It's interesting that no-one seems to be paying special attention to the Sept 30 expiration of Apple's offer of free Bumper cases. In my mind, that hints at a few troubling scenarios that aren't properly addressed by today's press conference:
A) Apple will end up providing free cases for the iPhone 4 indefinitely.
B) After Sept 30, you have to pay for a case to solve a problem with the iPhone 4 that Apple officially acknowledges.
C) After Sept 30, revised iPhone 4 hardware will be hitting the shelves.
Both (A) and (B) seem highly unlikely...which leads me to believe (C) is the likely outcome. But course Apple doesn't want to cannibalize sales of existing iPhone 4 stock and slow down sales momentum, so they're keeping info about revised hardware under a very tight wrap. Maybe that means you should buy an iPhone 4 just yet?
Where can I get giant bags of cash to study the blindingly obvious?
Just because the problem is obvious doesn't mean that it shouldn't be examined diligently and quantified, such that the problem can be better understood in order to be addressed. Moreover, you are well aware that there are plenty of "obvious" assumptions that turned out to be wrong upon closer scrutiny.
I had a Kinesis for several years. It's great for word processing, emails, etc...i.e. any situation where you're just typing regular text. As soon as you get into coding, gaming, etc where unorthodox key combinations are necessary, you start realizing that it's a 101-key QWERTY world. Don't even try to use Emacs productively with the Kinesis. All those CTRL-ALT combos just don't work as effectively.
Really, what if a few thousand credit card and bank account numbers got into the hands of suspected terrorists? If they made a one time shot at getting items to fence or cash withdraws (wire transfers) and split, they suddenly have resources that was taken right from the American people.
It's interesting how the buzzwords of today's jingoistic propaganda permeates into our everyday speech. I completely agree with your concerns, but:
1) Let's not get into unnecessary scaremongering by using the T-word (terrorist). These people are thieves (oops, that starts with "T" also, hmm), which by no means am I saying they're not malicious.
2) When the cliched phrase "the American people" is used, it is usually in the context of the collective, the nation. Here we have theft that affects individuals rather than American society as a whole.
This car has a novel motor, not a novel energy source (such as a fuel cell). Save your breath about compressed air not being a renewable energy soure, yada yada yada because that's not what it's even meant to be.
The linked articles are short on details, but I'm guessing that the PHEV's proponents believe that the combination of a compressed air motor for burst power and smaller electric motors for sustained power are more economical overall than a larger electric drive system alone, thus justifying the added complexity.
If / when it appears in a commercial form it might costs $4 in India perhaps. But in the US it will cost $50. Why? Because people are suckers.
No, not because people are suckers, but because it costs more to provide a decent standard of living to all the American people involved in the product's manufacture, marketing and distribution.
"La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien à ajouter, mais quand il ne reste rien à enlever." (Perfection is achieved, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away).
I know from experience (non-trivial engineering projects} that more people does not necessarily equal more success; sometimes it drags down an effort while the original goal gets lost in "management".
What you're describing is the "Mythical Man Month", as coined many moons ago by Fred Brooks in his book of the same title.
Wouldn't some sort of DNA test, or blood protein assay, work a lot easier?
Perhaps such a test would be considered too invasive for a suspect who is considered innocent until proven guilty. I certainly wouldn't like to have to submit to a tissue biopsy on a regular basis to prove that I am the real deal.
...about the durability of the slot where one inserts the standard laptop locks. Though I'm not about to try it myself, I imagine that one could easily shear the lock off with the right amount of leverage and separate it from the laptop. Now it might take a bit of work to repair the chassis to re-saleable condition, but it's still possible, no?
Does this mean I can get a Powerbook to replace the Tandy 286 laptop I have sitting in my closet?
Insurance underwriters weren't born yesterday. Invariably you have to supply adequate documentation to prove ownership of the stolen item in order to claim compensation.
Just because the cable and the lock were not damaged does not mean that the lock and cable actually did the job correctly! Kensington should pay the warranty claim out since it was obviously ineffective in actually securing the device.
If your laptop, bike, etc ever gets stolen and you try to claim the compensation money from the lock manufacturer, you will find that there are many restrictions on actually getting that money. That is because, as with any other insurance scheme, many unscrupulous people try to get the compensation money by dishonest means. So some genuine theft victims will be deprived of their deserved compensation, whereas other scammers might get away with the money. By and large, though, the majority of consumers are justly rewarded.
I would pay good money to see Byron jotting down 100 WPM with a quill!
Yeah, but Byron had much less competition. The average journalist today writes more than Byron did. Granted, Byron's output was of much higher quality, if not quantity.
At 130 wpm you could write a short novel (40k words) in 5 or 6 hours... that's not how it works. I suppose it might be different if you were writing very systematic technical documentation, but generally the bottleneck is almost always thinking time. It doesn't make much difference if you're typing at 30 or 130 wpm.
