American businesses might make money by buying legislation, but we can't be stuck with old tech forever. If the US doesn't develop fuel cells, someone else out of the range of US 'protect the president's friends' laws will.
As a quick correction, you are almost correct - a standard minidisc can hold 140Mb of data. Sony's official "MD Data" minidiscs are identical to the music ones apart from a few holes in different places on the casing so the drives can tell them apart.
You can fit just over 20 minutes of music in 8 tracks onto one of them, or 74/80 minutes in 2 tracks.
And just FYI UFS and HFS[+] have nothing to do with networking whatsoever.
Maybe not, but can you mount an HFS+ volume on a windows box? (I can't remember if it's possible).
Surely you still have to login to a remote machine before accessing it.
You answered yes
So you log in, then browse to the share. In OSX you log in and you pick from a list of available shares for that login, which then mount on your desktop. In the case of 10.1.5, you had to know the name of the shared directory if you were connecting to a Windows box, but it did work - I used to do it all the time. M$ doesn't play nice with other OSes when it comes to connectivity.
I don't see how either of the methods is better than the other. I can see benefits to the windows and the Mac methods - although navigating within Unix and Mac environments is a breeze on the Mac, it's only when you add Windows into it where things start to get ugly.
Nope, "nowt", used in the Yorkshire dialect, but widely adopted in the UK, at first in mocking, but over time it just grew into a somewhat universal bit of slang.
If you lot can have "yeah" and "dude" then we can how "nowt".
why don't you put some of that computation into spelling.
You mean the word "nowt"?
It's an English word, and it means "nothing". Put some computation into your posts before firing them off without thought. You forgot to login too... ah, yeah, I see.
It would be easy to do this on any firewire equipped Mac (pretty much everything), even in OS9.
All the tools you need come free with the OS - iMovie and umm... that's it.
Hook up your firewire (IE1394/iLink) MiniDV camera to your Mac, click "capture" and you're away.
You can edit, title, mess, add music and the exporting options are excellent.
It took my humble 600MHz iBook 45 minutes to encode a 3 minute video file in Quicktime (H.263 codec, u-law sound), so something with a bit more oomph (say, a powerbook) would cut this in half or more.
You can export to DV tape for home archive, and even encode at different rates to suit your audience. All you need is a broadband connection and a fair bit of space for hosting, plus a generous monthly bandwith allotment depending on how popular you get.
You could put up each video with a quick html file that contains keywords and info on the content to aid in cataloging and searching.
I agree, the content provision is difficult given the non-trivial cost of bandwidth, but I can see it happening.
Heh, and I guess I've been unlucky, but then I only tend to see Windows laptops when my friends bring them to me when they're not working properly - CD drive unseated, keys breaking, etc.
I wouldn't have thought titanium was much good for making a sword. It's hard, but its modulus is low, making it very easy to bend. Now, cobalt chrome, that would make a good sword! Good luck trying to work it though
So you'd rather have a Dell laptop made out of tacky ABS plastic than a 12"/17" powerbook made out of aerospace grade aluminium?
Up to you I guess!
Apple did mention they were changing the case material - from aero grade Ti to aero grade Al. One of the benefits of Al is that it isn't quite as radio opaque as Ti, and coupled with the new location of the antennas in the screen has improved airport reception.
They don't want to stop people using the concept of the trash can, or using an icon of an actual trash can to represent it, it's just a design patent on the image of their particular look.
Indeed, the unofficial slogan for Apple seems to be "proudly going out of business for 20 years".
Those iPods won't sell! No one is going to spend money on a tiny, sleek, fast and beautiful mp3 player when they can buy a cheaper offering from Creative that uses USB and is the size of a Bible!
And who's going to plump down $1,700 for a 12" powerbook when they can spend the same amount on a pos tacky plastic Dell?
heh.
Lest we forget, who would buy a computer with a one button mouse?! It's just madness! They'll never sell!
And for serious comment, I'll be all over this service if Apple launches it. It will go well with my iBook. I might even get an iPod to compliment my MiniDisc setup.
