You obviously don't know much about AV, do you? Otherwise you wouldn't be make a fool of yourself.
Ah, so this is an anti-Mac thing? Now it makes more sense. But you'd never admit to thinking FireWire is worthless simply because you hate the company associated with its creation, because that would be stupid, right?
Your last point still doesn't make sense because you are ignoring the things I have told you. Or do you think that every person who buys a video camera places portability (as in the ability to download it using any computer in the world) above ease of use and reliability? Assuming your video camera portability argument actually made sense.
Why do you assume that everyone needs the ability to upload their vacation videos in internet cafes? There are probably more FireWire capable net cafes than there are net cafes with the ability to upload hours of untouched HD video in a reasonable amount of time and money.
You do know that FireWire is common standard in video cameras because of its low latency designed specifically for streaming audio and video, right? You can do it across USB, but then you may face problems such as dropping frames/sync issues, etc.
I've seen plenty of Mac internet cafes around, and Macs are even more common than they were before. I doubt finding a Mac (or Windows with FireWire) in case a laptop breaks during a trip is going to leave you any more high and dry than trying to get your video off your video camera using USB under some old Windows 98 box.
Besides, just how many people download their video straight to the internet when they're on vacation? If your point is still about ubiquity, then I think you sadly overestimate the world's internet cafes bandwidth capability -- unless you like to spend your vacation waiting for stuff to finish down/uploading?
And if you are referring to accessing the video camera as a mass storage device, or something similar, to copy the video data off, then I'm guessing most of those types will also have USB for doing just that, similar to how many FireWire enclosures on the market also have USB.
Of course, if you are talking about high-end audio, "pro-sumer" grade MIDI instruments that have FireWire, most of them don't seem to have USB. But then again, you won't find many USB connections in those areas to begin with.
Perhaps you should give Pages a go. Cheaper than MS Office, and easier to use than either MS Office, Neooffice, or Appleworks. Or if you just want to type a simple letter, TextEdit can do that, and even save it one of the various office formats among other formats.
Same here. I used to love an excuse to open up my old PCs, but now I have other priorities. And since I'm a web developer rather than an IT admin, mucking about with computers themselves is not part of my job, so I don't want to spend time researching, building, and maintaining my own systems anymore. I think this is quite a common theme.
Errr... the author simply said that the policy gave the stores the feel of a community center, not that anyone was claiming that the stores were in fact community centers. You may calm down now.
But the thing is, lithium ion, and especially lithium polymer, are more of a fire risk compared to other common cell types from what I've read. It's not just the energy inside, it's the way it comes out when something goes wrong. I'm not saying I support the ban, but I don't see how this is a slippery slope for banning new cell technologies.
Well, that's all very well, but design flaws, undetectable defects, and accidents happen. I mean, how exactly do you decide when something is sound while still being realistic?
...that this is in response to all the horror stories of the last year of batteries catching fire and/or exploding. Neither of which would be unique to lithium batteries, and is more a product of lousy quality control than rogue individuals.
I suggest you read up on Li-Po (lithium polymer) cells. I can't recall about normal lithium ion cells, but lithium polymer cells are more dangerous than older cell technologies such as NiCads. If you miss-treat them, or there is a fault in the charging, or too much current is drawn, they can literally burst into flames much more violently than other types of cells.
I use external drives because I have data that I don't need or want (backups) to keep on my main HDD, as well as for transporting data. iMacs don't have room for extra drives -- most people don't need them. Same goes for laptops, too, before you try to get me on that one.
If you need portability, you need an interface that you can count on being everywhere. That's not firewire.
Damn right. But not everyone is looking for those things; some people have other requirements. Otherwise, you could make the same argument for eSATA.
At the moment, comparing USB to FireWire is still like comparing apples to oranges. They do have a large crossover in terms of what they do (hence our discussion), but the USB 2 spec, and AFAIK, the USB 3 spec, still hasn't made FireWire redundant. Maybe it will in the future -- who knows. If so, then perhaps FireWire will fade away.
Steve Jobs called...and wanted to remind you that the iPod made a shit load of money and made Apple a big brand name, and that while the X-box may be a financial disaster, the iPod and iPhone aren't.
Say what you will about their business ethics regarding things like patents, but Steve Jobs is a very competent businessman. And because of that, general rules such as sticking to core business are less likely to apply here. In some ways, they haven't expanded that much. The iPhone is almost a natural spin-off of the iPod. It's not like they've jumped right into the gaming console market; all there non-computer products seem to be quite strongly related to their computer development if you look beneath the surface.
Leopard could have done with a few more months, but they probably felt pressured after the iPhone delays. Hopefully they will learn their lesson and the next version will be a much smoother upgrade.
You see, that's the difference for me. I believe that Apple do care about these kinds of things as well as their profits, so they are going to learn from it and improve. When I look at Microsoft, I get the impression they just don't care about their user experience, therefore I don't expect things to get much better with them.
As for your specific issues, they are just part of computing, at the moment, unfortunately. I've never had those specific problems (although I've had other problems). I found several of the new features, that you haven't listed, as very useful. So this area can be quite subjective.
