I tried iTunes, but as I have my own neat folder organization set up (1 folder per artist, subfolders for albums) I elected NOT to have iTunes take over control of organizing the files.
I understand that you may want to keep your own organization for your music files, but it so happens that your set up is identical to the one used by iTunes!
Yes, in the iTunes folder you will find a subfolder called iTunes Music. In it, every artist has one folder, with a subfolder for each album. Additionally, there is a folder for albums that are compilations of songs from different artists, and some artists have an "Unknown Album" subfolder for the files with empty Album tags.
Now, if you insist on doing it the hard way, I believe that you can simply drop your whole collection into iTunes every time. I haven't tested it (as I let iTunes organize my music), but I believe that it won't even try to re-link what has already been linked.
Well, as you are an AC I believe that I Have Been Trolled.
When joining an existing wireless network, AirPort Express supports only WPA Personal mode.
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding something, but I think this implies that if you're using the Express for bridging, it will support WPA (although not Enterprise mode). But I wonder why the reviewer couldn't configure it, though.
Yes, one of the most common side effects is dry eye syndrome. When I was wearing contacts, I used to carry a bottle of eye drops to moisten them occasionally, so when I got LASIK that was not a mayor problem for me. On the other hand, the problem started going away after a few months, and before a year I was eye-drop free. So, in the end, even in that regard LASIK was an improvement for me!
Since you already have dry eyes, and you live in a dry place, you are most certainly doomed to suffer from this. Sorry about that. Hopefully you will also get "cured" eventually. If the problem gets really bad, they can always plug the tubes that drain the tears from the eyes (only partially, to reduce the outgoing flow). Apparently it's no big deal.
The ellipsis ("...") in "0.9999..." means that the 9's are repeated indefinitely. So, for example 1/3 = 0.3333... exactly. So 10*0.9999... = 9.9999..., and 1 = 3/3 = 0.9999...
But don't feel bad, the fact that 0.9999... and 1 represent the same number is not something to lose sleep over:
Simply realize that 1 - 0.9999... is smaller than any positive real number, however small.
First, document yourself very well before taking any decision. A good place to start is this site that was linked by someone before in this discussion.
OK, now I'll tell you my personal experience (that's what GodLessOne is looking for, isn't it?). I got LASIK performed on my eyes back in December, 2001. At that time I lived in Colombia.
It turns out that, to the surprise of many of you, Colombian ophthalmologists are actually leaders in their field. Keratomileusis, the first refractive-correction surgery procedure was developed by Dr José Barraquer, and ALK (automated lamellar keratoplasty) by one of his students, Dr Luis Antonio Ruiz. ALK was very similar to LASIK, but the actual molding of the cornea was done mechanically. A Greek ophthalmologist was apparently the first one to use an excimer laser to do the molding, although I have read references that it was also Dr Ruiz's team who developed the automatic tracking mechanism that warranties that the laser will always burn the correct part of the cornea even if the eye moves. (The eye is not completely inmovilized. They ask you to look up, where there used to be a red light moments before, but if you do move your eyes it's OK.)
I barely knew about Barraquer back in 2001, and nothing else. Some friend of my family strongly recommended some Dr. Luis Ruiz when they found out I was interested in LASIK. Only a year later, when I was researching LASIK on the web for a friend who also wanted to get her eyes treated, did I find out that I had been operated by one of the inventors of the damned thing. By the way, my friend also lives in the USA and got her eyes operated by Dr. Ruiz during a holiday vacation trip. I recently talked to her and she told me that she went for a control appointment a few weeks back and she's still 20/20 (she went to Colombia for an unrelated reason).
Back to my story:
I got the procedure made on both eyes. I had myopia and slight astigmatism in both.
Weeks before the procedure, I was checked by Dr Ruiz and his collaborators (at least two other ophthalmologists and three optometrists performed different tests on me). Normally these exams can be made just a few days before the operation, but I needed to synchronize my operation with other things.
It is important to stop using contact lenses (specially hard ones, but also soft ones) several days before the exams and the operation. I think I used glasses for 20 days before, and I was wearing soft lenses. (Or was 20 days the recommended time for hard/gas permeable ones? I don't remember).
