I was thinking about this... "is Apple going to make the same mistake with iPods as they did with their desktops way back then?"
Then this news breaks, and I am happy that there will be some decent competition to the big M$/Dell push that's beginning to shape up this year.
So, the hope is that this licensing partnership will bring down the prices.
If Apple changes the "coolness factor" or in any way makes the HP ones less appealing (price-wise, capacity-wise, etc) then the marketing folks at Apple have most definitely had a full frontal lobotomy.
If this is the case, then iPods will go the same way as Macs have - fantastic, innovative (where have I heard that before?), but with a small select user base.
But the fact remains that Apple is trying to make up for some of the costs of iTunes via the sales of iPods... tsk tsk what a mess!
Yay, HD radio . . . wait, why do we want this again?
I heard this from the horse's mouth (someone who worked with Ibiquity for a long time)... apparently we don't need it. The broadcasters do. The broadcasters can cram many more channels into the existing bandwidth than they currently can.
If you check who the big investors are in this venture, this will become very apparent. Not just that, they may be able to offer other "services" (localized ads?)
That means more channels, more ads, more revenue for the broadcaster. I can't decide if it's a bad thing, or a good thing. At least not yet.
Just because India has over a billion people and is 1/3rd the size of the US doesn't mean that people have occupied every square inch of the country. There is land available!
So it becomes a simple case of supply and demand.
Up until the early/mid 90s, there were no jobs as high paying as IT is now in India. So no one could afford big houses (the ones that stand apart) in crowded cities.
With the IT revolution, there is this new "upper middle" class yuppies who have lots of cash to burn. These folks can afford the big mansions that your friend talks about.
Sure, there are 100 year old bungalows from the British times - I have live in one for over 5 years during my childhood in India. But, believe me those "bungalows" look like shacks when compared to the houses that the rich techies are now building.
What's unethical about hiring help for the house?
The double negative gotcha! I think the parent's parent poster wanted to say that it's not unethical either:)
Do yourself a favor, and visit India before you make hollow remarks based on some one-sided documentary made 50 years ago, or on the CNN documentary you saw.
I grew up in rural India. Guess what? Not only BASIC, but much more than BASIC medical care is available for FREE if you go to a Govt. run hospital.
My sister's a doc in India. It's a private practice, and if she feels that her patient can't afford it, she does't charge them. And most of the docs in India have the same attitude. Do you know what a Hippocratic Oath is?. So if you are comparing the US medical amenities & cost to India, there is one huge component missing in the US... compassion. Don't compare apples to oranges.
From importing most of the grains in the past 30-40 years, India is now the world's largest foodgrains producer, the second largest fruit producer, the largest vegetable-producer, and the largest milk producer. India can not only feed its entire population, but it exports too. CNN didn't tell you that did it?
Another fact for the news deprived: India has NEVER had an expansionist ideology. Go read up some history. How about a few thousand years back from 2004? India has always been attacked before she responded in every single war since she was formed in 1947. Can you say I-R-A-Q? Who's a hippocrite?
Back to the topic... this is for the thought-handicapped:
If this project is successful, then India will be competing with Boeing and Airbus, never mind the military applications. How is that bad? Isn't that going to get more money into India? Was IT bad for India? The US refused to sell us a Supercomputer (one of the Cray machines) back in the 90s. Surprise, surprise! We built one that was faster and much cheaper than the Cray we were looking to buy for Weather Forecasting. Thanks a bunch US!
Then the US blocked the sale of some rocket parts from Russia. We built it from scratch. Thanks again US! We should be partners!! Oh wait, that pisses off Musharraf, the Chinese Commies, half the fucking Arab world... never mind, we can manage it on our own...
Would the US be self-reliant and the leader of the world if the politicians here threw up their hands and sat on their asses after all the US residents all had running water? You sound just like the geniuses who screamed "WASTE" when the US space program was launched.
Flaimbait? No, just an Indian who is fsking pissed that people can be so fsking unintelligent.
Being an Indian myself, I completely agree with you regarding the quality of Bollywood movies and the censorship that goes on.
However, the point here is that the industry itself is open to adaption of movie downloads. This starkly contrasts with the business mindset of MPAA and RIAA.
With this in mind, and also the fact that Bollywood produces many more movies than Hollywood, there is a faint glimmer of hope that some sense will eventually creep into the vacuum "filled" heads that currently insist that the consumer buy a DVD or VHS to own (a license to view) a movie.
