The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. They were very toothy under Professor Alan Fels. Since he left, the ACCC has been a bit quiet. I only hope their current dormancy doesn't become a coma.
At work we have Groupwise. Although the interface could be better, it's actually quite powerful. I can see the whole office's email/calendars/etc, it's easy to send appointments to people and lots of other nifty things. Pity the phone book sux (or maybe its our implementation). This works over an organisation of 60 000.
iCal, and Macs in general, still aren't geared towards The Enterprise (large business organisation, not the spaceship). They still seem to be Personal Computers.
Russia was "bad" for 50 years and no-one blew them off the map.
Russia is "good" at the moment not because they fear US aggression but because economically they are in the toilet. They fear their own citizens revolting if they start spending billions (which they don't have) on armaments.
The US won the Cold War because the USSR imploded first, not because of superior weaponry. Bit of a Pyrrhic victory, though, economically speaking.
At a hotel in Singapore, they had a Malaysian doorman who had a very solid (to my ears) Yankee accent, though he had never left SE Asia. We asked him how he learned to speak English, and he said "By watching American TV." See, it's not hard to find someone with the right accent...
While browsing a very in-depth Catholic web site (not just another Jesus-fanboy site) , I put the search term "satan" into their search bar, which was powered by Google. The results came back listing all of their articles (more like treatises really), and a Google-placed ad-link for the Church of Satan in the right hand side of the page.
My layman's observation of things physical is that our models and ideas of the world tend to break down at extremes, e.g. Newtonian physics doesn't work with high speeds (close to c ) or enormous masses. This helium is cooled to an extreme, so I wouldn't be surprised if our idea of solid-liquid doesn't apply and a new model must be formulated. I could be wrong.
Tracktion is damn cool, but there's just one guy working on it, meaning updates can only come so fast. Plus he's developing on Windows primarily so OS X will always be a step behind.
Now that GarageBand is out, chances are that Tracktion for OS X will be many steps behind...
But no-one here IS Madonna or The Rolling Stones. That's why they were on MP3.com
AFAICT, not many people got rich or got their big break from signing up with MP3.com . Although they may feel like they got a right royal reaming, chances are that if fame and fortune were coming their way, they would be here by now.
Perhaps the anger is over loss of control rather than loss of (potential) earnings.
In my place of employment, we have people clueless enough to request "a laptop and a powerpoint projector" from us. Yep, Powerpoint IS all that they know.
Exactly. MS wants to be the gate keeper. They don't want to supply anything to anyone; they want to be the lynchpin.
Apple wants to bring goodness and happiness to the masses.
Maybe he thinks that Quicktime is part of the discussion because you have to install it in order to use iTunes and the iTMS. Of course he misses the point that you have to have Windows installed to play DRMed WMA files...
Agreed, DarkBlackFox. Perhaps this is where the iPod WILL reign supreme. SJ himself referred to the iPod/iTMS being the MS of the online music business.
How about this: non-tech parent has slightly tech-savvy offspring who uses iPod/iTMS for playing/purchasing music and notices that it just simply works. Tries out cheaper competitor that uses WMA with all sorts of restrictions that may vary from seller to seller, song to song (week to week?). Gets frustrated. Buys an iPOD. (4. Profit!:-) )
All of this is only possible because Apple has such a great market share. Now that there is an HP-branded, people will also have the illusion of choice too.
The cornice drive costs $70 only if you buy them in 100,000 lots. The original iPod sold at the same retail price as the hard drives inside them. If we can find what the retail price of the cornice drive is, maybe we can use that as a guide for the new iPod's price (assuming this story isn't all just bullshit). Or we could just wait 12 hours for Steve's keynote speech.
It is probably considered safer for emergency vehicles because:
The drivers of emergency vehicles are (or should be) trained to be better drivers than the average driver
It is an emergency vehicle. Look closely at the word emergency. As in "it is an emergency, someone might die". This is not the same as some schmo reading his email while driving in heavy traffic
As for "technologies only allowed by the government is kinda scary*", what technologies are you talking about??? This is a law governing where you can use those technologies, not which ones. Personally I consider this law redundant. This situation should be covered by, or at least tacked on to, current laws covering "thou shalt drive with due care and attention at all times". Now that is a broad law.
Spouses should not have the ability to spy on one another either.
Can now. It's called a private detective.
Without guidelines, tracking very well might become widespread because it is forced down the throats of people who get their cell phones through their companies, schools, or otherwise don't pay their own bill.
I bitTorrented [Finding Nemo] because I couldn't be bothered to wait that long. Needless to say when it did come out in the cinema I decided to go see Matrix Revolutions instead.
Don't you wish you'd done it the other way around now?
6 weeks on and I'm still mad at the Wachowski brothers...
As for Grease, IIRC only the first half of side one had music that I could actually remember from the movie. The rest was crap. Now that I'm older, I think all of it's crap.
hahaha. as a System 7 -> OS 9 user, i appreciate the humour in that post. Why DID a simple thing like a menu dropping down bring the whole system to a screeching pause??? Now I have OS X goodness on my Mac.
Standard DV quality is about 13 GB for an hour but some cameras are coming out that record as MPEG2 or MPEG4 on to solid state devices. The quality isn't as good, and editing might be trickier, but it looks like a nifty gadget.
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. They were very toothy under Professor Alan Fels. Since he left, the ACCC has been a bit quiet. I only hope their current dormancy doesn't become a coma.
At work we have Groupwise. Although the interface could be better, it's actually quite powerful. I can see the whole office's email/calendars/etc, it's easy to send appointments to people and lots of other nifty things. Pity the phone book sux (or maybe its our implementation). This works over an organisation of 60 000.
iCal, and Macs in general, still aren't geared towards The Enterprise (large business organisation, not the spaceship). They still seem to be Personal Computers.
