i had to buy a new printer..... my Epson 1160 is long not supported by epson... now that i have a 1280 it works really well under OS X. i was pissed i had to upgrade (they are both oversized inkjets that cost $400+) but i was able to seel the old on on ebay for literally $1 less than the new one (i do not know).
as for HP, i do not know what to say. i've been using Apple computers for a long time, i dealt with the mess of using HP printers in the 90's and since then i just don't feel comfortable buying their stuff.
M$ does have a decent investment into Mac software, and they have bought companies (bungie etc) that have Mac teams. for that investment they make a TON of money off the platform. if M$ decided to implode their Mac software division tomorrow i don't think it would really effect the overal company. they would still be quite profitable. i think it is more of them getting their feet/hands into everything. hell, they have a booth at Linuxworld, and everyone knows how they feel about Linux.
i would not be suprised if a lot of this is ego. everyone knows that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are strange charcters, and you figure they have been crossing paths for 20 years now. add to that people under them that surely are loyal to the company and i'm sure it's just M$ flexing their PR muscles a bit.... or at least trying to.
eh, not really. saying "new G4s" is nothing. many many people predicted a new iMac last January. a lot of those predictions were 17" CRT (now the eMac) or a 15" LCD. NOBODY predicted that it would turn out like it did.
same thing with the ipod. everyone was buying the iwalk rumors, so they lost focus on the more true leaks.
the most recent time i think Steve was really caught was with the leaks of the cube. it was on a few rumor sites, though nobody really had it quite right (most said it looked like a G4 case but pushed into a little cube, handles and all). before those leaks nobody expected a "new" mac. then ATI backed it up in a comment about their new card coming out at MacWorldNYC and how it would be featured in the new Mac Apple was going to suprise everyone with. OOPS! that one got Steve's goat.
anyway i can predict updates to whatever device i want, and of course something will happen. last year they kept saying "this is a software focused expo" and still updated the G4 towers (nothing too major, but and update) and bumped iMacs i think. next week will probably be the first legit public molestation of 10.2, and probably some tweaks to hardware. hopefully a revamped G4 tower will be there, but between a first hand look at xserve and 10.2/Jaguar i am ready to take the hike up there. anything on top of that is just bonus. of course i am hoping they will have at least a few machines with 10.2 if not more. last year they had a handful of machines running 10.1 but they were staffed so you could not poke at them too much. with the expected release date of it so near, i would think a solid build on the current powermacs is ready for display.
that is 100% true, they have had a promotion run through the release of updated hardware. as confusing as it might turn out to be, i understand the rebate form has a checkbox for which system you bought (faster machine = bigger rebate). since only the current systems are on there, then new ones would not count unless they update the form. also remember the rebate is $x00 back on G4 tower and display. so if they release a new minitower, they can drop the price of the current ones and still run the promo. generally Apple sorta stays tot he same pricing structure. there are fluctuations depending on models and the cost of parts (like LCDs for the new iMacs).
then again there is also no reason they can't offer a package deal if you buy a new (if there will be new ones next wednesday) G4 and a flat panel display. the economy is just not doing so well, so selling machines at a lower price is better than not selling any machines. at least this way it keeps things flowing.
i'm not going to make predictions (i want to keep my badge, ha), but i don't see this being any indication to rule out new desktops.
i agree the clones would probably have done more damage in the long run. i don't know if the hardware still pays for the OS development (OS X selling really well), but it sure does pay for the purchasing/developing/tweaking of the iApps. Apple would be hard pressed to make money if there were clones and people could still get iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, Appleworks for free as well as all the bundled apps with OS X itself. all they would get is the fee from the clone maker and the OS sales. as much as it killed competition in the marketplace (generally a good thing), i think it was the only option at the time.
on a side note as of last year it was still being reported that Microsoft was still making more money from Apple products than Apple themselves. i do not know if it still holds true, but it kind of puts things in perspective when you think of profits of hardware vs software. i'm not saying people can't profit from hardware, but it's a strange mess.
in a way i can see how they do this. why have an NDA if you are going to fire the people that leak info, yet reward the people they leak to? the story is that Apple pushed for this "lockout", but supposedly for whatever reasons Apple was going to tighten up on the sheer number of press passes in general. in they are going to do that i would think the web only rumor sites are the first to go.
the one crazy rumor site behind the iWalk fever, spymac.com, responded to this news by saying they totally see where Apple is coming from.
