I guess i'm a hard core badass gamer. Apart from some games like the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES, I beat a lot of games. Ok, I may have played a lot back then, but that doesn't really explain why I can pick up the same game, 10 years later, and still beat it, easily. Meanwhile there's a lot of games made now that are next to impossible, although usually not because they are designed to be hard, but because they make them artificially hard by making the computer unbeatable.
No it's iTunes. It says there's another using still using iTunes and to log them out before it will even mount the iPod under iTunes. Nothing to do with windows specifically, Althouh, Maybe I should just try restaring the iPod service, that might fix the problem, and would be a whole lot less useless than logging the other user out completely.
But to the person using itunes, it doesn't matter how the music shows up on the iPod. It doesn't need to be laid out in a bunch of randomly named directories, with randomly named files, and only play songs that are put in some database file. It doesn't need to be that way, because it's transparent to the end user. So why not make it easier for those of use who don't want to use iTunes? Because it has failed them.
Where Apple fails though, is that once something in that chain breaks, the whole system breaks down. You can use Cowon's software, but you don't have to, and when you don't, you may lose a couple features, like album covers, but it you can still put music/videos on it. Have you ever tried tranfering music to your iPod without using iTunes?
The problem is that if you want to use anything but iTunes to load up your content, then it becomes very difficult. Especially when iTunes is such a terrible program. Here's a bug. Enable fast user switching on windows. Start up iTunes on one user, transfer some songs to one ipod, then exit it completely. Then start up iTunes on another user, using switch user, so the other user doesn't log out. Try transfering songs to the second users ipod. It doesn't work. You have to completely log out the other user to transfer songs to the other ipod. This is just stupid, because I'm only using MP3s, and it shouldn't be that hard, there's no DRM to enforce. Just put the songs on there.
Archos seems to have a nice line up of players. I don't see why they aren't more popular. They are defintely better than the current offering of video iPods. There's also a couple other companies like Cowon and Creative that have pretty good offerings. My guess is that not a lot of people see much of a need for a portable video player, as you can't watch TV while doing something else. But the iPod is marketed as an audio player first, with the ability to play movies, which to most people seems like a much better idea.
Why are people buying up iPods in droves when things like the Creative Zen Vision, Archos, and Cowon have had widescreen players for a while. I have a shuffle, and I hate how they try to add all this complex junk that I don't need. I just want it to show up as a thumb drive, drop songs on it from explorer, in any directories I choose, and have it play the music. I don't understand why they have to make everything more complicated. It seems to me that apple is just trying to tie everyone to their media distribution. I'd much rather have something that wasn't tied to the company selling the content, because I think we'd have much better products.
Couldn't they just use more pixels, and some kind of filter to smooth out the edges? I know there's some Nes/SNES emulators that look much better than the original because they up the pixel count and use antialiasing. I'm not sure how well it would work for video, but I think it would help. I'd hate to think that this TV has pixels that are 5 times larger than the 20 inch HDTVs you can get at your local electronics store.
I think you are right. Doing something multithreaded takes a lot of extra thinking. Even for someone who knows what their doing. I took a parallel programming course, and that was where things got really fun. Things get really complicated once you start programming things to work in parallel. Not only that, a lot of apps won't really speed up a noticeable amount from using a multi-threaded architecture. I hope that compilers can help this out, because programming multiple threads is hard enough, not to even get started on parallel algorithms.
For some people, the goal isn't to do the same thing cheaper, but to do the same thing in a more expensive way. If you have virtually unlimited amounts of money, then why not spend as much as possible. It's not like you can take it with you when you're dead.
Not sure about this TV, but some manufacturers seem to think that less than x% dead pixels means that it isn't defective. With a screen that large, it could have about 1000 dead pixels before it would even qualify. That's assuming it has more pixels than your standard 40 inch HDTV. Which I would hope so, lest those pixels be very huge.
I don't think any thief could steal a 36 inch CRT. Those things are heavy. Maybe if he brought a friend or 3. Still it's not something that is really worth their time, even if they do figure out a way to lift it.
