Of course it isn't. It's a trade show. It's supposed to be for people who are in The Business.
Why do you think companies give away swag like PSPs and gigs of RAM? Not so that some consumer with a press pass could brag about how much free stuff they got on a now-Slashdotted webpage. It's because they want professional buyers to be so impressed with their product that they place large B2B orders.
Giving away a $250 item to someone at a trade show is a smart move when it can lead to $2.5M in sales. When it can lead to $0.0M in sales, not so much.
Apache would be nothing without Perl, PHP, Phyton, MySQL or PostGresSQL.
Are you kidding.
Websites with fully-static content existed for years, and still do. Please tell me you're not suggesting that EVERY web site has to have a scripting language and a SQL database running on the backend to be worth anything.
3. Use of nuclear materials for weapons programs. When a developing nation announces their intent to develop a nuclear power program, the immediate reaction of many first-world countries is to assume that it's just a cover for building some nuclear missiles to lob at their enemies. Maybe, maybe not, but either way the perception is reinforced that nuclear power can be dangerous.
The risk of terrorist organizations obtaining materials via collusion with a nuclear country's government, or even just poor security practices, also weighs into people's views on nuclear power.
Almost every business PC in the UK is left switched on overnight, over weekends, and even when the employee goes on holiday, ditto the monitors.
This was a lot greater a problem 10-15 years ago, before the "Green PC" movement. If the monitor shuts itself off and the CPU goes on standby by 7:00PM on Friday, and doesn't get woken up again until 9:00AM Monday, the amount of wasted energy is quite low.
Like it or not, we throw most of our energy away needlessly.
We waste a lot, yes, but "most"? I'd have to see some figures before I'll believe that one.
If I tell all my friends to drive up and down mainstreet a thousand times a day to wear down the pavement, have I committed a felony?
If your friends deny the use of Main Street to other motorists, you can expect to be hit with at least a misdemeanor charge for being a public nuisance. Operating a motorcade with out a permit and "cruising" too, if laws against those behaviors exist in your town and the police who trace the activity back to you want to send a message.
It's common sense. "Take a penny" trays don't give you the right to reach over and empty the register, and neither does granting of access to any other resource give you the right to hoard and abuse an unreasonable share of that resource.
Crying fire in a theatre is private property -- the Constitution protects nothing on private property and the theatre owner is responsible for setting the standards of speech.
You don't make any sense.
Under your interpretation of free speech, it would be perfectly fine to cry "fire" in a public place (say, the Capitol building) and you would bear no responsibility for the resulting chaos that ensued, even if people were trampled to death during the panic.
Steve Jobs says that PC and home theater integration is a fad that won't last. So why even bother coming out with a half assed product that claims to do everything Windows Media Center does, only slicker, or so Steve Jobs says.
When did he ever say any of these things? A quick googling didn't turn up any first-hand reports of Jobs quotes calling PC/home theater integration a "fad", nor any feature comparisons between Front Row and WMC apart from the design of the remotes.
Are you trying to FUD us?
Its a fad until Steve Jobs says it isn't, a lot like portable video devices which he said were impractical for the average user. Until Steve Jobs added video support to the iPod. Now its the cat's meow.
Yes. Circumstances change over time. Two years ago, typical consumers weren't willing to pay the premium to add video support to their iPods. Today, costs have come down and now they are. Jobs wasn't going to osborne Apple out of 2 years of iPod sales by announcing that a video iPod was eventually coming out.
Apple has been selling only a few million computers a quarter, compared to dozens of millions by Dell, HP, an others.
And how does Apple's profit margin per unit compare to Dell's? Growth is great, and market share is great, but in the end all that matters is profit.
For the first time in history, a Mac is 99% identical to a PC except for the BIOS and a few hardware/software tweaks.
This is true, if you count "an entirely different operating system and user experience" as a mere software tweak. People who subscribe to the Megahertz Myth may think Win86's and Mac86's can be compared directly, people who actually interact with a computer to determine its value will have other criteria for performance and value.
OSX is FREE to Apple to install on their hardware unlike Dell having to buy a Windows license for every computer they sell.
And Apple hasn't have to spend a cent to create or support OS X, no! It just sprang fully formed from the CVS repository one day.
I think Apple would be better off without Steve Jobs and his ego and arrogance.
