Which is almost exactly what the drug companies do now. Patent drug A. Patent drug B. When the patent exclusivity is close to expiring, combine the two drugs to make "drug C" and patent that (Caduet, anyone?).
Or, for that matter, just tweak drug A to make it time-release. Claritin vs. Claritin-D, for example.
I seem to recall reading an article in Wired several years ago about pebble-bed reactors, and building them small enough that each town could have their own. Maybe even small enough that you could run one just for your house, or yourself and a few neighbors. I think someone wanted to pilot such a program in China.
But they didn't address the problem that actually led to the breach. They're encrypting laptops, but it was backup tapes which were compromised. No mention of those getting encrypted.
They won't do that. They make too much money selling their crappy apps, music, videos & ringtones via their crappy UI. If they let leave the phones on their "factory" UI, they lose a HUGE revenue stream.
There is a lot of tourism very close to the US/Canada border - Vancouver, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal come to mind immediately. I enjoy going to Niagara, but I'm not going through this crap. Maybe if enough people stop hopping the border, Canada will complain about the loss of tourism dollars & things will change.
I'm aware of encrypted disk images BUT the problem really is that if I use TrueCrypt on my work computer (Windows) and my wife's laptop (also Windows) to protect my data, I can't upload that to Google and then bring it down for use on my MacBook.
If I use an encrypted disk image on the Mac, I can't use it on the Windows systems.
I have yet to understand why ClearChannel can get away with almost a complete monopoly of the radio business.
While claiming that other players are attempting to make "unfair" monopolistic moves. It's pretty funny to watch.
ClearChannel and the rest of the of the NAB are still up in arms and fighting against the XM/Sirius merger, claiming it's a monopoly and anti-competitive for all radio broadcast (terrestrial included).
Yet ClearChannel eats up every station & every market they can get their hands on.
Yes, the UI of the Mac is very shiny compared to Windows. But all these applications do is layer crap on top of the Windows UI. They don't actually address what makes OS X so exciting to me, a recent switcher (coming up on 1 month).
It's the architecture of the OS and the services it, and the applications it comes with, provides. It's Spotlight. It's the integration of my apps and data. It's Delicious Library starting up for the first time, checking my address book, and automatically finding everyone whose last name I share to add them as a "borrower" in my library because they're assumed to be family. It's adding a contact to Address Book and having them appear automatically in iChat. It's the drop-dead easy application installation, management and uninstallation.
Yes, there are some things in the Mac UI I don't like (or don't yet understand), and there are parts of the system which may not be quite "right", but thus far Leopard at 1 month old is a lot more impressive than XP ever was for me.
Go ahead, make Windows "look" like a Mac. It won't "turn your PC into a Mac", it won't even make your PC work anything like a Mac.
Corporate Windows desktops are already owned by IE, and until all those custom, in-house apps and industry-specific systems are rewritten to not require IE6, or ActiveX, or IE-proprietary HTML/CSS/scripting, it's not going to relinquish much marketshare there.
I switched to a Mac when the SR MacBooks were released 3 weeks ago. I haven't even bothered to install Firefox yet. I installed Camino because there was one site not letting me in with Safari, but aside from that I've switched to Safari and really not looked back.
I use Firefox on my (soon to disappear) PC and my work machine almost exclusively. I'll give Fx 3 a look on the Mac when it's released, but it'll really have to impress to get me to switch away from Safari there.
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Which is almost exactly what the drug companies do now. Patent drug A. Patent drug B. When the patent exclusivity is close to expiring, combine the two drugs to make "drug C" and patent that (Caduet, anyone?).
Or, for that matter, just tweak drug A to make it time-release. Claritin vs. Claritin-D, for example.
I seem to recall reading an article in Wired several years ago about pebble-bed reactors, and building them small enough that each town could have their own. Maybe even small enough that you could run one just for your house, or yourself and a few neighbors. I think someone wanted to pilot such a program in China.
The page linked in the article comes up not found. I'm a NY resident, I want to put in my 2 cents - how the hell do I do it?
