On the contrary - it could be argued that Apple's entire success as a company is due to their packaging on all levels - packaging features, packaging software, packaging hardware, packaging services, packaging their brand. Nokia's problem is that their good packaging tends to stop at the box.
Apple packaged the original iPod by taking mature features that already existed in other music players in the marketplace, and wrapping them together in a more attractive product, with a slick design and lots of storage. They packaged OS X by taking an established operating system (BSD) and throwing some pretty on it, some of which was innovative, but most of which was simply combining existing ideas into an attractive package. The iTunes store was only notable because they negotiated slightly more flexible DRM terms and didn't close down in 2 years leaving its customers in the cold, like so many predecessors. The iPhone packaged the PDA and phone in a smoother and more attractive way than other products had done before, even though there are few truly unique features in it that were not also being implemented in some form by its predecessors and contemporaries (including Android, which also started in 2005.) And throughout all of these product launches, they had the marketing muscle to successfully focus attention onto the shiny and away from the omissions.
This is not to denigrate Apple's success, because they seized upon a truth that eludes many companies - packaging matters, as much or more than the product itself, and if you can consistently combine great packaging with good products, it doesn't matter where the functional ideas came from originally. Sometimes the packaging is the innovation.
"We had to send daily reports to the CEO, which would in turn justify our salary. Failure to do so meant a deduction in that days's wage," said a vice president, who resigned on the same grounds.
Any company that responds to crisis like that was never going to make it anyways.
Counterintuitively, emissions are generally much worse with modern motorcycles vs. modern cars. In most cases, the only green benefit it gives you is roughly double gas mileage, but even that doesn't makes up for the increased harmful emissions. Motorcycles are not the green machine you think they are.
There was a whole Mythbusters episode on this awhile back.
Nothing. I'd wager parent is just venting because of some strange issue he ran into. Our Ubuntu production servers have proven more reliable than our Fedora servers. No big difference though.
CrashPlan is pretty great, but the Linux client was too much of a resource hog when I used it. Whether that's bad programming or that fact that it's a Java service, I don't know.
Works for me in Chicago. I'm guessing it's his broadband router that's doing this, intercepting port 53 traffic and forwarding to the DNS servers it got from DHCP.
Given that it's a rural area, it's far more likely that some good ol' boys decided to have target practice with some birds perched on the wires. This happened frequently where I used to live, and often while they were riding in a pickup truck, which would explain the 1-km stretch of damage. Stupid yes, nefarious no.
Simply put, organic is not a viable long-term approach. It is, in fact, a niche that provides value for those who are suspicious and worried about scientifically unfounded fears.
If by "scientifically unfounded", you mean "not mentioned in reports approved by the existing food industry", sure. But if you actually think there's no evidence of negative effects from pesticides, antibiotics and hormones in our food supply, then you've been letting people with a vested interest in the status quo choose your reading material for you.
Are you using the user account you created during Ubuntu setup, or did you create a new one manually afterwards?
To use the CD-ROM for burning, your user needs to be in the cdrom group - permissions are set correctly by default on the cdrom device to allow all group members to burn. Ubuntu automatically adds your user to this group when you install the OS. Additionally, if you create a new user using the System/Administration/Users and Groups menu item, it will ask you what that user is allowed to do (plain english things like "Use CD-ROM drives") which add them to the appropriate group on the back end - and the "CD-ROM" permission is enabled by default in this tool.
The only way you should be encountering this problem is if you are logging in as a user you created manually (with "useradd") without adding it to the necessary groups, or if you modified your user's group memberships. As many others have stated, this has all worked well since Breezy - It's been a LONG time since I needed sudo to burn.
I doubt that's the point. I'm sure they just decided that rom a cost/benefit perspective, money spent training their support staff on Debian wasn't worth the amount of business they were getting from Debian customers. Which makes a lot of sense to me - in my experience, people that run Debian servers have a more thorough knowledge of the system and administering it, and consequently have less need/desire for software support (yourself included, it sounds like). And assuming that's true, it's also not much of a stretch to assume that someone that interested in the guts of a system would choose something like Postgres over MySQL anyways if they had a choice, since it's had more advanced features for much longer than MySQL has.
Looks like slashdot has been duped for free advertising again. The submitter's domain (sandiegointeractive.com) and the fakeyourspace.com domain are registered to the same person.
Here's a hint... when a company is the brainchild of one or two people - and ESPECIALLY when it is a young company - any buyer is going to include a clause in the buy contract that requires said people to stay involved for a certain amount of time to aid in the transition. To do otherwise would be asinine.
In this case, it is an observable phenomenon that is currently happening throughout the world. Overirrigation of fields is leaving salt deposits behind in the soil that are normally washed down to the sea. In some locations, each year farmers use over HALF of their yearly irrigation water just washing the salt away before planting crops for the year. In some communities in India, the farmers have abandoned more than a quarter of their farmland due to salt deposits since the big dams / irrigation projects started.
