If you think you can get by just fine on just a quad-core, then you're not the target market. Simple as that. I get by just fine on my entry level MacMini. There won't be a huge volume of sales of the 12 core systems, but there exists a market (however relatively small) that needs every bit of computing power they can get. They're also the ones willing to invest in the software architechture to get the most out of the hardware.
I'm right there with you, except I actually own one. I'm a 28 y/o with a Master's in Electrical Engineering and a decent job, which makes me a wealthy, well-educated, power-hungry, over-achieving, sophisticated, almost 30 year old young man interested in business, finance, videogames, computers, electronics, science and the internet who uses Facebook...
Basically, wait until those independent geeks grow up a little bit and can afford some nice toys. It's a luxury appliance. Sure, it has some limitations, but for what it's meant for, it does it incredibly well. Your average kid in the basement doesn't need one, nor can they justify the cost. Maybe they'll pounce on a slate/eeePad/gPad if they come out a few hundred bucks cheaper later this year/decade/century. Those of us that don't mind paying the early adopter tax are happily enjoying ours.
Ok, forget the legal aspects of this being an obvious rip-off of the Wiimote. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how anyone would use the motion function on this thing when the screen is ON what you are moving. I mean seriously, it would be like having to pick up your laptop up off your desk and lift it up and to the left if you wanted to move your mouse to the file menu. Not only is your pointer moving on the screen, but your whole point of reference is also moving. It's easy to focus on a tv or computer screen because it is STATIONARY. Say you have to tilt it forward to move the pointer up. Well, now your screen is tilted away from you and you can't see it. I mean, when they come up with these cheap knock-off toys, do they just go straight from some marketing guys head straight into production? Surely someone out there would at least try to use it once and realize how stupid this is. I guess the idea is, is that it doesn't actually have to be functional to sell, it just has to look like a Wiimote, yeah, make it white with a d-pad on it and you can hold it in your hand. Brilliant.
FTFA, it is said that the recording device in question is a Canon Power Shot Digital Camera. Although it has movie recording features, it isn't exactly what you would choose if you really wanted to record the whole movie, especially if you had intentions of distributing it.
Here's how I see the scenario: The camera was borrowed, they were "playing around" with all the features. It's more like when they were watching, it was like, "oh hey, this does video clips too! Wouldn't it be cool if I could record a bit for my brother". If it was during one of the action scenes, it was probably closer to the end of the movie, which means they had no intention of recording the whole thing from the start. Although by the letter of the law, what they did was wrong, it's obvious that their intentions were innocent.
Actually, the way antennas are usually designed in this case, the people living directly below the antenna would probably get less radiation exposure than you would in your building 200m away. The radiation pattern of antennas in this case are usually designed so that they broadcast equally in all directions, but in a flat horizontal plane, which means that there are nulls in the radiation pattern directly below it (vertically). But the further away you are from the tower, the smaller the incline angle (theta = atan(transmitter height difference/distance), sorry hard to draw the triangle ). For small incline angles, the radiation pattern can assumed to be close to the max.
Assuming pure line of sight (can you see the antenna from your building?), Power dissipates with a 1/d^2 law. It's also not hard to imagine that the null in the direction straight down from the antenna is -20dB, so if you're 200m away (at roughly the same height as the antenna), you'll get about the same amount of power as someone 2m below the antenna. So essentially, you're getting hit with the same amount as someone on the top floor directly below the antenna. This doesn't even take into account your own body acting as an antenna (straight up) and someone who receives it from above.
For this reason, hospitals will actually prefer a cellular provider to place their antenna on top of the hospital rather than on top of another building that is away from them, but still in the general area.
I would have went with posting a standard "G" chord. It was a favourite among my music class because our music teacher had a way of making it look like she was giving us the finger. She could never figure out why we were laughing so hard.
The same thing goes for any F or Bm based barre chord switching to a Fm or Bsus2 which is quickly accomplished by lifting the middle finger and sticking it straight in the air!
Just like Apple secretly was developing OS X from the beginning on Intel processors, I think its reasonable to assume that Apple has a contingency plan in place. They do have agreements with Microsoft for continued development for their platform, so they will at least have some warning if they do get cut off. This will give them enough time to leverage a secret full office suite development into full fledged distribution if need be. It may come in the next iWork, but that's anyone else's guess. It would be great if they took their iTunes approach, where they implemented AAC, and implemented the ODF spec for the rest of their "Office" apps.