For three days before the operation and three after, I was told to use drops with an antibiotic.
I was absolutely terrified during the procedure. Although I am usually brave, almost perversely interested in the gory details of medical procedures performed to me, this were my eyes they were working on! For that reason I was hurting myself with the brackets they use to keep your eye open. (No, you can't blink, that's very comforting to know). That was with the first eye. The doctor scolded me softly to make me realize that I was only making things worst, and the left eye went on much more smoothly.
But the procedure doesn't really hurt! (In part because they put anesthetic drops in your eyes minutes before).
Recovery was fast. In two days, I was back to my normal life.
For a few months afterwards, my vision fluctuated slightly. Now it's more stable, and is diminished only when I'm tired, underslept, stressed, etc. That's normal, even if you don't have LASIK done.
For six months, I saw halos around light sources at night. I no longer do.
For a few months, my eyes were drier than normal, so I had a bottle of lubricating eye drops with me all the time. I don't need them anymore.
So my recommendations are:
Read all the risks mentioned in the article linked above. Make sure you understand them. A
Logging out of a user will stop it from playing,...
It will stop it from sounding (as the computer will be muted automatically), but the remaining instances of iTunes continue playing. You can work around this simply by pressing the muting key twice.
I was switching directly using the menu. But if you go through the login window (or if one of the users logs out, therefore sending you to the login window), the computer is automatically muted. All the iTunes instances (of the users who are still logged in, of course) continue playing, but you hear nothing.
You can work around this by pressing the muting button (F3 on a PB) twice.
At this moment, my PowerBook has three users logged in. Each one is playing a different song through iTunes. It's so damned annoying! (Fortunately, I have earphones connected, so I'm barely listening to the nonsense humming beside me).
I don't have an Airport Express so I can't verify if I can send the audio of just one of the iTunes instances to it, but I guess it will work. I bet you can actually do it with more than one Airport Express (each one receiving a stream from a different iTunes instance), and still listen to another instance locally.
I'm also using MacOS X 10.3.4 and iTunes 4.6. Maybe something's wrong with your setup? Or maybe you are trying to play songs from a server and there is a brief network interruption during the switch.
I don't get how you can have an electrical analog signal AND a beam of light shooting out of the same plug.
Why not? The electric connectors would hug the sides of the tip of the mini plug (and sides of the plug itself, of course) if that is what is connected. After the "tip's" position you would have the led for the optical signal (remember that this is an ouput-only device).
To get the optical signal, the only thing that you need is a fiber optic cable with a connector that has the same diameter and length of a mini plug and you are set.
The device doesn't even need to know what kind of signal to produce: since they won't interfere with each other, and battery life is not an issue, it can produce both signals continuously.
iTunes stops playing when it's owner isn't logged in on my PowerBook, so that won't work.
No, no, that's why he mentioned Fast User Switching. He meant that both users would remain logged in.
Since iTunes 4.5 several users can play songs at the same time. Without Airport Express that is completely useless, but I bet that with it you can direct the songs of each user to a different stereo or set of speakers, and another one can use the computer's sound hardware.
Oooh, that's so much more elegant than Windows' Alt+### combinations! (Although it does require some preconfiguration.)
I still prefer MacOS/MacOS X method, (and anyway I don't use Linux that much now), but I have already copied this to my very short list of useful tips.
Apparently the problem is the encoding. Using Safari's "Default" encoding, the following line looks great, except for the Euro sign that should appear at the end:
Z'--oe " "(TM)z S'sY - £ Û (hey, the GBP sign survives!)
For your reference, the "default" seems to be Western (ISO Latin 1), and some other ISO Latin encodings (like Turkish and Western European) reproduce most/all of the characters correctly. No Euros, unfortunately.
Now, using the "default",
& #233; & #128; renders:
é So the & #233 is OK, but the & #128 vanishes.
slashcode really, really sucks for banning é, dammit.
áéíóú àèìòù âêîôû ñÑ çÇ
Well, at least in the Preview everything seems to be working here, without the need of fancy HTML tags. A couple of years ago I emailed CmdrTaco regarding this, and he said that he would fix it if someone submitted a patch. Well, someone finally did it.
