I tried to submit a question like this a couple months back... I have two ideas for sites, both of which are pretty simple (php and mysql should be able to do it) and would be fairly quick to put together. But, I'm a poor starving fine arts grad student and don't have any money to pay a programmer to do it.
Do any programmers work for future profits anymore? I don't care to make a dime on the sites, I just want them to exist and have a way to cover their expenses (Google ads would more than suffice, I believe), and everything else above and beyond that can go to the person that made it.
Adobe isn't updating until 2007, we can probably assume the same for the Macromedia apps. Native Instruments (Reaktor, Absynth, Kontakt) is going to be rolling out products starting at the end of Q2 2006 to Q1 2007. Cycling '74 (Max/MSP, pluggo, Jitter) is estimating "the end of 2006" but they haven't even come close to meeting a deadline in many years, so that'll probably be mid-2007. Steinberg (Cubase) has said they'll update "sometime" in 2006.
So... exactly who is the market for the new Intel products? The swarms of iPod owners that own Apple products for reasons of fashion more than functionality? It seems like none of the apps that high-end Apple users actually use aren't going to be out for quite some time.
But they sorta had to release the Intel products so soon, though didn't they? All the hardcore Apple guys I knew said they wouldn't be buying any new stuff until the transition to Intel. Oh well...
I was worried about this acquisition...
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Pixar is one of, if not the, finest film studios around right now. I was really worried about Disney ruining everything that makes Pixar great, and I was also worried about the Jobs reality distortion field making things worse.
Instead of my fears of Disney corrupting Pixar it looks like Pixar is going to help Disney get back to where they used to be and that would be an excellent thing. I wonder what the minds at Pixar could do with the Muppet franchise.
"Using Macworld's logic we could argue, given the data above, the Quad G5 Power Mac is only 14% faster when running some of Apple's own applications. We think that this is misleading, as we pointed out."
The article mentions that their logic was flawed, but they don't explain the logic problems with MacWorld's article. After looking at it I can't really seem how they came to the "14% faster" conclusion.
I fail to see how this proves me wrong at all. In fact... I think what you've written is entirely unrelated to my post. Forcing people to buy an entirely new system? Huh?
Perhaps, pre-Analog stick DS games wouldn't work with the analog stick, but there's this little thing called backward compatibility I'm sure you've noticed that the DS can play Advance games, haven't you? I'm sure it wouldn't be so difficult to make sure that games could utilize BOTH the analog control and the digital control.
How does releasing a new system that can play DS games and Advance games in a slightly different package differ so greatly from releasing a new system that can play DS games and Advance games in a slightly different package with an analog stick?
I recently bought a Nintendo DS to pass the time during a long bus ride (I'm terrible at sleeping on busses/planes) and I've utterly enjoyed almost everything about it. However, the experience of playing Mario 64 without an analog stick was awkward. Since the release of the DS, even in some of the initial reviews, it has been widely speculated that Nintendo would release an upgraded version in the future with an analog stick.
Now, we all know that Nintendo doesn't really listen to game pundits, but the addition of an analog stick, much like the addition of a backlit screen makes a whole lot of sense. I'll probably end up buying this upgrade anyway.
Does it strike anyone else as hypocritical that Nintendo refuses to release small upgrades to their first party games (releasing sequels to games that just add new levels instead of totally redesigning the game engine which would mean having a new Mario/Mario Kart game each year instead of one every 3-5 years) but they release tons of incremental upgrades to their portable systems?
Why bother? The iMac and MacBook Pro are essentially the exact same system. If people are turning their iMacs into bricks why risk it with a MacBook Pro unless you're some almighty hacker that can create a wrapper to get EFI to work with a BIOS based OS?
"I tried to install XP on my MacBook Pro and it didn't work," is no more impressive than "I tried to install my XP on my iMac and it didn't work."
"In that way, Hamlin said, Gates' prediction has come true for people using the right tactics and advanced filtering technology."
We were all using the right tactics and advanced filtering technology two years ago, weren't we? If that's what Gates had intended when he made the promise, he was promising something that already existed.
I currently own a large army tank. I want to buy a fast car to race. I mention this to a friend, and he says, "why would you want to get a fast car to race? Don't you know fast race cars are dangerous? You'd be much better off sticking with your tank, it's slow, but it's safe!"
While this *might* be true, it does nothing to solve my desire to drive a fast race car.
I would assume the reason you'd go with broadband is because you want a FASTER connection. It can be argued that it's less safe, but it's undeniably faster, which is your goal.
Statistically, you might be more open to an attack directed at your computer since the connection is "always on," but this is rare and easy to stop, in fact all the security measures you would want to take with broadband should already be in place because you face similar, if not the same risks with dial-up.
