Quote:"If their DRM allows you to do everything you plan to do with the music, then buy it. Novel concept, eh?"
I think you mean If their DRM allows you to do everything you plan to do with the music, then rent it. Novel concept, eh?
Quote:The case is still gigantic (2003 size), and still only sports 1 external drive bay
I thought they had an infinite number of external drive bays.
Maybe I've had too much RDF. Or wine. Probably wine.
I believe the apple 1 was the first machine with a keyboard interface, which was why I called it a personal computer. Toggling switches relegated the altair to a hobbyists toy, not a computer in my opinion.
I too am a student, and run a mac as my main machine. Unlike you I have bought a new machine in the last 4 years (but I don't think it counts- it is an SGI indy that is only new to me). My G4 cube cost me about a grand. I could probably sell it for 400 and upgrade to a 1Ghz emac for nothing-100. I've upgraded 3 times (2x RAM, one HD). I could also upgrade the processor if I wanted, and in the past I could upgrade the video with no problem, now it would be a hack, but I could do it.
Finally, the machine is still perfectly acceptable for everything I do with it. (But when doom3 comes out I may have to reassess.;))
If you shift into a lower gear, the engine will act as a brake. Think about how beginners kangaroo their cars, and how you can coast if you depress the clutch, but not if you don't.
You are assuming some things which are not always correct.
1: People want to rip to a lossy format. 2: The ipod must be full 3: The ipod must be used for music instead of a portable drive.
Admittedly there are a few illegal tunes on my ipod, but the vast majority are legal. In fact I probably have more illegal music on my old collection of tapes.
Apple, or rather Steve Jobs likes to control the whole experience. By doing this, it is much easier to make things work well together. If your tunes purchase from real stop working, then people will blame apple for selling a crappy player, although it's an ugly Real kludge to get them selling tunes. And if people start hearing that the ipod experience is crap, apple will sell less ipods. If Real wanted an open system, they would open their codecs. As it is you can't use the real store for macs.
Okay: full disclosure here. I like apple a lot. I'm not the only one, but others don't seem to realise that there is a market for people who want elegant devices which do what they should. The ipod plays music. It has other functions, sure, but it plays music better than anything else. You can find what you want to listen to and have it playing in 30 seconds. If you try to add other functions, it will confuse the UI and screw up the playing music thing.
People want phones to ring people on. They don't want a portable computer in a phone because phones don't do input very well. Same with everything else that phones are "going to converge" with. If it stops it being a useful, convenient phone, it will suffer.
Apple seem to understand how users interact with technology better than most other companies. Mac users will mostly give up their machines after you pry them from their cold. dead hands. Ditto newton users and ipod owners. People want to use machines that are right for the job: thus cameras to take pictures, phones to ring people, and computers for computing.
Real could sell MP3's if they truly wanted cross-platform compatibility. As it is, they are selling a dirty kludge which is not accepted by apple. If you buy your tunes from real, but apple update their firmware, killing your bought tunes, who gets the flak? Is it apples fault for having a shitty player, or reals for hacking a player that they have no reason too (see above re selling MP3's). Of course apple, are bad for not selling restriction-free MP3's too, but it is their player and they can do what they want with it. They just don't want reals sucky....bufffering..... performance associated with their cool brand. And who can blame them?
If you check out the screen shots on the doom3 website, the X-box graphics suck. Hard.
Of course I don't know if the maps will be the same and the gameplay, but when I play doom3, I want it to look pretty, and the X-box screen shots don't.
It was in my back pocket when I was skating and I fell on my ass, squishing the ipod. The screen was a bit messed up, there was a sizable dent in the back, and when turned on, there was a disk error icon. The thing did keep playing until the flash buffer emptied though. I managed to sell it on ebay though for around 40 quid. My second ipod has survived a fall from hand height to ashphalt, and is still alive, although scratched. I guess I should be a bit more careful!
Sony also has a lot of the copyright on the songs. This has led to problems in the past with one arm (the hardware people) being held back by the other (the content people) from offering systems with easy copying choices. it's the same thing all over again.
The laser is on a plane this size because a laser powerful enough to destroy missiles from miles away is a big fat bulky ass piece of equipment, that won't fit on a fighter plane.
