Could it be that the reason the supply of shuffles is so inelastic to demand is that Apple and its OEM are having a cat-fight, and this is a power play by Lux?
Have not seen this dicsussed yet but I ordered a shuffle 7 days after it's debut from mac mall and have yet to recieve it. I checked around and all re-sellers are out or have cryptic notices like we dont gaurentee in stock at time of order. Mac mall says they have 4000 orders they cant fill.
On the other hand if you go to apple's store they are delivering with 1-3 day ship delays. Obiously they in a position where demand outstrips supply and as a result are taking the sales premium for themselves (that is they pocket the profit thed lose at the MSRP by letting someone else sell it.).
So my guess is that Lux is the OEM for these and is squeezing apple by only producing the contracted number. THey have excess capacity or are holding back expanding in return for some concession form apple like letting them re-sel their own version. Apple cant bit the hand till the find another maker.
Or so I wildly speculate.
So do you have an ipod on order from other than apple. Where sis you order it from and how long did you wait. I perhaps foolishly in hindsight, ordered from mac mall because the ipod shuffle came with a load of freebies ( senhieser headphones, a second set of ear buds, and some base station speakers from logictech.) A good deal if I could just get it delivered before ski season ends....
One assumes, perhaps wrongly, that pdfs are a more durable format than mail. This of course is what the entire "ask slashdot" question was about. How do you deal with past mail in different mail programs. If you keep it in pdf format then it probably will be readable regardless of the mail program that generated it. However then the problem is wading through 10,000 old e-mail pdfs. Spotlight solves this. Now that spotlight exists one assumes no operating systme in the future will ever be without something like spotlight.
Combine this with spotlight/tiger in mac os. Spotlight indexes PDF content. print it to pdf and it will be searchable. Assuming you have a Mac that is.
the state of a computer is not the state of the memory. it includes the hard disk as well. to give one tiny example: the vvirtual memory. to give a better example, if a program overwrites a file you have to check point back over that too. to give an even better example, if you were debuggin a disk defragmenting program every bit on the disk could move.
If computing is reversable then the system is not losing information. All that entropy has to go somewhere. while built up heat can radiate away on the fan, the entropy must keep building up. At some point its going to explode!
more seriously, that would mean that there is no crypto on these machines since all encoding would be reversible.
Neither did the episode before the last one either.
That last episode made no sense to me.
its some sort of allegory about revolution. But with bad acid.
Complaints aside about a disssatisfying wrap-up, much of that confusion was intentional. For example in the last episode if you look carefully there are two places where they tell you who number one was. (I'd tell you who number one turns out to be but that would be telling.) But the nice thing is they dont just repeate it over and over to make sure you got it like most tv shows. they let it go by fast so you are left wondering if you got it.
That was why i liked X-files. Same approach to letting you sift through the clues yourself and leaving it ambiguous and fleeting. Of course the x-files is dumbed down in comarison to the existential prisoner.
can you imagine anyone filming an existential tv show these days, even with 500 cable channels, and have it wildly popular?
hell no one reading slashdot even knows what the word means.
The course of virulent biological viruses tends to be the early ones are bad and tend to kill their hosts quickly. Over time they adapt to become less deadly to the host. A good example of the is the Bubonic Plague which is believes to have mellowed itself since the black plague. Stealthy viruses like AIDS are a good example of why longevity of the host helps in some modes of transmission.
Infact some models have shown its even in a species interest to play host to a disease causing entity that is more lethal to a competitor or predator. E.g. mice that carry diseases fatal to predetors.
In rare cases tolerance gives way ot full symbiosis where each helps the other. Perhaps a bacteria that helps deal with some more dread disease or an enteric digestive aid. Something that fixes nitrogen in your roots.
So anyhow maybe the course of virsuses are indeed ones that tune up your system, protect you from other viruses and make sure your computer is working optimally. Perhaps they will get out of your way when you are actually using it and just steal cylces and bandwidth when you wont miss it.
In that case 24 hour tech support is indeed on the way.
