Not correct - Micron does not manufacture any flash products.
Micron markets flash manufactured and supplied by another (JV manuf.) company...different from 'making' (manufacturing) it themselves (note using $$ from Apple).
Intel, Micron team up for NAND flash push
1. EE Times' top ten stories of 2005
Peter Clarke
(12/16/2005 9:55 AM EST)
URL: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID =175004196
LONDON -- This year saw the announcement of the plan to create yet another joint venture manufacturing company -- IM Flash Technologies LLC -- which will supply its parents, Intel and Micron with NAND type flash memory.
Based on Latin constare 'stand firm, stand at a price.'
cost (to the consumer)...same as price (paid)
cost
noun
the COST of the equipment PRICE, asking price, market price, selling price, unit price, fee, tariff, fare, toll, levy, charge, rental; value, valuation, quotation, rate, worth; informal humorous damage.
verb
the chair costs $186 be priced at, sell for, be valued at, fetch, come to, amount to; the proposal has not yet been costed put a price on, price, value, put a value on, put a figure on.
...tonight, on Hannibal Lecter Dinner Theater, we will be running that old favorite, 'Alive'.
A wonderously entertaining movie where the topic 'out of the frying pan and into the fire' is once again explored. Joining us for comment will be the remaining members of the 1972 Peruvian Soccer Team, looking fit as ever, of course.
As mentioned, tho, cost is an issue. Just three weeks ago, I went out shopping for a 1GB stick of RAM and a 250GB/7200rpm/8mb cache HD. I paid exactly the same for each item... $106.50
A real test of speed is read/write speeds, not a simple format.
I didn't say 'simple format, you did:) And my example was just one out of several where the solid-state HD routinely outperformed platter based mechanisms.
Ever notice how your system seems to slow to a crawl when pageouts kick in, and the OS starts using the HD instead of RAM? DRAM is always faster than platters. Again, flash memory is slow. DRAM, which isn't.
What type of buffer (8 & 16mb) is used in those 'fast' new hd's? Solid-state, of course. Not because it's slower, that much is certain. Want a full format? Pull the power...takes only a few seconds for the data to bleed down and a clean slate to be ready for use.
I was once asked to demo a solid-state HD...built with nothing but DRAM. This was a decade ago, and it was only proof-of-concept. It was only 2gb, but it would format instantly. Don't confuse SD and CF cards with DRAM. Micron makes DRAM.
Just type the new player's name and model into google, along with the words 'region free'. Or...return that one, and buy the least expensive one you can find - they are usually more compliant, and many even have a loophole menu that lets you choose to ignore region codes. You may have to google to find the loophole, but in any case, region free playback is near trivial to accomplish.
Have a Mac? Set it to ignore a movie DVD when mounted, and use VLC v0.7.1a or thereabouts and be happy.
Let us summarize and see how we can write the same content, with a bit less wind:
"Nonetheless, as the Internet becomes more available in even the lives of the poorest (in the US at least), will the need for libraries and physical stores of information even be needed?...With Google's ability to aggregate not just information but opinions, reviews and similar items/services into one easy-to-access page, there are many services we won't really need around.... A few weeks ago I met with a company that is working on RFID check-out lanes for a grocery store (fill up your cart, walk out) and it seems that they're less than 6 months away from being "ready" -- they're just waiting for manufacturers to include the RFID tags needed to get the system working.
You don't seem to know the RFID market very well, or you'd know the stall-out is due to other issues...
I'm ordering this book -- I had thought about writing something similar a few years ago. In one of my jobs as an IT consultant, I find myself providing more services regarding these new technologies, especially to CEOs and top level managers....This is intriguing to me because I've always had a difficulty in figuring out which market I should attack the hardest: The rare (and wealthy) CEO wannabe-geek who wants to have all the toys first, even if it doesn't help him become more productive? The common CEO who sees that technology can help him become more productive, but he can't pay as much as the guy with the desire to have everything the earliest? The common user, who will eventually come to use technology when it is either forced on them, or when they finally get around to see the value that the technology brings to every-man?
