If Apple released a G5 iMac that had this feature and an upgradable video card and one PCI slot I would buy it in a heartbeat.
While Apples all in ones have made them a bundle of cash they need to look forward and offer at least some upgrade potential to the machines. At least an upgrade to the video card and one PCI slot for expansion. Even with the cool color changing feature I would not buy another Mac that could not have the video card updated and at least one PCI slot.
It is true, they have always been great with me and I will not buy another drive from another company.
I noticed something about the commodore64 in your sig. That brings back a lot of memories! Yesterday I was thinking about how I used to program in assembly language and put little programs in the cassette buffer because of the lack of memory. It has been a long time since I used terms like LDA, INC, BNE, LDX, LDY and the like!
Of course there is headhunting but if employees are treated right, and it is not always about money, then they will usually stay with that company.
The company where my wife works is a perfect example. The recently purchased the place where she worked and the came in and slashed the benefits, pay, time off, seniority...everything. All in an effort for a quick buck. They lost most of their best employees almost immediately. They really did not care until they figured in the cost of training and recruiting new employees. It has cost them more than paying the employees what they were worth and keeping what they had. My wife quit for a whole week before they begged her back with much more money and perks. They are now doing much better at keeping employees around. They learned the hard way that it cost more to start with a new employee than give an older one what they want. In her businesses, nursing, a mistake be a new employee can also bring large fines from the state so it is their own best interest to make sure everything is done right. A simple mistake could bring a 50,000 dollar fine.....it is cheaper to give an employee part of that to make sure it does not happen.
I think there was a recent/. posting about the best company to work for. You must tailor the package for the person. While he may have been with Seagate for 17 years a lot of those company secrets may have come from this man. If you don't want the competition to get him, you work to keep him. It is that simple.
If they guy has been with them for 17 years then seagate must have not paid this guy enough for him to stick around. If this guy has been around this long and has all these trade secrets then it is some ones job at Seagate to keep this person fat, dumb and happy with his job. Since most jobs now are no like they were decades ago were a company would take care of its employees than these companies should expect the shoe fits on the other foot just as well.
I hope Pete gets to work at Western Digital very soon. I think Western Digital is one of the best companies out there as far as customer support is concerned. I had a bad 100gig drive that was about 6 month old and they replaced it with a 120gig drive. Not only that when I had further problem they shipped a second 120gig drive and told me to check them both out and return the extra 120gig drive in a couple of weeks when I was sure which one I would like to keep....all without a dime out of my pocket.
It is easy to send most of the energy from the radio signal the 802.11b device puts out in one direction but when you spread that signal out over 360 degrees then less energy will reach the other station. You could use a gain omni directional antenna but it will never beat a yagi or parabolic antenna pointed in direction.
I live in a place in Northern California where I could easily beat their record. With a mountain that rises 3000 ft. off of the valley floor and the shape of the main valley of California and the fact that on each side of the valley are large mountain ranges such as the sierra nevadas we have talked on Amateur radios at 440Mhz for over 400 Miles with no problem. Ham operators in Southern California have made contact with Hawaii on 1.2Ghz which is half the frequency of 802.11b. With the proper antennas an unamplified 802.11b signal could easily travel 200 miles or more with no problems.
Of course I still have problems with a connection less than 30 ft. away through several walls. There are a few things you can do to improve your signal. Wrap 5 to 15 loops of wire around your router. Use insulated wire please! and then run one end toward your problematic computer. This is a passive antenna the takes some of the omni direction signal and moves it toward your receiving station. You can also get one of the many antenna design programs and build your own 802.11b antenna for a song. Just remember the more wire between the router and antenna the more signal you will lose.
While I believe ISP and other server admins should take a more proactive approach to anti-virus and security measures the software they are using is not helping them that much.
I always new that PC's were a patch work or little fixes and patches as far as the hardware and software are concerned but I never really knew how badly the design was until I started going to school for IT.
While a totally secure computer is something that will never be at least the PC world could scrap the current design and software the basically leaves the keys in the car with a sign on the window saying "steal me".
In nature it has been shown that when one species finds a niche and takes over its environment a small change environment will kill then all off. A perfect example were the butterflies in near London....they were all white and blended in perfectly with the trees there....when the industrial age hit and pollution turned the trees black they were easy pickings. Windows based OS's are now easy pickings and unless MS takes a truly serious approach to security things are going to get much worse.
