Yes, Slashdot has proven time and time again that they understand what's Apple's doing better than Steve Jobs.
Do I REALLY need to link back to all the early postings about the iPod, about how it was tooo little too late, zzzzzzzzzzzzzz, nothing new.
How about the iPod mini dicussions? About how the colors were stupid and gay looking, how little the hard drive was, how no one needed a smaller iPod, etc.?
I think there's ONE thing that has been established on Slashdot without a doubt:
YOU DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT WHAT REGULAR PEOPLE WANT AND EVEN LESS ABOUT HOW APPLE'S PRODUCTS FIT IN, SO ******STFU****** and get on about your lives.
And I just got down.
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What makes the gameplay of the Battlefield series so good is the nature of the poeple behind the computers. Multiplayer is where it's at for me, and any game that does not have a GOOD MP part will be a game that gets none of my money.
It's the humans behind the little solders you see on screen that make those games so interesting. Doom III cant give me that, and at age 41 I'm immune from the gee whiz lookit them graphics crowd that impressed me 15 years ago.
AKB, your post is the first post I've read so far of any substance that actually contains useful information so that persons not knowledgeable about radio could form a useful perspective.
I have no mod points at the moment or you would be +1, informative.
This entire thread is so full of poeple using incorrect terminlogy to support their opinions that it really shows how much opinion on/. is simply uninformed. Normally, I dont know or dont know enough about the subject to know, but on radio, I'm a First Phone as well as a Advanced Class ham for >20yrs. Built my own legal limit transmitter from scratch, not plans, not from QST, but from scratch. My own reciever, too. Radio I know about, a LOT about.
And 90% of the postings up to this point in time are just DRIVEL.
It makes me wonder about the rest of the postings here and if they too, are as uninformed about the subject matter at hand. I'm honestly not trying to flamebait, but I gotta say it - unless you know somethng about the subject matter, dont post.
Exactly why is this flamebait? He's giving what looks like to me a honest opinion - Mod this up or down as you wish, but I dont think it's flamebait material.
Most of the software is not any sort of a loss leader for Apple. They make some serious cash off most of their in house softwarez - iLife 04 was a huge success for Apple as noted in the recent quarterly report.
Hardware delays not withstanding, ( within reason ) Apple's future is pretty bright. Check how many/. readers have and use Macs compared to 3 years ago. 3 years ago, anything Apple was a running joke here, becuase the hardware was so outdated mostly, but also becuase OS X was not ready for primetime.
Big difference today - Apple is the geek computer. Hardcore gamers are the last holdout IMO.
This might get modded as off topic, but I'm gonna do it anyways. People need to understand what a bunch of bastards Clear Channel and the NAB are and some semi related background info on their past behavior might be useful.
The real travesty in radio is that the only real ownership liberalization in many years was stifled at the request of the NAB and Clear Channel - Low Power FM stations which can be licensed and brought on line at very low cost compared to a "regular" station. This would have allowed normal folk with little capital to began legally broadcasting with decent range and signal - somethingthe NAB and Queer Channel didnt want.
Becuase of the NAB and Queer Channel the 1000 watt provision of the LPFM proposal was yanked due to what turned out to be a bogus phony "interference" concern that was later DISPROVEN by the the FCC's own hired examiners. The 1000 watt proposal was killed becuase in many cases it would have allowed station ranges to be competitive with their CC corporate owned stations.
The LPFM proposal if it had been left intact and not gutted by Queer Channel and the NAB lobbyists would have done more to revolutionize radio than satellite radio - becuase there would have been thousands of new voices on the air in every city and town. You bet yer ass they dont want competition from anyone, and most of all form ordinary citizens, to whom the PUBLIC airwaves are SUPPOSED to belong. Of course they are going to whine to the FCC - it's gotten the desired result before for them....
So of course now the gutted remnants of the LPFM ( cumbersome application process, limited licenses to be issued, only 10 and 100 watt power limits, too low to have any range ) are not having much effect. Geee, wonder why?
