I've given up on Netflix for any timely availablility of recent films. At best, they fulfill the "Nat'l Geographic, BBC specials and "special interest" genres.
My queue was throttled to the point that Blockbuster was simpler, if more painful, just to see current film. I will admit, I liked that I could rent 8 at a time while recovering from surgery. It was very useful not having to go to Blockbuster but to your mailbox.
... shrewd business strategist... Job's is positioning Apple as an entire Industry (ie. airlines) where a hub & spoke architecture enables Apple to gateway user services, products and partnership opportunities...
...PC user's will have *choice*... they could even have Windows+OS X on the same desktop. And it is *choice* where Apple will dismantle the Microsoft monopoly.
OS X is _NOT_ a monolithic OS, like Windows. Once Apple have OS X prepped and prepared on its modular foundations (no its not all there yet), Jobs will be able to rev OSX thrice for each new release of Windows. In a sideXside environment, OS X is going to look more modern, capable and powerful than Microsoft's aging sibling in the adjoining *window*... developer's will have a choice, user's will have a choice and Microsoft will have no choice... does anybody get it?
"Cheap components" is bogus bullshit. PC hardware mfg'rs were more than capable of ramping up their specifications and quality when Jobs did Intel versions of OPENSTEP.
PC versions of OS X will be faster, better and cheaper than Apple branded hardware because of expertise, volume and margins.
PC hardware is notoriously promiscious whereas Apple hardware will be locked down with few bits to twiddle. There is a market for PC based hardware which requires set-up, assembly and mods to run OS X. For those who aren't Geeks, or care to fiddle with the bits, Apple will be a natural choice.
Job's knows Apple's hardware penetration is only 5% so he'll cut OS X loose to have 10X marketshare in the future, gladly. Apple has a life beyond computers and isn't dependent anymore on CPU sales.
Its about applications and Microsoft's OS commands the largest share of applications. Apple's recent success has nothing to do whatever with its *better* OS but its iTunes, iDVD, i**** is solely responsible for its OS success against Windows.
And hardware matters, only when the interface is dependent upon it.
It's not surprising that computing has returned full circle to timeshare... its that cycles have achieved currency.
Sun are trying to assign a "store of value" for the CPU cycle at $1/CPU/Hr. For Sun to achieve the promise Mhz Money, ie. store of currency, their clusters must produce.
Despite the fanfare, marketing and posturing, the only thing Sun are storing are cycles. This is a pure "warehousing" scheme, storing cycles and charging rent for its use.
Interesting if only they leverage Sun into the branded warehousing business...
only then will you find your switch is for a reason and purspose. Then you won't need marketing hype and/. to stiffen your resolve to make some leap of faith switch.
...are not universal standards of measure, as your question implies. Google business enjoys a virtual environment of having both seamlessly and transparently so that these are interchangable commodities.
The success of your creative project is reduced down to proving the Time Value (ie. 20%) in an environment without Google's Econcomic Currency.
... on First Premise that Transmeta's design for software CPU's releases consumers from market monopolization by the Big Chips (ie. Intel, Moto, AMD,...) and freedom to run concurrent OS'es on a single platform.
TM simply left without the opportunity for consumer's to buy-in to their reason d'etre
Semaphore timings, delay and magnetic responsiveness control more than traffic, congestion and crosswalks. Government uses many devices to control the population, its streets and traffic. Semaphores are just another tool. Red light cameras too affect driving behavior with side-effects reducing traffic counts on heavily used intersections and commercial trucks routing around them....its not about you.
Its as simple as this... there are diploma mills, party schools, technical schools, research institutions and brain trusts. Your degree will fit into one of these categrries. The category defines your starting point on the career ladder. You decide.
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Think about this...
The amount of time it takes to charge an electric is equivalent to the time it takes to sleep. Big Deal...
You save a kid's Asthma, you help your planet repair an Ozone tear in the fabric of Life, you sacrifice what? 10 hours downtime while you're sleeping?
I own a Think Neighbor electric car. 10 hours charges 6 gel batteries good for 30 miles. It's only good for a 12 mile radius. This car goes 200mph. Now, this guy enables 100 mile radius for 10 hrs charge.
