I would expect the system requirements of Longhaul to be significantly *less* than XP. Microsoft has already cut so many promised features, it will actually be a downgrade by the time it launches.
Of course you'll still need like 1GB of video RAM if you want that spectacular icon preview feature that is all that is Longhaul.
I don't get it, the title says "Journalist...", but then the link to TFA points to Paul Thurrott.
This was a very misleading title. It should've read something along the lines of "Microsoft FUD guzzler burped up some meaningless thoughts on Tiger".
Really, this guy is totally whacked. I would give far more credit as a journalist to the guy who lives in the storm drain down the street over Paul Thurrott.
"Well, 8A425 isn't even the GM release, so it might not be as risky as hosting, say, 8A428."
IANAL but, I think that's just the opposite way of thinking. Apple can go after who leaked 8A425 because someone violated an NDA/Developer contract. In doing so they can get the log files and see who downloaded it.
With the GM release they would just be going after the "pirates". In the past, they've never chased after "pirates", but they have successfully gone after the person(s?) that leaked a pre-release and got access to the logs showing who downloaded it.
Either way of course it's a risk, and people are far more nervous about torrenting Apple software than they were before.
Me? $95 on Amazon...is TOTALLY worth it!
Shouldn't that be, "MMMM...MMMM...Flash PIE!" as in from one of my favorite scenes where home is tricked by a pie placed on the floor and says, "MMM.... MMM... floor pie!"
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Today, April 1, I came to realize why the courts decided that "bloggers" don't deserve the same protection under the law as real news organizations.
I also came to realize why I appreciate The Onion and The Daily Show so much.
The Apple Store in Palo Alto has plenty of Shuttles. I just saw them on the counter.
Oh wait, you mean this isn't YA/.AAA (Yet Another/. Article About Apple)?
Maybe it's just me, but I think him being sued is in of itself part of the artwork.
The "song" is organic. The concept's original meaning has extended to iTMS where you can actually buy the track...or try a slice of silence.
So great, extend the artistic concept through the whole process. Have *this* be the case that is used where the DRM was hacked, the song traveled around on the P2P networks and the whole issue went all the way to the Supreme Court.
Now *that* would be beautiful!
Let me get this straight. It thwarts 97% of the copying programs. I'm taking it that means I can continue to use 3% of my existing copying programs.
Someone wake me up when I'm down to my last 1% of copying programs.
This is exactly how this is going to play out...
Macrovision will convince some studios to test market some DVDs with this new protection scam...
I mean, "scheme". A handful of titles will come out, and people who object to this will buy the
discs, rip them using any one of the remaining 3% of copying programs, and then return the disc as
defective saying that it doesn't work in their player.
Studios will see these titles still showing up on P2Ps and combined with the high return rate
will consider the test a failure.
Macrovision reminds me of the joke about two campers who come across a bear in the woods, and
blah, blah, blah, the one guy says he doesn't have to out run the bear, just the other camper.
Macrovision doesn't have to be as smart as the consumers, just smarter than the studios. They have a history of doing this *very well*.
We're still miffed about having a Canadian flag in all those pics of the shuttle cargo bay.
Definitely! The next time, we should make sure we have flags *all* of the United States, and not just pick one state's flag.
Absolutely!!!
When ClarisWorks came out, I was at a major university. This application was awesome and incredibly useful not only for students with new computers, but I remember refurbishing many older Macs that people had been pretty much throwing away (or selling for like $50). An old SE Mac and ClarisWorks was pretty cheap and worked very well for students to use in their own rooms instead of fighting for access in the labs.
The thought that you could run that puppy off a floppy disk was truly amazing...it was damn efficient code and contained unique features - many still not found elsewhere.
Unfortunately it *is* incredibly dated. For those who can't relate to software age in years, you could put it this way...the last time AppleWorks was updated was just after the last major update to Windows! That's friggin' embarrassing.
"I tried a.dom venture with a friend to make software to put grocery stores online. We were laughed out of the store every single time! That didn't last long."
Maybe they wouldn't have laughed if it was a.com venture?;)
Seriously though, that kinda sucks for me. I'm a very brand specific person and would love to be able to search for the specific products I want. It's one of the things I liked least about Webvan...not enough of the specific products I wanted.
I've tried various hardware/software solutions on Mac and PCs, but as expected nothing was really a TiVo.
