... that the advertising possibilities are limitless. After all, that's why people buy the system, right? To be served unique and novel advertisements?
Sure, but are they flying off the shelves in great quantity, or is it just that the three or four units the store gets every two weeks are flying off the shelf?
All I know is that I've been trying to get a unit for 3 months, and now I've lost interest...
I think it depends on what kind of background the boss has, specifically. If they were formerly a member of your development group, then they would likely make a good manager. If they came from another product group, it could be disastrous. For example, there's nothing more annoying than someone offering unqualified technical solutions that they encountered in their former world that don't apply to yours...
It's not an issue - if they wanted a DVD player, they'd already have it. If they don't have it by now, they don't need it.
That said, the wacky arm flailing antics of Wii probably wouldn't work in a 4.5 mat apartment regardless.
Perhaps someone can explain to me where this expectation of interoperability comes from with online (and specifically iTunes) music purchases... Apple makes it very clear that what they're selling you is for consumption using iTunes and iPod only. They even thrown in the ability to burn to a CD, at which point you can do whatever you want!
Perpend:
- nobody buys PS2 games and complains that they don't work on your XBOX
- nobody buys DVDs and then complain that they don't work on VCR
- nobody buys a CD at HMV and then complains that it doesn't fit into your ghetto old walkman
- nobody buys MS Office for Windows with the expectation that it'll run natively on their PowerMac G5
By the logic people seem to be applying here, there should be much outrage that there isn't the interoperability above, but if you ask about doing such thinks people claim that demanding such things is absurd. They'd probably pull out something like "Mechanically, they're different" or "Stop being an idiot, you buy PS2 games for PS2s, not XBOX!"
Apple isn't any more or less clear about what they're selling than the above examples. Just because the "container" happens to be software rather than a physical objet like a CD doesn't mean that there should be an expectation of interoperability. If you feel it's too limiting and it doesn't meet your needs, don't buy from them!
Who here REALLY believes that the game they bought for PS2 should be playable on their XBOX?
We both know that RIM is right... But it looks like they'll have to cough up the cash, then NTP's patents will be invalidated... The judge seems to be intent to stick it to the Canadians... And on another level, he's probably trying to highlight that the patent and justice system is broken...
I kind of hope that the patents are invalidated, then RIM counter-sues NTP and ends up owning them... Then Visto can be dismantled...
Its funny that companies like NTP exist... Makes you wonder what the CEO says he does for a living when people ask him at family dinners...
"So what do you do, anyway?"
-> "Well, I hold ideas and sue people when they get the same ones... I didn't come up with them myself, they're not real because they're only ideas..."
Remember, these are the guys that just struck a deal with NTP about the RIM patents (the ones NTP is suing RIM about)... As part of the deal, didn't NTP get an equity stake in Visto? They're probably almost effectively partners...
Perhaps this is all part of a master plan to go after Microsoft, using the $bin NTP is trying to extort from RIM? $1,000,000,000 will feed the lawyers for a good long while, especially if the payoff is almost certainly orders of magnitiudes more from Microsoft...
Why is it that Anand thinks that the 'Soft owns the intellectual property to all the chips, just because their name is on them? Companies implement a product to a specification for a customer, that specification might include chip package branding. It doesn't follow that the customer owns the intellectual property or even knows what is inside! Just look at any outsourced piece of software!
I saw this thing at the World's Fair 2005 at Aichi... You could see EVERYTHING... Pores on people's skin standing in line to get in were visible on this thing! It was too good! It was way better than Sony's laser driven projector... Having said that, I'm still happy with my 24" SD TV.
I'd say everyone should go see it, but the expo ended a few months ago...
(And if anyone is wondering, the Mammoth wasn't all that...)
I actually found a copy of The Road Ahead CD-ROM stuck in the sewer drain at my university... I rescued it, now its a coffee and cola stained coaster on my desk at work. Where we work on Macs.
I just think its funny that someone would go to the trouble to buy the book, then throw the CD out the window... I wonder what they said as they were doing it...
USB2 devices are backwards compatible with USB 1, it'll work. Though it might not charge the battery off the computer USB, which is why they make an external adapter.
Shakey's Pizza is a chain from the US... They're still around in Japan, but less so than they were 20 years ago. They talk about it in the 2nd Wayne's World movie.