weather or not you agree with Steve Jobs being a control freak, he did get the company back in the black. he does seem to require a lot of control over things, and i guess it works for them. it is odd that they are doing this, though they have been strangely slack on sites showing screen shots and info on Jaguar (the next OS upgrade due out in late summer). you figure pushing Jaguar is going to be a big part of MacWorldNYC in 2 weeks and theya re letting a lott of that info out (where they used to make people pull screen shots within a few days).
anyway, they do seem to be a little silly with the tightness on passes, but in a way you can't be too suprised that they are not the happiest with sites that make a living off of people that violate they Apple NDA.
i do not know about car companies specifically (even the new Harley bike is metric), but industry in general would be taking a big hit. actually car companies could handle it easier i would think (if they have not already). try going to a Home Depot or some place like it. wander around and think of every wrench, pipe and whatever else that they have. then think of evey one that every hardware distro has sold. every little machine shop, every mechanic, every plumber every weekend warrior. every last little worker bee, as well as every company has to replace nearly every tool they own. every blueprint would suddenly become confusing. every pipe under every street would require some adapter when repaired.
on top of the physical demands, every worker would have to be retrained as well as carry a conversion device for when they are repairing old systems that are a mix. the heater repair guy would need to carry both tools when working on a building's system. changing everything at once would be a mess. on top of that i guess suppliers would have to carry both sizes. we have some european machines in the small machine shop/manufacturing place i work. i know the first thing that was done (if not done by them time we got em) to them was to replace every nut and bolt on the machine, and retap every hole. everything was converted out of metric. all the small machine shops did it that way. it was/is just too much of a hassle to have double the sets of tools floating around for tweaking. it is also too much hassle to make sure every machine operator can use both systems. when dials just have numbers you don't want an operator to assume it's one system or the other. things can go very wrong that way. i guess also 50-some years ago when they started, not as many people knew they metric system well? either way having a plant with both systems seems like potential mess, as well as a safety hazard.
the whole thing is a massive undertaking that is just getting harder and harder to pull off every day. all that being said, i wish the USA had changed over at some point. i think it would take some sort of insane event to justify retooling a country in this day and age.
well since the next season is the last one, they will probably wrap it up with some crazy stuff. Gellar's contract is up and she said she's done, Joss has said he doesnt have the time to devote tot he show that he wants to, and thinks it deserves. supposedly she said she was against the idea of movies in the future. there are a bunch of interviews where Joss hints at a few things to come this season. web searches will provie them, i forget where they are since the links or stories were sent to me bye a rabid fan......... i think they also said Angel is going to stay at least a year after Buffy expires (i think a few of the actors/actresses signed up for a few years or something... but i might be wrong).
p.s. i don't think Spike is going to turn out to be the spooky evil vamp this coming season..... the way last season ended implies something silly.
my digital cable co doesnt give use TNN (though we have every available channel).....
let me get this straight.... this is not letterboxing for widescreen format movies/tv show (a few TV shows are widescreen now, but only to HDTV feeds) . wow that's insane. i think i would rather they frame the whole screen and keep the proper aspect ratio. banner ads on tv shows is going to be really crazy. i have a feeling they wont do it to eliminate TV commercials either, eh? wait.... what if there is a Sprint commercial and an AT&T banner ad? this sounds like a nightmare. every thing we watch will be like headline news. AGH! it's one thing to underline news with other news, stocks and weather, but to banner Hogan's Heroes with soap ads.... strange, really strange.
all those paintings (and Mel Gibson movies!) of revolutionary soldiers fighting with the Stars & Stripes in hand is kind of untrue. During the revolution a military band of American soldiers was much more likely to fly the flag of their State or Militia group.
supposedly the major motivating factor to have a flag representing all of the states was for ships entering the harbors of foreign ports. there was something about this on Discovery Channel or somehting a week ago, and they traced back to where the obsession with the U.S. flag came from.... but i forget.... bleep bleep sorry! from what i remember it started about a hundred years ago, but i really am not remembering. maybe i had to go check on food.
i do agree it seems like a much cleaner happier way to do it (if you have the money). unfortunately there are some issues.......
1) xserve isn't shipping yet. apple site says 2-3 weeks still, though there are rumors they will be shipping any day now.
