$20 can get a decent PCI-e video card that can be used for accelerating desktop compositing. Resourceful people can probably even find suitable cards for free if they look around.
We are way beyond the point where a 3D accelerated video card is a luxury item in a PC.
"Would you like ultra-wide spectrum super-HD eyes with 60x optical zoom, Internet-connected HUD and complimentary laser cannons, just like everyone else has?"
I would have to install a Flash player. No joke. Fair or not, I don't see the logic in needing Flash to download a player. That may not be an AnywhereCD-caused problem. But any pothole on the road to paying for music detours me to gnutella
At this point in time, having a Flash plugin installed is not something considered unreasonable. Refusing to install Flash, IMO, is like the people who refused to use a graphical browser a few years ago.
2. The window system is based on DPS, for which a Linux implementation already exists.
Actually, Quartz is not based on Display PostScript -- Quartz would be more akin to Display PDF, but even that would be a gross over-simplification. And while slapping a Quartz emulation layer on top of X might "work", it certainly wouldn't be a "good" solution.
Another interesting bit -- since when did the USPS start allowing images of people that were still alive on stamps? It's quite obvious that it's Harrison Ford by looking at the stamp. Last I checked, he's still alive.
I know you're probably trying to be funny, or worse off, mis-informed. But, my quick back of the envelope calculation says that for a 1600x1200 display, you'll need 5.7MB of RAM for 24-bit color. I haven't owned a machine in the past 4 years that hasn't had at least 1GB. Tell me again how the card is using 100% of your system RAM -- especially considering the needs of the OP?
If you have an Intel chipset (915/945/965), and you have an PCIe slot, you can probably use an SDVO card (also known as ADD2+) to add a DVI port to your machine. The cards run for about $20-30. We've used a few at work, and they work pretty well.
Last I checked, QuickTime was a part of the iTunes installation under Windows. I think they meant to say Windows Media.
But, this has certainly done wonders for the adoption of QuickTime under Windows. It's the iTunes Trojan Horse -- get them hooked on a great music player and a great portable music player. As more installations of iTunes are done, more QuickTime installations as well. Suddenly, it becomes easier to convince the big websites (and small too) to put up QuickTime versions of the media. And to top it off, because of the increased usage of QuickTime, us Mac users get a better web experience as well.
I wasn't stating that the phone comes out of the 15/2 -- but, it does come over the same fiber optic connection. Also, the regular channels for video also do not come out of the 15/2 -- but, the VOD streams do. I can confirm this because I have a 10/100 switch hooked in between my router and the box bridging the ethernet and coax. When I play VOD streams, the activity lights are blinking like crazy. Pause the stream, and there is no activity.
I have FiOS service currently -- phone, internet, and TV -- and they are already putting IP over coax. They use it for the video on demand. They have a simple ethernet to coax bridge (made by Motorola) and the cable box then is able to get it's guide data and VOD streams over the internet connection. What I haven't been able to figure out is if the bandwidth used for VOD is taken out of my 15mbit internet bandwidth allocation or if they have some traffic shaping going on for the VOD separately.
I'm not really sure how it's going to be cheaper -- coax isn't that expensive, and they were more than happy to replace the sub-par cabling that MediaOne/AT&T/Comcast had left behind. They even ran more wire inside the house to accommodate the way I wanted to setup things.
What happens when the killer phone is finally here? You know the one, built in terabyte of storage, lightening fast file transfer speeds, full satellite radio, a breathalyzer, your car and house key, a tiny little thing the size of credit card with a 12 mega pixel camera on it (hey it's the future right, we can dream). What happens when this phone is out and you really want it and unfortunately Apple didn't make it? That's right, you're a sucker then aren't you. I thought so. You paid all that good money for your iTunes and now you can't put them on your new phone because your new phone threatens Apple's dominance. So who owns the music anyway? You or them? They do. You bought nothing. You bought the right to play their song on their product. It might work today. But I'm not about to bet that this will be the format du jour 10 years from now.
