Apple switched because they're sick of IBM marketing writing checks that IBM manufacturing can't deliver.
This vapor-chip is no different than the 1GHz multicore G4 (in large numbers) IBM promised when the first G4's were delivered.
Apple is probably not worried that IBM might actually deliver on this promise.
Look, I'd much rather see Apple stick to a multi-chip strategy, or just stick with PPC, myself. Because I think (and we're already seeing it) that even with VERY slick emulators and fat binary technology, switching from PPC to Intel is going to end up being a usability nightmare for non-technical users: (hey, your web browser still works, but not your plugins), and a compatability nightmare for technical users: (hey, your Photoshop/Video Editing/Audio Editing software still works, but not your favorite 5 year old set of plugins). But at the end of the day, there's only so many broken promises and marketing bullshit you can put up with from IBM. True - with the G5, it seemed, IBM was FINALLY delivering on the promise that was made when the PowerPC platform first was dreamed up in the early 1990's. Except that they hobbled the chip by getting rid of the litte/big endian translation, which made x86 emulation SLOWER than on the previous generation. Then they promised low heat and power consumption - making the high-end G5 Power Macs "whisper quiet" - until Apple learned that these machines were running dangerously hot, and had to patch the firmware to crank up the fans (yeah, I remember when I first got my dual G5, it *was* whisper-quiet. But not after the second OS update. . . ) - face it. Apple trusted Motorola, and got screwed. They trusted IBM, and got screwed. They know they can trust Intel, because if Intel screws them, then Dell, Gateway, and a zillion other manufacturers will go to AMD, and Apple can to. That's really the bottom line.
that's true, in a scene where you're in the pilot's POV or space.
But the sound effects are getting less subtle, more "global" in scope (applying in scenes or situations where there's no feeling of being in the pilot's POV).
I'm just saying it's a trend I'm noticing. And it's been very subtle, so far. I don't know if there's someone in the production-chain saying that it needs to be snazzed up a bit for the less-geeky crowd in order to attract a wider, lowbrow audience, and therefore more ad revenue, or what. But at some point, if this trend keeps going, it's going to become less subtle, the show's going to end up being indistinguishible from the original BSG series.
I don't think that any UAVs are flown entirely by computer. (at least no reusable ones - if you consider Cruise Missiles and the like to be UAVs. . . ). Most are more accurately called "remotely piloted vehicles" with a lot of computer assist.
A UAV operator is probably a lot cheaper to train, also probably has a much higher survival rate, probably needs much less education, and they could probably recruit droves of them at any Computer Gaming convention.
It's the downfall of Western Civilization, the Rule of Law, and the concept of a Constitutional Democratic Republic. As long as the right to spend money to influence the political process is equated with an essential liberty, then human greed can subvert it for it's ends, rather than the ends for which it was intended.
hmmm. I sense an eerie resonance between the content of your post, and your.sig. (ignoring the geek trivial fact that Daleks aren't really machines, but little slimy blobs who live inside machines).
On the other hand, droid fighters are no match for a Jedi-piloted starfighter.
. . . which is why I prefer BSG. If BSG becomes just another Star Wars clone, what's the point?
I don't pay a monthly cable/sat bill. I don't get any form of broadcast TV. I pick the shows I like, I either download them from iTMS, or I wait for the DVD (as is the case for BSG). I don't watch TV so that I can fill empty, bored hours that I would otherwise spend reading or doing home improvement projects. I watch TV shows that I like. If I re-activated my satellite service, found myself bored at 9pm one night and decided to veg on the couch, and watch whatever was on, I'd pick a Star Trek rerun over say, Fox News, or Survivor. Just because comparing those two, Star Trek would be the lesser of two (or two-hundred) evils.
But when I go out of my way to watch one show in particular, it's because the producers of that show have gone out of their way to portray their story in a particular way, that I happen to like. Other shows (the ones you mention, in particular) don't do this - and that's why I don't go out of my way (or waste my time) watching them.
I think that if all the cable and satellite vendor networks were suddenly forced to provide a la carte pricing, a lot of other people would suddenly find that they're much more choosy about what they spend their money on watching. And 99% of the crap programming would disappear. Maybe this revenue model wouldn't support the production costs of a show like BSG. Or maybe the competing revenue model (ie. "switch on the commercial, and suck off the teat") has artificially inflated production costs beyond what they otherwise would be, which has made a more meritocracy-based model in tv programming impossible to justify to the spreadsheet jockeys who run the networks. We'll never know until consumers get a real choice.
