Right now I have a 6Mbit connection. I have purchased a few movies from the iTunes store and begun watching them about 1 minute after pressing the buy button. The files are betweeen 1 and 1.5 GB. So yes, rental scenarious are good enough right now _and_ you don't have to decide what to watch the night before, you can watch as it downloads.
That being said, I believe that it has been taking roughly 45-50 minutes to download the entire movie. I could essentially handle double the file size and still watch immediately but 10 times the file size would mean waiting.
It gets worse. I checked out a couple of the movie prices and they are generally the same as they are for the DVD (ie The Office at $13.45 for the download and $13.45 for the special widescreen edition with flair). As others have mentioned, that comes _with_ DRM and _without_ the flair, and probably at lower quality than the DVD (especially if their low-res trailers are a sample of the movie quality).
I don't know what you think the Mac OS X specs are, but my wife is running Tiger (OS X 10.4.x) on a 5 year old 400MHz G4 laptop quite happily. 'Will run on 800MHz' sounds a bit stiff. Although it is relegated to a music server, I also have a 400MHz G3 laptop happily running Tiger with 512MB RAM.
Actually, that is just a good example of people being very sloppy with their notation. You are correct in your calculations, but hide the units in GBps...GigaBYTES per second. Multiplying your number by 8 results in 48Gbps...GigaBits, which is far beyond even the fattest pipe between NY and Chicago on that map (at 10Gbps).
Additionally, you are assuming that people would all watch at discreet intervals without overlapping too much and that nobody else would be using the Internet for any other purpose. In reality, there will already be a high traffic load and people will want the video in clumps. It is why people like Apple are offering downloadable video and not streaming. That way if it takes 2 hours to download a 1 hour show, at least you didn't have to sit through all of the pauses
Finally, a 45 minute show off of iTunes currently runs about 200MB at about 670Kbps. That 10Gb pipe would max out at far fewer than 20,000 streams.
There is actually a story in today's San Francisco Chronical about exactly that...People in San Francisco are having their MacBooks stolen from them as they work in coffee shops. One guy was even stabbed in the chest as two guys made off with his computer.
Smart people, who love what they do would rather dress like slobs, have free beer, and a ping-pong table than make an extra $20K a year.
exactly what I was thinking. I know that I have passed over job opportunities (and even turned down an interview) at places which felt that proper attire was a coding requirement. I still have more work than I can handle and those places still have crappy static web sites.
I don't need to dress like a slob and have free beer, but if you are more concerned about wether I dress like you than what I can do for you then I can go work elsewhere.
I read that, however, given the poor english, with commas, all, over, the place...I read it this way:
In any manner or by any means alter, damage, destroy, or modify a computer, computer system,...
the part that is 'including, but not limited to computer hacking' seems to be how you accomplish the crime, not what you actually do (alter, damage, destroy, modify) which is the crime.
I agree with the parent that instructing people to DDoS his schools computer is probably criminal. However, with the helpfully provided link to the City of Canton legal department I looked up the following definition of 'Criminal Mischief':
(6) Without privilege to do so, and with intent to impair the
functioning of any computer, computer system, computer
network, computer software, or computer program, all as
defined in Ohio R.C. 2909.01, knowingly do any of the
following:
A. In any manner or by any means, including, but not
limited to, computer hacking, alter, damage, destroy,
or modify a computer, computer system, computer
network, computer software, or computer program or
data contained in a computer, computer system, computer
network, computer software, or computer program;
B. Introduce a computer contaminant into a computer,
computer system, computer network, computer software
or computer program.
And later it states that if the damage caused is more than $1000 that it is a felony. According to this definition though, no damage was caused...nothing was 'Altered', 'Damaged', or 'Destroyed'. How exactly did they prosecute him?
However, if you do have the bandwidth to download *right now* it opens up different viewing models than are available to you currently. I have been downloading 45 minute television episodes in 2-10 minutes (depending on the nightly net traffic). That means that I don't have to know what I want to do tomorrow, I can just download and watch. And if I end up with a show that happens to be a two-parter and I don't want to wait until tomorrow to see the conclusion (happened the other night) I can download the next episode while I get up to get a snack.
