Agreed with "The Cube" That was excellent writing PURPOSELY for low budget. It almost seemed like the writer was trying to get an A in a filmmaking class and was the star pupil or best project.
If I hadn't posted four times in this category I would have posted "The Cube"
This movie is really well put together eventhough it has Roddy Piper as the star. The guy who is "the voiceoverman of the hour" is in it too. (He's also Green Lantern's Voice on Justice League)
If you want to see a movie that, to me, has the same message as 1984 but told with a twist... well... just see this one. The ending is really funny!
I thought it was good too, but the end should be updated with recent revelations. Although, as an Apple User and Mac Fan (not fanatic) the ending seems like the end of bad time for Apple and the beginning of something else, yet not quite good (with Bill Gates talking abou the Microsoft/Apple deal).
This movie was hillarious! (genius in some respect) It spawned a sequel and cartoon + 2 Nintendo games. Anyone remember any of those?
I think the best scene from the movie is when "the opposition" infiltrates the Tomato Camp. He's dressed up like a giant tomato while sitting around a campfire roasting hotdogs on a coathanger discussing war strategies. He says, "Could someone pass the ketchup?" They say "Huhhhh?" And roll over him!
Many people don't know that Megan the river witch at the "Prince oF Darkness's" castle swamp was the same guy that played the doctor on Star Trek Voyager. While this movie has some real campiness, it has the coolest, best acted "Devil" in any movie I have seen. Although I like Al Pacino in Devil's Advocate too.
I would disagree. You must be using the features that are "atypical user" - most apps are faster on the mac that have PC counterparts, including the apps mentioned in the article. It's funny, PC "testers will just get a Mac, but have an optimized PC for tests. Out of the box PC or Mac is NOT optimized.
Scratch disks, hard drive kind, size make huge differences for some reason on Macs, also lots of RAM, same kind fastest machine can take RAM matters too.
Further, lots of geeks will disagree but to an artist it makes a huge difference - INTERFACE = PRODUCTIVITY - even XP is pixelated and ugly, there is little that is not pleasing to the eye on a Mac.
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I have been reading a lot about KizMIT, the "interactive" AI robot experiment at MIT. He is based on the brains of a PowerBook G3 - something that seems to be more unique in the scientific field.
I recently saw "Robots!" on Modern marvels on the History Channel. Most of the modern robots such as the one seen in the Honda commercial "Asimo", the Sony Robot in this article, KizMIT (who looks like a Jim Henson reject), and another famous pattern recognizing robot were all on the show.
I heard the Sony CEO say at the MacWorld Expo in a conference that he thinks that robots are the future of Sony. They will carry everything electronic in the house and do everything electronic in the house. he says they will have projectors for our TV, be our wireless basestations, transform and be our "Segways" - he even used a minicon from Transformers Armada to illustrate that he sees all this within 30 years.
To tie those two stories together. the History Channel had the leading Scientists in Robotics comment on the future. They came to a consensus that we wouldn't even have something remotely close to R2D2 in 100 years and C3Po in 200 years and Rosie from the Jetsons in 300 years.
I think companies like Apple will lead the way for innovation and consumer appeal/design/functionality of robots for the consumer.
www.gigadesigns.com is a Euro based (German/French) CPU upgrade maker.
www.microdoc.com
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All sell motherboards (some sell as emergency, some sell wholesale, one sells to techs, so if you know one, you can ask them to buy it for you - I could post a 100 more.....
What spare parts can you not obtain? Processors are availible from 4+ companies, motherboards from 20+ companies & IDE, CDRW drives, RAM; just about anything, work. And most any USB I/O or PCI card has Mac drivers. These spare parts ARE priced to equivalent PC parts. I can get current motherboards that fit in ATX cases for $129 that also use standard Power Supplies.
Tech TV has built a Mac from Scratch before for about $300 less than the typical retail Mac
And of course if you are looking for bargain prices there has been ebay for over 6 years now. (I have often sold motherboards for all sorts of Mac models and sell 50-100 "parts" a week.
That's just false information... Apple has a 17% margin on the iMac and 28-33% overall for all combined sales - that is DOUBLE the next highest margin which is Dell. They also have the lowest inventory in the industry too. (some weeks are better than others due to rumor of new machines coming out) Again only Dell has better channel management. While Dell seems to be the darling here, they also beat out Apple in education sales now, but Apple has sold 45,000 iBooks into education over the last three quarters and STILL owns a 34% total share of all educational computer purchases. I won't go into the iPod and the closest competitor going out of business. Sonic Blue Rio Maker Bankruptcy But, I will point out that the iPod has an 11% margin, the average Diamond Rio a 4% margin and HUGE inventory + a very bad black market/wholesalers market that GREATLY affect "perception" of quality.
