How they going to contend with dust on Moon? From what I understand from astronaut reports, that super-fine, gritty regolith sticks to everything through static charge. Got a plan to keep that stuff from gumming up the bits of anything you are running?
Apple has claimed that some 60 percent of the data center facility’s power will be generated onsite.
So the other 40% will come from FoxConn's Matrix Facility?
It'll be coming from the smog-enshrouded shack out back, surrounded by oil drums labeled "Do NOT open under ANY circumstances!"
Nah, probably just off the grid.. it's not totally green, it's just greenER.
Meanwhile, while noodling around Sonoma County in my greenhouse gas emitting vehicle, I found an entire ranch being powered by 1 wind turbine. Very impressive feat. I wonder if they ship their excess to the grid for a few bucks. Some of these turbines crank out 1.5 megawatts and this one was turning at a pretty fair clip.
2 year, even if you own the hardware? Don't you have the option of just going month to month? I'm in Canada (land of the 3 year contract!), but I will gladly sign a person up month to month if they own hardware, or are willing to purchase it at retail price.
The credit check I totally understand, the carrier needs to know that you have a habit of paying the bill. That parts makes sense, and shouldn't be a problem.
Handing out my personal information to, yet another party, always makes me edgy. Particularly since it appears someone pretended to be me and I'm getting a lot of unwanted calls now. On T-Mobile I'm on the pay-as-you go plan, which keeps my phone rate very low. I rarely text, so that's no problem, either. I can, with a smart enough phone, go for a Day, Week or Month of unlimited service, for what seems a fair rate, considering I don't often need (nor have made myself dependent upon) connectivity to everything + cat + dog.
[any] buyers are like cats, they like the packaging more than the gift, and are just as stupid.
Ever been a child at Christmas, electic with anticipation to get through that gift wrapping for whatever is inside? The better the paper, the more heightened the anticipation. Wrap it in old newspaper and the kiddies will, evertime, go for the better wrapping. Everything about presentation you need to know is there.
When I worked in a logistics company I was stunned to learn how much packaging cost - when a box (and presumably packing materials) were damaged by a klutz on a forklift the box was set aside and new packaging was ordered and the contents moved and repacked. The box for a PC could run as high as $40. For some other goods the packaging could run much higher. Manufacturers put a lot of thought and effort into packaging, for presentation because sometimes the box itself drives the decision to buy. That was years before any iAnything came out, Apple is simply one company who takes it very seriously. Google apparently wants to cut corners or simple doesn't care.
Pfft. All they needed to do was put taxes on Hay, Stabling and Ferrier Services and they'd whittle that down.. uh.. exactly in the way it doesn't do anyting to deter traffic today.
the music industries attack on piracy is often about a new way to extort easy money more than an actual concern for the musicians they are supposed to represent
Music & Entertainment Industry are their own worst enemies.
It's a whole new taste sensation! Alert the news! Oh, they don't care, there's a traffic accident or a house on fire or Tom Cruise is having another arranged marriage...
Yeah, I know. Tell that to the people at the bus stop, all texting and surfing and nattering on their smartypants phones and watch their eyes glaze over.
sorry I was late, boss. was at the stop and someone made my eyes glaze over and I was so distracted I missed the bus.
This whole arguement is a single voice mumbling in a maelstrom. Rather like people pointing out the 21st century began on Jan 1, 2001, not on Jan 1, 2000 (while being utterly ignored by all the happy people partying.)
Yahoo! simply has nowhere to go. They've been out innovated in everything and their original purpose, human indexed websites, is no longer relevant to the world. Anything Yahoo! does, Google or Microsoft can do better.
The question is.. do they still have enough money and desire to innovate? They could yet dig themselves out of the hole, but it requires getting the company to be a great place to work, attracting brilliant, energetic minds to create. If all Yahoo are is a company of cowering cubicle moles, trying not to be noticed and whacked, there's not much she or anyone can do.
Yep, seems like Google is really starting to drive away its loyal employees like rats from a ship. I guess that's what happens when you start doing evil and putting your advertisers above what should be your actual customers not the product you sell.
I thought that was Yahoo's specialty. I stopped using Yahoo years ago due to the glut of advertising in everything to the point I felt Yahoo was becoming unusable.
