"does anyone else find today's breed to pseudo-punk-acting bands just too funny for words?..... The Germs were the REAL DEAL, the lead singer would spread peanut butter on his naked chest while cutting himself with a broken bottle on stage."
Yeah spreading peanut butter on your naked body while cutting yourself makes you really anti-establishment.:) I bet no one was laughing at that.
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I don't get what all the furor was about it in the first place. Has anyone watched any television channel out there?
NBC does a crap-ton of promos for their other shows as does every other station.
I don't get why a company can't use their own products to promote themselves.
Also I don't get the monopoly argument. Google--Yahoo--MSN Search is no where near the dominance that Windows--EveryoneElse is.
Also part of a monopoly is barriers to entrance. It is so incredibly brain-dead easy to stop typing google.com and start typing yahoo.com or newsearch.com if one day I don't like to use Google. There is no OS creator that can make it that easy to switch OS's.
1) Google doesn't have a monopoly, there are real viable competitors with real market share and it is incredibly easy for new compeitors to enter the market
2) Every company in the world uses their own products to promote themselves
"It just goes to show that money doesn't necessarily make things better... I mean, look at the Mavericks."
1) There is a salary cap that all teams must adhere to so it isn't like he can just buy up every player in the league.
2) The Mavericks reached their first ever championship finals last year and have consistently had a much higher winning % compared to their franchise history since Cuban took over. This is attributed to Cubans willingness to spend extra coaches to help the players and private plane so the players may relax and strictly control their diet, and control their schedule.
"Eating their own dogfood: Rochelle said that "Everybody in [Google] is using the tool" already."
I'm just an aerospace engineer and not a programmer/scientist....but I thought Google hired the best of the best brightest minds in the country. True I use Matlab for most analysis and Fortran and C for most simulations, but when I want to "play" with a snippet of data a bit and do some simple plots, Excel kicks butt. I feel sorry for them if all those PhDs can't even graph with their spreadsheets anymore. I can understand them not wanting to pay Microsoft but geeze, at least throw them oocalc.
The NYT is not alone. I was signing up for a UFB Direct online bank account and the application froze. I called the 800 number and they immediately said, "you used Firefox, didn't you?". Yes I did and they only support IE. For goodness sake they are a ONLINE BANK and they don't support a browser with 10%+ market share? Can you imagine if they had someone at a brick and mortar store and they threw out every 10th person who walked through?
" I want to tell my advisor "I do not wish to have any stock in *insert name of company with dubious practices here* please" and then it just happens."
If are educated enough to know with a fine scapel exactly which companies you do/don't want to be investing in, you do not need an adisor. Open up an internet brokerage account and go nuts.
Also if you know which ones you DON"T want but don't know which ones you DO want, get a personal advisor to buy individual stocks for you and give him a black list of "do not buy" stocks. No one is stopping you. In fact you don't even need to invest in stocks. Buy gold, invest in real estate, store it in a money market account. However you'll soon find everything has risks. Even no risk, FDIC insured accounts risk that they will not keep up with inflation or barely keep up and you won't reach your retirement goals.
Whoa, I thought my incidident was isolated. My power supply for my iBook shorted right where wire goes into the connector that plugs into the computer. Some magic smoke was released and the connector/power supply was inoperable. Apple sent me a new power supply under my AppleCare plan. I don't know if they would have charged me otherwise.
About a month later my motherboard died. Again everything covered under AppleCare.
"the ability to install Linux software, thanks to the binary compatibility layer"
I tried FreeBSD once. I actually really liked it but it had one show stopper for me that led me back to FC. I was amazed that theLinux compatibilty layer was able to install Matlab, a closed source program. It worked, however, not all features worked. In my Matlab scripts I tend to make lots calls to the command line of the OS. This did not work and thus many of my scripts were rendered broken. Another strange quirk is the "exit" command did not work. I t was rather amusing that I could run all types of complicated operations and plotting routintes but it would return an error when trying to quit the program. I had to kill it from a shell.
" The bottom line is that, even if they ramp up to 200,000 units a month starting this month, they're still not going to hit their 2 million unit goal in time for a November launch. Shortages and the high price tag will mean this is going to be a very weird Christmas console season. "
Based on the layout of that quote, I believe the editor said this. If they had actually read the link they quoted, they would know that 200,000 is a first run and Sony plans to produce 2 million units in October alone.