We've already seen what Apple is like without Jobs at the helm. It's not a pretty scene, either for the customers or the investors. Meanwhile, with Jobs in charge Apple is more popular and profitable than they've been since the 8-bit computing era. You'll have to forgive them if the board of directors doesn't take your advice to "drop him like a lead balloon".
But what he fails to realize is the Microsoft's Media Center is actually designed to be a Home Theater component, allowing users to view and record television, payback DVD's and video, access media libraries, as well as general naviation of an OS environment.
That still doesn't explain why you need 200 dedicated-function buttons on the remote, rather than 10 or so multi-function buttons.
Consider DVD playback. At the menu screens, you need navigation buttons to move between menu items, and an enter button to activate the selected item. While playing a video stream, you need the abilities to pause, rewind or fast-forward, and return to a menu.
Those functions don't overlap -- you can't navigate menu items when there aren't any, and you can't fast-forward a menu screen. An intelligently-designed DVD application will use the same remote buttons for different purposes depending on the context.
Which is why it is the duty of we, the public, to intensely criticise any corporation when it does do something unethical, so that the ethical choice becomes the most profitable one.
In this case the ethical choice would be for Microsoft to pull out of the Chinese market entirely, since they can't violate Chinese law without upsetting the Chinese government, and they can't remain compliant with Chinese law without upsetting human rights activists elsewhere in the world.
Explain to me how abandoning an emerging market with 1 billion potential customers could ever be the most profitable choice to Microsoft.
Intel is going to make their own hardware and software now?
Well, they've been making their own hardware since before many of us were born.
The strategy they're now adopting seems to be to start selling more hardware directly to consumers, rather than just selling components to OEMs who then integrate and sell to consumers.
Frankly I'm surprised that the "Intel Inside" campaign has been so successful for the past 10 years, since they're basically spending millions to market a 1-inch sticker to consumers. It's time they take that brand identity they've built up and start taking advantage of it.
He has to apologize on his blog. That means he has to lie about what happened.
You and I must be operating on different assumptions about what the word 'apologize' means.
I don't think he's being asked to retract the statements he made, only to express regret at having made them. And given all the grief he's been through because of them, I would have no reason to suspect that such a statement of regret would be insincere.
Yet again, the big guys win.
The big guys aren't ALWAYS in the wrong. In this case, the school's initial reaction was knee-jerk and heavy-handed. But I do not feel that as a rule it is inappropriate for an organization to censure (I said censure, not censor) a member of its community for behavior that is perceived as damaging to the organization.
Stem cell research is performed using fetuses that would have been destroyed anyway. Can anybody argue that using them for research is morally any worse than simply destroying them?
I would imagine that a good number of the stem-cell research opponents feel that it's a horrible act to destroy a fetus (ok, let's be precise, embryo) at any point after the sperm breaches the ovum.
Neither science nor common sense would suggest that each and every embryo that is formed is destined to be carried to term and birthed, but there you have it.
Honestly I think that this title will flop because of the nasty control settings and no way to map the controls differently.
Funny, when I played the MP:H demo at a store kiosk last year, there were multiple control schemes to choose from. Have they taken that option out since?
The younger gaming crowd seems to be more interested in the technical specs behind a console because it's the latest and greatest
And then there's the YOUNGEST gaming crowd, which doesn't care about your gaming system unless they can play Pokemon/Digimon/Yu-Gi-Oh/Megaman.EXE Battle Network on it.
I expect some gamers' tastes will change as they get older, giving Sony and Microsoft a stream of new customers, but I expect at least as many to remain loyal to Nintendo. If I were to give the game companies grades on their long-term strategies I'd give Sony a C, Microsoft a C+ (C#?), and Nintendo an A.
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There's even sites dedicated to research literature. Try CiteSeer http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/, or even Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/.
Or a building called "a library".
I'm pretty sure that all universities have those, even in China.
Too bad CES isn't open to the general public
Of course it isn't. It's a trade show. It's supposed to be for people who are in The Business.
Why do you think companies give away swag like PSPs and gigs of RAM? Not so that some consumer with a press pass could brag about how much free stuff they got on a now-Slashdotted webpage. It's because they want professional buyers to be so impressed with their product that they place large B2B orders.
Giving away a $250 item to someone at a trade show is a smart move when it can lead to $2.5M in sales. When it can lead to $0.0M in sales, not so much.
And guess who strangled the animals those death in order to do this research?
Some poor grad student, most likely.
Transformers have used oil for a very long time for cooling.
