Maybe, but it won't be a slam dunk hit like the Ipod. Apple trumped the competition by having the smallest form factor for a hard disk player and the cleanest design and UI. The portable video player market is more crowded, and you'll need a bigger form factor for a usable screen. IMHO, portable DVD players at the $200 price point will be the biggest sellers. There's just no way Apple will make an Imovie for Video Ipod that'll let you rip DVDs to Quicktime.
He's talking about SUVs and pickups being classified by the EPA as light trucks so they meet lower fuel economy standards and therefore don't pay a gas guzzler tax the way big cars do. I don't think there should be a gas guzzler tax on real trucks and commercial vehicles because you can't do any heavy hauling with a 22MPG vehicle, but these SUVs are being used as personal passenger vehicles and should meet the same standards as cars.
And what happens when everybody who wants an Ipod has one? Wasn't that Palm's problem, market saturation? It's not like Ipods have a 1 or 2 year upgrade cycle, where they'll have repeat buyers. Those 1st gen 5GB owners might be looking to upgrade, but the rest are good enough to keep for a long time, or at least 3-4 years until the rechargable battery wears out.
That's the best part of wireless phone service. With the free night and weekend minutes and free domestic long distance, I talk as long as I want. Compared to that, those long distance offers for landlines are laughable.
Gaming rigs are not a waste of money. The only marginal cost of a gaming PC over a business PC is the video card and game controllers. So you spend $150 more for a midrange video card (or $400 for top of the line, but you could justifiably call that a waste of money) and you get a fast PC that you could use for work too. On the CPU side, you might feel stupid for buying a $500 CPU that drops to $200 in less than a year, but that's it. The cases, power supplies and motherboards have pretty stable price points, and with all those components, quality costs more.
"If it wasn't for that kind of penis-substitute-mindset, we would have practical laptops with eight-plus hour battery life rather than ones with 2.8ghz P4s that can't make it to three hours."
Apple tried it with the very first Mac Portable in 1989, and it was a valiant but flawed effort. Sure, it had an 8 hour battery life, but it also weighed 17lbs thanks to a huge lead-acid battery and had a monochrome non-backlit screen.
The Li-Ion batteries these days are so small and light, they could easily double or triple the battery size while keeping it all under 10lbs. It's really a no-brainer. I don't know why more companies don't do it.
Or you can adjust your schedule because all the traffic just doubled or tripled your driving time at rush hour. An electric car does nothing to help traffic or parking congestion. Cars are good for late night and weekends when public transit is infrequent and traffic is light, but if there's public transit running along your usual commute route AND it saves time or money, why not use it?
What we really need is better urban planning so there's more places to go within walking or bicycling distance and also put more affordable housing near employment centers to reduce long distance commuting. Not that it'll ever happen...
People talk about using their bluetooth phones to connect laptops and PDAs to the internet, but what kind of security is there? Last I heard, bluetooth relies on low power and short range for security. What's to stop someone from leeching off your wireless minutes in a crowded public place or sniffing the password you typed from the next office cubicle?
Many laptops are marginal with cooling. It's not a good idea to run then at full CPU load for hours and hours. My Dell P-III laptop gets too hot to touch at full CPU load on AC power. An earlier Dell P-II laptop melted a rubber band into the top of my coffee table.
Not just that. They'll have the range of a... cordless phone! Those 2.4GHz cordless phones use the same unlicensed frequencies and transmit with about as much power as Wifi. Not very useful if you're driving around town between hotspots, but might be good for a campus type environment. You can squeeze more calls into the spectrum with VoIP.
"I see you do not count Catholics as Christians, since they view Jesus Christ as divine, while Yahweh has no Jesus Christ in it."
So? Moslems consider Jesus a prophet. Compared to that, your narrow distinction between Catholics and Christians is splitting hairs. That's factionalism from people who have more in common than different. God the Father still refers to the same entity as Allah and Yahweh.
"You capitalized the word God. The word god is a noun, except when it is capitalized, meaning the Christian God. There is a big difference."
