2) While I don't need or use it, using mp3 players as audio recorders for lectures, concerts, note taking is an extremely popular feature.
So those who want it can go ahead and do that with an iPod - all you need is a product like Griffin's iTalk. No problem.
Apple doesn't include it because, as you note, it's not a compelling feature for everybody - the rest of us don't have to pay the $5-$10 it would cost, or worse, have to carry around larger iPods.
Actually, there's a really good article called Who Killed Nuclear Power? on the demise of the US Nuclear power industry. It turns out to be a complex mix of economics and politics, surrounding the both the Three Mile Island incident and the end of the 1970s oil crisis - it was believed that the planned power plants were not going to be needed and would no longer be economical.
It seems to me that they could easily raise that kind of money by preselling DVD sets of the completed new season. I'd certainly pay $50-$80 for such a product, if I knew that Manny Coto would be running it. But there's a much more interesting potential here.
There's an investment possibility: another season would have its own resale value, for airing, for syndication and future DVD pressings.
That's the approach that they should take: form a company that would share the rights to the fifth season with Paramount and fund it by selling shares in that corporation. Charter shareholders would get free DVD season sets, and the corporation would be able to go on and fund the continuation of other series such as Firefly and Farscape, subject to shareholder vote.
Seems to me that there's an opportunity for someone to make quite a bit of money here running the whole thing, and that's the kind of detail that makes large projects possible.
This isn't all that different from what Sci-Fi did to fund Battlestar Galactica, except that the partner corporation was another network (Sky One in the UK) instead of a fan-invested corporation.
Given that most of the people running this stuff are not going to be Apple owners, it doesn't make a lot of sense that this is on the Apple server.
I understand the heritage angle, but it really fits better in developers or IT... people interested just in Apple stuff aren't going to care much about this.
Just wait until we start seeing automotive malware. They'll probably happen soon after there's a popular reason for networking the cars (to get traffic data, perhaps).
Do you understand that the behavior that you're describing from the _Social Text_ editors is the very antithesis of peer review?
An intellectually honest journal will NEVER rely upon the credentials or reputation of a paper's author.
What Sokal did was actually science: he formed a hypothesis ("The _Social Text_ editors don't know what they're talking about"), made a prediction ("so they will accept bogus papers"), and tested that prediction. And then he published his results, much to the _Social Text_ editors' chagrin.
He behaved exactly as scientists do when they wish to investigate something. Had the _Social Text_ editors not been charlatans, they would not have even been harmed by this experiment.
Given the fact that some features in OS X took Apple over 12 years to get into a shipping product (development on Copland started in 89).
Copland was abandoned, thank god.
Mac OS X actually was shipping in 1989 - it was just called NeXTStep back then and didn't have Classic. We actually had two NeXTstations in our house back in college in the early 90s, a cube and a slab.
Too bad they had to gussy it up to make it look more like Mac OS 9- to be accepted by the faithful, it was a much more elegant design before that.
No, two out of the three technologies (BitTorrent and Videora) they discussed were based on BitTorrent downloads - which have the commercials stripped out.
If you're not paying for their content, or not providing them with the viewers they need to charge money to their advertisers, you're not their customer.
Here's where I wish that editors and submitters could be moderated as Trolls.
Does anybody really think that anybody else is going to have something new to say about this, on either side, and generate even a little bit more light than heat?
A lot of people replying to this seem to think that the only significant allure to a baseball game is to, well, play baseball. That is, to simulate hitting a ball and running around bases, or to catch the ball and throw it to the right person fast enough.
That's not what this is about. Many, many people (I believe probably the majority of these games' customer base) are interested not in the game as an abstract activity, but as competition among the teams and players they know so well.
They're already personally involved with the characters, both sympathetically and antagonistically- viewing this as about the game of baseball is like ignoring the difference between a random space opera shooter with some new characters and a licensed Star Wars game where you can play Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Han Solo, or Boba Fett and where you can kill Jar Jar Binks. It's providing interaction with the characters they know.
Well, they already have to maintain some huge data centers and they've built up some expertise doing that. They're already in the information maintenance and delivery business, even if it's very low bandwidth compared to other content.