If that's really the case, then if I were in charge of what gets distributed on HDDVD then I would just put out a whole bunch of collections on HDDVD to show them who really has more space on their disc. It's not about real space, it's about who can fit more actual content. 51 Gigs should be enough to fit an entire season of a TV show. Even in HD format. As long as you're using h.264, you should be able to pull this off. Show people that your format really is better, and people will start buying it. Plus. HDDVDs should be cheaper to make, so start selling them for less.
One book is enough for all culture in writing? One book. Ok, I haven't read it, but even if it is that good, one book doesn't show any semblance of culture. Rock and Roll, I wasn't aware that the beatles were American. There's lots of other rock and roll that doesn't happen in the united states. Plus Rock and roll is such a generic term that form most people it encompasses everything from elvis, to the ramones , to Slayer, to Green Day.
Some distros will do lots of things. Doesn't mean it's a good idea to do it. I wasn't even aware they had gotten writing to work consistently under all situations.
Fat32 has support for up to 8 TiB of data in a volume (partition). However the windows included utilities only let you format FAT32 drives up to 32 GiB. However, I'm with you, I fail to see why you would format a 500 GB drive with FAT32. It has a maximum file size of 4 GB, which can be pretty small once you start dealing with video, and DVD images. Of course, the plus side of FAT32 is that it can be read just about anywhere. Still I wish windows had good support for EXT2.
How does an old browser know that type="email" means a text field? How does it know it's not a password field, or button? And since you have to write validation code anyway, what's the point. You still have to validate the information on the server side, because users can bypass anything you put on the client side anyway. So if you still have to write validation code, what good is putting type="email" when it doesn't actually save you any work.
It's like saying "making software is expensive". Well, its as expensive as you want to make it. If you find programmers who want to make the software for free in their spare time, using free tools, then it's very cheap. If the programmers want to get paid $100 an hour, and want to use tools that cost $5000, then it is expensive to write software. All it takes to write software is time and a cheap computer. All it takes to make a movie is time and a video camera.
I think variables (and math) would be the thing that would really make CSS Complete. There's so many times where I've wanted to make something the same width or half as wide as something else that I have lost count. Currently, you can do a couple tricks, like setting fonts to 150%, and they will be 1.5 times larger than the rest of the document, but I really would like full math and variable abilities.
And meanwhile in IE Land, we're still trying to get proper CSS Support. It will always come down to the lowest common denominator, especially when the LCD is the most popular browser. Nobody is going to code HTML 5 pages when the most popular browser doesn't support them. It's great that MS has finally made some headway with IE 7, but if they wait another 5 years until their next major release, then they are going to be even further behind. While all the other browsers are working on CSS3 and HTML5, MS is still working on CSS2 and HTML4.
I wish banks would offer something like SecurID for authenticating with their site. They seem to be in the process of adding on layers and layers of crap, without adding any actual security. I'd rather have a couple dozen secure IDs over having to carry around half a dozen one-time-pads around. Ideally, you'd only need one securID for each account. Which for most people is probably 3. Chequing, Savings, Credit Card. If you have more accounts than that, you're probably in the minority. I guess i'm not of the crowd that has 7 credit cards though. I have 1, and It's accepted just about everywhere. So I don't have a need for more than 1. I'd rather have a couple extra dongles hanging from my keychain than having to worry about someone hacking my account. I'd happily pay for the SecurID if only the option were available.
Sounds like America (Canada and the US) to me:). I find it funny that whenever we want tasty food, we go to an Indian, Chinese, Thai, French, Italian restaurant. Or when we want "arts", we go to an Italian opera, or look at French art. . People flock to other countries to eat their food, see their architecture, and art. I'm from Canada, and I find it kind of weird that we have no culture of our own. Maybe it's just because I'm from Canada, and so it just seems like regular life, and not culture, but does anyone else find America devoid of it's own culture?
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I tried floola. It takes at least half an hour to fill up my 512 MB Shuffle. Do other users experience similar problems, or is it just me?
