Memory can cost much, when you sell tens of million devices like Apple do. Worldwide production capacity is not easily extensible and Appleâ(TM)s main competitor (Samsung) has its own source.
If Apple would offer double size on their lower speced model, they would remove all elasticity of the market and make all the prices go up for everyone, including themselves.
Except Samsung who manufactures their own stuff...
6 months ago, I ran into the president of my country (Switzerland) while shopping for groceries in a mall. Although she most surely had body guards or what not around, I didn't saw any and she was very happy to chat with random people and have people taking pictures with her. Her weird hairdo makes her very recognizable from afar, I would probably have not recognized last year president...
I thought it was rather cool, but nothing extraordinary. Not like if I lived in country with free speech zones...
I am not a perfumer but works with the best of them daily.
"smells, like taste, cannot be mixed together to produce a unique smell/taste in the same way that light (colours) can."
Wrong. All smells (and taste) are a combination of molecules.
The best example can be found in citruses, all of these scents are very different but all are basically a lot of (+)-limonene and small amounts of other molecules, mostly aldehydes:
- the citrus scent, which you can simplify to a mix of (+)-limonene, 5% of aldehyde citral combined with small amounts of linear aliphatic aldehydes (C7-C13).
- the orange scent, which you can simplify to a mix of (+)-limonene and the (all-E)-alpha-sinensal aldehyde.
- the grapefruit scent, which you can simplify to a mix of (+)-limonene, sesquiterpene ketone nootkatone and traces of 1-p-menthene-8-thiol.
etc...
So if you have such a device and fill it with pure aroma-chemicals, NOT natural accords, you can mix them and have very surprising results.
But a typical Fine Fragrance accord has between 50 and 300 molecules. Each carefully dosed. I can tell you that all the major perfumery houses (IFF, Firmenich, Givandan, Quest, etc...) are working on such devices to ease their perfumers day-to-day work and international collaboration. But the precise dosage is technically very challenging. And contamination of the mix chamber(s) is not helping.
When I really don't know what I'm talking about or don't want the audience to notice what I'm talking about, I use Keynote and remote it with my bluetooth cellphone.
No one will bother me with my presentation, they just want to know how they can do something as shiny as I did.
When I want to drive a point and make sure they get it, I make the most bland and straight to the point bullets, export to PowerPoint (to get rid of the antialiasing), and present it with a cord mouse.
I asked for the permission to use it and was replied, we will never allow you to do it, but we'll look the other way if you do it. (The company was nearly 100% MacOS in the early 90's, 3000 workstations at that time, Apple blew it for not wanting to do services etc...)
All workstations are Windows NT being migrated to W2K, all servers are Solaris.
Well, a lot of things work out of the box, network (dhcp), access to SMB shares, proxy, printers access, etc... What I need is a correct Notes client (we still use 4.6), most of the intranet is "IE 5.5 for Windows or higher", and some custom applications.
I'd say I'm doing half my job on the Mac, half on my NT4 workstation.
I would do more on the Mac if Dreamveawer was not such a dog on MacOS X...
"The Athens PC has a built-in telephone linked to Microsoft's productivity applications. When the hardware receives an incoming call, the software automatically pulls up the caller's contact information and photo if the data are stored on the system."
Does that mean that it will do what my Macintosh will do when any of my cellphones is paired via BlueTooth?
Wow! Where do I sign up to beta test?
This has already been researched in Switzerland...
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This concept has been looked in for the last 20 years in Switzerland under the name of "Swissmetro".
The most complete analysis of the project I've seen here.
Basically, it's probably doable, but the major roadblock is a VERY strong political support (even in a very pro-mass transit country like switzerland), because of the massive costs to validate the faisability of it. In Switzerland, that support has not materialized in the last 20 years.
The last album of Heather Nova (not yet released in the US) has the same copy protection as the german disk of N'Sync.
Well, I bought the CD (not knowing about the protection), it refused to play on the CD-Players I'm usually using (my PC and my car-radio), so I returned the CD as defective (non-red book compliant) to my shop, where I got a refund.
