Replace every instance of "Huygens" in the article with "giant Rolo candy."
Using a global network of radio telescopes, scientists have measured the speed of the winds faced by Huygens during its descent through the atmosphere of Titan.
The very successful signal detection on Earth provided a surprising turnabout for the Cassini-Giant Rolo Candy Doppler Wind Experiment (DWE)...
Star Trek has been kept running on the popularity of the mythos, of the franchise. It has always been self-sustaining, through its own quality. If a Star Trek show is in such a bad state that it needs to rely on fan charity to survive... it isn't worth keeping.
Just the cosmically wrong image of my sleek Nokia cell sitting right next to a black Western Electric rotary phone is enough to make me want one of these.
It seems an AC has beat me to it, but I'll flesh out the point anyway.
Apple's hardware business is about as niche as you can get - and with that comes risks. The Mac's traditional strongholds of education and professional video/audio are under siege. Especially the latter: the old, tired argument of "WellMacsarebetterforgraphics!" is simply not true anymore. Apple doesn't have much of the market at all, but what it does have is all it's got. It can afford to expand its share but there is not much room for shrinking. The loyalty of Apple customers is legendary, but for all that, the company's position is precarious. Apple has been "saved" countless times... by investment from Microsoft, by a killer product that just came out in the nick of time (iMac), by branching out into other profitable areas (iPod). That is not the status, the strategy, of a company that is 100% assured of its own survival. It is not inevitable that Apple's hardware business would implode, but it is more of a possibility than it would be with, say, Dell or HP.
Now, say that this did happen. Where would Apple have to turn? Would it do what Nintendo swore it would do, and disintegrate completely? Or would it turn into a software company? If it became a software company, what market would it have to look to for suvival?
How about the biggest computer market on earth? PCs. They could release OS X for PCs, and it would be a huge breath of fresh air into the market - an OS with an unmatched reputation for ease of use, finally in a position to challenge Windows.
But I would also be worried about this if I was distributing a desktop linux distro. Now that Apple hardware is (relatively) cheap, and damn sexy, I might have to buy one. I'd probably dual boot OS X and Gentoo, but there are others who will probably go for the nice look of OS X, along with BSD under the hood, and leave Linux/*BSD for ever.
All it would take would be for Apple to release OS X for the PC. Any chance Linux had at serious penetration of the desktop market would evaporate.
once the affordable, stylish mac steals the Windows users who love their iPod
Bit of an assumption there, isn't it?
True, this is the first Mac to be within an average joe's price range -- and the fact that it includes no keyboard, mouse, or monitor doesn't matter because it's aimed at potential switchers. Whip out the PC, slide in the Mac Mini.
All the conditions are there. But does the Mini offer enough to get people to climb out of their boxes of complacency and tolerance, and actually switch?
It's Wal-Mart -- desecrator of burial grounds, disturber of ancient ruins, discriminator of women employees, and destroyer of small-town America......but it's Linux!
Google continues to run a service that is fast, reliable, and modern. They're aggressively broadening their service base, they've attained the pinnacle of name recognition, and they're not showing any signs of letting up.
That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it would be that Google is trying to do too much, too fast. What in the world does trying to be a domain registrar have to do with increasing their search capabilities? Plus, Google's research into search AI is not at the level of Microsoft's. (Never, ever underestimate the power of Microsoft Research.) There are some indications that Google may indeed "sit on their laurels" and let Microsoft pass them by.
You have to realize that Microsoft is a very big, very powerful company with an enormous R&D department and a gigantic marketing machine. Google has won both market share and mind share, but both can be taken. Microsoft is in a position to do it. One underestimates at one's own risk.
This cancellation could give the staggeringly lazy Trek writers and producers a kick up the arse -- it's a good excuse for a badly needed clean out of the wasters that have taken up residence in the Star Trek creative departments over its long history. The next Trek series might actually be worth watching as a result.
If they brought in J. Michael Straczynski, you can bet I'd watch the new series. Babylon 5 showed that that man knows how to write a goddamn good story, and might be one of the few people who could save Star Trek at this point.
