No, it means that you shouldn't brag about how awesome and amazing you are. If you have to say "I am an amazing person" then that likely means, at least the way I'd think about it, that you have to say it because you can't show it.
So True.
Dating and interviewing are similar types of activities, and it's often said that when you desire to impress someone, you should demonstrate, and not declare... it's easier said than done, especially on a job/dating site, but the idea is that once you get a chance to engage, every action/word should be focused on emphasizing those strengths that you're not exactly declaring.
The stock is already down 6.5% in after hours trading. I suspect we will see a drop, then an increase when people like you buy, and then a steady decrease after iPhone 5 is out.
I hope I am wrong, but I doubt it.
Then why don't you put your money where your mouth is? Short the stock or buy put options at the correct time.
Me, I'll be buying call options early tomorrow morning.
Some of those patents are encumbered by FRAND : Fair, Reasonnable and Non Discrimatory. Such patents are essentiel to a global normalisation in which participant have to disclose their related patents and licence them in a fair, reasonnable and non discriminatory way. You can use them to get royalties but you'll have a hard time using them to block someone.
But would these patents be good for defense, and not in a "mutually assured destruction" kind of way? Do they act as anti-weaponry and nullify the attacks of Apple, Microsoft and others?
If so, then Google may still be able to utilize Zerg tactics, using defenses to delay offensive manuevers, while building a massive swarm that engulfs the battlefield. Yes, I see Google as the Zerg, Apple are the Protoss, and Microsoft are the Terrans.
I get it. I am not posting this from an iPad. My wife that loves her iPad similarly would not post from it either.
iPad is the new TV.
No, the iPad is the Microwave Oven of computing... designed for simpler uses, yes, but built to co-exist along the item it is functionally similar to.
The TV completely eclipsed it's spiritual predecessor, the radio. The iPad will not eclipse the PC (otherwise Apple would have made it far more functional - it's designed not to compete, and instead complement, for example, their Mac line).
How many of you took time at the tender age of 13 to study leaf patterns on trees to figure out how best to capture sunlight and harness it for electricity? You can crap on his science all you want, but kids like this young man inspire me and give me hope that we aren't raising a bunch of video-game addicted sluggards who take everything for granted. Hooray for science and kids who want to pursue it! We want to encourage this behavior, not nit-pick him for possible flaws in research methodology.
Also the kid mentions at the end of the article that all these results are just fodder for more investigations (with some follow-up questions)... I expect we will hear more from him, given he clearly understands that this research is a path and not a destination.
But also from that picture, the flat panel array is on the ground and partially covered by shadow from some nearby tree's. That difference alone might account for the increase.
If you read the article, he claims to have moved the array around to reduce the likelyhood of bad placement. Also, shade moves, so a static picture tells us nothing.
Still doesn't get Apple any more than 10% of the market.
No, it gets them massive profits. More than any other computer manufacturer... market share is a silly metric when no-one is really fighting that game anymore. Steve Jobs said it himself back in '96. Microsoft won the desktop OS wars. So Apple moved on since then (music devices, phones), but their computer business is still more profitable than any other PC manufacturer.
You do not "fein interest" in something by bidding a few billion dollars.
Do you play poker? Because the best bluffs are the ones made when there's lots of money at stake. Google has already feigned interest in the 700Mhz spectrum and forced the rest to accept an "open devices" policy.
It's not clear that's the way it rolled here (there's a lot of speculation as to what happened and when), but I wouldn't put it past the leadership in MV.
Regarding the quality of Moto's patent war chest, I think it definitely has value... Moto's key patents on the cell phone operations are very valuable, and the sheer number of the remainder of patents are also not to be ignored.
I like how another./er put it: "shit just got real"... it will be interesting to see how this plays out and whether Google has grander plans for Moto than just the patents.
How is one to know whether your video recorder or phone has put sub-protocol information on the recording that identifies you.
If anonymity was ever pierced in this manner, that product would be much less saleable. Furthermore, doesn't a simple re-encoding (such as what iMovie and the like do) wipe out any such metadata?
SSDs are expensive when you're buying by the thousands and consider that, aside from boot times, they don't impact PC performance enough to justify the cost for MOST PCs.
