Steve himself pointed out that MobileMe was a misstep. As someone who has cobbled together a cable-based home iTunes network, Gmail (via both a desktop/laptop web browser but also through iPhone's Mail app for notifications, etc.), Flickr & iPhoto, AppleTVs, a 60GB iPod, my wife's iPod Touch, Things for to do lists, etc., etc., etc., the only thing that is not encouraging to me about this is the thought of redoing everything again. But if Apple is actually putting some energy into this (and from the data center pictures, it looks like they are), it's might be too tempting to refuse.
And iTunes Match? Does anyone else find it baffling how they are getting away with this? I mean, for $25 I get legal versions of every single—ahem, questionably procured, shall we say— tracks in my gigantic iTunes library? Did the record companies read the fine print on this? I mean, as a voracious music consumer, I'm NOT complaining... we've all known for a long time that things were going to have to change in regard to digital media and copyright. And say what you will about them, I could see Apple being the company to make it happen. But really... how did they get away with this?
I don't mind paying for TV I like, but if I am going to be forced to "rent" shows I'd like to watch a few times, I'll just go buy DVD's then.
Are you really buying a lot of stuff through your Apple TV? What non-Apple TV-owners may not realize is that when you buy something through the Apple TV interface, you cannot move it to another device (like an iPod, iPhone, or other computer). If you have a computer in the house somewhere, it makes a ton more sense to buy the media through iTunes on the computer, and then either stream it or copy it to your Apple TV.
We rent stuff on the Apple TV (which allows us to start watching it before the download completes), but if we decide to buy something, we do it on the computer. That way we can transfer it around at our leisure. So for us, having the Apple TV do rentals only is not a big deal.
Primer is a great film, one of my favorites. Just be prepared to invest quite a bit of time into understanding it.
The discussion reminds me of a story my father tells: for a high school English paper, he was supposed to write about an invention he'd like to create. He decided to create a time machine by placing a centrifuge on one of the earth's poles. He of course left out any mention of the IDL.
The teacher gave him a perfect score simply because she couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work.
how important it is to dress the part for the role you want or are in to be taken seriously.
This really shouldn't come as a surprise. As a college prof, I see a lot of students who have this sense of entitlement ("I should be able to rebel and still get all the same opportunities that my non-rebellious classmates get"). The fact is, the true "rebel" is the one who dresses and/or acts rebelliously and embraces the consequences. If you're not willing to do that, you might want to reconsider your reasons for rebelling.
I wonder why there is so much confusion about the Eagles reference? Maybe a mid-1970's tune is just a little outside the average slashdotter's frame of reference.
Perhaps if the submitter cast Cloud Computing as the "Take On Me" of tech, where your data is sucked into this weird comic book world, and if you can get it out it's all dirty and disheveled in the trash can behind the counter?
I have always wondered if your heartbeat helps you keep a beat or keep track of time.
That's the first thing I thought about when I read this article. While I don't think one's pulse has much of an effect on keeping rhythm, I wonder if there would be some deeper psychological issues for a musician (or anyone, for that matter) living without that perpetual rhythm of life that is otherwise always lurking at the edge of our perception...
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#8 is okay, but don't give up on Auto-tune the News until you've heard #6.
But, of course, the smart ones aren't there to figure out the new technology because they got tired of living under the poverty level and decided to change careers.
This is the whirlpool into which this argument always descends: a lack of funding ensures low-quality teachers, and lousy schools ensure a lack of funding. If there were some way to reset it all and pay teachers what they are actually worth to society, schools could afford to hire the folks who not only know how to use the state of the art, but help to advance it.
They better keep on going, 'cos what if the pattern is that the SECOND three trillion digits are the same as the FIRST three trillion digits, except like BACKWARDS!:O
Up until a few months ago, we had a CC but no BB, so CC was the place to go and browse around to see what stuff is out there (something I've never really been able to do well with online retailers, which aren't really set up to "browse").
Has anyone been to a CC closeout sale? Our Kmart closed a while back and we were able to get some crazy deals. If that were the case with an electronics store... *drool*
I agree that the shark guy was good. The pause after the guy saying he has a beard was also funny, but I'm guessing that 90% of the commericial's audience wouldn't get the "guys with beards run unix" reference that I assume was implied.
I think that it would be a much better commercial if it stood on it's own, rather than being a "nyah nyah nyah" to Apple's commercials.
The trouble is Apple doesn't get it either. John Hodgman's "PC" over time has developed a sympathetic cachet; everyone I know loves the apple ads, but we are all rooting for the poor PC who just keeps taking the hits.
