And sold for $57M in 2004. And yes, Autodesk could royally screw up the film industry, but then the film industry has been cruising for a bruising. You think we have problems with nVidia. The film folks have to be really nice to nVidia for fear that the company will just walk away from that market.
This could mean good things for RenderMan and Pixar, though.
I must look a little shady, because I *always* get 'randmonly selected' to be drug/bomb 'sniffed' at airports getting swabbed and waiting for a machine to go beep.,/i>
Let's say Sony does pull the plug, have all of the pages that previously held their artist information have a small message that state that Sony pulled their artists due to a conflict over pricing.
The record companies should check with Michael Eisner before they fuck this up badly. You do not renege from a deal with Steve Jobs, and you do not double-cross him at the deal table. Pixar SAVED Disney to a large extent. With the ABC albatross around the neck during the 90s, the only thing Disney made massive revenues from were the box office hits conceived, created, and executed by Pixar.
When negotiating with Jobs beyond the initial five-picture deal, Disney then tried to play cheap. Pixar walked. Disney is now having to learn how to build Pixar-caliber films all by themselves and they're finding that it's, ah, hard.
The record companies had better take a lesson from this; if it's just their own stupidity or some other forces causing them to draw a piston on their own foot, they'd better watch it - building a successful online music store isn't easy, and it won't be profitable for them, as selling music through iTMS currently is.
Well, since they probably haven't sold a half-million units and not everyone with a nano has put up a web page bellyaching about screen scratches, you may want to filter your results there a little, chief. Good statistical analysis of your googling. Do you have a job in Bush's OMB yet?
On the other hand, you could also try understanding that like a shiny new car, the Nano needs care to maintain it's finish. And like a shiny new car, that finish can be restored with various products that it is not the manufacturer's responsibility to provide.
The nano's clear polycarbonate cover is made of the same stuff as the 3G and 4G nanos. When I got my iPod Photo almost a year ago, I knew it would scratch, so I got a case for it and kept it there.
But then, my calls had dropped pretty low even before the do-not-call list went into effect. I had learned the magic phrase, "Could you take me off the call list?", which I diligently said to every telemarketer. By law, they have to take you off, so that had already almost completely solved the problem. The national do-not-call list eliminated the last bits.
Didn't work for us. My fiancee once purchased a prescription from an online pharmacy. Every single day they'd call. Every single day. I asked to be removed from their list, and usually all I got in reply was a dead line.
Eventually I started fucking with them, and still they'd call. I asked where they were located..."John Smith", who had a curiously thick Indian accent said "Florida". When I pressed for information, the caller would hang up.
I looked up the receipt for the prescription...no help. I eventually began recording the calls in the hope that by humiliating these people, they'd stop. I threatened them, I cajoled. Sometimes the calls would stop for a day or two, then they'd start again, at all times of day and night.
I wrote to the FTC. I wrote to the California AG. Nothing worked.
The "Online Pharmacy" was spoofing numbers with a Maine area code, or calling with a faked/invalid name and number combination like "Joe Smith 000-354-xxxx". I e-mailed the FTC this info and had no success getting anyone to pay attention.
Finally, we moved and changed our number. We no longer get calls, but at no time was this business given explicit permission to call us, dozens of times we asked to removed from their list, and we are on the do-not-call list. Appealing to the FTC seems to have been as viable a strategy as jumping up and down and crying.
Clearly, there are businesses out there who can and are using technology to flout this law. What's the FTC doing about it? Nothing at all, from where I stand.
if this chip comes out you can be sure of the fact that people are going to break open their phone and pull that sucker out.
If you think this is possible, I suggest you read the TPM spec. Start with Part 1.
It quickly becomes apparent that devices built to be used with this chip will not perform without it. Sure, someone hacked Mac OS X for Intel to run on some other white box machine without a TPM, but that was the OS - you're suggesting that someone just remove the offending hardware and be done with it.
As far as software goes, as TPM dependencies get written into the OS (as opposed to just checking for the presence of the TPM with a certain Owner created at the factory, as with the Mac OS X for Intel Dev machines) there will be no way - and I mean no way - to run a modern os that requires TPM without that chip.
They're pretty damn affordable now, but to get all the extra memory and such will be a huge price hike, not to mention the OS itself.
No offense, but aren't you forgetting that memory, MIPs/$, and storage all drop in price over time?
