Used to be like that but it is not true anymore: Now you only have to show that you have a job offer here, regardless of whether someone local could do it. So job = you're welcome:-)
> Seeing as the zune and ipod are the same price, why WOULDN'T you pick the zune?
1. It doesn't implement the massdrive USB spec -> Not possible to use as a harddrive (which is especially bad for the large-capacity one); there are drivers to download which makes it possible but it still means I cannot just plug it into any old computer and use it for files. 2. Calendars, addresses and notes: I use this functionality, especially the notes thing where you can hyper-link notes internally and to music/video on the drive. Geeky, yes, but for me it's useful. (Caveat: I haven't tried the newest firmware for Zune so these things might be available now.) 3. I live in Europe -> Can't buy a Zune 4. I use a Mac now and then -> Can't use the Zune with it
But of course my reasons might not be interesting for you, and instead the FM radio, Wifi etc. on the Zune, and if so you should definitely avoid the iPod.
I only wanted to mention that there are actual, feature-based reasons why someone might want to get an iPod rather than a Zune. And of course this comparison is only interesting for iPod Classic / Nano; iPod Touch is something else completely. I strongly suspect that iPod Classic is not selling that much any more...
Select your compilation tracks -> Get Info -> Info -> Click the "Part of a compilation"-flag, and the tracks will be moved to iTunes Music/Compilations/album name/Tracks. You can also toy with the Album Artist ID3 tag which allows for some neat stuff, like setting a main artist on a compilation so s/he can be searched for even if s/he is not part of a specific track.
And no, you're not stupid for not finding this; iTunes does actually have quite a lot of functionality, but unless you need it and therefore search for it, you won't find it. This is in line with Apple's general design philosophy: Make the common things trivial and obvious, but if you really need to do more advanced things, it is possible as well. Such as having watch folders (only on Mac since it is Apple's #1 platform after all) and other things.
You are correct that words get their meaning from how it is used, and not how it is defined. However, googling proscribe & prescribe I'm afraid you are definitely in the minority here; at least in written English proscribe almost always is used as it is defined.
But regardless, there might also be a reason why Mac users are rabid, fanatical and defensive: If Macs are insanely great, of course the users will tell everyone that this is so;-)
And vice versa, if you have a product with no enthusiastic users at all, it might mean that something is not as it should be;-)
Of course they have some kind of SDK internally, but it is a much different thing supporting something internally compared to letting other people use it: You have to start thinking about backwards compatibility much more, documentation must be better (you can get away with lousy/no documentation internally since you can always ask the ones writing the software how things work), etc.
I used to be the main developer at a big software company, where we had a supported SDK for customization, and it was hell; even if you document how the SDK is supposed to be used, everyone immediately starts making assumptions based on how the current implementation works (such as relying on un-documented order of events). Ideally you could tell those users that its their fault when things break down with an upgrade, but customers don't really care about this: They upgraded a product they pay money for, and their stuff break. Ergo, the software company is at fault. Example: The SDK clearly specified that spaces was considered optional in all string messages. But when we removed those with an upgrade, my guess is that 90% of the customers had broken installations since their code assumed "a = b" was how things looked, when parsing the string. And customers paying a couple of hundred thousand dollars / year for a software do not appreciate that, no matter what you say.
Furthermore, *any* feature you add in an official SDK will be there forever, even if you later on realize it was a bad idea or design, since someone, somewhere, is using that feature. Look at Windows and how long it has taken them to get away from Win32.
HD-DVD is region free, whereas Blu-ray supports region-coding. However, the idea is that catalogue releases will not be region-coded (catalogue = film finished playing on the big screenmore than a year ago, approximately), but this is really up to the movie companies. So far Sony & Disney follows this (so Ratatouille is region-coded, Cars is not) but sometimes they do region-free stuff even if the movie is new; FOX tends to region-code everything (although there are signs they are moving to region-free for older movies, like Die Hard 1-3); Warner doesn't region-code anything (so Bladerunner is OK to buy anywhere). Nice, and not at all confusing, right?