He owns the electric commuter layer. I guarantee, if it will do 200mph (80mi radius) for 10 hours charge. He can deliver a 100mph (200mi radius) for 10 hour charge. He owns the Family electric car layer at that point.
THAT's disruptive technology!
His business plan could provide the *paradigm shift* Transportation has needed since Henry Ford died with it in his combustion engine fist.
Pixar has left Disney enough new MickeyMouse style franchises (Nemo, Woody, etc...) to last them 10 years of Imagineering and consumer exploitation. Disney doesn't need Pixar in order to capture downstream franchising profit streams. Just ask Winnie the Pooh!
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... but you haven't explained where *interprocess communication* went in the transition from NeXTSTEP to MacOSX?
The public haven't seen anything yet until interprocess communication is brought to the platform. I can't believe that it didn't make it into the spec.
CLI is a bridge that Apple will burn along the path to acceptance and marketshare. netstat, chown, rm, nidump, etc... go away for users. An OS* on server systems will branch-off for admins to use CLI.
CLI is a throwback to the *olde* unix days. Using it is a *time machine* experience akin to being there when there was only CLI to the machine. All studies have indicated that CLI is inferior to brighty shiny chrome widgets and windows. Even file heirarchies in unix are confusing when users are asked. Much preferred are *where* metaphors than heirarchies.
There's been reference from the beginning of the computer revolution to this solution we've all been waiting for... and credit to evolutionary steps taken by apps such as,Quicksilver, Launchbar, BeOS, etc... but one application that predates AND which most closely matches the feature set is: Simson Garfinkle's "Sbook.app" from NeXT in the 90's.
The usefulness of Sbook.app ability to add tokens in a flat file for instantaneous searches enabled people to apply Sbook.app outside its realm of address book that it originally was designed.
Abstracting its functionality and interoperating at the kernel level is pure Apple polish on the brand. Until people start using "Spotlight", the verdict will be out on adoption across the platform.
I will venture it will be one of the defining characteristics of the Mac platform into the future.
RF technology is what? 70 years or older. You'd think it would filter down at some point. Apple's recent Xpress wireless audio port works flawlessly. I've paired two of them with $30K stack of audio gear and don't miss wires at all.
The next evolution for PC audio will be 5v or less systems. All of a sudden the background noise goes away and they will be on the playing field of the stereo manufacturers with options.
The constant influx of third party solutions is prima facia evidence of how bad the user base judges the existing configuration of the Mac OS. MacOS X files fail to interoperate between versions of its own OS releases. Files simply lockup. USB is a mess. Hardware from one version no longer works on another version.
SCO and IBM share a connection. They both share interest in the outcome of the *open source* phenomena at the highest levels. It is not beyond the unimaginable, that there is a larger context to which the process is being subject.
In their favor, is the fact that open source has no centrality, no authority to which they must overcome. Theirs is the elimination of the thing itself in its entirety. At the end, the outcome will be no legal right to source in the open. As the result of SCO attack will be that code in the open will first have to prove that it's ownership is not in the closed source.
Hence, the argument is struck for the copyright of source code. Conferring ownership before rights is the legal proforma protocol and it is in SCO and IBM's interest to protect their rights.
My neighbor makes his living selling MS networking solutions between ships, ground and satellite based communication points. I asked if they considered unix based OS. The US gov't specified "off-the-shelf" solutions in the bid documents. This for ship-ship, ship-shore during battlefield conditions. I could not believe it.
This is serious... business case stuff! Bricks and Mortar.vs. Recording Contracts. Sony will have to prove that it represents artists best interest not to iTunes their music to Apple Computer, Apple Stores, Apple iTMS and the iTunes platform way of doing retail. It's getting real interesting. Sony is platform agnostic. Apple is proprietary. Its back to the Future - MS.vs.Apple all over again. This one will surely end up before the black robes. -r
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I've given up on Netflix for any timely availablility of recent films. At best, they fulfill the "Nat'l Geographic, BBC specials and "special interest" genres.
