Another thing that is bugging me on migrating over to OS X from a PC environment is the lack of decent scanners for the Mac. Most Firewire based scanners are $399 and up. HP doesn't make any of their decent consumer grade scanners with Firewire ports. It ceases to amaze me since a good majority of HP consumer PC's have Firewire ports. Instead, they just offer USB 2.0. I don't want to use USB 2.0; USB is too processor-intense. I'm not even asking for Firewire800 support, just plain-and-simple IEEE1394a. And HP doesn't even have a good excuse. What does Firewire licensing cost per port, 25 cents? On a $130 scanner that probably costs less than $20 to manufacture? The retail markup is $30 at best. Do the math. And in my case, it is inmaterial whether Apple offers USB 2.0 support, I want a decent Firewire scanner. Quit being so cheap, HP, and make a decent product!
And while I'm at it, I'd like to see drives use internal Firewire ports. Why should a CD/DVD drive use Serial ATA? Leave Serial ATA for the hard drives on their own dedicated channels.
Nintendo settled out of court with Atari for $150 million. Atari had patents like "device used to control moving objects on screen." Atari also sued Sega for patent infringement as well, and they settled out of court with a licensing agreement. Strangely, Atari never sued Sony...
I've been using Nokias since 99, and I pretty much have a permanent headache. Not to say that the two facts are inter-related, mind you(although Nokias are generally on the list for most radiation output). But I think I'll switch over to the Sony Ericssons when my contract is over with suck-fest Cingular...
How is Sony more evil than Microsoft? At least when Sony tries to corner a market all to themselves, their product is quality. No rational person will argue that VHS was actually superior to Beta. Are Microsoft operating systems quality? Wait, I don't think I have to wait for an answer to that since we are all on Slashdot. Was IE superior to Netscape prior to the infamous bundling? Nope. As for Sony slapping Nintendo around, Nintendo deserved it. Nintendo was a monopolist that stole Atari's intellectual property and tried to lock every company up making third party software, which Atari never did when it was the monopoly power in the videogame industry. But with all that said, the Playstation2 is inferior to the Xbox... Granted, the game that gets the most play on my Xbox is "Gauntlet Legends" but I'm pretty old school in my videogame passions... Hence my screenname, err, handle...:)
Nintendo also "has a nasty habit of exploiting other people's IP." I think that was the basis for Atari Corp. suing them many years ago after failing to win the antitrust case.... If memory serves me correctly, Nintendo paid up $150 million or so...which wasn't bad in early 1990s dollars...
I can see Motorola trying to add carbon nanotubes to the 68000 (ahem, *Dragonball*) and try to convince Palm to switch back to the platform for the latest Tungstens...
Or the Bitmap Brothers making yet another vaporware announcement of their upcoming graphics chipset using carbon nanotubes in the race to beat nvidia and ATI on paper and HTML based content (fan sites).
Eugenics wars, mutant versus homo sapien sapien... Wasn't there a short-lived television show a couple of seasons ago on ABC regarding this? "Prey"? What if a *mad scientist* genetically created a race of vampires? What if the US Military (or the Chinese for that matter)spliced genes from the Neaderthals into our species to create soldiers with more muscle mass and strength? What if the side effect was a revival in the cave painting arthouse scene?
There must be oil in Senegal to justify this... next up, liberation of the Senegalese to make safe democracy! Brought to you by the good folks at Haliburton (sic), your friend Rupert Murdoch at News Corp., and benevolent computer genius Bill Gates!:)
seems like that would be of more use... I'd love to see a private corporation do that as well as send a "spy" satellite with decent imaging equipment to do an independent analysis of the Cydonia region... I bet that endeavour would go *missing* (cough cough)....another victim of the Cosmic Boogeyman that dislikes most probes we send to that planet...either that or its the Cybermen behind it...
NASA has very little credibility in my book. Any agency that claims to lose a probe because they were using English measurements when the scientific community has used the metric system for a century (not to mention the US Military since the creation of NATO) just doesn't pan out... Maybe we should get them to certify the next Presidential election...
Wouldn't overclocking ruin the data? Supposedly SETI@home's crunched data packets are ruined by volunteers who use overclocked machines to process the data chunks...
interesting, but that hasn't stopped Apple from pioneering the ability for people to make their own DVDs and those definitely aren't HDTV quality. Apple sold iPods before creating their subscription based distribution plan. Seems rather fickle to try to wait until HDTV takes off, sometime in the NEXT decade at the rate they are going...:)
Just imagine this baby. A Tivo Series2 *enhanced* by Apple. It would have Firewire, the wireless options, and a customized "Home Media Option" built in to work directly with the user's OS X Mac elsewhere in the house; to work better with the iLife "suite"... Apple would probably allow it to stream movies on the Mac made with iMovie as well... They could charge the premium Sony currently is on their Series2 model, but in this case it would be worth it...and it would obviously work with Apple's upcoming music service...
