Well, sure, meant to actually spell out A.S.P. and not go into unneeded peculiarities and details, but got carried away. was just an off the cuff reply to an obvious flamebait anyway. Thanks for completing. (ASP is still majorly used by VisualBasic script kiddies, although the environment is quite flexible.)
To frist potser: Java is not same as JavaScript, but who cares, because anyway you also confuse.Net ( a framework) with ASP (a dynamic page generation system based on simplified VisualBasic)
Second poster was actually ironic, maybe a bit trolling, but fairly funny in my view.
To be honest, the DashBoard DAs (desk accessories) existed in a different incarnation as... desk accessories in apple's pre-OS X OSes. (now who was first ?;-) ) And eveybody has dreamed or developped little widgets, so nothing new.
What is fun (and sort of new) is the way you can set your widgets to come and disappear when required: not always on, but always ready to pounce.
Nothing really new. Big breakthrough is the graphical capacity to have it smoothly overlaid, and moving away neatly. Eye candy, but in a useful and meaningful way.
All in all this is a pissing contest, marketing and PR wise. Because everybody (who has observed the last 20 years) anyway knows that Microsoft copies or buys real innovations. And everybody knows (but for the guys in charge of IP policy-making, weirdly) that innovation nevers comes out of thin air, but feeds from previous advances and progresses...
I dont think there is anything wrong with the Mac plateform. But here is definitely something wrong with the Mac you are using, I am afraid. (either that, or you are trolling and I feell for it) I routinely copy far larger files like that, and it never ever takes hardly anytime.
Just to humour you, I did a copy from ONE folder to ANOTHER folder on my HARD DRIVE of a 21meg file, and it took 5 seconds (actually less, but it stated five seconds on the remaining time info) This was done on a 2 years old PowerBook G4 867MHz, with a 96% full 40gig HD, while processor use is at 80% because of about 20 applications (Photoshop, Word and many others) open and some background things. RAM is 768meg and I have 3 gig of VM currently (that is a bummer, indeed, because with a full -and old then slow- hard drive, I am feeling the weight of my heavy multitasking with large files in Photoshop). Despite that, the machine is always fully responsive. (ok, while I wait for Photoshop to gather back what is spread in the VM, I'll just go and check the latest RSS feeds)
I guess you haven't used a healthy Mac that is all. I don't think that all the people doing intensive mutlitasking and keeping machine with a runtime of over 2 weeks while creating content in Photoshop, Logic or FinalCut Pro would be crazy enough to hold on if a normal Mac was like you described.
And confronted to such troubles, I'll be like you, I'd ditch it!
First guess is that HD is failing. Second guess is that machine might have a full full full HD and that VM has eaten up the remains (giving it no spare room, so the Mac has to shuffle little bits of files to find room)
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems
Because the Mac is actually: - a faster (from a productivity standpoint), - cheaper (from a TCO standpoint, and from a user hassle standpoint) - more stable machine (from a Unix-in-the-box-heavy-multitasking-protected-memor y stability standpoint) system.
At least that is why I use it. Factoring in the little details that make a huge difference in efficiency too (consistent GUI, universal drag-and-drop, Exposé, proxy icons, expectability -what you guessed it would do if you tried that... is what happens-, &c.)
I will not blubber over iMovie or Keynote, but oh boy, do people believe I am hugely talented thanks to these well thought-out tools. I know, that is unfair.
But hey, life is unfair. For once it is in my favor.
On the mac plateform, there is a (crippled and outdated, no-DRM included) version of WMP, so that MS can pretend they are not abusing their monopoly and leveraging it to invst the multimedia market ("look, we have WMP for mac too!").
It doesn't play half of the streams available around the Net, and it comes with no support at all for WMP9 or -10 like DRM.
The latter point is seen by me as a blessing (the less DRM-infested my media are,the better I am. )
And no, I do NOT buy from iTunes Music store, although I use iTunes for everything else)
But this, like most things from MS since they realised they were onto something with Windows, is also part of a lock-in strategy:
Mr Anyone "I want to buy a Mac, I heard they are so much easier for multimedia and all"
Wise advisor (only doing his job, don't blame him, I'd be doing the same) : "Yes but they can't play any of the songs you bought online on the MS_DRM infested stores that are popping up like mushrooms in the rain, and they won't play all the holiday vidos you encoded with Windows Movie Maker"
Mr Anyone : "Oh,then I'll stick to my PC then"
Consumers want choice, I heard somewhere. Well, at least iTMS is on both plateforms. Now if we get it ported to Linux, Apple... Oh I forgot, Linux users will not want DRM. But they will complain they can't use iTMS songs though, nothing makes you feel better than a bit of hypocrisy;-)
The world is not perfect I know. And people either. But a bit of ranting and venting anger is always good.
