It doesn't make sense to introduce Final Cut 6 at a consumer show, though MacBook Pro doesn't make sense in that light. I don't really think MacBook Pro is a pro media unit though except for use by early adopters and developers, because running pro apps under emulation is stupid, those apps need to be updated first.
Anyway, usually the pro stuff is announced at pro events, such as Final Cut 5 being announced at NAB 2005, Aperture and dual core Powermacs were announced at a major pro photography convention in NYC. I don't know where or when they'd announce a Mac with DVR features, I hope Apple does release DVR Mac hardware, but I wonder if they would shirk from the idea to appease their iTunes video partners.
Given that Apple has made a TV ad promoting the Intel processors, I don't think Apple has completely gotten out of promoting Intel, but probably with different requirements.
I don't think there is an "optimal" dpi, otherwise laser printers wouldn't be higher than displays. What you mean in view of operating systems that are very limited in scaling UI object sizes, which is, all of the current major operating systems.
A twelve point font should be twelve point, not necessarily twelve pixels. The way it is currently handled, fonts are too small on a 100dpi screen because points are 72dpi, yet operating systems simply render them as 12 pixels high. That makes text techically too small on pretty much any current LCD screen save maybe the 19" SXGA screens.
I want higher resolution not necessarily to show more detail or show more text or have more objects on the screen, but have smoother fonts and UI elements rather than blocky edges.
People in general are mathematically clueless, but they do know that the risk is real and not small after these two events.
The risk is real but relatively small. Of the 400+ nuclear power stations built, only one had a deadly catastrohpic mishap. Chernobyl was using a bad design that ended up as a positive feedback loop, and that design will not be used for future plants, nor did any Western countries use said flawed design. Three Mile Island really didn't release much radiation, I don't think there was even an increase of cancer for the area as a result.
Still, I would be cautious as well. I don't trust the US NRC because many times they really haven't been doing their jobs. Maybe the EU has better regulations, safeguards, inspections and such in place.
A G5 powerbook could have happened very easily after June '05,
Yeah, if you wanted to be stuck at 1.4 or 1.6GHz with an equal CPI as competitors running chips available 2.2GHz and beyond. G5 isn't better at CPI than G4, a 1.6GHz G5 would be about as fast as the current 1.67GHz G4, so there was generally little to no performance gain to be had by making a G5 Powerbook other than maybe status. Where a G5 laptop would have been useful is if they were available in mobile form at 2+ GHz six months or a year previous. IBM's product was too little, too late, their product should have been available a year previous, the same goes for 3GHz G5s.
I really don't think comparing the supercomputer capabilities of specialized revisions of the POWER or PPC architecture matters if IBM can't consistently scale the speed as well as control the thermal and electrical issues demanded for desktop and mobile use. These are vastly different markets with different demands and different optimizations.
I tried to use a PDA as a portable audio player. It doesn't work well on-the-go, in my opinion, except as a backup device in case the dedicated audio player is nowhere to be found when I'm in a hurry or something like that.
With a dedicated player, I can feel the buttons to skip tracks, press pause and adjust the volume without having to look at the device, this didn't work that way with many of the controls being on the touch screen and easily bumped and such. The software players for the PDA that I tried didn't even have a concept of play lists.
Maybe I want to listen to the local college radio station or a real alternative station that isn't clearchannel owned and maybe hear some new local music, eh?
There are like, what, five of those in the US? Of course, that's hyperbole, but it seems that there might be one good channel in any given market, and that's not a lot of choice. With podcasts, you could concievably get legit indie music from anywhere in the world, not just in the local region.
I hate the typical radio ads so much that I won't willingly listen to radio, it seems to be 20 minutes of irritating ads per hour too. Generally, I consider both the AM and FM bands as unsalvageable. The concepts of XM and Sirius are intriguing but they don't seem to work well within my building.
I have found nothing to support the claim that iTunes or its supporting software reports your listening habits to Apple.
At what point will MP3s become unsupported unless digitally signed by some Authorized Party such as Apple or the RIAA?
Creative is in bed with Microsoft, how do you know that Microsoft wouldn't try to force the same? It would seem to be some sort of silly speculation, neither Apple nor any other audio device maker seems to ever force updates.
I think what that means is that you would have to force the operating system to not page out. That shouldn't be a problem because flash memory isn't that much different in complexity than RAM in terms of gates, so by the time you can afford get a 32GB flash module, 32GB of RAM would be pretty affordable too.
