Launched October 18, 1989 by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. It had some technical problems in 1991 (high gain antenna wouldn't deploy) but they were able to use the low gain antenna to send data back at a vastly slower rate).
It became the first spacecraft to take a close up photo of an asteriod and when it reacher Jupiter in 1995, the first space craft to drop a probe into a gas giant. It's mission was to last only until 1997, but it was given a two year extension. The mission continued another three years AFTER the extension, sending its last scientific data back in November 2002 as it passed the moon Amalthea. In August of this year it will burn up in Jupiters atmosphere.
The spacecraft has operated over twice as long as expected and has taken three times the radiation it was designed for, and still it mostly works. The plunge into Jupiter is because the craft is running low on fuel and they would rather burn it up than risk having it possibly slam into Europa, contaminating it before we can check for native ba cterial life there.
While it's certainly not lasted as long as Pioneer, it has taken one hell of a beating from the intense radiation of Jupiter, the tidal stresses of orbiting the gas giant and its planet sized moons as well as flying through toxic (and possibly caustic) volcanic plumes kicked off of the surface of Io by eruptions.
So I would say that Gallileo is in fact in the same class as Pioneer when it comes to be being built tough.
I guess all this will do is make it so the most widespread works out there are the ones people publish free to copy and distribute. I mean, who is going to pay the kinds of prices that they are going to want to charge you once they know you can't get it elsewhere.
As an aspiring author (as a hobby, not for a living) of a fantasy novel, I have been looking at publishing recently and have decided to self publish my work and allow people to freely distribute it. Why? Well, I have a day job, and while extra money is nice, I don't really need to make money off of my novel and I don't really expect to make a living off of it either. Instead it is a hobby for me, my art if you will and I am more interested in getting it wide exposure than on some best seller list somewhere.
If my work is good, word of mouth will push it around and people will load it off my website to read. If not, it flops but I'm not really out a cent, just whatever time I put into it, which is no big loss because that time would like as not been spent playing computer games anyway.
But the advantages are, I can get widespread coverage to a large and diverse audience. I retain full rights so that if the story is considered movie material, I get to keep all of what the studio doesn't take. I can publish it anywhere at any time, for money or for free. So in a way, I don't need to worry about Palladium. If someone releases a work, no matter how good, which is locked up and expensive and pay by the bloody minute spent watching, I won't waste my time or money on it and I'm willing to bet a lot of you won't either.
As an aside to this, I wonder if a "free publishing" community will start up where people donate time and experience to writing material which goes straight into the public domain instead of locked up in copyright for life + forever. Schools, libraries and teachers would likely be happy to have such work available royalty free and aspiring writers can practice on free stuff the way coders do on open source software. After all, look what Open Source is doing to Microsoft. If the publishers get nasty, then we should be able to take them on in a similar way and have similar success. It would be great to have a library of the people, of free and public domain works which can be freely read, copied and sited without having to hunt someone down to ask permission. This isn't the same as current libraries, most works in current libraries are illegal to copy (though most people do it anyway) and sometimes you can't even site without permission. So we could use a nice library of *only* free and public domain works which can be used for whatever you wish. Better yet, it could be online and fully unlocked so Palladium be damned you could still read, copy and use such works in your own endeavors. In the end, I think everyone might benefit from such a movement.
Remember that/. article about how a publically funded website of Scientific journals was shut down so companies can sell our taxpayer funded data back to us?
If we could have science data online, why not a tax payer funded legal site?
Of course since they killed the science one, you can bet that they won't create a law one either, at least not until we get someone with half a brain back into the presidency who will restore the science database and create a legal one for the public good, which is what our tax payer money should be going to instead of waging war on Iraq to loot their oil so we can drive our SUV's.
They are already working on those for airports. In a way, I will feel sorry for them having to see me naked just so I can get to my plane faster.
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64 bit will arrive, but the point of the article is that it may not arrive as fast as Moore said it would.
Right now, we are at the point where its just a waste to build bigger and bigger hammers when you can get 100 smaller hammers to do more than a few bigger hammers and do it more quickly, cheaply and efficiently.
Parallel computing is really coming of age now for consumers and small buisinesses. While in the past only a big megacorp or the government could afford a Cray class machine, now you can build equivalent power (maybe not up to today's supercomputers, but certainly equivilent to ones 10 years ago which is still pretty significant) in your basement with a few Powermac's/PC's, some network cable and open source software for clustering.
