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David Crosby: "I Think Apple Is The Smartest Company In The Country"
Survey Says: Apple Products Lead at NAB2004
Return From The 'Darkside'
Microsoft Should be Kicked Out of Schools
Apple Readies Next-Gen MPEG-4 Part 10
SCO Ordered To Explain Damages In Novell Suit
Computer Chip Cooling using Microchannels and Electroosmotic Pumps
Acrobat Hits Devices--Via Linux
Big Music Stores Squelch Download Plan
Mac Night Owl: Analyzing the Apple Analysts: Should We Take Them Seriously?
eWeek: Wireless VOIP Not Ready for Prime Time
eWeek: Skype to Expand VOIP Service[/url]
David Crosby: "I Think Apple Is The Smartest Company In The Country"
In a PBS intrview, '60s rock star David Crosby of The Byrds, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young notes:
"When it all started, record companies -- and there were many of them, and this was a good thing -- were run by people who loved records," he says. "Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. … The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died..... They haven't a clue, and they don't care."
"Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big. Somebody [in] a forensic accounting job could probably establish the exact moment at which it reached the level that brought in the sharks. …"
"It doesn't matter that Britney Spears has nothing to say and is about as deep as a birdbath."
"The current ethos in the United States of America is all to do with surface and nothing to do with substance. It doesn't matter that Britney Spears has nothing to say and is about as deep as a birdbath. It matters that she has cute tits, and that's all that matters. She doesn't sing in concert; none of them do. Those are samples. Push a button, out comes the vocal....You're hearing a tape.
"Now they're going in the tank, because the world has changed, and they did not change with it. They bit the poison pill, without realizing it, when they went digital. Once a thing is in digital domain, it can be copied as many times as you want. And there is no system that can keep it from being copied. You can devise the most clever one you want, and I will bring some little geek with a pen protector in his pocket into the room and he will fix it in a minute. …
"I think the only way to sell records that I know about now that does look really, really, really promising is iTunes. I think Apple is the smartest company in the country, and they are doing something brilliant."
"....They're a brilliant company, and that's a brilliant idea. And if I were in a position to invest in the stock market, which I wouldn't be, it certainly would be Apple, because that's the one that works."
"Music business altogether -- .... I think it's going in a tank, and I am standing on the sidelines applauding..... But I see Apple out there doing it. iTunes is a good idea. It delivers the music to you cheap, pays us, doesn't cheat anybody, and it cuts out all middlemen -- very good. …"
For the full and fascinating interview, visit here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/music/interviews/crosby.html
Survey Says: Apple Products Lead at NAB2004
TVTechnology News Bytes reports:
"Plasma displays and Apple products were the most popular products and technologies on the NAB2004 show floor, according to a survey conducted by New York-based Weinstock Media Analysis on the NAB2004 show floor.
"The survey of 1,000 attendees also highlighted new products in motion software, storage networking and image acquisition.....
Top 10 Products at NAB2004
1) Apple Computer Motion (compositing software)
2) Apple Computer Xsan (SAN)....."
You can check it out at:
http://www.tvtechnology.com/dailynews/one.php?id=2064
Return From The 'Darkside'
Apple-X Net"s pastordan says:
"I have appealed to the powers that be for a creative outlet for my Macintosh fervor, and I have been graciously granted the opportunity to vent on this site. As I shared with the mighty Trent, I am older, and my experience with Macintosh goes back probably to the time some of you were born....
"Anyway, this article is both a post and a question. I am returning from the 'Darkside' after many years (Yes, sadly I have owned a PC). I felt pressured by college to switch to the Windows platform, and so I did..... so here I am starting over with Mac after a long hiatus. My questions are concerning software and hardware.
"I have ordered a G3 all-in-one machine..... and got it shipped for just over $100.00! I bought the machine because it will support up to OS X, and it is probably fast enough for what I need. Later this summer my intention is to move up to a G4 machine with more expansion capabilities.
"So there you have the background of where I am, so my question is 'What do I need?'"
email link on the page.
You can check it out here.
Microsoft Should be Kicked Out of Schools
OSOpinion's Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier says:
"U.S. public schools are in a lot of trouble, money-wise. Look at just about any public school system, and this is what you'll find: Our schools are understaffed, the teachers are woefully underpaid for the work they do and responsibility they shoulder, and there are chronic shortages of equipment and educational materials.
"Why, then, do we allow our schools to throw away money on unnecessary software license fees when there are free alternatives? Many problems that face public schools will be with us for decades as we try to sort out our collective priorities -- but this is a problem that would be an easy fix. It's time to dump Microsoft from the public schools and reclaim the monies we spend on licenses and continual hardware upgrades. It's time to put that money toward educating our students rather than enriching Microsoft's coffers.
"A lot of people argue that schools should be using Microsoft products, since that's what students are likely to use in the "real world."...
"Teaching a specific program by explaining exactly how to do something is a losing battle anyway. Instead of training computer-literate users, you create users who are helpless when the interface of a program changes. We've all worked with such users before -- the people who become helpless every time there's an upgrade.....
'Given that our public schools are continually strapped for cash, I think it's criminal to see a public school running on Microsoft products...."
You can check it out here.
Apple Readies Next-Gen MPEG-4 Part 10
internetnews.com's Michael Singer reports:
"Apple Computer is currently testing new video compression software that will eventually improve its QuickTime Player.
"The company said the technology, known as MPEG-4 part 10 or H.264/AVC, is the next-generation video compression technology in the MPEG-4 standard. Already ratified by both the ITU and ISO MPEG, Frank Casanova, Apple Senior Director, QuickTime Product Marketing, told internetnews.com that the company is pole-positioning the improvements as the standard for video encoding for everything from 3G to High Definition (HD) broadcast."
