This says more about you and your friends than any video game. Take care of business and then entertain yourself however you please. Don't blame the entertainment if you can't manage your time.
I did your research for you. He talks about the flash players here: MacWorld 04 at about 1:50:45.
He critiques the competition's low storage space (128-256mb), their clumsiness, and their poor interface. He does not in any way critique flash technology and instead says he wants to actively go into this high-end flash player market.
Jobs hasn't contradicted himself regarding flash players. But nice try!
When did he say that, and what was his reasoning? Maybe this was before flash technology was good enough to support the average user's entire music collection.
Jobs has said time and time again that he thinks the idea of a video iPod is stupid and doesn't want to make one. And yet, Slashdot keeps acting like it will be a reality. He even went so far as to mock companies that were pursuing portable video.
I've actually posted a comment similar to this a year ago. Here is the Apple Special Event 04. 12:35 into the video.
Slightly off topic, but thought some might be interested.
There is a pretty cool and full featured MVC framework for PHP called Mojavi. If you like PHP and think Ruby on Rails or any other MVC framework is what you're into, you might want to check it out.
I listen to a LOT of music by a lot of artists. I am quite the music nerd. However, I don't particularly care about my own personal ownership of the music medium. Sure, I should always be able to go out and buy the CD, but for the most part my ideal situation would be one in which there were a variety of competing subcription services to keep the price reasonable for the rest of my life.
How amazing would it be if in the future we'd all pay a certain amount a month but we would have access to all music ever created whenever we wanted? Imagine how much everyone would learn about music when we could check out a recommendation with incredible ease and no additional cost. Even my fellow copyright infringers will filter out suggestions because it can be a real pain to find and actually acquire decent copies of the music. The main problem I have is obtaining the variety of music I want to listen to and then somehow storing it all. A subscription to every artist ever seems far preferable to "owning" a single CD.
I also refuse to use the iTunes store anymore, because unless I have faith that the iTunes/iPod combo is still going to be my favorite 3, 5, 10 years from now, I'm going to be burning a lot of cds in order to convert the stuff I have bought to another format.
Napster's idea is great, and I really, really hope that Apple picks up on it, because I would sign up in a second. The ease of access to endless varieties of music without breaking my pocket book would actually make me curtail my current illegal methods. If I didn't have a Mac and an iPod, I'd probably be getting on the Napster train.
Watch the Apple Special Event video from Oct 2004. Skip ahead to about 12:35 in the video. Jobs says, in a humorous fashion, that he believes the competition is making a mistake with video on portable players, and lists reasons he believes they are impractical.
The arguments he makes are:
Competing video players are too heavy and cumbersome.
Users don't have video content.
The screens are too small.
I think it's safe to say there won't be a video iPod.
I am curious to see the specs on your Doom 3-playing $500 Windows machine. Please, indulge me. Also, I would like if you would explain to me why I would pay $500 for a computer devoted purely to gaming when I can go buy a console for $150.
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mental illness n. Any of various conditions characterized by impairment of an individual's normal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning, and caused by social, psychological, biochemical, genetic, or other factors, such as infection or head trauma. Also called emotional illness, mental disease, mental disorder.
This is all a mental disorder is. It does not assign blame. Caffeine withdrawal exhibits certain predictable symptoms affecting the normal order of a person's mind, and as such it makes sense to classify it as what it is, a disorder. The word "disorder" just means things are mentally messed up; it does not imply the person was "born" with caffeine withdrawal or blameless for having this disorder, anymore than a psychopath is granted amnesty just because they have antisocial personality disorder.
Usually the first time a girl enters my room she is immediately drawn to my Titanium Powerbook. Soft coos are heard while she breathes in its elegant beauty and caresses its curves. "It's so thin!" she says.
She notices what's onscreen. I've been talking on AIM, but there's these little characters with colored talk balloons! That's just so cute.
She'll pick up the iPod next, and start playing with its little wheel. She flips it over and looks at herself in the reflective back. She likes how the lights come on when she touches it and the little red text appears on the buttons.
But I'm sure you get the same response from your "gaming machine" with a clunky CRT.
There is also a unix utility called APG (Automated Password Generator) which will create pronounceable gibbrish passwords to your specifications. I usually use that, find one I like, then replace a few letters with l33t-speak numbers (to think, it has a use...).
I can't get my iSight to work with GarageBand and I see in a quick Google that others can't, either. This is a concern because the built-in mic on my laptop has lots of noise, while it is my understanding that my iSight has a superior mic with some noise-cancelling technology. Currently, it lists a grayed out option in the Audio Input selection which says "iSight (not 44.1)". I don't particularly know what this means or if I can get around it somehow to use the iSight as a mic. For me, the grayed out option was not there previously. Particularly curious is that on this site the user posts a screenshot of GarageBand with the grayed out option, but his post is dated in January, well before this version came out.
The major question is, can I somehow get my iSight to work as audio input? And the second question is, why did my previous version of GarageBand not have the grayed out option, but the user on that site's GarageBand did?