My queue was throttled to the point that Blockbuster was simpler, if more painful, just to see current film. I will admit, I liked that I could rent 8 at a time while recovering from surgery. It was very useful not having to go to Blockbuster but to your mailbox.
... shrewd business strategist ... Job's is positioning Apple as an entire Industry (ie. airlines) where a hub & spoke architecture enables Apple to gateway user services, products and partnership opportunities...
...PC user's will have *choice*... they could even have Windows+OS X on the same desktop. And it is *choice* where Apple will dismantle the Microsoft monopoly.
OS X is _NOT_ a monolithic OS, like Windows. Once Apple have OS X prepped and prepared on its modular foundations (no its not all there yet), Jobs will be able to rev OSX thrice for each new release of Windows. In a sideXside environment, OS X is going to look more modern, capable and powerful than Microsoft's aging sibling in the adjoining *window*... developer's will have a choice, user's will have a choice and Microsoft will have no choice... does anybody get it?
"Cheap components" is bogus bullshit. PC hardware mfg'rs were more than capable of ramping up their specifications and quality when Jobs did Intel versions of OPENSTEP.
PC versions of OS X will be faster, better and cheaper than Apple branded hardware because of expertise, volume and margins.
PC hardware is notoriously promiscious whereas Apple hardware will be locked down with few bits to twiddle. There is a market for PC based hardware which requires set-up, assembly and mods to run OS X. For those who aren't Geeks, or care to fiddle with the bits, Apple will be a natural choice.
Job's knows Apple's hardware penetration is only 5% so he'll cut OS X loose to have 10X marketshare in the future, gladly. Apple has a life beyond computers and isn't dependent anymore on CPU sales.
Its not about the Operating System.
Its about applications and Microsoft's OS commands the largest share of applications. Apple's recent success has nothing to do whatever with its *better* OS but its iTunes, iDVD, i**** is solely responsible for its OS success against Windows.
And hardware matters, only when the interface is dependent upon it.
It's not surprising that computing has returned full circle to timeshare... its that cycles have achieved currency.
Sun are trying to assign a "store of value" for the CPU cycle at $1/CPU/Hr. For Sun to achieve the promise Mhz Money, ie. store of currency, their clusters must produce.
Despite the fanfare, marketing and posturing, the only thing Sun are storing are cycles. This is a pure "warehousing" scheme, storing cycles and charging rent for its use.
Interesting if only they leverage Sun into the branded warehousing business...
only then will you find your switch is for a reason and purspose. Then you won't need marketing hype and /. to stiffen your resolve to make some leap of faith switch.
Let us know how your Classified Ad goes here on /.
...are not universal standards of measure, as your question implies. Google business enjoys a virtual environment of having both seamlessly and transparently so that these are interchangable commodities.
The success of your creative project is reduced down to proving the Time Value (ie. 20%) in an environment without Google's Econcomic Currency.
/. sees >1000 comments and all "5 rated" posts are put downs against Apple. /. is fast approaching NPR for content-less entertainment programming.
... on First Premise that Transmeta's design for software CPU's releases consumers from market monopolization by the Big Chips (ie. Intel, Moto, AMD,...) and freedom to run concurrent OS'es on a single platform.
TM simply left without the opportunity for consumer's to buy-in to their reason d'etre
-r
Semaphore timings, delay and magnetic responsiveness control more than traffic, congestion and crosswalks. Government uses many devices to control the population, its streets and traffic. Semaphores are just another tool. Red light cameras too affect driving behavior with side-effects reducing traffic counts on heavily used intersections and commercial trucks routing around them. ...its not about you.
Its as simple as this... there are diploma mills, party schools, technical schools, research institutions and brain trusts. Your degree will fit into one of these categrries. The category defines your starting point on the career ladder. You decide.
Think about this...
The amount of time it takes to charge an electric is equivalent to the time it takes to sleep. Big Deal...
You save a kid's Asthma, you help your planet repair an Ozone tear in the fabric of Life, you sacrifice what? 10 hours downtime while you're sleeping?
