You seem to be arguing that mismanaged ballast dumping is an argument against all ballast dumping.
I can't see how one crew's mistake among thousands is an effective argument against dumping potentially infected ballast water well offshore. Lost Mazdas or not.
Apple, like everyone else, is subject to hardware revision by manufacturers. They don't control intel. Sure. You just don't know about the Andy Grove video Steve Jobs has on his "hottubcamera.local" server.
Sorry. I might be a fanboy at time, but Daniel Eran is completely off the rails. He's a neocon communist liberal conservative when it comes to measured commentary.
If bit-rot doesn't do you in first. Agreed. Many of my old high school papers and other valuable info were lost on 3.5" Mac floppies that were used heavily between 1985-1991. An attempt to recover them using a IIci with an Ethernet card connected to a more modern file server was only partially successful, even though the disks were all stored carefully in climate-controlled, low humidity closets.
The US is a tech backwater nowadays, especially with respect to mobile devices. You know why people don't buy mp3 players and ipods and zunes here in europe much? - because our mobiles don't suck, they already play mp3s! Yeah, well, some of us dumbass Americans don't particularly like walking around with a jack-of-all-trades/master of none device.
I like my iPod. It holds a LOT of songs. I don't particularly like being at anyone's beck and call constantly, and I'd have to be if I wanted to bring my "music player phone".
The iPod is nice, but feature-wise there are better players. To most consumers, the iPod does have features other players don't have. Because those features are not listed on the box doesn't mean the features aren't included.
Most people see styling and design as very important features.
No one wants to carry an ugly music player, even if that ugly music player has more technical features, costs a little less, or has a different name.
That more or less leaves "fashion statement" as the reason for iPod popularity over other players. And what's wrong with that? It's a better widget. People vote with their dollars overwhelmingly. There are other music players for people who don't value styling as a primary feature - just like there are stores like J.C. Penney for people who don't want to shop at Nordstrom.
You do make a point, though. This is because the majority of people who buy iPods are more interested in it as a fashion item than as an mp3 player.
Got any evidence of that? most people I encounter with iPods are listening to them on the bus or train - and have them buried away in their pockets. And so what if some people choose to buy iPods as a fashion accessory or style statement? The look good - that's part of the design, and something that too few people around here understand.
The surest sign that technology has truly moved into the mainstream is that technology is now a fashion statement in many cases. The ThinkPad T60, Black and Silver MacBooks, iPods - they're all just as meticulously styled as they are engineered inside. Maybe YOU don't like the way they are designed/look or think that technology only needs to be functional, but those things do matter to a growing number of technology consumers.
The sooner that more technology folks realize that attractive product design and constant tweaking can attract the mainstream of users (and let actual designers do it, instead of making some abomination of an interface), the better off we'll all be.
.... they offered Weston and his team $80 million to use their design for the LADEE mission, which will gather dust.... Well, if they're just going to let it sit around, I'll take it.
Or maybe you don't have enough imagination. Why not lock the mirror up with the shutter open (thus exposing the CCD), then when the button is pressed, close the shutter, start exposing, open the shutter, expose, close the shutter, stop exposure, then open the shutter again. Because holding up the mirror for that long uses a lot of power. Doing it on every shot would decrease your battery life by at least 50%.
Don't forget about light leaking in through the finder, either. On a DSL in bright conditions, this is a non-trivial limitation. Be my guest if you want to cover the finder every time you shoot.
And wear your mirror action up twice as fast, too... And for a feature which can be accurately deduced through the meter. OMG YAY! +1 funny. Digital has brought out many interesting habits in new-to-photography digital photographers.
I can meter a scene at least as well as any DSLR with a 1 degree spotmeter - what makes people think they need a 256 level graph to meter a scene is beyond me, but you know, I also shoot 4x5 film, so I tend to think carefully before shooting and look at the scene before shooting - not a bar graph.
which is mostly useless on a camera with a sensor that small.
You don't understand what RAW is for, do you?
RAW allows post-capture editing of exposure, white balance and possibly other parameters. Sensor size matters not - the 4MP Canon 1Ds generated RAW mode files from an APS-C-sized sensor...would you have pooh-poohed that capability?
The ones that really jerk my chain are the people who have zero competence and zero experience who are constantly getting stuck on mountains, lost in national parks, stranded in the ocean, etc, etc, etc. They need to be held accountable for their lack of planning. The National Park Service charges for Search and Rescue activity not related to unforseen natural disasters. My experience extends to Yosemite (which has more than the normal SAR activity, due to its close proximity to a large population of stupid weekend warriors).
An anecdotal account of a woman who climbed Half Dome then wouldn't climb down is one of my favorites; when SAR's Huey dropped her off in Ahwahnee meadow, she reportedly balked when the Park Police showed up to take her to the Federal magistrate for a recovery disposition.
Ditto those climbers who get stuck on El Capitan or the BASE jumpers who get splashed on the rocks below; their families are billed for the hazard pay and other recovery costs associated.
There's also a great SR-71 on display at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in Oregon. It is remarkably well presented, with Buick and Chevrolet starter carts and an engine display.
You can also see one at the Dryden Flight Center in California - I've seen the Pima SR-71, and it is in decent shape, but not as good as the aforementioned examples of this amazing (especially so for a late-50s design) aircraft.
