Warning! This holiday season you will be tempted to purchase one of those set-top boxes that deliver movies directly to your TV set. You will be lured by the idea of having this content on a digital tap, serving it up without ever needing to get off the couch. Don’t be fooled! While these devices and services are definitely getting better — and even approaching awesome — this holiday season is not the time to buy.

There are a lot of entrants in the set-top box space, but big names you’re already familiar with will grab most of the attention this season. Apple, Netflix and now Blockbuster all have set-top box solutions ready to pump piping hot video content to your TV.

Of the three biggies, the Apple TV has been out the longest. The box costs $229 for the 40 GB model and $329 for the 160 GB one. It plays content, which is purchased or rented on an a la carte basis from the iTunes store, as well as music and other content stored on your network. New releases are available for purchase (but not always rental) day-and-date with their DVD release.

Why you should wait: Apple makes excellent products, but $229 isn’t chump change. If you watch a lot of television shows — especially in high definition (HD) — sticking with your cable or satellite provider might be more economical. Plus, MacWorld is right around the corner in January. Even though my colleagues over at The Apple Blog say a hardware update is unlikely (Apple just did a software update for the device), why take that chance?

Where Apple takes a surgical approach to its set-top offering, marketing a single solution, Netflix is blasting away with a shotgun — and that’s not a bad thing. The company has worked tirelessly over the past year to get its online streaming service up and running on a number of devices including the Roku ($99), TiVo ($149 - $299), Xbox ($199), and Samsung and LG Blu-ray players ($399). Movies are streamed (not downloaded) so there is nothing kept locally on your device — and HD streams are rolling out across most of the partnerships. Content is an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord included your Netflix subscription price.

Why you should wait: Netflix offers a subscription plan, rather than a la carte rentals. Because of complexities in the licensing and release windows, that meansit doesn’t get access to new releases. So no matter what flavor box you buy, after the novelty of it all wears off, there aren’t enough titles to choose from (unless you consider Improve Your Sailing Skills must-see TV).

Blockbuster’s device, launched just last week, is the latest entry in the set-top box battle. The rental chain is using 2Wire’s MediaPoint hardware to power the service. Blockbuster says the box is free, but you do have to pre-pay $99 for 25 rentals. Boxes are available through Blockbuster.com and select retailers. The video chain also said that, like Netflix, it will be integrating its on-demand service into Blu-ray players and other devices such as game consoles and DVRs. Movies use progressive downloads (not streams) for DVD-quality video, and the device supports HD. Because the movie rentals are a la carte, new releases are generally available within 30 days of the DVD release, according to Blockbuster.

Why you should wait: The service just came out last week, so it hasn’t gone through a rigorous review process. Let other people find any aggravating bugs before you plunk down your money for one.

While I may come across as a Debbie Downer, dashing your set-top dreams for this holiday season, let me offer a bit of optimism. All of these options will only get better and cheaper in the coming months, so your patience will be rewarded.

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Societe : KOBALTT - Lieu de travail : Antibes - Type de contrat : CDI - Salaire : 25 KE - Detail : Vous vous occuperez de la maintenance informatique à distance mais aussi de la maintenance sur site. Vous vous occuperez également de la migration de données vers les serveurs de la société. Vous êtes impérativement certifié MCSE et MCP. Vous possédez un anglais technique et êtes capable de dépanner les clients en anglais. Vous possédez une bonne expression orale. Votre patience et votre sens du service seront très appréciés.

(Rugby) Rob Andrew, directeur de l’élite au sein de la Fédération anglaise de rugby, a réclamé de la patience vis-à-vis du XV de la Rose après des test-matchs décevants face aux nations du sud.

