I already modded, but you touched on something I feel strongly about. If there is going to be tiered pricing based on bandwidth. Why is there no tiered pricing for rural delivery. Like you said, rural bandwidth might be 50x more expensive. Why do I have to subsidize those living in rural areas who often get more bandwidth than I do (he might be the only guy in the loop whereas I'm sharing with thousands of people served in one loop)? If they roll out tier pricing based on usage. Then they should roll out tiered pricing based on subscriber density.
There are a number of NAS's out there with good file server features. Netgear's new servers sound interesting. Synology also has lots. They come with web server, file streamer. Some even have bittorrent and USB hub for print servers.
It's not ultracheap (~$500-$600 + HDD cost) but have low power usage compare to any full PCs
It just occurs to me that SETI by using telescopes looking for radio data is a dead end because doesn't it assume that the alien will use some form of radio based technology for communication? However, if it's an intelligence we're interested in (ie. one capable of interstellar FTL travel), it probably would not use sub-light tech like radio. Radio might have been a transition tech for a phase of the civilization. So, we're assuming, in SETI, that we're looking into a period of time in that uses that transition tech. Isn't that even more unlikely to succeed than initially thought?
It doesn't really matter whether it won the categories you listed. The focus is on linux as consumer OS instead of embedded OS, where the OS is distinctly recognizable branded component of the product.
All the ones you've listed have embedded OS/firmware. C'mon, the eyeclops? Tire gauge? Why not just add the Harry Potter book to your list and complain that linux did not sweep all categories unless it was embedded there too.
a message that says AT&T doesn't really need Apple despite the iPhone's success Pscht, yeah right... AT&T need Apple way more than Apple need AT&T. Apple's whole business model is built around early adopters, they have shedloads of goodwill from the whole iPhone rebates debacle, and this won't hurt their business one bit. AT&T are the ones who really stand to lose out. Er... perhaps you mean the price drop fiasco? The million people burnt by 200$ drop after two months which they got a $100 store credit which I cannot even use in iTunes? Those $100 are still sitting there because there is effectively nothing I can use it for, even iTunes would have been useless for me because I listen to no American music. Apple has earned no credit with me.
I'm an early adopter, I understand pricing premiums. But no product selling well at it's initial price drops it 33% in first 2 months, it's at least one gen or one year away, with a possible adjustment for X'mas. This move is simply an early adopter burn and I'm keeping away
Basically, I was going to change all machines (3 PCs and 2 laptops) in my home to Apple in the next year (at least the 2 laptops by xmas) because they seemed to keep value and stay off the MS treadmill. With this move I've killed off the plan. They've already got $2000+ from me (or whatever it was they get from ATT) but that's it, I'm not throwing good money after bad.
Where can I find list of supported hardware, separated by distro? Is it comprehensive and up to date? (It's an honest question, I've held off trying linux myself for similar reasons)
Wait, so Apple didn't sell out of iPhones in the first week? I call BS. Apple store was selling as fast as they could swipe credit cards and they only took so long to sell out because they stocked so many. If they only stocked 50-100 like the at&t stores did, they would have sold out in 1-2 hrs like they did. So claiming that price was used to control stock is BS.
iPhone would have sold out as fast at either price.
Indeed, the first few books of the WoT series was great!
But by book 6, it was painfully obvious that Jordan was writing a retirement plan. imho, there should have been 7 books that focused on the main events of Rand and his cycle in the wheel of time (to correspond to the number of spokes in the wheel). The world was rich enough that it could have supported many spin offs that could have supported Jordan's career in perpetuity, but many readers (me included) just gave up on the series because it was just going no where.
Where do you get this statistic? From the AT&T reports that there were 130k activations but apple reports that 250k sold in the first 2 days? Has anyone considered the fact that at&t only stocked their stores with 50-100 phones in 1000 locations and there being only 160 apple stores? I suspect that retail only physically sold ~150k phones (10% had activation problems). The other 100k probably came from people like me who bought it on-line or placed an order thru at&t store. NONE of those people got their phone till AFTER July 1st, but Apple has SOLD it during the first two days. I sincerely doubt that the number of people who used it as iTouch iPods was anywhere near 50%.
(in addition, iirc you couldn't even use it as iTouch iPods until the hack came out a couple of weeks later, so 50% people bought bricks they can't use in the first couple of weeks?)
By all indications, sales is going slower than Apple preferred at the $600 price point. Since they were making a large margin (according isuppli reports) to begin with, they should have priced it lower initially. Will a sellout situation garner them bad press? Perhaps, but looking at the Wii situation, it doesn't hurt sales and reputation and it's good for the bottom line.
Perhaps and maybes and "value" have nothing to do with the breach of good faith. Going into a new market does not mean that they should not continue to honor the behaviour which gained them consumer trust for the over 500k customers that spent ~300M on the iPhone in the past 2+ months.
btw, the irony I was referring to was with happening to loyal customers who "feed" at Apple's trough (I'm not going to be more explicit than that). If you disagree with the aptness of that description, fine...
