I agreew conpletely . I evenn had my glasses lens;s mde from 100% opaque plastic.
Now, I can rtotally live without transulucency - i t didnt affect my day to dayh life at all.
Only three of the products caught all of the viruses
Does this not strike anyone as a really stupid way to word the detection of a virus?
If you "catch a virus", you're infected.
"where's geoff today?",
"oh, he caught the flu"
"he caught it! nice one geoff, you managed to destroy that pesky flu & not get infected - so he's out celebrating right?"
"erm... fk off weirdo"
A good feature on Windows (I know, oxymoron, emphasis on the moron, etc.) is in Explorer, instead of using the mouse to select a filename, you just type it in, and it'll select it.
Y'know, If you went onto Microsofts websites to ask why your xBox360 won't work properly with a Mac, you'd get laughed out with comments like "you should've got a real computer" - not that I condone this, but it's kinda expected. When I bought a xBox360 I pretty much knew that I wasn't going to get every benefit unless I had Windows. Does a Zune work on OS X at all? I doubt it. I think the same should be assumed by non-OS X users when buying an Apple product. You will get 90% of it working, but it's not quite going to be the same experience. I think you should count yourselves lucky, the same courtesy is seldom extended in the other direction.
Every other phone comes with a software CD, but I've never seen one with OS X software. Now Mac users have one (count 'em) phone & everyone else is complaining. Unbelievable.
Statistically, there is always that one guy. You know the guy; wins the lottery, gets hit by a meteor, eats a thousand big macs and doesn't die, gets rich of a get rich quick scheme.
If he won the lottery, why did he need a get rich quick scheme?
Who are these idiots who only buy downloaded tracks? I cannot fathom that.
...erm, that'd be me then.
I want to OWN my music. I want it to be uncompressed, un-DRMed, and I don't want to have to pay for it all again should my MP3 player die, or my hard disk bite the big one. If I change MP3 player brands, I want my music to be compatable, and to not have to rebuy it.
You still OWN digital files & modern compression is the same as CD quality. non-DRM is here.
My music is on my iPod, my computer & my backup drive. If all 3 die on the same day, ill be screwed. If your house burns down, or gets burgled your screwed - same as me. Except I'll probably be out when that happens & have my iPod with me, so I still have it all.
CDs are great. They play everywhere. There's a CD player in my car. My car does not have an MP3 player that I can "sync" with my music library, nor does it have a way to connect my MP3 player to my Car's audio system.
How many CD's do you have in your car? 'Cause I just have this iPod with 4000 songs & it works in the car fine because you can transmit the signal & pick it up on your car radio.
The notion that CDs are becoming obsolete is absurd.
Not really. I have bought maybe 5 CD's in the last 2 years & I listen to more music now than I did because it's more accessible. In the 'olden days' I would buy 2-3 CD's / month & now they are all in attic boxes because they take up 8000% more space.
I don't pay a cent for any downloadable music that isn't the free and open and universal MP3, and even then I burn it to a CD so I can play it anywhere I want.
Umm, so if you burn it to CD anyway, why is DRM music an issue - you can still burn it & then you have the CD you always wanted.
Besides, when you download, you don't get anything PHYSICAL. You don't get liner notes, lyrics, artwork, or even "track order". Music and albums are so much more than just collections of "singles". You lose all that on many MP3 players that you have to go out of your way to get the tracks to play in "album/CD order". And it's ridiculous to pay the same for a 20 second "interlude" track as you do for a 15 minute opus track (whether classic, pop, or rock). And finally, being forced to buy the whole CD to get a single song I liked has opened up my eyes and my tastes to lots of music I never, ever, would have heard on the radio. Generally my favorite tracks are not the singles.
You DO get Cover Artwork & Track order. You don't get lyrics, but typing "slow train to dawn lyrics" into google brings it up pretty fast.
