there is still a LOT of money going into shuttles.... they keep spending money trying to retrofit and update them.... with the last accident they have spent even more trying to update the design.
besides if they abandoned the shuttles tomorrow, it would take a (to me) staggering amount of money just to mothball the fleet. i guess it's not like taking your old car and leaving it in a shady neighborhood hoping the situation will resolve itself.
i never understood how that would happen... this was probably about 30 or 40 years ago... not that it explains someone ignoring the dog and parking him next to the Ark..... but i guess back then when a military guy (he was in the Army) flips out about losing his dog they might let him look for himself. i guess today you would be hosed.
many years ago (before elevated security) my uncle had a dog in the dog-safe cargo area of an airplane..... in short they lost the dog and it somehow got diverted to a wharehouse. he was pretty much told there was no easy way to find the dog if someone didn't hear it bark by chance. after much yelling they let him search a wharehouse. by the time he found the dog it had been there for over 2 days with no water. in the end the dog recovered 100%, but i am sure this kind of situation would make you think they are not so bad. if the RFID tags are slapped on like the current barcodes, is it a big deal? you rip it off at baggage claim. it's not like your bag get's a permanant tag on it that will track its traveling history.
it has to suck if a passenger ends up getting bumped from a flight last minute and Todd the baggage handler has to find that one passenger's bags. Actually last night my brother's flight was super delayed because some guy in first class threw a hissy fit about something and was ejected from the plane. it was while first class was still boarding so well in advance of the plane being loaded. theys till had to go in and find his luggage and pull it out. that has to be a lot of digging......
i know a lot of people with G4 towers in their houses..... not so many with Sun hardware (maybe 2?)
anyway, good point... Sun's ads are boring and corporate.... Apple's are clever and non-technical. as for the classification of personal/enterprise/whatever for machines..... that's up in the air i guess with a tower. before the Xserve, the tower was the universal Mac workhorse.
you realize APPL has been above $30 for a lil while now right? in the last few years it has been above $60/share..... i know a few years ago it was over $120 when it split 2/1 (maybe in 2000?)
but there is some mounting plate that's intended to connect to ergo devices..... Cinema Display VESA Mount Adapter Kit for $29, isn't this even better? i might not understand what you are thinking of, but it opens up options for mounting.
Allows your Cinema or Cinema HD Display (anodized aluminum) to be used with VESA compliant mounting solutions such as wall mounts and articulating arms.
The Cinema Display VESA Mount Adapter allows your Apple flat panel display (anodized aluminum) to be used with a variety of alternate mounting solutions such as wall mounts and zero footprint articulating arms based on the VESA flat panel mounting interface (FPMI). The new Apple flat panel family features a removable desktop stand. The Cinema Display VESA Mount Adapter Kit contains a tool that allows you to remove the desktop stand and to attach the VESA Mount Adapter to the display. The display is now ready to attach to any VESA compliant mounting solution that has a 100mm x 100 mm attachment.
The Apple flat panel display line (anodized aluminum) with the VESA mount adapter attached complies with the VESA MIS-D, 100, C version of the specification
there was something on some show on Discovery (i think?) about how there is interest in basically dropping large steel rods from really really really high up and use some minimal navigation..... the idea is that they would fly like a "smartbomb" and when going at their terminal velocity (or however fast they can get) they don't even need explosives to cause massive destruction apon impact.....
did i dream this? i don't think so but i guess it's possible. then again i didn't think rail guns or private space flights were coming anytime soon either.
not EVERY car is going to have an iPod waiting in the glovebox. same way people sometimes put things in the trunk of the car as opposed to laying out on the back seat. also somebody else pointed out that if you use valet parking or park in a garage you give them the "valet key" that does not allow them access to the glovebox or the trunk.... so it would be secure while you go out, but there when you get back.
an incar computer is nice if you spend a lot of time in the car..... that's the hardcore solution to incar music and more. but if you just want music for your commute and use the same iPod while at work or in the gym or mowing the lawn or whatever then it makes sense to take it with you. if you drive to the movies, you do not need to take the iPod with you, or a restaurant or food shopping or something like that.
i used to play the game with a tape adapter and power line going to a portable Cd player (or MD player). it sucked. i either didn't use it or spent a few minutes hiding and unhiding the stuff every time i got out of the car. it was enough of a bother that i bought an indash minidisc player.
