"AT&T is evaluating different operating systems, including Mac OS X and Linux, as alternatives to Microsoft Windows for internal use. "The company's chief information officer, Hossein Eslambolchi, has set up a team in AT&T's research labs to assess the appropriateness of desktop operating systems for the company," reports CNET News.com. "The company currently uses Windows on its desktop PCs, which number in the tens of thousands. The engineers are testing and measuring how Windows, Linux and Mac OS X stack up on security, reliability and total cost of ownership, Dickman said. AT&T expects to make a decision on the merits of the desktop operating systems by the end of next year or early 2006." ~ better description from MacMinute
Is it just me or would you take a 4% profit per machine instead of a 23% profit per machine on a deal like this if you were Apple? Which actually points out a small fact. Apple still makes an average of 12% on educational sales (even more if you factor in Applecare and service plans) I think if they are serious about enterprise and education, they'd take 3-4% profit. I also think that they don't realize how many of these workers would love them and buy them for home use.
If Apple could just do this and be successful in ONE corporate entity, it would make a huge impact on other enterprise deals. The fedex deal fell through - they were only able to sell them 20% of their total computer purchase. (Which replaced about 30% of all the computers at fedex worldwide)
I imagine that AT&T will go with Linux though.
Boy, isn't this a good reason to have a headless iMac?
... that the New York Times should be considered an unbiased and balanced source for all of our political news.
Funny, they haven't had a single anti-Kerry piece so far.
- no coverage of political campaign contributions being misappropriated and illegal
- little to no coverage of the backlash against Fahrenheit 9/11
- no coverage of George Bush interview with Bill O'Reilly
- next to zero coverage of CBS evidence mistake
And let me just say - slashdot - you are REALLY polarizing your users, I know this makes no difference and will be modded into flamebait oblivion. But how about a pro Bush post - like computers for education plans that he's signed - or an Anti Kerry story - about how the military is actually using the best technology and they needed more funds for it and Kerry voted against sending more money to fund it. (Yet says he's for removing Saddam and completing the job in iraq)
Think about it. As these become more popular - there will also be additional waste in plant emissions, disposal, and batteries that store the electricity.
Solar silicon is a nightmare to dispose of from what I read and the batteries, well, we all know that those cause problems.
You also have to look into the cost of actual setup - more trucks, more crew for maintenance.
While I am SURE this is less pollution, it is hardly reduction.
"The experiment was a success; Lucas demonstrated that he could make amazingly high quality television for rock-bottom prices"
One of the "other" reasons for Star Trek TNG going off the air was skyrocketing visual effects costs - from; none other than ILM.
ILM does not produce their effects cheap - now maybe they can with inhouse - but they certainly don't come cheap when they are producing for someone else.
And this explains what, exactly? If anything, this would convince me even more not to give them my broken part. It's not theirs to sell.
Ummm, so others can have the benefit of having their parts fixed... maybe.
Also, why hold it, what good is it doing you?
Holding because you can isn't good reason to hold it. It is a requirement for any repair that I get an exchange part if a new part is used or purchased (period) - this is truly so someone else may benefit from the part if said part is out of warranty and hard to find or unreasonably priced.
Take the iMac DV slot drives for instance $239 service part - these drives can be had for as little as $40. They can also be fixed pretty easily or refurbed.
I think Perot proved this. Perot was a very viable 3rd party candidate until people really got to know him. He seemed like a great candidate for President from many aspects, but then he whipped out all the charts and cliches.
Perot proved that $$$ is what wins political campaigns nowadays - that combined with a good head on your shoulders. It has little to do with party affiliation or constituency in this era.
Can anyone tell if the processor is removable?
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I can't tell from the kodawarison take apart or the Apple diagrams if the processor itself is on a daughtercard this time.
If so, I wonder how long it will be before PowerLogix or Sonnet can come out with a faster CPU.
I've also wondered about the GPU (Graphics card) since the educational units have such a different graphics card - I wondered if they were making motherboards specifically for education for the new iMacs or whether the GPU was simply on a card that easy to replace.
My question, as a tech, why did YOU want to keep the old part?
I always keep the old part as PART of the service of fixing.
