Since the numbers are from big box retailers only, they are pretty skewed. No online (no store.apple.com, Amazon, etc), probably not Apple's retail stores either.
Considering the initial curiosity factor and Microsoft employees, I would have expected the initial uptake to have a bigger impact than even this. If they are starting at this low of a baseline... lets just say Creative and SanDisk probably don't have much to worry about.
I'm doubting its ready for debut yet. I also think its a big enough deal that when the *do* show it, they won't mix it in with a bunch of other announcements at WWDC. It will get its own, big time show.
This is a market they will address. During their last earnings telephone conference they basically let everyone know that they are aware that the phone and iPod markets are converging and that they are not sitting still. So its a matter of when, not whether.
Back in the day companies had these incredibly useful devices called *secretaries*. These devices would open your mail and screen calls and visitors, there was even a voice recognition function! An incredible time saver they allowed even mid level professionals to concentrate on their jobs! Due to spiraling cost inflation even high level executives now must share the few remaining devices.
Seriously though, bring back the secretary. With high speed internet, VPNs, and so forth, the Remote (Outsourced) Secretary could be an intermediate solution to the attention defecit problem.
I doubt these kind of issues can be singled out by a blood test. I'm sure they are finding some subset of those with an anxiety issue, but they will overlook others with similar issues because "it didn't show up on the test."
The last thing we need are doctors relying even *more* upon tests rather than listening to their patients.
Like I asid, I only watched parts of two episodes. I found no hook to my interest. I only saw scenes shot within the ship, which felt small and cramped. Some on the characters felt artificial, especially the whole professional sex chicka thing.
I probably didn't give it a proper chance and missed the original episode which may have given me enough backstory to make the others watchable. There were definately Buffy episodes if I had seen in isolation that I would not have continuted watching the show if I hadn't been exposed to some of the better ones.
I DIDN'T like the series. I tried watching Firefly 2 or 3 times since I enjoyed Buffy and Angel quite a lot.
I am ESTATIC over how good Serenity is. The plot was much better than adequate. The character exposition and development were top notch. The humor in the dialog was brilliant. The effects were outstanding. It is by far the best sci-fi I've seen since Empire Strikes back.
I didn't go to the movie thinking I would react to the movie this way. I wasn't impressed with the trailers and the advertising is just average. It was the good word of mouth that it got that lured me into the theatre.
Yes, to an extent. But head over to nationmaster.com and see where Russia and the US lay on the graphs. They have more in common on the spaceship side of things than on the murder and gangsterism area. People bag on the US's weak areas, but they are only doing poorly relative to the best countries, they are orders of magnitudes better compared to the worst performers.
As far as food and vaccines go, it is only a workable civil society that can deliver those things. Otherwise you have Somolia.
aren't with the technology. We have "utopian" level technology compared to 80 years ago right now. The problem is with the people.
Look at Russia. Rampant alcholism, suicide, murder, gansterism, etc. Yet it is perfectly capable of sending off spaceships and creating high level technology.
I appreciate and welcome all the anticpated advances- but unless we create a worldwide civil society that is robust, honest, and representative; it won't make a dime's worth of difference.
The church takes an official position on a vanishingly small number of positions- gay marriage, alcohol sales, and... can't think of any others- that's about it.
BYU doesn't offer a theology degree. *Every* student is required to take religion courses, since the church doesn't have professional clergy it would be redundant. They believe all students should be knowledgeable about their religion, period.
is that every time Bill strays from his core competencies he loses money. Xbox is going to be in the hole for at least a decade. Almost all of Microsoft's non-core products that have had a modicum of success have been developed externally (Visio).
Microsoft should be a "good" monopoly and just spin off its cash to its shareholders. They can likely invest it for a greater return on their investment than Microsoft is capable of.
seems to actual be able to balance design and technology for once. None of their tech has been particularly innovative- they just are able to package it in a usable and not-too-expensive fashion.
Its about time that some of the sci-fi "future" is actually realized in practical home bound ways.
that many people think that Mormon/LDS theology is so reactionary and ignorant when it happens to be accomadating and progressive. While the morality espoused by the church may be traditional, its theology is a whole different matter.
The most important point relevant to this discussion is that when the scriptures and prophets are silent the church doesn't try to enforce some kind of *assumed* doctrine. The Bible really isn't clear that the '7 days' are actually days as we know them. In fact God often notes that his time is not our time- so most Mormons I know have no affinity for 7 days literalism.
Similarly, nowhere in the Book of Mormon does it say the North and South American continents were otherwise empty of people other than those whose record it contains. It is completely silent on the subject. So neither I nor anyone else I know in the Church have any reason to assume that they were.
Anything prior to Abraham in scripture is not connectable to the rest of the historical record and its not particularly useful to try until either history or religion gives us some new information.
OK- Karma burning time I guess... responding to a +5 funny with something serious... oh well...
To just one of your points:
* Right And Wrong are explicitly dependent upon the status quo
Actually, yes. There is a moral imperative to obey the law of the land, especially when the law is enacted through a democratic process.