It is impossible to make an argument determining whether or not a being is sentient without first understanding what facult(ies) give beings sentience.
As we are still not aware of what bestows this quality upon us, we cannot justify a belief in either direction. At our core, humans seem mechanical, neurological, physical; whatever gives us our self-awareness (call it a "soul" if you wish) is unaccounted for.
We wonder if the machines we create become alive after a certain level of complexity, or perhaps if sentience isn't boolean but rather quantitative. We don't even know if animals are sentient, a debate which has raged throughout history; indeed, I question the sentience of some people I meet.
When at an impasse such as this, the ethical choice seems to be to err on the side of life. Give the machine the benefit of the doubt until it can be proven otherwise.
Is it likely that if an impending catastrophic meteor collision were to be discovered, the general public would even be made aware?
I've heard people say the US government would not let its people know they were going to die. But I imagine that if an astronomer discovered something like this, they would request verification from astronomers around the world who would then be in the know. And I doubt the word wouldn't leak out somehow.
Does anyone know what the government's policy towards this might be, and whether or not they could adequately silence such information?
As an American who has spent all summer in Japan, and purchased several albums from the iTMS using my account registered with an American credit card, I agree with the parent. All of my music works fine out of the states, and I can even use the store as long as my account is registered to an American credit card.
First, I'm happy to say that Safari now works with my bank. Yay! But there's still some problems.
Why haven't they addressed the animated GIF problem yet? To see what I'm talking about, check out this example page of the flaw. Only the last instance of an animated GIF is ever animated.
And why'd they remove the minimum font size? On some sites I visit now I see incredibly tiny fonts that are completely illegible. Sure, it might just be a poorly designed site, but it was never a problem in earlier Safari and looks fine in IE and Mozilla.
Unlike Shoutcast, the user looks through your library and streams any song he wishes. In Shoutcast, the DJ decides what everyone listens to, kind of like a radio station one connects to. With this setup, the user is not restricted to the DJ's preference at the time.
iTunes is well aware of Shoutcast and even has a built-in Radio section that organizes Shoutcast stations.
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Are there any working examples of this problem we could see? I'm having trouble understanding exactly what the issue is supposed to be.
This says more about you and your friends than any video game. Take care of business and then entertain yourself however you please. Don't blame the entertainment if you can't manage your time.
I'll be over here, eating my hat.
I did your research for you. He talks about the flash players here: MacWorld 04 at about 1:50:45.
He critiques the competition's low storage space (128-256mb), their clumsiness, and their poor interface. He does not in any way critique flash technology and instead says he wants to actively go into this high-end flash player market.
Jobs hasn't contradicted himself regarding flash players. But nice try!
When did he say that, and what was his reasoning? Maybe this was before flash technology was good enough to support the average user's entire music collection.
Jobs has said time and time again that he thinks the idea of a video iPod is stupid and doesn't want to make one. And yet, Slashdot keeps acting like it will be a reality. He even went so far as to mock companies that were pursuing portable video.
I've actually posted a comment similar to this a year ago. Here is the Apple Special Event 04. 12:35 into the video.
I tried making a bash script called -i in /tmp and it executed as expected on OS X 10.3.9. The same when I symlinked -i to another script.
Here's my script:
Here's my execution:
Slightly off topic, but thought some might be interested.
There is a pretty cool and full featured MVC framework for PHP called Mojavi. If you like PHP and think Ruby on Rails or any other MVC framework is what you're into, you might want to check it out.
I listen to a LOT of music by a lot of artists. I am quite the music nerd. However, I don't particularly care about my own personal ownership of the music medium. Sure, I should always be able to go out and buy the CD, but for the most part my ideal situation would be one in which there were a variety of competing subcription services to keep the price reasonable for the rest of my life.
How amazing would it be if in the future we'd all pay a certain amount a month but we would have access to all music ever created whenever we wanted? Imagine how much everyone would learn about music when we could check out a recommendation with incredible ease and no additional cost. Even my fellow copyright infringers will filter out suggestions because it can be a real pain to find and actually acquire decent copies of the music. The main problem I have is obtaining the variety of music I want to listen to and then somehow storing it all. A subscription to every artist ever seems far preferable to "owning" a single CD.
I also refuse to use the iTunes store anymore, because unless I have faith that the iTunes/iPod combo is still going to be my favorite 3, 5, 10 years from now, I'm going to be burning a lot of cds in order to convert the stuff I have bought to another format.
Napster's idea is great, and I really, really hope that Apple picks up on it, because I would sign up in a second. The ease of access to endless varieties of music without breaking my pocket book would actually make me curtail my current illegal methods. If I didn't have a Mac and an iPod, I'd probably be getting on the Napster train.
Half Life 2 is not the same as Halo 2.
Watch the Apple Special Event video from Oct 2004. Skip ahead to about 12:35 in the video. Jobs says, in a humorous fashion, that he believes the competition is making a mistake with video on portable players, and lists reasons he believes they are impractical.
The arguments he makes are:
I think it's safe to say there won't be a video iPod.
