A small production run and made in the USA sound like it could be expensive, unless they decide to make little to no money, or even take a small loss on the first run. That would help get them "out there" generating a buzz before they ramp up production from China for wider production.
I think that's exactly the reason to ignore the temptation. Those other people didn't sign the NDA, and may not have known there was an NDA so there may not be repercussions, though copyright infringement comes to mind.
What this means is the person that did sign the NDA is the one that will get into trouble.
I have yet to install Acrobat reader on OS X. I've found the Preview reader to be just fine for everything I do and it doesn't try to advertise other products.
The current Pentium M, Dothan is already pretty much an "Extreme Edition" considering that many of them have 2MB of cache. Not that this amount of cache helps typical x86 desktop/mobile use, the usual benchmarks I see show only a slight speed increase (low single digit) over the 1MB cache versions of the same chip. I think it is possible to get a better benefit if you recompile everything for it and the compiler knows about the L3 cache.
I don't know if there is a good comprehensive switching guide, but there needs to be one. I have a mini, and it is now my primary home desktop. This is a switch from a 2.2GHz Xeon with a 15k RPM drive and other non-mainstream performance stuff, and I couldn't be happier anyway. I still use that machine for odd stuff, I stull have a parallel port scanner, and there's the microcontroller development system to consider.
The roughest edge for me (and some others) is the mouse accelleration, or rather, the fact that the "low" mouse speed is unchageable on a stock system. Thankfully a third party app USBOverdrive remedies that with more flexibility than any other GUI mouse tweaking utility I've ever found. The middle click tab-open/close trick doesn't work in the OS X Firefox official releases, but very often, the nightlies are better all-around anyway and the middle click works.
It is a different way of operating, but generally I notice that I am using a lot fewer mouse clicks and button presses to get the same job done.
It took me a little time and patience but it is well worth it.
That's fair to say. For me, a Mac was an ideal network administration system on a network with a managed network switch, Linux and Windows boxes.
For example, I found pretty easy instructions (two commands, edit the xinetd tftp file, then restart xinetd) on how to enable the TFTP server so I can update the firmware on my managed switch, the same two to turn it off. That switch has a built-in TFTP client, so having a server available was slick. The same instructions would have worked in Linux, but for some reason, I generally find instructions intended for Linux distributions to be more difficult than they have to be to perform what is really a simple task.
Sometimes I have a devil of a time getting Windows machines to share or transfer files, esp. between W2K and WXP systems, with a mini, I just connect to them both and transfer files as an intermediary.
You do have a point, but those heavy laptops generally have other design flaws, namely using chips simply not designed for mobile use. It amazes me that people will buy this sort of machine because they must have the most power available, then have the nerve to complain about battery life. The uber-notes generally get only about 10% faster speed at best, for most desktop and gaming uses, and sacrifice half the battery life over systems that use chips properly chosen for the task.
I have something like 200 CDs that I've bought over the last 10 years. If I assume $10 a CD (usually I've paid between $7 and $13, lower for used, higher for new), average, then that is $200 a year, which is pretty close to the Napster subscription cost. I still listen to most of the music on those CDs too.
I can just stop buying more CDs outright and still listen to those that I already bought.
Plus, I have started getting podcasts, speeches and other legit audio tracks for cheap or free.
There is some good talk radio, but just like everything else, 90% of it is crap.
The Inside Mac show podcast is pretty good. I like the Leo Laporte podcast. The NASA Scitech podcast is interesting, but new issues come out rarely. Sexgeeks is pretty interesting.
If anyone was considering getting into making podcasts, for the love of $DEITY, get more than one person and have civil discussions. The podcasts where only one person talks are lamer than the ones with discussions. Get a good sound capture device, decent mics and such.
Also, avoid the politics and religion if you are too easily riled up, even more so if you like to label people that disagree with you. I turn off the stuff where they say "oh those $PERJORATIVE, they are trying to do $BAD_THING".
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Also, the point of that travel ban wasn't to keep Americans out but to help prevent US money from propping up the dictatorship. I'm not sure if Cuba allows people to leave, except in very special circumstances. I don't think North Korea allows its people to leave.
In principle, it's nice that a Bittorrent is available, bit it isn't very useful if I can get 10x the speed just downloading it straight from uwisc. And I'm on a T1 too.
I have heard of reversible computing from a guy that would stand to know a lot about it, a physics, math and CS major. The biggest problem is that it probably doubles the number of transistors and slow the chip down because signals have to traverse longer distances because of the more transistors.
It would probably be cheaper to use Pentium M or the lowest power Turion style chips than to switch to reversible logic. For the most part, PM and Turion chips are very close in performance with their desktop counterparts.
P2P software I can see for a university, as web, email, FTP and other standard protocols are far more likely to be used for education. If academic use is being held back because of P2P at a University, then something is wrong.
One thing I've heard from someone in the gaming industry is that about 90% of the games made lose money, and the profitable 10% pay the shortfalls of the other 90%. That doesn't sound like a good picture for those wanting to enter the field. I wouldn't want to work or invest in that industry.
The cable companies can win a one year extension every six months, they win. I personally bet they will try this. Content providers do this with copyright and trademark extensions.
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A small production run and made in the USA sound like it could be expensive, unless they decide to make little to no money, or even take a small loss on the first run. That would help get them "out there" generating a buzz before they ramp up production from China for wider production.
Actually, I would bet two different IP violations as well. I think character designs fall under trademarks too.
...but I wouldn't put it past them to test ten and use the one that makes them look best.
That is a separate issue that the story discription didn't need to go into.
I thought iPod didn't get FM because everything on the FM band is utter crap.
