If your iPod dies after two hours then you need a new battery. After constant playing on an 8 hour drive, I've still got a bar or two left.
I have an iPod and a MD. I bought the MD for one reason and that is recording. I can record a live concert and get fantastic sound and I use it for recording my own stuff and stuff from my guitar lessons. I bought one for my girlfriend who is a photographer to record interviews with to then use in Flash multimedia story presentations. It is fantastic for recording. It does not compete at all with the iPod. Lame ATRAC propriatary Sony malarky has no place in my house.
Well, inflation will do such a thing. I remember the last Impact Comics story arc from DC being the last 99 cent comic. Using more modern printing techniques to get better color accuracy and retention caused prices to generally increase in the late nineties. Then the market dropped out due to the glut of speculators and most comic makers are seriously hurting. Plus the rise of indies and successful creator owned companies caused a lot of renegotiation between writers, artists, and the major companies giving better royalty deals and contracts in general, which is good considering how most of them were crapped on for so long. I don't mind paying $5.95 for a graphic novel if its a good graphic novel. I mean, a newly released hard cover book of size runs $20-$30. That's the nature of the beast. Marvel actually makes more money off licensing its characters and their interest in Marvel Studios than they do from comics. And the best thing you can do is spend the money on the good stuff and not on the drek that is most mainstream comics these days. DC has proved, though, that it may be changing as they, and Marvel, are starting focus more on quality storytelling and not just action filled crap and character shattering mega-events. They are also noticing that, like video games, their core market is aging and is grasping onto writers rather than characters. It is mighty scary that Batman, over the last 6 months, has been one of the best written comics out there. And Marvel notice with their Marvel Knights like with people like Garth Ennis and Kevin Smith, that fans are now gravitating towards solid, consistant writers rather than fantastic characters, over-stylized art, and flashy covers and story arcs.
I wish Frank Miller would just go back to giving us more Sin City and fantasticly unique stories like 300. I think that DK2 being the first comic he'd done for a major company in about a decade shows that he is a writer that has grown out of working in that box. He said in an interview that Sept. 11 hit him hard creatively and caused him to dramatically change the events of the story and was what caused it to ship so late.
Well, there are people out there (I know some at work) that loved the Cube because it took up less desk space. Weird as it may seem, some people don't want to buy a bigger desk and wanted to keep an old, larger (than iMac) monitor, or wanted a bigger monitor than the iMac had to offer. The big problem was marketing to the right market. They started out too expensive and they marketed to them to "executive" types that wanted a "powerful" (at the time) machine that didn't take up much desk. Plus the fairly well-know bugs that plagued it in the beginning didn't help. Towards the end, they dropped the price and started marketing them to people who wanted more than an iMac but didn't want the bulk of a PowerMac or care about expansion (which, actually, most consumer-types don't). They also started with rebates on buying them with monitors, which gave you the right amount of USB ports (having only two USB, knowing one was automatically subtracted by the keyboard always bugged me, on all models, til they got it right with the new iMac). It was definitely the fore runner of these Shuttle cases and all these little media boxes.
I hope the Cube returns one day. It sorta returned as the new iMac. A lot of Cube technology ended up there. It really needed a fan at the bottom too. Interestingly enough, someone at Apple must have thought so too, since there is actually a case fan mount built into the bottom. It could be nice as competition for the Windows Media boxes. Bundle in some DVR software and a Superdrive, and that might be a good niche product, since there have been rumors of a set-top product for years now.
All these things were the downfall of Casady and Greene. We still use Spell Catcher X on our photographers' laptops because Adobe hasn't put a spell check into the File Info window and our photographers are the kind that need a spell check on their captions. There was a place they filled a gap. Spell Catcher X is really a powerful tool and far beyond just a spell checker. That is an example of how to add value to a software that's previous functionality has been subsumed by the growth of the OS.
I always waited for Conflict Catcher to do the same. There was room for it. It would have need to be completely rewritten, but the basic concept is sound (looking for conflicts). If they'd had found a way to do a Clean-Install System/User Merge under OS 10, CC would have easily regained its throne.
I don't think C&G had the reources or maybe even the dedication to make the kind of investment leap to really make their tools valuable for OS 10 users. Between the explosion of freeware apps and open source projects, and cheap hosting on.Mac or free from Sourceforge, the competition just exploded. That's why, as an independent publisher or developer, you really have to inovate if you still want to make a living off shareware.
