I HATE APPLE

Afroman Fixed Point Theorem: all mp3s erode but converge to "Because I Got High"

Good luck with that $3000 pile of crap, it ain't gonna save you. You need one of the new $14,000 models specifically designed to counteract the effects of the rotational velocidensity.

What crap. All you need is to draw a green texta line around the outside of your computer. That will stop the bits seeping out.

That reverse loop system is fine, but it won't do shit if you take your drive south of the equator or cross the International Date Line from east to west. Just ask those F-22 pilots

Anyone listen to this week's This American Life about the place where they make Apple products in Shenzhen? Sobering to say the least.

non-lossy archaic stuff like aiff files, where data could be stored big-endian or little-endian depending on processor architecture.

this is exactly what my wave editor uses :(

had to postpone until tomorrow, will report back.

aiff isn't archaic!!

Yeah, not really. I was being somewhat backhanded on that. The thing to remember is that most apps will open files regardless, since locking to a single platform is completely ridiculius.

*ridiculous

Can we bitch about how Lion won't Bind to an active directory domain unless the moon is full and you sprinkle the blood of a virgin unicorn on your keyboard?

I don't believe that's true

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/01/video-pros-apple-needs-to-acknowledge-the-pro-industry-and-fast.ars

Holy shit, I'm surprised Apple's being so blowoffy about something so huge and crucial

i know very little about video editing but not being able to create or read an EDL seems..... utterly bonkers?

is it really that huge and crucial to Apple? The income from FCP must be like two days of iPad sales.

agree this is a total shitshow tho

Well huge and crucial to an entire industry, I meant

the raw numbers may indicate that but I can't help but feel that some part of apple's success is due to the idea that 'creative types' all prefer to work with macs. maintaining a strong presence in the video editing industry probably doesn't translate that much into direct sales but probably amplifies their 'soft power,' whatever that's worth. maybe some MBA types got at apple's balance sheet and were all "yeah, we gotta cut this because it's not pulling its weight."

would think this is a move to force some kinda sea change in how film is "done"? even tho production companies still need to work with tape, the trend is clearly moving towards an entirely digital workflow.

and with FCP finally being affordable to the masses, I wonder if apple is banking on YouTube/Vimeo being the distribution platforms of the future. if Hollywood goes back to avid, big deal---loads more hobbyists ("creative types") might plump for FCP just cuz.

that's fine but as far as i know you still need to do post-production work in an online editing suite, and EDLs are the roadmap they use to assemble all your footage from whatever source it came from (digital, tape, film, whatever) - of course this "knowledge" is ca. 10 years ago and maybe online suites are obsolete already?

Came to this thread to say I thought the MagSafe adapter charger was going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread but even that thing has gone dodgy on me

do you have the old one or the new one with the metal and strain relief cable

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"Online editing is an older post-production linear video editing process that is performed in the final stage of a video production. It occurs after offline editing. For the most part online editing has been replaced by video editing software that operate on non-linear editing systems (NLE)."

well slap my face and blow me sideways

I bought it about a year ago, dayo. The cable doesn't seem too high tech other than the adapter, so maybe that's it.

The troubleshooting support page suggests that there is a software update that improves interaction with the charger so I updated. That and cleaned the pins off with a q-tip.

my chargers work a lot better when the cat doesn't chew on the cables

My cat prefers pipe cleaners :)

fucking itunes match mang

I just want to copy glenn gould's goldberg variations to my iphone

I can see it sat there on my HDD so stop telling me it's only available in the cloud

in fact, it's NOT available in the cloud cos it's not been uploaded yet

it's 50 minutes long and it'll take an age to upload. FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU

Software update maybe helped. Who knew? *fingers crossed*

my 3gs has just developed the apparently infamous "dead strip" :(

Sorry.

I have forgotten that I have a 3gs sitting dormant somewhere in my kitchen. Really should sell that puppy!

tracer they used to replace those, even out of warranty. is that not still true?

is this the right place to ask a beginners question about automator?
I've been trying all evening to set up a simple folder task for my download folder - filter mp3 files, move them to "automatically add to itunes" folder. Yet nothing happens - the mp3s just stay where they are and the "add to itunes" folder stays empty. Is there a way to "run" the folder task or should it just happen automatically?

Have you set the script up as a Folder Action? Nothing will happen otherwise, unless you run it manually

yes I picked "folder action" (never done any of this before)

all encouragement to your automator steez but you might try hazel -

http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php

it's very powerful and rule-based, sort of like automator actions with a really good UI

it's what i use to sort my downloads folder, move mp3s to an external drive, add them to itunes, etc

hey late great - i am gonna try it! my first genius bar appointment.

I'm not sure if this has been addressed in this thread or not, but ctrl+f isn't helpful for "other".

My iPod touch is now a victim of that dreaded "Other" creep in file size. In the past month it's gone from virtually nothing to 1.12 GB, without me adding any apps or really changing the way I use it. It seems like every time I check it, its climbing larger and larger. Google tells me this is a fairly common problem, but pretty much the only way to fix it is to do a factory restore. Do any of you know is this would work? Kind of don't want to reset it if nothing is going to change.

lololol

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/01/apple-education-liveblog2581.jpg

iPad being more durable than a book is kind of eehhhh whatever

I guess the electronic copy of the book is incredibly durable in that you can always redownload it should something happen.

Forced exclusivity to Apple's online store X

Wife's MBA just suddenly decided it wouldn't see the wireless network. Clearing all the network settings did nothing. Restarting the MBA did nothing. Restarting the router did nothing. Lion gave me no help whatsoever. After 20 minutes of fucking around it suddenly decided it was going to work again. Apple can suck it.

You were probably holding it wrong.

so I'm back with my automation problem - I've managed to set up my task action (moving mp3s from one folder to another) and it works when I run from inside Automator - but if I close Automator the task won't run by itself. I thought that was the whole point of automation or did I misunderstand how the things works?

think you have to make it an app or executable or something iirc

So nobody else has had issues with the iPhone/iPod Touch and the creeping 'Other' category?

I do too but haven't wanted to reset it yet. If that works for you let me know and I might try it too.

Have you tried clearing mobile Safari's cache and determined if you have any apps that cache data? I haven't had this problem per se and I'm not sure how it recognizes what data goes in that category, but I have the suspicion that app caches get stuck in there.

I've had that problem too. I think it may have something to do with Genius which works on my iPod and obviously has to be based on some internal DB. Then again if restoring fixes the problem then it's definitely not that (unless its not doing garbage collection, which wouldn't surprise me since iPods have a bunch of "easy fix" bugs). Restoring isn't really a big deal, just leave it on overnight