Huh? From what I heard/read about 90% of people thought RIM was a group of hard working, entreprenurial Canadians who came up with and sold a wonderful product that enriched the lives of thousands of people. NTP was a evil leach on society taking advantage of the sytem and should be shot.
RIM still paid huge, I guess public opinion isn't the deciding factor.
Oh I agree, it is way beyond the consumer to understand that a MacBook Pro Ultra-Lite might be....
1)MacBOOL noteBOOL computer
2)Professional Model
3) Ultra low weight
It would be much more intuitive if they would go with something like Dell and be the Inspiron E1705.
1)Insipiron, let me see, was that the notebook, desktop, small form factor...?
2)E--uhhhhhh what?
3)1705, so it is 1.705Ghz machine? nope, $1705, nope, uh?
Yeah Apple is HORRIBLE with names, I'm off to buy a HP Pavillion WSXLJPILJPJS32165461, bye.
"You know, I've been ranting on Slashdot and elsewhere about the dangers of XP's "product activation" and Treacherous Computing and such for years now, but few people wanted to listen. Well, one of the scenarios I predicted is coming true!"
Wait, let me get this straight.
Scenario 1: I legally paid for my copy of windows and this does not effect me.
Scenario 2: I have a infringining, illegal copy of windows and now I will either have to stop or find a new illegal copy that gets around this.
I fail to see why I should be outraged. Should I be outraged that Apple doesn't have a 1 click method to upload all of my mp3s to the internet automatically for copyright infringement? Whether I think think this is a bad business move or not, I fail to see how this should make me jump ship (if I was on that ship, but I'm not). So illegally using windows just got a little bit harder, who cares?
"I'm sure the $500 GFX cards only exist to make spending $300 on a single component of a computer seem reasonable."
I'm sure you are probably joking but I think you nailed it on the head. Having a super expensive card, even if it is a low seller, has many positive benefits.
1) You will sell some to those who want to be ub3r133t 2) You get the publicity of being "the best" even if no one actually buys the best 3) Perhaps most importantly, the "Wendy's Effect". It is oft quoted that no one buys Wendy's triple cheeseburger. Someone at Wendy's decided that offering it was a waste so they removed it. However, this almost immediately reduced the number of double cheeseburgers sold. Apparently when people see that there is something more expensive and more "over the top" they are much more compelled to buy the next lower version than if that same version was the high end.
While I am excited to see fuel cells advance, I don't see the draw for this type of application beyond the niche of people with too much money.
As a poor college student, I avoid recurring costs as much as possible. Rechargeable batteries may suck in terms of energy density compared to this cartidge/fuel cell combination, but the cost of electricity is relatively cheap to the point of being free. Does anyone really want to run out and buy catridges constantly if they want to use their mp3 player every day?
Beyond cost, the fact that outlets are much more convenient than running to the store (or carrying around a bunch of spare catridges, negating the smallness of your mp3 player) is big turnoff for me.
" This probably spells the end for that organization that PJ of Groklaw fame used to work for, OSRM that offered a similar product."
I've seen you post insightful comments in the past so I don't think this is a troll, but doesn't the article summary state that OSRM will be the sole insurance agent for Lloyd's in the US? I'm sure if people are worried about buying only from the Big Names, OSRM will be OSRM: Backed by Lloyd's of Lodon!
Seriously though, there is no such thing as a free lunch and all that so I have to wonder what better uses (computer labs, research facilities, etc) are getting short changed to pay for this. I buy my songs legally so I don't like that my tuition and/or school budget getting used to this to prevent us "pirates".
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Are there any plans to enable access to the sensors on the phone through Ocatave scripts run on the phone?
Yahoo! does this already.
I've got a fever....and the only prescription is more Hypnotoad.
"does anyone else find today's breed to pseudo-punk-acting bands just too funny for words? .....
:) I bet no one was laughing at that.
The Germs were the REAL DEAL, the lead singer would spread peanut butter on his naked chest while cutting himself with a broken bottle on stage."