Lets hope the satellite companies fight Clear Channel with everything they have. If this rant was too off topic, sorry, but I gotta get my ya-ya's out sometimes, boss. The way they sliced and diced LPFM really pissed me off royal. Can ya tell?:D
and I guess Rob Glaser's threat to Jobs to make a deal with us or else we'll go to MS is not arrogant? It's 10 X worse, and Steve said what he did to piss of Glaser to the *nth degree. He deserved it.
You dont go around making threats to your superiors, at your job or at your business. Soon you would have neither.
You get the boobie prize. Microsoft will kill Apple and the ITMS the same way it killed everything else -
1. buy or steal competition's IP they can use
2. bring out product that undercuts the competition severely
3. competitors watch as customers flock to free/lowcost service
4. they are forced to deal with MS on MS's terms or die
This will probably be the fate of Apple unless they have some new tricks up their sleeve. When MS comes out with a service where songs are 39 cents each ( or other such number, you get the point ) and simply sits on it's phat wad o cash for as long as needed watching Apple bleed, remember this posting.
The only way they will make it is by subverting MS's DRM and making it work with the iPod, or simply allowing the iPod to play WMA files unrestricted. Then MS will have a tough road. As it is, Apple is dogmeat in about 9 months or so. They better have a plan B or a another killer piece O hardware in the works.
It's not like that. Nowhere in my posts have I attached a value judgement to my choice of living without TV, but the lack of it in my life sure does make a difference. One can argue positive or negative, but there's a huge difference.
I dont read newspapers or watch TV. I dont subscribe to any magazines. I did get the images off the net like anyone else would ( still pix ) but what I was trying to say is that I just didnt get the emotional impact of 9/11 the same way people that have TV's did. I saw the first video of the planes hitting the towers about 2 weeks afterward. But there's no way I could have the same reaction, becuase of my self imposed semi isolation.
Shared experiences among millions of poeple means that poeple do have stronger reactions to events that dont touch their lives personally - if the towers had been blown up before the advent of TV (just for the sake of argument) there's no way that the entire USA would reacted in the same way. They didnt when the Hindenburg blew up, or when the WW2 bomber hit the Empire State building. Different world. I think the closest thing to 9/11 pre TV was the War of the Worlds broadcast.
To a large extent, I still live in the world before TV, becuase it does not enter my life. I can tell you that life without TV is very different than life with it. I am isolated to an extent but it's amazing how you can keep up on the world thru the eyes of those around you. And it's not like I live in a bubble, I have hi speed net and partake of everything it has to offer. I just prefer to get my info from a different source that allows me greater control and the ultimate choice about what I see. TV cant do that, and it never will.
I glean a lot from the net and from them. Enough to know in a very roundabout way what the show is about at the least, or in the case of the news what everyone is going on about. Enough to know that many just parrot what they hear. Like the Donald Trump show thing where he is firing poeple. Now everyone is walking around my workplace going "YOU'RE FIRED!" like it's the new thing to do.
Interesting you think I might be a unabomber type. Therefore I feel a need to comment on that - I have no doubt in my mind that if the Founding Fathers were to come back into 2004 they would call for a armed rebellion against the government and be disgusted at the sheep that has resulted from monkeying around with poeples dreams in the last 80 years. Our government is not ours and has not been ours for many years. It belongs to the corporate interests and their hired stooges in the lawmaking bodies around the country. They own it. I actually cant wait for the coming economic collapse - becuase only then will their power be undermined. A country 7.1 trillion dollars in debt to everyone else on the planet and itself, not even counting the squandered Social Security money , cant do much of anything. It's only a matter of time. So yeah, I guess I have some of those ideas. But I'm not going to bomb anyone.
I dont block myself from technology that I think benefits me - just what I think has no value to me, and TV sure fits. I read a lot, and I "watch" on lot of internet. The reason is that the internet is a self directed trip, where TV never can be. I go where I want to go and see what I want to see. TV can never do that, it's always top down. And I know that those people at the top dont have my interests at heart.
I have been TV free for about 5 years. The first thing I noticed when I quit was how much other people base their lives and personalitys around what they see on TV. It's really amazing. I cant get thru one day at work without someone parroting some viewpoint not of their own making becuase some show said something about a topic.
