My understanding is that CO2 sequestration is a viable technology that has been in use for a few decades for different reasons. It is possible to clean power plant exhaust, but it may cost a couple more cents per kWh to do so.
There are other issues, environmental and economic concerns are complex, but I don't believe that they are necessarily contradictory. I do believe there are ways to encourage more sustainable energy use, it seems many countries do this by selective tax credits and taxes. The EU has a tax on automobiles based on their CO2 emissions and it has encouraged looking for more efficient cars and other fuels.
If other companies are too slow to release new ipod accessories and apple beats them to it, well thats just too freakin bad for those other companies now isnt it?
That is an "if" that isn't satisfied here. Has Apple beat others to the accessories game? Apple was generally late to make accessories, and sometimes half-assed too, like the $99 leather case and the iPod socks. Anyways, I think this whole article is irrelevant. There is plenty of room in the market for accessories, and thankfully a lot of them differentiate on styles and features rather than just price.
The contract that you are referring to is one of the oddest ones I've heard about, though I don't make it my business to seek out the odd ones. I don't think that Apple Computer should be breaking its contracts, but I also don't think that the premise of that contract with that Apple Corp makes sense either, it was overly far reaching based on Beatles paranoia.
It may very well be that the recent product launches is designed to provoke a lawsuit so the issue can be settled once and for all. I for one don't think that Apple computer's products infringe on Apple Corps products, and the same goes to their respective names and trademarks. With many or most trademark systems, it appears that it is legal to operate under similar or identical trademark names so long as they aren't in the same product category and don't use confusingly similar logos.
...relative to their believe is that the "mark of the beast" means that you have to recant your faith to recieve the mark. Unless they can make that claim and back it up, it's a meaningless claim. Bar codes supposedly have "666" encoded into them, but that is only because of ignorance of what the bars mean, and I don't remember anyone recanting their beliefs to get one assigned to their body.
Even with fancy antennas, commercial or user made, using consumer grade routers to repeat a network signal is trying at best. It will work. For a while. Then you might have to reset the routers. Or replace them because most of them aren't really well built.
The last part you quoted was very important. Supercomputers often spend more time waiting for memory than they do with actual computing. The CPU doesn't need to be so fast for this.
Super computers are used in weather simulations, weapon design simulations, energy grid and so on. Louisiana's vulnerabilities to hurricanes was learned around 1999 because of a supercomputer simulations, the problem is that politicians apparently chose to ignore the threat. One man is trying to use supercomputers to help determine if there was a way to affect a hurricane by seeing if it could be affected with weather modification tools when it starts to form.
The thing is, that description seems to fit About.com. Very often, it ranks high in my searches but it is almost a worthless rehash of what I already knew. I wish I could block them out of my searche results by default without having to add search terms, as I know they most likely won't have what I want.
Whoever thought selling a 'media center' machine without digital audio should have been sacked.
The problem with that statement was that they weren't trying to sell the mini as a 'media center' machine by any stretch. Apple certainly never marketed it as such. Until today. Now has digital audio the same day they start promoting that feature.
Frankly, comparisons against laptops of the same price don't make sense. I wouldn't want a $600 laptop, laptops in that price range are pretty darn flimsy. On top of that, you claim that there are Pentium-M laptops at the $600 price range, but that is where the Celeron-M laptops currently are, Celeron-M is good but has only half cache and two thirds the bus speed. Dell's cheapest Pentium-M laptop appears to list at $1100, sell for $900.
I agree. It should only be for people that know what they are doing and understand that not all hardware is supported, fully, partially or at all.
Linux is still a pretty small target. I don't think a mass seller like Dell has any business entering that market, it would be better served by shops dedicated to Linux support.
Exactly. I am also very suspecting of software that won't allow unrelated software to operate. Any DVR that can't record when a firewall is scanning traffic is crap, or the scanner program is crap too. The firewall program should be able to allow exceptions for certain programs.
Still, even without this news, it would be easy to spot the pro-Infinium shills, anyone promoting their stuff as if it was cool gets a strike against them.
these new security threats are no more threatening that a paraplegic kitten.
To me, that one is worth more than the rest of the Wired web site. Sadly, to me, Wired seems to be made up of noobs and wannabes that I really don't give them much credit. Their annual "vaporware" artcles use a very narrow definition of vaporware, generally most products they declare to be vapor end up arriving with in a year of such declaration.
