This system is in a dense globular cluster. A few supernovas in the early life of the cluster would have provided enough material in the local neighborhood. Remember, a really big class O or F supergiant can burn through it's fuel and supernova in a million years.
Did you look at the price of this Linux PDA? What's the use of saving on licensing fees, if you have to spend all your money on memory to get the stupid OS to load.
Heat does not electrolytically break water down. You don't put water on a Magnesium fire because Magnesium burns in water as well as in air. (Which is why underwater flares use magnesium).
If you take a look at the Periodic table, you'll find Magnesium over in the Alkaline Earths column. These elements all react strongly with water. The closer to the top of the table, the more strongly they react. So, Calcium kind of bubbles, Magnesium burns and Beryllium explodes.
Well, since millions of corpses are NOT rotting in the streets and wilderness from all the toxic waste generated by laptops, and millions of people ARE under oppression due to lack of freedom to information, I would think that fierce competition in computers DOES serve a global interest. The human global interest.
And what was stopping us from tossing up a delta rocket with a payload full of rocket fuel? Or having Russia send up a supply ship, or china? or even the ESA? Or Arianne?
Nasa's problems can be summed up in the attitude: Well, there was nothing they could have done anyway. Nice to know that the Mediocritites have taken over yet another fine institution.
It takes weeks and weeks to prep and launch a shuttle safely. You can get one out and on the pad in a couple of days, if you're willing to take risks. For some strange reason, I think most of the astronaut corps would have felt the risks worth it.
Of course, we could also have asked the Russians. We don't know how fast they could have gotten a supply rocket up. Shoot, for that matter, maybe we could have gotten a suppy rocket up, too in a few days. Or maybe the ESA could have, or even China.
Just because we couldn't get a shuttle safely prepped and launched in less than three weeks doesn't mean these folks were beyond hope.
The comment on the article you linked suffers from a logical fallacy of false equivalence.
Apple has a 3% market share (it's actually closer to 8% total installed base, but for the sake of argument...) of all computers in existence.
Adobe does not sell Premier to all computers in existence. They sell to the video editing industry. In this industry, Apple has about a 70% market share.
So, obviously, market share is NOT the reason Adobe is dropping Mac support. The truth is, they can't compete with Final Cut Pro, so they've dropped their support for that platform and are concentrating on the minority platform where they still maintain the monopoly. If FCP were ever ported to Windows, Premiere would pretty much cease to exist as a product.
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You should be more terrified of the flu, since the flu kills about a thousand times more people in a year than this stupid SARS virus did. For crying out loud, you had a greater chance of dying by slipping in your bathtub. Even in China.
I've always been baffled by that logic. For some reason, it's always a terrifying possibility that the gun might fall into the wrong hands, and a total impossibility that it would ever fall into the right hands. I've also never understood this weak-kneed attitude toward hijackers and other dangerous individuals. We need to use stun guns. We need to use non-violent means....
Just put a.45 in the d@mn pilot's hands, for crying out loud. Problem solved. No moral agonizing required.
Amen. This is just plain ridiculous. Millions of dollars to retrofit airplanes. Millions more for the infrastructure on the ground. Plane crashes when the system fails. Missile batteries pointed at aircraft, and all because we won't let the pilots (80% of whom are ex-military) carry a freakin' low velocity handgun with them in the cockpit, because that's, well, just too dangerous and puts the passengers at risk. Instead, we'll just shoot the plane down.
If you read the description, these work by heating the dark panel. They turn in the opposite direction of how you would expect. The dark paddles rotate away from the light source. The author points this out in his article.
I see where he's coming from. Here's how you would set it up as a perpetual motion machine.
Get two solar sail ships facing away from each other with focused perfect mirrors. Set off a light bomb in between them. Watch them accelerate forever without any additional energy imparted to the system as the photons from the light bomb bounce back and forth between them without loss of energy.
Um, a thing is white because it reflects light. A thing is black because it absorbs light. The only reason it's white and not a mirror is because the reflected light is randomly scattered.
