I'd like it, I work out of a trailer sometimes in the middle of nowhere, like to be able to hook satellite TV up to my mac and use it. No sense buying a 17" TV (all that will fit) when I got a 22" ACD hooked to my PB.
One day the venerable airpot base station will have many functions. Just like buses, rail systems and cars, (as well as planes) come to a hub at the airport, so will all the current day mediums.
Airport Base Stations will soon have coax input plug which will handle the transmitting of tv signal to any available device. Sitting next to Coax is USB printing (or a more wireless print method) and this would sit next to the 1GB network port.
Apple Phone will work two ways, through the POTS line in airport and also 802.11g or 802.1x connections to the internet as part of the new .Mac VoIP phone services.
Lastly will be the home automation. As homes gain greater electronic brain power, these appliances will become spokes on the Airport hub and thus completing the v.1 vision for the Airport Base Station.
One day the venerable airpot base station will have many functions. Just like buses, rail systems and cars, (as well as planes) come to a hub at the airport, so will all the current day mediums.
Airport Base Stations will soon have coax input plug which will handle the transmitting of tv signal to any available device. Sitting next to Coax is USB printing (or a more wireless print method) and this would sit next to the 1GB network port.
Apple Phone will work two ways, through the POTS line in airport and also 802.11g or 802.1x connections to the internet as part of the new .Mac VoIP phone services.
Lastly will be the home automation. As homes gain greater electronic brain power, these appliances will become spokes on the Airport hub and thus completing the v.1 vision for the Airport Base Station.
After this, who knows.
All of this sounds like a logical extension of today's tech. I hadn't really thought about this angle much, but this gives a me a better understanding of how it might look. Ha, maybe the iPhone system?
On a side note, it really annoys me that I can't use my Mac as an answering machine right now. Apparently the modems in Macs are not voice compliant, so that kills it. But how cool would it be to just stick your phone cord into a mac, and have it do your voice mail.
If you have OS 9 still and an older computer with the voice in the modem you can still use your computer as your phone and voice mail.
it was call Apple Phone and the software is still on the apple support pages. They just need to revamp it for OS X and it would be a valuable service.
I agree absolutely. The problem is that they don't use a voice compatible modem. I personally would find the $5 to upgrade to a voice compatible modem a lot more useful than the gigabyte ethernet or Firewire 800 in the current pro machines.
On a side note, it really annoys me that I can't use my Mac as an answering machine right now. ...
Cool! And it could record the caller ID and put it on the filename, so it could forward the voice mail as an email, sync it thru .Mac or even put messages on your iPod for later listening.
Based on incoming caller ID, you could LEAVE messages for certain people that would be played instead of your default outgoing message. "Hey George, I've been trying to call you. We got an answer from Mr. Bevins. He said:" (edit in snippet of another message) "So let's set up a meeting for next week."
Combine this with iSight and iChat AV and some directory services through .Mac, and we've got a teleconferencing product.
OverToasty, there are new interactive technologies coming. The question is, who will employ them sooner: mass media (like TimeWarner) or IT (like ...).
If anyone wants to really see what is available today as far as current implementations, check out vonage.com. They have a great VoiceMail management system. If you have a voice mail, it posts it to your Vonage account website and you can log in and play the sound file. In addition, you can have all voice mail emailed to you, so if you have a wireless device that receives mail, you get notified and can play the message from the attachment.
It changes the way you think about using your phone similar to the way tivo and Broadband change the way you watch tv and interact with the internet.
Cool! And it could record the caller ID and put it on the filename, so it could forward the voice mail as an email, sync it thru .Mac or even put messages on your iPod for later listening.
Based on incoming caller ID, you could LEAVE messages for certain people that would be played instead of your default outgoing message. "Hey George, I've been trying to call you. We got an answer from Mr. Bevins. He said:" (edit in snippet of another message) "So let's set up a meeting for next week."
Combine this with iSight and iChat AV and some directory services through .Mac, and we've got a teleconferencing product.
Exactly. There are so many cool possibilities. Oh well, doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon...
OverToasty, there are new interactive technologies coming. The question is, who will employ them sooner: mass media (like TimeWarner) or IT (like ...).
