It killed Safari on my iBook, a reinstall fixed it just fine (thankfully I have Camino as a backup!) but Camino worked for me. I think it breaks something in the default browser and blocks it from launching until it times out and becomes a "crash".
Ok, so we talk about setting some songs on some computers with a bit of clever hiding so it won't be d/l'ed, but streamed it to users on demand. Wow, what an idea....sure wish we had that for the Mac, oh wait we did, and it got broken and turned into a P2P technology.
It really was a good idea the daap:// protocol hidden in iTunes and allowed anyone to connect to a playlist and play it the way they wanted to, but then someone got greedy and wanted to copy the songs they were listening to, so iLeech was born. Took all of a weekend for it to start appearing. Once this guy get's his distributed streaming going for Window's it would be what, all of a day or two before someone has hacked the protocol so that the stream is a d/l?
I want a legal way to share music, and there to be a way for me to pay the artisits for their work, but until the RIAA is bankrupted I'm sticking with concerts, and only the twice a year CD purchase.
When Neo firsts confronts Smith, he states his purpose and,more importantly, where he came from. He states that when Neo destroyed him and then he discovered he wasn't destroyed that Neo had left part of himself in Smith. Smith is Neo's death wish, and his desire to destroy the Matrix. Or not. guess I'll find out in the third.
I will probably get a redundant score for this but screw it. America has done some good things with their space technology so far, and I hope despite our current leadership and their war-like ways that it will continue to be peaceful. But America if it is going to stay an economic power, and a world power can not ignore the possibility of being leap-frogged in space. The Russians weren't up to the challenge, and now others stand a good chance of proving that we are not. Space is a true testing ground of our engineering skills, and creativity.
America stunned the world by landing on the moon in the sixties. Think about that, in just the 1930's most Americans didn't have electricity or own a refrigerator, but in just about forty years we landed on the moon. We pushed our technology, and our engineering capabilities to reach out into space and touch something other than the earth. Now we can't even do that. Read Walker's statements in the above article and he confirms it. I can't help but think, how could we lose this capability in only 35 years, less than the time it took for us to go from a country without power to a world power?
Most of the technology in Sci-fi regarding the moon (2001 anyone?), we know to be possible in theory. If the Chinese get to the moon, and if they get their base built they will be the ones who either prove or disprove those theories. I can only hope they have the creativity to sustain their own research while there. I used to think if we got there we would start to find new ways to use or technology and develop more while we are there, now I am not so certain. But if NASA keeps going at things the way they are, then we will never know, but we will have more HBO's and MTV's than you can shake a stick at. As much as I love modern entertainment, it does not push our creativity. Lastly, we need to have a presence there. As does the EU, Japan, India, Russia and China. It needs to be a free space, and be represented by all nations. It is the ultimate high ground. I saw someone else post about Heinlen, and quote Lazurus Long. I will now quote a different book, "What will they do? They have no weapons. Will they throw rocks at us?" (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress) Yes that is exactly what they could do, and probably would. I imagine the damage a four or five ton rock could do dropped from orbit as far out as the moon. Not the best of pictures right there. Well that's the end of my rant. Basically I feel that damn it I want my country to be better than it is. And we keep giving up on that which could make us great, and maybe even memorable in history.
I'm from the hills of East Tennessee. I've had some of the best moonshine there is to have, and I have also had some stuff that will make you wish you had brought a cyanide pill with you. I know, burn a sample to make sure first, but blue is not indicative of taste. LOL, for that stuff there is only two things you can do, clean an engine with it, or sell it to the Yankee's.
I want to say first, that I agree with what you are saying. But, what analysts look at (and this is why companies fold all too often) is the fastest way to make a buck. Think of it this way, to an analyst Beer is better than Bourbon. Beer takes 6 weeks to go from raw product to bottle to belly. Bourbon (if it is done right) takes 7 to 25 years to go from raw ingredients to bottle to belly. Now I like beer, but I most definetly appreciate really good bourbon. To an analyst though, bourbon makers should run their business like beer brewers, fast returns. Ever tried home-made moonshine? It may only take 6 to 8 weeks, but the burn on it will take the chrome off a trailer hitch faster than most orally fixated people could dream of doing. To this ANALyst Apple should quit making a product that works and just make products, never mind if it will kill their company in a couple of years, it would make more money NOW, and a dollar now is worth more than ten tommorrow to these folks. That why they are broke, and need that dollar today. Man, I need a drink after this.
