Actually, the biggest single hardware reason isn't the processor but the bus speed.
For example, my 9-month old (snif!) PowerBook 15" running at 1.67 Mhz on a 167 MHz (10:1) bus. The competative 1.67Mhz model of new MacBookPros have a 667 MHz bus = a shade under 4x speed difference.
Then you can add in the better Intel-optimized compilers, GCC libraries, etc, etc...
I agree with Tree - it's is a good, if not great editor. It's fast on virtually any Mac...I've been using it since version 3 and I'm staying at 6 only because of the update prices.
I'll move to TextWrangler for now because for my needs I can't justify the high upgrade costs. I do think it's a great editor though and it deserves its due respect.
I was actually thinking that it was a pretty shrewd move on their part - cannibalize the lower end of the market by offering a proven free app with the best features of BBE, while retaining the upgrade link to the more-faithful pro market. I can see Smultron and a few other dying out in favor of the free TextWrangler.
The only thing I miss in TW is Rendezvous integration - then it would knock out SEE (which isn't free anymore, I believe).
> Does this mean you can play multiplayer internet games?
Yup - 802.11b. Nintendo has 2 type of wireless protocols, it's own short-range version and wifi. You can play internet games between DS running the same game cartridge and also, using the short-range system, play hosted games between DSs - 1 DS transmits the game to the others! (Of course this is what it CAN do - the game has to support it).
> What about email and web? Surfing the web would be easy with a touch sensitive screen.
Talk is that it's in the pipleine from a 3rd party.
> And not just at home, at wifi hotspots?
Yup - as long as it's open access, I hear (I'm #1 in line at my local store, but they still have yet to get them in).
I'd be very interested to see how you can get it to talk to a closed network - my home Airport is locked-down, and I'm not about to open it...
* Desktop-metaphor based GUI for a personal computer * WYSIWYG publishing with a laser printer * PDAs via Newton * AppleLink (err, AOL now) * QuickTime (movies, QTVR, 3D, etc)
We could go on and on. Give Apple props where due, huh? And please consider modding the troll down...
The turning axis is immediate on a 2-wheeled vehicle, whilst not so on a three-wheeler. Add a bomb field, a bomb-sensing arm a foot in front of the wheels and you should immediately see what I mean...
Great - you're a real asshole. Next time I see a bunch of drunk Brits here in Amsterdam (and that'll be, uh, 2 hours from now?) I'll be sure to put them on a train out of the city...not like that'll stem the flow much.
Do you hate tourists or just American tourists? Perhaps I should shit on the next little-old Midlands biddy who wanders around looking for help...yeah, that'll solve a lot.
Patriotism is good. Nationalism sucks. Don't your type ever get it? Fucking asshole...
Yup - Looked at it and it's probably exactly what you're looking for, a chryon in software, with a dv switcher and a streaming component, all designed to run from a Powerbook (or better).
It's $1K, but it's extrodinarily cheap for what it can do. You can download the demo and play a bit or check out the demos online at
[ I'm not related to the company other than someone who's tried desperately to get our company to buy it instead of a 60K "solution" from KPN. I lost & we're broke. ]
Yeah - bullshit to you too buddy. You can pass your WMAs through iTunes into AACs, so your WMAs-cum-AACs work fine.
Is it exactly WMA? No - but that's a bogus barrier since it legitimately allows you to play your files on the iPod. I choose the music, not the format (I avoid MS like the plague it is) and so I see no difference between converting to WMA or OGG or MP3 or whatever.
The bullshit is when someone tells me I have to pay to listen each time's it's played. Enter DRM'd WMAs - keep that shit off my iPod.
I think it's not that Sony had 2 models in the top 10, but rather they had at least 5 more out of the top 10 - too many models, too little differentiation. It's a small segment of the market (compared to all PC sales, which PDAs often feature as a companion piece) and I can't say for myself that Sony offerend a unique vision that I focused in on. The thumb-wheel was a blessing, but aside from pushing Palm along with screen quality and networking features there wasn't anything I'd jump to Sony for. IMHO, of course. YMMV.
Add to this that at some point they had to decide between PDAs and phones, as the market also has been doing, and that ment also choosing between Symbian and Palm. It's complete speculation of course, but it does open the door to Sony adopting Symbian entirely in all (non-laptop) mobile technology.
I agree with your idea of choice ("Emusic, magnatunes, audio cds, etc") but do Linux users have to crack software in order to achieve their goals? Can't they just buy from another source without having to destroy another, reasonable concept in the process?
