Yes.
I think he's got a similar level of exposure that Bill Gates had circa 1997; a lot of people know who he is even if they don't have his life story memorized.
I thought iTV would do much less than a computer. It only needs to display menus (simplified front row), cache streamed content, and adjust picure settings. It doesn't need to, say, run iMovie.
I also remember after the press release about 'Hack My Mac Mini,' some fairly high-profile Mac sysadmin (for some uni, IIRC he posts here on Slashdot)
You're talking about Dave Schroeder from U Wisc. Madison who hosted This Challenge of Mac Security. It got taken down before the challende ended because it was not sanctioned by the university.
One upside to Mac pricing is that they also have a value on the resale market. They are a bit more expensive at the time of purchase, but they also hold their value well. Low market share means that there are not as many machines in the potential used machine market, thus a slightly higher demand and higher prices (used pricing guide here.
Also a lot of the "less than useful components" in macs are more useful at selling time than at purchase time - iBooks started including 802.11b slots in 1999. I was able to sell my Powermac g4 for about 1/2 of what I paid for it (not including upgrades like RAM and additional disk drives), after 2 1/2 years of use.
The sentiment " Just get another PC. They're cheap these days" is true. It also means there is little incentive to try and sell a used PC. I agree with you wholeheartedly that some accessories are overpriced - thats why I use an IBM multi button mouse instead of a mighty mouse.
Certain high profile events such as the Olympics, political conventions and the super-bowl are protected by the US secret service.
"When an event is designated a National Special Security Event, the Secret Service assumes its mandated role as the lead agency for the design and implementation of the operational security plan."
NTSC video is 720px x 486px at 29.997 frames per second. 2 seconds of video is close to 100MB
He is also probably talking about assets pre rendering. Every character has textures associated with it, and the geometry, while not that huge, adds up.
I've always thought that Segway could drive interest in their human transporters by creating a sport where players are attached using ski boot bindings in place of the handlebars and players do battle in a freestyle skate park.
But that's just me.
And since I own this comment, I'm not too worries about any implausible prior art lawsuit that could arise.
According to This PageCC owned 1,207 USA stations in 2004. The somewhat scary stat is that the next largest family of stations own 268 stations.
I don't know about RFA rallies, but the article about CC i read in Harper's painted a scary picture not because they own X (1,207) stations. It was scary because they advertise those stations on their collection of Y billboards and promote shows at Z venues they control.
Clear channel isn't alone in this either. In the recent (Labor day) NYT profile about Les Moonves, he was talking about Vicaom synergy and he said something like -We produce a show, air it on a network we own, and promote it on our billboards.
The best thing about the iPod is the marketing: the iPod name, the clean looks, the slimness, iTunes, the adverts, the white earphones, the Apple name. I believe its called synergy, or "pulling the wool over the customer's eyes".
Everything here is correct except semantics. Designis where most of the iPod strengths lie. The iPod fits a human hand well ("slim") and has a distinctive (white) no frills, functional appearance (clean lines).
Synergy comes into play in how the iPod wrks with iTunes and Airport Express and now Frontrow. Choosing the name iPod was a smart marketing idea, it fit into Apple's iLine of consumer products but it also evokes what you want when you listen to music: Your own private pod.
"Explain how the scroll wheel is so special". . . "So how is the scroll wheel so critical to the iPod's success? Or maybe it's not the scroll wheel you mean."
I've never used a Karma, but the pics show the wheel on the upper right-hand corner. iPodders seem to brag about manipulate the scroll wheel well with one finger (even with the first gen non touch-screen iPod). The central location of the apple scroll wheel also allow for one handed operation by righties and southpaws. Your Karma is just as functional as an iPod but perhaps not as flexible. This is due to the size and mechanical properties of the Karma wheel, perhaps people are used to the iPod.
Explain what is so specific and granular about a mechanism that lets you build playlists based on play count and rating. My Karma lets me choose individual tracks from individual albums! I don't see how it could get any more specific and granular. Or maybe it's not the specificity and the granularity that you mean.
