Or maybe it's just that their business model didn't work. Everyone's favorite companies are those that are giving free services and running at a loss, and then they complain when they turn to advertising, subscriptions, or just go belly up. iTunes is a sustainable business model, and Lala is not. Deal with it.
Steve Jobs is a Bill Gates wannabe. His illness (and his return) has changed nothing. What has changed is that he has the confidence of his market position, and is now showing his true colors.
When Steve starts buying up companies to stop innovation and gain a monopoly on a software segment, when he starts embracing open standards only to extend and subvert, when he denies that there is any future in any product except his own, then you can maybe start making some comparisons between Jobs and Gates. Until then, this please keep your Apple hate/jealousy to yourself.
As we can see from the city policy, telling your boss is already out, and talking about your password in front of others (the individuals on the other end of the phone line) is also a no-no. Terry Childs did the right thing by not giving out the passwords to anyone but the Mayor. Did Childs' boss ever get in trouble for breaching city policy? Probably not.
No, no, no. That's about sharing your password with secretaries, NOT with giving your passwords to you supervisor. That's not spelled out because it does not need to be. You ALWAYS give your passwords to your supervisor if requested.
The best argument for the moon landing IMO is the scrutiny the Soviets would have had to put into it. They would have been able to pick up telemetry and the transmissions from the craft (hell, amateurs were able to see the Apollo ships through telescopes) during the flight.
Long story short: we sent something of the right size to the moon, landed it there, and brought it back, and it was transmitting what we said it was transmitting. You can concoct some half-baked explanation of us sending up a recording or something like that (actually a recording wouldn't work as they transmitted time-sensitive information, so you'd have to say that NASA was transmitting a hidden stream to the craft what they would transmit back), but IMO by the time you get to this point it seems like the hard parts of Apollo were basically done.
The people who deny the moon landing don't understand even the rudiments of physics or electronics, and they would not be swayed by your "scientific trickery". Nothing short of writing your name in gigantic green letter large enough to read with the naked eye across the face of the moon would satisfy them.
The third - and this is where I put on my tinfoil hat - is that the US maintains stores of weapons grade anthrax in contradiction to our biological warfare treaty obligations that someone, probably Ivins, pilfered.
That actually seems to be the most likely. A ban means you do it only in secret and keep it small, not that you actually stop doing it.
Think about it. If everyone just flat out boycotted doing anything for even a week. If an entire nation stopped going to work, if they just ate whatever was in their fridge and spent time taking walks, talking with their friends, and just flat out relaxing, what the hell could corporations do besides finally realize they can't bend us over and rape us?
Please read a little bit of history, or just look outside your American suburban windows to see what the real world is like. We are living in a pathetic passive era. But here's the rub. When you protest, the government generally steps in to break the civil unrest. Air traffic controllers threaten to go on strike. Fire them all. People collect in the local park and hold signs? Send in the national guard, and bust some heads. Maybe shoot a couple.
I'm all for agitation, but the result is not so rosy as you think.
This implies that actually looking at the code turned in is not common practice. There's your problem. If you're not looking at the code, how are you actually grading? How can you help individual students improve their coding styles? It doesn't sound like the students are getting anything out of these courses other than they could just by reading a book.
> Reader greg1104 tips related news about licenses for Solaris. According to an > account manager, "Solaris support now comes through a contract on the > hardware (Oracle SUN hardware)."
SunOS/Solaris and support has ALWAYS been free with support on your hardware.
It's not the artists of the world who want these draconian measures, it's a minority of millionaire artists who want to maintain their cash flow, as well as the business people who manage and produce their products. For every Metallica and James Cameron, there are a hundred real artists who are never heard or seen except at local bars and small time film festivals.
Also, in Trek the galaxy was seeded by a master race using pieces of their own DNA; such is not impossible in the really real world, either, only unlikely. But then, how unlikely is intelligent life?
And why? Two reasons. 1 - Green make up on a human actor is a hell of a lot cheaper than making an alien costume or special effects. 2 - TV shows need to give the less sci-fi savvy viewer a sense of normalcy, something that they can relate to.
It's completely absurd to think that aliens look like primates. Just look at the number of different forms we have for intelligent creatures here on earth. Octopus for example. EE Doc Smith probably got it right. Of the four second stage lensemen, one was human, one was dragon-like with multiple eyes, one was barrel shaped without eyes, and one was a blob that lived half outside our space. That's more like it.
This is hubris, really. "We don't believe any evidence that aliens exist, so where are they?" As if the existence of alien life is somehow contingent on humanity being present to observe it? Or is it that our brains are so perfect that they could never have visited four million years ago without our noticing it?
Or that we would even recognize it if we saw it. We rely on sight to find clues, or with SETI, radio waves. Why should we assume that aliens have the same senses and technology? Maybe they use smell or touch or some senses unknown to us. Plus, look at the computer age that we are in. If an alien found an iPod without any headphones, would he be able to ascertain the function of the device? To get our sonic messages? We need to look for messages in places other than where we would put them, as our technology exists at this moment.
really? how did you get flash working on your Android phone? I have a Moto Droid running v2.1 and there is no flash support. Adobe is working on an Android Flash app or something, but there is no firm release date for it yet.
