The cost, one New Line insider estimated, will be between $10 million and $15 million. Due to the extended length of the new prints, the move is being cast as a promotional tool rather than a moneymaker.
Right, but are you mistaking the Freedoms granted to software by the GPL as freedoms granted to the user?..."Free as in Freedom" more clearly explains the idea that the software itself is Free
Heh, if you just state the other side of that argument, it's got to be one of the best taglines ever for the BSD license:) I think it's both intuitive and correct for users to expect people to have more rights than things, because every moral person has it ingrained in their thought that people are more important than things.
Also, does the phrase, "Free as in Freedom" actually connote anything at all, being a self-referring definition?
If you have the room for a projector, and are willing to have a giant screen in your room, then there's no reason not to go with one and get a three to four times as big of a picture. If you're willing to go up to about $4,000, shop around and see if you can find an InFocus Screenplay 5700. It's MSRPed at $5K, and I know plenty of places sell it for $4K, maybe you could find a good deal to bring it down further.
It's a 16:9 widescreen, DLP projector running at 1024x768 with HDTV support up to 1080p, recommended for use with a 100" screen. http://www.projectorcentral.com/infocus_screenplay _5700.htm
Yes, Jobs is probably tearing his hair out over the fact that the settlement that gave him the capitol to rebuild a multi-billion dollar company cost him a contract for 70 refurb eMacs.
That's true, bou can't downplay how much it matters to have all services off by default. Half of the Microsoft disasters could have been averted that way (obviously they would still affect the fraction of users who needed the service, but there would be no 'net-wide catastrophe), and Mac OS X now has a big enough market share that it couldn't get by just by being small. Plenty of worms have been very successful focusing on programs that have relatively few copies installed, but they have only been able to do so when they were services on by default in at least, say, a few respectably popular Linux distros.
The area where market share does make a difference is in the fact that Mac OS X is not Windows, not Linux, and not x86, which is enough to baffle 90% of script kiddies. While most people realize the security advantage of being on non-x86 hardware, running on something other than Windows or Linux is also a very good deterrent: if you look at SANS's intruder rating scale, running BSD or OS X would put an attacker at 4/5 or 5/5 in the OS category.
The problem with internal sound cards in general is that the inside of a computer case is not exactly the ideal environment for analog data that is sensitive to distortion and noise. But as you said, this is only a problem if you're still using analog outputs. As long as you're using a digital output, save some space and get an internal, but if you're still using analog outputs, you still get a little cleaner sound from an external.
If someone did the same thing with Music I would be happy.
You mean like iTunes? 'cause that's what they based their DRM system on (notice how they added Audible support to iTunes a few months before the store started up). The iTunes policy is virtually identical: three computers and unlimited burning/MP3 players.
You're right, but Apple's cut is thought to be somewhere in the 25-35% range; remember that Apple cut the same contract with everyone: they take the same cut out of indie labels as they do out of RIAA labels, and I think it's safe to say that Apple isn't taking a 78% cut of RIAA sales.
Expect it to get worse, though; if you realize how the box chokes on the light amount of graphics used in the TV Guide branded software, imagine how slow things are going to be as they try to add more and more features and eye candy.
Cable companies, as monopolies, are always going to give the shittiest service they can get away with; if you want a decent guide, you're still going to have to get a TiVO/Replay.
There's also the issue of price... spec out a 3DBoxx with the same drives as the G5 and dual Opterons and you're looking at $4,500. Now, I don't know where the line between PC and workstation is, and the $3K G5 might be over it too, but at least you can pick up G5s starting at $1,800.
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Wow, the definition of liberal certainly has become much more broad than I ever imagined! What the hell does this have to do with a portable hard disk/audio player:
Main Entry: 1liberal
Pronunciation: 'li-b(&-)r&l
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin liberalis suitable for a freeman, generous, from liber free; perhaps akin to Old English lEodan to grow, Greek eleutheros free
Date: 14th century
1 a : of, relating to, or based on the liberal arts b archaic : of or befitting a man of free birth
2 a : marked by generosity : OPENHANDED b : given or provided in a generous and openhanded way c : AMPLE, FULL
3 obsolete : lacking moral restraint : LICENTIOUS
4 : not literal or strict : LOOSE
5 : BROAD-MINDED; especially : not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms
6 a : of, favoring, or based upon the principles of liberalism b capitalized : of or constituting a political party advocating or associated with the principles of political liberalism; especially : of or constituting a political party in the United Kingdom associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives
You could say that people who are liberal (6) tend to be interested in the arts and hence will tend to value aesthetics more, but that's quite a bit of a stretch for a word that is already horribly over- and misused.
