If this article is true, the Israeli government seems to be strong-arming Microsoft to implement a feature that doesn't make economic sense.
Not adding Hebrew language support in a product available in Isreal is what isn't making strong economic sense I think.
I don't have the stats but I'm betting the percentage of Isrealis using a Mac versus Isrealis using a PC is appreciably higher than it is in Northwest USA!
Whatever, Microsoft fucked up again and now they're paying the price, which I've noticed them doing more and more these days.
I think the main reason eBooks, or whatever they are called, don't hit the spot is because most people still have a CRT on their desktop, and as we all know the best thing to do while sat in front of one is to be dicking around with the keyboard doing stuff, not sat back enjoying the view. As soon as LCD's become more widely adopted, which emit a less vivid strobe-like image, we'll see eBooks (or iBooks, whatever) really start to get popular.
My 5GB iPod actually has around 4.7GB of storage space. That's a couple of albums short of 5GB. So the way I see it you're implying that Tales From Topographic Oceans doesn't mean anything!
A 7GHz Intel processor will be more than three times as fast as a 2GHz PowerPC G5, that means you would have to buy more than three Apple computers to equal the power of one (insert other manufacturer here) with the 7GHz Intel inside.
The fact that Apple's G5 has a frontside bus that makes full use of the PowerPC G5's power is immaterial.
Just look at the numbers people:
2 is three times less than 7
7 is three times more than 2
2 = SLOW and 7 = FAST, THREE TIMES AS FAST.
(don't worry Apple, just update your MHz Myth slogan to The GHz Gatekeeper!)
Last time I looked IE on a PC running XP returns some kind of MSN powered Not Found message when a non-existent URL is entered. Isn't this a better solution?
David Dunn's Angels and Insects, although not a study of audio based VR (or even featuring bat sounds for that matter), is a great place to get started listening to microscopic sounds.
Here's an MP3 of some insects in Africa getting it on.
If you think this stuff sounds like fun you might want to do what I did a few years ago and pick up a high quality microphone with a big diaphragm, such as an AKG C414, and get out into the woods at night and make some recordings. You'll be surprised what's out there when you start filtering out the sounds humans make and crank the volume!!
I remember buying a VHS of Pink Floyd's The Wall so I could record the songs to an audio cassette for my Walkman because the double CD was just too expensive. I couldn't figure it out at the time but a few years later the band I was in decided to get out of a deal with an Indie label (Beggars Banquet) and onto a major. Within weeks of dealing with major label A&R, PR, Marketing and assorted assistants I realized the music industry was a lost cause. It really wasn't about making great, innovative music (as I used to believe) but merely about making as much cash as possible. OK, call me naive but I was a musician who really likes music and thought, just maybe, that the industry was geared to help me make more great music. Nope. We made several demo reels, paid for by several majors (each one costing thousands to make) and on every occasion had to listen to some clueless A&R rep tell us the sound was "wrong". After several months of this we decided to call it a day. No more music from me or my band (The Bolshoi). That was the mid 80's and the slope has been getting slippier for the music industry ever since. And, yes, I wish we'd just stayed with that little old indie!!
As I depart my office I'll leave a rack of G4's turned on, connected to a remote server cranking through some video encodes, and my XP box unplugged from the wall and locked in a cupboard to try and stop those little people from sneaking in through the ports in the back and forcing me to spend an hour every morning dicking around with LiveUpdates and trashing returned emails I never even sent.
I hear you, but you know what, the U.S.A. isn't some country that decided to invade its neighbours, like Germany, Iraq or whoever, it's a superpower that is getting its ass kicked by those who want to live in the "past", and are being dragged kicking and screaming into the information age, where you can't go around hurting people without everyone knowing about it within seconds. It's a big fat period of change right now, and I'm as freaked as anyone about all the shit going down around us all. So if a souped up model F1 car can somehow cap a terrorist before liquidizing another street full of people then so be it.
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If this article is true, the Israeli government seems to be strong-arming Microsoft to implement a feature that doesn't make economic sense.
Not adding Hebrew language support in a product available in Isreal is what isn't making strong economic sense I think.
I don't have the stats but I'm betting the percentage of Isrealis using a Mac versus Isrealis using a PC is appreciably higher than it is in Northwest USA!
Whatever, Microsoft fucked up again and now they're paying the price, which I've noticed them doing more and more these days.
This one should get a Score:10 Funny! Two sticks up!!
I read somewhere that archeologists discovered a pair of fossilized chopsticks at Stonehenge!
You won't find anything about Chinese space exploration on space.com! Try http://www.space.cn
Couple of questions: Which type/model do you own? Do the foam tips last long?