Just a bit off-topic, but I think you'll get the point. In the hills of East Tennessee we had a saying (still do amongst those who listen to their elders) "Ignorant is not Stupid." Children are ignorant, they miss the more subtle humor of classic Bugs Bunny cartoons, but they love the slapstick humor. I watched as a kid The Three Stooges, and Chaplin shorts, I still watch them as an adult for a very different kind of humor. Children are not stupid though, they can follow complex stories and the animosity between protagonists and antogonists. They just enjoy simpler forms of humor and action (but then so do most NASCAR fans). In answer to your question, my favorite cartoons were Bugs Bunny, and Scooby Doo (before Scrappy). As an adult I lean more towards anime movies, and some series (Cowboy Bebop, or Princess Mononoke).
Yeah, but M$ will put it in WMA format and the file sizes will be huge. AND you'll have to pay for a version that will burn to CD-R, AND again for another version that you can burn as an audio CD. AND you will have to pay for the version of Window's Media Player that will let you share it with others.But it will have the butterfly for free. The Linux version will include a Tux that lipsynchs to the music, and will be a free download at Redhat.
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Might as well have been. It killed all the best ideas in comics and left only the most Juvenile thoughts behind. I remember a time in the late eighties when a local shop wouldn't carry anything without the seal of approval. Take a look at those old Sandman, or Transmet issues, it ain't there, and it ain't in that shop in my hometown.
It may have not been law, but it killed things for writers, and their distribution networks.
and I happen to be dating one
Good for you. I hope that works out, but I am afraid until you post nude pic link of her in your signature, that it will be considered false.
Just kidding, got a Macgirl myself...still refues to read/. daily though.
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I have grown up on comics since the late 70's. I have seen some good writers come and go, but through out the 90's their have been some truly great writers on par with the Golden Age of comics. Thanks to a more liberal sense of media, comics have thankfully grown out of the American Comics Approval Code (the most loathe-some piece of legislation ever written in my mind). My question is this, through out your own career, have you received the respect as a writer you have earned? Or do you tell people at cocktail parties that you write "serials"? More or less, I am asking, do you think comics are finally getting the respect as literature they deserve, Gaiman's awards aside.
This little bit caught my notice. "The successor to Windows XP (due in 2004, and rapidly slipping to 2005) is currently code named Longhorn, and it will not be compatible with your existing software, hardware or methods. Microsoft has already stated that backward compatibility will not be a design feature.
Some expect the name Windows will be dropped completely. The antitrust agreement with the Bush DoJ specifically states "Microsoft Windows" throughout. By maintaining incompatibility (already planned due to design considerations), making it look different and calling it something else, Microsoft can free itself from antitrust oversight. "It's not Windows, it's a different product - the agreement doesn't apply." Now if they do drop the Window's name, and they do go with a version that will be incompatible with previous versions, then something like Classic on OS X will be needed. A Virtual PC for Longhorn sold as a separate program will give them the chance to hit you twice and help their failing desktop movements (failing to them, I mean really how do you increase market share in a monopoly?).
And we Mac heads thought they were going to try squeezing just us!
I agree to that. It seems we aren't protecting our hear for fear of getting hit in the balls. Civilian casualties are bad, but losing nuclear or biological weaponry is inexcusable. How many men, and how much money are we wasting on searching grandmothers at airports, when we should be moving at least some troops to locations such as Los Almos, Oak Ridge, and Spokane (been a dumping ground for plutonium for some time, I've heard). Frankly put, I'll take a kick in the balls to make sure I don't get knifed in the heart any day.
For the OGG handling in iTunes. Don't hold your breath, it is a third party plug-in and that always slows it down.
For the precision control of Nero. There's Toast with Jam and theirs iTunes. Itunes lets you change how the CD is burned and what goes down on it under the prefernces, Toast isn't free but allows you the finer controls that don't exist in iTunes, Jam is the really good part to that one as it was meant to be used for musicians to have finer control over what they burn.
The Ogg Vorbis Ripping. This is something that hasn't really taken off on the Mac. Nothing really good has been done to integrate OGG as a standard for Mac User's so Apple has done nothing with it. Bug 'em with emails and you'll get a response eventually.
Keyboard Navigation. If the Finder doesn't cut it use Terminal, or do a search on VersionTracker. There are Finder alternatives but I haven't looked into them to terribly much, I happen to like the Finder.