Can you have a playlist of all songs in your library, over 2 minutes and under 5 minutes, by an artist with a name containing a 'Q', rated over four stars, in the dance genre or the hip hop genre, that haven't been played in over two weeks and have been played more than 27 times, with a bit-rate over 96kHz, added to the library after June of 2004 ?
Bottom Line?
Open source can outdo the iPod -if it also outdoes iTunes AND the iTunes music store AND the iPod dock connector AND they all work well together.
A buddy of mine was loaned one last winter and we went for a spin. I think it was a GEM brand. I think this was an early model, very sparse interior. No insulation (had heavy jacket on - december in vermont) and not lockable, but very functional and fun to drive. Would probably handle most "around town" driving just fine.
WIRED mentioned (halfway down) this (or a similar PARC technology) back in '99, and I got real excited about it. Nice to see some traction finally starting to form.
While the Harry Potter style pictures mentioned in the article sound cool, a low power, lightweight ebook reader could conceivably change publishing for the better. Maybe after high end advertising subsidizes the development of the technology enough, someone will release an environmentally conscious magazine format that can be refilled RSS style.
Since the pages only need to be powered when their updated, solar power might not be completely unrealistic. Would definitely face hurdles with the pulping industry . . .
I don't have a 'pod yet, I've read good things about polishing with brasso (liquid abrasive. ammonia based but a good way to remove scratches from areas without silkscreened text) and the invisible shield seems to come recommend as a replaceable glossy finish with transparent protective properties after your repair. This is available for cellphones as well.
I wrote this reply to the previous article but thought it might be relevant here as well. Google's "robustly academic" corporate culture of as well of their product offerings are well suited to NASA in particular.
"Considering how much data NASA has to process, I think Google's tools fit right in . .."
I remember a TV news piece about NASA not having the capability to process the data in it s collection due to the bandwidth of the tape backup system at the time and the shelf life and quantity of the tapes. This is the sort of data set that Google seems to look for in any market they can conceive of.
Since this data is work of the federal government it should be Public domain as well. The Public would benefit form having such information available. Anything from videos of all previous shuttle missions (NASA TV presented by Google Video) to Galactic Maps, Transcripts and scientific data from unmanned and manned missions going back to the 1950s. (Does NASA (or any other govt. agency) currently offer the data they've collected for the public in usable formats such as excel spreadsheets or other comparable formats that are not primarily publications formats such as PDF or HTML?)
"Considering how much data NASA has to process, I think Google's tools fit right in . .."
I remember a TV news piece about NASA not having the capability to process the data in it s collection due to the bandwidth of the tape backup system at the time and the shelf life and quantity of the tapes. This is the sort of data set that Google seems to look for in any market they can conceive of.
Since this data is work of the federal government it should be Public domain as well. The Public would benefit form having such information available. Anything from videos of all previous shuttle missions (NASA TV presented by Google Video) to Galactic Maps, Transcripts and scientific data from unmanned and manned missions going back to the 1950s.
None of the Thrawn books took place prior to ROTJ. Lucas knew he wanted to keep his options open for the prequels and made demands of Zahn's story reflecting this.
That said, I agree with the parent that the encounter at the cave portrayed by Zahn does not necessarily contradict these deleted scenes I have not seen. Heres part of an Interview where TZ goes into some detail
The two guidelines I was given at the beginning were: I was to start three to five years after ROTJ, and I could use any character who had not been killed off in the movies. It was very, very open. When I submitted the outline, we found a few other walls: I could not do detailed references to the Clone Wars era. I had a sort of history of the Clone Wars set up because at that time I didn't know he (George Lucas) was going to go back and do more movies, so I thought that was opened at length as well, but it turned out it wasn't. Various other things: Joruus C'baoth was originally an insane clone of Obi-Wan Kenobi and they wouldn't let me do that. And I would run into minor walls here and there . .." from this interview (February 2000, by Chris Knight)
"It's because Time/Warner and company bid on that space on the iTunes site"
Maybe for the banner graphics, but I think the original poster was referring to the top 10 text list, complied by Apple based on number of subscribers.
