This is the old razors vs. blades argument, but Apple seems to be making money reversing the equation: selling songs (software) for near cost while making money on the iPod.
Frogdesign may have done some good things, but they also tout their design of the T-mobile website. I use this site and it is terrible (the 'phone service is pretty good). The site is ugly (I, the beholder) and, worse, there are seemingly redundant paths to important things like your bill, for example. Maybe Frogdesign isn't responsible for the data organization, but this is also obscure.
An "allele" is like the flavor of the gene, one particular sequence along the length of the chromosome containing the gene. Some genes have hundreds of alleles whereas others have very few or even a single sequence in the population. For example, the hundreds of "histocompatibility" alleles make it very hard to match transplant organ donors and recipients (HLA-B has >300 alleles). In contrast, the proteins that help compact DNA, histones, are highly conserved and differ only very slightly between even humans and peas (a fact that I still find amazing).
aha! the cube of light speed! That explains why a home made bumper sticker reading "Warp 0.0000001" appeared to confuse so many people. And here I though warp speed was simply the speed of light. No wonder those stars streak so badly at warp speed (though they didn't in the original Star Trek, oddly).
Silly Rules.... Would a ballistic vehicle have been legal? Simple launch, a little GPS guidance courtesy of the DoD, and impact on the target without the really tough middle bit. After all, isn't it all about delivering the payload? This ain't about the daily commute, after all. (I'd bet on the entry from North Korean.)
From the picture in the article linked in the original post, the Pearse wing doesn't appear to be an airfoil. If it is not an airfoil, then it would probably be very inefficient. It would be more akin to a big toy than a modern airplane (not to troll, and irrelevant to the question of the first heavier-than-air(plane)). Actually, that would make it literally an air-plane after all!
It's an old joke, apparently too obscure, not a serious marketing strategy (duh).
Seriously though, if true, the Apple/iTunes marketing strategy reverses the old ploy of giving away the razor because you will sell many more blades. This worked well for Gillette and Schick. Apple (supposedly) would make money on the pod but lose it on the songs. More likely, Apple makes money on both.
Murray Gell-Mann, physicist and Nobel laureate, extended that colleagial sentiment when he said: "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarves."
Surviving a flu virus does NOT improve your resistance to plague. In fact, it doesn't necessarily even improve your resistance to the next season's flu variant. The immune system is very specific. With very few exceptions, immune resistance is absolutely disease specific. Nietzsche was not an epidemiologist: what does not kill you usually makes you weaker, more susceptible to the next infection.
That carbon was out in the atmosphere before the oil and coal formed, and the Earth was quite habitable at that time.
Sure, but inhabited by what? Many organisms also survived meteor impacts, etc., but humans wouldn't. Do you dispute that the oxidizing atmosphere that we enjoy and require was produced by relatively simple organisms that reduced atmospheric CO2 to form hydrocarbons (CH2)?
The New York Times, recently shown to publish made-up stories, publishing a story about a guy who spends a lot of his life in a made-up world... Looks like they've stumbled across a whole new news industry.
".RTF (rich text format)...also saves to a smaller file size,..." I hate to admit it, but my experience has been that.doc files are much smaller (50%) than.rtf files. Ok, your milage may vary, but by so much?
Sure, but which direction? Music is great, maybe even the "killer ap" the previous poster named it, but Apple must focus on being a computer company first. Apple is in a tricky position. If they maximize the music sales by including Windows (Linux would not add much), they compromise the drive to buy Macs. They could spin off a company devoted to the music sales, but the spin off could probably maximize sales by adding WinXP and minimize costs by dropping OSX! Oops.
My RedHat distro included Chess. You won't find that with Windows though it does come with OSX. The X version is surprisingly attractive and provides pretty tough competition. Ok, turn the sarcasm back on...
The bias is oozing right from the beginning. The author suggests a job interview where you are asked about your ideas.
Quote: They won't be evaluating your grasp of the facts. It would be a curious job interview indeed if they didn't evaluate your grasp of facts.
Quote: At this stage, they'll be looking for indicators of your behavior and attitudes. Are you a leader or a follower? Gee, I wonder if he means that the leaders use Windoze and the followers use Linux?
Chaperones are mature (folded) proteins that help newly-synthesized proteins fold and thereby acquire their proper shape. Many proteins require chaperones to fold correctly, although careful manipulation of the folding conditions can provide some of the chaperone functions. Even sophisticated folding algorithms have not incorporated the chaperone function.
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This is the old razors vs. blades argument, but Apple seems to be making money reversing the equation: selling songs (software) for near cost while making money on the iPod.