Years ago when I was working at a computer store in Seattle we got some flyers for some new computer cases, I can't remember what the company was, but it was a major one. Anyway, the scene from Titanic with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet on the front of the ship was on the front of the case, a three dimensional circular badge about two inches in diameter... unfortunately we didn't order any.
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There's a HUGE difference between adding new functions (the problem with Mozilla) and adding new options. Increasing functionality beyond what is expected or what is reasonable leads to bloat, slow speeds, and makes things generally unweildy. Putting a check box in a program that determines whether or not a 16 pixel by 16 pixel image displays or not doesn't increase file size or slow down the program in any meaningful way at all.
They took this feature out in 0.8something and no plugin has reintroduced it. Who cares what network the people I'm talking with are using? If I can remove network icons from the buddy list why can't I remove them from tabs? I really don't understand removing features at all...
Did Taco actually RTFA? This isn't a review at all, it's just some TNA starved sci-fi geek saying "no, it isn't" a whole bunch.
The movie has a bad plot. No, it doesn't!
The movie has bad characters. No, it doesn't!
The movie has poor special effects. No, it doesn't!
How very very useful... the only thing that's correct about the review is the fact that it's on a site with "idiot" in the domain name. It's a good thing this made the front page so the guy can get some extra banner ad clicks.
When I said "marketing people" I didn't say whose marketing people. Your, incorrect, assumption is that I meant Apple when in fact I just meant that somebody had a vested interest in using the word "Pod," maybe not the person that coined the term, but certainly everyone that proliferated it. If they didn't we'd be using the far more descriptive and broad term of "audio download."
So, I know that everyone gripes about Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office, but in general, everyone I know that uses iTunes, iPhoto, and all the other Apple applications are really happy with them. Being a long time linux user, I haven't had a chance to use these apps... but... what are the complaints about them? I read the scathing Aperture, but apart from that people seem content.
Dictionaries just report on current usage of groups of letters that have meaning. They don't officiate anything. That's one of the problems with things like acrostics and Scrabble, they don't care if things are actually words or not, just that they are in the dictionary. There is a vast portion of language that manifests itself in words that has never and will never be in the dictionary.
This is the first time I've posted a MOD PARENT UP post... but this one certainly needs to be done. I'm absolutely sick of terms made up by marketing people, especially one so product specific as this.
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Prove it. Oh... you can't, can you?
The only way you can know for certain is if OSX or Linux become as big of a target as Windows is and the only way that that can happen is if the user base becomes as big as Windows.
Just because you *can* do all the things you need as a limited access user, doesn't mean people *do*. It's easy to do a decent job securing a Windows box yet most people have gobs of spyware. It's easy to secure an OSX or Linux box too, but that doesn't mean that people *do*.
Making the argument that one is certainly more secure than the other can't be proven at all until/unless OSX or Linux were the single most dominant operating system and had 90%+ of the desktop as Windows does. Until then, it's not much different than just making stuff up.
Yeah, he's a funny comedian, but your comment doesn't really apply here...
I'm not all that familiar with the workings of ICANN. The article doesn't say that this current "annual meeting" is the ONLY annual meeting. How many "annual meetings" does Apple have? Lots.
The article just says, "next year," and then calls the current meeting an "annual" meeting. Does that mean we're going to have to wait another year for any changes?
How many times have you been passed by some idiot who barely makes it between you and the semi barreling down on him? Imagine what's going to happen to you when he can't accelerate any faster and swings the steering wheel into your car at the last second when he realizes he's not going to make it? Awesome! Safety!
If everyone was logical, rational, and never did anything stupid, this would be fine... but the stupidity of others is always going to put people in danger, and this will just make it worse.
I don't understand what the big fuss about biodiesel is... almost all diesel vehicles can be cheaply and quickly converted to use straight vegetable oil as fuel. Granted, you have to start and end on diesel/biodiesel to warm up the vegetable oil. Used vegetable oil can be found for free at most restaurants and the process of filtering it to be used as fuel is relatively painless. Instead of converting masses of perfectly useable vegetable oil to another form, why not just use it as is?
Oh... yeah, that's right... if people pushed the use of straight vegetable oil then they probably couldn't justify selling biodiesel for $4-$6 a gallon.
The problem with this is the assumption that twelve songs is an album. A lot of the music I listen to has eight to ten songs on an album, but as I remember, more popular music typically has more than twelve songs per album.
Somebody needs to do the legwork and figure out how many individual songs were sold at the other retailers and divide that by twelve as well.
I think they may have chosen twelve as the number of songs per album to make a splash... this story has been reported all over the place, if iTunes hadn't made the list at all it would be a non-issue. They could basically choose to put iTunes wherever they wanted on this list.
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I tried to submit a question like this a couple months back... I have two ideas for sites, both of which are pretty simple (php and mysql should be able to do it) and would be fairly quick to put together. But, I'm a poor starving fine arts grad student and don't have any money to pay a programmer to do it.