Back when the DeCSS program got media notice, Wired posted an article suggesting that we should all give up our DVD drives so Lucas would release his Star Wars Trilogy onto DVD. I think I emailed them a rebuttal of about fifteen factual and logical errors in that one article.
I thought that two of the other major objectives for Cell was workstations and scientific computing. If it was just games, I doubt that IBM or Toshiba would have gotten involved. I think it would be really cool if the open source low level movers and shakers could be given these things in the form of a Linux workstation, though I would hope that speculation or promises of that the PS3 being a Linux devel platform do pan out.
I understand in a way, but I think there are unintended consequences that can't be fully understood.
Somehow, I doubt that the said daughter would want anything to do with life without a parent. Children can be ungrateful in ways. I would also think there would be major pssychological issues if they knew that one of their parents was dissected so that they can live. I don't think it is info that can be kept from a child forever, so what would they think when they did find out.
And in the end, it really doesn't matter to the Google executives and the long term investors. Google already received its investment.
While Google Execs are likely to remain long term owners, price fluctuations may affect when they sell of a small portion of their stock if they want to pay for a new mansion or whatever.
Frankly, too many investors are jackasses. Very often, If a company earns a very respectable profit in its own right, but misses the earnings target, faces an immediate sell-off.
You can get very nice HDTVs for $1000 now, and the price is still dropping. The prices for HD disc players aren't expected to remain at $500. Large SD TVs and DVD players started at much higher prices. It's not just about a few extra pixels, it is quite a leap in clarity, about 6x as many pixels, it is the difference between a VGA monitor and Dell's 20" monitor.
Regarding the disc size, I think your rant really wasn't well-considered. The 8cm format (small discs) basically rips out about 75% of the capacity compared to the standard 12cm discs. So, insted of a 30GB dual layer HDDVD, are you willing to settle for a 7.5GB dual layer HDDVD? That is less capacity than a 12cm double layer DVD It is also about backward compatibility, the market generally doesn't accept new formats unless it is also backward compatible with what they already have.
Paypal fees are actually reasonable compared to the cost of credit card transfers, and for small transfers, a lot cheaper than money orders or cashier's checks, not to mention quicker than waiting for payment, and has a built-in shipping service that pre-fills all the information for fast label making. It's not impossible to buy on eBay without Paypal, it really isn't harder for most items unless the seller requires Paypal. As a seller, it may present issues because a lot of buyers don't want to wait a week for the seller to get the payment, wait another week for a check to clear, or go out and get a money order, or risk sending cash in the mail.
I don't think it makes sense to compare Paypal to a bank, it's kind of like comparing Home Depot to Target, they aren't even the same kind of business, nor do they both necessasrily perform the same sets of services so they can't make money in the same ways.
People whine about Paypal, but it is generally incredibly easy, convenient and flexible. I haven't been ripped off by another Paypal user yet.
If google can somehow manage to design a website that doesn't breach 20,200 different bullshit patents (like listing something for sale "(ON A WEBSITE)" and having a discription of the item, I'm sure that's patented).
I can't say anything for the grandparent post, but I have a 93 Cadillac SLS that I paid cash for two or three years ago. It needs some minor maintainance such as new tires, just my procrastination, but it doesn't look a third of its age or a third of its miles. I've even taken the engine out to fix a leak, and the engine and internals are in surprisingly good shape, almost new for the most part. Every car I had before that was also paid for with my own hard earned money.
I have never owed money on a car. I think getting into debt for a new car is one of the sillier things that a person can do. The #1 reasons to get a new car seems to be vanity and ego. Even if you get no interest financing, paying several thousand more per year in depreciation and insurance is a very expensive way to get the ego boost. I'd rather put the money to better use.
I think there are a lot of people that rise and fall significantly, they don't get much notice as they aren't so prominent. Donald Trump is probably the next notable person, Abe Lincoln had suffered numerous defeats on the way to the White House.
Businesses fail, and there are a lot of people that do persist, thrive, fail & thrive with relative obscurity. Where Jobs is pretty lucky is that he's started three major businesses, each one a success by several measures.
As for Woz, he's not a limelight kind of guy and that might have limited the amount of exposure his work has gotten. That, and he's much more into tinkering than business empires.
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My understanding is that CO2 sequestration is a viable technology that has been in use for a few decades for different reasons. It is possible to clean power plant exhaust, but it may cost a couple more cents per kWh to do so.
