You've still got the energy cost of disposing of the CO2, by burying it or whatever. It has to be taken out of the carbon cycle completely.
This technology was showcased on Discovery Earth channel last week on a show called "Project Earth." Alongside the carbon "scrubber" they were exploring ways to deal with the carbon that is removed from the atmosphere. They found a couple interesting solutions to the problem.
One was to freeze it and form them into torpedos which could be dropped to the ocean floor. The pressure at that depth keeps the carbon in solid form and it's not re-released. So the footprint of disposal is relatively small.
The other method they discovered from an offshore natural gas rig in Europe. They engineered the rig to use the excess energy and pump the waste gases back down into the Earth. I forget all of the details from the show but evidently this was a very efficient way to dispose of the carbon despite the large upfront cost of drilling an extremely deep hole.
You do realize that Lightroom is also available for Macs? In fact, it was available first on Macs. I use it on my MacPro. Not sure why she switched to a completely different computer and OS just to change one app that is available on both.
I can't think of any reason why apple would want to buy Palm now. They tried a while back and Palm rebuffed them. The only thing that is attractive about Palm is probably their patent portfolio, but the company has been bought and sold so often who knows where those rights even lie anymore.
That's odd. I had a Treo 700p and it never worked properly from the first day I owned it. It couldn't play a music file for more than 3 seconds without skipping and it crashed constantly. I had to reset it at least 3 times a day and it would occasionally crash while I was in the middle of a phone call. I never dropped it and kept it very well protected the whole time I owned it. The "Blazer" browser would stall after a specific amount of data would load on each page and then wait for at least a second before it would continue loading. I timed the "White Screen of Wait" at a second or more when switching between certain applications.
Every person I've known who had a Treo grew to hate it in short order because of the incredibly unstable OS. The circumstances of my parting with the Treo were that it was stolen by someone with a gun. Other than the natural fear of the situation, I was actually glad to be rid of it when I came to grips with what had happened.
I guess my anecdotal evidence is exactly the opposite of yours. I will never buy another Palm device, but that doesn't seem like a promise I'll have to worry about for very long as Palm will probably be gone within 2 years.
I heard that about ten years ago. Back then solar panels were uglier, more expensive and not as efficient. Things have changed, being green is trendy at the moment. Back then, being green and saving money didn't offset the fact they were unsightly.
not only that, but many of the roofs here in california are flat anyway. even with the required angle for the panels' efficiency most of the panel would be hidden from view on the street. i'm sure they're not gorgeous to look at when you're standing next to them, but on a flat roof they're nearly invisible.
Nothing is stopping a developer from giving their application for free and publishing the source code online except that the developer would have to pay $99 a year for the licensing. couldn't someone just pay the $99 one time and then have open source project run through that one developer account, thereby amortizing the cost of the dev account over many apps?
What's the difference between a phrase and a sentence?
i'd assume it's something like the difference between "how do i set up my d-link router?" and "d-link router set up". i believe google already parses out "natural language" queries about as well as any other search engine, including ask jeeves, which was supposed to use natural language as its unique selling proposition. google does give different results for both queries but both sets of results seem to be relevant.
i'm more curious about how the use of keywords in google searches will affect "natural language" as we move forward. it used to be necessary to form coherent sentences to gather information and now it's rather the opposite. i think the generation of kids growing up now probably tend to think in keywords first. we already see tech-savvy people substituting tech phrases for real world phrases. what happens when a vast majority of kids growing up have access to technology and the internet?
That's great and all, but it doesn't change the fact that (a) any web interface with confidential or private information should have an obvious method of logging out that doesn't require specific knowledge about how to delete cookies for a certain browser/applicationn, and (b) Apple is yet again ignoring and censoring users who are pointing out this flaw.
i agree. but fyi, i just did this with my own idisk account. if you quit the browser, then you cannot get back to the idisk interface without a password prompt. there should be a log-out function, but it's not as if it's impossible to end the session.
