CDs are much, much, slower to write than flash memory, and have fewer rewrite cycles. 10000 rewrites isn't a problem in an MP3 player; at one sync a day that's three decades before you begin running into problems, and that's only if you completely rewrite the whole drive with each sync (which of course isn't the case).
And I don't know what you're talking about with CDs and DRM, but DRM-wise there's nothing CDs can do that a flash or HD based player can't.
The only real advantage for an MP3-CD player over a flash/HD player is cost. And maybe the fact that you can buy a CD straight off the shelf and play it without having to rip it first, but that's pretty trivial.
They'll take a cut in profits, initially. Apple makes a large margin on 4GB minis, and will probably make a small margin on flash-based Minis. They'll make up for it in volume and publicity (the coolness factor of flash memory). And the price of flash drives will keep going down.
They don't have anywhere near the hard drive space for everyone to use all their storage. Most people never come close; I only have 50MB in my account. And even if someone did use all their space, plain text compresses extremely well, so 2.5GB of text would be 1GB or less compressed.
iTunes runs quite well under Wine (especially with Crossover), so you don't really need a new machine. Then again, if it's a Mac mini, go for it. They're sweet.
While that's true, and an excellent point, I believe the original source (linked somewhere higher up in the discussion) was actually referring to people insuring against space-alien abduction of themselves, not the kidnapping of their children.
It should be pointed out that many supposedly "foreign" car companies, such as Toyota and Honda, run US production plants employing American workers. So what you should really look for if you care about that sort of thing is a car made in America, not necessarily just from the Big Three.
Lloyds may be known for insuring high-risk items, but that doesn't mean that everything it insures, or even a majority, it high risk. 100,000 Americans have Lloyds policies against being abducted by aliens.
The Geo is, as you say, an econobox. The Prius is not. You can fit four people in it comfortably, with luggage. It has all the standard safety features that one would expect from a modern car, and the performance as well. There's a reason Geo Metros didn't take off, and it's because very few people want to drive them. To make a real car with similar mileage to a Metro (my parent's Prius averages 50-55mpg over mixed highway/city driving) is a huge accomplishment.
That said, I would never buy a Prius myself. There are better cars for the price (and similar cars for much less), and there are many better ways to help the environment then by purchasing a new car.
Most big-brand computers come with system restoration CDs, which reformat the drive and reimage it with Windows and all the OEM-installed software. They're usually fairly idiot-proof, so I don't know why someone would have to buy a new machine.
I consider "the game" to be the experience available to the user when they pop in the unmodified disc and hit "start new game". A sex minigame is not aprt of that experience.
You still own copyright to anything you create. You may not be able to force other people to delete their copies (if they legitimately obtained them from you), but you can certainly stop them from distributing your content.
I mean any situation where you're inputting just notes without giving it specific guidance as to the presentation. You'd have to do a lot of hand-editing of.ly files with advanced commands to get the subtle spacing and other cues that a computer can't figure out because it can't interpret the notes musically. I didn't say it's impossible to get good results with Lilypond, just that good typesetting requires a lot of human input no matter how it's done.
And in many of Mutopia's scores, you can see that people just typed in the notes without going through and making sure everything looked good in the final output. Not to diminish their work, because it's a major step and a big accomplishment especially for larger works with lots of different parts, but it's not nearly enough to just enter the notes into Lilypond and expect professional results. Editing and typesetting a professional-quality score requires an intricate and advanced knowledge of the music and of the instrument it's written for, no matter what computer tools you're using.
You must not have ever used any of Apple's professional products. Final Cut Pro, Logic, Shake, Motion, WebObjects, OSX Server, DVD Studio Pro, etc. are not dumbed down pieces of software. I'd be interested to hear what features you think have been "stripped" from the PowerMac G5 or PowerBook, or even from OS X. Of course Apple's consumer-level products are stripped down, just as XP Home or Photoshop Elements are, but they're still quite capable and not at all "stupid".
As for the iPod, which it seems is the only actual product you're trying to describe, it works. It works perfectly for what most people want to do with it, and it works better than any of the better-featured competition. That's why it's popular. If it's not what you want, great, don't buy one, but it is excellent at what it does.