Incidentally, the music company TiVo is working with to promote the benefits of the "Home Media Option" is Universal Music...hmmm
There are many different ways to view Apple's interest in Universal Music.
1. By owning the world's largest music company, Apple would have huge leverage in getting Best Buy AND Circuit City to sell Macs in their stores again.
2. Buck the trend of these encrypted music CDs not working in Mac CD/DVD drives.
3. Strengthen the Mac platform in music production and post production from the record company level on down...
4. Boosting iPod sales. Imagine if Apple's subscription system allowed you to download copies of the songs for your Mac (or PC) and allow you to transfer/copy and use them to your iPod; whereas transferring files to other MP3 portables cost extra.
5. Leverage in settling future standards issues like the current SACD vs. DVD-A (DVD Audio not the Trey Parker/Matt Stone definition of *DVDA*)... or Dolby Digital vs. DTS.
6. Enough clout to get the other multimedia companies to actually support the Mac on their DVD-Rom features on their movie releases... (longshot)...
7. Ringtone revenue. We've all been expecting an iPhone for a long time...
8. Haven't we been expecting Microsoft to purchase a media company for a long time now? Apple beats them AGAIN....
I found it laughable that the FCC and other government agencies were so against the Echostar/DirecTV "merger" because it would've made a monopoly out of the sat tv business. Why didn't they view it as a cable competitor? The major concern was that Charles Ergen would squeeze local markets with his created monopoly yet he went on the record for suggesting a nationwide rate...has DirecTV done this with their own service? Have any of the cable companies offered a national plan? These same government agencies made far too many restrictions on the AOL Time Warner merger, but then did essentially nothing to Comcast when they bought AT&T Broadband. Comcast is THE WORST cable company there is, period. I won't even bring up the wrist slapping the DOJ gave to Microsoft. However, my BIG BEEF with Charles Ergen and Echostar is their marketing of the inferior Dish Player PVR. Get with it man, and offer a real TiVo service. TiVo needs to be made the de-facto PVR standard to prevent Microsoft from jumping back into the market. Now if only the big whigs at AOL Time Warner would force Time Warner Cable to axe the "Mystro" system and offer TiVo digital cable set-top boxes...you'd think they would since they own a 13% stake in TiVo... What a shame... how is Fox News covering the merger??? And as for Murdoch, I'm surprised nobody in MI5 or MI6 hasn't taken him out. His tabloids have gone out of their way to destroy the Monarchy... oh wait, James Bond already killed his alter-ego in "Tomorrow Never Dies"...
Inaccurate. Sony makes their own TiVo units! Its amazing Sony's chairman didn't express interest in buying TiVo outright considering his interest in purchasing Palm and possibly even Apple...
AOL needs Replay's intellectual property to block Microsoft. AOL owns 13% of TiVo stock. Shareholders need to put pressure on (AOL) Time Warner to knock some sense into their Time Warner Cable division. That division needs to cut development of Mystro and put it towards digital TiVo-enabled set-top boxes. There are so many things AOL could do with TiVo that would benefit viewers its mind boggling to think that the.com collapse and accounting errors in AOL has given the blowhard Time Warner execs the excuse to block all of the synergy strategy AOL wanted to force upon the Time Warner content side of the biz... As for AOL and TiVo working together, I suggest you login and go to AOL Keywords "TiVo Beta"...:)
Had this guy owned an Atari ST way-back-when, he'd know the problems of relying upon Apple parts meant for repairs. Many Atari ST owners bought the MagicSac and SpectreGCR Mac emulators which consisted of a cartridge that you bought and plugged in Apple Mac OS Rom chips, and then slid it into the Atari ST's cartridge port. They were great. You could have a far more powerful Macintosh (and the ST was more powerful to begin with) at a savings of more than half the cost of an actual Macintosh. When Atari brought out its laptop (the STacy), with the emulators, it became the first Macintosh laptop. This infuriated Apple, and they threatened to sue any Mac repair shop/dealership that actually sold Mac Roms to people not actually requiring repairs... The better route to a Mac clone is to get IBM and Nvidia to produce an NForce type mobo chipset for the PowerPC 970 under the guise of having another platform to run Linux on with a 64bit chip and no chance of Palladium being placed in the BIOS (since AMD and Intel are both vying for the Microsoft payments). Then someone could come out with a hack for OS X Panther to run on it without shutting down due to not detecting an Apple BIOS or whatever protection scheme they have cooked up... It would be pretty funny; IBM turning the clone strategy on some other company. But then again, this would cater to the PC enthusiast market who do not normally buy Apple anyways, and as long as they actually purchased the OS and didn't pirate it, this would benefit Apple tremendously...
