I never thought of that before... you'd have to change location in both time AND space simultaneously for proper time travel to occur.
Perhaps if you jump back exactly one full year, you'd end up pretty close to where you are now (assuming Earth's orbit and rotation is consistant). Going back one month would leave you floating in space!
The video quality was very good, most likely due to QT7. But the content was somewhat lacking. I assume the "sums up the overall reaction to the news" part of the summary was referring to the one guy he talked to?
I was expecting to see some shots of the audience as Steve made the announcement, to see the looks on everyone's faces (or maybe it was there, but too quick for me to notice).
As for an example, if I pay for all these songs and my computer would happen to crash, and it would just happen that I don't have a backup copy, I've essentially payed for something I don't have anymore.
And this is different from physical CD purchases how? Let's say you have a CD, and it gets damaged or lost. Same scenario here, you've paid for something you don't have anymore.
With both scenarios, you have two options - back up your music (whether by burning a data CD/DVD of iTMS purchases or ripping your CD to MP3), or risk losing your music.
You do have a valid point, and I do agree with you, that it would be nice if your Apple ID also facilitated in keeping a record of all music you've purchased in case you need to re-download them.
Apple has always known about this, and has been very aggressive about not preannouncing ANYTHING, so as to not hurt sales of existing products. [snip] But if they didn't preannounce, then the developers wouldn't have time to get ready for the transition, which could potentially be worse.
As you state, unlike a new product like the Mac Mini or iPod Shuffle, they can't wait until the last minute to let the world know about it. They have to tell the developers about this well in advance, and I'm certain it's not feasable to put every single Mac software developer in the world under an NDA.
But if I can speculate, I would assume that, with technologies such as Rosetta and their Universal Binary system, your average user won't even know, or care, what the underlying architecture is, as the overall user experience would be identical.
I see this more akin to General Motors stating that next year's Sunfires and Cavaliers would be using chassis x instead of chassis y. As long as the experience is still excellent, the end user won't really care much, and won't hold off on buying their cars. Of course, I'm speaking about average joe users here, not the typical Slashdot crowd who actually understand these under-the-hood things...
I'm sure Apple has considered this, but this will kill their short-term hardware sales. After all, who wants to buy Apple hardware on a condemned platform?
I wouldn't be too sure about that... I'm fairly certain that Apple will work hard to ensure that their users get the same experience no matter which architecture of Mac they're using. Jobs made a point of heavily pushing the simplicity of creating binaries using the new version of Xcode, that would run on both PPC and Intel architectures.
I think this move would be closer to a car manufacturer saying that starting in 2006, they'll be using engines from manufacturer B instead of A. Most people wouldn't choose not to buy that company's 2005 model because it's "a condemned platform" as you put it.
Actually, I bet if nobody except for developers ever found out about this change, most people wouldn't notice. I have confidence in Apple, that if you sat me down in front of two different Macs with identical cases, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference without bringing up the "About This Mac" window, if they've done their jobs correctly.
Any Apple PPC software you have today won't run on a new Mac in two years.
In his keynote, Jobs mentioned a technology called Rosetta, which allows current PPC binaries to run on an Intel system. Obviously there would be some slowdown, but considering these new systems would be much faster than what's available today, performance would likely be similar to running the same software on today's iMacs or the lower-end PowerMacs. The slide for Rosetta listed it as being "Fast (enough)".
iPhoto lets you put comments and keywords on any photo, which is what most people have done.
Hmm, works for me. I did a Spotlight search for 'kitten' and got the pictures I took a couple weeks ago of my brother's kitten, for which I had entered 'kitten' in the photos' comment boxes.
I have iLife '05... perhaps that makes a difference.
That would limit their audience. AFAIK iTunes and WMP cannot play OGGs out of the box, and I know my iPod can't. If this was something really popular that would have millions of people wanting to download, then they could get away with using OGG in an attempt to give it a boost, and prompt Apple & Microsoft to include OGG support in their next versions.
And to be honest, how many people outside of the Slashdot crowd would really care what the file format is in? As long as they can play it without much trouble, they'll be happy.
My first reaction from reading the blurb, was "Oh crap, a 40% price increase on iTMS?"
