Dell sells in two weeks what Apple sells in a year. Corporations, and HUGE ONES, base their hardware, from servers to desktops to laptops on Dell.
He didn't say Dell doesn't sell anything. Dell sells about as many computers as Apple does, annually. They're about on par with each other. The problem with Dell is their quality isn't anywhere near as good as it was and I doubt it's as good as Apple's.
Actually, Apple has a good name, with solid products like the Macbook, iPod, and OS X. I don't think Apple will have that mcuh of a problem. People don't run to Apple because of price, they run to them because they make decent, user-friendly hardware. Comparable devices are copies of them, and usually more expensive. If prices rise, Apple will go up a bit more, but will that actually drive people away?
What Gartner doesn't get is that Apple is sticking to their (no pun intended) core competency. Make an integrated package, do it well and give it some style. I don't think anyone at Apple foresaw the success of the iPod, they just figured it'd be another add-on with a little panache. It took off and probably rivals their revenues of the computers. Well done, but would they have come up with the iPod if they shopped out the hardware?
Seems they tried that before and Apple was in such dire straits Jobs returned to salvage the company and close down the
external Mac builders. Let's face it, Apple has survived because the dictatorial nature of product development at Apple means
they can establish the trends and bail on those that don't do well, without worrying about maintaining a library of drivers
even an orangitan couldn't keep up with (Ook) The PC/Windows path has Microsoft trying to keep an overweight operating system
working on a staggering array of hardware combinations. Small wonder very few actually know what the heck is going on with things
and most problems are countered with "did you try updating the drivers" or "Have you tried disconecting things until it works" or "You need
to do a full re-install"
I wouldn't agree with having Dell make the machines, either. Their quality isn't a shade of what it once was. Dell made their
name with competitively priced hardware which was built almost as solidy as IBMs. Now it's all cranked out in China and is as
good as anything else cranked out in China, so there's no real advantage over competitors.
True, but it is a very, very, very small amount that it burns. Calorie vs calorie is a few orders of magnitude difference.
Forsooth! But these claimed negative calorie beverage are most likely to operate in the little-c range than the big-C range.
500 mL of my Xtal Geezer bubble water, raised from room temp (18C) to body temp (37C), that's about 19 degrees x 500g of water = 9,500 calorie or 9.5 Calorie, about the amount of energy in one Lifesaver candy, IIRC.
Every month in wired there's an "found: artifacts from the future" picture. a few months ago it featured a soft drink product with negative calories.
Drink cold water. Your body will burn calories to keep you warm. For that matter, these fad-ists should just go soak their heads in a bucket of cold water.
Also there is a food already available that for all intents and purposes contains negative calories: Celery
Mushrooms, too, IIRC. Love the taste of celery in soup, particularly the green leafy bits.:9
During the first bubble the hubris was so thick in the Silicon Valley air you could feel it. People around you virtually hummed with it. And like The Emperor's New Clothes, if you actually looked at some of the shiny bits you'd notice some what people where trying to sell was utter shite, a scam, not worth a penny, yet people bought their stock on IPO and it all went nuts. There was 'the big strategy', to develope something Microsoft, Oracle or Cisco didn't have and would want and to trumpet it all over the place and hope one of these big companies would make you an instant millionaire by buying you out. Didn't always work.
Now I think most of what is going on in this bubble actually cuts the mustard in the ledgers. It pretty much has to. Too many (ad)venture capitalists got burned and they're a bit more careful now.
This is totally exaggerated. I am absolutely sure the 4WD monster trucks with monster offroad tires I see around here don't get any better than 10 mpg, and probably more like 8.
As with any vehicle, how you drive can affect mileage. I once had a behemoth 1965 Oldsmobile with a 425 ci. engine. With an electronic ignition and careful tuning, I regularly achieve 18 mpg. When I didn't have time to keep it in tune it could drop as low as 11 mpg. When I'd stomp on the gas there was no doubt left that in any mind that it could rule the streets if I didn't mind risking lives and collecting points. Never took it over 80 mph. I see things which look like they belong at monster truck shows, around where I live and they regularly blast down the highway, easily doing 80. But if they drove 65 and didn't stomp on the gas all the time, I figure they could achieve 12 mpg, but that's not what they got these things for, is it? And usually they are feeding it a lot of their paycheck.
