Apple is far more then Steve Jobs. He is not even currently involved in the company - he is on medical leave and will not be involved in the vast majority of decisions. Apple is run by others with a little guidance from Jobs. It would be ridiculous for Apple to make assumptions based on the personal relationships of Jobs.
In fact, a while back when the iPad was just released an Apple employee was fired because he let Steve Wozniak look at the unreleased 3g version (the WiFi version was released). Wozniak didn't even know it was the 3g version - the differences are minute. So for letting Wozniak use it for a couple of minutes, under supervision, the employee got sacked. The personal relationship between Wozniak and Jobs did not affect the outcome for that employee.
Buy I agree with your assessment that Apple is not worried about lawsuits from Oracle, but not because of the Jobs/Ellison relationship.
On another note, What is used for creating Databases for iOS Apps and Cocoa Apps?
I believe SQLight is used extensively in both OSX and iOS. It is accessed via their Core Data framework but can also be accessed directly if required. Generally speaking, if you are utilizing a database from an iOS application then that database will be running on a separate server. So long as you can access the client libraries via C in iOS, any database will work.
To be more clear, the server version of Lion can still have MySQL installed, but the server package doesn't include it by default.
Any version can have MySQL installed but Lion, even the server version, does not have it. It is not even listed as an optional install from the Apple website. If you want it just download, configure, and make. Or use MacPorts - and Apple subsidized project.
But those previous drives were not for use with laptops. They are not rated to handle the physical abuse that is required of a laptop drive. Instead, they are designed as external backup drives or NAS drives. If you put this drive in a laptop and it failed - no big surprise there.... But these newer drives are designed for laptops so they should be quite different in regards to durability.
Are you sure? My experience is that doing something and being wrong often worsens or causes the problem.
In this case we are not talking about doing something, we are talking about not doing things - in this example, releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. Stopping, or at least curtailing our current action will not worsen the problem. So taking action by modifying our behaviour really has no downside with the exception of the obvious economic costs.
I have caught wild Sockeye and they do not suffer from sea lice the way local fish do.
But were you catching fry? Catching healthy adult Salmon doesn't mean a thing if they sea lice are killing the young.
But I must agree with most of your comments. I always thought they should just dig a really big hole next to the ocean for raising fish. Line the hole and cover with gravel / concrete. Then circulate and filter ocean water thereby ensuring the health of both the environment and the domesticated salmon. It would obviously be more expensive, but it would work.
The rich notice that the resources aren't going to last, so they point at the scraps and say "You can't have that, or there won't be any left tomorrow."
Not really. The rich generally eat different species then those eaten by the poor. It is those species that are in high demand (because they are valuable) that are at risk. You will not see much tuna, salmon, or halibut being sold in Somalia. Restrictions on fishing for these species will not impact global hunger. But prices will go up at your favourite sushi bar.
they find something that's not protected and exhaust that instead
Very true, but you are talking about local problems. If a species of fish in Chinese waters is in danger then it is up to the Chinese officials to correct the problem. Likewise, it is up to Canadian officials to solve the problem off the West coast of their country.
If you significantly restricted fishing, Japan would starve.
No they would not. Much of Japan's diet is based on seafood but most of it does not come from species at risk. Lots of shrimp, prawns, and seaweed. Combine this with the fact that they could easily import more food - there would be no problems. Hong Kong had no problems when it was a British colony and you know they didn't grow / catch all their own food.
The commercial fishing industry is merely the agent representing hunger.
So not true. If everyone had twice the food they required, the commercial fishing industry would still slaughter fish stocks in an attempt to make more money. The commercial fishing industry is just that - commercial. They don't give a damn if people are starving, they just care about their profits. More precisely, they care about their short term profits (under 10 years) and are willing to destroy the possibility of long term profits via overfishing.
Which makes me think that somehow I might be staying away from the new "sealed" MacBooks with the unreplaceable batteries, especially because searching for "bulging battery" brings up nothing but horror stories about Apple batteries. Apparently they've had this problem for over five years and have never bothered fixing it.
The batteries used in the laptops today are completely different from the removable ones. They used to contract out for batteries, I believe to Sony but there were likely others involved as well. Now they build their own batteries. A huge investment on their part and likely the reason why it took 5 years to fix the problem. Current batteries are Li-Pol based and are far more durable then the Li-Ion batteries used on cheaper laptops. These batteries appear to be free of the "bulge" defects that effected the previous style of batteries.