centerimg border=0 title="Nokia N97 Goes Official" alt="Nokia N97 Goes Official" src="http://www.uberphones.com/photos/2008/12/nokia-n97.jpg" style="margin: 0 0 0 0;" //center br/pWe’ve all been patiently waiting to see what Nokia would come up with, and our patience has been rewarded. The release is certainly interesting, as Nokia has announced a new flagship phone, the N97, which is packed with features. The N97 has a 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel resistive touchscreen display which supports tactile feedback, and a full QWERTY keyboard that slides out sideways from the phone. Dubbed the “world’s most advanced mobile computer” by Nokia, the phone also features an “always open” window to favorite internet or social networking sites. If the mentioned specifications weren’t enough, Nokia has also thrown in HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, A-GPS, 3.5mm headphone jack, 32GB on on-board memory, microSDHC card expansion up to 48GB, 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, video capture up to 30fps and a battery that can last up to a day and a half of continuous audio playback, or 4.5 hours of video playback. Nokia will be offering that load of features for the phone at €550 ($693), and should be shipping in the first half of 2009. With a phone like this, HTC’s Touch Pro will need to be careful, or it might just get knocked off its perch. /p pPermalink: a href="http://www.uberphones.com/2008/12/nokia/nokia_n97_goes_official/"Nokia N97 Goes Official/a from a href="http://www.uberphones.com"Uberphones/a | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"BlackBerry Storm/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/65AIiyxKlGgLi_FCIL4TFiutZFU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/65AIiyxKlGgLi_FCIL4TFiutZFU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Rob Andrew, directeur de l’élite au sein de la Fédération anglaise de rugby, a réclamé de la patience vis-à-vis du XV de la Rose après des test-matchs décevants face aux nations du sud.

This is pretty cool... I managed to see it once as a spot of light tracking across the night sky. These folks saw a lot more than that! Not many photos, but worth checking out. nbsp; nbsp; It’s not everyday that astronomers take a snapshot of the International Space Station from the ground that actually show it’s shape. It takes perfect timing, patience and probably a huge amount of luck to get it. You just have to be in the right place at the right time to do it. However there are few who appear to have all these attributes and more... nbsp; nbsp; Enjoy!

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/91633?ns=guardianpageName=Football%3A+Liverpool+blow+chance+to+lay+down+title+markerch=Footballc3=The+Guardianc4=Premier+League+%28Football%29%2CLiverpool+FC+%28Football%29%2CWest+Ham+United+%28Football%29%2CFootball%2CSportc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CPremier+Leaguec6=Andy+Hunterc7=2008_12_02c8=1127238c9=articlec10=GUc11=Footballc12=Premier+Leaguec13=c14=h2=GU%2FFootball%2FPremier+League" width="1" height="1" //divpGianfranco Zola handed Chelsea a multitude of reasons to revere him as their greatest ever player. Last night he gave them cause to toast his move into management as West Ham restricted Liverpool's rise to the top at an angst-ridden Anfield. Reaching the summit has rarely been greeted with such bewilderment in these parts./ppLooking down on Chelsea and Manchester United is the only view Liverpool want this season and, as Rafael Benítez repeatedly said afterwards, the league table makes pleasant reading today. But - there is always a but - it should look much better. Benítez knew it, Liverpool's players knew it and the boos that greeted the final whistle, swift yet audible, showed a frustrated home support knew it, too. A second successive 0-0 draw at home to mid-table opposition was not the response of championship contenders. For the second league game in succession, Liverpool were left to reflect on an opportunity wasted./pp"We have one more point than Chelsea now so, if we can beat Blackburn at the weekend, we will stay top of the table," said Benítez, spelling out the facts. "Yes we are frustrated again, it is clear we deserved to win and some people can be disappointed. We are disappointed. But we are also top of the table and the fans will enjoy seeing the table tomorrow."/ppLiverpool were dominant last night and but for an inspired performance in the West Ham goal from Robert Green they would have achieved their aim of establishing a three-point lead over Chelsea. Yet this was a far more satisfying evening for the genial Italian than the ambitious Spaniard who, with George Gillett in attendance, called on Liverpool's joint-owners to conclude talks on his contract extension as soon as possible. "I am waiting for a communication," Benítez said. "Maybe we have to finish the conversations now and just think about the football."/ppHis contract had no bearing on this stalemate, however, and only two errant offside decisions against Carlton Cole late on, plus a wild miss from the substitute Luis Boa Morte, prevented Zola's plan of containment and counter from working to perfection. The visitors' point was delivered around the outstanding Green, Matthew Upson and James Collins, although a lack of confidence in front of goal from Liverpool also contributed to the outcome. Robbie Keane, substituted to his obvious disbelief for the 15th time in his brief Liverpool career, was a notable but far from isolated culprit in the absence of the injured Fernando Torres./ppBenítez and Jamie Carragher had pleaded for patience from the crowd following the frustration of being held to 0-0 by Fulham last month. Liverpool also gave their backing to the family of Michael Shields last night, the fan jailed for allegedly attacking a Bulgarian waiter after the Champions League Final in 2005, as they campaign for his release before a judicial review on Thursday. Once the Kop's mosaic of "Free Michael Now" had come down, the siege of Green's goal began. But this was a night that would stretch reserves of patience to the limit./ppCole cleared off the goal-line from Albert Riera, Sami Hyypia headed the first of several invitations over the West Ham bar and saw a second header blocked on the line by Cole again - all inside the opening 21 minutes. Steven Gerrard and Dirk Kuyt also missed good openings before the interval, yet it was West Ham who came closer to a breakthrough when their former Liverpool striker Craig Bellamy beat José Reina from 25 yards only to see his drive rebound off the inside of a post./ppUntil a pulsating finale, when Kuyt, Boa Morte, Ryan Babel and Cole traded chances at will, the momentum flowed towards Green. One save from the former Hammer Yossi Benayoun, to tip the Israeli's half volley at close range, was sublime. "I've told Robert [Green] that, if he keeps performing like this, he is going to be in the England team," said Zola, manager of a club that had lost on their seven previous visits to Anfield. "He has taken some stick this season but now he is getting what he deserves."/ppBenítez denied reports, however, that Michael Owen would be the January solution to such frustrating nights. "I can guarantee we are not going for Michael Owen," he said./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/premierleague"Premier League/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/liverpool"Liverpool/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/westhamunited"West Ham United/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Qf0h6YLRcbNqkormvLfBZ38IgZU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Qf0h6YLRcbNqkormvLfBZ38IgZU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

