Most broadband providers specifically prohibit you from sharing your connection in this manner. If something like this were to become popular they'd just have to start clamping down on it.
That's pretty neat. I'd look at that if I was going to get a Mac Mini. Now try to imagine how much it would have cost if Apple had made the case just a little bigger and included a 3.5" hard drive. They could have sold it at the same price point.
fantastically bad idea, darwin award whore, mind numbingly stupid, uber idiot...
Please. There's no shortage. Anyone willing to spend a few mil of their own money trying to get laptop drives as the default for the desktop is gonna get burned.
2.5" drives are considerably more expensive. If there was a large demand for quieter drives it would make more sense to use quieter 3.5" drives.
I don't think there are many Mac Mini owners who wouldn't jump at the chance of a slightly larger Mac Mini with a proper hard drive. Putting laptop drives in desktops is an exceptionally bad idea.
I expect light guns might actually be quite popular on the Wii. Since games can be released without worrying about the light guns there should be lots of games as you said. With so many games specialised light guns will be a popular option (but not oblgatory) for fans of such games.
Microsoft announced Vista years ago and all its features. Sometimes not knowing what's gonna happen is better than relying on incorrect information.
Apple are deliberately quiet about future products both from a marketing perspective and because it makes them a leaner, more responsive company. They can suddenly release software like Aperture and Bootcamp out of the blue when its ready and the time is right for them.
When a laptop is resting on a lap it is very rarely exactly horizontal. They also tend to move around a little continuously. Maybe planes and trains could easily fool the system but that's not important as there would have to be a bypass in any case.
Basically there are 3 sensors which could be combined to good effect. The ambient light sensor might be useful (not very likely), the accelerometer and the cpu thermometer. Your legs are usually warmer than room temperature and conduct heat differently. The computer could sense this and set a temperature limit by reducing performance and using the fans more. When a laptop is on your lap you essentially want to set a lower (than normal) max temperature according to your comfort. Even without automatically sensing this would be a great feature that I haven't heard of on a laptop yet.
Yes... with such success... how DOES one reconcile Jobs as anything BUT the enemy?
Simple. Avarice. Jobs is putting market size (and share) ahead of gross margin. He could charge more for something and still have it sell almost as well. This would really improve income in segments of the market in the short term. DVD pricing varies incredibly in some retail environments. The distributors understand the market very well and price accordingly. They set huge prices (30 euro is not unusual) for a while on new and old material for the fan market. Eventually, when it stops selling and they have plenty of stock leftover (they deliberately make extra due to economies of scale) they reduce the prices to capture the market of people with little interest in the material but who want a bargain. Apple's businness plan competes with the DVD market in their eyes.
It makes them lots of money but it could make them even more.
Apple should use the motion sensor to detect when the powerbook is likely to be being used on a lap and automatically lower the power usage to reduce the temperature. That would be a really good way to show off the motion sensor.
Don't really know if I see much useful application in it but I suppose it can't hurt. It could be really useful for power saving or even some scheduling stuff. It could also have some interesting security applications (say cover the light sensor as part of a keyboard combination)
I saw a video of the sudden motion sensor being used to switch desktops and it looked really great. Good luck to anyone who thinks they can do something useful. Someday we could all benefit.
I also find it interesting that sudden motion sensors were available on Thinkpads before Powerbooks but I never heard of people using them in different ways. That's a pretty good advert for Apple. Sums up the image that Apple put out much better than those TV ads.
Most of the shareware I used back in the day was much more open and non commercial than it is now. There's a huge movement to bring out limited software and leverage its popularity to persuade people to upgrade. Software like Easy CD Creater, Quicktime, Realplayer etc. all attempt to recieve extra income by witholding features that are not expensive to implement.
This is an important issue for Free Software. There should be no feature restrictions in dual licenced software. A good example where its done well at the moment is OpenOffice.org and StarOffice. StarOffice has proprietry fonts, spellchecker and migration tools but the most important thing is that they don't hobble OOo by preventing features from being added to OOo. Microsoft on the other hand sell multiple versions of Office where the differentiation is mostly about removing features.
There isn't one open source license. Some are more restrictive than others. Some are more open than others. People need to be more cautious in their use of terminology and should not use GPL interchangably with open source.
I don't know. Most people I know would be much more comfortable lending/burning a DVD, CD game etc. than sharing the intimate details of their porn collection.
Sure its an embarrassing purchase but the industry has been able to keep it an essentially private matter. It'd be more embarrassing to get caught sharing porn than normal DVDs.
Too paranoid is sorta an oxymoron on subjects like these.
In fairness, the Chinese could have a legitimate reason to want their own encryption standard: they own the IP on it. Down the road there could be quite large licensing costs on 802.11n devices. Since this would be an area where the chinese would have the same cost base (for export) it would have the effect of making chinese router exporters less competitive relatively speaking. They would both be funding their rivals and any cost savings they could make in manufacturing would make up a smaller proportion of the cost of the device.
The actual effectiveness (or lack thereof) of the encryption might be as irrelevant as it is in many standards conflicts.
