I agree with that solution for traveling. I have a Rio Volt. Two AA batteries get me 20+ hours of life. I pack loads of CD's into a slim CD holder and slide it into my bag when I fly. It cost me $99 for the player and the CDRs were less than $1 each.
However, I still find myself lusting after a hard-drive based model or a flash memory version because of a fundamental flaw with the CD based Mp3 players: they skip.
You can't go jogging with a CD based one, and even walking around with it in your pocket is likely to make it skip. Granted mine does have a one minute buffer that it fills up. This causes the CD to stop spinning making it temporarily skip-proof, however while it is filling the buffer if it is being jostled, it will cause the player to skip.
The question is whether it is worth an extra $200+ to get a hard drive based model. The article insinuates that jogging with a hard drive could potentially damage it.
I guess I'll just have to wait for the 10 gig flash memory version to come out.
Everyone acts all surprised when they talk about eBook not being hugely popular. It is assumed that because it is a computerized version of a current media that it is superior. Arguably, most of current media has been improved using computers, but books aren't and probably won't ever be one of them.
Here is why:
1 - eBooks aren't cheap. The reader is expensive, and the electronic books aren't significantly cheaper than paper books.
2 - It is actually more difficult for most people to read off of a computer screen than it is to read printed text. (can anyone back this up with research?)
3 - Batteries die, books don't need batteries.
Granted, it's easier to carry around one eBook with 100 titles on it than 100 physical books, but realistically, who needs that many books in one sitting?
The makers of the eBook seem to be forgetting that in order for a product to succeed it must solve a problem and be cost efficient. The eBook is neither of those two things.
It is very much still "Mac" and not Apple. Apple is the name of the company that makes "Mac".
Like you said: iMac, eMac, What about PowerMac G4, MacOS X,.Mac...
"Design the Mac for you. Choose from our popular configurations or select from numerous options to build your dream Mac -- it's fast and easy, with no installation fees."
obviously there are going to be accidents using the Segway. What you aren't taking into consideration is the number of accidents that would occur with or without the segway. It would be interesting to get statistics on "walking accidents" the number of people that stumble walking of a sidewalk and roll their ankle.
Okay...maybe this has already been posted and I missed it, or maybe I'm way off...but here's my take on the situation.
The reason Apple is releasing Darwin for x86 is because Motorola has very little incentive to keep up in the processor wars. Granted, the PowerPC chipset is fantastic, it's just not a big player anymore as Motorola has better things to do than to cater to Apple's whims.
Just as they released an infantile Darwin for PowerPC, they are releasing it now for x86 so that people can port their drivers to Darwin. Once Apple has enough hardware support, they are one step closer to porting Aqua and all the higher layers of MacOS X towards the x86 architechture and having a way of escaping the sluggish Motorola chips.
MacOS X is a fantastic operating system and unfortunately it is far from living to its potential due to inferior and expensive chips from one provider. This is one step in the direction that people have been encouraging apple to make for the past 15 years. We all know that Apple is slow to respond, they like to take their time and make sure it is the right decision before they do anything drastic.
Imagine how much cheaper an x86 Mac would be and how much of a heavyweight they would finally be if MacOS X became an option to the other 95% of the computing population. I believe that this is just Apple keeping all their options open with a miniscule investment on their part.
I'd still like to see two buttons on the iBook, or heaven for bid they put a wheel on their stupid buttonless mouse. I love Apple, but sometimes they just have their thumbs up their asses. Hopefully this is a move in the right direction.
Well, technology will probably be a lot better in 2020 than in the 60s, I'm sure they will be able to make a much more convincing Mars landing video than the Moon landing video. What would REALLY be nice is to land a man on the moon by 2020 for real.
Yeah, but lets not forget laaaaaast time we doubted a prototype mac. "Oh geez, that can't possssssssibly be a real mac, look at it, it is just a cube" One person in particular wrote an entire webpage dedicated to WHY it couldn't be true and he went right down to the physics of it. "There are 3 screws in this picture"..."and only 2 from this angle"
Come to find out it was the Mac Cube. I bet he felt stupid. So now I take my fake mac pics a little more seriously.
Also in news today: Congress decideds that R and NC-17 rated movies are "not nice". George W. Bush has passed a bill banning them so that it won't corrupt the youth of tomorrow.
Ever wonder what makes Apple tick? I mean they know that these themes have been out forever, why today? Why do they wait months and then just randomly decide to go apeshit? Their behavior is quite perplexing.
