If you were an alien, and you wanted to communicate with Earthlings, you wouldn't choose their cell-phone frequency to do it in the first place. Duh! Those SETI guys are such drama-queens.
Linux is still more for people who like to tinker with their system, while Mac is very much the opposite - for people who want it to "just work". So I very much doubt that Linux geeks will be drawn to OSX. If they haven't been already, they're not likely to be. Now, the Mac Mini is a hot little box, and that's a draw, but the chip it runs hardly makes a difference.
Microsoft, however, is likely to get bit by this. If OSX remains as stable and friendly on Intel chips, then the instability and lack of security, and configuration hassles and everything else that's wrong with Windows will become cleary a fault of the OS, not the hardware.
Coupled with styling, stable and friendly Mac devices are likely to beat Microsoft into the living room. Mac ought to present an alternative to the Tivo to speed things along.
As for the geeks, well, if they'd rather build a PDR rather than buy a Tivo, an Intel chip in a Mac isn't going to lure them away from Linux any time soon.
Bill Gates would be wise to make a point of talking to this guy after a few months of his using the Mac.
Granted, with 90-odd % of the market in his pocket, BillG likely doesn't care, but I've been looking lustily at the Mac Mini myself lately, and I know I'm for from alone.
Gates should really investigate the motives of people who are switching to Mac, and take detailed notes.
And, for that matter, so should all the people who want to push Linux to the desktops of those who don't care to spend their time tinkering with it.
"The original Xbox ran an OS that had its roots in Windows 2000. Granted, by the time you strip out everything that is not needed in a console like the Xbox and replace some of the parts with stuff specific to that device (like the file system), and add a few pieces, it hardly resembles anything remotely like Windows 2000 at all. "
That's quite true, but it's putting a pretty thick layer between the government and the success. A private company doing stem cell research without government funding can still be argued to benefit from government funding if their scientists went to a public school at some point in their life, right? Same logic, just one more step out.
If you put it that way, you make it seem that government funding is crucial to success. This is also Simply Wrong.
Unless of course you'd like to argue that all companies from Pfizer to Microsoft rose to their prominence on the coat-tails of federal grants.
Federal funding is a great thing to have, especially when you're NOT in the business environment, and DO NOT have to deliver results with immediate profit potential.
Wouldn't this make impossible, or at least impractical, the right to sell the DVD as used to another party?
The DVD is a physical object, and anyone in possession of it should be able to view it, right?
Or have we gotten to the point where the physical distribution medium is irrelevant, and we're licensing the right to view the contents? In which case, why do I need to buy the physical object int he first place?
If uploading is what hurts the RIAA, and Yahoo wants people to pay for downloads, then shoulnd't Yahoo be able to claim that every uploader who doesn't charge downloaders at least $5/month is costing them customers?
Really. Every few months Dvorak stirs up the shit-pot to keep his name in the techie press/blogs. He never shits on the Corporate Masters though, because, well, that just don't pay.
I've been using my cell phone as a watch for years. And, as soon as the screens get large enough while keeping the unit size small, I'll turn in my PDA. And, since I already have a multi-function stylus/pen/mechanical pencil, I'll just hold on to that.
Of course, my PDA has more memory, so my new phone will have to take an SD card or a CF microdrive. BlueTooth is already in many cellphones, so syncing is a done deal, and so tomorrow I can cast music to my car radio with little trouble.
Powering the beastie adequately to not only be a phone and PDA, but also to play music for a few hours each day might require some novel innovation in battery technology. Maybe a miniature ethanol or butane turbine instead of Lithium-ion and NiCad...
Say... Butane or ethanol? Maybe a lighter isn't that unreasonable after all.:)
I get optimal milage at 3200 to 3500 RPM. In fifth, that's just shy of 80 MPH, in third, around 50.
Strangely, I get much better milage going 80 than I do going 50, even in the best gear for the speed. And the difference is striking - a 20%+ difference.
So, when SCO's suit ultimately fails, will IBM be able to turn around and sue SCO into oblivion by demanding the return of the cost of defending itself against a stillborn lawsuit?
Buy your Encyclopedia product placement here!
on
PSP UMD Format Cracked
·
· Score: 0, Offtopic
You know, it's sad. Were this on a fan-boy site, I'd think it were pretty cool. If ArsTechnica did it on April 1st, it'd be funny. But How Stuff Works is used as a teaching resource, and if they're for sale in terms of blatant promotional marketing, what's next?