Next-gen DVDs aren't expected to really get off the ground until 2008-2010, so unless you really don't plan on watching any movies in the next five years, you'd better get a DVD player.
But on iTMS, the artists get equal representation no matter what label they publish under, and there are several independent labels that will put your music on iTMS for a flat fee and let the artist keep all the profits. If iTMS becomes a major distribution channel, artists might decide that they'll make more money selling on iTMS and keeping all the profits than they would selling CDs and letting the labels keep most of the profits.
I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't part of a larger Adobe strategy to deemphasize their video products: clearly they have refocused their effort on their print products: PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat have all seen massive revisions, and all are going to be updated again within months, while Adobe's video editing line has been rotting. Their print applications have risen dramatically above the competition, while their video products have been crushed by the competition (although After Effects is fortunate not to have much competition). Perhaps they're just waiting for Avid to surpass them on Windows the same way Apple did on Macs, and then they'll drop Premiere entirely.
Apple did spec the price/performance: the dual 2.0GHz G5 PowerMac they tested cost $3,000, and the dual 3.06Ghz Xeon Dell Precision they tested cost $4,000. Since the G5 is both significantly faster and drastically cheaper, it should be obvious that it has a better price/performance ratio.
2) Apple has seen the light. The costs of embracing Unix underpinnings and âoeMostlyOpenSource,â are going to seriously pay off. Soon, there will be nothing cool that comes out for the Linux Desktop that doesn't soon run on the Mac.
Indeed, two of the bullet points for Panther were that it would bundle common Linux utilities and the final release of Apple's X11.
I think the point of the G5 is that Apple no longer has to beat anyone MHz for MHz because now they actually have the highest clock speed among 64-bit processors, and will probably continue to if they deliver on their promise of delivering a 3Ghz G5 at next year's WWDC.
These group's aren't merging into one project: they're still making three products, but will be working together to ensure there is sharing of work and no duplication of effort. This is indeed different from most OSS projects where the two competitiors come to hate each other for some reason.
Another groundbreaking thought from their mission statement: "Non-advocacy: Our common goal is simply to provide software for people who choose to use Mac OS X & Darwin, not to promote or advocate any particular operating system." OSS with non-advocacy! Imagine how much more acceptance open-source software might get if everyone focused on telling people how the development model could produce great software at no cost to the user instead of droning on about how it is immoral for programmers to serve as wage-labor.
If you just want a web browser like Safari, you should just get Camino/Firebird. This version of Mozilla still follows the paradigm of Mozilla being a web development and application platform/internet suite, not being a web browser as future versions will be and Camino/Firebird already are. As for the rendering engines, there is very little difference in rendering speed between Safari and Camino, although each browser renders certain kinds of pages much faster than the other, oveall it's a draw. I haven't faced off Konq and Firebird recently, but I would imagine Firebird still has a slight lead as Camino tends to have older rendering code than Firebird code and Konq tends to have older rendering code than Safari.
Given that Apple released the GUI scripting hack with 10.2.3, which basically makes everything scriptable, you'd think that it wouldn't be terribly hard to make everything recordable as well. It's still not going to work in every single case, however; for example, the other day I was trying to script a carbon app that has a small tollbar of buttons with icons on them, only to find that they had named every single button " ", so a call to "click button " "" wouldn't work very well.
What is really different is the number of distribution centers: Wal-Mart will have 6, NetFlix has 18, and is opening more this year. Looking at Wal-Mart's locations, I would only get 2-day service from them, while I get overnight service from NetFlix because they have a distribution center in my city. This means that I would get half as many movies under WalMart's $18.87 3-movie plan as I do under NetFlix's $19.99 3-movie plan. That's not exactly a bargain if you ask me.