So, what happens when high definition audio formats finally take off? You know the one, 5.1 surround sound, 192khz sampling, 96-bit samples. I'm sure that the record companies will be ready to sell you all new versions of the music you already have. So what happens to all of your shiny CDs that you have? Oh wait, nothing... just like the DRMd AAC files that Apple is selling. They will still work with the iPods that have been sold today, and with the version of iTunes that is out now on machines that are sold now.
Listen, people bought LPs, 8-Tracks, and Cassettes -- the only one of those 3 that I could still play today is a cassette. And only in a few places (my car, for example, can't play them). So, basically, those formats are useless now. Life goes on. People will figure out how to upgrade their music collection or they'll replace it. Either way, nothing has really changed.
And, in the grand scheme of things, we are talking about a.99 cent purchase. Do we really put this much thought into.99 cents these days? I bought a cheeseburger at Wendy's today... 99 cents. It lasted about 5 minutes, and then it was gone. If I'm hungry again, I'll have to buy another. Am I a sucker too?
in http://www.pat-rights.com/InternetUserIdentityVeri fication.html, they claim that eBay is an example of an infringing website. eBay has had that system in place since before their patent was applied for. It seems to me like they have just provided everything you need to prove prior art on their page.
I'll vouch for the durability of the iBooks as well -- at least, the older models.
I had one in my backpack along with a heavily padded Dell laptop when it slipped off my shoulder and rolled down a fairly steep hill. I was pretty worried about condition of both laptops, but when I pulled them both out, the iBook (without any padding) had hardly a scratch. The Dell, also didn't have a scratch, but the battery had popped out. The iBook instantly awoke from sleep, and was pretty much exactly the way I had left it.
Not too bad for a laptop with no padding to fair slightly better than the heavily padded laptop.
Well, first off, I'm pretty sure that the G5 could be cooled via only convential fans similar to the P4 and Athlons. But, Apple has pretty much made it their mission to reduce fan noise on their machines.
Second -- actually, we don't know that we'll be able to swap out single core Opterons with dual core Opterons. They're not out yet. The G5 is. If later on it proves to be true, then you can say that you can swap them out.
Third -- the G5 gives you access to one of the better Operating Systems around, MacOS X. That has to give it a few advantage points.
BTW -- I happen to have both a Dell Dimension 8600 and a dual 1.8ghz G5 in my office at work. When the Dell is running, you notice it. It's quieter than the thrown together PC that's also in the office, but still loud enough to notice. On the other hand, the G5 is completely quiet. I never hear the fans in there at all. I can actually see one of the fans moving from the front, but it's moving at such a slow speed that you can't hear it at all. For some of us, that is a feature.
As more people sign on to high-speed access, how long will it be before we start seeing the cable companies (such as Comcast) start dropping their prices to levels which compete directly with dial-up?
Perhaps when the growth rate slows down? Seems like they don't have much to gain at the moment by dropping their prices. Of course, by the time their growth rate slows, they might have killed off all of their dial-up competitors.
Emulating a video game platform is okay, but if there are no legal non-cartrige games available for that platform, there's a problem. The Atari emulator community has managed to not just reverse engineer the platform, but have also reverse engineered development tools for that platform so there are some legal freeware Atari 2600 games in circulation. I don't think there are any freeware Game Boy Advance games in circulation yet.
Actually, there are quite a bit -- check out http://www.gbadev.org , for example. The tools have been available since before the GBA was officially released. There are quite a few really good homebrew games available now.
I've got a Redhat 6.2 machine running 2.2.21... and I doubt if I'll even update it to.24. The only reason it was upgraded to.21 was because I swapped out the 10mbit network card for a 100mbit.
It's been running fine pretty much non-stop for 4 years now. The only time it ever is rebooted is when the power goes out (yeah, I know...)
