Listen to it all you want on as many iPods as you want, up to 5 computers, and you can burn it to 3 or 5 CDs (can't remember).
Probably the reason why you can't remember is that Apple has been slowly making their DRM more and more restrictive. The important thing to remember with any DRM system is that they can change it at any time.
Why not Office? Or in particular Microsoft Excel. I challenge anyone to find a better spreadsheet with all the features found in Excel. Word is nothing special, and I already hate PowerPoint, but I have yet to find anything close to Excel.
You realize that there isn't a whole lot of difference between the Pentium II and Pentium III? Some more cache, faster clock speeds, and SSE. That's about it.
Atleast with Windows you can easily switch tasks with Alt-Tab. Besides, I tend to put things on the second monitor like Winamp, task manager, and IM windows that need little or no mouse interaction anyway.
With 128MB of ram, a lot depends on how slow your harddrive is, as Windows XP will be doing a lot of swapping. A computer with a fast harddrive can run Windows XP okay with 128MB, but try it on a 128MB laptop and it will be a slideshow. Heck, I had a 256MB laptop and it was pretty if I tried doing anything memory intensive.
Also, a lot depends on what you install too. Installing a virus scanner (that will probably eat up 20-30MB of ram all by itself) on a 128MB machine (even if it's P4 class hardware) will have a very noticable effect on speed.
A mostly vanilla Pentium system will install Windows XP just fine. I've done it on a Pentium 120 with 128MB of ram (I managed to score some rare 32MB 72 pin simms from a dumpster). It's the propriety (non-IDE) CD drives, SCSI cards, ISA ethernet cards, ISA graphics cards, and other strange hardware that is sometimes found in Pentium systems that gives XP a lot of trouble.
Yes, you are showing your age.:) But now, so am I. I don't agree with you. The beginning of the 16 bit era was awash with *fantastic* games. Take games such as Dungeon Master, Populous, Syndicate, Stunt Car Racer (they made an 8 bit version of this one too), and all the PC based adventure games made by Sierra and Lucasarts. Yes, there were quite a bit of focus on graphics, but the gameplay of the above mentioned games were far superior to most 8 bit games. (Not that I don't love the 8 bits - I have several Commodore 64s/128s which I boot every now and then. The Last Ninja series, Arkanoid II, Bubble Bobble are among a few 8 bit games I'll never tire of).
I think it's mostly a matter of when people grew up. Most people seem to get the warm fuzzies for the games they played the most when they were young, and the games they played the most when they were young were the ones that were popular then. Most people consider those games they played the most the best ones, with previous games simply being cruder (but cool in a retro kind of way) while the newer games are just uncreative rehashes of the same (but cool in an eye-candy kind of way). I suspect that most kids today are going to consider the Playstation 2 and XBox to the height of gaming, and will never truly appreciate the 8bit and 16bit games us old people love.
Basically, if you don't work on packaged software for the masses, calling this an "artificial" limit slights the people who do that for a living.
Well, it is artificial. The software basically does a check to see if it's on XP, and if it's not it will bail. What's wrong with not putting the check in the software, and telling anyone who wants to try running on Windows 2000 that they are on their own? Besides, this limit may end up hurting them if it also detects Vista as not-XP and refuses to run on that too.
Windows 2000 is pretty much non-existant in the home market. Yes, I know for a lot of people here, it's their first choice if they are going to run Windows. But Windows 2000 was pretty much never sold to the Joe Sixpacks of the world. Taking all the corporate computers (split between 2000 and XP Pro) together with all the home users (who are mostly running XP Home, a few still with 98), 15% probably isn't too far off for Windows 2000.
I thought Windows 95 was pretty much dead though. However, if it runs on Windows 98, chances are it'll run just fine on Windows 95b with IE5+ installed.
A simular kind of thing exists with Google Ads and eBay. I'm sure most everyone who uses Google has noticed that for many searches you get a generic ad for eBay along the lines of "Buy $SEARCH_TERM on eBay! Click Now!". Well, try using "slaves" or "negroes" as a search term for some more interesting ads.
I don't see it as offensive because there was no malicious intent. It's just the work of some dumb, automated computer program. I just say something like "Wow, that's kind of odd." and move on. I don't see why I should get all worked up over it.
The difference between SACD and CD is subtle, unless you have a really good stereo system.
Agreed.