Some consultant...how about 'all of the above', since today, everyone is a 'geek', and the concept of a stand-alone figure has been laid aside years past.
...I find a lot of geeks just out of college aren't truly information whores, they're just ex-jocks with a tiny bit of tech know how."
BTW, you forgot to mention that being able to type with more than one finger means being able to post long-winded, er I mean, salient, comments, that dimwits tend to find impressive. As for holiday, business hours etc., your critic failed to recall that posters can chime in from other countries...duh.
Devices such as this have been on the market for decades. Small ambient screen mounted in a set of glasses, just big enough that when you focus on the 'percieved' image, it appears more distant, and thus much larger.
As for the price, how can that be a factor, when the cost of filling a 60 gb iPod can run into the thousands of dollars..? [rhetorical, so don't bother...]
We're in the process of hiring 100 Engineers from both India and Pakistan, with the plan being to bring them into Mainland China to work in the telecom industry.
During our recruiting so far, we're seeing a yield of approx. 5% after all interviews and testing, but that is prior to them coming into the PRC. We've gone thru nearly 4,000 candidates since Sept.
For the record, I'd source domestically, but mgmnt. wants to curry favor with the home countries, so the burden to fit them in is on me. At least the bonus program is in my favor:)
...info from the manuf. site*, and my experience with at least one of the little beasts:
*"Roomba is an intelligent and effective vacuuming robot. All Roomba Vacuuming Robots feature iRobot's unique AWARE(TM) Robot Intelligence Systems. AWARE uses dozens of sensors to monitor Roomba's environment, and adjusts Roomba's behavior up to 67 times per second, ensuring that Roomba cleans effectively, intelligently and safely."
Mapping:
"Roomba automatically calculates room size and run time based on a number of factors. Roomba will clean longer in rooms with more debris and furniture. Roomba also spends a little bit longer cleaning rugs than hard floors. In an empty 8x10 room with hard floors, Roomba will clean for approximately 20 minutes. Removing obstacles from a room will decrease the amount of time
Roomba needs to spend in a room."
Sensors: There are multiples of many of the single ones you listed. As an example, there are at least 4 'cliff' sensors, and 2 'Dirt Detect' sensors. That alone = 6, not 2.
'It does not learn, it has no memory' Cleaning Intelligence:
"Roomba automatically calculates how long it needs to work to clean the entire room." (calcs such as these, along with any cleaning schedules, have to be retained somehow, even if it is session based only...)
'...bounces around in a semi-random pattern'
(...semi-random? semi? random pattern?) How does Roomba know where to go?
"Because it uses specially designed cleaning behaviours to decide. Roomba will switch between spiralling to cover open floor spaces, and wall following to clean edges and criss crossing the room. All the while it will use its non-marking bumper to feel for furniture and obstacles and move around them."
All of which reminds me to contact them about correcting some of the grammar in their documentation.
And they work great - be prepared to buy one for each family member that sees it in action.
'The average geek house'...is not exactly the 'average' target demographic. The manufacturer assumes a modicum of upbringing, that includes such routine habits as flushing the toilet more than once a day, not creating fire hazards by casual cable placement and knowing the fine art of routine household management.
Roombas really are quite well thought out - knows when to go back and recharge...dozens of sensors help it learn...maps each room after one pass, etc. Very cool to watch in action, and a real treat to come home from work to a clean floor.
That approach will probably serve them quite well within their own borders, but I don't see how they can hope to impose their own standards on the rest of the world. There are already standards (e.g. 3G) in place across the globe, accompanied by hardware produced by manufacturers in several countries.
I work for one of the largest telecoms here in China (transplanted from Calif.), which is quietly picking up contract after contract in the 3rd world (and doing FCC testing now). Those numbers add up, and while the 'incumbents' are busy cutting up one piece of the standards pie, Chinese companies are working on the rest. The 'obstacle' you illustrate is not necessarily the dominant portion you may assume. As far as 'imposing', no more so than any North American or EU company. Strictly business.
