Facebook never really innovated anything except Facebook. Google innovated search and better email, but has switched trying to compete with Facebook. Apple has always innovated, even if it meant sacrificing successful products (eg: The famous killing off of the iPod Mini at the peak of its success.). I think he is wrong that Steve Jobs was Apple's chief innovator. Steve simply focussed doggedly on whatever ideas he had until he could make them reality, and fairly never compromised. Now if Apple can keep that focus...
He is right about innovation though overall. The announcement of iTunes Radio and car integration seems to be more about the spread and normalisation of existing technology. Everyone is focussed on maps and getting people to interact with where they are right now. The technology has to become over-saturated and stagnant and open the way for someone to innovate at the right place and time.
I manage a bunch of lemm...err...Team Members who pick, pack and otherwise deal with a large online stationary ordering company. I approached one of the old timers who deals with orders that we couldn't deliver to tell her to use a different quickdial setting with a different number on the fax for sending forms to the call centre.
"But I've always used that number." she says. "But now we are to use this other number." I reply. "But for 5 years I've always used..." she goes on. Fuck it, I just change the quickdial she uses to the other number. How they manage to use SAP every day without completely fucking things up is way beyond me.
...that Open Office, The Gimp, Bluefish, Abiword, axyftp and some of the G and K apps were fully OSX native (GUI native as well, not just only usable in X11.app) - there's so much that open source apps and Qt/Mac could bring to the Mac world in this way.
Back in the days of Autodoubler and Disk Doubler on the Mac, you could compress the resources of a program with the former application to make it smaller.
I tried this with Quark Xpress 3 on a friends' work machine, and the program would refuse to start up because it had been modified.
Otherwise, the only other common vendor that ships programs that call home is Adobe, who's programs verify the serial number of the application online when they are run.
I regettably work for a business that sells many HP/Compaq laptops (I'd rather be back at an Apple Centre, but they are all either vultures or in dire straits where I live). Recently a customer bought a Compaq desknote from us (desknote = no battery by default, though we were bundling them), and had to bring it for repair soon after. We dutifully sent it off to HP, who stated that it was unrepairable, as no parts were available! This for a BRAND NEW machine, only around 3 weeks old! What a fucking joke!
The customer got the shits and traded up to a better model rather than get stuffed around.
I could also speak for a friend who sells second-hand pc laptops and regularly has to hunt for parts from Dell, HP, IBM etc, it being luck of the draw whether parts are available for even recent models.
On the other side of the coin, you can be totally assured that even if your Mac is 7 years old, you'll be able to get parts from Apple easily (albeit, they'll cost an arm and a leg, better have kept up that AppleCare warranty!).
Despite the advances in super computer technology that allow the behaviour of even very complex materials to be tested in a virtual environment, a wind tunnel may still be a far cheaper and less time-consuming option, especially with one-off experiments (such as for the Mars landing parachute mentioned in the article). The wind tunnel tests the actual thing, and although it takes time to setup, a supercomputer takes a considerable amount of time, work and money to program to mimic the effects of the wind tunnel and the item being tested.
The sled was designed to cover the first 1.4 miles in 4.65 seconds, then speed up in the final stages and cover 1.8 miles in 1.3 seconds, Kurtz said. At the end, bolts were detonated to allow the missile to detach from the sled and successfully hit its target.
If you invested a heap of $$$ in your Powermac G3 and a heap of high-end peripherals, as some businesses I know have, then the upgrade may be the cheapest solution, where the alternative would be buying everything new. There is also the issue with a number of clients I've had, where they can neither afford the time to set up a new machine, nor risk stuffing around with a mission-critical system. A CPU upgrade is the safest option in these cases, when they need more grunt.
Hmmm...I'm going away for the Easter weekend, maybe it's *just* enough time for my G4 to compile KDE 3.1 through fink, and the comp will have heated the room nicely for my return...
Considering that Dvorak mentions the switch having to do with the Mhz limitations of moto chips, I couldn't help notice that the Itanium 2 on Intel's web site clocks slower than the current G4's.
The original submission is wrong. It's not the opposition party that's searching for his email address (duh, they work in the same building for *#(%'s sake!), it's the Labor Council of NSW, that represents unions in Australia - that is searching for his email address. The page offering the reward of AU$100 worth of Linux merchandise and a case of Coke (to geeks nonetheless!) says it all.
...and the feedback form is probably read by one of his zillion "private secretaries" while he sits comfortably in one of the Chesterfield's he had installed in his office, snubbing the furniture specially made for the PM's office...I can't imagine him having a computer in that lot at all.
The only flame he's going to open his window to are those over west where there are now just the ruins of 400 homes.
I put up a map (albeit an old one, missing the new northern Gunghalin suburbs) to show some friends who don't live in Canberra what we were all talking about when we said this and that suburb were toasted. Basically, the fire was being blown in from the west, and a number of suburbs on that side of the town, also blowing ash over 100km (60+ miles) away. IIf the wind hadn't changed, it might have toasted half the city (there is a high density of trees all through).
More significantly, the water processing and sewerage treatment plans were both knocked out, threatening to cause the flow of sewerage into water storage facilities. Imagine the capital of Australia with no fresh water or sewerage for a minute.
