While I am sure this is probably random guesses and whohar from this one analyst, I actually somewhat believe him from my observations from down-under (Australia).
As a young man that works for a family owned and quite large computer business I've over the years seen people generally not ask very many questions, to now every day hearing people wanting details on Macs, and how they compare to standard white boxes.
Now bundle this in with the fact that our local, and only Apple store is constantly flourishing with business as compared to a few years ago when it was rare to see more then 1 person at a time in there, you'll understand why it's possible Apple have converted so many users.
Just in my direct experience over the last few years, it's converted myself, my brother, my mother and a few friends of mine - (2 to be exact).
It's also at the point, and while I am growing up and establishing my future that me owning and operating a Apple franchise is highly possible.
I've also seen the websites I manage, which are local to our area, sky rocket from 5-10 hits per week from Mac users, to now over 250-300 unique Mac users per week and raising.
Apple are on to something here, and Steve Jobs knows it!
Does anyone have anymore information on this specific Sun x4100 (And I assume other models) feature?
Features include full remote KVM functionality with video and media redirection. System administrators can access the service processor via the dedicated management Ethernet port.
I'll tell you what, for $150 (Service processor), and for the total price of these servers. I'm very tempted to grab a few of these and try them out - if Sun can get the message out, these prices are unbelievable from Sun, I think they've just won me back as a customer - if this $150 service processor is remote KVM compatible, hell yeah! Sun here we come.
> According to CacheLogic survey, 61.44% of the peer-to-peer traffic nowadays is video, with audio taking distant second place, representing 11.34% of global traffic.
Is this really a huge shock? After all your average movie is (let's just say) 500 megabyte, with your average song at around 2 megabyte - of course video traffic is going to outweigh audio downloads by a great amount.
My girlfriend reported the Yahoo stream crapped out about 25 seconds to lift off. The RealPlayer streams worked perfectly for me however, and are still rocking with the replays - I love it.
That was incredible, sitting in my chair at Australia watching the live NASA TV really gave me goose-bumps. God speed to the crew, and a few rounds of applaud to the people at Nasa.
The footage on Nasa TV was the best I've ever seen, keep it up Nasa - Fantastic work!
As much as the geek inside of my wants to say I avoid sunlight at all costs, it's actually quite the opposite.
I've struggled with acne/pimples a little more then your average Joe Blow, after spending a lot of money on chemicals and useless washing routines I found the cheapest and easiest solution.
Sunlight, I spend a few (moderate amounts) of time at the beach - and within 1 month of just a few hours per week at the beach, my acne was almost gone.
Even in winter I now try to spend a few hours per month atleast in my salt water pool, it works wonders. I also drag the laptop outside every few days and just spend a few hours in the moderate sunlight so my skin gets some extra special attention.
I see half truth to these statements, our office took it up pretty quickly. However faster then you can say "cheese" our VoIP implementation just sits in the corner unused in favor of our old ISDN copper lines - sure VoIP was fun for the 95% of time, but the other 5% of the time when we found ourselves asking the customers on the other end "Can you hear me now" we decided to go back to what works, copper.
Each system is run through several hundred loops of 3D Mark 2001 in 40C temperatures. This tests stability under the most grueling of conditions.
Now I know why I've never had much luck with Gigabyte boards, they arn't tested to Australian climates, they really need to test these things in 50+C temperatures as you can bet my room in Australia gets that high in summer.
..but I already use an Antivirus for my Mac. Mind you I switched over from Windows a little under 1 year ago and since I use these machines for work I really didn't want to risk, even if it's 0.0001% of getting my work machine infected by a virus. All it could take is one sneaky website I visit to infect me, record information and I honestly wouldn't really know - mind you I doubt the Antivirus updaters would know about any Mac virus within 1 week of being lanched.
And no, I use McAfee. And it's not too bad, but then again I am biased as we bundle McAfee with systems.
"... how many iPod-touting Slashdotters are thinking of switching?"
Well I don't own an iPod, however almost 1 year ago I purchased a Powerbook over a new IBM or Dell laptop. You know why? The local retailer near me who I purchase my laptops from just got an Apple section infront of the IBM section so I decided to have a look, I tried to be a smartarse and quiz him about how I would buy one but program a, b and x were not on a Mac that I needed.