Will you be able to turn to the "Billionaire" entry in Encyclopedia Britanica and see a picture of Bill Gates? Maybe a Windows logo by the Operating System entry?
The problem with a jack-of-all-trades vehive is that it is a master of none. We can already get heavy payloads up into space with more conventional rockets, like the Energia you mention. What we need is a way to effectively get people up there too. It seems that this is the primary goal of this CEV. The payload will get there one way, and the crew another. Then, they don't have to bring the truck back home empty all the time.
A reusable crew vehicle beats a capsule any day, no?
And what sense is there in using a payload lifting rocket to throw a crew into orbit? Now THAT is a waste of money.
Forget the original idea! SeaCode is a waste of a perfectly good cruise ship. I mean, just look at all those staterooms! And, in International waters, where not only gambling is legal...
Gentlemen (and ladies, if you're so inclined), I give you... SeaSkank! A floating whorehouse^Wbordello^WHo-Tel, where you can rent 'em by the hour, a day, a week, or your standard Three Hour Tour.
You specify the race, age (remember, international waters!) and kinks/fetishes, and we plan the vacation for you.
Why go all the way to south-east Asia for that questionable sex tour, when you can just duck out of the office for a few hours, and no one will be the wiser.
All the "staffers" are checked regularly for crabs, barnacles, lamprey and other infestation, but just to be sure, there's also a medical facility on board, so you can get back to shore with the same peace of mind you had upon departure.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow! A poseur gag followed by a decomposer pun? Must be a full moon.
If you were an alien, and you wanted to communicate with Earthlings, you wouldn't choose their cell-phone frequency to do it in the first place. Duh! Those SETI guys are such drama-queens.
Linux is still more for people who like to tinker with their system, while Mac is very much the opposite - for people who want it to "just work". So I very much doubt that Linux geeks will be drawn to OSX. If they haven't been already, they're not likely to be. Now, the Mac Mini is a hot little box, and that's a draw, but the chip it runs hardly makes a difference.
Microsoft, however, is likely to get bit by this. If OSX remains as stable and friendly on Intel chips, then the instability and lack of security, and configuration hassles and everything else that's wrong with Windows will become cleary a fault of the OS, not the hardware.
Coupled with styling, stable and friendly Mac devices are likely to beat Microsoft into the living room. Mac ought to present an alternative to the Tivo to speed things along.
As for the geeks, well, if they'd rather build a PDR rather than buy a Tivo, an Intel chip in a Mac isn't going to lure them away from Linux any time soon.
Bill Gates would be wise to make a point of talking to this guy after a few months of his using the Mac.
Granted, with 90-odd % of the market in his pocket, BillG likely doesn't care, but I've been looking lustily at the Mac Mini myself lately, and I know I'm for from alone.
Gates should really investigate the motives of people who are switching to Mac, and take detailed notes.
And, for that matter, so should all the people who want to push Linux to the desktops of those who don't care to spend their time tinkering with it.
"The original Xbox ran an OS that had its roots in Windows 2000. Granted, by the time you strip out everything that is not needed in a console like the Xbox and replace some of the parts with stuff specific to that device (like the file system), and add a few pieces, it hardly resembles anything remotely like Windows 2000 at all. "
So, in other words, it runs DOS 5.1
With a name like Scooba, I expected it to be a Roomba for your pool. Now THAT I'd pay money for.
Maybe it just didn't fit in the margin?
That's quite true, but it's putting a pretty thick layer between the government and the success. A private company doing stem cell research without government funding can still be argued to benefit from government funding if their scientists went to a public school at some point in their life, right? Same logic, just one more step out.
If you put it that way, you make it seem that government funding is crucial to success. This is also Simply Wrong.
Unless of course you'd like to argue that all companies from Pfizer to Microsoft rose to their prominence on the coat-tails of federal grants.
Federal funding is a great thing to have, especially when you're NOT in the business environment, and DO NOT have to deliver results with immediate profit potential.
Wouldn't this make impossible, or at least impractical, the right to sell the DVD as used to another party?
The DVD is a physical object, and anyone in possession of it should be able to view it, right?