I guess i'm a hard core badass gamer. Apart from some games like the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES, I beat a lot of games. Ok, I may have played a lot back then, but that doesn't really explain why I can pick up the same game, 10 years later, and still beat it, easily. Meanwhile there's a lot of games made now that are next to impossible, although usually not because they are designed to be hard, but because they make them artificially hard by making the computer unbeatable.
I would love for you to elaborate on why you think SMB 1 was a terrible game.
No it's iTunes. It says there's another using still using iTunes and to log them out before it will even mount the iPod under iTunes. Nothing to do with windows specifically, Althouh, Maybe I should just try restaring the iPod service, that might fix the problem, and would be a whole lot less useless than logging the other user out completely.
But to the person using itunes, it doesn't matter how the music shows up on the iPod. It doesn't need to be laid out in a bunch of randomly named directories, with randomly named files, and only play songs that are put in some database file. It doesn't need to be that way, because it's transparent to the end user. So why not make it easier for those of use who don't want to use iTunes? Because it has failed them.
Where Apple fails though, is that once something in that chain breaks, the whole system breaks down. You can use Cowon's software, but you don't have to, and when you don't, you may lose a couple features, like album covers, but it you can still put music/videos on it. Have you ever tried tranfering music to your iPod without using iTunes?
The problem is that if you want to use anything but iTunes to load up your content, then it becomes very difficult. Especially when iTunes is such a terrible program. Here's a bug. Enable fast user switching on windows. Start up iTunes on one user, transfer some songs to one ipod, then exit it completely. Then start up iTunes on another user, using switch user, so the other user doesn't log out. Try transfering songs to the second users ipod. It doesn't work. You have to completely log out the other user to transfer songs to the other ipod. This is just stupid, because I'm only using MP3s, and it shouldn't be that hard, there's no DRM to enforce. Just put the songs on there.
Archos seems to have a nice line up of players. I don't see why they aren't more popular. They are defintely better than the current offering of video iPods. There's also a couple other companies like Cowon and Creative that have pretty good offerings. My guess is that not a lot of people see much of a need for a portable video player, as you can't watch TV while doing something else. But the iPod is marketed as an audio player first, with the ability to play movies, which to most people seems like a much better idea.
Why are people buying up iPods in droves when things like the Creative Zen Vision, Archos, and Cowon have had widescreen players for a while. I have a shuffle, and I hate how they try to add all this complex junk that I don't need. I just want it to show up as a thumb drive, drop songs on it from explorer, in any directories I choose, and have it play the music. I don't understand why they have to make everything more complicated. It seems to me that apple is just trying to tie everyone to their media distribution. I'd much rather have something that wasn't tied to the company selling the content, because I think we'd have much better products.
Couldn't they just use more pixels, and some kind of filter to smooth out the edges? I know there's some Nes/SNES emulators that look much better than the original because they up the pixel count and use antialiasing. I'm not sure how well it would work for video, but I think it would help. I'd hate to think that this TV has pixels that are 5 times larger than the 20 inch HDTVs you can get at your local electronics store.
I think you are right. Doing something multithreaded takes a lot of extra thinking. Even for someone who knows what their doing. I took a parallel programming course, and that was where things got really fun. Things get really complicated once you start programming things to work in parallel. Not only that, a lot of apps won't really speed up a noticeable amount from using a multi-threaded architecture. I hope that compilers can help this out, because programming multiple threads is hard enough, not to even get started on parallel algorithms.
For some people, the goal isn't to do the same thing cheaper, but to do the same thing in a more expensive way. If you have virtually unlimited amounts of money, then why not spend as much as possible. It's not like you can take it with you when you're dead.
Not sure about this TV, but some manufacturers seem to think that less than x% dead pixels means that it isn't defective. With a screen that large, it could have about 1000 dead pixels before it would even qualify. That's assuming it has more pixels than your standard 40 inch HDTV. Which I would hope so, lest those pixels be very huge.
I don't think any thief could steal a 36 inch CRT. Those things are heavy. Maybe if he brought a friend or 3. Still it's not something that is really worth their time, even if they do figure out a way to lift it.