Concerning Apple parts - out of warranty parts are usually astronomical in price. I can usually fix anything - some just may take too much time and it's cheaper just to order a new part.
I also may be able able to use "your broken unit" to repair other units and possibly resell on eBay or my website or in my store.
Apple used "trade ins/exchanges" to resell to parts dealers like Preowned Electronics and Sun Remarketing - so sources would be available for years to come for Apple parts and service sources.
I'm slightly different than Apple, in that, I don't charge absorbadant prices for replacement parts or for repair really, but I do rely on trade in/exchange as part of my "fee".
Apple has a pretty big business in selling off refurb/open box/old inventory.
GoDaddy actually has a good domain "whois" information protection built in - by making you type in a random password to continue to get to the information.
This should be required by all websites/registrars that link to the whois database.
I think what you do is a little overkill.
Can you confirm though that your speaking out against spammers has actually increased your junk email? I have been tracking a spammer in my home state and I have suspected the same.
they stop using the exact same TV tuner from Philips that everyone uses in their TV Tuners whether USB or firewire.
The biggest leap forward will be when it's a simple USB dongle like this
This also make it truely useful laptops. Even something as big as a deck of cards is impractical with a laptop. I mean we're all already carrying our iPods.
these are all names of a major email list distributor in my state. I have been tracking them down. My father is good friends with the attorney general; who has agreed to assist in an effort to end his company's mass email marketing.
First of all, it is regularly pointed out [admittedly by Republicans] that Nature is politically far left. This generalization in the introduction to these questions from the site just stopped me from reading anything else:
" scientists [read as educators/professors] at universities have become unfriendly territory for Republicans"
Professors at universities have NEVER been Republican - republicans ask for accountability and aren't necessarily for higher teacher pay. The teacher associations are the single biggest democratic support = bias
AND
"Bush accuses the Kerry campaign" - with no followup - Kerry accuses Bush campaign remarks = bias
I'm not just accusing Nature of being bias either.
... these batteries, distribute these batteries and this wind/energy equipment - maintenace trucks and tools that consume energy for a fleet of repairmen and don't forget the environmental cost of disposing of all these batteries.
This is something, even with solar, that most environmentalists leave out of their arguments.
I think Glaser should have been given a "try again" on questions 1) and 4).
They weren't answers at all. In fact, question 4) was actually the most repeated question in the forums moderated or not. It was also the most important question on many other websites [read as many other mac web sites] - as I am not sure this interview was making much headline everywhere else.
As for the answer to question 9) - shame on slashdot for even allowing him to lie like a politician and say that there was ANYthing positive out of the freedomofchoice music site REAL put up and shame on him for saying it was just Mac users, a lot of linux was mixed in there as well. If it was so positive why did they remove the comments?
I've been trying to track down a spammer in my state.
[The originator of the free iPod scams]
I was surprised [sarcasm] to see that he had written a piece on the internet on how the CAN SPAM ACT would bring a renaissance in email marketing.
This 100 years of SPAM reminded me of this because this "essay" describes how email marketing has now reached the protections that attorneys have desired for decades.
I plan to do a story about this guy and his business [freeslide,producttestpanel, subscriberbase, consumer research corporation] on my jackwhispers website, but first I have stories planned for the local newspapers. I'm going to the attorney general office tomorrow to discuss it.
Print out a doctor's report but with larger than normal lettering.
Have it say, "AIDS positive". Place a condom with hand lotion in it on the floor [to make it look used]. I will gauranty that it will work, it sounds gross I know. But I assure you if a criminal sees it they will run - quickly. A hypodermic needle thrown in wouldn't hurt.
Kind of an opposite, but similar approach - I have heard of people highlighting the 8th commandment and leaving their Bibles open in the passenger seat.
I wish anyone that has tried this with a Rio Carbon or more specifically the iPod mini - do you get better battery life with a compact flash card in these things?
And to note... I recently spoke with someone at Hitachi. They said the MAIN reason the iPod mini is a closed device where you can't just remove the drive easily is solely to protect it's market for the drives otherwise.
Re:"unusual fact" /consider this partisan look
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Republicans and conservatives do not equal the same thing.
