Think about it. Would Microsoft be as succesful if it only sold Windowse? Probably not. For Apple to make the transistion to software profits it would have to drastically increase it's "for pay" software offerings, start charging for what was once free, and offer "for-pay" services.... oh wait they're starting to do that allready. But for now they're still a hardware company, but I can see a bit of a shift here.
By your logic I should get a new Acura RSX just because my Integra is now "outdated"? That makes no sense. Times change, markets change, the economies of scale change, costs go up, they go down - so does the market. That's why the iMac was not-to-long-ago raised in price, and the iPod now comes with a case.
"I think that you are missing the idea that propritary video just doesn't sell.
First of all, if you can play it on any platform, encode on any platform, and stream from any platform -- Apple will have a leg up on Microsoft"
Uh - FYI Broadcaster *does* stream standard compliant video playable from any platform with free viewers. Ever heard of MPEG 4? From their website:
MPEG-4: QuickTime Broadcaster delivers ISO-compliant audio and video. Any MPEG-4 compliant player can receive your broadcast event--making it the perfect way to reach large numbers of viewers for corporate meetings, online courses, keynote addresses, entertainment and other special events.
There are alternatives for streaming MPEG 4, but his one is free - and Macintosh only.
Quote: If they give away the application server and the basic player...
They do.
BTW - "Quicktime" isn't a file format, or straming format per se. Quicktime is media platform bundling and encompassing many codecs. What you're probably confusing this with is the older.mov file format which is only playable by the Quicktime Player AFAIK. The Quicktime players is actually able to compress and decompress many standards, and many prop. file formats such as flash. Quicktime is capable of streaming and playing both MPEG2 and MPEG 4.
I once heard a song by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie called Every OS Sucks, where Linux users were described as 'elitist nerdy shmucks'. Sadly this is true for much of the 'community'. Too many consider themselves better than the rest of the world because they run Linux. Can you believe that? It's just a computer operating system, but somehow they think that it makes them better than those people who run systems such as Microsoft Windows! Elitism drives people away, as does saying "RTFM" or belittling people who choose a different distro from yourself.
'Nuff said about that.
Old news or no, I'm still glad that someone stuck it to Qwest. I live in CO to and I don't know how well their service is in other states under their tyranny, but where I live 10 Miles outside of Colorado Springs you can't get anything from anyone outside of satellite. No isdn, no sat., no cable (*they* can barely deliver a clear picture) no nothing for any price. Qwest hasn't really expanded their DSL network much in about 3-4 years. I think I read somewhere that Qwest was considered the worst local telco in USA... =(
I just loaded my virus definition list on my Windows machine. Took long enough for me to go get a cup of coffee quicker than it loaded....
The grand total is..... 24,295 detectable virii, probably higher if you count variants.
The total of MacOS X virii is.... 0
Holy Infection Rate Batman!
Anyone know how many MacOS 9 virii there are?
Nevermind that a large portion of MacOS X is OSS and personally I think OSS has a much better track record that MS's lard bucket that they think passes as an "OS".
Anyone know the feasibility of using the case itself as a big antenna? I'm not sure if it would cause any interference issues, or if Ti would even work as a antenna, and it sure wouldn't be FCC compliant, but...
... Why should they dictate how power management works. Shouldn't they be working around the hardware instead of expecting to dictate how the hardware works...
Because it makes sense. If Microsoft can program for hardware that works in a set, defined way they can get an OS that is works much more smoothly, actually other OS's could to. Look at MacOS X. Apple knows excatly what to expect from the hardware and can code accordingly. That doesn't mean that the OS will be more stable, just that it could be...
Anyone know if this'll work a Sony Clie? I'm looking at getting one but I only use my windoze boxen for games, my Mac is for important stuff like this =)
Only 20 a day? Man, I should be so lucky. I get about 30-60 spams *daily* plus the large amount of email I want. I'm pretty busy and only check my messages at home every couple of days and frequently get downloads of 600-1000 messages to download. I've got many rules, scripts, etc setup to handle it but if I'm not expecting your email it's got a good %70 chance of getting lost...
Anyone know of a good service that will allow me to keep my existing pop3/smtp email addy and filter out spam from a blacklist or something?
No, these aren't clones per se. They're Apple machines that have been re-cased in a custom case. Basicly they buy a dual G4 from Apple and put it in a new case and install YDL.
