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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I hate this HDTV rumour with a passion. We're talking about a company that goes out of its way to have a limited number of devices. You simply can't do that with the TV market as there are way to many reasons…
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It's a beautiful thing. Museums and bandwidth are scarce.
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I haven't yelled at anyone. I haven't ranted either. I built an argument from a premise and defended it. What is your alternative? We're all somebody's children.
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"Society" is an abstraction borne of multiple individuals. Individuals have rights; "society" does not. Objective laws ensure that one's right to swing his fists ends where the noses of other individuals begin. Have a nice day.
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God this is a depressing thread. Some history: Nikola Tesla was employed by Thomas Edison with the promise of $50,000 (more than $1,100,000 in today's US currency) for improving Edison's electric generators. That is, Tesla was persuaded to adva…
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Quote: The company plans to use webOS on future tablet devices that it hopes will compete with Apple's own iPad, also based on an operating system originally created for a smartphone. Didn't Steve say that the iPad actually came before the iPhon…
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Quote: Originally Posted by john galt Wait for it... . . . . . ... the Mini-Pad! This sounds familiar. (http://forums.appleinsider.com/showp...1&postcount=47)
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As great a device as the apple TV (in its current conception) might be, it's not selling well. This is the main reason I could see Apple making an HDTV. Let me explain: I don't own an aTV and I don't want one. Furthermore, I've never used an…
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Big moves: --Voice commands that actually work. Would be a great way to break into business markets. Consumers would like it too. (My dad would use it since he can't type at all--wonders why keys aren't in alphabetical order.) Perfect complem…
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...You know, for people who like to sniff their textbooks...
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What strikes me is just how naked the security agencies are with these new rules. They're all about mitigating the damage done by the bad guys that they let through! Whether these measures are or aren't effective has nothing to do with the utter c…
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Fair enough. I don't pretend to know much about servers or their costs. Certainly Google is trying to sell their service and they will use scenarios that are favorable for them. I can't envision a scenario in which I would want to get on the spec…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Google Windows Azure. Still just a CTP (community tech preview) with a 2010 launch date. It has an expected $0.12 per hour rate. I remember seeing something about that before, but I think it was just an R&am…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich Same here, regarding zero interest in cloud computing nonsense. Sometimes these large companies all start going in the wrong direction in parallel. I'm no fan of "cloud computing" either, and yet I thin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism The only Mac name that kept with their transition to x86 was the iMac. I've got a G4 MacMini.
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I don't see anything wrong with either email. The iRip dude wrote what he needed and Steve replied as he needed. Both parties were respectful. Not everything is about one-upsmanship. So iRip guy was a little emotional... So Steve was a litt…
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Speaking of despair, did anyone else catch that one c64 soccer (football) player in the light blue jersey, just standing in the corner, looking at the ground, not moving? What a sad digital man
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I own stock in both Apple and Adobe. I'm a little concerned about the increase in pirating that Adobe's decision may bring, but thieves are thieves; what are you gonna do? Overall, I think Adobe has done the right thing. Everyone's acting lik…
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I just read the link someone posted regarding Gassée and the notion that Apple is becoming a service company over a hardware company. What would this mean for OSX on third party hardware? The argument that Apple would never again license their…
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Regarding the Apple as Netflix theory, I find this intriguing. However, I think Netflix is very well run and that an Apple takeover wouldn't be any slam dunk. Even so, were it to happen, consider how dead the post office would be. Already strap…