Isn't CES closed to the public? Doesn't it then seem to make more sense to communicate directly with the consumer than to waste time and energy on something that only bills itself with the word?
Disregard if that's not the case, of course, but I can see where they're coming from if they only allow journalists entry.
Granted, I haven't read the fine print on OIT's position, but based on their ads on the busses and what's been run in the Diamondback (school paper), the University of Maryland will be doing absolutely no assistance for students whatsoever.
This is good for the institution overall because we already don't have any money left over, but OIT has been warning students for quite some time that they're not invincible or invisible, and it's only a matter of time before someone gets upset at them.
Well... that is so far away; clearly, you guys can't possibly have enough room for a box warehouse, and isn't it only once every three days you get a floatplane in there to take out cargo?
Seriously though, that's messed up - I can't believe it actually takes them that long to get you swapped out. Maybe there's some hope eventually....
Yes - I just now realized that Applecare adds 240 dollars to the cost of a powerbook. I guess you something with the something; I kind of take for granted working in an environment that _requires_ a dual-platform hardware approach.
Hah - we had a powerbook G4's drive die on us a couple weeks ago. The mechanism that raises and lowers the spindle had failed, so it as much as ate the disc in the drive at the time. We called apple, had a box in hand the next day, DHL came back to pick it up later that afternoon, and we had it back inside four business days.
When the screen leprosy issue struck one of our earlier G4 models, we got the box, shipped off same day, and received the repaired 'book the first thing in the morning on the second business day.
Two weeks? Next time, make sure you buy applecare and call them on the phone, I'd say.
(for the record, we use our fleet of Dell Latitude and Apple Powerbook machines for academic instructional support - i.e. "this professor is going to become very angry at us if we take away their powerpoint presentation equipment." I guess your mileage may vary, but two weeks?)
Dynamic range is a measure of volume response, usually discussed in decibels. I think it's the bit-count that determines the DR for a given digital medium, which is why people care about 24 bit audio instead of 16 bit (for example). Frequency response is what you're thinking, with two samples determining the highest frequency reproduction possible.
Forgive the offtopic, but anything off Scenes is unfair as a standalone, but even listening to most of Images & Words and then A Change of Seasons makes you understand the song even more. Maybe it's just the leet music nerd within, but I hear so much of the music within those songs in the rest of the body of work that it almost takes a listen to all of them to understand any given part. That said, there are those of us who don't listen to lyrics, so lyrical continuity is a useless metric for whole-album status.
I agree with the above statements on Six Degrees, though - that's how you make a concept album. If you want your listeners to listen to something all the way through, then make it compelling enough to do so. Me, I very rarely tend to listen to anything on-the-go as anything but whole album, but that's because my iPod likes to crap itself out every once in a while, and it's a lot easier to restart listening from one point in an album than to restart shuffle and "risk" hearing the same song twice in rapid succession.
I'm pretty sure the first wireless remote controls for television happened in the 50s. I remember things that actually had metal bars in them that were tuned to specific ultrasound frequencies.
Then came the visible light remotes.
Both of those are a lot more compatible than IR: if you needed to control your TV in a pinch, you could use certain naturally occurring sounds or direct sunlight to make adjustments from the comfort of your seat.
I'm sure there's a boatload of information on that sort of thing available online.
Do the two or three times I used a retail box of 10.3 to clean install onto a blank hard drive count? Just because it gets used as an upgrade doesn't mean it only works as one; more importantly, the license is a fresh and new entire license. When you purchase a box of 10.x, your old operating system doesn't magically become the base for the current one.
Slight correction: current Mac OS X prices are $129. Period. That's for the full OS on disc; there is no "upgrade" per se. We would probably see the introduction of a cheaper upgrade option rather than a more expensive "full" version.
It might have been better ideologically speaking, but (unfortunately) microsoft's ideas about not including crap didn't help the fact that it takes forever for playback to restart after a scrub through windows media 9 files and that closing the window quits the program. That and the absence of a way to scrub with the keyboard (Yes, the shortcuts are there; No, I've never once encountered a video that can use them) means that I loathe the thought of using WMP for anything, even if it means keeping mplayer and VLC around.
