Microsoft took a totally generic computer word, windows, which had been used for years by Xerox and Apple, and trademarked it. Then they had the nerve to sue someone who called their product Lindows. When the judge threatened to declare the word windows generic as it applies to computers (which it should be), Microsoft quickly settled for $20 million to avoid completely loosing their trademark.
Microsoft should never have been allowed to trademark a generic computing term. Then they should not have been allowed to bully people over using a similar term.
Yeah, right. Microsoft always respects other companies trademarks. Except when they don't like them. Tell that to Lindows who Microsoft unsuccessfully sued for trademark infringement, and who eventually sold the Lindows trademark to Microsoft for $20 million.
The SD Association has adopted exFAT for its SDXC memory card specification.
So a mediocre but patent encumbered technology gets adopted as a standard because it runs out of the box on Windows. As Microsoft itself puts it, "exFAT is relatively simple". Hello, antitrust regulators? Hello, patent office?
Gerson Lehrman Group, a New York consulting firm, estimates that even if 500,000 cars powered by lithium ion batteries were produced in 2015, they would use less than 10 percent of last year's global lithium output. And global output continues to climb.
And there is the fact that salt water has lithium. In fact, some startups are trying to extract it now. If the price goes high enough, it will be practical to extract lithium from the ocean.
Very important consideration is the amount of power your DVR will draw. A Tivo HD uses 34 watts. Most PCs (especially considering the Tivo HD sells for $250) will use more than that.
So you need to factor power savings in when you price a Tivo.
Also, there are virtually no HD solutions on computers. HD is wonderful.
I think this is a key strength of open source. You can have a single organization package all the software you might ever need, and if they don't do a good job, you can switch to another. As opposed to closed source, where everyone jealously compiles their own binaries because they are afraid of anyone seeing the holy source code. Even Apple, which controls the IPhone with an iron fist and has a choke hold on app distribution doesn't have source level access to the applications on its platform.
What is distinctive about Santa Cruz is its peculiarly high-functioning crazy people, like this guy, who are entirely divorced from reality, yet somehow manage to, for instance, run a record label.
And this is different from other people who run record labels how?
You weren't a real Nielsen family. Nielsen uses both diarys and electronic data collection. As it says on Wikipedia, "electronic metering technology is the heart of the Nielsen ratings process." The diaries are there to sample more markets, and as a double check.
The public has shown repeatedly that it will value cost above quality.
Then why are people flocking to AT&T for the IPhone? It certainly isn't the least expensive smartphone out there. Perhaps it is because it is the best smartphone out there, and people are willing to put up with a crappy provider to get the device. Perhaps quality does sell, at least for devices.
Well, as I understand it, within the new Medical Care Reform legislation they're trying to pass, there are provisions to let the govt. have full access to your banking accounts (without warrant, etc).
I drove 8 hours yesterday with a 1.3 year old. Trust me, it is almost impossible to eliminate child distractions. If you don't have kids yourself you won't understand.
There are simply too many ways to get distracted while driving to eliminate them all with laws. The bottom line is that driving is boring and a waste of time, and we do far too much of it. We should focus instead on better safety systems, and eventually computer controlled cars.
Either the "free" games are sponsored or they are paid for by everyone who buys a Zune - whether they want them or not.
No. With the IPod model, I get a marketplace where games and business models compete. Sure there are some free ad sponsored games. But there are also low cost no ad games. And some expensive games. And there probably are some free, no ad games as well. Point is that the consumer has their choice. Not just what the guys at Microsoft dream up.
Yes, you should recycle them because they have mercury. And, at least for the US, because of the power savings CFL's save more mercury (due to power plant emissions) than they would release even thrown out into normal land fills.
In terms of storing things in cookies instead of the backend, I can understand their reply. Why did GMail have an outage a few weeks ago? Because the load balancing layer, which from what I can tell is required to steer you to the server your session is on, wasn't scaled properly to accommodate new code, some of which was designed to help improve service availability.
Unless you design things very carefully (and the larger the site the more carefully this stuff has to be designed), creating server sessions can mean exposing your users to single points of failure. It can also mean subjecting users to bad user experiences when their session times out.
Storing sessions in memory cached in a single server, with a router to get you to the right server, backed by a clustered database seems like a good solution, but is complex and can have performance problems. Which seems to be what happened to Google. Also remember that cache layers are great for reading, but problematic in a situation with lots of writing (for example, Ebay).
They are marketing a game called Dante's Inferno and they are having fun with the deadly sins. This is just good marketing, plain and simple. People objecting need to get their funny bone tweaked.