There are many types of Republicans just as there many types of Democrats.
Let's apply your example to the topic, but add actuality to it:
Republicans ARE for LESS government and would rather have people who KNOW what they are doing in charge. This is oftenmiscontrued as protecting interests.
In this case, Republicans want intellectual property protected because that is in agreeance capitalism. It's not about control or what can be afforded.
Democrats, on average are for more government. The concept of no intellectual property is actually socialist and would fit in with the generally social program agenda of the Democratic platorm. Democrats don't base anything on cost, they take the expense right to the taxpayer.
Many questions will center around this topic I'm sure, but hopefully I'm asking a unique question here:
In your PR for Harmony - you stated that this was a ground up software approach.
Was there ANY reverse engineering?
I also find it VERY hard to believe that you didn't borrow some code from HYMN to produce this software - will you emphatically and categorically deny any code borrowing or reverse engineering?
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Actually it's not.
Xbox (as used in this article) with a modded 128MB RAM and larger/faster hard drive + $300 retail (+ mod time)
Xbox = $149
HD = $100
Memory and mod kit = $50
Mac OSX 10.2 (as used in article) = $50
Keyboard = $20
Mouse = $10
Other materials such as soldering iron, wiring, CDs to burn Linux and Pear PC onto = $50
17" Screen or 19" TV $75 (minimum)
At this - you don't get easy wireless, iApps, a combo drive that burn CDs AND view DVDs and minus a whole host of other features.
You can get a nice refurb eMac 1Ghz and sometimes 1.25GHZ directly from Apple for $529 shipped on a regular basis in the special deals section.
I read through the entire article before this was posted here.
Very interesting, but I'm going to call foul.
Why out of all the screenshots is this one obscured? It's the most important of the screenshots out of the lot that was provided in the article.
I also thought TechTV had made it pretty clear that pearPC was almost unuseable on a machine below 2.5 GHz.
"AT&T is evaluating different operating systems, including Mac OS X and Linux, as alternatives to Microsoft Windows for internal use. "The company's chief information officer, Hossein Eslambolchi, has set up a team in AT&T's research labs to assess the appropriateness of desktop operating systems for the company," reports CNET News.com. "The company currently uses Windows on its desktop PCs, which number in the tens of thousands. The engineers are testing and measuring how Windows, Linux and Mac OS X stack up on security, reliability and total cost of ownership, Dickman said. AT&T expects to make a decision on the merits of the desktop operating systems by the end of next year or early 2006." ~ better description from MacMinute
Is it just me or would you take a 4% profit per machine instead of a 23% profit per machine on a deal like this if you were Apple? Which actually points out a small fact. Apple still makes an average of 12% on educational sales (even more if you factor in Applecare and service plans) I think if they are serious about enterprise and education, they'd take 3-4% profit. I also think that they don't realize how many of these workers would love them and buy them for home use.
If Apple could just do this and be successful in ONE corporate entity, it would make a huge impact on other enterprise deals. The fedex deal fell through - they were only able to sell them 20% of their total computer purchase. (Which replaced about 30% of all the computers at fedex worldwide)
I imagine that AT&T will go with Linux though.
Boy, isn't this a good reason to have a headless iMac?
Actually ... no.
The address book works with vcards and will still sync bluetooth.
The unit itself can now just be mounted like a hard drive on the Mac desktop - so you just drag whatever straight into an appropriate place.
Besides the palmone spec page says - full mac support
... that the New York Times should be considered an unbiased and balanced source for all of our political news.
Funny, they haven't had a single anti-Kerry piece so far.
- no coverage of political campaign contributions being misappropriated and illegal
- little to no coverage of the backlash against Fahrenheit 9/11
- no coverage of George Bush interview with Bill O'Reilly
- next to zero coverage of CBS evidence mistake
And let me just say - slashdot - you are REALLY polarizing your users, I know this makes no difference and will be modded into flamebait oblivion. But how about a pro Bush post - like computers for education plans that he's signed - or an Anti Kerry story - about how the military is actually using the best technology and they needed more funds for it and Kerry voted against sending more money to fund it. (Yet says he's for removing Saddam and completing the job in iraq)
... all produce waste.
