You are able to add a FW800 card to any PC via a PCI card, therefore is shouldn't take too much to include it in a laptop, if it was really all that important right now.
It's early. Wait for the full resolution HD video data transfers to come along. When people need to start transferring 10+ GB files, they'll come around.
is this Redmond doing some of their creative trickery to try and get people to adopt Vista early?
Seems like most of the XP SP3 fixes will already be in Vista when it comes out. So, why wait for the upgrade when you can simply replace your whole OS for a newer one?
I've experienced the ridicule and attacks first hand. Without that experience and understanding, you don't have a clue what you are talking about.
The arrogance which oozes off of those that you refer to being largely ignorant is extreme. Their ignorance is what makes them such a threat. Many of them live in a "team" delusion and that generally makes them aggressive about subjects that they, more often than not, know very little about.
It amazes me that you consider that people who tend to defend themselves are somehow waging a war. Interestingly enough most Windows users hate Windows, yet they still use it. While those that choose to use Apple products and truly enjoy their experience are the ones that are constantly attacked and forced to defend themselves.
Your interpretation is rather common and uninspired.
Example: Apple users are referred to as "gay" due to their choices. Who do you think decided that this was the way to portray them? Not the Apple users themselves... Think about it. Windows users know that they mindlessly use an OS that makes them mad and frustrates them. They think that everybody should be as miserable as they are so they attack those that are content by calling them names and trying to rationalize their positions.
I didn't intend to suggest that you specifically are responsible for the prejudice shown to Mac users. I meant to suggest that the general lack of knowledge that most people have regarding Mac users leads to the prejudice. When people get abused/disliked due to their choices not being those of the rest of the herd then they have a tendency to become touchy when people use negative terminology to describe them. That's the point I was trying to get at. I did not intend to condemn you for your observations.
The term "smug" carries a negative connotation. This is what upset most Mac users that I know. If he had used the term "proud" or "content" there would have been very little in the way of flaming.
It's all about the connotation that was carried by the headline.
A group that has been bashed for nearly the last twenty years are touchy about how you represent them?!?! What would you expect? The Windows crowd have tried every conceivable way in the world to put the Mac community down and get them to give up the OS and hardware selection that they chose and they're touchy? Again, what do you expect?
I hate to break this to you, but your lack of knowledge of the community is one of the key reasons that all the other "communities" have chosen to attack those in the Mac camp for all this time.
This is truly sad. Now any MS DRM'd media won't be playable on a Mac, EVER!
The dozen or so videos that I attempted to run through QT using Flip4Mac displayed a rainbow of color while the audio played fine. This is an unuseable option that doesn't work.
MS appears to be taking Apple very seriously now that they are in direct competition in the OS market on the same hardware platform. Dropping support for IE and WMP in only the beginning. Sure they've made a five year commitment to Office, but that's only because there's a direct revenue stream from that product. Without the money coming in, they'll be dropping support for Office soon enough.
Is Apple really this scary to MS?!?!
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Wow, you took the title of my post to an extreme that wasn't intended.
People have every right to be concerned with privacy. I didn't make a single remark about it, but you ran with it and lumped me, the one you replied to, into the "you people" category.
The tracking of sales is one thing about target marketing that people are concerned with, however the tracking of general use of a privately used piece of software is nobodies business but their own, unless they agree to participating. This is when we step over the line and go from target marketing to an invasion of privacy.
This doesn't mean that they are monitoring your library of songs. They aren't sending this information back to their servers either.
After seeing this huge misrepresentation of the truth I put up a packet sniffer on my machine and the article is just plain wrong. Who writes this crap anyhow?
Beta had a better resolution than VHS, which was what those that preferred Beta bought it for.
VHS being capable of about 250 lines of resolution and Beta being capable of about 300 lines of resolution. No matter what you would like to believe, Beta had superior picture quality.
Unfortunately, you don't seem to understand what those Betamax users were all about. They weren't interested in FF/RW and other "special effects", they wanted the best quality image they could get out of the films that they wanted to watch at home. They weren't about trying to steal and be a pirate of terrible image quality as you claim to have been. For many it is about quality rather than bells and whistles.
The single greatest failure of Gil Amelio was approving the 20th Anniversary Macintosh, codename Spartacus. The design was inspired when compared to the standard "pizza boxes" of the time, but the machine was completely overpriced at around $7500 and completely underpowered when compared with the other Macintosh machines which were available at the time. The "TAM" ran at 250MHz while Apple had PowerMac 9600s available earlier that same year running dual processors at 200MHz.
