The resolution they are offering MirrorTV matches the resolution level of Microsoft's version of movies in *HDTV* courtesy of Windows Media Player9... And if you need proof, check the stats of Artisan's latest DVD release of "T2." Same exact screen resolution on the Windows DVD disc... So where are the 1080i and 1080p versions of MirrorTV?
Wozniak did not design Atari's "Breakout." In the lab, "Breakout" had too many chips which would've made it expensive to produce. Nolan Bushnell gave Steve Jobs the task of reducing as many chips needed as possible, and Jobs received a $1000 bonus for every chip eliminated. Jobs turned around and hired Woz to reduce the chips for him at a fraction of the cost and the lure of playing "Night Driver" for free at night. Arkanoid did rip off "Breakout"/"Super Breakout", but they did not rip off Woz...
If studies are correct that enterprises deploying Macs versus PCs only require 1/3rd the amount of full-time IT support staff, the answer is for the school district to fire 2/3rds of their IT staff if they want to cut down support costs in order to accept the grant for Mac computers. The IT staff are either contract employees or probably fall under the same union protection as the janitors and bus drivers. Firing them would be easier than firing teachers (which I'm not advocating). So, fire 4 of their 6 IT staffers. Despite the fact Macs cost more per machine (upfront) than their PC counterparts, the school districts would save more money considering how much trouble it is to police OS licenses because of Microsoft's money-hungry licensing audits of school districts and charities...
I wonder how she looks now... she was cast later in "The Highwayman" along with everyone's favourite Australian, Jacko...:)
I can live without *Wilhelm* from Seinfeld being the Alien leader this time around...
I trust AOL Time Warner far more than I do Microsoft. It was Warner Communications that funded Atari's rise...hence the prominence of video games in entertainment value today. Time Warner spent a fortune developing DVD and fought off Circuit City's attempts to corrupt the format. When was the last time a DVD crashed on you? AOL has funded Linux start-ups, spent resources on the development of the Mozilla web browser, funded TiVo and Palm, not to mention bringing email and internet access to the masses. Joe Consumer chose AOL as their internet provider. They really didn't choose Microsoft products; they were chosen for them...
I've read several rumor sites myself, and I've read that the PPC970's manufacturing price point is actually cheaper than the existing chips Apple uses. So if this is true, it raises serious issues with Apple. 1. Apple needs higher clock speeds to remain competitive in the minds of Joe Consumer and Joe IT Worker (see #2). 2. If the PPC970 is cheaper to manufacture and consumes less power than the existing G3 and G4 chips Apple computers feature, then the PPC970 needs to be implemented immediately throughout the Mac line. 3. Abruptly phasing out all G3/G4 machines (#2) would kill sales of existing units on the shelves. 4. Apple would want to offer the PPC970 at the top end to enjoy large profit margins from early adopters before implementing the 970 throughout the entire Mac line. The greater good requires Apple to incur short-term losses (think existing G3's and G4's in the stores) in order to leapfrog the entire PC market by offering 64 bit solutions top-to-bottom in their product line. It is crucial Apple comes out ahead of AMD's consumer 64bit offerings. But because of #3 and #4, Apple will probably choose otherwise... If Apple were smart, they'd start off with a single 1.4 ghz PPC970 in the eMacs and iMacs, and then work their way up the PowerMac ladder with dual (or even quad) processors up to 1.8 ghz. Afterall, it would be easier for $7/hr. sales employee at Worst Buy explaining why Joe Consumer should pick a 1.4 ghz 64-bit PPC970 powered eMac over a 2.5 or 3.0 ghz P4 equipped PC than it would continuing to argue the merits of the G4 line...
The new owners should send Word Perfect Office into open source...its a better word processor than Open Office... The new owners could continue to release a commercial branded *Word Perfect* specifically for the legal field since Word Perfect still has that market cornered... We'd all benefit from this, much to the chagrin of Microsoft... That would leave the new Corel off the hook to focus back on their graphics software...
Time Warner Full Service Network (FSN)...
That was Gerald Levin's *baby.* Once it was considered a flop (along with TW's *Pathfinder* portal), Levin decided to sell Time Warner to America Online.
The Full Service Network included an Atari Jaguar because that was part of Time Warner's half-hearted support of Atari Corp. which they owned a 25% stake in (down from 100% ownership of all of Atari Inc. - which bore Atari Corp. and Atari Games Corp. in the great Atari diaspora of 1984)...