The side effect is that I dont live in quite the same world as everyone else, and I am totally not influenced by televised events, so I often do not have the same reaction to things as my co-workers. I never saw the images from 9/11 until weeks afterward. Life was the same for me, before and after, but everyone else around me adopted new postures on life. It was wild. Nothing in their life had changed either, but they went mental. The iraq war did more to change actual life instead of virtual life, becuase some of them have kids over there. Thats reality.
This reality TV, this Trump thing going on - it has precious little impact on me. I know it's going on but I dont watch it, I dont see the ads, the companies paying for that ad time dont get me.
I hate TV becuase I consider it to be a tool of government and corporate control and I dont want to be affected. So I dont have a TV in my house and I dont watch. I live a different life becuase of that and my choice I've made.
If Ati's counter offering, due up on the 26th it seems, has 90% of the performance of this beastie but has lower power requirements ( 1 molex or none ) and does not take up slots then Ati will still beat it.
There's a very limited number of gamers that will buy this card - you literally have to build a whole new PC around it considering the power requirements and the slot hoggishness. I wont be buying one. My 9500 Pro Oc'ed to 300/300 with a 3000+ AMD *STILL* plays anything without problems ( at least any I can see )
Even if ATi does come out with a card that beats it, I wont be buying one of those either. Gaming is only *part* of what I use computers for. These days at age 40 I cant compete with the twitchy youngsters anyways:D
I care a lot more these days about how well my data is protected and how good the whole experience is, not how many fps I get in some game.
Thats not true. At some point you have to stop the never ending downward spiral of falling wages and prices, or there will be no profit for anyone.
Thats what my question is about. The net effect of outsourcing is to globalize wages and prices. When everyone makes the same amount of money, and everything costs the same, what is the incentive to do anything?
There has to be some economic in-equality in wages and prices or everything will grind to a halt.
When the average wage of the American worker has been depressed to the same level as the lowest costed labor market in the world due to economic parity, who in the US will be able to afford your goods and why would they buy them?
BINGO. Dude hit it right on the nose. Government knows if the wages are underreported, so are the taxes. They have a interest in correcting this shit, so it gets corrected - but it has nothing to do with getting a wrong righted. They just want their cut of the action, like everyone else.
Trailwalker, I salute you, sir. Best I can do as I have no mod points at the moment.
Very simple. Get a majority of the poeple to vote for something besides a Republican or Democrat in every race they vote in, across the whole country in 2004.
"For a long time, for people computers was IBM. IBM always was there, and everyone thought they would stick around as they always would, unchanged, untouched, invincible".
The second Xgrid came out, I wanted to know how it could be used for Folding@Home and the RC-5 challenge and so on. Of course Apple has a story up now about Folding@Home and how good the G5 is at it, which is very very good but still not the best. I wrote Vijay Pande and he said they are watching it closely and when it matures they would exploit it for Folding@Home.
When you can use xgrid and enable any type of grid enabled program that might use Rendevous and some simple plug in of some kind to use however many Macs there are on a given network to crunch away at something is the day Apple will start making serious inroads again. Imagine a Photoshop Mac pool at a Ad agency using Xgrid, or the same thing at the movie making place with Final Cut Pro 5 or whatever.
I really do like the directions that Apple is going in these days. Stock market does not seem to mind either.:)
I read the article on those 970eval boards: you can get 2 G5 Powermacs for the price of one board. Slap Yellow Dog on em and you are done. Why do you want the board? Why would you not be just as "tied in" to that board as you would a Mac? I'm not sure what your reasoning is about, but I love my G5 and OS X. I obviously dont get the Linux stuff.
I think the 3ghz models will have PCI Express support. Steve loves to be first with the wiz bang gizmos and he wont use AGP if he can avoid it. That unit will be my next purchase from Apple to go with my 1.8 Dual.:D
When flash is done well it's not bad - granted most of them are a pain on 56K dialup but somebody has to advance the medium, and I'm tired of having the "standard" be the lowest common denominator ( 56K )
I think Peter Frampton's site at www.frampton.com, while a bit busy and some of the widgets are too small, is an example of a good flash based site. Others may not agree. YMMV.
Yes, it is really active X that makes IE such a magnet for bullshit and ad/spyware. That and the fect that most windows users dont know how to configure the browser via the security and privacy tabs in prefs to even set the thing up. I believe if you leave these settings alone out of the chute IE has no protection at all from anything, tho I could be wrong. If I am somebody correct me please.
The best one I ever saw was some guy that linked to a bunch of pix off site, I think it was a 2cpu.com review. Of course the guy sees the bandwidth and goes about replacing the pictures with new ones - one of them was the computer the guy was selling engulfed in flames & smoke, the next was the "crack repair staff" and that was a pic of some Special Olympics contestants, then showing a Mack Truck running over the box, then an open box with the results when as the customer pulls a twisted heap of wires & metal from the box with "ACTUAL CUSTOMER" splashed across it.
It was a hoot - need more like him. I wish I had saved the auction.
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There's LOTS of good reasons why they would not want to plug the thing in. i used to buy and sell antique radios years ago. Plug one of those in and you'll more likely than not to fry the transformer in it becuase the electrolytic filter caps in the power supply are all dried out and are dead shorts.
Also dry rotted AC cords and the like. If you are talking an item thats tube vintage and really out of the attic, basement, etc then they are fools if they plug it in. You're a fool if you expect something in such a condition to be ready to go when you get it.
Yet, I bet there been more than one guy thats bought a 1938 wiz band widget, recieved same, plugged the thing in the wall after 40 years of sitting on the shelf, got the smoke and fire he so richly deserved, and then not knowing how FUCKING STUPID he is for trying it without checking the insides, gave the seller neg feedback or sued him. The sellers *NOT* at fault UNLESS he claims it is tested and working at the point of sale.
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Yes, Slashdot has proven time and time again that they understand what's Apple's doing better than Steve Jobs.
Do I REALLY need to link back to all the early postings about the iPod, about how it was tooo little too late, zzzzzzzzzzzzzz, nothing new.
How about the iPod mini dicussions? About how the colors were stupid and gay looking, how little the hard drive was, how no one needed a smaller iPod, etc.?
I think there's ONE thing that has been established on Slashdot without a doubt:
YOU DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT WHAT REGULAR PEOPLE WANT AND EVEN LESS ABOUT HOW APPLE'S PRODUCTS FIT IN, SO ******STFU****** and get on about your lives.
And I just got down.
It's the humans behind the little solders you see on screen that make those games so interesting. Doom III cant give me that, and at age 41 I'm immune from the gee whiz lookit them graphics crowd that impressed me 15 years ago.
To *Heck* with Doom III. Big Yawner for Me.
I have no mod points at the moment or you would be +1, informative.
This entire thread is so full of poeple using incorrect terminlogy to support their opinions that it really shows how much opinion on /. is simply uninformed. Normally, I dont know or dont know enough about the subject to know, but on radio, I'm a First Phone as well as a Advanced Class ham for >20yrs. Built my own legal limit transmitter from scratch, not plans, not from QST, but from scratch. My own reciever, too. Radio I know about, a LOT about.
And 90% of the postings up to this point in time are just DRIVEL.
It makes me wonder about the rest of the postings here and if they too, are as uninformed about the subject matter at hand. I'm honestly not trying to flamebait, but I gotta say it - unless you know somethng about the subject matter, dont post.
Exactly why is this flamebait? He's giving what looks like to me a honest opinion - Mod this up or down as you wish, but I dont think it's flamebait material.
Hardware delays not withstanding, ( within reason ) Apple's future is pretty bright. Check how many /. readers have and use Macs compared to 3 years ago. 3 years ago, anything Apple was a running joke here, becuase the hardware was so outdated mostly, but also becuase OS X was not ready for primetime.
Big difference today - Apple is the geek computer. Hardcore gamers are the last holdout IMO.
This might get modded as off topic, but I'm gonna do it anyways. People need to understand what a bunch of bastards Clear Channel and the NAB are and some semi related background info on their past behavior might be useful.
