I never like when scientists can't explain a major aspect of something like a black hole. They have models/predictions etc., but there are these little pieces that are missing.
Then someone comes along with an elegant solution that fits perfectly into the existing theory/model/design and suddenly all these unexplained pieces make perfect sense.
That is what science is about. Revelation based on fact, not faith. At the end of the day I think it's a lot more rewarding, although a lot harder to come by.
At the end of the day, I guess I'm missing why everyone thinks Apple would care?
The Pre isn't sold by AT&T, and in the US everyone is basically tied to long term carrier based contracts to get smart phones. So if you own a Pre, you're not going to be getting an iPhone for at least a year or two at best.
So why would you want to block the device from working with your music store at that point? There's no lost hardware sale, but if you play nice you'll keep getting music sales. Maybe if you do a good enough job with your software/interface etc. you can get a Pre user to look at an iPhone in year's time.
Will this be the first mass produced consumer product to use an OLED screen? I know I've been reading about them for some time, but other than one digital camera (i think) I don't know that I've heard of any products that will actually contain one. It will be interesting to see how it looks relative to other small media players.
If nothing else it's great that they're raising the bar.
Biodesiel has a wonderful byproduct of Nitrous Oxide, which is a much, much much worse greenhouse gas than CO2 could ever hope to be. But hey, it's made from plants so it must be good for the earth, right?
Don't forget, it wasn't just that it was prescription strength OTC medication (she could have taken a handful of "regular" pills for the same effect)
The entire thing was based on the accusations of another student. No one actually saw her with any pills of any kind. A strip search for what amounts to over the counter medication based on the accusations of another student.
If a student had accused the vice principal of the same thing, would they be expected to submit to a strip search?
Zero tolerance policies are the same as "I just don't want to make hard decisions" so instead you make f'ing stupid ones.
"Without open source, Apple will find itself in the same position as today's Microsoft in seven years."
You say that as if it were a bad thing. I'm guessing that despite the recent drop to 89% marketshare MS is feeling just fine.
I'm not saying OSS would be a bad move for Apple or the iPhone, but to say that if they aren't careful they might end up completely dominating the market and rolling around in mountains of cash isn't going to get your point across to most people.
Consider that you can get a blue ray drive for a PC rip the content off to a in home server and play it back via a number of methods in everything from the original res down to ipod. The only optical media drive I've had in my entertainment center for the better part of a decade is a USB attached computer drive that automatically rips / converts / slices and dices whatever you put into it. The media cartels might not like it but physical media is dying as it's pointless. I would rather have my media collection live on a bunch of raid drive in the basement server and on backup tapes, than sitting in my living room. Though I also think TV's should be mounted behind a mirror rather than displayed.
In the process breaking a host of laws to do it.
Most people are neither technically nor legally inclined to go that route. (And that's another thing, each new generation makes it harder and harder for you to do what you want with the conten you buy, which is a real incentive to stop buying it.)
It's certainly doable, but I wouldn't describe that as a mainstream solution.
I wonder how many people got burned last time by a format "leap" that really wasn't that awesome. I get the impression that people are holding off until Blu-Ray is the only game in town. For now if it doesn't offer a huge increase in quality why invest the money?
In two years there could very well be another dominant format (online digital downloads) which would mean all the Blu-Ray crap I buy now is part of an intermediary step in the digital evolution.
I looked, but could only find old articles that ruled in favor of the oil/gas company drilling on Native American land for oil.
If you have more recent ones I'm all ears.:p
"Land Management Bureau, rejecting appeal by 10 American Indian tribes and environmentalists, rules Anschutz Exploration Corp may drill exploratory oil well in southern Montana near ancient rock art site Indians consider sacred May 23, 2001"
So, you get a "free" computer in exchange for replying to *every* spam email that you get each day?
They said the average US participant got 70 per day. Say an average of 30 seconds to a minute to reply to each? (Some asked to fill out forms, apply for job postings etc. so those should fall well over the one minute mark.)
I think you could easily hit an hour or more per day just replying to spam emails, for 365 days a year!
That's about 9 weeks of full time work, all for a computer that is going to be seriously f'd up with malware and spyware and really shouldn't be used for anything personal until the year is up and it's been reformatted.
