the most interesting bit from the article--"Jobs bought Pixar from LucasFilm in 1986, during his exile from Apple... [Lucas] sold [Pixar] to Jobs for a bargain because Lucas needed cash for a divorce settlement."
>Disney got the better end of the deal when DISNEY dumped PIXAR.
My take is that Pixar wanted more than Disney was willing to part with. I have to agree with others--Pixar without Disney will do better than Disney will without Pixar. True, it's not just the animation and technology, it's writing and stuff to. But, Disney is not automatically golden--have you seen Disney's recent non-Pixar stuff? It ranges from mediocre to horrible.
Re: points 3 and 4, "you can't predict..." and "nobody stays on top forever", I'll say that the next Pixar-sans-Disney movie will be a whole lot better than the next Disney-sans-Pixar. Time will tell. Sure, nothing lasts forever, but in the near future, I'll bet that Pixar will do just fine. Not that Disney will go under, but they'd better fix a *lot* if they want to start making non-crappy movies.
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Excellent book called "Why Do Birds" about a plan to put everyone on the planet into a 1 cubic mile box. I never did the math, though, to see if they'd fit.
I've already done this--Knoppix works with Virual PC on a Mac.
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Mod chips for cars came out while I was in high school. I don't think I've head of anyone dying from one in the 15 years since. It's not like they're dinking with your breaks or airbags or anything, just fuel, valve timing, spark timing, etc.
here it is in black and white from the "5 reasons" page: "SCO asserts that the GPL, under which Linux is distributed, violates the United States Constitution and the U.S. copyright and patent laws" -- from "SCO Open Letter on Copyrights - from Darl McBride, CEO"
Now, does anyone have a recent document that shows SCO uses Samba? I tried to look myself but *ahem* sco.com is down. "Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License." http://www.samba.org/samba/samba.html I heard they do (in fact I think I heard it here) but if anyone could provide a URL for proof, that'd be perfect. Nothing says professional & stable like rampant hypocrisy. I can't think of an easier way to make a point than to let them make it for you.
I manage 6 conference rooms with a projector in each. Average use of each room is 20 hrs/week. One of the projectors was used when I got it 4 years ago and I just replaced its bulb before Xmas. It's the first bulb I've replaced. All projectors are Epsons.
Who in the world is modding this insightful? Let's assume that, to keep your family fed and a roof over everyone's head, you have to work 40 hours/week. Now, you can a) have a job you hate, turning you into a pissed off ogre for every other hour of the day, or b) have a job you enjoy, so you're in a good mood all day (more or less) and carry that good feeling home. "Good job" != "I care about nothing except my job".
I have a job I enjoy quite a bit, thank you very much, and I do my 8 hours/day and then go home, no problem. There are plenty of workaholics who devote themselves to crappy jobs, and there are plenty of people (like me) who have enjoyable jobs *and* spend time with their families.
If you have to spend 40 hrs/week somewhere, you may as well enjoy it. I've got a good job and a short commute and that makes me a happy person when I get home, which makes home very nice. I agree that a job should not be an all-consuming passion, but we do pretty much *have* to work, so I say make the best of it. But you make it sound like you can enjoy work or enjoy non-work, and that it's impossible to do both. That is absolutely untrue.
Your biggest failing is this line: "They don't call work "work" for nothing. If it was fun they would call it Vacation." Vacation comes from the Latin "empty time." It is *not* impossible for work to be fun.
PS: I went staff a little over a year ago (after temping for a few years) and I get 2 weeks vacation/year... so vacation is hardly "eliminated." (Then up to 3 weeks in another year and a half.) In fact, my company sent me to CA last year and put me up in a hotel, and I was able to bring my family along for just the cost of their airfare.
So, I make an analogy (see definition below) and you think that by pointing out a dissimilarity that my analogy is no longer valid? What is the point of your post?
analogy n. Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar
If highways and the Internet were the same, we could use one and destroy the other. But they aren't, so we have both.
For those that don't want to RTFA, here's what you're missing: "There are only three exceptions to the draconian new typographical rules: telegrams, treaty materials prepared by the State Department's legal affairs office and documents drawn up for the president's signature, it said. The memorandum offered no explanation for the exceptions, leaving foreign service officers to speculate as to whether the White House, US treaty partners and telegram readers are not yet able to handle the change."
He didn't specify how fast the machine is, but that takes a bit of CPU and, I imagine, slows the whole bus. OTOH, analog audio can be used on a 486/25. Besides, he (or someone else) would have probably had to get in there at some point in the future, so he might as well drill the rivets out now. (Devil's advocate: and what if it was a SCSI CD drive?;-) )
nice tight integreation, all in one box, one remote and the quality is great--DTiVos have no MPEG encoder, they just save the MPEG stream straight off the satellite, so whenever you watch, there is no genereational loss. (Not that there's much (or any noticeable) with the regular ones, but the geek in me likes the fact that there's no needless digital-analog-digital conversion happening.) Plus, a 40-hr Series 2 DTiVo is (or was recently at least) $99 at Circuit City.
