KDE is nowhere near as good a GUI as OSX's. Neither is Gnome or Windows. All the non-Mac GUI's are basically the same, because we all know that KDE and Gnome are just clones of Windows. The Dock in OSX is one of the greatest GUI elements. It combines quick launch, the taskbar, open applicatrions, and open windows into one simple place. You might say that OSX is not tasked-based, but it is, and done very well. Tasks and applications are the same in OS X. If you don't want to see an app, just close the windows, but the task still runs. If you want to totally quit it, either selecty quit or right click on it's dock icon. And for applications that try to quit anyway, you can simply hide them, restoring with one click. Plus the dock gives you a quick view of all running programs and their status (like new e-mail, or im's).
there are ads in the osx aim and the classic mac aim. a while ago, aohell blocked fire, which used the oscar protocol at the time. now it uses the toc protocol, which aohell does not block
let's hope they are dumasses (which they are) and not link to LAME as a separate library. then they have to give back the code they made that plays these cds
it's a pretty simple thing to do. there could be four usb ports on the front. controllers, hubs, keyboards (useful for typing in name), etc. can be plugged in. and controllers can be used on computers and maybe even other consoles.
get a laptop, wireless card, and an access point. you can move around, iming, emailing, and surfing. and since it's a separate thing, you can watch tv or play video games while on the internet.
kinda offtopic, but when the hell is aohell gonna make it so thrid party aim clients can read peoples' away messages without pissing them off by iming them when they are gone? adium beats the pants off of the official client except for this
because they own the cable lines in most places, they have a monopoly on cable. you can't go to another company and get your cable for less or get better service. the same is true with telephone service. in most places, you don't have a choice of who your phone company is
now what aol is doing now is changing their cable wires from copper to fiber optic. the fiber optic wire will allow you to fit cable, internet, and phone on one wire. this would turn out to be cool if you had a choice over who provides the service. it is obvious aol will not let anyone else use their lines, but hopefully the government will make them
they are trying to sell their product, a cd copier. being able to copy "copy-protected" cd's is a cool feature people will pay money for. they are not doing this to be cool, they are trying to make money
if apple were to ever make the ipod usable with windows, they would, the support would be built into quicktime. that way, everyone that buys an ipod has quicktime installed, therefore largely increasing the quicktime installed base. of course this would happen with quicktime 6 or so when mpeg4 support gets built in. mpeg4 and ipod would make windows users actually want to use quicktime, especially if they remove the annoying ads
I've had this device for a year now, whereas the iPod fanatics are only just beginning to realise how revolutionary ir is to carry your whole music collection around in your pocket.
An AJB can not fit in your pocket, unless it is a cargo pocket. And if you do manage to fit in, you have to take it out each time you want to change songs or anything else then put it back in. And there's a good chance your pants will fall off.
They had a segment about that on the Daily Show. It showed a commercial with BNN, a fake news channel standing for Business News Network, advertising Blimpie stock. It was probably just made up, but they talk about how they try to make you trust them by making th commercial seem like news.
Concerning this topic, there are three main types of products sold.
1) Merchandise - This includes things like computers, furniture, cars, and clothes. Merchandise can usually not be copied. Sure cheap imitations can be made, but since imitations are not the same thing as the real thing, most people will buy the real thing anyway. However, software can be copied and books can be reprinted to copied digitally. Generally merchandise will be bought only once.
2) Services - This includes things like internet access, plane tickets, and lawyers. Services can not be copied either. If the price is right for the service one wants, he/she will buy that service. Services are usually recurring. That is, they are bought many times. So, companies generally see services as the most profitable way to make money. '.NET' and Pay-Per-View show this.
3) Media - This includes music and video. Currently, media can easily be copied. Computers and file sharing programs make media easier than ever to copy. Media is unique so it needs more explanation.
In the beginning media was a service. Since there were no microphones, recording devices, or cameras, media couldn't be copied without a lot of work. So, media providers charged for each time they performed a concert or play.
Before modern technology, when you wanted to hear a song, you would have to hire someone or a group of people to play that song. If you wanted to see a play (the equivalent of a movie), you'd have to buy a ticked.
When things like tapes, cd's, vhs, dvd, computers were invented, everything changed because media became a product. If you want to hear a song now, you can buy the cd and listen to it as many times as you want. If you want to see a movie, you can buy it on vhs or dvd.
