MS cannot buy Apple, even with their large amounts of cash. Not only Apple's company stock, but its patents, revenue, and bank account prevent Microsoft from ever buying them out. MS would have to take out a huge loan in order to buy out Apple, and that probably wouldn't sit well with MS shareholders, who are already disgruntled with slow progress as it is.
It is little known that any music can be DRM'd (at least on a Mac) in mere seconds. You can have ALL your music Appl-fied with FairPlay. All you have to do is drag a song to the "Purchased Songs" playlist, and poof! DRM.
I have an image that is much much larger than that. Through a "good friend," I was able to get a PowerMac G5 with 8GB of RAM. That means that with my 64 bit processors, I made an image that is about 10 GB with a little C code and imagemagick. Eat your hearts out you dutch.......
All right, let's say that a person earns more than $500,000 per year doing some sort of work. We know this person owns his own business (or is running a fradulent one ^_^), so they pay business taxes to the government, as well as state income tax, federal income tax, and sales tax (Yes, companies are responsible for getting sales tax permits in every state they do x amount of dollars of business with).
Looking at the facts, the company (since it was one man) would be a sole proprietorship under most laws. He cannot claim that their company is a corporation, since the US will not allow you to incorporate without sufficient reason. Note that Apple Computer, Inc. started out as Apple Computer (NO,.INC) as an example.
When one looks at one person running a single business earning tons of money for seemingly no reason at all, the IRS will most likely do an audit of their taxes and find out how said person got the money. If it looks suspicious, they contact state and/or federal investigators.
The moral of the story: If you make millions of dollars with spam every year, do not buy a one million dollar house. Do not click Buy with your mouse. Do not take more bandwidth than you should, even if you knew you could. Do not eat green eggs and ham, just be cool and like your spam.
The main reason healthcare costs so much more in the US is because of all the malpractice insurance, other insurance, and regulation by the FDA. For instance, a company with a drug that would be approved in Europe or Canada would NOT be accepted by the FDA. The company loses tens of millions of dollars under the US system, and because of the lawsuit mentality of many people in the US, this situation is not likely to change.
In the US, we get the benefit of certainty when we have medical operations or medications. However, with that benefit comes additional cost which the US imposes upon itself.
Other healthcare systems tend to favor the younger generations as opposed to the older. The US is the exception, where we try to keep people alive for as long as possible. As an example, an older patient might be set aside in favor for a younger patient who has a need. I don't know about the situation in India, but I know for a fact that Europe and Canada prescribe to the idea that if you are old, you have lived long enough, and we are not going to use any money to care for you.
He probably hates the iPod because his 12 year old asked for one.
Child: "Daddy, could I have the market-leading device from your bitter rival for christmas?"
Ballmer: "For the last time- NO DAMMIT! We're scheduled to have a microsoft-branded music player in 2005 or 2006 or 2007, I tell you what, just for you, you can have our prototype even though we had to scrap several core features. Don't elevate daddy's stress level, he has a company to run."
Bill Gates = mathmatician/knows how to screw you hard
Steve Jobs = business/entrepenurial
Ballmer = leftovers/*
I applaud the research from said members of IEEE for their work, which will consequently mean nothing to anyone else. The government would never allow this, and if one reads the IEEE code, they wouldn't allow the technology into public either.
Does anyone else hear their ears ringing (even though this is on screen?) Apple, core? Ugh! Did the Apple dude mean to do that?! I suppose one could use text to speech to experience the effect with Victoria's emaculate voice.
Definately Darwin (QuickTime) Streaming server. Not only can you use it to take video directly, but you can set up other stations to broadcast a single stream to many clients. Sort of like a mainframe with middleware then clients, this solution is great if you have an older network or have bandwidth concerns.
DSS/QTSS is extremely easy to use- it is controled via a web browser. Apple even included functionality to drag and drop between different parts of the streaming server website, something i've never seen anyone do.
go to: http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/st reami ng/
to download the free version (it has the same functionality as the normal version). While you're at it, you should get a license of QuickTime Pro so you can hint and screw around with the bandwidth of static video files.
MegaRAID is also the name of a family of LSI Logic hardware RAID cards for ultra160/320 SCSI hard drives. Many Mac users (including this one) have approached LSI Logic about making these cards apple-compatible.
Apple already has an existing raid.kext, so the new one is very likely to be a driver for MegaRAID cards. I may have to get one if the performance tests look good:)
The real limit to super computing is the implementation of logic devices (NAND, NOR, etc.) at significant clock speed. The only way developers currently have to create a faster computer is analogous to Apple's "Megahertz Myth"- with a shorter pipeline and slower clockspeed.
