No one knew the answer to the quiz question. When it became obvious no one was going to respond, Gassée decided to be facetious with that smug we're-better-than-everyone-else 1980s hubris that would later bring "old Apple" to its knees ("we're so cool we don't need to think about modernizing our OS architecture - you'll never be as good as us").
It's hardly surprising Gates had no pity for Apple during the "GUI OS war" and probably relished seeing that smug attitude pounded into the dirt.
And it's very fortunate for Apple that when Jobs returned to save it from bankruptcy, he took a groveling stance towards Gates and told the fanboys, "Microsoft is not the enemy. For Apple to survive, we have to do a really good job." A much better attitude than a smartass remark designed to antagonize an extremely powerful man.
oh yeah and we all know Steve would never do something he said he wouldn't some years later "because know we can do it right." Don't you listen to that guy?
You missed the point of the post: what he says is largely irrelevant.
This is beyond true. I know that apple's iTMS works only with the iPod as a digital media player.
Not true at all. When you buy from the iTMS, the music goes into iTunes, not to an iPod.
From iTunes, you can either play it as is or route the music to other places such as burning a CD, which lets you play it in a portable CD player, car player, etc. You can also rip that CD in both iTunes OR ANY OTHER MUSIC PROGRAM, to put on ANY OTHER MUSIC DEVICE.
It's really the convenience and hyperfast synching that confuses people that iTMS is ONLY for iPods, but it's more true to say that iTMS is a way of getting music into iTunes. Where it goes from there is still largely up to you. It's not forever locked onto an iPod when you buy the track.
The moment... and I do mean the _moment_ apple sees this catching on and taking root, they will come out with iTunes subscriptions and blow napster out of the water...
They may not have that choice. Steve everything-starts-with-me Jobs has said publicly said he doesn't want Apple going the subscription route, and when the iTMS was announced he outlined the negotiating sequence with the record companies: "we wanted no DRM, they wanted tons, we compromised with this..."
It's the record companies which set the terms, since they are the ones that own the product that is being sold. Apple's iTMS is only the electronic version of a retailer.
The record companies appear to like the idea of a subscription model, so whether it comes to iTMS or not is probably not even up to Apple.
Cause who would pay $15/month for a service when you only download perhaps once a week?
Yes, good point. Plus, even if you downloaded say 20 one week then took a break for a while, you still have to keep paying the $15/mth otherwise those 20 will simply stop working.
I had a similar thing with a postal-based DVD subscription: I'd watch them during times I had free time, then watch almost none during times I was busy.
I wasn't getting my money's worth but was still paying the subscription charges because of "subscriber inertia." I suspect those who those run subscription services know this psychology.
The private "agency", that Casinos use to scope these potential card counters, probably compile a dossier of these mentats.
Actually, you don't need a good memory to card count.
Card counting consists of determining the ratio of high cards (tens, aces) to low cards (2-6). To find this you simply add one for each low card that appears and subtract one for each high card.
This gives the running count, which you can divide by the number of decks remaining to find the True Count, which is used to make decisions - how much to bet, or whether to deviate from Basic Strategy in playing a hand.
So, at any given time you're only actually remembering one number.
The hardest part about modern card counting is actually maintaining a good cover, that is, pretending to be rich and careless when you throw out black chips, or drunk and stupid, or talking incessantly to convince the dealer or pit boss that you can't possibly be counting with all that distraction.
There are quite a few professional card counters around, but they're more likely to have honed their skills by taking acting lessons rather than memory courses...
How many of us can remember how many girlfriends we've had sex with?
Probably everyone. (At least, Andie McDowell's character in Four Weddings in a Funeral had no trouble remembering her 33, which (I hope) is a great many by most people's standards.)
But a more important thing to remember is this: the probability of contracting something nasty increases exponentially with the number of partners.
I read an account of an interview between a reporter and Einstein. At the end, the reporter asked for Einstein's phone number so he could phone later if he needed to check something for the article.
Einstein replied that he couldn't remember his number, but it didn't matter, because it was in the phone book.
Yes, interesting prediction, but I want to clarify some points:
Apple has now put their weight behind the Blu-Ray standard.
Apple shipped DVD-RAM when it just emerged, and it was a fizzer. They initially provided support solely just for DVD-R/RW drives, then more recently added DVD+R/RW (though it is not widely publicized).
Point: Apple has to reflect what the industry uses, not the other way around.
That means Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro will support Blu-Ray authoring.
Final Cut Pro is independent of delivery medium: you edit video from your hard drive. And aside from its ability to burn discs, the same is true for DVD Studio Pro: it's only compressed into a consumer format and mastered at the very end of the process.