Whether the law is dumb, wrong-headed, or just plain foolish, it is the law. We have a process for enacting and revoking laws that is amenable to input from average citizens.
It behooves legislatures to pass laws that aren't particularly foolish so as not to create a general resentment towards the law and an attitute of general scorn towards obedience to its strictures.
It likewise behooves us to obey the laws that we have, as long as they persist in being the law, because we individually benefit from preventing the societal breakdown that comes from rampant law breaking.
By obeying the laws generally we strengthen society and create an atmosphere conducive to the respecting of our own rights. By encouraging that respect in word and deed we create a safer, more sane society.
When there is a competing moral imperative, as during the civil rights movement, passive resistence to injust and immoral laws had at least a moral basis for breaking the law. We are far, far, far, from being able to justify breaking the law in order to protest silly content restrictions.
OTOH I don't particularly agree with the grandparent on most of his points. Information does want to be free, and is at its most effective when spread the farthest. Finding fair mechanisms for that spread is still a work in progress- but the law is our protector much more than our opressor. We need to remember that.
to face reality. It sounds like the war between its content producing arms and consumer electronics groups has been decided in favor of the electronics group.
It was inevitable- "MP3 players" is the *name* of the categorty and the defining feature of compressed audio devices.
If you cannot rip a CD to mp3 its value to the consumer is lessened considerably and they will be more likely to turn to p2p alternatives. A losing proposition all around for Sony.
It may be too little too late- kind of sad as they could have owned they category if they had only been unhampered by their content divisions (and had some better human interface engineers for their software).
The setting is indeed stock, but at least the twins are not. Their interplay of dark/light was incredibly well done, giving the whole series texure and depth.
Novell, 7 National Parks, Olympic quality winter sports, and is one of the most internet connected states in the country- not to mention the central role the University of Utah played in the creation of the Internet... I don't live there anymore- but I surely miss the place.
I was playing around with Server and was trying to find a documented way of integrating OpenDirectory with Apache.
I Googled enough to see hints that it is possible, but being a novice with OpenDirectory I wasn't able to actually get it working. Is there a resource that addresses this with some specificity?
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Since the numbers are from big box retailers only, they are pretty skewed. No online (no store.apple.com, Amazon, etc), probably not Apple's retail stores either.
Considering the initial curiosity factor and Microsoft employees, I would have expected the initial uptake to have a bigger impact than even this. If they are starting at this low of a baseline... lets just say Creative and SanDisk probably don't have much to worry about.
I'm doubting its ready for debut yet. I also think its a big enough deal that when the *do* show it, they won't mix it in with a bunch of other announcements at WWDC. It will get its own, big time show.
This is a market they will address. During their last earnings telephone conference they basically let everyone know that they are aware that the phone and iPod markets are converging and that they are not sitting still. So its a matter of when, not whether.
Back in my day the Pharaoh got really ticked one time and all we had was the mud!
Try building the Sphinx and the Pyramids with just mud and get back to me about how hard you had it with all your fancy shmanshy straw!
the Oz price include VAT? I would think that would make up most of the difference.
Since religion is generally viewed as a big commitment/part of life, is writing a letter all that hard?
Back in the day companies had these incredibly useful devices called *secretaries*. These devices would open your mail and screen calls and visitors, there was even a voice recognition function! An incredible time saver they allowed even mid level professionals to concentrate on their jobs! Due to spiraling cost inflation even high level executives now must share the few remaining devices.
Seriously though, bring back the secretary. With high speed internet, VPNs, and so forth, the Remote (Outsourced) Secretary could be an intermediate solution to the attention defecit problem.
I doubt these kind of issues can be singled out by a blood test. I'm sure they are finding some subset of those with an anxiety issue, but they will overlook others with similar issues because "it didn't show up on the test."
The last thing we need are doctors relying even *more* upon tests rather than listening to their patients.
Like I asid, I only watched parts of two episodes. I found no hook to my interest. I only saw scenes shot within the ship, which felt small and cramped. Some on the characters felt artificial, especially the whole professional sex chicka thing.
I probably didn't give it a proper chance and missed the original episode which may have given me enough backstory to make the others watchable. There were definately Buffy episodes if I had seen in isolation that I would not have continuted watching the show if I hadn't been exposed to some of the better ones.
I DIDN'T like the series. I tried watching Firefly 2 or 3 times since I enjoyed Buffy and Angel quite a lot.
I am ESTATIC over how good Serenity is. The plot was much better than adequate. The character exposition and development were top notch. The humor in the dialog was brilliant. The effects were outstanding. It is by far the best sci-fi I've seen since Empire Strikes back.
I didn't go to the movie thinking I would react to the movie this way. I wasn't impressed with the trailers and the advertising is just average. It was the good word of mouth that it got that lured me into the theatre.
Serenity is just that good and deserves the hype.
"Like the US, you mean?"
Yes, to an extent. But head over to nationmaster.com and see where Russia and the US lay on the graphs. They have more in common on the spaceship side of things than on the murder and gangsterism area. People bag on the US's weak areas, but they are only doing poorly relative to the best countries, they are orders of magnitudes better compared to the worst performers.
