From an economics perspective, the market (at least the geeky tech savvy kind) want MacOS to run on existing hardware without paying 2x the price for mac hardware, which now with the intel switchover, is really no different from an average PC (except for the bios).
So long as there is a market demand for this, people will get it any way they can. Since apple won't provide copies of OSX for sale (for fear of MS retribution, or eating their own hardware sales, the more likely culprit), people will crack it, and hobbyists will pirate it.
For Gillette, you can only buy your "Super Mach3 Turbo EX XL Extra Elite" blades from them (for now).
With the iPod, you can make your own MP3's, download them from other sites, whatever. Other audio formats play on the device, so their iTunes store isn't your only source of content for the device. Thus they need to profit off it.
From an economic perspective, technology has made their business model, music distribuion, mostly obsolete, and so they have turned to legislation to preserve their business and outlaw said technology.
The bread 'n butter of what the recording industry does, sell CD's, is no longer necessary to the majority of consumers. There is no value to the consumer, they are desperate, they know their end is in sight. The frightening thing is they have turned to Congress, and Congress is listening.
$399 emachines (add ~100 for monitor), $1099 notebooks with more 2x the ram & hd space. Fact is pound for pound, Macs are still more expensive than a comparable PC. But hey, Apple is still profitable with their pricing strategy, so more power to 'em I guess.
not saying it'd be like robot jocks, more like a whole field of units that are remotely commanded and slowly either advancing or being pushed back, at which point once one side defeats the other, they'd either surrender or be terrorized by the battlefield bots.
That is if we don't end up just killing the entire populace with nukes or biological weapons.
I agree that this will drastically change the battlefield, but I think eventually most other countries will adopt similar mechanized robotic armies and "winning" will become more an almost large scale public display of technologically and industrially productive might. The rules of engagement certianlly will change dramatically.
You should all feel secure in the knowledge that they were programmed by the lowest bidder
More likely they'll be programmed by a company Dick Cheney or one of Bush's other corporate friends served on the board of, then they'll cut costs in the name of profit.
Why would Blockbuster want to do that when a significant chunck of their revenue comes from late fees? I'd heard it was somewhere around 12% of their revenue. With the way movies are released in mass quantities (guaranteed in stock deals), it's not as if they're forced to have such high late fees due to any lost revenue from being out of stock of a particular title.
Maybe they want to drive the price of their pre-viewed flicks down to the $5 range because of the large inventories caused by the guaranteed in-stock promotions. There's no way I could see them getting out of the rental business entirely though.
Having a widescreen HD TV, I do certianly notice a difference between a DVD at 720p on the TV versus watching the same movie via high def at 1080i via HBO's HD channel or any of the local channels that broadcast movies in HD. High Def movies just have a very clear, crisp look to them, whereas a DVD in progressive mode at 720p has a tendency to appear a bit grainy.
It's not quite the night/day difference between VHS and DVD, but more close to that of laserdisc to DVD.
This'll also be great for those HD shows that have found their way to DVD, such as CSI, Smallville, Angel, and so on.
I can see a way for them to vastly reduce the incentive for the average joe to install one of these on their car: Have the strobe take a picture when it's activated with film that also picks up some of the IR flash to trace the source vehicle. With red light runner cameras, this isn't much of a stretch.
When they pick up a violator, send 'em a fat ticket, suspend the owners license or whatever. It'd be a nice, short term revenue stream for local municipals as well depending on how far these dumb things spread.
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Heh, actually if you look at it again you'll notice there's a lot of carriage returns in it, makes it look longer than it really is. I can sure as hell laugh at myself and my own problems, though when you come and look at a post that's close to heart at the time and see half of the posts with the exact same ADD joke, it gets a little lame. Especially when the majority of them were based off the add joke in the last issue of Maxim, and a good joke too!
Q: How many kids with ADD does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Wanna go ride Bicycles?
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Maybe it depends on the state you live in. In CA it's a schedule application, Aderall is technically just "Amphetamine salts", it's all the same. Dexadrine (remember dexatrim?) also falls into this category requiring all the forms...
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Well, it was the first time I'd told a superior about it, but I cared about my job and didn't want something that was unknown to come into play later and get me into trouble. But I found that it was better to just deal with it myself.