With DTiVo, the scheduling service (so you can do season passes, etc.) is only $5/mo, not $13. Yeah, there's the lifetime stuff, but (correct me if I'm wrong) the $250 covers you for the lieftime of the box, not your's, TiVo's, or DTV. A friend who has one with the lifetime thing will have to pay again when he gets his HD DTiVo (whenever that comes out.)
PS--if you get a tivo, google for the codes and activate a) the 30-second skip and b) the one that lets you sort shows by record date, alphabetically, or by expiration (if you keep a lot of shows.)
Oh yeah, and the TiVos are really easy to safely hack. My main one has two 120 GB drives and they went in as easily as you can imagine.
Several groups who want to make money do not a monopoly make. The profs might say "you must buy the Xth edition" but I've never seen one check each student, let alone flunk someone for having (X-1). The good ones will point out what's different, or you could always double-check with another student. Most of my profs (CSU, Chico) told us if there were significant differences, like whole new chapters or something.
Yes, the AS bookstore wants to manke money and yes, textbook publishers rev their editions almost as often as software makers(and for the same reason) but truly corrupt profs who want their students to choose between going broke or failing are few and far between.
And as far as profs writing their own texts, I had a handful in advanced humanities classes, but never in basic science, math, biology, etc. classes.
Was it? I thought I remembered 5 for 5, but I guess I was wrong. I do remember an already-existing HD-based player (Rio, I think) being in the same neighborhood at a much higher capacity. At the time, Apple's main advantage was firewire--a definite plus, but not enough (in my mind) to make up for the bad capacity:price ratio.
BTW, I own an iBook and a 30 GB iPod, so I'm not just some Apple-hating freak. I was just waiting for Apple to release a player large enough to hold my whole collection. I figured, no point getting one until I can go all the way. I just wanted one I could buy, fill, and top off as needed, not something that I'd have to swap music on every week.
The iPod mini is overpriced right now. Apple can drop faster than their flash-based competitors, especially if they offer a lower-capacity model. It'll be interesting to see if they do.
"Your search - sense of humor - did not match any Google documents No pages were found containing "sense of humor" Suggestions: - go to Booble.com. It's FUNNY. - Get Booble swag. It's FUNNY, and makes a great gift! - Search for "porn" on Google...now that's a joke."
They got the last one wrong--searching for porn on *Booble* is a joke. No matches for 'pam' or 'pamela'? Puh-lease. I'll stick (no pun intended) with images.google.com and autopr0n, thanks.
Apple is doing what they've done many times before: release a nice new product that is indeed overpriced. Then time will go on, the price will drop, and quality will go up. Remember when the iPod came out just a couple years ago? First of all, it was a bit underwhelming--$500 for a 5 GB player. Other HD-based players were larger and cheaper and remember, there was no iTMS adding value to it at the time. But time marched on, the price fell, and capacity went up. Now the same $500 gets you 8x more storage. And compare the original iPod to the new mini: one was $500 for 5 GB, the other is $250 for 4 GB.
Apple is going to make hay while the sun shines and plenty of people are going to pony up the bucks for the first gen player. These should be $199 by summer and maybe $149 by fall or XMas. And maybe Apple will drop a $99 1 or 2 GB bomb, at which popint they will totally 0wn the mp3 player market.
For those who keep wondering aloud if they'll be able to improve their ranking, due to ECC, 2.3 GHz G5s, etc...
#3: VA Tech: 10.28 TFlops #2: Los Alamos: 13.88 TFlops #1: EarthL 35.86 TFlops
So, even if they spent 3x as much and filled up the now 2/3 empty room *and* scaled linearly (which they won't, won't, and definitely won't), they *still* wouldn't reach #1. #2, however, might be within reach, if they go to 2.3GHz and the ECC is a huge help.
Now that they more or less know where they'll wind up and there's no point in being secretive, I'd love to see them show what one box does on its own, then 2, then 5, then 10, then 50, then 100, then 200, 500, and finally 1100.
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the most interesting bit from the article--"Jobs bought Pixar from LucasFilm in 1986, during his exile from Apple...
[Lucas] sold [Pixar] to Jobs for a bargain because Lucas needed cash for a divorce settlement."
is that really true?
>Disney got the better end of the deal when DISNEY dumped PIXAR.
My take is that Pixar wanted more than Disney was willing to part with. I have to agree with others--Pixar without Disney will do better than Disney will without Pixar. True, it's not just the animation and technology, it's writing and stuff to. But, Disney is not automatically golden--have you seen Disney's recent non-Pixar stuff? It ranges from mediocre to horrible.