We are not hurting the planet with pollution. We are primarily hurting each other. As TFA notes, we have left very few permanent traces on the earth. Pollution is - or ought to be - a tort.
Just like a lot of things, the rich can affect the poor by having the capacity to do more harm by wielding wealth. The foolish can too, but not to anywhere near the same extent.
As an example, consider Joan Q. Public; buzzing back and forth in her compact which gets 30 MPG. Aside from a few drips from an oil leak and some evaporated (or leaked) coolant, she's not having a major impact. Now consider John F. Doe; charging between stop signs in his 4WD with monster tyres which achieves an average of 12 MPG and worse, he's fiddled his exhaust for that sound which can leave no trace of doubt in anyone's mind, that he indeed has a very small reproductive organ. Then there's Harriet T. Grundgeworth, with her private jet, zipping around between New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, she's got so many things to do and people to see and appearances to make, not by some car do we guage her MPG, but in all the miles it is essential for her to cover. She makes John F. Doe look like he couldn't properly achieve a bathtub ring compared to her footprint on the enviroment.
If they could, the other species we share Earth with would surely vote us off the planet.
They could try, but we'd be the ones building the voting machines.
even though buildings will crumble, their ruins - especially those made of stone or concrete - are likely to last thousands of years. "We still have records of civilisations that are 3000 years old," notes Masterton. "For many thousands of years there would still be some signs of the civilisations that we created. It's going to take a long time for a concrete road to disappear. It might be severely crumbling in many places, but it'll take a long time to become invisible."
Like the ancients, it's how we bury our dead which will be most telling to the next crop of intelligent life to evolve on Earth.
"They're all in these frames of petrified wood with evidence of metal rails, hinges and nails around them. Do you suppose they
spun these things and then suffocated inside them? Or was this some way other creatures stored their food? They couldn't possibly
be so vain as to try preserving their bodies after they died, HA HA HA!"
'The humbling -- and perversely comforting -- reality is that the Earth will forget us remarkably quickly.'"
Oh, I dunno. The planet itself might, with the help of perhaps another ice age to drive the remnants of our cities into so much
rubble.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door*
*
Subject to verification of safety by Underscribblers Laboratories; application, denial, re-application, re-denial,
vetting by 12,256 paper shufflers, 52,469 rubber stampers, 245,193 red tape processors; re-re-application and final acceptance by the USPTO.
Further said design must be the subject of scrutiny, in that it does not deprive any current american mousetrap assembly personnel or their employment in most favoured states,
diminish compensation of executives,
tip political balances one way or the other by being to simple or complex for the average lemming to operate, or threaten the United States
Strategic Mousetrap Reserve. Further said design must be accepted by the US Mousetrap Think Tank and Allied Trade Council, 5870 G Street, Washington DC. Said mousetrap
must be put forward in the US House of Representatives and Senate before proffering for acceptance by the head rat himself. Should said design be deemed without backdoor, defect or
flaw**, please include next of kin to notify upon your mysterious disapperance.
**
Particularly in Ohio where victory is already predicted by a mousetrap supplier who is a solid supporter of the head rat's party and has
pledged to deliver as many votes for the head rat and his pals as possible. We can't have him looking bad now, can we?
Actually the administration is merely pandering to the evangelicals. They aren't actually getting much of what they want. This group in office has their own agenda. They just convince the religious to support it.
Sounds like someone else watched 60 Minutes over the weekend and listened to David Kuo lamenting the Bush administrations manipulation of the Christian Right, getting the backing they need for a few tokens and runs at legislation which would be unconstitutional anyway (some of the Faith-Based initiatives.)
The Iranian government represents mostly the conservative rural people, not the more cosmopolitan city dwellers, same way most despotic regimes seize power (get the peasants behind you) and then maintain it through fear and intimidation.
Actually, I'd bet cancer cells play the Imperial March from Star Wars.
Plus Darth Vader breathing noises.
It would be nice if they did, then they'd really stand out. You'd know it was time to visit your oncologist if George Lucas sent you a C&D letter or showed up on your front step with a hammer
It's great to detect the stuff spreading, but the real trick is to catch it before it does. Santa Cruz is littered with memorials to young people who've died from malinoma. Too bad some didn't take a little better care with waterproof sunscreen, a few less days in the sun and giving up that infectious feeling youth have of immortality. Get your skin checked now and then. It doesn't hurt.
