Apple has a copyright on the term "Digital Hub"... and as their PC counterparts finally 'get it' 2 years later, they all scramble to co-opt the concept.
The above statement isn't flame bait... I think the future roll of a computer will be to serve as the central control for all the little gizmos we continue to surround ourselves with. I'm just glad the rest of the market is finally defining a future roll for the PC instead of trying to convince me that I need a Tablet PC if I want productivity from my 'puter.
Ted turner hinted that he may have some high level involvement in America's space endeavours. By showing his spaceworthy editing skills, he hopes to regain the attentions of a girl he only refers to as "Barbarella"
Whilst win32 is a joke to advanced users, you generally plug in supported hardware, and it just works
Correct! If by "just works" you mean:
1. load the driver from the supplied cd (where is that damn thing)
2. reboot
3. recover from blue screen of death
4. reboot in 'safe mode' (thanks MS, for protecting me from evil!)
5. Remove outdated, incompatable driver
6. Spend six hours reading forums and newsgroups about other users experience with how the device failed for them, and what they did.
7. Hunt down an obscure driver that is not intended for use with your device, but will give you some functionality without conflicting with your other drivers.
8. Download and install driver from a less than reputable source
9. Watch a worm run rampant through your system
10. Finally learn your lesson and install Linux or buy a Mac
iMovie is FinalCut lite... the effects library is limited, the filters are fewer. The real difference is in import/export where exotic source/destination formats may not work with iMovie... something the homeuser will never miss.
without spending money on software, you can't do better than iMovie. End of discussion (star wipe to black).
The Hauppauge pvr 250/350 are the most commonly cited cards for use with mythTV/Freevo, and they are said to work well with Windows as well.
Personally, my christmas present to myself this year was a media PC (well, the parts for one). I went with the ATI 9600 AIW Pro, which offers very good gaming under windows, a good PVR package for windows, and can work with Freevo and MythTV (although setup will be much harder than with a Hauppauge).
The AIW 9600 just offered so much flexibility at an affordable price... had to go with it.
just to clarify... you can not load music (mp3, aac etc.) files via the os and have them show up in the ipod's playlists. You can manage files by directory using only the OS's GUI, as long as you dont want them to be available in the ipod's playlists.
If you are reasonably adept at the CLI, you can shoe-horn files into and out of the active playlists directory on your ipod. This would be a laborious task, and there is no reason to do so, when the iTunes interface is so slick.
As for flexibility from your iPod, I'm shocked that no-one mentioned this: http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/
The hardware you want, with the OS you want.
----------------------- quit crying you fscking baby!
Flash is no problem, shockwave also good.
On Macs you will get fewer game titles to choose from than on windows (assuming you might dual-boot for some games), but the better games usually get ported over, probably more than do for Linux.
In general (not always), games get ported poorly from windows to mac, meaning that what ran fine on your 1ghz Athlon may struggle on your 1.2ghz G4 tower. Video card is supremely important on macs for that reason.
If games are the main thing you do on your computer, stay with a PC. If you just want general productivity, an occasional game and a machine that is just plain 'cooperative' with you, then go Mac.
What are possibilities to overcome this problem; to prove that the computer owner, without a doubt, is in fact responsible or not responsible for the crime?
Simple! Keylogger installed with every OS, mandatory by order of the DHS. All Keylogs submitted to a central government database for use only by the DHS, related departments, and companies funding beach houses for the high ranking officials in said offices!
Won't you sleep better knowing that we will have the right man?
Apple used to be so nice to their competitors before MS showed everyone 'embrace and expel' strategy for marketplace dominance. as an example: MS made the leading mac software for ages, and despite the Appleworks office suite losing customers to MS, apple only encouraged MS to improve their product, rather than disabling the competitor.
What has MS done when in a similar position? Crippled competing media players, forced use of browser, etc
I hope people here realize just how badly MS has impacted the Software Business Environment.
Fair practice or not, Apple disables competitor... Bill taught Steve to be mean. well, ok Steve has always been a bit of a bastard, but he used to not be ruthless.
Cheapo x86 boxes do represent the best bang-for-buck in upfront costs, but there is still undeniable value in closed source OS's and their associated software libraries. It's very easy to conclude that OSS will eventually dominate, but until my mom, or other techno phobes, feel 100% comfortable installing, maintaining, and using OSS offerings, there will continue to be a compelling argument that Win and/or OSX offer a better 'value' (note value is not calculated in dollars, but rather in frustration, satisfaction, and time)
It could be that the machines worked flawlessly. As a Georgia native, you just cant be sure that it wasn't the good-'ol-boy network stepping in to control state politics, as it does every few elections.
Why do 'serious' programmers poo-poo PHP? And why are programmers filled with such zeal for their preferred language and disgust for all others? For people who are supposed to work logically, you'd think they would see that (nearly) all languages have their good and bad points.
So what you're saying is that this is beta quality software that will have its issues fixed? I thought there were no issues?.. Hmm...
you shouldn't ass-ume. I intended no such thing. When I envision how unreleased software should function, I set some pretty high standards too. When the released version falls short of my expectation, I usually can understand the reasons why these minor concessions were made, rather than rant about how they fouled the whole thing up.
oh, and the number of dialogues for removing a file from windows, depends on the type of file you delete, such as.txt vs.exe
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The above statement isn't flame bait... I think the future roll of a computer will be to serve as the central control for all the little gizmos we continue to surround ourselves with. I'm just glad the rest of the market is finally defining a future roll for the PC instead of trying to convince me that I need a Tablet PC if I want productivity from my 'puter.
