So what makes this more attractive than the PS3? I don't see why they want to add games to a basic DVD player. A normal blue-ray DVD player might be around the same price when they both start hitting the market full-scale.
This convergence thing is really starting to go too far. Does anyone else agree, or do people actually want all your products to do a gazillion things?
"When last I checked, the iPod was not controlled, i.e., told to play a song, by the computer hosting the iTunes software. Without that step, the patent is not infringed. Period."
No, but AirTunes might sure fit the bill. It doesn't play music without iTunes, and is controlled by it. Now technically the music doesn't play on the AirTunes thing itself, and merely streams to it, but who knows with the US patent office.
An uptime of 45 minutes, kick ass! You'd think they'd at least leave the thing on a few days before doing a screen grab like that.
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"ZETA comes with everything you need to enjoy your audio and video collection. Watch DVDs, listen to Mp3's or internet radio. If you've got a TV card you can even watch and record television with ZETA."
Nice. I wonder how well it would perform as a HTPC. The site doesn't seem too detailed or give screen caps that I could find, but not bad. Might have to try it on my old Dell P2 400. Anyone have a beta cope that can speak for how well this feature works?
"If the only thing standing between malware and some kid's computer is a dialog asking the root password then I'm really not inclined to feel any safer."
Ok, I don't have kids, but if I did, the only way my kid would get my root password is if s/he could tear down a computer to the screws and then reassemble it again working just as before.
Dear Bill, I am a virus/spyware engineer, and without your Windows(R)(TM) product, I would not be able to survive. The ease in which your product allows me to zombify other computers is simply amazing. A small investment in a cheap computer allows me access to many fast computers around the world. In fact, I'm writing this letter from a 4-way opteron setup right now, even though I'm on an old PII 400 that I found in the trash. It even had an iso of Longhorn on it! One word of advice though, don't use blue so much!
Thanks!
I wonder what the sig is for this account I hacked into...
Get a cellphone with a wide range of bands, so that you are sufficiently covered no matter where you go. Couple that with worldwide coverage, and you can get SMS or MMS (even email) on your phone. I suspect you already have a phone, so why have another item to lug around?
"All you singles want to do is stay out late drinking, having sex, and smoking pot. You don't want to work at all. Even when you're in the office, you don't do even half the work of a married person, because the drive to keep your job to feed your kid just isn't there."
Or perhaps there is something at home that you married people don't want to go back to. The happily married people I know are just as eager to get home as single people.
"I have yet to find any sort of global hotkeys (ctrl + alt + page down for next song) in intunes. This is probably the most important feature in winamp. It allows you to map global hotkeys to basically do anything to a song."
You're kidding, right? Did you try the right and left arrows?
"its an unnessicarily large application, taking up 80-90% of the screen. Contrast with winamp that is about 5 pixles by 50 pixles tucked into the corner of the screen (in minimal mode). so much space is waisted by itunes it reminds me of the difference between meadia player classic and media player 9. the latter sucking balls."
You know there is a feature that lets you minimize it to a small, simple widget that sits in the task bar? Right click on your task-bar, and under "toolbars", you'll see iTunes. When you minimize the iTunes window, it relocates there, then you can move it where you want. Alternately, you can control the thing by right-clicking on the logo in the task bar tray. Heck, you can even make that go-away too and have no hint of itunes on your screen at all, only with music playing in the background.
" One of the new features is that Mail.app supports Exchange servers - but I have a feeling this is just imap support and won't handle meeting invites, etc."
Actually, mail handles it correctly even in 10.3. Meeting invites open iCal and place it on your calendar (if you accept, of course). It has worked perfectly thus far for my mac. We have POP3 access turned on in our exchange server, and I have been using it as such. The new feature is that I don't have to use POP3 any more, I can connect natively, and access my address book and such, I assume.
"But he is just going to release his fourth album in almost 20 years of career."
Hmmm... let me see. Singles/remix albums are shown as sub-items.
Pretty hate machine
head like a hole
Sin
Down In it
Broken / Fixed (i consider them related)
Downward Spiral
closer to god
closer: further away
march of the pigs (2 disc)
further down the spiral
perfect drug versions
The Fragile (2 discs)
the day the world went away
things falling apart
we're in this together
still
and all that could have been (live)
With Teeth (in a few weeks)
the hand that feeds (out on tuesday?)
Videos:
Closure
And all that could have been
Soundtracks:
Lost Highway
The Crow
Tomb Raider
Natural Born Killers
So, that makes 5 albums, a ton of singles/remixes, a few videos/dvds, soundtracks, and of course quake. I'd say he's got quite a portfolio for 20 years work.
On the Mac side, since Apple has been going dual processor with their line for a while, there is quite a bit optimized already. Heck, there is even a version of Quake 3 that was SMP tuned, and several other Q3A engine games made use of it. I suspect as consumer SMP takes off on the Windows side, a similar process will happen. It might take a new version of popular products, but it will happen. I'm sure there are a few that already are optimized, like Photoshop. I'm pretty sure there is already a significant amount in the Linux/BSD world too.
I dunno, the link is to a purdue.edu account, when I went there we had an I2 feed that was pretty peppy. I'm not saying this server is on the I2 feed, but I was able to view the video instantly.
When you are Microsoft, and you make more money per year than all but a few states in the US, you start acting like a government yourself. Hell, MS could make Redmond succede from the union and still be a profitable contry.
To be honest, he didn't even say that they'd do what the customer wanted, they'd just ask the customers what they want and for all we know do the exact opposite. Something like that had to be what created clippy.
