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Apple Nixes Live Webcast, Satellite Feed
spamguy writes "MacInTouch reports that Steve Jobs' January 11th MacWorld Expo keynote address may not be broadcast live in any way. If you were hoping to watch Stevie present the rumoured sub-$500 Mac, the Motorola phone, the Flash iPod, and/or the office suite, you now have no choice but to buy your plane tickets to San Francisco ASAP."
What you can do instead then is use another link which works, and that, one is here to watch
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Motorola has already debuted its new phone at CES.
You can hang around on any of the Mac rumour sites, who usually have people at the shows connected via WiFi reporting on exactly whats going on - either via frequent updates to a webpage or on an IRC channel.
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Thats what i've done for the last few Mac shows where big announcements were expected
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Yes the whole speech with bill gates and his blue screen PC is here to watch, at 300kbps
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Last time around they said it was just too expensive, the question is if that's true or not.
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This might have something to do with it... http://www.macobserver.com/article/2000/09/05.9.sh tml
My home OSX box has crashed twice, and it's been going now for 3 years.
My Windows 2000 and XP machines at work seem to crash a couple of times a month at least.
That was classic intercourse!
The "real" Roland Piquepaille is rpiquepa.
The user "Roland Piquepaille" is an imposter.
Lots of people are new to Apple products because of the iPod. Having seen the iPod and been impressed by it, they are now interested in buying Apple computers, but the entry level price point is a little high.
... I'm now eyeing the 20" iMac, but am waiting for Tiger, iLife '05, and a DVD9 superdrive before I take the plunge ...
Exactly.
I bought an iPod. I was impressed even with the box it came in, the packaging, the wrappers the cords were kept in, etc. Blew my mind. These people know how to design stuff!
4 months later, I took the plunge and bought an eMac (loaded up with RAM). Haven't touched my windows machines at home since then - 'cept to play a few games.
4 months after that, I convinced my employer to get me a Dual 2GHz G5 with a 20" cinema display.
My boss saw what it could do and how it played well in the windows network - so about 1 month later, there was another Dual G5 w/ 20" cinema display in the office (good thing he didn't get the 30" display, or else I would have been pissed off.. heh).
Oh, and a couple weeks ago Santa brought my daughter a pink iPod mini. This is the same daughter that has self-taught herself the whole iLife suite, and her and her friends don't leave the eMac alone when they're having sleepovers, etc. They make radio shows with GarageBand, convert to mp3, then drop them on CDs to show their friends. They make movies, edit them, and make really cool DVDs. She just turned 11, and I haven't had to show her anything. (Her Windows machine sits relatively unused in her room now)
(I think I'm the kind of customer Apple likes)
John Mayer is a no-name artist? What fucking rock have you been hiding under?
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I was notified this morning that our University will be hosting a live satellite feed of this event, and our IT staff were all invited to attend.
Not sure what the original piece was based on, but it wasn't fact.
I should also note that the only other times our school has gotten a live satellite feed, they announced some pretty kick ass product.
apple doesn't run macworld....they don't get money from higher attendence
That was pretty funny to say the least (for everybody except the Apple people in the front row).
That was one of the Macworld's that I "found my way" into here in NYC and he was not happy to say the least. He more just threw the camera to the ground though, then at or towards anybody. The Apple employee scurried up to the stage really quick though to collect the camera and its batteries so I can see where that idea may have come from (I was sitting in the 3rd row so I had a nice perspective).
I'll be attending a remote broadcast of the event, and our Apple sales rep. will be buying lunch (so it's not exactly unsanctioned).
They -are- doing a live, remote broadcast. The only question is "how public will that broadcast be?"
Maybe their bandwidth bills were too high after the last one, so they decided to record, encode, and blast to Akamai after the event.
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Thats because the Cube started out costing between $1800 and $2300. When PowerMacs at the time ran for the same price, it was a foolish luxury computer, instead of a product that would actually sell.
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If you are on Internet2 (or another fast research network), you can get the video at speeds up to 80 Mbps here which requires Java Web Start to download the LoDN client. If you have a set of LoRS Tools, then you can get the exNode at 2005_0105_ms_ces_300agility.wmv.xnd.
On high-speed networks, set threads to 10 and blocksize to 1 MB. On cable/dsl (you are going to try it even though you are not on Internet2, aren't you), use 3 threads and a blocksize of 512KB. Dial-up users should just click on the link in the above post.
I originally got the video using BT. I have left my connection open for a couple of hours to continue supplying the video, but my total uploads never get over 2.4 Mbps which is disgraceful on a campus connected at OC-12 (622 Mbps). Using LoDN or LoRS should get I2 users the file at 30-80 Mbps if not higher (on GigE connected machines).
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Have you filed a bug with Apple on these?
https://bugreport.apple.com
Given that you have repro steps, I'm sure they would appreciate it.
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I'd certainly count Aqua and Quartz as being innovative. They had the guts to jettison ugly old X-Windows and replace it with something beautiful that is now pretty fast. Quartz Extreme is an innovative way to optimize its performance; we won't see anything like that in Windows until Longhorn and maybe not even then.
The creation of a Unix-based operating system that was accessible to the common man, with no compromises, deserves major kudos for innovation. At the time it was introduced, Linux was still stumbling badly in that category. (I don't know if it's caught up even now since it's been a while since I've used a new Linux distribution).
They were first to build wireless network access into their computers, and the first to use the new high-speed standard.
The cooling system of the G5, with multiple variable speed fans to cut down noise, is innovative.
Expose was innovative.
Producing an operating system that actually got faster with each release, instead of more bloated and sluggish (like Windows and even Linux) is innovative.
I'm sure there are a lot more things, but that's a pretty respectable list as it is.
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