Sorry to butt in, and I haven't read all 100 posts your comment has generated. But I haven't read one important bit of information you need to operate a powerbook of any generation with the lid closed. --It has to be plugged in. My guess, the thinking is that if you are hooked up to an external monitor, which most likely requires an external power source, you are close to an outlet to plug in the PB. Why drain the battery if you don't have to? I apologize if you do have your PB plugged in. In which case, I'm mystified why yours doesn't operate correctly.
As the previous poster mentioned, when you close the lid, the PB will go to sleep, even with a monitor hooked up. I jut tab a shift key on my external keyboard and my PB wakes up, senses the monitor, and shifts all windows to it. Nifty.
And as you guess, hooking up to a TV is the same as a monitor--lid open, mirror or extended desktop; lid closed, must be plugged in. I hadn't thought of the magnet trick as a way to have access to the PB keyboard and use it as if the lid were closed. With a TV resolution, I just mirror and turn off the backlight.
At the bottom there, it specifically states that it is not asking Podcast Ready to stop using its company name, as the "services description indicates the mark will be used for podcasting-related services." (last part of sentence plagiarized from Mac Rumors.)
A bit of googling (er, web searching), and class 9 is for computer software. Class 38 is for providing communications services. Apple is protesting the class 9 but not the class 38. Class 38 is appropriate for a company name.
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Er, yikes. What an interesting mix of OS X, Windows NT, and XP. Not necessarily a bad mix, however.
But perhaps they should put a few hours into fixing the hyphenation algorithm. That's just laughably bad. happe-ning, all-ows, communica-te, vario-us, prog-ram. Every hyphenation is wrong.
"able to watch it on my PDA" - If your PDA is an iPod, yes. "on my TV in my living room" - with that iTV thingy "on my desktop computer in the den, or on a laptop" - After installing quicktime and iTunes software, yes "able to back it up" - yes "burn it to DVD to watch at a friend's house" - Nope "download it on my Windows machine and watch it on my Linux laptop" - Mac and Windows only. You can share iTunes libraries. "download it over a wireless connection" - yes, with a OS X or Windows laptop "later transfer it to my TV" - with iTV
I agree, Apple's, Amazon's, MS's, et al, services will lag piracy where DRM on the play back end isn't universal. Especially if you want to use Linux, where DRM is antithetical. More correctly, DRM'd media will always lag non-DRM'd media. (e.g., I finally checked out eMusic. Count me as an instant convert--not just from the odd iTunes store single, but from used CDs!)
Granted I've only bothered playing iTunes DRM'd music in various Apple apps (iTunes, QT player, iPhoto, iMovie), but my semi-educated assumption is that fairplay is tied to quicktime, not the iTunes application. So, I assume that any QT-based player will play fairplay music. And by extension, any QT compatible viewer would show DRM'd video. AT least, that's what I gather from bits and pieces of reading and guessing. Someone enlighten me, please.
Oh, it's better than that. If you bump the CPU and disk drive on the 15 to equal the 17's specs, the 15" comes to $2899 (and then if you want FW800, you have to find an expresscard). The 17" sells for $2799.
uf, sorry to be a pill , RB#. I made a poor assumption from looking at what qt player reports as the video encoder, "AVC0". I take that to mean advanced video coding, which I brain cramped into mpeg 4 instead of H264.
The videos and tv shows from the itunes store are mpeg 4, not h264. The high def quicktime movie trailers, however, are in h264. The ipod can decode both, though. From the ipod specs page:
H.264 video: up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240, 30 frames per sec., Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in.m4v,.mp4 and.mov file formats
MPEG-4 video: up to 2.5 mbps, 480 x 480, 30 frames per sec., Simple Profile with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in.m4v,.mp4 and.mov file formats
The way I read the reuters' article, the doj thing is mentioned only as a possible, minor factor in a slide. It lists the factors involved in the broad losses as the primary causes.
I'd say the inaccuracy is from yet another crappy slash summary rather than the article. I go directly from a headline to the links now, so I don't waste even 5 seconds on the usually misleading summary.
I really hope zonk and monkey aren't being paid. I would have shaped em or shipped em long ago.
This analog hole for video works fine. Because my brother doesn't have broadband, I made him a dvd of what he's missing. I made an itunes playlist of the pixar shorts, a few music videos, and some video casts (tikibar tv). Set itunes to play full screen, record/play. The quality is better than the 320x240 spec would suggest. Like a decent video tape recording, I'd say. Looks better on my tv than on my laptop, actually.
Oh ye of copious slash posts! You should know that any spelling correction, no matter how droll, includes a new one. Here, mispelled. Classic. Unless you did that on purpose. In which case, you are one subtle mofo.
"...the word "assasination" [sic] was mispelled in the summary. OK?"
How sad that this post of yours isn't invisible. Hoisted on your own guitar, eh?
Really, though, your original post was quite funny--too bad a couple basement-living mods wouldn't know funny if the hindenburg landed on em.
"when I put a new DVD into my computer, will it rip the DVD into a format i can put on my ipod?"