They're digitizing every book that they can get their hands on.
They're buying up dark fiber.
They'll be offering free VOIP.
To me, this suggests that they're building towards a mixture of data delivery services and a multihomed caching company like Akamai.
Infrastructure and content eventually lead inevitably to multimedia, to movies on demand. They won't care where you get your last mile of broadband IP connectivity from, but they'll take care of the rest.
I hope that Gaiman takes some influence from John Gardner's Grendel, which attempts to tell the story from the monster's point of view. I wouldn't expect most writers to know about it, but Gaiman? It's a good bet.
In short, it tells the story of how Grendel first tries to make friends with the humans and is attacked out of their fear, and then is later used as a scapegoat for Hrothgar's (the human king's) treachery. He responds by attacking out of anger at the humans' pettiness and hypocrisy, outrage at the storyteller's lies about him.
Marillion did a song based on the book and it appears on their CD, B-Sides Themselves. The song is somewhat reminiscent of Genesis' Foxtrot in parts, highlighting Marillion's origin as a Genesis cover band.
Sorry, you didn't miss anything. When I said "well," I meant completely (eg, killing CSM... again) - I didn't mean that it was particularly satisfying.
Which is the problem - there could have been some interesting places to go with the super soldier plot line, but in the last episode they just threw up their hands and said, "that's that."
Because of that, they'd have to start from almost-zero. I can't imagine an X-Files movie being particularly interesting unless they actually did deal with the Alien invasion... they've already covered (and in some cases bungled) that ground already.
I actually really enjoyed Robert Patrick's and Annabeth Gish's contributions to the show - I think the dynamic that their introduction brought to the show reinvigorated it, but it was simply too late - everybody had stopped being receptive (or indeed, watching much at all) by that point. I really do think that Mulder and Scully had become too well defined, and throwing in a kid and a romance didn't strike anybody as all that interesting.
Mercedes-Benz (or rather, Daimler-Chrysler), for example, has been shipping an electronics system, LINGUATRONIC COMAND (for Cockpit Management and Navigation), for at least three years that is voice controlled. Voice recognition controls the radio, the CD, the integrated Motorola telephone. A 30-word vocabulary doesn't sound like much, but it gets the job done.
It's activated by a steering wheel stalk and is somewhat modal (but an MP3 player wouldn't have as many modes in the first place), but the hard part is all done by voice recognition.
I'm pretty sure other car manufacturers are shipping similar systems by now.
I've recently rewatched the whole damned show, and I've gotta say - I got really tired of most of the "monster of the week" episodes. After a while, all that was interesting was the stories that advanced the mythos, and they wrapped that up pretty well.
The only way I could see this being interesting (Duchovny says not, but he's not the most reliable guy on the planet) was if they set in or near 2012, the year that the Alien invasion was scheduled to begin (according to the final episode). Cover either the gearing up for the final invasion, or the resistance to it.
Unfortunately, that's probably not going to happen. I don't see any reason that most people would go to see a "Twilight Zone" movie that just happened to have Mulder and Scully in it... I think everybody has been there and done that quite enough in the 9 years they were on the air.
Relax, that's a Brit idiom. What we call "seasons," they call "series." So it is the finale to the "first series," where we would call it the finale to the "first season."
no one can tell it's really developed under FreeBSD.
Maybe not, but they can definitely tell that it wasn't developed by a competent Mac developer, or with recent Apple tools. If I didn't know about Qt/Aqua, I'd assume that this was a Carbon app put together with some ancient Mac OS 9- kit.
Take a look at Apple's XCode (and Interface Builer), it makes it a lot more difficult to ignore the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines (like your apps does, as another poster commented). It will give you a much better idea of why native Mac OS X (Cocoa) apps integrate as smoothly as they do and why even clever fakes just don't cut it.
You can get the latest version of XCode, etc., from Apple's Developer Site with a free registration.
Can anybody give a brief compare and contrast between Delicious Library and Readerware? They sound very similar, perhaps DL is pretty much the same with a much better UI?
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Why, who's giving permission?