So it makes more sense for Google to invest in a load of current technology and use it in the most effecient way possible than to spend money on expensive and untested (in the "real world") hardware.
After all, just take a look at what Apple's done with the X-Serve. Affordable, small, efficient clustering capability for buisiness. Two CPU's per machine and you can beowulf them easily. Add in the new X-Raid and you have yourself a powerful cluster that probably (even at Apple's prices) will cost a lot less than a bunch of spanking new Itanium machines.
64 bit will arrive (Probably when Apple introduces it;), but it will just take a bit longer since we can get a lot out of what we already have.
They probably just think that. From what I understand, Sun is more likely #3 Unix platform if you consider home users + enterprise. Apple's Mac OS X would be #2 and Linux would be #1 slightly edging Apple out.
However if they mean just enterprise, then Sun could be #1 at this time. However Linux would have to be a pretty close second. Not sure where OS X is yet since Apple is only just now dipping its toes into enterprise in earnest. They have had Mac OS X Server for almost three year now, but they only recently started their big push for Enterprise with the X-Serve and OS X 10.2's major enhancements designed as much for enterprise as the end user. It will be interesting to see how they do in the years to come.
I'm sure someone somewhere has actual numbers on all of this.
When I was visiting a friends place, another mutual friend also came over and brought her two little monsters along, two girls ages 3 and 5. These kids got into everything and so of course they found my friends furby. All us adults were upstairs and the kids were downstairs playing with some toys, and the furby. I went down to get a drink of water at some point and was greeted with a rather bizarre sight as I was coming down the steps.
The furby was laying on its back and thrashing about wildly. It was emitting this horrible scream like "AAAAaaaaAAAAAaaaaaAAAAAaaaaAAAAAaaaa" and just flopping like a fish. It was like some bizarre horror movie and I was expecting some sadist to come around the corner, having tortured the furby to the point of insanity.
I have no idea what those two little monsters did to that thing, but they really scarred that damn thing bad. It never was the same again.
DS9 is also coming out in DVD sets like ST:TNG did. Having been sad enough to have collected all of ST:TNG, I'll definately be getting DS9.
But at least I have the sense not to get Voyager. The only Voyager I enjoyed to any degree was game Voyager: Elite Force, which IMO was actually pretty damn good.
You are right about the physics being bad. However they would not have bounced. They did get them sticking together correct.
What they got wrong was when the Romulan ship fired its engines to detatch itself form the Enterprise. Since they were mashed together, all they should have achieved was to move the entire mess backwards, unless the enterprise was also reversing or being held in place (or pushed off with a tractor beam, which they didn't do).
Well he obviously survives or is brought back somehow.
If you watch the last ST:TNG episode, "All Good Things..." Picard is jumping between the present, past and the future. In the future Data is alive and well other than the rediculously overdone grey streak on one half of his head.
So how would Data survive? Many ways! - Q could bring him back easilly. - Time travel, after all this is Sci-Fi - Beamed out by the other Romulan ships in the area and help captive for a time for study. - Since he uploaded himself to B4 (think Spock grabbing McCoy's head and saying "Remember!") they could potentially rebuild Data and reload him from the image stored in B4. (I can just see "Star Trek, Search for Data!") - I suppose even the nanites which Wesley created in one of the episodes could stumble upon the wreckage and rebuild him from vaporized particles. - And the most likely and to revive him: Random annoying Star Trek plot device.
If its less then you are better off killing some RIAA execs than trading music.
But I doubt it, anymore I see people getting the death penalty or at least life almost every time, especially because the victims call for it. Our justice system has become a system of revenge rather than justice anymore.
That's the same reasoning as if you said, "Well, Hitler did a lot of good things, he got the German economy working again, he made the trains run on time, never mind he started the biggest war mankind ever fought, never mind 6 million dead Jews, he did enough good things for us to ignore that."
The point is, just because a person does good things in the past doesn't make up for turning around and doing something bad now.
Um hello? This shouldn't have been patentable in the first place. Software code should NOT be patentable. This is just another sign that the US patent system needs a MAJOR overhaul and that we need to get the laws changed so that software (which is technically a mathematical process) can no longer be patentable.
Until that happens, lawsuits like this will continue to stifle innovation, prevent competition and hurt the economy as a result.
What we need is a broad coalition of software developers (big names and small) to start lobbying congress to deal with this longstanding problem before it gets any worse.
