Exactly! The road to success in this business is to have one competent person in charge of the vision. That's the secret to Apple's success, not Jobs' "charisma" or marketing.
1) You don't lose any quality if you use Apple Lossless to encode. 2) If you burn complete albums, they happily add the metadata. (It's not technically possible for them to do it if they don't without using something like Musicbrainz.)
In the US, it is simply the Sony eReader. It isn't exactly the same device as the the Librie, and has been selling in the US for a few months now.
iRiver has announced an intention to release an ebook reader as well.
All of these devices are pretty primitive because of current limitations of the displays (these are the ebook equivalents of those old 32mb mp3 players), but five minutes reading on one will make a believer out of hardcore readers. It's not just the battery life...the screens just look like paper. Lots easier to read.
For writing books, yes. But computer programs aren't text. When you "write" a computer program, you typically write in batches of 10-50 lines at a go, then go back over, making small edit after small edit. Programming usually involves far more editing than straight-out typing.
This is what vi is designed for and what modal editing concepts are great for.
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The difference is that in vi, you hit ESC once before entering a whole serious of commands whereas in Emacs, you have to hit Ctrl-X before every command.
Used to be some people liked big disks so they had space to rip all their CDs...we've passed that stage, but are rapidly approaching the stage where some people will like big disks so they have space to rip all their DVDs.
My home server currently has 900 gb worth of disks and is maybe 70% full.
None of this is as easy on linux, where you can mandate that all programs go to a particular drive, and you don't have to worry about poorly written apps.
Yes...most installs default to the system drive. That's exactly the problem. If you want your apps to be one a driver other than the boot drive, you've got to manually tell all installs to put them there. (And I think you minimize the "poorly written app" thing. The nice thing about the Unix model is that it's utterly transparent.
It seems extremely unlikely that the kinds of chemical reactions necessary for life as we know it could occur.
Life as we know it is water based, and so is restricted to temperatures where water is liquid. (Though some extremophiles have ways of keeping water liquid when it otherwise wouldn't be.) Any sort of life based on methane would be restricted to temperatures where methane is liquid. It may well be that life based on methane is impossible, but if so, it's because of the chemistry of methane, not the temperature.
Probably because it is much harder to do the equivalent on Windows as Windows like drives to be nicely labeled C:, D: etc., and every damn app wants to install on C:.
Some coffee houses went out of business around here when Starbucks showed up, but they were almost uniformly ghastly. The ones that are good are still here. (And the local Peets is always hopping despite being a short walk from four different Starbucks.)
You are wrong. Starbucks doesn't sell franchises. All Starbucks stores are directly owned by Starbucks (with the exception of Starbucks in bookstores and supermarkets, which are owned by the bookstore or supermarket chain. Starbucks corporate directly chooses where to put stores.
That's not about content protection so much as it is about preventing anyone from doing real game development for the PS using Linux, something that would hurt their business model. It's a balance between homebrew as a selling point and making money charging people to make games.
That's why I have a PSP and not a PS2. It's nice to have a device I can use on the train, waiting for an oil change, etc. It's also why I almost never play online games on the PC. When I was young, single and childless I could afford to spend hours at a time. Now, when I play, I always have to expect interruptions of one sort or another and therefore need games I can turn off instantly.
That's hindsight. At the time, people thought the search engine area was full. Point being: just because all the "experts" think a company has eternal dominance doesn't mean they actually do.
Funny thing is, I remember, way back in the late nineties, when the search engine market was locked up by Yahoo and Alta Vista, and only a fool would try to break in.
Games? You want me to compare a platform's power by the games!?
This is how I compare: In those days (late 80s, not early 90s by the way...no Amigas or Atari ST in the early 90s) I was a MS-DOS developer. I moonlit by writing programming books, including one for the Mac. I also did a proposal for an Atari ST book, and so spent a fair bit of time coding on that thing. At the time, power was roughly equal on the three machines.
But you're ignorance really shows when you talk about games, because the Amiga was, hands down, the most powerful game computer in the late eighties. It was the first computer to have a separate graphics processor and so completely kicked the PC's ass on terms of games.
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Exactly! The road to success in this business is to have one competent person in charge of the vision. That's the secret to Apple's success, not Jobs' "charisma" or marketing.
Not entirely. Sony also has movie studios and music labels. That's what has fucked Sony over.
Anecdotally: I replaced my first MP3 player (a Samsung Yepp) because the damn battery cover broke, and the damn thing wouldn't hold its batteries.