You'd probably find the lens would give up before the format on a consumer camera though.
We get artifects such as that on our professional DVCAM camera, while the pass through (using Y/C out) is nice and sharp.
The little MiniDV jobby we have smears before it hatches on fine detail or deliberate attempts to show up the limitations of the format.
No doubt the DVCAM has an added advantage since the track pitch of the tape is 1.5x wider than DV, although this reduces the recording time by a third.
You can't really do-it-yourself with Apple machines - too much is proprietary and there's certainly not a choice of components.
This is a female moth... err, a myth.
Only the cpu, case and motherboard are proprietry.
Everything else is the same as you'd find in a regular PC. Mice, keyboards, LCD panels, graphics cards, hard drives, ram, dvd/dvd-r/cdrw etc.
You wouldn't need to put in a network card, since all macs have ethernet built in (10/100 on most, GigE on powermac and powerbook). Firewire and usb also built in.
That's funny, we had a 9600/300 working as a professional non-linear edit suite, producing programs for TV and video handling multi-gigabyte files and full frame video with no problems.
You get a lot of bang for your buck in the PowerMac range.
Remember, Apple doesn't sell bargain basement systems like Dell "$599 for a 3Ghz PC!" which ends up costing $1500 when you add extra memory, dvd, powerful graphics etc.
As a gaming machine, either the 1Ghz or the dual 1.25 would be more than adequate. A dual 1.25 gives you a couple of Ghz to play with, combined with a fairly meaty graphics card.
The 1Ghz machine is comaprable to a PC with a similar speed of CPU. My battered old Athlon 500 with 32Mb GeForce 2 can handle pretty much any 3D game i throw at it (although I think it would stuggle with the latest incarnations UT2003, Doom3 etc) and the SP G4 is twice as quick as that with a better graphics card.
The unseen extras come in the form of software. Not only will you get Jaguar, but a slew of excellent apps to get you started, and a unix core that you can mess about with all you like (ok, so it's BSD 4.4 so a bit behind the curve, but it's rock solid). The fact that I can have the terminal open while running OS X essentially giving me two operating systems to work with has been a godsend.
You can also use your box as a webserver with Apache, a mail server, or any other purpose that you'd use a unix box for.
The case pulls open with one little handle on the side and opens out so the MB is horizontal with the cables routed near the hinge. It's upgradeable up the wazoo with any parts you care to pick up in BestBuy. The only proprietry parts are the cpu(s) and motherboard itself.
As an example, we're using a Dual G4 450MHz with a Rage 128 card to run a professional video company using Final Cut Pro 3. We can capture and edit full frame DV without any hitches (via the built in firewire ports from our pro DVCAM camera).
It's more than fast enough for our needs. Add a Radeon 9000 or a GeForce 4 and you'll be well away to a stellar gaming machine.
Just remember there are fewer games out for the Mac, but still a fair number. You'll get OS X into the bargain too.
High pressure common rail diesel engines hardly smoke at all.
You're likely to get some smoke from a big diesel that isn't using fine injection control (things like Land Rover Discoverys and the like) but on any 2002/2003 diesel it's been pretty much eliminated.
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How is the parent flamebait? Did an Apple hater get some mod points?
American businesses might make money by buying legislation, but we can't be stuck with old tech forever. If the US doesn't develop fuel cells, someone else out of the range of US 'protect the president's friends' laws will.
As a quick correction, you are almost correct - a standard minidisc can hold 140Mb of data. Sony's official "MD Data" minidiscs are identical to the music ones apart from a few holes in different places on the casing so the drives can tell them apart.
You can fit just over 20 minutes of music in 8 tracks onto one of them, or 74/80 minutes in 2 tracks.
Ah, your problem is that "You draw far too much attention to yourself Mr Underhill".
And just FYI UFS and HFS[+] have nothing to do with networking whatsoever.
Maybe not, but can you mount an HFS+ volume on a windows box? (I can't remember if it's possible).
Surely you still have to login to a remote machine before accessing it.
