Tablets were never going to sell like they were forever. We're approaching the point where most people who want them, already have them.
As I read the reports, most of the tablet sales for non iPad devices were filling the channel. The reports always described sell-in, no-one ever reported sell-thru rates, except Apple, for which they were 150% or so. When all you are doing is stuffing the channel and no-one is buying, the sell-in rate will drop like a stone once all of the stores have their stock. Later at the fire sale the sell out will be dramatic but your profit is a large negative number. That story describes the so-called tablets. Perhaps in the future there will be competition for the iPad, but it isn't here yet. And yes the iPad is a very useful tool for lots of people, that's why there are stories every week about some company or other buying thousands for some project. It is not a replacement for a MACPro, but then again, it was never intended to be one.
And as for the argument that you could do it all with a netbook/notebook/desktop/??? yes and you could probably also use a pencil and paper for most of it and your imagination for the rest, but would you? And would you want to?
My netbook was a fine computer but could not replace the macbookpro on trips. The iPad has.
As I recall, China "asked for" and received source code for windows. It really is not closed source anymore, we don't know who all they sold their info to.
There is one way to get access to a sizable ROI based on this scheme. What PSYSTAR is/was doing is buying an UPGRADE license and installing it on a new computer. What if they succeded and then started to buy Windows/office upgrades distros, cracking the install codes and selling machines with this software installed. A full windows/office install (Home premium W7 plus Office Pro) is about $600 the upgrades are about $350, split the difference and you have a pretty good markup on a $400 worth of hardware system.
The accuracy works out when you calibrate the unit properly. Most measurements are only good to about 1-3% or so due to counting statistics, so this effect doesn't matter, Here they are extending the alleged precision far beyond what was capable in the machinery. I am just surprised by the orderliness of the data. Then again, I made a good living torturing numbers with statistical analysis to get them to confess to what my boss wanted to hear.
As someone who made the equipment that the scientist probably used to do the counting, I have one possible explanation. Most Multichannel Analyzers (MCAs) of the time used a line clock to determine the time. They assume that the power company delivered 60Hz power (or 50 Hz in Europe), This frequency was almost never precise but varied by.1 to.2% (one plant where I measured the frequency put out 58.8Hz for example, a real mess for us) from time to time. A systemic variation due to power loads (heating in winter/ AC in summer) could easily bias the power frequency by about the right amount with the right periodicity.
The universe might well be safe.
My bet is that his wife died, probably in a traffic accident. He sounds just like I did when I lost the love of my life 6 years ago. I even thought of trying his idea, but never quite got around to it.
No his identity is NOT for sale, only his possessions.
I had pretty good luck at one company that routinely ran password cracker routines on all users (to prevent easily guessed passwords). My trick was to put two words together with a period between them, No password was ever guessed or cracked by the programs. If you really need a bit more obscurity type the letter next to the one in the actual phrase, (using a shift right, for example, whats.up becomes ejsyd.iq ) Any loony toons fan can remember the phrase but who would guess the "encrypted" form?
Frankly, after the disaster that was the last 7 years, the next time I vote for a republican I will be on a jury voting to convict his sorry a$$ and send it to jail.
Technically, there was a time when the payment was to be some large block of stock, complete with anouncements form Blake Stowell that now BSF were partners in the company and lawsuit. Then the stock tanked and BSF decided that cash was better.
The so-called "contingency" payments were not the usual kind of contingency payments in a lawsuit, I.E. the lawyer gets paid a part of WHAT you win IF you win. They were, BSF gets 20% of any money that TSG got from certain transaction types that were related to the scam. Some listeners at the conference call thought that it was funny that some of the "contingency" payments had already been made and the case had just been filed, for instance.
So we announce to the engineering and management team that one of them (chosen the day before launch) is going to ride the rocket. That should keep them interested.
I see option 4:
the trojan is protecting itself by reducing the nmber of possible virus/trojan alerts you might get and by reducing your bandwidth use by eliminating sharing the P2P files.