I am seriously more than a little tired though of people cracking Fairplay for the sake of doing so - this only enforces a draconian view of music downloaders, legal or otherwise. Enter politicians, stage right...
I'm all for a non-DRM solution and yet I don't mind the limitations of the Apple system. I live in Europe and can't even take advantage of iTMS but I certainly would...for me, it's perfectly fair and I'm eager to give it a go, if I ever get a chance to.
Non-compliance to standards? Since when is there a standard for media players?
Um - it's not about the player, it's about the media. Look what WMP 9 did to drive apart the MPEG4 standard. Imagine how far ahead MPEG4 would be if MS gave back what it took to create WMP9.
To reinterate: it's not players - it's about the media. A parallel is like trying to have access to.doc files if you don't buy into Word.
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Fair enough - if you're talking about the network verison. I should have been clearer - I'm speaking specifically of the stand-alone client, which has been an absolute trouper over the years.
I granparant the disk and then the user dirs and have had no trouble over my 3 Macs and the 8 I admin at work. Hardly anectodal, but again, this might be a client-server issue I'm not aware of -- the stand-alone is rockin'.
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Bullshit. I've used Retrosect since OS8 - it's worked perfectly on DC200s, DATs and now external drives. It's idiot-simple to use too, which says much more about your abilities than its.
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Actually, the biggest single hardware reason isn't the processor but the bus speed. For example, my 9-month old (snif!) PowerBook 15" running at 1.67 Mhz on a 167 MHz (10:1) bus. The competative 1.67Mhz model of new MacBookPros have a 667 MHz bus = a shade under 4x speed difference. Then you can add in the better Intel-optimized compilers, GCC libraries, etc, etc...
I agree with Tree - it's is a good, if not great editor. It's fast on virtually any Mac...I've been using it since version 3 and I'm staying at 6 only because of the update prices.
I'll move to TextWrangler for now because for my needs I can't justify the high upgrade costs. I do think it's a great editor though and it deserves its due respect.
I was actually thinking that it was a pretty shrewd move on their part - cannibalize the lower end of the market by offering a proven free app with the best features of BBE, while retaining the upgrade link to the more-faithful pro market. I can see Smultron and a few other dying out in favor of the free TextWrangler.
The only thing I miss in TW is Rendezvous integration - then it would knock out SEE (which isn't free anymore, I believe).
> If you've got a video card that meets the minimum requirements, many operations
> will be off-loaded to the graphics card (Quartz Extreme).
Ah - well, got a list of the minimum hardware requirements? The Apple Core Image page no longer shows what hardware will work.
Touché - quite true.
Trolls need not apply for the Mac...even at Sears!
> Does this mean you can play multiplayer internet games?
Yup - 802.11b. Nintendo has 2 type of wireless protocols, it's own short-range version and wifi. You can play internet games between DS running the same game cartridge and also, using the short-range system, play hosted games between DSs - 1 DS transmits the game to the others! (Of course this is what it CAN do - the game has to support it).
> What about email and web? Surfing the web would be easy with a touch sensitive screen.
Talk is that it's in the pipleine from a 3rd party.
> And not just at home, at wifi hotspots?
Yup - as long as it's open access, I hear (I'm #1 in line at my local store, but they still have yet to get them in).
I'd be very interested to see how you can get it to talk to a closed network - my home Airport is locked-down, and I'm not about to open it...
Okay - I'll bite
* Desktop-metaphor based GUI for a personal computer
* WYSIWYG publishing with a laser printer
* PDAs via Newton
* AppleLink (err, AOL now)
* QuickTime (movies, QTVR, 3D, etc)
We could go on and on. Give Apple props where due, huh?
And please consider modding the troll down...
Oh yeah? Where?? Yum!
(I'm serious - gimme a belly-bomb anytime! It's worth the 3 hour train ride to Paris then...)
Fox News. F-O-X News??
Going to Fox News is like going to Pravda. "Fair and Balanced Reporting"? I think not, as most people used to an impartial process might agree.
(To be fair to Pravda, I understand that after the wall fell they've become a much better news source - if you don't count the UFO sightings)
The turning axis is immediate on a 2-wheeled vehicle, whilst not so on a three-wheeler. Add a bomb field, a bomb-sensing arm a foot in front of the wheels and you should immediately see what I mean...
