The iTunes MUSIC STORE uses AAC encoded music (an open standard) with Apple's proprietary FairPlay DRM.
The iTunes APPLICATION, which is usuable with our without the iTunes Music Store, supports MP3, AAC, AAC+Fairplay, WAV, Audible audiobooks, Apple Lossless Compression (ALC), possibly more I can't remember. It can rip to MP3, AAC, or ALC.
Y'all got that backwards. The CURSIVE recognizer was the one Apple licensed from Paragraph for the original Newton and is the one now used in the PocketPC. This is the one that Doonesbury is famous for ridiculing when the Newton first came out.
The PRINT recognizer, Rosetta, was developed by Apple. It's the one used in the InkWell software in Mac OS X. It's also by far a much better recognizer. This first appeared in newton OS 2.0.
You've heard wrong. You didn't believe what you read in the press, did you? You should know better than that....
My original iPod's battery (3 years old) is working fine.
Apple has a program to replace the battery for you should you use it so much that the battery actually dies. (All batteries do, you know.) They had this BEFORE the overblown business in the press a while back, by the way, which is what I'm sure you're referring to. They didn't have it in place much before the bogus press reports by much, though, so most people missed it (including all the press folks, of course. Whatever happened to researching your article, journalistas?)
Other companies offfer iPod battery replacements too
Yes, it'd be nice if the batt was removable, but you couldn't make it quit so small or nice looking if it was.
Apple's not the only one who does non-removable rechargeable batts, by the by. Many PDAs rechargeables are not removable, such as my HP Jornada. My Sony Clie's is SORTA removable, with a screwdriver, but not really easily.
If you're using your iPod so much that the battery dies in 2 years, you need to PULL THE EARPHONES OUT AND GET A LIFE.
To stay on topic....The Newton's batteries were always removable...especially the 2000 and 2100, where the battery was in a "clip" that always sorta reminded me of something you'd use in a handgun. The HandEra 330 PalmOS PDA was similar to the Newton in that it could use either AAAs or a rechargeable pack.
Ahem....Entry level for Mac is $599 education, $799 for general users. Check your facts.
And those proverbial $300-$400 PCs are really at least twice the cost because you're gonna have to replace the damn thing when it breaks in a couple of months.
I hate to break this to you, but too few PC user want to become technical either. It's not just Mac users.
And Windows' security and virus problems are simply INCREASING this trend to not want to become technical.
The zillions of different Linux distros aren't helping the users to want to become more technical either. It's making it worse. This has always been the problem with the various Unixen. Although MacOS may be the best thing that ever happened to Unix in terms of going "mainstream". Even Linux users seem to think so, from what I've seen in the Linux press.
Most consumers do NOT build their own PC, and never will. EVER. Do most people build their own car? TV? Refrigerator? Nope. You're confusing your world with reality. That reality is why Apple still sells 4 million Macs a year and rising, despite the doom-sayers saying Apple is dead daily for the last TWENTY FRICKING YEARS. Guess what...still here and still selling well.
People increasingly want out-of-the-box, plug-it-in-and-it-just-works solutions. And they are increasingly not getting it from Windows boxes. And they're still a long way from EVER getting it from Linux boxes (and yes, I've heard of Lindow/Linspire and Wal-Mart PCs. Boy, those are sure selling up a storm.....)
And even those of us like you and I, who can build PCs.....don't always want to for their "everyday" machine. This isn't the days of the Hombrew Computer Club anymore. The PC I have in by basement that I built....never gets used anymore. I got tired of constantly having to deal with patches and viruses and crap. And yet still being incredibly vulnerable. I've never had a virus on my mac, even back in the days when they were easy to write (they aren't any longer, thanks to Unix's better security design.)
No, I'm not a Mac switcher. I've been using/programming both daily for 20 years. Experience shows me that Mac is better for consumer and "average" business use. And those new servers sure seem to pack a lot of bang for the buck compared to anything except maybe hand-built Linux boxes used as servers.
Where I work ( a major publishing and financial services corporation with divisions worldwide) has set standards for future development tools...and except for Visual Source Safe, there are NO Microsoft development products on the list. And they prefer we use CVS, not VSS. The preferred tools are Java and C++ and Oracle. Makes me regret the last 4 years I've spent training up on Microsoft's dev tools because back then everyone thought that MS was going to own everything. I was going to learn.NET, and still will if they pay for it. But for future work, I'm going to start applying the Java course I happened to take last year. And what.NET I do learn is going to have a heavy emphasis on the "Mono" flavor of it, since that lets me run on Mac, Linux, Unix, and Windows.
Better yet, it's CD-ROM less. You can hook up a CD-ROM with USB or Firewire to load stuff, then remove it so the kiddies can't screw it up. Or net-boot it across a network.
Oh....and it's "Mac" as in "Macintosh". Repeat after me..."MAC" is not an acronym. Unless you're talking about a network layer. And we're not.
Sure sounds like you have recent experience with Macs.....NOT. So why the heck should we care what you think, much less why?
Try using a Mac newer than the 128K Mac you apparently used 20 years ago, and THEN I'll care about your opinion. Until then, go away and don't bother us.
