Buzz = people like it and talk it up. Hype = marketing.
It's like in the movies - studio's generate hype, people generate buzz. Sometimes they coincide (Lord of the Rings), sometimes they don't (Finding Neverland has buzz, Polar Express has hype).
Apple certainly does market the iPod, but what keeps it on top is the fact that people who own them gush about them, and much more publicly than they would about a computer or whatnot.
Yes, I had one, and returned it. Outside of true convergence devices like the Treo 650 (that have a large screen and web access) they add nothing in the way of usability. The phone I briefly had with a color screen had ugly fonts, a maze of a menu system, and made common features extremely difficult to use. As a result, I'm still on my Motorola i90c, which is black and white but allows me to make calls easily, lookup numbers, voice-dial, etc. Color screens have added nothing in and of themselves.
I'll give you the battery life, but a difference of a gig (even though it's 25% larger) won't make or break a sale for most people. Likewise, the size difference is miniscule and won't make a difference either. A color screen - what the hell for? If we're comparing MP3 players, who cares? The iPod Mini has a wonderfully readable screen with a great backlight (far better than my old 2G iPod). And I'm sorry, but given the download numbers of the various stores, I can't accept the argument that WMA is such a plus.
No, what will will the H10 isn't any of these specs. What will kill it is the fact that in the consumer marketplace, the iPod is *the* thing to have, because everyone knows it works, it's "cool", and it's simple. The fact that the H10 is more expensive will seal its grave.
Come on guys, we've been over this a million times already. Until you have a product with a MAJOR advantage over the iPod, it's not going to make a dent. We've seen dozens and dozens of players that have this extra feature and that one, maybe a little less money, but nothing huge. One has an FM tuner, one plays more formats, one has 5GB, one shows photos, one costs a little less. Ultimately, these are nits compared to the sheer buzz of the iPod.
[Where Apple *is* extremely vulnerable is the iPod photo and the high-end - sales numbers are confirming that the iPod photo is a dud, and Apple's refusal to embrace video sounds an awful lot like their initial resistance to CD burners.]
So my dealer tells me to use premium gas. I decide to be a smart-ass and put in regular because the gas station tells me it will be fine, even though the manufacturer specifically recommends against it. After a while, it breaks.
Using Harmony was a hack. A hack that Apple said might break. It did, and now you're all whiny and pissy.
If Apple were so evil and sinister, why did they only update the firmware for the iPod mini and iPod photo? Maybe because they were adding features to those models, and this broke whatever skankiness Harmony relied upon? If they'd updated all of the iPods and it broke (with no new features on the others), then you and your fellow conspiracy theorists might have a leg to stand on.
You're beig a whiny dickhead with too much money and too little sense. You can try to placate yourself with righteous indignation, but you sure don't look any smarter. This is exactly what slashdotters do every day.
Apple said the iPod specifically worked with songs bought from the iTunes Music Store. Would your dealer be obligated to support after-market parts on your car?
Apple only ever sold the iPod as working with the iTunes Music Store. As more level-headed folks have pointed out, it would be a support nightmare for Apple to try to support Real's stuff.
How are you or I to know whether or not this latest firmware update did something actively malicious towards Real, or something accidentally broke? It's not like they are testing against Harmony songs - they don't support it.
Also, if Apple were out to get Real, wouln't earlier firmware updates (there's been at least one) since Harmony have killed it already?
The network adapter is not compatible because now it's built into the unit. As for the hard drive, the only game that used it was Final Fantasy XI, which wasn't exactly a raging success.
...with the Tungsten T5 and the Treo 650. Each of these handhelds has two types of memory built in - the usual RAM that we've had for years, and non-volatile memory where all of your user data, programs, etc are stored. This memory is formatted with a standard FAT filesystem, and can be mounted on the desktop with no special tricks. Essentially, this NVRAM acts as a "hard disk" for the Palm, and should be every bit as flexible as one.
From the T5 spec sheet: 256MB (215MB actual storage capacity: 160MB internal flash drive, 55MB program memory for applications and data.)
And from the Treo 650 spec sheet: 23MB user-available stored non-volatile memory [doesn't list program memory - I believe it's 32MB]
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So they screwed up Groups. What does that have to do with Suggest, which looks like a classic "awesome! why didn't anyone else do it that way?" Google feature?
Given that as far as we know: 1) The audio decoding chip doesn't support Ogg 2) iTunes doesn't support Ogg 3) The iPod wouldn't know how to parse tags in an Ogg file
I think the chances are pretty slim (outside of Apple supporting it, which is also slim). Number one is obviously the hardest nut to crack (it does support it or it doesn't), but the other two would also be difficult outside of Apple.
