(this slow down cowboy thing is freakin driving godam nuts, its been 5.. correction 8 min... correction 10min... TABARNAK de CALISSE D'OSTIE... since i last posted and it continue too appear, is it my problem if most people understand and type slowly... by the time this fuckin crap work the post number will have reached over 300 or something...)
The tech in me wish to correct one of your claim...
As far as LCDs are concerned we say native resolution not sweet spot. Sweet spot would mean the screen could go at a higher resolution but LCDs can't, they have a native resolution (the number of physical pixels on the surface), which is the highest they can reproduce, and can lower this resolution. Sound has a sweet spot, a place where, if all speaker were playing a steady tone or noise at the same amplitude level, the volume of all speaker is equal to a human ear. CRTs have a sweet spot, the resolution at which the screen space is maximised without any distortion in color or geometry. LCDs have a native resolution...
I knew most geek weren't the strong type but this has to be a new low, the weight of modern CRTs is low, very low, that overweight thing could have been the truth for a normal person 10 years ago, maybe 7... but today...
Too many application are far better off with them, gaming being one, medical imagery, AV and media production are few example of those.
in the course of my comment, lCD means flat panels, I know that the reader knows of all the variant in existence, no need to point your genius, I know too.
If my computer isn't powerfull enough to play a game I lower the resolution, on an LCD it means destroying your image in a sea of faux-blur about as bearable to look at as a naked Martha Stewart. Medical imagery need resolution AND small picture (relatively) a 15'x45' screen surface isn't good to a doctor, a 19" screen is, and that screen needs a resolution of at least 1600x1200 to be usefull, 2048x1536 being even more used in our days, LCDs displaying such resolutions are way too expensive and have far more problem, as far as viewing angle and color discrepancies goes, than CRTs. LCDs deform over time, their color don't age at the same pace and the contrast lower itself rather rapidly, any media production professionnal will tell you so, where I work this is one of the major pain we have with flat panels, CRTs are systematicaly more consistent than LCDs.
Bottom line, yes, CRTs will be a niche, some flat panel variant will one day replace them in the form we know (we all have heard of Motorola nano crt technology, but it's not a CRT as we know it), but this day isn't even near, if only for price/performance reasons.
Isn't it funny that your post is actually a Zealot one, you know, taking one example of your life and applying it to everyone who use the same platform, making a post not about zealots but zealots on the mac, like they are the worst or only kind and then explaining why buying a mac is stupid because it validates the point that pc users are stupid...
Wake up dude, you're ranting about your own self.
Never mind your long post guys, he's right
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All of those super long posts pretending to rationnaly rebuff the guys claim are worth no good, the only thing open source has been good at is copying, cracking, me too and badly at that, god bless Firefox because it might not be original, innovative (which support what the guy claims) but it works very well, its my browser of choice and it's so far the only real good product that has been produced by open source. Realize what the guy is saying, open source isnt innovative, he's right, it might be secure, good, fast, inspiring, liberating, free but as of now, it doesn't drive innovation, it copies it.
No offense to the Linux community or Linux in itself but often I come on Slashdot reading about the next great Linux evolution and I end up looking at some high-school grade projects. The tech demo is bad, really bad, I'm sure a N64 would do better. You can say it's because the guys are programmers not artist but the lack of any decent 3D trick tells me this tech demo show an outdated tech. No offense, I'm not taking on Linux in itself but this project. It looks bad and there is no reason to hype it up. When I say it happens too often well it's true, you guys get easilly hyped on potential not result. A lot of software has potential in Linux, Linux has potential, now it just need to deliver on that potential. Hyping a bad product can actually lead to a slower adoption, think about it.
Then again it's good to see some people actually tackle those issues, who knows, maybe next year we'll be looking at the Firefox of 3D...
So what you are telling me is that you dream of the day that
1- socially skilled people, people who spend more time on their look, attitude and meeting skillz than their thinking, will be able to profit from people who spend most of their time trying to find solutions to problem but are bad at selling them?
2- you have an idea that will solve energy problems around the world, onto which you spent years thinking and sorting your ideas out and evaluate them to finally come up with the right solution but since your friend daddy's rich and he's an ass, he takes your idea and market it, so that those year of work remain unpaid (thinking to a point where that thinking can be materialized is actual work btw, you can't wake up in the morning with a car design in mind, you can have a idea about it but to actually design it is a shitload of work). I mean, even I like noodle but not if it's the only thing I'll eat because my ideas serves the other, there is a line between sharing ideas and being exploited.
3- that intelligent people see no purpose in being so, because every time they better the world some other guy profit from it?
