It's because of this simplicity of Apple products that I am surprised that Jobs didn't just come out and say: "This is our phone. You know. The one everyone's been calling the iPhone." And then market it as Apple Phone (Like Apple TV).
I think Jobs hit on an important fact: The 1% that he is looking to buy the iphone is not the same 1% that installs java apps or is interested in VOIP and custom apps for their phones.
Jobs is looking for the top buyers who will pay nearly anything for a phone that just plain works and has simple email/text messaging and maybe a web browser. In this market, the iPod is really just a bonus.
My only question is, is this a GSM phone that will let me change out the chip so I can use it around the world? Unfortunately, I don't think so. Anyway, my dad will surely buy it in the next year. He's slowly converting to the entire Apple line (First an ipod, then 2 imacs, now this).
Releasing a phone-less version of this will probably just bite into the Apple Phone market. I would suspect that a year from now Apple will release it, after they reach that 1 percent of the phone market. Then again, they may decide that it's really not worth the effort, and (instead) sell it without Cingulair (after their 2 year agreement is up) without any phone contract and have people activate it at the phone service kiosk of their choice.
Actually, it's more like: Use a Mac and let a tech person be the only one with administrator privileges.
Did that with my dad and brother over a year ago. I just get a call every 4-5 months to install something for them. Much better than the calls every couple weeks because the computer was broken or because my dad couldn't figure out how to burn a photo CD on Windows. (He *really* likes _Burn folders_ on OS X.)
A year ago it was a pain in the ass to edit a wikipedia article, as the servers were always going down. Uptime is much improved now. The fund drive shows that a lot of people (and a few corporations) are finding it useful to fund this public experiment.
Or all they need is power, a large hard drive, and a slightly less high speed internet connection. You can fit a couple hundred movies quite easily in a terabyte hard drive without compression and allow "requests" to be made for movies to be added to the queue. Add DiVX compression or just store the movie without extra fluf and the number of movies stored skyrockets.
I totally agree. People that use the...or later clause are assuming that they agree with everything the FSF will ever include in the GPL license.
What I wish: They take everything they are going to put in GPL v3 into a license with a different name, so that code writers don't have to worry about what the exact wording they used years ago.
Why couldn't they just have called the GPLv3 something like the Gnu Free License v1 (GFPL v1), or something like that? They are riding on the coat tails of the GPL v2, and thus don't have faith that the new license will have it's own traction.
If IE is not bundled with the OS, how is the average user supposed to download firefox? It's been years since I used ftp to download pretty much anything.
Absolutely. Mine don't delay, but they "ramp up" the light over a minute. Definitely being kind to my eyes. I can actually look directly at them immediately after they are turned on, for 20 seconds or so before they get to be too bright.
Frankly, I think the board of Apple will decide it's cheaper to have everyone at the SEC involved in the investigation assassinated than allow Jobs to step down.
The "next model year" approach is interesting. There was a sci-fi novel once, called _Infinity, INC._, in which man developed time travel and started altering history to make everything "optimal". And, since research into deep space travel was never fruitful, optimized history (via creating accidents at just the right moments) so that man never got beyond Earth orbit.
It turns out that 10 thousand years in the future man kind is visited by aliens that are far advanced compared to us, and these aliens look upon Earth as an "ancient" culture and wonder why we never ventured out.
I'm sure the next computer I buy will end up having Vista come pre-installed, for my "convenience". Anyone know if the previous versions of Office work with it? I'm particularly interested in Office 2K (Word, Powerpoint, and Excel), since that has worked the best for me and is still considered the standard format in a number of workplace environments.
Well, he somehow managed to get the keys. Whatever that process is should be part of the final application. And since we're talking about software, it will be much more flexible than any hardware.
Imagine if the consortium had to revoke the keys for a physical player? What sort of chaos would ensue?
As an aside, I recently bought (by mistake) a bunch of region 2 & 5 DVDs, while I only have a region 1 player. I used DVDecrypter to brute-force break the keys and download the DVDs to my hard drive. I then promptly burnt them region-free to DVDs and enjoy them on my regular home entertainment system.
1 Question - If multiple different versions of a HD-DVD or blue ray disc are going to be pressed with different keys, doesn't that seriously increase production costs?
The thing is, I think the poster that was using sudo for CD burning had done something to serious mess up his system.
I've installed various versions of Ubuntu from 5.04 to 6.10 on a number of computers, all with gnomebaker CD burning software. Not a single one ever asked me for password to run the application (only when installing it).
I have no idea how he managed to get Ubuntu to require a password to run without messing around with permissions of the CD drive or something like that (which would probably make the application fail rather than ask for a sudo password, anyway)
This is actually one reason why I (and many others) like firefly. No sound effects in space. It's actually quite chilling to see something crawl by on screen and have no sound attached to it. Firefly did pretty well with just the folksy music that would come in and fill the gap at times.
Unfortunately, Serenity did have sound effects in space, but that's probably because the focus groups wanted it.:-(
Doesn't the original writer have copyright over this essay? Is it legal for it to be posted to the web without his authority? I know we don't care so much about copyright on/., but this is a bit rediculous.
Slashdot Mirror
Man, think about the cholesterol! I'm waiting for eggs that contain a statin and lower my cholesterol.
But seriously, why is this so much better than using a virus or phage as the vector for reproducing a protein?
It's because of this simplicity of Apple products that I am surprised that Jobs didn't just come out and say: "This is our phone. You know. The one everyone's been calling the iPhone." And then market it as Apple Phone (Like Apple TV).
I actually pictured Air Force One as a Tom Clancey movie staring Ford as President Jack Ryan. It made the film much more enjoyable for me.
