Of course Apple doesn't want to 'compete' directly with PC vendors. If they built standard PC boxes running Windows, they'd just get slaughtered by Dell, like just about everyone else in that industry. Dell is the Wal-Mart of the PC industry, and they're undercutting everyone into bankruptcy.
Apple has their superior OS in OS X, and their superior hardware-software integration, and that's what they're selling.
Ice T was interviewed in MacAddict magazine a few years back. His pet peeve at the time was that very few MP3 players were Mac compatible, and he'd yell at the people making them about 'What sort of computer do you think was used to make all that music you're playing?' I'd guess that he's an iPod owner these days.
Why no Quicken for Mac in the UK? I've had Quicken 2002 for over a year, and there's a 2003 version out. Though my mouse's scroll wheel doesn't work in the '02 version, and I've heard mixed reviews of '03's performance, they do work. Unless it has to be localized for pounds, and they haven't done so.
I'll take MPEG4's ACC compression instead. Right now, I have 6.1 MB of space left on my 5 GB iPod, enough for one song, perhaps. I'll have to remove some more that I rarely listen to before adding anything else. At least iTunes 3 already supports ACC, though it doesn't handle conversions, just playback.
That list of improvements includes the ones from 1.2; the only thing changed in 1.2.1 is that the icon showing battery charge is more accurate. This was much needed.
For a couple of years, I was downloading an awful lot of maps for UT in ZIP files. Also, back in the mid-90's, I was downloading.QWK packets in ZIP format for an offline mail reader. But I don't download that many ZIP files these days; I think the last one was likely some Wallpaper from Blizzard that I flipped horizontally and converted to JPEG from BMP.
85%? All the.EXE,.PIF and.DLL files true, but the vast majority of data formats are usable on a Mac. GraphicConverter alone will open some 120 image formats, some of them Mac only, Amiga only, or Atari only. Some variants of.AVI and.ASF aren't Mac compatible, but that's by deliberate choices on the parts of Intel and Microsoft, respectively. Plus, most creative content is made on a Mac in the first place, including all the music we're talking about here.
Oh, and I do watch DVD's on my iMac. With the iSub subwoofer, the sound is better than I'd get with anything else I own, and my TV, before someone stole it in August, wasn't much bigger. Why the thief didn't touch my iMac is a mystery, let alone all the CD's and DVD's I have sitting around it.
As a side topic, my brother just got the trilogy of books for his birthday, but he says he's going to watch the movies before each book; as in, read FotR now, TTT in December after watching the movie, and RotK a year after that. Silly boy.
I've also discovered that iSync stores all the Address Book info in one file, rather than one per contact. Saves a bit of space that way, with 4k allocation blocks meaning that each file is at least 4k, but with one file for all of them, all of my contacts are in 12k now.
You're right, it did try to warn me. I just didn't read down far enough, and RTFM has never been the Apple way. One leaflet to install a whole OS is more their style.
Out of the supported devices, I only have the iPod. But when I told it to sync, it failed to notice that I'd already copied over most of my contacts and two of my calendars already, so I've got a ton of duplicate entries. I hope it doesn't decide to replace the duplicates that I delete.
That's your opinion. Mine is that Mac hardware is the only type I'll ever spend money on again. Of course, that would have more meaning if I wasn't so broke right now...
Heck, I used to play some InstaGib Domination in UT on occasion, or even CTF. Offline, of course; I can't imagine anyone dedicating a stand-alone server to it. Plus I always preferred the bots to human opponents anyway.
No Mac demo or game yet, though; lower priority for them, I guess. But I doubt I can run it anyway on 3 year old hardware.
All of the Warcraft/Starcraft games had that to some extent, including Warcraft III. "I'm not that kind of orc!" Thing is, we don't know if it will be possible to click on someone on a console game.
Not only the PC world, but their recent hybrid mac/pc releases have help make them even more popular in the Mac gaming world. Corey Tamas of MacGamer.com(and the biggest Starcraft fan I know) has already said that he's going off to sulk after this news. Myself, I've never owned a console, and am not a fan of the gamepad as an input device, so I'm hoping they change their mind. Heck, right now, if I bought a console, I'd also have to buy a TV to hook it up to!
"D'oh!", five years ago? The Simpsons have been on TV for at least 12 years. I'm not a fan of the show, either, but I do use "D'oh!", and more than most people I know.
Entire albums on the radio? I believe that K-She 95 still plays one or two entire albums through every Sunday night around here. I'm usually not out in my car at that time, so I've not heard them in a while, but I think they only interrupt the albums 2 or 3 times for commercials.
Actually, going back a ways, Sarah MacLachlan put a link to a special part of her website on her 1997 album Surfacing. Of course, if you copy both the data and audio parts, you'd still get it, but that's harder to do, and you'd not likely find the data part on the Internet file sharing services.
Of course, the data part of the album recommends Windows 95 or MacOS 7.6. Might not be too usable nowadays, and that part of her website may be long gone.
Looks like Apple Red to me. Red like the fruit, not like any computer Apple ever put out.
Still, anyone who'd disembowel a G4 tower for Windows gaming ought to save themselves some time and money and get a console instead, since that's where the 'latest, greatest' games seem to be going to nowadays. If they have some patience, keep it as a Mac.
Strange, I tried that yesterday before trying other browsers, and got an error message about bad addressing. I tried it again just now and it worked. Hmmm...
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Of course Apple doesn't want to 'compete' directly with PC vendors. If they built standard PC boxes running Windows, they'd just get slaughtered by Dell, like just about everyone else in that industry. Dell is the Wal-Mart of the PC industry, and they're undercutting everyone into bankruptcy.
