God, I don't know what I'd do without Expose nowdays. On my windows machine I compensate by having a few huge screens that I leave everything scattered around. But Expose + Spaces works much quicker for me, especially with limited screen real estate.
Do you have any sources for that? (I'm interested). I had understood that a load of engineers jumped ship to Apple from Xerox, so the project was pretty much just a continuation rather than a rip off.
What you've just described is why graphic design people, video people, music, etc etc tend to prefer Mac's - the windowing system lets you focus on the task, not the application. Subtle difference, but important enough to workflow for those people who don't just do "Outlook" or "Excel' all day long.
In some countries, electric hot water systems get told to turn on and off by the power company injecting a harmonic pulse into the grid when off-peak power is available.
I know this is 'common knowledge', but often it's just not the case in practice. There are so many good examples out there of this myth being busted, from shampoos to buildings to electronics. Sometimes all it takes is someone with some passion and a bit of skill to think outside the box. Othertimes people need to be forced to think outside the box!
For example, with your example of the Prius (which I think is a pretty brave effort by Toyota, and it's paying off for them), there >are other conventional cars out there that have comparable fuel economies, and I've seen fleet buyers consider the range very closely on a "whole of life" cost (and sometimes the Prius wins, and other times it doesn't).
When people put their equipment to sleep, they expect it to be effectively 'off'. The problem has been that most devices draw a TON of power when in standby - this something that certainly needs addressing (and there's no real good reason for it other than sheer engineering laziness).
Now, worrying about zero-power standby on your 300MW super-sized plasma might be hypocritical, but the EU (and other governments) have established targets for these sorts of things too. I'd have to say that considering every aspect of electronics with regards to efficiency is a good thing.
I've got a quad 3Ghz Xeon that I used to leave running all the time - until I worked out what made my power bill so high. Sending it to sleep when I'm not using it has cut a 1/3rd off my quarterly power bill. Bloody shocking!
Steve may be a mirco-managing megalomanic, but he also has some REALLY good people working at Apple who don't receive wider recognition (much).
For all we know, all those annoying things about Apple (eg - lack of headless iMac, lack of Firewire on Macbooks, crappy iLife feature refreshes...) might go away with Steve's absence too.
Those guys working under Steve might be getting their chance to shine.
Nice. So using these figures in ten years we increase the carbon load in the atmosphere from 186 billion tons to 240 billion tons. You just proved every concerned person's point.
Your problem is that you think that the CO2 in the atmosphere just 'disappears'. It doesn't. It's reabsorbed into the system's cycle, which means that our 5% contribution from locked away deposits (from outside the system) is CUMULATIVE.
I've seen the chart on temperature & CO2 concentrations over 500 million years before. Two things here - 1) working out what conditions were like 500 million years ago is very difficult, and 2) that chart isn't very accurate. Try this one - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/All_palaeotemps.png - and see that there is actually a collation between temp and CO2 concentrations (even over 500 million years...)
The rest of the article's writing about water vapour is junk - you can read in many places the scientific debunking of this.
We'll give you the benifit of doubt that you are asking serious questions here.
1. People have actually though to measure the effect of solar radiation on the average global temperature. Fluxuations don't make enough difference to account for current trends. Sorry.
2. Yes, in the past our fuel souces have been 'ineffient' (although some of this 'old' technology is actaully pretty damn good). Just because we now have 'efficient' power sources doesn't mean we haven't been using more...much more...of them. You should also have a look at global population growth over the past 1000 years to understand the magnitude of the problem.
3. City air quality has nothing at all to do with CO2 emissions, sorry. Also I think you'd be surprised to find out what you're breathing in. Sure, it might not be sooty and black, but just because you can't see it doesn't mean that it's not there, and not bad for you.
This is getting off topic, but out of your list Apple use Akamai and Google and Yahoo have a large distributed (geographically) network. No idea about MS. It's not so much about the websites themselves, but that they have the infrustructure in place to mitigate such attacks. It's all still possible though (I remember submitting a story years ago about Google being offline in Australia for example).
Back to the GP you're replying to, I wouldn't be surprised if 'Sovereign Risk' was one of the factors in Google's creation of it's huge distributed redundant network.
Yes, he would. But only as long as it's a fucking ugly cookie, And one that tastes shit too. Remember, a cookie is about the recipe and the usage you get out of it.
As the current owner of an XPSM1330, and the previous owner of both Inspirons and Powerbooks, I'd trade this piece of shit for a new Macbook anyday.
This will sound harsh, but sorry - if you can't appreciate the difference in quality between a dell and an Apple, you don't know what you're looking at.
Anybody making 'things' - hardware, software or otherwise, should be marveling at the Macbook. A true feat of engineering and design skill.
