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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Wednesday June 29 2005 8:10am |
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so i guess, i troll toms, and google has released a new version of the keyhole software, JB saw it last week at DAMN. Jeff had gotten a copy for 30$, but now the software is free and improved directly from google. Here is the link. desktop.google.com/download/earth/index.html |
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| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Tuesday June 28 2005 5:06pm |
| Ah the wonders of Employed life! How I missed thee! | |
| Posted by: curly | Posted on: Monday June 27 2005 6:04pm |
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Now let me take a moment to shamelessly plug my girlfriend (in the most non-sexual way possibly)… Nicole Devin is competing to be the new morning talk show host for 1130 WISN which comes w/ a 2 year contract and a decent salary! She will broadcasting live tomorrow morning, June 28th, from 7:30 to 8:30am. Please feel free to tune in BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY please cast your vote for Nicole at www.milwaukeetalkstar.com between 8:30am and 8:30 pm tomorrow to help her advance to the next round! (fyi, only one vote per network will be counted to counter ballot box stuffing) Nick Angel Curly |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Monday June 27 2005 4:36pm |
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Peter: I actually received a similar article (apparently taken from the same interview) in print last week in one of my trade mags I was going to give to you next time we meet (speaking of which, call me so we can schedule that out before Schmunks arrive thursday night). The bits about gamma vs. linear vs. logarithmic color encoding I found important, and it's very encouraging to hear that log may be going away soon since it's one of the biggest pains in my ass when working with film. Too bad those RGB decks cost more than most houses. |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday June 27 2005 11:42am |
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i think this is a great quote to grant understanding to free markets and complexity apnews.excite.com/article/20050627/D8AVLPCG0.html Such changes are a departure from the original mission of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar - to create a site that would act as an intermediary between buyers and sellers, devoid of oversight or bureaucracy. "Pierre never in effect wanted customer support because the marketplace was supposed to work everything out," Cobb said. "But when you scale to 150 million members, you have to account for the margins. Unfortunately you have a very small percentage of people who will try to disrupt the marketplace." |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Monday June 27 2005 9:12am |
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Check out this great article featuring John Knoll on the benefits of working in HD. It sounds like George was having problems with 4:2:2 as well. www.dvformat.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=32422 |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday June 24 2005 2:14pm |
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And now, for a very special Onion. www.theonion.com/2056-06-22/index_b.php Warning! Flash with Audio. |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Thursday June 23 2005 4:16pm |
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Justin, Thanks for finding the dates for my favorite summer festival!!! This is good news. I don't know about the lan[d], but I would love to play a little battlefield 2. Per-chance even the franz might even participate. (unless he's working on the world 'franz' center. ;) And now your libido is whining? That's new... ;) I am up for a little party. Perhaps that could be the lack of pants style event. Perhaps I could sequester myself in Justin B's old room and pout. Or 'celebrate by myself'. Ha! Laterz, D.R. |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Thursday June 23 2005 3:38pm |
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so on to topics other than my wining libedo, like video games. I sugest a small Lan gathering in july after summerfest, the weekend of july 15th doesnt seem to have anything going on at the summerfest grounds, parking will actually be avalible that weekend in the thirdward. It also seems that dave's water frolics will be in force that weekend so a lan event will be a good base camp to enjoy his favorite fesitval. onmilwaukee.com/events/event-62973.html onmilwaukee.com/events/event-63748.html |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Thursday June 23 2005 11:29am |
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Here's my theory. Let's do the LAN in September, but in early August have another no pants style weekend at the estates. (with pants this time) (well, at least 'pants optional') Whaddya think? Keep it 'fresh'. Perhaps have the next LAN over Labor day weekend? :) That would be swell...I could get 'behind that'. Yeah nearscape, I know you don't like battlefield. ;p I think it looks pretty keen though. It's got a tight gun system, (and a sweet A$$) and I like shooting L.B.'s dead. I mean outside the game. Whatever. Laterz, B_W |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Thursday June 23 2005 10:33am |
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not yet, maybe before the next gathering...but right now if I'm going to play anything involving flags, it's going to be the Warsong Gulch Battleground in WoW. That "lit my fire" in a way that Battlefield never did. When should that gathering be, by the way? August 6th? 13th? After Gen Con? |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Thursday June 23 2005 10:03am |
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So...Battlefield 2 demo...anyone? Anyone? Later, B_W |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Wednesday June 22 2005 2:15pm |
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Peter, How silly of me, you're right. (sarcasm meter: high - JK erection meter: low) Yeah, there was some wacky crack code floating around here. It looks pretty clean now though. Time for some 'afternoon delight'. (aka Lifestyle Gin) B_W |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Wednesday June 22 2005 2:08pm |
