Yeah, half way through high school I moved from a relatively poor district to a very rich one (highest per capita Ph D rate in the world). The 'poor' school had next to no AP programs and I was a genius there, and the 'rich' school had everything (including snobby snobs who didn't respect you unless you'd taken ever AP course under the sun). So, I guess I've sorta been set up to hate AP classes;)
Never once have I seen an employer ask what types of AP classes you've taken. They're really unimportant in the long run.
...to appreciate how FREAKING AWESOME this idea is; I have to say, I'd buy one.
Since I don't actively build PCs anymore (though this is cool enough to build a machine just to use it) I'd have to mount it on my bald head to cool my crazy off in the summer:D Oh, and show case it, of course!
Am I right on thinking this is the first viable, potentially wide-spread use of a Sterling Engine?!
Music = Art = American Idol = Pretty Fucking Popular.
I know at college all these different departments get different pay. In fact, the math department gets mediocre pay while the researchers who bring in the most research money get paid better (EE, Chem E, materials, etc - all or mostly all engineering as this is an engineering school.)
In truth, it's the fact that mathematicians get paid so poorly that I don't want to go into it for my MS. I love math, in all truth, but society (on the whole) does not reward pure mathematical knowledge.
Listen, I'm graduating this May with a BS in Mathematics. If society at large wanted me to use this degree to teach its children they'd have to inform me of such by paying me a serious wage. It's called economics. If I've got a better alternative workplace that will pay better it makes NO SENSE to get paid less for my time.
In all, I do believe teachers across the board should get paid better. Why? Because they're the ones charged with the duty of teaching our children. Teachers surve an undeniably important role in how society functions (or disfunctions) and ought to have incentive to keep the ball rolling the way we, as society, like it.
Not that that's ever going to happen. Let's face it, society at large is way too focused on American Idol to ever take serious heed to the idea school, education, and teachers are important. Until there's a Fox News spotlight on how important schools are we're never going to see it (btw that spotlight would have to be preached 24/7, for months, on all the news outlets for it to even have a hope...)
Please, kind sir, explain for us all where it is this intent comes from and how the implication of the statement is less valid than the intent you probably read into the article?
A.) I'm pretty sure this wont get read, and/or I'll never hear anything back on it, but so the fuck what. B.) I was just thinking and thought..."you know, this will probably only change people's cut off price of Vista." Here's my thinking: People will realize they'll be buying more licenses of Vista (eventually) thus they'll gradually be willing to pay less and less for that same license of Vista. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Microsoft will still shaft as hard as it can people, but the laws of supply and demand dictate that as the price of a product increases demand for that product will decrease. Now, that's assuming the demand for Vista liscenses isn't completely inelastic - which it might well be close to, though I imagine it still has its limits. Simply put, Microsoft can't expect to make so much money from one person's OS liscense purchases that the total price of running Vista over, say, 2-4 years, becomes comparable to the next closest competitor to Vista - which is Mac OS X. I realize people would say "uhh...those are two very different products" and they are. In order to use Mac OS X you must have a Mac which must have been bought, at one point, from Apple. So all that really needs to happen is the cost of purchasing & running Vista for 2-4 years equaling the price differential between comparable Dell & Apple PCs (PC as in "personal computer".) (By the way, I'm pretty sure that differential is already pretty small, but I'm not going to make any guesses as to that right now.)
You want your customers continually buying your gear as well as avoiding becoming 'obsolete.' The competitive nature of the market gives them incentive to innovate and constantly. I just wonder how long they'll give the 360 before they release the new thing. 3 years?
It either needs to be secret & kept secret or available. On the internet, once something's known, it's not hard to get at, at all. What are you going to do? Have it so people have to click through 20 different links before they get to a randomly changing URL of where the data is at? Shit.
You make a really good point, and I'd hope Jobs is considering just that!
He probably is, you know. There's not going to be a better time nor way for Apple to finally and decisively gain user space.
