The next time you fly, never ask other passengers what they paid for their ticket and next April 15, don't ask the others in line dropping of their tax return how much they paid in taxes. I don't think you should know.
Adobe Illustrator in recent versions can use PDF as it's native format. ANYTHING in a PDF can be edited in Illustrator. Your letterhead can be yanked out and a new one put in it's place. I can swap out your signature for mine. You name it.
First, Steve Jobs does not blink. In fact, he is far more disciplined on challenges like this than any executive I can think of and has a remarkable habit of landing seemingly impossible deals. His Pixar deal with Disney was almost unheard of.
Second, the conflict here is not as significant as some are making it out to be. Steve has acknowledged that tiered pricing is the likely future of online music. He just thinks that the market is not yet mature enough to support that model and that the single-price model should stay for a while longer. There are some practical issues to this as well:
1) iTMS offers over 1M tracks to purchase. There are numerous variations of some tracks. Will Apple have to negotiate the pricing on all 1M+ tracks? How often can pricing change? Will Apple be responding to pricing changes based on tracks hitting and falling off Billboard charts? Sell-through rates? Marketing campaigns? How many pricing errors will result from this?
I can see Apple having to press labels to reduce their wholesale prices for $.99 songs simply to cover the administrative overhead to maintain this system. Remember, Apple can't 'fix' the retail price for the labels - so a $.99 vs. $1.29 song has to be a reflection of the price charged to Apple by the labels.
2) Will consumers be faced with idiotic pricing scenarios? Will BandX just released 'Greatest Hits' tracks be priced at $1.29 when the original (identical but not remastered) tracks be easily assembled for $.99 each? What of other alternate versions on movie soundtracks, etc. When the files are virtually identical but cost different amounts, it only serves to infuriate your customers as you provide them with a simple (if annoying) means to undermine your efforts of getting more money. Why not just price everything the same to begin with?
So, bottom line, Steve doesn't blink. But at the same time, I don't think this is one of those issues that Steve feels so strongly about that he'll go balls-to-the-wall to hold to the $.99. But there's no fucking way anyone is getting any iPod cut - that's an overreach by the labels so they can negotiate back to variable pricing and leave everyone claiming that they salvaged something from this.
Just look at the current spike in oil prices! Yes, I know that we are approaching peak production and such and that the days of cheap oil are over, but the current spike in gasoline prices is just a matter of pure greed...
That's crap. The problem is the weakening dollar combined with constrained supply. The feds are printing money hand over fist to keep this economy afloat and since most of our oil is imported but the money we pay with is declining in value, the amount of money demanded in return is increasing.
As strange as this is to say, we were in MUCH better shape when we had a Dem running the show.
Currently Apple requires NO serial number, registration, or any other verification to load OS X.
Well, aside from the $499 to $2999 hardware dongle that you've already purchased, you are correct.
What's more, it appears that Apple's policy hasn't changed one whit - so long as you spring for the $499 to $2999 Intel hardware dongle, you can install without repercussion.
Computer Science != Software Engineering just like Physics != Mechanical Engineering.
If you want to work as a computer scientist - which many places do, but usually with a small cadre of employees and usually heavily stacked toward Ph.D. then you're fine - provided you get the M.S. or Ph.D.
If you want to direct a software project, then you're in the wrong major and should seek out one of the unfortunate few Software Engineering programs around the country. Keep in mind that you will be expected to work with people a lot of the time.
If you want to slug through code, that's increasingly becoming the work of the coder, the software equivalent of a tradesman and either DeVry or relocating to Manipal is sufficient.
Naming products things that consumers feel self-conscious trying to pronounce correctly tends to cause them to a) not talk about them, b) come up with some other name for your product that you have no control over.
Repayment would be a deterrent if it were proportional to the crime. It's part of the reason why RICO provides for 2x damages. If you made $10M as a spammer and had to repay $20M, even successful criminals would be deterred.
I work hard and don't mind paying taxes for the benefits I receive, but money earned in the conviction of a crime should be returned to those it came from *and* an equal sum paid to the taxpayers for having to put up with the assholes in the first place.
I sure wouldn't mind if Ebbers and Co. could be compelled to put $11B into the local, state, and federal coffers. If they can't pay up, I'm sure there are some boys in Fallujah who wouldn't mind giving up their place for a fellow citizen who needs a good way to repay their debt to society.
Because Apple was interested in the server market, IBM helped sever those ties.