I've noticed - and the effect is subtle, that over the past few newer episodes, they seem to be doing more and more "sound effects in space" as well as not putting so much effort into newtonian physics in the space combat scenes. In particular; where the one pilot's gun jams and explodes, and leaves a smoke trail as the ship comes in for a landing. The ship bobs up and down as if it's experiencing aerodynamic effects, rather than venting, and the smoke trails behind the ship as if it's in an atmosphere, instead of expanding outward, and following along with a not-accelerating vehicle.
I'm frankly starting to get a bad feeling about this.
Then they go on to say that yes, there was unusual trading, but that it was explainable. But if that were the case, if the traders really do have an iron-clad alabi that it was just their good fortune, why was over $2.5 million in profits never claimed? Also note that if these trades were done as part of some strategy connected with the generally declining stock market, then why wasn't Delta given the same PUT option treament as AMR and UAL?
Probably not. The second batch of Abu Ghraib photos (and videos) which was ordered released by a federal judge, is still being withheld. But there is evidence in this second batch that wives (and possibly even children - possibly even MALE children) of accused (not proven) terrorists were raped as an intimidation tactic to provoke cooperation in interrogations.
I would hope that this is not true - and I would hope that the administration would release this material in order to prove that it is not true. Unfortunately, they continue to withold this material, in violation of a federal judge's order, supposedly on the grounds that it would endanger the lives of our troops if this material became public.
Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?).
AB Brown, the folks who have a former CEO now at #3 in the CIA. Also the outfit that sold the PUT options on UAL and AMR the morning of 9/11. No. I'm sure it's all just a funny concidence.
Powell made some very firm, very public pronouncements in early 1999 that he was not at all interested in a place in Bush's cabinet. Then the news speculation in mid 99 came about that he would be selected as SoS. Again, he said he wasn't interested. Then Bush called him to Crawford for a weekend. That following Monday, it was announced that Powell would be SoS. I suspect Karl Rove just handed Powell a manilla envelope with some embarrassing photos - (or perhaps something about his son, Michael Powell, the jackass who was running the FCC on the behest of Dobson's Focus on the Family Christofascist brigade) - and Powell folded. He went along with it just as long as he was useful, then got out. Bush and Rove rode on Powell's credibility, and burned it up in the process.
I dunno. Out of all the Cities in the US in which one could walk to work, I think San Francisco is about my favorite. Nothing beats walking past a public park at 6 am in the morning, filled with 100 or so octogenarian chinese-americans doing their tai-chi.
I've got news for you: 49.9% of American Voters also already know this. In fact, had you asked us in September of 2000, we would have told y'all that Bush was going to do exactly this!
Puts 24 year old campaign worker in charge of PR at NASA. ROFL! If it wasn't so creepy and pathetic it would be funny.
It kinda reminds me of Paul Reiser's character in Aliens - put in charge of a military mission (no military experience) to rescue colonists from a dangerous alien organism (no xenobiology experience) - and in the end screws up and gets everyone killed (except for Bishop, Ripley, and Newt - though Ripley gets infected anyway, and were Bishop human, he certainly wouldn't have survived getting ripped in half by the queen).
This is why you don't put hacks in charge of important things, and why buttkissing cronies are going to be the downfall of this civilization.
by having ordinary people, like farmers and regular working people, serve in Congress. He does this because he felt that the Founding Fathers intended legislators to be selected this way (and I agree). The system has gotten as messy as it is because it wasn't ever meant to be handled by career fat-cat politicians.
What it's meant to do and what the system needs are two different things. Term limits come from a place of great intentions, so I can't be totally critical. But the way it's worked in Califonia at least, is that since the reps aren't experienced at the necessary wheeling and dealing and horse-trading and politicking, because they're NOT career politicians, they're amateurs - because of that, the wheeling and dealing and stuff is done by hired professionals. Those professionals don't have to answer to the electorate, they answer to the people who pay them money.
I don't know what the answer is - it's not term limits alone. Maybe we just need to guillotine all the lobbyists every 100 years or so to clean out the stables and start over. . .
