People, get real! The cost of actually building the products is not the cost of production. Apple is a company with a large engineering staff. Engineers, who are very well paid. Apple also carries a very large HR, Finance and marketing teams, all whom are very well paid. So, where does the money come to pay these folks? The folks who think up the ipod and itunes and all the other secret stuff that apple thinks up? I'll tell you who pays, you do. When you buy and apple product. All those costs are put into the end price. In real life, the cost of actually making the thing is lower then all the overhead.
If you had actually read the freaken post, you would have read him exclaim that he is a total linux n00b and doesn't really know anything about it...
This is exactally what I would expect of a script kiddie. Blah blah blah, windows sucks, linux is super great and does everything windows does better except maybe gaming or except being simple to use or except be simple to install. Lamer.
They will build a great big sun blocker way out in the L-Point between here and the sun. Then, they will use a giant super duper computer to control the thing since they will need to keep it in the L-Point....Let's not forget it will also be a HUGE solor sail! Plus they will have to rotate the thing!!! I am pretty sure this was in a book I just read. I think maybe it was stephen Baxter.
anyhow, it worked in the book so it must work in real life!
It has always amazed me how many law are based on pure ignorance. It's clear that these ass blasters have no idea how thing work on their "magic typing machines"
I see a lot of people saying this spells great news for apple computers. Well it may, but not in the way you think.
Apple does not have a future in hardware. That much is clear. They will never be more then niche market provider.
However, it seems to me that apple is laying the groundwork to makes its software fun on a PC. That is where they will make money. I would swith to an apple OS if I could keep my hardware. It's not the easiest thing to find gaming cards for a mac as many of you know. If suddenly, mac could run on ANY PC, you would begin to see other software companies port their wares to OS10 or whatever they're up to.
Hardware is all the same to most people and in the end their experience is made or broken by its software.IMHO anyhow.
Sounds like a good way to get some folks off the sofa to me. They may think it's their last chance to own one and maybe Microsoft will have to buy it back from them for more! Things like this are so silly. It will be a nice thing if they ever get around to changing patent law in the us.
After all, the SIG took forever to approve Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR. They are a slow moving body.
Not to mention it will take at least 1/2 a year to a year for someone to develope a test system to even test the chips. Plus an other 1/2 year to validate it. These things take time
now that the FCC has thrown their weight behind ATT and other service provider, Google has one option, become an even bigger service provider without using "Their line". By their lines of course I mean lines which were paid for with tax dollars on public lands. There is a reason why google is picking up all those hardware guys and buying up dark fiber...it's not just for fun.
They should can just let you use VOIP via wifi enabled phones...then the problem is solved. Your not blasting out 850/900/1800/1900MHz. (2100 for some UMTS bands). If they were testing UMTS(WCDMA), I have also seen that these phone really do have a lot more interferece.
Besides, have any of you ever turned on your mobile at 30k feet to see if you would get a signal? I have, and I didnt. Much of the western US has no coverage anyhow. In the cities sure, but planes tend to take routes over mountains and what not, so there are not a lot of towers around anyhow.
Seriously,
What a stupid thing to do! China can make them or any other US company truck loads of money. More potential for profit then the US, that's for sure.
If I were google, I would just move to another country. Base it in Germany or something. Then you can use the favorable exchange rate to buy up small American companies in the states of the jackasses writing this stuff and close them just for spite. Then launch a media campaign explaining it's all their fault. At lease that's what I'd do.
This seems like something I can use to power my flying car. Something tells me that this, like most other neat projects will never have a single real life application. It will be hyped up, but nothing will ever come of it. I just cant see the point to getting excited by this sort of thing anymore.
And I just got laser surgery last week too!!! If only I has known I could have super eyes!. Although, my eyes are now 20/10(thats right 20/10) it could have been better with this stuff. With the newest lasers and good doctors, you dont need a special lens I guess.
Does not do any good without a carrier. In the US, they are only just now rolling out UMTS...and thats been around in EU for some time now...don't expect anything like this for a long time kids.
