Currencies fluctuate. The Dollar is falling against the euro right which should help make things cheaper over there.
Since these probably aren't being made in the US,
The real conversion would be chinese currency -> eruos. China pegs there currency to the dollar thus the euro should buy more, so in some ways you are right.
However:
Companies usually set a price and stick with it. People would go nuts if the price fluctuated every day with currency values.
European car makers aren't doing so well in the US with current conversion rates (they hedge this but that gets too complex for now). So the companies suck it up and take the loss to keep the price competetive. I'm betting apple isn't as profitable as it wants to be on these minimacs in the US. Its sucking it up to keep a certain price point.
US people have to pay a sales tax of 5% (well it varries state to state) above the cost of the machine.
One of the problems with Ogg is that its kinda just there. mp3 is the standard that works everywhere.
If your hardware started making a lot of money with ogg there is a good chance some companies will come after you with the patent stick. You already are paying for the mp3/wma/aac/ or whatever format you support and thats a know cost. Companies hate the unknown.
You need a research department. Some stucture to make sure working on independent projects that make sense to the business (so time research time doesn't become "create battlebot" or check my ebay business time.).
Big companies call this 6sigma or TQM or some other such things. Projects not central to core, to make everything work better.
Also having employees sign something indicating inventions done on company time belong to the company. Otherwise great ideas will walk out of your business to start there own (al la xerox parc and ethernet)
Apple isn't going to release java 1.5 until tiger. Disapointing, considering its been out for 4-5 months now. Even though tiger seems like its worth the upgrade anyway , I wish they wouldn't make java tied into the upgrade.
Science based on observation Religion based on faith. I don't see why they can't get along.
Why must certain people take everything in the Bible literally. Cleary much was lost over many translations, so its kinda more of a vague guideline.
And why does evolution go against the scriptures. Surly if it was ID then there where a lot of failures based on fosils. Or where those fossilsjust put there to throw us off course?
Its fairly clear the earth is not longer the center of the universe, but to claim otherwise was hericy in days past.
Times change slowly. I think the church recently apologied to Galaleo.
Heck maybe evolution is the wrong theory, and people in 100 years will laugh at it as we think those models of the atom 200 years ago were foolish. But the scientific method sort things out till we get to the point where buildings almost always stand and things in the world are just a little better understood.
yes Its more expensive and slower, except if you value some of the excellent software it comes with and the small form factor its worth it.
imovie is an excellent video editor (enough better the compaq with various cheap editing packages)was abandoned...(Not to mention this apple machine comes with firewire, a requirement for getting video off the cam corder.)
iphoto is excellent photo storage tool.
OS X is pretty good to, but if you want a windows box go nuts..
The give you imovie and garage band. Both very cool high quality prosumer apps.
The video editing is really quite good and garageband is a lot of fun( you can record into it and use drum/bass/keyboard loops.) and comes out quite professional. Good stuff.
In the july Macworld, steve jobs showed everyone the slide from a year ago promissing 3 ghz. He said IBM was having trouble creating faster chips, but they were getting faster, just they were behind schedule.
Then he some convoluted explaination that they were getting faster at a faster rate %wise than intel which was a confusing statement since both chip makers increased speed by the same # of mhz..
Apple has to do something. These "rumors" are starting to show up in legitimate news media and investor site. When bloomberg reports of "rumors of a 500$ mac" and have a merrril lynch guy commenting on it, it starts to move out of the realm of just fun rumor mongering..
There was a pbs documentary on future vehicles. Because Hydrogren is so light it disperses very quickly and rises quite rapidly. The staged and "accident" with a hydrogen tank. When the tank leaked it created a flame that went straight up.
I guess if the tank was metal and got too hot exploded it would be worse.....
The popularity of web based apps (I've sold a couple for small offices) is astounding. Install one place and go. LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql Php) or java (JBOSS) makes this very convienient. Only one machine to maintain vs many installs across multiple computers. Of course if the one server fails....
At my company more and more things are moving to web based colabrative apps (Notes/ Bug tracking/ timecards..).
Active X was MS attempt to control this market by making web apps work only with internet explorer. Fortunetly it didn't catch.
Web mail is another web app that is astoundingly usefull and has driven this trend.
The main thing holding it back is web browsers are cludgy to develop real slick apps with. Javascript helps but.. Gmail is pretty decent.