I figure that support effort and costs should be very miniml to the college. Just practicine saying "Bummer Dude" and have the Apple and Dell support numbers on the wall.
Beyond language,beyond buzzwords, read up on the requirements for SEI CMMI certification. Basically the point is to documanent everything, all procedures, all requirements, all test results, everything. Only once have I had the pelasure of working on such a project, the resulting application is 100% rock solid, and delivered ahead of schedule. (a bit over bifdget however, 2of three is not bad). Going in I would have thought that it would be terrible, but once I realized how nice things were without the usual bickering, I would hesitate to work without the SEI cert. You really don't need level 5, level 3 will suffice, but read all of the requierements and get a good coach to help set things up. It is really worth it. Oh, yes, the app is written in C++ and runs on PPC under PSOS.
It may be a part of win XP since the same thing happens on my Motion 1300. the power meter shows up once in a while but there is no pattern that I can see as wo why it does or does not appear.
Perhapas a better way to put is is "once you have enoormous amounts of money and/or power people want to know what you will be screwing around with next so that they can avoid and/or profit from it."
Not really. MOG has the freedom to start her own "Groklaw"_alike blog and rant to her heart's content. No one will be reading unless she starts making sense, but them's the breaks.
For instance the
M-Systems' Fast Flash Disk (FFD)
Supports up to 34 GB
website . Never tried it myself but it seems simpler than trying to roll your own. Also you can debug and develop with a conventional HD and switch to ramdisk only when necessary. I suspect there will be performance problems using the 32GB of a 4 processor board as a single extent of RAM.
Linksys cards with the Broadcom chips are not well supported (if they work at all). You have to use the NDIS program to use windows drivers. It is a problem with a manufacturer (broadcom) not wanting to have its product (the chips) used by any system other than Windows. It is their right, so just never buy their stuff. (On the other hand the Linksys WRT54G runs on Linux, go figure). The linksys cards that use Prism chips work right out of the box.
The reason that governments (or more precisely real armies) do not go in for NBC warfare is that it is difficult to use these technologies and not hurt your own troops. The Germans testified to this after WWII, for instance. Besides which, we know where they live and have promised to retaliate (remember MAD) Terrorists do not care if anything in the US survives or if they can come over here afterwards. They know that we do not know where they live (and would not do anything really damaging even if we did). Hence they do not fear to use such weapons.
On the other hand, it is difficult to envision something that can easily replace gasoline as an energy source for automobiles and trucks. Batteries do not come close nor does anything else that I remember hearing about. Unless you can find a way to easily synthesize long chain hydrocarbons from raw energy it will be difficult to replace oil.
Subaru already does this. When your battery becomes "weak" the power locks start malfunctioning. When you bring it in to check the locks they tell you that your battery also needs replacing. SUddenly your locks work again.
You can build a "copy" of XP (its called LINUX) and give it away. Just like the case of the spear, you can build your own. What you cannot do is take your neighbor's spear (pirate XP) and sell that. There is the difference, LINUX is legal, pirating XP is not, You may not use the property (intellectual or otherwise) of another without that person's permission. Besides, who needs the viruses andother problems.
Onemore nucleaaar physicist/rocket scientist puts his $0.02 into the arguement. To escape the earth's gravity you need not attain any particular veocity you just have to get (nearly) infinitly far from the earth. By the time you get to the orbit of Saturn, for example, the gravity effect from the sun (not to mention saturn) is far stronger than that of the earth, so you could seriously claim to have escaped earth's gravity. Geosynchronous orbit is nowhere near far enough to claim to have escaped earth's gravity. It's still the strongest source of the gravity field you are experiencing.
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Tablets were never going to sell like they were forever. We're approaching the point where most people who want them, already have them.