Personally, I think that Google's interest in AOL represents an interest in content creation. However, I think google content dreams go way beyond that. I think that Google would like to use a partnership with Time Warner to either be a major distributor of TV shows via the Internet, OR...actually begin to PRODUCE TV content with for direct Internet distribution. Google is not stupid, this is where TV is going. I know I would rather download a program in HDTV in 5-10min then wait for the time that bone head TV producer wants me to see it. Think about it...what kills a tv show?(other then it being crap) Time-slot!!! Think about Fire-Fly....It was great!! I really loved that show, but it was on at time I could not always watch it. Ya sure...I would like to tape it, but I dont even have a VCR and my Hard Drive was almost full. But what if I could just download it? Then, I get to watch my show, the bean counters get to know the ACTUAL ratings so then the good shows stay on....its perfect. And yes I know, your grandmother has dial-up...I don't care...your GM doesnt watch fire-fly either so it's moot. Cheers
Really, even netflix is moving away from this. The future is downloads. It's plain as day. When I want to watch a movie, I want to see it NOW..not two days later. I dont want to walk to my mailbox. You will see companies like Motorola release more web capable set top boxes to allow people to download these movies and watch them on TV from companies other then their TV provider.
and I cant say it comes as a big shock. Just take a look at who gets put into the positions to make these these decisions and their connection to the industries they are supposed to be watching. Our gubment make one decision after the next that helps big business. All the while the consumer gets the shaft. Just as with most cases, things will get worse before they get better.
Think back to couple months ago, there was a story about google buying up a lot of dark fiber.....I'm thinking they are stupid.
I seriously doubt you know something they dont.
By the way...one great way to send packets via powerlines, is not "through" the power line as you may be thinking. It's actually "around" the power line. Power lines emit a field. That field acts a wave guide whereby nice little signals can be sent.
I've been doing this for a while. It seems as though everu where I go some comments on the Phantom Game Console I have hanging from my neck. It looks great and it's very light!
"or is he just taking advantage of some recent Microsoft court losses and trying to get his cut? "
Well, seems to me that is MS did take those steps against GO computers, then how is it "taking advantage"? If you had a business and for years you had money problems, and you later found out the business nextdoor was taking money from your safe, would you be taking advantage of him if you then sued?
Perhaps.
It's easy to invision "on demand HDTV", but if you think for one second that the media companies will release content via your internet connection, you're nuts.
Yes, fine, go run your game server, which is something that everyone does. It's such a normal use. Point being, its not something Joe user does.
Doing more then one thing at a time? Uploading massive files while say, streaming HDTV(which wont happen on a main scale), hmmm, you must have one heck of a fast hard drive.
I doubt most computers would cope. Shoot while I'm transfering huge data sets at work, it's not as though i can play an online game or something, cuz my machine is pinging.
So, yes there are legal uses, but none that are any fun.
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hmmmm, AT&T of course!
People, get real! The cost of actually building the products is not the cost of production. Apple is a company with a large engineering staff. Engineers, who are very well paid. Apple also carries a very large HR, Finance and marketing teams, all whom are very well paid. So, where does the money come to pay these folks? The folks who think up the ipod and itunes and all the other secret stuff that apple thinks up? I'll tell you who pays, you do. When you buy and apple product. All those costs are put into the end price. In real life, the cost of actually making the thing is lower then all the overhead.
If you had actually read the freaken post, you would have read him exclaim that he is a total linux n00b and doesn't really know anything about it... This is exactally what I would expect of a script kiddie. Blah blah blah, windows sucks, linux is super great and does everything windows does better except maybe gaming or except being simple to use or except be simple to install. Lamer.
They will build a great big sun blocker way out in the L-Point between here and the sun. Then, they will use a giant super duper computer to control the thing since they will need to keep it in the L-Point....Let's not forget it will also be a HUGE solor sail! Plus they will have to rotate the thing!!! I am pretty sure this was in a book I just read. I think maybe it was stephen Baxter.
anyhow, it worked in the book so it must work in real life!
Wasnt it reported that the pirate party had nothing to do with the pirate bay?
It has always amazed me how many law are based on pure ignorance. It's clear that these ass blasters have no idea how thing work on their "magic typing machines"
I see a lot of people saying this spells great news for apple computers. Well it may, but not in the way you think. Apple does not have a future in hardware. That much is clear. They will never be more then niche market provider. However, it seems to me that apple is laying the groundwork to makes its software fun on a PC. That is where they will make money. I would swith to an apple OS if I could keep my hardware. It's not the easiest thing to find gaming cards for a mac as many of you know. If suddenly, mac could run on ANY PC, you would begin to see other software companies port their wares to OS10 or whatever they're up to. Hardware is all the same to most people and in the end their experience is made or broken by its software.IMHO anyhow.
Sounds like a good way to get some folks off the sofa to me. They may think it's their last chance to own one and maybe Microsoft will have to buy it back from them for more!
Things like this are so silly. It will be a nice thing if they ever get around to changing patent law in the us.
When the hell did speed become bandwidth? Bandwidth is the just that....the width of the signal...take CDMA, it's got a 1.2MHz bandwidth.
