that's true, many people claim the stand alone 15" LCD is gone and that the 17" *may* go wide screen format. If the 17" changes format, then the current 17" is effectively dead. Then comes the speculation of a 19" or something to come between the 17" and the costly 22". As for the market's view of a squarish screen vs a cinema format... i do not know. Honestly a 17" wise format does not look much bigger than a 15". Look at the two iMacs side by side and it visually is not too much. I personally would prefer to have wide format for keeping 2 pages open side by side, or one page and a bunch of tool palets. I do not know what joe sixpack would prefer though. i also do not know what the manufacturer cost jumps are from 15" standard to 17" wide to 17" standard.
The VERY costly 23" is really only intended for HDTV-type editing. Its resolution and size ratio cater to that, so it's not really an issue to consumers and even most professional designers.
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Actually the last quarter financials did not imply the LCD iMacs were quite so dead in the water. Most of Apple's $$$ recently has been from 10.2, and it is the G4 towers that have really not been selling as well as they should be. Everything else was steady. The reason Apple's profits were not as nice as some people would want (even in this market) was due to a lot of cash going to opening stores and in the buying a few software companies out.
It's possible Apple is switching to another plant. At one point Apple invested a lot of $$$$ in some LCD manufacturing plant, though i forget which one. That was why they did better in the LCD shortages than some other manufacturers. They traditionally have invested in some of the plants that produce their parts, and that seems to give them a bit of leverage when parts get tight and i guess helps them when they have their demands of secret products and quick production changes.
Somebody else would know better, but is the main Apple LCD supplying plant, or were they using it to get the initial supplies up to match initial demand? They have done that in the past too.
MacWorld Keynote is next week, i assume *something* will change there and maybe in the few weeks following. Last year the G4 towers were bumped to 1GHz in a no-press website update about 3 weeks after MacWorld SF.
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there is a weird thing with PPC processors these days. it has something to do with the IMB/Moto design and manufacturing thing. also the "processor" is not just a bare chip like a PC user may think. it's a whole processor card, including the backside cache bla bla bla. not that it really narrows the gap, but there is a lot more than a bare chip.
Moto makes the chips that Apple currently uses in machines, IBM makes a lot of the ones that are used for upgrades. there is some agreement over pricing and speed. the rumors have long said IBM can outclock Moto's chips, but are not allowed to sell them because they are held back because of contractual agreements. rumors, but interesting because it seems IBM will be making the new Apple super-chip in mid/late 2003 when the 970s roll out.
also of note, a $399 PC is a piece of junk compared to any Mac. i am talking about the physical components. everything from power supply to ram, it will not have gigabit ethernet, it will not have firewire with individual busses for each port. things like that where the prices of Macs add up.
this really sucks. we have had DirecTV DSL for about a year or more and had ZERO problems. it was an incredible change from the spotty Verizon DSL service we had here (West Philadelphia, PA). besides the bonus of static IP, supporting hosting, multiple machines bla bla bla... the modem was a good step above the Verizon one we had (Still have somewhere?). you just logged into it with a web browser to setup (all platforms!) as well as get real time status from it.
i guess we'll see what happens in the next few eeks... otherwise i guess Earthlink is the only option. Verizon burned this bridge, and our cable company is so shady i will not trust the internet connection tot hem. ARGH!
i actually saw it for the first time in a long time this last week (while working on a webpage) and they said something about having a hand in helping capturing over 700 people..... they also do/did that show "manhunt" or whatever it was called that was a bio kinda thing on one criminal that was 30 or 60 minutes. the only one of those i ever saw was the one on Ira Einhorn..... how was captured in France a few years ago and just retried in Philadelphia (for a murder in the 70s) earlier this year.
i'm sure most watchers are just staying tuned after COPS and not thinking they are going to hunt down somebody, but i guess they have made the stories interesting enough for that show to last 15 years or however long it has been on.
i run a small indie record label, www.schuylkillrecords.com, and of the 10 releases so far only one was a CD. punk/hardcore/indie labels have stuck with vinyl for many reasons. not to get into them all (you would have to ask everyone involved), but some offhand are just a love of the format. I think it is one of those things you can not really explain. People into non-mainstream music are generally more into music itself as opposed to background noise on the radio. We like the music, the community, the artist, the label and whatever. I do not hate the labels i buy music from (like people hate the majors). I like having something significant that my music came with instead of a run-of-the-mill jewel case.
honestly, being a vinyl person is something you just get or do not get. i guess it's like "why bother with Linux when you can run ******". There are reasons it is better to you, even though it may not be the simplest thing out there. you might as well use AOL since it installs itself while you are at it.....