If you expect people to pay premium prices for a "special" machine then it sure as hell better have the fastest processor and the latest hardware available at the time.
What's JT going to do with all of the earnings he makes from the stock? Is he going to donate it to a worthy charity or just pocket it and make a profit from the company he hates so much? Poor JT...
With the huge upcoming change to Intel processors, Apple is becoming a direct competitor against Microsoft. Microsoft is reacting in it's best interest. They are removing their support from what can no longer be seen as a merely possible, but a very real, threat to their bottom line.
The hardware architecture has always been a justification for Microsoft to support Apple because the architecture difference was always a justification for why Windows was perceived to be faster/better than Apple, now they're going to be on a level playing field and Microsoft will have no more excuses available for their mediocrity.
Once it can be shown that two different platforms competing on the same hardware with the same software can be compared Microsoft will have to get off their asses and actually compete and innovate.
This is a frightening idea for a monolithic company with a history of slow progress and very little innovation. Apple has Microsoft scared.
How much longer will it be before we see Office for Apple killed too?
The first NC-17 film, Henry & June, has a very good story. While it utilizes some heavy eroticism, it in no way received it's rating due to "shock value". It is an intelligent and well written film.
From the article: "Today EMI Group boss Alain Levy said at press conference today that he believed Jobs would introduce multiple price points for iTunes music within the next year."
This does not say that "...EMI has an understanding with Apple that flat fee pricing will end within the next 12 months..." as the story claims.
Why was this story allowed to be posted this way?/. seems to be slipping...
The actual Forbes story is talking about how the labels want to take advantage of the consumers while Steve Jobs does not want to change the pricing structure. He's fought against it from the beginning and there has been nothing reported to support that the labels have won the fight yet.
There doesn't appear to be any mention of what was claimed to have been said on the site, other than "anti-Semitic" comments. What did the site say that got the kid in trouble?
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I realize that. I just wanted to point out that it wouldn't be that difficult to accomplish.
You are able to add a FW800 card to any PC via a PCI card, therefore is shouldn't take too much to include it in a laptop, if it was really all that important right now.
It's early. Wait for the full resolution HD video data transfers to come along. When people need to start transferring 10+ GB files, they'll come around.
Actually, they pushed the Vista release date forward to the end of this year...
is this Redmond doing some of their creative trickery to try and get people to adopt Vista early?
Seems like most of the XP SP3 fixes will already be in Vista when it comes out. So, why wait for the upgrade when you can simply replace your whole OS for a newer one?
You have a skewed perspective, sorry.
I've experienced the ridicule and attacks first hand. Without that experience and understanding, you don't have a clue what you are talking about.
The arrogance which oozes off of those that you refer to being largely ignorant is extreme. Their ignorance is what makes them such a threat. Many of them live in a "team" delusion and that generally makes them aggressive about subjects that they, more often than not, know very little about.
It amazes me that you consider that people who tend to defend themselves are somehow waging a war. Interestingly enough most Windows users hate Windows, yet they still use it. While those that choose to use Apple products and truly enjoy their experience are the ones that are constantly attacked and forced to defend themselves.
Your interpretation is rather common and uninspired.
Example: Apple users are referred to as "gay" due to their choices. Who do you think decided that this was the way to portray them? Not the Apple users themselves... Think about it. Windows users know that they mindlessly use an OS that makes them mad and frustrates them. They think that everybody should be as miserable as they are so they attack those that are content by calling them names and trying to rationalize their positions.
Keep rationalizing and hiding behind that AC...
I didn't intend to suggest that you specifically are responsible for the prejudice shown to Mac users. I meant to suggest that the general lack of knowledge that most people have regarding Mac users leads to the prejudice. When people get abused/disliked due to their choices not being those of the rest of the herd then they have a tendency to become touchy when people use negative terminology to describe them. That's the point I was trying to get at. I did not intend to condemn you for your observations.
The term "smug" carries a negative connotation. This is what upset most Mac users that I know. If he had used the term "proud" or "content" there would have been very little in the way of flaming.
It's all about the connotation that was carried by the headline.
A group that has been bashed for nearly the last twenty years are touchy about how you represent them?!?! What would you expect? The Windows crowd have tried every conceivable way in the world to put the Mac community down and get them to give up the OS and hardware selection that they chose and they're touchy? Again, what do you expect?
I hate to break this to you, but your lack of knowledge of the community is one of the key reasons that all the other "communities" have chosen to attack those in the Mac camp for all this time.