TiVo was smart enough to make themselves synonamous with PVR technology. They were smarter in the subscription based model from the get-go and that caused them to leapfrom ReplayTV. By the time SonicBlue purchased Replay, the game was already up. Did it make me mad that when TiVo launched Series2 they did not bundle it out of the box with USB 2.0, Firewire, or a built-in ethernet port? Yes. But I went ahead and purchased it because I enjoyed my old Series1 and I had a gut feeling Replay would tank. Sure, if you want broadband on a TiVo, you have to buy a USB-to-ethernet dongle (if you are going wired) and you also have to pay $99 for the Home Media Option if you want to stream MP3s or photos, program via the net, or share programs with other TiVo units in your home. Does that bite? Sure, but it is causing TiVo to become profitable and that adds extra to the value of the user experience since the company isn't going under. As a matter of fact, that counts for a whole lot.
Perhaps Ballard was really brought in to steer SonicBlue successfully toward bankruptcy and asset auction like with 3dfx. Perhaps he is considered a success in these endeavours... a bankruptcy Chainsaw Al...
TiVo has plenty of reason to compete. Microsoft could buy up Replay's intellectual property and relaunch the patent lawsuits between the companies and run TiVo into the ground. TiVo already is locked out of being bundled in set-top boxes with 2nd string satellite service Dish; AOL Time Warner's Time Warner Cable unit is hellbent upon rolling out the Mystro server based poor-man's DVR; and again, Microsoft is intent upon bundling PVR functions in editions of WinXP and Xbox2... there's plenty of competition left and more reasons to support TiVo...
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How is Microsoft keeping Apple from running Linux? Why would Apple want Linux anyway? The OS is built on BSD...that makes no sense...
Another thing that is bugging me on migrating over to OS X from a PC environment is the lack of decent scanners for the Mac. Most Firewire based scanners are $399 and up. HP doesn't make any of their decent consumer grade scanners with Firewire ports. It ceases to amaze me since a good majority of HP consumer PC's have Firewire ports. Instead, they just offer USB 2.0. I don't want to use USB 2.0; USB is too processor-intense. I'm not even asking for Firewire800 support, just plain-and-simple IEEE1394a. And HP doesn't even have a good excuse. What does Firewire licensing cost per port, 25 cents? On a $130 scanner that probably costs less than $20 to manufacture? The retail markup is $30 at best. Do the math. And in my case, it is inmaterial whether Apple offers USB 2.0 support, I want a decent Firewire scanner. Quit being so cheap, HP, and make a decent product! And while I'm at it, I'd like to see drives use internal Firewire ports. Why should a CD/DVD drive use Serial ATA? Leave Serial ATA for the hard drives on their own dedicated channels.
Nintendo settled out of court with Atari for $150 million. Atari had patents like "device used to control moving objects on screen." Atari also sued Sega for patent infringement as well, and they settled out of court with a licensing agreement. Strangely, Atari never sued Sony...
Mozilla's "42"... or Mozilla's "Tim"... I like either for the next edition of Phoenix...
don't forget us Atari ST'ers...we laughed at the Macs back then...black-and-white you say??? ha ha ha!
Dick Clark has Lamina B???
I've been using Nokias since 99, and I pretty much have a permanent headache. Not to say that the two facts are inter-related, mind you(although Nokias are generally on the list for most radiation output). But I think I'll switch over to the Sony Ericssons when my contract is over with suck-fest Cingular...
How is Sony more evil than Microsoft? At least when Sony tries to corner a market all to themselves, their product is quality. No rational person will argue that VHS was actually superior to Beta. Are Microsoft operating systems quality? Wait, I don't think I have to wait for an answer to that since we are all on Slashdot. Was IE superior to Netscape prior to the infamous bundling? Nope. As for Sony slapping Nintendo around, Nintendo deserved it. Nintendo was a monopolist that stole Atari's intellectual property and tried to lock every company up making third party software, which Atari never did when it was the monopoly power in the videogame industry. But with all that said, the Playstation2 is inferior to the Xbox... Granted, the game that gets the most play on my Xbox is "Gauntlet Legends" but I'm pretty old school in my videogame passions... Hence my screenname, err, handle... :)
Nintendo also "has a nasty habit of exploiting other people's IP." I think that was the basis for Atari Corp. suing them many years ago after failing to win the antitrust case.... If memory serves me correctly, Nintendo paid up $150 million or so...which wasn't bad in early 1990s dollars...