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not inclined to trust a company (Symantec) that makes smarmy backroom deals with spyware vendors (Sony) to not protect my computer from malware.
Nobody else with a lick of sense should trust Symantec either.
I notice a lot of quotes from the old testament. People who follow the old testament are known as Jews, not Christians. k'thanx
Let me rephrase that to more correctly reflect reality: People who follow select parts of the old testament (ie. God Hates Fags) while ignoring others (ie. God Hates Blended Fabrics) are known as hypocrites. People who promote the legal enforcement of posting of the ten commandments on public buildings, while saying "Jesus Saves" are also hypocrites. People who say that paying taxes to support the poor on welfare is immoral, while ignoring Jesus's directives on charity, and rendering unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, are also hypocrites.
Many of these hypocrites self-identify as "Evangelical Christians".
And according to Wikipedia: 'Protestant founder Martin Luther considered Revelation to be "neither apostolic nor prophetic" and stated that "Christ is neither taught nor known in it"'.
You know that. And I know that, and Martin Luther knew that. The other 900 million Christians in the world are ignorant of this. And they have guns. And nuclear bombs.
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Apple switched because they're sick of IBM marketing writing checks that IBM manufacturing can't deliver.
This vapor-chip is no different than the 1GHz multicore G4 (in large numbers) IBM promised when the first G4's were delivered.
Apple is probably not worried that IBM might actually deliver on this promise.
Look, I'd much rather see Apple stick to a multi-chip strategy, or just stick with PPC, myself. Because I think (and we're already seeing it) that even with VERY slick emulators and fat binary technology, switching from PPC to Intel is going to end up being a usability nightmare for non-technical users: (hey, your web browser still works, but not your plugins), and a compatability nightmare for technical users: (hey, your Photoshop/Video Editing/Audio Editing software still works, but not your favorite 5 year old set of plugins). But at the end of the day, there's only so many broken promises and marketing bullshit you can put up with from IBM. True - with the G5, it seemed, IBM was FINALLY delivering on the promise that was made when the PowerPC platform first was dreamed up in the early 1990's. Except that they hobbled the chip by getting rid of the litte/big endian translation, which made x86 emulation SLOWER than on the previous generation. Then they promised low heat and power consumption - making the high-end G5 Power Macs "whisper quiet" - until Apple learned that these machines were running dangerously hot, and had to patch the firmware to crank up the fans (yeah, I remember when I first got my dual G5, it *was* whisper-quiet. But not after the second OS update. . . ) - face it. Apple trusted Motorola, and got screwed. They trusted IBM, and got screwed. They know they can trust Intel, because if Intel screws them, then Dell, Gateway, and a zillion other manufacturers will go to AMD, and Apple can to. That's really the bottom line.
that's true, in a scene where you're in the pilot's POV or space.
But the sound effects are getting less subtle, more "global" in scope (applying in scenes or situations where there's no feeling of being in the pilot's POV).
I'm just saying it's a trend I'm noticing. And it's been very subtle, so far. I don't know if there's someone in the production-chain saying that it needs to be snazzed up a bit for the less-geeky crowd in order to attract a wider, lowbrow audience, and therefore more ad revenue, or what. But at some point, if this trend keeps going, it's going to become less subtle, the show's going to end up being indistinguishible from the original BSG series.
And then I'm going to have to barf.
I don't think that any UAVs are flown entirely by computer. (at least no reusable ones - if you consider Cruise Missiles and the like to be UAVs. . . ). Most are more accurately called "remotely piloted vehicles" with a lot of computer assist.
A UAV operator is probably a lot cheaper to train, also probably has a much higher survival rate, probably needs much less education, and they could probably recruit droves of them at any Computer Gaming convention.
It's not the downfall of Capitalism.
It's the downfall of Western Civilization, the Rule of Law, and the concept of a Constitutional Democratic Republic. As long as the right to spend money to influence the political process is equated with an essential liberty, then human greed can subvert it for it's ends, rather than the ends for which it was intended.
hmmm. I sense an eerie resonance between the content of your post, and your .sig. (ignoring the geek trivial fact that Daleks aren't really machines, but little slimy blobs who live inside machines).