You obviously don't use a Mac.
Nobody pays for IE...
This is truly sad. Now any MS DRM'd media won't be playable on a Mac, EVER!
The dozen or so videos that I attempted to run through QT using Flip4Mac displayed a rainbow of color while the audio played fine. This is an unuseable option that doesn't work.
MS appears to be taking Apple very seriously now that they are in direct competition in the OS market on the same hardware platform. Dropping support for IE and WMP in only the beginning. Sure they've made a five year commitment to Office, but that's only because there's a direct revenue stream from that product. Without the money coming in, they'll be dropping support for Office soon enough.
Is Apple really this scary to MS?!?!
Wow, you took the title of my post to an extreme that wasn't intended.
People have every right to be concerned with privacy. I didn't make a single remark about it, but you ran with it and lumped me, the one you replied to, into the "you people" category.
The tracking of sales is one thing about target marketing that people are concerned with, however the tracking of general use of a privately used piece of software is nobodies business but their own, unless they agree to participating. This is when we step over the line and go from target marketing to an invasion of privacy.
But, so does Amazon.
This doesn't mean that they are monitoring your library of songs. They aren't sending this information back to their servers either.
After seeing this huge misrepresentation of the truth I put up a packet sniffer on my machine and the article is just plain wrong. Who writes this crap anyhow?
VHS being capable of about 250 lines of resolution and Beta being capable of about 300 lines of resolution. No matter what you would like to believe, Beta had superior picture quality.
Unfortunately, you don't seem to understand what those Betamax users were all about. They weren't interested in FF/RW and other "special effects", they wanted the best quality image they could get out of the films that they wanted to watch at home. They weren't about trying to steal and be a pirate of terrible image quality as you claim to have been. For many it is about quality rather than bells and whistles.
The Cell won't be coming to workstations.
The single greatest failure of Gil Amelio was approving the 20th Anniversary Macintosh, codename Spartacus. The design was inspired when compared to the standard "pizza boxes" of the time, but the machine was completely overpriced at around $7500 and completely underpowered when compared with the other Macintosh machines which were available at the time. The "TAM" ran at 250MHz while Apple had PowerMac 9600s available earlier that same year running dual processors at 200MHz.
If you expect people to pay premium prices for a "special" machine then it sure as hell better have the fastest processor and the latest hardware available at the time.
If you take the time to read the BS that he puts together, you'll understand that he lives for negative PR and he's not that bright...
What's JT going to do with all of the earnings he makes from the stock? Is he going to donate it to a worthy charity or just pocket it and make a profit from the company he hates so much? Poor JT...
With the huge upcoming change to Intel processors, Apple is becoming a direct competitor against Microsoft. Microsoft is reacting in it's best interest. They are removing their support from what can no longer be seen as a merely possible, but a very real, threat to their bottom line.
The hardware architecture has always been a justification for Microsoft to support Apple because the architecture difference was always a justification for why Windows was perceived to be faster/better than Apple, now they're going to be on a level playing field and Microsoft will have no more excuses available for their mediocrity.
Once it can be shown that two different platforms competing on the same hardware with the same software can be compared Microsoft will have to get off their asses and actually compete and innovate.
This is a frightening idea for a monolithic company with a history of slow progress and very little innovation. Apple has Microsoft scared.
How much longer will it be before we see Office for Apple killed too?
The first NC-17 film, Henry & June, has a very good story. While it utilizes some heavy eroticism, it in no way received it's rating due to "shock value". It is an intelligent and well written film.
...and sometimes, why bother?
Nothing to see here, move along. Sounds like this CRITICAL vulnerability isn't much of a vulnerability and isn't very critical...
From the article:
/. seems to be slipping...
"Today EMI Group boss Alain Levy said at press conference today that he believed Jobs would introduce multiple price points for iTunes music within the next year."
This does not say that "...EMI has an understanding with Apple that flat fee pricing will end within the next 12 months..." as the story claims.
Why was this story allowed to be posted this way?
The actual Forbes story is talking about how the labels want to take advantage of the consumers while Steve Jobs does not want to change the pricing structure. He's fought against it from the beginning and there has been nothing reported to support that the labels have won the fight yet.
There doesn't appear to be any mention of what was claimed to have been said on the site, other than "anti-Semitic" comments. What did the site say that got the kid in trouble?
What were the criticisms of the school?
Wow, me too. I couldn't get it to scroll before, but with the second link you provided I can scroll.
Strange, it works perfectly with the latest Safari update from 10.4.3 here.