1) You don't lose any quality if you use Apple Lossless to encode.
2) If you burn complete albums, they happily add the metadata. (It's not technically possible for them to do it if they don't without using something like Musicbrainz.)
You don't lose any quality if you burn and then reimport using a lossless format.
iRiver has announced an intention to release an ebook reader as well.
All of these devices are pretty primitive because of current limitations of the displays (these are the ebook equivalents of those old 32mb mp3 players), but five minutes reading on one will make a believer out of hardcore readers. It's not just the battery life...the screens just look like paper. Lots easier to read.
For writing books, yes. But computer programs aren't text. When you "write" a computer program, you typically write in batches of 10-50 lines at a go, then go back over, making small edit after small edit. Programming usually involves far more editing than straight-out typing.
This is what vi is designed for and what modal editing concepts are great for.
The difference is that in vi, you hit ESC once before entering a whole serious of commands whereas in Emacs, you have to hit Ctrl-X before every command.
Used to be some people liked big disks so they had space to rip all their CDs...we've passed that stage, but are rapidly approaching the stage where some people will like big disks so they have space to rip all their DVDs.
My home server currently has 900 gb worth of disks and is maybe 70% full.
None of this is as easy on linux, where you can mandate that all programs go to a particular drive, and you don't have to worry about poorly written apps.
Yes...most installs default to the system drive. That's exactly the problem. If you want your apps to be one a driver other than the boot drive, you've got to manually tell all installs to put them there. (And I think you minimize the "poorly written app" thing. The nice thing about the Unix model is that it's utterly transparent.
It seems extremely unlikely that the kinds of chemical reactions necessary for life as we know it could occur.
Life as we know it is water based, and so is restricted to temperatures where water is liquid. (Though some extremophiles have ways of keeping water liquid when it otherwise wouldn't be.) Any sort of life based on methane would be restricted to temperatures where methane is liquid. It may well be that life based on methane is impossible, but if so, it's because of the chemistry of methane, not the temperature.
Probably because it is much harder to do the equivalent on Windows as Windows like drives to be nicely labeled C:, D: etc., and every damn app wants to install on C:.
Some coffee houses went out of business around here when Starbucks showed up, but they were almost uniformly ghastly. The ones that are good are still here. (And the local Peets is always hopping despite being a short walk from four different Starbucks.)
You are wrong. Starbucks doesn't sell franchises. All Starbucks stores are directly owned by Starbucks (with the exception of Starbucks in bookstores and supermarkets, which are owned by the bookstore or supermarket chain. Starbucks corporate directly chooses where to put stores.
Dungeon Seige is a bit better (so far) but still not great.
That's not about content protection so much as it is about preventing anyone from doing real game development for the PS using Linux, something that would hurt their business model. It's a balance between homebrew as a selling point and making money charging people to make games.
That's why I have a PSP and not a PS2. It's nice to have a device I can use on the train, waiting for an oil change, etc. It's also why I almost never play online games on the PC. When I was young, single and childless I could afford to spend hours at a time. Now, when I play, I always have to expect interruptions of one sort or another and therefore need games I can turn off instantly.
One of the most important facets of usability is consistency. If you don't want confused users, DON'T CHANGE EVERYTHING WITH EACH RELEASE.
That's hindsight. At the time, people thought the search engine area was full. Point being: just because all the "experts" think a company has eternal dominance doesn't mean they actually do.
Funny thing is, I remember, way back in the late nineties, when the search engine market was locked up by Yahoo and Alta Vista, and only a fool would try to break in.
You mean, the expensive hardware that Apple sells at a high profit margin?
Who's ignorant? The person who still hasn't figured out that the original post was talking about mid-to-late 80s.
Games? You want me to compare a platform's power by the games!?
This is how I compare: In those days (late 80s, not early 90s by the way...no Amigas or Atari ST in the early 90s) I was a MS-DOS developer. I moonlit by writing programming books, including one for the Mac. I also did a proposal for an Atari ST book, and so spent a fair bit of time coding on that thing. At the time, power was roughly equal on the three machines.
But you're ignorance really shows when you talk about games, because the Amiga was, hands down, the most powerful game computer in the late eighties. It was the first computer to have a separate graphics processor and so completely kicked the PC's ass on terms of games.
The PC didn't have a "raw power" advantage in those days. What it had was a monopoly in the business world.