But the flop part was the fact that there were something like 8,000 different versions!
I heard that was a marketing strategy (that obviously failed). It was supposedly an attempt to mirror the PC market by flooding consumers with more affordable models, and making it appear that there was a wider selection in the same way there was a wide selection of PC vendors. They were trying to make Macs look like PCs in stores.
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the Mac mini has all of the design features that made the Cube nice - lack of a fan, and a small form factor.
The Mac mini does have a fan. Look at the part labelled "K" on this page.
I heard it was such a flop that Apple became kind of superstitious about their naming conventions and refused to name any subsequent products beyond "][". They had the Apple I, Apple ][, and Apple ][+ before the Apple///. After the Apple/// flopped, they went back to "][" and had the Apple//e, Apple//c, and Apple//gs. For the Macintosh line, they had the Mac//, Mac//x, Mac//cx, Mac//ci, Mac//si, Mac//fx, Mac//vi, and Mac//vx. They never used "///" again, or any roman numeral above it.
Even now, they have dumped numbering their product lines altogether, despite the constant upgrades in hardware configurations. The only exception is the processor suffix (G4 or G5), which doesn't really indicate the product generation anyway. This applies to iPods as well.
Here you go. One of the guys that makes some of them is basically an artist, kind of like Christo, into environmental art or land art. He likes to include ostention (urban-legend type myths) as part of the art. Besides making crop circles, they also believe part of the art is the carnival atmosphere social phenomena that follows it, so they actually don't overtly publicise that they're behind them.
I'd also like to see the Sudden Motion Sensor be used to password-protect and lock up the Powerbook in case it is moved. This would be a deterrent against theft, if it locks up if someone tries to nab it from you.
I thought they needed lots of ram. Don't they do just fine with the G4?
I heard that Motion has significant rendering improvements on G5s specifically because of the processor. I've tried it out on a PowerBook G4 and it was a bit too sluggish in rendering more complex effects, whereas it was supposed to be unnoticeable on a G5. Maybe standard video editing doesn't need it, but for Motion special effects and maybe HD video editing, a G5 processor would have the processing speed required.
I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones I've heard of so far.
MusicBrainz, MoodLogic, and QuickNamer (and maybe some others), actually take "fingerprints" of the music itself and compare it to an online database, just in case all the tag and filename information is wrong. MusicMagic Mixer automatically creates custom playlists of similar songs based on fingerprinting data.
I've never tried any of these programs myself, but just found out about them while web surfing. I don't really know how well they work. I found out about them initially when I came across this discussion and this article online a while back.
I have a small workspace and with the prevalence of Mouse usage, I would like to reclaim the space wasted by the keypad. ...
Any non standard keyboard seems to quadruple in price though.
These are pricey, but take up even less space than a keypad-less keyboard and mouse combination. They also have keyboard replacements for PowerBooks and iBooks. I've never tried one, so I can't say what they're like to use, but they seem like novel gadgets. No moving parts make them more durable to wear and tear, and spills I presume. And the zero key force bit must be an interesting sensation.
Come up with "just a mathematical formula" to compress and decompress some audio as well as MP3 can.
IIRC mathematical formulas can't be patented, and patented software algorithms aren't considered mathematical formulas legally. Just mentioning it. I'm not contradicting what you're actually saying.
But nowhere on the site can I find any clue as to whether the OSX version of RealPlayer 10 is different from the one that I already have.
I clicked on a link the other day that required RealPlayer on OS X. I got a message saying that there was a newer version and it wouldn't go on and play the stream- I had to upgrade the player to the newer version to listen to the stream. Chances are, if you already have the player on your PowerBook and it isn't the latest, it will force you to upgrade.
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I didn't realise they had those. There goes that theory.
But the flop part was the fact that there were something like 8,000 different versions!
I heard that was a marketing strategy (that obviously failed). It was supposedly an attempt to mirror the PC market by flooding consumers with more affordable models, and making it appear that there was a wider selection in the same way there was a wide selection of PC vendors. They were trying to make Macs look like PCs in stores.
the Mac mini has all of the design features that made the Cube nice - lack of a fan, and a small form factor.
The Mac mini does have a fan. Look at the part labelled "K" on this page.
Why the heck isn't the Apple /// in there?
