My 1985 200SX would tell me that my door was ajar, fuel level was low, key is in the ignition, and various other phrases. I liked it. I wish they still made talking cars.
I use voice synthesis every chance I can get on my Mac. iChat announces who logs in or out. The Mac reads error messages to me if I haven't acknowledged them within a minute.
Now, _we_, on the outside, look at that as being ridiculous. But have you ever seen how other people behave around a person with a lot of power? They generally either fear them or fawn over them or fawn over them in fear. That was why I put in the story about the engineer in the cafeteria. Gates was undoubtedly surrounded by people who would do anything to prevent him from knowing about a bug that their department had introduced, etc, etc.
Do you think Bill Gates is using a Macintosh for all of his work at Microsoft? No, he's not. He eats his own dogfood. He knows about all of the bugs and crashes. When I worked for MS, I remember hearing about a meeting with Billg and all of his product managers. The Windows product manager was telling Bill that Windows really doesn't crash as much as people say it does. Bill said that was bullshit and that it crashes on him about three times a day and ususually when Outlook was running. Obviously, this wasn't a good day for the Outlook PM.
Anyway, my point is that he knew about the bugs, crashes, vulnerabilities but he never did anything about them! It took way too many years before he started their "trustworthy computing" initiative to address the vulnerabilities in Windows, and the motivation behind that is questionable. I think it has more to do with providing a good environment for digital restrictions management than for eliminating vulnerabilities.
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Buy a Mac (I used an iBook to tip my toe in Apple's waters) and if you don't like it, sell it on eBay. You'll probably get 95% of your money back out of it. Consider the sunk 5% a rental fee.
Is it only a hoax because it wasn't received as well as they had anticipated? Isn't this something that Microsoft does? Shit something out and see if it floats?
My iTunes collection is currently somewhere over 3000 songs. Yet, my 10GB iPod only has around 1300 songs on it. I have somewhere over 4GB free on my iPod.
I don't see a need to have my entire music collection on the iPod. I use my smart playlists in iTunes to automatically sync up my highest rated songs; my newest songs; anything that is ambient, jazz, or easy listening; and now my purchased music playlist.
That said, I'm thinking of buying the new 15GB iPod since it is so thin. Much thinner than my G2 10GB iPod and the G3 30GB iPod.
I don't think his point had anything to do with how difficult it was to implement. I think his point was that iTunes is the only one to implement it well.
MS didn't do anything for USB. Apple ditched other ports on the original iMac in favor of USB. This is what springboarded USB, not anything having to do with MS. They didn't even provide support for USB until Win98 (SE?).
Apple's Final Cut Pro's Soundtrack feature does this. It automatically categorizes inported samples depending on the instrument in them. Then, you can search on that.
Apple allows other companies to use the term FireWire for free (now). I believe that Gateway refers to it as FireWire. Sony wants you to think it is Sony technology and as such refers to it as iLink.
It's been on every Gateway I've looked at for over two years now -- from my recollection.
He worked on iCal. It's a good app in theory, but the execution lacks the polish of most Apple applications. It is entirely probable that he is incompetant.
Good argument, I was against Id taking the money until I read this. I like that Carmack stands up for his principles.
However, I don't think there is anything wrong with accepting a massive pile of cash from MS to allow for a simultaneous release -- as long as it is still released for the other platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows).
Sony loses boatloads of money in their electronics divs. They make a large portion of their money from PlayStation. The numbers are out there somewhere, you can search for them.
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Yeah, that is what my Nissan did. It had a dozen or so pre-recorded phrases that it would speak to me.
However, on my Mac, voice synthesis is very important because says anything and everything. I just wish Apple would work on higher quality voices.
My 1985 200SX would tell me that my door was ajar, fuel level was low, key is in the ignition, and various other phrases. I liked it. I wish they still made talking cars.
I use voice synthesis every chance I can get on my Mac. iChat announces who logs in or out. The Mac reads error messages to me if I haven't acknowledged them within a minute.
Anyway, my point is that he knew about the bugs, crashes, vulnerabilities but he never did anything about them! It took way too many years before he started their "trustworthy computing" initiative to address the vulnerabilities in Windows, and the motivation behind that is questionable. I think it has more to do with providing a good environment for digital restrictions management than for eliminating vulnerabilities.
Buy a Mac (I used an iBook to tip my toe in Apple's waters) and if you don't like it, sell it on eBay. You'll probably get 95% of your money back out of it. Consider the sunk 5% a rental fee.
Control-click on Mac OS X performs a contextual-click (usually right-click).
Is it only a hoax because it wasn't received as well as they had anticipated? Isn't this something that Microsoft does? Shit something out and see if it floats?
Snow is no longer the new AirPort Base Station. The new one is AirPort Extreme.
My iTunes collection is currently somewhere over 3000 songs. Yet, my 10GB iPod only has around 1300 songs on it. I have somewhere over 4GB free on my iPod.
I don't see a need to have my entire music collection on the iPod. I use my smart playlists in iTunes to automatically sync up my highest rated songs; my newest songs; anything that is ambient, jazz, or easy listening; and now my purchased music playlist.
That said, I'm thinking of buying the new 15GB iPod since it is so thin. Much thinner than my G2 10GB iPod and the G3 30GB iPod.
I don't think his point had anything to do with how difficult it was to implement. I think his point was that iTunes is the only one to implement it well.
MS didn't do anything for USB. Apple ditched other ports on the original iMac in favor of USB. This is what springboarded USB, not anything having to do with MS. They didn't even provide support for USB until Win98 (SE?).
They released 3200 new songs today.
Apple's Final Cut Pro's Soundtrack feature does this. It automatically categorizes inported samples depending on the instrument in them. Then, you can search on that.
Various Cnet people have read a few of my e-mails to them on air. Too bad they don't broadcast (netcast?) anymore.
Apple allows other companies to use the term FireWire for free (now). I believe that Gateway refers to it as FireWire. Sony wants you to think it is Sony technology and as such refers to it as iLink.
It's been on every Gateway I've looked at for over two years now -- from my recollection.
Yes, it has. It's been a standard port on all Macs for several years now. And, it is shipped on a lot of IBM clones (Gateway, Sony...).
He worked on iCal. It's a good app in theory, but the execution lacks the polish of most Apple applications. It is entirely probable that he is incompetant.
Good argument, I was against Id taking the money until I read this. I like that Carmack stands up for his principles.
However, I don't think there is anything wrong with accepting a massive pile of cash from MS to allow for a simultaneous release -- as long as it is still released for the other platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows).
Nissan is now controlled by Renault.
Peugeot and Renault used to be available here. Now the only French cars available here are Nissans.
Is the new company look at Netscape a mullet?
Coding/Decoding == codec
Compression doesn't enter into it.
Finally? They just recently (like myself) came around to liking Apple.
Jobs owns Pixar and he never pushed for DRM for video. Unfortunately all the other studios did though, and now it is being worked into MPEG4.
Heh. Jobs could always pony up $2 billion. :p
Sony loses boatloads of money in their electronics divs. They make a large portion of their money from PlayStation. The numbers are out there somewhere, you can search for them.