Jobs: "Hey, Bill... have you seen this?"
Gates: "Wow... that's really slick. Are you shipping any enterprise apps with it?"
Jobs: "Not unless your bunch can write a compact version of Office."
Gates: "Oh, idunno - what are the sales projections like on these gadgets?"
Jobs: "They figure about 10 or 20 million units a year once it ramps up."
Gates: "[silence]...... Uh...... can I borrow that? I've got a phone call to make."
I hate Verizon for the same reason - locking out phone features which only benefit Verizon. I just got a RAZR V3M and Verizon deliberately disabled the OBEX function (Object Exchange) which was enabled on the V3C. OBEX lets you browse the phone's file system, recover pictures, plant MP3 files as ringtones... But NOOOO!! Verizon turned all that off so they can sell your pictures back to you, sell ringtones etc. Everything the phone can do has been disabled and turned into a paid service. I'm done with any company that starts abusing customers.
Once enough flash executives get their hands on it, AT&T and Apple will need to make good on making the iPhone a real business device. There's little that's currently attractive about the AT&T/Cingular network so many people are holding out until Verizon can get access to the iPhone. However, Verizon competes with everything about the iPhone so I don't know how portable business specific advances will be for the iPhone on Verizon. The only way this will work is if AT&T gets their act together and fixes the network reliability issues - then let the chair throwing begin.
I agree. The same form factor without the phone inside (but still Wi-Fi enabled) would be cheaper, not require a service contract and would sell by the boat load as a fancy iPod/Video player. Most people have a phone already. However, when your phone wears out in two years, what are you going to look at first if you already know and love the fancy iPod? By then, other providers are scheduled to have access to it. Apple themselves would have to totally screw up somehow to keep 2009 from being a huge year for the iPhone.
These days, it's almost irresponsible for a manufacturer to NOT make products more universal. If everyone else can make scanners plug and play on OS X for the same price, then why doesn't Canon? It's not rocket science. That's why I don't own Canon scanners - or cameras or printers. Their loss all the way around, not mine.
Test confirms the generally known (but debatable) points:
1. Not many can detect the improvement of higher kbps
2. Expensive earbuds are way better than the default ones.
3. 128kbps AAC isn't all that bad.
The Japanese apparently have a strong "R" sound as well - when trying to pronounce the "L" sound. There was a circuit board on a Sony broadcast tape machine built in the 1980's that actually had a screened label for the "phrase rock roop" adjustment right on the board. I wish I still had that thing.
Yup yup yup... the Chinese revere the U.S. and wish to emulate all the good things which bring knowledge and prosperity to the People, even if it means copying things to start with. They've got no reason to go to War with the American Mother Tit and they're needing it less and less. The one edge which will tip the balance of technological advantage toward China within the next 10-20 years is how lazy the kids in the U.S. are. We (in the U.S.) have achived a state where nobody has to exert themselves to excel. The kids in the U.S. can "succeed" (earn a living) while having no literary or math skills - more interested in "yo yo mo-fo nigga ho" existence than the ability to continue the franchise of American Ingenuity (which died with U.S. Patent Law). Probably 2% of American brain power is keeping us competitive at all. The Asians have a respect-based discipline of which Euro-American youth have no concept. There will be no war - we've already lost any "war" that's going on but we don't know it yet.
The last century of American Ingenutiy (if I may be so bold) saw the greatest advances in science and technology, uninhibited by the barriers we see today from defensive Corporations. It was an era of unbridled invention which made everything possible that we take for granted today. Everything developed was borrowed from all geniuses and inventors, European and American - we're one in the same. Like the American Indians before us, there was no concept of "owning" land - just as "owning" an idea had no place in American culture. It was just part of the recipe of development and advances. All that died with the big Corporations and their lawyers.
I had watched the wave of Vietnamese immigrants with awe who flooded the Washington D.C. suburbs starting from the 1970's. One guy I met was a car jocky at a Volkswagen dealer in Bethesda Maryland. He used to be a General in the Vietnamese Army, no slouch for sure but we had a LONG conversation about the freedoms he felt in this country. Holy crap, we lit his fuse and there's no stopping him. These people came here with NOTHING at all. Within three years, they owned a family business. Within seven years, they were driving Volvos. Within twelve years, they were sending their kids to Ivy League schools and probably graduating in the top 3% of the class. That's the discipline that the U.S. lacks and is ingrained within the Asian psyche.
War with China? I give up now. Get smart and learn Chinese for business purposes. At least all the programming languages are English.