After reading the article and re-reading the summary, the key point here is that these groups want up to 40% of the gross revenue. Unfortunately I'm not 100% certain as to the definition of "gross revenue," but if as I suspect, that means "whatever is left in the bank after paying the related expenses" then this would be 40% of Apple's cut. If they (or the runners of other music download services, for that matter) only get to see 5% of my $0.99, and assuming they raise their price to cover this tarriff, then that would only be a 2% increase.
Of course, I may be wrong in my understanding. IANALOA (lawyer or accountant).
I'm downloading this right now with bittorrent, and my upstream is 2-3 times more than my downstream! I thought Bittorrent worked on the principle of "I give you 1kb, you give me 1kb back" so shouldn't my downstream be at least equal to my upstream? I've only downloaded 131MB, but I've already dished out 346MB to other peers.
And yes, I do have the ports opened in my firewalls.
We've had automated Light Rail Transit out here in Vancouver, BC, Canada, for like 20 years already. And New York is finally getting automated trains now???
And this is no short line we have or anything either - it takes about 40 minutes to get from one end to the other, and they've recently added a second line as well.
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I guess their designs have improved since the G4 models. Either that, or there's something wrong with yours. I have a dual G5 Powermac, and it's practically silent. I just paused my music, and I couldn't hear any sound at all until I got a couple feet from the case, then I could quietly hear something.
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I've been using WinXP pro since pre-launch, on multiple computers, with several hardware upgrades, and have never, ever, had a single BSOD
Try pressing the power switch.
*rimshot*
I never thought of that before... you'd have to change location in both time AND space simultaneously for proper time travel to occur.
Perhaps if you jump back exactly one full year, you'd end up pretty close to where you are now (assuming Earth's orbit and rotation is consistant). Going back one month would leave you floating in space!
Not necessarily... Not all their software has the 'i' prefix - Final Cut Pro, Keynote, Pages, Garage Band, and Quicktime, to name a few.
The original PS2 didn't, but newer models do. Google for PS2 progressive scan for more details.
I don't think all games support it out of the box though. At least with GT4, you have to turn the higher resolution modes on in the game setup.
The video quality was very good, most likely due to QT7. But the content was somewhat lacking. I assume the "sums up the overall reaction to the news" part of the summary was referring to the one guy he talked to?
I was expecting to see some shots of the audience as Steve made the announcement, to see the looks on everyone's faces (or maybe it was there, but too quick for me to notice).
As for an example, if I pay for all these songs and my computer would happen to crash, and it would just happen that I don't have a backup copy, I've essentially payed for something I don't have anymore.
And this is different from physical CD purchases how? Let's say you have a CD, and it gets damaged or lost. Same scenario here, you've paid for something you don't have anymore.
With both scenarios, you have two options - back up your music (whether by burning a data CD/DVD of iTMS purchases or ripping your CD to MP3), or risk losing your music.
You do have a valid point, and I do agree with you, that it would be nice if your Apple ID also facilitated in keeping a record of all music you've purchased in case you need to re-download them.
Apple has always known about this, and has been very aggressive about not preannouncing ANYTHING, so as to not hurt sales of existing products. [snip] But if they didn't preannounce, then the developers wouldn't have time to get ready for the transition, which could potentially be worse.
As you state, unlike a new product like the Mac Mini or iPod Shuffle, they can't wait until the last minute to let the world know about it. They have to tell the developers about this well in advance, and I'm certain it's not feasable to put every single Mac software developer in the world under an NDA.
But if I can speculate, I would assume that, with technologies such as Rosetta and their Universal Binary system, your average user won't even know, or care, what the underlying architecture is, as the overall user experience would be identical.
I see this more akin to General Motors stating that next year's Sunfires and Cavaliers would be using chassis x instead of chassis y. As long as the experience is still excellent, the end user won't really care much, and won't hold off on buying their cars. Of course, I'm speaking about average joe users here, not the typical Slashdot crowd who actually understand these under-the-hood things...
I'm sure Apple has considered this, but this will kill their short-term hardware sales. After all, who wants to buy Apple hardware on a condemned platform?
I wouldn't be too sure about that... I'm fairly certain that Apple will work hard to ensure that their users get the same experience no matter which architecture of Mac they're using. Jobs made a point of heavily pushing the simplicity of creating binaries using the new version of Xcode, that would run on both PPC and Intel architectures.