After all, the SIG took forever to approve Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR. They are a slow moving body. Not to mention it will take at least 1/2 a year to a year for someone to develope a test system to even test the chips. Plus an other 1/2 year to validate it. These things take time
now that the FCC has thrown their weight behind ATT and other service provider, Google has one option, become an even bigger service provider without using "Their line". By their lines of course I mean lines which were paid for with tax dollars on public lands.
There is a reason why google is picking up all those hardware guys and buying up dark fiber...it's not just for fun.
They should can just let you use VOIP via wifi enabled phones...then the problem is solved. Your not blasting out 850/900/1800/1900MHz. (2100 for some UMTS bands).
If they were testing UMTS(WCDMA), I have also seen that these phone really do have a lot more interferece.
Besides,
have any of you ever turned on your mobile at 30k feet to see if you would get a signal? I have, and I didnt. Much of the western US has no coverage anyhow. In the cities sure, but planes tend to take routes over mountains and what not, so there are not a lot of towers around anyhow.
Seriously, What a stupid thing to do! China can make them or any other US company truck loads of money. More potential for profit then the US, that's for sure. If I were google, I would just move to another country. Base it in Germany or something. Then you can use the favorable exchange rate to buy up small American companies in the states of the jackasses writing this stuff and close them just for spite. Then launch a media campaign explaining it's all their fault. At lease that's what I'd do.
This seems like something I can use to power my flying car. Something tells me that this, like most other neat projects will never have a single real life application. It will be hyped up, but nothing will ever come of it.
I just cant see the point to getting excited by this sort of thing anymore.
And I just got laser surgery last week too!!! If only I has known I could have super eyes!.
Although, my eyes are now 20/10(thats right 20/10) it could have been better with this stuff. With the newest lasers and good doctors, you dont need a special lens I guess.
Does not do any good without a carrier. In the US, they are only just now rolling out UMTS...and thats been around in EU for some time now...don't expect anything like this for a long time kids.
Personally,
I think that Google's interest in AOL represents an interest in content creation. However, I think google content dreams go way beyond that. I think that Google would like to use a partnership with Time Warner to either be a major distributor of TV shows via the Internet, OR...actually begin to PRODUCE TV content with for direct Internet distribution.
Google is not stupid, this is where TV is going. I know I would rather download a program in HDTV in 5-10min then wait for the time that bone head TV producer wants me to see it. Think about it...what kills a tv show?(other then it being crap) Time-slot!!! Think about Fire-Fly....It was great!! I really loved that show, but it was on at time I could not always watch it. Ya sure...I would like to tape it, but I dont even have a VCR and my Hard Drive was almost full. But what if I could just download it? Then, I get to watch my show, the bean counters get to know the ACTUAL ratings so then the good shows stay on....its perfect.
And yes I know, your grandmother has dial-up...I don't care...your GM doesnt watch fire-fly either so it's moot.
Cheers
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Really, even netflix is moving away from this. The future is downloads. It's plain as day. When I want to watch a movie, I want to see it NOW..not two days later. I dont want to walk to my mailbox.
You will see companies like Motorola release more web capable set top boxes to allow people to download these movies and watch them on TV from companies other then their TV provider.
and I cant say it comes as a big shock. Just take a look at who gets put into the positions to make these these decisions and their connection to the industries they are supposed to be watching. Our gubment make one decision after the next that helps big business. All the while the consumer gets the shaft. Just as with most cases, things will get worse before they get better.
Think back to couple months ago, there was a story about google buying up a lot of dark fiber.....I'm thinking they are stupid. I seriously doubt you know something they dont. By the way...one great way to send packets via powerlines, is not "through" the power line as you may be thinking. It's actually "around" the power line. Power lines emit a field. That field acts a wave guide whereby nice little signals can be sent.
I've been doing this for a while. It seems as though everu where I go some comments on the Phantom Game Console I have hanging from my neck. It looks great and it's very light!
"or is he just taking advantage of some recent Microsoft court losses and trying to get his cut? " Well, seems to me that is MS did take those steps against GO computers, then how is it "taking advantage"? If you had a business and for years you had money problems, and you later found out the business nextdoor was taking money from your safe, would you be taking advantage of him if you then sued?
Perhaps. It's easy to invision "on demand HDTV", but if you think for one second that the media companies will release content via your internet connection, you're nuts. Yes, fine, go run your game server, which is something that everyone does. It's such a normal use. Point being, its not something Joe user does. Doing more then one thing at a time? Uploading massive files while say, streaming HDTV(which wont happen on a main scale), hmmm, you must have one heck of a fast hard drive. I doubt most computers would cope. Shoot while I'm transfering huge data sets at work, it's not as though i can play an online game or something, cuz my machine is pinging. So, yes there are legal uses, but none that are any fun.
is what you are refering to. if it didnt do that the heli would break to bits and they found out in the early days.