The word "might" might have a place, though.
Apple doesn't include it because, as you note, it's not a compelling feature for everybody - the rest of us don't have to pay the $5-$10 it would cost, or worse, have to carry around larger iPods.
Actually, there's a really good article called Who Killed Nuclear Power? on the demise of the US Nuclear power industry. It turns out to be a complex mix of economics and politics, surrounding the both the Three Mile Island incident and the end of the 1970s oil crisis - it was believed that the planned power plants were not going to be needed and would no longer be economical.
Check out the article, it's really interesting.
Barter itself isn't illegal, but not reporting it as income is. You have to pay taxes on its fair market value.
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It seems to me that they could easily raise that kind of money by preselling DVD sets of the completed new season. I'd certainly pay $50-$80 for such a product, if I knew that Manny Coto would be running it. But there's a much more interesting potential here.
There's an investment possibility: another season would have its own resale value, for airing, for syndication and future DVD pressings.
That's the approach that they should take: form a company that would share the rights to the fifth season with Paramount and fund it by selling shares in that corporation. Charter shareholders would get free DVD season sets, and the corporation would be able to go on and fund the continuation of other series such as Firefly and Farscape, subject to shareholder vote.
Seems to me that there's an opportunity for someone to make quite a bit of money here running the whole thing, and that's the kind of detail that makes large projects possible. This isn't all that different from what Sci-Fi did to fund Battlestar Galactica, except that the partner corporation was another network (Sky One in the UK) instead of a fan-invested corporation.
Given that most of the people running this stuff are not going to be Apple owners, it doesn't make a lot of sense that this is on the Apple server.
I understand the heritage angle, but it really fits better in developers or IT... people interested just in Apple stuff aren't going to care much about this.
Just wait until we start seeing automotive malware. They'll probably happen soon after there's a popular reason for networking the cars (to get traffic data, perhaps).
We're already starting to see telephone viruses.
Do you understand that the behavior that you're describing from the _Social Text_ editors is the very antithesis of peer review?
An intellectually honest journal will NEVER rely upon the credentials or reputation of a paper's author.
What Sokal did was actually science: he formed a hypothesis ("The _Social Text_ editors don't know what they're talking about"), made a prediction ("so they will accept bogus papers"), and tested that prediction. And then he published his results, much to the _Social Text_ editors' chagrin.
He behaved exactly as scientists do when they wish to investigate something. Had the _Social Text_ editors not been charlatans, they would not have even been harmed by this experiment.
Mac OS X actually was shipping in 1989 - it was just called NeXTStep back then and didn't have Classic. We actually had two NeXTstations in our house back in college in the early 90s, a cube and a slab.
Too bad they had to gussy it up to make it look more like Mac OS 9- to be accepted by the faithful, it was a much more elegant design before that.
No, two out of the three technologies (BitTorrent and Videora) they discussed were based on BitTorrent downloads - which have the commercials stripped out.
Do try to keep up.
Right...
And if you're watching a version that you downloaded that had the commercials stripped, that makes you not the customer.
Duh.
Apple has been shipping a one-button mouse longer than anybody else currently in the computer industry has been shiping any kind of mouse.
In this matter, it's not Apple that's being different. They were here first.
Ummmmm.
If you're not paying for their content, or not providing them with the viewers they need to charge money to their advertisers, you're not their customer.
Here's where I wish that editors and submitters could be moderated as Trolls.
Does anybody really think that anybody else is going to have something new to say about this, on either side, and generate even a little bit more light than heat?
"We were once so close to Heaven,
Peter came out and gave us
medals declaring us
the nicest of the damned"
("Road Movie to Berlin", They Might Be Giants)
A lot of people replying to this seem to think that the only significant allure to a baseball game is to, well, play baseball. That is, to simulate hitting a ball and running around bases, or to catch the ball and throw it to the right person fast enough.
That's not what this is about. Many, many people (I believe probably the majority of these games' customer base) are interested not in the game as an abstract activity, but as competition among the teams and players they know so well.