The explanation for this shift is logical, but not very exciting. As more and more people hear about and subscribe to Podcasts, more generic "mass appeal" popular content is going to get subscribed to by more aggregate people than the devoted fans of the narrow interest casts. When iTunes 4.9 came out engadget shot to the top of the pod-charts becasue the people who read engadget are the type of people who also download software on release day. Now it's been a few weeks and Podcastin (tm) has trickled through the major media and Bob-Average (who doesn't care about inside mac Radio or Adam Curry) decides to sign up for Peter Jennings and Roger Ebert in additon to whatever other show he may have heard or before.
I admit I did this too, even signing up for the Presifent's weekly address before unsubscribing.
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Must vaccum room; exterminate 99.9% of dust population.
Yes. I think he's got a similar level of exposure that Bill Gates had circa 1997; a lot of people know who he is even if they don't have his life story memorized.
I thought iTV would do much less than a computer. It only needs to display menus (simplified front row), cache streamed content, and adjust picure settings. It doesn't need to, say, run iMovie.
You're talking about Dave Schroeder from U Wisc. Madison who hosted This Challenge of Mac Security. It got taken down before the challende ended because it was not sanctioned by the university.
I cleaned up many of the topics. Grab em while they're hot. Here
Many corporate logos can be found Here, usually as EPS files.
Also a lot of the "less than useful components" in macs are more useful at selling time than at purchase time - iBooks started including 802.11b slots in 1999. I was able to sell my Powermac g4 for about 1/2 of what I paid for it (not including upgrades like RAM and additional disk drives), after 2 1/2 years of use.
The sentiment " Just get another PC. They're cheap these days" is true. It also means there is little incentive to try and sell a used PC. I agree with you wholeheartedly that some accessories are overpriced - thats why I use an IBM multi button mouse instead of a mighty mouse.
"When an event is designated a National Special Security Event, the Secret Service assumes its mandated role as the lead agency for the design and implementation of the operational security plan."
details here
-M. Corleone
He is also probably talking about assets pre rendering. Every character has textures associated with it, and the geometry, while not that huge, adds up.
How can a person without access to reliable drinking water earn money with a computer?
How can a person who lives on barren land use a computer to get food?
But that's just me.
And since I own this comment, I'm not too worries about any implausible prior art lawsuit that could arise.
I don't know about RFA rallies, but the article about CC i read in Harper's painted a scary picture not because they own X (1,207) stations. It was scary because they advertise those stations on their collection of Y billboards and promote shows at Z venues they control.
Clear channel isn't alone in this either. In the recent (Labor day) NYT profile about Les Moonves, he was talking about Vicaom synergy and he said something like -We produce a show, air it on a network we own, and promote it on our billboards.
Everything here is correct except semantics. Designis where most of the iPod strengths lie. The iPod fits a human hand well ("slim") and has a distinctive (white) no frills, functional appearance (clean lines).
Synergy comes into play in how the iPod wrks with iTunes and Airport Express and now Frontrow. Choosing the name iPod was a smart marketing idea, it fit into Apple's iLine of consumer products but it also evokes what you want when you listen to music: Your own private pod.
"Explain how the scroll wheel is so special". . . "So how is the scroll wheel so critical to the iPod's success? Or maybe it's not the scroll wheel you mean."
I've never used a Karma, but the pics show the wheel on the upper right-hand corner. iPodders seem to brag about manipulate the scroll wheel well with one finger (even with the first gen non touch-screen iPod). The central location of the apple scroll wheel also allow for one handed operation by righties and southpaws. Your Karma is just as functional as an iPod but perhaps not as flexible. This is due to the size and mechanical properties of the Karma wheel, perhaps people are used to the iPod.
Explain what is so specific and granular about a mechanism that lets you build playlists based on play count and rating. My Karma lets me choose individual tracks from individual albums! I don't see how it could get any more specific and granular. Or maybe it's not the specificity and the granularity that you mean.
Another user wrote a great response to this question and it explains what smart-playlists allow (the granularity mentioned above)
Can you have a playlist of all songs in your library, over 2 minutes and under 5 minutes, by an artist with a name containing a 'Q', rated over four stars, in the dance genre or the hip hop genre, that haven't been played in over two weeks and have been played more than 27 times, with a bit-rate over 96kHz, added to the library after June of 2004 ?
