The other major economic factor was the small number of passengers, due to the limited space inside. The absolute speed for a given passenger was quite fast, but in terms of moving people quickly (people/miles/hour) a fully loaded 747-400 beats it hands down. In other words a 747 gets more people from NY->England per hour. It also does it at a fraction of the cost. It's hard to beat a 500000lb cargo load at 600mph...
The advantage of a task based interface, is you can generate trolls directly from the interface... "Copy This file... Generate a Troll to Slashdot... Open the Troll Wizard..."
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Uh, you ripped off a copy of Windows?
If you paid for windows, then it cost you the same way. If you run linux, then although you didn't pay, you also didn't get this app, so you can't claim that mac users pay while you didn't...
Uh, I don't get how TV's are used to conduct criminal activities... Criminals deliberately use mobile phones, as they are harder to track, and can thrown away (presently it's expensive to do so). Secure wireless communications have a high tactical value in planning and coordinating attacks (good old fashioned bank robberies through terrorist attacks) . Look at how much the militaries spend on this feature, and how much they also spend on technologies to deny it to their opponents. Knee jerk reactions, like the TV thing make little sense in this context.
P.S. unclear why my original post got rated a troll...
So why is this not an aid to terrorists. In all the movies/books you note terrorists/criminals using cell phones for a brief time then throwing them away. Well, this seems to make this cheaper/easier. There should be a requirement of ID with some verifiable component. I realize it is easier, and easier to forge id, but let's not make it trivial for every common criminal to have a trace-free phone
While I agree there is some merit to the privacy arguments, as someone who treated victims of the WTC attacks, I think a little viligance is a good thing..
The 2 kinds of products you don't want activations snags in(because they are really needed for emergencies by the consumer) are anti-virus software and disk-recovery software. I mean if your hard-disk is corrupt or you have a bad virus (please no debates on whether norton's has helped/hurt you, or whether you running some virus immune OS, I'm speaking conceptually here) and you can't activate your de-corrupting utility, then you a) wasted your money and b) are screwed!
Symantec should realize their market, and for those who paid, expect to be able to use their product.
Luckily they don't have this yet on the macintosh side...
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I would agree that while local FM stations seem to be going towards being large corporate outlets for the RIAA, the satellite based systems (XM, Sirius...) seem to have a nice balance between musical choice (hundreds of choices), ubiquity (available across multiple regions), quality (streaming digital...) and the convience of true wireless, without suceptibility to power failures (at the reciever end of course).
Now clearly local support via these systems will be much less, given the cost of entry and regionality of local news (I mean how much do people in Atlanta want to hear how the local high-school game is going in Seattle?). Although I note I did enjoy listening to rush hour london traffic reports on radio free virgin, while pulling the overnight shift in the ER in New York City.
The only problems I have found with them is a) I must sign up and pay (a la cable) and b) the total goofiness of the home reciever (do I really want to take the faceplate from my reciever in the car and plant it into my stereo, then forget it for the morning commute, like I sometimes forget my iPod?).
Uh chill out dude, just meant that 3GB is not typical of any desktop machine (most people stop at 1 GB). I happen to have more as well, but I do a fair amount of 3D graphics, but most people who have gobs of ram are typically doing something unique, and therefore have atypical configurations not tested by the manufacturer of the software.
The very soft DRM of iTunes/AAC is hardly an impediment for normal use (I have the songs enabled on my powerbook, office computer and home computer as well as my iPod) and if I really cared I could rip them to MP3 via the CD route without much trouble. DRM is not the problem, it is how restrictive the DRM is programmed to be.
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Uh, use something like iPhoto, Cumulus, etc... These products already do this, without imposing any changes to the file-system. But the discipline to actually do the keywording is hard (I have about 8000 pictures from my digital camera, and at best, I have a keyphrase for each roll shot)
Uh no... That would be a resistive dimmer (like the old huge plate dimmers like in theaters in the 40's). Modern SCR dimmers (although like anything, they do dissapate some heat due to resistance, ~1W/Amp-controlled) operate by turning off (really blocking with a rectifier) parts of the cycle (check out Check out this page for lots of in depth info
Dimming does drop the current consumed (imagine flicking the light-switch off fast enough that the light never quite goes out, but is dim) and during the off-part the light is drawing no power. If the dimmer dissapated the dimmed load, dimming a 1000W track light, would get the dimmer as hot as a hair-dryer heater element! In my college days, I worked as a theater electrician, and our main SCR dimmer bank supported up to 450KW. Under your statement, we would have been generating 450KW of heat when every light was energized but dimmed, which probably have melted the metal racks the dimmers sat in.
