It may be quite a while before iBooks get Intel processsors -- and as some have already pointed out, it's going to be longer yet before any serious Mac developer is compiling Intel-only binaries, as a function of the large installed base of PowerPC.
Rest assured that Ford will probably come out with a Crown Vic Hybrid if this becomes a popular idea.
Or more likely, a Five Hundred Hybrid, since they appear to be wanting to get all their large cars on the Volvo platform.
It's run by a computer company, which to my knowledge doesn't own recording copyrights at ths time.
So is Napster, which used to be Roxio before they sold all their non-Napster products to Sonic. Real, Wal-Mart and Microsoft aren't exactly big record labels either -- more like software and retail.
Therefore, I don't get the argument that the present Internet music services aren't distributing independent music because they themselves own large quantities of content -- with the exception of Sony Connect, it's just not true, unless Wal-Mart has went out and bought some labels and I don't know about it.
You could use a fountain pen (feedback) and a scanner (computer input); they're both pretty affordable and many people already have one or the other.
A force-feedback stylus emulating a pen on a surface of the user's choice would still be cool, though.
This is where things like NeoOffice, OpenOffice, and (if you're looking at nonfree solutions) iWork come in very handy. Not everyone wants to cough up the big bucks for what to most people is a word processor that comes bundled with a spreadsheet, a presentation systyem, and an e-mail client, plus a database on Windows. Many eople (especially a significant portion of home users) just want to be able to read and write relatively simple Word and RTF documents, and if that can be done for free or at all cheaper than buying MS Office, it's a good thing for those people.
Office is pretty expensive, particularly if you only need simple functions. Why buy Photoshop when you can do what you need with Elements...or the Gimp?
"To arrive"? Interesting use of Latin. A company, particularly a tech startup, whose name actually means something is refreshing.
I'm glad to see someone's decided to make a business out of porting, as that'll make things go a lot quicker.
But only a $100 flat fee for a Cocoa port? That seems cheap for porting; of course, Apple has made this pretty easy to do, and I guess Advenio is banking on the facts that:
(1) A lot of their business will be for the $500+ Carbon ports, since you'd want to get a developer kit to test the Advenio port anyway.
(2) Most of the Cocoa universalizations won't be a hassle -- like Mathematica, a few hours' work.
If they get a lot of orders for tough universalizations of Cocoa apps, you'll see the prices change dramatically.
The tribe has spoken -- the going price for a basic 32" TV in America is $200, and if the FCC says that'll have to include an ATSC tuner, the TV makers will have to keep the price more or less the same or they'll soon be joining the poor.
It strikes me that there is NO WAY for them to detect much more basic forms of industrial espionage -- short of banning all forms of portable recordable media (including magnetic, optical, and flash) and requiring mandatory cavity searches for all inbound and outbound personnel.
Even then, someone would stick a keychain drive in the Blimpie he's bringing in for lunch -- so add x-rays and high-sensitivity metal detectors for all inbound and outbound objects.
At a nuclear plant, security greater than there is at an airport is a good thing; at a software company or a doctor's office, it could cost more than just suing the bastard after a leak.
For that matter, what about webmail? It'd be a lot of work to skim through every website transaction at most any organization where there is Internet access -- again, eating the losses and filing a lawsuit or two if anything happens is probably a lot cheaper than monitoring all Web activity. It's even more complicated if the connection is encrypted.
Spending the company's money on full-time staff to read everyone's e-mail isn't going to do much to keep employees from leaking to competitors or to the press.
Further, whistleblowers can always send something in from home, or do it the old fashioned way with a public telephone. You aren't going to stop employees from going home (excepting the military or anything else where you send them off on remote assignments) or seeking out a payphone after hours -- it's like a mobster who knows he's been wiretapped and thus never uses his line for "family business."
I can't see how you can honestly call Windows 2000 a failure -- Microsoft didn't spend more making it than they made off of it, and it was actually (in my experience, at least) more reliable than XP.
There are several reasons why PC gaming will remain a major force:
(1) Many people don't game enough to justify buying additional hardware, and an HDTV if they want the resolutions you get with even an older computer, such as 1280x1024.
(2) Some games don't lend themselves well to the console environment, but are easier to successfully implement when a keyboard and mouse can be assumed. Can you imagine Baldur's Gate being as fun if you had to use a pad to play it?