It's true you don't get the physical object. I agree here. I used to enjoy paging through the booklet or looking over the album cover while listening to the album - in a way, indeed, something has been lost in the experience.
In fact, as a previous record collector, I should agree with you 100%. I spent 1000's of hours & cash on collecting vinyl. Time's change.
It would be nice if this kind of thing was provided in video clips, pdf's or whatever. Let's hope some of that extra value makes it's way into the digital music, there's no reason why it can't.
If you buy an album track-by-track online you normally pay more, no one would do this - if you buy the whole album as one, then it works out cheaper.
So no, CDs are not obsolete. Not by a long shot.
Not obsolete yet, but getting there. Thinking into the future, there is no doubt that there will be a new format for music/video. Be it Blu-Ray or Krypton Crystals, either way I'm optimistic.
The way I see it, as the world becomes more virtual: you pay for something & it's accessible to you - wherever you are. Actually, you don't get anything physical at all - but magically your TV can watch it, your player play it, your brain imagine it.
PS: Even though I have disagreed with mostly all your post, it was interesting & well put. I wouldn't have replied otherwise - Thanks for posting!
I don't know how popular my view will be around here, but here it is regardless.
Thank God for iTunes!
Now my music buying is easy & instant.
I don't have to make a special trip to the store to find out they don't have it anyway.
I don't have to have stacks of CD's in wrong boxes.
I don't have to buy extra shelves to stack them on.
It all goes straight onto my iPod, my old CD's are in a box in a loft 5000 miles away. I can take my whole music collection everywhere, I can stream it around my house & play it in the car.
I look forward to the day when movies are just as conveinient.
Very well put, you should've logged in because you deserve the karma for this more than most.
I particularly empathise with #4. Unrealistic deadlines: I'm often asked to complete a job that should take 8-10 days in 3. Even then, my 10 day estimate is not including high-level security features. When you explain "if I do it in 3 days, & you want it changed later I'll have to start again from scratch. Plus, it will be minimum security - please understand that the website *may* be raped" THEY say "Bahh, don't confuse the issue, just get it done as quick as possible"
Single Developers: I live in a fairly remote location, there are very few people to share ideas/problems with. I try to be as creative as possible, but in past experience nothing helps more than a good old chat about reg-ex & mod_rewrite over a coffee & sandwich.
Perhaps the smaller business has somewhat of an excuse, but Yahoo! was pretty big last time I checked - if they overlook XSS, what chance do the rest of us have?
Agreed, no alt to CS.
PS - absolutely the number 1 piece of productivity software I have ever used, it;s fkin awesome.
InDesign - Sooo glad I switched from Quark. Do yourself a favour.
DW - I;d love an unbloated alt, but at the moment DW;s code enviroment (with prediction for almost every lang & code coloring & the site management) makes it a must.
The rest, I *could* live without, the 3 above are essential.
Here;s the deal - if you are a designer, photoshop is the minimum requirement. No alt. Wanna be a.NET guy? Is there a non-MS alt?
If you were smart enough to manually set the character encoding to utf8, then you'll have no problems
That's all that's needed here, the whole article & this page can be condensed in a 1 line Question & 1 line Answer - doh!
Oh & you can change the encoding at anytime, so even if you initially forget you just change it later, then dump.
But can I import them into iMovie or Final Cut (Express or Pro)?
I don't know about Final Cut - but with iMovie/iDVD : Yes, you can. & you can do that with the DRM'd ones also.
All your music is available to drag & drop onto a movie in iMovie/iDVD through the media tab. "Import" actually makes it sound harder, it's actually an effortless action.
Repeat after me, Apple is a hardware company. They have been since day one.
Don't be silly, Apple is a hardware & software company. iTunes is Software, OS X & all it's parts are software - there is as much important Hardware as there is software. Without OS X, what use would a Mac be? You can't have one without the other.
Don't be too sad, the Danes are not missing much - those pixar shorts are not very exciting.;-) I enjoy iTMS, & buy occasionally, but indeed it is frustrating that outside the USA the service is STILL not catching up!
