Spoken exactly like someone who's never actually read a single book, article, essay, or probably even paragraph of theology.
Oh, get over yourself. It doesn't matter how much verbiage you pour out, theology is not and has never been anything more than guesswork. Your attempt to equate theology with philosophy is likewise nothing more than puffery.
Apple should provide an option to have a clone menubar on every screen, rather than just having it on the main screen.
That would waste even more space. I really liked NeXT's implementation of the Menu Button, which let me bring up the main menu right under the mouse, no matter where it was.
isn't it true that the B&MG Foundation has donated a few billion dollars to worthy causes?
Sure, but that's completely orthogonal to what he did to get that money. Carnegie gave a way a lot of money too, but that doesn't change the fact that his hired Pinkerton thugs murdered striking steelworkers.
I still think the single menubar at the top of the screen that switches for apps is one of the worst UI elements ever, and the best thing Apple could do is wipe it out in the next release of OS X
I'd love to see that happen, but the Mac luddites won that battle over the NeXT contingent.
Several studies have been done showing that the majority of peoples issues with the encoding of their music is attributed to a placebo effect.
Exactly.
My hearing tops out around 25Khz (last time I tested it, probably somewhat less by now), and while I can tell that AAC-encoded, MP3-encoded and straight AIFF sources are different, I can't tell you which is which in a blind test. They all sound very, very good once you get to around 160Kbps.
I could point them to a few thousand lines of code, which when copied and pasted in around 10 minutes would get them a few thousand extra sales.
Don't you believe it. The people who care enough to insist on Vorbis are the same people who'll go right ahead and install Linux on their iPods.
Integrating an audio decoder into the iPod firmware, testing and qualifying it, making sure of the legal clearance for its inclusion, etc, etc, is far more work than you realize. Consider also that your "few thousand lines of code" go into millions of devices, possibly increasing their memory and/or CPU requirements (Vorbis is rather more compute-intensive than MP3, for example), and you're talking about a very significant expense, which needs to be weighed against other work the development team could be doing.
Almost a year ago, I talked to Apple's iPod marketing VP about an application that would result in selling about 5,000 units per quarter into a vertical-market application, and the answer I got was that it simply wasn't feasible to accommodate my project. 20,000 units/year is lot of Zens, but it's a miniscule number of iPods.
The long and short of it is, unless you can point to a million customers who would buy an iPod if it supported vorbis, and wouldn't otherwise, it's simply a non-issue to Apple. You are a vanishingly small proportion of their potential market.
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Even a doctorate in bullshit still only assures you're an expert on bullshit.
Amen, brother!
Even if it's a Harvard doctorate in bullshit.
-jcr
Yes, because (despite the opinion of most of Slashdot) most Christians are perfectly reasonable and logical people
Well, except for that whole "my imaginary friend in the sky is real, I just know it" thing, perhaps.
-jcr
I guess I'll just go tell the Harvard School of Divinity
Gosh, don't you just hate it when people don't immediately capitulate when you toss off an "appeal to authority" fallacy like this?
-jcr
Spoken exactly like someone who's never actually read a single book, article, essay, or probably even paragraph of theology.
Oh, get over yourself. It doesn't matter how much verbiage you pour out, theology is not and has never been anything more than guesswork. Your attempt to equate theology with philosophy is likewise nothing more than puffery.
-jcr
Gee, I thought it was just politicians...
-jcr
Maybe they were praying to the wrong god?
Probably, but I'm sure the FSM will forgive them.
-jcr
There's no logical basis for this type of theology
There's no logical basis for any type of theology. It's all guessing and wishful thinking.
-jcr
Most creationists believe in "microevolution"
When faced with something so directly observable, they didn't have a lot of choice, did they?
-jcr
Apple should provide an option to have a clone menubar on every screen, rather than just having it on the main screen.
That would waste even more space. I really liked NeXT's implementation of the Menu Button, which let me bring up the main menu right under the mouse, no matter where it was.
-jcr
The Nuremberg defense is really getting old.
Not only that, it was never valid in the first place.
-jcr
isn't it true that the B&MG Foundation has donated a few billion dollars to worthy causes?
Sure, but that's completely orthogonal to what he did to get that money. Carnegie gave a way a lot of money too, but that doesn't change the fact that his hired Pinkerton thugs murdered striking steelworkers.
-jcr
I can't stand how much space everyone else wastes on extra menu bars.
Then you'd probably like how NeXT implemented the main menu. It wasn't per-window, and it didn't take up the top edge of the display.
-jcr
But two wrongs don't make a right
Prosecuting a crime isn't a "wrong". Letting them do this to you with impunity is.
-jcr
Wonder what they put on their resumes
"Please don't kill me"?
Mind you, if I ever got a resume from someone who'd worked for a spamware company, it would go to the very same place as the spam.
-jcr
this time someone else responded and apologized. Never heard from them again.
The crime had already been committed. You should have gone ahead and filed the charges.
-jcr
I still think the single menubar at the top of the screen that switches for apps is one of the worst UI elements ever, and the best thing Apple could do is wipe it out in the next release of OS X
I'd love to see that happen, but the Mac luddites won that battle over the NeXT contingent.
-jcr
Several studies have been done showing that the majority of peoples issues with the encoding of their music is attributed to a placebo effect.
Exactly.
My hearing tops out around 25Khz (last time I tested it, probably somewhat less by now), and while I can tell that AAC-encoded, MP3-encoded and straight AIFF sources are different, I can't tell you which is which in a blind test. They all sound very, very good once you get to around 160Kbps.
-jcr
I could point them to a few thousand lines of code, which when copied and pasted in around 10 minutes would get them a few thousand extra sales.
Don't you believe it. The people who care enough to insist on Vorbis are the same people who'll go right ahead and install Linux on their iPods.
Integrating an audio decoder into the iPod firmware, testing and qualifying it, making sure of the legal clearance for its inclusion, etc, etc, is far more work than you realize. Consider also that your "few thousand lines of code" go into millions of devices, possibly increasing their memory and/or CPU requirements (Vorbis is rather more compute-intensive than MP3, for example), and you're talking about a very significant expense, which needs to be weighed against other work the development team could be doing.
Almost a year ago, I talked to Apple's iPod marketing VP about an application that would result in selling about 5,000 units per quarter into a vertical-market application, and the answer I got was that it simply wasn't feasible to accommodate my project. 20,000 units/year is lot of Zens, but it's a miniscule number of iPods.
-jcr
I'm not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse
Well, I'm quite sure you're being a pompous ass, so I'll leave you to it.
-jcr
How would you define "premier"? Vorbis isn't any better than the other lossy encoders, and it's worse by definition than WAV or Apple Lossless.
-jcr
Even among geeks, WAV, MP3, AAC and even Apple Lossless are used far more than vorbis ever is.
-jcr
ogg is the premier nerd music format.
No, it's not even that.
-jcr
They simply have no competition.
They have competition. They don't have competent competition.
-jcr
Over, it is. Won, Apple has. When to quit, the others know not.
-jcr
The long and short of it is, unless you can point to a million customers who would buy an iPod if it supported vorbis, and wouldn't otherwise, it's simply a non-issue to Apple. You are a vanishingly small proportion of their potential market.
-jcr