There are a few of us still stuck in bandwidth purgatory (in my case, courtesy of the great satan @ hellsouth). I have wifi, which (via the AEBS) dials into the ISP. So I'm set for that day (in the far off future) when someone finally drags a fibre/dsl cable out here.
I could see something working if (and only if) it were implemented as a 'ceiling based' paradigm.
IOW, "iTunes Music Store... where every song is 99-cents or less !" The highest any song could cost would be 99-cents, but older / less-demanded songs could be put on special for 77-cents, 66-cents or perhaps 55-cents. Daily specials perhaps. Albums could be on special for $8.88, $7.77 or $6.66. That would drive more demand.
Raising a track price above 99-cents is only going to hurt those who were not there in the first place, and caused the price to go above 99-cents. Punishing those who were late in line is *not* a good marketing ploy. This isn't a "scarce resource" folks. They can stamp out digital-copies as fast as the servers can serve them.
Right now I can get all the tracks I can afford from the used CD shop for ~50-cents (or less) per track (used CDs being 10/$50). Why on earth should I want to pay 99-cents (much less more) for the same tracks ?
... must be doing cartwheels over this development. I worked for them almost 20 years ago. Back then they were trying to figure out how to do this. How to tell when a certain person was sitting in front of the TV (and what the TV was tuned to, which was the easier of the two). Kudos to Tivo.
Have your issuing bank contact the Key-Fob-DRM dept at Apple. Just install a FairPlayFob in your iPod instead. Yes, this is a dreamy idea, but that would make it so much better if alll your fobs were running in software on the your nano. Just spin the track wheel to pick out the correct one.
Without heavy and expensive promotion by RIAA, the value of, say, 50 Cent would be hovering just above zero (some would argue below). RIAA effectively created the artificial demand for his product, which, supported by copyright laws, fuels a vast ecosystem of businesses. Why shouldn't those benefitting from selling, reselling or otherwise commercially benefitting from 50 Cent's music own portion of profits to RIAA who created majority of the value in the first place?
Which is all great and wonderful and nice and smells just like a spring shower...
How much does an Artist (generic Artist, not just the top 100 money earners) make off one CD (shelved at WalMart, KMart, Target, or wherever) ? If the RIAA takes home (via various sundry marketing moves) 90% of the wholesale (certainly not 90% of Walmart's gross, no siree bob), then how much does the Artist actually make ? 2-cents, 3-cents ?
I'm beginning to wonder if the real issue here isn't so much what price iTms should be selling the track for, but how best to break Steve and company. No matter how good iTms is or how well it moves bits, it does not replace the entrenched mechanisms that move physical goods out to the consumer channel. I know many many people who (like me) do not have the bandwidth to buy from iTMS. Short of gooogle stepping up to the plate and rolling out free wifi for the entire USA, I think that iTMS has an eventual market saturation point. Of course, shipping 80GB hard drives does alter the equation a bit, but not the underlying infrastructure. Some folks just want to have a real piece of plastic in their hands for $15. Solve that problem, without the RIAA being in the food chain, and you will relegate them to a smaller status.
IIRC, the early hackers of the Mac Mini found that the jumpers were there to up the clock speed to 1.5 GHz. So that part of the bump might have been just a jumper change. For all we know, the CPU parts may have been 1.5 capable for quite a while now (as the mainboard certainly was since day one).
More interesting is the vram upgrade. Why does Apple all of a sudden decide that the Mini needs more vram ? Perhaps this bump'ed Mini might be a transitory product, not even worthy of a SKU number.. ever ! Or.. the product with the new number will have a whole new mainboard.. 9550 anyone ?
I'm stilll waiting for the other shoe to drop concerning the ipod nano dock adapter, in the funny size that doesn't fit anything.. yet.
The thing I don't under stand is, say you have two network providers, A and B. If A's customers are sending more data to B's customers, then should A pay B for the route, or should B pay A because it is their customers that are requesting the packets?