The most common form is as follows. When a subroutine is called the return address is placed on the stack. Then all the local variables for the subroutine are placed on the stack. the subroutine runs and when it finishes it jumps to the return address on the stack. However if the subroutine were to write data into an array or string on the stack and tried to push more data into the string than space was allocated it would continue writing past the end of the array and eventually overwrite the return address. This allows a way to substitute a new return address for a virus maker. If this return address happened to jump right back onto the string itself then in principle the data string will now be exceuted as code.
partial remedial solutions include commands that prevent decleared data from being executed, having the return address stored on a different stack from the data stack, explicitly testing the stack integrity before executing a return from a subroutine, and putting up "electric fences" --basically buffer regions around every memory allocation that are not owned by the application requesting space.
Buy a Mac. No seriously. Dell Fanboys always want to point out how macs are expensive. Then we see article like this talking about how to spend loads of dollars to make your PC quieter.
Next time a Dell Fanboy wants to make a price comparison, please throw in a couple hundred bucks for "quieting" that drone.
Yes hydrogen is less safe than propane. Hydrogen leaks easier than any other gas.
Hydrogen, however, is potentially explosive and has other characteristics that make it dangerous. Hydrogen is combustible over a wide range of concentrations. At atmospheric pressure, hydrogen is combustible at concentrations from 4% to 74.2% by volume. Hydrogen has the highest burning velocity of any gas. Hydrogen has a very low ignition energy. Hydrogen temperature increases as the gas expands. Hydrogen that is allowed to expand rapidly from high pressure can self ignite. Hydrogen burns with a nonluminous flame which can be invisible under bright light.
...Isn't it more cost effective to grow your own hydrogen with electrolysis and a solar panel back home?
This hydrogen fuel storage in cars is going to be a complete disaster. Hydrogen is massively unsafe unless maintained in a liquified form or trapped in platinum. Its a gas not a liquid and so there are going to be leaks.
It takes very little percentage hydrogen in a room to become combustible. Outside it might be relatively safe. but The SUV itself or the gargage or pump rooms in the filling station are potential bombs and fire hazards. The saving grace is that since it is a gas and not a liquid the total stored energy in a confined space is much less so it offsets some of this concern. Still I'd never put one in my own garage without adding a ventilation system.
hopefully they will add some scent to it like they do to natural gas. But in my experience hydrogen seems to find leaks better than any other gas. Heck when I used to build vaccum systems we used to use hydrogen to find the leaks.
You shoul dhave a look at the last macworld demo of the new video editing software they demoed. The new macs can do real time video processing on a playing video. Lots of crazy mathematically complex digital filters are being appied to real time video. To me this says that the CPU is capbable of generating entire screen paints in real time without the help of the GPU. thus I see this as becoming a major boost to gaming capability
This performance increace cant just be due to CPU speed or altivec instructutions since G4s are that different. I suspect the key is the improved bus on the new macs which have separate shared busses for the dual processors. Thus one can be doing Disk I/O without and memory access without slowing down access to the GPU.
here's a link to a site reviewing mac verus PC perfomrance on the latest machines. They find that on games optimized for PPC the PPC is better but without optimization the PPC is about half as fast as the best Athalon system available.
So it looks like Macintosh is going to be the premier game computer in the future. LAready we are seeing that when games are optimized for ppc they beat the best intel boxes. The problem is not paltform performance but optimzation of ppc and availability of the games in ppc format.
xbox is going to solve both of those. Of course they will still need grpahics card optimization and that will be different on Xbox and Macintosh. But clearly the largest obstacles to mac dominance of the gaming world are being removed. Price of course is not an issue here since a top gaming machine will cost more than an equivalent macintoshes--macs are good values at the high end of the market.
Dijjer does not require the content provider to do ANYTHING. No torrent to set up. Dijjer essentially provides clinet requested just-in-time torrent trackker. Big difference.
Content providers could also use Dijjer to serve webapges--cant do that with bit-torrent. To give an example, imagine slashdot was served off of say a commodore 64 but required dijjer to access. it would probabbly work except for the dynamic personalized content. But you could not even think about doing that with bit torrent since it would not even work in a browser.
