You really should read things said about Jobs of that time frame; that man had the tendency of making sure his voice is the only one that counted.
Jobs was an egotistical asshole. I know; I met him at the Apple booth at the CES(?) show in Chicago in 1978 or '79, and I instantly despised him. Jeff Raskin, on the other hand, enthusiastically dragged me back into a little side-room to show me the (still-draft) documentation for the not-yet-released Apple Disk system, and what was to become Apple DOS 3.1 . So yeah, I get it.
But what I neglected to say in my original comment regarding the Apple/// suffering from "committee design", was that that statement came to me directly in an email from Steve Wozniak. He further clarified that it was specifically the design spec. That the Apple/// emulate an Apple ][ not only perfectly, but also ONLY (in other words, things like Text Color could NOT work in Apple ][ mode). This lead to an insane amount of additional hardware (remember, they couldn't just emulate a bunch of glue logic in an FPGA or CSIC, but had to add 74-series packages by the handful. And then, the straw that broke the Camel's back: The fact that all that extra logic had to be connected somehow; which, since affordable PCBs were only available up to two layers, meant that what would now be easily-attainable trace widths and "pitch" had to be used, with up to THREE traces going between IC PINS, leading to the massive mechanical reliability problems in the first 2 revs. of the PCBs. The board-stacking connectors were also a problem...
But no one ever notes that all of these problems had been ironed-out by rev3; but by then, no one cared.
Or more accurately, the marketing types assess the "price point" of the device they want to sell. The engineers job is to figure out how to maximize the profit (difference between cost of goods, and "price point"). The price point MAY drop, if price wars are a factor and companies think they have a chance to profit enough to run their competitor out of the market, believing their engineers/supply chain have "innovated" more than the other guy.
That's not the apple market though, they are happy being luxury goods and letting the chinese shitshops duke it out on price and destroy each other.
spoken by not only an Apple-Hater, but someone who has absolutely no idea how product development actually works.
But as an Embedded Developer with nearly 4 decades of paid product design and development experience, I have been in that rodeo many, many times.
"We just assumed a base historical background fact, no need to define it further because it's so obvious, of breeding horses as given, and no more foresaw cloning than a Star Trek teleporter creating a duplicate that someone might want to enter."
Obviously, logical thinking is unacceptable when one's income is threatened by it.
Well, that is the real issue. Cloning could totally disrupt horse breeding. Why bother with lots of trial and error, when you can just clone a hundred copies of Secretariat? Barriers to entry would be far lower, stud fees would disappear, and horse racing attendance may drop from lack of interest in watching identical horses compete. For thoroughbreds, not only is cloning banned, but they don't even allow artificial insemination or embryo transfer. The whole industry is predicated on artificial scarcity.
But then, you could have an entirely different race, the IROC of horse-racing; where the only difference was (supposedly) the skill of the Jockeys and the horses' "crews"...
He's wrong, though, as is the parent he replied to. GPU memory is managed and prioritized by the Windows kernel. As such, any memory needed for a game or other application is released from DWM.exe (desktop window manager) as needed. Also, unlike Linux, turning off desktop composition is completely unnecessary and can actually lower performance in some instances. Outdated FUD dies hard.
Well, then, thank you for your even more erudite explanation!
The reason is because Aero can take up 600MB of very precious video card RAM, depending on screen resolution and other factors. That's a *lot* of RAM to be losing access to just for a desktop you can't see while playing a game. That's 600MB out of the 1-2GB a typical card might have.
It doesn't matter whether the icons have a flat look or a sculpted 3D light sourced look or whatever, they are still just bitmaps that are blasted to the screen using a bitblit operation which is stupidly fast on any card made since the late 80s. Aero sucks for many other reasons, but flat icons in not even remotely one of them.
Thank you for that extremely erudite explanation.
I knew it didn't make sense that performance would suffer due simply to computational backlog in the GPU, and of course, BitBlt was an unlikely culprit, it being THE basis of GUIs since SmallTalk brought us the concept, and something that even the weakest GPU can do blazingly fast with half it's pipelines tied behind its back; but lack-of display-buffer memory can't be overcome, no matter HOW fast you can blow stuff into said buffer.