However, media is still in some ways a service. Concerts and movie theaters are still services (with the exception of movie passes), which generally are the most profitable.
Up until file sharing and the internet, media as a product was relatively profitable. With microphones, camcorders, or video input cards, media could be digitalized, but it was a cheap imitation digital version.
When media companies make media available as digital files, those files can easily be copied (even with drm/css/whatever they come up with next). The result is freely available, near same quality copies of the media. People have the choice of paying for the real thing or getting a free, damn good imitation.
The media companies' response to this is to make the digital versions unable to be copied. Non-computer cd's are easy to rip, css was broken ages ago, and drm is just vapor right now. Also, media companies tried to kill the Napsters, which allow the digital media to be easily copied. But this has proven to be a wild goose chase.
RIght now, the media companies need to come up with a solution to keep alive. They can't make media available only as a service, because then concerts and movie theaters would be the only way to get media. The problem with this is that the media is not always available, and can not be accessed on demand. So, a digital copy has to be available.
The only problem is that the digital copy is copied and distributed over the internet easily. It only takes one person to rip a cd or dvd and encode its content. Then, people download it and keep the full, near original quality copy of it without buying it.
There is a simple and obvious solution to all this: make a digital copy freely available all over the internet (from a website, on fasttrack, gnutella, etc.).
This download is not the great-quality full version though. Obviously, it can be a low-quality mp3 or video file.
In the case of music, this would work well because music is repeatedly. Only people that don't care about quality would not keep this low-quality version and not buy the real thing.
However, with movies, this would not work well. One of the main points of a movie is to follow the plot line and laugh at the jokes. When you see a movie, you usually don't want to see it again, unless it is really good. SO, people would watch the low-quality version and forget about it.
In order to keep people from just downloading the low-quality version and using it, the media companies would have to limit the digital copy in another way. This way would be trimming. With songs, only some parts would be in it. If you want to hear the rest, you buy the cd. With videos, the good stuff is included. It would be necessary to make the digital copy have lots of foreshadowing to make the viewer go to the movie or buy the dvd.
You might say there is an obvious hole in my solution. When someone buys the cd opr dvd, they will rip it and share it on the internet. The trick is to make the trimmed copy a lot easier to get than the ripped copy. Making it available early would also help because it will have spread more and the chances of downloading it would be greater. Plus, they might want to have a better experience and see it in big screen or have a good time at a concert.
Basically, media should be offered as a service (concerts, in theaters), a product (cd, dvd), and a freebie (trimmed version). Of course, people will still share songs and movies, but with my solution people have the chance to get a taste of what it is without paying and finding out it's crap, and buy it if they aren't cheap bastards.
13" 1280x1024 feed foward LCD display it's got a 15" LCD. 1280 rez on a 13" monitor?!? what are you thinking?
700MHz G4 800MHz, even better
DDR Ram it could use ddr ram, but macs generally don't need ram that fast because the processor speed and bus speed are generally slower than pc's. ddr would be faster than needed
Mobile Radeon geforce2 mx
DVD superdrive (that's a DVD burner and reader,m cd burner, and cd reader in one)
DVI connector wait for the 17" model. if u need a bigger monitor than that, u should be getting a powermac anyway
FireWire2 no such thing
USB2 there aren't many usb2 things yet. firewire covers what you would need usb2 for anyway
Gigabit Ethernet it's got 10/100. again, if you need 1000, you should have a powermac
Airport it has airport. just get the card and put it in
Irda irda is slow compared to usb or airport. also not as compatible
Bluetooth could interfere with airport. noobs wouldn't like that
PCMCIA it's not a laptop
Since LimeWire is open source, someone made a nice clone of it without spyware or ads. It is called Clean LimeWire and is available at http://us.geocities.com/burk017/index.html.
some people don't need encryption for their wireless networks. they are not top secret information. i have a wireless network which i never bothered to encrypt. mostly because it doesn't do much but also because im too lazy to
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KDE is nowhere near as good a GUI as OSX's. Neither is Gnome or Windows. All the non-Mac GUI's are basically the same, because we all know that KDE and Gnome are just clones of Windows. The Dock in OSX is one of the greatest GUI elements. It combines quick launch, the taskbar, open applicatrions, and open windows into one simple place. You might say that OSX is not tasked-based, but it is, and done very well. Tasks and applications are the same in OS X. If you don't want to see an app, just close the windows, but the task still runs. If you want to totally quit it, either selecty quit or right click on it's dock icon. And for applications that try to quit anyway, you can simply hide them, restoring with one click. Plus the dock gives you a quick view of all running programs and their status (like new e-mail, or im's).
