As the transition sees developers pushing out binaries for both chips, I don't see a downside of Apple straddling the fence and using both types of chips. (The people who use paralells or virtualization will know what their software runs on....)
They could also continue using that as leverage against intel or ibm when it comes time to price certain chips.
(Assuming the intel contract only forbade them getting other x86 CPU suppliers, not CPU suppliers in general.)
In exchange for you making your creations public. Society has to benefit, but it was also recognized that without copyright there would be less incentive to work on certain things.
So society promised authors/creators/artist a limited time monopoly as incentive and society gets the benefit of the artwork/creation and later having it in public domain.
Don't forget, having copyright in the first place causes a strain on society. IP is not a natural right. Copyright is a mutually beneficial contract between creators and society. The article's author wants to subvert the contract completely in the favor of one side. In U.S. contract law, for contracts to be valid, both sides have to have had a clear benefit for the contract to be considered valid.
Copyright already has been subverted to the one side so often (copyright extensions) without any clear benefits given for the other side, I would have to start arguing that the contract is not valid anymore. I don't believe anybody is owed rights that place an undue burden on society unless society also benefits in some way. This is not the case here.
If you want your thing protected forever, lock it in a vault, don't let it see the light of day, and don't tell anybody about it. Let it die, along with you eventually.
I don't mind the errors, what I do mind is taking my time out to correct them.
While tying, if I make a typo or something - I either ignore the few wrong letters, correct them really fast (takes a second or two), or the spell checker does it for me. All in all, I am still concentrating on what I was doing.
I have tried Dragon Naturally Speaking ver 5, 7, and the latest one, 9sp1. It really has gotten better throughout the generations but when I dictate a document and something comes out bad - it's an entire word or phrase and I HAVE TO CORRECT that type of mistake. I can't ignore it - people can overlook spelling mistakes - they won't overlook silly phrases/words in between.
Then my concentration is knocked off the task as I am sitting there training the program. They could streamline this by seeing how you eventually corrected it and what you eventually type in and compare it to the program's first guess. Right now, they make selected the phrase, make you say pronounce the wrong guess and then the correct one. It's too time consuming.
Speech recognition is good though, to give your wrists a rest. But I find that typing shorter reports that are to the point work just as well.
I mean - jeez windows.com is hosted on IIS - how many times have you see the windows.com site hacked ?
I saw the subdomains hacked a few times, but I don't know if the site is really running IIS or if it is just saying they are. I can have my firefox browser report that it is IE quite easily...
Sounds like the Scandinavian countries are too out-of-line. I'm surprised that Microsoft hasn't petitioned the U.S. government to nuke them or at least go on a bombing campaign against these shameless eco(nomy)-terrorists.
In the summer, many cities and surrounding counties mandate a 85%/15% gas/ethanol mixture in order to reduce pollution. This has the effect of making the gas more expensive, but Consumer Reports also found that in regular cars - it kills the MPG by up to 30% because of ethanol's lower energy potential making it actually worse than pure gas.
That, however, does not explain your lower MPG in the winter. This is actually pretty easy - the colder your engine is on start-up, it will take more fuel until it heats up. I am not just talking about idling while waiting for the car to heat up. The gas/air mixture just doesn't burn as efficiently in a cold cylinder/piston. Part of the reason is the fuel/air mixture does not atomize as easily as in warm weather, and so this is an effect that will be through driving as the air will be always delivered cold.
The cold weather/cold start effect is partly eliminated by the Toyota Prius as it stores the radiator fluid (once the car is turned off) in a insulated thermos type of device, to heat the engine up as rapidly as possible on start up.
You also have to figure that all the ball bearings in your car are greased up, and thus they have more drag in the cold weather. That a little thing. Then tire pressure may be too low, as air is denser - on a typical sedan you need about 32 psi to get optimal fuel efficiency. And a tire that is at 32 in 70+ degree weather may be below 29 in the freezing cold.
Cold weather can also be a positive - the air is denser, and that gives a small effect (like free low pressure supercharging/turbocharging) that can increase the horse power of your engine. But the effect is small.
not cross-cut but just in strips like old shredders used to do. That means the job is infinitely easier.
Also, mix your bin around. Add multiple papers, and take out others so all the pieces are not in the same place or thrown out at the same time. The chances a thief can economically put together those shreds from a vast assortment drops to almost nil when it's not guaranteed the entire paper is even there.
Unless you are Bill Gates, you are not interesting enough to waste time on. The thief will move on to easier targets who take no precautions (as in not shredding period).
