Patents you say? Is every country in the world hobbled by a patent system similar to the US? If there is demand for a product, patent or not it will be filled. Whether homegrown (in my case US) or imported from some country where the patent law does not care as much.
Patents do have their problems, but stifling innovation IMO is not one of them. In fact by reading the patent you know what the other person did. Now you can even work with the patented info and make your own enhancements.
The second that the states get wind that Microsoft is canning Office for Mac then Microsoft will be keel hauled in court. Microsoft used Apple Mac Office as one of their arguments of competition and support of alternative OSes.
Tivo needs to have a small unit like this. Or heck let Archos Tivo OS on their machine. Tivo would have to work on the aspect of making it more portable. But it would sell.
This is more phoey than it is reality. China's command structure allows them to turn on a dime. There is no wait and battle for legislation. The currency will be floated when it is time and not sooner.
If the Chinese economy goes bust guess whose else will suffer. The US. Look at how much money the Chinese have lent the US through government bond purchases.
GM and bankruptcy? Only to shed the bad contracts. Not to get bought out. Won't happen.
"Yes, it's sad to see a symbolic engineering marvel like the EV1 go, but all this does is shift the pollution elsewhere. Not to mention not being very practical at all."
It shifts it elsewhere to the power plant. One power plant is easier to control pollution wise than 1,000,000 cars with ICE.
A way to help prevent this is for the credit card companies to start going to numberless charge cards. They would have to eat some costs of giving consumers card readers for their online shopping use, but they could easily shove down the throat of retailers machines that could use these numberless cards. Now of course when you boil it down they will have numbers in the forms of zeros and ones. But get rid of the stupid numbers on the card. Have the info sent encrypted over the network to the bank for approval where they unencrypt and send a yes or no approval. Obviously will take some more engineering. But the dumb credit card companies might figure it out once they get a whole lot of money stolen form them. That or the retailers push back hard on charge backs.
And how long before cell phones use VOIP?
You may have a flat bill for the GSM, CDMA or whatever connection, but the VOIP part will come soon enough.
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Why do you assume this is an organism?
Neurons hooked to electrodes don't fit my description of organism.
From dictionary.com organism is defined as:"An individual form of life, such as a plant, animal, bacterium, protist, or fungus; a body made up of organs, organelles, or other parts that work together to carry on the various processes of life"
Alls I read are about neurons hooked to electrodes, nothing about various parts hooked together to carry out processes of life.
A collection of neurons is very well powerful enough to "learn" how to fly. How do you think human pilots fly? Answer: With their large collection of neurons.
Just as you can program a computer to fly a plane, you can do so with neurons. Whether this experiment is in fact doing that is another story since we don't have a good/full enough understanding of how the neuron processes work.
I don't have bad vision (yet) but I want something like the Treo to surf the net. I want it separate from my cell phone though since I don't want to carry a big clunker around with me everywhere. I am willing to pay extra. Of course they need to dump the stupid camera shit on those PDAs. I don't need it as I have a digital camera and my employer bans digital cameras in the workplace. Alas, will they ever learn?
I don't live in a tightly knit community but I do ride the bus to work. Bike is not feasible in that there are no bike racks at the bus stop and in the winter time the hills around here can get mighty slippery. I'd love to have a vehicle like the article mentions.
Go on their own? If they are shopping for other deals why would they be interested in going on their own?
They want a bigger cut of the pie, but they still need someone with existing distribution channels. Pixar does not distribute.
Uh BULLSHIT!
Eisner is leaving when his contract is up.
There are still those who want them out earlier. Miramax while hesitant to stick with Disney earlier will stick with Disney.
Pixar may be wooed back now that Eisner has the exit in sight.
Disney is a huge conglomerate and will not be going down anytime soon. Once they get someone decent to run the show, they will be a company on top again.
How is this even remotely funny considering the link is not to HardOCP's web site?
Yeah you can't RTFA. Looks like mod goobs and poster goobs did not even preview the link.
Quite some time in this day and age means 1-2 years max.
Nobody thought regular DVD players would have such a high speed adoption rate, but they did.
Chinese got into manufacturing it and cheap players abound. When it comes to the almight profit dollar, they will sell as many as they can and as cheap as they can before their shit is stolen.
Not too worried?
How far behind do you think Canada will be if the US adopts this law? They will be next up for the corporate money machines. They money machines already have their power there in Canada.
They don't have your dollars?
Do you self grow everything at home and chop your own trees to make everything you own?
If you buy anything from the store and at anytime that product was advertised on a radio station you listened, they sure as heck got your money.
sucker
How is it better? It is better because I did not waste gas and pollute the environment for a five minute drive. Your cars engine is the most polluting when it is still cold.
Same on the return rental trip.
On most desktop towers the bottom is blocked so you can't have a bottom through top air flow. As well the PSU is usually at the top of the unit since hot air rises and you want the PSU to put the least amount of heat close to things like the CPU. Couple that with PCI cards which can run the entire horizontal length and you begin to see why air flow via fans goes front to back.
Since the iMac has an LCD on what would be the front of the computer there is no way to have airflow there.
Now convection cooled systems like most CRT monitors have their vents at the tops. Just like CRT TVs.
Nothing new, nothing fancy.
Next question is what are you doing your bioinformatic programming with now?
If you would rather do it on the mac, then wait.
If you can't wait then buy the Opteron box. Simple solutions considering the parameters you have.
I vote for you going with the opteron. It will move me one step closer to getting my G5 faster.;-)
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Patents you say? Is every country in the world hobbled by a patent system similar to the US? If there is demand for a product, patent or not it will be filled. Whether homegrown (in my case US) or imported from some country where the patent law does not care as much. Patents do have their problems, but stifling innovation IMO is not one of them. In fact by reading the patent you know what the other person did. Now you can even work with the patented info and make your own enhancements.
