In related news Microsoft are forced to remove notepad, calculator and the taskbar clock from Windows, since they compete with similar products on the market.
The iTunes music store will be available in Europe later this year if everything goes well, according to Apple.
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I can't see what's so wrong with this? I don't really think these services make any difference in system performance, and if this is what it takes for Apple to maintain their good user experience, then I think it's perfectly fine.
Exactly, there's no way you're gonna get that computer silent enough. How about building a small "voice recording closet" in the room? If you do it in a corner, it doesn't require much material at all.
Uh, hello? Please don't make that sound like hard facts! Importing digital video to my Windows box was totally impossible. I'm so glad I tried demo versions of the video editing tools instead of buying one right away. I must have tried like six different programs, Premiere and such included. No luck.
On my mac i started iMovie, plugged the camera in, and then everything *just worked*. That's one of the things that made me think of mac's as reliable and easy to use.
Sure there has to be people who run into problems trying editing video on macs, but I'm sure it works great most of the times.
If you are stupid/clumsy enough to charge non-rechargeable batteries they can explode. No, it won't be a big explosion, but perhaps enough to set something on fire?
I'm a design nerd, when can I start?
I think the problem is no programmers will like newbie-friendly interfaces. My experience is that programmers think it takes too many clicks and too much extra work. I'm not talking about "Wizard" guides here, but basic interfaces. Programmers want direct control, beginners want user friendly interfaces. The programmers will have to stand back, they can use the command-line interface.
Yes, everybody expects this stuff to just work, and so nobody appreciates that it works flawlessly 99% of the times in Windows. Same thing with adding hardware, XP is really good at that.
iMovie and the other iLife apps are entry level programs designed to provide basic functions in a easy-to-use and easy-on-the-pocket way. If they could do everything the pro-applications could, nobody would buy the pro-apps. Makes perfect sense.
Naah. The whole point about modding your case is to get a unique computer. You can't mass produce a custom case, then it's not custom anymore. I see your point though.
I don't mind having cameras everywhere and I don't mind people tracking my purchases. The average slashdot reader seems extremely paranoid. There are always huge protests against anything that might reduce peoples privacy, like the RFID-tags in product packages, but come on! They are just there to stop shoplifters! I really don't see the problem.
As long as they don't remove the internal storage I don't care too much about what kind of technology they use. I always thought the harddrive was one of the bigger advantages for the Xbox. It allows for game caching (virtually eliminates loading times, though far from all games take advantage of this) and other cool stuff like realtime recording of game data, like in Blinx, where you can reverse time. Neat.
Exactly, Microsoft has a lot of patents for stuff that other companies use, and in most cases they don't do anything about that. Microsoft gets these patents to prevent other companies from suing them, it's that simple.
There might be more to come, but if they are limited to use the notes function in the iPod, don't expect anything fancy.
If Apple provided an easy way of executing programs from the harddrive and a nice specification of the iPod API, then we'd probably se lots of small games. I wonder if that's ever gonna happen.
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That's a real nice website you have here... a shame if anything were to happen to it...
Isn't this what Slashdot is trying to do? No?
Yes, just like it says in the fsking notice!
In related news Microsoft are forced to remove notepad, calculator and the taskbar clock from Windows, since they compete with similar products on the market.
The iTunes music store will be available in Europe later this year if everything goes well, according to Apple.
I can't see what's so wrong with this? I don't really think these services make any difference in system performance, and if this is what it takes for Apple to maintain their good user experience, then I think it's perfectly fine.
Sure it is, but that's just because the parent of my message missed that whole thing.
Another swedish product, the Anoto pens and papers!
Yeah, and imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...
No, XFree85 and XFree87 doesn't give you the porn-message.
No! The parent is right, it wouldn't eliminate the bias. It wouldn't have any effect whatsoever.
Exactly, there's no way you're gonna get that computer silent enough. How about building a small "voice recording closet" in the room? If you do it in a corner, it doesn't require much material at all.
Uh, hello? Please don't make that sound like hard facts! Importing digital video to my Windows box was totally impossible. I'm so glad I tried demo versions of the video editing tools instead of buying one right away. I must have tried like six different programs, Premiere and such included. No luck.
On my mac i started iMovie, plugged the camera in, and then everything *just worked*. That's one of the things that made me think of mac's as reliable and easy to use.
Sure there has to be people who run into problems trying editing video on macs, but I'm sure it works great most of the times.
In Sweden it's illegal to destroy (swedish) currency.
If you are stupid/clumsy enough to charge non-rechargeable batteries they can explode. No, it won't be a big explosion, but perhaps enough to set something on fire?
these type of interfaces often make things slower
This is exactly what I'm talking about, see my above post.
I'm a design nerd, when can I start? I think the problem is no programmers will like newbie-friendly interfaces. My experience is that programmers think it takes too many clicks and too much extra work. I'm not talking about "Wizard" guides here, but basic interfaces. Programmers want direct control, beginners want user friendly interfaces. The programmers will have to stand back, they can use the command-line interface.
Yes, everybody expects this stuff to just work, and so nobody appreciates that it works flawlessly 99% of the times in Windows. Same thing with adding hardware, XP is really good at that.
iMovie and the other iLife apps are entry level programs designed to provide basic functions in a easy-to-use and easy-on-the-pocket way. If they could do everything the pro-applications could, nobody would buy the pro-apps. Makes perfect sense.
Naah. The whole point about modding your case is to get a unique computer. You can't mass produce a custom case, then it's not custom anymore. I see your point though.
I don't mind having cameras everywhere and I don't mind people tracking my purchases. The average slashdot reader seems extremely paranoid. There are always huge protests against anything that might reduce peoples privacy, like the RFID-tags in product packages, but come on! They are just there to stop shoplifters! I really don't see the problem.
Of course, silly me.
It should be more like...
MS -> MD (-> MDCD) -> Dreamcast
As long as they don't remove the internal storage I don't care too much about what kind of technology they use. I always thought the harddrive was one of the bigger advantages for the Xbox. It allows for game caching (virtually eliminates loading times, though far from all games take advantage of this) and other cool stuff like realtime recording of game data, like in Blinx, where you can reverse time. Neat.
Exactly, Microsoft has a lot of patents for stuff that other companies use, and in most cases they don't do anything about that. Microsoft gets these patents to prevent other companies from suing them, it's that simple.
There might be more to come, but if they are limited to use the notes function in the iPod, don't expect anything fancy.
If Apple provided an easy way of executing programs from the harddrive and a nice specification of the iPod API, then we'd probably se lots of small games. I wonder if that's ever gonna happen.