Wow Dijjer seems to be a revolutionary concept. I cant beleive I never heard of it before. Their web site is self explanatory. But notice the little text box in the right hand corner to really approeciate what makes Dijjer special.
The obvious question on everyone's mind is "hey isn't this bit torrent?". the answer is no. It has the same effect (cooperative downloading) but the cool thing is that ANYTHING on the web is ready to download this way. That's right it's like someone created an torrent tracker for the entire world wide web!!!
As the little box explains, right click on any link and it loads the link using P2P rather than http. ANY link. the web site does NOT have to even know you are doing this or participate. The web site does not have the tracker.
This is a break through.
moreover it's not like you dowload the media to disk and then play it later. it works right in your bowser so from your point of view its a normal web page.
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Could it be that the reason the supply of shuffles is so inelastic to demand is that Apple and its OEM are having a cat-fight, and this is a power play by Lux?
Have not seen this dicsussed yet but I ordered a shuffle 7 days after it's debut from mac mall and have yet to recieve it. I checked around and all re-sellers are out or have cryptic notices like we dont gaurentee in stock at time of order. Mac mall says they have 4000 orders they cant fill.
On the other hand if you go to apple's store they are delivering with 1-3 day ship delays. Obiously they in a position where demand outstrips supply and as a result are taking the sales premium for themselves (that is they pocket the profit thed lose at the MSRP by letting someone else sell it.).
So my guess is that Lux is the OEM for these and is squeezing apple by only producing the contracted number. THey have excess capacity or are holding back expanding in return for some concession form apple like letting them re-sel their own version. Apple cant bit the hand till the find another maker.
Or so I wildly speculate.
So do you have an ipod on order from other than apple. Where sis you order it from and how long did you wait. I perhaps foolishly in hindsight, ordered from mac mall because the ipod shuffle came with a load of freebies ( senhieser headphones, a second set of ear buds, and some base station speakers from logictech.) A good deal if I could just get it delivered before ski season ends....
One assumes, perhaps wrongly, that pdfs are a more durable format than mail. This of course is what the entire "ask slashdot" question was about. How do you deal with past mail in different mail programs. If you keep it in pdf format then it probably will be readable regardless of the mail program that generated it. However then the problem is wading through 10,000 old e-mail pdfs. Spotlight solves this. Now that spotlight exists one assumes no operating systme in the future will ever be without something like spotlight.
Combine this with spotlight/tiger in mac os. Spotlight indexes PDF content. print it to pdf and it will be searchable. Assuming you have a Mac that is.
No need for rear view mirrors. What is behind you is not important.
the state of a computer is not the state of the memory. it includes the hard disk as well. to give one tiny example: the vvirtual memory. to give a better example, if a program overwrites a file you have to check point back over that too. to give an even better example, if you were debuggin a disk defragmenting program every bit on the disk could move.
more seriously, that would mean that there is no crypto on these machines since all encoding would be reversible.
That last episode made no sense to me.
its some sort of allegory about revolution. But with bad acid.
Complaints aside about a disssatisfying wrap-up, much of that confusion was intentional. For example in the last episode if you look carefully there are two places where they tell you who number one was. (I'd tell you who number one turns out to be but that would be telling.) But the nice thing is they dont just repeate it over and over to make sure you got it like most tv shows. they let it go by fast so you are left wondering if you got it.
That was why i liked X-files. Same approach to letting you sift through the clues yourself and leaving it ambiguous and fleeting. Of course the x-files is dumbed down in comarison to the existential prisoner.
can you imagine anyone filming an existential tv show these days, even with 500 cable channels, and have it wildly popular? hell no one reading slashdot even knows what the word means.
tehere are several virtual desktops available for osx. also fink package manager allows installs of most of gnome and kde. try it out.
Also you have to supply your own external battery charger and take that with you on trips. Either that or buy tripple A's.
Ram-a-llama-ding dong may ram is full of llama's ding dong
Infact some models have shown its even in a species interest to play host to a disease causing entity that is more lethal to a competitor or predator. E.g. mice that carry diseases fatal to predetors.
