When the general everyday user has gone embeded or web hosted. Apple want to be the ones with the "Creative Computer" Platform. This is all about testing Yellow Box to give Apples current developer confidence in the cross platform developement system. Then launch the system to a wider developer base at a WWDC somene down the track.
Sure it only leaves them with 10% max market share, but think they've already worked out that it's a profitable market share to have.
Didn't you see apple's patent application for "superdopper OLED display with integrated camera pixels and electrode matrix"
It's amazing the screen can double as a camera for video conference. The multitouch system can see your fingerprints so only you can use the phone. the electrodes give you a small electric shock when it registers a key press. They can double as a brail reader as well, for the visually impaired or use in pocket.
Best of all. The Screen can be used as both a touch and a stungun.
the other option is that it's an iPod. A new/replacement one with similar function to the iPhone without of coarse the Phoney bits. Just as long as it keeps the wifi.
Also worth memtioning that the first iPod was DRM free. Apple used it's popularity to get a launch of iTunes Music Store, with DRM saddly. Now they are using combined popularity to push a DRM free option.
I must be using the wrong Firefox. Or have it set on some sort of "for the blind" setting. Firefox seems to take 50% more screen area to render the same site, and still looks as ugly as sin.
Firefox loves Ads too, every Ad image seems to jump up to twice the size it would be when rendered by safari.
I don't know if you missed His Stevenesses Keynote at iPhone World in January, but Apple and Google are already buddies. Partners without Merging or something along those lines was the catch phase.
It's seems to be since then that MS now Sun have refound there interest in the Macworld
The mac is hub of the focus on digital media hardware and software.
Somebody has to create media an Apple wants as much of that pie as they can get. Hobbyists through to Mega Media Conglomerates Apple wants those dollars.
3% means they are probably doing pretty well at that goal.
The sort of thing that will bring the price down is wide scale adoption, which your really only going to get if someone like Apple or another big company starts to use them in a shipping product. They'll always be buying at greater scale which will get them better terms than a single buyer. So by the time it is practical Apple likely to have the puppies in iPods anyway, and it'll still be more expensive to hack one together.
It's interesting that it has been done, but not sure it's really a great suprise.
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I would think various scatterguns laws to hold anybody or everybody even remotely involved in moving any form of information some random person finds offensive might have them concerned.
I mean can a job at ICANN on monday and be on the sex offenders register by friday.
Why just "terrorism"?
Cockpits are at the pointy end of the plane for obvious reason. Which means things like Bird Strike as an example off the top of my head are a real threat to airline safety. Or for some reason the cabin has depressurised and the crew have all black out.
Surely such a system could be brought online in any number of situtations where the crews capacity is effected?
Sure nothing beats real people for doing the job, but nothing wrong with having back-ups
So you are saying on any platform it's a good idea to have redundant hardware. We use Macs in Business (Architecture) and well just run the business profitable enough so that hardware is not at premium, we keep two redundant Macs in the office and even go to the hassle of connecting them to the network so we can fire them up and update software, so they are ready to go.
We work on those deadlines of weeks and months and believe me there is no slack in that time for even days of down time. Really if your in business then you need to plan for such things not just leave them to chance of stock levels at your local store. Or on the other hand allowing to take off line to deal with the latest virus outbreak.
One owner of a graphic design company once said "computers are just like any staff, you have to allow for them wanting to take holidays, and call in sick on occasion"
It's hardly fair to judge any part of Apple by Apple Australia.
Apple Australia is one of the worst organisations i have to deal with i wish a couple deal with Apple Inc direct.
Could you also play on the shortcoming of voice rec system needing a clean stream and add mild distrotion to the speaker output to render any outgoing speach useless. Say in the frequency range of the Concentates which is the part of speach that carries the most meaning.
With all the tools in the box surely the best one is to have a trigger switch, like the computer name in OS X or the comm badge in Star trek, that can turn on the system and the performance hit that it involves.
He also appears to be running Leopard so i guess the lawyers are coming to ask question about that NDA he signed. (or the articles editor just lifted the shot of Apple's preview page for Leopard)
Either way a not a great example, of what seemed like the main point.
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Yes It's the information that is valuable not the delivery method.
But as you say it has bluetooth, and something software billing it's self as OS X. Why put up with a half hearted keyboard taking up room on the device for the short time you need it. the on screen keyboard looks as good as T9 input for SMS, and you'd have to wonder if any old bluetooth keyboard would work when you want to tap out a fair wack of text. There are nice small foldup bluetooth keyboards these days.
The ISP only have any pull due to bandwidth. And the broadcasters have the means to break the ISP monopolies. Well at least in Australia they do, what with the government giving the existing players enough spectrum with the move to digital to push at least 2 channels and a chunk of other data. Which would be more than enough bandwidth to push all the content they want to. Sell, lend or give the viewers a company set top box and treat all the shows as Pushed not Pulled Podcasts. Hey add a trusted-torrent over a wi-fi mesh between set-top boxes. Traditional media holds firm without being held by the bandwidth balls.
