It is currently illegal to resell electricity that you generate using 'waste'.
So say you run a heat-treat process. You don't have much incentive to install a way to reprocess that heat. I wish I could remember the TLC/Discovery/History channel special that they had about it...
By becoming an 'energy trader' I'm wondering if Google can skirt these laws and make their data centers more efficient or even energy negative.
I'm curious how you think this could make them energy negative. The entire article was about the face that they have multi-year contracts to lock in their rates, and previously they either had to overlap the contracts (i.e. purchase something they're not using) or pass on good deals. Nowhere do they discuss generating extra electricity themselves, just reselling electricity that they aren't using.
Public service or not, he broke the law in the hope of finding or creating a scandal. The law doesn't say "don't crack someone's email UNLESS when you do so you find something juicy". His success is immaterial. The penalty should be the same whether the account is full of lols and party invites or baby killing and kiddie porn.
Two wrongs...
Actually, according to current law if you so much as FIND kiddie porn, you're immediately thrown in jail for the rest of your life. THINK OF THE CHILDREN....NO, NOT IN THAT WAY!
In the parent post it says the author did some trials and found out $2.49 was the price where he made the most profit. At a lower price, enough new customers weren't created to offset that lower price. A higher price caused customers to chose not to buy. Profit was optimized. So selling at $1.99 means forgoing revenue, as would selling at $2.99. Now if parent didn't say they had experimented with pricing, either pricing higher or lower could end up creating more revenue.
If only it weren't mandatory to sell on the Apple store. Oh wait, it isn't, and he can keep selling as he is now. Seriously, this guy is bitching because he wants to add another retailer, but doesn't like their rules - DON'T FUCKING ADD THEM THEN.
When Apple is saying "restrict your development to those languages which WE'VE provided the SDK/API for" - how does the choice of languages have nothing> to do with the the API? They didn't just pull those languages out of thin air when they made the requirement.
All Apple is saying is "We support X, Y, and Z - we guarantee they'll work and support them. Don't use tools created by others that use P, Q, and R. Those can create a headache and support nightmare that we don't want to deal with."
You could indeed WRITE it using Vi. You'd need something to compile, link, and code sign it though - and what you'd use would be the XCode compiling tools. Or at the very least, since it would be written in a language that XCode compiles, you could compile that one particular build in XCode.
Oh, and just for your information, saying that requiring C/C++/Obj-C is matter of "quality" made me laugh a little.
It is more a matter of user perception than "quality". Say Apple does allow Flash apps to be made for the iPhone/iPad and the App Store now has 10,000 Flash apps. Apple releases an OS update that necessarily breaks a part of the API. The SDK is updated months before this change goes live, and all it takes to fix the problem if you made your app in XCode is to recompile. Adobe, however, sat on their ass during this time and didn't fix their Flash compiler so none of the Flash apps are fixed and ready for when the OS update is ready to be pushed. What does Apple do now? Do they push the update anyway? Now 10,000 apps don't work, and who are users going to blame? Do they hold back their patch because another company was lazy?
...but manned space flight really hasn't done much for us.
You realize the computer you typed that message on was built using parts originally designed for the manned space program, right?
That doesn't mean WE have to be the ones footing the bill, though. Countries without space programs have computers. It seems silly to think we wouldn't benefit from some other country's space program, so why not let them foot the research bill while we work on coming up with a sensible financial strategy (not that we'll actually do that, but still).
Phillip K Dick, mostly wrote short stories. Some of these movies are very loosely based upon those stories, I don't understand why they are not just writing scripts without association. The only thing I could come up with is they think it has some marketing value.
It has both marketing value and prevents someone from screaming "They just ripped off XXXXX".
If you RTFA or WTFV, you'd know that it's detecting the input elements using an algorithm and not hard coded to the specific application (they even demoed VNCing into an OS X machine and having it detect the UI elements there and applying the processing).
Can anyone think of a single example where throwing the kill switch would be better than not throwing the kill switch? You're talking about shutting down or heavily impacting > 90% of the economy, making communication difficult or impossible for a large number of people, and permanently damaging the trust that people have in a connected society. The damage would be severe and significant and I just can't imagine a situation where it would do more harm than good.
Depends on who the "better" is for. I know if I was in the government and the people were trying to over-through me and my cohorts that the ability to stop all the communications networks they're likely to use (internet + cellphones) would be very useful in preventing anything coordinated.
Follow me here:
The average household is somewhere around 2400 square feet. Let's assume for simplicity sake that it's a box measuring 49'x49'x10'. That makes for about 6800 square feet of interior surface area. The skin depth for gold at 2.4 GHz is pretty close to 200nm, but to be sure that the vast majority of the signal is stopped lets assume a coating of 1um thickness. 6800 square feet multiplied by 1um yields a volume of about 6e-4 m^3 of gold. Multiplying this by the density of gold (~20gm/cm^3) yields about 12 kilograms of gold. The last time I checked, gold was something close to $1200 dollars an ounce, which works out to be about $508k.