They were always more a publisher than developer, so and with resources like Sourceforge and.Mac, and the popularity of sites like Versiontracker and MacUpdate, the necessity of a developer needing a publisher has drastically reduced.
At least most of their developers have taken their software with them.
Yes there is. Go to http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/. Then get ohphone at http://xmeeting.sourceforge.net/ for teleconferencing. Then try Bt Cam (http://ilearnat.com/MWebCam.html) for webcamming.
Dammit, I am sick of that report being misquoted. The report said that Macs have more value that PCs, you boob. Read. Read. Read. Read and understand the words on the page. They compared total costs over time, not just inital investment. Geez.
...amd cheaper to support, the article says. There is a difference. Value means a lot more than how much money it costs, as the executives where I work still don't understand.
The only reason for it being on Slashdot...
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...as far as I see is that the movie was lousy with Macs. The main character had what looked like an LC II. For all the cash that family seemed to have, you'd think he'd have a better computer. The principle had an Apple Studio Display behind him. I saw one of the old clamshell iBooks as well as an old bondi iMac that the college counselor used.
Also, as a Jack Black fan, that was the only reason I went to see the movie and, after the preview made it seem like Jack Black was a major co-star and had a major role in the film, I was extremely disappointed with how minor his role in the film was.
So, what I want to see, is the sequal that takes place in a year after his girlfriend has dumped him (it took her about 10 minutes to find a frat party and start chatting up some preppie frat guy who obviously has a thing for jailbait 17/18 year old girls) and he feels like complete shit for turning down admission to one of the most prestigious schools in the country for his girlfriend who obviously didn't love him enough to even consider a long distance relationship and so he can keep hanging out with his stoner friends and live at home well into his twenties like his waster brother? Give me a break.
Also, what about Bob? His mom was still married. His dad is going back to his ex-wife who is obviously just as unfaithful as his new ex-wife. I mean, she slept with a guy while her husband was in the house and flaunted him all over the place the next day.
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Rip it to a CD, reimport it in whatever format you like. This is not new, nor is it hard.
If your iPod dies after two hours then you need a new battery. After constant playing on an 8 hour drive, I've still got a bar or two left. I have an iPod and a MD. I bought the MD for one reason and that is recording. I can record a live concert and get fantastic sound and I use it for recording my own stuff and stuff from my guitar lessons. I bought one for my girlfriend who is a photographer to record interviews with to then use in Flash multimedia story presentations. It is fantastic for recording. It does not compete at all with the iPod. Lame ATRAC propriatary Sony malarky has no place in my house.
Well, inflation will do such a thing. I remember the last Impact Comics story arc from DC being the last 99 cent comic. Using more modern printing techniques to get better color accuracy and retention caused prices to generally increase in the late nineties. Then the market dropped out due to the glut of speculators and most comic makers are seriously hurting. Plus the rise of indies and successful creator owned companies caused a lot of renegotiation between writers, artists, and the major companies giving better royalty deals and contracts in general, which is good considering how most of them were crapped on for so long. I don't mind paying $5.95 for a graphic novel if its a good graphic novel. I mean, a newly released hard cover book of size runs $20-$30. That's the nature of the beast. Marvel actually makes more money off licensing its characters and their interest in Marvel Studios than they do from comics. And the best thing you can do is spend the money on the good stuff and not on the drek that is most mainstream comics these days. DC has proved, though, that it may be changing as they, and Marvel, are starting focus more on quality storytelling and not just action filled crap and character shattering mega-events. They are also noticing that, like video games, their core market is aging and is grasping onto writers rather than characters. It is mighty scary that Batman, over the last 6 months, has been one of the best written comics out there. And Marvel notice with their Marvel Knights like with people like Garth Ennis and Kevin Smith, that fans are now gravitating towards solid, consistant writers rather than fantastic characters, over-stylized art, and flashy covers and story arcs. I wish Frank Miller would just go back to giving us more Sin City and fantasticly unique stories like 300. I think that DK2 being the first comic he'd done for a major company in about a decade shows that he is a writer that has grown out of working in that box. He said in an interview that Sept. 11 hit him hard creatively and caused him to dramatically change the events of the story and was what caused it to ship so late.
