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WLD: These hig-def DRM compatible Dells and Sonys
are as compatible with BluRay/HD-DVD as my current $100 DVD player because BluRay/HD-DVD are still vaporware. When they do come to market and unless they are fully backward compatible and all manufacturers willing to replace DVD with HD versions, they will have at least a 5 year fight with the current DVD systems. By then, probably 7 - 8 years down the line, you think you'll care if your G5 can play BluRay or HD-DVD?
Bootz: There is nothing wrong with
tweaking your picts on PS. The pros do it all the time. It doesn't make one less of a photographer.
Less than 1.7m songs to go.
Any wager on when we hit the magic number. I say tomorrow 10am.
Blue 6 years?
My 20" Apple display has been with me for 12 years. I bought it with my first PPC Mac 7100/66/AV. Right now it is running beside my 23" Cinema Display.
No misunderstanding.
Just pointing out that investors are cautious this time because they were burnt last time.
Lango: nothing strange.
Stock went down on better than exptected earnings last Q. So what should investors expect with just meet the street results?
OT:dilleet:
Here's a neat little flash ad:
http://www.orbitzandgo.com/baseball/
Blue: Since my last message yesterday
iTMS sold a little over 1.4 mil songs.
counter set 482,940k
Blue: from your chart and my
unscientific estimate I'd say similar results as last quarter +5mil iPods sold. What do you think?
Blue: you think you can interpolate from the
songs sold to number of iPods sold this q?
Tom: yeah but weren't they trained to say that?
I don't think the Apple employees will tell a customer that sales are falling off a cliff unless they have another job waiting.
Lango: If you drag the timeline far enough,
the blue will become the red and the red will become the green. So far the iPod is still blue and who ever knows when it will turn red, will be a rich person.
Lango: Apologies accepted.
It is important to note that the advantage of the iTunes/iPod interface is its simplicity. The Win camp is always tring to dethrone Apple by introducing features that Apple doesn't have and they will continue to do this without realising that the key to Apple's success is simplicity.
I have noted that Apple, in introducing any new features, will do extensive market studies. I am sure if this live chat / bulletin board has its appeals and does not clutter up the iTunes interface, Apple will introduce it. I think at this point when we don't even know what MS has up its sleeve, it is a little premature to pre-empt such a move.
I haven't been frequenting them but I think there are a number of web sites out there doing just that. When someone clicks on song from these sites they fire up iTunes and finds the song on iTMS. Sometimes these sites out there will do a better job than Apple.
Here's one of those sites:
http://playlistmag.com
Lango: I am serious
From your post, I don't think you knew that iTunes had an iMix feature. But whatever, I just posted the link to enlighten you and you become all defensive and attack me about not understanding the difference between this and that. WTF?
To tell you the truth, I don't know what MS has up its sleeve with community bulletin and live chatroom. If you have some inside info, please share.
Lango Playlist sharing:
You mean something like this?
http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/share.html
KC: The Mac is both a needed device and
a gotta have it now device. When one needs it to do work or maintain a life style, it is a needed device and when you want to run things faster and got to have the latest and greatest, it's a gotta have device. Now that we know what's coming in 12 months, that gotta have feeling has mostly gone. I was in Toronto's Apple Store today and the 15-20 minutes I was there, there were about 50 - 70 people in the shop and I didn't see one mac leave the register. I bought my father a Shure in-ear headphone for Father's Day and left.
KC You've got a point there on optimization
but I don't think developers at this point know which x86 processor to optimize for. So I guess while one platform is dead the other has not been born yet.
As for Tiger being optimized for G4, I thought it ran pretty well when I installed it on a 400Mhz G4 prismo.
Dressed appropriately for the occasion.
Deal with the Devil perhaps?
Hey, I didn't see those pair of pants
in his insanely great magic closet.
PPC side is not dead and buried.
All future developments will be universal binary. So all improvements will be concurrent on both platforms.
Paper: Good question.
Whatever happended to the year of HD? Half a year has gone by and still no development on the HD front.
dbudde: I think you've got a point there.
In anticipation of this move, Apple could have made altivec redundant in Tiger. I'll even speculate one step further. I have a feeling that Tiger already works on x86. Its just that nobody is dumb enough to try it yet.
dilleet: These competitors
all but one actually mentioned iTunes as an iPod success factor. Most think it's industrial design and egronomics. If this was a multiple choice question, they'd all be wrong because the answer is All of the Above.
Altaire, get a hold of yourself.
Xbox is not a computer and mac mini is not a gaming platform. Stop comparing apples with oranges.
WLD: Replacement for iLife?
iLife is a software suite. How will a hardware compete with a software suite unless Apple decides in their deluded mind to port iLIfe to Xbox.
Lets see iLife includes: iTunes, iPhotos, iMovie, Garage Band and iDVD. Since neither the Xbox and PS3 have DVD burners, they can't replace iDVD right off the bat.
Now as for Garage Band, iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie, these are productivity software. Are you seeing people managing these software on their TV's? There are PC equivilents to these software and none, in whole or in part, work as well compared to iLife on a Mac. Even if there are Xbox equivilents, I don't see how they will even think of competing against iLife on a Mac.
Now lets compare prices. Lets assume the Xbox will cost $399 vs $499 for a Mini. Both are headless, keyboardless and mouseless. Mini comes with iLife so we need to add at least 4 software programs to the Xbox. At $50 a pop, that's a good $200 on top.
In reality, I can see, at most, people playing music and showing photos from these machines not keeping and managing their data on them eventhough they could. There is far more to a Mac than just hardware.
A widget for dilleet:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/dashboard/scoreboard.html
roni: I hope you're not including me in this
I don't roll feces but just examine them and I certainly don't enjoy them.:))
Reality check WLD?
"Reality check. HD movies weigh in at about 20GB. That's 160Gb, or 160,000,000,000 bits.
With Serenity 1080 trailer as my basis, I only calculated roughly 5.3 GB for a 90 min HD movie.
baldrick:
Just put those tunes into a particular folder and exclude them.
dholt: Thanks
I kind of tinkered with it and got it working. I think there was a syntax error being that or is // instead of //. Too bad you can't clip and paste from the get info window.
thanks dholt, here it is
kind, Images
name, begins with 20 "or"
name, begins with 99 "or"
name, begins with 19
argh! Why can't they make it simple
like iTunes' smart playlist?
Thanks anyways.
KC: Don't see much need for the burn folder yet.
Been playing around with the smart folders. I found one problem - the criteria you create is always this and that. There is no option for this or that. This makes creating smart folders quite limiting. Maybe I'm missing something.
KCMW: Smart folder
You're not suppose to throw contents into the smart folders. You're suppose to let the smart folders select contents for you based on predetermined criteria. One thing you can do with Smart folders is throw all your documents, photo, movies, etc into one Library folder and have smart folders pick out and organise these files for you.
tomm: had the same problem
just go to the browser's download window and click on the magnifying glass. Should show where the widget is.
clearsailing:
A laptop that hasn't been on the interent is pretty rare these days. So I guess it does not have all the latest service pscks nor antivirus software. I can't offer help with your problem but it is quite possible that the vaio is infected from a file from another infected PC.
come on blue,
Dull replaced the entire school board with aliens.
coreguy: the echo
turning down the volume usually helps. Make sure the mics are not too close to the speakers. The internal mic on the powerbooks usually cause echos because they are too close to the speakers. Try switching to the iSight mic whenever you can: System Preference/ Sound/ Input/ select "iSight".
KCMW: I've had software burn a hole...
in my pocket book. Does that count?;)
My defensive aren't we?
RCA Thompson - What synergy is there in that?