So, my question is, how many people actually use iDisk? How much of a problem is this actually.
actually, i use it all the time. it's a very convenient way for me to let clients download files. i have a hosting account with a traditional host as well, but i never went through the trouble of making/figuring out a nice-looking interface for my clients to use. with idisk i throw them into the public folder, then log into the web interface to set-up/edit their download page. obviously, this isn't great for confidential information, but i rarely deal with stuff that sensitive. i also host one of my personal websites on.mac. i will say however that i don't use the finder's idisk implementation nor do i manage the input/output of my files on the web. i just ftp into my idisk and then deal with the interface afterwards. ftp is much faster than the native interface. but i do find idisk to be really convenient in my particular case.
This sounds like Verizon press puffery to me. What is Verizon's provisioning on the FIOS back end ? How much do they underprovision ? It is a very safe bet that there is not 10 Mbps of Internet transit reserved for every FIOS customer, so there is still sharing of bandwidth, and still a likelihood of bandwidth reductions during heavy use periods. This could be better or worse than Comcast, but you don't know and can't tell just from the bandwidth of the edge circuit.
well, i've recently moved into verizon's fios service area and bought 15/15 service for our new house. it was originally 15/2 until i upgraded a few days ago. from all the speed tests i've done and from bittorrents and large ftp up/downloads i'm getting nearly exactly the promised bandwidth all the time. i've never experienced a time where i was NOT getting 15/2 or 15/15 consistently. i also work from home, so i'm on my computer all day.
from my experience as both a verizon and a former comcast customer there is no comparison. it's not even close. both companies have pretty dismal phone customer service. but i don't talk to them on the phone much and when it works, it works amazingly well.
in addition to what you've mentioned, i don't see how it could possibly have any positive effects. if the perp walk is used to prevent people from doing damage/theft to the morale of co-workers or infrastructure it must fail miserably. if someone wanted to do damage to a company via theft of information or poisoning the well, they'd hopefully be smart enough to do it before they gave notice. do they really think people march into their boss' office to resign and then a week later get the bright idea to create mischief?
Facebook is also huge in the UK, especially in London. Everyone is on it here. The London network on Facebook is also the biggest one (according to Wikipedia) with 1,646,154 users, Toronto is second with 936,969. facebook is also very popular in turkey right now. i'm married to a turk and all of her friends are one it and more join constantly. anything to get people away from myspace is a good thing. myspace is the highest concentration of awful design in the universe.
That does not include the research and development cost, which they may have recovered by now.
plus the costs of materials might have been driven down by the increased volume needed for the ipod touch. they're also now amortizing the r&d budget for the iphone across the ipod touch. thus the $/unit cost of their development is going down.
Why? Because such devices only cost a little less than an equivalent PC. And people would rather pay a little extra and get all that extra functionality. Even if it's functionality the won't use.
you're right on target with the price problem of the foleo. this comment though strikes me as a bit shortsighted. the things that even average to below average users do with their computers today is years ahead of what was being done a few years ago. 7 years ago nobody would have imagined that basic computer users would be ripping their music cds onto their computer to transfer them to a digital music player. 10 years ago nobody thought that image manipulation would ever be within the ability or cost of normal home users. if you would have suggested 15 years ago that home users would be uploading, logging, editing and outputting movies from computers less than $700, people would have laughed out loud. the first AVID system i saw was in 1992. the preview window was about 150 pixels wide and it took an hour to render a preview for a 30 second commercial. no people edit minutes-long hd videos accompanied with soundtracks that include dissolves and effects.
the reason products like the foleo don't do well is because you don't save any money and you're limiting your options. sure most folks aren't going to sit down and cut a feature length movie or compose their own music, but they like to think that they have the resources to do so if they wish. buying a crippled machine for very little cost savings takes away a lot of the aspects of computing that people wish they could do with some learning and time. this is one of the basic tenets of apple's philosophy of including their bundles ilife suite. people will discover hidden talents when they have the resources available to them and can figure them out without having to read a huge book. the same philosophy is what drives microsoft's "the wow starts now" campaign. a product like the foleo will never be successful because the only people who would know about it or consider buying it are already tech-savvy. and those people certainly don't want something like the foleo. the people who might possible be suited for it can spend a little more and get a whole computer that does what the foleo does for them and has the possibility of doing much more. even if they don't use all of the functions, they'll still feel like they're getting the short end of the value stick by buying a foleo.
