The first Intel Macs will include the Mini, almost certainly at $499 for a minimum configuration. The more expensive desktop Macs (the ones that will come in $3000 configurations, an order of magnitude larger) will be the last to make the transition, up to a year after the Intel Mac Mini comes out.
Moderate parent (-1,WRONG). Or perhaps Troll since it will be possible to spend that much, but most people will not.
Somebody asked this question a few years ago on slashdot in a more 3-D context, and one person heartily recommended SketchUp. They've got a free download.
I checked it out, and have been a happy customer every since. They've got both MacOS X and Windows versions, and it really kicks ass - it's the only vector drawing program that I've used where I feel happy to just doodle and something interesting tends to evolve. It's that good of a tool, that it naturally extends your imagination. Of course, because of the nature of the tool the drawings always tend to grow into the third dimension - which always gives a more dynamic result.
I'm just a happy SketchUp customer. Check it out, it's really a great tool.
HP's big failing in this better was that they were coming from a world, the beige box PC world, where a brand means the label you slap onto the beige box. The logo is your brand, and represents everything else that comes with your company's reputation.
I think HP honestly believed that people would look at an iPod with an HP brand and think of them primarily as HP products. After all, that's essentially what happens with all of their PCs ("Intel Inside" campaigns aside).
Apple's strength in this matter is that their logo is not the single indication of their brand - every cubic centimeter of their products scream, "hello! I'm made by Apple!" Their products are their brand. It's with good reason that Apple agressively pursues trade dress litigation against imitators - like a car, Apple's distinctive industrial engineering is the branding every bit as much as the fruit silhouette.
HP never saw it coming. Apple sucker punched HP, used HP's channels and connection while they were useful, and HP sat there confused, wondering why the mojo didn't rub off onto their brand.
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It's easy to upgrade the Mini's RAM yourself, although you void your warranty.
I often wish that there was a moderation option, (-1, WRONG).
you can upgrade the Mac mini's RAM to 1GB--contrary to rumors around the Internet, Apple has told Macworld that you can even do it yourself without voiding your warranty "unless you break something when you open it.")
In their place, the main reason I'd select it (beyond liking Mac OS X) would be hardware - Mac mini motherboards cheaply pack a lot of punch with very modest space and power demands while not leaving a lot of device driver issues to worry about.
There's also support for some realtime features in Mac OS X, but Linux can do that too.
You don't need to lecture me on how common water is. I have a freakin' degree in physics with a focus on cosmology.
That's not the point. Again, you didn't pay attention.
They needed an atmosphere to support the manual labor they needed to operate the cobbled-together systems - they didn't have the automated equipment. That is what put them in the risky political situation of having to convince the convicts to cooperate and provide a labor force to purify the water before they put it into the ship filters, which were designed only to remove human-generated pollutants.
It's not about the water per se, it's about the labor-intensive processing pipeline they were stuck with and the water being in the environment they needed into order to support that pipeline.
People could buy a PS2 risk-free, knowing that they could continue to play all of their old PS1 games and also play the new ones. It was an upgrade instead of a platform change, and people didn't have to choose between running two consoles and not being able to play their old games any longer.
That's important. It remains to be seen just how good XBox 360's half-assed backwards compatability is - if I can't play ToeJam & Earl III on it, it'll be quite a while before I get one.
You didn't pay attention. They discussed the possibility of mining it from comets, but they didn't have the infrastructure and equipment to do so on the scale they needed without an atmosphere and gravity.
In this case, the alternator died so my battery eventually died during a flight. This sort of thing isn't actually that uncommon in general aviation, and more importantly, isn't that big a deal. It meant my radio and my GPS were unavailable, no big deal. The engine, of course, kept on running. The critical avionics are all independent of the electrical system and work on mechanical principles (vacuum pressure, ambient pressure, gyroscpopes, etc).
General aviation aircraft are not actually required to use their radios: the rules evolved before reliable radios were widespread, and there are a ton of rules that cover communication. I've shared traffic patterns with aircraft without radios. I called the airfield just as a "heads-up," it was not required.