You really should go read the traffic on NANOG. It goes into great depth to explain the current "lets see who blinks first" situation
The abridged version is... Cogent and L3 had what is called a peering agreement (this is also called a Settlement Free Interconnect or SFI). Cogent has been low-balling the industry trying to attract business (and possibly undercuting L3). Likely (but unknown) that L3 was handing more of Cogent's originating traffic than Cogent was handling of L3's originated traffic. L3 would like to see Cogent change the relationship from peering (SFI) to Transit (where Cogent would be paying L3 to handle the traffic, mostly because of the imbalance). Cogent would like for L3 to reactivate the peer, so they can go on getting SFI (aka free-transit). Economics and Politics are much involved in this discussion. Go read the 100+ messages on NANOG, there are some great explanations there.
Same here. I bought a 4G iPod along with a new iBook (Student Union indeed). I think the iPod and the iBook use the same plastic (polycarbonate). Somewhere back in my mind (its a bit hazy) I remember a discussion I had one time about DuPont Corian (solid surface material, countertops, etc). The gist of the conversation was that white Corian would show scratches less than any other color due to the behavior or the plastic when it scratched. The effect of scratching would make it deform (and supposidly) change color slightly. So white was the color of choice (presumably Glacier White) because the scratches would be less noticible. I never did get the countertop I wanted, but I did get a Corian cutting board (heavy sucker). Even with white, I can still see all the places that knives have cut into it. I can just imagine what a black one would look like.
The very first week I had the iPod, I noticed scratches (although mostly on the laser etched metal back cover). So I wrapped that thing up when I was not actively using it. More recently I am wrapping el cheapo grocery store plastic wrap around it (leaving the top controls exposed). The trackwheel still works thru 2-layers of plastic wrap. Looks like hell, but I think it will last a bit longer this way.
So the RIAA is hoping by jacking up the price they can make online music unpopular enough that CD's will be more popular for awhile, until a good iPod competitor can kick Jobs off the top of the heap and make the market more even and they can keep playing the game.
I think you are right. Why this pig isn't going to fly is.. the iPods will continue to sell. Anyone who bought an iPod 1G, then a 3G, then a nano can still move their music up to the next device even if the record companies try to call Steve's bluff. Likewise the artists would have a tizzy. The iPod is more than a record company distribution vehicle, and they are just now beginning to get the picture. They are just along for the ride. Try to screw the customer, and the customer will say "screw you buddy" and do exactly what Steve predicts. Worse case, the customer will go buy one copy of a new CD, rip it, then pass it around to all the buddies. Lets see the RIAA try to track that down. The existing paradigm is well thought out, and stands an excellent chance of making money for everyone, if they don't get greedy. Apple hold most (if not all) of the cards. The record companies are just groking this.
if what Jobs says is accurate -- that the record companies make more profit from an iTunes song than physical media -- then yeah, I'd tend to agree that they're being greedy.
Oh I agree. What I think isn't being said here (by either side) is that many of the iTMS sales are single-tracks (from a given CD). So instead of the record company getting their share of a $14.99 physical-media transaction, they are getting their share of a $1.98 electronic-media transaction. No matter how you slice the bread, that has to be less revenue in the end. The paradigm has shifted, really shifted. Some folks will continue to buy whole albums, but the concept of the record companies marketing 'singles' has gone completely out the window. They are now potentiallly being held hostage to the success of each and every track (before it was the album/CD). I don't think they saw it coming.
You gain granularity in that you can buy only the songs you want. You gain instant gratification in that you can get the song immediately without going to a store. You gain selection since many songs available in the iTunes store are not available in most record stores. Also, your comment about album art is no longer correct. Most albums sold there come with the artwork, and some with music videos. I'm also not sure about price. In some cases the iTunes store costs more and in some less than buying the physical album.
Right. I think granularity is part of whats eating at the record companies. In the past, you had to buy the whole CD to get one or two tracks. Now you can just buy the two tracks that interest you. Nevermind that the online overhead is so much less than physical retail, the record company didn't sell the whole CD now. So I think that is throwing a bit of a monkey wrench in their marketing plans.
I see this as a "good cop (Steve), bad cop (record companies)" kinda play. The record companies are having to deal with market motions they never envisioned, so they are reacting like.. "we need to get out revenue stream back up". Maybe yes, maybe no. At the end of the day, they would be doing much better if they issued records that had a full set of desireable tracks. Likewise, I think they should crank down the price of older stuff ($7.99/album ?). This is the same stuff that is being compilation'ed at the dollar store for $3 or $4.
