Malls are most certainly not considered "public property."
People get kicked out of malls and restaurants all of the time for attire. Recently someone was kicked out of a mall for wearing an anti-bush T-shirt and, you know what, that's okay (the case was made somewhat silly by that he purchased the shirt there, but its still within their limits as owners of the property to kick him out).
Try the book "Mars Direct," IIRC from the book it could cost as little as 40 billion dollars using small, light pods (and the author's credentials in this are somewhat better than John Glen's). NASA's own estimates, using the "massive spacecraft of doom" approach, place it at ten times that, but still nowhere close to the figure you quoted.
Not to say that these are small change, but they are far far from the $1 trillion figure you mentioned.
Also, that's in government dollars: it could also be done at a fraction of the cost by private industry.
>Other codecs that sound sweet at 64kbps exist (windows >media, real, quicktime) but they're not free, so you end up >paying more than you save in bandwidth.
Darwin Streaming Server (Quicktime) *is* free and open source (APSL).
Before you get moderated too far up by people who want a Mac clone and have wanted it despite that it would kill Apple, let's look at what this deal actually entails.
The HP_iPod will be the same as a 3rd gen iPod in terms of hardware. That is, AFAIK, the extent of the hardware side of this "cloning." Apple probably gets a percentage of the profit from this (I don't see them as the type to go for a one-time fee).
This either doesn't undercut Apple at all or barely does so. If HP produces them on top of that (haven't read the article yet) it just provides additional iPods when Apple already has trouble meeting demand.
As a plus, HP is also going to install iTunes all HP systems. That's of tremendous value to Apple, since then nobody will need to download them.
This is not cloning, is not vaguely related to cloning (more like Apple licenses the right to produce a specific model of Apple computer with rebranding), and Apple is not going to be undercut or suffer cannibalization of sales as a result of this.
What you don't seem to get is that sheer volume of applications wouldn't do it. Applications can be subdivided into the (niche) markets that they appeal to.
You are in a niche market. Applications such as AutoCAD, Solid Edge (and the other apps in your business) only appeal to a very small segment of the population and that segment is already in the "windows stronghold." Apple would love it if Audodesk ported AutoCAD over, but they know they don't have a shot at capturing that market until the industry standard tools are ported and even then they will be fighting an uphill battle.
This, however, is not true in all niche markets that they appeal to.
Compare with how they are aggressively going after Bioinformatics companies. Or film markets (FCP, Shake). These are markets that they already have at least a toe-hold in (thanks in part to quicktime), are looking to increase their share, and believe they have something to offer.
If you are in one of their "target markets" you have all the apps you need and then some. If you are outside of their scope (such as with Electrical Engineers and Civil Engineers) then you might be able to find apps that work for you, but you are going to be running short in comparison to those fields where Apple already has a notable presence.
Its similar to the Go saying "stay away from thickness." They prefer markets where they already have an in and encourage application development in those areas, rather than in areas where MS (or at least x86 hardware) has just under 100% marketshare.
For me, for my market, I have all of the Applications I need are there, but that's because my market has been on linux for a long time and all of the tools ported easily (most of them being OSS and those that aren't--such as Mathematica--already had mac versions).
So, in short, applications are critical but the lack isn't true for everyone in every market.
What comments like this seem to miss is that the only benchmarks that matter are the application you are going to be using doing those tasks you are going to be performing.
Absolute speed is largely irrelevant.
So benching with Linux is all fine and good, but will that matter to most end users who are trying to decide between the two? Possibly, but simply because it wasn't used doesn't mean that the app isn't fair within its own context.
This is slightly off topic, but its related and worth mentioning.
I went to a football game about a month ago and the Superdome and, as we were going in, they were searching everyone's bags (manually). This makes some sense but more to the point gives them some legal protection is there is a problem.
The woman in front of me had one of those stylists combs with the long pointed plastic handle. They required her to throw it away before entering. The amount of damage that she could do with that comb before being tackled by security would have been remote at best (if she had the training to be more dangerous she would be dangerous with her shoelaces, the weapon isn't nearly as much of a factor as the person is).
Now that that's been said: I had a 3 inch folding knife (spyderco) on my jeans. Since they never searched my person, they would never know about it, had no way to know about it.
How a middle aged woman is more dangerous with a plastic comb than a male in his twenties is with a knife I will never know.
They made no guarantees on battery life that I remember, its clearly stated that they use Lithium-Ion batteries, which are known to degrade, and its obvious there is no way to change that battery without extra equipment.
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There are no plans to change this. Over time they hope to break even on iTMS and make money almost exclusively on iPod sales.
On iPod sales. This bears repeating.
So long as they are making money as the result of iPod sales, there is no "wondering where their money went"--there is a net gain so long as that, as a result of iTMS, they sell enough iPods to make up the difference.
According to their recent report iPod sales increased enormously thanks to iTMS, so they can afford to take a small loss in one area (that they hope to break even in one day) to boost another.
