Here's some iPod history of all the bad moves apple has made with the ipod that clearly show how successful it can't be. except it still is.
Original iPod 2001 "Too expensive ($400)" "Can't use regular batteries" "No PC support" "No Games" "Big flop.. Apple is through"
Second generation 10/20 gig iPods 2002 (PC support) "Too expensive" "Can't use regular batteries" "The 10 gig will cannibalize 20 gig sales" "Big flop.. Apple is through"
Third generation 10/15/30 gig iPods 2003 w/ITMS and docking "Too expensive" "No one wants to buy just one song" "Not enough titles in ITMS" "10 gig will cannibalize 15 gig sales" "Big flop.. Apple is through"
iPod mini 4 gig (end of 2003) "Too expensive" ($249) "It's ugly" "Will cannibalize iPod sales" "Not enough storage" "Big flop.. Apple is through"
Fourth generation 20/40 gig iPod 2004 (Clickwheel) HP Branded iPod iPod Photo (40/60 gig) U2 black iPod (October) "Too expensive" ($299/$399, $499/$599 for photo) "HP will cannibalize Apple sales" "No one wants little photos on an iPod" "Black iPod is ugly" "Big flop.. Apple is through"
iPod Shuffle 2005 Second generation iPod mini 4/6 gig "One gig shuffle is too expensive" ($149) "No screen" "4 gig mini will cannibalize Shuffle sales" "6 gig mini will cannibalize iPod sales" "Shuffles will cannibalize mini sales" "Big flop.. Apple is through"
iPod nano 2005 (September) "Too expensive" ($199/$249) "Should have kept the mini" "Will cannibalize iPod sales" "No one will buy the Shuffle now" "Big flop.. Apple is through"
iPod with Video Playback 30/60 gig (October 2005) "Too expensive" ($299/$399) "No one wants little videos" "Big flop.. Apple is through"
Do people honestly use grammar check? Hasn't it been proven that no grammar checker works well enough to provide a wide cover of the English language?
Well many other languages have much simpler or more strict grammars than english so it is relevant for those, and with localisation for other areas that isn't a problem. By that I mean that maybe it works brilliant for 90% of languages but sometimes english isn't the best for everything.
In this case it is some other language that gets the benefits.
> You, and people like you are the reason Wikipedia has the problems it does.
No wikipedia is the reason wikipedia has the problems it does. would you sit $10,000 in unmarked bills in the middle of a crowded shopping mall and expect someone not to fuck with it? No you'd take it away and keep it among people you can trust only.
the internet is like that shopping mall and is everywhere and contains everyone. you can try to change all of the possible vandals but you'll eventually work up just working against them all the time just to stay in a stable state.you can either change the millions of vandals in the world or you can change wikipedia.
millions to one. I know who has the best odds of coming out with their wishes on top and its not wikipedia.
What to do about it? Apple will not replace it. I don't see why I should have to have a second rate product without getting support. It should be replaced with a scren that doesn't scratch.
You can't even read the screen on it. Or the writing.
But then again the US wont let other states create peacefull nuclear programs.
Quit your mindless sheepthinking.
A clue ffor the clueless. Safe strains of anthrax are not nuclear. Just so you know and in case you are getting mixed up between "Nuclear" and "Safe Anthrax" like you europeans do when you read anti US propaganda. Different things entirely.
wtf? Are you happy ewith just jumping to conclusions and into the US bashing immediately whenever something you might be able to use against US comes up no matter the logic? where is your evidence this it to be used militarily or illegally on people? is there any clue these are to be used against people? NO. So shutup with your wild allegations and go find something else better to do
> WONDERFULL! I'm sick of paying $7 + $5 for movie popcorn and a drink > when I could buy (to own forever) the movie later for $20 (provided I don't get it > through another means before then).
And not have to deal with a theater where two people bring kids in who whine in the movie or have to go pee ten times during the movie, a bunch of teenagers bring their cell phones in and text message each other with bright screens flashing around and they're the polite ones who don't leave their phone on and have it ring in the middle of the movie or the people who bring PDAs in yet another distraction.
I have not been to a theater release movie in the last five years where a cell phone has NOT gone off in the middle of it. Thankfully many people don't answer them but people still do sometimes.
> "When Disney chief Robert Iger recently brought up the concept of shortening the window between theatrical release and DVD, he was fiercely criticised by the National Association of Theatre Owners."
No shit. The National Association of Theatre Owners need their own fierce criticism for doing shit-all about making the cinema experience worthwhile. It feels more like a cattlerun where you're forced in then out and must deal with everything that happens inside no matter what.