Make access to battery firmware physical, and physical only - requiring specific access port ONLY.
So if you worked for Apple would you want to deal with a recall of a million+ laptops? Previously, every other model has required an update. It simply is not practical. Much better to allow the firmware to be updated via software update. If you are worried about a virus being able to go from the battery to the computer then simply make sure the software that communicates with the battery is not filled with bugs. The communication protocols will be simple so it will not be a difficult task. It is not like the battery has access to main memory. And if, by some unforeseen circumstance, an exploitable bug is found, it can be fixed by a software update.
Note that all this researcher found out is that the battery has a firmware and it can be modified. Shocking, I know. So you can harm your computer by running malicious code outside of a sandbox. Is this really news to anyone?
I would like to see how much they could cram into a disc with a 1" radius. The way I see it, the only way this technology will really take off is if they make it cheap and convenient. There is little need for 500GB of portable general purpose optical storage - portable HDs work fine. But I could see a use for ~20GB of cheap, portable, and disposable storage; the sort of thing you hand off to someone knowing full well you will never get it back. Around 20GB would be enough for HD video content, anything more would be wasted - better to reduce the physical size.
Would that be Mozillas fault, or the addon writers?
Mozilla, for allowing the addon writers to write such code. If Mozilla wanted to clean up it's reputation it would sandbox the things to ensure they never reflected badly upon their product. Same sort of strategy as Chrome and Safari.
Now doing so would be difficult and would likely break every extension that is out there. But if Mozilla invested in developing an API to allow addons to operate in a separate process while retaining the current flexibility they offer extensions - that would be cool. Sounds hard, wouldn't want to do it, but the end product would be great.
Of course, a middle of the road approach might also work. Allow for Chrome/Safari like extensions that operate in a sandbox and encourage developers to use this method if applicable. But traditional extensions could also be allowed for those that need it. This would minimize the ability for extension developers to mess up the reputation of Firefox.
The biggest part of the US budget is health care subsidies currently at $793 billion a year.
That isn't even the whole of it. There are also the costs that individuals (or their employers) incur to acquire medical insurance. The overall price payed by americans for health coverage is staggering. I'm not sure where the money goes - insurance companies, drug companies, medical suppliers - but someone is getting their pockets filled.
By comparison, Canada spends about 1/2* as much per capita on health care services while offering universal coverage. There are still problems with the Canadian system but at least people are not dying due to lack of coverage/services. *Note that with the fall of the American dollar, this amount will have increased.
So the biggest economy in the world is the only advanced economy that doesn't offer universal health care. But what is really sad is what I hear in the American media - the fear-mongering from the Republican party is unbelievable. Those filled pockets must have some serious political connections to be able to spin such BS. Sad to think of all the people who buy into it - it's like shooting yourself in the foot.
Ha, a visiting elderly American once said that she pitied me for being subjected to a socialist health care system. Really? You pity me? Wow, ignorance truly is bliss.
Actually, #4 is a good idea with a stock Time Capsule, too.
Yup, the first couple generations of Time Capsules where prone to failure. They ran hot, and it wasn't because of the disk. This is now supposed to be fixed, but I no longer see the value in a Time Capsule. Tried a WD My Book Live - the thing screams. Performed a backup at 40MB/s - that is the real life write speed of the device. And reading is supposed to be in the 60-80 MB/s range, but I never tested it. How was WD able to make a device so cheap, so fast, while using so little power? Oh, and it runs Linux and supports SSH without any hacking.
Active cables allow for faster and more flexible connections. Tuning the terminating ends of a connection is much easier if you do not have to contend with physical connectors. At the speeds of thunderbolt, it makes a difference. And you only have to use active cables if you have an application where you need the speed. The displayport cables that work with Apple's thunderbolt implementation do not need to be active. Nor do the USB cables that work with the new Sony design.
And as far as flexibility goes, active cables could allow for longer distances by using a different medium - such as fiber. There is already talk about a 10x speed increase when fiber is used. Combine this with Sony putting a GPU inside their laptop dock and you can see how things could get very interesting. Such things would not be possible without a design that made use of active cables.
Hydro plants don't have to use reservoirs. We've got an almost 2GW hydro plant in Quebec that is a run-of-the-river type.