As for 3G, our R & D is working hot & heavy on it, same as all the other product lines...everything from ADSL to WiMax to IN, CDMA, GSM, ALL-IP, IPTV, wired and wireless, the list goes on. Pretty much flavor-of-the-week, the way I see it:)
The company made a horrendous mistake and yet, there you see two executives bowing apologetically and taking responsibility on the day it happened
If there is one thing I learned about Japan, while living in Tokyo during the early '90s, it was that you can do ANYTHING, as long as you apologize (gomen'asai) appropriately.
Buy used panties off the local high school girls and sell them in a claw-machine game in your video arcade? Fine, just be sure to say 'sorry' to their mothers when they come looking to see why their daughter's clothing budgets have gone up.
Throw a 50 liter barrel of cutting oil into a hi-tech eco-nice furnace that is normally used to 'securly' burn office documents, and watch it rain crisp A4 all over the local neighborhood? Say the right words (five times should do it), with the proper contrition and your company gets an award from the city for doing such a good job on the after-explosion cleanup.
Get busted stuffing a camera & wide-angle lens down the front of a secretary's blouse while she sleeps on the train going home at night, and all it takes is the correct angle of degrees in the bow, along with no less than nine gomens to each police officer present, and you get to go straight home and keep your film!
A screw up over money is no big deal, no matter the amount...I'm sure the finance tech won't have to say sorry in public at all - the company head will take that duty, and three bold and crystal clear gomens for the HDTV cameras should cover it.
>...it is magically converted to a 'streaming' operation?
1/2 completed doesn't count:) - There are several variations whereby some apps, will begin to read (play) some files, of course. But in the strict sense of definitions, to qualify as 'streaming', audio/video is specifically encoded and served solely for that purpose, and can't normally be 'saved' in the same sense as a downloaded (CRC'd) file.
I also built a PVR that combined a Linux box w/the G3 - I fed my satellite TV signal to the Linux box, where it was captured and encoded...the G3 was set up to run Apple's 'QuickTime Streaming Server', using the rendered files sitting on the Linux box as the feed. QTTS was merged into a web server on the Linux box.
I could sit at work and have my choice of watching TV via the live feed off the satellite box, or schedule shows for 'recording' and viewing later, or que up any archived video content, all at will, using only a browser on the client end. The VDSL pipe at home made it all workable, of course...without that, the feeds would have been near useless. I also had the G3 set up to pipe audio and video wireless to my living room, as another source for my home theater. I could pick from iTunes, QTSS, spoken email, etc., without having to go anywhere near the computer room.
Funny you should mention Plain Talk - that sure seems like it was eons ago:)
Does this help? 'streaming' is push, and you don't have to wait for a given file, as a single element, to be completely copied over to your side your side before you can use it. The audio is part of a continous stream that your computer can utlize for (nearly) instant playback.'download' is pull, where your computer tells the remote computer it is authorized to commence a file transfer. You can't listen to an audio file until it is finished being downloaded.
podcasting is actually time-shifting, where you decide when you'll listen, much like TiVo.
If I had known this was going to be such a big thing, I'd have made more noise about it back in 2001, when I used to have my B&W G3 'speak' my email so it could be recorded onto a mini-disc (VOX). I'd simply disconnect and pocket the portable MD player/recorder as I was going out the door, and 'listen' to my email on my way to work...oh well.
'The letter is pretty stern [clip] but they are always written in very, very soft diplomatic language. This was not.'
BS - this was as routinely softball as they come.
STERN: (of an act or statement) strict and severe; using extreme measures or terms. How was this letter 'pretty severe'?
Hardly anything 'stern' or extreme about such phrases as '...in the spirit'
As for the claim that the wicked witch sent it, Carlos signed it as well, with his name before hers, signaling tacit involvment by her at the most. You give her far too much credit, in any case.
I'd hate to see your reaction when faced with truly harsh language.
"What can be done to protect consumers without stifling the technological innovation that we all know is so important?"
Start by making fewer assumptions...
Assumption #1: Technological innovation as you perceive it actually happens.
Assumption #2: Consumers are protectable and/or need to be protected.
Assumption #3: Consumers want current content.
Assumption #4: Consumers are the ones being protected.
