Try and read what he's saying a little more carefully...
Apple has plenty of experience emulating old operating systems to maintain compatibility, whether it was 680X0 emulation on early PowerPC machines, System 9 or Classic emulation under OS X, or even today's Rosetta on-the-fly conversion of PowerPC apps to run on MacIntel boxes.
Trying to save the company, Steve got Bill Gates to invest $150 million in Apple and promise to keep Mac Office going for a few more years in exchange for a five-year patent cross-licensing agreement...
But I'm told that the exchange wasn't totally one-way, that Apple, in turn, got some legal right to the Windows API.
I'm told Apple has long had this running in the Cupertino lab -- Intel Macs running OS X while mixing Apple and XP applications. This is not a guess or a rumor, this something that has been demonstrated and observed by people who have since reported to me.
Is that Burst is spoiling Apple's, and therefore everyone's, anytime anywhere video future with oppressive licensing stipulations.
Someone somewhere has to come up with an example of technology previous to Burst, therefore Apple can buy that company or show that Burst wasn't the first to invent it.
Then M$ can sue for their money back!
So, Fair Use enables people to record shows on a VCR to have and to watch at their choosing...
Then the TIVO completely alters our way of viewing television by not only allowing us to TIME SHIFT, but also eliminate the advertising.
In a country where TIVO's have replaced VCR's and networks (and thus advertisers) can see that 97% of the people watching are fast-forwarding through the spots (except for movie trailers and really cool commercials that look even cooler in fast motion - thus attracting your interest) why would advertisers want to promote a show...
And where, now, does the network get revenue from... five-second annoying pop-ups at the start of each act break in a show?
Well, I paid $40.00 at Costco to watch the entire first season of 'LOST' (after I heard all the buzz)... So does a network now charge me $2.00 for each episode I watch in the "broadcast" window before DVD? (Broadcast meaning, podcast, bittorrent, tv, IPTV, etc)
And if Fair Use leads to widespread VCR use, leads to time-shifting, leads to TIVO and ultimate time -shifting, leads to altered television viewing habits, leads to miniscule advertising revenue, leads to alternate delivery, payment and advertising revenue methods...
How does the next 'LOST' become the next communal phenomenon if there is no easy way to let us know about it?... maybe Really Cool Spots that play well in fast motion? Paid TV anyone? (Austin Powers was right... "BBC 1, BBC 2, BCC 3, BBC 4, BBC 5, BBC 6, BBC 7, BBC Heaven'"
That's the real problem with the election in 2000. Apathy. We're starting to see the public at large wake up now, but it's too late. Where was the outrage, the demonstrations during the first month after the election when ballots were attempting to be recounted?
Has anyone even noticed that every time there is a Bush in the White House we're in a recession and at war?
Well, they can't rig every election... forever... just 2000 and 2002 right?
Spends money on tax cuts?!? Sheesh. Our Public Education system strikes again
You're absolutely right! I should have said 'throw away money the government should be using to pay down the deficit instead of creating more interest payments for god knows how many years to come because that's the only way he can think of to spur the economy!'
God Damn that LAUSD! I should have lawsuited dem years ago!
But seriously, thanks for the call and the correction!
I work at Sikorsky Aircraft. If a helicopter "went down every other day", I'm sure the company would no longer be in business. There are thousands of Black Hawk helicopters in service and one is lost every couple of years, normally due to pilot error
You're right. I exaggerate! But there was a time last year when there was a crash every other day of several non-combat military aircraft. If I must, and memory fails you, I can compile the stories using google. I wasn't specifically referring to Black Hawks, and I meant no disparaging reflection by it on your company. But I personally feel that compared to commercial flights, the military has a much worse record in terms of disasters.
Now, I have absolutely no idea how to follow this train of thought: how will a Mars mission suddenly change everyone's mind about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gases and industrial waste?
In order to understand the atmosphere on Mars we are going to have to understand weather patterns on our planet as well as other planets (Jupiter) and satellites (Ion, Calisto, Europa) much much better. How does our atmosphere protect us? What will be the long term effects of the hole over the ozone? What are the lights that astronauts have been seeing that are not a result of the aurora borealis? Are we pumping so much "stuff" into the atmosphere that we are going to eventually block sun and create factors that will lead to another ice age. Are we heating the planet up so much that the poles will continue to melt indefinitely? (With in ten years we might be able to sail over the top of the world!). If Mars doesn't have an atmosphere to speak of then how is there water still flowing (according to new findings)? How does a planet with half earth's circumfrence maintain the little atmosphere there is? Can we use the ice sheets to create oxygen. Can we transform it's atmosphere.
There are hundreds of questions we have about our own world we need answers to which will lead to our better understanding of planetary systems in general. Much of this is pure research so there will be many more discovers and therefore questions that need to be answered along the way.