No, I don't miss FM at all.
I think that's exactly the reason to ignore the temptation. Those other people didn't sign the NDA, and may not have known there was an NDA so there may not be repercussions, though copyright infringement comes to mind.
What this means is the person that did sign the NDA is the one that will get into trouble.
You have to assume when you receive a beta copy of something and signed an NDA there is some way for them to track you.
I remember statements saying that he went to Apple and admitted it.
I have yet to install Acrobat reader on OS X. I've found the Preview reader to be just fine for everything I do and it doesn't try to advertise other products.
Are you sure that Yahoo isn't datamining your email?
The current Pentium M, Dothan is already pretty much an "Extreme Edition" considering that many of them have 2MB of cache. Not that this amount of cache helps typical x86 desktop/mobile use, the usual benchmarks I see show only a slight speed increase (low single digit) over the 1MB cache versions of the same chip. I think it is possible to get a better benefit if you recompile everything for it and the compiler knows about the L3 cache.
I don't know if there is a good comprehensive switching guide, but there needs to be one. I have a mini, and it is now my primary home desktop. This is a switch from a 2.2GHz Xeon with a 15k RPM drive and other non-mainstream performance stuff, and I couldn't be happier anyway. I still use that machine for odd stuff, I stull have a parallel port scanner, and there's the microcontroller development system to consider.
The roughest edge for me (and some others) is the mouse accelleration, or rather, the fact that the "low" mouse speed is unchageable on a stock system. Thankfully a third party app USBOverdrive remedies that with more flexibility than any other GUI mouse tweaking utility I've ever found. The middle click tab-open/close trick doesn't work in the OS X Firefox official releases, but very often, the nightlies are better all-around anyway and the middle click works.
It is a different way of operating, but generally I notice that I am using a lot fewer mouse clicks and button presses to get the same job done.
It took me a little time and patience but it is well worth it.
That's fair to say. For me, a Mac was an ideal network administration system on a network with a managed network switch, Linux and Windows boxes.
For example, I found pretty easy instructions (two commands, edit the xinetd tftp file, then restart xinetd) on how to enable the TFTP server so I can update the firmware on my managed switch, the same two to turn it off. That switch has a built-in TFTP client, so having a server available was slick. The same instructions would have worked in Linux, but for some reason, I generally find instructions intended for Linux distributions to be more difficult than they have to be to perform what is really a simple task.
Sometimes I have a devil of a time getting Windows machines to share or transfer files, esp. between W2K and WXP systems, with a mini, I just connect to them both and transfer files as an intermediary.
It wouldn't necessarily cause a problem if it is properly designed. Normal cell phones dynamically adapt the transmission power required.
You do have a point, but those heavy laptops generally have other design flaws, namely using chips simply not designed for mobile use. It amazes me that people will buy this sort of machine because they must have the most power available, then have the nerve to complain about battery life. The uber-notes generally get only about 10% faster speed at best, for most desktop and gaming uses, and sacrifice half the battery life over systems that use chips properly chosen for the task.
I thought Flickr's tendency to turn images into flash objects to be unncessesary and evil though.
I have something like 200 CDs that I've bought over the last 10 years. If I assume $10 a CD (usually I've paid between $7 and $13, lower for used, higher for new), average, then that is $200 a year, which is pretty close to the Napster subscription cost. I still listen to most of the music on those CDs too.
I can just stop buying more CDs outright and still listen to those that I already bought.
Plus, I have started getting podcasts, speeches and other legit audio tracks for cheap or free.
There is some good talk radio, but just like everything else, 90% of it is crap.
The Inside Mac show podcast is pretty good. I like the Leo Laporte podcast. The NASA Scitech podcast is interesting, but new issues come out rarely. Sexgeeks is pretty interesting.
If anyone was considering getting into making podcasts, for the love of $DEITY, get more than one person and have civil discussions. The podcasts where only one person talks are lamer than the ones with discussions. Get a good sound capture device, decent mics and such.
Also, avoid the politics and religion if you are too easily riled up, even more so if you like to label people that disagree with you. I turn off the stuff where they say "oh those $PERJORATIVE, they are trying to do $BAD_THING".
Also, the point of that travel ban wasn't to keep Americans out but to help prevent US money from propping up the dictatorship. I'm not sure if Cuba allows people to leave, except in very special circumstances. I don't think North Korea allows its people to leave.
In principle, it's nice that a Bittorrent is available, bit it isn't very useful if I can get 10x the speed just downloading it straight from uwisc. And I'm on a T1 too.
The general idea of dual core CPUs is that both cores are usually on the same die.
Separating them will probably not be easy, much less repackaging them.
I have heard of reversible computing from a guy that would stand to know a lot about it, a physics, math and CS major. The biggest problem is that it probably doubles the number of transistors and slow the chip down because signals have to traverse longer distances because of the more transistors.
It would probably be cheaper to use Pentium M or the lowest power Turion style chips than to switch to reversible logic. For the most part, PM and Turion chips are very close in performance with their desktop counterparts.
That is very funny, that all they have to do is drop Googlebot requests. Instead they go to court!
P2P software I can see for a university, as web, email, FTP and other standard protocols are far more likely to be used for education. If academic use is being held back because of P2P at a University, then something is wrong.
One thing I've heard from someone in the gaming industry is that about 90% of the games made lose money, and the profitable 10% pay the shortfalls of the other 90%. That doesn't sound like a good picture for those wanting to enter the field. I wouldn't want to work or invest in that industry.
The cable companies can win a one year extension every six months, they win. I personally bet they will try this. Content providers do this with copyright and trademark extensions.