Plus I've already got Firewire cables laying around, so if its absence helps meet a lower retail price then I'm all for it.
Many people have said that, however they sell the dual connector cable (both USB2 and Firewire) for the same price as the extra Firewire cable I'm going to have to buy. Why not include that one standard if it's the same price as the others???
USB 2.0 is backwards-compatible - it'll just transfer at your old iBook's slower USB 1.0 rate using the cable. So unless by "using" you mean "doing transfers at 2.0 or Firewire speeds", you can use it out the box fine with your old iBook.
Have you ever tried to transfer 6 gigs over USB 1? I'd call it unusable.
Yes, but not USB2. I have a 2002 iBook and it only has USB1. I was going to get the new 6 gig mini and was very sad to see I also had to purchase a firewire cable just to use the thing.
also "you can scan it if you want a digital image and when you have a better scanner (e.g. a higher DMax), you can just scan it again" everytime you convert from analog to digital or the other way you loose quality.
Every kind of video goes through an ADC at one point, whether or not it's inside the camera/recording device or done through scanning later doesn't really matter. Archiving in film is still the absolute highest quality you can achieve. Scanning it once does not deteriorate the analog copy for later scanning. Also going from digital to analog very rarely if ever involves a loss of quality, however it may make the digital imperfections more pronounced.
I agree with you that costs of archiving film can be quite high, however if you can afford it film is still the best way to archive right now.
And no, I don't buy the "if enough people wake up and vote for a third-party candidate..." line given that none of them are listed on a firm majority of state ballots, let alone the swing states.
Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate, was on 49 state ballots - more than any other third party candidate. I'd say that's a pretty firm majority. He was also arrested trying to attend the third presidential debate yet that never made the news...
Had Apple chosen, it could have made the iPod a straightforward MP3 player like any other (iRiver, Creative Nomad etc.) Mount as hard drive, copy files, unmount, listen.
Do you even have an iPod? Because that's exactly how mine works. True the copying takes place inside of iTunes, but since that's where all my music is anyways why would I want to use the Finder?
Instead, Apple choice to "prefer" AAC encoded files and create the ITMS could be seen as a market limiting choice, as could it's decision to link iPod & iTunes. Any number of consumers could choose to buy iRiver's products instead, and have a theoretically "open" product.
What are you talking about? AAC wasn't even added to the iPod until the third generation of players (and subsequent firmware upgrades for previous models). Before that the iPod "preferred" mp3 files, and the majority of the files on *my* iPod are mp3s. Also, AAC is an open standard and can be added to ANY player out there if the manufacturer so chooses. On top of that, the iPod will play mp3, wav, and apple lossless files. Now I know ogg isn't included, but that's pretty open to me.
Funny, my iTunes works fine with both my iPod and my Nomad Jukebox 3. Oh, and my mom's 256mb flash mp3 player works too (don't recall the brand off hand).
Tell the manufacturer of your mp3 player to build an iTunes plugin, that's all it takes.
Really, how many people are going to say "I'm not buying Madden 20xx because EA sucks!!" Probably not enough to impact anything.
I'm not buying it, but not for that reason. The Sega ESPN games are much better in my opinion, so I would usually buy them over Madden. However, with this new deal, I will probably skip out on both next year - leading to less money for ALL parties (including the NFL). Somehow I doubt I'm the only one who feels this way...
At least the NBA had the smarts to know that many games with their name on it is better than a single one. It can only lead to more sales of games with the NBA license. Forcing someone to buy a particular game can only lead to resentment for either of the creators (NBA/NFL/whatever and the game maker alike).
Besides, the Sega Sports series (now sold as ESPN games) has been better than EA for a few years now.
It singlehandedly MADE the xbox a viable platform and has been one of the most successful games of all time
No it's not. In fact, it's not even close. With the amount of XBox's sold it's not even possible for Halo to sell 1/2 of what the Sims or Myst did. The most popular Playstation and PS2 games dwarf the sales of Halo.
