Motorola had something like $100M worth of "StarMax PowerPC Computers" built and ready to go when Apple did that.
The funny thing is that all of the StarMaxes around Motorola are leased. Why would any company lease a product that they built themselves. That's like installing a soda machine in your house and thinking "Man, the more soda I drink, the more money I make."
I don't think Motorola is too happy about them using PowerPC.
They're not, that's most of the reason they are switching to NT machines and getting rid of all the Macs.
I don't think anyone would want to supply anything to Apple after getting backstabbed like that.
Well, just because you don't like what somebody does doesn't mean you stop making a bunch of money off of them.
Actually, there was a rumor back before the iBook came out that Apple was going to license the technology from the guy who created the hand crankable flashlight and/or radio and would be releasing a crankable laptop. There was also talk of having the "crank station" separate so that there would be one "crank station" in a classroom and the students could recharge their laptops when necessary.
I wonder what happened to this idea. Maybe everyone's favorite rumormonger, Ryan, can help us out here.
And besides, now that I can listen to bands before I buy, I actually buy more CD's. I'm sure I'm not the only one who does this.
And I go to their concerts and buy their subsequent CDs as well. I would assume any band would rather have me pirate one album, but go to 2 concerts (at outrageous ticket prices these days) and buy the next 3 CDs as well. Don't forget I'm not going alone to the concert so that's at least one other ticket sale for each show and possibly another fan who will start buying their shit as well. They may have lost the sale on the first CD (or maybe not if I liked it enough to go buy it), but I'm gonna make it up to them in the long run. Damn, this Napster thing is like a pyramid scheme run by the labels!
Maybe we should all forget Napster and go back to Hotline. If only we didn't have to sign up for AllAdvantage to get access to Hotline sites...
And there are better machines out there to run Linux on.
Did it ever occur to you that there are other OSes in the world and you are free to use whichever one you wish. Some people choose to run Mac OS and Apple hardware because it is the best solution for their needs, not yours.
Don't be so damn close-minded, you're giving the other linux guys a bad name.
As for soda; it's the restaurants (and movie theaters) that have the gigantic profit margin there.
I have a friend that owns a cafe that serves Coca-Cola fountain products. He says that his cost for a 16oz soda, including the paper cup that says Coke, is less than 16.
I also hate restaurants (usually smaller local places not huge franchises) that say "Free Refills on Large Drinks Only." WTF?
Bringing it back around to CDs, do bands like Metallica, BackDoor Boys, Britney, etc. really need to earn hundreds of millions of dollars? How rich is rich enough? There is a point where you can pretty much afford anything you want. Metallica owns their own jet for Christ's sake. Who do they think they are? Steve Jobs?
People who use the Google search engine don't have to put up with pr0n spamming the index because Google counts links to the pages.
Then you're only getting results of the most popular pages. I'm sure there are sites out there that are the best site in their category that aren't very popular. Maybe they are new or just not discovered yet, but that doesn't mean they aren't the best site for what I'm searching on. Geeks should know, popular != best.
Here are Google results for florist and flowers.
I appreciate the effort, but the Gennifer Flowers thing was a hypothetical example.
It is a scam, but the only people who will fall for it are people who deserve to be bled of their excess cash anyway.
Unfortunately, it isn't a matter of "falling for it," it is a matter of protecting and securing your name in cyberspace. An extra $70 every two years to make sure my competitor doesn't register team1tickets.shop is worth it to me.
I once had a customer who couldn't get scottsdaleproperty.com so he wanted to get scottsdale-property.com. I said "Great, I'm sure your competitor will appreciate the extra traffic when your visitors forget the hyphen!"
In order for.xxx or.sex (which I agree with, BTW) to work, all current adult sites would have to be offered their existing.com names in the new TLD. This would have to replace their.com names and those could then be deleted and the ones that aren't specifically "porn names" could then be put back into the pool.
There would then have to be some law against using a.com address for adult material. (I'm sure that won't fly!) The law would also have to prohibit domain pointing or meta-refreshing to a.sex or.xxx domain. (Once again, not gonna fly.)
IF all this were to fly, the adult sites would still find loopholes so that they could get users to their.xxx or.sex via a.org or.com TLD.