Do any programmers work for future profits anymore? I don't care to make a dime on the sites, I just want them to exist and have a way to cover their expenses (Google ads would more than suffice, I believe), and everything else above and beyond that can go to the person that made it.
Adobe isn't updating until 2007, we can probably assume the same for the Macromedia apps. Native Instruments (Reaktor, Absynth, Kontakt) is going to be rolling out products starting at the end of Q2 2006 to Q1 2007. Cycling '74 (Max/MSP, pluggo, Jitter) is estimating "the end of 2006" but they haven't even come close to meeting a deadline in many years, so that'll probably be mid-2007. Steinberg (Cubase) has said they'll update "sometime" in 2006.
So... exactly who is the market for the new Intel products? The swarms of iPod owners that own Apple products for reasons of fashion more than functionality? It seems like none of the apps that high-end Apple users actually use aren't going to be out for quite some time.
But they sorta had to release the Intel products so soon, though didn't they? All the hardcore Apple guys I knew said they wouldn't be buying any new stuff until the transition to Intel. Oh well...
Pixar is one of, if not the, finest film studios around right now. I was really worried about Disney ruining everything that makes Pixar great, and I was also worried about the Jobs reality distortion field making things worse.
Instead of my fears of Disney corrupting Pixar it looks like Pixar is going to help Disney get back to where they used to be and that would be an excellent thing. I wonder what the minds at Pixar could do with the Muppet franchise.
My fingers are crossed.
"Using Macworld's logic we could argue, given the data above, the Quad G5 Power Mac is only 14% faster when running some of Apple's own applications. We think that this is misleading, as we pointed out."
The article mentions that their logic was flawed, but they don't explain the logic problems with MacWorld's article. After looking at it I can't really seem how they came to the "14% faster" conclusion.
Can anyone else explain this?
Yeah, I found it equally awkward.
I fail to see how this proves me wrong at all. In fact... I think what you've written is entirely unrelated to my post. Forcing people to buy an entirely new system? Huh?
Perhaps, pre-Analog stick DS games wouldn't work with the analog stick, but there's this little thing called backward compatibility I'm sure you've noticed that the DS can play Advance games, haven't you? I'm sure it wouldn't be so difficult to make sure that games could utilize BOTH the analog control and the digital control.
How does releasing a new system that can play DS games and Advance games in a slightly different package differ so greatly from releasing a new system that can play DS games and Advance games in a slightly different package with an analog stick?
I recently bought a Nintendo DS to pass the time during a long bus ride (I'm terrible at sleeping on busses/planes) and I've utterly enjoyed almost everything about it. However, the experience of playing Mario 64 without an analog stick was awkward. Since the release of the DS, even in some of the initial reviews, it has been widely speculated that Nintendo would release an upgraded version in the future with an analog stick.
Now, we all know that Nintendo doesn't really listen to game pundits, but the addition of an analog stick, much like the addition of a backlit screen makes a whole lot of sense. I'll probably end up buying this upgrade anyway.
Does it strike anyone else as hypocritical that Nintendo refuses to release small upgrades to their first party games (releasing sequels to games that just add new levels instead of totally redesigning the game engine which would mean having a new Mario/Mario Kart game each year instead of one every 3-5 years) but they release tons of incremental upgrades to their portable systems?
(Big Grey GameBoy -> GameBoy Pocket -> GameBoy Color -> GameBoy Advance -> GameBoy Advance SP -> GameBoy Advance Micro & GameBoy Advance SP w/ Brighter Screen...)
Why bother? The iMac and MacBook Pro are essentially the exact same system. If people are turning their iMacs into bricks why risk it with a MacBook Pro unless you're some almighty hacker that can create a wrapper to get EFI to work with a BIOS based OS?
"I tried to install XP on my MacBook Pro and it didn't work," is no more impressive than "I tried to install my XP on my iMac and it didn't work."
"In that way, Hamlin said, Gates' prediction has come true for people using the right tactics and advanced filtering technology."
We were all using the right tactics and advanced filtering technology two years ago, weren't we? If that's what Gates had intended when he made the promise, he was promising something that already existed.
Yeah, I totally agree with the AC. Awesome series of posts. Thanks.
I currently own a large army tank. I want to buy a fast car to race. I mention this to a friend, and he says, "why would you want to get a fast car to race? Don't you know fast race cars are dangerous? You'd be much better off sticking with your tank, it's slow, but it's safe!"
While this *might* be true, it does nothing to solve my desire to drive a fast race car.
I would assume the reason you'd go with broadband is because you want a FASTER connection. It can be argued that it's less safe, but it's undeniably faster, which is your goal.
Statistically, you might be more open to an attack directed at your computer since the connection is "always on," but this is rare and easy to stop, in fact all the security measures you would want to take with broadband should already be in place because you face similar, if not the same risks with dial-up.