You know how they tag cancer cells with a (radioactive) dye injection?
Well, what if they could find a dye that responded in the same fashion.
Suddenly, the technique could apply to a range of cancers.
It isn't really cells responding to dye, it's that many cancers when they spread are transported by the lymphatics system. I had a Lymphangiogram, back in June 1986 and it wasn't a very fun experience, but they made insicions in the tops of both feet after injecting some coloured dye between my toes (a very effective means of torture, I assure you) to make tiny lymphatic capilaries stand out. They picked one in each foot and inserted tiny needles in and pumped, for about 45 minutes, an iodine dye into them with a very patient little pump. Cancer cells consume disproportionate amounts of 'food', which may be one way to have them stand out, but this dye was to light up the entire lymphatic system, like a big ol' neon light sign and look for anomolies, which could indicate tumours.
It seems every FM station used to claim on the air they were the number one station. They always clipped the bit which should have continued, "in male age group 20 to 25, we suck hind tit in all others."
With fake clicks and hijacking by mal/spy-ware, I'd be hard pressed to believe anything other than actual sales figures and even then with the hijacking the question is, 'who's ad led to the sale?'
A bright, new shiny world, without all the problems of the real one? I feel this overwhelming urge to start a homeless character who will sleep in their bushes and pee on their steps.
More producing products (cows, in this case) mean more supply of the products I use (cream, cheese and other high fat-low carb dairy products). More supply means lower prices. Lower prices means more business opportunities, which means a stronger economic outlook for those who can't afford the high barrier to entry created by the high cost to breed cattle.
THe problem with all this is like we were discussing a while back about organic tomatoes and such. Engineered stuff usually is for quantity and eye appeal over what originally drew us to products, like flavour. You may get more milk, but if it tastes like white-wash is that supposed to be a good thing?
I'm a huge fan of pistachio nuts, but about all you can get in the markets these days are these horrible jobs grown in California. Big, green and utterly lacking in flavour, or more often tasting like mud. I found Zenobia, a company I bought nuts from ages ago when the local market sold them. Grown in Turkey or other countries in the middle east. Small, but rich in flavour. Today's kids won't even know what a good pistachio tastes like or why people actually eat those bland things unless someone gives them a handfull of Turkish Antep nuts. When I travel outside the US I can still get the real deal from Iran, Lebanon, etc. So you see, bigger isn't necessarily better. I try to stick with what originally worked fine for me. Now I'll even pay a premium to keep the good stuff alive.
I absolutely, positively do NOT want government requirements for labeling. If I am concerned with labeling, I will call the manufacturer of the product and ASK.
Pass on a big 'Hi!' to your two-headed kids for me.
I'm going to get one of these 1 watt supplies so I don't have to pay the big zorkmids to keep the filaments in my Victrola warm for that instant-on effect.
But is this because people had no privacy and the Gestapo had something on them, or would the Gestapo have done it anyway, even if they didn't have a shred of information about these people?
In other words: is the problem that the government has too much information, or is it that they have too much power and there's too little oversight? If the latter is the case, perhaps advocating privacy is barking up the wrong tree, and we have more important things to put energy into.
Neither, really, it's more a problem of people actually cooperating to enable such a government. Germans, to be good germans, would turn in a neighbor if they thought that neighbor was the sort of enemy of the people and state they were warned about. At the moment we've got a lot of disinterest, but there's certainly a lot of people who are just too willing to do the bidding of the government when it comes to giving up your rights (and actually their own as well.)
Remember the stories of the Soviets giving children blue-jeans if they'd turn their parents in? It's probably not true, but people have turned in family members to a state for less.
I'm surprised this wasn't done years ago when people were making real money off of Ultima Online and Asheron's Call. Good AC accounts, like Animal the first level 126 Battlemage which went for $5,000, were going for thousands during it's prime and even a year or two afterwards.
You, nor many others are really getting it. They're not going to tax your stuff in game, they're going to figure out how to shackle eBay with a scheme to report all your personal sales to the IRS, then tax you on them. Won't matter whether you're turning a profit or not, they'll want a cut of it.