Money made for each download on Kazaa's networks: $0. Possible secondary benefits (album sales) from sampling.
Money made for each download on Apple: 99 cents (a little less thanks to album sales). 2/3rds to record company, 1/3rd to Apple. No secondary benefits from sampling, but secondary benefits (to Apple, not the music companies) in iPod sales and possibly in mindshare.
Now, without being able to analyze any sides costs, this seems like a functional business model from this angle. Downloads on Kazaa are irrelevant so long as enough people (continue) to use iTMS.
So if a former sex offender takes the time to visit the middle school, goes into the principles office, and doesn't come up as a false negative, you know they are a sex offender and can watch them more closely. Then, if they leave with a child (which might, incidentally, be their child) you can give them a huge paperwork hassle on their way out. Is it my imagination or is that about the extent of the good a system like this can do.
Do a lot of middle school kids get snatched out of the principles office without anyone noticing? Or do these people regularly make visits to the principles office without someone spotting them?
What problem is it that they are trying to fix?
Also, what are the error rates on this system? False positives and false negatives? Is this really accomplishing anything at all?
Let's look at your house example. Let's say I have to go through a series of steps to break into a house. I figure out these steps and automate it into a script, which can then be applied to any digital content (that script might include something along the lines of "plug speakers into microphone port," but hey, its a step).
Once I've broken into one house, breaking into the other houses is easy.
Breaking into that same house again, and bringing others into that house (giving them my rip of the content) is not just easy, its trivial.
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Malls are most certainly not considered "public property."
People get kicked out of malls and restaurants all of the time for attire. Recently someone was kicked out of a mall for wearing an anti-bush T-shirt and, you know what, that's okay (the case was made somewhat silly by that he purchased the shirt there, but its still within their limits as owners of the property to kick him out).
Try the book "Mars Direct," IIRC from the book it could cost as little as 40 billion dollars using small, light pods (and the author's credentials in this are somewhat better than John Glen's). NASA's own estimates, using the "massive spacecraft of doom" approach, place it at ten times that, but still nowhere close to the figure you quoted.
Not to say that these are small change, but they are far far from the $1 trillion figure you mentioned.
Also, that's in government dollars: it could also be done at a fraction of the cost by private industry.
>traitor whore commie bitches
Is that the new term for "mutant commie traitors"?
That WOULD mean it really is "in a crater." So they were at least partly right.
>Other codecs that sound sweet at 64kbps exist (windows
>media, real, quicktime) but they're not free, so you end up
>paying more than you save in bandwidth.
Darwin Streaming Server (Quicktime) *is* free and open source (APSL).
I'm bored and google is your friend ;-)
3.1038479 * 10^22 football fields.
91.9783741 * 10^6 parsecs.
>Of course this goes only for the iPod or hPod , as itunes
>currently works only for US customers.
Minor correction, the iTunes MUSIC STORE only works for US customers. The software (the ripper/burner/player) works fine outside of the US.
> so that it's not just an iPod with an HP logo on it instead
>of an Apple.
That's *exactly* what it is.
A blue iPod that says "HP" on it.
Apple even manufactures it.
In the terms of Phil Schiller: ""The way we look at it, HP will be reselling an iPod device,"
(From the CNet article on the topic).
Before you get moderated too far up by people who want a Mac clone and have wanted it despite that it would kill Apple, let's look at what this deal actually entails.
The HP_iPod will be the same as a 3rd gen iPod in terms of hardware. That is, AFAIK, the extent of the hardware side of this "cloning." Apple probably gets a percentage of the profit from this (I don't see them as the type to go for a one-time fee).
This either doesn't undercut Apple at all or barely does so. If HP produces them on top of that (haven't read the article yet) it just provides additional iPods when Apple already has trouble meeting demand.
As a plus, HP is also going to install iTunes all HP systems. That's of tremendous value to Apple, since then nobody will need to download them.
This is not cloning, is not vaguely related to cloning (more like Apple licenses the right to produce a specific model of Apple computer with rebranding), and Apple is not going to be undercut or suffer cannibalization of sales as a result of this.
Stop trolling and start thinking.
http://www.ipodbattery.com/
What you don't seem to get is that sheer volume of applications wouldn't do it. Applications can be subdivided into the (niche) markets that they appeal to.
You are in a niche market. Applications such as AutoCAD, Solid Edge (and the other apps in your business) only appeal to a very small segment of the population and that segment is already in the "windows stronghold." Apple would love it if Audodesk ported AutoCAD over, but they know they don't have a shot at capturing that market until the industry standard tools are ported and even then they will be fighting an uphill battle.
This, however, is not true in all niche markets that they appeal to.
Compare with how they are aggressively going after Bioinformatics companies. Or film markets (FCP, Shake). These are markets that they already have at least a toe-hold in (thanks in part to quicktime), are looking to increase their share, and believe they have something to offer.