img src=IMG/arton4560.jpg alt= align=right width=614 height=184 onmouseover=this.src='IMG/artoff4560.jpg' onmouseout=this.src='http://www.blogotheque.net/IMG/arton4560.jpg' class=spip_logos / div class='rss_texte'p class=spipIl y a tellement de choses qui font qu'à première vue, les Mates of State sont le genre de groupe qu'on regarde passer avec un peu de sympathie et pas mal de condescendance, avant de soigneusement les oublier. Regardez-les, ces deux benêts qui sont toujours aussi fous amoureux l'un de l'autre, qui mettent des a href=http://thesmallstakes.com/gallery.php?page=2# class=spip_outcÅ“urs/a partout. Regardez-les chanter comme des adolescents attardés des mélodies pop qui semblent toutes simples, toutes brillantes et lustrées. Regardez-les avec leur bonne bouille, leur exubérance pleine de sucre./p p class=spipPourtant, i class=spipRe-Arrange Us/i, avec tous ses défauts et tous ses travers irritants, avec sa part d'ombre, est peut-être un des très bons disques de l'année. Un de ceux auxquels on revient tout le temps, presque malgré soi./p p class=spipspan class='spip_document_6492 spip_documents spip_documents_left' style='float:left; width:225px;' img src='http://www.blogotheque.net/local/cache-vignettes/L225xH296/Mates_of_State2-d1cea.jpg' width='225' height='296' alt= style='height:296px;width:225px;' class='' //spanC'est qu'il faut dire que la spécialité des Mates, c'est bel et bien le paradoxe : ils ont grandi et s'ils chantent toujours comme des ados insouciants, les voilà qui parlent principalement de a href=http://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/47034/ class=spip_outleur vie rangée et heureuse/a de couple marié et de parents, confrontés aux responsabilités, au conformisme d'une banlieue résidentielle, à l'ennui aussi parfois et à tout ce qui peut faire qu'un couple s'essouffle et tient quand même le coup. Ils abordent même le temps d'une chanson l'idée de la rupture (“i class=spipI had a dream last night that we lost the fight/i”). On est assez loin de l'innocence des débuts, au moins dans le fond. Dans la forme, le groupe n'a toujours pas cédé au minimalisme ambiant. Au contraire, on se jette toujours autant à fond dans la mêlée, on est toujours aussi décidé à en faire des caisses. Des kilo-caisses. On flirte avec le trop, sur chaque chanson, à chaque moment. Pas très étonnant dès lors qu'on frôle l'indigestion en permanence sur un disque par ailleurs plutôt court./p p class=spipÇa harmonise en chÅ“ur dans tous les sens, ça rajoute des lignes de clavier, ça remet des couches de batteries. Mais, à l'inverse de certains de leurs disques précédents, cet album est peut-être celui où le couple introduit le plus de nouveaux instruments, où le son prend le plus de rondeurs : moins d'orgues et plus de piano, des cordes, à foison, un peu comme sur le i class=spipBring It Back/i de 2006, mais aussi des cuivres, trompette en tête./p style div.track span img{ display:inline; margin:0px 5px; } /style div class='spip_doc_titre track' a href='http://download.blogotheque.net/Audio/GetBetter.mp3' rel='enclosure'Mates of State - Get Better/a /strong/div p class=spipEt voilà, il faut bien une bande-son pour ces moments où subitement la vie mord plus fort. C'est là qu'ils font merveille. Lorsqu'il faut quelque chose pour accompagner la sensation que le bitume se parcourt en bondissant, lorsqu'il faut quelques notes qui aillent exactement à la bonne vitesse pour accompagner les montées d'adrénaline. “Get Better”, a href=http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=TeVfiJ-ea6Y class=spip_out“My Only Offer”/a et les autres, autant de chansons qui sont exactement dans le bon tempo : juste un petit peu plus rapide que vos pas, et en même temps aussi plombantes que ce qui vous traverse le bide. C'est pour ces moments où on a besoin que quelqu'un clame tout haut ce que l'on se répète à demi-voix, quand il nous faut croire le temps d'une chanson que tout peut être plus simple, que tout peut s'arranger, quand on a besoin de prendre patience et de prendre feu en même temps./p style div.track span img{ display:inline; margin:0px 5px; } /style div class='spip_doc_titre track' a href='http://download.blogotheque.net/Audio/GreatDane.mp3' rel='enclosure'Mates of State - Great Dane/a /strong/div p class=spipEt puis, il y a “Great Dane”, presque en bout de disque. Un monument de rupture et de choix bizarres, une chanson qui prend tous les vents contraires : elle part dans le même mouvement sur des chÅ“urs pop légers et pleins de soleil et une ligne mélodique en contrepoint beaucoup plus lancinante, puis se jette dans des arpèges de piano qui débarquent sans prévenir, avant de tout recommencer dans le désordre. Une chanson qui décolle et s'effondre en même temps. Une (très) belle image./p p class=spipImages : br /img src=http://www.blogotheque.net/local/cache-vignettes/L8xH11/puce-68c92.gif width='8' height='11' alt=- style='height:11px;width:8px;' class='' / Poster par a href=http://thesmallstakes.com/ class=spip_outThe Small Stakes/a br /img src=http://www.blogotheque.net/local/cache-vignettes/L8xH11/puce-68c92.gif width='8' height='11' alt=- style='height:11px;width:8px;' class='' / Bandeau par a href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcodez/307467296/ class=spip_outDcodez/a/p/div