My guess is that someone in upper management had a bad commute to work, maybe got a speeding ticket or something, and decided to take it out on the theme community.
Don't get me wrong, I love Apple and all...in fact I am authoring this on my G3, but sometimes they can be such massive wankers.
What strikes me as ironic is this: I've owned (rented rather) probably 4 different types of Cable modems since I started cable modeming at various locations in the US. They say that the modems achieve these incredible speeds of 25MBps or 30MBps downstream, and then you look on the back of the modem labeled clearly is the following words next to the RJ45 port: 10-Base T.
That pretty much says it. I'm guessing that this is false advertising. That is like saying "Our cars CAN go 1000 miles on a 10 gallon tank of gas" and then seeing that it only has a 2 gallon gas tank.
Assholes! I'm quite ready for a third type of player to enter this battle. Who's up for Electricity modems??
Isn't it ironic that just one week after Bill Clinton discussed the need for a "second internet" (and he wasn't talking about Internet-2) we have this technology that increases the anonymitiy of the already notoriously anonymous internet-1.
What bubba was talking about was a second internet with restricted access, where in order to be a member of, one had to declare their identity. Personally I think this new internet is just asking for l337 h4x0rs to take advantage of. The.gov will never allow this to happen IMHO.
My cat runs linux. Oh...if only I had the picture scanned online. It is a picture of this monitor on top of my cat running linux. What a crafty cat he is, I never thought he had the storage, but I was tinkering around with him one day and decided to install it.
I'm not one to promote piracy, but this is just sickening. We are talking about a city here. Next thing you know Microsoft is going to be suing a childrens hospital for missing proof of ownership. This is coming from one of the most massive companies in the world who in my opinion is an overpowering monopoly. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft didn't pay one CENT in taxes last year. It is just sadistic for Microsoft to pressure cities out of their tax money. Money that comes from the schools, the hospitals, among many other important sources...and for what? So Microsoft can buy another lot of blue stress balls for their employees? This is merely pennies in Microsoft's infinitely deep pockets.
Just when I thought Microsoft couldn't get any lower, they go and completely prove me wrong. Please tell me I am not the only person that finds this disturbing.
Is it just me, or is this a bit hypocritical on IBM's part? This is the company that just signed a deal with various linux distributions to be bundled with their new top of the line servers. Perhaps some outside force (*cough*microsoft*cough*) is putting pressure on them to promote windows in their consumer models.
This is pretty neat how it converts PPC and x86 code into VLWI. It is a good way to see how efficient VLWI's unique tree instruction approach would be in currently compiled code. However, there is a bit of a latency the first time each block of code runs, so it is difficult to tell how much this will slow down the process the first time through each brick of code.
This could mean that upgrading architechtures could be possible while still retaining backwards compatibility. Isn't it about time Microsoft left the x86 instruction world and embraced the newest technology available? This would be like Apple's transition to PPC, although unlike Apple, they wouldn't need to write a software emulator for older software, they could simply use DAISY to morph the code.
Does anyone know how DAISY compares with software emulation in terms of speed? I'm guessing it is a great deal faster.
This is a huge step in radio communication. This does mean however that a receiver will be required for radio broadcasts, and not a Sony 100W receiver, an actual box that will convert the satelite feed into audio. This means that they can put a price on the radio now, kinda like a cable company's music choice service.
This would be even better if there was a more forgiving way of picking up a satelite feed. Granted the mini-dishes of today are a hell of a lot better than the 10' tall dishes that people used to put in their yards..it would be nice to have a smaller recipticle, maybe something that could even work on a car (assuming the car wasn't in a bridge, or had a clear line of sight to the sky)
This also would mean that you don't have to listen to country music the entire duration of your road trip. I'm not sure how popular it will be as a pay per listen service though, people have come to expect free radio, but then again, who still uses an antenna to watch TV?
It should be interesting to see how this develops.
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Microsoft has absolutely nothing to worry about in terms of competition from MacOS X. The most significant reason is beacuse MacOS X currently runs on the PowerPC architechture only. I realize that Darwin has been ported to x86, but until the Aqua, Cocoa, etc. makes its way to another platform, it is going to be no real threat. It isn't like everyone is going to be so wowed by MacOS X and go out and buy a new G4.
Also, despite the fact that MacOS X is based on a BSD kernel, it lacks a lot of the features that you would expect from a *nix OS. Mainly it has pisspoor X11 support. That makes porting applications to MacOS X a bitch. It also doesn't come preinstalled with the development tools like gcc/cc/etc. So even if you did want to compile a program for your computer you'll have to go out of your way to do so. It obviously isn't intended to be much of a threat with its UNIX capabilities.
