I'm interested in what the new speakers will be like. rumours suggest it'll be more than just an ipod-compatible boombox.
also, airport with possible video is interesting, but support for streaming of all audio (or at least support for itunes/quicktime/dvd player video files with audio in sync) would be fantastic.
Sony etc. don't even bother making their DRM software work on non-Windows machines, so what's the chance they'll go out of their way to make copying EASIER on a Mac?
if the DRM they use is as easy to work with as iTunes and is 100% Mac/iPod compatible then I would be fine with that.
and fuck you for implying people wanting to rip their own disks are planning to break for law. some of us happen to live in countries where businesses don't own the government so much that format shifting is illegal.
I would love to control a TV with an iPod style clickwheel - the faster you rotate the faster you change channels.
but has anyone noticed how appalling modern (UK) cable boxes are? all the ones I've seen have had a second or two lag whenever you change channel, and my dad's nokia freeview box frequently crashes.
could you imagine expose-style simultaneous viewing of all your favourite channels and then select what you want like you do with pictures on the iPod. not likely any time soon though.
and I bet *you're* really comfortable controlling your media with 104 keys, but most people won't be.
Apple's design proves the idea that perfection is obtained not when there's nothing more to add, but when there's nothing else to take away.
if everyone else in the world aspired only to levels such as using a 104 key keyboard just to change channel, then computers would still take up an entire room.
MS lets you have your music on 2 computers ever, including the same computer uprgraded.
Apple lets you have it on any 5 computers at the same time. if you have 5 computers and buy a 6th, you can just unregister one of the old ones. I honestly don't see how being restricted to only 5 computers simultaneously interferes with any more than a tiny minority of legitimate users. and even when you are affected it just means one less computer - no music is lost.
MS's system on the other hand is guaranteed to affect every user who upgrades, and to effect them in such a way that they lose all their music completely.
you're obviously unfamiliar with the fact that Apple does actually improve their products on a regular basis, but very familiar with MS's practise of releasing a slightly different GUI for Windows every 4-5 years.
the dock can already autohide. making another gui component autohide isn't a brand new feature requiring development of new technology or ripping off ideas.
you aren't a patent lawyer are you?
Re:A great technological marvel
on
The Odds at Macworld
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
I have never seen a laptop that had two hardware buttons and was comfortable to use.
the best solution is something like SideTrack which lets you use your trackpad as up to 5 buttons and 2 scrollbars.
plus the design of only *needing* 1 buttons is great.
by "flogging the iPod cash cow" you mean "release smaller, lighter, cheaper and longer battery life versions of an already very well designed and popular product?
MS has already annouced their intention to rip-off Dashboard. it came soon after Tiger's release. they claim it will be teh even bettarr than Dashboard, but obviously take a few extra years to be released. they call it startlets or dashlets or something.
>Same thing would have happened on OS X where the user is not administrator by default.
I disagree, but no matter which of us is right regarding the average user I know for a fact that at least *I* would have questioned a music CD requiring admin priviledges. so for me the choice would be 1. use MS and get infected despite saying no. 2. use Mac and not get infected (refuse to enter password no matter what). the fact that the DRM is able to install even though you click no is *precisely* why MS is to blame.
when I used to use Windows XP I ran it as an administrator because it was the only way to have things work, even though I knew it wasn't that great an idea. that's the catch-22 you have to put up with when you use MS but not Mac.
1. MS doesn't take security seriously. Has broken permissions. 2. People point out Windows's flaws, dismissed as MS bashers. 3. Company uses MS's broken permissions to threaten security. 4. People point out Windows's flaws, dismissed as MS bashers. 5. Rinse and repeat.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm interested in what the new speakers will be like. rumours suggest it'll be more than just an ipod-compatible boombox.
also, airport with possible video is interesting, but support for streaming of all audio (or at least support for itunes/quicktime/dvd player video files with audio in sync) would be fantastic.
Sony etc. don't even bother making their DRM software work on non-Windows machines, so what's the chance they'll go out of their way to make copying EASIER on a Mac?
if the DRM they use is as easy to work with as iTunes and is 100% Mac/iPod compatible then I would be fine with that.
