In my high school class of 29 people, there were 14 iBooks - including mine. By comparison, there were 2 PC laptops. On university lectures I notice that about half of the computers that people have brought with them are Macs. However, in my university dorm I've seen one iBook, one MacBook (in addition to mine), and, honestly, quite a few PC laptops, definitely outnumbering the Macs (though I would still say it likely that at least 10% are Macs). Obviously esthetics are more important for something that you bring with you outside your home, and that might be a reason Macs have a much bigger share of the laptop market than the desktop market (another reason might be that laptop Macs are more competitive in price generally than PCs).
Oh, and for what it's worth, a miniscule change such 0,02% might as well amount to increasing numbers of Mac users running Windows in Boot Camp or Parallels (not saying it is, but it really is an insignificant number).
And anyway, the numbers in this article have nothing to do with "market share" but with deployment share; "market share" correctly refers to the share of computers sold. The difference is important because, arguably, Mac users keep their computers longer. As anecdotical reference, my father replaced his early 1999 PowerBook G3 (running OS 8.6!) with an iBook in late 2004, and my mother is currently waiting for a MacBook Pro to replace her late 2000 PowerBook G3, which in the meanwhile is still chugging along surprisingly capably with OS X 10.3.9.
I bought a MacBook, and found that the 60 GB hard drive only had 37 GB free. 30 minutes later I'd deleted 12 GB (!) of stuff I didn't consider vital, including iWork, GarageBand, iDVD, iDVD templates, GarageBand loops, printer drivers (2 GB of them, no exaggeration), and lots of stuff I don't even remember. Really happy with the machine, though, and I know I got lots of value for my money.
Dude, video functionality _was_ added in 2005. Just about a year ago now. Considering no new models have been released in any of the iPod lines since then, it's a wonder that there is as much as 30% growth compared to the same quarter last year. There is also the argument that the market is saturated, but I know that I'll need to buy a new MP3 player when my iPod dies after it goes out of AppleCare coverage next February. As long as Apple update the various iPod lines in some way this autumn - price drops might be more likely than new features - Apple should see growth this quarter.
Actually, the feature has existed in Opera for ages, though the file at first had to be hand-edited. A standalone application to edit the file, Opsed, has existed since early 2002.
Japan does not officially deny the Nanjing massacre, but there are members of the Diet who do, and other officials, notably the major of Tokyo does. Prime Ministers, Emperors and other officials have given individual apologies to China, SK &c., but when prime minister Murayama proposed an official apology (jp:shazai) from the Diet in 1995, it was beaten down by the LDP, with 47% of the Diet voting against and 26% voting for it. Someone must have to tell me which politicians have used the word "shazai" referring to apologies, instead of just "hansei". Right-wing politicians: they're stuck-up nationalists no matter which country they're in. On the other side, Chinese and Koreans are often only vaguely aware of the facts regarding Japanese apology statements, and may believe that no Japanese officials have ever apologized; particularly in China, the propaganda machine is well-oiled. People in Japan, China, SK, NK of course, will all believe exactly those spun "facts" that support their own views, and those views are more often than not those which excuse their own actions or comdemn their opponents'. nakayokushirotteba!
"Shikata ga nai" or "Shi kata ga nai" (no rules about spacing) or "shikata nai" (excluding the particle is common) means something like "nothing can be done", "it can't be helped" or "oh well" in Japanese. "Shi gata ga nai" could be interpreted as... hm... "there is no C blood type", which would be true. I'm not an expert, so I figured the meaning might be above me, but puns in Japanese are often difficult to understand without the kanji.
It's not imperative; it's subjunctive, a.k.a. conjunctive, a grammatical mood which is rarely used in modern English but which was common until not all that long ago and still exists in German and French. Part of the reason this mood has disappeared from common usage in English is likely because of the similarity to other cases, often the imperative case. "If I were rich" and "long live the king" are also in the subjunctive mood.
Someone with a beginning interest in programming wants to write something that he or she can enjoy him- or herself. Your The only programming I've ever done was in the beginning of high school on my Casio calculator, and it was stuff like implementing formulas for trigonometry, using lots of hideous GOTO statements and whatnot. An IT career was tempting when I was in elementary school in the mid-to-late '90s, but Slashdot has pretty much put me off that.
NEC is bigger in Japan than in Europe. Cell phones, computers, are some of their popular products if I remember correctly. I wouldn't be surprised if they were also better known in China and Taiwan, which were the markets targeted by this scam.