Years ago when I was working at a computer store in Seattle we got some flyers for some new computer cases, I can't remember what the company was, but it was a major one. Anyway, the scene from Titanic with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet on the front of the ship was on the front of the case, a three dimensional circular badge about two inches in diameter... unfortunately we didn't order any.
There's a HUGE difference between adding new functions (the problem with Mozilla) and adding new options. Increasing functionality beyond what is expected or what is reasonable leads to bloat, slow speeds, and makes things generally unweildy. Putting a check box in a program that determines whether or not a 16 pixel by 16 pixel image displays or not doesn't increase file size or slow down the program in any meaningful way at all.
They took this feature out in 0.8something and no plugin has reintroduced it. Who cares what network the people I'm talking with are using? If I can remove network icons from the buddy list why can't I remove them from tabs? I really don't understand removing features at all...
Did Taco actually RTFA? This isn't a review at all, it's just some TNA starved sci-fi geek saying "no, it isn't" a whole bunch.
The movie has a bad plot. No, it doesn't!
The movie has bad characters. No, it doesn't!
The movie has poor special effects. No, it doesn't!
How very very useful... the only thing that's correct about the review is the fact that it's on a site with "idiot" in the domain name. It's a good thing this made the front page so the guy can get some extra banner ad clicks.
When I said "marketing people" I didn't say whose marketing people. Your, incorrect, assumption is that I meant Apple when in fact I just meant that somebody had a vested interest in using the word "Pod," maybe not the person that coined the term, but certainly everyone that proliferated it. If they didn't we'd be using the far more descriptive and broad term of "audio download."
So, I know that everyone gripes about Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office, but in general, everyone I know that uses iTunes, iPhoto, and all the other Apple applications are really happy with them. Being a long time linux user, I haven't had a chance to use these apps... but... what are the complaints about them? I read the scathing Aperture, but apart from that people seem content.
What are the issues I don't know about?
Dictionaries just report on current usage of groups of letters that have meaning. They don't officiate anything. That's one of the problems with things like acrostics and Scrabble, they don't care if things are actually words or not, just that they are in the dictionary. There is a vast portion of language that manifests itself in words that has never and will never be in the dictionary.
This is the first time I've posted a MOD PARENT UP post... but this one certainly needs to be done. I'm absolutely sick of terms made up by marketing people, especially one so product specific as this.
Prove it. Oh... you can't, can you?
The only way you can know for certain is if OSX or Linux become as big of a target as Windows is and the only way that that can happen is if the user base becomes as big as Windows.
Just because you *can* do all the things you need as a limited access user, doesn't mean people *do*. It's easy to do a decent job securing a Windows box yet most people have gobs of spyware. It's easy to secure an OSX or Linux box too, but that doesn't mean that people *do*.
Making the argument that one is certainly more secure than the other can't be proven at all until/unless OSX or Linux were the single most dominant operating system and had 90%+ of the desktop as Windows does. Until then, it's not much different than just making stuff up.
Yeah, he's a funny comedian, but your comment doesn't really apply here...
I'm not all that familiar with the workings of ICANN. The article doesn't say that this current "annual meeting" is the ONLY annual meeting. How many "annual meetings" does Apple have? Lots.
The article just says, "next year," and then calls the current meeting an "annual" meeting. Does that mean we're going to have to wait another year for any changes?
How many times have you been passed by some idiot who barely makes it between you and the semi barreling down on him? Imagine what's going to happen to you when he can't accelerate any faster and swings the steering wheel into your car at the last second when he realizes he's not going to make it? Awesome! Safety!
If everyone was logical, rational, and never did anything stupid, this would be fine... but the stupidity of others is always going to put people in danger, and this will just make it worse.
I don't understand what the big fuss about biodiesel is... almost all diesel vehicles can be cheaply and quickly converted to use straight vegetable oil as fuel. Granted, you have to start and end on diesel/biodiesel to warm up the vegetable oil. Used vegetable oil can be found for free at most restaurants and the process of filtering it to be used as fuel is relatively painless. Instead of converting masses of perfectly useable vegetable oil to another form, why not just use it as is?
Oh... yeah, that's right... if people pushed the use of straight vegetable oil then they probably couldn't justify selling biodiesel for $4-$6 a gallon.
The problem with this is the assumption that twelve songs is an album. A lot of the music I listen to has eight to ten songs on an album, but as I remember, more popular music typically has more than twelve songs per album.
Somebody needs to do the legwork and figure out how many individual songs were sold at the other retailers and divide that by twelve as well.
I think they may have chosen twelve as the number of songs per album to make a splash... this story has been reported all over the place, if iTunes hadn't made the list at all it would be a non-issue. They could basically choose to put iTunes wherever they wanted on this list.