Time Warner later sold its stake in Tramiel-controlled Atari Corp. and agreed to sell the Atari Games Corp/Time Warner Interactive to WMS (Williams Midway, now Midway Home Entertainment) Industries in 1996. Midway since then closed down the arcade components of their assets. Atari Corp. got sold/merged into JTS Industries which is famous for making a line of defective hard drives in India before going out of business. Somehow Hasbro Interactive then stole all of Atari Corp.'s trademarks and assets for something like $6 million. Hasbro revived the *Atari* gaming brand, but then Hasbro sold off the Interactive division to Infogrames of France in 2001/2002. In the past month, Infogrames renamed themselves *Atari, Inc.*
I'm sure now AOL Time Warner will rename themselves Time Warner and sell off AOL in another year. It fits the pattern set by the old Warner Communications Inc. of acquiring a steller property, getting a little bit of use out of it, and then mismanaging it into a spiraling downfall (usually of the stock) before selling it off quietly. Exactly what Warner Communications (WCI) did with Atari Inc. Sold the consumer division off in 1984 for $250 million in promissory (sic) notes because Rupert Murdoch was trying to do a hostile takeover of WCI due to their slumping stock. WCI and Time merged in 1989 to make a powerhouse media company that would be immune to a hostile takeover (nevermind Paramount's hostile bid for Time Inc. which caused Time to buy WCI when it was supposed to be a debt-free merger and the company is still paying debt from this original merger).
...I know because I learned all I need to about that country from the last Bond flick *Die Another Day.* If you watch the movie, you'll even discover how Michael Jackson became white...
with that having been said, TiVo and the Nielsens have actually worked together in the past. Hopefully, TiVo used an old strategy page from Microsoft's playbook under the chapter of "embrace and extend" and will replace the Nielsens...
Actually, TiVo reporting the aggregate viewing statistics was a *compelling feature* of the service to me. I HATE (repeat after me, HATE) the Nielsen's. I do not believe 6,000 homes accurately reflects the television viewership of this nation, especially when it depends on those people sitting down and logging their viewing experience in a journal. There have been far too many good television shows cancelled because the Nielsen "families" didn't watch it or chose to record it on their VCRs. There are 700,000 + TiVo subscribers versus 6,000 Nielsen homes. You tell me which one will have better statistics. Even if the Nielsens actually represent a larger overall base of the American market, the TiVo subscribers will actually represent the groups advertisers want to reach anyway (tech savvy Gen X and Gen Y, and babyboomers with money). Now if I could just do a total "thumbs down" to all of Cal Worthington's ads I'd be a happy camper...
They do that with NBC because NBC is sponsoring it and also holds a stake in TiVo. NBC has been broadcasting the *thumbs up* option on their spots even back during the TiVo Series1 models...
AOL has owned ICQ for years. AOL just received less than 6 months ago patents for ICQ's instant messaging and there was speculation they'd take Microsoft out to the woodshed with it. I was hoping AOL would outsmart the FCC by spinning off ICQ into a separate company again, retain their IP, given them a license to it, and then add interoperability between AIM and ICQ and then give the FCC/FTC *the finger.* Then AOL would never have to open up AIM to Microsoft or Yahoo and they could finally add videomessaging without government interference...
Point of order. Had Colin Powell ran for the Presidency, he would've been elected by a landslide. His wife discouraged him from running due to assassination fears. As everyone else has pointed out, the Presidency of India is a figurehead position whereas our Presidency holds power...
Now if the British probe can find the Seal of Sir Francis Drake on Mars, then the U.K. owns the planet (the Seal in place before the U.N. treaty)... Oh well, they lost California to the Spanish squatters a few hundred years ago, but who cares? They wound up with Mars! And you all thought *Space 1889* was just a game...
India claims Pakistan sponsors terrorism in Kashmir and they are escalating nuclear tension with Pakistan over it, or vice versa, depending upon your viewpoint if you actually care. Somehow I doubt if India defeated Pakistan and took over the country they'd institute democracy for all those muslims when they can't even treat 300 million of their own existing citizens (untouchables) with decency. Talk about uninformed hypocrisy... But us Americans are out to steal the Iraqi oil...
...and Gore invented the internet and now we learn was the chief architect of OS X and SCO stole coding from his Unix version called ALIX... Can we not have this repeated again please?
Before they were born, they chose the lives they'd assume. Bush chose to become the man that would one day become the President of the World's Most Powerful Nation, and Kalam chose to become the man who would one day become the figurehead of the world's largest third world nation. Gee, that's a no-brainer...
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The resolution they are offering MirrorTV matches the resolution level of Microsoft's version of movies in *HDTV* courtesy of Windows Media Player9... And if you need proof, check the stats of Artisan's latest DVD release of "T2." Same exact screen resolution on the Windows DVD disc... So where are the 1080i and 1080p versions of MirrorTV?