2) the dual processor xserve is $4,000 (the single processor is the $3000 model). i would wonder if the included software would be seen as a waste when buying a plethora of these. then again if you are curing cancer i guess worrying about the extra $$$$ for the right equipment seems like crying over spilled milk.
as posted above, dual 800mghz G4 machines are older stock so i am guessing they were either purchased a while ago, or they got a good price break. i think we'll see them down the road, supposedly the xserve will be easy to cluster. actually according to stories posted here and on MacSlash in the past it seems that people can unbox, setup and startup a G4 cluster in a day.
well they are still currently selling the 15" G3 CRT imacs (for now at least)......
the G4 imac is the LCD "luxo" model..... the eMacs were first sold as edu models only... to to keep everything straight they are calling it emac still, as opposed to "imac G4 17" CRT"....... though who knows, i have a feeling the 15" CRT iMac will be going away soon. with eMacs selling to the public for about $1100 (according to the ClubMac catalog i got today). one interesting thing is that the only public version of the emac had a CDRW, where the 15" CRT imac and the LCD imac have CDrom base models.....
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i guess it would as long as it is the right drive (one apple uses).... you figure the drivers are in the OS..... cool stuff
yeah, i'm with you. i'll take the fake detonation anyday.
no, my feelings were not swayed by watching Dr Strangelove this weekend...... i guess i can live without the comedy since we won't ever know the fun-fun that goes on in the war room.
you don't HAVE to upgrade.. ask Newton users
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there are still zillions of palm apps that will still run...... personally i can see your point.... i like changing batteries every two months on my IIIxe, i like it not costing too much so when (not if, when) i break/lose it i won't be out too much cash.
that being said i think they need to upgrade. people want something smaller, color, and whatever else..... one thing i would like is a faster processor (color or b&w screen). the only times i have really thought "damn i wish i had a color display" was when i was in a strange city trying to read maps (try reading NYC subway maps in b&w). if i could get a better price on it i think i would buy a kyocera smartphone right now (locked into a contract). it's a little smaller than my IIIxe and it's the same processor/memory. it incorporates dialing from the phonebook, and can go online to get movie times or whatever. i hate having a phone list in my phone and in my palm. granted they can be merged now, but it's only going to be easier with the new OS.
has anything confirmed that ALL palms will be ARM with OS5? i got the impression it was going to be a slow rollout.... they might keep making B&W palms because the price cant be beat. i'm sure a lot of apps will be written with color in mind, but if you only use it as an organizer with a few extra features... who cares? you probably dont need to upgrade anytime soon. people still run Apple Newtons, so i think a Palm V has a long life left in it.
when they did the demo of Jaguar at the devcon Jobs said it would ship late summer, and to expect one more update before then. that *should* make 10.1.5 the last update before Jaguar. they also have not been making updates frequently, so i would think Jaguar in August is about time for another update. i assume we also will not see anything much of new hardware till MWNYC (maybe a minor speed bump or something), and anything released there will probably be shipping right off with Jaguar.
the only way i see them releasing a 10.1.6 is if there is some sort of problem with this release working on all machines (10.1.5.x?), or if something comes out between now and Jaguar that Apple wants to have built in drivers for (like they find another solution for the pesky bluetooth device). i guess it is also possible 10.1.6 would exist for people that do not jump to Jaguar (if it really is a pay upgrade, likely) and Apple still REALLY wants them to be able to access something. time will tell.
i have read on other sites that people trying to install 10.1.5 on top of the developer jaguar (10.2?) are having issues in some (many?) cases.... you may want to investigate. i don't know if Apple said anything to the developers about that or not but just a heads up.
side noe, jumping from 10.1.4 to 10.1.5 on my G4 400 went well... and it's a good bit faster all around. (i already posted elsewhere on this thread about specific stuff)
i have a G4 400mghz and it is way faster. restarts are faster, idisk and most apps i have tried so far. iphoto has seen a MASSIVE increase in speed when i am changing thumbnails or scrolling through the near 800 of them i have...... and i have been burning with my Que! fire for some time in OS X now..... there might be some other issue on your machine.
i have the G4 400mghz tower, rage 128 card and about a gig of Ram..... the install went smooth as ever..... everything does seem a bit snappier. restarts seem faster (though i usually only restart every few weeks if i need to goto OS 9 for something). in general apps seem to launch a lil faster too. i am noticing a MASSIVE speed increase trolling through my pictures in iPhoto. i have about 800 pictures in the library and it used to be a bit pokey changing thumbnail size or scrolling through the list.... it is at least a good 4 or 5 times faster. i was never sure if the lag was due to my graphics card or my seemingly now older processor.... but it has gotten a lot faster. idisk is faster too, but i have not played with it too much. i have heard the developer copy of 10.2 is faster even on older machines,a nd after installing this somewhat minor update, i an quite optimistic. anyway, no issues so far for me..... when i rebooted it moved my second display tot he right side (Apple default setting) but so far everything else i see is unchanged. even mouse speed stayed fast... that occasionally resets to some mid tracking speed. overall i give it the big thumbs up.
