>Many people notice no difference over about 25 fps.
I find that in pool games where you have balls moving in one direction and spinning in another it's easy to tell the difference between 40fps and 60fps
when I have meetings with my phd supervisors I usually enjoy them a lot. if you're discussing something with funny, intelligent experts who help you get things done it's not surprising it's enjoying.
so don't blame meetings. I expect most meetings are bad for you just because most *people* are stupid, boring, selfish, ignorant, incompetent and more likely to get in your way than not.
lol at you suggesting a virtue in a topic about copyright infringement - "I don't care how long it takes, I'm prepared to do what is necessary to obtain things illegally"
>Pay the monthly fee, and all you can eat music.
I don't buy much music online (or at all) so the idea of a payment for the rest of my life just so parts of my playlists don't disappear is horrible.
>Once they "buy" this music they can't trade it, share it ( and here I mean share it in the sense you share a vinyl or CD: to your hearts content if so you wish)
yeah you're right, I can share CDs with up to 1 person at a time, whereas my stupid iTunes only lets me share my entire music library with everyone on my network.
>Music is a communal human experience, it is not a comodity that you can pack and sell.
then what the fuck is your argument? either way you need to buy either a CD or the itunes file. I get to experience my music way more often and with greater flexibility thanks to Apple's products (ipod, ibook, airtunes express).
one click followed by several hours of waiting, yes.
when you get back to your house with a girl and she tells you her favourite song, you can look up the bittorrent tracker and wait for the download, but I much prefer having it in a matter of seconds with iTMS.
I'm an ipod/itms user and don't have any illegal music.
when I was younger I had lots of stuff I'd downloaded just because I could, but didn't even listen to most of it. so I got rid of all but my favourite downloaded songs. there weren't that many and from then on it just seemed easier to go to itms than the hassle of p2p (minimum share 5GB! banned for 1 hour! minimum 3 share slots! banned for 1 hour!... fake files, wrong tags, crappy quality - even sometimes system sounds heard during playback).
then the situation was either have illegal content for the sake of a handful of songs, or just replace them with legitimate versions for the sake of a couple of pints.
itunes just makes being "honest" easier than not. appealing to laziness is far more successful than appealing to respect for disgusting organisations (RIAA) or appalling laws (DMCA).
>Apple could have avoided the hullaballoo over this by making it clear from the start that this was going on.
if only they had listed it as a feature on their website or written an article about it in the knowledgebase or if Steve Jobs had talked about it during the keynote...
there is no automated data collection. there is just click-based searching. get a freaking clue.
bandwidth!? cpu!? you'd have 100 dialogue boxes on every website - "do you want to load our banner image? do you want to load our frame containing menu items? do you want to launch...".
the ministore is a minibrowser where your songs you click on are links to searches for relevant info.
>What if I want to use the mini store without sending my music data to apple?
what if I want to search google without telling them my search query!!!111 why should they have to know!!!!111?????????
you're not making any sense. the ministore is just a quick lookup for songs related to the artist you click on in your library. it's just like the arrows except you don't need to keep swapping between the library and music store.
the accusations of data mining etc. are just FUD. it's just artist lookup in a tab.
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the terms "opt-in" and "opt-out" are way out of proportion here. this isn't some obscure setting or (de-)registration procedure. it's a single click of the mouse to close a window.
if you really want to bitch about nothing then here's a far better one: Firefox has cookies enabled by default and sets your homepage to one of theirs on first run - THEY COULD BE SPYING ON EVERYTHING YOU EVAR DO ON TEH INTERPOWER COMPUTERWEB!
anyone familiar with iTunes and bitching: why didn't you make such a huge fuss over the little arrows next to the artists/albums that link you to the music store?
they provide exactly the same function and are also enabled by default. however, whereas it took 2 clicks to disable the arrows it only takes 1 click to disable the ministore.
screener has nothing to do with cams, but your ignorance must be common since you got modded insightful.
cam = camcorder of cinema screen
screener = rip from these academy DVDs - they are mostly DVD quality but to limit piracy a few scenes appear in black and white and/or with the words "property of... only for use for..." over them.
the problem is if they're supposed to be good enough quality for people to judge them artistically (which is total crap since the intentionally altered scenes can ruin audience involvement) they'll be good enough for anyone who just wants a pirate copy. hence the move to DRM and special players for screeners, hence the problem of locking out legitimiate users.
since the iMac and PowerMac have JUST had major updates it's hard to imagine anyone who is familiar enough with Apple to be intrested in this article yet so unfamiliar as not to be able to make the exact same prediction.
I don't know what this is but is it better than the ATI 9550 (or whatever) currently in iBooks as I can't imagine them decreasing the graphics performance.
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get a clue - this isn't about not wanting to have bad memories, it's about not having to live with PTSD and constant flashbacks.
it's about stopping a kind of emotional cancer, not about making you happy.
>Many people notice no difference over about 25 fps.
I find that in pool games where you have balls moving in one direction and spinning in another it's easy to tell the difference between 40fps and 60fps
when I have meetings with my phd supervisors I usually enjoy them a lot. if you're discussing something with funny, intelligent experts who help you get things done it's not surprising it's enjoying.
so don't blame meetings. I expect most meetings are bad for you just because most *people* are stupid, boring, selfish, ignorant, incompetent and more likely to get in your way than not.
>For me, tabbed browsing and integrated search bar alone make it superior.
Safari already has those features, but doesn't have adblock.
