That's not actually true. They develop a range of hardware devices and whole load of firmware and software in house. The also had quite a bit of input into PowerPC.
Apple tried pre-announcing a 3GHz G5 and they completely failed it.
Better they do it this way.
I'll be getting one of the dual-duals to supplement my dual-2.5Ghz tower if and when they arrive, let's hope the delivery isn't as farcical as it was last time.
Firewire failed? Is that why EVRY SINGLE WORKSTATION in this room - Mac and PC - has at least 2 FW ports? My digital SLR has FW, my PS2 has it, my camcorder has it, my DVD player has it and my little iSight webcam couldn't live without it.
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No, YOU'RE incorrect. We have several DVD-RAM equipped Macs here being used as Avid platforms. Not a bad format, but the media is slow and hugely expensive by modern standards.
The first DVD-R/RW equipped Mac was the DA 733 G4 about 18 months after the DVD-RAM equipped machines appeared.
The nerd army! The most unpleasant and ineffective fighting force since the US Army! Completely defeatable by offering them a sneak peak at some Star Wars behind the scenes footage or a 10% discount on a Star trek boxed set of DVDs.
If nothing else, you can learn about communicating with a probe that is 11 billion miles away - why can't these programmes be sponsored by technology companies? How about Vodafone wrestling that puny $4m out of its deep pockets annually to fund what still is cutting-edge research?
"Oh, so if I take away your car, or your bike, and you whine, I can just say "Grow Up" and it's all okay? Okay, you say you paid for those things and they belong to you. He pays for cable access. He pays for the TV programs by watching their stupid commercials. He pays when there is product placement."
Wrong. The cable company doesn't guarantee that there will be newly produced episodes of their users' favourite programmes.
"What if I take the tree from your front yard and fill in the hole, cover it, make it look nice. You didn't pay for that tree, it was just there, so if you don't like it being gone, "Grow Up.""
Crap analogy. It's still my tree, so in doing that you'd be stealing from me and liable to be prosecuted.
"Just because YOU think something is childish, it isn't necessarily so. What makes you think you are so important that the things that matter to you should be the only things that matter to someone else?"
I didn't state that Star Trek didn't matter to me (although it doesn't), and I'd be annoyed if my favourite programme wasn't shown anymore too, but I wouldn't start whining about it like a baby if it was obvious to anyone with half the sense they were born with WHY the programme was being pulled. If it was just some producer's whim then it'd be different, but this is COMMERCIAL TV we're talking about, and we all know the rules.
"A TV show is not a toy, it is entertainment, just like your CDs or your radio, if you listen to it. Just like your computer. It's a complicated toy and you may even have a job playing with it, but it is still JUST A TOY."
Are you saying that a TV show IS or IS NOT like a toy?
"Would you be even slightly upset if OSDN decided to shut down slashdot without the possibility of it ever coming back up again? After all, it's just a "toy..." Some pointless service, no? Pointless was the key word in all of this."
I'd be miffed, but I'd get over it. I haven't paid for Slashdot, so it doesn't owe me a thing.
"I didn't see anyone claim they didn't understand WHY it is being taken off the air. If they don't, they aren't childish, they are simply stupid."
If they understand, why bother to complain?
"My point to this wild mass of sentences is that complaining that something is being taken away is never childishm unless your complaining goes past the point of being useful. It's not easy getting the attention of TV Executives, so if you want to do something you have to do it very loudly. Not only that, but these Execs really have no idea how many people actually watch these shows. Nielsen homes are so few that it is statistically f'ing worthless. Not to mention, Nielsen usually boxes go to select homes that already fit into a particular "category." 2-parent, 2 kids, etc."
They DO know, and with a fairly surprising degree of accuracy. They know what the show's worth to sell abroad, they know what the DVD and VHS sell-through brings in, and they know the productiona and distribution costs. They think in terms of delivering viewers to advertisers. If they think can do it better or cheaper with a different programme, they will.
I've been shopping for a new laptop for my girlfriend (she needs WiFi, Bluetooth, MS Office and SPSS, basically) and it's been an extremely frustrating experience trying to track down a WinTel laptop with integrated BT for a reasonable price. With a Mac laptopo you can just BTO with internal BT and still keep the price on the ground. The whole experience has taught me what I had forgotten about WinTel - you can have anything you want as long as it's on the menu.
Fighting for a TV show is beyond pointless. Unless tyhat show can survive by some kind of direct sales funding, it WILL die if its ratings aren't good enough. Grow up and realise that the rest of the world doesn't care about your geek circle-jerk.
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That's not actually true. They develop a range of hardware devices and whole load of firmware and software in house. The also had quite a bit of input into PowerPC.
Factually incorrect.
I've got a USB thumb drive that looks pretty much identical to that, but you have to admit the iPod Shuffle looks a fair bit different.
"Let's copy a famous product that is expensively marketed worldwide and make some easy money from chumps"
auto WHAT?
Of course, a 2 year old PowerMac is really only 1 year old, seeing as the original owner had to wait 12 months for delivery.
Apple tried pre-announcing a 3GHz G5 and they completely failed it.
Better they do it this way.