I'm using a Mac but I'm quite sure it will also work using Windows' awful Alt-### combinations. Does anyone know how to type accented characters in Linux using an English keyboard?
Oh, but even the "& eacute" text copied from your post renders correctly as an é! Weird.
All Sony notebook and desktop computers have TCP/IP over firewire driver for Windows. It works VERY well and is not "slow" nor "buggy". Just because Apple hasn't figured it out dont mean it dont exist.
Actually, Panther also supports TCP/IP over FireWire. It works VERY well, and is not "slow" or "buggy". It works with any FireWire enabled Mac, iBook or PowerBook.
You see, they are actually talking about connecting two iPods directly through FireWire, without a computer in the middle. Connecting computers through FireWire is a problem that was solved long ago.
First of all allow me to apologize for my reply. I really don't think that compared to the average Slashdot post mine was actually insulting, but the fact that you felt insulted tells me that I should at least "take a deep breath" before submitting a post.;)
Regarding the AtAT article, I beg to differ on your perception. I think that the relevant paragraphs are these (emphasis mine):
Well, it's cold shower time, kiddies. First of all, any sort of song capacity comparison is a joke, since a 20 GB hard drive is a 20 GB hard drive. Sony's drives aren't enchanted by a dusting of magical pixie dust before leaving the factory or anything. (At least, if they are, you'd expect Sony to play that up as a differentiating factor.) The difference in numbers here is that Apple bases its song count on 128 Kbps AAC files [apple.com], while
Sony's tally assumes "songs recorded at 48 kilobits per second." Yes, 48 Kbps. Considering how many people whine that even 128 Kbps AAC files don't sound good enough, we're going to go out on a limb and assume that 48 Kbps songs in any format are probably going to sound like a portable handheld AM radio playing from the bottom of a well while a few dozen people pop bubble wrap [urban75.com] nearby.
And here's the real deal-breaker: about that format? Turns out that Sony's decided to go with its proprietary ATRAC3 format... and nothing else. While Apple pushes AAC pretty heavily (it's the only thing it sells at the iTunes Music Store [apple.com]), at least the iPod can also play AIFF files, WAVs, the new Apple Lossless format, and probably most importantly of all, good ol' MP3s. If you get an NW-HD1, though, you'll have to transcode your entire music library into ATRAC3 before you can carry it around with you, and believe us when we tell you that you're not going to want to do that.
See, aside from the time you'd have to invest, there's the little matter of the fact that, quality-wise, the ATRAC3 format apparently sucks eggs whole through a Crazy Straw [smalltoys.com]. For evidence, we point you towards the results of Roberto Amorim's latest public listening test [rjamorim.com], conducted just a couple of months ago. The test had dozens of listeners rate the same pieces of music encoded into several digital music formats at or around 128 kbps, and when the results were tabulated, ATRAC3 at 132 kbps came out dead last, having "surprised by its bad performance." So if listeners judge 132 kbps ATRAC3 (incidentally, the format and bitrate of songs sold by Sony's Connect [connect.com] downloadable music store) to sound so much worse than 128 kbps AAC, what do you suppose 48 kbps ATRAC must sound like? (Three hints: radio; well; bubble wrap.)
You seem to conclude from this that the author is implying that the NW-HD1 will only play ATRAC3 at 48 kbps.
I don't agree, and neither does illumin8. For us, the article says that the player will only use the ATRAC3 format. It also says that ATRAC3 @ 132 kbps has relatively bad performance (compared to AAC @ 128), and that the 13,000 songs claim was made assuming ATRAC3 @ 48, so comparing them to the 5,000 AAC @ 128 songs is ridiculous. But we don't see where it implies that the player won't play the 132 kbps files. (It seems to me that Sony is the one that doesn't acknowledge that the iPod can also play songs in 48 kbps encodings.)
The "earth is close to the sun" comparison is referring to the NW-HD1 as a close competitor to the iPod as complete products. The author says that, due to the fact that the Sony only uses ATRAC3, people will not like it. (This is not only due to the alleged fact that at similar rates AAC sounds better, but also that people already have their collections in MP3 and ACC, so they have to re-rip or take an additional penalty by transcoding between lossy formats. Admittedly, the article does not mention this last thing explicitly.)
