If you're a moron that can't be bothered to LEARN about the things he talks about, you should just shut up and keep quiet instead of spreading more FUD around.
How about a simple yes/no question: So does the iPod have DRM in it or not? Just because it doesn't bother you doesn't mean it's not there. Apple has slowly been tightening the restrictions on the companion program for the iPod, iTunes - it's only a matter of time before the DRM is going to start getting in your way. I believe that was the point of the poster that got this whole thing started.
Lets see... $250 for the PSP plus maybe $150 for the 1GB memory stick... thats uh... $400. Plus tax. For 1 gigabyte of listening pleasure. And a unit that's more than twice the size of a 40GB iPod. PSP fails as an MP3 player.
Yeah, but the iPod is also a terrible portable gaming machine.
Please stop spreading the "DRM = iPod" FUD. iRiver mp3 players support DRM. Dell mp3 players support DRM. Creative mp3 players support DRM.
It's not FUD if it's true. The iPod has DRM in it, that's a fact. Whether or not the other band players have it too is irrelevant. And the DRM is not just for music from the iTMS. Why do you think the iPod refuses to play music placed on it when it is a USB/Firewire harddrive? I'll give you a hint: DRM.
Thanks to global hotkeys, I barely have to mess with Winamp's interface (which I find fairly easy to deal with anyway - I use the default "classic" skin). Things like changing a song, adjusting the volume, jumping around in the playlist etc. I can do from anywhere with CTRL+ALT+[some key] (some of the global hotkeys even work in some full screen games like Diablo II). Really slick. Another thing I like about Winamp is its video player. Yeah, it's just another DirectX frontend, but it works great, has dual head support, and video playlists work exactly like they do for music (you can even mix and match). I have yet to see any other Windows based media/video player that is remotely close to Winamp in this regard.
My experience with iTunes for the PC is that it's big, bloated, ugly, loads unnessecary crap into memory, and wants you to do things its way. If you like doing things the iTunes way, you probably won't mind the other things. But to me, it reminds me of Quicktime for Windows, which I despise.
My experience with an iRiver 512MB flash player is that it cannot handle OGG files with a bitrate of less than (and equal to?) 96kbps. Most of the time, people encode OGG files using VBR, and if the bitrate drops to 96kbps or less at any time during a song, the iRiver won't play the file. That means you either have to use CBR >96kbps, encode at a quality setting that is high enough that the encoder will always stay above 96kbps (6 is plenty), or tweak the encoder settings somehow to keep it above 96kbps (haven't looked into this, but should be possible).
I emailed them about this a while ago, and they said "perhaps in a future firmware". I have no idea if this is some firmware thing, some stupid software limitation, or something to do with the capabilities of their decoder chip.
I took out my Radeon 8500, put in a Geforce 2MX I had...
That's odd. I had a Radeon 8500 in a Linux machine (removed it due to flakey DVI port). I seemed to recall the open source drivers worked really well for it, and would work well with all the cards that were based on the 8500 (up to the 9200SE, I believe). It's the newer ATI cards that don't play well with Linux.
Yes, but does it come with a version that's not a DVD too? Until fairly recently, Apple was still selling computers with just a CD-ROM drive (eMac, and iBooks for the education market). Will these people be able to buy a CD version, or are they just screwed?
Why does Tiger absolutely need firewire ports anyway? I want to know what exactly will cause the OS not to boot if firewire ports are not present. And the impression I get is that it must be built-in firewire, an add-on PCI card won't do the trick (not that a PCI card would help the iMac owners much anyway, but still).
It would be like Microsoft saying that Windows will not install on a computer without USB. It's just stupid. My guess is that Apple is trying to get people to give up their older Macs and buy a new one.
In 1995, the K5 would of been top chip in the AMD world, nothing special at all (the 586-133 rocked though). You probably mean around 1997, when the K6-2 came onto the market and offered some serious competition for Intel.
Chipsets are a big problem in the AMD world. Via chipsets have issues, unless you have no need for PCI slots. All of the AMD chipset based boards for the MP/XP boards I have had experience with were flakey (don't ever build an Athlon MP server unless you like headaches). Ditto for nForce, not much experience with them. But Intel chipset+Intel chip=solid system, even if it is a little slower.
If Napster wanted to, they could sell music that would play practically anywhere--Windows, MuVo, iPod, iRiver, Mac, Linux, you name it, and they could do it today, without Apple's cooperation.
Just sell MP3s.
Yeah, and to do that, they'd have to do it without the major record label's cooperation too. Well then, I guess it would be just like the good ol' days!
Can you imagine if HMV, Virgin or (insert record store here) suddenly switched to only selling a proprietary compact disc format which only played on their player and had built-in restrictions?
Hmm, except that Audible, WAV, AIFF, Apple Lossless and MP3 formats as well as unprotected AAC all play on the iPod. I don't understand the uproar.
So, let the special record store player play all your old standard CD's too, then it would be OK? I don't get why Apple's DRM is suddenly okay on the iPod because it can also play some non-DRM'd files too. I mean, Windows Media Player can play my MP3 files just fine, does that make it OK too?
