Well, I have some of the original content for Disney World where you can navigate to different shops and find your way around the park. The interactive demos are written with quicktime.
Of course, back up the hard drive, and load Mac OS 7.6.1 on it and use it like a Quadra 610 - which is basically what it is.
Re:One technical Apple failure
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A lot of people forget to tie the Pippin in with the great controllers it had. It had something similar to the Nintendo DS as a controll accessory and had an AWESOME controller that had a trackball control - I use it with a USB adapter.
Another thing that came out of the Pippin development was the set top box. Many sellers on eBay sell this as a prototype and say it didn't do well... in actuality it did ok - it was a media/navigation/shopping hub placed in hotel rooms at Disney World. That's actually why there's so many of them.
If anyone reading this knows where I can get the Apple remote for the set top box - lemme know.
The ammendment says Congress shall pass no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press...
This statement is inaccurate:
"Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories"
BUT
Everyone thinks this means the press have the right or even the responsibility to report everything without impunity from libel/slander or trade theft. Wrong! It says the government can't take your right away to speak - but does NOT any WAY protect the press from having free reign from civil litigation.
I also would like to add that foreign press seems to think they have 1st ammendment rights in the US as well and bastardize our law on a day to day basis.
I think the most interesting thing is that will all be using basically the same processor - The Cell from IBM.
I see this as a more difficult transition for Microsoft and Sony than Nintendo - because the Nintendo currently uses a PowerPC G3 variant and an ATI video card - it's not much less than low end iMac CRT from a few years ago.
I wonder if anyone will be able to write emulators that play any game from any console ON ANY console.
This should be easy for coders to come up with an emulator to run discs on Macs and return our ability to play playstation games.
The Mac Mini is FAR smaller than ANY mini-ITX I have seen and also WAY more powerful. Most small form factor PCs use low power processors that are weak at best - the G4 in the Mac Mini is throwing out some impressive results.
I always thought that government property was taxpayer property.
I suppose you have no objection to immenent domain
Also Congress shall make no law - means exactly that. The Constitution was setup as guidelines for the government by the forefather governing body. It was NOT rights given to the American people.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
A perfect union would imply that we are bound by the laws set forth here (on goes the wording of the constitution)
Where you are mistaken is that the Constitution was written for the American people. In fact, it was written for those that represent you. It was simply a limitation on the government not rights granted to you.
A lot of people confuse the constitution with the Declaration Of Independence.. saying, "we hold these truths to be self evident" - which is what your point is... self evident rights. The Declaration Of Indepence has NO bearing in judicial law accept only as it applies to our freedom from British rule.
[The Constitution] states, "Congress shall make no laws linking the two."
I have been discussing this in my/. journal and on my website:
Please read this with the emphasis:
Congresslaw respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Where does it say, 'You have the right to say anything you want, the government has the right to remove religious symbols from the public, etc etc"?
Also, when people say, "separation of church and state" they use it as if it were in the 1st ammendment. It IS NOT!
Before many slashdotters reply to this... take into account that the way the 1st ammendment is worded, technically copyright law was a law restricting speech. Was it not?
So again, I ask you, how is this removal of this material a violation of the free flow of information?
While my petition was seriously worded... I wanted to point out that the same type of petition with the opposite stance would get the fake signatures. I was hoping that the fanatical would post to my petition in greater % just so it would show anyone that the petition to "save nick" was bogus as well.
For the few places it has been placed online - I don't see how it's gotten all the signatures it has.
The Apple Please Pursue Litigation Petition
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I started this petition because of the petition for Apple to drop the lawsuit against Nick Ciarelli.
My petition isn't full of loaded emotional words that irrelevant to the matter.
Wording and background for the petition:
To: Apple Computer
The following represent the level headed Mac faithful who do not appreciate Nick Ciarelli of Think Secret. We understand, by definition, that Nick was outside the bounds of the constitution and outside the limits of journalism. Rumormongering such as Think Secret publishes is harmful to Apple. We understand that "Trade Secret" is important to Apple's business model. We would like Apple to pursue this litigation to send a message to any developer, Apple employee, or industry insider, or beta tester that breach of contract [by breaking your Non Disclosure Agreement] is very serious. We also represent potential customers - we feel such litigation may ease future need for litigation against others who try to take advantage of Apple at our expense (by higher prices). Further, we represent Apple shareholders. As shareholders we believe Think Secret sets financial expectations too high by mixing credible and ficticious rumors, that stock market analysts and major news sources, quote and misquote. This is often detrimental to Apple's stock and quarterly forecasts.,b>A comment from insanelygreat.com:
"As an Apple stockholder I do not want anyone releasing detailed information about the company's products until they are ready for market and any new innovations have patents applied for. If Apple didn't sue this individual they would be negligent and subject to lawsuit by investors."
