10 hours claimed by Apple for the iPad is watch HD video, or surfing the web. Put the device in to air plane mode, turn the screen brightness down to a comfortable level, and use it as a e-book reader, you get more along 25-30 hours of use from one charge, if not more.
Okay. Prove your case. What made the iPod easier to use than the existing players at the time it was initially released?
Did you try to use any of the iRiver or Rio players at the time? They were clunky to use, had a one line LCD screen which made navigation hard, 32MB or 64MB of memory, and used a parallel port which took hours to fill that 64MB of memory with your 20 or so MP3s.
Apple came along in 2001, the first iPod's had 5GB and 10GB capacities, with a large LCD screen and Firewire that synced your songs quickly.
Competition never caught up with the hardware until the late 2000's when Sony made decent devices. Everyone else was trying to push MiniDisc.
ARM, been around since the 1980's. Acorn Computers were the first. Apple had a helping hand in the 1990's when Acorn turned to Apple's engineers — Apple had very good PPC processor designers then.
ARM has been in mobile phones since the 1990's, my old Sony dumb phone used one. When Apple introduced ARM in the original iPhone, that chip was used ten years previous by Acorn. I even had a Dell Axim x50v PDA which I bought in 2003/4 that had a an ARM processor that was as fast as the iPhone 3GS.
It is only in America in the developed world where the performers do not get royalties. In the UK, for example, the PPL collect the royalties on behalf of the performers for radio and other live performances.
A license to re-record or use samples brings in peanuts money. I think it is 8%(?) and 8.5%(?) respectively on a download. Sync licenses for film and TV is better, a singer song writer I know recently made £35k+£35k (£70k) for a their music to go on a Suzuki ad, then the money came in for public performance for the ad, £1.5 million.
There are no royalties for public performance in the USA. No wonder performers are annoyed with streaming services.
Just to add to my comment. 10Gb/s over fibre I would think requires single-mode glass fibre. Not the most durable of cable choices for day-to-day use.
I get through multi-mode plastic fibre ADAT cables pretty quickly because the fibre breaks somewhere in the cable. Glass, you only have to stand on, twist or bend at silly angles and it may break, and they don't come cheap.
Interesting, it seems it is basically mini Display Port with PCI Express at 10Gb/s on top. I welcome that. Over copper for now, but I guess the 100Gb/s version expected in 2020 may utilise fibre.
Well, all you need is the encryption key for HDCP.
It goes something like this:
This is a forty times forty element matrix of fifty-six bit
hexadecimal numbers.
To generate a source key, take a forty-bit number that (in
binary) consists of twenty ones and twenty zeroes; this is
the source KSV. Add together those twenty rows of the matrix
that correspond to the ones in the KSV (with the lowest bit
in the KSV corresponding to the first row), taking all elements
modulo two to the power of fifty-six; this is the source
private key.
To generate a sink key, do the same, but with the transposed
matrix.
Ever tried Googling Google? Crashes the Internet every time.
I can also crash the Internet by unplugging my modem.
Who knows if it has crashed when my modem is unplugged, it is like if someone is not in the room with you, do they really exist? Or do they only exist only when you see them?
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10 hours claimed by Apple for the iPad is watch HD video, or surfing the web. Put the device in to air plane mode, turn the screen brightness down to a comfortable level, and use it as a e-book reader, you get more along 25-30 hours of use from one charge, if not more.
Okay. Prove your case. What made the iPod easier to use than the existing players at the time it was initially released?
Did you try to use any of the iRiver or Rio players at the time? They were clunky to use, had a one line LCD screen which made navigation hard, 32MB or 64MB of memory, and used a parallel port which took hours to fill that 64MB of memory with your 20 or so MP3s.
Apple came along in 2001, the first iPod's had 5GB and 10GB capacities, with a large LCD screen and Firewire that synced your songs quickly.
Competition never caught up with the hardware until the late 2000's when Sony made decent devices. Everyone else was trying to push MiniDisc.
Didn't you hear? The iPad is powered almost entirely by the user's sense of self-importance.
ARM, been around since the 1980's. Acorn Computers were the first. Apple had a helping hand in the 1990's when Acorn turned to Apple's engineers — Apple had very good PPC processor designers then.
ARM has been in mobile phones since the 1990's, my old Sony dumb phone used one. When Apple introduced ARM in the original iPhone, that chip was used ten years previous by Acorn. I even had a Dell Axim x50v PDA which I bought in 2003/4 that had a an ARM processor that was as fast as the iPhone 3GS.
