The amount of energy produced from wind is proportion to the speed of the wind cubed. Power companies run on tight margins of error and cannot afford going from 100% power to 12.5% power simply because the wind blows at half speed that day.
Power storages, even some of the more creative solutions involving them, are stopgap solutions at best. In most areas of the US the wind isn't overly reliable.
Wind makes a great backup, but I wouldn't want to depend on it as a primary source.
Open Source doesn't, by default, mean more secure any more than a published algorithm is more secure than an unpublished article, only that it has the *potential* to be more secure.
There have been security holes from boneheaded design decisions made in various components of Linux before, a single security hole changes nothing nor tells us anything about the relative security of the two systems.
It would have to be added to the iPod as well as iTunes (for a variety of reasons) and it would need to be implemented, documented, and tested with a variety of different configurations.
>perhaps only a few use it, but perhaps again they would be >more tempted to swtich to osx and/or ipod if they could still >use what they wanted - and would tell their friends etc...
Basic economics here.
Would they sell enough macs to make up the difference? Factoring in the potential hit to perceived usability (and there would be one--people like choices like this to be made for them)?
I doubt it *very* seriously and I think if you ask yourself that honestly you'll find I'm right. There are a lot of linux geeks who would love to see iTunes support Ogg, the number of them where it is a deciding factor in whether they purchase an iPod or buy a Mac is a very, very small percentage of the people Apple wants to attract.
First, the iPod only supports a limited number of formats, and iTunes should only natively support the same formats as the iPod. This is for a combination of ease of use, user perception, and technical reasons.
Second, there is no reason for them to put any effort into supporting it. They have AAC, which for the bitrates most people use is equivalent to or superior to Ogg. The consumer doesn't care how "free" Ogg is when Apple is willing to cover things with AAC and mp3.
They have the Apple Lossless instead of FLAC, and they support the most common format--mp3. Why on earth would they want to confuse things for newbies and people like my mother by adding another format and thus another choice?
Apple has filed for trademarks over three more cat names (Lynx, Cougar, and Leopard), which good through 2007 at their current OS release rate, *and* they have said that they are going to slow down their operating system release rate. I believe that their Mac hardware division is also profitable on most lines independent of their iPods.
Taking these two things into account I find it *highly* unlikely that there is *any* plan to kill off the Mac.
Seriously. I have a copy of office, but it is mainly to read other people's office files (OO.o just isn't there yet--I'm not going to deal with an X11 interface just to open MS Office files).
My theory for anything that I write has been that anything more complex than a plain text document generally deserves LaTeX.
You would have to specifically modify the system and, if you know enough to do that, then you get what is coming to you for modifying it.
Seriously, this is kind of like saying "well, this exploit could erase someone's entire hard drive on a linux system if they were running their web browser as root."
Factually true but completely irrelevant.
For the default install this is a problem, but try not to blow it out of proportion by inventing scenarios to make it more serious.
From the bulletin: --------------- This can potentially wipe the entire hard-disk (or large parts of it), if a hacker runs a script with "rm -rf/" included. ---------------
Unless this has a built-in privilege escalation, I don't see how this is true. If it just runs as the user (which it appears to) then you could erase the users information that way, but not the disk.
There are exceptions, exceptions are called that because by and large they are not true.
Some incredible innovations have come about because of people working in their garage with no (or very little) profit motive, but the vast majority of inventions and advancements do not happen under these terms.
If you've only taken math through calculus I'd say that is your problem.
Discrete mathematics, asymptotic notation, linear algebra, and mathematical modeling all prove useful to me on a daily basis. As to more "CSy" type classes the work I had to do with UML and software design (rather than just shake the requirements up and hope a working prototype falls out) comes immediately to mind.
Considering the governor of the state that Disney World is in, combined with Moore's previous display that he has a... rather tenuous grasp on the facts at best, I can understand why Disney doesn't want to be the ones distributing it.
Moore is also incorrect when he said that "Disney doesn't want people to see this movie." Disney doesn't give a damn whether people see the movie, they just don't want to be the ones who distribute it and, considering the political factors involved, I can't really blame them for wanting to keep up good relations.
That is severely offset by the rate of consumption.
Assuming diesel is 50% more expensive, then If your non-diesel gets 30 mpg and your diesel gets 45 you break-even to use diesel. Some of the numbers on these diesel cars are up in the 60's.
Not any time soon. They already have Cougar, Lynx, and Leopard, so that promises up through 10.7 (2007) and there are still a few few non-obscure breeds of big cats that they could tap...
It disregards science like the alchemists disregarded chemistry. Scientific methodology, statistical analysis, etc were not exactly well developed when the various texts of the bible were written.
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The amount of energy produced from wind is proportion to the speed of the wind cubed. Power companies run on tight margins of error and cannot afford going from 100% power to 12.5% power simply because the wind blows at half speed that day.
Power storages, even some of the more creative solutions involving them, are stopgap solutions at best. In most areas of the US the wind isn't overly reliable.
Wind makes a great backup, but I wouldn't want to depend on it as a primary source.
Nice fallacy.
In short, no it doesn't.
Open Source doesn't, by default, mean more secure any more than a published algorithm is more secure than an unpublished article, only that it has the *potential* to be more secure.
There have been security holes from boneheaded design decisions made in various components of Linux before, a single security hole changes nothing nor tells us anything about the relative security of the two systems.
