That's not a fair comparison- Steve really is involved with product design and really does contribute ideas that steer development. In the 80s he was instrumental in making the platform viable and immediately after returning to Apple in the late 90s he fixed all the problems Amelio introduced and started the company moving in the direction it's going today. He doesn't code or sculpt prototype cases or anything like that, but it's Steve's high-level decisions that make those things happen.
So, while he may be "famous for fame" right now, that fame really did come from something concrete- unlike Paris.
No, the innovation with the iPod was not only to greatly increase all the technical specs of the player (not just storage space but transfer speed- Firewire was so much better than USB at the time there was simply no comparison) but to give the player a really well-thought-out interface (the wheel) and marry it with the best media management program they could get (iTunes). iTunes, the iPod, and the ITMS were all designed simultaneously as part of a single Apple initiative and had always been intended to work together.
They weren't just "built to last", they were built like a fucking TANK. I was completely unafraid of stepping on my old clamshell or banging it into things while carrying it around. My current iBook G4 feels flimsy by comparison.
It's kinda funny how when we're talking about "spammers" vs "legitimate ISP users" the solution is "kill 'em all and let God sort it out" but when we're talking about "pirates" vs "legitimate P2P users" the solution is "hands off, legitimate use trumps illegitimate use at all times". So which one is it?
Evolution doesn't require sex. A given computer's characteristics make it successful or unsuccessful in its environment. If it is successful its design is copied and modified to produce future generations of computers (the 8086). If it is unsuccessful it is not copied and becomes extinct in favor of its competitors (like core or bubble memory gave way to DRAM). It's even common to combine aspects of computer designs the way genes are combined with sex, like the way the Athlon was made from an Alpha foundation with IA-32 on top.
"Evolution" in the current debate is just a shorthand for "evolution of biological systems through sex and nucleic acids"; the central idea of reproduction of the fittest is not tied to any specific physical process.
There was already a sequel to Fantastic Voyage. It was a novel called Fantastic Voyage 2: Destination Brain, and it was written by Isaac Asimov just like the novel the first movie was based on.
A major volcanic eruption would cause far more climate disruption than human activity ever has. Is it natural for this to cause extinctions? Should we try to prevent it, or let nature take its course? If the planet gets hit by a large asteroid it could very well be completely sterilized, and for all we know that's the end of all life anywhere in the universe. Should we try to prevent this, or let nature take its course?
It's arrogant to think that humans are harming or short-circuiting nature. We ARE nature; we just change the world with our tools and creations instead of our bodies like all other animals do.
Apple is making huge profits off the iPod (still dwarfed by their computer arm, though). The music store has been making small profits, but since they consider the store a feature of iTunes its performance as a business unit is less important.
No, we just find it kinda funny that pirates, who use BitTorrent to break rules set up by others for good reasons (originally) are shocked and appalled to find their fellow pirates breaking rules set up by themselves solely to facilitate their piracy.
The battleground wasn't irrational; Intel knew exactly what they were doing when they chose it. And it was indeed good for Intel (if not the rest of the industry) until the rise of AMD.
Actually, that 18-song album will cost $10 to download. The only albums that cost more than $10 have a very large number of songs (30+, say) and would be even more expensive multi-disk sets on CD.
This isn't on-demand. On-demand is streaming every time, iTunes is downloading and saving locally. It's just a really, really convenient version of the same model we've always had.
Launch titles ALWAYS look like shit. It was true this generation, it was true before, and it'll probably be true of the Revolution and PS3 also. But they always get better as developers get a handle on the platform. If you judged the PS2 based on Armored Core 2 or Tekken Tag Tournament, would you have ever guessed it could handle something like God of War?
Xbox Live. This is a truly next-generation feature in that it's never been done before, period. Downloadable demos for a console? An enforced shareware/demoware market for small developers? Live streams of tournament games being played, to thousands of users at a time? This is completely new and no other console is even considering it yet.
Everyone loves says "games aren't about graphics!" but this article is nothing but.
It's only not courteous if they don't tell you about it up front. I've never read the MS EULA or been through the 360 signup process, so I don't know if they do or not.
The problem is that "great" and "popular" have never been all that tightly correlated, and that there are demographics far larger than yours with different tastes.
Considering that the scale of ratings TV stations care about are usually one or two orders of magnitude larger than that, and Lost is a very highly rated show, it won't be any time soon.
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That's not a fair comparison- Steve really is involved with product design and really does contribute ideas that steer development. In the 80s he was instrumental in making the platform viable and immediately after returning to Apple in the late 90s he fixed all the problems Amelio introduced and started the company moving in the direction it's going today. He doesn't code or sculpt prototype cases or anything like that, but it's Steve's high-level decisions that make those things happen.