One REALLY cool "side effect" of this could be that search engines could be configured NOT to return.xxx or.sex sites when searching. This would allow for more accurate searches. Who isn't tired of getting stuff like "GENNIFER FLOWERS NAKED!!!!!!!!!" when trying to find a place to order flowers online?
I'm not for censorship, but I really hate how every link on the web only has 6 degrees of separaion from a porn site. When I want porn, I'll go get it (I'm no prude), I just don't like it being pushed at me all day long. (I've gotta get some work done sometime!)
I personally know of a company preparing to do Quicktime streaming on Sun Solaris boxes. They're using a beta of QT for Solaris. I don't know whether or not it was written by Apple of if it just a port of Apple's open source Streaming Server done by a third party.
If they can get a Unix server to stream the video and OS X is based on Unix, then certainly a Unix player can't be too far behind. I'g guessing a Linux version wouldn't be much further behind that.
Thus if I was JoeBusiness-dot-com and FredBusiness-dot-com linked to me, then I would put up a page that says "FredBusiness-dot-com sells substandard product/whatever.
I think you would then probably be interested to the wonderful world of slander litigation if you didn't have any proof to back up your claim.
Did anybody else notice the irony in this quote from the article? Links to competitors' Web pages have proven to be a service that boosts the traffic to smaller Internet companies, but the links often lead directly to a page deep within the rival site.
If TicketMaster makes their money off of banner ads, what the hell is the $19.50/ticket "Service Charge" for?
Then, after they've effictively doubled the price of the ticket by adding the service charge they ask me if I want to $13/year to subscribe to their magazine that will tell me what concerts are coming up (or more likely what concerts I just missed because the magazine came late).
People can put on shows without ticket master... It's just that they choose to use them
Not [exactly] true. Venues have contracts in place that binds them to use certain providers (usually TicketMaster) and they aren't allowed to choose different providers for different events.
So, Yes you can put on a show without TicketMaster, you just can't do it at most venues. Unfortunately this means an event has to be held at a venue that is not optimum (whether it be less capacity or whatever).
Pearl Jam tried to tour several years ago without using TicketMaster. They ended up playing places half the size the should have (why they didn't add extra nights I don't know.) and IIRC they ended up cancelling the tour halfway through.
Checking the referer is the best way. I also run a ticket website, www.team1tickets.com, and I check my referer logs often. I have caught Ebay people selling tickets and hotlinking to my seating charts. Doesn't bother me except they were using my bandwidth and not crediting my site. I simply replaced the picture with one stating that we had better prices and the phone number to call to get them!
I've even had some Shmoe link to my "Get Netscape Now!" button. In that case he was too lazy to copy the image to his own server (or at least hotlink to Netscape!) Well because this site owner was really lazy he didn't bother using Height & Width attributes for the image. This allowed me to create a banner ad that now appears on his site much larger than the original button did! If someone's going to steal my bandwidth I'm going to get some free advertising out of it!
Pain in the ass, yes. But it must be done to protect my own site. I certainly don't mind someone linking to my site, hell it even helps raise your score on search engines! What I do mind is that they link directly to my images without giving any credit.
I have since changed the.htaccess file to disallow hotlinking from ebay sites.
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Besides, he could easily come up with some other product using cases such as: iMailbox, iLightBrite, iToasterOven (gonna have to test the heat tolerance of the plastic), iBreadBox...
Ought to be able to sell 3 or 4 of 'em before getting slappend silly by Apple's lawyers.
Even scarier would be to rig up a PC inside the old case and scare the shit out of one of us Mac users.
My question is can I swap out the hard drive? I asked one of the reps at COMDEX and he said it wasn't possible. He probably also wasn't sure what a hard drive was.
Since it uses a standard HD, I'm assuming that all I would need to do was find out how it is formatted and any necessary drivers and then I could drop in one of those new IBM 75 Gigers.
Is the OS on the drive or is it embedded? If it is on the drive, could I get away with imaging the included drive onto the new one?
I would aslo like to be able to connect it to my computer so I could capture the video. I've heard a rumor that there is an included, but not active FireWire (IEEE 1394) port.
