Yes, the iPod can be mounted as removable storage in XP and OS X. A friend of mine just did it this last weekend. And it doesn't require any special drivers or software (assuming, of course, that you have the USB 2.0 or Firewire drivers installed). And contrary to popular opinion, it can be used to listen to non-DRM media.
I used a 5300 during my first two years of college without a hitch. I never experienced an exploding battery. The one problem I did have with it was that the trackpad button broke. I fixed that with an extension that added "clickability" to the trackpad. Problem solved. I sold it to a friend for $600 which I then used to pay for part of my new Lime iMac. Last time I saw it, it was being sold to a professor's wife two years later for...$600. I have yet to own a Mac that I had any real problems with.
My dad still does most of his work on a Performa 637CD (That's the Money magazine edition). He bought it back in 1994. That's over ten years folks. I remember playing Dark Forces and Myst on that thing. Oh, it shipped with eWorld...
If you look close enough, you can see that the author of the article is also the News Director over at macreate.net. Is it plagiarism when you copy yourself?
You can argue with statistics.
Isn't science, in part, the pursuit of proving theories, laws, and 'facts' false?
You have to look at A) How were the statistics gathered? B) How were the statistics analyzed? C) How were the statistics presented?
FTA, they were gathered by asking readers to respond to an online survey. Seeing as the website is called 'brandchannel.com', I would be led to believe that the majority of their readers were very brand-conscious to begin with. Also FTA, one can gather that the majority of their subscribers live in North America followed by Europe and S. Africa.
Here's some more interesting information: brandchannel.com is a subsidiary of Interbrand. Interbrand is an advertising agency some of whose clients are included in the article. Interbrand is in turn owned by the Omnicom Group. Omnicom Group is one of those scary Disney/GE-like mega-conglomorates.
So, before saying "Its [sic] just science.", you really want to look at the source of those unarguable stats.
What do you mean? This is a common thread and misconception in just about every part of Slashdot. Since when do you have to have a $500 video card to run 3D apps?
If you don't care about 3D, then don't waste money on something more powerful than a Radeon 9200/9250.
I am running a Radeon 9200 w/ 64MB of RAM (and it does have a fan on it, btw). It plays Half Life 2 nearly flawlessly at 1024x768 with most settings on Max. So, does that mean I don't care about 3D? Come one.
Video cards have been doing 3D just fine since 4MB cards started coming out about 8 years ago. I had an original Lime iMac with 6MB of Vram and it ran Nanosaur. You don't need a Radeon 9200/9250 with 64 or 128MB to generate 2D graphics. An ATI Rage will do the trick (shoot, that will probably run quite a few 3D apps as well).
Video card fanboys are getting to be just as bad as Apple/Linux/Vinyl Record fanboys.
I know this is a Mac board, so sue me for being OT. I am playing Half Life 2 with a Radeon 9100 at 1024x768 with most of the eye/ear candy turned on and it runs beautifully. The only reason you need an ATI 850XT Super Duper Platinum Pro Edition is so you can run Doom 3 at 1800x1440 (drawing this would require approximately 16MB of RAM leaving 240MB of overhead for shading, and etc.) on your dual 30" LCD monitors. The vast majority of computer users use nothing more than the onboard, shared memory, Intel chipset that HP or Dell shipped to them.
A 9200 with 32 MB of RAM is more than adequate. I'm getting a Mini for my kids to play games at http://www.sesameworkshop.com/sesamestreet, Disney Interactive games, and listen to CDs. Last time I checked, it didn't take a 256MB, PCI Express graphics card to draw Elmo Flash animations in Firefox.
You're kidding, right? That appears to be a slightly modified rendering of a Sony Discman. I think Sony's trying to further integrate into the living room, not drive their console out of it. That would look absolutely atrocious in an A/V rack, not to mention it wouldn't conveniently fit anywhere. The PS2 design wasn't radically different from the PS1. I can't imagine Sony will break with tradition.
No, because that would eat into their iMac sales, and I would imagine would also generate alot more heat. It would also raise the cost significantly. This is not meant to be a speed demon. The G5 is Apple's flagship processor. Dell isn't putting Xeons in their $499 machines.
Take that, EA! We got Major League WhoGivesACrap, and all you got was the NF...oh, right...that's the good one. Dangit...We'll get you next time, EA!!!!
You forget that many people don't even know what 'command-line' means. Asking an end-user whose experience level you may not be aware of to run something from a command line is rather dangerous.
No, but Appleworks does and MS still released Office for the Mac. After using Office for several years, I tried using Appleworks on my parent's iMac. Microsoft has nothing to worry about.