Well, naturally I'm curious, but I don't see how anybody's going to beat the PC (Apple or otherwise) on this, it's just too flexible, too good with user interfaces, and leaverages a huge amount of user know-how.
I think it's easier for a computer to deal with the "sense-of-relation" problem I went on about in my earlier post, by taking over TV - than it is for TV to solve it, by trying to take over the PC.
I'm wondering if HDTVi is going to go the way of Betamax?
To briefly summarize, the individual nodes (i.e. complete computers/servers) in clustering are discrete. Specifically, each server runs an OS with complete control over the computer's resources, with an application running that accepts blocks of work to be done (SETI @ Home is an example of this arrangement).
Grid computing appears to be much more transparent (to a user) allocation of resources in a company. For example, if someone is looking to render an image/video, the computer he or she is using would go out and recruit processing cycles, file storage etc. from all computers attached to the network in order to complete the task.
Grid computing in a sense would be simpler to implement, in that you could theoretically drop additional boxes into a network, which would immediately benefit the entire network. Currently you need to spend a relatively large amount of time configuring the box (unless you are cloning drives), set-up the clustering app, tell the clustering controller app to send jobs to the new box, etc.
If I remember correctly, isn't Apple already doing this with XCode? If I remember right, it goes out and seeks all of the other machines that are idle, to help compile and link the code (eventhough it is doing the linking dynamically).
If they can do that with XCode (which is HUGE to us developers), image what else they can do that with... iDVD, iMovie, FInal Cut Pro, Shake?? Oh man, the possibilities....
Aha. NOW it feels like a REAL pre-Macworld speculation fest.
Love him or loathe him, Kormac does seem to have an unerringly good proportion of posts which provoke speculation and intectual debate over the last few years.
I'll look forward to seeing what happens tomorrow ...
Imagine hooking a circa 2006 cube into your 42" plasma display ( @ 1920x1080P) and having an instant PVR/media center ready for your command, or really surfing from your couch. Think of the boon to parents. I'd go for such a set-up for the family computer. Sitting in the family room it suddenly becomes REALLY REALLY easy to monitor what your rugrats are up to.
I say Bring on the HDTV (and some faster firewire links to really make teh component computer paradigm work!)
The 2006 Cube to Hi-Def' sounds intriguing.
Y'know, for viewing creative content...an Apple 'iBox' media centre on a hi-def' t.v sounds cool to me.
Play iTunes. You got a stereo when you aint watching t.v.
View iPhotos.
View iMovies.
Record yer shows on DVD discs.
Control the iBox with an evolved 'vPod'.
View the web. View the latest cinema trailers on your 30 inch Apple LCD...
Video conferencing via iChat AV.
Note. You don't create any of this stuff on the 'iBox'. You just 'view' it.
You still use the computer to 'create'.
It could be the next big battle ground. And seeing how many people M$ shafted on the way to desktop dominance...then I see Apple as well as any other able to reach 'out of the box' like they have done with the iPod.
There's still way more tvs than computers out there, no?
Y'know, for viewing creative content...an Apple 'iBox' media centre on a hi-def' t.v sounds cool to me.
[...]
You still use the computer to 'create'.
What does this accomplish that iMovie and iDVD can't with a $3 disc and the DVD player you already got for $79? Even an iBook can plug into a TV, although not (yet) at HDTV resolutions.
I can see Apple offering monitors with HDTV resolutions + a few vertical pixels for creating and viewing HDTV content, streamed or stored locally or read from optical media (DVDs). I can see Apple moving aggressively into HDTV content creation. But they can do all of this without tying Macs to TVs themselves in any specific way. After all, if you want to play Mac-authored content on a TV you can do that right now.
If TiVo supported Rendezvous (are they working on that? I forget...) the Mac could even stream a movie to it over wireless and the TiVo could play it on the TV. All the pieces are available, they just have to be put in place.
Years ago I was hoping Apple would make a set top QuickTime optical disc player. With MPEG4, DVD and others getting more important the box could become very useful. Naturally it would be even better if Apple could successfully license it to traditional DVD Players, but I've never heard of that being an option.