This still ignores that fact that FireWire can do things that USB can't, so no matter how common USB is, it still can't replace FireWire for certain things. Now, perhaps you will never use them, but that doesn't change that fact that many people do. Or is this simply a popularity contest, rather than one of practicality?
I see no reason why, and you can't seem to prove to me otherwise. I seems to me that you simply don't have a real argument here, as evident by your last few posts that aren't backed up by anything. Telling me to re-read it is not an option, because I have done so, and I just see BS. You need to actually summarize your point, because if there is one here, it's been broken across several posts and doesn't make such sense anymore.
Since when was this only about you? I'm not even sure what that last sentence is supposed to mean. Unless you can give me some real facts or show some sort of example of logical reasoning, then why bother replying?
Because of the laws of physics, there are limits to progress. I don't know the details, but I'm sure someone can chime in with some of the problems. And, in fact, disk speeds haven't increased nearly as much as the bus speeds have. You also forget that 10 years ago, any movies on your computer would have been very low quality, compared to what you can get today -- the more space you get, the more space people will find ways to fill it. So one again you have over-simplified the situation.
For video production houses or the big boys in Hollywood who do want uncompressed backup the parents point is pretty valid due to the same reason of storage costs - its only going to become cheaper
Cheaper, yes. But that doesn't necessarily make it cheap.
And doesn't the "who cares about mega-pixel" attitude with digital cameras prove that there is natural limit to rez?
There is a sort-of a natural limit to res, but it depends on how big you want what ever it is your are showing to be in the first place. The mega-pixel issue with digital cameras is more about the lack of importance placed on lenses to go with better sensors, not that today's sensors are overkill for developers/publishers.
Anyway, while I'm sure this article is inaccurate, I still think that it's no trivial matter at the moment and in the short-term future, bar any breakthrough in storage technology.
BTW, this is an unrealistic argument, but if you think the Red camera is high-res, then you should check-out UHDV, with its mind-boggling 3.2GBs a second. Of course, it will be a fair while (if ever) before general consumers will be touching uncompressed 7680 x 4320 at 60fps. With that kind res, you'd never need to go outside. 10 points if you can guess the Futurama quote I'm thinking right now.
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You obviously don't know much about AV, do you? Otherwise you wouldn't be make a fool of yourself.
Ah, so this is an anti-Mac thing? Now it makes more sense. But you'd never admit to thinking FireWire is worthless simply because you hate the company associated with its creation, because that would be stupid, right?
Your last point still doesn't make sense because you are ignoring the things I have told you. Or do you think that every person who buys a video camera places portability (as in the ability to download it using any computer in the world) above ease of use and reliability? Assuming your video camera portability argument actually made sense.
Why do you assume that everyone needs the ability to upload their vacation videos in internet cafes? There are probably more FireWire capable net cafes than there are net cafes with the ability to upload hours of untouched HD video in a reasonable amount of time and money.
You do know that FireWire is common standard in video cameras because of its low latency designed specifically for streaming audio and video, right? You can do it across USB, but then you may face problems such as dropping frames/sync issues, etc.
I've seen plenty of Mac internet cafes around, and Macs are even more common than they were before. I doubt finding a Mac (or Windows with FireWire) in case a laptop breaks during a trip is going to leave you any more high and dry than trying to get your video off your video camera using USB under some old Windows 98 box.
Besides, just how many people download their video straight to the internet when they're on vacation? If your point is still about ubiquity, then I think you sadly overestimate the world's internet cafes bandwidth capability -- unless you like to spend your vacation waiting for stuff to finish down/uploading?
And if you are referring to accessing the video camera as a mass storage device, or something similar, to copy the video data off, then I'm guessing most of those types will also have USB for doing just that, similar to how many FireWire enclosures on the market also have USB.
Of course, if you are talking about high-end audio, "pro-sumer" grade MIDI instruments that have FireWire, most of them don't seem to have USB. But then again, you won't find many USB connections in those areas to begin with.
So none of the video cameras with FireWire connections are reasonable?
And you're sure that many batteries don't already use any of these measures?
Perhaps you should give Pages a go. Cheaper than MS Office, and easier to use than either MS Office, Neooffice, or Appleworks. Or if you just want to type a simple letter, TextEdit can do that, and even save it one of the various office formats among other formats.
Same here. I used to love an excuse to open up my old PCs, but now I have other priorities. And since I'm a web developer rather than an IT admin, mucking about with computers themselves is not part of my job, so I don't want to spend time researching, building, and maintaining my own systems anymore. I think this is quite a common theme.
Errr... the author simply said that the policy gave the stores the feel of a community center, not that anyone was claiming that the stores were in fact community centers. You may calm down now.
But the thing is, lithium ion, and especially lithium polymer, are more of a fire risk compared to other common cell types from what I've read. It's not just the energy inside, it's the way it comes out when something goes wrong. I'm not saying I support the ban, but I don't see how this is a slippery slope for banning new cell technologies.
Perhaps you should read up on it before saying that NAS, USB, or eSATA are viable alternatives?
Well, that's all very well, but design flaws, undetectable defects, and accidents happen. I mean, how exactly do you decide when something is sound while still being realistic?
