an Apple patch may rewrite that piece of code so it cannot create that infinite loop scenario
Hey, if Apple wants to solve the halting problem as part of their security initiative, that's fine with me. Now that's dedication!
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Don't worry about developers- Xbox Live subscribers are a small fraction of the Xbox market (I think there are 1.5 to 2 million of them, compared to 17 million Xboxes sold), and the Xbox 360 will likely see numbers like this too. The offline-only market segment is still going to be important for a long time.
The ITMS is never going to be Apple's primary revenue stream. It's just barely holding at the break-even point. It's being held afloat by iPod revenue, which is itself still dwarfed by Apple's computer business.
Don't count on it. You've forgotten the "lock-in" everyone here loves to complain about. By the time your iPod breaks down, all your music has been loaded into iTunes, possibly as AAC, and possibly "mined" with ITMS songs that can only be played on iPods. You can either shift your entire collection over to whatever jukebox program the phone requires you to use, and fix any metadata that doesn't survive the trip, and learn to use the completely new computer and phone interfaces, and generally go to a lot of trouble to migrate- or you can buy a new iPod, plug it in (the same way you're used to plugging in your old one), and wait a few minutes. Gates has gained a lot from "cost of migration" over the years, but now it's going to bite him in the ass.
It's not a framework, it's a separate language in the compiler that allows mixed Objective-C and C++ syntax in source files. The two object models exist simultaneously when running. "Framework" has a specific meaning in OS X, more akin to a library than compiler feature or runtime.
Farther down in the spec sheet it does say "Vertical Scanning Lines (native mode): 1080i", but I haven't been able to verify this as I don't own anything that's guaranteed to output a 1080i signal. 480p widescreen Xbox games look great, though.
Same here- HD is not good enough to throw out existing equipment for, but when you find yourself without a TV at all, there's no reason not to go HD with a replacement. Sooner or later, HD is going to be either present in *all* video devices, or a "free" feature on some other device you want already (like a next-gen console), so the cost of explicit migration gradually erodes until one day you find that you're HD-ready almost without realizing it. This is basically what happened to me, and it looks awesome:P
This is not always true. Most albums on the ITMS are $9.99, including many with more than 10 tracks. This is generally cheaper than retail CDs (but not used CDs).
And, of course, if you're only buying one song, it's a much better value than a CD full of music you don't want.
That can be a deal-maker sometimes. If I get a hankering for a certain song I remember one day, it can be coming out of my speakers in under a minute. Going to a physical store takes at least 20 minutes depending on your location, and shipping from an online retailer takes at least a day. I'd never even considered impulse purchases of music before the ITMS lowered the barrier this far, and that's not even addressing the cost argument.
The only CDs I buy any more are ones that I've discovered are not listed on the ITMS (yet).
You forgot to bold the word select in that quote. The "select" MP3 players are the ones that also support DRMed WMA, because that's what the service is really using.
Yeah, but hopefully that will be more expensive than filling their site with content that's actually relevant to the keywords they want to get to the top of, and interesting to anyone searching for them.
You missed the parent's point and got bogged down in specifics. What Microsoft did was attempt to enter a market that had been historically dominated by two other large companies, and with zero previous experience managed to carve out a good chunk of it on their first try. There are countless reasons the Xbox did that well and just as many reasons that it didn't do any better, but the general trend seems to be at least what MS expected to happen, if not better.
This isn't astroturfing, it's "normal" viral marketing. Astroturfing would be MS employees coming into this article to post comments praising MS, but ourcolony has never denied that MS is backing them (that I'm aware of, at least).
I have no trouble using the GameCube controller. I also have no trouble with the big Xbox controllers.
Regardless of which controller you or I prefer, it was silly for Microsoft to stop making a peripheral that a large segment of their audience liked to use and continued to buy.
The FCC has legal authority, but it doesn't need constitutional authority. It was created by an act of Congress, not by executive fiat. There are all sorts of entities in the government that aren't mentioned in the constitution but are allowed to set policy and enforce penalties if it is disobeyed.
Remember that the courts can only affect issues that are brought to their attention. If you think the FCC has overstepped its authority in other areas, file more lawsuits.
A newspaper is not an RSS aggregator. Discovering, investigating, organizing, and reporting news is neither easy nor free; there's a reason "journalism" is a full-time profession. Whether you think it's worth it or not is a different question, but don't pretend the cost is zero.
While at the same time complaining about the quantity of that advertisement and finding as many ways to remove it from your personal experience as possible. TANSTAAFL.
A better answer would be "We *don't* ship more RAM in the iMacs than in the Power Macs. The recent Power Mac updated bumped all the configs except the low end up to 512MB too." What department in Apple do you work at again?;)
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Yeah, but all we found in Iraq was this.
an Apple patch may rewrite that piece of code so it cannot create that infinite loop scenario
Hey, if Apple wants to solve the halting problem as part of their security initiative, that's fine with me. Now that's dedication!
