That's not an accurate description of what happened.
Jobs is now the largest single shareholder in Disney, and continues to oversee the joint Disney/Pixar animation venture.
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Steve Jobs Suggests Blu-ray Not Coming to Mac Anytime Soon
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That's not an accurate description of what happened.
Jobs is now the largest single shareholder in Disney, and continues to oversee the joint Disney/Pixar animation venture.
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What kind of Wal-mart do you live next to, there's tons of 9,99$ Blu-ray discs at Wal-mart, it's one of the biggest retailers around.
And fast Internet in the US is a joke compared to Europe. Ain't no way downloads are getting more popular until the US ISPs fix their plans and infrastructure.
This guy is just pulling your chain guys, just like Carniphage. Best ignore them both. They just ignore facts and repeat the same old tired and defeated arguments over and over.
And I probably wouldn't use Walmart as the basis for my technological opinions....
But Mac users don't want slow burning Blu-Ray technology, a 1TB firewire drive is less than $100, so Blu-Ray makes zero sense going forward.
750 GB of BD-Rs, 57$ :
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817501067&cm_re=BD-R-_-17-501-067-_-Product
Not to mention more reliable and longer lasting than a mechanical spinning hard drive.
I know this is a difficult notion to grasp...but...
Pixar is Pixar and Apple is Apple.
Commercially, the goals of the two organisations are different.
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But Walmart is the No. 1 technology vendor in the USA and the Walton's are major Apple fans, so love it or hate it, they set the standards for the world.
I'm typing this message on the ye old fashioned Internet, using a quaint outdated iPad while sitting in front of a plasma tv (really old, cavemen used to sit around them).
Also, not to sound nationalistic about this but the internet was invented by a british man,*Tim Berners-Lee. You can look him up on the old textbook wikipedia.
All joking aside, I'm currently living in England but I've also lived/worked in several continents and have found the same things to be true on all of them.
Except that drives have a tendency to fail...
http://www.amazon.com/Memorex-32020...-Spindle/dp/B001B96HLU/ref=dp_cp_ob_e_title_0
googled and posted first listing, 375 GB, 30 bucks, not bad, and prices are only going down
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1TB Drive $67, plus it's about 8 times faster, allows millions of reads/writes, doesn't require disc swaps, is more durable and long lasting than Blu-Ray, etc... Face it, Blu-Ray is at the end of its life, nobody supports it except for a few crying geeks.
Al Gore never claimed he invented the internet, he only claimed that he wrote the law that brought it to the masses, which is true... So learn to check facts next time.
Uh ? The Internet was a US joint military/academic project. The british had nothing to do with it. The Internet started with 4 nodes in 1969.
What you are referring to, the World Wide Web, appeared around 1991 (though officially, it's launch date was december 25th 1990) and is the invention of Sir Tim Berners-Lee based on his work on the first Web browser, WorldWideWeb, for NeXTSTEP. He based the idea of HTML and HTTP on Gopher.
Actually, not laws, he pushed some government programs and backed others that provided technology to the people building the Internet. He's not responsible in a direct way for any of it, but he likes to tout his initiative which gave the inventors of the Internet the tools to actually make it a viable US wide network (and eventually world wide).
Again, the Internet has its roots in the military built and funded Arpanet of the 70s.
I hardly have a drive that lasted 10 years. Optical media can last half a century. A 67$ 1TB drive requires tools to install.
Hard drives are not reliable and should never be used for archival purposes without proper backups to removable media, be it optical or tape based. RAID is not a backup solution either.
(giggle)
Yes sir! I hereby promise to faithfully transcribe the history of Arpanet next time sir.
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Maybe Apple will take away all their retail employees benefits too...
Just because they sell a lot of product, doesn't say they know anything about the future. Walmart is looking for the cheapest options to sell at the highest prices, doesn't matter if they need to use sweatshops to get it, they aren't trendsetters. They are rich people who take advantage of the fact that people only shop their because they can't afford to shop anywhere else.
No, Tim only invented the "World Wide Web" on Steve Job's NeXT Machine while at CERN around 1990, the US Defense Department invented the Internet.
See the pretty Steve Jobs logo?
Don't even bother to try to justify anything. Wal-mart sells Blu-ray, except at the store near macdrew it seems, they have all the players/movies online like anything else they sell :
http://www.walmart.com/ip/LG-BD570-Blu-ray-Player/13890761
No you didn't. The German Z3 electromechanical digital computer in 1941 is the first computer. The US are the first with a electronic relay based computer. The British made Colossus is 3rd.
Knight, if only there were more people like you in this thread, then maybe apple might see the need to start a new "magical" trend with blu ray...
One day we will get a blu ray (and software support in MAc OS X) in our computers, even without Apple's help.
Nah, Walmart treats their employees extremely well, so you are clearly uniformed. No, they are looking to find the cheapest options to sell at the lowest prices, that's why they are so popular. Trust me, the wealthiest people shop at Walmart since they provide the most value, they include everyone and keep inflation low in the process. So hate all you want, but Walmart is one of the best organizations in the world.
The Colossus Mark 1 was the first computer to be both programmable and have conditional branches. The previous machines you mention were not computers by any modern definition.
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Ah, my mistake, it's just the areas of the Internet that I frequently interact with is the www, the underlying servers etc are not something I am consciously aware of, so for me the world wide web = the Internet.
But still, the reason I brought up that point was to refute the idea that the UK is some sort of backwards old world still using gas lights and horse drawn carriages. Inventor of the world wide web kinda proves that point nicely.
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