However Apple just had to have the sleek, all in one, unit. A fan was not acceptable either, of course. Thus form took precedence over good design and there were functional problems in the end.
I know, that fucker Jobs refused to put a fan in the iPhone and now look at it -- the glass screens shatter!
I tell you, I'm not buying another smart phone unless it comes with both CPU fan (on an upgradable CPU) and 80 mm case fan.
And even to this day, Apple has not release an actually useful version of Objective-C.
I don't understand this statement. Apple's gcc team (e.g. snaroff et al) have supported integrating their Objective C implementation into the main line of gcc since the NeXT days -- almost 20 years. They worked with us at Cygnus to make this happen, including all the hassle to make ObjC++ work. Now they seem to be seriously investing in LLVM/CLang and why not?
Self-serving? Sure, most FOSS projects are, in the end. There are plenty of legit reasons to criticise Apple, but I would not consider their nature and level of support for FOSS (App store excepted) to be one of them.
If you're a nerd you've presumably read the FDA's advice on tattoos.. There's no controlled clinical data on the inks or their systemic effects.
You might think that there's good de facto trial data simply because hundreds of millions of tattoos have been given and many of the recipients have lived to ripe old ages. Sounds OK...but since the pigments are unregulated it's not like there's really large populations of known users. And the huge explosion of tattooing over the last few years, and the concomitant arrival of new inks, makes the longitudinal data less relevant.
Plus your skin is designed to keep stuff out. Do you really want to circumvent that? Once it's inside...well read the part about the dyes showing up in the lymph nodes. Who knows what the toxic doses are?
In future please include with your post the serial number of the mandatory quote license you purchased before including Lucasfilm's copyrighted material in the body of your post.
Good point, I tend to think that most people look for a drug like this as an alternative (or "quick fix") to a healthy lifestyle. But assuming that isn't the case, I presume your question is one of chronic or long term use.
In that regard I would be cautious about taking any pharmacological agent. Very few drugs are tested for long term effect, especially not neuro drugs. You really have no idea what effect prolonged use of Adderall might have on your neurochemistry. Plenty of studies by the military have shown deleterious effects of the use of amphetamines, and more to the point, have shown them ineffective in general for improving cognitive function (although they increase perceived cognitive performance). They aren't routinely given to pilots as they were in WWI for example.
(The use of stimulants in treatment of what appear to be neurochemical disorders is another matter, which I don't get into here. In those cases the long term side effects, if any, may outweigh the risks of non treatment).
If you want a long-term neurostimulant, really only one has had any serious longitudinal study: Nicotine. It is well known for its beneficial cognitive effects; its pharmacodynamics have been studied for decades. Unfortunately it has some serious side effects, but in general is believed by many to be a wonder drug for both healthy and unhealthy users.
These long term studies are very complicated and expensive by the way, so don't expect a lot of them to be done. I say this as an former pharma guy myself, although I never worked on a drug intended to be used like Adderall. And I am not an M.D so take all this with a grain of salt.
The TSA and their guidelines are no longer private by any means. They are thoroughly up the government's ass.
The constitution says ol' Uncle Sam can't perform unreasonable searches or seizures without a warrant, and that to issue a warrant they need probable cause. Probable cause must be supported by things that have happened or someone testifies has happened (see oath or affirmation) regarding the specific person. FUD about terrorism does not count, no matter how real the threat is.
You may say that, and it may even make sense (it does make sense to me) but the government has pretty clearly ruled that you are wrong, in part by relying on a secret law that cannot be quoted in court.
I wrote the LGPL v1 and badgered RMS into allowing it (John Gilmore thought up the great dynamic linking clause). RMS's biggest objection back then was exactly the case you give.
I still think in the balance the library license is a net positive for the FSF's cause. But this hinges on the definition of a "derivative work"
Actually there is a browser to launch -- it's just the tag decoder app instead of Safari/Opera/whatever. Or a button to press. If not, that is if it reads any tag it sees in its visual field, then it's meatspace spam fodder. Or not just meatspace....I could mail you a JPEG with the image in it and boom.
Look I'm sorry but The Beatles are nowhere NEAR Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and the likes.
I agree with the "Beethoven and the like" part, but Mozart really was the Lennon & Mccartney of his time, or as I actually think of him, the Christina Aguilera of his time. Largely pop and incidental music. Yes, he did write a significant requiem but it's not much compared with much of the work of Bach and Beethoven (who, to be fair, also wrote incidental music).
