I will, and I do. It would be nice to game and stuff a bit more than I do now. But if it doesn't make it by the next version, and Snow Leopard depends upon it, I am more likely to go to Windows, than I am to upgrade to a macbook pro.
1000 dollars for a port is reasonable? Are you kidding me? I don't even want a 15 inch computer. I want a SMALL laptop, like powerbooks and ibooks, and macbooks always have been.
And yes lots of stuff can be hooked up with USB. I have those ports too. But there are lots of critical applications that just won't work over USB, because by design it stalls. Video and Audio can't stall. Not be design.
I have been doing this stuff for years on the machines. It isn't worth the 1000 bucks for a port.
And no Firewire won't be less attractive. Your ignorance of what the port is used for just shines through.
But the firewire standard is not dead. It is used in all sorts of video, audio and hard disk devices. Nothing that remains works as well. Usually when they drop something, is because the replacement is better. In this case it is not true. The replacements are worse, or not useful at all.
Even USB was faster than parallel ports, and RS232, and DVI was better than RGB.
But FireWire was better than SCSI, and nothing touches it yet. The reason that it is a problem that it was gone, is that there is a significant portion of the MacBook population that used FireWire. It will still be used by the higher end macs, but paying 800-1000 for a port is insane. So the choice is to keep using outdated macs, pay TOO much for a port, or go windows.
This is not just an outdated, or soon to be outdated port. This is used, and it is replaced by nothing, and what remains is worse.
This isn't a settlement, this looks like she paid $750 x 8 for the songs.
It looks like she created a lot of noise and fury over nothing, and probably set back whatever anti-RIAA cause is out there back. This will do nothing but encourage the RIAA to continue with their tactics.
It should be really easy for IT to have a page somewhere that translates server names to locations.
Most people relate better to local server *names* the function becomes associated with that server and name. Most of the time, there should only be 2-3 servers per "location" that any given user is using. (and I worked for a BIG company).
This whole utilitarian naming scheme is just going to be too difficult. It works if you KNOW the name, but it is hard to communicate the name in any sort of non-cut and paste environment. Which means that whatever you were being lazy about, turns out at just the time you would be the most lazy, and you need to know the name, you won't be able to. And you will have a difficult time finding.
Finally, is somewhat practical security through obscurity. It is better to have server name and function separated. It means that there is less information leakage just through the network map.
1. If these two spheres are touching each other, how many atoms from each sphere are "touching?"
2. At the touching edge, what is the difference to the touching atom, from the one side where it is "touching" to the other side which is part of its own sphere?
I have not fully parsed what you said. But... You have me actually thinking more correctly about this, and that is what was important. I had obviously fallen off the bus somewhere, but I had no idea where.
I think I am getting my head around this. Now I have problems with "shortest, and how that coincides with singular, chance and cloud" and the need to have an electron sensor rather than a photon sensor. But I am much closer to the end than to the beginning. Thank you again!
Thanks, but I think there is something I have hopelessly never figured out, and that something would also let me understand how reflection works. How does an atom know the direction that the photon was traveling and and what does it bump off of? And isn't the atom round, so how come reflection works like the atoms are a plane. And how does the atom know the relative position of the atoms around it, so that it can reflect the photon in the right direction?
This is also the problem with lenses. How does the atom know the surface of the greater object, so that it knows what directions to send the photons that are passing through?
I am sure if I understood this, it would make the underlying question here easier. But as many of these answers so far show, this is be far, not a trivial question.
Ok, Internet Physicists out there, please help me.
Ok, first you have this coherent photon beam. This means that they are all traveling at the same direction. So how do you take a picture of THAT?
You are bombarding the photon beam with photons, are the photons opaque, reflective, or TRANSPARENT? How do the photons from the flash, BOUNCE BACK at the camera. When they bounce back, how do you get color?
Is it just me, or does this make any sense at all?
In order for touch, and multi-touch to be successful requires a large amount of UI bandwidth for feedback and interaction, it needs to be nearly seamless to work well.
Prior to current days, hardware just made better user interactions. A keyboard or a mouse do a lot of complicated things to feel right to the user, and yet output a simple qualified input to the computer system.
Today all of that complexity and even more is being placed into the UI at the expense of other activities, which until relatively recently was mostly CPU bound.
The last was the elegant creation of the idea to fire up everyone else. In this case the Iphone.
But just like the advancements in keyboards, mouse, trackpads, and game controllers we have only seen the beginning.
My hope is that this will also catch on with the tablet form factor, where somebody will wake up and realize the best place for the menu on a tablet is probably not the upper right hand corner, where a righty will obscure the screen. And that it probably deserves to exist or the right hand side for most items, and even look a lot more like the office ribbon, than the standard menu bar.
