New Xserve and XRAID with firewire 2, 800Mbps for RAID makes sense.
XServe RAID is a Fibre Channel device, not FireWire. Fibre Channel is 2 Gbps, which is nothing to sneeze at.
Video iPod, unlikely.
Agreed. Video iPod is an incredibly stupid idea.
Color iPod, maybe.
Another stupid idea. The iPod doesn't need color.
I am hoping for an 802.11g Card with built in BlueTooth.
Why? The Bluetooth adapter is smaller than your thumb, costs $50, and plugs into the USB port on your monitor or keyboard. Because Bluetooth is so incredibly short-range, it doesn't need to have a big antenna like AirPort's. So there's no advantage at all to integrating it into the AirPort card.
How many homeless shelters have you visited this week, Evil Adrian? How many meals have you given out?
Look, at least I'm honest about it. Generally speaking, I don't spend a whole lot of time worrying about other people. Neither do you. The difference is that I admit it freely, while you seem to be ashamed of the fact.
So they're hoping and praying for Farscape to pull in a 2 rating? Astounding. Firefly consistently drew around a 2.4, and yet Fux dropped it faster than... a... um... fast dropping thing.
Sorry. I'm having a figurative language problem today. I can do personification and synecdoche, but I can't pull off metaphor or simile. It's like....
Just in case anybody reads this obvious troll and believes it, iSync works like a charm. Palm's software can be very quirky, but for syncing computer-to-computer and computer-to-iPod, it's flawless.
Remove the keyboard and trackpad from a Powerbook G4 and you'll end up with something that's about 1 cm thick. Remove the hard drive and optical drive to save even more space and weight (and power). It could be done.
Dude, try to keep in mind that 320x240 is postage-stamp sized. DVD's are the low end of digital video, and they're equivalent to about 850x480. That's more than five times the resolution of 320x240. And, as I said, DVD's are the absolute minimum low end of digital video; even el cheapo high definition equipment has more than twice again as much resolution as a DVD.
Imagine pluging the ipod into your digital camera, downloading your pictures and maybe even charging your camera at the same time.
How many digital cameras have FireWire ports on them? At best, you'd have to bridge USB to FireWire, which would require a powered adapter, which would, in a word, suck.
Again, "do people want this?" The answer is still no.
Now, if you wanted to talk about a 12" or larger 10:16 tablet with a built-in AirPort antenna and a couple of GB of compact flash or similar solid-state memory, we'd be in business. Built on Rendezvous, when you get in range of the tablet's "base station," it becomes a thin client, letting you run any application on the desktop computer using the desktop's CPU's for processing and its own for displaying the UI. When you leave range of the AirPort LAN, the tablet's AirPort card automatically shuts down and becomes a very simple low-powered device with a built-in browser, email program, calendar, address book, notepad application, PDF viewer, and little else, the perfect cross between PDA and laptop. That'd be a hit.
Um. The guy who wrote that Register article doesn't have a very good understanding of how Bluetooth works. Before two devices can interoperate, they have to be paired. It's a security sort of thing. Besides, if you were sitting on a train listening to your iPod with Bluetooth-- somehow getting around the sharing problem-- about 25 people would be in range to access your device. Bluetooth is incredibly short-range.
Hmm. What just about everybody here seems to be forgetting is the "do people want this" test. How many times have you been sitting on your train or in an airport or whatever and said to yourself, "Gee, I wish I could look at my own collection of photographs right now?" Zero.
If Apple releases a new product-- I don't imagine they will, myself-- it will not be a device that people look at and say, "Oh, neat." It will be a device that people will look at and say, "I want one now. Take my money, Apple. Gimme gimme gimme."
If your goal is the greatest number of eyeballs with your scripting web site, using the DOM will reach more eyeballs than document.all.
Yeah, and if your goal is to make more work for your programmers for benefits that can only be expressed mathematically, then by all means let's leave document.all unimplemented.
The important point here is that only a fool would accept more work for a trivial increase in potential user base. The only consequence of omitting document.all is to continue to make Mozilla an unattractive alternative to IE for users. Par for the course.
PS Threaded e-mail is handy, eh? It sure is, unless your mail reader doesn't remember that you want to see your mailboxes in threaded view and keeps reverting back to collapsed form.
No offense, my friend, but people who use Mozilla to read their email deserve what they get. Get thee to a real MUA.
More people use Mozilla, Netscape 6+, and the other Gecko-based browsers now than IE4- and Netscape 4 combined.
Ohhh-kay. So? More people use OmniWeb than Spry Mosaic, Lynx, and Emacs/W3 combined. But they're all utterly irrelevant compared to IE's market dominance.
no, actually the sketch in his book "The Alien Life of Wayne Barlowe" is a sketch from his own evolved man ideas. No where in the book does it actually say that Dougal Dixon ganked from WDB or vide versa.