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I saw something strange on the left hand menu once...but it went away. Not sure what the deal is. I'm going to store the Pumpkins reunion under "pipe dream" so I'll be pleasantly surprised if it actually happens (as opposed to optimistic then disappointed like when the Babylon 5 movie evaporated). Although even if it's just Chamberlin and Corgan + a couple new tools, that would probably be good enough for me. Just without the Zwan religion stuff, that would be great. 3rd/4th fireworks celebration to be hosted by Steve C. is a go he said last night, and the Schmunks are still planning on being around Milwaukee. So yes, things should be happening. Intrigue may have Summerfest crash space, though I won't be there any more. I would like to see Something Corporate again though, and maybe Weezer too. |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Wednesday June 22 2005 2:03pm |
| I'm not sure why your top fram says DLFREE.com, DBBC, but there is some more malicious JAVA script code that has permeated the entire Pulgari/Spoolan site. I've cleaned some of the static pages of it. | |
| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Wednesday June 22 2005 11:56am |
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DBBQC: It does? NS, et al: What are people doing JUly 3rd & 4th? I'm trying to get up to Milwaukee 1. because Ben Folds is @ Summerfest on the 4th, 2. So you all can meet my girlfriend, Emalee, and 3. because Em hasn't ever been to Milwaukee. DBBQP: This is AWESOME news!!!!!!! I'm already forming a group of people to go to the first show in Chicago... So far it's myself and Adam Starodub (former GM of WMUR) -A |
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| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Wednesday June 22 2005 11:04am |
| Why does the top frame say DLFREE.COM? | |
| Posted by: Dream BBQ Pmkn | Posted on: Wednesday June 22 2005 11:02am |
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www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/cst-ftr-billy22.html w00t w00t. Maybe. |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Wednesday June 22 2005 10:44am |
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B_W, What is this? Talking video games on this board? You know better than that. These boards are a reserved for PC versus Mac debates, posting funny yet awkward Penny Arcade links, and more clap trap about Justin Krueger's waning libido. I expect you know better now. (just kidding) |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Wednesday June 22 2005 10:04am |
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Whisky sours ARE delicious! so...whose played the Battlefield 2 demo? B_W |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday June 21 2005 7:55am |
| one more thought on that last post, if chocolate simulates the female brain much like sex does, hmmm ;-) | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday June 21 2005 7:54am |
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so a little less on topic but funny and insightful www.theregister.com/2005/06/20/o_research/ |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday June 21 2005 7:50am |
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i am making this post in honor of our good friend terry B(mrgoodbytes to those of you that know his secret identity). I dont know what spawned my attention to terry's blog site, ADD will do that to ya, but i was absolutely mezmorized by this great little flash media. LETS SAY THAT AGIAN MEDIA with no futher adou www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html and enjoy, i know i did. mrgoodbytes.com www.mrgoodbytes.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=19 |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Monday June 20 2005 3:49pm |
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I sure missed out: news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050620/us_nm/life_auction_dc |
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| Posted by: HULK | Posted on: Monday June 20 2005 1:24pm |
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RARGGHhhhhhh! THAT's HULK LINE! ARRRRRRRRGHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! ARGGHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh! |
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| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Monday June 20 2005 10:46am |
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Then does this mean that that's no moon in the sky?!?! AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!! AAARRGGGGHHH!!! AAARRGGGGHHH!!! AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!! |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Monday June 20 2005 8:50am |
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Imagine that....Princess Leia is real! (Well...almost) news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050616/en_afp/norwayroyalspeople_050616143721 |
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| Posted by: NYC_Whisky | Posted on: Sunday June 19 2005 8:52am |
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Well, my airport is cooler than yours Intrugue. :) LaGuardia is the bestest place to sit...EVER!!! Ok, perhaps not, but they have very robust Internet, and that's 'Just Fine'. (to quote from Art Jones) Well folks, I made it. Big_Whisky wasn't gunned down in the streets. I 'lit up' plenty of 'LBs'. (they all deserved it) I got plenty of help and complements from the tough New York rough characters. I clubbed it till 4 every morning, and hit it during the day. (I just pretended it was a LAN event, without the headaches) It was all good. Alright, time to show these folks how I really roll. Later ya'll. B_W |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Saturday June 18 2005 6:35pm |
| Last post before launch, we should be boarding the aircraft in a few monments here in denver, its been a good trip, but it will be good to be home. I guess the plan is that for my bDay on wed we will do something simple, and then in the near future, we will will do something bigger, i was thinking mideval times dinner and tournement, and or the ren fair. I havent been in a few years and i think it would be fun to go as an adult. I will figure the plan in more detail later, but for now, it seems like this weekend is taken for fathers day, and the next most are busy, and then it is the weekend of the 4th, so i propose that since most will be off for the weekend of the 4th, that we do it then. i think the ren fair will need to be earlier in the day for parking, and crowd reasons, but it it should be fun. | |