This is cool though, we are on the cusp of the next wave of UI. That that comes after the current mouse oriented menu and panel methods. It will be cool!
There is absolutely no reason to share emails in this organization.
The secretary's job is not just the completion of the minutes. But to organize and forward on information that is required for the board. Information that is supposed to represent the boards point of view should go through the same single point.
Ad hoc access to, filtering of, replying to and otherwise manipulating the email is broken. One of the symptoms of that brokenness is the problem you are seeing now.
Sure it can. It is currently not possible for one state to tell another's states citizens what to do. Like collect their taxes. At least this is what the supreme court says. However, if you have nexus, then you are one of those state's citizens and can be forced to do so.
A federal regulation, is not going to be able to compel one state to tell the citizens of another state what to do. It could create a federal sales tax and distribute it. But they are not going to be able to do, specifically, what is referred to in this story.
This is not a dem/rep issue, or a congressional issue at all. It is a supreme court ruling. Simply the Nexus issue means that a state cannot force citizens of another state to collect their sales taxes. There really isn't anything the congress can do about this.
Now there could be a federal sales tax, and that could be appropriated to the states somehow. But I don't think there is a snowball's chance this would pass. People will scream and hop around, but you are simply not going to get around this.
However, just because Amazon doesn't COLLECT the sales tax, does NOT mean that it is not owed. A sales tax is less commonly, but more correctly called a USE tax. And it is supposed to be paid, even if it is not collected by the merchant. This means there could be a reporting agreement made with major retailers at least, and they could send you a bill for the tax that you are required to pay.
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I will, and I do. It would be nice to game and stuff a bit more than I do now. But if it doesn't make it by the next version, and Snow Leopard depends upon it, I am more likely to go to Windows, than I am to upgrade to a macbook pro.
1000 dollars for a port is reasonable? Are you kidding me? I don't even want a 15 inch computer. I want a SMALL laptop, like powerbooks and ibooks, and macbooks always have been.
And yes lots of stuff can be hooked up with USB. I have those ports too. But there are lots of critical applications that just won't work over USB, because by design it stalls. Video and Audio can't stall. Not be design.
I have been doing this stuff for years on the machines. It isn't worth the 1000 bucks for a port.
And no Firewire won't be less attractive. Your ignorance of what the port is used for just shines through.
Music, video, and hard drives are a niche market place on the mac.
Um just because YOU don't use them hardly makes it niche. And no all the other stuff does not work as well under USB.
As a matter of fact, your whole post is just ignorant.
But the firewire standard is not dead. It is used in all sorts of video, audio and hard disk devices. Nothing that remains works as well. Usually when they drop something, is because the replacement is better. In this case it is not true. The replacements are worse, or not useful at all.
Even USB was faster than parallel ports, and RS232, and DVI was better than RGB.
But FireWire was better than SCSI, and nothing touches it yet. The reason that it is a problem that it was gone, is that there is a significant portion of the MacBook population that used FireWire. It will still be used by the higher end macs, but paying 800-1000 for a port is insane. So the choice is to keep using outdated macs, pay TOO much for a port, or go windows.
This is not just an outdated, or soon to be outdated port. This is used, and it is replaced by nothing, and what remains is worse.
This is just a bad idea.
I think if they could bring Itunes for the Deaf, that would be rad! (Waving my hands in mime excitement)
This isn't a settlement, this looks like she paid $750 x 8 for the songs.
It looks like she created a lot of noise and fury over nothing, and probably set back whatever anti-RIAA cause is out there back. This will do nothing but encourage the RIAA to continue with their tactics.
They can't get out those DVD's cuz of all the spam.
Odd story... Is there a movie coming out that is sort of based on the story...
VIRAL!
It should be really easy for IT to have a page somewhere that translates server names to locations.
Most people relate better to local server *names* the function becomes associated with that server and name. Most of the time, there should only be 2-3 servers per "location" that any given user is using. (and I worked for a BIG company).
This whole utilitarian naming scheme is just going to be too difficult. It works if you KNOW the name, but it is hard to communicate the name in any sort of non-cut and paste environment. Which means that whatever you were being lazy about, turns out at just the time you would be the most lazy, and you need to know the name, you won't be able to. And you will have a difficult time finding.
Finally, is somewhat practical security through obscurity. It is better to have server name and function separated. It means that there is less information leakage just through the network map.
I have two questions...
1. If these two spheres are touching each other, how many atoms from each sphere are "touching?"
2. At the touching edge, what is the difference to the touching atom, from the one side where it is "touching" to the other side which is part of its own sphere?
