Don't bet on it. Virginia was just had it's seismic values reduced two code cycles ago. Not that it matters, wind controls most of the time anyway, and always with houses.
I mean, if it's going to take 100 years, then that $500k seems like a good investment if we're going to be hiring a whole team of "researchers" full time. But I suspect that 500k isn't really going to be stretched that thin;-)
Dude - those are necessities. Why don't we just agree to go 3-1/2 weeks between haircuts instead of 3, and call it good. And if, for some reason, I need to go sooner than 3-1/2 weeks, then I'll promise to skip my PPV that day.
Google could do some real evil and start adding onscreen ads, or just make ads clickable to go to an informational website while buffering the remainder of the show. If Google splits the click revenue with the cable cos, they would almost certainly go along.
There are these little things apple sends with it's iPads called "chargers." You plug them onto the wall (they even work on extension cords, just like PCs!), and then plug an apple cable into them. It allows you to work forever, and never have to worry about the battery. If your charger dies - I kid you not - you can get a replacement for about $10.
Since you aren't aware that chargers exist for portable electronics, I'm impressed that you got 2 years out of a single battery charge on your Zen. Apple should hire the guys who designed that battery!
Clamshells are not the ideal form factor for certain conditions, and iOS requires nearly zero maintenance. Having just one guy on hand in even a 100 person deployment means a $500+/yr commitment PER MacBook to support the OS (presuming you have a Windows desktop environment, which is typical , and especially where discipline specific applications are for Win only).
And they're damned good at it. And in a lot of cases, consuming content is a primary job function for people - or is one of the most efficient ways to recapture time while traveling.
How is doing so on an iPad faster than doing so on a netbook? I can run the full version of Blender on my Dell Inspiron Mini 1012; all I have to do is bring my mouse and numpad.
Thank you for making the GP point. All you have to do is bring your mouse and numpad, and then presumably have a surface to set them on. The advantage to the iPad is that you can do *simple* things without those luxuries, which - if you're an architect, for example - may involve getting data or sketching a solution on a quick photo of a site condition, where there is no place to sit down. (A colleague just used this technique yesterday, and it was quite effective). FWIW, I own both a small laptop and an iPad. They excel at different things. Neither is as nice as a quad core desktop with a triple monitor if I'm sitting at my desk.
Here's a single data point to add: I have an iPad (v1) and there are several applications which crash regularly - Goodreader is a prime candidate, but I think Evernote has taken dive too. Azul has locked up, and Flipboard has crashed occasionally (though not often). Livedrive is very, very squirrely with server connections, whereas I run the PC desktop app on three comupters all day, and it's quite rare to get a hiccup. Google Voice in the iPhone is the absolute worst of any app, regularly locking all input and requiring an actual hard boot to revive (even closing the app and restarting will not reactivate it). I don't use GV much on the iPad, so I don't know.
Thing is, iOS makes nearly all program crashes almost transparent. You just get kicked out to the home screen, and you fire the app right back up. There's no major waiting (except for GV) involved so it seems less critical.
There are still apps for the pc (though of a different type, as most of the ones I use are utilities for manipulating images or file properties). Free (or cheap), small footprint, fast, limited use/scope. I wish there were more, but I also wish there were more robust apps for the iPad (like Bluebeam PDF reader/annotation, a "real" sketching program, and the like).
On the contrary. If you know the tribe exists, then somebody in the civilized world knows somebody in the tribe. The tribe contact likely knows everyone in the tribe. The civilized contact has a good chance of being a research scientist, and has a very large number of contacts. Since the civilized person to any tribe member is a maximum of 2 degrees, then the researched need only be connected to everyone else via 4 degrees, which may not be out of the realm of possibility given that most well-heeled researchers will have direct contacts in multiple, if not all, continents.
It's part of the corporate veil. As long as you don't improperly mix personal and corporate acts/finances, the corporation should shield you from personal liability.
The interesting part here is that the lawyers in charge are professionals (in the legal sense, like accountants, engineers, and doctors) and if they could be found liable for gross negligence they might be personally responsible. Every state code is different, though. Professional liability is not shielded by corporate status.
(I am not a lawyer, but I am a professional engineer and run a business, so I have had to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of corporate status)
Which is just one of the things that is absolutely wrong with the way IP laws work right now. If you have a license or permission to use something, it shouldn't be illegal for someone else to help you manage/move/alter that content in ways that it is legal for you to do yourself.
