Well you wouldn't edit in your delivery format, ordinarily. Even H.264 isn't really a source format, it's just what you encode into when your project is done and you want to put it on the web. Mpeg2 if you are going to DVD, HDV if your dumping to a DV tape and so on.
While it's possible to edit formats like H.264 or Theora, it's not really ideal.
What about your phone? Or your new, and as yet unseen tablet PC that needs 8 hour battery life? Those may not be important to you personally as a consumer, but they are in the bigger picture. Battery life, low power, minimising the energy cost to do any particular task is going to be even more important as time goes on. Your desktop machine has power and cycles to spare, the next "latest and greatest" portable thingermajigger will not.
My father's XP laptop does not show the WiFi connection in the system tray. Not sure how to get it to show up there, since any combination of "show this icon in system tray" type check boxes doesn't seem to make it appear there. I admit that having it in there is useful - it's analgous to the menu bar on the top right on the Mac.
The system tray on windows just gets filled with such junk though.
The wiFi button on my friend's laptop has a symbol that looks like an audio in marker (I think it ay in fact be what used to be marked as the mic input on a sound card). It also has no external indication of which way is on and which is off.
Sure, you can soon learn if your wifi is off, the switch is in the off position, I just find it amusing that it doesn't say one way or the other on the outside of the case, so it's trial and error.
So, I guess that's progress. I know where the switch *is* I just don;t know if it's on or off unless I check the settings in Windows itself.
Because it's free to print and distribute the install discs and documentation and box art right? And the rent on the store, and the wages of the retail employees?
The subscription you pay covers the servers, bandwidth and network techs... which are also free right?
Loyalty only extends so far - there are several businesses involved at all steps on the chain.
The download client (complete with "CD" serial key) costs the same as the retail box, which I admit is a little off, since the distribution costs are hardly the same, although the various development costs with the art team and developers etc are rolled in with the expansions I am assuming.
It's a bit of a vicious cycle unfortunately. People say that they want brutally hard 5 man instances, but when something that isn't facerollingly easy, they complain bitterly.
Just consider that if the heroic daily is Occulus, people moan and moan about how it's a pain in the ass and too difficult, when it really isn't.
My favourite instance was Scholomance, back at 60 - it was hard. It was unforgiving, and the rewards were good if you could complete it. No 5 man is like that any more - I think Arcatraz was the last of its kind, and people never went in there, except to get the key fragment.
There are still some challenges in the game that are not just gear checks (Firefighter, Knock Knock Knock, One (or Alone!) In the Dark, but they are all raid-based.
What do you mean "doesn't have a leg to stand on"? It's their private sandbox - they get to decide what flies and what doesn't. If they don't want the app, no one can force them. There's no anti-competitive angle since they are a very, very long way from being a monopoly provider in the phone market.
We don;t have to like it, but that's the long and short of it. The FCC has no ability to compel them to allow the app as it stands on the iPhone.
The iPhone is not an open platform, and never has been. Apple makes no illusions about that - it's their gaff, and their rules. If you want the open platform with hackability and freedom from the closed, carefully controlled vertical architecture then there's Android. There are also a ton of other phones out there , so you are free to move away from the iPhone if it doesn't work for you.
The iPhone's app store is a sandbox, controlled by Apple. It's not quite the same as a desktop OS - at least not yet; the way the iPhone has really brought mobile computing to the fore, it may end up going that way.
Do I like this? No, of course not. Is it anything like muscling Netscape illegally out of the browser market? Not by a long shot.
As an "engineer" I think a little honesty is in order about just what the 10.3 > 10.4 > 10.5 upgrade was, compared to the three service packs in XP.
Apple should simply have chosen new names for each release, say something like "Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7" and just kept decimal points to patches, like SP1, SP2 and SP3.
10.2, 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 were three separate operating system releases, unlike the three service packs for XP. They are no more similar or dissimilar to the amount of changes between MS releases like 95, 98, 2k, XP, Vista, which most certainly were not free upgrades from one to the next.
Also, the full, uncrippled version of the Mac OS is in the retail box. None of this "Home Edition" "Premium Edition" junk with artificially crippled portions of the OS.
Adding to that, the summary contains 45 words and three sentences, contains one typo and one misspelling. Surely the submission approval process is not so strained that three sentences is too much to proof read?
Well, the money is debited from my account immediately, with no interest payments or further action required from me, exactly as it is when I use my PIN at a terminal in a store.
Unless the specifics of the technology are what is at issue here, but in terms of actual user experience, the terms "credit" and "debit" refer to the way you pay for your purchases.
Last time I check, about 5 minutes ago, when I ordered something on the internet with my debit card, you can, and this is actually being processed as debit, not as credit.
So did I - and I'm not the original poster btw. Initially having never heard it pronounced out loud before I was thinking that it could be "Why" or "Wee" - both are common pronunciations of double i - the fact that it's ambiguous is the issue here, not that it's difficult to pronounce.