That begs then to ask the question why is the debian logo doing in Illustrator as a stock brush? how long has it been there?
Can we petition Illustrator to have this removed. Even if we don't have the legal trademark over it I'm sure the bad publicity for Adobe infringing on IP of Free/Open Source Software would persuade them.
Whats that site again that lets you run petitions?
MS Word 6.x on the Macintosh worked, but was heavily bloated, slow, and did not at all fit in with the way the mac worked.
Why? It used a subset of the Windows GUI. It didn't use Macintosh gui calls and was not only weighed down by using an untested (compared to windows gui elements on windows, which has the benefit of being used by hundreds of apps and debugged over time) gui, but worked opposite to how good macintosh apps should work.
It was regarded as a failure even at the time and many people stuck with Word 5.1
When the things you call "crackpot theories" correctly predict what will happen in many astronomical situations where "genuine research" is continuously surprised at results they didn't expect then you have to wonder who is telling the truth.
You have to consider that 'crackpot theories' are more genuine than mainstream hogwash that continually says "we did not expect that". well you did not expect it because you are wrong.
You might think you will survive sitting on the surface of the sun, but if you sit on the surface of the sun and you die then that is not an unexpected result it just means you were WRONG IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Who is getting it right in the first place? electric universe has the better track record here.
This is yet another prediction come true by proponents of The Electric Universe a set of theories which explain many phenomena that are seen and should be seen better than the so called "real science". what happens when real science sends up probe after probe looking for info and then are surprised by the results, but then site like that have already predicted what would be seen and get it right time after time?
They are often dismissed as crackpots because the theories fly in the face of convention but they get it right time and time again decades before 'real science' does.
What I am excited about is not that this is a new console, but that it is a new age for the PPC chip. And just when Apple has dropped it. Some technologies have all the luck?
While apple might not have the chance to use the version of the G5 with three cores and 3.2GHz or faster speeds I wonder if the price drop on those with microsoft buying millions and millions will cause IBM to build normal motherboards with PPC power. A 3.2GHz G5 motherboard built by IBM and guaranteed by them to work with linux by IBM writing the kernel modules for them would be a really great solution for a desktop if you want to get away from x86!.
again what a pity steve didn't wait to hear about this one. I bet the top G5 powermac will still be 2.7GHz when the xbox comes out at 3.2ghz and with one extra core and better graphics. and be cheaper. Apple could have benefited from that cost drop due to microsoft. Thats a pity
I think what this means is that even though apple make better software, they aren't diligent enough to protect their assets
This means when it comes down to it, they may be damaging their own claims of copyright and trademark over OS X.
What could happen as I see it is Microsoft or some other company could now release "OS X Tiger" and apple wouldn't have as much recourse as they had before.
I wouldn't be surprised if it meant pirating apple software now doesn't carry as much legal risk either. After all, who are they going to sue? they need to check themselves out first, and that will take time.
4000 is a tiny number of what is supposed to be a major disaster.
How many people die from car accidents over the same period? How many from the polution from thermal power plant?
40,000 deaths per year in the USA from car accidents. Since 1986 that makes 3/4 million human lives lost due to car accidents not including pollution. the chernobyl death toll does include those from pollution however.
if that is not considered a major disaster I do not know what is.
rofl. global warming? you flatter yourself if you think it can all be caused by humans.
> It means less celebration of rampant excess (SUV) and more > smarter management of your technology (hybrids).
Yeah, hybrids. Cars that use more energy to produce and run, but just happen to move that energy use away from the consumer. Good clear thinking that. Even if global warming were caused by humans, hybrids would do absolutely nothing to help.
I bought a printer two weeks ago. IT TOO CAME BUNDLED WITH A DRIVER.
I notice I was powerless to install another driver to work it, this bundling meant I was not able to get a driver for my Canon from Epson, HP, Netscape, Pioneer or DeWalt.
The whole idea of releasing patches only once a month and on a set date is ridiculous.
Vulnerabilities aren't discovered and exploits aren't written to respect the timing of Microsoft in this regard.
What happens if a vulnerability is discovered and an exploit written for it a couple of days after patch tuesday? Microsoft's whole bug fixing scheme is then set to only handle it 28 days later.
And we all know what happens in 28 days later.
What happens when a vulnerability is fixed that needs more testing for many people, but also comes attached to vulnerabilities that can be simply exploited? do we wait for the former before applying the latter, or apply the latter and to hell with the consequences in the former?
I think this is moron thinking. Each patch should be one small patch to fix that vulnerability and only that vulnerability. no other bug fixes with regards to non security issues, no combining patches, no waiting for days to fix a patch.