So, while he may be "famous for fame" right now, that fame really did come from something concrete- unlike Paris.
You do realize that since .Mac is a source of revenue now, they're never going to make it easier than they have to to roll your own?
No, the innovation with the iPod was not only to greatly increase all the technical specs of the player (not just storage space but transfer speed- Firewire was so much better than USB at the time there was simply no comparison) but to give the player a really well-thought-out interface (the wheel) and marry it with the best media management program they could get (iTunes). iTunes, the iPod, and the ITMS were all designed simultaneously as part of a single Apple initiative and had always been intended to work together.
They weren't just "built to last", they were built like a fucking TANK. I was completely unafraid of stepping on my old clamshell or banging it into things while carrying it around. My current iBook G4 feels flimsy by comparison.
They already did. OS X 10.4.0 had a large memory leak in its XML HTTP fetch implementation. This was corrected in a patch some time ago.
It's not civil disobedience until your arrest is on the evening news. Until then, it's just a violation of the law and doesn't solve anything.
You're ignoring a fairly important term that was also part of the proposal along with "stem cells" and "terminally ill": "volunteer".
It's kinda funny how when we're talking about "spammers" vs "legitimate ISP users" the solution is "kill 'em all and let God sort it out" but when we're talking about "pirates" vs "legitimate P2P users" the solution is "hands off, legitimate use trumps illegitimate use at all times". So which one is it?
Evolution doesn't require sex. A given computer's characteristics make it successful or unsuccessful in its environment. If it is successful its design is copied and modified to produce future generations of computers (the 8086). If it is unsuccessful it is not copied and becomes extinct in favor of its competitors (like core or bubble memory gave way to DRAM). It's even common to combine aspects of computer designs the way genes are combined with sex, like the way the Athlon was made from an Alpha foundation with IA-32 on top.
"Evolution" in the current debate is just a shorthand for "evolution of biological systems through sex and nucleic acids"; the central idea of reproduction of the fittest is not tied to any specific physical process.
There was already a sequel to Fantastic Voyage. It was a novel called Fantastic Voyage 2: Destination Brain, and it was written by Isaac Asimov just like the novel the first movie was based on.
A major volcanic eruption would cause far more climate disruption than human activity ever has. Is it natural for this to cause extinctions? Should we try to prevent it, or let nature take its course? If the planet gets hit by a large asteroid it could very well be completely sterilized, and for all we know that's the end of all life anywhere in the universe. Should we try to prevent this, or let nature take its course?
It's arrogant to think that humans are harming or short-circuiting nature. We ARE nature; we just change the world with our tools and creations instead of our bodies like all other animals do.
Safari (and possibly other OS X browsers) do what the GP is suggesting, and it looks good up to about 400%.
Apple is making huge profits off the iPod (still dwarfed by their computer arm, though). The music store has been making small profits, but since they consider the store a feature of iTunes its performance as a business unit is less important.
Perhaps the reason Sony isn't seeing growth due to downloads is that Sony music is not available on the ITMS?
No, we just find it kinda funny that pirates, who use BitTorrent to break rules set up by others for good reasons (originally) are shocked and appalled to find their fellow pirates breaking rules set up by themselves solely to facilitate their piracy.
If you'd RTFA instead of rushing to troll, you'd see that the game is neither from EA nor a port.
The battleground wasn't irrational; Intel knew exactly what they were doing when they chose it. And it was indeed good for Intel (if not the rest of the industry) until the rise of AMD.
Actually, that 18-song album will cost $10 to download. The only albums that cost more than $10 have a very large number of songs (30+, say) and would be even more expensive multi-disk sets on CD.
Apple already offers a free song every week. I won't be at all surprised if they start doing this with TV shows.
This isn't on-demand. On-demand is streaming every time, iTunes is downloading and saving locally. It's just a really, really convenient version of the same model we've always had.
Everyone loves says "games aren't about graphics!" but this article is nothing but.
It's only not courteous if they don't tell you about it up front. I've never read the MS EULA or been through the 360 signup process, so I don't know if they do or not.
What happened to "Personally, I would have not considered committing fraud in the first place"?
The problem is that "great" and "popular" have never been all that tightly correlated, and that there are demographics far larger than yours with different tastes.
Considering that the scale of ratings TV stations care about are usually one or two orders of magnitude larger than that, and Lost is a very highly rated show, it won't be any time soon.