None the less, I walked out with a Powerbook and the exact software that I needed, hell, I even walked out with Office for Mac.
One year later, I now have 2 Powerbooks (1 for work and personal) and 2 Mac Desktops - I love them, and I am even going as far as trying to fix a PowerMac into a normal desktop case as to look like a normal IBM computer - why? Our business sells and repairs IBM computers and it would look a little silly trying to sell IBM type PC's when the computer I am using myself is an Apple.
I have not walked into the store since I will know I will walk out with an iPod.
Read the damn article, this is different to the case you mention. They are not blocking access to other VoIP providers. However they are tagging (or will?) be tagging their own VoIP traffic which will force all other VoIP provider's traffic to run as non-guaranteed traffic and thus, could lead to dropouts or all round crap service.
I really think it's best for Microsoft to implement a standards based compliant browser - if they don't they will shoot themselves in the foot, and it will really hurt this time around.
This is not a case of "...well we could make it standards compliance but who cares". Some big companies are taking up Firefox, Acer for one as bundling Firefox as default. Sure Acer are not 'huge', by all means on the international level, however small yet signification changes like this will damage Microsoft.
Who bundled Opera, Mozilla or any other free browser in Windows, 1 year, 2 years ago? Noone! Who bundles it now? Acer, Australian's 3rd largest PC Manufacture - The local high school near me get's new Acer's every 18-24 months, in that time 1,000 students will be surfing the web on Firefox! The local computer deal near me, recommends Firefox. Our family company bundles Firefox, the company I work for bundles and recommends Firefox.
Microsoft have a problem, if they stuff up this time with support for standards, and CSS2 all hell will break lose.
I am pretty sure they are civil, and the court order was obtained from a civil court.
This is also not the first time this sort of attack has been carried out, a year or so ago a court order was taken out against the largest ISP in Australia, Telstra
For anyone interested there is a lot more information about this People Telecom raid at http://whirlpool.net.au/
This idea is already quite old, either that or Sony have handed out these new music playing phones to most of the young teeny boppers in my area already.
A simple trip to the local movie theatre and I am pounded with each and every latest teeny pop song each time a phone rings.
Hopefully these Walkman phones won't allow the tunes to be played through the phone speakers, if that's the case I refuse to leave the house outside school hours.
I am by no means an expert in non-linear editing; I have however worked in two major Australia television networks (not in editing) and done work experience in the other major network, Channel Seven.
My bulk of my T.V. work life was spend at a local Television station with a broadcast to 6 million people (Largest Network in Australia, but not exactly the most advanced by any means) and I have done work experience with both TARBS and Fox Sports Australia, the later two use Quantel equipment (http://www.quantel.com) and from my experience, were a brilliant piece of hardware, software and hard perfect work flow.
The local stations used Liquid Edition Pro, which is the software I purchased for my father who does small videos for Rock n' Roll groups. I purchased Liquid Edition Pro because a) I knew it was used in production by the station I worked for, and also local production companies who produced commercials and b) In my opinion and research found it two fold better then Adobe's and Avid's offering.
Does any one have any opinion on Liquid Edition? Like I mentioned, I only have limited experience in the applications themselves but I find Liquid Edition a very good application, and compared to Premier which I have used extensively in the past is great deals better.
Whatever floats your boat, I've been a Windows user for many years now and have just recently purchased a 15" Apple Powerbook - I love it and will be buying a Dual G5 Desktop and Display soon. I'll make sure I get around to buying them a lot sooner to make up for the loss of your business.
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The key word here is "supported", you can't expect Redhat, Novell or even Microsoft to support your modifications.
If you don't want official support from any vendor, you modify away - and support it yourself.
While I am sure this is probably random guesses and whohar from this one analyst, I actually somewhat believe him from my observations from down-under (Australia).
As a young man that works for a family owned and quite large computer business I've over the years seen people generally not ask very many questions, to now every day hearing people wanting details on Macs, and how they compare to standard white boxes.
Now bundle this in with the fact that our local, and only Apple store is constantly flourishing with business as compared to a few years ago when it was rare to see more then 1 person at a time in there, you'll understand why it's possible Apple have converted so many users.
