lindac701
Mar 27, 02:27 PM
Good news!! My ship date improved.......by 1 day. Still in shock that the stores don't have any formal reservation process. blah
Liquorpuki
Dec 7, 03:41 PM
There are a lot of problem areas AT&T already knows about but they haven't done anything to fix. I got a friend who lives in LA near the intersection of Winnetka and Roscoe. A part of that area is one big dead zone (no signal). My friend has called in and all they said was they're aware of it, were planning to fix it by the end of the week, and offered to let him cancel his plan without penalty. This was about 5 months ago and it's still a dead zone.
This app is just a PR tool
This app is just a PR tool
Unprocessed1
Jan 11, 05:12 PM
using nocturne version 1.04 and no options for the task bar?
DiamondGCoupe
Apr 11, 10:13 PM
It be nice if this rumor was true so that the iPad2 wouldn't be in so high of demand!
ivladster
Apr 21, 03:56 PM
You really think apple is going to let you store music that you didn't buy from them for free? My guess is all music purchased from iTunes can be streamed, and mobile me users can upload theirs.
I hope this isn't just for music though. In mobile me you can upload photos which is nice. I would love to see this done for movies. I buy a movie from apple and can forever stream through my apple tv or iDevice. Or a monthly renting plan.
I want my media to take up less space, be easily accessible, and priced fairly.
Two possibilities:
This service must be part of MobileMe to further push Apple's sync services
MobileMe will go down to $30/year or so.
Apple can fill the rest of the cost with tiny fees from Music Industry, iAds etc. Apple can even make everything free if iAds are placed in MobileMe etc.
I hope this isn't just for music though. In mobile me you can upload photos which is nice. I would love to see this done for movies. I buy a movie from apple and can forever stream through my apple tv or iDevice. Or a monthly renting plan.
I want my media to take up less space, be easily accessible, and priced fairly.
Two possibilities:
This service must be part of MobileMe to further push Apple's sync services
MobileMe will go down to $30/year or so.
Apple can fill the rest of the cost with tiny fees from Music Industry, iAds etc. Apple can even make everything free if iAds are placed in MobileMe etc.
Signal-11
Apr 1, 03:30 PM
We're not talking about netbooks. We're talking about G5s and their costs.
Power consumption as a part of total cost of ownership should be considered if cost is a primary concern. As the OP himself admits, he's frugal.
There isn't an analogy more apt than buying an old, cheap gas guzzler. You think you're making out okay, but over the long run, the "cheap" option could be more expensive.
I was being conservative with my estimates - if you live in an electricity-expensive part of the US, price per kWh could be 50-60% more than the 9c I used in my example. If you do anything other than letting he G5 sit idle, you'll consume electricity even more inefficiently. Depending on usage, you could easily hit $200-$250 as the cost of running a dual G5 for a year. A Mini doing the same tasks won't even hit $50. Over two years, the cost will be $300-400 more over a Mini. In three years, $450-$600. There's not cost advantage there anymore. Not only that, in those three years, you'll have been running on an increasingly unsupported platform.
If cost isn't your game, then go to town. But then don't pretend like price is your primary concern when it isn't. I have two unused G5 Power Mac towers that I bought used for mod projects just because I like the case design.
As for expandability, what expandability, specifically? Other than drives, what is a home user going to be doing with any of the expansion slots?
Power consumption as a part of total cost of ownership should be considered if cost is a primary concern. As the OP himself admits, he's frugal.
There isn't an analogy more apt than buying an old, cheap gas guzzler. You think you're making out okay, but over the long run, the "cheap" option could be more expensive.
I was being conservative with my estimates - if you live in an electricity-expensive part of the US, price per kWh could be 50-60% more than the 9c I used in my example. If you do anything other than letting he G5 sit idle, you'll consume electricity even more inefficiently. Depending on usage, you could easily hit $200-$250 as the cost of running a dual G5 for a year. A Mini doing the same tasks won't even hit $50. Over two years, the cost will be $300-400 more over a Mini. In three years, $450-$600. There's not cost advantage there anymore. Not only that, in those three years, you'll have been running on an increasingly unsupported platform.
If cost isn't your game, then go to town. But then don't pretend like price is your primary concern when it isn't. I have two unused G5 Power Mac towers that I bought used for mod projects just because I like the case design.