Hail to the MX indeed... both of my parents had them from either 76 when they came out or 78 when my mom finished college. Both of them used it consistently until someone purchased my mother a film Rebel of some sort; I expressed interest in photography, so her MX and two primes (24mm and 135mm) became mine. I ended up getting a 50mm (the 1.7) and two zooms before I decided I needed an auto body of some sort, and got the last of the great consumer Pentax film cameras, the ZX-L. Both just feel right to me, but I've taken too many great pictures with the MX to cast it aside. I wish though that I hadn't forgone the space and taken it with me to Utah this winter break. The batteries in the ZX-L really didn't like being hauled around near freezing most of the time. Both are great, but I trust the manual more than the automatic, when it comes down to it.
Too bad pentax is sold on getting rid of the aperture ring in cameras... removal of the diaphragm simulator will be their downfall.
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As long as apple is shipping 1024x768 native LCDs, the mini store will be optional. I didn't know what it was for until this story/thread showed up because I turned it off without letting it finish loading. I made that choice based on the fact that it was taking up 40 percent of my screen and I'd rather be able to see songs I _already_have_ than waste time and energy looking at a music store that I know doesn't carry music I want to buy. Mostly.
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Something you can add to that thought:
What about when I'm watching something like G4 and they show me ads for other shows on G4 I might like? Or for video game development colleges? Or how about the Joke of the Day commercial with awful CG on Comedy Central? Or *gasp* toys on Nickelodeon during the late afternoon and early evening?
Granted, the only thing you're "sending back" is the implicit 'I am watching this channel because its subject matter appeals to me,' but that doesn't change the fact that you're still sending it back. Intelligently targeted advertising is nothing new, and I quite frankly don't care if Apple has my listening habits for iTunes. Maybe one day they'll actually carry music I want to buy if they see it showing up in "You own ______." More importantly, they already have my name and address on file, that's more important than the fact that I own ten Dream Theater albums and three of the band member side projects.
Oh yeah. My ears won't even come close to fitting standard earbuds as shipped by Apple this year or iRiver two years ago. I bought the 40 dollar sony canal phones and liked the change so much I'm ordering a pair of shures. The volume cut back is also great for battery life, or so I get to tell myself. You know, cause the battery in my music player is more important than my hearing.
Careful... my EXL 51P or whatever their actual model number is set is falling apart... the cable material isn't strong enough for day to day use involving a lot of moving around. They're great phones, otherwise, giving a good enough response that you can rely on cuts instead of boosts, and I don't have to go up above halfway on my iPod mini's volume control to hear comfortably.
Added bonus: no more idiot college student cell phone conversations get into my ears.
I want to say "not advancing isn't evidence advancement isn't possible" but I'm not real sure how to go about saying that in a logically laid out fashion. Suffice it to say there are creatures like birds and deer and god knows what else that've changed around. Deer kind of suck, and if nature happened to give them a way to stop freezing up in headlights, the... whatever, I don't need to tell you that.
To the best of my knowledge, taking the lord's name in vain includes written works, because if you were to write God's name on paper, that paper could become crumpled or soiled... this amounts to an affront to God, so an alternative is to blank letters such that everyone knows what you mean but you don't actually take the name.
If evolution is taken to be the natural development and advancement of traits beneficial to a species' long term survival, falsification of evolution would require you to analyze fossil records, DNA patterns, and so on to prove that there were no progresses within bloodlines. It's possible, but it would either take a long time to observe from here forward or a long time to analyze from here backward.
It's not the idea of a wheel for scrolling that's the new-and-different here, it's the uninterrupted motion, as I understand it. It's fluid enough that it's not supposed to be a pain to scroll through numerous items.
Not that I know what your gadgetry does or how it works.
Also, it's worth noting that of the 6 of my coworkers with iPods, two use the stock earbuds. Yes, I see them everywhere, too, but not everyone buys into the cool.
For some, it is about the right functionality at a right enough price.