I am guessing that you don't write much, because you're not demonstrating much understanding of the writing process at a professional level.
For every 1000 words you actually publish in a novel, thesis, dissertation, essay, or article...you will write probably 30,000 words in proofs, drafts, re-drafts, communiques, memos, emails, proposals, etc. Any less than that and you are just an average student or a hack.
You claim that "...the bottleneck is thinking time", well to write as a professional you have to put all your thoughts down on paper at every step of the way. And you won't be able to do that if you type less than 100 WPM.
You can also get the Powerpad from Electrovaya which is compatible with any laptop. I bought one to replace my Thinkpad battery after it died -- and am really happy with it. Yes, it's a bit klunky, but it gives me 10 hours of active use on a single charge.
If someone actually thought that Lycos was worth $12.5 billion, you have a pretty good idea how messed up people were in the 90s, and why the bubble burst.
Thing is though, everything else was massively inflated too. Terra Networks bought Lycos in 2000, in an all stock deal. So really, the $12.5 billion is just paper value. Who knows how much hard cash was actually burned -- not insubstantial but certainly much less than $12 billion.
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That why if you run then stop abruptly you feel faint, because suddenly the load on your heart has suddenly increased and it needs to ramp up to pump blood all the way up to your head at a usable pressure (which is one reason you should warm down properly after exercising).
No, that's not why at all.
Your arteries are lined with involuntary muscles which constrict in order to maintain blood pressure. When your heart rate drops, so does your blood pressure, and there is a slight lag between that and the response from the muscles of the arterial wall to stabilize blood pressure.
Muscle activity has little effect on venous blood flow. You getting confused with the lymphatic network, which depends entirely on muscle contractions to maintain flow.
Unless you're deliberately trying to sound snooty (even if sarcastically), then you're missing the point of the Segway: it requires NO SPECIAL SKILL on the part of the rider to operate. It functions according to your normal balancing instincts. A unicyle takes considerable practice to ride safely just in a straight line, let alone while playing polo.
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It's interesting that no-one seems to be paying special attention to the Sept 30 expiration of Apple's offer of free Bumper cases. In my mind, that hints at a few troubling scenarios that aren't properly addressed by today's press conference:
A) Apple will end up providing free cases for the iPhone 4 indefinitely.
B) After Sept 30, you have to pay for a case to solve a problem with the iPhone 4 that Apple officially acknowledges.
C) After Sept 30, revised iPhone 4 hardware will be hitting the shelves.
Both (A) and (B) seem highly unlikely...which leads me to believe (C) is the likely outcome. But course Apple doesn't want to cannibalize sales of existing iPhone 4 stock and slow down sales momentum, so they're keeping info about revised hardware under a very tight wrap. Maybe that means you should buy an iPhone 4 just yet?
Where can I get giant bags of cash to study the blindingly obvious?
Just because the problem is obvious doesn't mean that it shouldn't be examined diligently and quantified, such that the problem can be better understood in order to be addressed. Moreover, you are well aware that there are plenty of "obvious" assumptions that turned out to be wrong upon closer scrutiny.
I had a Kinesis for several years. It's great for word processing, emails, etc...i.e. any situation where you're just typing regular text. As soon as you get into coding, gaming, etc where unorthodox key combinations are necessary, you start realizing that it's a 101-key QWERTY world. Don't even try to use Emacs productively with the Kinesis. All those CTRL-ALT combos just don't work as effectively.
Is it possible that he's describing what we call hard file links?
Really, what if a few thousand credit card and bank account numbers got into the hands of suspected terrorists? If they made a one time shot at getting items to fence or cash withdraws (wire transfers) and split, they suddenly have resources that was taken right from the American people.
It's interesting how the buzzwords of today's jingoistic propaganda permeates into our everyday speech. I completely agree with your concerns, but:
1) Let's not get into unnecessary scaremongering by using the T-word (terrorist). These people are thieves (oops, that starts with "T" also, hmm), which by no means am I saying they're not malicious.
2) When the cliched phrase "the American people" is used, it is usually in the context of the collective, the nation. Here we have theft that affects individuals rather than American society as a whole.
This car has a novel motor, not a novel energy source (such as a fuel cell). Save your breath about compressed air not being a renewable energy soure, yada yada yada because that's not what it's even meant to be.
The linked articles are short on details, but I'm guessing that the PHEV's proponents believe that the combination of a compressed air motor for burst power and smaller electric motors for sustained power are more economical overall than a larger electric drive system alone, thus justifying the added complexity.
If / when it appears in a commercial form it might costs $4 in India perhaps. But in the US it will cost $50. Why? Because people are suckers.
