I wonder if 20% of the people who own digital music players at apple own something other than an iPod. Does Apple send memos telling them to not buy a Nomad? I'd like to see what the precentage is there too.
I thought the browser already was missing it. I remember an ActiveX plug-in a while ago, but I haven't seen a recent one. If it has ActiveX, you'd think it would work with Windows Update, which it doesn't, which is the only reason for keeping IE around, IMHO.
to replace the one that is smoking with 1 comment posted so far. I guess if the site runs off the PC mini, it must not have that great of specs compared to the mac. P2 perhaps?
If your eyes could see more than 85fps then you would see every light in your house strobing to the 60Hz electric line oscillation, and I'm sure you'd be insane by now. Wait... i take that back, if you need an extra 1/120th of a second to make you able to play FPSs without dying, you already are.
When you are dealing with HD, you should always try to use a minimum of cables to avoid distortion. I could let my reciever switch, but I have yet to see one that does not add distortion let alone support 1080p frequencies and bandwidth.
Until they start building professional grade, 200 watt per channel 7.1 recievers directly in the TV set, I don't see how this will ever be the sole connector in use. This only makes you buy a second cable to run to whatever amplifier you are using. Pointless, and a waste of money. I'll stick to components and toslink, thanks.
If your reaction time in games is improved by going from 60fps to 120fps I'm the fucking pope. Your eyes can barely discern the difference, let alone making your muscles twitch 1/120th of a second faster. There aren't enough amphetamines in the world to help you, sir (or ma'am).
Let them kill off plasma, it has a short part life and is expensive to maintain. LCD still lacks contrast and pixel response times. I'll take DLP any day of the week over either one.
OS/2 just needed a sound card to do voice commands where the AV macs had a bunch of special DSP hardware
So you're argument is that you're faulting Apple for having built-in what you'd have to get add-on hardware on a PC to achieve? You lost me...
They may have gone about achieving it differently, but the end result is it could do it for no ($0) extra cost. If you really want to get technical, I remember making a Mac speak back on one of those black and white ones, I think it was a SE/30 or something. I used the Macromedia Director program although it wasn't called that back then (1992-1993ish), and for the life of me I can't remember what it was called. Anyhow, you could write the text that you wanted, put it in a storyboard, and it would speak it. Yeah, you had to sometimes spell words oddly to get it to pronounce things right, but it did OK. I think it used a Macintalk library, but I'm not 100% sure. Oh, and without any additional hardware.
"WE, OUR PARENT, SUBSIDIARIES, EMPLOYEES AND OUR SUPPLIERS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT."
So they say that they are unfit for any purpose. Reading their TOS it really surprises me that people have any sort of trust in this company. They go on to say, in not so many words, tough shit if anything goes wrong, even if it is due to our negligence. Pretty much sums up what is going on now. It also says that some states their claims of non-liability are void. Can any armchair lawyers out there (and I know you're out there...) know what states these are and how this might be applied to a lawsuit in the future for this cock-up?
The morons used the ALT attribute of the img tag to display the info. My guess is they should have used the title attribute instead. You can see the info in Firefox by right clicking on each image and getting properties. Or view the source of the page. Or better yet just pretent SCO doesn't exist and perhaps they will just go away (out of site, out of mind).
XBox & PS2 games have been doing 5.1 and using sound creatively for a while now.
Actually, the only box right now that can do 5.1 during gaming is the XBox. The PS2 can only do 5.1 during movie playback or pre-encoded audio tracks. It can't encode on the fly.
I've still got my syquest 135MB cartridge drive. SCSI-1, 5MB/sec maximum bus speed! Booyah! I got it when there was zip and that, and all my friends (bastards) had the syquest. Then zip became the ubiquitous standard.
Yes, George Clooney as batman was the worst idea ever concieved. If I ever meet Joel Schumacker (or however that moron spells his name), I plan on kicking him squire in de noots.
Apple only cares about selling iPods. They don't make money off of ITMS (yet), so fundamentally they should not have any problems with Real putting compatible files on the iPod. However, after Real asked to make the iPod compatible with Real's files, Apple said no, and Real basically threatened them. Now, they come out with this, and it is a bit of a "you told us no, but we're going to do it anyway without your permission" mentality. I'm sure that this attitude is what is irking Apple, and if Real had gone through proper channels and not told Apple about this via press release, things would be different. This just screams of Real and Apple both being stubborn and are using the threat of lawsuits to spread FUD about each other.
Ok, so Apple is teaming up with Motorola, they could possibly make the phone a controller for iTunes, right? If somehow bluetooth was a bit more ranged, or it had WiFi.... This could lead to the "remote control" thing that every critic seems to be complaining the Airport Express lacks.
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I wonder if 20% of the people who own digital music players at apple own something other than an iPod. Does Apple send memos telling them to not buy a Nomad? I'd like to see what the precentage is there too.
Um, no... why don't I just give MS my admin login while I'm at it?