Then the monthly updates can be set client side however the client wishes to handle it. daily or weekly or monthly. whatever they wish to handle. at the time.
In that case he makes 7 partitions and uses software to do a raid5 setup over the first 6 partitions, using the last one as parity. 428GB with a perfect, online safety net. Pretty smart, huh?
Not really. first off it is all on the same drive so you won't be gaining any redundancy which is a critical part of RAID. second while there are schemes in place that can help position data on a single drive for more efficient access, making a pseudo RAID like this isn't going to help. In fact it will almost certainly make the drive perform at a worse level than if you used a single partition.
What happens in a correctly set up RAID for speed like this is that to write some data to the disks (and I am simplifying here for the sake of education) the data is written simultaneously in pieces across all disks. This means instead of sending 10MB to one drive you'll send a little over 1MB simultaneously to 8 drives, which means you're no longer held back by waiting for the drive to complete writing which is typically the slowest link in the chain here.
When doing it on multiple partitions on the one drive, you're actually extending the write time. the drive only has one head, so it'll be trying to write (or read) from one section on the drive while simultaneously being told to write/read from seven other sections on the drive at once. Even if it did those sequentially it would still be slower than a normal single drive, but it's more than likely the one drive head will flick across all 8 partitions randomly until it's retrieved the entire data. This couldn't be worse if you tried and will slow down the drive drastically. Not to mention probably wear out the drive more quickly and generate more heat.
a RAID setup like you described is meant to make things faster and more secure. What you've done is set up a scheme that will make things slower and guarantee a shorter lifespan for your drive, which will then mean you lose everything.
I suggest you go and read RAID at wikipedia to see how it works and why, and why your system won't be a benefit.
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> see http://211.28.70.211:1337/?page_id=23
thank you thank you I been looking for a live update site for ages. looks apple banned such updates.
Here's some iPod history of all the bad moves apple has made with the ipod that clearly show how successful it can't be. except it still is.
Original iPod 2001
"Too expensive ($400)"
"Can't use regular batteries"
"No PC support"
"No Games"
"Big flop.. Apple is through"
Second generation 10/20 gig iPods 2002 (PC support)
"Too expensive"
"Can't use regular batteries"
"The 10 gig will cannibalize 20 gig sales"
"Big flop.. Apple is through"
Third generation 10/15/30 gig iPods 2003 w/ITMS and docking
"Too expensive"
"No one wants to buy just one song"
"Not enough titles in ITMS"
"10 gig will cannibalize 15 gig sales"
"Big flop.. Apple is through"
iPod mini 4 gig (end of 2003)
"Too expensive" ($249)
"It's ugly"
"Will cannibalize iPod sales"
"Not enough storage"
"Big flop.. Apple is through"
Fourth generation 20/40 gig iPod 2004 (Clickwheel)
HP Branded iPod
iPod Photo (40/60 gig)
U2 black iPod (October)
"Too expensive" ($299/$399, $499/$599 for photo)
"HP will cannibalize Apple sales"
"No one wants little photos on an iPod"
"Black iPod is ugly"
"Big flop.. Apple is through"
iPod Shuffle 2005
Second generation iPod mini 4/6 gig
"One gig shuffle is too expensive" ($149)
"No screen"
"4 gig mini will cannibalize Shuffle sales"
"6 gig mini will cannibalize iPod sales"
"Shuffles will cannibalize mini sales"
"Big flop.. Apple is through"
iPod nano 2005 (September)
"Too expensive" ($199/$249)
"Should have kept the mini"
"Will cannibalize iPod sales"
"No one will buy the Shuffle now"
"Big flop.. Apple is through"
iPod with Video Playback 30/60 gig (October 2005)
"Too expensive" ($299/$399)
"No one wants little videos"
"Big flop.. Apple is through"
Do people honestly use grammar check? Hasn't it been proven that no grammar checker works well enough to provide a wide cover of the English language?
Well many other languages have much simpler or more strict grammars than english so it is relevant for those, and with localisation for other areas that isn't a problem. By that I mean that maybe it works brilliant for 90% of languages but sometimes english isn't the best for everything.
In this case it is some other language that gets the benefits.
But does anybody really use IM progrmas when they could just use email?
reminds me of when cheney said "we have to expect to give up some liberties in the name of freedom"
all words and no meaning.
> You, and people like you are the reason Wikipedia has the problems it does.
No wikipedia is the reason wikipedia has the problems it does. would you sit $10,000 in unmarked bills in the middle of a crowded shopping mall and expect someone not to fuck with it? No you'd take it away and keep it among people you can trust only.
the internet is like that shopping mall and is everywhere and contains everyone. you can try to change all of the possible vandals but you'll eventually work up just working against them all the time just to stay in a stable state.you can either change the millions of vandals in the world or you can change wikipedia.
millions to one. I know who has the best odds of coming out with their wishes on top and its not wikipedia.
