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Damn it, man! If you're really concerned, expedite IPv6 implementation!
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C'mon. You can do better than that. Just because other companies don't have the ability or interest in opening new markets, rather sticking with the same old x86 kit, doesn't mean Apple is headed for financial ruin.
Look at the iPhone: The hardware itself is pretty lackluster. It's the SOFTWARE that makes the phone's features more accessible for those who do not have a CS degree. The same thing will happen with the iPad. If the rumor about multitasking in the 4.0 software comes true, you will have one less thing to complain about.
It's obvious you need a laptop. Get a laptop. The iPad is not for you.
Apparently the Move does have vibrate functionality.
What I perceive is the main difference/advantage over the Wiimote is the ability to do augmented reality. I have some AR demos on my computers that blow people's minds. I can't wait for some game house to come up with some blow-your-mind AR game for the PS3.
The Playstation Move controller has ABSOLUTE positioning capability. Look at some of the augmented reality demos with early iterations of the controller. They're amazing, tracking the exact position of the controller, superimposing graphics in real-time on top of the video of yourself from the Playstation Eye.
The Wiimote has RELATIVE positioning capability, even with the addition of the Motion+ device. There is a significant difference.
Paris, because she likes the shape of the Move better... for some reason...
They're not "sampling" the original song. Whatever happened to making a song that sounds similar to a popular song but is not quite the same? They do this all the time on commercials, and even in elevator music. Why should this be the same?
I heard that people are being sued for similar drum riffs to their own. C'mon. There are only a few ways to beat a drum in a specific tempo. Stop the madness.
With that logic, Windows sucks because Mac can run Windows applications AND Mac applications.
Personally, I find the smaller number of freeware/shareware Mac applications a boon rather than a bust. How many DVD ripping applications have I downloaded in the Windows world that don't work? A lot. There are thousands! How many did I download on the Mac? One -- and it worked perfectly, with only a handful to choose from.
Don't get me wrong -- choice is great! That's why I choose Mac. I have an application that I use to convert my movies to PS3 format and it runs on Windows only. That, and my 5-year-old GPS are my only reasons to even have Windows on my Mac. Everything else is Mac-only.
Oh, and I run two hackintoshes along with 3 real Macs at home.
...build one! I just finished building a Core i7-based hackintosh with (coincidentally) a 21.5" LCD. The entire kit cost around £450 by carefully selecting components and looking for sales.
Given, it was a pain in the arse to get set up, but it runs VERY fast (nearly as fast as a Mac Pro!) and was quite an interesting challenge, since few people have i7 hackintoshes yet.
1080i was created as a higher-resolution standard that older CRT-based HDTVs could display over component video cables. (1080p's bandwidth is too high for component video.) Should this standard die? Yes and no. Like James said, 1080i takes 1/2 the bandwidth of 1080p. However, calling it 540p is inaccurate -- 540p is 960x540. Each FIELD of video in 1080i is 1920x540, or double horizontally what 540p is.
Why isn't there a 720i standard? Because it's not in the HDTV broadcast standard.
The raw .MTS files from your MemoryStick Micro/Pro can be copied directly to a DVD, renamed as .M2TS, and played at full resolution directly in your PS3, or if your PS3 has a memory card reader (or you connect one), the PS3 will play the video files directly from the card. There are also free/shareware programs to burn Blu-ray ready discs onto DVDs at full HD resolutions.
Apple seems to be the driving force behind many new technologies. As Robert (Roger?) Moore pointed out, before the original iMac, USB peripherals were few and far between. Now we can get USB handwarmers. We can thank Steve Jobs for that.
I thought Firewire would be a bigger player than it ended up being. USB2 really squelched a lot of Firewire's, er, fire. Even Steve himself defended the lack of Firewire ports on early MacBook Pros because a lot of new digital camcorders use USB now. (I thought that excuse was half-baked then, and the market agreed.)
