It's Wikipedia. Someone could write that all Memory Sticks came with a free tub of butter. It still wouldn't be true. Citing Wikipedia is about the weakest argument you could make.
You present some valid and iinteresting points. My only experience with dust was with my old film cameras. It was an ongoing battle. I don't live in a particularly dusty environment, but I do all of my shooting outdoors. Once a camera started with the dust, it was all downhill from there no matter what I did. Though, it might be possible that the brands I was using (Minolta and Yashika) were more prone to dust than a Canon or Nikon would be.
I don't use iPhoto, and iSync isn't for cameras. I just plug the camera into my Mac with the USB cable that came with it, and it appears as a removable drive and I just drag the pictures off, even the SRF (Sony Raw Format) ones.
No special software. No external card reader. No wonder so many photo professionals use Macs.;)
The previous generation of this camera, the F-828, has a macro mode, and has a very good movie mode. It's also made of metal, while this R1 is plastic. The '828 also has a wider range than the R1. Sony seems to have taken many steps backward in order to jam a larger sensor in there. But in terms of picture size, it's not all that different.
I wonder what happened here behind the scenes. I wonder if it was it an engineering problem, or if they didn't want to cannibalize their F-828 sales.
I won't buy an R1 because I have a nice F828 in my collection that I like better.
But Sony's done a good job of compensating for not having interchangable lenses. My '828 goes from 20mm to 200mm in just the optical part of the zoom. That means I can throw one camera in my bag and get the same range that my friends with Nikons get from dragging around a body and three lenses. The Sony costs less than a DSLR body and only 25% of the DSLR with a similar range and quality of lenses.
And although it's not the optimal solution, you can add accessories on to the Sony cams. I have a number of filters and fisheyes and wide angle lenses that screw on. Again, it's not optimal, but I'd rather blow dust off an exposed lens than try to blow it off some much more delicate sensor buried deep in my camera.
These things always come with software, which you must install.
They do? Since when? I've had Sony F-828, DSC S-30, and a crapload of Canons. I've never installed any of their software, and they all work fine with my Macs. Unless mandatory software installation to use a camera is some kind of Windows thing. I wouldn't know about that.
No. But feel proud that you are another victim of F.U.D.
Sony cameras will take vitually any memory stick, including the one, very rare, model called "Magic Gate" which has some DRM in it for music. Of the 15 or so flavors of Memory Sticks, I believe that is the only one that has DRM, and again, it's only for music. You can take off your tin foil hat, Sony cameras have no method for attaching DRM to your pictures.
From a user's point of view, the only difference between a Memory Stick and a CF card in a Sony camera is the size and price.
The way iTunes handles podcasts makes podjacking rather easy
Actually, iTunes has a built-in button to prevent just this sort of thing. It allows the owners of podcasts to declare themselves the owners and change the feed URL. Any podcaster that isn't watching their listing in iTunes is irresponsible and stupid.
Cool. You have my attention.
My "media" Mac is a G4 dual 867 MDD (wind tunnel) with 3 200gb drives and 2 more external 200gb firewire drives. It lives in the library (with my main work Mac: a Dual 1.8 G5. In the living room near the television, sharing space with the VCR, DVD, Laserdisc, and (since I am old old school) Betamax machines is a little silver box called an EyeHome
This magic thing is connected to a router (though it also works on a Airport Extreme or other wireless solution) and via Ethernet pumps avi mp4 and other formatted files to my television. It also handles digital optical sound and mp3s. My stereo system can rock to Weird Al or my collection of Dr Demento shows... Pictures can also be displayed and if you are all thumbs, Web surfing is available. It works with 10.3.9 and above (10.2.8 if you are creative) and oh yes, it works from a remote.
I had to put them onto CD and then re-rip them as MP3 before I could use them.
Why didn't you just right-click on the songs and select Save as MP3? Is that not an option on the Windows version of iTunes? Sure, transcoding isn't the best solution, but it's much faster than burning and re-ripping.
Uh, dude, I don't know where you've been, but the entire fucking point of DRM is to artificially limit your copying privilidges so you get inconvenienced in this way. Sure, Apple makes it quite simple to get around the artificial limitation, but the fact remains that this DRM is making it so you can't even legally back it up yourself.
You're so caught up in your anti-Apple/iTunes zealotry that you don't know the facts.
You can copy your iTunes files as many times as you want to anything you want: CDs, DVDs, streaming tapes, remote servers, external hard drives -- anything. Anything you can copy a normal binary file to you can back up your iTunes files on.