In ancient Mesopotamia it was much the same. We know the Sumerians were the first civilization to use widespread irrigation. We know from the archaeological record that as their civilization declined, that their wheat yields began to fall steadily and their main crop became barley, a grain that is much more tolerant of the increasingly salty soil. This same scenario is playing out all across the globe today - increasingly salty irrigated fields are requiring more and more water to wash away the deposits each spring, and eventually they are simply unable to generate sustainable crop yields and are abandoned.
In any case, this example isn't a climatic event, and the damage caused by widespread irrigation is relatively easy to observe in controlled environments. However my original point is that Brazil is not a poster child for the new energy economy - it is simply exchanging one long-term disaster for another, due to the the damage caused by irrigation on the scale that would be required to produce enough energy from sugarcane.
Check out "When The Rivers Run Dry" by Fred Pearce. It really opens your eyes to the wholesale destruction of river ecosystems that irrigation and dams have unwittingly caused. Egypt and the whole "fertile crescent" used to be very green. The mesopotamian region was accidentally turned to desert by early Sumerian irrigation systems; Egypt was more recent due to damming the Nile for irrigation (thus preventing/reducing the yearly floods that, unbeknownst to the dam builders, are the cornerstone of a river ecosystem, not something to be banished.)
While Brazil is not destroying their economy yet, they are on the road to it if biofuels are their idea of a self-sufficient energy strategy. Future water crises will be worse than current, past or future oil crises. By using one of the most water-hungry crops (sugarcane) to produce fuel, and inevitably diverting massive amounts of river flow to irrigate it, they are heading down the same path that led to the desertification of the fertile crescent.
Not that the rest of the world is doing any better. Depressing, really.
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On the contrary - it could be argued that Apple's entire success as a company is due to their packaging on all levels - packaging features, packaging software, packaging hardware, packaging services, packaging their brand. Nokia's problem is that their good packaging tends to stop at the box.
Apple packaged the original iPod by taking mature features that already existed in other music players in the marketplace, and wrapping them together in a more attractive product, with a slick design and lots of storage. They packaged OS X by taking an established operating system (BSD) and throwing some pretty on it, some of which was innovative, but most of which was simply combining existing ideas into an attractive package. The iTunes store was only notable because they negotiated slightly more flexible DRM terms and didn't close down in 2 years leaving its customers in the cold, like so many predecessors. The iPhone packaged the PDA and phone in a smoother and more attractive way than other products had done before, even though there are few truly unique features in it that were not also being implemented in some form by its predecessors and contemporaries (including Android, which also started in 2005.) And throughout all of these product launches, they had the marketing muscle to successfully focus attention onto the shiny and away from the omissions.
This is not to denigrate Apple's success, because they seized upon a truth that eludes many companies - packaging matters, as much or more than the product itself, and if you can consistently combine great packaging with good products, it doesn't matter where the functional ideas came from originally. Sometimes the packaging is the innovation.
Depends where your code is. If it's hosted on GitHub, they have a simple but decent issue tracker that integrates really well with code commits.
"We had to send daily reports to the CEO, which would in turn justify our salary. Failure to do so meant a deduction in that days's wage," said a vice president, who resigned on the same grounds.
Any company that responds to crisis like that was never going to make it anyways.
Counterintuitively, emissions are generally much worse with modern motorcycles vs. modern cars. In most cases, the only green benefit it gives you is roughly double gas mileage, but even that doesn't makes up for the increased harmful emissions. Motorcycles are not the green machine you think they are. There was a whole Mythbusters episode on this awhile back.
Tamrac is great. I've used this one for about 5 years now, fits all my expensive electronics in one carry-on bag for traveling. http://www.amazon.com/Tamrac-3380-Photo-Laptop-Backpack/dp/B000XXBMCY
What's wrong with Ubuntu for servers?
Nothing. I'd wager parent is just venting because of some strange issue he ran into. Our Ubuntu production servers have proven more reliable than our Fedora servers. No big difference though.
My dog is terrified of beer. I think it's the carbonation. I have had a cockatoo that was addicted to coffee, though. Also pizza. Strange bird.
CrashPlan is pretty great, but the Linux client was too much of a resource hog when I used it. Whether that's bad programming or that fact that it's a Java service, I don't know.
Works for me in Chicago. I'm guessing it's his broadband router that's doing this, intercepting port 53 traffic and forwarding to the DNS servers it got from DHCP.
Detachable menus?
Given that it's a rural area, it's far more likely that some good ol' boys decided to have target practice with some birds perched on the wires. This happened frequently where I used to live, and often while they were riding in a pickup truck, which would explain the 1-km stretch of damage. Stupid yes, nefarious no.
...but free, secure and open source...