So you get a year old computer after spending 9 weeks of your time answering lame spam messages.
Guess everyone has a different definition of "free".
(By comparison, if you spend 2 weeks working for $6 an hour you'd have almost $500 and could probably buy a computer as good as what you were given. If you worked the same 9 weeks you'd take home over $2k. )
How about NTFS, Apple? About damn time OS X supported read-write for NTFS - hard to bring it into corporate environment when you can't read from a Windows partition. NTFS-3G drivers are stable, they ought to have been integrated with Leopard to begin with. Granted you can't write to NTFS in OSX, but OSX has been able to read an NTFS partition for quite some time.
It's actually really nice to have a Mac around when pulling files from a possibly infected NTFS drive. You're not going to pick up anything that will infect your machine, and you can pick and choose through the files you want at your leisure after reimaging your Windows box.
Or just get all your broadcast channels in HD over the air for free. Or get a satellite. There are definitely options at this stage in the game. I'm on the phone canceling my account with Comcast as we speak. They didn't want to give me an HD DVR unless I was paying for one of their $50+ a month cable plans. Basic broadcast channels are fine for me, and now I'm getting them for free over the air.
Sure I'm paying Tivo, but they're offering me DVR service, and I'd rather Tivo gets my cash than Comcast anyway.
Sounds like someone has an axe to grind. If Firefox users were a small percentage of total browsers, and a smaller percentage of them use Ad Block, why would you worry about the resources you claim they're "stealing." I suppose they're trying to raise awareness that blocking ads hurts their business, so why not try something different?
If end users hate your marketing attempts enough to go out of their way to block them, perhaps your marketing attempts suck.
Try donations, try offering merchandise, try anything. Don't just blame the end-user because your stupid punch the monkey, seizure inducing flash crap is obnoxious.
They have a corporate and individual client. The individual offers unlimited backups for $5 per month. The corporate is something like 50 cents per gig, plus $5 per month. The nice part is it's a very intelligent backup client, will run from anywhere, and encrypts the data as you go. (you can use their key or generate your own.)
www.mozy.com
You should check them out. I've been very happy with them.
If you can get past the mess, I've found a lot of geeks are also good at fixing cars. Similarly complex systems that all work together, required trouble shooting of various systems, etc.
The nice part is it's a useful skill in every day life, and if nothing else you might know when someone is going to rip you off at the local auto shop.
It has nothing to do with slander, and everything to do with not trusting government or those in power. When people in China are getting arrested for speaking out online against their leaders, it makes me nervous.
How long until disagreeing with the party line makes you a terrorist and yields you the same treatment here?
How am I supposed to have any data for it? Unless I'm the editor of a major journal, I'd have no way of knowing what was submitted and then rejected relative to what was published. If I were an editor, I wouldn't be able to list what wasn't accepted since you get a chance to resubmit to another journal if it's rejected by one.
Oh, I completely agree, which is why 3 to 5 year NSF grants and other federal funds are so highly sought after.
Most of the time science is done a few small grants at a time, kludged together to get working funding for the next 9 months to a year.
However, if you're working the right field something like global warming is a money train that pulls into town. You get five or six collaborators in a few other Universities to write something up, you send it to the govt. and next thing you know you have a $50 million dollar grant. $10 million a year for five years. Granted it's split among 6 or 7 other projects, but it's still a huge windfall.
When I say "their source of funding for the next 10 years" I don't mean to imply that their funding is locked in stone or any kind of promise, but rather their general field is expected to be funded for the foreseeable future, and the research they're doing is generally accepted within the field and likely to lead to additional research based on the initial findings.
It's basically a way to milk a single funded project for years after the first study by giving some answers, then tacking on that there were some interesting additional findings that need more research. Rinse and repeat.
Also (at least with NSF grants) once you've gotten a grant from them it's *much* easier down the line to get related research funded.
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I never like when scientists can't explain a major aspect of something like a black hole. They have models/predictions etc., but there are these little pieces that are missing.
Then someone comes along with an elegant solution that fits perfectly into the existing theory/model/design and suddenly all these unexplained pieces make perfect sense.