No, but Moto is not Apple, so no one complains. Switcheroo!:-)
Can Microsoft do that as well? It's their platform right? Oh, wait, it's Apple so it's fine now.
Can Microsoft due it on their phone? Sure. Can they do it on their Zune? Sure. Can they do it on their computer OS? No, because they are a convicted monopoly in regards to computer operating systems.
Apple doesn't even have the #1 spot in smartphone manufacturers, I don't know where you get "monopoly" from. Maybe you're just an idiot.
Not just #1 spot, last I checked Windows still had about 90% of the desktop market, and vendors were stilled being strong armed to not ship other OS's installed on their PCs. Even at the #1 spot, there's still plenty of competition in the smart phone market. Not so in desktop OS's.
Pre Soviet Russia was not a backwards agrarian society, any more than other states were.
I'm afraid that it was. The communist revolution leaders (e.g. Lenin, Trotsky) had to make major philosophical changes to Marx's theories to accommodate the fact that the bulk of the people were "peasants" and not "working class." It was under Stalin that the Soviet Union really industrialized.
Massive civilian casualties are unavoidable in any war that involves halfway equal opponents fighting for real. And while atomic bombing of cities might have been going too far, it should be noted that the Japanese had earned it many times over
So you are saying that American retribution is justified, even if it is as atrocious as the crime that it is trying to avenge? Seems about right for the current political mindset. And more than a little bit scary if you look at it logically instead of emotionally.
Apple's 2009 Annual Report shows that it sold $13B in Macs, $8B in iPods, $~7B in software, music and accessories, and $13B in iPhones and related services.
But what are the profit margins for those revenue numbers?
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I'm waiting for the first review of using VNC on this thing. I see it as the perfect remote console for all my "real" systems.
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Or maybe it's just that their business model didn't work. Everyone's favorite companies are those that are giving free services and running at a loss, and then they complain when they turn to advertising, subscriptions, or just go belly up. iTunes is a sustainable business model, and Lala is not. Deal with it.
Steve Jobs is a Bill Gates wannabe. His illness (and his return) has changed nothing. What has changed is that he has the confidence of his market position, and is now showing his true colors.
When Steve starts buying up companies to stop innovation and gain a monopoly on a software segment, when he starts embracing open standards only to extend and subvert, when he denies that there is any future in any product except his own, then you can maybe start making some comparisons between Jobs and Gates. Until then, this please keep your Apple hate/jealousy to yourself.
As we can see from the city policy, telling your boss is already out, and talking about your password in front of others (the individuals on the other end of the phone line) is also a no-no. Terry Childs did the right thing by not giving out the passwords to anyone but the Mayor. Did Childs' boss ever get in trouble for breaching city policy? Probably not.
No, no, no. That's about sharing your password with secretaries, NOT with giving your passwords to you supervisor. That's not spelled out because it does not need to be. You ALWAYS give your passwords to your supervisor if requested.
I know, I know, the "get off this rock" crowd will now inundate us with their magical-religious space adventure cult emotional arguments.
And what is the use of that knowledge to a rock bound species that just sits in its own wastes watching its resources dwindle?
The best argument for the moon landing IMO is the scrutiny the Soviets would have had to put into it. They would have been able to pick up telemetry and the transmissions from the craft (hell, amateurs were able to see the Apollo ships through telescopes) during the flight.
Long story short: we sent something of the right size to the moon, landed it there, and brought it back, and it was transmitting what we said it was transmitting. You can concoct some half-baked explanation of us sending up a recording or something like that (actually a recording wouldn't work as they transmitted time-sensitive information, so you'd have to say that NASA was transmitting a hidden stream to the craft what they would transmit back), but IMO by the time you get to this point it seems like the hard parts of Apollo were basically done.
The people who deny the moon landing don't understand even the rudiments of physics or electronics, and they would not be swayed by your "scientific trickery". Nothing short of writing your name in gigantic green letter large enough to read with the naked eye across the face of the moon would satisfy them.
The third - and this is where I put on my tinfoil hat - is that the US maintains stores of weapons grade anthrax in contradiction to our biological warfare treaty obligations that someone, probably Ivins, pilfered.
That actually seems to be the most likely. A ban means you do it only in secret and keep it small, not that you actually stop doing it.
After 50 years, dynasoar finally takes flight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasoar Better late than never.
This will be an Antitrust goldmine. And people say Microsoft are evil. Urgh.
IBM owns PPC. Both HP and Sun/Oracle control their own chips. Tell me how this is in any way different, except that you hate Apple?
Think about it. If everyone just flat out boycotted doing anything for even a week. If an entire nation stopped going to work, if they just ate whatever was in their fridge and spent time taking walks, talking with their friends, and just flat out relaxing, what the hell could corporations do besides finally realize they can't bend us over and rape us?
