Oh, the humor of this comment - yes, lets appoint Elizabeth Warren - you know, the Harvard law professor and noted academic. While Liz Warren has some great ideas, most professors (and particularly law professors) will tell you that it is not a good policy to appoint fellow academics to policy-making roles.
The NY Times print folks need to learn from the same lessons the leadership of the Dallas Morning News learned a year or two back - namely that news consumers do not consider the print and electronic versions of the paper equal or interchangeable substitutes. That is, there is far less crossover in each of the customer bases than the newspaper execs or the conventional wisdom might suggest. Unfortunately, if the print folks win out, they will learn this lesson the hard way.
Not surprising really. The old media print newspapers have the staff and research people to go out and do real reporting/news gathering in the real world. Online sources pick up this basis of real news reporting and become a distribution and commentary outlet for the work done by the traditional reporters.
AT&T needs to specifically provision the visual voicemail on your plan. I don't know, but I don't think it is tied specifically to the iPhone data plan.
When I switched to the iPhone, the initial rep failed to provision the visual voicemail service to my plan. It took a separate call for them to provision it properly.
Is there a citation to back up these numbers? The number for the US seems high based on my admittedly limited experience. I'd like to know who published these numbers.
The GPA's unfortunately do matter if you pursue graduate or professional school outside of the engineering realm.
Its a sad fact, but when applying for MBA or law programs, your 3.x GPA in engineering is compared with the liberal arts majors 4.0 (or in some cases with schools that give award A+ grades worth 4.3, GPA's that are over 4.0). Sure, all of the schools say they consider the difference in programs and claim that factors into admissions, but, at the end of the day, the schools care more about their ranking. And those rankings (USN&WR for example) are highly sensitive to GPA and admission test scores. Thus, when your 3.x GPA goes into the mix with all of the other liberal arts folks with 3.95 and 4.0 GPAs at the elite schools, you do end up at a disadvantage as you will "hurt their numbers."
Just for clarity - America West (HQ based in Phoenix) has no affiliation with American Airlines (HQ based in Dallas). In fact, the America West name is going away in favor of the US Airways name, following the merger of US Airways and America West a year or so ago.
After being inundated with all of those 'TAG' body spray commercials that show various teenage boys getting mobbed by teenage girls and being hit on my the teenage girs' moms, my first thought after reading the title was "Wow, that stuff must really work if they are having to ban it from schools!"
And then I read the article summary and find it is just the schoolyard game. Too bad - I was hoping for some interesting reading describing just how well that stuff worked.
I noticed this just the other day in my local Target store. Only a single PS2 in stock, while there were 6 or 7 Platinum edition Xbox 360s in the case. Thought it was a bit interesting that it is now easier to get a 360 as opposed to a PS2. My local Costco had a pile of 360s a week or two ago as well.
I wonder what announcements such as this will do to the relationship with Apple over the short and long term. When news like this is broadcast to a wide audience, people begin to question their vendors. "Hey, will I get a price break now on the products with Intel processors?"
Yet Apple's pricing model has always been pretty strict - normally you can count on paying the same price for a MacBook or MacBook Pro in another couple weeks or a month barring any product line updates. But this type of news may have more people asking why that needs to continue to be the case - if suddenly that Core Duo chip is x% cheaper, why can't my MacBook Pro drop in price a bit to reflect the component cost?
Amen brother. I've had this same conversation with a fair number of my peers. There are a significant number of folks that give the "I'd really like to do...x", and then never do. Either you do want it and you'll find a way (maybe not the ideal or envisioned way mind you), or you won't. Quite simple in the end.
Interesting that this deal consolidates the two owners of Cingular into a single entity. According to the report, all wired and wireless services will be brought to market under the AT&T brand name.
All that time and enery to build the Cingular brand and now poof - in a year when the deal is closed, they will rebrand again back to the AT&T name. Seems like it was only a little over a year or so ago when my local AT&T Wireless store was relabeled with the Cingular name.
Meh...eBay idiots like the one linked to by the parent really irritate me. For those consumers that would consider the 360 as a impulse/semi-impulse buy (as in, I've contemplated buying one but only when I find a Platinum system not in a bundle in a store) these people end up causing more harm than good in the overall life of the system. A friend recently bought a 360 off of one of these eBay people and only paid a 20 or 30 dollar premium over the normal 399 price tag. The guy admitted to him that he is making all of his money in shipping, charging 50 or 60 bucks to ship the unit to the "winner" of the auction. Fortunately for my friend, the seller lived within a quick drive and he was able to avoid the "shipping" extortion charge.
