Aren't they going to stream all the sessions live on the web to anyone with an Apple Dev ID? I'm not sure what that $1600 buys you. There are probably some hardware and software handouts, but aren't those available by other means as well?
You get access to Apple engineers, a free concert and a company paid trip to California.
(For reference, I remember being an actual Apple Developer, and receiving the monthly CDROMs with amusing titles)
I've got a whole box of them. And betas of OS 10.0 (heck, even Copeland!)
Not all that useful now. WWDC was more cozy back in the late 90s when it met in Jan Jose. It's just too large now and yet too small. Maybe they could simulcast stuff? Maybe they could patent that.:)
Last time I thought it was an OK company, I was using applesoft basic...
Nah, Word 5 for Mac OS was pretty nice. Fast, logical and it worked. It's been downhill ever since. Word is now slower on my 3 GHz box than my old 16 MHz box from 20 years ago.
The Live Gold 'feature' is the number one reason I regret purchasing an Xbox and only use it to play single player games I pickup at the flea market.
And this is THE reason I refuse to buy an XBox. I have a PS3 and a Wii, but I don't need any more monthly expenses. Netflix is great on my PS3 with 1080P and a great interface.
Yep, looked at the DRM and the fact that the audio sounded worse and CDs and thought "who would buy this?" and passed it over. DCC was the same, although much worse. Who would want to digitize the least convenient and least durable music portable transport mechanism known to man? Well, there was the 8 Track, I guess.
I used to love Sony products. I purchased a SLV-R5 S-VHS recorder back in the day. It was awesome at the time. I junked it a while ago, and it was amusing to see how much discrete circuitry was crammed into the thing. It still has the honor of coming with the best remote control of any AV device I've used since.
However, over the years, Sony electronics have come to be equated in my mind with technology that's a few years out of date and over priced. I do like my PS3, but it's definitely out of date, although it's the best Netflix player I have.
I had a windows 6.5 palm phone, and the audio died on it frequently. And it was VERY slow and the Byzantine settings that were scattered over 10 pages controlling things no one on Earth cared about put me over the top. But, at least it was better than Palm OS.
2. Their homepages are not as inviting as google's - learn from that. Figure out why. Is it just choice, or is there more to it?
This is the big one. I like to read news online, though I'm in the US. Every so-called new site I've looked, except Google News, is basically worthless. ABC News, CNN, Fox News, CBS News, newspapers, etc. are useless to me. I wan to see, at a glance, a decent number of stories covering a rather broad set of topics. Most sites show you like 10 headlines and tons of other crap. I can't even figure out how to get real news on these sites. Interestingly, most of these sites' mobile versions are far more informative, so I usually end up reading them on my iPhone. So for me, if your paper is on Google News and you aren't one of the 3 I read on my phone, I'll never see your articles and I don't even care.
This is true, and I'm surprised you weren't modded down to troll here on/.:)
Unfortunately, this seems to be how most "news" sources are turning out these days. Either they are very liberal or very conservative. I'd love a decent unbiased news source, but you won't find one on TV or news stands. So, I basically just get the general gist via the USA Today app on my iPhone. Pathetic, I know.
When has Apple ever bought a company that people thought it was logical for them to acquire? Like never. Nokia is dead and Apple may be able to purchase the remnants after Nokia goes belly up at an auction.
Many PC users will not tolerate the astronomical prices of Apple hardware.
Well they have been tolerating the astronomical prices of Microsoft's mediocre software for many years. The rumored prices for the new Surface tablets seem to indicate Apple's produces will cost less.
BTW Quick on CFLs are pretty common, but it is something you need to look for as a feature on the packaging. I assume it ads 25 cents to the manufacturing costs.
They must not be where I live. I've tried tons of different CFLs that advertise "instant" on, and they never are. I put a bunch of them in the basement, and while they come in instantly, they come on at like 25% brightness. When they reach full brightness in a few minutes, they are actually brighter than the 100 W incandescent bulbs they replaced. I initially replaced them because vibrations from people walking upstairs seems to cause incandescents to fail early. CFLs there last much longer in this case. Upstairs, without vibrations, they don't last any longer than incandescents.