pEditors Note: Marine geophysicist Robin Bell is leading an expedition to Antarctica to explore a mysterious mountain range beneath the ice sheet. Following is the fourth of her updates on the effort as part of Scientific American.coms In-depth Report on quot;The Future of the Poles.quot;/ppMcMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA--Ever since we first conceived of this project, the logistics have been complex. Now the pieces are beginning to converge on the center of Antarctica. Having been stalled in South America for over two weeks by weather and bureaucracy, the British Twin Otters finally landed on the gravel runway at the main British base on the peninsula. The surface traverse carrying the fuel for the southern camp and the heavy material for the camp has covered almost 400 miles across the very flat Ross Ice Shelf. Today we have our survey Twin Otter so we can begin to bolt equipment to the floor and the wings. But patience continues to be the name of the game.nbsp; a href=http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=dispatches-from-the-bottom-of-the-e-2008-12-01[More]/a

En septembre, à Chamonix, une équipe d'une quarantaine de personnes, venue de Chennai (l'ancienne Madras), a débarqué au pied du mont Blanc. Objectif ? Tourner les séquences musicales et exotiques d'un film fleuve produit par Kollywood, concurrent des fameuses productions de Bollywood. Olivier Vogelsang a immortalisé lÂ’événement. Première série de photos aujourdÂ’hui. La suite demain : patience (et sérénité).

CORNERSTONE, the Danish/British melodic metal band featuring YNGWIE MALMSTEEN/ex-RAINBOW frontman Doogie White and ex-ROYAL HUNT bassist Steen Mogensen, has issued the following update: Once again we want to thank you for your continued support, patience and good humour.