For what its worth, I did see a 360 for the first time in a store this past week. A single base model 360 in my local Target.
Interesting take on the ploy by Jobs, but the real question is whether Apple will really license FairPlay. I thought there had been some articles written on some companies that wanted to possibly license FairPlay for their portable music players but Apple had turned them down. Is Apple really ready to do license deals now?
Many of these comments are back and forth of "why would anyone want/need to run both OS X and Win XP/2000/2003 Server/etc"? Quite simply, I believe there is a large market of folks out there that would shell out the dollars for a nice Mac, particularly in the notebook realm, in order to be able to run OS X for personal preference but must carry a laptop that boots Windows in order to work on any number of enterprise applications. Take anyone out of a consulting or services business. Its a virtual guarantee that in day to day work that they will need to interoperate with one or more applications that reside on Windows but the footprint is too large to be workable under virtualization. (I know - I've tried to use Virtual PC on a loaded Powerbook to run a local copy of an enterprise app and the performance was dismal.)
However, you give this market the choice of a laptop that can span both worlds equally well, Apple will sell a bunch.
Anyone else find that the battery life numbers are mysteriously absent. Didn't hear them in the keynote and can't find any mention in the specs posted on the Apple website. Troubling...
Savvy move to a new naming convention. Instead of maintaining two brand lines (Powerbook and iBook), Apple can now simply market the MacBook Pro (nee Powerbook) and in the future the consumer level MacBook (nee iBook). Presents a nice unified look to their portables line that is more in tune with their iPod branding strategy of using the suffix to distinguish differences.
This feels different than the crash that occured with the Atari and Intellivision some years ago. At the time, the signal to noise ratio went way up, but it seemed that there were just far too many bad, cheap games. There didn't seem to be the proliferation of sequels and "newer, better, prettier" versions of the same games we'd already purchased.
Now it feels that even though we are getting more sequels, the addition of online play is extending the life of franchises and taking the focus off of the single player storyline and more on the new features that can be used to enhance the gameplay experience, not the story itself.
Meh...more FUD from MS that there won't be enough units so all of you sheep should go out and make sure you pre-order a costly bundle from your neighborhood retailer.
The more uncertainty MS can spread about supply shortages, the better to get the masses all riled about about having to find one for little Junior this holiday season.
Hmm, what if this role is a precursor to managing a combined GoogleTV entity? Google buys Tivo, uses the Tivo product strengths, established user base, and DVR acceptance that is already in the market, but expands the Tivo offering to include search and retrieval of programs. Two great brands in the market and if you combine it with the Business 2.0 blurb a month or so back that Google is buying dark fiber for their own high speed network, it could add up to an interesting offering.
To correspond with the title of the article, the next paragraph is really the interesting one.
"The Xbox 360 Ultimate Bundle weighs in at just under $700. Gamers (or generous parents) willing to shell out $699.92 will get the Xbox 360 "premium" package, plus an extra wireless controller with a Play & Charge Kit, a rechargeable battery back for wireless controllers, and the four games mentioned above. Doing some quick math, the sum of the bundle's pieces would be $720.93, again assuming a $59.99 price point for games."
While the $600 dollar bundle is only for the Core system, to get the premium bundle with the hard drive, head set, etc., you're over $700 with tax and shipping.
Google maps may only be a "hack" in your terms, but perhaps that is a more logical direction for enterprise apps. I work for an enterprise application software vendor and see the challenges of implementing these all-inclusive apps at a customer site on a daily basis.
From the common business user perspective, a whole set of these clever hacks could contain most, if not all, of the basic functionality that each user needs. Build an architecture that supports such hacks and deploy the functionality based on a hack-to-role responsibility matrix. The more I see our own enterprise app growing in number of forms and tables, the more I shake my head as the deployment of the application grows in what seems to be exponential rate.
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Saw the title of this article and wondered "how will Las Vegas casinos make the move to have all of my gaming chips put onto a server."