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Ok, I apologize. I just reacted like that because I have met so many clueless users who could not find the shuffle setting, that I assumed this was your gripe.
I understand the NEED expressed there, which is: give me a shuffle switch function. But this is not what the shuffle top-level menu choice does.
I have a 5gig 1st gen iPod, a 20gig 3rd gen, and a 40gig 4rth gen. (yes I have good prices on them:-) ) The "shuffle songs" on the latter plays ALL songs from the ipod.
I have a "shuffle" ipod too, and the shuffle shuffles;-)
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Ok, another guy calling for a RTFM reply. But i'll try and be nice.
shuffle has been present in the ipod since first generation 5gig ipod:
it is a setting: you go into "settings" and choose "suffle " "by songs/album/off" Then any playlist you pick will shuffle.
The only thing that you could be complaining about is the lack of a shuffle choice at top level of the menu, which would shuffle the whole content of the ipod. You can still get that by making sure the setting for shuffle is on, and going into songs, and just starting anywhere in your songs list. But I don't want to shuffle my whole ipod content, rather my playlist. So I really don't miss this feature.
I'd rather see the feature that lets me update my rating live on the ipod, like the newer ipods, since 3rd generation, can. (the best way to sort your music: create a playlist of "unrated" and rate them on the road. And the rated songs automatically join any smart playlist that is based on rating critetia , even before synch!)
the first laptops from Apple (with the trackball and the revolutionary placement of the keyboard -yes at the time, although it seems so obvious, it was revolutionary-) had two buttons: one above, one below... And there were a couple of utility programs that allowed for setting the buttons to right or left click according to how you wanted it.
All major cities in France have been mapped this way: with photos of all streets numbers. So if you look up an address in the white or yellow pages, you get a view of the address's building. The company that started it (in 1996, I think, three young guys, a scooter and a digital camera at the start) is now part of France Telecom and has mapped major cities in France, now doing Spain. The stuff is really cool and very handy for prospective tenants, buyers for housing! Examples: http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/pj. cgi?lang=en or try direct to see Paris http://photos.pagesjaunes.fr/x/home_paris.h tm
Was'nt a crash. I think that Steve activated a wrong button by clicking mistakenly on a Spotlight result option and iPhoto started the slide show, and as usual, it does a lot of image optimisation in the background, which makes it a bit unresponsive for a moment when starting. Steve (and the audience) did not have the patience, he just switched (and oh so easily!) to back-up system.
Well, whereabout is ogg used and evangelized apart from inside/. readership (and not all of them, from the number of iPod users)
Can we get past this? Ogg is certainly a good format, it just happens to interest very few people. As open format we have Ogg, but nobody is interested. As open-standard format we have MP4 (AAC), and that is getting some traction, surely (not ALL AAC are copy protected, you know?) As closed-standard proprietary format we have WMA, and we know we cannot accept it. So Ogg could be the winner, but AAC seems second best. Could have been worse. You know?
I have no idea about the reality of this iPod, what will be on it, etc. But I can make enlighted guesses.
Well, just take into account the fact that the music on the ipod will be AAC, and protected with FairPlay. In all logic, it will be in the playlist of the iPod. If you'd brought these songs back to your computer (as it is indeed possible, Apple never meant to make it impossible, just harder), you would not be able to play them on this very computer. But I assume that the iPod could/will be sold with a special activation code that will allow you to download the whole music from the iTMS, or that the songs also could be in the HD part (visible part) of the iPod and that you could copy them and then use a special code to activate them on your computer under your iTMS id. Let's bet Apple will have found a way to make this easy and seamless
Point noted, but let me direct you to Apple's onw site: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=868 12 which states precisely that user can herself service (so: replace and or upgrade) the following: - AirPort Extreme Card - Memory - DDR 400 MHz (PC3200) SDRAM - Hard drive - Optical drive - Power supply - LCD display - Modem card - Mid-plane assembly (contains the main logic board, the G5 processor, fans, NVIDIA graphics processor, and so forth).
So true, graphic card still seems hard to upgrade, so seems CPU itself, but this is less of a stuck design here, nice improvement, not?
Of course, mirror only display makes a point for powermac form factor. re drives, we have firewire (not 800, so pro will still look at the powermac line).