Just in my direct experience over the last few years, it's converted myself, my brother, my mother and a few friends of mine - (2 to be exact).
It's also at the point, and while I am growing up and establishing my future that me owning and operating a Apple franchise is highly possible.
I've also seen the websites I manage, which are local to our area, sky rocket from 5-10 hits per week from Mac users, to now over 250-300 unique Mac users per week and raising.
Apple are on to something here, and Steve Jobs knows it!
> I haven't heard anything special about yahoo mail until now.
You must be new here, you've not heard much about Yahoo since you're on Googledot.org - Google's PR headquarters.
Bingo, check out this Google Cache link - seems to have been data mined by the Yahoo and presented on their maps.
o cal.yahoo.com/CA/Mountain%2BView/95763967/Retail%2 BShopping/8120444/Toys/index.html+%22The+Dude's+Fi sh+Store%22&hl=en
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Jdv3LRqIRboJ:l
Scroll down to item number 6.
Does anyone have anymore information on this specific Sun x4100 (And I assume other models) feature?
Features include full remote KVM functionality with video and media redirection. System administrators can access the service processor via the dedicated management Ethernet port.
I'll tell you what, for $150 (Service processor), and for the total price of these servers. I'm very tempted to grab a few of these and try them out - if Sun can get the message out, these prices are unbelievable from Sun, I think they've just won me back as a customer - if this $150 service processor is remote KVM compatible, hell yeah! Sun here we come.
It's only deemed un-newsworthy when Netcraft confirms it!
> According to CacheLogic survey, 61.44% of the peer-to-peer traffic nowadays is video, with audio taking distant second place, representing 11.34% of global traffic.
Is this really a huge shock? After all your average movie is (let's just say) 500 megabyte, with your average song at around 2 megabyte - of course video traffic is going to outweigh audio downloads by a great amount.
My girlfriend reported the Yahoo stream crapped out about 25 seconds to lift off. The RealPlayer streams worked perfectly for me however, and are still rocking with the replays - I love it.
That was incredible, sitting in my chair at Australia watching the live NASA TV really gave me goose-bumps. God speed to the crew, and a few rounds of applaud to the people at Nasa.
The footage on Nasa TV was the best I've ever seen, keep it up Nasa - Fantastic work!
Google Overlords: Earth, check. Moon, check.
I, for one, welcome our new Moon overlords.
Come on this is Slashdot, you just can't link directly to an Windows executable and get away with it.
Here is the link real people should be using: BitTorrent_OSX_4.1.2.dmg
As much as the geek inside of my wants to say I avoid sunlight at all costs, it's actually quite the opposite.
I've struggled with acne/pimples a little more then your average Joe Blow, after spending a lot of money on chemicals and useless washing routines I found the cheapest and easiest solution.
Sunlight, I spend a few (moderate amounts) of time at the beach - and within 1 month of just a few hours per week at the beach, my acne was almost gone.
Even in winter I now try to spend a few hours per month atleast in my salt water pool, it works wonders. I also drag the laptop outside every few days and just spend a few hours in the moderate sunlight so my skin gets some extra special attention.
I see half truth to these statements, our office took it up pretty quickly. However faster then you can say "cheese" our VoIP implementation just sits in the corner unused in favor of our old ISDN copper lines - sure VoIP was fun for the 95% of time, but the other 5% of the time when we found ourselves asking the customers on the other end "Can you hear me now" we decided to go back to what works, copper.
These guys like their ice cream a little too much, they got down a whole entire bowl in 1 second flat.
Renders Slashdot correctly, yay! :)
Each system is run through several hundred loops of 3D Mark 2001 in 40C temperatures. This tests stability under the most grueling of conditions.
Now I know why I've never had much luck with Gigabyte boards, they arn't tested to Australian climates, they really need to test these things in 50+C temperatures as you can bet my room in Australia gets that high in summer.
..but I already use an Antivirus for my Mac. Mind you I switched over from Windows a little under 1 year ago and since I use these machines for work I really didn't want to risk, even if it's 0.0001% of getting my work machine infected by a virus. All it could take is one sneaky website I visit to infect me, record information and I honestly wouldn't really know - mind you I doubt the Antivirus updaters would know about any Mac virus within 1 week of being lanched.