Have at it. The Lisa was a wonderful piece of hardware, extremely well-designed and built. Also had the world's first integrated "office" package (and not by Microsoft, neither!). Just a little too far ahead of it's time. And too expensive.
I see by your sig, however, that you are unlikely to agree with the entire concept, regardless of its success or failure as a product.
They've got to try to restore performance somehow. Getting rid of detail and gradients really helps with performance. Too bad it's still sluggish.
Do you really think that today's GPUs, which can render incredibly-detailed 3D scenes in video games 60-100 times per second, REALLY have trouble with a simple Gradient Fill?
And of course the GP missed out on all the varied music around the world that only recently was written down to "read". India. With an incredible breadth of music, I have never seen taught via sheet music (or seen sheet music for that matter) as it is almost all ad lib. And many other cultures (almost all outside Europe) never felt the need to write down a score.
Yes, but like he said, they aren't musicians, because they don't have a music degree, and haven't played with a symphony orchestra. So they're just fakes.
First he says one is not worthy if the cannot play an instrument or read music. Then when I informed him I could do both, he moved the goalposts to "have a music degree and have played with a symphony orchestra." Did you catch that? And he deliberately "misunderstood" that I was talking about my recording and mixing skills as self-taught, and immediately declared me a "fake". Hilarious...
I'll just bet he's the life of the party...
In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny: "What a Maroon!"
I'm not defending the insane assortment of completely unnecessary sizes of barrel connectors. I'd agree that it's all horseshit - it would only make some sense if the sizes were related to the voltage, such as one size for 5v, one size for 12V, one size for 29V, etc. It's hard to imagine that manufacturers really get big money out of continually changing power connectors and battery pack designs - it never takes very long for ebay & amazon to start selling third party supplies and batteries. My personal bugaboo is how far laptops need to be torn apart to replace these connectors - and - stiff connectors that seem designed to stick out just perfectly far enough and stiff enough to maximally damage the receptacle.
Well, two conductors or 24, laptop connectors are never a joy to service.
In any case, two conductive contacts ought to be enough for any small or mobile device's power and data needs, and neither is there any no good justification having distinct connectors for networks, disk drives, displays and accessories. USB is among the most phenomical kludges of all time, with all the different connectors, profiles, and adapters
On that, we definitely agree.
- and Apple, as well as HP, and others have gunked it up with all manner of proprietary kludges to negotiate high power charging.
Charging was part of the USB-C standard, Apple didn't gunk anything up. A standards committee did that.
The USB-C "standard" connector actually has 24 teeny little pins, doubled up from 12 just so the connector can be rotated 180 degrees. I really don't think it's a step forward to use a 24-pin connector to power a laptop.
But it is essentially a Thunderbolt (1) speed interface disguised as a USB.
Even the fairly good music I produce hs limited by my poor mixing and mastering which, in turn, are both limited by my equipment. I simply don't have a decent setup for simulating various listening environments and speaker types, which makes mastering a track to sound good on all of them an impossible task for me. That said, I do manage to make things sound excellent on the equipment in my office, living room, and car, as well as several headphones of varied quality, and my laptop and phone; you'd think that'd be enough, but the same track sounds like crap in my wife's car and my friend's stereo.
In fact, macs4all, I'd like to ask, given your claimed background, if you'd be so kind as to give me some pointers on that front.
Well, I'm all self taught on those things; though I do have a fair bit of experience.
I understand completely what you mean about checking your mixes on several different headphones, earbuds, plus on your stereo, in your car; then trying it out somewhere else and it sound like dogshit. Been there, done that, too many times to count. I have found that you can't mix and EQ to perfection on any one system (with the possible exception of a compensated studio-monitor system); because you are simply compensating for that system (and if speakers, room) anomalies, and if you start bouncing around from system to system, all you do is start making the whole thing more and more extreme and peaky. And then it REALLY sounds bad elsewhere!
Because you can buy a pretty stellar set of headphones, and even earbuds, for much less than an even slightly better-than-average stereo (and then we have to have a properly-treated room to put it in), I tend to gravitate toward mixing (studio mixing, live mixing is a whole different story) with them. A lot of people still think it's heresy, and if I had a proper studio, I'd agree; but for home recording, you just can't beat headphones/earbuds. I don't want to start a brand-war, so I won't get into brands/models, but just do NOT get ones that sound too "good" (enhanced bass and treble), because you will end up with stuff that sounds simply awful!