There were times that I had too many things to deal with at once (one man tech support at a video streaming company), so some things would get put on the back burner and forgotten about and when I got overwhelmed he'd sit me down and try and be understanding by looking at it from an ADD perspective, so I lucked out I guess. But the sudden intervention was always a WTLW sort of thing, by the time he'd realized I was maybe forgetting things I'd already figured it out myself and take care of things.
I don't know, I have a hard time keeping it a secret because I find it to be such an enormous part of who I am, and I find that telling someone helps them greatly in relating to me. I can be quirky and way out there at times, so telling someone early on that I have ADHD helps people from writing me off as a crazy idiot, and more often than not they don't know anything about it and are interested in learning more.
Oh, and the usual reaction I get from people when I tell them I have ADD is a big "oooh, that's what it is about you I sensed!"
Her: blah blah blah (while I'm watching something that grabbed my interest for a second on TV). Are you listening to me?
Me: Huh?
Really it's a odd thing, something will really grab me for an instant and I completely tune her out. Sure this can be said to be a male thing, but it's the frequency by which it occurs thats the real sign of someone with ADHD.
Amphetamines is just a fact of life in having ADHD
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I posted part of this as a response to one of the numberous jokes that had been inappropriately modded up. Try also to not let this turn into a debate as to the acceptedness of ADHD as a diagnosis. For many of us, this is a subject that is close to heart and quite frankly, many are tired of the obvious jokes and unacceptance. ADHD is real, it's here, so please, even if you don't have it, please respect it for what it is.
As for me, I did encounter a bit of uncertianty when I informed my boss about my own ADHD. Many do not know anything about it so understanding is a constant struggle.
As for meds, I have found Aderall XR to be quite effective, but like many ADD drugs, its amphetamine status makes it a pain because of the triplicate forms and many doctors can be apprehensive about prescribing it.
There is a new drug released this year who's name escapes me, but it's a non-amphetamine drug that is much easier to deal with. Problems I have read, however, are some rare cases of folks finding they get odd violent tendencies or it can only make their ADHD symptoms worse. Just goes to show how much we truly understand this disease.
For herbal remedies, I have yet to see a well controlled series of scientific studies of any treatment that makes as significant a difference as the more generally accepted medications.
It's a fact of ADHD, If you have it, you take mphetamines, aka speed. Many respond quite well to it, so once you get over the fact that you're taking a "controlled substance", you can move on with your life and actually thrive quite well.
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For an honest "ask slashdot" question from someone with ADHD, can the mods please not mod up post such as this as "funny", because they're not and they interfere with the purpose of the question. Making fun of the subject in this manner is a tired joke anyway.
Try also to not let this turn into a debate as to the acceptedness of ADHD as a diagnosis. For many of us, this is a subject that is close to heart and quite frankly, many are tired of the obvious jokes and unacceptance. ADHD is real, it's here, so please, even if you don't have it, please respect it for what it is.
As for me, I did encounter a bit of uncertianty when I informed my boss about my own ADHD. Many do not know anything about it so understanding is a constant struggle.
As for meds, I have found Aderall XR to be quite effective, but like many ADD drugs, its amphetamine status makes it a pain because of the triplicate forms and many doctors can be apprehensive about prescribing it.
There is a new drug released this year who's name escapes me, but it's a non-amphetamine drug that is much easier to deal with. Problems I have read, however, are some rare cases of folks finding they get odd violent tendencies or it can only make their ADHD symptoms worse. Just goes to show how much we truly understand this disease.
For herbal remedies, I have yet to see a well controlled series of scientific studies of any treatment that makes as significant a difference as the more generally accepted medications.
It's a fact of ADHD, If you have it, you take mphetamines, aka speed. Many respond quite well to it, so once you get over the fact that you're taking a "controlled substance", you can move on with your life and actually thrive quite well.
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This story was debunked almost as soon as it came out. Why is it appearing on Slashdot a day after it broke? Is nobody paying attention?
If the story is so obnoxiously laid out with very little actual content, why bother even posting it here?
From an economics perspective, the market (at least the geeky tech savvy kind) want MacOS to run on existing hardware without paying 2x the price for mac hardware, which now with the intel switchover, is really no different from an average PC (except for the bios).