| Posted by: NYC-Whisky | Posted on: Saturday June 18 2005 1:59pm |
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One more post from NYC whisky. This time coming from Coney Island, the Wisconsin Dells of NY. It's been quite a trip. The late nights. The weird mornings. It's all good though. If I make it back to Wisconsin, the land of my fore-fathers, all will have been successful. Laterz Ya'll, B_W |
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| Posted by: NYC-Whisky | Posted on: Friday June 17 2005 3:55pm |
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Yo. $hit fully busted. Having trouble walking. Not letting it bother me one bit. ;) I am taking the this city 'too task'. It shall be what it shall be. Just went to the "Cloisters" a museum of high quality. Pete, I won't get to spamalot, but I will be seeing Avenue Q tonight. We shall see how that goes. Ok. Back to it. No pain, no NYC. B_W |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Friday June 17 2005 3:34pm |
| Yup, great reason to buy organic, provided you aren't concerned with feeding the six billion people currently on this planet. | |
| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Friday June 17 2005 2:59pm |
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The farm is strong in this one.... Here is a new reason to buy organic vegetables and fruits! www.storewars.org/flash/index.html This is actually pretty funny! (Awfully long and creative for a commercial...the dark side of the market I fear...). |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday June 17 2005 12:01pm |
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The Corg cometh. Tuesday. www.myspace.com/billycorgan I think it's safe to say that Adore is back (with a vengeance). |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Friday June 17 2005 11:20am |
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I am in my last day of class here and i am excited about coming home for my birthday on wed. june 21st and that i will get a chance to go to "the church" a denver dance club that is inside of an old gothic church. (www.the-church.com) I will try to get pictures for dave and bosar. I should be in later saturday night, our plain leaves 5:55pm so i figure i will return about 9pm ish in wisconsin, just in time to go out for a bit, as i have to be in IL by 8am. If possible i might jump on an earlier flight, depends on the hangover. I was able to chat with schmunk, while in colorodo, but only over the phone, CO Springs and Denver are just too far apart for us to meet up. ****WOW update! **** I have now joined "khaosphere", and things are going well. I also redistributed my talents, i am now specked as a restoration druid. and i dont know if i am going to balance that out with balance or feral talents, for now i only have 5 to spend so i am going to wait just a bit longer till i decide. I made the change to make me more attractive for group/party/raid quests. The side effect of me getting stronger restore skills,is that i am a stronger caster now. It takes alot of spells to clear my mana out. I also made level 45. :) And for thoses casters out there i have invenerate(www.thottbot.org/?sp=18562) now so i can buff you for a tuff battle. If you want to chat with the old whiskey rebellion guild members type "\join whiskeyrebellion" in your chat window, you will join our channel. |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Thursday June 16 2005 9:56pm |
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NYC_Whisky (or is that now Hurt_Whisky), May I suggest that you take in a showing of Spamalot while you are there. You won't regret it. |
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| Posted by: NYC_Whisky | Posted on: Thursday June 16 2005 2:25pm |
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I almost busted my $hin right in front of Rockerfeller Center, by falling flat on my face. (those two inches of differnece in the concerete are killer) Anyway, rocking the hizzy. Went to an interesting club (HEX! at the Lucky Cat) last night and now have some strange new NYC friends. That's all for now. B_W |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Thursday June 16 2005 1:36pm |
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here's a guide for you silly wardrivers! ;) special.msn.com/msnbc/techwireless.armx?GT1=6620 |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Wednesday June 15 2005 11:28pm |
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Wow, and i am not talking about warcraft here, but film craft. Batman Begins is so fantastic, that i cant even begin to rave about it without letting the movie down. GO SEE THIS FILM, before the hype spills all of the spoils. This film is grittier, grimyer and darker than tim burtons rendition. i dont even know if i can watch the tim burtons batman character line up any more after nolan reinvented the series. i cant rave enough |
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| Posted by: NYC_Whisky | Posted on: Wednesday June 15 2005 2:05pm |
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Live from Manhattan. For those of you who have not been here, this city smells. And is just as gritty as you might think it could be. However, it also has a charm I have not quite gotten a hold of. My hotel is a DIVE, and there are no three prong outlets. ;) The subway, well, it's interesing. Anyway, I am sitting in battery park spoolaning, about to take a walk through lower Manhattan. If I find more Internet, I will let you know how it is going. Oh, and I 'lit up' some LBs. ;) Laterz, Big_Whiksy |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Wednesday June 15 2005 12:45pm |
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so, here it is on one of the final days of class, and i am in the middle of fixing the same problem on two applications, one is the VM ware necessary to do the labs for class, and the other is to get WoW working. At every turn in both of these applications we are facing problems. It is actually kinda humours that we have made it so long on the road only to experiance the problems now. For some reason or another, we are in the tech center of Denver, CO and our verizon wireless card is still not working, i was so pleased with this thing, until now. We were trying to download the retail to 1.5 patch last night from a number of hosting services and no luck, it seems that a 14.4 connection will time out before we can get past 80mb. More on this vmware thing later, i need the ram, so i have to close firefox. |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Wednesday June 15 2005 2:11am |