The big advantage of the Prius for Toyota was the experience of developing an electric vehicle infrastructure. Not just the external infrastructure (getting emergency personnel to learn how to open one up in an accident without being killed, arranging all the battery management etc) but internal: electric power trains, distribution systems etc at volume. They are way further down the learning curve (in the real manufacturing meaning of the word I mean) on this than anyone else at this point, even Honda.
It was gravy that it sold well and now is beyond "gravy" in its volume, image, etc. But it would have been a success without that just for the learning.
...just like everywhere but the US metric is the standard.
I don't know which countries have not standardised on the metric system, but certainly the USA is not among them.
In fact, the USA was one of the very early adopters and is one of the original signatories to the original metric treaty! Since then the united states inch has officially been defined to be 2.54 cm.
Which proves the original poster's point: there's a difference between a legal, international standard and customary usage.
FWIW I did my engineering education in the USA; we did physics in cgs, engineering (flight) dynamics in mks and mech E / manufacturing etc in mils, inches, foot-pounds etc. Nobody particularly cared (and note that cgs isn't SI). This was mid 1980s MIT and things may have changed over the past 20 years. Personally I do not approve of the use of the metric system (neither the size of the units nor the decimal divisor) despite living for years quite close to the Kilogramme in France.
If you like your transfer contract could require them to forward mail to you for a fixed term (e.g. 5 years) and even give you reversion rights (e.g. if they go out of business or sell their company to a bigger company you get the domain back or have the right to buy it back or something). They might not want to agree to those terms in which case you can part as friends (or you could say ok, I can live without the thing they don't like). That's how business is done.
Absolutely minimal lawyering required, and they could pay for your tiny legal bill. If you pick a good lawyer the bill need only be for an hour or two. Even an outrageously expensive lawyer won't be too much if it's only an hour or two.
Since McCain is running for the post of President for Life she would likely become the first female president of the USA.
(Personally I don't think one's sex or race makes you better or worse for the job, and making a decision, pro or con, based on one or the other is stupid).
(C) Keep your money, and spend it on health care when and where you choose.
I can afford option C and used it, until I had to go urgent care. Since I was not an acute case (I just had a broken limb) I got to wait at the end of the queue. Eventually (after talking to the resident who did get to see me) that despite how I was dressed they assumed I was a deadbeat and that they'd be eating the costs.
To be fair indigent gunshot victims went ahead of me, as they should. But dammit I read both of the books AND the NYRB that I'd brought with me before I was seen!
To be fair, as one of the best scientific minds of his generation, it's typically British to ignore him during his lifetime - give it 200 years or so after his death before it'll be realized how important he was. You know that sounds obvious and typical but it's hard to find someone for whom it's true. There are many fine British minds who were contemporaneously perfectly well celebrated (to pick four fields: Orwell, Keynes, Bacon, Crick yes, Hawking) but go back a century or two (for your metric): Maxwell, Brunel (about a century), Watt (a couple) even Newton (a previous Lucasian professor). Even the Kray twins were contemporaneously famous!
In fact I have trouble thinking of an example that fits your claim. Basically the key to British (and most) fame is to be famous in your lifetime first. And hell, it's more fun that way.
.., but at least I haven't had any garbled junk land in my browser yet with the message "Upgrade your service to see this website". Ever had the message "you must upgrade your browser to XXX" or "You must upgrade FLASH to read this page"?
What will be interesting is how the oil giants respond to this competition. "Respond" isn't really the right word. The integrated firms (the "majors") operate at all levels of the distribution chain: discovery, shipping, refinement, retail etc. They buy and sell crude as it travels from the wellhead to the refinery depending on the behavior of the spot market and what goes into the refinery may or may not have been pumped out of the ground by them. So if this process works at scale it's merely another input.
Think of these guys as financial companies with enormous cash flow who use a brick-n-mortar operation to get very good quasi-realtime information as to what's going on at the market at each stage.
The non-integrated firms will suffer or not depending on what part of the market they work in. C'est la vie.
To me what happens to these companies isn't interesting. What happens to the market is more interesting (if it's true that such a process works at volume outside the lab...most cool inventions don't as we all know well).
-g
PS: trivia question: who's the world's largest retailer of Coke? Answer: BP. As a guy I knew on the managing board put it to me: they're experienced at selling black sticky liquids -- which one doesn't matter as long as it's profitable.
USB sticks are almost all FAT formatted, and Apple did put support for FAT in the OS (they need it for most, if not all, cameras and the like anyway). Personally I have never seen an NTFS-formatted USB stick in the wild, though sure, I believe one or two users might have made one.