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I don't think I've ever hit a light pole after surfing the web for 4 hours straight.
BTW, if you're running a fever or have a very bad head-cold, you're about as impaired as if you had a few good belts in you.
Dell sells in two weeks what Apple sells in a year. Corporations, and HUGE ONES, base their hardware, from servers to desktops to laptops on Dell.
He didn't say Dell doesn't sell anything. Dell sells about as many computers as Apple does, annually. They're about on par with each other. The problem with Dell is their quality isn't anywhere near as good as it was and I doubt it's as good as Apple's.
Actually, Apple has a good name, with solid products like the Macbook, iPod, and OS X. I don't think Apple will have that mcuh of a problem. People don't run to Apple because of price, they run to them because they make decent, user-friendly hardware. Comparable devices are copies of them, and usually more expensive. If prices rise, Apple will go up a bit more, but will that actually drive people away?
What Gartner doesn't get is that Apple is sticking to their (no pun intended) core competency. Make an integrated package, do it well and give it some style. I don't think anyone at Apple foresaw the success of the iPod, they just figured it'd be another add-on with a little panache. It took off and probably rivals their revenues of the computers. Well done, but would they have come up with the iPod if they shopped out the hardware?
Seems they tried that before and Apple was in such dire straits Jobs returned to salvage the company and close down the external Mac builders. Let's face it, Apple has survived because the dictatorial nature of product development at Apple means they can establish the trends and bail on those that don't do well, without worrying about maintaining a library of drivers even an orangitan couldn't keep up with (Ook) The PC/Windows path has Microsoft trying to keep an overweight operating system working on a staggering array of hardware combinations. Small wonder very few actually know what the heck is going on with things and most problems are countered with "did you try updating the drivers" or "Have you tried disconecting things until it works" or "You need to do a full re-install"
I wouldn't agree with having Dell make the machines, either. Their quality isn't a shade of what it once was. Dell made their name with competitively priced hardware which was built almost as solidy as IBMs. Now it's all cranked out in China and is as good as anything else cranked out in China, so there's no real advantage over competitors.
True, but it is a very, very, very small amount that it burns. Calorie vs calorie is a few orders of magnitude difference.
Forsooth! But these claimed negative calorie beverage are most likely to operate in the little-c range than the big-C range.
500 mL of my Xtal Geezer bubble water, raised from room temp (18C) to body temp (37C), that's about 19 degrees x 500g of water = 9,500 calorie or 9.5 Calorie, about the amount of energy in one Lifesaver candy, IIRC.
Every month in wired there's an "found: artifacts from the future" picture. a few months ago it featured a soft drink product with negative calories.
Drink cold water. Your body will burn calories to keep you warm. For that matter, these fad-ists should just go soak their heads in a bucket of cold water.
Also there is a food already available that for all intents and purposes contains negative calories: Celery
Mushrooms, too, IIRC. Love the taste of celery in soup, particularly the green leafy bits. :9
During the first bubble the hubris was so thick in the Silicon Valley air you could feel it. People around you virtually hummed with it. And like The Emperor's New Clothes, if you actually looked at some of the shiny bits you'd notice some what people where trying to sell was utter shite, a scam, not worth a penny, yet people bought their stock on IPO and it all went nuts. There was 'the big strategy', to develope something Microsoft, Oracle or Cisco didn't have and would want and to trumpet it all over the place and hope one of these big companies would make you an instant millionaire by buying you out. Didn't always work.
Now I think most of what is going on in this bubble actually cuts the mustard in the ledgers. It pretty much has to. Too many (ad)venture capitalists got burned and they're a bit more careful now.
This is totally exaggerated. I am absolutely sure the 4WD monster trucks with monster offroad tires I see around here don't get any better than 10 mpg, and probably more like 8.
As with any vehicle, how you drive can affect mileage. I once had a behemoth 1965 Oldsmobile with a 425 ci. engine. With an electronic ignition and careful tuning, I regularly achieve 18 mpg. When I didn't have time to keep it in tune it could drop as low as 11 mpg. When I'd stomp on the gas there was no doubt left that in any mind that it could rule the streets if I didn't mind risking lives and collecting points. Never took it over 80 mph. I see things which look like they belong at monster truck shows, around where I live and they regularly blast down the highway, easily doing 80. But if they drove 65 and didn't stomp on the gas all the time, I figure they could achieve 12 mpg, but that's not what they got these things for, is it? And usually they are feeding it a lot of their paycheck.