Most rumors sites are just that - speculators/prognosticators - manufacturers of stories. THIS - I do not see as harmful - and occasionally they are right. Other sites do rumor source by patent application.
NO OTHER rumor site solicits information by a phone number and regularly quotes sources as "deep with inside Apple"
NO OTHER website reports (firsthand) about the reseller lawsuit and knows the intimate details such as Think Secret
Plain and simple. Information about Apple products acquired on the Apple campus is Apple's property. You take Steve Jobs stapler from the Apple campus and tell a friend they can have it and they obviously can see you stole it or you say, "Yeah, I swiped it when he wasn't looking" - you are in receipt of stolen property. You are an accessory to a crime.
If you solicit and receive information that is a trade secret - that information belongs to Apple - if you choose to capitalise on that information you are an accessory to the process of theft.
It is NO different.
And I really wish everyone would stop saying rumormongering is journalism. Do you all have the same opinion of The Enquirer or The Weekly World? Is that journalism?
Further, understand that this ALL hurts Apple's relations with developers. I doubt seriously if I would want to be involved with Apple if I had something they wanted or wanted me to cooperate with them on. It's too much drama.
All that was quoted or mentioned has written proof of their existence. The cities found were called Sodom/Gommorrah - there was a severe burning - radioactivity of the remains found there.
Mohhamed may have existed. Won't dispute that.
A Sabre Tooth Tiger is a FAR greater species than a Tiger. What would be the purpose of a devolving?
Barring pygmies, which aren't really "less of a human" what other example do have than primates of concurrently visible human evolution?
"Nice try, but the bible specifies a global flood, not a "flood of any type". And there was no global flood. There is plenty of evidence of that."
For you to say there was no global flood at one point makes you an ignoramous rather than a valid debater here.
Guess you've never seen sedimentary rock formations or understand why there is red mud in the Carolinas like is found in Colorado and Arizona.
I see it all the time. In fact I would be willing to take the high school graduate because he was motivated to place his resume knowing that their others with "merits" he does not have on paper.
More and more businesses are actually interviewing candidates. They are considering those that submit resumes even without meeting the qualifications.
Education no longer matters
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Education has been found to be less desirable than motivation and work ethic.
Education has now become accepted as being acquired through experience and higher learning - not just the next step/next grade level of yesteryear.
This is one argument that atheists or agnostics can't make.
Has no Sodom & Gomorrah been discovered? Was it not charred by a seeming "nuclear type" explosion?
Was there no King Herod who had all the first born children killed?
Was there no flood of any type? Is there no scientific evidence to support this?
Was there no Paul?
Before you answer no to any of those questions - do some research... they all have proof they have existed and existed as decribed in the Bible.
Now, the Bible may have a lot of unbelievable elements as well (to you). But evolution has a lot of unbelievable (and believable) elements to those that subscribe to the Bible.
For instance... I believe in the evolution of a species, but not the evolution of Ape to Man.
I believe that dinosaurs roamed the earth - I do not believe they evolved INTO birds.
I believe that Sabre Tooth Tigers existed - I do not believe they devolved into Tigers or that Tigers and domesticated kitty cats are anything related to evolution.
DigiTimes is NOT a reliable source. They often have information wrong. They said Apple would have 15.4" wide laptops - they remained from the titanium to the aluminum enclosures at 15.2"
They also stated that the 12" PowerBooks would pick up key illumination - none yet.
They also have said something about Tablet Macs in production.
Other problems with the chart. Quanta is also making the Mac Mini - not Foxconn. As far as I know Foxconn just makes cables and circuit boards.
As someone mentioned - it was clearly stated that one of Apple's biggest challeges EVER is the PowerBook G5 thermal issues, but they continued to hint that we WILL see one this year.
I imagine PowerBooks go to 1.75Ghz first THEN we see a 1.8Ghz and a 2.0 Ghz G5 released next to 2.75 and 3.0Ghz G5 desktops.
Macrumors doesn't seem to be bribing, coercing, or malicious in nature either.
They don't appear to solicit information from developers and don't have close relationships with those who litigate against Apple.
Macrumors aslo doesn't provide much editorial content.