Aside from that, try creating some playlists or using Genre effectively. I'll agree that scrolling endlessly through artist after artist is boring and difficult, but if you use Genre instead of Artist, you get it lumped into smaller categories. If that's still too many, you can come up with labled subgenres and use those (think along the lines of southern doom metal v. progressive neoclassical metal, for example).
Just out of curiosity, what do you see Apple gaining from such an action? At the expense of added R&D costs and potentially smaller user loyalty, they'd get the support of more labels, perhaps?
Something worth noting, however, is that if you're accessing your directories from a point other than the console itself, you won't be able to hook into all that nifty spotlight gadgetry. until they do that, and until we have solid proof that desktop search databases don't suffer corruption at the drop of a hat, it's probably a good idea to keep using your preexisting notions of directory structure. As long as tools like spotlight continue to have their own interfaces, you won't notice the difference when you're using spotlight as opposed to AFP or the terminal or whatever else.
Macs did have a proper file structure before OS X: it was whatever you wanted it to be. Personally, I stuck to the Applications/Documents format Apple presented me with on our first mac back in 1995. I still use this format, but the OS let you create as many subfolders wherever you wanted, so whatever organization scheme worked best for you was the one you used. Unfortunately, with OS X, and especially with the removal of things like Favorites-as-a-default, the HD icon is the only folder you see on the desktop at startup, so it's probably quite a bit more compelling to put things in there if you don't "know any better."
I'd guess there's some compulsion to try to simply drag files to My Computer on windows machines for some people.
As a more stereotypical guess, mac people tend to have relied on visual layouts in folders to deal with filesystem issues, so those people like to see all of their files in one view. A professor I have to deal with during the course of my job is like this; he has 400 files on his desktop, and then on top of that he keeps nested folder after nested folder of files for his class presentations on his drive. I have no clue whatsoever how he gets anything done, especially as one of his main subfolders is labled with his name.
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Kelvin bytes sounds like it should be a unit of Internet work to me.
Has anyone started to develop ways to quantify how much we're doing with computers these days? If not, I recommend we start soon.
Isn't CES closed to the public? Doesn't it then seem to make more sense to communicate directly with the consumer than to waste time and energy on something that only bills itself with the word?
Disregard if that's not the case, of course, but I can see where they're coming from if they only allow journalists entry.
Granted, I haven't read the fine print on OIT's position, but based on their ads on the busses and what's been run in the Diamondback (school paper), the University of Maryland will be doing absolutely no assistance for students whatsoever.
This is good for the institution overall because we already don't have any money left over, but OIT has been warning students for quite some time that they're not invincible or invisible, and it's only a matter of time before someone gets upset at them.
Looks like that time has come... Here, have fun with this, too - http://www.oit.umd.edu/PlayFair/index.html
Well... that is so far away; clearly, you guys can't possibly have enough room for a box warehouse, and isn't it only once every three days you get a floatplane in there to take out cargo?
Seriously though, that's messed up - I can't believe it actually takes them that long to get you swapped out. Maybe there's some hope eventually....
Yes - I just now realized that Applecare adds 240 dollars to the cost of a powerbook. I guess you something with the something; I kind of take for granted working in an environment that _requires_ a dual-platform hardware approach.
Hah - we had a powerbook G4's drive die on us a couple weeks ago. The mechanism that raises and lowers the spindle had failed, so it as much as ate the disc in the drive at the time. We called apple, had a box in hand the next day, DHL came back to pick it up later that afternoon, and we had it back inside four business days.
When the screen leprosy issue struck one of our earlier G4 models, we got the box, shipped off same day, and received the repaired 'book the first thing in the morning on the second business day.
Two weeks? Next time, make sure you buy applecare and call them on the phone, I'd say.
(for the record, we use our fleet of Dell Latitude and Apple Powerbook machines for academic instructional support - i.e. "this professor is going to become very angry at us if we take away their powerpoint presentation equipment." I guess your mileage may vary, but two weeks?)
Dynamic range is a measure of volume response, usually discussed in decibels. I think it's the bit-count that determines the DR for a given digital medium, which is why people care about 24 bit audio instead of 16 bit (for example). Frequency response is what you're thinking, with two samples determining the highest frequency reproduction possible.