Add to that US-$ 22.50 here in Australia.
Where are you shopping? Sanity? At JB Hi Fi or WOW Sight and Sound (latest catalogue: new releases <AUS$20) you can pick up most CDs for AUS$20 - $22, which at current exchange rates (go Aussie dollar GO!) is about US$15 - $17.
I only hope that when the iTunes Music Store FINALLY gets here, tracks will be no more that AUS$1.50.
1 AUD = 0.758268 USD; 1 USD = 1.31880 AUD
FWIW, I think AUS$100+ for a game is a ripoff. Last game I bought was UT.
Russia was "bad" for 50 years and no-one blew them off the map.
Russia is "good" at the moment not because they fear US aggression but because economically they are in the toilet. They fear their own citizens revolting if they start spending billions (which they don't have) on armaments.
The US won the Cold War because the USSR imploded first, not because of superior weaponry. Bit of a Pyrrhic victory, though, economically speaking.
At a hotel in Singapore, they had a Malaysian doorman who had a very solid (to my ears) Yankee accent, though he had never left SE Asia. We asked him how he learned to speak English, and he said "By watching American TV." See, it's not hard to find someone with the right accent...
While browsing a very in-depth Catholic web site (not just another Jesus-fanboy site) , I put the search term "satan" into their search bar, which was powered by Google. The results came back listing all of their articles (more like treatises really), and a Google-placed ad-link for the Church of Satan in the right hand side of the page.
My layman's observation of things physical is that our models and ideas of the world tend to break down at extremes, e.g. Newtonian physics doesn't work with high speeds (close to c ) or enormous masses. This helium is cooled to an extreme, so I wouldn't be surprised if our idea of solid-liquid doesn't apply and a new model must be formulated. I could be wrong.
Tracktion is damn cool, but there's just one guy working on it, meaning updates can only come so fast. Plus he's developing on Windows primarily so OS X will always be a step behind.
Now that GarageBand is out, chances are that Tracktion for OS X will be many steps behind...
We pay for the latest and greatest video card, CPU, TV, Car, portable MP3 player, etc.. Why shouldn't software be the same?
Quiet, man. You want the SlashGeeks to hear you say that? The wrath of the penguin is awful to behold!
But no-one here IS Madonna or The Rolling Stones. That's why they were on MP3.com
AFAICT, not many people got rich or got their big break from signing up with MP3.com . Although they may feel like they got a right royal reaming, chances are that if fame and fortune were coming their way, they would be here by now.
Perhaps the anger is over loss of control rather than loss of (potential) earnings.
No musical talent? Then you need to buy THIS. Then you can get fucked over.
In my place of employment, we have people clueless enough to request "a laptop and a powerpoint projector" from us. Yep, Powerpoint IS all that they know.
Exactly. MS wants to be the gate keeper. They don't want to supply anything to anyone; they want to be the lynchpin. Apple wants to bring goodness and happiness to the masses.
Maybe he thinks that Quicktime is part of the discussion because you have to install it in order to use iTunes and the iTMS. Of course he misses the point that you have to have Windows installed to play DRMed WMA files...
Agreed, DarkBlackFox. Perhaps this is where the iPod WILL reign supreme. SJ himself referred to the iPod/iTMS being the MS of the online music business.
How about this: non-tech parent has slightly tech-savvy offspring who uses iPod/iTMS for playing/purchasing music and notices that it just simply works. Tries out cheaper competitor that uses WMA with all sorts of restrictions that may vary from seller to seller, song to song (week to week?). Gets frustrated. Buys an iPOD. (4. Profit! :-) )
All of this is only possible because Apple has such a great market share. Now that there is an HP-branded, people will also have the illusion of choice too.
Give The Masses something that's portable, sounds like a CD, and is flexible, and they'll buy it.
That is an iPod. Add in the iTMS to make purchasing easy, and you've got a winner.
The cornice drive costs $70 only if you buy them in 100,000 lots. The original iPod sold at the same retail price as the hard drives inside them. If we can find what the retail price of the cornice drive is, maybe we can use that as a guide for the new iPod's price (assuming this story isn't all just bullshit). Or we could just wait 12 hours for Steve's keynote speech.
It is probably considered safer for emergency vehicles because:
As for "technologies only allowed by the government is kinda scary*", what technologies are you talking about??? This is a law governing where you can use those technologies, not which ones. Personally I consider this law redundant. This situation should be covered by, or at least tacked on to, current laws covering "thou shalt drive with due care and attention at all times". Now that is a broad law.
*What, like nuclear weapons...
Spouses should not have the ability to spy on one another either.
Can now. It's called a private detective.
Without guidelines, tracking very well might become widespread because it is forced down the throats of people who get their cell phones through their companies, schools, or otherwise don't pay their own bill.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Given that so many things are dependent on so many other things, it's just easier to reboot really. Probably quicker too.
And it's a Mac not a MAC.
I bitTorrented [Finding Nemo] because I couldn't be bothered to wait that long. Needless to say when it did come out in the cinema I decided to go see Matrix Revolutions instead.
Don't you wish you'd done it the other way around now?
6 weeks on and I'm still mad at the Wachowski brothers...
Rocky Horror Picture Show. Best soundtrack album.
As for Grease, IIRC only the first half of side one had music that I could actually remember from the movie. The rest was crap. Now that I'm older, I think all of it's crap.
hahaha. as a System 7 -> OS 9 user, i appreciate the humour in that post. Why DID a simple thing like a menu dropping down bring the whole system to a screeching pause??? Now I have OS X goodness on my Mac.
Standard DV quality is about 13 GB for an hour but some cameras are coming out that record as MPEG2 or MPEG4 on to solid state devices. The quality isn't as good, and editing might be trickier, but it looks like a nifty gadget.