I would have believed Bluetooth was dying... until Apple built it into everything. But Apple has a way of ensuring that new things become standard. (Can you say Wifi? USB? Firewire?)
Apple has decided that the 'exclusive club' route, as you call it, is best for them. As another poster noted, even if they DO lower their prices (and profit margins), people will still see "Windows has games, I'll take the Dell." Apple can't beat Windows at its game, which seems to be "ship a barely passable OS at a minimum price". Apple's game is "ship a sweet OS and raise the prices to make up for the R&D." (and then some) I saw this quote a while ago: "I don't think BMW is complaining about their 2% marketshare. Neither is Apple."
More or less. If you have access to a Mac, you can look at the files by right-clicking/control-clicking on most any program and choosing "show package contents."
Open source, bad? HOW DARE YOU!!!11one!!!!....but seriously, Apple has M$ completely stomped. Not only is almost every app multi-language, but they make it very easy for the third-party developers to make their own apps multilingual - it's as easy as creating a Spanish.lproj file (or whatever language). Although you do have to actually translate it....
"prevent copying so easily"? No we can't. It's pretty much impossible to prevent most forms of copying in today's world - reactive laws are the best way the industries have found to deal with it so far.
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No shit. What was the news in this? Or the point? How did this even get approved? Who cares? This isn't "News", it's not particularly "for nerds", it doesn't matter.... I would hesitate to even call it "stuff".
I'm doing enough illegal stuff (not any of those particular things) that I don't need any help from anyone else.
And I think they will understand, if it's an open Wifi, anyone can use it. In fact, a HUGE amount of WAP's are unprotected because the owner doesn't know how to secure them. Is every one of these owners at risk? I seriously doubt it.
Is the owner (company, or whatever) of a pay phone responsible for the communications that go through it? I doubt it. (Disclaimer: I don't know shit about pay phones. For all I know they could be gov't-run.)
That's why they gave both quality comparison and encoding speed comparison.
You seem better suited to WMV9. I personally can't see enough of a difference between WMV9 and QT/Sorenson, so I would probably use Sorenson given the choice.
Read the sidebar at the right
It doesn't say whether Pixlet is lossless (though, I think it is.)
I would still be interested in seeing its quality. Even at 1MB/sec.:)
Pixlet lets high-end digital film frames play in real time with any 1GHz G4 or faster Panther Mac, without investing in costly, proprietary hardware.
I found this quote kinda funny, since they are talking about Apples....
I should also note that just because a player can play WMA doesn't necessarily mean it can handle DRM. My old Muvo (original version) can do WMA, but according to Creative it chokes on DRM. I'm not sure about modern players, however.
Download the MP3's off P2P. Send a few bucks (whatever you think the album is worth) direct to the artist. Voila. RIAA foiled, artists get compensated, and you feel better.
If you want to listen to this music electronically, return your iPod to the store and find a music player that's WMA compatible. How would being WMA compatible help? Is there some other service that provides legal WMA's outside of the US?
If you're referring to Windows Media Player's ability to rip into (only) WMA, iTunes can rip into AAC or MP3, at least the Mac version can.
I like the idea of someone making a business for this, though... I doubt it'll get off the ground, as Apple's been in negotiations to do just that for some time.
"The only winning move is not to play." -Joshua
Can you imagine if someone from one company employing this launches a DoS against another company employing it?
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Mozilla's not the default on any of those, except some breeds of Linux.
So.... who wants to photochop a picture of Steve leaning back in his chair, with these things papered around his office?
But then the analysts will say "this new iThing is Apple's last hope - a sign that they are dying and desperate."
You can spin anything into "Apple is dying", apparently.
I would have believed Bluetooth was dying... until Apple built it into everything. But Apple has a way of ensuring that new things become standard. (Can you say Wifi? USB? Firewire?)