Yes this is true.
The nano is a trash object. It scratches easily when in a pocket with nothing else
this is my nano after one week of use and it was in a pocket only with nothing else but some pocket fluff and maybe a candy wrapper.
What to do about it? Apple will not replace it. I don't see why I should have to have a second rate product without getting support. It should be replaced with a scren that doesn't scratch.
You can't even read the screen on it. Or the writing.
But then again the US wont let other states create peacefull nuclear programs.
Quit your mindless sheepthinking.
A clue ffor the clueless. Safe strains of anthrax are not nuclear. Just so you know and in case you are getting mixed up between "Nuclear" and "Safe Anthrax" like you europeans do when you read anti US propaganda. Different things entirely.
Stop the US bashing
wtf? Are you happy ewith just jumping to conclusions and into the US bashing immediately whenever something you might be able to use against US comes up no matter the logic? where is your evidence this it to be used militarily or illegally on people? is there any clue these are to be used against people? NO. So shutup with your wild allegations and go find something else better to do
anti US bashers just MAKE ME MAD.
> WONDERFULL! I'm sick of paying $7 + $5 for movie popcorn and a drink
> when I could buy (to own forever) the movie later for $20 (provided I don't get it
> through another means before then).
And not have to deal with a theater where two people bring kids in who whine in the movie or have to go pee ten times during the movie, a bunch of teenagers bring their cell phones in and text message each other with bright screens flashing around and they're the polite ones who don't leave their phone on and have it ring in the middle of the movie or the people who bring PDAs in yet another distraction.
I have not been to a theater release movie in the last five years where a cell phone has NOT gone off in the middle of it. Thankfully many people don't answer them but people still do sometimes.
> "When Disney chief Robert Iger recently brought up the concept of shortening the window between theatrical release and DVD, he was fiercely criticised by the National Association of Theatre Owners."
No shit. The National Association of Theatre Owners need their own fierce criticism for doing shit-all about making the cinema experience worthwhile. It feels more like a cattlerun where you're forced in then out and must deal with everything that happens inside no matter what.
That begs then to ask the question why is the debian logo doing in Illustrator as a stock brush? how long has it been there?
Can we petition Illustrator to have this removed. Even if we don't have the legal trademark over it I'm sure the bad publicity for Adobe infringing on IP of Free/Open Source Software would persuade them.
Whats that site again that lets you run petitions?
MS tried this before on the mac.
It was a dismal failure
MS Word 6.x on the Macintosh worked, but was heavily bloated, slow, and did not at all fit in with the way the mac worked.
Why? It used a subset of the Windows GUI. It didn't use Macintosh gui calls and was not only weighed down by using an untested (compared to windows gui elements on windows, which has the benefit of being used by hundreds of apps and debugged over time) gui, but worked opposite to how good macintosh apps should work.
It was regarded as a failure even at the time and many people stuck with Word 5.1
When the things you call "crackpot theories" correctly predict what will happen in many astronomical situations where "genuine research" is continuously surprised at results they didn't expect then you have to wonder who is telling the truth.
You have to consider that 'crackpot theories' are more genuine than mainstream hogwash that continually says "we did not expect that". well you did not expect it because you are wrong.
You might think you will survive sitting on the surface of the sun, but if you sit on the surface of the sun and you die then that is not an unexpected result it just means you were WRONG IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Who is getting it right in the first place? electric universe has the better track record here.
This is yet another prediction come true by proponents of The Electric Universe a set of theories which explain many phenomena that are seen and should be seen better than the so called "real science". what happens when real science sends up probe after probe looking for info and then are surprised by the results, but then site like that have already predicted what would be seen and get it right time after time?
They are often dismissed as crackpots because the theories fly in the face of convention but they get it right time and time again decades before 'real science' does.
Makes you wonder.
What I am excited about is not that this is a new console, but that it is a new age for the PPC chip. And just when Apple has dropped it. Some technologies have all the luck?
While apple might not have the chance to use the version of the G5 with three cores and 3.2GHz or faster speeds I wonder if the price drop on those with microsoft buying millions and millions will cause IBM to build normal motherboards with PPC power. A 3.2GHz G5 motherboard built by IBM and guaranteed by them to work with linux by IBM writing the kernel modules for them would be a really great solution for a desktop if you want to get away from x86!.
again what a pity steve didn't wait to hear about this one. I bet the top G5 powermac will still be 2.7GHz when the xbox comes out at 3.2ghz and with one extra core and better graphics. and be cheaper. Apple could have benefited from that cost drop due to microsoft. Thats a pity
I think what this means is that even though apple make better software, they aren't diligent enough to protect their assets
This means when it comes down to it, they may be damaging their own claims of copyright and trademark over OS X.
