Apple has dropped just enough information at just regular enough intervals to create a level of anticipation for the iPhone that can only be described as off the hook. Amid all the opinions--and the frantic warnings of doom from certain analyst groups--are a few details that have been largely overlooked.
Here's a deconstruction of a few myths that have failed to take these unhidden secrets into consideration, along with the final aspect of why Apple released Safari for Windows, as I promised to reveal in the last article. It has something to do with the iPhone, of course.
Segway Segue, or AirPort Runway? The levels of both enthusiastic hype and detractors' hate over the iPhone appear to have handily eclipsed one of the last ultra-hyped new devices of the tech world: Dean Kamen's Segway personal transporter.
Back in 2001, the Segway was presented sight unseen as the mysterious, revolutionary invention Ginger. It was privately shown to a handful of luminaries--including Steve Jobs--who all seemed excited about its potential. When actually revealed to the public, it was met with a mix of interest and ridicule, in part due to its steep price tag. After all, if you can't afford it, it must be silly and impractical.
Kamen's claim that the Segway would change society and that cities would be reconfigured to account for a world mobilized by two wheeled robot transporters didn't work out as planned.
San Francisco--one of the few cities to have enough flush nerds to warrant opening up a Segway dealership--actually banned the device on its sidewalks in a frantic, spastic panic about public safety concerns.
On the other hand, there have also been runaway hits that initially received little hype, criticism, or attention. Apple's AirPort introduced a mainstream audience to WiFi wireless networking. Apple wasn't the first implementation on Earth, but it did offer a pioneering set of products that delivered ease of use on a level that is still unmatched.
The iPod was also greeted with passive yawns and dismissed as too simple, too expensive, and uninteresting by critics, only to build into a phenomenon that changed the music industry, made Apple's simple music players a household name, and established the company as a top consumer brand.
The Devil in the Details. Unlike the Segway, the iPhone isn't a hyped tease. Apple introduced the device six months ago with a full demonstration of how it actually worked, assigned it a firm price tag, published its technical specifics down to the millimeter and gram, and provided a comprehensive look at its features and underlying technologies.
In comparison, Microsoft's Zune--which had been in the news just a few months earlier--was presented from the start as having an unclear feature set. Fans made broad assumptions about its capabilities, resulting in great disappointment. Analysts overreached to claim that Microsoft would eat up Apple's iPod market share by offering a highly subsidized unit, or even offer it for free with a subscription plan, neither of which actually happened.
As the "iPod Killer" got closer to release, its price was still a secret and its key features were revealed to be more limited that anyone imagined. Its highly touted WiFi became nothing more than a way to squirt advertisements to friends, exploiting "the Social" in an attempt to sell music in Microsoft's new PlaysForSure-incompatible version of its impossible to crack Janus DRM.
Only its violent failure could silence the giddy critics that gushed about its supposed game changing, iPod killing impact that never happened. The Zune made the Segway look like a runaway hit.
The Desperate Panic of the Apple Haters. It is therefore interesting to compare the news sources that gushed over the Zune--with little information from Microsoft--and encouraged their readers to blow $250 on one, because they are today providing a non-stop emergency warning siren that ignores everything we've been told by Apple about the iPhone to instead present a
Apple put no copy protection on the OS that I am aware of. In fact there is a family license for about 20 bucks more or so that gives you license to install the os on 5 machines. On the workstation version there is no serial number at all, just for the server version.
Ursus arctos horribilis(2 "L"s) but thanks for the info.
I have always wondered why kodiacs are considered a subspecies since over 10 years ago it was determined the differences were environmental. If you feed a grizzly a kodiac's diet in the same environment then he is a kodiac and not a grizzly. Looks like polar bears are just another extreme of the same species - a sub species.
All joking aside if Ursus maritimus and Ursus arctos (not horriblis I don't know where you got that one from) can mate and be fertile - FTFA = Stirling said polar bears and grizzlies have been successfully paired in zoos and that their offspring are fertile = then they are the same species and need to be reclassified.
You make a great deal of assumptions about my background in your post., assumptions that are in fact quite wrong. Let me then also say that you further make assumptions about my argument that are very wrong. My background is virtually irrelevant, but let me assure you that an appointment to Imperial College London in 1990 , S1 levels in Physics, Math and Chemistry and a full research fellowship are part of my past. Further I have been a database developer on more than a small number of medical research projects where I was the statistician or worked closely with one and had to develop the reports and reporting system.
As to your assumptions about my statements, it should be noted that YECs allow for non empirical data, aka the supernatural in their systems, this does not preclude empirical data, but it does temper it. rather than go any further I would suggest that you take a look at a brief list of some things scientific that are mentioned theologically in scripture. please keep in mind that these writings are between 4,000 and 2,000 years old when reading them. rather than list them here is a quick link Ultimately, you are extremely off base in your assumptions.
I personally do not participate in moderation because of its many abuses. Including the "overrated" tag that should never be allowed to be used as an initial moderation IMNSHO. Of course the broken mod system is well known.
