I have never heard that comment about the miss rate. Ever. You would think after the years and tens of millions of iPods delivered that this would be well known. Further, you would expect that persons such as myself that primarily use a separate charger would have noticed. I think your friend is passing on some bad data.
The Prius is midsize/5 passenger purpose built hybrid. The Civic Hybrid is compact/4 passenger, factory conversion to hybrid. A few years back, and at lower fuel prices, the Prius (and Honda Insight) was an environmental statement. Now with fuel prices near historic highs and on the rise, it is considered a savvy buy, especially for commuters. Seems to me that Toyota was surprised by the sales, but now has plans to expand to a sedan and a wagon, and looks to an all hybrid future.
The problem is as well economic, especially in countries as the U.S. with a wealth of coal. Nuclear power plants are comparatively expensive to build. Coal fired plants are cheap and fast to build, cheap to operate and low risk. Figure in CO2 sequestration, and Coal could still win on economics against current nuclear power technology.
Music players are approaching the status of flavored/carbonated beverages from the standpoint of marketing, and Apple owns its own shelf space (stores) plus has dominant shelf space in retailers. As long as Apple keeps a little ahead in the music/player vertical market, they will remain dominant. The competition will be reeling in some of Apple's market share, but at the same time, Apple has the profits to keep cranking out varieties of new and evolved products. Personally, I give the odds to the flash manufacturers' (Samsung and Sandisk) to own the rest of the market, especially with DRM likely diminishing.
Perhaps the company that you reference is willing to pay the premium to upgrade macs frequently to maintain a high level of performance and satisfaction for their workers, and make it up on worker productivity? Either way, I have a 6 1/2 year old mac that runs 10.4.9 without issues, though I've maxed out the power supply, so I chose an internal processor upgrade over a cinema display, and I could run Classic if there was any reason to. My local independent Apple dealer coulld fix my decade old 6115 if I desired, as well as a couple fo 9600's (which could run OSX), but performance is so lacking that it is pointless, so there will be a MacPro in my near future.
The Chinese government have been been quite nice about keeping our dollars in reserve, so the U.S. Government can print more with no inflation which we consumers then get to spend at Walmart on Chinese imports and DVD's with region coding and DRM, whereas the RIAA would rather that same folding money be used to buy CD's with region coding and DRM. Walmart is therefore more powerful than the RIAA, China keeps Most Favored Nation status, and the futon in Biejing that the dollars are stashed under becomes way to high to watch the new 108 inch LCD Television that the country bought to watch Ang Lee films.
I would note that your enthusiasm is well founded, though in fact I would probably make the argument that Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) gets credit for the first commercial parametric solids package, Pro/Engineer. I have also heard that the folks that started SolidWorks were ex-PTC and created the first Windows only Parametric application, and that the fellow that was most responsible for Pro/Engineer was an ex-Computervision employee (Computervision was absorbed by PTC who provide legacy support).
There are lots of companies and individuals who have added to the base of MCAD, Dassault, SDRC and Unigraphics being notable, but the real impact of SolidWorks has been to create an entry level MCAD package.
Enough of that though. Why 2D sucks is that there isn't any ability to leverage the data for any sort of part, assembly or engineering analysis. I pay for Pro/E, so I'll give you the Pro/E version, but this applies to most of the other MCAD packages out there.
As an example, say I'm a CEO that wants to create some consumer electronics gismo.
My team might start with a conceptual design in Pro/Concept, sketching in 2d, fleshing that out to a 3D with color, texture, and surface painting. Importing that into Pro/engineer, they can create a solid model that can tuned and adjusted, and create/add other parts for an assembly, analyze the parts and assembly kinematically, dynamically, and structurally (including many 3rd party options). They can import a pcb board layout and convert the components to a solid, thermally simulate the assembly with CFD (3rd party), and perhaps modify and update my assembly. They might then pull up a moldbase, create a cavity, simulate injection molding characteristics (3rd party Moldflow), modify and analyze the part again, create the machining program for the mold. Maybe they'll send out some STL files and create a rapid prototype, or maybe just a nice rendering.
The nice part is, that since the operations are all associative, they will always be passing on best practices with lots of calculations, optimizations and design revue documented at every step (the Product Data Management part)to maintain design intent. Drawings, assembly instructions, and manuals all drop out of this data.
