Oh wait... just re-read and saw that you switched from Apple to Windows... whoops.
I suppose you could go the other way, create a VM Windows on the Mac... just a new install would work fine... then copy your files over to the VM, copy the VM to your Windows PC... then mount it as a drive and copy to the Native Windows OS.
Get a copy of VMWare or Parallels and create a Virtual Disk from your windows machine... then use that on your Mac as a virtual machine.. voila. Now you can drag and drop files between Windows and Mac without any fuss at all. Bonus, if you have files that only open in Windows or need to be exported to a generic format for import to a Mac application... you can do it all on 1 PC (the Apple PC of course).
So Eric... how's the weather in Australia? Mind if I call up your hosting company and let them know that i will be handling all of your correspondence in the future?
I'm sure your clients won't mind and it looks like Bruce is fairly lax about credentials... surely he will just send me your contact info and let me switch out the email address of record;-p
Yes, most social engineering exploits ARE self created problems;-p
Hmm some facts... the US and Europe are very close in land mass... but Europe has more than twice as many people. Maybe that explains why? We've got more than twice as much available land still. Just wait until our population reaches that 700M mark...
US 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million kmÂ) 300,000,000 people
Europe 3,881,000 mi2 (10,050,000 km2) 710,000,000 people
My point is that it's not out of the running... they'll have to run it like any other business, to make a profit. If they can pay their expenses on ticket price alone with a little left over to pay down the debt over time and a little more to put away for upgrades and periodic replacements... it would be a successful business.
Why does everything have to be a huge money maker? To appease investors? If you have a decent business plan you don't need those parasites anyways.
Oh and BTW... 90% of LAers are lower middle class citizens who are the target of this type of transportation... and you bet your ass they use public transit when it's available. Bus numbers are way up in LA these days.
The Hollywood celebutantes aren't driving to Vegas anyways... they are flying, so they aren't a part of the equation at all... unless the Maglev could get a party license for some private cars... then it might be THE way to get to Vegas.
Yeah... the last 2 trips i took were to Dallas on AA and those planes were like buses... not even nice cross country buses, I'm talking cross-town tin cans... no service, no room, no comfort... just a 3 hour ride to get where you're going.
I'd pay the same price for a longer ride if there was 2 times the comfort level. A 5-6 hour trip to Dallas or where ever... if I could A) get some sleep or B) sit at a bar and have a couple drinks with a 'friend'
No not really... in the same way I don't mind paying money to have my taxes prepared for me. It's a convenience. If I or you cared enough... we could keep all the records ourselves.
Do you have all the records of every payment you ever made on all of your accounts? Do you keep a running spreadsheet of your balance to available credit on revolving credit lines with a time axis multiplier?
Neither do the companies you want to do business with. They don't know you, why should they trust you to pay? Reputation and track record. AKA Credit Score.
Hmmm... what if you need a passenger car (that seats 2 car seats side by side and 2 adults in the front) which can also carry random large things like furniture, doors, long 2x4s, 1000 lbs of sand, etc.?
Should you be relegated to renting a UHaul for hauling loads every weekend and pass up being able to do it during the week... at $40 per trip minimum...
Light SUVs are just light Trucks with an enclosed bed and extra seating. I'm not talking Suburbans or Escalades... talking about XTerra, LandCruiser, Montero Sport, etc.
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Uhhh those drivers won't be trading... if they only drive 10 miles a day, they use less than a gallon of gas... so $4-$5/day... they spend more than that on the latte they picked up at Starbucks on their way to pick up Jr.
And how many people play games on those other cellphones?
Games on iPhone/iPod are competing with Nintendo DS and PSP, not other cellphones.
When kids/teens/adults see the games on the iPhone/iPod they may decide that instead of getting a new PSP or DS when they come out, they'd rather get a phone/video/camera/music/game device.
Uhhh... how does this help someone steal an existing identity? Said immigrant gets a NEW driver's license number and a NEW SSN... you're just railing against how easy it is for immigrants to get ID... which doesn't help them perform ID theft in any way.
