1) Macs only has 3% of the market...so who cares?
2) Macs are only for designers...so who cares?
3) Macs cost more than PCs...so who cares?
I'm surprised we haven't seen the usual, eight year old "facts" as to why this is a fruitless effort. Slowly but surely, Apple is making its way back into the limelight. After being the whipping boy for so long for a variety of reasons (no market share, higher outright cost, stability issues, etc), Apple is proving itself to be cheaper, more stable, and damn powerful. Enterprises, educational institutions, the government, and more are all starting to see the benefits and overcome the usual excuses.
Just for fun, go back ten years and compare Apple products with the products of today. Also compare the general opinion and stereotypes of Apple from then to now. Anyone see a major difference?
I was going to ask "so when does this wonder invention come to home brewing, 'cause I really want to get back into it and my time is a premium" but then I came across this quote from the article:
"Heiliger says that his device takes up about 30 square meters, whereas traditional systems can be up to 300 square meters in size."
Damn. I know a few home brewers out there who would like to be able to go "hm, I have a good idea for a beer", make it in a day, tweak it when it doesn't taste like they expected, and try again as opposed to waiting a couple months for the batch to ferment and such. Some day...*sigh*
WTF? This is STILL going on? People still can't take responsibility for their own actions or for doing a lousy job (if they're doing it at all) at raising their kids?
Fine. Maybe I'll go out and kill a few people here and there and blame it on the history books I read in school. Maybe build a nuke and let it go off (disclaimer to Homeland Security...I'm not really going to do this...I'm just making a point) because I read about it and saw it on TV.
I know I'm preaching to the choir right now, but every time I read something like this, my blood boils. If we keep letting these inane lawsuits continue to thrive in our courts (and continue to get press coverage), we'll be limited to playing games like Q-Bert (unless that glorifies jumping off suspended cubes) and worse...this will become a very dangerous society to live in because any freak who decides to go on a killing rampage can just blame it on TV, games, a comic they read, etc.
Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but there is no unbiased news anymore. The media...print, radio, online...is mostly controlled by a few of the major conglomerates. Not only that, but they all have their slants on what is reported and how it is reported.
Here's an interested quote from WSJ Opinion Journal
"The chairman of the entertainment giant Viacom said the reason was simple: Republican values are what U.S. companies need."
It's nice to know the media is deciding what to let through and what to report "in our best interest".
Pinkerton was quoted as saying "For instance, we looked hard at the tabbed browsing style of OmniWeb even before they did it and decided that while it was very pretty and a great demo of Aqua, it wasn't all that usable on a day to day basis."
I have to admit that I'm a tabbed browsing junkie now. I go absolutely nuts if I have to use someone else's computer that doesn't have a tabbed browser. It seems like such an insignificant little feature, but it really does add a lot to my browsing experience. I'm really glad it's in there now, but I still found that quote to be quite interesting. It seems that if you want to be on the cutting edge, you'd want to put in the features and let the users decide on whether it's useful or not.
Is it just me or does it seem like the Internet is trying to charge us for things we used to get for free?
Yeah...I remember the good ole days. Remember going to the binary bboards and "downloading" the pictures. Then I finally got UUEncode and could download the ~really big~ pictures. So you grab "babe_pt1", "babe_pt2", and "babe_pt3", merge them as you get ready to see some hottie and then realize you just wasted all that time putting together a picture of someone's pet pig. Such innocent days...and free.
At first I was going to blurt out "OMG! That beleaguered company Apple is going to go out of business!"
But then I started thinking about it. $0.25/song is good. But as the article stated, " They are focusing on lesser known independent music", which means the record labels probably don't have their hands in this music. The labels take a whopping 70% or so of Apple's $0.99, the artist gets some, leaving Apple with a few pennies. My point being, if Apple were to include these same artists in their library, they too could cut the price down to a quarter.
At any rate, competition is good and I'm curious to see if eMusic will be known as the place to go for hard to find music, if other music services will follow suit, or what.
First off, I found the article kinda ho-hum (yeah, I read it...what was I thinking RTFA?). I've come across better articles on the net from such odd sources as USA Today and such. I will admit though that the last page had a few things that made me go "hm", in particular how they remind us that monitoring this system will cost a pretty penny.