Not being able to read your homework on a machine 15 or 20 years old qualifies as being one of the SILLIEST reasons I've ever heard of for "hating" Macs. Oh heck, I'll say. It's one of the STUPIDEST reasons. Jeezus. I thought I'd heard everything, but this is a new one.
There are MANY companies who make processor upgrades for Macs. Sonnet, etc.
EVEN FOR LAPTOPS!
Just type "Mac processor upgrade" into Google.
Oh...and there's that totally bogus 5% figure again. Wrong. Damn I'm so tired of hearing that spouted like it's gospel. It's not true and even varies depending on who you ask and what market you're looking at. And what the current moon phase is, for that matter. It's meaningless. When I was out house shopping a couple years back, of the many homes I was in that had a computer, EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS A MAC. I saw no Windows PCs AT ALL. Very strange if the Mac are only 5% of computer users, eh?
Furthermore, the last time I checked, market share installed base, bud. And business installed base/market share consumer market share/installed base too.
Stlll want to hold to that 5% figure?
"The truly sad thing" is that some people don't know what they are talking about but BELIEVE they do and proceed to become endless bores about it.
Oh, and by the way, before you go thinking I'm a Mac-head....I make a living programming on Windows PCs (and also Alphas running OpenVMS). I've programmed using several (always flakey) Windows 98/200/XP machines from Dell , for 8+ hours day, for many years.....
But I also use a Mac PowerBook at home.
I've used and programmed and supported both Macs and PCs (and OpenVMS machines too) since about 1984.
So I've some SMALL experience with the REALITIES of both worlds...
That's why they sell models cheaper than $500 (15GB iPod = $299).
Duh.
Oh....and if you're so happy that your flash MP3 player can go from 256MB to 512MB for $50 (total cost $200)...how about blowing another $50 and GOING TO FOUR FREAKING GIGABYTES! Or another $50 and going to FIFTEEN GIGABYTES!.
Niche market my ass....iPod OWNS the MP3 player market...and just keeps getting better and better to boot.
Create programs for Mac OS, MacOSX, Windows, and Linux...in a Visual Basic like language (you know...the language that caused Windows to be a success....)
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Picky, picky! ;-)
Besides....I _said_ WAV!
And I said "possibly others I can't remember". The one I couldn't remember was AIFF. Thanx.
The iTunes MUSIC STORE uses AAC encoded music (an open standard) with Apple's proprietary FairPlay DRM.
The iTunes APPLICATION, which is usuable with our without the iTunes Music Store, supports MP3, AAC, AAC+Fairplay, WAV, Audible audiobooks, Apple Lossless Compression (ALC), possibly more I can't remember. It can rip to MP3, AAC, or ALC.
Y'all got that backwards. The CURSIVE recognizer was the one Apple licensed from Paragraph for the original Newton and is the one now used in the PocketPC. This is the one that Doonesbury is famous for ridiculing when the Newton first came out.
The PRINT recognizer, Rosetta, was developed by Apple. It's the one used in the InkWell software in Mac OS X. It's also by far a much better recognizer. This first appeared in newton OS 2.0.
You've heard wrong. You didn't believe what you read in the press, did you? You should know better than that....
My original iPod's battery (3 years old) is working fine.
Apple has a program to replace the battery for you should you use it so much that the battery actually dies. (All batteries do, you know.) They had this BEFORE the overblown business in the press a while back, by the way, which is what I'm sure you're referring to. They didn't have it in place much before the bogus press reports by much, though, so most people missed it (including all the press folks, of course. Whatever happened to researching your article, journalistas?)
Other companies offfer iPod battery replacements too
Yes, it'd be nice if the batt was removable, but you couldn't make it quit so small or nice looking if it was.
Apple's not the only one who does non-removable rechargeable batts, by the by. Many PDAs rechargeables are not removable, such as my HP Jornada. My Sony Clie's is SORTA removable, with a screwdriver, but not really easily.
If you're using your iPod so much that the battery dies in 2 years, you need to PULL THE EARPHONES OUT AND GET A LIFE.
To stay on topic....The Newton's batteries were always removable...especially the 2000 and 2100, where the battery was in a "clip" that always sorta reminded me of something you'd use in a handgun. The HandEra 330 PalmOS PDA was similar to the Newton in that it could use either AAAs or a rechargeable pack.
Ahem....Entry level for Mac is $599 education, $799 for general users. Check your facts.
.NET, and still will if they pay for it. But for future work, I'm going to start applying the Java course I happened to take last year. And what .NET I do learn is going to have a heavy emphasis on the "Mono" flavor of it, since that lets me run on Mac, Linux, Unix, and Windows.
And those proverbial $300-$400 PCs are really at least twice the cost because you're gonna have to replace the damn thing when it breaks in a couple of months.
I hate to break this to you, but too few PC user want to become technical either. It's not just Mac users.
And Windows' security and virus problems are simply INCREASING this trend to not want to become technical.
