His point is that fondly looking back on graphics cards in '96 is like anxiously checking Rolling Stone every issue to find out if 90's music is retro yet. Computers without monitors... now that's history.
There's something about the French culture that leads the French to be afraid their language will disappear. France has been passing restrictive language and culture preservation laws for at least half a century. They fear the effect of "coca-colanization" on their food and culture and the disappearance of French conjugation from their language as they import foreign terms.
It's a strange attitude for a country that colonized a good tenth of the world, with a language that's spoken around the globe even today. They're one of the big five, and even if France and Quebec were bombed off the face of the Earth right now, students would still be learning French a thousand years from now to read 18th and 19th century literature.
Perfect software and bug-free software are different. Perfect software is much harder than bug-free software because it includes basic design flaws.
Your DRM schemes are an example. Just because an encryption scheme can be cracked doesn't mean there's a bug! If the DRM's underlying encryption scheme were, for example, to encode every byte as the negative of itself, and then one just hoped nobody would figure it out, that would be ridiculously optimistic, but it wouldn't be a bug. The code itself could be absolutely bug-free in examining keys to see if they are valid and then flipping the bits for output.
In specific, the recent CD copy-protection which can be bypassed by the shift key, or disabling AutoRun, does not have a bug which allows these things. The company just relied on that few people will know how, and that's probably good enough. It's part of the spec.
'Cause God knows the first thing you want when you have 5000 files on your hard drive is for your iPod to scan them all to make sure there's nothing new, every time you start it up. Then it should import their tag information, sort them into the lists... Or worse, check every time you use the menus. It's a music player, you want it to start up and play music.
Sometimes you have to pre-compile a list to make something work well. That requires software. If you had some retching, frothing allergy to using iTunes just to transfer the files, whatever you use for playing them, you could use EphPod, either on Windows or Linux.
If run Mac OS X and absolutely refuse to use iTunes to transfer the mp3s, whatever you're using to play them, you'd probably better send that Mac to me. It's probably not really your kind of thing.
The shortcut for Get Info is Ctrl+I. Highlight several songs and press Ctrl+I to edit tags across multiple songs. Once you've disabled the checkboxes, and combined with the type-ahead field filling, you can enter data fearsomely fast.
It's also worth noting that iTunes for Windows has the same intelligent data treatment that the Apple version does. Highlight a song and press Ctrl+C to copy all the tags from that song. You can paste them onto another song or you can paste them directly into Word, Excel, whatever.
That means that, to make a list of all your songs, just press Ctrl=A, Ctrl-C, and paste into Excel. The tags will appear in separate fields. This makes printing inserts for cutom CDs very easy.
"more importantly, you cannot burn CDs through iTunes from ogg files."
But guy, I just did. I'm using the windows version. I downloaded an ogg file, added it to my library, clicked on burn disc, and got a fine audio disc with the correct recording on it.
I'm not about to create an entire Ogg library and waste CDs testing out every one of your assertions. Most of them sound like reasonable limitations on software that is certainly being expanded to be the most ambitious music player yet, what with the iTMS and Rendesvous and all.
As for petitions, come on... when does a petition work? People sign those things all the time. I know they recalled the Governor, sure, but mostly petitions don't tell the company anything they don't know. Market research already tells them that there may be, say, a hundred thousand people using Ogg. Why would they change their minds just because those people clicked on "Submit" somewhere?
It's not as elegant as having Ogg support out of the box, and the open-source component is beta right now, but it works. I just tested it.
And hell, Windows Media Player? Clearly, you're either a troll or you haven't begun to look at the tag editing functionality of iTunes. I'd delete this post if the information about Ogg weren't useful.
Absolutely wrong. QuickTime is a full set of codecs and media-encapsulation technologies. They installed Quicktime because it was the easiest way to port the product, since it depends on QuickTime calls on the Mac.
If they hadn't included it, the product would have had to be rewritten to use Windows codecs, and of course many Windows computers are still missing important codecs, like the AAC codec.
Anyway, the Q doesn't have anything to do with anything. So you turn it off. Would you really take a stand and refuse to download Quicktime for playing movies on the net because it adds a status bar icon? It's a hell of a lot less intrusive than Real, which installs a message component that pops up to tell me when NFL games are scheduled.