Think about it. As these become more popular - there will also be additional waste in plant emissions, disposal, and batteries that store the electricity.
Solar silicon is a nightmare to dispose of from what I read and the batteries, well, we all know that those cause problems.
You also have to look into the cost of actual setup - more trucks, more crew for maintenance.
While I am SURE this is less pollution, it is hardly reduction.
"The experiment was a success; Lucas demonstrated that he could make amazingly high quality television for rock-bottom prices"
One of the "other" reasons for Star Trek TNG going off the air was skyrocketing visual effects costs - from; none other than ILM.
ILM does not produce their effects cheap - now maybe they can with inhouse - but they certainly don't come cheap when they are producing for someone else.
And this explains what, exactly? If anything, this would convince me even more not to give them my broken part. It's not theirs to sell.
... maybe.
Ummm, so others can have the benefit of having their parts fixed
Also, why hold it, what good is it doing you?
Holding because you can isn't good reason to hold it. It is a requirement for any repair that I get an exchange part if a new part is used or purchased (period) - this is truly so someone else may benefit from the part if said part is out of warranty and hard to find or unreasonably priced.
Take the iMac DV slot drives for instance $239 service part - these drives can be had for as little as $40. They can also be fixed pretty easily or refurbed.
I think Perot proved this. Perot was a very viable 3rd party candidate until people really got to know him. He seemed like a great candidate for President from many aspects, but then he whipped out all the charts and cliches.
Perot proved that $$$ is what wins political campaigns nowadays - that combined with a good head on your shoulders. It has little to do with party affiliation or constituency in this era.
I can't tell from the kodawarison take apart or the Apple diagrams if the processor itself is on a daughtercard this time.
If so, I wonder how long it will be before PowerLogix or Sonnet can come out with a faster CPU.
I've also wondered about the GPU (Graphics card) since the educational units have such a different graphics card - I wondered if they were making motherboards specifically for education for the new iMacs or whether the GPU was simply on a card that easy to replace.
My question, as a tech, why did YOU want to keep the old part?
I always keep the old part as PART of the service of fixing.
Concerning Apple parts - out of warranty parts are usually astronomical in price. I can usually fix anything - some just may take too much time and it's cheaper just to order a new part.
I also may be able able to use "your broken unit" to repair other units and possibly resell on eBay or my website or in my store.
Apple used "trade ins/exchanges" to resell to parts dealers like Preowned Electronics and Sun Remarketing - so sources would be available for years to come for Apple parts and service sources.
I'm slightly different than Apple, in that, I don't charge absorbadant prices for replacement parts or for repair really, but I do rely on trade in/exchange as part of my "fee".
Apple has a pretty big business in selling off refurb/open box/old inventory.
GoDaddy actually has a good domain "whois" information protection built in - by making you type in a random password to continue to get to the information.
This should be required by all websites/registrars that link to the whois database.
I think what you do is a little overkill.
Can you confirm though that your speaking out against spammers has actually increased your junk email? I have been tracking a spammer in my home state and I have suspected the same.
For the purists:
I have A New Hope & Return Of The Jedi on VHS - asking $50 shipped to USA $60 shippped Internationally.
NTSC
Sleeves and movies are in 9.75 out of 10 condition
Empire is actually mostly unchanged or changed for the better, so this is why I never acquired it.
Remember, Laserdisc is fine but next to impossible to find a player. But for those that aren't interested in my VHS tapes:
Here's a few tips though if you need to find a LaserDisc player:
1) Pawn Shops
2) Thrift Stores in major metro areas
3) College town want ads
4) Borrowing from local educational institution
You can go here to get my email address.
they stop using the exact same TV tuner from Philips that everyone uses in their TV Tuners whether USB or firewire.
The biggest leap forward will be when it's a simple USB dongle like this
This also make it truely useful laptops. Even something as big as a deck of cards is impractical with a laptop. I mean we're all already carrying our iPods.
these are all names of a major email list distributor in my state. I have been tracking them down. My father is good friends with the attorney general; who has agreed to assist in an effort to end his company's mass email marketing.
