Apple designs the container to hold a bunch of commodity parts, and sells it with a big fat margin
If they're so commodity, why do the sell so well? Perhaps it's the engineering in putting those parts together? Maybe some of those parts are not really "commodities" (ie, SSD blades in MB Air).
As I understand the mobo is custom Apple design in a Macbook, and the A4 chip is also completely custom design.
Besides, the Volt, a series hybrid, has had many predecessors. The Li batteries are being used almost all EV and recent HEV cars. I think the ultimate tragedy is that they only planned to make 10,000 of them.
Can GM ever get past the culture that led to their burying of all those EV1s?
Apple deals with this chicken-egg problem by going to part manufacturers and offers them a deal they can't refuse with prices that allow Apple to create the product at a decent price.
Obviously, their attention to detail and hype-machine allow them to actually meet or exceed their sales targets.
Were GM to create a vehicle that had such attention to detail and if they had a cash hoard with which they could not be reliant on the bank-sharks, then they might be able to use this strategy to create such a compelling vehicle that people would fulfill the marketing.
I also use MSE on all my windows installs, and it's surprisingly low-profile.
I can only imagine that Microsoft finally figured out that this security industry is like a symbiote that will eventually kill the host (Windows). Best is to create your own version and integrate it (though the 2nd part would be regarded suspiciously by anti-trust division).
This kind of selective pressure will reward those companies who can afford to pay people to destroy the page ranking of their competitors.
FTFY.
I thought about that but the article states that
an algorithmic solution which detects the merchant from the Times article along with hundreds of other merchants that, in our opinion, provide an extremely poor user experience
.. I presume this means that the weighting would not be linear, but more like an exponential dropoff when reviews are numerous, time-disjoint, and all negative. I'm sure Google has done at least a sample analysis using their mountain of data. I think the biggest point made here is that (as a vendor) services to monitor your product/service will become increasingly important so you can reply to negative reviews and actively manage any trolls... whether this leads to more engagement or simply more astroturfing is yet to be seen.
I suppose for public sites serving very large files, it may make some sense, but for even internal use, we never use FTP, as HTTP transport can easily be secured via SSL, and it's easier to secure the single httpd server and port rather than having two services running.
Is the bandwidth savings really worth the extra security risk?
There are android ipod touch competitors but I am amazed that they have no access to the app market.
They do in a fashion (there is an apk that hacks it in) but it's all mainly due to the OHA agreement wherein Google forbids Market access to devices without 3G. I'm assuming it's due to their own faustian bargain with the carriers (see Google's and Verizon's Net-Neutrality platform) but if it were allowed it would really put a dent Apple's offering and make Android ascendant.
Someone else mentioned that they felt Google's main plan for Android was to "protect" their search engine market, and in that respect they've succeeded, but so much potential remains for Android.
That is Apple's biggest innovation with the iPhone, and they know it (see Mac App Store). The App Store is why the iPod touch has such high appeal, why people put up with AT&T's horrible service with the iPhone, and why the iPad is so versatile.
On the flip side, Android Market is crippled by the requirement for 3G service devices (ie, no Android iPod Touch competitor any time soon), a drive to push free/ad-driven sales model and a lack of curation (see DVD Jon's appeal to Google to put some quality/curation into the Android Market). As a consequence numerous other Android app markets are cropping up, adding confusion and complexity to the act of developing and buying apps for that platform.
It was a seemingly minor thing when released, but was one of the biggest usability increases in OS browsing since the file browser.
Every single person I show this to (who hasn't already used it) is impressed by the capabilities... and it was a minor addition to 10.5.
I think AirPlay will be the same. Sure you have UPnP and DNLA, but Apple has solved some of the biggest issues with those file-sharing implementations that make it work different and better (ie, seamless cutover from one device to another, support for streaming, etc)... like cut and paste in iOS 3.
Similarly, you could fit twenty* or so of those Macbook Air "blade" SSDs in an appropriate enclosure, giving you 5TB of SSD in the same space of a 2TB spinning disk at current densities.