It's actually a really good thing things work this way: the aircraft and the rules around flying them are engineered to only rely upon the most reliable systems. They don't hold with these new-fangled e-lec-tronics.
I don't know of any combined phone/pda/mp3 player/game console/electric razor that allows you to shut off the *phone* -- and having the cell phone on while you're flying around is a Bad Thing, according to the FAA.
Two things:
The Treo 650 is one phone/pda that allows you to turn off the phone part.
The rule against cell phone use is largely not from the FAA, but more from the FCC.
There's no actual danger to avionics (despite what some stews say), it's more of an effort to keep cell phones from hitting so many towers at once due to the increased range due to altitude - enough people do that, and you end up with swamped towers. Many pilots (myself included) occasionally make quick use of a cell phone from time to time (in my case most recently, to contact the airfield when my radio cut out due to the electrical system dying).
Oh your fucking god. No shit, Sherlock. "Research" won't replace thinking. Of course the original sample rates are the same, most of the AACs are created from the CDs in the first place! The problem is that (in an information theory sense) what you download is much sparser than what you get on the CD.
What you're talking about - the sampling of the original musical source - is completely irrelevant to the original poster's point, which is that the music you buy from the iTunes store is not as high quality as what you get from the CDs, because of the lossy encoding that results in most of the information being discarded according the psychoacoustic model that the AAC codec employs.
Population rates include babies, toddlers, pubescents, and so on.
Measuring by current population is nonsense - a better measure to normalize against would be the size of the working population, particularly those between their mid-20s and mid-40s.
Since the world population leads the number of people in the "innovating" population, of course the ratio is going to appear to fall whenever the rate of the leading number grows, as population growth has increased over the last century, thanks to advances in medicine and agriculture.
This contention is just an artifact of sloppy math.
All of the news outlets except Fox News Special Report received a score to the left of the average member of Congress.
Ummm... Duh!
The average member of Congress is on the right. Of course a centrist position will be to their left. When the Democrats controlled Congress, the average member was to the left and the news tended to be to the right of the average member.
using Linux on your servers for OS X client networks just makes sense.
But, as I talk a bit more about elswhere, for most people it doesn't make half as much sense as using a Darwin distro like OpenDarwin on your servers for OS X client networks.
One factor that people seem to be overlooking is the free (beer), open source Darwin x86.
To date, I've tended to run Mac OS X on desktops and laptops, and either Debian or OpenBSD on servers.
With the change to Mac OS X x86, I'm much more likely to run OpenDarwin on my servers: I get some binary compatability and a uniformity of Unix idioms, and still have the Open Source goodness that comes with any of the open source unixes. Beyond thread-switching (I don't run MySQL anyway), the only thing that it lacks is the GPL - correctness. For some people, that will matter - for most, one open source Unix is going to be as good as any other one.
My expectation is that Mac OS X on x86 won't directly compete with Linux, but its existence will make OpenDarwin compete much more strongly with Linux. There's even a commercial opportunity there, to start selling support contracts for OpenDarwin in the same way that one can get Linux support contracts from people like Red Hat.
Apple has $10 Billion in the bank. They can afford to have a crash in hardware sales until the x86 machines come out. The mistake that Adam Osborne made was that he slit his own throat, because he depended upon the revenue stream that came from Osborne 1 sales.
I'm not sure that Microsoft is free to do so; they have a ton of antitrust judgments against them prohibiting limiting what x86 hardware Windows can run on, due to their playing games against x86 manufacturers in the 80s and 90s.
If Apple uses fairly standard technologies other than their own additional dongle or coprocessor (bring back the NeXT DSP!), Microsoft might not have a choice.
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The first Intel Macs will include the Mini, almost certainly at $499 for a minimum configuration. The more expensive desktop Macs (the ones that will come in $3000 configurations, an order of magnitude larger) will be the last to make the transition, up to a year after the Intel Mac Mini comes out.