There's just one problem: Apple will never run their OS on anything other than a Mac. I'm not sure that's really a problem, though, as their product line is already pretty broad. For $600 you can get into a new Mac which will run the latest OS and several OS revisions down the line. (Ex: My 3 year old powerbook will run Leopard just fine, and I bet it'll be able to run with the big dogs for at least three more years yet.)
Plus, with increased sales Apple will probably be able to drop its prices. (By investing profit back into its production line.) Thus we could see an adoption acceleration after those initial gamers switch.
I'm a brilliant person, devoted to studying, and generally held in esteem by my peers and professors. I also have a fairly lousy GPA. But for a few good reasons:
1.) I have never copied or plagarized, ever. To the detriment of my own grades. 2.) I have test anxiety. 3.) I have cluster headaches which seriously debilitate me at random intervals.
So I really have no problem with schools using a site to automatically check for plagarism. Hell, make the database encrypted and unaccessable to anyone unless there's been a positive match on a search done by staff at a "registered" college. To be real nice about it, 'pay' the students royalties in the form of lump sum deductions on their tuition. I know I wouldn't mind agreeing to such provided it means we're all working that much more honestly and harder. (Or - have all the students sign an agreement saying once they turn in their work it's agreed to be made available for this site.)
WWDC isn't for the consumers, it's for the developers. So...
A.) Why shouldn't Apple make their developers feel *special*? B.) Why are we (consumers) looking at WWDC for things we'll want to buy? That's not the pitch. The pitch, for Apple, is to make their developers want to develop for their upcoming platform. It sounds like they've met their goal.
Look, the way I see it there are three major 'camps' computer users fall into: The Windows users, the *nix users, and the Mac users. (Yes, I'm over generalizing a bit, but so is Paul Thurrott. I'm merely playing on his turf.) If you're a member of one of these camps, you'll generally hear flak from the other two. It's the way of life. (My experience comes from the fact I've been 'in' each of these camps. In the order provided.)
So what makes this article worth/.?
Well, I'll admit Thurrott makes some good points. I, for one, didn't see too many features in Leopard that made me want to plunk down $70 for it. The time machine thing sounds awesome, yes, but that's not going to make a huge difference in my life day-to-day. It's the type of thing that's used in those "oh shit" scenarios we all hate. It's not going to save me if the power suddenly goes out and I didn't save what I was working on, and so forth. But it's an effort.
I don't personally begrudge Apple for this too much. They've just switched architectures, and are responsible for developing every part of the Mac experience - minus 3rd party programs/hardware to a limited extent. That's not a trivial task, I imagine.
I imagine this is a case where economics would say they're just making an optimal choice and ethics would say they've got questionable ethics.
People might go so far as to look at this not as Apple's doing wrong, but the market's trends and forces being out of whack. That is, I imagine they're in China because many other companies are, and for them to not be in China would require them price their products higher (higher cost of labor makes a higher marginal cost sets a higher optimal-price for the product.)
Actually, 'EM radiation' is light. You just can't see it. But believe me, the sun spits out light that is far more energetic (and - therefore - much more dangerous). You'll be fine.
So produce more? It's made from inedible seeds. Grow more seeds, harvest more oil, convert the appropriate machinery, reduce dependancy on oil imports. Or so that site seems to claim.
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Yeah, half way through high school I moved from a relatively poor district to a very rich one (highest per capita Ph D rate in the world). The 'poor' school had next to no AP programs and I was a genius there, and the 'rich' school had everything (including snobby snobs who didn't respect you unless you'd taken ever AP course under the sun). So, I guess I've sorta been set up to hate AP classes ;)
Never once have I seen an employer ask what types of AP classes you've taken. They're really unimportant in the long run.
Nearly the same happened to me. I've never had a real appreciation for AP classes. I, quite honestly, think they're a load of horse manure.
Sure, but they did some modeling beforehand to explore the possibility of that and found it to be 'pretty low'.