This would require a hell of a lot of cooling. Just because it's slim doesn't allow you to ignore heat. I think you might be able to get away with about 2-4x the density of the 2.5" drives, giving you about 2-3TB of space, but the engineering and testing of that would be expensive.
Ultimately, you will need to bypass the SATA cable as even single SSDs are close to the maximum throughput of SATA2, which means all it would take is roughly 4 SSDs to consistenly saturate a SATA3 bus. That's the reason storage providers have decided to go with PCIe boards... anywhere you want to put a 3.5" drive, you will likely be able to put a card in instead.
Arm servers make sense in two places: the small and the giant. They fall down in the medium and large space.
That is only because of the WinTel duopoly of the past decade and a half. Given a decent enough operating system (ChromeOS, OSX-iOS hybrid, Ubuntu Unity) and either a standards based information access model (html/http) or native app-stores, the requirement for x86(-64) disappears and we can liberate ourselves from the Intel processor hegemony... and the world will be a better place for it. (note: Intel isn't going away anytime soon, and neither is Windows... but they won't exist as we have known them for the past decade)
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
Commissioner Pravin Lal "U.N. Declaration of Rights"
You know, it's the rich and corporate elite who hate our freedoms. It's they who are pouring billions into campaign coffers to buy and bribe our so-called-democratically-elected government representatives.
Government will always exist, the question is, who does your congresscritter work for? I always reward good behavior despite party.
1. Shut off any USA business you may have completely. That is what non-Internet companies like for example diagnostics and pharmaceutical companies making generics do. In the Internet case this is rather difficult.
I was waiting for a drug that my daughter takes to come off-patent so prices would drop. Then the generic showed up. Then it disappeared. Now it hasn't returned an my only option is to pay for the brand name. It's quite ridiculous, and even worse for those with even more expensive drugs.
The problem isn't just the readers (all of which have various vulnerabilities), but the PDF spec itself which allows for shit like javascript embedding and external program execution.
The PDF spec needs to be revised to split off potentially malicious functionality into a seperate format that has a different name so basic reader functions can be kept (ie, layout, fonts, attachments, outlining) while the advanced files can be sandboxed or ignored by various readers.
In related but less agreeable news, "Dennis Durkin, who is both COO and CFO for Microsoft's Xbox group, told investors this week that Kinect can also be used by advertisers to see how many people are in a room when an ad is on screen, and to custom-tailor content based on the people it recognizes."
Seriously, this is the first thing I thought when I read aboutthe Kinect. Here is a box, wired to the internet, with a hundred little beams that can not only tell what you're doing, what the room looks like to absurd levels of detail. Talk about 1984-style, in-soviet-russia type monitoring.
Forget the advertisers, with enough of these things deployed the feds won't need those vans parked outside your house, they'll grab the data in real-time from either the ISP or Mircrosoft.
"But those atoms were destroyed immediately after being created"
Does not compute..
Simple explanation:
Generate antiproton, confine in magnetic field
Generate positron, confine in magnetic field
Manipulate magnetic fields to get them to combine
Combined particles neutralize each other's charge, forming a charge-neutral antihydrogen atom... which is no longer manipulable with magnetic fields... and quickly reacts with nearby solid matter, annihilating itself.
Newest capability is to use dipole moments to manipulate (weakly) antihydrogen and keep it contained for a longer period.
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Apple designs the container to hold a bunch of commodity parts, and sells it with a big fat margin
If they're so commodity, why do the sell so well? Perhaps it's the engineering in putting those parts together? Maybe some of those parts are not really "commodities" (ie, SSD blades in MB Air).
As I understand the mobo is custom Apple design in a Macbook, and the A4 chip is also completely custom design.
Besides, the Volt, a series hybrid, has had many predecessors. The Li batteries are being used almost all EV and recent HEV cars. I think the ultimate tragedy is that they only planned to make 10,000 of them.
Can GM ever get past the culture that led to their burying of all those EV1s?
I bet it doesn't even stop the download when you exceed the limit. It just goes on to charge per megabyte or something.
