If you wish in one hand and shit in the other, guess which hand is full?
Apple has no compelling reason to support Real or Microsoft proprietary formats. They are doing infinitely better than any other media player manufacturer supporting just two formats - the 'standard (MP3)' and MP4 (AAC). Of course Ballmer and this Real joker are pissed that Apple isn't biting on their barely-baited hooks. Every time an iPod sells to a Windows customer, you have one more Windows customer who isn't interested in WMA files.
Actually, after I wiped my system to reinstall after I got Blaster, BEFORE I plugged the ethernet cable in, I turned on XP's built-in firewall. I would recommend getting some FW software off the net with a different machine and installing it on the PC that needs upgrading BEFORE you let it touch the Internet.
I think that AV software is a weak crutch that people lean upon in place of real security. Think about it - with many worms and viruses these days, the rate of infection is so fast that AV companies simply can't get a definition out before the worst damage is done. Nimda scanned the whole net in approximately 15 minutes (infecting tens of thousands of machines in that time and perhaps millions overall). With a strong security policy there is really no need to even have AV software.
No, you can't. With a lot of services on a modern MS OS, there is a web of complex interdependencies that are difficult to analyze. Maybe for a home environment, turning everything off is OK, but in a networked environment, things that should be separate from each other are entangled. Sometimes there is no immediate adverse effect when you turn off a service, but the system degrades to the point that certain services must be restarted. Microsoft operating systems are one of the finest examples of the second law of thermodynamics the world has ever seen, aside from Kia automobiles perhaps.
Actually, I think that the intelligent imaging folks use Macs mainly because color management is so damn much easier than on a PC running Windows. That, and Macs what many of them have been using for years.
Of course it is possible to get the same results on a PC, but you need to do a bit more legwork to get color accuracy. With a modern Mac and Apple monitor everything is profiled to be accurate out-of-box (no color matching peripherals required).
Sometimes it does pay to take multiple images of a composition. Exposure and focus bracketing, environmental concerns (if you're trying to shoot a flower and its very windy, for example), or quickly moving subjects all may call for multiple images.
I agree that composition is the root of a successful photograph, however.
I realize that Apple doesn't officially acknowledge problems with the OX911 chipset (only the 922), but does anyone know if they have fixed the bug yet?
All other bugs are low priority for me, as I have a TiBook and external storage that needs to be accessed - RELIABLY!
Dish Network and Viacom are two of the most bloated, poorly run companies out there. I hope this deals both of them the death blow they surely deserve.
Surely this move is also important to SCO - after all, the Canopy Group is invested in both Viacom and Dish Network. Maybe there'll be some Linux audit coming up?
What is there to support? Would you believe it if I told you that I had a similar product, and then showed you a 3D rendering of it? Because, that's all that Infinium has done. Announced a product, and then posted 3D renderings of it. There was a demo, but the alleged product didn't demo (or even BOOT) at all.
HardOCP just posted the truth about the console, and provided certain facts that reflect upon the character and believability of the Infinium people. Apparently, they didn't appreciate being equated with shysters, but that's what they seem like. First, they had 15 million in VC. Then they didn't. Next, they had support from most of the leading game companies. Then, they didn't.
Sir, I think you are misinformed. The only game worth a shit, Spaceward Ho! 5, is an exclusively Macintosh only product.
Aside from that, there's Unreal 2004 (plus older ones), NOLF1&2, Raven Shield, Quake 3, Doom 3 will be on the Mac, Halo (EWWWWW what a shitty game), and many other modern games. As I noted there are EXCELLENT games that are only available for the Mac. About all we're missing on the Macintosh is Tribes 2 and Homeworld. Now that Homeworld is open sourced, and being ported via SDL, we'll probably see that on the Mac as well.
Maybe the Mac doesn't have all the games that the PC has, but it has all the classic and newer LAN party games (except Half Life). The PC enjoys thousands of hyper-shitty games that never got ported, but who PLAYS any of them?
Enjoy your 15 pound laptop and your 'Cabela's Big Game Hunter III" dickweed.
Actually, almost every CD-ROM drive built can read multisession CDs. Chances are, if your CD-ROM drive doesn't have a carrier, it can read multisession CDs.