;)
If you care to follow, read my blog here
I'll go ahead and claim the bounty on this one
First of all, it is regularly pointed out [admittedly by Republicans] that Nature is politically far left. This generalization in the introduction to these questions from the site just stopped me from reading anything else:
" scientists [read as educators/professors] at universities have become unfriendly territory for Republicans"
Professors at universities have NEVER been Republican - republicans ask for accountability and aren't necessarily for higher teacher pay. The teacher associations are the single biggest democratic support = bias
AND
"Bush accuses the Kerry campaign" - with no followup - Kerry accuses Bush campaign remarks = bias
I'm not just accusing Nature of being bias either.
... these batteries, distribute these batteries and this wind/energy equipment - maintenace trucks and tools that consume energy for a fleet of repairmen and don't forget the environmental cost of disposing of all these batteries.
This is something, even with solar, that most environmentalists leave out of their arguments.
I think Glaser should have been given a "try again" on questions 1) and 4).
They weren't answers at all. In fact, question 4) was actually the most repeated question in the forums moderated or not. It was also the most important question on many other websites [read as many other mac web sites] - as I am not sure this interview was making much headline everywhere else.
As for the answer to question 9) - shame on slashdot for even allowing him to lie like a politician and say that there was ANYthing positive out of the freedomofchoice music site REAL put up and shame on him for saying it was just Mac users, a lot of linux was mixed in there as well. If it was so positive why did they remove the comments?
The question answered would be has iChat had any noticeable effect by AOL on AOL Instant Messenger membership.
I would say it might have an effect on Jabber. Eventhough Apple has a small marketshare, it has a higher percent of that marketshare that are online.
I've been trying to track down a spammer in my state.
[The originator of the free iPod scams]
I was surprised [sarcasm] to see that he had written a piece on the internet on how the CAN SPAM ACT would bring a renaissance in email marketing.
This 100 years of SPAM reminded me of this because this "essay" describes how email marketing has now reached the protections that attorneys have desired for decades.
I plan to do a story about this guy and his business [freeslide,producttestpanel, subscriberbase, consumer research corporation] on my jackwhispers website, but first I have stories planned for the local newspapers. I'm going to the attorney general office tomorrow to discuss it.
don't mod this funny or mod down...
this really works!
Print out a doctor's report but with larger than normal lettering.
Have it say, "AIDS positive". Place a condom with hand lotion in it on the floor [to make it look used]. I will gauranty that it will work, it sounds gross I know. But I assure you if a criminal sees it they will run - quickly. A hypodermic needle thrown in wouldn't hurt.
Kind of an opposite, but similar approach - I have heard of people highlighting the 8th commandment and leaving their Bibles open in the passenger seat.
Then there's always this approach.
I wish anyone that has tried this with a Rio Carbon or more specifically the iPod mini - do you get better battery life with a compact flash card in these things?
And to note... I recently spoke with someone at Hitachi. They said the MAIN reason the iPod mini is a closed device where you can't just remove the drive easily is solely to protect it's market for the drives otherwise.
Republicans and conservatives do not equal the same thing.
There are many types of Republicans just as there many types of Democrats.
Let's apply your example to the topic, but add actuality to it:
Republicans ARE for LESS government and would rather have people who KNOW what they are doing in charge. This is oftenmiscontrued as protecting interests.
In this case, Republicans want intellectual property protected because that is in agreeance capitalism. It's not about control or what can be afforded.
Democrats, on average are for more government. The concept of no intellectual property is actually socialist and would fit in with the generally social program agenda of the Democratic platorm.
Democrats don't base anything on cost, they take the expense right to the taxpayer.
Many questions will center around this topic I'm sure, but hopefully I'm asking a unique question here:
In your PR for Harmony - you stated that this was a ground up software approach.
Was there ANY reverse engineering?
I also find it VERY hard to believe that you didn't borrow some code from HYMN to produce this software - will you emphatically and categorically deny any code borrowing or reverse engineering?
One of the most useful applications for the floppy drive was the flashpath readers
These were nice because they were one of the only ways to read media on some laptops.
It also allowed you to essentially have a zip drive out of a regular floppy if you used the 128MB media.