All in all, the comparison lots of people keep on making with Powermac prooves one thing: the iMac G5 seems to be a nice powerhorse.
By the way, the lead iTunes developer was the guy who developed SoundJam. So, thank you Apple for spotting talent and putting it to good use!;-)
(I already posted same above, but it irritates me a bit)
Just a point : innovation is not only (and sledomly) in the features, but in the way you make them useable.
Apple has a rather strong history of implementing features in a very useable way. The iTMS is another example. All stores offer downloadable music. with preview, with search, etc.... Only iTMS is a runaway success so far. And weirdly enough, the MSNMS feels familiar.
Thank you Apple for being the whole industry useability R&D, really.
Er, by the way, Apple did not copy SoundJam. Apple hired the guy who developed SoundJam, and Cassady & Greene (who were publishing it, not developing it) soon ceased to distribute. But, there is hardly different many ways to make a player. So you are bound to find them in next gen of competition.
What makes iTunes stand out are the ways the whole thing is neat and actually so easily useable.
What is so lame in the review is that the guy is not saying "at last, MS implemented these long-requested features that everyone had done". He is saying "what a great comapny MS is, because they innnovate is such clever ways and give me things I did not know existed" Which is a bit sad. But competition is good. before iTunes for windows, WinAmp was horrid. Now WinAmp users have tons of nice features to use too. I still use iTunes, but it is a personal choice, question of taste.
(which is Mac OS X normal, plus very efficient admin tools, plus the capacity to serve files, plus the capacity to manage access and network control etc) Basically Mac OS X client is a full non crippled OS (we do not have a "Pro" version and an -artificially crippled "Home" version over here.), and Mac OS X Server is an enhanced Mac OS X. It does run iTunes or iMovie if you need;-) (you shouldn't by the way, get back to work)
Have had three different laptops (a powerbook from 2000, an ibook from 2001 and lately a Titanium) from Apple, and lots of friends have also some. I used to travel a lot. I have always put the laptops in normal bags (either small backpacks, together with books and else, or travel bags, wrapped in a towel or a pair of jeans). I have never ever used one of these laptop bags that screams "I hold a computer inside, steal me quick". My laptops have never suffered from this. The powerbook has fallen from tables many many times (i am clumsy, and I move it around all the time, and sometimes i forgot it was plugged in for charge, and would trip over the plug). Its plastic got cracked from the worst fall, but no more than estethic damage. The ibook is my girlfriend's, and it is the laptop we take away with us on holidays. So it ended up going with us in Bali, and we hiked with it in our day bags (because of not wanting to leave it at the hotel;-) ). It never suffered from it, neither did we, it is unobstrusive and although not so light, its small form factor makes it discreet. It has sustained a few falls, without any consequences. It feels and is really rugged. Previous ibook had this clamshell form factor that felt really sturdy, and when Apple re-designed it, they actually had to uphold the previous one on the sturdiness side (aimed for students, so needs to be solid?) Well, they did. Although it is not roundly shaped and does not seem to close in the protective way the clamshell felt, it feels very rugged. And the screen is attached to the back with only one large and solid hinge, feels good and solid. And the case does not crack or bend when you hold it by the side, like a tray. I trust it to be really reliable. Last to suffer is the titanium: i work for a company that provides us with laptops and my titanium is one. I take it to work and back home every day in a normal backpack, together with books for reading in the train and else. No protective casing or cushioning. The other day, i was showing a colleague of mine something, and because I was out of airport (wifi) range, I needed to plug into network with a cable. I have forgotten so much about it (because I am wireless all the time and the battery is good enough for having it unplugged when i am not at my desk) that I never pay attention to cable. which is what happened when i stood up in a hurry to answer my phone at the other end of the open space. Guess what? I went away with the cable on my feet and the powerbook just flew across the room from the table to the floor. Where it laid, waiting for me to pick it up. still running. side of the casing was cracked because it landed from a 5 feet long (and 2 feet down ) flight, on a corner, where the power cable goes in (so the casing is fragilised already, being holed for the plug). Apart from that, HD check came out with perfect drive, and everything runs fine and dandy. It did not event turn off or else. I am not saying other laptos would not survive this. I am saying Apple's laptops are solid.