Oh, the humor of this comment - yes, lets appoint Elizabeth Warren - you know, the Harvard law professor and noted academic. While Liz Warren has some great ideas, most professors (and particularly law professors) will tell you that it is not a good policy to appoint fellow academics to policy-making roles.
The NY Times print folks need to learn from the same lessons the leadership of the Dallas Morning News learned a year or two back - namely that news consumers do not consider the print and electronic versions of the paper equal or interchangeable substitutes. That is, there is far less crossover in each of the customer bases than the newspaper execs or the conventional wisdom might suggest. Unfortunately, if the print folks win out, they will learn this lesson the hard way.
I hear insurance scammers quietly whispering about new schemes throughout the US about how to use this to their benefit.
Not surprising really. The old media print newspapers have the staff and research people to go out and do real reporting/news gathering in the real world. Online sources pick up this basis of real news reporting and become a distribution and commentary outlet for the work done by the traditional reporters.
AT&T needs to specifically provision the visual voicemail on your plan. I don't know, but I don't think it is tied specifically to the iPhone data plan.
When I switched to the iPhone, the initial rep failed to provision the visual voicemail service to my plan. It took a separate call for them to provision it properly.
Is there a citation to back up these numbers? The number for the US seems high based on my admittedly limited experience. I'd like to know who published these numbers.
The GPA's unfortunately do matter if you pursue graduate or professional school outside of the engineering realm.
Its a sad fact, but when applying for MBA or law programs, your 3.x GPA in engineering is compared with the liberal arts majors 4.0 (or in some cases with schools that give award A+ grades worth 4.3, GPA's that are over 4.0). Sure, all of the schools say they consider the difference in programs and claim that factors into admissions, but, at the end of the day, the schools care more about their ranking. And those rankings (USN&WR for example) are highly sensitive to GPA and admission test scores. Thus, when your 3.x GPA goes into the mix with all of the other liberal arts folks with 3.95 and 4.0 GPAs at the elite schools, you do end up at a disadvantage as you will "hurt their numbers."
Just for clarity - America West (HQ based in Phoenix) has no affiliation with American Airlines (HQ based in Dallas). In fact, the America West name is going away in favor of the US Airways name, following the merger of US Airways and America West a year or so ago.
After being inundated with all of those 'TAG' body spray commercials that show various teenage boys getting mobbed by teenage girls and being hit on my the teenage girs' moms, my first thought after reading the title was "Wow, that stuff must really work if they are having to ban it from schools!"
And then I read the article summary and find it is just the schoolyard game. Too bad - I was hoping for some interesting reading describing just how well that stuff worked.
I noticed this just the other day in my local Target store. Only a single PS2 in stock, while there were 6 or 7 Platinum edition Xbox 360s in the case. Thought it was a bit interesting that it is now easier to get a 360 as opposed to a PS2. My local Costco had a pile of 360s a week or two ago as well.
I wonder what announcements such as this will do to the relationship with Apple over the short and long term. When news like this is broadcast to a wide audience, people begin to question their vendors. "Hey, will I get a price break now on the products with Intel processors?"
Yet Apple's pricing model has always been pretty strict - normally you can count on paying the same price for a MacBook or MacBook Pro in another couple weeks or a month barring any product line updates. But this type of news may have more people asking why that needs to continue to be the case - if suddenly that Core Duo chip is x% cheaper, why can't my MacBook Pro drop in price a bit to reflect the component cost?
Amen brother. I've had this same conversation with a fair number of my peers. There are a significant number of folks that give the "I'd really like to do...x", and then never do. Either you do want it and you'll find a way (maybe not the ideal or envisioned way mind you), or you won't. Quite simple in the end.
Interesting that this deal consolidates the two owners of Cingular into a single entity. According to the report, all wired and wireless services will be brought to market under the AT&T brand name.
All that time and enery to build the Cingular brand and now poof - in a year when the deal is closed, they will rebrand again back to the AT&T name. Seems like it was only a little over a year or so ago when my local AT&T Wireless store was relabeled with the Cingular name.
