I wouldn't be too alarmed. I'm sure an iOS App will be forthcoming to replace any lost Flash functionality. If not they risk losing the entire block of iOS users when Apple releases its own cloud service.
Not needed for iOS with apps like Zumocast, AudioGalaxy, OrbLive, http://lifehacker.com/5716359/the-best-media-streaming-apps-for-your-iphone an others that stream from your home PC (even over 3G) all your media, not just music, and give you virtually unlimited space on your mobile device (as long as you have a connection).
So where's Apple now? Every big player should launch their service right now. It's way harder for the music industry to fight back then.
With iOS apps like AudioGalaxy and ZumoCast and others that stream all your content (files, music, video) over the web/3G from your own PC, what would be the benefit of this to Apple based devices? Let alone their own iTunes rumored service coming as well. Surely there is already a similar Android service? Is this another "me too" app like Google Buzz?
Exactly, this is little different than the liveCD versions of Linux that run off a USB stick currently. What's the point if you have to still connect all the separate things to it that make up a computer? It's like taking out the hard drive and processor of a PC and saying here's your computer!*
*you just need to connect power, display, input, wifi, etc.
I was with you until #5. Then you made it into a class warfare or fairness argument and that's where I'll disagree. Because it's at that point where people fall into the debt trap by feeling they deserve to have the things the Jones have next door that have more money. It doesn't matter how or when you get money, people with less money should not try to live as those that have more else they get in that trap, then get bitter when things fall apart. It's greed and coveting and it does nothing but hurt you in the long run.
The average savings account in the U.S. contains somewhere on the order $20,000.
Sure, if you take a few with a bunch of millions or hundreds of thousands and average that with those that have $5 or 0. But what does the average show for the real 97% of people?
There were no phone lines or other communication lines going into the compound. I'm wondering if he was tethering his iPhone. AT&T probably gave him away. In all seriousness though, I'm wondering what kind of data access he had and if he was at all computer savvy or if all his data came from sneaker -net.
The problem with the E series, to me, though is while it comes with a guest network (with the same name as the private network with a "-guest") you can't rename the guest network to something different than the private one and you can't disable password protection on it. It's got a great user interface and makes it simple (I've used DD-WRT and Tomato) but there are some options you just don't have. I have the E3000.
Shouldn't the ISP deliver my bits regardless of what they are?
If someone knocks on my door and asks to borrow my telephone, I don't need the phone company's permission.
Letting them borrow your phone is one thing, having them plug in their phone line as well is another. Besides you usually only have one phone line that can be used at once, self limiting
If I type an email on behalf of a friend without a computer, my ISP doesn't get to complain that those weren't "my" bytes.
Again self-limiting and only one person at a time is using. They know they can't block it, thats why they have soft bandwidth caps and TOS that prevent you from sharing your households connection else everyone on the block could share one connection/bill if they weren't heavy users.
I like my dual antenna Cisco E3000 but it makes you have a password on the guest network whereas I'd like to have it open. Would be perfect except for that.
Apple has no qualms about making your computer obsolete so you have to buy new things. The promise of the PC was that you could keep upgrading on and on with inexpensive parts. That's not as true as I would like it to be, but it's not exactly a lie either.
But with Apple, they care almost nothing about backward compatibility and backward portability. This makes all the G4 and G5 devices out there all but useless... before that, the 68XXX based machines. Now, with multiple iProducts out there, they are also abandoning the people who bought their iProducts less than 5 years ago expecting them to spend more money... or to spin it another way, creating more waste in landfills.
Microsoft would LOVE to have the power Apple has to render OSes and hardware obsolete. The requirements for Vista were so high that no one wanted to buy whole new computers just to run it. The same is generally true of Win7 though to a lesser extent. But since Apple controls both the software and the hardware, you're pretty much at their mercy. Craigslist is filled with "great deals" for Macs with G4/G5 processors in them sold by people who already find them useless.
I'm "aware of the problem" but at least now with Intel based Macs, the machines will always be able to run Linux pretty well... hell, even Windows 7 for that matter. I'm guessing Apple is already regretting their decision to go with Intel based architecture.
I fail to see how a company coming out with new tech and innovation ruins or is "abandoning the people who bought their iProducts". Do you expect them to update older, less capable hardware with new software continually? 5 years in the tech industry is a whole generation, get used to it.
Good, I want them to use it if it makes my experience that much better. I still have yet to hear a good case for them not having it and the precision of the location from all the reports I've seen is more generic than most people believe.
My company has over 70,000 XP boxes. They definitely care about money more than updates to Windows. And that is likely far from the biggest company to still run it.