Well who can blame him? I couldn't make any sense of the comments on/. about how 48fps looks "too real". Isn't that kinda the point? To make the TV show or movie look like just a window on another world? It's supposed to look real. (This reminds me of those persons who claimed CDs or lossless AACs were too perfect, and they'd rather hear the sizzle of downloaded MP3s. Illogical.)
I could not care less about the technology.. I'm glad I wasn't there and didn't see some spoiler footage.
I still think it was done to prevent any possibility of there ever being a sequel or a continuation of the series. The rightsholders wanted it to end, and they got their wish.
Nothing is ever over. Haven't you seen enough ret-coning, re-imagining, re-booting to tell you that, yet? Besides, there's always room for a Prequel and one that forks the story at that (a la Prometheus.)
Why would they ever do that? This is more profitable. </cynic>
I know.
Attendance is higher and with all those feet (and in a few instances, wheels) paying to get in, why change.. unless the act of selling out dilutes the original attraction of the show and comics fans lose interest in attending. I think this has happened before...
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How they going to contend with dust on Moon? From what I understand from astronaut reports, that super-fine, gritty regolith sticks to everything through static charge. Got a plan to keep that stuff from gumming up the bits of anything you are running?
Apple has claimed that some 60 percent of the data center facility’s power will be generated onsite.
So the other 40% will come from FoxConn's Matrix Facility?
It'll be coming from the smog-enshrouded shack out back, surrounded by oil drums labeled "Do NOT open under ANY circumstances!"
Nah, probably just off the grid .. it's not totally green, it's just greenER.
Meanwhile, while noodling around Sonoma County in my greenhouse gas emitting vehicle, I found an entire ranch being powered by 1 wind turbine. Very impressive feat. I wonder if they ship their excess to the grid for a few bucks. Some of these turbines crank out 1.5 megawatts and this one was turning at a pretty fair clip.
2 year, even if you own the hardware? Don't you have the option of just going month to month? I'm in Canada (land of the 3 year contract!), but I will gladly sign a person up month to month if they own hardware, or are willing to purchase it at retail price.
The credit check I totally understand, the carrier needs to know that you have a habit of paying the bill. That parts makes sense, and shouldn't be a problem.
Handing out my personal information to, yet another party, always makes me edgy. Particularly since it appears someone pretended to be me and I'm getting a lot of unwanted calls now. On T-Mobile I'm on the pay-as-you go plan, which keeps my phone rate very low. I rarely text, so that's no problem, either. I can, with a smart enough phone, go for a Day, Week or Month of unlimited service, for what seems a fair rate, considering I don't often need (nor have made myself dependent upon) connectivity to everything + cat + dog.
[any] buyers are like cats, they like the packaging more than the gift, and are just as stupid.
Ever been a child at Christmas, electic with anticipation to get through that gift wrapping for whatever is inside? The better the paper, the more heightened the anticipation. Wrap it in old newspaper and the kiddies will, evertime, go for the better wrapping. Everything about presentation you need to know is there.
When I worked in a logistics company I was stunned to learn how much packaging cost - when a box (and presumably packing materials) were damaged by a klutz on a forklift the box was set aside and new packaging was ordered and the contents moved and repacked. The box for a PC could run as high as $40. For some other goods the packaging could run much higher. Manufacturers put a lot of thought and effort into packaging, for presentation because sometimes the box itself drives the decision to buy. That was years before any iAnything came out, Apple is simply one company who takes it very seriously. Google apparently wants to cut corners or simple doesn't care.
Pfft. All they needed to do was put taxes on Hay, Stabling and Ferrier Services and they'd whittle that down .. uh .. exactly in the way it doesn't do anyting to deter traffic today.
You already own your phone, but still have to sign a 2 year contract, with all the credit checking and data sharing among businesses.
Continue to count me out.
the music industries attack on piracy is often about a new way to extort easy money more than an actual concern for the musicians they are supposed to represent
Music & Entertainment Industry are their own worst enemies.
Perhaps its time that we realize that intellectual property is not in the best interests of society
Oh, it is, it is! You just have to be a big company to try to get away with it.