While cheaper, gapless and best S/N ratio are all good things why would I want to use Ethernet for downloading to a music player? You gain the ability of downloading from more than one machine at a 4x hit in speed assuming it transfers at 100Mbps speeds, since USB 2 is 480Mbps and firewire at 400Mbps. Also I don't see much use for a webserver....unless the main UI of the Rio is that lame.
Of course so far no one has beaten Apple were it counts the most....the cool factor. When I bought my iPod and looked at all the players out there and when it came to working with PC and Mac and my iTMS downloads the iPod had the lead.... I could have saved some money buying a lesser player but the iPod never fails to get the oohs and ahhs when people see it.
No matter what side of the debate you are on it is clear that real reverse engineered Apples fairplay. Real tried to get Apple to open up fairplay and let them compete with Apple in the music store business....when Apple said no, the released their hacked version. It is plain and simple. It is funny that real is complaining so much, the have pretty much ignored the Mac platform and updates to real player for the Mac have come slow and in some cases not at all.
Some say that it is all about money...you are correct, Real is stealing from Apple and undermining Apples deal with the record companies....this can only help real in the long run. It is too bad if Real were a little more patient and waited till Microsoft came out with their music store they would have had a good shot at a legal fairplay license with Apple. Apple is beginning to license it to other companies and those that "play fair" with Apple will get a slice of the pie. Real did not and will lose because of that....If they record companies pull their support from Apple the only one to win from that happing is Microsoft and that won't be good for anyone!
Exactly! Why spend millions and millions of dollars developing a processor that will be obsolete soon after it is created and has such a narrow use. If anyone wanted to spend 20 to 30 million of a bunch of clustered Xserves they would have the fastest supercomputer in the world.
Actually I get the citi bank email all the time and it is usually from somewhere in China. I also get the 419 letters, which are usually quite funny. They have been updating them recently.
I wonder if there is an entry in Microsofts check book with the name "Dan O'Dowd"
Hmmm....what would be easy to sabotage, software that you have the source code to and can see all the code in the program or a proprietary program that has no source code to look at and compare with other versions?
I don't know what could have gone wrong. I was using Microsoft programming tools and deploying to a Microsoft operating system. The chances of anything going wrong are 1 in a....click.......zip.......>>> division by zero error.
The only way Microsoft can win the war is that they have yet to make a profit from the xbox. They fact that they can absorb those losses is what is keeping the xbox alive.
Since the new xbox will not run the old xbox games that had better make sure to have new, killer titles ready to go when they launch. If not they are going to crash and burn hard. If they blow it they will have fewer sales than Ballmer has hair.
Hey, since both the xbox and playstation will be running PowerPC chips from IBM maybe this will mean easily ported games to the Mac and maybe even a directx API for the Mac.
I bought more tunes than usual in hopes to win an iPod.....another iPod. I just got a new iPod in May and while it is not even close to full, one is just not enough!
On the Enterprise TV series they have already meet and SAW the romulans after the enterprise was attacked by a cloaked romulan mine.
Of course this could be from all the other star trek episodes going back to earths past and dicking around with the time line. Even on the enterprise series the vulcans visited earth in the 1960's, they went back to 2003 to stop the zendi bio weapon and on the cliff hanger we have archer in Nazi Germany.
I have patched iTunes to use the Vorbis codec but that is a no go for my iPod. I still stand by the fact that for any music store downloads, at this time, that AAC is the best.
Of course there are really own two to choose from when buying music, WMA and AAC, since they offer the DRM that the record companies require. Until someone comes out with a format that can be purchased from the music stores that is better than WMA or AAC, AAC is king.
When it comes to ripping discs that is a different story. Between a straight AIFF file, Apple lossless format and a 256Khz AAC, which I use to rip discs there is really no difference that you can here on an iPod.
The article is just another Apple hit piece, I have owned PC's since they came out and the WMA codec sucks...it always has. So do subscription based services, people like to own what they pay for. Why do you think the iTunes Music Store is number 1? They came in and blew the others out of the water.
Also the reviewer must be confused the iTunes can encode in many formats, including Apples lossless format that takes about half the drive space but the iTMS is 128khz AAC files only.
I have recorded the same tracks at varying rates and it is very hard to tell the 128khz ACC files from the uncompressed songs. Listening to them on most car stereos and on iPods in places that have even modest noise and you can't tell the difference.
