But Apple wouldn't sell one at any price, because it wouldn't be "a thousand songs in your pocket", unless your collection were encoded at 32 kbps.
Remember, hard drive prices are anything but proportional to their capacities. Apple would not save enough on smaller Microdrives to price minis any lower. And it's not what they want to do anyway.
It's possible to make an application that opens Word documents. Apple's done it, after all. TextEdit 1.3, the graphical editor that comes with Panther, opens.docs like a charm. And if a piddly editor like TextEdit can do it, why can't a big office suite like OO.o?
Not in any of the BSD's? Incorrect. Java is in Mac OS X. In fact, J2SE is part of the OS's system architecture. Mac OS X Server goes even further, coming with JBoss built in.
In fact, I'd say Mac OS X is a model Java platform.
And, of course, it's the most popular of the BSD's. You're pretty off on this one.
But I thought using uncompressed audio was a bad idea, battery-life-wise. However much longer the hard drive has to spin to give you the same length of music, your battery will be spent that much sooner, right? I mean, I don't have an iPod, so I can't test it, but I'd be surprised if you got more than a couple hours out of the battery, listening to WAV or AIFF.
But did you notice that in hanging-punctuation lines, text selection goes funny? Try selecting some text on one of these lines and you'll see what I mean: selection acts as if the punctuation were inline, so that any text you select is one character out of phase! They certainly need to fix that if hanging quotes are here to stay.
Phones aren't the only mobile devices with games. They have company in the iPod. Second-gen iPods had one game, Brick (which is really Breakout, the old Atari coin-op engineered by Steve Wozniak), and the new third-gen iPods have three: Brick, Solitaire, and Parachute.
I haven't fiddled with a new iPod yet, so I don't know what Parachute is; but it might be that very old Mac game where you had to parachute into a moving hay-filled sleigh or something. Solitaire looks good.
The iPod's not exactly a Game Boy Advance, but at least it gives you something to do in a queue. Also, Apple's screens are always very good. The one in the iPod is, at 2", bigger than most phone screens. It's well backlit too - which, I hear, the Advance isn't.
Please, please, please don't ever ask me to read something like that again. I couldn't. If I had really tried my head would have exploded. Isn't there a history of Darwin somewhere that is actually legible? This guy writes like a rogue AC, for God's sake, or a diarrhetic pig!
Could somebody graciously direct me to an equivalent article written by someone who can write?
Does anyone know what "de gustibus non disputandum est" means? I'm guessing it's something like their boasts are not disputed, but I'd like to know what it really is.
My language of choice is English. It offers an incredible versatility of expression and fewer syntax hassles than other languages. Some may favour Hebrew for its compressed writing, Latin for its stark style, or French for its beauty. But French is not concise; French and Hebrew are strongly typed in arbitrary, confusing ways; and Latin is obsolete, now only a teaching language. All of them suffer from complicated inflection.
English, on the other hand, has great idiomatic versatility, little inflection, and a vast vocabulary. It is not without its problems, though. Here's what I hate about English:
The most direct functions of the class AuxilliaryVerb cannot be inherited in the infinitive case.
This deficiency forces awkward work-arounds: I hate to have to say to have to say rather than to must say. I want to be able to say I want to can say!
Pointless rules of syntax have, over the years, been added to the language. Many of these false rules lingered in all the major compilers, rendering the language less usable.
Examples include the injunctions against splitting infinitives and putting prepositions at the end of sentences, which force such constructions as the awkward Boldly to go where no man has gone before and the verbose This is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put! These nonstandard rules are now nearly phased out, thankfully, but their scars linger.
There are too many exceptions to standard verb-call syntax.
Calls for most verbs is uncomplicated, but there are more than 280 verbs with syntactical exceptions, making a morass of inconsistent vocabulary that is hopelessly confusing to beginning coders. In this respect English should behave more like the obscure Esperanto, with its scrupulously consistent conjugation.
But despite these deficiencies, English is undoubtedly the king of of languages. I vote for English!
Canadian bills do not say "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE". They say "CE BILLET A COURS LÉGAL [tab] THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER".
Damn slashcode for not allowing long whitespace! I want tabs and multible spaces! Arrgh...
The game that scared me the most was, surprisingly, Marathon, the Mac-only shooter from Bungie. Though it didn't have as much guts as other games I've played, I was always scared stiff that a s'pht - a creepy hovering red cloak - would sneak up behind me in those intersecting hallways.
Marathon and Marathon II: Durandal were my favourite first-person story shooters. I can't play them anymore, sadly. Newer games have made me dependent on mouselook, which Marathon does crappily. Heigh ho.
The only game that has stirred me emotionally is Final Fantasy VII. It was the only PS game I actually bought for our G3 with Connectix Virtual Game Station. I actually cried when Cloud laid Aeris to rest in the city of the Ancients. My dad told me to grow up, but it was so sad. The only movie I ever cried for was Life is Beautiful, and I felt in that scene in FFVII nearly the same loss as when Roberto Benigni is led around the corner by the guard...
It seems to me that the Apple section and the main page aren't talking to each other. The "sections" sidebar incorrectly says it hasn't been updated since April 2, and this story didn't even make it into the Apple section! Is CowboyNeal sleeping at the switch?