No, not because people are suckers, but because it costs more to provide a decent standard of living to all the American people involved in the product's manufacture, marketing and distribution.
"La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien à ajouter, mais quand il ne reste rien à enlever." (Perfection is achieved, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away).
-- Antoine St. Exupery (1900-1994)
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I'ts like 80+ degrees outside (LA, CA), and It's Dec. 19th. It's hard to get sick around here, and even harder to stay that way.
Au contraire, mon frere. If the weather were like that around here (in the miserable rain of Vancouver), I'd be calling in sick everyday.
...could you please explain what the Christmas thing was about?
Mulder can stop heading west.
I know from experience (non-trivial engineering projects} that more people does not necessarily equal more success; sometimes it drags down an effort while the original goal gets lost in "management".
What you're describing is the "Mythical Man Month", as coined many moons ago by Fred Brooks in his book of the same title.
Wouldn't some sort of DNA test, or blood protein assay, work a lot easier?
Perhaps such a test would be considered too invasive for a suspect who is considered innocent until proven guilty. I certainly wouldn't like to have to submit to a tissue biopsy on a regular basis to prove that I am the real deal.
...about the durability of the slot where one inserts the standard laptop locks. Though I'm not about to try it myself, I imagine that one could easily shear the lock off with the right amount of leverage and separate it from the laptop. Now it might take a bit of work to repair the chassis to re-saleable condition, but it's still possible, no?
Does this mean I can get a Powerbook to replace the Tandy 286 laptop I have sitting in my closet?
Insurance underwriters weren't born yesterday. Invariably you have to supply adequate documentation to prove ownership of the stolen item in order to claim compensation.
Just because the cable and the lock were not damaged does not mean that the lock and cable actually did the job correctly! Kensington should pay the warranty claim out since it was obviously ineffective in actually securing the device.
If your laptop, bike, etc ever gets stolen and you try to claim the compensation money from the lock manufacturer, you will find that there are many restrictions on actually getting that money. That is because, as with any other insurance scheme, many unscrupulous people try to get the compensation money by dishonest means. So some genuine theft victims will be deprived of their deserved compensation, whereas other scammers might get away with the money. By and large, though, the majority of consumers are justly rewarded.
I would pay good money to see Byron jotting down 100 WPM with a quill!
Yeah, but Byron had much less competition. The average journalist today writes more than Byron did. Granted, Byron's output was of much higher quality, if not quantity.
At 130 wpm you could write a short novel (40k words) in 5 or 6 hours... that's not how it works. I suppose it might be different if you were writing very systematic technical documentation, but generally the bottleneck is almost always thinking time. It doesn't make much difference if you're typing at 30 or 130 wpm.
I am guessing that you don't write much, because you're not demonstrating much understanding of the writing process at a professional level.
For every 1000 words you actually publish in a novel, thesis, dissertation, essay, or article...you will write probably 30,000 words in proofs, drafts, re-drafts, communiques, memos, emails, proposals, etc. Any less than that and you are just an average student or a hack.
You claim that "...the bottleneck is thinking time", well to write as a professional you have to put all your thoughts down on paper at every step of the way. And you won't be able to do that if you type less than 100 WPM.
You can also get the Powerpad from Electrovaya which is compatible with any laptop. I bought one to replace my Thinkpad battery after it died -- and am really happy with it. Yes, it's a bit klunky, but it gives me 10 hours of active use on a single charge.
If someone actually thought that Lycos was worth $12.5 billion, you have a pretty good idea how messed up people were in the 90s, and why the bubble burst.
Thing is though, everything else was massively inflated too. Terra Networks bought Lycos in 2000, in an all stock deal. So really, the $12.5 billion is just paper value. Who knows how much hard cash was actually burned -- not insubstantial but certainly much less than $12 billion.
I thought ^H was left erase (aka backspace)
That why if you run then stop abruptly you feel faint, because suddenly the load on your heart has suddenly increased and it needs to ramp up to pump blood all the way up to your head at a usable pressure (which is one reason you should warm down properly after exercising).
No, that's not why at all.
Your arteries are lined with involuntary muscles which constrict in order to maintain blood pressure. When your heart rate drops, so does your blood pressure, and there is a slight lag between that and the response from the muscles of the arterial wall to stabilize blood pressure.
Muscle activity has little effect on venous blood flow. You getting confused with the lymphatic network, which depends entirely on muscle contractions to maintain flow.
Unless you're deliberately trying to sound snooty (even if sarcastically), then you're missing the point of the Segway: it requires NO SPECIAL SKILL on the part of the rider to operate. It functions according to your normal balancing instincts. A unicyle takes considerable practice to ride safely just in a straight line, let alone while playing polo.
Yeah but what we really want to know is how many VAXen are needed.