I've been doing research for a client that is wanting a VoIP/call center solution. When I started, it was fairly simple. Looking at the different services offered (Vonage, Broadvoice, Broadvox, Packet8 looking like the best solutions so far) and then I went to look at Cisco gear and see what it would be to set everything up yourself. And then I looked at some IP PBXs from 3Com, Avaya, Siemens, and Zultys. You know what guys? We've got quite a load of solutions out there for someone who wants VoIP. And these were all hardware-based...I didn't even bother looking at software-based solutions.
I'm finding this whole VoIP thing to be just as interesting as WiFi...a wild new market with everyone trying to establish a foothold (remember the dotcom days with everyone trying to grab as much marketshare as possible?) and then weather the storm and see who survives. Interesting indeed.
They can make it against the rules to smoke in your dorm room, yet that is a legal activity. Face it, you're on their property, it's their building, tough titties. You don't like it, move off campus or go to a different school.
Unfortunately he's right. As much as I'd love to bitch about using unregulated frequencies and abusing our rights, I can't. We couldn't have microwaves or those little fridges in some of our dorms. Or hot plates. Or live Christmas trees. Yeah, there were safety reasons (don't want to start a fire, don't want to overload circuits), but that was the law of the land. If you didn't like all their rules, you moved off campus...or hid your contraband really well.
I agree to a certain extent that the Star Trek franchise as we know it should die. Or at least take that hiatus they spoke of in the article. By doing that, they wouldn't dilute the value of the Star Trek we all know and love. Let the fanatical fans continue with the conventions, the underground activities, etc. That way, when a new movie DOES come out, there will be a big to-do about it because of all the hype, all the memories that get exaggerated over the years, and the fact that the movie producers will actually want to make a GOOD movie so as not to let down the fans.
In a similar sense, look what happened to "Star Wars". The original trilogy has so much awe around it. After years and years of nothing but old Star Wars toys and watching "Empire" over and over on VHS, they brought out Episode One. Look at the fervor it created. Unfortunately, the movie blew. Then Episode Two came out...it blew even more. Fans will go see Three, but it just doesn't have that "Star Wars!!!! I gotta go see it!" appeal.
Greed won't necessarily kill this. Think of it as an added feature set to a phone. Some people want their phones with cameras, others to be bi or tri-band phones, etc. The cell companies are realizing they could possibly lose out to Internet-based solutions. While still a bit rough around the edges, you can take your PocketPC and use it as a phone at some WiFi hotspots. As these PocketPC solutions get better, it may not be just the geeks and early adopters using hotspots to make calls on PocketPCs. So...they can add this "feature set" to the phones and charge up the wazoo to use it. If they do decide to be greedy, I'm sure there'll be some way for them to monitor when it uses a hotspot much similar to when you use your phone's web browser.
It's similar to the argument people are having about WiFi becoming a commodity and why would companies want to set up hotspots...some organizations offer free WiFi while others charge. Some see it as a revenue-growing model while others offer it as a service to their customers (ie, hotels, cofeeshops, etc). Perhaps this will be a service also.
Graduate 1: "Where should we take our Carnegie Mellon degrees and enjoy life as young prfessionals?"
Graduate 2: "San Francisco is nice. Lots of tech there. Great weather. Lots of tech in northern Virginia. Or maybe Austin?"
Graduate 1: "Philly! Let's be successful bachelors in Philly!"
Graduate 2: "Um, dude, Philly is dirty. Auto insurance rates are sky high. It's been voted as the fattest city in the country. Summers are hot and humid, winters are cold and crappy. Their sports teams can't ever seem to get to the big game. The people are a bit rude...they even throw snowballs at Santa Clause."
Graduate 1: "They have WiFi"
Graduate 2: "I'm there!"
The previous dialog has been provided as a reality check for bright-eyed and bushy-tailed graduates and professionals. WiFi will not increase the quality of life in a city and draw people to it.
I see this as yet another step in Jobs' "digital hub" plan. Now...take the new iMac. Mix it with Tiger coming out with the new widgets...hmmm...does anyone see a bunch of little widgets controlling iTunes, video devices, etc? I do. So you have this nice clean design of an iMac sitting anywhere in the house, with AirPort Express controlling your stereo, and Tiger being the meat behind it all. And these are only things we know about. What do they have hidden in their R&D department?
I'm not sure what to think yet. On one hand, it is kinda cool as just a monitor. But most of the times, people hide their CPU under the desk or tucked away somewhere so all you really do see is the monitor. From an industrial design point of view, the new iMac is a pretty cool feat of engineering and design. But in the real world, it may look like any other random Dellbox hidden under a desk with a nice monitor on the desk until the proud owner says "no no no, this IS the whole computer" and then goes on to brag about it. Hmmm.
