Maybe, but that doesn't change the fact that democrats are wrong.
About what? Or are they just wrong in general? Do you have any idea how silly this makes you sound? No one is wrong all the time. Even a stopped clock is right twice per day.
No they are not. Fox and the other conservative leaning press is the first time the mainstream US media actively took a consistant side of an issue as part of its identity as an organization. The outlets you are referring to have some faults. The faults are typically that they care only about their ratings, they engage in serious groupthink, and they cover issues very superficially. That is not the same as saying they are biased towards liberals.
Go back to the 80s and look at how Reagan was covered (mostly very positively - except during Iran/Contra which they mostly covered as "horserace"). Look at how Jimmy Carter was pretty much crucified by the media. (Every day they ended the news by saying, "This is the nth day of the hostage crisis in Iran." They pretty much treated Mondale's candidacy as a joke.
You should also understand that when you are very partisan on one side of an issue, it is easy to get into the mindset of "anyone who doesn't see things 100% my way must be biased towards my opponents." Feeling that way does not make it so. Repeating it over and over doesn't make it so either.
Are you telling me that Apple only makes a few dollars profit on these?
I'm sure their margins are very high on these - perhaps as high as 30%. However, it is a very common practice to take the Bill of Materials and multiply it by some number to get an MSRP.
The agreement to use CDs in a certain way is the same agreement that we all make on pretty much every issue: do what the oligarchs say or suffer the consequences which is whatever the oligarchs deem them to be.
Then I ought to be able to make obscene CDs and instead of using the standard parental warning label call it "Enhanced Content CD" or something vague like that.
Right. I was buying a car and the salesman who was quite a bit older didn't understand why I would prefer an iPod adapter to a 6 disc CD changer. I didn't understand what was so hard to understand about this arithmetic:
Not only that, but most companies sooner or later realize that the "new" business is at odds with the "current" business. Sides are drawn and a fight ensues. The "new" faction usually looses.
A very good example of this is when discount retailing became popular. Woolworths was the dominant retailer. Their major competitor "bet the company" on discount retailing and became K-Mart (before that they were a traditional retailer with a different name starting with K that I can't remember.) Woolworths also tried to get into discount retailing, but did so more carefully. Ultimately the executives caused the discount division to fail because it threatened what they were doing in traditional retail.
The SEC filings take into consideration costs other than the raw bill of materials. For example, the contract manufacturer has some mark up to cover tooling, shipping, their overhead and profit, etc.
I realize you are joking about assembling it yourself. However, you would not be able to buy the parts at the same price Apple could buy them. And you could not get some of the parts like the clickwheel.
Apple needs to control how their products are presented at retail - not just jam them into any and all retail stores blindly. They tried that in the 90s and it didn't work very well. Plus, it totally goes against Steve's ideas about how the Mac should be marketed.
You'd go into Sears or Office Depot or whatever. They would "sell Macs" meaning they had a demo unit in the corner, broken, dirty, etc. and sales people who had no idea how to sell Macs and often as not would try to steer people away from Apple.
Today, I can go into any of the *three* Apple stores in any of the Malls where near my house. The computers are nicely setup, you can try them out. The staff is very knowledgable. The store is beautiful - and usually full. And lots of people are buying Macintoshes.
The other stores that sell Macs near where I live: CompUSA - doing a good job of the store within a store. Fry's - selling and displaying Mac systems at least as well as anything else they sell. The Mac Store - an old timey Apple dealership that specializes in Mac systems.
Wherever you go, you are going to see the Mac systems displayed well and represented well. That's a lot better than having them in every store displayed poorly.
My wife just got a 6GB iPod Mini and it's terrific.
I'm glad she is enjoying it!
Build the BlueTooth into the iPod/iNano/iVimto and you presumably don't need the USB connector anymore either!
Blue Tooth is too slow. However, there is a thing called "Wireless USB". The speeds on it approach USB 2.0 speeds and it is very similar to wired USB - I think you may be able to use the same drivers as with wired USB.
Of course, currently we charge the iPod at the same time as the songs are being transferred. Apple may be (or might not be!) relying on the power being there during the transfer. So, if you went wireless you would have to take into account the fact that the battries might die during sync. I think you might also find that blue tooth does not provide the audio quality that you might like. However, you could have wireless USB speakers and presumably a wireless USB dock in your car.