For me, the real value of going to college was not in the education itself but in the life experiences I had. While in college one experiences many things that I feel are key to one's development. Meeting new people, moving away from home, learning to make important decisions on your own are all things one experiences during college that are important. As stupid as it may sound I also believe it is very important to do other "not so intelligent" things such as experimenting with alcohol/drugs, experiencing different sexual partners, and generally being around a very diverse group of people.
College is certainly not all about education, for some it is hardly about education. For me the education and the resulting piece of paper (which resides in an unopeneed envelope under my stairs with a bunch of other junk) I received in college was a waste. Almost everything in my curriculum, Industrial Technology, was review for me. I already had a lot of experience and before I graduated I had a great job, was making more money than any of my teachers and was generally dissatisfied with the education I paid for.
But the experiences and lessons I learned while in college I wouldn't trade for anything.
I guess my main point is that although you may get an education in your subject matter (the level of quality is yet to be determined), you won't receive much of an education in life.
Are you saying that using this technology to try and cure blindness/improve sight is a waste? Try telling that to a blind person.
Don't get me wrong, I think it would be great for "cars that automatically avoid accidents, robots that navigate through the world like normal people..." too, but I think the concept of restoring sight is much more important (especially to those who aren't lucky enough to be able to see).
Maybe they could get it to interface with the human nervous system and at least supply limited vision to the unsighted. I remember reading an article in Wired a month or so ago about a guy who was putting an implant into his arm that was going to both send and receive impulses to/from the nervous system. He was going to try and record different emotions to a computer and then attempt to play them back to see if it gave him the same feeling.
I'm sure all of this is some time off, but I think it'll be very exciting to see where something like this goes. The fact that it is so cheap is great too. Although, I'm sure once the insurance companies and doctors get a hold of it we'll be paying $20,000 for a $6 implant!
I remember using a Kaypro that was "luggable" with a TWO 5 1/4" floppies built in (It was cutting edge!) and s screen that couldn't have been more than 5" diagonal, green on black. It had a grey/black metal case.
I remember seeing a portable MP3 player with a base station at COMDEX. It looked great because the base station could hold a bunch of tunes (as well as encode) and could quickly transfer a portion to the portable player.
Now if someone really wants to make a cool product, make a portable player with multiple "docks." One dock for my computer, one for my home stereo, one for my car, one for my cube, etc.
I think it would be awesome to just carry my entire CD library as MP3 anywhere and just plug it in, most importantly in my car. Right now the biggest CD player for a car is 50 made by Pioneer, I love it because it's huge, but quality-wise it is a big piece of shit.
Also, I should definitely support Airport (or other 802.11) wireless networking so I could up/download to the player in the car form my machine in my room.
I'm interested in hearing Jakob's general thoughts about Mac OS X and the Aqua interface. I agree with Tog that there is a decline in usability from the current Mac OS interface and am worried the Aqua will alienate users old and new.
Jakob mentions that sometimes things are implemented the wrong way. (Web navigation should be on the right near the scroll bar to minimize cursor movement) but because it has been done that way for so long, switching to the proper way decreases usability. (Right side web navigation is a little awkward because we've all been trained to look to the left.) Do you think that some of the radical changes in Aqua will cause a usability decline even if the change is to do something in the "scientifically" correct way?
Also, with browsers refusing to implement standards properly do you endorse the use of tables to create page layout even though the specs say we should use CSS-P? I want to create pages to spec, but because of lousy browsers I'm forced to use tables if I want the output to be predictable across many browsers. (I don't want to have to write multiple versions and use browser detection.)
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Interesting. I wonder what OS gates uses in that techno-palace of his.
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The funny thing is that all of the StarMaxes around Motorola are leased. Why would any company lease a product that they built themselves. That's like installing a soda machine in your house and thinking "Man, the more soda I drink, the more money I make."
I don't think Motorola is too happy about them using PowerPC.
They're not, that's most of the reason they are switching to NT machines and getting rid of all the Macs.
I don't think anyone would want to supply anything to Apple after getting backstabbed like that.
Well, just because you don't like what somebody does doesn't mean you stop making a bunch of money off of them.
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I wonder what happened to this idea. Maybe everyone's favorite rumormonger, Ryan, can help us out here.