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One day the venerable airpot base station will have many functions. Just like buses, rail systems and cars, (as well as planes) come to a hub at the airport, so will all the current day mediums.
Airport Base Stations will soon have coax input plug which will handle the transmitting of tv signal to any available device. Sitting next to Coax is USB printing (or a more wireless print method) and this would sit next to the 1GB network port.
Apple Phone will work two ways, through the POTS line in airport and also 802.11g or 802.1x connections to the internet as part of the new .Mac VoIP phone services.
Lastly will be the home automation. As homes gain greater electronic brain power, these appliances will become spokes on the Airport hub and thus completing the v.1 vision for the Airport Base Station.
After this, who knows.
Originally posted by geobe
Airport = Multi Port Functional Unit.
One day the venerable airpot base station will have many functions. Just like buses, rail systems and cars, (as well as planes) come to a hub at the airport, so will all the current day mediums.
Airport Base Stations will soon have coax input plug which will handle the transmitting of tv signal to any available device. Sitting next to Coax is USB printing (or a more wireless print method) and this would sit next to the 1GB network port.
Apple Phone will work two ways, through the POTS line in airport and also 802.11g or 802.1x connections to the internet as part of the new .Mac VoIP phone services.
Lastly will be the home automation. As homes gain greater electronic brain power, these appliances will become spokes on the Airport hub and thus completing the v.1 vision for the Airport Base Station.
After this, who knows.
All of this sounds like a logical extension of today's tech. I hadn't really thought about this angle much, but this gives a me a better understanding of how it might look. Ha, maybe the iPhone system?
On a side note, it really annoys me that I can't use my Mac as an answering machine right now. Apparently the modems in Macs are not voice compliant, so that kills it. But how cool would it be to just stick your phone cord into a mac, and have it do your voice mail.
it was call Apple Phone and the software is still on the apple support pages. They just need to revamp it for OS X and it would be a valuable service.
Originally posted by geobe
If you have OS 9 still and an older computer with the voice in the modem you can still use your computer as your phone and voice mail.
it was call Apple Phone and the software is still on the apple support pages. They just need to revamp it for OS X and it would be a valuable service.
I agree absolutely. The problem is that they don't use a voice compatible modem. I personally would find the $5 to upgrade to a voice compatible modem a lot more useful than the gigabyte ethernet or Firewire 800 in the current pro machines.
Originally posted by blue2kdave
...Ha, maybe the iPhone system?
On a side note, it really annoys me that I can't use my Mac as an answering machine right now. ...
Cool! And it could record the caller ID and put it on the filename, so it could forward the voice mail as an email, sync it thru .Mac or even put messages on your iPod for later listening.
Based on incoming caller ID, you could LEAVE messages for certain people that would be played instead of your default outgoing message. "Hey George, I've been trying to call you. We got an answer from Mr. Bevins. He said:" (edit in snippet of another message) "So let's set up a meeting for next week."
Combine this with iSight and iChat AV and some directory services through .Mac, and we've got a teleconferencing product.
Originally posted by visigothe
It's been stated many times before that His Steveness hates television. If a 30" LCD comes to the Faithful, it will be for use with a Macintosh.
It changes the way you think about using your phone similar to the way tivo and Broadband change the way you watch tv and interact with the internet.
Originally posted by cubist
Cool! And it could record the caller ID and put it on the filename, so it could forward the voice mail as an email, sync it thru .Mac or even put messages on your iPod for later listening.
Based on incoming caller ID, you could LEAVE messages for certain people that would be played instead of your default outgoing message. "Hey George, I've been trying to call you. We got an answer from Mr. Bevins. He said:" (edit in snippet of another message) "So let's set up a meeting for next week."
Combine this with iSight and iChat AV and some directory services through .Mac, and we've got a teleconferencing product.
Exactly. There are so many cool possibilities. Oh well, doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon...
Originally posted by costique
OverToasty, there are new interactive technologies coming. The question is, who will employ them sooner: mass media (like TimeWarner) or IT (like ...).