But thank God you used an expletive in your post. That makes your lies true and makes you sound authoritative when you don't know what you're talking about. Now turn off the computer and head upstairs. Mommy has dinner ready for you.
You could copy arbitrary midi files to it as ring tones, I believe (I never did).
You are correct. I had a T68mc as my last phone. The thing rocks. I have a Z600 now. Even though it doesn't play MP3's, it still has ringtones that sound almost as good as MP3's. My favorite is the one that sounds exactly like an old Soviet POTS phone.
As I said in another post though this is a low powered low resource computer (a third of the power of the Mac Mini) designed to be powered by a hand generator, and OS-X isn't exactly renouned for being great for extremely low powered computers.
Actually OSX works great on computers with a third of the power of a Mac Mini. Tiger is more than fine on my wife's 500Mhz iBook with just 300 megs of RAM. And I saw a guy in the Apple Store today with a Wall Street edition Powerbook (read: under 300 MHz) and the tech was stunned to see how responsive and usable Tiger is on it.
So, aside from making assumptions and being misinformed, what was your point again?
Why not just use Virtual PC now, instead of waiting to run some hack? When I first "switched," being able to run Windowd XP in Virtual PC was a lifesaver. Of course, a month after I switched I stopped using it once I discovered all the prorgams I needed had Mac equivalents.
It makes sense. Canada shares a border with the former Soviet Russia. Canada also shares a border with the United States. Thus, it's laws and policies are a mix of the two influences. Another example is the iPod tax.
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I didn't know that. That's very cool.
It's Wikipedia. Someone could write that all Memory Sticks came with a free tub of butter. It still wouldn't be true. Citing Wikipedia is about the weakest argument you could make.
You present some valid and iinteresting points. My only experience with dust was with my old film cameras. It was an ongoing battle. I don't live in a particularly dusty environment, but I do all of my shooting outdoors. Once a camera started with the dust, it was all downhill from there no matter what I did. Though, it might be possible that the brands I was using (Minolta and Yashika) were more prone to dust than a Canon or Nikon would be.
I don't use iPhoto, and iSync isn't for cameras. I just plug the camera into my Mac with the USB cable that came with it, and it appears as a removable drive and I just drag the pictures off, even the SRF (Sony Raw Format) ones.
;)
No special software. No external card reader. No wonder so many photo professionals use Macs.
The previous generation of this camera, the F-828, has a macro mode, and has a very good movie mode. It's also made of metal, while this R1 is plastic. The '828 also has a wider range than the R1. Sony seems to have taken many steps backward in order to jam a larger sensor in there. But in terms of picture size, it's not all that different.
I wonder what happened here behind the scenes. I wonder if it was it an engineering problem, or if they didn't want to cannibalize their F-828 sales.
I won't buy an R1 because I have a nice F828 in my collection that I like better.
But Sony's done a good job of compensating for not having interchangable lenses. My '828 goes from 20mm to 200mm in just the optical part of the zoom. That means I can throw one camera in my bag and get the same range that my friends with Nikons get from dragging around a body and three lenses. The Sony costs less than a DSLR body and only 25% of the DSLR with a similar range and quality of lenses.
And although it's not the optimal solution, you can add accessories on to the Sony cams. I have a number of filters and fisheyes and wide angle lenses that screw on. Again, it's not optimal, but I'd rather blow dust off an exposed lens than try to blow it off some much more delicate sensor buried deep in my camera.
These things always come with software, which you must install.
They do? Since when? I've had Sony F-828, DSC S-30, and a crapload of Canons. I've never installed any of their software, and they all work fine with my Macs. Unless mandatory software installation to use a camera is some kind of Windows thing. I wouldn't know about that.
Isn't Memory Stick chock full of DRM goodies?
No. But feel proud that you are another victim of F.U.D.
Sony cameras will take vitually any memory stick, including the one, very rare, model called "Magic Gate" which has some DRM in it for music. Of the 15 or so flavors of Memory Sticks, I believe that is the only one that has DRM, and again, it's only for music. You can take off your tin foil hat, Sony cameras have no method for attaching DRM to your pictures.
From a user's point of view, the only difference between a Memory Stick and a CF card in a Sony camera is the size and price.
Illegal? I don't think so. I do it all the time, with both tellers and with ATMs.
No it's not. It's like saying that if Google delists your web site, people who search for your web site through Google can't find it anymore.
