That may be funny, but it's quite dumb. So what do you suggest I should do next time someone sends me a.xls linked spreadsheet with a multi page feasibility for a project. Perhaps I should tell them to send me a pdf. I'm sure that will be able to recalculate all the numbers in the different sheets when I change one variable.
I agree that most information that is sent as HTML can be sent a text,.docs should be sent as PDF's, and.PPT's are things that would make more sense as PDF's. However, I have no idea how.xls makes your dumb list.
I find it very odd that most media, even technologically oriented media, is still referring to the internet (I refuse to capitalize it) as a uniform thing. The internet is nothing but a large, scalable network that happens to be the cheapest way of moving data around.
Due to the cost effectiveness of the internet, we are now seeing a rapid deployment of various services on this network. Though some of these services require a WAN type computer network (ie. online message boards), many services now being deployed on the internet existed before the internet.
VOIP is just one of the many examples of a technology that is being deployed on the internet. However, telephone communication has existed for over a century. There are many people that used to waste an inordinate amount of time on the telephone before there was any internet. So now, if these same people used something like Skype to communicate with their friends, would they be addicted to the internet.
The same holds true for any number of other hobbies. I used to spend a lot of time playing games in school. Many people used to engage in multiplayer LAN gaming before the widespread use of the internet. Now they're connecting to each other using the internet. So now, do we have a situation where every hardcore gamer is addicted to the internet.
Anyway, I think that research should stop referring to the internet as some sort of homogenous thing. People have been addicted to their particular hobbies, healthy or unhealthy, for a long time. There have been game addicts, telephone addicts, porn addicts, music addicts, and movie addicts since way before the internet. Its just that all their hobbies have now converged on this thing called the internet.
So basically, I think these kind of studies are useless. Telling me that someone is addicted to the internet means nothing. Are they having problems because they can't get their fill of porn. Or perhaps they are addicted to Slashdot. Even the two demographics converge in this case, they are quite disparate addictions.
So in conclusion, I would say, no fucking shit. Obviously people will miss the internet. Pretty soon all their movies, TV porn, music, voice and video communication, and information will be on the internet.
Perhaps in America Palm OS has relevance in the smartphone market. In the rest of the world, Symbian owns the market. It's an OS optimized for smartphones, rather than Palm or PocketPC, which gives you a regular PDA OS with phone functionality slapped on.
I'm not sure what this thing runs on, but PalmOS and PocketPC are non-entities in the smartphone market. Between series 60 and UIQ, Symbian OS has more than seventy percent of the market. It's much more suited to smartphones than PalmOS or PocketPC.
"The only think I am waiting for now is a Handytone-like adapter that will be plugged directly in an ethernet jack and allow my traditional phone to the Skype network with no computer assistance."
That may be true. However, how long do you think it would take to burn those tens of thousands of DVDs that you're going to transport in the station wagon.
I'm sure he didn't mean to say that it would be impossible to find a cheaper machine with a similar configuration. The point is it's very price competitive with current PC's. The 1.8 G5 should be able to compete with a 2.5-2.8 Ghz P4. Unlike PC's in this price range, it doesn't have integrated graphics (which suck). A lot of PC's in this price range will also lack a DVD writer.
Anyway, as another poster said, when you factor in OS X and iApps (plus the Games and Appleworks) it's no contest. With the Apple, you get quality components and software. With the number of commodity PC box makers out there, Apple will never be the cheapest. It's a wonder that they are as competitive as they are though.
This design is certainly more unassuming than the iLamp, but I wouldn't necessarily say its less appealing. Apple designs have recently been becoming more functional and minimalist. This makes sense, since apples target demographic has been becoming more diverse since the release of OS X.
Pre OS X Macs were primarily popular in art oriented industries. With OS X, Macs have increasingly starting to be used as UNIX workstation and servers. You would have never imagined Apple becoming a substantial player in the UNIX cluster computing market five years ago, but things have change (the views of people on this site are evidence enough).
