Of course the phrase is subjective but I'll give you some reasons. It's the smallest HD-based player. The interface is best-in-class. If you've ever used one for more than a few minutes you'd know this right away. The design of it allows operation with one hand. The touch scroll wheel with acceleration allows you to quickly scroll through a list of upwards of 10,000 songs. It allows you to store digital photos with an add-on. The aesthetics on it are stunning. On-the-go playlists. Smart playlists. Solitaire!! The screen is super-crisp and the bright white backlight and lit buttons make it wonderful to operate at night. Very nice sound quality. Very powerful built-in amp is activated through the dock connecter, allowing you to use it high end equipment without having to boost the signal. High speed syncing with firewire. Can be used as Firewire HD. Plays AAC files. Excellent iTunes integration.... I could go on for hours. It's such a great little piece of hardware. Other players can match or beat some features but none can tackle it all-around.
iTunes uses a certain percentage of free RAm (20% I think) for it's own use in buffering songs to cut down on disk use an improve performance. It helps a lot on laptops. You'll notice that when RAM gets tight, the amount iTunes uses will shrink. And I'd hardly call the iPod an idiot player. It's better than anything else on the market...
Like a computer running a command line version of Linux or Unix with no GUI. Hold down command-option-s while your Mac is restarting to get a good idea. You'll notice what's different
If you bought a laptop for $800, you didn't pay Apple for it, you bought it off someone else used. Also, if it's JUST for testing, why not pick up a used iMac G3? It'll run panther just as well as anything for what you needs and only set you back $300-$400, less than half what you paid.
My school requires anti-virus software (Symantec) to be installed on every machine of the network or else your connection gets cut off. Has anyone here even USED the Mac OS X version? Apparently, all it does is throw up error messages on startup. "Live Update could not be found..." "Kernel Extention not loaded" blah blah blah! Ugh! Why would anone make a program that doesn't actually do anything but throw up errors?! I don't think I've ever seen it do anything but. Here's my $40, now give me that antivirus program that doesn't actually check for viruses that could hurt me because there aren't any! Another case of boneheaded IT... I wonder how much the site license set them back...
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I disagree. That may play a small part in it but let's say the last empire belonged to the Chinese. Think thier (at least written) language would be soon discarded for something simpler. The English language contains twice as many words as Chinese but a young child is fairly adept at reading and writing by their third year of schooling, mostly because of the small character set and ability to associate letters with sounds of words that they already know how to say. I Kindergartener who knows his or her alphabet and all the sounds the letters make can do a passable job at recording a thought. Few of the words will be spelled right but dey wil probly rite sumtin redable.
Have you ever even looked at a G5, seen its internal design, read the technical documents outlining airflow zones and the large, high quality, low RPM fans, the controller that measures temperature and keeps them moving only when they need to? No? Ever looked inside a generic PC box (as in technical slang and literally a box) with little to no airflow and 2 or 3 noisy fans drilling away as fast as they can the whole time trying to circulate air in and out of the little holes in the back? The G5 has been designed to keep cool with as little noise and wear as possible.
Pros: Offers indispensable portable speakers, excellent bass simulation for such small speakers, excellent battery life, small, well designed form factor, good portability and iPod integration.
You were saying Mr. Pessimist?
On the really massive upgrades, you'll notice that after the update you're unable to lanch any new apps until you restart. The already open ones are fine but if you, say, try to open Quicktime Player after you run a major update, it will bounce in the dock forever and eventually settle down but not open. 10.3.1 didn't do that but I remember it happening with almost all the 10.2.x updates and some security patches. Anyone know what has to be updated for apps to stop launching like that?
1.) The files have DRM on them, they're not trusting us.
2.) They're implying that ripping a CD you own or downloading songs from a CD you own is "stealing."
3.) You can still rip the CD to the free distribution format of your choice. (I like Apple's m4a, essentially music store files minus the DRM)
4.) They cite what the customer wants as WMA files. If the consumer really wanted WMA files, why is MP3 the format of choice among music swappers?
5.) When he says "All copy protections can be hacked" he implies that the CD is copy protected (and that breaking the protection would be difficult). It's not, only the shitty Windows Media files that no one wants are.
It may not be funny to you depending on your sense of humor but it most certainly is a lot of falsehood for such a quick quote.
I've seen Win XP do either one at different times. Someimes it needs a restart, sometimes it doesn't. Depends on the hardware or something. Maybe when you run the Wizard it resets a lot of important stuff so a restart is needed but manually changing small things doesn't.
