Rush Limbaugh is quoted on record as saying he wants Obama to fail, and is proud of it.
TRANSCRIPT "If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work. So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails." (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here's the point. Everybody thinks it's outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, "Oh, you can't do that." Why not? Why is it any different, what's new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails." Somebody's gotta say it. " END TRANSCRIPT
I think you're right here in the US. When I visited London last year, though, it seemed like every single person had chips in their cards. I felt like a Luddite asking the guy to actually swipe the magnetic strip on a card (and him having to try a couple times before it took), then go find a pen, sign it, then find a place to put the paper signature. Us old-fashioned Americans.
The judge said that just because you downloaded it, doesn't mean you would have bought it if you hadn't downloaded it. I didn't see mentioned, but a point I think is equally valid, is that just because you downloaded it, it doesn't mean you didn't ALSO buy it! I found a bunch of MP3s in my collection awhile back from an ancient "lets rip our CDs and pool our music at work" server from the early days of MP3 ripping. I went and deleted the ones I didn't like and bought the ones I did. RIAA's claim doesn't take that into account.
In addition, the RIAA's claim doesn't take into account additional publicity and sales generated from pirating music. Sure, it's illegal, but if you're trying to quantify what would have happened had the infraction not taken place you have to assume less people would be aware of the music and thus there may be fewer legitimate sales.
All in all, any correlation between number of downloads and lost sales is very shaky circumstantial evidence.
according to Wiki, the "surface gravity" of Neptune is 1.14g, and for Uranus it's 0.886g. I put "surface gravity" in quotes here for obvious reasons, but something like the "cloud city" in The Empire Strikes Back would be quite livable on either of these planets.
Assuming, of course, that you don't mind being crushed to pulp, or have some way of surviving 1000mph windstorms. Of course, for energy you'd have all the natural gas you could ever wish for, if only there were some oxygen around to burn it with.
Actually, I agree with the original poster on many points, and it's more than aesthetics. While I love Interface Builder, Objective-C development is like pulling teeth. Things don't fail fast, the compiler catches way fewer bugs up-front, and it's a much harder language to introspect and offer lint-like analysis on than many modern languages. To someone who develops in Java all day, Objective-C is like having teeth pulled. I put up with it because I really like the iPhone, but Apple would be doing way better with developers (outside a small core of enthusiasts) if they'd ditched Objective-C when NeXTstep became MacOS X.
I recall reading about someone in Hawaii doing something like this in order to both generate electricity and clean water by essentially using the deep ocean as the heat sink then the temperature differential to generate electricity (and the condensation for water). Apparently once you got the fluid moving it took less energy to pump it than you could generate with the heat differential in a tropical ocean island.
3 : to take or make use of without authority or right
That's definition 3 of appropriate. You can argue that maybe Merriam-Webster didn't mean this particular definition when they used the word in the previous definition, but it's there and to me it seems to apply.
because in the United States a slim majority CANNOT remove other citizen's basic rights. The entire Proposition 8 debacle was against California's constitution. I'm sure someone's going to argue for a re-interpretation of the constitution that allows prop 8 to stand, but it's pretty clear that a major change in the constitution isn't something that a slim plurality of California residents can decide in a proposition.
My understanding is that we all already knew the universe has a finite resolution-- The Planck length. What's been observed is that things don't just get smaller and smaller and smaller and BAM! they hit the limit. Instead, things get blurrier and blurrier and blurrier below a certain size-- starting at sizes much much bigger than a Planck length-- and that size corresponds well to what might have been predicted had the universe been structured like a hologram of a higher-dimensional construct being projected on a lower-dimensional one. And that that's one of several possible interpretations of the data that they're tracking down.
I don't buy on features and price. I also do not buy on "hip" and "cool". I buy on effectiveness. For me, Apple's products always seem to have way higher effectiveness/effort ratio. I've owned a lot of phones, but the 3G iPhone is one of the only ones I've used almost all the features on. My Mac has a really nice suite of software from Apple and smaller third parties and always seems to just do what I want. Each version of MacOS X has been unequivocally better than the last and arguably one of the best on the market. The iPod integrates really easily with iTunes and the Music Store, as well as a zillion clock radios, cars, exercise machines, airplanes, etc.
Their products answer needs. Yes, their margins are higher which means you can probably buy a cheaper knock-off elsewhere. But I'm willing to pay a little bit more to not have to spend time thinking about all the complications.
So in order to be a "visionary", I merely have to decide what consumers might want (not that hard being one yourself), and then ask people smarter than yourself to make it happen with no actual technical insight on how to make it happen yourself?