What makes you think this is only about terrorism?
Why should they be automatically banned, unless they also pose a high fire-risk?
...that this is in response to all the horror stories of the last year of batteries catching fire and/or exploding. Neither of which would be unique to lithium batteries, and is more a product of lousy quality control than rogue individuals.
I suggest you read up on Li-Po (lithium polymer) cells. I can't recall about normal lithium ion cells, but lithium polymer cells are more dangerous than older cell technologies such as NiCads. If you miss-treat them, or there is a fault in the charging, or too much current is drawn, they can literally burst into flames much more violently than other types of cells.
I use external drives because I have data that I don't need or want (backups) to keep on my main HDD, as well as for transporting data. iMacs don't have room for extra drives -- most people don't need them. Same goes for laptops, too, before you try to get me on that one.
If you need portability, you need an interface that you can count on being everywhere. That's not firewire.
Damn right. But not everyone is looking for those things; some people have other requirements. Otherwise, you could make the same argument for eSATA.
At the moment, comparing USB to FireWire is still like comparing apples to oranges. They do have a large crossover in terms of what they do (hence our discussion), but the USB 2 spec, and AFAIK, the USB 3 spec, still hasn't made FireWire redundant. Maybe it will in the future -- who knows. If so, then perhaps FireWire will fade away.
But without the ideas, there would be nothing to implement, would there? One might even say that patents are instructions for implementing an idea.
Steve Jobs called...and wanted to remind you that the iPod made a shit load of money and made Apple a big brand name, and that while the X-box may be a financial disaster, the iPod and iPhone aren't.
Say what you will about their business ethics regarding things like patents, but Steve Jobs is a very competent businessman. And because of that, general rules such as sticking to core business are less likely to apply here. In some ways, they haven't expanded that much. The iPhone is almost a natural spin-off of the iPod. It's not like they've jumped right into the gaming console market; all there non-computer products seem to be quite strongly related to their computer development if you look beneath the surface.
Leopard could have done with a few more months, but they probably felt pressured after the iPhone delays. Hopefully they will learn their lesson and the next version will be a much smoother upgrade.
You see, that's the difference for me. I believe that Apple do care about these kinds of things as well as their profits, so they are going to learn from it and improve. When I look at Microsoft, I get the impression they just don't care about their user experience, therefore I don't expect things to get much better with them.
As for your specific issues, they are just part of computing, at the moment, unfortunately. I've never had those specific problems (although I've had other problems). I found several of the new features, that you haven't listed, as very useful. So this area can be quite subjective.
This still ignores that fact that FireWire can do things that USB can't, so no matter how common USB is, it still can't replace FireWire for certain things. Now, perhaps you will never use them, but that doesn't change that fact that many people do. Or is this simply a popularity contest, rather than one of practicality?
My external drives have both USB and FireWire. This is quite a common feature for FireWire enclosures. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I see no reason why, and you can't seem to prove to me otherwise. I seems to me that you simply don't have a real argument here, as evident by your last few posts that aren't backed up by anything. Telling me to re-read it is not an option, because I have done so, and I just see BS. You need to actually summarize your point, because if there is one here, it's been broken across several posts and doesn't make such sense anymore.
No. I assumed you knew something about AV, since you made a comment on the subject. Or perhaps you don't really know what you are talking about?
Since when was this only about you? I'm not even sure what that last sentence is supposed to mean. Unless you can give me some real facts or show some sort of example of logical reasoning, then why bother replying?
Because of the laws of physics, there are limits to progress. I don't know the details, but I'm sure someone can chime in with some of the problems. And, in fact, disk speeds haven't increased nearly as much as the bus speeds have. You also forget that 10 years ago, any movies on your computer would have been very low quality, compared to what you can get today -- the more space you get, the more space people will find ways to fill it. So one again you have over-simplified the situation.
I know many people who work only in a Mac environment. Care to tell us what AV tools make FireWire redundant, then?
For video production houses or the big boys in Hollywood who do want uncompressed backup the parents point is pretty valid due to the same reason of storage costs - its only going to become cheaper
Cheaper, yes. But that doesn't necessarily make it cheap.
And doesn't the "who cares about mega-pixel" attitude with digital cameras prove that there is natural limit to rez?
There is a sort-of a natural limit to res, but it depends on how big you want what ever it is your are showing to be in the first place. The mega-pixel issue with digital cameras is more about the lack of importance placed on lenses to go with better sensors, not that today's sensors are overkill for developers/publishers.
Anyway, while I'm sure this article is inaccurate, I still think that it's no trivial matter at the moment and in the short-term future, bar any breakthrough in storage technology.
BTW, this is an unrealistic argument, but if you think the Red camera is high-res, then you should check-out UHDV, with its mind-boggling 3.2GBs a second. Of course, it will be a fair while (if ever) before general consumers will be touching uncompressed 7680 x 4320 at 60fps. With that kind res, you'd never need to go outside. 10 points if you can guess the Futurama quote I'm thinking right now.
I'm not commenting on the figures thrown around in the article, just that we are talking about quite a lot more data that many people seem to think.