CDs are just MP3s waiting to be ripped.
p.s. yes, as a label and somebody that plays in bands i support MP3 file trading 100%. i used to leave a machine running Napster with a lot of our music up on it. it's easier than kids trying to rip vinyl when i can make the MP3 right from the DAT.
actually the 17inch iMac LCDs are perfect for wide screen movies...... the size upgrade is somewhat subtle if you see them side by side, but makes movies look a lot nicer. the 17inch (if i remember right) are the same height as the 15inch models, just the 17inch models are a bit wider.....
if you want to fuel the rumors more, they sites have claimed the iMac will go to 17inch and 19inch *soon*.
they also say the next revision of stand alone LCDs will be 17inch (maybe) and 19inch both in widescreen aspect... and then the surrent bigger way expensive models (possibly bigger than 23inch even).
personally i would love a 19inch wide.... i use a 19inch and 15inch CRT right now and think one nice wide screen would eliminate the need for both screens. the thing i really like about 2 is keeping toolbars on there when doing graphics or layout work.... plus most widescreen ratios are right for 2 pages side by side (or an 11x17 layout).
the new iMac was the last big macworld announcment, the eMac was the first big non Macworld announcment.
While it is true that people seem to assume *anything* can be updated at MW (unless it just was), the Origional Rev A Bondi iMac 233mghz was announced August 15th 1998. I think the iMac might be the biggest thing Apple released since 1984. Granted the iMac took nearly everyone by suprise, so it was not the usual "i'm not buying an ibook now if they might upgrade them next month", but you get my point.
Apple very publically said a year or so ago that they are not going to save all big hardware releases for 2or 3 Expos a year (Tokyo has been the release for some big products). The last two years they used NYC as more of a hands on intro to 10.1 and 10.2 as much as a place to upgrade some of the existing hardware. NYC has not had a "knock their sock off" release since the Cube a few years back. yes, they did not sell well, but it was a huge crowd magnet.
All that being said i find it unfortunate that MW Tokyo is bagged for 2003. The turnout is not that of the US expos, but they Mac users in Japan are generally quite dedicated. I always heard Jobs loved to go into Sony's home territory and and be able to win over a crowd (like releasing the TiBook there). The show also is usually used by a lot of 3rd parties to show off some cool hardware. Everything from the newest Epson printers (that the USA will not see for months) to the clear iBook modification parts. oh well..... maybe it'll be back for 2004.
yes, i read that too.... another case where the moderation of "-1 didn't read the article" would be nice
For example, on longer phone lines, ADSL2 will provide a data rate increase of 50 kbps--a significant increase. This data rate increase also produces an increase in reach of about 600 feet, which translates to an increase in coverage area of about six percent, or 2.5 square miles.
Benini said the immediate payoff from deploying ADSL2 and ADSL2+ is rate and reach enhancements, but the standards also provide dramatically improved diagnostics capabilities.
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so they would have to disable any offsite links that are not going to *.kids.us.... and i assume that would include banner ads? wierd..... so would there be kid-specific pop ups too?
i would think the news would be a mess to run because they sometimes include links. it would end up being a whole new site, so i guess they could "tone it down". i guess i should have looked to see what the target age group is before overpondering. maybe it's more thought out.. but in general it seems like a major headache.... though maybe a good idea. talking to some parents i have noticed how darn scared they are about letting their kids online (even early teenagers)..... i could see people liking it if there is someplace you could let your 6 year old romp with no fears of pr0n, or them signing up for credit cards or something.
