The only thing I found remotely cool about the presentation was the idea of playing emulated PS1 games on my PSP. Then I realized that most PS1 games filled up entire CDs (or more than 1) -- how many are you going to be able to fit on the largest of memory sticks?
I'd be surprised if game media content wasn't compressed.
Uncompressed Redbook audio becomes MP3 or AAC, PSX MJPG video becomes H.264.
how long is it before pedophiles and necrophiliacs say "Hey, we deserve the same rights as gays do!" Last time I checked, minors aren't legally allowed to consent to sex, and dead people can't consent to anything.
If the content you have complies to MPEG-4 Simple Profile (and is 480x480 or below), you'd only have to reencode the audio and slap it all into an MP4 container....and I doubt most peoples' DivX content is all 480x480 or below in the first place anyway.
The iPod video formats are almost as limited as the PSP's.
6 bucks per alkaline battery swap? Hell, at that point, it'd STILL be cheaper to just buy a new iPod every time their rechargeable batteries wears out.
I'm pretty sure they were talking about booting Mac OS X from it. Booting Linux, etc. with it on an x86 machine will probably give a much different result.
Don't discount the iMac G5 just because of the built-in screen. Not everybody will be carrying over their old hardware.
Also, you missed out on the single-processor PowerMac fun where Apple had a single 1.8GHz G5 PowerMac for $1499. It was discontinued a couple months back.
Try the eMac. Same G4 processor, built-in 17" display and speakers, keyboard and mouse standard for $799.
The Mac mini is more like a "switcher-in-a-box tower swap" than a fully-functional "Billy's First Computer". If you need to add a display, keyboard and mouse right out of the box, you're looking at the wrong product.
That's what happens when Apple doesn't retroactively update every one of their webpages after a quiet product release.
The 9550 is a full-fledged programmable GPU, compatible with CoreImage when you go by its specification. It IS possible that Apple could be assholes and disable GPU-accelerated CoreImage features for this card, but I see no reason for them to do so.
What he mentioned deauthorizes ALL computers EVER authorized by iTMS with your account - whether the computers still exist or not.
You can use it once a year.
Since it seems like you only use one computer with your iTunes account, that'll take you back to 5 "reformats"...or just remember to deauthorize before you reformat next time to avoid all this in the future.
It IS crazy silly. Especially since the disc included with the devkits is a single layer disc (capacity of 4.4GB) only holding about 4GB of information.
And I'm not saying they're lying. I'm sure they saw what they saw on the demo boxes Apple set up at WWDC.
No matter how many times you keep saying it is, it's not, in its entirety, included on the devkits.
Let's play Logic:
The Intel devkits come with one DVD. One 4GB DVD (1.8GB is filler). iLife fits on one 3.6GB DVD. iDVD and GarageBand are space leeches. Mac OS X Tiger and Xcode and the bootable install system take up 2.2GB. 2.2GB + 3.6GB (ignoring the 1.8 filler) > 4GB.
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...don't you mean "vile"?
The only thing I found remotely cool about the presentation was the idea of playing emulated PS1 games on my PSP. Then I realized that most PS1 games filled up entire CDs (or more than 1) -- how many are you going to be able to fit on the largest of memory sticks?
I'd be surprised if game media content wasn't compressed.
Uncompressed Redbook audio becomes MP3 or AAC, PSX MJPG video becomes H.264.
how long is it before pedophiles and necrophiliacs say "Hey, we deserve the same rights as gays do!"
Last time I checked, minors aren't legally allowed to consent to sex, and dead people can't consent to anything.
If you formatted your XP partition with FAT32 instead of NTFS, things would be wonderful.
If you bought the Core system, you wouldn't have that problem...
Oh, we're totally on Stage 4 now. Stage 3 doesn't last very long...
...so...
Apple leveraged its monopoly in music players to boost its music store.
Apple leveraged its monopoly in music stores to boost its music players.
Doesn't one monopoly have to come first before the other can be used illegally?
If the content you have complies to MPEG-4 Simple Profile (and is 480x480 or below), you'd only have to reencode the audio and slap it all into an MP4 container. ...and I doubt most peoples' DivX content is all 480x480 or below in the first place anyway.
The iPod video formats are almost as limited as the PSP's.
Can anybody tell me why 60% of the device's front-side real estate is white plastic?
Because you didn't buy the black model.
They tried this in Terminator 3.
It didn't work out too well.
This is exactly why almost all software that requires activation has a pre-activation grace period of some sort.
6 bucks per alkaline battery swap?
Hell, at that point, it'd STILL be cheaper to just buy a new iPod every time their rechargeable batteries wears out.
The most depressing thing I came across after working in education for four years (high school) is teachers that don't want to learn.
I'm pretty sure they were talking about booting Mac OS X from it.
Booting Linux, etc. with it on an x86 machine will probably give a much different result.
Sterile?
You post on Slashdot.
You won't ever be close enough to a girl to even find out.
Imagine law enforcement officers roaming the streets and ripping counterfeited t-shirts off materialistic girls.
I dream of it every night.
Don't discount the iMac G5 just because of the built-in screen. Not everybody will be carrying over their old hardware.
Also, you missed out on the single-processor PowerMac fun where Apple had a single 1.8GHz G5 PowerMac for $1499. It was discontinued a couple months back.
Try the eMac.
Same G4 processor, built-in 17" display and speakers, keyboard and mouse standard for $799.
The Mac mini is more like a "switcher-in-a-box tower swap" than a fully-functional "Billy's First Computer". If you need to add a display, keyboard and mouse right out of the box, you're looking at the wrong product.
I think they already did.
At the bottom of http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/ :
Mighty Mouse © Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved.
That's what happens when Apple doesn't retroactively update every one of their webpages after a quiet product release.
The 9550 is a full-fledged programmable GPU, compatible with CoreImage when you go by its specification.
It IS possible that Apple could be assholes and disable GPU-accelerated CoreImage features for this card, but I see no reason for them to do so.
Still not a real question until there's an OS X Intel-native version of Photoshop.
What he mentioned deauthorizes ALL computers EVER authorized by iTMS with your account - whether the computers still exist or not.
You can use it once a year.
Since it seems like you only use one computer with your iTunes account, that'll take you back to 5 "reformats"...or just remember to deauthorize before you reformat next time to avoid all this in the future.
Sad but true.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/
Apple's crazy-stupid when it comes to QuickTime Pro.
Full Screen should NOT be a professional feature!
It IS crazy silly. Especially since the disc included with the devkits is a single layer disc (capacity of 4.4GB) only holding about 4GB of information.
And I'm not saying they're lying. I'm sure they saw what they saw on the demo boxes Apple set up at WWDC.
I'm talking about the devkits sent to developers.
No matter how many times you keep saying it is, it's not, in its entirety, included on the devkits.
Let's play Logic:
The Intel devkits come with one DVD. One 4GB DVD (1.8GB is filler).
iLife fits on one 3.6GB DVD. iDVD and GarageBand are space leeches.
Mac OS X Tiger and Xcode and the bootable install system take up 2.2GB.
2.2GB + 3.6GB (ignoring the 1.8 filler) > 4GB.