Or have we gotten to the point where the physical distribution medium is irrelevant, and we're licensing the right to view the contents? In which case, why do I need to buy the physical object int he first place?
If uploading is what hurts the RIAA, and Yahoo wants people to pay for downloads, then shoulnd't Yahoo be able to claim that every uploader who doesn't charge downloaders at least $5/month is costing them customers?
Really. Every few months Dvorak stirs up the shit-pot to keep his name in the techie press/blogs. He never shits on the Corporate Masters though, because, well, that just don't pay.
See what happens when you outsource your implementation to people who can barely speak, and read, the English specs?
And... As I'm an inqual opportunity hatemonger...
See what happens when you give CS degrees to people who learn to code on VB?
Could you imagine? We'd have one continuous "pledge-break" to "cover the cost". Unless Microsoft provided an endowment... *gasp!*
1. Open PBS content
2. Get Microsoft to pay for it, with the concession that it only work with MS Media Player software.
3. PROFIT!
I've been using my cell phone as a watch for years. And, as soon as the screens get large enough while keeping the unit size small, I'll turn in my PDA. And, since I already have a multi-function stylus/pen/mechanical pencil, I'll just hold on to that.
:)
Of course, my PDA has more memory, so my new phone will have to take an SD card or a CF microdrive. BlueTooth is already in many cellphones, so syncing is a done deal, and so tomorrow I can cast music to my car radio with little trouble.
Powering the beastie adequately to not only be a phone and PDA, but also to play music for a few hours each day might require some novel innovation in battery technology. Maybe a miniature ethanol or butane turbine instead of Lithium-ion and NiCad...
Say... Butane or ethanol? Maybe a lighter isn't that unreasonable after all.
It took CNN 9 whole paragraphs to explain how much of a non-story this is? Ok... Now I'm worried.
I get optimal milage at 3200 to 3500 RPM. In fifth, that's just shy of 80 MPH, in third, around 50.
Strangely, I get much better milage going 80 than I do going 50, even in the best gear for the speed. And the difference is striking - a 20%+ difference.
So, when SCO's suit ultimately fails, will IBM be able to turn around and sue SCO into oblivion by demanding the return of the cost of defending itself against a stillborn lawsuit?
You know, it's sad. Were this on a fan-boy site, I'd think it were pretty cool. If ArsTechnica did it on April 1st, it'd be funny. But How Stuff Works is used as a teaching resource, and if they're for sale in terms of blatant promotional marketing, what's next?
Will you be able to turn to the "Billionaire" entry in Encyclopedia Britanica and see a picture of Bill Gates? Maybe a Windows logo by the Operating System entry?
Bah!
The problem with a jack-of-all-trades vehive is that it is a master of none. We can already get heavy payloads up into space with more conventional rockets, like the Energia you mention. What we need is a way to effectively get people up there too. It seems that this is the primary goal of this CEV. The payload will get there one way, and the crew another. Then, they don't have to bring the truck back home empty all the time.
A reusable crew vehicle beats a capsule any day, no?
And what sense is there in using a payload lifting rocket to throw a crew into orbit? Now THAT is a waste of money.
Tattoos.
Look up dwarf wheat sometime, and the difference it has made in the Indian subcontinent.
GM is little more than deliberately engineered advantageous mutation.
Why didn't I think of that?
Forget the original idea! SeaCode is a waste of a perfectly good cruise ship. I mean, just look at all those staterooms! And, in International waters, where not only gambling is legal...
Gentlemen (and ladies, if you're so inclined), I give you... SeaSkank! A floating whorehouse^Wbordello^WHo-Tel, where you can rent 'em by the hour, a day, a week, or your standard Three Hour Tour.
You specify the race, age (remember, international waters!) and kinks/fetishes, and we plan the vacation for you.
Why go all the way to south-east Asia for that questionable sex tour, when you can just duck out of the office for a few hours, and no one will be the wiser.
All the "staffers" are checked regularly for crabs, barnacles, lamprey and other infestation, but just to be sure, there's also a medical facility on board, so you can get back to shore with the same peace of mind you had upon departure.
Just bring your wallet.
... when you watch too much Fox News?
And if that isn't motivation enough to get off your arse and do something of consequence, I don't know what is.
It is indeed an interesting point to ponder, the names of our timelessly famous, and how they got that way.