OTOH if they were letting you pick out a DL and SSN from a list of existing people... well that would just be dumb, but then they'd be actively promoting ID theft...
I can get credit reports 1 time a freaking year. thats it.
Huh??? for $48 you can get all 3 reports any time of year you want... as many times as you care to pay $48. I do it 4 times a year if I'm financially active, opening closing accounts, buying a house, a car, etc. If not I do it 2 times a year just to check up on things.
Sure a lower price would be nice (It was only $30 2 years ago). But hey... it's certainly not that expensive when you consider the alternative... ie: ignorance.
There are very few books which get marketed like a TV show or movie or even an album... so you don't need the publisher/distributor's marketing machine. Sure you'll need to buy off a few reviewers to give you space in their list of good reads (for a couple years, until reader reviews take over - if they haven't already).
With online resellers it doesn't take a team of distribution lawyers to write up reselling contracts for all the physical bookstores out there, so you don't need that, (just 1 good attorney to review a few contracts).
What's left? Whatever cost is involved with getting your book in the proper formats for eBook readers... probably varies but it can't be too high a price or nobody would do it.
SO now an author could likely get 75% of the profit rather than 25%.... though there would be no $10,000 advance, which leaves the poor author with $150,000, in the first year after release. Do author's typically live off that $10,000 advance? Not likely so it's really not a bad tradeoff... less up front, way more at the end.
4 billion, 8 or even 12 billion.... how much do we spend on alternates?
250 miles with typical fuel economy of say 20MPG (lots of stop and go)... 12.5 Gal of gas * 4 = $41 * 2 = $100 in gas per trip (being generous) and just for sake of argument we'll use 10 million visitors per year from LA (39 million tourists in Vegas each year total). That's $1,000,000,000.00 in gas alone. If the visitor took a plane the cost only goes up.
SO with a 12 Billion dollar price tag... we'd break even on costs after 12 years.
So what if a ticket was $100... round trip of course, and you didn't have to drive and there were packaged deals with hotels...
I think a lot of people would take the rail option (maglev/light/whatever).
Maybe the article should more clearly say "The future of databases in regards to web application development"?
Then you have to think about how many mid-range client/server desktop applications are being replaced with client/server web applications every day as they get technology refreshes...
There are more and more *relatively* cheap web developers getting hired to replace traditional desktop app developers for non-critical business applications.
SO there is a disconnect here with your statements in general... yes there may be more MSSQL server installs coming in to replace Oracle, etc. for desktop apps... but there are even more MySQL/Postgres/SQLite web apps coming in to replace all those desktop apps.... so Oracle is losing but I wouldn't say that MSSQL is the replacement, it's just one of many possible replacements, depending on what HR resources a company has invested in. If they are still heavy with desktop app developers or newly acquired/trained.NET developers then they will go with MSSQL. If they have an investment in Linux or Unix developers then they may be moving to something different.
To do it for real you don't want to analyze the market... you want to analyze the world economy. The market is just a funhouse mirror of what is actually happening in the world...
What you want is to look at things like oil, food, hydro, raw metals, etc. and analyze how those feed into manufacturing and service... then add in innovations which offer new optimizations and mess with economies of scale... all that stuff might be analyzed and some forecasts and predictions could be made that would be an accurate reflection of reality... but you'd have to assume that the market was based on reality and not on hype, excitement and fear, not to mention direct manipulation...
Good luck.
I'll start a business selling paper products and make a couple M a year without the headache if you please.
ahemmmm.... muscles ARE controlled by the mind... voluntary and involuntary. The method they used was to 'train' the prosthetic by asking the guy to do something, seeing how the arm responded to his mental commands/instincts/whatever, then re-calibrated the arm to do the action... with a few days of training you could have the arm responding to a large range of voluntary coordinations.