Anyway, Mount Stromlo, which was destroyed, is visible on the map, and i've included a section of the Bush Fire BrigadeMap which shows the region and the fires.
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Facebook never really innovated anything except Facebook. Google innovated search and better email, but has switched trying to compete with Facebook. Apple has always innovated, even if it meant sacrificing successful products (eg: The famous killing off of the iPod Mini at the peak of its success.). I think he is wrong that Steve Jobs was Apple's chief innovator. Steve simply focussed doggedly on whatever ideas he had until he could make them reality, and fairly never compromised. Now if Apple can keep that focus... He is right about innovation though overall. The announcement of iTunes Radio and car integration seems to be more about the spread and normalisation of existing technology. Everyone is focussed on maps and getting people to interact with where they are right now. The technology has to become over-saturated and stagnant and open the way for someone to innovate at the right place and time.
Maybe whoever wrote the virus got lucky, found they'd hit the jackpot with the data and sold it off for a crapload of money?
Makes one wonder in horror when one sees the dark smudge marks around the "Copy" button.
...my arse to be on the copier at the time it broke.
How would you explain the blood? What the hell would you tell the doctor?
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....is here. This for those of you who read the comments before reading the article ;)
"But I've always used that number." she says.
"But now we are to use this other number." I reply.
"But for 5 years I've always used..." she goes on.
Fuck it, I just change the quickdial she uses to the other number. How they manage to use SAP every day without completely fucking things up is way beyond me.
...that Open Office, The Gimp, Bluefish, Abiword, axyftp and some of the G and K apps were fully OSX native (GUI native as well, not just only usable in X11.app) - there's so much that open source apps and Qt/Mac could bring to the Mac world in this way.
...500 pages long with 3 zillion transactions. *Thats* why it'd fail ;)
I tried this with Quark Xpress 3 on a friends' work machine, and the program would refuse to start up because it had been modified.
Otherwise, the only other common vendor that ships programs that call home is Adobe, who's programs verify the serial number of the application online when they are run.
Blody hell... when are American companies going to stop treat us Australians as second class world citizens???
I was just having a dumb morning and didn't realise the obvious that my Privoxy install had modified the code...
It also means that this wont be a security problem for anyone with Privoxy installed.
But anyway, doesn't this mean that all those pr0n sites with popups can hack your computer? Oh, doh, we already knew that ;)
The customer got the shits and traded up to a better model rather than get stuffed around.
I could also speak for a friend who sells second-hand pc laptops and regularly has to hunt for parts from Dell, HP, IBM etc, it being luck of the draw whether parts are available for even recent models.
On the other side of the coin, you can be totally assured that even if your Mac is 7 years old, you'll be able to get parts from Apple easily (albeit, they'll cost an arm and a leg, better have kept up that AppleCare warranty!).
Despite the advances in super computer technology that allow the behaviour of even very complex materials to be tested in a virtual environment, a wind tunnel may still be a far cheaper and less time-consuming option, especially with one-off experiments (such as for the Mars landing parachute mentioned in the article). The wind tunnel tests the actual thing, and although it takes time to setup, a supercomputer takes a considerable amount of time, work and money to program to mimic the effects of the wind tunnel and the item being tested.
...at $5000/hour.
The sled was designed to cover the first 1.4 miles in 4.65 seconds, then speed up in the final stages and cover 1.8 miles in 1.3 seconds, Kurtz said. At the end, bolts were detonated to allow the missile to detach from the sled and successfully hit its target.
I wonder if this has military implications?
Pah, not good enough.
(Sorry, couldn't resist ;)
If you invested a heap of $$$ in your Powermac G3 and a heap of high-end peripherals, as some businesses I know have, then the upgrade may be the cheapest solution, where the alternative would be buying everything new. There is also the issue with a number of clients I've had, where they can neither afford the time to set up a new machine, nor risk stuffing around with a mission-critical system. A CPU upgrade is the safest option in these cases, when they need more grunt.
Hmmm...I'm going away for the Easter weekend, maybe it's *just* enough time for my G4 to compile KDE 3.1 through fink, and the comp will have heated the room nicely for my return...
Considering that Dvorak mentions the switch having to do with the Mhz limitations of moto chips, I couldn't help notice that the Itanium 2 on Intel's web site clocks slower than the current G4's.
Anyway, aren't you going to debate over ATA100 vs. SCSI or something? ;)
The original submission is wrong. It's not the opposition party that's searching for his email address (duh, they work in the same building for *#(%'s sake!), it's the Labor Council of NSW, that represents unions in Australia - that is searching for his email address. The page offering the reward of AU$100 worth of Linux merchandise and a case of Coke (to geeks nonetheless!) says it all.
The only flame he's going to open his window to are those over west where there are now just the ruins of 400 homes.
More significantly, the water processing and sewerage treatment plans were both knocked out, threatening to cause the flow of sewerage into water storage facilities. Imagine the capital of Australia with no fresh water or sewerage for a minute.
Anyway, Mount Stromlo, which was destroyed, is visible on the map, and i've included a section of the Bush Fire Brigade Map which shows the region and the fires.
Updates on the situation can be found here.