4- intellectual property isn't bullshit, it is so not bullshit that, I'm writting this on a machine that would never have been invented if no one had any incentive in doing so, like you are going to be the only one to profit from it for the next 5 years...
Yes intellectual property has been distorted and used in the most vile of manners, transfering rights shouldn't even be feasible, transfering rights to a non-living entity (corporations for example) should be illegal, this way the inventor profit from it not some wise-ass evil company who, since it has a potentially unlimited lifetime existence, will maintain the right in effect for eternity (some type of rights wear off 50 years after the death of the author, rights transfered to a corps can therefore never become public domain...). I'm not saying it's being managed well. But intellectual property is far from being bullshit.
And the problem is? What is wrong with them wanting control over their content and content distribution system? All they are saying is play with it but so will we. They don't make a site so you shamelessly copy them to profit or get eyeballs at your own site, it's even surprising (in a good way) that they actually let you play with their apps and give away their intellectual property that freely, all they want in return is the possibility for themselves to also play with it regardless of what you have done with it...
The data rate you are talking about are for compressed video, 1080i takes about 3 Gbits per second, once uncompressed and in transport, and that is without audio.
Why saying this while you actually meant compressed video? Because the Airport Express you were talking about doesn't decode video or audio, it just relays them. If you want the Airport Express to actually take the 2Mbps stream and playback video it will have to decode it, therefore it will need to pack serious firepower and its price will deffinitely go up. The only way it can do it without decoding video itself, mean acting only as a relay like it does now, is to somewhat find a way to communicate from the Mac to the airport base station using the same bandwith than DVI... wireless isn't even close to reaching that...
Sometimes you have to sit down and realize someone found an inexpensive way to add value to something it was selling. Videos are produced for promotion and then distributed to various stations for replay. The cost of the video is included in the original marketing budget and it's one of the rare thing artists produce that no one wants to get copyrights on, it has copyrights but the purpose of this thing is distribution to the widest audience.
Considering that, if I buy an album online I sure don't get the picture and text one find on the physical album but I get the video produced for it, neat, very neat and it cost Apple a big nothin' (tv stations don't pay to get video, some conditions may apply but no money -- I work in this field btw, that's why I know about this), which means the price for song and album remain the same but I get more with each buy...
Now it's worth it to buy an entire album wether I like all the song on it or just a few...
Reading all the answer here bring me to the next logical observation:
You guys consider that MacOsX saying error -36 is bad because you have to lookup what it means in some error number reference guide in pdf format but Windows BSOD is good because, sometimes when you google the entire error you can get some help somewhere online...
Well in all fairness, have anyone ever solved any Windows crash by reading a blue screen? No, the information presented there is totally useless to anyone but the person who develloped the software. And even then.
this goes hand in hand with the concept that most "programmers" do it to impress people with their "intelligence" and "skillz", if you see a BSOD and pretend its usefull, you get extra auntie-impress points.
There is no use telling something to the user if what you tell him has no use...
Even with firefox the website generates pop-up, yes they are blocked theoriticaly but they seem to still get trough, of course if you close a window the article doesn't load...
This is not a price I'm willing to pay to see some over-imaginative geek dreamer explain it's theory on lighsaber forging...
What do you guys do with your computer? no seriously, I mean, Linux is desktop ready, my mom could use this, a desktop cluster running fedora core... You know all those reference to the desktop usability of this and that product. I mean this thing isn't a desktop cluster, it's just a cluster that some geek decided to use at home, that don't make it a desktop cluster. 110Gflops to browse the web with lynx? Write a document in Open Office? or edit a 72dpi resolution desktop wallpaper in the Gimp?
In my country (Quebec) we have this problem, people say "I have the right to..." and put a word beside it and that should give them the right to what the word says, in their mind just because they can align some word they think it gives them the right to do anything, even if the law says they can't do it. Same goes here at an other level, you guys think that slapping the word desktop to anything make it a desktop thing, but believe me there is more to a desktop than a product name or description, even if it runs a "desktop" OS like Fedora Core (here it goes again, Fedora Core is a desktop thing just because some guys said it not because it actually can be effectively used as such, except if you are beyond dedicated...).
No offense to Linux, the desktop cluster in itself or anything, just a little thought on the usage of the word desktop...
This answer is slowly becoming the most often used answer to anything the US ask us, and it's a good thing.
The idea of the US is not to better itself, it's to make the rest of the world so bad they look good in comparison. They're trying with our health system (and are slowly succeeding), with our incarceration system, defense (although we actually, in practice have none...) system and so on, now the IP laws.
