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busted link...? EOM.
...Foxconn...
Finally got around to watching Manufactured Landscapes over the weekend. What a great way to inspire pod-guilt. :(
...more secure (i.e. non x86) ...
That's a giant WTF?!
...American made, PPC based, MacOS X machines...
And that has to be an attempt at humor. The chips, the boards, the cases, the plastics, the metals, the <insert anything left out> is made oversees but somehow it'll all end up as "American made"....?!
Someone reconnect this guy to planet earth before he pulls a Major Tom.
(Not barbing you Bootz I know you're just passing on a related link)
interesting stuff, thanks for the 'markable link.
10% sell-off starting Monday - that's a bold prediction.
Fantastic! So a Fenway version of the Manhattan Project would be a....greenhouse? :)
Let the conspiracy theories begin -- RIM delaying its 3G fruit-phone.
current-gen iMacs are being blown out the refurb store too. change is afoot, it seems.
Does it have to be that complicated? PA Semi has some interesting IP in the low power space. Apple spends chump change to buy the company. Apple licenses the stuff to Intel for "free" in exchange for earlier access (ie, more exclusivity) on Intel offerings.
Not saying it's so, but it seems a less convoluted story than some of what's being spun out there.
If you can tell me what Apple will say on the conference call, I can tell you whether the PPS impact will be positive or negative.
Looks Russian, at minimum Slavic. Tverdohleb -> "hard bread".
3G is a hardware upgrade - ie, requires a new device - is that what you're asking?
Thanks but no thanks - I've had an Alienware forced on me in the past - it was a useless unreliable POS. Can't imagine things have gotten better since Dellification.
Yeah, I looked up some teardown photos, it's like a freakin' jigsaw puzzle in there.
Ah well...
Has anybody figured out the motherboard source for iMacs? Just plunk it into a white-box case and voila - expandable headless Mac with no kernal or kext hacks.
I think....
Time Machine has some whacked "features". Eg. the way it uses Volume IDs makes no sense whatsoever. Some (but not all) of the problems being associated with Time Capsule are actually Time Machine issues.
I remain convinced Time Machine/Capsule was anticipating a move to ZFS and was only late in the game hacked back to HFS-land.
I am living on the wrong coast :( (although I can live without all the "Whoo Hoo!" WaMu ads plastered all over midtown.)
Forgiveness is a little easier after a couple trips to the world series champagne fountain. :)
Finally - something powerful enough to index lango's entire mp3 collection.
Hey, that "Espresso Book Machine" thang is pretty cool!
It's too bad the iPhone/iPodTouch don't come with ability to treat PDFs a bit better...
I can see how that might suck. Did Amazon even try to give a "justifiable" reason for the change in policy.
Something tells me Getty Images isn't exactly quaking at the thought, LOL!!
Getty Images is dead. First it went microstock with the iStockPhoto and then it auctioned itself off.
Wonder who will be first to (really) support this on a mobile platform?
The slider-based UI for editing is, maybe, a hint....?
This is so amazing if you think about it...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co said on Sunday it would buy stricken rival Bear Stearns for just $2 a share in an all-stock deal that values the fifth largest investment bank at about $236 million...
All Saturday people tossing about "bidding war" and "north of $40". Oops. The shareholder lawsuits that will come out of this one will be stunning...
Smelling like BSC is not going to be lonely in the margin call penalty box. If - IF - the market gets taken out back and shot I will think about adding some AAPL long. But first have to deal with some long-volty positions in C.
Kinda cool in a way. Not everyday you get to watch an old fashioned bank run!
OT: It's a couple of days old, but tomm I think you in particular will appreciate what this implies....
March 11 (Bloomberg) -- The risk of losses on U.S. Treasury notes exceeded German bunds for the first time ever...
That's too easy. The sad thing is I have more Euro friends who know who he is than Canadian friends.
Not OT: what happens to this stock if it turns out Apple's guidance is more or less accurate and they are not, in fact, sandbagging?
...high-density flash constraining iPhone supply?
Not seeing any evidence at all of a flash shortage.
From the "FWIW" folder...
Rumor that the next "real" MacBook Pro update is tentatively planned for late summer. It will borrow some styling cues from the McAir. The highlight feature will be...
...an OLED display.
Again, it's a rumor. Nobody has commercially shipped an OLED screen larger than 11" - it sure would be an Applesque thing to go first and lock up the supply for 6-12 months.
As much as I'd LOVE for this to be true - did I mention it's only a rumor?
In an unrelated tidbit, here's some snaps of OLED from CeBIT.
http://www.behardware.com/news/9444/cebit-samsung-unveils-a-31-inch-oled.html
The side profile bearing any resemblance to any Apple product shipping or otherwise is purely coincidental.
OK, I chuckled. On a happier note - Leonard Cohen is going to tour again - possibly for the last time.
I get the sense there is a lot more good with this release than there is bad.
The other problem is that much of the good stuff doesn't actually work in the emulator, as it doesn't support a number of 2.0 frameworks. And there's no suitable hardware as an alternative. Bottom line - the SDK can be fairly characterized as being several months late.
Unless they blow the June date, too.
Whatever time lead this (arguably) had on Android is gone.
Never know whether retirees are supposed to be offered congrats or condolences. :)
Best of luck with whatever catches your fancy next!
It's not a resource constraint. Far lower powered systems allow it.
What won't work?
Think about how useful your IM apps would be if every time you minimized them, they didn't disappear into the background, but actually turned off and showed you as not being available.
Think about "live" websites.
Think about how much less useful GPS data is if we have to revert to "polling" designs.
Anyway, it's still early days, hopefully this restriction goes away (without JailBreaking!)
Yeah, and it's not just IM clients, all kinds of interesting possibilities go out the window when an app can't keep monitoring what's going on.
When did Paquette go "ex"?
there are still some serious gotchas - the inability of third-party apps to run in the background is going to cause monumental problems and attract exactly the wrong kinds of hacks - but it's a reasonable start.
So a more thorough reply...
YES.
First app is in the bag (pending actual testing on actual, not yet shipped, 2.0 hardware). Nothing particularly spectacular - more cutesy/gimmicky than anything else. Been wanting to do it for a while, but there was always the question of how the heck to distribute it. The Apple model clearly supports "$1.49" apps so that problem is solved and this will be submitted/launched the day Apple formally opens the store.
The "real" app cooking in the background cannot, so far as I can tell, be done with the SDK as it currently stands. It will take more poking around to determine whether this is a fundamental limitation or whether a bit of framework hacking can get around it. Or possibly I/we have simply missed something - it's still early days.
All in all - this is a higher quality first release than the initial Android release. Given the rumors leading into the event, I am pleasantly surprised and tipping my hat to Cupertino.
Judging from the lack of speed in the Developer parts of Apple's site the past few days, I wouldn't be surprised by a "billions and billions served" type PR very shortly.
Yep. EOM.
That actually seems pretty reasonable to me. Apple has internal learning to do on how to support all this, so I don't see limitations as a real issue. Hell I do the same with our stuff - early access is possible, but extremely limited, and I better be convinced you're not a moron. :)
Applzon. :)
Sounds like a pretty good deal, actually.
...he's been tearing his hair out developing an iPhone app...
Is he ToolChain-ing or is he one of the lucky folks to get early access to the real thing?
(Don't worry, I'm not going to ask for anything :) )
The standard Android browser is built on WebKit. EOM.
Lovely work. Wonder if there's a market for stuff like that?
Heh. Noted. Thanks. EOM.