Graphical FTP clients. There is a new one every week on VT. Almost all of them freeware (I'm sure somewhere there's a book on Cocoa programming that has FTP clients as an example). I've found Safari/Finder to meet my needs, but there are alternatives as stated above.
Hope that helps ya.
Basically, the Mayor put it to them this way: We need more jobs for the people that live here. Industrial companies are not coming (ie Levi's, or car manufaturers), we can't get more Federal jobs (we got the DOE and we ain't getting anymore of those), we need a new industry and the only one left is the tech industry. That plus better internet connections for homes was all he needed to get the City Council to jump on board. Amazing what reason can do to a civil group from time to time
Instead of paying the Baby Bells would you accept a moderate increase in your local taxes? My hometown of Knoxville needed more high tech businesses in order to increase it's job market and keep up with the number of people moving into the area, so the mayor ( as a person he sucks, but as a city admin he rules) went to California during it's power troubles and handed out flashlights asking companies like Cisco what Knoxville could do to get them to move there. The answer he recieved was rather simple, cheaper bandwidth. They already had huge tax breaaks for companies moving to their area, land was cheap as is power, so he got a small tax increase on properties ( 0.3%) and just spent $11 million on Fiber for the entire industrial area. Now the best part of his plan was this, the city owned the fiber so it set the prices, local ISP's could very cheaply tap into, and for a larger increase in the business tax they would string it towards neighborhoods, and smaller more commercial businesses. I have no idea how things are going to work out, they are laying the cables right now using interstate and highway construction to build their backbone (if you've ever been to Knoxvegas you understand that that is the best way, they haven't stopped working on the freakin' interstate since '76). And it's hard to tell how the local ISP's are going to go considering that if the tap into it their taxes will go up, but they won't have to lease off of BellSouth. So my question is simple, would you pay you city government to do it for you?
We have all seen how product placement works. You see it in movies almost all the time (Thank God there were NO Nike's in LOTR). What I want to know is why haven't they taken Digital TV to a new level for advertisement. Imagine if at the end of the credits of a show you could receive a virtual presentation of the set, and the objects of the set are manufatured and retailled on the web. Think about that one for a second, you got your celeberity endorsement from the get-go, you got your customer base as well, and you have their attention, all they need is a way to buy it( ie "Man I like Sienfeld's couch. Who makes that anyway? Oh it's by berkline and I can buy it now for $450."And with Tivo you could save those with a minimum of fuss, much less a DVD compilation of a season. If interactive menus can be created, why can't we have interactive credits to indulge our crass consumerism?
I've gone through this before on Yahoo!. And your comment really draws me back to the point I made there many many months ago. Apple will never get more than 20% of the market. Their time to gain more than that has past, and their total control of the hardware is what makes their OS so great and stable (Unix definetly helps, but it's their control of both sides of the equation)and that is what is going to hurt them in the long run. I am an Apple user and I can see the truth of that. It's honestly up to Linux to gain the greater marketshare. They (the distro's) are the ones who must replace Window's in people's homes and workplaces. I would love to see Linux as a choice on every major manufacturer's ordering list (HP, Dell, Gateway, NEC, et al) and when people see those $500 pc's become $300 pc's they'll make the switch. And Linux is getting there with their UI, and Linux is getting into people's minds thanks to Apple and Open Source. It's a good relationship for just the PR (yeah I know Linux is not Unix, but the names are close enough to mix the *nix, lol). What I would like to see in the next 5-10 years is a 10-15% Apple marketshare, a 30-40% Linux marketshare, and Window's fighting every step of the way to hold onto their dwindling empire. And, oh yeah, Ellen can call it cold medicine if she wants, but somehow I doubt it was benydryl.
I agree that it was badly phrased, but his point (expecially if you know TiBook's) still stands. The battery life and weight of the TiBook are two of the most attractive things to someone wanting to use them for work (average of 4-5hours on the battery and just over 4 pounds). When was the last time you saw a WinTel laptop get over three hours of life and not have a battery the size of a "Porshe"?
Too Funny. I can see McFarlane doing that as well. I'm sure he was a little more verbose than that, but yeah.
It does amaze me though that Gaiman who has dealt with some of the best independent business men in the field (Sim and Campbell come to mind) and always walked away with agreements that benifet the both of them would get taken by McFarlane.