The iPhone has been declared dead so many times already that I am starting to think it's a Jesus phone for the amount of times it must have been resurrected. And there are so many iPhone killers running around loose that I don't dare step a foot out the door.
Maybe everyone should just hold there horses and see what Apple actually comes out with. I know one thing, this product is hyped beyond belief and Apple didn't have to pay a red cent for that advertising (have you ever heard of a Zune killer before or after that thing came out?)
From what I understand, "racing the engine" may not be worse than puttering along. Hypermilers use a "pulse and glide" system, and it said that accelerating at an RPM where your engine gives peak torque is more fuel efficient than going the absolute slowest RPM you can. Accelerating then coasting. Then accelerate again.
I'm not a hypermiler (they are willing to go too slow, sacrificing speed for mpg, and putting themselves at risk) but I drive like this and use other techniques to increase mileage and it is more fuel efficient. I also try to anticipate stops, lights and drive accordingly. If I see a light that just turned red 200 meters out, I try to coast there, maybe brake early, so that either I let my existing kinetic energy run out or so that I still have some speed when it turns green.
The people behind me don't like this, which I don't understand, because they want to race to the red light, brake the last 20-50 feet, and then start up from 0mph again. They are only wasting their gas and wearing out their brakes fasters, while not getting their any earlier.
how to split the mouse and keyboard effectively (ergonomic split keyboard?).
Otherwise, why not just use dumb terminals? Because sharing a computer jostling the person next to you is going to be a nightmare.
Not to mention the suckage of having your side of the monitor always in ultra-narrow landscape mode when most programs and OSes aren't made for that. Vertical scrolling is okay, horizontal is just plain tedious.
The companies want to choose the "acceptable" candidates for you rather the populace choosing themselves. The primaries are very important in party politics and when people complain that they only have a choice between a douche and turd on election day must be informed that they get whittled down to that choice because they consider eleection day all important and not the primaries and that "vote". May not be fair but it is true.
The mainstream media is silent on these candidates, but Digg is abuzz with Ron Paul and Mike Gravel. Please looking up these two and consider actively spreading the word about who you like (either of these two or other candidates you find). Or do you guys want to be stuck with a Bush vs. Kerry like candidates in 2008 with both sides sucking?
It seems pretty common sense to me that would be the model China is striving for. First you play catch-up to your competitors (imitation), then you work on surpassing them (innovation).
It helps that everyone is paying them for the first part and probably has sent the expertise and machinery and whatnot over there as well because of the cheap labor.
Japan itself has started out in the steel industry as a low-end producer (rebar) that the US steel giants didn't mind because that part of the business of low-end and low-margin that it let them "focus" on the high-end high margin stuff. This allowed Japan to get a foothold in the door and they are now one of the largest producers of steel while the US steel industry is in the dumps.
Punishing legitimate customers since it's inception. I got reminded of this again today after not being able to play a DVD in my Powerbook because of region encoding. Funny thing is, this DVD is only really of extreme local interest and any outside interest/sales are negligible - since it's only sold in one region so why do the authors enforce region encoding? Do they not know what it is?
Maybe it's better to pirate afterall. Less hassles that way.
I'm sure he has a staff of secretaries that screen everything and is well versed by now how to take care of these relatively unimportant problems (unimportant to Jobs - I imagine that guy is busy with other, more pressing matters). Though it might be a good idea to have the CEO of any corporation see the failures of his organization every so often.
Just stop working on jobs/things you don't like once you become financially secure enough. Better yet, start your own business or if that is too much stress just work what you like. That doesn't even have to be your field - could be charity or whatever.
that there was a "standard" gaming platform in the past - it was called the 3D0.
It flopped for many reasons, but I think the primary one was that being a standard, no one hardware company was heavily invested into it, thus having it make or break the bank dependent on success. Usually the one who makes the hardware ensure killer games by making them in-house or licensing them.
No, this isn't the domain name fight all over again regarding some cybersquatter. Myspace is but a website and this is but some profile. I don't have access to every profile using "my" name (least of which multiple people have the same handle in real life) on every website in the web.
Also, from what I have read - Anthony was not an official volunteer. He built it up himself of his own initiative since 2004 before Obama was even on the national radar.
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As the transition sees developers pushing out binaries for both chips, I don't see a downside of Apple straddling the fence and using both types of chips. (The people who use paralells or virtualization will know what their software runs on....)
They could also continue using that as leverage against intel or ibm when it comes time to price certain chips.
(Assuming the intel contract only forbade them getting other x86 CPU suppliers, not CPU suppliers in general.)
When MS enforces, people will be forced to turn elsewhere.
Otherwise, MS gets adopted wholly, until the market is 100% MS. Enforcing a MS lock-in there, also enforces it in other places of the world.