Meh...eBay idiots like the one linked to by the parent really irritate me. For those consumers that would consider the 360 as a impulse/semi-impulse buy (as in, I've contemplated buying one but only when I find a Platinum system not in a bundle in a store) these people end up causing more harm than good in the overall life of the system. A friend recently bought a 360 off of one of these eBay people and only paid a 20 or 30 dollar premium over the normal 399 price tag. The guy admitted to him that he is making all of his money in shipping, charging 50 or 60 bucks to ship the unit to the "winner" of the auction. Fortunately for my friend, the seller lived within a quick drive and he was able to avoid the "shipping" extortion charge.
For what its worth, I did see a 360 for the first time in a store this past week. A single base model 360 in my local Target.
Interesting take on the ploy by Jobs, but the real question is whether Apple will really license FairPlay. I thought there had been some articles written on some companies that wanted to possibly license FairPlay for their portable music players but Apple had turned them down. Is Apple really ready to do license deals now?
Many of these comments are back and forth of "why would anyone want/need to run both OS X and Win XP/2000/2003 Server/etc"? Quite simply, I believe there is a large market of folks out there that would shell out the dollars for a nice Mac, particularly in the notebook realm, in order to be able to run OS X for personal preference but must carry a laptop that boots Windows in order to work on any number of enterprise applications. Take anyone out of a consulting or services business. Its a virtual guarantee that in day to day work that they will need to interoperate with one or more applications that reside on Windows but the footprint is too large to be workable under virtualization. (I know - I've tried to use Virtual PC on a loaded Powerbook to run a local copy of an enterprise app and the performance was dismal.)
However, you give this market the choice of a laptop that can span both worlds equally well, Apple will sell a bunch.
Anyone else find that the battery life numbers are mysteriously absent. Didn't hear them in the keynote and can't find any mention in the specs posted on the Apple website. Troubling...
Savvy move to a new naming convention. Instead of maintaining two brand lines (Powerbook and iBook), Apple can now simply market the MacBook Pro (nee Powerbook) and in the future the consumer level MacBook (nee iBook). Presents a nice unified look to their portables line that is more in tune with their iPod branding strategy of using the suffix to distinguish differences.
Dang! I thought the article would give me a surefire method to always write +5 Insightful comments...
This feels different than the crash that occured with the Atari and Intellivision some years ago. At the time, the signal to noise ratio went way up, but it seemed that there were just far too many bad, cheap games. There didn't seem to be the proliferation of sequels and "newer, better, prettier" versions of the same games we'd already purchased.
Now it feels that even though we are getting more sequels, the addition of online play is extending the life of franchises and taking the focus off of the single player storyline and more on the new features that can be used to enhance the gameplay experience, not the story itself.
Meh...more FUD from MS that there won't be enough units so all of you sheep should go out and make sure you pre-order a costly bundle from your neighborhood retailer.
The more uncertainty MS can spread about supply shortages, the better to get the masses all riled about about having to find one for little Junior this holiday season.
Hmm, what if this role is a precursor to managing a combined GoogleTV entity? Google buys Tivo, uses the Tivo product strengths, established user base, and DVR acceptance that is already in the market, but expands the Tivo offering to include search and retrieval of programs. Two great brands in the market and if you combine it with the Business 2.0 blurb a month or so back that Google is buying dark fiber for their own high speed network, it could add up to an interesting offering.
To correspond with the title of the article, the next paragraph is really the interesting one.
"The Xbox 360 Ultimate Bundle weighs in at just under $700. Gamers (or generous parents) willing to shell out $699.92 will get the Xbox 360 "premium" package, plus an extra wireless controller with a Play & Charge Kit, a rechargeable battery back for wireless controllers, and the four games mentioned above. Doing some quick math, the sum of the bundle's pieces would be $720.93, again assuming a $59.99 price point for games."
While the $600 dollar bundle is only for the Core system, to get the premium bundle with the hard drive, head set, etc., you're over $700 with tax and shipping.
Google maps may only be a "hack" in your terms, but perhaps that is a more logical direction for enterprise apps. I work for an enterprise application software vendor and see the challenges of implementing these all-inclusive apps at a customer site on a daily basis.
From the common business user perspective, a whole set of these clever hacks could contain most, if not all, of the basic functionality that each user needs. Build an architecture that supports such hacks and deploy the functionality based on a hack-to-role responsibility matrix. The more I see our own enterprise app growing in number of forms and tables, the more I shake my head as the deployment of the application grows in what seems to be exponential rate.