there are ads in the osx aim and the classic mac aim. a while ago, aohell blocked fire, which used the oscar protocol at the time. now it uses the toc protocol, which aohell does not block
sound quality : size
which wins? ogg or wma
limewire version 2 does
let's hope they are dumasses (which they are) and not link to LAME as a separate library. then they have to give back the code they made that plays these cds
it's a pretty simple thing to do. there could be four usb ports on the front. controllers, hubs, keyboards (useful for typing in name), etc. can be plugged in. and controllers can be used on computers and maybe even other consoles.
get a laptop, wireless card, and an access point. you can move around, iming, emailing, and surfing. and since it's a separate thing, you can watch tv or play video games while on the internet.
kinda offtopic, but when the hell is aohell gonna make it so thrid party aim clients can read peoples' away messages without pissing them off by iming them when they are gone? adium beats the pants off of the official client except for this
because they own the cable lines in most places, they have a monopoly on cable. you can't go to another company and get your cable for less or get better service. the same is true with telephone service. in most places, you don't have a choice of who your phone company is
now what aol is doing now is changing their cable wires from copper to fiber optic. the fiber optic wire will allow you to fit cable, internet, and phone on one wire. this would turn out to be cool if you had a choice over who provides the service. it is obvious aol will not let anyone else use their lines, but hopefully the government will make them
more people will buy quicktime pro if there are more people using quicktime. that way people can play your files
they are trying to sell their product, a cd copier. being able to copy "copy-protected" cd's is a cool feature people will pay money for. they are not doing this to be cool, they are trying to make money
have you tried fink?
once you get it installed all you need is
$ sudo apt-get install xfree86-server
and you've got x installed!
if apple were to ever make the ipod usable with windows, they would, the support would be built into quicktime. that way, everyone that buys an ipod has quicktime installed, therefore largely increasing the quicktime installed base. of course this would happen with quicktime 6 or so when mpeg4 support gets built in. mpeg4 and ipod would make windows users actually want to use quicktime, especially if they remove the annoying ads
I've had this device for a year now, whereas the iPod fanatics are only just beginning to realise how revolutionary ir is to carry your whole music collection around in your pocket.
An AJB can not fit in your pocket, unless it is a cargo pocket. And if you do manage to fit in, you have to take it out each time you want to change songs or anything else then put it back in. And there's a good chance your pants will fall off.
They had a segment about that on the Daily Show. It showed a commercial with BNN, a fake news channel standing for Business News Network, advertising Blimpie stock. It was probably just made up, but they talk about how they try to make you trust them by making th commercial seem like news.
Concerning this topic, there are three main types of products sold.
1) Merchandise - This includes things like computers, furniture, cars, and clothes. Merchandise can usually not be copied. Sure cheap imitations can be made, but since imitations are not the same thing as the real thing, most people will buy the real thing anyway. However, software can be copied and books can be reprinted to copied digitally. Generally merchandise will be bought only once.
2) Services - This includes things like internet access, plane tickets, and lawyers. Services can not be copied either. If the price is right for the service one wants, he/she will buy that service. Services are usually recurring. That is, they are bought many times. So, companies generally see services as the most profitable way to make money. '.NET' and Pay-Per-View show this.
3) Media - This includes music and video. Currently, media can easily be copied. Computers and file sharing programs make media easier than ever to copy. Media is unique so it needs more explanation.
In the beginning media was a service. Since there were no microphones, recording devices, or cameras, media couldn't be copied without a lot of work. So, media providers charged for each time they performed a concert or play.
Before modern technology, when you wanted to hear a song, you would have to hire someone or a group of people to play that song. If you wanted to see a play (the equivalent of a movie), you'd have to buy a ticked.
When things like tapes, cd's, vhs, dvd, computers were invented, everything changed because media became a product. If you want to hear a song now, you can buy the cd and listen to it as many times as you want. If you want to see a movie, you can buy it on vhs or dvd.
However, media is still in some ways a service. Concerts and movie theaters are still services (with the exception of movie passes), which generally are the most profitable.