I harbor an 8 year old grudge against Seagate drives because I had two which were noisier than any other drives I have owned and one of them completely crapped out after only 2 years of use. Granted, that was eight years ago, but with my data you only get one chance. I have only had one other drive die on me (6 years old) and it began making strange noises, so I swapped it out and only know it died because I left it connected to see how long it would last (2 weeks).
Yes. I have had rebates not honored. The best was a $50 rebate for FileMaker Pro which arrived as a check with a 2 week expiration. It arrived with one week left and by the time it got deposited at my bank (I had to mail it in to an online bank) it had expired. This also cost me processing fees.
Repeated attempts to get it sorted out simply resulted in FileMaker claiming that I couldn't get the rebate twice and then that they had no record of me applying for one. Finally they just told me the rebate had expired. Net result, -$15 in rebate (bank fees).
Yeah, I mis-read the headline as 'Microsoft Office Beta 12...'. After a long migration, I have come to fully embrace the 'smaller is better' software ethos. I want small tools which do their job really well and stay out of my way, not enormous multi-tools which try to read my mind. Badly.
hierarchy. What is really needed is a graph organization. Links and metadata help up to a point, but in order to make things work smoothly it will probably be necessary to abandon current ideas about directories as "containers", slash-separated file paths, filenames as unique identifiers (and attributes as mere extensions of
That really is the whole point of file-type specific apps. With a few hundred or even a few thousand files, organizing with folders by project works pretty well and if you are an organized person you can keep things this way and be perfectly happy.
However, if you are generally creating a few hundred files per week, not only will your number of directories become unmanageable but you start to lose all hope of ever knowing what you have. By having applications which understand the specific needs of a particular kind of file you can quickly get to the information you need. That doesn't prevent you from still filing the stuff using your own file-system.
I currently have a small portion of my photo-library on my laptop...about 6,000 photos. In the file system this is more than 150 folders, but in my portfolio app (iView Media Pro) I can view them in dozens of different ways in a couple of clicks. No searching keywords, no ceding control to some wizard, still my filing system but multi-dimensional and specifically tailored to deal with my photos/movies/music/writing (though I only use it for photos).
Not to spoil a good joke, but no. Your eyes aren't far enough apart to get stereo vision past about 18 feet. You can move your head around to improve that (and your brain does a good job of faking it), but not good enough for stereo vision at 1au.
Another interesting part of the mission is that over a period of several years, the stereo craft will actually get further away from earth giving us an ever changing view. I just saw a talk at the Berkeley SSL by one of the scientists about the new solar weather modeling they will be able to do with it.
One of the most useful drag and drop implementations I have seen is the Apple.Mac slide show creation interface. Want to re-arrange the order the pictures are in, drag them (along with their titles and captions as a single object) to their new position and everything else adjusts. Pretty slick and around for two years.
That being said, it in no way uses AJAX! Repeat after me, AJAX is not DHTML. Generally you use DHTML (javascript controlling the DOM) to show changes to your page once you have retrieved fresh XML data Asynchronously from your server using Javascript. Hence the AJAX name. If they saved your changes on the fly without you having to submit the page, then that would use AJAX.
Neither...the submitter just had trouble converting from meters. It is only going to be 30 meters in diameter. The Giant Magellen, already under construction in Arizona for installation in Chile, will be 25 meters. The Large Magellen, already installed, is 16 meters. The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, in the planning stages, will be 100 meters. There are others as well.
So it will hardly be the largest, though may hold that title for a while, but it is one of a new class of very large optical telescopes
The article also had a few problems with facts since it won't have a 30 meter lens at all, but a mirror (really several mirrors).
Indeed, this is how it worked when I lived in New York City and my employer was in California. You pay taxes to only one state, even if multiple states can claim that you owe taxes. California had higher state taxes, so after paying them I only had to file a form with New York saying that I had already paid another state.
Of course, this didn't help me with the New York City tax. They didn't care that I had just paid a higher state tax and were perfectly happy to take my money anyway. I saw someone mention earlier that this tax might be gone now?
Using a 17" powerbook right now, I don't really want things much smaller. Sure, I probably wouldn't care if my menubar got a little smaller, but the 9pt type I use in my editor is about the limit of what I can comfortably work with.
