I doubt I will buy one either, at least not from Apple. They can be way too controlling.
Wait till competition drives the price down is my take. In a year there will be 5 or 6 and the price of the device will fall under $200, and subscription prices will fall as well.
You can get the entire paper for a buck, so I can't see paying much more for the digital version.
The problem is, newspapers isn't being replaced by anything superior.
In six months you will.
Apple is set to release their new iTablet (or Slate, depending on what leaked name you want to believe).
They have been in negotiations with newspapers all over, and will be doing for the news print business what iTunes did for the music distribution business.
Your newspaper will await you when you pick up the device, silently downloaded and updated in the background over 3G/wifi without the need for a carrier contract.
Apple is building a huge data center on the east coast to handle the load, the subscription services, and the actual distribution.
Expect others to jump into this market, maybe even Google, but Apple will be the firstest withe the mostest.
If successful, this model will be the first remake of print news media since it first appeared and may arrive just in time.
The proposal is still a thinly veiled jab at network neutrality.
Exactly so.
Attacking games!!! For pete sake, if they wanted to free up band width have them attack spam!! There are people in government and major carriers who know EXACTLY where the spammers are and who they are.
If they shut those guys down you free up 20 to 30 percent of total available bandwidth.
Those guys actually are breaking the law. But no, lets go after the kid gaming in his pajamas.
He should have known that mitochondrial DNA doesn't dilute in the normal sense. Its been used to trace most human ancestors to a couple places in Africa, almost to a couple of individual females.
I have to wonder just what his basis was, other than sheer speculation. Given the state of civilization (or the lack thereof) at the time, one would not be surprised to see conflict and in conflict taking of prisoners.
There was this odd quote someone showed me once from some book of the Bible (have to say in advance, I'm not a Bible studier, so I know not where it came from):
For in those days there were giants in the earth,
and they bred with the son of man...
Of course the Bible scholars will surely weigh in here and call me names and "educate me", but one wonders if ancient verbal histories might have more to them than it first seems.
Well, not exactly true, since SA support all sorts of plug-ins that can catch this type o spam, as well as generic spam, such as Cloudmark plugins and various blackhole lists.
Finally! It's about time that international police and anti-crime resources put the same effort in stopping online cross border crime that they do for offline!
Kudos to Microsoft for helping. Heck, I would accept help from Satan himself, if it reduce the spam and online crime.
Well, I suspect that even though the tech is not fully deployed yet, these sites were already showing up as scam sites in Firefox and the latest versions if IE.
I suspect the Nigerian police snarfed up the already useless sites and shut them down in a halfhearted show of being proactive even while on the take. Probably took the opportunity to get rid of a few competitors as well.
Drivers can be unloaded and reloaded at will in Fedora and Buntu, and any other linux. About the only thing you can't unload and reload on the fly would be the disk drivers handling your OS directories and your keyboard, (simply because you need these to reload the drivers).
Specifically USB drivers in the present case could simply unloaded (rmmod).
Kernel replacement, obviously, requires a reboot, and the goal of upgrading to Win7 is ultimately in that same category.
You assume the only reason to run iTunes is to put music on an iPod.
Somehwere in excess of 70 million iTunes users just use it to sync thier iPhones. You really can't own an iPhone without running iTunes.
You would have known that if your cell phone was something newer than a razr.
The point I'm trying to make is that some products like the iPhone is so compelling that buyers will hold their nose and buy from abusive controlling companies like apple. Then they are locked in to crappy misbehaving software like iTunes.
We are talking about "700-megahertz" band, covering TV channels 52 to 69 (698 to 806 MHz).
The upper end of this is only marginally longer wavelength than the 850MHz band used for 850-GSM cellular today.
This bandwidth could easily be merged into the cellular spectrum with virtually no change in antenna length required, or at best a marginal increase in length that would easily fit in the modern smart phone package format.
A quarter wave antenna for 850MHz is 3.3 inches. for 800MHz a length of 3.50 inches is optimal. for 700MHz 4.01 inches, etc.
The iPhone is 4.25 inches tall. Similar phones have similar sizes, all of which would accommodate a quarter wave for these frequencies.
The frequency range is far more suited to cell service than the current ranges, it has better building penetration and greater range.
Cell is what the people want. The ridiculous prices we pay for cell service is in part due to the shortage of bandwidth. (And before you jump on the obscene profits bandwagon, go read a few 10Ks of cell companies. Its not all that rosy in profit land).