Soon after the G5 was introduced, IBM merged their semiconductor and server groups. The big Xserve sales such as VATech et al were potentially IBM server sales that didn't happen. The good deals on G5s that Apple got didn't make any sense if they also cost IBM server sales.
If you were IBM, would you continue that relationship?
The Bush administration appointees on the NRLB supported a rulling that would allow the security firm to effectively prevent employees from organizing outside work through the pretext of prohibiting dating.
Solution is simple, then. All such meetings need to be same-sex so that the employees can counter that any targetted meetings are discriminatory based on sexual preference. If dating is the pretext, just use that pretext against them.
Minor nit which surprises most people: Automator doesn't use Applescript. I have no idea why not, but it's not an AS front-end, much as it looks like one.
Yeah, there's definitely a new buying dymanic with the mini.
We expected mini sales to pick up when Tiger shipped given that it represents as much as 20% of the price of the total system if you bought a mini+Jag and then upgraded to Tiger later. While it's still the same $129 as it was 3 years ago for the OS upgrade, somehow the cost as a percentage of the system price seems to have an impact.
It works in reverse as well. If you had an old G4 and were thinking about getting iLife + Tiger, for not *that* much more you could just get a mini, so it should add to the unit churn for Apple. The mini isn't so much of a product that is expected to upsell to an iMac, rather it *is* the upsell from iLife+Tiger - more of an impulse move. I see a lot of users buying a mini every year to get the newest OS + bundled software, and handing down their old system to their spouse, kids, etc.
The other effect on the economy is that vendors are beginning to see the mini as the foundation for vertical solutions. We've already seen some medical office software ($2K range) bundle with a mini, and I expect you'll see more of this - prepackaged appliances. At only 3lbs with physically small packaging, it's not a stretch to see vendors preload and configure their vertical apps on the mini, repackage them, and resell to users - just plug it in and go. Smart vendors might even include a USB flash drive that the software saves configuration info on so that the mini can be hot-swapped as part of a service call.
Correct. Both the least significant bit and the most significant bit are patented. The Chinese omitted these for legal reasons. As a result the Godson-2 is relatively fast but highly insignificant.
If all keys are visually remappable, then they really need fewer keys. I'm still disappointed at all the junk (arrow cluster, numeric pad) on the right side of the home row between me and my mouse.
Move your mouse to the left, then. No harder learning how to left-mouse than it is to learn a minor keyboard remap. Then you can also use the numeric keypad and mouse simultaneiously, which is handy.
This keyboard combines the two, so now we've got function keys across the top and (different ones) down the left, plus a numeric keypad that is completely redundant with other number and arrow keys.
Well, the two Fkey areas aren't redundent if you can assign. For the ones on the left, I'd suggest oversized keys - 50% wider than normal or so so that you can program them to show real-time data updates. I'd imagine sysadmins mapping system loads to keys and so on.
Depends on your usage and what kind of battery. I can get 7 hours on my 12" Powerbook if I'm very careful and we don't know that you don't have a P4M notebook with two batteries, which Apple hasn't supported in quite some time.
I generally agree that we should in general see better battery time with the P4M due to Intel chipsets typically reducing the power usage for things like 802.11 over what Apple has. Apple could solve this problem now, but Intel has already done it for them in the future.
It's pretty hard to compete against a group that forces everyone to buy its performance while you have to hope someone volutarily buys yours.
No, it's not. All over the nation there are paid orchestras and choirs singing public-domain works and doing just fine because the *performance* is what most people are interested in. My wife has several recordings of certain works, she herself regularly sings those same works, and she regularly pays to attend performances of the very same works.
The problem with the business model is that the orchestras, rather than *perform* want to *record* and still be viable. That's the failure. The money is in the performance and BBC isn't competing in that space.
Unfortunately, it looks like MS brought over the bad effect from their Mac products where they blur what's behind transparent items making the transparency fairly useless except to indicate that *something* is back there.
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A tip for you.
The next time you fly, never ask other passengers what they paid for their ticket and next April 15, don't ask the others in line dropping of their tax return how much they paid in taxes. I don't think you should know.
The world isn't fair. Get over it.
It's not limited to minor changes.
Adobe Illustrator in recent versions can use PDF as it's native format. ANYTHING in a PDF can be edited in Illustrator. Your letterhead can be yanked out and a new one put in it's place. I can swap out your signature for mine. You name it.
First, Steve Jobs does not blink. In fact, he is far more disciplined on challenges like this than any executive I can think of and has a remarkable habit of landing seemingly impossible deals. His Pixar deal with Disney was almost unheard of.
