All this talk about Space Exploration is great, and I agree that in the future, we will one day have to colonize space. But what about right now?
Space Colonization is simply not practical today and may not be for another century or longer. So why not look the other way? What about Oceanic Colonization? No exotic technology like carbon nanotube space tethers are required, no worries about intersteller radiation, bone mineral depletion, obtaining drinking water, fuel or breathable air. We have all the technology to build floating and underwater structures, we know who to make artificial island communities (look at Dubai)
All this is right here, right now. Why don't we stop focusing so hard on the long shots and start looking at what we can start doing today to alleviate the population crises and making better use of our existing resources? It seems our astrophysics community really has a hard-on for space exploration while Oceanic dwellings are merely the pipe-dream of young architects as part of design competitions, but is mainly regarded as a novelty and not really taken all that seriously.
70% of the earth is covered in water, scientists predict this will increase within the century. Does it not make sense to start adapting and learning to exist on the largest resource available on the Earth?
[quote]The company said it will use a mix of industrial astronauts and advanced robotic systems[/quote]
Great, just what we need -- mass-produced clones having an existential break-down while being gently prodded on by a robot with the voice of Kevin Spacey.
By stating that a Corporation's ToS carries full force of the law the Government have declared the entire legislative branch redundant and therefor, should be shut down and replaced with electronic contracts to be shoved down consumers throat at any corporation's whim and to be enforced by the FBI and DoJ.
Frankly, this stance by the Obama administration is a complete violation of our Constitution and should be exposed and dealt with as such.
Does reading about a vast army of cheaply produced, fault-prone commodity hardware from multiple OEM vendors running an OS from a single software vendor competing against Apple's solely owned and closed product line give anyone else a sense of deja vu?
The combined power of 10 separate lasers would be focused down to a very small volume, creating conditions more extreme than in the center of our sun.
So they'll essentiallly be turning the Earth into the Death Star And we feel good about letting Europeans man the switch? Will they be wearing dark suits with funky helmets?
I've made it a point to ask ahead to confirm that there will be no "brain teasers" and if there may be, to kindly ask them to rescind the interview so that they may focus on more qualified candidates who share their core values (being a self-congratulating asshole who gets a boner doing brain teasers)
Frankly, the very fact they ask brain teasers tells me a lot more about them than my answer will ever tell them about me. The fact that I put it bluntly, but kindly to opt out in such an event should show my "free-thinking out of the boxness", though lower my score as a team-player (read: leader not follower). But the fact they put such a priority on stupid pissing-contests shows they lack creativity, have no clue how to actually assess someone based on their merits and skill and place little value on individual contributions as much as maintaining their "culture". All in all, they show they don't care as much about the individual's technological aptitude as much as "fitting in" - so if getting lost in a cube farm is your goal, study up on these brain teasers. But, if you're looking to develop hot software, go with a smaller organization where your contribution will be greatly felt and who don't have time to waste playing games with candidates.
If they chrooted Darwin to the point that every app had to have Apple granted permissions to do *anything* on the list of AppStore sandbox privileges, then Apple would indeed be dead in a very short time.
iOS is already stagnant in the Smartphone marketshare reports while Android keeps growing and gaining new product platforms. Granted, iOS still has a huge install base, but the day that Apache can no longer access the internet and PHP/RoR scripts can't access the file system or make network service calls, it's game over for OS X as a web developer platform.
Since Mobile Apps and Internet Services go hand in hand, a substantial amount of developers who write for iOS also write Web Services in some non-Apple controlled language such as Java, PHP or Ruby. To take that away would make OS X essentially an iOS/OS X only development box -- and you'd be looking at another 1995 era for Apple all over again as their development base switched back to Windows or to Linux and focused chiefly on Android development and writing their Web Services on those other platforms.
With this sort of change to a MacBook Pro being a $2,5000 iOS compiler, the development community would noticeably decrease after the first year. By three years time, their development base would mostly consist of large corporations who have already invested in iOS apps and need to maintain them, die hard loyalists and consultants who are "forced" to have a Mac for iOS/OS X development for contract work. New iOS App development would drop off dramatically since the iOS marketshare would have fallen to 20% or less of the mobile market as user perception switches away from iOS, seeing it as a dead or dying platform for lack of Apps as compared to Android.