You answered yes
So you log in, then browse to the share. In OSX you log in and you pick from a list of available shares for that login, which then mount on your desktop.
In the case of 10.1.5, you had to know the name of the shared directory if you were connecting to a Windows box, but it did work - I used to do it all the time. M$ doesn't play nice with other OSes when it comes to connectivity.
I don't see how either of the methods is better than the other. I can see benefits to the windows and the Mac methods - although navigating within Unix and Mac environments is a breeze on the Mac, it's only when you add Windows into it where things start to get ugly.
It's not the size of your boat, but the motion in the ocean...
Or rather "have" as the correct spelling may be in that post.
Spalling is for teh week!
Nope, "nowt", used in the Yorkshire dialect, but widely adopted in the UK, at first in mocking, but over time it just grew into a somewhat universal bit of slang.
If you lot can have "yeah" and "dude" then we can how "nowt".
why don't you put some of that computation into spelling.
You mean the word "nowt"?
It's an English word, and it means "nothing". Put some computation into your posts before firing them off without thought. You forgot to login too... ah, yeah, I see.
True, true.
The PC is fine, now it's running FreeBSD working as my ftp server.
It was getting too crash prone with windows on it, but it seems to be fine now.
It takes me months of compuutation just to work out my taxes, and there's nowt cool about that.
My parents' washing machine was one of the first front loaders - it's still washing 23 years later.
Their Ferguson VHS deck is still working 20 years on too.
Their Windows based PC broke after a year.
It would be easy to do this on any firewire equipped Mac (pretty much everything), even in OS9.
All the tools you need come free with the OS - iMovie and umm... that's it.
Hook up your firewire (IE1394/iLink) MiniDV camera to your Mac, click "capture" and you're away.
You can edit, title, mess, add music and the exporting options are excellent.
It took my humble 600MHz iBook 45 minutes to encode a 3 minute video file in Quicktime (H.263 codec, u-law sound), so something with a bit more oomph (say, a powerbook) would cut this in half or more.
You can export to DV tape for home archive, and even encode at different rates to suit your audience. All you need is a broadband connection and a fair bit of space for hosting, plus a generous monthly bandwith allotment depending on how popular you get.
You could put up each video with a quick html file that contains keywords and info on the content to aid in cataloging and searching.
I agree, the content provision is difficult given the non-trivial cost of bandwidth, but I can see it happening.
You might say that, but I can't tell red from blue, and walked into a police station thinking it was a brothel.
My first thought was "Bloody hell, they're laying on the 'uniform and handcuffs' theme a bit thick aren't they?"
Heh, and I guess I've been unlucky, but then I only tend to see Windows laptops when my friends bring them to me when they're not working properly - CD drive unseated, keys breaking, etc.
I wouldn't have thought titanium was much good for making a sword. It's hard, but its modulus is low, making it very easy to bend. Now, cobalt chrome, that would make a good sword! Good luck trying to work it though
So you'd rather have a Dell laptop made out of tacky ABS plastic than a 12"/17" powerbook made out of aerospace grade aluminium?
Up to you I guess!
Apple did mention they were changing the case material - from aero grade Ti to aero grade Al. One of the benefits of Al is that it isn't quite as radio opaque as Ti, and coupled with the new location of the antennas in the screen has improved airport reception.
They don't want to stop people using the concept of the trash can, or using an icon of an actual trash can to represent it, it's just a design patent on the image of their particular look.
Indeed, the unofficial slogan for Apple seems to be "proudly going out of business for 20 years".
Those iPods won't sell! No one is going to spend money on a tiny, sleek, fast and beautiful mp3 player when they can buy a cheaper offering from Creative that uses USB and is the size of a Bible!
And who's going to plump down $1,700 for a 12" powerbook when they can spend the same amount on a pos tacky plastic Dell?
heh.
Lest we forget, who would buy a computer with a one button mouse?! It's just madness! They'll never sell!
And for serious comment, I'll be all over this service if Apple launches it. It will go well with my iBook. I might even get an iPod to compliment my MiniDisc setup.
