Yes, Google could in theory wipe out all the beta accounts to staert with a clean slate. But I can't immagine why they would want to do so in this case. Perhaps you are thinking of the way game companies like Blizzard handle beta programs for their multiplayer games. In that case, there is a competitive advantage to those who have had longer to build up their diablo characters, so beta accounts disappear in the interest of fairness. However, since email is not a game, the only point to wiping the beta users is if they want to seriously piss a bunch of people off, especially those who have been promised that they could save all their email on it until the end of time.
So, if you want that email address that badly, go ahead and buy it and give us poor folk something to roll our eyes at. On the other hand, this might violate google's gmail EULA, though I doubt anyone's taken the time to read through it all yet...
I'm not sure I see the wisdom in Apple making it easy for every app developed for the Mac OS to be easily ported to linux. If the available applications are equal, then what do you think most professional users are going to choose, a $500 linux machine or a $1600 power mac?
That might be great for linux users, but I fear it could lead to The Great Mac Sales Meltdown. I also suspect that Apple realizes it could be in serious danger if it lets the big guns go over to cheap linux hardware. I think this was alluded to in the article, but I'm not going back through all that again to check.
So I've been scouring Epson's site, and I can't seem to find the driver software for the MX-70 printer anywhere. And office depo doesn't even have the print heads in stock. What gives?
seriously though, I wonder what would happen if you were to call Epson tech support about a problem with your TRS-80 and the MX-70 printer.
I'm annoyed that Apple won't let you download the videos. I would even be willing to pay for such a service. Instead I guess I'll just have to keep repeatedly sucking their bandwidth. I can only guess that licensing issues barred them from offering this. I also find it interesting that the videos effectively give you a full preview of an entire song, and not just the 30 second clip.
When expanded to properly display the album art and the new large-format videos, iTunes balloons to a size that is far, far to large for any jukebox. It's almost to large to gracefully use on a PB12's display (thank god for exposé). I wonder if this application inflation is part of some nefarious Jobsian plot to make us buy those gigantic cinema displays...
Additionally, the app now also features a cool track melding feature not mentioned in the heading. This makes it a lot easy to make seamless listening possible for tracks that are supposed to proceed without pausing, So now I can finally listen to classical tracks the way they are supposed to sound. Seamless and lossless. Cool.
Why do people keep spelling porn pr0n here? Or are you referring to there being a finite limit to the amount of prawn in the universe (although that's a relief too). No, seriously, I'm curious....
Of course you don't _need_ to buy the books. I didn't need to buy any of my mountain of computer reference books eiter. But part of being an obsessive geek is that you are compelled to assemble miniature libraries, and a huge chunk of that cool $1 billion that TSR has raked in over the years has come from exploiting that compulsion.
On the other hand, I found the books to be pretty good toilet reading anyway, so I always felt that I was getting my money's worth.
This seems like a slightly more transient version of having a grafitti wall at a party. While it might have some gimmicky appeal for the first party it shows up at, I can't really see the long term appeal. I mean, are you going to want and sit there and look at someone's posting to the light fixture, or look at the hot girl/guy accross the room. Besides, it's not like IM is an amazing fountain of creativity. It would be mostly people sending the same kind of drivel over and over again and feeling witty. Almost like slashdot....
I'm surprised that only 49% thought that "the ability to connect it to a PC" was important in an MP3-er- portable music player. This begs the question of what the other half is doing with their iPods. Maybe they actually _are_ just fashion accessories.
Still, it's probably more reliable than any slashdot poll...
If 1024x768 resolution sounds a bit tight to you, then I would deffinitely get the powerbook, as the iBooks do not have full support for using an external monitor. An external display is only useable in mirroring mode, which constrains things to the iBooks rez. This is basically a result of apple crippling the hardware to keep it from canabalizing the pro line. However, an open firmware hack available at this website partially restores that capability, letting you span the screen (but not fully disable the laptop display, effectively halving your vram for games and the like).
>The best people to find are those who have worked in the IT [information technology] industry
This could end up being the one IT job that can't be outsourced to India...