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I know, that fucker Jobs refused to put a fan in the iPhone and now look at it -- the glass screens shatter!
I tell you, I'm not buying another smart phone unless it comes with both CPU fan (on an upgradable CPU) and 80 mm case fan.
Reminds me that the last time such a directive came down from DOT, New York City . Which was a bit of a shame. A minor issue in the grand scheme of things but just another sign of the marching blandicization of modern society.
Gee, you keep the crappy part of the mouse interface (your hand leaves the keyboard) and abandon the one mitigating advantage: tactile feedback.
Pfui....from the subject I had hoped this article was reducing dependency on the mouse in the interface.
I don't understand this statement. Apple's gcc team (e.g. snaroff et al) have supported integrating their Objective C implementation into the main line of gcc since the NeXT days -- almost 20 years. They worked with us at Cygnus to make this happen, including all the hassle to make ObjC++ work. Now they seem to be seriously investing in LLVM/CLang and why not?
Self-serving? Sure, most FOSS projects are, in the end. There are plenty of legit reasons to criticise Apple, but I would not consider their nature and level of support for FOSS (App store excepted) to be one of them.
If you're a nerd you've presumably read the FDA's advice on tattoos.. There's no controlled clinical data on the inks or their systemic effects.
You might think that there's good de facto trial data simply because hundreds of millions of tattoos have been given and many of the recipients have lived to ripe old ages. Sounds OK...but since the pigments are unregulated it's not like there's really large populations of known users. And the huge explosion of tattooing over the last few years, and the concomitant arrival of new inks, makes the longitudinal data less relevant.
Plus your skin is designed to keep stuff out. Do you really want to circumvent that? Once it's inside...well read the part about the dyes showing up in the lymph nodes. Who knows what the toxic doses are?
In future please include with your post the serial number of the mandatory quote license you purchased before including Lucasfilm's copyrighted material in the body of your post.
Good point, I tend to think that most people look for a drug like this as an alternative (or "quick fix") to a healthy lifestyle. But assuming that isn't the case, I presume your question is one of chronic or long term use.
In that regard I would be cautious about taking any pharmacological agent. Very few drugs are tested for long term effect, especially not neuro drugs. You really have no idea what effect prolonged use of Adderall might have on your neurochemistry. Plenty of studies by the military have shown deleterious effects of the use of amphetamines, and more to the point, have shown them ineffective in general for improving cognitive function (although they increase perceived cognitive performance). They aren't routinely given to pilots as they were in WWI for example.
(The use of stimulants in treatment of what appear to be neurochemical disorders is another matter, which I don't get into here. In those cases the long term side effects, if any, may outweigh the risks of non treatment).
If you want a long-term neurostimulant, really only one has had any serious longitudinal study: Nicotine. It is well known for its beneficial cognitive effects; its pharmacodynamics have been studied for decades. Unfortunately it has some serious side effects, but in general is believed by many to be a wonder drug for both healthy and unhealthy users.
These long term studies are very complicated and expensive by the way, so don't expect a lot of them to be done. I say this as an former pharma guy myself, although I never worked on a drug intended to be used like Adderall. And I am not an M.D so take all this with a grain of salt.
A healthy diet and exercise, followed by a good night's sleep (which will be facilitated by the exercise).
Next up after that: a good social network -- friends, family, etc.
This has been known for thousands of years. I haven't heard of any shortcut, sorry.
The TSA and their guidelines are no longer private by any means. They are thoroughly up the government's ass.
The constitution says ol' Uncle Sam can't perform unreasonable searches or seizures without a warrant, and that to issue a warrant they need probable cause. Probable cause must be supported by things that have happened or someone testifies has happened (see oath or affirmation) regarding the specific person. FUD about terrorism does not count, no matter how real the threat is.
You may say that, and it may even make sense (it does make sense to me) but the government has pretty clearly ruled that you are wrong, in part by relying on a secret law that cannot be quoted in court.
John Gilmore worked this one through pretty thoroughly, and has the details on his web site.
I wrote the LGPL v1 and badgered RMS into allowing it (John Gilmore thought up the great dynamic linking clause). RMS's biggest objection back then was exactly the case you give.
I still think in the balance the library license is a net positive for the FSF's cause. But this hinges on the definition of a "derivative work"
Actually there is a browser to launch -- it's just the tag decoder app instead of Safari/Opera/whatever. Or a button to press. If not, that is if it reads any tag it sees in its visual field, then it's meatspace spam fodder. Or not just meatspace....I could mail you a JPEG with the image in it and boom.