Finally, you probably don't know it, but AtAT's articles are meant to be rather humoristic. They are written to amuse some weird Apple fans. They are not meant to be objective, although they sometimes happen to be slightly insightful. So, don't expect much objectivity of them.
But that doesn't mean that it's the only data rate supported. The product doesn't even exist yet.
Please, dfghjk, take a deep breath. Now, read the article again and illumin8's answer to your comment. And take a deep breath again.
No one, not Sony, not AtAT, nor illumin8, said that 48 kbps will be the only data rate supported. As a matter of fact, they all assume the obvious: Sony's device will support ATRAC3 at several bitrates.
The 48 kbps rate is mentioned only to explain why Sony claims their device stores many more songs than an iPod with the same HD capacity.
Yes, I know it sounds far fetched but both your demonstration and kesuki's are correct.
Now, in order for you to sleep tonight after learning the horrible truth about this slight glitch in the decimal system, think about this: how much is 1 - 0.99999... ? Do you realize that it's smaller than the magnitude of any real number (except 0)?
(...)Toshiba notebooks don't come in titanium/aluminium cases.
The metal bodies may be pretty but that doesn't make them good. I suggest you go to google and search for "powerbook paint".
The Titanium Powerbooks had a coat of paint, that, as you say, sometimes cracked and peeled. The Aluminum Powerbooks are made of brush aluminum, with no paint to crack or peel. I guess bare titanium is too ugly while brushed aluminum certainly isn't.
As a matter of fact, all the Al Powerbooks I've seen have their cases in prime shape (including the 1st gen 15" I'm writing this from). And I've only read (in the 'net) about one guy who apparently has some dermatologic problem because his sweat causes the Al handrests to deteriorate.
Just in case someone is still wondering, on this article Apple's senior director of desktop product marketing confirms that (in at least the 2.5 GHz version) "The processor was built using the 90-nanometer process."
Here you will find a photograph and In here the schematics of the cooling system used.
And yes, there is a pump in there. So 'dynamically' is not a mere buzzword in this case. And no, it's not a simple heat pipe.
Oh, and it's not Burnoulli tube, but Bernoulli tube.
Now, did you really need to be that rude with someone only because he had a different opinion (even if you forget the fact that he was actually right and you wrong)?
Hymn was written to extend fair use of the iTMS, by allowing you to play the files that YOU bought in the iTMS in devices that DON'T support Apples DRM.
Ok so let's suppose you have a Mac, an iPod, a Windows PC, a Linux box, and another AAC-capable player.
You buy a file from the iTMS. It plays in your Mac, your iPod, and the Windows machine using iTunes. But you want to play it in your Linux box and in the other AAC player. And maybe in WinAmp, since I've heard that iTunes for Windows is a resource hog (I'm very glad I use a Mac).
So, you use Hymn to de-DRM-ize your files. The new files work in the non-Apple players, but not in iTunes.
Well... who gives a f**k if iTunes refuses to play the new files? You already have the original files, which play nicely in iTunes! So you don't want to have duplicate files in your computer(s)? Well, leave only the copy that works in each machine! Duh!
I see this as an issue if you want to play the files in iTunes in more than five machines all in different places. (If they are in the same network, you can use the iTunes sharing feature). But quite frankly that is far from typical for a normal user. Very, very far.
What I see is a bunch of pirates who want to share the Hymn-ized files illegally, and don't want to leave evidence to trace them back in the files. Users who really want to enforce their fair use rights should have no problems since they still can play their iTMS songs in all their AAC-capable players.
Come on, it's the G5 info link in the PowerMac section of the Apple website! It specifically says:
Over 58 million, thanks to IBM's sophisticated process technology that builds them just 90 nanometers wide. Such superior technology developments turbo-charge the G5 processor to speeds of up to 2.5GHz.
(They are referring to the 2.5 GHz G5 in the top of the line PowerMac).
If you want further proof, take a look at either the PowerMac White Paper or the Technology and Performance Overview. (Both are linked from the PowerMac main page).