Thank you, thank you...
I have not fully parsed what you said. But... You have me actually thinking more correctly about this, and that is what was important. I had obviously fallen off the bus somewhere, but I had no idea where.
I think I am getting my head around this. Now I have problems with "shortest, and how that coincides with singular, chance and cloud" and the need to have an electron sensor rather than a photon sensor. But I am much closer to the end than to the beginning. Thank you again!
Thanks, but I think there is something I have hopelessly never figured out, and that something would also let me understand how reflection works. How does an atom know the direction that the photon was traveling and and what does it bump off of? And isn't the atom round, so how come reflection works like the atoms are a plane. And how does the atom know the relative position of the atoms around it, so that it can reflect the photon in the right direction?
This is also the problem with lenses. How does the atom know the surface of the greater object, so that it knows what directions to send the photons that are passing through?
I am sure if I understood this, it would make the underlying question here easier. But as many of these answers so far show, this is be far, not a trivial question.
Ok, Internet Physicists out there, please help me.
Ok, first you have this coherent photon beam. This means that they are all traveling at the same direction. So how do you take a picture of THAT?
You are bombarding the photon beam with photons, are the photons opaque, reflective, or TRANSPARENT? How do the photons from the flash, BOUNCE BACK at the camera. When they bounce back, how do you get color?
Is it just me, or does this make any sense at all?
Wow, in one.... Guessing is your friend.
http://www.electronickits.com/
This is like the penny jar, except a whole lot of pennies and nobody gets hurt.
Something that maybe just up the ladder, and quite useful for all kinds of Database work, would be the spreadsheet in Open Office.
People all over use spreadsheets for simple list based database stuff.
It is often easier to use the tools that are built in to do what you want.
You can start just by entering the data, then you can increase functionality with custom data entry dialogs, charting functionality etc.
All not online, all f/oss.
First, do no evil.
In order for touch, and multi-touch to be successful requires a large amount of UI bandwidth for feedback and interaction, it needs to be nearly seamless to work well.
Prior to current days, hardware just made better user interactions. A keyboard or a mouse do a lot of complicated things to feel right to the user, and yet output a simple qualified input to the computer system.
Today all of that complexity and even more is being placed into the UI at the expense of other activities, which until relatively recently was mostly CPU bound.
The last was the elegant creation of the idea to fire up everyone else. In this case the Iphone.
But just like the advancements in keyboards, mouse, trackpads, and game controllers we have only seen the beginning.
My hope is that this will also catch on with the tablet form factor, where somebody will wake up and realize the best place for the menu on a tablet is probably not the upper right hand corner, where a righty will obscure the screen. And that it probably deserves to exist or the right hand side for most items, and even look a lot more like the office ribbon, than the standard menu bar.
This is cool though, we are on the cusp of the next wave of UI. That that comes after the current mouse oriented menu and panel methods. It will be cool!
You can start here...
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/amstrad/
There is absolutely no reason to share emails in this organization.
The secretary's job is not just the completion of the minutes. But to organize and forward on information that is required for the board. Information that is supposed to represent the boards point of view should go through the same single point.
Ad hoc access to, filtering of, replying to and otherwise manipulating the email is broken. One of the symptoms of that brokenness is the problem you are seeing now.
Fix the culture, the rest will follow.
Real Genius,
It is on sale this week for like 5 bucks at fry's...
LIVE IT!
Sure it can. It is currently not possible for one state to tell another's states citizens what to do. Like collect their taxes. At least this is what the supreme court says. However, if you have nexus, then you are one of those state's citizens and can be forced to do so.
A federal regulation, is not going to be able to compel one state to tell the citizens of another state what to do. It could create a federal sales tax and distribute it. But they are not going to be able to do, specifically, what is referred to in this story.
This is not a dem/rep issue, or a congressional issue at all. It is a supreme court ruling. Simply the Nexus issue means that a state cannot force citizens of another state to collect their sales taxes. There really isn't anything the congress can do about this.
Now there could be a federal sales tax, and that could be appropriated to the states somehow. But I don't think there is a snowball's chance this would pass. People will scream and hop around, but you are simply not going to get around this.
However, just because Amazon doesn't COLLECT the sales tax, does NOT mean that it is not owed. A sales tax is less commonly, but more correctly called a USE tax. And it is supposed to be paid, even if it is not collected by the merchant. This means there could be a reporting agreement made with major retailers at least, and they could send you a bill for the tax that you are required to pay.
On the laptop. Two fingers on the pad click = left click.
actually very easy and you don't need to find the left button.