Thing is, Rhaspody doesn't support MacOS because it's a minority platform with only a few percent of the market. Yet with it and Harmony, he expects Apple to make sure their iPods remain compatible with a minority music store with only a few percent of the market.
It would have been nice for Apple to make this clearer, but - at least as far as UK residents are concerned - individuals are not allowed to join this scheme, because of LinkShare Terms and Conditions: (their capitals, not mine)
Member Qualifications
In order to join or use any Network as a Network Affiliate, you must be a corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company or other form of business organization that has an independent legal existence or, solely in the case of any Network other than the UK Network, an individual who is at least of the age required in order to be competent to enter into contracts under the laws of the jurisdiction in which you reside (and, in any event, at least eighteen years old). INDIVIDUALS MAY NOT JOIN OR USE THE UK NETWORK.
IN ADDITION, YOU MAY USE ANY LINKSHARE NETWORK ONLY FOR A BUSINESS PURPOSE AND NOT FOR Any PERSONAL, HOUSEHHOLD OR FAMILY PURPOSE; THE BUSINESS THAT YOU CONDUCT THROUGH ANY LINKSHARE NETWORK MUST BE YOUR PRIMARY BUSINESS OR AN INTEGRAL PART OF YOUR PRIMARY BUSINESS; AND YOUR USE OF ANY LINKSHARE NETWORK MUST BE INTEGRALLY RELATED TO SUCH BUSINESS.
I've got the DVD! Hilarious, for all the wrong reasons. For example, here's the blurb off the back. All spelling and grammar errors are as printed...
The secretive and mysterious ninja technique is still alive, an the divine power is embodied in the golden ninga warrior statuette.
To gain the super-strength of the ninja sorcery one ninja must possess all three parts.
Threee of the Ninja empire's top students steal a part of the statuette, each helping to gain the other parts themselves. The search for the parts by Interpol and a rival gang. Ending in an earth-shattering duel on Devil's Rock.
The three ninjas lock in mortal combat to decide who will emerge as the Ninja Terminator.
When the last three Ninjas fight only one will survive.
Offer a $100 bounty on a iPod exchanged for a new Dell music player. Buyers get the $100 discount only if they bring an iPod that's two years old or less. And they must have a valid receipt.
What an stupid idea. All but the crappiest two-year-old music players are still worth more than $100, especially iPods. Only a complete idiot would take advantage of that offer.
You can most certainly install an application in Unix without needing an admin password. You just install it locally.
You can, but much unix (especially Linux) software comes as RPMs which are difficult or impossible to install in anything but the default global location, which requires root. Not to mention any library dependencies which also need to be installed.
MacOS applications are now usually distributed in a disk image, which you can copy anywhere you like (somewhere global but only if you are administrator, or somewhere non-global otherwise). There are also standard locations for user-installed libraries and frameworks, which also do not need extra privileges to run.
Now, you can do all of that in Linux, but I haven't seen any distribution put any effort into setting it all up because, at the end of the day, they assume that anyone who might want to download and install software is going to have access to the root account. Or if they don't, is capable of recompiling from source and setting up paths on their own.
Off-topic, sorry, but I just thought it might be worth pointing out that you're probably confusing two different people called John Williams. One is Australian, a classical guitarist, recorded several albums of mostly classical music and formed the band "Sky" along with Herbie Flowers, Tristan Fry, Francis Monkman and Kevin Peek. The other is American, a jazz pianist, for a while the conductor of the Boston Pops, and most famously the composer of over 75 film scores.
You can indeed get IE 5.5 and above on Windows to display PNG images with alpha transparency, by using IE's built-in DirectX filters against themselves. For example:
This doesn't interfere with other browsers which support PNG natively because they just see the standard IMG tag and ignore the filter stuff. Whereas on IE, the filter in the IMG tag prevents the (wrong) image from being displayed, and the one in the DIV tag actually does display it properly. Goodness knows why they make you jump through the hoops though; given the IE on MacOS just works, it's obvious that Microsoft as a company don't have a problem with understanding or implementing the specs. Do they just not share code between platforms in Redmond, or what?