But everyone seems to forget that for that run, the Blackbird had a flying start. If you timed LA to NY from liftoff to touchdown, it'd be FAR longer.
You don't get up to those speeds and altitudes quickly.
Sure, they did "something."
But they didn't address the problem that actually led to the breach. They're encrypting laptops, but it was backup tapes which were compromised. No mention of those getting encrypted.
What about Junior Mints finding their way into the patient from the observation area?
IIRC, it was the GPS that got him in trouble in the first place - it took him down a road that wasn't serviced in the winter.
A handheld GPS might have gotten him back to his car, but he'd have been hypothermic by then anyway, and pretty much useless to his family.
They won't do that. They make too much money selling their crappy apps, music, videos & ringtones via their crappy UI. If they let leave the phones on their "factory" UI, they lose a HUGE revenue stream.
There is a lot of tourism very close to the US/Canada border - Vancouver, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal come to mind immediately. I enjoy going to Niagara, but I'm not going through this crap. Maybe if enough people stop hopping the border, Canada will complain about the loss of tourism dollars & things will change.
The OP stated that one should just use TrueCrypt. I was pointing out that it's not viable if you need to use OS X. That's all.
I'm aware of encrypted disk images BUT the problem really is that if I use TrueCrypt on my work computer (Windows) and my wife's laptop (also Windows) to protect my data, I can't upload that to Google and then bring it down for use on my MacBook.
If I use an encrypted disk image on the Mac, I can't use it on the Windows systems.
ClearChannel and the rest of the of the NAB are still up in arms and fighting against the XM/Sirius merger, claiming it's a monopoly and anti-competitive for all radio broadcast (terrestrial included).
Yet ClearChannel eats up every station & every market they can get their hands on.
I was with you until the last one. Huey Lewis & The News wasn't exactly a one-hit wonder.
QWERTY is a holdover from the early days of mechanical typewriters, meant to slow typists down. It was not designed to be "good" for modern use.
Didn't Carlin distill those 10 down to 2?
Fargo is even a relatively safe distance from a major USAF nuclear installation.
You can't polish a turd.
Yes, the UI of the Mac is very shiny compared to Windows. But all these applications do is layer crap on top of the Windows UI. They don't actually address what makes OS X so exciting to me, a recent switcher (coming up on 1 month).
It's the architecture of the OS and the services it, and the applications it comes with, provides. It's Spotlight. It's the integration of my apps and data. It's Delicious Library starting up for the first time, checking my address book, and automatically finding everyone whose last name I share to add them as a "borrower" in my library because they're assumed to be family. It's adding a contact to Address Book and having them appear automatically in iChat. It's the drop-dead easy application installation, management and uninstallation.
Yes, there are some things in the Mac UI I don't like (or don't yet understand), and there are parts of the system which may not be quite "right", but thus far Leopard at 1 month old is a lot more impressive than XP ever was for me.
Go ahead, make Windows "look" like a Mac. It won't "turn your PC into a Mac", it won't even make your PC work anything like a Mac.
Propane + hardwood chips works just fine.
Too dry? You're cooking it wrong. Then again, most people do.
The bird we had tonight was soaked in a honey brine solution for 26 hours, then put on a grill w/ indirect heat and hardwood chips for smoke flavor.
Hands-down the best, most flavorful, juiciest turkey I've ever had.
Corporate Windows desktops are already owned by IE, and until all those custom, in-house apps and industry-specific systems are rewritten to not require IE6, or ActiveX, or IE-proprietary HTML/CSS/scripting, it's not going to relinquish much marketshare there.
May be too late for me.
I switched to a Mac when the SR MacBooks were released 3 weeks ago. I haven't even bothered to install Firefox yet. I installed Camino because there was one site not letting me in with Safari, but aside from that I've switched to Safari and really not looked back.
I use Firefox on my (soon to disappear) PC and my work machine almost exclusively. I'll give Fx 3 a look on the Mac when it's released, but it'll really have to impress to get me to switch away from Safari there.