to someone with a BMW the money is not that much when you compare it to the simplicity. if they want a dask mounted dock they can buy the icelink and get the same features. that does not cost too much either (about $200 i think?).
having the device stashed in the glovebox so there is no fiddling around seems nice to me. then again i am a person that gets in the car and goes. it drives me up the wall when people take 5 minutes to settle in before driving away, and another 5 to gather themselves before leaving the safety of their rolling cage. maybe it's a personal issue.....
it doesn't just tap the remote control options of the device.... it also relays the track info to the head unit. this uses the port in the bottom of the iPod to connect, not just the minijack on top..... and that's not standard either.
unfortunately i don't see a standard coming. icelink has existed for iPods for a while now and works like this BMW adapter. there is also an Alpine one. it's possible there is something like this for non-iPods.
i know the back of my head unit has RCA inputs then a weird Sony link cable that is intended to link the head unit with a Sony changer. unless a sony device is hooked up (or some adapter bought) the RCA ports are off.
if your iRiver has the option of an inline remote then it seems very possible this does (or can) exist for your device. another bonus of the BMW thing using the port where the iPod would dock is that it gets juice from the car, so the batteries stay alive.
http://icelink.densionusa.com has a product that does it the same way. the car's head unit thinks it is a CD changer so the remote controls of the stereo work, and the display will show track info. it adaps to a lot of car stereos out there, so it's an option for more than just BMW owners.
these are essentially hacks to existing car stereos.... just give it some time and there will be more options to integrate better with MP3 players.
yeah leave your ipod in a cradle on your dashboard while you run into the WaWa... and maybe a wallet with $400 sticking out of it. at least in the glovebox you can secure it, and it's out of sight. it's marginally more secure, but someone not knowing it is in there is the best protection short of taking it with you every time you get out of the car.
if not firewire there has to be some fibre channel option.... besides the X-serve RAID. then again if you are really trying to pack in that kind of storage you might just want to make the investment in the RAID (or someone else's). the rackmount will give you the security some people need.
putting that much in one case seems kind of silly..... but then again that's what mods are sometimes about. doing it just because you can.
they also said the talks with the indies had just begun. same thing happened in the USA. i think it was mostly because of the legal issues. they need the big labels onboard to make the store look valid. the indies were offered "the same deal as the majors" and can choose if they want to sign on. it might also have had a little to do with keeping it under wraps till it was really ready. with so many indies, it would have been easy for info to leak out and we know how Apple hates that.
it's not the blueprints to the machine..... it's to explain it to Joe and Jane Sixpack.... well not quite, but you know what i mean. i think it's an oversimplified drawing. Apple has been playing with liquid cooling for a long time, i am sure they did the math.
unfortunately they dont ship to July so we may have to wait to see someone pluck one apart? i wish that Apple was going to be at MacWorld east coast... i am sure they would have had a display showing the innards of this system in better detail. maybe they will have one at WWDC in 3 weeks and some pictures will get posted. the main presentation stuff there is not NDA secured.
Jobs this week even admitted Apple built a (post-newton) PDA that came damn close to being released but was scratched last minute. makes me wonder what else is in the vault of abandoned projects? maybe EVERYTHING on the rumor sites is true?!?!?! someone should have asked if it was really the iWalk. hahaha
the rumor sites picked up on the LCD promo ending 2 days before WWDC (end of June) so they guessed Displays and PowerMacs maybe at the same time.... they also noted the fine print of the promo listed display by part number, so if a metallic 23inch came out sooner, it would not qualify for the discount per say.
though looking at the Apple site now i am only seeing a $500 off 23inch LCD with G5 purchase.... so i dont know if i am missing it of only the 23inch is on sale.