TV was called the 'boob' tube, for good reason, long before the phrase 'innovative technology' was coined. You seem to think content mega-control by corporations is new on the scene...it's not.
Consumers aren't quite the idiots you think they are - by your logic, a small group of people enjoying an ad-hoc musical performance in Central Park are neither consumers, nor are they being exposed to 'content'...wrong. Just one example - there are hundreds more. Point is, consumers can protect themselves, thank you very much.
As for protecting anyone...the corporations are the ones interested in protection.
Despite your fantasies, most technological innovation comes from good old fashioned war. Faster information gathering; better medical procedures; increased creature comforts...the biggest upswings in tech advances have always been associated with some type of major military activity.
Real innovations occur as distanced events in terms of any form of consumerism or content protectionism, and they will never be subject to any threat (first amendement or business model related) that is simply based in the marketplace. Just ain't gonna happen...
I did this because it was clear from the 24" power cable between the PS and 360 that MS intended this to be possible.
MS, like every other OEM, sources these from a list of available types....they simply picked one based on negotiations with suppliers vs. engineering specs. Assuming that anyone from MS had any intentions as you claim is incorrect and giving them too much credit. The only MS intent at work was to meet the shipping schedule and stay within a strict budget for components.
...get your 360 out of that confined space.
The brick is the issue, not the main unit. The brick is 'clipping', which means it has an internal thermal sensor that shut the psu down based on a certain upper temperature limit. Any on-screen errors are simply coincidental with whatever the main unit was doing when the power went away.
Those same scientists later found that they could prompt regeneration simply by holding the lone gene up to a mirror in the executive washroom. Baffled by this, they returned to their labs for further investigation.
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Micron also makes flash
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Not correct - Micron does not manufacture any flash products.
Micron markets flash manufactured and supplied by another (JV manuf.) company...different from 'making' (manufacturing) it themselves (note using $$ from Apple).
Intel, Micron team up for NAND flash push 1. EE Times' top ten stories of 2005 Peter Clarke (12/16/2005 9:55 AM EST) URL: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleI
LONDON -- This year saw the announcement of the plan to create yet another joint venture manufacturing company -- IM Flash Technologies LLC -- which will supply its parents, Intel and Micron with NAND type flash memory.
Based on Latin constare 'stand firm, stand at a price.'
cost (to the consumer)...same as price (paid)
cost
noun
the COST of the equipment PRICE, asking price, market price, selling price, unit price, fee, tariff, fare, toll, levy, charge, rental; value, valuation, quotation, rate, worth; informal humorous damage.
verb
the chair costs $186 be priced at, sell for, be valued at, fetch, come to, amount to; the proposal has not yet been costed put a price on, price, value, put a value on, put a figure on.
price
noun
the purchase price COST, charge, fee, fare, levy, amount, sum; outlay, expense, expenditure; valuation, quotation, estimate, asking price; informal humorous damage.
...tonight, on Hannibal Lecter Dinner Theater, we will be running that old favorite, 'Alive'.
A wonderously entertaining movie where the topic 'out of the frying pan and into the fire' is once again explored. Joining us for comment will be the remaining members of the 1972 Peruvian Soccer Team, looking fit as ever, of course.
As mentioned, tho, cost is an issue. Just three weeks ago, I went out shopping for a 1GB stick of RAM and a 250GB/7200rpm/8mb cache HD. I paid exactly the same for each item... $106.50
A real test of speed is read/write speeds, not a simple format. I didn't say 'simple format, you did :) And my example was just one out of several where the solid-state HD routinely outperformed platter based mechanisms.
Ever notice how your system seems to slow to a crawl when pageouts kick in, and the OS starts using the HD instead of RAM? DRAM is always faster than platters. Again, flash memory is slow. DRAM, which isn't.
What type of buffer (8 & 16mb) is used in those 'fast' new hd's? Solid-state, of course. Not because it's slower, that much is certain. Want a full format? Pull the power...takes only a few seconds for the data to bleed down and a clean slate to be ready for use.
Most solid-state memory is pretty darn slow...