Regarding your issue with HD. I never ever turn off my laptops, they always are on standby in my bags. I usually get about 15 days uptime, at which point something will require a restart -updating system software, or maybe some stupid modem driver that need a restart after updating- if i were not doing any update or else, i would have a much longer uptime since boot. My girlfriend's ibook has once been noted to be at 45 days uptime (I cheked out of curiosity, before rebooting it for an install!). But since she nevers reboot it, just leave it on standby on the coffee table in the living room (we call it "our coffee table iBook"), and opens it every now and then for email or internet or writing a paper or watching a movie, it could have been time where it had a much longer uptime, i just never checked! (side note: mac OS X allows a laptop to be operational by the time you have fully raised the screen open. with wifi coming back as fast, you are typing the website address as soon as you let your hand of the screen lid! Linux apparently can do that on apple's hardware too) So standby really is not an issue, more of a bonus!
1) put cd in tray, close tray. 2) let iTunes find CDDB data, then click import, let import happen. 3) plug-in iPod. ( 3)a) let iTunes work its magic, no user assistance required;-) ) 4) uplug ipod.
Which one of these steps qualify as a hoop or a loop? Pray tell me.
Test two: have mp3 in a folder on HD (or on a separate disk, if you friend just plugged in his USB disk-on-key to give you -illegally?;-) - some mp3) and iPod
1) locate mp3 files 2) drag and drop these to iTunes window (which lets iTunes add them to its reference library, and if you set preferences so, copy them to its library folder too: better actually, if they are on removable media) 3) plug in iPod ( 3)a) let iTunes work its magic ) 4) un-plug iPod
Now, if you have an issue with that, I might have to lower my opinion on some of./ readers.
Some comments before flame arises:
* If your ipod capacity is inferior to the volume of your music files, you will have to tweak iTunes magic, obviously. i.e.: 1) either have it let you manually put music on said iPod, up to its capacity
=> annoying after a while... but no worse than managing files and mp3 player as a removable media (because you still have gained bonus as music is also available for iTunes to play and organise)
2) or: create manual playlists, and only these will be set to update on ipod. - you then have to be sure you drag and drop the mp3 files to the playlist, not just iTunes library (step 2 is still one step, just asks you to be a bit more attentive)
=> slightly less annoying, but you have to remember to drag music to the playlist (and not to general library). Still, next time ipod is plugged in, magic works. Only downfall? don't overload the playlist and exceed iPod capacity. Or buy a bigger one
3) or: create SMART playlists (on top of your manual fixed ones): for example, a playlist that tells iTunes that it will be made of the 100 latest new songs.
=> any new songs added to iTunes (step 2) will be copied to iPod (step 3a)
* if you don't like iTunes for your mp3 (matter of taste, I let you off on this one), you might not like iPod either; so end of story.
* Now for my personal opinion (above were just plain verifiable FACTS ): The combination of iTunes+iPod gives you a solution where YOU have - ease of use (amazing music playing experience, brainless management of songs, easy and fast synch, etc) -, control (smart playlists, various settings to be found in prefs, like "import in XXX format, at XXX rate", or "let me / let iTunes organise my music library folders" and more) - elegance in the whole approach, and respect for the user (you easily learn to use it, and can do tons with it -burn audio / mp3 cds, organise party playlists, edit all MP3 tags of songs, one or many at once, add cover art, etc etc. AND it has been designed for intelligent people by intelligent people)
Where were the loops and hoops again?
Like any tool, it just requires to know its logic and how it works. But unlike most tools, this one is bloody simple. I reckon that iTunes is one of the simplest and most useful out there, and is taking a huge place in my life, by being so unobstrusice and useful...
If you actually go and read the filed papers: plaintiff is an ISP, and defendant is also an ISP, and was providing facilities and IP addresses to plaintiff, but did try some intimidation manoeuvers or else to gain some of plaintiff's business (well in any case relationship degraded)
plaintiff is moving out and wants to avoid defendant breaking down its business while the move is happening. (because relationships are sour and defendant would wreck the plaintiff's hosting business if it claimed back all IP addresses at once) Also plaintiff is currently requesting IP addresses from ARIN, but the process is not immediate.
As duly noted in a former thread, it is a temporary restraining order. To allow plaintiff to move its business and migrate, defendant is barred from withdrawing addresses at once (it is a matter of rerouting whole blocks of IP, not just one IP address).
Then again I just read plaintiff's case, but it shows the issue is more complex. And it is not a story of "Poor John Doe wants to keep his 145.250.1.25 address, judge gives him the right to do so"
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Well, sure, meant to actually spell out A.S.P. and not go into unneeded peculiarities and details, but got carried away. was just an off the cuff reply to an obvious flamebait anyway. Thanks for completing.
(ASP is still majorly used by VisualBasic script kiddies, although the environment is quite flexible.)