I thought the browser already was missing it. I remember an ActiveX plug-in a while ago, but I haven't seen a recent one. If it has ActiveX, you'd think it would work with Windows Update, which it doesn't, which is the only reason for keeping IE around, IMHO.
to replace the one that is smoking with 1 comment posted so far. I guess if the site runs off the PC mini, it must not have that great of specs compared to the mac. P2 perhaps?
If your eyes could see more than 85fps then you would see every light in your house strobing to the 60Hz electric line oscillation, and I'm sure you'd be insane by now. Wait... i take that back, if you need an extra 1/120th of a second to make you able to play FPSs without dying, you already are.
When you are dealing with HD, you should always try to use a minimum of cables to avoid distortion. I could let my reciever switch, but I have yet to see one that does not add distortion let alone support 1080p frequencies and bandwidth.
Until they start building professional grade, 200 watt per channel 7.1 recievers directly in the TV set, I don't see how this will ever be the sole connector in use. This only makes you buy a second cable to run to whatever amplifier you are using. Pointless, and a waste of money. I'll stick to components and toslink, thanks.
If your reaction time in games is improved by going from 60fps to 120fps I'm the fucking pope. Your eyes can barely discern the difference, let alone making your muscles twitch 1/120th of a second faster. There aren't enough amphetamines in the world to help you, sir (or ma'am).
Let them kill off plasma, it has a short part life and is expensive to maintain. LCD still lacks contrast and pixel response times. I'll take DLP any day of the week over either one.
What about her reproductive box? (ducks)
So you're argument is that you're faulting Apple for having built-in what you'd have to get add-on hardware on a PC to achieve? You lost me...
They may have gone about achieving it differently, but the end result is it could do it for no ($0) extra cost. If you really want to get technical, I remember making a Mac speak back on one of those black and white ones, I think it was a SE/30 or something. I used the Macromedia Director program although it wasn't called that back then (1992-1993ish), and for the life of me I can't remember what it was called. Anyhow, you could write the text that you wanted, put it in a storyboard, and it would speak it. Yeah, you had to sometimes spell words oddly to get it to pronounce things right, but it did OK. I think it used a Macintalk library, but I'm not 100% sure. Oh, and without any additional hardware.
This was a sample of only 200 iPod windows users. Not exactly a large sample to base a correlation on.
... for making changes to the original star wars movies and to E.T. Damn ex post facto law. Walkie talkies instead of guns, seriously...
Has anyone tried an animated GIF on the thing? Apple's specs say it'll show GIFs... If it does, won't this guy feel silly.
"WE, OUR PARENT, SUBSIDIARIES, EMPLOYEES AND OUR SUPPLIERS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT."
So they say that they are unfit for any purpose. Reading their TOS it really surprises me that people have any sort of trust in this company. They go on to say, in not so many words, tough shit if anything goes wrong, even if it is due to our negligence. Pretty much sums up what is going on now. It also says that some states their claims of non-liability are void. Can any armchair lawyers out there (and I know you're out there...) know what states these are and how this might be applied to a lawsuit in the future for this cock-up?
Care to provide any examples?"
Windows Update.
There's one. Many financial sites are like that, as well as a few more i've seen. I love firefox, but it is still lacking in some CSS2 areas.
The morons used the ALT attribute of the img tag to display the info. My guess is they should have used the title attribute instead. You can see the info in Firefox by right clicking on each image and getting properties. Or view the source of the page. Or better yet just pretent SCO doesn't exist and perhaps they will just go away (out of site, out of mind).
Actually, the only box right now that can do 5.1 during gaming is the XBox. The PS2 can only do 5.1 during movie playback or pre-encoded audio tracks. It can't encode on the fly.
I've still got my syquest 135MB cartridge drive. SCSI-1, 5MB/sec maximum bus speed! Booyah! I got it when there was zip and that, and all my friends (bastards) had the syquest. Then zip became the ubiquitous standard.
Sony 2GB memory stick
It is $700, as it is bleeding edge, but should fit the bill nicely and is TINY.
Yes, George Clooney as batman was the worst idea ever concieved. If I ever meet Joel Schumacker (or however that moron spells his name), I plan on kicking him squire in de noots.
Yeah, that's why that cisco company never took off.
Imagine a beowolf cluster of webservers with stories of beowolf clusters. It is almost too much!
Apple only cares about selling iPods. They don't make money off of ITMS (yet), so fundamentally they should not have any problems with Real putting compatible files on the iPod. However, after Real asked to make the iPod compatible with Real's files, Apple said no, and Real basically threatened them. Now, they come out with this, and it is a bit of a "you told us no, but we're going to do it anyway without your permission" mentality. I'm sure that this attitude is what is irking Apple, and if Real had gone through proper channels and not told Apple about this via press release, things would be different. This just screams of Real and Apple both being stubborn and are using the threat of lawsuits to spread FUD about each other.
Ok, so Apple is teaming up with Motorola, they could possibly make the phone a controller for iTunes, right? If somehow bluetooth was a bit more ranged, or it had WiFi.... This could lead to the "remote control" thing that every critic seems to be complaining the Airport Express lacks.