When a significant majority in one of the advanced space faring states believes the earth is no older than 7,000 years. where do you expect the financing of the basic science necessary to even contemplate the tasks you outline? Scientific reasoning and knowledge is being devalued continuously for more faith based "logic". Moreover, for the immediate future those following the latter, easier path will live the more comfortable life.
What does young earth creationism (YEC) have to do with funding for space exploration and exploitation? I know plenty of YECs myself included that understand the stewardship issue of creation. We look at resources as something to be shepherded meaning be used and protected not abused or ignored. This means off the planet as well as on it. Your (in general not the parent particular) tiring arguments of creationists not applying logic shows your misunderstanding of the empiricism vs. historicism of facts.
Personally when I read your post I had to say that it was BS so I checked the numbers myself and you are wrong... but not in the manner i thought you would be. After accounting for the increase in density of the volume as the ice melts (.917 to 1) looks like it would actually be a gross rise of 14m! I do not know what the net rise would be as it would obviously be substantially less, even so...
Amazing how badly the truth hurts isn't it? If you do not like something someone says mod t with troll of flame-bait that way it can't hurt you anymore. The truth of the matter is that our society has lost its way and that matters of morality and truth have been replaced with whatever you want them to be. Fortunately the truth or its resolution have not changed.
Keep modding me down when you manage to get my Karma dropped below normal I will stop posting on slashdot. Until then I will continue to espouse the truth in this forum.
the same world where we kill people because we don't want to be bothered with their existence (Theresa Schiavo) and we kill the weakest amongst us for convenience sake (abortion).
You are right, teach ID and you get terrible scientists. Scientists like: Kepler, Newton, Einstein, Hawking. Each of which either believed in God's direct creation or have at least said that the organisation of the universe promotes the idea of a creator.
I know that you reject the idea of a God created universe. I understand that you cannot see God as even existing. Neither makes you any less responsible for the fact that that you have rebelled against Him and will one day stand in defence of your defiance.
Actually the G4 holds 8 HDDs unmodified. each of the 3 lower trays can be double stacked and there is the 3.5 under the optical drive and space immediately above the optical drive.
I have been here a bit longer than you, and used to mod quite frequently before I completely removed myself from the moderation pool. As for hasty generalisation, if several years of a behaviour abstracted is what you call hasty, I would never want to go to where you burger flip. I would be dead before any service arrived.
One thing I wish slashdot readers and posters would understand is the difference between argumentum ad absurdum and trolling. Unfortunately, you don't get it but the GP does.
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Not going to happen: Opinion polls suggest 43 per cent of Americans believe God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years. Only 14 per cent believe humans evolved without divine involvement.
Apple has dropped just enough information at just regular enough intervals to create a level of anticipation for the iPhone that can only be described as off the hook. Amid all the opinions--and the frantic warnings of doom from certain analyst groups--are a few details that have been largely overlooked.
Here's a deconstruction of a few myths that have failed to take these unhidden secrets into consideration, along with the final aspect of why Apple released Safari for Windows, as I promised to reveal in the last article. It has something to do with the iPhone, of course.
Segway Segue, or AirPort Runway?
The levels of both enthusiastic hype and detractors' hate over the iPhone appear to have handily eclipsed one of the last ultra-hyped new devices of the tech world: Dean Kamen's Segway personal transporter.
Back in 2001, the Segway was presented sight unseen as the mysterious, revolutionary invention Ginger. It was privately shown to a handful of luminaries--including Steve Jobs--who all seemed excited about its potential. When actually revealed to the public, it was met with a mix of interest and ridicule, in part due to its steep price tag. After all, if you can't afford it, it must be silly and impractical.
Kamen's claim that the Segway would change society and that cities would be reconfigured to account for a world mobilized by two wheeled robot transporters didn't work out as planned.
San Francisco--one of the few cities to have enough flush nerds to warrant opening up a Segway dealership--actually banned the device on its sidewalks in a frantic, spastic panic about public safety concerns.
On the other hand, there have also been runaway hits that initially received little hype, criticism, or attention. Apple's AirPort introduced a mainstream audience to WiFi wireless networking. Apple wasn't the first implementation on Earth, but it did offer a pioneering set of products that delivered ease of use on a level that is still unmatched.
The iPod was also greeted with passive yawns and dismissed as too simple, too expensive, and uninteresting by critics, only to build into a phenomenon that changed the music industry, made Apple's simple music players a household name, and established the company as a top consumer brand.
The Devil in the Details.
Unlike the Segway, the iPhone isn't a hyped tease. Apple introduced the device six months ago with a full demonstration of how it actually worked, assigned it a firm price tag, published its technical specifics down to the millimeter and gram, and provided a comprehensive look at its features and underlying technologies.
In comparison, Microsoft's Zune--which had been in the news just a few months earlier--was presented from the start as having an unclear feature set. Fans made broad assumptions about its capabilities, resulting in great disappointment. Analysts overreached to claim that Microsoft would eat up Apple's iPod market share by offering a highly subsidized unit, or even offer it for free with a subscription plan, neither of which actually happened.
