They pretty much already do that at MTV. Most TRL videos are online.
I do agree with you though:. Just as Apple has the iPod, and dell has (cough cough) their iPod clone for their service, maybe MTV should have this. (The RCA Lyra Video/Mp3 jukebox)
Read my journal entry from yesterday on my Apple perspective about this story:
This was my journal entry for the morning, a little off topic but in a round about way, Sun relates to Linux and the merger mentioned at the end could make HUGE inroads for Apple into the Linux market.
Happy Halloween... I'll start of with a little humor...
Look at this cartoon at HomeStarRunner.com. When Steve Jobs introduced Jaguar he pronounced it "JagWire" - seems he needs to take a lesson from the HomeStar gang.
So, if I were CEO of Apple or if my job was in product development here's what I would be developing/releasing:
A bluetooth "one/two" button scroll mouse - I say "one/two" because the scroll button could be the 2nd button - this would satisfy Steve's simplicity rule (and his ongoing contract not to make fancy mice with Logitech) - this would also satisfy those that finally want two buttons. The scroll wheel should be like the scroller found on new Microsoft mice that can move from side to side as well as up & down a page. Scrolling is overdue on Apple mice. I really don't think Apple should innovate beyond this, but I am aware of a very interesting mouse that's in development that will combine a Griffin PowerMate and a mouse - sounds odd, but it will be interesting to see.
Along the same lines, Apple needs to put this same scroller on PowerBooks - an up & down and side to side scroller
Here's the big one - a TV tuner in everything except the iBook - all 15" & 17" PowerBooks, the high end 15" & 17" iMacs, the high end G5's, and the high end eMac should all have TV Tuners - a TV/FM/AM tuner would be awesome. Make the svideo port on the back an i/o rather than just output. This would make macs not just computers but entertainment centers as well. This is Steve's vision isn't it? Mac Users would go APES to have a Mac TV in their bedrooms - and it would be an immense value to the consumer as 17" LCD TVs are premium priced at $799 - a TV integration should cost no more than $30 in volume production. Sell a bluetooth remote, get a company like Griffin, Macally, XtremeMac in on the idea, ask them if they want to produce a premium remote. One that could say control an iPod OR the TV. Now get this - here's a side advantage - have a retractable antenna that can act as a 802.11g signal booster OR an over the air antenna!!! Apple could already have something similar to this if they'd just integrate a PCMCIA slot into iMacs & G5s. But still, I'd rather it be Apple's total solution, integrated and slick.
Next: The iSight needs a line in - this would cost pennies to integrate - the back should just screw off or a little popout svideo port would be cool - a $149 camera/firewire digitizer would SHAKE that entire market - the current firewire/analog converters are VERY expensive.
Next Up: The iPod - it needs to be this. Apple could have the iMovie store - what about Movies in Mp4 for $1.99 !! Burn once to DVD capable, authorized on 3 computers or the iPod. Think of it!!. Truthfully, I'd rather my car passengers have something like a video iPod than one of those integrated DVD/TVs that are popping up in minivans now. I saw an accident happen on the highway the other day because the driver behind a minivan with a TV was watching the TV and not the road/car in front of him. (The guy behind the minivan was actually watching the TV!!) Photo & video sharing, iPhoto integration, wow. Then, somebody with better design thinking than Belkin ("what the hell" was my reaction when I saw this) could make a media dock that could transfer photos to a Mac OR to the iPod. The media reader Belkin made was VERY short sighted. They should have made it firewire, then ALL Mac users might have been interested as well as some PC
I have never really had any problems with M$'s policy of... "If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em out" - I wish more companies made aquisitions and injected cash into their business model.
The only problem is that usually Microsoft will buy out a company then close or proprietize the format.
There are other posts here meant to be funny, saying, "Great, now they'll make only Internet Explorer compatible"
The only concern I would have here is if Apple has the Google toolbar integrated into Safari and Apple Users going to Google pages and seeing Wintel ads - maybe there would be a special portal for Apple Users.