i am guessing they reason they are only selling it with CD-R is because it's the way the assembly line is running. maybe the CD-rom versions are all going to schools. there is a CD-rom version of the LCD iMac, so i am guessing it'll eventually open up to the public. i would think in the next few months these will take over the 15" CRT imacs place in the lineup, and then the options will come out (optical drives and whatnot). from what was said at the end of the last quarter, the CRT iMac still sell a LOT of units. offhand i can not remember, but it was something more than 100,000 for the quarter. it's possible that will lower with the new LCD iMac shipping in volume, but the lower cost and durable screen makes it a good choice for many locations. i also wonder if some people are not ready for the physical design of the LCD iMac. i don't agree with them, but if they control the purchases, then they call the shots.
this year should see the 25th birthday special edition thingy..... there have been some mild rumors over the last year about it. the TAM was produced in very limited numbers, and by the time the public could get it, it was kinda outdated for the price (in terms of the inner schiznits). That being said, it was pretty neat, and did make it into some movies and TV shows (Batman & Robin, Seinfield etc). there are still online user groups dedicated to them, but then again there is for most everything Apple has ever made.
seeing as the TAM came out in March 1997 (discontinued in March 1998), this would be 5 years later. maybe we will see something at MWNYC? it is kind of odd you don't see Apple saying anything about the 25th anniversary of the company. seeing how the company is doing a lot better today than 5 years ago, i would think they might do *something* to celebrate.
good, but no Memento (off topic rant)
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to be honest, i don't know if there is much of anything to give away in a review. you pretty much know everything that is going to happen from the promos. the point of seeing the movie is to actually see it. i assume anyone reading this either saw it or doesn't care. not to give anything away, but there isn't much to give away. the movie is kind of slow, but i think that's part of the point. the laid back nature of a small logging town, the oddity that is Alaska and it's 6 months of daylight, and the effects on newcomers.... toss in a burned out old LA detective with something heavy on his mind.
after seeing Memento, i was hoping this movie would be as crazy and twisty. both movies were directed by Christopher Nolan, though Memento was written by Cristopher and his brother Jonathon, neither seems to have had a hand in writing Insomnia. that being said it's still pretty ok. i would not flock to the theater, but at some point it is worth seeing.
excuse the offtopic rant, but honestly 99% of the reason i went to see it was because i liked Memento and i had nothing better to do that night.
p.s. if you liked Memento, or wanted to see it they just released a limited edition 2x DVD that costs about $2 more than the regular version (at least at Best Buy). it's the one with the neat blue packaging.
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the only commercial radio i listen to is talk radio, otherwise it's college radio. though i will admit i am biased because i work at one. having been involved with an urban (philly) college, non-commercial station now for about 10 years i can see how dedicated people are to the station.
we, WKDU 91.7fm play pretty much "music not heard on other stations". we are the only free format, student run station left in Philadelphia. our programming cover punk/hardcore, indie, reggae, techno/hjouse/trace and whatever else. one thing about our programming... we do not follow the generic college block programming for styles of music. basically every 3 hours the DJ changes and most all of the time it's not the same style of music. a program guide (online or in print form) is helpful, but most people don't seem to care. they still listen most all of the time. i guess being the last Philly student run station and the only one without programming (DJ picks 100% of their own music) makes us pretty much the only broadcast option for many people. We have been webcasting for a few years now (and hopefully will be able to in the future if those damn fees don't kill us) and have seen a pretty good online response. though we are not always on 24 hours a day, we do not shut down for holidays or summer (Drexel U runs full year... 3 months quarters). our webcast listeners are a mix of people in the local area, and around the world. i guess the bonus we have over other internet radio stations is a bigger budget than many with cool musical tastes, a lot of DJs and a record/cd collection we have been building up since 1968. i'm all for people starting their own webcasting stations, but there are some things bedroom run stations can't do as easily (live bands, DJ marathons, buy a lot of rad hardware)
the coolest thing about webcasting is the ability for a station like ours to reach everywhere. there are a lot of decent little stations out there, but unless you live in the right area (area often being small due to low power transmitters), you miss out.
corporate radio will always suck, but thanks to the internet we all have more options.