What MacOS X does offer however is a great interface. Admittedly, it will disturb many long term Mac users that are familiar with a platinum interface, but it seems to be much more efficiant and intuitive. Also the Mac will finally have all the features that a modern OS should have: protected memory, memory paging, preemtive multitasking, symmetric multiprocessing, the list goes on and on. It will be a gigantic, and long needed step in the right direction for the Apple platform, but it still isn't the überOS that is going to give Redmond something to worry about.
Well, for each network of computers behind a firewall sharing an IP address, there can be one computer that has access to incoming requests. Linksys refers to this as the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). This one connection can be the representative for the entire network.
I know my apartment is behind a Linksys router, and we have 4 connections, however we have one computer that is the dedicated incoming access server. This doesn't really help the other computers on the network, but it is a partial solution to the problem.
1 - He failed to mention a few key points. The major one being this: Darwin doesn't have nearly the user base that Linux does. I mean shit...how can he expect to see a huge hype when Darwin has a user base of say....1000 people (MacOS X excluded) and Linux has a userbase of 100,000.
2- Also...Linux is a full blown OS. Darwin is a KERNEL! It isn't designed to have the same hype as the release of Linux 2.3. I'd say that our author is putting a lot of demands on this open source kernel. No one said that making it open source should warrant the same kind of hype that linux demands.
3 - It has no bundled software with it. As I said earlier, it is just a KERNEL! Who ever wrote that article needs to lay off the crack. It isn't designed to have a windowing system, it is merely a system for developers to code versions of their drivers into the Darwin kernel. It wasn't designed to draw a huge hoopala when it releases version 2.
So suck on my balls Mr. Uneducated article writer...you are an ass clown.
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We may not have a house, a vehicle, or any earthly posessions for that matter, but at least we have free WiFi with our frappuccino!
I agree with that solution for traveling. I have a Rio Volt. Two AA batteries get me 20+ hours of life. I pack loads of CD's into a slim CD holder and slide it into my bag when I fly. It cost me $99 for the player and the CDRs were less than $1 each.
However, I still find myself lusting after a hard-drive based model or a flash memory version because of a fundamental flaw with the CD based Mp3 players: they skip.
You can't go jogging with a CD based one, and even walking around with it in your pocket is likely to make it skip. Granted mine does have a one minute buffer that it fills up. This causes the CD to stop spinning making it temporarily skip-proof, however while it is filling the buffer if it is being jostled, it will cause the player to skip.
The question is whether it is worth an extra $200+ to get a hard drive based model. The article insinuates that jogging with a hard drive could potentially damage it.
I guess I'll just have to wait for the 10 gig flash memory version to come out.
Everyone acts all surprised when they talk about eBook not being hugely popular. It is assumed that because it is a computerized version of a current media that it is superior. Arguably, most of current media has been improved using computers, but books aren't and probably won't ever be one of them.
Here is why:
1 - eBooks aren't cheap. The reader is expensive, and the electronic books aren't significantly cheaper than paper books.
2 - It is actually more difficult for most people to read off of a computer screen than it is to read printed text. (can anyone back this up with research?)
3 - Batteries die, books don't need batteries.
Granted, it's easier to carry around one eBook with 100 titles on it than 100 physical books, but realistically, who needs that many books in one sitting?
The makers of the eBook seem to be forgetting that in order for a product to succeed it must solve a problem and be cost efficient. The eBook is neither of those two things.
According to SimCity, we'll have Fusion Power by 2050, they had better step up the pace a bit if they want to accomplish that feat!
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.Mac...
It is very much still "Mac" and not Apple. Apple is the name of the company that makes "Mac".
Like you said: iMac, eMac, What about PowerMac G4, MacOS X,
"Design the Mac for you.
Choose from our popular configurations or select from numerous options to build your dream Mac -- it's fast and easy, with no installation fees."
Apple...please...are you writing that on a IIgs?
obviously there are going to be accidents using the Segway. What you aren't taking into consideration is the number of accidents that would occur with or without the segway. It would be interesting to get statistics on "walking accidents" the number of people that stumble walking of a sidewalk and roll their ankle.
Okay...maybe this has already been posted and I missed it, or maybe I'm way off...but here's my take on the situation.