Point: FCP doesn't have much to do with the delivery format. DSP will ultimately burn to whatever customers who consider buying the software want.
The porn industry uses FCP extensively.
I did not know that! What are classy products like Macs doing in the hands of the sordid flesh merchants? "Think Dirty" !
Blu-Ray is backed by the porn industry.
I believe it's the other way around: some players in the porn industry tend towards HD-DVD because transition costs are lower.
If it hadn't been for the gutsy Rose jumping onto the rope and doing a bit of gymnastics, Earth would've been absorbed into the Nestene consciousness and the plastic men would have continued their massacre.
"More trouble than she's worth." Ha!
I think Rose will turn out to be a great companion - inquisitive, quick learning, possibly just behind Leela in ballsiness.
Of course, Romana #2 (Lalla Ward) can never be challenged for sheer lovability in my eyes!
(If only I'd been an evolutionary biologist, she might have be interested in me when she dumped Tom. Oh, and if I'd been about 20 years older of course.)
Maybe, although Sony may be the one who kicks someone in the privates and steals their wallet, but Microsoft is the one standing there opening a tube of vaseline...
gets about five hours of battery life on min performance
What does it speed step down to?
My last Centrino laptop got decent battery life, but only by stepping down to something pitiful like 533 MHz. I was constantly overriding it to stop it going glacial on me.
*Anything* can last a long time if you slow it down enough.
I wonder if there will ever come a time when it's actually faster to run the OS from the GPU rather than the CPU!
Yes, I know GPUs only suit selective, highly parallel image related operations and slow down with things like sin() and tan(), but they are still getting awfully fast...
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Whoosh! I'll explain the scenario:
No one knew the answer to the quiz question. When it became obvious no one was going to respond, Gassée decided to be facetious with that smug we're-better-than-everyone-else 1980s hubris that would later bring "old Apple" to its knees ("we're so cool we don't need to think about modernizing our OS architecture - you'll never be as good as us").
It's hardly surprising Gates had no pity for Apple during the "GUI OS war" and probably relished seeing that smug attitude pounded into the dirt.
And it's very fortunate for Apple that when Jobs returned to save it from bankruptcy, he took a groveling stance towards Gates and told the fanboys, "Microsoft is not the enemy. For Apple to survive, we have to do a really good job." A much better attitude than a smartass remark designed to antagonize an extremely powerful man.
What's with allowing iTMS tracks to be burned to CD then?
Last time I looked, there were still a lot more portable CD players in use (discmans, car players, etc) than the shiny white things.
He probably could too. Imagine the value on his résumé of his (de)cryptographic skills.
Okay, maybe the RIAA and MPAA won't be offering him a job, but perhaps the NSA should.
Sloshdot not Slashdot.
You missed the point of the post: what he says is largely irrelevant.
Not true at all. When you buy from the iTMS, the music goes into iTunes, not to an iPod.
From iTunes, you can either play it as is or route the music to other places such as burning a CD, which lets you play it in a portable CD player, car player, etc. You can also rip that CD in both iTunes OR ANY OTHER MUSIC PROGRAM, to put on ANY OTHER MUSIC DEVICE.
It's really the convenience and hyperfast synching that confuses people that iTMS is ONLY for iPods, but it's more true to say that iTMS is a way of getting music into iTunes. Where it goes from there is still largely up to you. It's not forever locked onto an iPod when you buy the track.
They may not have that choice. Steve everything-starts-with-me Jobs has said publicly said he doesn't want Apple going the subscription route, and when the iTMS was announced he outlined the negotiating sequence with the record companies: "we wanted no DRM, they wanted tons, we compromised with this..."
It's the record companies which set the terms, since they are the ones that own the product that is being sold. Apple's iTMS is only the electronic version of a retailer.
The record companies appear to like the idea of a subscription model, so whether it comes to iTMS or not is probably not even up to Apple.
Yes, good point. Plus, even if you downloaded say 20 one week then took a break for a while, you still have to keep paying the $15/mth otherwise those 20 will simply stop working.
I had a similar thing with a postal-based DVD subscription: I'd watch them during times I had free time, then watch almost none during times I was busy.
I wasn't getting my money's worth but was still paying the subscription charges because of "subscriber inertia." I suspect those who those run subscription services know this psychology.
I resent the gym being called brain-free: my brain has a huge task imagining the hottie in the lycra pants becoming my sex goddess!
You're not taking into account the fact that every one of your partners has also had partners...