How are they isolating developers? I develop on the Mac and constantly install development software all the time. Know how many development related bits I've had to install via AppStore? -- ONE -- The latest version of XCode after it went to public release.
The AppStore is for CONSUMERS, there will never be a full lockdown because forcing every software writer to release through the AppStore would kill OS X as a development platform. Even XCode requires a whole bevy of gnu utilities. OS X is a full fledged UNIX and as such, you'll always be able to do *Nixy things such as wget/curl a file, gunzip, configure and make.
What Apple does with their CoCoa Framework and native apps is up to them, but as long as they are a UNIX, they'll never have the ability to stop apps written in C, Java, Python, Bash, Perl, PHP or Ruby from doing whatever the hell they please.
The day they do, is the day OS X leaves the Unix fold and becomes something else. And if that happens, you can bet your sweet ass that Apple will be dead within 3 years.
Please - give him one term. Let him trim the federal government - you can always build it back up in a few years. Think of it as a giant refactoring project.
You do realize that we live in a Republic and not an Autocracy, right? If we gave Ron Paul a term, we'd have 4 years of fuck-all getting done because both sides of the isles of Congress would stand staunchly against him. One does not simply get elected President, wake up in the morning of their 1st day in office and say "Today I proclaim the end to these Congressionally mandated departments of Federal Government".
Ron Paul's "plans" are way too extreme to get a popular backing, which means he wont get elected, and even if a snowball did make it through Hell, and he did somehow get elected, these plans of his would be eaten alive in Congress.
FYI, it's against US Employment law to ask any applicant any age related question other than to verify they are 18 or over. Since an actor is essentially a Contractor and not an employee, they are hired on the merits of their qualifications -- once again age has nothing to do with it, only their appearance and ability to do the work.
So please, feel free to elaborate how the act of not disclosing her age to the public at large is "lying"
Well until we can come out with superconductors that can operate at room temperature, don't expect to see this applied anywhere else aside from the lab. As others have pointed out, this is not new and has been around for over 20 years, the fact that it requires extremely cold temperatures has relegated it to a mere novelty as far as practical applications go.
Actually, Europe would be quite happy to sponge off our GPS satellite network, except for the fact that it's run by our military and we reserve the right to downgrade it's accuracy or shut-off civilin use completely, at any time and for any reason.
So yeah, when you have the majority of the world living OUTSIDE the US and with no control, you can't fault them for wanting to come up with a system they can control.
Of course, just to show what good chums we are, we already stated we'd shoot Galileo NavSats down if we even suspected China (a galileo partner nation) was using them in any military action against our interests. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/milspace-04zc.html
You mistyped -- I believe you mean to say that the 15" is more expensive than the 13". That is true -- but, the AG option is only $50 more than the Glossy HD option. So to me that says that the cost of providing the HD displays AT ALL on the 13" form factor is cost prohibitive.
For more on this, ask yourself, "Why did Apple discontinue the MacBook (formerly iBook) line?"
Was it because they were't selling enough of them, or was it that the consumer notebook market got so commoditized that they decided to make the 13" MacBook Pro their consumer price point notebook offering in order to retain profitability while still serving that market segment?
If anything this shows that they care quite a bit about the Professionals since this move looks like they intend to keep their headless Mac Pros and Macbook Pro 15 and 17 inch models for the PROFESSIONALS while iMacs, MacBook Pro 13 inch will be serving the consumer market, with MacBook Air serving both higher-end consumers and pros. Else, why not kill off headless Macs entirely and why the HUGE increase in performance specs for the 15 and 17 inch form factors vs the 13"?
The real meat of their software is a small routine that counts references to Huey Lewis, any mention of this artist more than 3 times in a 10 minute period results in a 100% match.
First off Apple still offers anti-glare displays as an option on ALL their MacBook Pros. So the rant about not offering matte displays is completely off base. In fact, I'm writing this post on a later model Macbook Pro with an antiglare screen and a quick glance at the store shows this option still available.
The real ire is the SOFTWARE, namely the utter fiasco that is Final Cut Pro X. But this is a well known issue and Apple has tried to smooth things over a bit by letting people DOWNGRADE to the last version. So it seems that Apple is well aware of how badly it messed things up and being that Final Cut has been a huge success until now, it only stands to reason that Apple will not make the same mistake twice and will release a new version that addresses their user's concerns. And while that is mere speculation, seeing how much money FCP has brought in and how much hardware it has ended up selling for Apple, it stands to reason that they will not idly stand by while their egg laying goose dies a painful death at the hands of an angered user base.