If that's really the case, then if I were in charge of what gets distributed on HDDVD then I would just put out a whole bunch of collections on HDDVD to show them who really has more space on their disc. It's not about real space, it's about who can fit more actual content. 51 Gigs should be enough to fit an entire season of a TV show. Even in HD format. As long as you're using h.264, you should be able to pull this off. Show people that your format really is better, and people will start buying it. Plus. HDDVDs should be cheaper to make, so start selling them for less.
If the key caps don't matter, and you never have to look anyway, I suggest you get Das Keyboard.
One book is enough for all culture in writing? One book. Ok, I haven't read it, but even if it is that good, one book doesn't show any semblance of culture. Rock and Roll, I wasn't aware that the beatles were American. There's lots of other rock and roll that doesn't happen in the united states. Plus Rock and roll is such a generic term that form most people it encompasses everything from elvis, to the ramones , to Slayer, to Green Day.
Some distros will do lots of things. Doesn't mean it's a good idea to do it. I wasn't even aware they had gotten writing to work consistently under all situations.
Fat32 has support for up to 8 TiB of data in a volume (partition). However the windows included utilities only let you format FAT32 drives up to 32 GiB. However, I'm with you, I fail to see why you would format a 500 GB drive with FAT32. It has a maximum file size of 4 GB, which can be pretty small once you start dealing with video, and DVD images. Of course, the plus side of FAT32 is that it can be read just about anywhere. Still I wish windows had good support for EXT2.
How does an old browser know that type="email" means a text field? How does it know it's not a password field, or button? And since you have to write validation code anyway, what's the point. You still have to validate the information on the server side, because users can bypass anything you put on the client side anyway. So if you still have to write validation code, what good is putting type="email" when it doesn't actually save you any work.
It's like saying "making software is expensive". Well, its as expensive as you want to make it. If you find programmers who want to make the software for free in their spare time, using free tools, then it's very cheap. If the programmers want to get paid $100 an hour, and want to use tools that cost $5000, then it is expensive to write software. All it takes to write software is time and a cheap computer. All it takes to make a movie is time and a video camera.
I think variables (and math) would be the thing that would really make CSS Complete. There's so many times where I've wanted to make something the same width or half as wide as something else that I have lost count. Currently, you can do a couple tricks, like setting fonts to 150%, and they will be 1.5 times larger than the rest of the document, but I really would like full math and variable abilities.
And meanwhile in IE Land, we're still trying to get proper CSS Support. It will always come down to the lowest common denominator, especially when the LCD is the most popular browser. Nobody is going to code HTML 5 pages when the most popular browser doesn't support them. It's great that MS has finally made some headway with IE 7, but if they wait another 5 years until their next major release, then they are going to be even further behind. While all the other browsers are working on CSS3 and HTML5, MS is still working on CSS2 and HTML4.
I wish banks would offer something like SecurID for authenticating with their site. They seem to be in the process of adding on layers and layers of crap, without adding any actual security. I'd rather have a couple dozen secure IDs over having to carry around half a dozen one-time-pads around. Ideally, you'd only need one securID for each account. Which for most people is probably 3. Chequing, Savings, Credit Card. If you have more accounts than that, you're probably in the minority. I guess i'm not of the crowd that has 7 credit cards though. I have 1, and It's accepted just about everywhere. So I don't have a need for more than 1. I'd rather have a couple extra dongles hanging from my keychain than having to worry about someone hacking my account. I'd happily pay for the SecurID if only the option were available.
Sounds like America (Canada and the US) to me :). I find it funny that whenever we want tasty food, we go to an Indian, Chinese, Thai, French, Italian restaurant. Or when we want "arts", we go to an Italian opera, or look at French art. . People flock to other countries to eat their food, see their architecture, and art. I'm from Canada, and I find it kind of weird that we have no culture of our own. Maybe it's just because I'm from Canada, and so it just seems like regular life, and not culture, but does anyone else find America devoid of it's own culture?