maybe PearPC has become much more useful? It wouldn't have to carry the burden of emulating a PowerPC on intel anymore- but I believe they've taken care of emulating Open Firmware. Unless Apple uses this mystery DRM scheme that Intel has supposedly stuffed into its latest Pentium variants, I'm pretty sure people will be installing the leaked OS X 10.4.1 for Intel on non-Apple branded PCs shortly after it ships to developers in two weeks...
Apple once again reiterated that putting a G5 in a Powerbook is the 'mother of all technical hurdles' at their earnings conference call the other day. Unless they're just saying that as a smokescreen (and who knows w/ them), don't expect a G5 PB any time soon...
crap, i'm sorry, i'm confusing Zen with MuVo, which is the tiny flash-based one that I'm really thinking of buying. link. homercles has no interest in the zen micro.
you forgot the most important part, at least to quasi-musicians like myself who are looking for an easy way to record band practices without having to set up my laptop- line-in recording! unlike the ipod's intentionally crippled recording features, the zen micro looks like it will record to any bitrate of mp3. i know people who are still buying minidisc recorders for this purpose at well over $200 / pop-- with the zen micro 512MB costing around $120 (last I checked) I am SERIOUSLY tempted to pick one up even though I already own a 40GB ipod!
yes, this is intentional on apple's behalf to keep the ibook from cutting into the PB's bottom end... but it's also easily worked around- you can do VGA monitor spanning (PBs let you have DVI) by mucking around in the open firmware or by downloading this nifty utility: http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html
that even lets you do monitor spanning on the new imacs!
apparently there was an episode of sex in the city that mentioned a rabbit that wasn't of your typical garden variety and that used batteries... leading to spammers sending a flood of offers for R/\bb|tS and MSN Hotmail subsequently throwing them all in my junk folder. maybe they use their spam filters in the search engine as well?
very true. and there were some undisclosed happenings going on between apple and andy o'meara with G-Force and the itunes visualizer. from reading the konfabulator message boards today, however, it looks like Arlo Rose found out about Dashboard from some friends and Apple NEVER approached him about buying Konfabulator. Arlo even says that Pixar has a site license for Konfabulator! so this time around it seems like apple dealt with 'borrowing' konfabulator in a very unscrupulous manner, to say the least...
it looks like apple's giving konfabulator the same treatment with dashboard as they gave soundjam with itunes, watson with sherlock... i don't get it. on one hand, they're bringing their developers closer with all these great development tools-- XCode 2.0's OO diagramming features look very sweet as well as the Java tools-- but they have the gall to blatantly steal the finest fruits of the third-party developers' labors?
yes but these displays + a GPS unit can give a field commander a big fat "YOU ARE HERE"... and with additional intelligence that is gathered elsewhere, such a display can be instantly updated to say "THEY ARE THERE- DUCK!"
from the FAQ: What Operating Systems are currently supported?
Windows 98se, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003.
however, I'm still stuck in NT on my work pc so I took my chances... and winamp 5 works fine! it's nice to have a media player that actually works on my work pc being that the recent versions of windows media player and quicktime don't work at all on nt...
obviously you don't work for a defense contractor, where every so often you hear horror stories about how some radar software rounded off the wrong number and thought the moon was a ballistic missile, almost bringing us into world war III...
well that's where the bluetooth headsets come in... even though those things currently look like some kind of borg-wear or at least a futuristic cochlear implant.
this begs the question-- what will look weirder? talking into your wrist? or talking to nothing at all?
they mention in the article that the movies could be distributed over a network or via optical media i.e. DVD... but does anyone have any insight into how big a, say, 2 hour, 5.1 surround sound movie will be? pirating 10+GB files still isn't that mainstream...
and on a similar note, what is 'theater' resolution?
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maybe PearPC has become much more useful? It wouldn't have to carry the burden of emulating a PowerPC on intel anymore- but I believe they've taken care of emulating Open Firmware. Unless Apple uses this mystery DRM scheme that Intel has supposedly stuffed into its latest Pentium variants, I'm pretty sure people will be installing the leaked OS X 10.4.1 for Intel on non-Apple branded PCs shortly after it ships to developers in two weeks...