As for the keyboard, I disagree...I think the action on mine is next to ideal. It has been a couple of years since I used a thinkpad so I don't remember the keyboard, only the fact that it cutting off the circulation in my legs. I think that keyboard feel is going to be about as personal as text-editors.
And I agree with you on the dell, but it seems that that is all I see these days regardless of what the good choices might be. It always amazes me to see people ooohing and aahing over the cheap looking piece of plastic with dictionary attached that is the dell 17".
Its funny that a lot of people are bashing the 'low res' powerbook screens. I want to know in comparison to what? Yes, they have always had fewer pixels than similar sized PC notebooks, but in general the quality difference has made the PC notebooks look 5 years out of date. My neighbor with brand new Dell can't work in his dining room during the day because there is too much light to see the screen, I frequently work outside on my 2 year old powerbook.
The coolest thing that I saw was that the screens are even brighter, secondarily is the expanded real-estate.
You would have to look back a lot further than Minority Report if so...I know that Melissa Scott's novels from the late 80's/early 90's had this. People had wearable or implanted computers and news stands would blare headlines and billboards would blare advertisements. The main character in one novel was constantly avoiding eye contact with signs.
Because mail servers are more accurately mail _systems_. Complex interactions between local and remote users, spam and virus filters, strict adherence to standards and allowances for broken implementations of same and most importantly (and hardest to deal with) proper dns configuration and lack of same. Nobody wants to lose any mail, so you have to work with 30 year old mail servers just as easily as last months latest rev.
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That being said, I believe that it has been taking roughly 45-50 minutes to download the entire movie. I could essentially handle double the file size and still watch immediately but 10 times the file size would mean waiting.
It gets worse. I checked out a couple of the movie prices and they are generally the same as they are for the DVD (ie The Office at $13.45 for the download and $13.45 for the special widescreen edition with flair). As others have mentioned, that comes _with_ DRM and _without_ the flair, and probably at lower quality than the DVD (especially if their low-res trailers are a sample of the movie quality).
I don't know what you think the Mac OS X specs are, but my wife is running Tiger (OS X 10.4.x) on a 5 year old 400MHz G4 laptop quite happily. 'Will run on 800MHz' sounds a bit stiff. Although it is relegated to a music server, I also have a 400MHz G3 laptop happily running Tiger with 512MB RAM.
Additionally, you are assuming that people would all watch at discreet intervals without overlapping too much and that nobody else would be using the Internet for any other purpose. In reality, there will already be a high traffic load and people will want the video in clumps. It is why people like Apple are offering downloadable video and not streaming. That way if it takes 2 hours to download a 1 hour show, at least you didn't have to sit through all of the pauses
Finally, a 45 minute show off of iTunes currently runs about 200MB at about 670Kbps. That 10Gb pipe would max out at far fewer than 20,000 streams.
At the announcement, Jobs specifically said that the recycling would all be done in the U.S. and not just shipped off to China.
There is actually a story in today's San Francisco Chronical about exactly that...People in San Francisco are having their MacBooks stolen from them as they work in coffee shops. One guy was even stabbed in the chest as two guys made off with his computer.
exactly what I was thinking. I know that I have passed over job opportunities (and even turned down an interview) at places which felt that proper attire was a coding requirement. I still have more work than I can handle and those places still have crappy static web sites.
I don't need to dress like a slob and have free beer, but if you are more concerned about wether I dress like you than what I can do for you then I can go work elsewhere.
In any manner or by any means alter, damage, destroy, or modify a computer, computer system,...
the part that is 'including, but not limited to computer hacking' seems to be how you accomplish the crime, not what you actually do (alter, damage, destroy, modify) which is the crime.
And later it states that if the damage caused is more than $1000 that it is a felony. According to this definition though, no damage was caused...nothing was 'Altered', 'Damaged', or 'Destroyed'. How exactly did they prosecute him?
However, if you do have the bandwidth to download *right now* it opens up different viewing models than are available to you currently. I have been downloading 45 minute television episodes in 2-10 minutes (depending on the nightly net traffic). That means that I don't have to know what I want to do tomorrow, I can just download and watch. And if I end up with a show that happens to be a two-parter and I don't want to wait until tomorrow to see the conclusion (happened the other night) I can download the next episode while I get up to get a snack.