Yes indeed, that was the fatal flaw in his argument where he contradicted himself. God capitalized is as specific in English as Yahweh in Hebrew and Allah in Arabic, and they all refer to the same Judeo-Christian God. Even if he were logically consistent and wrote "god", it's a very tough case to argue that "under God" in the pledge refers to a generic god who could just as easily be Vishnu, Zeus, Gaea or the Emperor of Japan.
Work study labor is subsidized by the school's financial aid. The employer (usually a university dept.) only pays about 1/4 of the student's wages. Is it too much to ask for the project to budget $2/hr for labor?
As for SATA, whoop-de-freakin-doo. Find any sysadmin who'd trade Ultra320 SCSI for SATA. The example I gave for a $4000 Dell 2650 server includes $2600 worth of Intel Xeon. The same system with dual 2.8Ghz Xeons is $2900. $100 less than a G5 tower built with (cheaper) desktop class hardware. Ok, so it doesn't have a DVD burner. I'll spot you the $100 there, and they're even again.
I'm not trying to bash Apple. They've caught up with Wintel in CPU speed, the rest of the components are commidity, and the prices are in the ballpark of high end desktops. Throw in that Steve Jobs signature hype, and it's a winning combo.
If you excuse the expression, this is apple and oranges. The UT cluster uses server class hardware, Dell Poweredge 1750's and 2650's. They're 1U and 2U rack mount servers available with dual power supplies and remote management down to the BIOS level. The top of the line processor is a dual Xeon 3.06Ghz 1MB cache. Dell charges $1300 list just for the processor. The 2.4Ghz Xeon with 512K cache is a better value at $500. Even then a 2650 with dual 3.06Ghz Xeons, SCSI disk and dual power supplies is $4000. Not that far off from a dual 2Ghz G5. I'm not sure how you get 7 times the cost of the VT cluster from that. 300 servers at $4000 each is $1.2M. Maybe UT paid work study students $6/hr to set it up while VT had volunteer labor.
They already do that. Just about every vulnerability report about Microsoft has followed so-called responsible disclosure guidelines. First, the discoverer contacts the vendor. Vendor acknowledges the bug and discoverer waits a reasonable time while vendor comes up with patch. When the patch is ready discoverer and vendor announce it the same day, and vendor thanks so and so in the security bulletin for finding the bug.
There's still a time window to hack between the announcement of the bug and when most systems get patched. In the case of Blaster, the worm was release less than a month after the announcement.
The real danger with keeping quiet is the so-called 0-day exploits. If less ethical security researchers find vulnerabilities and not tell anybody, or if a vulnerability gets leaked before the official announcement, we're all worse off.
Executable bit don't mean shit. If your desktop environment uses bash to open.sh files or perl to open.pl files you're screwed. Those things can be just as dangerous as an ELF executable.
I have this combo running Windows Mobile 2003. It's not the best hardware for this job, but I can report my results. So far Pocket WinC and Boingo work with 2003. Others are supposed to be working on 2003 compatibility too. I haven't compared first hand, but the forums on Aximsite say the Dell TM1180 has shit for range but it's efficient with power. CF wifi cards are less powerful than PCMCIA, but it seems the Dell is the worst of the lot. If you need range, they sell a CF-PCMCIA adapter for PDAs. It'll stick out 5 inches out the top of the PDA, but that's not a problem if you're wardriving or put it in a bag. You should also check the power consumption so you don't overload your CF slot.
Well yes, binary executables are specific to processor architecture and OS, but my point is that if a user launches an executable by his choice, the OS has no way of knowing if this is a spam trojan proxy server or if it's a legit proxy server.
Affiliate programs are deliberately designed to shield the parent company from complaints about spam or deceptive advertising. I guarantee you, 99% of those LOSE WEIGHT spams are selling Berrytrim or Herbalife, but you won't see those names until you respond and show some interest because the parent company doesn't want complaints about spam or other shady advertising coming back to them.
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Maybe, but it won't be a slam dunk hit like the Ipod. Apple trumped the competition by having the smallest form factor for a hard disk player and the cleanest design and UI. The portable video player market is more crowded, and you'll need a bigger form factor for a usable screen. IMHO, portable DVD players at the $200 price point will be the biggest sellers. There's just no way Apple will make an Imovie for Video Ipod that'll let you rip DVDs to Quicktime.