If I really cared about the music I would buy the CD but having so many CD's in my collection I might not ever listen to again the iTMS is simple, fast and easy. What I like this month I might not like next month and who wants a large file on an iPod when you don't listen to it.
Unless some online store offers tracks over 192khz then they really don't compare with 128khz AAC tracks. Slashdot readers should check out the results of the online listening test.
No, Actually you are trying to tell them what category I fall into. I am not right wing..I am in the middle, In fact I was a democrat for a very long time. I do own guns but I do not belong to the NRA. I believe in the constitution and don't pick and choose which parts I like.
I think Bush is dicking up really bad and I probably will not vote for him. I probably won't vote for Kerry either because he has offered no solution. Just because Mr. Moore likes to take on one party without looking at the SAME faults in the other party only makes me one thing, intellectually honest. As far as he is concerned he has the right to say whatever he wishes, that is his right. Obviously some people don't like it when I exercise that same right. Go figure.
Microsoft is releasing their own MP3 player. The basic case design may be familiar to iPod users but Microsoft has put their own spin on the controls and display.
You can see it here
http://rspress.home.comcast.net/Winpod.jpg
In Huckmaster you play film maker Michael Moore, played onscreen by a giant round blob, who has to wonder around the landscape of Hollywood duping moviegoers that your film really is a documentary and not just a pack of half truths while leaving out facts that could impugn you're own political party. The boss on the last level is an audience you have to convince that "This Is Spinal Tap" was a real documentary as well.
Less spam coming from Comcast but the same amount or more seems to be coming in. Most of it seems to be address to me and must have come from the sale of AOL addresses. Since anyone with an AIM address, which is probably most people, got their real email addresses sold to spammers I am sure we can count on are mailboxes being stuffed for sometime to come.
The should really slam it to the person who stole the list from AOL. Tracing the list and going after the people who bought it would be a great idea as well. Until then thank god for Apples mail.app's Bayesian filtering!
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If Apple released a G5 iMac that had this feature and an upgradable video card and one PCI slot I would buy it in a heartbeat.
While Apples all in ones have made them a bundle of cash they need to look forward and offer at least some upgrade potential to the machines. At least an upgrade to the video card and one PCI slot for expansion. Even with the cool color changing feature I would not buy another Mac that could not have the video card updated and at least one PCI slot.
This parody was great, unfortunately the person who writes Microsofts cost of ownership papers is much funnier.
It is true, they have always been great with me and I will not buy another drive from another company.
I noticed something about the commodore64 in your sig. That brings back a lot of memories! Yesterday I was thinking about how I used to program in assembly language and put little programs in the cassette buffer because of the lack of memory. It has been a long time since I used terms like LDA, INC, BNE, LDX, LDY and the like!
Of course there is headhunting but if employees are treated right, and it is not always about money, then they will usually stay with that company.
/. posting about the best company to work for. You must tailor the package for the person. While he may have been with Seagate for 17 years a lot of those company secrets may have come from this man. If you don't want the competition to get him, you work to keep him. It is that simple.
The company where my wife works is a perfect example. The recently purchased the place where she worked and the came in and slashed the benefits, pay, time off, seniority...everything. All in an effort for a quick buck. They lost most of their best employees almost immediately. They really did not care until they figured in the cost of training and recruiting new employees. It has cost them more than paying the employees what they were worth and keeping what they had. My wife quit for a whole week before they begged her back with much more money and perks. They are now doing much better at keeping employees around. They learned the hard way that it cost more to start with a new employee than give an older one what they want. In her businesses, nursing, a mistake be a new employee can also bring large fines from the state so it is their own best interest to make sure everything is done right. A simple mistake could bring a 50,000 dollar fine.....it is cheaper to give an employee part of that to make sure it does not happen.
I think there was a recent
If they guy has been with them for 17 years then seagate must have not paid this guy enough for him to stick around. If this guy has been around this long and has all these trade secrets then it is some ones job at Seagate to keep this person fat, dumb and happy with his job. Since most jobs now are no like they were decades ago were a company would take care of its employees than these companies should expect the shoe fits on the other foot just as well.
I hope Pete gets to work at Western Digital very soon. I think Western Digital is one of the best companies out there as far as customer support is concerned. I had a bad 100gig drive that was about 6 month old and they replaced it with a 120gig drive. Not only that when I had further problem they shipped a second 120gig drive and told me to check them both out and return the extra 120gig drive in a couple of weeks when I was sure which one I would like to keep....all without a dime out of my pocket.
