While I'm no Microsoft fan, this one actually seems justified.
In this day and age multimedia is pretty standard. If help files and introductions require movies, how can Microsoft play them if they aren't part of the OS?
Likewise if they go after Microsoft on this one they'd have to be fair and do the same with Apple.
Now if they required Microsoft to pre-install Quicktime, RealOne, and iTunes along with Windows Media Player I could see it. But asking them to remove it seems difficult to justify.
a) ROTK, the book, is a bit shorter than the others
No, no, no. It just has endless appendices (sp?) that no one reads.
I hear that the SSE (super-super-extended) version has these, the scouring of the shire, and Bombadil in. Yes, the endless genealogy tables are there, read by Ian McKellan. So for those of you who tremble when you hear your preacher read the genealogies in the Book of Numbers, now you can be relieved to know that the full edition of Lord of the Rings is here. Yeah it drags in a few places and putting every damn song in a foreign language back in seems an odd directorial choice. But it's there.
The scouring of the shire isn't included in the movie at all. Bad choice in my opinion, it drives home the theme that no one and nothing is untouched by war (a lesson some americans need to learn).
Like them or hate them, but wasn't that the lesson Americans first learned on 9-11? It seems like most of the actions sense them are based upon that recognition. i.e. get them before they get us.
You can criticize their strategy and ethics. But criticizing them for thinking they can act without being touched by their acts seems...odd.
The HDTV issue is really related to cost. With cheaper, larger LCDs then HDTVs should come down in price and become more attractive to consumers. But few value TV enough to pay the equivalent of a nice dual G5 for it.
Now if a 42" HDTV cost less than $1000 then I think people would care more. And even this year, as prices have dropped, HDTVs are becoming more popular. Why? Because they make DVDs look better.
I think the demand is out there. I can understand Hollywood wanting to avoid the MP-3 problem. I thin they are naive if they think they will do this. But regardless, the one thing that is certain is that the media distribution model of 1920 - 2000 is not going to work in the future. Entertainment companies certainly aren't without blame. (It took Apple to come out with iTMS and even there the studios are making things difficult) But the people who want all information to be free are being just as bad as the RIAA in my opinion.
This is definitely a debate in which both side look equally bad. (And I recognize my own hypocrisy since I have lots of downloaded MP-3's) However it looks like the saviors will be new media players like Apple. I suspect the same will be true of video.
The obvious solution is to get a bunch of parents who tape it and distribute their tapes. This is a good business opportunity for you. You can even have multiple camera shots and put it out on DVD using Premier or FCP.
Yeah the Macrovision is annoying. But a little competition would probably put this guy out of business.
But will it suppor the DRM that iTMS uses? After all it isn't just straight AAC. I'd hate to buy a player that claims to support AAC only to find it doesn't support iTMS.
Unless you really need the larger size (and few actually do) then the 2cd Gen iPods are superior to the 3rd Gen. Not only do they have better battery life, but they also have a superior controller in my opinion. I have a 10 gig iPod and am extremely satisfied with it. I don't need to have all my songs on it at once because of how easy it is to pick playlists in iTunes. I put on four or five of them (including some generated randomly according to various criteria using smart playlists) So at any time I have about 7 gig of songs on it - more than enough for me to pick and choose from.
I wonder if this "attack" by Microsoft on Macromedia may lead to closer ties with Apple? After basically getting their start on Macs most Macromedia software on Macs haven't exactly been that great. Definite second fiddle situations, although others may disagree. (I recognize that Dreamweaver is better than GoLive, but it is also slower and in many cases flakier)
Anyway since Macromedia has little to fear from the iApps I wonder if they shouldn't focus more on Macs. i.e. use unique features of OSX. Otherewise the Microsoft monolith may take them down. (cough Corel cough) On the other hand Apple's definitely moved into the application market in OSX. Look at FCP and many of their other products. Nothing really competing with Macromedia though.
Of course I suspect Macromedia will do what Borland appears to be doing: embrace and extend. i.e. Just as Borland adds UML to out.NET Visual Studio, perhaps Macromedia will expand Microsoft's offerings and integrate them into their products. By having the best media creation kit they can then still benefit if Microsoft succeeds.
the very thought of linux or bsd trying to install itself on a VIDEO CAMERA just makes me laugh. imagine the design issues of that - when the system boots up, does it display titles on the video camera eyepiece? if it fscks, does it have to rewind the tape often? does it have the 1024 cylinder limit if you boot from mini-DV?;)
What's funny is I'm sure someone has tried to get Linux running on a camera. I mean there is some joker trying to get Linux running on an iPod. We have it for most game consoles and many PDAs. Every few months there is some Slashdot story about having Linux running on some odd piece of equipment with typically no purpose than "it's cool!"