I live in Japan, (but I have a UK iTMS account) so iTMS is good for me to catch up with European music. I would love the chance to catch up with TV & Movies too!
It's good to see the Video content of iTunes progressing, obviously a must for Apple TV's success. Still, I have to say, it's only in the USA. The rest of the world are still have no Movie/TV content whatsoever (other than Music Vids & Pixar short films). Effectively making Apple TV a USA only device.
If it's widely supported by browsers, OS's, PDA's, phones, playstations, web tv, photo cd's & dvd's, email apps, [word, excel, powerpoint (& the superior rivals)], printers, print shops, memory card printers & copiers, cameras, ipods & design apps I think it might have a chance.
Since Microsoft won't even be supporting it fully in their own apps (no evidence, but its just obvious right) I don't think it has much chance.
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Now, I can rtotally live without transulucency - i t didnt affect my day to dayh life at all.
This system has been in Nissan cars for several years, at least 3 to my knowledge.
Perhaps it's new in the USA, but in Japan it's commonplace.
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Yep, it does work, but you have to hold the keys down for a few moments to trigger the dialogue box.
If you "catch a virus", you're infected.
"where's geoff today?",
"oh, he caught the flu"
"he caught it! nice one geoff, you managed to destroy that pesky flu & not get infected - so he's out celebrating right?"
"erm... fk off weirdo"
You can't say "A majority..." because, like the highlander, there can only be one.
If everyone leaves their computer on overnight, then how much does that cost in wasted power?
I have my computer scheduled to start up at 8:50am & shutdown at 5:30pm.
Seems pretty obvious.
Y'know, If you went onto Microsofts websites to ask why your xBox360 won't work properly with a Mac, you'd get laughed out with comments like "you should've got a real computer" - not that I condone this, but it's kinda expected.
When I bought a xBox360 I pretty much knew that I wasn't going to get every benefit unless I had Windows.
Does a Zune work on OS X at all? I doubt it.
I think the same should be assumed by non-OS X users when buying an Apple product. You will get 90% of it working, but it's not quite going to be the same experience.
I think you should count yourselves lucky, the same courtesy is seldom extended in the other direction.
Every other phone comes with a software CD, but I've never seen one with OS X software. Now Mac users have one (count 'em) phone & everyone else is complaining. Unbelievable.
My music is on my iPod, my computer & my backup drive. If all 3 die on the same day, ill be screwed. If your house burns down, or gets burgled your screwed - same as me. Except I'll probably be out when that happens & have my iPod with me, so I still have it all. How many CD's do you have in your car? 'Cause I just have this iPod with 4000 songs & it works in the car fine because you can transmit the signal & pick it up on your car radio. Not really. I have bought maybe 5 CD's in the last 2 years & I listen to more music now than I did because it's more accessible. In the 'olden days' I would buy 2-3 CD's / month & now they are all in attic boxes because they take up 8000% more space.Umm, so if you burn it to CD anyway, why is DRM music an issue - you can still burn it & then you have the CD you always wanted. You DO get Cover Artwork & Track order. You don't get lyrics, but typing "slow train to dawn lyrics" into google brings it up pretty fast. It's true you don't get the physical object. I agree here. I used to enjoy paging through the booklet or looking over the album cover while listening to the album - in a way, indeed, something has been lost in the experience.
In fact, as a previous record collector, I should agree with you 100%. I spent 1000's of hours & cash on collecting vinyl. Time's change.
It would be nice if this kind of thing was provided in video clips, pdf's or whatever. Let's hope some of that extra value makes it's way into the digital music, there's no reason why it can't.
If you buy an album track-by-track online you normally pay more, no one would do this - if you buy the whole album as one, then it works out cheaper. Not obsolete yet, but getting there. Thinking into the future, there is no doubt that there will be a new format for music/video. Be it Blu-Ray or Krypton Crystals, either way I'm optimistic.