People are fickle. Anything that one says can be misconstrued to be an offense. Just because someone uses a certain, racially-charged term, does not mean that it is offensive. You have to look at context, intent, and the intended audience.
I am offended by your use of the word "fruit" in describing a produce stand. Let's not use such offensive language.
When my wife asks for the 'cute little Mac', what PC can I buy instead that will take up as little space and do as much for the same price (or less)?
Are you dead set on running Windows, or do you just not want to support Apple? I would suggest buying your wife the "cute little Mac" and forget the ego trip. It can run Linux, and it comes preinstalled with the best Unix implementation I've seen. Plus, you won't waste your time trying to track down a cheaper PC equivalent. Really, it's okay to own a Mac.
Yeah, a genre is really going down the drain when there are 'only' three good games in the genre. But yet when we get an avalanche of games (and good ones at that) in the FPS genre, that's also bad? I don't get it.
The Quartz rendering engine is an integral part of Mac OS X.
Take a look at the OS X system layers specifically noting the Graphics and Windowing Environment. These white papers do not, of course, provide any comparison data between the rendering engines of both Mac OS X and Windows 2000/XP, but it does provide some good information nonetheless. Back in the day, the graphics capabilities of the Mac OS were light years ahead of anything MS-DOS/Windows 3.1 could do, but I'm not so sure the same gap exists today.
Agreed. When anyone in marketing tells you something, believe the exact opposite. If Apple says "No, there is no possible way in hell that we'll ever release a G5 Powerbook...ever..." you can bet that there's a G5 Powerbook waiting to be shipped the next day. If they say "Our new video card will be shipping in three months..." that means that the hardware is still in the initial phases of design and the firmware is in pre-Alpha stages.
Nothing is "just a business opportunity." You're missing several key factors of human behavior here. People with that much influence/power/money have other things in mind when they buy companies like that. No, it's about power, greed, and the knowledge that what you want the world to become will be alot more likely if you control more of it.
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Yes, the iPod can be mounted as removable storage in XP and OS X. A friend of mine just did it this last weekend. And it doesn't require any special drivers or software (assuming, of course, that you have the USB 2.0 or Firewire drivers installed). And contrary to popular opinion, it can be used to listen to non-DRM media.
I used a 5300 during my first two years of college without a hitch. I never experienced an exploding battery. The one problem I did have with it was that the trackpad button broke. I fixed that with an extension that added "clickability" to the trackpad. Problem solved. I sold it to a friend for $600 which I then used to pay for part of my new Lime iMac. Last time I saw it, it was being sold to a professor's wife two years later for...$600. I have yet to own a Mac that I had any real problems with.
My dad still does most of his work on a Performa 637CD (That's the Money magazine edition). He bought it back in 1994. That's over ten years folks. I remember playing Dark Forces and Myst on that thing. Oh, it shipped with eWorld...
If you look close enough, you can see that the author of the article is also the News Director over at macreate.net. Is it plagiarism when you copy yourself?
Absolutely. I was just trying to point out that you don't need the latest and greatest hardware to run 3D.
You can argue with statistics.
Isn't science, in part, the pursuit of proving theories, laws, and 'facts' false?
You have to look at A) How were the statistics gathered? B) How were the statistics analyzed? C) How were the statistics presented?
FTA, they were gathered by asking readers to respond to an online survey. Seeing as the website is called 'brandchannel.com', I would be led to believe that the majority of their readers were very brand-conscious to begin with. Also FTA, one can gather that the majority of their subscribers live in North America followed by Europe and S. Africa.
Here's some more interesting information: brandchannel.com is a subsidiary of Interbrand. Interbrand is an advertising agency some of whose clients are included in the article. Interbrand is in turn owned by the Omnicom Group. Omnicom Group is one of those scary Disney/GE-like mega-conglomorates.
So, before saying "Its [sic] just science.", you really want to look at the source of those unarguable stats.
I don't care HOW close we get, aluminium has TWO I's, dammit!
Yes, but Aluminum does not.
What do you mean? This is a common thread and misconception in just about every part of Slashdot. Since when do you have to have a $500 video card to run 3D apps?
If you don't care about 3D, then don't waste money on something more powerful than a Radeon 9200/9250.
I am running a Radeon 9200 w/ 64MB of RAM (and it does have a fan on it, btw). It plays Half Life 2 nearly flawlessly at 1024x768 with most settings on Max. So, does that mean I don't care about 3D? Come one.
