at their store! They had booked a hall in the university to use as a showroom for a day. Who did they expect?
(needless to say, they didn't get any money from me)
The sheer stupidity of most apple retailers I've visited* makes me really happy about Apple oppening retail stores in Europe.
*My only experience is in Ireland (see above) and Greece (absolutely terrible).
Go to your account page (just click on your account name while browsing the UK iTMS), and then click on [Change Country].
1 + 1 = 3
For large values of 1 (and small values of 3)
Something is wrong with your and your friend's batteries. Seriously. My 12" G3/700 gets around 3.5 hours.
You are wrong.
Burning AAC to cd and re-ripping is NOT lossless. At best you will get something as good as the original AAC, but in practice different codecs will throw out different pieces of information, so you will lose more.
It might sound great to you, but it is not lossless.
This is somewhat unfair to blizzard. Most mmorgs have an open or semi-open (eg. fileplanet members only) beta for the last month before launch.
Also, I don't think you are guaranteed a place. I seem to recall searching through forums for a Diablo II open beta (or was it Strees Test) cd-key because I didn't get in.
No, if you look at s60 phones, up until recently they were not aimed at people who "just want to make phone calls" as they were rather big and kind of ugly.
They were mostly aimed at geeks/ mobile phreaks (or wannabes), people with way too much disposable income, and those who got the most expensive phone they could afford without starving to death in order to show off.
Fair point, however I DO want more features on my cellphone. I'd love an applet that lets you use your phone as a remote via IR/BT (and such an applet indeed exists for S60 phones), a GB/GBA emulator, a dice roller app for pen-paper-and-phone rpgs, and there's also another app that remotely controls emule.
Ok, I admit that a lot (most?) of people who buy an expensive phone would be better off buying last year's (month's ?) model for half the money, but some people out there actually want the blinkenlights.
(Now if only Apple gets the 6230 working with iSync...)
>Why not just make a phone that is secure in the first place and
>can't get viruses. This has to be the worst marketing ploy ever.
Because people want more and more features. Series 60 phones from nokia can run user-installed programs, and we all know what happens when you mix ease of installation (browse to a WAP/web page) and clueless users.
Still, the right aproach would be educating users and using some kind of sandbox model:
"pr0napplet wants to make a phone call"
[Allow] [Deny] [Always] [Never]
But I completely agree that bundling snakeoil is NOT the way to go. Moving the antivirus arms race to mobile phones will only hurt the phone market in the long run: when your PC gets 0wned, most of the time you just lose the use of your bandwidth: the spam you send does not immediately hurt you. Should your phone get 0wned, you'll probaly run a service bill in the thousands of dollars (or euros). Once word gets out, some people will be too scared to use a smartphone.
A few months ago, they started using JS to load iframes with the torrent listings. If you already know what you are looking for, use search.suprnova.org
>IIRC, everytime something is installed on a windows
>machine, an entry is placed in install.log
You don't. install.log is mostly used so an unistaller can now what to delete. A typical install.log resides inside a program's directory. I did a quick search in my hdd, and out of 28 install.log files, 26 where in \program files\foo and two where in \windows\system32\macromed\ (BAD macromedia).
The macrovision people get extra credit for dumping a file in the root directory.
I generaly like google, but I think that their (over)use of JS is more of a bug than a feature: It breaks stuff like the forward button, and 'middle click to open in a new tab' and they also don't support opera.
I know it's in beta, but you'd think they'd start by getting the basics down before going on to all the blinkenlights. I admit their JS blinkenlights are very nice, bordering on uber (autocomplete and of course the keyboard shortcuts), but having a simple lite (no JS, or any fancy tricks) cross-browser version can't be that tough.
>Macs run Windows XP a hell of a lot faster than a PC can run Mac OS X.
Yes, but G5's can't run virtual PC at all for the time being.
Yahoo!
I'm also concerned with this, although google seems to do the same thing from time to time (actually quite rarely)
But they do seem to have something for the tinfoil hat crowd: generic.a9.com. They claim that they dont keep any info from searches done through there.
If you would prefer not to be recognized on our site, we recommend that you use our alternate service located at generic.A9.com. On generic.a9.com, we will not recognize your A9.com or Amazon.com cookie. Information we gather on generic.a9.com will not be used in our data analysis (other than to detect abuse) and will not be used to personalize the services we offer you. [link]
[Nice troll, being a winamp fanboi, i can't help but reply]
Have you actually tried winamp 5 or are you talking out of your ass?
Seriously, winamp 5 is winamp 2 with winamp3 skin support (which is where most of the hogging comes from, and you can even disable it by uninstalling the "modern skins support" plugin) plus ripping and burning support (depending on who you ask -- it was added in an unofficial 2.x version)
On my athlon 2100+ system, winamp5 takes up 2.5 megs of ram while playing with a classic skin and less than 1% cpu (task manager says 0%) and while it jumps up to 15 megs with the default modern skin, cpu use stays the same.
On the new functionality thing, modern skins are a huge plus, as they have better international/ unicode support, they can alpha blend (try always on top + transparency with auto opaque on focus/hover). Also, classic skins feel very very small on 1280x1024 and up. The music library is better too, and the global hotkeys are kind of useful. I personally don't care about ripping and burning but i guess someone could like them.
It's quite simple really: A site is slashdotted when it gets a lot of unexpected (ie they are unprepared for it) traffic.
/. traffic is not a lot by their standards.
/. traffic is, by definition expected.
CNN, NYT, google etc are immune because
Slashdot is immune because