You must either have never used an SSD-based computer or live in a different world than me. My first SSD (Vertex2, sandforce) was the best single improvement in system performance I've ever made. The boot time is fast, but the application launch time (esp. huge apps like Photoshop, VMWare and Eclipse) are a world of difference. In the case of Eclipse, it finally made it usable for me.
I've since installed small boot-SSDs in some of my older laptops (some even SATA1) and have given them a second life.
Oh, you're absolutely right. However, considering what a bunch of assholes Apple is being, I get a warm tingly feeling every time another company tells Apple to go fuck themselves.
This old "enemy of my enemy is my friend" bullshit is getting tiring. I didn't applaud Eolas when they won against Microsoft, and I don't support this either. This kind of activity will NOT make the patent system more sane. The only thing that will do that is a sane and non-corrupt judiciary and real patent reform (which, if corporations still control the government will be right between never and hell freezing over).
But if the implication is that console and PC gamers are going to give up their platforms of choice for the under-powered processors and AWFUL controls of your typical mobile device, then you need to lay off the crack.
You may sound incredulous but an AppleTV3 combined with a wireless airplay mirroring sounds like a console killer combo.
What you're missing out on is the reason that the Wii and XBox Kinnect completely flipped the tables on "power gamers"... no one is suggesting that an iPad or Android-based system will dominate over high-performance games series like Fallout or Mass Effect, but for each "power" console gamer there are likely 10 casual gamers who are more likely to want to hook up their multiple iPad/droid/etc to play scrabble on the big screen... and mobile platforms are moving much much faster in terms of hardware and software improvements.
With one cable connection, your MacBook gets network, sound, firewire, USB and power(!), all via your external Display. No need to attach a second cable.
You're mistaken here. The tbolt Cinema Display (as you can see here on the main page: http://www.apple.com/displays/ ) requires two cables - one for power and the other for the rest... it's one of the small quibbles I had with the Thunderbolt's re-use of mini-displayport connector (small because it's damn hard to deliver decent power+data without a thick cable due to interference, and solving that would be like gifting a pony).
With a weakened social safety net, rampant unemployment, eastern-european migrants taking over the few remaining jobs and the super-rich from abroad (mostly the middle east) causing housing prices to skyrocket...
It also has nothing to do with the looting of the public done by the banksters and their enablers, the politicians.
Finally, the Met police are trusted and can't be blamed for the vandals and looter's complete despise for the actions of the law enforcement... it's not the fault of the police that they are unaccountable.
Remember, telling a friend, relative, or business "*Your* system is rejecting my RFC-complaint emails. *You* should look into fixing that if you want to hear from me." is perfectly acceptable, even though a business telling you exactly the same thing isn't.
I don't know who your friends or relatives are, but if anyone told me that, I'd personally put them on my ignore list, as I have way too many things to do, and have about 0 control with any of my email "systems".
This kind of message is similar to "your government is not accepting my packages, *you* should look into fixing that if you want my deliveries"... it may be valid, but good luck with getting any meaningful response on that.
You cannot lend any credence to Thurott, he's a long time microsoft shill. He's also a proprietard that believes there is no room for free. That in and of itself is an indication of his fanboism.
When Gruber publicly agrees with Thurott (and it's not back-handed agreement), it's most likely anti-Google or anti-OSS position. These two are the biggest fanboys of the respective companies (Apple, Microsoft) on the Internets.
No kernel panics here. I did have a tooth-gnashing amount of irritation with an update needed for Adobe CS5, but aside from that misadventure (which took a couple of hours of swearing to put right), Lion has been a giant snooze. No overheating, no bashing and thrashing, no sudden power issues. In fact, "snooze" is probably the right word, since I haven't yet found anything about it to impress me, either.
Same, 'cept I'm rocking a 2010 13" MBP... only problem I have with Lion is that my Office 2004 won't work anymore (not a huge loss, but Pages '09 doesn't like a *some* of my Word docs). Oh, that and my SSL VPN provider is usually about 9 months late to release OSX drivers.