I sorta feel bad for MS. XP was a great OS and it's of course now getting long in the tooth but many companies still use it and will continue to do so. I work for a large multinational telecom and we have no plan to upgrade past XP anytime soon. What does this say about Windows 7 or 8? Once most companies switch over to that, it will likely be even longer before they switch away from that. The life cycle in business is going to get longer and longer on the OS and likely Office suite. Unless there is some major shift in computing for businesses, it could be a whole career of workers or more before Win7 is replaced.
You know it really wouldn't take much from the right place. If the president would just mention it in a one line speech, possibly repeat it in a few of his radio addresses and even tout the cost savings there really wouldn't be much need beyond that. News outlets would have a hay day with it writing numerous stories about the pros and cons and so would bloggers and the scientific community.
TL;DR, have the president say so and just encourage it (March is Metric Month or something) would push it forward. Let the states and communities do the rest. Have/. or some site like Reddit come up with a "Metric Day" to help it catch on.
Why would you [need to] repurchase everything? You do know that BR players can play DVD's as well as upscale them and have tons of streaming and connectivity options?
In fact most people, where their new 42" LCD is at and where they sit, they cant SEE the difference between a bluray and a DVD. Most people sit more than 12 feet away from their nice shiny LCD widescreen. and this is too far for a 42" to see the resolution increase a 720p signal gives you. you have to sit even closer to see 1080p
SO the rich guy that has his 62" above the fireplace and he sits 20 feet away... he cant see the 1080p he paid for. It's why I laugh hard at people that are shopping for 690hz and has to be 1080p! Why are you payng for all that buddy? You wont see it! Your wife wont let you put the TV where it will deliver the best picture.
Then let's look at cost.. At new release, Blurays are 2X or more than the price of a DVD.
Similar to a previous post I made, I don't laugh at these people, I encourage it (if they are not family). They needing the bells and whistles and top tier features just drives down the cost for me when I go to purchase a tv. So by all means, if you have the means, spend, spend, spend, on items I will likely buy in the future at cheaper prices.
What has always irked me is that these same people, who don't care about picture quality, always insist on buying 1080p 240Hz TVs when a 720p 60Hz one would do fine for their needs.
Why in the world would that "irk" you? If anything those type of idiots should make you happy as their purchase just made your future purchase that much cheaper. Without them there is less demand, which leads to higher prices in the macro. And when you're talking about TV's, it has nothing to do with "need".
It really does depend on how close to the TV you are (all outputs assumed to be optimal). Past a certain point you can't tell the difference between 720p and 1080p. Past an even further point, SD looks just as good. It doesn't matter how big your TV is if you are too far away to enjoy it's benefits.
Now if you are in the optimal range for 1080p on a 47" which is around 5-7 ft and you can't tell the difference between DVD and BR, then something is wrong with your setup or with your eyes. , Calculator
When we got rid of the cable she just about went crazy because one of the people she works with would mention an episode of House, Bones, or talk about the next great show that's coming out this fall.
Those are all network shows broadcast free over the air. And available on Hulu. This had nothing to do with getting rid of cable as you can pick up all those stations (usually unless you live very rural) with a normal antenna or watch them online.
EDIT: I see you live in Canada. Surely you get a lot of over the air channels still but Hulu you'd have to likely go through a proxy of some sort.
Simple. If making a good tablet isn't enough to sell a good tablet, that means that the demand for tablets is being driven by Apple rather than a need for tablets.
This clearly calls for what is defined as "good". In this case the market has said the iPad is more "good" than other tablets...so far. Wanting an Apple product may be in fact a "fad" but that doesn't make the whole market a fad.
The reason Apple can ride the bubble is that they created it. Their skillful advertising, combined with the fact that they're a media darling, convinced people that they needed something that no sane person needs. Objectively, a tablet is a laptop without a keyboard or the ability to do a lot of things laptops do, but with a higher price tag. The only reason to own one is that they're fashionable and hip.
And that type of thinking is why MS is failing at it. "The only reason" ?? Just b/c *you* fail to see the need doesn't mean the 15million others that own one do. Sure some are due to trend and hype. Many though are b/c they are simple to use and light form factor and you don't need a huge hardware keyboard.
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Besides, iOS already has numerous streaming home media apps. http://lifehacker.com/5716359/the-best-media-streaming-apps-for-your-iphone
I wouldn't be too alarmed. I'm sure an iOS App will be forthcoming to replace any lost Flash functionality. If not they risk losing the entire block of iOS users when Apple releases its own cloud service.
