Ad-hoc wireless for a device of this nature is interesting but has one major shortcoming - it is not a feature that encourages adoption.
Think about it - in order for me to get any use out of an ad-hoc wireless music player so restricted the device needs to really be ubiquitous. I could care less than once every 3 months someone nearby can loan me the new Fergie single. And you can forget about accumulating music to sample quickly, I have no doubt the interface will (in MS fashion) have a plethora of confirmations and queries before you get the song. What if the person is walking away from you? Follow them till you get the whole song?
What this brings to my mind is a thought of 'I don't want this feature unless everyone has this feature - so I won't purchase this product until it's everywhere.' And if I have this same thought and others do as well, it will never be everywhere. You cannot sell a product based on the promise of an experience you cannot reasonably expect to appear.
Every time a trailer or something comes out for anything related to nerd-dom we get the flood of inevitable 'OMGZORS TEH DASTROYED THE COMIC.' It's a movie, a mainstream movie, with famous actors and actresses who have a career afterwards. It will be seen by many, many people.
I never read the V comic and I'm sure it's excellent but if they made movies that were exactly like the comics all of you people rave about, the movies would get such high content ratings and such poor press they would make about zero dollars. Au revoir, movies based on comics and welcome back to sappy romantic comedies with Jennifer Lopez. Let's be happy movies are being made about things we care about at ALL and stop wishing they included the scene where the hero gets high on crack and rapes the girl with a razor blade strap-on or something.
I'm actually a member of the Consultants Network, but I don't have the $3000+ to spend on the training to pass the $300 exams. Try dropping the prices for these things to somewhere mere mortals can achieve and I'd love to take the courses.
That's dumb for the same reason no one talks on two phones at once. Ever call someone and have them say 'hang on, lemme pick up the other phone, it's my/fill in the blank/"? No, 'cause it's rude and you can't seamlessly carry on more than one conversation at a time. Could iChat have allowed multiple streams? Probably. Would anyone (other than, it seems, your mother) video conference with more than one person at a time? No. The only time I could see that being useful is something impersonal like a lecture. My "human communication" is personal.
All the long term instability that implies? I like free software and OSS, but in terms of stability commercially backed ventures have the edge, particularly with something as low level as network integration. Frankly, Apple has a better shot of using their own MP3 player and their own system level networking than any OSS project...the "whole widget" phenomena. And with P2P sharing, Apple has the potential to get slammed for something like iCommune, as the iPod has already been often branded an "MP3 piracy device" by several news articles, the last thing they need is a DMCA case against them with iTunes and Rendezvous as complicit criminals. And a single point of failure? Suppose th iTunes code changes in iTunes 4? Any service not made by Apple instantly dies until some hacker patches it up again, adding code bloat and maybe losing functionality. And finally, it could be worse. If it were Microsoft, they'd kill iCommune, then release their own version of MP3 which deletes itself when transferred over TCP/IP. And only works in WMP.
However load the new dual G4's are, you must concede they are still not the behemoth that is the P4. Imagine how much louder they would be with 2 fans on the chips in addition to the fans in the case. Also the G4 at 800Mhz is still cool enough it can reside happily in the hardly-cooled-at-all iMac G4.
Good call, it is only for the benefits like you said, but that of course adds that "I have an ID, as such I receive benefits." Really, this is pretty paranoid, I know the gov't does some wretchedly boneheaded things (see: anything at all with the DoJ and MS) but with ID cards they're pretty good. They don't track location or anything digital, no purchase history...they pretty much fill in for the Driver's License over here...you know, age checks and the like. I'd be willing to trade ins some privacy or some individuality to be able to swipe a nationwide ID in a machine an buy stuff/prove age/etc.
I'm more than used to the idea of an ID system...all Military members and dependents (myself) have an Identification card used to get on Post, buy things at the Commissary, get a job, etc. I haven't found it to be annoying, sometimes it's nice to just show one ID that has pretty much any info someone could want, like my SSN, Date of Birth, Age, Weight, my photo, etc. I think it'd be great to expand the system nationwide, and so far the gov't has failed to abuse the fact that they already have me ID'd.
what are they NOT telling us. well, tack on Aqua and all those apps and $$ for upgrade you got one expensive Apples...
Actually, the OS, GUI, and all of it's apps are included in the price of the server, just like Linux. Major and non-free system upgrades come out every 9 months or so, from $20-$130 dollars which is not generally a major concern for any major server farm. And above and beyond Linux you get an intuitive GUI and great server admin tools.