Video cards have been doing 3D just fine since 4MB cards started coming out about 8 years ago. I had an original Lime iMac with 6MB of Vram and it ran Nanosaur. You don't need a Radeon 9200/9250 with 64 or 128MB to generate 2D graphics. An ATI Rage will do the trick (shoot, that will probably run quite a few 3D apps as well).
Video card fanboys are getting to be just as bad as Apple/Linux/Vinyl Record fanboys.
I know this is a Mac board, so sue me for being OT. I am playing Half Life 2 with a Radeon 9100 at 1024x768 with most of the eye/ear candy turned on and it runs beautifully. The only reason you need an ATI 850XT Super Duper Platinum Pro Edition is so you can run Doom 3 at 1800x1440 (drawing this would require approximately 16MB of RAM leaving 240MB of overhead for shading, and etc.) on your dual 30" LCD monitors. The vast majority of computer users use nothing more than the onboard, shared memory, Intel chipset that HP or Dell shipped to them.
A 9200 with 32 MB of RAM is more than adequate. I'm getting a Mini for my kids to play games at http://www.sesameworkshop.com/sesamestreet, Disney Interactive games, and listen to CDs. Last time I checked, it didn't take a 256MB, PCI Express graphics card to draw Elmo Flash animations in Firefox.
You're kidding, right? That appears to be a slightly modified rendering of a Sony Discman. I think Sony's trying to further integrate into the living room, not drive their console out of it. That would look absolutely atrocious in an A/V rack, not to mention it wouldn't conveniently fit anywhere. The PS2 design wasn't radically different from the PS1. I can't imagine Sony will break with tradition.
English translation of Japanese press release:
"F*ck you. F*ck you all. Any other questions?"
Couldn't they have put a G5 in there?
No, because that would eat into their iMac sales, and I would imagine would also generate alot more heat. It would also raise the cost significantly. This is not meant to be a speed demon. The G5 is Apple's flagship processor. Dell isn't putting Xeons in their $499 machines.
Take that, EA! We got Major League WhoGivesACrap, and all you got was the NF...oh, right...that's the good one. Dangit...We'll get you next time, EA!!!!
Actually, there's a VNC client for Mac OS X. We've been using it where I work to connect to Linux and Windows boxes with no problems.
Agreed. Under the "Save As..." dialog box, you can select Word 97 format (it's RTF, but does that really matter?).
Yes, that makes perfect sense.
Here you go... http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell1.htm l
A seemingly intelligent take on cellular processing.
You forget that many people don't even know what 'command-line' means. Asking an end-user whose experience level you may not be aware of to run something from a command line is rather dangerous.
No, but Appleworks does and MS still released Office for the Mac. After using Office for several years, I tried using Appleworks on my parent's iMac. Microsoft has nothing to worry about.
People are fickle. Anything that one says can be misconstrued to be an offense. Just because someone uses a certain, racially-charged term, does not mean that it is offensive. You have to look at context, intent, and the intended audience.
I am offended by your use of the word "fruit" in describing a produce stand. Let's not use such offensive language.
When my wife asks for the 'cute little Mac', what PC can I buy instead that will take up as little space and do as much for the same price (or less)?
Are you dead set on running Windows, or do you just not want to support Apple? I would suggest buying your wife the "cute little Mac" and forget the ego trip. It can run Linux, and it comes preinstalled with the best Unix implementation I've seen. Plus, you won't waste your time trying to track down a cheaper PC equivalent. Really, it's okay to own a Mac.
Yeah, a genre is really going down the drain when there are 'only' three good games in the genre. But yet when we get an avalanche of games (and good ones at that) in the FPS genre, that's also bad? I don't get it.
The Quartz rendering engine is an integral part of Mac OS X. Take a look at the OS X system layers specifically noting the Graphics and Windowing Environment. These white papers do not, of course, provide any comparison data between the rendering engines of both Mac OS X and Windows 2000/XP, but it does provide some good information nonetheless. Back in the day, the graphics capabilities of the Mac OS were light years ahead of anything MS-DOS/Windows 3.1 could do, but I'm not so sure the same gap exists today.
Agreed. When anyone in marketing tells you something, believe the exact opposite. If Apple says "No, there is no possible way in hell that we'll ever release a G5 Powerbook...ever..." you can bet that there's a G5 Powerbook waiting to be shipped the next day. If they say "Our new video card will be shipping in three months..." that means that the hardware is still in the initial phases of design and the firmware is in pre-Alpha stages.
Nothing is "just a business opportunity." You're missing several key factors of human behavior here. People with that much influence/power/money have other things in mind when they buy companies like that. No, it's about power, greed, and the knowledge that what you want the world to become will be alot more likely if you control more of it.