Nope--primarily, I imagine, because ripping DVDs is illegal in the US because of the DMCA. --you are circumventing the copy protection. Stupid, I know, especially when you supposedly own the DVD.
I have a couple concert DVDs that I wanted ripped, so I used MacTheRipper. Works quite well. After ripping, you'll need to translate the mpeg2 (or is it 1?) DVD video into either H.264 or MPEG4 (plus aac-lc (whatever -LC is) for audio). Dunno what shareware can do that.
Also, from the apple page specs, the ipod's decoder can handle only up to 480x480 MPEG4 or 320x240 H.264. Not exactly full rez.
But seriously folks, where the U2 ipod looks strange (maybe it's that inflamed zit of a click wheel), the black nano looks great (at least in the pictures).
I agree with your point; market share numbers are misleading--my mom still happily uses her 6(?) year old imac daily.
However, I'm thinking of the various user share reports (like this one) over the past several years claiming Apple's presence in big biz is almost nil. So, to gain seats to where this MacWorld article states, Apple would have to be selling literal boat loads of computers lately.
But really, do you think any PC vendor, other than perhaps Dell, controls that much of the corporate market?
On the face of it, if that large a percentage were using Macs, Apple would have shown tremendous market share gains in its past several quarterly announcements, and its share would now be somewhere in the neighborhood of HP/Compaq. (The ~33% gain of this last announcement was Apple's own year over year--terrific, and I'm glad I own stock--but not against the industry as a whole.)
I agree with an earlier post, that the percentages must be the amount of businesses that have at least one Mac, not the percentage of employees using Macs.
Ah yes. Ulm--thank you. that blew me away, being able to control which train would go where, and then being able to see it!
That site open my eyes to the possibilities of this newfangled web thingy. It's contemporary, the pepsi site, showed me how html could be abused. Both sites, for good and ill, were ahead of their time.
Kids these days--thinking they're the first to do anything. A German university department had a web-controlled train working about 10-15 years ago. Forgot the name of the uni, unfortunately.
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Sorry to butt in, and I haven't read all 100 posts your comment has generated. But I haven't read one important bit of information you need to operate a powerbook of any generation with the lid closed. --It has to be plugged in. My guess, the thinking is that if you are hooked up to an external monitor, which most likely requires an external power source, you are close to an outlet to plug in the PB. Why drain the battery if you don't have to? I apologize if you do have your PB plugged in. In which case, I'm mystified why yours doesn't operate correctly.
As the previous poster mentioned, when you close the lid, the PB will go to sleep, even with a monitor hooked up. I jut tab a shift key on my external keyboard and my PB wakes up, senses the monitor, and shifts all windows to it. Nifty.
And as you guess, hooking up to a TV is the same as a monitor--lid open, mirror or extended desktop; lid closed, must be plugged in. I hadn't thought of the magnet trick as a way to have access to the PB keyboard and use it as if the lid were closed. With a TV resolution, I just mirror and turn off the backlight.
Don't watch TV? That's inhuman! And inhumane! Think of the advertisers!
"Common, that's so cheap..."
It's both common and cheap (much like this comment). The great unread mass of kids today. Just another sign of the apocalypse.
Here, I'll help you out. http://blog.wired.com/music/index.blog?entry_id=15 62695/.
At the bottom there, it specifically states that it is not asking Podcast Ready to stop using its company name, as the "services description indicates the mark will be used for podcasting-related services." (last part of sentence plagiarized from Mac Rumors.)
A bit of googling (er, web searching), and class 9 is for computer software. Class 38 is for providing communications services. Apple is protesting the class 9 but not the class 38. Class 38 is appropriate for a company name.
Er, yikes. What an interesting mix of OS X, Windows NT, and XP. Not necessarily a bad mix, however.
But perhaps they should put a few hours into fixing the hyphenation algorithm. That's just laughably bad. happe-ning, all-ows, communica-te, vario-us, prog-ram. Every hyphenation is wrong.
"able to watch it on my PDA" - If your PDA is an iPod, yes.
"on my TV in my living room" - with that iTV thingy
"on my desktop computer in the den, or on a laptop" - After installing quicktime and iTunes software, yes
"able to back it up" - yes
"burn it to DVD to watch at a friend's house" - Nope
"download it on my Windows machine and watch it on my Linux laptop" - Mac and Windows only. You can share iTunes libraries.
"download it over a wireless connection" - yes, with a OS X or Windows laptop
"later transfer it to my TV" - with iTV
I agree, Apple's, Amazon's, MS's, et al, services will lag piracy where DRM on the play back end isn't universal. Especially if you want to use Linux, where DRM is antithetical. More correctly, DRM'd media will always lag non-DRM'd media. (e.g., I finally checked out eMusic. Count me as an instant convert--not just from the odd iTunes store single, but from used CDs!)