It's not racist - it's speech training. From the ever omnipotent Wikipedia (confirmed with a year of living in Korea) "While Japanese speakers may have problems differentiating L and R sounds, Korean, Thai and Chinese speakers have fewer problems in this respect since their languages have separate L and R sounds (though in Korean the separate sounds are allophones). However, in each of these three languages, there are phonotactic restrictions on these sounds. Chinese and Thai have no syllable-final L sound, so speakers tend to pronounce them as R and N respectively; Korean has no final R sound, and speakers would pronounce it as an L."
I have never seen an iPod video outside of a store, but I am willing to accept that they have sold a whole lot of them.
What's the weather like in Greenland?
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Creative doesn't have a store where the RIAA is *[was]* twisting their arm and the iPod is as open as you like. Rip your own CDs to AAC or MP3 without DRM on Creative or iPod....
oh, that's right - the Zen doesn't support standards like MP4... but then the iPod doesn't do OGG...
crap - WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG????
Next argument.
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When I was around campus this past year I saw more Zunes than iPods.
Of course you'd see more Zunes - they don't fit anywhere except out in the open. Brilliant marketing hook!
Couldn't agree more about the RAID with different batches so they don't all blow up at once. Also, don't be tempted to make a 20 disk RAID 5 because you run the risk of disks failing faster than the RAID will rebuild.
Every drive manufacturer also has their ups and downs, no doubt. Western Digital had a long bad run but they've been pretty solid lately. But, when you have accumulated boxes of bad drives over the years and realize that all the Seagates (except one) just get too small to keep in service, that tells me something over the long haul. Out of the DeathStar drives, one was IBM and six were Hitachi, all of them except one just out of warranty and the lastest failure was 3 weeks ago.
With drives that big, anyone not putting them in RAID 5 is just asking for it. Highpoint makes a good cheap RAID 5 controller (Rocket RAID) with 8 ports that works for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows, so there's no excuse. I'll wait for the Seagate 1TB drive to be on the market for 6 months before stepping in those anyway.
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Jobs: "Hey, Bill... have you seen this?"
Gates: "Wow... that's really slick. Are you shipping any enterprise apps with it?"
Jobs: "Not unless your bunch can write a compact version of Office."
Gates: "Oh, idunno - what are the sales projections like on these gadgets?"
Jobs: "They figure about 10 or 20 million units a year once it ramps up."
Gates: "[silence]...... Uh...... can I borrow that? I've got a phone call to make."
I hate Verizon for the same reason - locking out phone features which only benefit Verizon. I just got a RAZR V3M and Verizon deliberately disabled the OBEX function (Object Exchange) which was enabled on the V3C. OBEX lets you browse the phone's file system, recover pictures, plant MP3 files as ringtones... But NOOOO!! Verizon turned all that off so they can sell your pictures back to you, sell ringtones etc. Everything the phone can do has been disabled and turned into a paid service. I'm done with any company that starts abusing customers.
Once enough flash executives get their hands on it, AT&T and Apple will need to make good on making the iPhone a real business device. There's little that's currently attractive about the AT&T/Cingular network so many people are holding out until Verizon can get access to the iPhone. However, Verizon competes with everything about the iPhone so I don't know how portable business specific advances will be for the iPhone on Verizon. The only way this will work is if AT&T gets their act together and fixes the network reliability issues - then let the chair throwing begin.
I agree. The same form factor without the phone inside (but still Wi-Fi enabled) would be cheaper, not require a service contract and would sell by the boat load as a fancy iPod/Video player. Most people have a phone already. However, when your phone wears out in two years, what are you going to look at first if you already know and love the fancy iPod? By then, other providers are scheduled to have access to it. Apple themselves would have to totally screw up somehow to keep 2009 from being a huge year for the iPhone.
By 2009, Steve Ballmer will be ordering chairs by the truckload.
No freeware for OS X? Look around in here and you'll see most everything you need - without spyware:
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/
These days, it's almost irresponsible for a manufacturer to NOT make products more universal. If everyone else can make scanners plug and play on OS X for the same price, then why doesn't Canon? It's not rocket science. That's why I don't own Canon scanners - or cameras or printers. Their loss all the way around, not mine.
Test confirms the generally known (but debatable) points:
1. Not many can detect the improvement of higher kbps
2. Expensive earbuds are way better than the default ones.
3. 128kbps AAC isn't all that bad.
stop just a minute and ask yourself honestly - would you defend this if it was MS?
Microsoft wouldn't do it this overtly. They'd plant some spyware laden, encrypted, DRM watching, motherboard disabling "feature" in your machine.
I knew there was a reason. You saved me from explaining the joke, at least.
Great development. Now figure out how to stick an electrode in the right place to solve colorectal cancer - the #2 killer these days.
The Microsoft Developer Conference happens on June 11-15 in San Francisco where they can pick up the beta of Vista SP1.