Now that being said, NEVER put a computer or other electronic device on an SCR dimmer! It will kill it!
Actually many modern processors shut down portions to try and reduce heat loads (seen the wattages on some of these monster processors lately?), so this can actually affect heat and power use.
As for the NOP's being executed, it is unlikely that it powers up the aux pathways to do branch prediction, multiple on-the-fly instructions, vector processing, etc... By not using these functions, some processors can shut down parts of the chip reducing heat loads.
Now all that being said, a real geek user never keeps a primary computer long enough due to becoming obsolete, rather than chip failure. Same with drives (I fill them up long before they fail, and replace them with larger drives, since they are practically given out free with box-tops nowadays), so from a practical standpoint, this probably doesn't matter.
I would guess that the power drain is more from increase in use of cooling fans, etc... I mean think of the apple G5 using all 9 of its fans! That's a big difference from in its most idle with just 1 or 2.
So your position is that users' needs are secondary to the IT department's. Having managed a VERY large IT department which spanned 41 countries with a network that supported 8 protocols, in an environment which tried it both ways, strictly standardized and loose, I can tell you which works better.
Loose (and these were surreally demanding users) worked better because the users were happier. Since the users were happier, and although they made my life more complicated, they were generally more willing to cough up the dough for the IT budget. Since it was a privately held partnership, the partners (the most demanding users of all) remembered that we accomodated their needs in times of need.
This also helped us grow proffesionally as IT people, since the person who came to the office with a new technology caused us to learn and grow.
Flexability takes more work and care on the IT dept's part versus simply saying no! but after all the only reason to have an IT group is to support the users in their work.
My favorite thing, is the people who hang the healing crystals from their rearview mirror to "protect them". Given the blinding flashes I see from the car behind, I can only assume they are protecting themselves from seeing forwards (the old see no evil theory)...
Well, this is a survival of the fittest kind of thing (although they do have the habit of slamming into people who were not to be singled out by evolution as unfit).
I suppose you could write a python action recorder, but it's a lot easier to use a language built around apple's event model for the record feature of applescript. This allowed non-coders to very quickly build a script to do something. And if it needed customization, it was a quick edit to change it. The lanugage is really for quick user actions or inter-application data sharing. For writing real apps, python is a better language, and certainly for sophisticated database interaction.
I hope when you say boycotting, that including downloading ripped off copies off gnutella... otherwise the statement is similar to "I'm boycotting fords on principle, but I steal cars anyway so it doesn't matter"
So the SliMP3 folks have been super at getting support for new apple technologies (loved it when mine supported Rendevous) so give them a little time.
They announced windows support in July I believe (correct me if I misheard during the webcast).
Analog is a lossy format too. (at least analog recording is), it's just that the compression is the dynamic range of the tape and the loss is analog distortion (such as THD). Analog certainly sounds different than digital, but each have their idiosynchrocies. This is just like the Tube vs. Solid-State am argument. You can do analog work with sufficient bandwidth and low enough distortion to sound "perfect" at the level of resolution of your ear, and you can do this with digital. All it takes is money, and media to store it on.
It seems that he is purely dissapointed that they didn't use HIS open-source code to base the closed-source browser on (like saying how dare apple ship OSX instead of Linux). Just like KDA/Gnome, people will chose different open-source choices, so people need to get over it.
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The other major economic factor was the small number of passengers, due to the limited space inside. The absolute speed for a given passenger was quite fast, but in terms of moving people quickly (people/miles/hour) a fully loaded 747-400 beats it hands down. In other words a 747 gets more people from NY->England per hour. It also does it at a fraction of the cost. It's hard to beat a 500000lb cargo load at 600mph...
The advantage of a task based interface, is you can generate trolls directly from the interface... "Copy This file... Generate a Troll to Slashdot... Open the Troll Wizard..."
If you paid for windows, then it cost you the same way. If you run linux, then although you didn't pay, you also didn't get this app, so you can't claim that mac users pay while you didn't...
P.S. unclear why my original post got rated a troll...
While I agree there is some merit to the privacy arguments, as someone who treated victims of the WTC attacks, I think a little viligance is a good thing..
Symantec should realize their market, and for those who paid, expect to be able to use their product.
Luckily they don't have this yet on the macintosh side...
Now clearly local support via these systems will be much less, given the cost of entry and regionality of local news (I mean how much do people in Atlanta want to hear how the local high-school game is going in Seattle?). Although I note I did enjoy listening to rush hour london traffic reports on radio free virgin, while pulling the overnight shift in the ER in New York City.