Fact is, Apple is not going to let anyone else use their DRM'd format, which means you can't (legally) buy a song for an iPod from any major record label and many minor ones, unless you buy it from iTMS. Because that record label is not going to want un-DRM'd files floating around.
I tried to use energy costs to justify my 1600x1200 LCD, but that just doesn't work when the LCD costed about $1000, and the CRT was already paid for. But I bought the LCD anyway, and haven't looked back. You can get a Sony 20.1" 1600x1200 resolution LCD for $700 now.
Hello fellow Apple Valley resident. It seems to me that the images are pretty recent. The new townhomes to the south of the Fischer (spelling?) Marketplace are mostly there, and the Enjoy! (sp?) restraunt is under construction.
Knowing a few things about how the ISD 196 buses run, I would say that the picture was taken on a weekday before school got for the summer right around 11:45 AM. I would even go as far to as to say it was a Friday.
Also, the image quality decreases quite a bit as you move into Burnsville. Wonder why that is.
Overall, I must say this is really cool. Only bummer part is that the satellite images don't seem to work with Opera.
Since you are speaking of defragging, I guess you are speaking of Windows. I would partition it to 10-15GB for a system partition, then the rest for data. The system partition is used for Windows, programs and their settings, and the page file. Being small, and probably having over 50% free space, it will be fast to defragment. The data partition I will never defragment because I see no reason to. I don't need to access my music/videos/porn/whatever that fast.
Microsoft already tried that with personalized menus in Windows XP and Office. Always one of the first things I turn off whenever I have to use either one.
Geez, my school is currently in the process of getting rid of some of the last socket 5 Pentium PCs still hanging around. Being the last of the bunch, most of them had been upgraded at some point. When I got to them in the scrap heap, I scored a bunch of 32MB SIMMs and some 4MB Mach64 video cards, as well as CD drives/floppies/Network cards. Not bad at all.
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If you're a moron that can't be bothered to LEARN about the things he talks about, you should just shut up and keep quiet instead of spreading more FUD around.
How about a simple yes/no question: So does the iPod have DRM in it or not? Just because it doesn't bother you doesn't mean it's not there. Apple has slowly been tightening the restrictions on the companion program for the iPod, iTunes - it's only a matter of time before the DRM is going to start getting in your way. I believe that was the point of the poster that got this whole thing started.
I'm more partial to Usgard myself. But I want to know where can I get Bash for my TI-85?!?
Lets see... $250 for the PSP plus maybe $150 for the 1GB memory stick... thats uh... $400. Plus tax. For 1 gigabyte of listening pleasure. And a unit that's more than twice the size of a 40GB iPod. PSP fails as an MP3 player.
Yeah, but the iPod is also a terrible portable gaming machine.
Please stop spreading the "DRM = iPod" FUD. iRiver mp3 players support DRM. Dell mp3 players support DRM. Creative mp3 players support DRM.
It's not FUD if it's true. The iPod has DRM in it, that's a fact. Whether or not the other band players have it too is irrelevant. And the DRM is not just for music from the iTMS. Why do you think the iPod refuses to play music placed on it when it is a USB/Firewire harddrive? I'll give you a hint: DRM.
Thanks to global hotkeys, I barely have to mess with Winamp's interface (which I find fairly easy to deal with anyway - I use the default "classic" skin). Things like changing a song, adjusting the volume, jumping around in the playlist etc. I can do from anywhere with CTRL+ALT+[some key] (some of the global hotkeys even work in some full screen games like Diablo II). Really slick. Another thing I like about Winamp is its video player. Yeah, it's just another DirectX frontend, but it works great, has dual head support, and video playlists work exactly like they do for music (you can even mix and match). I have yet to see any other Windows based media/video player that is remotely close to Winamp in this regard.
My experience with iTunes for the PC is that it's big, bloated, ugly, loads unnessecary crap into memory, and wants you to do things its way. If you like doing things the iTunes way, you probably won't mind the other things. But to me, it reminds me of Quicktime for Windows, which I despise.
My experience with an iRiver 512MB flash player is that it cannot handle OGG files with a bitrate of less than (and equal to?) 96kbps. Most of the time, people encode OGG files using VBR, and if the bitrate drops to 96kbps or less at any time during a song, the iRiver won't play the file. That means you either have to use CBR >96kbps, encode at a quality setting that is high enough that the encoder will always stay above 96kbps (6 is plenty), or tweak the encoder settings somehow to keep it above 96kbps (haven't looked into this, but should be possible).
I emailed them about this a while ago, and they said "perhaps in a future firmware". I have no idea if this is some firmware thing, some stupid software limitation, or something to do with the capabilities of their decoder chip.
I took out my Radeon 8500, put in a Geforce 2MX I had...
That's odd. I had a Radeon 8500 in a Linux machine (removed it due to flakey DVI port). I seemed to recall the open source drivers worked really well for it, and would work well with all the cards that were based on the 8500 (up to the 9200SE, I believe). It's the newer ATI cards that don't play well with Linux.
A Linux computer can be rooted though. However, put up a firewall and don't run services you don't need, and you'll probably be just fine.