It is interweb, not internet. ;-)
"You got your Internet in my Web!"
"You got your Web in my Internet!"
It's a whole new taste sensation! Alert the news! Oh, they don't care, there's a traffic accident or a house on fire or Tom Cruise is having another arranged marriage...
...kay?
Yeah, I know. Tell that to the people at the bus stop, all texting and surfing and nattering on their smartypants phones and watch their eyes glaze over.
sorry I was late, boss. was at the stop and someone made my eyes glaze over and I was so distracted I missed the bus.
We're on Slashdot... It's 2012... I'm pretty sure that this "revelation" was unnecessary for those that frequent this site.
Yeah. Now we can return to our Gopher and Archie servers and get some real research done...
... also isn't the Internet.
You spelt it wrong - it's with a little 'f'
And it's zuckernet to the faithful.
Now we all know.
But 2+2=5, for very large values of 2
This whole arguement is a single voice mumbling in a maelstrom. Rather like people pointing out the 21st century began on Jan 1, 2001, not on Jan 1, 2000 (while being utterly ignored by all the happy people partying.)
Yahoo! simply has nowhere to go. They've been out innovated in everything and their original purpose, human indexed websites, is no longer relevant to the world. Anything Yahoo! does, Google or Microsoft can do better.
The question is .. do they still have enough money and desire to innovate? They could yet dig themselves out of the hole, but it requires getting the company to be a great place to work, attracting brilliant, energetic minds to create. If all Yahoo are is a company of cowering cubicle moles, trying not to be noticed and whacked, there's not much she or anyone can do.
Yep, seems like Google is really starting to drive away its loyal employees like rats from a ship. I guess that's what happens when you start doing evil and putting your advertisers above what should be your actual customers not the product you sell.
I thought that was Yahoo's specialty. I stopped using Yahoo years ago due to the glut of advertising in everything to the point I felt Yahoo was becoming unusable.
Subscription model: HELL, No.
Metro Look is windows (ha!) dressing. Subscription would doom Office to the scrap heap of history.
Well who can blame him? I couldn't make any sense of the comments on /. about how 48fps looks "too real". Isn't that kinda the point? To make the TV show or movie look like just a window on another world? It's supposed to look real. (This reminds me of those persons who claimed CDs or lossless AACs were too perfect, and they'd rather hear the sizzle of downloaded MP3s. Illogical.)
I could not care less about the technology .. I'm glad I wasn't there and didn't see some spoiler footage.
"To put those numbers into perspective, 500 TW is more than one thousand times the power that the entire United States uses at any instant in time."
Except for the instant when the lasers were on, of course.
Meanwhile, we seek green energy, wind farms, etc. All this so some geeks can fire a laser and then party on about it.
and I wasn't even invited!
is all this is.
The disregard for mind-calming images!
I think she's off her meds.
Most websites that look awesome have almost no content which is hidden on several pages with lots of ads in between. No thx like it simple.
Yea, tell it! So damn fed up with overcoded, bloated, whizzy and utterly useless websites and pages. Megan can just cram this one. Geez.
I still think it was done to prevent any possibility of there ever being a sequel or a continuation of the series. The rightsholders wanted it to end, and they got their wish.
Nothing is ever over. Haven't you seen enough ret-coning, re-imagining, re-booting to tell you that, yet? Besides, there's always room for a Prequel and one that forks the story at that (a la Prometheus.)
Yes, they're fat, white nerds. But this is slashdot. They're *OUR* fat, white nerds!
I'm still waiting for the 250lb Princess Leias on mobility scooters.
I'm afraid most of them are 250lb Galadriels, hanging out at the various Renfests.
This thing has a Vista-rushed-to-market feel about it.
The thing about vista almost everyone who ended up with, spent money upgrading to 7 because it fixed everything.
Yep, a Win win for Microsoft.
I'll get me coat.
Niagra, please!
Niagra Fails?
Why would they ever do that? This is more profitable.
</cynic>
I know.
Attendance is higher and with all those feet (and in a few instances, wheels) paying to get in, why change .. unless the act of selling out dilutes the original attraction of the show and comics fans lose interest in attending. I think this has happened before ...