So long as there is a market demand for this, people will get it any way they can. Since apple won't provide copies of OSX for sale (for fear of MS retribution, or eating their own hardware sales, the more likely culprit), people will crack it, and hobbyists will pirate it.
You know they'd just hide the consent for that in the EULA, which hardly anyone reads anyway.
In 50 years they will have one million Centarians (economist.com).
For Gillette, you can only buy your "Super Mach3 Turbo EX XL Extra Elite" blades from them (for now).
With the iPod, you can make your own MP3's, download them from other sites, whatever. Other audio formats play on the device, so their iTunes store isn't your only source of content for the device. Thus they need to profit off it.
Who's this Taylor and why is he making arguments for the RIAA?
You're missing the point here.
From an economic perspective, technology has made their business model, music distribuion, mostly obsolete, and so they have turned to legislation to preserve their business and outlaw said technology.
The bread 'n butter of what the recording industry does, sell CD's, is no longer necessary to the majority of consumers. There is no value to the consumer, they are desperate, they know their end is in sight. The frightening thing is they have turned to Congress, and Congress is listening.
No...
$399 emachines (add ~100 for monitor), $1099 notebooks with more 2x the ram & hd space. Fact is pound for pound, Macs are still more expensive than a comparable PC. But hey, Apple is still profitable with their pricing strategy, so more power to 'em I guess.
not saying it'd be like robot jocks, more like a whole field of units that are remotely commanded and slowly either advancing or being pushed back, at which point once one side defeats the other, they'd either surrender or be terrorized by the battlefield bots.
That is if we don't end up just killing the entire populace with nukes or biological weapons.
American Jock: We can live!!
Wounded Soviet Jock: No we can't! We're Robot Jocks!
Hey, Ann Coulter! Who thought she'd be a /. reader?
I agree that this will drastically change the battlefield, but I think eventually most other countries will adopt similar mechanized robotic armies and "winning" will become more an almost large scale public display of technologically and industrially productive might. The rules of engagement certianlly will change dramatically.
You should all feel secure in the knowledge that they were programmed by the lowest bidder
More likely they'll be programmed by a company Dick Cheney or one of Bush's other corporate friends served on the board of, then they'll cut costs in the name of profit.
Either way, end result is the same.
The post referred to cars available in the us, not necessarilly built in the US, which is what all the cars in their list are.
Why would Blockbuster want to do that when a significant chunck of their revenue comes from late fees? I'd heard it was somewhere around 12% of their revenue. With the way movies are released in mass quantities (guaranteed in stock deals), it's not as if they're forced to have such high late fees due to any lost revenue from being out of stock of a particular title.
Maybe they want to drive the price of their pre-viewed flicks down to the $5 range because of the large inventories caused by the guaranteed in-stock promotions. There's no way I could see them getting out of the rental business entirely though.
Having a widescreen HD TV, I do certianly notice a difference between a DVD at 720p on the TV versus watching the same movie via high def at 1080i via HBO's HD channel or any of the local channels that broadcast movies in HD. High Def movies just have a very clear, crisp look to them, whereas a DVD in progressive mode at 720p has a tendency to appear a bit grainy.
It's not quite the night/day difference between VHS and DVD, but more close to that of laserdisc to DVD.
This'll also be great for those HD shows that have found their way to DVD, such as CSI, Smallville, Angel, and so on.
I can see a way for them to vastly reduce the incentive for the average joe to install one of these on their car: Have the strobe take a picture when it's activated with film that also picks up some of the IR flash to trace the source vehicle. With red light runner cameras, this isn't much of a stretch.
When they pick up a violator, send 'em a fat ticket, suspend the owners license or whatever. It'd be a nice, short term revenue stream for local municipals as well depending on how far these dumb things spread.
Heh, actually if you look at it again you'll notice there's a lot of carriage returns in it, makes it look longer than it really is. I can sure as hell laugh at myself and my own problems, though when you come and look at a post that's close to heart at the time and see half of the posts with the exact same ADD joke, it gets a little lame. Especially when the majority of them were based off the add joke in the last issue of Maxim, and a good joke too!
Q: How many kids with ADD does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Wanna go ride Bicycles?