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i had to buy a new printer..... my Epson 1160 is long not supported by epson... now that i have a 1280 it works really well under OS X. i was pissed i had to upgrade (they are both oversized inkjets that cost $400+) but i was able to seel the old on on ebay for literally $1 less than the new one (i do not know).
as for HP, i do not know what to say. i've been using Apple computers for a long time, i dealt with the mess of using HP printers in the 90's and since then i just don't feel comfortable buying their stuff.
M$ does have a decent investment into Mac software, and they have bought companies (bungie etc) that have Mac teams. for that investment they make a TON of money off the platform. if M$ decided to implode their Mac software division tomorrow i don't think it would really effect the overal company. they would still be quite profitable. i think it is more of them getting their feet/hands into everything. hell, they have a booth at Linuxworld, and everyone knows how they feel about Linux.
i would not be suprised if a lot of this is ego. everyone knows that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are strange charcters, and you figure they have been crossing paths for 20 years now. add to that people under them that surely are loyal to the company and i'm sure it's just M$ flexing their PR muscles a bit.... or at least trying to.
eh, not really. saying "new G4s" is nothing. many many people predicted a new iMac last January. a lot of those predictions were 17" CRT (now the eMac) or a 15" LCD. NOBODY predicted that it would turn out like it did.
same thing with the ipod. everyone was buying the iwalk rumors, so they lost focus on the more true leaks.
the most recent time i think Steve was really caught was with the leaks of the cube. it was on a few rumor sites, though nobody really had it quite right (most said it looked like a G4 case but pushed into a little cube, handles and all). before those leaks nobody expected a "new" mac. then ATI backed it up in a comment about their new card coming out at MacWorldNYC and how it would be featured in the new Mac Apple was going to suprise everyone with. OOPS! that one got Steve's goat.
anyway i can predict updates to whatever device i want, and of course something will happen. last year they kept saying "this is a software focused expo" and still updated the G4 towers (nothing too major, but and update) and bumped iMacs i think. next week will probably be the first legit public molestation of 10.2, and probably some tweaks to hardware. hopefully a revamped G4 tower will be there, but between a first hand look at xserve and 10.2/Jaguar i am ready to take the hike up there. anything on top of that is just bonus. of course i am hoping they will have at least a few machines with 10.2 if not more. last year they had a handful of machines running 10.1 but they were staffed so you could not poke at them too much. with the expected release date of it so near, i would think a solid build on the current powermacs is ready for display.
that is 100% true, they have had a promotion run through the release of updated hardware. as confusing as it might turn out to be, i understand the rebate form has a checkbox for which system you bought (faster machine = bigger rebate). since only the current systems are on there, then new ones would not count unless they update the form. also remember the rebate is $x00 back on G4 tower and display. so if they release a new minitower, they can drop the price of the current ones and still run the promo. generally Apple sorta stays tot he same pricing structure. there are fluctuations depending on models and the cost of parts (like LCDs for the new iMacs).
then again there is also no reason they can't offer a package deal if you buy a new (if there will be new ones next wednesday) G4 and a flat panel display. the economy is just not doing so well, so selling machines at a lower price is better than not selling any machines. at least this way it keeps things flowing.
i'm not going to make predictions (i want to keep my badge, ha), but i don't see this being any indication to rule out new desktops.
i agree the clones would probably have done more damage in the long run. i don't know if the hardware still pays for the OS development (OS X selling really well), but it sure does pay for the purchasing/developing/tweaking of the iApps. Apple would be hard pressed to make money if there were clones and people could still get iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, Appleworks for free as well as all the bundled apps with OS X itself. all they would get is the fee from the clone maker and the OS sales. as much as it killed competition in the marketplace (generally a good thing), i think it was the only option at the time.
on a side note as of last year it was still being reported that Microsoft was still making more money from Apple products than Apple themselves. i do not know if it still holds true, but it kind of puts things in perspective when you think of profits of hardware vs software. i'm not saying people can't profit from hardware, but it's a strange mess.
in a way i can see how they do this. why have an NDA if you are going to fire the people that leak info, yet reward the people they leak to? the story is that Apple pushed for this "lockout", but supposedly for whatever reasons Apple was going to tighten up on the sheer number of press passes in general. in they are going to do that i would think the web only rumor sites are the first to go.
the one crazy rumor site behind the iWalk fever, spymac.com, responded to this news by saying they totally see where Apple is coming from.
