What will happen if your laptop dies, or you lose it.
you deal without it. Shit happens, life goes on. I am currently a senior in high school. My school has had a laptop program since 1998. When you lose your laptop, its like losing your binder. Except you can back up your files and you won't lose that paper you have spent the last 3 weeks working on. Theft can be a problem, but most laptops have been stolen from homes. The only theft incident I know of on campus was a few students organized to steal the laptops, then pass them on to someone else who wiped the hard drives and sold them. The students were found, and expelled. If a part dies, we have an authorized repair center on campus, with a staff of 3-5 for about 600 students and 125 faculty. We can get new parts generally within 24 hours, and always within a week. It helps that we are in Houston, the former headquarters of Compaq, the brand of laptops we use. The teachers are understanding of various failures, but most of the time its not a problem. Most of the problems are superficial, like cracks in the cases. The cracked lcd's are generally usable for a day or two until you can get it replaced. I know people that have gone for 2-3 months with a cracked lcd. Hard drive failure is not common, I have heard of 1 or 2 in the last 3+ years. The biggest problem is people installing bad software that corrupts their computers. Win 2000 service pack 3 and 4 are incompatible with our model, and a lot of people got burned in that debacle. And yes, you can share most of the information. If you can't take notes because your laptop died, or you are sick, or anything, you can get a friend to just email the notes. Teachers can email powerpoint presentations. Assignments can be emailed. After all my experiences with laptops in schools, I would say they have a very positive effect. The problems are different, but no more difficult than problems that already exist, like losing books, binders, forgetting pens, etc.
as for distractions, those exist without laptops as well. People play hangman, tic tac toe, dots, etc. Instant messenger can be blocked (as it is in my school). And people learn to deal with distractions. Laptops are generally only out when there is work to do on them. After a while, students do learn to deal with distractions. And teachers have the power to make you put your laptops away, or confiscate it if need be. Already cell phones have games and instant messenger, and can be used in school.
This is ridiculous. It's my understanding that signing up for the national do not call list was about a person's right to privacy. Free speech laws do not protect someone in the case of harassment or stalking. The do not call list seems kind of like getting a restraining order on them. I hope this decision gets overturned quickly.
The g5's memory advantage won't be a big deal in this test. Each system only has 512 MB of ram. The photoshop file is only 50 MB, so I assume a larger file would cause the difference to increase. I suspect that if the benchmarks were done on much more demanding tasks, such as multi-gigabyte renders, or a lot of muti-tasking, and giving the g5 its full amount of memory, the differences would be more pronounced.
The fact that they have every logo in there suggests to me that they will not have specialized builds, but just include them into the OS. If they were going to have specialized builds I would think that they would just have a specialized build for each division. Since they are just icons, and only take up a miniscule amount of space it seems easier to just have them in the commercial OS.
True, the fact that people have no loyalty to microsoft very well may be its undoing. But the reason that Linux is considered the threat to microsoft is that Linux is the alternative that people will jump to, since most people dont want to spend the money on OS X and related hardware
They also mention that the infrastructure's not there yet to support these cells. I'm guessing that means there are no places that will refill them.
They mention that there is no infrastructure to support fuel cell cars, and they say laptops will be the first products to market that use fuel cells because they don't have the infrastructure hurdle.
Also, they don't talk of refilling them, they say that you will swap out a fuel cartridge. It sounds like the only infrastructure required is some shelf space at Best Buy. From what I understand, they have 2 parts to the battery, the part that converts the fuel to electricity, and a fuel cartridge. The fuel cartridges would have to be pretty cheap, less than a dollar to be feasible. I don't know what the cost of methanol is, but the cheap plastic it would probably come in isnt much, and all the real money is in the converter part. The fuel cells could also be recycled, with a small rebate added when you return the old ones.
Let's release weakened forms of viruses into the wild so that "antibodies" can be built up against them!
Ummm... not sure how to define a weakened virus... or antibodies in terms of software (antivirus scanners don't really fit the definition because they don't adapt for the most part).
I would define weakened forms of viruses as viruses that exploit a security hole, and upon successfully exploiting it, either notify the user of the problem and how to fix it, or fix it without the user ever knowing.
as for anti-virus software adapting:
I don't know that much about what viruses and worms and things actually do, but could anti-virus software monitor activity on the system, and recognize common actions that viruses tend to do, and warn the user, and also communicate with a central server somewhere, and compile a list of software that triggers a flag, and either create a whitelist of approved programs, or have them reviewed by security guys or something. I don't know how possible this is, just a little brainstorm i had.