It's not because their society suck that we have to suck like them. I say it's a good thing Canada has a minority government now, a very good one, and my fellow canadian should listen to my advice: ALWAYS vote so we have a minority government, they actually work for us when that happens instead of working for their friends. they actually even get balls and take real decision like saying no to our over-protectionist-always-complaining neighbour. They piss the world off but we should have to change so their citizen make more money off our back... I say thanks to a minority government the US rejection of our rejection (doesn't it feel like anal retention to you?) might be rejected.
See even in our political life we have understood that diversity is a good thing. Trying to unify everything to you is not only stupid and impossibly dimwitted in it's lack of perspective and realism it is simply put utopian...
No honestly, Tiger will be all good when I get it, I'm sure, and I really like my Mac, but sincerly is that breaking news? Walt Mossberg raving on the Mac, or anything Apple? He is the Turrot of Mac, that's not a big news...
This thing is merely a bigger budget version of this classical moment of the web. If this guy would have had half their budget he would have done great things;) , cause I'll side with the rest on acting quality; amateur film, amateur actors, it was predictable but it is still disturbing to see geeks playing on screen wath they've been practicing in their bedrooms for years...
Although I would like to congratulate them on bringing us the first Star-Wars where women aren't a prize or a decoration...
Not bizarre at all, if every company owner would pay itself below minimum wage the richest people wouldn't pay taxes.
...wait they don't anyway...
Minimum wage wasn't brought forth to help people or take care of the people left back by our society. Minimum wage is the prime example of "using the left to promote the right", now that everyone (but the homeless), even the poorest, have a salary you can take income taxe off a lot more people, and remove that burden from the richest, the one you see as the shaper of your society, by creating tax shelters. If minimum wage truly was about preventing poverty it would actually be much higher cause no one can live 40hrs a week paid at around 8$, life cost too much for that but the amount of money that goes to the income tax gets interesting.
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(this slow down cowboy thing is freakin driving godam nuts, its been 5.. correction 8 min... correction 10min... TABARNAK de CALISSE D'OSTIE... since i last posted and it continue too appear, is it my problem if most people understand and type slowly... by the time this fuckin crap work the post number will have reached over 300 or something...)
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The tech in me wish to correct one of your claim...
As far as LCDs are concerned we say native resolution not sweet spot. Sweet spot would mean the screen could go at a higher resolution but LCDs can't, they have a native resolution (the number of physical pixels on the surface), which is the highest they can reproduce, and can lower this resolution. Sound has a sweet spot, a place where, if all speaker were playing a steady tone or noise at the same amplitude level, the volume of all speaker is equal to a human ear. CRTs have a sweet spot, the resolution at which the screen space is maximised without any distortion in color or geometry. LCDs have a native resolution...
my 2c
I knew most geek weren't the strong type but this has to be a new low, the weight of modern CRTs is low, very low, that overweight thing could have been the truth for a normal person 10 years ago, maybe 7... but today...
Too many application are far better off with them, gaming being one, medical imagery, AV and media production are few example of those.
in the course of my comment, lCD means flat panels, I know that the reader knows of all the variant in existence, no need to point your genius, I know too.
If my computer isn't powerfull enough to play a game I lower the resolution, on an LCD it means destroying your image in a sea of faux-blur about as bearable to look at as a naked Martha Stewart. Medical imagery need resolution AND small picture (relatively) a 15'x45' screen surface isn't good to a doctor, a 19" screen is, and that screen needs a resolution of at least 1600x1200 to be usefull, 2048x1536 being even more used in our days, LCDs displaying such resolutions are way too expensive and have far more problem, as far as viewing angle and color discrepancies goes, than CRTs. LCDs deform over time, their color don't age at the same pace and the contrast lower itself rather rapidly, any media production professionnal will tell you so, where I work this is one of the major pain we have with flat panels, CRTs are systematicaly more consistent than LCDs.
Bottom line, yes, CRTs will be a niche, some flat panel variant will one day replace them in the form we know (we all have heard of Motorola nano crt technology, but it's not a CRT as we know it), but this day isn't even near, if only for price/performance reasons.
Isn't it funny that your post is actually a Zealot one, you know, taking one example of your life and applying it to everyone who use the same platform, making a post not about zealots but zealots on the mac, like they are the worst or only kind and then explaining why buying a mac is stupid because it validates the point that pc users are stupid...
Wake up dude, you're ranting about your own self.