There's more of a Mac lover feel to MacRumors.
ALL of Macrumors information is ranked and placed as good or bad rumor - so there's not really a consistency issue.
And FYI - Think Secret predicted colored iPods and some with stripes too. They also said Apple would have a hard time crossing the 4 million Ipods this season due to drive supply problems and distribution issues - Apple sold 4.542 million iPods.
I'm a little stunned by this revelation, but here's the real issue. Someone is feeding this kid. Someone who doesn't like Apple.
All of Think Secret's commentary seems to be negative spins on Apple and Apple financials.
I would not be surprised if we find out this guy's father was a fired Apple employee or someone involved in this reseller lawsuit. Nick DePlume just seems to know this infomation to intimately.
There has to be some sort of bribery or maliciousness here, because I would consider Macrumors more of a premeir rumor site with MUCH wider base of followers and info providers.
This was a ploy by Comcast to get on satellite and on charter and Time Warner cable systems.
I have noticed (although have to admit I watch the channel maybe 15 minutes a week now) that Comcast is advertising.
Charter Communications has a large hub in my area and from what the "higher ups" have told me - they are quite angry.
I haven't understood why the former employees and show hosts don't ban together for a class action lawsuit for wrongful termination.
I also don't understand why us geeks (who don't want mindless gaming shows 24/7 and miss the older content) can't ban together and find an attorney that will sue Comcast for collusion and misrepresentation.
It's obvious (especially with this move) that Comcast had NO INTENTION to keep TechTv or any of it's content.
It's a shame Leo Laporte moved to TechTV in Canada!
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Well, I have some of the original content for Disney World where you can navigate to different shops and find your way around the park. The interactive demos are written with quicktime.
Of course, back up the hard drive, and load Mac OS 7.6.1 on it and use it like a Quadra 610 - which is basically what it is.
A lot of people forget to tie the Pippin in with the great controllers it had. It had something similar to the Nintendo DS as a controll accessory and had an AWESOME controller that had a trackball control - I use it with a USB adapter.
... in actuality it did ok - it was a media/navigation/shopping hub placed in hotel rooms at Disney World. That's actually why there's so many of them.
Another thing that came out of the Pippin development was the set top box. Many sellers on eBay sell this as a prototype and say it didn't do well
If anyone reading this knows where I can get the Apple remote for the set top box - lemme know.
"They forget that the Constitution was designed to be an evolving document interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, and here is what they had to say:"
...
... Which Are More Than Equal"
The pigs in Animal Farm were revisionists too.
"All Animals Are Equal"
became
"ALL Animals Are Equal Except Pigs
The same people that make your argument also berate Christianity with this statement:
"Oh the Bible was written a long time ago, a lot of things are ancient"
And your witty statement that you have pasted so kindly for us still didin't answer the question:
Where does it say that in the constitution?
Tell us where in the constitution or the Bill Of Rights there are the words:
... or free exercise thereof.
"Separation of Church & State"
Also tell us why people such as yourself commonly leave out the OTHER words
Those kids who put stickers on those books have the right to exercise their beliefs freely and they have the right to freedom of speech.
The ammendment says Congress shall pass no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press...
This statement is inaccurate:
"Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories"
BUT
Everyone thinks this means the press have the right or even the responsibility to report everything without impunity from libel/slander or trade theft. Wrong! It says the government can't take your right away to speak - but does NOT any WAY protect the press from having free reign from civil litigation.
I also would like to add that foreign press seems to think they have 1st ammendment rights in the US as well and bastardize our law on a day to day basis.
I think the most interesting thing is that will all be using basically the same processor - The Cell from IBM.
I see this as a more difficult transition for Microsoft and Sony than Nintendo - because the Nintendo currently uses a PowerPC G3 variant and an ATI video card - it's not much less than low end iMac CRT from a few years ago.
I wonder if anyone will be able to write emulators that play any game from any console ON ANY console.
This should be easy for coders to come up with an emulator to run discs on Macs and return our ability to play playstation games.
No misinformation - both of those are retarded.
They don't have nearly the connectivity NOR do they have iLife on them.
I wouldn't be certain - but they don't support Linux either.
Interesting ... but still almost 2X the size of the MacMini and no internal optical driver/burner
The Mac Mini is FAR smaller than ANY mini-ITX I have seen and also WAY more powerful. Most small form factor PCs use low power processors that are weak at best - the G4 in the Mac Mini is throwing out some impressive results.
Is there such a thing as:
"government property"
I always thought that government property was taxpayer property.
