Given 48X CD burners and $0.25 CDR blanks, it's really a very minor hassle to convert iTunes Music Store files to standard MP3s via audio CD. And although transcoding is always undesirable, I can tell you that the resutling quality is good -- on most systems it's unlikely you'd hear a quality drop.
In an age of increasingly nasty DRM, this is one of the more tolerable "speed bumps."
"Too bad. I used to buy an album a week on iTunes. But without being able to translate to MP3 it was pretty useless. So I removed the Store from my iTunes and went back to P2P and buying CDs."
Umm, you can still accomplish the same thing by burning the DRM'd songs to a CD. It's really not a big hassle if you buy, say, fewer than 10 tracks a day. Mm-kay?
The A.C. is trying to fold in various, age-old Mac/PC flamage, but my point is actually fairly narrow, and I stand by it. It addresses the parent post (fancy that!). I.e., Mac enthusiasts are happy to see new Mac users.
"the iPod won't honor any sort of iTunes playlist order"
Sure it will. If you don't get the order you want, make sure the left-hand iTunes song column is highlighted. You can sort by any criterion and then right-click the playlist name to "copy to playlist order" so that the current sort becomes the default sort (with left-hand column highlighted).
When the left-hand column is highlighted, you can drag songs around, too.
"This is the problem with Apple innovation, it seems so obvious and logical in retrospect that you tend to discount it because it is so elegant and obvious."
I think the iPod may be the best example of this. If you've done interface design, you can appreciate how difficult it is to make something that simple.
"Not the issue. I can't buy unrestricted MP3s from iTMS."
But you can't buy unrestricted MP3s from any store on the planet for the overwhelming majority of commercially-distributed music. A comparison of MP3s to DRMed AAC isn't relevant.
Unfortunately, such patent attempts have simply become part of the business landscape. If a company doesn't aggressively pursue patent protection, there will be hell to pay with board & shareholders.
The old Formac video card I use for my SGI 1600SW flatscreen has no OS X driver, so I don't have acceleration on it. This makes using live video in Final Cut Pro impossible, for instance. Panther disables the card entirely by default. I used the hack found here:
http://macintouch.com/panreader08.html
to activate the card under Panther. It worked, and much to my surprise, Expose works quite well on this ancient, non-accelerated card.
I was fearing that the 3rd film would have a final scene set in a tree-top settlement deep in the forest -- with a merry reunion of the surviving characters and their spectral compatriots who went before.
Am I the only guy that old on Slashdot? Well, I was a kid, and it was one of the last ones.
I was a little over 3.5 miles away. Of course there was a several-second wait before the sound reached you. It was *very* loud, but I don't remember my ears ringing afterward. I definitely remember the physical sensation of the pressure hitting my chest- something unique in my lifetime (probably a good thing). I don't know quite how to say it, but it wasn't so much an ear-shattering volume as the way it seemed to envelop eveything. It was unforgettable.
Try re-selecting & confirming the Keyspan in the Network prefs pane.
I have a Keyspan PDA (Palm) adapter that disappeared after the update. I re-selected it in the Network prefs pane, and then re-chose it in the Palm HotSync software- all was well. This has happened to me before- sometimes an upgrade makes the OS forget about the Keyspan.
"For most of the stuff that most people do most of the time, today's machines are hugely overpowered......most people don't run large simulations or edit video most of the time."
Many people do lots of video editing or 3D, or use virtual instruments & effects to do music. We can use every last bit of power we have- every day. Plus we're cranky and outspoken...
The G5 did better than PC Mag's quote "generally as fast as the best Intel-based workstations currently available." The G5 won 4 of 6 tests; and its wins were mostly by much bigger margins. For Photoshop, they also said that if you factored in the Xeon's much slower-loading controls, "both Macintosh computers would would have clearly outperformed the Windows-based computer." That would make it 5 out of 6, all but one by big margins, and the one loss was almost a tie. And PC Mag calls that "neck & neck"? The G5 completely dominated in video encoding- with software that's not even G5-optimized yet.
Another insight was that one of the oft-criticized older Mac G4s beat the Xeon in one test (two if you factor in the controls issue), nearly tied it in another, and wasn't so far behind in two more. Heh.