No, the "visionary" really just needs the first part. Of course, there are a lot of poor, unemployed visionaries. The trick to being an effective visionary is getting people to pay attention, communicating your ideas effectively, assembling the teams, putting together an infrastructure that lets them succeed, making sure the proper smart people all talk to each other appropriately, get the thing out, market it, and arrange for all necessary support. Then do it all again and again.
This was announced right after the end of trading today, so no chart is going to account for it yet. When trading on Apple resumed it immediately lost 10% of it's value or about 7 billion dollars of market cap. It's back up to -6% which is about tied for its 52-week low. No one can argue that this news is good for Apple-- it's about as bad as it gets.
On the other hand, Apple's still raking in lots of cash and can survive on momentum alone for a long time. They still have all the teams that put together the current product line in place and will probably come out with a generation or two of Steve-like products on pure momentum. So even if the worst happens and he never returns to Apple, they've got a lot of time for someone to rise up and take the reigns before things get critical.
Being an iPhone owner, I agree. But it's the only thing that can get you on the secret network on the same device as you can check your unclassified email on.
I think the concern is the following scenario: 1. Download from iTunes onto an iPod, 2. The iPod is stolen, 3. The tunes on the iPod are uploaded to file sharing networks, 4. I get sued by the RIAA. Of course, I think the CYA thing to do is just make sure you file a report whenever your iPod is stolen, and that should make short work of any lawsuit defense.
Actually, a lot of iPhone apps would auto-scale to any resolution. Interface Builder defines the way panes adjust when the window size changes. It's the 3D games that will likely have to change if they've hardcoded frame buffer sizes, but even those should be a quick port to alternate dimensions. It's kind of inevitable that Apple will release an iPhone-like device of different screen dimensions, and they're pretty well-prepared for it even if perhaps it won't run EVERY fart-noise generator on the market from day 1.
Even in C# and Java there are experts who do know what's going on. They will replace the old guard. The rest will be people for whom contributing to software development was completely impossible before, but can now do the basics (ie. designers, information visualization experts, etc).
And of the top programming errors, many of them still apply to Java and C#. But some don't, and I see that as a positive step. I do Java in my day job, and iPhone development on the side. And while nothing in the industry beats Interface Builder, Objective-C is pretty horrible to develop in when you're used to a modern language and IDE...
Thanks. It's been over 6 years since I've flown, and I guess it shows.
My point was that a lot of people imagine that all the planes in the sky are constantly under supervision by people on the ground. In reality, there are a huge number of small planes flying in class E and G that don't even require radios.
It's true that a lot of fields increased security after 9/11. But most small airfields have no tower, and are located out of class B or C airspace so no contact with ATC is required. It is perfectly reasonable to assume that if you can get this inside the airport fence, you won't have to talk to anyone until you want to get back out of your destination airport's fence.
Just to clarify, Private Pilots can fly in any VFR (Visual Flight Rules) airspace. With just the private pilot ticket (no further endorsements) you can fly a plane up to (but not including) 200hp, fixed gear, fixed single prop, below 18,000 feet, and a sufficient distance away from clouds to qualify for VFR. You need a current third-class medical and a bi-annual flight review and you're good to go with yourself and/or friends anywhere you want.
To traverse class B or C airspace you need a working radio and transponder in the plane and you need to obey the controller. In class D, G, or unclassified airspace you just need to not hit anything.
Also, these days I'm not aware of many weekend fliers who can get the license in 40 hours. To do that you pretty much need to go to a focused school and be on an airline pilot track. I'd say 50-60 hours is about average.
Yes. I love Apple, but it doesn't look like they have much up their sleeve at the moment.
You must read different rumor sites than I do. I keep hearing about the stuff that Apple's recent chipmaking acquisitions have cooking regarding multi-core ARM chips and new PowerVR GPUs.
As for MMS and copy-and-paste... they come up every once in a rare while, but in the meantime the app selection more than makes up for it. If you already have a Treo on another provider I can see why you wouldn't want to switch, though. But this is hardly going to "kill" the iPhone... your situation is hardly an overwhelming segment of the market.
Perhaps, but at this point they're coming out with a product that more or less matches what the competition did 6 months ago. Does anyone doubt that this year's hardware from Apple is going to blow Apple's previous year's hardware out of the water? So what's the window of opportunity for this knock-off to "kill" the iPhone? To me it seems more of a desperation move to keep slightly relevant, by at least staying the game with a product in the same generation as everyone else.
Funny, when Apple announced that you could develop on the iPhone with CSS, HTML, and JavaScript from day 1, developers revolted and demanded a "real" SDK. It will be interesting to see how that goes for Palm.
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Rush Limbaugh is quoted on record as saying he wants Obama to fail, and is proud of it.