In the past 20 years over 160 million Mario games have been sold. At the top of the list, more than 40 million copies of Super Mario Brothers were sold on the NES and 20.6 million copies of Super Mario World on SNES. If Halo 2 did indeed get $100 million on it's first day (I'm not sure, never looked it up), that's only 2 million copies sold, assuming the average price was $50 per game (which isn't true, because many people bought the collector's edition - which means it's under 2 million). Sure that's a great one day total, but it'd have to sustain some great sales for a while to pass the all time best sellers. I'd be very interested to see what happens after this Christmas season.
I will give you the fact that it basically saved the XBox. However this is because it was the only halfway decent game when it launched. The rest of the launch games were all poop on a stick so it was very easy for Halo to rise to the top. If there had been any other games out for the XBox worth playing we might not be talking about Halo right now.
>>I guess because you don't agree to receive spam, and you agree to receive these ads
Actually you'd be agreeing to *send* these ads. If someone emailed me from a gmail account and it contained these ads, I sure as hell didn't agree to receive them. And I know I don't want to waste my precious time (hey, I need all those fractions of a second) downloading them.
"'At the time the RIAA announced its lawsuits, it said music sales had fallen 25% over a three-year period. The MPAA is in a much different situation. Box office receipts aren't down at all -- 2003's figures were $9.5 billion, the second biggest in history.'"
Which is it, Music or Movie Sales? And if it's Music, what do Music sales have to do with Movie downloaders?
Box office receipts mean movie sales. So despite the fact that their revenues are as high as ever, they still find the need to sue 12 year old girls and grandmothers.
"Two fighters against a Star Destroyer?" has to be the most deadpan line ever delivered
That has nothing to do with the way it was written. That was still some decent writing with a poor performance. Episode II combined mind-numbingly moronic writing with mostly mediocre performances (although I wouldn't call Hayden's performance mediocre, it was much worse).
Did he release the painting and go back to it 20 years later?
I'm sure there were other cuts of Star Wars before it was released to theaters, that shouldn't surprise any one. There is a huge difference between changing something before you release it and changing it 20 years later.
I seriously wonder how many complaints there would be if more people liked the prequels. I like them, especially AOTC, which is my favorite of all 6 (yeah, even ESB, so suck on it). I am looking forward to Episode 3...
I'm sorry, did we see the same movies? There is a HUGE difference in quality of writing between the original trilogy and the prequels. Lucas cannot write dialogue to save his life. "I hate sand" has got to be the most awkward lines of dialogue EVER. He tries to portray a love between Anakin and Padme but it's just not there. The whole time I'm left wondering how in the hell Padme could fall for some whiny little jerk like Anakin with the way he's written.
The ONLY redeeming value in the prequels is the special effects. Other than that they are a joke, and I refuse to see the third one.
I'd love to use Adium, but it doesn't support group chat yet. It will in the next release.70 though, so I'll likely dump Gaim at that point.
So you can use Gaim but not SVN?;o) The latest source works great for me, and the new buddy list is awesome. I couldn't imagine going back to.63 anymore.
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Fixed that for ya.
Yeah I had the original Diamond Rio (later named the Rio 300) back in late 98. I was able to store a whopping 32 megs worth of mp3s on that bad boy!
I still have it, and it still works (although the serial cable it came with doesn't work with my Mac and I never use it since I own an iPod).
Plus I've already got Firewire cables laying around, so if its absence helps meet a lower retail price then I'm all for it.
Many people have said that, however they sell the dual connector cable (both USB2 and Firewire) for the same price as the extra Firewire cable I'm going to have to buy. Why not include that one standard if it's the same price as the others???
USB 2.0 is backwards-compatible - it'll just transfer at your old iBook's slower USB 1.0 rate using the cable. So unless by "using" you mean "doing transfers at 2.0 or Firewire speeds", you can use it out the box fine with your old iBook.
