too bad sony's going to be the industry whipping boy for 2007 as well . the reason ? the playstation 3 .
while people are selling their first born to get a nintendo wii, and preliminary NPD reports on the xbox 360 suggest a healthy retail season, sony is stuggling . they struggled at the manufacturing level, they put forth a dismal group of launch releases, the blu-ray/hd dvd format war isn't even in full swing yet, and this has all led to piles of playstation 3s ending up on the floors of major retailers .
the free market has their piece to add . nintendo wiis, released around the same time as the playstation, have sold more consoles, and interestingly enough, are still selling in bundle form and selling for around 100% markup over retail on ebay, long after the launch .
the playstation 3, on the other hand, is struggling to find its way off of store shelves and web pages alike .
sony has burdened another piece of hardware with a proprietary format that the world has not yet embraced . they are like a child that continues to hit themselves in the head without learning .
if you live in a major cell market, go to verizon wireless business (http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/mobileoptions/ broadband/index.jsp) i've purchased the audiovox pc 5220 pcmcia card, which is compatible with the powerbook . i'm planning on using voice over ip and saying goodbye to phones that never quite have the exact functionality that i want anyway . EVDO 3g speeds are blazing fast, especially near the interstate here . for $79.99/month, you have wireless broadband "nationwide" (which remains to be seen) and you can use it as a phone as well.
all this " feel-good-happy-sunshine day " stuff is fine, we can all envision our own utopias and see our children playing in wheat fields and whatnot, but the reality of the situation is that a marked paradigm shift would need to occur before microsoft truly embraces " open source " .
open source is not mutually exclusive to programmers and code . open source is the way of the future in terms of the thinking that it fosters: transparent, goal-oriented ( rather than profit-driven ) teamwork . nothing lasts forever, especially not behemoths the size of microsoft . eventually, a better path will be found .
the real reason that macs are becoming a target of malware is because of the terrible press that apple has been getting . lawsuits against students and bloggers alike, like it or not, 1 infinite loop has seemingly become a street in redmond, wa .
a good way to gauge indie artists is to go to riaaradar.com . some artists have indie and non-indie releases . buy the indie releases, P2P the others .
the keys used in WEP are static, not dynamic . sure, 128-bit RC4 is generally secure, but it would be really secure if the key was rotated by the access point . this is done by WPA . WPA is only a placeholder until WPA2 is released, featuring wireless robust authentication protocol and cipher block chaining message authentication code protocol or CCMP.
If you're talking about using FUS to run two instances of iTunes, no go . iTunes can only be used on one account at a time, unless you've installed iTiR . it's a $1 shareware program .
how long do you think it'll be before some 18 year old locked in a dark closet with some dev tools pulls another drm shattering job . digital degradation from one analog generation is barely noticeable, and jobs has said it a million times, it's not that difficult to record analog from your cd player . people will find a way to defeat technology, the true way is to teach people that theft is wrong .
at $0.99 a track, after the credit card companies and the record industry receive their cut, let's be honest, the iTMS isn't exactly yielding huge dividends on its own merits.
the ipod/itunes combination is the horizontal monopoly apple attempting to cut the legs out from underneath the vertical monopoly microsoft with an intellectual attack . the kind of choice apple offers is, "do what you will with your hardware, but do it legitimately and legally." microsoft's model of a free-for-all as long as you're not stealing our applications will not stand the intellectual property war that has descended on the business world.
corporations want their patents and property protected . apple will allow them to do so .
an audio player with 4 GB storage for $249 . alright, not so big of a deal . i can get 15 GB for $299.
wait, it has a backlit screen, an intuitive user menu, contact list/calendar, and a 1 year warranty ? now you're speaking my language.
it only weighs 3.6 oz ?! where is the nearest apple store ?!
sure, most of you think a hardware fairy takes the hard drive that resides in a larger ipod, waves a wand and poof ! it's magically smaller . the fact remains that there is cost involved in making things smaller, even if it reduces the amount of standard hd space.
yeah, i know, so what . every wannabe entrepreneur living in mom's basement is screaming that the price point is all wrong simply because they'll have to rub two more pennies together so that they can afford one . here's the bottom line. steve jobs in 1999 on the success of the imac computer line
i'll cut and paste the important bit for those too lazy to click...
Jobs: The rest of us. And -- if you go out and ask people what's wrong with computers today, they'll tell you they're really complicated, they have a zillion cables coming out of the back, they're really big and noisy, they're really ugly, and they take forever to get on the Internet. And so we tried to set out to fix those problems with products like the iMac. I mean, the iMac is the only desktop computer that comes in only one box. You can set it up and be surfing the Internet in 15 minutes or less.
CNA: And many colors.
Jobs: Well, now, that was another one. In this technological age, the number one question we got last year about the iMac was, "Can you make it in my favorite color?" It wasn't about megabytes or megahertz or anything. It was about "Can you make it in my favorite color (blank)?"
CNA: You mean it's aesthetics?
Jobs: Yeah. I mean you know, you get clothes in whatever color you want, drive a car in whatever color you want, but except for the iMac, you had to settle for beige, you know?...
jobs' mantra is no longer "save the masses", it is "give the people what they want" . and a marketing report told him that people want smaller ipods in different colours, and they would be willing to pay ~$249 . how can you argue with that ?