As I read the reports, most of the tablet sales for non iPad devices were filling the channel. The reports always described sell-in, no-one ever reported sell-thru rates, except Apple, for which they were 150% or so. When all you are doing is stuffing the channel and no-one is buying, the sell-in rate will drop like a stone once all of the stores have their stock. Later at the fire sale the sell out will be dramatic but your profit is a large negative number. That story describes the so-called tablets. Perhaps in the future there will be competition for the iPad, but it isn't here yet. And yes the iPad is a very useful tool for lots of people, that's why there are stories every week about some company or other buying thousands for some project. It is not a replacement for a MACPro, but then again, it was never intended to be one.
And as for the argument that you could do it all with a netbook/notebook/desktop/??? yes and you could probably also use a pencil and paper for most of it and your imagination for the rest, but would you? And would you want to?
My netbook was a fine computer but could not replace the macbookpro on trips. The iPad has.
As I recall, China "asked for" and received source code for windows. It really is not closed source anymore, we don't know who all they sold their info to.
There is one way to get access to a sizable ROI based on this scheme. What PSYSTAR is/was doing is buying an UPGRADE license and installing it on a new computer. What if they succeded and then started to buy Windows/office upgrades distros, cracking the install codes and selling machines with this software installed. A full windows/office install (Home premium W7 plus Office Pro) is about $600 the upgrades are about $350, split the difference and you have a pretty good markup on a $400 worth of hardware system.
The accuracy works out when you calibrate the unit properly. Most measurements are only good to about 1-3% or so due to counting statistics, so this effect doesn't matter, Here they are extending the alleged precision far beyond what was capable in the machinery. I am just surprised by the orderliness of the data. Then again, I made a good living torturing numbers with statistical analysis to get them to confess to what my boss wanted to hear.
As someone who made the equipment that the scientist probably used to do the counting, I have one possible explanation. Most Multichannel Analyzers (MCAs) of the time used a line clock to determine the time. They assume that the power company delivered 60Hz power (or 50 Hz in Europe), This frequency was almost never precise but varied by .1 to .2% (one plant where I measured the frequency put out 58.8Hz for example, a real mess for us) from time to time. A systemic variation due to power loads (heating in winter/ AC in summer) could easily bias the power frequency by about the right amount with the right periodicity.
The universe might well be safe.
My bet is that his wife died, probably in a traffic accident. He sounds just like I did when I lost the love of my life 6 years ago. I even thought of trying his idea, but never quite got around to it. No his identity is NOT for sale, only his possessions.
I had pretty good luck at one company that routinely ran password cracker routines on all users (to prevent easily guessed passwords). My trick was to put two words together with a period between them, No password was ever guessed or cracked by the programs. If you really need a bit more obscurity type the letter next to the one in the actual phrase, (using a shift right, for example, whats.up becomes ejsyd.iq ) Any loony toons fan can remember the phrase but who would guess the "encrypted" form?
Frankly, after the disaster that was the last 7 years, the next time I vote for a republican I will be on a jury voting to convict his sorry a$$ and send it to jail.
Technically, there was a time when the payment was to be some large block of stock, complete with anouncements form Blake Stowell that now BSF were partners in the company and lawsuit. Then the stock tanked and BSF decided that cash was better. The so-called "contingency" payments were not the usual kind of contingency payments in a lawsuit, I.E. the lawyer gets paid a part of WHAT you win IF you win. They were, BSF gets 20% of any money that TSG got from certain transaction types that were related to the scam. Some listeners at the conference call thought that it was funny that some of the "contingency" payments had already been made and the case had just been filed, for instance.
So we announce to the engineering and management team that one of them (chosen the day before launch) is going to ride the rocket. That should keep them interested.
I see option 4: the trojan is protecting itself by reducing the nmber of possible virus/trojan alerts you might get and by reducing your bandwidth use by eliminating sharing the P2P files.
I figure that support effort and costs should be very miniml to the college. Just practicine saying "Bummer Dude" and have the Apple and Dell support numbers on the wall.