Up until file sharing and the internet, media as a product was relatively profitable. With microphones, camcorders, or video input cards, media could be digitalized, but it was a cheap imitation digital version.
When media companies make media available as digital files, those files can easily be copied (even with drm/css/whatever they come up with next). The result is freely available, near same quality copies of the media. People have the choice of paying for the real thing or getting a free, damn good imitation.
The media companies' response to this is to make the digital versions unable to be copied. Non-computer cd's are easy to rip, css was broken ages ago, and drm is just vapor right now. Also, media companies tried to kill the Napsters, which allow the digital media to be easily copied. But this has proven to be a wild goose chase.
RIght now, the media companies need to come up with a solution to keep alive. They can't make media available only as a service, because then concerts and movie theaters would be the only way to get media. The problem with this is that the media is not always available, and can not be accessed on demand. So, a digital copy has to be available.
The only problem is that the digital copy is copied and distributed over the internet easily. It only takes one person to rip a cd or dvd and encode its content. Then, people download it and keep the full, near original quality copy of it without buying it.
There is a simple and obvious solution to all this: make a digital copy freely available all over the internet (from a website, on fasttrack, gnutella, etc.).
This download is not the great-quality full version though. Obviously, it can be a low-quality mp3 or video file.
In the case of music, this would work well because music is repeatedly. Only people that don't care about quality would not keep this low-quality version and not buy the real thing.
However, with movies, this would not work well. One of the main points of a movie is to follow the plot line and laugh at the jokes. When you see a movie, you usually don't want to see it again, unless it is really good. SO, people would watch the low-quality version and forget about it.
In order to keep people from just downloading the low-quality version and using it, the media companies would have to limit the digital copy in another way. This way would be trimming. With songs, only some parts would be in it. If you want to hear the rest, you buy the cd. With videos, the good stuff is included. It would be necessary to make the digital copy have lots of foreshadowing to make the viewer go to the movie or buy the dvd.
You might say there is an obvious hole in my solution. When someone buys the cd opr dvd, they will rip it and share it on the internet. The trick is to make the trimmed copy a lot easier to get than the ripped copy. Making it available early would also help because it will have spread more and the chances of downloading it would be greater. Plus, they might want to have a better experience and see it in big screen or have a good time at a concert.
Basically, media should be offered as a service (concerts, in theaters), a product (cd, dvd), and a freebie (trimmed version). Of course, people will still share songs and movies, but with my solution people have the chance to get a taste of what it is without paying and finding out it's crap, and buy it if they aren't cheap bastards.
13" 1280x1024 feed foward LCD display
it's got a 15" LCD. 1280 rez on a 13" monitor?!? what are you thinking?
700MHz G4
800MHz, even better
DDR Ram
it could use ddr ram, but macs generally don't need ram that fast because the processor speed and bus speed are generally slower than pc's. ddr would be faster than needed
Mobile Radeon
geforce2 mx
DVD
superdrive (that's a DVD burner and reader,m cd burner, and cd reader in one)
DVI connector
wait for the 17" model. if u need a bigger monitor than that, u should be getting a powermac anyway
FireWire2
no such thing
USB2
there aren't many usb2 things yet. firewire covers what you would need usb2 for anyway
Gigabit Ethernet
it's got 10/100. again, if you need 1000, you should have a powermac
Airport
it has airport. just get the card and put it in
Irda
irda is slow compared to usb or airport. also not as compatible
Bluetooth
could interfere with airport. noobs wouldn't like that
PCMCIA
it's not a laptop
Since LimeWire is open source, someone made a nice clone of it without spyware or ads. It is called Clean LimeWire and is available at http://us.geocities.com/burk017/index.html.
the ipod has a small 5gb drive in it
what is up with everyone trying to target ads at us???
no one clicks ads, especially because they are really annoying
targeting ads doesn't make me want to click either. if i was looking for something on the internet, i would have found it already
some people don't need encryption for their wireless networks. they are not top secret information. i have a wireless network which i never bothered to encrypt. mostly because it doesn't do much but also because im too lazy to
umm. i have been getting almost 4 hours of battery life for over two years, since i bought my ibook
omniweb has a spell checker in it because it is a cocoa application. it is nice when filling out forms
or...
user decided not to waste time downloading and installing update and is screwed
"This is the most secure version of Windows we have ever released"
that says a lot