I was surprised that Leo Laporte wasn't on this list. He's done wonders over the years in knocking out the Mac myths that became irrelevant with Os X. His voice travels far and is broadcast wide as well.
"I say use the right tool for the job, get an ftp client."
umm yeah, when i want to send a quick screen shot or image to someone, i really want to fire up my ftp client. Not to mention hoping my "buddy" has an ftp server running.
Most of the images i send have comedic tones, and after your 10 minute solution, it really isn't funny anymore.
iChat? ummm, drag drop. Done. Screen shot? Command-Shift-4 drag a square, paste in my messenger window. Done.
Its the speed we're after, otherwise i'd just email the damn linux user the file. Oh wait, my email app isn't open either.
This works. This is not running inside of vmware. This is running directly on hardware. No salt needed. I have this running on a dell computer right now.
All you need to do is take the vmware image floating around the internet, and use dd to image it to a drive. Boot from the drive and it works..
Requirements include an SSE2 enabled cpu, that would be most p4's and amd64 and higher.
Rosetta requires SSE3, so without that you get no ppc apps. Newer p4's using the.90nm process will have SSE3.
Make sure you have a great Video card as well soyou have Quartz Extreme running.
It is also possible to patch the install dvd and install strait to the hardware. But the Vmware image is the easiest to do. You dont even need vmware, just download the vmware image, and use linux or knoppix to dd it over to a blank drive.
The next few weeks should be fun:) Compliant hardware on Ebay is going for $225 or so. Not bad.
Sure, apple is spending R&D costs on creating a way to get their audio player to promote songs that users have already bought. Thats makes a ton of sense.
i'm curious about what codec this is using. Is it using Ms's mpeg-4 codec (ASF) or is it using a more standard mpeg4 codec?
Just this week i have been researching these mini cams, and this one looks like the ticket. But i want to make sure it will work with iMovie HD now that it is able to edit mpeg4 vids.
"In contrast to a news ticker style of RSS application, you don't need to constantly look at aKregator to see if there is new news"
This is about 2 years behind. No one uses RSS in ticker styles...
This has been working for a while now by the all might TeamXlink and their Kai app. Check it out, there are a ton of people on there, and they support the PSP too.
http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/
Now i know the ignorance level is at an all time high here at slashdot these days, but every single comment i just read full of it.
"i went to that dumb website when it started, and its dumb. Its still dumb now. This advertisement is Dumb. Sorry i missed out on all the DUMB"
While yes, it does amount to marketing, its way more than an advertisement. The sheer level of involvement in the people who produce an alternate reality game is enough to peak your interest. Try going to http://www.argn.com or http://www.unfiction.com and learning about what I Love Bees actually is and then bewilder us with your obsessive commentary.
They obviously understand the value for their dollar. Everyone else complains that macs are too expensive while cheaping out and getting $600 pcs and still complaining about their own environment. I don't get Windows users (i used to be one for 10 years). Mac users love their computers, LOVE THEM, we know how much. But i dare you to find me 5 people that have the same amount of love for their Windows computers. People complain about it and just keep going back, theres no other industry like it. Its amazing.
Have you ever BEEN to a non apple store? Its terrible. I'm in Richmond, Va, and we have 2 third party stores and they are terrible, they provide no service, and charge an arm and a leg.
Before we got our apple store my favorite reseeller was Compusa, how sad is that. Because the other 2 are so bad. If they want to compete maybe they should bring their Harddrive prices down a bit and memory prices, they price like apple. Its insane, $220 for 512megs of ram, and $180 for a 120 gig hard drive.
The other thing is the speed at which they get and stock their products. Not only do they get new products about a month after they are out, they don't even have anything in the back to BUY. They keep no stock on hand. You go to buy a powerbook and they tell you you'll get it in a week. WTF.
In my opinion the Apple Stores are just better, they may be doing some shady things, thats up to the courts to decide, but they are all around a better store for me, the customer. If the resellers want to compete, compete, not everything they have in their stores are controlled by an Apple price policy, get some deals inside, and don't charge me for a repair when my stuff is under warranty (another story for another time).
is this a shock to anyone? Its using a powerPC archtecture this time around, i know i dont have to explain why the next xbox won't be backwards compatible unless they use emulation.
On a side not, my original xbox will be sitting pretty in my entertainment center for quite some time due to my excellent Xbox Media Center.
This thing plays games?
actually, considering Os X pipes its graphics through the 3d card using openGL via Quartz Extreme, a fast graphics card with lots of memory actually counts for something in what you call the "2D" part of the Os.
With windows, everything is just 2D so 3d cards don't matter if you're not playing games. This isn't the case with Apple Computers. We can actually use those 3D cards for something while not playing games.