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Right, but are you mistaking the Freedoms granted to software by the GPL as freedoms granted to the user? ..."Free as in Freedom" more clearly explains the idea that the software itself is Free
Heh, if you just state the other side of that argument, it's got to be one of the best taglines ever for the BSD license :) I think it's both intuitive and correct for users to expect people to have more rights than things, because every moral person has it ingrained in their thought that people are more important than things.
Also, does the phrase, "Free as in Freedom" actually connote anything at all, being a self-referring definition?
If you have the room for a projector, and are willing to have a giant screen in your room, then there's no reason not to go with one and get a three to four times as big of a picture. If you're willing to go up to about $4,000, shop around and see if you can find an InFocus Screenplay 5700. It's MSRPed at $5K, and I know plenty of places sell it for $4K, maybe you could find a good deal to bring it down further. It's a 16:9 widescreen, DLP projector running at 1024x768 with HDTV support up to 1080p, recommended for use with a 100" screen. http://www.projectorcentral.com/infocus_screenplay _5700.htm
Yes, Jobs is probably tearing his hair out over the fact that the settlement that gave him the capitol to rebuild a multi-billion dollar company cost him a contract for 70 refurb eMacs.
That's true, bou can't downplay how much it matters to have all services off by default. Half of the Microsoft disasters could have been averted that way (obviously they would still affect the fraction of users who needed the service, but there would be no 'net-wide catastrophe), and Mac OS X now has a big enough market share that it couldn't get by just by being small. Plenty of worms have been very successful focusing on programs that have relatively few copies installed, but they have only been able to do so when they were services on by default in at least, say, a few respectably popular Linux distros. The area where market share does make a difference is in the fact that Mac OS X is not Windows, not Linux, and not x86, which is enough to baffle 90% of script kiddies. While most people realize the security advantage of being on non-x86 hardware, running on something other than Windows or Linux is also a very good deterrent: if you look at SANS's intruder rating scale, running BSD or OS X would put an attacker at 4/5 or 5/5 in the OS category.
The problem with internal sound cards in general is that the inside of a computer case is not exactly the ideal environment for analog data that is sensitive to distortion and noise. But as you said, this is only a problem if you're still using analog outputs. As long as you're using a digital output, save some space and get an internal, but if you're still using analog outputs, you still get a little cleaner sound from an external.
If someone did the same thing with Music I would be happy. You mean like iTunes? 'cause that's what they based their DRM system on (notice how they added Audible support to iTunes a few months before the store started up). The iTunes policy is virtually identical: three computers and unlimited burning/MP3 players.
You're right, but Apple's cut is thought to be somewhere in the 25-35% range; remember that Apple cut the same contract with everyone: they take the same cut out of indie labels as they do out of RIAA labels, and I think it's safe to say that Apple isn't taking a 78% cut of RIAA sales.
Expect it to get worse, though; if you realize how the box chokes on the light amount of graphics used in the TV Guide branded software, imagine how slow things are going to be as they try to add more and more features and eye candy. Cable companies, as monopolies, are always going to give the shittiest service they can get away with; if you want a decent guide, you're still going to have to get a TiVO/Replay.
There's also the issue of price... spec out a 3DBoxx with the same drives as the G5 and dual Opterons and you're looking at $4,500. Now, I don't know where the line between PC and workstation is, and the $3K G5 might be over it too, but at least you can pick up G5s starting at $1,800.
Wow, the definition of liberal certainly has become much more broad than I ever imagined! What the hell does this have to do with a portable hard disk/audio player: Main Entry: 1liberal Pronunciation: 'li-b(&-)r&l Function: adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin liberalis suitable for a freeman, generous, from liber free; perhaps akin to Old English lEodan to grow, Greek eleutheros free Date: 14th century 1 a : of, relating to, or based on the liberal arts b archaic : of or befitting a man of free birth 2 a : marked by generosity : OPENHANDED b : given or provided in a generous and openhanded way c : AMPLE, FULL 3 obsolete : lacking moral restraint : LICENTIOUS 4 : not literal or strict : LOOSE 5 : BROAD-MINDED; especially : not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms 6 a : of, favoring, or based upon the principles of liberalism b capitalized : of or constituting a political party advocating or associated with the principles of political liberalism; especially : of or constituting a political party in the United Kingdom associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives You could say that people who are liberal (6) tend to be interested in the arts and hence will tend to value aesthetics more, but that's quite a bit of a stretch for a word that is already horribly over- and misused.