While I'm certain that Vista will entice a few folks to lay out cash for upgrades (and I won't be one, since I'll still be running 10.4.whatever on this 550MHz/768MB PowerBook G4) you can't compare today's prices for those commodity parts to understand the total cost of upgrading to Vista.
It's worth noting that this PowerBook was purchased before Windows XP shipped, and aside from the initial RAM bump from 256 to 768MB and a side-grade to a 60GB disk from the original 40GB, it's only gotten faster as subsequent versions of OS X have been released.
I think the question to be asking about VIsta is: "How will it perform on currently shipping hardware when it is released...and will it get any faster on the same hardware through service packs?"
You could demand Apple work with MS to get a version of windows running on their Macs for people who want to dual-boot. If those people end up never using OSX, then Apple still made a sale. This gestapo crap is short-sighted.
You can also sit in front of water oak and demand that you won't cut it down and use it to build your dream home unless it changes into a live oak.
I'll bet the tree won't change, and even if your house does get built, it'll be from water oak, not live oak.
I mean, who could have predicted that four years later, the most powerful nation on earth would yet to have brought bin Laden to justice for what he did?
Just another example of the sheer, utter incompetence of the Bush administration.
Can't find Bin Laden. Can't respond to natural disasters. Somewhere north of $400 Billion down the "war on terror" hole and it looks about as successful as the "war on drugs" started by the original sainted Republican, Ronnie "Iran-Contra" Reagan.
Boy, but he sure got the "values" crowd in this country fired up - the same people who think it's logical to bomb abortion clinics to stop the "murder" of "babies".
After beating on Clinton and Gore for every little misstep they made over eight years, the press must have been tired, because even after Katrina, they're still taking a nap. Bush could cornhole a dead boy on the White House lawn and Fox news would fawn over him for making that particular butthole safe for democracy.
Sure, let's make it policy for the man responsible (and I use the word very loosely, since he never seems to take responsibility for ANYTHING) to fire off a few nukes when he feels like it, without provocation.
And this was just one average sized state. What happens when a Hurricane hits the East Coast with enough force to path it's way north to a major city like D.C. or New York and [b]completely[/b] level it?
Hurricanes don't work like this; once over land they immediately lose power. A hurricane's power is derived from the warm water over which it forms; once any part of the storm passes over land, it necessarily weakens. Once the entire storm is over land, it begins to fall apart rapidly, even when it makes landfall as an extremely well-defined "hard eyewall" storm like Katrina.
Katrina was a 140 m.p.h. Category 4 storm at landfall; 18 hours later, it was a tropical storm with sub-74 mp.h. winds. The next day, a loose collection of thunderstorms with little residual cyclonic movement.
I'm sorry; I'm completely disgusted by the "so what" attitude here on Slashdot with regard to the Hurricane.
I know this is "news for nerds" and a technology site. Slashdot covered 9/11 like a blanket, but all week long, there's been a single appeal on the front page for donations.
As a former resident of New Orleans and someone who fell in love with computers in part because of the dedicated computer staff at Loyola and Tulane (Loyola's Gandalf, I remember thee well) I find it hard to comprehend the lack of a floating banner on this site dedicated to disaster relief. I'm also blown away by the "mine mine mine" attitude of geeks in the prevous hurricane thread.
I don't give a shit what you mod me, because I care about what I'm writing, and more importantly, I know about what I'm writing.
Slashdot is irrelevant while this goes on. The people who were left behind in New Orleans are the ones who should have access to the same kind of math and science educations we all got.
Slashdot "People In Charge" (yes, I'm equating you with the "PICs" at Fry's electronics, which should give you all an idea of what I think of your response to this disaster), I am formally asking you to put a permanent banner for disaster relief linked to the red cross on your homepage.
Well, asshole, since you asked, I've given as much as I can afford to the Red Cross, and my mom and dad, both Baton Rouge residents (I lived in NEw Orleans for several years and I'm from Lousiana) are participating in the rescue effort.
Sorry I can't make it, as I live here in California, but T-Mobile's "gesture" is more for the benefit of of their own PR than for any storm victims.
Using terms like "islamofascist" indicates that you do not really understand what it is that the radical muslims who commit these crimes are trying to achieve.
Check out the wiki entry for fascism. Then, read the Wiki article on radical islam.
