(A) Apple doesnt want to "go after" a market - Apple wants to create a market. Did you not look at the steve jobs statement about how Microsoft has "no culture" and do not try to "influence culture" ? Apple was successful in creating the "culture of the Ipod". If you strictly think of "okay here is the cell phone market - how much of it will apple capture ?" you will get a wrong answer. Try answering this - How much of a "music download market" was there before Itunes store ? Turns out it is 2 Billion $ and counting...
(B) iPhone is not a phone. iPhone is a *mobile platform* repeat after me - mobile platform ! It is a device with excellent graphics and a touch screen interface. And oh yeah - today it can browse the net, play music and call people. Ever thought of the possibility that cars would have GPS recievers and plug into the iPhone for display and input from the users ? Ever thought of storing movies on the iPhone to stream it to your ITV (or anybody else's itv) to watch ? the possibilities are endless. 500$ for a phone ? maybe not. 500$ for a phone/music player/GPS navigator/mobile storage/mobile email,messaging,internet/Internet gateway for a laptop - maybe.
...."Word is protected only by market forces, while iTunes enjoys the protection of a corrupt law that gives Apple the right to exclude competitors from the market" and "For example, in the software industry, it's legal to reverse-engineering a file-format in order to make a competing product."
The article seems to be a generic troll by a recording industry lobbyist and his arguments are allover the place.
My Gripe no 1: ITunes does not need DMCA to hide behind and "market forces" does not make microsoft's products superior. What if ITunes patented the DRM file format and licensed it for 1000$ per track ? It would effectively kill competition. (can you patent a file format ? well yes and yes).
My Gripe no 2: Apple may be interested in ripping you off when you buy an Ipod, they certainly arent interested in ripping you off when you buy a music track. The article's title should be "Apple's DRM is bad for Ipod consumers", taking it a step further, if apple didnt have DRM it is bad for music consumers, because if apple didnt keep the recording industry in check, they will rip you off. Remeber the whining about variable pricing ?
...Google founder Larry Page in a press conference said "Google is getting out of corporate search business, Microsoft COO warned us away. We are now warning Microsoft away from the OS business"
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer upon hearing this threw a chair across his office and said "Damn ! okay, Lets get out of the OS business, Google warned us away. Send a warning out to Intel to get out of the Chip making business"
Paul Otellini, pulling Intel out of its core Processor business said "Intel is looking for other high-tech sectors to enter...After issuing appropriate warning to the current market leaders of course"
"India's six remote-sensing satellites - the largest such constellation in the world. These monitor the country's land and coastal waters so that scientists can advise rural communities on the location of aquifers and where to find watercourses, suggest to fishermen when to set sail for the best catch, and warn coastal communities of imminent storms (see "Eyes in the sky"). India's seven communication satellites, the biggest civilian system in the Asia-Pacific region, now reach some of the remotest corners of the country, providing television coverage to 90 per cent of the population. The system is also being used to extend remote healthcare services and education to the rural poor."
"It was developed to allow India to launch its Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites into sun synchronous orbits, a service that was, until the advent of the PSLV, commercially viable only from Russia"
The GSLV had 2 successful launches before, launching the GSAT experimental satellite and the EDUSAT educational satellite. India's moon mission is unmanned and will use the PSLV rocket which has had six successful launches so far.
... In Washingtonpost. To quote the first few lines Congress is about to cast a historic vote on the future of the Internet. It will decide whether the Internet remains a free and open technology fostering innovation, economic growth and democratic communication, or instead becomes the property of cable and phone companies that can put toll booths at every on-ramp and exit on the information superhighway.
At the center of the debate is the most important public policy you've probably never heard of: "network neutrality."
Rabin's algorithm relies on a nifty trick. If you take a k dimensional vector and store the dot product with k orthogonal vectors then the vector can be reconstructed using just the dot product. This is a fancy way of saying any point on the x-y plane can be located if you have the x-coordinate and y-coordinate. However, if you take a k dimensional vector and compute the dot product with l mutually orthogonal vectors (where l > k), then any k dot products are enough to reconstruct the original vector.
Rabin has shown how to come up with l vectors of which k are mutually orthogonal.
Well I'll bite. The basic fight between ID and evolutionists isnt the same as the fight between believers and atheists. In the latter case the arguments are beautiful
Atheists: Look - I can explain everything through science. Believers: But our God is a God of order. He designed the intricate laws of nature and let the world exist within the beautiful framework of these laws. Science is just a way of discovering and understanding these laws.
On the other hand the argument between ID and evolutionists is
ID: I dont believe in evolution because I have a dogmatic belief in a certain book which says god created life on earth 5000 years ago Evolutionist: Duh ! WTF ?
Simply put: Why is God so great so as to cause bees to fly but isnt great enough to create life on earth through evolution ? Has this something to do with the fact that a certain book doesnt agree on evolution ?
Behind the Gravity Probe B is here and here . It is a fascinating read, esp. about the gyroscopes.
"The four gyro rotors are made of fused quartz, fabricated to an extreme level of material homogeneity and then ground to the near-absolute sphericity (Figure 1). The spheres are round to within 40 atomic layers, which is proportionally equivalent to an Earth-sized sphere with surface height variations of only 16 feet...."