Moderate parent (-1,WRONG). Or perhaps Troll since it will be possible to spend that much, but most people will not.
Somebody asked this question a few years ago on slashdot in a more 3-D context, and one person heartily recommended SketchUp. They've got a free download.
I checked it out, and have been a happy customer every since. They've got both MacOS X and Windows versions, and it really kicks ass - it's the only vector drawing program that I've used where I feel happy to just doodle and something interesting tends to evolve. It's that good of a tool, that it naturally extends your imagination. Of course, because of the nature of the tool the drawings always tend to grow into the third dimension - which always gives a more dynamic result.
I'm just a happy SketchUp customer. Check it out, it's really a great tool.
HP's big failing in this better was that they were coming from a world, the beige box PC world, where a brand means the label you slap onto the beige box. The logo is your brand, and represents everything else that comes with your company's reputation.
I think HP honestly believed that people would look at an iPod with an HP brand and think of them primarily as HP products. After all, that's essentially what happens with all of their PCs ("Intel Inside" campaigns aside).
Apple's strength in this matter is that their logo is not the single indication of their brand - every cubic centimeter of their products scream, "hello! I'm made by Apple!" Their products are their brand. It's with good reason that Apple agressively pursues trade dress litigation against imitators - like a car, Apple's distinctive industrial engineering is the branding every bit as much as the fruit silhouette.
HP never saw it coming. Apple sucker punched HP, used HP's channels and connection while they were useful, and HP sat there confused, wondering why the mojo didn't rub off onto their brand.
You do not void the warranty when you upgrade a mini's RAM.:
In their place, the main reason I'd select it (beyond liking Mac OS X) would be hardware - Mac mini motherboards cheaply pack a lot of punch with very modest space and power demands while not leaving a lot of device driver issues to worry about.
There's also support for some realtime features in Mac OS X, but Linux can do that too.
Huh? What TV show are you talking about? It ain't Battlestar Galactica.
You don't need to lecture me on how common water is. I have a freakin' degree in physics with a focus on cosmology.
That's not the point. Again, you didn't pay attention.
They needed an atmosphere to support the manual labor they needed to operate the cobbled-together systems - they didn't have the automated equipment. That is what put them in the risky political situation of having to convince the convicts to cooperate and provide a labor force to purify the water before they put it into the ship filters, which were designed only to remove human-generated pollutants.
It's not about the water per se, it's about the labor-intensive processing pipeline they were stuck with and the water being in the environment they needed into order to support that pipeline.
Backwards compatbility is also a huge factor.
People could buy a PS2 risk-free, knowing that they could continue to play all of their old PS1 games and also play the new ones. It was an upgrade instead of a platform change, and people didn't have to choose between running two consoles and not being able to play their old games any longer.
That's important. It remains to be seen just how good XBox 360's half-assed backwards compatability is - if I can't play ToeJam & Earl III on it, it'll be quite a while before I get one.
Like the BSG episode that was a copy of The Guns of Navarone .
No.
You didn't pay attention. They discussed the possibility of mining it from comets, but they didn't have the infrastructure and equipment to do so on the scale they needed without an atmosphere and gravity.
My mechanic.
In this case, the alternator died so my battery eventually died during a flight. This sort of thing isn't actually that uncommon in general aviation, and more importantly, isn't that big a deal. It meant my radio and my GPS were unavailable, no big deal. The engine, of course, kept on running. The critical avionics are all independent of the electrical system and work on mechanical principles (vacuum pressure, ambient pressure, gyroscpopes, etc).
General aviation aircraft are not actually required to use their radios: the rules evolved before reliable radios were widespread, and there are a ton of rules that cover communication. I've shared traffic patterns with aircraft without radios. I called the airfield just as a "heads-up," it was not required.
It's actually a really good thing things work this way: the aircraft and the rules around flying them are engineered to only rely upon the most reliable systems. They don't hold with these new-fangled e-lec-tronics.
- The Treo 650 is one phone/pda that allows you to turn off the phone part.