Most of the LED lights on the market are a lot "colder" than CFL's, although there are some colour mixing bulbs you can get as well. They tend to be expensive as they have to mix red, yellow and blue or cold white to get the right mix. The other issue with LED is that it's hard to make them to run on regular household voltages like standard incandesents and CFL, so you need a transformer, whichs tends to negate the benifit you get. Upshot is they don't make that good of a drop in replacement in household situations, except for Halogen downlights where you have the transformer already.
That said we are seeing more and more LED type lights for use in new installations if you design to use them there are a great product they offer you many options to play with in how you light space, although they don't do well for area lighting. Waiting for OLED large panel lights to fully round out the options.
I've heard things about LED/Flouroscent hybrids, that use very cheap to produce LEDs that output mostly UV, then use phospherscent coatings to convert that to white light. Just like CFL they can adjust the coating to get the right light colour temperture. Waiting to see what will hit the market. It's very promissing it's really is a best of both worlds situation as it's rarely the phospher coating that gives out in fluoro's. So you get low power, low heat, instant on, dimmable, good colour temp.
I am not a computer technical person, but reading about ZFS and similar i wonder one question.
Could i use a pool of disk images and Burnt CD's?
OK so maybe DVD's would be better or there might be Write once technology turn up sometime. It seems to me if the information is not overwritten on copy then does it matter if that drive space never comes back in to the pool? Have a pool of disk images, (50gig of hard drive space would give 10-12 DVD images) as the disk image gets full burn it, put it in a stack keep the image on the computer for a while as well then just drop them off as you need to free up the allotted drive space.
Why not burn a couple have one on hand put the other one elsewhere?
For a small bit of disk space, and on going cost of DVD's, you'd get a massive time machine backup disk. Ideally you'd be burning a disk once a week at least, even once a day would still be good.
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Yep there is a number 6 to that list.
When the general everyday user has gone embeded or web hosted.
Apple want to be the ones with the "Creative Computer" Platform.
This is all about testing Yellow Box to give Apples current developer confidence in the cross platform developement system. Then launch the system to a wider developer base at a WWDC somene down the track.
Sure it only leaves them with 10% max market share, but think they've already worked out that it's a profitable market share to have.
Didn't you see apple's patent application for
"superdopper OLED display with integrated camera pixels and electrode matrix"
It's amazing the screen can double as a camera for video conference.
The multitouch system can see your fingerprints so only you can use the phone.
the electrodes give you a small electric shock when it registers a key press.
They can double as a brail reader as well, for the visually impaired or use in pocket.
Best of all.
The Screen can be used as both a touch and a stungun.
How About Wifi?
Then I could find my car in 50metres.
instead of just 10.
the other option is that it's an iPod.
A new/replacement one with similar function to the iPhone without of coarse the Phoney bits.
Just as long as it keeps the wifi.
Also worth memtioning that the first iPod was DRM free.
Apple used it's popularity to get a launch of iTunes Music Store, with DRM saddly.
Now they are using combined popularity to push a DRM free option.
I must be using the wrong Firefox.
Or have it set on some sort of "for the blind" setting.
Firefox seems to take 50% more screen area to render the same site, and still looks as ugly as sin.
Firefox loves Ads too, every Ad image seems to jump up to twice the size it would be when rendered by safari.
Oh wait,...
Your making a joke,...
I don't know if you missed His Stevenesses Keynote at iPhone World in January, but Apple and Google are already buddies.
Partners without Merging or something along those lines was the catch phase.
It's seems to be since then that MS now Sun have refound there interest in the Macworld
That's ok,...
Version 2 - Will have GPS to finds it's way back to your room before the next morning.
The mac is hub of the focus on digital media hardware and software.
Somebody has to create media an Apple wants as much of that pie as they can get.
Hobbyists through to Mega Media Conglomerates Apple wants those dollars.
3% means they are probably doing pretty well at that goal.
The sort of thing that will bring the price down is wide scale adoption, which your really only going to get if someone like Apple or another big company starts to use them in a shipping product.
They'll always be buying at greater scale which will get them better terms than a single buyer.
So by the time it is practical Apple likely to have the puppies in iPods anyway, and it'll still be more expensive to hack one together.
It's interesting that it has been done, but not sure it's really a great suprise.
I would think various scatterguns laws to hold anybody or everybody even remotely involved in moving any form of information some random person finds offensive might have them concerned.
I mean can a job at ICANN on monday and be on the sex offenders register by friday.
But there is hope for a cure now we have a wonderful early detection tool called the Interweb.
I think it could be a good idea.