The XPod and XTunes debacle raised quite a fw hackles in the Mac community too. If they had contacted Apple through a different channel rather than Apple Legal (the most viscious of people I have ever seen) on XTunes they probably would not have had such a bad time of it. The X was what got them into an uproar. The arguement was centered around Mac Users confusing the X in the names with a compatibility for OS X. gnuTunes or even lTunes (l for Linux) would probably have never even raised an eyebrow from Apple.
A couple things from an Apple User.
1.Apple seems to be sticking to some of their historical design decisions (one-button mouse, laptop ADB keyboards).
Nope. Apple uses USB for all it's keyboards and mice. Yes they still have the one button mouse, but the keyboard can be remapped at will (in fact you can get DVORAK for OS X pretty easy off VersionTracker.) ADB connectors for mice and keyboards are available, but hard to come by since Apple ditched that standard in 1998.
2.Produce systems that give the user a choice between "Mac Look-and-Feel" and "Traditional Unix Look-and-Feel" when the system is first powered up and/or when the OS is first installed.
You already can. Hold down the Apple (command key is the "real" name for it) and the S key at start up. This allows you to start from the command line and the GUI will not load on the computer. Launching X-windows from this environment is pretty easy, or any other GUI that runs on Darwin is pretty easy, though getting such environments is not as easy as going to Veriontracker and d/ling them.
3.Why not try to capture this market away from HP/Sun/IBM/etc.??
Have you looked at Apple's Open Source partners? much less their hardware partners? IBM makes the G3 and probably will be putting the Power 4 in next years towers. Sun got Open Office to work on a port for OS X so that Office v.X wasn't our only industrial office suite. HP had print drivers out of the gate on day 1 for OS X. These groups are supportting OS X with their help. Apple can be a bit crazy at times, but they rarely bite the hands that feed them.
4. and Lastly : if using a one button mouse and having to use both hands on one computer are such a problem for you, then buy a different mouse. if you just sank $1500 to 3000 on a new computer, will the $15 for a two-button USB mouse really kill you? When I switched to the Mac a year and a half ago, I constantly tried to right click. Then I realized I always have two hands. With the control and command keys I had many more options, and a finer control than I did with two buttons. try it some time and you may like it.
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It killed Safari on my iBook, a reinstall fixed it just fine (thankfully I have Camino as a backup!) but Camino worked for me. I think it breaks something in the default browser and blocks it from launching until it times out and becomes a "crash".
Ok, so we talk about setting some songs on some computers with a bit of clever hiding so it won't be d/l'ed, but streamed it to users on demand. Wow, what an idea....sure wish we had that for the Mac, oh wait we did, and it got broken and turned into a P2P technology.
It really was a good idea the daap:// protocol hidden in iTunes and allowed anyone to connect to a playlist and play it the way they wanted to, but then someone got greedy and wanted to copy the songs they were listening to, so iLeech was born. Took all of a weekend for it to start appearing. Once this guy get's his distributed streaming going for Window's it would be what, all of a day or two before someone has hacked the protocol so that the stream is a d/l?
I want a legal way to share music, and there to be a way for me to pay the artisits for their work, but until the RIAA is bankrupted I'm sticking with concerts, and only the twice a year CD purchase.
When Neo firsts confronts Smith, he states his purpose and ,more importantly, where he came from. He states that when Neo destroyed him and then he discovered he wasn't destroyed that Neo had left part of himself in Smith. Smith is Neo's death wish, and his desire to destroy the Matrix.
Or not. guess I'll find out in the third.
I will probably get a redundant score for this but screw it. America has done some good things with their space technology so far, and I hope despite our current leadership and their war-like ways that it will continue to be peaceful. But America if it is going to stay an economic power, and a world power can not ignore the possibility of being leap-frogged in space. The Russians weren't up to the challenge, and now others stand a good chance of proving that we are not. Space is a true testing ground of our engineering skills, and creativity.
America stunned the world by landing on the moon in the sixties. Think about that, in just the 1930's most Americans didn't have electricity or own a refrigerator, but in just about forty years we landed on the moon. We pushed our technology, and our engineering capabilities to reach out into space and touch something other than the earth. Now we can't even do that. Read Walker's statements in the above article and he confirms it. I can't help but think, how could we lose this capability in only 35 years, less than the time it took for us to go from a country without power to a world power?