This screen resolution myth is getting old. All 1600x1200 on a 15" display does is make things smaller. It doesn't make them crisper. Both Windows and Apple still used fixed resolutions to draw their screen elements (windows at 96 PPI and Apple at 72 PPI). This means screen elements are scaled at 96 or 72 PPI regardless of the DPI of the display. So, having a display at 144 DPI will make all the widgets and fonts 1/2 size on an Apple computer.
What needs to happen is resolution independent screen rendering. For example, the close button is ALWAYS.1" tall regardless of screen dpi. That way, increasing screen DPI increases the sharpness of the display.
It's the way printed output works. 12-point font on a printer is always the same size regardless of whether it is printed at 120 DPI or 1200 DPI. Increasing the resolution increases the sharpness, crispness and detail of the printed material, not its size.
Technically, Apple can do this, because Quartz is a compositing engine using postscript to draw the display. Why Apple hasn't is beyond me.
This would be A Big Thing. One of the reasons that people read printed material about 40% faster than on-screen material is because of the printer resolution of 300+ DPI as opposed to a 72 or 96 DPI of Apple/WIndows.
This shows a tremendous ignorance of how free markets work.
You go right ahead and make your profits selling a symptom reliever. I will come along, and make a killing and put you out of business by providing a cure. Guess what? Everyone buys my product, and you wind up in a bread line.
unsanity (www.unsanity.com) makes a little free utility that will switch the brushed metal look to the normal aqua look in any cocoa app. I use it for Safari and iChat, and it works like a charm.
Many illegal things are easy to do. Breaking into a home, killing someone, shoplifting. People don't for two reasons: Respect for the law, fear of the law.
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This system is in a dense globular cluster. A few supernovas in the early life of the cluster would have provided enough material in the local neighborhood. Remember, a really big class O or F supergiant can burn through it's fuel and supernova in a million years.
No, no, no. Everyone knows the secret is to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Sorry, my bad. I'm always reading that stupid periodic table upside down and backwards.
Did you look at the price of this Linux PDA? What's the use of saving on licensing fees, if you have to spend all your money on memory to get the stupid OS to load.
Heat does not electrolytically break water down. You don't put water on a Magnesium fire because Magnesium burns in water as well as in air. (Which is why underwater flares use magnesium).
If you take a look at the Periodic table, you'll find Magnesium over in the Alkaline Earths column. These elements all react strongly with water. The closer to the top of the table, the more strongly they react. So, Calcium kind of bubbles, Magnesium burns and Beryllium explodes.
Well, since millions of corpses are NOT rotting in the streets and wilderness from all the toxic waste generated by laptops, and millions of people ARE under oppression due to lack of freedom to information, I would think that fierce competition in computers DOES serve a global interest. The human global interest.
Gladly. It's called the Gaertner report on percentage of web surfers using macintosh computers.
If you do actual machine counts using published statistics, you get closer to a 16% installed base.
3% is quarterly sales.
Why does somebody always have to die before bureaucrats and engineers finally get off their @$$e$ and fix what they know is broken?
Oh, wait. I forgot. Because only people dying is horrific enough to dent that massive god-like ego most engineers and bureaucrats have.
And what was stopping us from tossing up a delta rocket with a payload full of rocket fuel? Or having Russia send up a supply ship, or china? or even the ESA? Or Arianne?
Nasa's problems can be summed up in the attitude: Well, there was nothing they could have done anyway. Nice to know that the Mediocritites have taken over yet another fine institution.
It takes weeks and weeks to prep and launch a shuttle safely. You can get one out and on the pad in a couple of days, if you're willing to take risks. For some strange reason, I think most of the astronaut corps would have felt the risks worth it.
Of course, we could also have asked the Russians. We don't know how fast they could have gotten a supply rocket up. Shoot, for that matter, maybe we could have gotten a suppy rocket up, too in a few days. Or maybe the ESA could have, or even China.
Just because we couldn't get a shuttle safely prepped and launched in less than three weeks doesn't mean these folks were beyond hope.
Double that and you're closer. In professional video editing (Premeir's target market), Mac has at least 70% market share.
The comment on the article you linked suffers from a logical fallacy of false equivalence.