The zillions of different Linux distros aren't helping the users to want to become more technical either. It's making it worse. This has always been the problem with the various Unixen. Although MacOS may be the best thing that ever happened to Unix in terms of going "mainstream". Even Linux users seem to think so, from what I've seen in the Linux press.
Most consumers do NOT build their own PC, and never will. EVER. Do most people build their own car? TV? Refrigerator? Nope. You're confusing your world with reality. That reality is why Apple still sells 4 million Macs a year and rising, despite the doom-sayers saying Apple is dead daily for the last TWENTY FRICKING YEARS. Guess what...still here and still selling well.
People increasingly want out-of-the-box, plug-it-in-and-it-just-works solutions. And they are increasingly not getting it from Windows boxes. And they're still a long way from EVER getting it from Linux boxes (and yes, I've heard of Lindow/Linspire and Wal-Mart PCs. Boy, those are sure selling up a storm.....)
And even those of us like you and I, who can build PCs.....don't always want to for their "everyday" machine. This isn't the days of the Hombrew Computer Club anymore. The PC I have in by basement that I built....never gets used anymore. I got tired of constantly having to deal with patches and viruses and crap. And yet still being incredibly vulnerable. I've never had a virus on my mac, even back in the days when they were easy to write (they aren't any longer, thanks to Unix's better security design.)
No, I'm not a Mac switcher. I've been using/programming both daily for 20 years. Experience shows me that Mac is better for consumer and "average" business use. And those new servers sure seem to pack a lot of bang for the buck compared to anything except maybe hand-built Linux boxes used as servers.
Where I work ( a major publishing and financial services corporation with divisions worldwide) has set standards for future development tools...and except for Visual Source Safe, there are NO Microsoft development products on the list. And they prefer we use CVS, not VSS. The preferred tools are Java and C++ and Oracle. Makes me regret the last 4 years I've spent training up on Microsoft's dev tools because back then everyone thought that MS was going to own everything. I was going to learn
Another one who doesn't know what he's talking about.
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eMacs go for $599 at the Apple Education store online.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-800-APPL/WebObject
Better yet, it's CD-ROM less. You can hook up a CD-ROM with USB or Firewire to load stuff, then remove it so the kiddies can't screw it up. Or net-boot it across a network.
Oh....and it's "Mac" as in "Macintosh". Repeat after me..."MAC" is not an acronym. Unless you're talking about a network layer. And we're not.
Sure sounds like you have recent experience with Macs.....NOT. So why the heck should we care what you think, much less why?
Try using a Mac newer than the 128K Mac you apparently used 20 years ago, and THEN I'll care about your opinion. Until then, go away and don't bother us.
Not being able to read your homework on a machine 15 or 20 years old qualifies as being one of the SILLIEST reasons I've ever heard of for "hating" Macs. Oh heck, I'll say. It's one of the STUPIDEST reasons. Jeezus. I thought I'd heard everything, but this is a new one.
Who gives a fig. That's ancient history.
Macs have been able to read PC disks for over a decade.
Probably closer to two decades.
Have you ever heard the phrase "self-fulfilling prophecy"?
Your logic is correct as far as it goes.
Unfortunately, it doesn't go far enough.
Everybody SHOULD have experience with other computers. In school. Not just Mac. Not just Windows. Not just Linux.
Ummm...wrong!!!
There are MANY companies who make processor upgrades for Macs. Sonnet, etc.
EVEN FOR LAPTOPS!
Just type "Mac processor upgrade" into Google.
Oh...and there's that totally bogus 5% figure again. Wrong. Damn I'm so tired of hearing that spouted like it's gospel. It's not true and even varies depending on who you ask and what market you're looking at. And what the current moon phase is, for that matter. It's meaningless. When I was out house shopping a couple years back, of the many homes I was in that had a computer, EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS A MAC. I saw no Windows PCs AT ALL. Very strange if the Mac are only 5% of computer users, eh?
Furthermore, the last time I checked, market share installed base, bud. And business installed base/market share consumer market share/installed base too.
Stlll want to hold to that 5% figure?
"The truly sad thing" is that some people don't know what they are talking about but BELIEVE they do and proceed to become endless bores about it.
Oh, and by the way, before you go thinking I'm a Mac-head....I make a living programming on Windows PCs (and also Alphas running OpenVMS). I've programmed using several (always flakey) Windows 98/200/XP machines from Dell , for 8+ hours day, for many years.....
But I also use a Mac PowerBook at home.
I've used and programmed and supported both Macs and PCs (and OpenVMS machines too) since about 1984.
So I've some SMALL experience with the REALITIES of both worlds...
That's why they sell models cheaper than $500 (15GB iPod = $299).
Duh.
Oh....and if you're so happy that your flash MP3 player can go from 256MB to 512MB for $50 (total cost $200)...how about blowing another $50 and GOING TO FOUR FREAKING GIGABYTES! Or another $50 and going to FIFTEEN GIGABYTES!.
Niche market my ass....iPod OWNS the MP3 player market...and just keeps getting better and better to boot.
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Create programs for Mac OS, MacOSX, Windows, and Linux...in a Visual Basic like language (you know...the language that caused Windows to be a success....)