And to the people that responded saying that the system is not liquid cooled, well, you are wrong. (Although you are right in that the liquid isn't water). Apple didn't use a heat pipe. In heat pipes the liquid is evaporated (taking the heat away) and the resulting vapor is condensed by releasing the heat to the outside. The fluid motion is produced passively. In Apple's design apparently the fluid is always in liquid state and is actively pumped (controlled by the processor).
(Credit goes to TamMan2000 for the finding the last link and providing some info.)
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I understand that you may want to keep your own organization for your music files, but it so happens that your set up is identical to the one used by iTunes!
Yes, in the iTunes folder you will find a subfolder called iTunes Music. In it, every artist has one folder, with a subfolder for each album. Additionally, there is a folder for albums that are compilations of songs from different artists, and some artists have an "Unknown Album" subfolder for the files with empty Album tags.
Now, if you insist on doing it the hard way, I believe that you can simply drop your whole collection into iTunes every time. I haven't tested it (as I let iTunes organize my music), but I believe that it won't even try to re-link what has already been linked.
Well, as you are an AC I believe that I Have Been Trolled.
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding something, but I think this implies that if you're using the Express for bridging, it will support WPA (although not Enterprise mode). But I wonder why the reviewer couldn't configure it, though.
Yes, one of the most common side effects is dry eye syndrome. When I was wearing contacts, I used to carry a bottle of eye drops to moisten them occasionally, so when I got LASIK that was not a mayor problem for me. On the other hand, the problem started going away after a few months, and before a year I was eye-drop free. So, in the end, even in that regard LASIK was an improvement for me!
Since you already have dry eyes, and you live in a dry place, you are most certainly doomed to suffer from this. Sorry about that. Hopefully you will also get "cured" eventually. If the problem gets really bad, they can always plug the tubes that drain the tears from the eyes (only partially, to reduce the outgoing flow). Apparently it's no big deal.
The ellipsis ("...") in "0.9999..." means that the 9's are repeated indefinitely. So, for example 1/3 = 0.3333... exactly. So
10*0.9999... = 9.9999..., and 1 = 3/3 = 0.9999...
But don't feel bad, the fact that 0.9999... and 1 represent the same number is not something to lose sleep over:
Simply realize that 1 - 0.9999... is smaller than any positive real number, however small.
OK, now I'll tell you my personal experience (that's what GodLessOne is looking for, isn't it?). I got LASIK performed on my eyes back in December, 2001. At that time I lived in Colombia.
It turns out that, to the surprise of many of you, Colombian ophthalmologists are actually leaders in their field. Keratomileusis, the first refractive-correction surgery procedure was developed by Dr José Barraquer, and ALK (automated lamellar keratoplasty) by one of his students, Dr Luis Antonio Ruiz. ALK was very similar to LASIK, but the actual molding of the cornea was done mechanically. A Greek ophthalmologist was apparently the first one to use an excimer laser to do the molding, although I have read references that it was also Dr Ruiz's team who developed the automatic tracking mechanism that warranties that the laser will always burn the correct part of the cornea even if the eye moves. (The eye is not completely inmovilized. They ask you to look up, where there used to be a red light moments before, but if you do move your eyes it's OK.)
I barely knew about Barraquer back in 2001, and nothing else. Some friend of my family strongly recommended some Dr. Luis Ruiz when they found out I was interested in LASIK. Only a year later, when I was researching LASIK on the web for a friend who also wanted to get her eyes treated, did I find out that I had been operated by one of the inventors of the damned thing. By the way, my friend also lives in the USA and got her eyes operated by Dr. Ruiz during a holiday vacation trip. I recently talked to her and she told me that she went for a control appointment a few weeks back and she's still 20/20 (she went to Colombia for an unrelated reason).
Back to my story:
So my recommendations are:
Logging out of a user will stop it from playing,...
It will stop it from sounding (as the computer will be muted automatically), but the remaining instances of iTunes continue playing. You can work around this simply by pressing the muting key twice.
I think I may have found your problem:
I was switching directly using the menu. But if you go through the login window (or if one of the users logs out, therefore sending you to the login window), the computer is automatically muted. All the iTunes instances (of the users who are still logged in, of course) continue playing, but you hear nothing.