Photoshop open tests have nothing to do with photoshop itself, they merely demonstrate memory and storage throughput. It would have been the same had they used a 3DMax file, or an mp3, or any file, but photoshop files tend to be large enough to allow benchmarking. Really want bias? How about i_luv_linux?
Darwin, the low level system which the GUI of OS X runs on top of, is free and can be downloaded from Apple for no money at all, for both Mac and x86 platforms. The GUI (aqua) and the apps Apple provides are what you pay for when you buy OS X. Apple is using the OSS movement because they have Open Source software in their system.ative is Windows.
...some recognition from the linux world. Mac OS X is the largest 'distro' of Unix out there right now and it's acceptance by both Joe Consumer and the generally less-than-apple-friendly media is a huge step for *nix. Sadly most linux users see Mac users as simple minded elitists who can't even compile their own software and wouldn't know a kernel unless it was selling them fried chicken. Which they wouldn't eat, as they are all vegans. Get a grip, guys. If you want to see all this as some kind of jihad against MS then you may as well embrace the Mac for making real inroads against them in the OS market and for the benefit of any free software initiative. Yes, the Mac is a fairly closed system, aside from Darwin. Yes, Apple is controlling with their systems. And yes, we even have to pay for.mac now, but I'll take the control and the $99 to avoid the root access granted Microsoft (if Win had a 'root' per se) as soon as anyone uses XP or intalls necessary security updates. Take what you can get, and if what you can get is an Apple/Unix dominated market thank the deity of your choice it's not MS.
No other service allows interoperability, and even if MS is being nice to Trillian their service is also completely stand-alone and proprietary. However I would think if anyone needed the ability to talk to other services it would be the smaller fry...AOL has the largest user base of IM of any of the ones available. I personally use Proteus on OS X, which allows connections to all the major services....even if the servers aren't talking to each other that works well enough for me. So I can't have a 3 way chat with someone on Jabber and someone on MSN while I'm on AIM...not really a major concern of mine. I'm just waiting for iChat.
I've not tested this yet on other random numbers but that constitutes quite a hole. I'd imagine Apple will be quick to fix it though...they're getting enough media flak for charging for the service now.
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Ad-hoc wireless for a device of this nature is interesting but has one major shortcoming - it is not a feature that encourages adoption.
Think about it - in order for me to get any use out of an ad-hoc wireless music player so restricted the device needs to really be ubiquitous. I could care less than once every 3 months someone nearby can loan me the new Fergie single. And you can forget about accumulating music to sample quickly, I have no doubt the interface will (in MS fashion) have a plethora of confirmations and queries before you get the song. What if the person is walking away from you? Follow them till you get the whole song?
What this brings to my mind is a thought of 'I don't want this feature unless everyone has this feature - so I won't purchase this product until it's everywhere.' And if I have this same thought and others do as well, it will never be everywhere. You cannot sell a product based on the promise of an experience you cannot reasonably expect to appear.
Every time a trailer or something comes out for anything related to nerd-dom we get the flood of inevitable 'OMGZORS TEH DASTROYED THE COMIC.' It's a movie, a mainstream movie, with famous actors and actresses who have a career afterwards. It will be seen by many, many people. I never read the V comic and I'm sure it's excellent but if they made movies that were exactly like the comics all of you people rave about, the movies would get such high content ratings and such poor press they would make about zero dollars. Au revoir, movies based on comics and welcome back to sappy romantic comedies with Jennifer Lopez. Let's be happy movies are being made about things we care about at ALL and stop wishing they included the scene where the hero gets high on crack and rapes the girl with a razor blade strap-on or something.
Amen to that, brother. I'm sick and tired of having to use cludgy workarounds to make my alpha-masked images look good in IE.
I'm actually a member of the Consultants Network, but I don't have the $3000+ to spend on the training to pass the $300 exams. Try dropping the prices for these things to somewhere mere mortals can achieve and I'd love to take the courses.
Actually, Cocoa (OS X Objective-C) does provide a number of convenieces like this, up to and including a system-wide spell checker.
That's dumb for the same reason no one talks on two phones at once. Ever call someone and have them say 'hang on, lemme pick up the other phone, it's my /fill in the blank/"? No, 'cause it's rude and you can't seamlessly carry on more than one conversation at a time. Could iChat have allowed multiple streams? Probably. Would anyone (other than, it seems, your mother) video conference with more than one person at a time? No. The only time I could see that being useful is something impersonal like a lecture. My "human communication" is personal.