They also compress and store it in 'energon cubes' and transport it via the Space Bridge in support of the war efforts back home on Cybertron.
Apache would be nothing without Perl, PHP, Phyton, MySQL or PostGresSQL.
Are you kidding.
Websites with fully-static content existed for years, and still do. Please tell me you're not suggesting that EVERY web site has to have a scripting language and a SQL database running on the backend to be worth anything.
If the coal contained radioactive material it is in the ashes afterward.
So there IS radioactive waste produced by the burning of "dirty" coal. How is this material typically disposed of?
3. Use of nuclear materials for weapons programs. When a developing nation announces their intent to develop a nuclear power program, the immediate reaction of many first-world countries is to assume that it's just a cover for building some nuclear missiles to lob at their enemies. Maybe, maybe not, but either way the perception is reinforced that nuclear power can be dangerous.
The risk of terrorist organizations obtaining materials via collusion with a nuclear country's government, or even just poor security practices, also weighs into people's views on nuclear power.
Almost every business PC in the UK is left switched on overnight, over weekends, and even when the employee goes on holiday, ditto the monitors.
This was a lot greater a problem 10-15 years ago, before the "Green PC" movement. If the monitor shuts itself off and the CPU goes on standby by 7:00PM on Friday, and doesn't get woken up again until 9:00AM Monday, the amount of wasted energy is quite low.
Like it or not, we throw most of our energy away needlessly.
We waste a lot, yes, but "most"? I'd have to see some figures before I'll believe that one.
It favors those with deep pockets to bully and force their will upon others since just the hint of legal action is enough to deter most in USA.
Yes, those with "deep pockets" like... the public school system of Lake Township, Ohio.
Straw man? Is that you?
Apparently it isn't, since they're both scenarios where encouraging another party to commit a felony is itself a felony.
How are they different, from the perspective of criminal law?
If I tell all my friends to drive up and down mainstreet a thousand times a day to wear down the pavement, have I committed a felony?
If your friends deny the use of Main Street to other motorists, you can expect to be hit with at least a misdemeanor charge for being a public nuisance. Operating a motorcade with out a permit and "cruising" too, if laws against those behaviors exist in your town and the police who trace the activity back to you want to send a message.
It's common sense. "Take a penny" trays don't give you the right to reach over and empty the register, and neither does granting of access to any other resource give you the right to hoard and abuse an unreasonable share of that resource.
Crying fire in a theatre is private property -- the Constitution protects nothing on private property and the theatre owner is responsible for setting the standards of speech.
You don't make any sense.
Under your interpretation of free speech, it would be perfectly fine to cry "fire" in a public place (say, the Capitol building) and you would bear no responsibility for the resulting chaos that ensued, even if people were trampled to death during the panic.
That's ridiculous.
a POP3 Client Buffer Overflow on Windows would not be included at all as one doesn't ship with Windows.
Outlook Express...
Steve Jobs says that PC and home theater integration is a fad that won't last. So why even bother coming out with a half assed product that claims to do everything Windows Media Center does, only slicker, or so Steve Jobs says.
When did he ever say any of these things? A quick googling didn't turn up any first-hand reports of Jobs quotes calling PC/home theater integration a "fad", nor any feature comparisons between Front Row and WMC apart from the design of the remotes.
Are you trying to FUD us?
Its a fad until Steve Jobs says it isn't, a lot like portable video devices which he said were impractical for the average user. Until Steve Jobs added video support to the iPod. Now its the cat's meow.
Yes. Circumstances change over time. Two years ago, typical consumers weren't willing to pay the premium to add video support to their iPods. Today, costs have come down and now they are. Jobs wasn't going to osborne Apple out of 2 years of iPod sales by announcing that a video iPod was eventually coming out.
Apple has been selling only a few million computers a quarter, compared to dozens of millions by Dell, HP, an others.
And how does Apple's profit margin per unit compare to Dell's? Growth is great, and market share is great, but in the end all that matters is profit.
For the first time in history, a Mac is 99% identical to a PC except for the BIOS and a few hardware/software tweaks.
This is true, if you count "an entirely different operating system and user experience" as a mere software tweak. People who subscribe to the Megahertz Myth may think Win86's and Mac86's can be compared directly, people who actually interact with a computer to determine its value will have other criteria for performance and value.
OSX is FREE to Apple to install on their hardware unlike Dell having to buy a Windows license for every computer they sell.
And Apple hasn't have to spend a cent to create or support OS X, no! It just sprang fully formed from the CVS repository one day.
