1) App store 2) Ad-hoc (does everyone think that developers install their apps during development through the App store?) 3) In-house via iTunes. There's an IT installation path.
Apple's distribution path isn't conceptually any different from Google's, rather that some channels are more preferred over others. So if this is fine for Google, then it's fine for Apple as well.
Scientists discover, engineers create. If we want to promote engineering as an occupation, maybe people could actually acknowledge this distinction now and then.
I live in CA as well and we average $40/mo. That's a 2,000 sq ft home, family of 4, with 5 computers and a home wood shop. With 2 kids, the 32" TV (CRT, no less) is on a hell of a lot of the time, too.
You're reading them as an adult, and you're glossing over things. Her novels are definitely PG-13, or possible R rated. She makes sex and death an everyday part of her novels, and not the Judy Bloom way. Characters are mating with/killing other characters, and she's describing how it makes them feel, which makes it much more real than seeing random redshirt die in Star Trek, or Kirk sleep with the green chick.
Keep in mind that books on the Holocaust are becoming standard reading in 4th grade. My son read two Holocaust books and one from a boy whose family were in a Japanese internment camp in WWII. They're definitely getting exposed to the darker side of human nature, injustices, politics, and so on.
I think a little sex and violence is fine at this age provided that they do indeed explore the emotions behind those activities. It's the emotional connections and thought patterns behind activities that kids needs to be exposed to in order to understand what's going on around them.
Always read the book first, of course, and every parent has a different take on this, but if your kid is in any way worldly then I don't think there's much benefit sheltering them from these topics when they are presented well.
that unused resources are wasted resources? If Safari has enough RAM to cache everything, why shouldn't it? Now, run the same test with 512MB RAM and see if memory consumption does the same thing.
That's really what I want to know - not how much it uses, but how willing the browser is to give it back when other processes need it. That'd be useful.
I have two elementary school age kids. PS and Xbox would largely lock them into playing with their friends online. Wii lets them come over and, you know, socialize. What's the difference when it's a video game? Well, at least with the Wii, they might choose to go outside and throw a baseball. Think that would happen with them 4 blocks apart playing with a 360?
And I'm damn excited myself to see them open that box. I wanna kick some 4th grader ass at Mario Galaxy.
Oracle is a big part of CalDAV and is likely to move completely to it with their calendar system soon. They're a pretty big player. There are other big names involved. This one should take off well.
While Kindles blemishes aren't exactly earthshattering, I think it suffers from the negative side of the iPod halo effect. We are starting to expect that electronic equivalents will more clearly improve on the original. Just glancing at the Kindle (without probing its deeper features, since consumers likely won't initially either), I don't quite understand why it's so convoluted. Why is there a keyboard on a book? Why not more screen? Why a button for next page, why not tap the screen? Why does it look like a Mac 128K screen instead of a laptop screen? Don't some books have illustrations? Are they in color? Will my NYTimes have photos and charts and whatnot that are sometimes instrumental to understanding the article?
See, I can see how the connectivity and immediate access to content is an improvement and how it's overall adequate and even good in many places, but we've come to expect more out of a 'breakthrough' device, and this just doesn't seem to have it. Doesn't mean it's bad, but it leaves people expecting that better can be done and will soon.
Price two singles per CD instead and you'll see why iTMS is appealing. Plus the new 'complete album' allows you to get the whole thing for a reasonable price still.
All of which you are free to take to a third party to have repaired. On the other hand...
If they have a problem in embedded processor? I don't think so.
The nvidia driver is to the Mac what the code managing the ABS is to my car. You think that Pep Boys is going to debug the ABS code? I'm not saying that Apple is right here, but since non FOSS tends to be rife with trade secrets and whatnot, be it ABS code, nvidia drivers, or the magical calculations that ensure my popcorn never burns, we're talking about a situation that exists pretty broadly - and likely exists in all of the products that you quoted.
It's a doubly stupid argument since the primary problem with MS DRM is MS. Why would Apple enable WMA on the iPod when MS won't port WMA DRM to the Mac? It'd just leave the Mac owners suing Apple and MS for enabling a feature on the iPod that Mac owners can't take advantage of.
So, in the world of DRM pissing matches - MS can go blow themselves for pushing out WMA, excluding Mac users, and then whining like a little girl when Apple beats the shit out of them on DRM availability. Oh, and Apple was kind enough to include Windows users in their universe. Yeah, it's all bad, but downloadable music wouldn't exist in any broad sense if Apple didn't make the compromises they did.