In rare cases tolerance gives way ot full symbiosis where each helps the other. Perhaps a bacteria that helps deal with some more dread disease or an enteric digestive aid. Something that fixes nitrogen in your roots.
So anyhow maybe the course of virsuses are indeed ones that tune up your system, protect you from other viruses and make sure your computer is working optimally. Perhaps they will get out of your way when you are actually using it and just steal cylces and bandwidth when you wont miss it.
In that case 24 hour tech support is indeed on the way.
Uh yeah but there's billions of miles of internet cables, all sorts of frequencies, amplifiers, ....
radio can be picked up and amplified by a couple transistors and a coat hanger.
Radio is the simpler of the two.
Or what if you are tammy fey? do you have to put on the same face every day?
partial remedial solutions include commands that prevent decleared data from being executed, having the return address stored on a different stack from the data stack, explicitly testing the stack integrity before executing a return from a subroutine, and putting up "electric fences" --basically buffer regions around every memory allocation that are not owned by the application requesting space.
or maybe this is just the new term for microsoft?
Buy a Mac.
No seriously. Dell Fanboys always want to point out how macs are expensive. Then we see article like this talking about how to spend loads of dollars to make your PC quieter.
Next time a Dell Fanboy wants to make a price comparison, please throw in a couple hundred bucks for "quieting" that drone.
Yes hydrogen is less safe than propane.
Hydrogen leaks easier than any other gas.
Hydrogen, however, is potentially explosive and has other characteristics that make it dangerous.
Hydrogen is combustible over a wide range of concentrations. At atmospheric pressure, hydrogen is combustible at concentrations from 4% to 74.2% by volume.
Hydrogen has the highest burning velocity of any gas.
Hydrogen has a very low ignition energy.
Hydrogen temperature increases as the gas expands.
Hydrogen that is allowed to expand rapidly from high pressure can self ignite.
Hydrogen burns with a nonluminous flame which can be invisible under bright light.
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It takes very little percentage hydrogen in a room to become combustible. Outside it might be relatively safe. but The SUV itself or the gargage or pump rooms in the filling station are potential bombs and fire hazards. The saving grace is that since it is a gas and not a liquid the total stored energy in a confined space is much less so it offsets some of this concern. Still I'd never put one in my own garage without adding a ventilation system.
hopefully they will add some scent to it like they do to natural gas. But in my experience hydrogen seems to find leaks better than any other gas. Heck when I used to build vaccum systems we used to use hydrogen to find the leaks.
Does it include flying aircraft and a garage door that goes up and down? Can I turn the stars on and off with my mouse?
This performance increace cant just be due to CPU speed or altivec instructutions since G4s are that different. I suspect the key is the improved bus on the new macs which have separate shared busses for the dual processors. Thus one can be doing Disk I/O without and memory access without slowing down access to the GPU.
http://www.barefeats.com/mac2pc.html
xbox is going to solve both of those. Of course they will still need grpahics card optimization and that will be different on Xbox and Macintosh. But clearly the largest obstacles to mac dominance of the gaming world are being removed. Price of course is not an issue here since a top gaming machine will cost more than an equivalent macintoshes--macs are good values at the high end of the market.
Content providers could also use Dijjer to serve webapges--cant do that with bit-torrent. To give an example, imagine slashdot was served off of say a commodore 64 but required dijjer to access. it would probabbly work except for the dynamic personalized content. But you could not even think about doing that with bit torrent since it would not even work in a browser.
The obvious question on everyone's mind is "hey isn't this bit torrent?". the answer is no. It has the same effect (cooperative downloading) but the cool thing is that ANYTHING on the web is ready to download this way. That's right it's like someone created an torrent tracker for the entire world wide web!!!
As the little box explains, right click on any link and it loads the link using P2P rather than http. ANY link. the web site does NOT have to even know you are doing this or participate. The web site does not have the tracker.
This is a break through.
moreover it's not like you dowload the media to disk and then play it later. it works right in your bowser so from your point of view its a normal web page.