Apple desktops really do not get hot inside. Maybe some of the really fast ones do now, but the G3 is cooler running than the G4 (hence the G4 TiBooks being hot). Even the new windtunnel G4s are not supposed to be really hot... just some planning for the future (and bad choice of fans according to people who have swapped them out).
any G4 i have opened and poked or licked (ok, not licked) while running "processor intensive" things (yeah yeah i know.... bad me) has been very cool.... my G4 heatsink is as cool as anything else in the box (1 case fan and 1 fan in powersupply). When people say the PPC chips use less power and generate less heat they are not kidding. My housemate has older Intel boxes (running Linux and BSD, it's ok) and they literally raise the temp of his room.... my G4 blows cold air out the back. go figure.
offhand i don't think anything from Apple has had a fan on the processor.... even the newest dual 1.25GHz machines have a fan blowing across the heatsink on the processors, but nothing like the standard Intel/AMD thing of the mini fan attached to the chip itself. i guess that is part of the reason Macs are generally quieter (if they have a fan at all)..... those mini fans have a terrible sound. i disabled the one on my Radeon7500 because it sounded like a food processor full of gravel. the case is cool enough that it didn't seem to matter anyway.
do you mean the story on the main page right now, or an older one?
Apple Core sent a link to an article running in australia about apple fighting for their name with some little telco called Apple Communications. Well, they were called that. Now they are Green.
if so i would guess.... no?
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it's not only on AT&T's mLife plans..... it's on a lot of newer phones... basically any phone that boasts "e911" has a GPS or GPS-like thing going on. my friend's latest phone (on verizon) has this feature, and it's not an expensive phone. it can be set so it is only active if you actually dial 911. in a sense it is kinda cool, in a sense it is creepy as hell. if you sail off the highway on a backwoods road during a snowstorm, you would be psyched you have it (assuming you have signal). if your boss uses it to find out you are not sick and actually going to see Star Wars 3, then you'll hate it.
i was at MWNYC this summer and every time it ran people seemed to laugh a lot..... i guess they made a lot of them with him.... there are a lot more actors/musicians/people in the public eye that supposedly shot spots that are yet to surface.... everyone from Lou Reed to Harry Knowles (the guy that runs aintitcoolnews.com) supposedly recorded them.
this from the person sitting behind their computer on a friday night?
i'm home ill.... i have an.. err.... excuse?
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i have always hear that you could lock a coloney of roaches in a tank with a TV and they could thrive... they may just need a lil water and air, but the TV is enough nutrition for them. maybe we should take big (escape-proof please) tanks of roaches and dump in all those old computers that are going to infect landfills.
i am running an older mac... G4 400mghz running 10.2 with a gig of ram..... i think the pokeyness IS application specific for the most part. i upgraded my Rage128 card to a 7500 when i hopped to 10.2 and noticed it handles the aqua interface a lot better. there are also little things to do to zip up the OS (like under dock prefs switch from "genie" to "scale"), turn off dock magnification, don't use a 10 megapixel picture as your desktop.
obviously it's not as efficient as a very tweaked Linux or BSD box (with fast innards), but as an out of the box OS it's very usable. as always it's better running on newer machines, but i can use it on an older crt iMac G3 300mghz and not bang my head against the table. you might not want to do intense av work on that machine, but for day to day tasks (which iMacs were intended for) it will do just fine.
even with the Max Headroom reruns? we've only had TechTV for about a year on our crappy digital cable, and i've had a lifetime dose of Screen Savers. even my M$-lovin' roomate can't take most of their programming. i watched the Apple keynotes that they showed, and Max Headroom... that's about it i think. i tried to watch more but it gets bogged down in M$ Windows nonsense that means nothing to me. oh well.
i am 99.9% sure in the early days of car phones (and when "portable phones" were bag phones) that in the United States both parties paid. i am thinking early/mid 80's..... since i was about 10 then, i was not using car phones and i was not paying the phone bill. i can not be 100% sure, but i really do think it was the case.
just to learn... DigiDesign now offers free versions of the Pro Tools software. it offers up to 12 tracks, and no expiration date.
for a cheap expansion you can get a protools card for $400 and throw it in an 8600 and start doing recording. the card had a pair of RCA line in and line outs that can also be used as 4 line ins... and it has coax digital output.
a full on Pro Tools setup costs as much as you have to spend, but it's cheap to get started.
on a side note. Ice T is a big Mac fan too..... there was some interview with him and they wandered into his studio that was rigged out with PowerMac 9600's.... at the time he had not jumped to new B&W G3's because they didn't have enough PCI slots...
honestly i think it will cost most companies about the same to exhibit at either city. yes, IDG gets the Boston space for free, but whena ll the costs are added up to the individual companies that make up the show, it's not cheaper.