All of those super long posts pretending to rationnaly rebuff the guys claim are worth no good, the only thing open source has been good at is copying, cracking, me too and badly at that, god bless Firefox because it might not be original, innovative (which support what the guy claims) but it works very well, its my browser of choice and it's so far the only real good product that has been produced by open source. Realize what the guy is saying, open source isnt innovative, he's right, it might be secure, good, fast, inspiring, liberating, free but as of now, it doesn't drive innovation, it copies it.
No offense to the Linux community or Linux in itself but often I come on Slashdot reading about the next great Linux evolution and I end up looking at some high-school grade projects. The tech demo is bad, really bad, I'm sure a N64 would do better. You can say it's because the guys are programmers not artist but the lack of any decent 3D trick tells me this tech demo show an outdated tech. No offense, I'm not taking on Linux in itself but this project. It looks bad and there is no reason to hype it up. When I say it happens too often well it's true, you guys get easilly hyped on potential not result. A lot of software has potential in Linux, Linux has potential, now it just need to deliver on that potential. Hyping a bad product can actually lead to a slower adoption, think about it.
Then again it's good to see some people actually tackle those issues, who knows, maybe next year we'll be looking at the Firefox of 3D...
I mean, I for one was once running in the dark eating pills and listening to repetitive music...
So what you are telling me is that you dream of the day that
1- socially skilled people, people who spend more time on their look, attitude and meeting skillz than their thinking, will be able to profit from people who spend most of their time trying to find solutions to problem but are bad at selling them?
2- you have an idea that will solve energy problems around the world, onto which you spent years thinking and sorting your ideas out and evaluate them to finally come up with the right solution but since your friend daddy's rich and he's an ass, he takes your idea and market it, so that those year of work remain unpaid (thinking to a point where that thinking can be materialized is actual work btw, you can't wake up in the morning with a car design in mind, you can have a idea about it but to actually design it is a shitload of work). I mean, even I like noodle but not if it's the only thing I'll eat because my ideas serves the other, there is a line between sharing ideas and being exploited.
3- that intelligent people see no purpose in being so, because every time they better the world some other guy profit from it?
4- intellectual property isn't bullshit, it is so not bullshit that, I'm writting this on a machine that would never have been invented if no one had any incentive in doing so, like you are going to be the only one to profit from it for the next 5 years...
Yes intellectual property has been distorted and used in the most vile of manners, transfering rights shouldn't even be feasible, transfering rights to a non-living entity (corporations for example) should be illegal, this way the inventor profit from it not some wise-ass evil company who, since it has a potentially unlimited lifetime existence, will maintain the right in effect for eternity (some type of rights wear off 50 years after the death of the author, rights transfered to a corps can therefore never become public domain...). I'm not saying it's being managed well. But intellectual property is far from being bullshit.
And the problem is? What is wrong with them wanting control over their content and content distribution system? All they are saying is play with it but so will we. They don't make a site so you shamelessly copy them to profit or get eyeballs at your own site, it's even surprising (in a good way) that they actually let you play with their apps and give away their intellectual property that freely, all they want in return is the possibility for themselves to also play with it regardless of what you have done with it...
Some people are never happy...
The data rate you are talking about are for compressed video, 1080i takes about 3 Gbits per second, once uncompressed and in transport, and that is without audio.
Why saying this while you actually meant compressed video? Because the Airport Express you were talking about doesn't decode video or audio, it just relays them. If you want the Airport Express to actually take the 2Mbps stream and playback video it will have to decode it, therefore it will need to pack serious firepower and its price will deffinitely go up. The only way it can do it without decoding video itself, mean acting only as a relay like it does now, is to somewhat find a way to communicate from the Mac to the airport base station using the same bandwith than DVI... wireless isn't even close to reaching that...
Dude if you have to visit a website to know how an mp3 player works it's NOT an iPod killer... or even a decent product
a tutorial for an mp3 player?
man
whats next
Spoons for dummies?
Sometimes you have to sit down and realize someone found an inexpensive way to add value to something it was selling. Videos are produced for promotion and then distributed to various stations for replay. The cost of the video is included in the original marketing budget and it's one of the rare thing artists produce that no one wants to get copyrights on, it has copyrights but the purpose of this thing is distribution to the widest audience.
Considering that, if I buy an album online I sure don't get the picture and text one find on the physical album but I get the video produced for it, neat, very neat and it cost Apple a big nothin' (tv stations don't pay to get video, some conditions may apply but no money -- I work in this field btw, that's why I know about this), which means the price for song and album remain the same but I get more with each buy...
Now it's worth it to buy an entire album wether I like all the song on it or just a few...
I mean if you consider that recently Jeb Bush legalized the use of firearm in public as long as one feel his live is endangered, the spam capital of the world, a primary entry point for most of the drug in the US...