Not needed for iOS with apps like Zumocast, AudioGalaxy, OrbLive, http://lifehacker.com/5716359/the-best-media-streaming-apps-for-your-iphone an others that stream from your home PC (even over 3G) all your media, not just music, and give you virtually unlimited space on your mobile device (as long as you have a connection).
So where's Apple now? Every big player should launch their service right now. It's way harder for the music industry to fight back then.
With iOS apps like AudioGalaxy and ZumoCast and others that stream all your content (files, music, video) over the web/3G from your own PC, what would be the benefit of this to Apple based devices? Let alone their own iTunes rumored service coming as well. Surely there is already a similar Android service? Is this another "me too" app like Google Buzz?
Exactly, this is little different than the liveCD versions of Linux that run off a USB stick currently. What's the point if you have to still connect all the separate things to it that make up a computer? It's like taking out the hard drive and processor of a PC and saying here's your computer!*
*you just need to connect power, display, input, wifi, etc.
I think everyone should see this at least once: http://vimeo.com/22077752 Shows how proper butchering is done and where our food comes from.
I was with you until #5. Then you made it into a class warfare or fairness argument and that's where I'll disagree. Because it's at that point where people fall into the debt trap by feeling they deserve to have the things the Jones have next door that have more money. It doesn't matter how or when you get money, people with less money should not try to live as those that have more else they get in that trap, then get bitter when things fall apart. It's greed and coveting and it does nothing but hurt you in the long run.
The average savings account in the U.S. contains somewhere on the order $20,000.
Sure, if you take a few with a bunch of millions or hundreds of thousands and average that with those that have $5 or 0. But what does the average show for the real 97% of people?
There were no phone lines or other communication lines going into the compound. I'm wondering if he was tethering his iPhone. AT&T probably gave him away. In all seriousness though, I'm wondering what kind of data access he had and if he was at all computer savvy or if all his data came from sneaker -net.
It's hard to lay the blame on manufacturers when people flock to the newest upgrade.
But people often flock to the latest and greatest because of sophisticated marketing campaigns, operated by these same manufacturers.
Sophisticated? I must be woefully ignorant after my marketing classes or someone is giving them too much credit.
Seems reasonable that you could install OpenDNS [oendns.com] on your routers DNS tables and use that service to block numerous sites very easy.
The problem with the E series, to me, though is while it comes with a guest network (with the same name as the private network with a "-guest") you can't rename the guest network to something different than the private one and you can't disable password protection on it. It's got a great user interface and makes it simple (I've used DD-WRT and Tomato) but there are some options you just don't have. I have the E3000.
Shouldn't the ISP deliver my bits regardless of what they are?
If someone knocks on my door and asks to borrow my telephone, I don't need the phone company's permission.
Letting them borrow your phone is one thing, having them plug in their phone line as well is another. Besides you usually only have one phone line that can be used at once, self limiting
If I type an email on behalf of a friend without a computer, my ISP doesn't get to complain that those weren't "my" bytes.
Again self-limiting and only one person at a time is using. They know they can't block it, thats why they have soft bandwidth caps and TOS that prevent you from sharing your households connection else everyone on the block could share one connection/bill if they weren't heavy users.
I like my dual antenna Cisco E3000 but it makes you have a password on the guest network whereas I'd like to have it open. Would be perfect except for that.
Apple has no qualms about making your computer obsolete so you have to buy new things. The promise of the PC was that you could keep upgrading on and on with inexpensive parts. That's not as true as I would like it to be, but it's not exactly a lie either.
But with Apple, they care almost nothing about backward compatibility and backward portability. This makes all the G4 and G5 devices out there all but useless... before that, the 68XXX based machines. Now, with multiple iProducts out there, they are also abandoning the people who bought their iProducts less than 5 years ago expecting them to spend more money... or to spin it another way, creating more waste in landfills.
Microsoft would LOVE to have the power Apple has to render OSes and hardware obsolete. The requirements for Vista were so high that no one wanted to buy whole new computers just to run it. The same is generally true of Win7 though to a lesser extent. But since Apple controls both the software and the hardware, you're pretty much at their mercy. Craigslist is filled with "great deals" for Macs with G4/G5 processors in them sold by people who already find them useless.
I'm "aware of the problem" but at least now with Intel based Macs, the machines will always be able to run Linux pretty well... hell, even Windows 7 for that matter. I'm guessing Apple is already regretting their decision to go with Intel based architecture.
I fail to see how a company coming out with new tech and innovation ruins or is "abandoning the people who bought their iProducts". Do you expect them to update older, less capable hardware with new software continually? 5 years in the tech industry is a whole generation, get used to it.