The way I see it, as the world becomes more virtual: you pay for something & it's accessible to you - wherever you are. Actually, you don't get anything physical at all - but magically your TV can watch it, your player play it, your brain imagine it.
PS: Even though I have disagreed with mostly all your post, it was interesting & well put. I wouldn't have replied otherwise - Thanks for posting!
I don't know how popular my view will be around here, but here it is regardless.
Thank God for iTunes!
Now my music buying is easy & instant.
I don't have to make a special trip to the store to find out they don't have it anyway.
I don't have to have stacks of CD's in wrong boxes.
I don't have to buy extra shelves to stack them on.
It all goes straight onto my iPod, my old CD's are in a box in a loft 5000 miles away. I can take my whole music collection everywhere, I can stream it around my house & play it in the car.
I look forward to the day when movies are just as conveinient.
Both Nintendo & Sony have said that AO-rated games will not be allowed to play on their consoles.
So an AO-rating basically means Rockstar HAVE to change the content or trash the game.
Very well put, you should've logged in because you deserve the karma for this more than most.
I particularly empathise with #4.
Unrealistic deadlines: I'm often asked to complete a job that should take 8-10 days in 3. Even then, my 10 day estimate is not including high-level security features. When you explain "if I do it in 3 days, & you want it changed later I'll have to start again from scratch. Plus, it will be minimum security - please understand that the website *may* be raped" THEY say "Bahh, don't confuse the issue, just get it done as quick as possible"
Single Developers: I live in a fairly remote location, there are very few people to share ideas/problems with. I try to be as creative as possible, but in past experience nothing helps more than a good old chat about reg-ex & mod_rewrite over a coffee & sandwich.
Perhaps the smaller business has somewhat of an excuse, but Yahoo! was pretty big last time I checked - if they overlook XSS, what chance do the rest of us have?
Agreed, no alt to CS.
.NET guy? Is there a non-MS alt?
PS - absolutely the number 1 piece of productivity software I have ever used, it;s fkin awesome.
InDesign - Sooo glad I switched from Quark. Do yourself a favour.
DW - I;d love an unbloated alt, but at the moment DW;s code enviroment (with prediction for almost every lang & code coloring & the site management) makes it a must.
The rest, I *could* live without, the 3 above are essential.
Here;s the deal - if you are a designer, photoshop is the minimum requirement. No alt. Wanna be a
Oh & you can change the encoding at anytime, so even if you initially forget you just change it later, then dump.
I mean, call me picky, but shouldn't they finish developing IE to an acceptable standard before they start on a Flash competitor?
I don't know about Final Cut - but with iMovie/iDVD : Yes, you can. & you can do that with the DRM'd ones also.
All your music is available to drag & drop onto a movie in iMovie/iDVD through the media tab. "Import" actually makes it sound harder, it's actually an effortless action.
Don't be too sad, the Danes are not missing much - those pixar shorts are not very exciting. ;-)
I enjoy iTMS, & buy occasionally, but indeed it is frustrating that outside the USA the service is STILL not catching up!
I live in Japan, (but I have a UK iTMS account) so iTMS is good for me to catch up with European music. I would love the chance to catch up with TV & Movies too!
It's good to see the Video content of iTunes progressing, obviously a must for Apple TV's success. Still, I have to say, it's only in the USA.
The rest of the world are still have no Movie/TV content whatsoever (other than Music Vids & Pixar short films). Effectively making Apple TV a USA only device.
If it's widely supported by browsers, OS's, PDA's, phones, playstations, web tv, photo cd's & dvd's, email apps, [word, excel, powerpoint (& the superior rivals)], printers, print shops, memory card printers & copiers, cameras, ipods & design apps I think it might have a chance.
Since Microsoft won't even be supporting it fully in their own apps (no evidence, but its just obvious right) I don't think it has much chance.