The real travesty in radio is that the only real ownership liberalization in many years was stifled at the request of the NAB and Clear Channel - Low Power FM stations which can be licensed and brought on line at very low cost compared to a "regular" station. This would have allowed normal folk with little capital to began legally broadcasting with decent range and signal - somethingthe NAB and Queer Channel didnt want.
Becuase of the NAB and Queer Channel the 1000 watt provision of the LPFM proposal was yanked due to what turned out to be a bogus phony "interference" concern that was later DISPROVEN by the the FCC's own hired examiners. The 1000 watt proposal was killed becuase in many cases it would have allowed station ranges to be competitive with their CC corporate owned stations.
The LPFM proposal if it had been left intact and not gutted by Queer Channel and the NAB lobbyists would have done more to revolutionize radio than satellite radio - becuase there would have been thousands of new voices on the air in every city and town. You bet yer ass they dont want competition from anyone, and most of all form ordinary citizens, to whom the PUBLIC airwaves are SUPPOSED to belong. Of course they are going to whine to the FCC - it's gotten the desired result before for them....
So of course now the gutted remnants of the LPFM ( cumbersome application process, limited licenses to be issued, only 10 and 100 watt power limits, too low to have any range ) are not having much effect. Geee, wonder why?
Lets hope the satellite companies fight Clear Channel with everything they have. If this rant was too off topic, sorry, but I gotta get my ya-ya's out sometimes, boss. The way they sliced and diced LPFM really pissed me off royal. Can ya tell? :D
You dont go around making threats to your superiors, at your job or at your business. Soon you would have neither.
1. buy or steal competition's IP they can use
2. bring out product that undercuts the competition severely
3. competitors watch as customers flock to free/lowcost service
4. they are forced to deal with MS on MS's terms or die
This will probably be the fate of Apple unless they have some new tricks up their sleeve. When MS comes out with a service where songs are 39 cents each ( or other such number, you get the point ) and simply sits on it's phat wad o cash for as long as needed watching Apple bleed, remember this posting.
The only way they will make it is by subverting MS's DRM and making it work with the iPod, or simply allowing the iPod to play WMA files unrestricted. Then MS will have a tough road. As it is, Apple is dogmeat in about 9 months or so. They better have a plan B or a another killer piece O hardware in the works.
I dont read newspapers or watch TV. I dont subscribe to any magazines. I did get the images off the net like anyone else would ( still pix ) but what I was trying to say is that I just didnt get the emotional impact of 9/11 the same way people that have TV's did. I saw the first video of the planes hitting the towers about 2 weeks afterward. But there's no way I could have the same reaction, becuase of my self imposed semi isolation.
Shared experiences among millions of poeple means that poeple do have stronger reactions to events that dont touch their lives personally - if the towers had been blown up before the advent of TV (just for the sake of argument) there's no way that the entire USA would reacted in the same way. They didnt when the Hindenburg blew up, or when the WW2 bomber hit the Empire State building. Different world. I think the closest thing to 9/11 pre TV was the War of the Worlds broadcast.
To a large extent, I still live in the world before TV, becuase it does not enter my life. I can tell you that life without TV is very different than life with it. I am isolated to an extent but it's amazing how you can keep up on the world thru the eyes of those around you. And it's not like I live in a bubble, I have hi speed net and partake of everything it has to offer. I just prefer to get my info from a different source that allows me greater control and the ultimate choice about what I see. TV cant do that, and it never will.
Interesting you think I might be a unabomber type. Therefore I feel a need to comment on that - I have no doubt in my mind that if the Founding Fathers were to come back into 2004 they would call for a armed rebellion against the government and be disgusted at the sheep that has resulted from monkeying around with poeples dreams in the last 80 years. Our government is not ours and has not been ours for many years. It belongs to the corporate interests and their hired stooges in the lawmaking bodies around the country. They own it. I actually cant wait for the coming economic collapse - becuase only then will their power be undermined. A country 7.1 trillion dollars in debt to everyone else on the planet and itself, not even counting the squandered Social Security money , cant do much of anything. It's only a matter of time. So yeah, I guess I have some of those ideas. But I'm not going to bomb anyone.