Good, I want them to use it if it makes my experience that much better. I still have yet to hear a good case for them not having it and the precision of the location from all the reports I've seen is more generic than most people believe.
My company has over 70,000 XP boxes. They definitely care about money more than updates to Windows. And that is likely far from the biggest company to still run it.
I sorta feel bad for MS. XP was a great OS and it's of course now getting long in the tooth but many companies still use it and will continue to do so. I work for a large multinational telecom and we have no plan to upgrade past XP anytime soon. What does this say about Windows 7 or 8? Once most companies switch over to that, it will likely be even longer before they switch away from that. The life cycle in business is going to get longer and longer on the OS and likely Office suite. Unless there is some major shift in computing for businesses, it could be a whole career of workers or more before Win7 is replaced.
You know it really wouldn't take much from the right place. If the president would just mention it in a one line speech, possibly repeat it in a few of his radio addresses and even tout the cost savings there really wouldn't be much need beyond that. News outlets would have a hay day with it writing numerous stories about the pros and cons and so would bloggers and the scientific community.
/. or some site like Reddit come up with a "Metric Day" to help it catch on.
TL;DR, have the president say so and just encourage it (March is Metric Month or something) would push it forward. Let the states and communities do the rest. Have
I'm not going to repurchase everything.
Why would you [need to] repurchase everything? You do know that BR players can play DVD's as well as upscale them and have tons of streaming and connectivity options?
In fact most people, where their new 42" LCD is at and where they sit, they cant SEE the difference between a bluray and a DVD. Most people sit more than 12 feet away from their nice shiny LCD widescreen. and this is too far for a 42" to see the resolution increase a 720p signal gives you. you have to sit even closer to see 1080p
SO the rich guy that has his 62" above the fireplace and he sits 20 feet away... he cant see the 1080p he paid for. It's why I laugh hard at people that are shopping for 690hz and has to be 1080p! Why are you payng for all that buddy? You wont see it! Your wife wont let you put the TV where it will deliver the best picture.
http://s3.carltonbale.com/resolution_chart.html
Then let's look at cost.. At new release, Blurays are 2X or more than the price of a DVD.
Similar to a previous post I made, I don't laugh at these people, I encourage it (if they are not family). They needing the bells and whistles and top tier features just drives down the cost for me when I go to purchase a tv. So by all means, if you have the means, spend, spend, spend, on items I will likely buy in the future at cheaper prices.
What has always irked me is that these same people, who don't care about picture quality, always insist on buying 1080p 240Hz TVs when a 720p 60Hz one would do fine for their needs.
Why in the world would that "irk" you? If anything those type of idiots should make you happy as their purchase just made your future purchase that much cheaper. Without them there is less demand, which leads to higher prices in the macro. And when you're talking about TV's, it has nothing to do with "need".
It really does depend on how close to the TV you are (all outputs assumed to be optimal). Past a certain point you can't tell the difference between 720p and 1080p. Past an even further point, SD looks just as good. It doesn't matter how big your TV is if you are too far away to enjoy it's benefits.
Now if you are in the optimal range for 1080p on a 47" which is around 5-7 ft and you can't tell the difference between DVD and BR, then something is wrong with your setup or with your eyes. , Calculator
When we got rid of the cable she just about went crazy because one of the people she works with would mention an episode of House, Bones, or talk about the next great show that's coming out this fall.
Those are all network shows broadcast free over the air. And available on Hulu. This had nothing to do with getting rid of cable as you can pick up all those stations (usually unless you live very rural) with a normal antenna or watch them online.
EDIT: I see you live in Canada. Surely you get a lot of over the air channels still but Hulu you'd have to likely go through a proxy of some sort.
Simple. If making a good tablet isn't enough to sell a good tablet, that means that the demand for tablets is being driven by Apple rather than a need for tablets.
This clearly calls for what is defined as "good". In this case the market has said the iPad is more "good" than other tablets...so far. Wanting an Apple product may be in fact a "fad" but that doesn't make the whole market a fad.
The reason Apple can ride the bubble is that they created it. Their skillful advertising, combined with the fact that they're a media darling, convinced people that they needed something that no sane person needs. Objectively, a tablet is a laptop without a keyboard or the ability to do a lot of things laptops do, but with a higher price tag. The only reason to own one is that they're fashionable and hip.
And that type of thinking is why MS is failing at it. "The only reason" ?? Just b/c *you* fail to see the need doesn't mean the 15million others that own one do. Sure some are due to trend and hype. Many though are b/c they are simple to use and light form factor and you don't need a huge hardware keyboard.