As someone who has used OOo on Windows/Linux/OS X, I have to admit that the OS X X11 implementation feels like the biggest kludge. I've been attempting to move all my documents over to the ODF, but everytime I boot up OOo on my Mac, I get frustrated with so many things about it. As slow as Word is on OS X running under Rosetta, recently I've been finding myself using that much more. I haven't tried Neooffice yet, because I can't imagine using something slower. On the other hand, I've found OOo quite a good replacement under windows.
So I say, bring it on! I think that getting a good implementation of OOo running natively under Aqua is key in the cause of reducing reliance on Microsoft. People switching to Linux obviously are going to use OOo or some other open format, but still too many people switching to Mac are relying on Microsoft. It'll be curious to see whether they take Firefox's approach to have the interface be consistent across the board, or if they try and take advantage of OS X's toolkits and design guides to make it a true Mac application.
This isn't really a big one in the grand scheme of things, but what I like about Safari over FF is that I can just drag and drop images from a webpage and put them into iPhoto. In FF I have to manually save the image first and then import it into iPhoto. I think before you also couldn't do it for iTunes album art, but that has since been added. I still use FF myself, but that is one thing I wish it had that Safari does.
It was interesting to see that this "test" consisted of a single scene. While I was impressed with the N95, it says nothing of the versatility of the camera. The subject was located what seemed to be about a foot or so away from the lens. It would be interesting to see its ability to focus on something further away. Currently, I think that is the biggest shortcoming of camera phones at the moment. Yes, it is a limited space that they can cram the lens into, but until they've got "good enough" optical zoom, they still won't fully replace a handheld point and click, and I think we can all agree that they'll never be able to replace a good dSLR (that's just plain silly!).
I'm a user on the affected network, and will be switching ISP's very soon for this reason. My experience with it so far is that on the Express Package (5.0Mbps/384kbps), even with bittorrent configured for a minimal amount of outbound connections, and the maximum upload capped well below my alloted upload speed, I am unable to complete a simple outbound e-mail through my university account which requires an encrypted connection (SMTP SSL). This happens anytime the bittorrent upload is as little as 5 KB/s. I essentially have to have no other encrypted traffic going out for me to send a simple e-mail. This is an unacceptable level of service. I understand that bittorrent does swamp the network, which is why I've tried to configure mine to not overload my own network, but nothing I've done so far has enabled me to have bittorrent going and sending a secure e-mail at the same time.
With regards to the download speeds, I rarely get any downloads over 30 KB/s when using bittorrent, even on large ones with good seed/leech ratio. I'm not that heavy a downloader, but it's annoying enough that something I can pull down on Aliant DSL in 2 hours is going to take me over a day on Rogers, and this is comparing Aliant's basc 1.5 Mbps to Rogers 5 Mbps! Anyway, I'm switching as soon as I can afford to risk a service interruption.
You make a valid point that we have to hope that EMI is successful with this in order for the idea of DRM free digital music to proliferate with the major labels, but why oh why does it have to be EMI? Let's not forget that they were the foremost, largest, and longest implementers of the copy-control non-cd's. Sure, you could circumvent this with the shift key in windows, but it sure didn't work when playing them in other standalone cd devices.
One foreseable problem with charging a premium on now both a higher quality file and the DRM free is that you won't have a separation of the two new features. It'll be easier for the other record companies to spin the sales figures for EMI. Hopefully it will be successful enough that it will push for both higher quality and DRM free products from the other labels, but man, do I ever still have a grudge with EMI, almost as bad as Sony!
What you say would normally be sound advice. My mother tried to give me this same advice when I told her that I got my girlfriend a vacuum cleaner as part of her Valentine's gift. I didn't get her a Dyson, but I did get her the Roomba Red (red for Valentine's day!). My mom didn't understand that this was a vacuum cleaner that did the vacuuming for her. By giving my gf this gift, I wasn't telling her that she's my maid and that she has to vacuum the apartment. I was giving her something that would save her time so she wouldn't have to be the one doing the vacuuming, and she could spend more time with me! Also, the Roomba (we've named him Rupert) has a bit of personality (he's a little clumsy sometimes) and has become a bit of a family pet for us. She seems to think its one of the best presents she's got.
So, mother's don't always know what's best, and females won't always reject presents with electrical cords, they just have to be the right electrical thing. It helps that my gf is just finishing up her Mechanical Engineering degree (I'm Electrical) and has an appreciation for robotics. It also helps that in addition to the Roomba, I still did a lot of other things for Valentine's (home cooked 5 course gourmet meal, roses, chocolate, the works). So, it is possible to get away with buying geeky gifts!
