I doubt the public would be any more alarmed at the thought of having a cute small trained rat go through their clothes and luggage or some ugly full-sized trained troglodyte pawing at them.
You put a little blue and gold uniform on 'em, add a little cap, and you'll have people lining up(, and enjoying it.)
"I think it's only a matter of time between the news cycle starts turning all "Apple the subject of antitrust laws?" or the classic "Should Apple be broken up?".
Google is waiting in the wings and has much more market cap and market cred that Apple does. Apple has too much competition on all fronts.
(The fact that these people think that putting unattractively colored plastic panels on the same old industrial rack-frame was suddenly going to transform a generic box computer into an iMac just shows that the competition is not very good. [Apple is a consumer product company./. readers' boxes are still made with PS2 keyboard and mouse ports. Apple moves on while PC box makers are the most unimaginative, risk-averse accountants {successful survivors of the commoditization wars} that China and Taiwan have to offer.])
The media people are praying for Rupert Murdoch to have found the "magic bullet" that allows them to shed the costs of owning and operating a printing press in a world that is increasingly eschewing paper, and lets them runs purely as news aggregators with their own slant/market place.
... News Corp has what, eight billion sitting around in cash?
Uh compare that to Apple's own cash reserves (about $40B or 5 times News Corp,) and you'll see that News Corp needs to hitch their wagon to Apple's star.
I'm not going to predict Rupert Murdoch's defeat quite yet.
But I am definitely predicting a change in writing style (from the NY Post to the Wall Street Journal.)
Mr. Murdoch is not an idiot. Any resemblance to W. R. Hurst is entirely coincidental.
Apple's iPad is an upscale, upmarket device and I fully expect the $500,000 per week spent in assembling "The Daily" will not be spent foolishly.
A terrorist can made a bomb with:
an Arduino micro-controller,
a 9 volt battery,
a Wifi receiver and
10 or pounds of C4 that is set to go off when the device receives the message "Go BOOM! ". The device gets snuck onto some unwitting person's luggage.
Now, you see somebody is struggling with a heavy suitcase through a transport facility. (Say Liberty International Airport, or O'Hare, or Grand Central Station at 4:30 on a Friday.)
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, even Saddam Hussein and Pol Pot were elected at first.
The tyranny of the masses known as democracy (implemented in the electoral college in the 'States and known by other names in other hegemonies,) is no insurance against stupidity.
Look at how long people thought the earth was flat and the sun went around the earth instead of the other way around.
Corporations depend on the great unwashed mass of people out there not being able to tell the difference.
Lenin and Mao were trying to be communists (an extreme form of socialism,) where resources are owned and controlled by the state. They ended up being murderous tyrants.
Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito were fascist, where resources are owned by an oligarchy and controlled by the state. (Actually that is MUCH more wide spread than that. Look at what has been happening to the economy of the United States since Bush took office.)
Reagan was trying to set himself up as a free-enterprise mercantilist, where resources are owner by an oligarchy and controlled by an oligarchy. Good luck with that...
Pol Pot was an anarchist, where resources are owned and controlled by no one. Look where that got Cambodia.
"Me? I'm just a lawnmower. You can tell me by the way I walk." - Peter Gabriel (when he was in "Genesis.)
"Sacred Heart", the first album by "Shakespeare's Sister", at full blast on my brand new portable CD player. (It was the first one that I'd seen for only a hundred bucks.)
Its a friggin' miracle that I still have any hearing left because I played it loud enough to piss off the other people in the office.
I played that thing so often that to this day all I need to hear is the opening bars of "Heroine" and I'm stuck frozen in time until I hear the last bar of the "You Made Me Come To This", the final track.
Man, that brings me back. That was music to code by.
It came with a scratch 'n sniff card that was covered with various stinks (you smell, it stinks,) that you would be directed to scratch over and get a waft of at various points in the game.
Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.
Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?
Terry Gilliam: You're right there Obediah.