After reading both, I'm sure you'll find it easy to understand why a radical islamist is not a fascist, and there's virtually no common ground between the two ideologies as they apply to government.
And realizing that planes occasionally will violently break up into little pieces at supersonic speeds, with no hope of survival, when some tiny thing goes just a tiny bit wrong... makes you realize that getting to Japan in four hours might not be so important after all.
Like when the Concorde lost part of it's rudder at Mach 2 over the Atlantic and no one knew until a few minutes before landing?
Drag (the force that pulls badly-fastened cargo doors off of 747s) is reduced at Supersonic speed. The Concorde wasn't lost during supersonic flight, and a supersonic passenger aircraft has never been lost in revenue service because of structural failure.
The Concorde went down shortly after takeoff because a piece of metal on the runway pierced a fuel tank and started a catastrophic fire. In other words, the accident happened when most aircraft accidents happen: during takeoff or landing, the two most dangerous parts of any flight, no matter the aircraft's type, purpose, or cruising speed.
None of the giants of supersonic flight (MiG-25, SR-71, A-12, Concorde) were ever lost due to structural failure during supersonic flight - so your post about "no hope of survival" when a supersonic plane breaks up makes little sense to me. There's little hope of survival in anything that happens to come apart at over 20,000 feet.
I must admit that after reading your post, it was tempting to advise you to have a rectocraniotomy, but I think Slashdot needs more info and less flaming. I hope my simple presentation of facts will enlighten you.
Scary Boo! Ooga-Booga! Confirmed: Terrorists Use Internet! Confirmed: Terrorists Using Telephones! Confirmed: Terrorists Highly Secretive "Triple ROT13" code Can Not Be Broken! Confirmed: Terrorists Enjoy A Good Ice Cream! Quick! Everyone hide! The Terrorists Are Everywhar! Oooga-Booga!
And yet, the British seem to have captured many people involved in 7/7 and the subsequent bombings.
They'll go to trial, have evidence presented aginst them in open court, defend themselves, and go to jail if found guilty.
This punishment will be meted out without torture...without invading, bombing, or blowing anything up.
What a novel way to do things.
Yes, I do thing George Bush is a man with a hammer looking for a nail. Don't you remember the spyplane in China during the summer of '01? That nail was FAR too big for George's little hammer.
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This could mean good things for RenderMan and Pixar, though.
Is the guy who runs this machine named Captain Trips?
It' because you post on Slashdot!
It's all a conspiracy!!!
It's all Larry David's fault.
Much like our president, the want to make the pie higher.
The record companies should check with Michael Eisner before they fuck this up badly. You do not renege from a deal with Steve Jobs, and you do not double-cross him at the deal table. Pixar SAVED Disney to a large extent. With the ABC albatross around the neck during the 90s, the only thing Disney made massive revenues from were the box office hits conceived, created, and executed by Pixar.
When negotiating with Jobs beyond the initial five-picture deal, Disney then tried to play cheap. Pixar walked. Disney is now having to learn how to build Pixar-caliber films all by themselves and they're finding that it's, ah, hard.
The record companies had better take a lesson from this; if it's just their own stupidity or some other forces causing them to draw a piston on their own foot, they'd better watch it - building a successful online music store isn't easy, and it won't be profitable for them, as selling music through iTMS currently is.
If they do, Apple will sue and make the payola scams and settlements of old look like child's play.
Well, since they probably haven't sold a half-million units and not everyone with a nano has put up a web page bellyaching about screen scratches, you may want to filter your results there a little, chief. Good statistical analysis of your googling. Do you have a job in Bush's OMB yet?
On the other hand, you could also try understanding that like a shiny new car, the Nano needs care to maintain it's finish. And like a shiny new car, that finish can be restored with various products that it is not the manufacturer's responsibility to provide.
The nano's clear polycarbonate cover is made of the same stuff as the 3G and 4G nanos. When I got my iPod Photo almost a year ago, I knew it would scratch, so I got a case for it and kept it there.
Didn't work for us. My fiancee once purchased a prescription from an online pharmacy. Every single day they'd call. Every single day. I asked to be removed from their list, and usually all I got in reply was a dead line.
Eventually I started fucking with them, and still they'd call. I asked where they were located..."John Smith", who had a curiously thick Indian accent said "Florida". When I pressed for information, the caller would hang up.
