Comment Re:Centrifuges (Score 1) 244
but it will be a cool continent, and everyone will wear turtlenecks, shiny mercedes benz cars and everyone will have an ipad...
Comment Re:I call BS (Score 1) 244
The media... $1 billion sells more than 20 million...
Comment Re:Why is this odd? (Score 1) 304
Working in a hybrid (Windows/Linux and Xserves), I can tell you that in our DataCenter there are only 4 Xserves that are used to offer different services to 3 Departments in our company (training, advertising and video production). Everything else in our DataCenter either runs from blades, windows 2008 or Linux servers. I don't like it that in the next 2 years I am not going to have the expandability the Xserves gave me for our rendering farm and our final cut servers.
Still using the company I work for when you take a look at the penetration Apple has had in the enterprise sector, I think the iPad's and iPhone's have had more penetration in the enterprise field than the Xserves have ever had.
This will hurt the enterprise consumers because apple pretends us to substitute the computing power we had in a 1U space with a 6U of a Mac Pro, or the 1/2u of a mac mini. It wont work because although the Macpro can work as a substitute server its not going to fly when I tell the Datacenter Admin, that I need 6 times more space for 1 server when it used to take a 1U space. The other thing is the MacMini. No one can seriously take that the mac mini is even enterprise built. Sure you can run a small advertising studio off it, but in a company like the one I work for (Fortune 500 Retail), it would be impossible to do all our rendering farm work on several mac mini's at the most, considering an Xserve would run you at $4000 we would need at least 4 macmini servers to have the more or less performance of 1 Xserve, so its not really going to save us more money... and I might think its going to complicate things.
Lastly, I am not sure there is going to be a solution in place. I think they looked at their numbers and they saw their enterprise division is just not cutting it. If they had a solution in place they would have announced HexaCore Xserves a while ago, and while I though the light peak would SHINE in an Xserve is ironic they are cutting them off just when this technology is supposed to be on their computers in a year or two. Or maybe not, you know why? Because we don't work at apple, nor we rub elbows with Steve. We can only speculate and bullshit about what will happen or not, because of our love/hate relationship with Apple.
This being said, I don't think Apple is going to disappear into consumer market. This is just another turn for them, is it going to fuck us? Probably. But It's not going to lead this company down or the stock go to 0 just because they are not making servers any more, or they maybe not making Xserves anymore.
This is one of those things, I wouldnt jump the gun, it's still a year before they take them out, and in a year a lot can change, specially with apple.
Comment it's the iBatmobile! (Score 1) 87
And he used a mac to build it. Scroll to the 5th picture....
The Home-Built Dark Knight Batmobile 87
ElectricSteve writes "RM Auctions recently declared James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 to be 'the world's most famous car,' but there's no doubt that there is another contender for that title — the Batmobile. One thing that muddies the waters a bit is the fact that the term 'Batmobile' actually describes at least three different vehicles: the modified Lincoln Futura concept car from the '60s TV series, the vaguely Corvette-shaped 1989-and-beyond movie cars, and now the car from the most recent two movies, the military-spec Tumbler. Michigan-based movie props artist Bob Dullam really likes the Tumbler, so he did what any of us would do in his position — he built one of his own from scratch."
Comment Re:Love the SIG but you're not from Québec (Score 1) 182
the sig should have been longer but slashdot only allows so many characters
Comment Re:Love the SIG but you're not from Québec (Score 1) 182
Nope I am not from Quebec. I am from puerto rico. The only real French I know is what I wrote on my sig and saying mi crayon est grand...
The sig us a quote from the merovingian in the matrix, where he explains that cursing in French is like wiping your ass with silk. I love it!
Comment yes but... (Score 1) 182
can it play quake?
Comment Re:Will the app store have the same lock down? (Score -1, Flamebait) 827
Will the app store have the same lock down?
With no apps that can use plug ins?
No games with user maps or mods?
No sex apps?
No fat app?
$99 year fee even for free apps?
fixed price points?
will you be able to buy app and use it on all systems you own? will app dev be able to have app that you need to buy per system?
can apple pull a app at any time?
Will there be a max app size?
There is no $99/year, Steve mentioned that if downloaded on one mac, the app would work on all the macs you own without buying it again.
for the rest of your stupid questions, you should wait till someone else has the time to answer them.
Submission + - Microsoft Patents The Search Engine! (tomshardware.com)
tuanmai writes: "Microsoft has received a patent that covers a search engine platform that is based on a "bag-of-words" and "essential pages" ranking system to make searches more efficient."
Submission + - Valve Announces DotA 2 (gameinformer.com)
RulerOf writes: Just over a year after hiring IceFrog, the lead developer of the wildly popular DotA Allstars mod for Warcraft III, and the speculation surrounding Valve's recent trademark filing for the "DotA" name, Valve has officially announced DotA 2.
Gameplay of DotA 2 is being ported exactly from the current DotA Allstars and includes every hero, but vast improvements are being made to the game including VoIP, a coaching system, in-game rewards, and AI that takes over for disconnected players. Lastly, it all runs on top of the Source engine.
GameInformer's website appears to be struggling right now though, as they had an exclusive on this story.
Gameplay of DotA 2 is being ported exactly from the current DotA Allstars and includes every hero, but vast improvements are being made to the game including VoIP, a coaching system, in-game rewards, and AI that takes over for disconnected players. Lastly, it all runs on top of the Source engine.
GameInformer's website appears to be struggling right now though, as they had an exclusive on this story.
Submission + - Special forces helped EA design "Medal of Honor" (thehill.com)
GovTechGuy writes: Two retired special forces soldiers helped Electronic Arts develop the new "Medal of Honor" video game that originally allowed users to play as the Taliban and shoot American troops. The latest version of Medal of Honor, released on Tuesday, has been praised for its extremely detailed and realistic depiction of U.S. combat forces. According to the report, there are details in the game that involve units so sensitive that a former Pentagon official said the public shouldn't know about them. Additionally, the officials objected to the option to play as the Taliban, which was removed from the game by EA in response to public complaints from veterans groups.
Submission + - Genetically Engineered Silkworms Spin Spider Silk (discovery.com)
disco_tracy writes: Silkworms have been modified to produce spider silk, creating a fabric that could be used in everything from bulletproof clothing to artificial tendons.
Submission + - Engineering feat: The miners rescue began
Submission + - Bad news! Porn film-making suspended. (bbc.co.uk)
AliasMarlowe writes: Two of America's biggest porn movie studios have suspended all movie making. It's because a male star (un-named) has tested positive for HIV, and now they have the unenviable job of notifying his many recent co-stars. There may be some job openings in these studios, since HIV-infected performers are not at all welcome. The studios are Vivid Entertainment and Wicked Pictures. But nobody will be surprised if they try to blame the financial hit on piracy of some sort.