Several engineering issues making this Ludicrously LSI operation possible have not been solved. One type of logic found in computers is called CMOS, the other called TTL. TTL has another special implementation that allows it to achieve high clock rates.
This special TTL that is used today has reached its peak at.09 nanometers in width. The semiconductors used today do not have enough "gas" (voltage) to power such a large system. Every transistor has a voltage drop within it, and adding more and more transistors only increases heat, power consumption, and probability of failure. If a single part of a huge new chip were to fail, the entire chip would have to be replaced.
Ever wonder why CPU's run hot? They dissipate voltage (and with it current, which is the True Power). At some point, the input voltage on the processor will be so close to the output that measuring HIGH or LOW (1's and 0's) becomes impossible. Until some scientist discovers a brand new material that can overcome current and voltage barriers, clustering will be the norm. Said scientist would be a billionare if they could patent a material like that.
Researchers are out looking for these new substances, mind you. Until they find one and build a semiconductor company, single computers with low clock speeds and high bandwidth will not be able to tackle what the human imagination has instore for them. There is also a limit involving physics and microwaves that I could get into, but i'm not a physicist. I'll leave that up to them:)
I recently graduated from High School in a class of over 700. I was involved with the school's gifted and talented class, where the so-called "nerdiest" (and ironically the most popular) students came to "chill."
It was my experience that over half of the fifty or so students in the aforementioned class owned an Apple, even though our school is filled with IBM PC's. These people had ACT and SAT scores of 30+ and 1400+ - Harvard admitted four students, UC Berkeley 2, Wash U (St. Louis) 6, and Vanderblit 1, although few of said students could not afford to go to those schools.
By far the most popular computer was the PowerBook. Kids brought their powerbooks to class and connected to our school's crappy wireless network. There were also a great deal of iPods, surprisingly among windows users.
Apple is doing something right- the class of '04 certainly bought a bunch of Apples.
It's not about marketshare! Apple is a business, and so long as a business makes profit they are in business. Why sell low margin (i.e. $499 PC crap) when you can sell less and get the same amount of money?
Apple isn't playing to the masses anymore. They've realized this and are now exclusively niche targeters. Once one niche is saturated with Macs, Apple targets the next.
Take the photoshop, biotech, scientific computing, pro video, pro audio, and pro visual effects crowds. Alias came out with Maya unlimited for mac because they believe there is a large market in the Mac sector for it. Apple is slowly drawing niche markets that will probably be unwilling to switch from a *NIX operating system to windows.
Carbon is not a "step-up" API as many people think, but a fully Mac OS X oriented C/C++ toolbox. Apple modeled Carbon after OS X, then ported their extension to OS 9 so that a transition could be possible. That is one reason why, in my experience, carbon apps run faster in OS X than in OS 9.
Carbon and Cocoa coexist, and neither one of them is going away anytime soon. Cocoa was never intended as a replacement for Carbon
As an astute observer of human behavoir, I have noticed that people to not respond well to threats, especially those like Steve Jobs. To write a threatening email personally to him is like saying, "Steve, I think you are like crap. No, you reek of it. Now, as a good little piece of crap, I'd like you to do XXX or I'll flush you down the toilet." I learned I never got anything by threatening someone (as Real did Apple with the Microsoft ploy) in a better position than me.
Real Networks acts like a child, and Apple happily refuses to grant them a piece of the pie. Maybe had Real asked Apple more nicely, as HP did, they might have had more inroads, although the deal still would probably fall through.
there's another fun product that compliments ethrereal: nmap. www.insecure.org/nmap/ Even though nmap is not really the sniffer application ethereal is, it can give you very valuable information about what kind of server you are running, run through a host of kiddie breakthrough attempts, and it's always fun just to tell some one after you've found out their IP address, "You are running Windows XP SP 2, here's how I can haxor you...."
My Adobe Photoshop 7.0 won't print files larger than 1.5GB. I feel like the 6 gigs of ram in my g5 are wasted. Heck, the system itself seems limited to 1.5GB ram... I don't know if that's a deeper OS issue or a pointer issue, but I can't print off anything in 2400x2400dpi/pixels in Photoshop.
Some things just aren't right. I want my Ultra High-res images since I payed so much dam $$ for my G5 and my printer!!!
I got a chance to peek inside the labs at Cupertino (no, i don't have to sign any nda's) and the lady in charge of the iPod project is a real knockout. I mean whoa, who would have ever thought? I nearly asked her if she were available, then I remembered that I was 18 and that it wouldn't be polite.
iPod's beauty comes from within the project (literally)!