Yeah, but it's got no less than $8000 of gear in it, even if he's a cheapskate when it comes to glass; maybe $20k if he's OEM all the way. $400 seems trivial in that light.
Depending on how they couched the previous press releases, they may have contended that they paid $10,000 for the rights to a story about the new iPhone, and the "finder" gave them the hardware to prove that his story about the new iPhone details was real.
The first thing I though of was that by doing this, Apple is removing the supply of mid- to late-model, surplus PCs out of the hand-me-down eco system. Just a few stories ago, someone asked what OS to put on a donated computer. Apple's recommendation is: send us the PC instead, we'll kick in a few bucks and then you can buy them an Apple!
That's interesting, since common household wiring is 12ga=20A (over 100+' runs, no less), and 14ga is 15A. It's a whole different application, but the ICC doesn't normally play on the edge of safety.
Instead of increasing their display tech to use lower power and have less noise, they've thrown money at the challenge of filtering out the excessive electrical noise to sniff the low level capacitive signals. IMHO they have missed something.
In the process, they've lost the entire large format graphics industry. I would like to have about a 64(+/-) inch display which has both finger and stylus input - though admittedly at 72-125ppi. Why? Architectural drawings. The largest practical paper set is 30x42", which will fit on a 62" 16:9 format screen with "toolbar" space on the side. At 64" you can get a title bar and menu across the top. But it has to have a fine-line ability with a pen input for markup.
I chuckled at the "Architects collaborating" part of the article. No, they will spend thousands of dollars to create neato 3d renderings for high end clients which now work with fingers and hands for navigation instead of a mouse/air mouse. The real work still gets done in a super-precise model space which requires very accurate input, and still occurs in large part on paper with pencil.
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Don't bet on it. Virginia was just had it's seismic values reduced two code cycles ago. Not that it matters, wind controls most of the time anyway, and always with houses.
I thought CA stayed in place because New Jersey sucks.
...but than I'd have to kill you.
I mean, if it's going to take 100 years, then that $500k seems like a good investment if we're going to be hiring a whole team of "researchers" full time. But I suspect that 500k isn't really going to be stretched that thin ;-)
Dude - those are necessities. Why don't we just agree to go 3-1/2 weeks between haircuts instead of 3, and call it good. And if, for some reason, I need to go sooner than 3-1/2 weeks, then I'll promise to skip my PPV that day.
Google could do some real evil and start adding onscreen ads, or just make ads clickable to go to an informational website while buffering the remainder of the show. If Google splits the click revenue with the cable cos, they would almost certainly go along.
There are these little things apple sends with it's iPads called "chargers." You plug them onto the wall (they even work on extension cords, just like PCs!), and then plug an apple cable into them. It allows you to work forever, and never have to worry about the battery. If your charger dies - I kid you not - you can get a replacement for about $10.
Since you aren't aware that chargers exist for portable electronics, I'm impressed that you got 2 years out of a single battery charge on your Zen. Apple should hire the guys who designed that battery!
Clamshells are not the ideal form factor for certain conditions, and iOS requires nearly zero maintenance. Having just one guy on hand in even a 100 person deployment means a $500+/yr commitment PER MacBook to support the OS (presuming you have a Windows desktop environment, which is typical , and especially where discipline specific applications are for Win only).
And they're damned good at it. And in a lot of cases, consuming content is a primary job function for people - or is one of the most efficient ways to recapture time while traveling.
How is doing so on an iPad faster than doing so on a netbook? I can run the full version of Blender on my Dell Inspiron Mini 1012; all I have to do is bring my mouse and numpad.
Thank you for making the GP point. All you have to do is bring your mouse and numpad, and then presumably have a surface to set them on. The advantage to the iPad is that you can do *simple* things without those luxuries, which - if you're an architect, for example - may involve getting data or sketching a solution on a quick photo of a site condition, where there is no place to sit down. (A colleague just used this technique yesterday, and it was quite effective). FWIW, I own both a small laptop and an iPad. They excel at different things. Neither is as nice as a quad core desktop with a triple monitor if I'm sitting at my desk.
Real work is not necessarily development. I design buildings - and I use the ipad for various utilities in the field. Is that not real work?