The way to freedom will be paved by MS tightening its Iron Grip in this area. It will cause short-term incovenienc, but it is good in the long run.
My mistake and the stupidity of SI.
I wish everybody moved to metric.
Platinum is $1326 current PER OUNCE. Pallidium is $361 PER OUNCE.
If you want the per pound price, multiply by 16.
In exchange for you making your creations public. Society has to benefit, but it was also recognized that without copyright there would be less incentive to work on certain things.
So society promised authors/creators/artist a limited time monopoly as incentive and society gets the benefit of the artwork/creation and later having it in public domain.
Don't forget, having copyright in the first place causes a strain on society. IP is not a natural right. Copyright is a mutually beneficial contract between creators and society. The article's author wants to subvert the contract completely in the favor of one side. In U.S. contract law, for contracts to be valid, both sides have to have had a clear benefit for the contract to be considered valid.
Copyright already has been subverted to the one side so often (copyright extensions) without any clear benefits given for the other side, I would have to start arguing that the contract is not valid anymore. I don't believe anybody is owed rights that place an undue burden on society unless society also benefits in some way. This is not the case here.
If you want your thing protected forever, lock it in a vault, don't let it see the light of day, and don't tell anybody about it. Let it die, along with you eventually.
I don't mind the errors, what I do mind is taking my time out to correct them.
While tying, if I make a typo or something - I either ignore the few wrong letters, correct them really fast (takes a second or two), or the spell checker does it for me. All in all, I am still concentrating on what I was doing.
I have tried Dragon Naturally Speaking ver 5, 7, and the latest one, 9sp1. It really has gotten better throughout the generations but when I dictate a document and something comes out bad - it's an entire word or phrase and I HAVE TO CORRECT that type of mistake. I can't ignore it - people can overlook spelling mistakes - they won't overlook silly phrases/words in between.
Then my concentration is knocked off the task as I am sitting there training the program. They could streamline this by seeing how you eventually corrected it and what you eventually type in and compare it to the program's first guess. Right now, they make selected the phrase, make you say pronounce the wrong guess and then the correct one. It's too time consuming.
Speech recognition is good though, to give your wrists a rest. But I find that typing shorter reports that are to the point work just as well.
Have you been hiding in a hole in the ground? Dell is going be selling Ubuntu Linux PCs....
Another techie making the mistake that the checklist of features is all there is to a product.
This seems to be a problem of the big boys.
On the anime DVDs I have watched, and other such niche entertainment, I don't get bludgeoned to death.
Only on Disney DVDs and DVDs of U.S. theater released films do I get harrassed. That could be the reason I avoid any such DVDs in the first place.
Sounds like the Scandinavian countries are too out-of-line. I'm surprised that Microsoft hasn't petitioned the U.S. government to nuke them or at least go on a bombing campaign against these shameless eco(nomy)-terrorists.
Season/temperature affects different things.
In the summer, many cities and surrounding counties mandate a 85%/15% gas/ethanol mixture in order to reduce pollution. This has the effect of making the gas more expensive, but Consumer Reports also found that in regular cars - it kills the MPG by up to 30% because of ethanol's lower energy potential making it actually worse than pure gas.
That, however, does not explain your lower MPG in the winter. This is actually pretty easy - the colder your engine is on start-up, it will take more fuel until it heats up. I am not just talking about idling while waiting for the car to heat up. The gas/air mixture just doesn't burn as efficiently in a cold cylinder/piston. Part of the reason is the fuel/air mixture does not atomize as easily as in warm weather, and so this is an effect that will be through driving as the air will be always delivered cold.
The cold weather/cold start effect is partly eliminated by the Toyota Prius as it stores the radiator fluid (once the car is turned off) in a insulated thermos type of device, to heat the engine up as rapidly as possible on start up.
You also have to figure that all the ball bearings in your car are greased up, and thus they have more drag in the cold weather. That a little thing. Then tire pressure may be too low, as air is denser - on a typical sedan you need about 32 psi to get optimal fuel efficiency. And a tire that is at 32 in 70+ degree weather may be below 29 in the freezing cold.
Cold weather can also be a positive - the air is denser, and that gives a small effect (like free low pressure supercharging/turbocharging) that can increase the horse power of your engine. But the effect is small.
Lots of factors.
not cross-cut but just in strips like old shredders used to do. That means the job is infinitely easier.
Also, mix your bin around. Add multiple papers, and take out others so all the pieces are not in the same place or thrown out at the same time. The chances a thief can economically put together those shreds from a vast assortment drops to almost nil when it's not guaranteed the entire paper is even there.