I think Jobs hit on an important fact: The 1% that he is looking to buy the iphone is not the same 1% that installs java apps or is interested in VOIP and custom apps for their phones.
Jobs is looking for the top buyers who will pay nearly anything for a phone that just plain works and has simple email/text messaging and maybe a web browser. In this market, the iPod is really just a bonus.
My only question is, is this a GSM phone that will let me change out the chip so I can use it around the world? Unfortunately, I don't think so. Anyway, my dad will surely buy it in the next year. He's slowly converting to the entire Apple line (First an ipod, then 2 imacs, now this).
Releasing a phone-less version of this will probably just bite into the Apple Phone market. I would suspect that a year from now Apple will release it, after they reach that 1 percent of the phone market. Then again, they may decide that it's really not worth the effort, and (instead) sell it without Cingulair (after their 2 year agreement is up) without any phone contract and have people activate it at the phone service kiosk of their choice.
mmmmm.... Ham....
Actually, it's more like: Use a Mac and let a tech person be the only one with administrator privileges.
Did that with my dad and brother over a year ago. I just get a call every 4-5 months to install something for them. Much better than the calls every couple weeks because the computer was broken or because my dad couldn't figure out how to burn a photo CD on Windows. (He *really* likes _Burn folders_ on OS X.)
A year ago it was a pain in the ass to edit a wikipedia article, as the servers were always going down. Uptime is much improved now. The fund drive shows that a lot of people (and a few corporations) are finding it useful to fund this public experiment.
Or all they need is power, a large hard drive, and a slightly less high speed internet connection. You can fit a couple hundred movies quite easily in a terabyte hard drive without compression and allow "requests" to be made for movies to be added to the queue. Add DiVX compression or just store the movie without extra fluf and the number of movies stored skyrockets.
Err....
Why not just ship two discs in each case?
I totally agree. People that use the ...or later clause are assuming that they agree with everything the FSF will ever include in the GPL license.
What I wish: They take everything they are going to put in GPL v3 into a license with a different name, so that code writers don't have to worry about what the exact wording they used years ago.
Why couldn't they just have called the GPLv3 something like the Gnu Free License v1 (GFPL v1), or something like that? They are riding on the coat tails of the GPL v2, and thus don't have faith that the new license will have it's own traction.
If IE is not bundled with the OS, how is the average user supposed to download firefox? It's been years since I used ftp to download pretty much anything.
My brother actually bought the book (admittedly, it was on sale). A fascinating index of every web site on the planet.
A year later there was so much of a boom that portals like Yahoo became relevant.
Absolutely. Mine don't delay, but they "ramp up" the light over a minute. Definitely being kind to my eyes. I can actually look directly at them immediately after they are turned on, for 20 seconds or so before they get to be too bright.
I heard Microsoft is going to double the number of Zunes it sells in 2007, compared to 2006. There's no way Apple can beat that!
(Don't you hate when people use percentages when they are dealing with small numbers?)
I'm actually in the market for a wireless card for a desktop PC running Ubuntu Edgy right about now, actually.
Any clear winners? Does it matter which router I will be using? For that matter, I need to get a router as well.
(I figure I might as well ask here, since the topic is here. I would otherwise have just gone to the Ubuntu forum.)
Frankly, I think the board of Apple will decide it's cheaper to have everyone at the SEC involved in the investigation assassinated than allow Jobs to step down.
Means more than the "Zune generation", at least.
The "next model year" approach is interesting. There was a sci-fi novel once, called _Infinity, INC._, in which man developed time travel and started altering history to make everything "optimal". And, since research into deep space travel was never fruitful, optimized history (via creating accidents at just the right moments) so that man never got beyond Earth orbit.
It turns out that 10 thousand years in the future man kind is visited by aliens that are far advanced compared to us, and these aliens look upon Earth as an "ancient" culture and wonder why we never ventured out.
Opps. Put the scary quotes around the wrong word. It's supposed to be: [...] for "my" convenience.
I'm sure the next computer I buy will end up having Vista come pre-installed, for my "convenience". Anyone know if the previous versions of Office work with it? I'm particularly interested in Office 2K (Word, Powerpoint, and Excel), since that has worked the best for me and is still considered the standard format in a number of workplace environments.
Well, he somehow managed to get the keys. Whatever that process is should be part of the final application. And since we're talking about software, it will be much more flexible than any hardware.
Imagine if the consortium had to revoke the keys for a physical player? What sort of chaos would ensue?
As an aside, I recently bought (by mistake) a bunch of region 2 & 5 DVDs, while I only have a region 1 player. I used DVDecrypter to brute-force break the keys and download the DVDs to my hard drive. I then promptly burnt them region-free to DVDs and enjoy them on my regular home entertainment system.
1 Question - If multiple different versions of a HD-DVD or blue ray disc are going to be pressed with different keys, doesn't that seriously increase production costs?
The thing is, I think the poster that was using sudo for CD burning had done something to serious mess up his system.
I've installed various versions of Ubuntu from 5.04 to 6.10 on a number of computers, all with gnomebaker CD burning software. Not a single one ever asked me for password to run the application (only when installing it).
I have no idea how he managed to get Ubuntu to require a password to run without messing around with permissions of the CD drive or something like that (which would probably make the application fail rather than ask for a sudo password, anyway)
This is actually one reason why I (and many others) like firefly. No sound effects in space. It's actually quite chilling to see something crawl by on screen and have no sound attached to it. Firefly did pretty well with just the folksy music that would come in and fill the gap at times.
:-(
Unfortunately, Serenity did have sound effects in space, but that's probably because the focus groups wanted it.
Doesn't the original writer have copyright over this essay? Is it legal for it to be posted to the web without his authority? I know we don't care so much about copyright on /., but this is a bit rediculous.