The difference between SD and HD is huge and very noticeable if you have a 50"+ screen.
I would agree too, but you do realize that a 50"+ screen would be in the same league as a really good stereo system? The difference between DVD and HD-DVD on Joe Sixpack's 27" TV is not going to be nearly as obvious.
Consider this example: The original iMac had no floppy drive and used USB ports instead of ADB.
The iMac was ahead of it's time, but not really in a good way. The first iMacs did not have a CD burner, USB flash drives weren't common, nor did most people have broadband or home networks. That meant the only way to get data off of an iMac for most people was through the slow 56K modem. Which made backing the thing up impossible. Or you could go buy a USB floppy drive so you could have what everyone else already had. The iMac truly was the disposable computer of its day.
That's just democrat whining, would you seriously be harping if a democrat owned company made voting machines? no, you wouldn't. you wouldn't mind that alfonso, his dead mother and father, and his 15 cats all voted.
That's a stupid thing to say. I wouldn't mind if the owner of a company that made voting machines was Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or whatever so long as they were honest. It's the fact that Diebold is run by a bunch of corrupt bastards is what I take issue with. The fact that they are Republican bastards is just a side note.
Bull. I have a Mac and know a slew of basically unskilled users who also own them, and they work fine without any maintenance at all. Unless you count clicking "Install" on the auto-update utility "a lot of work."
Bull. I've seen plenty of badly programed Mac programs crash a lot too, including some of Apple's own. It's just not a PC/Windows thing. And until OSX 10.3, they could take down the OS without too much difficulty too. And of course, the entire Mac OS classic from about System 7 on was so poorly programmed that it made Windows 95 and 98 look stable. And of course, throw a bad stick of ram in a Mac and it will lock up and crash just like any other computer.
Sport = off road Utility = Carrying or towing capacity
Of course, there are a whole lot of SUVs nowadays that score pretty poorly in both of those categories. As a matter of fact, the only current SUV that I can really think of off the top of my head that is anything like the SUVs of 20 years ago is the Jeep Wrangler. The rest of them are just station wagons and minivans on steriods.
On a somewhat related note, i never understood how gay people who want to get married, but can't here in the US (most states) haven't sued the insurance companies.
They wouldn't win. The insurance companies already get away with blatant sexism and age discrimination in their pricing structures. Why wouldn't they be able to get away with discriminating against gays too?
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Dude. Sneaker Net is obsolete. Fucking transfer your data over the network. Or put the iBook in target disk mode and get on with life.
Those are just work arounds.
Fact is, this is how Apple works. They like to dangle a carrot in front of your face (The $999 iBook, the Shuffle) to get you interested. But the thing is, they cripple the low end models so they can try to upsell you to the higher end models. And they like to carefully set their price points so that the next model up is "just a bit more".
On the PC side of things, the manufacturers can't pull that crap. If Sony decided they weren't going to put a DVD burner in their lower end models to try to sell more high end models, everyone would just go and buy a Compaq/HP/IBM/Dell/Acer/Gateway/EMachines/Toshiba/ ??? instead. And to someone who puts togther their own PCs with exactly what I want, Apple's way of doing things really seems bizarre at times and can really be a turn off.
Apple's had widescreen laptops for years. I think your parent post was saying they'd be the first to drop 4:3 entirely. Hence the world "entirely" contained therein.
Except that they would not be first. I checked a random PC laptop vender (Sony) and they don't have any non-widescreen models at the moment. Sorry.
If I needed a new Powerbook now, I'd have to buy one now that was capable of running Photoshop and Dreamweaver. I'd rather have a G4 running these apps now than have an Intel that can only struggle with Rosetta PPC emulation.
Or you could buy an x86 laptop right now, and run those programs natively at speeds far faster than the Powerbook can do, and save money in the process. Sounds like a no brainer to me.
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Listen to it all you want on as many iPods as you want, up to 5 computers, and you can burn it to 3 or 5 CDs (can't remember).
Probably the reason why you can't remember is that Apple has been slowly making their DRM more and more restrictive. The important thing to remember with any DRM system is that they can change it at any time.
Why not Office? Or in particular Microsoft Excel. I challenge anyone to find a better spreadsheet with all the features found in Excel. Word is nothing special, and I already hate PowerPoint, but I have yet to find anything close to Excel.