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Actually, you can.
The $400 bundle includes all that, but not if you buy the $300 version and later decide to get the $99 hard drive, which is what we're talking about.
And I don't know what you're talking about with CDs and DRM, but DRM-wise there's nothing CDs can do that a flash or HD based player can't.
The only real advantage for an MP3-CD player over a flash/HD player is cost. And maybe the fact that you can buy a CD straight off the shelf and play it without having to rip it first, but that's pretty trivial.
They'll take a cut in profits, initially. Apple makes a large margin on 4GB minis, and will probably make a small margin on flash-based Minis. They'll make up for it in volume and publicity (the coolness factor of flash memory). And the price of flash drives will keep going down.
Not nearly as widely used as MP3, and that didn't stop Apple from supporting it.
They don't have anywhere near the hard drive space for everyone to use all their storage. Most people never come close; I only have 50MB in my account. And even if someone did use all their space, plain text compresses extremely well, so 2.5GB of text would be 1GB or less compressed.
The TI-89 and 92 support grayscale; lower-model TI calculators don't.
iTunes runs quite well under Wine (especially with Crossover), so you don't really need a new machine. Then again, if it's a Mac mini, go for it. They're sweet.
Right here. Or here, minus the actual buying step.
The source is in the subject of the original comment. The reply added nothing.
That might actually make for a cool GTA minigame.
While that's true, and an excellent point, I believe the original source (linked somewhere higher up in the discussion) was actually referring to people insuring against space-alien abduction of themselves, not the kidnapping of their children.
It should be pointed out that many supposedly "foreign" car companies, such as Toyota and Honda, run US production plants employing American workers. So what you should really look for if you care about that sort of thing is a car made in America, not necessarily just from the Big Three.
If you're gonna go that far, why limit it to foreigners? You're much more likely to have a child kidnapped by someone nearby.
Lloyds may be known for insuring high-risk items, but that doesn't mean that everything it insures, or even a majority, it high risk. 100,000 Americans have Lloyds policies against being abducted by aliens.
That said, I would never buy a Prius myself. There are better cars for the price (and similar cars for much less), and there are many better ways to help the environment then by purchasing a new car.
Most big-brand computers come with system restoration CDs, which reformat the drive and reimage it with Windows and all the OEM-installed software. They're usually fairly idiot-proof, so I don't know why someone would have to buy a new machine.
I consider "the game" to be the experience available to the user when they pop in the unmodified disc and hit "start new game". A sex minigame is not aprt of that experience.
Current Germany != Nazi Germany.
Even if they were hashed, eight-character passwords are easy to brute-force once you have the hash to check them against.
You still own copyright to anything you create. You may not be able to force other people to delete their copies (if they legitimately obtained them from you), but you can certainly stop them from distributing your content.
IIRC, the nude female models are not in the actual game, and are advertised clearly as a third-party replacement for the normal clothed models.
I mean any situation where you're inputting just notes without giving it specific guidance as to the presentation. You'd have to do a lot of hand-editing of .ly files with advanced commands to get the subtle spacing and other cues that a computer can't figure out because it can't interpret the notes musically. I didn't say it's impossible to get good results with Lilypond, just that good typesetting requires a lot of human input no matter how it's done.
And in many of Mutopia's scores, you can see that people just typed in the notes without going through and making sure everything looked good in the final output. Not to diminish their work, because it's a major step and a big accomplishment especially for larger works with lots of different parts, but it's not nearly enough to just enter the notes into Lilypond and expect professional results. Editing and typesetting a professional-quality score requires an intricate and advanced knowledge of the music and of the instrument it's written for, no matter what computer tools you're using.
From what I've read here, it works fine in standards-compliant browsers but not in Opera or IE.
As for the iPod, which it seems is the only actual product you're trying to describe, it works. It works perfectly for what most people want to do with it, and it works better than any of the better-featured competition. That's why it's popular. If it's not what you want, great, don't buy one, but it is excellent at what it does.