TRANSCRIPT
"If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work. So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails." (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here's the point. Everybody thinks it's outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, "Oh, you can't do that." Why not? Why is it any different, what's new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails." Somebody's gotta say it. "
END TRANSCRIPT
I think you're right here in the US. When I visited London last year, though, it seemed like every single person had chips in their cards. I felt like a Luddite asking the guy to actually swipe the magnetic strip on a card (and him having to try a couple times before it took), then go find a pen, sign it, then find a place to put the paper signature. Us old-fashioned Americans.
The judge said that just because you downloaded it, doesn't mean you would have bought it if you hadn't downloaded it. I didn't see mentioned, but a point I think is equally valid, is that just because you downloaded it, it doesn't mean you didn't ALSO buy it! I found a bunch of MP3s in my collection awhile back from an ancient "lets rip our CDs and pool our music at work" server from the early days of MP3 ripping. I went and deleted the ones I didn't like and bought the ones I did. RIAA's claim doesn't take that into account.
In addition, the RIAA's claim doesn't take into account additional publicity and sales generated from pirating music. Sure, it's illegal, but if you're trying to quantify what would have happened had the infraction not taken place you have to assume less people would be aware of the music and thus there may be fewer legitimate sales.
All in all, any correlation between number of downloads and lost sales is very shaky circumstantial evidence.
according to Wiki, the "surface gravity" of Neptune is 1.14g, and for Uranus it's 0.886g. I put "surface gravity" in quotes here for obvious reasons, but something like the "cloud city" in The Empire Strikes Back would be quite livable on either of these planets.
Assuming, of course, that you don't mind being crushed to pulp, or have some way of surviving 1000mph windstorms. Of course, for energy you'd have all the natural gas you could ever wish for, if only there were some oxygen around to burn it with.
Actually, I agree with the original poster on many points, and it's more than aesthetics. While I love Interface Builder, Objective-C development is like pulling teeth. Things don't fail fast, the compiler catches way fewer bugs up-front, and it's a much harder language to introspect and offer lint-like analysis on than many modern languages. To someone who develops in Java all day, Objective-C is like having teeth pulled. I put up with it because I really like the iPhone, but Apple would be doing way better with developers (outside a small core of enthusiasts) if they'd ditched Objective-C when NeXTstep became MacOS X.
I recall reading about someone in Hawaii doing something like this in order to both generate electricity and clean water by essentially using the deep ocean as the heat sink then the temperature differential to generate electricity (and the condensation for water). Apparently once you got the fluid moving it took less energy to pump it than you could generate with the heat differential in a tropical ocean island.
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3 : to take or make use of without authority or right
That's definition 3 of appropriate. You can argue that maybe Merriam-Webster didn't mean this particular definition when they used the word in the previous definition, but it's there and to me it seems to apply.
*Copyright infringement is not theft*
Reading Merriam-Webster, I find "stealing" to be:
1 a: to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully
So you don't think that copying music without paying for it is appropriating it without the right to do so?
Then the courts stepped in the first time
because in the United States a slim majority CANNOT remove other citizen's basic rights. The entire Proposition 8 debacle was against California's constitution. I'm sure someone's going to argue for a re-interpretation of the constitution that allows prop 8 to stand, but it's pretty clear that a major change in the constitution isn't something that a slim plurality of California residents can decide in a proposition.
My understanding is that we all already knew the universe has a finite resolution-- The Planck length. What's been observed is that things don't just get smaller and smaller and smaller and BAM! they hit the limit. Instead, things get blurrier and blurrier and blurrier below a certain size-- starting at sizes much much bigger than a Planck length-- and that size corresponds well to what might have been predicted had the universe been structured like a hologram of a higher-dimensional construct being projected on a lower-dimensional one. And that that's one of several possible interpretations of the data that they're tracking down.
But I'm no physicist.
I don't buy on features and price. I also do not buy on "hip" and "cool". I buy on effectiveness. For me, Apple's products always seem to have way higher effectiveness/effort ratio. I've owned a lot of phones, but the 3G iPhone is one of the only ones I've used almost all the features on. My Mac has a really nice suite of software from Apple and smaller third parties and always seems to just do what I want. Each version of MacOS X has been unequivocally better than the last and arguably one of the best on the market. The iPod integrates really easily with iTunes and the Music Store, as well as a zillion clock radios, cars, exercise machines, airplanes, etc.
Their products answer needs. Yes, their margins are higher which means you can probably buy a cheaper knock-off elsewhere. But I'm willing to pay a little bit more to not have to spend time thinking about all the complications.
So in order to be a "visionary", I merely have to decide what consumers might want (not that hard being one yourself), and then ask people smarter than yourself to make it happen with no actual technical insight on how to make it happen yourself?
