how dare you! next, you'll be telling us that al gore didn't say he invented the internet! or, that iraq doesn't have any wmd! it's/. not the new york times... er...
if that 200k songs represent say 50k users, what's to say that the number doesn't begin to rapidly rise? this may particularly be the case if connection issues prevented downloads. i am a mac user, though my primary personal machine is a tablet pc. when itunes is available for windows, i will likely start to purchase some music. if they can get 25% of my purchases that's $500 a year... though most of my purchases are from independent labels. purchasing universal music is looking less and less silly.
if you're going to do video, do it right: (http://pro.jvc.com/prof/Attributes/features.jsp?t ree=&searchModel=&model_id=MDL101394) and, the're only getting smaller! It will be interesting to see where video cameras, telephones, and computers intersect ten years from now.
isn't the idea of longhorn, befs, apple's current work... to remove the file structures imposed upon something inherently different. i mean, what are folders? abstractions. so, perhaps the solution is to create a different abstraction which keeps the current structure. this abstraction can be a database, a browser... but, the interface has never been linux's strong point. the humane interface, by raskin is a great place to start though.
yes, itunes creates standard cds, and pretty darn rapidly too! i don't use itunes much since i have lots of independent and obscure stuff, but i cut a cd for a friend, and whoa! it was like 4 or 5 minutes to a full cd mix.
with respect to the service, i would like to see lower costs... but this will likely come with time. similar to cell phone calls, less cost per minute more volume. i don't want to worry when my disk fries. just spend another $20 bucks to fill it back up.
microsoft, even after near perjury publicly stated that they would not support amd's 64 bit processor (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/17019.html ). if they have finally come to publicly display the version of windows everybody knew that they had (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/17031.html ) produced it was likely because itanic is not the prize intel was sure it would become (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20021226.html).
'All of the sudden it is OK to (put) something other than Windows.'
huh? when was microsoft going to port to amd's 64 bit processor? they seem to be going out of their way to dis amd. this could be the point where the paths between various flavors of unix and windows part, hardware-wise. linux et al will run on anything, and windows will run on intel. not good for windows imho. any comments on the potential for substantially better image and video processing performance under a 64 bit os (memory)?
"the feature of this phone and the SprintPCS Vision service that I use most, and the one that fills me with enthusiasm and awe, is the one that SprintPCS itself wants to underplay: the ability to connect it to my laptop computer."
i use verizon unlimited service for $99/mo. on a dedicated card. i wish the article actually mentioned tasks accomplished and coverage areas, rather than an off hand mention of arizona. for me, this is the future... i want to connect anywhere with decent bandwidth!
i am happy with verizon's service, though have not travelled with it... this summer hopefully... speed is pretty good. what did people get k/s with sprint? my experience has been uneven, but 88k with a good connection.
i would love to see some real reviews which actually describe the performance specifically. i am looking forward to the chip, but right now it's next to vaporware. are chips out for review with nda's yet? i've googled--er used google--and have found only reviews from comdex.
the 5400 is only used in the fujitsu p1000--my main reason for not purchasing it. i really do love arm processors, and i do hope that the astro is successful performance wise, but this comparison is not helpful or thorough. the only available reviews of the astro are still from comdex, and these were qualitative. i do think that transmeta can create a market and be somewhat profitable. when was the last time that the most exciting stuff was not intel? now we have ppc 970's, amd 64's, transmeta astro's, mobile devices with arm's! the future is not wintel.
my experience has been good in chicago. oddly enough evanston--northwestern u--has a crappy cell network, so my connection there blows. but, at home i measured 88k. connections are stable and i have not dropped any in 3 months of service. since i am essentially an ip address i block my tablet from access--security!... but likwise, if you are using a "secure" servic as opposed to telnet or something, you are secure--correct me if i'm wrong, i'm a lowly designer... the article states that new cards, drivers, etc have been added, so i imagine that most of the equipment is modular. it is essentially tdma afterall.
i would expect the charges to be similar to express network--$99.00 for unlimited usage. i am online 3-4 hours a day and haven't been booted. i could not get dsl in my area, but for double the cost i use wireless and get 88k. it is suprisingly useful and supposedly can go up to 144k. bandwidth can be overrated. being able to connect anywhere is very cool--almost anywhere...