I own a Think Neighbor electric car. 10 hours charges 6 gel batteries good for 30 miles. It's only good for a 12 mile radius. This car goes 200mph. Now, this guy enables 100 mile radius for 10 hrs charge.
He owns the electric commuter layer. I guarantee, if it will do 200mph (80mi radius) for 10 hours charge. He can deliver a 100mph (200mi radius) for 10 hour charge. He owns the Family electric car layer at that point.
THAT's disruptive technology!
His business plan could provide the *paradigm shift* Transportation has needed since Henry Ford died with it in his combustion engine fist.
Pixar has left Disney enough new MickeyMouse style franchises (Nemo, Woody, etc...) to last them 10 years of Imagineering and consumer exploitation. Disney doesn't need Pixar in order to capture downstream franchising profit streams. Just ask Winnie the Pooh!
... but you haven't explained where *interprocess communication* went in the transition from NeXTSTEP to MacOSX?
The public haven't seen anything yet until interprocess communication is brought to the platform. I can't believe that it didn't make it into the spec.
-Rex Riley
... the enemy. They did to OPENSTEP the same that is in store for Linux. Obsolescence!
CLI is a bridge that Apple will burn along the path to acceptance and marketshare. netstat, chown, rm, nidump, etc... go away for users. An OS* on server systems will branch-off for admins to use CLI.
CLI is a throwback to the *olde* unix days. Using it is a *time machine* experience akin to being there when there was only CLI to the machine. All studies have indicated that CLI is inferior to brighty shiny chrome widgets and windows. Even file heirarchies in unix are confusing when users are asked. Much preferred are *where* metaphors than heirarchies.
There's been reference from the beginning of the computer revolution to this solution we've all been waiting for... and credit to evolutionary steps taken by apps such as,Quicksilver, Launchbar, BeOS, etc... but one application that predates AND which most closely matches the feature set is:
Simson Garfinkle's "Sbook.app" from NeXT in the 90's.
The usefulness of Sbook.app ability to add tokens in a flat file for instantaneous searches enabled people to apply Sbook.app outside its realm of address book that it originally was designed.
Abstracting its functionality and interoperating at the kernel level is pure Apple polish on the brand. Until people start using "Spotlight", the verdict will be out on adoption across the platform.
I will venture it will be one of the defining characteristics of the Mac platform into the future.
RF technology is what? 70 years or older. You'd think it would filter down at some point. Apple's recent Xpress wireless audio port works flawlessly. I've paired two of them with $30K stack of audio gear and don't miss wires at all.
The next evolution for PC audio will be 5v or less systems. All of a sudden the background noise goes away and they will be on the playing field of the stereo manufacturers with options.
... this looks so faith based.
The constant influx of third party solutions is prima facia evidence of how bad the user base judges the existing configuration of the Mac OS. MacOS X files fail to interoperate between versions of its own OS releases. Files simply lockup. USB is a mess. Hardware from one version no longer works on another version.
SCO and IBM share a connection. They both share interest in the outcome of the *open source* phenomena at the highest levels. It is not beyond the unimaginable, that there is a larger context to which the process is being subject.
In their favor, is the fact that open source has no centrality, no authority to which they must overcome. Theirs is the elimination of the thing itself in its entirety. At the end, the outcome will be no legal right to source in the open. As the result of SCO attack will be that code in the open will first have to prove that it's ownership is not in the closed source.
Hence, the argument is struck for the copyright of source code. Conferring ownership before rights is the legal proforma protocol and it is in SCO and IBM's interest to protect their rights.
My neighbor makes his living selling MS networking solutions between ships, ground and satellite based communication points. I asked if they considered unix based OS. The US gov't specified "off-the-shelf" solutions in the bid documents. This for ship-ship, ship-shore during battlefield conditions. I could not believe it.
This is serious... business case stuff! Bricks and Mortar .vs. Recording Contracts. Sony will have to prove that it represents artists best interest not to iTunes their music to Apple Computer, Apple Stores, Apple iTMS and the iTunes platform way of doing retail. It's getting real interesting. Sony is platform agnostic. Apple is proprietary. Its back to the Future - MS.vs.Apple all over again. This one will surely end up before the black robes. -r