I got a bunch of CFL replacements for recessed lights, and while they were pretty cheap and claimed "short warm up", they are getting longer as they age. After about 6 months it's almost too long to be useful and I'm considering going back to incandescent. Due to various state incentives, I got them for like $2 each, so I can't complain too much about cost when incandescent recessed bulbs cost about the same. I'd love to go LED, but with 11 bulbs in the kitchen, that's a pretty expensive proposition. I'd love to replace all my bulbs with something like this: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limemouse/lifx-the-light-bulb-reinvented?ref=live, but just replacing the recessed lights and fixtures in my house would cost around $2K.
Should be a tax. Encourage people to make the right choices, but don't screw people who have special circumstances or are willing to compensate society for the cost of their preference.
Should be but won't be. Republicans break out in hives if you try to raise taxes even for a good reason. Economically it makes sense but politically it is impossible.
And the democrats are scared to death of raising taxes because it will be used against them in the next election. So we have two parties who won't raise taxes, even if it would help the country, for different reasons. Not much difference in the end.
Thank goodness. Every app that I see on my iPhone that uses HTML to be portable suffers horrible performance. This includes FB, but also the iTunes store. Over the past few months, the iTunes store has become almost useless on my iPhone 4. FB was among the worst, but it did recently get much faster when they apparently upgraded their servers. It's still crap, don't get be wrong, but it's a good deal better than it was a month ago.
I mostly use my laptop at home. I have wifi, which is fine for general web browsing. When I want to copy files, I dig out an Ethernet cable and plug it into one of the 20 jacks in my house so I can transfer at gigabit speeds. I have tons of Ethernet cables all over the place, including in the coffee table. I can't see purchasing more than one $30 adapter and keeping them everywhere. So it will be less convenient, but then again, I have no plans to purchase a $2200 laptop to surf the web on.
You aren't the only one. This is less useful than about any other option. I'll basically set my email servers to block receiving email from anything other than.com,.net,.org,.edu,.gov, and the country two letter codes. That's all I care about.
I've been on the internet since the 80s (yes, pre-www) and I never even thought of trying to type "foo.bank" or something lame. If we had a reputable organization come up with some good TLDs and then actually ENFORCE access to them, I'd be open to that. As it is, it's a free for all and utterly worthless.
Indeed, I loved my Replay TV. Not only the commercial skip, but that nothing was encrypted and you could suck shows right off the DVR onto your Mac or PC without much fuss. Heck, you could even stream TV FROM your Mac or PC to it. My brand new Verizon FiOS DVR is still years behind the Replay in terms of UI and ease of use, not to mention UI responsiveness. Sadly, I had to retire the Replay since it can't record digital TV and the interface with a cable box never seemed to work all that well for me.
Personally, I ONLY watch TV that's recorded, so making it easy to record seems like it would be in the cable company and content networks' benefit. But no, we get tons of DRM. No wonder I only watch like 3 network shows.
Yep, that's about the size of it. Congresspeople tipping off their buddies in big business to buy cheap farmland because they were about to legislate a corn bubble, and then making sure to tip them off again that the subsidies would not be renewed, so they could sell the land to unsuspecting farmers at corn bubble prices, only to have it come crashing down.
Typical corruption scam by government.
Corruption implies doing something illegal. What they are doing is actually very legal, as is insider trading for congress members. The write the laws to maximize their profits.
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Aren't they going to stream all the sessions live on the web to anyone with an Apple Dev ID? I'm not sure what that $1600 buys you. There are probably some hardware and software handouts, but aren't those available by other means as well?
You get access to Apple engineers, a free concert and a company paid trip to California.
(For reference, I remember being an actual Apple Developer, and receiving the monthly CDROMs with amusing titles)
I've got a whole box of them. And betas of OS 10.0 (heck, even Copeland!)
