to always broadcast your location and everything about me to everyone on the internet? we are all friends, right? everyone on the internets cares about what i do everyday, right?
most police work is nothing a genius needs to do, but a lot of repetitive work digging through thousands of potential clues until you find the one you need. few years ago a doctor was murdered at a playground where i used to play as a kid. the initial suspect was the soon to be ex-wife due to a messy divorce in progress
the police took the bullet and lifted a partial print. they couldn't match it in the computer database so they dug through thousands of paper arrest records until they got a match. turned out the ex-wife's uncle was arrested years ago for jumping a NYC subway turnstile and got caught. he was interviewed and said he was in the city but left the day before. too bad the cell phone tower logs had him near the playground at the time of the murder.
reminds me of a Law and Order episode. most of them gloss over the details, but in one episode Lenny had to call hundreds of pizza joints or something like that until he got a break
if you spec out a comparable Dell to one of the new iMac's it's the same price or more considering you can't get the same quality screen on a Dell desktop. macbook pro's are a rip off now, but the price was the same as a dell when they were last refreshed. next refresh is coming early next year.
and for whatever reason, Mac's hold their value very well. you can buy a new one every year for $300 - $400 out of pocket per year
since WoW controls 50% of all pc game revenues, the market as it was a few years ago is over. it's not even fun building a PC anymore since everything is integrated on the motherboard except for a decent graphics card.
i'm personally tired of chasing the latest graphics card every year to play a game. i'll probably buy a PS3 soon and a Mac next year just because it's lack of wires makes the wife happy
it's fun to watch. i let my son play with my iphone and when we play with the computer he tries to do something by touching the screen and it's hard teaching him the concept of the computer mouse at this age
i have already started teaching my son who is 2 and a few months about computers. found a few free games like Thomas the Train that he likes. and for reading i'll open up Google and type in Dora in the search box and spell it out for him letter by letter. he already knows most of the letters of the alphabet, can count to 12 with help, knows a bunch of basic shapes and colors. time to teach him to read since most of the good NYC schools expect a child to read and write by 1st grade. at least that's what i'm told by parents with kids that old. the good schools in the NYC suburbs are the same way.
a free or ultra low cost Google netbook is perfect for this. my son likes to bang on the keyboard so if it breaks i just go get another one. nothing to break software-wise.
a few months of playing with one of these junky useless Chrome OS gizmos and he will be ready for a real computer. i'm thinking a Mac just because he can learn some UNIX on it and it's usable unlike most of the linux distro's i've tried. I do think Ubuntu sucks as a home PC
i've played with the Chrome OS vmware image floating around the internet and i don't think it has any value at all for a normal person or any kind of computer user i've ever met
i played with it for 30 minutes today. the entire thing is a web browser and they have some non Google stuff there to keep the DoJ away. believe it or not there is an icon for Hotmail there as well as Yahoo, Hulu, Facebook, Twitter and the rest is Google apps. Each "app" just opens a new browser tab.
i get a daily email alert with 20-50 apps that are free for a day to a few weeks for marketing purposes. there are also apps and websites that scan the app store and will alert you for price drops, any apps that have gone free that day, drops in prices, etc
i'm up to over 300 apps, mostly games and i haven't played most of them. i download them for later use. i got a ton of photography apps that way as well most of which i haven't got around to trying yet.
forgot who it was, but someone blogged that RA was told by Apple that their app was rejected because the iphone API doesn't allow Apple copyrighted content to be used. the Mac API does. instead of fixing it, RA sat on it for months, whined on the blogs and then decided to stop developing for the iphone.
tweetdeck was also rejected at first because they sent an app that crashed all the time.
most of the other sob stories i read about Apple rejecting apps also had a real story where they were told why it was rejected but didn't want to fix it. the C64 emulator games app is a perfect example
snow leapard has been out for 2 months and service pack 2 has just been released. the fixes are for some pretty obvious stuff that should not have made it past QA like the Flash performance issues.
anything you buy or spend money on has to do one or more of four things 1. enable the company to make more money 2. save on operating costs compared to the current hardware/software in production 3. protect the current investment/revenue stream in case of disaster or outage 4. enable development projects to be done faster so the product can ship faster. similar to #1
the third is more like insurance where you trade off increased cost for no return on investment to chance that a bad thing will or will not happen and the consequences of the bad thing happening. this is why a lot of cloud computing only lives in the tech media. when you crunch the numbers it doesn't really save you much money or any money and there is the risk of the unknown for large organizations.
there is no fine because there hasn't been a trial yet. the judge issued the injunction because based on preliminary evidence it seems the guy will lose at trial. but the wacko still has time to come up with something new as to why he should be win
there was an 1800's geologist in the US who studied strange markings on the great plains. his theory was that at the end of the last ice age the ice burst and a huge avalanche of water hit the ground going so fast that it created water tornadoes that tore up the ground. the kids cartoon Ice Age copied his theory
and how many of them will get re-elected? everyone hates incumbents except when its the one who's representing you. I've lived in the US since 1981 and the last time I remember that people voted out incumbents was the Republican Revolution in 1994. 2 years into Bill Clinton's presidency, a tax increase and the defeat of hillarycare
Not like Apple innovates. There were other MP3 players on the market when the ipod came along. and it was a niche Mac fanboy product until Apple released a Windows version of ITunes. Blackberries had music capability before the iphone. in fact Apple worked with Motorola on the disaster known as the ROKR before the iphone came out.