I don't know what instruments you are recording, or what your budget is; but you can invest a king's ransom in microphones, or you can shop wisely. But without further details, I can't make any specific recommendations. One general rule of thumb is that microphones that are good for live applications are rarely good for recording, and vice-versa. There are exceptions; but that's a good generalization.
I know most of this too generalized to be of much use; but without more specific questions, and perhaps a few samples of some stuff you think needs work (with a decent encoding technique and bitrate), I can't conduct a studio-craft class in this manner, sorry!
The Macintosh TV was a road apple. It only had one expansion slot that had the TV capture card in it. It was slow for its time. You couldn't even watch TV in a window; it had to be full screen. There was no way to record video.
If they had made it more capable, they might have sold more. But it was cheaper to buy a faster Mac and put a cheap TV next to it, than to buy the Macintosh TV. I know; I was there.
I was there, too. I had a consulting client who had one for a few years, and actually ran his Architectural consulting business on it, plus published the first edition of his heavily-illustrated Stagecraft book on it, too.
I agree that the Apple TV was too weak, but it was at least an attempt at a good idea. And having only one free slot on a computer that was a "consumer"-intended product, especially a Mac, was hardly an impediment to most. Since that was a 68k All-In-One Mac, I believe it would have been a PDS slot, and other than the cool Apple//e Card, and I believe an Ethernet card, I don't believe much was available for that slot.
Oh wait... I guess we're both wrong. According to this, the AppleTV had NO expansion slots.
I said nothing of the sort. Learn to read, you fucking moron.
What I said is you shouldn't call yourself an audiophile if you don't understand music. People like Steve (and you, apparently) who casually listened to music didn't.
Oh and if you can't read music, then you are by definition NOT a musician. You're just a wannabe. Deal with it.
Why don't you come out and put you Karma on the line like I have, AC?
I DO know how to read music, and its idiot bastardized son, TAB.
I play several different instruments, and took lessons on some of them since age 5. I also have many musician relatives, including a Great Uncle who was a Concert Master in Europe (do you know what a Concert Master is? For one thing, they have to be able to play every instrument in the orchestra), and an Aunt who used to Arrange for the National Symphony in Washington, D.C. I. Fact, almost every member of my Mom's side of the family is a trained musician, and I have personally been immersed in music in many forms as long as I can remember, And at 58 years old, that's a LOT of remembering... So don't you DARE presume to lecture me about music nor the reproduction thereof, nor second guess my ability to understand and appreciate music of almost any type, nor the faithful recording and playback of same.
Oh, and I didn't even go into my musical recording, mixing, reinforcement and playback bona fides; but suffice it to say, my experience in all of those, and across many types of music, is more than adequate.
But by the same token, unlike you, I am enlightened enough to understand that "musicianship" has very little to do with one's ability to transcribe little black dots into an imperfect representation of what the composer actually had in mind (due to standard musical notation's lack of nomenclature for all but the most crude of "expressions" (hell, you can't even really specify such basics such as the speed and depth of vibrato!)) ; but rather is the province of what is euphemistically called "the heart", or "the soul".
And if you don't understand that, it is YOU that isn't a musician; but rather a soulless, Musical Transcription-Bot.
You can enjoy music without being a musician, but to label yourself an "audiophile" when you don't even understand the basics of music composition or how to play a base level instrument like a piano or guitar is ridiculous. I doubt Steve could even read music.
At best, Steve Jobs was a music dilettante.
I don't think Audiophile means what you think it means. Audiophile and Musician have only one thing in common: Music. One requires skill on at least one instrument. The other requires only a set of ears and a brain to process the periodic changes in atmospheric pressure we learn to interpret as "music"; no "musicianship" required. So, what you are saying us that no one except musicians should own a stereo; because they are not equipped to "appreciate" the difference between a Close-n-Play and high-end Audio Playback gear, right?
And there are millions of musicians, if not billions, who cannot read music notation, you effete asshole.
One connector is enough when the data is wireless.
Boy, you wouldn't think that by reading all the haters on/. And elsewhere, bitching about the new MacBook...
And it seems like you already got started on the insane assortment of completely unnecessary sizes of barrel connectors just by mentioning them.