Look at one of the more liberal mainstream media outlets: The Washington Post. They criticized the hell out of Clinton. Where is the conservative media criticizing Bush for all of his screw ups? Even the "liberal" media is barely criticizing him. Ever listen to talk radio? There's NPR... and ten thousand Rush Limbaugh wannabees. Then there's fox news, which survives on shouting down anyone who disagrees or cutting off their mike halfway through the interview.
Last summer Limbaugh spent most of it ripping on Bush. Bush has been frequently attacked by the right on many issues. Free trade being a big issue. But they have lambasted him on many other issues. Conservatives have criticized him on constitutional issues as well. (Although admittedly not as much as the left -- although in the Senate and Congress I believe conservatives have been more vocal critics than liberals)
Don't get me wrong. Overall I agree with your points. I don't think conservatives have tried to be as objective as they should. But saying they aren't critical of the administration seems surprising if you've listened to them much.
Actaully I think emacs, vi and a few other GUI versions of Unix software depended upon specific versions of Perl. Yet Perl 5.6 and 5.8 are not binary compatible. Most of those need to be redone for the new version of Perl. Believe me, I made the mistake of installing 5.8 on Jaguar and I couldn't believe how many things broke.
Why didn't they have an escrow agreement? We sell proprietary toolkits and almost all our clients demand escrow agreements. There are numerous companies providing your service. You send them your source code and updates. They legally agree to keep it safe and secure. (i.e. no peeking) Then if you go out of business your clients have access to the source code.
This is FUD if people are arguing this is an Open Source / Closed Source issue.
How about this. That computer you retired so you could have a brand new dual Opteron? Put it offsite somewhere with a RAID hooked up to it and do a backup across the net. That way if your server dies you can get up and running that much faster.
Applescript is your friend. I have several Applescripts that do complex playlists like this. I believe that several of the Applescript sites have scripts for this sort of thing. Of course I don't believe there is anything equivalent to Applescript on XP beyond Visual Basic.
I don't have the link (it maybe somewhere else here) but I believe that the record companies get.80 and then.18 is split between Apple and the artist. Yeah. Hard to feel sorry for the record companies. They are *gouging* and the digital revolution is happening despite their efforts and not because of it.
Quicktime already had a fair set of the Mac API calls available. While I have no real information, I suspect that the work on making Quicktime's API better included updating those calls. I believe they then ported the rendering kit used by Safari. While I've not seen it discussed, I suspect they've got a fair segment of the Carbon API ported right now. That should help with any future Quicktime player or other products they offer.
It's not. People checked. It sounds like they've ported WebKit over. I suspect that they've done a lot of foundational work that will presumably carry over to future products.
Because you don't care for games, doesn't mean that those who cares and have money to spend are idiot!
Hey, I think people who spend thousands of dollars on their Barbie dolls stupid too. So yea, I think spending thousands of dollars every few months to get a slightly higher fps on the latest "doom" incarnation are stupid.
If they get their jollies doing it, that's fine. But certainly I'm entitled to see it as a waste of money.
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In this day and age multimedia is pretty standard. If help files and introductions require movies, how can Microsoft play them if they aren't part of the OS?
Likewise if they go after Microsoft on this one they'd have to be fair and do the same with Apple.
Now if they required Microsoft to pre-install Quicktime, RealOne, and iTunes along with Windows Media Player I could see it. But asking them to remove it seems difficult to justify.
No, no, no. It just has endless appendices (sp?) that no one reads.
I hear that the SSE (super-super-extended) version has these, the scouring of the shire, and Bombadil in. Yes, the endless genealogy tables are there, read by Ian McKellan. So for those of you who tremble when you hear your preacher read the genealogies in the Book of Numbers, now you can be relieved to know that the full edition of Lord of the Rings is here. Yeah it drags in a few places and putting every damn song in a foreign language back in seems an odd directorial choice. But it's there.
Be happy.
Like them or hate them, but wasn't that the lesson Americans first learned on 9-11? It seems like most of the actions sense them are based upon that recognition. i.e. get them before they get us.
You can criticize their strategy and ethics. But criticizing them for thinking they can act without being touched by their acts seems...odd.
Now if a 42" HDTV cost less than $1000 then I think people would care more. And even this year, as prices have dropped, HDTVs are becoming more popular. Why? Because they make DVDs look better.
I think the demand is out there. I can understand Hollywood wanting to avoid the MP-3 problem. I thin they are naive if they think they will do this. But regardless, the one thing that is certain is that the media distribution model of 1920 - 2000 is not going to work in the future. Entertainment companies certainly aren't without blame. (It took Apple to come out with iTMS and even there the studios are making things difficult) But the people who want all information to be free are being just as bad as the RIAA in my opinion.
