See this article. According to the US Department of Justice:
“”competition and consumers have benefited from the final judgments entered because of the Department’s antitrust enforcement efforts against Microsoft.””
How clueless can these people be? Read on to see:
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I discussed Vista’s announced first Service pack in an earlier post. Paul Thurrott has also commented on SP1 on his Internet Nexus site. In it he references his lengthy article on his SuperSite for Windows. Seems to me if a service pack requires that much explanation as to why it’s not really a big deal, it is a big deal.
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Even though Microsoft pleaded with users not to wait for SP1 to upgrade to Vista, it’s clear that many are wary of the new OS from an upgrade standpoint. In fact, given Dell, HP and others are offering XP as an option (and Dell even offers Linux), it seems even new users are wary of Vista.
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As I mentioned in a previous post, the overall performance of the latest iMac is amazing given what was considered top of the line just two years ago. A MacNN article points out how the iMac 2.8 GHz Extreme falls just shy of a current Xserve Quad-Core Xeon 2.0GHz. Pretty impressive stuff. Further, the article states:
“the top-end Mid-2007 iMac is faster than the Power Mac G5 (Late 2005) with two dual-core G5 processors at 2.5 GHz”
As in my previous article, this thing is easily besting a Quad-Core 2.5GHz PowerMac from less than two years ago! Wow.
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In the first installment of this review I imported video and discussed skimming, selecting clips, trimming clips to the desired length, and changing their order. I then reviewed my work. Now it’s time to polish the movie. The following four items are the most common elements used to polish a movie. They’re available at the far right of the toolbar. The leftmost image in the top picture above shows this section with the audio button (Music and Sound Effects) selected.
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This review is lengthy, so I’m publishing it in two parts. In this first installment I’ll go through the initial description, video import, selection and trimming of the clips for a movie, then review the work so far. In the last installment I’ll polish the work with transitions, titles, sound effects, photos, and other tools, then provide my conclusions.
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“What are you, a wise guy?”
What would happen if the three stooges tried to take on Apple’s iTunes Store? Well, now we know, because its happened.
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The title is an anonymous oldie, but a goodie, and fitting for this post. See this article.
Thank you, Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness, for not knowing the difference between a human and a computer.
Thanks also for ignoring your self-proclaimed mission to “seek to establish easily accessible programs across the nation that allow children and young adults the opportunity to learn about eating disorders”, and instead hounding Apple for cheap publicity.
Eating disorders are very serious, and have not one damn thing to do with the ad for a new, thinner iMac. But you already knew that.
I’m sure it got your site lots of visitors, and many of them probably hit that Donate Now button, which was likely your real purpose. Good work.
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Unlike my media files, for photos imported from the PC the only metadata I was interested in were keywords. Since they’re in the file I didn’t have to worry about missing any data when imported.
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Tackling the transfer of iTunes media from the PC to the Mac is complicated by the fact that not all data in iTunes is stored within the file itself. Date last played, ratings, number of plays, and potentially even album art are stored via an XML file. Simply transferring the data files (i.e., the MP3s and AACs) will not retain this data.
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