Take the most powerful computer, and set it up as an mp3 streaming server. QTSS, Streamcast, whatever you feel comfortable with.
Then take a laptop, mac mini, or whatever small computer you want, and hook into the feed with iTunes, WinAmp, etc. etc.
Store all your tunes on that 1 server, and just stream them.
You can use WiFi to do it without cables, or cable it.
An old system can easily hold up to quite a bit. I have an Apple G3 266MHz, it can easily handle several streams with no problem.
Only downside is easy control over what plays. There are a few scripts you can use to help control it remotely. Though you can just leave it random and think of it as a radio station without annoying commercials.
All clients need to do to update is download the latest firefox.
Essentially the auto-updater will let them know when a new firefox is available. And it will also notify them when a new version of the extension is available.
I question how long it will go. I see a few sinareo's:
1. The more advanced gaming gets, the more complex it gets. Eventually graphics cards will outdo what game developers can program for. Until programming techniques allow them to take advantage of features, that could cause a temporary stall in sales.
2. Heat? PC's tend to be getting smaller. Small is the trend right now, compared to "I need a mini tower" craze of the 90's. I think that heat barrier is going to become a big issue too. How do you cram that hot processor into a little box, with a quiet fan.... if even a fan? IMHO the thermal barrier is not somehting they can ignore.
3. Price. After 1,2. How do they keep the price affordable? Especailly with dedicated gaming units like the PS2 and Xbox... how do you keep PC gaming and encourage people to shell out cash. It seems more and more common for a game to be PS2 only, or Xbox only.... and no PC version. This removes the motivation to spend big bucks on GPU's.
IMHO this isn't going to last. It's a mini dotcom bubble.
It will burst, it will scale back, and some of it will survive. But I think the over-emphasis on Graphics Cards will be a trend of times past in the next few years.
Sidenote: And ironically I type this with an ATI ad right on the top of the page!)
Then again, I think with the advent of the net, things are changing.
10 years ago, not many of us Americans would know so many European brands, but now that we see ads for european products (even if they aren't available in the US), articles, etc. etc...
it's sometimes hard to remember what is in the US or not.
I'm guessing in another 10 years, that continental divide will close even more.
5400 RPM Drives with "Sudden Motion Sensor" standard
802.11g and Bluetooth 2.0standard
Scrolling Trackpad standard
512 MB RAM standard
With the top model running $2,399.00 with the educational discount... not a bad rig for a college student. perfect for on campus use, good battery life, wireless, Mac OS X! you can start at $1,499.
IMHO it's a pretty good machine. It's all pretty good hardware. Not many laptops ship with 512 MB from the factory, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a 5400 RPM HD. Lately it seems 4200 RPM drives have been making a comeback thanks to their low power consumption and price. It's a good place for a manufacturer to cut corners. Most customers don't realize. Heck when I bought my laptop most sales people didn't even know what was shipping. I got forwarded around several times when I called most companies... and never got an answer.
Unlike most PC manufacturers, Apple did pretty much everything. Computer, Keyboard, Mouse, Printer, PDA, etc. etc.
Apple's advantage is their stuff works very well together (those legendary plug-and-play sinareo's). Not to mention it's easy to use, well designed, and very good looking.
Apple's plan with the iPod is just that: A simple to integrate, well supported music player on the Mac. Since most other mp3 players before the iPod didn't support the Mac.
Apple expanded to the PC industry simply because of the success and market.
Why sell music? Simply because it had the platform and opportunity to again, provide a way to easily and gracefully get good quality music onto your Apple product (see the simplicity theme?).
Apple had Quicktime, and you can bet DRM was in the works well before iTunes. DRM was the talk of the day around that time. Apple knew it needed a music player to rival winamp, and windows media player. Hence iTunes was born.
Digital photography became big. Unlike past trends, they used USB, and had a FAT32 filesystem, so the Mac was unoffically support on just about all. So what did they do? Created iPhoto, just to make life easy.
Apple's business plan is simple: be the high end quality product. All inclusive, all included.
If I sell a trillion dollar hammer, I only need 1 customer to beat Craftsman in yearly income. Nor does it mean I have a more popular product, or more customers, or a better product. It just means I sold an expensive hammer.
Shouldn't confuse this with units sold. Or how their marketshare is doing.
As the poster suggested, "server sales" are to thank. And guess what? The server software is not at all cheap.
I'm surpised to see it come with HP affiliated with it though. They aren't exactly inovators these days. If I had to guess, I would have guessed: Apple, Sony.
My question is cost. Media any different? Is there any patents that would hinder low cost of unit?
That typically defines what succeeds and fails. cost of use.
Oh please of please don't let it be like the original Apple G3 (that giant one that nobody bought because it had the pricetag of a car). Please let it be somewhat affordable and sexy.
Oh yummy yummy....
I'm salivating as I type...
I hope that sucker had a nice widescreen display, Superdrive, and Firewire 800/USB 2 ports.
Oh, and I want to see something "different". Either in style, or a new feature. just something unique and new.
Oh, I am just as happy as a school girl going to see the kitty's in some creepy guy's sedan!