No matter which way you call it, it's just as, if not more sloppy than OS X's update restart thing. If I know what the security update is changing, I sometimes force quite the app that's telling me to restart and then reload ssh (or whatever component has changed) from the command line. If the uber-geeks at Slashdot would stop projecting or (if they're not blatantly trolling) start looking at problems objectively, they might gain some valuable skills.
"After patching Linux I can do X and keep my machine on!" "Well have you tried a variation of X in Mac OS X to keep your machine up and benefit from updates? No? Why not?"
But yeah, I'd be interested in seeing both computers complete a suite of tests programmed by two different teams, specializing in their respective platform, using the best of their knowledge and the best compilers, assembly if necessary. Using GCC on both platform does not level the playing field, it's like making two left-handed fencers fight each-other with sabres in their right hands. Maybe one is more ambidextrous than the other, does that make him the better fencer? No, but he'll probably win.
I agree, TiVo does have a similar effect, but you can't bring a TiVo jogging or to the gym, it has to sit in your livingroom. You can't really sell the idea to someone unless they're over for a day or so.
And audio that sounds like it's being played through a speaker wrapped in tinfoil at the bottom of a well. You can do it with AAC files from iTunes too (even without burning, there are software loopholes too) but that's not the point, they end up sounding like shit too. Good thing I have an iPod.
Panther has been under heavy development and still is. Jaguar was not. It just took them a bit to note the changes in Panther and and turn around to use them in Jag. On the other hand, we don't know if the "bug fix" page is citing bugs that have been deliberately fixed or those that have been incidentally. If the @stake bug has been fixed for weeks but it was just reported a few days ago, wouldn't that suggest that it was just tested and shown not to effect the new code? A team wanting to please management and consumers might want to list that as a positive change, even if it is just incidental.
There is a difference. Much of Panther has been rewritten, including a new kernel version (Darwin 7.0), other OSS components, the whole Finder, etc... Panther didn't have the bugs fixed already, it was just unaffected by them.
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Of course the phrase is subjective but I'll give you some reasons. It's the smallest HD-based player. The interface is best-in-class. If you've ever used one for more than a few minutes you'd know this right away. The design of it allows operation with one hand. The touch scroll wheel with acceleration allows you to quickly scroll through a list of upwards of 10,000 songs. It allows you to store digital photos with an add-on. The aesthetics on it are stunning. On-the-go playlists. Smart playlists. Solitaire!! The screen is super-crisp and the bright white backlight and lit buttons make it wonderful to operate at night. Very nice sound quality. Very powerful built-in amp is activated through the dock connecter, allowing you to use it high end equipment without having to boost the signal. High speed syncing with firewire. Can be used as Firewire HD. Plays AAC files. Excellent iTunes integration.... I could go on for hours. It's such a great little piece of hardware. Other players can match or beat some features but none can tackle it all-around.
iTunes uses a certain percentage of free RAm (20% I think) for it's own use in buffering songs to cut down on disk use an improve performance. It helps a lot on laptops. You'll notice that when RAM gets tight, the amount iTunes uses will shrink. And I'd hardly call the iPod an idiot player. It's better than anything else on the market...
Like a computer running a command line version of Linux or Unix with no GUI. Hold down command-option-s while your Mac is restarting to get a good idea. You'll notice what's different
If you bought a laptop for $800, you didn't pay Apple for it, you bought it off someone else used. Also, if it's JUST for testing, why not pick up a used iMac G3? It'll run panther just as well as anything for what you needs and only set you back $300-$400, less than half what you paid.
Troll?! Obviously, whoever modded me down has also never used the damn program. Sometimes I wonder about this moderation system...
My school requires anti-virus software (Symantec) to be installed on every machine of the network or else your connection gets cut off. Has anyone here even USED the Mac OS X version? Apparently, all it does is throw up error messages on startup. "Live Update could not be found..." "Kernel Extention not loaded" blah blah blah! Ugh! Why would anone make a program that doesn't actually do anything but throw up errors?! I don't think I've ever seen it do anything but. Here's my $40, now give me that antivirus program that doesn't actually check for viruses that could hurt me because there aren't any! Another case of boneheaded IT... I wonder how much the site license set them back...
I disagree. That may play a small part in it but let's say the last empire belonged to the Chinese. Think thier (at least written) language would be soon discarded for something simpler. The English language contains twice as many words as Chinese but a young child is fairly adept at reading and writing by their third year of schooling, mostly because of the small character set and ability to associate letters with sounds of words that they already know how to say. I Kindergartener who knows his or her alphabet and all the sounds the letters make can do a passable job at recording a thought. Few of the words will be spelled right but dey wil probly rite sumtin redable.
I know why he wrote that, but Mac zealots, from years and years of such comments, are extremely knowledgeable of Apple's product line. Even more so when Apple touts the G5's design as one of the nicer things about it both aesthetically and technically. They tout the cooling zones, etc right on that page.