So all the guy really wants to do is use the settlement money to WiFi proof his house. And have a gold plated interior. And a little bit left over for hookers and blow.
Bender: Ahh, screw the gold plated interior. And the blow.
Using SSL is definitely a step up, but of course, even this won't help you if the MPAA gets a judge to issue an order forcing your Usenet provider to log all of its users' downloads. I use a paid Usenet service as well, and my concern is that my provider will someday be slapped with such an order, along with a gag order to prevent them from warning their users about the logging.
I'm thinking maybe, at long last, the writing is on the wall for Usenet - at least as far as me using it is concerned. I have too much to lose (job,assets), and too many people depending on me (wife, kids). It's just not worth the risk anymore. No matter how much I despise the MPAA, RIAA, etc, the obsolete business models of the companies they represent, and their strong-arm tactics, I stand to lose FAR more than I stand to gain. I will continue to donate to the EFF, but no more Usenet downloads for me - not even the non-infringing variety.
My understanding is that in every single trial where someone has been prosecuted it was for uploading (due to the fact that copyright restricts the ability of one to create a copy which would be uploading) which is automatically done in P2P environments. When using USENET (as long as you are not posting), you are only downloading.
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I tried your approach with the bills that I couldn't pay but they just sent me another invoice.... :(
Try cutting the people sending the bill instead of the bill itself!
Apple has it. They have a legal monopoly on the market of mobile apps.
They do? When did the Android Market close down?
For the love of God, the first 5 words of the damn article say that she's not part of Apple anymore... "Former T-Mobile and Apple executive"
I parsed that as (former T-Mobile) and [current] Apple Executive rather than former (T-Mobile and Apple) executive. The phrasing is ambiguous.
I'm not sure what you mean by multitasking.
He means the multitasking that is coming out with iPhone OS 4, which doesn't support the original iPhone.
They're kids on the inside
Possibly drunk on the inside, as well. :P
It is currently illegal to resell electricity that you generate using 'waste'.
So say you run a heat-treat process. You don't have much incentive to install a way to reprocess that heat. I wish I could remember the TLC/Discovery/History channel special that they had about it...
By becoming an 'energy trader' I'm wondering if Google can skirt these laws and make their data centers more efficient or even energy negative.
I'm curious how you think this could make them energy negative. The entire article was about the face that they have multi-year contracts to lock in their rates, and previously they either had to overlap the contracts (i.e. purchase something they're not using) or pass on good deals. Nowhere do they discuss generating extra electricity themselves, just reselling electricity that they aren't using.
Public service or not, he broke the law in the hope of finding or creating a scandal. The law doesn't say "don't crack someone's email UNLESS when you do so you find something juicy". His success is immaterial. The penalty should be the same whether the account is full of lols and party invites or baby killing and kiddie porn.
Two wrongs...
Actually, according to current law if you so much as FIND kiddie porn, you're immediately thrown in jail for the rest of your life. THINK OF THE CHILDREN....NO, NOT IN THAT WAY!
Don't be surprised to see a spate of patent attacks on Ogg Theora... which we may or may not fund ourselves.
Didn't Steve Jobs just say someone was preparing a portfolio to go after Theora?
In the parent post it says the author did some trials and found out $2.49 was the price where he made the most profit. At a lower price, enough new customers weren't created to offset that lower price. A higher price caused customers to chose not to buy. Profit was optimized. So selling at $1.99 means forgoing revenue, as would selling at $2.99. Now if parent didn't say they had experimented with pricing, either pricing higher or lower could end up creating more revenue.
If only it weren't mandatory to sell on the Apple store. Oh wait, it isn't, and he can keep selling as he is now. Seriously, this guy is bitching because he wants to add another retailer, but doesn't like their rules - DON'T FUCKING ADD THEM THEN.
You can't easily upgrade an OS out from under itself.
The standalone version of OSX manages it. I don’t see why the dumbed-down version on the iPad can’t.
Because standalone versions of OS X aren't running from firmware.
I, for one, know what it's like to try to save an entire industry as well.
Before I arrived here as BadAnalogyGuy, I saw Slashdot sinking quickly into an ugly morass of old car analogies.
I try to bring a broader perspective to Slashdot analogy making. And I like to think that I've been successful so far.
It's a tough job, but god knows if left to your own devices, you slashbots would simply keep talking about cars and roads.
So what you're saying is that you're the Anti-Henry Ford come to save us from our assembly line ways?
When Apple is saying "restrict your development to those languages which WE'VE provided the SDK/API for" - how does the choice of languages have nothing> to do with the the API? They didn't just pull those languages out of thin air when they made the requirement.
All Apple is saying is "We support X, Y, and Z - we guarantee they'll work and support them. Don't use tools created by others that use P, Q, and R. Those can create a headache and support nightmare that we don't want to deal with."