There is a Live CD net install for Debian sarge ("testing"). It uses the new installer and is very nice. I have it as a dual-boot on my PowerBook.
Debian net installer page
A live CD for Gentoo PPC is already out, and has been for a while.
I am curious to see the specs on your Doom 3-playing $500 Windows machine. Please, indulge me. Also, I would like if you would explain to me why I would pay $500 for a computer devoted purely to gaming when I can go buy a console for $150.
mental illness
n.
Any of various conditions characterized by impairment of an individual's normal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning, and caused by social, psychological, biochemical, genetic, or other factors, such as infection or head trauma. Also called emotional illness, mental disease, mental disorder.
This is all a mental disorder is. It does not assign blame. Caffeine withdrawal exhibits certain predictable symptoms affecting the normal order of a person's mind, and as such it makes sense to classify it as what it is, a disorder. The word "disorder" just means things are mentally messed up; it does not imply the person was "born" with caffeine withdrawal or blameless for having this disorder, anymore than a psychopath is granted amnesty just because they have antisocial personality disorder.
Usually the first time a girl enters my room she is immediately drawn to my Titanium Powerbook. Soft coos are heard while she breathes in its elegant beauty and caresses its curves. "It's so thin!" she says.
She notices what's onscreen. I've been talking on AIM, but there's these little characters with colored talk balloons! That's just so cute.
She'll pick up the iPod next, and start playing with its little wheel. She flips it over and looks at herself in the reflective back. She likes how the lights come on when she touches it and the little red text appears on the buttons.
But I'm sure you get the same response from your "gaming machine" with a clunky CRT.
There is also a unix utility called APG (Automated Password Generator) which will create pronounceable gibbrish passwords to your specifications. I usually use that, find one I like, then replace a few letters with l33t-speak numbers (to think, it has a use...).
I can't get my iSight to work with GarageBand and I see in a quick Google that others can't, either. This is a concern because the built-in mic on my laptop has lots of noise, while it is my understanding that my iSight has a superior mic with some noise-cancelling technology. Currently, it lists a grayed out option in the Audio Input selection which says "iSight (not 44.1)". I don't particularly know what this means or if I can get around it somehow to use the iSight as a mic. For me, the grayed out option was not there previously. Particularly curious is that on this site the user posts a screenshot of GarageBand with the grayed out option, but his post is dated in January, well before this version came out.
The major question is, can I somehow get my iSight to work as audio input? And the second question is, why did my previous version of GarageBand not have the grayed out option, but the user on that site's GarageBand did?
I did a fresh format install of Panther on my machine, and this is what it says:
chappi:/ joel$ ls -ld / drwxrwxr-t 34 503 staff 1156 16 Dec 03:43 /The date is because I was mucking around with it (I chowned it to root:admin to test this stuff) but mine was definitely set to 503:staff before.
Could this possibly be related to me mounting this partition in Gentoo? Or is this normal for a Panther install?
It is impossible to make an argument determining whether or not a being is sentient without first understanding what facult(ies) give beings sentience.
As we are still not aware of what bestows this quality upon us, we cannot justify a belief in either direction. At our core, humans seem mechanical, neurological, physical; whatever gives us our self-awareness (call it a "soul" if you wish) is unaccounted for.
We wonder if the machines we create become alive after a certain level of complexity, or perhaps if sentience isn't boolean but rather quantitative. We don't even know if animals are sentient, a debate which has raged throughout history; indeed, I question the sentience of some people I meet.
When at an impasse such as this, the ethical choice seems to be to err on the side of life. Give the machine the benefit of the doubt until it can be proven otherwise.
Is it likely that if an impending catastrophic meteor collision were to be discovered, the general public would even be made aware?
I've heard people say the US government would not let its people know they were going to die. But I imagine that if an astronomer discovered something like this, they would request verification from astronomers around the world who would then be in the know. And I doubt the word wouldn't leak out somehow.
Does anyone know what the government's policy towards this might be, and whether or not they could adequately silence such information?
As an American who has spent all summer in Japan, and purchased several albums from the iTMS using my account registered with an American credit card, I agree with the parent. All of my music works fine out of the states, and I can even use the store as long as my account is registered to an American credit card.
First, I'm happy to say that Safari now works with my bank. Yay! But there's still some problems.
Why haven't they addressed the animated GIF problem yet? To see what I'm talking about, check out this example page of the flaw. Only the last instance of an animated GIF is ever animated.
And why'd they remove the minimum font size? On some sites I visit now I see incredibly tiny fonts that are completely illegible. Sure, it might just be a poorly designed site, but it was never a problem in earlier Safari and looks fine in IE and Mozilla.
Unlike Shoutcast, the user looks through your library and streams any song he wishes. In Shoutcast, the DJ decides what everyone listens to, kind of like a radio station one connects to. With this setup, the user is not restricted to the DJ's preference at the time.
iTunes is well aware of Shoutcast and even has a built-in Radio section that organizes Shoutcast stations.
I think by your numbers that would be 6 / 0.1157407 = 51.84 deconds :)