Fiscal conservatism has absolutely nothing to do with why the current production fleet of reactors are mostly 30+ years old. Hint: if the utility companies *could* build new plants, they *would*.
John Kerry played a big part in shutting it down too. You know, those Democrats that are championing global warming, Kyoto, and carbon trading schemes?
The difference: Apple owns the App Store trademark, and operates both the iOS App Store, and the Mac App Store. They aren't going to sue themselves, surely?
1. Plug in the iDevice 2. Click on it in the left pane of iTunes, under the helpful "DEVICES" label 3. Click the "Music" tab in the right pane 4. Select the playlists you'd like to sync to your device, or select the box to sync all media 5. Click "Sync"
Yes, it's 500% more complex, but it's still less steps than making a PB&J.
(insert reply here of someone showing how it's less steps to make a PB&J, and thinking that somehow invalidates this post)
Or, we can use new and old designs which burn up the stockpile of waste and massive amounts of depleted uranium that we already have out of the ground and sitting in storage.
Who needs to mine new U238 when we already have shedloads of it? Natural U238 can be used in a CANDU; depleted U238 as well as reprocessed waste can be used in fast-neutron designs and TWRs should they pan out.
Nobody argues that accidents haven't occurred. What they argue is the significance and meaning of the accidents.
Lots of people say that Three Mile Island was one of the worst disasters in the Nuclear industry. However, TMI also proved that basic components of the design can cause a terrible situation to become a mitigated situation. Your own source shows that TMI resulted in zero deaths, and links through to a Columbia University study that shows no linkage to elevated cancer risks.
There was more going on behind Trojan than just public fear. There were design flaws, combined with a manufacturer that didn't want to accept responsibility (Westinghouse). PGE decided that the legal battle to get Westinghouse to pay for the ruptured steam piping that was supposed to last another 20+ years wasn't worth the amount of energy the plant would produce before being decommissioned, so they just stepped up the decommissioning schedule and scored a PR win in the process.
Would the Pacific Northwest be better off with a properly operating Trojan Nuclear Generating Station? Absolutely. However, the way things went wasn't too bad either. Oh, and it gave someone in the US practical experience with decommissioning one of these things properly, and disposing of the reactor vessel at a permanent site - something that hasn't been done too often.
While I see your point and agree with you, it's also important to see that there is exactly nobody who is in a position to only use WiMAX as their connectivity medium. WiMAX only exists in metro areas where other options (Cable, DSL, fiber, etc.) also exists.
Can't stream NetFlix on your WiMAX connection? Fire your WiMAX provider, and tell them why. Businesses exist to make money, and if they can't offer compelling products, they don't make money any more.
(I'd like to again reiterate that I believe that Net Neutrality is necessary for continued growth of the Internet as a common exchange medium, just so the typical flamers can blow off.)
In your comparison, you say that the luxury lines of automotive companies are nothing but their regular cars with larger digits on the price tag. I'm telling you that your assumption is completely incorrect. You further define how incorrect this is by making a snarky response about couches in their waiting area, which is a strawman.
The reality is that every car, no matter how expensive or not, will require maintenance. Most 'luxury' brands build this maintenance into the price of the car up front. You cry about the standard maintenance required to keep the warranty intact. The reality is that I take my car to the dealership, get a loaner to get about my day while they do the work, and then come back at the end of the day to get my car without paying once red cent for the loaner or maintenance service.
I don't even pay (after purchase) for oil changes because it's covered by the standard maintenance and warranty. When I have a problem - any problem, I just drop it off and drive away in a loaner, and they call me and tell me what the problem is later, asking for approval to fix it, which also doesn't cost me a dime.
Next time, make a comparison to something you actually know about.
As someone who has benchmarked the living crap out of all of Apple's 2010 hardware, I can tell you with certainty that the Mac Pro will still leave these in the dust on any real work. The 2010 Mac Pro is 3 to 4 times faster than the 2010 MacBook Pro i7 in any reasonable benchmark you want to talk about. Maybe it's only 2 to 3 times faster now.
Until Intel releases Xeons based on this same stuff, then it will probably be 4 to 5 times faster.
I'm glad for the change. Nvidia's driver releases for Mac OS X have been problematic at best, and downright awful in reality. ATI drivers have been reasonably good, the hardware runs in the same performance category without all the heat and fan noise - it's a better component for this application.