weather or not you agree with Steve Jobs being a control freak, he did get the company back in the black. he does seem to require a lot of control over things, and i guess it works for them. it is odd that they are doing this, though they have been strangely slack on sites showing screen shots and info on Jaguar (the next OS upgrade due out in late summer). you figure pushing Jaguar is going to be a big part of MacWorldNYC in 2 weeks and theya re letting a lott of that info out (where they used to make people pull screen shots within a few days).
anyway, they do seem to be a little silly with the tightness on passes, but in a way you can't be too suprised that they are not the happiest with sites that make a living off of people that violate they Apple NDA.
i do not know about car companies specifically (even the new Harley bike is metric), but industry in general would be taking a big hit. actually car companies could handle it easier i would think (if they have not already). try going to a Home Depot or some place like it. wander around and think of every wrench, pipe and whatever else that they have. then think of evey one that every hardware distro has sold. every little machine shop, every mechanic, every plumber every weekend warrior. every last little worker bee, as well as every company has to replace nearly every tool they own. every blueprint would suddenly become confusing. every pipe under every street would require some adapter when repaired.
on top of the physical demands, every worker would have to be retrained as well as carry a conversion device for when they are repairing old systems that are a mix. the heater repair guy would need to carry both tools when working on a building's system. changing everything at once would be a mess. on top of that i guess suppliers would have to carry both sizes. we have some european machines in the small machine shop/manufacturing place i work. i know the first thing that was done (if not done by them time we got em) to them was to replace every nut and bolt on the machine, and retap every hole. everything was converted out of metric. all the small machine shops did it that way. it was/is just too much of a hassle to have double the sets of tools floating around for tweaking. it is also too much hassle to make sure every machine operator can use both systems. when dials just have numbers you don't want an operator to assume it's one system or the other. things can go very wrong that way. i guess also 50-some years ago when they started, not as many people knew they metric system well? either way having a plant with both systems seems like potential mess, as well as a safety hazard.
the whole thing is a massive undertaking that is just getting harder and harder to pull off every day. all that being said, i wish the USA had changed over at some point. i think it would take some sort of insane event to justify retooling a country in this day and age.
well since the next season is the last one, they will probably wrap it up with some crazy stuff. Gellar's contract is up and she said she's done, Joss has said he doesnt have the time to devote tot he show that he wants to, and thinks it deserves. supposedly she said she was against the idea of movies in the future. there are a bunch of interviews where Joss hints at a few things to come this season. web searches will provie them, i forget where they are since the links or stories were sent to me bye a rabid fan......... i think they also said Angel is going to stay at least a year after Buffy expires (i think a few of the actors/actresses signed up for a few years or something... but i might be wrong).
p.s. i don't think Spike is going to turn out to be the spooky evil vamp this coming season..... the way last season ended implies something silly.
my digital cable co doesnt give use TNN (though we have every available channel).....
let me get this straight.... this is not letterboxing for widescreen format movies/tv show (a few TV shows are widescreen now, but only to HDTV feeds) . wow that's insane. i think i would rather they frame the whole screen and keep the proper aspect ratio. banner ads on tv shows is going to be really crazy. i have a feeling they wont do it to eliminate TV commercials either, eh? wait.... what if there is a Sprint commercial and an AT&T banner ad? this sounds like a nightmare. every thing we watch will be like headline news. AGH! it's one thing to underline news with other news, stocks and weather, but to banner Hogan's Heroes with soap ads.... strange, really strange.
all those paintings (and Mel Gibson movies!) of revolutionary soldiers fighting with the Stars & Stripes in hand is kind of untrue. During the revolution a military band of American soldiers was much more likely to fly the flag of their State or Militia group.
supposedly the major motivating factor to have a flag representing all of the states was for ships entering the harbors of foreign ports. there was something about this on Discovery Channel or somehting a week ago, and they traced back to where the obsession with the U.S. flag came from.... but i forget.... bleep bleep sorry!
from what i remember it started about a hundred years ago, but i really am not remembering. maybe i had to go check on food.
i do agree it seems like a much cleaner happier way to do it (if you have the money). unfortunately there are some issues.......
1) xserve isn't shipping yet. apple site says 2-3 weeks still, though there are rumors they will be shipping any day now.