On the other hand, droid fighters are no match for a Jedi-piloted starfighter.
well star trek had sound in space!
so do stargate battles!
and star wars!
. . . which is why I prefer BSG. If BSG becomes just another Star Wars clone, what's the point?
I don't pay a monthly cable/sat bill. I don't get any form of broadcast TV. I pick the shows I like, I either download them from iTMS, or I wait for the DVD (as is the case for BSG). I don't watch TV so that I can fill empty, bored hours that I would otherwise spend reading or doing home improvement projects. I watch TV shows that I like. If I re-activated my satellite service, found myself bored at 9pm one night and decided to veg on the couch, and watch whatever was on, I'd pick a Star Trek rerun over say, Fox News, or Survivor. Just because comparing those two, Star Trek would be the lesser of two (or two-hundred) evils.
But when I go out of my way to watch one show in particular, it's because the producers of that show have gone out of their way to portray their story in a particular way, that I happen to like. Other shows (the ones you mention, in particular) don't do this - and that's why I don't go out of my way (or waste my time) watching them.
I think that if all the cable and satellite vendor networks were suddenly forced to provide a la carte pricing, a lot of other people would suddenly find that they're much more choosy about what they spend their money on watching. And 99% of the crap programming would disappear. Maybe this revenue model wouldn't support the production costs of a show like BSG. Or maybe the competing revenue model (ie. "switch on the commercial, and suck off the teat") has artificially inflated production costs beyond what they otherwise would be, which has made a more meritocracy-based model in tv programming impossible to justify to the spreadsheet jockeys who run the networks. We'll never know until consumers get a real choice.
It's beautiful, on one of those very rare occasions, when someone actually gets my point. :)
I've noticed - and the effect is subtle, that over the past few newer episodes, they seem to be doing more and more "sound effects in space" as well as not putting so much effort into newtonian physics in the space combat scenes. In particular; where the one pilot's gun jams and explodes, and leaves a smoke trail as the ship comes in for a landing. The ship bobs up and down as if it's experiencing aerodynamic effects, rather than venting, and the smoke trails behind the ship as if it's in an atmosphere, instead of expanding outward, and following along with a not-accelerating vehicle.
I'm frankly starting to get a bad feeling about this.
Video games kill that pain real quick.
That and waking up at 7am, and feeling thankful that I didn't have to get up at oh-four-thirty!
Work hard and save up enough money to retire early.
Then spend the rest of your life contributing to open source projects.
A simple search on Google will yeild the results you seek:
U T+options+AMR+UAL&btnG=Google+Search
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l f rames;read=73104s ider_trading.htmlf rames;read=73104f rames;read=73105r ies
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=WTC+9%2F11+P
Oddly enough, snopes claims this rumor is false:
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/putcall.asp
Then they go on to say that yes, there was unusual trading, but that it was explainable. But if that were the case, if the traders really do have an iron-clad alabi that it was just their good fortune, why was over $2.5 million in profits never claimed?
Also note that if these trades were done as part of some strategy connected with the generally declining stock market, then why wasn't Delta given the same PUT option treament as AMR and UAL?
Another doubter:
http://www.nationalreview.com/rose/rose2004072607
If you buy that story, then you need to look deeper:
(note: not a single source I could find comes from a "major news outlet" - so keep your salt shaker handy)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/HEN204B.htm
OR
http://www.unknownnews.net/010918911.html
OR
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?no
OR
http://www.humanunderground.com/archive/lucy.html
(don't read too much of this one, if you value your sanity).
OR
(one of the better articles "connecting the dots")
http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/apocalypse/in
OR
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?no
OR
(scarier:)
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?no
OR
Sadly, Wikipedia lists this as a "conspiracy-theory":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theo
You're probably right about the rapes, though.
Probably not. The second batch of Abu Ghraib photos (and videos) which was ordered released by a federal judge, is still being withheld. But there is evidence in this second batch that wives (and possibly even children - possibly even MALE children) of accused (not proven) terrorists were raped as an intimidation tactic to provoke cooperation in interrogations.
I would hope that this is not true - and I would hope that the administration would release this material in order to prove that it is not true. Unfortunately, they continue to withold this material, in violation of a federal judge's order, supposedly on the grounds that it would endanger the lives of our troops if this material became public.
Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?).