I don't have a citation or anything right now, but the sketch I saw was identical to a drawing that made it into Dixon's book, and it was accompanied by a note from Barlowe stating that the work had been plagarized by another illustrator.
Ask who? Oh, you mean that thing that's not anywhere near as useful as Google, which by the way also eschews banner ads in favor of paid listings? Yeah, I'm real broken up about this.
I assume the show was refering to larger derivatives of the squid, which they face the same problem the insects do, namely getting bigger than a baseball.
New Zealand's weta is considerably larger than a baseball. In size, anyway; not in mass.
You guys might be interested to know that the famous illustrator Wayne Douglas Barlowe ("Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials," "Expedition," "Barlowe's Inferno," plus a hell of a lot of book covers you've probably seen) has accused illustrator Dougal Dixon ("After Man," "Man After Man") of plagarism.
See, after he wrote "After Man," Dixon published a book called "Man After Man" that speculated about how humanity might evolve with genetic engineering and whatnot. Barlowe accused Dixon of plagarizing one of Barlowe's unpublished sketches to use in the book. Barlowe has since published the sketch in one of his books with a note explaining the situation. I don't know if anything legal was ever done on the matter, but I know that Barlowe has a real stick up his ass about Dixon.
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New Xserve and XRAID with firewire 2, 800Mbps for RAID makes sense.
XServe RAID is a Fibre Channel device, not FireWire. Fibre Channel is 2 Gbps, which is nothing to sneeze at.
Video iPod, unlikely.
Agreed. Video iPod is an incredibly stupid idea.
Color iPod, maybe.
Another stupid idea. The iPod doesn't need color.
I am hoping for an 802.11g Card with built in BlueTooth.
Why? The Bluetooth adapter is smaller than your thumb, costs $50, and plugs into the USB port on your monitor or keyboard. Because Bluetooth is so incredibly short-range, it doesn't need to have a big antenna like AirPort's. So there's no advantage at all to integrating it into the AirPort card.
But for full-speed of 800Mbps or 1.6Gbps, only STP (short twisted-pair) or expensive multi-mode fiber can be used.
For the record, multi-mode fiber optic cable isn't vert expensive any more.
Snob. Everything around you comprises your culture. The Bible, Shakespeare, and Milton are culture, but so are "I Love Lucy," Titanic, and Nirvana.
How many homeless shelters have you visited this week, Evil Adrian? How many meals have you given out?
Look, at least I'm honest about it. Generally speaking, I don't spend a whole lot of time worrying about other people. Neither do you. The difference is that I admit it freely, while you seem to be ashamed of the fact.
So they're hoping and praying for Farscape to pull in a 2 rating? Astounding. Firefly consistently drew around a 2.4, and yet Fux dropped it faster than... a... um... fast dropping thing.
Sorry. I'm having a figurative language problem today. I can do personification and synecdoche, but I can't pull off metaphor or simile. It's like....
Why are people so fucking gung-ho about saving a TV show, yet wouldn't lift a finger to help another human being?
Because nearly all other human beings suck.
Next question?
Right on, brother. But you forget to mention that it's Macworld, not MacWorld, and that it's FireWire, not Firewire.
Just in case anybody reads this obvious troll and believes it, iSync works like a charm. Palm's software can be very quirky, but for syncing computer-to-computer and computer-to-iPod, it's flawless.
1cm thick portable G4 system? I don't think so.
Remove the keyboard and trackpad from a Powerbook G4 and you'll end up with something that's about 1 cm thick. Remove the hard drive and optical drive to save even more space and weight (and power). It could be done.
Dude, try to keep in mind that 320x240 is postage-stamp sized. DVD's are the low end of digital video, and they're equivalent to about 850x480. That's more than five times the resolution of 320x240. And, as I said, DVD's are the absolute minimum low end of digital video; even el cheapo high definition equipment has more than twice again as much resolution as a DVD.
Imagine pluging the ipod into your digital camera, downloading your pictures and maybe even charging your camera at the same time.
How many digital cameras have FireWire ports on them? At best, you'd have to bridge USB to FireWire, which would require a powered adapter, which would, in a word, suck.
Again, "do people want this?" The answer is still no.
Now, if you wanted to talk about a 12" or larger 10:16 tablet with a built-in AirPort antenna and a couple of GB of compact flash or similar solid-state memory, we'd be in business. Built on Rendezvous, when you get in range of the tablet's "base station," it becomes a thin client, letting you run any application on the desktop computer using the desktop's CPU's for processing and its own for displaying the UI. When you leave range of the AirPort LAN, the tablet's AirPort card automatically shuts down and becomes a very simple low-powered device with a built-in browser, email program, calendar, address book, notepad application, PDF viewer, and little else, the perfect cross between PDA and laptop. That'd be a hit.
