No he isn't talking about buggy software, he's actually talking about ANY more software. He's saying that in order for the phone to function as well as it does it cannot have ANY other software competing for time on the processor when the included software needs a piece of it. No, he's talking about buggy software.
FTFA: "These are devices that need to work, and you can't do that if you load any software on them," he said. "That doesn't mean there's not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn't mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment."
I'm guessing that software is going to be sold through iTMS and be checked out by Apple before being sold. Kinda like how the iPod is right now. Yeah, Electronic Arts makes iPod games, but you better damn believe that Apple makes sure they work and makes sure that they work well.
The whole thing about Apple is that for better or worse now, they are big on vertical integration. They successfully vertically integrated the MP3 player market before anyone else, and they are looking to do the same with smartphones. iTunes, iTMS, and iPod work so well due to the vertical integration and the fact that Apple has control over the whole experience. This not only makes it easier to use than a non-integrated setup, but also increases consumer lock-in. They seem to be trying to do the same with phones, and very well may succeed. If they do, it will be great for them.
Look, my comment wasn't a troll. It was a really funny joke that apparently flew way the fuck over a bunch of mods heads.
I saw the story on the front page, clicked it and got the "Nothing for you to see here thing". So, I reloaded and posted this as a joke knowing full well that it would likely be an FP.
Also, it is on topic, because what was described in the headline is basically what happened to me. These people tried to download a movie and got the MPAA's "Nothing for you to see here, prepare to be pwnt."
$20.00/month for unlimited data and SMS with a phone plan or $29.99 without. You mean a plan like Cingular's "SmartPhone Connect Unlimited w/Xpress Mail" plan? A plan which is intended for smartphones such as the iPhone, includes unlimited data transfer, and costs $19.95 per month. Oh yeah, it includes 1500 text messages, and can be added on to any plan including the family share plans(though I'm pretty sure you have to do it for each phone).
I've heard stories of Cingular's bad service, but I go to a store in person and don't take any shit from them. I even had them unlock my old AT&T phone to work with a new cingular contract, though it did take a call to some sort of supervisor person.
Building DC-9 Lookalikes, but with rocket engines in order to transport Thetans to Teegeeack in clusters (packaged by the thousands together), and thereafter drop them in two volcanic areas, one of which is Las Palmas, and the other Hawaii.
(The preceding joke is based upon the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, which make up a core belief in Scientology (OT III, Incident 2))
How technically do you get the data from the cellphone to your laptop? Do you have a PCMCIA card that you have to move your SIM card to, or can you do it over a USB/Bluetooth link? What's Cingular's policy on doing so? It looks like this plan is intended only for browsing on the phone itself... if "caught" using it for a laptop, would they bill you for past data? I think you do it over bluetooth. I know if I link my phone to my computer by bluetooth, there is an option to use it as a modem in OS X.
Usually, they will just make you sign a new 2 year contract. So, if you have 1 year remaining on your contract, you'll have a 2 year contract when you buy the iPhone. You might have to pay back some of the discount you got on the Razr, but I'm not sure about that. Cell phone companies will generally do anything to make you buy in to a new contract.
Are you thinking of resistors? I use thin-film SMT resistors all the time...
Nope, capacitors. I use Mills or Dayton non-inductive resistors. For capacitors I generally use Dayton Film/Foils. They're a metallized polypropylene film, and sound great. Kinda pricey compared to some others, but for a decent film/foil cap they are about as cheap as you can go. Some people like audiocap thetas a lot, but I can't really tell much of a difference and they are outrageously expensive.
Which part of the crossover are we talking about?
I use them all throughout.
Which design do you use?
I use designs from Jon Marsh at htguide.com. He makes these kinda funky Cauer-elliptical crossovers and has been designing crossovers for like 30 years. I can't claim to understand his designs really (they're almost totally different from anything else I've seen) but they sure do work well. Check out the Modula MT or Natalie P for some really clever design work, or the Modula MTM to see his standard c-e filters.
Do you have inductors in there?
Oh yeah. 14 ga perfect layer or North Creek air core, but North Creek recently stopped doing much as far as DIY sales.
Quite a few performance issues when using electrolytic capacitors are due to an inappropriate choice of inductors, IMHO.
Hey, if they work for you, great.
Also, I've got a friend who does psycho-acoustics research, and he did an interesting series of experiments a couple of years ago that indicated that systems that performed technically very well (almost perfect filter characteristics, no harmonic errors) actually were rated worse than a system that had all sorts of junk spewing out of it, when the audiophiles participating weren't told which system they were listening to...
I'd believe it. Many people prefer a BBC dip, or are used to music sounding a certain way because of their system, and if you play the same track back on a system that is more neutral, it sounds weird to them. What would be interesting to see is if the audiophiles on whom he did the experiment all thought the reference system he set up sounded strange to them in the same way. I would expect that they would judge the reference system compared to their own and all have different opinions with the people with similar systems having more similar opinions.