Bottom Line? Open source can outdo the iPod -if it also outdoes iTunes AND the iTunes music store AND the iPod dock connector AND they all work well together.
A buddy of mine was loaned one last winter and we went for a spin. I think it was a GEM brand. I think this was an early model, very sparse interior. No insulation (had heavy jacket on - december in vermont) and not lockable, but very functional and fun to drive. Would probably handle most "around town" driving just fine.
They have a war-chest, (endowment) and they do what they do with the interest, not the principal.
This article was posted 13 minutes too late.
While the Harry Potter style pictures mentioned in the article sound cool, a low power, lightweight ebook reader could conceivably change publishing for the better. Maybe after high end advertising subsidizes the development of the technology enough, someone will release an environmentally conscious magazine format that can be refilled RSS style.
Since the pages only need to be powered when their updated, solar power might not be completely unrealistic. Would definitely face hurdles with the pulping industry . . .
According to their site it can store 150 hours of video (320x240 h.264)
http://www.apple.com/ipod/ads/
I don't have a 'pod yet, I've read good things about polishing with brasso (liquid abrasive. ammonia based but a good way to remove scratches from areas without silkscreened text) and the invisible shield seems to come recommend as a replaceable glossy finish with transparent protective properties after your repair. This is available for cellphones as well.
"Considering how much data NASA has to process, I think Google's tools fit right in . . ."
I remember a TV news piece about NASA not having the capability to process the data in it s collection due to the bandwidth of the tape backup system at the time and the shelf life and quantity of the tapes. This is the sort of data set that Google seems to look for in any market they can conceive of.
Since this data is work of the federal government it should be Public domain as well. The Public would benefit form having such information available. Anything from videos of all previous shuttle missions (NASA TV presented by Google Video) to Galactic Maps, Transcripts and scientific data from unmanned and manned missions going back to the 1950s. (Does NASA (or any other govt. agency) currently offer the data they've collected for the public in usable formats such as excel spreadsheets or other comparable formats that are not primarily publications formats such as PDF or HTML?)
"Considering how much data NASA has to process, I think Google's tools fit right in . . ."
I remember a TV news piece about NASA not having the capability to process the data in it s collection due to the bandwidth of the tape backup system at the time and the shelf life and quantity of the tapes. This is the sort of data set that Google seems to look for in any market they can conceive of.
Since this data is work of the federal government it should be Public domain as well. The Public would benefit form having such information available. Anything from videos of all previous shuttle missions (NASA TV presented by Google Video) to Galactic Maps, Transcripts and scientific data from unmanned and manned missions going back to the 1950s.
That said, I agree with the parent that the encounter at the cave portrayed by Zahn does not necessarily contradict these deleted scenes I have not seen. Heres part of an Interview where TZ goes into some detail
The two guidelines I was given at the beginning were: I was to start three to five years after ROTJ, and I could use any character who had not been killed off in the movies. It was very, very open. When I submitted the outline, we found a few other walls: I could not do detailed references to the Clone Wars era. I had a sort of history of the Clone Wars set up because at that time I didn't know he (George Lucas) was going to go back and do more movies, so I thought that was opened at length as well, but it turned out it wasn't. Various other things: Joruus C'baoth was originally an insane clone of Obi-Wan Kenobi and they wouldn't let me do that. And I would run into minor walls here and there . . ." from this interview (February 2000, by Chris Knight)
Maybe for the banner graphics, but I think the original poster was referring to the top 10 text list, complied by Apple based on number of subscribers.
The explanation for this shift is logical, but not very exciting. As more and more people hear about and subscribe to Podcasts, more generic "mass appeal" popular content is going to get subscribed to by more aggregate people than the devoted fans of the narrow interest casts. When iTunes 4.9 came out engadget shot to the top of the pod-charts becasue the people who read engadget are the type of people who also download software on release day. Now it's been a few weeks and Podcastin (tm) has trickled through the major media and Bob-Average (who doesn't care about inside mac Radio or Adam Curry) decides to sign up for Peter Jennings and Roger Ebert in additon to whatever other show he may have heard or before.
I admit I did this too, even signing up for the Presifent's weekly address before unsubscribing.