The reason he's such a personality and driving force is because he sells awesome gadgets to the exact people who want them. Jobs is like Ralph Lauren or Steven King. He gives his people (customers) what they want and has a personality to boot.
I always thought that Jobs didn't give people what they want, but rather give them a product that they realize that they want when he gives it to him.
Power of the Reality Distortion Field at work. You might not want it now, but once Jobs presents it, and you see it, it becomes so much harder to not want it.
The only reason I can even remember where this entry would be is because he's the one a few years ago that won with that strange Saitou-Aku-Soku-Zan combination program. Yeah, I could find utilities to do what his code can do on many other places, but what better way to show your anime fandom & code fanaticism by running something like this instead. ^_^
But all this technology will come at what cost?Yeah, I'd love to have a self-cooled coke can that doesn't require an ice chest to chill on trips. But unless the premium is kept down to perhaps 5 cents a can, maybe 10 at most, there's no way I'm going to be willing to trade-off the cost.
And hopefully, it will cool better than 30 degrees Fahrenheit under more situations. Coke is probably best about a few degrees above the freezing point of the solution, maybe around ~35 degrees Fahrenheit. If you can cool a can only 35 degrees Fahrenheit, and room temperature when you want to drink is about 80 degrees, that Coke isn't going to be cold enough for me.
Whoops, sorry. Neglected the fact that American cartoons do dub/animation in the opposite order. My mindset was from Japanese Animation, where they do it in the order of animation before dubbing.
In any case, though, errors are still made in dubbing (flubs), just like in any acting.
or no current seeder has all parts of the file your after
Off-topic, call me ignorant about how BitTorrent works, but I thought a "seeder" in BitTorrent parlance was someone who is actually uploading a complete file, ergo should have all of the parts of the file you're after by definition.
Are you using a different definition of "seeder", meaning simply someone who is uploading any parts, or am I misinterpreting what a "seeder" is to begin with, or was there an error in your statement there?
Yeah, except you realize that for that $85 figure you come up with, you have to take into account the fact that they're trying to dub in sync, which means they are also sitting in the studio for dead air. Also, they are doing re-takes if something isn't quite right. Now, being veterans at this, presumably, the retakes are getting fewer and fewer as the years go on, but it's still probably not going to be perfect on the first take every time.
Besides, consider the fact that the workload is probably not balanced. I'm pretty sure that, for example, Yeardley Smith, who voices exclusively Lisa, probably doesn't have to speak as much, relatively speaking, as maybe Dan Castellaneta, who not only voices Homer, but also Grandpa, Barney, Krusty, Willie, Mayor Quimby, Hans Moleman, Sideshow Mel, and more (thank you IMDB). Once you consider that, the value of the words might AVERAGE $85/syllable by your math, but I don't know if that's much of an indicator as to how much they would be paid to read other lines in their respective voices.
Normally, I wouldn't respond this late, but in this case, I guess I might as well.
In this case, the correlation has to do with the relatively massive storage. While yes, the average buyer is obviously going to be less concerned about audio quality than the audiophile, that's not necessarily going to stop them from trying to find a way to use up the space, by turning up a quality setting that they can't tell makes the song sound virtually the same. At some point, people are probably going to choose to simply be more wasteful with the space.
One would think that if these devices were to get more popular, one could lean toward saving those MP3s in a higher bandwidth setting, such as maybe 320kbps. In that case, averaging 4 minutes per song, 4GB wouldn't probably be enough for 1000 songs. 10-15GB would be more reasonable then. Even with an average bandwidth closer to, say, 200kbps, you're not going to quite get 1000 4-minute songs on your player.
Style is nice, but I think that thinking in terms of higher bandwidth formats, one needs to think about the larger capacity of the other iPods.
Wow, put in that way, doesn't this whole licensing from SCO thing sound like joining a gang?
I mean, they jump you in when you want to come in (pay the license fee), and if you want to leave the gang, it's going to cost ya (threats of lawsuits). And if you join a rival gang, you can expect a drive-by (definite lawsuits).
Yeah, I know it's a joke based on the RIAA. I'll still bite.
Unless that 13yo happens to also be the CEO of a major corporation or the owner of one helluva set of computers, I doubt that a 13yo will make the "major user" qualification of the game.
Of course, seeing some of the people who actually code under the GPL, somehow, that person might very well exist.
Need I remind you that Diebold is one of the larger manufacturers of...
...ATM machines.
So, your "smarter dude" is already doing the development of these votings machines. Heck, when I use a Bank of America ATM around here, it's typically a Diebold Systems ATM.