Well, you're partly correct in what you're trying to say, but maybe not quite specific enough. Yes, it is true that the 50/60 Hz power line interference is often the strongest signal present, it's not so much coming from the power supply as it is being induced on the person that is being measured. Human beings are like giant antennas and pick up all the power line noise that is being radiated. Any bio-signal instrumentation amplifier worth its snuff is going to have a large common mode rejection ratio that will minimize the effect of the power line noise. The EEG signal is measured from multiple electrodes placed around the head, all of which are used to measure multiple channels of differential voltages, ie the difference in signal level from say your left temple and your right temple. The power line noise is common to all inputs and can therefore be reduced from the output measurements.
The real challenge to this lies in the pattern classification process that hampers other identification/recognition processes. From the measurements they take, they have to look for patterns that allow them to differentiate one thing from another. Moving your hand to the left or to the right isn't as big a difference as moving your hand to the right and trying to divide two prime numbers to the 5th decimal place. Also, you can't measure "moving your hand to the right" without actually moving your hand to the right (unless you don't have a hand to move). You would actually be measuring yourself thinking "I want to move my hand to the right without actually moving it". Your brain controls all of your bodily functions, not just your conscious thought.
Also, all the signals coming out of your brain are quite random and more or less a big huge mess when they all get jumbled together. You have oodles of brain cells/neurons firing/not firing at any given time. For this reason, a single thought or command has to be held a reasonable amount of time so that it can be measured several times and averaged and have a realm of other statistical analysis performed. Overall its a big tradeoff between library size, accuracy, and throughput. Pick 2 of 3.
The basis of the article title, wondering what the 40GB HD is doing, is easily answered if you watched the Apple keynote. The AppleTV, while has the ability to stream from any device on the network, is primarily more intended to be used like an iPod, syncing your latest tv shows/movies, etc. from your main computer that you would usually use to get your new content. Heck, the AppleTV is even listed as part of the iPod store option. Since its always on, it can do the syncing constantly and becomes more network connection agnostic. You don't have to worry about your wireless connection crapping out in the middle of a stream if you've got what you want to watch already on the HD. That along with standard buffering/cache/OS stuff, is all I see the HD being for.
If Apple really wanted to put out a p2p distribution node, an easier solution would be to just release it as an update to iTunes. Then they aren't limited to only the AppleTV nodes.
Well, apparently I could easily get into a indie/obscure band dick swingin' contest with you since I was just defending the fact that I'm one of those rare open-minded music lovers (probably like you), but I'll avoid that disaster for fear of you drivin' me nuts, and yes, I do have two hands on my steering wheel;)
Just because someone says they like everything and will first proceed to list mainstream rock and rap doesn't automatically make them a toolbox. Often times these sorts of conversations will attempt to seek out a commonality. So someone who listens to everything may begin by saying the more mainstream bands in an attempt to find something that you like. Think of it as a refined search product. If you like a certain band that has roots, is inspired by, or is similar to some off beat indie band, they I don't come across as a pretentious asshole by only listing the bands that you may not have heard of. It's a lot easier to say, hey you like band (mainstream) A, have you ever heard of band (unknown gem) B? You might like them. Music elitist snobs have got to be the worst. If you like a band so much, you should spread the word and share it with the world, not keep it to yourself so you can look feel good about yourself about being a music conoisseur.
I'm sure you type in your 128-bit WPA key manually each time you want to connect to your own wireless network and retreive your e-mail? Or are you on auto-detect and connect to KNOWN connections and have outlook to check for e-mail every 5 minutes? I fail to see how this would be any different, connecting a peripheral (laptop or pda) to a host (wireless lan, desktop PC). Yes, your point is valid that the initial implementation will have holes, but take off your tinfoil hat for a second and realize that if you really have sensitive data it shouldn't be going over a wireless channel anyway or even on a device that is capable of broadcasting into the air in an unencrypted format. If someone happens to copy a song off of my mp3 player, I couldn't care less. If someone happens to copy a credit card number off of my pda, well, shame on me for having something like that stored in plain text on such a device.
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If you think you can get by just fine on just a quad-core, then you're not the target market. Simple as that. I get by just fine on my entry level MacMini. There won't be a huge volume of sales of the 12 core systems, but there exists a market (however relatively small) that needs every bit of computing power they can get. They're also the ones willing to invest in the software architechture to get the most out of the hardware.