That's just the render engine... Safari is the browser and it is definitely proprietary. The browser handles everything to do with making connections, downloads, security, etc etc. Webkit just renders html/css/javascript - the only way a patch for this could be added to Webkit would be for someone to disable the iframe tag, which just means you'd only be able to force 1 download.
As always it depends on where the energy comes from to generate the heat to bring it to a boil... OTOH if the material is expensive, more so than the oil... they'll just do it anyways to reclaim the material.
If attitudes like yours were more prevalent during the rest of human history we wouldn't have any of these problems... and we may never have gotten out of our caves... progress needs risk takers even if the risk is only that we are using resources to explore something rather than ensuring the security of what we already have... don't be such a luddite.
I said that there is enough blame to go around... the vulnerability isn't only in Flash, it's also in whatever is allowing websites to become pawns of hackers... and in Windows which allows Flash to do anything other than execute swf files within the browser.
Once again Windows is open to attack from some 3rd party app... and what's this, SQL injection is being used... is that another MS product being abused or is it a free for all on open source DB driven websites?
Seems like there is plenty of blame to go around... Adobe included but certainly not alone. If Windows wasn't so easily subverted by a 3rd party app with a bug this wouldn't be an issue (as it's not for Mac and Linux users)... but of course were it not for lax security in countless websites, there would be no vector... so shame on web developers...
Video and Audio are typically linear mediums.... they are subject to the 'analog hole' whereby you can simply record the output. Games OTOH (as well as most software applications) are not linear... so no 'analog hole' for you to record from...
It's nothing special, he's just stating that the obvious means of recording A/V content does not work with Games.
Just so peoples know... a color camera is not as good as a set of Black and White Cameras which only capture light from specific light spectrums... ie: think of it as 1 Red camera, 1 Blue, 2 Green and probably 1 pure Black/White camera, where camera == CCD.
Look up CCD for more details on what it is/does and why using 3 separate CCDs for imaging will get you the highest quality image.
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Oh wait... just re-read and saw that you switched from Apple to Windows... whoops.
I suppose you could go the other way, create a VM Windows on the Mac... just a new install would work fine... then copy your files over to the VM, copy the VM to your Windows PC... then mount it as a drive and copy to the Native Windows OS.
Get a copy of VMWare or Parallels and create a Virtual Disk from your windows machine... then use that on your Mac as a virtual machine.. voila. Now you can drag and drop files between Windows and Mac without any fuss at all. Bonus, if you have files that only open in Windows or need to be exported to a generic format for import to a Mac application... you can do it all on 1 PC (the Apple PC of course).
So Eric... how's the weather in Australia? Mind if I call up your hosting company and let them know that i will be handling all of your correspondence in the future?
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I'm sure your clients won't mind and it looks like Bruce is fairly lax about credentials... surely he will just send me your contact info and let me switch out the email address of record
Yes, most social engineering exploits ARE self created problems
Hmm some facts... the US and Europe are very close in land mass... but Europe has more than twice as many people. Maybe that explains why? We've got more than twice as much available land still. Just wait until our population reaches that 700M mark...
US
3.79 million square miles (9.83 million kmÂ)
300,000,000 people
Europe
3,881,000 mi2 (10,050,000 km2)
710,000,000 people
My point is that it's not out of the running... they'll have to run it like any other business, to make a profit. If they can pay their expenses on ticket price alone with a little left over to pay down the debt over time and a little more to put away for upgrades and periodic replacements... it would be a successful business.
Why does everything have to be a huge money maker? To appease investors? If you have a decent business plan you don't need those parasites anyways.
Oh and BTW... 90% of LAers are lower middle class citizens who are the target of this type of transportation... and you bet your ass they use public transit when it's available. Bus numbers are way up in LA these days.
The Hollywood celebutantes aren't driving to Vegas anyways... they are flying, so they aren't a part of the equation at all... unless the Maglev could get a party license for some private cars... then it might be THE way to get to Vegas.