I got a FULL SCHOOLERSHIP into ANY state school (ASU, UofA or NAU) because my SAT scores were nearly perfect. Get that GP. I. Didn't. Pay. Anything. Because. I. Was. Homeschooled.
No. You didn't pay anything because you were smart.
The very real possibility of some of those stats is that homeschooled kids would be smart in regular school as well. Parent involvement is critical in any education, and the commitment of homeschooling parents is very high. Maybe parents with that commitment level are smarter or work harder and pass those traits on to their kids.
Just like the study reported in Freakonomics that kids parents with at least 50 books in their house score 5% better than a child with no books, and a child with 100 books scores 5% better than the child with 50 books. But there was no correlation at all with test scores and how often parents read to kids. Because educated and motivated people will buy more books, and they pass those traits on to their kids. The books are not the cause of intelligence, but an indicator of intelligence.
People care about fidelity? I don't think they do. I think they prefer what they are used to.
An eight year study by a Stanford professor says that students increasingly prefer mp3 to CDs. They grew up listening to their music with the distortion, and prefer it.
This isn't a new phenomenon. Distortion of electric guitars was due to bad fidelity amplification, which people now prefer. Some audiophiles prefer the sound of vinyl even though it is lower fidelity to the CD. From wikipedia:
The "warmer" sound of analog records is generally believed on both sides of the argument to be an artifact of harmonic distortion and signal compression. This phenomenon of a preference for the sound of a beloved lower-fidelity technology is not new; a 1963 review of RCA Dynagroove recordings notes that "some listeners object to the ultra-smooth sound as... sterile... such distortion-forming sounds as those produced by loud brasses are eliminated at the expense of fidelity. They prefer for a climactic fortissimo to blast their machines..."
Here is the best part, I'm assuming your in a cold climate with a reasonable frost line (otherwise this would be a stupid idea). If the water in teh pipes stop circulating and freeze it will crack the pipe and the concrete and cause I nice leak. again weakening the concrete overall stress.
Lithium Ion batteries have a pretty short shelf life. According to Wikipedia, "At a 100% charge level, a typical Li-ion laptop battery that is full most of the time at 25 C or 77 F will irreversibly lose approximately 20% capacity per year."
I'm unable to find specific information about the IPod shelf life, but given this, I don't think the battery would charge at all after 17 years.
Flickr didn't take this image down because it was photoshopped. Time presumably owned the copyright or licensed the image it changed. The person who did the Joker didn't. Flickr says it removed the image due to copyright concerns.
On one side, this has already been tried with Time Warner. Time Warner used to own the second largest MSO in the country, Time Warner Cable, which they spun off in March, 2009. Why would Time Warner spin off their Cable division if integration were so profitable?
On the other side, you have the fact that Comcast has dipped its foot into web technology. They bought Plaxo in March of 2008. But they haven't been acquiring traditional media.
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Microsoft took a totally generic computer word, windows, which had been used for years by Xerox and Apple, and trademarked it. Then they had the nerve to sue someone who called their product Lindows. When the judge threatened to declare the word windows generic as it applies to computers (which it should be), Microsoft quickly settled for $20 million to avoid completely loosing their trademark.
Microsoft should never have been allowed to trademark a generic computing term. Then they should not have been allowed to bully people over using a similar term.
Yeah, right. Microsoft always respects other companies trademarks. Except when they don't like them. Tell that to Lindows who Microsoft unsuccessfully sued for trademark infringement, and who eventually sold the Lindows trademark to Microsoft for $20 million.
So a mediocre but patent encumbered technology gets adopted as a standard because it runs out of the box on Windows. As Microsoft itself puts it, "exFAT is relatively simple". Hello, antitrust regulators? Hello, patent office?
And there is the fact that salt water has lithium. In fact, some startups are trying to extract it now. If the price goes high enough, it will be practical to extract lithium from the ocean.
Tivo HD also supports Netflix HD.
Very important consideration is the amount of power your DVR will draw. A Tivo HD uses 34 watts. Most PCs (especially considering the Tivo HD sells for $250) will use more than that.
So you need to factor power savings in when you price a Tivo.
Also, there are virtually no HD solutions on computers. HD is wonderful.
I think this is a key strength of open source. You can have a single organization package all the software you might ever need, and if they don't do a good job, you can switch to another. As opposed to closed source, where everyone jealously compiles their own binaries because they are afraid of anyone seeing the holy source code. Even Apple, which controls the IPhone with an iron fist and has a choke hold on app distribution doesn't have source level access to the applications on its platform.
This is insightful? Lock down the most dynamic repository of knowledge in the world?
Monkeedude said it. The repository is large enough for him. Stop inventing! Stop becoming famous. Stop everything!!!