Please read a little bit of history, or just look outside your American suburban windows to see what the real world is like. We are living in a pathetic passive era. But here's the rub. When you protest, the government generally steps in to break the civil unrest. Air traffic controllers threaten to go on strike. Fire them all. People collect in the local park and hold signs? Send in the national guard, and bust some heads. Maybe shoot a couple.
I'm all for agitation, but the result is not so rosy as you think.
> which are then manually examined
This implies that actually looking at the code turned in is not common practice. There's your problem. If you're not looking at the code, how are you actually grading? How can you help individual students improve their coding styles? It doesn't sound like the students are getting anything out of these courses other than they could just by reading a book.
> Reader greg1104 tips related news about licenses for Solaris. According to an
> account manager, "Solaris support now comes through a contract on the
> hardware (Oracle SUN hardware)."
SunOS/Solaris and support has ALWAYS been free with support on your hardware.
The research, which may 'help mothers with rare genetic disorders have healthy children...'
I'd say that's a pretty good reason for this research.
Adoption is a better option, if you really have to have a child to raise.
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These people need to pay for what they have done.
I'm still waiting for someone to charge the students with Child Pornography for posing for dirty pictures.
It's not the artists of the world who want these draconian measures, it's a minority of millionaire artists who want to maintain their cash flow, as well as the business people who manage and produce their products. For every Metallica and James Cameron, there are a hundred real artists who are never heard or seen except at local bars and small time film festivals.
Also, in Trek the galaxy was seeded by a master race using pieces of their own DNA; such is not impossible in the really real world, either, only unlikely. But then, how unlikely is intelligent life?
And why? Two reasons. 1 - Green make up on a human actor is a hell of a lot cheaper than making an alien costume or special effects. 2 - TV shows need to give the less sci-fi savvy viewer a sense of normalcy, something that they can relate to.
It's completely absurd to think that aliens look like primates. Just look at the number of different forms we have for intelligent creatures here on earth. Octopus for example. EE Doc Smith probably got it right. Of the four second stage lensemen, one was human, one was dragon-like with multiple eyes, one was barrel shaped without eyes, and one was a blob that lived half outside our space. That's more like it.
This is hubris, really. "We don't believe any evidence that aliens exist, so where are they?" As if the existence of alien life is somehow contingent on humanity being present to observe it? Or is it that our brains are so perfect that they could never have visited four million years ago without our noticing it?
Or that we would even recognize it if we saw it. We rely on sight to find clues, or with SETI, radio waves. Why should we assume that aliens have the same senses and technology? Maybe they use smell or touch or some senses unknown to us. Plus, look at the computer age that we are in. If an alien found an iPod without any headphones, would he be able to ascertain the function of the device? To get our sonic messages? We need to look for messages in places other than where we would put them, as our technology exists at this moment.
really? how did you get flash working on your Android phone? I have a Moto Droid running v2.1 and there is no flash support. Adobe is working on an Android Flash app or something, but there is no firm release date for it yet.
No, but Moto is not Apple, so no one complains. Switcheroo! :-)
Can Microsoft do that as well? It's their platform right? Oh, wait, it's Apple so it's fine now.
Can Microsoft due it on their phone? Sure. Can they do it on their Zune? Sure. Can they do it on their computer OS? No, because they are a convicted monopoly in regards to computer operating systems.
Apple doesn't even have the #1 spot in smartphone manufacturers, I don't know where you get "monopoly" from. Maybe you're just an idiot.
Not just #1 spot, last I checked Windows still had about 90% of the desktop market, and vendors were stilled being strong armed to not ship other OS's installed on their PCs. Even at the #1 spot, there's still plenty of competition in the smart phone market. Not so in desktop OS's.
Pre Soviet Russia was not a backwards agrarian society, any more than other states were.
I'm afraid that it was. The communist revolution leaders (e.g. Lenin, Trotsky) had to make major philosophical changes to Marx's theories to accommodate the fact that the bulk of the people were "peasants" and not "working class." It was under Stalin that the Soviet Union really industrialized.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Shogi
Massive civilian casualties are unavoidable in any war that involves halfway equal opponents fighting for real. And while atomic bombing of cities might have been going too far, it should be noted that the Japanese had earned it many times over
So you are saying that American retribution is justified, even if it is as atrocious as the crime that it is trying to avenge? Seems about right for the current political mindset. And more than a little bit scary if you look at it logically instead of emotionally.
Really? And this is impressive how? Seven years to reinvent existing technology? Puh-lease.
Yeah, the first thing I thought was "that looks like every other solar plane I've seen since I was a kid."
Apple's 2009 Annual Report shows that it sold $13B in Macs, $8B in iPods, $~7B in software, music and accessories, and $13B in iPhones and related services.
But what are the profit margins for those revenue numbers?
Who is iPad aimed at then?
I'm waiting for the first review of using VNC on this thing. I see it as the perfect remote console for all my "real" systems.