2) the dual processor xserve is $4,000 (the single processor is the $3000 model). i would wonder if the included software would be seen as a waste when buying a plethora of these. then again if you are curing cancer i guess worrying about the extra $$$$ for the right equipment seems like crying over spilled milk.
as posted above, dual 800mghz G4 machines are older stock so i am guessing they were either purchased a while ago, or they got a good price break. i think we'll see them down the road, supposedly the xserve will be easy to cluster. actually according to stories posted here and on MacSlash in the past it seems that people can unbox, setup and startup a G4 cluster in a day.
hell yeah! Mozilla and Omniweb for me.....
i was wrong, the base model flat panel iMac had a CDRW... the mid is a combo (cd burner/dvd player) and high end has superdrive
well they are still currently selling the 15" G3 CRT imacs (for now at least)......
the G4 imac is the LCD "luxo" model..... the eMacs were first sold as edu models only... to to keep everything straight they are calling it emac still, as opposed to "imac G4 17" CRT"....... though who knows, i have a feeling the 15" CRT iMac will be going away soon. with eMacs selling to the public for about $1100 (according to the ClubMac catalog i got today). one interesting thing is that the only public version of the emac had a CDRW, where the 15" CRT imac and the LCD imac have CDrom base models.....
i guess it would as long as it is the right drive (one apple uses).... you figure the drivers are in the OS..... cool stuff
yeah, i'm with you. i'll take the fake detonation anyday.
no, my feelings were not swayed by watching Dr Strangelove this weekend...... i guess i can live without the comedy since we won't ever know the fun-fun that goes on in the war room.
there are still zillions of palm apps that will still run...... personally i can see your point.... i like changing batteries every two months on my IIIxe, i like it not costing too much so when (not if, when) i break/lose it i won't be out too much cash.
that being said i think they need to upgrade. people want something smaller, color, and whatever else..... one thing i would like is a faster processor (color or b&w screen). the only times i have really thought "damn i wish i had a color display" was when i was in a strange city trying to read maps (try reading NYC subway maps in b&w). if i could get a better price on it i think i would buy a kyocera smartphone right now (locked into a contract). it's a little smaller than my IIIxe and it's the same processor/memory. it incorporates dialing from the phonebook, and can go online to get movie times or whatever. i hate having a phone list in my phone and in my palm. granted they can be merged now, but it's only going to be easier with the new OS.
has anything confirmed that ALL palms will be ARM with OS5? i got the impression it was going to be a slow rollout.... they might keep making B&W palms because the price cant be beat. i'm sure a lot of apps will be written with color in mind, but if you only use it as an organizer with a few extra features... who cares? you probably dont need to upgrade anytime soon. people still run Apple Newtons, so i think a Palm V has a long life left in it.
when they did the demo of Jaguar at the devcon Jobs said it would ship late summer, and to expect one more update before then. that *should* make 10.1.5 the last update before Jaguar. they also have not been making updates frequently, so i would think Jaguar in August is about time for another update. i assume we also will not see anything much of new hardware till MWNYC (maybe a minor speed bump or something), and anything released there will probably be shipping right off with Jaguar.
the only way i see them releasing a 10.1.6 is if there is some sort of problem with this release working on all machines (10.1.5.x?), or if something comes out between now and Jaguar that Apple wants to have built in drivers for (like they find another solution for the pesky bluetooth device). i guess it is also possible 10.1.6 would exist for people that do not jump to Jaguar (if it really is a pay upgrade, likely) and Apple still REALLY wants them to be able to access something. time will tell.
i have read on other sites that people trying to install 10.1.5 on top of the developer jaguar (10.2?) are having issues in some (many?) cases.... you may want to investigate. i don't know if Apple said anything to the developers about that or not but just a heads up.
side noe, jumping from 10.1.4 to 10.1.5 on my G4 400 went well... and it's a good bit faster all around. (i already posted elsewhere on this thread about specific stuff)
good luck!
i have a G4 400mghz and it is way faster. restarts are faster, idisk and most apps i have tried so far. iphoto has seen a MASSIVE increase in speed when i am changing thumbnails or scrolling through the near 800 of them i have...... and i have been burning with my Que! fire for some time in OS X now..... there might be some other issue on your machine.
i have the G4 400mghz tower, rage 128 card and about a gig of Ram..... the install went smooth as ever..... everything does seem a bit snappier. restarts seem faster (though i usually only restart every few weeks if i need to goto OS 9 for something). in general apps seem to launch a lil faster too. i am noticing a MASSIVE speed increase trolling through my pictures in iPhoto. i have about 800 pictures in the library and it used to be a bit pokey changing thumbnail size or scrolling through the list.... it is at least a good 4 or 5 times faster. i was never sure if the lag was due to my graphics card or my seemingly now older processor.... but it has gotten a lot faster. idisk is faster too, but i have not played with it too much. i have heard the developer copy of 10.2 is faster even on older machines,a nd after installing this somewhat minor update, i an quite optimistic. anyway, no issues so far for me..... when i rebooted it moved my second display tot he right side (Apple default setting) but so far everything else i see is unchanged. even mouse speed stayed fast... that occasionally resets to some mid tracking speed. overall i give it the big thumbs up.