AB Brown, the folks who have a former CEO now at #3 in the CIA. Also the outfit that sold the PUT options on UAL and AMR the morning of 9/11. No. I'm sure it's all just a funny concidence.
Powell made some very firm, very public pronouncements in early 1999 that he was not at all interested in a place in Bush's cabinet. Then the news speculation in mid 99 came about that he would be selected as SoS. Again, he said he wasn't interested. Then Bush called him to Crawford for a weekend. That following Monday, it was announced that Powell would be SoS. I suspect Karl Rove just handed Powell a manilla envelope with some embarrassing photos - (or perhaps something about his son, Michael Powell, the jackass who was running the FCC on the behest of Dobson's Focus on the Family Christofascist brigade) - and Powell folded. He went along with it just as long as he was useful, then got out. Bush and Rove rode on Powell's credibility, and burned it up in the process.
And I don't feel one bit sorry for him.
I dunno. Out of all the Cities in the US in which one could walk to work, I think San Francisco is about my favorite. Nothing beats walking past a public park at 6 am in the morning, filled with 100 or so octogenarian chinese-americans doing their tai-chi.
I've got news for you: 49.9% of American Voters also already know this. In fact, had you asked us in September of 2000, we would have told y'all that Bush was going to do exactly this!
Puts 24 year old campaign worker in charge of PR at NASA. ROFL! If it wasn't so creepy and pathetic it would be funny.
It kinda reminds me of Paul Reiser's character in Aliens - put in charge of a military mission (no military experience) to rescue colonists from a dangerous alien organism (no xenobiology experience) - and in the end screws up and gets everyone killed (except for Bishop, Ripley, and Newt - though Ripley gets infected anyway, and were Bishop human, he certainly wouldn't have survived getting ripped in half by the queen).
This is why you don't put hacks in charge of important things, and why buttkissing cronies are going to be the downfall of this civilization.
Let me guess. Member of the "College Republicans". . . yes?
Don't kid yourself.
This whole setup has nothing to do with preventing terrorism.
It has everything to do with preventing America from having to see a black woman's tit.
Wow, and I thought that the Russian economy would collapse if they dared to send that one oil tycoon to jail. . .
by having ordinary people, like farmers and regular working people, serve in Congress. He does this because he felt that the Founding Fathers intended legislators to be selected this way (and I agree). The system has gotten as messy as it is because it wasn't ever meant to be handled by career fat-cat politicians.
What it's meant to do and what the system needs are two different things.
Term limits come from a place of great intentions, so I can't be totally critical. But the way it's worked in Califonia at least, is that since the reps aren't experienced at the necessary wheeling and dealing and horse-trading and politicking, because they're NOT career politicians, they're amateurs - because of that, the wheeling and dealing and stuff is done by hired professionals. Those professionals don't have to answer to the electorate, they answer to the people who pay them money.
I don't know what the answer is - it's not term limits alone. Maybe we just need to guillotine all the lobbyists every 100 years or so to clean out the stables and start over. . .
Quayle was in the same chickenhawk TANG unit as Bush.
I'm guessing there was some kind of hazing or training ritual that led to both of these men ending up with damaged speech centers in their brains.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not inclined to trust a company (Symantec) that makes smarmy backroom deals with spyware vendors (Sony) to not protect my computer from malware.
Nobody else with a lick of sense should trust Symantec either.
I notice a lot of quotes from the old testament. People who follow the old testament are known as Jews, not Christians. k'thanx
Let me rephrase that to more correctly reflect reality:
People who follow select parts of the old testament (ie. God Hates Fags) while ignoring others (ie. God Hates Blended Fabrics) are known as hypocrites. People who promote the legal enforcement of posting of the ten commandments on public buildings, while saying "Jesus Saves" are also hypocrites. People who say that paying taxes to support the poor on welfare is immoral, while ignoring Jesus's directives on charity, and rendering unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, are also hypocrites.
Many of these hypocrites self-identify as "Evangelical Christians".
And according to Wikipedia: 'Protestant founder Martin Luther considered Revelation to be "neither apostolic nor prophetic" and stated that "Christ is neither taught nor known in it"'.
You know that. And I know that, and Martin Luther knew that. The other 900 million Christians in the world are ignorant of this. And they have guns. And nuclear bombs.