"For all we know, the numbers are 70% Apple, 9% Zune, 8.99% SanDisk."
You're close. According to this Seattle PI article, in unit sales it was iPod 63%, Zune 9%. In dollar share, it was iPod 72%, Zune 13%. No numbers are given for Sandisk.
I just finished reading Red Mars. I enjoyed all the stuff about terraforming, building, and digging, but the best part *had* to be when they wrecked the Martian space elevator (including how they did it).
The reason the shot is in black and white is because Microsoft assigned a unique color scheme to every Zune prototype in existence right now--all 150 of them--so any leaks could be traced to the employee who leaked it. We don't want to be jerks and get anybody fired.
I didn't think *any* of Thurrott's points were invalid. I wrote the TechBlog piece because some of his points were *incomplete* -- and thus misleading.
Taxis and Limousines both drive on public roads; their owners can charge whatever they wish, whoever they wish, as long as the person who is charged agrees to pay.
Bad analogy, because taxi and limo fares are for the use of the car and driver, not for the use of the road. The better analogy would be if a private company wanted to put up toll booths on public roads and start charging tolls.
The consumer-level devices simply can't put out the pps to support network usage and simultaneous VOIP usage.
Really? I have my Vonage box behind a Linksys WRT54G and with the QoS prioritized to the Vonage box, the quality is excellent, even when I'm hammering the downloads. Even without the QoS configured, the voice dropouts are very minor.
People like me who make their own videos hate YouTube because it recompresses the videos into FLV format at an extremely low bit rate. It also renders stereo audio tracks down to mono, probably also at a reduced bit rate. All this transcoding is why a video from YouTube loads so fast, but it also means that the video looks and sounds significantly worse than the original. Read more about it here: YouTube and the Flash video format.
(But the MIT cannon is red, and the Mudd cannon isn't.)
You're right. The pictures I was looking at didn't have anything in them for scale (and I didn't look at them all because the site was so slow). When I finally pulled up this one, it's clear that the cannon is much bigger than it looked at first, and they're the same cannon.
Well I'm confused. According to this article, the cannon that was stolen twenty years ago was in front of Fleming house, and was THE Caltech Cannon. It was later returned to Caltech. However, judging by the photos, the cannon stolen twenty years ago is clearly not the same as the cannon now at MIT.
If the bigger cannon, the one stolen in 86 is THE Caltech cannon, then it was on front of Fleming house then, but isn't any more? Perhaps when that cannon was returned, it was put in a different, more secure area, and another smaller cannon was put at Fleming house?
Well see you were guilty of destruction of private property...
Actually, I wasn't guity of anything because I wasn't caught and tried.
Oh, OK, I'll 'fess up: the part about painting the door was a COMPLETE lie. Painting the door pink is what WOULD HAVE happened if the guy with the car keys hadn't passed out, followed shortly by the rest of us.
At my school there was a fraternity with a large Confederate era cannon on its front lawn. Some friends and I thought it would be hugely funny to sneak over the night before their formal ball and paint the thing pink. Fortunately, someone did some checking and discovered that the cannon was on the national historic register, and that messing with it would be a FEDERAL crime. So instead we painted their front door pink. Windows and all.
Slashdot Mirror
Switched to Dvorak about 15 years ago. Never looked back.
Anybody here been using Dvorak longer than that? (I'm sure many of you have...)
Isaac Asimov
Hmm... The Producers?
My deja vu is always triggered by things I hear, not things I see.
"For all we know, the numbers are 70% Apple, 9% Zune, 8.99% SanDisk."
You're close. According to this Seattle PI article, in unit sales it was iPod 63%, Zune 9%. In dollar share, it was iPod 72%, Zune 13%. No numbers are given for Sandisk.
I just finished reading Red Mars. I enjoyed all the stuff about terraforming, building, and digging, but the best part *had* to be when they wrecked the Martian space elevator (including how they did it).
Oh gawd! I need an Aspirin.
I didn't think *any* of Thurrott's points were invalid. I wrote the TechBlog piece because some of his points were *incomplete* -- and thus misleading.
Darwin's Radio? (Greg Bear)
"...the email newsletter comes to you; it arrives in your in box, and becomes part of the one place you go to get information."
And the one place you go to to get spam.
Taxis and Limousines both drive on public roads; their owners can charge whatever they wish, whoever they wish, as long as the person who is charged agrees to pay.
Bad analogy, because taxi and limo fares are for the use of the car and driver, not for the use of the road. The better analogy would be if a private company wanted to put up toll booths on public roads and start charging tolls.
Vimeo has also converted to Flash, from QuickTime.
The consumer-level devices simply can't put out the pps to support network usage and simultaneous VOIP usage.
Really? I have my Vonage box behind a Linksys WRT54G and with the QoS prioritized to the Vonage box, the quality is excellent, even when I'm hammering the downloads. Even without the QoS configured, the voice dropouts are very minor.
How about OS X 10.007 "Pussy Galore"?
"...adorable in a way that only women and gay men really understand."
And therefore the name makes PERFECT sense, because women and gay men are the CORE of Nintendo's customer base. Right? Right?
It is even worse because people that are not from the United States (like me) don't even know what a quarter looks like.
It's about twice the diameter of a dime.
You're welcome.
People like me who make their own videos hate YouTube because it recompresses the videos into FLV format at an extremely low bit rate. It also renders stereo audio tracks down to mono, probably also at a reduced bit rate. All this transcoding is why a video from YouTube loads so fast, but it also means that the video looks and sounds significantly worse than the original. Read more about it here: YouTube and the Flash video format.
(But the MIT cannon is red, and the Mudd cannon isn't.)
You're right. The pictures I was looking at didn't have anything in them for scale (and I didn't look at them all because the site was so slow). When I finally pulled up this one, it's clear that the cannon is much bigger than it looked at first, and they're the same cannon.
Well I'm confused. According to this article, the cannon that was stolen twenty years ago was in front of Fleming house, and was THE Caltech Cannon. It was later returned to Caltech. However, judging by the photos, the cannon stolen twenty years ago is clearly not the same as the cannon now at MIT.
If the bigger cannon, the one stolen in 86 is THE Caltech cannon, then it was on front of Fleming house then, but isn't any more? Perhaps when that cannon was returned, it was put in a different, more secure area, and another smaller cannon was put at Fleming house?
Well see you were guilty of destruction of private property...
Actually, I wasn't guity of anything because I wasn't caught and tried.
Oh, OK, I'll 'fess up: the part about painting the door was a COMPLETE lie. Painting the door pink is what WOULD HAVE happened if the guy with the car keys hadn't passed out, followed shortly by the rest of us.
At my school there was a fraternity with a large Confederate era cannon on its front lawn. Some friends and I thought it would be hugely funny to sneak over the night before their formal ball and paint the thing pink. Fortunately, someone did some checking and discovered that the cannon was on the national historic register, and that messing with it would be a FEDERAL crime. So instead we painted their front door pink. Windows and all.
Alcatelucent.
Furthermore, there were really four laws. Anybody remember Law Zero?
"flim buff"
There's a joke hiding just beneath the surface of that misspelling, but I can't figure out what it is!
Me neither, but I can tell it involves muppets and nudity!