I'm still exclusively interested in finding out what video formats are available. I have an extensive library of h.264 encoded movies for Apple TV. I don't want to buy or stream movies from these services on my sad internet connection, I want to properly enjoy what I already have. And I'm tired of converting movies.
Oh, and how metadata for my videos will be handled. MetaX for tagging in my iTunes library and Boxee's backwards method both work. What does Google do?
Say what you want about today's social problems, but today you don't have a society that thinks its ok to make people give up their seats because of the color of their skin. Changing was inevitable regardless of what technology was used.
For a scientist, Hawking sure has been making a lot of grandoise claims without a lick of evidence. What blows my mind is that people keep reporting on them.
Wow, I don't understand the difficulty with this word. I'm not sure in what context you expected it, but this scenario could VERY easily be described, in several ways, as ironic. Correct definition and all. I'll give you one example to get you started. If you can't think of any more, you definitely don't need to be judging anyone else's intelligence.
Man killed by the very product he tried to breath life in to.
Now I have to have Quicktime on my machine... which I am not a fan of. And what's worse is that reviews are telling me that it's faster but with a crappier UI while at the same time Ping concerns me if it has my credit card information and is just a spam portal.
Are people really still complaining about this? I hate QT as much as the next guy, but it's a design decision. Do you want identical functionality and codecs in iTunes and Quicktime, or do you want to have both installed on your computer? Using VLC for video is of absolutely no consequence to Apple as it is hardly a ubiquitous claim. I, for example, ONLY use iTunes for video and absolutely hate VLC. If you don't like Quicktime, don't use it and set all your video filetypes to default to something else.
Really? Because it took over a month of occasional rubbing alcohol wipe downs to get all the adhesive off my aluminum iMac from the clear plastic sheets that protect it from scratches in shipping.
Seriously, even worse than this. But I guess that's what they get for flouridation, the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face.
Of course, you can even run your own web site using Apache on a plug computer.
Great. Now my website is dependent on my internet connection and power. Geeks that want this so bad that they'll do it even though its completely pointless have a PC already running that could do this job much better.
or run a site to monitor other sites!
Yeah. More often than not, if your site is reported as "down," it's probably your wall wart. Nevermind the fact that, again, this might as well be running on your already-running PC.
could be a media server, a file server or print server for your network.
Fair enough, but there already a number of cheaper dedicated options for these, that most likely use less power and work better.
DropBox... set up a wall wart and USB hard drive as your own private FTP server, accessible from any location.
Really?! It's idiots like this that think they get it, but never create anything even slightly user friendly and useful like DropBox. To compare the two is to completely miss the point of DropBox.
... but not quite enough. A typical car weighs 3000lbs. The article (ok, the summary -- I didn't read the article) doesn't say what the weight gain is, but let's assume the difference between "obese" and "not obese" is 30lbs. A typical car has a drag coefficient of.4. And we're driving 45mph. There's also an unknown amount of parasitic drag in the drivetrain.
You're using the same nonsense logic as idiots who say various should be legalized to eliminate drug related crime. The problem in your scenario is the depressed alcoholic, not the punishment for his crimes.
I totally admire that you can tell so much about me from one comment. Especially one that went right over your head, which totally blows my mind. I wasn't talking about a phone.
Seriously? You are SO JEALOUS that you are wishing harm upon people who know how to have a good time? Wasn't there a character in Robin Hood like that? Maybe it was Men in Tights.
focus too much on teaching kids how to use spreadsheets, word processors and PowerPoint, rather than teaching more challenging areas such as programming.
Yeah. Why teach the applications practical to 95% of white collar jobs instead of programming, which most kids won't be interested in, fewer will 'get' and hardly any will ever do professionally?
'It's as if maths was just arithmetic or English was taught as just spelling. It's not unimportant that you can do arithmetic or you can spell, but it certainly doesn't open up the whole world of interest and challenge, if that's all you do.'
This is just about the worst metaphor I've seen all day. If you only learn to spell, as opposed to learning speech, reading and literature, you aren't actually doing anything productive. Yet what's the common trait of all of the software listed above? It's called "productivity software." School isn't fun. You don't do what you want, you learn what [has aribrarily been decided] you need.
Besides, I know programming is hardly a glamourous, high paying job, but it sure as hell pays a lot better than being a school teacher. What kind of castoffs do you want teaching your classes?
"Alludes to" ? What is it, an informative article or a crossword puzzle?
Ok, ok, trick question. It really isn't either. It seems to have attempted to be informative, though. The problem is it lacks any substance whatsoever. It's all grandoise claims about how technologically advanced these chariots were without any evidence. Other than the 3d rendering (uhhh, why not a photo?!), of course, that looks like something a caveman could have made. You know, if he had the wheel.
I can appreciate that this thing was top of the line when it was built. But comparing it (actually, saying it doesn't even compare) to the pyramids, dams and dance moves of ancient Egypt has got to be a joke.
The fact that they realized all those years ago that soft is more comfortable than hard, slippery is faster than sticky and light is less work than heavy is amazing! And that easily makes these chariots "surpass all monumental structures of the pharaohs in engineering sophistication." Moving thousands of tons of rock without machinery is easy compared to slopping fat on a stick!
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I'm still exclusively interested in finding out what video formats are available. I have an extensive library of h.264 encoded movies for Apple TV. I don't want to buy or stream movies from these services on my sad internet connection, I want to properly enjoy what I already have. And I'm tired of converting movies.
Oh, and how metadata for my videos will be handled. MetaX for tagging in my iTunes library and Boxee's backwards method both work. What does Google do?
Say what you want about today's social problems, but today you don't have a society that thinks its ok to make people give up their seats because of the color of their skin. Changing was inevitable regardless of what technology was used.