It shows how much forethought (and forward-planning) Apple does for its products. Apple's announcement of the 160GB iPod Classic is another illustration of this -- Toshiba didn't announce their new single-platter 1.8" 160GB hard drive until AFTER Apple announced the iPod Classic. That takes a lot of weight to boss Toshiba around like that!
In the Philippines, text-messaging is a national sport. You cannot go anywhere without seeing people hunkered over their phones, typing incomprehensible messages on their 12-key numeric pads. Cell phone calls are terribly expensive to make (though receiving them is free), so most Pinoy prefer to text.
Because of the fact that EVERYONE texts each other, expect that same level of opposition to any hints of taxing text messages. Sales tax, already included in the cost of the "load", is 12%. How much more do they expect to squeeze the people that use text-messaging as their primary means of communication?
My wife and I brought out the old Sega Dreamcast and played some games on it two days ago. It still works like a, erm, dream after all these years. Not bad for a game system that's celebrating its 10th birthday on 9/9/2009.
I own a PS3 as well and have no problems with it at all. It is my media computer for about 50% of the time and my game system for the other 50%, so it sees a lot of usage.
...and failed.
In Northpark Mall, Dallas, Texas, a Dell store opened across the hall from the Apple store. Several times, I walked by the Dell store (never in!) and the number of salespeople always outnumbered the customers.
The Dell store is long gone now. Now it seems that Microsoft is trying the same thing. The Gateway store in Dallas is long gone too.
Who are these lubed-up Microsoft whores that think a proprietary standard that only runs on Microsoft web servers is better than an open standard that (now) supports ActiveDirectory and eDirectory authentication? Good God, people! Do you enjoy being lashed to Steve Ballmer's rump, forced to eat the pus from his back for nutrients?
It's VERY difficult comparing Macs and PCs. Yes, you can compare the processors now that Apple is using Intel processors, but things like the quality of the LCDs used in the computers is something that is not rated.
At my desk here at work, I have a 17" Dell LCD monitor with 90 degree swivel capability to use it in portrait aspect mode. Unfortunately, the quality of the LCD is so poor that, when you swivel the monitor, the picture is nearly unusable. You have to precisely angle the monitor to see an image with decent contrast. The colors on this monitor are incredibly muted as well. Fortunately, I'm just using this system as a document creation system, not a graphic design computer.
When I take a photograph and display it on my 24" iMac at home, the colors are clear and crisp. I don't have to worry about angling my iMac so accurately to eliminate brightness drop-off.
It's the same with laptops. My friend purchased a 17" HP laptop. The picture quality was HORRIBLE. I brought in my MacBook Pro the following day and he was amazed at how much better the picture was.
Apple cuts fewer corners with their computers, which is why they're more expensive. It also tends to even the cost when you figure in yearly anti-virus updates and software that approximates the iLife suite of programs. (Yes, they're really quite good!)
Could Apple make a cheap, shitty machine with no extra software? Of course. They choose not to.
...have NO idea what an operating system really does, let alone what Linux is. Some of the coverage of this Google love-in is sickening.
I have a Dell Mini 9 netbook running Ubuntu 9.04 UNR, and it's great, doing what this new Google OS promises and more. The computer takes less than 10 seconds to boot from Grub to Done, and has the Google Chrome (okay, Chromium) browser AND Firefox.
My netbook is great for trips where I don't need the full power of my MacBook Pro.
/been Microsoft-free for years!
I'm not sure why that would be funny. Psystar is taking advantage of the open-source community that developed the hacks to make OS X run on commodity PCs. They are NOT the good guys here.
Hackintoshes should remain exactly what they are: Machines for hackers to play around with, not a difficult-to-update, unstable, less-expensive Macintosh for users who have trouble understanding the difference between hard drive space and RAM.
That being said, Apple should read the writing on the wall and make a less-powerful, less-expensive mini-tower Mac with expansion slots. The iMac is great, but what if you don't need a monitor? The Mac Pro is great, but is overkill for most users. The Mac Mini is good, but not expandable internally.