The IPod may have made Apple plenty of money, but the concept isn't revolutionary- its evolutionary. Any person/company could have imagined such a music player. The only thing the world was waiting for was the right technology to make it a reality.
It is their software. If it was the other way around-- suing a company for selling Macs (within which most of the hardware is not made by apple) with an OS other than OSX, then it could be seen as monopolistic. Microsoft's business model is monopolistic because they have hijacked an otherwise open platform. OSX is what makes a mac a mac.
My Macbook Pro goes to sleep when I close the lid, it can stay asleep without being charged for at least 4 days (haven't tried any longer, yet) and if the battery is about to die while its sleeping it automatically hibernates. This means for day to day use, starting up my notebook is as simple as opening the lid and waiting 2 or 3 seconds-- and I have a fully operational OS. Last time I owned a windows notebook (its been a few years) sleep/suspend in windows was a shot in the dark. Windows hasn't gotten suspend/sleep working right yet?
What is hasoline?
The Chevy Volt is a production vehicle slated for release in 2010. It requires _no_ new infrastructure. You plug it in at home for 40 miles of pure electric drive-time, and when your batteries are dead a gasoline power generator kicks in to run the electric motor. It truly is a transition car.
Its like you didn't even read my post and just cut-and-pasted a response. Tell me, did you get it off of johnmccain.com?
You are failing to take into account the efficiency of an electric motor vs a gasoline engine. An example is something like the Chevy Volt, which has a gas powered electric generator to drive the electric motor after the batteries are dead. Burning a gallon of has in a similarly sized care would get you around 25mpg city, the Volt will get ~60mpg when burning gas to generate electricity for the electric motor. Move the electricity generation to a large coal fire plant and even then it is much more efficient than burning gas in your car. Mile for mile you are putting less CO2 into the atmosphere w/ electric cars.
I lost a domain to this kind of crap today. I know plenty of you out there will ask me "why didnt you renew it?". Well, in my case I couldnt. I registered the domain with 1and1 and when i terminated my account with them they unlocked all of my domains and provided me with registration transfer auth codes. Granted I should have attempted to transfer it earlier (1and1 does not provide you with expiration warnings via email if you do not have an account with them)-- Once it expired and ended up on 1and1's 'pendingDelete' list I could do nothing about it. The domain I lost was cadencesmith.com, a photo gallery for my 15 month old daughter, which is now a crappile of pay per click ads. I watched the domain all day waiting for it to disappear from 1and1s dns, and within minutes of when it did it was snatched up. This is the second domain i've lost to this crap. The previous being switch2linux.com. I have had _no_ luck contacting the new owners to get either of them back.
A simple bugfix release is definitely !news. If slashdot were to consistently post stories for simple bugfix releases for major software packages these would be 90% of the news! Imagine MS patch Tuesdays.
That's simply not true. High estimates for the total number of cells in the human body are 100 trillion, a quick google search yields this: "Science NetLinks, a resource for science teachers, stated that there are approximately "ten to the 14th power" (that's 100 trillion) cells in the human body."
maybe they meant 100 billion? I remember from one of my AI classes that there are up to 10,000 synapses per neuron, while other have fewer than 100.
Redhat's legal department confirmed what I had already believed (after all, my boss insisted I found out for sure, which makes perfect sense given the consequences). Redhat, like all other kernel/OSS developers owns copyrights on the code they have produced, but the code is licensed under the GPL. In fact, Redhat, being the great OSS supporter that they are, licenses all of their in house code under the GPL. Their sales department, unfortunately, is run by complete morons that don't understand simple things like the difference between trademarks, copyrights, and licenses. Since Redhat owns its trademark and, in order to preserve that trademark, must protect it, selling Redhat without following their licensing terms is illegal. In house use, however, is fair use.
I work from a company that runs most of its products on top of Redhat EL3 and EL4. While there is something to be said about Redhat's quality of support- for inhouse development wortk it isn't so important. Its value comes form supporting our customers at an OS level alleviating us from supporting the OS. (We require our customers to purchase Redhat support contracts). What I believe _is_ hurting redhat is how their sales department insists that making copies of Redhat is illegal. We have been told time and time again that it is illegal for us to run copies of Redhat that are not paid for within our support contract. The truth is- as long as you aren't expecting support for the unpaid for copies and you are not selling them to other companies (alone or as part of your product, because of redhat trademarks) it is fine to use as many inhouse copies as you want. It took me monthes to convince management at our company that Redhat Licensing is completely different beast than, say, Windows Server licensing while at the same time fighting a battle with the software programmers trying to convince them that Linux is _not_ freeware. The concept of GPL'd software seems to be lost on members of the IT management sector. CentOS has become a good inhouse alternative to redhat since it is binary compatible, but it does not displace any copies of Redhat sold with our product. So, while Redhat may be losing some marketshare for inhouse deployments, they are only losing cusotomers that didn't want the support or that they were essentially *lying* to by requiring them to purchase licenses they were not obligated to purchase.