Had to check if there was a female on the ISS now. Lucky, there are two now STS113 has docked.
It is only in America in the developed world where the performers do not get royalties. In the UK, for example, the PPL collect the royalties on behalf of the performers for radio and other live performances.
A license to re-record or use samples brings in peanuts money. I think it is 8%(?) and 8.5%(?) respectively on a download. Sync licenses for film and TV is better, a singer song writer I know recently made £35k+£35k (£70k) for a their music to go on a Suzuki ad, then the money came in for public performance for the ad, £1.5 million.
There are no royalties for public performance in the USA. No wonder performers are annoyed with streaming services.
Give it a go Raven. You will find it is seriously buggy. Some parts scale, some don't, graphics show as black boxes...
It does seem that Lion will be the first version with usable resolution independence: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/24/mac-os-x-lion-building-in-support-for-super-high-resolution-retina-monitors/
Now fonts will be rendered using the Windows font rendering system and not whatever horrible piece of shit Firefox 4 uses for hardware acceleration.
Not a Mozilla issue, but an issue with Microsoft's DirectWrite. IE9 looks the same.
It's beta, not a final release version.
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/09/27/1351242/Selling-Incandescent-Light-Bulbs-As-Heating-Devices?from=rss
$17? Wow, you can buy those in the UK for £2 for a pack of two.
Yeah, or you have your children or someone else in the back seats, you crash, they fly forward smashing in to your seat and kill you too.
Just to add to my comment. 10Gb/s over fibre I would think requires single-mode glass fibre. Not the most durable of cable choices for day-to-day use.
I get through multi-mode plastic fibre ADAT cables pretty quickly because the fibre breaks somewhere in the cable. Glass, you only have to stand on, twist or bend at silly angles and it may break, and they don't come cheap.
Take it back for a refund.
Any higher and we'll need a resolution independent UI. Snow Leopard is not ready for this.
1680x1050 on a 15 inch makes text and other UI widgets small enough, any smaller and I'll need a magnifying glass.
Interesting, it seems it is basically mini Display Port with PCI Express at 10Gb/s on top. I welcome that. Over copper for now, but I guess the 100Gb/s version expected in 2020 may utilise fibre.
Also factor in the new sandy bridge quad-core CPU's that have a greater TDP than the older dual-core i3/i5/i7.
This comes to mind:
Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice
You've lost me. The iPad accepts any Bluetooth keyboard. What has "Apple's developer agreement" got to do with an external keyboard?
Well, all you need is the encryption key for HDCP.
It goes something like this:
This is a forty times forty element matrix of fifty-six bit
hexadecimal numbers.
To generate a source key, take a forty-bit number that (in
binary) consists of twenty ones and twenty zeroes; this is
the source KSV. Add together those twenty rows of the matrix
that correspond to the ones in the KSV (with the lowest bit
in the KSV corresponding to the first row), taking all elements
modulo two to the power of fifty-six; this is the source
private key.
To generate a sink key, do the same, but with the transposed
matrix.
6692d179032205 b4116a96425a7f ecc2ef51af1740 959d3b6d07bce4 fa9f2af29814d9 ....
82592e77a204a8 146a6970e3c4a1 f43a81dc36eff7 568b44f60c79f5 bb606d7fe87dd6
1b91b9b73c68f9 f31c6aeef81de6 9a9cc14469a037 a480bc978970a6 997f729d0a1a39
b3b9accda43860 f9d45a5bf64a1d 180a1013ba5023 42b73df2d33112 851f2c4d21b05e
2901308bbd685c 9fde452d3328f5 4cc518f97414a8 8fca1f7e2a0a14 dc8bdbb12e2378
672f11cedf36c5 f45a2a00da1c1d 5a3e82c124129a 084a707eadd972 cb45c81b64808d
07ebd2779e3e71 9663e2beeee6e5 25078568d83de8 28027d5c0c4e65 ec3f0fc32c7e63
1d6b501ae0f003 f5a8fcecb28092 854349337aa99e 9c669367e08bf1 d9c23474e09f70
Sure you can google for the rest. :)
Ugh, 'or' not 'of'.
Sony of Slashdot?
Engadget covered this almost a month ago.
Cloud war? That any better?
If he is talking about Apple notebooks, they are made by Asus and Quanta.
Ever tried Googling Google? Crashes the Internet every time.
I can also crash the Internet by unplugging my modem.
Who knows if it has crashed when my modem is unplugged, it is like if someone is not in the room with you, do they really exist? Or do they only exist only when you see them?