I can see Motorola trying to add carbon nanotubes to the 68000 (ahem, *Dragonball*) and try to convince Palm to switch back to the platform for the latest Tungstens... Or the Bitmap Brothers making yet another vaporware announcement of their upcoming graphics chipset using carbon nanotubes in the race to beat nvidia and ATI on paper and HTML based content (fan sites).
Eugenics wars, mutant versus homo sapien sapien... Wasn't there a short-lived television show a couple of seasons ago on ABC regarding this? "Prey"? What if a *mad scientist* genetically created a race of vampires? What if the US Military (or the Chinese for that matter)spliced genes from the Neaderthals into our species to create soldiers with more muscle mass and strength? What if the side effect was a revival in the cave painting arthouse scene?
There must be oil in Senegal to justify this... next up, liberation of the Senegalese to make safe democracy! Brought to you by the good folks at Haliburton (sic), your friend Rupert Murdoch at News Corp., and benevolent computer genius Bill Gates! :)
seems like that would be of more use... I'd love to see a private corporation do that as well as send a "spy" satellite with decent imaging equipment to do an independent analysis of the Cydonia region... I bet that endeavour would go *missing* (cough cough)....another victim of the Cosmic Boogeyman that dislikes most probes we send to that planet...either that or its the Cybermen behind it... NASA has very little credibility in my book. Any agency that claims to lose a probe because they were using English measurements when the scientific community has used the metric system for a century (not to mention the US Military since the creation of NATO) just doesn't pan out... Maybe we should get them to certify the next Presidential election...
Wouldn't overclocking ruin the data? Supposedly SETI@home's crunched data packets are ruined by volunteers who use overclocked machines to process the data chunks...
interesting, but that hasn't stopped Apple from pioneering the ability for people to make their own DVDs and those definitely aren't HDTV quality. Apple sold iPods before creating their subscription based distribution plan. Seems rather fickle to try to wait until HDTV takes off, sometime in the NEXT decade at the rate they are going... :)
Just imagine this baby. A Tivo Series2 *enhanced* by Apple. It would have Firewire, the wireless options, and a customized "Home Media Option" built in to work directly with the user's OS X Mac elsewhere in the house; to work better with the iLife "suite"... Apple would probably allow it to stream movies on the Mac made with iMovie as well... They could charge the premium Sony currently is on their Series2 model, but in this case it would be worth it...and it would obviously work with Apple's upcoming music service... Incidentally, the music company TiVo is working with to promote the benefits of the "Home Media Option" is Universal Music...hmmm
There are many different ways to view Apple's interest in Universal Music. 1. By owning the world's largest music company, Apple would have huge leverage in getting Best Buy AND Circuit City to sell Macs in their stores again. 2. Buck the trend of these encrypted music CDs not working in Mac CD/DVD drives. 3. Strengthen the Mac platform in music production and post production from the record company level on down... 4. Boosting iPod sales. Imagine if Apple's subscription system allowed you to download copies of the songs for your Mac (or PC) and allow you to transfer/copy and use them to your iPod; whereas transferring files to other MP3 portables cost extra. 5. Leverage in settling future standards issues like the current SACD vs. DVD-A (DVD Audio not the Trey Parker/Matt Stone definition of *DVDA*)... or Dolby Digital vs. DTS. 6. Enough clout to get the other multimedia companies to actually support the Mac on their DVD-Rom features on their movie releases... (longshot)... 7. Ringtone revenue. We've all been expecting an iPhone for a long time... 8. Haven't we been expecting Microsoft to purchase a media company for a long time now? Apple beats them AGAIN....