Granted I've only bothered playing iTunes DRM'd music in various Apple apps (iTunes, QT player, iPhoto, iMovie), but my semi-educated assumption is that fairplay is tied to quicktime, not the iTunes application. So, I assume that any QT-based player will play fairplay music. And by extension, any QT compatible viewer would show DRM'd video. AT least, that's what I gather from bits and pieces of reading and guessing. Someone enlighten me, please.
"so where was Microsoft's goal in that half of the game?"
How about this--having no competition for selling a relatively expensive offshoot of Windows for those overweight, expensive swivel-screen laptops.
Thanks for pointing that out. I was about to make an ass of myself and send a note to Ms. Granick.
When in doubt, blaming the slashdot "editors" is generally a safe route, but not in this case.
Oh, it's better than that. If you bump the CPU and disk drive on the 15 to equal the 17's specs, the 15" comes to $2899 (and then if you want FW800, you have to find an expresscard). The 17" sells for $2799.
uf, sorry to be a pill , RB#. I made a poor assumption from looking at what qt player reports as the video encoder, "AVC0". I take that to mean advanced video coding, which I brain cramped into mpeg 4 instead of H264.
Carry on.
The videos and tv shows from the itunes store are mpeg 4, not h264. The high def quicktime movie trailers, however, are in h264. The ipod can decode both, though. From the ipod specs page:
The way I read the reuters' article, the doj thing is mentioned only as a possible, minor factor in a slide. It lists the factors involved in the broad losses as the primary causes.
I'd say the inaccuracy is from yet another crappy slash summary rather than the article. I go directly from a headline to the links now, so I don't waste even 5 seconds on the usually misleading summary.
I really hope zonk and monkey aren't being paid. I would have shaped em or shipped em long ago.
This analog hole for video works fine. Because my brother doesn't have broadband, I made him a dvd of what he's missing. I made an itunes playlist of the pixar shorts, a few music videos, and some video casts (tikibar tv). Set itunes to play full screen, record/play. The quality is better than the 320x240 spec would suggest. Like a decent video tape recording, I'd say. Looks better on my tv than on my laptop, actually.
Oh ye of copious slash posts! You should know that any spelling correction, no matter how droll, includes a new one. Here, mispelled. Classic. Unless you did that on purpose. In which case, you are one subtle mofo.
"...the word "assasination" [sic] was mispelled in the summary. OK?"
How sad that this post of yours isn't invisible. Hoisted on your own guitar, eh?
Really, though, your original post was quite funny--too bad a couple basement-living mods wouldn't know funny if the hindenburg landed on em.
Or, even safer, use a wiki login. This is my current favorite irony.
I wonder if the ever popular "asdf" is taken yet?
Actually, apparently GoDaddy is blaming apple. At least, their tech support group doesn't have their story straight.
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170621&Loads fine for me in safari 1.3.1 and 10.3.9.
cool--thanks! It even does audio transcoding.
"when I put a new DVD into my computer, will it rip the DVD into a format i can put on my ipod?"
Nope--primarily, I imagine, because ripping DVDs is illegal in the US because of the DMCA. --you are circumventing the copy protection. Stupid, I know, especially when you supposedly own the DVD.
I have a couple concert DVDs that I wanted ripped, so I used MacTheRipper. Works quite well. After ripping, you'll need to translate the mpeg2 (or is it 1?) DVD video into either H.264 or MPEG4 (plus aac-lc (whatever -LC is) for audio). Dunno what shareware can do that.
Also, from the apple page specs, the ipod's decoder can handle only up to 480x480 MPEG4 or 320x240 H.264. Not exactly full rez.
"The Iranian hackers should first learn English. I was banging my head on the table reading that grammatically incorrect junk."
And yet, I assume you regularly read slashdot without complaint?
(I know, I know, too easy and obvious)
But seriously folks, where the U2 ipod looks strange (maybe it's that inflamed zit of a click wheel), the black nano looks great (at least in the pictures).
I agree with your point; market share numbers are misleading--my mom still happily uses her 6(?) year old imac daily.
However, I'm thinking of the various user share reports (like this one) over the past several years claiming Apple's presence in big biz is almost nil. So, to gain seats to where this MacWorld article states, Apple would have to be selling literal boat loads of computers lately.
But really, do you think any PC vendor, other than perhaps Dell, controls that much of the corporate market?
Or at least the report of the report.
On the face of it, if that large a percentage were using Macs, Apple would have shown tremendous market share gains in its past several quarterly announcements, and its share would now be somewhere in the neighborhood of HP/Compaq. (The ~33% gain of this last announcement was Apple's own year over year--terrific, and I'm glad I own stock--but not against the industry as a whole.)
I agree with an earlier post, that the percentages must be the amount of businesses that have at least one Mac, not the percentage of employees using Macs.
Ah yes. Ulm--thank you. that blew me away, being able to control which train would go where, and then being able to see it!
That site open my eyes to the possibilities of this newfangled web thingy. It's contemporary, the pepsi site, showed me how html could be abused. Both sites, for good and ill, were ahead of their time.
Kids these days--thinking they're the first to do anything. A German university department had a web-controlled train working about 10-15 years ago. Forgot the name of the uni, unfortunately.