I looked up the receipt for the prescription...no help. I eventually began recording the calls in the hope that by humiliating these people, they'd stop. I threatened them, I cajoled. Sometimes the calls would stop for a day or two, then they'd start again, at all times of day and night.
I wrote to the FTC. I wrote to the California AG. Nothing worked.
The "Online Pharmacy" was spoofing numbers with a Maine area code, or calling with a faked/invalid name and number combination like "Joe Smith 000-354-xxxx". I e-mailed the FTC this info and had no success getting anyone to pay attention.
Finally, we moved and changed our number. We no longer get calls, but at no time was this business given explicit permission to call us, dozens of times we asked to removed from their list, and we are on the do-not-call list. Appealing to the FTC seems to have been as viable a strategy as jumping up and down and crying.
Clearly, there are businesses out there who can and are using technology to flout this law. What's the FTC doing about it? Nothing at all, from where I stand.
If you think this is possible, I suggest you read the TPM spec. Start with Part 1.
It quickly becomes apparent that devices built to be used with this chip will not perform without it. Sure, someone hacked Mac OS X for Intel to run on some other white box machine without a TPM, but that was the OS - you're suggesting that someone just remove the offending hardware and be done with it.
As far as software goes, as TPM dependencies get written into the OS (as opposed to just checking for the presence of the TPM with a certain Owner created at the factory, as with the Mac OS X for Intel Dev machines) there will be no way - and I mean no way - to run a modern os that requires TPM without that chip.
For anyone who has bothered looking at the TPM spec, it states that there's a Mobile type among the platform specific structures.
This has been in the publicly posted spec since 1.2...several months now. Guess no one reads the spec.
I guess you haven't noticed that the cups have gotten bigger over the last 40 years.
No offense, but aren't you forgetting that memory, MIPs/$, and storage all drop in price over time?
While I'm certain that Vista will entice a few folks to lay out cash for upgrades (and I won't be one, since I'll still be running 10.4.whatever on this 550MHz/768MB PowerBook G4) you can't compare today's prices for those commodity parts to understand the total cost of upgrading to Vista.
It's worth noting that this PowerBook was purchased before Windows XP shipped, and aside from the initial RAM bump from 256 to 768MB and a side-grade to a 60GB disk from the original 40GB, it's only gotten faster as subsequent versions of OS X have been released.
I think the question to be asking about VIsta is: "How will it perform on currently shipping hardware when it is released...and will it get any faster on the same hardware through service packs?"
"Jonathan is not related to Burl"
-Quote from a buddy at Apple.
You can also sit in front of water oak and demand that you won't cut it down and use it to build your dream home unless it changes into a live oak.
I'll bet the tree won't change, and even if your house does get built, it'll be from water oak, not live oak.
I mean, who could have predicted that four years later, the most powerful nation on earth would yet to have brought bin Laden to justice for what he did?
Just another example of the sheer, utter incompetence of the Bush administration.
Can't find Bin Laden. Can't respond to natural disasters. Somewhere north of $400 Billion down the "war on terror" hole and it looks about as successful as the "war on drugs" started by the original sainted Republican, Ronnie "Iran-Contra" Reagan.
Boy, but he sure got the "values" crowd in this country fired up - the same people who think it's logical to bomb abortion clinics to stop the "murder" of "babies".
After beating on Clinton and Gore for every little misstep they made over eight years, the press must have been tired, because even after Katrina, they're still taking a nap. Bush could cornhole a dead boy on the White House lawn and Fox news would fawn over him for making that particular butthole safe for democracy.
Sure, let's make it policy for the man responsible (and I use the word very loosely, since he never seems to take responsibility for ANYTHING) to fire off a few nukes when he feels like it, without provocation.
I know I feel safer. Not.
Hurricanes don't work like this; once over land they immediately lose power. A hurricane's power is derived from the warm water over which it forms; once any part of the storm passes over land, it necessarily weakens. Once the entire storm is over land, it begins to fall apart rapidly, even when it makes landfall as an extremely well-defined "hard eyewall" storm like Katrina.
Katrina was a 140 m.p.h. Category 4 storm at landfall; 18 hours later, it was a tropical storm with sub-74 mp.h. winds. The next day, a loose collection of thunderstorms with little residual cyclonic movement.
Two out of the last three front-page posts have been from anonymous readers linking to Guardian stories. Wha?