Yeah spreading peanut butter on your naked body while cutting yourself makes you really anti-establishment.
"Apple, the penultimate source of cool"
So Apple is second to last in coolness?
I don't get what all the furor was about it in the first place. Has anyone watched any television channel out there?
NBC does a crap-ton of promos for their other shows as does every other station.
I don't get why a company can't use their own products to promote themselves.
Also I don't get the monopoly argument. Google--Yahoo--MSN Search is no where near the dominance that Windows--EveryoneElse is.
Also part of a monopoly is barriers to entrance. It is so incredibly brain-dead easy to stop typing google.com and start typing yahoo.com or newsearch.com if one day I don't like to use Google. There is no OS creator that can make it that easy to switch OS's.
1) Google doesn't have a monopoly, there are real viable competitors with real market share and it is incredibly easy for new compeitors to enter the market
2) Every company in the world uses their own products to promote themselves
"It just goes to show that money doesn't necessarily make things better... I mean, look at the Mavericks." 1) There is a salary cap that all teams must adhere to so it isn't like he can just buy up every player in the league. 2) The Mavericks reached their first ever championship finals last year and have consistently had a much higher winning % compared to their franchise history since Cuban took over. This is attributed to Cubans willingness to spend extra coaches to help the players and private plane so the players may relax and strictly control their diet, and control their schedule.
"Eating their own dogfood: Rochelle said that "Everybody in [Google] is using the tool" already."
I'm just an aerospace engineer and not a programmer/scientist....but I thought Google hired the best of the best brightest minds in the country. True I use Matlab for most analysis and Fortran and C for most simulations, but when I want to "play" with a snippet of data a bit and do some simple plots, Excel kicks butt. I feel sorry for them if all those PhDs can't even graph with their spreadsheets anymore. I can understand them not wanting to pay Microsoft but geeze, at least throw them oocalc.
The NYT is not alone. I was signing up for a UFB Direct online bank account and the application froze. I called the 800 number and they immediately said, "you used Firefox, didn't you?". Yes I did and they only support IE. For goodness sake they are a ONLINE BANK and they don't support a browser with 10%+ market share? Can you imagine if they had someone at a brick and mortar store and they threw out every 10th person who walked through?
I call shenanigans!
" I want to tell my advisor "I do not wish to have any stock in *insert name of company with dubious practices here* please" and then it just happens."
If are educated enough to know with a fine scapel exactly which companies you do/don't want to be investing in, you do not need an adisor. Open up an internet brokerage account and go nuts.
Also if you know which ones you DON"T want but don't know which ones you DO want, get a personal advisor to buy individual stocks for you and give him a black list of "do not buy" stocks. No one is stopping you. In fact you don't even need to invest in stocks. Buy gold, invest in real estate, store it in a money market account. However you'll soon find everything has risks. Even no risk, FDIC insured accounts risk that they will not keep up with inflation or barely keep up and you won't reach your retirement goals.
Whoa, I thought my incidident was isolated. My power supply for my iBook shorted right where wire goes into the connector that plugs into the computer. Some magic smoke was released and the connector/power supply was inoperable. Apple sent me a new power supply under my AppleCare plan. I don't know if they would have charged me otherwise.
About a month later my motherboard died. Again everything covered under AppleCare.
"It had only six bugs in its 116,899 lines of code, or .51 bugs per thousands lines of code."
Sounds like someone needs to run this debugger on their calculator.
"the ability to install Linux software, thanks to the binary compatibility layer" I tried FreeBSD once. I actually really liked it but it had one show stopper for me that led me back to FC. I was amazed that theLinux compatibilty layer was able to install Matlab, a closed source program. It worked, however, not all features worked. In my Matlab scripts I tend to make lots calls to the command line of the OS. This did not work and thus many of my scripts were rendered broken. Another strange quirk is the "exit" command did not work. I t was rather amusing that I could run all types of complicated operations and plotting routintes but it would return an error when trying to quit the program. I had to kill it from a shell.
" The bottom line is that, even if they ramp up to 200,000 units a month starting this month, they're still not going to hit their 2 million unit goal in time for a November launch. Shortages and the high price tag will mean this is going to be a very weird Christmas console season. "
Based on the layout of that quote, I believe the editor said this. If they had actually read the link they quoted, they would know that 200,000 is a first run and Sony plans to produce 2 million units in October alone.