Have you ever tried to transfer 6 gigs over USB 1? I'd call it unusable.
USB is also ubiquitous on those Macs.
Yes, but not USB2. I have a 2002 iBook and it only has USB1. I was going to get the new 6 gig mini and was very sad to see I also had to purchase a firewire cable just to use the thing.
If Showtime wants to get my business, the first thing they need to do is stop sucking.
I see your "showtime sucks" and I raise you "Huff." See it.
also "you can scan it if you want a digital image and when you have a better scanner (e.g. a higher DMax), you can just scan it again" everytime you convert from analog to digital or the other way you loose quality.
Every kind of video goes through an ADC at one point, whether or not it's inside the camera/recording device or done through scanning later doesn't really matter. Archiving in film is still the absolute highest quality you can achieve. Scanning it once does not deteriorate the analog copy for later scanning. Also going from digital to analog very rarely if ever involves a loss of quality, however it may make the digital imperfections more pronounced.
I agree with you that costs of archiving film can be quite high, however if you can afford it film is still the best way to archive right now.
And no, I don't buy the "if enough people wake up and vote for a third-party candidate..." line given that none of them are listed on a firm majority of state ballots, let alone the swing states.
Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate, was on 49 state ballots - more than any other third party candidate. I'd say that's a pretty firm majority. He was also arrested trying to attend the third presidential debate yet that never made the news...
Can somebody please post the Paris Hilton photos?
Where is the -1 Disgusting mod when you need it?
I never claimed I could. Maybe you should read the post I responded to:
I really don't care if I can't transfer the AAC's I bought I just want to be able to use iTunes to since my plain jane MP3's.
Had Apple chosen, it could have made the iPod a straightforward MP3 player like any other (iRiver, Creative Nomad etc.) Mount as hard drive, copy files, unmount, listen.
Do you even have an iPod? Because that's exactly how mine works. True the copying takes place inside of iTunes, but since that's where all my music is anyways why would I want to use the Finder?
Instead, Apple choice to "prefer" AAC encoded files and create the ITMS could be seen as a market limiting choice, as could it's decision to link iPod & iTunes. Any number of consumers could choose to buy iRiver's products instead, and have a theoretically "open" product.
What are you talking about? AAC wasn't even added to the iPod until the third generation of players (and subsequent firmware upgrades for previous models). Before that the iPod "preferred" mp3 files, and the majority of the files on *my* iPod are mp3s. Also, AAC is an open standard and can be added to ANY player out there if the manufacturer so chooses. On top of that, the iPod will play mp3, wav, and apple lossless files. Now I know ogg isn't included, but that's pretty open to me.
Funny, my iTunes works fine with both my iPod and my Nomad Jukebox 3. Oh, and my mom's 256mb flash mp3 player works too (don't recall the brand off hand).
Tell the manufacturer of your mp3 player to build an iTunes plugin, that's all it takes.
- Consumers buy scads of DVD equipment without knowing a compromized key will disable their player.
- Keys start to be cracked.
- Industry tells upset consumers that the reason they have to buy new equipment is evil cracker (not poor design/planning).
- Consumers don't understand what the industry says, just know that their latest Toshitsu DVD player wont play Buddy Cop Movie #83
- Consumers attempt to bring back their properly working DVD players only to be told they can't return them
- Consumers attempt to bring back their properly working copy of Buddy Cop Movie #83 only to be told they can't return it
- Consumers get pissed and either (a) stop buying movies or (b) buy another player (I'm betting b)
- Consumers go about their lives not caring about what laws are passed, just as long as Buddy Cop Move #83 plays on their TV.
- MPAA and others get new super-DMCA laws passed just because they can and have the money to do so.
Man, really makes you look forward to HD-DVDs, don't it?Really, how many people are going to say "I'm not buying Madden 20xx because EA sucks!!" Probably not enough to impact anything.
