I think that's the point of putting something on this asteroid - it's an extraplanetary explorer with its own momentum and trajactory already. The moon? We've seen that. Where's this thing going? I don't know, but it could be pretty cool to find out.
The problem is, right now it's the companies taking the risk. If somebody uses your card and it's not you, it's pretty easy for you to prove it wasn't you - the records (signatures, etc.) will not match up to you, so claiming fraud is a relatively simple process. The company that's not checking ID is betting their own money.
When you start using fingerprint IDs, fraud will be much harder on your end to prove if someone obtains a copy of your fingerprint. Proving fraud will be a much more difficuly procedure.
You don't think that Ford's application of the assembly line to automotive manufacturing doesn't count as engineering? You're right, that's definitely marketing.
Yes, the *act* of making something popular is a marketing field, but making it possible to make something popular - now that's applied engineering.
I think you're missing the point, along with every other reply here. The OP said "invented" when he probably should have said "popularised," but the intent it virtually the same. Ford is remembered as the person who brought cars to the masses, and Apple is already being remembered as the MP3 player company.
Neither one invented all the concepts involved, but refined them and dressed them up for mass consumtion.
It was *NOT* officially hot-pluggable. It would likely work, but the connector was not engineered to be used this way and it was quite possible to fry either your device or the ADB controller if you got unlucky.
In addition, these machines could run everything up through OS 9. My parents still have a Performa 636CD (same as yours, different software bundle) running Mac OS 8.1 at home. (It would run OS 9, but that started to get rather slow on non-PPC Macs.)
and allows for devices 2/3 the size of existing MMC products...it has been designed to be compatible with the existing SD/MMC format at reduced speeds.
I presume we won't see the improvements in device size until they drop the MMC backwards-compatibility.
Yeah, so sorry about the AIDS you already contracted.
Remember: the only safe computing is NO COMPUTING. If you feel like you have to use a computer, then staying off-line is the only sure way to stay disease-free. There's nothing shameful about it; you'll not go blind.
Now, since I know you kids are going to want to play your Counter Strike anyway, it's best to make sure you only game with people you already know and trust. Don't deathmatch with that hussy you found at the airport bar, and never accept files from strangers. You don't know who else they've swapped files with.
You know, there are going to be (are already?) an awful lot of lonely guys due to the cultural valuation of male children over female. That is, assuming the stories I've heard of abortions/infanticide are as widespread as some would have you believe.
They use PC2700 modules; $325 is still an almost-50% markup from retail for other vendors, and you can be sure it costs apple far less than Crucial will be selling it to you for, nevermind their savings in not including the standard 256 MB module.
Infact I'm pretty sure DVDs use MP3 for the soundtrack.
I'm pretty sure you're misinformed. DVDs have multiple standards for audio, ranging from PCM to Dolby Digital and DTS 6.1 encoding - but none of them are so much as based on MP3. (What you're likely thinking of is all the DVD rips you used to download from Suprnova, where the original AC3 audio had been remuxed and recompressed into MP3 to shrink the total file size.)
In additon, the realtime ATRAC encoders in MiniDisc recorders are known to be quite good, while it wouldn't be surprising in the least if the realtime MP3 encoders in portable players wasn't all that great. Yes, it's not the the format or the bitrate but the encoder itself that really dictates the quality of your output.
Get one of the One-For-All universal remotes, they're cheap and the slightly-more-expensive ones ($15 or so) can be flash-upgraded with new device codes and completely customized kemaps. To do this you'll have to be willing to geek out quite a bit to learn how to program the remote, but they're very powerful when you get down to it.
A good suggestion is the OFA URC-8811 which can be purchased at your freindly naighborhood Wal-Mart for cheap and used right away, then soft-upgraded later when you want to get the absolute most out of it.
That would make sense, if they didn't sell entirely too many BOXED COPIES of the game for them to handle. If they had done proper testing, they should have known approximately what kind of hardware was required on a per-user basis. If they were intelligent about this, they would have anticipated selling most of the original stock. It's pretty simple math.