Also, Apple is more reliant upon developers now than ever. Those trendy consumer gadgets such as iPhone and iPad require a strong developer base, and it requires those developers to develop within OS X and with Apple Tools, even Flash Builder and Titanium require XCode to do the compiling. So to drive away your development community would also make no sense since that would only boost rivals creating apps for other products such as Android phones and tablets.
Apple is trying to normalize the look and feel of it's two operating systems iOS and OS X to make them not only easier to use for the consumer but easier to develop for for the developers. OS X Lion, while causing ire for it's sweeping UI changes now features a lot of the same features as iOS -- which from a UI development standpoint simplifies the development process.
So in the end, time will heal these wounds. Give it a few more months and see what the upcoming release of FCP has to offer it's core user base as well as how iCloud and iOS5 reshape how users and developers interoperate with OS X and iOS based devices. I think then a lot of these changes will make sense and some of the shock at these changes and the handful of missteps will die off.
As other posters have pointed out -- Ubuntu is your best bet for a user friendly Linux distro, especially if you plan on using a GUI for administration. For the LAMP stack, Zend Server is your best bet, it's a free, self contained environment (installs to/user/local/zend) with everything you need pre-configured and packed up with an installer. It even includes a service monitor for easy access to log files.
You can't fault the Anthropologists for being extremely conservative with their view of human development and diaspora -- the sheer lack of information allows too much room for wild speculation and crack-pottery. Just look at those "Ancient Aliens" shows on the History Channel for a prime example.
To getting their brainwashed acolytes to become full fledged whores!
Bravo PETA -- you've listened to the online community of 18 - 100 year old males applauding the nude PETA girlie protestors and listened. What a way to fulfill market demand!
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B-b-b-b-ut he PAID someone to make him a flash web site that played music and had cartoons that proclaimed him a hacker with mad skillz
Fuck you, you self-entitled piece of shit.
You want a nice house and car?
Then work for it like everyone in the Middle Class else did.
Ohh -- is that too hard? Too bad. Life isn't fair and never will be. Get over it.
All this talk about Space Exploration is great, and I agree that in the future, we will one day have to colonize space.
But what about right now?
Space Colonization is simply not practical today and may not be for another century or longer. So why not look the other way? What about Oceanic Colonization? No exotic technology like carbon nanotube space tethers are required, no worries about intersteller radiation, bone mineral depletion, obtaining drinking water, fuel or breathable air. We have all the technology to build floating and underwater structures, we know who to make artificial island communities (look at Dubai)
All this is right here, right now. Why don't we stop focusing so hard on the long shots and start looking at what we can start doing today to alleviate the population crises and making better use of our existing resources? It seems our astrophysics community really has a hard-on for space exploration while Oceanic dwellings are merely the pipe-dream of young architects as part of design competitions, but is mainly regarded as a novelty and not really taken all that seriously.
70% of the earth is covered in water, scientists predict this will increase within the century.
Does it not make sense to start adapting and learning to exist on the largest resource available on the Earth?
[quote]The company said it will use a mix of industrial astronauts and advanced robotic systems[/quote]
Great, just what we need -- mass-produced clones having an existential break-down while being gently prodded on by a robot with the voice of Kevin Spacey.
By stating that a Corporation's ToS carries full force of the law the Government have declared the entire legislative branch redundant and therefor, should be shut down and replaced with electronic contracts to be shoved down consumers throat at any corporation's whim and to be enforced by the FBI and DoJ.
Frankly, this stance by the Obama administration is a complete violation of our Constitution and should be exposed and dealt with as such.
They'll take the shirt right off your back!
Does reading about a vast army of cheaply produced, fault-prone commodity hardware from multiple OEM vendors running an OS from a single software vendor competing against Apple's solely owned and closed product line give anyone else a sense of deja vu?
The combined power of 10 separate lasers would be focused down to a very small volume, creating conditions more extreme than in the center of our sun.
So they'll essentiallly be turning the Earth into the Death Star
And we feel good about letting Europeans man the switch?
Will they be wearing dark suits with funky helmets?