I'm right there with you, except I actually own one. I'm a 28 y/o with a Master's in Electrical Engineering and a decent job, which makes me a wealthy, well-educated, power-hungry, over-achieving, sophisticated, almost 30 year old young man interested in business, finance, videogames, computers, electronics, science and the internet who uses Facebook... Basically, wait until those independent geeks grow up a little bit and can afford some nice toys. It's a luxury appliance. Sure, it has some limitations, but for what it's meant for, it does it incredibly well. Your average kid in the basement doesn't need one, nor can they justify the cost. Maybe they'll pounce on a slate/eeePad/gPad if they come out a few hundred bucks cheaper later this year/decade/century. Those of us that don't mind paying the early adopter tax are happily enjoying ours.
Ok, forget the legal aspects of this being an obvious rip-off of the Wiimote. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how anyone would use the motion function on this thing when the screen is ON what you are moving. I mean seriously, it would be like having to pick up your laptop up off your desk and lift it up and to the left if you wanted to move your mouse to the file menu. Not only is your pointer moving on the screen, but your whole point of reference is also moving. It's easy to focus on a tv or computer screen because it is STATIONARY. Say you have to tilt it forward to move the pointer up. Well, now your screen is tilted away from you and you can't see it. I mean, when they come up with these cheap knock-off toys, do they just go straight from some marketing guys head straight into production? Surely someone out there would at least try to use it once and realize how stupid this is. I guess the idea is, is that it doesn't actually have to be functional to sell, it just has to look like a Wiimote, yeah, make it white with a d-pad on it and you can hold it in your hand. Brilliant.
we were at war with Eurasia. We were always at war with Eurasia.
No "Boom!", but he did go "Schoom Schoom Schoom!"
Here's how I see the scenario: The camera was borrowed, they were "playing around" with all the features. It's more like when they were watching, it was like, "oh hey, this does video clips too! Wouldn't it be cool if I could record a bit for my brother". If it was during one of the action scenes, it was probably closer to the end of the movie, which means they had no intention of recording the whole thing from the start. Although by the letter of the law, what they did was wrong, it's obvious that their intentions were innocent.
Assuming pure line of sight (can you see the antenna from your building?), Power dissipates with a 1/d^2 law. It's also not hard to imagine that the null in the direction straight down from the antenna is -20dB, so if you're 200m away (at roughly the same height as the antenna), you'll get about the same amount of power as someone 2m below the antenna. So essentially, you're getting hit with the same amount as someone on the top floor directly below the antenna. This doesn't even take into account your own body acting as an antenna (straight up) and someone who receives it from above.
For this reason, hospitals will actually prefer a cellular provider to place their antenna on top of the hospital rather than on top of another building that is away from them, but still in the general area.
The same thing goes for any F or Bm based barre chord switching to a Fm or Bsus2 which is quickly accomplished by lifting the middle finger and sticking it straight in the air!
Just like Apple secretly was developing OS X from the beginning on Intel processors, I think its reasonable to assume that Apple has a contingency plan in place. They do have agreements with Microsoft for continued development for their platform, so they will at least have some warning if they do get cut off. This will give them enough time to leverage a secret full office suite development into full fledged distribution if need be. It may come in the next iWork, but that's anyone else's guess. It would be great if they took their iTunes approach, where they implemented AAC, and implemented the ODF spec for the rest of their "Office" apps.
So I say, bring it on! I think that getting a good implementation of OOo running natively under Aqua is key in the cause of reducing reliance on Microsoft. People switching to Linux obviously are going to use OOo or some other open format, but still too many people switching to Mac are relying on Microsoft. It'll be curious to see whether they take Firefox's approach to have the interface be consistent across the board, or if they try and take advantage of OS X's toolkits and design guides to make it a true Mac application.
This isn't really a big one in the grand scheme of things, but what I like about Safari over FF is that I can just drag and drop images from a webpage and put them into iPhoto. In FF I have to manually save the image first and then import it into iPhoto. I think before you also couldn't do it for iTunes album art, but that has since been added. I still use FF myself, but that is one thing I wish it had that Safari does.
It was interesting to see that this "test" consisted of a single scene. While I was impressed with the N95, it says nothing of the versatility of the camera. The subject was located what seemed to be about a foot or so away from the lens. It would be interesting to see its ability to focus on something further away. Currently, I think that is the biggest shortcoming of camera phones at the moment. Yes, it is a limited space that they can cram the lens into, but until they've got "good enough" optical zoom, they still won't fully replace a handheld point and click, and I think we can all agree that they'll never be able to replace a good dSLR (that's just plain silly!).
