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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:40 am
by hubird
duh, Microsoft is more and always evil, Apple just a bit and only now and then!

Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:58 am
by garyb
sometimes evil looks sweet and cuddly. that's the worst evil...... :lol:

Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:10 pm
by hubird
:P

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:30 am
by Counterparts
Personally, I can't stand the whole "i-" thing from apple.

iLife, iTunes, iWork, iCoffee, iDon'tCare!

If I want to play some music, I select a 'CD ROM' and put it in my 'CD ROM player' then press 'Play' :P

I must be the only person I know who doesn't have several GBs of .mp3 files on their hard drive :-)

Regarding Real Player, as this is the most evil piece of software ever devised by man & marketing I tend to use 'RealAlternative' to play .ram files:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Rea ... native.htm

...but mostly I avoid .ram files... :-D

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:13 am
by hubird
and probably soon iWindows.


:-D

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:20 am
by Counterparts
iGiveUp! :lol:

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:23 am
by petal
I wouldn't have guessed that my grumpy mood and a bad softwareexperience combined would have produced a thread with this many posts, but it's nice to see that I'm not the only one getting tired of marketing sleezing it's way into otherwise fine software products like this.

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:02 pm
by hubird
stardust wrote:
hubird wrote:and probably soon iWindows.


:-D
with iBSOD
:D
Just start Windows on the (Intel)Mac! :-D

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:22 am
by braincell

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:27 am
by kensuguro
I think the intel macs are awesome... if they don't come out with a new one every other week!!

okay, so that had nothing to do with quicktime.... just rant. hehe

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:34 pm
by valis
Actually Apple's time-to-market seems to be lagging about 2-3 months behind Intel actually shipping a given new technology or update to an existing one (chipset, cpu etc).

Presumably this gives Apple time to debug a bit more and Intel time to ramp up production to meet a pricepoint Apple is satisfied with.

Also, Intel also does Apple's motherboard design now (which you may already know?)

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:41 pm
by garyb
yep, just another pc......

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:03 pm
by Shroomz~>
It just had to happen. You don't need time-consuming & costly cross-platform development if there is to be only one prevailing platform.....

Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:24 am
by astroman
strangely all those 'proof of concept' examples are by companies involved in the anti-virus business... :D

Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:27 pm
by Cochise
Does anybody could explain why there's no ISO codec?

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:23 pm
by petal
I don't believe that ISO is a codec at all. To my knowledge ISO is an image of a disc. You can use a program called "Daemon Tool" (its free) to load an ISO-file, and then you can access it as if it was inserted into a CD-drive.

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:21 pm
by Cochise
Sorry, I would mean a standard codec.
Why do I have to install many media players???
M$, like Apple, have their proprietary codecs; some media content can be played with Real only; some other are coded by Ogg Vorbis.
This kind of things make people goes mad.

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:25 pm
by Cochise
...and it's a problem for open source platforms

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 6:09 pm
by garyb
don't ask for fascism.

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 4:40 am
by Cochise
garyb wrote:don't ask for fascism.
Ok garyb.
But, honestly, I don't like so much you call it fascism.
As an Italian guy I prefer the word capitalism, considering the negative effects fascism brought.