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Torifile, You did the test I was interested in. So I take it that the Forbes.com comment that mp3 conversions would sound like crap is not true. Call me paranoid; I was just worried they had some hidden data-scrambling going on. Have you d…
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CDs are data rich, mostly unprotected, and an established format. I am confident that there will be a transition path from CDs to the next standard, whether it it is officially sanctioned or not. Also, Apple has dumped many next-big-thing proj…
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My worries: I'm not too keen on all the partial albums and per song albums. I am only interested in whole albums. This just seems like some sort of scam to get people to pay a buck a song for a whole album. A lot of missing content. If …
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What could have been. There's somethings sad about watching the anticipated promise of PowerPC on a RealPlayer stream. Just reminds you of all the opportunities Apple has had over the years, and how they have managed to screw them all up. …
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I guess it is not a bug, but one thing that really gets on my nerves is the "Unable to put disk away because it is in use" warning. For some reason, some applications don't let go all the time or crash or whatever. As it is right now I just have t…
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I want simultaneous cross platform releases, I want optimizations for Apple hardware, and I want a Mac-like interface for all my applications. I'm guessing 10-15 percent should do that. 3 percent isn't enough. Where is Maple 8 for one? Why …
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Thanks for pointing that out. It is good to see that they are really working for accurate rendering. To me, that is more important than speed right now. Interesting: that weblog link does not render right on Chimera-- the bottom right Safari ico…
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Well, I'm not too crazy about browser specific code, even more so when it is completely unnecessary. Cool or not, this goes against everything that the web should be about. Now such a minor example as this seems harmless, but sometimes you just h…
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Yes-- I've been a big fan of illustrator for many years now. Unfortunately I'm stuck with version 9 until I can afford an upgrade. All of these programs have gotten intimidating now with so many features, but the core tool is still the pen. I wou…
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Ever since I got acquainted with the internet (very late in the game), I have been hoping it would evolve into an open forum for people to express their artistic visions and such-- you know, the humanistic side. To an extent it is that. Its just n…
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My family had a TRS-80 Model 3 and a Olivetti daisy-wheel printer. It was fascinating to watch that printer go.
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OK, this is a little off-topic, but I am real tired of people describing how they lost a days worth of work in this or that program thanks to an os 9 crash. Obvious exceptions include long program compiles and 3d renders, but : Computer science …
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[quote] i get often TOTAL OS AND COMPUTER freezes while playing games This is a real common problem, but it seems like people are afraid to talk about it. I have been tracking it for several months now. I assume that when your lockup happens,…
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Well, Medal of Honor will install on OS X no problem, but I certainly wouldn't call it optimized. OS X cuts performance of that game in half on my machine. That is the extreme as far as I know. Supposedly Return to Castle Wolfenstein performs rea…
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I'm not going to use either one of those apps. I don't have a busy enough schedule to need to keep a calendar, and I don't have any electronic devices that need sync-ing. The same goes for iPhoto, iDVD and iMovie. I just don't use those thing…
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Just because the BareFeats guy doesn't know what number the new G4 is does not mean that he can't run benchmarks. I guess we'll soon enough have independent corroboration or contradiction, but I'm wiling to believe these numbers. Still though, I a…
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If the bottom computer is really dual processor, then that price seems low (i.e. wrong) to me. So I can't really get too enraged over a rumor that doesn't quite seem right to me. Since I don't post here very often, I will say that if these rumors …
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Pixar went out shopping for the best solution and Apple wasn't their answer. This doesn't surprise me at all, and I don't see how this could be a sign of Apple's future direction. The only real news I can get from this is that Pixar doesn't thin…
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Ed M. writes: [quote] Good Lord... some people are never satisfied... I men now I'm forced to ask the question... "What's the perfect/best/optimum screen size?" I'm not talking resolution, I'm talking screen real-estate... I mean there comes a …