If you have a CD-ROM with a carrier that still works, congratulations. I'll trade you a fully functional IDE CD-ROM (multisession capable) for it if you include at least one carrier with the drive!
Microsoft will defeat themselves in the huge Google vs. MS search engine battle of the future. They have already jabbed a fork in their eye, and will not be able to build a reputation for fairness or accuracy with this kind of behavior. People use search engines for legitimate research nowadays, and if MS chooses to shut off itself as a viable source of data, they will suffer for it.
I think that they've not embraced search engines long enough to start extending in this manner. There are too many competitors with better reputations to battle for these tactics to be successful.
To continue with my fork analogy, "Rupert, genital clamp!"
Undoubtedly the HDTV fuckers will change the speck in another week or so, like they have been doing for years and years now, rendering the card useless.
(L)users are the folks who want the computer to work their way. They aren't really willing to read the documentation or even try to understand what they are looking at. If the (l)user is used to Windows, he'll look at KDE3 (or whatever) and decide it's not as good because it's not the same.
Being a (l)user has less to do with your actual, technical knowledge, and more with how fixed in your ways and unwilling to learn you are. I have known many people who were baffled when using Netscape, when they were used to Internet Explorer. Netscape works the same, has mostly the same buttons with mostly the same icons in mostly the same place, but the (l)user just blankly looks at it like it's in fucking Chinese.
The (l)user is afraid to get his or her hands dirty and actually take a small amount of time to learn their tools and save a large amount of time in the future. "I don't have time to read a manual!" BULLSHIT baby, you just lack the intelligence or foresight to read the manual, because it's different and scary.
Could you excuse some mangler who gets in an automobile without learning how to drive? Is it OK to just blow off the small amount of technical knowledge you NEED to use your tool in the interest of saving some small amount of precious time? What about the idiot who buys a band saw and then cuts their hand off? Is it OK for them to have blown off the manual because their work was so pressing that they didn't have time to read the manual there?
The problem isn't just bad interface design, although I would hardly argue that bad UIs don't abound. The majority of the problem, ultimately, is that folks blow off technical knowledge because it's boring, or difficult, or whatever. Yet, they want to be able to use their tools like a seasoned pro - without going through the seasoning process. Even a terrible UI can be learned and adapted to. If the only program for a particular task is obtuse and difficult, you can either learn it or not. You won't be using it without learning it, though.
Steel doors, three feet thick slam closed sealing off the datacenter. Have all the computers in a vault. Single entry door (now covered by three feet of steel), and sets of quintuple, automatically locking one-way exit doors for the techs in the vault. When the FBI comes, push the Red Button. The vault main doors close, and the techs descend fire poles, with foot thick steel apertures closing off the vertical entrances. Then they file out of the escape doors, into the basement of the administrative facility. When the all clear is sounded (via radio-frequency tags embedded in employee ID tags) and everyone is out of the vault, epoxy resin is force-injected into the space between the quintuple evacuation doors.
Anyway, these places usually have gobs of venture capital. What the FUCK are they spending it on, pool tables and nerf guns?
That's why you open all your AACs that you bought from ITMS in Quicktime, export them to AIFF, and then do whatever you want with them from then on. I'd recommend some sort of lossless encoding, as encoding data twice in a lossy format is not very wise.
Apple even gives you, for FREE, all the tools you need to crack their DRM. Beat THAT, Napster!
The reason that Apple's AACs sound so good is because they bought the reference AAC encoder and decoder technology from Dolby, and then tweaked it to sound better. Contrast this with how Microsoft got their WMA encoder and decoder - by pulling it out of a donkey's ass like a 12 meter tapeworm.
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If you wish in one hand and shit in the other, guess which hand is full?
Apple has no compelling reason to support Real or Microsoft proprietary formats. They are doing infinitely better than any other media player manufacturer supporting just two formats - the 'standard (MP3)' and MP4 (AAC). Of course Ballmer and this Real joker are pissed that Apple isn't biting on their barely-baited hooks. Every time an iPod sells to a Windows customer, you have one more Windows customer who isn't interested in WMA files.
