As a Read only option, I suspect. The problem isn't really data density, it's data access speed. Three terrabytes of storage isn't going to do you much practical good if it takes two hours to find and recover the bit of information you want.
At that point I expect gold to become very popular. As opposed to the total lack of popularity gold is enduring at the moment?
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Perhaps, but he said $100 more, not $100, so the rate of his old carrier has already been subtracted. Well ONE of us knows how to read, at any rate....
lets see:
($100.00 x 24) + 599.00 is certainly in the ballpark of 3k. the more likely figure for cost is going to be closer to:
($100.00 x 24) + 599.00 - (the rate you already pay for your service X 24) in other words: I acknowledged his remark of "More" and then said "The More Likely Figure is....." (so you have a clue, that means I'm correcting him to a different figure..... I may be right, or may be wrong, but I did read his whole remark...)
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Most anyone that is interested in the iPhone will already have a cellphone and be locked in to a 2 year contract already. Personally, I have a pretty good deal for my Family plan with Sprint. Moving everything over to Cingular will likely end up costing an additional $100 per month on top of the $599 I'll need to pay for the phone. So, over 2 years, the iPhone will cost about $3000. As much as I like the phone, that's a little too expensive for a gadget. Now if Cingular introduces a plan as revolutionary as the iPhone at launch then they will sell these phones as fast as they can make them. lets see:
($100.00 x 24) + 599.00 is certainly in the ballpark of 3k. the more likely figure for cost is going to be closer to:
($100.00 x 24) + 599.00 - (the rate you already pay for your service X 24)
And it seems to me that the target market is already paying premium service fees (so the monthly fees will likely be a wash or, perhaps there will be some savings, since the phone itself will be able to do some of the things that you used to have to pay the service provider extra for.) The iPhone is capable of doing a lot of things without connecting to the providers pay services when (Wireless Broadband) is available, so you may actually save money, potentially quite a bit. I believe the, at least in urban environments, wireless broadband is becoming the rule, rather than the exception.
I cannot understand why Apple is getting so much negative press for this item, I'm not buying one any time soon, but I'm happy with my basic no camera 3 year old flip phone, and not someone Apple is trying to sell the phone to. But it looks cool, has an impressive set of features, and is priced in line with other high-end phones. So is all the negative press fanboy action, a targeted campaign by a competitor, or just a natural reaction to a stupid or overhyped product?
( I know the/. answer to that.... since the point of the post was to highlight negative iPhone press, but/. readers, in general, are smart enough to figure that out. )
Is telling the truth a "smear campaign" ? Check out what happens to scientists who question Darwinism. Perhaps refer to articles criticizing String theory in physics and what happens to physicists who don't stick to the party line. Consensus is not science. It can be, if you are careful about HOW you tell HOW MUCH of the truth. Spin doctors and marketers get paid very well to do just that. The issue of global warming is an excellent example of this (from both "Sides" of the "issue")
Ten years ago, those who promoted the idea that Global warming didn't exist just said that, or "the jury is still out" or some such. Now, in the face of overwhelming evidence, that particular camp is saying "Human caused Global warming", and we're also starting to hear "We're past the point of no return, so why accept the huge economic impact". I'm sure there is a new spin in the works as science either shoots down, or supports some of these spins.
On the other hand, we hear the promotors of the idea that global warming is a real issue, and we CAN do something about it do some spinning too. Hurricane seasons (something we Floridians tend to keep an eye on) the 2004/2005 hurricane seasons saw a huge amount of Global Warming promotional spin. Yet the science does not support the idea that there will be more hurricanes. It does seem to support the idea that intensity could be affected due to warmer water, or the season could be longer, but that isn't anything more than a hypothesis at the moment. (Research the work by Dr. Grey and his team for a starter on this one.)
One should add that belief and truth are not the same thing. Your remark about Darwin is an excellent example:
There is zero credible science to refute the existence of evolution. Evolution is an observable phenomena. The "Theory" part involves the tweaking of the "Theory" to new data, in other words, it's an answer, just not a complete answer (which is a Law). When you hear "Evolution is just a 'Theory'" the speaker is either using the remark for spin or is truly ignorant of what a Theory is, my personal observation is that, in most cases it is the latter.
Let us compare to a different topic. The "Theory of Gravity"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity is just a theory. The observable effects are not the theory. There is no debate that gravity exists, the debate involves the details of how and why. If a physicist published a paper denying the existence of gravity, and promoting the idea that "God holds each of us to the ground, gravity is a myth." He'd be ridiculed, and it'd be a CLM (Career limiting move). That is the appropriate response from his peers. Not because he's wrong, but because it's bad science. His focus would is on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics metaphysics, not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics physics and he is in the wrong line of work. Science doesn't care whether or not God uses gravity to hold you to your chair. Science cares about how and why gravity works. The mind and methods of God are for philosophers and theologians to mess with, not scientists.