To frist potser: .Net ( a framework) with ASP (a dynamic page generation system based on simplified VisualBasic)
Java is not same as JavaScript, but who cares, because anyway you also confuse
Second poster was actually ironic, maybe a bit trolling, but fairly funny in my view.
On the internet, nobody knows you are a dog.
To be honest, the DashBoard DAs (desk accessories) existed in a different incarnation as ... desk accessories in apple's pre-OS X OSes. (now who was first ? ;-) )
And eveybody has dreamed or developped little widgets, so nothing new.
What is fun (and sort of new) is the way you can set your widgets to come and disappear when required: not always on, but always ready to pounce.
Nothing really new. Big breakthrough is the graphical capacity to have it smoothly overlaid, and moving away neatly. Eye candy, but in a useful and meaningful way.
All in all this is a pissing contest, marketing and PR wise.
Because everybody (who has observed the last 20 years) anyway knows that Microsoft copies or buys real innovations.
And everybody knows (but for the guys in charge of IP policy-making, weirdly) that innovation nevers comes out of thin air, but feeds from previous advances and progresses...
I dont think there is anything wrong with the Mac plateform.
:r y stability standpoint) system.
But here is definitely something wrong with the Mac you are using, I am afraid. (either that, or you are trolling and I feell for it)
I routinely copy far larger files like that, and it never ever takes hardly anytime.
Just to humour you, I did a copy from ONE folder to ANOTHER folder on my HARD DRIVE of a 21meg file, and it took 5 seconds (actually less, but it stated five seconds on the remaining time info)
This was done on a
2 years old PowerBook G4 867MHz,
with a 96% full 40gig HD,
while processor use is at 80% because of about 20 applications (Photoshop, Word and many others) open and some background things.
RAM is 768meg and I have 3 gig of VM currently (that is a bummer, indeed, because with a full -and old then slow- hard drive, I am feeling the weight of my heavy multitasking with large files in Photoshop).
Despite that, the machine is always fully responsive. (ok, while I wait for Photoshop to gather back what is spread in the VM, I'll just go and check the latest RSS feeds)
I guess you haven't used a healthy Mac that is all.
I don't think that all the people doing intensive mutlitasking and keeping machine with a runtime of over 2 weeks while creating content in Photoshop, Logic or FinalCut Pro would be crazy enough to hold on if a normal Mac was like you described.
And confronted to such troubles, I'll be like you, I'd ditch it!
First guess is that HD is failing.
Second guess is that machine might have a full full full HD and that VM has eaten up the remains (giving it no spare room, so the Mac has to shuffle little bits of files to find room)
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems
Because the Mac is actually
- a faster (from a productivity standpoint),
- cheaper (from a TCO standpoint, and from a user hassle standpoint)
- more stable machine (from a Unix-in-the-box-heavy-multitasking-protected-memo
At least that is why I use it.
Factoring in the little details that make a huge difference in efficiency too (consistent GUI, universal drag-and-drop, Exposé, proxy icons, expectability -what you guessed it would do if you tried that... is what happens-, &c.)
I will not blubber over iMovie or Keynote, but oh boy, do people believe I am hugely talented thanks to these well thought-out tools. I know, that is unfair.
But hey, life is unfair. For once it is in my favor.
Disclosure: I use a Mac , and I will not go back.
On the mac plateform, there is a (crippled and outdated, no-DRM included) version of WMP, so that MS can pretend they are not abusing their monopoly and leveraging it to invst the multimedia market ("look, we have WMP for mac too!").
;-)
It doesn't play half of the streams available around the Net, and it comes with no support at all for WMP9 or -10 like DRM.
The latter point is seen by me as a blessing (the less DRM-infested my media are,the better I am. )
And no, I do NOT buy from iTunes Music store, although I use iTunes for everything else)
But this, like most things from MS since they realised they were onto something with Windows, is also part of a lock-in strategy:
Mr Anyone "I want to buy a Mac, I heard they are so much easier for multimedia and all"
Wise advisor (only doing his job, don't blame him, I'd be doing the same) : "Yes but they can't play any of the songs you bought online on the MS_DRM infested stores that are popping up like mushrooms in the rain, and they won't play all the holiday vidos you encoded with Windows Movie Maker"
Mr Anyone : "Oh,then I'll stick to my PC then"
Consumers want choice, I heard somewhere.
Well, at least iTMS is on both plateforms. Now if we get it ported to Linux, Apple... Oh I forgot, Linux users will not want DRM. But they will complain they can't use iTMS songs though, nothing makes you feel better than a bit of hypocrisy
The world is not perfect I know. And people either. But a bit of ranting and venting anger is always good.