the fact that the foleo made it all the way through product development shows me that palm is doomed. i don't know how much time/money they spent on it, but it was too much. palm is drifting further and further away from what their customers want or need. i'd be surprised if they lasted more than a few years. more likely they'll just get bought out for their patent portfolio.
knowingly or not, the fact of the matter is people who have worked for Getty Images and with getty images in this topic have already stated that those images are watermarked. i download THOUSANDS of images from getty every year for comp purposes. those look exactly like a getty watermark for comp images. mistakes happen. just like how microsoft had images on one of their own sites that showed people using an aluminum powerbook. nobody is saying for sure that this organization is intentionally breaking a copyright, but from all appearances they have done so anyway.
i personally don't understand the justification coming from people who 1) obviously don't work in graphic design and therefore 2) have never bought stock artwork from getty or any other company. shit happens. websites go live with mistakes all the time. it's not hard to understand, yet so many people seem to have trouble with it or feel the need to defend this organization.
i looked at the volvo website last night for information on one of their new models and nearly all the detail pages had "unassigned" in their text boxes. volvo has quite a bit more resources available to them than this copyright organization, yet there is a clear mistake on many of their pages.
well, you're going to have to tell BBC that they're stupid too.
did you compare that to the actual watermark images in the topic story? no? because that's not a watermark, that's an attribution. they don't make watermarks small and in a corner specifically so they're not easily retouched out. thanks for playing though.
No, royalty-free is different from free. Royalty-free means that you don't have to pay based on the number of uses of the images. It does NOT mean you get it for free.
i think the question was not why a watermark would exist...
but just because it still has the watermark does not mean that it was not paid for...
getty doesn't watermark the images that are bought. i'd guess they don't even have high-rez files with watermarks. so you're suggesting that someone paid getty for the rights to an image and rather than download the high-rez non-watermarked file they chose to use the watermarked low-rez preview file? that's completely ridiculous and utter nonsense. nobody would do such a thing. is it technically possible that it happened? sure. in the same way that most absurdities are within the realm of physical possibility. but it's so idiotic that if it did happen that way, then someone really really needs to understand how the design process works.
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This is gorilla marketing.
That would explain why the honeycomb buttons are so very large. Gorillas have big fingers.
This is also a case where Exposé is more useful than either solution. A quick swipe down to an activation corner and I have all my windows available as mini screenshots regardless of which application owns them. This avoids the needs to manually switch to the application and then the window. In one move I can switch directly to the window and the app focus follows.
You've still got the energy cost of disposing of the CO2, by burying it or whatever. It has to be taken out of the carbon cycle completely.
This technology was showcased on Discovery Earth channel last week on a show called "Project Earth." Alongside the carbon "scrubber" they were exploring ways to deal with the carbon that is removed from the atmosphere. They found a couple interesting solutions to the problem.
One was to freeze it and form them into torpedos which could be dropped to the ocean floor. The pressure at that depth keeps the carbon in solid form and it's not re-released. So the footprint of disposal is relatively small.
The other method they discovered from an offshore natural gas rig in Europe. They engineered the rig to use the excess energy and pump the waste gases back down into the Earth. I forget all of the details from the show but evidently this was a very efficient way to dispose of the carbon despite the large upfront cost of drilling an extremely deep hole.
letting people do what they want with it. We shall see.
They are letting people do what they want with it. Unfortunately those people are cellular phone providers.
You do realize that Lightroom is also available for Macs? In fact, it was available first on Macs. I use it on my MacPro. Not sure why she switched to a completely different computer and OS just to change one app that is available on both.
I can't think of any reason why apple would want to buy Palm now. They tried a while back and Palm rebuffed them. The only thing that is attractive about Palm is probably their patent portfolio, but the company has been bought and sold so often who knows where those rights even lie anymore.
That's odd. I had a Treo 700p and it never worked properly from the first day I owned it. It couldn't play a music file for more than 3 seconds without skipping and it crashed constantly. I had to reset it at least 3 times a day and it would occasionally crash while I was in the middle of a phone call. I never dropped it and kept it very well protected the whole time I owned it. The "Blazer" browser would stall after a specific amount of data would load on each page and then wait for at least a second before it would continue loading. I timed the "White Screen of Wait" at a second or more when switching between certain applications.
