The fun isn't even beging yet. These probaly wont ship out for a while. but you know the minute someone gets one, they are going to take it apart. then the real fun begins.
Its not just about fetish for apple brands. Apple holds the majority of market share, so its likely that the majority of people listening are listening on ipods. Sure there is a fair amount of marketing involved, but without the iPod (and Itunes easy of use), most people wouldn't be listening to *pod*casts.
Xerox invented the GUI, apple just brought it to the people.
Google, like Apple, happens to do a lot of interesting things and deserves some attention for that. I'll avoid bitching about./ here.
In this case all my annoyance is at Newsweek. the state of mainstream journalism in this country is pretty bad, and they don't need to be turing over their pages to corperate PR folks. How about taking the CEOs talking points and then going into the workplace and see them actually being implemented? Ask the average employee about the quality of the food in the cafeteria. Do a little work.
This isn't wuite as bad as the news orginizations who did nothing but repeat the Bush administration's lies in the lead up to war, but its the exact same concept.
Many music execs now regret agreeing to stanard pricing acorss the board.I wouldn't bee suprised if the TV execs left themselves room in the contract to mess arounf with prices once video downloading really starts to take off. I think its reasonable that yesterday's "Lost" would cost more than an old episode of Knight Ridder.
In the meantime, Im happy to see more shows on itunes
I would be careful buying one. My local police department might get a fax accusing me of criminal harassment.
Seriously, has this guy ever heard of the first amendment? how about New York Times vs Sulivan?. Mr. Thompson is a public figure and therefore a valid target of criticism. Penny arcade has done nothing except to post the messages the Jack has sent. people making death threats could be prosucted. but PA is protected under the law.
from the article:
"Whenever a company may do something that's completely different than its historical focus, there is risk,'"
My qyestion is, what would ebay want with VIOP? Paypal and Half.com made sense for ebay to pick up, but I'm just not seeing this at all...
If its going to be done, SF is the one to do it.
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San francisco is really a pretty small city, at least compared to some place like LA. Getting completle wireless coverage to the importnat areas ( downtown, the hisght, the filmore, noe valley, the castro.) wouldn't be to hard. although to get every inch of the city woudl be a bit more of a chalenge.
It would certianly look good on a mayors resume to say that he provided the whole city with internet access, but for some reason I have a feeling that the people who would benefit most from this are the upper middle class who already have wireless enable commputers. I don't see this doing a lot for those who can't already aford access themsleves.
for use as a remote media center, the mac mini looks great, but im a bit disapointed with the weak video card that won't take advantage of tigers CoreImage features.
I wonder if apple is going to release a OSX Medi Center edition since these mini's aren't optimised for tiger.
technicaly, there are three accelerators on a car the gas pedal provides positive acceleration, the brake provides negative acceleration and the steering wheel allwos for lateral acceleration.
Although I have no doubt that the current human-caused warming trends will greatly effect the biodiversty of this planet, I'm not worried about the long term survival of the earth. Althouhg the megafauna of Australia went extent, other animals have filled the niche, althouhg Australia is isolated so it is any interesting case.
Global warming will speed to extenction of many creatures, but it will also aid evoltion of many more.
The real question is when will it return to threaten earth as part of a destructive alien entity? and will Kirk, Spock and the gang be ready to save us?
It's up to any local government to regulate the behavior of local companies.
Right on. In the US slaes tax is set in each state (Oregon doesn't have any, while in california in varies from 7-8%)
As far as I know large mail order companies that sell in their own state are required to add sales tax, whether the order is taken by mail phone or internet.
Australia just enforces their sales tax on a nationwide basis
It wouldn't suprise me, although I don't have any info on it.
Apple's Logic Pro audio suite released a few months ago has the ability to offload audio rendering tasks to other g5's on the same network. A very cool technology that makes a lot of sense to use in pro video enviroments where it is likely that there a dozens of other workstations on the network.
while this wasn't about blogging, Google owns blogger.com so I doubt that they woudl have any problem with them. I am curious however to see how google plans to make money with blogger, besides encouraging bloogers to put up advertising.
Screw the tin foil hats, how about a tin foil glove?
IIRC, can't RFIDs on products be somehow deactived when you leave the store? IF there was a way to turn it off and on, this wouldn't be so bad, but I wouldn't want something that has info on my all the time, even if it is encyrpted.
Clean up its portal or offer a simple search site without any excessive links.
you mean this? http://search.yahoo.com/
Admitedly the front page is messy, but I know lots of people who would complain if they have to navigate through a couple of sub menus to get to what they want. I Wouldn't mind the cookies and ads if it knew extacly what I wanted. (finace yes, fashion no)
Well 14 weeks later and I'm still waiting for one from Fry's/viewsonic I wonder if the companies ever just "lose" stuff so they don't have to pay out. I'm too lazy to call up and try to track down my $30.
Also, I had ear problems making me effective deaf untill i was 3. It took 13 years of speech thearapy to get to a reasonable level. That of course, doens't effect my writting, but its a good all-pupose excuse.
on behalf of slashdot, I would like to appoligize. I blame it on the system, however. I was rushing to get a post before there were 500 others just like mine. I would also like to blame wmy mother, who used to proof read my papers in high school. In college I just turned in bad papers and got bad marks. and now my employer is tuck with an employee who can barely write a decent email. It's the systems fault.
collect being the key word. Laser discs never caught on beyond big movie fans a hobbiests. back in the arly/mid 90's I knew maybe 3 people who owned laser dsc players. Now I don't know anyone who doesn't own a DVD play.