The big question that seemed/seems lost in all this "The electric car is gonna save the world!" hype is how an energy grid that can barely handle our energy needs AS IT IS is supposed to function when a significant portion of the population replaces their evil petroleum cars with electricity-draining electrics. When I've asked that question in the past to my usual suspect lineup of hippie friends (who also think that organic food and wind turbines are going to save us all too), the only answer I ever got was a vague "Well, most of that'll be happening at night, when the power demand is down anyway." But we're talking HUGE power usage spikes with those cars. Think of how much our system is already taxed when HVAC units have to cool a 10-degree-higher heat wave. Now imagine half the population plugging cars into the gird every night that draw WAY more power than any consumer HVAC unit.
You do realize that baseload power requires that we run some power plants at night, right? Sometimes burning fuel for no reason other than the stop/start process is more expensive than just running it all night.
Electric cars are supposed to eat up that slack... right now we have much less than.000001% of cars charging on the network at night. Once that goes up to something concerning like, say.001% we might want to worry. This article and it's entire premise is FUD similar to the "birds will die because of wind power" bullshit that the anti-alternate energy folks like to spew (100x more birds die due to buildings and telephone poles than to wind turbines).
I could live with this if it means iOS+OSX = no more iOS DRM: allow users to gain root and allow users to install apps from arbitrary sources.
You know, like OSX.
If instead it means iOS+OSX means OSX gains the aforementioned DRM, I'm done with Apple forever.
You're dreaming. Even freedom-loving Google has, in absentia, allowed DRM (see locked bootloaders on Droid2, G2, etc) on devices bearing their brand. However, I don't think it makes sense to have a hybrid iOSX yet (if ever). What is more likely, is that the ARM target code for iOS will be backported into OSX and OSX 10.8 will likely run on ARM (and also Intel).
The ARM MacBook Air makes a shit-ton of sense... it will reduce costs, increase Apple's control over the hardware, lock more folks into the Mac App Store and Apple's XCode (since it would be their toolchain that can target OSX_ARM accurately), all without needing DRM (though they may still add it). It was pretty amusing to see that Fake Tim Cook already exists and commented about this on asymco a few months ago (cant find link to comment): "Wait till you see us put an A6 into the 2012 MacBook Air"
There's also a level of semi anonymity. My real name isn't actually mooingyak (I bet that made you gasp).
And this is what is most galling about Facebook (and now Google+)... they're not only against anonymous activity, but also pseudonymnous identities as well. Pseudonyms have been used for centuries as a way of having an identity that is separate from your physical being. Most gamer luminaries have psuedonyms. Here are some of the more famous pseudonyms:
George Orwell
Ayn Rand
Banksy
Joseph Stalin
Voltaire
I would venture to say that pseudonymous contributions can have a higher signal to noise ratio than both anonymous and fully attributed ones simply because contributors are both divorced from their personal identity yet still have a vested interest in maintaining decorum (through the use of social means and moderation - ie,./ karma). Groups that do not allow for pseudonymous and anonymous contributions are stifled and easily controlled... often leading to low to zero signal to noise ratio... I would suppose that Zuckerberg/Facebook are also against the concept of the secret ballot?
The first amendment even applies to state laws, since it's part of the US constitution with supersedes state law. AFAIK, order of precedence is US Constitution > Federal Law > State Constitution > State Law > Municipal code
So any teacher who wants to become precedent can just go for it and suffer through the legal process to invalidate the law... in the meanwhile, the worthless Missouri legislature who passed this excrement will go and make more crappier laws that are obviously unconstitutional.
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The caps are only for "external" content. Comcast, AT&T and Verizon are salivating at the thought of selling you 4K-sized movies (with no cap implications) at a very high premium.
This is what the telco/cable and media industries want: to turn the Internet back into cable TV.
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The whole 1080p thing has obliterated decent computer monitor resolutions. I don't give a rat's buttock about TVs and BluRays and home theater setups and all that crap, but the faster the mainstream media tech goes beyond 1080p, the faster I can have cheap high resolution computer monitors again.
1080 is low resolution garbage when it comes to desktop displays.
Worse than 1080p resolution limitations is the whole 16:9 craze in monitors.... what a useless ratio for work. I really would welcome back the 4:3, although I'm currently putting up with two 16:10 ratio monitors tilted 90degrees (using dual-monitor clamp and a displaylink device)
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No, it means that you shouldn't brag about how awesome and amazing you are. If you have to say "I am an amazing person" then that likely means, at least the way I'd think about it, that you have to say it because you can't show it.