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And I go to their concerts and buy their subsequent CDs as well. I would assume any band would rather have me pirate one album, but go to 2 concerts (at outrageous ticket prices these days) and buy the next 3 CDs as well. Don't forget I'm not going alone to the concert so that's at least one other ticket sale for each show and possibly another fan who will start buying their shit as well. They may have lost the sale on the first CD (or maybe not if I liked it enough to go buy it), but I'm gonna make it up to them in the long run. Damn, this Napster thing is like a pyramid scheme run by the labels!
Maybe we should all forget Napster and go back to Hotline. If only we didn't have to sign up for AllAdvantage to get access to Hotline sites...
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Did it ever occur to you that there are other OSes in the world and you are free to use whichever one you wish. Some people choose to run Mac OS and Apple hardware because it is the best solution for their needs, not yours.
Don't be so damn close-minded, you're giving the other linux guys a bad name.
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You're either lying or using really crappy quality MP3s, because I can't fit them all on a single CD, even an 80 minute one.
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I have a friend that owns a cafe that serves Coca-Cola fountain products. He says that his cost for a 16oz soda, including the paper cup that says Coke, is less than 16.
I also hate restaurants (usually smaller local places not huge franchises) that say "Free Refills on Large Drinks Only." WTF?
Bringing it back around to CDs, do bands like Metallica, BackDoor Boys, Britney, etc. really need to earn hundreds of millions of dollars? How rich is rich enough? There is a point where you can pretty much afford anything you want. Metallica owns their own jet for Christ's sake. Who do they think they are? Steve Jobs?
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IIRC they allowed bootlegging of their live shows, not of their albums. (Except for maybe before they were even signed.)
I'm curious to know how many of these Napster users were trading live bootlegs as opposed to songs available on their albums.
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Then you're only getting results of the most popular pages. I'm sure there are sites out there that are the best site in their category that aren't very popular. Maybe they are new or just not discovered yet, but that doesn't mean they aren't the best site for what I'm searching on. Geeks should know, popular != best.
Here are Google results for florist and flowers.
I appreciate the effort, but the Gennifer Flowers thing was a hypothetical example.
Unfortunately, it isn't a matter of "falling for it," it is a matter of protecting and securing your name in cyberspace. An extra $70 every two years to make sure my competitor doesn't register team1tickets.shop is worth it to me.
I once had a customer who couldn't get scottsdaleproperty.com so he wanted to get scottsdale-property.com. I said "Great, I'm sure your competitor will appreciate the extra traffic when your visitors forget the hyphen!"
There would then have to be some law against using a .com address for adult material. (I'm sure that won't fly!) The law would also have to prohibit domain pointing or meta-refreshing to a .sex or .xxx domain. (Once again, not gonna fly.)
IF all this were to fly, the adult sites would still find loopholes so that they could get users to their .xxx or .sex via a .org or .com TLD.
One REALLY cool "side effect" of this could be that search engines could be configured NOT to return .xxx or .sex sites when searching. This would allow for more accurate searches. Who isn't tired of getting stuff like "GENNIFER FLOWERS NAKED!!!!!!!!!" when trying to find a place to order flowers online?
I'm not for censorship, but I really hate how every link on the web only has 6 degrees of separaion from a porn site. When I want porn, I'll go get it (I'm no prude), I just don't like it being pushed at me all day long. (I've gotta get some work done sometime!)
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If they can get a Unix server to stream the video and OS X is based on Unix, then certainly a Unix player can't be too far behind. I'g guessing a Linux version wouldn't be much further behind that.
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I think you would then probably be interested to the wonderful world of slander litigation if you didn't have any proof to back up your claim.
Did anybody else notice the irony in this quote from the article?
Links to competitors' Web pages have proven to be a service that boosts the traffic to smaller Internet companies, but the links often lead directly to a page deep within the rival site.
If TicketMaster makes their money off of banner ads, what the hell is the $19.50/ticket "Service Charge" for?
Then, after they've effictively doubled the price of the ticket by adding the service charge they ask me if I want to $13/year to subscribe to their magazine that will tell me what concerts are coming up (or more likely what concerts I just missed because the magazine came late).
I can get that for free instantly from www.pollstar.com!
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Not [exactly] true. Venues have contracts in place that binds them to use certain providers (usually TicketMaster) and they aren't allowed to choose different providers for different events.
So, Yes you can put on a show without TicketMaster, you just can't do it at most venues. Unfortunately this means an event has to be held at a venue that is not optimum (whether it be less capacity or whatever).