Would I like to see Fermi drivers for Mac OS X? You bet. Do I think they'll be any better than the drivers for the last three generations of Nvidia products? Not in the least.
Trademarks are market dependent. There isn't a whole lot of crossover between telephonic handsets and super-ultra-mega-high-speed peripheral connectivity.
For example:
HD Video editor guy: "Yeah I'm plugging this 600TB Xsan into my new MacBook Pro via the Fiber Channel to Thunderbolt adapter" HD Video editor manager guy: "Wow, your phone will do that too? What is that, bluetooth then?" HD Video editor guy:/facepalm
I used the guts of an old PC to install OpenSolaris 10, and create a ZFS pool with as many 2TB drives as the case would hold, and make it available to my Mac / AppleTV via iSCSI.
I guess you could say that my NAS (SAN) can hold 10TB with redundancy, and I spent all of $600 to do it.
Microsoft came out pretty good on that one too: they developed another market for Office products (one of their few remaining non-Windows software revenue streams where they make a profit btw), they had something to point to during their DoJ troubles, got every penny plus a whole bunch back out of the stock they purchased, and made a $1B+ legal liability go away (the coming lawsuit over stolen QuickTime / Windows Media code that Apple would have won).
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Now if only there was some method of changing the parts that are arcane, and should be removed. Some kind of procedure for amending that document.
If only.
Something about stuff being more than the sum of it's parts comes to mind here, but I can't quite put my finger on it...
Yo dawg, I heard you like reactors, so I put a reactor in your reactor so you can react while you react to your reactor!
Fiscal conservatism has absolutely nothing to do with why the current production fleet of reactors are mostly 30+ years old. Hint: if the utility companies *could* build new plants, they *would*.
John Kerry played a big part in shutting it down too. You know, those Democrats that are championing global warming, Kyoto, and carbon trading schemes?
The difference: Apple owns the App Store trademark, and operates both the iOS App Store, and the Mac App Store. They aren't going to sue themselves, surely?
It hasn't changed a whole lot. Now, it's:
1. Plug in the iDevice
2. Click on it in the left pane of iTunes, under the helpful "DEVICES" label
3. Click the "Music" tab in the right pane
4. Select the playlists you'd like to sync to your device, or select the box to sync all media
5. Click "Sync"
Yes, it's 500% more complex, but it's still less steps than making a PB&J.
(insert reply here of someone showing how it's less steps to make a PB&J, and thinking that somehow invalidates this post)
=~ s/streamed/squirted/i;
Fixed.
Or, we can use new and old designs which burn up the stockpile of waste and massive amounts of depleted uranium that we already have out of the ground and sitting in storage.
Who needs to mine new U238 when we already have shedloads of it? Natural U238 can be used in a CANDU; depleted U238 as well as reprocessed waste can be used in fast-neutron designs and TWRs should they pan out.
Nobody argues that accidents haven't occurred. What they argue is the significance and meaning of the accidents.
Lots of people say that Three Mile Island was one of the worst disasters in the Nuclear industry. However, TMI also proved that basic components of the design can cause a terrible situation to become a mitigated situation. Your own source shows that TMI resulted in zero deaths, and links through to a Columbia University study that shows no linkage to elevated cancer risks.
There was more going on behind Trojan than just public fear. There were design flaws, combined with a manufacturer that didn't want to accept responsibility (Westinghouse). PGE decided that the legal battle to get Westinghouse to pay for the ruptured steam piping that was supposed to last another 20+ years wasn't worth the amount of energy the plant would produce before being decommissioned, so they just stepped up the decommissioning schedule and scored a PR win in the process.
Would the Pacific Northwest be better off with a properly operating Trojan Nuclear Generating Station? Absolutely. However, the way things went wasn't too bad either. Oh, and it gave someone in the US practical experience with decommissioning one of these things properly, and disposing of the reactor vessel at a permanent site - something that hasn't been done too often.
While I see your point and agree with you, it's also important to see that there is exactly nobody who is in a position to only use WiMAX as their connectivity medium. WiMAX only exists in metro areas where other options (Cable, DSL, fiber, etc.) also exists.
