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Apple WWDC 2006 Keynote Stream

Steve's health

Just because he's not chubby doesn't mean he's sick. I have friends who eat healthy and look very thin, and they are in excellent health. People are getting used to seeing fat people and when someone comes along that is not the norm, they assume the person is sick. Sure he's lost weight, but that doesn't mean there is something wrong. The loss of weight and his beard made him look "different" and people jumped to conclusions. Also, keep in mind that he's probably bust his ass over the last year with all of the transitions. You'd lose weight too... and forget to shave, if you had his schedule. ;)
 
Jobs may be skinny, but he is also getting older... there's nothing out of the ordinary here. Sure he may be a God to some of us (myself included :p), but he is a normal person like you and me. He sounded better at this presentation than he did at the Mac mini and iPod Hi-Fi introductions. He's actually been skinnier for a while now, so I am sure everything is fine. If anything, I think his performance has been improving throughout the year. I'm confident in his health. :)

As for the other speakers... I have to agree about Phil. He seems like a great guy, but his speaking skills are no where near as great as Steve's. Who was the other guy besides Bertron (sp?)? I really liked his presentations. He kept me interested, especially during Time Machine.
 
Steve's health

I'm worried about Steve. Let's not forget he recently had cancer, and cancer has a way of popping back up when you think you've beat it.

I hope he's okay.
 
p0intblank said:
Jobs may be skinny, but he is also getting older... there's nothing out of the ordinary here. Sure he may be a God to some of us (myself included :p), but he is a normal person like you and me. He sounded better at this presentation than he did at the Mac mini and iPod Hi-Fi introductions. He's actually been skinnier for a while now, so I am sure everything is fine. If anything, I think his performance has been improving throughout the year. I'm confident in his health. :)

As for the other speakers... I have to agree about Phil. He seems like a great guy, but his speaking skills are no where near as great as Steve's. Who was the other guy besides Bertron (sp?)? I really liked his presentations. He kept me interested, especially during Time Machine.
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that would be scott forstall, vp of platform experience
 
nsjoker said:
w00t, keynote is streaming beautifully now. i <3 staying up.
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I just tried it and it sucks. I'm getting tired of hearing the introduction over and over and over .... every time I have to restart the player when it stalls. I was thinking that the server should be not getting as many hits... but I forgot about people on the other side of the world that are just waking up. :rolleyes:
 
Its the next day here and the streaming server is still jammed up. True say about steve looking ill. Whats up?, he's lost weight and looks waaay older. I guess screaming at those Apple employees take a toll
 
Usually Apple doesn't have this much of a problem. Although I'm sure the "Digg Effect" from the submission of the link on Digg.com doesn't help us much either, or the growing population of Apple fans... :( :rolleyes:

Get off of my lawn! Those are my apples! :p
 
Worst...streaming....ever....

And this is the company that supposedly will be handed the crown for online movie rentals and downloads?

This happens year after year. The day of the keynote (and sometimes days/weeks afterward) always sees enormous demand for the stream but they never allocate enough to handle it. You think that they would have figured it out by now, and they better pretty damn quick if they expect to stream movie rentals - reliably that is.

I have a 3 megabit DSL connection and this is what I'm getting. They get an F. Pathetic.
 

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Worst...streaming....ever....

And this is the company that supposedly will be handed the crown for online movie rentals and downloads?

This happens year after year. The day of the keynote (and sometimes days/weeks afterward) always sees enormous demand for the stream but they never allocate enough to handle it. You think that they would have figured it out by now, and they better pretty damn quick if they expect to stream movie rentals - reliably that is.

I have a 3 megabit DSL connection and this is what I'm getting. They get an F. Pathetic.
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Agreed. The streaming gets pathetic with every event. I have an 8MB broadband and the streaming feels more a 24KB stream. Still yet to get past intro before lock ups i guess i'll try later in 6 months.
 
I think its your connection or location... or something regionally specific to you.

Im leaching of my neighbors wifi, with just 2 bars and I get a fantastic stream here.

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VanNess said:
Worst...streaming....ever....

And this is the company that supposedly will be handed the crown for online movie rentals and downloads?