IMHO I think that once you pay several hundred dollars for a product it's yours and you're more than welcome to do anything to it you wish. If you feel the need to weld a lava lamp to the MB of the thing that's you're prerogative, ditto with a mod chip. Now, Motorola isn't required to offer warranty service on it after that, but if you're willing to risk the consequences you should be allowed to. Many industrialized nations are killing themselves slowly by over-lawing everything. To many laws do not a good country make.... Communications Decency Act anyone?
Corp. X: "Here ya go! Here's a PDA!"
Ethiopian: "But I'm hungry..."
Corp. X: "But you can get on the internet! See?!"
Ethiopian: "Can't I have some rice instead?"
Corp. X: "No, but you can talk to someone in AMERICA! Try it!"
American: "Hello. Do you like ice cream?"
Ethiopian: "So hungry..."
American: "I hate school. What's your worst class?"
Ethiopian: "School?"
American: "I hate math. I just can't wait until recess every day. What do you do for fun?"
Ethiopian: "Dig through the trash for clothes..."
This type of thing makes me think that the government should get that great big stick out their collective butts and let embryonic stem cell and controlled cloning continue. Now, whilst I don't care to have genetically identical copies of myself running around wouldn't it be great if we could grow this dude another face and graft it back on? Wouldn't be perfect for sure, but it would be much better than a silicone prosthetic. Not to mention that heart disease, liver disease et. al. patients could greatly benefit. When the government throwing up road blocks to this sort of thing they are merely hurting people, and delaying the inevitable.
Then there's the "when is an embryo a person" debate that is best left elsewhere...
The GeForce 4 that comes with the 2 higher end models has *2* adaptor ports for connecting monitors. One is , yes, VGA and the other is ADC. If you only want to run one monitor you have your choice of VGA or ADC. The only rub I see is if you want to run two monitors one must be VGA and one must be ADC for you to use two monitors with the included card.
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Think about it. Would Microsoft be as succesful if it only sold Windowse? Probably not. For Apple to make the transistion to software profits it would have to drastically increase it's "for pay" software offerings, start charging for what was once free, and offer "for-pay" services.... oh wait they're starting to do that allready. But for now they're still a hardware company, but I can see a bit of a shift here.
Might want to double-check who's ripping who off....
$99.99 for 12 months of service.
$99.95 / 12 = ~$8.33 a month
Will I personally pay for it? No; but it's a reasonable price.
By your logic I should get a new Acura RSX just because my Integra is now "outdated"? That makes no sense. Times change, markets change, the economies of scale change, costs go up, they go down - so does the market. That's why the iMac was not-to-long-ago raised in price, and the iPod now comes with a case.
"I think that you are missing the idea that propritary video just doesn't sell.
First of all, if you can play it on any platform, encode on any platform, and stream from any platform -- Apple will have a leg up on Microsoft"
Uh - FYI Broadcaster *does* stream standard compliant video playable from any platform with free viewers. Ever heard of MPEG 4? From their website:
MPEG-4: QuickTime Broadcaster delivers ISO-compliant audio and video. Any MPEG-4 compliant player can receive your broadcast event--making it the perfect way to reach large numbers of viewers for corporate meetings, online courses, keynote addresses, entertainment and other special events.
There are alternatives for streaming MPEG 4, but his one is free - and Macintosh only.
Quote: If they give away the application server and the basic player...
They do.
BTW - "Quicktime" isn't a file format, or straming format per se. Quicktime is media platform bundling and encompassing many codecs. What you're probably confusing this with is the older .mov file format which is only playable by the Quicktime Player AFAIK. The Quicktime players is actually able to compress and decompress many standards, and many prop. file formats such as flash. Quicktime is capable of streaming and playing both MPEG2 and MPEG 4.
To put it in the words of the article's author:
I once heard a song by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie called Every OS Sucks, where Linux users were described as 'elitist nerdy shmucks'. Sadly this is true for much of the 'community'. Too many consider themselves better than the rest of the world because they run Linux. Can you believe that? It's just a computer operating system, but somehow they think that it makes them better than those people who run systems such as Microsoft Windows! Elitism drives people away, as does saying "RTFM" or belittling people who choose a different distro from yourself. 'Nuff said about that.
You can't afford a $799 iMac or a $1099 eMac? Sell your computer now and start recycling cans - you're in the wrong hobby.