with longhorn-ish systems on the horizon, where the os contains database functions, will this substantially increase performance? being able to address everything into a specific memory allocation would seem to imply some application performance gains in say image processing...
once i took a trip to the boundary waters on the canadian border with my ten year old son. as it rained on our heads while we were on the river, drenching ourselves in deet (i know...) to avoid the continual hum of mosquitos, i discovered that the cell phone actually worked in the wilderness! $40 phone calls to my girlfriend. being connected is nice, but wishing wi-fi upon the world isn't going to make it happen soon. i use a cell phone card which gets up to 144k (more like 90k) in areas with coverage and 19k elsewhere. loading/. in 5 seconds has turned out to be just fine! bandwidth can be overrated. connection matters. no strings on me!
it would be nice to see itunes for windows! i hop back and forth between my tablet pc and a tibook. it makes zero business sense to ignore such a large chunk of potential customers. even as a mac user, if the files aren't portable between a mac an ipod and a pc, i'm not paying a buck a tune!
Since Linux is now a business,/. can no longer bash rich white guys with software factory towns for being white, rich, or monopolists! So, we now have to resort to reasoned arguments... oh, wait... this is/.
perhaps if apple pushed a tad harder in the direction of open standards in document creation--xdoc like tools but completely open and transparent--people such as this journalist would realize how ridiculous such pronouncements are. a hammer is a hammer, but i like the cool rubber-handled ones.
being spanish i can finally claim my very own cultural activity! hey the irish have their parades and drinking...! i want an inquisition, and i want it now!
who faxes me all this crap about great stocks! each one has a different number to call to be removed from the various lists, so you can never effectively opt out. this is why we need a national opt in database! and, now he has a name... and an address... and a telephone number... i do wonder what lists his name will be entered on!
than the ibook, though i must say i've carried around my son's ibook, and it feels great sizewise. and, they are pretty darn reasonable now. of course, the advantage of booting into osx for itunes and such makes it an even better buy. the g4 powerbook is larger than some of the supersmall x86 machines, but how many of those have slot loading dvd recorders?
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how dare you! next, you'll be telling us that al gore didn't say he invented the internet! or, that iraq doesn't have any wmd! it's /. not the new york times... er...
if that 200k songs represent say 50k users, what's to say that the number doesn't begin to rapidly rise? this may particularly be the case if connection issues prevented downloads. i am a mac user, though my primary personal machine is a tablet pc. when itunes is available for windows, i will likely start to purchase some music. if they can get 25% of my purchases that's $500 a year... though most of my purchases are from independent labels. purchasing universal music is looking less and less silly.
if you're going to do video, do it right: (http://pro.jvc.com/prof/Attributes/features.jsp?t ree=&searchModel=&model_id=MDL101394) and, the're only getting smaller! It will be interesting to see where video cameras, telephones, and computers intersect ten years from now.
isn't the idea of longhorn, befs, apple's current work... to remove the file structures imposed upon something inherently different. i mean, what are folders? abstractions. so, perhaps the solution is to create a different abstraction which keeps the current structure. this abstraction can be a database, a browser... but, the interface has never been linux's strong point. the humane interface, by raskin is a great place to start though.
yes, itunes creates standard cds, and pretty darn rapidly too! i don't use itunes much since i have lots of independent and obscure stuff, but i cut a cd for a friend, and whoa! it was like 4 or 5 minutes to a full cd mix.
with respect to the service, i would like to see lower costs... but this will likely come with time. similar to cell phone calls, less cost per minute more volume. i don't want to worry when my disk fries. just spend another $20 bucks to fill it back up.
microsoft, even after near perjury publicly stated that they would not support amd's 64 bit processor (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/17019.html ). if they have finally come to publicly display the version of windows everybody knew that they had (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/17031.html ) produced it was likely because itanic is not the prize intel was sure it would become (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20021226 .html).
'All of the sudden it is OK to (put) something other than Windows.'
huh? when was microsoft going to port to amd's 64 bit processor? they seem to be going out of their way to dis amd. this could be the point where the paths between various flavors of unix and windows part, hardware-wise. linux et al will run on anything, and windows will run on intel. not good for windows imho. any comments on the potential for substantially better image and video processing performance under a 64 bit os (memory)?
they want a libertarian state. it'll just be a bunch of guys!