I dont block myself from technology that I think benefits me - just what I think has no value to me, and TV sure fits. I read a lot, and I "watch" on lot of internet. The reason is that the internet is a self directed trip, where TV never can be. I go where I want to go and see what I want to see. TV can never do that, it's always top down. And I know that those people at the top dont have my interests at heart.
The side effect is that I dont live in quite the same world as everyone else, and I am totally not influenced by televised events, so I often do not have the same reaction to things as my co-workers. I never saw the images from 9/11 until weeks afterward. Life was the same for me, before and after, but everyone else around me adopted new postures on life. It was wild. Nothing in their life had changed either, but they went mental. The iraq war did more to change actual life instead of virtual life, becuase some of them have kids over there. Thats reality.
This reality TV, this Trump thing going on - it has precious little impact on me. I know it's going on but I dont watch it, I dont see the ads, the companies paying for that ad time dont get me.
I hate TV becuase I consider it to be a tool of government and corporate control and I dont want to be affected. So I dont have a TV in my house and I dont watch. I live a different life becuase of that and my choice I've made.
There's a very limited number of gamers that will buy this card - you literally have to build a whole new PC around it considering the power requirements and the slot hoggishness. I wont be buying one. My 9500 Pro Oc'ed to 300/300 with a 3000+ AMD *STILL* plays anything without problems ( at least any I can see )
Even if ATi does come out with a card that beats it, I wont be buying one of those either. Gaming is only *part* of what I use computers for. These days at age 40 I cant compete with the twitchy youngsters anyways :D
I care a lot more these days about how well my data is protected and how good the whole experience is, not how many fps I get in some game.
Thats not true. At some point you have to stop the never ending downward spiral of falling wages and prices, or there will be no profit for anyone. Thats what my question is about. The net effect of outsourcing is to globalize wages and prices. When everyone makes the same amount of money, and everything costs the same, what is the incentive to do anything? There has to be some economic in-equality in wages and prices or everything will grind to a halt.
When the average wage of the American worker has been depressed to the same level as the lowest costed labor market in the world due to economic parity, who in the US will be able to afford your goods and why would they buy them?
Installed here with no problems on my 1.8 Dual.
Trailwalker, I salute you, sir. Best I can do as I have no mod points at the moment.
No Problem.
Whoever modded this offtopic is a goof. He's commenting on the article in question, like everyone else. Please fix.
Like most poeple think Microsoft is today?
When you can use xgrid and enable any type of grid enabled program that might use Rendevous and some simple plug in of some kind to use however many Macs there are on a given network to crunch away at something is the day Apple will start making serious inroads again. Imagine a Photoshop Mac pool at a Ad agency using Xgrid, or the same thing at the movie making place with Final Cut Pro 5 or whatever.
I really do like the directions that Apple is going in these days. Stock market does not seem to mind either. :)
I think the 3ghz models will have PCI Express support. Steve loves to be first with the wiz bang gizmos and he wont use AGP if he can avoid it. That unit will be my next purchase from Apple to go with my 1.8 Dual. :D
I think Peter Frampton's site at www.frampton.com, while a bit busy and some of the widgets are too small, is an example of a good flash based site. Others may not agree. YMMV.
Yes, it is really active X that makes IE such a magnet for bullshit and ad/spyware. That and the fect that most windows users dont know how to configure the browser via the security and privacy tabs in prefs to even set the thing up. I believe if you leave these settings alone out of the chute IE has no protection at all from anything, tho I could be wrong. If I am somebody correct me please.
It was a hoot - need more like him. I wish I had saved the auction.
Also dry rotted AC cords and the like. If you are talking an item thats tube vintage and really out of the attic, basement, etc then they are fools if they plug it in. You're a fool if you expect something in such a condition to be ready to go when you get it.
Yet, I bet there been more than one guy thats bought a 1938 wiz band widget, recieved same, plugged the thing in the wall after 40 years of sitting on the shelf, got the smoke and fire he so richly deserved, and then not knowing how FUCKING STUPID he is for trying it without checking the insides, gave the seller neg feedback or sued him. The sellers *NOT* at fault UNLESS he claims it is tested and working at the point of sale.