AC? Lots of people don't have AC anyways. If you bawl about that, you're spoiled
maybe up north, but not down here in the south. I don't know of a single inhabited building without ac. if we lost it for days in the hottest part of the summer, old people and children would be dropping like flies. The last estimate for deaths in france because of the heat wave over there was like 3000, and their temperatures have nothing on us. they topped out at 104 degrees F. Here in Houston, temperatures frequently break 100 during the hot parts of the summer, and is pretty much always in the 90s.
the 17" is for people who want a desktop computer without the space requirements of a G4 tower and monitor.
or for people who only need to be semi-mobile. I will be going off to college next year, and am thinking about getting a 17" powerbook so I can bring it home easily on holidays and stuff. If I needed something to carry to classes constantly I would definitely get the 12 or 15 inch
Apple doesnt expect to be paid for people using firewire, they made it free to use in hopes of unifying the standard to make it more popular and less confusing, instead of having iLink, IEEE 1394, etc.
i would assume you would need speakers, it says you can listen to your music to wake up, implying speakers, not a simple buzzer, unless you want something like the Simpsons doorbell that played why do birds suddenly appear. I have a pair of speakers that are reasonable quality that i bought for $3, don't require batteries/power source, and are somewhat small, each one about 2 1/2 - 3 inches in diameter, which is small enought to easily fit in a suitcase.
No, they should HAVE to pay Apple for this right
why? the only real costs apple has are storage and bandwidth. with aac recording, the song should be less than a few megs, and according to apple's figures, an xserve raid is only $4.36 per gigabyte, which equates to $.00436 per megabyte. given a long song, maybe 3 megs, thats 1.2 cents. Have 3 additional backup copies, thats 4.8 cents. It costs Apple less than a nickel to store a song.
The other cost is bandwidth. If no one buys it, they don't use any bandwidth, no cost. If people buy it, they use bandwidth but also make money. They more people that buy the song, the more money Apple makes. So other than the initial cost of storage and the bandwidth for the artist to upload their song, which is a few pennies, there is little/no cost.
The most I see them doing is charging your account maybe $2-3 to have Apple host the song, which is a good deal for wide distribution, would be enough to cover the upfront costs, and then all sales would be split by Apple and the artist.
I can sell 10,000 Britney songs at a $.50 profit each or I can sell 10 of your songs $1 a shot. Not really a hard choice...
why is it a choice? Is there a reason they can't do both?
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What will happen if your laptop dies, or you lose it.
you deal without it. Shit happens, life goes on. I am currently a senior in high school. My school has had a laptop program since 1998. When you lose your laptop, its like losing your binder. Except you can back up your files and you won't lose that paper you have spent the last 3 weeks working on. Theft can be a problem, but most laptops have been stolen from homes. The only theft incident I know of on campus was a few students organized to steal the laptops, then pass them on to someone else who wiped the hard drives and sold them. The students were found, and expelled. If a part dies, we have an authorized repair center on campus, with a staff of 3-5 for about 600 students and 125 faculty. We can get new parts generally within 24 hours, and always within a week. It helps that we are in Houston, the former headquarters of Compaq, the brand of laptops we use. The teachers are understanding of various failures, but most of the time its not a problem. Most of the problems are superficial, like cracks in the cases. The cracked lcd's are generally usable for a day or two until you can get it replaced. I know people that have gone for 2-3 months with a cracked lcd. Hard drive failure is not common, I have heard of 1 or 2 in the last 3+ years. The biggest problem is people installing bad software that corrupts their computers. Win 2000 service pack 3 and 4 are incompatible with our model, and a lot of people got burned in that debacle. And yes, you can share most of the information. If you can't take notes because your laptop died, or you are sick, or anything, you can get a friend to just email the notes. Teachers can email powerpoint presentations. Assignments can be emailed. After all my experiences with laptops in schools, I would say they have a very positive effect. The problems are different, but no more difficult than problems that already exist, like losing books, binders, forgetting pens, etc.
as for distractions, those exist without laptops as well. People play hangman, tic tac toe, dots, etc. Instant messenger can be blocked (as it is in my school). And people learn to deal with distractions. Laptops are generally only out when there is work to do on them. After a while, students do learn to deal with distractions. And teachers have the power to make you put your laptops away, or confiscate it if need be. Already cell phones have games and instant messenger, and can be used in school.
This is ridiculous. It's my understanding that signing up for the national do not call list was about a person's right to privacy. Free speech laws do not protect someone in the case of harassment or stalking. The do not call list seems kind of like getting a restraining order on them. I hope this decision gets overturned quickly.
was the ae symbol also used in encyclopedia? I used to see it a lot as encyclopaedia, and was never really sure of the correct spelling.
The g5's memory advantage won't be a big deal in this test. Each system only has 512 MB of ram. The photoshop file is only 50 MB, so I assume a larger file would cause the difference to increase. I suspect that if the benchmarks were done on much more demanding tasks, such as multi-gigabyte renders, or a lot of muti-tasking, and giving the g5 its full amount of memory, the differences would be more pronounced.