Pearl Jam tried to tour several years ago without using TicketMaster. They ended up playing places half the size the should have (why they didn't add extra nights I don't know.) and IIRC they ended up cancelling the tour halfway through.
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I've even had some Shmoe link to my "Get Netscape Now!" button. In that case he was too lazy to copy the image to his own server (or at least hotlink to Netscape!) Well because this site owner was really lazy he didn't bother using Height & Width attributes for the image. This allowed me to create a banner ad that now appears on his site much larger than the original button did! If someone's going to steal my bandwidth I'm going to get some free advertising out of it!
Pain in the ass, yes. But it must be done to protect my own site. I certainly don't mind someone linking to my site, hell it even helps raise your score on search engines! What I do mind is that they link directly to my images without giving any credit.
I have since changed the .htaccess file to disallow hotlinking from ebay sites.
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Ought to be able to sell 3 or 4 of 'em before getting slappend silly by Apple's lawyers.
Even scarier would be to rig up a PC inside the old case and scare the shit out of one of us Mac users.
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Since it uses a standard HD, I'm assuming that all I would need to do was find out how it is formatted and any necessary drivers and then I could drop in one of those new IBM 75 Gigers.
Is the OS on the drive or is it embedded? If it is on the drive, could I get away with imaging the included drive onto the new one?
I would aslo like to be able to connect it to my computer so I could capture the video. I've heard a rumor that there is an included, but not active FireWire (IEEE 1394) port.
Does anybody know any answers to these questions?
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College is certainly not all about education, for some it is hardly about education. For me the education and the resulting piece of paper (which resides in an unopeneed envelope under my stairs with a bunch of other junk) I received in college was a waste. Almost everything in my curriculum, Industrial Technology, was review for me. I already had a lot of experience and before I graduated I had a great job, was making more money than any of my teachers and was generally dissatisfied with the education I paid for.
But the experiences and lessons I learned while in college I wouldn't trade for anything.
I guess my main point is that although you may get an education in your subject matter (the level of quality is yet to be determined), you won't receive much of an education in life.
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That means any Internet-connected computer THAT ISN'T RUNNING MAC OS.
The number might have been significantly higher if they had allowed Mac OS users to vote.
The first candidate to complain about not allowing Mac OS machines gets my vote.
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Don't get me wrong, I think it would be great for "cars that automatically avoid accidents, robots that navigate through the world like normal people..." too, but I think the concept of restoring sight is much more important (especially to those who aren't lucky enough to be able to see).
Maybe they could get it to interface with the human nervous system and at least supply limited vision to the unsighted. I remember reading an article in Wired a month or so ago about a guy who was putting an implant into his arm that was going to both send and receive impulses to/from the nervous system. He was going to try and record different emotions to a computer and then attempt to play them back to see if it gave him the same feeling.
I'm sure all of this is some time off, but I think it'll be very exciting to see where something like this goes. The fact that it is so cheap is great too. Although, I'm sure once the insurance companies and doctors get a hold of it we'll be paying $20,000 for a $6 implant!
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Now if someone really wants to make a cool product, make a portable player with multiple "docks." One dock for my computer, one for my home stereo, one for my car, one for my cube, etc.
I think it would be awesome to just carry my entire CD library as MP3 anywhere and just plug it in, most importantly in my car. Right now the biggest CD player for a car is 50 made by Pioneer, I love it because it's huge, but quality-wise it is a big piece of shit.
Also, I should definitely support Airport (or other 802.11) wireless networking so I could up/download to the player in the car form my machine in my room.
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Jakob mentions that sometimes things are implemented the wrong way. (Web navigation should be on the right near the scroll bar to minimize cursor movement) but because it has been done that way for so long, switching to the proper way decreases usability. (Right side web navigation is a little awkward because we've all been trained to look to the left.) Do you think that some of the radical changes in Aqua will cause a usability decline even if the change is to do something in the "scientifically" correct way?
Also, with browsers refusing to implement standards properly do you endorse the use of tables to create page layout even though the specs say we should use CSS-P? I want to create pages to spec, but because of lousy browsers I'm forced to use tables if I want the output to be predictable across many browsers. (I don't want to have to write multiple versions and use browser detection.)
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