There are other issues, environmental and economic concerns are complex, but I don't believe that they are necessarily contradictory. I do believe there are ways to encourage more sustainable energy use, it seems many countries do this by selective tax credits and taxes. The EU has a tax on automobiles based on their CO2 emissions and it has encouraged looking for more efficient cars and other fuels.
If other companies are too slow to release new ipod accessories and apple beats them to it, well thats just too freakin bad for those other companies now isnt it?
That is an "if" that isn't satisfied here. Has Apple beat others to the accessories game? Apple was generally late to make accessories, and sometimes half-assed too, like the $99 leather case and the iPod socks. Anyways, I think this whole article is irrelevant. There is plenty of room in the market for accessories, and thankfully a lot of them differentiate on styles and features rather than just price.
The contract that you are referring to is one of the oddest ones I've heard about, though I don't make it my business to seek out the odd ones. I don't think that Apple Computer should be breaking its contracts, but I also don't think that the premise of that contract with that Apple Corp makes sense either, it was overly far reaching based on Beatles paranoia.
It may very well be that the recent product launches is designed to provoke a lawsuit so the issue can be settled once and for all. I for one don't think that Apple computer's products infringe on Apple Corps products, and the same goes to their respective names and trademarks. With many or most trademark systems, it appears that it is legal to operate under similar or identical trademark names so long as they aren't in the same product category and don't use confusingly similar logos.
...relative to their believe is that the "mark of the beast" means that you have to recant your faith to recieve the mark. Unless they can make that claim and back it up, it's a meaningless claim. Bar codes supposedly have "666" encoded into them, but that is only because of ignorance of what the bars mean, and I don't remember anyone recanting their beliefs to get one assigned to their body.
Even with fancy antennas, commercial or user made, using consumer grade routers to repeat a network signal is trying at best. It will work. For a while. Then you might have to reset the routers. Or replace them because most of them aren't really well built.
The last part you quoted was very important. Supercomputers often spend more time waiting for memory than they do with actual computing. The CPU doesn't need to be so fast for this.
Super computers are used in weather simulations, weapon design simulations, energy grid and so on. Louisiana's vulnerabilities to hurricanes was learned around 1999 because of a supercomputer simulations, the problem is that politicians apparently chose to ignore the threat. One man is trying to use supercomputers to help determine if there was a way to affect a hurricane by seeing if it could be affected with weather modification tools when it starts to form.
The thing is, that description seems to fit About.com. Very often, it ranks high in my searches but it is almost a worthless rehash of what I already knew. I wish I could block them out of my searche results by default without having to add search terms, as I know they most likely won't have what I want.
Whoever thought selling a 'media center' machine without digital audio should have been sacked.
The problem with that statement was that they weren't trying to sell the mini as a 'media center' machine by any stretch. Apple certainly never marketed it as such. Until today. Now has digital audio the same day they start promoting that feature.
Frankly, comparisons against laptops of the same price don't make sense. I wouldn't want a $600 laptop, laptops in that price range are pretty darn flimsy. On top of that, you claim that there are Pentium-M laptops at the $600 price range, but that is where the Celeron-M laptops currently are, Celeron-M is good but has only half cache and two thirds the bus speed. Dell's cheapest Pentium-M laptop appears to list at $1100, sell for $900.
I agree. It should only be for people that know what they are doing and understand that not all hardware is supported, fully, partially or at all.
Linux is still a pretty small target. I don't think a mass seller like Dell has any business entering that market, it would be better served by shops dedicated to Linux support.
Exactly. I am also very suspecting of software that won't allow unrelated software to operate. Any DVR that can't record when a firewall is scanning traffic is crap, or the scanner program is crap too. The firewall program should be able to allow exceptions for certain programs.
Still, even without this news, it would be easy to spot the pro-Infinium shills, anyone promoting their stuff as if it was cool gets a strike against them.
these new security threats are no more threatening that a paraplegic kitten.
To me, that one is worth more than the rest of the Wired web site. Sadly, to me, Wired seems to be made up of noobs and wannabes that I really don't give them much credit. Their annual "vaporware" artcles use a very narrow definition of vaporware, generally most products they declare to be vapor end up arriving with in a year of such declaration.
Back when the DeCSS program got media notice, Wired posted an article suggesting that we should all give up our DVD drives so Lucas would release his Star Wars Trilogy onto DVD. I think I emailed them a rebuttal of about fifteen factual and logical errors in that one article.