Boston is not a cheap city to live in or visit. it will cost a lot of atendees about the same for either place... maybe more since NYC is more in the middle of the east coast megalopolis. and a lot of the visitors are from NYC itself.
there is no way theyw ill have the numbers of people show up in Boston as they have been having in NYC. nothing against Boston, but it's a fact.
from a psychological standpoint NYC is considered the peak of the east coast. a mark of success. to retreat back to Boston seems like they are going back to the old days.
then, as posted above..... NYC was hit hard last year. they can still use all the support they can get. why pull out on them now?
as a resident of neither city and somebody that visits both a few times a year..... i think it's crazy to pull out of NYC. i can see Apple's point. i would think NYC is their strongest city on the east coast.... why make them travel 250 miles to go to MacWorld? Why make Philly and Baltimore/DC people travel an EXTRA 250 miles? it doesn't make sense (except the money factor for IDG).
supposedly the issue with Apple's chips over the last few years was Moto's manufacturing process. rumors say that IBM was always able to make more chips of higher speeds than Moto. the story is that because of the contract between the 3, IBM chips did not go in Apple boxes (upgrades and whatnot), and they could not outclock Moto.
yes, that's from the rumor mill, but everyone knows Moto has been going through a lot of corporate restructuring and who knows where they will be focusing in the next 5 years. IBM is going to make these chips (where ever they are going to be used) at a brand new plant in NY state. they have a great rep for quality control.
i kind of creepy thing is that the articles say they will probably debut 2nd half of next year (Macworld NYC? one last hurah! before MW moves back to Boston?) or not till January 2004. the articles also inply that they will debut at 1.4GHz. Apple is now selling 2 x 1.25 GHz G4 chips.
will Apple stall at or below 1.4 GHz till these new chips come out? the general upgrade of Apple machines is 5 or 6 months right now. that leave 2 possible revisions to the G4 towers before these babies are set. now i know that these chips will come with a super motherboard and 64 bit vs 32 and bla bla bla but Apple fights the megahertx myth even to somewhat educated comsumers. how will they be able to spin it when they have to explain it in terms of Apples vs Apples?
i guess it's a minor problem if these chips are as zippy as they say... a few benchmark tests and bar graphs should convey some message? maybe instead of having a 12 y.o. kid set up his iMac and go online in 5 minutes, they will have a 12 y.o. kid clone his dog or something. i would be impressed.
but bluetooth would be incredibly pokey to transfer a large MP3 connection......
bluetooth is great for things like keeping you cellphone/pda/laptop/desktop in sync. if you have a BT phone and laptop, you can use the phone as a modem for internet access (if you have the right hardware/software). wireless access to printers and scanners is great. printing and scanning in generally slow enough that BT is not going to bottleneck it. as time goes on there will be more additions to what it can do (things 802.11b is not meant for)...... like now if you have a bt phone and a Mac running OS X 10.2 they will sync. if you phone is sitting in your bag across the room and rings, you can have your addressbook on the machine set to pop up a callerID window so you know who is calling you before leaving your seat. you can also dial your phone from your machine (either a number from your address book, or one you find in an online phone listing).
i think it's things like that where bluetooth will pick up. it sounds like there will be a boom of gadgets for it that people are not even thinking of right now. at some point i would think it will be integrated into home automation. at least in the way of connecting a computer to a programmable control box.
i don't think NYC "doesn't want it back", there was a good turnout of people, though vendors were lacking. people may not have been 100% happy with it, but they still came out. they still stayed in hotels, ate in resturants and shopped locally. there is a lot more to do in NYC after expo hours than Boston. the people that run the expo (not Apple) were offered a sweet deal to go back to Boston, while in Javits prices were going to go up. inflation makes prices go up... it happens. Boston has to promote this huge expensive new convention center so they are offering a good deal to IDG. as for the Big Dig, it's federally funded so Boston itself isn't paying for it anyway.... we all are.
personally i prefer it in NYC because it's a hell of a lot closer to the regions of Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC etc... i would think a lot of the day trippers will be lost. it will be interesting to see what the turnout is like.
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if you go to http://www.t-mobile.com/ and click on the sidekick plans you can get the full explanation. i think it's a bit diff than their other plans right now..... they also throw in the novelty camera attachment (it's really tiny).
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from what i read somewhere they do not count data like phone calls... and AIM can always be on as well as email checker. i have Verizon wireless web now and if i want to use Yahoo! Messenger i have to go into web-mode which ties up the whole phone.... though Verizon just worked out somehting with AIM that *might* allow AIM names to contact you and you to contact them as text messages. kind of an alias portal thing or something. i have not investigated that yet because it seems i have to set up a.Net account to do so. hrmmmmm makes the sidekick that much more appealing.