I believe Sonnet often practices sending clocked down units to reviewers that also have better cooling and gold lead wires on the upgrade boards. The shipping units will often be "at clock cycle" Mhz rated with tin/silver leads and usually metal heatsinks.
OWC caught them doing this a year or so back - there, cache slot upgrades were 450Mhz Chips OVERCLOCKED to 500Mhz. The review units were noted on some messageboards as being 550Mhz rated chips clocked down to 500Mhz (indicated on the chip itself).
Powerlogix often ships special software to reviewers that enables better cache speed or that sometimes alters the Mac firmware that does not make it to consumers. Reviwewers are asked not to review the units without the custom software. This was indicated recently by their BlueChip upgrades for Pismo PowerBooks and their 900Mhz G3 Upgrades for Blue & White Macs. They sold these upgrades as 900Mhz, but the Apple System Profiler saw them as 550Mhz. Reviewers were sent a special firmaware utility to make the System Profiler read correctly. Consumers had to live with the 550Mhz and find out there upgrades were incompatible with niceties like Virtual PC 6 and iSight compatibility. The firmware is JUST now making Mac news (5 months after the release). Powerlogix hasn't officially posted to their site. All the reviewers would have caught this and noted it in their reviews.
Are the teachers from Junior Achievement? What is the selection process? I would love to do this (to be one of the educators). Since I have the Macintosh contracts with the majority of the Upstate SC schools and I actually see merit in filesharing technology, I believe I would be a good candidate. I would like to promote the online (pay for) services like the iTunes Music Store.
My suggestion: that they give these "teachers" gift certificates to the iTunes Store, Napster, Dell Music, etc.
Anyone from any of these services or that feel philanthropic want to donate some tunes via GC?
It's better to just have a Mac in the case of cost you mention (virus/exploit)
Also, I think POS (with mac POS) and database with a secure version of excel or better yet FileMaker is a better option than any Microsoft offering as well.
Honestly and unbiasly I say this as well... Macs have FAR less down time in my personal IT experience as well.
NEC released two notebooks with Alpha processors. They also had SCSI 2.5" drives - I beleive an option on one was to have 500MB flashRAM SCSI drive - that option (again if not mistaken was $4400 (in addition to the laptop) - they were mostly used by Telephone Companies and Utility/Energy companies. I know my local Duke Power line workers had a few. (My mother leases apartments to Duke Power transients - so I kept up with their technology) - Duke Power moved to Apple PowerBook Duos and currently use Panasonic Toughbooks.
There are FAR more apps on the PC that crash under XP, just don't work, or are just poorly written. On average, a 3rd party app for the Mac is written with higher programming/compiling standard. And take note, 3rd party apps ARE NOT Apple Apps.
Besides, one of the programs, I believe this guy was talking about was a Haxie that Panther addresses.
Also, I only use respected 3rd party applications. Adobe, Microsoft, and my favorite shareware (Graphic Converter from Lemkesoft) all come out with INSTANT updates if an update needs to be released.
The article extrapolates statistics too much and is a weak review at best. While I don't expect everything to work and everything to be favorable, at least Apple quickly addresses software/OS issues with updates.
I think a group of taxpayers should should sue these parents. This costs money to defend (taxpayer money)... even if it doesn't make it to court.
I also guess (like my Dad) that these parents don't realize what social harm they are doing their kids by being obnoxiously demanding of the educational process.
Many people have said in these forums and mentioned stray cellphone, radio, and microwave signals. I guess the "suers" don't consider those in their uninformed decision.
See this journal entry of mine from a few days back:
Can someone correct me... but I thought the universe was suppose to be shaped like a piece of paper that was slightly planed (into a U shape) - this was to lead to a possible way to time travel - by bending that space even further. But, if the universe is a dodechahedron - how would one compress or change the shape of such a mass??
But not dual storage bays, only dual battery bays. The wallstreet could fit a battery or a storage device in either bay, one a 5.25" or 3.5" the other a 3.5" (2.5") Zip, floppy, superdisk, HD
Were all free, not to mention all the app and security fixes. Most of those updates weren't REQUIRED like the "free Windows updates" AND each time you updated you had to validate your Windows system under XP.