I have one of the Dual 1.25 GHZ G4's and from my experiences with it, even in dual processor capable apps, it seems as if most of the heavy lifting falls on one processor most of the time. So I would guess that the scores the G4 got were mostly on one processor with the other picking up the occasional few threads of execution and handling other system tasks.
One of the advantages though is that while one CPU is maxed out dealing with photoshop (with a bit of help from its brother from time to time), you can use the remaining horsepower in the other CPU to do other things without really impacting your photoshop job very much.
Also for tasks where it almost always uses only one CPU, you can sometimes get two going at once and have both finish at the same time. I do that a lot when ripping DVD's to divx. I can get two movies going at once (after stripping the.vobs down to hard disk minus CSS and macrovision) and have them both going at full speed at once.
Apple is working on better CPU's from all the rumors and such going around and if they keep with the dual processor game, the Mac will be set to overtake PC's in short order. In a way, I still prefer the dual G4 to the 3.06 GHZ P4 because I can fire off my P-shop job or whatever and play a game on the remaining power on the second CPU or work in another application without really impacting the big job on the main CPU.
This could as easily be for military computers as well as the great unwashed. So I don't think we will be seeing these in home PC's just yet.
Not only that we don't know yet what OS they will work with. So lets not start doomsaying until the first of these are out and there is proof they refuse to run certain operating systems.
Well the way I see it, Apple sold iDVD for, what was it, about $20-30 before? Now either they raised the price quite a bit, or they are chargeing for the other iApps on CD as well, iApps given freely to those with bandwidth. Of course I have the bandwidth to get the freely released ones, but I know a lot of people who don't and it seems unfair to them to have to buy iDVD (especially if their macs have no DVD writer!) just to get these Apps.
But as I said, it was a minor complaint and my opinion, no need to get all up in arms at me about it.
(Copy of my post to Macslash.org, where I post as MadMac)
This was one of the most entertaining keynotes I've seen in a long time out of Apple. This is also the first one (for me anyway) which wasn't clogged to death when you tried to watch it via live QT stream.
Like the new Notebook, though its pricy. But it also doubles as a surfboard in a pinch!
Now the big big big thing was Steve Jobs standing behind the huge words "Open Source is Good" or something like that. That Apple is releasing the browser code improvements (a years effort) back into the open source community and announcing that Open Source is good is just amazing! It is such a wonderful difference from Microsoft's constant "Open source is the tool of the devil" rants. I think this will help attract more geeks to Apple as well as make open source developers more open to writing software for the Macintosh.
Another thing that was neat was that Keynote uses open standards and that Jobs even verbally invited 3rd party developers to take advantage of that. In a way, I actually wonder if Apple is developing a radical corporate strategy which involves a sense of responsibility to the computer industry as a whole. By releaseing open source changes back into the world as well as using open standards in their document formats, Apple opens the door for other companies to create new tools and new markets alongside Apple. In this way, Apple is *helping* the economy and the computer industry as a whole by creating both new products as well as opportunities for others to share in the wealth of the market those new products exist in. It will be very interesting to see if Apple works on spreadsheets or word processing next. A beefed up Appleworks or Claris works would be nice!
Gripes: Having to pay $49 to get iDVD3 (even though other iApps come along they are also freely available) is rediculous. Keynote is expensive, nice, but still expensive and on par with Microsoft's rediculous prices for their own office apps. Apple should have offered the iApps along with Keynote for like $79 or the iApps by themselves for $29. That would have made it worth the money to get the iApps. Jobs even said the only reason they don't offer iDVD for free is that it is so huge in size. Given that admission, I will feel no guilt at all when I download it from elsewhere or get it from a friend's new Mac.
But that is the only real gripe I had, so over all a very favorable keynote!
What is so bad about this? This is only an electronic form of checking out a book and then returning it after a set period of time. Are you all going to complain next about having to take back that real book you borrowed?
I just can't believe that I am seeing so much whinign about what is a valid use for an e-book. Its not like you are buying the thing and then being locked out after a few days, you are BORROWING it. So what is the big deal?
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Launched October 18, 1989 by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. It had some technical problems in 1991 (high gain antenna wouldn't deploy) but they were able to use the low gain antenna to send data back at a vastly slower rate).
It became the first spacecraft to take a close up photo of an asteriod and when it reacher Jupiter in 1995, the first space craft to drop a probe into a gas giant. It's mission was to last only until 1997, but it was given a two year extension. The mission continued another three years AFTER the extension, sending its last scientific data back in November 2002 as it passed the moon Amalthea. In August of this year it will burn up in Jupiters atmosphere.