Fear and all that have always surrounded science. I'm just surprised this case was able to sprout legs and be taken seriously.
is why I do not like having official work be done with computers!
XD
...and all the other cuts that f**king bush (he doesn't deserve even capitalization) has enacted in this budget.
We can't afford that! But we can sure as sh!t afford to keep troops in Iraq for the next 100 years XD
...to appreciate how FREAKING AWESOME this idea is; I have to say, I'd buy one.
:D Oh, and show case it, of course!
Since I don't actively build PCs anymore (though this is cool enough to build a machine just to use it) I'd have to mount it on my bald head to cool my crazy off in the summer
Am I right on thinking this is the first viable, potentially wide-spread use of a Sterling Engine?!
Music = Art = American Idol = Pretty Fucking Popular.
I know at college all these different departments get different pay. In fact, the math department gets mediocre pay while the researchers who bring in the most research money get paid better (EE, Chem E, materials, etc - all or mostly all engineering as this is an engineering school.)
In truth, it's the fact that mathematicians get paid so poorly that I don't want to go into it for my MS. I love math, in all truth, but society (on the whole) does not reward pure mathematical knowledge.
Listen, I'm graduating this May with a BS in Mathematics. If society at large wanted me to use this degree to teach its children they'd have to inform me of such by paying me a serious wage. It's called economics. If I've got a better alternative workplace that will pay better it makes NO SENSE to get paid less for my time.
In all, I do believe teachers across the board should get paid better. Why? Because they're the ones charged with the duty of teaching our children. Teachers surve an undeniably important role in how society functions (or disfunctions) and ought to have incentive to keep the ball rolling the way we, as society, like it.
Not that that's ever going to happen. Let's face it, society at large is way too focused on American Idol to ever take serious heed to the idea school, education, and teachers are important. Until there's a Fox News spotlight on how important schools are we're never going to see it (btw that spotlight would have to be preached 24/7, for months, on all the news outlets for it to even have a hope...)
Please, kind sir, explain for us all where it is this intent comes from and how the implication of the statement is less valid than the intent you probably read into the article?
A.) I'm pretty sure this wont get read, and/or I'll never hear anything back on it, but so the fuck what.
B.) I was just thinking and thought..."you know, this will probably only change people's cut off price of Vista." Here's my thinking: People will realize they'll be buying more licenses of Vista (eventually) thus they'll gradually be willing to pay less and less for that same license of Vista. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Microsoft will still shaft as hard as it can people, but the laws of supply and demand dictate that as the price of a product increases demand for that product will decrease. Now, that's assuming the demand for Vista liscenses isn't completely inelastic - which it might well be close to, though I imagine it still has its limits. Simply put, Microsoft can't expect to make so much money from one person's OS liscense purchases that the total price of running Vista over, say, 2-4 years, becomes comparable to the next closest competitor to Vista - which is Mac OS X. I realize people would say "uhh...those are two very different products" and they are. In order to use Mac OS X you must have a Mac which must have been bought, at one point, from Apple. So all that really needs to happen is the cost of purchasing & running Vista for 2-4 years equaling the price differential between comparable Dell & Apple PCs (PC as in "personal computer".) (By the way, I'm pretty sure that differential is already pretty small, but I'm not going to make any guesses as to that right now.)
FUCK YOU CHINA!
And by China I mean "Chinese government". Seems appropriate as the rest of the world mistakes US for US government!
Now I don't know what I think about them installing the virus on there if they did it knowingly. (Which I'll entertain bets that it was.)
But I have to give them cudos for managing to appologize AND make an insult all in one go. From their support page:
"As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it."
You want your customers continually buying your gear as well as avoiding becoming 'obsolete.' The competitive nature of the market gives them incentive to innovate and constantly. I just wonder how long they'll give the 360 before they release the new thing. 3 years?