And in today's litigation-happy society, I'm sure they'll get sued for slander and libel and whatever else is possible and they'll have to fight their way in court. Sad...but probably true. I would like to see how "true to life" it is though.
Both are lines (and songs?) from the Beastie Boys. Funny group these programmers/hackers are. And yet, isn't the new Beastie album the sourse of much DRM controversy?
And what excatly does Apple get back in return? Has Real made any effort to make Apple's job easier? If Real wants to open the iPod to their format, then they can pay Apple to do so, or offer up the engineering hours to keep everything working.
Exactly. I find it quite ironic that Real is so hell-bent on saying "open up". Just like they were so open with RealPlayer. "Got a Mac? Want to watch video? Wait...you want us to be compatible with QuickTime? Screw you." But now that the tables have turned and Apple has a commanding market share, Real cries "foul".
What's hard is that Apple doesn't really have a competitor in the Macintosh market. In the Windows world, Dell competes against HP who competes against Gateway who competes against Joe Schmoe Computers etc. They all try to make a better product for a cheaper price. Competition inspires innovation (well, Apple can still innovate pretty well).
One thing that stood out imediately in this phrase is how Apple DOES continue to innovate. They seem to innovate more on design, both hardware and software, than any other computer maker out there. That's where they continue to shine. That's not to say the PC makers don't innovate. But rather than innovating on new standards or designs, they innovate on business process. If they didn't, they would simply die as the PC platform has become such a commodity. Dell mastered it (so far) and that's why they are where they are.
It's interesting to note however, while Apple doesn't have competition in the Mac market directly, they still have to fight "Mac-like interfaces" and computers in general. On a larger scale, Apple, a computer company, must compete again Dell, Gateway, etc...computer companies.
But the main use would be within a company, not for public WiFi access points. Replacing the APs within a building, or throughout a hospital (as discussed in the article... natch) is a much smaller task and could easily pay for itself if the calling costs were suitably low.
I was thinking the same thing as I hit "submit". It's definitely more of a private side issue for companies. Yet still, that's quite an infrastructure cost for larger companies if they want to do such. Yet for us, a nice small company, it could be the perfect solution. The only thing I'm a bit wary of is being tied to particular manuracturers. We choose our WiFi equipment based on performance. I'd hate to buy this because it has great features, yet the actual WiFi performance blows. Only time will tell.
The one thing that gets me from the article (yes, I actually read it...go figure) is that you have to use Avaya access points. That right there could be the deal killer because there are already thousands of access points installed around the country. I don't see that many companies tearing apart their infrastructure simply for this functionality. Think of all the national rollout plans (McDonalds, Panera Breads, airports, Barnes & Noble, etc) that would have to redo everything. It would be like starting from scratch for them and for the WiFi companies that installed everything.
Yet, this is an interesting solution to those killer cell phone bills. We're experiencing that right now as we take a large volume of calls on our cell phones. If we were able to use "WiFi airtime" instead of "cell time" while in the office, that could save a company loads of money.
Does anyone else find it kind of comical that Apple, the company that revolutionized "easy computing", simple interfaces, simple industrial design, etc has become a geek's haven for hacking? OS X with their BSD underpinnings gives the UNIX geeks so much to play with. Newton diehards are hacking the crap out of it to keep it "alive". People are hacking iPods in so many different ways. All this for a company that takes pride in their "we make computing easy for you". I wonder what will be hacked next. Guesses anyone?
As I sit here doing my morning Slashdot readings, I came up with a thought that has me a bit perplexed.
It says these fix evolve quickly. Let us say there is a minor evolutionary change every five generations or so. That would be one year to have five changes. By the fifth change, there may be a marked difference between the new fish and the its great great grandmother/father.
My question is this. How long until the evolution creates a new species? Two years down the road, will you be comparing two separate fish even though they came from the exact same gene pool? Could a biologist or relatively smart person in the field explain that to me?
Slashdot Mirror
1) Macs only has 3% of the market...so who cares?
2) Macs are only for designers...so who cares?
3) Macs cost more than PCs...so who cares?