The only problems I have found with them is a) I must sign up and pay (a la cable) and b) the total goofiness of the home reciever (do I really want to take the faceplate from my reciever in the car and plant it into my stereo, then forget it for the morning commute, like I sometimes forget my iPod?).
Uh chill out dude, just meant that 3GB is not typical of any desktop machine (most people stop at 1 GB). I happen to have more as well, but I do a fair amount of 3D graphics, but most people who have gobs of ram are typically doing something unique, and therefore have atypical configurations not tested by the manufacturer of the software.
I'm betting that if you have 3GB of ram, you are not running a plainly configured PC...
The very soft DRM of iTunes/AAC is hardly an impediment for normal use (I have the songs enabled on my powerbook, office computer and home computer as well as my iPod) and if I really cared I could rip them to MP3 via the CD route without much trouble. DRM is not the problem, it is how restrictive the DRM is programmed to be.
Uh, use something like iPhoto, Cumulus, etc... These products already do this, without imposing any changes to the file-system. But the discipline to actually do the keywording is hard (I have about 8000 pictures from my digital camera, and at best, I have a keyphrase for each roll shot)
Dimming does drop the current consumed (imagine flicking the light-switch off fast enough that the light never quite goes out, but is dim) and during the off-part the light is drawing no power. If the dimmer dissapated the dimmed load, dimming a 1000W track light, would get the dimmer as hot as a hair-dryer heater element! In my college days, I worked as a theater electrician, and our main SCR dimmer bank supported up to 450KW. Under your statement, we would have been generating 450KW of heat when every light was energized but dimmed, which probably have melted the metal racks the dimmers sat in.
Now that being said, NEVER put a computer or other electronic device on an SCR dimmer! It will kill it!
As for the NOP's being executed, it is unlikely that it powers up the aux pathways to do branch prediction, multiple on-the-fly instructions, vector processing, etc... By not using these functions, some processors can shut down parts of the chip reducing heat loads.
Now all that being said, a real geek user never keeps a primary computer long enough due to becoming obsolete, rather than chip failure. Same with drives (I fill them up long before they fail, and replace them with larger drives, since they are practically given out free with box-tops nowadays), so from a practical standpoint, this probably doesn't matter.
I would guess that the power drain is more from increase in use of cooling fans, etc... I mean think of the apple G5 using all 9 of its fans! That's a big difference from in its most idle with just 1 or 2.
In fact DEC was shipping workstations around the alpha years ago
I do. Standard BTO on the G4's and later
Loose (and these were surreally demanding users) worked better because the users were happier. Since the users were happier, and although they made my life more complicated, they were generally more willing to cough up the dough for the IT budget. Since it was a privately held partnership, the partners (the most demanding users of all) remembered that we accomodated their needs in times of need.
This also helped us grow proffesionally as IT people, since the person who came to the office with a new technology caused us to learn and grow. Flexability takes more work and care on the IT dept's part versus simply saying no! but after all the only reason to have an IT group is to support the users in their work.
My favorite thing, is the people who hang the healing crystals from their rearview mirror to "protect them". Given the blinding flashes I see from the car behind, I can only assume they are protecting themselves from seeing forwards (the old see no evil theory)...
Well, this is a survival of the fittest kind of thing (although they do have the habit of slamming into people who were not to be singled out by evolution as unfit).
I suppose you could write a python action recorder, but it's a lot easier to use a language built around apple's event model for the record feature of applescript. This allowed non-coders to very quickly build a script to do something. And if it needed customization, it was a quick edit to change it. The lanugage is really for quick user actions or inter-application data sharing. For writing real apps, python is a better language, and certainly for sophisticated database interaction.
If you kick a tiger in the ass, you had better be prepared to deal with its teeth!
I hope when you say boycotting, that including downloading ripped off copies off gnutella... otherwise the statement is similar to "I'm boycotting fords on principle, but I steal cars anyway so it doesn't matter"
So the SliMP3 folks have been super at getting support for new apple technologies (loved it when mine supported Rendevous) so give them a little time. They announced windows support in July I believe (correct me if I misheard during the webcast).
Analog is a lossy format too. (at least analog recording is), it's just that the compression is the dynamic range of the tape and the loss is analog distortion (such as THD). Analog certainly sounds different than digital, but each have their idiosynchrocies. This is just like the Tube vs. Solid-State am argument. You can do analog work with sufficient bandwidth and low enough distortion to sound "perfect" at the level of resolution of your ear, and you can do this with digital. All it takes is money, and media to store it on.
It seems that he is purely dissapointed that they didn't use HIS open-source code to base the closed-source browser on (like saying how dare apple ship OSX instead of Linux). Just like KDA/Gnome, people will chose different open-source choices, so people need to get over it.