The fist time I heard a Nintendo ad on the TV, one of the two possible legitimate pronunciations for the word was confirmed. Without knowing which way Nintendo was going with it (since they picked the name) it wouldn't be possible to state with 100% certainty whether it would be Wee or Why without asking them first.
Looking at the word radii, you'd perhaps assume that Wii would follow that pronunciation. Or perhaps it could follow the pronunciation of ennui, even though that only ends in a single i.
Exactly. You nailed the reason they needed an exclusive deal to start with - subsidy from the carrier. The ultimate cost of the phone from Apple remains the same, so they make the money back.
In order to get that, a deal was required, and the carriers held all the cards. Apple is not unique in making an expensive smartphone that requires a plan subsidy to make it affordable.
After the woeful flop of the ROKR, they really didn't have a great deal of success in the cellular market.
Now that the iPhone is a demonstrable success (ie, it is clear that whatever carrier has it will make a lot of money in proven figures, not just "we think it will sell great!") they have a better bargaining position.
Well not really. The "security" is really just a token thing, like the DRM on the original iTMS purchases that was trivially defeated by burning them to a CD using iTunes itself. The DRM was never really there to block you from that, it was just a placebo for the music industry.
I'm sure Apple ultimately doesn't mind that you jailbreak your Touch or iPhone - after all, they sell you the hardware, so they have their cash. I think what they are really saying is "it's not hard to do, but if you do it, you're on your own".
I'm the first to defeat Apple's "sealed box" methods - I do all my own hardware upgrades, from my iBook, PB G4, Macbook Pro, iMac (lamp and white intel) and so on with new HDs, optical drives and so on, so I'd love them to be more open.
Because Apple signed a deal with AT&T (and O2, and others) when they announced the iPhone in the first place. No one knew if it would be a success - their first attempt with the ROKR was a dismal failure.
Apple went a different route, and took the option that worked for their business model at the time, and committed to a certain time period of exclusivity.
This doesn't mean they wont change that at the first opportunity if it suits them to do so.
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Well you wouldn't edit in your delivery format, ordinarily. Even H.264 isn't really a source format, it's just what you encode into when your project is done and you want to put it on the web. Mpeg2 if you are going to DVD, HDV if your dumping to a DV tape and so on.
While it's possible to edit formats like H.264 or Theora, it's not really ideal.
What about your phone? Or your new, and as yet unseen tablet PC that needs 8 hour battery life? Those may not be important to you personally as a consumer, but they are in the bigger picture. Battery life, low power, minimising the energy cost to do any particular task is going to be even more important as time goes on. Your desktop machine has power and cycles to spare, the next "latest and greatest" portable thingermajigger will not.
My father's XP laptop does not show the WiFi connection in the system tray. Not sure how to get it to show up there, since any combination of "show this icon in system tray" type check boxes doesn't seem to make it appear there. I admit that having it in there is useful - it's analgous to the menu bar on the top right on the Mac.
The system tray on windows just gets filled with such junk though.
The wiFi button on my friend's laptop has a symbol that looks like an audio in marker (I think it ay in fact be what used to be marked as the mic input on a sound card). It also has no external indication of which way is on and which is off.
Sure, you can soon learn if your wifi is off, the switch is in the off position, I just find it amusing that it doesn't say one way or the other on the outside of the case, so it's trial and error.
So, I guess that's progress. I know where the switch *is* I just don;t know if it's on or off unless I check the settings in Windows itself.
Because it's free to print and distribute the install discs and documentation and box art right? And the rent on the store, and the wages of the retail employees?
The subscription you pay covers the servers, bandwidth and network techs... which are also free right?
Loyalty only extends so far - there are several businesses involved at all steps on the chain.
The download client (complete with "CD" serial key) costs the same as the retail box, which I admit is a little off, since the distribution costs are hardly the same, although the various development costs with the art team and developers etc are rolled in with the expansions I am assuming.
It's a bit of a vicious cycle unfortunately. People say that they want brutally hard 5 man instances, but when something that isn't facerollingly easy, they complain bitterly.
Just consider that if the heroic daily is Occulus, people moan and moan about how it's a pain in the ass and too difficult, when it really isn't.
My favourite instance was Scholomance, back at 60 - it was hard. It was unforgiving, and the rewards were good if you could complete it. No 5 man is like that any more - I think Arcatraz was the last of its kind, and people never went in there, except to get the key fragment.
There are still some challenges in the game that are not just gear checks (Firefighter, Knock Knock Knock, One (or Alone!) In the Dark, but they are all raid-based.
What do you mean "doesn't have a leg to stand on"? It's their private sandbox - they get to decide what flies and what doesn't. If they don't want the app, no one can force them. There's no anti-competitive angle since they are a very, very long way from being a monopoly provider in the phone market.
We don;t have to like it, but that's the long and short of it. The FCC has no ability to compel them to allow the app as it stands on the iPhone.
Monopoly vs non-monopoly perhaps?