I do a lot of DIY speaker building and there definitely is a difference between Film/Foil caps and electrolytics. A speaker crossover made with Electrolytic caps sounds like crap compared to one made with even the cheapest of film/foil caps.
My Sony (I know, teh evil) KD-34XBR960 34 inch CRT weighs right at 200 pounds. It came to my house in a tractor-trailer style truck and 3 big trucker guys struggled to carry it in my house even though there were no stairs for them to climb. It's heavy and big, but I've never seen a better picture on a TV set.
I would say that most likely an iPod phone will be released under the iPod brand rather than creating a new iXXX brand for it. Say, maybe an "iPod cell" or "iPod phone"
>(The original iPod was $400 back in 2001. The Nomad Jukebox, which also had a hard drive, sold for about $250. Ever heard of it? Me neither. There were dozens of flash-based MP3 players, all capping at $250. Some of the popular models were in the $160 range.)
The Nomad Jukebox wasn't as portable as an iPod (I had a CD player that was smaller than the Nomad), had vastly inferior software, and the sound quality was pretty poor compared to an iPod. Also, it ran on AA batteries which get kind of expensive after a while. Syncing was also done over USB 1.1 only, no IEEE 1394, so filling up that whopping 6 GB was kinda slow.
The Nomad Jukebox was nothing like the original iPod. They were both HD based MP3 players, but the iPod did a much better job of it, and offered a really nice portable hard drive as well. The iPod and Jukebox actually held a substantial amount of music (4 and 6 GB respectively) so you can't compare them to the flash based players of the time (they topped out at around 256 MB IIRC).
Etymotic Researcy (www.etymotic.com) has a number of different ear plugs and noise attenuating headphones which are much nicer than the active noise canceling headphones, imo. The earplugs are very comfortable, and custom molds can be made.
The respondents were not even able to see the Microsoft player, just a picture of it. And who knows what the description said.
Very good point. At this point the Zune's specifications have been restated and mis-stated so many times that I have no idea what is actually going to be released on the 14th. Some 802.11 support, maybe some video support in a future upgrade. Details about the Zune are sketchy to say the least.
There are utilities to underclock and undervolt MBPs. I don't know if there is a Core 2 Duo one available yet, but http://www.coolbook.se/CoolBook.html has one.
That's not how Apple rolls. Full installers have been included on every OS X (and Systems 6.0.7-9.5) installer disk that I have seen. That includes all drivers for all hardware capable of running the OS. That said, there will almost definitely be an EULA restriction on use of the OS.
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FTFA: "These are devices that need to work, and you can't do that if you load any software on them," he said. "That doesn't mean there's not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn't mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment."
I'm guessing that software is going to be sold through iTMS and be checked out by Apple before being sold. Kinda like how the iPod is right now. Yeah, Electronic Arts makes iPod games, but you better damn believe that Apple makes sure they work and makes sure that they work well.
The whole thing about Apple is that for better or worse now, they are big on vertical integration. They successfully vertically integrated the MP3 player market before anyone else, and they are looking to do the same with smartphones. iTunes, iTMS, and iPod work so well due to the vertical integration and the fact that Apple has control over the whole experience. This not only makes it easier to use than a non-integrated setup, but also increases consumer lock-in. They seem to be trying to do the same with phones, and very well may succeed. If they do, it will be great for them.
Look, my comment wasn't a troll. It was a really funny joke that apparently flew way the fuck over a bunch of mods heads.
I saw the story on the front page, clicked it and got the "Nothing for you to see here thing". So, I reloaded and posted this as a joke knowing full well that it would likely be an FP.
Also, it is on topic, because what was described in the headline is basically what happened to me. These people tried to download a movie and got the MPAA's "Nothing for you to see here, prepare to be pwnt."
I guess that Slashdot has been caught uploading fake headlines as well.
I've heard stories of Cingular's bad service, but I go to a store in person and don't take any shit from them. I even had them unlock my old AT&T phone to work with a new cingular contract, though it did take a call to some sort of supervisor person.
Building DC-9 Lookalikes, but with rocket engines in order to transport Thetans to Teegeeack in clusters (packaged by the thousands together), and thereafter drop them in two volcanic areas, one of which is Las Palmas, and the other Hawaii.
(The preceding joke is based upon the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, which make up a core belief in Scientology (OT III, Incident 2))
I've seen a presentation like this before.
People were rapt.
And they were actually literally leaning forward on the edge of their seat.
But then this chick threw a hammer up on the stage and got escorted out by security.
Here's a video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=135041812
Usually, they will just make you sign a new 2 year contract. So, if you have 1 year remaining on your contract, you'll have a 2 year contract when you buy the iPhone. You might have to pay back some of the discount you got on the Razr, but I'm not sure about that. Cell phone companies will generally do anything to make you buy in to a new contract.
Are you thinking of resistors? I use thin-film SMT resistors all the time...