I've made it a point to ask ahead to confirm that there will be no "brain teasers" and if there may be, to kindly ask them to rescind the interview so that they may focus on more qualified candidates who share their core values (being a self-congratulating asshole who gets a boner doing brain teasers)
Frankly, the very fact they ask brain teasers tells me a lot more about them than my answer will ever tell them about me. The fact that I put it bluntly, but kindly to opt out in such an event should show my "free-thinking out of the boxness", though lower my score as a team-player (read: leader not follower). But the fact they put such a priority on stupid pissing-contests shows they lack creativity, have no clue how to actually assess someone based on their merits and skill and place little value on individual contributions as much as maintaining their "culture". All in all, they show they don't care as much about the individual's technological aptitude as much as "fitting in" - so if getting lost in a cube farm is your goal, study up on these brain teasers. But, if you're looking to develop hot software, go with a smaller organization where your contribution will be greatly felt and who don't have time to waste playing games with candidates.
If they chrooted Darwin to the point that every app had to have Apple granted permissions to do *anything* on the list of AppStore sandbox privileges, then Apple would indeed be dead in a very short time.
iOS is already stagnant in the Smartphone marketshare reports while Android keeps growing and gaining new product platforms. Granted, iOS still has a huge install base, but the day that Apache can no longer access the internet and PHP/RoR scripts can't access the file system or make network service calls, it's game over for OS X as a web developer platform.
Since Mobile Apps and Internet Services go hand in hand, a substantial amount of developers who write for iOS also write Web Services in some non-Apple controlled language such as Java, PHP or Ruby. To take that away would make OS X essentially an iOS/OS X only development box -- and you'd be looking at another 1995 era for Apple all over again as their development base switched back to Windows or to Linux and focused chiefly on Android development and writing their Web Services on those other platforms.
With this sort of change to a MacBook Pro being a $2,5000 iOS compiler, the development community would noticeably decrease after the first year. By three years time, their development base would mostly consist of large corporations who have already invested in iOS apps and need to maintain them, die hard loyalists and consultants who are "forced" to have a Mac for iOS/OS X development for contract work. New iOS App development would drop off dramatically since the iOS marketshare would have fallen to 20% or less of the mobile market as user perception switches away from iOS, seeing it as a dead or dying platform for lack of Apps as compared to Android.
How are they isolating developers? I develop on the Mac and constantly install development software all the time. Know how many development related bits I've had to install via AppStore? -- ONE -- The latest version of XCode after it went to public release.
The AppStore is for CONSUMERS, there will never be a full lockdown because forcing every software writer to release through the AppStore would kill OS X as a development platform. Even XCode requires a whole bevy of gnu utilities. OS X is a full fledged UNIX and as such, you'll always be able to do *Nixy things such as wget/curl a file, gunzip, configure and make.
What Apple does with their CoCoa Framework and native apps is up to them, but as long as they are a UNIX, they'll never have the ability to stop apps written in C, Java, Python, Bash, Perl, PHP or Ruby from doing whatever the hell they please.
The day they do, is the day OS X leaves the Unix fold and becomes something else. And if that happens, you can bet your sweet ass that Apple will be dead within 3 years.
Please - give him one term. Let him trim the federal government - you can always build it back up in a few years. Think of it as a giant refactoring project.
You do realize that we live in a Republic and not an Autocracy, right? If we gave Ron Paul a term, we'd have 4 years of fuck-all getting done because both sides of the isles of Congress would stand staunchly against him. One does not simply get elected President, wake up in the morning of their 1st day in office and say "Today I proclaim the end to these Congressionally mandated departments of Federal Government".
Ron Paul's "plans" are way too extreme to get a popular backing, which means he wont get elected, and even if a snowball did make it through Hell, and he did somehow get elected, these plans of his would be eaten alive in Congress.
I know there's a joke there somewhere
FYI, it's against US Employment law to ask any applicant any age related question other than to verify they are 18 or over. Since an actor is essentially a Contractor and not an employee, they are hired on the merits of their qualifications -- once again age has nothing to do with it, only their appearance and ability to do the work.
So please, feel free to elaborate how the act of not disclosing her age to the public at large is "lying"
Well until we can come out with superconductors that can operate at room temperature, don't expect to see this applied anywhere else aside from the lab.
As others have pointed out, this is not new and has been around for over 20 years, the fact that it requires extremely cold temperatures has relegated it to a mere novelty as far as practical applications go.
But we're still running way behind!
Wow -- what a facetious and ignorant comment.