I don't know why it took me so long to do this, but I eventually just bought a cheap used TiVo with a lifetime membership (about $200) and hooked it up to my Mac. The benefits are that it's not using any of my 4 internal drives or FireWire/USB ports. It has all the advantages of TiVo...suggested recordings, remote programing, home media, etc... but I view it on one of my monitors either full screen or in a small window.
I can easily transfer shows off and burn to DVD, and since one of my monitors has a secondary ntsc input port, I can always continue to watch even if for some reason I need to restart my Mac. Also no problems if a show is on that needs to be recorded at the same time I might be doing some heavy processing.
I say this almost every day, but Apple should buy TiVo. They could put a FireWire port on the TiVo box and/or create an OS X version of the software...this plus a million other areas of synergy.
"Hope this is of use to you."
Actually it's of no use for me. All three of those examples don't work.
I'll extend the concept that all three of those sites share of not naming what browsers it doesn't work with.
DVD and Tivo are dead, what the hell is VHS?
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I remember DVD and Tivo, but I'm now mostly using BitTorrent with eyeHome by El Gato. What the hell is VHS?
I would pay *FOR* ads, here's why...
I've been asking for this feature for some time now. What I want are ads to display as a screensaver. If I'm watching Tivo and want to pause to answer the phone or do whatever, it would be nice to have the screen go into screensaver mode, and they might as well show ads (as long as they don't have burn in areas). Likewise when a show is finished, instead of sticking on the menu page, it would be nice if it went into a screensaver mode.
Sure this would be nice if it showed my pictures or what not as an option, but personally, I wouldn't mind the fact that Tivo was making some money, and heck, they could be worthwhile ads.
What worries me about fast forward ads is that they could distract from what one is trying to do (often just scanning content).
"Fun fact: 'Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of data stored on Teradata mainframes, at its Bentonville headquarters"
Those sick fscks, Why would anyone need that much p0rn in their office, and why aren't they sharing it?
The Internet is only 230 TB? I have a little over 2TB of data myself, does this mean I've already collected almost 1% of the Net's p0rn? That can't be right.
1) Get a big ol' pipe full of bandwidth. 2) Load your Mac up with a Terabyte of disk space (I have 4 internal 250GB drives... just cheap drives, they don't need to be fast. Mine were $150 each) 3) Fire up Azureus as your BitTorrent client (make sure to avoid crashes by installing the latest beta, B8 or greater). 4) Purchase the $150 eyeHome from El Gato.
You're all set!
I have about 250GB of music (mostly AACs encoded at 192K, but some MP3s and a rare OGG, ALE or FLAC). I also have about 250GB of video, either DVDs, 3ivx, DivX, and videos with other crazy codecs.
eyeHome connects to my entertainment system with component, composite or svideo cables and optical digital or composite audio cables. It connects to the home network via 10/100BaseT Ethernet (router or crossover cable) or WiFi (Airport Express). The box itself is tiny and light. There's no interface on the box outside of a red power light which turns green when connected. I routinely unplug the unit and take it with me from living room to bedroom, or take it with me on vacation.
It connects using Rendezvous...amazingly fast and easy...it really is easier than most VCR setups.
The audio/video quality is amazing, but that's kinda to be expected because you're sending the actual files to the unit, not some compressed stream. The impact on my Mac isn't noticeable...Activity Monitor shows less than 1% cpu use even when viewing a DVD. Surprisingly, the impact on the network is just as insignificant.
The unit plays: iPhoto albums and slideshows, or any images in your Pictures directory Videos in your Movies directory Music and playlists in iTunes It also allows you to put aliases in these directories...My Movies directory has an alias to another 250GB drive.
Now with BitTorrent, what I have is like a time-traveling Tivo! If I miss something on Tivo, I just head over to Suprnova.org and download it. Often I can find HDTV versions that are much better quality than the crappy HDTV programming I get from Comcast (who totally over-compresses).
I also have a Formac Studio TVR for recording shows on my Mac. This works pretty well, especially with the scheduling feature.
The eyeHome is only available for Macintosh and OS X. If this was the only thing I used a Macintosh for, it would be well worth the purchase of the Mac...of course I *do* use the Mac for everything else as well since I can't even notice when the eyeHome is in use.
Microsoft is an investor in Comcast. Comcast has been promising Tivo-like boxes for a very long time now.