I was once asked to demo a solid-state HD...built with nothing but DRAM. This was a decade ago, and it was only proof-of-concept. It was only 2gb, but it would format instantly. Don't confuse SD and CF cards with DRAM. Micron makes DRAM.
and you can forget about running things like Open Office
Thus once again applying a heavy dose of reality distortion, since OO Portable works like a dream in that example.
Just type the new player's name and model into google, along with the words 'region free'. Or...return that one, and buy the least expensive one you can find - they are usually more compliant, and many even have a loophole menu that lets you choose to ignore region codes. You may have to google to find the loophole, but in any case, region free playback is near trivial to accomplish.
Have a Mac? Set it to ignore a movie DVD when mounted, and use VLC v0.7.1a or thereabouts and be happy.
I still don't want one. Nikon has all the cool stuff.
'...banging away on some research.'
...With Google's ability to aggregate not just information but opinions, reviews and similar items/services into one easy-to-access page, there are many services we won't really need around.... A few weeks ago I met with a company that is working on RFID check-out lanes for a grocery store (fill up your cart, walk out) and it seems that they're less than 6 months away from being "ready" -- they're just waiting for manufacturers to include the RFID tags needed to get the system working.
...This is intriguing to me because I've always had a difficulty in figuring out which market I should attack the hardest: The rare (and wealthy) CEO wannabe-geek who wants to have all the toys first, even if it doesn't help him become more productive? The common CEO who sees that technology can help him become more productive, but he can't pay as much as the guy with the desire to have everything the earliest? The common user, who will eventually come to use technology when it is either forced on them, or when they finally get around to see the value that the technology brings to every-man?
...I find a lot of geeks just out of college aren't truly information whores, they're just ex-jocks with a tiny bit of tech know how."
You almost had me, until I got to that part.
Let us summarize and see how we can write the same content, with a bit less wind:
"Nonetheless, as the Internet becomes more available in even the lives of the poorest (in the US at least), will the need for libraries and physical stores of information even be needed?
You don't seem to know the RFID market very well, or you'd know the stall-out is due to other issues...
I'm ordering this book -- I had thought about writing something similar a few years ago. In one of my jobs as an IT consultant, I find myself providing more services regarding these new technologies, especially to CEOs and top level managers.
Some consultant...how about 'all of the above', since today, everyone is a 'geek', and the concept of a stand-alone figure has been laid aside years past.
BTW, you forgot to mention that being able to type with more than one finger means being able to post long-winded, er I mean, salient, comments, that dimwits tend to find impressive. As for holiday, business hours etc., your critic failed to recall that posters can chime in from other countries...duh.
Devices such as this have been on the market for decades. Small ambient screen mounted in a set of glasses, just big enough that when you focus on the 'percieved' image, it appears more distant, and thus much larger.
As for the price, how can that be a factor, when the cost of filling a 60 gb iPod can run into the thousands of dollars..? [rhetorical, so don't bother...]
We're in the process of hiring 100 Engineers from both India and Pakistan, with the plan being to bring them into Mainland China to work in the telecom industry.
:)
During our recruiting so far, we're seeing a yield of approx. 5% after all interviews and testing, but that is prior to them coming into the PRC. We've gone thru nearly 4,000 candidates since Sept.
For the record, I'd source domestically, but mgmnt. wants to curry favor with the home countries, so the burden to fit them in is on me. At least the bonus program is in my favor
...info from the manuf. site*, and my experience with at least one of the little beasts:
*"Roomba is an intelligent and effective vacuuming robot. All Roomba Vacuuming Robots feature iRobot's unique AWARE(TM) Robot Intelligence Systems. AWARE uses dozens of sensors to monitor Roomba's environment, and adjusts Roomba's behavior up to 67 times per second, ensuring that Roomba cleans effectively, intelligently and safely."
Mapping:
"Roomba automatically calculates room size and run time based on a number of factors. Roomba will clean longer in rooms with more debris and furniture. Roomba also spends a little bit longer cleaning rugs than hard floors. In an empty 8x10 room with hard floors, Roomba will clean for approximately 20 minutes. Removing obstacles from a room will decrease the amount of time Roomba needs to spend in a room."