The way iTunes handles podcasts makes podjacking rather easy
Actually, iTunes has a built-in button to prevent just this sort of thing. It allows the owners of podcasts to declare themselves the owners and change the feed URL. Any podcaster that isn't watching their listing in iTunes is irresponsible and stupid.
You'd think that in the intervening months, other companies would guard against such shenanigans
They're working on it. It's called RFID. Soon only people with tinfoil hats will be able to shoplift.
I found a far more more elegant solution.
Cool. You have my attention. My "media" Mac is a G4 dual 867 MDD (wind tunnel) with 3 200gb drives and 2 more external 200gb firewire drives. It lives in the library (with my main work Mac: a Dual 1.8 G5. In the living room near the television, sharing space with the VCR, DVD, Laserdisc, and (since I am old old school) Betamax machines is a little silver box called an EyeHome
This magic thing is connected to a router (though it also works on a Airport Extreme or other wireless solution) and via Ethernet pumps avi mp4 and other formatted files to my television. It also handles digital optical sound and mp3s. My stereo system can rock to Weird Al or my collection of Dr Demento shows... Pictures can also be displayed and if you are all thumbs, Web surfing is available. It works with 10.3.9 and above (10.2.8 if you are creative) and oh yes, it works from a remote.
Still waiting for the "elegant" part.
You think that your buying habits will affect Steve Jobs announcement? The world revolves around you!
I had to put them onto CD and then re-rip them as MP3 before I could use them.
Why didn't you just right-click on the songs and select Save as MP3? Is that not an option on the Windows version of iTunes? Sure, transcoding isn't the best solution, but it's much faster than burning and re-ripping.
Stranger still is the fact that some bands STILL refuse to ... posting all their CDs on iTMS. I'm looking at you, Dave Matthews Band.
They're too busy dumping raw, human, Dave Matthews-scented sewage into a formerly remarkably-clean stretch of the Chicago River. Thanks, Dave. Just like other industries, I hold you responsible for the actions of your "independent contractors." Keep talking the environmentalist talk since you don't walk the environmentalist walk.
Uh, dude, I don't know where you've been, but the entire fucking point of DRM is to artificially limit your copying privilidges so you get inconvenienced in this way. Sure, Apple makes it quite simple to get around the artificial limitation, but the fact remains that this DRM is making it so you can't even legally back it up yourself.
You're so caught up in your anti-Apple/iTunes zealotry that you don't know the facts.
You can copy your iTunes files as many times as you want to anything you want: CDs, DVDs, streaming tapes, remote servers, external hard drives -- anything. Anything you can copy a normal binary file to you can back up your iTunes files on.
But thank God you used an expletive in your post. That makes your lies true and makes you sound authoritative when you don't know what you're talking about. Now turn off the computer and head upstairs. Mommy has dinner ready for you.
However, leaving your car unlocked essentially means you have consented to allow them to search your vehicle. Gotta love case law and precedent!
Care to cite either of those?
You could copy arbitrary midi files to it as ring tones, I believe (I never did).
You are correct. I had a T68mc as my last phone. The thing rocks. I have a Z600 now. Even though it doesn't play MP3's, it still has ringtones that sound almost as good as MP3's. My favorite is the one that sounds exactly like an old Soviet POTS phone.
A Windows product with "Cluster" in the title.
Finally! Some truth in advertising!
While OSX is nice, I've heard that it can be somewhat slow on even a 700mhz iBook.
You heard wrong.
As I said in another post though this is a low powered low resource computer (a third of the power of the Mac Mini) designed to be powered by a hand generator, and OS-X isn't exactly renouned for being great for extremely low powered computers.
Actually OSX works great on computers with a third of the power of a Mac Mini. Tiger is more than fine on my wife's 500Mhz iBook with just 300 megs of RAM. And I saw a guy in the Apple Store today with a Wall Street edition Powerbook (read: under 300 MHz) and the tech was stunned to see how responsive and usable Tiger is on it.
So, aside from making assumptions and being misinformed, what was your point again?
Why not just use Virtual PC now, instead of waiting to run some hack?
When I first "switched," being able to run Windowd XP in Virtual PC was a lifesaver.
Of course, a month after I switched I stopped using it once I discovered all the prorgams I needed had Mac equivalents.
It makes sense. Canada shares a border with the former Soviet Russia. Canada also shares a border with the United States. Thus, it's laws and policies are a mix of the two influences. Another example is the iPod tax.
The name has all the marks of a Howard Stern-esque "bababooey" plant.
I wonder if the WSJ just got p0wned.