Anyone remember Mac game, "The Colony"?
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It's been called the world's first interactive first-person 3D adventure game. It was a 1st person shooter -- situated in an abandoned space station. Must have been around 1989. The graphics were pretty crude, but it was real-time 3d...
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Wrong. Both stages of the lunar lander used liquid fuel -- hypergolic (self-igniting) propellants. More on that here.
I think we have to consider the possibility that the iPod was taunted.
In an age of increasingly nasty DRM, this is one of the more tolerable "speed bumps."
Umm, you can still accomplish the same thing by burning the DRM'd songs to a CD. It's really not a big hassle if you buy, say, fewer than 10 tracks a day. Mm-kay?
I can't believe that someone else on Slashdot remembers that.
Why, yes I am, actually.
The A.C. is trying to fold in various, age-old Mac/PC flamage, but my point is actually fairly narrow, and I stand by it. It addresses the parent post (fancy that!). I.e., Mac enthusiasts are happy to see new Mac users.
Um- actually, real Mac fans welcome new Mac users -- that's why they talk up the Mac's advantages. The more Mac users, the better.
Charges of elitism mostly come from people who never liked the Mac to begin with.
Sure it will. If you don't get the order you want, make sure the left-hand iTunes song column is highlighted. You can sort by any criterion and then right-click the playlist name to "copy to playlist order" so that the current sort becomes the default sort (with left-hand column highlighted).
When the left-hand column is highlighted, you can drag songs around, too.
I think the iPod may be the best example of this. If you've done interface design, you can appreciate how difficult it is to make something that simple.
I'm not sure what Safari does when you download an mp3 in an archive.
But you can't buy unrestricted MP3s from any store on the planet for the overwhelming majority of commercially-distributed music. A comparison of MP3s to DRMed AAC isn't relevant.
Unfortunately, such patent attempts have simply become part of the business landscape. If a company doesn't aggressively pursue patent protection, there will be hell to pay with board & shareholders.
So use iTunes to play & manage unrestricted MP3s. It's very nice software...
The old Formac video card I use for my SGI 1600SW flatscreen has no OS X driver, so I don't have acceleration on it. This makes using live video in Final Cut Pro impossible, for instance. Panther disables the card entirely by default. I used the hack found here:
http://macintouch.com/panreader08.html
to activate the card under Panther. It worked, and much to my surprise, Expose works quite well on this ancient, non-accelerated card.
Am I the only guy that old on Slashdot? Well, I was a kid, and it was one of the last ones.
I was a little over 3.5 miles away. Of course there was a several-second wait before the sound reached you. It was *very* loud, but I don't remember my ears ringing afterward. I definitely remember the physical sensation of the pressure hitting my chest- something unique in my lifetime (probably a good thing). I don't know quite how to say it, but it wasn't so much an ear-shattering volume as the way it seemed to envelop eveything. It was unforgettable.
Try re-selecting & confirming the Keyspan in the Network prefs pane.
I have a Keyspan PDA (Palm) adapter that disappeared after the update. I re-selected it in the Network prefs pane, and then re-chose it in the Palm HotSync software- all was well. This has happened to me before- sometimes an upgrade makes the OS forget about the Keyspan.
I've seen this so many times already. What a troll...
Instead of that, they do something REALLY time-efficient, like learn vi or XyWrite. (cough)
Just set it up with "Custom..."
I'm not blind, but you sound overcaffeinated. Chill.
Many people do lots of video editing or 3D, or use virtual instruments & effects to do music. We can use every last bit of power we have- every day. Plus we're cranky and outspoken...
Another insight was that one of the oft-criticized older Mac G4s beat the Xeon in one test (two if you factor in the controls issue), nearly tied it in another, and wasn't so far behind in two more. Heh.
It's been called the world's first interactive first-person 3D adventure game. It was a 1st person shooter -- situated in an abandoned space station. Must have been around 1989. The graphics were pretty crude, but it was real-time 3d...
Excellent points. OS X is definitely more comparable to XP Pro
And even 10.1.0 was free if you picked it up at a dealer- in a nice folder with two disks and an instruction pamphlet.