Do yourself a favor and meet the iPod lady.
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MS cannot buy Apple, even with their large amounts of cash. Not only Apple's company stock, but its patents, revenue, and bank account prevent Microsoft from ever buying them out. MS would have to take out a huge loan in order to buy out Apple, and that probably wouldn't sit well with MS shareholders, who are already disgruntled with slow progress as it is.
It is little known that any music can be DRM'd (at least on a Mac) in mere seconds. You can have ALL your music Appl-fied with FairPlay. All you have to do is drag a song to the "Purchased Songs" playlist, and poof! DRM.
I have an image that is much much larger than that. Through a "good friend," I was able to get a PowerMac G5 with 8GB of RAM. That means that with my 64 bit processors, I made an image that is about 10 GB with a little C code and imagemagick. Eat your hearts out you dutch .......
All right, let's say that a person earns more than $500,000 per year doing some sort of work. We know this person owns his own business (or is running a fradulent one ^_^), so they pay business taxes to the government, as well as state income tax, federal income tax, and sales tax (Yes, companies are responsible for getting sales tax permits in every state they do x amount of dollars of business with).
.INC) as an example.
Looking at the facts, the company (since it was one man) would be a sole proprietorship under most laws. He cannot claim that their company is a corporation, since the US will not allow you to incorporate without sufficient reason. Note that Apple Computer, Inc. started out as Apple Computer (NO,
When one looks at one person running a single business earning tons of money for seemingly no reason at all, the IRS will most likely do an audit of their taxes and find out how said person got the money. If it looks suspicious, they contact state and/or federal investigators.
The moral of the story: If you make millions of dollars with spam every year, do not buy a one million dollar house. Do not click Buy with your mouse. Do not take more bandwidth than you should, even if you knew you could. Do not eat green eggs and ham, just be cool and like your spam.
The main reason healthcare costs so much more in the US is because of all the malpractice insurance, other insurance, and regulation by the FDA. For instance, a company with a drug that would be approved in Europe or Canada would NOT be accepted by the FDA. The company loses tens of millions of dollars under the US system, and because of the lawsuit mentality of many people in the US, this situation is not likely to change.
In the US, we get the benefit of certainty when we have medical operations or medications. However, with that benefit comes additional cost which the US imposes upon itself.
Other healthcare systems tend to favor the younger generations as opposed to the older. The US is the exception, where we try to keep people alive for as long as possible. As an example, an older patient might be set aside in favor for a younger patient who has a need. I don't know about the situation in India, but I know for a fact that Europe and Canada prescribe to the idea that if you are old, you have lived long enough, and we are not going to use any money to care for you.
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I suppose that the first attempt to crack cherryos's site would be-
username: Arben
password: Kryeziu
or better yet-
username: CherryOS
password: PearPC
Child: "Daddy, could I have the market-leading device from your bitter rival for christmas?"
Ballmer: "For the last time- NO DAMMIT! We're scheduled to have a microsoft-branded music player in 2005 or 2006 or 2007, I tell you what, just for you, you can have our prototype even though we had to scrap several core features. Don't elevate daddy's stress level, he has a company to run."
Bill Gates = mathmatician/knows how to screw you hard
Steve Jobs = business/entrepenurial
Ballmer = leftovers/*
I applaud the research from said members of IEEE for their work, which will consequently mean nothing to anyone else. The government would never allow this, and if one reads the IEEE code, they wouldn't allow the technology into public either.
Does anyone else hear their ears ringing (even though this is on screen?) Apple, core? Ugh! Did the Apple dude mean to do that?! I suppose one could use text to speech to experience the effect with Victoria's emaculate voice.
Information about downloading is found by scrolling down the page. Have fun :)
Definately Darwin (QuickTime) Streaming server. Not only can you use it to take video directly, but you can set up other stations to broadcast a single stream to many clients. Sort of like a mainframe with middleware then clients, this solution is great if you have an older network or have bandwidth concerns.
t reami ng/
DSS/QTSS is extremely easy to use- it is controled via a web browser. Apple even included functionality to drag and drop between different parts of the streaming server website, something i've never seen anyone do.
go to:
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/s
to download the free version (it has the same functionality as the normal version). While you're at it, you should get a license of QuickTime Pro so you can hint and screw around with the bandwidth of static video files.
If sigmund freud could see this slashdot colomn, what the heck would he say? Probably:
..shieza"
"what the hell is this device you showed me?"
You respond: "A computer."
Freud: "My id hurts, and my ego just popped out of my super ego."
You say, "Well I can print this out for you..."