This happens year after year. The day of the keynote (and sometimes days/weeks afterward) always sees enormous demand for the stream but they never allocate enough to handle it. You think that they would have figured it out by now, and they better pretty damn quick if they expect to stream movie rentals - reliably that is.

I have a 3 megabit DSL connection and this is what I'm getting. They get an F. Pathetic.
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terrible stream

Man, even after midnight PST, the stream is unwatchable. I can't go >1 minute w/o some significant multisecond complete stoppage or major video glitch (where only the audio comes through). The results are equally bad on both my PC and Mac. I'm going to have to either wait a few days or start looking for a torrent.

I think last year's keynote was this bad too or worse the first day.

Maybe Apple should rent some time on Discovery Channel at ~3 am like TiVo does for "Teleworld paid programming" (for their clips) so that PVR and VCR owners can at least record it. It might even save on their bandwidth bill to Akamai.
 
Come on apple!!!! There are 4800 people there who are all paying for tickets (or get tickets out of really pricey memberships). 4800 x $1595 = $7,656,000!!! (or around there). Do you think you could afford to buy 10 more Xserves?

About steve and his health... I haven't seen him yet (stream still not good enough to watch) but if he did have to have part of his stomach removed then that could be the reason he's skinny. Also a beard is not the sign of ill health.
 
Jeffrey903, how is the download going? I just started downloading using HiDownload and I will see how it goes.
 
STOP whining!

Listen, here is how you get the stream to work. Go to your quicktime preferences and turn the Conenction speed onto automatic or say a 128 conenction, it will cough up a nicely watchable lower grade version of the stream which streams nicely. If you say 1.5 mb/sec Lan then it tries to stream to you the higher res version which stutters. And BTW. It is up to Akamai, apples bandwidth distributer to cough up more bandwidth.

Good luck peoples.
 
ernestc said:
Listen, here is how you get the stream to work. Go to your quicktime preferences and turn the Conenction speed onto automatic or say a 128 conenction, it will cough up a nicely watchable lower grade version of the stream which streams nicely. If you say 1.5 mb/sec Lan then it tries to stream to you the higher res version which stutters. And BTW. It is up to Akamai, apples bandwidth distributer to cough up more bandwidth.

Good luck peoples.
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Nope, still doesn't work for me. I'm on my LAN at work and can't even get the video to start. I even turned the stream down to 28.8.
 
Bingo!

D0ct0rteeth said:
I think its your connection or location... or something regionally specific to you.
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Yes, remember that this is all Akamai'd or through some other company "edge cached". So if you are close (in a network sense) to a cache server that is not busy, you will get great streams, but if you are in a city that is somehow oversubscribed, you might be screwed. I am in Seattle and have not been able to get the stream to start. There are a lot of mac users here.

Possible issues:
- Load balancers in front of cache servers could be hitting some limits
- Servers with content over subscribed
- Network uplinks of caching site oversubscribed

That would be my guesses. You think your upset, I bet Steve Jobs is pissed as hell. It makes me wonder if there are better ways to do this if you don't want to pay for all the hardware needed to support 100 million views in the first 24 hours... Something like a queueing system that requires you to click on something when it is ready to serve you video. What must be killing them is all the people reloading and re-requesting the video.
 
peterjhill said:
That would be my guesses. You think your upset, I bet Steve Jobs is pissed as hell. It makes me wonder if there are better ways to do this if you don't want to pay for all the hardware needed to support 100 million views in the first 24 hours... Something like a queueing system that requires you to click on something when it is ready to serve you video. What must be killing them is all the people reloading and re-requesting the video.
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Let me tell a better way to do this:

LET PEOPLE DOWNLOAD A KEYNOTE!

That way:

1) I wont re-re-request a movie just to view once (or anymore time I want)
2) I'll distribute the video through other sources and servers (or by hand-to-hand)

Can someone explain the logic behind the stream?!?!
 
Anybody else pick up some canned applause lingering after the real stuff at a couple of points in the keynote?

If so... that is mega lame.
 
iGary said:
Phil Schiller is such a bad presenter.

And yes, you are seeing a transfer of power here - whether Steve is sick only he knows I guess.
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I was thinking the same thing. I guess Schiller will replace Jobs.
 
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