Size doesn't mean much to the average consumer. They put it under a desk and forget about it.
What the average consumer cares aobut:
1. Simple to setup and use 2. Safe (spyware/virus wise) 3. Cost 4. Astetics
That's really all there is to it.
1. It takes minutes to setup, and it's simple to use, Mac OS X is by far the most usable OS on the market right now.
2. Mac OS X doesn't have any real known threats. There are virus scanning products available. It comes with a firewall. 99.9% of known threats are Windows only.
3. It's a pretty low cost unit, and you can reuse just about all of your PC (or Mac) peripherals. Keyboard, Mouse, Display. No problem. Don't buy new ones.
4. It's pretty cool looking. Apple is a trendy brand. It's known for quality and style. It's got a nice big logo on the top. It's also an inovative style.
Size isn't everything Dr. Freud.
I guess you can say "it's not about size, but how you use it"
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Here's what I would do.
Take the most powerful computer, and set it up as an mp3 streaming server. QTSS, Streamcast, whatever you feel comfortable with.
Then take a laptop, mac mini, or whatever small computer you want, and hook into the feed with iTunes, WinAmp, etc. etc.
Store all your tunes on that 1 server, and just stream them.
You can use WiFi to do it without cables, or cable it.
An old system can easily hold up to quite a bit. I have an Apple G3 266MHz, it can easily handle several streams with no problem.
Only downside is easy control over what plays. There are a few scripts you can use to help control it remotely. Though you can just leave it random and think of it as a radio station without annoying commercials.
Why do I have this feeling some anti open source troll is going to mod down all of his posts just because they know who he is?
I'm surpised slashdot posted his name like that. Especially with recent posts.
They customize the browser through an extension.
No big deal... it's just easier for everyone.
All clients need to do to update is download the latest firefox.
Essentially the auto-updater will let them know when a new firefox is available. And it will also notify them when a new version of the extension is available.
I.E.: Speakeasy
e fox/
Just give users an extension:
http://www.speakeasy.net/software/fir
That way, they can keep up to date with Firefox.
Now Netscape, as usual will lag in updates... which means security holes may remain, etc.
If they did an extension, users could likely update with no problems.
Google tends to have a good eye for simple interfaces for managing things:
- Search
- Gmail
- Blogger
- Picasa
- Google Desktop
If google carries that tradition forward, I could see myself transfering my domains to them rather them, since they tend to be:
1. Competitive pricing seems crucial at google. Everything is free or low cost.
2. Quality
3. Good support. Google does respond. I had an issue with Google Desktop, and Gmail... both times I got a quick response. Amazingly. I was shocked.
I can't say the above for any of the major registrar's on the market.
So if Google expands beyond bloggers and allows domain (especially bulk) registration/transfer.... I'm in.
I question how long it will go. I see a few sinareo's:
1. The more advanced gaming gets, the more complex it gets. Eventually graphics cards will outdo what game developers can program for. Until programming techniques allow them to take advantage of features, that could cause a temporary stall in sales.
2. Heat? PC's tend to be getting smaller. Small is the trend right now, compared to "I need a mini tower" craze of the 90's. I think that heat barrier is going to become a big issue too. How do you cram that hot processor into a little box, with a quiet fan.... if even a fan? IMHO the thermal barrier is not somehting they can ignore.
3. Price. After 1,2. How do they keep the price affordable? Especailly with dedicated gaming units like the PS2 and Xbox... how do you keep PC gaming and encourage people to shell out cash. It seems more and more common for a game to be PS2 only, or Xbox only.... and no PC version. This removes the motivation to spend big bucks on GPU's.
IMHO this isn't going to last. It's a mini dotcom bubble.
It will burst, it will scale back, and some of it will survive. But I think the over-emphasis on Graphics Cards will be a trend of times past in the next few years.
Sidenote: And ironically I type this with an ATI ad right on the top of the page!)
It's not 100% on a signle continent, but it a vast majority. I'd say 80:20.
I can't say 1 of them shocked me.
Then again, I think with the advent of the net, things are changing.
10 years ago, not many of us Americans would know so many European brands, but now that we see ads for european products (even if they aren't available in the US), articles, etc. etc...
it's sometimes hard to remember what is in the US or not.
I'm guessing in another 10 years, that continental divide will close even more.
With the top model running $2,399.00 with the educational discount... not a bad rig for a college student. perfect for on campus use, good battery life, wireless, Mac OS X! you can start at $1,499.
IMHO it's a pretty good machine. It's all pretty good hardware. Not many laptops ship with 512 MB from the factory, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a 5400 RPM HD. Lately it seems 4200 RPM drives have been making a comeback thanks to their low power consumption and price. It's a good place for a manufacturer to cut corners. Most customers don't realize. Heck when I bought my laptop most sales people didn't even know what was shipping. I got forwarded around several times when I called most companies... and never got an answer.
Apple's pretty good about quality hardware.
They figure out how to run Linux on an iPod... so they install Linux, and Apache.
I don't think their iPod server is capable of withstanding a slashdot yet.