Agreed, historically Apple products have kept their price points for 1-2 years for their products. There has never been a new product from Apple that got it's price slashed 33%. Nor have they ever dropped price so drastically without announcing a higher end model. Not to mention that buying one comes with a two year AT&T plan. All these things set expectations that the price point would hold much longer than 69 (ironic number of) days.
So, one thing early adopter considered in their purchase is that their purchase would hold value for ~1 year. Hence Apple broke Good Faith when they changed their practice for the iPhone. Whether that is reasonable expectation or not is irrelevant. imho, there should be some compensation for early adopters.
You are just being argumentative. It's also entirely possible that the Iraq War is just a stageplay and no fighting actually goes because I've never been there and see it for myself.
People who buy more music due to p2p is few and far in between. How many people are proven to buy "more" music than they would without p2p. They might have purchased different music without p2p, but how can that they would not have purchased ANY music be proven? This is far harder to prove than people who consume music without paying for it, of which there is plenty of evidence.
A lost sale is a lost sale. Net gain / loss is NOT at question here. Thus there is no issue of anecdotal evidence. My experience alone is sufficient proof of lost sale. Net gain or loss is a different issue. My proposed formula is a reasonable estimate of spending power lost to the music industry. If you can find a formula for estimating the increase of music purchase due to p2p, that would make calculating NET more accurate.
Erm... If you read my parent post, it was definitely evidence that sales is lost because p2p was available (you know, the friend who would have definitely bought music if he couldn't DL it). I know a few of those as well, perhaps you do too. To believe that NO sales is lost from music industry would be putting blinders on.
The question is: how much is lost? I proposed, imho, a better calculator for that loss, because, like the parent points out, it's hard to spend 1.5M when you only make 2-3k. Even credit agencies wouldn't give you that much credit (unless your parents were wealthy)
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I already modded, but you touched on something I feel strongly about. If there is going to be tiered pricing based on bandwidth. Why is there no tiered pricing for rural delivery. Like you said, rural bandwidth might be 50x more expensive. Why do I have to subsidize those living in rural areas who often get more bandwidth than I do (he might be the only guy in the loop whereas I'm sharing with thousands of people served in one loop)? If they roll out tier pricing based on usage. Then they should roll out tiered pricing based on subscriber density.
Am I the only one who read the headline and hoped that there was more new eps of Lost despite the writer strike?
There are a number of NAS's out there with good file server features. Netgear's new servers sound interesting. Synology also has lots. They come with web server, file streamer. Some even have bittorrent and USB hub for print servers.
It's not ultracheap (~$500-$600 + HDD cost) but have low power usage compare to any full PCs
It just occurs to me that SETI by using telescopes looking for radio data is a dead end because doesn't it assume that the alien will use some form of radio based technology for communication? However, if it's an intelligence we're interested in (ie. one capable of interstellar FTL travel), it probably would not use sub-light tech like radio. Radio might have been a transition tech for a phase of the civilization. So, we're assuming, in SETI, that we're looking into a period of time in that uses that transition tech. Isn't that even more unlikely to succeed than initially thought?
It does not have a built in SDHC reader
It does not have built in SSD
Comes with linux and open office
It's NEW not USED
I contend that Harry Potter is also a handheld device. I distinctly recall holding it in my hands to read and turned the pages by hand.
Linux won all categories where devices ran consumer OS's. Firmware/embedded is not the same.
It doesn't really matter whether it won the categories you listed. The focus is on linux as consumer OS instead of embedded OS, where the OS is distinctly recognizable branded component of the product.
All the ones you've listed have embedded OS/firmware. C'mon, the eyeclops? Tire gauge? Why not just add the Harry Potter book to your list and complain that linux did not sweep all categories unless it was embedded there too.
Pscht, yeah right... AT&T need Apple way more than Apple need AT&T. Apple's whole business model is built around early adopters, they have shedloads of goodwill from the whole iPhone rebates debacle, and this won't hurt their business one bit. AT&T are the ones who really stand to lose out. Er... perhaps you mean the price drop fiasco? The million people burnt by 200$ drop after two months which they got a $100 store credit which I cannot even use in iTunes? Those $100 are still sitting there because there is effectively nothing I can use it for, even iTunes would have been useless for me because I listen to no American music. Apple has earned no credit with me.
I'm an early adopter, I understand pricing premiums. But no product selling well at it's initial price drops it 33% in first 2 months, it's at least one gen or one year away, with a possible adjustment for X'mas. This move is simply an early adopter burn and I'm keeping away
Basically, I was going to change all machines (3 PCs and 2 laptops) in my home to Apple in the next year (at least the 2 laptops by xmas) because they seemed to keep value and stay off the MS treadmill. With this move I've killed off the plan. They've already got $2000+ from me (or whatever it was they get from ATT) but that's it, I'm not throwing good money after bad.