And you're DEFENDING that horseshit?!? Have you ever tried to figure out the TWO specifications (Post O.D. and Barrel I.D.) for some random power supply you are trying to match? I can tell you from personal experience, that without specifications (often not published for proprietary AC adapters), or without a set of digital calipers, you'll play hell figuring those measurements out...
If you insist on data being passed over a connector, packets of serial data could be passed over the power connector by modulating the power of the supply or the impedance of the device. Think of POE
But the USB-C standard, which isn't Apple's proprietary connector, actually HAS Power Transmission (and plenty of it!) built into it, rather than some kludge like you are proposing.
There are more than TWO orientations. A simple cylindrical connector could allow "any" orientation (OK, any orientation that's pointing in the right general direction.), in the manner of almost every non-Apple laptop power connector and pre-USB cellphones.
Especially now that there's all number of wireless data connections, going back to a simple "retro" power connector should be easier than any connector that has to handle both power and data.
...and FORCE there to be at least two connectors.
And don't get me started on the insane assortment of completely unnecessary sizes of barrel connectors.
You can get pretty much any size and style of TV from a number of different vendors in a wide price range to fit any need whatsoever. You can even buy a projector if you want to turn your entire wall into a TV.
All that Apple needs to make is a little box that plugs into the HDMI port on that TV. That's IT. Once that's done, when you turn on the TV you get the "Apple experience" and full access to their ecosystem of TV shows, movies, and music.
The reason Apple hasn't made a TV is it's not a product segment where they can really make a difference. It would be equivalent to Apple making a power strip.
What people forget is that Apple DID make a computer/TV hybrid, long ago. It was cool for its day, featuring a 68030-based PowerMac 550 all-in-one computer, and a custom TV-tuner card, which even let you do screen caps of the TV image. Apple figured it was perfect for the college-dorm market, with limited space. There was even a cool black one. Quite sexy looking.
They sold about 10 of them.
So, you can understand Apple's reluctance to get involved in TV again.
I've had a PC running Windows Media Center recording TV on the broad cast schedule for about 10 years now. It currently has 6 tuners (records 6 things at once) for cable broadcasts, and an older tuner to pick up FM on occasion. I can watch live TV/radio, schedule recordings or watch recordings from anywhere in the house that has a TV via Windows Media Center extenders, one Ceton Echo extender and a few Xbox 360s. I can watch iTunes videos or play music, Amazon streaming, or transcode (on the fly) pretty much anything else without any effort by myself or anyone else in the family. With RemotePotato, I can also do anything that I can do in the house from anywhere with a fast enough Internet connection. I can watch TV on my phone, my iPad, or any laptop (we all use OS X, but Windows is easier) in the house.
To put it bluntly, my PC that is slaved to broadcast/scheduled TV kicks the living shit out of every DVR on the planet you've ever seen or known about, especially the shitty ones that the cable companies provide. Whats more important, it means I'm not slaved to the schedule or the commercials.
There are many PCs that come with built in tuners still to this day, as well as a few laptops, though you won't find a laptop that takes a CableCARD as best I can tell, where as full sized PCs or devices like the HDHomeRun Prime do.
I'm fairly certain the only miss here is your analysis.
The only miss here is your knowledge on the subject. Either that or your a cable company shill still trying to kill the CableCARD requirement.
Yeah, if there was any serious "miss" in the HTPC/set top box arena, it was that Microsoft didn't market Media Center correctly. It does seem to be the top of the food chain when it comes to HTPC. I am a huge Apple fan, but I *almost* want to set up a WMC machine myself.
He was also a poseur. He was such an "audiophile" and music lover that he couldn't even play an instrument or sing...
As a musician, and an audio aficionado (not to be confused with an audiopile), I don't think it is a requirement to be a musician to enjoy music, nor to appreciate good audio reproduction.
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Sorry for unintentionally misspelling Jef Raskin's name. Damned Autocorrect (really)... And sorry for the un closed parenthesis. I hate that!
You really should read things said about Jobs of that time frame; that man had the tendency of making sure his voice is the only one that counted.
Jobs was an egotistical asshole. I know; I met him at the Apple booth at the CES(?) show in Chicago in 1978 or '79, and I instantly despised him. Jeff Raskin, on the other hand, enthusiastically dragged me back into a little side-room to show me the (still-draft) documentation for the not-yet-released Apple Disk system, and what was to become Apple DOS 3.1 . So yeah, I get it.