Now, imagine that "they" is one person. That's a lot of engineering prowess, and there isn't anyway that you can do that in 2D.
Uhm, yeah, whatever. Pretty sure we spend about $750 B per year on our security which exceeds all others combined by a wide margin, so there's a good chance that there is a few $B tucked away for AntiSatellite develpment somewhere. I'm a little more concerned that China might figure out a way to mass produce satellites and launch vehicles and sell them through WalMart, killing off Dish Network with Personal Satlogging.
There was a film a couple of years back about Hogan's Heroes' Bob Crane called "Auto Focus" starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe. He was one of the first to use the new "portable" VTR from Sony for sex video's. I googled up this: http://crimemagazine.com/bobcrane.htm
Steve has been able to apply his midas touch to more than a single business. The number of CEO's that came claim that has to be a pretty short list. I'm pleased that he will be able to help Iger at Disney, though I always felt that his rightful throne awaits at Sony.
Sooner or later, Pixar will stumble. Not because of quality, but, because there are now some very good animation studios on the rise. The pie is only so big, and there are only a few good slots in the year to make bank on animation. Then again, taking the Disney crap out of the equation might be worth it.
Pretty sure that it was Jobs, at Apple, that pushed IBM, hard, to add vector processors to the PPC core, which, as we now see, are the basis of all those pretty machines you are talking about, including the cell. I expect that Jobs, at Apple, will push Intel to accelerate development of SSE, not that Intel needs any asking.
I can't speak for the 68K, because, I don't know how that one ended (it seems that Moto didn't have any issues with Apple using their processors from Lisa on up to 68040 and the advent of the PPC). Heck, NEXT was looking at the Moto 88000 and that got axed. IBM delivered PPC 601 that Apple snapped up, through the 603 and 604 (and 604e), but those stalled. Then moto took over with the G3 and G4 and got stalled for the longest time at 500 mhz, (when Intel was past 1Ghz). It took Moto forever to break through 1.5 Ghz. Apple's only out was dual processor and vector processing, and this was true even when Apple switched back to IBM for the G5, and it stalled (been waiting 3 years for 3Ghz) while on one of the world's most modern fabs (Killfish) with yield problems. Apple demands a lot, true, but, IBM and Moto couldn't deliver the PPC that they promised. Ever.
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Me thinks that you hit the nail on the head. More to the point, I would argue that Aperture is, architecturally anyway, way ahead of Lightroom. If Apple continues to develop Aperture and adds a plugin architecture, I suspect that it will remain the high end application of choice for studio work, where the realtime features are extremely valuble and Apple will sell lots of hardware, which is what they want to do anyway.
I can guarantee that sales of the Xbox360 will be brisk if retailers throw in a 5G iPod or a PSP with each sale. Not making money on the boxes anyway, might as well buy the PR.
Be popular in the lunchroom as you show last night's latest crapola on the small screen so everybody can participate! Still, I bought one, it's shipped and I wouldn't mind downloading uppity fare, documentaries, indies, cartoons and animations, and Science Fiction, but I draw the network line at Arrested Development. This will create a demand for high quality programs that can't get an audience without a proper slot, or need more time to develop an audience. Think of this a a bandwidth amplifier that lets everybody watch whatever programs they want, when they want, and a PVR (without multiple simultaneous channel recording) surely can't do that. This is a win-win for everybody, as now we get to vote with our pocketbook.
Isn't that the truth. I have a friend that bought a Prius 3 months ago, and has already put on 8000 miles. Her other ride, a 3/4 ton P/U, is pretty much sitting now, while her husband's Tahoe is burning through some serious cash, and he's complaining that she will wear the car out before she has finished paying for it (3 year loan)! We live up in Northern Nevada at over 4500 feet elevation and she's getting over 50 mpg. Still, I await a diesel hybrid in the 70 mpg range.
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I for one welcome my new Ferrari Enzo download off of iTunes!
I have never heard that comment about the miss rate. Ever. You would think after the years and tens of millions of iPods delivered that this would be well known. Further, you would expect that persons such as myself that primarily use a separate charger would have noticed. I think your friend is passing on some bad data.