Ok, I apologize.
:-) )
;-)
I just reacted like that because I have met so many clueless users who could not find the shuffle setting, that I assumed this was your gripe.
I understand the NEED expressed there, which is: give me a shuffle switch function.
But this is not what the shuffle top-level menu choice does.
I have a 5gig 1st gen iPod, a 20gig 3rd gen, and a 40gig 4rth gen. (yes I have good prices on them
The "shuffle songs" on the latter plays ALL songs from the ipod.
I have a "shuffle" ipod too, and the shuffle shuffles
Ok, another guy calling for a RTFM reply.
But i'll try and be nice.
shuffle has been present in the ipod since first generation 5gig ipod:
it is a setting: you go into "settings" and choose "suffle " "by songs/album/off"
Then any playlist you pick will shuffle.
The only thing that you could be complaining about is the lack of a shuffle choice at top level of the menu, which would shuffle the whole content of the ipod. You can still get that by making sure the setting for shuffle is on, and going into songs, and just starting anywhere in your songs list.
But I don't want to shuffle my whole ipod content, rather my playlist.
So I really don't miss this feature.
I'd rather see the feature that lets me update my rating live on the ipod, like the newer ipods, since 3rd generation, can.
(the best way to sort your music: create a playlist of "unrated" and rate them on the road. And the rated songs automatically join any smart playlist that is based on rating critetia , even before synch!)
Actually, birth rate in France is one of the highest of all of Europe.
In the US, English is actually threatened by Spanish if I recall correctly?
the first laptops from Apple (with the trackball and the revolutionary placement of the keyboard -yes at the time, although it seems so obvious, it was revolutionary-) had two buttons: one above, one below...
And there were a couple of utility programs that allowed for setting the buttons to right or left click according to how you wanted it.
All major cities in France have been mapped this way: with photos of all streets numbers. So if you look up an address in the white or yellow pages, you get a view of the address's building.. cgi?lang=enh tm
The company that started it (in 1996, I think, three young guys, a scooter and a digital camera at the start) is now part of France Telecom and has mapped major cities in France, now doing Spain. The stuff is really cool and very handy for prospective tenants, buyers for housing!
Examples:
http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/pj
or try direct to see Paris
http://photos.pagesjaunes.fr/x/home_paris.
Was'nt a crash.
I think that Steve activated a wrong button by clicking mistakenly on a Spotlight result option and iPhoto started the slide show, and as usual, it does a lot of image optimisation in the background, which makes it a bit unresponsive for a moment when starting.
Steve (and the audience) did not have the patience, he just switched (and oh so easily!) to back-up system.
Well, whereabout is ogg used and evangelized apart from inside /. readership (and not all of them, from the number of iPod users)
Can we get past this?
Ogg is certainly a good format, it just happens to interest very few people.
As open format we have Ogg, but nobody is interested.
As open-standard format we have MP4 (AAC), and that is getting some traction, surely (not ALL AAC are copy protected, you know?)
As closed-standard proprietary format we have WMA, and we know we cannot accept it.
So Ogg could be the winner, but AAC seems second best.
Could have been worse. You know?
I have no idea about the reality of this iPod, what will be on it, etc.
But I can make enlighted guesses.
Well, just take into account the fact that the music on the ipod will be AAC, and protected with FairPlay.
In all logic, it will be in the playlist of the iPod. If you'd brought these songs back to your computer (as it is indeed possible, Apple never meant to make it impossible, just harder), you would not be able to play them on this very computer.
But I assume that the iPod could/will be sold with a special activation code that will allow you to download the whole music from the iTMS, or that the songs also could be in the HD part (visible part) of the iPod and that you could copy them and then use a special code to activate them on your computer under your iTMS id.
Let's bet Apple will have found a way to make this easy and seamless
Point noted, but let me direct you to Apple's onw site:8 12
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86
which states precisely that user can herself service (so: replace and or upgrade) the following:
- AirPort Extreme Card
- Memory - DDR 400 MHz (PC3200) SDRAM
- Hard drive
- Optical drive
- Power supply
- LCD display
- Modem card
- Mid-plane assembly (contains the main logic board, the G5 processor, fans, NVIDIA graphics processor, and so forth).
So true, graphic card still seems hard to upgrade, so seems CPU itself, but this is less of a stuck design here, nice improvement, not?
Of course, mirror only display makes a point for powermac form factor.
re drives, we have firewire (not 800, so pro will still look at the powermac line).