The second that the states get wind that Microsoft is canning Office for Mac then Microsoft will be keel hauled in court. Microsoft used Apple Mac Office as one of their arguments of competition and support of alternative OSes.
Tivo needs to have a small unit like this. Or heck let Archos Tivo OS on their machine. Tivo would have to work on the aspect of making it more portable. But it would sell.
People are not technical enough to program a VCR. Then they came out with Tivo.
This is more phoey than it is reality. China's command structure allows them to turn on a dime. There is no wait and battle for legislation. The currency will be floated when it is time and not sooner. If the Chinese economy goes bust guess whose else will suffer. The US. Look at how much money the Chinese have lent the US through government bond purchases. GM and bankruptcy? Only to shed the bad contracts. Not to get bought out. Won't happen.
True enough. Higher gas prices will force consumers to buy more efficient vehicles. Whether that be econo boxen or hybrids remains to be seen.
"Yes, it's sad to see a symbolic engineering marvel like the EV1 go, but all this does is shift the pollution elsewhere. Not to mention not being very practical at all." It shifts it elsewhere to the power plant. One power plant is easier to control pollution wise than 1,000,000 cars with ICE.
A way to help prevent this is for the credit card companies to start going to numberless charge cards. They would have to eat some costs of giving consumers card readers for their online shopping use, but they could easily shove down the throat of retailers machines that could use these numberless cards. Now of course when you boil it down they will have numbers in the forms of zeros and ones. But get rid of the stupid numbers on the card. Have the info sent encrypted over the network to the bank for approval where they unencrypt and send a yes or no approval. Obviously will take some more engineering. But the dumb credit card companies might figure it out once they get a whole lot of money stolen form them. That or the retailers push back hard on charge backs.
I wonder what hotels with free wifi will do, considering how much they charge for calls through their phones.
Hey you bought the shit, now live with the consequences of it.
And how long before cell phones use VOIP? You may have a flat bill for the GSM, CDMA or whatever connection, but the VOIP part will come soon enough.
Why do you assume this is an organism? Neurons hooked to electrodes don't fit my description of organism. From dictionary.com organism is defined as:"An individual form of life, such as a plant, animal, bacterium, protist, or fungus; a body made up of organs, organelles, or other parts that work together to carry on the various processes of life" Alls I read are about neurons hooked to electrodes, nothing about various parts hooked together to carry out processes of life. A collection of neurons is very well powerful enough to "learn" how to fly. How do you think human pilots fly? Answer: With their large collection of neurons. Just as you can program a computer to fly a plane, you can do so with neurons. Whether this experiment is in fact doing that is another story since we don't have a good/full enough understanding of how the neuron processes work.
I don't have bad vision (yet) but I want something like the Treo to surf the net. I want it separate from my cell phone though since I don't want to carry a big clunker around with me everywhere. I am willing to pay extra. Of course they need to dump the stupid camera shit on those PDAs. I don't need it as I have a digital camera and my employer bans digital cameras in the workplace. Alas, will they ever learn?
Its true, they can't afford it. Otherwise would our debt be so high? http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1004debt04. html
Don't expect a full version of iPhoto for windows. Instead I expect iTunes functionality to be increased to include photo handling.
I don't live in a tightly knit community but I do ride the bus to work. Bike is not feasible in that there are no bike racks at the bus stop and in the winter time the hills around here can get mighty slippery. I'd love to have a vehicle like the article mentions.
Go on their own? If they are shopping for other deals why would they be interested in going on their own? They want a bigger cut of the pie, but they still need someone with existing distribution channels. Pixar does not distribute.
Uh BULLSHIT! Eisner is leaving when his contract is up. There are still those who want them out earlier. Miramax while hesitant to stick with Disney earlier will stick with Disney. Pixar may be wooed back now that Eisner has the exit in sight. Disney is a huge conglomerate and will not be going down anytime soon. Once they get someone decent to run the show, they will be a company on top again.
How is this even remotely funny considering the link is not to HardOCP's web site? Yeah you can't RTFA. Looks like mod goobs and poster goobs did not even preview the link.
Quite some time in this day and age means 1-2 years max. Nobody thought regular DVD players would have such a high speed adoption rate, but they did. Chinese got into manufacturing it and cheap players abound. When it comes to the almight profit dollar, they will sell as many as they can and as cheap as they can before their shit is stolen.
Not too worried? How far behind do you think Canada will be if the US adopts this law? They will be next up for the corporate money machines. They money machines already have their power there in Canada.
They don't have your dollars? Do you self grow everything at home and chop your own trees to make everything you own? If you buy anything from the store and at anytime that product was advertised on a radio station you listened, they sure as heck got your money. sucker
How is it better? It is better because I did not waste gas and pollute the environment for a five minute drive. Your cars engine is the most polluting when it is still cold. Same on the return rental trip.
On most desktop towers the bottom is blocked so you can't have a bottom through top air flow. As well the PSU is usually at the top of the unit since hot air rises and you want the PSU to put the least amount of heat close to things like the CPU. Couple that with PCI cards which can run the entire horizontal length and you begin to see why air flow via fans goes front to back. Since the iMac has an LCD on what would be the front of the computer there is no way to have airflow there. Now convection cooled systems like most CRT monitors have their vents at the tops. Just like CRT TVs. Nothing new, nothing fancy.
Next question is what are you doing your bioinformatic programming with now? If you would rather do it on the mac, then wait. If you can't wait then buy the Opteron box. Simple solutions considering the parameters you have. I vote for you going with the opteron. It will move me one step closer to getting my G5 faster. ;-)