I hope you're taking the piss. It's just a set of security fixes. There's nothing major in it at all.
I would consider it a bigger step than the 2000->XP jump, which was mostly eye candy and widgets that get in the way. And that was a paid upgrade.
Of course, you could also say that the things added to XPSP2 should of been there all along, and I would agree.
Ever hear the joke: "Perhaps there's a reason the wind is always blowing north in Iowa... Minnesota sucks!"
I've heard that, but I have also observed that the wind tends to blow towards the south in southern Minnesota, so go figure.
And "Longhorn" is better?
Longhorn is a code name. It's not going to ship with that name.
Seriously, you can call 200 new features, some of them altering how people will use the OS in fundamental ways, a service pack?
Windows XPSP2 was a huge jump in the Windows world, and it was just a service pack.
Yes, but does it come with a version that's not a DVD too? Until fairly recently, Apple was still selling computers with just a CD-ROM drive (eMac, and iBooks for the education market). Will these people be able to buy a CD version, or are they just screwed?
Why does Tiger absolutely need firewire ports anyway? I want to know what exactly will cause the OS not to boot if firewire ports are not present. And the impression I get is that it must be built-in firewire, an add-on PCI card won't do the trick (not that a PCI card would help the iMac owners much anyway, but still).
It would be like Microsoft saying that Windows will not install on a computer without USB. It's just stupid. My guess is that Apple is trying to get people to give up their older Macs and buy a new one.
In 1995, the K5 would of been top chip in the AMD world, nothing special at all (the 586-133 rocked though). You probably mean around 1997, when the K6-2 came onto the market and offered some serious competition for Intel.
Chipsets are a big problem in the AMD world. Via chipsets have issues, unless you have no need for PCI slots. All of the AMD chipset based boards for the MP/XP boards I have had experience with were flakey (don't ever build an Athlon MP server unless you like headaches). Ditto for nForce, not much experience with them. But Intel chipset+Intel chip=solid system, even if it is a little slower.
If Napster wanted to, they could sell music that would play practically anywhere--Windows, MuVo, iPod, iRiver, Mac, Linux, you name it, and they could do it today, without Apple's cooperation.
Just sell MP3s.
Yeah, and to do that, they'd have to do it without the major record label's cooperation too. Well then, I guess it would be just like the good ol' days!
Can you imagine if HMV, Virgin or (insert record store here) suddenly switched to only selling a proprietary compact disc format which only played on their player and had built-in restrictions?
Hmm, except that Audible, WAV, AIFF, Apple Lossless and MP3 formats as well as unprotected AAC all play on the iPod. I don't understand the uproar.
So, let the special record store player play all your old standard CD's too, then it would be OK? I don't get why Apple's DRM is suddenly okay on the iPod because it can also play some non-DRM'd files too. I mean, Windows Media Player can play my MP3 files just fine, does that make it OK too?
Fact is, Apple is not going to let anyone else use their DRM'd format, which means you can't (legally) buy a song for an iPod from any major record label and many minor ones, unless you buy it from iTMS. Because that record label is not going to want un-DRM'd files floating around.
except apple's cinema displays, *of course*.
Apple sticks to right around 100DPI, and there are plenty of 100DPI panels on the market, like my 1600x1200 20.1" Sony LCD.
I tried to use energy costs to justify my 1600x1200 LCD, but that just doesn't work when the LCD costed about $1000, and the CRT was already paid for. But I bought the LCD anyway, and haven't looked back. You can get a Sony 20.1" 1600x1200 resolution LCD for $700 now.
Computer motherboards are like used cars: You never know what you're getting.
Worst part is, when one goes bad and you have to replace it - you usually have to reinstall Windows. It sucks.
Hello fellow Apple Valley resident. It seems to me that the images are pretty recent. The new townhomes to the south of the Fischer (spelling?) Marketplace are mostly there, and the Enjoy! (sp?) restraunt is under construction.
Knowing a few things about how the ISD 196 buses run, I would say that the picture was taken on a weekday before school got for the summer right around 11:45 AM. I would even go as far to as to say it was a Friday.
Also, the image quality decreases quite a bit as you move into Burnsville. Wonder why that is.
Overall, I must say this is really cool. Only bummer part is that the satellite images don't seem to work with Opera.
It'll probably be cheaper than a dual Xeon system though, as you can't do MP with two normal Pentium 4's.
Since you are speaking of defragging, I guess you are speaking of Windows. I would partition it to 10-15GB for a system partition, then the rest for data. The system partition is used for Windows, programs and their settings, and the page file. Being small, and probably having over 50% free space, it will be fast to defragment. The data partition I will never defragment because I see no reason to. I don't need to access my music/videos/porn/whatever that fast.
Microsoft already tried that with personalized menus in Windows XP and Office. Always one of the first things I turn off whenever I have to use either one.
Geez, my school is currently in the process of getting rid of some of the last socket 5 Pentium PCs still hanging around. Being the last of the bunch, most of them had been upgraded at some point. When I got to them in the scrap heap, I scored a bunch of 32MB SIMMs and some 4MB Mach64 video cards, as well as CD drives/floppies/Network cards. Not bad at all.