I'm surprised we haven't seen the usual, eight year old "facts" as to why this is a fruitless effort. Slowly but surely, Apple is making its way back into the limelight. After being the whipping boy for so long for a variety of reasons (no market share, higher outright cost, stability issues, etc), Apple is proving itself to be cheaper, more stable, and damn powerful. Enterprises, educational institutions, the government, and more are all starting to see the benefits and overcome the usual excuses.
Just for fun, go back ten years and compare Apple products with the products of today. Also compare the general opinion and stereotypes of Apple from then to now. Anyone see a major difference?
I was going to ask "so when does this wonder invention come to home brewing, 'cause I really want to get back into it and my time is a premium" but then I came across this quote from the article:
"Heiliger says that his device takes up about 30 square meters, whereas traditional systems can be up to 300 square meters in size."
Damn. I know a few home brewers out there who would like to be able to go "hm, I have a good idea for a beer", make it in a day, tweak it when it doesn't taste like they expected, and try again as opposed to waiting a couple months for the batch to ferment and such. Some day...*sigh*
WTF? This is STILL going on? People still can't take responsibility for their own actions or for doing a lousy job (if they're doing it at all) at raising their kids?
Fine. Maybe I'll go out and kill a few people here and there and blame it on the history books I read in school. Maybe build a nuke and let it go off (disclaimer to Homeland Security...I'm not really going to do this...I'm just making a point) because I read about it and saw it on TV.
I know I'm preaching to the choir right now, but every time I read something like this, my blood boils. If we keep letting these inane lawsuits continue to thrive in our courts (and continue to get press coverage), we'll be limited to playing games like Q-Bert (unless that glorifies jumping off suspended cubes) and worse...this will become a very dangerous society to live in because any freak who decides to go on a killing rampage can just blame it on TV, games, a comic they read, etc.
"It looks like you're trying to watch a DVD. Would you like to change your dashboard?"
Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but there is no unbiased news anymore. The media...print, radio, online...is mostly controlled by a few of the major conglomerates. Not only that, but they all have their slants on what is reported and how it is reported. Here's an interested quote from WSJ Opinion Journal
"The chairman of the entertainment giant Viacom said the reason was simple: Republican values are what U.S. companies need."
It's nice to know the media is deciding what to let through and what to report "in our best interest".
Pinkerton was quoted as saying "For instance, we looked hard at the tabbed browsing style of OmniWeb even before they did it and decided that while it was very pretty and a great demo of Aqua, it wasn't all that usable on a day to day basis."
I have to admit that I'm a tabbed browsing junkie now. I go absolutely nuts if I have to use someone else's computer that doesn't have a tabbed browser. It seems like such an insignificant little feature, but it really does add a lot to my browsing experience. I'm really glad it's in there now, but I still found that quote to be quite interesting. It seems that if you want to be on the cutting edge, you'd want to put in the features and let the users decide on whether it's useful or not.
Is it just me or does it seem like the Internet is trying to charge us for things we used to get for free?
Yeah...I remember the good ole days. Remember going to the binary bboards and "downloading" the pictures. Then I finally got UUEncode and could download the ~really big~ pictures. So you grab "babe_pt1", "babe_pt2", and "babe_pt3", merge them as you get ready to see some hottie and then realize you just wasted all that time putting together a picture of someone's pet pig. Such innocent days...and free.
At first I was going to blurt out "OMG! That beleaguered company Apple is going to go out of business!"
But then I started thinking about it. $0.25/song is good. But as the article stated, " They are focusing on lesser known independent music", which means the record labels probably don't have their hands in this music. The labels take a whopping 70% or so of Apple's $0.99, the artist gets some, leaving Apple with a few pennies. My point being, if Apple were to include these same artists in their library, they too could cut the price down to a quarter.
At any rate, competition is good and I'm curious to see if eMusic will be known as the place to go for hard to find music, if other music services will follow suit, or what.
First off, I found the article kinda ho-hum (yeah, I read it...what was I thinking RTFA?). I've come across better articles on the net from such odd sources as USA Today and such. I will admit though that the last page had a few things that made me go "hm", in particular how they remind us that monitoring this system will cost a pretty penny.
I've been doing research for a client that is wanting a VoIP/call center solution. When I started, it was fairly simple. Looking at the different services offered (Vonage, Broadvoice, Broadvox, Packet8 looking like the best solutions so far) and then I went to look at Cisco gear and see what it would be to set everything up yourself. And then I looked at some IP PBXs from 3Com, Avaya, Siemens, and Zultys. You know what guys? We've got quite a load of solutions out there for someone who wants VoIP. And these were all hardware-based...I didn't even bother looking at software-based solutions.