This is definitely a debate in which both side look equally bad. (And I recognize my own hypocrisy since I have lots of downloaded MP-3's) However it looks like the saviors will be new media players like Apple. I suspect the same will be true of video.
Yeah the Macrovision is annoying. But a little competition would probably put this guy out of business.
But will it suppor the DRM that iTMS uses? After all it isn't just straight AAC. I'd hate to buy a player that claims to support AAC only to find it doesn't support iTMS.
Can't iTunes run under Wine? (I honestly don't know - so don't flame me)
Of course you need that optional electric mouse for this. But it does add realism to the games. Even more than those vibrational feedback controllers!
Yeah FCP was under development at Macromedia and Apple purchased it and finished the development.
Unless you really need the larger size (and few actually do) then the 2cd Gen iPods are superior to the 3rd Gen. Not only do they have better battery life, but they also have a superior controller in my opinion. I have a 10 gig iPod and am extremely satisfied with it. I don't need to have all my songs on it at once because of how easy it is to pick playlists in iTunes. I put on four or five of them (including some generated randomly according to various criteria using smart playlists) So at any time I have about 7 gig of songs on it - more than enough for me to pick and choose from.
Anyway since Macromedia has little to fear from the iApps I wonder if they shouldn't focus more on Macs. i.e. use unique features of OSX. Otherewise the Microsoft monolith may take them down. (cough Corel cough) On the other hand Apple's definitely moved into the application market in OSX. Look at FCP and many of their other products. Nothing really competing with Macromedia though.
Of course I suspect Macromedia will do what Borland appears to be doing: embrace and extend. i.e. Just as Borland adds UML to out .NET Visual Studio, perhaps Macromedia will expand Microsoft's offerings and integrate them into their products. By having the best media creation kit they can then still benefit if Microsoft succeeds.
What's funny is I'm sure someone has tried to get Linux running on a camera. I mean there is some joker trying to get Linux running on an iPod. We have it for most game consoles and many PDAs. Every few months there is some Slashdot story about having Linux running on some odd piece of equipment with typically no purpose than "it's cool!"
Last summer Limbaugh spent most of it ripping on Bush. Bush has been frequently attacked by the right on many issues. Free trade being a big issue. But they have lambasted him on many other issues. Conservatives have criticized him on constitutional issues as well. (Although admittedly not as much as the left -- although in the Senate and Congress I believe conservatives have been more vocal critics than liberals)
Don't get me wrong. Overall I agree with your points. I don't think conservatives have tried to be as objective as they should. But saying they aren't critical of the administration seems surprising if you've listened to them much.
Actaully I think emacs, vi and a few other GUI versions of Unix software depended upon specific versions of Perl. Yet Perl 5.6 and 5.8 are not binary compatible. Most of those need to be redone for the new version of Perl. Believe me, I made the mistake of installing 5.8 on Jaguar and I couldn't believe how many things broke.
Seriously though, why didn't they call the Escrow company as part of the process? Once again ours is contacted by our clients.
This is FUD if people are arguing this is an Open Source / Closed Source issue.
How about this. That computer you retired so you could have a brand new dual Opteron? Put it offsite somewhere with a RAID hooked up to it and do a backup across the net. That way if your server dies you can get up and running that much faster.
Sounds like they may be trying to move to AMD. Not a bad idea although Xeons are likely as well.
Applescript is your friend. I have several Applescripts that do complex playlists like this. I believe that several of the Applescript sites have scripts for this sort of thing. Of course I don't believe there is anything equivalent to Applescript on XP beyond Visual Basic.
I don't have the link (it maybe somewhere else here) but I believe that the record companies get .80 and then .18 is split between Apple and the artist. Yeah. Hard to feel sorry for the record companies. They are *gouging* and the digital revolution is happening despite their efforts and not because of it.
Webobjects is the server side of things, isn't it? Webcore is the display side on the client. (I may well be wrong -- but that's how I understand it)
Quicktime already had a fair set of the Mac API calls available. While I have no real information, I suspect that the work on making Quicktime's API better included updating those calls. I believe they then ported the rendering kit used by Safari. While I've not seen it discussed, I suspect they've got a fair segment of the Carbon API ported right now. That should help with any future Quicktime player or other products they offer.
It's not. People checked. It sounds like they've ported WebKit over. I suspect that they've done a lot of foundational work that will presumably carry over to future products.
Odd. I've only used it to play MP-3's but on a 500 MHz PIII they play fine.
Hey, I think people who spend thousands of dollars on their Barbie dolls stupid too. So yea, I think spending thousands of dollars every few months to get a slightly higher fps on the latest "doom" incarnation are stupid.
If they get their jollies doing it, that's fine. But certainly I'm entitled to see it as a waste of money.