Well, for those of us laptop owners who don't want to have to buy a replacement battery, a new laptop every year, or business class tickets with power outlets, that doesn't always work that well. My 2-year and some old iBook holds a charge about 5 minutes when it's turned fully on (can sleep for at least a day, though, thankfully); I'd love to watch videos on a plane with that thing, but sad as it is it's just not possible any more. I'd love one of the new video-playing iPods. Going to ride the bus to Russia next month (from the southwest of Norway), so can use all the distractions I can get. Remember that the resolution is 320x240, which was the standard resolution for game FMVs, VCDs, and lots of downloadable videos for a long time. Should be watchable.
My iBook only has 32 MB of VRAM, but I have no problem spanning dual-screen with 1024x768 on the built-in screen and 1280x960 on an external CRT. That works out to about 2 MP. 7680x2048 would be about 15 MP. Shouldn't a card with 256 MB of VRAM be able to handle that? 17.67 bytes per pixel.
Yes, Oblivion has a story, and many stories. However, compared to Final Fantasy-type games (I love Final Fantasy too, just to establish that), one can say that in Oblivion, the stories are used for the game's sake, the immersion, while in Final Fantasy the game is a vehicle for the story.
If you're going to depopulate a town in Oblivion, you might want to start by robbing all the guards in the barracks while they're sleeping; you can take all their equipment, and when they wake up they'll go to their posts without any weapons or armor. If you wait too long, they'll get new equipment, though. Admittedly all this isn't perfectly realistic, but it's still an example of how creative you can be exploiting the detailed game-world. With advanced physics, you can be even more creative. I agree with the article author saying that detailed physics will be the next step of games. When I have a bazooka, and want to see what's on the other side of a wooden wall, I should not have a problem finding that out.
Final Fantasies are about telling a story; The Elder Scrolls are about immersing you in a sandbox-like game-world. There are different types of RPGs. Apparently you don't like the immersive kind, so what are you doing posting about what an immersive RPG should or should not be like?
Media Player Classic is absolutely a must. VLC on OS X plays *most* video codecs and displays *most* softsubs, but there are certain times it just *doesn't* work. For codecs and subs I'm actually running ffdshow, so any player will do, but one great feature of MPC to me is that it has a quick option to scale video for 16:9 screens that are running 4:3 resolutions, such as WS SDTVs, and when toggled this also applies to the full-screen video overlay. Now I'm really straying off topic, but does anyone know if ffdshow has a similar function to scale to non-square-pixel-displays?
As for music players, I'd wager the dual-booter would prefer staying in OS X for this function. On the subject, though, I agree iTunes isn't perfect, but the music sharing feature is a great plus; I use it to access my Windows box' music from my music-less iBook (30 GB HDD). I really can't think of any great apps to dual-boot into Windows for other than the media players and games. It's true that uTorrent is great, but Azureus has almost as many features, admittedly with worse performance. File-selection in particular is one feature they share which I can't do without. A more interesting Ask Slashdot would be for Windows users switching to Mac; I'd have plenty of recommendations (Adium, Colloquy, MS' RDC, Omnioutliner, probably more if I got thinking).
I doubt more people speak Latin as a first language than as a second language. In addition, you have constructed languages like Esperanto and ancient languages like Coptic, which have no native speakers at all (there are children brought up whose parents speak Esperanto who can arguably be said to speak it as their native language but this number must be quite small). It sounds like a dubious statistic. Looking up on Wikipedia, there are 182 million speakers of French, of whom 87 are native. Of course, the significance of English as a second language is great at this point in time, and I am certainly a contributor to the number of English speakers who have it as their second language. It will be interesting to see if Mandarin will overtake it during this century.
It has been confirmed that the Revolution will support 480p (a.k.a. EDTV, currently the native output of a standard NTSC DVD), as did the GameCube, and the lack of true HD support (720p/1080i) is not yet a final decision. Regardless, the support of 480p will still mean an improvement in graphics quality when properly hooked up to and viewed on an HDTV set (or any digital [non-analog] set, i.e. DTV or EDTV sets), when compared to viewing on an analog (480i-only) television set.
Well, there's the 480p, but nothing yet on whether there'll be support for 848x480. Will be interesting to see. At least it has progressive scan.
Well, then Morrowind wasn't new when your computer was new. I remember when Morrowind came out, and my GeForce Ti4400 with its vertex shaders gave awesome water effects. Oblivion? Wouldn't even run. Spent the equivalent of 300 euro on a new graphics card (GF 7800 GT) (yes, I know, prices here are high... less than I paid for the Ti4400 though!) to run Oblivion. Of course, it does run pretty well now with pretty much everything maxed out and at 1600x1200.:)
Not using credit cards is hardly a European thing, by the way. I, as a European, pretty much only use my (debit) card for everything except if I just happen to have cash on me and feel sympathetic to the store not having to pay dealer charges. Americans use che[que|ck]s a lot. Japanese use cash almost exclusively.