Sounds just like Verizon... they are rich because of their overage charges and how they nickel and dime you.
Loved the network but hated the "customer service".
Apple deals with this chicken-egg problem by going to part manufacturers and offers them a deal they can't refuse with prices that allow Apple to create the product at a decent price.
Obviously, their attention to detail and hype-machine allow them to actually meet or exceed their sales targets.
Were GM to create a vehicle that had such attention to detail and if they had a cash hoard with which they could not be reliant on the bank-sharks, then they might be able to use this strategy to create such a compelling vehicle that people would fulfill the marketing.
... is the lesson I take from this.
I also use MSE on all my windows installs, and it's surprisingly low-profile.
I can only imagine that Microsoft finally figured out that this security industry is like a symbiote that will eventually kill the host (Windows). Best is to create your own version and integrate it (though the 2nd part would be regarded suspiciously by anti-trust division).
This kind of selective pressure will reward those companies who can afford to pay people to destroy the page ranking of their competitors.
FTFY.
I thought about that but the article states that
an algorithmic solution which detects the merchant from the Times article along with hundreds of other merchants that, in our opinion, provide an extremely poor user experience
.. I presume this means that the weighting would not be linear, but more like an exponential dropoff when reviews are numerous, time-disjoint, and all negative. I'm sure Google has done at least a sample analysis using their mountain of data. I think the biggest point made here is that (as a vendor) services to monitor your product/service will become increasingly important so you can reply to negative reviews and actively manage any trolls... whether this leads to more engagement or simply more astroturfing is yet to be seen.
... not "bad reviews", which would be very anti-consumer.
Instead, the poorly reviewed products and services are going to lose index.
This kind of selective pressure will reward those companies whose services and products garner better reviews.
I just wonder if this will lead to more astroturfed reviews and payola for review-sites like Yelp.
I suppose for public sites serving very large files, it may make some sense, but for even internal use, we never use FTP, as HTTP transport can easily be secured via SSL, and it's easier to secure the single httpd server and port rather than having two services running.
Is the bandwidth savings really worth the extra security risk?
Am I hallucinating or was something similar from Apple - for a rear-mounted clickwheel - mentioned on this very site a year or two back?
Here and Here.
As if the patent wars aren't already at full-pitch.
There are android ipod touch competitors but I am amazed that they have no access to the app market.
They do in a fashion (there is an apk that hacks it in) but it's all mainly due to the OHA agreement wherein Google forbids Market access to devices without 3G. I'm assuming it's due to their own faustian bargain with the carriers (see Google's and Verizon's Net-Neutrality platform) but if it were allowed it would really put a dent Apple's offering and make Android ascendant.
Someone else mentioned that they felt Google's main plan for Android was to "protect" their search engine market, and in that respect they've succeeded, but so much potential remains for Android.
Specifically for those terrorists in the set of ( Authoritarian Politicians, Kleptocrats, Corporatists).
For these soulless creatures, they've profited and gained beyond measure.
That is Apple's biggest innovation with the iPhone, and they know it (see Mac App Store). The App Store is why the iPod touch has such high appeal, why people put up with AT&T's horrible service with the iPhone, and why the iPad is so versatile.
On the flip side, Android Market is crippled by the requirement for 3G service devices (ie, no Android iPod Touch competitor any time soon), a drive to push free/ad-driven sales model and a lack of curation (see DVD Jon's appeal to Google to put some quality/curation into the Android Market). As a consequence numerous other Android app markets are cropping up, adding confusion and complexity to the act of developing and buying apps for that platform.
You will run FW, USB, Ethernet and VIDEO all over this bus.
All the other protocols will sit on top. So if you're running lots of the various connectors at the same time, you *might* be able to saturate it.
Are the two that I'd be interested in... but neither are really important to me. Nice to have the option, though.
It was a seemingly minor thing when released, but was one of the biggest usability increases in OS browsing since the file browser.
Every single person I show this to (who hasn't already used it) is impressed by the capabilities... and it was a minor addition to 10.5.
