ten-oak-druid
Apr 4, 10:35 AM
Android Surge Continues
And buyers' remorse is about to surge.
And buyers' remorse is about to surge.
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
diamond.g
Apr 27, 11:12 AM
Is it as sporadic as it looks at 11am in my town? It does look like it could give details on any street, though. That would be better than the FM traffic or even the DOT/camera based traffic used for most things. Esp during road construction when side streets with no other data accumulation become thoroughfares for the summer.
Because it is crowd sourced, its information is only as good as the folks using the app. That is a huge downside, if you live in a rural area where not many people actually have smartphones (or in the case of Apple doing crowd sourced mapping an iPhone).
Because it is crowd sourced, its information is only as good as the folks using the app. That is a huge downside, if you live in a rural area where not many people actually have smartphones (or in the case of Apple doing crowd sourced mapping an iPhone).
rasmasyean
May 2, 11:18 AM
Each civilization in history usually goes through the following 4 phases:
1. A great war
2. A period of economic growth
3. Decadence
4. Fall
The entire Western civilization has been in the 3rd phase for quite a while, don't you think?
EDIT: Oh, and by the way - there is no reason to be disturbed by this. In the end, we are all going to die anyway, aren't we? Fix the problems you can solve and let the rest go to hell if it wishes to do so! Memento mori - and be happy! :cool:
Well if you use that analogy, I wouldn't say the "American Empire" is in that "3. Decadence" phase.
It's actually still in "2. A period of economic growth".
Just because we were in a deep recession (which happened to be global) doesn't mean that we haven't "expanded". If you think about it, Iraq was the most recent "significant expansion" in the modern sense. It's not the same as British colonialism where we "captured the land to farm on and enslaved the people". But we don't need that stuff anymore and instead we have secured the oil, and prolly Iraqis will become like cheap labor in a couple of years. Maybe Afghans too will play a big role in making toys and stuff, who knows. Iran is next I'm guessing, by the way things are going. SE Asia, etc. still haven't "declared independance and broken away" by historic analogy...as they are still making our clothes, amoung other things. Speaking of which, Mexico is also a cheap manufacturing center for the USA and Mexicans even cross the boarder to be "enslaved" (cheap labor by their own will).
For the "Decadence" phase to be manifested, you have to have the members of the empire disatisfied and even uprise to start splitting up the people. It doesn't look like that's happening. Iraq is also a HUGE annex, because it holds much "black gold". ;)
1. A great war
2. A period of economic growth
3. Decadence
4. Fall
The entire Western civilization has been in the 3rd phase for quite a while, don't you think?
EDIT: Oh, and by the way - there is no reason to be disturbed by this. In the end, we are all going to die anyway, aren't we? Fix the problems you can solve and let the rest go to hell if it wishes to do so! Memento mori - and be happy! :cool:
Well if you use that analogy, I wouldn't say the "American Empire" is in that "3. Decadence" phase.
It's actually still in "2. A period of economic growth".
Just because we were in a deep recession (which happened to be global) doesn't mean that we haven't "expanded". If you think about it, Iraq was the most recent "significant expansion" in the modern sense. It's not the same as British colonialism where we "captured the land to farm on and enslaved the people". But we don't need that stuff anymore and instead we have secured the oil, and prolly Iraqis will become like cheap labor in a couple of years. Maybe Afghans too will play a big role in making toys and stuff, who knows. Iran is next I'm guessing, by the way things are going. SE Asia, etc. still haven't "declared independance and broken away" by historic analogy...as they are still making our clothes, amoung other things. Speaking of which, Mexico is also a cheap manufacturing center for the USA and Mexicans even cross the boarder to be "enslaved" (cheap labor by their own will).
For the "Decadence" phase to be manifested, you have to have the members of the empire disatisfied and even uprise to start splitting up the people. It doesn't look like that's happening. Iraq is also a HUGE annex, because it holds much "black gold". ;)
PlaceofDis
Sep 10, 09:23 PM
Place of Dis old pal:
Y'may want to watch your back in Apple Stores
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=1726515&postcount=9
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Y'may want to watch your back in Apple Stores
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=1726515&postcount=9
wkhahn
Aug 21, 04:03 PM
I've been streaming divx movies over 802.11b from my main windows pc to a dedicated POS 866 PIII with a video out to my TV for 4 or 5 years (This is before I learned the greatness of ... i.e. could afford a mac). I don't see how having an airport with airtunes/video would be a problem. I would buy one in a heartbeat, because it is much cheaper than buying a Mac mini for that sole purpose.
And althougth the current resolution of iTunes video is lower res than DVD, it still looks pretty good when I hook up my powerbook to my TV. It's not fantastic, but it looks better fullscreen on my 32" tube than my 24" LCD monitor. The only problem I have with it is when they crop 16x9 shows down to 4x3. I want to see Lost in all its glory.
I've never tried to stream video content from one computer to another, or to a TV, except through a direct connection. I was basing the suggection on an acticle from MacWorld a few months ago about trying to use a MacMini as a Media Center. Watching videos/movies stored on a Powermac G5, on the mini required a direct connection. Neither Bonjour or Powerline Ethernet would do the trick. The reviewer would get a server connection error. Though he did figure a work around. story (http://www.macworld.com/2006/05/features/multimediamini/index2.php).