Most of the technology in Sci-fi regarding the moon (2001 anyone?), we know to be possible in theory. If the Chinese get to the moon, and if they get their base built they will be the ones who either prove or disprove those theories. I can only hope they have the creativity to sustain their own research while there. I used to think if we got there we would start to find new ways to use or technology and develop more while we are there, now I am not so certain. But if NASA keeps going at things the way they are, then we will never know, but we will have more HBO's and MTV's than you can shake a stick at. As much as I love modern entertainment, it does not push our creativity.
Lastly, we need to have a presence there. As does the EU, Japan, India, Russia and China. It needs to be a free space, and be represented by all nations. It is the ultimate high ground. I saw someone else post about Heinlen, and quote Lazurus Long. I will now quote a different book, "What will they do? They have no weapons. Will they throw rocks at us?" (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress) Yes that is exactly what they could do, and probably would. I imagine the damage a four or five ton rock could do dropped from orbit as far out as the moon. Not the best of pictures right there.
Well that's the end of my rant. Basically I feel that damn it I want my country to be better than it is. And we keep giving up on that which could make us great, and maybe even memorable in history.
I'm from the hills of East Tennessee. I've had some of the best moonshine there is to have, and I have also had some stuff that will make you wish you had brought a cyanide pill with you.
I know, burn a sample to make sure first, but blue is not indicative of taste.
LOL, for that stuff there is only two things you can do, clean an engine with it, or sell it to the Yankee's.
I want to say first, that I agree with what you are saying.
But, what analysts look at (and this is why companies fold all too often) is the fastest way to make a buck. Think of it this way, to an analyst Beer is better than Bourbon. Beer takes 6 weeks to go from raw product to bottle to belly. Bourbon (if it is done right) takes 7 to 25 years to go from raw ingredients to bottle to belly. Now I like beer, but I most definetly appreciate really good bourbon. To an analyst though, bourbon makers should run their business like beer brewers, fast returns. Ever tried home-made moonshine? It may only take 6 to 8 weeks, but the burn on it will take the chrome off a trailer hitch faster than most orally fixated people could dream of doing.
To this ANALyst Apple should quit making a product that works and just make products, never mind if it will kill their company in a couple of years, it would make more money NOW, and a dollar now is worth more than ten tommorrow to these folks. That why they are broke, and need that dollar today.
Man, I need a drink after this.
Just a bit off-topic, but I think you'll get the point.
In the hills of East Tennessee we had a saying (still do amongst those who listen to their elders) "Ignorant is not Stupid."
Children are ignorant, they miss the more subtle humor of classic Bugs Bunny cartoons, but they love the slapstick humor. I watched as a kid The Three Stooges, and Chaplin shorts, I still watch them as an adult for a very different kind of humor. Children are not stupid though, they can follow complex stories and the animosity between protagonists and antogonists. They just enjoy simpler forms of humor and action (but then so do most NASCAR fans).
In answer to your question, my favorite cartoons were Bugs Bunny, and Scooby Doo (before Scrappy). As an adult I lean more towards anime movies, and some series (Cowboy Bebop, or Princess Mononoke).
Yeah, but M$ will put it in WMA format and the file sizes will be huge. AND you'll have to pay for a version that will burn to CD-R, AND again for another version that you can burn as an audio CD. AND you will have to pay for the version of Window's Media Player that will let you share it with others.But it will have the butterfly for free.
The Linux version will include a Tux that lipsynchs to the music, and will be a free download at Redhat.
Might as well have been. It killed all the best ideas in comics and left only the most Juvenile thoughts behind. I remember a time in the late eighties when a local shop wouldn't carry anything without the seal of approval. Take a look at those old Sandman, or Transmet issues, it ain't there, and it ain't in that shop in my hometown. It may have not been law, but it killed things for writers, and their distribution networks.
and I happen to be dating one Good for you. I hope that works out, but I am afraid until you post nude pic link of her in your signature, that it will be considered false. Just kidding, got a Macgirl myself...still refues to read /. daily though.
I have grown up on comics since the late 70's. I have seen some good writers come and go, but through out the 90's their have been some truly great writers on par with the Golden Age of comics. Thanks to a more liberal sense of media, comics have thankfully grown out of the American Comics Approval Code (the most loathe-some piece of legislation ever written in my mind).
My question is this, through out your own career, have you received the respect as a writer you have earned? Or do you tell people at cocktail parties that you write "serials"?
More or less, I am asking, do you think comics are finally getting the respect as literature they deserve, Gaiman's awards aside.