Can't stream NetFlix on your WiMAX connection? Fire your WiMAX provider, and tell them why. Businesses exist to make money, and if they can't offer compelling products, they don't make money any more.
(I'd like to again reiterate that I believe that Net Neutrality is necessary for continued growth of the Internet as a common exchange medium, just so the typical flamers can blow off.)
They've been on the job for all of 1.5 months, and everyone doesn't have a job yet?
BURN THEM AT THE STAKE!
Seriously now, can we at least give them enough time to prove that they are completely ineffective, rather than continue the same partisan hackery?
I'm talking about your comparison, not Apple.
In your comparison, you say that the luxury lines of automotive companies are nothing but their regular cars with larger digits on the price tag. I'm telling you that your assumption is completely incorrect. You further define how incorrect this is by making a snarky response about couches in their waiting area, which is a strawman.
The reality is that every car, no matter how expensive or not, will require maintenance. Most 'luxury' brands build this maintenance into the price of the car up front. You cry about the standard maintenance required to keep the warranty intact. The reality is that I take my car to the dealership, get a loaner to get about my day while they do the work, and then come back at the end of the day to get my car without paying once red cent for the loaner or maintenance service.
I don't even pay (after purchase) for oil changes because it's covered by the standard maintenance and warranty. When I have a problem - any problem, I just drop it off and drive away in a loaner, and they call me and tell me what the problem is later, asking for approval to fix it, which also doesn't cost me a dime.
Next time, make a comparison to something you actually know about.
If you think the only difference between Lexus / Acura and Toyota / Honda are the badge on the front, you are far to ignorant to have an opinion.
Hint: that particular difference is in the service you get for the extra money.
Good thing there are exactly zero production AC adapters that use a Mini-DisplayPort plug to interface with the device they power, huh?
Some problems on paper, aren't really problems at all.
As someone who has benchmarked the living crap out of all of Apple's 2010 hardware, I can tell you with certainty that the Mac Pro will still leave these in the dust on any real work. The 2010 Mac Pro is 3 to 4 times faster than the 2010 MacBook Pro i7 in any reasonable benchmark you want to talk about. Maybe it's only 2 to 3 times faster now.
Until Intel releases Xeons based on this same stuff, then it will probably be 4 to 5 times faster.
I'm glad for the change. Nvidia's driver releases for Mac OS X have been problematic at best, and downright awful in reality. ATI drivers have been reasonably good, the hardware runs in the same performance category without all the heat and fan noise - it's a better component for this application.
Would I like to see Fermi drivers for Mac OS X? You bet. Do I think they'll be any better than the drivers for the last three generations of Nvidia products? Not in the least.
That was a feature of the yesterday-current model as well. If you upgraded to the HD display, you also got the matte finish.
$100 well spent.
Trademarks are market dependent. There isn't a whole lot of crossover between telephonic handsets and super-ultra-mega-high-speed peripheral connectivity.
For example:
HD Video editor guy: "Yeah I'm plugging this 600TB Xsan into my new MacBook Pro via the Fiber Channel to Thunderbolt adapter" /facepalm
HD Video editor manager guy: "Wow, your phone will do that too? What is that, bluetooth then?"
HD Video editor guy:
That conversation isn't likely to happen, ever.
Yeah, it would totally suck to have power, USB, ethernet, DisplayPort, and FireWire all running through one 1cm x 0.5cm connection...
Are you joking?
I used the guts of an old PC to install OpenSolaris 10, and create a ZFS pool with as many 2TB drives as the case would hold, and make it available to my Mac / AppleTV via iSCSI.
I guess you could say that my NAS (SAN) can hold 10TB with redundancy, and I spent all of $600 to do it.
Would have been nice to have put this map showing where the good connections are on a good connection so that more than 10 people can use it at once.
Microsoft came out pretty good on that one too: they developed another market for Office products (one of their few remaining non-Windows software revenue streams where they make a profit btw), they had something to point to during their DoJ troubles, got every penny plus a whole bunch back out of the stock they purchased, and made a $1B+ legal liability go away (the coming lawsuit over stolen QuickTime / Windows Media code that Apple would have won).
If by "generate the most revenue for Apple" you actually mean "generate ~30% of Apple's revenue" then you would be closer to correct.