All we ask for is for people to look at the page as a work in progress. I have seen some feedback that we should not have declared the doctype as XHTML Strict. If anything, we are closer to HTML 4.01. I agree. But our target is to get to XHTML strict. We realize we are not at a point where we can say we have achieved our goal. We will be working hard to get to that goal. Let us know how we are doing. Where are we slipping up? What do we need to fix? We are listening.
But I suppose giving actual feedback would be too much to ask.
"Emergency channel, zero-one-three-zero, Code Red. It has been three hours since our contact with the alien probe. All attempts at regaining power have failed. All non-essential fuel has been given...to slow our consumption of life-support reserves. Our chief engineer is trying to deploy a makeshift solar sail. We have high hopes that this will, if successful, generate power to keep us alive."
if you're going to be elitist about your show not being a cartoon, with the assumption that cartoons are "for kids",
You might try reading my post more carefully. I never said that anime didn't fit the technical definition, I said that the term "cartoon" is misleading because in the public's eye it carries lots of childish connotations that are simply inaccurate when looking at the anime world as a whole. In this case, impression takes precedence over the exact definition.
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Yeah, and in late 2004 the Register posted that Microsoft was about to file for bankruptcy.
(FYI, no B.S.: That article is printed, laminated, and behind a case in one of Microsoft's lobbies.)
Replace every instance of "Huygens" in the article with "giant Rolo candy."
Using a global network of radio telescopes, scientists have measured the speed of the winds faced by Huygens during its descent through the atmosphere of Titan.
The very successful signal detection on Earth provided a surprising turnabout for the Cassini-Giant Rolo Candy Doppler Wind Experiment (DWE)...
See? It's fun!
The article states that Microsoft is thinking about charging for their anti-virus and anti-spyware software.
I don't see how they couldn't, without risking further anti-trust-related accusations.
Get a woman. You'll forget your PC was ever there.
Star Trek has been kept running on the popularity of the mythos, of the franchise. It has always been self-sustaining, through its own quality. If a Star Trek show is in such a bad state that it needs to rely on fan charity to survive... it isn't worth keeping.
He said the child could use the laptop like a text book.
As in, fall asleep and drool on it?
A laptop keyboard isn't nearly as pillowesque as, say, the cushy, thick pages of a physics book.
Just the cosmically wrong image of my sleek Nokia cell sitting right next to a black Western Electric rotary phone is enough to make me want one of these.
by 2010 almost all cars will have the same mechanical systems (hardware), and the differences will be primarily on software level.
At that point, we'll be too distracted by Jupiter turning into a star to really notice.
It seems an AC has beat me to it, but I'll flesh out the point anyway.
Apple's hardware business is about as niche as you can get - and with that comes risks. The Mac's traditional strongholds of education and professional video/audio are under siege. Especially the latter: the old, tired argument of "WellMacsarebetterforgraphics!" is simply not true anymore. Apple doesn't have much of the market at all, but what it does have is all it's got. It can afford to expand its share but there is not much room for shrinking. The loyalty of Apple customers is legendary, but for all that, the company's position is precarious. Apple has been "saved" countless times... by investment from Microsoft, by a killer product that just came out in the nick of time (iMac), by branching out into other profitable areas (iPod). That is not the status, the strategy, of a company that is 100% assured of its own survival. It is not inevitable that Apple's hardware business would implode, but it is more of a possibility than it would be with, say, Dell or HP.
Now, say that this did happen. Where would Apple have to turn? Would it do what Nintendo swore it would do, and disintegrate completely? Or would it turn into a software company? If it became a software company, what market would it have to look to for suvival?
How about the biggest computer market on earth? PCs. They could release OS X for PCs, and it would be a huge breath of fresh air into the market - an OS with an unmatched reputation for ease of use, finally in a position to challenge Windows.
This only confirms what we have all known for a long time, Microsoft is run by a bunch of morons.
For a "bunch of morons" they seem to have done a pretty good job establishing and maintaining desktop and office suite dominance.
For a "bunch of morons" they seem to have made a pretty big warchest of cash.
For a "bunch of morons" they seem to have gone from nothing to second place in the game console market rather quickly.