This is the release of X that everyone should want. faster, more stable on every machine I've tested it on.
The only problem I find with the support is that the Wallstreet line PowerBooks, especially after adding a 500Mhz G4 upgrade was one of the best lines Apple ever made. I liked the Pismo line too, but the dual storage bay capability of the Wallstreet was a real plus. Floppy to floppy copy Expansion bay hard drive to floppy copy, or Zip and SuperDisk transfer was a real plus when I had to copy files for a client. I also upgraded my drive to DVD/CDRW combo drive.
That said, 10.3 is the release of Panther you have been waiting for. Dramatic increases in speed and launch times - and I just have an older prelease from WWDC.
The best thing to do is to get a keyboard remapping program and use all those useless keys for other stuff like launching websites, launching events, applications, or performing multiple items and cut and paste stuff.
Libertarians in my area (Greenville SC) are nothing but whacko anarchists. Their leader is often engaged in vigilante justice.
A few months back he COMPLETELY "ruined the peace and progress" of an anti flag rally by pushing a black guy out of line. (Anti flag = no civil war flag/ACLU/Jesse Jackson issue)
This "leader" of the Libertarians has also sued my business over service - he bought a computer from me - then tried to hook a Parallel printer into the SCSI port - fried the computer - then wanted me to replace it under warranty. He later came on the 6 o clock news stating that it was black judge that handed the decision out because of his "push" and took no consideration of the facts. So, I agree... Libertarians give Libertarianism a bad name. They don't want a solution, they want a sort of quasi secular/quasi religious vindication for everything. (Side note: said leader also ststed in his monthly newsletter that if it would have been the "old days, before gov't intrusion, we'd have settled it with pistols!.... say WHAT???)
Obviously green party socialists whackos are responding to you here, I agree with you and that's exactly the same thing that happened here in the US. The power problem wasn't actually from Ohio, it's because fruitballs in New York "don't want to risk nuclear" so A LOT of the power New York uses comes "piped in" - I agree with your shift of waste - it's estimated that New York accounts for 15% of OUR waste in South Carolina at a place called the Savanah River Toxic Waste Facility.
Also, take a look at the replies you have received: profanity - usually a person without a point resorts to profanity. ; )
I was at a local Flea Market today - Terminator 3, Pirates Of The Carribean, and Underworld $8 at AT LEAST 5 different tables.
What I wish is that they would let geeks serve community service time (if being punished criminally) by assisting officers at Flea Markets around the country stopping these piracy rings which are physical goods.
To continue; I think a techie could also assist with knowing what electronics might be stolen as well.
To top it off, I'd like to see some Latinos with food liscenses and visa checks from these markets too.
mmmm.... no... Nokia's sales are sliding too. That design is impractical and ugly... not to mention COMPLETELY boring - like the parent said, it looks like a WinAMP (in my case Audion) Skin - one I wouldn't download.
Probably not because of the secure channel, but it's pretty much a given that someone will make some drivers for it. Watch versiontracker - sounds like a new project for Jonas Salling who made the3 ever so useful Salling Clicker for the t68i phone.
Ok, so the majority of/. readers are on the side of filesharing - but a 12 year old girl or 72 year old makes no difference.
The RIAA will ALWAYS see filesharing as breaking the law - so give them a fair unbiased look here -
Would you want your local police to let the 12 year old girl off for burning down your house? I know you wouldn't let the 22 year old girl go without pressing charges!
Can't remember where I heard this study... but there was someone recently saying that the proliferation of cell, bluetooth, CB, radio, and wifi signals could be having a minute effect on the brain - causing us to become more impatient because it keeps our brains more active (having to filter the "over abundance" of signals.
That said, I think it be contradictory to this study because it seems like to me that ghost sightings and the paranormal are not as common as they were in the 80's - to me things like this are only a fad - after movies/books like Poltergeist and Amityville Horror.
Also, strange sensations like Deja Vu or Premonition I don't think can be explained through this study.