Apple has a good marketing department that has a plan before they enter a new business and changes it if things go badly like they did with the iphone at first. Microsoft still relies on OEM's who sell on tiny margins and go cheap in every way they can. except for the x-box Microsoft doesn't seem to have any plan for their products except prayer. why would anyone enter the PMP market when cell phones are taking over that category. WInMo seems to be in limbo and behind the new blood of Palm, Apple and Google.
Apple sells slightly different versions of OS X in each product. Mac's, Time Capsule, Apple TV, iPhone. they all run slightly modified versions of OS X with big limitations.
The current CEO of Palm is the inventor of the ipod, not Steve Jobs. While at Apple Steve Jobs sent him out to find a hot product to make and he found the 1.8" hard drive at Toshiba that was considered a waste of resources and about to be killed. He made the ipod around it. iTunes came from a company Apple bought and they just renamed the software.
iTunes took off because Microsoft couldn't get their DRM strategy right and iTunes worked out a good deal with the record companies. the Ipod was one brand from a company everyone knew.
the iphone was a sales disaster until they cut the price and added the subsidies from AT&T. even then it was a slow niche seller until the 3G came out with the AppStore and Exchange support. the fact that you need a Mac to code for the iphone and the Vista PR disaster helped drive Mac sales. Otherwise they were flat for most of the decade since no one in their right mind would pay the premium for Apple's usually slower hardware. Now that the PC market is maturing it's becoming more vertically integrated like any maturing industry and Apple is there with a complete product while MS sticks to it's OEM model.
if you compare the specs than the iMac's are competative against Dell/HP and in some cases cheaper. the MBP will be competative once the next refresh comes. it's worth it getting a Mac since it's the only decent desktop ^nix and there is no crapware like on Dell's and HP's
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to always broadcast your location and everything about me to everyone on the internet? we are all friends, right? everyone on the internets cares about what i do everyday, right?
that will hit the earth's core and cause the plates to shift like in 2012?
most police work is nothing a genius needs to do, but a lot of repetitive work digging through thousands of potential clues until you find the one you need. few years ago a doctor was murdered at a playground where i used to play as a kid. the initial suspect was the soon to be ex-wife due to a messy divorce in progress
the police took the bullet and lifted a partial print. they couldn't match it in the computer database so they dug through thousands of paper arrest records until they got a match. turned out the ex-wife's uncle was arrested years ago for jumping a NYC subway turnstile and got caught. he was interviewed and said he was in the city but left the day before. too bad the cell phone tower logs had him near the playground at the time of the murder.
reminds me of a Law and Order episode. most of them gloss over the details, but in one episode Lenny had to call hundreds of pizza joints or something like that until he got a break
if you spec out a comparable Dell to one of the new iMac's it's the same price or more considering you can't get the same quality screen on a Dell desktop. macbook pro's are a rip off now, but the price was the same as a dell when they were last refreshed. next refresh is coming early next year.
and for whatever reason, Mac's hold their value very well. you can buy a new one every year for $300 - $400 out of pocket per year
since WoW controls 50% of all pc game revenues, the market as it was a few years ago is over. it's not even fun building a PC anymore since everything is integrated on the motherboard except for a decent graphics card.
i'm personally tired of chasing the latest graphics card every year to play a game. i'll probably buy a PS3 soon and a Mac next year just because it's lack of wires makes the wife happy
it's fun to watch. i let my son play with my iphone and when we play with the computer he tries to do something by touching the screen and it's hard teaching him the concept of the computer mouse at this age
a lot of business hotels offer printing as well, so there would have to be a way to customize the OS to be able to print on the local printer
i have already started teaching my son who is 2 and a few months about computers. found a few free games like Thomas the Train that he likes. and for reading i'll open up Google and type in Dora in the search box and spell it out for him letter by letter. he already knows most of the letters of the alphabet, can count to 12 with help, knows a bunch of basic shapes and colors. time to teach him to read since most of the good NYC schools expect a child to read and write by 1st grade. at least that's what i'm told by parents with kids that old. the good schools in the NYC suburbs are the same way.
a free or ultra low cost Google netbook is perfect for this. my son likes to bang on the keyboard so if it breaks i just go get another one. nothing to break software-wise.
a few months of playing with one of these junky useless Chrome OS gizmos and he will be ready for a real computer. i'm thinking a Mac just because he can learn some UNIX on it and it's usable unlike most of the linux distro's i've tried. I do think Ubuntu sucks as a home PC
i've played with the Chrome OS vmware image floating around the internet and i don't think it has any value at all for a normal person or any kind of computer user i've ever met
Unless I make enough money to retire debt free, no deal.
