I think you've got this exactly right. And with the news from the earnings call yesterday that Apple is seeing unexpected and surprising growth in China with respect to iPhone sales, it makes a lot of sense that Apple is going to take this stance.
Deciding to go down this road hasn't exactly hurt Disney's bottom line either.
For what it's worth, I'm seeing numbers comparable to these on my new Macbook pro.
Perhaps Apple is using a different benchmark than the one in the article above?
Looks to me like this is an attempt to resolve the issue between classical and quantum physics different rules regarding "spooky-action-at-a-distance" by claiming in effect that Quantum Theory is incomplete. He's arguing that there's a deeper physics that's yet to be uncovered.
The problem is that Bell's Thm. tests for hidden variables - essentially "deeper physics".
And Bell's Thm. has been verified repeatedly.
So, either he's arguing that Bell's Theorem is taking us down a blind alley, or he's going to have to figure out someway to make both the fractal understanding and Bell's true. The article in New Scientist doesn't discuss that at all.
Right, and now the "Fermi Paradox" suddenly become much more interesting. If there's a strong likelihood of other life out there, where in the heck are they? Why haven't they contacted us?
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Same here. The account I set up back when Gmail was only available to blogger users is now IMAP enabled. The Google App accounts are still POP only. Hopefully it will only be a couple of days till they're all IMAP capable.
Leopard's delay isn't that big a deal for most of Apple's regular users. Tiger works well enough. There isn't all that much in Leopard that I'm really looking forward to having.
I can wait comfortably for another quarter if it means that Leopard will be released as a better operating system than was Tiger when it was released initially.
The bigger concern would seem to me to be the developers who've pegged their next release on feature that are Leopard only. They're going to lose out on four months worth of income. Hopefully the new features in Leopard, especially the under-the-hood suff makes developing so much easier that it's going to be worth it for them.
In the meantime, I'll download a nightly of webkit (safari is the only real annoyance I have on my Mac) and get on with my work.
That's certainly true here. I'm holding off switching half of our users from Windows XP machines that have gotten long-in-the-tooth to new Mac minis until Leopard comes out and/or the Mini is refreshed.
Given that there's a new operating system expected in a few months, there's no reason to hurry. And for what it's worth, we made the decision to switch back in the late fall. We've been waiting that long for some sort of announcement.
According to the reports on Digg this hack works in all modern browsers. The real fix is probably to stop storing the contact list in a local java-script based file. (Or to always be sure to log out of Google after visiting a google page.)
No - other carriers apparently have better implementations. I have Cingular. In the part of the country where I live it has the best coverage. I use their Edge network (sort of 3G) for net access and I'm very pleased with it.
I switched from a CDMA to a GSM carrier a few years ago primarily because I wanted to be able to use bluetooth to connect my phone to my PDA/laptop. The CDMA carrier I was using made that impossible.
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Yes - under the advanced tab in iTunes preferences. Just use the checkbox.
Count the number of IIs exploits vs Apache and correlate to the number of installations. If your logic held, there should be many many more exploits out there for Apache.
It's a pretty poor excuse for random choice if all your articles come from one area of interest. It's not all surprising that Wikipedia has decent information in its scientific articles. Most of us who use it, use it for that sort of information. But I'd be more impressed if the article on the rise of cuniform writing in Summaria (to pick an example) was of the same quality as the one in the Britannica.
The Wikipedia is a great example of the strength of Open Source collaboration - if you have an "itch", you can "scratch it". But it's also a example of the failings - there is little discipline to make sure that all the parts are of equal quality. Seems to me that most sucessful "open source" projects eventually develop some strict contributor quidelines and ethos as they mature. (Or someone is appointed Uber-editor of the collaboration.) I guess that's what's starting to happen with Wikipedia as well.
I'd add additionally that there have been controversies in Christianity from the get-go. (A number of them are alluded to in Paul's writings (which are the earliest Christian literature known.))
The "Lost Gospels" are not lost as much as they were *not preserved* by copiests in the early years of the Church. Fragments of many of them have been known. Occasionally an entire work - like the Gospel of Thomas are discovered.
They are extraordinarily useful for helping people understand the early fights within the Church. And for putting the writings that the Church has deemed Orthodox into perspective (since we finally have access to the documents that the cannonical works were written in response to).
I agree with you. I have adblock installed in Firefox, but I hardly ever use it except on particularly obnoxious sites.
What I get annoyed with are the flying flash ads that take over the full view of a page and which you can't get around until their mindless prattle ends. I find that Opera's F12 option that lets me turn off plugins (flash) in instances like that is the best single solution that I've come across.