As far as the song swapping - I think there is a model for this that can work. You can subscribe to other people's playlists from iTunes. So, maybe not the swapping, but perhaps listening to the song from someone else's iPod? I doubt the iPod has enough processing power to actually decode more than one song at a time, though.
Yes, that's why they need to double the materials price. They *do* generally have to pay for things like: - The contract manufacturer's profit - Shipping (although sometimes the contract manufacturer pays for this) - Marketing, advertising, sales promotions - Warranty repairs/replacements - Returned units - Keeping the retail stores open and paying the people there - Engineering costs - Other fixed costs of running Apple (keeping the lights on at 1 Infinite Loop) - Steve's turtlenecks don't pay for themselves:-)
I'm working on a system that uses MD5 in order to cache some data so that it does not always have to be retrieved over the network - the client instead asks for the MD5 and checks to see if it is in its disk cache before doing the more expensive operation of pulling the whole dataset and adding it to the cache. We plan to ship the system with the cache pre-populated so that in the field there won't be any "cache misses" until we ship an update and then there will only be just the one.
In this case, I think the attack vector would be as follows. Some malware opens the cache and replaces the full data with an alternate set of data wiht the same hash key. This would result in the client not operating correctly (because it has the wrong data.) Of course, they could be done even without the md5 being compromised because the program just assumes that the data in the cache file is valid. This leads me to believe I ought to re-run the MD5 on the data in the cache when the cache file is loaded in order to validate it (discarding any records that don't hash correctly).
So, assuming I do that, I should probably change away from MD5. Which algorithm should I use in its place? Any recommendations from the good folks on slashdot?
The problem with a unique ID for the clicker is that you could later identify who had which clicker, meaning that the answers would not truly be anonymous.
Instead, I would have a button on the clicker with a label like "begin session" which would cause the device to generate a UUID for the session.
Alternatively you may want to take each measure independently in which case you can create the UUID for each button press.
It is preferred that you have a MAC address to create a UUID, but you don' t necessarily have to have one. Some classes of UUIDs do not require a MAC. Alternatively, the device could retrieve a UUID via a transaction when it is activated.
If I were doing this, I would probably write a version of the app for Windows, Mac, Linux, Palm, WinCE, and Symbian.
On the more capable devices, you could make such a clicker pretty sophisticated. For example, it could show the text of the question and whether you have already answered it or not.
I would probably have a Mac/Windows/Linux PC application recording the data for each question. I'd probably set it up to be fed into SPSS or whatever.
Or how about a nice reduction in the federal deficit. We have not yet reached the "point of no return" where our government collapses. But we are close.
The very idea we would consider a space elevator is non-sense. We really cannot afford to run optional programs unless they will result in more revenue for the federal government pretty fast.
For instance, we probably can't afford to not help the hurricane victims get back on their feet. We probably can't afford to end public education. We can't afford to stop maintaining our roads.
But we certainly can afford to stop the pork barrel spending. We can shut down government support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (I like it, but we can't afford it!). We can afford to stop paying social security to retired people who are already rich. We can end support for AmTrak (the biggest waste of money ever.) And we can raise taxes which I would be OK with so long as we cut out the spending and get serious about reducing our crushing debt.
That works very well in the movies and on TV. In the real world, cars are not a very good thing to hide behind if people are shooting at you (unless it is an armoured car). Being in a ditch works better.
Why are you in particular offended "as a mother of three"?
First of all, there are no women on Slashdot. All women on slashdot are actually men pretending to be women. Therefore, you cannot be a "mother of three".
Second of all, are your kids insane? Is this why you are offended by the quote? They bay at the moon?
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I wish people would stop comparing themselves to Rosa Parks. It was bad enough when Katherine Harris did it.
Maybe, but that doesn't change the fact that democrats are wrong.
About what? Or are they just wrong in general? Do you have any idea how silly this makes you sound? No one is wrong all the time. Even a stopped clock is right twice per day.
No they are not. Fox and the other conservative leaning press is the first time the mainstream US media actively took a consistant side of an issue as part of its identity as an organization. The outlets you are referring to have some faults. The faults are typically that they care only about their ratings, they engage in serious groupthink, and they cover issues very superficially. That is not the same as saying they are biased towards liberals.