Clock speed doesn't mean "nothing", it's just not the sole- or even the most meaningful- measurement of over-all system speed. People have mearely noticed that, with all the bottle-necks in a system, merely bumping up clock-speeds without improving the over-all architecture gives deminishing returns
well it's also the chip's design. the Apple (and IBM/Moto) designs (and AMD to some extent) "do more work" per clock cycle. that's part of the reason some are better for some processes (though software is key too). think of it like a racecar vs a truck. a racecar revs really fast and flies, but carries one passenger. a truck revs lower but can tow a house. if you had a relay race of the two that had to transport 300 people across a distance the truck could win since it could haul everyone in one or two trips. it's the same way the G5 (or G4) tries to "do more" with every clock cycle compared to Intel just trying to go really really fast.
it really comes down to attacking the same problem from different methods.
generally Apple get's very good points from analysts when they see how small Apple's inventory is... hrm i can't think of the term but generally Apple does not have more than a few weeks of products in limbo. they have an issue with iPod minis and that's the hard drive manufacturer. while it isn't great to have demand outpace supply, it's better than having mountians of devices nobody will buy. some companies live by that motto..... Minui Coopers, Harley Davidsons and Triumph motorcycles for example. they take it to an extreme (somepared to Apple), but they know every vehicle they make will be sold right off. that's a nice place to be. the delay on the new powermacs has def been processors. it's possible there are other components, but Apple and IBM admitted there were issues at the IBM chipmaking plant that caused problems for supplies getting to Apple. it was the chip that is in the current Xserves and rumored to have been in the G5 tower revision. now the speculation is that the G5 tower may hop right up to the next chip revision alltogether.
i guess their thinking may be that the publishers will start to rely on the money from M$'s ads. if that day comes, they could get their foot in the door to "have feelings" on the content published.
can they actually not let them have a pavilion? i can see your point and of course M$ can afford to be there even if it is just to spew garbage...... but i don't know how you can keep them out. there are plenty of enviroments that are both Linux and M$..... so i am sure they can justify it somehow.
that being said i think they are up to no good, and of course will pull out the stops to ruin the image of Linux in any way possible. BASTARDS!
do they pick the ads or are they through a service? i am not sure if it makes it any better.... but for example if you get ads from google and are a tech related site i am sure you will be hit with M$ ads as well as whatever else.
usually the pricing stays about the same and the size just goes up...... often the towers will dot he same thing.... Fast, Faster and Fastest will stay about the same price but the specs will jump up a step. not always true, but often is.
right now 15gig = $299 20 = $399 40gig = $499
it would make sense if.... 20 gig = $299 40gig = $399 60gig = $499 or something like that depending on what drives are available
though it depends on what kind of deal Apple get's on the drives..... Apple has said theyw ould like to lower the prices on the iPods as much as possible, but there is a set profit margin. as parts come down in price, so will retail prices. the iPod Mini follows another parts list and plan, and those drives are another manufacturer, so it's price has nothing much to do with this.
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there is still a LOT of money going into shuttles.... they keep spending money trying to retrofit and update them.... with the last accident they have spent even more trying to update the design.
besides if they abandoned the shuttles tomorrow, it would take a (to me) staggering amount of money just to mothball the fleet. i guess it's not like taking your old car and leaving it in a shady neighborhood hoping the situation will resolve itself.
i never understood how that would happen... this was probably about 30 or 40 years ago ... not that it explains someone ignoring the dog and parking him next to the Ark..... but i guess back then when a military guy (he was in the Army) flips out about losing his dog they might let him look for himself. i guess today you would be hosed.
many years ago (before elevated security) my uncle had a dog in the dog-safe cargo area of an airplane..... in short they lost the dog and it somehow got diverted to a wharehouse. he was pretty much told there was no easy way to find the dog if someone didn't hear it bark by chance. after much yelling they let him search a wharehouse. by the time he found the dog it had been there for over 2 days with no water. in the end the dog recovered 100%, but i am sure this kind of situation would make you think they are not so bad. if the RFID tags are slapped on like the current barcodes, is it a big deal? you rip it off at baggage claim. it's not like your bag get's a permanant tag on it that will track its traveling history.
it has to suck if a passenger ends up getting bumped from a flight last minute and Todd the baggage handler has to find that one passenger's bags. Actually last night my brother's flight was super delayed because some guy in first class threw a hissy fit about something and was ejected from the plane. it was while first class was still boarding so well in advance of the plane being loaded. theys till had to go in and find his luggage and pull it out. that has to be a lot of digging......
i know a lot of people with G4 towers in their houses..... not so many with Sun hardware (maybe 2?)
anyway, good point... Sun's ads are boring and corporate.... Apple's are clever and non-technical.
as for the classification of personal/enterprise/whatever for machines..... that's up in the air i guess with a tower. before the Xserve, the tower was the universal Mac workhorse.
you realize APPL has been above $30 for a lil while now right?
in the last few years it has been above $60/share..... i know a few years ago it was over $120 when it split 2/1 (maybe in 2000?)