I think Apple would be better off without Steve Jobs and his ego and arrogance.
We've already seen what Apple is like without Jobs at the helm. It's not a pretty scene, either for the customers or the investors.
Meanwhile, with Jobs in charge Apple is more popular and profitable than they've been since the 8-bit computing era. You'll have to forgive them if the board of directors doesn't take your advice to "drop him like a lead balloon".
But what he fails to realize is the Microsoft's Media Center is actually designed to be a Home Theater component, allowing users to view and record television, payback DVD's and video, access media libraries, as well as general naviation of an OS environment.
That still doesn't explain why you need 200 dedicated-function buttons on the remote, rather than 10 or so multi-function buttons.
Consider DVD playback. At the menu screens, you need navigation buttons to move between menu items, and an enter button to activate the selected item. While playing a video stream, you need the abilities to pause, rewind or fast-forward, and return to a menu.
Those functions don't overlap -- you can't navigate menu items when there aren't any, and you can't fast-forward a menu screen. An intelligently-designed DVD application will use the same remote buttons for different purposes depending on the context.
Which is why it is the duty of we, the public, to intensely criticise any corporation when it does do something unethical, so that the ethical choice becomes the most profitable one.
In this case the ethical choice would be for Microsoft to pull out of the Chinese market entirely, since they can't violate Chinese law without upsetting the Chinese government, and they can't remain compliant with Chinese law without upsetting human rights activists elsewhere in the world.
Explain to me how abandoning an emerging market with 1 billion potential customers could ever be the most profitable choice to Microsoft.
Intel is going to make their own hardware and software now?
Well, they've been making their own hardware since before many of us were born.
The strategy they're now adopting seems to be to start selling more hardware directly to consumers, rather than just selling components to OEMs who then integrate and sell to consumers.
Frankly I'm surprised that the "Intel Inside" campaign has been so successful for the past 10 years, since they're basically spending millions to market a 1-inch sticker to consumers. It's time they take that brand identity they've built up and start taking advantage of it.
See eg. this article on the company he started to buy back his copyrights
No no, "eg" is the company Fripp is buying back his copyrights FROM.
just record the sounds of broken glass!
I think that's already copyrighted by John Cage and/or Stone Cold Steve Austin.
He has to apologize on his blog. That means he has to lie about what happened.
You and I must be operating on different assumptions about what the word 'apologize' means.
I don't think he's being asked to retract the statements he made, only to express regret at having made them. And given all the grief he's been through because of them, I would have no reason to suspect that such a statement of regret would be insincere.
Yet again, the big guys win.
The big guys aren't ALWAYS in the wrong. In this case, the school's initial reaction was knee-jerk and heavy-handed. But I do not feel that as a rule it is inappropriate for an organization to censure (I said censure, not censor) a member of its community for behavior that is perceived as damaging to the organization.
we need a safety rating system which ignores all things other than damage to the occupants of the vehicles.
As a primary consideration, yes.
If two vehicles are equally adept at preventing human damage, I don't oppose comparing the repair/replace costs of the vehicles as a tie-breaker.
Support your local lyrics site!
Boycott your local songwriter!
They don't deserve money for their work anyway, we enjoy it therefore it should be free.
Stem cell research is performed using fetuses that would have been destroyed anyway. Can anybody argue that using them for research is morally any worse than simply destroying them?
I would imagine that a good number of the stem-cell research opponents feel that it's a horrible act to destroy a fetus (ok, let's be precise, embryo) at any point after the sperm breaches the ovum.
Neither science nor common sense would suggest that each and every embryo that is formed is destined to be carried to term and birthed, but there you have it.
Honestly I think that this title will flop because of the nasty control settings and no way to map the controls differently.
Funny, when I played the MP:H demo at a store kiosk last year, there were multiple control schemes to choose from. Have they taken that option out since?
The younger gaming crowd seems to be more interested in the technical specs behind a console because it's the latest and greatest
And then there's the YOUNGEST gaming crowd, which doesn't care about your gaming system unless they can play Pokemon/Digimon/Yu-Gi-Oh/Megaman.EXE Battle Network on it.
I expect some gamers' tastes will change as they get older, giving Sony and Microsoft a stream of new customers, but I expect at least as many to remain loyal to Nintendo. If I were to give the game companies grades on their long-term strategies I'd give Sony a C, Microsoft a C+ (C#?), and Nintendo an A.