Old news or no, I'm still glad that someone stuck it to Qwest. I live in CO to and I don't know how well their service is in other states under their tyranny, but where I live 10 Miles outside of Colorado Springs you can't get anything from anyone outside of satellite. No isdn, no sat., no cable (*they* can barely deliver a clear picture) no nothing for any price. Qwest hasn't really expanded their DSL network much in about 3-4 years. I think I read somewhere that Qwest was considered the worst local telco in USA... =(
I just loaded my virus definition list on my Windows machine. Took long enough for me to go get a cup of coffee quicker than it loaded....
The grand total is..... 24,295 detectable virii, probably higher if you count variants.
The total of MacOS X virii is.... 0
Holy Infection Rate Batman!
Anyone know how many MacOS 9 virii there are?
Nevermind that a large portion of MacOS X is OSS and personally I think OSS has a much better track record that MS's lard bucket that they think passes as an "OS".
Ahhh, the famously petulant Steve. He is much more interesting thing Billy G, No?
I hope Apple has the insight to ship this version of GCC with Jaguar rather than the much maligned GCC 3.0.x
Anyone know the feasibility of using the case itself as a big antenna? I'm not sure if it would cause any interference issues, or if Ti would even work as a antenna, and it sure wouldn't be FCC compliant, but...
Oh yea? Well you're a OSS Communist! So There! Pffffffffft :-p
Try streamripper for capturing streams to your HDD. Here's a excellent Oreilly article that details how to set this up on MacOS X.
Because it makes sense. If Microsoft can program for hardware that works in a set, defined way they can get an OS that is works much more smoothly, actually other OS's could to. Look at MacOS X. Apple knows excatly what to expect from the hardware and can code accordingly. That doesn't mean that the OS will be more stable, just that it could be...
Anyone know if this'll work a Sony Clie? I'm looking at getting one but I only use my windoze boxen for games, my Mac is for important stuff like this =)
Only 20 a day? Man, I should be so lucky. I get about 30-60 spams *daily* plus the large amount of email I want. I'm pretty busy and only check my messages at home every couple of days and frequently get downloads of 600-1000 messages to download. I've got many rules, scripts, etc setup to handle it but if I'm not expecting your email it's got a good %70 chance of getting lost...
Anyone know of a good service that will allow me to keep my existing pop3/smtp email addy and filter out spam from a blacklist or something?
No, these aren't clones per se. They're Apple machines that have been re-cased in a custom case. Basicly they buy a dual G4 from Apple and put it in a new case and install YDL.
You could build a closed-system case where all the air is run through some de-humidifying gizmo...
Try this one, it's pretty inexpensive. If you account for the time you'd spend DIY this might be the better option...
IMHO I think that once you pay several hundred dollars for a product it's yours and you're more than welcome to do anything to it you wish. If you feel the need to weld a lava lamp to the MB of the thing that's you're prerogative, ditto with a mod chip. Now, Motorola isn't required to offer warranty service on it after that, but if you're willing to risk the consequences you should be allowed to. Many industrialized nations are killing themselves slowly by over-lawing everything. To many laws do not a good country make.... Communications Decency Act anyone?
Corp. X: "Here ya go! Here's a PDA!"
Ethiopian: "But I'm hungry..."
Corp. X: "But you can get on the internet! See?!"
Ethiopian: "Can't I have some rice instead?"
Corp. X: "No, but you can talk to someone in AMERICA! Try it!"
American: "Hello. Do you like ice cream?"
Ethiopian: "So hungry..."
American: "I hate school. What's your worst class?"
Ethiopian: "School?"
American: "I hate math. I just can't wait until recess every day. What do you do for fun?"
Ethiopian: "Dig through the trash for clothes..."
See the problem?
This type of thing makes me think that the government should get that great big stick out their collective butts and let embryonic stem cell and controlled cloning continue. Now, whilst I don't care to have genetically identical copies of myself running around wouldn't it be great if we could grow this dude another face and graft it back on? Wouldn't be perfect for sure, but it would be much better than a silicone prosthetic. Not to mention that heart disease, liver disease et. al. patients could greatly benefit. When the government throwing up road blocks to this sort of thing they are merely hurting people, and delaying the inevitable.
Then there's the "when is an embryo a person" debate that is best left elsewhere...
The GeForce 4 that comes with the 2 higher end models has *2* adaptor ports for connecting monitors. One is , yes, VGA and the other is ADC. If you only want to run one monitor you have your choice of VGA or ADC. The only rub I see is if you want to run two monitors one must be VGA and one must be ADC for you to use two monitors with the included card.