The Prius is midsize/5 passenger purpose built hybrid. The Civic Hybrid is compact/4 passenger, factory conversion to hybrid. A few years back, and at lower fuel prices, the Prius (and Honda Insight) was an environmental statement. Now with fuel prices near historic highs and on the rise, it is considered a savvy buy, especially for commuters. Seems to me that Toyota was surprised by the sales, but now has plans to expand to a sedan and a wagon, and looks to an all hybrid future.
The problem is as well economic, especially in countries as the U.S. with a wealth of coal. Nuclear power plants are comparatively expensive to build. Coal fired plants are cheap and fast to build, cheap to operate and low risk. Figure in CO2 sequestration, and Coal could still win on economics against current nuclear power technology.
Music players are approaching the status of flavored/carbonated beverages from the standpoint of marketing, and Apple owns its own shelf space (stores) plus has dominant shelf space in retailers. As long as Apple keeps a little ahead in the music/player vertical market, they will remain dominant. The competition will be reeling in some of Apple's market share, but at the same time, Apple has the profits to keep cranking out varieties of new and evolved products. Personally, I give the odds to the flash manufacturers' (Samsung and Sandisk) to own the rest of the market, especially with DRM likely diminishing.
I prefer Apple's revenue and profit growth over MS's mature market position.
Perhaps the company that you reference is willing to pay the premium to upgrade macs frequently to maintain a high level of performance and satisfaction for their workers, and make it up on worker productivity? Either way, I have a 6 1/2 year old mac that runs 10.4.9 without issues, though I've maxed out the power supply, so I chose an internal processor upgrade over a cinema display, and I could run Classic if there was any reason to. My local independent Apple dealer coulld fix my decade old 6115 if I desired, as well as a couple fo 9600's (which could run OSX), but performance is so lacking that it is pointless, so there will be a MacPro in my near future.
The Chinese government have been been quite nice about keeping our dollars in reserve, so the U.S. Government can print more with no inflation which we consumers then get to spend at Walmart on Chinese imports and DVD's with region coding and DRM, whereas the RIAA would rather that same folding money be used to buy CD's with region coding and DRM. Walmart is therefore more powerful than the RIAA, China keeps Most Favored Nation status, and the futon in Biejing that the dollars are stashed under becomes way to high to watch the new 108 inch LCD Television that the country bought to watch Ang Lee films.
http://www.apple.com/universal/crossgrade/
That's the guarantee I'm looking for.
I would note that your enthusiasm is well founded, though in fact I would probably make the argument that Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) gets credit for the first commercial parametric solids package, Pro/Engineer. I have also heard that the folks that started SolidWorks were ex-PTC and created the first Windows only Parametric application, and that the fellow that was most responsible for Pro/Engineer was an ex-Computervision employee (Computervision was absorbed by PTC who provide legacy support).
There are lots of companies and individuals who have added to the base of MCAD, Dassault, SDRC and Unigraphics being notable, but the real impact of SolidWorks has been to create an entry level MCAD package.
Enough of that though. Why 2D sucks is that there isn't any ability to leverage the data for any sort of part, assembly or engineering analysis. I pay for Pro/E, so I'll give you the Pro/E version, but this applies to most of the other MCAD packages out there.
As an example, say I'm a CEO that wants to create some consumer electronics gismo.
My team might start with a conceptual design in Pro/Concept, sketching in 2d, fleshing that out to a 3D with color, texture, and surface painting. Importing that into Pro/engineer, they can create a solid model that can tuned and adjusted, and create/add other parts for an assembly, analyze the parts and assembly kinematically, dynamically, and structurally (including many 3rd party options). They can import a pcb board layout and convert the components to a solid, thermally simulate the assembly with CFD (3rd party), and perhaps modify and update my assembly. They might then pull up a moldbase, create a cavity, simulate injection molding characteristics (3rd party Moldflow), modify and analyze the part again, create the machining program for the mold. Maybe they'll send out some STL files and create a rapid prototype, or maybe just a nice rendering.
The nice part is, that since the operations are all associative, they will always be passing on best practices with lots of calculations, optimizations and design revue documented at every step (the Product Data Management part)to maintain design intent. Drawings, assembly instructions, and manuals all drop out of this data.