Very much so - Thanks! I wasn't aware of this resource.
We've been splitting our work between Southern Africa and the Sudanese refugee camps in Uganda. Both are having the same issues of handling huge numbers of orphans (though for different reasons.)
In the south the issue really does center around AIDS. In Swaziland (where I'm headed in January) the HIV infection rate is close to 40% at the moment - and expected to climb in the short term.
This is a big deal - and is part of the reason that I'm starting to commit to really learning to use the Linux desktop environments.
I'm involved with a number of groups that are doing relief work in Africa. The problem that we're particularly involved with is the growing population of orphan children being created by the devastation of the AIDS virus. There is an immense amount of basic education that needs to happen so that these children will be able to begin rebuilding the society they are going to inherit.
Part of that education needs to be computer based - and involves simply skills like typing, using the mouse, writing reports, etc. Having a version of an office suite that is going to be available in the children's native tongue removes one significant obstacle from this process.
A group of us are in the process now of getting ready to travel to southern Africa to do a needs assessment. We need to find out what sorts of tech might work and how to get it set up and running. Linux is a pretty obvious answer - since we can install it on older hardware, and one reasonably beefy computer can serve a number of thin clients in a classroom.
Yay for group that is doing this particular localization.
It's out. It's announced on the front page of Mozillazine. http://www.mozillazine.org/
But it's not meant for the average user, only people who have been doing testing of nightlies for a while.
I have one of the new Centrino thinkpads. I get about 3.5-4 hours of work on the small internal battery pack. When I swap out the CD drive for a second battery I can easily see six hours of lifetime.
There's a version of the Thinkpad that comes with a larger internal battery pack. One of my friends has that and he gets a whole day's worth of work done (8 hours+) without needing to plugin until he's home for the night.
Churches (and schools and camps I believe) can purchase limited use licenses which will allow them to show copy-written material in small settings like an film discussion group or church sunday school class.
I don't know how many churches actually purchase the license, but I know mine did.
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It wouldn't be a problem if Apple developed an open technology to replace Flash. But they wouldn't do that because it would kill their store.
Ummm. Sproutcore?
I think you've got this exactly right. And with the news from the earnings call yesterday that Apple is seeing unexpected and surprising growth in China with respect to iPhone sales, it makes a lot of sense that Apple is going to take this stance. Deciding to go down this road hasn't exactly hurt Disney's bottom line either.
For what it's worth, I'm seeing numbers comparable to these on my new Macbook pro. Perhaps Apple is using a different benchmark than the one in the article above?
The problem is that Bell's Thm. tests for hidden variables - essentially "deeper physics".
And Bell's Thm. has been verified repeatedly.
So, either he's arguing that Bell's Theorem is taking us down a blind alley, or he's going to have to figure out someway to make both the fractal understanding and Bell's true. The article in New Scientist doesn't discuss that at all.
Not in my case. Port 25 is blocked, but the alternatives (587 and 465) work fine for me.
Right, and now the "Fermi Paradox" suddenly become much more interesting. If there's a strong likelihood of other life out there, where in the heck are they? Why haven't they contacted us?
Same here. The account I set up back when Gmail was only available to blogger users is now IMAP enabled. The Google App accounts are still POP only. Hopefully it will only be a couple of days till they're all IMAP capable.
Um? That pretty much goes against everything I've seen written about Li-ion batteries. (And my experience with them as well.)
http://batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm
Goto "about:config"
Set ui.click_hold_context_menus to "true"
Enjoy!
Leopard's delay isn't that big a deal for most of Apple's regular users. Tiger works well enough. There isn't all that much in Leopard that I'm really looking forward to having.
I can wait comfortably for another quarter if it means that Leopard will be released as a better operating system than was Tiger when it was released initially.
The bigger concern would seem to me to be the developers who've pegged their next release on feature that are Leopard only. They're going to lose out on four months worth of income. Hopefully the new features in Leopard, especially the under-the-hood suff makes developing so much easier that it's going to be worth it for them.
In the meantime, I'll download a nightly of webkit (safari is the only real annoyance I have on my Mac) and get on with my work.
That's certainly true here. I'm holding off switching half of our users from Windows XP machines that have gotten long-in-the-tooth to new Mac minis until Leopard comes out and/or the Mini is refreshed.