All in all, the comparison lots of people keep on making with Powermac prooves one thing: the iMac G5 seems to be a nice powerhorse.
By the way, the lead iTunes developer was the guy who developed SoundJam. ;-)
So, thank you Apple for spotting talent and putting it to good use!
(I already posted same above, but it irritates me a bit)
Just a point : innovation is not only (and sledomly) in the features, but in the way you make them useable.
Apple has a rather strong history of implementing features in a very useable way. The iTMS is another example. All stores offer downloadable music. with preview, with search, etc....
Only iTMS is a runaway success so far.
And weirdly enough, the MSNMS feels familiar.
Thank you Apple for being the whole industry useability R&D, really.
Er, by the way, Apple did not copy SoundJam.
Apple hired the guy who developed SoundJam, and Cassady & Greene (who were publishing it, not developing it) soon ceased to distribute.
But, there is hardly different many ways to make a player.
So you are bound to find them in next gen of competition.
What makes iTunes stand out are the ways the whole thing is neat and actually so easily useable.
What is so lame in the review is that the guy is not saying "at last, MS implemented these long-requested features that everyone had done". He is saying "what a great comapny MS is, because they innnovate is such clever ways and give me things I did not know existed"
Which is a bit sad.
But competition is good. before iTunes for windows, WinAmp was horrid.
Now WinAmp users have tons of nice features to use too.
I still use iTunes, but it is a personal choice, question of taste.
Unless it is Mac OS X Server, that is
;-) (you shouldn't by the way, get back to work)
(which is Mac OS X normal, plus very efficient admin tools, plus the capacity to serve files, plus the capacity to manage access and network control etc)
Basically Mac OS X client is a full non crippled OS (we do not have a "Pro" version and an -artificially crippled "Home" version over here.), and Mac OS X Server is an enhanced Mac OS X.
It does run iTunes or iMovie if you need
Have had three different laptops (a powerbook from 2000, an ibook from 2001 and lately a Titanium) from Apple, and lots of friends have also some. ;-) ). It never suffered from it, neither did we, it is unobstrusive and although not so light, its small form factor makes it discreet.
I used to travel a lot.
I have always put the laptops in normal bags (either small backpacks, together with books and else, or travel bags, wrapped in a towel or a pair of jeans). I have never ever used one of these laptop bags that screams "I hold a computer inside, steal me quick". My laptops have never suffered from this.
The powerbook has fallen from tables many many times (i am clumsy, and I move it around all the time, and sometimes i forgot it was plugged in for charge, and would trip over the plug). Its plastic got cracked from the worst fall, but no more than estethic damage.
The ibook is my girlfriend's, and it is the laptop we take away with us on holidays. So it ended up going with us in Bali, and we hiked with it in our day bags (because of not wanting to leave it at the hotel
It has sustained a few falls, without any consequences.
It feels and is really rugged. Previous ibook had this clamshell form factor that felt really sturdy, and when Apple re-designed it, they actually had to uphold the previous one on the sturdiness side (aimed for students, so needs to be solid?) Well, they did. Although it is not roundly shaped and does not seem to close in the protective way the clamshell felt, it feels very rugged. And the screen is attached to the back with only one large and solid hinge, feels good and solid. And the case does not crack or bend when you hold it by the side, like a tray. I trust it to be really reliable.
Last to suffer is the titanium: i work for a company that provides us with laptops and my titanium is one. I take it to work and back home every day in a normal backpack, together with books for reading in the train and else. No protective casing or cushioning.
The other day, i was showing a colleague of mine something, and because I was out of airport (wifi) range, I needed to plug into network with a cable. I have forgotten so much about it (because I am wireless all the time and the battery is good enough for having it unplugged when i am not at my desk) that I never pay attention to cable. which is what happened when i stood up in a hurry to answer my phone at the other end of the open space. Guess what? I went away with the cable on my feet and the powerbook just flew across the room from the table to the floor.
Where it laid, waiting for me to pick it up. still running. side of the casing was cracked because it landed from a 5 feet long (and 2 feet down ) flight, on a corner, where the power cable goes in (so the casing is fragilised already, being holed for the plug).
Apart from that, HD check came out with perfect drive, and everything runs fine and dandy. It did not event turn off or else.
I am not saying other laptos would not survive this. I am saying Apple's laptops are solid.