You can work around this by pressing the muting button (F3 on a PB) twice.
At this moment, my PowerBook has three users logged in. Each one is playing a different song through iTunes. It's so damned annoying! (Fortunately, I have earphones connected, so I'm barely listening to the nonsense humming beside me).
I don't have an Airport Express so I can't verify if I can send the audio of just one of the iTunes instances to it, but I guess it will work. I bet you can actually do it with more than one Airport Express (each one receiving a stream from a different iTunes instance), and still listen to another instance locally.
I'm also using MacOS X 10.3.4 and iTunes 4.6. Maybe something's wrong with your setup? Or maybe you are trying to play songs from a server and there is a brief network interruption during the switch.
Why not? The electric connectors would hug the sides of the tip of the mini plug (and sides of the plug itself, of course) if that is what is connected. After the "tip's" position you would have the led for the optical signal (remember that this is an ouput-only device).
To get the optical signal, the only thing that you need is a fiber optic cable with a connector that has the same diameter and length of a mini plug and you are set.
The device doesn't even need to know what kind of signal to produce: since they won't interfere with each other, and battery life is not an issue, it can produce both signals continuously.
No, no, that's why he mentioned Fast User Switching. He meant that both users would remain logged in.
Since iTunes 4.5 several users can play songs at the same time. Without Airport Express that is completely useless, but I bet that with it you can direct the songs of each user to a different stereo or set of speakers, and another one can use the computer's sound hardware.
Oooh, that's so much more elegant than Windows' Alt+### combinations! (Although it does require some preconfiguration.)
I still prefer MacOS/MacOS X method, (and anyway I don't use Linux that much now), but I have already copied this to my very short list of useful tips.
Thanks!!
Apparently the problem is the encoding. Using Safari's "Default" encoding, the following line looks great, except for the Euro sign that should appear at the end:
áéíóú àèìòù âêîôû äëïöü ñÑ çÇ £
If I use Unicode (UTF-8), it renders like this:
ÃéÃÃà ÃÃÃÃà ÃÃîÃà ÃÃÃÃÃ? ñÃ' Ãà £ â
If I use Western (MacOS Roman), I get this:
Z'--oe " "(TM)z S'sY - £ Û
(hey, the GBP sign survives!)
For your reference, the "default" seems to be Western (ISO Latin 1), and some other ISO Latin encodings (like Turkish and Western European) reproduce most/all of the characters correctly. No Euros, unfortunately.
Now, using the "default",
& #233; & #128;
renders:
é
So the & #233 is OK, but the & #128 vanishes.
Well, at least they tried.
áéíóú àèìòù âêîôû ñÑ çÇ
Well, at least in the Preview everything seems to be working here, without the need of fancy HTML tags. A couple of years ago I emailed CmdrTaco regarding this, and he said that he would fix it if someone submitted a patch. Well, someone finally did it.
I'm using a Mac but I'm quite sure it will also work using Windows' awful Alt-### combinations. Does anyone know how to type accented characters in Linux using an English keyboard?
Oh, but even the "& eacute" text copied from your post renders correctly as an é! Weird.
You see, they are actually talking about connecting two iPods directly through FireWire, without a computer in the middle. Connecting computers through FireWire is a problem that was solved long ago.
Regarding the AtAT article, I beg to differ on your perception. I think that the relevant paragraphs are these (emphasis mine):
You seem to conclude from this that the author is implying that the NW-HD1 will only play ATRAC3 at 48 kbps.I don't agree, and neither does illumin8. For us, the article says that the player will only use the ATRAC3 format. It also says that ATRAC3 @ 132 kbps has relatively bad performance (compared to AAC @ 128), and that the 13,000 songs claim was made assuming ATRAC3 @ 48, so comparing them to the 5,000 AAC @ 128 songs is ridiculous. But we don't see where it implies that the player won't play the 132 kbps files. (It seems to me that Sony is the one that doesn't acknowledge that the iPod can also play songs in 48 kbps encodings.)