They actually love prevention. While the number of claims are going down but the payments are still at the old rate, they make a hell of a lot of money.
The break they give you for installing it is never quite as much as the actual reduction in their cost.:)
And of course you still need fire insurance for everything that does burn. Trees, cars, rugs, kitchens, beds... especially beds, for smokers.
Have you tried wearing red-green analglyph 3-D glasses? The filters would make it so that one eye saw red as black, and the other saw green as black, even though you're colour blind. You'd then have a way to tell whether a given square is red: is it black in the left or right eye?
I hardly suggest you keep closing one eye to check, but perhaps your brain would be able to integrate the information about on which side the image is black, after time, into an intuitive feel. The brain is remarkably programmable.
It's not so much that the audio equipment was better a while back. It's that people used to hear instrumental music, live, unamplified, often enough to know what to reach for. A great number of teens today have only really listened to a piano at a few major events in their lives, perhaps thirty times total.
Teen pop, on the mother hand, is practically MIDI with vocals played through poor equipment far too loud. The kids raised on that actually think that's what music IS, that it's the limit. Is "Hit me Baby, One More Time" that much different through my Sennheisers? I haven't checked, but I doubt it.
As early as second-grade, I sang "O Canada," but was quiet during "God save the Queen," every Wednesday morning. Nobody suggested this idea to me, nobody told me how to behave. I just wasn't comfortable saying the lyrics.
Words seem to have an almost magical power in the mind of a child. Consider "jinx," and "ounch buggy no returns." Kids care about oaths.
Since this is Canada, though I was twice reprimanded, it wasn't a serious thing. Just a ten-second "you have to sing the words, it's a sign of respect" speech.
And since they disagreed on this, and many other facets of religion, they decided that the best course was to separate church from state, and let each man choose his own path in the chamber of his soul.
Of course, they had the opportunity of fresher lessons than we do about Christianity. At that time, "under God" still strongly implied the question, "but under the Pope?" The answer to that question could provoke murder.
LucasArts has always been good about this, and it takes a pretty sleazy lowlife to ignore their record and pirate anyway on the old "it isn't there" excuse.
The LucasArts Collections have been great, and it's actually still possible to order Curse of Monkey Island, Escape From Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, and a collection including Sam and Max and Day of the Tentacle from the LucasArts site. Also all the Star Wars titles, good and bad. I can't confirm that LucasArts has never once had a month during which these titles weren't available, but I've never been to the site and not seen Sam and Max for sale.
Of course, unlike Sierra, Lucasarts has the advantage of not having been purchased three or four times since these games were published.
You know what's funny? You've got a couple hundred of us, the less-than-modest, indulging in a slightly superior snicker at what we think is a typo. It turns out the joke is on us. The pedant is the fool.
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His point is that fondly looking back on graphics cards in '96 is like anxiously checking Rolling Stone every issue to find out if 90's music is retro yet. Computers without monitors... now that's history.
It's a strange attitude for a country that colonized a good tenth of the world, with a language that's spoken around the globe even today. They're one of the big five, and even if France and Quebec were bombed off the face of the Earth right now, students would still be learning French a thousand years from now to read 18th and 19th century literature.
I haven't yet gotten this lesson down.
Which is exactly the point Miyamoto et al. were making. That's the result of localization trouble.
I guess I should have added that.
There's a line between convenience and leaving the whole system completely open. This is on the wrong side of that line.
Your DRM schemes are an example. Just because an encryption scheme can be cracked doesn't mean there's a bug! If the DRM's underlying encryption scheme were, for example, to encode every byte as the negative of itself, and then one just hoped nobody would figure it out, that would be ridiculously optimistic, but it wouldn't be a bug. The code itself could be absolutely bug-free in examining keys to see if they are valid and then flipping the bits for output.
In specific, the recent CD copy-protection which can be bypassed by the shift key, or disabling AutoRun, does not have a bug which allows these things. The company just relied on that few people will know how, and that's probably good enough. It's part of the spec.
That's a dumb knock-off name starting in N. The "-gage" is the normal part of the word.
Sometimes you have to pre-compile a list to make something work well. That requires software. If you had some retching, frothing allergy to using iTunes just to transfer the files, whatever you use for playing them, you could use EphPod, either on Windows or Linux.