Quite simply, right-wing Christians tend to be very heavy on Paul's epistles, and left-wing tend to be very heavy on the Gospels.
In a nutshell, read the gospels. Read them again. Read then in different orders, compare them, and really think about them. Christ is almost entirely positive, speaking of hope for all (not just the Jewish elite), inclusion (reaching out to the Samaritan woman), and being non-judgemental (let he who has no sins cast the first stone).
Now read Paul's epistles and compare them to the Gospels. Paul conveys a very different message and tone than Christ. Paul is very much "don't do this - that's evil", and lays down lots of rules, many artificial (Christ did not subjugate women in his teachings, but Paul certainly did). Paul himself had a lot of personal, human issues that we now take as the Word of God.
Please remember - the Word of God has passed down through man, and today's Bible and its contents (for the last 1500 or so years) was formulated by the very early Christian church. Many writings were excluded, others were exalted. Why? Were some books less holy? Were those Church leaders guided by God and the original writers not?
Don't blindly accept the Bible - even the Gospels. Read them. Read the apocrypha. Read other views on Christianity. Form your own personal understanding of the Bible and what being a Christian means. Otherwise you're not truly living your faith, you're living what someone has told you to live.
Okay, show me how to replace the "window manager" and "file manager" in Windows? Or Mac OS X? Modularity is all well and good, but I don't see why KDE or Gnome - which aim to provide an entire "desktop experience" - should support ripping themselves to pieces.
As for strange interdependencies between "higher level" packages, that's just standard Linux dependency insanity - nothing to do with Gnome. I have a command-line only Gentoo system (only containing sudo, bash, and nano) that is insisting on installing X11 and Gnome because some utility had it marked as a dependency. That's just life with Linux and its idea of "something is dependent or not", rather than "this is essential, these packages are optional for added functionality".
Of course, EMC tecnhology is completely different. You're talking SCSI instead of IDE, fibre channel capability, redundant power, controllers, cooling, SAN backplanes, etc. This Japanese thing is four IDE drives in a box. Enterprises require 24/7, which you aren't getting in a shoebox.
And as many others have mentioned, there are domestic alternatives for less. Probably better built (La Cie does their own excellent cases with much better cooling than off-the-shelf cases), cheaper, and (as no one else noted), FireWire 800 - something you'll want for such a large drive.
Look, I want things to enter the public domain as much as the rest of you, but it looks like the copyright laws here made a decent amount of sense. Read the decision. Meanwhile, the lower courts are correctly noting that where the complaint directly conflicts with Eldred, they have to choice but to dismiss the complaint.
In a nutshell, current copyright policy looks like it was created to deal with an unmanageable system of registration, notification, and people who DID want to maintain their rights losing them. I find it interesting that we complain the US is isolationist and then reject this attempt to conform to world policy.
Finally, with regards to abandonware, the premise is that the original company is making no money off of it and "doesn't care" if it's distributed. If this is truly the case, then distribute it anyway, even if it is copyrighted. If they don't care, then no problem. If they do care, then take it down. The stuff that truly is abandoned will still be distributed, but the items that the copyright holders still have an interest in will not be.
The legal nuances only come into play if someone takes you to court, and if to reach that point generally means that not only do they significantly value the work, but you've most likely refused to resolve the situation amicably. Companies, even large ones, would much rather send a simple letter than sue someone.
The final Firefox upgrade did cause some problems. One major problem was in its handling of extensions - it just disabled all of them. However, if that extension provided a function - added toolbar buttons for instance - Firefox became massively confused. When I first upgraded, PrefButtons caused this and Firefox went into a constant cycle of attempting to upgrade software and finding none to upgrade.
For anyone having problems, make a copy of your bookmarks and cookies, and delete the rest of your profile. You'll have much smoother sailing.
It's very individual. When I was using a 21" CRT for years, my eyesight was moving out a full diopter per year (now at -8.0). Once I moved to an LCD, my eyesight stabilized, and my headaches went away.
So, some people do much better with CRT's, some with LCD's. Glad to have both!
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Go back to the mid 90's and Linux was NOT a stable dev platform. What's your point?
Wrong:
Buzz = people like it and talk it up.
Hype = marketing.
It's like in the movies - studio's generate hype, people generate buzz. Sometimes they coincide (Lord of the Rings), sometimes they don't (Finding Neverland has buzz, Polar Express has hype).
Apple certainly does market the iPod, but what keeps it on top is the fact that people who own them gush about them, and much more publicly than they would about a computer or whatnot.