Here's a single data point to add: I have an iPad (v1) and there are several applications which crash regularly - Goodreader is a prime candidate, but I think Evernote has taken dive too. Azul has locked up, and Flipboard has crashed occasionally (though not often). Livedrive is very, very squirrely with server connections, whereas I run the PC desktop app on three comupters all day, and it's quite rare to get a hiccup. Google Voice in the iPhone is the absolute worst of any app, regularly locking all input and requiring an actual hard boot to revive (even closing the app and restarting will not reactivate it). I don't use GV much on the iPad, so I don't know.
Thing is, iOS makes nearly all program crashes almost transparent. You just get kicked out to the home screen, and you fire the app right back up. There's no major waiting (except for GV) involved so it seems less critical.
There are still apps for the pc (though of a different type, as most of the ones I use are utilities for manipulating images or file properties). Free (or cheap), small footprint, fast, limited use/scope. I wish there were more, but I also wish there were more robust apps for the iPad (like Bluebeam PDF reader/annotation, a "real" sketching program, and the like).
Well played, sir.
On the contrary. If you know the tribe exists, then somebody in the civilized world knows somebody in the tribe. The tribe contact likely knows everyone in the tribe. The civilized contact has a good chance of being a research scientist, and has a very large number of contacts. Since the civilized person to any tribe member is a maximum of 2 degrees, then the researched need only be connected to everyone else via 4 degrees, which may not be out of the realm of possibility given that most well-heeled researchers will have direct contacts in multiple, if not all, continents.
It's part of the corporate veil. As long as you don't improperly mix personal and corporate acts/finances, the corporation should shield you from personal liability.
The interesting part here is that the lawyers in charge are professionals (in the legal sense, like accountants, engineers, and doctors) and if they could be found liable for gross negligence they might be personally responsible. Every state code is different, though. Professional liability is not shielded by corporate status.
(I am not a lawyer, but I am a professional engineer and run a business, so I have had to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of corporate status)
Which is just one of the things that is absolutely wrong with the way IP laws work right now. If you have a license or permission to use something, it shouldn't be illegal for someone else to help you manage/move/alter that content in ways that it is legal for you to do yourself.
...oh, right - you can't. Sorry 'bout that!
(FWIW, I have a D3 and an F4s. It's hard to justify the cost of shooting film these days.)
Yeah, but it's got no less than $8000 of gear in it, even if he's a cheapskate when it comes to glass; maybe $20k if he's OEM all the way. $400 seems trivial in that light.
I think about the cost of the typical L-series Canon lens, and I cringe at the thought of taking it out of the original box.
Fixed that for you.
Two words: Gaffers Tape
Depending on how they couched the previous press releases, they may have contended that they paid $10,000 for the rights to a story about the new iPhone, and the "finder" gave them the hardware to prove that his story about the new iPhone details was real.
The first thing I though of was that by doing this, Apple is removing the supply of mid- to late-model, surplus PCs out of the hand-me-down eco system. Just a few stories ago, someone asked what OS to put on a donated computer. Apple's recommendation is: send us the PC instead, we'll kick in a few bucks and then you can buy them an Apple!
...if you remove the soldiers, there's no need to ship in fuel.
That's interesting, since common household wiring is 12ga=20A (over 100+' runs, no less), and 14ga is 15A. It's a whole different application, but the ICC doesn't normally play on the edge of safety.
Instead of increasing their display tech to use lower power and have less noise, they've thrown money at the challenge of filtering out the excessive electrical noise to sniff the low level capacitive signals. IMHO they have missed something.
In the process, they've lost the entire large format graphics industry. I would like to have about a 64(+/-) inch display which has both finger and stylus input - though admittedly at 72-125ppi. Why? Architectural drawings. The largest practical paper set is 30x42", which will fit on a 62" 16:9 format screen with "toolbar" space on the side. At 64" you can get a title bar and menu across the top. But it has to have a fine-line ability with a pen input for markup.
I chuckled at the "Architects collaborating" part of the article. No, they will spend thousands of dollars to create neato 3d renderings for high end clients which now work with fingers and hands for navigation instead of a mouse/air mouse. The real work still gets done in a super-precise model space which requires very accurate input, and still occurs in large part on paper with pencil.