"It's one thing to have a virtually perfect gyro rotor, but that alone does not provide the necessary performance for this experiment......The electric fields center the rotors to a few millionths of an inch. They did not perform the spinning up electrically, however. Instead, they directed a precise stream of helium gas, traveling at nearly Mach 1, at the rotors. It takes about half an hour for the rotor to reach full speed, and it loses less than 1% of this speed over 1000 years in the super-vacuum of the cavity."
"And there are chewy, unresolved legal questions raised by gadgets like the PocketDISH or Slingbox" ipod is too much of a cash cow for apple to risk lawsuits. Do you think that the MPAA will sit around doing nothing if Apple introduced an ipod capable of recording movies ? Downloading video content from itunes is above the board, legal and safe (from apple's standpoint). And this is not the last ipod that apple is ever going to introduce. How about Mac mini --> Front row --> Sync recorded shows to video ipod ? They have the mini, they have front row, they have video ipod, the next step is too easy. Trust me, this take it slow approach is not because of lack of vision.
...though flawed in many respects. The raw number of pages returned may not indicate the size of indices. Google is famous because it returns *relevant* pages but not necessarily *more* pages. A search engine that returns its entire index with each search isnt all that useful.
Secondly, results for all keywords may not increase with the size of the index. The pages which were indexed might correspond to popular searches (that return more than 1000 results, which were not considered if you RTFA) - so considering only those words that return less than 1000 results is flawed.
Though some competition is good, the "DO YOU WANT MY 20 BILLION BIG INDEX ???!!" claim by yahoo reminds of certain yahoo chat rooms:p
I had enough of "but there are starving people there" comments about India. India is a developed nation as far as intellectual capital is concerned. If the Indian government completely ignored this segment of the population, they would simply emigrate.
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Awww, just give it a few hundred years, and it will come back searching for us and start talking to us.
Most people do not get two things
(A) Apple doesnt want to "go after" a market - Apple wants to create a market. Did you not look at the steve jobs statement about how Microsoft has "no culture" and do not try to "influence culture" ? Apple was successful in creating the "culture of the Ipod". If you strictly think of "okay here is the cell phone market - how much of it will apple capture ?" you will get a wrong answer. Try answering this - How much of a "music download market" was there before Itunes store ? Turns out it is 2 Billion $ and counting...
(B) iPhone is not a phone. iPhone is a *mobile platform* repeat after me - mobile platform ! It is a device with excellent graphics and a touch screen interface. And oh yeah - today it can browse the net, play music and call people. Ever thought of the possibility that cars would have GPS recievers and plug into the iPhone for display and input from the users ? Ever thought of storing movies on the iPhone to stream it to your ITV (or anybody else's itv) to watch ? the possibilities are endless. 500$ for a phone ? maybe not. 500$ for a phone/music player/GPS navigator/mobile storage/mobile email,messaging,internet/Internet gateway for a laptop - maybe.
...."Word is protected only by market forces, while iTunes enjoys the protection of a corrupt law that gives Apple the right to exclude competitors from the market" and "For example, in the software industry, it's legal to reverse-engineering a file-format in order to make a competing product."
The article seems to be a generic troll by a recording industry lobbyist and his arguments are allover the place.
My Gripe no 1: ITunes does not need DMCA to hide behind and "market forces" does not make microsoft's products superior. What if ITunes patented the DRM file format and licensed it for 1000$ per track ? It would effectively kill competition. (can you patent a file format ? well yes and yes).
My Gripe no 2: Apple may be interested in ripping you off when you buy an Ipod, they certainly arent interested in ripping you off when you buy a music track. The article's title should be "Apple's DRM is bad for Ipod consumers", taking it a step further, if apple didnt have DRM it is bad for music consumers, because if apple didnt keep the recording industry in check, they will rip you off. Remeber the whining about variable pricing ?
...Google founder Larry Page in a press conference said "Google is getting out of corporate search business, Microsoft COO warned us away. We are now warning Microsoft away from the OS business"
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer upon hearing this threw a chair across his office and said "Damn ! okay, Lets get out of the OS business, Google warned us away. Send a warning out to Intel to get out of the Chip making business"
Paul Otellini, pulling Intel out of its core Processor business said "Intel is looking for other high-tech sectors to enter...After issuing appropriate warning to the current market leaders of course"
What a lame story !
Maybe you should read this.
"India's six remote-sensing satellites - the largest such constellation in the world. These monitor the country's land and coastal waters so that scientists can advise rural communities on the location of aquifers and where to find watercourses, suggest to fishermen when to set sail for the best catch, and warn coastal communities of imminent storms (see "Eyes in the sky"). India's seven communication satellites, the biggest civilian system in the Asia-Pacific region, now reach some of the remotest corners of the country, providing television coverage to 90 per cent of the population. The system is also being used to extend remote healthcare services and education to the rural poor."