En septembre, à Chamonix, une équipe d'une quarantaine de personnes, venue de Chennai (l'ancienne Madras), a débarqué au pied du mont Blanc. Objectif ? Tourner les séquences musicales et exotiques d'un film fleuve produit par Kollywood, concurrent des fameuses productions de Bollywood. Olivier Vogelsang a immortalisé lÂ’événement. Première série de photos aujourdÂ’hui. La suite demain : patience (et sérénité).

img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/sridhar.png alt= pJust for a second, put yourself in the shoes of an average PC user. You use the software that came with your computer, plus perhaps some others that you downloaded, bought in a box or #8216;borrowed#8217; from a friend. You#8217;ve heard some good things about something called #8220;open source#8221;, but you haven#8217;t the foggiest clue of where to get it or what applications to try. You aren#8217;t a technical person, have limited time and even less patience. Ultimately, you#8217;re looking for something that #8216;just works#8217; and is either free (of cost) or clearly better than what you#8217;re using now. Why make the effort otherwise? Honestly, you#8217;d rather be down at the pub watching the cricket with yournbsp;mates./p pHow would free software advocates best woo such a person into their camp? They aren#8217;t going to immediately repartition their hard drive and use GNU/Linux exclusively. They would more likely be willing to try some free software on their existing OS, provided that the barrier was sufficiently low. If you#8217;re lucky, that toe-dip will lead to deeper immersion in the world of FOSS, and hopefully also into some appreciation of the philosophy beyond thenbsp;practical./p pIf this person has a knowledgeable friend or pays attention to certain information sources, they might get some ideas on what software to use. Applications like Firefox and OpenOffice.org are fairly popular choices these days, but what about less publicised treasures like the GIMP or ClamWin? Sure, there are a title=Introduction to Linux, Free Software and Open Source href=http://www.linux.org.au/linux#FindAppsWeb sites/a that let you search for FOSS equivalents to proprietary applications, but these still require somenbsp;effort:/p ol liSearch for the application younbsp;want./li liGo to the Web site for thatnbsp;application./li liFind the download page and pull itnbsp;down./li liRun thenbsp;installer./li liTo uninstall, use Windows#8217; emAdd/Removenbsp;Programs/em./li /ol pThese steps need to be performed for emeach/em application you wish to install, so can become tiresome verynbsp;quickly./p pHow could we simplify this process? What I propose is a software management application. Let#8217;s for the sake of brevity call it emFOSS Pack/em, named after the closest analogue I can think of, a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_PackGoogle Pack/a. The process is intended to be as simple as possible for the endnbsp;user:/p ol liThe user downloads a single application (emFOSS Pack/em) and installsnbsp;it./li liWhen they launch FOSS Pack, they can select from a menu of categorised FOSS applications to install, similar to how a GUI package manager front-end works onnbsp;(GNU/)Linux./li liThe user selects the applications they want, and then they are downloaded and installed innbsp;batch./li liUninstallation should be as simple as installation, all within FOSSnbsp;Pack./li /ol pHere#8217;s the killer feature: FOSS Pack should be able to scan the user#8217;s system for proprietary applications. These are identified based on an internal list, which also contains information on FOSS alternatives to those applications. Those alternatives are presented for easy download andnbsp;install./p pFOSS Pack contains descriptions of each application, so the user doesn#8217;t have to visit another Web site to understand what they do (although a hyperlink should be provided as well). The option should exist to be able to select only from applications that have Linux versions, as a means of facilitating an OS transition. FOSS pack should also be able to automatically check for updates at regular intervals, and offer to install them whennbsp;available./p pI#8217;m not expecting any of this to be as clean as a real package management system. FOSS Pack will likely have to execute the external installers. Perhaps in the future the applications authors could co-operate with FOSS Pack maintainers to deliver a more seamlessnbsp;experience./p pIt looks to me that a lot of the pieces to create FOSS Pack are already there, and as is often the case in the FOSS world all that#8217;s required is to tie them together in an appropriatenbsp;way./p pstrongLotD:/strong a title=K12 Open Technologies href=http://www.k12opentech.org/solveig-haugland/2008/05/16/30-things-are-same-microsoft-word-and-openofficeorg-writer30 Things That Are the Same In Microsoft Word and in OpenOffice.orgnbsp;Writer/a/p br /pcopy;2008 a href=http://www.dhanapalan.com/blogSridhar Dhanapalan/a.br / This work is licensed under a a rel=license href=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/au/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Australia Licence/a.br / a rel=license href=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/au/img src=http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/2.5/au/88x31.png alt=Creative Commons BY-SA Licence //a /p.