The thing is, Comcast sucks. It's pretty sad that I can get better quality and more HDTV programming via Bittorrent than I can through Comcast (I use the eyeHome from El Gato to go from my Mac via my home network to my HDTV).
And of course Microsoft sucks. Nobody wants them to do this...except for Comcast...and did I mention they suck?
I'm torn because on the one hand, there's no way these two dunderheads could produce anything in the ballpark of Tivo. On the other hand there are probably a lot of people who haven't come out of their y2k bunkers who at some point will *not* check the box saying they don't want to receive the MS unit for only $10 a month.
Remind me, what has Microsoft produced for consumers since 2001?
Labels don't want a unified DRM, what they want is *any* DRM that they can use to directly sell to consumers themselves.
They can't use Fairplay, which rules out iPods. So unless they're going to go the Doomed to Fail Sony route of providing a whole soup to nuts system, they *need* an open DRM so they can bypass Apple and Microsoft and sell directly to consumers.
I would rather have the labels die a quicker death.
Time to move forward, rather than enabling all this nigger whining.
What the fuck??? How far up your ass does your head have to be to have formed that sentence?
I managed one of the largest Apple authorized service centers for a few years. Sure, sometimes we could tell that it looked like *someone* had been in the Mac before, but that doesn't mean the person was the customer. It would be one thing if we sold the Mac to the customer and they come back later that day or something, but if it was purchased at another store, we have no way of knowing what the actual history was.
To be honest, we didn't really care much. If it was obvious that someone who didn't know what they were doing had done something that violated the terms of the warranty, and it resulted in damage, then we would start asking questions...but this was actually very rare...usually the customer would admit what they did because it was so obvious (like a broken ribbon cable).
The bottom line (which most customers don't/didn't believe) was that it was always in our interest to go in favor of the customer. Apple *paid* us for warranty repairs and in our case, they paid us more than what we charged customers for the same jobs. We would really push the evelope with Apple warranties in terms of what we could get away with and what was ethical.
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I would expect the system requirements of Longhaul to be significantly *less* than XP. Microsoft has already cut so many promised features, it will actually be a downgrade by the time it launches. Of course you'll still need like 1GB of video RAM if you want that spectacular icon preview feature that is all that is Longhaul.
I don't get it, the title says "Journalist...", but then the link to TFA points to Paul Thurrott. This was a very misleading title. It should've read something along the lines of "Microsoft FUD guzzler burped up some meaningless thoughts on Tiger". Really, this guy is totally whacked. I would give far more credit as a journalist to the guy who lives in the storm drain down the street over Paul Thurrott.
"Well, 8A425 isn't even the GM release, so it might not be as risky as hosting, say, 8A428." IANAL but, I think that's just the opposite way of thinking. Apple can go after who leaked 8A425 because someone violated an NDA/Developer contract. In doing so they can get the log files and see who downloaded it. With the GM release they would just be going after the "pirates". In the past, they've never chased after "pirates", but they have successfully gone after the person(s?) that leaked a pre-release and got access to the logs showing who downloaded it. Either way of course it's a risk, and people are far more nervous about torrenting Apple software than they were before. Me? $95 on Amazon...is TOTALLY worth it!
Shouldn't that be, "MMMM...MMMM...Flash PIE!" as in from one of my favorite scenes where home is tricked by a pie placed on the floor and says, "MMM.... MMM... floor pie!"
Today, April 1, I came to realize why the courts decided that "bloggers" don't deserve the same protection under the law as real news organizations. I also came to realize why I appreciate The Onion and The Daily Show so much.
The Apple Store in Palo Alto has plenty of Shuttles. I just saw them on the counter. Oh wait, you mean this isn't YA/.AAA (Yet Another /. Article About Apple)?
Geez, I put one showtune on my iPod, and now it only plays Liza, Barbara, and 70s era Disco!
Maybe it's just me, but I think him being sued is in of itself part of the artwork. The "song" is organic. The concept's original meaning has extended to iTMS where you can actually buy the track...or try a slice of silence. So great, extend the artistic concept through the whole process. Have *this* be the case that is used where the DRM was hacked, the song traveled around on the P2P networks and the whole issue went all the way to the Supreme Court. Now *that* would be beautiful!
Someone wake me up when I'm down to my last 1% of copying programs.