Plurality voting is unfair to third parties and minority voters; proportional representation is far superior. You seem to be confused about how non-American/British/plurality voting election systems actually work. Sweden has a rule blocking parties that get less than 12% of the votes locally or 4% nationally from entering the parliament in order to keep small parties out, which is a stupid rule in my opinion, but as long as they're above that limit, a party can get represented without getting a majority vote anywhere.
Heh. I just got a DOA XFX GF 7800 GT, sent it in and am getting a Gainward 7800 GT in replacement. Actually might not be so nice because the XFX advertised "great cooling" and was overclocked from the factory... Meh. Gainward is apparently a Europe-only brand. They don't have a Wikipedia article even. Couldn't find any benchmarks. As for Apple, they've been nice so far, but I haven't yet had anything of theirs break outside warranty. Service is nice when they send UPS to my school to pick up my iPod, though, and deliver a replacement the same way.
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Oh, and for what it's worth, a miniscule change such 0,02% might as well amount to increasing numbers of Mac users running Windows in Boot Camp or Parallels (not saying it is, but it really is an insignificant number).
And anyway, the numbers in this article have nothing to do with "market share" but with deployment share; "market share" correctly refers to the share of computers sold. The difference is important because, arguably, Mac users keep their computers longer. As anecdotical reference, my father replaced his early 1999 PowerBook G3 (running OS 8.6!) with an iBook in late 2004, and my mother is currently waiting for a MacBook Pro to replace her late 2000 PowerBook G3, which in the meanwhile is still chugging along surprisingly capably with OS X 10.3.9.
I bought a MacBook, and found that the 60 GB hard drive only had 37 GB free. 30 minutes later I'd deleted 12 GB (!) of stuff I didn't consider vital, including iWork, GarageBand, iDVD, iDVD templates, GarageBand loops, printer drivers (2 GB of them, no exaggeration), and lots of stuff I don't even remember. Really happy with the machine, though, and I know I got lots of value for my money.
The DS was released in the US before it was released in Japan. Was released in November 2004 in the US, and Dec. 2nd in Japan.
Dude, video functionality _was_ added in 2005. Just about a year ago now. Considering no new models have been released in any of the iPod lines since then, it's a wonder that there is as much as 30% growth compared to the same quarter last year. There is also the argument that the market is saturated, but I know that I'll need to buy a new MP3 player when my iPod dies after it goes out of AppleCare coverage next February. As long as Apple update the various iPod lines in some way this autumn - price drops might be more likely than new features - Apple should see growth this quarter.
Actually, the feature has existed in Opera for ages, though the file at first had to be hand-edited. A standalone application to edit the file, Opsed, has existed since early 2002.
Maybe a transport worker's job is more valuable than yours?
Japan does not officially deny the Nanjing massacre, but there are members of the Diet who do, and other officials, notably the major of Tokyo does. Prime Ministers, Emperors and other officials have given individual apologies to China, SK &c., but when prime minister Murayama proposed an official apology (jp:shazai) from the Diet in 1995, it was beaten down by the LDP, with 47% of the Diet voting against and 26% voting for it. Someone must have to tell me which politicians have used the word "shazai" referring to apologies, instead of just "hansei". Right-wing politicians: they're stuck-up nationalists no matter which country they're in. On the other side, Chinese and Koreans are often only vaguely aware of the facts regarding Japanese apology statements, and may believe that no Japanese officials have ever apologized; particularly in China, the propaganda machine is well-oiled. People in Japan, China, SK, NK of course, will all believe exactly those spun "facts" that support their own views, and those views are more often than not those which excuse their own actions or comdemn their opponents'. nakayokushirotteba!
"Shikata ga nai" or "Shi kata ga nai" (no rules about spacing) or "shikata nai" (excluding the particle is common) means something like "nothing can be done", "it can't be helped" or "oh well" in Japanese. "Shi gata ga nai" could be interpreted as... hm... "there is no C blood type", which would be true. I'm not an expert, so I figured the meaning might be above me, but puns in Japanese are often difficult to understand without the kanji.
Is that a clever pun or a stupid misspelling? Argh! I don't get it.
It's not imperative; it's subjunctive, a.k.a. conjunctive, a grammatical mood which is rarely used in modern English but which was common until not all that long ago and still exists in German and French. Part of the reason this mood has disappeared from common usage in English is likely because of the similarity to other cases, often the imperative case. "If I were rich" and "long live the king" are also in the subjunctive mood.
Someone with a beginning interest in programming wants to write something that he or she can enjoy him- or herself. Your The only programming I've ever done was in the beginning of high school on my Casio calculator, and it was stuff like implementing formulas for trigonometry, using lots of hideous GOTO statements and whatnot. An IT career was tempting when I was in elementary school in the mid-to-late '90s, but Slashdot has pretty much put me off that.