Regarding your issue with HD. I never ever turn off my laptops, they always are on standby in my bags. I usually get about 15 days uptime, at which point something will require a restart -updating system software, or maybe some stupid modem driver that need a restart after updating- if i were not doing any update or else, i would have a much longer uptime since boot. My girlfriend's ibook has once been noted to be at 45 days uptime (I cheked out of curiosity, before rebooting it for an install!). But since she nevers reboot it, just leave it on standby on the coffee table in the living room (we call it "our coffee table iBook"), and opens it every now and then for email or internet or writing a paper or watching a movie, it could have been time where it had a much longer uptime, i just never checked!
(side note: mac OS X allows a laptop to be operational by the time you have fully raised the screen open. with wifi coming back as fast, you are typing the website address as soon as you let your hand of the screen lid! Linux apparently can do that on apple's hardware too)
So standby really is not an issue, more of a bonus!
loops and hoops? Are you joking?
;-) )
;-) - some mp3) and iPod
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Test one:
have a cd, have an iPod:
1) put cd in tray, close tray.
2) let iTunes find CDDB data, then click import, let import happen.
3) plug-in iPod.
( 3)a) let iTunes work its magic, no user assistance required
4) uplug ipod.
Which one of these steps qualify as a hoop or a loop? Pray tell me.
Test two:
have mp3 in a folder on HD (or on a separate disk, if you friend just plugged in his USB disk-on-key to give you -illegally?
1) locate mp3 files
2) drag and drop these to iTunes window
(which lets iTunes add them to its reference library, and if you set preferences so, copy them to its library folder too: better actually, if they are on removable media)
3) plug in iPod
( 3)a) let iTunes work its magic )
4) un-plug iPod
Now, if you have an issue with that, I might have to lower my opinion on some of
Some comments before flame arises:
* If your ipod capacity is inferior to the volume of your music files, you will have to tweak iTunes magic, obviously.
i.e.
1) either have it let you manually put music on said iPod, up to its capacity
=> annoying after a while... but no worse than managing files and mp3 player as a removable media (because you still have gained bonus as music is also available for iTunes to play and organise)
2) or: create manual playlists, and only these will be set to update on ipod.
- you then have to be sure you drag and drop the mp3 files to the playlist, not just iTunes library (step 2 is still one step, just asks you to be a bit more attentive)
=> slightly less annoying, but you have to remember to drag music to the playlist (and not to general library). Still, next time ipod is plugged in, magic works. Only downfall? don't overload the playlist and exceed iPod capacity. Or buy a bigger one
3) or: create SMART playlists (on top of your manual fixed ones):
for example, a playlist that tells iTunes that it will be made of the 100 latest new songs.
=> any new songs added to iTunes (step 2) will be copied to iPod (step 3a)
* if you don't like iTunes for your mp3 (matter of taste, I let you off on this one), you might not like iPod either; so end of story.
* Now for my personal opinion (above were just plain verifiable FACTS )
The combination of iTunes+iPod gives you a solution where YOU have
- ease of use (amazing music playing experience, brainless management of songs, easy and fast synch, etc)
-, control (smart playlists, various settings to be found in prefs, like "import in XXX format, at XXX rate", or "let me / let iTunes organise my music library folders" and more)
- elegance in the whole approach, and respect for the user (you easily learn to use it, and can do tons with it -burn audio / mp3 cds, organise party playlists, edit all MP3 tags of songs, one or many at once, add cover art, etc etc. AND it has been designed for intelligent people by intelligent people)
Where were the loops and hoops again?
Like any tool, it just requires to know its logic and how it works. But unlike most tools, this one is bloody simple.
I reckon that iTunes is one of the simplest and most useful out there, and is taking a huge place in my life, by being so unobstrusice and useful...
If you actually go and read the filed papers:
plaintiff is an ISP, and defendant is also an ISP, and was providing facilities and IP addresses to plaintiff, but did try some intimidation manoeuvers or else to gain some of plaintiff's business (well in any case relationship degraded)
plaintiff is moving out and wants to avoid defendant breaking down its business while the move is happening. (because relationships are sour and defendant would wreck the plaintiff's hosting business if it claimed back all IP addresses at once)
Also plaintiff is currently requesting IP addresses from ARIN, but the process is not immediate.
As duly noted in a former thread, it is a temporary restraining order.
To allow plaintiff to move its business and migrate, defendant is barred from withdrawing addresses at once (it is a matter of rerouting whole blocks of IP, not just one IP address).
Then again I just read plaintiff's case, but it shows the issue is more complex.
And it is not a story of "Poor John Doe wants to keep his 145.250.1.25 address, judge gives him the right to do so"
Xrissley