Yes, for secretaries and PR people. But they were all sent off on the B-ark, weren't they?
As a few people have posted now, Einstein had a terrible memory for trivial stuff like this. But who has done more to advance civilization:
The guy who can say, "Hey Bob, how you been these past 9 months, are you still at (618) 555-2324, and how are those 3 children of yours?"
Or the guy who developed the General Theory of Relativity...
Actually, you don't need a good memory to card count.
Card counting consists of determining the ratio of high cards (tens, aces) to low cards (2-6). To find this you simply add one for each low card that appears and subtract one for each high card.
This gives the running count, which you can divide by the number of decks remaining to find the True Count, which is used to make decisions - how much to bet, or whether to deviate from Basic Strategy in playing a hand.
So, at any given time you're only actually remembering one number.
The hardest part about modern card counting is actually maintaining a good cover, that is, pretending to be rich and careless when you throw out black chips, or drunk and stupid, or talking incessantly to convince the dealer or pit boss that you can't possibly be counting with all that distraction.
There are quite a few professional card counters around, but they're more likely to have honed their skills by taking acting lessons rather than memory courses...
Probably everyone. (At least, Andie McDowell's character in Four Weddings in a Funeral had no trouble remembering her 33, which (I hope) is a great many by most people's standards.)
But a more important thing to remember is this: the probability of contracting something nasty increases exponentially with the number of partners.
I read an account of an interview between a reporter and Einstein. At the end, the reporter asked for Einstein's phone number so he could phone later if he needed to check something for the article.
Einstein replied that he couldn't remember his number, but it didn't matter, because it was in the phone book.
Smart man, Albert!
...a series of animals.
Mac OS X has used cats: Jaguar, Panther, Tiger.
Maybe Windows could use dogs...?
Yes, interesting prediction, but I want to clarify some points:
Apple shipped DVD-RAM when it just emerged, and it was a fizzer. They initially provided support solely just for DVD-R/RW drives, then more recently added DVD+R/RW (though it is not widely publicized).
Point: Apple has to reflect what the industry uses, not the other way around.
Final Cut Pro is independent of delivery medium: you edit video from your hard drive. And aside from its ability to burn discs, the same is true for DVD Studio Pro: it's only compressed into a consumer format and mastered at the very end of the process.
Point: FCP doesn't have much to do with the delivery format. DSP will ultimately burn to whatever customers who consider buying the software want.
I did not know that! What are classy products like Macs doing in the hands of the sordid flesh merchants? "Think Dirty" !
I believe it's the other way around: some players in the porn industry tend towards HD-DVD because transition costs are lower.
A smile counts as Funny in my book.
I'm sorry I don't have any mod points to counter the unfair Troll moderation you've been given.
If it hadn't been for the gutsy Rose jumping onto the rope and doing a bit of gymnastics, Earth would've been absorbed into the Nestene consciousness and the plastic men would have continued their massacre.
"More trouble than she's worth." Ha!
I think Rose will turn out to be a great companion - inquisitive, quick learning, possibly just behind Leela in ballsiness.
Of course, Romana #2 (Lalla Ward) can never be challenged for sheer lovability in my eyes!
(If only I'd been an evolutionary biologist, she might have be interested in me when she dumped Tom. Oh, and if I'd been about 20 years older of course.)
Maybe, although Sony may be the one who kicks someone in the privates and steals their wallet, but Microsoft is the one standing there opening a tube of vaseline...
Never used a Mac OS X computer then, have you. PDF renders like lightning. Searching them is wicked fast too!
What does it speed step down to?
My last Centrino laptop got decent battery life, but only by stepping down to something pitiful like 533 MHz. I was constantly overriding it to stop it going glacial on me.
*Anything* can last a long time if you slow it down enough.
Jedi mind tricks don't work on me, I'm a Slashdotter.
And those who don't know the difference between forward slash and backslash, you closet Windows lover, you!
(I once saw an IT manager link up a bunch of pages using "\" for all the relative links... "But it worked on my machine...?")
I wonder if there will ever come a time when it's actually faster to run the OS from the GPU rather than the CPU!
Yes, I know GPUs only suit selective, highly parallel image related operations and slow down with things like sin() and tan(), but they are still getting awfully fast...
You've got to be more tolerant, maybe? I just see it as the nature of the site, and the nature of the people posting.
;)
Slashdot is a rapid-fire blog style comment forum. Most people "hear" the words they want to say and type phonetically.
Then very rapidly preview the post (if at all) so they can go flame some poor innocent Mac user.
Grammar or correctly spelled homonyms play a distant second to getting your opinion across...