Once the concentration of SACD players has reached an acceptable level, the Hybrid SACDs will be phased out and replaced with SACDs.
The only solution to protect fair use is to not purchase and player that supports SACD or DVD Audio. When I recently replaced my Toshiba DVD Video player I bought when they first came out, I was drawn to the feature set of a DVD Video/Audio player from Toshiba. In instead bought another player from them that lacked DVD Audio support to protect fair use.
DVD Audio and SACD attack fair use. If you buy anything with those two technologies in them, you're working against fair use.
"No, Bill. I think I understand better the great value of our special relationship now that you've made it clear. You've done your part keeping new versions of Office on Mac - we'll hold up our end doing whatever it takes. By the way, do you have another spare $150M to invest in "advanced projects"?"
Why would MS "invest" another $150MM in Apple? They don't have any pending lawsuits to settle like they did last time.
If Google were smart they'd use the w, a, s, d keys instead of i, j, k, l. My fingers automatically go to wasd after many, many games of Quake 3 -- and many other games using the same engine.:)
Google rules. I really like the keyboard shortcuts they've implemented. Having them at my disposal may make me use Mozilla more often on my Mac -- at least until OmniWeb has W3C DOM support up to snuff.
Why didn't this make the frontpage? There are a lot of people buying iBooks to run various flavors of BSD, Linux, and obviously Mac OS X on that are coming from Slashdot's target audience. Any story related to the iBook should obviously hit the frontpage.
Are you sure it was Chimera? I thought I remembered him using OmniWeb as the browser during the demo. Whoever is wrong between us, it's an acceptable mistake because they do look similar.
I'd check it out right now except that I am at work.
Speech recognition is like a CLI for people without fingers. It will never take over as the primary interface between humans and computers.
Most of us here are fairly comfortable with a CLI, because we know the commands to use. However, we're in the vast minority.
We've already advanced past the CLI, past using command keywords towards using visually intuitive interfaces. Speech recognition would be even worse than going back to using CLIs as the primary interface, because I know most people can type rm ~/foo/blah.js faster than tey can speak it to a computer. Probably even more people can just drag the icon for the file to the trash can even faster.
However, where speech recognition can be useful is in dictation.
This has nothing to do with streaming. All iTunes and Mac OS X have to do it figure out what other computers on the LAN have an iTunes library and then mount the remote disk at that library's location. Voila.
All of this sounds possible through Rendezvous (zeroconf).
I wasn't really disappointed in the performance of my iBook when I bought it. I didn't buy it for its screaming fast performance.:) I bought it for Mac OS X and ultra-high portability (thanks partially to the integrated AirPort).
However, once I dropped an extra 256MB in it, the improvement was quite impressive. Much more so that I expected. Once we get a multi-threaded Finder in 10.2, I think we Mac users will largely be set.
I have a 600Mhz iBook running OS X 10.1.4. I also have a 600Mhz P3 running Windows 2000. Both PCs have 384MB RAM. They both feel about as responsive. Both hiccup every rarely on window drags and menu selections (the Mac more often with window drags, and the Win2000 box more often with menu selections) The only place the Mac is slower than the Win2000 box is in Web browsing, and it isn't that much slower (I use OmniWeb 4.1b5 on the Mac and IE6 on the Win2000 box -- IE is probably faster because it is tied so closely to the OS).
I'm assuming iTunes will also support automatic discovery of iTunes libraries on other computers on the LAN and will transparently integrate that library into the library of the local computer.
They'll probably have a checkbox that toggles whether or not you wish to allow other computers on the LAN to see your iTunes library.
Damn you're whiney and you don't even have an iBook anymore. Steve is saying that most of their product line (not the iBook or the iMac Classic) will benefit from a new feature. He isn't saying that iBooks will run slower as a result of not being able to use this feature. They just won't gain any performance from this one feature. They'll probably gain performance elsewhere though.
Does zeroconf make use of Sun's JXTA? I immediately thought of JXTA when I read about this in Mac Central's report. Then, looking at your link I see Sun's Erik Guttman is a co-chair with Apple's Stuart Chesire.
"Incorrect. There is no centralised free disk service like the iDisk, but on the other hand remember you effectively pay for the "free" mac.com services when you buy a Mac. If you want, you can pay me and I'll give you some FTP space. You'll then find you can browse your "mikeDisk" direct from Konqueror like a normal filing system, and also all your apps will be able to load and save to it directly - you need never know it's on a remote disk. What, you want even more power? Then try InterMezzo, which is a caching, conflict resolving offlineable remote drive system. Not only do you get network transparecy, but also you can disconnect at any point and continue working."
iDisk uses WebDAV which is an open standard and uses HTTP over port 80. This means that it gets around firewalls. It also means I can access my iDisk from my Win2000 box at work, I just can't access it natively except through Office 2000 (because Microsoft couldn't be bother to make Win2000 fully WebDAV compliant). Mac OS X is fully WebDAV compliant so I can access my iDisk just as I would a local disk. It's also integrated into the save dialogs.
Film locked in a basement vault isn't any better. Some fairly recent movies haven't made a stellar transition to DVD because the film was treated poorly. Film must be stored in an controlled environment in order for it to last.
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Once the concentration of SACD players has reached an acceptable level, the Hybrid SACDs will be phased out and replaced with SACDs.
The only solution to protect fair use is to not purchase and player that supports SACD or DVD Audio. When I recently replaced my Toshiba DVD Video player I bought when they first came out, I was drawn to the feature set of a DVD Video/Audio player from Toshiba. In instead bought another player from them that lacked DVD Audio support to protect fair use.