Evolution is the same: there is no debate concerning IF things evolve, the theory involves the mechanics of the evolution. The theory, like all theories, has real hard data to back it up. It does, and will, undergo tweaking and review, but there is no debate as to whether or not it exists.
So, yes, telling the truth May very well be a smear campaign, when that truth is misrepresented, told as a partial truth, and phrased for "Spin". The article in question reeks of that kind of spin.
My cable box is a DVR. Infact I don't know of a cable company that doesn't offer some kind of DVR/cable box. That said, I would like to be able to get a 3rd party, easily modifiable one with all sorts of nifty features that you would get if the people making the hardware weren't also pushing the content. Can you say RePlayTV kiddies? I knew you could.
Yes, and I'm guessing you don't have an iPod, or you wouldn't have asked.
Starting the playlist or selecting a specific artist requires looking. But to scrub forward or back, change volume, or skip forward or back can easily be done without looking.
I wonder how many consumers will look at it and say "I can replace my $150.00 cell phone and my $300 ipod with just one thing to carry around, plus look what else it can do" and decide that it's not such a bad deal after all.
I don't have detailed knowledge of the US legal system, but isn't SCO stretching it beyond it's limits in a way rarely seen before. And certainly with such high profile cases with companies of these sizes? Neither am I a lawyer, but it seems to me that SCOX has gone long past the point of no return. They have to do everything and anything to drag it out as long as is possible. But, your insight is correct, I'm unaware of any situation where things have gone the way the SCOX suits have gone. The complex nature of software code, Patents, and Copyright has allowed it, but the one redeeming factor here is that we may actually fix parts of the system as a result, but perhaps that is wishful thinking.
What I'd really like to see is criminal prosecution for SCOX's handling of this, including the prosecution and/or sanctions not only of the SCOX administrators, but of their lawyers and law firm. I'm not sure this is possible though, and I'm sure that the system, judged and handled by lawyers, is designed to protect those lawyers without overwhelming evidence of actual criminal activity. I'm sure the justification is something like "We did it at the direction of our client, we're just doing our jobs."
Every drive I have owned above 120gig capacity has not lasted more than 18 moths. this is with cooling fans to keep the insane temperatures down and REALLY GOOD power going to them.
Hard drive longivity simply sucks right now to the point that I dont trust them to hold data safely for more than 3 months. A little off topic, but if you are killing that many Drives it's not the drive, its either dirty power to the drive, or, far more likely, inadequate heat management (or maybe both).
I run a small production studio, and have been running several 1TB 4 drive arrays using several different vendors drives for over 3 years. The system is up 24/7, with occasional software upgrade reboots and the like, no issues with any of the drives. However, extraordinary care was taken with heat and power management. My experience is that the new, fast, large format drives run hotter and are subject to heat related failure when extra measures are not taken to deal with the extra heat.
Repeat after me: "Heat is the Enemy, Heat is Evil and must be destroyed"
(you might want to check on getting those moths out of there too
It's a matter of time before there is a tech note, and a kiosk upgrade kit designed to ventilate the kiosk.
One of the Best Buys in town has not had their PS3 kiosk (According to a friend that works at that location) freeze at all, and he was told the other location froze randomly from 6 to 12 times a day. That isn't a designed in effect. A designed in effect occurs every x minutes, and does not require employee intervention.
Although I agree the material isn't presented very well, it's not a "Non-issue"
There are already a number of situations where enough personal information is presented on a MySpace or similar social networking site to use for identity theft.
The reason for spam is that someone is making money from the spam.
Go after the companys that are benefiting from spam - and take All the money they make and then some. AND go after the stupid consumer who is actually answering spam and buying stuff.
Of course, to do anything we need to define what Spam is, and what it is not. Give marketers a way to direct market without the email in question being spam (I'm a fan of OPT-IN only lists, you can send to me only if I ask you to) - and then drop the hammer on everyone who doesn't play by the rules.
This presumes that the source, and what is broadcast analog, are the same thing. But this is NOT the case. The source is now digital feeds from the original content provider what goes out over the digital broadcast is indeed the same source (with a few exceptions, like Major sporting events).
The difference is that Analog NTSC broadcasts degrade the source more than the digital broadcast does.
Anyone watching a digital broadcast can see this, and it's easy to do a side by side comparison (Which we did, and do on a regular basis)
I understand the point of giving the vendor the opportunity to fix it first, however, this technique does have the advantage of motivating the developer. It's a strong arm tactic, granted, but it does motivate for a rapid response. I wonder if there will be something new next month, or if we are going to see exploits/bugs that have already been documented somewhere else. If it's the latter, then Apple deserves the kick in the butt to fix whatever is broke.
On the other hand, as has been pointed out elsewhere, This gives Apple an opportunity to turn this to their advantage.