Forgive the offtopic, but anything off Scenes is unfair as a standalone, but even listening to most of Images & Words and then A Change of Seasons makes you understand the song even more. Maybe it's just the leet music nerd within, but I hear so much of the music within those songs in the rest of the body of work that it almost takes a listen to all of them to understand any given part. That said, there are those of us who don't listen to lyrics, so lyrical continuity is a useless metric for whole-album status.
I agree with the above statements on Six Degrees, though - that's how you make a concept album. If you want your listeners to listen to something all the way through, then make it compelling enough to do so. Me, I very rarely tend to listen to anything on-the-go as anything but whole album, but that's because my iPod likes to crap itself out every once in a while, and it's a lot easier to restart listening from one point in an album than to restart shuffle and "risk" hearing the same song twice in rapid succession.
re: remote controls, 25 years ago.
I'm pretty sure the first wireless remote controls for television happened in the 50s. I remember things that actually had metal bars in them that were tuned to specific ultrasound frequencies.
Then came the visible light remotes.
Both of those are a lot more compatible than IR: if you needed to control your TV in a pinch, you could use certain naturally occurring sounds or direct sunlight to make adjustments from the comfort of your seat.
I'm sure there's a boatload of information on that sort of thing available online.
Agreed that RF is probably the way to go, though.
Do the two or three times I used a retail box of 10.3 to clean install onto a blank hard drive count? Just because it gets used as an upgrade doesn't mean it only works as one; more importantly, the license is a fresh and new entire license. When you purchase a box of 10.x, your old operating system doesn't magically become the base for the current one.
Slight correction: current Mac OS X prices are $129. Period. That's for the full OS on disc; there is no "upgrade" per se. We would probably see the introduction of a cheaper upgrade option rather than a more expensive "full" version.
It might have been better ideologically speaking, but (unfortunately) microsoft's ideas about not including crap didn't help the fact that it takes forever for playback to restart after a scrub through windows media 9 files and that closing the window quits the program. That and the absence of a way to scrub with the keyboard (Yes, the shortcuts are there; No, I've never once encountered a video that can use them) means that I loathe the thought of using WMP for anything, even if it means keeping mplayer and VLC around.
Hail to the MX indeed... both of my parents had them from either 76 when they came out or 78 when my mom finished college. Both of them used it consistently until someone purchased my mother a film Rebel of some sort; I expressed interest in photography, so her MX and two primes (24mm and 135mm) became mine. I ended up getting a 50mm (the 1.7) and two zooms before I decided I needed an auto body of some sort, and got the last of the great consumer Pentax film cameras, the ZX-L. Both just feel right to me, but I've taken too many great pictures with the MX to cast it aside. I wish though that I hadn't forgone the space and taken it with me to Utah this winter break. The batteries in the ZX-L really didn't like being hauled around near freezing most of the time. Both are great, but I trust the manual more than the automatic, when it comes down to it.
Too bad pentax is sold on getting rid of the aperture ring in cameras... removal of the diaphragm simulator will be their downfall.
As long as apple is shipping 1024x768 native LCDs, the mini store will be optional. I didn't know what it was for until this story/thread showed up because I turned it off without letting it finish loading. I made that choice based on the fact that it was taking up 40 percent of my screen and I'd rather be able to see songs I _already_have_ than waste time and energy looking at a music store that I know doesn't carry music I want to buy. Mostly.
Something you can add to that thought:
What about when I'm watching something like G4 and they show me ads for other shows on G4 I might like? Or for video game development colleges? Or how about the Joke of the Day commercial with awful CG on Comedy Central? Or *gasp* toys on Nickelodeon during the late afternoon and early evening?
Granted, the only thing you're "sending back" is the implicit 'I am watching this channel because its subject matter appeals to me,' but that doesn't change the fact that you're still sending it back. Intelligently targeted advertising is nothing new, and I quite frankly don't care if Apple has my listening habits for iTunes. Maybe one day they'll actually carry music I want to buy if they see it showing up in "You own ______." More importantly, they already have my name and address on file, that's more important than the fact that I own ten Dream Theater albums and three of the band member side projects.