I think this move would be closer to a car manufacturer saying that starting in 2006, they'll be using engines from manufacturer B instead of A. Most people wouldn't choose not to buy that company's 2005 model because it's "a condemned platform" as you put it.
Actually, I bet if nobody except for developers ever found out about this change, most people wouldn't notice. I have confidence in Apple, that if you sat me down in front of two different Macs with identical cases, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference without bringing up the "About This Mac" window, if they've done their jobs correctly.
Any Apple PPC software you have today won't run on a new Mac in two years.
In his keynote, Jobs mentioned a technology called Rosetta, which allows current PPC binaries to run on an Intel system. Obviously there would be some slowdown, but considering these new systems would be much faster than what's available today, performance would likely be similar to running the same software on today's iMacs or the lower-end PowerMacs. The slide for Rosetta listed it as being "Fast (enough)".
So, when's this going to end up on the Canadian iTMS, I wonder?
Too bad they didn't name the Windows version "Au Revoir For Windows" =)
iPhoto lets you put comments and keywords on any photo, which is what most people have done.
Hmm, works for me. I did a Spotlight search for 'kitten' and got the pictures I took a couple weeks ago of my brother's kitten, for which I had entered 'kitten' in the photos' comment boxes.
I have iLife '05... perhaps that makes a difference.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. HHGG, also known as H2G2.
Right now, my clock says 6:20 PM. For someone in New York, it's already 9:20 PM. For a New Zealander, it would almost be a day since they got it.
Personally, I got my copy at 9:20 AM. =D One of the perks of preordering.
Ha... I'm glad I'm not the only one!
My first reaction was that someone must have written a Gameboy emulator for Playstation Portable, and called it Playboy. Then I read the blurb.
In my defence, I've only been out of bed for about 5 minutes...
That would limit their audience. AFAIK iTunes and WMP cannot play OGGs out of the box, and I know my iPod can't. If this was something really popular that would have millions of people wanting to download, then they could get away with using OGG in an attempt to give it a boost, and prompt Apple & Microsoft to include OGG support in their next versions.
And to be honest, how many people outside of the Slashdot crowd would really care what the file format is in? As long as they can play it without much trouble, they'll be happy.
My first reaction from reading the blurb, was "Oh crap, a 40% price increase on iTMS?"
After reading the article and re-reading the summary, the key point here is that these groups want up to 40% of the gross revenue. Unfortunately I'm not 100% certain as to the definition of "gross revenue," but if as I suspect, that means "whatever is left in the bank after paying the related expenses" then this would be 40% of Apple's cut. If they (or the runners of other music download services, for that matter) only get to see 5% of my $0.99, and assuming they raise their price to cover this tarriff, then that would only be a 2% increase.
Of course, I may be wrong in my understanding. IANALOA (lawyer or accountant).
I downloaded BT 4.0.1 directly from bittorrent.com right before starting this. Maybe they've made a change in this version.
Riddle me this...
I'm downloading this right now with bittorrent, and my upstream is 2-3 times more than my downstream! I thought Bittorrent worked on the principle of "I give you 1kb, you give me 1kb back" so shouldn't my downstream be at least equal to my upstream? I've only downloaded 131MB, but I've already dished out 346MB to other peers.
And yes, I do have the ports opened in my firewalls.
Cool, too bad I didn't know about that earlier. =( At least that appears to be the default now (unless I accidentally enabled it myself...).
I always wished Safari's download manager would list the transfer rate in addition to the file size and estimated time remaining.
And lo and behold, after installing 10.3.9 it does! Way to go, Apple!
We've had automated Light Rail Transit out here in Vancouver, BC, Canada, for like 20 years already. And New York is finally getting automated trains now???
And this is no short line we have or anything either - it takes about 40 minutes to get from one end to the other, and they've recently added a second line as well.
I guess their designs have improved since the G4 models. Either that, or there's something wrong with yours. I have a dual G5 Powermac, and it's practically silent. I just paused my music, and I couldn't hear any sound at all until I got a couple feet from the case, then I could quietly hear something.
not to post pages full of screenshots or video clips here?
Or at least post a mirror instead?
I thought Canada Dry was just a particular brand of ginger ale, just like Coke & Pepsi are brands of colas?
This particular story, would be more comparable to if Canada Dry had stolen their recipe from Schweppes.