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Isn't the EU demanding the very thing Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers did in her last ruling? Why is the EU unfair here while the USA isn't?
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Quote: Originally Posted by bluefish86 Agreed. But it is sadly true. I die a little inside every time I see a user who has no clue at all whatsoever how the file system is arranged. It's depressingly common on both the Mac an…
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I'd like you to take a look at the posts from "alanQuatermain" in this discussion about the same matter: it explains how things have evolved for small providers of content with Apple changing the rules again and again (you'll have to navigate the we…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 I doubt USB 3 will be in the machines. It all depends upon a chipset where it is "free". I'm not going to knock USB 3, but contrary to opinions expressed in this thread it isn't really all it is cracked …
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I don't doubt the iPad will be a huge success. In fact, I'll evaluate the lowest cost model to see if it fits my needs (quite probably so). But then the hardware has some pretty obvious omissions that no doubt will be solved in later models, even if…
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Actually, it makes all kinds of sense. Since Jobs came back, Apple's products always come this bit short of features that slowly creep into later models. And its product segmentation tactics are all about underspeccing so that obsolescence comes re…
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Frankly, it's becoming more and more irritating how Apple is letting the then top of the line 2006 Mac Pro rot: stuck in EFI32-land, no GPU upgrading, no OpenCL, no 64bit booting, and now this.
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Quote: Originally Posted by el3ktro So you're saying x264, libavcodec and others are illegal? They can be infringing patents from others, it being tolerated as long as they fly under the radar. Those are muddy waters. See, for example, ffmpeg.…
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Let's suppose HTML5 takes over and Flash dies. Just what is going to stop the Very Bad Flash Crowd to move over to HTML5 and produce resource-hogging HTML5 ads and things? And how will you be able to filter them if they become an integral part of th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss You mean, like Firewire? Even SCSI didn't require a hub, and that's ancient tech now. Hubs are an artifact of USB. Something that replaces USB should improve on it, not duplicate its deficiencies, yes? B…
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Quote: Originally Posted by urbansprawl Apple will push technology forward yet again and if the PC manufacturers don't jump on quickly and Microsoft doesn't build support into Windows quickly, Macs are going to be way ahead of the game! Mmm, I…
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Quote: Originally Posted by azcodemonkey @Snafu - I don't recall DirectX ever having facilities to use the GPU in the same manner as OpenCL/CUDA. Sorry: what I meant to say is that Microsoft declared its intention to put some way to exploit th…
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OpenCL is an open standard. And it uses some compiler technologies that Apple has been experimenting with these years. Is not that much of a CUDA derivative, really. If I am not wrong, the idea of putting some GPGPU facilities on DirectX far pred…
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Just what we need: another proprietary format, be it from Apple or from the record companies. An "Album" format? Well, just bundle a PDF with the Mp3s or AACs and please metadata the music files to the gills (lyrics, covers, descriptions, whatever).…
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I was all for eSATA until I researched the thing a bit wanting to buy an eSATA dock for boxless hard disks. As it is now, it is interesting only for fixed external storage: you must have your external hard disks on when you startup your Mac, you can…
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Quote: Originally Posted by linapple_xp ...They are dumbing down things unfortunately. And I feel that it alienates some of the base. Even the iLife suite could be improved by having some sort of advanced mode that could allow for better filter…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jpellino Right after he lined his own pockets far outside the normal run of business for a "security professional". Look: taking in account how lazy Apple has been shown to be about patching security holes (it takes…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell From what I was told by a friend who is actually working on this project. Quicktime X, will focus solely on playback. While Quicktime 7.6 will still be available for anyone who feels they still need to use tho…
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Would that mean that they are getting the editing tools out of the player?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Virgil-TB2 Granted, but this is what Ctrl-Z does now though. The advantage would be that you can "put back" a misplaced file that you have noticed several hours or days of Finder navigation and manipulation later. C…