When OS X first came out it ran on a 266 MHz 32 bit CPU with 64MB of RAM and 6GB HD. Those are easy specs to beat for an XScale CPU. And the iPhone doesn't need to run Classic, apache, drive a 2 megapixel display, or a zillion other things. Rip all of the extraneous crap out that you know you don't want (like the hundreds of megabytes of localization and print drivers that OS ships with now) and I don't see any problem with running OS X on the equivalent of a Dell Axim.
And can you blame Apple for doing it? What are the alternatives? Linux and other embedded OSes that would be damn hard to build an experience on that would be acceptable to users of 10.5 because the lack the frameworks. Palm OS which is effectively dead. Or Windows Mobile?
Now, the GOP have long considered him a terrorist - at least since July 19, 1969 - but I think it's safe to presume that it's very easy to find yourself on such a list when the senior Senator from Massachusetts has landed there.
The lawsuit is about the fuel efficiency and emissions standards. California sued the federal government as well over these issues.
Essentially what California is trying to do is to get the auto makers to support these standards, to get them to oppose the federal government's efforts to prohibit the states from setting their own standards (basically making LA look like some non-class-M planet from Star Trek again).
So far, Toyota and Honda have been generally supportive of California's efforts (basically, they're sufficiently on top of things that they figure any technology rush to meet these standards will mean marketshare for them - Ford and GM would be about as fucked as you can possibly be). But the others are lobbying Congress to pass legislation to block California's existing laws and any new ones. The suit is designed to attach a cost to auto makers for doing this.
Think of it this way, a judge won't find for the state for the mere fact that cars pollute. A judge may find for the state if the automakers collectively conspire to undermine regulation that would reduce pollution.
We may be the 8th largest economy, but we're something like the 3rd biggest car market in the world. They'll stop selling in California right after they stop selling in Europe.
25GB = 200Gb = 40k sec @ 5Mb = 11 hours - not 136. At 100Mbit, it's only half an hour. You need to shove data around more to at least get a ballpark sense of timing.
Apple's 1080p trailers are about 10Mbit. Streaming 1080p is out of almost all consumers reach but 720p comes right in around 5-6Mbps. Streaming isn't realistic, but the delay to start a program would be tolerable.
My 3Mbit connection (with a bit of traffic on it) gives me a delay of about 50% for 720p content. A 26 minute program would require me to wait 13 minutes to start watching. 480p downloads at 2x realtime on my connection - so even with two people in the house doing different programs you could barely pull it off.
Actually, the main problem with 4x4 drivers in the snow is that they think they can do thngs that 4x2 drivers can't. What they forget is that 4x4's not only don't have better brakeing characteristics, but due to their weight usually have worse brakeing - and that's what gets them into accidents. They forget that all cars have 4 wheel braking, not just 4x4s.
Actually, you have it backward. iTMS is what makes access to the tail possible.
You say $1 is too much for 80% of the store, but other buyers would say that your 20% isn't worth the buck but some other 20% is. The problem with the tail is that retail stores can't afford to stock the tail because the volume is so low, that you'd need to charge $20-$30 to handle the inventory costs, etc. You're arguing that 80% of the store is too expensive, when really you should be recognizing that 80% of the store quite simply exists at all. Back catalogues are something that most consumers can't get access to anymore other than iTMS - and paying normal rates for that music is pretty sweet.
Apple now has it sewn up due not to iTMS or Fairplay but to that little connector on the bottom. Unless MS has that same little connector, they're fucked. Everyone with that iPod connector in their car, stereo, etc. won't buy in and it'll take ages for the market to come around to MS. Apple surely has a response to MS as well. We know that they've got the subscription service primed if they need to deploy. There's a new generation of iPods coming. There's video build-out still taking place. I just don't see how MS can jump ahead of all of that.
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Really? So the MacBook Pro that I bought last week for $1399 isn't real?
Apple does discount their computers at EOL to move inventory. You just don't know about it.
(And that's $600 off of a $1999 laptop, so 30%, which I'll take as on-par with Lenovo at the very least)
Apple allows three distribution channels:
1) App store
2) Ad-hoc (does everyone think that developers install their apps during development through the App store?)
3) In-house via iTunes. There's an IT installation path.
http://www.macworld.com/article/133892/2008/06/it_iphoneapps.html
Apple's distribution path isn't conceptually any different from Google's, rather that some channels are more preferred over others. So if this is fine for Google, then it's fine for Apple as well.