But when you compare Apple and Adobe you are, um, comparing apples and oranges. Compared to other _hardware_ manufacturers, Apple has consistantly been one of the few that has maintained healthy profit margins. The only other PC manufacturer that I know of that has kept it's profit margins on hardware as healthy as Apple is Sony, which like apple has been successful in distinguishing its products in an increasingly comoditized market. So au contraire, Apple CAN compete on hardware, and it IS profitable.
> it's taking valuable entertainment dollars out of the market.
maybe, but you know where those valuable entertainment dollars go? Right back into the pockets of the consumers, who then procede to spend it on other goods and services. The harm in this case is against the consumer, who should have a right to control physical property that he has purchased. It's a DVD, not a license to play the game on the DVD, that people are purchasing.
I don't see why we have to engineer these controls to make the gaming market become bigger than it should be under free market conditions. Although the gaming companies may cry economic foul, the economy as a whole should benefit from what would become a more efficient market system.
Here in Tokyo I've always found it weird that while CD rentals are very popular and perfectly legal, Game rentals are banned and nonexistant. Can you immagine the massive hissyfit the RIAA would throw if people could take their favorite backstreet boys CD home for $2 and copy it to their MD players? And yet the gaming industry here is petrified at the notion that users might be able to try out the latest 100-hour RPG game for a night.
Maybe the game industry in Japan just has more legislative clout to get the government to give it control over users, but I doubt it given the size of the music industry here.
I wonder if maybe it's just that historically the reason so many more games are available in Japan is because so many of those games are very, very, crappy. If people are able to rent a game and realize how shoddy it is, maybe they would be discourraged from buying the product. This same thinking might explain the crusade against resale -- a much larger chunk of the gaming pie here consists of titles that are simply worth the wait for buying used.
I think it's fundamentally different because Apple makes its own hardware. If apple was licensing its OS and it were to force vendors to include its suite on its machines, and the vendors were forced to comply because there are no commercially viable alternatives, then I think Apple would find itself with similar legal woes.
Of course, if Apple was able to control 90% of the computer hardware market, it would be a pretty good indication that something somewhere had gone horribly, horribly wrong.
No, but I would suggest that the rationale to dragging this out onto national television was to counteract the massive negative publicity that the corporation has been getting lately with the boardroom shennanegins and the stock trading at a third of it's value 2 years ago. I mean, companies invent cool stuff all the time, but how often do you see them plugging this sort of thing on morning talk shows? And with expected uses in fire systems for museums and galleries, it's not even a very consumer-oriented project.
The cynic in me has to wonder if this announcement/demonstration hasn't been conveniently timed to draw attention away from the fact that Tyco's former CEO is currently on trial for looting the company and a lot of its former board members are also facing criminal charges...
"Hey! Look over there! Water that doesn't get stuff wet!"//ss
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Yes, Google could in theory wipe out all the beta accounts to staert with a clean slate. But I can't immagine why they would want to do so in this case. Perhaps you are thinking of the way game companies like Blizzard handle beta programs for their multiplayer games. In that case, there is a competitive advantage to those who have had longer to build up their diablo characters, so beta accounts disappear in the interest of fairness. However, since email is not a game, the only point to wiping the beta users is if they want to seriously piss a bunch of people off, especially those who have been promised that they could save all their email on it until the end of time.
So, if you want that email address that badly, go ahead and buy it and give us poor folk something to roll our eyes at. On the other hand, this might violate google's gmail EULA, though I doubt anyone's taken the time to read through it all yet...
That might be great for linux users, but I fear it could lead to The Great Mac Sales Meltdown. I also suspect that Apple realizes it could be in serious danger if it lets the big guns go over to cheap linux hardware. I think this was alluded to in the article, but I'm not going back through all that again to check.
but I've found that I can actually get better results by soaking my hard drive overnight in coca-cola.
Now if Apple will only get on the ball and release the OS X drivers for my imagewriter...
seriously though, I wonder what would happen if you were to call Epson tech support about a problem with your TRS-80 and the MX-70 printer.
I'm annoyed that Apple won't let you download the videos. I would even be willing to pay for such a service. Instead I guess I'll just have to keep repeatedly sucking their bandwidth. I can only guess that licensing issues barred them from offering this. I also find it interesting that the videos effectively give you a full preview of an entire song, and not just the 30 second clip.