Freud:"WHA.. WHAT!
cheers to "horrific dogshit" !
Apple already has an existing raid .kext, so the new one is very likely to be a driver for MegaRAID cards. I may have to get one if the performance tests look good :)
Several engineering issues making this Ludicrously LSI operation possible have not been solved. One type of logic found in computers is called CMOS, the other called TTL. TTL has another special implementation that allows it to achieve high clock rates.
This special TTL that is used today has reached its peak at .09 nanometers in width. The semiconductors used today do not have enough "gas" (voltage) to power such a large system. Every transistor has a voltage drop within it, and adding more and more transistors only increases heat, power consumption, and probability of failure. If a single part of a huge new chip were to fail, the entire chip would have to be replaced.
Ever wonder why CPU's run hot? They dissipate voltage (and with it current, which is the True Power). At some point, the input voltage on the processor will be so close to the output that measuring HIGH or LOW (1's and 0's) becomes impossible. Until some scientist discovers a brand new material that can overcome current and voltage barriers, clustering will be the norm. Said scientist would be a billionare if they could patent a material like that.
Researchers are out looking for these new substances, mind you. Until they find one and build a semiconductor company, single computers with low clock speeds and high bandwidth will not be able to tackle what the human imagination has instore for them. There is also a limit involving physics and microwaves that I could get into, but i'm not a physicist. I'll leave that up to them :)
Agreed iowa has problems (EE Major and former CompUSA tech)
It was my experience that over half of the fifty or so students in the aforementioned class owned an Apple, even though our school is filled with IBM PC's. These people had ACT and SAT scores of 30+ and 1400+ - Harvard admitted four students, UC Berkeley 2, Wash U (St. Louis) 6, and Vanderblit 1, although few of said students could not afford to go to those schools.
By far the most popular computer was the PowerBook. Kids brought their powerbooks to class and connected to our school's crappy wireless network. There were also a great deal of iPods, surprisingly among windows users.
Apple is doing something right- the class of '04 certainly bought a bunch of Apples.
Apple isn't playing to the masses anymore. They've realized this and are now exclusively niche targeters. Once one niche is saturated with Macs, Apple targets the next.
Take the photoshop, biotech, scientific computing, pro video, pro audio, and pro visual effects crowds. Alias came out with Maya unlimited for mac because they believe there is a large market in the Mac sector for it. Apple is slowly drawing niche markets that will probably be unwilling to switch from a *NIX operating system to windows.
Carbon and Cocoa coexist, and neither one of them is going away anytime soon. Cocoa was never intended as a replacement for Carbon
For electronic components including discretes and logic: Jameco Electronics
for hard drives and all manner of equipment: Computer Giants
The latter saved me lots of $$ on my Cheetah 15K.3's
Apple includes support for converting WMA into AAC or other codecs. This is huge, and Microsoft has to be really ticked off.
As an astute observer of human behavoir, I have noticed that people to not respond well to threats, especially those like Steve Jobs. To write a threatening email personally to him is like saying, "Steve, I think you are like crap. No, you reek of it. Now, as a good little piece of crap, I'd like you to do XXX or I'll flush you down the toilet." I learned I never got anything by threatening someone (as Real did Apple with the Microsoft ploy) in a better position than me.
Real Networks acts like a child, and Apple happily refuses to grant them a piece of the pie. Maybe had Real asked Apple more nicely, as HP did, they might have had more inroads, although the deal still would probably fall through.
there's another fun product that compliments ethrereal:
nmap. www.insecure.org/nmap/
Even though nmap is not really the sniffer application ethereal is, it can give you very valuable information about what kind of server you are running, run through a host of kiddie breakthrough attempts, and it's always fun just to tell some one after you've found out their IP address, "You are running Windows XP SP 2, here's how I can haxor you...."
My Adobe Photoshop 7.0 won't print files larger than 1.5GB. I feel like the 6 gigs of ram in my g5 are wasted. Heck, the system itself seems limited to 1.5GB ram... I don't know if that's a deeper OS issue or a pointer issue, but I can't print off anything in 2400x2400dpi/pixels in Photoshop.
Some things just aren't right. I want my Ultra High-res images since I payed so much dam $$ for my G5 and my printer!!!
I got a chance to peek inside the labs at Cupertino (no, i don't have to sign any nda's) and the lady in charge of the iPod project is a real knockout. I mean whoa, who would have ever thought? I nearly asked her if she were available, then I remembered that I was 18 and that it wouldn't be polite. iPod's beauty comes from within the project (literally)! Do yourself a favor and meet the iPod lady.