That doesn't necessarily follow. Duplicating a broken API will retain some of the security problems designed into the original OS.
Simply put, organic is not a viable long-term approach. It is, in fact, a niche that provides value for those who are suspicious and worried about scientifically unfounded fears.
If by "scientifically unfounded", you mean "not mentioned in reports approved by the existing food industry", sure. But if you actually think there's no evidence of negative effects from pesticides, antibiotics and hormones in our food supply, then you've been letting people with a vested interest in the status quo choose your reading material for you.
Are you using the user account you created during Ubuntu setup, or did you create a new one manually afterwards?
To use the CD-ROM for burning, your user needs to be in the cdrom group - permissions are set correctly by default on the cdrom device to allow all group members to burn. Ubuntu automatically adds your user to this group when you install the OS. Additionally, if you create a new user using the System/Administration/Users and Groups menu item, it will ask you what that user is allowed to do (plain english things like "Use CD-ROM drives") which add them to the appropriate group on the back end - and the "CD-ROM" permission is enabled by default in this tool.
The only way you should be encountering this problem is if you are logging in as a user you created manually (with "useradd") without adding it to the necessary groups, or if you modified your user's group memberships. As many others have stated, this has all worked well since Breezy - It's been a LONG time since I needed sudo to burn.
I doubt that's the point. I'm sure they just decided that rom a cost/benefit perspective, money spent training their support staff on Debian wasn't worth the amount of business they were getting from Debian customers. Which makes a lot of sense to me - in my experience, people that run Debian servers have a more thorough knowledge of the system and administering it, and consequently have less need/desire for software support (yourself included, it sounds like). And assuming that's true, it's also not much of a stretch to assume that someone that interested in the guts of a system would choose something like Postgres over MySQL anyways if they had a choice, since it's had more advanced features for much longer than MySQL has.
Looks like slashdot has been duped for free advertising again. The submitter's domain (sandiegointeractive.com) and the fakeyourspace.com domain are registered to the same person.
Economically conservative gays will continue to be pounded in the ass regardless of what party they choose.
Well, at least they'll enjoy the next few years!
The page you linked to is the stats for their "Business" category, which represents a small portion of their total page views...
Here's a hint... when a company is the brainchild of one or two people - and ESPECIALLY when it is a young company - any buyer is going to include a clause in the buy contract that requires said people to stay involved for a certain amount of time to aid in the transition. To do otherwise would be asinine.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Motorola_DCT- 25xx
In this case, it is an observable phenomenon that is currently happening throughout the world. Overirrigation of fields is leaving salt deposits behind in the soil that are normally washed down to the sea. In some locations, each year farmers use over HALF of their yearly irrigation water just washing the salt away before planting crops for the year. In some communities in India, the farmers have abandoned more than a quarter of their farmland due to salt deposits since the big dams / irrigation projects started.
In ancient Mesopotamia it was much the same. We know the Sumerians were the first civilization to use widespread irrigation. We know from the archaeological record that as their civilization declined, that their wheat yields began to fall steadily and their main crop became barley, a grain that is much more tolerant of the increasingly salty soil. This same scenario is playing out all across the globe today - increasingly salty irrigated fields are requiring more and more water to wash away the deposits each spring, and eventually they are simply unable to generate sustainable crop yields and are abandoned.
In any case, this example isn't a climatic event, and the damage caused by widespread irrigation is relatively easy to observe in controlled environments. However my original point is that Brazil is not a poster child for the new energy economy - it is simply exchanging one long-term disaster for another, due to the the damage caused by irrigation on the scale that would be required to produce enough energy from sugarcane.
Care to cite a source on this?
Check out "When The Rivers Run Dry" by Fred Pearce. It really opens your eyes to the wholesale destruction of river ecosystems that irrigation and dams have unwittingly caused. Egypt and the whole "fertile crescent" used to be very green. The mesopotamian region was accidentally turned to desert by early Sumerian irrigation systems; Egypt was more recent due to damming the Nile for irrigation (thus preventing/reducing the yearly floods that, unbeknownst to the dam builders, are the cornerstone of a river ecosystem, not something to be banished.)
While Brazil is not destroying their economy yet, they are on the road to it if biofuels are their idea of a self-sufficient energy strategy. Future water crises will be worse than current, past or future oil crises. By using one of the most water-hungry crops (sugarcane) to produce fuel, and inevitably diverting massive amounts of river flow to irrigate it, they are heading down the same path that led to the desertification of the fertile crescent.
Not that the rest of the world is doing any better. Depressing, really.
I am not a conspiricy theorist...
Now you are. Congratulations on the shiny new hat.
Personally, I've been submitting my space cycles to Folding@home for about five years now.
I would think space cycles are much better equipped to find extraterrestrial life. How can I get me one of those?
Yeah, they should adopt the stylized Gnu on the back of that one as their official logo.