It either needs to be secret & kept secret or available. On the internet, once something's known, it's not hard to get at, at all. What are you going to do? Have it so people have to click through 20 different links before they get to a randomly changing URL of where the data is at? Shit.
You make a really good point, and I'd hope Jobs is considering just that!
He probably is, you know. There's not going to be a better time nor way for Apple to finally and decisively gain user space.
There's just one problem: Apple will never run their OS on anything other than a Mac. I'm not sure that's really a problem, though, as their product line is already pretty broad. For $600 you can get into a new Mac which will run the latest OS and several OS revisions down the line. (Ex: My 3 year old powerbook will run Leopard just fine, and I bet it'll be able to run with the big dogs for at least three more years yet.)
Plus, with increased sales Apple will probably be able to drop its prices. (By investing profit back into its production line.) Thus we could see an adoption acceleration after those initial gamers switch.
I'm a brilliant person, devoted to studying, and generally held in esteem by my peers and professors. I also have a fairly lousy GPA. But for a few good reasons:
1.) I have never copied or plagarized, ever. To the detriment of my own grades.
2.) I have test anxiety.
3.) I have cluster headaches which seriously debilitate me at random intervals.
So I really have no problem with schools using a site to automatically check for plagarism. Hell, make the database encrypted and unaccessable to anyone unless there's been a positive match on a search done by staff at a "registered" college. To be real nice about it, 'pay' the students royalties in the form of lump sum deductions on their tuition. I know I wouldn't mind agreeing to such provided it means we're all working that much more honestly and harder. (Or - have all the students sign an agreement saying once they turn in their work it's agreed to be made available for this site.)
You have a good point and bring up a better one:
WWDC isn't for the consumers, it's for the developers. So...
A.) Why shouldn't Apple make their developers feel *special*?
B.) Why are we (consumers) looking at WWDC for things we'll want to buy? That's not the pitch. The pitch, for Apple, is to make their developers want to develop for their upcoming platform. It sounds like they've met their goal.
Look, the way I see it there are three major 'camps' computer users fall into: The Windows users, the *nix users, and the Mac users. (Yes, I'm over generalizing a bit, but so is Paul Thurrott. I'm merely playing on his turf.) If you're a member of one of these camps, you'll generally hear flak from the other two. It's the way of life. (My experience comes from the fact I've been 'in' each of these camps. In the order provided.)
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So what makes this article worth
Well, I'll admit Thurrott makes some good points. I, for one, didn't see too many features in Leopard that made me want to plunk down $70 for it. The time machine thing sounds awesome, yes, but that's not going to make a huge difference in my life day-to-day. It's the type of thing that's used in those "oh shit" scenarios we all hate. It's not going to save me if the power suddenly goes out and I didn't save what I was working on, and so forth. But it's an effort.
I don't personally begrudge Apple for this too much. They've just switched architectures, and are responsible for developing every part of the Mac experience - minus 3rd party programs/hardware to a limited extent. That's not a trivial task, I imagine.
I imagine this is a case where economics would say they're just making an optimal choice and ethics would say they've got questionable ethics.
People might go so far as to look at this not as Apple's doing wrong, but the market's trends and forces being out of whack. That is, I imagine they're in China because many other companies are, and for them to not be in China would require them price their products higher (higher cost of labor makes a higher marginal cost sets a higher optimal-price for the product.)
I'm already planning on 'retiring' early. Got it all worked out, financially.
We all know the real answer. They just need to start shipping games with a nicotine-intake-system.
What's that? You have 50000 points? Well here's an insane drug high!
Just means I'd lose an hour of sleep earlier than normal, and get it back later than normal. Bastards.
That's awesome.
Actually, 'EM radiation' is light. You just can't see it. But believe me, the sun spits out light that is far more energetic (and - therefore - much more dangerous). You'll be fine.
So produce more? It's made from inedible seeds. Grow more seeds, harvest more oil, convert the appropriate machinery, reduce dependancy on oil imports. Or so that site seems to claim.