Additionally, the app now also features a cool track melding feature not mentioned in the heading. This makes it a lot easy to make seamless listening possible for tracks that are supposed to proceed without pausing, So now I can finally listen to classical tracks the way they are supposed to sound. Seamless and lossless. Cool.
Why do people keep spelling porn pr0n here? Or are you referring to there being a finite limit to the amount of prawn in the universe (although that's a relief too). No, seriously, I'm curious....
On the other hand, I found the books to be pretty good toilet reading anyway, so I always felt that I was getting my money's worth.
This seems like a slightly more transient version of having a grafitti wall at a party. While it might have some gimmicky appeal for the first party it shows up at, I can't really see the long term appeal. I mean, are you going to want and sit there and look at someone's posting to the light fixture, or look at the hot girl/guy accross the room. Besides, it's not like IM is an amazing fountain of creativity. It would be mostly people sending the same kind of drivel over and over again and feeling witty. Almost like slashdot....
Still, it's probably more reliable than any slashdot poll...
If 1024x768 resolution sounds a bit tight to you, then I would deffinitely get the powerbook, as the iBooks do not have full support for using an external monitor. An external display is only useable in mirroring mode, which constrains things to the iBooks rez. This is basically a result of apple crippling the hardware to keep it from canabalizing the pro line. However, an open firmware hack available at this website partially restores that capability, letting you span the screen (but not fully disable the laptop display, effectively halving your vram for games and the like).
So this is the new vader costume? I'm skeptical.
>The best people to find are those who have worked in the IT [information technology] industry This could end up being the one IT job that can't be outsourced to India...
But when you compare Apple and Adobe you are, um, comparing apples and oranges. Compared to other _hardware_ manufacturers, Apple has consistantly been one of the few that has maintained healthy profit margins. The only other PC manufacturer that I know of that has kept it's profit margins on hardware as healthy as Apple is Sony, which like apple has been successful in distinguishing its products in an increasingly comoditized market. So au contraire, Apple CAN compete on hardware, and it IS profitable.
I can proudly say that I've only ever found one piece of spyware on my machine. It was something called photoshop...
is that now they can choose schools based on those that are willing to offer them their porn how they want it, where they want it. And they want it.
maybe, but you know where those valuable entertainment dollars go? Right back into the pockets of the consumers, who then procede to spend it on other goods and services. The harm in this case is against the consumer, who should have a right to control physical property that he has purchased. It's a DVD, not a license to play the game on the DVD, that people are purchasing.
I don't see why we have to engineer these controls to make the gaming market become bigger than it should be under free market conditions. Although the gaming companies may cry economic foul, the economy as a whole should benefit from what would become a more efficient market system.
Maybe the game industry in Japan just has more legislative clout to get the government to give it control over users, but I doubt it given the size of the music industry here.
I wonder if maybe it's just that historically the reason so many more games are available in Japan is because so many of those games are very, very, crappy. If people are able to rent a game and realize how shoddy it is, maybe they would be discourraged from buying the product. This same thinking might explain the crusade against resale -- a much larger chunk of the gaming pie here consists of titles that are simply worth the wait for buying used.
I think it's fundamentally different because Apple makes its own hardware. If apple was licensing its OS and it were to force vendors to include its suite on its machines, and the vendors were forced to comply because there are no commercially viable alternatives, then I think Apple would find itself with similar legal woes. Of course, if Apple was able to control 90% of the computer hardware market, it would be a pretty good indication that something somewhere had gone horribly, horribly wrong.
No, but I would suggest that the rationale to dragging this out onto national television was to counteract the massive negative publicity that the corporation has been getting lately with the boardroom shennanegins and the stock trading at a third of it's value 2 years ago. I mean, companies invent cool stuff all the time, but how often do you see them plugging this sort of thing on morning talk shows? And with expected uses in fire systems for museums and galleries, it's not even a very consumer-oriented project.
Yeah, I think I remember reading somewhere that THE EXPLORER'S IRREPLACABLE BATTERY LASTS ONLY 18 MONTHS...
The cynic in me has to wonder if this announcement/demonstration hasn't been conveniently timed to draw attention away from the fact that Tyco's former CEO is currently on trial for looting the company and a lot of its former board members are also facing criminal charges... "Hey! Look over there! Water that doesn't get stuff wet!" //ss