But before I just popped it in my macintosh and ripped it in AIFF to make a perfect (usable) copy of it
So, I definitely think this was the stupidest and lamest idea EVER. I own more than 1200 CD's and I'm all for IP rights protection, but you have to follow the business rule #1: don't try to fuck your customers!
I'm sorry, I like Heather Nova's music a lot, I bought every album and single released, but I'm not going to buy anymore anything related to her or her record company. No CD's, no concert tickets, no merchandising, nothing.
I'm pretty sure that it was not Heather's idea, that the record company did it against her will, and that she suffers from it. I hope she won't loose too much from this mess.
I have a few copyleft and thinkgeek T-shirts, but believe me, if you you really want to score with chicks, the Microsoft's Freedom to Innovate T-shirt is a must. Period.
A NC is just an appliance, with some processing power (not much), broadband access, graphical capabilities and maybe a small harddrive (low-cost storage).
Microsoft has an NC, it's called the X-Box.
Sony tries to play catch-up with the PSII, with the recent agreements with AOL, Real, Macromedia, etc...
Nokia has also a NC in the works (not based on a gaming platform but on an Tivo-like appliance running Linux)
But of those three only one will win, and it's Microsoft. They have as much cash as the others, but they have majors advantages like mindshare in the public (joe won't buy a PSII to check its email, but a microsoft thingy like the one he's got at the office) and a huge base of developers.
WIRED:
EEye alerted Microsoft's security team immediately upon discovery of the vulnerability several weeks ago and has worked closely with Microsoft on the development of a patch and the expeditious alerting of system administrators worldwide.
ZDNN:
On that basis, Microsoft scores highly for its response, said International Security Systems' Rouland.
"If you compare the speed at which Microsoft responds to these vulnerabilities, it's incredible," he said. "They get through with the information and the fix much quicker than you'd see with open-source software."
(emphasis mine...)
Fair to say that M. Rouland just scored a huge A+ in my "troll of the year" quest...
But does someone knows what the hell is International Security Systems, except a lame sounding name?
The closest I could find is a Christopher J. Rouland working for X-Force @ Internet Security Systems (xforce.iss.net)...
WIRED:
EEye alerted Microsoft's security team immediately upon discovery of
the vulnerability several weeks ago and has worked closely with
Microsoft on the development of a patch and the expeditious alerting of
system administrators worldwide.
ZDNN:
"It's just far too complicated--one new capability, one new feature
can open holes in an operating system that was thought to be air-tight,"
Wheatman said. "Security is never done. It's part of the development
process."
On that basis, Microsoft scores highly for its response, said
International Security Systems' Rouland.
"If you compare the speed at which Microsoft responds to these
vulnerabilities, it's incredible," he said. "They get through with the
information and the fix much quicker than you'd see with open-source
software."
(emphasis mine...)
Fair to say that M. Rouland just scored a huge A+ in my "troll of the
year" quest...
But does someone knows what the hell is International Security Systems,
except a lame sounding name?
The closest I could find is a Christopher J. Rouland working for X-Force
@ Internet Security Systems (xforce.iss.net)...
Just to make it clear, IE MacOS has almost as much in common with IE winX than win98 has with win2000. They just are different products distributed under the same name.
First, they can't use most of the same code base (due to the VERY strong ties between IE and Windows on the win side), for example a whole bunch of javascript don't work on IE MacOS (*.print for example).
2, the MacOS IE team did an almost complete rewrite of IE between vers. 4.5 and 5.0
3, feature wise both are not in the same league. You have control on what you print on IE mac (bg color, size, etc...), you have a page holder on the side (überKool feature), etc...
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Memory can cost much, when you sell tens of million devices like Apple do. Worldwide production capacity is not easily extensible and Appleâ(TM)s main competitor (Samsung) has its own source.
If Apple would offer double size on their lower speced model, they would remove all elasticity of the market and make all the prices go up for everyone, including themselves.
Except Samsung who manufactures their own stuff...
