As with Sony's other players, the NW-HD1 plays songs in the company's proprietary ATRAC format only, meaning it is not compatible with other online stores and cannot play tunes in the popular MP3 format.
I used to read Maximum PC cover to cover. I got sick of how pro-Windows they are though. Once in a while they mention open source software. Whenever they mention Apple its either praising the iPod or ripping on anything else they make.
This isn't the third world people. Nobody's forcing you to work. How hard is it to say to your employer "No, I won't work excessive hours without compensation" If they fire you, oh well. Sounds like the job sucked anyway.
I'm glad though, that they are doing something about the problem. I hate it when the Man exploits people and fills his already fat pockets a little more.
Ok, but if this place went out of business, would your business to Apple computer cease? I'm guessing not. You'd probably buy from an Apple retail location (If there are any in the UK I have no idea) or you'd buy from the website. Right?
Either that or you could be like everybody else and get a Dell or something.
independent resellers still account for more than 50% of Apple's domestic sales. Should they abandon the outfit in a huff, Apple could suffer.
I don't think anyone has an emotional attachment to CompUSA. These are Apple customers. They would continue to buy Apple products, but from either the Apple online store, Apple 800 number, or an Apple retail store. Personally, I did my research online, went to an apple retail store to look at their products, and bought my Powerbook either online or over the phone from Apple. Can't remember which.
Yeah, and when the doctor was in the theater his patients died. Point is cell technology is relied on today and there are times when its critical. Blocking all cell reception for a simple convenience doesn't make sense for this reason.
I agree that cell phones are abused way too often. (Jerks taking useless calls in a theater is a prime example)
However, we should never block cell phone reception anywhere.
What if a doctor were to go watch a movie and one of his patients started dying and he needed to be contacted? What if a loved one were in an accident and people were trying to get ahold of you so you could possibly see them before they died?
There are many scenarios where having cell reception is important.
Just try to use the vibrate or silent mode. I can deal with people forgetting to turn their phones off in a movie (though I myself have the courtesy to turn mine off), as long as they don't yack on them in the theater.
I was speaking from the perspective of an in-house corporate systems programmer. My company doesn't want me sitting on my ass for weeks being anal about a bit saved here and there, when instead I could turn it out quickly and start saving the company some real money in processing costs. The cost of a server is negligible when compared to the benefit of saving cents or dollars per transaction when millions of transactions per month are involved.
last week I requested $28,000 worth of server hardware for a new application and hardly an eyebrow was raised.
>>I'd love to see a return to applications that were under 100K
Spare me. nobody wants to stare at a terminal all day long. There are valid reasons for GUI applications you know. (yeah yeah, I'm making assumptions here, you know what I mean)
>>Misuse of high level languages such as visual basic, as well as off the shelf components for everything, has led to a level of code bloat in todays applications that is inexcusable.
Due to the advancee in hardware capabilities Bloat is now excusable - and encouraged. It is cheaper to buy a big ass computer that can crank and hog bits than it is to pay somebody good money to nitpick over every bit of resource that their programs consume. Why take precious hours to pick out every class to include in your app when you can just include the whole damn library and the program performs the same?
The quicker an app can be developed the better. Every day that you aren't running your code in production is a day that your corporation loses money. Yes I know that programs still have to be well written and protect the interests of your company but my point is I don't think that bloat is as big of a deal as your sentimental for the olden days post makes it out to be.
I'd rather use my steering wheel mounted controls and look at the display on my dash to control the iPod. The stereo could somehow be a client to the iPod file server and communicate wirelessly.
Either that or A car stereo that has a hard disk built in that you could synch with your iPod. That would be cool.
an Apple branded car stereo. Even better is if car manufacturers started to offer it as an upgrade option, and Did do the integration to steering wheel controls.
Do you think if I got one of these and shared my USB printer with it that I'd be able to print to it from my Windows and Linux computers that are connected to my network?