He's talking about SUVs and pickups being classified by the EPA as light trucks so they meet lower fuel economy standards and therefore don't pay a gas guzzler tax the way big cars do. I don't think there should be a gas guzzler tax on real trucks and commercial vehicles because you can't do any heavy hauling with a 22MPG vehicle, but these SUVs are being used as personal passenger vehicles and should meet the same standards as cars.
And what happens when everybody who wants an Ipod has one? Wasn't that Palm's problem, market saturation? It's not like Ipods have a 1 or 2 year upgrade cycle, where they'll have repeat buyers. Those 1st gen 5GB owners might be looking to upgrade, but the rest are good enough to keep for a long time, or at least 3-4 years until the rechargable battery wears out.
That's the best part of wireless phone service. With the free night and weekend minutes and free domestic long distance, I talk as long as I want. Compared to that, those long distance offers for landlines are laughable.
That's all it is really. A microscopic water turbine generator but without the moving parts, and not a very efficient one at this early stage either.
Gaming rigs are not a waste of money. The only marginal cost of a gaming PC over a business PC is the video card and game controllers. So you spend $150 more for a midrange video card (or $400 for top of the line, but you could justifiably call that a waste of money) and you get a fast PC that you could use for work too. On the CPU side, you might feel stupid for buying a $500 CPU that drops to $200 in less than a year, but that's it. The cases, power supplies and motherboards have pretty stable price points, and with all those components, quality costs more.
"If it wasn't for that kind of penis-substitute-mindset, we would have practical laptops with eight-plus hour battery life rather than ones with 2.8ghz P4s that can't make it to three hours."
Apple tried it with the very first Mac Portable in 1989, and it was a valiant but flawed effort. Sure, it had an 8 hour battery life, but it also weighed 17lbs thanks to a huge lead-acid battery and had a monochrome non-backlit screen.
The Li-Ion batteries these days are so small and light, they could easily double or triple the battery size while keeping it all under 10lbs. It's really a no-brainer. I don't know why more companies don't do it.
Or you can adjust your schedule because all the traffic just doubled or tripled your driving time at rush hour. An electric car does nothing to help traffic or parking congestion. Cars are good for late night and weekends when public transit is infrequent and traffic is light, but if there's public transit running along your usual commute route AND it saves time or money, why not use it?
What we really need is better urban planning so there's more places to go within walking or bicycling distance and also put more affordable housing near employment centers to reduce long distance commuting. Not that it'll ever happen...
People talk about using their bluetooth phones to connect laptops and PDAs to the internet, but what kind of security is there? Last I heard, bluetooth relies on low power and short range for security. What's to stop someone from leeching off your wireless minutes in a crowded public place or sniffing the password you typed from the next office cubicle?
Did they remove the fridge from the break room too? That's pretty dumb. Leftovers + no refrigeration = food poisoning.
A cooler with reusable blue ice will keep drinks cold for over a day, and the small ones are easy enough to carry home every day.
Many laptops are marginal with cooling. It's not a good idea to run then at full CPU load for hours and hours. My Dell P-III laptop gets too hot to touch at full CPU load on AC power. An earlier Dell P-II laptop melted a rubber band into the top of my coffee table.
Not just that. They'll have the range of a... cordless phone! Those 2.4GHz cordless phones use the same unlicensed frequencies and transmit with about as much power as Wifi. Not very useful if you're driving around town between hotspots, but might be good for a campus type environment. You can squeeze more calls into the spectrum with VoIP.
"I see you do not count Catholics as Christians, since they view Jesus Christ as divine, while Yahweh has no Jesus Christ in it."
So? Moslems consider Jesus a prophet. Compared to that, your narrow distinction between Catholics and Christians is splitting hairs. That's factionalism from people who have more in common than different. God the Father still refers to the same entity as Allah and Yahweh.
"You capitalized the word God. The word god is a noun, except when it is capitalized, meaning the Christian God. There is a big difference."
Yes indeed, that was the fatal flaw in his argument where he contradicted himself. God capitalized is as specific in English as Yahweh in Hebrew and Allah in Arabic, and they all refer to the same Judeo-Christian God. Even if he were logically consistent and wrote "god", it's a very tough case to argue that "under God" in the pledge refers to a generic god who could just as easily be Vishnu, Zeus, Gaea or the Emperor of Japan.
