The big problem I have with touch sensors is that they react to the slightest touch. When I use a laptop, the mouse pointer always jumps around because I brush the pad with the heel of my palm, or my thumb. I imagine I would suffer from similar problems with this mouse wheel substitute. Occasionally I find myself lightly tapping on my scroll wheel (from habit, or in time to music, or whatever).
Also, I prefer a little tactile feedback to my input - the light thud as the keys on my keyboard reach the end of their travel, the click of the mouse keys, and (in the case of my mouse wheel) the movement and "ratchetting" when the wheel turns. These things will be missing with the touch pad.
Cavorite is impervious to gravity and can shield other materials from its effects. It is used to shield a craft from Earth's pull, allowing easy flight. It was named after its discoverer, Mr. Cavor, who used its levitational properties to travel to the Moon. - H.G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon; also used in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
I'm not sure of the geography of Nevada or Utah, but Texas has a coast and a big gulf full of splashdown area. Of course that is only important if Blue Origin's landing sequence involves a splashdown.
Perhaps it's because they already own the property.
Sorry, I must have misunderstood the article. I took "The focus problem was repaired during the first on-orbit servicing mission in december of 1993." to mean NASA's first in orbit service mission. It must have been Hubble's first in orbit repair.
In your current system, you're assigning a context to a file by placing it in a folder. The file, by itself, doesn't have any context information. It inherits it. In a smartfolder system, you'd tag the file itself with context information.
In your case, if you had ten jobs with the same advertiser logo, you'd have to have ten copies of the advertiser logo. In a smartfolder system, you'd only have one copy, tagged with all the job numbers to which it applies.
I'm afraid I'm not following your reasoning. Why would it be a big risk? Why would they be buggered if it failed? Granted releasing the OS could cut into their hardware sales, but it doesn't necessarily have to. There will always be people who will buy Apple hardware. Besides, why couldn't they release, say, 10,000 copies in a one or two year marketing test and see how it goes? There's no reason to bet the farm on it.
i personally think they could still sell the hardware to some people, and just the os to others.
Of course, it is not an either-or situation. There's no reason Apple couldn't sell both a computer and an operating system, and I don't think they need to "go the way of the shitter" to try.
In part, yes. There's more to it though. The **AAs, in their zeal to protect their IP rights, have blocked legitimate usage of legitimately obtained content. Remember the RIAA vs Diamond Multimedia case of a few years ago?
Google is releasing a new beta project called Google Posters. With it, you will be able to have large poster sized satellite maps of any point of interest.
While that may be true on a straight dollar comparison, you are glossing an important factor: volume. Apple makes the same profit (assuming both of your figures are profit/unit) if they sell 20 copies of the OS, or one unit of hardware. If there are any more sales of the OS, then it is more profitable to sell the OS. The question is: Is there enough potential volume of sales to issue the OS by itself? I think that there is, but I'm a field tech, not an economic forecaster.
If Apple ports their OS to Intel, so that it can run on standard PC architecture, then they become an OS vendor, rather than a Mac appliance vendor. Consumers would be faced with three options: Microsoft, with its reputation for unreliability and lack of security; Linux, with its reputation for difficult installation, not being ready for the masses, and no support; and MacOS, secure, stable, and widely supported.
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The big problem I have with touch sensors is that they react to the slightest touch. When I use a laptop, the mouse pointer always jumps around because I brush the pad with the heel of my palm, or my thumb. I imagine I would suffer from similar problems with this mouse wheel substitute. Occasionally I find myself lightly tapping on my scroll wheel (from habit, or in time to music, or whatever).
Also, I prefer a little tactile feedback to my input - the light thud as the keys on my keyboard reach the end of their travel, the click of the mouse keys, and (in the case of my mouse wheel) the movement and "ratchetting" when the wheel turns. These things will be missing with the touch pad.
it probably won't have a large moon that keeps its axis at a nice tilt,
The Moon has nothing to do with the tilt of Earth's axis. Venus has a considerable tilt without having a moon at all.
I don't know. I've seen plenty typos and missing words in pubilshed works.
Sorry folks. I screwed up a couple of the links:
H.G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon ; also used in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
I'm not sure of the geography of Nevada or Utah, but Texas has a coast and a big gulf full of splashdown area. Of course that is only important if Blue Origin's landing sequence involves a splashdown.
Perhaps it's because they already own the property.
People don't want to read this kind of article. They want to see the pictures. Next time post the pictures.
Sorry, I must have misunderstood the article. I took "The focus problem was repaired during the first on-orbit servicing mission in december of 1993." to mean NASA's first in orbit service mission. It must have been Hubble's first in orbit repair.
No. NASA fixed Hubble's focus problem by adding more optics. It was the first time the shuttle was used to repair a satellite in orbit.
There's the problem. You're SUPPOSED to be listening to the distant flute.
As long as the windows are smaller than one wavelength.
Hasn't Homer already jumped a shark? Or was that a flashby scene in their "We've got episodes for years" montage.
I've been wondering why they haven't done this long ago.
Let me guess: You also tried making a stud finder, but it kept pointing at you.
So, the metaphor is like sets or bags in mathematics rather than files and folders.
In your current system, you're assigning a context to a file by placing it in a folder. The file, by itself, doesn't have any context information. It inherits it. In a smartfolder system, you'd tag the file itself with context information.
In your case, if you had ten jobs with the same advertiser logo, you'd have to have ten copies of the advertiser logo. In a smartfolder system, you'd only have one copy, tagged with all the job numbers to which it applies.
I'm afraid I'm not following your reasoning. Why would it be a big risk? Why would they be buggered if it failed? Granted releasing the OS could cut into their hardware sales, but it doesn't necessarily have to. There will always be people who will buy Apple hardware. Besides, why couldn't they release, say, 10,000 copies in a one or two year marketing test and see how it goes? There's no reason to bet the farm on it.
The state is issuing calculators? Man, I need to move to Virginia and enroll in grade 6. This is a much better calculator than my current one.
i personally think they could still sell the hardware to some people, and just the os to others.
Of course, it is not an either-or situation. There's no reason Apple couldn't sell both a computer and an operating system, and I don't think they need to "go the way of the shitter" to try.
In part, yes. There's more to it though. The **AAs, in their zeal to protect their IP rights, have blocked legitimate usage of legitimately obtained content. Remember the RIAA vs Diamond Multimedia case of a few years ago?
It's in the method. Google sends a polite request. MPAA's squad of jackbooted stormtrooperesque lawyers sends a demand.
Google is releasing a new beta project called Google Posters. With it, you will be able to have large poster sized satellite maps of any point of interest.
While that may be true on a straight dollar comparison, you are glossing an important factor: volume. Apple makes the same profit (assuming both of your figures are profit/unit) if they sell 20 copies of the OS, or one unit of hardware. If there are any more sales of the OS, then it is more profitable to sell the OS. The question is: Is there enough potential volume of sales to issue the OS by itself? I think that there is, but I'm a field tech, not an economic forecaster.
I've installed linux plenty of times. I was talking about reputation not reality.
If Apple ports their OS to Intel, so that it can run on standard PC architecture, then they become an OS vendor, rather than a Mac appliance vendor. Consumers would be faced with three options: Microsoft, with its reputation for unreliability and lack of security; Linux, with its reputation for difficult installation, not being ready for the masses, and no support; and MacOS, secure, stable, and widely supported.
I know which way I'd steer people.