"Right. It's basically an inside joke. Most people think Buckaroo might as well be reversing the polarity of the neutron flow but a few people out there are really going to appreciate the effort put forth in creating the technobabblish scenes. And this sort of inside joke is a lot harder to pull off than throwing Gil Garrard's name into a Family guy episode."
Owch... First it's the pseudo-science technobabble, then it's "Family Guy".
Next up "You're a 30 year old virgin living with Mom"
I'm thinking I'll scrap my article on the science of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" the audience is too brutal for me.
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1. Find hooker
2. Rent hooker
3. Make Lots of White blood cells
4. Profit!!
As a Read only option, I suspect. The problem isn't really data density, it's data access speed. Three terrabytes of storage isn't going to do you much practical good if it takes two hours to find and recover the bit of information you want.
You speak for Our Creator? Great, Tell him hi! for me next time you talk, I loved that thing he did with the coast of Norway.
Looking at his history, though, I'm not all that sure Zeus was interested in legal wrangling.... His interests seem to be focussed on other pursuits.
($100.00 x 24) + 599.00 is certainly in the ballpark of 3k.
the more likely figure for cost is going to be closer to:
($100.00 x 24) + 599.00 - (the rate you already pay for your service X 24) in other words: I acknowledged his remark of "More" and then said "The More Likely Figure is....." (so you have a clue, that means I'm correcting him to a different figure..... I may be right, or may be wrong, but I did read his whole remark...)
($100.00 x 24) + 599.00 is certainly in the ballpark of 3k.
the more likely figure for cost is going to be closer to:
($100.00 x 24) + 599.00 - (the rate you already pay for your service X 24)
And it seems to me that the target market is already paying premium service fees (so the monthly fees will likely be a wash or, perhaps there will be some savings, since the phone itself will be able to do some of the things that you used to have to pay the service provider extra for.) The iPhone is capable of doing a lot of things without connecting to the providers pay services when (Wireless Broadband) is available, so you may actually save money, potentially quite a bit. I believe the, at least in urban environments, wireless broadband is becoming the rule, rather than the exception.
I cannot understand why Apple is getting so much negative press for this item, I'm not buying one any time soon, but I'm happy with my basic no camera 3 year old flip phone, and not someone Apple is trying to sell the phone to. But it looks cool, has an impressive set of features, and is priced in line with other high-end phones. So is all the negative press fanboy action, a targeted campaign by a competitor, or just a natural reaction to a stupid or overhyped product?
( I know the
Ten years ago, those who promoted the idea that Global warming didn't exist just said that, or "the jury is still out" or some such. Now, in the face of overwhelming evidence, that particular camp is saying "Human caused Global warming", and we're also starting to hear "We're past the point of no return, so why accept the huge economic impact". I'm sure there is a new spin in the works as science either shoots down, or supports some of these spins.
On the other hand, we hear the promotors of the idea that global warming is a real issue, and we CAN do something about it do some spinning too. Hurricane seasons (something we Floridians tend to keep an eye on) the 2004/2005 hurricane seasons saw a huge amount of Global Warming promotional spin. Yet the science does not support the idea that there will be more hurricanes. It does seem to support the idea that intensity could be affected due to warmer water, or the season could be longer, but that isn't anything more than a hypothesis at the moment. (Research the work by Dr. Grey and his team for a starter on this one.)
One should add that belief and truth are not the same thing. Your remark about Darwin is an excellent example:
There is zero credible science to refute the existence of evolution. Evolution is an observable phenomena. The "Theory" part involves the tweaking of the "Theory" to new data, in other words, it's an answer, just not a complete answer (which is a Law). When you hear "Evolution is just a 'Theory'" the speaker is either using the remark for spin or is truly ignorant of what a Theory is, my personal observation is that, in most cases it is the latter.
Let us compare to a different topic. The "Theory of Gravity"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity is just a theory. The observable effects are not the theory. There is no debate that gravity exists, the debate involves the details of how and why. If a physicist published a paper denying the existence of gravity, and promoting the idea that "God holds each of us to the ground, gravity is a myth." He'd be ridiculed, and it'd be a CLM (Career limiting move). That is the appropriate response from his peers. Not because he's wrong, but because it's bad science. His focus would is on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics metaphysics, not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics physics and he is in the wrong line of work. Science doesn't care whether or not God uses gravity to hold you to your chair. Science cares about how and why gravity works. The mind and methods of God are for philosophers and theologians to mess with, not scientists.
Evolution is the same: there is no debate concerning IF things evolve, the theory involves the mechanics of the evolution. The theory, like all theories, has real hard data to back it up. It does, and will, undergo tweaking and review, but there is no debate as to whether or not it exists.