Sweden also uses mpeg4 for the HD channel(s); SVT HD which is the main HD channel on the terrestrial digital net is mostly using mpeg4, although now and again they also use mpeg2 for HD. Same for digital cable; some HD channels use mpeg4, some mpeg2.
Apple uses those in the Mac Pro models, going up to 3.0 GHz, and they've been selling them for months. So possibly not available for everyone to buy, but they do exist and Intel has been delivering them for some time.
One way of getting around the current limitations is to input your text file (or even rtf, if you wish) into an app which cuts down the text into 4000 char or less pieces, and them tying them together using hyperlinks; I guess you know that you can hyperlink to other notes, and even to music, photo and video files with the iPod's built-in note system. I've written a small app which takes a tab-separated list (the output from a database app I have listing my books, films etc) and converts it into hyperlinked notes with a start page and alphabetized notes listing info about them, so you can actually do quite a lot already. Writing something similar for converting text docs should be trivial. Documentation can be found here.
iPod doesn't run a version of OSX; iPhone, however, will. The processor in the iPod is nowhere near powerful enough for that kind of OS. So most of the things mentioned here simply cannot be done on the current iPod generation. The processor is low-performance; as an example with the notes, try loading around a hundred long notes and watch how it takes the iPod (nano, in my case) 20-30 seconds just to parse them enough to be able to present the user with a list of them and their names. I don't want to think about how slow an html-reader would be...
I think Rayman's Raving Rabbids is great fun. I've never liked Rayman as a charcter, but the reviews made it sound like fun and it is. It uses the Wiimote far better than any of the other release games IMHO, and is also an excellent title to demo for friends what the Wii is allabout. In essence, it's a Warioware title where the minigames are a bot more fleshed out and varied. My personal favorites are the disco-dancing rabbits games and the railgun games (shooting rabbits with plungers).
Not the title if you want a deep adventure or similar, of course.
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I read your post as claiming that outputting 720p for a video console was more taxing than outputting 1080i since that is what the original poster was talking about, and that is simply not true.
For live action, it depends very much on what the actual cameras support whether 1080i is better / worse than 720p. For regular movies, filmed non-digital, 1080i is of course superior to 720p since 1080i is equivalent to 1080p for those (they only film 24 frames / second, so a good deinterlacer will produce the exact same result from 1080i as from a 1080p stream). For TV, such as sports, if the digital cameras support 720p & 1080i but not 1080p, there are advantages with 720p, definitely.
In short, it depends on what you really mean with p or i. The real question is, what is your original stream (console output, camera output, or whatever)? Is it 60 frames / second or 30? For 30 (including non-digital movies; they're really 24 but that doesn't matter), 1080i is equivalent to 1080p and hence far superior to 720p. For 60, a 720p might be more pleasant to the viewer even though 1080i contains slightly more date.
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I'm sorry but that is wrong. You are forgetting that there are also more lines for the other axis; assuming 60 Hz, these are the pixel outputs for every 1/60th of a second:
"Using the included CONNECT(TM) Reader PC Software, you can easily transfer Adobe® PDF documents, BBeB Book, and other text file formats to the Reader".
So, Linux & Mac users can't use this, and who knows if you will be able to upload those files back to another PC than the one you downloaded from...
Not sure why I'm answering an AC but anyways: No CD keys on OSX, and there has never been any, except for OSX server, so you are simply remembering wrong. There is a screen where you can fill in personal details to register at Apple but you can simply press Cmd-Q (Quit) on the screen to skip that.
Yes; using ".." and "." is nothing Linux-specific at all. It has been the UNIX way of listing "Parent directory" and "Current directory" for ages (and probably in other OSes as well), so using their presence as an indication of Linux usage is quite worthless.
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And there is no way at all to distribute this to any prospective customers. Woohoo.
Used to be like that but it is not true anymore: Now you only have to show that you have a job offer here, regardless of whether someone local could do it. So job = you're welcome :-)
> Seeing as the zune and ipod are the same price, why WOULDN'T you pick the zune?
