From that perspective, a corporate web log might as well be a PR mouthpiece page. I don't understand how that would be any better than just putting the press releases on an RSS feed and be done with it. Still, I think that's better than the tripe that Jonathan Schwartz puts up on his web log at Sun Microsystems.
Consumers should respond by simply not buying anything which is deliberately designed to support a cartel. They are only ripping themselves off (The Matrix: US $9.95... Aust $19.48)
My understanding is that most of that price differences seen in the Australian market can be attributed to Australia's absurd import tax system as well as the different currency valuations.
You mean in the same way that you get charged more for a tin of peas to which salt has NOT been added, right?
I can see it, a tin of food without salt isn't likely to last as long because salt is a natural preservative, and the sales volume of that kind of food doesn't take as good advantage of mass production.
The idea of organic foods is interesting because sometimes it is the trace chemicals that matter. Trace chemicals like PCBs and others stay in our bodies and slowly build up over time. Unacceptable levels of PCBs are still found in fish in the US/Canda Great Lakes region because that's where all the chemicals settled.
Your assumption requires a survivor. We're talking about tailor-made chemicals designed to kill things.
An assumption like yours is probably what caused the problem. Think of it, assuming the chemical will kill all of something? Killing 100% or at least enough such that the remaining survivors doesn't reproduce? There aren't many times that absolute assumptions work like that.
That is pretty unfortunate. My understanding is that the plastic material is very impact resistant, but amlost minimally scratch resistant. I don't understand Apple's obsession with making good looking products if it is so hard to keep them looking good when actually used.
I don't like Apple's obsession with hiding or eliminating ports, I think it's stupidly awkward to have to reach around to the back side of a monitor or computer and feel around for a port to make an impromptu plug-in such as a thumb drive. That's why other omputer makers have put ports on the front of their computers. For a computer like the iMac, I'm willing to compromise by putting a couple easy ports on the side so that the front is unblemished, though I think the iMac front is a bit bland. iBooks and Powerbooks have ports on their side, so there's some precedence there.
Disclosure: I do own a few pieces of Apple hardware. I like many parts of the Mac OS X and their hardware is pretty nice, but I don't like it that the Apple Faithful behave as if the way things are with Apple products is perfect and that there aren't huge grounds for improvement. I do understand many of the reasons for the way something might be, but I think there should be room for disagreement as to whether it is a good idea or not.
I think you make a great point. I don't think there's much point in silent (at least no fan) computers, the number of trade-offs to get there are pretty severe. Complaining about a computer whose total accoustical emissions is less than 30dB seems pretty spoiled to me. I also don't think it takes much to quiet a computer acceptably.
While civilization has been innovating for millennia, but most innovation seems to have come in the last fifty, hundred or two hundred years. That isn't a case to say that patent law works as in causation, but the correllation is interesting and I wouldn't mind seeing whether there is a causal link between the rise of patents and the rise of innovation.
The kid got people to throw money at him with an idea NOBODY else thought of and all you can do is whine about how he is not a genius,
I won't say nobody thought of before, but rather nobody tried to do before. The other people that came up with the same idea probably came up with it a joke or didn't try to promote it for other reasons. The fact that people will pay by the single pixel simply shows that there's a sucker born every minute.
I think you are missing the point that Intel is changing the microarchitecture. This change will happen at the same time as changing the logo standard, so changing the branding isn't an empty gesture as you seem to suggest.
I also don't understand how you are suggesting that Intel is less than profitable, according to a new Business Week article, their current annual net profit is estimated to be nearly $10B on $42B revenue.
Yonah and Conroe were simply internal code names for specific microprocessor products, a practice that has been done for maybe a decade or more. Code names aren't and won't be brand names, much like the project code named Longhorn will be marketed as Vista. No, I don't think Intel is going to avoid quad core, I have no idea why one would ask that.
A (redudant - read my past posts on the subject) glimpse into the future: In 20 or 30 years our computers will be smaller than a Nintendo gamecube. No floppy disks, just flash (or magnetic?) memory cards and solid-state HDs. PCI bus will be cast into oblivion, when the new add-on cards fit in a PS2 memory stick. Small future, indeed.
I predict that a computer smaller than a Nintendo Gamecube will be released into the public conciousness on January 2005 in the form of the Apple Mac mini. They are pretty neat too. I think there are older examples in embedded computers as well as miniITX boards.
Why predict the use of removable memory cards? Why not also say those are considered offensive because of a global wireless network?
