I'm not sure i understand your point. You don't have to use iTunes Music Store DRM locked AAC encoded Music purchased form the Apple Owned store.
It would be more correct to say. I suspect you'd be all for GM offering GM Biodiesel that only works in GM cars(what I'm assuming some sort of special shaped nosel) . As the customer can choose between GM Biodiesel (Apple Fairplay), regular biodiesel (AAC) or mineral diesel (MP3), all of which will work, Or they buy their car from someone else if they found a model which better suited them. They may even choose a petrol car (WMP).
Ok at some point Apple, and our Mythical GM Biodesiel might decide that they are missing out on customers and open up to improve cash-flow. That of course would be the free market at work.
Not to sure on the history but when Ford stated mass producing cars did they start their own chain of petrol stations? After all their product was limited without the supporting products, sure there where cars already but not the level that Henry was after. Oh and they gave full service no doubt with windows cleaned and water checked.
Car analogies aren't really good here. after all you are comparing a mature market with that of a young market still establishing it's frameworks.
Disclosure: i own no shares in apple, ford, GM, or petrol stations. and boy am I kicking myself for one of those no being in my portfolio.
Except for one small problem, as i understand it,.. Record company when they sign an artist give them an advance (aka a loan). this advance is used by the artist to buy goods and services to get the music recorded and the packaging designed. For the most part this money is spent in Recording company own studios, PR, design and Marketing firms (which no doubt have a nice healthy profit margin built in to the price). Pretty much all the IP parts of the deal. I thing the artist even covers promotions.
The Record company covers physical product production and distribution, and profit. what's left over goes to the artist as a royalty but of course they have to pay the advance back to the record company, and maybe buy some food. So in the end the record company and subsideries get the money several times over, milking a bit of profit each time. Sure most artists never pay back the advance which sure looks like a lose.
So the question under iTunes is why does the Record Company get any of the wholesale iTune money? After all Apple are the Store, the producer of the physical product (well as physical as a stream of bits is), and the distribution (bandwidth). The Artist has covered the IP costs, and all the Record Company has done is lent the artist a stack of money to get the ball rolling. I mean the record company is just using it as excuse to stop the loan being payed back a tiny bit faster, keep the artist tied to them.
The digital Music player that Okley sells either built in or attached to sun glasses supports AAC files. Sony Ericson K750i phones support AAC files (even as ringtones), probably others in the range as well. Soundbridge distributed home music players i'm sure also support the format.
Just three off hand that i can think of i'm sure there are others.
Oddly Creative Video Players support MPEG 4 as a video format, but AAC (aka MPEG4 audio) is not supported.
Why dual boot to Windows? If you could boot to the OS on the Games disk itself? After all Why Not just treat your Mac or Indeed EFI based white box as a console? It's a platform that would complete in the full specutum of the gaming market, from set top boxs thru to the fully spec'ed up BYO.
Pure speculation, but would sure make things interesting, if you take away Windows dominace in games. Yet it seems like the sort of project that could be very valuable to Both Apple and Intel in the long term.
Let's face it EFI is as good name for a gaming platform as XBox or Playstation, what with all the Cars and high proformance engines.
;-) You do realise that if Science starts to suggest Gobal Warming is the effect more of water in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, we are screwed in more ways than we are unwilling to accept.
After all if it is water, that is linked to energy use wholesale, not just the use of Carbon based energy, screwing the environment. We will have to break more than dependance on oil and coal.
I'm not an Electrical Engineer,... But couldn't this be applied to most of the chips in the computer? not going to help the Harddrive and probably not the LCD. (Although aren't modern screen just big bright and flashly logic arrays)
In which case the Power reduction would be segnificant, not just the saving of the CPU.
Given that in most places we want power we also want hot water. I'm not sure why they don't combine PV Solar with absorption panels linked to a heat pump and the hot water system, or heat the pool.
Finding uses for heat, in most building isn't all that hard.
Deal with PV's problems by teaming with other technologies instead of trying to solve all the problems in isolation.
Not sure how Apple's position is under threat from any decline in Windows?
They have always targeted as the prime market "people who do creative stuff" even if most of the computer market moves towards Appliance type devices or so called thin clients, so some one still needs to make content. People who make "Content" will still need more general propose machines.
In that case if Apple can hold it's "Creative" market then it will continue to grow as the rest of the market disappears in to the realm of TV, car, fridge and Mobile phone makers. While Linux (backed by IBM and others) and Windows battle for the back end.
If Apple are going to open up Mac OS X I would more expect they would do so in way to tie more content creaters to them. Maybe a version Xcode that can make complete standalone bootable Applications.
Can't the same be said for a number of technologies?
From Hydrogen to bio-fuels. Not that rampant use of energy is advisable after all the Earth's energy cycle maybe about to cope allot better as we reduce our impact on the carbon cycle which it uses to balance the system, even still, we need to be careful as we will still be adding vast amounts of energy to the system which we are still relying on the Earth to waste into space at night.
My concern with Nuclear is that like coal and oil, it is still digging up energy that the natural world locked up long ago, and we are still expecting the Earth to deal with the waste energy we produce.
Sure it's important to reduce the amount of carbon we are taking out of the sink, but that doesn't take in to account that in the end it's atmospheric energy that causes stronger weather patterns. So if we replace all Carbon burning with Nuclear we are still having a major effect on the system. Maybe it will delay the big issues for a while. Where as the so called "Solar" Technologies (photovoltaic, wind, bio-fuels) are really just Hijacking the energy as it passes through.
The bottom line is that we still need to look at our energy use and how we habitat our planet. I guess it still holds true that it's lots of little answers to the solution. Not even the same group of answers will suit all situations.
Has anyone considered this guy may be a specialist tester in high demand, for his/her ability to find ways to screw up royally even "Bulletproof" software?
Well yes the market for mac games shrinks, but the size of the market of people willing to dual boot from either Mac or Windows or even Linux Productive environments is growing.
So when is that market big enough to make games that are standalone boot disks worth while?
Given Apple want to keep a hold of what is still their core market "people who do creative things", like game producers, then it would seem to be worth their while to make the tools to make it happen. It seem they are in a position to make it happen, given the work to OsX and Parentships with Intel or Steve's influnce at content producers such as Disney.
Are you sure you want to be a B-party to any of our Pollies? Your bound to come under the very long arm of this law much sooner that way.
You have to wonder does emailing all the pollies count as an "act of spam". Or has that democratic right been taken away here in a nice slight of hand.
That is a feature of targeting your OS to a particular hardware platform.
Keep in mind that the eyecandy in OS X has gotten more optimized over the years with Altivec on G4 and G5 machines and now with SSE2 and/or SSE3 with the introduction of the Intel CPUs.
It's funny you say that.
After all most the of the OS X eye candy is based on Quartz and Core Image which from the onset of OS X seem to have been planed as, and as of Tiger mostly implimented as OpenGL based code. So while Apple like to make the whole widget, they seem to be doing a lot to things to make themselves immune to hardware dependance as well.
Last time I looked the G5 didn't have another slot that could support any of the video cards needed to drive the more of the 30inch Screens. After all the Quadro FX 4500 occupies the 16-lane PCI Express graphics slot and the adjacent PCI Express slot.
And just randomly guessing what will be happening to OSX in January. Well if steve is previewing X.5 at the developer conference, you can pretty much guess the full release would be planned for Macworld in January. Although they may release earlier.
How about a steal framed module structure? Add some steal mesh in the frames and you have a pretty effective Faraday's cage, that should kill most wireless signals. (just look at how bad Wifi is in steel stud partitioned offices) You could even be selective about how much signal blocking you do in each area by choice of materials. Also comes down to a matter of how much mass and airflow you need in the house to suit your local climate, but this can be achieved in many ways to suit your original intent.
No i don't honestly think it will happen, that any of the states will split off. After all it seem all but impossible under the constitution. (btw an interesting document fairly accessible language and under 100 pages, I was shocked how simple yet powerful it was when i first read it.) On the other hand removing the state tier of government would also be a fairly impossible thing as well, requiring basically a new constitution altogether as well.
Yes i understand that the point of organizing into to communities/ states/ nations is to give us all a better chance of succeeding. To foster the notion of a "fair go".
As you say it comes down to identity. Sydneysiders are Australian first and Sydenysiders second, and there things that we will attribute to being Australian which maybe more attributes of Sydney culture. Not surprising given how much of Australia's international profile is tied to Sydney. The downside is if those things are disrespected by the nation or the government all to willing to play politics of fear and division then the question will of coarse be asked. "Do we still want to be a part of this?"
It's then that people start looking at the resource balancing as well and ask is in fair.
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I'm not sure i understand your point.
You don't have to use iTunes Music Store DRM locked AAC encoded Music purchased form the Apple Owned store.
It would be more correct to say.
I suspect you'd be all for GM offering GM Biodiesel that only works in GM cars(what I'm assuming some sort of special shaped nosel) . As the customer can choose between GM Biodiesel (Apple Fairplay), regular biodiesel (AAC) or mineral diesel (MP3), all of which will work, Or they buy their car from someone else if they found a model which better suited them. They may even choose a petrol car (WMP).
Ok at some point Apple, and our Mythical GM Biodesiel might decide that they are missing out on customers and open up to improve cash-flow.
That of course would be the free market at work.
Not to sure on the history but when Ford stated mass producing cars did they start their own chain of petrol stations?
After all their product was limited without the supporting products, sure there where cars already but not the level that Henry was after.
Oh and they gave full service no doubt with windows cleaned and water checked.
Car analogies aren't really good here. after all you are comparing a mature market with that of a young market still establishing it's frameworks.
Disclosure: i own no shares in apple, ford, GM, or petrol stations. and boy am I kicking myself for one of those no being in my portfolio.
Maybe all 18 have already committed to high paying summer jobs.
Except for one small problem, as i understand it,..
Record company when they sign an artist give them an advance (aka a loan).
this advance is used by the artist to buy goods and services to get the music recorded and the packaging designed.
For the most part this money is spent in Recording company own studios, PR, design and Marketing firms (which no doubt have a nice healthy profit margin built in to the price). Pretty much all the IP parts of the deal. I thing the artist even covers promotions.
The Record company covers physical product production and distribution, and profit. what's left over goes to the artist as a royalty but of course they have to pay the advance back to the record company, and maybe buy some food.
So in the end the record company and subsideries get the money several times over, milking a bit of profit each time.
Sure most artists never pay back the advance which sure looks like a lose.
So the question under iTunes is why does the Record Company get any of the wholesale iTune money?
After all Apple are the Store, the producer of the physical product (well as physical as a stream of bits is), and the distribution (bandwidth).
The Artist has covered the IP costs, and all the Record Company has done is lent the artist a stack of money to get the ball rolling.
I mean the record company is just using it as excuse to stop the loan being payed back a tiny bit faster, keep the artist tied to them.
The digital Music player that Okley sells either built in or attached to sun glasses supports AAC files.
Sony Ericson K750i phones support AAC files (even as ringtones), probably others in the range as well.
Soundbridge distributed home music players i'm sure also support the format.
Just three off hand that i can think of i'm sure there are others.
Oddly Creative Video Players support MPEG 4 as a video format, but AAC (aka MPEG4 audio) is not supported.
Let's face it Wii is aimed at everyone except snotty nosed l33t t33n Boi Gamers.
Why dual boot to Windows?
If you could boot to the OS on the Games disk itself?
After all Why Not just treat your Mac or Indeed EFI based white box as a console?
It's a platform that would complete in the full specutum of the gaming market, from set top boxs thru to the fully spec'ed up BYO.
Pure speculation, but would sure make things interesting, if you take away Windows dominace in games. Yet it seems like the sort of project that could be very valuable to Both Apple and Intel in the long term.
Let's face it EFI is as good name for a gaming platform as XBox or Playstation, what with all the Cars and high proformance engines.
;-) You do realise that if Science starts to suggest Gobal Warming is the effect more of water in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, we are screwed in more ways than we are unwilling to accept.
After all if it is water, that is linked to energy use wholesale, not just the use of Carbon based energy, screwing the environment. We will have to break more than dependance on oil and coal.
I'm not an Electrical Engineer,...
But couldn't this be applied to most of the chips in the computer?
not going to help the Harddrive and probably not the LCD.
(Although aren't modern screen just big bright and flashly logic arrays)
In which case the Power reduction would be segnificant, not just the saving of the CPU.
So we'll see this in the Core 4 Quatro?
Clearly they are saving the domestic cat names for the Media Centre/Set top box.
Given that in most places we want power we also want hot water.
I'm not sure why they don't combine PV Solar with absorption panels linked to a heat pump and the hot water system, or heat the pool.
Finding uses for heat, in most building isn't all that hard.
Deal with PV's problems by teaming with other technologies instead of trying to solve all the problems in isolation.
Not sure how Apple's position is under threat from any decline in Windows?
They have always targeted as the prime market "people who do creative stuff"
even if most of the computer market moves towards Appliance type devices or so called thin clients, so some one still needs to make content. People who make "Content" will still need more general propose machines.
In that case if Apple can hold it's "Creative" market then it will continue to grow as the rest of the market disappears in to the realm of TV, car, fridge and Mobile phone makers.
While Linux (backed by IBM and others) and Windows battle for the back end.