Just look at Slashdot's URL for this story and you can see what the story is about
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/09/30/2054210
Say what?
"Congress can't pass a budget. Therefore they should do absolutely nothing."
Yeah, mods. That's incredibly insightful.
For a scientist, Hawking sure has been making a lot of grandoise claims without a lick of evidence. What blows my mind is that people keep reporting on them.
The main problem, however, is that the software still sucks ass.
Wow, I don't understand the difficulty with this word. I'm not sure in what context you expected it, but this scenario could VERY easily be described, in several ways, as ironic. Correct definition and all. I'll give you one example to get you started. If you can't think of any more, you definitely don't need to be judging anyone else's intelligence.
Man killed by the very product he tried to breath life in to.
So now we're up to, what, 1 legitimate reasons?
Now I have to have Quicktime on my machine ... which I am not a fan of. And what's worse is that reviews are telling me that it's faster but with a crappier UI while at the same time Ping concerns me if it has my credit card information and is just a spam portal.
Are people really still complaining about this? I hate QT as much as the next guy, but it's a design decision. Do you want identical functionality and codecs in iTunes and Quicktime, or do you want to have both installed on your computer? Using VLC for video is of absolutely no consequence to Apple as it is hardly a ubiquitous claim. I, for example, ONLY use iTunes for video and absolutely hate VLC. If you don't like Quicktime, don't use it and set all your video filetypes to default to something else.
Really? Because it took over a month of occasional rubbing alcohol wipe downs to get all the adhesive off my aluminum iMac from the clear plastic sheets that protect it from scratches in shipping.
"So, uh, yeah, go ahead and sue. And tell them they can rule that I need to shut my site down. Oh, wait, what country were you in again?"
The point was, saying it wouldn't have happened if only the pirates were trying is straight up retarded. Of course it would have happened.
I was being facetious. And would it kill them to give us syntax highlighting?
"Thought to have" and then "were wrong" has never happened before? Is this proof that sea life rose twice or proof of God? !!! (My money is on an oversight or mistake)
Seriously, even worse than this. But I guess that's what they get for flouridation, the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face.
Where do you get a NAS with gigabit for less than $100 (running Linux)?
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices
Of course, you can even run your own web site using Apache on a plug computer.
Great. Now my website is dependent on my internet connection and power. Geeks that want this so bad that they'll do it even though its completely pointless have a PC already running that could do this job much better.
or run a site to monitor other sites!
Yeah. More often than not, if your site is reported as "down," it's probably your wall wart. Nevermind the fact that, again, this might as well be running on your already-running PC.
could be a media server, a file server or print server for your network.
Fair enough, but there already a number of cheaper dedicated options for these, that most likely use less power and work better.
DropBox ... set up a wall wart and USB hard drive as your own private FTP server, accessible from any location.
Really?! It's idiots like this that think they get it, but never create anything even slightly user friendly and useful like DropBox. To compare the two is to completely miss the point of DropBox.
... but not quite enough. A typical car weighs 3000lbs. The article (ok, the summary -- I didn't read the article) doesn't say what the weight gain is, but let's assume the difference between "obese" and "not obese" is 30lbs. A typical car has a drag coefficient of .4. And we're driving 45mph. There's also an unknown amount of parasitic drag in the drivetrain.
.7% is pretty high.
The equation
Ok, I don't have the time or inclination to figure this out. But I bet
You're using the same nonsense logic as idiots who say various should be legalized to eliminate drug related crime. The problem in your scenario is the depressed alcoholic, not the punishment for his crimes.
What's more common is the question of what happens to an owner when his site dies.
I totally admire that you can tell so much about me from one comment. Especially one that went right over your head, which totally blows my mind. I wasn't talking about a phone.
Seriously? You are SO JEALOUS that you are wishing harm upon people who know how to have a good time? Wasn't there a character in Robin Hood like that? Maybe it was Men in Tights.
focus too much on teaching kids how to use spreadsheets, word processors and PowerPoint, rather than teaching more challenging areas such as programming.
Yeah. Why teach the applications practical to 95% of white collar jobs instead of programming, which most kids won't be interested in, fewer will 'get' and hardly any will ever do professionally?
'It's as if maths was just arithmetic or English was taught as just spelling. It's not unimportant that you can do arithmetic or you can spell, but it certainly doesn't open up the whole world of interest and challenge, if that's all you do.'
This is just about the worst metaphor I've seen all day. If you only learn to spell, as opposed to learning speech, reading and literature, you aren't actually doing anything productive. Yet what's the common trait of all of the software listed above? It's called "productivity software." School isn't fun. You don't do what you want, you learn what [has aribrarily been decided] you need.
Besides, I know programming is hardly a glamourous, high paying job, but it sure as hell pays a lot better than being a school teacher. What kind of castoffs do you want teaching your classes?
"Alludes to" ? What is it, an informative article or a crossword puzzle?
Ok, ok, trick question. It really isn't either. It seems to have attempted to be informative, though. The problem is it lacks any substance whatsoever. It's all grandoise claims about how technologically advanced these chariots were without any evidence. Other than the 3d rendering (uhhh, why not a photo?!), of course, that looks like something a caveman could have made. You know, if he had the wheel.
I can appreciate that this thing was top of the line when it was built. But comparing it (actually, saying it doesn't even compare) to the pyramids, dams and dance moves of ancient Egypt has got to be a joke.
The fact that they realized all those years ago that soft is more comfortable than hard, slippery is faster than sticky and light is less work than heavy is amazing! And that easily makes these chariots "surpass all monumental structures of the pharaohs in engineering sophistication." Moving thousands of tons of rock without machinery is easy compared to slopping fat on a stick!