I think the main reason eBooks, or whatever they are called, don't hit the spot is because most people still have a CRT on their desktop, and as we all know the best thing to do while sat in front of one is to be dicking around with the keyboard doing stuff, not sat back enjoying the view. As soon as LCD's become more widely adopted, which emit a less vivid strobe-like image, we'll see eBooks (or iBooks, whatever) really start to get popular.
My 5GB iPod actually has around 4.7GB of storage space. That's a couple of albums short of 5GB. So the way I see it you're implying that Tales From Topographic Oceans doesn't mean anything!
"I really wonder what kind of person would run a company that is so obviously reviled"
Steve Ballmer must think that very same thought every morning while he watches himself brush his teeth!
Ouch, that must hurt....missing being Funny by one minute.
It's quite simple really, technicalities aside.
A 7GHz Intel processor will be more than three times as fast as a 2GHz PowerPC G5, that means you would have to buy more than three Apple computers to equal the power of one (insert other manufacturer here) with the 7GHz Intel inside.
The fact that Apple's G5 has a frontside bus that makes full use of the PowerPC G5's power is immaterial.
Just look at the numbers people:
2 is three times less than 7
7 is three times more than 2
2 = SLOW and 7 = FAST, THREE TIMES AS FAST.
(don't worry Apple, just update your MHz Myth slogan to The GHz Gatekeeper!)
"Dell's offerings, even if they come out in time and are amazing, are going to take time to build a user base"
Wrong, Dell's consumer base are lemmings and millions of teens are going to get players made by Dell on christmas morning.
I'll catch the 2 minute recap on the news.
More like 2 seconds. Ben and J-Lo are bigger news than spacecraft crashing into Jupiter on this planet!
...we had to imagine the whole of Macbeth in seven different languages before we got any dinner!!
He should swap the nuclear fission video with a SpongeBob video and see if the reporter thinks he's recreated Bikini Bottom!!
That did the trick...they turned it off!!
Last time I looked IE on a PC running XP returns some kind of MSN powered Not Found message when a non-existent URL is entered. Isn't this a better solution?
I call them MSNBC's. It really pisses them off!
David Dunn's Angels and Insects, although not a study of audio based VR (or even featuring bat sounds for that matter), is a great place to get started listening to microscopic sounds.
Here's an MP3 of some insects in Africa getting it on.
If you think this stuff sounds like fun you might want to do what I did a few years ago and pick up a high quality microphone with a big diaphragm, such as an AKG C414, and get out into the woods at night and make some recordings. You'll be surprised what's out there when you start filtering out the sounds humans make and crank the volume!!
If Kazaa is running this will my conversations be tapped into and downloaded to thousands of PC's in dorms across the nation?
I remember buying a VHS of Pink Floyd's The Wall so I could record the songs to an audio cassette for my Walkman because the double CD was just too expensive. I couldn't figure it out at the time but a few years later the band I was in decided to get out of a deal with an Indie label (Beggars Banquet) and onto a major. Within weeks of dealing with major label A&R, PR, Marketing and assorted assistants I realized the music industry was a lost cause. It really wasn't about making great, innovative music (as I used to believe) but merely about making as much cash as possible. OK, call me naive but I was a musician who really likes music and thought, just maybe, that the industry was geared to help me make more great music. Nope. We made several demo reels, paid for by several majors (each one costing thousands to make) and on every occasion had to listen to some clueless A&R rep tell us the sound was "wrong". After several months of this we decided to call it a day. No more music from me or my band (The Bolshoi). That was the mid 80's and the slope has been getting slippier for the music industry ever since. And, yes, I wish we'd just stayed with that little old indie!!
"We're hiring electrical engineers and Linux programmers where I work." Where do you work? ;-)
As I depart my office I'll leave a rack of G4's turned on, connected to a remote server cranking through some video encodes, and my XP box unplugged from the wall and locked in a cupboard to try and stop those little people from sneaking in through the ports in the back and forcing me to spend an hour every morning dicking around with LiveUpdates and trashing returned emails I never even sent.
got up had a crap had breakfast ripped some CD's had lunch ripped some more CD's had a crap had dinner typed this
I hear you, but you know what, the U.S.A. isn't some country that decided to invade its neighbours, like Germany, Iraq or whoever, it's a superpower that is getting its ass kicked by those who want to live in the "past", and are being dragged kicking and screaming into the information age, where you can't go around hurting people without everyone knowing about it within seconds. It's a big fat period of change right now, and I'm as freaked as anyone about all the shit going down around us all. So if a souped up model F1 car can somehow cap a terrorist before liquidizing another street full of people then so be it.
And will they be running an operating system based on Apple's new Uni X ?