I remember the Newegg case where they were only posting good reviews and deleting the bad, but what was Pricewatch doing?
I don't think it's Pricewatch itself he was refering too, just the hoards of bottom feeders that list stuff there.
No, it has more in common with the Pentium III.
You realize that there isn't a whole lot of difference between the Pentium II and Pentium III? Some more cache, faster clock speeds, and SSE. That's about it.
Atleast with Windows you can easily switch tasks with Alt-Tab. Besides, I tend to put things on the second monitor like Winamp, task manager, and IM windows that need little or no mouse interaction anyway.
With 128MB of ram, a lot depends on how slow your harddrive is, as Windows XP will be doing a lot of swapping. A computer with a fast harddrive can run Windows XP okay with 128MB, but try it on a 128MB laptop and it will be a slideshow. Heck, I had a 256MB laptop and it was pretty if I tried doing anything memory intensive.
Also, a lot depends on what you install too. Installing a virus scanner (that will probably eat up 20-30MB of ram all by itself) on a 128MB machine (even if it's P4 class hardware) will have a very noticable effect on speed.
A mostly vanilla Pentium system will install Windows XP just fine. I've done it on a Pentium 120 with 128MB of ram (I managed to score some rare 32MB 72 pin simms from a dumpster). It's the propriety (non-IDE) CD drives, SCSI cards, ISA ethernet cards, ISA graphics cards, and other strange hardware that is sometimes found in Pentium systems that gives XP a lot of trouble.
1 of them is an older 486 with 2 gig of ram in a PC104 formfactor
I believe you hold the record for the most amount of ram ever installed on a 486 machine.
Yes, you are showing your age. :) But now, so am I. I don't agree with you. The beginning of the 16 bit era was awash with *fantastic* games. Take games such as Dungeon Master, Populous, Syndicate, Stunt Car Racer (they made an 8 bit version of this one too), and all the PC based adventure games made by Sierra and Lucasarts. Yes, there were quite a bit of focus on graphics, but the gameplay of the above mentioned games were far superior to most 8 bit games. (Not that I don't love the 8 bits - I have several Commodore 64s/128s which I boot every now and then. The Last Ninja series, Arkanoid II, Bubble Bobble are among a few 8 bit games I'll never tire of).
I think it's mostly a matter of when people grew up. Most people seem to get the warm fuzzies for the games they played the most when they were young, and the games they played the most when they were young were the ones that were popular then. Most people consider those games they played the most the best ones, with previous games simply being cruder (but cool in a retro kind of way) while the newer games are just uncreative rehashes of the same (but cool in an eye-candy kind of way). I suspect that most kids today are going to consider the Playstation 2 and XBox to the height of gaming, and will never truly appreciate the 8bit and 16bit games us old people love.
Basically, if you don't work on packaged software for the masses, calling this an "artificial" limit slights the people who do that for a living.
Well, it is artificial. The software basically does a check to see if it's on XP, and if it's not it will bail. What's wrong with not putting the check in the software, and telling anyone who wants to try running on Windows 2000 that they are on their own? Besides, this limit may end up hurting them if it also detects Vista as not-XP and refuses to run on that too.
Windows 2000 is pretty much non-existant in the home market. Yes, I know for a lot of people here, it's their first choice if they are going to run Windows. But Windows 2000 was pretty much never sold to the Joe Sixpacks of the world. Taking all the corporate computers (split between 2000 and XP Pro) together with all the home users (who are mostly running XP Home, a few still with 98), 15% probably isn't too far off for Windows 2000.
I thought Windows 95 was pretty much dead though. However, if it runs on Windows 98, chances are it'll run just fine on Windows 95b with IE5+ installed.
A simular kind of thing exists with Google Ads and eBay. I'm sure most everyone who uses Google has noticed that for many searches you get a generic ad for eBay along the lines of "Buy $SEARCH_TERM on eBay! Click Now!". Well, try using "slaves" or "negroes" as a search term for some more interesting ads.
I don't see it as offensive because there was no malicious intent. It's just the work of some dumb, automated computer program. I just say something like "Wow, that's kind of odd." and move on. I don't see why I should get all worked up over it.
The difference between SACD and CD is subtle, unless you have a really good stereo system.
Agreed.
The difference between SD and HD is huge and very noticeable if you have a 50"+ screen.