Great - you're a real asshole. Next time I see a bunch of drunk Brits here in Amsterdam (and that'll be, uh, 2 hours from now?) I'll be sure to put them on a train out of the city...not like that'll stem the flow much.
Do you hate tourists or just American tourists? Perhaps I should shit on the next little-old Midlands biddy who wanders around looking for help...yeah, that'll solve a lot.
Patriotism is good. Nationalism sucks. Don't your type ever get it? Fucking asshole...
Surely you mean "vent" and not "speak out".
My greatest fear is that by bitching on slashdot, some of us feel as we've "done something" - something on the scale of protest.
Please folks - remember to get up off the couch.
Heh - beat me to it.
Yup - Looked at it and it's probably exactly what you're looking for, a chryon in software, with a dv switcher and a streaming component, all designed to run from a Powerbook (or better).
It's $1K, but it's extrodinarily cheap for what it can do. You can download the demo and play a bit or check out the demos online at
[ I'm not related to the company other than someone who's tried desperately to get our company to buy it instead of a 60K "solution" from KPN. I lost & we're broke. ]
Like most tools, only if you use it as a hammer...
Yeah - bullshit to you too buddy. You can pass your WMAs through iTunes into AACs, so your WMAs-cum-AACs work fine. Is it exactly WMA? No - but that's a bogus barrier since it legitimately allows you to play your files on the iPod. I choose the music, not the format (I avoid MS like the plague it is) and so I see no difference between converting to WMA or OGG or MP3 or whatever. The bullshit is when someone tells me I have to pay to listen each time's it's played. Enter DRM'd WMAs - keep that shit off my iPod.
Um - kinda hard to play WMAs with the decoder disabled. Oh wait - it DOES play WMAs... -1 for bogus.
Was the case, true, but no longer. Face it - iPods don't mind WMA audio - we don't want the DRM shit on our systems that goes along with it.
Stop splitting hairs a while and maybe you'll see the big picture.
Velly nice, Boris (hoo-boy!) Don't you think eetz time you got back to Moose and Squirrel?
I think it's not that Sony had 2 models in the top 10, but rather they had at least 5 more out of the top 10 - too many models, too little differentiation. It's a small segment of the market (compared to all PC sales, which PDAs often feature as a companion piece) and I can't say for myself that Sony offerend a unique vision that I focused in on. The thumb-wheel was a blessing, but aside from pushing Palm along with screen quality and networking features there wasn't anything I'd jump to Sony for. IMHO, of course. YMMV.
Add to this that at some point they had to decide between PDAs and phones, as the market also has been doing, and that ment also choosing between Symbian and Palm. It's complete speculation of course, but it does open the door to Sony adopting Symbian entirely in all (non-laptop) mobile technology.
My first thought exactly when I saw the headline...
Has Tom's "Effluence Digester" time finally come of age?
Visionary!! Astounding!! Felicity Kendal!! Gawwww!
I agree with your idea of choice ("Emusic, magnatunes, audio cds, etc") but do Linux users have to crack software in order to achieve their goals? Can't they just buy from another source without having to destroy another, reasonable concept in the process?
I am seriously more than a little tired though of people cracking Fairplay for the sake of doing so - this only enforces a draconian view of music downloaders, legal or otherwise. Enter politicians, stage right...
I'm all for a non-DRM solution and yet I don't mind the limitations of the Apple system. I live in Europe and can't even take advantage of iTMS but I certainly would...for me, it's perfectly fair and I'm eager to give it a go, if I ever get a chance to.
Soon we'll have NO choice and NO rights left...
Unless it's a live event - magic often happens when people are looking... ;)
Um - it's not about the player, it's about the media. Look what WMP 9 did to drive apart the MPEG4 standard. Imagine how far ahead MPEG4 would be if MS gave back what it took to create WMP9.
To reinterate: it's not players - it's about the media. A parallel is like trying to have access to
Fair enough - if you're talking about the network verison. I should have been clearer - I'm speaking specifically of the stand-alone client, which has been an absolute trouper over the years.
I granparant the disk and then the user dirs and have had no trouble over my 3 Macs and the 8 I admin at work. Hardly anectodal, but again, this might be a client-server issue I'm not aware of -- the stand-alone is rockin'.
Bullshit. I've used Retrosect since OS8 - it's worked perfectly on DC200s, DATs and now external drives. It's idiot-simple to use too, which says much more about your abilities than its.
Rockets? They've got frikken rockets?
Get out the Flux Capacitor! (and add a Mr. Fusion, of course...) We'll get there before they launch!