The reason Apple is releasing Darwin for x86 is because Motorola has very little incentive to keep up in the processor wars. Granted, the PowerPC chipset is fantastic, it's just not a big player anymore as Motorola has better things to do than to cater to Apple's whims.
Just as they released an infantile Darwin for PowerPC, they are releasing it now for x86 so that people can port their drivers to Darwin. Once Apple has enough hardware support, they are one step closer to porting Aqua and all the higher layers of MacOS X towards the x86 architechture and having a way of escaping the sluggish Motorola chips.
MacOS X is a fantastic operating system and unfortunately it is far from living to its potential due to inferior and expensive chips from one provider. This is one step in the direction that people have been encouraging apple to make for the past 15 years. We all know that Apple is slow to respond, they like to take their time and make sure it is the right decision before they do anything drastic.
Imagine how much cheaper an x86 Mac would be and how much of a heavyweight they would finally be if MacOS X became an option to the other 95% of the computing population. I believe that this is just Apple keeping all their options open with a miniscule investment on their part.
I'd still like to see two buttons on the iBook, or heaven for bid they put a wheel on their stupid buttonless mouse. I love Apple, but sometimes they just have their thumbs up their asses. Hopefully this is a move in the right direction.
You know life has gotten bad when you trust Microsoft more than you'll trust your cable provider :)
Well, technology will probably be a lot better in 2020 than in the 60s, I'm sure they will be able to make a much more convincing Mars landing video than the Moon landing video. What would REALLY be nice is to land a man on the moon by 2020 for real.
I'm torn, do I comment on the one that has the capital C, or the lowercase C. Decisions decisions.....
Yeah, but lets not forget laaaaaast time we doubted a prototype mac. "Oh geez, that can't possssssssibly be a real mac, look at it, it is just a cube" One person in particular wrote an entire webpage dedicated to WHY it couldn't be true and he went right down to the physics of it. "There are 3 screws in this picture"..."and only 2 from this angle" Come to find out it was the Mac Cube. I bet he felt stupid. So now I take my fake mac pics a little more seriously.
Also in news today: Congress decideds that R and NC-17 rated movies are "not nice". George W. Bush has passed a bill banning them so that it won't corrupt the youth of tomorrow.
Ever wonder what makes Apple tick? I mean they know that these themes have been out forever, why today? Why do they wait months and then just randomly decide to go apeshit? Their behavior is quite perplexing.
My guess is that someone in upper management had a bad commute to work, maybe got a speeding ticket or something, and decided to take it out on the theme community.
Don't get me wrong, I love Apple and all...in fact I am authoring this on my G3, but sometimes they can be such massive wankers.
What strikes me as ironic is this: I've owned (rented rather) probably 4 different types of Cable modems since I started cable modeming at various locations in the US. They say that the modems achieve these incredible speeds of 25MBps or 30MBps downstream, and then you look on the back of the modem labeled clearly is the following words next to the RJ45 port: 10-Base T.
That pretty much says it. I'm guessing that this is false advertising. That is like saying "Our cars CAN go 1000 miles on a 10 gallon tank of gas" and then seeing that it only has a 2 gallon gas tank.
Assholes! I'm quite ready for a third type of player to enter this battle. Who's up for Electricity modems??
Isn't it ironic that just one week after Bill Clinton discussed the need for a "second internet" (and he wasn't talking about Internet-2) we have this technology that increases the anonymitiy of the already notoriously anonymous internet-1.
.gov will never allow this to happen IMHO.
What bubba was talking about was a second internet with restricted access, where in order to be a member of, one had to declare their identity. Personally I think this new internet is just asking for l337 h4x0rs to take advantage of. The
My cat runs linux. Oh...if only I had the picture scanned online. It is a picture of this monitor on top of my cat running linux. What a crafty cat he is, I never thought he had the storage, but I was tinkering around with him one day and decided to install it.
I'm not one to promote piracy, but this is just sickening. We are talking about a city here. Next thing you know Microsoft is going to be suing a childrens hospital for missing proof of ownership. This is coming from one of the most massive companies in the world who in my opinion is an overpowering monopoly. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft didn't pay one CENT in taxes last year. It is just sadistic for Microsoft to pressure cities out of their tax money. Money that comes from the schools, the hospitals, among many other important sources...and for what? So Microsoft can buy another lot of blue stress balls for their employees? This is merely pennies in Microsoft's infinitely deep pockets.
Just when I thought Microsoft couldn't get any lower, they go and completely prove me wrong. Please tell me I am not the only person that finds this disturbing.