The fact that they have every logo in there suggests to me that they will not have specialized builds, but just include them into the OS. If they were going to have specialized builds I would think that they would just have a specialized build for each division. Since they are just icons, and only take up a miniscule amount of space it seems easier to just have them in the commercial OS.
True, the fact that people have no loyalty to microsoft very well may be its undoing. But the reason that Linux is considered the threat to microsoft is that Linux is the alternative that people will jump to, since most people dont want to spend the money on OS X and related hardware
They also mention that the infrastructure's not there yet to support these cells. I'm guessing that means there are no places that will refill them.
They mention that there is no infrastructure to support fuel cell cars, and they say laptops will be the first products to market that use fuel cells because they don't have the infrastructure hurdle.
Also, they don't talk of refilling them, they say that you will swap out a fuel cartridge. It sounds like the only infrastructure required is some shelf space at Best Buy. From what I understand, they have 2 parts to the battery, the part that converts the fuel to electricity, and a fuel cartridge. The fuel cartridges would have to be pretty cheap, less than a dollar to be feasible. I don't know what the cost of methanol is, but the cheap plastic it would probably come in isnt much, and all the real money is in the converter part. The fuel cells could also be recycled, with a small rebate added when you return the old ones.
forget several gigs of mad lesbian porn, if I'm shelling out 5 grand I want real live lesbians!
Let's release weakened forms of viruses into the wild so that "antibodies" can be built up against them! Ummm... not sure how to define a weakened virus... or antibodies in terms of software (antivirus scanners don't really fit the definition because they don't adapt for the most part).
I would define weakened forms of viruses as viruses that exploit a security hole, and upon successfully exploiting it, either notify the user of the problem and how to fix it, or fix it without the user ever knowing.
as for anti-virus software adapting:
I don't know that much about what viruses and worms and things actually do, but could anti-virus software monitor activity on the system, and recognize common actions that viruses tend to do, and warn the user, and also communicate with a central server somewhere, and compile a list of software that triggers a flag, and either create a whitelist of approved programs, or have them reviewed by security guys or something. I don't know how possible this is, just a little brainstorm i had.
But it's all more complicated than "X is always more secure"
no its not, OS X is always more secure because it is made by apple.
AC? Lots of people don't have AC anyways. If you bawl about that, you're spoiled
maybe up north, but not down here in the south. I don't know of a single inhabited building without ac. if we lost it for days in the hottest part of the summer, old people and children would be dropping like flies. The last estimate for deaths in france because of the heat wave over there was like 3000, and their temperatures have nothing on us. they topped out at 104 degrees F. Here in Houston, temperatures frequently break 100 during the hot parts of the summer, and is pretty much always in the 90s.
the 17" is for people who want a desktop computer without the space requirements of a G4 tower and monitor.
or for people who only need to be semi-mobile. I will be going off to college next year, and am thinking about getting a 17" powerbook so I can bring it home easily on holidays and stuff. If I needed something to carry to classes constantly I would definitely get the 12 or 15 inch
Apple doesnt expect to be paid for people using firewire, they made it free to use in hopes of unifying the standard to make it more popular and less confusing, instead of having iLink, IEEE 1394, etc.
shouldn't that be "just sew ewe no."
don't worry, apple is working on adding independent artists
you can check the article here, towards the bottom, third from last question
i would assume you would need speakers, it says you can listen to your music to wake up, implying speakers, not a simple buzzer, unless you want something like the Simpsons doorbell that played why do birds suddenly appear. I have a pair of speakers that are reasonable quality that i bought for $3, don't require batteries/power source, and are somewhat small, each one about 2 1/2 - 3 inches in diameter, which is small enought to easily fit in a suitcase.
No, they should HAVE to pay Apple for this right
why? the only real costs apple has are storage and bandwidth. with aac recording, the song should be less than a few megs, and according to apple's figures, an xserve raid is only $4.36 per gigabyte, which equates to $.00436 per megabyte. given a long song, maybe 3 megs, thats 1.2 cents. Have 3 additional backup copies, thats 4.8 cents. It costs Apple less than a nickel to store a song.
The other cost is bandwidth. If no one buys it, they don't use any bandwidth, no cost. If people buy it, they use bandwidth but also make money. They more people that buy the song, the more money Apple makes. So other than the initial cost of storage and the bandwidth for the artist to upload their song, which is a few pennies, there is little/no cost.
The most I see them doing is charging your account maybe $2-3 to have Apple host the song, which is a good deal for wide distribution, would be enough to cover the upfront costs, and then all sales would be split by Apple and the artist.
I can sell 10,000 Britney songs at a $.50 profit each or I can sell 10 of your songs $1 a shot. Not really a hard choice...
why is it a choice? Is there a reason they can't do both?