So True.
Dating and interviewing are similar types of activities, and it's often said that when you desire to impress someone, you should demonstrate, and not declare... it's easier said than done, especially on a job/dating site, but the idea is that once you get a chance to engage, every action/word should be focused on emphasizing those strengths that you're not exactly declaring.
The stock is already down 6.5% in after hours trading. I suspect we will see a drop, then an increase when people like you buy, and then a steady decrease after iPhone 5 is out.
I hope I am wrong, but I doubt it.
Then why don't you put your money where your mouth is? Short the stock or buy put options at the correct time.
Me, I'll be buying call options early tomorrow morning.
Some of those patents are encumbered by FRAND : Fair, Reasonnable and Non Discrimatory.
Such patents are essentiel to a global normalisation in which participant have to disclose their related patents and licence them in a fair, reasonnable and non discriminatory way. You can use them to get royalties but you'll have a hard time using them to block someone.
But would these patents be good for defense, and not in a "mutually assured destruction" kind of way? Do they act as anti-weaponry and nullify the attacks of Apple, Microsoft and others?
If so, then Google may still be able to utilize Zerg tactics, using defenses to delay offensive manuevers, while building a massive swarm that engulfs the battlefield. Yes, I see Google as the Zerg, Apple are the Protoss, and Microsoft are the Terrans.
I get it. I am not posting this from an iPad. My wife that loves her iPad similarly would not post from it either.
iPad is the new TV.
No, the iPad is the Microwave Oven of computing... designed for simpler uses, yes, but built to co-exist along the item it is functionally similar to.
The TV completely eclipsed it's spiritual predecessor, the radio. The iPad will not eclipse the PC (otherwise Apple would have made it far more functional - it's designed not to compete, and instead complement, for example, their Mac line).
How many of you took time at the tender age of 13 to study leaf patterns on trees to figure out how best to capture sunlight and harness it for electricity? You can crap on his science all you want, but kids like this young man inspire me and give me hope that we aren't raising a bunch of video-game addicted sluggards who take everything for granted. Hooray for science and kids who want to pursue it! We want to encourage this behavior, not nit-pick him for possible flaws in research methodology.
Also the kid mentions at the end of the article that all these results are just fodder for more investigations (with some follow-up questions)... I expect we will hear more from him, given he clearly understands that this research is a path and not a destination.
But also from that picture, the flat panel array is on the ground and partially covered by shadow from some nearby tree's. That difference alone might account for the increase.
If you read the article, he claims to have moved the array around to reduce the likelyhood of bad placement. Also, shade moves, so a static picture tells us nothing.
Still doesn't get Apple any more than 10% of the market.
No, it gets them massive profits. More than any other computer manufacturer... market share is a silly metric when no-one is really fighting that game anymore. Steve Jobs said it himself back in '96. Microsoft won the desktop OS wars. So Apple moved on since then (music devices, phones), but their computer business is still more profitable than any other PC manufacturer.
You do not "fein interest" in something by bidding a few billion dollars.
Do you play poker? Because the best bluffs are the ones made when there's lots of money at stake. Google has already feigned interest in the 700Mhz spectrum and forced the rest to accept an "open devices" policy.
It's not clear that's the way it rolled here (there's a lot of speculation as to what happened and when), but I wouldn't put it past the leadership in MV.
Regarding the quality of Moto's patent war chest, I think it definitely has value... Moto's key patents on the cell phone operations are very valuable, and the sheer number of the remainder of patents are also not to be ignored.
I like how another ./er put it: "shit just got real"... it will be interesting to see how this plays out and whether Google has grander plans for Moto than just the patents.
How is one to know whether your video recorder or phone has put sub-protocol information on the recording that identifies you.
If anonymity was ever pierced in this manner, that product would be much less saleable. Furthermore, doesn't a simple re-encoding (such as what iMovie and the like do) wipe out any such metadata?
SSDs are expensive when you're buying by the thousands and consider that, aside from boot times, they don't impact PC performance enough to justify the cost for MOST PCs.
You must either have never used an SSD-based computer or live in a different world than me. My first SSD (Vertex2, sandforce) was the best single improvement in system performance I've ever made. The boot time is fast, but the application launch time (esp. huge apps like Photoshop, VMWare and Eclipse) are a world of difference. In the case of Eclipse, it finally made it usable for me.
