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Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:46:56 +0000

[...] There are winners and losers in life, and in accordance with the First Law of Thermodynamics, the heat and light generated by winners must result in a cold, dark shutout for an equal number of losers. (Daniel Eran Dilger @ RoughlyDrafted) [...]

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Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:35:08 +0000

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By: humann

humann — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:51:07 +0000

Sorry, but after seeing MacTV’s picture quality on a (supposedly) better HDTV than I have I’m very happy with my whip-and-buggy Netflix account. Maybe it’s mostly the difference between a CRT and an LCD (I was watching a very dark scene from National Treasure) but it looked really bad in the Apple store, Glendale. I’d really need to see them side by side to compare the resolution. I know the resolution specs are supposed to be better than DVD with the MacTV, but maybe my DVD/TV combo simply does better with its progressive upsampling/interpolation or whatever it’s called.

Very subjective of course, but I was very surprised and disappointed with my first real-world experience with the MacTV experience. I’m probably still going to get one so I can watch the BBC and Comedy Central without paying for ESPN, the Home Shopping Network and FOX too. But for movies I really hope they do look better than DVDs on my own set-up. I have some 2.5 year-old Sony DVD player and an $800 floor model of their 34″ HD CRT that I bought at the same time.

By: ebob

ebob — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:18:30 +0000

“Remote Disc networking and discovery software that makes an optical disc drive largely unnecessary.”

NT-based operating systems, at least, have always had this in the form of \\system\cddrive$ (for system-dependent values of “system” and the “cddrive” letter). That doesn’t make me like Windows one whit better, mind you. Just sayin’.

I also thought the rag on Blue was too long for us who don’t live in the SF media sphere. And definitely too much personal attack in it. But it’s not my blog, just not what I want to read.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:35:56 +0000

Wow, an Amiga-head! Been a long time since I’ve seen one of those around. Good on you, mate.

Stuffit has severe flaws in my opinion, but it has some features that are irreplaceable as far as I know. For one, you can password-protect archives. For another, you can inspect the contents of archives without expanding them. And following that, you can selectively extract specific files without having to un-stuff it all.

Still, it costs way too much for me to be happy about, and along with those unique features comes aggravating slowness and frustrating UI clumsiness. Every time I use it I wish somebody would kill it and slice it up and make something better out of the pieces.

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Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:15:43 +0000

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By: Brau

Brau — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:07:44 +0000

@ Michael

Lol! Very funny. Perhaps he should have taken her to the lost and found to locate her mommie, as she was clearly lost. ;)

By: Michael Vasovski

Michael Vasovski — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:35:46 +0000

Sorry. But did anyone happen to look up that chick’s photos? My lexicon probably isn’t as refined or as modern as hers. But when looking at her photos, descriptive words, such as: paperbag, bu-fu, and fugly came to mind.

I totally respect Steve for not wanting to take a photo with that. And it was totally polite, on his part, for not jumping ten feet back, when he realized what was touching him… I probably would’ve yelped for security and a medic.

By: John Muir

John Muir — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:45:39 +0000

When “Who Was the Biggest Loser at Macworld?” turned up in my RSS, I was fully expecting an article about MS Office 2008. Ho hum. ;)

StuffIt … what an appropriate name that has always been. Sit files used to be such a chore but they’re few and far between these days, and usually a valuable message: best avoid.

By: lowededwookie

lowededwookie — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:22:19 +0000

@coolgraphix: “Apple’s built-in ZIP format is only useful when sending ZIPs to other Mac users. Send one to a PC user and they’ll notice a bunch of other odd stuff in the archive that Macs ignore.”

That works the other way as well. I guess it’s more a problem with ZIP than the OS.

Anyone here used to use an Amiga? Anyone remember LZX? That was an awesome compression utility that absolutely trounced ZIP and LHA.