Yeah, thats why they put them out in threes. Not because people have different needs. Surely if they wanted to show that the larger ipods were more desireable, they would make it obvious that there was a difference externally.
Can I just mention LaTeX as the best solution for all your typesetting needs? It is by far the best solution to give quality output. Obviously it isn't quite as easy to use, but goddamn does it look good. There are a number of front ends for osX as well, such as TeXshop. If you are looking for international languages, oddball symbols, or anything else, TeX is the way to go!
I dunno what you do, but I have a SP 450 MHz G4 with a rage 128, and it runs RTCW smoothly enough. I almost bought a dual 1.25 G4, but held off to see the specs for Doom3. I admit to being a mac/id whore. This box was ought to play quake3, and my next upgrade will be for doom. I also have an irix box, a linux box, and at work I use windows.
I guess what I am trying to point out is that clock sped is not that important. The overall performance of a mac is not just down to clock speed, the RISC architecture makes up for that. Also, the Altivec extensions help, and for the G5 the 64 bit-ness. Personally now, I can't see a reason not to by a mac, escpecially a desktop.
But then I've had half a bottle of rum, and I'm asking for cancer by going to smoke. G'night all!
Anyone know / care to comment how these chips compare with apples G3 and G4 laptops? I was under the impression that they were much less power hungry than intel and AMD's chips, which let them be lighter and have better battery life.
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"- Also, when the battery is flat, the units data contents are not-transferrable"
This is only right if you are using USB 2 or a cheaper firewire card. Apple computers (and I think the more expensive PC cards) transfer power through the firewire lead, which powers the ipod when connected, and recharges the battery too.
A PhD takes around 3 years to complete and has to be a thesis on a subject which has never before been studied in such depth- a completely novel piece. As a PhD student myself, I can tell you that the way most people manage this is to pick a subject so obscure that no-one else has ever studied it. By doing this, you become the worlds leading expert on a subject that very few people know (or want to know) anything about.
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Quote:"If their DRM allows you to do everything you plan to do with the music, then buy it. Novel concept, eh?" I think you mean If their DRM allows you to do everything you plan to do with the music, then rent it. Novel concept, eh?
Quote:The case is still gigantic (2003 size), and still only sports 1 external drive bay I thought they had an infinite number of external drive bays. Maybe I've had too much RDF. Or wine. Probably wine.
Because they *never* stiffed apple on developing processors!
If you have a TV, but just use it attached to a dvd player without a licence, you are breaking the law.
They only show the outer and the motherboard, not how it all goes together. I'm not sure if the beast is fanless, or takes a standard sized HDm =16&page=1
http://www.macnews.de/gallery/thumbnails.php?albu
I believe the apple 1 was the first machine with a keyboard interface, which was why I called it a personal computer. Toggling switches relegated the altair to a hobbyists toy, not a computer in my opinion.
PC stands for personal computer. Apple were the first company to provide a personal computer with the apple 1.
I too am a student, and run a mac as my main machine. Unlike you I have bought a new machine in the last 4 years (but I don't think it counts- it is an SGI indy that is only new to me). My G4 cube cost me about a grand. I could probably sell it for 400 and upgrade to a 1Ghz emac for nothing-100. I've upgraded 3 times (2x RAM, one HD). I could also upgrade the processor if I wanted, and in the past I could upgrade the video with no problem, now it would be a hack, but I could do it. Finally, the machine is still perfectly acceptable for everything I do with it. (But when doom3 comes out I may have to reassess. ;))
If you shift into a lower gear, the engine will act as a brake. Think about how beginners kangaroo their cars, and how you can coast if you depress the clutch, but not if you don't.
You are assuming some things which are not always correct.
1: People want to rip to a lossy format.
2: The ipod must be full
3: The ipod must be used for music instead of a portable drive.
Admittedly there are a few illegal tunes on my ipod, but the vast majority are legal. In fact I probably have more illegal music on my old collection of tapes.
The GPU is on the motherboard (or as apple likes to call it, the main board assembly) Which isn't too much of a bummer, but is a bit.
Apple, or rather Steve Jobs likes to control the whole experience. By doing this, it is much easier to make things work well together. If your tunes purchase from real stop working, then people will blame apple for selling a crappy player, although it's an ugly Real kludge to get them selling tunes. And if people start hearing that the ipod experience is crap, apple will sell less ipods. If Real wanted an open system, they would open their codecs. As it is you can't use the real store for macs.