I found it laughable that the FCC and other government agencies were so against the Echostar/DirecTV "merger" because it would've made a monopoly out of the sat tv business. Why didn't they view it as a cable competitor? The major concern was that Charles Ergen would squeeze local markets with his created monopoly yet he went on the record for suggesting a nationwide rate...has DirecTV done this with their own service? Have any of the cable companies offered a national plan? These same government agencies made far too many restrictions on the AOL Time Warner merger, but then did essentially nothing to Comcast when they bought AT&T Broadband. Comcast is THE WORST cable company there is, period. I won't even bring up the wrist slapping the DOJ gave to Microsoft. However, my BIG BEEF with Charles Ergen and Echostar is their marketing of the inferior Dish Player PVR. Get with it man, and offer a real TiVo service. TiVo needs to be made the de-facto PVR standard to prevent Microsoft from jumping back into the market. Now if only the big whigs at AOL Time Warner would force Time Warner Cable to axe the "Mystro" system and offer TiVo digital cable set-top boxes...you'd think they would since they own a 13% stake in TiVo... What a shame... how is Fox News covering the merger??? And as for Murdoch, I'm surprised nobody in MI5 or MI6 hasn't taken him out. His tabloids have gone out of their way to destroy the Monarchy... oh wait, James Bond already killed his alter-ego in "Tomorrow Never Dies"...
Inaccurate. Sony makes their own TiVo units! Its amazing Sony's chairman didn't express interest in buying TiVo outright considering his interest in purchasing Palm and possibly even Apple...
AOL needs Replay's intellectual property to block Microsoft. AOL owns 13% of TiVo stock. Shareholders need to put pressure on (AOL) Time Warner to knock some sense into their Time Warner Cable division. That division needs to cut development of Mystro and put it towards digital TiVo-enabled set-top boxes. There are so many things AOL could do with TiVo that would benefit viewers its mind boggling to think that the .com collapse and accounting errors in AOL has given the blowhard Time Warner execs the excuse to block all of the synergy strategy AOL wanted to force upon the Time Warner content side of the biz... As for AOL and TiVo working together, I suggest you login and go to AOL Keywords "TiVo Beta"... :)
Hey Anonymous Loser: I was targeting all the TiVo nay-sayers that have replied to this original story, not the original poster.
Had this guy owned an Atari ST way-back-when, he'd know the problems of relying upon Apple parts meant for repairs. Many Atari ST owners bought the MagicSac and SpectreGCR Mac emulators which consisted of a cartridge that you bought and plugged in Apple Mac OS Rom chips, and then slid it into the Atari ST's cartridge port. They were great. You could have a far more powerful Macintosh (and the ST was more powerful to begin with) at a savings of more than half the cost of an actual Macintosh. When Atari brought out its laptop (the STacy), with the emulators, it became the first Macintosh laptop. This infuriated Apple, and they threatened to sue any Mac repair shop/dealership that actually sold Mac Roms to people not actually requiring repairs... The better route to a Mac clone is to get IBM and Nvidia to produce an NForce type mobo chipset for the PowerPC 970 under the guise of having another platform to run Linux on with a 64bit chip and no chance of Palladium being placed in the BIOS (since AMD and Intel are both vying for the Microsoft payments). Then someone could come out with a hack for OS X Panther to run on it without shutting down due to not detecting an Apple BIOS or whatever protection scheme they have cooked up... It would be pretty funny; IBM turning the clone strategy on some other company. But then again, this would cater to the PC enthusiast market who do not normally buy Apple anyways, and as long as they actually purchased the OS and didn't pirate it, this would benefit Apple tremendously...
TiVo was smart enough to make themselves synonamous with PVR technology. They were smarter in the subscription based model from the get-go and that caused them to leapfrom ReplayTV. By the time SonicBlue purchased Replay, the game was already up. Did it make me mad that when TiVo launched Series2 they did not bundle it out of the box with USB 2.0, Firewire, or a built-in ethernet port? Yes. But I went ahead and purchased it because I enjoyed my old Series1 and I had a gut feeling Replay would tank. Sure, if you want broadband on a TiVo, you have to buy a USB-to-ethernet dongle (if you are going wired) and you also have to pay $99 for the Home Media Option if you want to stream MP3s or photos, program via the net, or share programs with other TiVo units in your home. Does that bite? Sure, but it is causing TiVo to become profitable and that adds extra to the value of the user experience since the company isn't going under. As a matter of fact, that counts for a whole lot.
Perhaps Ballard was really brought in to steer SonicBlue successfully toward bankruptcy and asset auction like with 3dfx. Perhaps he is considered a success in these endeavours... a bankruptcy Chainsaw Al...
TiVo has plenty of reason to compete. Microsoft could buy up Replay's intellectual property and relaunch the patent lawsuits between the companies and run TiVo into the ground. TiVo already is locked out of being bundled in set-top boxes with 2nd string satellite service Dish; AOL Time Warner's Time Warner Cable unit is hellbent upon rolling out the Mystro server based poor-man's DVR; and again, Microsoft is intent upon bundling PVR functions in editions of WinXP and Xbox2... there's plenty of competition left and more reasons to support TiVo...