Go back to the 80s and look at how Reagan was covered (mostly very positively - except during Iran/Contra which they mostly covered as "horserace"). Look at how Jimmy Carter was pretty much crucified by the media. (Every day they ended the news by saying, "This is the nth day of the hostage crisis in Iran." They pretty much treated Mondale's candidacy as a joke.
You should also understand that when you are very partisan on one side of an issue, it is easy to get into the mindset of "anyone who doesn't see things 100% my way must be biased towards my opponents." Feeling that way does not make it so. Repeating it over and over doesn't make it so either.
Are you telling me that Apple only makes a few dollars profit on these?
I'm sure their margins are very high on these - perhaps as high as 30%. However, it is a very common practice to take the Bill of Materials and multiply it by some number to get an MSRP.
An individual suing for $15 will not do anything. However, you describe a good case for a class action lawsuit.
His is posting on slashdot, therefore he is male.
My daughter loves the Sims and has been drooling over Sims2 for months, but her computer isn't fast enough to play it.
If it is not for sale at ITMS, I will not pay money for it.
So, if the record companies want my money, put it on ITMS. Release it on DRM CD only and you won't get my money.
The agreement to use CDs in a certain way is the same agreement that we all make on pretty much every issue: do what the oligarchs say or suffer the consequences which is whatever the oligarchs deem them to be.
Then I ought to be able to make obscene CDs and instead of using the standard parental warning label call it "Enhanced Content CD" or something vague like that.
Hunter Gatherers have a much higher standard of living than people living in a feudal system. Read "Guns Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond.
Right. I was buying a car and the salesman who was quite a bit older didn't understand why I would prefer an iPod adapter to a 6 disc CD changer. I didn't understand what was so hard to understand about this arithmetic:
6 discs X 20 songs per disc = 120 songs
20 GB iPod = 4,000+ songs.
Not only that, but most companies sooner or later realize that the "new" business is at odds with the "current" business. Sides are drawn and a fight ensues. The "new" faction usually looses.
A very good example of this is when discount retailing became popular. Woolworths was the dominant retailer. Their major competitor "bet the company" on discount retailing and became K-Mart (before that they were a traditional retailer with a different name starting with K that I can't remember.) Woolworths also tried to get into discount retailing, but did so more carefully. Ultimately the executives caused the discount division to fail because it threatened what they were doing in traditional retail.
The SEC filings take into consideration costs other than the raw bill of materials. For example, the contract manufacturer has some mark up to cover tooling, shipping, their overhead and profit, etc.
I realize you are joking about assembling it yourself. However, you would not be able to buy the parts at the same price Apple could buy them. And you could not get some of the parts like the clickwheel.
Apple needs to control how their products are presented at retail - not just jam them into any and all retail stores blindly. They tried that in the 90s and it didn't work very well. Plus, it totally goes against Steve's ideas about how the Mac should be marketed.
You'd go into Sears or Office Depot or whatever. They would "sell Macs" meaning they had a demo unit in the corner, broken, dirty, etc. and sales people who had no idea how to sell Macs and often as not would try to steer people away from Apple.
Today, I can go into any of the *three* Apple stores in any of the Malls where near my house. The computers are nicely setup, you can try them out. The staff is very knowledgable. The store is beautiful - and usually full. And lots of people are buying Macintoshes.
The other stores that sell Macs near where I live: CompUSA - doing a good job of the store within a store. Fry's - selling and displaying Mac systems at least as well as anything else they sell. The Mac Store - an old timey Apple dealership that specializes in Mac systems.
Wherever you go, you are going to see the Mac systems displayed well and represented well. That's a lot better than having them in every store displayed poorly.
No, Apple would not be "cool" if they were loosing money on the iPod. Apple would be "a bunch of idiots about to go out of business any day".
My wife just got a 6GB iPod Mini and it's terrific.
I'm glad she is enjoying it!
Build the BlueTooth into the iPod/iNano/iVimto and you presumably don't need the USB connector anymore either!
Blue Tooth is too slow. However, there is a thing called "Wireless USB". The speeds on it approach USB 2.0 speeds and it is very similar to wired USB - I think you may be able to use the same drivers as with wired USB.