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www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/696.html -A |
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| Posted by: Borsk | Posted on: Tuesday June 14 2005 12:31pm |
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Finally, someone with some real ideas...BWWWAHAHAHAH! Borsk |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Tuesday June 14 2005 12:29pm |
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Candy is dandy...but... Alright, I will do my darndest to keep all ya'll informed on the happinings in other places in the country. We will see how that goes. I am thinking it's pretty saturated with signals on the east coast... Peter, i am glad to hear you survived Disney...I hear it's a 'killer'. However you I did hear mention of you breaking some hearts. ;) Perhaps next time the 'geek ladies' try to enquire of yourself, you should introduce them to a certain Bothan that would be willing to 'accomodate'. Laterz, Big_Whiksy |
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| Posted by: HULK | Posted on: Tuesday June 14 2005 11:27am |
| CANDY???? | |
| Posted by: HULK | Posted on: Monday June 13 2005 12:40pm |
| CANDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Sunday June 12 2005 4:02am |
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Who loves can-dee? ... I love can-dee! B_W |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Saturday June 11 2005 1:24pm |
| still in progress. I've dual residencies until the end of the month. | |
| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Saturday June 11 2005 1:38am |
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NS.. When did you move? -A |
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| Posted by: Whisky.cocaine | Posted on: Friday June 10 2005 1:04pm |
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I am still upright. Crow, if you're out there, I need some assistance taking on the spidery kind. They are infultrating. I need a powerful technique. B_W.c |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Friday June 10 2005 8:44am |
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From a completely different sort of corporate arogance, Japan, "specifically toyota" has made an offical statement about a means to save the american auto industry. What you may ask is this grand idea that they will help thier allie in world politics. Toyota,will raise prices more than 2-3% this year, as us automakers struggle to make sales in a competitive market place. Toyota claims they usually reserve such price hikes to years where they release a new line of cars, but they though they would help out GM, and Ford sell more cars by making theirs more expensive. I dont know if you have seen the ads on tv, but GM is now selling all of its 2005 cars at "employee discount" rates. I find this exciting, as chrysler the ex american car company apprently gew sales of cars 30% this year, ford and gm are having trouble giving cars away. I am hoping for an airline level economic disaster for auto makers, if FORD and GM get the oppertunity to reinvent themselves like chrysler did just over 10 years ago, we might see some really neat cars. GM has had fuel cell cars in the works for decades now, and i dont see a better time to release their prototypes in to the wild. Rummor also has it that the first electric sports car will be on display at the next autoshow. I have always said, first comes the sexy cars, then comes the cheap ones for everyone else. here is the article on toyota, if you are interested. money.excite.com/ht/nw/bus/20050610/hle_bus-t14167.html |
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| Posted by: NearScape.Mac | Posted on: Thursday June 9 2005 5:55pm |
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I'm writing this from Tiger and Safari RSS and boy is it swell! Don't try and install Adobe Reader yet though, they don't quite have that working I found out. Fortunately Preview can open PDFs just fine it seems, so Reader seems to be optional for Mac anyway. Which would make my work a lot easier if the same was true on Windows.... Anyway, I see there's a guy on Tom's Hardware mimicking some of our statements about IBM's hardware investments in Apple (and their relative insignificance). "They are making hay with Sony and Microsoft in the new generation of consoles to come out later this year and next, and chances are they will sell more gaming units at more of a profit than they could ever hope to get with Apple. According to analysts, only about one percent of IBM's chip business is related to Apple, which is about the same as what Apple's overall PC market share is." Also some good ironies about who's sleeping with who in technology these days, if you're into that sort of thing. www.tomshardware.com/column/20050608/index.html whatever the economics, it seems the next 18 months (minimum) are going to be filled with some excruciating waiting... and who knows what will change in the Intel vs. AMD front in that time. New consoles should make a splash for sure. ---- And now I forth to brave my first thursday night 22 floors above Jazz in the Park...oh and Dave, I found some giant cannibalistic duelling highrise spiders that rival the action over at WHAD at our rooftop fitness center... |
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| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Thursday June 9 2005 1:15pm |
| Fair enough. No matter what, the next few years will be interesting. | |
| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Thursday June 9 2005 12:29pm |
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Yeah, trying to convert that 'Frutiger BT' over to truetype is a B1tch! Oldschool. This was me this morning. Which one I will leave to your imagination: www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2005-06-09&res=h A big Tally-Ho to Mr. Placas and Mr. Featherson on their southern adventure. May the force be with you both...and may the sunburn not be so harsh. B_W |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Thursday June 9 2005 10:10am |