Apple does much less engineering these days - they just put Intel chipsets into pretty boxes. Wow. So they're just like Dell, hunh?
Apple doesn't do as much hardware engineering as it used to, but there are still substantial investments in hardware engineering at Apple. I certainly would not characterize the packaging and features of the Mac Pro as "putting a chipset into a pretty box".
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You seem to be arguing that mismanaged ballast dumping is an argument against all ballast dumping.
I can't see how one crew's mistake among thousands is an effective argument against dumping potentially infected ballast water well offshore. Lost Mazdas or not.
Sorry. I might be a fanboy at time, but Daniel Eran is completely off the rails. He's a neocon communist liberal conservative when it comes to measured commentary.
You may find old Amstrad drives or sources for the drives at Halted Specialities in Santa Clara.
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I like my iPod. It holds a LOT of songs. I don't particularly like being at anyone's beck and call constantly, and I'd have to be if I wanted to bring my "music player phone".
Most people see styling and design as very important features.
No one wants to carry an ugly music player, even if that ugly music player has more technical features, costs a little less, or has a different name. That more or less leaves "fashion statement" as the reason for iPod popularity over other players. And what's wrong with that? It's a better widget. People vote with their dollars overwhelmingly. There are other music players for people who don't value styling as a primary feature - just like there are stores like J.C. Penney for people who don't want to shop at Nordstrom.
Got any evidence of that? most people I encounter with iPods are listening to them on the bus or train - and have them buried away in their pockets. And so what if some people choose to buy iPods as a fashion accessory or style statement? The look good - that's part of the design, and something that too few people around here understand.
The surest sign that technology has truly moved into the mainstream is that technology is now a fashion statement in many cases. The ThinkPad T60, Black and Silver MacBooks, iPods - they're all just as meticulously styled as they are engineered inside. Maybe YOU don't like the way they are designed/look or think that technology only needs to be functional, but those things do matter to a growing number of technology consumers.
The sooner that more technology folks realize that attractive product design and constant tweaking can attract the mainstream of users (and let actual designers do it, instead of making some abomination of an interface), the better off we'll all be.
.... they offered Weston and his team $80 million to use their design for the LADEE mission, which will gather dust.... Well, if they're just going to let it sit around, I'll take it.Sorry; I meant to type "Canon 1D" instead of 1DS. The 1D was in fact an APS-sensor sized camera with a 4.1MP resolution, introduced in late 2001.
There have been several 1-D models: 1D, 1D Mark II, 1Ds, 1Ds Mark II, 1D Mark III, 1Ds Mark III, etc.
Don't forget about light leaking in through the finder, either. On a DSL in bright conditions, this is a non-trivial limitation. Be my guest if you want to cover the finder every time you shoot.
I can meter a scene at least as well as any DSLR with a 1 degree spotmeter - what makes people think they need a 256 level graph to meter a scene is beyond me, but you know, I also shoot 4x5 film, so I tend to think carefully before shooting and look at the scene before shooting - not a bar graph.
which is mostly useless on a camera with a sensor that small.
You don't understand what RAW is for, do you?
RAW allows post-capture editing of exposure, white balance and possibly other parameters. Sensor size matters not - the 4MP Canon 1Ds generated RAW mode files from an APS-C-sized sensor...would you have pooh-poohed that capability?
An anecdotal account of a woman who climbed Half Dome then wouldn't climb down is one of my favorites; when SAR's Huey dropped her off in Ahwahnee meadow, she reportedly balked when the Park Police showed up to take her to the Federal magistrate for a recovery disposition.
Ditto those climbers who get stuck on El Capitan or the BASE jumpers who get splashed on the rocks below; their families are billed for the hazard pay and other recovery costs associated.
I'm afraid not, my good fellow.
Here's an example of a TEMPEST-sheilded computer - the TEMPEST-shielded Mac SE/30.
Seems it's not a fraud box
No, just a piece of shit.
Too bad the press hasn't and won't say a word about this.
But hey, Miley Cyrus' uncovered shoulder....now that's news.
No the analogy breaks down because Ford doesn't come to your house and take your keys away when they stop producing that model of car.
"Sorry, we know we sold you that 2003 Mustang, but now that we've discontinued the Mustang, you'll need to give us your keys and turn over the car."
That's how DRM works, in this case. iTunes is a bit more forgiving. None is perfect, but Microsoft shutting off the servers is particularly egregious.
More proof that car analogies don't work - especially for such a weak argument.
There's also a great SR-71 on display at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in Oregon. It is remarkably well presented, with Buick and Chevrolet starter carts and an engine display.
You can also see one at the Dryden Flight Center in California - I've seen the Pima SR-71, and it is in decent shape, but not as good as the aforementioned examples of this amazing (especially so for a late-50s design) aircraft.
Reminds me of the old IBM DFHS half-height drives. Now THOSE sounded like they were going to take off.
When my old Apple Network Server 700 was hitting those DFHS drives hard, you could feel the seeks on the case sheetmetal.
Fuckin' Zito.
Apple doesn't do as much hardware engineering as it used to, but there are still substantial investments in hardware engineering at Apple. I certainly would not characterize the packaging and features of the Mac Pro as "putting a chipset into a pretty box".
Enough efforts like this, and Apple will be likely to implement some non-trivial OS locks to the TPM.