Well, naturally I'm curious, but I don't see how anybody's going to beat the PC (Apple or otherwise) on this, it's just too flexible, too good with user interfaces, and leaverages a huge amount of user know-how.
I think it's easier for a computer to deal with the "sense-of-relation" problem I went on about in my earlier post, by taking over TV - than it is for TV to solve it, by trying to take over the PC.
I'm wondering if HDTVi is going to go the way of Betamax?
Originally posted by Chagi
Interesting article, thanks for linking it.
To briefly summarize, the individual nodes (i.e. complete computers/servers) in clustering are discrete. Specifically, each server runs an OS with complete control over the computer's resources, with an application running that accepts blocks of work to be done (SETI @ Home is an example of this arrangement).
Grid computing appears to be much more transparent (to a user) allocation of resources in a company. For example, if someone is looking to render an image/video, the computer he or she is using would go out and recruit processing cycles, file storage etc. from all computers attached to the network in order to complete the task.
Grid computing in a sense would be simpler to implement, in that you could theoretically drop additional boxes into a network, which would immediately benefit the entire network. Currently you need to spend a relatively large amount of time configuring the box (unless you are cloning drives), set-up the clustering app, tell the clustering controller app to send jobs to the new box, etc.
If I remember correctly, isn't Apple already doing this with XCode? If I remember right, it goes out and seeks all of the other machines that are idle, to help compile and link the code (eventhough it is doing the linking dynamically).
If they can do that with XCode (which is HUGE to us developers), image what else they can do that with... iDVD, iMovie, FInal Cut Pro, Shake?? Oh man, the possibilities....
Love him or loathe him, Kormac does seem to have an unerringly good proportion of posts which provoke speculation and intectual debate over the last few years.
I'll look forward to seeing what happens tomorrow ...
Kormac
Now it feels like a real pre Macworld speculation fest!
Hey Kormac,
Imagine hooking a circa 2006 cube into your 42" plasma display ( @ 1920x1080P) and having an instant PVR/media center ready for your command, or really surfing from your couch. Think of the boon to parents. I'd go for such a set-up for the family computer. Sitting in the family room it suddenly becomes REALLY REALLY easy to monitor what your rugrats are up to.
I say Bring on the HDTV (and some faster firewire links to really make teh component computer paradigm work!)
The 2006 Cube to Hi-Def' sounds intriguing.
Y'know, for viewing creative content...an Apple 'iBox' media centre on a hi-def' t.v sounds cool to me.
Play iTunes. You got a stereo when you aint watching t.v.
View iPhotos.
View iMovies.
Record yer shows on DVD discs.
Control the iBox with an evolved 'vPod'.
View the web. View the latest cinema trailers on your 30 inch Apple LCD...
Video conferencing via iChat AV.
Note. You don't create any of this stuff on the 'iBox'. You just 'view' it.
You still use the computer to 'create'.
It could be the next big battle ground. And seeing how many people M$ shafted on the way to desktop dominance...then I see Apple as well as any other able to reach 'out of the box' like they have done with the iPod.
There's still way more tvs than computers out there, no?
Hmmm.
Lemon Bon Bon
Originally posted by Lemon Bon Bon
Y'know, for viewing creative content...an Apple 'iBox' media centre on a hi-def' t.v sounds cool to me.
[...]
You still use the computer to 'create'.
What does this accomplish that iMovie and iDVD can't with a $3 disc and the DVD player you already got for $79? Even an iBook can plug into a TV, although not (yet) at HDTV resolutions.
I can see Apple offering monitors with HDTV resolutions + a few vertical pixels for creating and viewing HDTV content, streamed or stored locally or read from optical media (DVDs). I can see Apple moving aggressively into HDTV content creation. But they can do all of this without tying Macs to TVs themselves in any specific way. After all, if you want to play Mac-authored content on a TV you can do that right now.
If TiVo supported Rendezvous (are they working on that? I forget...) the Mac could even stream a movie to it over wireless and the TiVo could play it on the TV. All the pieces are available, they just have to be put in place.
Is rumored "iBox" quiet resemble something ?
Maybe we can expect unexpected ?
I will make some note here.