WIth this new image Apples design ethos has had to change too (how many of you would want a flower power iMac to administer your OS X network). If you look at all their current computers, they are very professional and minimalist, but at the same time ultra-slick. With the new iMac, as with the Powermac and Powerbook, the beauty is in the details. There is nothing obviously exciting about a PM or PB either. It's when you actually use one of these machines that you realize that they are actually aesthetically more appealing that Apples earlier more obvious designs.
Anyway, I think this new iMac fits in really well with the current Apple lineup. Its got plenty of power for the prosumer, and would look at home in a corporate or home environment. Here's to a job well done.
Yes, I realize that Apple sub contracts its manufacturing. However, that doesn't change the point that I was trying to make. The iPods are being manufactured by Apples contractors and then sold to HP. This obviously means that the deal has nothing to do with manufacturing problems.
Whether Rio came first or not is irrelevant. This new Rio device is an obvious rip-off of the iPod (design wise). The box even looks like the iPod box. Have these people no shame.
Apple isn't licensing the iPod to HP because of low manufacturing capacity, they're actually manufacturing the players for HP and then selling them to them. The iPod has been licensed to HP simply to increase the distribution channel and reach a new demographic. Also, HP is marketing the iPod like crazy now, so it just adds to the marketing hype around the product. There are many good reasons to license the iPod, but manufacturing capacity isn't one of them.
Additionally, iPod mini supplies were limited due to the limited supply of microdrives. The manufacturer of the drives (Toshiba I believe) has now ramped up production substantially. One of the reasons this thing is selling in low quantities is probably because they can't get hold of any drives. Besides, who do you think will get the drives first. Apple, who are ordering in massive quantities to fit the mini, or Rio, who just released a small number of fugly iPod wannabees.
That's not really a difference since those same skins can be used with the regular iPod. Like others have mentioned before, this will allow Apple to target a completely new demographic. HP has a massive distribution channel which will now be used to push the iPod (Wal-Mart now carries the iPod).
As far as HP is concerned, this allows them to sell a bundled solution. Music copying has become a major part of peoples computer using experience now. It also allows them to push their new printer, since it is specially set up to print iPod theme stickers (They also supply custom cut stickers to print the themes on). You never know, HP could have just started something big with these new themes.
Well, there's one thing that comes to mind immediately, distributed processing. I realize that there will probably be numerous technical hurdles to overcome apart from the infrastructure hurdles. However, with this kind of bandwidth, perhaps your home computer will be able to use some sort of P2P network to become part of some realtime distributed processing cluster.
These days most consumer level distributed processing projects (SETI@home, Folding@home) use a batch processing model. In the future, with realtime distributed processing, all your applications (Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Doom 5) will be able to benefit. If this becomes a reality, it will be a quantum leap in computing. I think this potential application alone justifies the investment in these types of networks.
That may be funny, but it's not actually true. Most of Starcks designs can be described as functional and minimalist. He is primarily an interior designer, and quite well regarded (and famous) in that field. Even though releasing a Starck mouse is primarily a marketing gimmick (like the Ferrari laptop), I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually meant to look like a vagina. He often does take inspiration for his designs from unusual objects. If nothing else, it's an interesting design. It actually does look like a vagina with the scroll wheel resembling the clitoris.
This is his webpage
http://www.philippe-starck.com/
Microsoft software boxes, Dell Monitors. What are you talking about? If this is anything like the movies, all the computers will be Apple, all the monitors will be Cinema Displays, and all the software boxes will be iLife.
Metal is also used often when an application is contained entirely in one window. Safari, iTunes, Address Book, and iChat are just a few examples. The entire application and all of its controls are visualized in one window. On the other hand, you will never see metal used in applications like Photoshop or MS Word where, along with the primary user input window you also have multiple toolboxes and additional control windows.
You will see self contained application windows represented in aqua at times (Mail), but you will never see applications with independent toolbars represented in Metal. So this is more of a rule where metal can not/should not be used, rather than where it is used.
Yeah, I know what you mean. It's pretty much the same way in Pakistan and, i would think, most of the world (apart from the US). Nobody says IM anymore, just MSN. You'll get asked all the time what your MSN is. To make matters worst, when I ask people for their email address, they'll often just tell me the first part without bothering to append it with @something. The reason being that @hotmail.com is often taken as a given.