All the long term instability that implies? I like free software and OSS, but in terms of stability commercially backed ventures have the edge, particularly with something as low level as network integration. Frankly, Apple has a better shot of using their own MP3 player and their own system level networking than any OSS project...the "whole widget" phenomena. And with P2P sharing, Apple has the potential to get slammed for something like iCommune, as the iPod has already been often branded an "MP3 piracy device" by several news articles, the last thing they need is a DMCA case against them with iTunes and Rendezvous as complicit criminals. And a single point of failure? Suppose th iTunes code changes in iTunes 4? Any service not made by Apple instantly dies until some hacker patches it up again, adding code bloat and maybe losing functionality. And finally, it could be worse. If it were Microsoft, they'd kill iCommune, then release their own version of MP3 which deletes itself when transferred over TCP/IP. And only works in WMP.
However load the new dual G4's are, you must concede they are still not the behemoth that is the P4. Imagine how much louder they would be with 2 fans on the chips in addition to the fans in the case. Also the G4 at 800Mhz is still cool enough it can reside happily in the hardly-cooled-at-all iMac G4.
Good call, it is only for the benefits like you said, but that of course adds that "I have an ID, as such I receive benefits." Really, this is pretty paranoid, I know the gov't does some wretchedly boneheaded things (see: anything at all with the DoJ and MS) but with ID cards they're pretty good. They don't track location or anything digital, no purchase history...they pretty much fill in for the Driver's License over here...you know, age checks and the like. I'd be willing to trade ins some privacy or some individuality to be able to swipe a nationwide ID in a machine an buy stuff/prove age/etc.
I'm more than used to the idea of an ID system...all Military members and dependents (myself) have an Identification card used to get on Post, buy things at the Commissary, get a job, etc. I haven't found it to be annoying, sometimes it's nice to just show one ID that has pretty much any info someone could want, like my SSN, Date of Birth, Age, Weight, my photo, etc. I think it'd be great to expand the system nationwide, and so far the gov't has failed to abuse the fact that they already have me ID'd.
what are they NOT telling us. well, tack on Aqua and all those apps and $$ for upgrade you got one expensive Apples...
Actually, the OS, GUI, and all of it's apps are included in the price of the server, just like Linux. Major and non-free system upgrades come out every 9 months or so, from $20-$130 dollars which is not generally a major concern for any major server farm. And above and beyond Linux you get an intuitive GUI and great server admin tools.
Photoshop open tests have nothing to do with photoshop itself, they merely demonstrate memory and storage throughput. It would have been the same had they used a 3DMax file, or an mp3, or any file, but photoshop files tend to be large enough to allow benchmarking. Really want bias? How about i_luv_linux?
Darwin, the low level system which the GUI of OS X runs on top of, is free and can be downloaded from Apple for no money at all, for both Mac and x86 platforms. The GUI (aqua) and the apps Apple provides are what you pay for when you buy OS X. Apple is using the OSS movement because they have Open Source software in their system.ative is Windows.
...some recognition from the linux world. Mac OS X is the largest 'distro' of Unix out there right now and it's acceptance by both Joe Consumer and the generally less-than-apple-friendly media is a huge step for *nix. Sadly most linux users see Mac users as simple minded elitists who can't even compile their own software and wouldn't know a kernel unless it was selling them fried chicken. Which they wouldn't eat, as they are all vegans. Get a grip, guys. If you want to see all this as some kind of jihad against MS then you may as well embrace the Mac for making real inroads against them in the OS market and for the benefit of any free software initiative. Yes, the Mac is a fairly closed system, aside from Darwin. Yes, Apple is controlling with their systems. And yes, we even have to pay for .mac now, but I'll take the control and the $99 to avoid the root access granted Microsoft (if Win had a 'root' per se) as soon as anyone uses XP or intalls necessary security updates. Take what you can get, and if what you can get is an Apple/Unix dominated market thank the deity of your choice it's not MS.
No other service allows interoperability, and even if MS is being nice to Trillian their service is also completely stand-alone and proprietary. However I would think if anyone needed the ability to talk to other services it would be the smaller fry...AOL has the largest user base of IM of any of the ones available. I personally use Proteus on OS X, which allows connections to all the major services....even if the servers aren't talking to each other that works well enough for me. So I can't have a 3 way chat with someone on Jabber and someone on MSN while I'm on AIM...not really a major concern of mine. I'm just waiting for iChat.
I've not tested this yet on other random numbers but that constitutes quite a hole. I'd imagine Apple will be quick to fix it though...they're getting enough media flak for charging for the service now.
I like the name. It reminds me of something else all right thinking people wanted to rid the world of.