I would want some written guarantees, that the company would pay for the legal costs of defending a case like this, and would not "roll over" and recommend settling.
But thats what insurance companies do. They look at all the options and figure out which one has the lower cost. Obviously the lower cost is to give them the $10K and move on. Personally, I don't agree with that, but the insurance company (i.e. bean counters) will contrast $10K vs $200K (or whatever to fight the battle) and make a quick decision.
The better solution is for one of these cases to come along (where the person being served is really innocent) and start a legal defense fund. Have all these people on here (and elsewhere, 100s, 1000s, 10ks ?) put some cash in an envelop (wrapped in foil, natch) and send it to the legal defense fund. That would make sure that an insurance company would not just take the cheap way out. To do this properly, I would think a basic amount would have to be $1M (so 20K-50K ppl sending $50-$20, you get the idea). If that happened, how much you want to bet the RIAA would back off, drop the charges and move along to the next person. Money talks, and they do not want to get into a fight that they might just loose.
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It seems that they're putting a USB host port on the in-dash audio system which allows it to mount your portable digital audio player as USB Storage.
OK, So far so good...
This allows the system to navigate and play your MP3/AAC/etc files using the in-dash display, rather than requiring you to fumble with the portable's UI. That also implies that it will play it using the in-dash device's decoder.
But... if all the files on the iPod are Fairplay DRM'ed doesn't the OS in the iPod have to get involved in order to decode the files ? For MP3 files, this would be a non-issue. But I see RIAA having kittens (of a sort) if the iPod decrypted the AAC file, then sent the decrypted audio-stream over to the dashboard unit for DA and amplification. Sounds like someone could USB tap the stream and get a look at the unencrypted data. OTOH, the encrypted AAC might be sent over to the dashboard unit, which leads to other interesting questions about authorizing the in-car unit for those files. Could it be that the iPod would decrypt the AAC files then establish a SSH session with the indash unit to move the data securely ? Zounds !
Look, 10 years ago in '95, Jobs was behind the campaign that promised the new PPC machines were 100x faster than Intel.
err, umm, dude... Steve had not returned to Apple in '95. He was still at NeXT. Please fact check before posting. BTW, Apple began the PPC switch in the early 90's (about 1991 IIRC). So Steve, was not around when that happened. Blame Sculley or Amelio (as appropriate).
It's just a misleading summary. This one is still champion:
"There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed."
Does this guy use the same 'yes-men' that dubya uses ? Perhaps he should get out of his multi-billion dollar mansion, drive down to wally word, buy something off the floor and then try to use it. Just go plug it into a random dsl line somewhere and see what pops up in the first 5 minutes.
First of all, the states asked for aid, and Bush signed a state of emergency, BEFORE Katrina hit. There was no question about authority. FEMA and the federal government had all the authority and responsibility in this situation.
well, apparently, yes and no. The state controls the guard, and any national troops deployed report to the guard it would seem. I found this interesting tidbit on nola.com
Following the meeting on Air Force One, the White House sent Blanco a proposed memorandum of understanding late Friday night that she was urged to sign right away, according to the governor. The memo would have taken the rare step of putting Honore in charge of both the Guardsmen and the active-duty military units while answering to both the president and Blanco, known in the military as dual-reporting.
But Blanco, after meetings by her staff that consumed much of Friday night and Saturday morning, declined to sign the memo and opted to preserve her authority of the Guard forces, which by then numbered more than 13,000. Blanco said she did not want to undermine the authority of Maj. Gen. Bennett Landreneau, who heads the Louisiana National Guard and oversees the Guard troops who have arrived from other states.
"The problem with the offer (to federalize) was that when the question was asked, 'How does this make things better?' the question was never answered," said one state official who attended meetings about the issue but asked to remain anonymous because he does not have authority to speak for the governor.
One way of looking at this was that it was a power-grab by the federal government, but I'm not so sure. Apparently the feds had one reason for requesting this, and Blanco (and her staff) had their own reasons for refusing it.