I do however, know plenty of people (my parents included) who don't see a need for board band, but still go to blockbuster to rent a dvd every once and a while.
responding to my own comment, here is the relevant quote:
"Do you think the interactivity of game violence makes it different than violence on television, which is passive?
A lot of critics like to believe that since you're the one in control you're going try that stuff in real life. Ever fire a gun? I bet you it's nothing like a controller. "
What ever happened to people rallying against violent movies? Games may have a bigger influence because of their interactivy, but don't people do stupid shit they see in movies too?
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The fun isn't even beging yet. These probaly wont ship out for a while. but you know the minute someone gets one, they are going to take it apart. then the real fun begins.
Xerox invented the GUI, apple just brought it to the people.
In this case all my annoyance is at Newsweek. the state of mainstream journalism in this country is pretty bad, and they don't need to be turing over their pages to corperate PR folks. How about taking the CEOs talking points and then going into the workplace and see them actually being implemented? Ask the average employee about the quality of the food in the cafeteria. Do a little work.
This isn't wuite as bad as the news orginizations who did nothing but repeat the Bush administration's lies in the lead up to war, but its the exact same concept.
In the meantime, Im happy to see more shows on itunes
Seriously, has this guy ever heard of the first amendment? how about New York Times vs Sulivan?. Mr. Thompson is a public figure and therefore a valid target of criticism. Penny arcade has done nothing except to post the messages the Jack has sent. people making death threats could be prosucted. but PA is protected under the law.
from the article:
"Whenever a company may do something that's completely different than its historical focus, there is risk,'"
My qyestion is, what would ebay want with VIOP? Paypal and Half.com made sense for ebay to pick up, but I'm just not seeing this at all...
It would certianly look good on a mayors resume to say that he provided the whole city with internet access, but for some reason I have a feeling that the people who would benefit most from this are the upper middle class who already have wireless enable commputers. I don't see this doing a lot for those who can't already aford access themsleves.
I'm a vegetarian
for use as a remote media center, the mac mini looks great, but im a bit disapointed with the weak video card that won't take advantage of tigers CoreImage features. I wonder if apple is going to release a OSX Medi Center edition since these mini's aren't optimised for tiger.
technicaly, there are three accelerators on a car the gas pedal provides positive acceleration, the brake provides negative acceleration and the steering wheel allwos for lateral acceleration.
The escape hatch also has exploding bolts.
The only exploding part that should be left off is the leaky o-rings that helped the chalenger to exploded in '86.
now if we'd stop spending our money exploding things in the middle east, where could have these new luanch vehicles sooner rather than later.
Global warming will speed to extenction of many creatures, but it will also aid evoltion of many more.
only sith lords deal in absolutes
The real question is when will it return to threaten earth as part of a destructive alien entity? and will Kirk, Spock and the gang be ready to save us?
It's up to any local government to regulate the behavior of local companies.
Right on. In the US slaes tax is set in each state (Oregon doesn't have any, while in california in varies from 7-8%) As far as I know large mail order companies that sell in their own state are required to add sales tax, whether the order is taken by mail phone or internet. Australia just enforces their sales tax on a nationwide basis
Apple's Logic Pro audio suite released a few months ago has the ability to offload audio rendering tasks to other g5's on the same network. A very cool technology that makes a lot of sense to use in pro video enviroments where it is likely that there a dozens of other workstations on the network.
Info on distributed audio processing here.
while this wasn't about blogging, Google owns blogger.com so I doubt that they woudl have any problem with them. I am curious however to see how google plans to make money with blogger, besides encouraging bloogers to put up advertising.
Screw the tin foil hats, how about a tin foil glove? IIRC, can't RFIDs on products be somehow deactived when you leave the store? IF there was a way to turn it off and on, this wouldn't be so bad, but I wouldn't want something that has info on my all the time, even if it is encyrpted.
you mean this? http://search.yahoo.com/
Admitedly the front page is messy, but I know lots of people who would complain if they have to navigate through a couple of sub menus to get to what they want. I Wouldn't mind the cookies and ads if it knew extacly what I wanted. (finace yes, fashion no)
Also, I had ear problems making me effective deaf untill i was 3. It took 13 years of speech thearapy to get to a reasonable level. That of course, doens't effect my writting, but its a good all-pupose excuse.
on behalf of slashdot, I would like to appoligize. I blame it on the system, however. I was rushing to get a post before there were 500 others just like mine. I would also like to blame wmy mother, who used to proof read my papers in high school. In college I just turned in bad papers and got bad marks. and now my employer is tuck with an employee who can barely write a decent email. It's the systems fault.
I do however, know plenty of people (my parents included) who don't see a need for board band, but still go to blockbuster to rent a dvd every once and a while.
DVD's aren't going anywhere.
"Do you think the interactivity of game violence makes it different than violence on television, which is passive?
A lot of critics like to believe that since you're the one in control you're going try that stuff in real life. Ever fire a gun? I bet you it's nothing like a controller. "
What ever happened to people rallying against violent movies? Games may have a bigger influence because of their interactivy, but don't people do stupid shit they see in movies too?