>surely it cant be that hard just to add ogg
It would have to be added to the iPod as well as iTunes (for a variety of reasons) and it would need to be implemented, documented, and tested with a variety of different configurations.
>perhaps only a few use it, but perhaps again they would be
>more tempted to swtich to osx and/or ipod if they could still
>use what they wanted - and would tell their friends etc...
Basic economics here.
Would they sell enough macs to make up the difference? Factoring in the potential hit to perceived usability (and there would be one--people like choices like this to be made for them)?
I doubt it *very* seriously and I think if you ask yourself that honestly you'll find I'm right. There are a lot of linux geeks who would love to see iTunes support Ogg, the number of them where it is a deciding factor in whether they purchase an iPod or buy a Mac is a very, very small percentage of the people Apple wants to attract.
There are several very good reasons not to.
First, the iPod only supports a limited number of formats, and iTunes should only natively support the same formats as the iPod. This is for a combination of ease of use, user perception, and technical reasons.
Second, there is no reason for them to put any effort into supporting it. They have AAC, which for the bitrates most people use is equivalent to or superior to Ogg. The consumer doesn't care how "free" Ogg is when Apple is willing to cover things with AAC and mp3.
They have the Apple Lossless instead of FLAC, and they support the most common format--mp3. Why on earth would they want to confuse things for newbies and people like my mother by adding another format and thus another choice?
They aren't using the exact same computer for that, hence why Apple can be dominant in some areas of computer use and not others.
*That* would give a whole new twist on the Luke-Leia romance subplot...
You have to subdivide any industry based on what exactly it is that they do and that they are interested in.
Civil engineers who work on fluid flow and pipes for city infrastructure use different tools than the ones who design skyscrapers.
Better than a hunch.
Apple has filed for trademarks over three more cat names (Lynx, Cougar, and Leopard), which good through 2007 at their current OS release rate, *and* they have said that they are going to slow down their operating system release rate. I believe that their Mac hardware division is also profitable on most lines independent of their iPods.
Taking these two things into account I find it *highly* unlikely that there is *any* plan to kill off the Mac.
Politics such as the irrelevancy of Ogg to 99% of the people who are in the iPod's target market?
Seriously. I have a copy of office, but it is mainly to read other people's office files (OO.o just isn't there yet--I'm not going to deal with an X11 interface just to open MS Office files).
My theory for anything that I write has been that anything more complex than a plain text document generally deserves LaTeX.
You would have to specifically modify the system and, if you know enough to do that, then you get what is coming to you for modifying it.
Seriously, this is kind of like saying "well, this exploit could erase someone's entire hard drive on a linux system if they were running their web browser as root."
Factually true but completely irrelevant.
For the default install this is a problem, but try not to blow it out of proportion by inventing scenarios to make it more serious.
From the bulletin:
---------------
This can potentially wipe the entire hard-disk (or large parts of it),
if a hacker runs a script with "rm -rf
---------------
Unless this has a built-in privilege escalation, I don't see how this is true. If it just runs as the user (which it appears to) then you could erase the users information that way, but not the disk.
There are exceptions, exceptions are called that because by and large they are not true.
Some incredible innovations have come about because of people working in their garage with no (or very little) profit motive, but the vast majority of inventions and advancements do not happen under these terms.
You have stunningly bad political comprehension.
What political party are Limbaugh and O'Reilly?
Have they said anything negative about the President?
What political part is the governor of Florida?
Who is the governor of Florida related to?
If you've only taken math through calculus I'd say that is your problem.
Discrete mathematics, asymptotic notation, linear algebra, and mathematical modeling all prove useful to me on a daily basis. As to more "CSy" type classes the work I had to do with UML and software design (rather than just shake the requirements up and hope a working prototype falls out) comes immediately to mind.
Considering the governor of the state that Disney World is in, combined with Moore's previous display that he has a... rather tenuous grasp on the facts at best, I can understand why Disney doesn't want to be the ones distributing it.
Moore is also incorrect when he said that "Disney doesn't want people to see this movie." Disney doesn't give a damn whether people see the movie, they just don't want to be the ones who distribute it and, considering the political factors involved, I can't really blame them for wanting to keep up good relations.
"Unlike a virus, Trojan horses do not replicate themselves but they can be just as destructive."
I think you need to qualify that: they do not *necessarily* replicate themselves. There is no reason they can't, they just don't always do so.
MS pioneered it long ago.
That is severely offset by the rate of consumption.
Assuming diesel is 50% more expensive, then If your non-diesel gets 30 mpg and your diesel gets 45 you break-even to use diesel. Some of the numbers on these diesel cars are up in the 60's.
Would you sell it with or without hot grits?
I mean, if its without, then I'm not sure your really looking at *billions*...
V / R = I and you certainly qualify as an "R"
Not any time soon. They already have Cougar, Lynx, and Leopard, so that promises up through 10.7 (2007) and there are still a few few non-obscure breeds of big cats that they could tap...
Isn't it painful to not be able to read... I never mentioned legality.
All tracks over 7 minutes are album only by default. The shortest time of a track on that album is 12 minutes, ergo...
...what hasn't been invented yet.
It disregards science like the alchemists disregarded chemistry. Scientific methodology, statistical analysis, etc were not exactly well developed when the various texts of the bible were written.