But, it DID have zig zags. Them Smart Bombs were a beyotch! I was MC King at the grocery store by my elementary school, yo! Hmm... I wonder if that has anything to do with my prefence for the trackball for GUIs...
This has been around for years. If a hypothesis involving gravitons is explained by experimental evidence, then this hypothesis could be elevated to theory.
Besides, didn't we use to shoot gravitons at that loud squiggly thing in Yar's Revenge?
Whining to/. ain't gonna fix anything. Unless you lied about your experience/skills when you read the job description (and hopefully worked with your supervisor on your specific position description), then you should be provided training (formal or otherwise) for any new duty/skill required of your position.
Exactly my thoughts. Basically, Disney Animation is gone. It has been replaced in whole by Pixar, which isn't altogether a terrible thing. I mean, Disney couldn't milk the Lion King forever, and they had no new ideas.
I don't think Jobs would have agreed to this if he wasn't sure the talent were also coming along. He did the same with Apple - he brought Avie and gave Ive the carte blanche he required. If Jobs cares about Pixar, and my understanding is, he does, then there's little to worry about. Lasseter is the creative force behind Pixar, and not only will he be in charge of Disney's animation vision, but they're putting him in charge of theme parks, consumer goods and even their broadway stuff. That's a massive shift in power, and it's long overdue.
Technically, the "EULA" could prohibit transfer of the assets (not sure if iTunes Music Store does this), but you're basically correct. And if a EULA did prohibit transfer, I would argue against that under fair use limitations of copyright - the same reason you're allowed to sell used CDs (as long as you don't retain a copy of the licensed materials).
I've always explained to "market forces fix all" nutcases that capitalism is a good idea, but we've never seen it in human history (the same goes for socialism). The "GPL ideal" helps keep market forces as near pure as possible, so it behaves in the textbook capitalist fashion.
First, they don't move that platform very quickly. Secondly, their real cluster sales go towards SciViz, which have a particular fondness for the G5 platform.
Just like hydro power, this one has the problem of disrupting the environment, albeit a very local environment. By moving water against the normal gradient, you will warm up water that's supposed to be cold, and cool off water that's supposed to be warm. I could imagine plankton blooms and oxygen depletion, among other side effects.
Passive solar collection (photovoltaic and otherwise) and wind power are really the only truly "green" power sources.
10. OS 10.5 - not gonna happen. Apple is focused on Rosetta/Xcode QA for Mac OS X86. Whatever works well gets ported to 10.5 (think of 10.4 as the beta for X86)
9. X86 Powerbook - Could be. I would bet on this one.
8. iWork '06 - Could be. Who cares? I really like iWork '05. Pages is a treat, and Keynote is indespensible for me. But if they are working on a spreadsheet, yeah, this is the time to release it.
7. iLive '06 - Unless it adds things similar to Front Row, I don't see that it needs anything more than bug fixes. I wouldn't bet on it.
6. BT remote - Definitely going to be some kind of Front Row remote. Bluetooth? Probably. All new Macs have it, for several months now.
5. iTunes price increases - Not gonna happen. Steve knows this market. The market will not ignore him, no matter how greedy they are. Too much money is being made.
4. AirPort Ultra - Neat idea, but I won't bet on it. I would buy one, though:)
3. 1GB iPod Nano - Don't think so. The shuffle fills this space, but that's not big enough for the Nano's market segment.
2. X86 Mac Mini - I'd bet on this. I might even buy one for my parents. Their old IBM suck ass.
1. Widescreen X86 iBook - This one is obviously going to happen, but probably not now. Apple will drop 4:3 format entirely, as will the rest of the world (showing they are, as always, technology leaders). They just won't cannibalize Powerbook sales with iBooks until they have milked it long enough.
but not Linux. The kernel has progressed and matured notably in the past decade. It can support many of the high-bandwidth applications that were previously only reachable by systems running IRIX, UNICOS, etc.
The distros, on the other hand, for the most part are simply trying to copy Windows. And not from a media/entertainment perspective, but from a boring old "office productivity" stance. BeOS was a great idea, and Mac OS X gives us extreme "iApps" integration, so the media that excites people about computing these days seems a more pervasive part of the experience. Linux distros need to stop trying to be the corporate desktop and adopt a more Be/Mac-like stance. Right now, the experience sucks.
Rather, they license it. I'm certain that if you factor in revenue from semiconductor licensing, IBM is up near the top. This began in earnest about when they designed and licensed many of the 1mbit DRAM a jillion years ago (ok late-80s). They figured there was no money in the dog-eat-dog world of manufacturing, so they just design stuff, license the hell out of it, then collect royalties. Not a bad idea.
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start calling up Car Talk, trying to imitate the funny noise their network is making (a practice known as automatopoeia).
but some friends rely on PowerStream from time to time.
until Jesus made me fumble!
instead of just bitching on /.?
But, it DID have zig zags. Them Smart Bombs were a beyotch! I was MC King at the grocery store by my elementary school, yo! Hmm... I wonder if that has anything to do with my prefence for the trackball for GUIs...
Naturally, I meant the body of work related to gravitons, not this particular hypothesis.
Anyway, my point was to get the Yar's Revenge reference in. Mission accomplished.