It's rock solid, and serves as my apache and SSH server to the outside and my FTP, MySQL, NFS, Telnet and AppleTalk server to the inside. To top it off, it's running SETI@Home and it's on a P120 with 32 megs of RAM, with no swap space being used. Not too bad, in my opinion.
Unless I suddenly get a big outgoing bandwidth upgrade, and an increase in activity to go along with it, I don't think I'll ever be upgrading this machine:D
I was wondering why I hadn't seen anything on the news about this... hell, I'm watching the news right now. I guess I should've figured that since it's slashdot, it's "Old News for Nerds. Stuff that mattered"
Well, not exactly 11 digits -- 10 digits (you can drop the leading 1). Once you get used to it, it's not that bad... a lot of people made a big deal about it when it rolled out, but now I never hear any complaints.
In fact, it looks weird when I'm someplace else that doesn't have 10 digit dialing (what's the area code???)
It's better this way -- you either get everyone to use 10/11 digits, or you divide the existing area-codes up into more area codes, and have everyone re-print business cards, signs, advertisements, etc, etc, etc... that ends up causing more trouble than just adding a few extra digits.
The writeup forgot to mention that both Safari and Keynote are open source.
The HTML rendering portion of Safari is open source. Keynote is not -- it's a commercial product like DVD Studio, Final Cut Pro, MacOS X, and just about everything else Apple does.
So what you do is you get that board, a PowerPC CPU, some RAM, a case, a hard drive, etc, and you have a fully working PowerPC system devoid of an OS. It isn't cheap, but you don't pay the Apple Markup.
As I understand, these are G3 based machines running around the 600-700mhz range. This makes it comparable to either the current iBooks or the original iMacs -- both of which can be had from Apple for less than a $1000.
So, if this board isn't cheap, how much is it? I mean, it has to be cheaper than an $999 iBook, right? Otherwise, what "Apple Markup" are you getting around?
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$20 can get a decent PCI-e video card that can be used for accelerating desktop compositing. Resourceful people can probably even find suitable cards for free if they look around.
We are way beyond the point where a 3D accelerated video card is a luxury item in a PC.
Clearly this means that Rob and Steve are the same person ;)
Ah, but where does it end?
"Would you like ultra-wide spectrum super-HD eyes with 60x optical zoom, Internet-connected HUD and complimentary laser cannons, just like everyone else has?"
Yes. Yes I do.
I would have to install a Flash player. No joke. Fair or not, I don't see the logic in needing Flash to download a player. That may not be an AnywhereCD-caused problem. But any pothole on the road to paying for music detours me to gnutella
At this point in time, having a Flash plugin installed is not something considered unreasonable. Refusing to install Flash, IMO, is like the people who refused to use a graphical browser a few years ago.
2. The window system is based on DPS, for which a Linux implementation already exists.
Actually, Quartz is not based on Display PostScript -- Quartz would be more akin to Display PDF, but even that would be a gross over-simplification. And while slapping a Quartz emulation layer on top of X might "work", it certainly wouldn't be a "good" solution.
Another interesting bit -- since when did the USPS start allowing images of people that were still alive on stamps? It's quite obvious that it's Harrison Ford by looking at the stamp. Last I checked, he's still alive.
I know you're probably trying to be funny, or worse off, mis-informed. But, my quick back of the envelope calculation says that for a 1600x1200 display, you'll need 5.7MB of RAM for 24-bit color. I haven't owned a machine in the past 4 years that hasn't had at least 1GB. Tell me again how the card is using 100% of your system RAM -- especially considering the needs of the OP?
If you have an Intel chipset (915/945/965), and you have an PCIe slot, you can probably use an SDVO card (also known as ADD2+) to add a DVI port to your machine. The cards run for about $20-30. We've used a few at work, and they work pretty well.
It looks like it's just a link to a sourceforge project... was there supposed to be something else?
Last I checked, QuickTime was a part of the iTunes installation under Windows. I think they meant to say Windows Media.