If run Mac OS X and absolutely refuse to use iTunes to transfer the mp3s, whatever you're using to play them, you'd probably better send that Mac to me. It's probably not really your kind of thing.
Part of the free speech movement at Berkeley in the sixties. I think he did a little too much LDS.
It's also worth noting that iTunes for Windows has the same intelligent data treatment that the Apple version does. Highlight a song and press Ctrl+C to copy all the tags from that song. You can paste them onto another song or you can paste them directly into Word, Excel, whatever.
That means that, to make a list of all your songs, just press Ctrl=A, Ctrl-C, and paste into Excel. The tags will appear in separate fields. This makes printing inserts for cutom CDs very easy.
But guy, I just did. I'm using the windows version. I downloaded an ogg file, added it to my library, clicked on burn disc, and got a fine audio disc with the correct recording on it.
I'm not about to create an entire Ogg library and waste CDs testing out every one of your assertions. Most of them sound like reasonable limitations on software that is certainly being expanded to be the most ambitious music player yet, what with the iTMS and Rendesvous and all.
As for petitions, come on... when does a petition work? People sign those things all the time. I know they recalled the Governor, sure, but mostly petitions don't tell the company anything they don't know. Market research already tells them that there may be, say, a hundred thousand people using Ogg. Why would they change their minds just because those people clicked on "Submit" somewhere?
Just go to the QuickTime Components Project.
It's not as elegant as having Ogg support out of the box, and the open-source component is beta right now, but it works. I just tested it.
And hell, Windows Media Player? Clearly, you're either a troll or you haven't begun to look at the tag editing functionality of iTunes. I'd delete this post if the information about Ogg weren't useful.
If they hadn't included it, the product would have had to be rewritten to use Windows codecs, and of course many Windows computers are still missing important codecs, like the AAC codec.
Anyway, the Q doesn't have anything to do with anything. So you turn it off. Would you really take a stand and refuse to download Quicktime for playing movies on the net because it adds a status bar icon? It's a hell of a lot less intrusive than Real, which installs a message component that pops up to tell me when NFL games are scheduled.
Just because it only gets so much up front doesn't mean it isn't actually worth far, far more to the person who exploits it.
The break they give you for installing it is never quite as much as the actual reduction in their cost. :)
And of course you still need fire insurance for everything that does burn. Trees, cars, rugs, kitchens, beds... especially beds, for smokers.
SCO are just trying to get their stock price high enough to buy a better company.
I hardly suggest you keep closing one eye to check, but perhaps your brain would be able to integrate the information about on which side the image is black, after time, into an intuitive feel. The brain is remarkably programmable.
Most aren't familiar with the church of St. Loony up the Cream Bun and Jam.
Teen pop, on the mother hand, is practically MIDI with vocals played through poor equipment far too loud. The kids raised on that actually think that's what music IS, that it's the limit. Is "Hit me Baby, One More Time" that much different through my Sennheisers? I haven't checked, but I doubt it.
As early as second-grade, I sang "O Canada," but was quiet during "God save the Queen," every Wednesday morning. Nobody suggested this idea to me, nobody told me how to behave. I just wasn't comfortable saying the lyrics.
Words seem to have an almost magical power in the mind of a child. Consider "jinx," and "ounch buggy no returns." Kids care about oaths.
Since this is Canada, though I was twice reprimanded, it wasn't a serious thing. Just a ten-second "you have to sing the words, it's a sign of respect" speech.
Of course, they had the opportunity of fresher lessons than we do about Christianity. At that time, "under God" still strongly implied the question, "but under the Pope?" The answer to that question could provoke murder.
The whole damn internet is unlikely, when you think about it. How did they find enough women to operate all the switchboards?
The LucasArts Collections have been great, and it's actually still possible to order Curse of Monkey Island, Escape From Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, and a collection including Sam and Max and Day of the Tentacle from the LucasArts site. Also all the Star Wars titles, good and bad. I can't confirm that LucasArts has never once had a month during which these titles weren't available, but I've never been to the site and not seen Sam and Max for sale.
Of course, unlike Sierra, Lucasarts has the advantage of not having been purchased three or four times since these games were published.
That's funny. Beautiful situational irony.