Okay: full disclosure here. I like apple a lot. I'm not the only one, but others don't seem to realise that there is a market for people who want elegant devices which do what they should. The ipod plays music. It has other functions, sure, but it plays music better than anything else. You can find what you want to listen to and have it playing in 30 seconds. If you try to add other functions, it will confuse the UI and screw up the playing music thing. People want phones to ring people on. They don't want a portable computer in a phone because phones don't do input very well. Same with everything else that phones are "going to converge" with. If it stops it being a useful, convenient phone, it will suffer. Apple seem to understand how users interact with technology better than most other companies. Mac users will mostly give up their machines after you pry them from their cold. dead hands. Ditto newton users and ipod owners. People want to use machines that are right for the job: thus cameras to take pictures, phones to ring people, and computers for computing.
Real could sell MP3's if they truly wanted cross-platform compatibility. As it is, they are selling a dirty kludge which is not accepted by apple. If you buy your tunes from real, but apple update their firmware, killing your bought tunes, who gets the flak? Is it apples fault for having a shitty player, or reals for hacking a player that they have no reason too (see above re selling MP3's). Of course apple, are bad for not selling restriction-free MP3's too, but it is their player and they can do what they want with it. They just don't want reals sucky ....bufffering..... performance associated with their cool brand. And who can blame them?
Obviously...
If you check out the screen shots on the doom3 website, the X-box graphics suck. Hard.
Of course I don't know if the maps will be the same and the gameplay, but when I play doom3, I want it to look pretty, and the X-box screen shots don't.
It was in my back pocket when I was skating and I fell on my ass, squishing the ipod. The screen was a bit messed up, there was a sizable dent in the back, and when turned on, there was a disk error icon. The thing did keep playing until the flash buffer emptied though. I managed to sell it on ebay though for around 40 quid. My second ipod has survived a fall from hand height to ashphalt, and is still alive, although scratched. I guess I should be a bit more careful!
Sony also has a lot of the copyright on the songs. This has led to problems in the past with one arm (the hardware people) being held back by the other (the content people) from offering systems with easy copying choices. it's the same thing all over again.
The laser is on a plane this size because a laser powerful enough to destroy missiles from miles away is a big fat bulky ass piece of equipment, that won't fit on a fighter plane.
Yeah, thats why they put them out in threes. Not because people have different needs. Surely if they wanted to show that the larger ipods were more desireable, they would make it obvious that there was a difference externally.
Can I just mention LaTeX as the best solution for all your typesetting needs? It is by far the best solution to give quality output. Obviously it isn't quite as easy to use, but goddamn does it look good. There are a number of front ends for osX as well, such as TeXshop. If you are looking for international languages, oddball symbols, or anything else, TeX is the way to go!
I dunno what you do, but I have a SP 450 MHz G4 with a rage 128, and it runs RTCW smoothly enough. I almost bought a dual 1.25 G4, but held off to see the specs for Doom3. I admit to being a mac/id whore. This box was ought to play quake3, and my next upgrade will be for doom. I also have an irix box, a linux box, and at work I use windows. I guess what I am trying to point out is that clock sped is not that important. The overall performance of a mac is not just down to clock speed, the RISC architecture makes up for that. Also, the Altivec extensions help, and for the G5 the 64 bit-ness. Personally now, I can't see a reason not to by a mac, escpecially a desktop. But then I've had half a bottle of rum, and I'm asking for cancer by going to smoke. G'night all!
Anyone know / care to comment how these chips compare with apples G3 and G4 laptops? I was under the impression that they were much less power hungry than intel and AMD's chips, which let them be lighter and have better battery life.
Quote: "- Also, when the battery is flat, the units data contents are not-transferrable" This is only right if you are using USB 2 or a cheaper firewire card. Apple computers (and I think the more expensive PC cards) transfer power through the firewire lead, which powers the ipod when connected, and recharges the battery too.
A PhD takes around 3 years to complete and has to be a thesis on a subject which has never before been studied in such depth- a completely novel piece. As a PhD student myself, I can tell you that the way most people manage this is to pick a subject so obscure that no-one else has ever studied it. By doing this, you become the worlds leading expert on a subject that very few people know (or want to know) anything about.