I think AirPlay will be the same. Sure you have UPnP and DNLA, but Apple has solved some of the biggest issues with those file-sharing implementations that make it work different and better (ie, seamless cutover from one device to another, support for streaming, etc)... like cut and paste in iOS 3.
Similarly, you could fit twenty* or so of those Macbook Air "blade" SSDs in an appropriate enclosure, giving you 5TB of SSD in the same space of a 2TB spinning disk at current densities.
This would require a hell of a lot of cooling. Just because it's slim doesn't allow you to ignore heat. I think you might be able to get away with about 2-4x the density of the 2.5" drives, giving you about 2-3TB of space, but the engineering and testing of that would be expensive.
Ultimately, you will need to bypass the SATA cable as even single SSDs are close to the maximum throughput of SATA2, which means all it would take is roughly 4 SSDs to consistenly saturate a SATA3 bus. That's the reason storage providers have decided to go with PCIe boards ... anywhere you want to put a 3.5" drive, you will likely be able to put a card in instead.
Apple, Google and Canonical have seen the writing on the wall: Make the apps independent of the ISA, and your platform can go anywhere.
Best way to do this is to provide the storefront, and handle distribution integrated with the OS.
I think the App Store is the biggest software revolution from the 00's ... and it's yet to play out completely.
Arm servers make sense in two places: the small and the giant. They fall down in the medium and large space.
That is only because of the WinTel duopoly of the past decade and a half. Given a decent enough operating system (ChromeOS, OSX-iOS hybrid, Ubuntu Unity) and either a standards based information access model (html/http) or native app-stores, the requirement for x86(-64) disappears and we can liberate ourselves from the Intel processor hegemony... and the world will be a better place for it. (note: Intel isn't going away anytime soon, and neither is Windows... but they won't exist as we have known them for the past decade)
Your linked article is satire. But I didn't really know if it was satire until I read it through.
The terrorists have won.
link
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
Commissioner Pravin Lal
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"
Why do they hate our Freedom?
Oh yeah -they're the government
-I'm just sayin'
You know, it's the rich and corporate elite who hate our freedoms. It's they who are pouring billions into campaign coffers to buy and bribe our so-called-democratically-elected government representatives.
Government will always exist, the question is, who does your congresscritter work for? I always reward good behavior despite party.
1. Shut off any USA business you may have completely. That is what non-Internet companies like for example diagnostics and pharmaceutical companies making generics do. In the Internet case this is rather difficult.
I was waiting for a drug that my daughter takes to come off-patent so prices would drop. Then the generic showed up. Then it disappeared. Now it hasn't returned an my only option is to pay for the brand name. It's quite ridiculous, and even worse for those with even more expensive drugs.
Foxit has it's own share of vulnerabilities, and was impacted worse than Adobe Reader by the launch exploit.
The problem isn't just the readers (all of which have various vulnerabilities), but the PDF spec itself which allows for shit like javascript embedding and external program execution.
The PDF spec needs to be revised to split off potentially malicious functionality into a seperate format that has a different name so basic reader functions can be kept (ie, layout, fonts, attachments, outlining) while the advanced files can be sandboxed or ignored by various readers.
So you don't have to run a molex or other power connector to the SSD, it's easier to put in, I suppose.
I wonder if there are significant gains to be had by inserting these in place of existing RAM?
In related but less agreeable news, "Dennis Durkin, who is both COO and CFO for Microsoft's Xbox group, told investors this week that Kinect can also be used by advertisers to see how many people are in a room when an ad is on screen, and to custom-tailor content based on the people it recognizes."
Seriously, this is the first thing I thought when I read aboutthe Kinect. Here is a box, wired to the internet, with a hundred little beams that can not only tell what you're doing, what the room looks like to absurd levels of detail. Talk about 1984-style, in-soviet-russia type monitoring.
Forget the advertisers, with enough of these things deployed the feds won't need those vans parked outside your house, they'll grab the data in real-time from either the ISP or Mircrosoft.
"But those atoms were destroyed immediately after being created"
Does not compute..
Simple explanation: