>bottom line is someone walks into a store and sees the
>iMac sitting there for $1400 next to a PC for $699.
If you're comparing low-end to low-end, you might as well actually choose the low end Apple product for a valid comparison: The low end iMac is $799.
So yes, while the average Joe sees a hundred dollar difference, they're probably also going to notice the extra hardware features as well as better design of the Apple system.
There IS a small price premium for Apple's systems -- but my goodness, don't exagerate it to the point of hyperbole!
EM Radiation instantly dissipates. You're saying that if they shone really bright lights on your packages that you'd expect them to glow for a bit after you got them.
Only _nuclear_ radiation can affect objects in such a way as to make them "radioactive". Neutron bombardment, I believe, is the only way to transmute one element into an other (potentially radioactive one).
The thing is, they're NOT changing the definition. They're supplying a unique term to use for the "alternate" definition that CS people sometimes use.
The SI prefix Mega has always meant 10e6, which is why HD manufacturers use its true definition to sell their wares.
Confusion results, then, because it's handier for CS folks to talk about collections of 2e20 Bytes rather than 10e6. We've just misused Kilo, Mega and Giga (and Tera) all this time. Context makes this a non-issue for us, except for HD manufacturers.:)
Truly, none of us is going to use MiB or GiB in ordinary conversation, unless we need to differentiate. If there is a conversation or a paper using both terms, then it's handy to have an "official" standard term for the power-of-two variants.
Awfully, awfully high. The radius of the earth is, what, 4000 miles.
Force due to gravity varies inversely with the square of the distance.
So what's the difference in gravitational force from being at sea level, 4000 miles from the center of the earth, to 132000 feet, 4025 miles from the center of the earth?
4000^2 / 4025^2 gives me around 98%. So I'd weigh a few pounds less at that altitude.
To weigh only half as much, you'd have to be about 1700 miles above the surface, or about 9 million feet.
Earth big.
Of course, by the time you get 250,000 miles away (like the moon) you'd feel less than 0.03% as much gravity from earth.
And keep in mind that all of this assumes you are STATIONARY in relation to a point on the earth's surface. If you're orbiting, you don't feel gravity.
It depends on your definitions. "Trailers" no longer trail the main feature, so we're already free to redefine.
I'd call this one a "teaser", not a trailer. For shows that are so far off, the "teasers" give just a sneak peak to pique the interest of the fans.
Compare to the Lord of the Rings. The teaser gave us glimpses of all three movies; now the true "trailer" for Fellowship is out.
The Attack of the Clones is still a long ways off, so it'd be inappropriate, IMHO, to show a true three-minute trailer. The slideshow with the breathing was PERFECT, I thought.
After seeing Hayden Christiansen's performance in Life as a House I am REALLY excited to see Episode 2.
Matt Deatherage of MacJournals hypothesized that this feature was intentionally left out to keep the user interface of the thing as simple as possible.
It would be a bit of a leap for a UI to go from "pick a song from the list and play it" to "select a song from the list and transfer it to X device" of which there might be more than 2 on the bus. File names, duplicates, permissions, disk-space checks. Plus, people would then want a UI for changing tags and filenames, perhaps.
A can of worms they might open when version 2 of the iPod firmware comes out.
And of course there's pressure on Apple not to make copyright violations super-easy.:)
Oh, come on. Apple doesn't advertize hard drive sizes any differently than anyone else in the industry.
All hard drive manufacturers use the proper SI/metric meaning for mega and giga, i.e. 10^6 and 10^9. Why? Because it's not technically a lie, and it makes the drives look bigger.
Computer UIs, however, usually present to the user the CS definition for mega and giga, i.e. 2^20 and 2^30.
The capacity of the iPod is 4.6GB, 4.6*2^30 bytes, which is 5 billion bytes.
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What a novel and non-corprate-drone way to follow the necessary procedure to protect trademark property.
- Peter
>bottom line is someone walks into a store and sees the
>iMac sitting there for $1400 next to a PC for $699.