The hope extends to the point where the consumer might even dare to dream of competition in the distribution channell, and eventually dream of paying less than $15 to $25 for a sub-standard flick.
Why buy a sub-standard movie in the first place? Ever been married and/or have kids??
They have one small disadvantage - they barely make a living there.
Sorry to bust your mythical stereotype.
To be honest, your statement sounds as ridiculous as a non-American, who has never been to the US, saying that gay people are subject to witchunts in the US.
May be that happens in the bible belt, but the information is very dated...
Re:There are two technologies called DIVX.
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True. However the guy who made the codec decided to poke fun at the old DVD rental format by calling his codec "DivX;)".. the wink was (is being) lost as the project progresses.
> However, someone I work with has the exact same
> phone and thought the coverage was bad. I put
> my phone right next to his and got a good
> signal.
The "bars" on the signal strength indicator is not at all a reliable indication of what bandwidth your phone can use.
Take a look at:
http://home.san.rr.com/denbeste/bars.htm
I'm suing them because I was forced to buy dozens of computers with their operating system on them, despite the fact that I didn't want it. I want that money back.
OK, that's it! I am moving to MN and suing Mc Donald's for forcing me to have burgers with my fries, and not serving me Chalupas!!
EVERY sattelite is built from scratch. There is no sattelite manufacturing facilities, or sattelite junkyards.
True.
But we are actually talking about the launch vehicle technology here. The technology was entirely built from scratch - except for the cryogenic engines, which are supplied by Russia.
India is still in the process of developing her own cryogenic engines - started from scratch, thanks to USA which blocked a technology transfer deal with Russia.
Hey you folks at Slashdot,be ready to be served with legal papers to reveal the name and address of FFFish for "defamation" and "slander" against the Church of Scientology (or whatever it's called)!
Did you ever consider that using a cell phone in these "sensitive" areas might just save someone's life? Having to bear with an annoying ring on a doctor's cell phone couldn't be worth more than someone's life getting saved. Could be yours 20 years down the road...
"...their claim solely upon the observation that the bacteria could survive in outer space."
Well, the article says:
"Researchers said that in the filter of a high-flying balloon operated by the Indian Space Research Organization, they found a strain of bacteria
unlike anything on Earth."
Slashdot Mirror
This might be useful.
Then this news breaks, and I am happy that there will be some decent competition to the big M$/Dell push that's beginning to shape up this year.
So, the hope is that this licensing partnership will bring down the prices.
If Apple changes the "coolness factor" or in any way makes the HP ones less appealing (price-wise, capacity-wise, etc) then the marketing folks at Apple have most definitely had a full frontal lobotomy.
If this is the case, then iPods will go the same way as Macs have - fantastic, innovative (where have I heard that before?), but with a small select user base.
But the fact remains that Apple is trying to make up for some of the costs of iTunes via the sales of iPods... tsk tsk what a mess!
I heard this from the horse's mouth (someone who worked with Ibiquity for a long time)... apparently we don't need it. The broadcasters do. The broadcasters can cram many more channels into the existing bandwidth than they currently can.
If you check who the big investors are in this venture, this will become very apparent. Not just that, they may be able to offer other "services" (localized ads?)
That means more channels, more ads, more revenue for the broadcaster. I can't decide if it's a bad thing, or a good thing. At least not yet.
Just because India has over a billion people and is 1/3rd the size of the US doesn't mean that people have occupied every square inch of the country. There is land available!
So it becomes a simple case of supply and demand.
Up until the early/mid 90s, there were no jobs as high paying as IT is now in India. So no one could afford big houses (the ones that stand apart) in crowded cities.
With the IT revolution, there is this new "upper middle" class yuppies who have lots of cash to burn. These folks can afford the big mansions that your friend talks about.
Sure, there are 100 year old bungalows from the British times - I have live in one for over 5 years during my childhood in India. But, believe me those "bungalows" look like shacks when compared to the houses that the rich techies are now building.
The double negative gotcha! I think the parent's parent poster wanted to say that it's not unethical either :)
Do yourself a favor, and visit India before you make hollow remarks based on some one-sided documentary made 50 years ago, or on the CNN documentary you saw.
I grew up in rural India. Guess what? Not only BASIC, but much more than BASIC medical care is available for FREE if you go to a Govt. run hospital.
My sister's a doc in India. It's a private practice, and if she feels that her patient can't afford it, she does't charge them. And most of the docs in India have the same attitude. Do you know what a Hippocratic Oath is?. So if you are comparing the US medical amenities & cost to India, there is one huge component missing in the US... compassion. Don't compare apples to oranges.