I'm finding this whole VoIP thing to be just as interesting as WiFi...a wild new market with everyone trying to establish a foothold (remember the dotcom days with everyone trying to grab as much marketshare as possible?) and then weather the storm and see who survives. Interesting indeed.
Oh that's just too funny. "We won't let those pesky iPods create all these problems with OUR computers! No way. It's a big security risk too."
"So security is a big issue with you now? You've figured out how to keep worms, viruses, and the three-times-a-week security vulnerabilities at bay?"
"Well, um, no, but um, we won't let that scourge of society iPod connect. Ha!"
They can make it against the rules to smoke in your dorm room, yet that is a legal activity. Face it, you're on their property, it's their building, tough titties. You don't like it, move off campus or go to a different school.
Unfortunately he's right. As much as I'd love to bitch about using unregulated frequencies and abusing our rights, I can't. We couldn't have microwaves or those little fridges in some of our dorms. Or hot plates. Or live Christmas trees. Yeah, there were safety reasons (don't want to start a fire, don't want to overload circuits), but that was the law of the land. If you didn't like all their rules, you moved off campus...or hid your contraband really well.
I agree to a certain extent that the Star Trek franchise as we know it should die. Or at least take that hiatus they spoke of in the article. By doing that, they wouldn't dilute the value of the Star Trek we all know and love. Let the fanatical fans continue with the conventions, the underground activities, etc. That way, when a new movie DOES come out, there will be a big to-do about it because of all the hype, all the memories that get exaggerated over the years, and the fact that the movie producers will actually want to make a GOOD movie so as not to let down the fans.
In a similar sense, look what happened to "Star Wars". The original trilogy has so much awe around it. After years and years of nothing but old Star Wars toys and watching "Empire" over and over on VHS, they brought out Episode One. Look at the fervor it created. Unfortunately, the movie blew. Then Episode Two came out...it blew even more. Fans will go see Three, but it just doesn't have that "Star Wars!!!! I gotta go see it!" appeal.
Greed won't necessarily kill this. Think of it as an added feature set to a phone. Some people want their phones with cameras, others to be bi or tri-band phones, etc. The cell companies are realizing they could possibly lose out to Internet-based solutions. While still a bit rough around the edges, you can take your PocketPC and use it as a phone at some WiFi hotspots. As these PocketPC solutions get better, it may not be just the geeks and early adopters using hotspots to make calls on PocketPCs. So...they can add this "feature set" to the phones and charge up the wazoo to use it. If they do decide to be greedy, I'm sure there'll be some way for them to monitor when it uses a hotspot much similar to when you use your phone's web browser.
It's similar to the argument people are having about WiFi becoming a commodity and why would companies want to set up hotspots...some organizations offer free WiFi while others charge. Some see it as a revenue-growing model while others offer it as a service to their customers (ie, hotels, cofeeshops, etc). Perhaps this will be a service also.
Graduate 1: "Where should we take our Carnegie Mellon degrees and enjoy life as young prfessionals?"
Graduate 2: "San Francisco is nice. Lots of tech there. Great weather. Lots of tech in northern Virginia. Or maybe Austin?"
Graduate 1: "Philly! Let's be successful bachelors in Philly!"
Graduate 2: "Um, dude, Philly is dirty. Auto insurance rates are sky high. It's been voted as the fattest city in the country. Summers are hot and humid, winters are cold and crappy. Their sports teams can't ever seem to get to the big game. The people are a bit rude...they even throw snowballs at Santa Clause."
Graduate 1: "They have WiFi"
Graduate 2: "I'm there!"
The previous dialog has been provided as a reality check for bright-eyed and bushy-tailed graduates and professionals. WiFi will not increase the quality of life in a city and draw people to it.
I see this as yet another step in Jobs' "digital hub" plan. Now...take the new iMac. Mix it with Tiger coming out with the new widgets...hmmm...does anyone see a bunch of little widgets controlling iTunes, video devices, etc? I do. So you have this nice clean design of an iMac sitting anywhere in the house, with AirPort Express controlling your stereo, and Tiger being the meat behind it all. And these are only things we know about. What do they have hidden in their R&D department?