I've since installed small boot-SSDs in some of my older laptops (some even SATA1) and have given them a second life.
Oh, you're absolutely right. However, considering what a bunch of assholes Apple is being, I get a warm tingly feeling every time another company tells Apple to go fuck themselves.
This old "enemy of my enemy is my friend" bullshit is getting tiring. I didn't applaud Eolas when they won against Microsoft, and I don't support this either. This kind of activity will NOT make the patent system more sane. The only thing that will do that is a sane and non-corrupt judiciary and real patent reform (which, if corporations still control the government will be right between never and hell freezing over).
But if the implication is that console and PC gamers are going to give up their platforms of choice for the under-powered processors and AWFUL controls of your typical mobile device, then you need to lay off the crack.
You may sound incredulous but an AppleTV3 combined with a wireless airplay mirroring sounds like a console killer combo.
What you're missing out on is the reason that the Wii and XBox Kinnect completely flipped the tables on "power gamers"... no one is suggesting that an iPad or Android-based system will dominate over high-performance games series like Fallout or Mass Effect, but for each "power" console gamer there are likely 10 casual gamers who are more likely to want to hook up their multiple iPad/droid/etc to play scrabble on the big screen... and mobile platforms are moving much much faster in terms of hardware and software improvements.
With one cable connection, your MacBook gets network, sound, firewire, USB and power(!), all via your external Display. No need to attach a second cable.
You're mistaken here. The tbolt Cinema Display (as you can see here on the main page: http://www.apple.com/displays/ ) requires two cables - one for power and the other for the rest... it's one of the small quibbles I had with the Thunderbolt's re-use of mini-displayport connector (small because it's damn hard to deliver decent power+data without a thick cable due to interference, and solving that would be like gifting a pony).
With a weakened social safety net, rampant unemployment, eastern-european migrants taking over the few remaining jobs and the super-rich from abroad (mostly the middle east) causing housing prices to skyrocket...
It also has nothing to do with the looting of the public done by the banksters and their enablers, the politicians.
Finally, the Met police are trusted and can't be blamed for the vandals and looter's complete despise for the actions of the law enforcement... it's not the fault of the police that they are unaccountable.
Remember, telling a friend, relative, or business "*Your* system is rejecting my RFC-complaint emails. *You* should look into fixing that if you want to hear from me." is perfectly acceptable, even though a business telling you exactly the same thing isn't.
I don't know who your friends or relatives are, but if anyone told me that, I'd personally put them on my ignore list, as I have way too many things to do, and have about 0 control with any of my email "systems".
This kind of message is similar to "your government is not accepting my packages, *you* should look into fixing that if you want my deliveries"... it may be valid, but good luck with getting any meaningful response on that.
You cannot lend any credence to Thurott, he's a long time microsoft shill. He's also a proprietard that believes there is no room for free. That in and of itself is an indication of his fanboism.
When Gruber publicly agrees with Thurott (and it's not back-handed agreement), it's most likely anti-Google or anti-OSS position. These two are the biggest fanboys of the respective companies (Apple, Microsoft) on the Internets.
No kernel panics here. I did have a tooth-gnashing amount of irritation with an update needed for Adobe CS5, but aside from that misadventure (which took a couple of hours of swearing to put right), Lion has been a giant snooze. No overheating, no bashing and thrashing, no sudden power issues. In fact, "snooze" is probably the right word, since I haven't yet found anything about it to impress me, either.
Same, 'cept I'm rocking a 2010 13" MBP... only problem I have with Lion is that my Office 2004 won't work anymore (not a huge loss, but Pages '09 doesn't like a *some* of my Word docs). Oh, that and my SSL VPN provider is usually about 9 months late to release OSX drivers.
The big question that seemed/seems lost in all this "The electric car is gonna save the world!" hype is how an energy grid that can barely handle our energy needs AS IT IS is supposed to function when a significant portion of the population replaces their evil petroleum cars with electricity-draining electrics. When I've asked that question in the past to my usual suspect lineup of hippie friends (who also think that organic food and wind turbines are going to save us all too), the only answer I ever got was a vague "Well, most of that'll be happening at night, when the power demand is down anyway." But we're talking HUGE power usage spikes with those cars. Think of how much our system is already taxed when HVAC units have to cool a 10-degree-higher heat wave. Now imagine half the population plugging cars into the gird every night that draw WAY more power than any consumer HVAC unit.
