"We think that at the moment the screens will appear first in more expensive magazines in the form of high-impact adverts. But as the price sinks we expect them to appear in papers as well, possibly as a really attention-grabbing front page."
Newspapers and magazines, and any print media company for that matter, are all struggling with technology. Proprietary technology is the norm. There is rarely anything standard between one and the next. The advances in printing technology notwithstanding, no publisher could implement this without the help of a third party. It is extremely doubtful that we will ever see anything like this on a news shelf coming directly from even the "more expensive magazines." They are looking to reduce their distribution costs, which may be upwards of 50-70% of the total, not increase them.
I understand it works for the iMac... and if you have the universal iPod dock...
its only $26 for students and the education crowd...
But what IS it? is it IR? RF? BT?
Front Row Media Experience sounds very cool... Is it and the remote going to work with my PowerBook, even though I don't have an iPod? If not... why would they exclude the rest of the media crowd that doesn't have an iPod?
In my world, 60GB is about 15 hours of DVD quality video... and at 320X240, the 60GB iPod should hold twice that... and with H.264, it should twice THAT... so, why isn't it 60 hours of video?
Man, did you ever hit the nail on the head... right on!
I feel so bad for the one's that do work there that are actually worth something, and not facist control freaks... because they put up with the others (how do they do it!) I'm never going back to that planet.
Well, in order for the record industry to even function, they need to use my ears to deliver their music to me. I'm not getting paid. I think if the record industry wants to continue to charge for music, that I should get a some reasonable cut of that as my ears are irreplacible assets that they have used for free for long enough.
Is it possible for the hobbiest to pick up its signals? Why not release its exact location, what equipment is needed, how to get/build it , how to find it, and let anyone gather its data?
A CD is plastic, right? As the price of oil has been sky rocketing ever since CD's were introduced, CD's have stayed the same price, even in the face of increasing inflation of the economy in general. It must cost manufacturers upwards of 15 - 20 times more to manufacture a CD than it used to cost them. So, I mean, what's 20 times 1/20th of a cent...? OK, so it now costs them a penny a piece to manufacture CDs, but they haven't increased the cost to the consumer from $16 to $320. Man, these executive record guys are selling these things at practically a loss, now, just to keep us entertained. And they are still paying the artists and engineers somehow.
I read the other slashdot article a few days ago... what is the deal with this? The first time, its exploration, discovery... and we discovered that there is nothing there. The article the other/. story linked to doesn't mention why they are doing it.
Maybe if the hackers would have waited for a good stable build, Apple would have delayed their strategy. Imagine if the x86 OS X hack had not been made available until 10.4.4, or 10.4.8... what would Apple have done then? It would be too late to pull this strategy out of their hats. As long as the OS was stable, and binaries could be built with some version of XCode, I, for one, would at least be very interested in running this client version as a web/ftp/appletalk server/proxy... but only for the coolness factor, as part of a 'collection' of cool Apple stuff that should not be (like an ANS running Rhapsody or something). But 10.4.1 is just too unstable, as far as I can tell, for it to be worth dedicating such a new/good piece of hardware.
I thought the phone was interesting, but not interesting to me. I immediately noticed on the specs that it supported bluetooth specifically only for voice.
I can't tell you how many people I know can't get their laptops to sync to their bluetooth phones in the one way they want them to: to be able to connect to the net
Why can't they sell a phone specifically for this market? All it would do is make phone calls, and wirelessly connect your laptop to some dialup speed connection. No bloody video camera, no lame on phone email thing, no songs, no extra ring tones... just easy net capability. I guess that would just be too obvious, and never sell well in Japan.
Einstein's theory prohibits anything travelling as fast as the speed of light, but it doesn't prohibit something that travels faster than the speed of light. Sommerfeld first proposed that particals that always travel faster than the speed of light (called tachyons) may exist.
I've seen them before, in the form of tachyon fields, but only on TNG, apparently a way to detect cloaked ships.
In 20 years, the only hard drive that I've ever seen fail before it was replaced was manufactuered by Toshiba, and it was only 8 months past its 1 year warranty. It was a 40 GB laptop drive.
Depraved indifference is a crime. I'm not a lawyer (yet) but I watch Law & Order, and I know its fake... but they have episodes where they convict people for murder for publishing instructions on how to committ suicide. I'm not supporting Apple's position, but I doubt that Apple legal would make such a silly mistake (as you've made it sound... and your argument is pretty convincing).
I know there has been a lot of cross breeding lately... but isn't Linux much closer to BSD than Solaris, (which I always thought was a SV4 implementation)? I think Sun made a mistake with Solaris from its beginning, and having to keep Sun OS going should have been a clue... the progressives prefer BSD to SV4.
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if you could... go ahead and get that... for me... that would be great. Ok? Oh, and here's another copy of that memo.
ah, someone beat you to the punch, there
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Macintosh is for people who love computers.
Windows is for people who don't know any better.
"We think that at the moment the screens will appear first in more expensive magazines in the form of high-impact adverts. But as the price sinks we expect them to appear in papers as well, possibly as a really attention-grabbing front page."