Actually, Europe would be quite happy to sponge off our GPS satellite network, except for the fact that it's run by our military and we reserve the right to downgrade it's accuracy or shut-off civilin use completely, at any time and for any reason.
So yeah, when you have the majority of the world living OUTSIDE the US and with no control, you can't fault them for wanting to come up with a system they can control.
Of course, just to show what good chums we are, we already stated we'd shoot Galileo NavSats down if we even suspected China (a galileo partner nation) was using them in any military action against our interests. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/milspace-04zc.html
AMERICUH FUCKYA!
You mistyped -- I believe you mean to say that the 15" is more expensive than the 13". That is true -- but, the AG option is only $50 more than the Glossy HD option. So to me that says that the cost of providing the HD displays AT ALL on the 13" form factor is cost prohibitive.
For more on this, ask yourself, "Why did Apple discontinue the MacBook (formerly iBook) line?"
Was it because they were't selling enough of them, or was it that the consumer notebook market got so commoditized that they decided to make the 13" MacBook Pro their consumer price point notebook offering in order to retain profitability while still serving that market segment?
If anything this shows that they care quite a bit about the Professionals since this move looks like they intend to keep their headless Mac Pros and Macbook Pro 15 and 17 inch models for the PROFESSIONALS while iMacs, MacBook Pro 13 inch will be serving the consumer market, with MacBook Air serving both higher-end consumers and pros. Else, why not kill off headless Macs entirely and why the HUGE increase in performance specs for the 15 and 17 inch form factors vs the 13"?
The real meat of their software is a small routine that counts references to Huey Lewis, any mention of this artist more than 3 times in a 10 minute period results in a 100% match.
First off Apple still offers anti-glare displays as an option on ALL their MacBook Pros. So the rant about not offering matte displays is completely off base. In fact, I'm writing this post on a later model Macbook Pro with an antiglare screen and a quick glance at the store shows this option still available.
The real ire is the SOFTWARE, namely the utter fiasco that is Final Cut Pro X. But this is a well known issue and Apple has tried to smooth things over a bit by letting people DOWNGRADE to the last version. So it seems that Apple is well aware of how badly it messed things up and being that Final Cut has been a huge success until now, it only stands to reason that Apple will not make the same mistake twice and will release a new version that addresses their user's concerns. And while that is mere speculation, seeing how much money FCP has brought in and how much hardware it has ended up selling for Apple, it stands to reason that they will not idly stand by while their egg laying goose dies a painful death at the hands of an angered user base.
Also, Apple is more reliant upon developers now than ever. Those trendy consumer gadgets such as iPhone and iPad require a strong developer base, and it requires those developers to develop within OS X and with Apple Tools, even Flash Builder and Titanium require XCode to do the compiling. So to drive away your development community would also make no sense since that would only boost rivals creating apps for other products such as Android phones and tablets.
Apple is trying to normalize the look and feel of it's two operating systems iOS and OS X to make them not only easier to use for the consumer but easier to develop for for the developers. OS X Lion, while causing ire for it's sweeping UI changes now features a lot of the same features as iOS -- which from a UI development standpoint simplifies the development process.
So in the end, time will heal these wounds. Give it a few more months and see what the upcoming release of FCP has to offer it's core user base as well as how iCloud and iOS5 reshape how users and developers interoperate with OS X and iOS based devices. I think then a lot of these changes will make sense and some of the shock at these changes and the handful of missteps will die off.
Just use Ctrl+Alt+Del
I already drive a '93 Saturn SL1, how much lower can I go?
'85 Geo Prizim?
'76 Gremlin
As other posters have pointed out -- Ubuntu is your best bet for a user friendly Linux distro, especially if you plan on using a GUI for administration. /user/local/zend) with everything you need pre-configured and packed up with an installer. It even includes a service monitor for easy access to log files.
For the LAMP stack, Zend Server is your best bet, it's a free, self contained environment (installs to
You can't fault the Anthropologists for being extremely conservative with their view of human development and diaspora -- the sheer lack of information allows too much room for wild speculation and crack-pottery. Just look at those "Ancient Aliens" shows on the History Channel for a prime example.
To getting their brainwashed acolytes to become full fledged whores!
Bravo PETA -- you've listened to the online community of 18 - 100 year old males applauding the nude PETA girlie protestors and listened. What a way to fulfill market demand!