| important points both, but also I never suggested that Apple stop selling hardware immediately. You are assuming that must follow. In fact I explicitly assumed they would countinue supporting their niche customers. Also that selling iPod is key to keeping iTunes dominant in its marketplace. But this move could allow them branch out their software revenue significantly, and allow them to actually *grow* in ways that hardware apparently can't. Just look at how iTunes and iPod have exploded, because they're not limited to the tiny pittance of people that own Mac computers. As far as I'm concerned this move is brilliant and long overdue. And (theoretically of course) if Apple Pro apps were suddenly available on PCs, I doubt it would tank their computer sales anyways. Everyone I've encountered in the creative industry that uses Macs in high quantities (from local agencies to Pixel Magic in LA) are primarily running software that is *already* available cross platform, such as Commotion, After Effects, Avid, Illustrator, etc.. They use Macs because they choose to and wouldn't have it any other way. Or they've invested heavily in Mac fonts. ;) | |
| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Wednesday June 8 2005 2:04pm |
| Matt, you are talking revenue, we are talking profit, if ipods are sold for a 25% profit, iTunes songs for 40% and Operating systems for close to 60-70% and the other applicaitons for 40-60%, and hardware at 10% to 15% profit margins, they need to have 3-4x the hardware revenue to equal the same profit as an OS or Application. | |
| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Wednesday June 8 2005 9:30am |
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In its two most-recent quarters, Apple's computer sales have accounted for about 46% Apple sold 5.3 million iPods in the quarter [2ed, 2005] for more than $1 billion or 31% of revenue. Source, Forbes.com Oops. 46+31 = 77% So now we have room for iTunes and software in the remaining 23% of funds. I don't understand how that makes Apple a sofware company. TODAY. Going directly to a software company TODAY would be a bad idea. The fact there will still be Macs for at least a little while I think gives me some cred there. As I said though, and so I agree, tomarrow may be a different case. And I agree, FCP and other Apple goodies may end up on XP or Longhorn. It is possible that Apple could be like SEGA and stop making hardware, even OS, and buckle under to Windows. After all, say I'm a big developer of some big application. Well, now I don't have a real good reason to re-work my application for OS X. I'll just cut a deal with Microsoft and sell my software with an $X discount on XP for the Mac users. That last bit is akin to something that many beleive contributed to the fall of OS/2. Considering you will be able to boot into Windows on these new Macs, it could happen. Which would suck to me. They may have problems, but espically when it comes to laptops give me an Apple built one over a Windows box any day. Even in light of this new information I'm still thinking of getting a new laptop from Apple this summer (provided I find full-time work). Dream BBQ Child Vs. windows laptops = Crowscape Vs. OS 9. I don't think most people care about or even really understand DRM. I don't agree that one rents with iTunes. Other music services, such as ones that you have to mantain a subscription for in order to keep the songs playing, those are rentals. Still, no matter how you view it, DRM is an annoyiance. I will grant you that. Thanks too for the blizzard pointer, though I did send them my resume back on Monday. |
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| Posted by: big-whisky | Posted on: Tuesday June 7 2005 10:21pm |
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big-whisky is very sick right now. big-whisky hates getting sick when it's warm out. but... nearscape, this might be a little more opportunity for me to do a little DVD for backlot. ;) just let me know! --this whole apple thing is disturbing. something's gonna happen, and it might not be good... anyway back to sleep, b-w p.s. dbbqc, there is no 'E' in my 'whisky'. ;) |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday June 7 2005 4:27pm |
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matt, blizzard is hiring www.blizzard.com/jobopp/tools-programmer.shtml |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday June 7 2005 3:03pm |
| just as a note, the average profit margin on hardware sales for dell, apple, etc. is less than 10% apple may get 20% on some really highend stuff, but MS averages a 50% + gross profit margin on all products services. If you account for MS's money loosing ventures like xbox and mstv inititiaves then i think apple as a software company is a lean mean compeditor to MS. | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Tuesday June 7 2005 2:54pm |
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Well, that's great. OSX 10.4 Tiger doesn't support QT6 Pro, which means I get DVD Studio Pro back up until I get ahold of Steve's credit card and authorize QT7. Means I have some time here... I think Forbes may be behind the times and Jobs isn't as dumb as he looks. A couple years ago that may have been true, but I thought Apple was making phat cash in iTunes these days? Remember iTunes is what made Sony execs humble before Jobs last year. I doubt the big boys give two hoots what Apple puts inside of their cheese graters; the impact on the hardware market is negligible. But stuff like iTunes and Final Cut Pro have had drastic, some would say "democratizing" impact on the markets they represent, and made much larger companies (such as Sony and Avid) change their business strategies. The actual iPod hardware is an accessory to the software, really. Microsoft makes a decent scroll-wheel mouse, sure, but that doesn't make them a hardware company. It's an accessory to the real product: MSIE/Windows. I'm talking about PowerMacs and PowerBooks and that kind of stuff when I talk about Apple hardware. As things stand now, iTunes can roll on without the iPod. OSX/FCP is in trouble without PowerMacs. But regardless of the past/present, I see this as an affirmation from Jobs that the future of Apple is software. Switch ads have a new meaning now that