The spacecraft has operated over twice as long as expected and has taken three times the radiation it was designed for, and still it mostly works. The plunge into Jupiter is because the craft is running low on fuel and they would rather burn it up than risk having it possibly slam into Europa, contaminating it before we can check for native ba cterial life there.
While it's certainly not lasted as long as Pioneer, it has taken one hell of a beating from the intense radiation of Jupiter, the tidal stresses of orbiting the gas giant and its planet sized moons as well as flying through toxic (and possibly caustic) volcanic plumes kicked off of the surface of Io by eruptions.
So I would say that Gallileo is in fact in the same class as Pioneer when it comes to be being built tough.
Give Spaceward Ho! 5 a try if you haven't already. It's an amazingly fun and addictive game and features network play as well!
Windows users can get version 4 here.
I guess all this will do is make it so the most widespread works out there are the ones people publish free to copy and distribute. I mean, who is going to pay the kinds of prices that they are going to want to charge you once they know you can't get it elsewhere.
As an aspiring author (as a hobby, not for a living) of a fantasy novel, I have been looking at publishing recently and have decided to self publish my work and allow people to freely distribute it. Why? Well, I have a day job, and while extra money is nice, I don't really need to make money off of my novel and I don't really expect to make a living off of it either. Instead it is a hobby for me, my art if you will and I am more interested in getting it wide exposure than on some best seller list somewhere.
If my work is good, word of mouth will push it around and people will load it off my website to read. If not, it flops but I'm not really out a cent, just whatever time I put into it, which is no big loss because that time would like as not been spent playing computer games anyway.
But the advantages are, I can get widespread coverage to a large and diverse audience. I retain full rights so that if the story is considered movie material, I get to keep all of what the studio doesn't take. I can publish it anywhere at any time, for money or for free. So in a way, I don't need to worry about Palladium. If someone releases a work, no matter how good, which is locked up and expensive and pay by the bloody minute spent watching, I won't waste my time or money on it and I'm willing to bet a lot of you won't either.
As an aside to this, I wonder if a "free publishing" community will start up where people donate time and experience to writing material which goes straight into the public domain instead of locked up in copyright for life + forever. Schools, libraries and teachers would likely be happy to have such work available royalty free and aspiring writers can practice on free stuff the way coders do on open source software. After all, look what Open Source is doing to Microsoft. If the publishers get nasty, then we should be able to take them on in a similar way and have similar success. It would be great to have a library of the people, of free and public domain works which can be freely read, copied and sited without having to hunt someone down to ask permission. This isn't the same as current libraries, most works in current libraries are illegal to copy (though most people do it anyway) and sometimes you can't even site without permission. So we could use a nice library of *only* free and public domain works which can be used for whatever you wish. Better yet, it could be online and fully unlocked so Palladium be damned you could still read, copy and use such works in your own endeavors. In the end, I think everyone might benefit from such a movement.
I just hope that the TV polls don't include the overdone Cowboyneal as a choice.
Remember that /. article about how a publically funded website of Scientific journals was shut down so companies can sell our taxpayer funded data back to us?
If we could have science data online, why not a tax payer funded legal site?
Of course since they killed the science one, you can bet that they won't create a law one either, at least not until we get someone with half a brain back into the presidency who will restore the science database and create a legal one for the public good, which is what our tax payer money should be going to instead of waging war on Iraq to loot their oil so we can drive our SUV's.
They are already working on those for airports. In a way, I will feel sorry for them having to see me naked just so I can get to my plane faster.
64 bit will arrive, but the point of the article is that it may not arrive as fast as Moore said it would.
;), but it will just take a bit longer since we can get a lot out of what we already have.
Right now, we are at the point where its just a waste to build bigger and bigger hammers when you can get 100 smaller hammers to do more than a few bigger hammers and do it more quickly, cheaply and efficiently.
Parallel computing is really coming of age now for consumers and small buisinesses. While in the past only a big megacorp or the government could afford a Cray class machine, now you can build equivalent power (maybe not up to today's supercomputers, but certainly equivilent to ones 10 years ago which is still pretty significant) in your basement with a few Powermac's/PC's, some network cable and open source software for clustering.
So it makes more sense for Google to invest in a load of current technology and use it in the most effecient way possible than to spend money on expensive and untested (in the "real world") hardware.