What could happen as I see it is Microsoft or some other company could now release "OS X Tiger" and apple wouldn't have as much recourse as they had before.
I wouldn't be surprised if it meant pirating apple software now doesn't carry as much legal risk either. After all, who are they going to sue? they need to check themselves out first, and that will take time.
Heck, with numbers like that it seems like Linux could run circles around XP Pro for audio/video apps such as streaming, recording, and playback!
It already has and for a long time now.
4000 is a tiny number of what is supposed to be a major disaster.
How many people die from car accidents over the same period? How many from the polution from thermal power plant?
40,000 deaths per year in the USA from car accidents. Since 1986 that makes 3/4 million human lives lost due to car accidents not including pollution. the chernobyl death toll does include those from pollution however.
if that is not considered a major disaster I do not know what is.
rofl. global warming? you flatter yourself if you think it can all be caused by humans.
> It means less celebration of rampant excess (SUV) and more
> smarter management of your technology (hybrids).
Yeah, hybrids. Cars that use more energy to produce and run, but just happen to move that energy use away from the consumer. Good clear thinking that. Even if global warming were caused by humans, hybrids would do absolutely nothing to help.
Methane hey. that could be spelled "oil"
I say we go get rid of the terrorist on Titan.
This is terrible and must be stopped.
I bought a printer two weeks ago. IT TOO CAME BUNDLED WITH A DRIVER.
I notice I was powerless to install another driver to work it, this bundling meant I was not able to get a driver for my Canon from Epson, HP, Netscape, Pioneer or DeWalt.
This is a monopoly!
The whole idea of releasing patches only once a month and on a set date is ridiculous.
Vulnerabilities aren't discovered and exploits aren't written to respect the timing of Microsoft in this regard.
What happens if a vulnerability is discovered and an exploit written for it a couple of days after patch tuesday? Microsoft's whole bug fixing scheme is then set to only handle it 28 days later.
And we all know what happens in 28 days later.
What happens when a vulnerability is fixed that needs more testing for many people, but also comes attached to vulnerabilities that can be simply exploited? do we wait for the former before applying the latter, or apply the latter and to hell with the consequences in the former?
I think this is moron thinking. Each patch should be one small patch to fix that vulnerability and only that vulnerability. no other bug fixes with regards to non security issues, no combining patches, no waiting for days to fix a patch.
Then the monthly updates can be set client side however the client wishes to handle it. daily or weekly or monthly. whatever they wish to handle. at the time.
this sounds rather interesting
The description sounds rather interesting but the music itself sounds like a random collection of hobbled together sounds.
I wouldn't call them compositions, but then they're no worse than what's on the radio.
There is nothing in that definition that says giving incorrect advice on a technical forum is humorous. You need to take a good look at yourself?
In that case he makes 7 partitions and uses software to do a raid5 setup over the first 6 partitions, using the last one as parity. 428GB with a perfect, online safety net. Pretty smart, huh?
Not really. first off it is all on the same drive so you won't be gaining any redundancy which is a critical part of RAID. second while there are schemes in place that can help position data on a single drive for more efficient access, making a pseudo RAID like this isn't going to help. In fact it will almost certainly make the drive perform at a worse level than if you used a single partition.
What happens in a correctly set up RAID for speed like this is that to write some data to the disks (and I am simplifying here for the sake of education) the data is written simultaneously in pieces across all disks. This means instead of sending 10MB to one drive you'll send a little over 1MB simultaneously to 8 drives, which means you're no longer held back by waiting for the drive to complete writing which is typically the slowest link in the chain here.
When doing it on multiple partitions on the one drive, you're actually extending the write time. the drive only has one head, so it'll be trying to write (or read) from one section on the drive while simultaneously being told to write/read from seven other sections on the drive at once. Even if it did those sequentially it would still be slower than a normal single drive, but it's more than likely the one drive head will flick across all 8 partitions randomly until it's retrieved the entire data. This couldn't be worse if you tried and will slow down the drive drastically. Not to mention probably wear out the drive more quickly and generate more heat.
a RAID setup like you described is meant to make things faster and more secure. What you've done is set up a scheme that will make things slower and guarantee a shorter lifespan for your drive, which will then mean you lose everything.
I suggest you go and read RAID at wikipedia to see how it works and why, and why your system won't be a benefit.