We are not hurting the planet with pollution. We are primarily hurting each other. As TFA notes, we have left very few permanent traces on the earth. Pollution is - or ought to be - a tort.
Just like a lot of things, the rich can affect the poor by having the capacity to do more harm by wielding wealth. The foolish can too, but not to anywhere near the same extent.
As an example, consider Joan Q. Public; buzzing back and forth in her compact which gets 30 MPG. Aside from a few drips from an oil leak and some evaporated (or leaked) coolant, she's not having a major impact. Now consider John F. Doe; charging between stop signs in his 4WD with monster tyres which achieves an average of 12 MPG and worse, he's fiddled his exhaust for that sound which can leave no trace of doubt in anyone's mind, that he indeed has a very small reproductive organ. Then there's Harriet T. Grundgeworth, with her private jet, zipping around between New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, she's got so many things to do and people to see and appearances to make, not by some car do we guage her MPG, but in all the miles it is essential for her to cover. She makes John F. Doe look like he couldn't properly achieve a bathtub ring compared to her footprint on the enviroment.
If so I'd like to recommend Kim Jong Il
If they could, the other species we share Earth with would surely vote us off the planet.
They could try, but we'd be the ones building the voting machines.
even though buildings will crumble, their ruins - especially those made of stone or concrete - are likely to last thousands of years. "We still have records of civilisations that are 3000 years old," notes Masterton. "For many thousands of years there would still be some signs of the civilisations that we created. It's going to take a long time for a concrete road to disappear. It might be severely crumbling in many places, but it'll take a long time to become invisible."
Like the ancients, it's how we bury our dead which will be most telling to the next crop of intelligent life to evolve on Earth.
"They're all in these frames of petrified wood with evidence of metal rails, hinges and nails around them. Do you suppose they spun these things and then suffocated inside them? Or was this some way other creatures stored their food? They couldn't possibly be so vain as to try preserving their bodies after they died, HA HA HA!"
'The humbling -- and perversely comforting -- reality is that the Earth will forget us remarkably quickly.'"
Oh, I dunno. The planet itself might, with the help of perhaps another ice age to drive the remnants of our cities into so much rubble.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door*
Actually the administration is merely pandering to the evangelicals. They aren't actually getting much of what they want. This group in office has their own agenda. They just convince the religious to support it.
Sounds like someone else watched 60 Minutes over the weekend and listened to David Kuo lamenting the Bush administrations manipulation of the Christian Right, getting the backing they need for a few tokens and runs at legislation which would be unconstitutional anyway (some of the Faith-Based initiatives.)
The Iranian government represents mostly the conservative rural people, not the more cosmopolitan city dwellers, same way most despotic regimes seize power (get the peasants behind you) and then maintain it through fear and intimidation.
Actually, I'd bet cancer cells play the Imperial March from Star Wars. Plus Darth Vader breathing noises.
It would be nice if they did, then they'd really stand out. You'd know it was time to visit your oncologist if George Lucas sent you a C&D letter or showed up on your front step with a hammer
It's great to detect the stuff spreading, but the real trick is to catch it before it does. Santa Cruz is littered with memorials to young people who've died from malinoma. Too bad some didn't take a little better care with waterproof sunscreen, a few less days in the sun and giving up that infectious feeling youth have of immortality. Get your skin checked now and then. It doesn't hurt.
You know how they tag cancer cells with a (radioactive) dye injection? Well, what if they could find a dye that responded in the same fashion. Suddenly, the technique could apply to a range of cancers.
It isn't really cells responding to dye, it's that many cancers when they spread are transported by the lymphatics system. I had a Lymphangiogram, back in June 1986 and it wasn't a very fun experience, but they made insicions in the tops of both feet after injecting some coloured dye between my toes (a very effective means of torture, I assure you) to make tiny lymphatic capilaries stand out. They picked one in each foot and inserted tiny needles in and pumped, for about 45 minutes, an iodine dye into them with a very patient little pump. Cancer cells consume disproportionate amounts of 'food', which may be one way to have them stand out, but this dye was to light up the entire lymphatic system, like a big ol' neon light sign and look for anomolies, which could indicate tumours.