Cost of film? Let's say you're shooting 35MM instead of medium format (arguably a 1DS is a little less in terms of quality than a Hassy at 16x20, but the customer would probably never see it) then thats 67 rolls of film. A propack of 400NC from BH Photo is 28.45 for 5 rolls, which translates 14 packs at a cost of 400$.
Someone make me a CCD back for my Hassey 500C, stuff 4-8 of these babies in it, and not cost a damn fortune... hasta la vista to 120 film, and hello to FireWire:)
Unless you take the perspective that the city is a total write-off. Its going to be very close to that if the it really takes 9-weeks to pump it out. All the drywall is shot. You are going to have great amounts of wood rot. The carpet mills will be weaving for decades to meet the demand. Why not turn it into a big biological swamp exhibit and move upriver a ways ?
Like most cities with a long and distinguished history.., the folks that got there first (i.e. in the french quarter) took the high ground... FOR THE OBVIOUS REASON ! Now we have folks being sold condos and split-levels all over the city and while they know (somewhere in the back of their mind) that they (and their house) are below sea level, it usually never occupies that much thought... until the shit really hits the fan. It just hit the fan... big time.
Some reports are saying that the govenor wants the entire city evac'ed. I am *guessing* that they may have to let the bowl fill up before they can get decent repairs on the levee. The only event I can even imagine of this scale is for the San Andreas to let loose right under LA (and I reallly hope that does not happpen in my lifetime). This is way beyond a catastrophe. This is functionally (if not literally) the destruction of a major US city. Other than the act of god bit, it would take a nuke to equal what just happened. How would you like to flee your home, then get told that it may be months before you are allowed back, and then to see what all that water did to the carpets, drywall, etc.
Folks, it doesn't get much worse than this.. except for death... and some folks bought that ticket.
My initial reaction to this was... Hmmm, maybe I can go ahead and make the plunge to buy that new G4 iBook
I got one. It rocks. xcode 2.1 with 1.5 gb of ram. I'm very pleased (other than the speakers which seem wimpy and sound tinny). It's been a week since I put in the extra ram... and top says "VM: 4.62G + 70.9M 223233(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts". Love that 0(0) !
So it sounds less like its money out of Apple's pocket and more like its just a (potential) reduction of profits. The real out of pocket is sending out the letter. Those owners who never registered with Apple will never get a mailing. If you can only use it to buy stuff direct from Apple, its almost like getting a discount (say like a higher-ed discount). I'm not seeing a whole lot of loss on this deal (and maybe some encouragement of more sales for Apple).
Try to name a product in the last 15 years that you can't change it yourself - I'm having a hard time coming up with one.
DustBuster... the batts (NiCad I believe) in mine are just about shot. I called a nearby B&D parts store and asked about replacements. They said to just toss it and go buy a new one. But I like this one !
z/OS is just an extension of the systems they've been running for decades, renamed to look "cool."
So... z/OS is really a pretty face on the decendants of OS/MVS ?
I am one of those 'grey hairs'. Cut my teeth on 360's, 370's, etc. First started with Fortran on a Univac (9400) clone of a 360/30 (REALLY!) We used textbooks written for 360/BAL to write asm on the univac. In those days we had no fixed HDs, everything was removable (unless you count the drum memory that Univac sold for the 418-III's). Thought I was in really deep shit the first time I dropped a 20MB disk pack (hey, it slipped !). Interesting times. Lots of big iron and very tight programming constraints. That mainframe had 196K of ram (bytes, not words). I could still get three simultanious partitions of batch work running on the swing shift. Best night ever was when one of the channel adapters failed. I had to code 10 lines in hex, from the reference manuals, then enter it thru the lights on the front panel, so the field engineer could figure out why his boot tape would not boot. And now I write J2SE. Long road, and lots of code.
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There are a few of us still stuck in bandwidth purgatory (in my case, courtesy of the great satan @ hellsouth). I have wifi, which (via the AEBS) dials into the ISP. So I'm set for that day (in the far off future) when someone finally drags a fibre/dsl cable out here.
I could see something working if (and only if) it were implemented as a 'ceiling based' paradigm.