But an iPhoto appliance? Nah. Waste of effort.
Apple should give a try to this "BluePod" concept
Um. The guy who wrote that Register article doesn't have a very good understanding of how Bluetooth works. Before two devices can interoperate, they have to be paired. It's a security sort of thing. Besides, if you were sitting on a train listening to your iPod with Bluetooth-- somehow getting around the sharing problem-- about 25 people would be in range to access your device. Bluetooth is incredibly short-range.
This is not a good idea.
Sheesh! How long till CNN starts posting breaking stories about Apple rumors?
Seeing as how sites like eweek.com and news.com already run Apple rumors articles on their front pages, I'd say not very long at all.
Hmm. What just about everybody here seems to be forgetting is the "do people want this" test. How many times have you been sitting on your train or in an airport or whatever and said to yourself, "Gee, I wish I could look at my own collection of photographs right now?" Zero.
If Apple releases a new product-- I don't imagine they will, myself-- it will not be a device that people look at and say, "Oh, neat." It will be a device that people will look at and say, "I want one now. Take my money, Apple. Gimme gimme gimme."
Hmm, I don't know where you get the one video thing.. a 90 minute movie and some extra stuff takes up less than 5 gigs on DVD
Remember that almost all DVD's are dual-layer now. So a 90+ minute movie and extra stuff takes up less than 9 gigs on DVD, not less than 5.
I mean, you can fit a movie into 700 megs using DivX at a full resolution, so more like 50-80 movies on a 20 gig ipod if they used a codec like that!
Yes, and you'd be watching them on a screen slightly larger than a postage stamp. Dumb, dumb idea.
If your goal is the greatest number of eyeballs with your scripting web site, using the DOM will reach more eyeballs than document.all.
Yeah, and if your goal is to make more work for your programmers for benefits that can only be expressed mathematically, then by all means let's leave document.all unimplemented.
The important point here is that only a fool would accept more work for a trivial increase in potential user base. The only consequence of omitting document.all is to continue to make Mozilla an unattractive alternative to IE for users. Par for the course.
PS Threaded e-mail is handy, eh? It sure is, unless your mail reader doesn't remember that you want to see your mailboxes in threaded view and keeps reverting back to collapsed form.
No offense, my friend, but people who use Mozilla to read their email deserve what they get. Get thee to a real MUA.
More people use Mozilla, Netscape 6+, and the other Gecko-based browsers now than IE4- and Netscape 4 combined.
Ohhh-kay. So? More people use OmniWeb than Spry Mosaic, Lynx, and Emacs/W3 combined. But they're all utterly irrelevant compared to IE's market dominance.
no, actually the sketch in his book "The Alien Life of Wayne Barlowe" is a sketch from his own evolved man ideas. No where in the book does it actually say that Dougal Dixon ganked from WDB or vide versa.
I don't have a citation or anything right now, but the sketch I saw was identical to a drawing that made it into Dixon's book, and it was accompanied by a note from Barlowe stating that the work had been plagarized by another illustrator.
Ask who? Oh, you mean that thing that's not anywhere near as useful as Google, which by the way also eschews banner ads in favor of paid listings? Yeah, I'm real broken up about this.
I assume the show was refering to larger derivatives of the squid, which they face the same problem the insects do, namely getting bigger than a baseball.
New Zealand's weta is considerably larger than a baseball. In size, anyway; not in mass.
Those things give me the creeps.
You guys might be interested to know that the famous illustrator Wayne Douglas Barlowe ("Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials," "Expedition," "Barlowe's Inferno," plus a hell of a lot of book covers you've probably seen) has accused illustrator Dougal Dixon ("After Man," "Man After Man") of plagarism.
See, after he wrote "After Man," Dixon published a book called "Man After Man" that speculated about how humanity might evolve with genetic engineering and whatnot. Barlowe accused Dixon of plagarizing one of Barlowe's unpublished sketches to use in the book. Barlowe has since published the sketch in one of his books with a note explaining the situation. I don't know if anything legal was ever done on the matter, but I know that Barlowe has a real stick up his ass about Dixon.
"Say, I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation?"
"I doubt it, sir. They both spell and pronounce their names differently."
The author of the book was Dougal Dixon. Not Dougal Adams, Douglas Adams, Gomez Adams, or John Astin. Okay?
I do think he got carried away with the carnivorous monkeys and all that...
Did you know that many monkeys are actually omnivores? The common chimp, for example, kills and eats colobus monkeys whenever it can.