This is exactly how this is going to play out...
Macrovision will convince some studios to test market some DVDs with this new protection scam... I mean, "scheme". A handful of titles will come out, and people who object to this will buy the discs, rip them using any one of the remaining 3% of copying programs, and then return the disc as defective saying that it doesn't work in their player.
Studios will see these titles still showing up on P2Ps and combined with the high return rate will consider the test a failure.
Macrovision reminds me of the joke about two campers who come across a bear in the woods, and blah, blah, blah, the one guy says he doesn't have to out run the bear, just the other camper.
Macrovision doesn't have to be as smart as the consumers, just smarter than the studios. They have a history of doing this *very well*.
And yes just to get this out of the way too, in Soviet Russia the long running attempt at a joke overlords welcome YOU.
I for one, welcome our long running attempt at a joke overlords. Sorry, it had to be said by someone.
We're still miffed about having a Canadian flag in all those pics of the shuttle cargo bay. Definitely! The next time, we should make sure we have flags *all* of the United States, and not just pick one state's flag.
Absolutely!!! When ClarisWorks came out, I was at a major university. This application was awesome and incredibly useful not only for students with new computers, but I remember refurbishing many older Macs that people had been pretty much throwing away (or selling for like $50). An old SE Mac and ClarisWorks was pretty cheap and worked very well for students to use in their own rooms instead of fighting for access in the labs. The thought that you could run that puppy off a floppy disk was truly amazing...it was damn efficient code and contained unique features - many still not found elsewhere. Unfortunately it *is* incredibly dated. For those who can't relate to software age in years, you could put it this way...the last time AppleWorks was updated was just after the last major update to Windows! That's friggin' embarrassing.
"I tried a .dom venture with a friend to make software to put grocery stores online. We were laughed out of the store every single time! That didn't last long."
Maybe they wouldn't have laughed if it was a .com venture? ;)
Seriously though, that kinda sucks for me. I'm a very brand specific person and would love to be able to search for the specific products I want. It's one of the things I liked least about Webvan...not enough of the specific products I wanted.
I've tried various hardware/software solutions on Mac and PCs, but as expected nothing was really a TiVo.
I don't know why it took me so long to do this, but I eventually just bought a cheap used TiVo with a lifetime membership (about $200) and hooked it up to my Mac. The benefits are that it's not using any of my 4 internal drives or FireWire/USB ports. It has all the advantages of TiVo...suggested recordings, remote programing, home media, etc... but I view it on one of my monitors either full screen or in a small window.
I can easily transfer shows off and burn to DVD, and since one of my monitors has a secondary ntsc input port, I can always continue to watch even if for some reason I need to restart my Mac. Also no problems if a show is on that needs to be recorded at the same time I might be doing some heavy processing.
I say this almost every day, but Apple should buy TiVo. They could put a FireWire port on the TiVo box and/or create an OS X version of the software...this plus a million other areas of synergy.
"Hope this is of use to you." Actually it's of no use for me. All three of those examples don't work. I'll extend the concept that all three of those sites share of not naming what browsers it doesn't work with.
I remember DVD and Tivo, but I'm now mostly using BitTorrent with eyeHome by El Gato. What the hell is VHS?
I would pay *FOR* ads, here's why... I've been asking for this feature for some time now. What I want are ads to display as a screensaver. If I'm watching Tivo and want to pause to answer the phone or do whatever, it would be nice to have the screen go into screensaver mode, and they might as well show ads (as long as they don't have burn in areas). Likewise when a show is finished, instead of sticking on the menu page, it would be nice if it went into a screensaver mode. Sure this would be nice if it showed my pictures or what not as an option, but personally, I wouldn't mind the fact that Tivo was making some money, and heck, they could be worthwhile ads. What worries me about fast forward ads is that they could distract from what one is trying to do (often just scanning content).
"Fun fact: 'Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of data stored on Teradata mainframes, at its Bentonville headquarters" Those sick fscks, Why would anyone need that much p0rn in their office, and why aren't they sharing it? The Internet is only 230 TB? I have a little over 2TB of data myself, does this mean I've already collected almost 1% of the Net's p0rn? That can't be right.
1) Get a big ol' pipe full of bandwidth.
2) Load your Mac up with a Terabyte of disk space (I have 4 internal 250GB drives... just cheap drives, they don't need to be fast. Mine were $150 each)
3) Fire up Azureus as your BitTorrent client (make sure to avoid crashes by installing the latest beta, B8 or greater).