As for expandability, what expandability, specifically? Other than drives, what is a home user going to be doing with any of the expansion slots?
longofest
Jan 9, 08:44 PM
SOOO wish I could have been there, but arn grounded me :(
cantthinkofone
Jul 30, 07:59 AM
Beer snobs? Really? :p
tbrinkma
Apr 12, 08:21 AM
I'm not a fan of 3D movies (too gimicky) but they are different technologies with different results. With this app, cool as it is, you have to move in relation to the display to get any sort of depth. As far as I can tell, this would not work for any movies/games where the camera is moving. That, and there appears to be no "z axis" depth unless you're swinging your head back and forth.
As cheesy as it is in movies, at least you can sit still in your seat and have the paddleball fly into your face. This demo appears to be more like, "you can see the paddleball string if you tilt your head to the side".
True, if you hold your head perfectly still you won't get the 3D effect. But you never hold your head perfectly still (without conscious effort), and you hands will always be moving small amounts as well, so your head will almost always be moving relative to the face-tracking camera.
Now try going to a movie theater, and watching a 3D movie with your head held at any sort of significant angle off the vertical, say resting on the shoulder of your S.O.. It doesn't work at all then either. (You can get around that by using active [shutter] glasses, but then you're adding weight, expense, and battery life as concerns.)
As cheesy as it is in movies, at least you can sit still in your seat and have the paddleball fly into your face. This demo appears to be more like, "you can see the paddleball string if you tilt your head to the side".
True, if you hold your head perfectly still you won't get the 3D effect. But you never hold your head perfectly still (without conscious effort), and you hands will always be moving small amounts as well, so your head will almost always be moving relative to the face-tracking camera.
Now try going to a movie theater, and watching a 3D movie with your head held at any sort of significant angle off the vertical, say resting on the shoulder of your S.O.. It doesn't work at all then either. (You can get around that by using active [shutter] glasses, but then you're adding weight, expense, and battery life as concerns.)
brepublican
Sep 12, 04:21 PM
I love the new shuffle look. It is an excellent design.
I'm not sure how I feel about the new look. Its so.... well, TINY! Reminds me of the iPod flea. Anyone remember that?
Anyhow, stuff usually has to grow on me, I guess I'm just an old school type :)
I'm not sure how I feel about the new look. Its so.... well, TINY! Reminds me of the iPod flea. Anyone remember that?
Anyhow, stuff usually has to grow on me, I guess I'm just an old school type :)
arkitect
Apr 12, 02:03 PM
Show me the laws that force a dress code on foreign visitors.
Sometimes I wish they would.
I have been too many times ashamed of European *tourists* stumbling fat arsed and skimpily dressed through a bazaar or market or ruined temple.
Yes, its hot. We all are. But have some common sense, jeeeze.
Who knows if "the male" in Western cultures actually wants to wear a suit and tie?
This Western male says:
Suit 'n tie? "No thanks."
Sometimes I wish they would.
I have been too many times ashamed of European *tourists* stumbling fat arsed and skimpily dressed through a bazaar or market or ruined temple.
Yes, its hot. We all are. But have some common sense, jeeeze.
Who knows if "the male" in Western cultures actually wants to wear a suit and tie?
This Western male says:
Suit 'n tie? "No thanks."
Ugg
Sep 12, 12:17 PM
80GB iPod?
that's bigger than my top-of-the-range Powerbook brand-new 1.5 years ago...
Yeah, same here, but I guess you need space to store all those movies from the Movie Store...
that's bigger than my top-of-the-range Powerbook brand-new 1.5 years ago...
Yeah, same here, but I guess you need space to store all those movies from the Movie Store...
jer2eydevil88
Jan 9, 01:27 PM
The iPhone is groundbreaking don't get me wrong here I am so excited in anticipation for this to be released. On the other hand I was hugely let down by no other interesting releases, including iLife 07'!
What is this iTV nonsense? Microsoft's Xbox 360 has just been announced with a rumored better price per feature model than this thing. Already beaten to the punch Jobs threw this offstage as quickly as possible to actually impress us. Then nothing. No iLife, no new Macbook Pro case design, no official Tablet, no nothing.