I mean all that pop music that is aimed at fickle teenage girls, would soon be without a workable business model.
Why just "terrorism"? Cockpits are at the pointy end of the plane for obvious reason. Which means things like Bird Strike as an example off the top of my head are a real threat to airline safety. Or for some reason the cabin has depressurised and the crew have all black out. Surely such a system could be brought online in any number of situtations where the crews capacity is effected? Sure nothing beats real people for doing the job, but nothing wrong with having back-ups
So you are saying on any platform it's a good idea to have redundant hardware.
We use Macs in Business (Architecture) and well just run the business profitable enough so that hardware is not at premium, we keep two redundant Macs in the office and even go to the hassle of connecting them to the network so we can fire them up and update software, so they are ready to go.
We work on those deadlines of weeks and months and believe me there is no slack in that time for even days of down time. Really if your in business then you need to plan for such things not just leave them to chance of stock levels at your local store. Or on the other hand allowing to take off line to deal with the latest virus outbreak.
One owner of a graphic design company once said "computers are just like any staff, you have to allow for them wanting to take holidays, and call in sick on occasion"
It's hardly fair to judge any part of Apple by Apple Australia. Apple Australia is one of the worst organisations i have to deal with i wish a couple deal with Apple Inc direct.
Could you also play on the shortcoming of voice rec system needing a clean stream
and add mild distrotion to the speaker output to render any outgoing speach useless.
Say in the frequency range of the Concentates which is the part of speach that carries the most meaning.
With all the tools in the box surely the best one is to have a trigger switch, like the computer name in OS X or the comm badge in Star trek, that can turn on the system and the performance hit that it involves.
He also appears to be running Leopard so i guess the lawyers are coming to ask question about that NDA he signed.
(or the articles editor just lifted the shot of Apple's preview page for Leopard)
Either way a not a great example, of what seemed like the main point.
Yes
It's the information that is valuable not the delivery method.
But as you say it has bluetooth, and something software billing it's self as OS X.
Why put up with a half hearted keyboard taking up room on the device for the short time you need it.
the on screen keyboard looks as good as T9 input for SMS, and you'd have to wonder if any old bluetooth keyboard would work when you want to tap out a fair wack of text. There are nice small foldup bluetooth keyboards these days.
Yes they are, but they pulling in all the iPods and Phones as Mac OS X sales as well.
Two can play the market share game.
The ISP only have any pull due to bandwidth.
And the broadcasters have the means to break the ISP monopolies.
Well at least in Australia they do, what with the government giving the existing players enough spectrum with the move to digital to push at least 2 channels and a chunk of other data. Which would be more than enough bandwidth to push all the content they want to.
Sell, lend or give the viewers a company set top box and treat all the shows as Pushed not Pulled Podcasts.
Hey add a trusted-torrent over a wi-fi mesh between set-top boxes. Traditional media holds firm without being held by the bandwidth balls.
Most of the LED lights on the market are a lot "colder" than CFL's, although there are some colour mixing bulbs you can get as well. They tend to be expensive as they have to mix red, yellow and blue or cold white to get the right mix.
The other issue with LED is that it's hard to make them to run on regular household voltages like standard incandesents and CFL, so you need a transformer, whichs tends to negate the benifit you get.
Upshot is they don't make that good of a drop in replacement in household situations, except for Halogen downlights where you have the transformer already.
That said we are seeing more and more LED type lights for use in new installations if you design to use them there are a great product they offer you many options to play with in how you light space, although they don't do well for area lighting. Waiting for OLED large panel lights to fully round out the options.
I've heard things about LED/Flouroscent hybrids, that use very cheap to produce LEDs that output mostly UV, then use phospherscent coatings to convert that to white light. Just like CFL they can adjust the coating to get the right light colour temperture. Waiting to see what will hit the market. It's very promissing it's really is a best of both worlds situation as it's rarely the phospher coating that gives out in fluoro's. So you get low power, low heat, instant on, dimmable, good colour temp.
What about fruit fly?
It's done a lot of damage to Apple crops near my house.
I am not a computer technical person, but reading about ZFS and similar i wonder one question.
Could i use a pool of disk images and Burnt CD's?
OK so maybe DVD's would be better or there might be Write once technology turn up sometime.
It seems to me if the information is not overwritten on copy then does it matter if that drive space never comes back in to the pool?
Have a pool of disk images, (50gig of hard drive space would give 10-12 DVD images) as the disk image gets full burn it, put it in a stack keep the image on the computer for a while as well then just drop them off as you need to free up the allotted drive space.
Why not burn a couple have one on hand put the other one elsewhere?
For a small bit of disk space, and on going cost of DVD's, you'd get a massive time machine backup disk.
Ideally you'd be burning a disk once a week at least, even once a day would still be good.
Is this at all feasible using ZFS or another FS?