I should think that I can but since this is an Apple product I'm not sure if only my Apple computer would work with it
And yes, I run all of those operating systems at home and have valid reasons for each.
The average person who acquires a digital camera won't bother to read an article like this. Here's my dumbed down version of this advice and some of my own that maybe even the most technologically inept can appreciate and apply.
Give extra room - you can crop later. Too many photos don't give enough head room or whatever. If you can't run an imaging program to crop someone else can.
Buy the biggest memory card you can afford. When your taking pictures, take as many as you possibly can. Carry an extra card and extra batteries. Don't worry about reviewing the image on the 1.5 inch LCD screen and deleting it then. Wait till you import them onto your computer to give a fair assesment.
Try to be somewhat concience of what the flash on your camera does. Learn when to use it and how to turn it off and on. You will always see people in huge football stadiums taking a picture of the field from the 200th row with the flash on.
You don't have to Use the LCD Screen all of the time. You know, that fancy camera of yours does have a view finder on it. And it actually is possible to turn the LCD off and hold it up to your face. Many times this will give you a better shot. Especially when you are taking a picture in the dark. The LCD will be almost completely black and these people will be straining and straining trying to see images on the thing.
If you got yourself some REALLY GOOD headphones like the shure E3s I'm using with my iPod you wouldn't need to crank your Archos really loud.
sound isolating headphones block out background noise eliminating the need to crank the volume. After using these headphones I found it unnecessary to turn it up so loud, an in fact found it annoying to do so as the pain in the ears isn't that fun.
The link is only to show the phones. They are a rip off at 179. I got mine for $135 US.
Free hardware - pay software may become the popular form of computing. good analogy with the cable box.
But like my store bought Radio Antenna's capability to pick up NPR, my hand built PC will be running linux
And I'll be carrying around my free Apple Powerbook and paying for the latest Mac OS and apps.
Java will likely be running on both platforms, but it will be IBM that controls the technology. Sun will be but a fond memory.
Microsoft will still be making loads of money selling their Windows and Office subscriptions to morons who think their free computers that crash every day were a great deal.
I don't like the openoffice product on the Mac either. I use AppleWorks. It is a product of Apple Computer. The interface is very similiar to the Microsoft Office product for the mac.
Your windows background will help you zilch using Office for the Mac. It is a Mac platform product completely different from its Microsoft Windows Counterpart.
Yes, MS Office does more. But since I get most of the important functionality out of AppleWorks I can't begin to justify the $320 price difference.
MS Office for mac is $399 and AppleWorks is $79.
Keep in mind that I am a home user and am not in a corporate situation where I need to work with Office documents. Though - AppleWorks does have limited support for viewing editing and creating Microsoft Office Compatible documents.
The first thing I thought about was a gameboy like thing that you could play old PC games like Wolfenstien, Doom, etc.
I think that in theory there's enough cool old PC games to make this work. Problem is I'm not sure if there's enough people that still want to play the old games. . . Nintendo has us all playing SNES Games again so maybe there are enough people.
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As with Sony's other players, the NW-HD1 plays songs in the company's proprietary ATRAC format only, meaning it is not compatible with other online stores and cannot play tunes in the popular MP3 format.
This product will fail!
I used to read Maximum PC cover to cover. I got sick of how pro-Windows they are though. Once in a while they mention open source software. Whenever they mention Apple its either praising the iPod or ripping on anything else they make.
I'm glad though, that they are doing something about the problem. I hate it when the Man exploits people and fills his already fat pockets a little more.
Either that or you could be like everybody else and get a Dell or something.
I don't think anyone has an emotional attachment to CompUSA. These are Apple customers. They would continue to buy Apple products, but from either the Apple online store, Apple 800 number, or an Apple retail store. Personally, I did my research online, went to an apple retail store to look at their products, and bought my Powerbook either online or over the phone from Apple. Can't remember which.