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that's true, many people claim the stand alone 15" LCD is gone and that the 17" *may* go wide screen format. If the 17" changes format, then the current 17" is effectively dead. Then comes the speculation of a 19" or something to come between the 17" and the costly 22". As for the market's view of a squarish screen vs a cinema format... i do not know. Honestly a 17" wise format does not look much bigger than a 15". Look at the two iMacs side by side and it visually is not too much. I personally would prefer to have wide format for keeping 2 pages open side by side, or one page and a bunch of tool palets. I do not know what joe sixpack would prefer though. i also do not know what the manufacturer cost jumps are from 15" standard to 17" wide to 17" standard.
The VERY costly 23" is really only intended for HDTV-type editing. Its resolution and size ratio cater to that, so it's not really an issue to consumers and even most professional designers.
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Actually the last quarter financials did not imply the LCD iMacs were quite so dead in the water. Most of Apple's $$$ recently has been from 10.2, and it is the G4 towers that have really not been selling as well as they should be. Everything else was steady. The reason Apple's profits were not as nice as some people would want (even in this market) was due to a lot of cash going to opening stores and in the buying a few software companies out.
It's possible Apple is switching to another plant. At one point Apple invested a lot of $$$$ in some LCD manufacturing plant, though i forget which one. That was why they did better in the LCD shortages than some other manufacturers. They traditionally have invested in some of the plants that produce their parts, and that seems to give them a bit of leverage when parts get tight and i guess helps them when they have their demands of secret products and quick production changes.
Somebody else would know better, but is the main Apple LCD supplying plant, or were they using it to get the initial supplies up to match initial demand? They have done that in the past too.
MacWorld Keynote is next week, i assume *something* will change there and maybe in the few weeks following. Last year the G4 towers were bumped to 1GHz in a no-press website update about 3 weeks after MacWorld SF.
there is a weird thing with PPC processors these days. it has something to do with the IMB/Moto design and manufacturing thing. also the "processor" is not just a bare chip like a PC user may think. it's a whole processor card, including the backside cache bla bla bla. not that it really narrows the gap, but there is a lot more than a bare chip.
Moto makes the chips that Apple currently uses in machines, IBM makes a lot of the ones that are used for upgrades. there is some agreement over pricing and speed. the rumors have long said IBM can outclock Moto's chips, but are not allowed to sell them because they are held back because of contractual agreements. rumors, but interesting because it seems IBM will be making the new Apple super-chip in mid/late 2003 when the 970s roll out.
also of note, a $399 PC is a piece of junk compared to any Mac. i am talking about the physical components. everything from power supply to ram, it will not have gigabit ethernet, it will not have firewire with individual busses for each port. things like that where the prices of Macs add up.
this really sucks. we have had DirecTV DSL for about a year or more and had ZERO problems. it was an incredible change from the spotty Verizon DSL service we had here (West Philadelphia, PA). besides the bonus of static IP, supporting hosting, multiple machines bla bla bla... the modem was a good step above the Verizon one we had (Still have somewhere?). you just logged into it with a web browser to setup (all platforms!) as well as get real time status from it.
i guess we'll see what happens in the next few eeks... otherwise i guess Earthlink is the only option. Verizon burned this bridge, and our cable company is so shady i will not trust the internet connection tot hem. ARGH!
i actually saw it for the first time in a long time this last week (while working on a webpage) and they said something about having a hand in helping capturing over 700 people..... they also do/did that show "manhunt" or whatever it was called that was a bio kinda thing on one criminal that was 30 or 60 minutes. the only one of those i ever saw was the one on Ira Einhorn..... how was captured in France a few years ago and just retried in Philadelphia (for a murder in the 70s) earlier this year.
i'm sure most watchers are just staying tuned after COPS and not thinking they are going to hunt down somebody, but i guess they have made the stories interesting enough for that show to last 15 years or however long it has been on.
i run a small indie record label, www.schuylkillrecords.com, and of the 10 releases so far only one was a CD. punk/hardcore/indie labels have stuck with vinyl for many reasons. not to get into them all (you would have to ask everyone involved), but some offhand are just a love of the format. I think it is one of those things you can not really explain. People into non-mainstream music are generally more into music itself as opposed to background noise on the radio. We like the music, the community, the artist, the label and whatever. I do not hate the labels i buy music from (like people hate the majors). I like having something significant that my music came with instead of a run-of-the-mill jewel case.
honestly, being a vinyl person is something you just get or do not get. i guess it's like "why bother with Linux when you can run ******". There are reasons it is better to you, even though it may not be the simplest thing out there. you might as well use AOL since it installs itself while you are at it.....