This has been around for years. If a hypothesis involving gravitons is explained by experimental evidence, then this hypothesis could be elevated to theory.
Besides, didn't we use to shoot gravitons at that loud squiggly thing in Yar's Revenge?
Whining to /. ain't gonna fix anything. Unless you lied about your experience/skills when you read the job description (and hopefully worked with your supervisor on your specific position description), then you should be provided training (formal or otherwise) for any new duty/skill required of your position.
Exactly my thoughts. Basically, Disney Animation is gone. It has been replaced in whole by Pixar, which isn't altogether a terrible thing. I mean, Disney couldn't milk the Lion King forever, and they had no new ideas.
I don't think Jobs would have agreed to this if he wasn't sure the talent were also coming along. He did the same with Apple - he brought Avie and gave Ive the carte blanche he required. If Jobs cares about Pixar, and my understanding is, he does, then there's little to worry about. Lasseter is the creative force behind Pixar, and not only will he be in charge of Disney's animation vision, but they're putting him in charge of theme parks, consumer goods and even their broadway stuff. That's a massive shift in power, and it's long overdue.
Technically, the "EULA" could prohibit transfer of the assets (not sure if iTunes Music Store does this), but you're basically correct. And if a EULA did prohibit transfer, I would argue against that under fair use limitations of copyright - the same reason you're allowed to sell used CDs (as long as you don't retain a copy of the licensed materials).
It's not your property. You have a license to use it. It's the property of the copyright holder, usually not the artist.
because this isn't an IT problem. This is a personnel problem, and possibly a policy problem. This belongs on a management website, not an IT context.
millions of weary thumbs rejoice...
It never hurt anybody...
They took our jobs!
Too-kourderb!
I've always explained to "market forces fix all" nutcases that capitalism is a good idea, but we've never seen it in human history (the same goes for socialism). The "GPL ideal" helps keep market forces as near pure as possible, so it behaves in the textbook capitalist fashion.
I noticed all of the "mission control" workstations were Sun SPARC boxes. NASA has a long history of running Unix boxen.
No wonder I never got my orienteering merit badge!
First, they don't move that platform very quickly. Secondly, their real cluster sales go towards SciViz, which have a particular fondness for the G5 platform.
Just like hydro power, this one has the problem of disrupting the environment, albeit a very local environment. By moving water against the normal gradient, you will warm up water that's supposed to be cold, and cool off water that's supposed to be warm. I could imagine plankton blooms and oxygen depletion, among other side effects.
Passive solar collection (photovoltaic and otherwise) and wind power are really the only truly "green" power sources.
10. OS 10.5 - not gonna happen. Apple is focused on Rosetta/Xcode QA for Mac OS X86. Whatever works well gets ported to 10.5 (think of 10.4 as the beta for X86)
9. X86 Powerbook - Could be. I would bet on this one.
8. iWork '06 - Could be. Who cares? I really like iWork '05. Pages is a treat, and Keynote is indespensible for me. But if they are working on a spreadsheet, yeah, this is the time to release it.
7. iLive '06 - Unless it adds things similar to Front Row, I don't see that it needs anything more than bug fixes. I wouldn't bet on it.
6. BT remote - Definitely going to be some kind of Front Row remote. Bluetooth? Probably. All new Macs have it, for several months now.
5. iTunes price increases - Not gonna happen. Steve knows this market. The market will not ignore him, no matter how greedy they are. Too much money is being made.
4. AirPort Ultra - Neat idea, but I won't bet on it. I would buy one, though
3. 1GB iPod Nano - Don't think so. The shuffle fills this space, but that's not big enough for the Nano's market segment.
2. X86 Mac Mini - I'd bet on this. I might even buy one for my parents. Their old IBM suck ass.
1. Widescreen X86 iBook - This one is obviously going to happen, but probably not now. Apple will drop 4:3 format entirely, as will the rest of the world (showing they are, as always, technology leaders). They just won't cannibalize Powerbook sales with iBooks until they have milked it long enough.
http://world.honda.com/jet/
I want one. But I'll settle for video pr0n.
but not Linux. The kernel has progressed and matured notably in the past decade. It can support many of the high-bandwidth applications that were previously only reachable by systems running IRIX, UNICOS, etc.
The distros, on the other hand, for the most part are simply trying to copy Windows. And not from a media/entertainment perspective, but from a boring old "office productivity" stance. BeOS was a great idea, and Mac OS X gives us extreme "iApps" integration, so the media that excites people about computing these days seems a more pervasive part of the experience. Linux distros need to stop trying to be the corporate desktop and adopt a more Be/Mac-like stance. Right now, the experience sucks.
Rather, they license it. I'm certain that if you factor in revenue from semiconductor licensing, IBM is up near the top. This began in earnest about when they designed and licensed many of the 1mbit DRAM a jillion years ago (ok late-80s). They figured there was no money in the dog-eat-dog world of manufacturing, so they just design stuff, license the hell out of it, then collect royalties. Not a bad idea.
It typically lacks a few features our users would never give up:
-efficient search and sorting capabilities
-spell checkers
-document management (attachments folders)
-good filtering
There isn't a webmail I've seen that comes close to matching Tiger's Mail.app, or even the slow but useful Entourage 2004.