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They have a QUARTERLY market share of 3-4% - an installed base of 11%. -Google stats are little more credible than lottery numbers.
That 3-4% is also much larger than 3-4% would have been two years ago. (Fictitious example due to lack of time: if 1 million had people had computers 2 years ago, now 10 million people have them, isn't that a larger number of Apple computers sold?)
Further, why waste your time with redundant flamebait? Do you post that comment on every Apple article? Apple is gaining marketshare and actually carefully comfortable with the marketshare they have. Apple also doesn't lose on margin to gain marketshare (gateway), bloat sales statistics to education (dell) or have high overhead and channel inventory (HPaq) - nor does any PC company even come remotely close to presence for assistance and help on the internet!
Actually Apple WILL be releasing the chip. Apple co develops ALL of it's own processors in the Apple IBM Motorola partnership (AIM) . Apple and Motorola developed Altivec, IBM and Apple developed the PowerPC G3 750fx backside cache implementation. They also release it in their computers, intel doesn't have a desktop computer brand that they make, so in regards to Appl releasing it, technically that's true.
If your comment were followed to the nth degree, technically an iMac is a Samsung/Sony/Motorola/Western Digital - less than 10% of an iMac is full in house Apple made (or specially made with Apple designs)
The alternative 64 bit computing article mentioned is inferring that Linux will be the only 64 bit OS & Opteron, the only 64 bit Processor. I think Apple is very close to releasing the PowerPC 970 which is 64 bit (and 32 bit backwards compatible) - the new release of OS X (Panther) Apple WWDC Panter Release is most likely a 64 bit compatible implementation of the Mac OS.
As Apple has always been forward thinking to gain market share and attention, I think this will be yet another rush of sales for them, especially if Intel offerings start to have DRM built into the chips and continue to stretch processor pipelines to absurd stage numbers >20.
The difference is that DRM in music and video muddies end user ownership rights. Once purchased, a user should have free will to do whatever they want with their copy for their personal use. DRM prohibits such free use.
On the other hand, Safari is free to the end user. It is to promote a whole concept and idea of using a Mac. Movies & Music don't have a "unique, take this for free, and buy our better package to use the free thing we just gave you." kind of product.
Apple also makes iDVD, iMovie, iTunes all free with machine purchase (iTunes is free to all Mac Users). To me any app that is an Apple brand app should be polished & very stable. These builds are being seeded for developers & developers only. Apple wasallowing customization of Safari for those that wanted to do that. However, people were already getting there hopes up for tabbed browsing, when form what I have read, was actually a third party developed function, and that Apple really had no plans to release that function in the next build. Now, if they don't have it in, some will be disappointed.
I had posted a previous comment, when the weblog was published on SlashDot, about tabbed browsing coming to Safari. I made the case that features like that should be reserved for other browsers, so that Apple can allow differentiation, and others to keep market share. While minutely, tabbed browsing is also a function that will have to be explained and supported to the laymen. I personally find tabbed browsing confusing and I am a 19 year Apple user and Authorized Technician, and registered developer. Also, minutely, it adds code bloat.
To bring all this back together, Apple doesn't want DRM or even demanding control of the apps they release to developers and then to the public. They do want consistency and "polished" feel.
A developer signs a non disclosure agreement - I didn't sign any agreement with any of the file sharing services. Apple KNOWS which developers have Safari. Anyone they don't know about, got it from someone they DO know. The developer that gave the copy away is breaking non disclosure + breaking Apple's requirement for developers to follow appearance and coding guidelines. (Apple is (rightfully so) very strict on code bloat.)
The new Sony Core processor that is to go into the PSX3 is called a "chipset" yet it is one chip with multiple cores and multiple functions such as graphics and broaband all on one chip.
The white papers of all Motorola G4 processors refer to the G4 chip as a chipset due to the Altivec and Interger + cache implementations.
That response was obsessive compulsive psychobabble. These boards are NOT about apologies; they are about debate. I don't like your opinion, you don't have to like mine.
your 5th comment down refers to using it to "disadvantage" - i am speaking of when he REAPPEARED to clarify the remarks he made. He said something to the effect that Tennessee U was first to have educational internet widespread because of him and that he signed Bills into law (which are hardly initiatives) that made the internet happen. As I said, every Senator did what he did to bring about the internet. He is also on record as thinking the ARPAnet should not be made public or any form thereof.
You are referring to something entirely different. Why you would care to defend something with irrelevant quoutes and seemingly make this post your thesis is beyond comprehension.
You are not referring to the same thing I am talking to - this ALSO NOT the quote that was misconstrued as "inventing the internet" - he said this during a Presidential debate - your quote came BEFORE he even announced candidacy.
I didn't accuse anyone of taking sides, but who is showing more beligerance and intelligence, a name caller or someone that has the courage to debate you?
About Al Gore inventing the internet: You made that whole quote block up, because it turns out that I was wrong; it was Bernard Shaw; the day after the debate. Also Tennessee was NOT the first state to have an educational internet infrastructure, not by a year. He may have helped funding, but so did every Senator and every state including my own. He didn't even draft a SINGLE funding bill. I am NOT a narrow minded conservative. In fact, I think Al Gore may bring some international business wisdom to Apple. I just think it is a bad move for Apple due to the joke (true or not) and the fact that he is a losing Presidential Candidate + he is a VERY opinionated politically (and socialistic about medicine and environment) which will polarize some those that ARE narrow minded.
And as for the word "initiative", that is double political speak. I have taken a lot of initiatives to make Apple Computer number 1. I was even on the creative team for retail store development AND I am opening a store of my own this summer. I didn't, however, come up with the idea nor has ANY of my efforts as a Mac User/Tech/salesman helped Apple beyond a miniscule way (i'd love to THINK it has kept them in business)
Did you know that George Bush signed one of the biggest technolgy for education budgets while he was Governer of Texas? He could have made the same claim! His dad DID help fund the devleopment of ARPAnet and as Vice President he DID make iniiatives for the internet and probably as President too.
Again, he DID say that. He was asked in a debate and then he later clarified it on CNN. The quote you used was only the partial answer. The items I mentioned from the original post is how he clarified it. While he wasn't claiming to be the Thomas Edison of the internet, he made two false statements: "I made initiatives to create the internet" and Tennessee was the first state to have it educational institutions thanks to him.
The internet was devloped at MIT based on the ARPAnet (government network) Al Gore had nothing to do with either. Even the TRUE inventor of the internet says that Al Gore even reduced federal funding for MIT during those times because he thought hackers would learn to take advantage of the government records system and defense contract corporations. I can't provide the quote because that was from the Tech TV special about the internet. Now I am forgetting the guy's name.
He said that he helped with the funding and creative force that became the internet and that Tennesee was one of the first universities to fully utilize it because he saw how great it would become. Therefore he recommended quick adoption (and providing funds for) internet "capabilities" in public institutions. He was inferring that he was a reason the internet got started so quickly. The question asked by Wolf Blitzer on CNN was, "What do you think has been your greatest contribution to education?"
Yes and since Cingular offered me a free year of internet service (just goes against my minutes) and I have the unlimited everything plan - I use it exclusively - even as I type. Id be happy to discuss it with you.
It is infinitely and easily helpful (much more so than Yahoo or Infoseek, etc, etc) to my research for my eBay items that I sell. It also helps me find out scam artists. One of the best features about Google is typing in an email address and seeing if that person has a residence or business or what they are involved in. I do this with everyone on Yahoo auctions that I bid or buy from. Try it with your own email address and see what it comes up with.
Nope, because it is also estiimated that that almost 60% of Pre G3 owners have upgraded to a G3 or G4. Anything that runs OS8.1 (68040/PPC) is hardly worthless. Many of my customers that have 6116's (with measley 601 66Mhz PPC's) have either upgraded are are running 9.1 (but they can run 9.1 anyway, a few are running OS X) - they also (majority) have put Adobe Potoshop & and AppleWorks 6.2.4 (latest) on the machines within the year.
I have two customers that have Quadra 950's that run an Apple Color LaserWriter as RIP printer on their network - it also is the ONLY machine that can run a RISO plate machine. This same customer has 15 other Macs in their printing business that are either Upgraded G3 500 or better or "within 2 yr" machines on the same network. They also have an upgraded 8100 that runs some older software proprietary to 8.1
People can say what they want about Apple market share, but a heck of a lot of Mac User's have bought the t68i phone. The two remote control software addons for controlling iTunes, Keynote, DVD player and the mouse + a proximity sensor via Bluetooth on the phone are some the most innovative and useful features for any phone I have seen. I bought one (and I'm a mac user too) The authors of the software have a 16,500 + download total on the versiontracker counter. I don't know if that equates into 16,000 phones or not.
I think with this phone (The P800) and the continued success of the T68i Ericcson will do quite well. The t68i phones have decent reception. Ericcson phones, in general, have great reception, simple design and really good batteries.
I think the main reason Ericcson was struggling for a while is that they decided to do too many sponsorships and weren't really innovating on the phone side. (Charlotte Panthers Stadium, etc, etc)
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If I hadn't posted four times in this category I would have posted "The Cube"
If you want to see a movie that, to me, has the same message as 1984 but told with a twist ... well... just see this one. The ending is really funny!
I think the best scene from the movie is when "the opposition" infiltrates the Tomato Camp. He's dressed up like a giant tomato while sitting around a campfire roasting hotdogs on a coathanger discussing war strategies. He says, "Could someone pass the ketchup?" They say "Huhhhh?" And roll over him!
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Scratch disks, hard drive kind, size make huge differences for some reason on Macs, also lots of RAM, same kind fastest machine can take RAM matters too.
Further, lots of geeks will disagree but to an artist it makes a huge difference - INTERFACE = PRODUCTIVITY - even XP is pixelated and ugly, there is little that is not pleasing to the eye on a Mac.
I recently saw "Robots!" on Modern marvels on the History Channel. Most of the modern robots such as the one seen in the Honda commercial "Asimo", the Sony Robot in this article, KizMIT (who looks like a Jim Henson reject), and another famous pattern recognizing robot were all on the show.
I heard the Sony CEO say at the MacWorld Expo in a conference that he thinks that robots are the future of Sony. They will carry everything electronic in the house and do everything electronic in the house. he says they will have projectors for our TV, be our wireless basestations, transform and be our "Segways" - he even used a minicon from Transformers Armada to illustrate that he sees all this within 30 years.
To tie those two stories together. the History Channel had the leading Scientists in Robotics comment on the future. They came to a consensus that we wouldn't even have something remotely close to R2D2 in 100 years and C3Po in 200 years and Rosie from the Jetsons in 300 years.
I think companies like Apple will lead the way for innovation and consumer appeal/design/functionality of robots for the consumer.
www.microdoc.com
www.macresq.com
www.preowned.com
www.sunrem.com
www.icni.com
All sell motherboards (some sell as emergency, some sell wholesale, one sells to techs, so if you know one, you can ask them to buy it for you - I could post a 100 more.....
Tech TV has built a Mac from Scratch before for about $300 less than the typical retail Mac
And of course if you are looking for bargain prices there has been ebay for over 6 years now. (I have often sold motherboards for all sorts of Mac models and sell 50-100 "parts" a week.
That's just false information ... Apple has a 17% margin on the iMac and 28-33% overall for all combined sales - that is DOUBLE the next highest margin which is Dell. They also have the lowest inventory in the industry too. (some weeks are better than others due to rumor of new machines coming out) Again only Dell has better channel management. While Dell seems to be the darling here, they also beat out Apple in education sales now, but Apple has sold 45,000 iBooks into education over the last three quarters and STILL owns a 34% total share of all educational computer purchases. I won't go into the iPod and the closest competitor going out of business. Sonic Blue Rio Maker Bankruptcy But, I will point out that the iPod has an 11% margin, the average Diamond Rio a 4% margin and HUGE inventory + a very bad black market/wholesalers market that GREATLY affect "perception" of quality.
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That 3-4% is also much larger than 3-4% would have been two years ago. (Fictitious example due to lack of time: if 1 million had people had computers 2 years ago, now 10 million people have them, isn't that a larger number of Apple computers sold?)
Further, why waste your time with redundant flamebait? Do you post that comment on every Apple article? Apple is gaining marketshare and actually carefully comfortable with the marketshare they have. Apple also doesn't lose on margin to gain marketshare (gateway), bloat sales statistics to education (dell) or have high overhead and channel inventory (HPaq) - nor does any PC company even come remotely close to presence for assistance and help on the internet!
If your comment were followed to the nth degree, technically an iMac is a Samsung/Sony/Motorola/Western Digital - less than 10% of an iMac is full in house Apple made (or specially made with Apple designs)
As Apple has always been forward thinking to gain market share and attention, I think this will be yet another rush of sales for them, especially if Intel offerings start to have DRM built into the chips and continue to stretch processor pipelines to absurd stage numbers >20.
On the other hand, Safari is free to the end user. It is to promote a whole concept and idea of using a Mac. Movies & Music don't have a "unique, take this for free, and buy our better package to use the free thing we just gave you." kind of product.
Apple also makes iDVD, iMovie, iTunes all free with machine purchase (iTunes is free to all Mac Users). To me any app that is an Apple brand app should be polished & very stable. These builds are being seeded for developers & developers only. Apple wasallowing customization of Safari for those that wanted to do that. However, people were already getting there hopes up for tabbed browsing, when form what I have read, was actually a third party developed function, and that Apple really had no plans to release that function in the next build. Now, if they don't have it in, some will be disappointed.
I had posted a previous comment, when the weblog was published on SlashDot, about tabbed browsing coming to Safari. I made the case that features like that should be reserved for other browsers, so that Apple can allow differentiation, and others to keep market share. While minutely, tabbed browsing is also a function that will have to be explained and supported to the laymen. I personally find tabbed browsing confusing and I am a 19 year Apple user and Authorized Technician, and registered developer. Also, minutely, it adds code bloat.
To bring all this back together, Apple doesn't want DRM or even demanding control of the apps they release to developers and then to the public. They do want consistency and "polished" feel.
A developer signs a non disclosure agreement - I didn't sign any agreement with any of the file sharing services. Apple KNOWS which developers have Safari. Anyone they don't know about, got it from someone they DO know. The developer that gave the copy away is breaking non disclosure + breaking Apple's requirement for developers to follow appearance and coding guidelines. (Apple is (rightfully so) very strict on code bloat.)
The white papers of all Motorola G4 processors refer to the G4 chip as a chipset due to the Altivec and Interger + cache implementations.
your 5th comment down refers to using it to "disadvantage" - i am speaking of when he REAPPEARED to clarify the remarks he made. He said something to the effect that Tennessee U was first to have educational internet widespread because of him and that he signed Bills into law (which are hardly initiatives) that made the internet happen. As I said, every Senator did what he did to bring about the internet. He is also on record as thinking the ARPAnet should not be made public or any form thereof.
You are referring to something entirely different. Why you would care to defend something with irrelevant quoutes and seemingly make this post your thesis is beyond comprehension.
I didn't accuse anyone of taking sides, but who is showing more beligerance and intelligence, a name caller or someone that has the courage to debate you?
And as for the word "initiative", that is double political speak. I have taken a lot of initiatives to make Apple Computer number 1. I was even on the creative team for retail store development AND I am opening a store of my own this summer. I didn't, however, come up with the idea nor has ANY of my efforts as a Mac User/Tech/salesman helped Apple beyond a miniscule way (i'd love to THINK it has kept them in business)
Did you know that George Bush signed one of the biggest technolgy for education budgets while he was Governer of Texas? He could have made the same claim! His dad DID help fund the devleopment of ARPAnet and as Vice President he DID make iniiatives for the internet and probably as President too.
The internet was devloped at MIT based on the ARPAnet (government network) Al Gore had nothing to do with either. Even the TRUE inventor of the internet says that Al Gore even reduced federal funding for MIT during those times because he thought hackers would learn to take advantage of the government records system and defense contract corporations. I can't provide the quote because that was from the Tech TV special about the internet. Now I am forgetting the guy's name.
He said that he helped with the funding and creative force that became the internet and that Tennesee was one of the first universities to fully utilize it because he saw how great it would become. Therefore he recommended quick adoption (and providing funds for) internet "capabilities" in public institutions. He was inferring that he was a reason the internet got started so quickly. The question asked by Wolf Blitzer on CNN was, "What do you think has been your greatest contribution to education?"
Yes and since Cingular offered me a free year of internet service (just goes against my minutes) and I have the unlimited everything plan - I use it exclusively - even as I type. Id be happy to discuss it with you.
I have two customers that have Quadra 950's that run an Apple Color LaserWriter as RIP printer on their network - it also is the ONLY machine that can run a RISO plate machine. This same customer has 15 other Macs in their printing business that are either Upgraded G3 500 or better or "within 2 yr" machines on the same network. They also have an upgraded 8100 that runs some older software proprietary to 8.1
I think with this phone (The P800) and the continued success of the T68i Ericcson will do quite well. The t68i phones have decent reception. Ericcson phones, in general, have great reception, simple design and really good batteries.
I think the main reason Ericcson was struggling for a while is that they decided to do too many sponsorships and weren't really innovating on the phone side. (Charlotte Panthers Stadium, etc, etc)