And no, I use McAfee. And it's not too bad, but then again I am biased as we bundle McAfee with systems.
"
Well I don't own an iPod, however almost 1 year ago I purchased a Powerbook over a new IBM or Dell laptop. You know why? The local retailer near me who I purchase my laptops from just got an Apple section infront of the IBM section so I decided to have a look, I tried to be a smartarse and quiz him about how I would buy one but program a, b and x were not on a Mac that I needed.
None the less, I walked out with a Powerbook and the exact software that I needed, hell, I even walked out with Office for Mac.
One year later, I now have 2 Powerbooks (1 for work and personal) and 2 Mac Desktops - I love them, and I am even going as far as trying to fix a PowerMac into a normal desktop case as to look like a normal IBM computer - why? Our business sells and repairs IBM computers and it would look a little silly trying to sell IBM type PC's when the computer I am using myself is an Apple.
I have not walked into the store since I will know I will walk out with an iPod.
Read the damn article, this is different to the case you mention. They are not blocking access to other VoIP providers. However they are tagging (or will?) be tagging their own VoIP traffic which will force all other VoIP provider's traffic to run as non-guaranteed traffic and thus, could lead to dropouts or all round crap service.
I really think it's best for Microsoft to implement a standards based compliant browser - if they don't they will shoot themselves in the foot, and it will really hurt this time around.
This is not a case of "...well we could make it standards compliance but who cares". Some big companies are taking up Firefox, Acer for one as bundling Firefox as default. Sure Acer are not 'huge', by all means on the international level, however small yet signification changes like this will damage Microsoft.
Who bundled Opera, Mozilla or any other free browser in Windows, 1 year, 2 years ago? Noone! Who bundles it now? Acer, Australian's 3rd largest PC Manufacture - The local high school near me get's new Acer's every 18-24 months, in that time 1,000 students will be surfing the web on Firefox! The local computer deal near me, recommends Firefox. Our family company bundles Firefox, the company I work for bundles and recommends Firefox.
Microsoft have a problem, if they stuff up this time with support for standards, and CSS2 all hell will break lose.
I am pretty sure they are civil, and the court order was obtained from a civil court.
This is also not the first time this sort of attack has been carried out, a year or so ago a court order was taken out against the largest ISP in Australia, Telstra
For anyone interested there is a lot more information about this People Telecom raid at http://whirlpool.net.au/
It should be noted that the company that got raided, is now called 'People Telecom'. There former name was Swiftel.
This idea is already quite old, either that or Sony have handed out these new music playing phones to most of the young teeny boppers in my area already.
A simple trip to the local movie theatre and I am pounded with each and every latest teeny pop song each time a phone rings.
Hopefully these Walkman phones won't allow the tunes to be played through the phone speakers, if that's the case I refuse to leave the house outside school hours.
I am by no means an expert in non-linear editing; I have however worked in two major Australia television networks (not in editing) and done work experience in the other major network, Channel Seven. My bulk of my T.V. work life was spend at a local Television station with a broadcast to 6 million people (Largest Network in Australia, but not exactly the most advanced by any means) and I have done work experience with both TARBS and Fox Sports Australia, the later two use Quantel equipment (http://www.quantel.com) and from my experience, were a brilliant piece of hardware, software and hard perfect work flow. The local stations used Liquid Edition Pro, which is the software I purchased for my father who does small videos for Rock n' Roll groups. I purchased Liquid Edition Pro because a) I knew it was used in production by the station I worked for, and also local production companies who produced commercials and b) In my opinion and research found it two fold better then Adobe's and Avid's offering. Does any one have any opinion on Liquid Edition? Like I mentioned, I only have limited experience in the applications themselves but I find Liquid Edition a very good application, and compared to Premier which I have used extensively in the past is great deals better.
Whatever floats your boat, I've been a Windows user for many years now and have just recently purchased a 15" Apple Powerbook - I love it and will be buying a Dual G5 Desktop and Display soon. I'll make sure I get around to buying them a lot sooner to make up for the loss of your business.