Chaque semaine sur TV5Monde et sur les antennes de RFI, #34;Internationales#34; accueille une personnalité au cÂœur de l#39;actualité. Dimanche, Atik Rahimi, auteur afghan âgé de 46 ans, prix Goncourt 2008 pour #34;Syngué Sabour, Pierre de patience#34;.img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/205/f/3052/s/279adcd/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24193183638/u/6/f/3052/c/205/s/41528781/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24193183638/u/6/f/3052/c/205/s/41528781/a2.img" border="0"//a

My macbook pro was stolen and I am overseas, insurance will pay for a new one, but i have no way of buying one and getting it shipped without paying through the nose in ridiculous customs... so i'm going to wait until at least early next year. i could maybe arrange someone to bring it over, but it's a big ask.

i've been looking at the likelihood of a speed bump.

at the moment we have the following intel cpus in the macbook pros:

Code: P8600 2.4 $241 25w 3mb
T9400 2.53 $316 35w 6mb
T9600 2.8 $530 35w 6mb These are the leaked upcoming cpus to be announced on December 28.
Code: T8700 2.53 $241 25w 6mb
T9550 2.66 $316 35w 6mb
t9800 2.96 $530 45w 6mb there is also the q9100 and q9000 quad core cpus running at 2.26 and 2.0. there is no consensus on the pricing. there is a listing for q9100 as $851, but who knows...

so to me it looks like apple could smoothly step up to a 2.53 base and top out at 2.96 if they are willing to live with 45w drain...

of course, apple may have factored in the saving of $40 or so they will get when the old cpus drop in january and will continue until the clarksfield cpus hit our doorsteps sometime toward the end of 2009. apple has never made us suffer more than 9 months between bumps before though, so they have to bump sometime in the middle between october 2008 and what is likely to be around october 2009... if they bump in feb it works out nicely.

the 17" of course has high hopes for a q9100, but at the price point of $300 wholesale over the current high end model, apple's high profit margin tax may make it very expensive indeed.

*maybe* apple will reintroduce BTO matte screen option at the same time? that would make me happy.

i'm kidding myself on the matte screen and apple being generous though. economic times are tough. which will yield higher profits? make a few extra sales from idiots like me who will wait or lose a few sales from idiots like me but increase their profit margins from idiots who don't know what patience is.

just thought i'd throw it out there and show that apple could easily move a step up in february, if they felt generous, while they intro'd the 17" unibody...