:)
But, this has certainly done wonders for the adoption of QuickTime under Windows. It's the iTunes Trojan Horse -- get them hooked on a great music player and a great portable music player. As more installations of iTunes are done, more QuickTime installations as well. Suddenly, it becomes easier to convince the big websites (and small too) to put up QuickTime versions of the media. And to top it off, because of the increased usage of QuickTime, us Mac users get a better web experience as well.
Bravo Apple
I wasn't stating that the phone comes out of the 15/2 -- but, it does come over the same fiber optic connection. Also, the regular channels for video also do not come out of the 15/2 -- but, the VOD streams do. I can confirm this because I have a 10/100 switch hooked in between my router and the box bridging the ethernet and coax. When I play VOD streams, the activity lights are blinking like crazy. Pause the stream, and there is no activity.
I have FiOS service currently -- phone, internet, and TV -- and they are already putting IP over coax. They use it for the video on demand. They have a simple ethernet to coax bridge (made by Motorola) and the cable box then is able to get it's guide data and VOD streams over the internet connection. What I haven't been able to figure out is if the bandwidth used for VOD is taken out of my 15mbit internet bandwidth allocation or if they have some traffic shaping going on for the VOD separately.
I'm not really sure how it's going to be cheaper -- coax isn't that expensive, and they were more than happy to replace the sub-par cabling that MediaOne/AT&T/Comcast had left behind. They even ran more wire inside the house to accommodate the way I wanted to setup things.
FTFA:
What happens when the killer phone is finally here? You know the one, built in terabyte of storage, lightening fast file transfer speeds, full satellite radio, a breathalyzer, your car and house key, a tiny little thing the size of credit card with a 12 mega pixel camera on it (hey it's the future right, we can dream). What happens when this phone is out and you really want it and unfortunately Apple didn't make it? That's right, you're a sucker then aren't you. I thought so. You paid all that good money for your iTunes and now you can't put them on your new phone because your new phone threatens Apple's dominance. So who owns the music anyway? You or them? They do. You bought nothing. You bought the right to play their song on their product. It might work today. But I'm not about to bet that this will be the format du jour 10 years from now.
So, what happens when high definition audio formats finally take off? You know the one, 5.1 surround sound, 192khz sampling, 96-bit samples. I'm sure that the record companies will be ready to sell you all new versions of the music you already have. So what happens to all of your shiny CDs that you have? Oh wait, nothing... just like the DRMd AAC files that Apple is selling. They will still work with the iPods that have been sold today, and with the version of iTunes that is out now on machines that are sold now.
Listen, people bought LPs, 8-Tracks, and Cassettes -- the only one of those 3 that I could still play today is a cassette. And only in a few places (my car, for example, can't play them). So, basically, those formats are useless now. Life goes on. People will figure out how to upgrade their music collection or they'll replace it. Either way, nothing has really changed.
And, in the grand scheme of things, we are talking about a .99 cent purchase. Do we really put this much thought into .99 cents these days? I bought a cheeseburger at Wendy's today... 99 cents. It lasted about 5 minutes, and then it was gone. If I'm hungry again, I'll have to buy another. Am I a sucker too?
The major issue is pricing; the 1 TB is about $1300.
Price is a concern, but a minor one.
So, which is it?
First WiFi digital camera? Then what is this supposed to be?
in http://www.pat-rights.com/InternetUserIdentityVeri fication.html, they claim that eBay is an example of an infringing website. eBay has had that system in place since before their patent was applied for. It seems to me like they have just provided everything you need to prove prior art on their page.
I'll vouch for the durability of the iBooks as well -- at least, the older models.
I had one in my backpack along with a heavily padded Dell laptop when it slipped off my shoulder and rolled down a fairly steep hill. I was pretty worried about condition of both laptops, but when I pulled them both out, the iBook (without any padding) had hardly a scratch. The Dell, also didn't have a scratch, but the battery had popped out. The iBook instantly awoke from sleep, and was pretty much exactly the way I had left it.
Not too bad for a laptop with no padding to fair slightly better than the heavily padded laptop.