If you are in one of their "target markets" you have all the apps you need and then some. If you are outside of their scope (such as with Electrical Engineers and Civil Engineers) then you might be able to find apps that work for you, but you are going to be running short in comparison to those fields where Apple already has a notable presence.
Its similar to the Go saying "stay away from thickness." They prefer markets where they already have an in and encourage application development in those areas, rather than in areas where MS (or at least x86 hardware) has just under 100% marketshare.
For me, for my market, I have all of the Applications I need are there, but that's because my market has been on linux for a long time and all of the tools ported easily (most of them being OSS and those that aren't--such as Mathematica--already had mac versions).
So, in short, applications are critical but the lack isn't true for everyone in every market.
What comments like this seem to miss is that the only benchmarks that matter are the application you are going to be using doing those tasks you are going to be performing.
Absolute speed is largely irrelevant.
So benching with Linux is all fine and good, but will that matter to most end users who are trying to decide between the two? Possibly, but simply because it wasn't used doesn't mean that the app isn't fair within its own context.
"Many places will not allow you to bring things like that from the outside becouse they want you to buy the overpriced items inside."
They won't let me bring in plastic combs and pocket knives because I'll buy one at a football game?
I think I missed something.
This is slightly off topic, but its related and worth mentioning.
I went to a football game about a month ago and the Superdome and, as we were going in, they were searching everyone's bags (manually). This makes some sense but more to the point gives them some legal protection is there is a problem.
The woman in front of me had one of those stylists combs with the long pointed plastic handle. They required her to throw it away before entering. The amount of damage that she could do with that comb before being tackled by security would have been remote at best (if she had the training to be more dangerous she would be dangerous with her shoelaces, the weapon isn't nearly as much of a factor as the person is).
Now that that's been said: I had a 3 inch folding knife (spyderco) on my jeans. Since they never searched my person, they would never know about it, had no way to know about it.
How a middle aged woman is more dangerous with a plastic comb than a male in his twenties is with a knife I will never know.
0) You should already have your boarding pass to be at that point.
1) If they do that, you would be well within your right to press charges.
They can make your life difficult, yes, but you have far more control of the situation if you know how to creatively remind them of your rights.
Closer to Gargoyles (Snow Crash, for those who don't know the reference).
Borg live in a shared conscious, which we don't have (yet), Gargoyles are just wired with accessories.
Caveat Emptor.
They made no guarantees on battery life that I remember, its clearly stated that they use Lithium-Ion batteries, which are known to degrade, and its obvious there is no way to change that battery without extra equipment.
I don't see the case here.
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It does if your hardware is too slow (slow being a relative term). You can fix it (to a degree) by adding
-autosync 30 -mc 0 -framedrop
to the command line arguments in preferences.
-ni and -nobps as well as higher values of autosync, might also help.
Mplayer OS X is a nice little package that helps with those files that quicktime can't play/recognize/dies-when-even-mentioned-around.
http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/
Its interface is lighter weight than VLC, though not as flexible, and it tends to "just work" for most files.
There are no plans to change this. Over time they hope to break even on iTMS and make money almost exclusively on iPod sales.
On iPod sales. This bears repeating.
So long as they are making money as the result of iPod sales, there is no "wondering where their money went"--there is a net gain so long as that, as a result of iTMS, they sell enough iPods to make up the difference.
According to their recent report iPod sales increased enormously thanks to iTMS, so they can afford to take a small loss in one area (that they hope to break even in one day) to boost another.
Money made for each download on Kazaa's networks: $0. Possible secondary benefits (album sales) from sampling.
Money made for each download on Apple: 99 cents (a little less thanks to album sales). 2/3rds to record company, 1/3rd to Apple. No secondary benefits from sampling, but secondary benefits (to Apple, not the music companies) in iPod sales and possibly in mindshare.
Now, without being able to analyze any sides costs, this seems like a functional business model from this angle. Downloads on Kazaa are irrelevant so long as enough people (continue) to use iTMS.
You do realize that this was in the Open Source part of MacOS X, right?
So if a former sex offender takes the time to visit the middle school, goes into the principles office, and doesn't come up as a false negative, you know they are a sex offender and can watch them more closely. Then, if they leave with a child (which might, incidentally, be their child) you can give them a huge paperwork hassle on their way out. Is it my imagination or is that about the extent of the good a system like this can do.
Do a lot of middle school kids get snatched out of the principles office without anyone noticing? Or do these people regularly make visits to the principles office without someone spotting them?
What problem is it that they are trying to fix?
Also, what are the error rates on this system? False positives and false negatives? Is this really accomplishing anything at all?
Let's look at your house example. Let's say I have to go through a series of steps to break into a house. I figure out these steps and automate it into a script, which can then be applied to any digital content (that script might include something along the lines of "plug speakers into microphone port," but hey, its a step).
Once I've broken into one house, breaking into the other houses is easy.
Breaking into that same house again, and bringing others into that house (giving them my rip of the content) is not just easy, its trivial.