IOW, "iTunes Music Store... where every song is 99-cents or less !" The highest any song could cost would be 99-cents, but older / less-demanded songs could be put on special for 77-cents, 66-cents or perhaps 55-cents. Daily specials perhaps. Albums could be on special for $8.88, $7.77 or $6.66. That would drive more demand.
Raising a track price above 99-cents is only going to hurt those who were not there in the first place, and caused the price to go above 99-cents. Punishing those who were late in line is *not* a good marketing ploy. This isn't a "scarce resource" folks. They can stamp out digital-copies as fast as the servers can serve them.
Right now I can get all the tracks I can afford from the used CD shop for ~50-cents (or less) per track (used CDs being 10/$50). Why on earth should I want to pay 99-cents (much less more) for the same tracks ?
... must be doing cartwheels over this development. I worked for them almost 20 years ago. Back then they were trying to figure out how to do this. How to tell when a certain person was sitting in front of the TV (and what the TV was tuned to, which was the easier of the two). Kudos to Tivo.
Have your issuing bank contact the Key-Fob-DRM dept at Apple. Just install a FairPlayFob in your iPod instead. Yes, this is a dreamy idea, but that would make it so much better if alll your fobs were running in software on the your nano. Just spin the track wheel to pick out the correct one.
Which is all great and wonderful and nice and smells just like a spring shower...
How much does an Artist (generic Artist, not just the top 100 money earners) make off one CD (shelved at WalMart, KMart, Target, or wherever) ? If the RIAA takes home (via various sundry marketing moves) 90% of the wholesale (certainly not 90% of Walmart's gross, no siree bob), then how much does the Artist actually make ? 2-cents, 3-cents ?
I'm beginning to wonder if the real issue here isn't so much what price iTms should be selling the track for, but how best to break Steve and company. No matter how good iTms is or how well it moves bits, it does not replace the entrenched mechanisms that move physical goods out to the consumer channel. I know many many people who (like me) do not have the bandwidth to buy from iTMS. Short of gooogle stepping up to the plate and rolling out free wifi for the entire USA, I think that iTMS has an eventual market saturation point. Of course, shipping 80GB hard drives does alter the equation a bit, but not the underlying infrastructure. Some folks just want to have a real piece of plastic in their hands for $15. Solve that problem, without the RIAA being in the food chain, and you will relegate them to a smaller status.
{ wonders idly } Has anyone doen a Lisa emulator for OS X ?
Lisa 7/7 under OS X... that would be trippin !
IIRC, the early hackers of the Mac Mini found that the jumpers were there to up the clock speed to 1.5 GHz. So that part of the bump might have been just a jumper change. For all we know, the CPU parts may have been 1.5 capable for quite a while now (as the mainboard certainly was since day one).
More interesting is the vram upgrade. Why does Apple all of a sudden decide that the Mini needs more vram ? Perhaps this bump'ed Mini might be a transitory product, not even worthy of a SKU number.. ever ! Or.. the product with the new number will have a whole new mainboard.. 9550 anyone ?
I'm stilll waiting for the other shoe to drop concerning the ipod nano dock adapter, in the funny size that doesn't fit anything.. yet.
All kinds of little clues swirling in the water.
You really should go read the traffic on NANOG. It goes into great depth to explain the current "lets see who blinks first" situation
The abridged version is... Cogent and L3 had what is called a peering agreement (this is also called a Settlement Free Interconnect or SFI). Cogent has been low-balling the industry trying to attract business (and possibly undercuting L3). Likely (but unknown) that L3 was handing more of Cogent's originating traffic than Cogent was handling of L3's originated traffic. L3 would like to see Cogent change the relationship from peering (SFI) to Transit (where Cogent would be paying L3 to handle the traffic, mostly because of the imbalance). Cogent would like for L3 to reactivate the peer, so they can go on getting SFI (aka free-transit). Economics and Politics are much involved in this discussion. Go read the 100+ messages on NANOG, there are some great explanations there.