Also why only Cingular? I have T-Mobile and they have much better coverage in my area! Bleh now I have to wait 3 years before I can actually use this much heralded tech.
What is this iTV nonsense? Microsoft's Xbox 360 has just been announced with a rumored better price per feature model than this thing. Already beaten to the punch Jobs threw this offstage as quickly as possible to actually impress us. Then nothing. No iLife, no new Macbook Pro case design, no official Tablet, no nothing.
Also why only Cingular? I have T-Mobile and they have much better coverage in my area! Bleh now I have to wait 3 years before I can actually use this much heralded tech.
DeSnousa
Sep 8, 04:42 PM
Well seeing their are no Australians cheering in this thread, here goes :p
Common Australia *screams his lungs off* :D
Common Australia *screams his lungs off* :D
akm3
Mar 7, 10:57 PM
who needs 8gb, sheesh. i barely use 2gb of my 4gb of ram as it is. even using photoshop, I have never seen it max out.
I have 12gb RAM in my iMac and looking at iStat, after 17 days since last reboot I've had 83,053 pageouts!!
It's heartbreaking to know my Mac is having to do all those page outs :( I think I'm going to call OWC and upgrade to 16GB and see if that helps...
I have 12gb RAM in my iMac and looking at iStat, after 17 days since last reboot I've had 83,053 pageouts!!
It's heartbreaking to know my Mac is having to do all those page outs :( I think I'm going to call OWC and upgrade to 16GB and see if that helps...
ccmoo
Apr 22, 01:30 PM
if i'm paying for a digital subscription, there's no reason why i should also have to look at ads.
i can see why there are ads for a print edition, due to printing costs, paper, and shipping, but none of those exist for a digital edition.
The price you pay for apps won't pay the bills, and advertising by itself won't do it either, especially online advertising, which brings in much less revenue than print ads. So if you want original content with original reporting, those content producers and editors have to paid somehow. It's going to take a combo of subscriptions/apps and advertising.
i can see why there are ads for a print edition, due to printing costs, paper, and shipping, but none of those exist for a digital edition.
The price you pay for apps won't pay the bills, and advertising by itself won't do it either, especially online advertising, which brings in much less revenue than print ads. So if you want original content with original reporting, those content producers and editors have to paid somehow. It's going to take a combo of subscriptions/apps and advertising.
zweigand
Oct 13, 11:12 AM
There's no doubt that Vista will be first - on track for November release....
Unfortunately, the consumer release has to wait until after the Saturnalia purchasing orgy - so some will ignore the millions of copies running at businesses and claim that Vista ships sometime in January.
If you think major businesses are going to leap out and upgrade to Vista in November you are sadly mistaken. Some small businesses, maybe, if they have the time to mess around with the upgrades.
I also heard that the site licensing can't be done with Vista without having a Longhorn Server set up ...dunno if that is true, but it would be yet another reason businesses aren't going to adopt.
Unfortunately, the consumer release has to wait until after the Saturnalia purchasing orgy - so some will ignore the millions of copies running at businesses and claim that Vista ships sometime in January.
If you think major businesses are going to leap out and upgrade to Vista in November you are sadly mistaken. Some small businesses, maybe, if they have the time to mess around with the upgrades.
I also heard that the site licensing can't be done with Vista without having a Longhorn Server set up ...dunno if that is true, but it would be yet another reason businesses aren't going to adopt.
HiRez
Apr 10, 09:14 PM
I thought people don't read anymore? ;)
Exclusively available on iBooks?
Exclusively available on iBooks?
thisisahughes
Apr 20, 10:18 AM
I really wanted it for Mac, but ended up getting it on Xbox for the achievements. :(
vksong
May 5, 07:01 AM
I have updated, hope the battery life will last longer!
location-tracking controversy is evil~
location-tracking controversy is evil~
nanofrog
Apr 19, 10:17 PM
I'll believe that when I see a study that shows that, but with 200,000 disks in the Google & CMU studies showing, and Netapp's rep stating that theres not a reliability advantage, I think I'll save the extra cash unless I know I need to outlay it.
If you check out the Google study (http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf) theres a pretty clear correlation of heat, both too high and too low, to drive failure trends.
There are instances where this logic makes sense (definitely for backup or some software based storage implementations <no parity based arrays in order to avoid the write hole issue associated with 5/6/...>).