It should be mentioned that DirectTV did not "DUMP" Tivo, they instead dumped the shares of tivo that they owned. They will still be using tivo technology in thier receivers.
Also. the home media option is now available to every Tivo2 owner for free. No more $99. YAYYYY. Also, they have dropped the rates of seperate Tivos. While the first Tivo is still $12.95 per month, each extra Tivo in your house is only $6.95
I think it should be noted that:
The software is now called HYMN for Hear Your Music aNywhere.
The software has now made it so that while the DRM is stripped it KEEPS the AppleID inside of the song so that the original song can be traced back to its original owner if it were to show up on a p2p network.
I think this is totally important and a GREAT stance for HYMN to take. While it allows fairuse of the songs to let us play them on Linux, 3rd party players, and Xbox Media Center, it still keeps copyright protection in mind.
I'm really impressed with the developers for doing this.
That was actually hard. So much comes with Os X, that it REALLY is a great Os right out of the box. Anything else at the end of the list is just little apps that really aren't important. Also, i just don't format as much as i used to when i was on Windows, which was a little more conservative than the poster at about every 3 months.
yeah, and pretty much the only place to use mpeg2 is on dvd video. Which doesn't use mp3 as an audio component. It uses an AC3 multichannel audio track mix. remember, mp3 JUST got multi channel support.. thats what this TOPIC is.
I don't see why they would put the time into their "teenager" codec to put surround sound support into it. Especially when mp3 is mainly used for music and isn't technically for video.
Where as they could have spent the time to hammer out multichannel support for aac, so then mpeg4 would have multichannel support. So then they'd have a codec for video AND a codec used for just audio with multichannel support.
The only thing i see this good for is Xvix and Divx videos. While these can be encoded with AC3 5.1 support, its rare that anyone does it. They usually opt for VBR MP3 with an average bitrate of 192k. So now it looks like they can use mp3 still and get the 5.1
Cmon mplayer! make sure you get support fast.. my xbox needs it!
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they dont get rm'd they get mv'd to the gov't
I was surprised that Leo Laporte wasn't on this list. He's done wonders over the years in knocking out the Mac myths that became irrelevant with Os X. His voice travels far and is broadcast wide as well.
"I say use the right tool for the job, get an ftp client."
umm yeah, when i want to send a quick screen shot or image to someone, i really want to fire up my ftp client. Not to mention hoping my "buddy" has an ftp server running.
Most of the images i send have comedic tones, and after your 10 minute solution, it really isn't funny anymore.
iChat? ummm, drag drop. Done. Screen shot? Command-Shift-4 drag a square, paste in my messenger window. Done.
Its the speed we're after, otherwise i'd just email the damn linux user the file. Oh wait, my email app isn't open either.
heh, nuff said :)
This works. This is not running inside of vmware. This is running directly on hardware. No salt needed. I have this running on a dell computer right now. All you need to do is take the vmware image floating around the internet, and use dd to image it to a drive. Boot from the drive and it works.. Requirements include an SSE2 enabled cpu, that would be most p4's and amd64 and higher. Rosetta requires SSE3, so without that you get no ppc apps. Newer p4's using the .90nm process will have SSE3.
Make sure you have a great Video card as well soyou have Quartz Extreme running.
It is also possible to patch the install dvd and install strait to the hardware. But the Vmware image is the easiest to do. You dont even need vmware, just download the vmware image, and use linux or knoppix to dd it over to a blank drive.
The next few weeks should be fun :) Compliant hardware on Ebay is going for $225 or so. Not bad.
godddddd i hope he has an eye patch
in 1866 pretty much. vs town, Network Buffy the Vampire Slayer Thanksgiving let's shake hands
Sure, apple is spending R&D costs on creating a way to get their audio player to promote songs that users have already bought. Thats makes a ton of sense.
i'm curious about what codec this is using. Is it using Ms's mpeg-4 codec (ASF) or is it using a more standard mpeg4 codec?
Just this week i have been researching these mini cams, and this one looks like the ticket. But i want to make sure it will work with iMovie HD now that it is able to edit mpeg4 vids.
Anyone have any insight on this?
"In contrast to a news ticker style of RSS application, you don't need to constantly look at aKregator to see if there is new news" This is about 2 years behind. No one uses RSS in ticker styles...
This has been working for a while now by the all might TeamXlink and their Kai app. Check it out, there are a ton of people on there, and they support the PSP too. http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/
Now i know the ignorance level is at an all time high here at slashdot these days, but every single comment i just read full of it.
"i went to that dumb website when it started, and its dumb. Its still dumb now. This advertisement is Dumb. Sorry i missed out on all the DUMB"
While yes, it does amount to marketing, its way more than an advertisement. The sheer level of involvement in the people who produce an alternate reality game is enough to peak your interest. Try going to http://www.argn.com or http://www.unfiction.com and learning about what I Love Bees actually is and then bewilder us with your obsessive commentary.