Anyone here old enough to remember Lotus Magellan?
no... I have a 6-digit UID.
Apple once again reiterated that putting a G5 in a Powerbook is the 'mother of all technical hurdles' at their earnings conference call the other day. Unless they're just saying that as a smokescreen (and who knows w/ them), don't expect a G5 PB any time soon...
It's been done, and it was called the XFL...
Isamu Sanada rocks. Check out his idea for the ipod flash @ applele.com.
crap, i'm sorry, i'm confusing Zen with MuVo, which is the tiny flash-based one that I'm really thinking of buying. link. homercles has no interest in the zen micro.
you forgot the most important part, at least to quasi-musicians like myself who are looking for an easy way to record band practices without having to set up my laptop- line-in recording! unlike the ipod's intentionally crippled recording features, the zen micro looks like it will record to any bitrate of mp3. i know people who are still buying minidisc recorders for this purpose at well over $200 / pop-- with the zen micro 512MB costing around $120 (last I checked) I am SERIOUSLY tempted to pick one up even though I already own a 40GB ipod!
yes, this is intentional on apple's behalf to keep the ibook from cutting into the PB's bottom end... but it's also easily worked around- you can do VGA monitor spanning (PBs let you have DVI) by mucking around in the open firmware or by downloading this nifty utility:
http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html
that even lets you do monitor spanning on the new imacs!
look at the source for 7427466391.com... lest you think google would give you some help in their comments, well, all you get is:
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apparently there was an episode of sex in the city that mentioned a rabbit that wasn't of your typical garden variety and that used batteries... leading to spammers sending a flood of offers for R/\bb|tS and MSN Hotmail subsequently throwing them all in my junk folder. maybe they use their spam filters in the search engine as well?
iTunes is SoundJam
very true. and there were some undisclosed happenings going on between apple and andy o'meara with G-Force and the itunes visualizer. from reading the konfabulator message boards today, however, it looks like Arlo Rose found out about Dashboard from some friends and Apple NEVER approached him about buying Konfabulator. Arlo even says that Pixar has a site license for Konfabulator! so this time around it seems like apple dealt with 'borrowing' konfabulator in a very unscrupulous manner, to say the least...
it looks like apple's giving konfabulator the same treatment with dashboard as they gave soundjam with itunes, watson with sherlock... i don't get it. on one hand, they're bringing their developers closer with all these great development tools-- XCode 2.0's OO diagramming features look very sweet as well as the Java tools-- but they have the gall to blatantly steal the finest fruits of the third-party developers' labors?
well, yeah... that was awfully long for a first post...
finally, Wooly Willy catches up to the 21st century!
H2s start to carry surface-to-surface missles
oh they've already got humvees w/ missiles on 'em, don't you worry...
yes but these displays + a GPS unit can give a field commander a big fat "YOU ARE HERE"... and with additional intelligence that is gathered elsewhere, such a display can be instantly updated to say "THEY ARE THERE- DUCK!"
Chris, that's a terrible word! Nipple.
(Lois Griffin)
from the FAQ:
What Operating Systems are currently supported? Windows 98se, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003.
however, I'm still stuck in NT on my work pc so I took my chances... and winamp 5 works fine! it's nice to have a media player that actually works on my work pc being that the recent versions of windows media player and quicktime don't work at all on nt...
donut? what's a donut?
does that term apply to the non-software world too?
obviously you don't work for a defense contractor, where every so often you hear horror stories about how some radar software rounded off the wrong number and thought the moon was a ballistic missile, almost bringing us into world war III...
why does the thought of 'bots originating from MS' bring to mind the sentinels from The Matrix?
well that's where the bluetooth headsets come in... even though those things currently look like some kind of borg-wear or at least a futuristic cochlear implant. this begs the question-- what will look weirder? talking into your wrist? or talking to nothing at all?
why does this conjure up images of bugs bunny hanging from a tip of a crescent moon with marvin the martian and his dog clinging to each other's legs?
"GET ME OUTTA HERE!"
they mention in the article that the movies could be distributed over a network or via optical media i.e. DVD... but does anyone have any insight into how big a, say, 2 hour, 5.1 surround sound movie will be? pirating 10+GB files still isn't that mainstream...
and on a similar note, what is 'theater' resolution?