I'm not sure what to think yet. On one hand, it is kinda cool as just a monitor. But most of the times, people hide their CPU under the desk or tucked away somewhere so all you really do see is the monitor. From an industrial design point of view, the new iMac is a pretty cool feat of engineering and design. But in the real world, it may look like any other random Dellbox hidden under a desk with a nice monitor on the desk until the proud owner says "no no no, this IS the whole computer" and then goes on to brag about it. Hmmm.
And in today's litigation-happy society, I'm sure they'll get sued for slander and libel and whatever else is possible and they'll have to fight their way in court. Sad...but probably true. I would like to see how "true to life" it is though.
One2ohmygod: http://one2ohmygod.sourceforge.net/
and
another called "Get It Together"
Both are lines (and songs?) from the Beastie Boys. Funny group these programmers/hackers are. And yet, isn't the new Beastie album the sourse of much DRM controversy?
And what excatly does Apple get back in return? Has Real made any effort to make Apple's job easier? If Real wants to open the iPod to their format, then they can pay Apple to do so, or offer up the engineering hours to keep everything working.
Exactly. I find it quite ironic that Real is so hell-bent on saying "open up". Just like they were so open with RealPlayer. "Got a Mac? Want to watch video? Wait...you want us to be compatible with QuickTime? Screw you." But now that the tables have turned and Apple has a commanding market share, Real cries "foul".
You bring up a very good point...
What's hard is that Apple doesn't really have a competitor in the Macintosh market. In the Windows world, Dell competes against HP who competes against Gateway who competes against Joe Schmoe Computers etc. They all try to make a better product for a cheaper price. Competition inspires innovation (well, Apple can still innovate pretty well).
One thing that stood out imediately in this phrase is how Apple DOES continue to innovate. They seem to innovate more on design, both hardware and software, than any other computer maker out there. That's where they continue to shine. That's not to say the PC makers don't innovate. But rather than innovating on new standards or designs, they innovate on business process. If they didn't, they would simply die as the PC platform has become such a commodity. Dell mastered it (so far) and that's why they are where they are. It's interesting to note however, while Apple doesn't have competition in the Mac market directly, they still have to fight "Mac-like interfaces" and computers in general. On a larger scale, Apple, a computer company, must compete again Dell, Gateway, etc...computer companies.
Why didn't a program behave as expected?
Well...I wonder how well the debugging in plain English worked when spelling "Mellon" is such an ordeal. Egads!
But the main use would be within a company, not for public WiFi access points. Replacing the APs within a building, or throughout a hospital (as discussed in the article... natch) is a much smaller task and could easily pay for itself if the calling costs were suitably low.
I was thinking the same thing as I hit "submit". It's definitely more of a private side issue for companies. Yet still, that's quite an infrastructure cost for larger companies if they want to do such. Yet for us, a nice small company, it could be the perfect solution. The only thing I'm a bit wary of is being tied to particular manuracturers. We choose our WiFi equipment based on performance. I'd hate to buy this because it has great features, yet the actual WiFi performance blows. Only time will tell.
Good point though.
The one thing that gets me from the article (yes, I actually read it...go figure) is that you have to use Avaya access points. That right there could be the deal killer because there are already thousands of access points installed around the country. I don't see that many companies tearing apart their infrastructure simply for this functionality. Think of all the national rollout plans (McDonalds, Panera Breads, airports, Barnes & Noble, etc) that would have to redo everything. It would be like starting from scratch for them and for the WiFi companies that installed everything.
Yet, this is an interesting solution to those killer cell phone bills. We're experiencing that right now as we take a large volume of calls on our cell phones. If we were able to use "WiFi airtime" instead of "cell time" while in the office, that could save a company loads of money.
Does anyone else find it kind of comical that Apple, the company that revolutionized "easy computing", simple interfaces, simple industrial design, etc has become a geek's haven for hacking? OS X with their BSD underpinnings gives the UNIX geeks so much to play with. Newton diehards are hacking the crap out of it to keep it "alive". People are hacking iPods in so many different ways. All this for a company that takes pride in their "we make computing easy for you". I wonder what will be hacked next. Guesses anyone?
As I sit here doing my morning Slashdot readings, I came up with a thought that has me a bit perplexed.
It says these fix evolve quickly. Let us say there is a minor evolutionary change every five generations or so. That would be one year to have five changes. By the fifth change, there may be a marked difference between the new fish and the its great great grandmother/father.
My question is this. How long until the evolution creates a new species? Two years down the road, will you be comparing two separate fish even though they came from the exact same gene pool? Could a biologist or relatively smart person in the field explain that to me?