And althougth the current resolution of iTunes video is lower res than DVD, it still looks pretty good when I hook up my powerbook to my TV. It's not fantastic, but it looks better fullscreen on my 32" tube than my 24" LCD monitor. The only problem I have with it is when they crop 16x9 shows down to 4x3. I want to see Lost in all its glory.
I've never tried to stream video content from one computer to another, or to a TV, except through a direct connection. I was basing the suggection on an acticle from MacWorld a few months ago about trying to use a MacMini as a Media Center. Watching videos/movies stored on a Powermac G5, on the mini required a direct connection. Neither Bonjour or Powerline Ethernet would do the trick. The reviewer would get a server connection error. Though he did figure a work around. story (http://www.macworld.com/2006/05/features/multimediamini/index2.php).
cdesigns
Apr 11, 05:33 AM
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8F190 Safari/6533.18.5)
I used to have one of those computers and my stepmother throw it in the trash when I moved grrrrrrr. :-(
I used to have one of those computers and my stepmother throw it in the trash when I moved grrrrrrr. :-(
Luph67
Apr 11, 12:17 AM
Aluminum seems to hit the spot when it comes to exterior aesthetics, and that seems to be important to them. Can't see it happening unless they can make carbon fiber look just as good.
Mr.Noisy
Jan 8, 05:33 PM
After getting the Box set of house at Christmas I forgot how good it is, so I changed my desktop again :rolleyes: easily influenced you could say ;)
Source of Original 1920x1200 (http://static.3dsupply.de/temp/wallpaper_images/80_1286935826.0_1920_1200.png)
Nice and minimalistic for 2011...........for now anyway :)
Source of Original 1920x1200 (http://static.3dsupply.de/temp/wallpaper_images/80_1286935826.0_1920_1200.png)
Nice and minimalistic for 2011...........for now anyway :)
rrl
Apr 28, 09:12 AM
I think that's not correct. Some people need more than 128GB you know. Yes, you can carry an external drive but then why not carry a larger machine with more internal storage?
The 1366x768 resolution can be limiting. For example, Apple's own Server Admin software will barely show the summary page at 768 pixels tall. The bottom row of graphs are tiny squished things at the bottom. It's clearly not meant to run on this small a display. And it's a perfect example of something you would want on a small carry it anywhere Mac.
Like I was saying...
The 1366x768 resolution can be limiting. For example, Apple's own Server Admin software will barely show the summary page at 768 pixels tall. The bottom row of graphs are tiny squished things at the bottom. It's clearly not meant to run on this small a display. And it's a perfect example of something you would want on a small carry it anywhere Mac.
Like I was saying...
baxterbrittle
Oct 25, 11:45 AM
OS X Server unlimited client is quite expensive by itself, add that to a MacPro and see what the price diff for xserve is. How much is server 2003 unlimited these days, still pretty pricy if I understand correctly and that does not come with your backyard barebones.
Also there was something about lights out management (which I know nothing about) added to the cost of the dell in the WWDC comarison.
In other words hardware is one thing but the big picture needs to be looked at more carefully.
Also 1/5 of the cost? I'd like to see some figures. I can't even get 1 xeon for that let alone 2.
Also there was something about lights out management (which I know nothing about) added to the cost of the dell in the WWDC comarison.
In other words hardware is one thing but the big picture needs to be looked at more carefully.
Also 1/5 of the cost? I'd like to see some figures. I can't even get 1 xeon for that let alone 2.
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.
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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.
ipoppy
Apr 12, 03:05 PM
Only question. Why?
Some say Apple need to buy Netflix. Have those of you even considered what Netflix charges for monthly streaming?
$8
Apple will never let customers eat that much for so little. The day Apple buys Netflix, DVDs would stop, and streaming would go up to $30 a month.
Promised.
No point to buy it if company is restricted only to North America. Waste of money if on long run Apple will eat that anyway.
Some say Apple need to buy Netflix. Have those of you even considered what Netflix charges for monthly streaming?
$8
Apple will never let customers eat that much for so little. The day Apple buys Netflix, DVDs would stop, and streaming would go up to $30 a month.
Promised.
No point to buy it if company is restricted only to North America. Waste of money if on long run Apple will eat that anyway.
wmmk
Nov 30, 10:38 PM
wow, hadn't seen the pass. thanks for pointing it out! my family is probably going to SF in spring or summer, but winter break is early this year, and I believe I get back to school the 9th. maybe i could convince my parents to let me miss one day of schol (which would never happen) and go to SF in winter.
bloodbone
Jun 12, 03:30 AM
Can you share a list of stores where i can find out this phone.i want to get this opportunity for buy this phone.
What do you mean? Different BestBuy stores in your area, or different retailers such as Walmart, RadioShack, etc?