So an author who wrote 6 paragraphs and 14 run on sentences and used thje word "fishes" in "The Old Man In The Sea" and wrote in a similar style in "War & Peace" would have have failed the AP English exam? Granted one couldn't write War & Peace in the alotted time, but they could easily write a short story like "Old Man In The Sea". There is such a thing as overlooked by the eye if a story is well thought out. Most graders will miss poor grammar, bad spelling, if the body of the story is interesting to read - just as many do here on Slashdot - poor grammar USUALLY doesn't yield poor moderation here.
I would love to hear what Stephen King thinks about this too.
And if China, Japan, et al want to sell here... they darn well oughta have a standards based sytem we can understand and don't have to develop custom APIs and interaction with.
Saw a note that California, if it were a country.... it would be the 4th largest GDP in the world!!!
Slashdot Mirror
Read my journal entry from yesterday on my Apple perspective about this story:
http://slashdot.org/~adzoox/journal/51035
Happy Halloween ... I'll start of with a little humor...
Look at this cartoon at HomeStarRunner.com. When Steve Jobs introduced Jaguar he pronounced it "JagWire" - seems he needs to take a lesson from the HomeStar gang.
So, if I were CEO of Apple or if my job was in product development here's what I would be developing/releasing:
A bluetooth "one/two" button scroll mouse - I say "one/two" because the scroll button could be the 2nd button - this would satisfy Steve's simplicity rule (and his ongoing contract not to make fancy mice with Logitech) - this would also satisfy those that finally want two buttons. The scroll wheel should be like the scroller found on new Microsoft mice that can move from side to side as well as up & down a page. Scrolling is overdue on Apple mice. I really don't think Apple should innovate beyond this, but I am aware of a very interesting mouse that's in development that will combine a Griffin PowerMate and a mouse - sounds odd, but it will be interesting to see.
Along the same lines, Apple needs to put this same scroller on PowerBooks - an up & down and side to side scroller
Here's the big one - a TV tuner in everything except the iBook - all 15" & 17" PowerBooks, the high end 15" & 17" iMacs, the high end G5's, and the high end eMac should all have TV Tuners - a TV/FM/AM tuner would be awesome. Make the svideo port on the back an i/o rather than just output. This would make macs not just computers but entertainment centers as well. This is Steve's vision isn't it? Mac Users would go APES to have a Mac TV in their bedrooms - and it would be an immense value to the consumer as 17" LCD TVs are premium priced at $799 - a TV integration should cost no more than $30 in volume production. Sell a bluetooth remote, get a company like Griffin, Macally, XtremeMac in on the idea, ask them if they want to produce a premium remote. One that could say control an iPod OR the TV. Now get this - here's a side advantage - have a retractable antenna that can act as a 802.11g signal booster OR an over the air antenna!!! Apple could already have something similar to this if they'd just integrate a PCMCIA slot into iMacs & G5s. But still, I'd rather it be Apple's total solution, integrated and slick.
Next: The iSight needs a line in - this would cost pennies to integrate - the back should just screw off or a little popout svideo port would be cool - a $149 camera/firewire digitizer would SHAKE that entire market - the current firewire/analog converters are VERY expensive.
Next Up: The iPod - it needs to be this. Apple could have the iMovie store - what about Movies in Mp4 for $1.99 !! Burn once to DVD capable, authorized on 3 computers or the iPod. Think of it!!. Truthfully, I'd rather my car passengers have something like a video iPod than one of those integrated DVD/TVs that are popping up in minivans now. I saw an accident happen on the highway the other day because the driver behind a minivan with a TV was watching the TV and not the road/car in front of him. (The guy behind the minivan was actually watching the TV!!) Photo & video sharing, iPhoto integration, wow. Then, somebody with better design thinking than Belkin ("what the hell" was my reaction when I saw this) could make a media dock that could transfer photos to a Mac OR to the iPod. The media reader Belkin made was VERY short sighted. They should have made it firewire, then ALL Mac users might have been interested as well as some PC
I have never really had any problems with M$'s policy of ... "If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em out" - I wish more companies made aquisitions and injected cash into their business model.