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too bad sony's going to be the industry whipping boy for 2007 as well . the reason ? the playstation 3 . while people are selling their first born to get a nintendo wii, and preliminary NPD reports on the xbox 360 suggest a healthy retail season, sony is stuggling . they struggled at the manufacturing level, they put forth a dismal group of launch releases, the blu-ray/hd dvd format war isn't even in full swing yet, and this has all led to piles of playstation 3s ending up on the floors of major retailers . the free market has their piece to add . nintendo wiis, released around the same time as the playstation, have sold more consoles, and interestingly enough, are still selling in bundle form and selling for around 100% markup over retail on ebay, long after the launch . the playstation 3, on the other hand, is struggling to find its way off of store shelves and web pages alike . sony has burdened another piece of hardware with a proprietary format that the world has not yet embraced . they are like a child that continues to hit themselves in the head without learning .
sure, let's have the children throw their OLPCs into the nearest river in frustration .
The bottleneck is here in 2005 . You should be more understanding of what it takes to pipe information from fifty years in the future !
i call bullshit:
The Vatican has anointed Sun Microsystems with Special Prelate status, namely, the ability to handle e-mail correspondence from the outside. Perhaps you should visit the Vatican website and read up on canonical law.
get rid of the cell phone entirely.
/ broadband/index.jsp) i've purchased the audiovox pc 5220 pcmcia card, which is compatible with the powerbook . i'm planning on using voice over ip and saying goodbye to phones that never quite have the exact functionality that i want anyway . EVDO 3g speeds are blazing fast, especially near the interstate here . for $79.99/month, you have wireless broadband "nationwide" (which remains to be seen) and you can use it as a phone as well.
if you live in a major cell market, go to verizon wireless business (http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/mobileoptions
you can see for yourselves:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf05/
who here knew that steve jobs was a sith lord ?! why didn't you tell the jedi council ?! the republic is lost !
all this " feel-good-happy-sunshine day " stuff is fine, we can all envision our own utopias and see our children playing in wheat fields and whatnot, but the reality of the situation is that a marked paradigm shift would need to occur before microsoft truly embraces " open source " .
open source is not mutually exclusive to programmers and code . open source is the way of the future in terms of the thinking that it fosters: transparent, goal-oriented ( rather than profit-driven ) teamwork . nothing lasts forever, especially not behemoths the size of microsoft . eventually, a better path will be found .
the real reason that macs are becoming a target of malware is because of the terrible press that apple has been getting . lawsuits against students and bloggers alike, like it or not, 1 infinite loop has seemingly become a street in redmond, wa .
a good way to gauge indie artists is to go to riaaradar.com . some artists have indie and non-indie releases . buy the indie releases, P2P the others .
believe me, whenever i walk into compusa or best buy, there is always the one wintel laptop user asking a salesman,
" i'll be able to use the internet anywhere with this...like in my car, right ? "
and the inevitable,
" well... "
follows .
the keys used in WEP are static, not dynamic . sure, 128-bit RC4 is generally secure, but it would be really secure if the key was rotated by the access point . this is done by WPA . WPA is only a placeholder until WPA2 is released, featuring wireless robust authentication protocol and cipher block chaining message authentication code protocol or CCMP.
If you're talking about using FUS to run two instances of iTunes, no go . iTunes can only be used on one account at a time, unless you've installed iTiR . it's a $1 shareware program .
really .
how long do you think it'll be before some 18 year old locked in a dark closet with some dev tools pulls another drm shattering job . digital degradation from one analog generation is barely noticeable, and jobs has said it a million times, it's not that difficult to record analog from your cd player . people will find a way to defeat technology, the true way is to teach people that theft is wrong .
i'll be really impressed when i see apple licensing mac os x to appear on an x86 hp desktop .
at $0.99 a track, after the credit card companies and the record industry receive their cut, let's be honest, the iTMS isn't exactly yielding huge dividends on its own merits .
.
the ipod/itunes combination is the horizontal monopoly apple attempting to cut the legs out from underneath the vertical monopoly microsoft with an intellectual attack . the kind of choice apple offers is, "do what you will with your hardware, but do it legitimately and legally." microsoft's model of a free-for-all as long as you're not stealing our applications will not stand the intellectual property war that has descended on the business world
corporations want their patents and property protected . apple will allow them to do so .
an audio player with 4 GB storage for $249 . alright, not so big of a deal . i can get 15 GB for $299 . . . .
wait, it has a backlit screen, an intuitive user menu, contact list/calendar, and a 1 year warranty ? now you're speaking my language
it only weighs 3.6 oz ?! where is the nearest apple store ?!
sure, most of you think a hardware fairy takes the hard drive that resides in a larger ipod, waves a wand and poof ! it's magically smaller . the fact remains that there is cost involved in making things smaller, even if it reduces the amount of standard hd space
yeah, i know, so what . every wannabe entrepreneur living in mom's basement is screaming that the price point is all wrong simply because they'll have to rub two more pennies together so that they can afford one . here's the bottom line
steve jobs in 1999 on the success of the imac computer line
i'll cut and paste the important bit for those too lazy to click...
Jobs: The rest of us. And -- if you go out and ask people what's wrong with computers today, they'll tell you they're really complicated, they have a zillion cables coming out of the back, they're really big and noisy, they're really ugly, and they take forever to get on the Internet. And so we tried to set out to fix those problems with products like the iMac. I mean, the iMac is the only desktop computer that comes in only one box. You can set it up and be surfing the Internet in 15 minutes or less.
CNA: And many colors.
Jobs: Well, now, that was another one. In this technological age, the number one question we got last year about the iMac was, "Can you make it in my favorite color?" It wasn't about megabytes or megahertz or anything. It was about "Can you make it in my favorite color (blank)?"
CNA: You mean it's aesthetics?
Jobs: Yeah. I mean you know, you get clothes in whatever color you want, drive a car in whatever color you want, but except for the iMac, you had to settle for beige, you know?...
jobs' mantra is no longer "save the masses", it is "give the people what they want" . and a marketing report told him that people want smaller ipods in different colours, and they would be willing to pay ~$249 . how can you argue with that ?