But this sort of plant can not be used to store energy. The basic idea is that when a solar/wind plant is producing extra energy, that energy is used to pump water up into a reservoir. When solar/wind can no longer produce enough energy to meet demand, the hydro plant generates power from that stored water.
So the run-of-the-river type hydro plants really do nothing to help solve the load and supply management problems as described by the GP.
When Microsoft was tried for abusing their monopoly, other vendors were releasing OSes and browsers.
But none of them would run the required software - software for Windows. You will recall the GP listing the requirements as follows: (1) they can set whatever prices they wanted and (2) customers have no suitable alternatives as the barrier to entry is too high.
When Microsoft was convicted they could basically set whatever price they wanted. The cost of producing Windows had nothing to do with the pricing. The only thing that limited the price was piracy and the fact that people would avoid new purchases if the price were too high. Apple is not in this situation. Should they choose to price their iPads at $2000 then people would still purchase tablets - just not from Apple.
The second item talks about suitable alternatives and at that time, there were none. Linux existed but could not run all the specialized software that people required. Windows was simply required for 90%+ of the population. Now with things like the internet, wine, remote desktop, and virtual machines - this Windows monopoly has been seriously weakened. But at the time, the vast majority of the population _had_ to run Windows. Now Apple does have a bit of a monopoly when it comes to playing DRMed media purchased from iTunes. But so long as versions of the media are available elsewhere, people are not locked into Apple.
I believe there are several reasons, but it mainly comes down to the price of gas. You see, a manual transmission feels "snappy" when compared to an automatic transmission powered by the same size engine. With a powerful engine the *difference can not be noticed but it is painfully apparent with smaller engines. Countries with cheap gas (USA) can afford to put larger engines in their cars because they are cheaper to run. But when fuel costs 3 times as much, people tend to go for the smaller engines because the cost savings are significant. You'll notice that auto makers have different lineups for the US and Europe. Engine size and transmission gearing are a couple of the functional differences between the US and Europe lineups.
Personally, I drive a 1991 Hyundai Excel with a manual transmission. The car is a piece of crap - but it is both easy and inexpensive to fix. There is no way I would be driving this car if it had an automatic transmission. I have used them before and it was difficult to maintain highway speeds. But with my manual transmission, even when limited by a 70hp engine, I have no problems.
*difference - in actual fact, with a sufficiently powerful engine, a modern automatic transmission can "feel" better then a manual transmission. And some of the CVTs (Continuously variable transmission) are even better still.
Jump off your bike, lie it down on the ground over the sensor. Usually does the trick.
If it is made of steel, possibly. But I seriously doubt the inductance of the sensing loop would be effected enough to be detected with Al and carbon fiber bikes.
You are assuming that the documents are not stored in a compressed format. Due to disk access speed, they should be quicker to access if compressed - unless possibly if you are using an SSD.
An obvious problem that is fixed as of iOS5 and iCloud. I know it's not available yet, but as least it is on it's way.
Wait... what... who is managing the itunes backups the end users? And where exactly is itunes installed again?
Once again, this is fixed via the new iCloud service. No longer will a computer be required to sync/backup an iOS device.
Apple's OOB support for iphones in the enterprise is half assed and pathetic.
Not going to argue with you about this - I agree it needs to be improved. The point is that those improvements will be here later this year.
And with regards to making employees install their own apps - it is not a big concern. An email could be provided with a URL linking directly to the app. Two 'clicks' is all it would take.
I've found that upgrading projects to Xcode4 tends to cause problems. Just create a new project then import the files. This solved the problems that I had with the new xcode.
With regards to associating debugging output to the code, xcode4 is vastly superior to xcode3. The previous xcode was a simplified IDE, just an editor that made calls to gcc/gdb for compiling and debugging. The new xcode leverages the work done with llvm and clang. It parses your code as you type so it can do proper code completion and indicates broken code. When I say proper I mean it scans files for types, functions, etc. and actually understands the code. Linked files are also scanned. Notice that when the debugger indicates an error in a source file, you can edit that file by inserting/removing space and xcode will still be able to bring you to the actual error. The previous version just brought you to the same line, even if your code had moved away from that line.