After all, just take a look at what Apple's done with the X-Serve. Affordable, small, efficient clustering capability for buisiness. Two CPU's per machine and you can beowulf them easily. Add in the new X-Raid and you have yourself a powerful cluster that probably (even at Apple's prices) will cost a lot less than a bunch of spanking new Itanium machines.
64 bit will arrive (Probably when Apple introduces it
It could be considered flamebait and either way it got modded down, so who cares what reason they picked of the box. Metamoderated as fair.
They probably just think that. From what I understand, Sun is more likely #3 Unix platform if you consider home users + enterprise. Apple's Mac OS X would be #2 and Linux would be #1 slightly edging Apple out.
However if they mean just enterprise, then Sun could be #1 at this time. However Linux would have to be a pretty close second. Not sure where OS X is yet since Apple is only just now dipping its toes into enterprise in earnest. They have had Mac OS X Server for almost three year now, but they only recently started their big push for Enterprise with the X-Serve and OS X 10.2's major enhancements designed as much for enterprise as the end user. It will be interesting to see how they do in the years to come.
I'm sure someone somewhere has actual numbers on all of this.
Reminds me of a great furby story I have!
When I was visiting a friends place, another mutual friend also came over and brought her two little monsters along, two girls ages 3 and 5. These kids got into everything and so of course they found my friends furby. All us adults were upstairs and the kids were downstairs playing with some toys, and the furby. I went down to get a drink of water at some point and was greeted with a rather bizarre sight as I was coming down the steps.
The furby was laying on its back and thrashing about wildly. It was emitting this horrible scream like "AAAAaaaaAAAAAaaaaaAAAAAaaaaAAAAAaaaa" and just flopping like a fish. It was like some bizarre horror movie and I was expecting some sadist to come around the corner, having tortured the furby to the point of insanity.
I have no idea what those two little monsters did to that thing, but they really scarred that damn thing bad. It never was the same again.
The Pluto-Kuiper express space craft was going to use the G3.
DS9 is also coming out in DVD sets like ST:TNG did. Having been sad enough to have collected all of ST:TNG, I'll definately be getting DS9.
But at least I have the sense not to get Voyager. The only Voyager I enjoyed to any degree was game Voyager: Elite Force, which IMO was actually pretty damn good.
You are right about the physics being bad. However they would not have bounced. They did get them sticking together correct.
What they got wrong was when the Romulan ship fired its engines to detatch itself form the Enterprise. Since they were mashed together, all they should have achieved was to move the entire mess backwards, unless the enterprise was also reversing or being held in place (or pushed off with a tractor beam, which they didn't do).
Well he obviously survives or is brought back somehow.
If you watch the last ST:TNG episode, "All Good Things..." Picard is jumping between the present, past and the future. In the future Data is alive and well other than the rediculously overdone grey streak on one half of his head.
So how would Data survive? Many ways!
- Q could bring him back easilly.
- Time travel, after all this is Sci-Fi
- Beamed out by the other Romulan ships in the area and help captive for a time for study.
- Since he uploaded himself to B4 (think Spock grabbing McCoy's head and saying "Remember!") they could potentially rebuild Data and reload him from the image stored in B4. (I can just see "Star Trek, Search for Data!")
- I suppose even the nanites which Wesley created in one of the episodes could stumble upon the wreckage and rebuild him from vaporized particles.
- And the most likely and to revive him: Random annoying Star Trek plot device.
But they aren't copying or distributing the movie!
It is more like if someone invented a pair of glasses which blotted out every cuss word in a book. Silly? Yes, illegal? No!
If its less then you are better off killing some RIAA execs than trading music.
But I doubt it, anymore I see people getting the death penalty or at least life almost every time, especially because the victims call for it. Our justice system has become a system of revenge rather than justice anymore.
That's the same reasoning as if you said, "Well, Hitler did a lot of good things, he got the German economy working again, he made the trains run on time, never mind he started the biggest war mankind ever fought, never mind 6 million dead Jews, he did enough good things for us to ignore that."
The point is, just because a person does good things in the past doesn't make up for turning around and doing something bad now.
Well yes, it certainly is fair to judge him by his actions.
He was the hero until he took on a case which obviously is a bad thing. So its quite fair to call him down for it.
Um hello? This shouldn't have been patentable in the first place. Software code should NOT be patentable. This is just another sign that the US patent system needs a MAJOR overhaul and that we need to get the laws changed so that software (which is technically a mathematical process) can no longer be patentable.