Petit papa Noël Quand tu descendra du Ciel Pourras tu faire fonctionner Nos jolies pages perso qui ont des ratées Du fait de trop de sécurité Â... Et, oui, galères sur galères sur les Pages Perso, installation de CMS qui refusent de sÂ’installer sur les serveurs de SFR, et nos navigateurs qui nous renvoient des mots doux du type « Accès is denied Erreur 530 » Â... Et que ce soit par ADSL classique ou Fibre les problèmes perdurent. Sans doutes quelques erreurs de jeunesse, mais à quoi bon proposer un service Page Perso, si lÂ’on ne peut sÂ’en servir ? Questions ben délicates qui trouveront peut être une solution après en avoir parlé publiquement dans cet édito, comme ça a été le cas à plusieurs reprises pour dÂ’autres problèmes. Inquiétant également, les chaines qui disparaissent peu à peu des offres de base ou des offres payantes, bien quÂ’il paraisse que le problème ne viennent pas toujours de notre FAI, il suffit de parcourir les forums pour constater un phénomène de grogne qui sÂ’amplifie. Cependant dans bien des cas, nos FAI sont tributaires des opération financières des groupes qui distribuent les chaînes, et donc le s règles de temps à autre changent au détriment des utilisateurs. Côté positif, à lÂ’heure où vous lirez ces lignes le Mpeg4 sera probablement activé sur vos décodeurs HD, cÂ’est un plus considérable qui offre une qualité supplémentaire dans le visionnage des chaines. On parle également beaucoup dÂ’un nouveau procédé que SFR va certainement proposer à ses abonnés et qui concerne la 3G, le Femtocell, mais il faudra s'armer de patience, pour le moment, seule la technologie est annoncée, aucune date de sortie à l'horizon. En gros il sÂ’agit dÂ’ajouter un adaptateur sur un port de votre neufbox qui est en fait une mini antenne 3G/3G+, ce qui permet une économie à SFR dans le cadre du déploiement de cette technologie. Pour les internautes lÂ’année 2009 sera une année noire avec lÂ’adoption de la loi Hadopi qui prive encore un peu plus les internautes de leurs droits fondamentaux, de façon à mieux remplir les tirelires des majors. La taxe audio visuelle sur les FAI, risque également de faire des dégâts si elle est confirmée, car il faut imaginer que si cette taxe supplémentaire passe, il est fort probable quÂ’elle soit répercutée plus ou moins rapidement sur les internautes. DÂ’autant plus incompréhensible quÂ’avec le hold- up permanant sur les support vierges qui font que notre pays est un des pays européen où les produits de ce type sont les plus chers, ce qui amène les internautes français à acheter de plus en plus de produits dans la zone euro voir aux USA, même si en théorie, ces derniers sont tenus de déclarer leurs achats, personne ne se presse pour le faire. Les choses deviennent de plus en plus injustes et compliquées pour lÂ’internaute. Concernant la taxe sur les FAI, Franck Esser entre dans la lutte pour tenter dÂ’empêcher cette taxe, (voir cette actualité).Malgré tout, on peut imaginer que cÂ’est un coup dÂ’épée dans lÂ’eau, face à la coalition politico économique qui nous entraine toujours un peu plus dans la folie taxatrice. On peut donc imaginer que si cette taxe ne passe pas auprès des FAI, cÂ’est probablement lÂ’ensemble de la population qui devra mettre la main à la poche par les impôts. Cette taxe pourrait à la limite être acceptable si il y avait pour lÂ’internaute au moins la possibilité dÂ’enregistrer et de pouvoir utiliser comme bon lui semble les chaines TV distribuée par lÂ’ADSL. Nous voici donc aux portes de 2009, une année qui sera très douloureuse pour tous les internautes et de fait pour une grande parti des citoyens pour lesquels il devient totalement impossible de se faire entendre dans une société totalement autiste en total décalage avec les consommateurs et les réalités du monde informatique. Côté SFR, pour les internautes, les attentes sont nombreuses, reste à savoir si elles seront satisfaites. Les principales demandes sont la généralisation de lÂ’ADSL 2+ afin de pouvoir bénéficier au mieux des offres TV. De ce côté là, on nous chuchote à l'oreille que les choses avance bien et que la généralisation de l'ADSL 2+ et de la TV pourrait être active vers la fin de l'année ... A suivre! De ce côté là, les choses ne devraient pas bouger rapidement, en effet, la mort annoncée de lÂ’ADSL classique au profit de la Fibre se fait dans un accouchement extrêmement lent, les divers opérateurs ayant beaucoup de mal à communiquer entre eux pour trouver une solution efficace. CÂ’est la raison pour laquelle dans le domaine de la Fibre, les choses ne bougent pratiquement pas, pourtant, la demande est bien réelle. Alors, petit papa Noël, si tu as un minimum de pouvoirÂ... Cependant, nous aurons probablement la chance de profiter dans un délais respectable de la belle vivacité de SFR dans le domaine de la Fibre,alors on se prend à rêver de la vitesse TGV pour surfer sur le Web ... Redonne nous un peu de liberté et vient rapidement connecter la Fibre au bas de nos maisons, tu es bien le seul à pouvoir faire encore rêver petits et grands Â... Je terminerai par remercier notre Hébergeur CNT1 au nom de toute l'équipe de n9ws qui nous a suivi et aidé ces dernières année, cet hébergeur est en train de disparaître et nous allons migrer chez OVH que nous remercions également pour les mêmes raisons puisque OVH va prendre le relais en ce qui concerne nos besoin sur le réseau et devient notre partenaire. Toute lÂ’équipe de n9ws se joint à moi pour vous souhaiter de joyeuses fêtes de fin dÂ’année. Doc Mac Prochain édito Â... en 2009 !