Scientists discover, engineers create. If we want to promote engineering as an occupation, maybe people could actually acknowledge this distinction now and then.
I live in CA as well and we average $40/mo. That's a 2,000 sq ft home, family of 4, with 5 computers and a home wood shop. With 2 kids, the 32" TV (CRT, no less) is on a hell of a lot of the time, too.
Install some CFLs and turn down the AC.
You're reading them as an adult, and you're glossing over things. Her novels are definitely PG-13, or possible R rated. She makes sex and death an everyday part of her novels, and not the Judy Bloom way. Characters are mating with/killing other characters, and she's describing how it makes them feel, which makes it much more real than seeing random redshirt die in Star Trek, or Kirk sleep with the green chick.
Keep in mind that books on the Holocaust are becoming standard reading in 4th grade. My son read two Holocaust books and one from a boy whose family were in a Japanese internment camp in WWII. They're definitely getting exposed to the darker side of human nature, injustices, politics, and so on.
I think a little sex and violence is fine at this age provided that they do indeed explore the emotions behind those activities. It's the emotional connections and thought patterns behind activities that kids needs to be exposed to in order to understand what's going on around them.
Always read the book first, of course, and every parent has a different take on this, but if your kid is in any way worldly then I don't think there's much benefit sheltering them from these topics when they are presented well.
I live down by the El Toro Y where the 405 and 5 merge. 26 lanes wide. Surfing the web is the last thing we need.
that unused resources are wasted resources? If Safari has enough RAM to cache everything, why shouldn't it? Now, run the same test with 512MB RAM and see if memory consumption does the same thing.
That's really what I want to know - not how much it uses, but how willing the browser is to give it back when other processes need it. That'd be useful.
Exactly.
I have two elementary school age kids. PS and Xbox would largely lock them into playing with their friends online. Wii lets them come over and, you know, socialize. What's the difference when it's a video game? Well, at least with the Wii, they might choose to go outside and throw a baseball. Think that would happen with them 4 blocks apart playing with a 360?
And I'm damn excited myself to see them open that box. I wanna kick some 4th grader ass at Mario Galaxy.
Oracle is a big part of CalDAV and is likely to move completely to it with their calendar system soon. They're a pretty big player. There are other big names involved. This one should take off well.
While Kindles blemishes aren't exactly earthshattering, I think it suffers from the negative side of the iPod halo effect. We are starting to expect that electronic equivalents will more clearly improve on the original. Just glancing at the Kindle (without probing its deeper features, since consumers likely won't initially either), I don't quite understand why it's so convoluted. Why is there a keyboard on a book? Why not more screen? Why a button for next page, why not tap the screen? Why does it look like a Mac 128K screen instead of a laptop screen? Don't some books have illustrations? Are they in color? Will my NYTimes have photos and charts and whatnot that are sometimes instrumental to understanding the article?
See, I can see how the connectivity and immediate access to content is an improvement and how it's overall adequate and even good in many places, but we've come to expect more out of a 'breakthrough' device, and this just doesn't seem to have it. Doesn't mean it's bad, but it leaves people expecting that better can be done and will soon.
When did the Republican party start running China? Sounds like their dream Patriot Act to me.
Price two singles per CD instead and you'll see why iTMS is appealing. Plus the new 'complete album' allows you to get the whole thing for a reasonable price still.
Actually, iTMS songs work just fine on Windows.
All MS has to do is stuff Windows on the Zune and the problem is solved. So I don't see why Apple needs to address MSs technical challenges.
If they have a problem in embedded processor? I don't think so.
The nvidia driver is to the Mac what the code managing the ABS is to my car. You think that Pep Boys is going to debug the ABS code? I'm not saying that Apple is right here, but since non FOSS tends to be rife with trade secrets and whatnot, be it ABS code, nvidia drivers, or the magical calculations that ensure my popcorn never burns, we're talking about a situation that exists pretty broadly - and likely exists in all of the products that you quoted.
It's a doubly stupid argument since the primary problem with MS DRM is MS. Why would Apple enable WMA on the iPod when MS won't port WMA DRM to the Mac? It'd just leave the Mac owners suing Apple and MS for enabling a feature on the iPod that Mac owners can't take advantage of.
