Ocean Way has a long history in the music world. Starting as one of the first independent recording studios in 1957, the studio was called United (then later United Western) and was originally owned by audio pioneer Bill Putnam (inventor of the UREI line of audio gear) with the backing of superstars of the day Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby.
Some of the best albums in the world were recorded at Ocean Way. I visited the studio a couple of times and it is an amazing place — I hope they keep it open, not only for recording, but because of its historic significance.
As long-time readers of this blog know, we’ve been running for more than four years a friendly competition we call the Apple Earnings Smackdown.
Philip Elmer-Dewitt tracks estimates on Apple quarterly results from financial analysts then compares that information against actual earnings reports. It’s a good gauge of who’s on the mark and who is babbling random insanity.
This story was amended at the request of Google. News.com.au took out the words “massive” and “huge” – referencing the size of the security ‘flaw’. The word ‘flaw’ was also put into inverted commas.
I have no idea why they changed the story, but they did.
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“I don’t care about the specs, I want one.” That Neogaf user’s comment likely sums up how other retro-gaming aficionados will feel about a new notebook PC from Japanese PC retailer Enterbrain, built in conjunction with Sega. The model sports covers themed in three of the classic consoles, namely Mega Drive, Saturn and Dreamcast, along with a generic Sega-branded model.
Too expensive and running the wrong operating system, but very cool looking. No word on whether they’re loaded with Sega games or emulation software, but I doubt it.
In thinking about the latest round of rumors of another company supposedly “beating” Apple to a market in which Apple hasn’t entered yet, I remembered how this sort of scenario happened many times in the past. I wanted to understand if “beating to the punch” is really the parameter we should be looking at.
But is it true? I was prompted to look into the question after several friends—Apple employees, no less—expressed disbelief at the claim. Their skepticism matched my own experience; in my years of reporting on Apple and speaking to many of its employees, I had never heard of such a practice. When I sought answers by interviewing current and former Apple engineers, I found that “fake” projects are certainly not a regular occurrence at Apple—and they quite probably do not exist at all.
Because of Apple’s infamous secrecy, many legends and myths have popped up about the way they do business. Nice to see Jacqui at Ars poke some holes in this particular one.
About three hours into the trip, I placed the first of about a dozen calls to Tesla personnel expressing concern about the car’s declining range and asking how to reach the Supercharger station in Milford, Conn. I was given battery-conservation advice at that time (turn off the cruise control; alternately slow down and speed up to take advantage of regenerative braking) that was later contradicted by other Tesla personnel. I was on the phone with a Tesla engineer in California when I arrived, with zero miles showing on the range meter, at the Milford Supercharger.
An interesting counterpoint to Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk’s blog post yesterday. Musk suggests that Broder had an agenda, Broder offers reasonable explanations for how and why he drove the car as he did, and suggests that everything he did was either with Tesla’s understanding or at their behest.
Any way you slice it, no one is walking away from this unscathed. The Times looks like it had an agenda and Tesla’s CEO looks petulant and vindictive.
The Blues EZX comes with two complete kits; a 1970s Gretsch and a calfskinned Swedish Levin set from the 1940s. On top of that, it features contemporary Paiste and Sabian crashes, vintage Zildjan A and K series cymbals as well as extras such as a suitcase and a set of calfskinned tambourines.
Let me begin by telling you the single most important thing you can do for yourself — recognise your fucking self worth. If you can’t value your own work, then who the hell will?
Given Microsoft’s lack of success so far, he was asked if there was an alternative strategy or ‘Plan B’ in reserve.
“It’s less ‘Plan B’ than how you execute on the current plan,” said Klein. “We aim to evolve this generation of Windows to make sure we have the right set of experiences at the right price points for all customers.”
I have a lot of respect for a company that is so confident in its product line that it goes all in. Having a “plan B” means that in some way you aren’t fully committed to the future of the product.
Of course, if you do that, you better be right. In this case, I’m not sure Microsoft is right.
Reports of a bug in iOS 6.1 that would allow users to gain access to an iPhone by entering certain keys on the device have come out over the past couple of days. Apple responded on the issue today.