I heard it was such a flop that Apple became kind of superstitious about their naming conventions and refused to name any subsequent products beyond "][". They had the Apple I, Apple ][, and Apple ][+ before the Apple ///. After the Apple /// flopped, they went back to "][" and had the Apple //e, Apple //c, and Apple //gs. For the Macintosh line, they had the Mac //, Mac //x, Mac //cx, Mac //ci, Mac //si, Mac //fx, Mac //vi, and Mac //vx. They never used "///" again, or any roman numeral above it.
Even now, they have dumped numbering their product lines altogether, despite the constant upgrades in hardware configurations. The only exception is the processor suffix (G4 or G5), which doesn't really indicate the product generation anyway. This applies to iPods as well.
what's next? An analysis of Bill's stool on ratemypoo.com?
People do analyse it. I believe it's called "Windows".
Who writes this shit?
Someone who doesn't have billions of dollars.
Sure. Bring on the crop circles!
Here you go. One of the guys that makes some of them is basically an artist, kind of like Christo, into environmental art or land art. He likes to include ostention (urban-legend type myths) as part of the art. Besides making crop circles, they also believe part of the art is the carnival atmosphere social phenomena that follows it, so they actually don't overtly publicise that they're behind them.
I'd also like to see the Sudden Motion Sensor be used to password-protect and lock up the Powerbook in case it is moved. This would be a deterrent against theft, if it locks up if someone tries to nab it from you.
Who has arms that long?
E... T... pho-o-o-one... ho-o-o-o-ome...
I thought they needed lots of ram. Don't they do just fine with the G4?
I heard that Motion has significant rendering improvements on G5s specifically because of the processor. I've tried it out on a PowerBook G4 and it was a bit too sluggish in rendering more complex effects, whereas it was supposed to be unnoticeable on a G5. Maybe standard video editing doesn't need it, but for Motion special effects and maybe HD video editing, a G5 processor would have the processing speed required.
No.
- MusicBrainz
- MoodLogic
- QuickNamer
- MusicMagic Mixer
- UltraTagger
- FixTunes
- Tag&Rename
I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones I've heard of so far.MusicBrainz, MoodLogic, and QuickNamer (and maybe some others), actually take "fingerprints" of the music itself and compare it to an online database, just in case all the tag and filename information is wrong. MusicMagic Mixer automatically creates custom playlists of similar songs based on fingerprinting data.
I've never tried any of these programs myself, but just found out about them while web surfing. I don't really know how well they work. I found out about them initially when I came across this discussion and this article online a while back.
Can you imagine having a Beowulf cluster... oh nevermind.
Elmer FUD!
Commercial WiFi hotspots and open WiFi networks save consumers about $12 billion, says Starategy Analytics.
great, now we're gonna hear jokes about the game controller having only 1 button.
No, they know game controllers need more than that. It'll be a clickwheel.
He also directed Thunderbirds. I haven't seen it, however from what I hear, I suspect any optometrist would advise against it.
"Fuck once... fuck anywhere"
Outsource their jobs and fire their asses :P
He always insists that we call him Darth Vader.
Shouldn't that be "Lord Vader"?
I have a small workspace and with the prevalence of Mouse usage, I would like to reclaim the space wasted by the keypad.
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Any non standard keyboard seems to quadruple in price though.
These are pricey, but take up even less space than a keypad-less keyboard and mouse combination. They also have keyboard replacements for PowerBooks and iBooks. I've never tried one, so I can't say what they're like to use, but they seem like novel gadgets. No moving parts make them more durable to wear and tear, and spills I presume. And the zero key force bit must be an interesting sensation.
I've patented inventing things with AI.
Well I've patented patenting inventions invented with AI. So there.
Come up with "just a mathematical formula" to compress and decompress some audio as well as MP3 can.
IIRC mathematical formulas can't be patented, and patented software algorithms aren't considered mathematical formulas legally. Just mentioning it. I'm not contradicting what you're actually saying.
But nowhere on the site can I find any clue as to whether the OSX version of RealPlayer 10 is different from the one that I already have.
I clicked on a link the other day that required RealPlayer on OS X. I got a message saying that there was a newer version and it wouldn't go on and play the stream- I had to upgrade the player to the newer version to listen to the stream. Chances are, if you already have the player on your PowerBook and it isn't the latest, it will force you to upgrade.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.