I harbor an 8 year old grudge against Seagate drives because I had two which were noisier than any other drives I have owned and one of them completely crapped out after only 2 years of use. Granted, that was eight years ago, but with my data you only get one chance. I have only had one other drive die on me (6 years old) and it began making strange noises, so I swapped it out and only know it died because I left it connected to see how long it would last (2 weeks).
Repeated attempts to get it sorted out simply resulted in FileMaker claiming that I couldn't get the rebate twice and then that they had no record of me applying for one. Finally they just told me the rebate had expired. Net result, -$15 in rebate (bank fees).
Yeah, I mis-read the headline as 'Microsoft Office Beta 12...'. After a long migration, I have come to fully embrace the 'smaller is better' software ethos. I want small tools which do their job really well and stay out of my way, not enormous multi-tools which try to read my mind. Badly.
That really is the whole point of file-type specific apps. With a few hundred or even a few thousand files, organizing with folders by project works pretty well and if you are an organized person you can keep things this way and be perfectly happy.
However, if you are generally creating a few hundred files per week, not only will your number of directories become unmanageable but you start to lose all hope of ever knowing what you have. By having applications which understand the specific needs of a particular kind of file you can quickly get to the information you need. That doesn't prevent you from still filing the stuff using your own file-system.
I currently have a small portion of my photo-library on my laptop...about 6,000 photos. In the file system this is more than 150 folders, but in my portfolio app (iView Media Pro) I can view them in dozens of different ways in a couple of clicks. No searching keywords, no ceding control to some wizard, still my filing system but multi-dimensional and specifically tailored to deal with my photos/movies/music/writing (though I only use it for photos).
yeah, but then people give you menial tasks like escorting humans around and opening doors...it all gets very depressing
Another interesting part of the mission is that over a period of several years, the stereo craft will actually get further away from earth giving us an ever changing view. I just saw a talk at the Berkeley SSL by one of the scientists about the new solar weather modeling they will be able to do with it.
That being said, it in no way uses AJAX! Repeat after me, AJAX is not DHTML. Generally you use DHTML (javascript controlling the DOM) to show changes to your page once you have retrieved fresh XML data Asynchronously from your server using Javascript. Hence the AJAX name. If they saved your changes on the fly without you having to submit the page, then that would use AJAX.
So it will hardly be the largest, though may hold that title for a while, but it is one of a new class of very large optical telescopes
The article also had a few problems with facts since it won't have a 30 meter lens at all, but a mirror (really several mirrors).
Of course, this didn't help me with the New York City tax. They didn't care that I had just paid a higher state tax and were perfectly happy to take my money anyway. I saw someone mention earlier that this tax might be gone now?
Using a 17" powerbook right now, I don't really want things much smaller. Sure, I probably wouldn't care if my menubar got a little smaller, but the 9pt type I use in my editor is about the limit of what I can comfortably work with.
As for the keyboard, I disagree...I think the action on mine is next to ideal. It has been a couple of years since I used a thinkpad so I don't remember the keyboard, only the fact that it cutting off the circulation in my legs. I think that keyboard feel is going to be about as personal as text-editors.
And I agree with you on the dell, but it seems that that is all I see these days regardless of what the good choices might be. It always amazes me to see people ooohing and aahing over the cheap looking piece of plastic with dictionary attached that is the dell 17".
The coolest thing that I saw was that the screens are even brighter, secondarily is the expanded real-estate.
You would have to look back a lot further than Minority Report if so...I know that Melissa Scott's novels from the late 80's/early 90's had this. People had wearable or implanted computers and news stands would blare headlines and billboards would blare advertisements. The main character in one novel was constantly avoiding eye contact with signs.
don't you mean not enough time to show all the dupes?
I went looking for info on what a window cover was and why it was just falling off! I'm slightly more comforted now:)
Because mail servers are more accurately mail _systems_. Complex interactions between local and remote users, spam and virus filters, strict adherence to standards and allowances for broken implementations of same and most importantly (and hardest to deal with) proper dns configuration and lack of same. Nobody wants to lose any mail, so you have to work with 30 year old mail servers just as easily as last months latest rev.