/// suffering from "committee design", was that that statement came to me directly in an email from Steve Wozniak. He further clarified that it was specifically the design spec. That the Apple /// emulate an Apple ][ not only perfectly, but also ONLY (in other words, things like Text Color could NOT work in Apple ][ mode). This lead to an insane amount of additional hardware (remember, they couldn't just emulate a bunch of glue logic in an FPGA or CSIC, but had to add 74-series packages by the handful. And then, the straw that broke the Camel's back: The fact that all that extra logic had to be connected somehow; which, since affordable PCBs were only available up to two layers, meant that what would now be easily-attainable trace widths and "pitch" had to be used, with up to THREE traces going between IC PINS, leading to the massive mechanical reliability problems in the first 2 revs. of the PCBs. The board-stacking connectors were also a problem...
But what I neglected to say in my original comment regarding the Apple
But no one ever notes that all of these problems had been ironed-out by rev3; but by then, no one cared.
Or more accurately, the marketing types assess the "price point" of the device they want to sell. The engineers job is to figure out how to maximize the profit (difference between cost of goods, and "price point"). The price point MAY drop, if price wars are a factor and companies think they have a chance to profit enough to run their competitor out of the market, believing their engineers/supply chain have "innovated" more than the other guy.
That's not the apple market though, they are happy being luxury goods and letting the chinese shitshops duke it out on price and destroy each other.
spoken by not only an Apple-Hater, but someone who has absolutely no idea how product development actually works.
But as an Embedded Developer with nearly 4 decades of paid product design and development experience, I have been in that rodeo many, many times.
Probably cheaper. Apple is shaving a few cents off which are not passed to the customers.
"Cost Reduction" in a BOM is NEVER directly passed-on to customers.
Stop with the hate, will ya?
"We just assumed a base historical background fact, no need to define it further because it's so obvious, of breeding horses as given, and no more foresaw cloning than a Star Trek teleporter creating a duplicate that someone might want to enter."
Spock Must Die!
Oh, wait...
Obviously, logical thinking is unacceptable when one's income is threatened by it.
Well, that is the real issue. Cloning could totally disrupt horse breeding. Why bother with lots of trial and error, when you can just clone a hundred copies of Secretariat? Barriers to entry would be far lower, stud fees would disappear, and horse racing attendance may drop from lack of interest in watching identical horses compete. For thoroughbreds, not only is cloning banned, but they don't even allow artificial insemination or embryo transfer. The whole industry is predicated on artificial scarcity.
But then, you could have an entirely different race, the IROC of horse-racing; where the only difference was (supposedly) the skill of the Jockeys and the horses' "crews"...
He's wrong, though, as is the parent he replied to. GPU memory is managed and prioritized by the Windows kernel. As such, any memory needed for a game or other application is released from DWM.exe (desktop window manager) as needed. Also, unlike Linux, turning off desktop composition is completely unnecessary and can actually lower performance in some instances. Outdated FUD dies hard.
Well, then, thank you for your even more erudite explanation!
The reason is because Aero can take up 600MB of very precious video card RAM, depending on screen resolution and other factors. That's a *lot* of RAM to be losing access to just for a desktop you can't see while playing a game. That's 600MB out of the 1-2GB a typical card might have.
It doesn't matter whether the icons have a flat look or a sculpted 3D light sourced look or whatever, they are still just bitmaps that are blasted to the screen using a bitblit operation which is stupidly fast on any card made since the late 80s. Aero sucks for many other reasons, but flat icons in not even remotely one of them.
Thank you for that extremely erudite explanation.
I knew it didn't make sense that performance would suffer due simply to computational backlog in the GPU, and of course, BitBlt was an unlikely culprit, it being THE basis of GUIs since SmallTalk brought us the concept, and something that even the weakest GPU can do blazingly fast with half it's pipelines tied behind its back; but lack-of display-buffer memory can't be overcome, no matter HOW fast you can blow stuff into said buffer.
Would you rather they bring up the Lisa?
Have at it. The Lisa was a wonderful piece of hardware, extremely well-designed and built. Also had the world's first integrated "office" package (and not by Microsoft, neither!). Just a little too far ahead of it's time. And too expensive.