The "earth is close to the sun" comparison is referring to the NW-HD1 as a close competitor to the iPod as complete products. The author says that, due to the fact that the Sony only uses ATRAC3, people will not like it. (This is not only due to the alleged fact that at similar rates AAC sounds better, but also that people already have their collections in MP3 and ACC, so they have to re-rip or take an additional penalty by transcoding between lossy formats. Admittedly, the article does not mention this last thing explicitly.)
Finally, you probably don't know it, but AtAT's articles are meant to be rather humoristic. They are written to amuse some weird Apple fans. They are not meant to be objective, although they sometimes happen to be slightly insightful. So, don't expect much objectivity of them.
Please, dfghjk, take a deep breath. Now, read the article again and illumin8's answer to your comment. And take a deep breath again.
No one, not Sony, not AtAT, nor illumin8, said that 48 kbps will be the only data rate supported. As a matter of fact, they all assume the obvious: Sony's device will support ATRAC3 at several bitrates.
The 48 kbps rate is mentioned only to explain why Sony claims their device stores many more songs than an iPod with the same HD capacity.
There is no paradox here. 1 = 0.99999...
Yes, I know it sounds far fetched but both your demonstration and kesuki's are correct.
Now, in order for you to sleep tonight after learning the horrible truth about this slight glitch in the decimal system, think about this: how much is 1 - 0.99999... ? Do you realize that it's smaller than the magnitude of any real number (except 0)?
Actually the new 30" display costs $3299 before taxes, not $3900.
You can verify the price in the Apple Store.
As a matter of fact, all the Al Powerbooks I've seen have their cases in prime shape (including the 1st gen 15" I'm writing this from). And I've only read (in the 'net) about one guy who apparently has some dermatologic problem because his sweat causes the Al handrests to deteriorate.
Just in case someone is still wondering, on this article Apple's senior director of desktop product marketing confirms that (in at least the 2.5 GHz version) "The processor was built using the 90-nanometer process."
Here you will find a photograph and In here the schematics of the cooling system used.
And yes, there is a pump in there. So 'dynamically' is not a mere buzzword in this case. And no, it's not a simple heat pipe.
Oh, and it's not Burnoulli tube, but Bernoulli tube.
Now, did you really need to be that rude with someone only because he had a different opinion (even if you forget the fact that he was actually right and you wrong)?
Hymn was written to extend fair use of the iTMS, by allowing you to play the files that YOU bought in the iTMS in devices that DON'T support Apples DRM.
Ok so let's suppose you have a Mac, an iPod, a Windows PC, a Linux box, and another AAC-capable player.
You buy a file from the iTMS. It plays in your Mac, your iPod, and the Windows machine using iTunes. But you want to play it in your Linux box and in the other AAC player. And maybe in WinAmp, since I've heard that iTunes for Windows is a resource hog (I'm very glad I use a Mac).
So, you use Hymn to de-DRM-ize your files. The new files work in the non-Apple players, but not in iTunes.
Well... who gives a f**k if iTunes refuses to play the new files? You already have the original files, which play nicely in iTunes! So you don't want to have duplicate files in your computer(s)? Well, leave only the copy that works in each machine! Duh!
I see this as an issue if you want to play the files in iTunes in more than five machines all in different places. (If they are in the same network, you can use the iTunes sharing feature). But quite frankly that is far from typical for a normal user. Very, very far.
What I see is a bunch of pirates who want to share the Hymn-ized files illegally, and don't want to leave evidence to trace them back in the files. Users who really want to enforce their fair use rights should have no problems since they still can play their iTMS songs in all their AAC-capable players.
If you want further proof, take a look at either the PowerMac White Paper or the Technology and Performance Overview. (Both are linked from the PowerMac main page).
And to the people that responded saying that the system is not liquid cooled, well, you are wrong. (Although you are right in that the liquid isn't water). Apple didn't use a heat pipe. In heat pipes the liquid is evaporated (taking the heat away) and the resulting vapor is condensed by releasing the heat to the outside. The fluid motion is produced passively. In Apple's design apparently the fluid is always in liquid state and is actively pumped (controlled by the processor).
(Credit goes to TamMan2000 for the finding the last link and providing some info.)