Not all that useful now. WWDC was more cozy back in the late 90s when it met in Jan Jose. It's just too large now and yet too small. Maybe they could simulcast stuff? Maybe they could patent that. :)
Last time I thought it was an OK company, I was using applesoft basic...
Nah, Word 5 for Mac OS was pretty nice. Fast, logical and it worked. It's been downhill ever since. Word is now slower on my 3 GHz box than my old 16 MHz box from 20 years ago.
The Live Gold 'feature' is the number one reason I regret purchasing an Xbox and only use it to play single player games I pickup at the flea market.
And this is THE reason I refuse to buy an XBox. I have a PS3 and a Wii, but I don't need any more monthly expenses. Netflix is great on my PS3 with 1080P and a great interface.
Yep, looked at the DRM and the fact that the audio sounded worse and CDs and thought "who would buy this?" and passed it over. DCC was the same, although much worse. Who would want to digitize the least convenient and least durable music portable transport mechanism known to man? Well, there was the 8 Track, I guess.
I used to love Sony products. I purchased a SLV-R5 S-VHS recorder back in the day. It was awesome at the time. I junked it a while ago, and it was amusing to see how much discrete circuitry was crammed into the thing. It still has the honor of coming with the best remote control of any AV device I've used since.
However, over the years, Sony electronics have come to be equated in my mind with technology that's a few years out of date and over priced. I do like my PS3, but it's definitely out of date, although it's the best Netflix player I have.
I had a windows 6.5 palm phone, and the audio died on it frequently. And it was VERY slow and the Byzantine settings that were scattered over 10 pages controlling things no one on Earth cared about put me over the top. But, at least it was better than Palm OS.
Like they'll sell out more than Lucas?
2. Their homepages are not as inviting as google's - learn from that. Figure out why. Is it just choice, or is there more to it?
This is the big one. I like to read news online, though I'm in the US. Every so-called new site I've looked, except Google News, is basically worthless. ABC News, CNN, Fox News, CBS News, newspapers, etc. are useless to me. I wan to see, at a glance, a decent number of stories covering a rather broad set of topics. Most sites show you like 10 headlines and tons of other crap. I can't even figure out how to get real news on these sites. Interestingly, most of these sites' mobile versions are far more informative, so I usually end up reading them on my iPhone. So for me, if your paper is on Google News and you aren't one of the 3 I read on my phone, I'll never see your articles and I don't even care.
This is true, and I'm surprised you weren't modded down to troll here on /. :)
Unfortunately, this seems to be how most "news" sources are turning out these days. Either they are very liberal or very conservative. I'd love a decent unbiased news source, but you won't find one on TV or news stands. So, I basically just get the general gist via the USA Today app on my iPhone. Pathetic, I know.
When has Apple ever bought a company that people thought it was logical for them to acquire? Like never. Nokia is dead and Apple may be able to purchase the remnants after Nokia goes belly up at an auction.
Many PC users will not tolerate the astronomical prices of Apple hardware.
Well they have been tolerating the astronomical prices of Microsoft's mediocre software for many years. The rumored prices for the new Surface tablets seem to indicate Apple's produces will cost less.
BTW Quick on CFLs are pretty common, but it is something you need to look for as a feature on the packaging. I assume it ads 25 cents to the manufacturing costs.
They must not be where I live. I've tried tons of different CFLs that advertise "instant" on, and they never are. I put a bunch of them in the basement, and while they come in instantly, they come on at like 25% brightness. When they reach full brightness in a few minutes, they are actually brighter than the 100 W incandescent bulbs they replaced. I initially replaced them because vibrations from people walking upstairs seems to cause incandescents to fail early. CFLs there last much longer in this case. Upstairs, without vibrations, they don't last any longer than incandescents.
I got a bunch of CFL replacements for recessed lights, and while they were pretty cheap and claimed "short warm up", they are getting longer as they age. After about 6 months it's almost too long to be useful and I'm considering going back to incandescent. Due to various state incentives, I got them for like $2 each, so I can't complain too much about cost when incandescent recessed bulbs cost about the same. I'd love to go LED, but with 11 bulbs in the kitchen, that's a pretty expensive proposition. I'd love to replace all my bulbs with something like this: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limemouse/lifx-the-light-bulb-reinvented?ref=live, but just replacing the recessed lights and fixtures in my house would cost around $2K.