As far as food and vaccines go, it is only a workable civil society that can deliver those things. Otherwise you have Somolia.
aren't with the technology. We have "utopian" level technology compared to 80 years ago right now. The problem is with the people.
Look at Russia. Rampant alcholism, suicide, murder, gansterism, etc. Yet it is perfectly capable of sending off spaceships and creating high level technology.
I appreciate and welcome all the anticpated advances- but unless we create a worldwide civil society that is robust, honest, and representative; it won't make a dime's worth of difference.
In Australia at least, its whomever, you guessed it, the Queen/King of England is... kind of circular reasoning to me...
you buy a mini or an iMac.
The church takes an official position on a vanishingly small number of positions- gay marriage, alcohol sales, and ... can't think of any others- that's about it.
BYU doesn't offer a theology degree. *Every* student is required to take religion courses, since the church doesn't have professional clergy it would be redundant. They believe all students should be knowledgeable about their religion, period.
is that every time Bill strays from his core competencies he loses money. Xbox is going to be in the hole for at least a decade. Almost all of Microsoft's non-core products that have had a modicum of success have been developed externally (Visio).
Microsoft should be a "good" monopoly and just spin off its cash to its shareholders. They can likely invest it for a greater return on their investment than Microsoft is capable of.
Mac on Linux anyone????
That would make Steve *real* happy- the fastest Mac available for a couple hundred bucks... and Apple not getting a penny of it.
appear to me to define the term "fair use". Scholarly research is/one of the first uses carved out for fair use in the first place.
seems to actual be able to balance design and technology for once. None of their tech has been particularly innovative- they just are able to package it in a usable and not-too-expensive fashion.
Its about time that some of the sci-fi "future" is actually realized in practical home bound ways.
that many people think that Mormon/LDS theology is so reactionary and ignorant when it happens to be accomadating and progressive. While the morality espoused by the church may be traditional, its theology is a whole different matter.
The most important point relevant to this discussion is that when the scriptures and prophets are silent the church doesn't try to enforce some kind of *assumed* doctrine. The Bible really isn't clear that the '7 days' are actually days as we know them. In fact God often notes that his time is not our time- so most Mormons I know have no affinity for 7 days literalism.
Similarly, nowhere in the Book of Mormon does it say the North and South American continents were otherwise empty of people other than those whose record it contains. It is completely silent on the subject. So neither I nor anyone else I know in the Church have any reason to assume that they were.
Anything prior to Abraham in scripture is not connectable to the rest of the historical record and its not particularly useful to try until either history or religion gives us some new information.
OK- Karma burning time I guess... responding to a +5 funny with something serious... oh well...
To just one of your points:
* Right And Wrong are explicitly dependent upon the status quo
Actually, yes. There is a moral imperative to obey the law of the land, especially when the law is enacted through a democratic process.
Whether the law is dumb, wrong-headed, or just plain foolish, it is the law. We have a process for enacting and revoking laws that is amenable to input from average citizens.
It behooves legislatures to pass laws that aren't particularly foolish so as not to create a general resentment towards the law and an attitute of general scorn towards obedience to its strictures.
It likewise behooves us to obey the laws that we have, as long as they persist in being the law, because we individually benefit from preventing the societal breakdown that comes from rampant law breaking.
By obeying the laws generally we strengthen society and create an atmosphere conducive to the respecting of our own rights. By encouraging that respect in word and deed we create a safer, more sane society.
When there is a competing moral imperative, as during the civil rights movement, passive resistence to injust and immoral laws had at least a moral basis for breaking the law. We are far, far, far, from being able to justify breaking the law in order to protest silly content restrictions.
OTOH I don't particularly agree with the grandparent on most of his points. Information does want to be free, and is at its most effective when spread the farthest. Finding fair mechanisms for that spread is still a work in progress- but the law is our protector much more than our opressor. We need to remember that.
to face reality. It sounds like the war between its content producing arms and consumer electronics groups has been decided in favor of the electronics group.
It was inevitable- "MP3 players" is the *name* of the categorty and the defining feature of compressed audio devices.
If you cannot rip a CD to mp3 its value to the consumer is lessened considerably and they will be more likely to turn to p2p alternatives. A losing proposition all around for Sony.
It may be too little too late- kind of sad as they could have owned they category if they had only been unhampered by their content divisions (and had some better human interface engineers for their software).
The setting is indeed stock, but at least the twins are not. Their interplay of dark/light was incredibly well done, giving the whole series texure and depth.
Novell, 7 National Parks, Olympic quality winter sports, and is one of the most internet connected states in the country- not to mention the central role the University of Utah played in the creation of the Internet... I don't live there anymore- but I surely miss the place.
At least balance it out with a inside source: LDS FAQ
I was playing around with Server and was trying to find a documented way of integrating OpenDirectory with Apache.
I Googled enough to see hints that it is possible, but being a novice with OpenDirectory I wasn't able to actually get it working. Is there a resource that addresses this with some specificity?