So xcode4 is the first real attempt at a proper IDE - similar to what Microsoft has with their "Visual" programs. Apple had to ditch gcc in order to make it work which also required writing a new compiler - so it was a non-trivial amount of work. Expect it to get more and more refined as time goes on as xcode4 is actually built on a solid foundation, unlike xcode3.
I agree drunk driving is a bad thing. But frankly, I've never seen any real evidence it's as endemic as you suggest. I've been driving for almost 40 years, and I can only recall seeing ONE (1) guy who was almost certainly drunk while driving (he was going east on the westbound half of a divided highway in the middle of the night).
It's virtually certain that there were other drivers who'd had a drink or three near me on the road in that time, but none that were obvious enough to pick out from the usual fraction of sucky drivers you find everywhere.
You just aren't driving at the right time of day. I used to drive into town every weekend, it was a 300km round trip. I like to drive at night so that is when I drove. Almost every weekend I would see a least one driver that was obviously intoxicated, typically on the outskirts of town.
The other thing you have to remember is that people who drink a lot get good and driving when intoxicated. It is very difficult to spot them on the road but they are still intoxicated. In many ways these are the most dangerous drivers. Because they can drive straight, they think they are good to drive. What they fail to understand is that their reaction time is still just as crappy as the bad drunk drivers. So when a pedestrian or cyclist accidentally gets in front of their vehicle they just drive right into them - nice and straight. And the odds of them noticing that the light changed colour..... It's just not good.
So DUI checkpoints are really the only way to catch those who drink on a regular basis. We're talking about alcoholics, not the people who go out and party once a month (they are easy to spot.)
Commercial ISPs, in a competitive environment, will be more cost effective then government supplied services. In addition, the ISPs will respond more quickly to customer demands and provide a wider array of services. Without a physical infrastructure to differentiate the different ISPs, they will compete based on price and services offered.
Now a government run ISP would work, just not as efficiently. The comparison to electricity providers is flawed. Electricity is the same regardless of who you get it from. ISPs can provide many different services such as VoIP, television, movies on demand... In effect, with ISPs you would be farming out far more then just billing and customer service.
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Apple is far more then Steve Jobs. He is not even currently involved in the company - he is on medical leave and will not be involved in the vast majority of decisions. Apple is run by others with a little guidance from Jobs. It would be ridiculous for Apple to make assumptions based on the personal relationships of Jobs.
In fact, a while back when the iPad was just released an Apple employee was fired because he let Steve Wozniak look at the unreleased 3g version (the WiFi version was released). Wozniak didn't even know it was the 3g version - the differences are minute. So for letting Wozniak use it for a couple of minutes, under supervision, the employee got sacked. The personal relationship between Wozniak and Jobs did not affect the outcome for that employee.
Buy I agree with your assessment that Apple is not worried about lawsuits from Oracle, but not because of the Jobs/Ellison relationship.
On another note, What is used for creating Databases for iOS Apps and Cocoa Apps?
I believe SQLight is used extensively in both OSX and iOS. It is accessed via their Core Data framework but can also be accessed directly if required. Generally speaking, if you are utilizing a database from an iOS application then that database will be running on a separate server. So long as you can access the client libraries via C in iOS, any database will work.
To be more clear, the server version of Lion can still have MySQL installed, but the server package doesn't include it by default.
Any version can have MySQL installed but Lion, even the server version, does not have it. It is not even listed as an optional install from the Apple website. If you want it just download, configure, and make. Or use MacPorts - and Apple subsidized project.
But those previous drives were not for use with laptops. They are not rated to handle the physical abuse that is required of a laptop drive. Instead, they are designed as external backup drives or NAS drives. If you put this drive in a laptop and it failed - no big surprise there.... But these newer drives are designed for laptops so they should be quite different in regards to durability.
Are you sure? My experience is that doing something and being wrong often worsens or causes the problem.
In this case we are not talking about doing something, we are talking about not doing things - in this example, releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. Stopping, or at least curtailing our current action will not worsen the problem. So taking action by modifying our behaviour really has no downside with the exception of the obvious economic costs.
I have caught wild Sockeye and they do not suffer from sea lice the way local fish do.
But were you catching fry? Catching healthy adult Salmon doesn't mean a thing if they sea lice are killing the young.
But I must agree with most of your comments. I always thought they should just dig a really big hole next to the ocean for raising fish. Line the hole and cover with gravel / concrete. Then circulate and filter ocean water thereby ensuring the health of both the environment and the domesticated salmon. It would obviously be more expensive, but it would work.