Apple has their superior OS in OS X, and their superior hardware-software integration, and that's what they're selling.
Ice T was interviewed in MacAddict magazine a few years back. His pet peeve at the time was that very few MP3 players were Mac compatible, and he'd yell at the people making them about 'What sort of computer do you think was used to make all that music you're playing?' I'd guess that he's an iPod owner these days.
Why no Quicken for Mac in the UK? I've had Quicken 2002 for over a year, and there's a 2003 version out. Though my mouse's scroll wheel doesn't work in the '02 version, and I've heard mixed reviews of '03's performance, they do work. Unless it has to be localized for pounds, and they haven't done so.
I'll take MPEG4's ACC compression instead. Right now, I have 6.1 MB of space left on my 5 GB iPod, enough for one song, perhaps. I'll have to remove some more that I rarely listen to before adding anything else. At least iTunes 3 already supports ACC, though it doesn't handle conversions, just playback.
That list of improvements includes the ones from 1.2; the only thing changed in 1.2.1 is that the icon showing battery charge is more accurate. This was much needed.
For a couple of years, I was downloading an awful lot of maps for UT in ZIP files. Also, back in the mid-90's, I was downloading .QWK packets in ZIP format for an offline mail reader. But I don't download that many ZIP files these days; I think the last one was likely some Wallpaper from Blizzard that I flipped horizontally and converted to JPEG from BMP.
I noticed that too. I've got 1.2 megabit DSL, and I'd be hard pressed to download a million JPEG's in a day! ;-)
85%? All the .EXE, .PIF and .DLL files true, but the vast majority of data formats are usable on a Mac. GraphicConverter alone will open some 120 image formats, some of them Mac only, Amiga only, or Atari only. Some variants of .AVI and .ASF aren't Mac compatible, but that's by deliberate choices on the parts of Intel and Microsoft, respectively. Plus, most creative content is made on a Mac in the first place, including all the music we're talking about here.
Oh, and I do watch DVD's on my iMac. With the iSub subwoofer, the sound is better than I'd get with anything else I own, and my TV, before someone stole it in August, wasn't much bigger. Why the thief didn't touch my iMac is a mystery, let alone all the CD's and DVD's I have sitting around it.
As a side topic, my brother just got the trilogy of books for his birthday, but he says he's going to watch the movies before each book; as in, read FotR now, TTT in December after watching the movie, and RotK a year after that. Silly boy.
LOL! Nice paraphrasing of Gandalf's comments about Gollum and the death penalty.
Thanks for the tip.
I've also discovered that iSync stores all the Address Book info in one file, rather than one per contact. Saves a bit of space that way, with 4k allocation blocks meaning that each file is at least 4k, but with one file for all of them, all of my contacts are in 12k now.
You're right, it did try to warn me. I just didn't read down far enough, and RTFM has never been the Apple way. One leaflet to install a whole OS is more their style.
Out of the supported devices, I only have the iPod. But when I told it to sync, it failed to notice that I'd already copied over most of my contacts and two of my calendars already, so I've got a ton of duplicate entries. I hope it doesn't decide to replace the duplicates that I delete.
That's your opinion. Mine is that Mac hardware is the only type I'll ever spend money on again. Of course, that would have more meaning if I wasn't so broke right now...
Heck, I used to play some InstaGib Domination in UT on occasion, or even CTF. Offline, of course; I can't imagine anyone dedicating a stand-alone server to it. Plus I always preferred the bots to human opponents anyway.
No Mac demo or game yet, though; lower priority for them, I guess. But I doubt I can run it anyway on 3 year old hardware.
Good idea, but it doesn't work with an iMac. And replacing it with a new Mac, even low end, costs more than a TV and console.
All of the Warcraft/Starcraft games had that to some extent, including Warcraft III. "I'm not that kind of orc!" Thing is, we don't know if it will be possible to click on someone on a console game.
Not only the PC world, but their recent hybrid mac/pc releases have help make them even more popular in the Mac gaming world. Corey Tamas of MacGamer.com(and the biggest Starcraft fan I know) has already said that he's going off to sulk after this news. Myself, I've never owned a console, and am not a fan of the gamepad as an input device, so I'm hoping they change their mind. Heck, right now, if I bought a console, I'd also have to buy a TV to hook it up to!
All right, so I'm a tad bit dyslexic. It looked right when I typed it...
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"D'oh!", five years ago? The Simpsons have been on TV for at least 12 years. I'm not a fan of the show, either, but I do use "D'oh!", and more than most people I know.
Entire albums on the radio? I believe that K-She 95 still plays one or two entire albums through every Sunday night around here. I'm usually not out in my car at that time, so I've not heard them in a while, but I think they only interrupt the albums 2 or 3 times for commercials.
Actually, going back a ways, Sarah MacLachlan put a link to a special part of her website on her 1997 album Surfacing. Of course, if you copy both the data and audio parts, you'd still get it, but that's harder to do, and you'd not likely find the data part on the Internet file sharing services.
Of course, the data part of the album recommends Windows 95 or MacOS 7.6. Might not be too usable nowadays, and that part of her website may be long gone.
Looks like Apple Red to me. Red like the fruit, not like any computer Apple ever put out.
Still, anyone who'd disembowel a G4 tower for Windows gaming ought to save themselves some time and money and get a console instead, since that's where the 'latest, greatest' games seem to be going to nowadays. If they have some patience, keep it as a Mac.
Strange, I tried that yesterday before trying other browsers, and got an error message about bad addressing. I tried it again just now and it worked. Hmmm...