The Fahrenheit scale is not as arbitrary as people like to claim.
It was a biologically based system. 0 was supposed to be the freezing point of a saltwater solution equivalent to that found in living tissue. The freezing and boiling points of pure water based on this scale were to have a separation of 180 degrees because 180 divides nicely into lots of whole numbers.
Centigrade, on the other hand was a chemistry based system, which used the freezing and boiling points of water with a 100 degree spread.
Kelvin was a thermodynamics based system, using the same degree spread as Centigrade, but defining the zero point at absolute zero.
Except that, Apple gives you the free iMovie App and allows you to save in DV and any quicktime supported codec (including DIVX if you install the plug-in) etc. So, yeah, I'm going to gripe about substandard "free" software from Microsoft.
You can play protected AAC on exactly ONE player right now, the iPod. In a couple of months you can play them on two: The iPod, and the HP Digital Music Player. When iTunes remains the dominant online music store throughout this year, other MP3 players will jump off of cliffs to get AAC compatibility so they have a prayer of even maintaining their meager market share.
The completely static "X doesn't exist NOW, so it never will" reality you live in must be tremendously boring.
News flash for you. The folks at virginia Tech who spec'd this out are way smarter than you, and they went with the G5 for a reason. Find some other reason to like your PC.
Actually, the UK said the Apple ad was misleading because a $15,000 dual Xeon workstation was almost as fast and therefore the G5 wasn't the fastest personal computer. The whole thing was just a bureaucrat flexing his little power to compensate for some personal inadequacy.
Actually, no. The intense gravity near the event horizon causes the same relativistic effects as approaching the speed of light. To an outside observer, time slows assymptotically as the stellar radius of the collapsing star approaches the event horizon. To an outside observer, it would appear to take an infinite amount of time for the event horizon to actually appear.
From our frame of reference, it would take an infinite amount of time for an event horizon to form in any event, so there ain't no such animal as a black hole. We might have stars that are at various stages of collapse but from our and every other frame of reference actually outside the collapsing star itself, no potential black hole has actually reached become one, yet.
Where there is an itch, someone will make a profit scratching it.
The idea that only open source software meets individual needs because only free software gets the "itches" scratched, just shows a horrible economic ignorance.
Example: If open source is the itch scratching utopia, why did it take a private company with proprietary code to create a usable GUI for a UNIX system?
This isn't so much true anymore. Macs are excellent at digital music, and a LOT of consumers are into that. Nothing touches Mac for digital video, and consumers are really starting to get into that.
The biosciences community is in love with Apple, and universities are sitting up and taking notice ever since Virginia Tech made the #3 supercomputer with fewer processors and a fraction of the cost of the number 4 Xeon-based cluster (and now that G5 Xserves are out...).
I believe it was an Apple executive who recently said: When you own all the niches, you own the market. This is the plan I see Apple working toward.
Bunk. Adobe pulled Premiere for the Mac because it can't hold a candle to Final Cut, and the comparison was embarrasing to them. If Apple were to ever port Final Cut to the PC, Premiere would be extinct in a year.
Exactly. MS has ONLY been successful when they've been able to leverage their OS or Office Suite to force adoption of the product. I don't see a way for them to do either with this device.
Give the man a star. He's nailed it. Seems to me the last time Apple was making a big product announcement, MS decided to show everyone the pre-pre-alpha of Longhorn and how it was going to be the Second Coming, assuming of course the actual Second Coming doesn't happen first while we're waiting.
This argument is so old and so false. You want to know what will kill creativity in a heartbeat? Not being able to profit from the tremendous effort that goes into it.
COPYING someone is not being creative. It's stealing some other person's effort and genius.
Portable video players don't make a lot of sense. You use portable because you want to be doing something else at the same time. You can listen to music and jog, or listen to music and read, or listen to music and drive, so having a portable player that is light and usable with one-hand is perfect.
A portable video player that is bigger, heavier, and requires you to stop doing whatever you're doing and give it your full attention is stupid. These things will not even make a dent in iPod's market share.
Simply not true on the consumer end. Digital video is just beginning to come into its own, and modern PCs are still painfully slow in this regard. Do a high-quality mpeg-2 encoding job some time on your 3.8 GHz Dell and see how long it takes.
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Read the speech by Crichton a previous poster linked.
Since we have absolutely no way of knowing what the chances of life existing somewhere else are, your statement is nothing more than a religious belief.
Um, India is a terribly socialist country. The concept of a private company there is not really accurate. It is impossible for a business to even form in India unless the government decides there is a public need for said business.
Heaven save us from luddite slashdotters. India can barely feed itself and GM crops stand on the horizon to make food cheap and abundant. That is if they ever get the chance. The Chicken Littles of the world would rather see people starve.
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The Fahrenheit scale is not as arbitrary as people like to claim.
It was a biologically based system. 0 was supposed to be the freezing point of a saltwater solution equivalent to that found in living tissue. The freezing and boiling points of pure water based on this scale were to have a separation of 180 degrees because 180 divides nicely into lots of whole numbers.
Centigrade, on the other hand was a chemistry based system, which used the freezing and boiling points of water with a 100 degree spread.
Kelvin was a thermodynamics based system, using the same degree spread as Centigrade, but defining the zero point at absolute zero.