For the full report, visit here:
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3366831
SCO Ordered To Explain Damages In Novell Suit
TechWeb News' Antone Gonsalves reports:
"A federal judge has given SCO Group 30 days to specify the damages it suffered when Novell publicly challenged SCO's claim that it owned the copyrights to Unix code that allegedly became a part of Linux....
"In its suit, SCO, based in Lindon, Utah, claims Novell slandered the company by publicly stating SCO did not own the copyrights to Unix code that the plaintiff said Novell sold in 1995 to Santa Cruz Operations Inc., which later became SCO.....
"SCO's copyright claims have led to a multi-billion-dollar suit against IBM. The federal suit, filed in Utah, in March of 2003, claims IBM violated its SCO license by inserting the company's copyrighted code in Linux, an open-source operating system that's available for free. In addition, SCO has filed suits against companies using Linux, claiming users of the OS should pay for their use of the Unix code."
For the full report, visit here:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040611S0005
Computer Chip Cooling using Microchannels and Electroosmotic Pumps
Linan Jiang, Shulin Zeng, Jae-Mo Koo, Lian Zhang, Shuhuai Yao, Evelyn Wang, Dan Laser, David Fogg, Juan Santiago, Thomas Kenny, and Kenneth Goodson, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, say:
"Have you noticed that buying a new computer with higher speed (GHz) does not necessarily mean that it will run faster than your old computer? One reason for this is that faster microprocessors generate more heat, and are often forced to slow down when they become too hot. A related problem is that microprocessor heat sinks, such as fin arrays and heat pipes, are orders of magnitude larger than the silicon chip and are continuing to grow in size. These "low-tech" bulky heat sinks are crowding away memory, video, and power-delivery components, increasing signal delays among chips and limiting the system speed.
"Over the past four years, a team of Mechanical Engineering students, post-docs, and faculty have been developing the next generation of compact, high-tech cooling devices for microprocessors. The team has been sponsored by the Department of Defense, Intel, Apple, and AMD. The team is one of several collaborations between researchers from Prof. Goodson's Microscale Heat Transfer Lab, Professor Santiago's Stanford Microfluidics Laboratory and Professor Kenny's Micro Structures & Sensors Lab.
"The technology combines two-phase convection in micromachined silicon heat sinks (microchannels) with a novel electroosmotic pump to achieve minimal heat sink volume at the chip backside. The microchannel heat sink is approximately the size of the chip and allows remote heat rejection from a fluid-air heat exchanger (rejector). The hermetically-sealed closed loop.... features a novel and compact electroosmotic pump, forced two-phase convection in the heat sink, and a remote heat rejecter.....
"The electroosmotic microchannel cooling technology has been licensed to a startup company, Cooligy Inc., founded by Profs. Goodson, Kenny, and Santiago in September 2001 ( http://www.cooligy.com ). Cooligy Inc. is now based in Mountain View, California and employs more than 20 engineers, managers, and other staff working on the system reliability testing, market development, and modeling/simulations. Profs. Goodson and Kenny are directly involved in the company as joint chief technical officers, and Prof. Santiago is serving as a consultant to the company."
For the full report, visit here.
http://me.stanford.edu/globals/goodson2.html
Acrobat Hits Devices--Via Linux
PC World 'sLincoln Spector reports:
"You can already view Adobe Acrobat PDF files on Windows PCs, Macintosh systems, and Unix and Linux computers. You may soon be able to see them on your cell phone and your car's dashboard.
"Adobe Systems has announced the Adobe Reader for Linux CE. This latest version of the Esperanto of digital formatting is intended for use with a variation of Linux designed for small consumer electronics. It is expected to first appear in a Sony GPS system available only in Japan.."
For the full report, visit here.
Big Music Stores Squelch Download Plan
CNET News.com's John Borland reports:
"A group of big music stores has mothballed a plan to join forces on the Internet to fight online services such as Apple Computer's iTunes, a move that highlights painful choices brought on by a digital shakeout.
"Echo, a joint effort launched with a splash of publicity in early 2003, was supposed to give the big brick-and-mortar retailers such as Best Buy and Virgin Megastores an online foothold that would help them beat back file-swapping services and digital stores.
"But mounting development costs, a glut of rivals offering bargain-rate services, and smaller-than-hoped-for sales across the online-music spectrum, even at Apple's successful store, have led the big retailers to pull funding for the project, its founders say."
For the full report, visit here:
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5231175.html
Mac Night Owl: Analyzing the Apple Analysts: Should We Take Them Seriously?
Just say no.
Here's the URL for today's commentary:
http://www.macnightowl.com/index.htm#seriously
eWeek: Wireless VOIP Not Ready for Prime Time
"LONDON-Enterprise might already be using voice over wireless LAN, but the technology is still far from perfect, admitted networking and telecom executives at this week's VON Europe conference here.
Even the most bullish said that a host of problems, from security to ease-of-use, need to be ironed out before wireless VOIP (voice over IP) can live up to its potential and shake up the wireless voice industry."
Read more at:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,,1610193,00.asp
eWeek: Skype to Expand VOIP Service
"LONDON-Skype Technologies SA, makers of the free peer-to-peer VOIP application, plans to offer a paid service by the end of the year that will allow users to make calls to conventional telephones in addition to other computers, and will eventually offer a plan that will allow traditional phones to call Skype users, according to the company's co-founder."
Read more at:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,,1610074,00.asp
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