No more nerds correcting me when I call it a laser mouse.
They obviously understand the value for their dollar. Everyone else complains that macs are too expensive while cheaping out and getting $600 pcs and still complaining about their own environment. I don't get Windows users (i used to be one for 10 years). Mac users love their computers, LOVE THEM, we know how much. But i dare you to find me 5 people that have the same amount of love for their Windows computers. People complain about it and just keep going back, theres no other industry like it. Its amazing.
Have you ever BEEN to a non apple store? Its terrible. I'm in Richmond, Va, and we have 2 third party stores and they are terrible, they provide no service, and charge an arm and a leg.
Before we got our apple store my favorite reseeller was Compusa, how sad is that. Because the other 2 are so bad. If they want to compete maybe they should bring their Harddrive prices down a bit and memory prices, they price like apple. Its insane, $220 for 512megs of ram, and $180 for a 120 gig hard drive.
The other thing is the speed at which they get and stock their products. Not only do they get new products about a month after they are out, they don't even have anything in the back to BUY. They keep no stock on hand. You go to buy a powerbook and they tell you you'll get it in a week. WTF.
In my opinion the Apple Stores are just better, they may be doing some shady things, thats up to the courts to decide, but they are all around a better store for me, the customer. If the resellers want to compete, compete, not everything they have in their stores are controlled by an Apple price policy, get some deals inside, and don't charge me for a repair when my stuff is under warranty (another story for another time).
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is this a shock to anyone? Its using a powerPC archtecture this time around, i know i dont have to explain why the next xbox won't be backwards compatible unless they use emulation. On a side not, my original xbox will be sitting pretty in my entertainment center for quite some time due to my excellent Xbox Media Center. This thing plays games?
actually, considering Os X pipes its graphics through the 3d card using openGL via Quartz Extreme, a fast graphics card with lots of memory actually counts for something in what you call the "2D" part of the Os. With windows, everything is just 2D so 3d cards don't matter if you're not playing games. This isn't the case with Apple Computers. We can actually use those 3D cards for something while not playing games.
It should be mentioned that DirectTV did not "DUMP" Tivo, they instead dumped the shares of tivo that they owned. They will still be using tivo technology in thier receivers.
Also. the home media option is now available to every Tivo2 owner for free. No more $99. YAYYYY. Also, they have dropped the rates of seperate Tivos. While the first Tivo is still $12.95 per month, each extra Tivo in your house is only $6.95
oh ok.. hmm.. so Carnivore and Echelon are ok... but when Google does it law makers are all of a sudden concerned about privacy?
Go f... yourself...its a volunteer service. The rest of the email online is not.
Besides, who parses my email first? Google or Carnivore? maybe Google isn't playing nice and thats whats going on.
I think it should be noted that: The software is now called HYMN for Hear Your Music aNywhere. The software has now made it so that while the DRM is stripped it KEEPS the AppleID inside of the song so that the original song can be traced back to its original owner if it were to show up on a p2p network. I think this is totally important and a GREAT stance for HYMN to take. While it allows fairuse of the songs to let us play them on Linux, 3rd party players, and Xbox Media Center, it still keeps copyright protection in mind. I'm really impressed with the developers for doing this.
Thats TOTALLY what i forgot. LAUNCHBAR!! I can't live without it. its AMAZING!
Heres an Os X user's list
That was actually hard. So much comes with Os X, that it REALLY is a great Os right out of the box. Anything else at the end of the list is just little apps that really aren't important. Also, i just don't format as much as i used to when i was on Windows, which was a little more conservative than the poster at about every 3 months.
It sounds like every one here is just too cool for theBroken. Get over yourselves and knock the chip off your shoulders.
yeah, and pretty much the only place to use mpeg2 is on dvd video. Which doesn't use mp3 as an audio component. It uses an AC3 multichannel audio track mix. remember, mp3 JUST got multi channel support.. thats what this TOPIC is.
I don't see why they would put the time into their "teenager" codec to put surround sound support into it. Especially when mp3 is mainly used for music and isn't technically for video. Where as they could have spent the time to hammer out multichannel support for aac, so then mpeg4 would have multichannel support. So then they'd have a codec for video AND a codec used for just audio with multichannel support. The only thing i see this good for is Xvix and Divx videos. While these can be encoded with AC3 5.1 support, its rare that anyone does it. They usually opt for VBR MP3 with an average bitrate of 192k. So now it looks like they can use mp3 still and get the 5.1 Cmon mplayer! make sure you get support fast.. my xbox needs it!