Sensors:
There are multiples of many of the single ones you listed. As an example, there are at least 4 'cliff' sensors, and 2 'Dirt Detect' sensors. That alone = 6, not 2.
'It does not learn, it has no memory'
Cleaning Intelligence:
"Roomba automatically calculates how long it needs to work to clean the entire room." (calcs such as these, along with any cleaning schedules, have to be retained somehow, even if it is session based only...)
'...bounces around in a semi-random pattern'
(...semi-random? semi? random pattern?)
How does Roomba know where to go?
"Because it uses specially designed cleaning behaviours to decide. Roomba will switch between spiralling to cover open floor spaces, and wall following to clean edges and criss crossing the room. All the while it will use its non-marking bumper to feel for furniture and obstacles and move around them."
All of which reminds me to contact them about correcting some of the grammar in their documentation.
Yes, they actually built those things.
...is not exactly the 'average' target demographic. The manufacturer assumes a modicum of upbringing, that includes such routine habits as flushing the toilet more than once a day, not creating fire hazards by casual cable placement and knowing the fine art of routine household management.
And they work great - be prepared to buy one for each family member that sees it in action.
'The average geek house'
Roombas really are quite well thought out - knows when to go back and recharge...dozens of sensors help it learn...maps each room after one pass, etc. Very cool to watch in action, and a real treat to come home from work to a clean floor.
'many of the most popular playthings...'
...still walk the streets.
MS didn't mean 'two' standards, they meant 'double' standard.
You know, like when she forgets to do the laundry, it's ok, but when YOU forget, it's hell to pay.
That 'pair' of standards...same as they've done all along.
That approach will probably serve them quite well within their own borders, but I don't see how they can hope to impose their own standards on the rest of the world. There are already standards (e.g. 3G) in place across the globe, accompanied by hardware produced by manufacturers in several countries.
:)
I work for one of the largest telecoms here in China (transplanted from Calif.), which is quietly picking up contract after contract in the 3rd world (and doing FCC testing now). Those numbers add up, and while the 'incumbents' are busy cutting up one piece of the standards pie, Chinese companies are working on the rest. The 'obstacle' you illustrate is not necessarily the dominant portion you may assume. As far as 'imposing', no more so than any North American or EU company. Strictly business.
As for 3G, our R & D is working hot & heavy on it, same as all the other product lines...everything from ADSL to WiMax to IN, CDMA, GSM, ALL-IP, IPTV, wired and wireless, the list goes on. Pretty much flavor-of-the-week, the way I see it
The company made a horrendous mistake and yet, there you see two executives bowing apologetically and taking responsibility on the day it happened
If there is one thing I learned about Japan, while living in Tokyo during the early '90s, it was that you can do ANYTHING, as long as you apologize (gomen'asai) appropriately.
Buy used panties off the local high school girls and sell them in a claw-machine game in your video arcade? Fine, just be sure to say 'sorry' to their mothers when they come looking to see why their daughter's clothing budgets have gone up.
Throw a 50 liter barrel of cutting oil into a hi-tech eco-nice furnace that is normally used to 'securly' burn office documents, and watch it rain crisp A4 all over the local neighborhood? Say the right words (five times should do it), with the proper contrition and your company gets an award from the city for doing such a good job on the after-explosion cleanup.
Get busted stuffing a camera & wide-angle lens down the front of a secretary's blouse while she sleeps on the train going home at night, and all it takes is the correct angle of degrees in the bow, along with no less than nine gomens to each police officer present, and you get to go straight home and keep your film!
A screw up over money is no big deal, no matter the amount...I'm sure the finance tech won't have to say sorry in public at all - the company head will take that duty, and three bold and crystal clear gomens for the HDTV cameras should cover it.
>...it is magically converted to a 'streaming' operation?
:) - There are several variations whereby some apps, will begin to read (play) some files, of course. But in the strict sense of definitions, to qualify as 'streaming', audio/video is specifically encoded and served solely for that purpose, and can't normally be 'saved' in the same sense as a downloaded (CRC'd) file.
