See. The different here is the iPod supports MP3 *AND* AAC. Most other media players support MP3 *AND* WMV. If you don't like the DRM, you don't have to use it.
Sony's Walkman ONLY support ATRAC and the client software had to encode everything on the fly to ATRAC causing a loss in quality from repeated encodings, long transfer times, and you were left with files you couldn't do anything with other than play them on your Walkman.
The walkman was a failure that everyone could predict out at the same level as the N-Gage. Now they should do the same as Nokia and redesign it to be open, usable, and of a superior build quality.
When you're competing against a massive leader in the industry you don't gain market share by releasing a product that has less features than the leader.
Everyone has been talking about LCD price drops for the past 2 years but it just has not happened. I've been in the market to buy an LCD monitor for the past 2 years and I have not seen any significant drop.
With all the news of companies dropping plasma, more LCD plants being opened, production being increased, technology improving, why hasn't the price of LCD monitors been cut in half?
I think it's because it has the cool factor that lets the companies sell it at whatever price they want.
Look at the quality of LCDs in some laptop and how cheap they are. OFten times a comparable LCD for a Pc would be more expensive than he laptop WITH the lcd.
I'd like to find out who decides and backs these ridiculous app names.
Mozilla once said it would adopt the Firefox model and built seperate apps. What will happen when that happens? Will Firefox change it's name to Mozilla Browser? along with Mozilla Mail?
My PowerBook is lasting about that now and I considering this battery to be shot. I need a new one.
Most laptop manufacturers claim a battery life of between 5-7 hours. It's never nearly that much. Imagine how bad the battery must be if they claim 1.5 hours.
When you work in an organization when you have 5-10 passwords for different applications such as the network domain (email), web apps, etc; each requiring complexe passwords that expire every 3 months it become VERY hard to keep track of all these passwords and think of something else to replace them all with.
The animation in The Polar Express looks similar to that of the movement of the puppets in Team America.
The motion capture wasn't detailed enough to catch most of the facial expressions that are created by a human face.
The way the actors are moving it seems they are over acting everything as if they were cartoons except the animation tries to go a completely different directions. What's left are ridiculous and stiff motions with out of synch speech.
This is a teaser for a movie coming out a year from now. If you had seen a teaser for Toy Story with just a bunch of clips of toys you would of had the same rant. And again with a bug's life, finding nemo, and monster's inc.
Pixar surprises everyone time and time again with amazingly polished and deep movies. Have they given you a reason to doubt them before? No.
The racing part appears to have nothing to do with the movie, the only real hint of the movie is the clip with the sports car and the pick up talking. How can you judge a movie by that?
Relax and maybe you'll enjoy another great Pixar movie.
Yes, it looks very off. Whenever I watch a clip of it I am distracted by the animation style. The lip synch seems off although I am sure it's right. It's just like watching a movie at 30fps and thinking it looks worst then 24.5fps of traditional film because that's what we're used to.
I had the same feeling watching trailers for Sky Captain, I was always distracted by the look of the film.
It worked for gollum because it was a realistic character in a real environment. Dancing characters in a disney'ish movie created with motion capture looks really odd.
I think the lip synch looks wrong because they recorded the audio seperately and then dubbed it over the performances and it looks odd. That or the motion capture for lips was done seperately and then pasted over the performance.
I think this guy is just trying to scare Apple. He could possibly have Konfabulator running on Windows before Mac OS X Tiger comes out and then it will be an old feature. I bet he wants Apple to buy his product to protect it from being released on Windows to make it a Mac OS exclusive feature.
You are guilty like me. Just because there are people on slashdot who like OGG it doesn't mean it's popular. Just like I don't know a single person who likes OGG it doesn't necessarily mean it's not popular.
I didn't say popularity for it was non-existant, it's just very small and people don't seem to recognize that.
My theory is also that the portion of these people who always demand OGG support that actually buy these products are even slimmer. I probably wouldn't decide to include OGG support in my products either. Look at the products that support OGG, they haven't been shot into popularity because of its OGG support.
Because MMO rely on hard core gamers for most of their business. I don't mean to be mean but the dorks who play 8 hours a day and they don't much like sports.
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See. The different here is the iPod supports MP3 *AND* AAC. Most other media players support MP3 *AND* WMV. If you don't like the DRM, you don't have to use it.
Sony's Walkman ONLY support ATRAC and the client software had to encode everything on the fly to ATRAC causing a loss in quality from repeated encodings, long transfer times, and you were left with files you couldn't do anything with other than play them on your Walkman.
The walkman was a failure that everyone could predict out at the same level as the N-Gage. Now they should do the same as Nokia and redesign it to be open, usable, and of a superior build quality.
When you're competing against a massive leader in the industry you don't gain market share by releasing a product that has less features than the leader.
Everyone has been talking about LCD price drops for the past 2 years but it just has not happened. I've been in the market to buy an LCD monitor for the past 2 years and I have not seen any significant drop.