Apple has decided that the 'exclusive club' route, as you call it, is best for them. As another poster noted, even if they DO lower their prices (and profit margins), people will still see "Windows has games, I'll take the Dell." Apple can't beat Windows at its game, which seems to be "ship a barely passable OS at a minimum price". Apple's game is "ship a sweet OS and raise the prices to make up for the R&D." (and then some)
I saw this quote a while ago: "I don't think BMW is complaining about their 2% marketshare. Neither is Apple."
Looky here!
Ah, neat... I haven't gotten to play with Linux apps like I have with OSX apps. (What with me actually having OS X and all.)
More or less. If you have access to a Mac, you can look at the files by right-clicking/control-clicking on most any program and choosing "show package contents."
Open source, bad? HOW DARE YOU!!!11one!!!! ....but seriously, Apple has M$ completely stomped. Not only is almost every app multi-language, but they make it very easy for the third-party developers to make their own apps multilingual - it's as easy as creating a Spanish.lproj file (or whatever language). Although you do have to actually translate it....
Is being antimonopolistic a bad thing now? OH NO, LOWER PRICES ARE BAD mmkay?
"prevent copying so easily"? No we can't. It's pretty much impossible to prevent most forms of copying in today's world - reactive laws are the best way the industries have found to deal with it so far.
No shit. What was the news in this? Or the point? How did this even get approved? Who cares? This isn't "News", it's not particularly "for nerds", it doesn't matter.... I would hesitate to even call it "stuff".
Objectdock = Windows XP
Baghira = I don't have a fucking clue
KSmoothDock = Linux
As one of the other posters noted, it appears he would like to play some games on it.
I'm doing enough illegal stuff (not any of those particular things) that I don't need any help from anyone else.
And I think they will understand, if it's an open Wifi, anyone can use it. In fact, a HUGE amount of WAP's are unprotected because the owner doesn't know how to secure them. Is every one of these owners at risk? I seriously doubt it.
Is the owner (company, or whatever) of a pay phone responsible for the communications that go through it? I doubt it. (Disclaimer: I don't know shit about pay phones. For all I know they could be gov't-run.)
Any one monitor height is bad. Unfortunately, it isn't easy to drasticly change monitor position every few minutes.
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Unless, of course, you have an iMac....
That's why they gave both quality comparison and encoding speed comparison.
You seem better suited to WMV9. I personally can't see enough of a difference between WMV9 and QT/Sorenson, so I would probably use Sorenson given the choice.
Read the sidebar at the right :)
It doesn't say whether Pixlet is lossless (though, I think it is.)
I would still be interested in seeing its quality. Even at 1MB/sec.
Pixlet lets high-end digital film frames play in real time with any 1GHz G4 or faster Panther Mac, without investing in costly, proprietary hardware.
I found this quote kinda funny, since they are talking about Apples....
I should also note that just because a player can play WMA doesn't necessarily mean it can handle DRM. My old Muvo (original version) can do WMA, but according to Creative it chokes on DRM. I'm not sure about modern players, however.
Download the MP3's off P2P.
Send a few bucks (whatever you think the album is worth) direct to the artist.
Voila. RIAA foiled, artists get compensated, and you feel better.
If you want to listen to this music electronically, return your iPod to the store and find a music player that's WMA compatible.
How would being WMA compatible help? Is there some other service that provides legal WMA's outside of the US?
If you're referring to Windows Media Player's ability to rip into (only) WMA, iTunes can rip into AAC or MP3, at least the Mac version can.
I like the idea of someone making a business for this, though... I doubt it'll get off the ground, as Apple's been in negotiations to do just that for some time.
I read part of it... just not the important part.
Hey, at least I realized it afterwards....
Eh, the second half of that post was redundant. Serves me right for being a fast reader. :-/
*makes a note to read the entire parent before writing a reply*
"The only winning move is not to play." -Joshua
Can you imagine if someone from one company employing this launches a DoS against another company employing it?
If they did that flash.mob would be one of the first domains snatched up.
And here I thought I was done with buying books.
*Bookmarks this page for when I get money*