The article misses the point of the ROKR completely, and this comment is proof.
THe ROKR isn't supposed to be an iPod in any way shape, or form. The ROKR is a phone with iTunes software, minus the purchase functionality.
Does the iPod run iTunes? Then why should the ROKR be treated as an "iPod phone"?
I'm sorry; I'm completely disgusted by the "so what" attitude here on Slashdot with regard to the Hurricane.
I know this is "news for nerds" and a technology site. Slashdot covered 9/11 like a blanket, but all week long, there's been a single appeal on the front page for donations.
As a former resident of New Orleans and someone who fell in love with computers in part because of the dedicated computer staff at Loyola and Tulane (Loyola's Gandalf, I remember thee well) I find it hard to comprehend the lack of a floating banner on this site dedicated to disaster relief. I'm also blown away by the "mine mine mine" attitude of geeks in the prevous hurricane thread.
I don't give a shit what you mod me, because I care about what I'm writing, and more importantly, I know about what I'm writing.
Slashdot is irrelevant while this goes on. The people who were left behind in New Orleans are the ones who should have access to the same kind of math and science educations we all got.
Slashdot "People In Charge" (yes, I'm equating you with the "PICs" at Fry's electronics, which should give you all an idea of what I think of your response to this disaster), I am formally asking you to put a permanent banner for disaster relief linked to the red cross on your homepage.
Shame on you if you don't.
Well, asshole, since you asked, I've given as much as I can afford to the Red Cross, and my mom and dad, both Baton Rouge residents (I lived in NEw Orleans for several years and I'm from Lousiana) are participating in the rescue effort.
Sorry I can't make it, as I live here in California, but T-Mobile's "gesture" is more for the benefit of of their own PR than for any storm victims.
How big of them.
Why don't they offer free service to their customers in afffected ZIP codes for a month?
Why don' they donate some time andd money to the Red Cross?
For fuck's sake, most people who survived this don't have power, and may have gotten away with a laptop.
Thanks, Slashdot, for amplifying T-Mobile's limp-wristed PR move. Maybe they'll breate a breath for New Orleanians next!
Using terms like "islamofascist" indicates that you do not really understand what it is that the radical muslims who commit these crimes are trying to achieve.
Check out the wiki entry for fascism. Then, read the Wiki article on radical islam.
After reading both, I'm sure you'll find it easy to understand why a radical islamist is not a fascist, and there's virtually no common ground between the two ideologies as they apply to government.
Like when the Concorde lost part of it's rudder at Mach 2 over the Atlantic and no one knew until a few minutes before landing?
Drag (the force that pulls badly-fastened cargo doors off of 747s) is reduced at Supersonic speed. The Concorde wasn't lost during supersonic flight, and a supersonic passenger aircraft has never been lost in revenue service because of structural failure.
The Concorde went down shortly after takeoff because a piece of metal on the runway pierced a fuel tank and started a catastrophic fire. In other words, the accident happened when most aircraft accidents happen: during takeoff or landing, the two most dangerous parts of any flight, no matter the aircraft's type, purpose, or cruising speed.
None of the giants of supersonic flight (MiG-25, SR-71, A-12, Concorde) were ever lost due to structural failure during supersonic flight - so your post about "no hope of survival" when a supersonic plane breaks up makes little sense to me. There's little hope of survival in anything that happens to come apart at over 20,000 feet.
I must admit that after reading your post, it was tempting to advise you to have a rectocraniotomy, but I think Slashdot needs more info and less flaming. I hope my simple presentation of facts will enlighten you.
Confirmed: Terrorists Use Internet!
Confirmed: Terrorists Using Telephones!
Confirmed: Terrorists Highly Secretive "Triple ROT13" code Can Not Be Broken!
Confirmed: Terrorists Enjoy A Good Ice Cream!
Quick! Everyone hide! The Terrorists Are Everywhar! Oooga-Booga!
And yet, the British seem to have captured many people involved in 7/7 and the subsequent bombings.
They'll go to trial, have evidence presented aginst them in open court, defend themselves, and go to jail if found guilty.
This punishment will be meted out without torture...without invading, bombing, or blowing anything up.
What a novel way to do things.
Yes, I do thing George Bush is a man with a hammer looking for a nail. Don't you remember the spyplane in China during the summer of '01? That nail was FAR too big for George's little hammer.