"Okay, it takes one such-and-such class server for every 2,500 users. We've got 1,000,000 copies of the game in production, so let's get 400 servers up and running. Heck, throw in an additional 50 for a margin of safety."
Surely they could anticipate demand in the way - after all, with any faith at all in their game-producing abilities, they would know that eventually selling out original stock would happen and they'd have to print more - at which time things could be upgraded.
Bu, they apparently manufactured twice as many as they could reasonably handle. That's a bit irresponsible.
Hell you would have at least had some profit if you invested in Apple...
SOME profit? That's a major understatement. Try 200% profit if you invested at ~$23 like I did. Of course, I only purchased 20 shares, but a profit's still a profit;)
...cautioned the reader to take the material with a grain of salt. This is *always* good advice: people should never blindly accept any theory as fact.
They're just charging a huge amount for the gig of RAM. After all, they install the RAM when manufacturing. It's nto like they take a 256 machine and then retrofit it with more memory after it's been boxed up. In addition, you'll note that the 512 MB option is quite reasonable in comparison - and that would requite just as much effort on their part to install as the 1 GB option.
I would hope the computer'd be reliable enough to stay functional through warranty, and adding 20% of the cost for an extended warranty seems like gambling an awful lot to me.
It's not your fault; vegetables are notoriously hard to benchmark accurately. What you need is to come up with a real-world test for them to measure up against.
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I do find it entertaining that as soon as we started taking ever-increasing speed gains for granted, they stopped coming so fast...
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I think that's the point of putting something on this asteroid - it's an extraplanetary explorer with its own momentum and trajactory already. The moon? We've seen that. Where's this thing going? I don't know, but it could be pretty cool to find out.
The problem is, right now it's the companies taking the risk. If somebody uses your card and it's not you, it's pretty easy for you to prove it wasn't you - the records (signatures, etc.) will not match up to you, so claiming fraud is a relatively simple process. The company that's not checking ID is betting their own money.
When you start using fingerprint IDs, fraud will be much harder on your end to prove if someone obtains a copy of your fingerprint. Proving fraud will be a much more difficuly procedure.
Way to miss the forest for the trees; strike two.
You don't think that Ford's application of the assembly line to automotive manufacturing doesn't count as engineering? You're right, that's definitely marketing.
Yes, the *act* of making something popular is a marketing field, but making it possible to make something popular - now that's applied engineering.
I think you're missing the point, along with every other reply here. The OP said "invented" when he probably should have said "popularised," but the intent it virtually the same. Ford is remembered as the person who brought cars to the masses, and Apple is already being remembered as the MP3 player company.
Neither one invented all the concepts involved, but refined them and dressed them up for mass consumtion.
It was *NOT* officially hot-pluggable. It would likely work, but the connector was not engineered to be used this way and it was quite possible to fry either your device or the ADB controller if you got unlucky.
The PPC upgrade did make it to market, but wasn't reasonably priced.
See here for reference.
In addition, these machines could run everything up through OS 9. My parents still have a Performa 636CD (same as yours, different software bundle) running Mac OS 8.1 at home. (It would run OS 9, but that started to get rather slow on non-PPC Macs.)
and allows for devices 2/3 the size of existing MMC products...it has been designed to be compatible with the existing SD/MMC format at reduced speeds.
I presume we won't see the improvements in device size until they drop the MMC backwards-compatibility.
Yeah, so sorry about the AIDS you already contracted.
Remember: the only safe computing is NO COMPUTING. If you feel like you have to use a computer, then staying off-line is the only sure way to stay disease-free. There's nothing shameful about it; you'll not go blind.
Now, since I know you kids are going to want to play your Counter Strike anyway, it's best to make sure you only game with people you already know and trust. Don't deathmatch with that hussy you found at the airport bar, and never accept files from strangers. You don't know who else they've swapped files with.
You know, there are going to be (are already?) an awful lot of lonely guys due to the cultural valuation of male children over female. That is, assuming the stories I've heard of abortions/infanticide are as widespread as some would have you believe.