You could indeed WRITE it using Vi. You'd need something to compile, link, and code sign it though - and what you'd use would be the XCode compiling tools. Or at the very least, since it would be written in a language that XCode compiles, you could compile that one particular build in XCode.
Oh, and just for your information, saying that requiring C/C++/Obj-C is matter of "quality" made me laugh a little.
It is more a matter of user perception than "quality". Say Apple does allow Flash apps to be made for the iPhone/iPad and the App Store now has 10,000 Flash apps. Apple releases an OS update that necessarily breaks a part of the API. The SDK is updated months before this change goes live, and all it takes to fix the problem if you made your app in XCode is to recompile. Adobe, however, sat on their ass during this time and didn't fix their Flash compiler so none of the Flash apps are fixed and ready for when the OS update is ready to be pushed. What does Apple do now? Do they push the update anyway? Now 10,000 apps don't work, and who are users going to blame? Do they hold back their patch because another company was lazy?
Apple doesn't want to be Adobe's bitch.
...but manned space flight really hasn't done much for us.
You realize the computer you typed that message on was built using parts originally designed for the manned space program, right?
That doesn't mean WE have to be the ones footing the bill, though. Countries without space programs have computers. It seems silly to think we wouldn't benefit from some other country's space program, so why not let them foot the research bill while we work on coming up with a sensible financial strategy (not that we'll actually do that, but still).
Phillip K Dick, mostly wrote short stories. Some of these movies are very loosely based upon those stories, I don't understand why they are not just writing scripts without association. The only thing I could come up with is they think it has some marketing value.
It has both marketing value and prevents someone from screaming "They just ripped off XXXXX".
Man > Nature... Take that religion!
LOL... I think religion would answer, "when you've created something from nothing, rather than simply measure something accurately, give us a call."
To which man replies: "We created you, Religion, out of absolutely nothing!"
If you RTFA or WTFV, you'd know that it's detecting the input elements using an algorithm and not hard coded to the specific application (they even demoed VNCing into an OS X machine and having it detect the UI elements there and applying the processing).
However, do we really want to always be driven by public opinion?
I wasn't sure - so I checked twitter and it turns out that we do.
I mean you really think they keep a server in the Vatican or Swaziland?
Of course not! Those two were on the list :P
Can anyone think of a single example where throwing the kill switch would be better than not throwing the kill switch? You're talking about shutting down or heavily impacting > 90% of the economy, making communication difficult or impossible for a large number of people, and permanently damaging the trust that people have in a connected society. The damage would be severe and significant and I just can't imagine a situation where it would do more harm than good.
Depends on who the "better" is for. I know if I was in the government and the people were trying to over-through me and my cohorts that the ability to stop all the communications networks they're likely to use (internet + cellphones) would be very useful in preventing anything coordinated.
Follow me here: The average household is somewhere around 2400 square feet. Let's assume for simplicity sake that it's a box measuring 49'x49'x10'. That makes for about 6800 square feet of interior surface area. The skin depth for gold at 2.4 GHz is pretty close to 200nm, but to be sure that the vast majority of the signal is stopped lets assume a coating of 1um thickness. 6800 square feet multiplied by 1um yields a volume of about 6e-4 m^3 of gold. Multiplying this by the density of gold (~20gm/cm^3) yields about 12 kilograms of gold. The last time I checked, gold was something close to $1200 dollars an ounce, which works out to be about $508k. So all the guy really wants to do is use the settlement money to WiFi proof his house. And have a gold plated interior. And a little bit left over for hookers and blow.
Bender: Ahh, screw the gold plated interior. And the blow.
Considering your average camera phone lens can barely resolve a barcode, I'm not quite sure what the point of HD shooting would be.
HD Barcodes?
And this is different from the 10000 other rumors...because ?
Cause it's rumors that are occurring less than a week before the iPad - DUH!
Using SSL is definitely a step up, but of course, even this won't help you if the MPAA gets a judge to issue an order forcing your Usenet provider to log all of its users' downloads. I use a paid Usenet service as well, and my concern is that my provider will someday be slapped with such an order, along with a gag order to prevent them from warning their users about the logging.
I'm thinking maybe, at long last, the writing is on the wall for Usenet - at least as far as me using it is concerned. I have too much to lose (job,assets), and too many people depending on me (wife, kids). It's just not worth the risk anymore. No matter how much I despise the MPAA, RIAA, etc, the obsolete business models of the companies they represent, and their strong-arm tactics, I stand to lose FAR more than I stand to gain. I will continue to donate to the EFF, but no more Usenet downloads for me - not even the non-infringing variety.
My understanding is that in every single trial where someone has been prosecuted it was for uploading (due to the fact that copyright restricts the ability of one to create a copy which would be uploading) which is automatically done in P2P environments. When using USENET (as long as you are not posting), you are only downloading.