But then you'd get Strom Thurmond and Co. complaining that "indivisible" is Yankee propaganda to justify the War of Northern Aggression.
Work study labor is subsidized by the school's financial aid. The employer (usually a university dept.) only pays about 1/4 of the student's wages. Is it too much to ask for the project to budget $2/hr for labor?
As for SATA, whoop-de-freakin-doo. Find any sysadmin who'd trade Ultra320 SCSI for SATA. The example I gave for a $4000 Dell 2650 server includes $2600 worth of Intel Xeon. The same system with dual 2.8Ghz Xeons is $2900. $100 less than a G5 tower built with (cheaper) desktop class hardware. Ok, so it doesn't have a DVD burner. I'll spot you the $100 there, and they're even again.
I'm not trying to bash Apple. They've caught up with Wintel in CPU speed, the rest of the components are commidity, and the prices are in the ballpark of high end desktops. Throw in that Steve Jobs signature hype, and it's a winning combo.
If you excuse the expression, this is apple and oranges. The UT cluster uses server class hardware, Dell Poweredge 1750's and 2650's. They're 1U and 2U rack mount servers available with dual power supplies and remote management down to the BIOS level. The top of the line processor is a dual Xeon 3.06Ghz 1MB cache. Dell charges $1300 list just for the processor. The 2.4Ghz Xeon with 512K cache is a better value at $500. Even then a 2650 with dual 3.06Ghz Xeons, SCSI disk and dual power supplies is $4000. Not that far off from a dual 2Ghz G5. I'm not sure how you get 7 times the cost of the VT cluster from that. 300 servers at $4000 each is $1.2M. Maybe UT paid work study students $6/hr to set it up while VT had volunteer labor.
They already do that. Just about every vulnerability report about Microsoft has followed so-called responsible disclosure guidelines. First, the discoverer contacts the vendor. Vendor acknowledges the bug and discoverer waits a reasonable time while vendor comes up with patch. When the patch is ready discoverer and vendor announce it the same day, and vendor thanks so and so in the security bulletin for finding the bug.
There's still a time window to hack between the announcement of the bug and when most systems get patched. In the case of Blaster, the worm was release less than a month after the announcement.
The real danger with keeping quiet is the so-called 0-day exploits. If less ethical security researchers find vulnerabilities and not tell anybody, or if a vulnerability gets leaked before the official announcement, we're all worse off.
Yeah, you could call the worm AutoSARS, har har.
Um, well Blair is Bush's lapdog anyway so England doesn't count as another country. Uhhh, yeahhhh that's it.
Executable bit don't mean shit. If your desktop environment uses bash to open .sh files or perl to open .pl files you're screwed. Those things can be just as dangerous as an ELF executable.
s/England/France/
Correct except for the last:
Vivendi - France
Bertelsmann - Germany
Sony - Japan
Time Warner - USA
I have this combo running Windows Mobile 2003. It's not the best hardware for this job, but I can report my results. So far Pocket WinC and Boingo work with 2003. Others are supposed to be working on 2003 compatibility too. I haven't compared first hand, but the forums on Aximsite say the Dell TM1180 has shit for range but it's efficient with power. CF wifi cards are less powerful than PCMCIA, but it seems the Dell is the worst of the lot. If you need range, they sell a CF-PCMCIA adapter for PDAs. It'll stick out 5 inches out the top of the PDA, but that's not a problem if you're wardriving or put it in a bag. You should also check the power consumption so you don't overload your CF slot.
Well yes, binary executables are specific to processor architecture and OS, but my point is that if a user launches an executable by his choice, the OS has no way of knowing if this is a spam trojan proxy server or if it's a legit proxy server.
Affiliate programs are deliberately designed to shield the parent company from complaints about spam or deceptive advertising. I guarantee you, 99% of those LOSE WEIGHT spams are selling Berrytrim or Herbalife, but you won't see those names until you respond and show some interest because the parent company doesn't want complaints about spam or other shady advertising coming back to them.