We haven't learned anything new about steel - this has been know for....as long as there has been fire codes and steel buildings.
The fact that conspiracy theorist choose to ignore widely known properties of steel and steel construction doesn't make this news relevant.
I also find this article slightly distasteful...9/11 has nothing to do with the search for new steels; there are plenty of varieties of steel with all sorts of different properties - maybe this physicist should go and speak with a engineer or material scientist and stop sprouting rubbish.
...from what I see around, people NOT having a mouse attached at all times when their laptop is on a desk/etc. are very often Thinkpad users.
Or...MacBook/Pro/Powerbook users! The touchpad action on a mac is way different to windows laptops. Don't know why, but it is. It's also much much better. Some extensions give you the option to change the trackpad action to 'windows style'.
Having had a clitpad, I actually like the trackpad on the Powerbook better.
I remember something from that time that suggested it was simply a supply issue - AMD weren't big enough to guarantee supply. I remember looking at the figures and being surprised (about the capacity of AMD).
I also remember Jobs saying Intel had shown him _very_ exciting things, hint hint. And they were too.
It's more of a best practice thing, as the codes tend to be performance based. For example, if I designed a pedestrian bridge to meet the structural codes but something went wrong - it would still be my fault, not ISO's.
You can think of them as the tested minimum (with generous safety margins!) to meet certain criteria. So they're good as a guide, and non-experts will require the standards to be met to be able to 'certify' something as complete/fit for purpose/etc.
However, what's at stake is that it is now possible for 'you' to establish an ISO standard that only YOU are capable of implementing. It's not so much that this is a 'bad' standard, but that it's not a standard in anything other than name.
It shows that industry can control the standards process to their own benefit when it is supposed to be independent and neutral. So, you should have just listened to Microsoft in the first place and bought Office 20xx for the next 10 years because the rep TOLD YOU SO.
BBedit? Hard to find better. Or vim, or emacs, or hell, pico if you're into that. As for a file browser, try bash (aka, the terminal). Does SSH just fine.
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God, I don't know what I'd do without Expose nowdays. On my windows machine I compensate by having a few huge screens that I leave everything scattered around. But Expose + Spaces works much quicker for me, especially with limited screen real estate.
Do you have any sources for that? (I'm interested). I had understood that a load of engineers jumped ship to Apple from Xerox, so the project was pretty much just a continuation rather than a rip off.
What you've just described is why graphic design people, video people, music, etc etc tend to prefer Mac's - the windowing system lets you focus on the task, not the application. Subtle difference, but important enough to workflow for those people who don't just do "Outlook" or "Excel' all day long.
In some countries, electric hot water systems get told to turn on and off by the power company injecting a harmonic pulse into the grid when off-peak power is available.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zellweger_off-peak
There are clever solutions to these problems. Sometime people don't like to be clever until they're forced.
I know this is 'common knowledge', but often it's just not the case in practice. There are so many good examples out there of this myth being busted, from shampoos to buildings to electronics. Sometimes all it takes is someone with some passion and a bit of skill to think outside the box. Othertimes people need to be forced to think outside the box!
For example, with your example of the Prius (which I think is a pretty brave effort by Toyota, and it's paying off for them), there >are other conventional cars out there that have comparable fuel economies, and I've seen fleet buyers consider the range very closely on a "whole of life" cost (and sometimes the Prius wins, and other times it doesn't).
I sort of agree with you, but this has a purpose.
When people put their equipment to sleep, they expect it to be effectively 'off'. The problem has been that most devices draw a TON of power when in standby - this something that certainly needs addressing (and there's no real good reason for it other than sheer engineering laziness).
Now, worrying about zero-power standby on your 300MW super-sized plasma might be hypocritical, but the EU (and other governments) have established targets for these sorts of things too. I'd have to say that considering every aspect of electronics with regards to efficiency is a good thing.
I've got a quad 3Ghz Xeon that I used to leave running all the time - until I worked out what made my power bill so high. Sending it to sleep when I'm not using it has cut a 1/3rd off my quarterly power bill. Bloody shocking!
Steve may be a mirco-managing megalomanic, but he also has some REALLY good people working at Apple who don't receive wider recognition (much).
For all we know, all those annoying things about Apple (eg - lack of headless iMac, lack of Firewire on Macbooks, crappy iLife feature refreshes...) might go away with Steve's absence too.
Those guys working under Steve might be getting their chance to shine.
Nice. So using these figures in ten years we increase the carbon load in the atmosphere from 186 billion tons to 240 billion tons. You just proved every concerned person's point.
Your problem is that you think that the CO2 in the atmosphere just 'disappears'. It doesn't. It's reabsorbed into the system's cycle, which means that our 5% contribution from locked away deposits (from outside the system) is CUMULATIVE.