Yes, I had one, and returned it. Outside of true convergence devices like the Treo 650 (that have a large screen and web access) they add nothing in the way of usability. The phone I briefly had with a color screen had ugly fonts, a maze of a menu system, and made common features extremely difficult to use. As a result, I'm still on my Motorola i90c, which is black and white but allows me to make calls easily, lookup numbers, voice-dial, etc. Color screens have added nothing in and of themselves.
80GB is useful for video, I agree. This does not play video.
I'll give you the battery life, but a difference of a gig (even though it's 25% larger) won't make or break a sale for most people. Likewise, the size difference is miniscule and won't make a difference either. A color screen - what the hell for? If we're comparing MP3 players, who cares? The iPod Mini has a wonderfully readable screen with a great backlight (far better than my old 2G iPod). And I'm sorry, but given the download numbers of the various stores, I can't accept the argument that WMA is such a plus.
No, what will will the H10 isn't any of these specs. What will kill it is the fact that in the consumer marketplace, the iPod is *the* thing to have, because everyone knows it works, it's "cool", and it's simple. The fact that the H10 is more expensive will seal its grave.
Come on guys, we've been over this a million times already. Until you have a product with a MAJOR advantage over the iPod, it's not going to make a dent. We've seen dozens and dozens of players that have this extra feature and that one, maybe a little less money, but nothing huge. One has an FM tuner, one plays more formats, one has 5GB, one shows photos, one costs a little less. Ultimately, these are nits compared to the sheer buzz of the iPod.
[Where Apple *is* extremely vulnerable is the iPod photo and the high-end - sales numbers are confirming that the iPod photo is a dud, and Apple's refusal to embrace video sounds an awful lot like their initial resistance to CD burners.]
So my dealer tells me to use premium gas. I decide to be a smart-ass and put in regular because the gas station tells me it will be fine, even though the manufacturer specifically recommends against it. After a while, it breaks.
Using Harmony was a hack. A hack that Apple said might break. It did, and now you're all whiny and pissy.
If Apple were so evil and sinister, why did they only update the firmware for the iPod mini and iPod photo? Maybe because they were adding features to those models, and this broke whatever skankiness Harmony relied upon? If they'd updated all of the iPods and it broke (with no new features on the others), then you and your fellow conspiracy theorists might have a leg to stand on.
You're beig a whiny dickhead with too much money and too little sense. You can try to placate yourself with righteous indignation, but you sure don't look any smarter. This is exactly what slashdotters do every day.
Apple said the iPod specifically worked with songs bought from the iTunes Music Store. Would your dealer be obligated to support after-market parts on your car?
Apple only ever sold the iPod as working with the iTunes Music Store. As more level-headed folks have pointed out, it would be a support nightmare for Apple to try to support Real's stuff.
How are you or I to know whether or not this latest firmware update did something actively malicious towards Real, or something accidentally broke? It's not like they are testing against Harmony songs - they don't support it.
Also, if Apple were out to get Real, wouln't earlier firmware updates (there's been at least one) since Harmony have killed it already?
Apple *is* supporting their customers. Apple is *not* supporting RealNetworks' customers, nor do they have any reason to.
The network adapter is not compatible because now it's built into the unit. As for the hard drive, the only game that used it was Final Fantasy XI, which wasn't exactly a raging success.
That would depend on the quality of the games released for System A and System B. If they are all rehashes of existing games, then probably neither.
...with the Tungsten T5 and the Treo 650. Each of these handhelds has two types of memory built in - the usual RAM that we've had for years, and non-volatile memory where all of your user data, programs, etc are stored. This memory is formatted with a standard FAT filesystem, and can be mounted on the desktop with no special tricks. Essentially, this NVRAM acts as a "hard disk" for the Palm, and should be every bit as flexible as one.
From the T5 spec sheet:
256MB (215MB actual storage capacity: 160MB internal flash drive, 55MB program memory for applications and data.)
And from the Treo 650 spec sheet:
23MB user-available stored non-volatile memory [doesn't list program memory - I believe it's 32MB]
See the following for more details:
How does the Treo 650 memory system work (NVFS)?
So they screwed up Groups. What does that have to do with Suggest, which looks like a classic "awesome! why didn't anyone else do it that way?" Google feature?
Given that as far as we know:
1) The audio decoding chip doesn't support Ogg
2) iTunes doesn't support Ogg
3) The iPod wouldn't know how to parse tags in an Ogg file
I think the chances are pretty slim (outside of Apple supporting it, which is also slim). Number one is obviously the hardest nut to crack (it does support it or it doesn't), but the other two would also be difficult outside of Apple.
Um, think about this for a minute. The main site of MacRumors is devoted to *rumors*. This wasn't even good enough to make the front page.