The only problem is that usually Microsoft will buy out a company then close or proprietize the format.
There are other posts here meant to be funny, saying, "Great, now they'll make only Internet Explorer compatible"
The only concern I would have here is if Apple has the Google toolbar integrated into Safari and Apple Users going to Google pages and seeing Wintel ads - maybe there would be a special portal for Apple Users.
I believe Sonnet often practices sending clocked down units to reviewers that also have better cooling and gold lead wires on the upgrade boards. The shipping units will often be "at clock cycle" Mhz rated with tin/silver leads and usually metal heatsinks.
OWC caught them doing this a year or so back - there, cache slot upgrades were 450Mhz Chips OVERCLOCKED to 500Mhz. The review units were noted on some messageboards as being 550Mhz rated chips clocked down to 500Mhz (indicated on the chip itself).
Powerlogix often ships special software to reviewers that enables better cache speed or that sometimes alters the Mac firmware that does not make it to consumers. Reviwewers are asked not to review the units without the custom software. This was indicated recently by their BlueChip upgrades for Pismo PowerBooks and their 900Mhz G3 Upgrades for Blue & White Macs. They sold these upgrades as 900Mhz, but the Apple System Profiler saw them as 550Mhz. Reviewers were sent a special firmaware utility to make the System Profiler read correctly. Consumers had to live with the 550Mhz and find out there upgrades were incompatible with niceties like Virtual PC 6 and iSight compatibility. The firmware is JUST now making Mac news (5 months after the release). Powerlogix hasn't officially posted to their site. All the reviewers would have caught this and noted it in their reviews.
Are the teachers from Junior Achievement? What is the selection process? I would love to do this (to be one of the educators). Since I have the Macintosh contracts with the majority of the Upstate SC schools and I actually see merit in filesharing technology, I believe I would be a good candidate. I would like to promote the online (pay for) services like the iTunes Music Store.
My suggestion: that they give these "teachers" gift certificates to the iTunes Store, Napster, Dell Music, etc.
Anyone from any of these services or that feel philanthropic want to donate some tunes via GC?
It's better to just have a Mac in the case of cost you mention (virus/exploit)
... Macs have FAR less down time in my personal IT experience as well.
Also, I think POS (with mac POS) and database with a secure version of excel or better yet FileMaker is a better option than any Microsoft offering as well.
Honestly and unbiasly I say this as well
The PowerBook Duo 2300 withe 603e and SCSI hard drive was a RISC SCSI portable.
As I remember the machines that the Duke power workers had were lightening fast, even as compared to today's machines.
NEC released two notebooks with Alpha processors. They also had SCSI 2.5" drives - I beleive an option on one was to have 500MB flashRAM SCSI drive - that option (again if not mistaken was $4400 (in addition to the laptop) - they were mostly used by Telephone Companies and Utility/Energy companies. I know my local Duke Power line workers had a few. (My mother leases apartments to Duke Power transients - so I kept up with their technology) - Duke Power moved to Apple PowerBook Duos and currently use Panasonic Toughbooks.
There are FAR more apps on the PC that crash under XP, just don't work, or are just poorly written. On average, a 3rd party app for the Mac is written with higher programming/compiling standard. And take note, 3rd party apps ARE NOT Apple Apps.
Besides, one of the programs, I believe this guy was talking about was a Haxie that Panther addresses.
Also, I only use respected 3rd party applications. Adobe, Microsoft, and my favorite shareware (Graphic Converter from Lemkesoft) all come out with INSTANT updates if an update needs to be released.
The article extrapolates statistics too much and is a weak review at best. While I don't expect everything to work and everything to be favorable, at least Apple quickly addresses software/OS issues with updates.
I think a group of taxpayers should should sue these parents. This costs money to defend (taxpayer money)... even if it doesn't make it to court.
I also guess (like my Dad) that these parents don't realize what social harm they are doing their kids by being obnoxiously demanding of the educational process.