The rich notice that the resources aren't going to last, so they point at the scraps and say "You can't have that, or there won't be any left tomorrow."
Not really. The rich generally eat different species then those eaten by the poor. It is those species that are in high demand (because they are valuable) that are at risk. You will not see much tuna, salmon, or halibut being sold in Somalia. Restrictions on fishing for these species will not impact global hunger. But prices will go up at your favourite sushi bar.
they find something that's not protected and exhaust that instead
Very true, but you are talking about local problems. If a species of fish in Chinese waters is in danger then it is up to the Chinese officials to correct the problem. Likewise, it is up to Canadian officials to solve the problem off the West coast of their country.
If you significantly restricted fishing, Japan would starve.
No they would not. Much of Japan's diet is based on seafood but most of it does not come from species at risk. Lots of shrimp, prawns, and seaweed. Combine this with the fact that they could easily import more food - there would be no problems. Hong Kong had no problems when it was a British colony and you know they didn't grow / catch all their own food.
The commercial fishing industry is merely the agent representing hunger.
So not true. If everyone had twice the food they required, the commercial fishing industry would still slaughter fish stocks in an attempt to make more money. The commercial fishing industry is just that - commercial. They don't give a damn if people are starving, they just care about their profits. More precisely, they care about their short term profits (under 10 years) and are willing to destroy the possibility of long term profits via overfishing.
Which makes me think that somehow I might be staying away from the new "sealed" MacBooks with the unreplaceable batteries, especially because searching for "bulging battery" brings up nothing but horror stories about Apple batteries. Apparently they've had this problem for over five years and have never bothered fixing it.
The batteries used in the laptops today are completely different from the removable ones. They used to contract out for batteries, I believe to Sony but there were likely others involved as well. Now they build their own batteries. A huge investment on their part and likely the reason why it took 5 years to fix the problem. Current batteries are Li-Pol based and are far more durable then the Li-Ion batteries used on cheaper laptops. These batteries appear to be free of the "bulge" defects that effected the previous style of batteries.
Make access to battery firmware physical, and physical only - requiring specific access port ONLY.
So if you worked for Apple would you want to deal with a recall of a million+ laptops? Previously, every other model has required an update. It simply is not practical. Much better to allow the firmware to be updated via software update. If you are worried about a virus being able to go from the battery to the computer then simply make sure the software that communicates with the battery is not filled with bugs. The communication protocols will be simple so it will not be a difficult task. It is not like the battery has access to main memory. And if, by some unforeseen circumstance, an exploitable bug is found, it can be fixed by a software update.
Note that all this researcher found out is that the battery has a firmware and it can be modified. Shocking, I know. So you can harm your computer by running malicious code outside of a sandbox. Is this really news to anyone?
I would like to see how much they could cram into a disc with a 1" radius. The way I see it, the only way this technology will really take off is if they make it cheap and convenient. There is little need for 500GB of portable general purpose optical storage - portable HDs work fine. But I could see a use for ~20GB of cheap, portable, and disposable storage; the sort of thing you hand off to someone knowing full well you will never get it back. Around 20GB would be enough for HD video content, anything more would be wasted - better to reduce the physical size.
Would that be Mozillas fault, or the addon writers?
Mozilla, for allowing the addon writers to write such code. If Mozilla wanted to clean up it's reputation it would sandbox the things to ensure they never reflected badly upon their product. Same sort of strategy as Chrome and Safari.
Now doing so would be difficult and would likely break every extension that is out there. But if Mozilla invested in developing an API to allow addons to operate in a separate process while retaining the current flexibility they offer extensions - that would be cool. Sounds hard, wouldn't want to do it, but the end product would be great.
Of course, a middle of the road approach might also work. Allow for Chrome/Safari like extensions that operate in a sandbox and encourage developers to use this method if applicable. But traditional extensions could also be allowed for those that need it. This would minimize the ability for extension developers to mess up the reputation of Firefox.
The biggest part of the US budget is health care subsidies currently at $793 billion a year.
That isn't even the whole of it. There are also the costs that individuals (or their employers) incur to acquire medical insurance. The overall price payed by americans for health coverage is staggering. I'm not sure where the money goes - insurance companies, drug companies, medical suppliers - but someone is getting their pockets filled.