Second, the conflict here is not as significant as some are making it out to be. Steve has acknowledged that tiered pricing is the likely future of online music. He just thinks that the market is not yet mature enough to support that model and that the single-price model should stay for a while longer. There are some practical issues to this as well:
1) iTMS offers over 1M tracks to purchase. There are numerous variations of some tracks. Will Apple have to negotiate the pricing on all 1M+ tracks? How often can pricing change? Will Apple be responding to pricing changes based on tracks hitting and falling off Billboard charts? Sell-through rates? Marketing campaigns? How many pricing errors will result from this?
I can see Apple having to press labels to reduce their wholesale prices for $.99 songs simply to cover the administrative overhead to maintain this system. Remember, Apple can't 'fix' the retail price for the labels - so a $.99 vs. $1.29 song has to be a reflection of the price charged to Apple by the labels.
2) Will consumers be faced with idiotic pricing scenarios? Will BandX just released 'Greatest Hits' tracks be priced at $1.29 when the original (identical but not remastered) tracks be easily assembled for $.99 each? What of other alternate versions on movie soundtracks, etc. When the files are virtually identical but cost different amounts, it only serves to infuriate your customers as you provide them with a simple (if annoying) means to undermine your efforts of getting more money. Why not just price everything the same to begin with?
So, bottom line, Steve doesn't blink. But at the same time, I don't think this is one of those issues that Steve feels so strongly about that he'll go balls-to-the-wall to hold to the $.99. But there's no fucking way anyone is getting any iPod cut - that's an overreach by the labels so they can negotiate back to variable pricing and leave everyone claiming that they salvaged something from this.
Just look at the current spike in oil prices! Yes, I know that we are approaching peak production and such and that the days of cheap oil are over, but the current spike in gasoline prices is just a matter of pure greed...
That's crap. The problem is the weakening dollar combined with constrained supply. The feds are printing money hand over fist to keep this economy afloat and since most of our oil is imported but the money we pay with is declining in value, the amount of money demanded in return is increasing.
As strange as this is to say, we were in MUCH better shape when we had a Dem running the show.
That is, if I can get my penis erect.
It's nothing that a beowulf cluster of these couldn't solve.
Currently Apple requires NO serial number, registration, or any other verification to load OS X.
Well, aside from the $499 to $2999 hardware dongle that you've already purchased, you are correct.
What's more, it appears that Apple's policy hasn't changed one whit - so long as you spring for the $499 to $2999 Intel hardware dongle, you can install without repercussion.
Computer Science != Software Engineering just like Physics != Mechanical Engineering.
If you want to work as a computer scientist - which many places do, but usually with a small cadre of employees and usually heavily stacked toward Ph.D. then you're fine - provided you get the M.S. or Ph.D.
If you want to direct a software project, then you're in the wrong major and should seek out one of the unfortunate few Software Engineering programs around the country. Keep in mind that you will be expected to work with people a lot of the time.
If you want to slug through code, that's increasingly becoming the work of the coder, the software equivalent of a tradesman and either DeVry or relocating to Manipal is sufficient.
Uh, spit is the metric measurement. Loogie is imperial.
Actually, there's a 'Grouping' metafield which is better used for this so you don't hose your proper comments.
So why the fuck isn't it spelled 'vive'.
Naming products things that consumers feel self-conscious trying to pronounce correctly tends to cause them to a) not talk about them, b) come up with some other name for your product that you have no control over.
Repayment would be a deterrent if it were proportional to the crime. It's part of the reason why RICO provides for 2x damages. If you made $10M as a spammer and had to repay $20M, even successful criminals would be deterred.
I work hard and don't mind paying taxes for the benefits I receive, but money earned in the conviction of a crime should be returned to those it came from *and* an equal sum paid to the taxpayers for having to put up with the assholes in the first place.
I sure wouldn't mind if Ebbers and Co. could be compelled to put $11B into the local, state, and federal coffers. If they can't pay up, I'm sure there are some boys in Fallujah who wouldn't mind giving up their place for a fellow citizen who needs a good way to repay their debt to society.
Because Apple was interested in the server market, IBM helped sever those ties.
Soon after the G5 was introduced, IBM merged their semiconductor and server groups. The big Xserve sales such as VATech et al were potentially IBM server sales that didn't happen. The good deals on G5s that Apple got didn't make any sense if they also cost IBM server sales.
If you were IBM, would you continue that relationship?