Why aren't you buying larger drives? I realize there's this cost per capacity issue, such that 400 and 500GB drives are kind of expensive, 300GB drives are surprisingly cheap. If you get too many drives running, then you start to get heat and noise concerns.
AMD will be migrating to DDR2 and a new socket in a few months, which means if you want to upgrade after that, you'll have to switch CPU, motherboard, and memory, again (not the video card, though -- PCI-E will hopefully be around for a while yet).
It is this sort of thing that makes it hard to justify major upgrades. I've never replaced the motherboard without having to replace the memory, CPU, hard drive and video card in order to get an acceptable performing upgrade. Any motherboard upgrade I did without updating those parts meant for me that I was seriously holding back the performance of the upgrade. The grandparent post was basically advocating upgrading the whole computer as if it were an inexpensive exercise, the switch to PCI-E is starting to demand replacing the entire computer, which is easily triple the cost of just replacing the video card. If you bought a 3000+ computer a year ago, it should still be a fine computer, only a video card upgrade should be necessary, performance-wise, to play the latest games.
I really don't understand why the graphics makers were so quick to dump AGP, they didn't drop PCI this quickly that I remember.
It would seem that either taking a significant portion of the assets of the actual perpetrators, or actual jail time in a real prison rather than the Hotel Incerceration that Martha Stewart stayed in, would be the only real deterrence.
It's true. It doesn't work well with right-handed use. Still, for having the easiest scroll ball, having the easiest side scrolling, and the easiest middle button of any scroll mouse, I think it still wins, just not as large of a margin as it should.
The side buttons are kind of worthless though, given how much force it takes to activate.
allofmp3.com will begin to become an _enourmous_ hit (think Napster at its height). The RIAA is going to absolutely freak out and do everything in their power to shut them down. The funny thing is that that sight is bringing true market dynamics to selling music online (along with giving customers what they want, no DRM crap), but as much as they _say_ they are capitalists, the RIAA is just a price fixing oligarchy.
That capitalism isn't much different from the RIAA though. Basically, allofmp3 and RIAA make other people do their work at someone else's expense and then profit off of it without paying their due share for the product they are selling.
What, exactly takes 100mb about a background shown at 72ppi and 800x600?
Surely you jest, it takes a lot more than 100 millibits to make a background.
ppi has nothing to do with the final file size if you've already set the raster size.
Seriously, the article says "up to". If you have a crowd of a lot of people, with several layers being buildings, trees, mountains, sky and clouds, that can add up to a lot.
Given that many of the EB and such stores are in high rent districts, I can imagine that once the new product is sold, all of the margin from their cost to sell price goes to overhead, be it taxes, rent, payroll, utilities and so on. With used games, for reasonably new games, they seem to buy from the individual at less than 25% of the original price and turn around to label it at 75% original list or more, making the actual profit on the used game possibly higher than the new, with less invested.
In terms of costs, it doesn't help that most of these game stores seem to be very poorly managed.
I too doubt Apple will go open source with their GUI system. I think that's a longer shot than Apple selling the OS to work on generic computers, though I would like that, I would buy several licences if they did such.
Sometimes it the knowledge gained is significant. The significance is only rarely known beforehand. Identifying who really painted it, how they painted it and maybe even additional insights on their motivations might be gleaned from a more detailed analysis.
With $105 billion in this type of crime in 2005, I'm glad the Department of Homeland Security has had their budget cut to $16 million.
Is this a real budget cut, or a cut in projected increases?
Government budget cuts are the most preposterous lies I've seen in a long time. Say the next year's budget is slated to increase 8%. Let's just say that increase is reduced to 4%. Politicians, pundits and media people can then claim (or complain of) a 4% cut, despite that in reality, it was still an increase, the cut was from an imaginary budget that was never enacted. I wish my pay suffered a government budget cut.
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It doesn't make sense to introduce Final Cut 6 at a consumer show, though MacBook Pro doesn't make sense in that light. I don't really think MacBook Pro is a pro media unit though except for use by early adopters and developers, because running pro apps under emulation is stupid, those apps need to be updated first.
Anyway, usually the pro stuff is announced at pro events, such as Final Cut 5 being announced at NAB 2005, Aperture and dual core Powermacs were announced at a major pro photography convention in NYC. I don't know where or when they'd announce a Mac with DVR features, I hope Apple does release DVR Mac hardware, but I wonder if they would shirk from the idea to appease their iTunes video partners.