So, in the world of DRM pissing matches - MS can go blow themselves for pushing out WMA, excluding Mac users, and then whining like a little girl when Apple beats the shit out of them on DRM availability. Oh, and Apple was kind enough to include Windows users in their universe. Yeah, it's all bad, but downloadable music wouldn't exist in any broad sense if Apple didn't make the compromises they did.
I agree.
When OS X first came out it ran on a 266 MHz 32 bit CPU with 64MB of RAM and 6GB HD. Those are easy specs to beat for an XScale CPU. And the iPhone doesn't need to run Classic, apache, drive a 2 megapixel display, or a zillion other things. Rip all of the extraneous crap out that you know you don't want (like the hundreds of megabytes of localization and print drivers that OS ships with now) and I don't see any problem with running OS X on the equivalent of a Dell Axim.
And can you blame Apple for doing it? What are the alternatives? Linux and other embedded OSes that would be damn hard to build an experience on that would be acceptable to users of 10.5 because the lack the frameworks. Palm OS which is effectively dead. Or Windows Mobile?
Ted Kennedy found himself on one in 2004. Couldn't board a plane one day.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17
Now, the GOP have long considered him a terrorist - at least since July 19, 1969 - but I think it's safe to presume that it's very easy to find yourself on such a list when the senior Senator from Massachusetts has landed there.
The lawsuit is about the fuel efficiency and emissions standards. California sued the federal government as well over these issues.
Essentially what California is trying to do is to get the auto makers to support these standards, to get them to oppose the federal government's efforts to prohibit the states from setting their own standards (basically making LA look like some non-class-M planet from Star Trek again).
So far, Toyota and Honda have been generally supportive of California's efforts (basically, they're sufficiently on top of things that they figure any technology rush to meet these standards will mean marketshare for them - Ford and GM would be about as fucked as you can possibly be). But the others are lobbying Congress to pass legislation to block California's existing laws and any new ones. The suit is designed to attach a cost to auto makers for doing this.
Think of it this way, a judge won't find for the state for the mere fact that cars pollute. A judge may find for the state if the automakers collectively conspire to undermine regulation that would reduce pollution.
We may be the 8th largest economy, but we're something like the 3rd biggest car market in the world. They'll stop selling in California right after they stop selling in Europe.
25GB = 200Gb = 40k sec @ 5Mb = 11 hours - not 136. At 100Mbit, it's only half an hour. You need to shove data around more to at least get a ballpark sense of timing.
Apple's 1080p trailers are about 10Mbit. Streaming 1080p is out of almost all consumers reach but 720p comes right in around 5-6Mbps. Streaming isn't realistic, but the delay to start a program would be tolerable.
My 3Mbit connection (with a bit of traffic on it) gives me a delay of about 50% for 720p content. A 26 minute program would require me to wait 13 minutes to start watching. 480p downloads at 2x realtime on my connection - so even with two people in the house doing different programs you could barely pull it off.
You realize that journalists will still pay serious money for one of those.
It's about the only computer you can wander off-grid to Pakistan, still get power (AAs are universal) and still type 100WPM.
I think with the exception of eGroupware and RADIUS, Apple's OpenDirectory supports all of that out-of-the box. RADIUS is coming in 10.5.
Not trying to minimize your effort, but there are others with the same mindset is all.
Actually, the main problem with 4x4 drivers in the snow is that they think they can do thngs that 4x2 drivers can't. What they forget is that 4x4's not only don't have better brakeing characteristics, but due to their weight usually have worse brakeing - and that's what gets them into accidents. They forget that all cars have 4 wheel braking, not just 4x4s.
Actually, you have it backward. iTMS is what makes access to the tail possible.
You say $1 is too much for 80% of the store, but other buyers would say that your 20% isn't worth the buck but some other 20% is. The problem with the tail is that retail stores can't afford to stock the tail because the volume is so low, that you'd need to charge $20-$30 to handle the inventory costs, etc. You're arguing that 80% of the store is too expensive, when really you should be recognizing that 80% of the store quite simply exists at all. Back catalogues are something that most consumers can't get access to anymore other than iTMS - and paying normal rates for that music is pretty sweet.
Apple now has it sewn up due not to iTMS or Fairplay but to that little connector on the bottom. Unless MS has that same little connector, they're fucked. Everyone with that iPod connector in their car, stereo, etc. won't buy in and it'll take ages for the market to come around to MS. Apple surely has a response to MS as well. We know that they've got the subscription service primed if they need to deploy. There's a new generation of iPods coming. There's video build-out still taking place. I just don't see how MS can jump ahead of all of that.