Of course everyone is rooting for Hodgman -- he's the star of the commercials. But people are watching the commercials, laughing at them, calling their spouses in to the living room saying, "Hey, there's a new one on"... that's advertising success. The point is to have people remembering how cool those commercials for Apple were when they are thinking of buying a new computer.
The new MS ad actually appeals to them, its a little vindication for 'poor PC'.
I disagree. If Charlie Brown started repeatedly kicking Lucy in the head in a fit of long-suppressed rage, we might sympathize, but I'm guessing readership would probably drop off a bit.
If you made cars and I wanted you to crush it and you said no you wouldn't be in business long.
Holy cow. I had no idea that auto manufacturers were obligated to crush cars on demand. I wonder if this goes for dealers also? Just think of the potential for practical jokes...
True. And -- psychologically, not legally -- it's never really as simple as { criminal | !criminal }, is it? My guess is that he was more like William H. Macy's character in Fargo... it started out as a smallish transgression made by someone in a stressful financial tight spot. "I'll just do this one thing, and then I'll be able to get out of this hole and be back on track."
I'm just saying that there are a lot of different depths of criminal behavior, and a hardened Lex Luthor-type criminal wouldn't let a 21-month prison sentence affect him like this. Not defending him, but this guy sounds a little more like someone I might see on the golf course or at church or something.
My thoughts exactly. You're calling me a Reaganite because I oppose you coming into my house and putting pictures of Sesame Street characters smoking weed and drinking Everclear all over my toddler's bedroom walls?
This doesn't really seem like it should be a mystery.
Tom is a computer guy. Some of his top visited sites are sourceforge, slashdot and his own LEGO Mindstorms blog. His home machine runs the latest nightly build of Linux and he can speak fluent hexadecimal. He uses Firefox because he detests the business practices of Microsoft, he appreciates the interface design and standards-compliance of FF, and understands the importance of supporting open source programming.
Harry is a guy who uses a computer. Some of his top visited sites are the Microsoft Start Page and Yahoo! Games. His home machine is a color television. He uses IE because, to him, the little "e" icon is what his trainer told him to click on to get on the internet.
Which if these folks, do you think, is going to have upgraded to the latest version of his web browser?
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For my own part, after watching the liveblog of the keynote, I came to /. to see what the grown-ups were saying about it.
Steve himself pointed out that MobileMe was a misstep. As someone who has cobbled together a cable-based home iTunes network, Gmail (via both a desktop/laptop web browser but also through iPhone's Mail app for notifications, etc.), Flickr & iPhoto, AppleTVs, a 60GB iPod, my wife's iPod Touch, Things for to do lists, etc., etc., etc., the only thing that is not encouraging to me about this is the thought of redoing everything again. But if Apple is actually putting some energy into this (and from the data center pictures, it looks like they are), it's might be too tempting to refuse.
And iTunes Match? Does anyone else find it baffling how they are getting away with this? I mean, for $25 I get legal versions of every single—ahem, questionably procured, shall we say— tracks in my gigantic iTunes library? Did the record companies read the fine print on this? I mean, as a voracious music consumer, I'm NOT complaining... we've all known for a long time that things were going to have to change in regard to digital media and copyright. And say what you will about them, I could see Apple being the company to make it happen. But really... how did they get away with this?
I don't mind paying for TV I like, but if I am going to be forced to "rent" shows I'd like to watch a few times, I'll just go buy DVD's then.
Are you really buying a lot of stuff through your Apple TV? What non-Apple TV-owners may not realize is that when you buy something through the Apple TV interface, you cannot move it to another device (like an iPod, iPhone, or other computer). If you have a computer in the house somewhere, it makes a ton more sense to buy the media through iTunes on the computer, and then either stream it or copy it to your Apple TV.
We rent stuff on the Apple TV (which allows us to start watching it before the download completes), but if we decide to buy something, we do it on the computer. That way we can transfer it around at our leisure. So for us, having the Apple TV do rentals only is not a big deal.
Primer is a great film, one of my favorites. Just be prepared to invest quite a bit of time into understanding it.
The discussion reminds me of a story my father tells: for a high school English paper, he was supposed to write about an invention he'd like to create. He decided to create a time machine by placing a centrifuge on one of the earth's poles. He of course left out any mention of the IDL.
The teacher gave him a perfect score simply because she couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work.
This really shouldn't come as a surprise. As a college prof, I see a lot of students who have this sense of entitlement ("I should be able to rebel and still get all the same opportunities that my non-rebellious classmates get"). The fact is, the true "rebel" is the one who dresses and/or acts rebelliously and embraces the consequences. If you're not willing to do that, you might want to reconsider your reasons for rebelling.
I wonder why there is so much confusion about the Eagles reference? Maybe a mid-1970's tune is just a little outside the average slashdotter's frame of reference.