That's what I thought the title said initially when I was scanning thru
perhaps it's more like 2cmx2cmx2cm = 8 cubic CM? perfect mouth size ice cubes :)
Reading all these comments makes me want to eat some Doritos
Where can I find list of supported hardware, separated by distro? Is it comprehensive and up to date?
(It's an honest question, I've held off trying linux myself for similar reasons)
So, committing a crime is a part of the recruitment process? Cool!
Reminds me of the A-Team
But is the $319 player upgradeable to Bluray spec updates? No
Does it support HDMI 1.3 for 1080p output? No.
atm, PS3 is pretty much the cheapest player that does.
Wait, so Apple didn't sell out of iPhones in the first week? I call BS. Apple store was selling as fast as they could swipe credit cards and they only took so long to sell out because they stocked so many. If they only stocked 50-100 like the at&t stores did, they would have sold out in 1-2 hrs like they did. So claiming that price was used to control stock is BS.
iPhone would have sold out as fast at either price.
that UK pays ~.7-.8 pounds what US pays in dollars? I mean isn't an itunes track in UK 79pence (~$1.60)
there, fixed that for ya.
Indeed, the first few books of the WoT series was great!
But by book 6, it was painfully obvious that Jordan was writing a retirement plan.
imho, there should have been 7 books that focused on the main events of Rand and his cycle in the wheel of time (to correspond to the number of spokes in the wheel). The world was rich enough that it could have supported many spin offs that could have supported Jordan's career in perpetuity, but many readers (me included) just gave up on the series because it was just going no where.
Despite that, my condolences to the Jordan family
Where do you get this statistic? From the AT&T reports that there were 130k activations but apple reports that 250k sold in the first 2 days? Has anyone considered the fact that at&t only stocked their stores with 50-100 phones in 1000 locations and there being only 160 apple stores? I suspect that retail only physically sold ~150k phones (10% had activation problems). The other 100k probably came from people like me who bought it on-line or placed an order thru at&t store. NONE of those people got their phone till AFTER July 1st, but Apple has SOLD it during the first two days. I sincerely doubt that the number of people who used it as iTouch iPods was anywhere near 50%.
(in addition, iirc you couldn't even use it as iTouch iPods until the hack came out a couple of weeks later, so 50% people bought bricks they can't use in the first couple of weeks?)
Well, reports mention SJ wants 1M iphones sold by end of Sept. Further reports indicate the July pace shows it might fall short.
By all indications, sales is going slower than Apple preferred at the $600 price point. Since they were making a large margin (according isuppli reports) to begin with, they should have priced it lower initially. Will a sellout situation garner them bad press? Perhaps, but looking at the Wii situation, it doesn't hurt sales and reputation and it's good for the bottom line.
Perhaps and maybes and "value" have nothing to do with the breach of good faith. Going into a new market does not mean that they should not continue to honor the behaviour which gained them consumer trust for the over 500k customers that spent ~300M on the iPhone in the past 2+ months.
btw, the irony I was referring to was with happening to loyal customers who "feed" at Apple's trough (I'm not going to be more explicit than that). If you disagree with the aptness of that description, fine...
Agreed, historically Apple products have kept their price points for 1-2 years for their products. There has never been a new product from Apple that got it's price slashed 33%. Nor have they ever dropped price so drastically without announcing a higher end model. Not to mention that buying one comes with a two year AT&T plan. All these things set expectations that the price point would hold much longer than 69 (ironic number of) days.
So, one thing early adopter considered in their purchase is that their purchase would hold value for ~1 year. Hence Apple broke Good Faith when they changed their practice for the iPhone. Whether that is reasonable expectation or not is irrelevant. imho, there should be some compensation for early adopters.
Before you ask, yes, I'm one of them.
You are just being argumentative. It's also entirely possible that the Iraq War is just a stageplay and no fighting actually goes because I've never been there and see it for myself.
People who buy more music due to p2p is few and far in between. How many people are proven to buy "more" music than they would without p2p. They might have purchased different music without p2p, but how can that they would not have purchased ANY music be proven? This is far harder to prove than people who consume music without paying for it, of which there is plenty of evidence.
A lost sale is a lost sale. Net gain / loss is NOT at question here. Thus there is no issue of anecdotal evidence. My experience alone is sufficient proof of lost sale. Net gain or loss is a different issue. My proposed formula is a reasonable estimate of spending power lost to the music industry. If you can find a formula for estimating the increase of music purchase due to p2p, that would make calculating NET more accurate.
Erm... If you read my parent post, it was definitely evidence that sales is lost because p2p was available (you know, the friend who would have definitely bought music if he couldn't DL it). I know a few of those as well, perhaps you do too. To believe that NO sales is lost from music industry would be putting blinders on.
The question is: how much is lost? I proposed, imho, a better calculator for that loss, because, like the parent points out, it's hard to spend 1.5M when you only make 2-3k. Even credit agencies wouldn't give you that much credit (unless your parents were wealthy)