Have you ever even looked at a G5, seen its internal design, read the technical documents outlining airflow zones and the large, high quality, low RPM fans, the controller that measures temperature and keeps them moving only when they need to? No? Ever looked inside a generic PC box (as in technical slang and literally a box) with little to no airflow and 2 or 3 noisy fans drilling away as fast as they can the whole time trying to circulate air in and out of the little holes in the back? The G5 has been designed to keep cool with as little noise and wear as possible.
OH really FOOL? Really!
Pros: Offers indispensable portable speakers, excellent bass simulation for such small speakers, excellent battery life, small, well designed form factor, good portability and iPod integration. You were saying Mr. Pessimist?
On the really massive upgrades, you'll notice that after the update you're unable to lanch any new apps until you restart. The already open ones are fine but if you, say, try to open Quicktime Player after you run a major update, it will bounce in the dock forever and eventually settle down but not open. 10.3.1 didn't do that but I remember it happening with almost all the 10.2.x updates and some security patches. Anyone know what has to be updated for apps to stop launching like that?
It's hilarious on several levels.
1.) The files have DRM on them, they're not trusting us.
2.) They're implying that ripping a CD you own or downloading songs from a CD you own is "stealing."
3.) You can still rip the CD to the free distribution format of your choice. (I like Apple's m4a, essentially music store files minus the DRM)
4.) They cite what the customer wants as WMA files. If the consumer really wanted WMA files, why is MP3 the format of choice among music swappers?
5.) When he says "All copy protections can be hacked" he implies that the CD is copy protected (and that breaking the protection would be difficult). It's not, only the shitty Windows Media files that no one wants are.
It may not be funny to you depending on your sense of humor but it most certainly is a lot of falsehood for such a quick quote.
I've seen Win XP do either one at different times. Someimes it needs a restart, sometimes it doesn't. Depends on the hardware or something. Maybe when you run the Wizard it resets a lot of important stuff so a restart is needed but manually changing small things doesn't.
No matter which way you call it, it's just as, if not more sloppy than OS X's update restart thing. If I know what the security update is changing, I sometimes force quite the app that's telling me to restart and then reload ssh (or whatever component has changed) from the command line. If the uber-geeks at Slashdot would stop projecting or (if they're not blatantly trolling) start looking at problems objectively, they might gain some valuable skills.
"After patching Linux I can do X and keep my machine on!"
"Well have you tried a variation of X in Mac OS X to keep your machine up and benefit from updates? No? Why not?"
Trolling is a writing style that can easily be avoided with tact. He may not have been lying but he was trolling.
Mmm, troll...
But yeah, I'd be interested in seeing both computers complete a suite of tests programmed by two different teams, specializing in their respective platform, using the best of their knowledge and the best compilers, assembly if necessary. Using GCC on both platform does not level the playing field, it's like making two left-handed fencers fight each-other with sabres in their right hands. Maybe one is more ambidextrous than the other, does that make him the better fencer? No, but he'll probably win.
I agree, TiVo does have a similar effect, but you can't bring a TiVo jogging or to the gym, it has to sit in your livingroom. You can't really sell the idea to someone unless they're over for a day or so.
It was. I had to read it twice to get the joke.
And audio that sounds like it's being played through a speaker wrapped in tinfoil at the bottom of a well. You can do it with AAC files from iTunes too (even without burning, there are software loopholes too) but that's not the point, they end up sounding like shit too. Good thing I have an iPod.
Step-by-step:
Jaguar is out there, Panther is in development
Lots of rewritten code for Panther, whole new Finder
Panther released
Security issue found in Jaguar that doesn't seem to effect Panther.
Panther team notes this change.
Apple says they'll patch Jaguar.
That's the way I see it.
No, the bugs existed in Jaguar but not in Panther. Since Panther is the next step of jag, why not tout that they were "fixed?"
Panther has been under heavy development and still is. Jaguar was not. It just took them a bit to note the changes in Panther and and turn around to use them in Jag. On the other hand, we don't know if the "bug fix" page is citing bugs that have been deliberately fixed or those that have been incidentally. If the @stake bug has been fixed for weeks but it was just reported a few days ago, wouldn't that suggest that it was just tested and shown not to effect the new code? A team wanting to please management and consumers might want to list that as a positive change, even if it is just incidental.
There is a difference. Much of Panther has been rewritten, including a new kernel version (Darwin 7.0), other OSS components, the whole Finder, etc... Panther didn't have the bugs fixed already, it was just unaffected by them.
Please, this deserves to be on the top comment page :^)
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