1. It doesn't implement the massdrive USB spec -> Not possible to use as a harddrive (which is especially bad for the large-capacity one); there are drivers to download which makes it possible but it still means I cannot just plug it into any old computer and use it for files.
2. Calendars, addresses and notes: I use this functionality, especially the notes thing where you can hyper-link notes internally and to music/video on the drive. Geeky, yes, but for me it's useful. (Caveat: I haven't tried the newest firmware for Zune so these things might be available now.)
3. I live in Europe -> Can't buy a Zune
4. I use a Mac now and then -> Can't use the Zune with it
But of course my reasons might not be interesting for you, and instead the FM radio, Wifi etc. on the Zune, and if so you should definitely avoid the iPod.
I only wanted to mention that there are actual, feature-based reasons why someone might want to get an iPod rather than a Zune. And of course this comparison is only interesting for iPod Classic / Nano; iPod Touch is something else completely. I strongly suspect that iPod Classic is not selling that much any more...
Select your compilation tracks -> Get Info -> Info -> Click the "Part of a compilation"-flag, and the tracks will be moved to iTunes Music/Compilations/album name/Tracks. You can also toy with the Album Artist ID3 tag which allows for some neat stuff, like setting a main artist on a compilation so s/he can be searched for even if s/he is not part of a specific track.
And no, you're not stupid for not finding this; iTunes does actually have quite a lot of functionality, but unless you need it and therefore search for it, you won't find it. This is in line with Apple's general design philosophy: Make the common things trivial and obvious, but if you really need to do more advanced things, it is possible as well. Such as having watch folders (only on Mac since it is Apple's #1 platform after all) and other things.
You are correct that words get their meaning from how it is used, and not how it is defined. However, googling proscribe & prescribe I'm afraid you are definitely in the minority here; at least in written English proscribe almost always is used as it is defined.
Amiga users.
;-)
;-)
Xbox 360 / Sony PS3 users.
And potentially more.
But regardless, there might also be a reason why Mac users are rabid, fanatical and defensive: If Macs are insanely great, of course the users will tell everyone that this is so
And vice versa, if you have a product with no enthusiastic users at all, it might mean that something is not as it should be
Of course they have some kind of SDK internally, but it is a much different thing supporting something internally compared to letting other people use it: You have to start thinking about backwards compatibility much more, documentation must be better (you can get away with lousy/no documentation internally since you can always ask the ones writing the software how things work), etc.
I used to be the main developer at a big software company, where we had a supported SDK for customization, and it was hell; even if you document how the SDK is supposed to be used, everyone immediately starts making assumptions based on how the current implementation works (such as relying on un-documented order of events). Ideally you could tell those users that its their fault when things break down with an upgrade, but customers don't really care about this: They upgraded a product they pay money for, and their stuff break. Ergo, the software company is at fault. Example: The SDK clearly specified that spaces was considered optional in all string messages. But when we removed those with an upgrade, my guess is that 90% of the customers had broken installations since their code assumed "a = b" was how things looked, when parsing the string. And customers paying a couple of hundred thousand dollars / year for a software do not appreciate that, no matter what you say.
Furthermore, *any* feature you add in an official SDK will be there forever, even if you later on realize it was a bad idea or design, since someone, somewhere, is using that feature. Look at Windows and how long it has taken them to get away from Win32.
HD-DVD is region free, whereas Blu-ray supports region-coding. However, the idea is that catalogue releases will not be region-coded (catalogue = film finished playing on the big screenmore than a year ago, approximately), but this is really up to the movie companies. So far Sony & Disney follows this (so Ratatouille is region-coded, Cars is not) but sometimes they do region-free stuff even if the movie is new; FOX tends to region-code everything (although there are signs they are moving to region-free for older movies, like Die Hard 1-3); Warner doesn't region-code anything (so Bladerunner is OK to buy anywhere). Nice, and not at all confusing, right?
Sweden also uses mpeg4 for the HD channel(s); SVT HD which is the main HD channel on the terrestrial digital net is mostly using mpeg4, although now and again they also use mpeg2 for HD. Same for digital cable; some HD channels use mpeg4, some mpeg2.