Once we understand our blue world much better, as we push to put a permanent or semi-permanent station on Mars, we'll be able to understand who's really right, the United States and its unyielding penchant and disregard when it comes to burning fossil fuels and everyone else who've managed to sign things like the Kyoto Accord.
Why isn't this the first thing that serves as a solution? Bush wants to sped 695 Billion on a tax cut, 300 Billion on killing taxable dividends, 50-100 Billion on a war with Iraq (and more during the aftermath). Why don't we just DOUBLE, TRIPLE, or QUARUPLE NASA's BUDGET and stop asking them to perform miracles on less than one-tenth of one-percent of the overall US budget?
Hell where's all the interest going that's being charged because of the deficit? How about this, balance the budget and give the money we would have thrown away in interest to the banks, to NASA!
My God! Where is the 380-400 Billion we spend a year on the Military Industrial Complex going? Why did we have to kill 79 American's during the Gulf War cause of friendly fire? Why does it seem every other day another Black Hawk or Offspree goes down - in non-combat situations!?! Any video game developer worth their salt would have invented a fully encripted, wireless battlefield tracking system so that a friendly couldn't even lock onto equivalent troops even if they tried - the system would lock them out! Those friendly troops would appear with colored markers over their heads/units/armory even if they were lost on the battlefield.
My point is, we, as a society, a nation, a civilization seem to reep so many more benefits from the work of scientists, and NASA specifically, and no benefits whatsoever with of all this money we are throwing at the military except how to kill each other more efficiently and in greater numbers.
Change our focus, end this path of destruction, embrace our enemies (aka the friendly-hug, no dictator will survive western cultural and economic influence because of it) and GIVE NASA A MUCH BIGGER BUDGET! They are not just about Space Exploration, you know?
Finally, lets have a national agenda to get to Mars. Once we do, we'll suddenly realize were killing our own planet burning fossil fuel's and dumping toxin's into the environment with no consideration of future generations. Please, let's stop thinking about what this means to the shareholder. We are all shareholders when it comes to the well being of this tiny blue world. NASA makes such a difference in all our lives, let's make a difference in theirs.
You presuppose that the people engaged in understaking this course of action are doing it with a rational point-of-view. Maybe they figured that "since my daddy learned how to sell a war to the American people, so can I." After all, that war netted Bush, Inc. large reconstruction contracts in Kuwait.
In addition, maybe they're also thinking they have everything in place they need: D. Cheney, C. Powell, C. Rise. D. Rumsfeld to plan this next heist from under the noses of the Iraqi people. And maybe their still high on the fact that they were able to steal an election, not just from the American people or it's Justice system, but from the world. It seems like everyone else it paying dearly for our apathy.
Bush's (et. al.) plan is well calculated. They approached the United Nations first and got their support last fall. They hoped the UN inspections would fail and have sped the process, failed to get the inspector the adequate equipment they needed, and failed to adopt James A. Baker's post Gulf War approach, i.e., "intrusive inspections anytime, anywhere, with no exceptions" utilizing "all necessary means to enforce it."
Now he is going to push through a war that nobody wants. How do I know, he's moved a lot of people and equipment in place while millions around the world cry out in protest. Finally, there's the Washington Post story yesterday about the Pentagon talking to a few key players regarding a post war Iraq and the fact that Halliburton Co., where Dick Cheney was chief executive before becoming vice president. This is really pivotal to all of these business ventures. Many key Senators and Congressmen who should have known about this crucial development simply read about it in the Washington Post.
It may be a horrible business gamble by any stretch of the imagination, but the benefits of money and power are just to great to pass up.
If you think I'm kidding, do a little more research into exactly what went on in Florida during the election.
I don't see why any software other than the OS, i.e., the kernel and Darwin would have to be recompiled. Everything else is sitting on top of it. The kernel never let's anything speak to the hardware directly and all the call's don't go any further than this "software" foundation.
Also, hasn't NeXTstep been running on x86 since Jobs folded the NeXT software in 1991?
And, wouldn't AMD or SGI like to sell a few million chips a year to a vendor that was getting the word out about the false attributes of the megahertz myth and the real power of a 64bit chip that didn't need any CISC/RISC translation?
Yeah, and I hate when someone continues to complain about the cost of Mac's. That's the kind of person that wants everything for free! Well, it does cost Apple something to develop these machines.
How about this. Keep your home-built Linix or Windoze machine and buy an iBook to just get shit done. Stop fiddeling when real work is required!
There's something to be said for software and hardware integration. If you can't see that you're blind. Also, and I continue to beat this drum, Apple has done something that no one else has been able to do since the birth of Unix - put a usable user interface on the sucker.
Linux will forever be playing catch up.
You wanna stop Gates and Ballmer, jump on the OS X bandwagon and stop whinning!
Now there's a pretty good subscription based service!