If you're comparing low-end to low-end, you might as well actually choose the low end Apple product for a valid comparison: The low end iMac is $799.
So yes, while the average Joe sees a hundred dollar difference, they're probably also going to notice the extra hardware features as well as better design of the Apple system.
There IS a small price premium for Apple's systems -- but my goodness, don't exagerate it to the point of hyperbole!
- Peter
You're kidding, right?
EM Radiation instantly dissipates. You're saying that if they shone really bright lights on your packages that you'd expect them to glow for a bit after you got them.
Only _nuclear_ radiation can affect objects in such a way as to make them "radioactive". Neutron bombardment, I believe, is the only way to transmute one element into an other (potentially radioactive one).
- Peter
The thing is, they're NOT changing the definition. They're supplying a unique term to use for the "alternate" definition that CS people sometimes use.
:)
The SI prefix Mega has always meant 10e6, which is why HD manufacturers use its true definition to sell their wares.
Confusion results, then, because it's handier for CS folks to talk about collections of 2e20 Bytes rather than 10e6. We've just misused Kilo, Mega and Giga (and Tera) all this time. Context makes this a non-issue for us, except for HD manufacturers.
Truly, none of us is going to use MiB or GiB in ordinary conversation, unless we need to differentiate. If there is a conversation or a paper using both terms, then it's handy to have an "official" standard term for the power-of-two variants.
- Peter
Awfully, awfully high. The radius of the earth is, what, 4000 miles.
Force due to gravity varies inversely with the square of the distance.
So what's the difference in gravitational force from being at sea level, 4000 miles from the center of the earth, to 132000 feet, 4025 miles from the center of the earth?
4000^2 / 4025^2 gives me around 98%. So I'd weigh a few pounds less at that altitude.
To weigh only half as much, you'd have to be about 1700 miles above the surface, or about 9 million feet.
Earth big.
Of course, by the time you get 250,000 miles away (like the moon) you'd feel less than 0.03% as much gravity from earth.
And keep in mind that all of this assumes you are STATIONARY in relation to a point on the earth's surface. If you're orbiting, you don't feel gravity.
- Peter
It depends on your definitions. "Trailers" no longer trail the main feature, so we're already free to redefine.
I'd call this one a "teaser", not a trailer. For shows that are so far off, the "teasers" give just a sneak peak to pique the interest of the fans.
Compare to the Lord of the Rings. The teaser gave us glimpses of all three movies; now the true "trailer" for Fellowship is out.
The Attack of the Clones is still a long ways off, so it'd be inappropriate, IMHO, to show a true three-minute trailer. The slideshow with the breathing was PERFECT, I thought.
After seeing Hayden Christiansen's performance in Life as a House I am REALLY excited to see Episode 2.
- Peter
Of course, with the right volume name including a quote, one could still get this same script to erase their drives.
Users are allowed to use quotes in file/volume names.
I just simply don't like variable substitution in a root-run rm -rf command. Gives me the willies.
- Peter
It would be a bit of a leap for a UI to go from "pick a song from the list and play it" to "select a song from the list and transfer it to X device" of which there might be more than 2 on the bus. File names, duplicates, permissions, disk-space checks. Plus, people would then want a UI for changing tags and filenames, perhaps.
A can of worms they might open when version 2 of the iPod firmware comes out.
And of course there's pressure on Apple not to make copyright violations super-easy. :)
- Peter
All hard drive manufacturers use the proper SI/metric meaning for mega and giga, i.e. 10^6 and 10^9. Why? Because it's not technically a lie, and it makes the drives look bigger.
Computer UIs, however, usually present to the user the CS definition for mega and giga, i.e. 2^20 and 2^30.
The capacity of the iPod is 4.6GB, 4.6*2^30 bytes, which is 5 billion bytes.
You can see this in Apple's user-interface preview of the thing -- click on the "About iPod" button.
Or for quicktime-less folks, a GIF of the relevant screenshot.
- Peter
Galactic center doesn't count? - Peter