Perhaps if the submitter cast Cloud Computing as the "Take On Me" of tech, where your data is sucked into this weird comic book world, and if you can get it out it's all dirty and disheveled in the trash can behind the counter?
I have always wondered if your heartbeat helps you keep a beat or keep track of time.
That's the first thing I thought about when I read this article. While I don't think one's pulse has much of an effect on keeping rhythm, I wonder if there would be some deeper psychological issues for a musician (or anyone, for that matter) living without that perpetual rhythm of life that is otherwise always lurking at the edge of our perception...
#8 is okay, but don't give up on Auto-tune the News until you've heard #6.
But, of course, the smart ones aren't there to figure out the new technology because they got tired of living under the poverty level and decided to change careers.
This is the whirlpool into which this argument always descends: a lack of funding ensures low-quality teachers, and lousy schools ensure a lack of funding. If there were some way to reset it all and pay teachers what they are actually worth to society, schools could afford to hire the folks who not only know how to use the state of the art, but help to advance it.
They better keep on going, 'cos what if the pattern is that the SECOND three trillion digits are the same as the FIRST three trillion digits, except like BACKWARDS! :O
Man, that'd be SO AWESOME.
Up until a few months ago, we had a CC but no BB, so CC was the place to go and browse around to see what stuff is out there (something I've never really been able to do well with online retailers, which aren't really set up to "browse").
Has anyone been to a CC closeout sale? Our Kmart closed a while back and we were able to get some crazy deals. If that were the case with an electronics store... *drool*
I say we cap the comment abilities of posters whose UIDs are not divisible by 43543.
No... wait... I see it! You kind of have to focus your eyes on a point behind the picture.
I agree that the shark guy was good. The pause after the guy saying he has a beard was also funny, but I'm guessing that 90% of the commericial's audience wouldn't get the "guys with beards run unix" reference that I assume was implied.
I think that it would be a much better commercial if it stood on it's own, rather than being a "nyah nyah nyah" to Apple's commercials.
The trouble is Apple doesn't get it either. John Hodgman's "PC" over time has developed a sympathetic cachet; everyone I know loves the apple ads, but we are all rooting for the poor PC who just keeps taking the hits.
Of course everyone is rooting for Hodgman -- he's the star of the commercials. But people are watching the commercials, laughing at them, calling their spouses in to the living room saying, "Hey, there's a new one on"... that's advertising success. The point is to have people remembering how cool those commercials for Apple were when they are thinking of buying a new computer.
The new MS ad actually appeals to them, its a little vindication for 'poor PC'.
I disagree. If Charlie Brown started repeatedly kicking Lucy in the head in a fit of long-suppressed rage, we might sympathize, but I'm guessing readership would probably drop off a bit.
In other news, the Panic Office reports that section 917 may have been hit. Activate the following procedure:
People who write acronyms contain so much fail.
Mais Oui, especially when they appeaR to be Overtly creating the Name to fit the acronymS.
What do you mean all the cake is gone?
Gone? It's over on the t-
Hey, where'd the table go?
Holy cow. I had no idea that auto manufacturers were obligated to crush cars on demand. I wonder if this goes for dealers also? Just think of the potential for practical jokes...
In Soviet Russia, the gender neutral first person pronoun is you!
Well, I did essentially get a meat pie the last time I used one of them. Thank heavens for term limits...
True. And -- psychologically, not legally -- it's never really as simple as { criminal | !criminal }, is it? My guess is that he was more like William H. Macy's character in Fargo... it started out as a smallish transgression made by someone in a stressful financial tight spot. "I'll just do this one thing, and then I'll be able to get out of this hole and be back on track."
I'm just saying that there are a lot of different depths of criminal behavior, and a hardened Lex Luthor-type criminal wouldn't let a 21-month prison sentence affect him like this. Not defending him, but this guy sounds a little more like someone I might see on the golf course or at church or something.
My thoughts exactly. You're calling me a Reaganite because I oppose you coming into my house and putting pictures of Sesame Street characters smoking weed and drinking Everclear all over my toddler's bedroom walls?
This doesn't really seem like it should be a mystery.
Tom is a computer guy. Some of his top visited sites are sourceforge, slashdot and his own LEGO Mindstorms blog. His home machine runs the latest nightly build of Linux and he can speak fluent hexadecimal. He uses Firefox because he detests the business practices of Microsoft, he appreciates the interface design and standards-compliance of FF, and understands the importance of supporting open source programming.
Harry is a guy who uses a computer. Some of his top visited sites are the Microsoft Start Page and Yahoo! Games. His home machine is a color television. He uses IE because, to him, the little "e" icon is what his trainer told him to click on to get on the internet.
Which if these folks, do you think, is going to have upgraded to the latest version of his web browser?