They're already personally involved with the characters, both sympathetically and antagonistically- viewing this as about the game of baseball is like ignoring the difference between a random space opera shooter with some new characters and a licensed Star Wars game where you can play Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Han Solo, or Boba Fett and where you can kill Jar Jar Binks. It's providing interaction with the characters they know.
Well, they already have to maintain some huge data centers and they've built up some expertise doing that. They're already in the information maintenance and delivery business, even if it's very low bandwidth compared to other content.
They're digitizing every book that they can get their hands on.
They're buying up dark fiber.
They'll be offering free VOIP.
To me, this suggests that they're building towards a mixture of data delivery services and a multihomed caching company like Akamai.
Infrastructure and content eventually lead inevitably to multimedia, to movies on demand. They won't care where you get your last mile of broadband IP connectivity from, but they'll take care of the rest.
It's just a theory...
I hope that Gaiman takes some influence from John Gardner's Grendel , which attempts to tell the story from the monster's point of view. I wouldn't expect most writers to know about it, but Gaiman? It's a good bet.
In short, it tells the story of how Grendel first tries to make friends with the humans and is attacked out of their fear, and then is later used as a scapegoat for Hrothgar's (the human king's) treachery. He responds by attacking out of anger at the humans' pettiness and hypocrisy, outrage at the storyteller's lies about him.
Marillion did a song based on the book and it appears on their CD, B-Sides Themselves . The song is somewhat reminiscent of Genesis' Foxtrot in parts, highlighting Marillion's origin as a Genesis cover band.
Sorry, you didn't miss anything. When I said "well," I meant completely (eg, killing CSM... again) - I didn't mean that it was particularly satisfying.
... they've already covered (and in some cases bungled) that ground already.
Which is the problem - there could have been some interesting places to go with the super soldier plot line, but in the last episode they just threw up their hands and said, "that's that."
Because of that, they'd have to start from almost-zero. I can't imagine an X-Files movie being particularly interesting unless they actually did deal with the Alien invasion
I actually really enjoyed Robert Patrick's and Annabeth Gish's contributions to the show - I think the dynamic that their introduction brought to the show reinvigorated it, but it was simply too late - everybody had stopped being receptive (or indeed, watching much at all) by that point. I really do think that Mulder and Scully had become too well defined, and throwing in a kid and a romance didn't strike anybody as all that interesting.
Mercedes-Benz (or rather, Daimler-Chrysler), for example, has been shipping an electronics system, LINGUATRONIC COMAND (for Cockpit Management and Navigation), for at least three years that is voice controlled. Voice recognition controls the radio, the CD, the integrated Motorola telephone. A 30-word vocabulary doesn't sound like much, but it gets the job done.
It's activated by a steering wheel stalk and is somewhat modal (but an MP3 player wouldn't have as many modes in the first place), but the hard part is all done by voice recognition.
I'm pretty sure other car manufacturers are shipping similar systems by now.
I've recently rewatched the whole damned show, and I've gotta say - I got really tired of most of the "monster of the week" episodes. After a while, all that was interesting was the stories that advanced the mythos, and they wrapped that up pretty well.
The only way I could see this being interesting (Duchovny says not, but he's not the most reliable guy on the planet) was if they set in or near 2012, the year that the Alien invasion was scheduled to begin (according to the final episode). Cover either the gearing up for the final invasion, or the resistance to it.
Unfortunately, that's probably not going to happen. I don't see any reason that most people would go to see a "Twilight Zone" movie that just happened to have Mulder and Scully in it... I think everybody has been there and done that quite enough in the 9 years they were on the air.
Relax, that's a Brit idiom. What we call "seasons," they call "series." So it is the finale to the "first series," where we would call it the finale to the "first season."
Take a look at Apple's XCode (and Interface Builer), it makes it a lot more difficult to ignore the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines (like your apps does, as another poster commented). It will give you a much better idea of why native Mac OS X (Cocoa) apps integrate as smoothly as they do and why even clever fakes just don't cut it.
You can get the latest version of XCode, etc., from Apple's Developer Site with a free registration.
Can anybody give a brief compare and contrast between Delicious Library and Readerware? They sound very similar, perhaps DL is pretty much the same with a much better UI?