Wozniak did not design Atari's "Breakout." In the lab, "Breakout" had too many chips which would've made it expensive to produce. Nolan Bushnell gave Steve Jobs the task of reducing as many chips needed as possible, and Jobs received a $1000 bonus for every chip eliminated. Jobs turned around and hired Woz to reduce the chips for him at a fraction of the cost and the lure of playing "Night Driver" for free at night. Arkanoid did rip off "Breakout"/"Super Breakout", but they did not rip off Woz...
If studies are correct that enterprises deploying Macs versus PCs only require 1/3rd the amount of full-time IT support staff, the answer is for the school district to fire 2/3rds of their IT staff if they want to cut down support costs in order to accept the grant for Mac computers. The IT staff are either contract employees or probably fall under the same union protection as the janitors and bus drivers. Firing them would be easier than firing teachers (which I'm not advocating). So, fire 4 of their 6 IT staffers. Despite the fact Macs cost more per machine (upfront) than their PC counterparts, the school districts would save more money considering how much trouble it is to police OS licenses because of Microsoft's money-hungry licensing audits of school districts and charities...
All that time and effort to build a controller to give you the very same feeling Bill Gates gets when he sees another Playstation2 sale... :)
I wonder how she looks now... she was cast later in "The Highwayman" along with everyone's favourite Australian, Jacko... :)
I can live without *Wilhelm* from Seinfeld being the Alien leader this time around...
thanks for that info...that corrects what I read about the 970 being more energy efficient in terms of power consumption and heat dissipation...
He never gets any sex, does he? :)
Very cool though...
I trust AOL Time Warner far more than I do Microsoft. It was Warner Communications that funded Atari's rise...hence the prominence of video games in entertainment value today. Time Warner spent a fortune developing DVD and fought off Circuit City's attempts to corrupt the format. When was the last time a DVD crashed on you? AOL has funded Linux start-ups, spent resources on the development of the Mozilla web browser, funded TiVo and Palm, not to mention bringing email and internet access to the masses. Joe Consumer chose AOL as their internet provider. They really didn't choose Microsoft products; they were chosen for them...
It was leftover code that was never optimized out of the kernal... like all the legacy coding still in AOL software from the 2.0 and 3.0 days...
80 lines of Unix code you take 1 down pass it to Linus to send around 79 lines lines of Unix code on the wall...
I've read several rumor sites myself, and I've read that the PPC970's manufacturing price point is actually cheaper than the existing chips Apple uses. So if this is true, it raises serious issues with Apple. 1. Apple needs higher clock speeds to remain competitive in the minds of Joe Consumer and Joe IT Worker (see #2). 2. If the PPC970 is cheaper to manufacture and consumes less power than the existing G3 and G4 chips Apple computers feature, then the PPC970 needs to be implemented immediately throughout the Mac line. 3. Abruptly phasing out all G3/G4 machines (#2) would kill sales of existing units on the shelves. 4. Apple would want to offer the PPC970 at the top end to enjoy large profit margins from early adopters before implementing the 970 throughout the entire Mac line. The greater good requires Apple to incur short-term losses (think existing G3's and G4's in the stores) in order to leapfrog the entire PC market by offering 64 bit solutions top-to-bottom in their product line. It is crucial Apple comes out ahead of AMD's consumer 64bit offerings. But because of #3 and #4, Apple will probably choose otherwise... If Apple were smart, they'd start off with a single 1.4 ghz PPC970 in the eMacs and iMacs, and then work their way up the PowerMac ladder with dual (or even quad) processors up to 1.8 ghz. Afterall, it would be easier for $7/hr. sales employee at Worst Buy explaining why Joe Consumer should pick a 1.4 ghz 64-bit PPC970 powered eMac over a 2.5 or 3.0 ghz P4 equipped PC than it would continuing to argue the merits of the G4 line...
The new owners should send Word Perfect Office into open source...its a better word processor than Open Office... The new owners could continue to release a commercial branded *Word Perfect* specifically for the legal field since Word Perfect still has that market cornered... We'd all benefit from this, much to the chagrin of Microsoft... That would leave the new Corel off the hook to focus back on their graphics software...