Al Jazeera isn't what it used to be, but honestly a Bozo the Clown News Network would probably improve the quality of US cable news. - Marc Lynch
Google Analytics are blocked too: http://www.numerama.com/magazine/24672-free-ne-bloque-pas-que-la-publicite.html (in french, Free only operates in France)
6 months ago, I ran into the president of my country (Switzerland) while shopping for groceries in a mall. Although she most surely had body guards or what not around, I didn't saw any and she was very happy to chat with random people and have people taking pictures with her. Her weird hairdo makes her very recognizable from afar, I would probably have not recognized last year president...
I thought it was rather cool, but nothing extraordinary. Not like if I lived in country with free speech zones...
The president of Sweden was murdered walking home from a cinema with no protection, though.
People that do not live in the USA and as such have no way of accessing (and paying for) HBO content?
Tell that to the I.S. team at the place I'm working...
A 100 HP printers of the same model on my subnet, ALL WITH THE SAME "BONJOUR" NAME!
It kind of defeats the purpose...
I am not a perfumer but works with the best of them daily.
"smells, like taste, cannot be mixed together to produce a unique smell/taste in the same way that light (colours) can."
Wrong. All smells (and taste) are a combination of molecules.
The best example can be found in citruses, all of these scents are very different but all are basically a lot of (+)-limonene and small amounts of other molecules, mostly aldehydes:
So if you have such a device and fill it with pure aroma-chemicals, NOT natural accords, you can mix them and have very surprising results.
But a typical Fine Fragrance accord has between 50 and 300 molecules. Each carefully dosed. I can tell you that all the major perfumery houses (IFF, Firmenich, Givandan, Quest, etc...) are working on such devices to ease their perfumers day-to-day work and international collaboration. But the precise dosage is technically very challenging. And contamination of the mix chamber(s) is not helping.
This is so insightful it hurts!
When I really don't know what I'm talking about or don't want the audience to notice what I'm talking about, I use Keynote and remote it with my bluetooth cellphone.
No one will bother me with my presentation, they just want to know how they can do something as shiny as I did.
When I want to drive a point and make sure they get it, I make the most bland and straight to the point bullets, export to PowerPoint (to get rid of the antialiasing), and present it with a cord mouse.
I asked for the permission to use it and was replied, we will never allow you to do it, but we'll look the other way if you do it. (The company was nearly 100% MacOS in the early 90's, 3000 workstations at that time, Apple blew it for not wanting to do services etc...)
All workstations are Windows NT being migrated to W2K, all servers are Solaris.
Well, a lot of things work out of the box, network (dhcp), access to SMB shares, proxy, printers access, etc... What I need is a correct Notes client (we still use 4.6), most of the intranet is "IE 5.5 for Windows or higher", and some custom applications.
I'd say I'm doing half my job on the Mac, half on my NT4 workstation.
I would do more on the Mac if Dreamveawer was not such a dog on MacOS X...
"The Athens PC has a built-in telephone linked to Microsoft's productivity applications. When the hardware receives an incoming call, the software automatically pulls up the caller's contact information and photo if the data are stored on the system."
Does that mean that it will do what my Macintosh will do when any of my cellphones is paired via BlueTooth?
Wow! Where do I sign up to beta test?
This concept has been looked in for the last 20 years in Switzerland under the name of "Swissmetro".
A quick summary of it here.
The most complete analysis of the project I've seen here.
Basically, it's probably doable, but the major roadblock is a VERY strong political support (even in a very pro-mass transit country like switzerland), because of the massive costs to validate the faisability of it. In Switzerland, that support has not materialized in the last 20 years.
The last album of Heather Nova (not yet released in the US) has the same copy protection as the german disk of N'Sync.
Well, I bought the CD (not knowing about the protection), it refused to play on the CD-Players I'm usually using (my PC and my car-radio), so I returned the CD as defective (non-red book compliant) to my shop, where I got a refund.
But before I just popped it in my macintosh and ripped it in AIFF to make a perfect (usable) copy of it
So, I definitely think this was the stupidest and lamest idea EVER. I own more than 1200 CD's and I'm all for IP rights protection, but you have to follow the business rule #1: don't try to fuck your customers!