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yeah! i didn't see any ads for Sun with 4 tanks surrounding their hardware....
wasn't the PS2 given that status too when they realized the CPU was more than adequate for being the guidance system in an ICBM?
Cinema Display VESA Mount Adapter Kit for $29, isn't this even better? i might not understand what you are thinking of, but it opens up options for mounting.
there was something on some show on Discovery (i think?) about how there is interest in basically dropping large steel rods from really really really high up and use some minimal navigation..... the idea is that they would fly like a "smartbomb" and when going at their terminal velocity (or however fast they can get) they don't even need explosives to cause massive destruction apon impact.....
did i dream this? i don't think so but i guess it's possible. then again i didn't think rail guns or private space flights were coming anytime soon either.
i think the cable runs inside the dash......
not EVERY car is going to have an iPod waiting in the glovebox.
same way people sometimes put things in the trunk of the car as opposed to laying out on the back seat.
also somebody else pointed out that if you use valet parking or park in a garage you give them the "valet key" that does not allow them access to the glovebox or the trunk.... so it would be secure while you go out, but there when you get back.
an incar computer is nice if you spend a lot of time in the car.....
that's the hardcore solution to incar music and more.
but if you just want music for your commute and use the same iPod while at work or in the gym or mowing the lawn or whatever then it makes sense to take it with you. if you drive to the movies, you do not need to take the iPod with you, or a restaurant or food shopping or something like that.
i used to play the game with a tape adapter and power line going to a portable Cd player (or MD player). it sucked. i either didn't use it or spent a few minutes hiding and unhiding the stuff every time i got out of the car. it was enough of a bother that i bought an indash minidisc player.
to someone with a BMW the money is not that much when you compare it to the simplicity. if they want a dask mounted dock they can buy the icelink and get the same features. that does not cost too much either (about $200 i think?).
having the device stashed in the glovebox so there is no fiddling around seems nice to me. then again i am a person that gets in the car and goes. it drives me up the wall when people take 5 minutes to settle in before driving away, and another 5 to gather themselves before leaving the safety of their rolling cage. maybe it's a personal issue.....
it doesn't just tap the remote control options of the device.... it also relays the track info to the head unit. this uses the port in the bottom of the iPod to connect, not just the minijack on top..... and that's not standard either.
unfortunately i don't see a standard coming. icelink has existed for iPods for a while now and works like this BMW adapter. there is also an Alpine one. it's possible there is something like this for non-iPods.
i know the back of my head unit has RCA inputs then a weird Sony link cable that is intended to link the head unit with a Sony changer. unless a sony device is hooked up (or some adapter bought) the RCA ports are off.
if your iRiver has the option of an inline remote then it seems very possible this does (or can) exist for your device. another bonus of the BMW thing using the port where the iPod would dock is that it gets juice from the car, so the batteries stay alive.
http://icelink.densionusa.com has a product that does it the same way. the car's head unit thinks it is a CD changer so the remote controls of the stereo work, and the display will show track info. it adaps to a lot of car stereos out there, so it's an option for more than just BMW owners.
these are essentially hacks to existing car stereos.... just give it some time and there will be more options to integrate better with MP3 players.
yeah leave your ipod in a cradle on your dashboard while you run into the WaWa... and maybe a wallet with $400 sticking out of it. at least in the glovebox you can secure it, and it's out of sight. it's marginally more secure, but someone not knowing it is in there is the best protection short of taking it with you every time you get out of the car.
if not firewire there has to be some fibre channel option.... besides the X-serve RAID. then again if you are really trying to pack in that kind of storage you might just want to make the investment in the RAID (or someone else's). the rackmount will give you the security some people need.
putting that much in one case seems kind of silly..... but then again that's what mods are sometimes about. doing it just because you can.