You do realize that baseload power requires that we run some power plants at night, right? Sometimes burning fuel for no reason other than the stop/start process is more expensive than just running it all night.
Electric cars are supposed to eat up that slack... right now we have much less than .000001% of cars charging on the network at night. Once that goes up to something concerning like, say .001% we might want to worry. This article and it's entire premise is FUD similar to the "birds will die because of wind power" bullshit that the anti-alternate energy folks like to spew (100x more birds die due to buildings and telephone poles than to wind turbines).
I could live with this if it means iOS+OSX = no more iOS DRM: allow users to gain root and allow users to install apps from arbitrary sources.
You know, like OSX.
If instead it means iOS+OSX means OSX gains the aforementioned DRM, I'm done with Apple forever.
You're dreaming. Even freedom-loving Google has, in absentia, allowed DRM (see locked bootloaders on Droid2, G2, etc) on devices bearing their brand. However, I don't think it makes sense to have a hybrid iOSX yet (if ever). What is more likely, is that the ARM target code for iOS will be backported into OSX and OSX 10.8 will likely run on ARM (and also Intel).
The ARM MacBook Air makes a shit-ton of sense... it will reduce costs, increase Apple's control over the hardware, lock more folks into the Mac App Store and Apple's XCode (since it would be their toolchain that can target OSX_ARM accurately), all without needing DRM (though they may still add it). It was pretty amusing to see that Fake Tim Cook already exists and commented about this on asymco a few months ago (cant find link to comment): "Wait till you see us put an A6 into the 2012 MacBook Air"
Any effort to "save money" by "cutting budget" that affects Corporate Persons (esp important ones) will not be affected. Anything else is "fair game".
Welcome your new corporate overlords, "citizen".
There's also a level of semi anonymity. My real name isn't actually mooingyak (I bet that made you gasp).
And this is what is most galling about Facebook (and now Google+)... they're not only against anonymous activity, but also pseudonymnous identities as well. Pseudonyms have been used for centuries as a way of having an identity that is separate from your physical being. Most gamer luminaries have psuedonyms. Here are some of the more famous pseudonyms:
I would venture to say that pseudonymous contributions can have a higher signal to noise ratio than both anonymous and fully attributed ones simply because contributors are both divorced from their personal identity yet still have a vested interest in maintaining decorum (through the use of social means and moderation - ie, ./ karma). Groups that do not allow for pseudonymous and anonymous contributions are stifled and easily controlled... often leading to low to zero signal to noise ratio... I would suppose that Zuckerberg/Facebook are also against the concept of the secret ballot?
Because Congress didn't enact this law?
The first amendment even applies to state laws, since it's part of the US constitution with supersedes state law.
AFAIK, order of precedence is US Constitution > Federal Law > State Constitution > State Law > Municipal code
So any teacher who wants to become precedent can just go for it and suffer through the legal process to invalidate the law... in the meanwhile, the worthless Missouri legislature who passed this excrement will go and make more crappier laws that are obviously unconstitutional.
The caps are only for "external" content. Comcast, AT&T and Verizon are salivating at the thought of selling you 4K-sized movies (with no cap implications) at a very high premium.
This is what the telco/cable and media industries want: to turn the Internet back into cable TV.
The whole 1080p thing has obliterated decent computer monitor resolutions. I don't give a rat's buttock about TVs and BluRays and home theater setups and all that crap, but the faster the mainstream media tech goes beyond 1080p, the faster I can have cheap high resolution computer monitors again.
1080 is low resolution garbage when it comes to desktop displays.
Worse than 1080p resolution limitations is the whole 16:9 craze in monitors.... what a useless ratio for work. I really would welcome back the 4:3, although I'm currently putting up with two 16:10 ratio monitors tilted 90degrees (using dual-monitor clamp and a displaylink device)
Depending on how successful the program is proven to be, it could be used for ad-targeting, or for socio-linguistic research
Better written as
Depending on how successful the program is proven to be, it could be used for ad-targeting (EVIL), or for socio-linguistic research (GOOD)