For a "bunch of morons," in other words, they're pretty damned successful. The last thing you or anyone should be doing is writing them off.
But I would also be worried about this if I was distributing a desktop linux distro. Now that Apple hardware is (relatively) cheap, and damn sexy, I might have to buy one. I'd probably dual boot OS X and Gentoo, but there are others who will probably go for the nice look of OS X, along with BSD under the hood, and leave Linux/*BSD for ever.
All it would take would be for Apple to release OS X for the PC. Any chance Linux had at serious penetration of the desktop market would evaporate.
Well, there is precedent.
once the affordable, stylish mac steals the Windows users who love their iPod
Bit of an assumption there, isn't it?
True, this is the first Mac to be within an average joe's price range -- and the fact that it includes no keyboard, mouse, or monitor doesn't matter because it's aimed at potential switchers. Whip out the PC, slide in the Mac Mini.
All the conditions are there. But does the Mini offer enough to get people to climb out of their boxes of complacency and tolerance, and actually switch?
I'd really like one of Redmond. Or, rather, this one specific part of Redmond...
No reason, really. Honest.
Can we get this lens right the first time, too? :)
It's Wal-Mart -- desecrator of burial grounds, disturber of ancient ruins, discriminator of women employees, and destroyer of small-town America... ...but it's Linux!
Oh, how to feel?
I look forward to over 2000 years of stable storage without data loss!
Yeah, right. Didn't you see Raiders of the Lost Ark? The Ark was full of dust.
At least you'll be able to melt some Nazis though.
the company 'has left open a security hole large enough to drive many, many large trucks through.'"
Like, say, a truck about the size of Sun's Java runtime environment.
Google continues to run a service that is fast, reliable, and modern. They're aggressively broadening their service base, they've attained the pinnacle of name recognition, and they're not showing any signs of letting up.
That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it would be that Google is trying to do too much, too fast. What in the world does trying to be a domain registrar have to do with increasing their search capabilities? Plus, Google's research into search AI is not at the level of Microsoft's. (Never, ever underestimate the power of Microsoft Research.) There are some indications that Google may indeed "sit on their laurels" and let Microsoft pass them by.
You have to realize that Microsoft is a very big, very powerful company with an enormous R&D department and a gigantic marketing machine. Google has won both market share and mind share, but both can be taken. Microsoft is in a position to do it. One underestimates at one's own risk.
...are "Why are these costs so prohibitively high?" and "What can be done to correct this?"
This cancellation could give the staggeringly lazy Trek writers and producers a kick up the arse -- it's a good excuse for a badly needed clean out of the wasters that have taken up residence in the Star Trek creative departments over its long history. The next Trek series might actually be worth watching as a result.
If they brought in J. Michael Straczynski, you can bet I'd watch the new series. Babylon 5 showed that that man knows how to write a goddamn good story, and might be one of the few people who could save Star Trek at this point.
From the weblog:
All we ask for is for people to look at the page as a work in progress. I have seen some feedback that we should not have declared the doctype as XHTML Strict. If anything, we are closer to HTML 4.01. I agree. But our target is to get to XHTML strict. We realize we are not at a point where we can say we have achieved our goal. We will be working hard to get to that goal. Let us know how we are doing. Where are we slipping up? What do we need to fix? We are listening.
But I suppose giving actual feedback would be too much to ask.
...if all our monitors turned out to be "telescreens"?
"Emergency channel, zero-one-three-zero, Code Red. It has been three hours since our contact with the alien probe. All attempts at regaining power have failed. All non-essential fuel has been given...to slow our consumption of life-support reserves. Our chief engineer is trying to deploy a makeshift solar sail. We have high hopes that this will, if successful, generate power to keep us alive."
if you're going to be elitist about your show not being a cartoon, with the assumption that cartoons are "for kids",
You might try reading my post more carefully. I never said that anime didn't fit the technical definition, I said that the term "cartoon" is misleading because in the public's eye it carries lots of childish connotations that are simply inaccurate when looking at the anime world as a whole. In this case, impression takes precedence over the exact definition.