Nope, capacitors. I use Mills or Dayton non-inductive resistors. For capacitors I generally use Dayton Film/Foils. They're a metallized polypropylene film, and sound great. Kinda pricey compared to some others, but for a decent film/foil cap they are about as cheap as you can go. Some people like audiocap thetas a lot, but I can't really tell much of a difference and they are outrageously expensive.Which part of the crossover are we talking about?
I use them all throughout.Which design do you use?
I use designs from Jon Marsh at htguide.com. He makes these kinda funky Cauer-elliptical crossovers and has been designing crossovers for like 30 years. I can't claim to understand his designs really (they're almost totally different from anything else I've seen) but they sure do work well. Check out the Modula MT or Natalie P for some really clever design work, or the Modula MTM to see his standard c-e filters.Do you have inductors in there?
Oh yeah. 14 ga perfect layer or North Creek air core, but North Creek recently stopped doing much as far as DIY sales.Quite a few performance issues when using electrolytic capacitors are due to an inappropriate choice of inductors, IMHO.
Hey, if they work for you, great.Also, I've got a friend who does psycho-acoustics research, and he did an interesting series of experiments a couple of years ago that indicated that systems that performed technically very well (almost perfect filter characteristics, no harmonic errors) actually were rated worse than a system that had all sorts of junk spewing out of it, when the audiophiles participating weren't told which system they were listening to...
I'd believe it. Many people prefer a BBC dip, or are used to music sounding a certain way because of their system, and if you play the same track back on a system that is more neutral, it sounds weird to them. What would be interesting to see is if the audiophiles on whom he did the experiment all thought the reference system he set up sounded strange to them in the same way. I would expect that they would judge the reference system compared to their own and all have different opinions with the people with similar systems having more similar opinions.Mod parent up, informative.
I do a lot of DIY speaker building and there definitely is a difference between Film/Foil caps and electrolytics. A speaker crossover made with Electrolytic caps sounds like crap compared to one made with even the cheapest of film/foil caps.
For an $80 tip, it just might.
Because a trillion rubles is roughly 10 bucks.
Or 37.9 billion U.S. dollars.
But yeah, that's close enough for government work.
My Sony (I know, teh evil) KD-34XBR960 34 inch CRT weighs right at 200 pounds. It came to my house in a tractor-trailer style truck and 3 big trucker guys struggled to carry it in my house even though there were no stairs for them to climb. It's heavy and big, but I've never seen a better picture on a TV set.
That's it. I'm sick and tired of these motherfucking jokes about this motherfucking movie.
I would say that most likely an iPod phone will be released under the iPod brand rather than creating a new iXXX brand for it. Say, maybe an "iPod cell" or "iPod phone"
Think again smelly D & D fanboy- real men dress up in armor and weapons and play real life role playing games. :P
>(The original iPod was $400 back in 2001. The Nomad Jukebox, which also had a hard drive, sold for about $250. Ever heard of it? Me neither. There were dozens of flash-based MP3 players, all capping at $250. Some of the popular models were in the $160 range.)
The Nomad Jukebox wasn't as portable as an iPod (I had a CD player that was smaller than the Nomad), had vastly inferior software, and the sound quality was pretty poor compared to an iPod. Also, it ran on AA batteries which get kind of expensive after a while. Syncing was also done over USB 1.1 only, no IEEE 1394, so filling up that whopping 6 GB was kinda slow.
The Nomad Jukebox was nothing like the original iPod. They were both HD based MP3 players, but the iPod did a much better job of it, and offered a really nice portable hard drive as well. The iPod and Jukebox actually held a substantial amount of music (4 and 6 GB respectively) so you can't compare them to the flash based players of the time (they topped out at around 256 MB IIRC).
Etymotic Researcy (www.etymotic.com) has a number of different ear plugs and noise attenuating headphones which are much nicer than the active noise canceling headphones, imo. The earplugs are very comfortable, and custom molds can be made.
Is this guy like the Dvorak of video games or something?
No, he's the fucking Nolan Bushnell of videogames.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell
I'd say he has a little bit more credibility about videogame-related matters than you do.
The respondents were not even able to see the Microsoft player, just a picture of it. And who knows what the description said.
Very good point. At this point the Zune's specifications have been restated and mis-stated so many times that I have no idea what is actually going to be released on the 14th. Some 802.11 support, maybe some video support in a future upgrade. Details about the Zune are sketchy to say the least.
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Where do you think iPods come from?
There are utilities to underclock and undervolt MBPs. I don't know if there is a Core 2 Duo one available yet, but http://www.coolbook.se/CoolBook.html has one.
DACs and ADCs and output stages on most soundcards are pretty awful. I would think that using a loopback of a digital audio out would be much better.
That's not how Apple rolls. Full installers have been included on every OS X (and Systems 6.0.7-9.5) installer disk that I have seen. That includes all drivers for all hardware capable of running the OS. That said, there will almost definitely be an EULA restriction on use of the OS.