they also said the talks with the indies had just begun. same thing happened in the USA. i think it was mostly because of the legal issues. they need the big labels onboard to make the store look valid. the indies were offered "the same deal as the majors" and can choose if they want to sign on. it might also have had a little to do with keeping it under wraps till it was really ready. with so many indies, it would have been easy for info to leak out and we know how Apple hates that.
it's not the blueprints to the machine..... it's to explain it to Joe and Jane Sixpack.... well not quite, but you know what i mean. i think it's an oversimplified drawing. Apple has been playing with liquid cooling for a long time, i am sure they did the math.
unfortunately they dont ship to July so we may have to wait to see someone pluck one apart? i wish that Apple was going to be at MacWorld east coast... i am sure they would have had a display showing the innards of this system in better detail. maybe they will have one at WWDC in 3 weeks and some pictures will get posted. the main presentation stuff there is not NDA secured.
Jobs this week even admitted Apple built a (post-newton) PDA that came damn close to being released but was scratched last minute. makes me wonder what else is in the vault of abandoned projects? maybe EVERYTHING on the rumor sites is true?!?!?! someone should have asked if it was really the iWalk. hahaha
the rumor sites picked up on the LCD promo ending 2 days before WWDC (end of June) so they guessed Displays and PowerMacs maybe at the same time....
they also noted the fine print of the promo listed display by part number, so if a metallic 23inch came out sooner, it would not qualify for the discount per say.
though looking at the Apple site now i am only seeing a $500 off 23inch LCD with G5 purchase.... so i dont know if i am missing it of only the 23inch is on sale.
well it's also the chip's design. the Apple (and IBM/Moto) designs (and AMD to some extent) "do more work" per clock cycle. that's part of the reason some are better for some processes (though software is key too). think of it like a racecar vs a truck. a racecar revs really fast and flies, but carries one passenger. a truck revs lower but can tow a house. if you had a relay race of the two that had to transport 300 people across a distance the truck could win since it could haul everyone in one or two trips. it's the same way the G5 (or G4) tries to "do more" with every clock cycle compared to Intel just trying to go really really fast.
it really comes down to attacking the same problem from different methods.
generally Apple get's very good points from analysts when they see how small Apple's inventory is... hrm i can't think of the term but generally Apple does not have more than a few weeks of products in limbo. they have an issue with iPod minis and that's the hard drive manufacturer. while it isn't great to have demand outpace supply, it's better than having mountians of devices nobody will buy. some companies live by that motto..... Minui Coopers, Harley Davidsons and Triumph motorcycles for example. they take it to an extreme (somepared to Apple), but they know every vehicle they make will be sold right off. that's a nice place to be.
the delay on the new powermacs has def been processors. it's possible there are other components, but Apple and IBM admitted there were issues at the IBM chipmaking plant that caused problems for supplies getting to Apple. it was the chip that is in the current Xserves and rumored to have been in the G5 tower revision. now the speculation is that the G5 tower may hop right up to the next chip revision alltogether.
i guess their thinking may be that the publishers will start to rely on the money from M$'s ads. if that day comes, they could get their foot in the door to "have feelings" on the content published.
can they actually not let them have a pavilion?
i can see your point and of course M$ can afford to be there even if it is just to spew garbage...... but i don't know how you can keep them out. there are plenty of enviroments that are both Linux and M$..... so i am sure they can justify it somehow.
that being said i think they are up to no good, and of course will pull out the stops to ruin the image of Linux in any way possible. BASTARDS!
do they pick the ads or are they through a service? i am not sure if it makes it any better.... but for example if you get ads from google and are a tech related site i am sure you will be hit with M$ ads as well as whatever else.
usually the pricing stays about the same and the size just goes up...... often the towers will dot he same thing.... Fast, Faster and Fastest will stay about the same price but the specs will jump up a step. not always true, but often is.
right now
15gig = $299
20 = $399
40gig = $499
it would make sense if....
20 gig = $299
40gig = $399
60gig = $499
or something like that depending on what drives are available
though it depends on what kind of deal Apple get's on the drives..... Apple has said theyw ould like to lower the prices on the iPods as much as possible, but there is a set profit margin. as parts come down in price, so will retail prices. the iPod Mini follows another parts list and plan, and those drives are another manufacturer, so it's price has nothing much to do with this.