(3) Freeware and the fruits of independent and free-software development -- a clear PC advantage.
Maverick Radio (http://www.mavradio.org/) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha runs on Linux -- Red Hat, if I recall the distro. I think they set their playlists using XMMS when they are in automated mode.
I've always thought that iTunes on a Mac or a Windows PC wouldn't be a bad broadcast automation system, but a Linux box would be cheaper than a Mac and easier to maintain than Windows.
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I used the data cable and a WAV to AMR (I think that's the format) converter program to make my Nokia 3210 phone sound like a Western Electric model 554 landline telephone's mechanical ringer. I could have just microphoned the real thing but I found a vintage telephone website that had a good recording, so I just converted that and set my ring volume to the maximum.
The "pick up the bloody phone already " synapse fires more quickly for me when exposed to proper telephone ringing sounds.
You have to get a new box every few years no matter what OS you're running, so people can switch to OS X for their photoshop needs probably as easily as going to Linux, if they just hold out for when they are ready to buy a computer anyhow.
I've downloaded Rhapsody again (had it installed when it first came out, just to see how it feels) so I can use these 25 free plays a month to preview stuff before getting it from iTunes, which is truly iPod compatible.
It's sacrificing one port for two....and an external hard drive that would usually take up another port, so it's like getting three for one, i.e. a +2 gain when you count the hard drive as a device.
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It may be quite a while before iBooks get Intel processsors -- and as some have already pointed out, it's going to be longer yet before any serious Mac developer is compiling Intel-only binaries, as a function of the large installed base of PowerPC.
"Imagery ©2005 NASA"?
NASA is part of the US Federal Government, which does not hold copyrights -- its works are in the public domain.
The correct tag would have been "©2005 Google - Imagery courtesy of NASA" or somesuch, but NASA can't hold a copyright.
Other than that, interesting imagery with a good Easter egg.
Rest assured that Ford will probably come out with a Crown Vic Hybrid if this becomes a popular idea. Or more likely, a Five Hundred Hybrid, since they appear to be wanting to get all their large cars on the Volvo platform.
Actually, right now, the largest online music distribution system is not run by a record company or a holding company.
It's run by a computer company, which to my knowledge doesn't own recording copyrights at ths time.
So is Napster, which used to be Roxio before they sold all their non-Napster products to Sonic. Real, Wal-Mart and Microsoft aren't exactly big record labels either -- more like software and retail.
Therefore, I don't get the argument that the present Internet music services aren't distributing independent music because they themselves own large quantities of content -- with the exception of Sony Connect, it's just not true, unless Wal-Mart has went out and bought some labels and I don't know about it.
No, it's just that only the uploaders are worth suing -- since without them, the whole operation fails.
Cinderella had a fairy godmother - an angel investor of sorts.
You could use a fountain pen (feedback) and a scanner (computer input); they're both pretty affordable and many people already have one or the other. A force-feedback stylus emulating a pen on a surface of the user's choice would still be cool, though.
ESPN's real content is live sports.
Anything they might give away as a podcast will serve to keep ESPN on people's minds for where to get their sports fix.
Here is some quality Veritas Party comedy.
...except, of course, for the price.
This is where things like NeoOffice, OpenOffice, and (if you're looking at nonfree solutions) iWork come in very handy. Not everyone wants to cough up the big bucks for what to most people is a word processor that comes bundled with a spreadsheet, a presentation systyem, and an e-mail client, plus a database on Windows. Many eople (especially a significant portion of home users) just want to be able to read and write relatively simple Word and RTF documents, and if that can be done for free or at all cheaper than buying MS Office, it's a good thing for those people.
Office is pretty expensive, particularly if you only need simple functions. Why buy Photoshop when you can do what you need with Elements...or the Gimp?
"To arrive"? Interesting use of Latin. A company, particularly a tech startup, whose name actually means something is refreshing.
I'm glad to see someone's decided to make a business out of porting, as that'll make things go a lot quicker.
But only a $100 flat fee for a Cocoa port? That seems cheap for porting; of course, Apple has made this pretty easy to do, and I guess Advenio is banking on the facts that:
(1) A lot of their business will be for the $500+ Carbon ports, since you'd want to get a developer kit to test the Advenio port anyway.