By comparison, Canada spends about 1/2* as much per capita on health care services while offering universal coverage. There are still problems with the Canadian system but at least people are not dying due to lack of coverage/services. *Note that with the fall of the American dollar, this amount will have increased.
So the biggest economy in the world is the only advanced economy that doesn't offer universal health care. But what is really sad is what I hear in the American media - the fear-mongering from the Republican party is unbelievable. Those filled pockets must have some serious political connections to be able to spin such BS. Sad to think of all the people who buy into it - it's like shooting yourself in the foot.
Ha, a visiting elderly American once said that she pitied me for being subjected to a socialist health care system. Really? You pity me? Wow, ignorance truly is bliss.
Actually, #4 is a good idea with a stock Time Capsule, too.
Yup, the first couple generations of Time Capsules where prone to failure. They ran hot, and it wasn't because of the disk. This is now supposed to be fixed, but I no longer see the value in a Time Capsule. Tried a WD My Book Live - the thing screams. Performed a backup at 40MB/s - that is the real life write speed of the device. And reading is supposed to be in the 60-80 MB/s range, but I never tested it. How was WD able to make a device so cheap, so fast, while using so little power? Oh, and it runs Linux and supports SSH without any hacking.
Active cables allow for faster and more flexible connections. Tuning the terminating ends of a connection is much easier if you do not have to contend with physical connectors. At the speeds of thunderbolt, it makes a difference. And you only have to use active cables if you have an application where you need the speed. The displayport cables that work with Apple's thunderbolt implementation do not need to be active. Nor do the USB cables that work with the new Sony design.
And as far as flexibility goes, active cables could allow for longer distances by using a different medium - such as fiber. There is already talk about a 10x speed increase when fiber is used. Combine this with Sony putting a GPU inside their laptop dock and you can see how things could get very interesting. Such things would not be possible without a design that made use of active cables.
Hydro plants don't have to use reservoirs. We've got an almost 2GW hydro plant in Quebec that is a run-of-the-river type.
But this sort of plant can not be used to store energy. The basic idea is that when a solar/wind plant is producing extra energy, that energy is used to pump water up into a reservoir. When solar/wind can no longer produce enough energy to meet demand, the hydro plant generates power from that stored water.
So the run-of-the-river type hydro plants really do nothing to help solve the load and supply management problems as described by the GP.
When Microsoft was tried for abusing their monopoly, other vendors were releasing OSes and browsers.
But none of them would run the required software - software for Windows. You will recall the GP listing the requirements as follows: (1) they can set whatever prices they wanted and (2) customers have no suitable alternatives as the barrier to entry is too high.
When Microsoft was convicted they could basically set whatever price they wanted. The cost of producing Windows had nothing to do with the pricing. The only thing that limited the price was piracy and the fact that people would avoid new purchases if the price were too high. Apple is not in this situation. Should they choose to price their iPads at $2000 then people would still purchase tablets - just not from Apple.
The second item talks about suitable alternatives and at that time, there were none. Linux existed but could not run all the specialized software that people required. Windows was simply required for 90%+ of the population. Now with things like the internet, wine, remote desktop, and virtual machines - this Windows monopoly has been seriously weakened. But at the time, the vast majority of the population _had_ to run Windows. Now Apple does have a bit of a monopoly when it comes to playing DRMed media purchased from iTunes. But so long as versions of the media are available elsewhere, people are not locked into Apple.
why do you hate automatic transmissions?
I believe there are several reasons, but it mainly comes down to the price of gas. You see, a manual transmission feels "snappy" when compared to an automatic transmission powered by the same size engine. With a powerful engine the *difference can not be noticed but it is painfully apparent with smaller engines. Countries with cheap gas (USA) can afford to put larger engines in their cars because they are cheaper to run. But when fuel costs 3 times as much, people tend to go for the smaller engines because the cost savings are significant. You'll notice that auto makers have different lineups for the US and Europe. Engine size and transmission gearing are a couple of the functional differences between the US and Europe lineups.
Personally, I drive a 1991 Hyundai Excel with a manual transmission. The car is a piece of crap - but it is both easy and inexpensive to fix. There is no way I would be driving this car if it had an automatic transmission. I have used them before and it was difficult to maintain highway speeds. But with my manual transmission, even when limited by a 70hp engine, I have no problems.