The iPhone is not an open platform, and never has been. Apple makes no illusions about that - it's their gaff, and their rules. If you want the open platform with hackability and freedom from the closed, carefully controlled vertical architecture then there's Android. There are also a ton of other phones out there , so you are free to move away from the iPhone if it doesn't work for you.
The iPhone's app store is a sandbox, controlled by Apple. It's not quite the same as a desktop OS - at least not yet; the way the iPhone has really brought mobile computing to the fore, it may end up going that way.
Do I like this? No, of course not. Is it anything like muscling Netscape illegally out of the browser market? Not by a long shot.
As an "engineer" I think a little honesty is in order about just what the 10.3 > 10.4 > 10.5 upgrade was, compared to the three service packs in XP.
Apple should simply have chosen new names for each release, say something like "Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7" and just kept decimal points to patches, like SP1, SP2 and SP3.
10.2, 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 were three separate operating system releases, unlike the three service packs for XP. They are no more similar or dissimilar to the amount of changes between MS releases like 95, 98, 2k, XP, Vista, which most certainly were not free upgrades from one to the next.
Also, the full, uncrippled version of the Mac OS is in the retail box. None of this "Home Edition" "Premium Edition" junk with artificially crippled portions of the OS.
Not in the UK. That's a style issue, not a grammar one.
British English is ". in this case.
My spellcheck actually flagged proofread as incorrect, hence my splitting into two words.
A comment is held to a lesser standard than a summary, or it should be; you're just lucky I didn't go with my usual love for the semi-colon.
No spelling errors as far as I can see, unless you're using a non-British dictionary.
Adding to that, the summary contains 45 words and three sentences, contains one typo and one misspelling. Surely the submission approval process is not so strained that three sentences is too much to proof read?
In before "you must be new here".
Well, the money is debited from my account immediately, with no interest payments or further action required from me, exactly as it is when I use my PIN at a terminal in a store.
Unless the specifics of the technology are what is at issue here, but in terms of actual user experience, the terms "credit" and "debit" refer to the way you pay for your purchases.
I use my Debit card on the internet all the time, as an actual debit card, not as credit.
Last time I check, about 5 minutes ago, when I ordered something on the internet with my debit card, you can, and this is actually being processed as debit, not as credit.
So did I - and I'm not the original poster btw. Initially having never heard it pronounced out loud before I was thinking that it could be "Why" or "Wee" - both are common pronunciations of double i - the fact that it's ambiguous is the issue here, not that it's difficult to pronounce.
The fist time I heard a Nintendo ad on the TV, one of the two possible legitimate pronunciations for the word was confirmed. Without knowing which way Nintendo was going with it (since they picked the name) it wouldn't be possible to state with 100% certainty whether it would be Wee or Why without asking them first.
Looking at the word radii, you'd perhaps assume that Wii would follow that pronunciation. Or perhaps it could follow the pronunciation of ennui, even though that only ends in a single i.
Yeah, it sounds just like radii and genii, am I right?
Exactly. You nailed the reason they needed an exclusive deal to start with - subsidy from the carrier. The ultimate cost of the phone from Apple remains the same, so they make the money back.
In order to get that, a deal was required, and the carriers held all the cards. Apple is not unique in making an expensive smartphone that requires a plan subsidy to make it affordable.
After the woeful flop of the ROKR, they really didn't have a great deal of success in the cellular market.
Now that the iPhone is a demonstrable success (ie, it is clear that whatever carrier has it will make a lot of money in proven figures, not just "we think it will sell great!") they have a better bargaining position.
Based on the way he acts? It really doesn't look like it.
He's a petulant child who happens to have a large piggy bank.
Possibly, but the iPod was already a huge success and selling hand over fist before the iTMS was released.
I'm sure it didn't hurt them, but they would also have to weigh up the people who would avoid them entirely due to DRM issues.
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Don't like CNN, too pretentious.
Also, brit, so watches super-liberal-but-conservative BBC.
Well not really. The "security" is really just a token thing, like the DRM on the original iTMS purchases that was trivially defeated by burning them to a CD using iTunes itself. The DRM was never really there to block you from that, it was just a placebo for the music industry.
I'm sure Apple ultimately doesn't mind that you jailbreak your Touch or iPhone - after all, they sell you the hardware, so they have their cash. I think what they are really saying is "it's not hard to do, but if you do it, you're on your own".
I'm the first to defeat Apple's "sealed box" methods - I do all my own hardware upgrades, from my iBook, PB G4, Macbook Pro, iMac (lamp and white intel) and so on with new HDs, optical drives and so on, so I'd love them to be more open.
Because Apple signed a deal with AT&T (and O2, and others) when they announced the iPhone in the first place. No one knew if it would be a success - their first attempt with the ROKR was a dismal failure.
Apple went a different route, and took the option that worked for their business model at the time, and committed to a certain time period of exclusivity.
This doesn't mean they wont change that at the first opportunity if it suits them to do so.