As the "iPod Killer" got closer to release, its price was still a secret and its key features were revealed to be more limited that anyone imagined. Its highly touted WiFi became nothing more than a way to squirt advertisements to friends, exploiting "the Social" in an attempt to sell music in Microsoft's new PlaysForSure-incompatible version of its impossible to crack Janus DRM.
Only its violent failure could silence the giddy critics that gushed about its supposed game changing, iPod killing impact that never happened. The Zune made the Segway look like a runaway hit.
The Desperate Panic of the Apple Haters.
It is therefore interesting to compare the news sources that gushed over the Zune--with little information from Microsoft--and encouraged their readers to blow $250 on one, because they are today providing a non-stop emergency warning siren that ignores everything we've been told by Apple about the iPhone to instead present a
They (Apple) will replace missing screws and feet on macbooks without asking any questions. Now if you mean big plastic thats a bit different.
Knows: yes, acknowledges on a conscious level: No
So its still better than ME right?
Apple put no copy protection on the OS that I am aware of. In fact there is a family license for about 20 bucks more or so that gives you license to install the os on 5 machines. On the workstation version there is no serial number at all, just for the server version.
Ursus arctos horribilis(2 "L"s) but thanks for the info.
I have always wondered why kodiacs are considered a subspecies since over 10 years ago it was determined the differences were environmental. If you feed a grizzly a kodiac's diet in the same environment then he is a kodiac and not a grizzly. Looks like polar bears are just another extreme of the same species - a sub species.
All joking aside if Ursus maritimus and Ursus arctos (not horriblis I don't know where you got that one from) can mate and be fertile - FTFA = Stirling said polar bears and grizzlies have been successfully paired in zoos and that their offspring are fertile = then they are the same species and need to be reclassified.
try this one theno nceptual/KernelProgramming/
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/C
and I do mean compiling the actual kernal not an extension.
Yes you can:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/C
You make a great deal of assumptions about my background in your post., assumptions that are in fact quite wrong. Let me then also say that you further make assumptions about my argument that are very wrong. My background is virtually irrelevant, but let me assure you that an appointment to Imperial College London in 1990 , S1 levels in Physics, Math and Chemistry and a full research fellowship are part of my past. Further I have been a database developer on more than a small number of medical research projects where I was the statistician or worked closely with one and had to develop the reports and reporting system.
As to your assumptions about my statements, it should be noted that YECs allow for non empirical data, aka the supernatural in their systems, this does not preclude empirical data, but it does temper it. rather than go any further I would suggest that you take a look at a brief list of some things scientific that are mentioned theologically in scripture. please keep in mind that these writings are between 4,000 and 2,000 years old when reading them. rather than list them here is a quick link Ultimately, you are extremely off base in your assumptions.
I personally do not participate in moderation because of its many abuses. Including the "overrated" tag that should never be allowed to be used as an initial moderation IMNSHO. Of course the broken mod system is well known.
What does young earth creationism (YEC) have to do with funding for space exploration and exploitation? I know plenty of YECs myself included that understand the stewardship issue of creation. We look at resources as something to be shepherded meaning be used and protected not abused or ignored. This means off the planet as well as on it.
Your (in general not the parent particular) tiring arguments of creationists not applying logic shows your misunderstanding of the empiricism vs. historicism of facts.
I already took that into account in the calcualions
Personally when I read your post I had to say that it was BS so I checked the numbers myself and you are wrong ... but not in the manner i thought you would be. After accounting for the increase in density of the volume as the ice melts (.917 to 1) looks like it would actually be a gross rise of 14m! I do not know what the net rise would be as it would obviously be substantially less, even so...
Amazing how badly the truth hurts isn't it? If you do not like something someone says mod t with troll of flame-bait that way it can't hurt you anymore. The truth of the matter is that our society has lost its way and that matters of morality and truth have been replaced with whatever you want them to be. Fortunately the truth or its resolution have not changed.
Keep modding me down when you manage to get my Karma dropped below normal I will stop posting on slashdot. Until then I will continue to espouse the truth in this forum.
You are right, teach ID and you get terrible scientists. Scientists like: Kepler, Newton, Einstein, Hawking. Each of which either believed in God's direct creation or have at least said that the organisation of the universe promotes the idea of a creator.
I know that you reject the idea of a God created universe. I understand that you cannot see God as even existing. Neither makes you any less responsible for the fact that that you have rebelled against Him and will one day stand in defence of your defiance.
Actually the G4 holds 8 HDDs unmodified. each of the 3 lower trays can be double stacked and there is the 3.5 under the optical drive and space immediately above the optical drive.
Did you miss the tense of the sentence of the GP post?
I have been here a bit longer than you, and used to mod quite frequently before I completely removed myself from the moderation pool. As for hasty generalisation, if several years of a behaviour abstracted is what you call hasty, I would never want to go to where you burger flip. I would be dead before any service arrived.
One thing I wish slashdot readers and posters would understand is the difference between argumentum ad absurdum and trolling. Unfortunately, you don't get it but the GP does.
It has to be tabbed since all those hyper threaded procs might get more than 1 BSOD at a time ...
Of course...
I am glad someone got it even if it was an AC