Actually, after I wiped my system to reinstall after I got Blaster, BEFORE I plugged the ethernet cable in, I turned on XP's built-in firewall. I would recommend getting some FW software off the net with a different machine and installing it on the PC that needs upgrading BEFORE you let it touch the Internet.
Yeah, in an amazing place called the /dev directory, all your hard disks exist as raw devices! It's only been like that since the '70s.
I think that AV software is a weak crutch that people lean upon in place of real security. Think about it - with many worms and viruses these days, the rate of infection is so fast that AV companies simply can't get a definition out before the worst damage is done. Nimda scanned the whole net in approximately 15 minutes (infecting tens of thousands of machines in that time and perhaps millions overall). With a strong security policy there is really no need to even have AV software.
No, you can't. With a lot of services on a modern MS OS, there is a web of complex interdependencies that are difficult to analyze. Maybe for a home environment, turning everything off is OK, but in a networked environment, things that should be separate from each other are entangled. Sometimes there is no immediate adverse effect when you turn off a service, but the system degrades to the point that certain services must be restarted. Microsoft operating systems are one of the finest examples of the second law of thermodynamics the world has ever seen, aside from Kia automobiles perhaps.
Actually, I think that the intelligent imaging folks use Macs mainly because color management is so damn much easier than on a PC running Windows. That, and Macs what many of them have been using for years.
Of course it is possible to get the same results on a PC, but you need to do a bit more legwork to get color accuracy. With a modern Mac and Apple monitor everything is profiled to be accurate out-of-box (no color matching peripherals required).
Sometimes it does pay to take multiple images of a composition. Exposure and focus bracketing, environmental concerns (if you're trying to shoot a flower and its very windy, for example), or quickly moving subjects all may call for multiple images.
I agree that composition is the root of a successful photograph, however.
I realize that Apple doesn't officially acknowledge problems with the OX911 chipset (only the 922), but does anyone know if they have fixed the bug yet?
All other bugs are low priority for me, as I have a TiBook and external storage that needs to be accessed - RELIABLY!
Dish Network and Viacom are two of the most bloated, poorly run companies out there. I hope this deals both of them the death blow they surely deserve.
Surely this move is also important to SCO - after all, the Canopy Group is invested in both Viacom and Dish Network. Maybe there'll be some Linux audit coming up?
What is there to support? Would you believe it if I told you that I had a similar product, and then showed you a 3D rendering of it? Because, that's all that Infinium has done. Announced a product, and then posted 3D renderings of it. There was a demo, but the alleged product didn't demo (or even BOOT) at all.
HardOCP just posted the truth about the console, and provided certain facts that reflect upon the character and believability of the Infinium people. Apparently, they didn't appreciate being equated with shysters, but that's what they seem like. First, they had 15 million in VC. Then they didn't. Next, they had support from most of the leading game companies. Then, they didn't.
Where's the fucking beef?
Sir, I think you are misinformed. The only game worth a shit, Spaceward Ho! 5, is an exclusively Macintosh only product.
Aside from that, there's Unreal 2004 (plus older ones), NOLF1&2, Raven Shield, Quake 3, Doom 3 will be on the Mac, Halo (EWWWWW what a shitty game), and many other modern games. As I noted there are EXCELLENT games that are only available for the Mac. About all we're missing on the Macintosh is Tribes 2 and Homeworld. Now that Homeworld is open sourced, and being ported via SDL, we'll probably see that on the Mac as well.
Maybe the Mac doesn't have all the games that the PC has, but it has all the classic and newer LAN party games (except Half Life). The PC enjoys thousands of hyper-shitty games that never got ported, but who PLAYS any of them?
Enjoy your 15 pound laptop and your 'Cabela's Big Game Hunter III" dickweed.
Actually, almost every CD-ROM drive built can read multisession CDs. Chances are, if your CD-ROM drive doesn't have a carrier, it can read multisession CDs.
If you have a CD-ROM with a carrier that still works, congratulations. I'll trade you a fully functional IDE CD-ROM (multisession capable) for it if you include at least one carrier with the drive!
Microsoft will defeat themselves in the huge Google vs. MS search engine battle of the future. They have already jabbed a fork in their eye, and will not be able to build a reputation for fairness or accuracy with this kind of behavior. People use search engines for legitimate research nowadays, and if MS chooses to shut off itself as a viable source of data, they will suffer for it.