This one's got the Rockinpneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flue
It seems every FM station used to claim on the air they were the number one station. They always clipped the bit which should have continued, "in male age group 20 to 25, we suck hind tit in all others."
With fake clicks and hijacking by mal/spy-ware, I'd be hard pressed to believe anything other than actual sales figures and even then with the hijacking the question is, 'who's ad led to the sale?'
A bright, new shiny world, without all the problems of the real one? I feel this overwhelming urge to start a homeless character who will sleep in their bushes and pee on their steps.
When I first read the headline I thought it said, "FDA Set To Approve Products from Cloned Clowns"
Says one Cannibal to another, "This food tastes funny."
Maybe Larry will have them label it Pagoda Linux or Samurai Linux, in honour of his fascination with things japanese
i for one welcome our new samurai penguin overlords!
More producing products (cows, in this case) mean more supply of the products I use (cream, cheese and other high fat-low carb dairy products). More supply means lower prices. Lower prices means more business opportunities, which means a stronger economic outlook for those who can't afford the high barrier to entry created by the high cost to breed cattle.
THe problem with all this is like we were discussing a while back about organic tomatoes and such. Engineered stuff usually is for quantity and eye appeal over what originally drew us to products, like flavour. You may get more milk, but if it tastes like white-wash is that supposed to be a good thing?
I'm a huge fan of pistachio nuts, but about all you can get in the markets these days are these horrible jobs grown in California. Big, green and utterly lacking in flavour, or more often tasting like mud. I found Zenobia, a company I bought nuts from ages ago when the local market sold them. Grown in Turkey or other countries in the middle east. Small, but rich in flavour. Today's kids won't even know what a good pistachio tastes like or why people actually eat those bland things unless someone gives them a handfull of Turkish Antep nuts. When I travel outside the US I can still get the real deal from Iran, Lebanon, etc. So you see, bigger isn't necessarily better. I try to stick with what originally worked fine for me. Now I'll even pay a premium to keep the good stuff alive.
I absolutely, positively do NOT want government requirements for labeling. If I am concerned with labeling, I will call the manufacturer of the product and ASK.
Pass on a big 'Hi!' to your two-headed kids for me.
I'm going to get one of these 1 watt supplies so I don't have to pay the big zorkmids to keep the filaments in my Victrola warm for that instant-on effect.
Ah, but newsgroups and classifieds would be difficult, if not impossible to track. With ebay, they just subpeona them for the information and voila.
Why bother with a subpeona? Just pass the law and order them to play ball with the government of they'll be shut down.
To please the stockholders they'd do it without so much as a whimper of protest.
But is this because people had no privacy and the Gestapo had something on them, or would the Gestapo have done it anyway, even if they didn't have a shred of information about these people?
In other words: is the problem that the government has too much information, or is it that they have too much power and there's too little oversight? If the latter is the case, perhaps advocating privacy is barking up the wrong tree, and we have more important things to put energy into.
Neither, really, it's more a problem of people actually cooperating to enable such a government. Germans, to be good germans, would turn in a neighbor if they thought that neighbor was the sort of enemy of the people and state they were warned about. At the moment we've got a lot of disinterest, but there's certainly a lot of people who are just too willing to do the bidding of the government when it comes to giving up your rights (and actually their own as well.)
Remember the stories of the Soviets giving children blue-jeans if they'd turn their parents in? It's probably not true, but people have turned in family members to a state for less.
I'm surprised this wasn't done years ago when people were making real money off of Ultima Online and Asheron's Call. Good AC accounts, like Animal the first level 126 Battlemage which went for $5,000, were going for thousands during it's prime and even a year or two afterwards.
You, nor many others are really getting it. They're not going to tax your stuff in game, they're going to figure out how to shackle eBay with a scheme to report all your personal sales to the IRS, then tax you on them. Won't matter whether you're turning a profit or not, they'll want a cut of it.
I can't wait to pay my tax in WoW gold.
Don't mention Gold. Tangible or not, it just gets Congress excited.
You know the paper dollars in your pocket are not backed by any gold or silver, right?