4) Purchase the $150 eyeHome from El Gato.
You're all set!
I have about 250GB of music (mostly AACs encoded at 192K, but some MP3s and a rare OGG, ALE or FLAC). I also have about 250GB of video, either DVDs, 3ivx, DivX, and videos with other crazy codecs.
eyeHome connects to my entertainment system with component, composite or svideo cables and optical digital or composite audio cables. It connects to the home network via 10/100BaseT Ethernet (router or crossover cable) or WiFi (Airport Express). The box itself is tiny and light. There's no interface on the box outside of a red power light which turns green when connected. I routinely unplug the unit and take it with me from living room to bedroom, or take it with me on vacation.
It connects using Rendezvous...amazingly fast and easy...it really is easier than most VCR setups.
The audio/video quality is amazing, but that's kinda to be expected because you're sending the actual files to the unit, not some compressed stream. The impact on my Mac isn't noticeable...Activity Monitor shows less than 1% cpu use even when viewing a DVD. Surprisingly, the impact on the network is just as insignificant.
The unit plays:
iPhoto albums and slideshows, or any images in your Pictures directory
Videos in your Movies directory
Music and playlists in iTunes
It also allows you to put aliases in these directories...My Movies directory has an alias to another 250GB drive.
Now with BitTorrent, what I have is like a time-traveling Tivo! If I miss something on Tivo, I just head over to Suprnova.org and download it. Often I can find HDTV versions that are much better quality than the crappy HDTV programming I get from Comcast (who totally over-compresses).
I also have a Formac Studio TVR for recording shows on my Mac. This works pretty well, especially with the scheduling feature.
The eyeHome is only available for Macintosh and OS X. If this was the only thing I used a Macintosh for, it would be well worth the purchase of the Mac...of course I *do* use the Mac for everything else as well since I can't even notice when the eyeHome is in use.
Microsoft is an investor in Comcast. Comcast has been promising Tivo-like boxes for a very long time now. The thing is, Comcast sucks. It's pretty sad that I can get better quality and more HDTV programming via Bittorrent than I can through Comcast (I use the eyeHome from El Gato to go from my Mac via my home network to my HDTV). And of course Microsoft sucks. Nobody wants them to do this...except for Comcast...and did I mention they suck? I'm torn because on the one hand, there's no way these two dunderheads could produce anything in the ballpark of Tivo. On the other hand there are probably a lot of people who haven't come out of their y2k bunkers who at some point will *not* check the box saying they don't want to receive the MS unit for only $10 a month. Remind me, what has Microsoft produced for consumers since 2001?
WMA, and WMA Loseless sound great *sometimes* but not always. I've created some samples. Tell me what you think:
To hear WMA on an iPod, click here.
To hear WMA in iTunes, click here.
To hear WMA on my home theater system, click here.
See how those compare to AAC, follow this link: itunes.com
Labels don't want a unified DRM, what they want is *any* DRM that they can use to directly sell to consumers themselves. They can't use Fairplay, which rules out iPods. So unless they're going to go the Doomed to Fail Sony route of providing a whole soup to nuts system, they *need* an open DRM so they can bypass Apple and Microsoft and sell directly to consumers. I would rather have the labels die a quicker death.
Time to move forward, rather than enabling all this nigger whining. What the fuck??? How far up your ass does your head have to be to have formed that sentence?
I managed one of the largest Apple authorized service centers for a few years. Sure, sometimes we could tell that it looked like *someone* had been in the Mac before, but that doesn't mean the person was the customer. It would be one thing if we sold the Mac to the customer and they come back later that day or something, but if it was purchased at another store, we have no way of knowing what the actual history was.
To be honest, we didn't really care much. If it was obvious that someone who didn't know what they were doing had done something that violated the terms of the warranty, and it resulted in damage, then we would start asking questions...but this was actually very rare...usually the customer would admit what they did because it was so obvious (like a broken ribbon cable).
The bottom line (which most customers don't/didn't believe) was that it was always in our interest to go in favor of the customer. Apple *paid* us for warranty repairs and in our case, they paid us more than what we charged customers for the same jobs. We would really push the evelope with Apple warranties in terms of what we could get away with and what was ethical.
YMMV