I think that they've not embraced search engines long enough to start extending in this manner. There are too many competitors with better reputations to battle for these tactics to be successful.
To continue with my fork analogy, "Rupert, genital clamp!"
You know, they DO have multisession CDs now. You could earmark one CD as the 'Driver CD' and not waste so many.
Star wars died in the 1980s. Timothy Zahn sucks goat nuts, and so does Lucas now.
THIS IS NOT A TROLL, IT'S THE BALD TRUTH!
You can continue masturbating while drunk on Skywalker Ranch wine now.
Undoubtedly the HDTV fuckers will change the speck in another week or so, like they have been doing for years and years now, rendering the card useless.
Fuckers.
Nice troll. Formulaic AND posted as AC.
Quit bitching and learn how to read. If you think windows is better because printing is easier, I wish you all the crack cocaine in the world.
(L)users are the folks who want the computer to work their way. They aren't really willing to read the documentation or even try to understand what they are looking at. If the (l)user is used to Windows, he'll look at KDE3 (or whatever) and decide it's not as good because it's not the same.
Being a (l)user has less to do with your actual, technical knowledge, and more with how fixed in your ways and unwilling to learn you are. I have known many people who were baffled when using Netscape, when they were used to Internet Explorer. Netscape works the same, has mostly the same buttons with mostly the same icons in mostly the same place, but the (l)user just blankly looks at it like it's in fucking Chinese.
The (l)user is afraid to get his or her hands dirty and actually take a small amount of time to learn their tools and save a large amount of time in the future. "I don't have time to read a manual!" BULLSHIT baby, you just lack the intelligence or foresight to read the manual, because it's different and scary.
Could you excuse some mangler who gets in an automobile without learning how to drive? Is it OK to just blow off the small amount of technical knowledge you NEED to use your tool in the interest of saving some small amount of precious time? What about the idiot who buys a band saw and then cuts their hand off? Is it OK for them to have blown off the manual because their work was so pressing that they didn't have time to read the manual there?
The problem isn't just bad interface design, although I would hardly argue that bad UIs don't abound. The majority of the problem, ultimately, is that folks blow off technical knowledge because it's boring, or difficult, or whatever. Yet, they want to be able to use their tools like a seasoned pro - without going through the seasoning process. Even a terrible UI can be learned and adapted to. If the only program for a particular task is obtuse and difficult, you can either learn it or not. You won't be using it without learning it, though.
Sure they are! They do it all the time! It may be illegal, but officers are hardly ever punished for beating the shit out of somebody.
Steel doors, three feet thick slam closed sealing off the datacenter. Have all the computers in a vault. Single entry door (now covered by three feet of steel), and sets of quintuple, automatically locking one-way exit doors for the techs in the vault. When the FBI comes, push the Red Button. The vault main doors close, and the techs descend fire poles, with foot thick steel apertures closing off the vertical entrances. Then they file out of the escape doors, into the basement of the administrative facility. When the all clear is sounded (via radio-frequency tags embedded in employee ID tags) and everyone is out of the vault, epoxy resin is force-injected into the space between the quintuple evacuation doors.
Anyway, these places usually have gobs of venture capital. What the FUCK are they spending it on, pool tables and nerf guns?
Roxio is finding it difficult to have their shitty CD burning software compete with the shitty CD burning software included for free with Windows XP.
That's why you open all your AACs that you bought from ITMS in Quicktime, export them to AIFF, and then do whatever you want with them from then on. I'd recommend some sort of lossless encoding, as encoding data twice in a lossy format is not very wise.
Apple even gives you, for FREE, all the tools you need to crack their DRM. Beat THAT, Napster!
The reason that Apple's AACs sound so good is because they bought the reference AAC encoder and decoder technology from Dolby, and then tweaked it to sound better. Contrast this with how Microsoft got their WMA encoder and decoder - by pulling it out of a donkey's ass like a 12 meter tapeworm.
I already wear glasses. A 212 DPI screen in practically useless.
Unless they include a free 8" x 10" fresnel lens and clip-on armature like in the movie Brazil.
You don't actually need a pump to water cool something. Heat piping and a condenser / heat sink should do the trick.