They have my business for life now.
It is easy to send most of the energy from the radio signal the 802.11b device puts out in one direction but when you spread that signal out over 360 degrees then less energy will reach the other station. You could use a gain omni directional antenna but it will never beat a yagi or parabolic antenna pointed in direction.
I live in a place in Northern California where I could easily beat their record. With a mountain that rises 3000 ft. off of the valley floor and the shape of the main valley of California and the fact that on each side of the valley are large mountain ranges such as the sierra nevadas we have talked on Amateur radios at 440Mhz for over 400 Miles with no problem. Ham operators in Southern California have made contact with Hawaii on 1.2Ghz which is half the frequency of 802.11b. With the proper antennas an unamplified 802.11b signal could easily travel 200 miles or more with no problems.
Of course I still have problems with a connection less than 30 ft. away through several walls. There are a few things you can do to improve your signal. Wrap 5 to 15 loops of wire around your router. Use insulated wire please! and then run one end toward your problematic computer. This is a passive antenna the takes some of the omni direction signal and moves it toward your receiving station. You can also get one of the many antenna design programs and build your own 802.11b antenna for a song. Just remember the more wire between the router and antenna the more signal you will lose.
While I believe ISP and other server admins should take a more proactive approach to anti-virus and security measures the software they are using is not helping them that much.
I always new that PC's were a patch work or little fixes and patches as far as the hardware and software are concerned but I never really knew how badly the design was until I started going to school for IT.
While a totally secure computer is something that will never be at least the PC world could scrap the current design and software the basically leaves the keys in the car with a sign on the window saying "steal me".
In nature it has been shown that when one species finds a niche and takes over its environment a small change environment will kill then all off. A perfect example were the butterflies in near London....they were all white and blended in perfectly with the trees there....when the industrial age hit and pollution turned the trees black they were easy pickings. Windows based OS's are now easy pickings and unless MS takes a truly serious approach to security things are going to get much worse.
While cheaper, gapless and best S/N ratio are all good things why would I want to use Ethernet for downloading to a music player? You gain the ability of downloading from more than one machine at a 4x hit in speed assuming it transfers at 100Mbps speeds, since USB 2 is 480Mbps and firewire at 400Mbps. Also I don't see much use for a webserver....unless the main UI of the Rio is that lame.
Of course so far no one has beaten Apple were it counts the most....the cool factor. When I bought my iPod and looked at all the players out there and when it came to working with PC and Mac and my iTMS downloads the iPod had the lead.... I could have saved some money buying a lesser player but the iPod never fails to get the oohs and ahhs when people see it.
No matter what side of the debate you are on it is clear that real reverse engineered Apples fairplay. Real tried to get Apple to open up fairplay and let them compete with Apple in the music store business....when Apple said no, the released their hacked version. It is plain and simple. It is funny that real is complaining so much, the have pretty much ignored the Mac platform and updates to real player for the Mac have come slow and in some cases not at all.
Some say that it is all about money...you are correct, Real is stealing from Apple and undermining Apples deal with the record companies....this can only help real in the long run. It is too bad if Real were a little more patient and waited till Microsoft came out with their music store they would have had a good shot at a legal fairplay license with Apple. Apple is beginning to license it to other companies and those that "play fair" with Apple will get a slice of the pie. Real did not and will lose because of that....If they record companies pull their support from Apple the only one to win from that happing is Microsoft and that won't be good for anyone!
Exactly! Why spend millions and millions of dollars developing a processor that will be obsolete soon after it is created and has such a narrow use. If anyone wanted to spend 20 to 30 million of a bunch of clustered Xserves they would have the fastest supercomputer in the world.
And yes, the iPod is God!
do I get to keep my geek cred?
Actually I get the citi bank email all the time and it is usually from somewhere in China. I also get the 419 letters, which are usually quite funny. They have been updating them recently.
I wonder if there is an entry in Microsofts check book with the name "Dan O'Dowd"
Hmmm....what would be easy to sabotage, software that you have the source code to and can see all the code in the program or a proprietary program that has no source code to look at and compare with other versions?
Nice try Dan!
Whenever I use Windows for more than 10 minutes I would rather watch TV than continue using Windows.
Of course MS Messenger, Media Player and Hotmail makes you want to watch TV because there are fewer ads on television.