>Make sure to get the version that is *longer* than 2h12m as there is a shorter censored version that is crap.
how much longer? I see a 137 minutes version on amazon - is this the good one?
yes, since a main point of using firefox is to block ads and annoyances which 99% of flash and java is used for.
it's the same way that not having support for activex is firefox's main security feature.
>Some of us do have patience.
lol at you suggesting a virtue in a topic about copyright infringement - "I don't care how long it takes, I'm prepared to do what is necessary to obtain things illegally"
>Pay the monthly fee, and all you can eat music.
I don't buy much music online (or at all) so the idea of a payment for the rest of my life just so parts of my playlists don't disappear is horrible.
>Once they "buy" this music they can't trade it, share it ( and here I mean share it in the sense you share a vinyl or CD: to your hearts content if so you wish)
yeah you're right, I can share CDs with up to 1 person at a time, whereas my stupid iTunes only lets me share my entire music library with everyone on my network.
>Music is a communal human experience, it is not a comodity that you can pack and sell.
then what the fuck is your argument? either way you need to buy either a CD or the itunes file. I get to experience my music way more often and with greater flexibility thanks to Apple's products (ipod, ibook, airtunes express).
>one click away
one click followed by several hours of waiting, yes.
when you get back to your house with a girl and she tells you her favourite song, you can look up the bittorrent tracker and wait for the download, but I much prefer having it in a matter of seconds with iTMS.
>Ipods can't even do ... FM radio.
yes they can. update your fud.
I'm an ipod/itms user and don't have any illegal music.
... fake files, wrong tags, crappy quality - even sometimes system sounds heard during playback).
when I was younger I had lots of stuff I'd downloaded just because I could, but didn't even listen to most of it. so I got rid of all but my favourite downloaded songs. there weren't that many and from then on it just seemed easier to go to itms than the hassle of p2p (minimum share 5GB! banned for 1 hour! minimum 3 share slots! banned for 1 hour!
then the situation was either have illegal content for the sake of a handful of songs, or just replace them with legitimate versions for the sake of a couple of pints.
itunes just makes being "honest" easier than not. appealing to laziness is far more successful than appealing to respect for disgusting organisations (RIAA) or appalling laws (DMCA).
I also made my life a lot less stressful by switching from Windows to Mac.
and I had similar results by switching from a car to a motorbike.
this "computers cause stress" is the same inaccuracy as "computers affected by viruses" - it's not *computers*, it's just Windows.
>Apple could have avoided the hullaballoo over this by making it clear from the start that this was going on.
if only they had listed it as a feature on their website or written an article about it in the knowledgebase or if Steve Jobs had talked about it during the keynote...
oh wait, they did all three!
ffs.
>all they're doing is just searching the store for related purchases while you listen to music
they aren't even doing that, it's only songs you click on with the ministore open, not later songs in a playlist.
this is the most overblown FUD ever.
>Automated data collection...
there is no automated data collection. there is just click-based searching. get a freaking clue.
bandwidth!? cpu!? you'd have 100 dialogue boxes on every website - "do you want to load our banner image? do you want to load our frame containing menu items? do you want to launch...".
the ministore is a minibrowser where your songs you click on are links to searches for relevant info.
>What makes this a galaxy rather than just some random swirl in the cosmos?
it's a strucured group of stars. our galaxy is very roughly a flat disk of stars, this new one is a sphere of stars intersecting it.
>There may be a need to do so if you ask "what would you recommend", which requires that they know what you like.
Exactly, the ministore *is* a "what do you recommend" feature.
Get a clue you retard.
>What if I want to use the mini store without sending my music data to apple?
what if I want to search google without telling them my search query!!!111 why should they have to know!!!!111?????????
you're not making any sense. the ministore is just a quick lookup for songs related to the artist you click on in your library. it's just like the arrows except you don't need to keep swapping between the library and music store.
the accusations of data mining etc. are just FUD. it's just artist lookup in a tab.
the terms "opt-in" and "opt-out" are way out of proportion here. this isn't some obscure setting or (de-)registration procedure. it's a single click of the mouse to close a window.
if you really want to bitch about nothing then here's a far better one: Firefox has cookies enabled by default and sets your homepage to one of theirs on first run - THEY COULD BE SPYING ON EVERYTHING YOU EVAR DO ON TEH INTERPOWER COMPUTERWEB!
anyone familiar with iTunes and bitching: why didn't you make such a huge fuss over the little arrows next to the artists/albums that link you to the music store?
they provide exactly the same function and are also enabled by default. however, whereas it took 2 clicks to disable the arrows it only takes 1 click to disable the ministore.
are you a freaking retard? you can disable the iTunes version with a single click on the main interface.
>Apple is not form factor compatible with current PCMCIA cards
because it's the NEW standard. the same way CDs were not form factor compatible with floppy drives.
screener has nothing to do with cams, but your ignorance must be common since you got modded insightful.
... only for use for ..." over them.
cam = camcorder of cinema screen
screener = rip from these academy DVDs - they are mostly DVD quality but to limit piracy a few scenes appear in black and white and/or with the words "property of
the problem is if they're supposed to be good enough quality for people to judge them artistically (which is total crap since the intentionally altered scenes can ruin audience involvement) they'll be good enough for anyone who just wants a pirate copy. hence the move to DRM and special players for screeners, hence the problem of locking out legitimiate users.
since the iMac and PowerMac have JUST had major updates it's hard to imagine anyone who is familiar enough with Apple to be intrested in this article yet so unfamiliar as not to be able to make the exact same prediction.
>integrated graphics - 945GM MCH
I don't know what this is but is it better than the ATI 9550 (or whatever) currently in iBooks as I can't imagine them decreasing the graphics performance.