Wow.
I don't need people modifying my CV so I send it out in PDF and have never heard one complaint about the file format.
Huh? From what I heard/read about 90% of people thought RIM was a group of hard working, entreprenurial Canadians who came up with and sold a wonderful product that enriched the lives of thousands of people. NTP was a evil leach on society taking advantage of the sytem and should be shot. RIM still paid huge, I guess public opinion isn't the deciding factor.
Oh I agree, it is way beyond the consumer to understand that a MacBook Pro Ultra-Lite might be.... 1)MacBOOL noteBOOL computer 2)Professional Model 3) Ultra low weight It would be much more intuitive if they would go with something like Dell and be the Inspiron E1705. 1)Insipiron, let me see, was that the notebook, desktop, small form factor...? 2)E--uhhhhhh what? 3)1705, so it is 1.705Ghz machine? nope, $1705, nope, uh? Yeah Apple is HORRIBLE with names, I'm off to buy a HP Pavillion WSXLJPILJPJS32165461, bye.
"You know, I've been ranting on Slashdot and elsewhere about the dangers of XP's "product activation" and Treacherous Computing and such for years now, but few people wanted to listen. Well, one of the scenarios I predicted is coming true!"
Wait, let me get this straight.
Scenario 1:
I legally paid for my copy of windows and this does not effect me.
Scenario 2:
I have a infringining, illegal copy of windows and now I will either have to stop or find a new illegal copy that gets around this.
I fail to see why I should be outraged. Should I be outraged that Apple doesn't have a 1 click method to upload all of my mp3s to the internet automatically for copyright infringement? Whether I think think this is a bad business move or not, I fail to see how this should make me jump ship (if I was on that ship, but I'm not). So illegally using windows just got a little bit harder, who cares?
"John Dvorak has written an opinion piece on why he believes Microsoft is dead in the water."
If Microsoft is dead in the water, what OS will Apple put on its next gen computers?
"I'm sure the $500 GFX cards only exist to make spending $300 on a single component of a computer seem reasonable."
I'm sure you are probably joking but I think you nailed it on the head. Having a super expensive card, even if it is a low seller, has many positive benefits.
1) You will sell some to those who want to be ub3r133t
2) You get the publicity of being "the best" even if no one actually buys the best
3) Perhaps most importantly, the "Wendy's Effect". It is oft quoted that no one buys Wendy's triple cheeseburger. Someone at Wendy's decided that offering it was a waste so they removed it. However, this almost immediately reduced the number of double cheeseburgers sold. Apparently when people see that there is something more expensive and more "over the top" they are much more compelled to buy the next lower version than if that same version was the high end.
While I am excited to see fuel cells advance, I don't see the draw for this type of application beyond the niche of people with too much money.
As a poor college student, I avoid recurring costs as much as possible. Rechargeable batteries may suck in terms of energy density compared to this cartidge/fuel cell combination, but the cost of electricity is relatively cheap to the point of being free. Does anyone really want to run out and buy catridges constantly if they want to use their mp3 player every day?
Beyond cost, the fact that outlets are much more convenient than running to the store (or carrying around a bunch of spare catridges, negating the smallness of your mp3 player) is big turnoff for me.
" This probably spells the end for that organization that PJ of Groklaw fame used to work for, OSRM that offered a similar product."
I've seen you post insightful comments in the past so I don't think this is a troll, but doesn't the article summary state that OSRM will be the sole insurance agent for Lloyd's in the US? I'm sure if people are worried about buying only from the Big Names, OSRM will be OSRM: Backed by Lloyd's of Lodon!
"....supports Windows, Mac OS, and Linux
works with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux."
ummmm, so does it run in Linux?
Seriously though, there is no such thing as a free lunch and all that so I have to wonder what better uses (computer labs, research facilities, etc) are getting short changed to pay for this. I buy my songs legally so I don't like that my tuition and/or school budget getting used to this to prevent us "pirates".
If you thought congestion was bad before, what if it accidnetly limits you to 40kph in a 100kph zone?