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We have to have fusion power by 2050! Why? Because SimCity 2000 says so!
But Apple wouldn't sell one at any price, because it wouldn't be "a thousand songs in your pocket", unless your collection were encoded at 32 kbps.
Remember, hard drive prices are anything but proportional to their capacities. Apple would not save enough on smaller Microdrives to price minis any lower. And it's not what they want to do anyway.
It's possible to make an application that opens Word documents. Apple's done it, after all. TextEdit 1.3, the graphical editor that comes with Panther, opens .docs like a charm. And if a piddly editor like TextEdit can do it, why can't a big office suite like OO.o?
I foresee Apple stepping up to the table.
In fact, I'd say Mac OS X is a model Java platform. And, of course, it's the most popular of the BSD's. You're pretty off on this one.
Yes, but it can't run Mac OS X even in imaginary time.
But I thought using uncompressed audio was a bad idea, battery-life-wise. However much longer the hard drive has to spin to give you the same length of music, your battery will be spent that much sooner, right? I mean, I don't have an iPod, so I can't test it, but I'd be surprised if you got more than a couple hours out of the battery, listening to WAV or AIFF.
(such as GPS, eyes in the sky, communications)
Ooh, weird shivery feeling.
Am I the only one who was listening to Eye in the Sky by the Alan Parsons Project when I read this?
Come on, everybody say it with me now: Huh?
you've gotta go all apple Do it. You'll thank yourself.
But did you notice that in hanging-punctuation lines, text selection goes funny? Try selecting some text on one of these lines and you'll see what I mean: selection acts as if the punctuation were inline, so that any text you select is one character out of phase! They certainly need to fix that if hanging quotes are here to stay.
Phones aren't the only mobile devices with games. They have company in the iPod. Second-gen iPods had one game, Brick (which is really Breakout, the old Atari coin-op engineered by Steve Wozniak), and the new third-gen iPods have three: Brick, Solitaire, and Parachute.
I haven't fiddled with a new iPod yet, so I don't know what Parachute is; but it might be that very old Mac game where you had to parachute into a moving hay-filled sleigh or something. Solitaire looks good.
The iPod's not exactly a Game Boy Advance, but at least it gives you something to do in a queue. Also, Apple's screens are always very good. The one in the iPod is, at 2", bigger than most phone screens. It's well backlit too - which, I hear, the Advance isn't.
What other kinds of devices out there have games?
Could somebody graciously direct me to an equivalent article written by someone who can write?
Does anyone know what "de gustibus non disputandum est" means? I'm guessing it's something like their boasts are not disputed, but I'd like to know what it really is.
English, on the other hand, has great idiomatic versatility, little inflection, and a vast vocabulary. It is not without its problems, though. Here's what I hate about English:
The most direct functions of the class AuxilliaryVerb cannot be inherited in the infinitive case.
This deficiency forces awkward work-arounds: I hate to have to say to have to say rather than to must say. I want to be able to say I want to can say!
Pointless rules of syntax have, over the years, been added to the language. Many of these false rules lingered in all the major compilers, rendering the language less usable.
Examples include the injunctions against splitting infinitives and putting prepositions at the end of sentences, which force such constructions as the awkward Boldly to go where no man has gone before and the verbose This is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put! These nonstandard rules are now nearly phased out, thankfully, but their scars linger.
There are too many exceptions to standard verb-call syntax.
Calls for most verbs is uncomplicated, but there are more than 280 verbs with syntactical exceptions, making a morass of inconsistent vocabulary that is hopelessly confusing to beginning coders. In this respect English should behave more like the obscure Esperanto, with its scrupulously consistent conjugation.
But despite these deficiencies, English is undoubtedly the king of of languages. I vote for English!
They say "CE BILLET A COURS LÉGAL [tab] THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER".
Damn slashcode for not allowing long whitespace! I want tabs and multible spaces! Arrgh...
British back-stabbers! They were supposed to help us colonials out! Skagway was so ours! Aaaaarrrrgggh!
Marathon and Marathon II: Durandal were my favourite first-person story shooters. I can't play them anymore, sadly. Newer games have made me dependent on mouselook, which Marathon does crappily. Heigh ho.
The only game that has stirred me emotionally is Final Fantasy VII. It was the only PS game I actually bought for our G3 with Connectix Virtual Game Station. I actually cried when Cloud laid Aeris to rest in the city of the Ancients. My dad told me to grow up, but it was so sad. The only movie I ever cried for was Life is Beautiful, and I felt in that scene in FFVII nearly the same loss as when Roberto Benigni is led around the corner by the guard...
With iTunes 4, you can rip to AAC, which means no encoder switching and no loss of quality. Stewby's idea is valid if you rip the songs in AAC.
For that matter, what are diluted shares (the ones mentioned in Apple's quarterly results)?
Get any other Apple and you'll notice the difference: the iBook is the only G3 computer left.
It seems to me that the Apple section and the main page aren't talking to each other. The "sections" sidebar incorrectly says it hasn't been updated since April 2, and this story didn't even make it into the Apple section! Is CowboyNeal sleeping at the switch?
Quadrupe!
Can sombody clarify processor/chipset development roles between the three companies?
and Canadian!