Maybe it depends on the state you live in. In CA it's a schedule application, Aderall is technically just "Amphetamine salts", it's all the same. Dexadrine (remember dexatrim?) also falls into this category requiring all the forms...
Well, it was the first time I'd told a superior about it, but I cared about my job and didn't want something that was unknown to come into play later and get me into trouble. But I found that it was better to just deal with it myself.
There were times that I had too many things to deal with at once (one man tech support at a video streaming company), so some things would get put on the back burner and forgotten about and when I got overwhelmed he'd sit me down and try and be understanding by looking at it from an ADD perspective, so I lucked out I guess. But the sudden intervention was always a WTLW sort of thing, by the time he'd realized I was maybe forgetting things I'd already figured it out myself and take care of things.
I don't know, I have a hard time keeping it a secret because I find it to be such an enormous part of who I am, and I find that telling someone helps them greatly in relating to me. I can be quirky and way out there at times, so telling someone early on that I have ADHD helps people from writing me off as a crazy idiot, and more often than not they don't know anything about it and are interested in learning more.
Oh, and the usual reaction I get from people when I tell them I have ADD is a big "oooh, that's what it is about you I sensed!"
Yeah, tell that to my girlfriend....
Her: blah blah blah (while I'm watching something that grabbed my interest for a second on TV). Are you listening to me?
Me: Huh?
Really it's a odd thing, something will really grab me for an instant and I completely tune her out. Sure this can be said to be a male thing, but it's the frequency by which it occurs thats the real sign of someone with ADHD.
I posted part of this as a response to one of the numberous jokes that had been inappropriately modded up. Try also to not let this turn into a debate as to the acceptedness of ADHD as a diagnosis. For many of us, this is a subject that is close to heart and quite frankly, many are tired of the obvious jokes and unacceptance. ADHD is real, it's here, so please, even if you don't have it, please respect it for what it is.
As for me, I did encounter a bit of uncertianty when I informed my boss about my own ADHD. Many do not know anything about it so understanding is a constant struggle.
As for meds, I have found Aderall XR to be quite effective, but like many ADD drugs, its amphetamine status makes it a pain because of the triplicate forms and many doctors can be apprehensive about prescribing it.
There is a new drug released this year who's name escapes me, but it's a non-amphetamine drug that is much easier to deal with. Problems I have read, however, are some rare cases of folks finding they get odd violent tendencies or it can only make their ADHD symptoms worse. Just goes to show how much we truly understand this disease.
For herbal remedies, I have yet to see a well controlled series of scientific studies of any treatment that makes as significant a difference as the more generally accepted medications.
It's a fact of ADHD, If you have it, you take mphetamines, aka speed. Many respond quite well to it, so once you get over the fact that you're taking a "controlled substance", you can move on with your life and actually thrive quite well.
For an honest "ask slashdot" question from someone with ADHD, can the mods please not mod up post such as this as "funny", because they're not and they interfere with the purpose of the question. Making fun of the subject in this manner is a tired joke anyway.
Try also to not let this turn into a debate as to the acceptedness of ADHD as a diagnosis. For many of us, this is a subject that is close to heart and quite frankly, many are tired of the obvious jokes and unacceptance. ADHD is real, it's here, so please, even if you don't have it, please respect it for what it is.
As for me, I did encounter a bit of uncertianty when I informed my boss about my own ADHD. Many do not know anything about it so understanding is a constant struggle.
As for meds, I have found Aderall XR to be quite effective, but like many ADD drugs, its amphetamine status makes it a pain because of the triplicate forms and many doctors can be apprehensive about prescribing it.
There is a new drug released this year who's name escapes me, but it's a non-amphetamine drug that is much easier to deal with. Problems I have read, however, are some rare cases of folks finding they get odd violent tendencies or it can only make their ADHD symptoms worse. Just goes to show how much we truly understand this disease.
For herbal remedies, I have yet to see a well controlled series of scientific studies of any treatment that makes as significant a difference as the more generally accepted medications.
It's a fact of ADHD, If you have it, you take mphetamines, aka speed. Many respond quite well to it, so once you get over the fact that you're taking a "controlled substance", you can move on with your life and actually thrive quite well.