Most people don't care what OS they are running if the web works and they can get what they want. Computer purchasers are very unloyal to brand names. It remains to be seen if they remain loyal to MS windows.
There was a web site with a chicken. You typed and told him what to do and he did it.. But it wasn't real either, but prerecorded stuff...
Bah.. Fakery..
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Isn't it obvious.. Santa is the master of quantum mechanics.. he can be everywhere at once watching everything (naughty/nice). After that feat delivering packages is a trivial exercise for him... I think the reindeer are just a front to keep physicist from figuring out how he does it.
This isn't such a strech. They already have AOL available from the web (with a decent client). And Pop3/Imap for aol mail.
This will be like IM which is free for non AOL members, this will make paying for there service much less Desirable. I guess the AOL Everywhere initiative isn't panning out.
We used to use aol at work for a second "on site email" address. It had these things going for it: local numbers everywhere, a 1-800 number to dial in when all else fails. It was the travelers friend. Now with web mail and most hotels having some limited wifi, its much less usefull.
I have a couple gmail acounts. The spam they get, and its not alot so far, seems to be guess the name type. The name in the "to" field is close but not exactly my address. I think gmail just delivers it but marks it instantly as spam so the spammers don't know which are "live" addresses and which are non existant ones.
just my experience..
Its going to get worse though. As more people use it and when it goes out of beta and some spammers can start getting accounts and testing...
Heck I have a domain with one email addess (which is a catch all). I've never ever given out the address, yet I get spam there... Lots of it.
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Finally and embedable database for robocode robot. I will finally have and easy way all the data on all my oponents movements... !! !!
And still get wiped out..
Currencies fluctuate. The Dollar is falling against the euro right which should help make things cheaper over there.
Since these probably aren't being made in the US,
The real conversion would be chinese currency -> eruos. China pegs there currency to the dollar thus the euro should buy more, so in some ways you are right.
However:
Companies usually set a price and stick with it.
People would go nuts if the price fluctuated every day with currency values.
European car makers aren't doing so well in the US with current conversion rates (they hedge this but that gets too complex for now). So the companies suck it up and take the loss to keep the price competetive. I'm betting apple isn't as profitable as it wants to be on these minimacs in the US. Its sucking it up to keep a certain price point.
US people have to pay a sales tax of 5% (well it varries state to state) above the cost of the machine.
One of the problems with Ogg is that its kinda just there. mp3 is the standard that works everywhere.
If your hardware started making a lot of money with ogg there is a good chance some companies will come after you with the patent stick. You already are paying for the mp3/wma/aac/ or whatever format you support and thats a know cost. Companies hate the unknown.
You need a research department. Some stucture to make sure working on independent projects that make sense to the business (so time research time doesn't become "create battlebot" or check my ebay business time.).
Big companies call this 6sigma or TQM or some other such things. Projects not central to core, to make everything work better.
Also having employees sign something indicating inventions done on company time belong to the company. Otherwise great ideas will walk out of your business to start there own (al la xerox parc and ethernet)
One click Ticketing!
One click launch!
The only space center one with the one click difference!
Apple isn't going to release java 1.5 until tiger. Disapointing, considering its been out for 4-5 months now. Even though tiger seems like its worth the upgrade anyway , I wish they wouldn't make java tied into the upgrade.
Remember what Steve said
Developers Developers Developers.
Oh that was a different Steve, Dancing Steve?
This is good... Mod up someone.. Please..
Science based on observation Religion based on faith. I don't see why they can't get along.
Why must certain people take everything in the Bible literally. Cleary much was lost over many translations, so its kinda more of a vague guideline.
And why does evolution go against the scriptures. Surly if it was ID then there where a lot of failures based on fosils. Or where those fossilsjust put there to throw us off course?
Its fairly clear the earth is not longer the center of the universe, but to claim otherwise was hericy in days past.
Times change slowly. I think the church recently apologied to Galaleo.
Heck maybe evolution is the wrong theory, and people in 100 years will laugh at it as we think those models of the atom 200 years ago were foolish. But the scientific method sort things out till we get to the point where buildings almost always stand and things in the world are just a little better understood.
This debate drives me nuts.
yes Its more expensive and slower, except if you value some of the excellent software it comes with and the small form factor its worth it.
imovie is an excellent video editor (enough better the compaq with various cheap editing packages)was abandoned...(Not to mention this apple machine comes with firewire, a requirement for getting video off the cam corder.)
iphoto is excellent photo storage tool.