- The rule against cell phone use is largely not from the FAA, but more from the FCC.
There's no actual danger to avionics (despite what some stews say), it's more of an effort to keep cell phones from hitting so many towers at once due to the increased range due to altitude - enough people do that, and you end up with swamped towers. Many pilots (myself included) occasionally make quick use of a cell phone from time to time (in my case most recently, to contact the airfield when my radio cut out due to the electrical system dying).Do your own fucking research before telling others to do theirs:
- The sample rate of a CD is 44.11 (not 14.11) KHz
- The resolution in CD audio is 32 bits per sample
- Anybody who has ripped a raw CD can tell you that the resulting AIFF or WAV (each which is just reformatted raw audio) takes up 1,411 Kbps.
32 bits per sample (resolution) * 44.11 Hz (sample rate) = 1.411 Mbps (bit rate)Just what did you think the bitrate of raw audio on a CD actually is?
Oh your fucking god. No shit, Sherlock. "Research" won't replace thinking. Of course the original sample rates are the same, most of the AACs are created from the CDs in the first place! The problem is that (in an information theory sense) what you download is much sparser than what you get on the CD.
What you're talking about - the sampling of the original musical source - is completely irrelevant to the original poster's point, which is that the music you buy from the iTunes store is not as high quality as what you get from the CDs, because of the lossy encoding that results in most of the information being discarded according the psychoacoustic model that the AAC codec employs.
Well, at least you're right that Apple iTunes downloads are not mp3s.
Snarky comments about research aside, they are in fact 128 Kbps AACs. That's NOWHERE near the information density of CDs at 1411 Kbps.
Nonsense. If you don't want to do it yourself from scratch PTVUpgrade will do it for you or sell you a kit.
(Just a happy PTVUpgrade customer... I just wish they'd offer the same product/service for normal Series 2 units).
Population rates include babies, toddlers, pubescents, and so on.
Measuring by current population is nonsense - a better measure to normalize against would be the size of the working population, particularly those between their mid-20s and mid-40s.
Since the world population leads the number of people in the "innovating" population, of course the ratio is going to appear to fall whenever the rate of the leading number grows, as population growth has increased over the last century, thanks to advances in medicine and agriculture.
This contention is just an artifact of sloppy math.
The average member of Congress is on the right. Of course a centrist position will be to their left. When the Democrats controlled Congress, the average member was to the left and the news tended to be to the right of the average member.
What a crock.
You're going to have to back that claim up. The rumor keeps going around, and Apple keeps denying it.
I don't doubt the price will go up one day, but not soon and not to the degree that you suggest.
One factor that people seem to be overlooking is the free (beer), open source Darwin x86.
To date, I've tended to run Mac OS X on desktops and laptops, and either Debian or OpenBSD on servers.
With the change to Mac OS X x86, I'm much more likely to run OpenDarwin on my servers: I get some binary compatability and a uniformity of Unix idioms, and still have the Open Source goodness that comes with any of the open source unixes. Beyond thread-switching (I don't run MySQL anyway), the only thing that it lacks is the GPL - correctness. For some people, that will matter - for most, one open source Unix is going to be as good as any other one.
My expectation is that Mac OS X on x86 won't directly compete with Linux, but its existence will make OpenDarwin compete much more strongly with Linux. There's even a commercial opportunity there, to start selling support contracts for OpenDarwin in the same way that one can get Linux support contracts from people like Red Hat.
(Yes, I actually had an Osborne 1)
Apple has $10 Billion in the bank. They can afford to have a crash in hardware sales until the x86 machines come out. The mistake that Adam Osborne made was that he slit his own throat, because he depended upon the revenue stream that came from Osborne 1 sales.
I'm not sure that Microsoft is free to do so; they have a ton of antitrust judgments against them prohibiting limiting what x86 hardware Windows can run on, due to their playing games against x86 manufacturers in the 80s and 90s.
If Apple uses fairly standard technologies other than their own additional dongle or coprocessor (bring back the NeXT DSP!), Microsoft might not have a choice.