Incidentally, there's still one in Roppongi near the Meiji Shrine, I think there's still one in Kichijoji... The one in Shibuya is gone... The all you can eat lunch buffet is a great deal!
This just proves that time IS, in fact, cyclical!
Consider trends with fashion? The 70s came back, the 80s came back, the 90s are coming back... Remakes of movies and music, too...
The same is true with computers! Remember how we used to have these big centralized machines that occupied cabinets or frames in rooms? And people used these things called 'Terminals' to interact with the 'MainFrame'...
Now we call it a Server, and the Terminals "Thin Clients", but its the same thing! If this was such a good idea AND the future, why did we abandon it when the PC came out?
Rosetta is designed to translate currently shipping applications that run on a PowerPC with a G3
processor and that are built for Mac OS X.
Rosetta does not run the following:
Applications built for Mac OS 8 or 9 Code written specifically for AltiVec
Code that inserts preferences in the System Preferences pane
Applications that require a G4 or G5 processor
Applications that depend on one or more kernel extensions
Kernel extensions
Bundled Java applications or Java applications with JNI libraries that can't be translated
I guess it means that Classic support is "done".
It is nice to know how many of an item are left, but then again, how do you know that they're telling the truth?
Maybe they only have three or two or one left... Maybe they have a warehouse full... And just maybe, they think that by saying hey have only 1 left will make people want to impulsively buy without thinking it over first...
You know, I thought that about HDDs too. Then Dell shipped me a 3GHz P-4 with a 40GB SATA HD in it. Shared video RAM on-board card, too.
I was shocked and appalled! I guess this is what happens when accountants order computers for developers...
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Anyone else think it funny that the guy that played Ballmer in that Pirates of Silicone Valley movie is the guy that does the voice for Bender?
That's just because Nintendo doesn't have the stock to get into a price-war with...
... that the advertising possibilities are limitless. After all, that's why people buy the system, right? To be served unique and novel advertisements?
Sure, but are they flying off the shelves in great quantity, or is it just that the three or four units the store gets every two weeks are flying off the shelf? All I know is that I've been trying to get a unit for 3 months, and now I've lost interest...
I think it depends on what kind of background the boss has, specifically. If they were formerly a member of your development group, then they would likely make a good manager. If they came from another product group, it could be disastrous. For example, there's nothing more annoying than someone offering unqualified technical solutions that they encountered in their former world that don't apply to yours...
It's not an issue - if they wanted a DVD player, they'd already have it. If they don't have it by now, they don't need it. That said, the wacky arm flailing antics of Wii probably wouldn't work in a 4.5 mat apartment regardless.
Perhaps someone can explain to me where this expectation of interoperability comes from with online (and specifically iTunes) music purchases... Apple makes it very clear that what they're selling you is for consumption using iTunes and iPod only. They even thrown in the ability to burn to a CD, at which point you can do whatever you want!
Perpend:
- nobody buys PS2 games and complains that they don't work on your XBOX
- nobody buys DVDs and then complain that they don't work on VCR
- nobody buys a CD at HMV and then complains that it doesn't fit into your ghetto old walkman
- nobody buys MS Office for Windows with the expectation that it'll run natively on their PowerMac G5
By the logic people seem to be applying here, there should be much outrage that there isn't the interoperability above, but if you ask about doing such thinks people claim that demanding such things is absurd. They'd probably pull out something like "Mechanically, they're different" or "Stop being an idiot, you buy PS2 games for PS2s, not XBOX!"
Apple isn't any more or less clear about what they're selling than the above examples. Just because the "container" happens to be software rather than a physical objet like a CD doesn't mean that there should be an expectation of interoperability. If you feel it's too limiting and it doesn't meet your needs, don't buy from them!
Who here REALLY believes that the game they bought for PS2 should be playable on their XBOX?
Or just hold down the mute button as you turn it on...
That dog isn't NEARLY cute enough to make me want to buy Vista... They should have gone with a puppy or something!