I don't know what could have gone wrong. I was using Microsoft programming tools and deploying to a Microsoft operating system. The chances of anything going wrong are 1 in a ....click.......zip.......>>> division by zero error.
Why is this such a big deal?
Why is this different than say a G5 cluster?
The only way Microsoft can win the war is that they have yet to make a profit from the xbox. They fact that they can absorb those losses is what is keeping the xbox alive.
Since the new xbox will not run the old xbox games that had better make sure to have new, killer titles ready to go when they launch. If not they are going to crash and burn hard. If they blow it they will have fewer sales than Ballmer has hair.
Hey, since both the xbox and playstation will be running PowerPC chips from IBM maybe this will mean easily ported games to the Mac and maybe even a directx API for the Mac.
I bought more tunes than usual in hopes to win an iPod.....another iPod. I just got a new iPod in May and while it is not even close to full, one is just not enough!
On the Enterprise TV series they have already meet and SAW the romulans after the enterprise was attacked by a cloaked romulan mine.
Of course this could be from all the other star trek episodes going back to earths past and dicking around with the time line. Even on the enterprise series the vulcans visited earth in the 1960's, they went back to 2003 to stop the zendi bio weapon and on the cliff hanger we have archer in Nazi Germany.
I have patched iTunes to use the Vorbis codec but that is a no go for my iPod. I still stand by the fact that for any music store downloads, at this time, that AAC is the best.
Of course there are really own two to choose from when buying music, WMA and AAC, since they offer the DRM that the record companies require. Until someone comes out with a format that can be purchased from the music stores that is better than WMA or AAC, AAC is king.
When it comes to ripping discs that is a different story. Between a straight AIFF file, Apple lossless format and a 256Khz AAC, which I use to rip discs there is really no difference that you can here on an iPod.
The article is just another Apple hit piece, I have owned PC's since they came out and the WMA codec sucks...it always has. So do subscription based services, people like to own what they pay for. Why do you think the iTunes Music Store is number 1? They came in and blew the others out of the water.
Also the reviewer must be confused the iTunes can encode in many formats, including Apples lossless format that takes about half the drive space but the iTMS is 128khz AAC files only.
I have recorded the same tracks at varying rates and it is very hard to tell the 128khz ACC files from the uncompressed songs. Listening to them on most car stereos and on iPods in places that have even modest noise and you can't tell the difference.
If I really cared about the music I would buy the CD but having so many CD's in my collection I might not ever listen to again the iTMS is simple, fast and easy. What I like this month I might not like next month and who wants a large file on an iPod when you don't listen to it.
Unless some online store offers tracks over 192khz then they really don't compare with 128khz AAC tracks. Slashdot readers should check out the results of the online listening test.
http://www.rjamorim.com/test/index.html
No, Actually you are trying to tell them what category I fall into. I am not right wing..I am in the middle, In fact I was a democrat for a very long time. I do own guns but I do not belong to the NRA. I believe in the constitution and don't pick and choose which parts I like.
I think Bush is dicking up really bad and I probably will not vote for him. I probably won't vote for Kerry either because he has offered no solution. Just because Mr. Moore likes to take on one party without looking at the SAME faults in the other party only makes me one thing, intellectually honest. As far as he is concerned he has the right to say whatever he wishes, that is his right. Obviously some people don't like it when I exercise that same right. Go figure.
Microsoft is releasing their own MP3 player. The basic case design may be familiar to iPod users but Microsoft has put their own spin on the controls and display.
You can see it here
http://rspress.home.comcast.net/Winpod.jpg
In Huckmaster you play film maker Michael Moore, played onscreen by a giant round blob, who has to wonder around the landscape of Hollywood duping moviegoers that your film really is a documentary and not just a pack of half truths while leaving out facts that could impugn you're own political party. The boss on the last level is an audience you have to convince that "This Is Spinal Tap" was a real documentary as well.
What, they have already done that....nevermind.
Less spam coming from Comcast but the same amount or more seems to be coming in. Most of it seems to be address to me and must have come from the sale of AOL addresses. Since anyone with an AIM address, which is probably most people, got their real email addresses sold to spammers I am sure we can count on are mailboxes being stuffed for sometime to come.
The should really slam it to the person who stole the list from AOL. Tracing the list and going after the people who bought it would be a great idea as well. Until then thank god for Apples mail.app's Bayesian filtering!
Actually I know he is not. I just wanted to prove a point to someone at the house here. Thanks to all that replied.