What do you mean? Different BestBuy stores in your area, or different retailers such as Walmart, RadioShack, etc?
shelterpaw
Oct 17, 11:25 AM
I'd like to see a sample in Silicon Valley. There's such a large concentration of computer users and this is the leading technical area. When I walk down University Avenue in Palo Alto, I always see people with Apple laptops in coffee shops and other places. I am thinking if more people in Silicon Valley change to Apple branded laptops, then other area's will follow since these are the tech savvy people. I don't think will see much in the financial sector for some time as there's not much software that works on the Mac.
maclaptop
Apr 21, 11:33 PM
This is just boring. BFD.
brepublican
Aug 2, 03:22 PM
Throw the Core 2 Duo into the iMac. Then we'll talk.
swingerofbirch
Jul 13, 12:31 PM
Granted, there are PC's out there with 200 GB hard disks and DL DVD-burners for about $500. The difference between those and the Mini, is that one the Mini is mini (just look at a cheap PC box side by side with a mini), and the second is that the margins on the PC don't need to support as much infrastructure as Apple's do. Apple spends a lot on development which they can't really charge for except through hardware and the occassional OS and iLife release. Imagine if eMachines had the burden of developing Windows Vista--I imagine it would force them to raise their prices.
Having said that I do sometimes see Apple hobbling consumer hardware for the sake of differentiating it from the pro lines. Hopefully that will change as the Intel chips Apple uses grow in depth.
Having said that I do sometimes see Apple hobbling consumer hardware for the sake of differentiating it from the pro lines. Hopefully that will change as the Intel chips Apple uses grow in depth.
nachotaco
Jun 24, 02:47 PM
I picked my two up today. Was #12 and #13.
They told me they got 10 16GB and 6 32GB phones int. I had one of each claimed :D
They told me they got 10 16GB and 6 32GB phones int. I had one of each claimed :D
designgeek
Apr 10, 11:45 PM
I'll be getting it on my Kindle ;)
xUKHCx
Oct 13, 09:39 AM
If there are "top secret" features, I would guess they would have to be apps if it's going to be released at MWSF? There couldn't be significant changes to the operating system without developer testing before then. Unless they are going to introduce the "top secret" features after Vista has shipped (someone was saying that's next month?) But even that seems like a really quick testing phase for developers.
Things like TimeMachine, Spaces, Expose would have all be considered a part of the operating system but in Leopard they appear as individual apps.
Things like TimeMachine, Spaces, Expose would have all be considered a part of the operating system but in Leopard they appear as individual apps.
Squintz
Aug 17, 05:02 PM
That should be "hand" as in a poker hand, not "hat." I can't even think of how "hat" would make sense. :D
Haha, darn, I thought I might be the first one to mention that. And Lion's gate "tipping off" about the itunes movie downloads... does that mean the basketball game has begun? :) I think for "tips off" to be used correctly, it needs an object noun. For instance, Lion's Gate tips off the media. The diction used here kind of confused me.
Haha, darn, I thought I might be the first one to mention that. And Lion's gate "tipping off" about the itunes movie downloads... does that mean the basketball game has begun? :) I think for "tips off" to be used correctly, it needs an object noun. For instance, Lion's Gate tips off the media. The diction used here kind of confused me.
XIII
Sep 12, 01:28 PM
Well despite the nations sudden obsession with cricket just recently, I for one still have no idea how it all works :p ...but hey, it's nice for us to win something for a change :D
I have to say its fairly easy to understand.. ;) Hell, I didn't know how many balls in an over before this series, now I'm a seasoned pro.... :p
I have to say its fairly easy to understand.. ;) Hell, I didn't know how many balls in an over before this series, now I'm a seasoned pro.... :p
HyperZboy
Apr 29, 01:43 PM
Yes, Apple is a kind of Big Brother. They strictly control what people get to do with their devices. Some might call it censorship.
And what does Stewart complain about?
That they got mad at the guy who, well, paid a stranger to get his hands on their property and then even disassembled it?
Imagine losing your iPhone. The guy who finds it doesn't return it and sells it instead. And another guy takes it apart to look inside. You'd be mad, too. ;) Even if it wasn't a super secret candy pooping prototype.
QUESTION: Would the police in your town break down the door of someone who stole your cell phone?
ADMIT IT... Answer? NOPE!
And please let's go down the trade secrets route, we're not talking anything breakthrough here or nuclear technology. This was a crazed over-reaction by both local police authorities and Apple and they deserve to be roundly ridiculed, lambasted, and criticized for this complete waste of tax dollars and destruction of property and home invasion, all for a lost cell phone by a drunk guy in a bar.
And what does Stewart complain about?
That they got mad at the guy who, well, paid a stranger to get his hands on their property and then even disassembled it?
Imagine losing your iPhone. The guy who finds it doesn't return it and sells it instead. And another guy takes it apart to look inside. You'd be mad, too. ;) Even if it wasn't a super secret candy pooping prototype.
QUESTION: Would the police in your town break down the door of someone who stole your cell phone?
ADMIT IT... Answer? NOPE!
And please let's go down the trade secrets route, we're not talking anything breakthrough here or nuclear technology. This was a crazed over-reaction by both local police authorities and Apple and they deserve to be roundly ridiculed, lambasted, and criticized for this complete waste of tax dollars and destruction of property and home invasion, all for a lost cell phone by a drunk guy in a bar.
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