i am guessing they reason they are only selling it with CD-R is because it's the way the assembly line is running. maybe the CD-rom versions are all going to schools. there is a CD-rom version of the LCD iMac, so i am guessing it'll eventually open up to the public. i would think in the next few months these will take over the 15" CRT imacs place in the lineup, and then the options will come out (optical drives and whatnot). from what was said at the end of the last quarter, the CRT iMac still sell a LOT of units. offhand i can not remember, but it was something more than 100,000 for the quarter. it's possible that will lower with the new LCD iMac shipping in volume, but the lower cost and durable screen makes it a good choice for many locations. i also wonder if some people are not ready for the physical design of the LCD iMac. i don't agree with them, but if they control the purchases, then they call the shots.
this year should see the 25th birthday special edition thingy..... there have been some mild rumors over the last year about it. the TAM was produced in very limited numbers, and by the time the public could get it, it was kinda outdated for the price (in terms of the inner schiznits). That being said, it was pretty neat, and did make it into some movies and TV shows (Batman & Robin, Seinfield etc). there are still online user groups dedicated to them, but then again there is for most everything Apple has ever made.
seeing as the TAM came out in March 1997 (discontinued in March 1998), this would be 5 years later. maybe we will see something at MWNYC? it is kind of odd you don't see Apple saying anything about the 25th anniversary of the company. seeing how the company is doing a lot better today than 5 years ago, i would think they might do *something* to celebrate.
to be honest, i don't know if there is much of anything to give away in a review. you pretty much know everything that is going to happen from the promos. the point of seeing the movie is to actually see it. i assume anyone reading this either saw it or doesn't care. not to give anything away, but there isn't much to give away. the movie is kind of slow, but i think that's part of the point. the laid back nature of a small logging town, the oddity that is Alaska and it's 6 months of daylight, and the effects on newcomers.... toss in a burned out old LA detective with something heavy on his mind.
after seeing Memento, i was hoping this movie would be as crazy and twisty. both movies were directed by Christopher Nolan, though Memento was written by Cristopher and his brother Jonathon, neither seems to have had a hand in writing Insomnia. that being said it's still pretty ok. i would not flock to the theater, but at some point it is worth seeing.
excuse the offtopic rant, but honestly 99% of the reason i went to see it was because i liked Memento and i had nothing better to do that night.
p.s. if you liked Memento, or wanted to see it they just released a limited edition 2x DVD that costs about $2 more than the regular version (at least at Best Buy). it's the one with the neat blue packaging.
the only commercial radio i listen to is talk radio, otherwise it's college radio. though i will admit i am biased because i work at one. having been involved with an urban (philly) college, non-commercial station now for about 10 years i can see how dedicated people are to the station.
we, WKDU 91.7fm play pretty much "music not heard on other stations". we are the only free format, student run station left in Philadelphia. our programming cover punk/hardcore, indie, reggae, techno/hjouse/trace and whatever else. one thing about our programming... we do not follow the generic college block programming for styles of music. basically every 3 hours the DJ changes and most all of the time it's not the same style of music. a program guide (online or in print form) is helpful, but most people don't seem to care. they still listen most all of the time. i guess being the last Philly student run station and the only one without programming (DJ picks 100% of their own music) makes us pretty much the only broadcast option for many people.
We have been webcasting for a few years now (and hopefully will be able to in the future if those damn fees don't kill us) and have seen a pretty good online response. though we are not always on 24 hours a day, we do not shut down for holidays or summer (Drexel U runs full year... 3 months quarters). our webcast listeners are a mix of people in the local area, and around the world. i guess the bonus we have over other internet radio stations is a bigger budget than many with cool musical tastes, a lot of DJs and a record/cd collection we have been building up since 1968. i'm all for people starting their own webcasting stations, but there are some things bedroom run stations can't do as easily (live bands, DJ marathons, buy a lot of rad hardware)
the coolest thing about webcasting is the ability for a station like ours to reach everywhere. there are a lot of decent little stations out there, but unless you live in the right area (area often being small due to low power transmitters), you miss out.
corporate radio will always suck, but thanks to the internet we all have more options.