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Apple Announcement Broadcast Live
ignipotentis writes "Apparently Apple's 'music to your ears' announcement will be broadcast live. I'm a bit confused by this, however I hope someone will pick this up and netcast it perhaps?" Apple usually broadcasts these things on satellites, so they can be picked up in the Apple stores etc.; the question is, will Apple broadcast it in QuickTime, will TechTV pick it up?
Apple usually shows their MacWorld keynotes, and sometimes other events, via QuickTime Streaming Server from their own website. Check Apple's Quicktime Site for updates, I would think. That or hotnews.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. (Einstein)
Yeah, see, people who don't spend all day trying to fiddle with config files on Linux have things like "leisure time". In that time you can choose to do things besides attempt to build libfrobber-0.0.1alpha from source. One of those things is called "watching television", where someone sends pictures to a display box in your home. It's a lot like downloading pirated dvd's off the internet, but without having to recompile mplayer source to see it.
Anyway, this technique is usually referred to as "Broadcasting".
I hope this helps.
it's an announcement so big that no website could handle the traffic it will generate.
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Pudged Cleared up my confusion. My main issue was the release of coordinates to the sattalite braodcast. I was un-aware of the Apple stores picking up this broadcast individually. Sorry for not being clear.
Don't waste time... procrastinate now!
This event is primarily targeted at the media, Apple Retail stores, and Apple corporate offices around the country. It's not like Apple thinks people are just going to pull out their 12 foot C-band dish and start watching this; it wasn't intended to be a "public" or webcast event (in fact, the original release was likely intended to be a Media Alert release and not a full blown public press release, as it was pulled from Apple's press release page).
That said, the University of Wisconsin - Madison will be hosting the event live at the Pyle Center. It will be open to the public. For details, see:
04.28.2003 Apple Media Event Coverage
Please, TechTV hasn't aired anything live since the days of the original iMac. When was that? Back in '97? They weren't even TechTV back then, remember the days of ZDTV? Ziff-Davis kept them to their roots, C|Net made them more popular but at a cost. I still remember actually getting replies on the air from Leo Laporte, try getting your e-mail read on the air now. LOL
Here are the satelite channels to watch the broadcast. Unfortunately, they are not available in Europe.
Ku-band
Telstar 5/Transponder: 25 K
Orbital Slot: 97 degrees west
Uplink Frequency: 14444.0 MHz
Downlink Frequency: 12144.0 MHz
Polarity: Vertical down
Audio subcarriers: 6.2 and 6.8
C-band
Galaxy 3C/Transponder 1 C
Orbital Slot: 95 degrees west
Uplink Frequency: 5945 MHz
Downlink Polarity: Horizontal down
Downlink Frequency: 3720 MHz
Audio subcarriers: 6.2 and 6.8
As people have said, the Apple Stores will be able to pick this up, but also a tv channel (such as TechTV) could if they so desire. If you want information about the exact details of the webcast, they can be found at here, this way only major news stations can pick the signal up, not your average consumer. There is a possibility that Apple would do a webcast, and I would be supprised if they didn't, but usually they would have posted a link on their Quicktime site a lot earlier.
I'm just picturing Gore singing Linkin Park...
aye, but anything apple announces takes atleast a year for its PC counterpart to make the same darn thing, and then advertise like they created it (i.e. intel with centrino wireless networking - apple has already moved on past 802.11b). so its nice to see what's here now for us mac users, and down the road for the pc users. it's a big PR deal to have these events, and they usually have a lot of awe behind them.
By the way, usually its the other way around, especially for some reason with video cards. Takes forever for the PC versions to hit the mac.
What Steve Jobs will announce next week, live by satellite across the world, is a 17" iPod. It's likely to have 32G of storage space, an increase of 54% over the current highest capacity model, and a faster CPU so that, for example, it will be able to play more than one MP3 at once.
But the most exciting innovation will be the huge, 17", widescreen LCD display that'll replace the iPod's current tiny little window. This will make editing playlists easier, no more crammed display, and will allow the iPod to show screen effects in tune with the music (another use for the 1GHz G4 that'll be in every unit.)
And, interestingly, despite it being much more expensive to produce than current iPods, it'll follow the pattern currently of the next model being $100 more expensive, wieghing in at $599. Apple will, however, be selling matching trousers with 17" pockets for $1299.
I hope it's a success.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
The enemy will run like fraid'ie kittens from the brutal force of the AHM and High Ruler Job's most powerful reality distortion field machine, Allah be bathed. They will withdraw into their Walmart brand dickies and die upon the Capuccino gates of Cupertino, God willing.
You mean like the GeForce 4, that was for sale in Power Macs before nVidia had even announced them?
Has anyone considered that the news might be about osx.3? feature freeze is about a week away, and still no press release or any official news about this... Though music to you ears does sound like somthing different, its still a posibility...
...seeing how this is being televised and all...
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Interestingly enough, various scientific studies have been conducted upon wide cross-sections of the male H. Sapiens population to determine the psychological motivations behind irrational, sometimes violent anti-homosexual behavior, also known as fag bashing in common colloquial American English.
A vast majority of these studies have returned an all but irrefutable stream of evidence - that most all fag bashers are in fact harboring latent homosexual urges - and instead of directing the suppression of those urges solely upon themselves, project said suppression upon others.
It's only logical to presume that the evidence that's been returned can be extended to incorporate those who deride Macintosh users as being "Homosexuals" on online forums and billboard systems. Not only are these people likely harboring latent homosexual urges themselves, but a latent desire to use or adopt the Macintosh platform as well.
Here's the tie-in.
m l Unfortunately CERN no longer supports the historical site. Note from this era too, the least recently modified web page we know of, last changed Tue, 13 Nov 1990 15:17:00 GMT (though the URI changed.)
From: http://www.w3.org/History.html
1990
September
Mike Sendall, Tim's boss, Oks the purchase of a NeXT cube, and allows Tim to go ahead and write a global hypertext system.
October
Tim starts work on a hypertext GUI browser+editor using the NeXTStep development environment. He makes up "WorldWideWeb" as a name for the program. (See the first browser screenshot) "World Wide Web" as a name for the project (over Information Mesh, Mine of Information, and Information Mine).
Project original proposal reformulated with encouragement from CN and ECP divisional management. Robert Cailliau (ECP) joins and is co-author of new version.
November
Initial WorldWideWeb program development continues on the NeXT (TBL) . This was a "what you see is what you get" (wysiwyg) browser/editor with direct inline creation of links. The first web server was nxoc01.cern.ch, later called info.cern.ch, and the first web page http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.ht
Macs rule, as we all know. Rumors blow. So enough already with the speculation! Wait for the broadcast, and get it from the big man himself.
the question is, will Apple broadcast it in QuickTime, will TechTV pick it up?
Of course TechTV will pick it up. The Screensavers know everything! I hope Leo Laporte didn't hear you say that! And I'm sure someone will get it out there in Quicktime. Unless, of course, if whacking QT is what this broadcast is all about. But I don't want to start any rumors.
Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.