"the feature of this phone and the SprintPCS Vision service that I use most, and the one that fills me with enthusiasm and awe, is the one that SprintPCS itself wants to underplay: the ability to connect it to my laptop computer."
i use verizon unlimited service for $99/mo. on a dedicated card. i wish the article actually mentioned tasks accomplished and coverage areas, rather than an off hand mention of arizona. for me, this is the future... i want to connect anywhere with decent bandwidth!
i am happy with verizon's service, though have not travelled with it... this summer hopefully... speed is pretty good. what did people get k/s with sprint? my experience has been uneven, but 88k with a good connection.
i would love to see some real reviews which actually describe the performance specifically. i am looking forward to the chip, but right now it's next to vaporware. are chips out for review with nda's yet? i've googled--er used google--and have found only reviews from comdex.
the 5400 is only used in the fujitsu p1000--my main reason for not purchasing it. i really do love arm processors, and i do hope that the astro is successful performance wise, but this comparison is not helpful or thorough. the only available reviews of the astro are still from comdex, and these were qualitative. i do think that transmeta can create a market and be somewhat profitable. when was the last time that the most exciting stuff was not intel? now we have ppc 970's, amd 64's, transmeta astro's, mobile devices with arm's! the future is not wintel.
my experience has been good in chicago. oddly enough evanston--northwestern u--has a crappy cell network, so my connection there blows. but, at home i measured 88k. connections are stable and i have not dropped any in 3 months of service. since i am essentially an ip address i block my tablet from access--security!... but likwise, if you are using a "secure" servic as opposed to telnet or something, you are secure--correct me if i'm wrong, i'm a lowly designer... the article states that new cards, drivers, etc have been added, so i imagine that most of the equipment is modular. it is essentially tdma afterall.
i would expect the charges to be similar to express network--$99.00 for unlimited usage. i am online 3-4 hours a day and haven't been booted. i could not get dsl in my area, but for double the cost i use wireless and get 88k. it is suprisingly useful and supposedly can go up to 144k. bandwidth can be overrated. being able to connect anywhere is very cool--almost anywhere...
with longhorn-ish systems on the horizon, where the os contains database functions, will this substantially increase performance? being able to address everything into a specific memory allocation would seem to imply some application performance gains in say image processing...
we all wish 43 had the attention span to get past the first level!
so businesses could group together, making the receipt of "email notifications" part of the terms of service... poof, no more opting out.
once i took a trip to the boundary waters on the canadian border with my ten year old son. as it rained on our heads while we were on the river, drenching ourselves in deet (i know...) to avoid the continual hum of mosquitos, i discovered that the cell phone actually worked in the wilderness! $40 phone calls to my girlfriend. being connected is nice, but wishing wi-fi upon the world isn't going to make it happen soon. i use a cell phone card which gets up to 144k (more like 90k) in areas with coverage and 19k elsewhere. loading /. in 5 seconds has turned out to be just fine! bandwidth can be overrated. connection matters. no strings on me!
it would be nice to see itunes for windows! i hop back and forth between my tablet pc and a tibook. it makes zero business sense to ignore such a large chunk of potential customers. even as a mac user, if the files aren't portable between a mac an ipod and a pc, i'm not paying a buck a tune!
...or did it?
Since Linux is now a business, /. can no longer bash rich white guys with software factory towns for being white, rich, or monopolists! So, we now have to resort to reasoned arguments... oh, wait... this is /.
Children love both nicotine and windows!
perhaps if apple pushed a tad harder in the direction of open standards in document creation--xdoc like tools but completely open and transparent--people such as this journalist would realize how ridiculous such pronouncements are. a hammer is a hammer, but i like the cool rubber-handled ones.
xml, java... vs. apple, microsoft...
being spanish i can finally claim my very own cultural activity! hey the irish have their parades and drinking...! i want an inquisition, and i want it now!
who faxes me all this crap about great stocks! each one has a different number to call to be removed from the various lists, so you can never effectively opt out. this is why we need a national opt in database! and, now he has a name... and an address... and a telephone number... i do wonder what lists his name will be entered on!
than the ibook, though i must say i've carried around my son's ibook, and it feels great sizewise. and, they are pretty darn reasonable now. of course, the advantage of booting into osx for itunes and such makes it an even better buy. the g4 powerbook is larger than some of the supersmall x86 machines, but how many of those have slot loading dvd recorders?