Time Warner Full Service Network (FSN)... That was Gerald Levin's *baby.* Once it was considered a flop (along with TW's *Pathfinder* portal), Levin decided to sell Time Warner to America Online. The Full Service Network included an Atari Jaguar because that was part of Time Warner's half-hearted support of Atari Corp. which they owned a 25% stake in (down from 100% ownership of all of Atari Inc. - which bore Atari Corp. and Atari Games Corp. in the great Atari diaspora of 1984)... Time Warner later sold its stake in Tramiel-controlled Atari Corp. and agreed to sell the Atari Games Corp/Time Warner Interactive to WMS (Williams Midway, now Midway Home Entertainment) Industries in 1996. Midway since then closed down the arcade components of their assets. Atari Corp. got sold/merged into JTS Industries which is famous for making a line of defective hard drives in India before going out of business. Somehow Hasbro Interactive then stole all of Atari Corp.'s trademarks and assets for something like $6 million. Hasbro revived the *Atari* gaming brand, but then Hasbro sold off the Interactive division to Infogrames of France in 2001/2002. In the past month, Infogrames renamed themselves *Atari, Inc.* I'm sure now AOL Time Warner will rename themselves Time Warner and sell off AOL in another year. It fits the pattern set by the old Warner Communications Inc. of acquiring a steller property, getting a little bit of use out of it, and then mismanaging it into a spiraling downfall (usually of the stock) before selling it off quietly. Exactly what Warner Communications (WCI) did with Atari Inc. Sold the consumer division off in 1984 for $250 million in promissory (sic) notes because Rupert Murdoch was trying to do a hostile takeover of WCI due to their slumping stock. WCI and Time merged in 1989 to make a powerhouse media company that would be immune to a hostile takeover (nevermind Paramount's hostile bid for Time Inc. which caused Time to buy WCI when it was supposed to be a debt-free merger and the company is still paying debt from this original merger).
...I know because I learned all I need to about that country from the last Bond flick *Die Another Day.* If you watch the movie, you'll even discover how Michael Jackson became white...
with that having been said, TiVo and the Nielsens have actually worked together in the past. Hopefully, TiVo used an old strategy page from Microsoft's playbook under the chapter of "embrace and extend" and will replace the Nielsens...
Actually, TiVo reporting the aggregate viewing statistics was a *compelling feature* of the service to me. I HATE (repeat after me, HATE) the Nielsen's. I do not believe 6,000 homes accurately reflects the television viewership of this nation, especially when it depends on those people sitting down and logging their viewing experience in a journal. There have been far too many good television shows cancelled because the Nielsen "families" didn't watch it or chose to record it on their VCRs. There are 700,000 + TiVo subscribers versus 6,000 Nielsen homes. You tell me which one will have better statistics. Even if the Nielsens actually represent a larger overall base of the American market, the TiVo subscribers will actually represent the groups advertisers want to reach anyway (tech savvy Gen X and Gen Y, and babyboomers with money). Now if I could just do a total "thumbs down" to all of Cal Worthington's ads I'd be a happy camper...
They do that with NBC because NBC is sponsoring it and also holds a stake in TiVo. NBC has been broadcasting the *thumbs up* option on their spots even back during the TiVo Series1 models...
and just my luck, they'll broadcast it in the PAL signal and not NTSC...
AOL has owned ICQ for years. AOL just received less than 6 months ago patents for ICQ's instant messaging and there was speculation they'd take Microsoft out to the woodshed with it. I was hoping AOL would outsmart the FCC by spinning off ICQ into a separate company again, retain their IP, given them a license to it, and then add interoperability between AIM and ICQ and then give the FCC/FTC *the finger.* Then AOL would never have to open up AIM to Microsoft or Yahoo and they could finally add videomessaging without government interference...
Point of order. Had Colin Powell ran for the Presidency, he would've been elected by a landslide. His wife discouraged him from running due to assassination fears. As everyone else has pointed out, the Presidency of India is a figurehead position whereas our Presidency holds power...
Now if the British probe can find the Seal of Sir Francis Drake on Mars, then the U.K. owns the planet (the Seal in place before the U.N. treaty)... Oh well, they lost California to the Spanish squatters a few hundred years ago, but who cares? They wound up with Mars! And you all thought *Space 1889* was just a game...
India claims Pakistan sponsors terrorism in Kashmir and they are escalating nuclear tension with Pakistan over it, or vice versa, depending upon your viewpoint if you actually care. Somehow I doubt if India defeated Pakistan and took over the country they'd institute democracy for all those muslims when they can't even treat 300 million of their own existing citizens (untouchables) with decency. Talk about uninformed hypocrisy... But us Americans are out to steal the Iraqi oil...
Jimmy Carter was a nuclear scientist. A great president, he was not...
...and Gore invented the internet and now we learn was the chief architect of OS X and SCO stole coding from his Unix version called ALIX... Can we not have this repeated again please?
Before they were born, they chose the lives they'd assume. Bush chose to become the man that would one day become the President of the World's Most Powerful Nation, and Kalam chose to become the man who would one day become the figurehead of the world's largest third world nation. Gee, that's a no-brainer...