Non-HD channels all go for mpeg2, though.
Apple uses those in the Mac Pro models, going up to 3.0 GHz, and they've been selling them for months. So possibly not available for everyone to buy, but they do exist and Intel has been delivering them for some time.
One way of getting around the current limitations is to input your text file (or even rtf, if you wish) into an app which cuts down the text into 4000 char or less pieces, and them tying them together using hyperlinks; I guess you know that you can hyperlink to other notes, and even to music, photo and video files with the iPod's built-in note system.
I've written a small app which takes a tab-separated list (the output from a database app I have listing my books, films etc) and converts it into hyperlinked notes with a start page and alphabetized notes listing info about them, so you can actually do quite a lot already. Writing something similar for converting text docs should be trivial.
Documentation can be found here.
iPod doesn't run a version of OSX; iPhone, however, will. The processor in the iPod is nowhere near powerful enough for that kind of OS. So most of the things mentioned here simply cannot be done on the current iPod generation. The processor is low-performance; as an example with the notes, try loading around a hundred long notes and watch how it takes the iPod (nano, in my case) 20-30 seconds just to parse them enough to be able to present the user with a list of them and their names.
I don't want to think about how slow an html-reader would be...
I think Rayman's Raving Rabbids is great fun. I've never liked Rayman as a charcter, but the reviews made it sound like fun and it is. It uses the Wiimote far better than any of the other release games IMHO, and is also an excellent title to demo for friends what the Wii is allabout. In essence, it's a Warioware title where the minigames are a bot more fleshed out and varied. My personal favorites are the disco-dancing rabbits games and the railgun games (shooting rabbits with plungers).
Not the title if you want a deep adventure or similar, of course.
I read your post as claiming that outputting 720p for a video console was more taxing than outputting 1080i since that is what the original poster was talking about, and that is simply not true.
For live action, it depends very much on what the actual cameras support whether 1080i is better / worse than 720p. For regular movies, filmed non-digital, 1080i is of course superior to 720p since 1080i is equivalent to 1080p for those (they only film 24 frames / second, so a good deinterlacer will produce the exact same result from 1080i as from a 1080p stream). For TV, such as sports, if the digital cameras support 720p & 1080i but not 1080p, there are advantages with 720p, definitely.
In short, it depends on what you really mean with p or i. The real question is, what is your original stream (console output, camera output, or whatever)? Is it 60 frames / second or 30? For 30 (including non-digital movies; they're really 24 but that doesn't matter), 1080i is equivalent to 1080p and hence far superior to 720p. For 60, a 720p might be more pleasant to the viewer even though 1080i contains slightly more date.
I'm sorry but that is wrong. You are forgetting that there are also more lines for the other axis; assuming 60 Hz, these are the pixel outputs for every 1/60th of a second:
1. 1080p = 1920x1080 = 2073600 pixels
2. 1080i = 1920x540 = 1036800 pixels
3. 720p = 1280x768 = 983040 pixels
4. 720i = 1280x360 = 491520 pixels
5. 480p = 640x480 = 307200 pixels
6. 480i = 640x240 = 153600 pixels
This of course assumes that all pixels are assumed equal, i e as difficult to output.
Yes, it is too good to be true. From TA:
"Using the included CONNECT(TM) Reader PC Software, you can easily transfer Adobe® PDF documents, BBeB Book, and other text file formats to the Reader".
So, Linux & Mac users can't use this, and who knows if you will be able to upload those files back to another PC than the one you downloaded from...
Not sure why I'm answering an AC but anyways: No CD keys on OSX, and there has never been any, except for OSX server, so you are simply remembering wrong. There is a screen where you can fill in personal details to register at Apple but you can simply press Cmd-Q (Quit) on the screen to skip that.
I like the options "Continue" / "Skip" / "Cancel". Very obvious for a normal user what the difference between Skip & Cancel is ;-)
Yes; using ".." and "." is nothing Linux-specific at all. It has been the UNIX way of listing "Parent directory" and "Current directory" for ages (and probably in other OSes as well), so using their presence as an indication of Linux usage is quite worthless.