My main bitch with DRM CDs is that it might make it more difficult to rip legally purchased music to my hard drive. I don't even own a standalone CD player these days, and I want to be able to load my library on an iPod.
In that case, buy it on the iTunes music store. Cheaper, too.
Other issues... I ran the Security Update, and then tried Unsanity's example. it didn't work.
I also ran the Security Update from Apple, and then tried Unscanity's example. For me, it DID work. I've got a text file in my home directory to prove it...
Are you sure the disk image downloaded quickly enough for the refresh to execute it?
Would that be like when Hasbro sued (or at least threatened) www.portablemonopoly.com for use of the trademarked word monopoly? When the site was about Nintendo having a monopoly on portable games?
After all, it's just artwork rendered to a display
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why Linux programs tend to have horrible, inefficient, incomprehensible, unintuitive user interfaces, even though you usually get to install your choice of about 53 skins for each and every application.
The justification for cancelling Sam and Max 2 was that the game wasn't turning out well, that it wasn't fun. *That* might be reasonable. I'm more than a little surprised that FT2 could also be bad, though.
No - the justification for cancelling Full Throttle 2 was that the game wasn't turning out well, and (though I have seen nothing more than screenshots and a text summary) they may well have been right. It didn't give me the impression that it had the style or character of the original game.
However, the justification for cancelling Sam and Max 2 was that there weren't the right market conditions for releasing an adventure game. Everyone working on the game said it was going fine, only the suits didn't give it a chance to prove itself.
Though I'm sure a few can provide their own anecdotal evidence on how iTunes runs slowly on their machines, that doesn't invalidate the many, MANY claims of iTunes working just fine (at least on MacOS).
Because the CPU isn't the only expensive component.
They can't make new-but-slower iBooks very much cheaper than the current bottom of range. You ask for a lower price because of the slower speed, but the price difference you want is more than the saving they could make by using a cheaper CPU.
Even if Apple didn't have to pay for the CPU at all I don't think they could build the rest of an iBook for $600.
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Thing is, Rhaspody doesn't support MacOS because it's a minority platform with only a few percent of the market. Yet with it and Harmony, he expects Apple to make sure their iPods remain compatible with a minority music store with only a few percent of the market.
Dear Pot, Thanks for the memo. -- Kettle
So no "5% off iTunes" purchases for me...
postmaster@ is actually required by rfc2821, btw.
No it isn't. Read the site you link to.
Section 4.5.1:
In extreme cases --such as to contain a denial of service attack or other breach of security-- an SMTP server may block mail directed to Postmaster.
A microchip in the Arm...
Is there an ARM in the microchip?
Offer a $100 bounty on a iPod exchanged for a new Dell music player. Buyers get the $100 discount only if they bring an iPod that's two years old or less. And they must have a valid receipt.
What an stupid idea. All but the crappiest two-year-old music players are still worth more than $100, especially iPods. Only a complete idiot would take advantage of that offer.
You can most certainly install an application in Unix without needing an admin password. You just install it locally.
You can, but much unix (especially Linux) software comes as RPMs which are difficult or impossible to install in anything but the default global location, which requires root. Not to mention any library dependencies which also need to be installed.
MacOS applications are now usually distributed in a disk image, which you can copy anywhere you like (somewhere global but only if you are administrator, or somewhere non-global otherwise). There are also standard locations for user-installed libraries and frameworks, which also do not need extra privileges to run.
Now, you can do all of that in Linux, but I haven't seen any distribution put any effort into setting it all up because, at the end of the day, they assume that anyone who might want to download and install software is going to have access to the root account. Or if they don't, is capable of recompiling from source and setting up paths on their own.
Off-topic, sorry, but I just thought it might be worth pointing out that you're probably confusing two different people called John Williams. One is Australian, a classical guitarist, recorded several albums of mostly classical music and formed the band "Sky" along with Herbie Flowers, Tristan Fry, Francis Monkman and Kevin Peek. The other is American, a jazz pianist, for a while the conductor of the Boston Pops, and most famously the composer of over 75 film scores.