Well, first off, I'm pretty sure that the G5 could be cooled via only convential fans similar to the P4 and Athlons. But, Apple has pretty much made it their mission to reduce fan noise on their machines.
Second -- actually, we don't know that we'll be able to swap out single core Opterons with dual core Opterons. They're not out yet. The G5 is. If later on it proves to be true, then you can say that you can swap them out.
Third -- the G5 gives you access to one of the better Operating Systems around, MacOS X. That has to give it a few advantage points.
BTW -- I happen to have both a Dell Dimension 8600 and a dual 1.8ghz G5 in my office at work. When the Dell is running, you notice it. It's quieter than the thrown together PC that's also in the office, but still loud enough to notice. On the other hand, the G5 is completely quiet. I never hear the fans in there at all. I can actually see one of the fans moving from the front, but it's moving at such a slow speed that you can't hear it at all. For some of us, that is a feature.
As more people sign on to high-speed access, how long will it be before we start seeing the cable companies (such as Comcast) start dropping their prices to levels which compete directly with dial-up?
Perhaps when the growth rate slows down? Seems like they don't have much to gain at the moment by dropping their prices. Of course, by the time their growth rate slows, they might have killed off all of their dial-up competitors.
Emulating a video game platform is okay, but if there are no legal non-cartrige games available for that platform, there's a problem. The Atari emulator community has managed to not just reverse engineer the platform, but have also reverse engineered development tools for that platform so there are some legal freeware Atari 2600 games in circulation. I don't think there are any freeware Game Boy Advance games in circulation yet.
Actually, there are quite a bit -- check out http://www.gbadev.org , for example. The tools have been available since before the GBA was officially released. There are quite a few really good homebrew games available now.
I've got a Redhat 6.2 machine running 2.2.21... and I doubt if I'll even update it to .24. The only reason it was upgraded to .21 was because I swapped out the 10mbit network card for a 100mbit.
:D
It's been running fine pretty much non-stop for 4 years now. The only time it ever is rebooted is when the power goes out (yeah, I know...)
It's rock solid, and serves as my apache and SSH server to the outside and my FTP, MySQL, NFS, Telnet and AppleTalk server to the inside. To top it off, it's running SETI@Home and it's on a P120 with 32 megs of RAM, with no swap space being used. Not too bad, in my opinion.
Unless I suddenly get a big outgoing bandwidth upgrade, and an increase in activity to go along with it, I don't think I'll ever be upgrading this machine
I was wondering why I hadn't seen anything on the news about this... hell, I'm watching the news right now. I guess I should've figured that since it's slashdot, it's "Old News for Nerds. Stuff that mattered"
Well, not exactly 11 digits -- 10 digits (you can drop the leading 1). Once you get used to it, it's not that bad... a lot of people made a big deal about it when it rolled out, but now I never hear any complaints.
In fact, it looks weird when I'm someplace else that doesn't have 10 digit dialing (what's the area code???)
It's better this way -- you either get everyone to use 10/11 digits, or you divide the existing area-codes up into more area codes, and have everyone re-print business cards, signs, advertisements, etc, etc, etc... that ends up causing more trouble than just adding a few extra digits.
The writeup forgot to mention that both Safari and Keynote are open source.
The HTML rendering portion of Safari is open source. Keynote is not -- it's a commercial product like DVD Studio, Final Cut Pro, MacOS X, and just about everything else Apple does.
So what you do is you get that board, a PowerPC CPU, some RAM, a case, a hard drive, etc, and you have a fully working PowerPC system devoid of an OS. It isn't cheap, but you don't pay the Apple Markup.
As I understand, these are G3 based machines running around the 600-700mhz range. This makes it comparable to either the current iBooks or the original iMacs -- both of which can be had from Apple for less than a $1000.
So, if this board isn't cheap, how much is it? I mean, it has to be cheaper than an $999 iBook, right? Otherwise, what "Apple Markup" are you getting around?