Public WIFI will simply once again prove the Tragedy of the Commons, as if we haven't learned that enough times over the course of history.
This is not forcing you to stop using iTunes as either your media player or for managing your iPod/iPhone.
Its just that APPLE does not know how to right compliant software and has been foisting USB drivers into windows that were buggy the day they *cough* borrowed them and haven't improved with age.
These lame Apple USB drivers were killing machines with certain types of HP printers attached and generally causing havoc. Apple was forced to release a patch.
To get things properly in line with Device Stage you need an uninstall followed by a re-install.
Its that simple. There is no conspiracy here. Calm down. Stop the FUD.
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I doubt I will buy one either, at least not from Apple. They can be way too controlling.
Wait till competition drives the price down is my take. In a year there will be 5 or 6 and the price of the device will fall under $200, and subscription prices will fall as well.
You can get the entire paper for a buck, so I can't see paying much more for the digital version.
Wait and see.
You also save costs of Paper, Press time, Press operators, paper delivery, transportation costs.
But I have to ask, who said anything about no Advertising?
Yes, there is a Plan B.
Its called iTablet or Kindle or Nook, or (insert name of half a dozen wireless reader devices here).
These will be subscription devices, with Apple, Amazon, Barns & Nobel handling the collection and distribution.
All your newspapers, news magazines, delivered silently, updated constantly, searchable, archive-able, and all done over 3g/wifi, and no dead trees.
Just because you can't see it yet, doesn't mean it isn't coming. First Quarter 2010.
http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/10/26/itablet-leak-assumptive-speak-york-times-executive-editor-apple-slate/
The problem is, newspapers isn't being replaced by anything superior.
In six months you will.
Apple is set to release their new iTablet (or Slate, depending on what leaked name you want to believe).
They have been in negotiations with newspapers all over, and will be doing for the news print business what iTunes did for the music distribution business.
Your newspaper will await you when you pick up the device, silently downloaded and updated in the background over 3G/wifi without the need for a carrier contract.
Apple is building a huge data center on the east coast to handle the load, the subscription services, and the actual distribution.
Expect others to jump into this market, maybe even Google, but Apple will be the firstest withe the mostest.
If successful, this model will be the first remake of print news media since it first appeared and may arrive just in time.
The proposal is still a thinly veiled jab at network neutrality.
Exactly so.
Attacking games!!! For pete sake, if they wanted to free up band width have them attack spam!! There are people in government and major carriers who know EXACTLY where the spammers are and who they are.
If they shut those guys down you free up 20 to 30 percent of total available bandwidth.
Those guys actually are breaking the law. But no, lets go after the kid gaming in his pajamas.
Diluted below detectable levels
I too was sort of shocked to read that quote.
Genetics doesn't exactly operate like Homeopathy.
He should have known that mitochondrial DNA doesn't dilute in the normal sense. Its been used to trace most human ancestors to a couple places in Africa, almost to a couple of individual females.
I have to wonder just what his basis was, other than sheer speculation. Given the state of civilization (or the lack thereof) at the time, one would not be surprised to see conflict and in conflict taking of prisoners.
There was this odd quote someone showed me once from some book of the Bible (have to say in advance, I'm not a Bible studier, so I know not where it came from):
For in those days there were giants in the earth,
and they bred with the son of man...
Of course the Bible scholars will surely weigh in here and call me names and "educate me", but one wonders if ancient verbal histories might have more to them than it first seems.
Is this the Same Think tank that George Bush used when he announced that Iran had discontinued its Nuclear enrichment program in 2003?
I mean eve if this is a head-fake, its a pretty dumb one.
Well, not exactly true, since SA support all sorts of plug-ins that can catch this type o spam, as well as generic spam, such as Cloudmark plugins and various blackhole lists.
The test list http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_2_x.html shows many that might be useful for this.
Finally! It's about time that international police and anti-crime resources put the same effort in stopping online cross border crime that they do for offline!
Kudos to Microsoft for helping. Heck, I would accept help from Satan himself, if it reduce the spam and online crime.
Well, I suspect that even though the tech is not fully deployed yet, these sites were already showing up as scam sites in Firefox and the latest versions if IE.
I suspect the Nigerian police snarfed up the already useless sites and shut them down in a halfhearted show of being proactive even while on the take. Probably took the opportunity to get rid of a few competitors as well.