Just the usual hype-o-rama.
Look I'm sorry but The Beatles are nowhere NEAR Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and the likes.
I agree with the "Beethoven and the like" part, but Mozart really was the Lennon & Mccartney of his time, or as I actually think of him, the Christina Aguilera of his time. Largely pop and incidental music. Yes, he did write a significant requiem but it's not much compared with much of the work of Bach and Beethoven (who, to be fair, also wrote incidental music).
The big advantage of the Prius for Toyota was the experience of developing an electric vehicle infrastructure. Not just the external infrastructure (getting emergency personnel to learn how to open one up in an accident without being killed, arranging all the battery management etc) but internal: electric power trains, distribution systems etc at volume. They are way further down the learning curve (in the real manufacturing meaning of the word I mean) on this than anyone else at this point, even Honda.
It was gravy that it sold well and now is beyond "gravy" in its volume, image, etc. But it would have been a success without that just for the learning.
...just like everywhere but the US metric is the standard.
I don't know which countries have not standardised on the metric system, but certainly the USA is not among them.
In fact, the USA was one of the very early adopters and is one of the original signatories to the original metric treaty! Since then the united states inch has officially been defined to be 2.54 cm.
Which proves the original poster's point: there's a difference between a legal, international standard and customary usage.
FWIW I did my engineering education in the USA; we did physics in cgs, engineering (flight) dynamics in mks and mech E / manufacturing etc in mils, inches, foot-pounds etc. Nobody particularly cared (and note that cgs isn't SI). This was mid 1980s MIT and things may have changed over the past 20 years. Personally I do not approve of the use of the metric system (neither the size of the units nor the decimal divisor) despite living for years quite close to the Kilogramme in France.
Oh yeah, here's a NIST link that explains some of this.
If you don't care, give (or sell) them the name.
If you like your transfer contract could require them to forward mail to you for a fixed term (e.g. 5 years) and even give you reversion rights (e.g. if they go out of business or sell their company to a bigger company you get the domain back or have the right to buy it back or something). They might not want to agree to those terms in which case you can part as friends (or you could say ok, I can live without the thing they don't like). That's how business is done.
Absolutely minimal lawyering required, and they could pay for your tiny legal bill. If you pick a good lawyer the bill need only be for an hour or two. Even an outrageously expensive lawyer won't be too much if it's only an hour or two.
Since McCain is running for the post of President for Life she would likely become the first female president of the USA.
(Personally I don't think one's sex or race makes you better or worse for the job, and making a decision, pro or con, based on one or the other is stupid).
(C) Keep your money, and spend it on health care when and where you choose.
I can afford option C and used it, until I had to go urgent care. Since I was not an acute case (I just had a broken limb) I got to wait at the end of the queue. Eventually (after talking to the resident who did get to see me) that despite how I was dressed they assumed I was a deadbeat and that they'd be eating the costs.
To be fair indigent gunshot victims went ahead of me, as they should. But dammit I read both of the books AND the NYRB that I'd brought with me before I was seen!
Excellent example, thanks!
In fact I have trouble thinking of an example that fits your claim. Basically the key to British (and most) fame is to be famous in your lifetime first. And hell, it's more fun that way.
iPod is a bad example. Reed Hastings is on the board of Microsoft, a company known for eliminating features customers want.
.., but at least I haven't had any garbled junk land in my browser yet with the message "Upgrade your service to see this website". Ever had the message "you must upgrade your browser to XXX" or "You must upgrade FLASH to read this page"?OK then: "TK's car is safer than accidentally opening goatse."
As in, "Chap acquitted?"
Think of these guys as financial companies with enormous cash flow who use a brick-n-mortar operation to get very good quasi-realtime information as to what's going on at the market at each stage.
The non-integrated firms will suffer or not depending on what part of the market they work in. C'est la vie.
To me what happens to these companies isn't interesting. What happens to the market is more interesting (if it's true that such a process works at volume outside the lab...most cool inventions don't as we all know well).
-g
PS: trivia question: who's the world's largest retailer of Coke? Answer: BP. As a guy I knew on the managing board put it to me: they're experienced at selling black sticky liquids -- which one doesn't matter as long as it's profitable.
USB sticks are almost all FAT formatted, and Apple did put support for FAT in the OS (they need it for most, if not all, cameras and the like anyway). Personally I have never seen an NTFS-formatted USB stick in the wild, though sure, I believe one or two users might have made one.
It's all a question of diminishing returns.