But of all this stupidity, the one I find the most difficult to bear is the "where is the Internet Explorer" question (I'm a Mac user). Most people are not even aware that browsers other than Internet Explorer exist. Whenever someone uses my computer, the first question I'm asked is "where is Internet Explorer". IE has become ubiquitous, which is sad because it is, by far, the worst browser in the world.
So really, I don't know how successful GIM would be under these circumstances. People just have a tendency to use MS software over superior alternatives. How I yearn for the days when IM was called IM, browsers were called browsers, and email wasn't known as hotmail.
PS. I NEVER tell people to Google something. I tell them to enter it into a search engine.
I hate to break it to you, but even people over 15 sometimes watch movies for the spectacle. Not every movie has to be profound or have oscar level acting. The Star Wars prequels provided plenty of spectacle. You don't have to sit there and analyze why a race that's built a sophisticated underwater city is launching plasma projectiles using catapults mounted on beasts of burden. I'm not trying to be cynical here, I mean it. Just watch the fucking movie, and enjoy the pretty explosions. If you somehow find yourself feeling less intelligent by enjoying a simple movie, well that probably means you're not very intelligent. So don't worry about it.
While, for the most part, I agree with your post, there is one more consideration when comparing gMail with iDisk. With gMail, I believe the maximum size of each email is 10MB. Due to this limitation, it would be impossible to save any single file larger than 10MB in gMail. With iDIsk, the size of your files is only limited by the space available in your iDisk.
You also get the additional benefit of having iDisk mount on your desktop and Finder like a regular volume. The drag and drop simplicity can't be matched by an online email service.
Do you also want that the rest of the world should be punished. Maybe you should ask the parents of the dead Iraqi children if they think that Bush should be re-elected.
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That may be funny, but it's quite dumb. So what do you suggest I should do next time someone sends me a .xls linked spreadsheet with a multi page feasibility for a project. Perhaps I should tell them to send me a pdf. I'm sure that will be able to recalculate all the numbers in the different sheets when I change one variable.
.docs should be sent as PDF's, and .PPT's are things that would make more sense as PDF's. However, I have no idea how .xls makes your dumb list.
I agree that most information that is sent as HTML can be sent a text,
you misspelt FUCK.
You're right, you should cut down on whatever it is you're drinking. It's making you type "slurp" repetitively.
I find it very odd that most media, even technologically oriented media, is still referring to the internet (I refuse to capitalize it) as a uniform thing. The internet is nothing but a large, scalable network that happens to be the cheapest way of moving data around.
Due to the cost effectiveness of the internet, we are now seeing a rapid deployment of various services on this network. Though some of these services require a WAN type computer network (ie. online message boards), many services now being deployed on the internet existed before the internet.
VOIP is just one of the many examples of a technology that is being deployed on the internet. However, telephone communication has existed for over a century. There are many people that used to waste an inordinate amount of time on the telephone before there was any internet. So now, if these same people used something like Skype to communicate with their friends, would they be addicted to the internet.
The same holds true for any number of other hobbies. I used to spend a lot of time playing games in school. Many people used to engage in multiplayer LAN gaming before the widespread use of the internet. Now they're connecting to each other using the internet. So now, do we have a situation where every hardcore gamer is addicted to the internet.
Anyway, I think that research should stop referring to the internet as some sort of homogenous thing. People have been addicted to their particular hobbies, healthy or unhealthy, for a long time. There have been game addicts, telephone addicts, porn addicts, music addicts, and movie addicts since way before the internet. Its just that all their hobbies have now converged on this thing called the internet.
So basically, I think these kind of studies are useless. Telling me that someone is addicted to the internet means nothing. Are they having problems because they can't get their fill of porn. Or perhaps they are addicted to Slashdot. Even the two demographics converge in this case, they are quite disparate addictions.
So in conclusion, I would say, no fucking shit. Obviously people will miss the internet. Pretty soon all their movies, TV porn, music, voice and video communication, and information will be on the internet.
"What's your mission?" His divx codec is mission critical. If it gets corrupted, his sex life is over.
You don't suppose that, besides IE and Firefox, there are any other browsers out there.
Perhaps in America Palm OS has relevance in the smartphone market. In the rest of the world, Symbian owns the market. It's an OS optimized for smartphones, rather than Palm or PocketPC, which gives you a regular PDA OS with phone functionality slapped on.
I'm not sure what this thing runs on, but PalmOS and PocketPC are non-entities in the smartphone market. Between series 60 and UIQ, Symbian OS has more than seventy percent of the market. It's much more suited to smartphones than PalmOS or PocketPC.
"The only think I am waiting for now is a Handytone-like adapter that will be plugged directly in an ethernet jack and allow my traditional phone to the Skype network with no computer assistance."
This should take care of that
That may be true. However, how long do you think it would take to burn those tens of thousands of DVDs that you're going to transport in the station wagon.
I'm sure he didn't mean to say that it would be impossible to find a cheaper machine with a similar configuration. The point is it's very price competitive with current PC's. The 1.8 G5 should be able to compete with a 2.5-2.8 Ghz P4. Unlike PC's in this price range, it doesn't have integrated graphics (which suck). A lot of PC's in this price range will also lack a DVD writer.
Anyway, as another poster said, when you factor in OS X and iApps (plus the Games and Appleworks) it's no contest. With the Apple, you get quality components and software. With the number of commodity PC box makers out there, Apple will never be the cheapest. It's a wonder that they are as competitive as they are though.
This design is certainly more unassuming than the iLamp, but I wouldn't necessarily say its less appealing. Apple designs have recently been becoming more functional and minimalist. This makes sense, since apples target demographic has been becoming more diverse since the release of OS X.
Pre OS X Macs were primarily popular in art oriented industries. With OS X, Macs have increasingly starting to be used as UNIX workstation and servers. You would have never imagined Apple becoming a substantial player in the UNIX cluster computing market five years ago, but things have change (the views of people on this site are evidence enough).
WIth this new image Apples design ethos has had to change too (how many of you would want a flower power iMac to administer your OS X network). If you look at all their current computers, they are very professional and minimalist, but at the same time ultra-slick. With the new iMac, as with the Powermac and Powerbook, the beauty is in the details. There is nothing obviously exciting about a PM or PB either. It's when you actually use one of these machines that you realize that they are actually aesthetically more appealing that Apples earlier more obvious designs.
Anyway, I think this new iMac fits in really well with the current Apple lineup. Its got plenty of power for the prosumer, and would look at home in a corporate or home environment. Here's to a job well done.
Yes, I realize that Apple sub contracts its manufacturing. However, that doesn't change the point that I was trying to make. The iPods are being manufactured by Apples contractors and then sold to HP. This obviously means that the deal has nothing to do with manufacturing problems.
Whether Rio came first or not is irrelevant. This new Rio device is an obvious rip-off of the iPod (design wise). The box even looks like the iPod box. Have these people no shame.
Apple isn't licensing the iPod to HP because of low manufacturing capacity, they're actually manufacturing the players for HP and then selling them to them. The iPod has been licensed to HP simply to increase the distribution channel and reach a new demographic. Also, HP is marketing the iPod like crazy now, so it just adds to the marketing hype around the product. There are many good reasons to license the iPod, but manufacturing capacity isn't one of them.
Additionally, iPod mini supplies were limited due to the limited supply of microdrives. The manufacturer of the drives (Toshiba I believe) has now ramped up production substantially. One of the reasons this thing is selling in low quantities is probably because they can't get hold of any drives. Besides, who do you think will get the drives first. Apple, who are ordering in massive quantities to fit the mini, or Rio, who just released a small number of fugly iPod wannabees.
That's not really a difference since those same skins can be used with the regular iPod. Like others have mentioned before, this will allow Apple to target a completely new demographic. HP has a massive distribution channel which will now be used to push the iPod (Wal-Mart now carries the iPod).
As far as HP is concerned, this allows them to sell a bundled solution. Music copying has become a major part of peoples computer using experience now. It also allows them to push their new printer, since it is specially set up to print iPod theme stickers (They also supply custom cut stickers to print the themes on). You never know, HP could have just started something big with these new themes.
Well, there's one thing that comes to mind immediately, distributed processing. I realize that there will probably be numerous technical hurdles to overcome apart from the infrastructure hurdles. However, with this kind of bandwidth, perhaps your home computer will be able to use some sort of P2P network to become part of some realtime distributed processing cluster. These days most consumer level distributed processing projects (SETI@home, Folding@home) use a batch processing model. In the future, with realtime distributed processing, all your applications (Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Doom 5) will be able to benefit. If this becomes a reality, it will be a quantum leap in computing. I think this potential application alone justifies the investment in these types of networks.
That may be funny, but it's not actually true. Most of Starcks designs can be described as functional and minimalist. He is primarily an interior designer, and quite well regarded (and famous) in that field. Even though releasing a Starck mouse is primarily a marketing gimmick (like the Ferrari laptop), I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually meant to look like a vagina. He often does take inspiration for his designs from unusual objects. If nothing else, it's an interesting design. It actually does look like a vagina with the scroll wheel resembling the clitoris. This is his webpage http://www.philippe-starck.com/
If they really wanted Bush to win, would it be such a good idea to endorse him publicly.
Microsoft software boxes, Dell Monitors. What are you talking about? If this is anything like the movies, all the computers will be Apple, all the monitors will be Cinema Displays, and all the software boxes will be iLife.
Metal is also used often when an application is contained entirely in one window. Safari, iTunes, Address Book, and iChat are just a few examples. The entire application and all of its controls are visualized in one window. On the other hand, you will never see metal used in applications like Photoshop or MS Word where, along with the primary user input window you also have multiple toolboxes and additional control windows.
You will see self contained application windows represented in aqua at times (Mail), but you will never see applications with independent toolbars represented in Metal. So this is more of a rule where metal can not/should not be used, rather than where it is used.
Yeah, I know what you mean. It's pretty much the same way in Pakistan and, i would think, most of the world (apart from the US). Nobody says IM anymore, just MSN. You'll get asked all the time what your MSN is. To make matters worst, when I ask people for their email address, they'll often just tell me the first part without bothering to append it with @something. The reason being that @hotmail.com is often taken as a given.
But of all this stupidity, the one I find the most difficult to bear is the "where is the Internet Explorer" question (I'm a Mac user). Most people are not even aware that browsers other than Internet Explorer exist. Whenever someone uses my computer, the first question I'm asked is "where is Internet Explorer". IE has become ubiquitous, which is sad because it is, by far, the worst browser in the world.
So really, I don't know how successful GIM would be under these circumstances. People just have a tendency to use MS software over superior alternatives. How I yearn for the days when IM was called IM, browsers were called browsers, and email wasn't known as hotmail.
PS. I NEVER tell people to Google something. I tell them to enter it into a search engine.
I hate to break it to you, but even people over 15 sometimes watch movies for the spectacle. Not every movie has to be profound or have oscar level acting. The Star Wars prequels provided plenty of spectacle. You don't have to sit there and analyze why a race that's built a sophisticated underwater city is launching plasma projectiles using catapults mounted on beasts of burden. I'm not trying to be cynical here, I mean it. Just watch the fucking movie, and enjoy the pretty explosions. If you somehow find yourself feeling less intelligent by enjoying a simple movie, well that probably means you're not very intelligent. So don't worry about it.
While, for the most part, I agree with your post, there is one more consideration when comparing gMail with iDisk. With gMail, I believe the maximum size of each email is 10MB. Due to this limitation, it would be impossible to save any single file larger than 10MB in gMail. With iDIsk, the size of your files is only limited by the space available in your iDisk.
You also get the additional benefit of having iDisk mount on your desktop and Finder like a regular volume. The drag and drop simplicity can't be matched by an online email service.
Do you also want that the rest of the world should be punished. Maybe you should ask the parents of the dead Iraqi children if they think that Bush should be re-elected.
Do you also want that the rest of the world should be punished. Maybe you should ask the parents of if they think that Bush should be re-elected.