But of the links you've provided, they're 4 - 5 years old, and don't take a couple of things into consideration.
If you check out the Google study (http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf) theres a pretty clear correlation of heat, both too high and too low, to drive failure trends.
There are instances where this logic makes sense (definitely for backup or some software based storage implementations <no parity based arrays in order to avoid the write hole issue associated with 5/6/...>).
But of the links you've provided, they're 4 - 5 years old, and don't take a couple of things into consideration.
rprebel
Mar 8, 12:53 AM
@wilw posted this (http://twitpic.com/47aisk) funny pic earlier, so I did what any right minded person would do: Make a desktop theme out of it. It's subtle, but there's date, time, weather and itunes info in there.
peharri
Nov 3, 12:58 PM
The original dispute you had with my statement was that W-CDMA did not leverage CDMA and GSM technologies. The quote from Wikipedia clearly states that W-CDMA does leverage the CDMA signalling method.
The original dispute I had with your statement was your assertion "W-CDMA is a mixture of CDMA and, to a lesser extent, GSM technologies."
This is false. There's no GSM in W-CDMA. It isn't a mixture of anything. I also made the point to explicitly point out that W-CDMA is a CDMA air interface technology, but not derived from IS-95. This was to clear up a common misconception and wasn't directed specifically at you.
However, whatever the case, there's no GSM in W-CDMA. There's GSM in UMTS, which uses W-CDMA, but none in W-CDMA. The parts of GSM that "do the same work" as W-CDMA does couldn't be less related.
As for the presentation from the IEEE, it jives with other literature I've read in my IEEE publications that I subscribe to and the IEEE is a very credible source in my book.
I'm sure it is, but it's nonetheless wrong if it implies what you suggested. The one thing I will point out though is that the alphabet soup in mobile phone standards leads common confusions of terms that have gone into this part of the industry too.
Just as "CDMA" is commonly used to mean "the IS-95 (or Qualcomm) implementation of CDMA", W-CDMA is frequently used to mean UMTS.
Nonetheless, that usage is wrong, and it's extremely easy to prove it's wrong. FOMA is not UMTS based (it has some things in common, namely the air interface standard and it's compatible with the same USIM cards, but the high level protocols themselves are completely different.) FOMA was the first W-CDMA system.
I promise you, W-CDMA is only the lowest layer of the UMTS system. It doesn't have any GSM in it, that's in the rest of UMTS.
The original dispute I had with your statement was your assertion "W-CDMA is a mixture of CDMA and, to a lesser extent, GSM technologies."
This is false. There's no GSM in W-CDMA. It isn't a mixture of anything. I also made the point to explicitly point out that W-CDMA is a CDMA air interface technology, but not derived from IS-95. This was to clear up a common misconception and wasn't directed specifically at you.
However, whatever the case, there's no GSM in W-CDMA. There's GSM in UMTS, which uses W-CDMA, but none in W-CDMA. The parts of GSM that "do the same work" as W-CDMA does couldn't be less related.
As for the presentation from the IEEE, it jives with other literature I've read in my IEEE publications that I subscribe to and the IEEE is a very credible source in my book.
I'm sure it is, but it's nonetheless wrong if it implies what you suggested. The one thing I will point out though is that the alphabet soup in mobile phone standards leads common confusions of terms that have gone into this part of the industry too.
Just as "CDMA" is commonly used to mean "the IS-95 (or Qualcomm) implementation of CDMA", W-CDMA is frequently used to mean UMTS.
Nonetheless, that usage is wrong, and it's extremely easy to prove it's wrong. FOMA is not UMTS based (it has some things in common, namely the air interface standard and it's compatible with the same USIM cards, but the high level protocols themselves are completely different.) FOMA was the first W-CDMA system.
I promise you, W-CDMA is only the lowest layer of the UMTS system. It doesn't have any GSM in it, that's in the rest of UMTS.
basesloaded190
Apr 11, 08:29 AM
That book will be " Woz up?"
No that book IS called iWoz.
http://www.amazon.com/iWoz-Computer-Invented-Personal-Co-Founded/dp/0393061434
No that book IS called iWoz.
http://www.amazon.com/iWoz-Computer-Invented-Personal-Co-Founded/dp/0393061434