(2) Most of the Cocoa universalizations won't be a hassle -- like Mathematica, a few hours' work.
If they get a lot of orders for tough universalizations of Cocoa apps, you'll see the prices change dramatically.
Probably because many people do not use their iPods as MP3 players, but as MPEG-4 (usually with AAC or Apple Lossless) players.
The tribe has spoken -- the going price for a basic 32" TV in America is $200, and if the FCC says that'll have to include an ATSC tuner, the TV makers will have to keep the price more or less the same or they'll soon be joining the poor.
It strikes me that there is NO WAY for them to detect much more basic forms of industrial espionage -- short of banning all forms of portable recordable media (including magnetic, optical, and flash) and requiring mandatory cavity searches for all inbound and outbound personnel.
Even then, someone would stick a keychain drive in the Blimpie he's bringing in for lunch -- so add x-rays and high-sensitivity metal detectors for all inbound and outbound objects.
At a nuclear plant, security greater than there is at an airport is a good thing; at a software company or a doctor's office, it could cost more than just suing the bastard after a leak.
For that matter, what about webmail? It'd be a lot of work to skim through every website transaction at most any organization where there is Internet access -- again, eating the losses and filing a lawsuit or two if anything happens is probably a lot cheaper than monitoring all Web activity. It's even more complicated if the connection is encrypted.
Spending the company's money on full-time staff to read everyone's e-mail isn't going to do much to keep employees from leaking to competitors or to the press.
Further, whistleblowers can always send something in from home, or do it the old fashioned way with a public telephone. You aren't going to stop employees from going home (excepting the military or anything else where you send them off on remote assignments) or seeking out a payphone after hours -- it's like a mobster who knows he's been wiretapped and thus never uses his line for "family business."
I can't see how you can honestly call Windows 2000 a failure -- Microsoft didn't spend more making it than they made off of it, and it was actually (in my experience, at least) more reliable than XP.
Red Bloc implies Lenin/Stalin/Maoism, not straight Marxism or any other Marxist ideology.
There are several reasons why PC gaming will remain a major force:
(1) Many people don't game enough to justify buying additional hardware, and an HDTV if they want the resolutions you get with even an older computer, such as 1280x1024.
(2) Some games don't lend themselves well to the console environment, but are easier to successfully implement when a keyboard and mouse can be assumed. Can you imagine Baldur's Gate being as fun if you had to use a pad to play it?
(3) Freeware and the fruits of independent and free-software development -- a clear PC advantage.
Maverick Radio (http://www.mavradio.org/) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha runs on Linux -- Red Hat, if I recall the distro. I think they set their playlists using XMMS when they are in automated mode.
I've always thought that iTunes on a Mac or a Windows PC wouldn't be a bad broadcast automation system, but a Linux box would be cheaper than a Mac and easier to maintain than Windows.
I used the data cable and a WAV to AMR (I think that's the format) converter program to make my Nokia 3210 phone sound like a Western Electric model 554 landline telephone's mechanical ringer. I could have just microphoned the real thing but I found a vintage telephone website that had a good recording, so I just converted that and set my ring volume to the maximum.
The "pick up the bloody phone already " synapse fires more quickly for me when exposed to proper telephone ringing sounds.
PowerPC? That's usually Apple hardware...ever thought about using Mac-On-Linux or dual booting to run Mac OS X to get your Flash working?
Or you could use some means of emulating IA32 and run another Linux in a box.
You have to get a new box every few years no matter what OS you're running, so people can switch to OS X for their photoshop needs probably as easily as going to Linux, if they just hold out for when they are ready to buy a computer anyhow.
Well, that's the case except where the age of consent is less than or equal to 17, such as Nebraska, Rhode Island, Iowa, Conneticut, quite a few other states, and much of the non-US world.
To me, piracy is still the hijjacking of ships and the kidnaping and/or killing of the crew.
Which is what they are basically prosecuting copyright infringement as, if it's 4 years per count in Chinese prison.
I've downloaded Rhapsody again (had it installed when it first came out, just to see how it feels) so I can use these 25 free plays a month to preview stuff before getting it from iTunes, which is truly iPod compatible.
It's sacrificing one port for two....and an external hard drive that would usually take up another port, so it's like getting three for one, i.e. a +2 gain when you count the hard drive as a device.