Eric Idle: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?
MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
GC: A cup ' COLD tea.
EI: Without milk or sugar.
TG: OR tea!
MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.
EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness."
EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!
MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
EI: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.
GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!
TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
MP: Cardboard box?
TG: Aye.
MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
read all of the cartoon about the PHB (Pointy Haired Boss)?
Businesses normally function in "failure mode."
In Parkinson's Law, C.Northcote Parkinson codified the ways in which these failure modes are achieved.
In The Peter Principle, Lawrence J Peter proved that people rise to their own level of inefficiency.
In Systemantics, Dr. John Gall further refined these into laws, not just truisms or anecdotal evidence, that explain how things in general don't seem to be working very well, and why.
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animals anyway.
I doubt the public would be any more alarmed at the thought of having a cute small trained rat go through their clothes and luggage or some ugly full-sized trained troglodyte pawing at them.
You put a little blue and gold uniform on 'em, add a little cap, and you'll have people lining up(, and enjoying it.)
Its called Disneyfication.
"I think it's only a matter of time between the news cycle starts turning all "Apple the subject of antitrust laws?" or the classic "Should Apple be broken up?".
Google is waiting in the wings and has much more market cap and market cred that Apple does. Apple has too much competition on all fronts.
(The fact that these people think that putting unattractively colored plastic panels on the same old industrial rack-frame was suddenly going to transform a generic box computer into an iMac just shows that the competition is not very good. [Apple is a consumer product company. /. readers' boxes are still made with PS2 keyboard and mouse ports. Apple moves on while PC box makers are the most unimaginative, risk-averse accountants {successful survivors of the commoditization wars} that China and Taiwan have to offer.])
The media people are praying for Rupert Murdoch to have found the " magic bullet " that allows them to shed the costs of owning and operating a printing press in a world that is increasingly eschewing paper, and lets them runs purely as news aggregators with their own slant/market place.
... News Corp has what, eight billion sitting around in cash?
Uh compare that to Apple's own cash reserves (about $40B or 5 times News Corp,) and you'll see that News Corp needs to hitch their wagon to Apple's star.
I'm not going to predict Rupert Murdoch's defeat quite yet.
But I am definitely predicting a change in writing style (from the NY Post to the Wall Street Journal.)
Mr. Murdoch is not an idiot. Any resemblance to W. R. Hurst is entirely coincidental.
Apple's iPad is an upscale, upmarket device and I fully expect the $500,000 per week spent in assembling "The Daily" will not be spent foolishly.
Here's a gedanken experiment:
A terrorist can made a bomb with:
an Arduino micro-controller,
a 9 volt battery,
a Wifi receiver and
10 or pounds of C4 that is set to go off when the device receives the message " Go BOOM! ".
The device gets snuck onto some unwitting person's luggage.
Now, you see somebody is struggling with a heavy suitcase through a transport facility. (Say Liberty International Airport, or O'Hare, or Grand Central Station at 4:30 on a Friday.)
Do you help him/her, or do you run like hell?
A hardware hacker extraordinaire.
My hat is off to him
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, even Saddam Hussein and Pol Pot were elected at first.
The tyranny of the masses known as democracy (implemented in the electoral college in the 'States and known by other names in other hegemonies,) is no insurance against stupidity.
Look at how long people thought the earth was flat and the sun went around the earth instead of the other way around.
Plus Hulu+ has the potential to eliminate a lot of ads by making us pay directly and negotiate directly with producers to bring shows to the public.
They're not quite up to a la carte pricing but they could do it.
... all the manga and animé I can stand whenever I want it off of the web.
How inconsistent these silly humans are.
Corporations depend on the great unwashed mass of people out there not being able to tell the difference.
Lenin and Mao were trying to be communists (an extreme form of socialism,) where resources are owned and controlled by the state. They ended up being murderous tyrants.
Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito were fascist, where resources are owned by an oligarchy and controlled by the state. (Actually that is MUCH more wide spread than that. Look at what has been happening to the economy of the United States since Bush took office.)