With regards to the download speeds, I rarely get any downloads over 30 KB/s when using bittorrent, even on large ones with good seed/leech ratio. I'm not that heavy a downloader, but it's annoying enough that something I can pull down on Aliant DSL in 2 hours is going to take me over a day on Rogers, and this is comparing Aliant's basc 1.5 Mbps to Rogers 5 Mbps! Anyway, I'm switching as soon as I can afford to risk a service interruption.
One foreseable problem with charging a premium on now both a higher quality file and the DRM free is that you won't have a separation of the two new features. It'll be easier for the other record companies to spin the sales figures for EMI. Hopefully it will be successful enough that it will push for both higher quality and DRM free products from the other labels, but man, do I ever still have a grudge with EMI, almost as bad as Sony!
My Roomba is deathly scared of the stairs! Everytime he sees them, he runs the other way!
So, mother's don't always know what's best, and females won't always reject presents with electrical cords, they just have to be the right electrical thing. It helps that my gf is just finishing up her Mechanical Engineering degree (I'm Electrical) and has an appreciation for robotics. It also helps that in addition to the Roomba, I still did a lot of other things for Valentine's (home cooked 5 course gourmet meal, roses, chocolate, the works). So, it is possible to get away with buying geeky gifts!
The real challenge to this lies in the pattern classification process that hampers other identification/recognition processes. From the measurements they take, they have to look for patterns that allow them to differentiate one thing from another. Moving your hand to the left or to the right isn't as big a difference as moving your hand to the right and trying to divide two prime numbers to the 5th decimal place. Also, you can't measure "moving your hand to the right" without actually moving your hand to the right (unless you don't have a hand to move). You would actually be measuring yourself thinking "I want to move my hand to the right without actually moving it". Your brain controls all of your bodily functions, not just your conscious thought.
Also, all the signals coming out of your brain are quite random and more or less a big huge mess when they all get jumbled together. You have oodles of brain cells/neurons firing/not firing at any given time. For this reason, a single thought or command has to be held a reasonable amount of time so that it can be measured several times and averaged and have a realm of other statistical analysis performed. Overall its a big tradeoff between library size, accuracy, and throughput. Pick 2 of 3.
If Apple really wanted to put out a p2p distribution node, an easier solution would be to just release it as an update to iTunes. Then they aren't limited to only the AppleTV nodes.
Let's get a show of hands to see how many people googled that. No? Legs? Anyone?
So couldn't you spray those people with WD-40 and un-kill them?
Well, apparently I could easily get into a indie/obscure band dick swingin' contest with you since I was just defending the fact that I'm one of those rare open-minded music lovers (probably like you), but I'll avoid that disaster for fear of you drivin' me nuts, and yes, I do have two hands on my steering wheel ;)
Just because someone says they like everything and will first proceed to list mainstream rock and rap doesn't automatically make them a toolbox. Often times these sorts of conversations will attempt to seek out a commonality. So someone who listens to everything may begin by saying the more mainstream bands in an attempt to find something that you like. Think of it as a refined search product. If you like a certain band that has roots, is inspired by, or is similar to some off beat indie band, they I don't come across as a pretentious asshole by only listing the bands that you may not have heard of. It's a lot easier to say, hey you like band (mainstream) A, have you ever heard of band (unknown gem) B? You might like them. Music elitist snobs have got to be the worst. If you like a band so much, you should spread the word and share it with the world, not keep it to yourself so you can look feel good about yourself about being a music conoisseur.
Me - Who? Her - No, not who, you too! Me - the band? Her - No, not the band the band, you too the band! Me - Umm, yeah, I love you too too
I'm sure you type in your 128-bit WPA key manually each time you want to connect to your own wireless network and retreive your e-mail? Or are you on auto-detect and connect to KNOWN connections and have outlook to check for e-mail every 5 minutes? I fail to see how this would be any different, connecting a peripheral (laptop or pda) to a host (wireless lan, desktop PC). Yes, your point is valid that the initial implementation will have holes, but take off your tinfoil hat for a second and realize that if you really have sensitive data it shouldn't be going over a wireless channel anyway or even on a device that is capable of broadcasting into the air in an unencrypted format. If someone happens to copy a song off of my mp3 player, I couldn't care less. If someone happens to copy a credit card number off of my pda, well, shame on me for having something like that stored in plain text on such a device.