We both know that RIM is right... But it looks like they'll have to cough up the cash, then NTP's patents will be invalidated... The judge seems to be intent to stick it to the Canadians... And on another level, he's probably trying to highlight that the patent and justice system is broken... I kind of hope that the patents are invalidated, then RIM counter-sues NTP and ends up owning them... Then Visto can be dismantled... Its funny that companies like NTP exist... Makes you wonder what the CEO says he does for a living when people ask him at family dinners... "So what do you do, anyway?" -> "Well, I hold ideas and sue people when they get the same ones... I didn't come up with them myself, they're not real because they're only ideas..."
Remember, these are the guys that just struck a deal with NTP about the RIM patents (the ones NTP is suing RIM about)... As part of the deal, didn't NTP get an equity stake in Visto? They're probably almost effectively partners... Perhaps this is all part of a master plan to go after Microsoft, using the $bin NTP is trying to extort from RIM? $1,000,000,000 will feed the lawyers for a good long while, especially if the payoff is almost certainly orders of magnitiudes more from Microsoft...
Why is it that Anand thinks that the 'Soft owns the intellectual property to all the chips, just because their name is on them? Companies implement a product to a specification for a customer, that specification might include chip package branding. It doesn't follow that the customer owns the intellectual property or even knows what is inside! Just look at any outsourced piece of software!
Put the Gamecube on top of your PS2, and put the XBOX in the garbage!
I saw this thing at the World's Fair 2005 at Aichi... You could see EVERYTHING... Pores on people's skin standing in line to get in were visible on this thing! It was too good! It was way better than Sony's laser driven projector... Having said that, I'm still happy with my 24" SD TV. I'd say everyone should go see it, but the expo ended a few months ago... (And if anyone is wondering, the Mammoth wasn't all that...)
I actually found a copy of The Road Ahead CD-ROM stuck in the sewer drain at my university... I rescued it, now its a coffee and cola stained coaster on my desk at work. Where we work on Macs. I just think its funny that someone would go to the trouble to buy the book, then throw the CD out the window... I wonder what they said as they were doing it...
USB2 devices are backwards compatible with USB 1, it'll work. Though it might not charge the battery off the computer USB, which is why they make an external adapter.
You actually bought into that Music-CDR scam??? Oh man, how embarassing! :)
Shakey's Pizza is a chain from the US... They're still around in Japan, but less so than they were 20 years ago. They talk about it in the 2nd Wayne's World movie. Incidentally, there's still one in Roppongi near the Meiji Shrine, I think there's still one in Kichijoji... The one in Shibuya is gone... The all you can eat lunch buffet is a great deal!
This just proves that time IS, in fact, cyclical! Consider trends with fashion? The 70s came back, the 80s came back, the 90s are coming back... Remakes of movies and music, too... The same is true with computers! Remember how we used to have these big centralized machines that occupied cabinets or frames in rooms? And people used these things called 'Terminals' to interact with the 'MainFrame'... Now we call it a Server, and the Terminals "Thin Clients", but its the same thing! If this was such a good idea AND the future, why did we abandon it when the PC came out?
I feel like I just found out my wife is leaving me for the garbage man.
Apple has already posted a developer's guide at http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Co nceptual/universal_binary/universal_binary.pdf
that outlines what needs to be done to port apps... It also talks about Rosetta.
Kind of alarming:
Rosetta is designed to translate currently shipping applications that run on a PowerPC with a G3 processor and that are built for Mac OS X. Rosetta does not run the following:
Applications built for Mac OS 8 or 9
Code written specifically for AltiVec
Code that inserts preferences in the System Preferences pane
Applications that require a G4 or G5 processor
Applications that depend on one or more kernel extensions
Kernel extensions
Bundled Java applications or Java applications with JNI libraries that can't be translated
I guess it means that Classic support is "done".
My imagination was killed by coding ASP for living. :(
But isn't the fact that people help themselves to copies prove that the price IS wrong?
It is nice to know how many of an item are left, but then again, how do you know that they're telling the truth? Maybe they only have three or two or one left... Maybe they have a warehouse full... And just maybe, they think that by saying hey have only 1 left will make people want to impulsively buy without thinking it over first...
You know, I thought that about HDDs too. Then Dell shipped me a 3GHz P-4 with a 40GB SATA HD in it. Shared video RAM on-board card, too. I was shocked and appalled! I guess this is what happens when accountants order computers for developers...