That is what science is about. Revelation based on fact, not faith. At the end of the day I think it's a lot more rewarding, although a lot harder to come by.
At the end of the day, I guess I'm missing why everyone thinks Apple would care?
The Pre isn't sold by AT&T, and in the US everyone is basically tied to long term carrier based contracts to get smart phones. So if you own a Pre, you're not going to be getting an iPhone for at least a year or two at best.
So why would you want to block the device from working with your music store at that point? There's no lost hardware sale, but if you play nice you'll keep getting music sales. Maybe if you do a good enough job with your software/interface etc. you can get a Pre user to look at an iPhone in year's time.
Will this be the first mass produced consumer product to use an OLED screen? I know I've been reading about them for some time, but other than one digital camera (i think) I don't know that I've heard of any products that will actually contain one. It will be interesting to see how it looks relative to other small media players.
If nothing else it's great that they're raising the bar.
Biodesiel has a wonderful byproduct of Nitrous Oxide, which is a much, much much worse greenhouse gas than CO2 could ever hope to be. But hey, it's made from plants so it must be good for the earth, right?
Don't forget, it wasn't just that it was prescription strength OTC medication (she could have taken a handful of "regular" pills for the same effect)
The entire thing was based on the accusations of another student. No one actually saw her with any pills of any kind. A strip search for what amounts to over the counter medication based on the accusations of another student.
If a student had accused the vice principal of the same thing, would they be expected to submit to a strip search?
Zero tolerance policies are the same as "I just don't want to make hard decisions" so instead you make f'ing stupid ones.
"Without open source, Apple will find itself in the same position as today's Microsoft in seven years."
You say that as if it were a bad thing. I'm guessing that despite the recent drop to 89% marketshare MS is feeling just fine.
I'm not saying OSS would be a bad move for Apple or the iPhone, but to say that if they aren't careful they might end up completely dominating the market and rolling around in mountains of cash isn't going to get your point across to most people.
Can a judge just say "fuck off already" to this kind of crap?
If you're job searching and you're not smart enough to consider your online profile an extension of your resume, you're not that bright.
Of course they don't want to hire you then.
Consider that you can get a blue ray drive for a PC rip the content off to a in home server and play it back via a number of methods in everything from the original res down to ipod. The only optical media drive I've had in my entertainment center for the better part of a decade is a USB attached computer drive that automatically rips / converts / slices and dices whatever you put into it. The media cartels might not like it but physical media is dying as it's pointless. I would rather have my media collection live on a bunch of raid drive in the basement server and on backup tapes, than sitting in my living room. Though I also think TV's should be mounted behind a mirror rather than displayed.
In the process breaking a host of laws to do it.
Most people are neither technically nor legally inclined to go that route. (And that's another thing, each new generation makes it harder and harder for you to do what you want with the conten you buy, which is a real incentive to stop buying it.)
It's certainly doable, but I wouldn't describe that as a mainstream solution.
I wonder how many people got burned last time by a format "leap" that really wasn't that awesome. I get the impression that people are holding off until Blu-Ray is the only game in town. For now if it doesn't offer a huge increase in quality why invest the money?
In two years there could very well be another dominant format (online digital downloads) which would mean all the Blu-Ray crap I buy now is part of an intermediary step in the digital evolution.
I looked, but could only find old articles that ruled in favor of the oil/gas company drilling on Native American land for oil.
If you have more recent ones I'm all ears. :p
"Land Management Bureau, rejecting appeal by 10 American Indian tribes and environmentalists, rules Anschutz Exploration Corp may drill exploratory oil well in southern Montana near ancient rock art site Indians consider sacred
May 23, 2001"
I wonder if the BLM has approved any oil wells on BLM land......
So, you get a "free" computer in exchange for replying to *every* spam email that you get each day?
They said the average US participant got 70 per day. Say an average of 30 seconds to a minute to reply to each? (Some asked to fill out forms, apply for job postings etc. so those should fall well over the one minute mark.)
I think you could easily hit an hour or more per day just replying to spam emails, for 365 days a year!