I'm sorry, I like Heather Nova's music a lot, I bought every album and single released, but I'm not going to buy anymore anything related to her or her record company. No CD's, no concert tickets, no merchandising, nothing.
I'm pretty sure that it was not Heather's idea, that the record company did it against her will, and that she suffers from it. I hope she won't loose too much from this mess.
n.
I have a few copyleft and thinkgeek T-shirts, but believe me, if you you really want to score with chicks, the Microsoft's Freedom to Innovate T-shirt is a must. Period.
Nothing bests making them cry-laughing.
A NC is just an appliance, with some processing power (not much), broadband access, graphical capabilities and maybe a small harddrive (low-cost storage).
Microsoft has an NC, it's called the X-Box.
Sony tries to play catch-up with the PSII, with the recent agreements with AOL, Real, Macromedia, etc...
Nokia has also a NC in the works (not based on a gaming platform but on an Tivo-like appliance running Linux)
But of those three only one will win, and it's Microsoft. They have as much cash as the others, but they have majors advantages like mindshare in the public (joe won't buy a PSII to check its email, but a microsoft thingy like the one he's got at the office) and a huge base of developers.
Game Over.
WIRED: EEye alerted Microsoft's security team immediately upon discovery of the vulnerability several weeks ago and has worked closely with Microsoft on the development of a patch and the expeditious alerting of system administrators worldwide.
ZDNN: On that basis, Microsoft scores highly for its response, said International Security Systems' Rouland.
"If you compare the speed at which Microsoft responds to these vulnerabilities, it's incredible," he said. "They get through with the information and the fix much quicker than you'd see with open-source software."
(emphasis mine...)
Fair to say that M. Rouland just scored a huge A+ in my "troll of the year" quest...
But does someone knows what the hell is International Security Systems, except a lame sounding name?
The closest I could find is a Christopher J. Rouland working for X-Force @ Internet Security Systems (xforce.iss.net)...
WIRED: EEye alerted Microsoft's security team immediately upon discovery of the vulnerability several weeks ago and has worked closely with Microsoft on the development of a patch and the expeditious alerting of system administrators worldwide.
ZDNN: "It's just far too complicated--one new capability, one new feature can open holes in an operating system that was thought to be air-tight," Wheatman said. "Security is never done. It's part of the development process."
On that basis, Microsoft scores highly for its response, said International Security Systems' Rouland.
"If you compare the speed at which Microsoft responds to these vulnerabilities, it's incredible," he said. "They get through with the information and the fix much quicker than you'd see with open-source software."
(emphasis mine...)
Fair to say that M. Rouland just scored a huge A+ in my "troll of the year" quest...
But does someone knows what the hell is International Security Systems, except a lame sounding name?
The closest I could find is a Christopher J. Rouland working for X-Force @ Internet Security Systems (xforce.iss.net)...
They said I had ADD, and they put me on ritalin.
they put you on ritalin because you played Advanced Dunjon & Dragon?
seems like I'm lucky having being raised in Europe...
Just to make it clear, IE MacOS has almost as much in common with IE winX than win98 has with win2000. They just are different products distributed under the same name.
First, they can't use most of the same code base (due to the VERY strong ties between IE and Windows on the win side), for example a whole bunch of javascript don't work on IE MacOS (*.print for example).
2, the MacOS IE team did an almost complete rewrite of IE between vers. 4.5 and 5.0
3, feature wise both are not in the same league. You have control on what you print on IE mac (bg color, size, etc...), you have a page holder on the side (überKool feature), etc...
4, standard wise they're equally not in the same league, as IE Mac has COMPLETE support for CSS-1 and HTML 4. (see http://www.Webstandards.org/macie5.txt and http://www.alistapart.com/stories/ie5m ac/ )
The mac dev. team is not even geographically near Redmond (they're in the Silicon Valley).
As for me I stick with icab; small, very fast, allows a lot of control.