Next-gen DVDs aren't expected to really get off the ground until 2008-2010, so unless you really don't plan on watching any movies in the next five years, you'd better get a DVD player.
But on iTMS, the artists get equal representation no matter what label they publish under, and there are several independent labels that will put your music on iTMS for a flat fee and let the artist keep all the profits. If iTMS becomes a major distribution channel, artists might decide that they'll make more money selling on iTMS and keeping all the profits than they would selling CDs and letting the labels keep most of the profits.
I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't part of a larger Adobe strategy to deemphasize their video products: clearly they have refocused their effort on their print products: PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat have all seen massive revisions, and all are going to be updated again within months, while Adobe's video editing line has been rotting. Their print applications have risen dramatically above the competition, while their video products have been crushed by the competition (although After Effects is fortunate not to have much competition). Perhaps they're just waiting for Avid to surpass them on Windows the same way Apple did on Macs, and then they'll drop Premiere entirely.
Apple did spec the price/performance: the dual 2.0GHz G5 PowerMac they tested cost $3,000, and the dual 3.06Ghz Xeon Dell Precision they tested cost $4,000. Since the G5 is both significantly faster and drastically cheaper, it should be obvious that it has a better price/performance ratio.
Apple just got rid of Project Builder; this is their new IDE: http://www.apple.com/macosx/panther/xcode.html
Indeed, two of the bullet points for Panther were that it would bundle common Linux utilities and the final release of Apple's X11.
They do bundle Disc Copy so that you can make a bit-perfect copy of any disc.
I think the point of the G5 is that Apple no longer has to beat anyone MHz for MHz because now they actually have the highest clock speed among 64-bit processors, and will probably continue to if they deliver on their promise of delivering a 3Ghz G5 at next year's WWDC.
These group's aren't merging into one project: they're still making three products, but will be working together to ensure there is sharing of work and no duplication of effort. This is indeed different from most OSS projects where the two competitiors come to hate each other for some reason. Another groundbreaking thought from their mission statement: "Non-advocacy: Our common goal is simply to provide software for people who choose to use Mac OS X & Darwin, not to promote or advocate any particular operating system." OSS with non-advocacy! Imagine how much more acceptance open-source software might get if everyone focused on telling people how the development model could produce great software at no cost to the user instead of droning on about how it is immoral for programmers to serve as wage-labor.
It's called FireWire 800. Too bad USB doesn't name things that way.
If you just want a web browser like Safari, you should just get Camino/Firebird. This version of Mozilla still follows the paradigm of Mozilla being a web development and application platform/internet suite, not being a web browser as future versions will be and Camino/Firebird already are. As for the rendering engines, there is very little difference in rendering speed between Safari and Camino, although each browser renders certain kinds of pages much faster than the other, oveall it's a draw. I haven't faced off Konq and Firebird recently, but I would imagine Firebird still has a slight lead as Camino tends to have older rendering code than Firebird code and Konq tends to have older rendering code than Safari.
There will be a very funny comic about how noone cares at Penny Arcade tomorrow.
Given that Apple released the GUI scripting hack with 10.2.3, which basically makes everything scriptable, you'd think that it wouldn't be terribly hard to make everything recordable as well. It's still not going to work in every single case, however; for example, the other day I was trying to script a carbon app that has a small tollbar of buttons with icons on them, only to find that they had named every single button " ", so a call to "click button " "" wouldn't work very well.
What is really different is the number of distribution centers: Wal-Mart will have 6, NetFlix has 18, and is opening more this year. Looking at Wal-Mart's locations, I would only get 2-day service from them, while I get overnight service from NetFlix because they have a distribution center in my city. This means that I would get half as many movies under WalMart's $18.87 3-movie plan as I do under NetFlix's $19.99 3-movie plan. That's not exactly a bargain if you ask me.