This little bit caught my notice.
"The successor to Windows XP (due in 2004, and rapidly slipping to 2005) is currently code named Longhorn, and it will not be compatible with your existing software, hardware or methods. Microsoft has already stated that backward compatibility will not be a design feature.
Some expect the name Windows will be dropped completely. The antitrust agreement with the Bush DoJ specifically states "Microsoft Windows" throughout. By maintaining incompatibility (already planned due to design considerations), making it look different and calling it something else, Microsoft can free itself from antitrust oversight. "It's not Windows, it's a different product - the agreement doesn't apply."
Now if they do drop the Window's name, and they do go with a version that will be incompatible with previous versions, then something like Classic on OS X will be needed. A Virtual PC for Longhorn sold as a separate program will give them the chance to hit you twice and help their failing desktop movements (failing to them, I mean really how do you increase market share in a monopoly?).
And we Mac heads thought they were going to try squeezing just us!
I agree to that.
It seems we aren't protecting our hear for fear of getting hit in the balls. Civilian casualties are bad, but losing nuclear or biological weaponry is inexcusable. How many men, and how much money are we wasting on searching grandmothers at airports, when we should be moving at least some troops to locations such as Los Almos, Oak Ridge, and Spokane (been a dumping ground for plutonium for some time, I've heard).
Frankly put, I'll take a kick in the balls to make sure I don't get knifed in the heart any day.
For the OGG handling in iTunes. Don't hold your breath, it is a third party plug-in and that always slows it down. For the precision control of Nero. There's Toast with Jam and theirs iTunes. Itunes lets you change how the CD is burned and what goes down on it under the prefernces, Toast isn't free but allows you the finer controls that don't exist in iTunes, Jam is the really good part to that one as it was meant to be used for musicians to have finer control over what they burn. The Ogg Vorbis Ripping. This is something that hasn't really taken off on the Mac. Nothing really good has been done to integrate OGG as a standard for Mac User's so Apple has done nothing with it. Bug 'em with emails and you'll get a response eventually. Keyboard Navigation. If the Finder doesn't cut it use Terminal, or do a search on VersionTracker. There are Finder alternatives but I haven't looked into them to terribly much, I happen to like the Finder. Graphical FTP clients. There is a new one every week on VT. Almost all of them freeware (I'm sure somewhere there's a book on Cocoa programming that has FTP clients as an example). I've found Safari/Finder to meet my needs, but there are alternatives as stated above. Hope that helps ya.
Basically, the Mayor put it to them this way: We need more jobs for the people that live here. Industrial companies are not coming (ie Levi's, or car manufaturers), we can't get more Federal jobs (we got the DOE and we ain't getting anymore of those), we need a new industry and the only one left is the tech industry. That plus better internet connections for homes was all he needed to get the City Council to jump on board.
Amazing what reason can do to a civil group from time to time
Instead of paying the Baby Bells would you accept a moderate increase in your local taxes?
My hometown of Knoxville needed more high tech businesses in order to increase it's job market and keep up with the number of people moving into the area, so the mayor ( as a person he sucks, but as a city admin he rules) went to California during it's power troubles and handed out flashlights asking companies like Cisco what Knoxville could do to get them to move there.
The answer he recieved was rather simple, cheaper bandwidth. They already had huge tax breaaks for companies moving to their area, land was cheap as is power, so he got a small tax increase on properties ( 0.3%) and just spent $11 million on Fiber for the entire industrial area. Now the best part of his plan was this, the city owned the fiber so it set the prices, local ISP's could very cheaply tap into, and for a larger increase in the business tax they would string it towards neighborhoods, and smaller more commercial businesses.
I have no idea how things are going to work out, they are laying the cables right now using interstate and highway construction to build their backbone (if you've ever been to Knoxvegas you understand that that is the best way, they haven't stopped working on the freakin' interstate since '76). And it's hard to tell how the local ISP's are going to go considering that if the tap into it their taxes will go up, but they won't have to lease off of BellSouth.
So my question is simple, would you pay you city government to do it for you?