Reagan was trying to set himself up as a free-enterprise mercantilist, where resources are owner by an oligarchy and controlled by an oligarchy. Good luck with that...
Pol Pot was an anarchist, where resources are owned and controlled by no one. Look where that got Cambodia.
" Me? I'm just a lawnmower. You can tell me by the way I walk. " - Peter Gabriel (when he was in "Genesis.)
I figure every hole that is found should cost $1/day its left unpatched ... * # of users.
Given the fact that security has NEVER been a priority of MS, they could/should/would be bankrupt in a week.
The money would go to a regulatory authority who are paid by the number of vulns they find. (Ain't I a stinker... :-)
This is the first generation that has lower expectations than the previous one.
We just got greedy, lazy and too drunk/stoned to give a shit.
I don't blame society, government or any other accretive social construct.
WE did it to ourselves.
will shut Balmer up and get Microsoft's claws out of China.
In a pissing contest, President Hu's got a much bigger bladder than Balmer.
GreatWall is free as in beer and free as in libre.
Hu's got the demographics on his side he's also got the will to wash Microsoft right out of his hair.
...with their iPhones,
That just the way it is.
Joe Blow is either going to Apple for service or he's not going to mess with it.
Nowhere does it say: "Apple will manufacture its products like a street corner whore."
You've got to be inventive or acquisitive enough to get your own set of tools.
Rolls Royce covers the engines on their cars with a similar screwed down shield.
I don't read articles about Rolls Royce, now do I?
Get over it.
"Sacred Heart", the first album by "Shakespeare's Sister", at full blast on my brand new portable CD player. (It was the first one that I'd seen for only a hundred bucks.)
Its a friggin' miracle that I still have any hearing left because I played it loud enough to piss off the other people in the office.
I played that thing so often that to this day all I need to hear is the opening bars of "Heroine" and I'm stuck frozen in time until I hear the last bar of the "You Made Me Come To This", the final track.
Man, that brings me back. That was music to code by.
It was Infocom.
Hey what do you want?
It was back in 1986. My memory isn't perfect.
Remember all those terrible Leisure Suit Larry games?
The Leather Goddesses of Phobos ?
It came with a scratch 'n sniff card that was covered with various stinks (you smell , it stinks ,) that you would be directed to scratch over and get a waft of at various points in the game.
What a bunch of idiots we all were.
Recovering Catholic .
As for new features, after the Spanish Inquisition I figure that less is more.
Sad to say, Assange will cost them more alive that it will cost to have him killed.
The rich are quite merciless.
the Ural mountains.
West is Europe, East is Asia.
People seem to feel the resulting vegetation would be tainted, but it actually wouldn't.
Sorry, I can't help myself...
Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.
Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?
Terry Gilliam: You're right there Obediah.
Eric Idle: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?
MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
GC: A cup ' COLD tea.
EI: Without milk or sugar.
TG: OR tea!
MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.
EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness."
EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!
MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
EI: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.
GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!
TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
MP: Cardboard box?
TG: Aye.
MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
ALL: Nope, nope..
After all, you don't see any tyrannosauruses 'round here, do ya?
Look, thermal management is no magic.
But the way management looks at any technical problem, it might as well be.
As my ex-wife used to say "Its all done with bunnies and pixie dust "
read all of the cartoon about the PHB (Pointy Haired Boss)?
Businesses normally function in "failure mode."
In Parkinson's Law, C.Northcote Parkinson codified the ways in which these failure modes are achieved.
In The Peter Principle, Lawrence J Peter proved that people rise to their own level of inefficiency.
In Systemantics, Dr. John Gall further refined these into laws, not just truisms or anecdotal evidence, that explain how things in general don't seem to be working very well , and why.
I think that the only really solid, good thing Windows CE was ever good for is industrial automation
I read real fast.
I thought you had written industrial espionnage