The only reason full size desktops and midtowers are commonly available is cost, flexibility and performance, not many are willing to trade those off.
There is an adblocking feature built into Firefox, you can right click an image and you will see an option "block all images from $server". Not as flexible as adblock, but it does work and requires no extensions.
My guess is there is probably some benefit to signing up, like being able to do court business you *want* to do electronically.
How many people do that much court business and is on the wrong side of the court? Maybe there's a repeat offender program? Is there a certified SMS system, to prove that the person did recieve and acknowledge the indictment?
As they have competition elsewhere in Asia, the US and Europe, I don't see how it would make a difference. To do price fixing, they would have to cooperate with every other company in any particular chip industry.
I would say that the fast track treatment should only be reserved for terminal diseases. There is a reason testing takes time, because there are always the chance of unintended consequences and treatments need to be thoughroughly vetted. Thalidomide and Phen-phen (sp?) are two treatments which needed more time, I think Vioxx and similar drugs weren't given the statutory amount of testing as well, to the detriment to those that took it.
What stick of memory uses 10W peak? Most people wouldn't be able to touch the memory if it were that hot, that's nearly a watt per memory chip, I'm pretty sure that assumtion would result in memory that runs hotter than RAMBUS memory does.
I would think that such drives would be remote storage as very often more than one person would need to use the data.
Are there workstation apps that can use SLI, or are you assuming that a person would be using four separate screens? When I see commentaries and behind the scenes footage, I never see computers with four screens.
I'd say GIMP sounds a lot more like a physical therapy program than a photo program. At least Photoshop tells the user that it is for photos. I like the explaination that it may mean "photo workshop". Maybe darkroom would be a better name, but I imagine that's harder to trademark.
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RSS is great for subscriptions. I think it is too new to simply write off, kind of like how John Dvorak wrote them off in the mid-80s.
I think the live bookmark way Firefox handles them is great, I wish more web browsers added that use. It's not for everyone.
From that perspective, a corporate web log might as well be a PR mouthpiece page. I don't understand how that would be any better than just putting the press releases on an RSS feed and be done with it. Still, I think that's better than the tripe that Jonathan Schwartz puts up on his web log at Sun Microsystems.
Consumers should respond by simply not buying anything which is deliberately designed to support a cartel. They are only ripping themselves off (The Matrix: US $9.95... Aust $19.48)
My understanding is that most of that price differences seen in the Australian market can be attributed to Australia's absurd import tax system as well as the different currency valuations.
You mean in the same way that you get charged more for a tin of peas to which salt has NOT been added, right?
I can see it, a tin of food without salt isn't likely to last as long because salt is a natural preservative, and the sales volume of that kind of food doesn't take as good advantage of mass production.
The idea of organic foods is interesting because sometimes it is the trace chemicals that matter. Trace chemicals like PCBs and others stay in our bodies and slowly build up over time. Unacceptable levels of PCBs are still found in fish in the US/Canda Great Lakes region because that's where all the chemicals settled.
Still, I haven't "converted" to organic foods.
Your assumption requires a survivor. We're talking about tailor-made chemicals designed to kill things.
An assumption like yours is probably what caused the problem. Think of it, assuming the chemical will kill all of something? Killing 100% or at least enough such that the remaining survivors doesn't reproduce? There aren't many times that absolute assumptions work like that.
That is pretty unfortunate. My understanding is that the plastic material is very impact resistant, but amlost minimally scratch resistant. I don't understand Apple's obsession with making good looking products if it is so hard to keep them looking good when actually used.
I don't like Apple's obsession with hiding or eliminating ports, I think it's stupidly awkward to have to reach around to the back side of a monitor or computer and feel around for a port to make an impromptu plug-in such as a thumb drive. That's why other omputer makers have put ports on the front of their computers. For a computer like the iMac, I'm willing to compromise by putting a couple easy ports on the side so that the front is unblemished, though I think the iMac front is a bit bland. iBooks and Powerbooks have ports on their side, so there's some precedence there.
Disclosure: I do own a few pieces of Apple hardware. I like many parts of the Mac OS X and their hardware is pretty nice, but I don't like it that the Apple Faithful behave as if the way things are with Apple products is perfect and that there aren't huge grounds for improvement. I do understand many of the reasons for the way something might be, but I think there should be room for disagreement as to whether it is a good idea or not.
I think you make a great point. I don't think there's much point in silent (at least no fan) computers, the number of trade-offs to get there are pretty severe. Complaining about a computer whose total accoustical emissions is less than 30dB seems pretty spoiled to me. I also don't think it takes much to quiet a computer acceptably.