That's about 9 weeks of full time work, all for a computer that is going to be seriously f'd up with malware and spyware and really shouldn't be used for anything personal until the year is up and it's been reformatted.
So you get a year old computer after spending 9 weeks of your time answering lame spam messages.
Guess everyone has a different definition of "free".
(By comparison, if you spend 2 weeks working for $6 an hour you'd have almost $500 and could probably buy a computer as good as what you were given. If you worked the same 9 weeks you'd take home over $2k. )
It's actually really nice to have a Mac around when pulling files from a possibly infected NTFS drive. You're not going to pick up anything that will infect your machine, and you can pick and choose through the files you want at your leisure after reimaging your Windows box.
Right.
Because if you're having trouble sleeping, nothing would help like a thin sheet of crinkly metal wrapped around your head while you try to doze off.
Is USB still going to require that your CPU do all the heavy lifting while doing data transfers? If so then I doubt 1394 is dead.
Or just get all your broadcast channels in HD over the air for free. Or get a satellite. There are definitely options at this stage in the game. I'm on the phone canceling my account with Comcast as we speak. They didn't want to give me an HD DVR unless I was paying for one of their $50+ a month cable plans. Basic broadcast channels are fine for me, and now I'm getting them for free over the air.
Sure I'm paying Tivo, but they're offering me DVR service, and I'd rather Tivo gets my cash than Comcast anyway.
Sounds like someone has an axe to grind. If Firefox users were a small percentage of total browsers, and a smaller percentage of them use Ad Block, why would you worry about the resources you claim they're "stealing." I suppose they're trying to raise awareness that blocking ads hurts their business, so why not try something different?
If end users hate your marketing attempts enough to go out of their way to block them, perhaps your marketing attempts suck.
Try donations, try offering merchandise, try anything. Don't just blame the end-user because your stupid punch the monkey, seizure inducing flash crap is obnoxious.
They have a corporate and individual client. The individual offers unlimited backups for $5 per month. The corporate is something like 50 cents per gig, plus $5 per month. The nice part is it's a very intelligent backup client, will run from anywhere, and encrypts the data as you go. (you can use their key or generate your own.)
www.mozy.com
You should check them out. I've been very happy with them.
If you can get past the mess, I've found a lot of geeks are also good at fixing cars. Similarly complex systems that all work together, required trouble shooting of various systems, etc.
The nice part is it's a useful skill in every day life, and if nothing else you might know when someone is going to rip you off at the local auto shop.
Then you would guess wrong. Thanks for playing.
It has nothing to do with slander, and everything to do with not trusting government or those in power. When people in China are getting arrested for speaking out online against their leaders, it makes me nervous.
How long until disagreeing with the party line makes you a terrorist and yields you the same treatment here?
I hope in their quest for better security they don't get rid of annonimity (sp?).
What good is a network to exchange free thinking and ideas if Big Brother is looking over your shoulder the entire time.
What don't you understand about climate and temperature being different things?
How am I supposed to have any data for it? Unless I'm the editor of a major journal, I'd have no way of knowing what was submitted and then rejected relative to what was published. If I were an editor, I wouldn't be able to list what wasn't accepted since you get a chance to resubmit to another journal if it's rejected by one.
Oh, I completely agree, which is why 3 to 5 year NSF grants and other federal funds are so highly sought after.
Most of the time science is done a few small grants at a time, kludged together to get working funding for the next 9 months to a year.
However, if you're working the right field something like global warming is a money train that pulls into town. You get five or six collaborators in a few other Universities to write something up, you send it to the govt. and next thing you know you have a $50 million dollar grant. $10 million a year for five years. Granted it's split among 6 or 7 other projects, but it's still a huge windfall.
When I say "their source of funding for the next 10 years" I don't mean to imply that their funding is locked in stone or any kind of promise, but rather their general field is expected to be funded for the foreseeable future, and the research they're doing is generally accepted within the field and likely to lead to additional research based on the initial findings.
It's basically a way to milk a single funded project for years after the first study by giving some answers, then tacking on that there were some interesting additional findings that need more research. Rinse and repeat.
Also (at least with NSF grants) once you've gotten a grant from them it's *much* easier down the line to get related research funded.