If Apple are going to open up Mac OS X I would more expect they would do so in way to tie more content creaters to them. Maybe a version Xcode that can make complete standalone bootable Applications.
I thought it was to protect the American Cotton industry.
It sounds like that was just another nail in the coffin.
Can't the same be said for a number of technologies?
From Hydrogen to bio-fuels. Not that rampant use of energy is advisable after all the Earth's energy cycle maybe about to cope allot better as we reduce our impact on the carbon cycle which it uses to balance the system, even still, we need to be careful as we will still be adding vast amounts of energy to the system which we are still relying on the Earth to waste into space at night.
My concern with Nuclear is that like coal and oil, it is still digging up energy that the natural world locked up long ago, and we are still expecting the Earth to deal with the waste energy we produce.
Sure it's important to reduce the amount of carbon we are taking out of the sink, but that doesn't take in to account that in the end it's atmospheric energy that causes stronger weather patterns. So if we replace all Carbon burning with Nuclear we are still having a major effect on the system. Maybe it will delay the big issues for a while. Where as the so called "Solar" Technologies (photovoltaic, wind, bio-fuels) are really just Hijacking the energy as it passes through.
The bottom line is that we still need to look at our energy use and how we habitat our planet. I guess it still holds true that it's lots of little answers to the solution. Not even the same group of answers will suit all situations.
Has anyone considered this guy may be a specialist tester in high demand, for his/her ability to find ways to screw up royally even "Bulletproof" software?
Well yes the market for mac games shrinks, but the size of the market of people willing to dual boot from either Mac or Windows or even Linux Productive environments is growing.
So when is that market big enough to make games that are standalone boot disks worth while?
Given Apple want to keep a hold of what is still their core market "people who do creative things", like game producers, then it would seem to be worth their while to make the tools to make it happen.
It seem they are in a position to make it happen, given the work to OsX and Parentships with Intel or Steve's influnce at content producers such as Disney.
Australia is a multi-cultural nation, we claim anyone as ours if they are here at the time of doing something interesting.
Except Russel Crowe, he turned out to be complete knob and we don't want him anymore, so now he's a New Zealander again.
Are you sure you want to be a B-party to any of our Pollies?
Your bound to come under the very long arm of this law much sooner that way.
You have to wonder does emailing all the pollies count as an "act of spam".
Or has that democratic right been taken away here in a nice slight of hand.
You mean you take the word of zealots of any faith seriously?
It's funny you say that.
After all most the of the OS X eye candy is based on Quartz and Core Image which from the onset of OS X seem to have been planed as, and as of Tiger mostly implimented as OpenGL based code. So while Apple like to make the whole widget, they seem to be doing a lot to things to make themselves immune to hardware dependance as well.
Last time I looked the G5 didn't have another slot that could support any of the video cards needed to drive the more of the 30inch Screens. After all the Quadro FX 4500 occupies the 16-lane PCI Express graphics slot and the adjacent PCI Express slot.
;-)
But I'm willing to be proven wrong.
get i vote for...
D) Apple runs out of Big Cat names for OS X releases.
And just randomly guessing what will be happening to OSX in January.
Well if steve is previewing X.5 at the developer conference, you can pretty much guess the full release would be planned for Macworld in January. Although they may release earlier.
How about a steal framed module structure?
Add some steal mesh in the frames and you have a pretty effective Faraday's cage, that should kill most wireless signals. (just look at how bad Wifi is in steel stud partitioned offices) You could even be selective about how much signal blocking you do in each area by choice of materials. Also comes down to a matter of how much mass and airflow you need in the house to suit your local climate, but this can be achieved in many ways to suit your original intent.
No i don't honestly think it will happen, that any of the states will split off. After all it seem all but impossible under the constitution. (btw an interesting document fairly accessible language and under 100 pages, I was shocked how simple yet powerful it was when i first read it.) On the other hand removing the state tier of government would also be a fairly impossible thing as well, requiring basically a new constitution altogether as well.
Yes i understand that the point of organizing into to communities/ states/ nations is to give us all a better chance of succeeding. To foster the notion of a "fair go".
As you say it comes down to identity. Sydneysiders are Australian first and Sydenysiders second, and there things that we will attribute to being Australian which maybe more attributes of Sydney culture. Not surprising given how much of Australia's international profile is tied to Sydney. The downside is if those things are disrespected by the nation or the government all to willing to play politics of fear and division then the question will of coarse be asked.
"Do we still want to be a part of this?"
It's then that people start looking at the resource balancing as well and ask is in fair.