The mini should have included a manual. I was able to download the pdf from the manufacturer, just like any other decent computer manufacturer.
While civilization has been innovating for millennia, but most innovation seems to have come in the last fifty, hundred or two hundred years. That isn't a case to say that patent law works as in causation, but the correllation is interesting and I wouldn't mind seeing whether there is a causal link between the rise of patents and the rise of innovation.
The kid got people to throw money at him with an idea NOBODY else thought of and all you can do is whine about how he is not a genius,
I won't say nobody thought of before, but rather nobody tried to do before. The other people that came up with the same idea probably came up with it a joke or didn't try to promote it for other reasons. The fact that people will pay by the single pixel simply shows that there's a sucker born every minute.
I think you are missing the point that Intel is changing the microarchitecture. This change will happen at the same time as changing the logo standard, so changing the branding isn't an empty gesture as you seem to suggest.
I also don't understand how you are suggesting that Intel is less than profitable, according to a new Business Week article, their current annual net profit is estimated to be nearly $10B on $42B revenue.
Yonah and Conroe were simply internal code names for specific microprocessor products, a practice that has been done for maybe a decade or more. Code names aren't and won't be brand names, much like the project code named Longhorn will be marketed as Vista. No, I don't think Intel is going to avoid quad core, I have no idea why one would ask that.
A (redudant - read my past posts on the subject) glimpse into the future: In 20 or 30 years our computers will be smaller than a Nintendo gamecube. No floppy disks, just flash (or magnetic?) memory cards and solid-state HDs. PCI bus will be cast into oblivion, when the new add-on cards fit in a PS2 memory stick. Small future, indeed.
I predict that a computer smaller than a Nintendo Gamecube will be released into the public conciousness on January 2005 in the form of the Apple Mac mini. They are pretty neat too. I think there are older examples in embedded computers as well as miniITX boards.
Why predict the use of removable memory cards? Why not also say those are considered offensive because of a global wireless network?
The only reason full size desktops and midtowers are commonly available is cost, flexibility and performance, not many are willing to trade those off.
There is an adblocking feature built into Firefox, you can right click an image and you will see an option "block all images from $server". Not as flexible as adblock, but it does work and requires no extensions.
Is SATA really worth it? I know it's a pain to route ATA cables, but I simply don't see SATA drives as worth the premium.
I'm curious what Apple used, the latest Powermacs are all SATA, previous iterations had PATA optical drives with SATA hard drives.
In English, all letters in an acronym are capitalized. You wrote DvD when it really is DVD.
My guess is there is probably some benefit to signing up, like being able to do court business you *want* to do electronically.
How many people do that much court business and is on the wrong side of the court? Maybe there's a repeat offender program? Is there a certified SMS system, to prove that the person did recieve and acknowledge the indictment?
As they have competition elsewhere in Asia, the US and Europe, I don't see how it would make a difference. To do price fixing, they would have to cooperate with every other company in any particular chip industry.
This would indeed be quite effective, but it would also be in utterly poor taste.
Then spray paint a manji. Not that it would help with ignorant or geometrically challenged people.
that the only graffiti that I've ever liked was the old Palm OS graffiti. Most spray painting is pretty lame, IMO.
I would say that the fast track treatment should only be reserved for terminal diseases. There is a reason testing takes time, because there are always the chance of unintended consequences and treatments need to be thoughroughly vetted. Thalidomide and Phen-phen (sp?) are two treatments which needed more time, I think Vioxx and similar drugs weren't given the statutory amount of testing as well, to the detriment to those that took it.
The correct spelling is "watt".
What stick of memory uses 10W peak? Most people wouldn't be able to touch the memory if it were that hot, that's nearly a watt per memory chip, I'm pretty sure that assumtion would result in memory that runs hotter than RAMBUS memory does.
I would think that such drives would be remote storage as very often more than one person would need to use the data.
Are there workstation apps that can use SLI, or are you assuming that a person would be using four separate screens? When I see commentaries and behind the scenes footage, I never see computers with four screens.
I'd say GIMP sounds a lot more like a physical therapy program than a photo program. At least Photoshop tells the user that it is for photos. I like the explaination that it may mean "photo workshop". Maybe darkroom would be a better name, but I imagine that's harder to trademark.
But everybody knows that Internet Explorer doesn't freeze. It just turns into an ooze. Firefox, on the other hand, leaks. Memory that is.