Yeah... the last 2 trips i took were to Dallas on AA and those planes were like buses... not even nice cross country buses, I'm talking cross-town tin cans... no service, no room, no comfort... just a 3 hour ride to get where you're going.
I'd pay the same price for a longer ride if there was 2 times the comfort level. A 5-6 hour trip to Dallas or where ever... if I could A) get some sleep or B) sit at a bar and have a couple drinks with a 'friend'
No not really... in the same way I don't mind paying money to have my taxes prepared for me. It's a convenience. If I or you cared enough... we could keep all the records ourselves.
Do you have all the records of every payment you ever made on all of your accounts? Do you keep a running spreadsheet of your balance to available credit on revolving credit lines with a time axis multiplier?
Neither do the companies you want to do business with. They don't know you, why should they trust you to pay? Reputation and track record. AKA Credit Score.
Hmmm... what if you need a passenger car (that seats 2 car seats side by side and 2 adults in the front) which can also carry random large things like furniture, doors, long 2x4s, 1000 lbs of sand, etc.?
Should you be relegated to renting a UHaul for hauling loads every weekend and pass up being able to do it during the week... at $40 per trip minimum...
Light SUVs are just light Trucks with an enclosed bed and extra seating. I'm not talking Suburbans or Escalades... talking about XTerra, LandCruiser, Montero Sport, etc.
Uhhh those drivers won't be trading... if they only drive 10 miles a day, they use less than a gallon of gas... so $4-$5 /day... they spend more than that on the latte they picked up at Starbucks on their way to pick up Jr.
And how many people play games on those other cellphones?
Games on iPhone/iPod are competing with Nintendo DS and PSP, not other cellphones.
When kids/teens/adults see the games on the iPhone/iPod they may decide that instead of getting a new PSP or DS when they come out, they'd rather get a phone/video/camera/music/game device.
Uhhh... how does this help someone steal an existing identity? Said immigrant gets a NEW driver's license number and a NEW SSN... you're just railing against how easy it is for immigrants to get ID... which doesn't help them perform ID theft in any way.
OTOH if they were letting you pick out a DL and SSN from a list of existing people... well that would just be dumb, but then they'd be actively promoting ID theft...
I can get credit reports 1 time a freaking year. thats it.
Huh??? for $48 you can get all 3 reports any time of year you want... as many times as you care to pay $48. I do it 4 times a year if I'm financially active, opening closing accounts, buying a house, a car, etc. If not I do it 2 times a year just to check up on things.
Sure a lower price would be nice (It was only $30 2 years ago). But hey... it's certainly not that expensive when you consider the alternative... ie: ignorance.
Why would an author need a distributor?
There are very few books which get marketed like a TV show or movie or even an album... so you don't need the publisher/distributor's marketing machine. Sure you'll need to buy off a few reviewers to give you space in their list of good reads (for a couple years, until reader reviews take over - if they haven't already).
With online resellers it doesn't take a team of distribution lawyers to write up reselling contracts for all the physical bookstores out there, so you don't need that, (just 1 good attorney to review a few contracts).
What's left? Whatever cost is involved with getting your book in the proper formats for eBook readers... probably varies but it can't be too high a price or nobody would do it.
SO now an author could likely get 75% of the profit rather than 25%.... though there would be no $10,000 advance, which leaves the poor author with $150,000, in the first year after release. Do author's typically live off that $10,000 advance? Not likely so it's really not a bad tradeoff... less up front, way more at the end.
4 billion, 8 or even 12 billion.... how much do we spend on alternates?
250 miles with typical fuel economy of say 20MPG (lots of stop and go)... 12.5 Gal of gas * 4 = $41 * 2 = $100 in gas per trip (being generous) and just for sake of argument we'll use 10 million visitors per year from LA (39 million tourists in Vegas each year total). That's $1,000,000,000.00 in gas alone. If the visitor took a plane the cost only goes up.
SO with a 12 Billion dollar price tag... we'd break even on costs after 12 years.
So what if a ticket was $100... round trip of course, and you didn't have to drive and there were packaged deals with hotels...