Or this about PSLV
"It was developed to allow India to launch its Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites into sun synchronous orbits, a service that was, until the advent of the PSLV, commercially viable only from Russia"
The GSLV had 2 successful launches before, launching the GSAT experimental satellite and the EDUSAT educational satellite. India's moon mission is unmanned and will use the PSLV rocket which has had six successful launches so far.
... In Washingtonpost. To quote the first few lines Congress is about to cast a historic vote on the future of the Internet. It will decide whether the Internet remains a free and open technology fostering innovation, economic growth and democratic communication, or instead becomes the property of cable and phone companies that can put toll booths at every on-ramp and exit on the information superhighway.
At the center of the debate is the most important public policy you've probably never heard of: "network neutrality."
..is Redhat Sourcenavigator . You can look at class hierarchy, static call graphs, jump to function declarations/definitions/callsites. Try it out.
are the employees dancing with joy again ?
...something like this have been around for years in academic labs. Georgia tech for example has had a smart shirt for years.
Anyone heard of the Gyrocompass ? Magnetic compasses are not used in ships and planes. Most of them rely on gyroscopes.
Rabin's algorithm relies on a nifty trick. If you take a k dimensional vector and store the dot product with k orthogonal vectors then the vector can be reconstructed using just the dot product. This is a fancy way of saying any point on the x-y plane can be located if you have the x-coordinate and y-coordinate. However, if you take a k dimensional vector and compute the dot product with l mutually orthogonal vectors (where l > k), then any k dot products are enough to reconstruct the original vector.
Rabin has shown how to come up with l vectors of which k are mutually orthogonal.
Products like those are already out there.
Well I'll bite. The basic fight between ID and evolutionists isnt the same as the fight between believers and atheists. In the latter case the arguments are beautiful
Atheists: Look - I can explain everything through science.
Believers: But our God is a God of order. He designed the intricate laws of nature and let the world exist within the beautiful framework of these laws. Science is just a way of discovering and understanding these laws.
On the other hand the argument between ID and evolutionists is
ID: I dont believe in evolution because I have a dogmatic belief in a certain book which says god created life on earth 5000 years ago
Evolutionist: Duh ! WTF ?
Simply put: Why is God so great so as to cause bees to fly but isnt great enough to create life on earth through evolution ? Has this something to do with the fact that a certain book doesnt agree on evolution ?
Actually the Mac zealots were won over when Steve announced "we are moving to intel chips, iNTEL wink wink you know what I mean ?"
Behind the Gravity Probe B is here and here . It is a fascinating read, esp. about the gyroscopes.
"The four gyro rotors are made of fused quartz, fabricated to an extreme level of material homogeneity and then ground to the near-absolute sphericity (Figure 1). The spheres are round to within 40 atomic layers, which is proportionally equivalent to an Earth-sized sphere with surface height variations of only 16 feet...."
"It's one thing to have a virtually perfect gyro rotor, but that alone does not provide the necessary performance for this experiment......The electric fields center the rotors to a few millionths of an inch. They did not perform the spinning up electrically, however. Instead, they directed a precise stream of helium gas, traveling at nearly Mach 1, at the rotors. It takes about half an hour for the rotor to reach full speed, and it loses less than 1% of this speed over 1000 years in the super-vacuum of the cavity."
....sums it up quite nicely
"And there are chewy, unresolved legal questions raised by gadgets like the PocketDISH or Slingbox" ipod is too much of a cash cow for apple to risk lawsuits. Do you think that the MPAA will sit around doing nothing if Apple introduced an ipod capable of recording movies ? Downloading video content from itunes is above the board, legal and safe (from apple's standpoint). And this is not the last ipod that apple is ever going to introduce. How about Mac mini --> Front row --> Sync recorded shows to video ipod ? They have the mini, they have front row, they have video ipod, the next step is too easy. Trust me, this take it slow approach is not because of lack of vision.
....that we were all created by his noodly appendage .
ummm - two pringles can and a string ?
Bill G. was seen hanging out with George Lucas.
..a paper on the PC, and it was like "bleep bleep bleep bleep", and then, like, half of my paper was gone, and I was like, "Huh?"...
:p
Ducks
...though flawed in many respects. The raw number of pages returned may not indicate the size of indices. Google is famous because it returns *relevant* pages but not necessarily *more* pages. A search engine that returns its entire index with each search isnt all that useful.
:p
Secondly, results for all keywords may not increase with the size of the index. The pages which were indexed might correspond to popular searches (that return more than 1000 results, which were not considered if you RTFA) - so considering only those words that return less than 1000 results is flawed.
Though some competition is good, the "DO YOU WANT MY 20 BILLION BIG INDEX ???!!" claim by yahoo reminds of certain yahoo chat rooms
Geeks definately should of spent more time persuing english skillz
"Isro's budget is $450m annually, 40% of which is spent on Indian industry." India's population is five times that of the US. With such a high population and such a low space research budget, what impact do you think it has on the per capita tax ?
I had enough of "but there are starving people there" comments about India. India is a developed nation as far as intellectual capital is concerned. If the Indian government completely ignored this segment of the population, they would simply emigrate.
A.....teen.....version.....of.....kirk....should.. ..be.....interesting.
-Dracken