>What will you do with the ripped bytes?
encode them and put them on my iPod with video.
and fuck you for implying people wanting to rip their own disks are planning to break for law. some of us happen to live in countries where businesses don't own the government so much that format shifting is illegal.
if the entertainment industry says DVD is dead I won't buy any more.
what? you don't have the replacement out yet? well, you guys just fucked yourselves then didn't you.
Apple doesn't support other companies' propreitary DRM systems and it's their fault?
...when Apple will announce a new internet-based business called Yahoo!
I would love to control a TV with an iPod style clickwheel - the faster you rotate the faster you change channels.
but has anyone noticed how appalling modern (UK) cable boxes are? all the ones I've seen have had a second or two lag whenever you change channel, and my dad's nokia freeview box frequently crashes.
could you imagine expose-style simultaneous viewing of all your favourite channels and then select what you want like you do with pictures on the iPod. not likely any time soon though.
and I bet *you're* really comfortable controlling your media with 104 keys, but most people won't be.
Apple's design proves the idea that perfection is obtained not when there's nothing more to add, but when there's nothing else to take away.
if everyone else in the world aspired only to levels such as using a 104 key keyboard just to change channel, then computers would still take up an entire room.
Why are MS's policies and strategies always based around "enemy lists" rather than actual products or services?
you are talking complete bollocks.
MS lets you have your music on 2 computers ever, including the same computer uprgraded.
Apple lets you have it on any 5 computers at the same time. if you have 5 computers and buy a 6th, you can just unregister one of the old ones. I honestly don't see how being restricted to only 5 computers simultaneously interferes with any more than a tiny minority of legitimate users. and even when you are affected it just means one less computer - no music is lost.
MS's system on the other hand is guaranteed to affect every user who upgrades, and to effect them in such a way that they lose all their music completely.
get a DS and an iPod with video.
just say no to the Sony rape machine.
you're obviously unfamiliar with the fact that Apple does actually improve their products on a regular basis, but very familiar with MS's practise of releasing a slightly different GUI for Windows every 4-5 years.
are you retarded?
the dock can already autohide. making another gui component autohide isn't a brand new feature requiring development of new technology or ripping off ideas.
you aren't a patent lawyer are you?
I have never seen a laptop that had two hardware buttons and was comfortable to use.
the best solution is something like SideTrack which lets you use your trackpad as up to 5 buttons and 2 scrollbars.
plus the design of only *needing* 1 buttons is great.
I love the BBC but when it comes to clicking on one of their video feeds I'm more surprised when it actually works than when it times out.
by "flogging the iPod cash cow" you mean "release smaller, lighter, cheaper and longer battery life versions of an already very well designed and popular product?
I agree.
>His self-sacrifice and idealism was real
bollocks. he watched his wife die because he refused to let her accept British medicine, then when he got ill went running straight to them.
he also slept with little girls.
and go stupid by reading your comments too!
Apple didn't make this, Trolly McTrollalot.
MS has already annouced their intention to rip-off Dashboard. it came soon after Tiger's release. they claim it will be teh even bettarr than Dashboard, but obviously take a few extra years to be released. they call it startlets or dashlets or something.
>maybe I am just one of the few non-retarded people who bought this console
don't worry, we can safely rule that one out
>I think I know English pretty well, and...
fixed.
>6. No Civ IV
since crippling copy-protection means that even legitimate versions don't work, that's not so bad.
>Same thing would have happened on OS X where the user is not administrator by default.
I disagree, but no matter which of us is right regarding the average user I know for a fact that at least *I* would have questioned a music CD requiring admin priviledges. so for me the choice would be
1. use MS and get infected despite saying no.
2. use Mac and not get infected (refuse to enter password no matter what).
the fact that the DRM is able to install even though you click no is *precisely* why MS is to blame.
when I used to use Windows XP I ran it as an administrator because it was the only way to have things work, even though I knew it wasn't that great an idea. that's the catch-22 you have to put up with when you use MS but not Mac.
>I have to assume you either don't play video games, or regularly break intelectual property laws.
no, I buy Nintendo.
1. MS doesn't take security seriously. Has broken permissions.
2. People point out Windows's flaws, dismissed as MS bashers.
3. Company uses MS's broken permissions to threaten security.
4. People point out Windows's flaws, dismissed as MS bashers.
5. Rinse and repeat.