I see by your sig, however, that you are unlikely to agree with the entire concept, regardless of its success or failure as a product.
They've got to try to restore performance somehow. Getting rid of detail and gradients really helps with performance. Too bad it's still sluggish.
Do you really think that today's GPUs, which can render incredibly-detailed 3D scenes in video games 60-100 times per second, REALLY have trouble with a simple Gradient Fill?
And of course the GP missed out on all the varied music around the world that only recently was written down to "read". India. With an incredible breadth of music, I have never seen taught via sheet music (or seen sheet music for that matter) as it is almost all ad lib. And many other cultures (almost all outside Europe) never felt the need to write down a score.
Yes, but like he said, they aren't musicians, because they don't have a music degree, and haven't played with a symphony orchestra. So they're just fakes.
First he says one is not worthy if the cannot play an instrument or read music. Then when I informed him I could do both, he moved the goalposts to "have a music degree and have played with a symphony orchestra." Did you catch that? And he deliberately "misunderstood" that I was talking about my recording and mixing skills as self-taught, and immediately declared me a "fake". Hilarious... I'll just bet he's the life of the party...
In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny: "What a Maroon!"
I'm not defending the insane assortment of completely unnecessary sizes of barrel connectors. I'd agree that it's all horseshit - it would only make some sense if the sizes were related to the voltage, such as one size for 5v, one size for 12V, one size for 29V, etc. It's hard to imagine that manufacturers really get big money out of continually changing power connectors and battery pack designs - it never takes very long for ebay & amazon to start selling third party supplies and batteries. My personal bugaboo is how far laptops need to be torn apart to replace these connectors - and - stiff connectors that seem designed to stick out just perfectly far enough and stiff enough to maximally damage the receptacle.
Well, two conductors or 24, laptop connectors are never a joy to service.
In any case, two conductive contacts ought to be enough for any small or mobile device's power and data needs, and neither is there any no good justification having distinct connectors for networks, disk drives, displays and accessories. USB is among the most phenomical kludges of all time, with all the different connectors, profiles, and adapters
On that, we definitely agree.
- and Apple, as well as HP, and others have gunked it up with all manner of proprietary kludges to negotiate high power charging.
Charging was part of the USB-C standard, Apple didn't gunk anything up. A standards committee did that.
The USB-C "standard" connector actually has 24 teeny little pins, doubled up from 12 just so the connector can be rotated 180 degrees. I really don't think it's a step forward to use a 24-pin connector to power a laptop.
But it is essentially a Thunderbolt (1) speed interface disguised as a USB.
Even the fairly good music I produce hs limited by my poor mixing and mastering which, in turn, are both limited by my equipment. I simply don't have a decent setup for simulating various listening environments and speaker types, which makes mastering a track to sound good on all of them an impossible task for me. That said, I do manage to make things sound excellent on the equipment in my office, living room, and car, as well as several headphones of varied quality, and my laptop and phone; you'd think that'd be enough, but the same track sounds like crap in my wife's car and my friend's stereo. In fact, macs4all, I'd like to ask, given your claimed background, if you'd be so kind as to give me some pointers on that front.
Well, I'm all self taught on those things; though I do have a fair bit of experience.
I understand completely what you mean about checking your mixes on several different headphones, earbuds, plus on your stereo, in your car; then trying it out somewhere else and it sound like dogshit. Been there, done that, too many times to count. I have found that you can't mix and EQ to perfection on any one system (with the possible exception of a compensated studio-monitor system); because you are simply compensating for that system (and if speakers, room) anomalies, and if you start bouncing around from system to system, all you do is start making the whole thing more and more extreme and peaky. And then it REALLY sounds bad elsewhere!
Because you can buy a pretty stellar set of headphones, and even earbuds, for much less than an even slightly better-than-average stereo (and then we have to have a properly-treated room to put it in), I tend to gravitate toward mixing (studio mixing, live mixing is a whole different story) with them. A lot of people still think it's heresy, and if I had a proper studio, I'd agree; but for home recording, you just can't beat headphones/earbuds. I don't want to start a brand-war, so I won't get into brands/models, but just do NOT get ones that sound too "good" (enhanced bass and treble), because you will end up with stuff that sounds simply awful!