Where the hell did that come from? That's not true at all.
well, that brings back memories.
Well, there are people out there (I know some at work) that loved the Cube because it took up less desk space. Weird as it may seem, some people don't want to buy a bigger desk and wanted to keep an old, larger (than iMac) monitor, or wanted a bigger monitor than the iMac had to offer. The big problem was marketing to the right market. They started out too expensive and they marketed to them to "executive" types that wanted a "powerful" (at the time) machine that didn't take up much desk. Plus the fairly well-know bugs that plagued it in the beginning didn't help. Towards the end, they dropped the price and started marketing them to people who wanted more than an iMac but didn't want the bulk of a PowerMac or care about expansion (which, actually, most consumer-types don't). They also started with rebates on buying them with monitors, which gave you the right amount of USB ports (having only two USB, knowing one was automatically subtracted by the keyboard always bugged me, on all models, til they got it right with the new iMac). It was definitely the fore runner of these Shuttle cases and all these little media boxes. I hope the Cube returns one day. It sorta returned as the new iMac. A lot of Cube technology ended up there. It really needed a fan at the bottom too. Interestingly enough, someone at Apple must have thought so too, since there is actually a case fan mount built into the bottom. It could be nice as competition for the Windows Media boxes. Bundle in some DVR software and a Superdrive, and that might be a good niche product, since there have been rumors of a set-top product for years now.
All these things were the downfall of Casady and Greene. We still use Spell Catcher X on our photographers' laptops because Adobe hasn't put a spell check into the File Info window and our photographers are the kind that need a spell check on their captions. There was a place they filled a gap. Spell Catcher X is really a powerful tool and far beyond just a spell checker. That is an example of how to add value to a software that's previous functionality has been subsumed by the growth of the OS.
.Mac or free from Sourceforge, the competition just exploded. That's why, as an independent publisher or developer, you really have to inovate if you still want to make a living off shareware.
.Mac, and the popularity of sites like Versiontracker and MacUpdate, the necessity of a developer needing a publisher has drastically reduced.
I always waited for Conflict Catcher to do the same. There was room for it. It would have need to be completely rewritten, but the basic concept is sound (looking for conflicts). If they'd had found a way to do a Clean-Install System/User Merge under OS 10, CC would have easily regained its throne.
I don't think C&G had the reources or maybe even the dedication to make the kind of investment leap to really make their tools valuable for OS 10 users. Between the explosion of freeware apps and open source projects, and cheap hosting on
They were always more a publisher than developer, so and with resources like Sourceforge and
At least most of their developers have taken their software with them.
Yes there is. Go to http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/. Then get ohphone at http://xmeeting.sourceforge.net/ for teleconferencing. Then try Bt Cam (http://ilearnat.com/MWebCam.html) for webcamming.
Join the open source revolution. Woo-hoo!
Dammit, I am sick of that report being misquoted. The report said that Macs have more value that PCs, you boob. Read. Read. Read. Read and understand the words on the page. They compared total costs over time, not just inital investment. Geez.
...amd cheaper to support, the article says. There is a difference. Value means a lot more than how much money it costs, as the executives where I work still don't understand.
...as far as I see is that the movie was lousy with Macs. The main character had what looked like an LC II. For all the cash that family seemed to have, you'd think he'd have a better computer. The principle had an Apple Studio Display behind him. I saw one of the old clamshell iBooks as well as an old bondi iMac that the college counselor used.
Also, as a Jack Black fan, that was the only reason I went to see the movie and, after the preview made it seem like Jack Black was a major co-star and had a major role in the film, I was extremely disappointed with how minor his role in the film was.
So, what I want to see, is the sequal that takes place in a year after his girlfriend has dumped him (it took her about 10 minutes to find a frat party and start chatting up some preppie frat guy who obviously has a thing for jailbait 17/18 year old girls) and he feels like complete shit for turning down admission to one of the most prestigious schools in the country for his girlfriend who obviously didn't love him enough to even consider a long distance relationship and so he can keep hanging out with his stoner friends and live at home well into his twenties like his waster brother? Give me a break.
Also, what about Bob? His mom was still married. His dad is going back to his ex-wife who is obviously just as unfaithful as his new ex-wife. I mean, she slept with a guy while her husband was in the house and flaunted him all over the place the next day.
Disappointed overall. But still okay.