Newspapers and magazines, and any print media company for that matter, are all struggling with technology. Proprietary technology is the norm. There is rarely anything standard between one and the next. The advances in printing technology notwithstanding, no publisher could implement this without the help of a third party. It is extremely doubtful that we will ever see anything like this on a news shelf coming directly from even the "more expensive magazines." They are looking to reduce their distribution costs, which may be upwards of 50-70% of the total, not increase them.
I understand it works for the iMac... and if you have the universal iPod dock...
its only $26 for students and the education crowd...
But what IS it? is it IR? RF? BT?
Front Row Media Experience sounds very cool... Is it and the remote going to work with my PowerBook, even though I don't have an iPod? If not... why would they exclude the rest of the media crowd that doesn't have an iPod?
Its 3 hours of battery life... I was looking in Tech Specs in the wrong place... Thanks, gang!
I don't get it... why so little video capacity?
In my world, 60GB is about 15 hours of DVD quality video... and at 320X240, the 60GB iPod should hold twice that... and with H.264, it should twice THAT... so, why isn't it 60 hours of video?
Man, did you ever hit the nail on the head... right on!
I feel so bad for the one's that do work there that are actually worth something, and not facist control freaks... because they put up with the others (how do they do it!) I'm never going back to that planet.
All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health...
what have the Romans ever done for us?
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There is not one of us who would not gladly suffer death to rid this country of the Romans once and for all.
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Bloody Romans! Can't take a joke!
but your point is well taken
Well, in order for the record industry to even function, they need to use my ears to deliver their music to me. I'm not getting paid. I think if the record industry wants to continue to charge for music, that I should get a some reasonable cut of that as my ears are irreplacible assets that they have used for free for long enough.
Is it possible for the hobbiest to pick up its signals? Why not release its exact location, what equipment is needed, how to get/build it , how to find it, and let anyone gather its data?
I'm sorry, I should have put a sarcasm disclaimer... :P
A CD is plastic, right? As the price of oil has been sky rocketing ever since CD's were introduced, CD's have stayed the same price, even in the face of increasing inflation of the economy in general. It must cost manufacturers upwards of 15 - 20 times more to manufacture a CD than it used to cost them. So, I mean, what's 20 times 1/20th of a cent...? OK, so it now costs them a penny a piece to manufacture CDs, but they haven't increased the cost to the consumer from $16 to $320. Man, these executive record guys are selling these things at practically a loss, now, just to keep us entertained. And they are still paying the artists and engineers somehow.
I read the other slashdot article a few days ago... what is the deal with this? The first time, its exploration, discovery... and we discovered that there is nothing there. The article the other /. story linked to doesn't mention why they are doing it.
n/t
Maybe if the hackers would have waited for a good stable build, Apple would have delayed their strategy. Imagine if the x86 OS X hack had not been made available until 10.4.4, or 10.4.8... what would Apple have done then? It would be too late to pull this strategy out of their hats. As long as the OS was stable, and binaries could be built with some version of XCode, I, for one, would at least be very interested in running this client version as a web/ftp/appletalk server/proxy... but only for the coolness factor, as part of a 'collection' of cool Apple stuff that should not be (like an ANS running Rhapsody or something). But 10.4.1 is just too unstable, as far as I can tell, for it to be worth dedicating such a new/good piece of hardware.
I thought the phone was interesting, but not interesting to me. I immediately noticed on the specs that it supported bluetooth specifically only for voice.
I can't tell you how many people I know can't get their laptops to sync to their bluetooth phones in the one way they want them to: to be able to connect to the net
Why can't they sell a phone specifically for this market? All it would do is make phone calls, and wirelessly connect your laptop to some dialup speed connection. No bloody video camera, no lame on phone email thing, no songs, no extra ring tones... just easy net capability. I guess that would just be too obvious, and never sell well in Japan.
Einstein's theory prohibits anything travelling as fast as the speed of light, but it doesn't prohibit something that travels faster than the speed of light. Sommerfeld first proposed that particals that always travel faster than the speed of light (called tachyons) may exist.
I've seen them before, in the form of tachyon fields, but only on TNG, apparently a way to detect cloaked ships.
In 20 years, the only hard drive that I've ever seen fail before it was replaced was manufactuered by Toshiba, and it was only 8 months past its 1 year warranty. It was a 40 GB laptop drive.
Depraved indifference is a crime. I'm not a lawyer (yet) but I watch Law & Order, and I know its fake... but they have episodes where they convict people for murder for publishing instructions on how to committ suicide. I'm not supporting Apple's position, but I doubt that Apple legal would make such a silly mistake (as you've made it sound... and your argument is pretty convincing).
I know there has been a lot of cross breeding lately... but isn't Linux much closer to BSD than Solaris, (which I always thought was a SV4 implementation)? I think Sun made a mistake with Solaris from its beginning, and having to keep Sun OS going should have been a clue... the progressives prefer BSD to SV4.
Sorry, way off topic here...
I think Ted Lavine should be more well known as Captain Leland Stottlemeyer on Monk.
But it only has one button...
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