Now, imagine that "they" is one person. That's a lot of engineering prowess, and there isn't anyway that you can do that in 2D.
Sony's R1 is a cmos 10 MP APS sensor, in a fixed lens configuration.
Uhm, yeah, whatever. Pretty sure we spend about $750 B per year on our security which exceeds all others combined by a wide margin, so there's a good chance that there is a few $B tucked away for AntiSatellite develpment somewhere. I'm a little more concerned that China might figure out a way to mass produce satellites and launch vehicles and sell them through WalMart, killing off Dish Network with Personal Satlogging.
A Russian MIG and various Gulfstreams modded with weapon stations? Yes, I'd give Oracle odds on a win in a Red Hat Exercise.
There was a film a couple of years back about Hogan's Heroes' Bob Crane called "Auto Focus" starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe. He was one of the first to use the new "portable" VTR from Sony for sex video's. I googled up this: http://crimemagazine.com/bobcrane.htm
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006 /02/richard-lindzens-hol-testimony/
Who knew.
Steve has been able to apply his midas touch to more than a single business. The number of CEO's that came claim that has to be a pretty short list. I'm pleased that he will be able to help Iger at Disney, though I always felt that his rightful throne awaits at Sony.
Sooner or later, Pixar will stumble. Not because of quality, but, because there are now some very good animation studios on the rise. The pie is only so big, and there are only a few good slots in the year to make bank on animation. Then again, taking the Disney crap out of the equation might be worth it.
Pretty sure that it was Jobs, at Apple, that pushed IBM, hard, to add vector processors to the PPC core, which, as we now see, are the basis of all those pretty machines you are talking about, including the cell. I expect that Jobs, at Apple, will push Intel to accelerate development of SSE, not that Intel needs any asking.
I can't speak for the 68K, because, I don't know how that one ended (it seems that Moto didn't have any issues with Apple using their processors from Lisa on up to 68040 and the advent of the PPC). Heck, NEXT was looking at the Moto 88000 and that got axed. IBM delivered PPC 601 that Apple snapped up, through the 603 and 604 (and 604e), but those stalled. Then moto took over with the G3 and G4 and got stalled for the longest time at 500 mhz, (when Intel was past 1Ghz). It took Moto forever to break through 1.5 Ghz. Apple's only out was dual processor and vector processing, and this was true even when Apple switched back to IBM for the G5, and it stalled (been waiting 3 years for 3Ghz) while on one of the world's most modern fabs (Killfish) with yield problems. Apple demands a lot, true, but, IBM and Moto couldn't deliver the PPC that they promised. Ever.
Me thinks that you hit the nail on the head. More to the point, I would argue that Aperture is, architecturally anyway, way ahead of Lightroom. If Apple continues to develop Aperture and adds a plugin architecture, I suspect that it will remain the high end application of choice for studio work, where the realtime features are extremely valuble and Apple will sell lots of hardware, which is what they want to do anyway.
I can guarantee that sales of the Xbox360 will be brisk if retailers throw in a 5G iPod or a PSP with each sale. Not making money on the boxes anyway, might as well buy the PR.
Be popular in the lunchroom as you show last night's latest crapola on the small screen so everybody can participate! Still, I bought one, it's shipped and I wouldn't mind downloading uppity fare, documentaries, indies, cartoons and animations, and Science Fiction, but I draw the network line at Arrested Development. This will create a demand for high quality programs that can't get an audience without a proper slot, or need more time to develop an audience. Think of this a a bandwidth amplifier that lets everybody watch whatever programs they want, when they want, and a PVR (without multiple simultaneous channel recording) surely can't do that. This is a win-win for everybody, as now we get to vote with our pocketbook.
Isn't that the truth. I have a friend that bought a Prius 3 months ago, and has already put on 8000 miles. Her other ride, a 3/4 ton P/U, is pretty much sitting now, while her husband's Tahoe is burning through some serious cash, and he's complaining that she will wear the car out before she has finished paying for it (3 year loan)! We live up in Northern Nevada at over 4500 feet elevation and she's getting over 50 mpg. Still, I await a diesel hybrid in the 70 mpg range.