I don't know what instruments you are recording, or what your budget is; but you can invest a king's ransom in microphones, or you can shop wisely. But without further details, I can't make any specific recommendations. One general rule of thumb is that microphones that are good for live applications are rarely good for recording, and vice-versa. There are exceptions; but that's a good generalization.
I know most of this too generalized to be of much use; but without more specific questions, and perhaps a few samples of some stuff you think needs work (with a decent encoding technique and bitrate), I can't conduct a studio-craft class in this manner, sorry!
The Macintosh TV was a road apple. It only had one expansion slot that had the TV capture card in it. It was slow for its time. You couldn't even watch TV in a window; it had to be full screen. There was no way to record video.
If they had made it more capable, they might have sold more. But it was cheaper to buy a faster Mac and put a cheap TV next to it, than to buy the Macintosh TV. I know; I was there.
I was there, too. I had a consulting client who had one for a few years, and actually ran his Architectural consulting business on it, plus published the first edition of his heavily-illustrated Stagecraft book on it, too.
//e Card, and I believe an Ethernet card, I don't believe much was available for that slot.
I agree that the Apple TV was too weak, but it was at least an attempt at a good idea. And having only one free slot on a computer that was a "consumer"-intended product, especially a Mac, was hardly an impediment to most. Since that was a 68k All-In-One Mac, I believe it would have been a PDS slot, and other than the cool Apple
Oh wait... I guess we're both wrong. According to this, the AppleTV had NO expansion slots.
I said nothing of the sort. Learn to read, you fucking moron.
What I said is you shouldn't call yourself an audiophile if you don't understand music. People like Steve (and you, apparently) who casually listened to music didn't.
Oh and if you can't read music, then you are by definition NOT a musician. You're just a wannabe. Deal with it.
Why don't you come out and put you Karma on the line like I have, AC?
I DO know how to read music, and its idiot bastardized son, TAB.
I play several different instruments, and took lessons on some of them since age 5. I also have many musician relatives, including a Great Uncle who was a Concert Master in Europe (do you know what a Concert Master is? For one thing, they have to be able to play every instrument in the orchestra), and an Aunt who used to Arrange for the National Symphony in Washington, D.C. I. Fact, almost every member of my Mom's side of the family is a trained musician, and I have personally been immersed in music in many forms as long as I can remember, And at 58 years old, that's a LOT of remembering... So don't you DARE presume to lecture me about music nor the reproduction thereof, nor second guess my ability to understand and appreciate music of almost any type, nor the faithful recording and playback of same.
Oh, and I didn't even go into my musical recording, mixing, reinforcement and playback bona fides; but suffice it to say, my experience in all of those, and across many types of music, is more than adequate.
But by the same token, unlike you, I am enlightened enough to understand that "musicianship" has very little to do with one's ability to transcribe little black dots into an imperfect representation of what the composer actually had in mind (due to standard musical notation's lack of nomenclature for all but the most crude of "expressions" (hell, you can't even really specify such basics such as the speed and depth of vibrato!)) ; but rather is the province of what is euphemistically called "the heart", or "the soul".
And if you don't understand that, it is YOU that isn't a musician; but rather a soulless, Musical Transcription-Bot.
Which one are you? Let me guess...
You can enjoy music without being a musician, but to label yourself an "audiophile" when you don't even understand the basics of music composition or how to play a base level instrument like a piano or guitar is ridiculous. I doubt Steve could even read music.
At best, Steve Jobs was a music dilettante.
I don't think Audiophile means what you think it means. Audiophile and Musician have only one thing in common: Music. One requires skill on at least one instrument. The other requires only a set of ears and a brain to process the periodic changes in atmospheric pressure we learn to interpret as "music"; no "musicianship" required. So, what you are saying us that no one except musicians should own a stereo; because they are not equipped to "appreciate" the difference between a Close-n-Play and high-end Audio Playback gear, right?
And there are millions of musicians, if not billions, who cannot read music notation, you effete asshole.
One connector is enough when the data is wireless.
Boy, you wouldn't think that by reading all the haters on /. And elsewhere, bitching about the new MacBook...
And it seems like you already got started on the insane assortment of completely unnecessary sizes of barrel connectors just by mentioning them.