Unless you are Bill Gates, you are not interesting enough to waste time on. The thief will move on to easier targets who take no precautions (as in not shredding period).
The iPhone has been declared dead so many times already that I am starting to think it's a Jesus phone for the amount of times it must have been resurrected. And there are so many iPhone killers running around loose that I don't dare step a foot out the door.
Maybe everyone should just hold there horses and see what Apple actually comes out with. I know one thing, this product is hyped beyond belief and Apple didn't have to pay a red cent for that advertising (have you ever heard of a Zune killer before or after that thing came out?)
From what I understand, "racing the engine" may not be worse than puttering along. Hypermilers use a "pulse and glide" system, and it said that accelerating at an RPM where your engine gives peak torque is more fuel efficient than going the absolute slowest RPM you can. Accelerating then coasting. Then accelerate again.
I'm not a hypermiler (they are willing to go too slow, sacrificing speed for mpg, and putting themselves at risk) but I drive like this and use other techniques to increase mileage and it is more fuel efficient. I also try to anticipate stops, lights and drive accordingly. If I see a light that just turned red 200 meters out, I try to coast there, maybe brake early, so that either I let my existing kinetic energy run out or so that I still have some speed when it turns green.
The people behind me don't like this, which I don't understand, because they want to race to the red light, brake the last 20-50 feet, and then start up from 0mph again. They are only wasting their gas and wearing out their brakes fasters, while not getting their any earlier.
people that the Chinese government deems criminals.
how to split the mouse and keyboard effectively (ergonomic split keyboard?).
Otherwise, why not just use dumb terminals? Because sharing a computer jostling the person next to you is going to be a nightmare.
Not to mention the suckage of having your side of the monitor always in ultra-narrow landscape mode when most programs and OSes aren't made for that. Vertical scrolling is okay, horizontal is just plain tedious.
The companies want to choose the "acceptable" candidates for you rather the populace choosing themselves. The primaries are very important in party politics and when people complain that they only have a choice between a douche and turd on election day must be informed that they get whittled down to that choice because they consider eleection day all important and not the primaries and that "vote". May not be fair but it is true.
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The mainstream media is silent on these candidates, but Digg is abuzz with Ron Paul and Mike Gravel. Please looking up these two and consider actively spreading the word about who you like (either of these two or other candidates you find). Or do you guys want to be stuck with a Bush vs. Kerry like candidates in 2008 with both sides sucking?
Ron Paul:
http://digg.com/search?s=%22ron+paul%22&submit=Se
Mike Gravel:
http://digg.com/search?s=%22mike+gravel%22&submit
It seems pretty common sense to me that would be the model China is striving for. First you play catch-up to your competitors (imitation), then you work on surpassing them (innovation).
It helps that everyone is paying them for the first part and probably has sent the expertise and machinery and whatnot over there as well because of the cheap labor.
Japan itself has started out in the steel industry as a low-end producer (rebar) that the US steel giants didn't mind because that part of the business of low-end and low-margin that it let them "focus" on the high-end high margin stuff. This allowed Japan to get a foothold in the door and they are now one of the largest producers of steel while the US steel industry is in the dumps.
Punishing legitimate customers since it's inception. I got reminded of this again today after not being able to play a DVD in my Powerbook because of region encoding. Funny thing is, this DVD is only really of extreme local interest and any outside interest/sales are negligible - since it's only sold in one region so why do the authors enforce region encoding? Do they not know what it is?
Maybe it's better to pirate afterall. Less hassles that way.
I'm sure he has a staff of secretaries that screen everything and is well versed by now how to take care of these relatively unimportant problems (unimportant to Jobs - I imagine that guy is busy with other, more pressing matters). Though it might be a good idea to have the CEO of any corporation see the failures of his organization every so often.
Just stop working on jobs/things you don't like once you become financially secure enough. Better yet, start your own business or if that is too much stress just work what you like. That doesn't even have to be your field - could be charity or whatever.
Waiting around to die would suck.
that there was a "standard" gaming platform in the past - it was called the 3D0.
It flopped for many reasons, but I think the primary one was that being a standard, no one hardware company was heavily invested into it, thus having it make or break the bank dependent on success. Usually the one who makes the hardware ensure killer games by making them in-house or licensing them.
No, this isn't the domain name fight all over again regarding some cybersquatter. Myspace is but a website and this is but some profile. I don't have access to every profile using "my" name (least of which multiple people have the same handle in real life) on every website in the web.
Also, from what I have read - Anthony was not an official volunteer. He built it up himself of his own initiative since 2004 before Obama was even on the national radar.