CDs are just MP3s waiting to be ripped.
p.s. yes, as a label and somebody that plays in bands i support MP3 file trading 100%. i used to leave a machine running Napster with a lot of our music up on it. it's easier than kids trying to rip vinyl when i can make the MP3 right from the DAT.
actually the 17inch iMac LCDs are perfect for wide screen movies...... the size upgrade is somewhat subtle if you see them side by side, but makes movies look a lot nicer. the 17inch (if i remember right) are the same height as the 15inch models, just the 17inch models are a bit wider.....
if you want to fuel the rumors more, they sites have claimed the iMac will go to 17inch and 19inch *soon*.
they also say the next revision of stand alone LCDs will be 17inch (maybe) and 19inch both in widescreen aspect... and then the surrent bigger way expensive models (possibly bigger than 23inch even).
personally i would love a 19inch wide.... i use a 19inch and 15inch CRT right now and think one nice wide screen would eliminate the need for both screens. the thing i really like about 2 is keeping toolbars on there when doing graphics or layout work.... plus most widescreen ratios are right for 2 pages side by side (or an 11x17 layout).
While it is true that people seem to assume *anything* can be updated at MW (unless it just was), the Origional Rev A Bondi iMac 233mghz was announced August 15th 1998. I think the iMac might be the biggest thing Apple released since 1984. Granted the iMac took nearly everyone by suprise, so it was not the usual "i'm not buying an ibook now if they might upgrade them next month", but you get my point.
Apple very publically said a year or so ago that they are not going to save all big hardware releases for 2or 3 Expos a year (Tokyo has been the release for some big products). The last two years they used NYC as more of a hands on intro to 10.1 and 10.2 as much as a place to upgrade some of the existing hardware. NYC has not had a "knock their sock off" release since the Cube a few years back. yes, they did not sell well, but it was a huge crowd magnet.
All that being said i find it unfortunate that MW Tokyo is bagged for 2003. The turnout is not that of the US expos, but they Mac users in Japan are generally quite dedicated. I always heard Jobs loved to go into Sony's home territory and and be able to win over a crowd (like releasing the TiBook there). The show also is usually used by a lot of 3rd parties to show off some cool hardware. Everything from the newest Epson printers (that the USA will not see for months) to the clear iBook modification parts. oh well..... maybe it'll be back for 2004.
so they would have to disable any offsite links that are not going to *.kids.us.... and i assume that would include banner ads? wierd..... so would there be kid-specific pop ups too?
i would think the news would be a mess to run because they sometimes include links. it would end up being a whole new site, so i guess they could "tone it down". i guess i should have looked to see what the target age group is before overpondering.
maybe it's more thought out.. but in general it seems like a major headache.... though maybe a good idea. talking to some parents i have noticed how darn scared they are about letting their kids online (even early teenagers).....
i could see people liking it if there is someplace you could let your 6 year old romp with no fears of pr0n, or them signing up for credit cards or something.
Apple desktops really do not get hot inside. Maybe some of the really fast ones do now, but the G3 is cooler running than the G4 (hence the G4 TiBooks being hot). Even the new windtunnel G4s are not supposed to be really hot... just some planning for the future (and bad choice of fans according to people who have swapped them out).
any G4 i have opened and poked or licked (ok, not licked) while running "processor intensive" things (yeah yeah i know.... bad me) has been very cool.... my G4 heatsink is as cool as anything else in the box (1 case fan and 1 fan in powersupply). When people say the PPC chips use less power and generate less heat they are not kidding. My housemate has older Intel boxes (running Linux and BSD, it's ok) and they literally raise the temp of his room.... my G4 blows cold air out the back. go figure.