You can indeed get IE 5.5 and above on Windows to display PNG images with alpha transparency, by using IE's built-in DirectX filters against themselves. For example:
r (src='images/next.png', sizingMethod='scale', enabled='true'); display:inline-block"><img src="images/next.png" alt="IE-compatibility link" width="36" height="52" style="filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=0) ;"></div>
<div style =" width: 36px; height: 52px; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoade
This doesn't interfere with other browsers which support PNG natively because they just see the standard IMG tag and ignore the filter stuff. Whereas on IE, the filter in the IMG tag prevents the (wrong) image from being displayed, and the one in the DIV tag actually does display it properly. Goodness knows why they make you jump through the hoops though; given the IE on MacOS just works, it's obvious that Microsoft as a company don't have a problem with understanding or implementing the specs. Do they just not share code between platforms in Redmond, or what?
No they didn't.
Here's a link to the konfabulator message boards, in which Arlo Rose says:
"Nope, no offer"
Cupertino, start your photocopiers (oh, and don't forget to print those big posters about Microsoft stealing Tiger features).
My main bitch with DRM CDs is that it might make it more difficult to rip legally purchased music to my hard drive. I don't even own a standalone CD player these days, and I want to be able to load my library on an iPod.
In that case, buy it on the iTunes music store. Cheaper, too.
Like a modern touchstone the iPod Mini is a product people will love to hold
Hah. Chance would be a fine thing.
Other issues... I ran the Security Update, and then tried Unsanity's example. it didn't work.
I also ran the Security Update from Apple, and then tried Unscanity's example. For me, it DID work. I've got a text file in my home directory to prove it...
Are you sure the disk image downloaded quickly enough for the refresh to execute it?
Would that be like when Hasbro sued (or at least threatened) www.portablemonopoly.com for use of the trademarked word monopoly? When the site was about Nintendo having a monopoly on portable games?
After all, it's just artwork rendered to a display
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why Linux programs tend to have horrible, inefficient, incomprehensible, unintuitive user interfaces, even though you usually get to install your choice of about 53 skins for each and every application.
Apple has little control over Apache, save including it or not
Well, they could patch it and distribute their own version, if they had the time and inclination. They already use a customized default configuration.
Sorry, I can't talk long; the other people in the restaurant are starting to complain about the smell of my socks.
Fortunately my shower curtain is blue. Those yellow, pink and white bacteria can't hide from me.
The justification for cancelling Sam and Max 2 was that the game wasn't turning out well, that it wasn't fun. *That* might be reasonable. I'm more than a little surprised that FT2 could also be bad, though.
No - the justification for cancelling Full Throttle 2 was that the game wasn't turning out well, and (though I have seen nothing more than screenshots and a text summary) they may well have been right. It didn't give me the impression that it had the style or character of the original game.
However, the justification for cancelling Sam and Max 2 was that there weren't the right market conditions for releasing an adventure game. Everyone working on the game said it was going fine, only the suits didn't give it a chance to prove itself.
Though I'm sure a few can provide their own anecdotal evidence on how iTunes runs slowly on their machines, that doesn't invalidate the many, MANY claims of iTunes working just fine (at least on MacOS).
Because the CPU isn't the only expensive component.
They can't make new-but-slower iBooks very much cheaper than the current bottom of range. You ask for a lower price because of the slower speed, but the price difference you want is more than the saving they could make by using a cheaper CPU.
Even if Apple didn't have to pay for the CPU at all I don't think they could build the rest of an iBook for $600.
Its about time people realize that the world was never meant to be a place full of free stuff to take whenever you want it.
Hello? Garden of Eden?
outside the animation artists and Voice talent it is DIRT cheap to make
Yes, it's dirt cheap apart from the expensive bits.
Huh?
I guess in that case, bleeping out cusswords or saying f--k is the same as just saying / writing them.
In that case, you'll be hearing from the legal team of French Connection U.K. as they've trademarked the letters f, c, u and k.
In every permutation.
But neither WMA nor MPEG is likely to beat Apple's AAC format
AAC is the audio codec of MPEG 4.
Who wants to read books that are chained to the library?
The reference section was pretty popular last time I checked.