I'm not buying it, but not for that reason. The Sega ESPN games are much better in my opinion, so I would usually buy them over Madden. However, with this new deal, I will probably skip out on both next year - leading to less money for ALL parties (including the NFL). Somehow I doubt I'm the only one who feels this way...
At least the NBA had the smarts to know that many games with their name on it is better than a single one. It can only lead to more sales of games with the NBA license. Forcing someone to buy a particular game can only lead to resentment for either of the creators (NBA/NFL/whatever and the game maker alike).
Besides, the Sega Sports series (now sold as ESPN games) has been better than EA for a few years now.
No it's not. In fact, it's not even close. With the amount of XBox's sold it's not even possible for Halo to sell 1/2 of what the Sims or Myst did. The most popular Playstation and PS2 games dwarf the sales of Halo.
In the past 20 years over 160 million Mario games have been sold. At the top of the list, more than 40 million copies of Super Mario Brothers were sold on the NES and 20.6 million copies of Super Mario World on SNES. If Halo 2 did indeed get $100 million on it's first day (I'm not sure, never looked it up), that's only 2 million copies sold, assuming the average price was $50 per game (which isn't true, because many people bought the collector's edition - which means it's under 2 million). Sure that's a great one day total, but it'd have to sustain some great sales for a while to pass the all time best sellers. I'd be very interested to see what happens after this Christmas season.
I will give you the fact that it basically saved the XBox. However this is because it was the only halfway decent game when it launched. The rest of the launch games were all poop on a stick so it was very easy for Halo to rise to the top. If there had been any other games out for the XBox worth playing we might not be talking about Halo right now.
>>I guess because you don't agree to receive spam, and you agree to receive these ads
Actually you'd be agreeing to *send* these ads. If someone emailed me from a gmail account and it contained these ads, I sure as hell didn't agree to receive them. And I know I don't want to waste my precious time (hey, I need all those fractions of a second) downloading them.
Box office receipts mean movie sales. So despite the fact that their revenues are as high as ever, they still find the need to sue 12 year old girls and grandmothers.
That's totally cool and I completely agree. Just make sure I don't have to breathe in any of your smoke. Agreed?
The best of the five Star Wars movies, SW:TESB, was not directed by Lucas. I think that that speaks volumes.
And he didn't write it either. THAT is the main reason I think it's the best. He had a hand in ROTJ which is probably why we got the Ewoks.
He has shown in the prequels that his writing ability is laughable at best.
There was nothing wrong with the theater you went to. Lucas had hoped that if you didn't hear it you couldn't laugh at it.
"Two fighters against a Star Destroyer?" has to be the most deadpan line ever delivered
That has nothing to do with the way it was written. That was still some decent writing with a poor performance. Episode II combined mind-numbingly moronic writing with mostly mediocre performances (although I wouldn't call Hayden's performance mediocre, it was much worse).
Did he release the painting and go back to it 20 years later?
I'm sure there were other cuts of Star Wars before it was released to theaters, that shouldn't surprise any one. There is a huge difference between changing something before you release it and changing it 20 years later.
I seriously wonder how many complaints there would be if more people liked the prequels. I like them, especially AOTC, which is my favorite of all 6 (yeah, even ESB, so suck on it). I am looking forward to Episode 3...
I'm sorry, did we see the same movies? There is a HUGE difference in quality of writing between the original trilogy and the prequels. Lucas cannot write dialogue to save his life. "I hate sand" has got to be the most awkward lines of dialogue EVER. He tries to portray a love between Anakin and Padme but it's just not there. The whole time I'm left wondering how in the hell Padme could fall for some whiny little jerk like Anakin with the way he's written.
The ONLY redeeming value in the prequels is the special effects. Other than that they are a joke, and I refuse to see the third one.
I'd love to use Adium, but it doesn't support group chat yet. It will in the next release .70 though, so I'll likely dump Gaim at that point.
;o) The latest source works great for me, and the new buddy list is awesome. I couldn't imagine going back to .63 anymore.
So you can use Gaim but not SVN?