Splintering is also something that helps Linux innovate so rapidly. If you have a good idea and are willing to do the work you can pick a distro that suits your needs. If there isn't one for you or the distro maintainers aren't receptive to your ideas you can fork a distro and experiment on your own.
Sure this leads to some incompatabilities and duplication of work but there are several ways for developers to mitigate this. Open standards are essential as they allow code be ported between distros rapidly. Another good idea is for devs to be involved (in some way) with using multiple distros. Different projects could work together more closely to achieve better interoperability.
Its an essential aspect of forking to accept that many forks are dead ends and should be allowed to die or merge back into the tree where desirable. There are many good projects out there and it isn't really in everyones interest to reinvent the wheel continuously.
Slashdot Mirror
Most broadband providers specifically prohibit you from sharing your connection in this manner. If something like this were to become popular they'd just have to start clamping down on it.
That's pretty neat. I'd look at that if I was going to get a Mac Mini. Now try to imagine how much it would have cost if Apple had made the case just a little bigger and included a 3.5" hard drive. They could have sold it at the same price point.
Please. There's no shortage. Anyone willing to spend a few mil of their own money trying to get laptop drives as the default for the desktop is gonna get burned.
I don't think there are many Mac Mini owners who wouldn't jump at the chance of a slightly larger Mac Mini with a proper hard drive. Putting laptop drives in desktops is an exceptionally bad idea.
When you've seen a photo like that you're gonna pay a lot more attention to a product recall.
I expect light guns might actually be quite popular on the Wii. Since games can be released without worrying about the light guns there should be lots of games as you said. With so many games specialised light guns will be a popular option (but not oblgatory) for fans of such games.
They're giving away nanos now (a rebate anyway) with any Mac except the mini
Shake is going mainstream (relatively speaking).
200mm is the diameter not the thickness
Well it would be a total waste of time if you're at home :p
350 Ghz at room temperature (warmer)
Clearly lower speed at higher temperature. What's up with the mods today?
Apple are deliberately quiet about future products both from a marketing perspective and because it makes them a leaner, more responsive company. They can suddenly release software like Aperture and Bootcamp out of the blue when its ready and the time is right for them.
2) Lion
new iWork and iLife every January. Easy!!
Basically there are 3 sensors which could be combined to good effect. The ambient light sensor might be useful (not very likely), the accelerometer and the cpu thermometer. Your legs are usually warmer than room temperature and conduct heat differently. The computer could sense this and set a temperature limit by reducing performance and using the fans more. When a laptop is on your lap you essentially want to set a lower (than normal) max temperature according to your comfort. Even without automatically sensing this would be a great feature that I haven't heard of on a laptop yet.
12) ????
13) Profit!!!!!!!
It makes them lots of money but it could make them even more.
Apple should use the motion sensor to detect when the powerbook is likely to be being used on a lap and automatically lower the power usage to reduce the temperature. That would be a really good way to show off the motion sensor.
I saw a video of the sudden motion sensor being used to switch desktops and it looked really great. Good luck to anyone who thinks they can do something useful. Someday we could all benefit.
I also find it interesting that sudden motion sensors were available on Thinkpads before Powerbooks but I never heard of people using them in different ways. That's a pretty good advert for Apple. Sums up the image that Apple put out much better than those TV ads.
What's the worst that can happen?
Clearly, they didn't. It's been modded interesting instead of funny.
This is an important issue for Free Software. There should be no feature restrictions in dual licenced software. A good example where its done well at the moment is OpenOffice.org and StarOffice. StarOffice has proprietry fonts, spellchecker and migration tools but the most important thing is that they don't hobble OOo by preventing features from being added to OOo. Microsoft on the other hand sell multiple versions of Office where the differentiation is mostly about removing features.
There isn't one open source license. Some are more restrictive than others. Some are more open than others. People need to be more cautious in their use of terminology and should not use GPL interchangably with open source.
Sure its an embarrassing purchase but the industry has been able to keep it an essentially private matter. It'd be more embarrassing to get caught sharing porn than normal DVDs.
In fairness, the Chinese could have a legitimate reason to want their own encryption standard: they own the IP on it. Down the road there could be quite large licensing costs on 802.11n devices. Since this would be an area where the chinese would have the same cost base (for export) it would have the effect of making chinese router exporters less competitive relatively speaking. They would both be funding their rivals and any cost savings they could make in manufacturing would make up a smaller proportion of the cost of the device.
The actual effectiveness (or lack thereof) of the encryption might be as irrelevant as it is in many standards conflicts.
Sure this leads to some incompatabilities and duplication of work but there are several ways for developers to mitigate this. Open standards are essential as they allow code be ported between distros rapidly. Another good idea is for devs to be involved (in some way) with using multiple distros. Different projects could work together more closely to achieve better interoperability.
Its an essential aspect of forking to accept that many forks are dead ends and should be allowed to die or merge back into the tree where desirable. There are many good projects out there and it isn't really in everyones interest to reinvent the wheel continuously.