“Apple takes user security very seriously. We are aware of this issue, and will deliver a fix in a future software update,” An Apple representative told The Loop.
There was no word when the update would be available, but Apple is usually pretty quick to fix issues like this.
Yesterday, Jailbreak Nation highlighted a bug with iOS 6.1 that allows users to bypass a passcode lock on an iPhone to access the phone function and contacts on the device. While the bug allows only limited access to the device and can require several attempts to achieve the correct timing to exploit, it is gaining significant attention today.
Having this kind of bug in the OS is certainly not good and Apple needs to fix it ASAP. I still don’t understand how do people figure this stuff out?
Some of the biggest hedge funds that helped make Apple Inc a stock market darling lost faith and dumped their stakes in the fourth quarter, fueling the massive drop in the iPhone maker’s share price.
Noted stock pickers including Leon Cooperman and Thomas Steyer unloaded billions of dollars of Apple shares between Sept. 30 and Dec. 31, according to disclosure documents filed on Thursday.
Adobe Systems on Thursday unveiled new enhancements to its Creative Cloud offering aimed at designers producing content for the Web. The first public preview of Edge Reflow is available, along with updates to Edge Animate, Dreamweaver and Edge Code.
Edge Reflow helps designers create layout and visual designs using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), seeing instantly how their designs will be impacted when they’re presented on different screen sizes. The resulting CSS can be extracted for use with any HTML code editor.
Edge Animate gets new CSS-based features like gradients, filters and enhanced font support, while the Creative Cloud-exclusive update to Dreamweaver adds interoperability with Adobe Edge Tools & Services, as well as some new features like Edge Web Font support. Edge Code adds code hinting for CSS properties and HTML tags/attributes.
The updates and the preview to Edge Reflow are available free for all Creative Cloud members. A subscription for individuals costs at $49.99 per month; special rates for students and users of CS3 or later are also available.
That’s how much Morgan Stanley’s Adam Holt estimates Microsoft may be leaving on the table by not offering a full version of its Office suite (Word, Excel, etc.) on Apple’s iPads.
Even for Microsoft, that’s a lot of money to ignore.
Apple filed its formal response to the lawsuit initiated by Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn and blasted the complaint as being without merit and nothing less than an attempt to hold shareholders “hostage” by forcing Apple to acquiesce to a specific plan for the issuing of preferred shares that would primarily benefit Greenlight Capital.
Let me make this crystal clear, every App purchase you make on Google Play gives the developer your name, suburb and email address with no indication that this information is actually being transferred.
The logs show again that our Model S never had a chance with John Broder. In the case with Top Gear, their legal defense was that they never actually said it broke down, they just implied that it could and then filmed themselves pushing what viewers did not realize was a perfectly functional car. In Mr. Broder’s case, he simply did not accurately capture what happened and worked very hard to force our car to stop running.
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When the facts didn’t suit his opinion, he simply changed the facts. Our request of The New York Times is simple and fair: please investigate this article and determine the truth. You are a news organization where that principle is of paramount importance and what is at stake for sustainable transport is simply too important to the world to ignore.
This, from the CEO of Tesla Motors.
Background: Last Week the New York Times posted a very unflattering review of Tesla Motors’ $100,000 all-electric Model S sedan. The reviewer complained about the car’s range and said he had to get it towed after it abruptly ran out of juice during his two-day test drive.
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk wasted no time in discounting the review, and claimed that the reviewer, John Broder, wasn’t being honest about what really happened – and has the car’s data logs to prove it. (As a matter of course, after a disastrous appearance on Top Gear, the company carefully logs all test drives by media).
Imagine that Apple isn’t specifically designing a watch, but the next step in its portable devices. Something that does much of what iOS devices do today, only in a novel way, and is smaller than current devices.
The magic of physics can turn the mundane into something marvelous. Mark French, a mechanical engineering professor at Purdue University, designed a supersonic air-powered ping-pong ball cannon.
A ping-pong ball reportedly blasts out of the special cannon at speeds equivalent to Mach 1.23 — nearly as fast as an F-16 fighter jet. As evidenced in the video below, the high-speed ball can put a clean hole through a plywood paddle, a VHS tape, and other objects.