So, yes, telling the truth May very well be a smear campaign, when that truth is misrepresented, told as a partial truth, and phrased for "Spin". The article in question reeks of that kind of spin.
step 1) Cut a hole in a box
step 2) Put your junk in that box
3) ???????4) Profit!
Yes, and I'm guessing you don't have an iPod, or you wouldn't have asked.
Starting the playlist or selecting a specific artist requires looking. But to scrub forward or back, change volume, or skip forward or back can easily be done without looking.
I wonder how many consumers will look at it and say "I can replace my $150.00 cell phone and my $300 ipod with just one thing to carry around, plus look what else it can do" and decide that it's not such a bad deal after all.
You had to mention it, didn't you....
Now we need to circulate the "Ban Dihydrousoxide" petition again......
What I'd really like to see is criminal prosecution for SCOX's handling of this, including the prosecution and/or sanctions not only of the SCOX administrators, but of their lawyers and law firm. I'm not sure this is possible though, and I'm sure that the system, judged and handled by lawyers, is designed to protect those lawyers without overwhelming evidence of actual criminal activity. I'm sure the justification is something like "We did it at the direction of our client, we're just doing our jobs."
Hard drive longivity simply sucks right now to the point that I dont trust them to hold data safely for more than 3 months. A little off topic, but if you are killing that many Drives it's not the drive, its either dirty power to the drive, or, far more likely, inadequate heat management (or maybe both).
I run a small production studio, and have been running several 1TB 4 drive arrays using several different vendors drives for over 3 years. The system is up 24/7, with occasional software upgrade reboots and the like, no issues with any of the drives. However, extraordinary care was taken with heat and power management. My experience is that the new, fast, large format drives run hotter and are subject to heat related failure when extra measures are not taken to deal with the extra heat.
Repeat after me:
"Heat is the Enemy, Heat is Evil and must be destroyed"
(you might want to check on getting those moths out of there too
I get to be the first to say "RTFA"
"The answer Resides within" if one would just read.......
Is it just me? or is listing "Duke Nukem Forever" as number one yet again becoming a tired old joke?
What a load of crap.
It's a matter of time before there is a tech note, and a kiosk upgrade kit designed to ventilate the kiosk.
One of the Best Buys in town has not had their PS3 kiosk (According to a friend that works at that location) freeze at all, and he was told the other location froze randomly from 6 to 12 times a day. That isn't a designed in effect. A designed in effect occurs every x minutes, and does not require employee intervention.
Although I agree the material isn't presented very well, it's not a "Non-issue"
There are already a number of situations where enough personal information is presented on a MySpace or similar social networking site to use for identity theft.
Not if you are on the Kenai, it's not.
It's, quite literally, a federal case if you poach on the Wildlife refuse, or the National Park.
It's not okay if the bear poaches you out of season, either.... And It's a capitol offense for the bear, if caught.
The reason for spam is that someone is making money from the spam.
Go after the companys that are benefiting from spam - and take All the money they make and then some. AND go after the stupid consumer who is actually answering spam and buying stuff.
Of course, to do anything we need to define what Spam is, and what it is not. Give marketers a way to direct market without the email in question being spam (I'm a fan of OPT-IN only lists, you can send to me only if I ask you to) - and then drop the hammer on everyone who doesn't play by the rules.
This presumes that the source, and what is broadcast analog, are the same thing. But this is NOT the case. The source is now digital feeds from the original content provider what goes out over the digital broadcast is indeed the same source (with a few exceptions, like Major sporting events).
The difference is that Analog NTSC broadcasts degrade the source more than the digital broadcast does.
Anyone watching a digital broadcast can see this, and it's easy to do a side by side comparison (Which we did, and do on a regular basis)
I was going to Suggest Sonic the hedgehog, or Flash, but Gyro is a better choice for geeks!
K-9 wasn't a real Autonomous Robot, yet he makes the list too.... I think we can make exceptions for both of the men behind both of the curtains.
I understand the point of giving the vendor the opportunity to fix it first, however, this technique does have the advantage of motivating the developer. It's a strong arm tactic, granted, but it does motivate for a rapid response. I wonder if there will be something new next month, or if we are going to see exploits/bugs that have already been documented somewhere else. If it's the latter, then Apple deserves the kick in the butt to fix whatever is broke.
On the other hand, as has been pointed out elsewhere, This gives Apple an opportunity to turn this to their advantage.
It should be an interesting month, regardless.
"Right. It's basically an inside joke. Most people think Buckaroo might as well be reversing the polarity of the neutron flow but a few people out there are really going to appreciate the effort put forth in creating the technobabblish scenes. And this sort of inside joke is a lot harder to pull off than throwing Gil Garrard's name into a Family guy episode."
Owch... First it's the pseudo-science technobabble, then it's "Family Guy".
Next up "You're a 30 year old virgin living with Mom"
I'm thinking I'll scrap my article on the science of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" the audience is too brutal for me.