Get people hopped up on IM'ing, then monitor their every move for lude and lavicious comments.
Every Human Resources person must be loving the potential of this. No more 'downsizing' excuses, or we've eliminated the position.' Now is just, 'remember that comments you made two years ago...''
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Apple has plenty of experience emulating old operating systems to maintain compatibility, whether it was 680X0 emulation on early PowerPC machines, System 9 or Classic emulation under OS X, or even today's Rosetta on-the-fly conversion of PowerPC apps to run on MacIntel boxes.
Trying to save the company, Steve got Bill Gates to invest $150 million in Apple and promise to keep Mac Office going for a few more years in exchange for a five-year patent cross-licensing agreement ...
But I'm told that the exchange wasn't totally one-way, that Apple, in turn, got some legal right to the Windows API.
I'm told Apple has long had this running in the Cupertino lab -- Intel Macs running OS X while mixing Apple and XP applications. This is not a guess or a rumor, this something that has been demonstrated and observed by people who have since reported to me.
Is that Burst is spoiling Apple's, and therefore everyone's, anytime anywhere video future with oppressive licensing stipulations. Someone somewhere has to come up with an example of technology previous to Burst, therefore Apple can buy that company or show that Burst wasn't the first to invent it. Then M$ can sue for their money back!
So, Fair Use enables people to record shows on a VCR to have and to watch at their choosing... Then the TIVO completely alters our way of viewing television by not only allowing us to TIME SHIFT, but also eliminate the advertising. In a country where TIVO's have replaced VCR's and networks (and thus advertisers) can see that 97% of the people watching are fast-forwarding through the spots (except for movie trailers and really cool commercials that look even cooler in fast motion - thus attracting your interest) why would advertisers want to promote a show... And where, now, does the network get revenue from... five-second annoying pop-ups at the start of each act break in a show? Well, I paid $40.00 at Costco to watch the entire first season of 'LOST' (after I heard all the buzz)... So does a network now charge me $2.00 for each episode I watch in the "broadcast" window before DVD? (Broadcast meaning, podcast, bittorrent, tv, IPTV, etc) And if Fair Use leads to widespread VCR use, leads to time-shifting, leads to TIVO and ultimate time -shifting, leads to altered television viewing habits, leads to miniscule advertising revenue, leads to alternate delivery, payment and advertising revenue methods... How does the next 'LOST' become the next communal phenomenon if there is no easy way to let us know about it? ... maybe Really Cool Spots that play well in fast motion? Paid TV anyone? (Austin Powers was right... "BBC 1, BBC 2, BCC 3, BBC 4, BBC 5, BBC 6, BBC 7, BBC Heaven'"
JM
-JM
"Strange race, the only way to win is not to play." -JM
That's the real problem with the election in 2000. Apathy. We're starting to see the public at large wake up now, but it's too late. Where was the outrage, the demonstrations during the first month after the election when ballots were attempting to be recounted?
Has anyone even noticed that every time there is a Bush in the White House we're in a recession and at war?
Well, they can't rig every election... forever... just 2000 and 2002 right?
-JM
You're absolutely right! I should have said 'throw away money the government should be using to pay down the deficit instead of creating more interest payments for god knows how many years to come because that's the only way he can think of to spur the economy!'
God Damn that LAUSD! I should have lawsuited dem years ago!
But seriously, thanks for the call and the correction!
-JM
You're right. I exaggerate! But there was a time last year when there was a crash every other day of several non-combat military aircraft. If I must, and memory fails you, I can compile the stories using google. I wasn't specifically referring to Black Hawks, and I meant no disparaging reflection by it on your company. But I personally feel that compared to commercial flights, the military has a much worse record in terms of disasters.
Now, I have absolutely no idea how to follow this train of thought: how will a Mars mission suddenly change everyone's mind about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gases and industrial waste?
In order to understand the atmosphere on Mars we are going to have to understand weather patterns on our planet as well as other planets (Jupiter) and satellites (Ion, Calisto, Europa) much much better. How does our atmosphere protect us? What will be the long term effects of the hole over the ozone? What are the lights that astronauts have been seeing that are not a result of the aurora borealis? Are we pumping so much "stuff" into the atmosphere that we are going to eventually block sun and create factors that will lead to another ice age. Are we heating the planet up so much that the poles will continue to melt indefinitely? (With in ten years we might be able to sail over the top of the world!). If Mars doesn't have an atmosphere to speak of then how is there water still flowing (according to new findings)? How does a planet with half earth's circumfrence maintain the little atmosphere there is? Can we use the ice sheets to create oxygen. Can we transform it's atmosphere.
There are hundreds of questions we have about our own world we need answers to which will lead to our better understanding of planetary systems in general. Much of this is pure research so there will be many more discovers and therefore questions that need to be answered along the way.