Beyond language ,beyond buzzwords, read up on the requirements for SEI CMMI certification. Basically the point is to documanent everything, all procedures, all requirements, all test results, everything. Only once have I had the pelasure of working on such a project, the resulting application is 100% rock solid, and delivered ahead of schedule. (a bit over bifdget however, 2of three is not bad). Going in I would have thought that it would be terrible, but once I realized how nice things were without the usual bickering, I would hesitate to work without the SEI cert. You really don't need level 5, level 3 will suffice, but read all of the requierements and get a good coach to help set things up. It is really worth it. Oh, yes, the app is written in C++ and runs on PPC under PSOS.
There is a 99.99% effective prevention tool, it's a LINUX disto installation diskset. Comes in 100's of flavors to suit your preferences.
It may be a part of win XP since the same thing happens on my Motion 1300. the power meter shows up once in a while but there is no pattern that I can see as wo why it does or does not appear.
Actually you should be willing to pay 5 pounds MORE for the system without all of that trash. It would be a big improvement.
Perhapas a better way to put is is "once you have enoormous amounts of money and/or power people want to know what you will be screwing around with next so that they can avoid and/or profit from it."
Not really. MOG has the freedom to start her own "Groklaw"_alike blog and rant to her heart's content. No one will be reading unless she starts making sense, but them's the breaks.
For instance the M-Systems' Fast Flash Disk (FFD) Supports up to 34 GB website . Never tried it myself but it seems simpler than trying to roll your own. Also you can debug and develop with a conventional HD and switch to ramdisk only when necessary. I suspect there will be performance problems using the 32GB of a 4 processor board as a single extent of RAM.
So, how come that LINUX box isn't serving as a firewall to block the worms??? My win XP box had no problems NATed behind a lINUX router-firewall.
Linksys cards with the Broadcom chips are not well supported (if they work at all). You have to use the NDIS program to use windows drivers. It is a problem with a manufacturer (broadcom) not wanting to have its product (the chips) used by any system other than Windows. It is their right, so just never buy their stuff. (On the other hand the Linksys WRT54G runs on Linux, go figure). The linksys cards that use Prism chips work right out of the box.
The reason that governments (or more precisely real armies) do not go in for NBC warfare is that it is difficult to use these technologies and not hurt your own troops. The Germans testified to this after WWII, for instance. Besides which, we know where they live and have promised to retaliate (remember MAD) Terrorists do not care if anything in the US survives or if they can come over here afterwards. They know that we do not know where they live (and would not do anything really damaging even if we did). Hence they do not fear to use such weapons. On the other hand, it is difficult to envision something that can easily replace gasoline as an energy source for automobiles and trucks. Batteries do not come close nor does anything else that I remember hearing about. Unless you can find a way to easily synthesize long chain hydrocarbons from raw energy it will be difficult to replace oil.
Subaru already does this. When your battery becomes "weak" the power locks start malfunctioning. When you bring it in to check the locks they tell you that your battery also needs replacing. SUddenly your locks work again.
You can build a "copy" of XP (its called LINUX) and give it away. Just like the case of the spear, you can build your own. What you cannot do is take your neighbor's spear (pirate XP) and sell that. There is the difference, LINUX is legal, pirating XP is not, You may not use the property (intellectual or otherwise) of another without that person's permission. Besides, who needs the viruses andother problems.
Onemore nucleaaar physicist/rocket scientist puts his $0.02 into the arguement. To escape the earth's gravity you need not attain any particular veocity you just have to get (nearly) infinitly far from the earth. By the time you get to the orbit of Saturn, for example, the gravity effect from the sun (not to mention saturn) is far stronger than that of the earth, so you could seriously claim to have escaped earth's gravity. Geosynchronous orbit is nowhere near far enough to claim to have escaped earth's gravity. It's still the strongest source of the gravity field you are experiencing.