Is it just me, or is this a bit hypocritical on IBM's part? This is the company that just signed a deal with various linux distributions to be bundled with their new top of the line servers. Perhaps some outside force (*cough*microsoft*cough*) is putting pressure on them to promote windows in their consumer models.
This is pretty neat how it converts PPC and x86 code into VLWI. It is a good way to see how efficient VLWI's unique tree instruction approach would be in currently compiled code. However, there is a bit of a latency the first time each block of code runs, so it is difficult to tell how much this will slow down the process the first time through each brick of code.
This could mean that upgrading architechtures could be possible while still retaining backwards compatibility. Isn't it about time Microsoft left the x86 instruction world and embraced the newest technology available? This would be like Apple's transition to PPC, although unlike Apple, they wouldn't need to write a software emulator for older software, they could simply use DAISY to morph the code.
Does anyone know how DAISY compares with software emulation in terms of speed? I'm guessing it is a great deal faster.
This is a huge step in radio communication. This does mean however that a receiver will be required for radio broadcasts, and not a Sony 100W receiver, an actual box that will convert the satelite feed into audio. This means that they can put a price on the radio now, kinda like a cable company's music choice service.
This would be even better if there was a more forgiving way of picking up a satelite feed. Granted the mini-dishes of today are a hell of a lot better than the 10' tall dishes that people used to put in their yards..it would be nice to have a smaller recipticle, maybe something that could even work on a car (assuming the car wasn't in a bridge, or had a clear line of sight to the sky)
This also would mean that you don't have to listen to country music the entire duration of your road trip. I'm not sure how popular it will be as a pay per listen service though, people have come to expect free radio, but then again, who still uses an antenna to watch TV?
It should be interesting to see how this develops.
Microsoft has absolutely nothing to worry about in terms of competition from MacOS X. The most significant reason is beacuse MacOS X currently runs on the PowerPC architechture only. I realize that Darwin has been ported to x86, but until the Aqua, Cocoa, etc. makes its way to another platform, it is going to be no real threat. It isn't like everyone is going to be so wowed by MacOS X and go out and buy a new G4.
Also, despite the fact that MacOS X is based on a BSD kernel, it lacks a lot of the features that you would expect from a *nix OS. Mainly it has pisspoor X11 support. That makes porting applications to MacOS X a bitch. It also doesn't come preinstalled with the development tools like gcc/cc/etc. So even if you did want to compile a program for your computer you'll have to go out of your way to do so. It obviously isn't intended to be much of a threat with its UNIX capabilities.
What MacOS X does offer however is a great interface. Admittedly, it will disturb many long term Mac users that are familiar with a platinum interface, but it seems to be much more efficiant and intuitive. Also the Mac will finally have all the features that a modern OS should have: protected memory, memory paging, preemtive multitasking, symmetric multiprocessing, the list goes on and on. It will be a gigantic, and long needed step in the right direction for the Apple platform, but it still isn't the überOS that is going to give Redmond something to worry about.
Well, for each network of computers behind a firewall sharing an IP address, there can be one computer that has access to incoming requests. Linksys refers to this as the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). This one connection can be the representative for the entire network.
I know my apartment is behind a Linksys router, and we have 4 connections, however we have one computer that is the dedicated incoming access server. This doesn't really help the other computers on the network, but it is a partial solution to the problem.
1 - He failed to mention a few key points. The major one being this: Darwin doesn't have nearly the user base that Linux does. I mean shit...how can he expect to see a huge hype when Darwin has a user base of say....1000 people (MacOS X excluded) and Linux has a userbase of 100,000.
2- Also...Linux is a full blown OS. Darwin is a KERNEL! It isn't designed to have the same hype as the release of Linux 2.3. I'd say that our author is putting a lot of demands on this open source kernel. No one said that making it open source should warrant the same kind of hype that linux demands.
3 - It has no bundled software with it. As I said earlier, it is just a KERNEL! Who ever wrote that article needs to lay off the crack. It isn't designed to have a windowing system, it is merely a system for developers to code versions of their drivers into the Darwin kernel. It wasn't designed to draw a huge hoopala when it releases version 2.
So suck on my balls Mr. Uneducated article writer...you are an ass clown.
Am I the only one that is a bit turned off by programming with a playstation controller?
It would be really cool if they could get the rumble pack to kick in when there is an error though. I wish my computer did that.
Your McGyver smoker must really be low on supplies when he starts using IDE cables to roll his shit up.