There's a great book by Carl Sagan that talks about his perspective on Pseudo-Science and how it's affecting Science, as well as the dangers. It's a wonderful read. The book is called The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in this topic.
For a while at one of the national labs, they had a command line interface for the vending machines to let people know if there was any coke left before they left their desk to get it. It's not delivery, but hey, it's still cool. If it wasn't for the fact that I dislike Dominos, I'd order a pizza with this software!
I made the exact same comment yesterday about the Java Desktop, but I'll say it again. Those are the most insane system requirements I've ever seen. There's nothing MINIMUM about that. Is that for real? I've been shocked two days in a row by how bloated software can be from both Sun and Microsoft.
That's one of the most insane MINIMUM system requirements that I've ever seen. It's probably a good thing that it's a corporate desktop solution. Could you imagine the requirements to run a game on top of that?
When I got my PowerBook G4, I got the Marware Sportfolio from the Apple Store and I've loved it. It doesn't hold tons of peripherals, so if you have lots, it's probably not adequate, but for those of us with only a mouse, power supply, and a few cables, it's great. I don't know how impact resistant it really is, but they advertise it as being able to cushion a blow. It sure is sleak and I like that the material is a little stretchy. It just doesn't take up too much space at all. It's very low profile. Some of the newer models look a whole lot better too.
I'm surprised that with car stereos, we're still just seeing a lot of CD players that read MP3 CDs. I'd quite prefer to keep all my music in one place like an iPod (oh, how I wish I had one). I would actually like to see more car stereos with the audio-in so that I could use an MP3 player in my car too. I wonder why that hasn't caught on. It would sure double my incentive to buy an iPod (as if there weren't incentive enough).
I think you're right that Steve Job gets it. I think that he also hit a point that few people have noticed and that is this: people are addicted to the free music they've gotten. It is going to be hard to pull away from that. In hindsight, the recording industry should have jumped on this immediately with services like iTunes Music Store before too many people got used to the free stuff. Steve really nails it when he says that now they just have to compete with it and hope that people really do want to be good. It's a hard change, but I know I'm changing over my music selection slowly to legit sources. I hope others are too.
It's too bad that Macs aren't any cheaper. It seems that they would flourish better with the market that these computers will be reaching while providing the users with a system that's more suited to their digital cameras, printers, etc. that they just want to work out of the box.
I, for one, am very pleased with this. I'm sick and tired of scouring the net looking for music that's been ripped by some 12 year old that doesn't know what he's doing. Apple's introducing quality and giving us the music that we want.
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There's a great book by Carl Sagan that talks about his perspective on Pseudo-Science and how it's affecting Science, as well as the dangers. It's a wonderful read. The book is called The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in this topic.
For a while at one of the national labs, they had a command line interface for the vending machines to let people know if there was any coke left before they left their desk to get it. It's not delivery, but hey, it's still cool. If it wasn't for the fact that I dislike Dominos, I'd order a pizza with this software!
I made the exact same comment yesterday about the Java Desktop, but I'll say it again. Those are the most insane system requirements I've ever seen. There's nothing MINIMUM about that. Is that for real? I've been shocked two days in a row by how bloated software can be from both Sun and Microsoft.
I fear the bloatware that tomorrow brings.
That's one of the most insane MINIMUM system requirements that I've ever seen. It's probably a good thing that it's a corporate desktop solution. Could you imagine the requirements to run a game on top of that?
When I got my PowerBook G4, I got the Marware Sportfolio from the Apple Store and I've loved it. It doesn't hold tons of peripherals, so if you have lots, it's probably not adequate, but for those of us with only a mouse, power supply, and a few cables, it's great. I don't know how impact resistant it really is, but they advertise it as being able to cushion a blow. It sure is sleak and I like that the material is a little stretchy. It just doesn't take up too much space at all. It's very low profile. Some of the newer models look a whole lot better too.
I'm surprised that with car stereos, we're still just seeing a lot of CD players that read MP3 CDs. I'd quite prefer to keep all my music in one place like an iPod (oh, how I wish I had one). I would actually like to see more car stereos with the audio-in so that I could use an MP3 player in my car too. I wonder why that hasn't caught on. It would sure double my incentive to buy an iPod (as if there weren't incentive enough).
I think you're right that Steve Job gets it. I think that he also hit a point that few people have noticed and that is this: people are addicted to the free music they've gotten. It is going to be hard to pull away from that. In hindsight, the recording industry should have jumped on this immediately with services like iTunes Music Store before too many people got used to the free stuff. Steve really nails it when he says that now they just have to compete with it and hope that people really do want to be good. It's a hard change, but I know I'm changing over my music selection slowly to legit sources. I hope others are too.
It's too bad that Macs aren't any cheaper. It seems that they would flourish better with the market that these computers will be reaching while providing the users with a system that's more suited to their digital cameras, printers, etc. that they just want to work out of the box.
I, for one, am very pleased with this. I'm sick and tired of scouring the net looking for music that's been ripped by some 12 year old that doesn't know what he's doing. Apple's introducing quality and giving us the music that we want.