Stirling engines certainly aren't forgotten or neglected. Swedish submarines use Stirling engines for propulsion, for instance.
Swedish submarines, huh?
No offense, but that really doesn't add a lot of support for the utility of Stirling engines, you know.
but for the record: 4500 acres is only 7 square miles.
It sounds a lot smaller when you put it that way.
Also for the record, Manhattan is only 23 square miles. Sounds a lot larger when you put it that way.
The Bush administration appointees on the NRLB supported a rulling that would allow the security firm to effectively prevent employees from organizing outside work through the pretext of prohibiting dating.
Solution is simple, then. All such meetings need to be same-sex so that the employees can counter that any targetted meetings are discriminatory based on sexual preference. If dating is the pretext, just use that pretext against them.
Minor nit which surprises most people: Automator doesn't use Applescript. I have no idea why not, but it's not an AS front-end, much as it looks like one.
Yeah, there's definitely a new buying dymanic with the mini.
We expected mini sales to pick up when Tiger shipped given that it represents as much as 20% of the price of the total system if you bought a mini+Jag and then upgraded to Tiger later. While it's still the same $129 as it was 3 years ago for the OS upgrade, somehow the cost as a percentage of the system price seems to have an impact.
It works in reverse as well. If you had an old G4 and were thinking about getting iLife + Tiger, for not *that* much more you could just get a mini, so it should add to the unit churn for Apple. The mini isn't so much of a product that is expected to upsell to an iMac, rather it *is* the upsell from iLife+Tiger - more of an impulse move. I see a lot of users buying a mini every year to get the newest OS + bundled software, and handing down their old system to their spouse, kids, etc.
The other effect on the economy is that vendors are beginning to see the mini as the foundation for vertical solutions. We've already seen some medical office software ($2K range) bundle with a mini, and I expect you'll see more of this - prepackaged appliances. At only 3lbs with physically small packaging, it's not a stretch to see vendors preload and configure their vertical apps on the mini, repackage them, and resell to users - just plug it in and go. Smart vendors might even include a USB flash drive that the software saves configuration info on so that the mini can be hot-swapped as part of a service call.
It does not implement the bits that are patented.
Correct. Both the least significant bit and the most significant bit are patented. The Chinese omitted these for legal reasons. As a result the Godson-2 is relatively fast but highly insignificant.
Apple has been running a promo that is effectively a free iPod mini with the purchase of a Powerbook or a range of other products.
It's quite a nice offer. I got a 10GB iPod on a similar offer a year+ ago.
If all keys are visually remappable, then they really need fewer keys. I'm still disappointed at all the junk (arrow cluster, numeric pad) on the right side of the home row between me and my mouse.
Move your mouse to the left, then. No harder learning how to left-mouse than it is to learn a minor keyboard remap. Then you can also use the numeric keypad and mouse simultaneiously, which is handy.
This keyboard combines the two, so now we've got function keys across the top and (different ones) down the left, plus a numeric keypad that is completely redundant with other number and arrow keys.
Well, the two Fkey areas aren't redundent if you can assign. For the ones on the left, I'd suggest oversized keys - 50% wider than normal or so so that you can program them to show real-time data updates. I'd imagine sysadmins mapping system loads to keys and so on.
Depends on your usage and what kind of battery. I can get 7 hours on my 12" Powerbook if I'm very careful and we don't know that you don't have a P4M notebook with two batteries, which Apple hasn't supported in quite some time.
I generally agree that we should in general see better battery time with the P4M due to Intel chipsets typically reducing the power usage for things like 802.11 over what Apple has. Apple could solve this problem now, but Intel has already done it for them in the future.
It's pretty hard to compete against a group that forces everyone to buy its performance while you have to hope someone volutarily buys yours.
No, it's not. All over the nation there are paid orchestras and choirs singing public-domain works and doing just fine because the *performance* is what most people are interested in. My wife has several recordings of certain works, she herself regularly sings those same works, and she regularly pays to attend performances of the very same works.
The problem with the business model is that the orchestras, rather than *perform* want to *record* and still be viable. That's the failure. The money is in the performance and BBC isn't competing in that space.
Rivalries?
Clearly this is a move to fight interplanetary terrorism abroad rather than defend against it at home.
If we don't secure L2, surely Al Qaeda soon will!
Unfortunately, it looks like MS brought over the bad effect from their Mac products where they blur what's behind transparent items making the transparency fairly useless except to indicate that *something* is back there.