Most people will get caught and lose their jobs for tiny amounts of money and poor future job prospects
i played with it for 30 minutes today. the entire thing is a web browser and they have some non Google stuff there to keep the DoJ away. believe it or not there is an icon for Hotmail there as well as Yahoo, Hulu, Facebook, Twitter and the rest is Google apps. Each "app" just opens a new browser tab.
i get a daily email alert with 20-50 apps that are free for a day to a few weeks for marketing purposes. there are also apps and websites that scan the app store and will alert you for price drops, any apps that have gone free that day, drops in prices, etc
i'm up to over 300 apps, mostly games and i haven't played most of them. i download them for later use. i got a ton of photography apps that way as well most of which i haven't got around to trying yet.
i take it you're not running BES?
most are crap, a lot are nice
programming reference cards, vmware management tools, sql management tools, networking utilities, etc
forgot who it was, but someone blogged that RA was told by Apple that their app was rejected because the iphone API doesn't allow Apple copyrighted content to be used. the Mac API does. instead of fixing it, RA sat on it for months, whined on the blogs and then decided to stop developing for the iphone.
tweetdeck was also rejected at first because they sent an app that crashed all the time.
most of the other sob stories i read about Apple rejecting apps also had a real story where they were told why it was rejected but didn't want to fix it. the C64 emulator games app is a perfect example
RTFA
he did delete the comment and the guy from the school kept posting the same thing multiple times
snow leapard has been out for 2 months and service pack 2 has just been released. the fixes are for some pretty obvious stuff that should not have made it past QA like the Flash performance issues.
it's like open source, if you want a lot of code that has been tested to work then you have to give something back as well
I think the term is called Return on Investment
anything you buy or spend money on has to do one or more of four things
1. enable the company to make more money
2. save on operating costs compared to the current hardware/software in production
3. protect the current investment/revenue stream in case of disaster or outage
4. enable development projects to be done faster so the product can ship faster. similar to #1
the third is more like insurance where you trade off increased cost for no return on investment to chance that a bad thing will or will not happen and the consequences of the bad thing happening. this is why a lot of cloud computing only lives in the tech media. when you crunch the numbers it doesn't really save you much money or any money and there is the risk of the unknown for large organizations.
there is no fine because there hasn't been a trial yet. the judge issued the injunction because based on preliminary evidence it seems the guy will lose at trial. but the wacko still has time to come up with something new as to why he should be win
there was an 1800's geologist in the US who studied strange markings on the great plains. his theory was that at the end of the last ice age the ice burst and a huge avalanche of water hit the ground going so fast that it created water tornadoes that tore up the ground. the kids cartoon Ice Age copied his theory
the iphone is a derivative of OS X which is based on FreeBSD and Apple contributes to open source projects
and how many of them will get re-elected? everyone hates incumbents except when its the one who's representing you. I've lived in the US since 1981 and the last time I remember that people voted out incumbents was the Republican Revolution in 1994. 2 years into Bill Clinton's presidency, a tax increase and the defeat of hillarycare
Not like Apple innovates. There were other MP3 players on the market when the ipod came along. and it was a niche Mac fanboy product until Apple released a Windows version of ITunes. Blackberries had music capability before the iphone. in fact Apple worked with Motorola on the disaster known as the ROKR before the iphone came out.
Apple has a good marketing department that has a plan before they enter a new business and changes it if things go badly like they did with the iphone at first. Microsoft still relies on OEM's who sell on tiny margins and go cheap in every way they can. except for the x-box Microsoft doesn't seem to have any plan for their products except prayer. why would anyone enter the PMP market when cell phones are taking over that category. WInMo seems to be in limbo and behind the new blood of Palm, Apple and Google.
Apple sells slightly different versions of OS X in each product. Mac's, Time Capsule, Apple TV, iPhone. they all run slightly modified versions of OS X with big limitations.
The current CEO of Palm is the inventor of the ipod, not Steve Jobs. While at Apple Steve Jobs sent him out to find a hot product to make and he found the 1.8" hard drive at Toshiba that was considered a waste of resources and about to be killed. He made the ipod around it. iTunes came from a company Apple bought and they just renamed the software.
iTunes took off because Microsoft couldn't get their DRM strategy right and iTunes worked out a good deal with the record companies. the Ipod was one brand from a company everyone knew.
the iphone was a sales disaster until they cut the price and added the subsidies from AT&T. even then it was a slow niche seller until the 3G came out with the AppStore and Exchange support. the fact that you need a Mac to code for the iphone and the Vista PR disaster helped drive Mac sales. Otherwise they were flat for most of the decade since no one in their right mind would pay the premium for Apple's usually slower hardware. Now that the PC market is maturing it's becoming more vertically integrated like any maturing industry and Apple is there with a complete product while MS sticks to it's OEM model.
if you compare the specs than the iMac's are competative against Dell/HP and in some cases cheaper. the MBP will be competative once the next refresh comes. it's worth it getting a Mac since it's the only decent desktop ^nix and there is no crapware like on Dell's and HP's