Every person I've known who had a Treo grew to hate it in short order because of the incredibly unstable OS. The circumstances of my parting with the Treo were that it was stolen by someone with a gun. Other than the natural fear of the situation, I was actually glad to be rid of it when I came to grips with what had happened.
I guess my anecdotal evidence is exactly the opposite of yours. I will never buy another Palm device, but that doesn't seem like a promise I'll have to worry about for very long as Palm will probably be gone within 2 years.
I heard that about ten years ago. Back then solar panels were uglier, more expensive and not as efficient. Things have changed, being green is trendy at the moment. Back then, being green and saving money didn't offset the fact they were unsightly.
not only that, but many of the roofs here in california are flat anyway. even with the required angle for the panels' efficiency most of the panel would be hidden from view on the street. i'm sure they're not gorgeous to look at when you're standing next to them, but on a flat roof they're nearly invisible.
the makers of the non-abrasive cleaning product called "The Blue Screen of Death" saw an unexplained spike in sales.
i'm more curious about how the use of keywords in google searches will affect "natural language" as we move forward. it used to be necessary to form coherent sentences to gather information and now it's rather the opposite. i think the generation of kids growing up now probably tend to think in keywords first. we already see tech-savvy people substituting tech phrases for real world phrases. what happens when a vast majority of kids growing up have access to technology and the internet?
from my experience as both a verizon and a former comcast customer there is no comparison. it's not even close. both companies have pretty dismal phone customer service. but i don't talk to them on the phone much and when it works, it works amazingly well.
in addition to what you've mentioned, i don't see how it could possibly have any positive effects. if the perp walk is used to prevent people from doing damage/theft to the morale of co-workers or infrastructure it must fail miserably. if someone wanted to do damage to a company via theft of information or poisoning the well, they'd hopefully be smart enough to do it before they gave notice. do they really think people march into their boss' office to resign and then a week later get the bright idea to create mischief?
facebook is also very popular in turkey right now. i'm married to a turk and all of her friends are one it and more join constantly. anything to get people away from myspace is a good thing. myspace is the highest concentration of awful design in the universe.
one can only imagine what a game of 'tail gunner' or tempest would look like on this machine.
the reason products like the foleo don't do well is because you don't save any money and you're limiting your options. sure most folks aren't going to sit down and cut a feature length movie or compose their own music, but they like to think that they have the resources to do so if they wish. buying a crippled machine for very little cost savings takes away a lot of the aspects of computing that people wish they could do with some learning and time. this is one of the basic tenets of apple's philosophy of including their bundles ilife suite. people will discover hidden talents when they have the resources available to them and can figure them out without having to read a huge book. the same philosophy is what drives microsoft's "the wow starts now" campaign. a product like the foleo will never be successful because the only people who would know about it or consider buying it are already tech-savvy. and those people certainly don't want something like the foleo. the people who might possible be suited for it can spend a little more and get a whole computer that does what the foleo does for them and has the possibility of doing much more. even if they don't use all of the functions, they'll still feel like they're getting the short end of the value stick by buying a foleo.
the fact that the foleo made it all the way through product development shows me that palm is doomed. i don't know how much time/money they spent on it, but it was too much. palm is drifting further and further away from what their customers want or need. i'd be surprised if they lasted more than a few years. more likely they'll just get bought out for their patent portfolio.
knowingly or not, the fact of the matter is people who have worked for Getty Images and with getty images in this topic have already stated that those images are watermarked. i download THOUSANDS of images from getty every year for comp purposes. those look exactly like a getty watermark for comp images. mistakes happen. just like how microsoft had images on one of their own sites that showed people using an aluminum powerbook. nobody is saying for sure that this organization is intentionally breaking a copyright, but from all appearances they have done so anyway.
i personally don't understand the justification coming from people who 1) obviously don't work in graphic design and therefore 2) have never bought stock artwork from getty or any other company. shit happens. websites go live with mistakes all the time. it's not hard to understand, yet so many people seem to have trouble with it or feel the need to defend this organization.
i looked at the volvo website last night for information on one of their new models and nearly all the detail pages had "unassigned" in their text boxes. volvo has quite a bit more resources available to them than this copyright organization, yet there is a clear mistake on many of their pages.