NEC is bigger in Japan than in Europe. Cell phones, computers, are some of their popular products if I remember correctly. I wouldn't be surprised if they were also better known in China and Taiwan, which were the markets targeted by this scam.
Well, for those of us laptop owners who don't want to have to buy a replacement battery, a new laptop every year, or business class tickets with power outlets, that doesn't always work that well. My 2-year and some old iBook holds a charge about 5 minutes when it's turned fully on (can sleep for at least a day, though, thankfully); I'd love to watch videos on a plane with that thing, but sad as it is it's just not possible any more. I'd love one of the new video-playing iPods. Going to ride the bus to Russia next month (from the southwest of Norway), so can use all the distractions I can get. Remember that the resolution is 320x240, which was the standard resolution for game FMVs, VCDs, and lots of downloadable videos for a long time. Should be watchable.
People don't remember turbo buttons? Now I feel old, and I'm still in high school.
My iBook only has 32 MB of VRAM, but I have no problem spanning dual-screen with 1024x768 on the built-in screen and 1280x960 on an external CRT. That works out to about 2 MP. 7680x2048 would be about 15 MP. Shouldn't a card with 256 MB of VRAM be able to handle that? 17.67 bytes per pixel.
If you're going to depopulate a town in Oblivion, you might want to start by robbing all the guards in the barracks while they're sleeping; you can take all their equipment, and when they wake up they'll go to their posts without any weapons or armor. If you wait too long, they'll get new equipment, though. Admittedly all this isn't perfectly realistic, but it's still an example of how creative you can be exploiting the detailed game-world. With advanced physics, you can be even more creative. I agree with the article author saying that detailed physics will be the next step of games. When I have a bazooka, and want to see what's on the other side of a wooden wall, I should not have a problem finding that out.
Final Fantasies are about telling a story; The Elder Scrolls are about immersing you in a sandbox-like game-world. There are different types of RPGs. Apparently you don't like the immersive kind, so what are you doing posting about what an immersive RPG should or should not be like?
Don't you just hate it when the URL gives away the joke?
As for music players, I'd wager the dual-booter would prefer staying in OS X for this function. On the subject, though, I agree iTunes isn't perfect, but the music sharing feature is a great plus; I use it to access my Windows box' music from my music-less iBook (30 GB HDD). I really can't think of any great apps to dual-boot into Windows for other than the media players and games. It's true that uTorrent is great, but Azureus has almost as many features, admittedly with worse performance. File-selection in particular is one feature they share which I can't do without. A more interesting Ask Slashdot would be for Windows users switching to Mac; I'd have plenty of recommendations (Adium, Colloquy, MS' RDC, Omnioutliner, probably more if I got thinking).
I doubt more people speak Latin as a first language than as a second language. In addition, you have constructed languages like Esperanto and ancient languages like Coptic, which have no native speakers at all (there are children brought up whose parents speak Esperanto who can arguably be said to speak it as their native language but this number must be quite small). It sounds like a dubious statistic. Looking up on Wikipedia, there are 182 million speakers of French, of whom 87 are native. Of course, the significance of English as a second language is great at this point in time, and I am certainly a contributor to the number of English speakers who have it as their second language. It will be interesting to see if Mandarin will overtake it during this century.
Well, there's the 480p, but nothing yet on whether there'll be support for 848x480. Will be interesting to see. At least it has progressive scan.
Not using credit cards is hardly a European thing, by the way. I, as a European, pretty much only use my (debit) card for everything except if I just happen to have cash on me and feel sympathetic to the store not having to pay dealer charges. Americans use che[que|ck]s a lot. Japanese use cash almost exclusively.
Why should I need to reduce the security of my network just to use the DS? That's the annoying bit.
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Plurality voting is unfair to third parties and minority voters; proportional representation is far superior. You seem to be confused about how non-American/British/plurality voting election systems actually work. Sweden has a rule blocking parties that get less than 12% of the votes locally or 4% nationally from entering the parliament in order to keep small parties out, which is a stupid rule in my opinion, but as long as they're above that limit, a party can get represented without getting a majority vote anywhere.
Heh. I just got a DOA XFX GF 7800 GT, sent it in and am getting a Gainward 7800 GT in replacement. Actually might not be so nice because the XFX advertised "great cooling" and was overclocked from the factory... Meh. Gainward is apparently a Europe-only brand. They don't have a Wikipedia article even. Couldn't find any benchmarks. As for Apple, they've been nice so far, but I haven't yet had anything of theirs break outside warranty. Service is nice when they send UPS to my school to pick up my iPod, though, and deliver a replacement the same way.