Once we understand our blue world much better, as we push to put a permanent or semi-permanent station on Mars, we'll be able to understand who's really right, the United States and its unyielding penchant and disregard when it comes to burning fossil fuels and everyone else who've managed to sign things like the Kyoto Accord.
JM
Hell where's all the interest going that's being charged because of the deficit? How about this, balance the budget and give the money we would have thrown away in interest to the banks, to NASA!
My God! Where is the 380-400 Billion we spend a year on the Military Industrial Complex going? Why did we have to kill 79 American's during the Gulf War cause of friendly fire? Why does it seem every other day another Black Hawk or Offspree goes down - in non-combat situations!?! Any video game developer worth their salt would have invented a fully encripted, wireless battlefield tracking system so that a friendly couldn't even lock onto equivalent troops even if they tried - the system would lock them out! Those friendly troops would appear with colored markers over their heads/units/armory even if they were lost on the battlefield.
My point is, we, as a society, a nation, a civilization seem to reep so many more benefits from the work of scientists, and NASA specifically, and no benefits whatsoever with of all this money we are throwing at the military except how to kill each other more efficiently and in greater numbers.
Change our focus, end this path of destruction, embrace our enemies (aka the friendly-hug, no dictator will survive western cultural and economic influence because of it) and GIVE NASA A MUCH BIGGER BUDGET! They are not just about Space Exploration, you know?
Finally, lets have a national agenda to get to Mars. Once we do, we'll suddenly realize were killing our own planet burning fossil fuel's and dumping toxin's into the environment with no consideration of future generations. Please, let's stop thinking about what this means to the shareholder. We are all shareholders when it comes to the well being of this tiny blue world. NASA makes such a difference in all our lives, let's make a difference in theirs.
Peace.
JM
You presuppose that the people engaged in understaking this course of action are doing it with a rational point-of-view. Maybe they figured that "since my daddy learned how to sell a war to the American people, so can I." After all, that war netted Bush, Inc. large reconstruction contracts in Kuwait.
In addition, maybe they're also thinking they have everything in place they need: D. Cheney, C. Powell, C. Rise. D. Rumsfeld to plan this next heist from under the noses of the Iraqi people. And maybe their still high on the fact that they were able to steal an election, not just from the American people or it's Justice system, but from the world. It seems like everyone else it paying dearly for our apathy.
Bush's (et. al.) plan is well calculated. They approached the United Nations first and got their support last fall. They hoped the UN inspections would fail and have sped the process, failed to get the inspector the adequate equipment they needed, and failed to adopt James A. Baker's post Gulf War approach, i.e., "intrusive inspections anytime, anywhere, with no exceptions" utilizing "all necessary means to enforce it."
Now he is going to push through a war that nobody wants. How do I know, he's moved a lot of people and equipment in place while millions around the world cry out in protest. Finally, there's the Washington Post story yesterday about the Pentagon talking to a few key players regarding a post war Iraq and the fact that Halliburton Co., where Dick Cheney was chief executive before becoming vice president. This is really pivotal to all of these business ventures. Many key Senators and Congressmen who should have known about this crucial development simply read about it in the Washington Post.
It may be a horrible business gamble by any stretch of the imagination, but the benefits of money and power are just to great to pass up.
If you think I'm kidding, do a little more research into exactly what went on in Florida during the election.
Oh, just have Apple buy them and be done with it.
Put that intellectual property where it belongs... OSX!
It was going to run Windoze insanley fast!
I don't see why any software other than the OS, i.e., the kernel and Darwin would have to be recompiled. Everything else is sitting on top of it. The kernel never let's anything speak to the hardware directly and all the call's don't go any further than this "software" foundation.
Also, hasn't NeXTstep been running on x86 since Jobs folded the NeXT software in 1991?
And, wouldn't AMD or SGI like to sell a few million chips a year to a vendor that was getting the word out about the false attributes of the megahertz myth and the real power of a 64bit chip that didn't need any CISC/RISC translation?
Again, can someone please explain?
Why can't Apple buy chips from SGI? or buy SGI?
How about this. Keep your home-built Linix or Windoze machine and buy an iBook to just get shit done. Stop fiddeling when real work is required!
There's something to be said for software and hardware integration. If you can't see that you're blind. Also, and I continue to beat this drum, Apple has done something that no one else has been able to do since the birth of Unix - put a usable user interface on the sucker.
Linux will forever be playing catch up.
You wanna stop Gates and Ballmer, jump on the OS X bandwagon and stop whinning!
"You don't know the power of the right side."
Now there's a pretty good subscription based service! Get people hopped up on IM'ing, then monitor their every move for lude and lavicious comments. Every Human Resources person must be loving the potential of this. No more 'downsizing' excuses, or we've eliminated the position.' Now is just, 'remember that comments you made two years ago...''