I've seen the chart on temperature & CO2 concentrations over 500 million years before. Two things here - 1) working out what conditions were like 500 million years ago is very difficult, and 2) that chart isn't very accurate. Try this one - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/All_palaeotemps.png - and see that there is actually a collation between temp and CO2 concentrations (even over 500 million years...)
The rest of the article's writing about water vapour is junk - you can read in many places the scientific debunking of this.
We'll give you the benifit of doubt that you are asking serious questions here.
1. People have actually though to measure the effect of solar radiation on the average global temperature. Fluxuations don't make enough difference to account for current trends. Sorry.
2. Yes, in the past our fuel souces have been 'ineffient' (although some of this 'old' technology is actaully pretty damn good). Just because we now have 'efficient' power sources doesn't mean we haven't been using more...much more...of them. You should also have a look at global population growth over the past 1000 years to understand the magnitude of the problem.
3. City air quality has nothing at all to do with CO2 emissions, sorry. Also I think you'd be surprised to find out what you're breathing in. Sure, it might not be sooty and black, but just because you can't see it doesn't mean that it's not there, and not bad for you.
This is getting off topic, but out of your list Apple use Akamai and Google and Yahoo have a large distributed (geographically) network. No idea about MS. It's not so much about the websites themselves, but that they have the infrustructure in place to mitigate such attacks. It's all still possible though (I remember submitting a story years ago about Google being offline in Australia for example).
Back to the GP you're replying to, I wouldn't be surprised if 'Sovereign Risk' was one of the factors in Google's creation of it's huge distributed redundant network.
Yes, he would. But only as long as it's a fucking ugly cookie, And one that tastes shit too. Remember, a cookie is about the recipe and the usage you get out of it.
As the current owner of an XPSM1330, and the previous owner of both Inspirons and Powerbooks, I'd trade this piece of shit for a new Macbook anyday.
This will sound harsh, but sorry - if you can't appreciate the difference in quality between a dell and an Apple, you don't know what you're looking at.
Anybody making 'things' - hardware, software or otherwise, should be marveling at the Macbook. A true feat of engineering and design skill.
They'll just quietly try it again in a year. Mark my words.
I loved it, nevermind the mods.
We haven't learned anything new about steel - this has been know for....as long as there has been fire codes and steel buildings.
The fact that conspiracy theorist choose to ignore widely known properties of steel and steel construction doesn't make this news relevant.
I also find this article slightly distasteful...9/11 has nothing to do with the search for new steels; there are plenty of varieties of steel with all sorts of different properties - maybe this physicist should go and speak with a engineer or material scientist and stop sprouting rubbish.
That's right! Because taxi drivers and armchair geeks know better than the people studying the issues! Bunk! You tell 'em.
...from what I see around, people NOT having a mouse attached at all times when their laptop is on a desk/etc. are very often Thinkpad users.
Or...MacBook/Pro/Powerbook users! The touchpad action on a mac is way different to windows laptops. Don't know why, but it is. It's also much much better. Some extensions give you the option to change the trackpad action to 'windows style'.
Having had a clitpad, I actually like the trackpad on the Powerbook better.
I remember something from that time that suggested it was simply a supply issue - AMD weren't big enough to guarantee supply. I remember looking at the figures and being surprised (about the capacity of AMD).
I also remember Jobs saying Intel had shown him _very_ exciting things, hint hint. And they were too.
It's more of a best practice thing, as the codes tend to be performance based. For example, if I designed a pedestrian bridge to meet the structural codes but something went wrong - it would still be my fault, not ISO's.
You can think of them as the tested minimum (with generous safety margins!) to meet certain criteria. So they're good as a guide, and non-experts will require the standards to be met to be able to 'certify' something as complete/fit for purpose/etc.
However, what's at stake is that it is now possible for 'you' to establish an ISO standard that only YOU are capable of implementing. It's not so much that this is a 'bad' standard, but that it's not a standard in anything other than name.
It shows that industry can control the standards process to their own benefit when it is supposed to be independent and neutral. So, you should have just listened to Microsoft in the first place and bought Office 20xx for the next 10 years because the rep TOLD YOU SO.
We're lucky that the men from the black helicopters who kidnapped you mid sentence were kind enough to press 'submit' for us.
The best thing about the Avebury circle is that there's a pub in the middle of it.
And no, I'm not joking.
Has anyone actually been able to do this? Last I heard it was given up on because it was just too damn hard. That was a while ago.
Give me a mail and I'll trade you invites.
misery.guts@gmail.com
BBedit? Hard to find better. Or vim, or emacs, or hell, pico if you're into that. As for a file browser, try bash (aka, the terminal). Does SSH just fine.