Given that Apple has made a TV ad promoting the Intel processors, I don't think Apple has completely gotten out of promoting Intel, but probably with different requirements.
I don't think there is an "optimal" dpi, otherwise laser printers wouldn't be higher than displays. What you mean in view of operating systems that are very limited in scaling UI object sizes, which is, all of the current major operating systems.
A twelve point font should be twelve point, not necessarily twelve pixels. The way it is currently handled, fonts are too small on a 100dpi screen because points are 72dpi, yet operating systems simply render them as 12 pixels high. That makes text techically too small on pretty much any current LCD screen save maybe the 19" SXGA screens.
I want higher resolution not necessarily to show more detail or show more text or have more objects on the screen, but have smoother fonts and UI elements rather than blocky edges.
People in general are mathematically clueless, but they do know that the risk is real and not small after these two events.
The risk is real but relatively small. Of the 400+ nuclear power stations built, only one had a deadly catastrohpic mishap. Chernobyl was using a bad design that ended up as a positive feedback loop, and that design will not be used for future plants, nor did any Western countries use said flawed design. Three Mile Island really didn't release much radiation, I don't think there was even an increase of cancer for the area as a result.
Still, I would be cautious as well. I don't trust the US NRC because many times they really haven't been doing their jobs. Maybe the EU has better regulations, safeguards, inspections and such in place.
A G5 powerbook could have happened very easily after June '05,
Yeah, if you wanted to be stuck at 1.4 or 1.6GHz with an equal CPI as competitors running chips available 2.2GHz and beyond. G5 isn't better at CPI than G4, a 1.6GHz G5 would be about as fast as the current 1.67GHz G4, so there was generally little to no performance gain to be had by making a G5 Powerbook other than maybe status. Where a G5 laptop would have been useful is if they were available in mobile form at 2+ GHz six months or a year previous. IBM's product was too little, too late, their product should have been available a year previous, the same goes for 3GHz G5s.
I really don't think comparing the supercomputer capabilities of specialized revisions of the POWER or PPC architecture matters if IBM can't consistently scale the speed as well as control the thermal and electrical issues demanded for desktop and mobile use. These are vastly different markets with different demands and different optimizations.
I tried to use a PDA as a portable audio player. It doesn't work well on-the-go, in my opinion, except as a backup device in case the dedicated audio player is nowhere to be found when I'm in a hurry or something like that.
With a dedicated player, I can feel the buttons to skip tracks, press pause and adjust the volume without having to look at the device, this didn't work that way with many of the controls being on the touch screen and easily bumped and such. The software players for the PDA that I tried didn't even have a concept of play lists.
Maybe I want to listen to the local college radio station or a real alternative station that isn't clearchannel owned and maybe hear some new local music, eh?
There are like, what, five of those in the US? Of course, that's hyperbole, but it seems that there might be one good channel in any given market, and that's not a lot of choice. With podcasts, you could concievably get legit indie music from anywhere in the world, not just in the local region.
I hate the typical radio ads so much that I won't willingly listen to radio, it seems to be 20 minutes of irritating ads per hour too. Generally, I consider both the AM and FM bands as unsalvageable. The concepts of XM and Sirius are intriguing but they don't seem to work well within my building.
I have found nothing to support the claim that iTunes or its supporting software reports your listening habits to Apple.
At what point will MP3s become unsupported unless digitally signed by some Authorized Party such as Apple or the RIAA?
Creative is in bed with Microsoft, how do you know that Microsoft wouldn't try to force the same? It would seem to be some sort of silly speculation, neither Apple nor any other audio device maker seems to ever force updates.
I think what that means is that you would have to force the operating system to not page out. That shouldn't be a problem because flash memory isn't that much different in complexity than RAM in terms of gates, so by the time you can afford get a 32GB flash module, 32GB of RAM would be pretty affordable too.
Why aren't you buying larger drives? I realize there's this cost per capacity issue, such that 400 and 500GB drives are kind of expensive, 300GB drives are surprisingly cheap. If you get too many drives running, then you start to get heat and noise concerns.
AMD will be migrating to DDR2 and a new socket in a few months, which means if you want to upgrade after that, you'll have to switch CPU, motherboard, and memory, again (not the video card, though -- PCI-E will hopefully be around for a while yet).