Re: points 3 and 4, "you can't predict..." and "nobody stays on top forever", I'll say that the next Pixar-sans-Disney movie will be a whole lot better than the next Disney-sans-Pixar. Time will tell. Sure, nothing lasts forever, but in the near future, I'll bet that Pixar will do just fine. Not that Disney will go under, but they'd better fix a *lot* if they want to start making non-crappy movies.
Excellent book called "Why Do Birds" about a plan to put everyone on the planet into a 1 cubic mile box. I never did the math, though, to see if they'd fit.
I've already done this--Knoppix works with Virual PC on a Mac.
Mod chips for cars came out while I was in high school. I don't think I've head of anyone dying from one in the 15 years since. It's not like they're dinking with your breaks or airbags or anything, just fuel, valve timing, spark timing, etc.
here it is in black and white from the "5 reasons" page: "SCO asserts that the GPL, under which Linux is distributed, violates the United States Constitution and the U.S. copyright and patent laws"
-- from "SCO Open Letter on Copyrights - from Darl McBride, CEO"
Now, does anyone have a recent document that shows SCO uses Samba? I tried to look myself but *ahem* sco.com is down.
"Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License."
http://www.samba.org/samba/samba.html
I heard they do (in fact I think I heard it here) but if anyone could provide a URL for proof, that'd be perfect. Nothing says professional & stable like rampant hypocrisy. I can't think of an easier way to make a point than to let them make it for you.
I manage 6 conference rooms with a projector in each. Average use of each room is 20 hrs/week. One of the projectors was used when I got it 4 years ago and I just replaced its bulb before Xmas. It's the first bulb I've replaced. All projectors are Epsons.
Who in the world is modding this insightful? Let's assume that, to keep your family fed and a roof over everyone's head, you have to work 40 hours/week. Now, you can a) have a job you hate, turning you into a pissed off ogre for every other hour of the day, or b) have a job you enjoy, so you're in a good mood all day (more or less) and carry that good feeling home. "Good job" != "I care about nothing except my job".
I have a job I enjoy quite a bit, thank you very much, and I do my 8 hours/day and then go home, no problem. There are plenty of workaholics who devote themselves to crappy jobs, and there are plenty of people (like me) who have enjoyable jobs *and* spend time with their families.
If you have to spend 40 hrs/week somewhere, you may as well enjoy it. I've got a good job and a short commute and that makes me a happy person when I get home, which makes home very nice. I agree that a job should not be an all-consuming passion, but we do pretty much *have* to work, so I say make the best of it. But you make it sound like you can enjoy work or enjoy non-work, and that it's impossible to do both. That is absolutely untrue.
Your biggest failing is this line: "They don't call work "work" for nothing. If it was fun they would call it Vacation." Vacation comes from the Latin "empty time." It is *not* impossible for work to be fun.
PS: I went staff a little over a year ago (after temping for a few years) and I get 2 weeks vacation/year... so vacation is hardly "eliminated." (Then up to 3 weeks in another year and a half.) In fact, my company sent me to CA last year and put me up in a hotel, and I was able to bring my family along for just the cost of their airfare.
So, I make an analogy (see definition below) and you think that by pointing out a dissimilarity that my analogy is no longer valid? What is the point of your post?
analogy
n.
Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar
If highways and the Internet were the same, we could use one and destroy the other. But they aren't, so we have both.
Like the .sig says, "Don't anthropomorphize computers--they *hate* that!"
Imagine if all that were needed to drive was ownership of a car. Think of what the roads would be like. That's what the Internet *is* like.
I just uncapped my cable modem and it's great! There is no way my ISP can stop me! Mwa ha ha h*&%$#@^NO CARRIER
Where can you fid the most active stories? Some kind of search? Buried in the FAQ somewhere? Or do you just keep really, really good notes?
For those that don't want to RTFA, here's what you're missing:
"There are only three exceptions to the draconian new typographical rules: telegrams, treaty materials prepared by the State Department's legal affairs office and documents drawn up for the president's signature, it said. The memorandum offered no explanation for the exceptions, leaving foreign service officers to speculate as to whether the White House, US treaty partners and telegram readers are not yet able to handle the change."
Clever aussies.
He didn't specify how fast the machine is, but that takes a bit of CPU and, I imagine, slows the whole bus. OTOH, analog audio can be used on a 486/25. Besides, he (or someone else) would have probably had to get in there at some point in the future, so he might as well drill the rivets out now. (Devil's advocate: and what if it was a SCSI CD drive? ;-) )
nice tight integreation, all in one box, one remote and the quality is great--DTiVos have no MPEG encoder, they just save the MPEG stream straight off the satellite, so whenever you watch, there is no genereational loss. (Not that there's much (or any noticeable) with the regular ones, but the geek in me likes the fact that there's no needless digital-analog-digital conversion happening.) Plus, a 40-hr Series 2 DTiVo is (or was recently at least) $99 at Circuit City.
