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Quote: Originally Posted by Gordio I hope it has wifi, so you can use starbucks internet to surf. I can't afford that cellphone internet According to briefed Apple staff at Macworld, websurfing uses WiFi as the default, but "invisibly" switc…
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The other disconcerting thing is that (at least on the Macworld showroom floor) digital photos were getting squished to 720p [they used 1080p TVs with the Resolution tab set to 720p, and there were no other choices). For video, this is understan…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Ooohh...that changed from yesterday. Yesterday it listed 720p24 in there too. Vinea Unfortunate. Also, don't forget (according to briefed Apple staff on the showroom floor) that photos are getting squis…
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Quote: Originally Posted by saleski No Canadian content...what are we lepers ? of course not, with musical hits from: oscar peterson guy lombardo paul anka joni mitchell neil young gordon lightfoot leonard cohen ian & sylvia bu…
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If courts were to adjudicate for Cisco in the States by awarding damages, years from now if ever, Apple would simply charge a similar amount for Cisco violating apple's iPhone mark in the U.K., Australasia, etc. It's best for Cisco to license …
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we all know that the current video iPod uses a broadcom 2722/2724 chip for H.264 decode. has broadcom yet updated this series to jam in 802.11? (running analog composite wires out the headphone jack is getting a bit old). i'm not worried ab…
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Quote: Originally Posted by retiarius what is the worst case here? if the dates are reset (to 10 days later) to unwind any fraud, that would be a dozen million shares or so (sjobs 20M was rescinded), with say, $5 per share edge, or $60M. t…
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The SEC situation is still unclear, according to: http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticle...=1166782011784 Any Martha Stewart (once an "Apple Master")-like investigation apparently is still an option. Though it's good to get the non-cash charg…
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Because of privacy concerns (it's hard to see how a corporation or a bank would yield credit card transaction records), I wrote to Forrester about the data. It is indeed like a voluntary "Nielsen rating" system. From the report (Methodology s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Well, I bought 5,000 at $16.93 (pre split), and then more recently, another 1,000 at 72. I was thinking of buying more when it dropped to the low 50's, but got busy with other things, and by then it was on the …
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I'm matching and raising Eric Schmidt's largesse ... In honor of Mr. Schmidt's commitment to Apple by investing his own money to show such confidence, spending at least 0.02% of his net worth on AAPL shares at market price, I will pledge a pur…
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... now possible not only for the newer 30/80GB units, but for the old ones too. The version 1.2 firmware for my 60GB iPod bears this out. I.e. running the QT Pro "export to iPod" on large-format material now yields full-rez, non-transcoded …
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Downloading films at 480p ... It appears now that to match Amazon "Unbox" (1.2 GB per hour of download), Apple should be doing 852x480p using H.264. Seeing that most encodings at the QuickTime HD Gallery for 480p use 2.7-2.8 Mbps, this is als…
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apple's quicktime HD gallery exhibits 852x480p content: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide...endations.html so they've already warped that definition to encompass something less than 720p. the current iPod already does 640x360 to TV,…
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Disbelieving also that WWDC would be the venue to entertain this fantasy (movie rental announcement), nevertheless the technology to pull it off would be intriguing. Using the 1.5CB-per-movie encoding stats cited by QuickTime executive Frank …
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what is the worst case here? if the dates are reset (to 10 days later) to unwind any fraud, that would be a dozen million shares or so (sjobs 20M was rescinded), with say, $5 per share edge, or $60M. this doesn't seem material to earnings. …
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Quote: Originally posted by mazzy WHAT'S WITH THE PREMUM PRICE FOR BLACK!!?? \ WHAT'S WITH THE PREMUM PRICE FOR BLACK!!?? also, the padding is to help handle complaints and/or the higher return rate from whiners who demand that…
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Quote: Originally posted by michaelb Mach allows OS X to excel as both a Unix machine and as arguably the best user experience yet seen on a computer. Linux is a very long way from achieving that, and the architecture of its kernel and the limit…
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Quote: Originally posted by tak1108 480P is part of the DIGITAL TV standard, not HDTV standard. exactly -- 480P is more SD than HD. apple is now defining "wide SD" as HD, which is tacky. they should have been content to label the super…
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Was the spare white background Errol-Morris-style series, complete with tinkly music, done by Morris himself, or did he leave the scene after the last effort was cancelled? I would have loved to see his Ames room shots... Also, it seems odd th…