And you're DEFENDING that horseshit?!? Have you ever tried to figure out the TWO specifications (Post O.D. and Barrel I.D.) for some random power supply you are trying to match? I can tell you from personal experience, that without specifications (often not published for proprietary AC adapters), or without a set of digital calipers, you'll play hell figuring those measurements out...
If you insist on data being passed over a connector, packets of serial data could be passed over the power connector by modulating the power of the supply or the impedance of the device. Think of POE
But the USB-C standard, which isn't Apple's proprietary connector, actually HAS Power Transmission (and plenty of it!) built into it, rather than some kludge like you are proposing.
Maybe I can get one that actually WORKS...
Yeah, in the past I never ticked it but, just the other week, I put a little tick next to Hammond.
Haha!
There are more than TWO orientations. A simple cylindrical connector could allow "any" orientation (OK, any orientation that's pointing in the right general direction.), in the manner of almost every non-Apple laptop power connector and pre-USB cellphones.
Especially now that there's all number of wireless data connections, going back to a simple "retro" power connector should be easier than any connector that has to handle both power and data.
...and FORCE there to be at least two connectors.
And don't get me started on the insane assortment of completely unnecessary sizes of barrel connectors.
You can get pretty much any size and style of TV from a number of different vendors in a wide price range to fit any need whatsoever. You can even buy a projector if you want to turn your entire wall into a TV.
All that Apple needs to make is a little box that plugs into the HDMI port on that TV. That's IT. Once that's done, when you turn on the TV you get the "Apple experience" and full access to their ecosystem of TV shows, movies, and music.
The reason Apple hasn't made a TV is it's not a product segment where they can really make a difference. It would be equivalent to Apple making a power strip.
What people forget is that Apple DID make a computer/TV hybrid, long ago. It was cool for its day, featuring a 68030-based PowerMac 550 all-in-one computer, and a custom TV-tuner card, which even let you do screen caps of the TV image. Apple figured it was perfect for the college-dorm market, with limited space. There was even a cool black one. Quite sexy looking.
They sold about 10 of them.
So, you can understand Apple's reluctance to get involved in TV again.
I've had a PC running Windows Media Center recording TV on the broad cast schedule for about 10 years now. It currently has 6 tuners (records 6 things at once) for cable broadcasts, and an older tuner to pick up FM on occasion. I can watch live TV/radio, schedule recordings or watch recordings from anywhere in the house that has a TV via Windows Media Center extenders, one Ceton Echo extender and a few Xbox 360s. I can watch iTunes videos or play music, Amazon streaming, or transcode (on the fly) pretty much anything else without any effort by myself or anyone else in the family. With RemotePotato, I can also do anything that I can do in the house from anywhere with a fast enough Internet connection. I can watch TV on my phone, my iPad, or any laptop (we all use OS X, but Windows is easier) in the house.
To put it bluntly, my PC that is slaved to broadcast/scheduled TV kicks the living shit out of every DVR on the planet you've ever seen or known about, especially the shitty ones that the cable companies provide. Whats more important, it means I'm not slaved to the schedule or the commercials.
There are many PCs that come with built in tuners still to this day, as well as a few laptops, though you won't find a laptop that takes a CableCARD as best I can tell, where as full sized PCs or devices like the HDHomeRun Prime do.
I'm fairly certain the only miss here is your analysis.
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The only miss here is your knowledge on the subject. Either that or your a cable company shill still trying to kill the CableCARD requirement.
Yeah, if there was any serious "miss" in the HTPC/set top box arena, it was that Microsoft didn't market Media Center correctly. It does seem to be the top of the food chain when it comes to HTPC. I am a huge Apple fan, but I *almost* want to set up a WMC machine myself.
Stop the name calling, you insensitive jerk! How would you like to be called an audiophile?
TRULY LOL!!!
He was also a poseur. He was such an "audiophile" and music lover that he couldn't even play an instrument or sing...
As a musician, and an audio aficionado (not to be confused with an audiopile), I don't think it is a requirement to be a musician to enjoy music, nor to appreciate good audio reproduction.
Wow. Just. Wow.
Billions made stealing others work. Steve is still a hack.
What work has Jobs stolen? Or are we back to the (still incorrect) Xerox meme, that has been mis proven time and again?