This is why it seems almost idiotic as to why Diebold DIDN'T add some kind of paper trail method of verification to these machines. They do it for ATMs, and why should voting machines be treated as less important than ATMs? Just because they don't hold money doesn't mean they don't have value!
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I always thought that Jobs didn't give people what they want, but rather give them a product that they realize that they want when he gives it to him.
Power of the Reality Distortion Field at work. You might not want it now, but once Jobs presents it, and you see it, it becomes so much harder to not want it.
Try Bush's speech coach.
http://uguu.org/src_rinia_c.html
The only reason I can even remember where this entry would be is because he's the one a few years ago that won with that strange Saitou-Aku-Soku-Zan combination program. Yeah, I could find utilities to do what his code can do on many other places, but what better way to show your anime fandom & code fanaticism by running something like this instead. ^_^
And hopefully, it will cool better than 30 degrees Fahrenheit under more situations. Coke is probably best about a few degrees above the freezing point of the solution, maybe around ~35 degrees Fahrenheit. If you can cool a can only 35 degrees Fahrenheit, and room temperature when you want to drink is about 80 degrees, that Coke isn't going to be cold enough for me.
Well, there's always the inevitable vi vs. emacs debates, but I don't think we want to hear that one either.
Maybe not Microsoft, but remember that Gates is still a philanthropist, so I can see people actually calling at least him benevolent at times.
In any case, though, errors are still made in dubbing (flubs), just like in any acting.
Off-topic, call me ignorant about how BitTorrent works, but I thought a "seeder" in BitTorrent parlance was someone who is actually uploading a complete file, ergo should have all of the parts of the file you're after by definition.
Are you using a different definition of "seeder", meaning simply someone who is uploading any parts, or am I misinterpreting what a "seeder" is to begin with, or was there an error in your statement there?
1 LoC ~= 10TB, IIRC
Besides, consider the fact that the workload is probably not balanced. I'm pretty sure that, for example, Yeardley Smith, who voices exclusively Lisa, probably doesn't have to speak as much, relatively speaking, as maybe Dan Castellaneta, who not only voices Homer, but also Grandpa, Barney, Krusty, Willie, Mayor Quimby, Hans Moleman, Sideshow Mel, and more (thank you IMDB). Once you consider that, the value of the words might AVERAGE $85/syllable by your math, but I don't know if that's much of an indicator as to how much they would be paid to read other lines in their respective voices.
Normally, I wouldn't respond this late, but in this case, I guess I might as well. In this case, the correlation has to do with the relatively massive storage. While yes, the average buyer is obviously going to be less concerned about audio quality than the audiophile, that's not necessarily going to stop them from trying to find a way to use up the space, by turning up a quality setting that they can't tell makes the song sound virtually the same. At some point, people are probably going to choose to simply be more wasteful with the space.
* 1000 songs = 4GB.
That's about what I would normally expect.
Style is nice, but I think that thinking in terms of higher bandwidth formats, one needs to think about the larger capacity of the other iPods.
But then again, when that happens, the only people left going to 56K will be the ones who have a need to access the internet over telephone.
Would a stock broker wish to have bought this stock at this time last year, knowing that it would be up 87% at this time?
Sorry about principles, but for some of us, yeah.
(yeah, it would've been easy to say a mountain, but that would hardly be fun).
(Good thing it's gone anyway. Yeah yeah, I know, killing the joke, off-topic. I'll burn the karma.)
I mean, they jump you in when you want to come in (pay the license fee), and if you want to leave the gang, it's going to cost ya (threats of lawsuits). And if you join a rival gang, you can expect a drive-by (definite lawsuits).
Unless that 13yo happens to also be the CEO of a major corporation or the owner of one helluva set of computers, I doubt that a 13yo will make the "major user" qualification of the game.
Of course, seeing some of the people who actually code under the GPL, somehow, that person might very well exist.
...ATM machines.
So, your "smarter dude" is already doing the development of these votings machines. Heck, when I use a Bank of America ATM around here, it's typically a Diebold Systems ATM.
This is why it seems almost idiotic as to why Diebold DIDN'T add some kind of paper trail method of verification to these machines. They do it for ATMs, and why should voting machines be treated as less important than ATMs? Just because they don't hold money doesn't mean they don't have value!
http://slash dot.org/comments.pl?sid=94370&cid=8094105
<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
Well, one would hope a sense of fair play, something that the RIAA guys DON'T have.
I believe by mapping displays, they mean a GPS device. A laptop doesn't actually count as a mapping display.
is a good thing.