With all the news of companies dropping plasma, more LCD plants being opened, production being increased, technology improving, why hasn't the price of LCD monitors been cut in half?
I think it's because it has the cool factor that lets the companies sell it at whatever price they want.
Look at the quality of LCDs in some laptop and how cheap they are. OFten times a comparable LCD for a Pc would be more expensive than he laptop WITH the lcd.
Apple users don't watch TV. We're smart people who read books, listen to music and sip $10 coffees. Duh.
Meeting requests, polls, ability to recall messages, view other peoples calendars, etc.
Hey, 1998 called, they want their OS back.
No single app can crash windows 2000/XP.
This doesn't stand a chance to beat Outlook. Outlook is a great but buggy program. Most offices these days depend on the features it has.
It will compete with Outlook express though.
I'd like to find out who decides and backs these ridiculous app names.
Mozilla once said it would adopt the Firefox model and built seperate apps. What will happen when that happens? Will Firefox change it's name to Mozilla Browser? along with Mozilla Mail?
Talk about confusing your customers.
My PowerBook is lasting about that now and I considering this battery to be shot. I need a new one.
Most laptop manufacturers claim a battery life of between 5-7 hours. It's never nearly that much. Imagine how bad the battery must be if they claim 1.5 hours.
A thinner hard drive allows for a fatter battery.
Yes.
It is hard.
When you work in an organization when you have 5-10 passwords for different applications such as the network domain (email), web apps, etc; each requiring complexe passwords that expire every 3 months it become VERY hard to keep track of all these passwords and think of something else to replace them all with.
I'd hate to be a member of your family, worst gift ever.
Honestly.
Don't give people these discs, unless everyone in your family is a geek no one will even use it or know what to do with it.
Most people who use Windows don't even know how to install that and that's really easy.
The animation in The Polar Express looks similar to that of the movement of the puppets in Team America.
The motion capture wasn't detailed enough to catch most of the facial expressions that are created by a human face.
The way the actors are moving it seems they are over acting everything as if they were cartoons except the animation tries to go a completely different directions. What's left are ridiculous and stiff motions with out of synch speech.
It's really creepy.
This is a teaser for a movie coming out a year from now. If you had seen a teaser for Toy Story with just a bunch of clips of toys you would of had the same rant. And again with a bug's life, finding nemo, and monster's inc.
Pixar surprises everyone time and time again with amazingly polished and deep movies. Have they given you a reason to doubt them before? No.
The racing part appears to have nothing to do with the movie, the only real hint of the movie is the clip with the sports car and the pick up talking. How can you judge a movie by that?
Relax and maybe you'll enjoy another great Pixar movie.
Yes, it looks very off. Whenever I watch a clip of it I am distracted by the animation style. The lip synch seems off although I am sure it's right. It's just like watching a movie at 30fps and thinking it looks worst then 24.5fps of traditional film because that's what we're used to.
I had the same feeling watching trailers for Sky Captain, I was always distracted by the look of the film.
It worked for gollum because it was a realistic character in a real environment. Dancing characters in a disney'ish movie created with motion capture looks really odd.
I think the lip synch looks wrong because they recorded the audio seperately and then dubbed it over the performances and it looks odd. That or the motion capture for lips was done seperately and then pasted over the performance.
I think this guy is just trying to scare Apple. He could possibly have Konfabulator running on Windows before Mac OS X Tiger comes out and then it will be an old feature. I bet he wants Apple to buy his product to protect it from being released on Windows to make it a Mac OS exclusive feature.
If only they released a free client like on Linux? It's not free, you still need to buy the game and then download the linux client.
So Nuclear subs have been operating in secret?
Of course it's going to be easy. It's based on 5 or 6 films as opposed to the regular game which is based on everything known to man.
You are guilty like me. Just because there are people on slashdot who like OGG it doesn't mean it's popular. Just like I don't know a single person who likes OGG it doesn't necessarily mean it's not popular.
I didn't say popularity for it was non-existant, it's just very small and people don't seem to recognize that.
My theory is also that the portion of these people who always demand OGG support that actually buy these products are even slimmer. I probably wouldn't decide to include OGG support in my products either. Look at the products that support OGG, they haven't been shot into popularity because of its OGG support.
The same 20 people who use it ask for it's support every time.
This is a misconception made by many slashdot readers.
Ogg: It's not popular with most geeks either. It's a minority within a minority. I don't know a single person, in real life or online, who uses OGG.
Because Microsoft's version including creating a new filesystem and have an SQL like search capabilities of the file system and meta data.
I think the story submitter meant that the release date would be made earlier to avoid losing sales to pirating.
Because MMO rely on hard core gamers for most of their business. I don't mean to be mean but the dorks who play 8 hours a day and they don't much like sports.
Although the resistance needed for wind generators would provide just as much energy as is lost due to poorer aerodynamics of the vehicle.