Given that there's a new operating system expected in a few months, there's no reason to hurry. And for what it's worth, we made the decision to switch back in the late fall. We've been waiting that long for some sort of announcement.
http://www.digg.com/programming/GMail_Hacked_VisiReally?
Got any data to back that statement up? Seriously - I've never heard of OS X bot networks.
No - other carriers apparently have better implementations. I have Cingular. In the part of the country where I live it has the best coverage. I use their Edge network (sort of 3G) for net access and I'm very pleased with it.
I switched from a CDMA to a GSM carrier a few years ago primarily because I wanted to be able to use bluetooth to connect my phone to my PDA/laptop. The CDMA carrier I was using made that impossible.
Yes - under the advanced tab in iTunes preferences. Just use the checkbox.
Counter nugget:
Count the number of IIs exploits vs Apache and correlate to the number of installations. If your logic held, there should be many many more exploits out there for Apache.
It's a pretty poor excuse for random choice if all your articles come from one area of interest. It's not all surprising that Wikipedia has decent information in its scientific articles. Most of us who use it, use it for that sort of information. But I'd be more impressed if the article on the rise of cuniform writing in Summaria (to pick an example) was of the same quality as the one in the Britannica.
The Wikipedia is a great example of the strength of Open Source collaboration - if you have an "itch", you can "scratch it". But it's also a example of the failings - there is little discipline to make sure that all the parts are of equal quality. Seems to me that most sucessful "open source" projects eventually develop some strict contributor quidelines and ethos as they mature. (Or someone is appointed Uber-editor of the collaboration.) I guess that's what's starting to happen with Wikipedia as well.
I'd add additionally that there have been controversies in Christianity from the get-go. (A number of them are alluded to in Paul's writings (which are the earliest Christian literature known.))
The "Lost Gospels" are not lost as much as they were *not preserved* by copiests in the early years of the Church. Fragments of many of them have been known. Occasionally an entire work - like the Gospel of Thomas are discovered.
They are extraordinarily useful for helping people understand the early fights within the Church. And for putting the writings that the Church has deemed Orthodox into perspective (since we finally have access to the documents that the cannonical works were written in response to).
I agree with you. I have adblock installed in Firefox, but I hardly ever use it except on particularly obnoxious sites.
What I get annoyed with are the flying flash ads that take over the full view of a page and which you can't get around until their mindless prattle ends. I find that Opera's F12 option that lets me turn off plugins (flash) in instances like that is the best single solution that I've come across.
Check out the Mepis Distro (http://mepis.org/) - it allows you to run in a Live CD environment to test your hardware.
I've got it running on a couple of public access terminals at our church - no one has had any problems using it yet.
Very much so - Thanks! I wasn't aware of this resource.
We've been splitting our work between Southern Africa and the Sudanese refugee camps in Uganda. Both are having the same issues of handling huge numbers of orphans (though for different reasons.)
In the south the issue really does center around AIDS. In Swaziland (where I'm headed in January) the HIV infection rate is close to 40% at the moment - and expected to climb in the short term.
This is a big deal - and is part of the reason that I'm starting to commit to really learning to use the Linux desktop environments.
I'm involved with a number of groups that are doing relief work in Africa. The problem that we're particularly involved with is the growing population of orphan children being created by the devastation of the AIDS virus. There is an immense amount of basic education that needs to happen so that these children will be able to begin rebuilding the society they are going to inherit.
Part of that education needs to be computer based - and involves simply skills like typing, using the mouse, writing reports, etc. Having a version of an office suite that is going to be available in the children's native tongue removes one significant obstacle from this process.
A group of us are in the process now of getting ready to travel to southern Africa to do a needs assessment. We need to find out what sorts of tech might work and how to get it set up and running. Linux is a pretty obvious answer - since we can install it on older hardware, and one reasonably beefy computer can serve a number of thin clients in a classroom.
Yay for group that is doing this particular localization.
It's out. It's announced on the front page of Mozillazine. http://www.mozillazine.org/ But it's not meant for the average user, only people who have been doing testing of nightlies for a while.
I have one of the new Centrino thinkpads. I get about 3.5-4 hours of work on the small internal battery pack. When I swap out the CD drive for a second battery I can easily see six hours of lifetime.
There's a version of the Thinkpad that comes with a larger internal battery pack. One of my friends has that and he gets a whole day's worth of work done (8 hours+) without needing to plugin until he's home for the night.
Churches (and schools and camps I believe) can purchase limited use licenses which will allow them to show copy-written material in small settings like an film discussion group or church sunday school class.
I don't know how many churches actually purchase the license, but I know mine did.