offhand i don't think anything from Apple has had a fan on the processor.... even the newest dual 1.25GHz machines have a fan blowing across the heatsink on the processors, but nothing like the standard Intel/AMD thing of the mini fan attached to the chip itself. i guess that is part of the reason Macs are generally quieter (if they have a fan at all)..... those mini fans have a terrible sound. i disabled the one on my Radeon7500 because it sounded like a food processor full of gravel. the case is cool enough that it didn't seem to matter anyway.
if so i would guess.... no?
it's not only on AT&T's mLife plans..... it's on a lot of newer phones... basically any phone that boasts "e911" has a GPS or GPS-like thing going on. my friend's latest phone (on verizon) has this feature, and it's not an expensive phone. it can be set so it is only active if you actually dial 911. in a sense it is kinda cool, in a sense it is creepy as hell. if you sail off the highway on a backwoods road during a snowstorm, you would be psyched you have it (assuming you have signal). if your boss uses it to find out you are not sick and actually going to see Star Wars 3, then you'll hate it.
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i was at MWNYC this summer and every time it ran people seemed to laugh a lot..... i guess they made a lot of them with him.... there are a lot more actors/musicians/people in the public eye that supposedly shot spots that are yet to surface.... everyone from Lou Reed to Harry Knowles (the guy that runs aintitcoolnews.com) supposedly recorded them.
this from the person sitting behind their computer on a friday night?
i'm home ill.... i have an.. err.... excuse?
i have always hear that you could lock a coloney of roaches in a tank with a TV and they could thrive... they may just need a lil water and air, but the TV is enough nutrition for them. maybe we should take big (escape-proof please) tanks of roaches and dump in all those old computers that are going to infect landfills.
still waiting for the windows users to post? heh
i am running an older mac... G4 400mghz running 10.2 with a gig of ram..... i think the pokeyness IS application specific for the most part. i upgraded my Rage128 card to a 7500 when i hopped to 10.2 and noticed it handles the aqua interface a lot better. there are also little things to do to zip up the OS (like under dock prefs switch from "genie" to "scale"), turn off dock magnification, don't use a 10 megapixel picture as your desktop.
obviously it's not as efficient as a very tweaked Linux or BSD box (with fast innards), but as an out of the box OS it's very usable. as always it's better running on newer machines, but i can use it on an older crt iMac G3 300mghz and not bang my head against the table. you might not want to do intense av work on that machine, but for day to day tasks (which iMacs were intended for) it will do just fine.
even with the Max Headroom reruns?
we've only had TechTV for about a year on our crappy digital cable, and i've had a lifetime dose of Screen Savers. even my M$-lovin' roomate can't take most of their programming. i watched the Apple keynotes that they showed, and Max Headroom... that's about it i think. i tried to watch more but it gets bogged down in M$ Windows nonsense that means nothing to me. oh well.
i am 99.9% sure in the early days of car phones (and when "portable phones" were bag phones) that in the United States both parties paid. i am thinking early/mid 80's..... since i was about 10 then, i was not using car phones and i was not paying the phone bill. i can not be 100% sure, but i really do think it was the case.
any of the older people remember?
just to learn... DigiDesign now offers free versions of the Pro Tools software. it offers up to 12 tracks, and no expiration date.
.... at the time he had not jumped to new B&W G3's because they didn't have enough PCI slots...
for a cheap expansion you can get a protools card for $400 and throw it in an 8600 and start doing recording. the card had a pair of RCA line in and line outs that can also be used as 4 line ins... and it has coax digital output.
a full on Pro Tools setup costs as much as you have to spend, but it's cheap to get started.
on a side note. Ice T is a big Mac fan too..... there was some interview with him and they wandered into his studio that was rigged out with PowerMac 9600's
honestly i think it will cost most companies about the same to exhibit at either city. yes, IDG gets the Boston space for free, but whena ll the costs are added up to the individual companies that make up the show, it's not cheaper.