It is this sort of thing that makes it hard to justify major upgrades. I've never replaced the motherboard without having to replace the memory, CPU, hard drive and video card in order to get an acceptable performing upgrade. Any motherboard upgrade I did without updating those parts meant for me that I was seriously holding back the performance of the upgrade. The grandparent post was basically advocating upgrading the whole computer as if it were an inexpensive exercise, the switch to PCI-E is starting to demand replacing the entire computer, which is easily triple the cost of just replacing the video card. If you bought a 3000+ computer a year ago, it should still be a fine computer, only a video card upgrade should be necessary, performance-wise, to play the latest games.
I really don't understand why the graphics makers were so quick to dump AGP, they didn't drop PCI this quickly that I remember.
What's that called, RAID -1?
That's probably more like RAID -2 because RAID-0 is kind of a negative RAID as well.
It would seem that either taking a significant portion of the assets of the actual perpetrators, or actual jail time in a real prison rather than the Hotel Incerceration that Martha Stewart stayed in, would be the only real deterrence.
Mac hardware always does rip you off, I only payed $39 for my 8 button pc-mouse, not $180.
Did you learn spelling at Don's Discount Schools?
Does that mouse have easy, proportional side scrolling?
It's true. It doesn't work well with right-handed use. Still, for having the easiest scroll ball, having the easiest side scrolling, and the easiest middle button of any scroll mouse, I think it still wins, just not as large of a margin as it should.
The side buttons are kind of worthless though, given how much force it takes to activate.
allofmp3.com will begin to become an _enourmous_ hit (think Napster at its height). The RIAA is going to absolutely freak out and do everything in their power to shut them down. The funny thing is that that sight is bringing true market dynamics to selling music online (along with giving customers what they want, no DRM crap), but as much as they _say_ they are capitalists, the RIAA is just a price fixing oligarchy.
That capitalism isn't much different from the RIAA though. Basically, allofmp3 and RIAA make other people do their work at someone else's expense and then profit off of it without paying their due share for the product they are selling.
I've never seen a site that says "yep, allofmp3.com is illegal".
Maybe because it isn't that simple?
In fact, I've never seen a music or RIAA rep say that, which is pretty unusual.
I think it would be silly for them to do that, because it would be promoting something that they can't currently stop.
What, exactly takes 100mb about a background shown at 72ppi and 800x600?
Surely you jest, it takes a lot more than 100 millibits to make a background.
ppi has nothing to do with the final file size if you've already set the raster size.
Seriously, the article says "up to". If you have a crowd of a lot of people, with several layers being buildings, trees, mountains, sky and clouds, that can add up to a lot.
Given that many of the EB and such stores are in high rent districts, I can imagine that once the new product is sold, all of the margin from their cost to sell price goes to overhead, be it taxes, rent, payroll, utilities and so on. With used games, for reasonably new games, they seem to buy from the individual at less than 25% of the original price and turn around to label it at 75% original list or more, making the actual profit on the used game possibly higher than the new, with less invested.
In terms of costs, it doesn't help that most of these game stores seem to be very poorly managed.
Or, a 16" monitor set to 800x600 when viewed from 2'.
That's better than DVD resolution, not that it would help with a quarter VGA image.
I too doubt Apple will go open source with their GUI system. I think that's a longer shot than Apple selling the OS to work on generic computers, though I would like that, I would buy several licences if they did such.
Sometimes it the knowledge gained is significant. The significance is only rarely known beforehand. Identifying who really painted it, how they painted it and maybe even additional insights on their motivations might be gleaned from a more detailed analysis.
With $105 billion in this type of crime in 2005, I'm glad the Department of Homeland Security has had their budget cut to $16 million.
Is this a real budget cut, or a cut in projected increases?
Government budget cuts are the most preposterous lies I've seen in a long time. Say the next year's budget is slated to increase 8%. Let's just say that increase is reduced to 4%. Politicians, pundits and media people can then claim (or complain of) a 4% cut, despite that in reality, it was still an increase, the cut was from an imaginary budget that was never enacted. I wish my pay suffered a government budget cut.
Everything is crap if you don't have an easy way of discriminating from the good and the bad, etc.
Dumpster diving is not for everyone. Finding a good web long is not too unlike sifting through rubbish to find a diamond ring.
I would expect that Apple probably pays more per chip than the console makers.
Still, of the three consoles you mentioned, only one is out in 2005, at a trickle rate, not much of a win for Power or PPC this year.
Apple isn't that far behind. Apple sold something like 5 million Macs in 2005.