Have you checked the right page for Mini-compatible modules?
They use PC2700 modules; $325 is still an almost-50% markup from retail for other vendors, and you can be sure it costs apple far less than Crucial will be selling it to you for, nevermind their savings in not including the standard 256 MB module.
No, you're feeding a pedant, which is entirely different - because OS X *is* UNIX in every sense, while Linux still is (officially) not.
Infact I'm pretty sure DVDs use MP3 for the soundtrack.
I'm pretty sure you're misinformed. DVDs have multiple standards for audio, ranging from PCM to Dolby Digital and DTS 6.1 encoding - but none of them are so much as based on MP3. (What you're likely thinking of is all the DVD rips you used to download from Suprnova, where the original AC3 audio had been remuxed and recompressed into MP3 to shrink the total file size.)
In additon, the realtime ATRAC encoders in MiniDisc recorders are known to be quite good, while it wouldn't be surprising in the least if the realtime MP3 encoders in portable players wasn't all that great. Yes, it's not the the format or the bitrate but the encoder itself that really dictates the quality of your output.
Get one of the One-For-All universal remotes, they're cheap and the slightly-more-expensive ones ($15 or so) can be flash-upgraded with new device codes and completely customized kemaps. To do this you'll have to be willing to geek out quite a bit to learn how to program the remote, but they're very powerful when you get down to it.
A good suggestion is the OFA URC-8811 which can be purchased at your freindly naighborhood Wal-Mart for cheap and used right away, then soft-upgraded later when you want to get the absolute most out of it.
Learn more about all this here.
That would make sense, if they didn't sell entirely too many BOXED COPIES of the game for them to handle. If they had done proper testing, they should have known approximately what kind of hardware was required on a per-user basis. If they were intelligent about this, they would have anticipated selling most of the original stock. It's pretty simple math.
"Okay, it takes one such-and-such class server for every 2,500 users. We've got 1,000,000 copies of the game in production, so let's get 400 servers up and running. Heck, throw in an additional 50 for a margin of safety."
Surely they could anticipate demand in the way - after all, with any faith at all in their game-producing abilities, they would know that eventually selling out original stock would happen and they'd have to print more - at which time things could be upgraded.
Bu, they apparently manufactured twice as many as they could reasonably handle. That's a bit irresponsible.
Uh, the original story said immortality should be acheivable by 2030. The OP said Social Security would fail a year later.
With millions of people living forever, retiring at 65, they'd be drawing social security for a logn long time, dooming the system.
THAT's the point. It's a joke.
Sheesh.
Hell you would have at least had some profit if you invested in Apple...
;)
SOME profit? That's a major understatement. Try 200% profit if you invested at ~$23 like I did. Of course, I only purchased 20 shares, but a profit's still a profit
...cautioned the reader to take the material with a grain of salt. This is *always* good advice: people should never blindly accept any theory as fact.
Don't forget that the school system does not want you to question authority...
(Look up John Gatto, he's got some interesting writing out there.)
That's nowhere near as exciting as I was hoping.
Care to clarify? As in...Fight club for MEs?
And what abotu EEs? Can they get in on the action?
Hey now, just 'cause Santa doesn't exist doesn't mean his reindeer can't fly.
They're just charging a huge amount for the gig of RAM. After all, they install the RAM when manufacturing. It's nto like they take a 256 machine and then retrofit it with more memory after it's been boxed up. In addition, you'll note that the 512 MB option is quite reasonable in comparison - and that would requite just as much effort on their part to install as the 1 GB option.
Why the hearty recommendation of AppleCare?
I would hope the computer'd be reliable enough to stay functional through warranty, and adding 20% of the cost for an extended warranty seems like gambling an awful lot to me.
Has a SourceForge project to port to Linux been started yet?
It's not your fault; vegetables are notoriously hard to benchmark accurately. What you need is to come up with a real-world test for them to measure up against.
I do find it entertaining that as soon as we started taking ever-increasing speed gains for granted, they stopped coming so fast...