I suppose you have no objection to immenent domain
Also Congress shall make no law - means exactly that. The Constitution was setup as guidelines for the government by the forefather governing body. It was NOT rights given to the American people.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
.. saying, "we hold these truths to be self evident" - which is what your point is ... self evident rights. The Declaration Of Indepence has NO bearing in judicial law accept only as it applies to our freedom from British rule.
... no it doesn't
A perfect union would imply that we are bound by the laws set forth here (on goes the wording of the constitution)
Where you are mistaken is that the Constitution was written for the American people. In fact, it was written for those that represent you. It was simply a limitation on the government not rights granted to you.
A lot of people confuse the constitution with the Declaration Of Independence
[The Constitution] states, "Congress shall make no laws linking the two."
Umm
the right to free speech...
/. journal and on my website:
I have been discussing this in my
Please read this with the emphasis:
Congress law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Where does it say, 'You have the right to say anything you want, the government has the right to remove religious symbols from the public, etc etc"?
Also, when people say, "separation of church and state" they use it as if it were in the 1st ammendment. It IS NOT!
Before many slashdotters reply to this... take into account that the way the 1st ammendment is worded, technically copyright law was a law restricting speech. Was it not?
So again, I ask you, how is this removal of this material a violation of the free flow of information?
agreed...
... I wanted to point out that the same type of petition with the opposite stance would get the fake signatures. I was hoping that the fanatical would post to my petition in greater % just so it would show anyone that the petition to "save nick" was bogus as well.
While my petition was seriously worded
For the few places it has been placed online - I don't see how it's gotten all the signatures it has.
There's several 100 fake signatures on the petition not sue him. Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates appear on that one as well.
sorry about that I thought I got it.
t ml
http://www.petitiononline.com/0515opts/petition.h
I started this petition because of the petition for Apple to drop the lawsuit against Nick Ciarelli.
,b>A comment from insanelygreat.com:
My petition isn't full of loaded emotional words that irrelevant to the matter.
Wording and background for the petition:
To: Apple Computer
The following represent the level headed Mac faithful who do not appreciate Nick Ciarelli of Think Secret. We understand, by definition, that Nick was outside the bounds of the constitution and outside the limits of journalism. Rumormongering such as Think Secret publishes is harmful to Apple. We understand that "Trade Secret" is important to Apple's business model. We would like Apple to pursue this litigation to send a message to any developer, Apple employee, or industry insider, or beta tester that breach of contract [by breaking your Non Disclosure Agreement] is very serious. We also represent potential customers - we feel such litigation may ease future need for litigation against others who try to take advantage of Apple at our expense (by higher prices). Further, we represent Apple shareholders. As shareholders we believe Think Secret sets financial expectations too high by mixing credible and ficticious rumors, that stock market analysts and major news sources, quote and misquote. This is often detrimental to Apple's stock and quarterly forecasts.
"As an Apple stockholder I do not want anyone releasing detailed information about the company's products until they are ready for market and any new innovations have patents applied for. If Apple didn't sue this individual they would be negligent and subject to lawsuit by investors."
Most rumors sites are just that - speculators/prognosticators - manufacturers of stories. THIS - I do not see as harmful - and occasionally they are right. Other sites do rumor source by patent application.
NO OTHER rumor site solicits information by a phone number and regularly quotes sources as "deep with inside Apple"
NO OTHER website reports (firsthand) about the reseller lawsuit and knows the intimate details such as Think Secret
Plain and simple. Information about Apple products acquired on the Apple campus is Apple's property. You take Steve Jobs stapler from the Apple campus and tell a friend they can have it and they obviously can see you stole it or you say, "Yeah, I swiped it when he wasn't looking" - you are in receipt of stolen property. You are an accessory to a crime.
If you solicit and receive information that is a trade secret - that information belongs to Apple - if you choose to capitalise on that information you are an accessory to the process of theft.
It is NO different.
And I really wish everyone would stop saying rumormongering is journalism. Do you all have the same opinion of The Enquirer or The Weekly World? Is that journalism?
Further, understand that this ALL hurts Apple's relations with developers. I doubt seriously if I would want to be involved with Apple if I had something they wanted or wanted me to cooperate with them on. It's too much drama.
All that was quoted or mentioned has written proof of their existence. The cities found were called Sodom/Gommorrah - there was a severe burning - radioactivity of the remains found there.
Mohhamed may have existed. Won't dispute that.
A Sabre Tooth Tiger is a FAR greater species than a Tiger. What would be the purpose of a devolving?
Barring pygmies, which aren't really "less of a human" what other example do have than primates of concurrently visible human evolution?
"Nice try, but the bible specifies a global flood, not a "flood of any type". And there was no global flood. There is plenty of evidence of that."
For you to say there was no global flood at one point makes you an ignoramous rather than a valid debater here.
Guess you've never seen sedimentary rock formations or understand why there is red mud in the Carolinas like is found in Colorado and Arizona.
I see it all the time. In fact I would be willing to take the high school graduate because he was motivated to place his resume knowing that their others with "merits" he does not have on paper.
More and more businesses are actually interviewing candidates. They are considering those that submit resumes even without meeting the qualifications.
Education has been found to be less desirable than motivation and work ethic.
Education has now become accepted as being acquired through experience and higher learning - not just the next step/next grade level of yesteryear.
"lacking evidence of validity"
... they all have proof they have existed and existed as decribed in the Bible.
... I believe in the evolution of a species, but not the evolution of Ape to Man.
This is one argument that atheists or agnostics can't make.
Has no Sodom & Gomorrah been discovered? Was it not charred by a seeming "nuclear type" explosion?
Was there no King Herod who had all the first born children killed?
Was there no flood of any type? Is there no scientific evidence to support this?
Was there no Paul?
Before you answer no to any of those questions - do some research
Now, the Bible may have a lot of unbelievable elements as well (to you). But evolution has a lot of unbelievable (and believable) elements to those that subscribe to the Bible.
For instance
I believe that dinosaurs roamed the earth - I do not believe they evolved INTO birds.
I believe that Sabre Tooth Tigers existed - I do not believe they devolved into Tigers or that Tigers and domesticated kitty cats are anything related to evolution.
DigiTimes is NOT a reliable source. They often have information wrong. They said Apple would have 15.4" wide laptops - they remained from the titanium to the aluminum enclosures at 15.2"
They also stated that the 12" PowerBooks would pick up key illumination - none yet.
They also have said something about Tablet Macs in production.
Other problems with the chart. Quanta is also making the Mac Mini - not Foxconn. As far as I know Foxconn just makes cables and circuit boards.
As someone mentioned - it was clearly stated that one of Apple's biggest challeges EVER is the PowerBook G5 thermal issues, but they continued to hint that we WILL see one this year.
I imagine PowerBooks go to 1.75Ghz first THEN we see a 1.8Ghz and a 2.0 Ghz G5 released next to 2.75 and 3.0Ghz G5 desktops.
Macrumors doesn't seem to be bribing, coercing, or malicious in nature either.
They don't appear to solicit information from developers and don't have close relationships with those who litigate against Apple.
Macrumors aslo doesn't provide much editorial content.
There's more of a Mac lover feel to MacRumors.
ALL of Macrumors information is ranked and placed as good or bad rumor - so there's not really a consistency issue.
And FYI - Think Secret predicted colored iPods and some with stripes too. They also said Apple would have a hard time crossing the 4 million Ipods this season due to drive supply problems and distribution issues - Apple sold 4.542 million iPods.
I'm a little stunned by this revelation, but here's the real issue. Someone is feeding this kid. Someone who doesn't like Apple.
All of Think Secret's commentary seems to be negative spins on Apple and Apple financials.
I would not be surprised if we find out this guy's father was a fired Apple employee or someone involved in this reseller lawsuit. Nick DePlume just seems to know this infomation to intimately.
There has to be some sort of bribery or maliciousness here, because I would consider Macrumors more of a premeir rumor site with MUCH wider base of followers and info providers.
I emailed Leo Laporte asking his thoughts on all that happened.
I was very surprised that I even got a response but he seemed to hint that a new network is in the works.
This was a ploy by Comcast to get on satellite and on charter and Time Warner cable systems.
I have noticed (although have to admit I watch the channel maybe 15 minutes a week now) that Comcast is advertising.
Charter Communications has a large hub in my area and from what the "higher ups" have told me - they are quite angry.
I haven't understood why the former employees and show hosts don't ban together for a class action lawsuit for wrongful termination.
I also don't understand why us geeks (who don't want mindless gaming shows 24/7 and miss the older content) can't ban together and find an attorney that will sue Comcast for collusion and misrepresentation.
It's obvious (especially with this move) that Comcast had NO INTENTION to keep TechTv or any of it's content.
It's a shame Leo Laporte moved to TechTV in Canada!