Yeah, and when the doctor was in the theater his patients died. Point is cell technology is relied on today and there are times when its critical. Blocking all cell reception for a simple convenience doesn't make sense for this reason.
However, we should never block cell phone reception anywhere.
What if a doctor were to go watch a movie and one of his patients started dying and he needed to be contacted? What if a loved one were in an accident and people were trying to get ahold of you so you could possibly see them before they died?
There are many scenarios where having cell reception is important.
Just try to use the vibrate or silent mode. I can deal with people forgetting to turn their phones off in a movie (though I myself have the courtesy to turn mine off), as long as they don't yack on them in the theater.
Less is Less, More is More.
Provide more features, but make them easy to use, with useful defaulted options. Sukka.
Why would your hands be unavailable? What kind of other business are you talking about?
last week I requested $28,000 worth of server hardware for a new application and hardly an eyebrow was raised.
Spare me. nobody wants to stare at a terminal all day long. There are valid reasons for GUI applications you know. (yeah yeah, I'm making assumptions here, you know what I mean)
>>Misuse of high level languages such as visual basic, as well as off the shelf components for everything, has led to a level of code bloat in todays applications that is inexcusable.
Due to the advancee in hardware capabilities Bloat is now excusable - and encouraged. It is cheaper to buy a big ass computer that can crank and hog bits than it is to pay somebody good money to nitpick over every bit of resource that their programs consume. Why take precious hours to pick out every class to include in your app when you can just include the whole damn library and the program performs the same?
The quicker an app can be developed the better. Every day that you aren't running your code in production is a day that your corporation loses money. Yes I know that programs still have to be well written and protect the interests of your company but my point is I don't think that bloat is as big of a deal as your sentimental for the olden days post makes it out to be.
Either that or A car stereo that has a hard disk built in that you could synch with your iPod. That would be cool.
an Apple branded car stereo. Even better is if car manufacturers started to offer it as an upgrade option, and Did do the integration to steering wheel controls.
Why not just get a MP3/CD Deck that has an Aux in audio jack right now? No signal loss.
If I remember, I'll get one then.
I should think that I can but since this is an Apple product I'm not sure if only my Apple computer would work with it
And yes, I run all of those operating systems at home and have valid reasons for each.
Pr0n, Hax, open source software, non-microsoft technology . . .
sound isolating headphones block out background noise eliminating the need to crank the volume. After using these headphones I found it unnecessary to turn it up so loud, an in fact found it annoying to do so as the pain in the ears isn't that fun.
The link is only to show the phones. They are a rip off at 179. I got mine for $135 US.
But like my store bought Radio Antenna's capability to pick up NPR, my hand built PC will be running linux
And I'll be carrying around my free Apple Powerbook and paying for the latest Mac OS and apps.
Java will likely be running on both platforms, but it will be IBM that controls the technology. Sun will be but a fond memory.
Microsoft will still be making loads of money selling their Windows and Office subscriptions to morons who think their free computers that crash every day were a great deal.
Then you're on the wrong site. Boobies links are over at fark.
Yet I feel as though I need to leave my cube, drive home, open my PowerBook and get it updated as soon as possible.
Your windows background will help you zilch using Office for the Mac. It is a Mac platform product completely different from its Microsoft Windows Counterpart.
Yes, MS Office does more. But since I get most of the important functionality out of AppleWorks I can't begin to justify the $320 price difference.
MS Office for mac is $399 and AppleWorks is $79.
Keep in mind that I am a home user and am not in a corporate situation where I need to work with Office documents. Though - AppleWorks does have limited support for viewing editing and creating Microsoft Office Compatible documents.
The only thing I noticed that doesn't transfer well so far has been bitmaps that are embedded in documents.
I think that in theory there's enough cool old PC games to make this work. Problem is I'm not sure if there's enough people that still want to play the old games. . . Nintendo has us all playing SNES Games again so maybe there are enough people.