*difference - in actual fact, with a sufficiently powerful engine, a modern automatic transmission can "feel" better then a manual transmission. And some of the CVTs (Continuously variable transmission) are even better still.
Jump off your bike, lie it down on the ground over the sensor. Usually does the trick.
If it is made of steel, possibly. But I seriously doubt the inductance of the sensing loop would be effected enough to be detected with Al and carbon fiber bikes.
You are assuming that the documents are not stored in a compressed format. Due to disk access speed, they should be quicker to access if compressed - unless possibly if you are using an SSD.
4 - wait I can't do this over the air?
An obvious problem that is fixed as of iOS5 and iCloud. I know it's not available yet, but as least it is on it's way.
Wait ... what... who is managing the itunes backups the end users? And where exactly is itunes installed again?
Once again, this is fixed via the new iCloud service. No longer will a computer be required to sync/backup an iOS device.
Apple's OOB support for iphones in the enterprise is half assed and pathetic.
Not going to argue with you about this - I agree it needs to be improved. The point is that those improvements will be here later this year.
And with regards to making employees install their own apps - it is not a big concern. An email could be provided with a URL linking directly to the app. Two 'clicks' is all it would take.
I've found that upgrading projects to Xcode4 tends to cause problems. Just create a new project then import the files. This solved the problems that I had with the new xcode.
With regards to associating debugging output to the code, xcode4 is vastly superior to xcode3. The previous xcode was a simplified IDE, just an editor that made calls to gcc/gdb for compiling and debugging. The new xcode leverages the work done with llvm and clang. It parses your code as you type so it can do proper code completion and indicates broken code. When I say proper I mean it scans files for types, functions, etc. and actually understands the code. Linked files are also scanned. Notice that when the debugger indicates an error in a source file, you can edit that file by inserting/removing space and xcode will still be able to bring you to the actual error. The previous version just brought you to the same line, even if your code had moved away from that line.
So xcode4 is the first real attempt at a proper IDE - similar to what Microsoft has with their "Visual" programs. Apple had to ditch gcc in order to make it work which also required writing a new compiler - so it was a non-trivial amount of work. Expect it to get more and more refined as time goes on as xcode4 is actually built on a solid foundation, unlike xcode3.
Got the quote wrong. But you can read it here.
Dave Moss: What's your name?
Blake: Fuck you, that's my name.
The above quote is quite famous. If you were referring something else then that other quote was likely inspired by this one.
I tried to do a google search regarding this term.... The only link that Google provided was this post!!! I assume it was a typo? Care to fix it?
I agree drunk driving is a bad thing. But frankly, I've never seen any real evidence it's as endemic as you suggest. I've been driving for almost 40 years, and I can only recall seeing ONE (1) guy who was almost certainly drunk while driving (he was going east on the westbound half of a divided highway in the middle of the night).
It's virtually certain that there were other drivers who'd had a drink or three near me on the road in that time, but none that were obvious enough to pick out from the usual fraction of sucky drivers you find everywhere.
You just aren't driving at the right time of day. I used to drive into town every weekend, it was a 300km round trip. I like to drive at night so that is when I drove. Almost every weekend I would see a least one driver that was obviously intoxicated, typically on the outskirts of town.
The other thing you have to remember is that people who drink a lot get good and driving when intoxicated. It is very difficult to spot them on the road but they are still intoxicated. In many ways these are the most dangerous drivers. Because they can drive straight, they think they are good to drive. What they fail to understand is that their reaction time is still just as crappy as the bad drunk drivers. So when a pedestrian or cyclist accidentally gets in front of their vehicle they just drive right into them - nice and straight. And the odds of them noticing that the light changed colour..... It's just not good.
So DUI checkpoints are really the only way to catch those who drink on a regular basis. We're talking about alcoholics, not the people who go out and party once a month (they are easy to spot.)
Commercial ISPs, in a competitive environment, will be more cost effective then government supplied services. In addition, the ISPs will respond more quickly to customer demands and provide a wider array of services. Without a physical infrastructure to differentiate the different ISPs, they will compete based on price and services offered.
Now a government run ISP would work, just not as efficiently. The comparison to electricity providers is flawed. Electricity is the same regardless of who you get it from. ISPs can provide many different services such as VoIP, television, movies on demand... In effect, with ISPs you would be farming out far more then just billing and customer service.