Until that happens, lawsuits like this will continue to stifle innovation, prevent competition and hurt the economy as a result.
What we need is a broad coalition of software developers (big names and small) to start lobbying congress to deal with this longstanding problem before it gets any worse.
I have one of the Dual 1.25 GHZ G4's and from my experiences with it, even in dual processor capable apps, it seems as if most of the heavy lifting falls on one processor most of the time. So I would guess that the scores the G4 got were mostly on one processor with the other picking up the occasional few threads of execution and handling other system tasks.
.vobs down to hard disk minus CSS and macrovision) and have them both going at full speed at once.
One of the advantages though is that while one CPU is maxed out dealing with photoshop (with a bit of help from its brother from time to time), you can use the remaining horsepower in the other CPU to do other things without really impacting your photoshop job very much.
Also for tasks where it almost always uses only one CPU, you can sometimes get two going at once and have both finish at the same time. I do that a lot when ripping DVD's to divx. I can get two movies going at once (after stripping the
Apple is working on better CPU's from all the rumors and such going around and if they keep with the dual processor game, the Mac will be set to overtake PC's in short order. In a way, I still prefer the dual G4 to the 3.06 GHZ P4 because I can fire off my P-shop job or whatever and play a game on the remaining power on the second CPU or work in another application without really impacting the big job on the main CPU.
That is where the Dual G4 really shines.
Can't buy from Phoenix either by this logic because they demanded that the Phoenix browser change its name.
This could as easily be for military computers as well as the great unwashed. So I don't think we will be seeing these in home PC's just yet.
Not only that we don't know yet what OS they will work with. So lets not start doomsaying until the first of these are out and there is proof they refuse to run certain operating systems.
Well the way I see it, Apple sold iDVD for, what was it, about $20-30 before? Now either they raised the price quite a bit, or they are chargeing for the other iApps on CD as well, iApps given freely to those with bandwidth. Of course I have the bandwidth to get the freely released ones, but I know a lot of people who don't and it seems unfair to them to have to buy iDVD (especially if their macs have no DVD writer!) just to get these Apps.
But as I said, it was a minor complaint and my opinion, no need to get all up in arms at me about it.
(Copy of my post to Macslash.org, where I post as MadMac)
This was one of the most entertaining keynotes I've seen in a long time out of Apple. This is also the first one (for me anyway) which wasn't clogged to death when you tried to watch it via live QT stream.
Like the new Notebook, though its pricy. But it also doubles as a surfboard in a pinch!
Now the big big big thing was Steve Jobs standing behind the huge words "Open Source is Good" or something like that. That Apple is releasing the browser code improvements (a years effort) back into the open source community and announcing that Open Source is good is just amazing! It is such a wonderful difference from Microsoft's constant "Open source is the tool of the devil" rants. I think this will help attract more geeks to Apple as well as make open source developers more open to writing software for the Macintosh.
Another thing that was neat was that Keynote uses open standards and that Jobs even verbally invited 3rd party developers to take advantage of that. In a way, I actually wonder if Apple is developing a radical corporate strategy which involves a sense of responsibility to the computer industry as a whole. By releaseing open source changes back into the world as well as using open standards in their document formats, Apple opens the door for other companies to create new tools and new markets alongside Apple. In this way, Apple is *helping* the economy and the computer industry as a whole by creating both new products as well as opportunities for others to share in the wealth of the market those new products exist in. It will be very interesting to see if Apple works on spreadsheets or word processing next. A beefed up Appleworks or Claris works would be nice!
Gripes:
Having to pay $49 to get iDVD3 (even though other iApps come along they are also freely available) is rediculous.
Keynote is expensive, nice, but still expensive and on par with Microsoft's rediculous prices for their own office apps.
Apple should have offered the iApps along with Keynote for like $79 or the iApps by themselves for $29. That would have made it worth the money to get the iApps. Jobs even said the only reason they don't offer iDVD for free is that it is so huge in size. Given that admission, I will feel no guilt at all when I download it from elsewhere or get it from a friend's new Mac.
But that is the only real gripe I had, so over all a very favorable keynote!
What is so bad about this? This is only an electronic form of checking out a book and then returning it after a set period of time. Are you all going to complain next about having to take back that real book you borrowed?
I just can't believe that I am seeing so much whinign about what is a valid use for an e-book. Its not like you are buying the thing and then being locked out after a few days, you are BORROWING it. So what is the big deal?