MegaHertz *does* matter (apparently). They're no longer selling a hardware platform switch, because that will essentially be the same. They're simply selling an OS switch. And that kinda makes them a softare company I think. I've seen this echoed on those MacRumors forums, where people are pointing out that this Intel thing isn't the end of the world...it's OSX that really matters. DBBQC, your argument about Apple going under if they divest themselves from hardware doesn't parse. Software can be far more profitable than hardware (Microsoft makes more money on computer software than *any* computer hardware company, don't they?). Doesn't Sony make more money selling/licensing Playstation software than they make selling stereos these days? As such, I concur that IBM is likely much more concerned about the impact this could have on it's Linux investments than supplying more G5 chips to that dwindling less-than-3%-global Mac hardware market. Linux has growth potential. Mac OSX on x86 has growth potential. Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, and Shake on Windows XP? Holy living *FUCK* that has growth potential (although i still don't believe it will happen). But Apple hardware? In the 4 years since the launch of OSX it has consistenly proven to be a dead market. It costs too much and runs too slow to catch on. Jobs seems to be finally realizing that, and I'm hella excited for what may be around the corner in the next 2 years. Oh, Apple can still make pretty cubes and cheese graters, I'm sure. And the same 2.6% will continue to buy them at $3000+ for all the elitist buffs that entails. But to have *options*? Low-priced alternatives running as OSX fast as Windows boxes from Dell? Hot-diggity-damn that opens up whole new universes! I don't know about that Longhorn and XBox360 hooplah, Microsoft has failed to deliver on lofty promises far too many times for me to get exited until something is actually in front of me, *working better* than what I have now. And this WindowsXP/Opteron box is working fine, so that's a tough order. I know it took years of utter crap to get here, suffering through WinME and 3 horrid service packs worth of Win2000 before MS delivered what they promised. So I just don't care about what they claim. But this OSX on x86 stuff has me giddy! |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday June 7 2005 1:20pm |
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Matt, i am not expecting you to act as the rep for apple. The death of apple will be this DRM that boler is telling me about. People usually dont like to lock in to expensive hardware for expensive software. Normally cheap software and cheap hardware wins, the counsel solution. Since PC hardware is more likely to get cheaper over time, it is more likely the grounds that people will decide a pc choice on. drm garentees that apple will not make cheap hardware, they will agian be the oddball for quite some time. i have not bought a single itunes song title because of drm, and i wont. i buy a drm itunes song, it is stuck on my ipod. if i buy a cd(no drm) then i can burn it, rip it, and put it on anything i want as many times as i want, drm is designed to eliminated that. drm is the future of leased use media and it means that you will no longer be able to buy and own a cd, but rather you will rent access to a song over x time and on q,r,s devices that are manufactured by company list m. this has long been the sony plot on media, and it has "failed every time." people bought ipods because they play mp3s an open and cheap software format. wma suffers from the same problem. i think ibm chose to get out of the DRM industry(apples new direction) as it goes agianst thier open source initiative. |
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| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Tuesday June 7 2005 11:56am |
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Apple is a hardware company. Check Forbes. Apple cannot support itself if you remove sales of its comptuers and iPod. If Apple were to distribute OS X and Final Cut and the rest of its software today for x86, Apple would be over in a matter of months. Even if it just became a small company it would not have the revenue to keep good devlopers on board to keep pushing OS X where it needs to go and OS X would go the way of Be OS and OS/2. This does not mean that they could not become a software company. That may very well be where they are trying to go. Right now though, I do not beleive that OS X has the legs to overcome the laziness Joe and Jane user have over just sticking with Windows. I predit DIYers will get OS X to run on non-apple hardware indeed. I also predit it won't work very well and Apple has little worry about on that front (See Linux). Shoot, it wouldn't suprise me if the a DIY OS X running on an AMD machine appears on Slashdot before these new Apples come out. No matter who does it though, it won't work very well. Even if it did work okay, I think one is fooling themselves if they beleive that it will ever pose a signifcant impact to Apple's sales. Geeks may do it just to do it. Then the box will be put away and forgotten about like so much a waste of money. To pit a game/media console veurses Apples dosen't quite seem fair. I will concede though, that odds are good that more consoles will ship than new Apples. We might even be able to throw Nintendo in the same boat. Umph is irrelivant. The user base who wants them is there for the new consoles. It's not there for Apple. At least now. This next year could prove very interesting though. If MS keeps dropping the ball on important issues like security and privacy and if Apple can and do put their machines on a price point similar to Dell... who knows? Could make the long term very interesting. The prize here though is corporate america. For Apple to take off and become a software company I predit they have got to get OS X into corporations. Use them to get users trained on OS X. Once that is done, getting OS X into more homes is more realistic. In this though they have to stay on the ball on security. OS X cannot become what Windows is cause the first virus for OS X is coming. The question is, how many will follow? I also agree with Devorak. This is bad news for Linux. |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday June 7 2005 10:04am |