Don't worry about developers- Xbox Live subscribers are a small fraction of the Xbox market (I think there are 1.5 to 2 million of them, compared to 17 million Xboxes sold), and the Xbox 360 will likely see numbers like this too. The offline-only market segment is still going to be important for a long time.
The ITMS is never going to be Apple's primary revenue stream. It's just barely holding at the break-even point. It's being held afloat by iPod revenue, which is itself still dwarfed by Apple's computer business.
Don't count on it. You've forgotten the "lock-in" everyone here loves to complain about. By the time your iPod breaks down, all your music has been loaded into iTunes, possibly as AAC, and possibly "mined" with ITMS songs that can only be played on iPods. You can either shift your entire collection over to whatever jukebox program the phone requires you to use, and fix any metadata that doesn't survive the trip, and learn to use the completely new computer and phone interfaces, and generally go to a lot of trouble to migrate- or you can buy a new iPod, plug it in (the same way you're used to plugging in your old one), and wait a few minutes. Gates has gained a lot from "cost of migration" over the years, but now it's going to bite him in the ass.
It's not a framework, it's a separate language in the compiler that allows mixed Objective-C and C++ syntax in source files. The two object models exist simultaneously when running. "Framework" has a specific meaning in OS X, more akin to a library than compiler feature or runtime.
Farther down in the spec sheet it does say "Vertical Scanning Lines (native mode): 1080i", but I haven't been able to verify this as I don't own anything that's guaranteed to output a 1080i signal. 480p widescreen Xbox games look great, though.
No, but suppose it was paired with another machine that did nothing but construct robot parts from raw materials and place them in a known location?
$350 US isn't that much more expensive than an NTSC TV. Not all HDTVs are ginormous 50" plasma/LCD/whatever home theater rigs.
Once again, Apple is years ahead of the industry.
Same here- HD is not good enough to throw out existing equipment for, but when you find yourself without a TV at all, there's no reason not to go HD with a replacement. Sooner or later, HD is going to be either present in *all* video devices, or a "free" feature on some other device you want already (like a next-gen console), so the cost of explicit migration gradually erodes until one day you find that you're HD-ready almost without realizing it. This is basically what happened to me, and it looks awesome :P
Per song price is not better than a CD
This is not always true. Most albums on the ITMS are $9.99, including many with more than 10 tracks. This is generally cheaper than retail CDs (but not used CDs).
And, of course, if you're only buying one song, it's a much better value than a CD full of music you don't want.
That can be a deal-maker sometimes. If I get a hankering for a certain song I remember one day, it can be coming out of my speakers in under a minute. Going to a physical store takes at least 20 minutes depending on your location, and shipping from an online retailer takes at least a day. I'd never even considered impulse purchases of music before the ITMS lowered the barrier this far, and that's not even addressing the cost argument.
The only CDs I buy any more are ones that I've discovered are not listed on the ITMS (yet).
You forgot to bold the word select in that quote. The "select" MP3 players are the ones that also support DRMed WMA, because that's what the service is really using.
Yeah, but hopefully that will be more expensive than filling their site with content that's actually relevant to the keywords they want to get to the top of, and interesting to anyone searching for them.
You missed the parent's point and got bogged down in specifics. What Microsoft did was attempt to enter a market that had been historically dominated by two other large companies, and with zero previous experience managed to carve out a good chunk of it on their first try. There are countless reasons the Xbox did that well and just as many reasons that it didn't do any better, but the general trend seems to be at least what MS expected to happen, if not better.
This isn't astroturfing, it's "normal" viral marketing. Astroturfing would be MS employees coming into this article to post comments praising MS, but ourcolony has never denied that MS is backing them (that I'm aware of, at least).
I have no trouble using the GameCube controller. I also have no trouble with the big Xbox controllers.
Regardless of which controller you or I prefer, it was silly for Microsoft to stop making a peripheral that a large segment of their audience liked to use and continued to buy.
The FCC has legal authority, but it doesn't need constitutional authority. It was created by an act of Congress, not by executive fiat. There are all sorts of entities in the government that aren't mentioned in the constitution but are allowed to set policy and enforce penalties if it is disobeyed.
Remember that the courts can only affect issues that are brought to their attention. If you think the FCC has overstepped its authority in other areas, file more lawsuits.
And besides, Intel chips will make my Internet faster and my MP3s sound better!
The movies are already a bloodbath. What was the population of Alderaan again?
You can't pay bills and salaries with "Internet clout", and the increased advertising revenue is difficult to quantify.
Remember, this article is about EXPLORING, not an announcement of a plan. They could always decide that they're not going to do this after all.
A newspaper is not an RSS aggregator. Discovering, investigating, organizing, and reporting news is neither easy nor free; there's a reason "journalism" is a full-time profession. Whether you think it's worth it or not is a different question, but don't pretend the cost is zero.
While at the same time complaining about the quantity of that advertisement and finding as many ways to remove it from your personal experience as possible. TANSTAAFL.
A better answer would be "We *don't* ship more RAM in the iMacs than in the Power Macs. The recent Power Mac updated bumped all the configs except the low end up to 512MB too." What department in Apple do you work at again? ;)