I'll be getting one of the dual-duals to supplement my dual-2.5Ghz tower if and when they arrive, let's hope the delivery isn't as farcical as it was last time.
Maybe you should stop shopping at "Best Buy".
Firewire failed? Is that why EVRY SINGLE WORKSTATION in this room - Mac and PC - has at least 2 FW ports? My digital SLR has FW, my PS2 has it, my camcorder has it, my DVD player has it and my little iSight webcam couldn't live without it.
No, YOU'RE incorrect. We have several DVD-RAM equipped Macs here being used as Avid platforms. Not a bad format, but the media is slow and hugely expensive by modern standards.
The first DVD-R/RW equipped Mac was the DA 733 G4 about 18 months after the DVD-RAM equipped machines appeared.
Don't expect many multi layer compatible discs, they cost WAY too much to produce.
The nerd army! The most unpleasant and ineffective fighting force since the US Army! Completely defeatable by offering them a sneak peak at some Star Wars behind the scenes footage or a 10% discount on a Star trek boxed set of DVDs.
If nothing else, you can learn about communicating with a probe that is 11 billion miles away - why can't these programmes be sponsored by technology companies? How about Vodafone wrestling that puny $4m out of its deep pockets annually to fund what still is cutting-edge research?
Joe Sixpack is right, for once.
Mod Up More.
"Oh, so if I take away your car, or your bike, and you whine, I can just say "Grow Up" and it's all okay? Okay, you say you paid for those things and they belong to you. He pays for cable access. He pays for the TV programs by watching their stupid commercials. He pays when there is product placement."
Wrong. The cable company doesn't guarantee that there will be newly produced episodes of their users' favourite programmes.
"What if I take the tree from your front yard and fill in the hole, cover it, make it look nice. You didn't pay for that tree, it was just there, so if you don't like it being gone, "Grow Up.""
Crap analogy. It's still my tree, so in doing that you'd be stealing from me and liable to be prosecuted.
"Just because YOU think something is childish, it isn't necessarily so. What makes you think you are so important that the things that matter to you should be the only things that matter to someone else?"
I didn't state that Star Trek didn't matter to me (although it doesn't), and I'd be annoyed if my favourite programme wasn't shown anymore too, but I wouldn't start whining about it like a baby if it was obvious to anyone with half the sense they were born with WHY the programme was being pulled. If it was just some producer's whim then it'd be different, but this is COMMERCIAL TV we're talking about, and we all know the rules.
"A TV show is not a toy, it is entertainment, just like your CDs or your radio, if you listen to it. Just like your computer. It's a complicated toy and you may even have a job playing with it, but it is still JUST A TOY."
Are you saying that a TV show IS or IS NOT like a toy?
"Would you be even slightly upset if OSDN decided to shut down slashdot without the possibility of it ever coming back up again? After all, it's just a "toy..." Some pointless service, no? Pointless was the key word in all of this."
I'd be miffed, but I'd get over it. I haven't paid for Slashdot, so it doesn't owe me a thing.
"I didn't see anyone claim they didn't understand WHY it is being taken off the air. If they don't, they aren't childish, they are simply stupid."
If they understand, why bother to complain?
"My point to this wild mass of sentences is that complaining that something is being taken away is never childishm unless your complaining goes past the point of being useful. It's not easy getting the attention of TV Executives, so if you want to do something you have to do it very loudly. Not only that, but these Execs really have no idea how many people actually watch these shows. Nielsen homes are so few that it is statistically f'ing worthless. Not to mention, Nielsen usually boxes go to select homes that already fit into a particular "category." 2-parent, 2 kids, etc."
They DO know, and with a fairly surprising degree of accuracy. They know what the show's worth to sell abroad, they know what the DVD and VHS sell-through brings in, and they know the productiona and distribution costs. They think in terms of delivering viewers to advertisers. If they think can do it better or cheaper with a different programme, they will.
Perfectly succint, exactly so.
I've been shopping for a new laptop for my girlfriend (she needs WiFi, Bluetooth, MS Office and SPSS, basically) and it's been an extremely frustrating experience trying to track down a WinTel laptop with integrated BT for a reasonable price. With a Mac laptopo you can just BTO with internal BT and still keep the price on the ground. The whole experience has taught me what I had forgotten about WinTel - you can have anything you want as long as it's on the menu.
And the menu is McDonalds crap.
Complaining that someone's taking your toys away (without bothering to understand why) is plainly childish, hence the "grow up".
Fifty millibits? That's a pretty small memory footptint by any standards!
No, Linux would be "for YEARS you get fifth-rate, monstrously late, half-baked noodleware (with one or two arguable exceptions)".
The answer, I'm afraid, is NO.
Fighting for a TV show is beyond pointless. Unless tyhat show can survive by some kind of direct sales funding, it WILL die if its ratings aren't good enough. Grow up and realise that the rest of the world doesn't care about your geek circle-jerk.
Ferengi = Arabs
Klingon = Russians / Blacks (era dependant)
Romulan = Chinese
Vulcans = Japanese
Feel free to complete this list.
How are websites going to make money if you a) don't subscribe and b) block the ads?
Can't you steer your eyeballs like the rest of us?
If you love Sci-Fi, Star Trek, Farscape and the like must really annoy you.