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on a light hearted comment dan emailed this to me www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/06/AR2005060601767.html |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday June 7 2005 9:52am |
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With apple using x86 as its core, there will be no stopping tiwain from making diy motherboards that allow amd chips to run osx. This has so much cool factor, and amd fans are so willing to experiment that i am predicting that the board makers will sell such boards. heck they make boards that run intel or amd today. if apple tries to stop them, they will just creatively name the functionality such that people will be able to run the os on thier own. FACE IT APPLE, YOU ARE AN OS AND APPLICATION COMPANY JUST LIKE MICROSOFT. NO ONE BUYS A MAC FOR A ONE BUTTON MOUSE, AND A POWER PC PROCESSOR. as far as the cinea display goes, that is just as much an OS innovation, as the tablet pc platform was for Microsoft, but atleast MS knows that they are a software company. Heck the xbox360 is more of a hardware platform than a one button mouse, cinea display, and a powerPC processor. my guess, the xbox360 will be more powerfull(tflops) than the "new" mac, and it will sell more units within the first year of sales respectivly. bet two, sony, a ture "hardware company" with the ps3 will be more powerfull(tflops) than the "new" mac, and it will sell more units within the first year of sales respectivly. |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday June 7 2005 9:36am |
| I havent heard the apple intel thing talking about crossplatform binaries yet, but that is totaly a microsoft .net thing. | |
| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Monday June 6 2005 2:56pm |
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No Big_Whiskey you are not high. This shouldn't be as bad as the switch from OS 9 to OS X but it's still very risky. Given that computer sales make up nearly 50% of Apple's revenue this is very risky for Apple IS A HARDWARE COMPANY! Add the iPod to Apple's business and you nearly have 75% of where Apple gets its money from. I think they can pull it off. This Rosetta thing looks cool. Kind of like a PowerPC co-processor. These Universal Binaries are nifty. They've been thinking about doing this since OS X was started. At the end of the day I don't think people really care if it's a PowerPC or x86 at the heart of their machine. Still, the question is when will it work beyond the stuff that Steve knew would work today and does Apple have the money to surive that long? I'll state now I'll be buying one. And boy am I glad I never worked in the Apple marketing department. Would have been nice though if the deal had been with AMD. |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Monday June 6 2005 12:50pm |
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WTF?!?!!?!?!?!?!? Apple is swithcing to INTEL based x86 chipsets?!?! news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050606/ap_on_hi_te/apple_chips WTF?!?!? Am I high, or is this the worst thing they could do? They have been riding this wave of implied supperiority for decades, and now to just cash in, right when they are getting some gravitas, that just BOGGLES MY FREAKING MIND. So, that would make apples...just PCs without windows.......WHAT? This is really weird. Laterz, B_W |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Monday June 6 2005 12:41pm |
| it reminds me of my family...and not the one in GREEN Bay. | |
| Posted by: n34rscape | Posted on: Monday June 6 2005 12:37pm |
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thanks JK for the domain magicks. i fell out of my chair at work today, and no, it wasn't the tequila. www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2005-06-06 |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Sunday June 5 2005 11:39pm |
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Well, guess the Malibu is the reigning champion. Oh, the sweet joy! The sweet joy. Laura B., was asking about you Kruger, this weekend. Video games are fun. Especially when you play them. Laterz, B_W |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Sunday June 5 2005 6:06pm |
| Dave i haved no intention of racing you down to gencon, but i do plan to leave at a time to avoid chitown traffic. | |
| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Sunday June 5 2005 6:02pm |
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www.spoolan.com should be back up, it needed a little tenerder loving cash to renew the domain name. justink |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Sunday June 5 2005 12:40pm |
| Well...it looks like it's official. www.spoolan.com no longer forwards to this site. | |
| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Sunday June 5 2005 2:57am |
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p.s. ...P00T! B_W |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Sunday June 5 2005 1:33am |
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Yo, Milwaukee Short Film fest tomorrow. Times Cinema, 7:00pm. be there or be square. As far as Gencon is going. Mr. Kumph, Mr. Bosar, Mr. Overbeck, Big_Whisky and Borsk will be driving in the same vehicle. The 'sweet machine' as they call it. It hasn't lost a race to Indy against Mr. Kruger's vehicle yet. ;) (with Mr. Kruger having a multiple hour head start) I will also have the Internet, although I will be STEALING it. And I will NOT BE SORRY one bit. ;) Gin makes a man mean by the way. The fireworks season has started off in GRAND SCALE with two fine showings from RIVERSPLASH. That's hot. Let's see a good showing tomorrow if it's possible. Laterz, D.R. |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Saturday June 4 2005 2:05pm |
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!!!!update correct link for chewy man bag comment www.purseuing.com/bags/man-bags/ |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Saturday June 4 2005 10:49am |
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Ok, so for the forgotton, gencon comments. I am planning to drive agian, and I wouldnt mind a copilot but i dont need one. I plan on bringing the gift of wireless internet, and i might beable to rig an 802.11b connection to it for those that are traveling close to my car, for the right war driver, you will need near line of sight and a directional attena for several miles of connectivity. I have also purchased a web cam, i dont have a use in mind for it yet, but i have tossed a couple around, with the now broadband internet everywhere avalibility(really only major metropolitan areas, but 14k is really avalible everywhere). So if there are some enlighting activities that we would like to try with the webcam, or the broadband, let me know, i am game. I will also have a laptop capable of gaming, and i think dave will too? Lets get brainstorming. Justin |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Saturday June 4 2005 10:42am |