And this is different from other people who run record labels how?
You weren't a real Nielsen family. Nielsen uses both diarys and electronic data collection. As it says on Wikipedia, "electronic metering technology is the heart of the Nielsen ratings process." The diaries are there to sample more markets, and as a double check.
Then why are people flocking to AT&T for the IPhone? It certainly isn't the least expensive smartphone out there. Perhaps it is because it is the best smartphone out there, and people are willing to put up with a crappy provider to get the device. Perhaps quality does sell, at least for devices.
This is a myth.
I drove 8 hours yesterday with a 1.3 year old. Trust me, it is almost impossible to eliminate child distractions. If you don't have kids yourself you won't understand.
I agree with the GP here. Sure, they can make looking at maps illegal, or texting while driving punishable like drunk driving, but they aren't addressing all the possible ways to being distracted. What about reading a paper while driving. A friend of mine got rearended by a man doing that. Or a woman putting on makeup while driving? Or a man shaving while driving? Or driving a dangerously modified vehicle? Or someone eating while driving?
There are simply too many ways to get distracted while driving to eliminate them all with laws. The bottom line is that driving is boring and a waste of time, and we do far too much of it. We should focus instead on better safety systems, and eventually computer controlled cars.
No. With the IPod model, I get a marketplace where games and business models compete. Sure there are some free ad sponsored games. But there are also low cost no ad games. And some expensive games. And there probably are some free, no ad games as well. Point is that the consumer has their choice. Not just what the guys at Microsoft dream up.
Hazardous waste? Shrug.
Yes, you should recycle them because they have mercury. And, at least for the US, because of the power savings CFL's save more mercury (due to power plant emissions) than they would release even thrown out into normal land fills.
In terms of storing things in cookies instead of the backend, I can understand their reply. Why did GMail have an outage a few weeks ago? Because the load balancing layer, which from what I can tell is required to steer you to the server your session is on, wasn't scaled properly to accommodate new code, some of which was designed to help improve service availability.
Unless you design things very carefully (and the larger the site the more carefully this stuff has to be designed), creating server sessions can mean exposing your users to single points of failure. It can also mean subjecting users to bad user experiences when their session times out.
Storing sessions in memory cached in a single server, with a router to get you to the right server, backed by a clustered database seems like a good solution, but is complex and can have performance problems. Which seems to be what happened to Google. Also remember that cache layers are great for reading, but problematic in a situation with lots of writing (for example, Ebay).
They are marketing a game called Dante's Inferno and they are having fun with the deadly sins. This is just good marketing, plain and simple. People objecting need to get their funny bone tweaked.
No. You didn't pay anything because you were smart.
The very real possibility of some of those stats is that homeschooled kids would be smart in regular school as well. Parent involvement is critical in any education, and the commitment of homeschooling parents is very high. Maybe parents with that commitment level are smarter or work harder and pass those traits on to their kids.
Just like the study reported in Freakonomics that kids parents with at least 50 books in their house score 5% better than a child with no books, and a child with 100 books scores 5% better than the child with 50 books. But there was no correlation at all with test scores and how often parents read to kids. Because educated and motivated people will buy more books, and they pass those traits on to their kids. The books are not the cause of intelligence, but an indicator of intelligence.
It may be the same for homeschooling.
An eight year study by a Stanford professor says that students increasingly prefer mp3 to CDs. They grew up listening to their music with the distortion, and prefer it.
This isn't a new phenomenon. Distortion of electric guitars was due to bad fidelity amplification, which people now prefer. Some audiophiles prefer the sound of vinyl even though it is lower fidelity to the CD. From wikipedia:
Uh, the patent term is 20 years.
Antifreeze?
I don't think an IPod is a good solution.
Lithium Ion batteries have a pretty short shelf life. According to Wikipedia, "At a 100% charge level, a typical Li-ion laptop battery that is full most of the time at 25 C or 77 F will irreversibly lose approximately 20% capacity per year."
I'm unable to find specific information about the IPod shelf life, but given this, I don't think the battery would charge at all after 17 years.
Flickr didn't take this image down because it was photoshopped. Time presumably owned the copyright or licensed the image it changed. The person who did the Joker didn't. Flickr says it removed the image due to copyright concerns.
On one side, this has already been tried with Time Warner. Time Warner used to own the second largest MSO in the country, Time Warner Cable, which they spun off in March, 2009. Why would Time Warner spin off their Cable division if integration were so profitable?
On the other side, you have the fact that Comcast has dipped its foot into web technology. They bought Plaxo in March of 2008. But they haven't been acquiring traditional media.
I don't see this as likely.