:)
1/2 completed doesn't count
I also built a PVR that combined a Linux box w/the G3 - I fed my satellite TV signal to the Linux box, where it was captured and encoded...the G3 was set up to run Apple's 'QuickTime Streaming Server', using the rendered files sitting on the Linux box as the feed. QTTS was merged into a web server on the Linux box.
I could sit at work and have my choice of watching TV via the live feed off the satellite box, or schedule shows for 'recording' and viewing later, or que up any archived video content, all at will, using only a browser on the client end. The VDSL pipe at home made it all workable, of course...without that, the feeds would have been near useless. I also had the G3 set up to pipe audio and video wireless to my living room, as another source for my home theater. I could pick from iTunes, QTSS, spoken email, etc., without having to go anywhere near the computer room.
Funny you should mention Plain Talk - that sure seems like it was eons ago
Does this help? 'streaming' is push, and you don't have to wait for a given file, as a single element, to be completely copied over to your side your side before you can use it. The audio is part of a continous stream that your computer can utlize for (nearly) instant playback.'download' is pull, where your computer tells the remote computer it is authorized to commence a file transfer. You can't listen to an audio file until it is finished being downloaded.
podcasting is actually time-shifting, where you decide when you'll listen, much like TiVo.
If I had known this was going to be such a big thing, I'd have made more noise about it back in 2001, when I used to have my B&W G3 'speak' my email so it could be recorded onto a mini-disc (VOX). I'd simply disconnect and pocket the portable MD player/recorder as I was going out the door, and 'listen' to my email on my way to work...oh well.
'The letter is pretty stern [clip] but they are always written in very, very soft diplomatic language. This was not.'
BS - this was as routinely softball as they come.
STERN: (of an act or statement) strict and severe; using extreme measures or terms. How was this letter 'pretty severe'?
Hardly anything 'stern' or extreme about such phrases as '...in the spirit'
As for the claim that the wicked witch sent it, Carlos signed it as well, with his name before hers, signaling tacit involvment by her at the most. You give her far too much credit, in any case.
I'd hate to see your reaction when faced with truly harsh language.
The letter was never meant for publication
You're new to politics, I take it..?
"What can be done to protect consumers without stifling the technological innovation that we all know is so important?"
Start by making fewer assumptions...
Assumption #1: Technological innovation as you perceive it actually happens.
Assumption #2: Consumers are protectable and/or need to be protected.
Assumption #3: Consumers want current content.
Assumption #4: Consumers are the ones being protected.
TV was called the 'boob' tube, for good reason, long before the phrase 'innovative technology' was coined. You seem to think content mega-control by corporations is new on the scene...it's not.
Consumers aren't quite the idiots you think they are - by your logic, a small group of people enjoying an ad-hoc musical performance in Central Park are neither consumers, nor are they being exposed to 'content'...wrong. Just one example - there are hundreds more. Point is, consumers can protect themselves, thank you very much.
As for protecting anyone...the corporations are the ones interested in protection.
Despite your fantasies, most technological innovation comes from good old fashioned war. Faster information gathering; better medical procedures; increased creature comforts...the biggest upswings in tech advances have always been associated with some type of major military activity.
Real innovations occur as distanced events in terms of any form of consumerism or content protectionism, and they will never be subject to any threat (first amendement or business model related) that is simply based in the marketplace. Just ain't gonna happen...
I did this because it was clear from the 24" power cable between the PS and 360 that MS intended this to be possible.
...get your 360 out of that confined space.
The brick is the issue, not the main unit. The brick is 'clipping', which means it has an internal thermal sensor that shut the psu down based on a certain upper temperature limit. Any on-screen errors are simply coincidental with whatever the main unit was doing when the power went away.
MS, like every other OEM, sources these from a list of available types....they simply picked one based on negotiations with suppliers vs. engineering specs. Assuming that anyone from MS had any intentions as you claim is incorrect and giving them too much credit. The only MS intent at work was to meet the shipping schedule and stay within a strict budget for components.
Those same scientists later found that they could prompt regeneration simply by holding the lone gene up to a mirror in the executive washroom. Baffled by this, they returned to their labs for further investigation.