Apple has a 3% market share (it's actually closer to 8% total installed base, but for the sake of argument...) of all computers in existence.
Adobe does not sell Premier to all computers in existence. They sell to the video editing industry. In this industry, Apple has about a 70% market share.
So, obviously, market share is NOT the reason Adobe is dropping Mac support. The truth is, they can't compete with Final Cut Pro, so they've dropped their support for that platform and are concentrating on the minority platform where they still maintain the monopoly. If FCP were ever ported to Windows, Premiere would pretty much cease to exist as a product.
You should be more terrified of the flu, since the flu kills about a thousand times more people in a year than this stupid SARS virus did. For crying out loud, you had a greater chance of dying by slipping in your bathtub. Even in China.
I've always been baffled by that logic. For some reason, it's always a terrifying possibility that the gun might fall into the wrong hands, and a total impossibility that it would ever fall into the right hands. I've also never understood this weak-kneed attitude toward hijackers and other dangerous individuals. We need to use stun guns. We need to use non-violent means....
.45 in the d@mn pilot's hands, for crying out loud. Problem solved. No moral agonizing required.
Just put a
Amen. This is just plain ridiculous. Millions of dollars to retrofit airplanes. Millions more for the infrastructure on the ground. Plane crashes when the system fails. Missile batteries pointed at aircraft, and all because we won't let the pilots (80% of whom are ex-military) carry a freakin' low velocity handgun with them in the cockpit, because that's, well, just too dangerous and puts the passengers at risk. Instead, we'll just shoot the plane down.
Frequency. The energy of light is not measured in its speed, but in its frequency.
If you read the description, these work by heating the dark panel. They turn in the opposite direction of how you would expect. The dark paddles rotate away from the light source. The author points this out in his article.
I see where he's coming from. Here's how you would set it up as a perpetual motion machine.
Get two solar sail ships facing away from each other with focused perfect mirrors. Set off a light bomb in between them. Watch them accelerate forever without any additional energy imparted to the system as the photons from the light bomb bounce back and forth between them without loss of energy.
Um, a thing is white because it reflects light. A thing is black because it absorbs light. The only reason it's white and not a mirror is because the reflected light is randomly scattered.
I just did. It's called the cure. You know, the perfect symptom reliever.
This screen resolution myth is getting old. All 1600x1200 on a 15" display does is make things smaller. It doesn't make them crisper. Both Windows and Apple still used fixed resolutions to draw their screen elements (windows at 96 PPI and Apple at 72 PPI). This means screen elements are scaled at 96 or 72 PPI regardless of the DPI of the display. So, having a display at 144 DPI will make all the widgets and fonts 1/2 size on an Apple computer.
.1" tall regardless of screen dpi. That way, increasing screen DPI increases the sharpness of the display.
What needs to happen is resolution independent screen rendering. For example, the close button is ALWAYS
It's the way printed output works. 12-point font on a printer is always the same size regardless of whether it is printed at 120 DPI or 1200 DPI. Increasing the resolution increases the sharpness, crispness and detail of the printed material, not its size.
Technically, Apple can do this, because Quartz is a compositing engine using postscript to draw the display. Why Apple hasn't is beyond me.
This would be A Big Thing. One of the reasons that people read printed material about 40% faster than on-screen material is because of the printer resolution of 300+ DPI as opposed to a 72 or 96 DPI of Apple/WIndows.
Add to that the fact that the Pentium CPU is about four times larger and dissipates three times as much heat.
That is actually probably the driving reason why no PC laptop can even come close to Apple machines in size and weight.
This shows a tremendous ignorance of how free markets work.
You go right ahead and make your profits selling a symptom reliever. I will come along, and make a killing and put you out of business by providing a cure. Guess what? Everyone buys my product, and you wind up in a bread line.
unsanity (www.unsanity.com) makes a little free utility that will switch the brushed metal look to the normal aqua look in any cocoa app. I use it for Safari and iChat, and it works like a charm.
Many illegal things are easy to do. Breaking into a home, killing someone, shoplifting. People don't for two reasons: Respect for the law, fear of the law.