Boston is not a cheap city to live in or visit. it will cost a lot of atendees about the same for either place... maybe more since NYC is more in the middle of the east coast megalopolis. and a lot of the visitors are from NYC itself.
there is no way theyw ill have the numbers of people show up in Boston as they have been having in NYC. nothing against Boston, but it's a fact.
from a psychological standpoint NYC is considered the peak of the east coast. a mark of success. to retreat back to Boston seems like they are going back to the old days.
then, as posted above..... NYC was hit hard last year. they can still use all the support they can get. why pull out on them now?
as a resident of neither city and somebody that visits both a few times a year..... i think it's crazy to pull out of NYC. i can see Apple's point. i would think NYC is their strongest city on the east coast.... why make them travel 250 miles to go to MacWorld? Why make Philly and Baltimore/DC people travel an EXTRA 250 miles? it doesn't make sense (except the money factor for IDG).
supposedly the issue with Apple's chips over the last few years was Moto's manufacturing process. rumors say that IBM was always able to make more chips of higher speeds than Moto. the story is that because of the contract between the 3, IBM chips did not go in Apple boxes (upgrades and whatnot), and they could not outclock Moto.
yes, that's from the rumor mill, but everyone knows Moto has been going through a lot of corporate restructuring and who knows where they will be focusing in the next 5 years. IBM is going to make these chips (where ever they are going to be used) at a brand new plant in NY state. they have a great rep for quality control.
i kind of creepy thing is that the articles say they will probably debut 2nd half of next year (Macworld NYC? one last hurah! before MW moves back to Boston?) or not till January 2004. the articles also inply that they will debut at 1.4GHz. Apple is now selling 2 x 1.25 GHz G4 chips.
will Apple stall at or below 1.4 GHz till these new chips come out? the general upgrade of Apple machines is 5 or 6 months right now. that leave 2 possible revisions to the G4 towers before these babies are set. now i know that these chips will come with a super motherboard and 64 bit vs 32 and bla bla bla but Apple fights the megahertx myth even to somewhat educated comsumers. how will they be able to spin it when they have to explain it in terms of Apples vs Apples?
i guess it's a minor problem if these chips are as zippy as they say... a few benchmark tests and bar graphs should convey some message? maybe instead of having a 12 y.o. kid set up his iMac and go online in 5 minutes, they will have a 12 y.o. kid clone his dog or something. i would be impressed.
but bluetooth would be incredibly pokey to transfer a large MP3 connection......
bluetooth is great for things like keeping you cellphone/pda/laptop/desktop in sync. if you have a BT phone and laptop, you can use the phone as a modem for internet access (if you have the right hardware/software). wireless access to printers and scanners is great. printing and scanning in generally slow enough that BT is not going to bottleneck it. as time goes on there will be more additions to what it can do (things 802.11b is not meant for)...... like now if you have a bt phone and a Mac running OS X 10.2 they will sync. if you phone is sitting in your bag across the room and rings, you can have your addressbook on the machine set to pop up a callerID window so you know who is calling you before leaving your seat. you can also dial your phone from your machine (either a number from your address book, or one you find in an online phone listing).
i think it's things like that where bluetooth will pick up. it sounds like there will be a boom of gadgets for it that people are not even thinking of right now. at some point i would think it will be integrated into home automation. at least in the way of connecting a computer to a programmable control box.
i don't think NYC "doesn't want it back", there was a good turnout of people, though vendors were lacking. people may not have been 100% happy with it, but they still came out. they still stayed in hotels, ate in resturants and shopped locally. there is a lot more to do in NYC after expo hours than Boston. the people that run the expo (not Apple) were offered a sweet deal to go back to Boston, while in Javits prices were going to go up. inflation makes prices go up... it happens. Boston has to promote this huge expensive new convention center so they are offering a good deal to IDG. as for the Big Dig, it's federally funded so Boston itself isn't paying for it anyway.... we all are.
personally i prefer it in NYC because it's a hell of a lot closer to the regions of Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC etc... i would think a lot of the day trippers will be lost. it will be interesting to see what the turnout is like.
Data Transfer(per month) = Unlimited *
.Net account to do so. hrmmmmm makes the sidekick that much more appealing.
* - After 1st year, unlimited becomes 15MB/month, $3.50/additional MB.
if you go to http://www.t-mobile.com/ and click on the sidekick plans you can get the full explanation. i think it's a bit diff than their other plans right now..... they also throw in the novelty camera attachment (it's really tiny).
Price = $39.99
Whenever minutes(per month) = 200 minutes
Weekend minutes (per month) = 1000
from what i read somewhere they do not count data like phone calls... and AIM can always be on as well as email checker. i have Verizon wireless web now and if i want to use Yahoo! Messenger i have to go into web-mode which ties up the whole phone.... though Verizon just worked out somehting with AIM that *might* allow AIM names to contact you and you to contact them as text messages. kind of an alias portal thing or something. i have not investigated that yet because it seems i have to set up a
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