Frogdesign may have done some good things, but they also tout their design of the T-mobile website. I use this site and it is terrible (the 'phone service is pretty good). The site is ugly (I, the beholder) and, worse, there are seemingly redundant paths to important things like your bill, for example. Maybe Frogdesign isn't responsible for the data organization, but this is also obscure.
An "allele" is like the flavor of the gene, one particular sequence along the length of the chromosome containing the gene. Some genes have hundreds of alleles whereas others have very few or even a single sequence in the population. For example, the hundreds of "histocompatibility" alleles make it very hard to match transplant organ donors and recipients (HLA-B has >300 alleles). In contrast, the proteins that help compact DNA, histones, are highly conserved and differ only very slightly between even humans and peas (a fact that I still find amazing).
Briefly, the Millionaire" answer sounds correct!
aha! the cube of light speed! That explains why a home made bumper sticker reading "Warp 0.0000001" appeared to confuse so many people. And here I though warp speed was simply the speed of light. No wonder those stars streak so badly at warp speed (though they didn't in the original Star Trek, oddly).
Silly Rules....
Would a ballistic vehicle have been legal? Simple launch, a little GPS guidance courtesy of the DoD, and impact on the target without the really tough middle bit. After all, isn't it all about delivering the payload? This ain't about the daily commute, after all. (I'd bet on the entry from North Korean.)
From the picture in the article linked in the original post, the Pearse wing doesn't appear to be an airfoil. If it is not an airfoil, then it would probably be very inefficient. It would be more akin to a big toy than a modern airplane (not to troll, and irrelevant to the question of the first heavier-than-air(plane)). Actually, that would make it literally an air-plane after all!
Seriously though, if true, the Apple/iTunes marketing strategy reverses the old ploy of giving away the razor because you will sell many more blades. This worked well for Gillette and Schick. Apple (supposedly) would make money on the pod but lose it on the songs. More likely, Apple makes money on both.
answer: VOLUME! (so crank it up)
Murray Gell-Mann, physicist and Nobel laureate, extended that colleagial sentiment when he said:
"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarves."
Then sign me up. Such potentially 1984-like tools won't be forced upon us. Instead, we'll welcome them as ways to save money.
Surviving a flu virus does NOT improve your resistance to plague. In fact, it doesn't necessarily even improve your resistance to the next season's flu variant. The immune system is very specific. With very few exceptions, immune resistance is absolutely disease specific. Nietzsche was not an epidemiologist: what does not kill you usually makes you weaker, more susceptible to the next infection.
That carbon was out in the atmosphere before the oil and coal formed, and the Earth was quite habitable at that time.
Sure, but inhabited by what? Many organisms also survived meteor impacts, etc., but humans wouldn't. Do you dispute that the oxidizing atmosphere that we enjoy and require was produced by relatively simple organisms that reduced atmospheric CO2 to form hydrocarbons (CH2)?
Coincidence?
The New York Times, recently shown to publish made-up stories, publishing a story about a guy who spends a lot of his life in a made-up world... Looks like they've stumbled across a whole new news industry.
".RTF (rich text format)...also saves to a smaller file size,..." .doc files are much smaller (50%) than .rtf files. Ok, your milage may vary, but by so much?
I hate to admit it, but my experience has been that
Sure, but which direction?
Music is great, maybe even the "killer ap" the previous poster named it, but Apple must focus on being a computer company first. Apple is in a tricky position. If they maximize the music sales by including Windows (Linux would not add much), they compromise the drive to buy Macs. They could spin off a company devoted to the music sales, but the spin off could probably maximize sales by adding WinXP and minimize costs by dropping OSX! Oops.
My RedHat distro included Chess. You won't find that with Windows though it does come with OSX. The X version is surprisingly attractive and provides pretty tough competition. Ok, turn the sarcasm back on...
in case the Euros don't oblige when we ask them to turn down the accuracy. Pass me that French fry.
...wear your water suit.
...there are less 2nd hand macs...
(duck)
Screed, and so much fun to read!
He really nails very many key technical, business, political and social points.
The bias is oozing right from the beginning. The author suggests a job interview where you are asked about your ideas.
Quote: They won't be evaluating your grasp of the facts. It would be a curious job interview indeed if they didn't evaluate your grasp of facts.
Quote: At this stage, they'll be looking for indicators of your behavior and attitudes. Are you a leader or a follower? Gee, I wonder if he means that the leaders use Windoze and the followers use Linux?
OMRON is unfortunately close to
MORON for some readers (like me).
Chaperones are mature (folded) proteins that help newly-synthesized proteins fold and thereby acquire their proper shape. Many proteins require chaperones to fold correctly, although careful manipulation of the folding conditions can provide some of the chaperone functions. Even sophisticated folding algorithms have not incorporated the chaperone function.
Market share vs. profit? Proof that Slashdot is not the place for informed or particularly interesting discussions of economic matters.