Sure, it'd be nice, but it's as likely as a snowball in a fusion reactor.
Quite simply, right-wing Christians tend to be very heavy on Paul's epistles, and left-wing tend to be very heavy on the Gospels.
In a nutshell, read the gospels. Read them again. Read then in different orders, compare them, and really think about them. Christ is almost entirely positive, speaking of hope for all (not just the Jewish elite), inclusion (reaching out to the Samaritan woman), and being non-judgemental (let he who has no sins cast the first stone).
Now read Paul's epistles and compare them to the Gospels. Paul conveys a very different message and tone than Christ. Paul is very much "don't do this - that's evil", and lays down lots of rules, many artificial (Christ did not subjugate women in his teachings, but Paul certainly did). Paul himself had a lot of personal, human issues that we now take as the Word of God.
Please remember - the Word of God has passed down through man, and today's Bible and its contents (for the last 1500 or so years) was formulated by the very early Christian church. Many writings were excluded, others were exalted. Why? Were some books less holy? Were those Church leaders guided by God and the original writers not?
Don't blindly accept the Bible - even the Gospels. Read them. Read the apocrypha. Read other views on Christianity. Form your own personal understanding of the Bible and what being a Christian means. Otherwise you're not truly living your faith, you're living what someone has told you to live.
But all countries operating under the Berne Convention do.
Okay, show me how to replace the "window manager" and "file manager" in Windows? Or Mac OS X? Modularity is all well and good, but I don't see why KDE or Gnome - which aim to provide an entire "desktop experience" - should support ripping themselves to pieces.
As for strange interdependencies between "higher level" packages, that's just standard Linux dependency insanity - nothing to do with Gnome. I have a command-line only Gentoo system (only containing sudo, bash, and nano) that is insisting on installing X11 and Gnome because some utility had it marked as a dependency. That's just life with Linux and its idea of "something is dependent or not", rather than "this is essential, these packages are optional for added functionality".
Sorry, I'm not buying that. A 5K hard drive? By the time Radio Shack was in the game, 5MB probably. Floppies of that era held 80-160KB.
Of course, EMC tecnhology is completely different. You're talking SCSI instead of IDE, fibre channel capability, redundant power, controllers, cooling, SAN backplanes, etc. This Japanese thing is four IDE drives in a box. Enterprises require 24/7, which you aren't getting in a shoebox.
And as many others have mentioned, there are domestic alternatives for less. Probably better built (La Cie does their own excellent cases with much better cooling than off-the-shelf cases), cheaper, and (as no one else noted), FireWire 800 - something you'll want for such a large drive.
Look, I want things to enter the public domain as much as the rest of you, but it looks like the copyright laws here made a decent amount of sense. Read the decision. Meanwhile, the lower courts are correctly noting that where the complaint directly conflicts with Eldred, they have to choice but to dismiss the complaint.
In a nutshell, current copyright policy looks like it was created to deal with an unmanageable system of registration, notification, and people who DID want to maintain their rights losing them. I find it interesting that we complain the US is isolationist and then reject this attempt to conform to world policy.
Finally, with regards to abandonware, the premise is that the original company is making no money off of it and "doesn't care" if it's distributed. If this is truly the case, then distribute it anyway, even if it is copyrighted. If they don't care, then no problem. If they do care, then take it down. The stuff that truly is abandoned will still be distributed, but the items that the copyright holders still have an interest in will not be.
The legal nuances only come into play if someone takes you to court, and if to reach that point generally means that not only do they significantly value the work, but you've most likely refused to resolve the situation amicably. Companies, even large ones, would much rather send a simple letter than sue someone.
Any chance of a repeat with XP SP2, to get a feel for whether or not the security fixes make a difference in the "real world"?
Take a look at that screenshot - yet another shining example of how AOL just doesn't get it.
Someone please tell them the point of Firefox was to be minimalist and NOT be chock full of useless crap?
The final Firefox upgrade did cause some problems. One major problem was in its handling of extensions - it just disabled all of them. However, if that extension provided a function - added toolbar buttons for instance - Firefox became massively confused. When I first upgraded, PrefButtons caused this and Firefox went into a constant cycle of attempting to upgrade software and finding none to upgrade.
For anyone having problems, make a copy of your bookmarks and cookies, and delete the rest of your profile. You'll have much smoother sailing.
It's very individual. When I was using a 21" CRT for years, my eyesight was moving out a full diopter per year (now at -8.0). Once I moved to an LCD, my eyesight stabilized, and my headaches went away.
So, some people do much better with CRT's, some with LCD's. Glad to have both!