These guys have been operating there for so long that only a corrupt police force could have missed them. There is plenty of evidence these guys are less than squeaky clean: http://hubpages.com/hub/Nigerian-Police--bribe-and-fraud and http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=76458 etc.
If the truth were known, its probably safer for the audience that Ubuntu attracts to just go ahead and reboot. Same for Microsoft.
Fedora, OpenSuse, Slackware users usually know a tad more about what's going on.
Actually, no.
Drivers can be unloaded and reloaded at will in Fedora and Buntu, and any other linux. About the only thing you can't unload and reload on the fly would be the disk drivers handling your OS directories and your keyboard, (simply because you need these to reload the drivers).
Specifically USB drivers in the present case could simply unloaded (rmmod).
Kernel replacement, obviously, requires a reboot, and the goal of upgrading to Win7 is ultimately in that same category.
You assume the only reason to run iTunes is to put music on an iPod.
Somehwere in excess of 70 million iTunes users just use it to sync thier iPhones. You really can't own an iPhone without running iTunes.
You would have known that if your cell phone was something newer than a razr.
The point I'm trying to make is that some products like the iPhone is so compelling that buyers will hold their nose and buy from abusive controlling companies like apple. Then they are locked in to crappy misbehaving software like iTunes.
Still using that Razr?
Actually ATT is going in the opposite direction.
They are moving their 3G service down to 850 where ever they have the licenses to do so.
A foot long? Oh come on!!!
We are talking about "700-megahertz" band, covering TV channels 52 to 69 (698 to 806 MHz).
The upper end of this is only marginally longer wavelength than the 850MHz band used for 850-GSM cellular today.
This bandwidth could easily be merged into the cellular spectrum with virtually no change in antenna length required, or at best a marginal increase in length that would easily fit in the modern smart phone package format.
A quarter wave antenna for 850MHz is 3.3 inches.
for 800MHz a length of 3.50 inches is optimal.
for 700MHz 4.01 inches, etc.
The iPhone is 4.25 inches tall. Similar phones have similar sizes, all of which would accommodate a quarter wave for these frequencies.
LOL... Good point, Poor little Microsoft.
Zune software runs fine on a mac with Fusion. But isn't that coals to Newcastle?
It should have.
The frequency range is far more suited to cell service than the current ranges, it has better building penetration and greater range.
Cell is what the people want. The ridiculous prices we pay for cell service is in part due to the shortage of bandwidth. (And before you jump on the obscene profits bandwagon, go read a few 10Ks of cell companies. Its not all that rosy in profit land).
Public WIFI will simply once again prove the Tragedy of the Commons, as if we haven't learned that enough times over the course of history.
Hey, it spell checked just fine. ;-)
Windows is not Unix.
Continue your research.
> iTunes for Windows is maximum bloatware with questionable value...
Unless you own an iPhone, in which case its value is pretty well dictated to you by Steve Jobs.
You really can't own an iPhone without it.
But somehow, Apple gets a pass for that kind of behavior, and Microsoft suffers FUD posts like this on Slashdot for Apple's misadventures.
Yes you could make that claim.
But some parts of iTunes don't run in user-space.
Apple Mobile Device runs as a service as does Bonjour.
Its this device driver that needs to go (temporarily) and the system needs a reboot with it gone (in true Microsoft fashion).
After the upgrade, when you re-install iTunes, the Apple Mobile drivers will be subordinate to the new Windows 7 Device Stage, and all will be well.
Whoa Whoa Whoa,,,
This is not forcing you to stop using iTunes as either your media player or for managing your iPod/iPhone.
Its just that APPLE does not know how to right compliant software and has been foisting USB drivers into windows that were buggy the day they *cough* borrowed them and haven't improved with age.
These lame Apple USB drivers were killing machines with certain types of HP printers attached and generally causing havoc. Apple was forced to release a patch.
To get things properly in line with Device Stage you need an uninstall followed by a re-install.
Its that simple. There is no conspiracy here. Calm down.
Stop the FUD.
First, this obviously applies only to upgrades.
Second, iTunes does horrible things to your USB stack, and it needs to go.
After Win7 is installed you can add it back, and not lose any of your music.
Don't make a big deal out of Microsoft trying to remove the effects of misbehaved software corrupting the install.
There is no issue here.