I would agree too, but you do realize that a 50"+ screen would be in the same league as a really good stereo system? The difference between DVD and HD-DVD on Joe Sixpack's 27" TV is not going to be nearly as obvious.
Well, a Manual Distributed Slashdotting Denial Of Service would be an MSDOS. :-) (Lame, but it made me giggle to think it up.)
Wouldn't that be a MDSDOS though?
Consider this example: The original iMac had no floppy drive and used USB ports instead of ADB.
The iMac was ahead of it's time, but not really in a good way. The first iMacs did not have a CD burner, USB flash drives weren't common, nor did most people have broadband or home networks. That meant the only way to get data off of an iMac for most people was through the slow 56K modem. Which made backing the thing up impossible. Or you could go buy a USB floppy drive so you could have what everyone else already had. The iMac truly was the disposable computer of its day.
That's just democrat whining, would you seriously be harping if a democrat owned company made voting machines? no, you wouldn't. you wouldn't mind that alfonso, his dead mother and father, and his 15 cats all voted.
That's a stupid thing to say. I wouldn't mind if the owner of a company that made voting machines was Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or whatever so long as they were honest. It's the fact that Diebold is run by a bunch of corrupt bastards is what I take issue with. The fact that they are Republican bastards is just a side note.
Bull. I have a Mac and know a slew of basically unskilled users who also own them, and they work fine without any maintenance at all. Unless you count clicking "Install" on the auto-update utility "a lot of work."
Bull. I've seen plenty of badly programed Mac programs crash a lot too, including some of Apple's own. It's just not a PC/Windows thing. And until OSX 10.3, they could take down the OS without too much difficulty too. And of course, the entire Mac OS classic from about System 7 on was so poorly programmed that it made Windows 95 and 98 look stable. And of course, throw a bad stick of ram in a Mac and it will lock up and crash just like any other computer.
No, you see, I never upgraded to 3.1, because it requires a 386 CPU...
That's not true. Windows 3.1 runs happily on a 286 provided you have enough ram. You just don't get the benefits of "386 Enhanced Mode".
SUV = Sport Utility Vehicle
Sport = off road
Utility = Carrying or towing capacity
Of course, there are a whole lot of SUVs nowadays that score pretty poorly in both of those categories. As a matter of fact, the only current SUV that I can really think of off the top of my head that is anything like the SUVs of 20 years ago is the Jeep Wrangler. The rest of them are just station wagons and minivans on steriods.
On a somewhat related note, i never understood how gay people who want to get married, but can't here in the US (most states) haven't sued the insurance companies.
They wouldn't win. The insurance companies already get away with blatant sexism and age discrimination in their pricing structures. Why wouldn't they be able to get away with discriminating against gays too?
Dude. Sneaker Net is obsolete. Fucking transfer your data over the network. Or put the iBook in target disk mode and get on with life.
/ ??? instead. And to someone who puts togther their own PCs with exactly what I want, Apple's way of doing things really seems bizarre at times and can really be a turn off.
Those are just work arounds.
Fact is, this is how Apple works. They like to dangle a carrot in front of your face (The $999 iBook, the Shuffle) to get you interested. But the thing is, they cripple the low end models so they can try to upsell you to the higher end models. And they like to carefully set their price points so that the next model up is "just a bit more".
On the PC side of things, the manufacturers can't pull that crap. If Sony decided they weren't going to put a DVD burner in their lower end models to try to sell more high end models, everyone would just go and buy a Compaq/HP/IBM/Dell/Acer/Gateway/EMachines/Toshiba
Apple's had widescreen laptops for years. I think your parent post was saying they'd be the first to drop 4:3 entirely. Hence the world "entirely" contained therein.
Except that they would not be first. I checked a random PC laptop vender (Sony) and they don't have any non-widescreen models at the moment. Sorry.
If I needed a new Powerbook now, I'd have to buy one now that was capable of running Photoshop and Dreamweaver. I'd rather have a G4 running these apps now than have an Intel that can only struggle with Rosetta PPC emulation.
Or you could buy an x86 laptop right now, and run those programs natively at speeds far faster than the Powerbook can do, and save money in the process. Sounds like a no brainer to me.
Apple switches to OS X: Adobe promptly updates Photoshop
It took Adobe over a year to release a version of Photoshop that was compatible with OSX. Guess it depends on your definition of "promptly".