Many people have said in these forums and mentioned stray cellphone, radio, and microwave signals. I guess the "suers" don't consider those in their uninformed decision.
See this journal entry of mine from a few days back:
http://slashdot.org/~adzoox/journal/46392
Can someone correct me ... but I thought the universe was suppose to be shaped like a piece of paper that was slightly planed (into a U shape) - this was to lead to a possible way to time travel - by bending that space even further. But, if the universe is a dodechahedron - how would one compress or change the shape of such a mass??
But not dual storage bays, only dual battery bays. The wallstreet could fit a battery or a storage device in either bay, one a 5.25" or 3.5" the other a 3.5" (2.5") Zip, floppy, superdisk, HD
What are you talking about? If I recall:
10.2.1
10.2.3
10.2.4
10.2.6
10.2.8
Were all free, not to mention all the app and security fixes. Most of those updates weren't REQUIRED like the "free Windows updates" AND each time you updated you had to validate your Windows system under XP.
This is the release of X that everyone should want. faster, more stable on every machine I've tested it on.
That said, 10.3 is the release of Panther you have been waiting for. Dramatic increases in speed and launch times - and I just have an older prelease from WWDC.
I use this program on the Mac:
Another Launcher for OSX
I also use a program called iPiano for Mac OSX to turn my keyboard's unused keys into a MIDI keyboard and sound bite launcher.
One can buy new key cap stickers or just go to an office store and get a sheet of clear translucent sticky paper and print their own keycaps.
Actually, a law has already been in place for years that telemarketers (selling or soliciting ANYTHING) can not call after 8 PM your local time.
Good subject line.
... Libertarians give Libertarianism a bad name. They don't want a solution, they want a sort of quasi secular/quasi religious vindication for everything. (Side note: said leader also ststed in his monthly newsletter that if it would have been the "old days, before gov't intrusion, we'd have settled it with pistols! .... say WHAT???)
Libertarians in my area (Greenville SC) are nothing but whacko anarchists. Their leader is often engaged in vigilante justice.
A few months back he COMPLETELY "ruined the peace and progress" of an anti flag rally by pushing a black guy out of line. (Anti flag = no civil war flag/ACLU/Jesse Jackson issue)
This "leader" of the Libertarians has also sued my business over service - he bought a computer from me - then tried to hook a Parallel printer into the SCSI port - fried the computer - then wanted me to replace it under warranty. He later came on the 6 o clock news stating that it was black judge that handed the decision out because of his "push" and took no consideration of the facts. So, I agree
Also, take a look at the replies you have received: profanity - usually a person without a point resorts to profanity. ; )
What I wish is that they would let geeks serve community service time (if being punished criminally) by assisting officers at Flea Markets around the country stopping these piracy rings which are physical goods.
To continue; I think a techie could also assist with knowing what electronics might be stolen as well.
To top it off, I'd like to see some Latinos with food liscenses and visa checks from these markets too.
mmmm.... no ... Nokia's sales are sliding too. That design is impractical and ugly ... not to mention COMPLETELY boring - like the parent said, it looks like a WinAMP (in my case Audion) Skin - one I wouldn't download.
Probably not because of the secure channel, but it's pretty much a given that someone will make some drivers for it. Watch versiontracker - sounds like a new project for Jonas Salling who made the3 ever so useful Salling Clicker for the t68i phone.
Ok, so the majority of /. readers are on the side of filesharing - but a 12 year old girl or 72 year old makes no difference.
The RIAA will ALWAYS see filesharing as breaking the law - so give them a fair unbiased look here -
Would you want your local police to let the 12 year old girl off for burning down your house? I know you wouldn't let the 22 year old girl go without pressing charges!
That said, I think it be contradictory to this study because it seems like to me that ghost sightings and the paranormal are not as common as they were in the 80's - to me things like this are only a fad - after movies/books like Poltergeist and Amityville Horror.
Also, strange sensations like Deja Vu or Premonition I don't think can be explained through this study.
I would love to hear what Stephen King thinks about this too.
Saw a note that California, if it were a country .... it would be the 4th largest GDP in the world!!!