OS X is pretty good to, but if you want a windows box go nuts..
The give you imovie and garage band. Both very cool high quality prosumer apps.
The video editing is really quite good and garageband is a lot of fun( you can record into it and use drum/bass/keyboard loops.) and comes out quite professional. Good stuff.
Its true.. I guess when you place it next to gum it gets confusing. Crunchy and expensive...
These little apps simply make the case for draconian DRM on everything, screwing us legitimate users even more.
Thank you pirates.
Don't fear the penguins.. Let them have an easier path to feed.
Its all about the penguins. Thats why the story is hear(sic)..(and not about the spelling)
Red hat just takes linux, adds a little here, a tweak there, some tech support and ta-da Red Hat linux 699$ (or some $$$).
And Suse and Mandrake....
its the same thing. I've been in software a while. Writeing code is fairly cheap and fast. Debug/ test Maintenance and Support cost $$.
In the july Macworld, steve jobs showed everyone the slide from a year ago promissing 3 ghz. He said IBM was having trouble creating faster chips, but they were getting faster, just they were behind schedule.
Then he some convoluted explaination that they were getting faster at a faster rate %wise than intel which was a confusing statement since both chip makers increased speed by the same # of mhz..
Oh well..
It takes a lot of CDs to fill and Ipod..... An awfull lot...
That and circut citys 9.99$ for any cd made the price right for me to start getting some more music....
Apple has to do something. These "rumors" are starting to show up in legitimate news media and investor site. When bloomberg reports of "rumors of a 500$ mac" and have a merrril lynch guy commenting on it, it starts to move out of the realm of just fun rumor mongering..
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There was a pbs documentary on future vehicles. Because Hydrogren is so light it disperses very quickly and rises quite rapidly. The staged and "accident" with a hydrogen tank. When the tank leaked it created a flame that went straight up.
I guess if the tank was metal and got too hot exploded it would be worse.....
Uggg.
Php/Perl/Python/Ruby..(others I've missed)
all the close enough to me...
don't mean to offend..
The popularity of web based apps (I've sold a couple for small offices) is astounding. Install one place and go. LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql Php) or java (JBOSS) makes this very convienient. Only one machine to maintain vs many installs across multiple computers. Of course if the one server fails....
At my company more and more things are moving to web based colabrative apps (Notes/ Bug tracking/ timecards..).
Active X was MS attempt to control this market by making web apps work only with internet explorer. Fortunetly it didn't catch.
Web mail is another web app that is astoundingly usefull and has driven this trend.
The main thing holding it back is web browsers are cludgy to develop real slick apps with. Javascript helps but.. Gmail is pretty decent.
Most people don't care what OS they are running if the web works and they can get what they want. Computer purchasers are very unloyal to brand names. It remains to be seen if they remain loyal to MS windows.
There was a web site with a chicken. You typed and told him what to do and he did it.. But it wasn't real either, but prerecorded stuff...
Bah.. Fakery..
Isn't it obvious.. Santa is the master of quantum mechanics.. he can be everywhere at once watching everything (naughty/nice). After that feat delivering packages is a trivial exercise for him
How How how?
no no no it
Ho Ho HO.....
It does work. I've set up it for family members to battle spam.
http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/
This isn't such a strech. They already have AOL available from the web (with a decent client). And Pop3/Imap for aol mail.
This will be like IM which is free for non AOL members, this will make paying for there service much less Desirable. I guess the AOL Everywhere initiative isn't panning out.
We used to use aol at work for a second "on site email" address. It had these things going for it: local numbers everywhere, a 1-800 number to dial in when all else fails. It was the travelers friend. Now with web mail and most hotels having some limited wifi, its much less usefull.
Good for consumers though
I have a couple gmail acounts. The spam they get, and its not alot so far, seems to be guess the name type. The name in the "to" field is close but not exactly my address. I think gmail just delivers it but marks it instantly as spam so the spammers don't know which are "live" addresses and which are non existant ones.
just my experience..
Its going to get worse though. As more people use it and when it goes out of beta and some spammers can start getting accounts and testing...
Heck I have a domain with one email addess (which is a catch all). I've never ever given out the address, yet I get spam there... Lots of it.
Its making email so much less usefull