Same here. I bought a 4G iPod along with a new iBook (Student Union indeed). I think the iPod and the iBook use the same plastic (polycarbonate). Somewhere back in my mind (its a bit hazy) I remember a discussion I had one time about DuPont Corian (solid surface material, countertops, etc). The gist of the conversation was that white Corian would show scratches less than any other color due to the behavior or the plastic when it scratched. The effect of scratching would make it deform (and supposidly) change color slightly. So white was the color of choice (presumably Glacier White) because the scratches would be less noticible. I never did get the countertop I wanted, but I did get a Corian cutting board (heavy sucker). Even with white, I can still see all the places that knives have cut into it. I can just imagine what a black one would look like.
The very first week I had the iPod, I noticed scratches (although mostly on the laser etched metal back cover). So I wrapped that thing up when I was not actively using it. More recently I am wrapping el cheapo grocery store plastic wrap around it (leaving the top controls exposed). The trackwheel still works thru 2-layers of plastic wrap. Looks like hell, but I think it will last a bit longer this way.
I think you are right. Why this pig isn't going to fly is.. the iPods will continue to sell. Anyone who bought an iPod 1G, then a 3G, then a nano can still move their music up to the next device even if the record companies try to call Steve's bluff. Likewise the artists would have a tizzy. The iPod is more than a record company distribution vehicle, and they are just now beginning to get the picture. They are just along for the ride. Try to screw the customer, and the customer will say "screw you buddy" and do exactly what Steve predicts. Worse case, the customer will go buy one copy of a new CD, rip it, then pass it around to all the buddies. Lets see the RIAA try to track that down. The existing paradigm is well thought out, and stands an excellent chance of making money for everyone, if they don't get greedy. Apple hold most (if not all) of the cards. The record companies are just groking this.
Oh I agree. What I think isn't being said here (by either side) is that many of the iTMS sales are single-tracks (from a given CD). So instead of the record company getting their share of a $14.99 physical-media transaction, they are getting their share of a $1.98 electronic-media transaction. No matter how you slice the bread, that has to be less revenue in the end. The paradigm has shifted, really shifted. Some folks will continue to buy whole albums, but the concept of the record companies marketing 'singles' has gone completely out the window. They are now potentiallly being held hostage to the success of each and every track (before it was the album/CD). I don't think they saw it coming.
Right. I think granularity is part of whats eating at the record companies. In the past, you had to buy the whole CD to get one or two tracks. Now you can just buy the two tracks that interest you. Nevermind that the online overhead is so much less than physical retail, the record company didn't sell the whole CD now. So I think that is throwing a bit of a monkey wrench in their marketing plans.
I see this as a "good cop (Steve), bad cop (record companies)" kinda play. The record companies are having to deal with market motions they never envisioned, so they are reacting like.. "we need to get out revenue stream back up". Maybe yes, maybe no. At the end of the day, they would be doing much better if they issued records that had a full set of desireable tracks. Likewise, I think they should crank down the price of older stuff ($7.99/album ?). This is the same stuff that is being compilation'ed at the dollar store for $3 or $4.
But thats what insurance companies do. They look at all the options and figure out which one has the lower cost. Obviously the lower cost is to give them the $10K and move on. Personally, I don't agree with that, but the insurance company (i.e. bean counters) will contrast $10K vs $200K (or whatever to fight the battle) and make a quick decision.
The better solution is for one of these cases to come along (where the person being served is really innocent) and start a legal defense fund. Have all these people on here (and elsewhere, 100s, 1000s, 10ks ?) put some cash in an envelop (wrapped in foil, natch) and send it to the legal defense fund. That would make sure that an insurance company would not just take the cheap way out. To do this properly, I would think a basic amount would have to be $1M (so 20K-50K ppl sending $50-$20, you get the idea). If that happened, how much you want to bet the RIAA would back off, drop the charges and move along to the next person. Money talks, and they do not want to get into a fight that they might just loose.
OK, So far so good...
This allows the system to navigate and play your MP3/AAC/etc files using the in-dash display, rather than requiring you to fumble with the portable's UI. That also implies that it will play it using the in-dash device's decoder.