Oh yeah. My ears won't even come close to fitting standard earbuds as shipped by Apple this year or iRiver two years ago. I bought the 40 dollar sony canal phones and liked the change so much I'm ordering a pair of shures. The volume cut back is also great for battery life, or so I get to tell myself. You know, cause the battery in my music player is more important than my hearing.
Careful... my EXL 51P or whatever their actual model number is set is falling apart... the cable material isn't strong enough for day to day use involving a lot of moving around. They're great phones, otherwise, giving a good enough response that you can rely on cuts instead of boosts, and I don't have to go up above halfway on my iPod mini's volume control to hear comfortably.
Added bonus: no more idiot college student cell phone conversations get into my ears.
I want to say "not advancing isn't evidence advancement isn't possible" but I'm not real sure how to go about saying that in a logically laid out fashion. Suffice it to say there are creatures like birds and deer and god knows what else that've changed around. Deer kind of suck, and if nature happened to give them a way to stop freezing up in headlights, the... whatever, I don't need to tell you that.
Contemptable pythons.
To the best of my knowledge, taking the lord's name in vain includes written works, because if you were to write God's name on paper, that paper could become crumpled or soiled... this amounts to an affront to God, so an alternative is to blank letters such that everyone knows what you mean but you don't actually take the name.
If evolution is taken to be the natural development and advancement of traits beneficial to a species' long term survival, falsification of evolution would require you to analyze fossil records, DNA patterns, and so on to prove that there were no progresses within bloodlines. It's possible, but it would either take a long time to observe from here forward or a long time to analyze from here backward.
It's not the idea of a wheel for scrolling that's the new-and-different here, it's the uninterrupted motion, as I understand it. It's fluid enough that it's not supposed to be a pain to scroll through numerous items.
Not that I know what your gadgetry does or how it works.
Also, it's worth noting that of the 6 of my coworkers with iPods, two use the stock earbuds. Yes, I see them everywhere, too, but not everyone buys into the cool.
For some, it is about the right functionality at a right enough price.
Menu bar at the top? what?
Aside from that, try creating some playlists or using Genre effectively. I'll agree that scrolling endlessly through artist after artist is boring and difficult, but if you use Genre instead of Artist, you get it lumped into smaller categories. If that's still too many, you can come up with labled subgenres and use those (think along the lines of southern doom metal v. progressive neoclassical metal, for example).
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Just out of curiosity, what do you see Apple gaining from such an action? At the expense of added R&D costs and potentially smaller user loyalty, they'd get the support of more labels, perhaps?
Something worth noting, however, is that if you're accessing your directories from a point other than the console itself, you won't be able to hook into all that nifty spotlight gadgetry. until they do that, and until we have solid proof that desktop search databases don't suffer corruption at the drop of a hat, it's probably a good idea to keep using your preexisting notions of directory structure. As long as tools like spotlight continue to have their own interfaces, you won't notice the difference when you're using spotlight as opposed to AFP or the terminal or whatever else.
Macs did have a proper file structure before OS X: it was whatever you wanted it to be. Personally, I stuck to the Applications/Documents format Apple presented me with on our first mac back in 1995. I still use this format, but the OS let you create as many subfolders wherever you wanted, so whatever organization scheme worked best for you was the one you used. Unfortunately, with OS X, and especially with the removal of things like Favorites-as-a-default, the HD icon is the only folder you see on the desktop at startup, so it's probably quite a bit more compelling to put things in there if you don't "know any better."
I'd guess there's some compulsion to try to simply drag files to My Computer on windows machines for some people.
As a more stereotypical guess, mac people tend to have relied on visual layouts in folders to deal with filesystem issues, so those people like to see all of their files in one view. A professor I have to deal with during the course of my job is like this; he has 400 files on his desktop, and then on top of that he keeps nested folder after nested folder of files for his class presentations on his drive. I have no clue whatsoever how he gets anything done, especially as one of his main subfolders is labled with his name.
Ugh.