I wonder if they can get the iPod display to show an MRTG graph of the slashdotting.
Ends up I gave cash to look at pictures of female monkey butts.
I'm not ashamed to admit it.
You can sign up here
I guess he's taking Martha Stewart (Mar7ha S73war7) to the pr0m.
Dear Wired,
Isaac Asimov was the king of Science Fiction. Your attempt at the genre is pretty much just frightening and strange despite being somewhat comical.
Please go back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Regards,
Slashdot Community.
Apple's strategy is very simple:
All inclusive high end computing.
Unlike most PC manufacturers, Apple did pretty much everything. Computer, Keyboard, Mouse, Printer, PDA, etc. etc.
Apple's advantage is their stuff works very well together (those legendary plug-and-play sinareo's). Not to mention it's easy to use, well designed, and very good looking.
Apple's plan with the iPod is just that: A simple to integrate, well supported music player on the Mac. Since most other mp3 players before the iPod didn't support the Mac.
Apple expanded to the PC industry simply because of the success and market.
Why sell music? Simply because it had the platform and opportunity to again, provide a way to easily and gracefully get good quality music onto your Apple product (see the simplicity theme?).
Apple had Quicktime, and you can bet DRM was in the works well before iTunes. DRM was the talk of the day around that time. Apple knew it needed a music player to rival winamp, and windows media player. Hence iTunes was born.
Digital photography became big. Unlike past trends, they used USB, and had a FAT32 filesystem, so the Mac was unoffically support on just about all. So what did they do? Created iPhoto, just to make life easy.
Apple's business plan is simple: be the high end quality product. All inclusive, all included.
Jailed for IE? Why not?
It's insecure (your computer could be hijacked and used for malicious purposes)... national security risk.
If I sell a trillion dollar hammer, I only need 1 customer to beat Craftsman in yearly income. Nor does it mean I have a more popular product, or more customers, or a better product. It just means I sold an expensive hammer.
Shouldn't confuse this with units sold. Or how their marketshare is doing.
As the poster suggested, "server sales" are to thank. And guess what? The server software is not at all cheap.
Intel also registred:
MMDCL
which is the roman numeral for the temperature their new chip will run.
I'm surpised to see it come with HP affiliated with it though. They aren't exactly inovators these days. If I had to guess, I would have guessed: Apple, Sony.
My question is cost. Media any different? Is there any patents that would hinder low cost of unit?
That typically defines what succeeds and fails. cost of use.
"When in Rome, do like the Romans"
Not that it's legal, but a VPN is about your only foolproof way of doing so.
The other option is just live with it.
Or...
go with offline methods:
Have a buddy in the US send you a CD-R of pr0n every month. Or video about how to make a car bomb... or whatever else gets you off.
There not going through your mail.
Other than that, I'd say respect the law. If you don't like their laws, don't visit them.
"When in Rome, do like the Romans"
This is the holy grail of computing
64bit G5 processor, in a sexy Apple laptop.
Oh please of please don't let it be like the original Apple G3 (that giant one that nobody bought because it had the pricetag of a car). Please let it be somewhat affordable and sexy.
Oh yummy yummy....
I'm salivating as I type...
I hope that sucker had a nice widescreen display, Superdrive, and Firewire 800/USB 2 ports.
Oh, and I want to see something "different". Either in style, or a new feature. just something unique and new.
Oh, I am just as happy as a school girl going to see the kitty's in some creepy guy's sedan!
No games going...
and never really had portscan detection go off.
so far, looks like nothing signifigant, don't see any connection.
Just coincidence I guess.
Size doesn't mean much to the average consumer. They put it under a desk and forget about it.
What the average consumer cares aobut:
1. Simple to setup and use
2. Safe (spyware/virus wise)
3. Cost
4. Astetics
That's really all there is to it.
1. It takes minutes to setup, and it's simple to use, Mac OS X is by far the most usable OS on the market right now.
2. Mac OS X doesn't have any real known threats. There are virus scanning products available. It comes with a firewall. 99.9% of known threats are Windows only.
3. It's a pretty low cost unit, and you can reuse just about all of your PC (or Mac) peripherals. Keyboard, Mouse, Display. No problem. Don't buy new ones.
4. It's pretty cool looking. Apple is a trendy brand. It's known for quality and style. It's got a nice big logo on the top. It's also an inovative style.
Size isn't everything Dr. Freud.
I guess you can say "it's not about size, but how you use it"
Just a few minutes ago, Sygate Personal Firewall allerted me to several portscans on my system.
I am running mySQL 4.0.x...
I guess it's time to see what's going on.
I do keep all ports closed, all mySQL passwords are secure, no remote access to mySQL. It's just for dev purposes.
Not sure if there is a connection, but I'm going to look into it.
This is all great, but it's still important to use spreadfirefox and market
Get a few images, and sprinkle them on your websites, etc.
People trust geeks and their opinions. So if all the geeks unite and say to use Firefox, there's a good chance they will.
The books are great, but it's not a time to slow down on the linking.
We need to make casual surfers think "wow, I'm out of touch, everyone talks about firefox... from books to blogs".
So spread firefox now!