What effect will a static warp shell charged with inverse tacheons have on the surrounding nebula?
RAID via the Firewire controller is no problem (at least on Mac)
It would climb very sharply and then eject the pilot
Misdemeanour??
Abuse of monopoly power is a far sight more serious than a misdemeanor.Still though, Lindows was pretty clearly attempting to abuse the ruling
Ted turner hinted that he may have some high level involvement in America's space endeavours. By showing his spaceworthy editing skills, he hopes to regain the attentions of a girl he only refers to as "Barbarella"
When will they have empirical evidence that our entire existance is just Butterflies dream...
And that the butterfly in question is My Butterfly
1. load the driver from the supplied cd (where is that damn thing)
2. reboot
3. recover from blue screen of death
4. reboot in 'safe mode' (thanks MS, for protecting me from evil!)
5. Remove outdated, incompatable driver
6. Spend six hours reading forums and newsgroups about other users experience with how the device failed for them, and what they did.
7. Hunt down an obscure driver that is not intended for use with your device, but will give you some functionality without conflicting with your other drivers.
8. Download and install driver from a less than reputable source
9. Watch a worm run rampant through your system
10. Finally learn your lesson and install Linux or buy a Mac
iMovie is FinalCut lite... the effects library is limited, the filters are fewer. The real difference is in import/export where exotic source/destination formats may not work with iMovie... something the homeuser will never miss.
without spending money on software, you can't do better than iMovie. End of discussion (star wipe to black).
ummmmmm.... ok, not open source but iMovie???
its free, it works well with osX (duh) and it features real time features such as the [sarcasm]fancy schmancy fades you describe[/sarcasm].
oh, and mod parent off topic : )
The Hauppauge pvr 250/350 are the most commonly cited cards for use with mythTV/Freevo, and they are said to work well with Windows as well.
Personally, my christmas present to myself this year was a media PC (well, the parts for one). I went with the ATI 9600 AIW Pro, which offers very good gaming under windows, a good PVR package for windows, and can work with Freevo and MythTV (although setup will be much harder than with a Hauppauge).
The AIW 9600 just offered so much flexibility at an affordable price... had to go with it.
just to clarify... you can not load music (mp3, aac etc.) files via the os and have them show up in the ipod's playlists. You can manage files by directory using only the OS's GUI, as long as you dont want them to be available in the ipod's playlists.
If you are reasonably adept at the CLI, you can shoe-horn files into and out of the active playlists directory on your ipod. This would be a laborious task, and there is no reason to do so, when the iTunes interface is so slick.
As for flexibility from your iPod, I'm shocked that no-one mentioned this: http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/
The hardware you want, with the OS you want.
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quit crying you fscking baby!
Any metal based battery would be way to heavy, even the newest polymer batteries would probably exceed the 2-3g possible payload.
Try a microwave beam... dunno how much the converter chipset would weigh, but would provide unlimited flight-time
Flash is no problem, shockwave also good. On Macs you will get fewer game titles to choose from than on windows (assuming you might dual-boot for some games), but the better games usually get ported over, probably more than do for Linux. In general (not always), games get ported poorly from windows to mac, meaning that what ran fine on your 1ghz Athlon may struggle on your 1.2ghz G4 tower. Video card is supremely important on macs for that reason. If games are the main thing you do on your computer, stay with a PC. If you just want general productivity, an occasional game and a machine that is just plain 'cooperative' with you, then go Mac.
as an example: MS made the leading mac software for ages, and despite the Appleworks office suite losing customers to MS, apple only encouraged MS to improve their product, rather than disabling the competitor.
What has MS done when in a similar position? Crippled competing media players, forced use of browser, etc
I hope people here realize just how badly MS has impacted the Software Business Environment.Fair practice or not, Apple disables competitor... Bill taught Steve to be mean.
well, ok Steve has always been a bit of a bastard, but he used to not be ruthless.
And I believe that I am the omnipotent ruler of the amazon planet
Cheapo x86 boxes do represent the best bang-for-buck in upfront costs, but there is still undeniable value in closed source OS's and their associated software libraries.
It's very easy to conclude that OSS will eventually dominate, but until my mom, or other techno phobes, feel 100% comfortable installing, maintaining, and using OSS offerings, there will continue to be a compelling argument that Win and/or OSX offer a better 'value' (note value is not calculated in dollars, but rather in frustration, satisfaction, and time)
How could this happen in a liquor warehouse (hic!)
It could be that the machines worked flawlessly. As a Georgia native, you just cant be sure that it wasn't the good-'ol-boy network stepping in to control state politics, as it does every few elections.
Here comes the flame war
Why do 'serious' programmers poo-poo PHP? And why are programmers filled with such zeal for their preferred language and disgust for all others? For people who are supposed to work logically, you'd think they would see that (nearly) all languages have their good and bad points.
oh, and the number of dialogues for removing a file from windows, depends on the type of file you delete, such as .txt vs .exe
no on-the-fly playlists, but AAC is supported
they would have been buried by all these new competitors pooping out of the woodwork taking advantage of the Windows market