But... if all the files on the iPod are Fairplay DRM'ed doesn't the OS in the iPod have to get involved in order to decode the files ? For MP3 files, this would be a non-issue. But I see RIAA having kittens (of a sort) if the iPod decrypted the AAC file, then sent the decrypted audio-stream over to the dashboard unit for DA and amplification. Sounds like someone could USB tap the stream and get a look at the unencrypted data. OTOH, the encrypted AAC might be sent over to the dashboard unit, which leads to other interesting questions about authorizing the in-car unit for those files. Could it be that the iPod would decrypt the AAC files then establish a SSH session with the indash unit to move the data securely ? Zounds !
err, umm, dude... Steve had not returned to Apple in '95. He was still at NeXT. Please fact check before posting. BTW, Apple began the PPC switch in the early 90's (about 1991 IIRC). So Steve, was not around when that happened. Blame Sculley or Amelio (as appropriate).
But it will be vodcast'ed !
Q: How many video-podcasts will it take to change the government ?
A: Only time will tell.
Does this guy use the same 'yes-men' that dubya uses ? Perhaps he should get out of his multi-billion dollar mansion, drive down to wally word, buy something off the floor and then try to use it. Just go plug it into a random dsl line somewhere and see what pops up in the first 5 minutes.
Sheeesh.. what a morooon
well, apparently, yes and no. The state controls the guard, and any national troops deployed report to the guard it would seem. I found this interesting tidbit on nola.com
One way of looking at this was that it was a power-grab by the federal government, but I'm not so sure. Apparently the feds had one reason for requesting this, and Blanco (and her staff) had their own reasons for refusing it.
Someone make me a CCD back for my Hassey 500C, stuff 4-8 of these babies in it, and not cost a damn fortune... hasta la vista to 120 film, and hello to FireWire :)
Unless you take the perspective that the city is a total write-off. Its going to be very close to that if the it really takes 9-weeks to pump it out. All the drywall is shot. You are going to have great amounts of wood rot. The carpet mills will be weaving for decades to meet the demand. Why not turn it into a big biological swamp exhibit and move upriver a ways ?
Some reports are saying that the govenor wants the entire city evac'ed. I am *guessing* that they may have to let the bowl fill up before they can get decent repairs on the levee. The only event I can even imagine of this scale is for the San Andreas to let loose right under LA (and I reallly hope that does not happpen in my lifetime). This is way beyond a catastrophe. This is functionally (if not literally) the destruction of a major US city. Other than the act of god bit, it would take a nuke to equal what just happened. How would you like to flee your home, then get told that it may be months before you are allowed back, and then to see what all that water did to the carpets, drywall, etc.
Folks, it doesn't get much worse than this.. except for death... and some folks bought that ticket.
I got one. It rocks. xcode 2.1 with 1.5 gb of ram. I'm very pleased (other than the speakers which seem wimpy and sound tinny). It's been a week since I put in the extra ram... and top says "VM: 4.62G + 70.9M 223233(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts". Love that 0(0) !
So it sounds less like its money out of Apple's pocket and more like its just a (potential) reduction of profits. The real out of pocket is sending out the letter. Those owners who never registered with Apple will never get a mailing. If you can only use it to buy stuff direct from Apple, its almost like getting a discount (say like a higher-ed discount). I'm not seeing a whole lot of loss on this deal (and maybe some encouragement of more sales for Apple).
DustBuster... the batts (NiCad I believe) in mine are just about shot. I called a nearby B&D parts store and asked about replacements. They said to just toss it and go buy a new one. But I like this one !
So... z/OS is really a pretty face on the decendants of OS/MVS ?
I am one of those 'grey hairs'. Cut my teeth on 360's, 370's, etc. First started with Fortran on a Univac (9400) clone of a 360/30 (REALLY!) We used textbooks written for 360/BAL to write asm on the univac. In those days we had no fixed HDs, everything was removable (unless you count the drum memory that Univac sold for the 418-III's). Thought I was in really deep shit the first time I dropped a 20MB disk pack (hey, it slipped !). Interesting times. Lots of big iron and very tight programming constraints. That mainframe had 196K of ram (bytes, not words). I could still get three simultanious partitions of batch work running on the swing shift. Best night ever was when one of the channel adapters failed. I had to code 10 lines in hex, from the reference manuals, then enter it thru the lights on the front panel, so the field engineer could figure out why his boot tape would not boot. And now I write J2SE. Long road, and lots of code.