The Japanese apparently have a strong "R" sound as well - when trying to pronounce the "L" sound. There was a circuit board on a Sony broadcast tape machine built in the 1980's that actually had a screened label for the "phrase rock roop" adjustment right on the board. I wish I still had that thing.
Yup yup yup... the Chinese revere the U.S. and wish to emulate all the good things which bring knowledge and prosperity to the People, even if it means copying things to start with. They've got no reason to go to War with the American Mother Tit and they're needing it less and less. The one edge which will tip the balance of technological advantage toward China within the next 10-20 years is how lazy the kids in the U.S. are. We (in the U.S.) have achived a state where nobody has to exert themselves to excel. The kids in the U.S. can "succeed" (earn a living) while having no literary or math skills - more interested in "yo yo mo-fo nigga ho" existence than the ability to continue the franchise of American Ingenuity (which died with U.S. Patent Law). Probably 2% of American brain power is keeping us competitive at all. The Asians have a respect-based discipline of which Euro-American youth have no concept. There will be no war - we've already lost any "war" that's going on but we don't know it yet.
The last century of American Ingenutiy (if I may be so bold) saw the greatest advances in science and technology, uninhibited by the barriers we see today from defensive Corporations. It was an era of unbridled invention which made everything possible that we take for granted today. Everything developed was borrowed from all geniuses and inventors, European and American - we're one in the same. Like the American Indians before us, there was no concept of "owning" land - just as "owning" an idea had no place in American culture. It was just part of the recipe of development and advances. All that died with the big Corporations and their lawyers.
I had watched the wave of Vietnamese immigrants with awe who flooded the Washington D.C. suburbs starting from the 1970's. One guy I met was a car jocky at a Volkswagen dealer in Bethesda Maryland. He used to be a General in the Vietnamese Army, no slouch for sure but we had a LONG conversation about the freedoms he felt in this country. Holy crap, we lit his fuse and there's no stopping him. These people came here with NOTHING at all. Within three years, they owned a family business. Within seven years, they were driving Volvos. Within twelve years, they were sending their kids to Ivy League schools and probably graduating in the top 3% of the class. That's the discipline that the U.S. lacks and is ingrained within the Asian psyche.
War with China? I give up now. Get smart and learn Chinese for business purposes. At least all the programming languages are English.
It's not racist - it's speech training. From the ever omnipotent Wikipedia (confirmed with a year of living in Korea) "While Japanese speakers may have problems differentiating L and R sounds, Korean, Thai and Chinese speakers have fewer problems in this respect since their languages have separate L and R sounds (though in Korean the separate sounds are allophones). However, in each of these three languages, there are phonotactic restrictions on these sounds. Chinese and Thai have no syllable-final L sound, so speakers tend to pronounce them as R and N respectively; Korean has no final R sound, and speakers would pronounce it as an L."
I have never seen an iPod video outside of a store, but I am willing to accept that they have sold a whole lot of them.
What's the weather like in Greenland?
Creative doesn't have a store where the RIAA is *[was]* twisting their arm and the iPod is as open as you like. Rip your own CDs to AAC or MP3 without DRM on Creative or iPod....
oh, that's right - the Zen doesn't support standards like MP4... but then the iPod doesn't do OGG...
crap - WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG????
Next argument.
When I was around campus this past year I saw more Zunes than iPods.
Of course you'd see more Zunes - they don't fit anywhere except out in the open. Brilliant marketing hook!
You're my hero.
Bob Cringely did this years ago to get good Internet service to his house over a 10km Wi-Fi link:
First article and followup.
It's just a GAME - but some people get their philosophy of life from it, I suppose.
"Who cares" was going to be MY first post, dammit.
Great... another English professor on Slashdot.
Couldn't agree more about the RAID with different batches so they don't all blow up at once. Also, don't be tempted to make a 20 disk RAID 5 because you run the risk of disks failing faster than the RAID will rebuild.
Every drive manufacturer also has their ups and downs, no doubt. Western Digital had a long bad run but they've been pretty solid lately. But, when you have accumulated boxes of bad drives over the years and realize that all the Seagates (except one) just get too small to keep in service, that tells me something over the long haul. Out of the DeathStar drives, one was IBM and six were Hitachi, all of them except one just out of warranty and the lastest failure was 3 weeks ago.
With drives that big, anyone not putting them in RAID 5 is just asking for it. Highpoint makes a good cheap RAID 5 controller (Rocket RAID) with 8 ports that works for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows, so there's no excuse. I'll wait for the Seagate 1TB drive to be on the market for 6 months before stepping in those anyway.
DeskStar = DeathStar ...yup, I've had more DeathStars fail than any other drive except for Connor and big old Maxtors
I'll wait for Seagates, thank you.