From importing most of the grains in the past 30-40 years, India is now the world's largest foodgrains producer, the second largest fruit producer, the largest vegetable-producer, and the largest milk producer. India can not only feed its entire population, but it exports too. CNN didn't tell you that did it?
Another fact for the news deprived: India has NEVER had an expansionist ideology. Go read up some history. How about a few thousand years back from 2004? India has always been attacked before she responded in every single war since she was formed in 1947. Can you say I-R-A-Q? Who's a hippocrite?
Back to the topic... this is for the thought-handicapped:
If this project is successful, then India will be competing with Boeing and Airbus, never mind the military applications. How is that bad? Isn't that going to get more money into India? Was IT bad for India? The US refused to sell us a Supercomputer (one of the Cray machines) back in the 90s. Surprise, surprise! We built one that was faster and much cheaper than the Cray we were looking to buy for Weather Forecasting. Thanks a bunch US!
Then the US blocked the sale of some rocket parts from Russia. We built it from scratch. Thanks again US! We should be partners!! Oh wait, that pisses off Musharraf, the Chinese Commies, half the fucking Arab world... never mind, we can manage it on our own...
Would the US be self-reliant and the leader of the world if the politicians here threw up their hands and sat on their asses after all the US residents all had running water? You sound just like the geniuses who screamed "WASTE" when the US space program was launched.
Flaimbait? No, just an Indian who is fsking pissed that people can be so fsking unintelligent.
Being an Indian myself, I completely agree with you regarding the quality of Bollywood movies and the censorship that goes on.
However, the point here is that the industry itself is open to adaption of movie downloads. This starkly contrasts with the business mindset of MPAA and RIAA.
With this in mind, and also the fact that Bollywood produces many more movies than Hollywood, there is a faint glimmer of hope that some sense will eventually creep into the vacuum "filled" heads that currently insist that the consumer buy a DVD or VHS to own (a license to view) a movie.
The hope extends to the point where the consumer might even dare to dream of competition in the distribution channell, and eventually dream of paying less than $15 to $25 for a sub-standard flick.
Why buy a sub-standard movie in the first place? Ever been married and/or have kids??
They have one small disadvantage - they barely make a living there.
Sorry to bust your mythical stereotype.
To be honest, your statement sounds as ridiculous as a non-American, who has never been to the US, saying that gay people are subject to witchunts in the US.
May be that happens in the bible belt, but the information is very dated...
... the way I turn on the light using my finger at specific angle on the switch.
Whoohoo I'm rich... why is it so dark in here?
...give's a whole new meaning to the phrase, "she's got an electrifying walk".
Well.... cold fusion is already commercially available
True. However the guy who made the codec decided to poke fun at the old DVD rental format by calling his codec "DivX;)".. the wink was (is being) lost as the project progresses.
Edward Scissorhands, one might recall, was the chief architect of the Microsoft split keyboard.
...in the first paragraph here?
> However, someone I work with has the exact same
> phone and thought the coverage was bad. I put
> my phone right next to his and got a good
> signal.
The "bars" on the signal strength indicator is not at all a reliable indication of what bandwidth your phone can use.
Take a look at:
http://home.san.rr.com/denbeste/bars.htm
OK, that's it! I am moving to MN and suing Mc Donald's for forcing me to have burgers with my fries, and not serving me Chalupas!!
True.
But we are actually talking about the launch vehicle technology here. The technology was entirely built from scratch - except for the cryogenic engines, which are supplied by Russia.
India is still in the process of developing her own cryogenic engines - started from scratch, thanks to USA which blocked a technology transfer deal with Russia.
It's the launch vehicle they are testing I say!!
Hey you folks at Slashdot,be ready to be served with legal papers to reveal the name and address of FFFish for "defamation" and "slander" against the Church of Scientology (or whatever it's called)!
Did you ever consider that using a cell phone in these "sensitive" areas might just save someone's life? Having to bear with an annoying ring on a doctor's cell phone couldn't be worth more than someone's life getting saved. Could be yours 20 years down the road...
Given the chance to go back 10 years in your life, what would you like to change? Why?
"...their claim solely upon the observation that the bacteria could survive in outer space."
Well, the article says:
I rest my case.
PCI Card: $400.00
80GB Firewire Drive: $380
CPU: $400.00
Watching HDTV on my crappy 15" monitor: Priceless!