I thought that two of the other major objectives for Cell was workstations and scientific computing. If it was just games, I doubt that IBM or Toshiba would have gotten involved. I think it would be really cool if the open source low level movers and shakers could be given these things in the form of a Linux workstation, though I would hope that speculation or promises of that the PS3 being a Linux devel platform do pan out.
I understand in a way, but I think there are unintended consequences that can't be fully understood.
Somehow, I doubt that the said daughter would want anything to do with life without a parent. Children can be ungrateful in ways. I would also think there would be major pssychological issues if they knew that one of their parents was dissected so that they can live. I don't think it is info that can be kept from a child forever, so what would they think when they did find out.
Even more interesting, try this:
Many unsuspecting recipients are now rushing to doctors to be tested for tainted tissue."
If you don't suspect you were such a recipient, then why would you be rushing to doctors to test for suspected illegally taken tissue?
And in the end, it really doesn't matter to the Google executives and the long term investors. Google already received its investment.
While Google Execs are likely to remain long term owners, price fluctuations may affect when they sell of a small portion of their stock if they want to pay for a new mansion or whatever.
Frankly, too many investors are jackasses. Very often, If a company earns a very respectable profit in its own right, but misses the earnings target, faces an immediate sell-off.
You can get very nice HDTVs for $1000 now, and the price is still dropping. The prices for HD disc players aren't expected to remain at $500. Large SD TVs and DVD players started at much higher prices. It's not just about a few extra pixels, it is quite a leap in clarity, about 6x as many pixels, it is the difference between a VGA monitor and Dell's 20" monitor.
Regarding the disc size, I think your rant really wasn't well-considered. The 8cm format (small discs) basically rips out about 75% of the capacity compared to the standard 12cm discs. So, insted of a 30GB dual layer HDDVD, are you willing to settle for a 7.5GB dual layer HDDVD? That is less capacity than a 12cm double layer DVD It is also about backward compatibility, the market generally doesn't accept new formats unless it is also backward compatible with what they already have.
Paypal fees are actually reasonable compared to the cost of credit card transfers, and for small transfers, a lot cheaper than money orders or cashier's checks, not to mention quicker than waiting for payment, and has a built-in shipping service that pre-fills all the information for fast label making. It's not impossible to buy on eBay without Paypal, it really isn't harder for most items unless the seller requires Paypal. As a seller, it may present issues because a lot of buyers don't want to wait a week for the seller to get the payment, wait another week for a check to clear, or go out and get a money order, or risk sending cash in the mail.
I don't think it makes sense to compare Paypal to a bank, it's kind of like comparing Home Depot to Target, they aren't even the same kind of business, nor do they both necessasrily perform the same sets of services so they can't make money in the same ways.
People whine about Paypal, but it is generally incredibly easy, convenient and flexible. I haven't been ripped off by another Paypal user yet.
If google can somehow manage to design a website that doesn't breach 20,200 different bullshit patents (like listing something for sale "(ON A WEBSITE)" and having a discription of the item, I'm sure that's patented).
Looks like FUD to me.
I can't say anything for the grandparent post, but I have a 93 Cadillac SLS that I paid cash for two or three years ago. It needs some minor maintainance such as new tires, just my procrastination, but it doesn't look a third of its age or a third of its miles. I've even taken the engine out to fix a leak, and the engine and internals are in surprisingly good shape, almost new for the most part. Every car I had before that was also paid for with my own hard earned money.
I have never owed money on a car. I think getting into debt for a new car is one of the sillier things that a person can do. The #1 reasons to get a new car seems to be vanity and ego. Even if you get no interest financing, paying several thousand more per year in depreciation and insurance is a very expensive way to get the ego boost. I'd rather put the money to better use.
It does seem to be a lame way to get traffic, I hope Thomas Hawk doesn't turn into another Roland Pimp-my-site-quialle.
Stop your rant. Save your breath. You'll need to rest up for the dupe.
Slashdot. Dupes from dopes. Stuff that matters to someone, we think.
I think there are a lot of people that rise and fall significantly, they don't get much notice as they aren't so prominent. Donald Trump is probably the next notable person, Abe Lincoln had suffered numerous defeats on the way to the White House.
Businesses fail, and there are a lot of people that do persist, thrive, fail & thrive with relative obscurity. Where Jobs is pretty lucky is that he's started three major businesses, each one a success by several measures.
As for Woz, he's not a limelight kind of guy and that might have limited the amount of exposure his work has gotten. That, and he's much more into tinkering than business empires.
That seems to require people on the same network to be downloading the same data at the same time.