It gets bitterly cold at night, but Martian summer days in the equatorial regions can reach a quite balmy 70 degrees fahrenheit.
Except that, Apple gives you the free iMovie App and allows you to save in DV and any quicktime supported codec (including DIVX if you install the plug-in) etc. So, yeah, I'm going to gripe about substandard "free" software from Microsoft.
You can play protected AAC on exactly ONE player right now, the iPod. In a couple of months you can play them on two: The iPod, and the HP Digital Music Player. When iTunes remains the dominant online music store throughout this year, other MP3 players will jump off of cliffs to get AAC compatibility so they have a prayer of even maintaining their meager market share.
The completely static "X doesn't exist NOW, so it never will" reality you live in must be tremendously boring.
So, your response to the rudeness of people around you is to be at least equally rude.
The Earth's sky is blue because Nitrogen scatters blue light. Last I checked, there ain't a whole lot of Nitrogen in the Martian atmosphere.
Mars' atmosphere is pinkish because of the dust suspended in it.
Tell it to Virginia Tech. I'm sure they're all uninformed idiots and need you to explain it to them.
News flash for you. The folks at virginia Tech who spec'd this out are way smarter than you, and they went with the G5 for a reason. Find some other reason to like your PC.
Actually, the UK said the Apple ad was misleading because a $15,000 dual Xeon workstation was almost as fast and therefore the G5 wasn't the fastest personal computer. The whole thing was just a bureaucrat flexing his little power to compensate for some personal inadequacy.
Actually, no. The intense gravity near the event horizon causes the same relativistic effects as approaching the speed of light. To an outside observer, time slows assymptotically as the stellar radius of the collapsing star approaches the event horizon. To an outside observer, it would appear to take an infinite amount of time for the event horizon to actually appear.
From our frame of reference, it would take an infinite amount of time for an event horizon to form in any event, so there ain't no such animal as a black hole. We might have stars that are at various stages of collapse but from our and every other frame of reference actually outside the collapsing star itself, no potential black hole has actually reached become one, yet.
Word document password protection has always been a joke. It's total cake to bypass it.
1. Open a new blank Word document.
2. Insert the protected document into the new document using the Insert command. You will NOT be asked for the password.
3. You now have the protected document, complete with formatting, content, etc., but with no password protection as your new document.
OK. Time for an economics 101.
Where there is an itch, someone will make a profit scratching it.
The idea that only open source software meets individual needs because only free software gets the "itches" scratched, just shows a horrible economic ignorance.
Example: If open source is the itch scratching utopia, why did it take a private company with proprietary code to create a usable GUI for a UNIX system?
This isn't so much true anymore. Macs are excellent at digital music, and a LOT of consumers are into that. Nothing touches Mac for digital video, and consumers are really starting to get into that.
The biosciences community is in love with Apple, and universities are sitting up and taking notice ever since Virginia Tech made the #3 supercomputer with fewer processors and a fraction of the cost of the number 4 Xeon-based cluster (and now that G5 Xserves are out...).
I believe it was an Apple executive who recently said: When you own all the niches, you own the market. This is the plan I see Apple working toward.
Bunk. Adobe pulled Premiere for the Mac because it can't hold a candle to Final Cut, and the comparison was embarrasing to them. If Apple were to ever port Final Cut to the PC, Premiere would be extinct in a year.
Elaboration: I can't look at the source code.
Personally, I think it's a stupid argument, but that's the one the open source zealots make.
I'm still trying to find out why none of these companies has filed an extortion suit against SCO.
Exactly. MS has ONLY been successful when they've been able to leverage their OS or Office Suite to force adoption of the product. I don't see a way for them to do either with this device.
Give the man a star. He's nailed it. Seems to me the last time Apple was making a big product announcement, MS decided to show everyone the pre-pre-alpha of Longhorn and how it was going to be the Second Coming, assuming of course the actual Second Coming doesn't happen first while we're waiting.
This argument is so old and so false. You want to know what will kill creativity in a heartbeat? Not being able to profit from the tremendous effort that goes into it.
COPYING someone is not being creative. It's stealing some other person's effort and genius.
Portable video players don't make a lot of sense. You use portable because you want to be doing something else at the same time. You can listen to music and jog, or listen to music and read, or listen to music and drive, so having a portable player that is light and usable with one-hand is perfect.
A portable video player that is bigger, heavier, and requires you to stop doing whatever you're doing and give it your full attention is stupid. These things will not even make a dent in iPod's market share.
Simply not true on the consumer end. Digital video is just beginning to come into its own, and modern PCs are still painfully slow in this regard. Do a high-quality mpeg-2 encoding job some time on your 3.8 GHz Dell and see how long it takes.
Read the speech by Crichton a previous poster linked.
Since we have absolutely no way of knowing what the chances of life existing somewhere else are, your statement is nothing more than a religious belief.
Um, India is a terribly socialist country. The concept of a private company there is not really accurate. It is impossible for a business to even form in India unless the government decides there is a public need for said business.
Heaven save us from luddite slashdotters. India can barely feed itself and GM crops stand on the horizon to make food cheap and abundant. That is if they ever get the chance. The Chicken Littles of the world would rather see people starve.