With DTiVo, the scheduling service (so you can do season passes, etc.) is only $5/mo, not $13. Yeah, there's the lifetime stuff, but (correct me if I'm wrong) the $250 covers you for the lieftime of the box, not your's, TiVo's, or DTV. A friend who has one with the lifetime thing will have to pay again when he gets his HD DTiVo (whenever that comes out.)
PS--if you get a tivo, google for the codes and activate a) the 30-second skip and b) the one that lets you sort shows by record date, alphabetically, or by expiration (if you keep a lot of shows.)
Oh yeah, and the TiVos are really easy to safely hack. My main one has two 120 GB drives and they went in as easily as you can imagine.
Several groups who want to make money do not a monopoly make. The profs might say "you must buy the Xth edition" but I've never seen one check each student, let alone flunk someone for having (X-1). The good ones will point out what's different, or you could always double-check with another student. Most of my profs (CSU, Chico) told us if there were significant differences, like whole new chapters or something.
Yes, the AS bookstore wants to manke money and yes, textbook publishers rev their editions almost as often as software makers(and for the same reason) but truly corrupt profs who want their students to choose between going broke or failing are few and far between.
And as far as profs writing their own texts, I had a handful in advanced humanities classes, but never in basic science, math, biology, etc. classes.
"If they release around the same time, it will be more like a game of rock,paper, scissors (just hope they both choose scissors)."
;-)
OMFG are they releasing rock-paper-scissors for the XBox??? I am *so* getting one!!!!!11
>The rovers are "underclocked", probably due to power budget concerns.
:-)
pfft. the guys at Ars and HardOCP overclock stuff on a budget all the time.
Was it? I thought I remembered 5 for 5, but I guess I was wrong. I do remember an already-existing HD-based player (Rio, I think) being in the same neighborhood at a much higher capacity. At the time, Apple's main advantage was firewire--a definite plus, but not enough (in my mind) to make up for the bad capacity:price ratio.
BTW, I own an iBook and a 30 GB iPod, so I'm not just some Apple-hating freak. I was just waiting for Apple to release a player large enough to hold my whole collection. I figured, no point getting one until I can go all the way. I just wanted one I could buy, fill, and top off as needed, not something that I'd have to swap music on every week.
The iPod mini is overpriced right now. Apple can drop faster than their flash-based competitors, especially if they offer a lower-capacity model. It'll be interesting to see if they do.
from the page:
"Your search - sense of humor - did not match any Google documents
No pages were found containing "sense of humor"
Suggestions:
- go to Booble.com. It's FUNNY.
- Get Booble swag. It's FUNNY, and makes a great gift!
- Search for "porn" on Google...now that's a joke."
They got the last one wrong--searching for porn on *Booble* is a joke. No matches for 'pam' or 'pamela'? Puh-lease. I'll stick (no pun intended) with images.google.com and autopr0n, thanks.
Apple is doing what they've done many times before: release a nice new product that is indeed overpriced. Then time will go on, the price will drop, and quality will go up. Remember when the iPod came out just a couple years ago? First of all, it was a bit underwhelming--$500 for a 5 GB player. Other HD-based players were larger and cheaper and remember, there was no iTMS adding value to it at the time. But time marched on, the price fell, and capacity went up. Now the same $500 gets you 8x more storage. And compare the original iPod to the new mini: one was $500 for 5 GB, the other is $250 for 4 GB.
Apple is going to make hay while the sun shines and plenty of people are going to pony up the bucks for the first gen player. These should be $199 by summer and maybe $149 by fall or XMas. And maybe Apple will drop a $99 1 or 2 GB bomb, at which popint they will totally 0wn the mp3 player market.
For those who keep wondering aloud if they'll be able to improve their ranking, due to ECC, 2.3 GHz G5s, etc...
#3: VA Tech: 10.28 TFlops
#2: Los Alamos: 13.88 TFlops
#1: EarthL 35.86 TFlops
So, even if they spent 3x as much and filled up the now 2/3 empty room *and* scaled linearly (which they won't, won't, and definitely won't), they *still* wouldn't reach #1. #2, however, might be within reach, if they go to 2.3GHz and the ECC is a huge help.
Now that they more or less know where they'll wind up and there's no point in being secretive, I'd love to see them show what one box does on its own, then 2, then 5, then 10, then 50, then 100, then 200, 500, and finally 1100.
Light only travels 299792458m in a vacuum? What does it do then, stop? Or is that the largest vacuum there is? :-)
Just giving you a bad time. You just forgot an "in a second" there somewhere.