DVD Audio and SACD attack fair use. If you buy anything with those two technologies in them, you're working against fair use.
Why would MS "invest" another $150MM in Apple? They don't have any pending lawsuits to settle like they did last time.
iMacs aren't Power Macs. Why are you in charge of apple.slashdot.org again? Even I know this and I'm a new Mac user.
If Google were smart they'd use the w, a, s, d keys instead of i, j, k, l. My fingers automatically go to wasd after many, many games of Quake 3 -- and many other games using the same engine. :)
Google rules. I really like the keyboard shortcuts they've implemented. Having them at my disposal may make me use Mozilla more often on my Mac -- at least until OmniWeb has W3C DOM support up to snuff.
Why not?
OS X is very reponsive on my current 600Mhz iBook.
Why didn't this make the frontpage? There are a lot of people buying iBooks to run various flavors of BSD, Linux, and obviously Mac OS X on that are coming from Slashdot's target audience. Any story related to the iBook should obviously hit the frontpage.
Are you sure it was Chimera? I thought I remembered him using OmniWeb as the browser during the demo. Whoever is wrong between us, it's an acceptable mistake because they do look similar.
I'd check it out right now except that I am at work.
Man, Apple just cannot win!
When they were using SCSI, everybody complained that the equipment was too expensive.
When they started using IDE, everybody complained that the drives weren't fast enough.
Geeeeeeeeeeeez...
No, no, no. The network is the computer.
Speech recognition is like a CLI for people without fingers. It will never take over as the primary interface between humans and computers.
Most of us here are fairly comfortable with a CLI, because we know the commands to use. However, we're in the vast minority.
We've already advanced past the CLI, past using command keywords towards using visually intuitive interfaces. Speech recognition would be even worse than going back to using CLIs as the primary interface, because I know most people can type rm ~/foo/blah.js faster than tey can speak it to a computer. Probably even more people can just drag the icon for the file to the trash can even faster.
However, where speech recognition can be useful is in dictation.
One is running a modern OS, and the other isn't. One is a portable and the other isn't. What's your freakin' point?
This has nothing to do with streaming. All iTunes and Mac OS X have to do it figure out what other computers on the LAN have an iTunes library and then mount the remote disk at that library's location. Voila.
All of this sounds possible through Rendezvous (zeroconf).
I wasn't really disappointed in the performance of my iBook when I bought it. I didn't buy it for its screaming fast performance. :) I bought it for Mac OS X and ultra-high portability (thanks partially to the integrated AirPort).
However, once I dropped an extra 256MB in it, the improvement was quite impressive. Much more so that I expected. Once we get a multi-threaded Finder in 10.2, I think we Mac users will largely be set.
I have a 600Mhz iBook running OS X 10.1.4. I also have a 600Mhz P3 running Windows 2000. Both PCs have 384MB RAM. They both feel about as responsive. Both hiccup every rarely on window drags and menu selections (the Mac more often with window drags, and the Win2000 box more often with menu selections) The only place the Mac is slower than the Win2000 box is in Web browsing, and it isn't that much slower (I use OmniWeb 4.1b5 on the Mac and IE6 on the Win2000 box -- IE is probably faster because it is tied so closely to the OS).
I'm assuming iTunes will also support automatic discovery of iTunes libraries on other computers on the LAN and will transparently integrate that library into the library of the local computer.
They'll probably have a checkbox that toggles whether or not you wish to allow other computers on the LAN to see your iTunes library.
You forgot to put in the part about Microsoft being a convicted monopoly.
Do you know how large of a local-network iChat works over? I assume it uses the zeroconf technology built into iChat.
Damn you're whiney and you don't even have an iBook anymore. Steve is saying that most of their product line (not the iBook or the iMac Classic) will benefit from a new feature. He isn't saying that iBooks will run slower as a result of not being able to use this feature. They just won't gain any performance from this one feature. They'll probably gain performance elsewhere though.
mbbac (iBook owner)
Does zeroconf make use of Sun's JXTA? I immediately thought of JXTA when I read about this in Mac Central's report. Then, looking at your link I see Sun's Erik Guttman is a co-chair with Apple's Stuart Chesire.
Maybe I should put my iBook up on eBay and get an iMac. I mainly use the iBook at the desk in the kitchen anyway.
Dude, you can't even figure out how to host PNG files. What makes you think you're qualified to comment on user interfaces?
"Incorrect. There is no centralised free disk service like the iDisk, but on the other hand remember you effectively pay for the "free" mac.com services when you buy a Mac. If you want, you can pay me and I'll give you some FTP space. You'll then find you can browse your "mikeDisk" direct from Konqueror like a normal filing system, and also all your apps will be able to load and save to it directly - you need never know it's on a remote disk. What, you want even more power? Then try InterMezzo, which is a caching, conflict resolving offlineable remote drive system. Not only do you get network transparecy, but also you can disconnect at any point and continue working."
iDisk uses WebDAV which is an open standard and uses HTTP over port 80. This means that it gets around firewalls. It also means I can access my iDisk from my Win2000 box at work, I just can't access it natively except through Office 2000 (because Microsoft couldn't be bother to make Win2000 fully WebDAV compliant). Mac OS X is fully WebDAV compliant so I can access my iDisk just as I would a local disk. It's also integrated into the save dialogs.
Just like Final Cut Pro is losing out to Avid? ;)
Film locked in a basement vault isn't any better. Some fairly recent movies haven't made a stellar transition to DVD because the film was treated poorly. Film must be stored in an controlled environment in order for it to last.