No, the "visionary" really just needs the first part. Of course, there are a lot of poor, unemployed visionaries. The trick to being an effective visionary is getting people to pay attention, communicating your ideas effectively, assembling the teams, putting together an infrastructure that lets them succeed, making sure the proper smart people all talk to each other appropriately, get the thing out, market it, and arrange for all necessary support. Then do it all again and again.
This was announced right after the end of trading today, so no chart is going to account for it yet. When trading on Apple resumed it immediately lost 10% of it's value or about 7 billion dollars of market cap. It's back up to -6% which is about tied for its 52-week low. No one can argue that this news is good for Apple-- it's about as bad as it gets.
On the other hand, Apple's still raking in lots of cash and can survive on momentum alone for a long time. They still have all the teams that put together the current product line in place and will probably come out with a generation or two of Steve-like products on pure momentum. So even if the worst happens and he never returns to Apple, they've got a lot of time for someone to rise up and take the reigns before things get critical.
No, sorry. It's a huge company and I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, let alone any further insight because of my employer.
Being an iPhone owner, I agree. But it's the only thing that can get you on the secret network on the same device as you can check your unclassified email on.
... which c|net has a pretty good article on concerning its ability to fulfill Obama's needs.
(Disclosure: I work for GD, but don't speak for them.)
I think the concern is the following scenario: 1. Download from iTunes onto an iPod, 2. The iPod is stolen, 3. The tunes on the iPod are uploaded to file sharing networks, 4. I get sued by the RIAA. Of course, I think the CYA thing to do is just make sure you file a report whenever your iPod is stolen, and that should make short work of any lawsuit defense.
Actually, a lot of iPhone apps would auto-scale to any resolution. Interface Builder defines the way panes adjust when the window size changes. It's the 3D games that will likely have to change if they've hardcoded frame buffer sizes, but even those should be a quick port to alternate dimensions. It's kind of inevitable that Apple will release an iPhone-like device of different screen dimensions, and they're pretty well-prepared for it even if perhaps it won't run EVERY fart-noise generator on the market from day 1.
Even in C# and Java there are experts who do know what's going on. They will replace the old guard. The rest will be people for whom contributing to software development was completely impossible before, but can now do the basics (ie. designers, information visualization experts, etc).
And of the top programming errors, many of them still apply to Java and C#. But some don't, and I see that as a positive step. I do Java in my day job, and iPhone development on the side. And while nothing in the industry beats Interface Builder, Objective-C is pretty horrible to develop in when you're used to a modern language and IDE...
Thanks. It's been over 6 years since I've flown, and I guess it shows.
My point was that a lot of people imagine that all the planes in the sky are constantly under supervision by people on the ground. In reality, there are a huge number of small planes flying in class E and G that don't even require radios.
It's true that a lot of fields increased security after 9/11. But most small airfields have no tower, and are located out of class B or C airspace so no contact with ATC is required. It is perfectly reasonable to assume that if you can get this inside the airport fence, you won't have to talk to anyone until you want to get back out of your destination airport's fence.
Just to clarify, Private Pilots can fly in any VFR (Visual Flight Rules) airspace. With just the private pilot ticket (no further endorsements) you can fly a plane up to (but not including) 200hp, fixed gear, fixed single prop, below 18,000 feet, and a sufficient distance away from clouds to qualify for VFR. You need a current third-class medical and a bi-annual flight review and you're good to go with yourself and/or friends anywhere you want.
To traverse class B or C airspace you need a working radio and transponder in the plane and you need to obey the controller. In class D, G, or unclassified airspace you just need to not hit anything.
Also, these days I'm not aware of many weekend fliers who can get the license in 40 hours. To do that you pretty much need to go to a focused school and be on an airline pilot track. I'd say 50-60 hours is about average.
Yes. I love Apple, but it doesn't look like they have much up their sleeve at the moment.
You must read different rumor sites than I do. I keep hearing about the stuff that Apple's recent chipmaking acquisitions have cooking regarding multi-core ARM chips and new PowerVR GPUs.
As for MMS and copy-and-paste... they come up every once in a rare while, but in the meantime the app selection more than makes up for it. If you already have a Treo on another provider I can see why you wouldn't want to switch, though. But this is hardly going to "kill" the iPhone... your situation is hardly an overwhelming segment of the market.
Perhaps, but at this point they're coming out with a product that more or less matches what the competition did 6 months ago. Does anyone doubt that this year's hardware from Apple is going to blow Apple's previous year's hardware out of the water? So what's the window of opportunity for this knock-off to "kill" the iPhone? To me it seems more of a desperation move to keep slightly relevant, by at least staying the game with a product in the same generation as everyone else.
Funny, when Apple announced that you could develop on the iPhone with CSS, HTML, and JavaScript from day 1, developers revolted and demanded a "real" SDK. It will be interesting to see how that goes for Palm.