And it's governor another Bush, what a great american family...
These inventions seems to appear often here
But rarely in real life...
Reading all the answer here bring me to the next logical observation:
You guys consider that MacOsX saying error -36 is bad because you have to lookup what it means in some error number reference guide in pdf format but Windows BSOD is good because, sometimes when you google the entire error you can get some help somewhere online...
I guess your post and the parent one will be switched when a new Windows or Linux release gets out.
fanboys... pfffff
Well in all fairness, have anyone ever solved any Windows crash by reading a blue screen? No, the information presented there is totally useless to anyone but the person who develloped the software. And even then.
this goes hand in hand with the concept that most "programmers" do it to impress people with their "intelligence" and "skillz", if you see a BSOD and pretend its usefull, you get extra auntie-impress points.
There is no use telling something to the user if what you tell him has no use...
Even with firefox the website generates pop-up, yes they are blocked theoriticaly but they seem to still get trough, of course if you close a window the article doesn't load...
This is not a price I'm willing to pay to see some over-imaginative geek dreamer explain it's theory on lighsaber forging...
technicaly speaking Tibet is not a country is a region of China, Taiwan isn't a country it's a region of China, and so on...
Quebec is a country, it's just not free yet...
What do you guys do with your computer? no seriously, I mean, Linux is desktop ready, my mom could use this, a desktop cluster running fedora core... You know all those reference to the desktop usability of this and that product. I mean this thing isn't a desktop cluster, it's just a cluster that some geek decided to use at home, that don't make it a desktop cluster. 110Gflops to browse the web with lynx? Write a document in Open Office? or edit a 72dpi resolution desktop wallpaper in the Gimp?
In my country (Quebec) we have this problem, people say "I have the right to..." and put a word beside it and that should give them the right to what the word says, in their mind just because they can align some word they think it gives them the right to do anything, even if the law says they can't do it. Same goes here at an other level, you guys think that slapping the word desktop to anything make it a desktop thing, but believe me there is more to a desktop than a product name or description, even if it runs a "desktop" OS like Fedora Core (here it goes again, Fedora Core is a desktop thing just because some guys said it not because it actually can be effectively used as such, except if you are beyond dedicated...).
No offense to Linux, the desktop cluster in itself or anything, just a little thought on the usage of the word desktop...
This answer is slowly becoming the most often used answer to anything the US ask us, and it's a good thing.
The idea of the US is not to better itself, it's to make the rest of the world so bad they look good in comparison. They're trying with our health system (and are slowly succeeding), with our incarceration system, defense (although we actually, in practice have none...) system and so on, now the IP laws.
It's not because their society suck that we have to suck like them. I say it's a good thing Canada has a minority government now, a very good one, and my fellow canadian should listen to my advice: ALWAYS vote so we have a minority government, they actually work for us when that happens instead of working for their friends. they actually even get balls and take real decision like saying no to our over-protectionist-always-complaining neighbour. They piss the world off but we should have to change so their citizen make more money off our back... I say thanks to a minority government the US rejection of our rejection (doesn't it feel like anal retention to you?) might be rejected.
See even in our political life we have understood that diversity is a good thing. Trying to unify everything to you is not only stupid and impossibly dimwitted in it's lack of perspective and realism it is simply put utopian...
No honestly, Tiger will be all good when I get it, I'm sure, and I really like my Mac, but sincerly is that breaking news? Walt Mossberg raving on the Mac, or anything Apple? He is the Turrot of Mac, that's not a big news...
This thing is merely a bigger budget version of this classical moment of the web. If this guy would have had half their budget he would have done great things ;) , cause I'll side with the rest on acting quality; amateur film, amateur actors, it was predictable but it is still disturbing to see geeks playing on screen wath they've been practicing in their bedrooms for years...
Although I would like to congratulate them on bringing us the first Star-Wars where women aren't a prize or a decoration...
yeah Linux is very easy to use and its desktop ready...
I just set my card to record the playback of my computer... and press record, duh! but that was too obvious I guess
Not bizarre at all, if every company owner would pay itself below minimum wage the richest people wouldn't pay taxes.
...wait they don't anyway...
Minimum wage wasn't brought forth to help people or take care of the people left back by our society. Minimum wage is the prime example of "using the left to promote the right", now that everyone (but the homeless), even the poorest, have a salary you can take income taxe off a lot more people, and remove that burden from the richest, the one you see as the shaper of your society, by creating tax shelters. If minimum wage truly was about preventing poverty it would actually be much higher cause no one can live 40hrs a week paid at around 8$, life cost too much for that but the amount of money that goes to the income tax gets interesting.