We have all seen how product placement works. You see it in movies almost all the time (Thank God there were NO Nike's in LOTR). What I want to know is why haven't they taken Digital TV to a new level for advertisement. Imagine if at the end of the credits of a show you could receive a virtual presentation of the set, and the objects of the set are manufatured and retailled on the web. Think about that one for a second, you got your celeberity endorsement from the get-go, you got your customer base as well, and you have their attention, all they need is a way to buy it( ie "Man I like Sienfeld's couch. Who makes that anyway? Oh it's by berkline and I can buy it now for $450."And with Tivo you could save those with a minimum of fuss, much less a DVD compilation of a season. If interactive menus can be created, why can't we have interactive credits to indulge our crass consumerism?
I've gone through this before on Yahoo!. And your comment really draws me back to the point I made there many many months ago.
Apple will never get more than 20% of the market. Their time to gain more than that has past, and their total control of the hardware is what makes their OS so great and stable (Unix definetly helps, but it's their control of both sides of the equation)and that is what is going to hurt them in the long run. I am an Apple user and I can see the truth of that.
It's honestly up to Linux to gain the greater marketshare. They (the distro's) are the ones who must replace Window's in people's homes and workplaces. I would love to see Linux as a choice on every major manufacturer's ordering list (HP, Dell, Gateway, NEC, et al) and when people see those $500 pc's become $300 pc's they'll make the switch. And Linux is getting there with their UI, and Linux is getting into people's minds thanks to Apple and Open Source. It's a good relationship for just the PR (yeah I know Linux is not Unix, but the names are close enough to mix the *nix, lol).
What I would like to see in the next 5-10 years is a 10-15% Apple marketshare, a 30-40% Linux marketshare, and Window's fighting every step of the way to hold onto their dwindling empire.
And, oh yeah, Ellen can call it cold medicine if she wants, but somehow I doubt it was benydryl.
I agree that it was badly phrased, but his point (expecially if you know TiBook's) still stands. The battery life and weight of the TiBook are two of the most attractive things to someone wanting to use them for work (average of 4-5hours on the battery and just over 4 pounds). When was the last time you saw a WinTel laptop get over three hours of life and not have a battery the size of a "Porshe"?
Too Funny. I can see McFarlane doing that as well. I'm sure he was a little more verbose than that, but yeah. It does amaze me though that Gaiman who has dealt with some of the best independent business men in the field (Sim and Campbell come to mind) and always walked away with agreements that benifet the both of them would get taken by McFarlane.
The XPod and XTunes debacle raised quite a fw hackles in the Mac community too. If they had contacted Apple through a different channel rather than Apple Legal (the most viscious of people I have ever seen) on XTunes they probably would not have had such a bad time of it. The X was what got them into an uproar. The arguement was centered around Mac Users confusing the X in the names with a compatibility for OS X. gnuTunes or even lTunes (l for Linux) would probably have never even raised an eyebrow from Apple.
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A couple things from an Apple User. 1.Apple seems to be sticking to some of their historical design decisions (one-button mouse, laptop ADB keyboards). Nope. Apple uses USB for all it's keyboards and mice. Yes they still have the one button mouse, but the keyboard can be remapped at will (in fact you can get DVORAK for OS X pretty easy off VersionTracker.) ADB connectors for mice and keyboards are available, but hard to come by since Apple ditched that standard in 1998. 2.Produce systems that give the user a choice between "Mac Look-and-Feel" and "Traditional Unix Look-and-Feel" when the system is first powered up and/or when the OS is first installed. You already can. Hold down the Apple (command key is the "real" name for it) and the S key at start up. This allows you to start from the command line and the GUI will not load on the computer. Launching X-windows from this environment is pretty easy, or any other GUI that runs on Darwin is pretty easy, though getting such environments is not as easy as going to Veriontracker and d/ling them. 3.Why not try to capture this market away from HP/Sun/IBM/etc.?? Have you looked at Apple's Open Source partners? much less their hardware partners? IBM makes the G3 and probably will be putting the Power 4 in next years towers. Sun got Open Office to work on a port for OS X so that Office v.X wasn't our only industrial office suite. HP had print drivers out of the gate on day 1 for OS X. These groups are supportting OS X with their help. Apple can be a bit crazy at times, but they rarely bite the hands that feed them. 4. and Lastly : if using a one button mouse and having to use both hands on one computer are such a problem for you, then buy a different mouse. if you just sank $1500 to 3000 on a new computer, will the $15 for a two-button USB mouse really kill you? When I switched to the Mac a year and a half ago, I constantly tried to right click. Then I realized I always have two hands. With the control and command keys I had many more options, and a finer control than I did with two buttons. try it some time and you may like it.