Of course, currently we charge the iPod at the same time as the songs are being transferred. Apple may be (or might not be!) relying on the power being there during the transfer. So, if you went wireless you would have to take into account the fact that the battries might die during sync. I think you might also find that blue tooth does not provide the audio quality that you might like. However, you could have wireless USB speakers and presumably a wireless USB dock in your car.
As far as the song swapping - I think there is a model for this that can work. You can subscribe to other people's playlists from iTunes. So, maybe not the swapping, but perhaps listening to the song from someone else's iPod? I doubt the iPod has enough processing power to actually decode more than one song at a time, though.
Yes, that's why they need to double the materials price. They *do* generally have to pay for things like: :-)
- The contract manufacturer's profit
- Shipping (although sometimes the contract manufacturer pays for this)
- Marketing, advertising, sales promotions
- Warranty repairs/replacements
- Returned units
- Keeping the retail stores open and paying the people there
- Engineering costs
- Other fixed costs of running Apple (keeping the lights on at 1 Infinite Loop)
- Steve's turtlenecks don't pay for themselves
I'm working on a system that uses MD5 in order to cache some data so that it does not always have to be retrieved over the network - the client instead asks for the MD5 and checks to see if it is in its disk cache before doing the more expensive operation of pulling the whole dataset and adding it to the cache. We plan to ship the system with the cache pre-populated so that in the field there won't be any "cache misses" until we ship an update and then there will only be just the one.
In this case, I think the attack vector would be as follows. Some malware opens the cache and replaces the full data with an alternate set of data wiht the same hash key. This would result in the client not operating correctly (because it has the wrong data.) Of course, they could be done even without the md5 being compromised because the program just assumes that the data in the cache file is valid. This leads me to believe I ought to re-run the MD5 on the data in the cache when the cache file is loaded in order to validate it (discarding any records that don't hash correctly).
So, assuming I do that, I should probably change away from MD5. Which algorithm should I use in its place? Any recommendations from the good folks on slashdot?
One of the surveys you linked to asked whether the US or Europe should be the "leader in world affairs".
As an american who is more of an isolationist, I'd be happy with that. Let someone else worry about the middle east for once.
They think the average consumer will buy more of their products knowing they are laying off staff.
The problem with a unique ID for the clicker is that you could later identify who had which clicker, meaning that the answers would not truly be anonymous.
Instead, I would have a button on the clicker with a label like "begin session" which would cause the device to generate a UUID for the session.
Alternatively you may want to take each measure independently in which case you can create the UUID for each button press.
It is preferred that you have a MAC address to create a UUID, but you don' t necessarily have to have one. Some classes of UUIDs do not require a MAC. Alternatively, the device could retrieve a UUID via a transaction when it is activated.
If I were doing this, I would probably write a version of the app for Windows, Mac, Linux, Palm, WinCE, and Symbian.
On the more capable devices, you could make such a clicker pretty sophisticated. For example, it could show the text of the question and whether you have already answered it or not.
I would probably have a Mac/Windows/Linux PC application recording the data for each question. I'd probably set it up to be fed into SPSS or whatever.
Or how about a nice reduction in the federal deficit. We have not yet reached the "point of no return" where our government collapses. But we are close.
The very idea we would consider a space elevator is non-sense. We really cannot afford to run optional programs unless they will result in more revenue for the federal government pretty fast.
For instance, we probably can't afford to not help the hurricane victims get back on their feet. We probably can't afford to end public education. We can't afford to stop maintaining our roads.
But we certainly can afford to stop the pork barrel spending. We can shut down government support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (I like it, but we can't afford it!). We can afford to stop paying social security to retired people who are already rich. We can end support for AmTrak (the biggest waste of money ever.) And we can raise taxes which I would be OK with so long as we cut out the spending and get serious about reducing our crushing debt.
Fortunately I live in a geographically stable region and in the suburbs. So god willing I never have to go through what they did.
Where do you live where there is not the possibility of some kind of natural disaster?
That's why cops use their vehicles as cover.
That works very well in the movies and on TV. In the real world, cars are not a very good thing to hide behind if people are shooting at you (unless it is an armoured car). Being in a ditch works better.
Why are you in particular offended "as a mother of three"?
First of all, there are no women on Slashdot. All women on slashdot are actually men pretending to be women. Therefore, you cannot be a "mother of three".
Second of all, are your kids insane? Is this why you are offended by the quote? They bay at the moon?