You'd probably find the lens would give up before the format on a consumer camera though.
We get artifects such as that on our professional DVCAM camera, while the pass through (using Y/C out) is nice and sharp.
The little MiniDV jobby we have smears before it hatches on fine detail or deliberate attempts to show up the limitations of the format.
No doubt the DVCAM has an added advantage since the track pitch of the tape is 1.5x wider than DV, although this reduces the recording time by a third.
You can't really do-it-yourself with Apple machines - too much is proprietary and there's certainly not a choice of components.
This is a female moth... err, a myth.
Only the cpu, case and motherboard are proprietry.
Everything else is the same as you'd find in a regular PC. Mice, keyboards, LCD panels, graphics cards, hard drives, ram, dvd/dvd-r/cdrw etc.
You wouldn't need to put in a network card, since all macs have ethernet built in (10/100 on most, GigE on powermac and powerbook). Firewire and usb also built in.
That's funny, we had a 9600/300 working as a professional non-linear edit suite, producing programs for TV and video handling multi-gigabyte files and full frame video with no problems.
Your Mac is broken.
You get a lot of bang for your buck in the PowerMac range.
Remember, Apple doesn't sell bargain basement systems like Dell "$599 for a 3Ghz PC!" which ends up costing $1500 when you add extra memory, dvd, powerful graphics etc.
As a gaming machine, either the 1Ghz or the dual 1.25 would be more than adequate. A dual 1.25 gives you a couple of Ghz to play with, combined with a fairly meaty graphics card.
The 1Ghz machine is comaprable to a PC with a similar speed of CPU. My battered old Athlon 500 with 32Mb GeForce 2 can handle pretty much any 3D game i throw at it (although I think it would stuggle with the latest incarnations UT2003, Doom3 etc) and the SP G4 is twice as quick as that with a better graphics card.
The unseen extras come in the form of software. Not only will you get Jaguar, but a slew of excellent apps to get you started, and a unix core that you can mess about with all you like (ok, so it's BSD 4.4 so a bit behind the curve, but it's rock solid).
The fact that I can have the terminal open while running OS X essentially giving me two operating systems to work with has been a godsend.
You can also use your box as a webserver with Apache, a mail server, or any other purpose that you'd use a unix box for.
The case pulls open with one little handle on the side and opens out so the MB is horizontal with the cables routed near the hinge. It's upgradeable up the wazoo with any parts you care to pick up in BestBuy. The only proprietry parts are the cpu(s) and motherboard itself.
As an example, we're using a Dual G4 450MHz with a Rage 128 card to run a professional video company using Final Cut Pro 3. We can capture and edit full frame DV without any hitches (via the built in firewire ports from our pro DVCAM camera).
It's more than fast enough for our needs. Add a Radeon 9000 or a GeForce 4 and you'll be well away to a stellar gaming machine.
Just remember there are fewer games out for the Mac, but still a fair number. You'll get OS X into the bargain too.
Come to the UK, where you can have all that in a diesel for little money.
Take the Renault Laguna's diesel engine for exmaple.
2.2 Turbo, 4 cylinders, high pressure common rail, 150 horsepower, 6 speed manual box. Top speed of 120 mph
It handles extremely well, comes with all the good stuff (traction control, ABS, all round discs, keyless entry, start button etc) for £23,000.
If you want to cut out some of the options, you can get it down to £16 to £17,000, which is about $25,000
The best part: 52 miles per gallon, extra urban. (about 32mpg urban) see here
Remember also, our sales tax (VAT) is 17.5%, so the price above is higher than it would be if the car was sold in the US.
High pressure common rail diesel engines hardly smoke at all.
You're likely to get some smoke from a big diesel that isn't using fine injection control (things like Land Rover Discoverys and the like) but on any 2002/2003 diesel it's been pretty much eliminated.
The Renault Laguna has this feature - and it doesn't cost $75,000!
I can pick up a top specced model tomorrow for £22,000 (about $30,000).