I'm really surprised it has taken this long for them to figure out you can open new windows in SWFs. You can even embed the link to open as parameters passed to the SWF, so you don't need a different SWF for each ad. Solution, IP/DNS based blocking (the window would still open, just would be blank), or disable the Flash plug-in. DHTML based ads are still around, too, and those are even more annoying!
Personally, I think that sometimes new browser windows are ok, especially if you need to differentiate between them easily, and the task bar or alt-tab does not display or let you step through multiple tabs in one window. Now if some crafty programmer made a Firefox plug-in that let you have the option to right-click on a multi-tabbed window and select which tab to go to, that would be great... hint... hint...
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Sometimes I start my computer with the wonderful sounds of a bong too.
This convergence thing is really starting to go too far. Does anyone else agree, or do people actually want all your products to do a gazillion things?
No, but AirTunes might sure fit the bill. It doesn't play music without iTunes, and is controlled by it. Now technically the music doesn't play on the AirTunes thing itself, and merely streams to it, but who knows with the US patent office.
http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?re lease=223&slide=114
An uptime of 45 minutes, kick ass! You'd think they'd at least leave the thing on a few days before doing a screen grab like that.
Nice. I wonder how well it would perform as a HTPC. The site doesn't seem too detailed or give screen caps that I could find, but not bad. Might have to try it on my old Dell P2 400. Anyone have a beta cope that can speak for how well this feature works?
Yeah, that's why that Doom game never sold any copies...
I dunno, if they are done right they can be killer. Goldeneye and Perfect Dark on the N64 come to mind. These games absolutely rocked.
Ok, I don't have kids, but if I did, the only way my kid would get my root password is if s/he could tear down a computer to the screws and then reassemble it again working just as before.
Wow, can I buy a comma? That post hurt. Perhaps you need to spend more time away from magnetic inductance.
Dear Bill, I am a virus/spyware engineer, and without your Windows(R)(TM) product, I would not be able to survive. The ease in which your product allows me to zombify other computers is simply amazing. A small investment in a cheap computer allows me access to many fast computers around the world. In fact, I'm writing this letter from a 4-way opteron setup right now, even though I'm on an old PII 400 that I found in the trash. It even had an iso of Longhorn on it! One word of advice though, don't use blue so much! Thanks! I wonder what the sig is for this account I hacked into...
Get a cellphone with a wide range of bands, so that you are sufficiently covered no matter where you go. Couple that with worldwide coverage, and you can get SMS or MMS (even email) on your phone. I suspect you already have a phone, so why have another item to lug around?
Or perhaps there is something at home that you married people don't want to go back to. The happily married people I know are just as eager to get home as single people.
Apparently they have also destroyed your ablility to know when to use a comma, man.
You're kidding, right? Did you try the right and left arrows?
You know there is a feature that lets you minimize it to a small, simple widget that sits in the task bar? Right click on your task-bar, and under "toolbars", you'll see iTunes. When you minimize the iTunes window, it relocates there, then you can move it where you want. Alternately, you can control the thing by right-clicking on the logo in the task bar tray. Heck, you can even make that go-away too and have no hint of itunes on your screen at all, only with music playing in the background.
You were saying?
Actually, mail handles it correctly even in 10.3. Meeting invites open iCal and place it on your calendar (if you accept, of course). It has worked perfectly thus far for my mac. We have POP3 access turned on in our exchange server, and I have been using it as such. The new feature is that I don't have to use POP3 any more, I can connect natively, and access my address book and such, I assume.
Hmmm... let me see. Singles/remix albums are shown as sub-items.
Videos:
Soundtracks:
So, that makes 5 albums, a ton of singles/remixes, a few videos/dvds, soundtracks, and of course quake. I'd say he's got quite a portfolio for 20 years work.
On the Mac side, since Apple has been going dual processor with their line for a while, there is quite a bit optimized already. Heck, there is even a version of Quake 3 that was SMP tuned, and several other Q3A engine games made use of it. I suspect as consumer SMP takes off on the Windows side, a similar process will happen. It might take a new version of popular products, but it will happen. I'm sure there are a few that already are optimized, like Photoshop. I'm pretty sure there is already a significant amount in the Linux/BSD world too.
I dunno, the link is to a purdue.edu account, when I went there we had an I2 feed that was pretty peppy. I'm not saying this server is on the I2 feed, but I was able to view the video instantly.
When you are Microsoft, and you make more money per year than all but a few states in the US, you start acting like a government yourself. Hell, MS could make Redmond succede from the union and still be a profitable contry.
How about friggin windshield wipers? I bet the energy it would take to run a cleaning cycle on the solar panel would be worth the extra longevity.
To be honest, he didn't even say that they'd do what the customer wanted, they'd just ask the customers what they want and for all we know do the exact opposite. Something like that had to be what created clippy.
Being a male in IT, I wholeheartedly encourage young women to enter my field. Especially if you're about 38"-24"-34".
I'm really surprised it has taken this long for them to figure out you can open new windows in SWFs. You can even embed the link to open as parameters passed to the SWF, so you don't need a different SWF for each ad. Solution, IP/DNS based blocking (the window would still open, just would be blank), or disable the Flash plug-in. DHTML based ads are still around, too, and those are even more annoying!
Personally, I think that sometimes new browser windows are ok, especially if you need to differentiate between them easily, and the task bar or alt-tab does not display or let you step through multiple tabs in one window. Now if some crafty programmer made a Firefox plug-in that let you have the option to right-click on a multi-tabbed window and select which tab to go to, that would be great... hint... hint...