Should be a tax. Encourage people to make the right choices, but don't screw people who have special circumstances or are willing to compensate society for the cost of their preference.
Should be but won't be. Republicans break out in hives if you try to raise taxes even for a good reason. Economically it makes sense but politically it is impossible.
And the democrats are scared to death of raising taxes because it will be used against them in the next election. So we have two parties who won't raise taxes, even if it would help the country, for different reasons. Not much difference in the end.
We use to compare running Oracle on the exact same box, both optimized, on Windows and Linux. Linux was always faster, too.
I'd also suspect that WinRT and Win8 Metro apps won't support OpenGL... (Can anyone confirm/deny?)
I'd also expect WinRT won't support graphics, mathematical functions or English. (Can anyone confirm/deny?)
Maybe they should have wrote the iTunes in flash.
In this case, I'd bet it would be faster, assuming you could emulate flash.
Thank goodness. Every app that I see on my iPhone that uses HTML to be portable suffers horrible performance. This includes FB, but also the iTunes store. Over the past few months, the iTunes store has become almost useless on my iPhone 4. FB was among the worst, but it did recently get much faster when they apparently upgraded their servers. It's still crap, don't get be wrong, but it's a good deal better than it was a month ago.
"Don't put me on any List" list.
That list couldn't exist, obviously.
I mostly use my laptop at home. I have wifi, which is fine for general web browsing. When I want to copy files, I dig out an Ethernet cable and plug it into one of the 20 jacks in my house so I can transfer at gigabit speeds. I have tons of Ethernet cables all over the place, including in the coffee table. I can't see purchasing more than one $30 adapter and keeping them everywhere. So it will be less convenient, but then again, I have no plans to purchase a $2200 laptop to surf the web on.
You aren't the only one. This is less useful than about any other option. I'll basically set my email servers to block receiving email from anything other than .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov, and the country two letter codes. That's all I care about.
I've been on the internet since the 80s (yes, pre-www) and I never even thought of trying to type "foo.bank" or something lame. If we had a reputable organization come up with some good TLDs and then actually ENFORCE access to them, I'd be open to that. As it is, it's a free for all and utterly worthless.
Except that on my FiOS link, it can't record a single show except a few public access stations.
Indeed, I loved my Replay TV. Not only the commercial skip, but that nothing was encrypted and you could suck shows right off the DVR onto your Mac or PC without much fuss. Heck, you could even stream TV FROM your Mac or PC to it. My brand new Verizon FiOS DVR is still years behind the Replay in terms of UI and ease of use, not to mention UI responsiveness. Sadly, I had to retire the Replay since it can't record digital TV and the interface with a cable box never seemed to work all that well for me.
Personally, I ONLY watch TV that's recorded, so making it easy to record seems like it would be in the cable company and content networks' benefit. But no, we get tons of DRM. No wonder I only watch like 3 network shows.
In Los Angeles, some freeways are jammed from 6 AM to 10 AM and then again from 3 PM to 7 PM or later. Staggering business hours won't help there.
Depends on how much you stagger. I get to to work at 11 and leave at 7:30. I'd miss most of the traffic there as I do here.
But don't you feel so much more secure now that these morons are watching over you?
If it takes a thief to catch a thief, does it take a moron to catch a moron? Clearly people who blow themselves. up are morons.
Yep, that's about the size of it. Congresspeople tipping off their buddies in big business to buy cheap farmland because they were about to legislate a corn bubble, and then making sure to tip them off again that the subsidies would not be renewed, so they could sell the land to unsuspecting farmers at corn bubble prices, only to have it come crashing down.
Typical corruption scam by government.
Corruption implies doing something illegal. What they are doing is actually very legal, as is insider trading for congress members. The write the laws to maximize their profits.