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Ok, so i have not posted in a while, but i figured i would update all of you on the pleasures of DC and what my plans are for genCon. DC lastnight i visited a place called "black cat" and its an amazing venue, they feature artists simular to milwaukees rave, but the venue is smaller and much hipper. Black Cat features several different atmostphers for the like. One is a concert venue that has red brick walls, 12ft ceillings with duct work and lighting rigs hovering from the ceiling. The floor is tiled with a black and white checkerd pattern. There are two bars opposing each other and the center stage is just far enough to invite you to investigate beyond the sound booth. The sound clarity was as good as any true music fan could appriciate, but just a tad loud if you stand near the speaker. The stage was highenough that any crowd member could see the band light under the simple but very indie lighting scheme. The other parts of the club, included a chill zone for eating and snacks in between the assortment of above par drink selections. The two remaining rooms featured a no cover "red room" that has yet another bar, bathrooms, pool tables and music that is just a bit louder than the crowd. The red room featured a number of couches and chairs in this comfotable punky atmostphere. The final room of Black Cat is a winding adventure to find, but like all good journeys, there is a sweet reward to find in the "Backstage". The Backstage offers as the DC croud put it "Alternative Music," and as dave and i might call it, the real music. Backstage offers a location for djs to spin industrial, synthpop, 80's remixes, and gothic, and general electronica. The backstage crowd was fun and animates, just as the rest of the venue was. This was a great place to just go and hang out. I could see going to this place on a weekly basis if i lived in dc. The "vibe" of black cat was better than any alternative scene in the midwest, i am going to miss it. the list of bands that were playing are better described here www.blackcatdc.com/wscaom.html www.doll-house.org/ |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Friday June 3 2005 4:04pm |
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Crow, Thanks for showing me the differnece between a 'blog' and a 'forum'. My world is a little wider. Laterz, B^E |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Friday June 3 2005 11:44am |
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in your link, there is no .html or .mov or anything like that @ the end. I didn't pop the link and try it, but I am assuming that's the problem. And you know what ASSuming does, right children? IT MAKES AN ASS OUT OF U AND ME!!! That's right! B_W |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Friday June 3 2005 11:34am |
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I think I found a bug... The link in my last post didn't go clickable. -A |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Friday June 3 2005 11:33am |
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Chewy... A Metrosexual! digg.com/movies/Chewbacca_wears_the_ultimate_Man-Bag -A |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Friday June 3 2005 2:11am |
| Red screen of death, eh? I sense a communist conspiracy! | |
| Posted by: Big_Whiksy | Posted on: Thursday June 2 2005 1:33pm |
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You know, I was thinking of the implications of a 'Red Screen of Death' the other day, and it hits me, that would be a really bad idea. I mean, it's shocking enough as it is, then to have it be red, I think it would just make me angrier... For you Mac users, it's kinda like in the old days when you would get those dirty 'Type 1' errors, and your program would just quit. What if Apple added a gunshot sound and blood pouring out of your app just before it closed? Not good! This will just add to the aggrivation in my humble opinion. And also to the red menace connotations of Microsoft. Anyhoo... I'll give you a P00T! (only if it means 'Peter-Overly-Outrageous-Time') P00T! Laterz, B_W |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Thursday June 2 2005 12:51pm |
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I concur, the Pulgari forums must be reactivated. Also...POOT! |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Thursday June 2 2005 11:51am |
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Red Screen of Death = hot. This was mildly entertaining: www.shep.ca/starwars/empire.html |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Thursday June 2 2005 10:50am |
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Can we get posting back up on the Pulgari Trap page, so that we may all continue to communicate about post production there? Thankx B_W |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Thursday June 2 2005 1:20am |
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Red Screen Of Death?! blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/05/07/415335.aspx -A |
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| Posted by: big_whisky | Posted on: Wednesday June 1 2005 9:31am |
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www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/01/nineinchnails.ap/index.html trent seems to have gotten a little civil 'reward'. B_W |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Wednesday June 1 2005 1:09am |
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It might be a little 'tight'. Here's the gencon breakdown: M&M JB D.R. Kruger Kum-phhh That's 6 people, or three per room. I have a single, Kruger has a double. That will sleep 4 in the beds. I will bring a sleepy time bed, and there might be some kind of couch available. There will probabily be room for one more, but you will need to take care of your own sleepables. That's the score. Laterz B_W |
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