I think a lot of people would take the rail option (maglev/light/whatever).
Maybe the article should more clearly say "The future of databases in regards to web application development"?
.NET developers then they will go with MSSQL. If they have an investment in Linux or Unix developers then they may be moving to something different.
Then you have to think about how many mid-range client/server desktop applications are being replaced with client/server web applications every day as they get technology refreshes...
There are more and more *relatively* cheap web developers getting hired to replace traditional desktop app developers for non-critical business applications.
SO there is a disconnect here with your statements in general... yes there may be more MSSQL server installs coming in to replace Oracle, etc. for desktop apps... but there are even more MySQL/Postgres/SQLite web apps coming in to replace all those desktop apps.... so Oracle is losing but I wouldn't say that MSSQL is the replacement, it's just one of many possible replacements, depending on what HR resources a company has invested in. If they are still heavy with desktop app developers or newly acquired/trained
To do it for real you don't want to analyze the market... you want to analyze the world economy. The market is just a funhouse mirror of what is actually happening in the world...
What you want is to look at things like oil, food, hydro, raw metals, etc. and analyze how those feed into manufacturing and service... then add in innovations which offer new optimizations and mess with economies of scale... all that stuff might be analyzed and some forecasts and predictions could be made that would be an accurate reflection of reality... but you'd have to assume that the market was based on reality and not on hype, excitement and fear, not to mention direct manipulation...
Good luck.
I'll start a business selling paper products and make a couple M a year without the headache if you please.
Yeah but it's way more 'fun' to watch the ups and downs.... I mean if you've got nothing better to do than watch a line graph ;-p
ahemmmm.... muscles ARE controlled by the mind... voluntary and involuntary. The method they used was to 'train' the prosthetic by asking the guy to do something, seeing how the arm responded to his mental commands/instincts/whatever, then re-calibrated the arm to do the action... with a few days of training you could have the arm responding to a large range of voluntary coordinations.
That's just the render engine... Safari is the browser and it is definitely proprietary. The browser handles everything to do with making connections, downloads, security, etc etc. Webkit just renders html/css/javascript - the only way a patch for this could be added to Webkit would be for someone to disable the iframe tag, which just means you'd only be able to force 1 download.
As always it depends on where the energy comes from to generate the heat to bring it to a boil... OTOH if the material is expensive, more so than the oil... they'll just do it anyways to reclaim the material.
If attitudes like yours were more prevalent during the rest of human history we wouldn't have any of these problems... and we may never have gotten out of our caves... progress needs risk takers even if the risk is only that we are using resources to explore something rather than ensuring the security of what we already have... don't be such a luddite.
I said that there is enough blame to go around... the vulnerability isn't only in Flash, it's also in whatever is allowing websites to become pawns of hackers... and in Windows which allows Flash to do anything other than execute swf files within the browser.
All the players above are at fault...
Once again Windows is open to attack from some 3rd party app... and what's this, SQL injection is being used... is that another MS product being abused or is it a free for all on open source DB driven websites?
Seems like there is plenty of blame to go around... Adobe included but certainly not alone. If Windows wasn't so easily subverted by a 3rd party app with a bug this wouldn't be an issue (as it's not for Mac and Linux users)... but of course were it not for lax security in countless websites, there would be no vector... so shame on web developers...
enjoy.
Video and Audio are typically linear mediums.... they are subject to the 'analog hole' whereby you can simply record the output. Games OTOH (as well as most software applications) are not linear... so no 'analog hole' for you to record from...
It's nothing special, he's just stating that the obvious means of recording A/V content does not work with Games.
Just so peoples know... a color camera is not as good as a set of Black and White Cameras which only capture light from specific light spectrums... ie: think of it as 1 Red camera, 1 Blue, 2 Green and probably 1 pure Black/White camera, where camera == CCD.
Look up CCD for more details on what it is/does and why using 3 separate CCDs for imaging will get you the highest quality image.