yes supercapacitors are a great (future) option too. the real advantage to forgoing the entire "hydrogen infrustructure" is you can store electricity however you want and you can generate it using several means. Electric cars are effectively "future proof". We can use everything from fossil fuels, to solar power, to antimatter to generate electricity!
This technology has been 15 to 20 years off for the past 10 years. Improvements in battery technology are here, and cost would come down (much more quickly than fuel cells) if more companies jumped on the electric car bandwagon. We need more companies like this: www.teslamotors.com
people these days are fluent in pushing buttons and understanding the interfaces that were designed to be easy to understand in the first place. Lets not give people 'extra' credit for being able to install software on their notebook.
Making $6-$10 million on a new album the week it comes out is _unheard-of_ in the music biz-- especially since radiohead gets to keep most of it, if not virtually all of it. (When you buy a CD in the store for $14 less than a dollar actually goes to the artist). Also-- this album went platinum in the first week! Huge success for Radiohead.
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"Good question, but this is Russia we're talking about." ?? Someone care to enlighten me what that was about?
they display the blue screen of death during the song 'great destroyer' as an effect, not as a mistake.
The IPod may have made Apple plenty of money, but the concept isn't revolutionary- its evolutionary. Any person/company could have imagined such a music player. The only thing the world was waiting for was the right technology to make it a reality.
It is their software. If it was the other way around-- suing a company for selling Macs (within which most of the hardware is not made by apple) with an OS other than OSX, then it could be seen as monopolistic. Microsoft's business model is monopolistic because they have hijacked an otherwise open platform. OSX is what makes a mac a mac.
what's sad is it took me 5 days to even notice my spelling mistake. can't rely on spell check all the time i guess.
My Macbook Pro goes to sleep when I close the lid, it can stay asleep without being charged for at least 4 days (haven't tried any longer, yet) and if the battery is about to die while its sleeping it automatically hibernates. This means for day to day use, starting up my notebook is as simple as opening the lid and waiting 2 or 3 seconds-- and I have a fully operational OS. Last time I owned a windows notebook (its been a few years) sleep/suspend in windows was a shot in the dark. Windows hasn't gotten suspend/sleep working right yet?
What is hasoline? The Chevy Volt is a production vehicle slated for release in 2010. It requires _no_ new infrastructure. You plug it in at home for 40 miles of pure electric drive-time, and when your batteries are dead a gasoline power generator kicks in to run the electric motor. It truly is a transition car. Its like you didn't even read my post and just cut-and-pasted a response. Tell me, did you get it off of johnmccain.com?
You are failing to take into account the efficiency of an electric motor vs a gasoline engine. An example is something like the Chevy Volt, which has a gas powered electric generator to drive the electric motor after the batteries are dead. Burning a gallon of has in a similarly sized care would get you around 25mpg city, the Volt will get ~60mpg when burning gas to generate electricity for the electric motor. Move the electricity generation to a large coal fire plant and even then it is much more efficient than burning gas in your car. Mile for mile you are putting less CO2 into the atmosphere w/ electric cars.
maybe they aren't trying hard enough. grub can boot anything!
The fact it is made out of aluminum instead of plastic. Aluminum is plentiful, infinitely recyclable, and damn slick looking.
... then there is something wrong with your hardware. I haven't had itunes crash once in the 3 months i've had my MBPro w/ Leopard.
multitouch pad? two finger tap :)
gee, thanks for the advice.
I lost a domain to this kind of crap today. I know plenty of you out there will ask me "why didnt you renew it?". Well, in my case I couldnt. I registered the domain with 1and1 and when i terminated my account with them they unlocked all of my domains and provided me with registration transfer auth codes. Granted I should have attempted to transfer it earlier (1and1 does not provide you with expiration warnings via email if you do not have an account with them)-- Once it expired and ended up on 1and1's 'pendingDelete' list I could do nothing about it. The domain I lost was cadencesmith.com, a photo gallery for my 15 month old daughter, which is now a crappile of pay per click ads. I watched the domain all day waiting for it to disappear from 1and1s dns, and within minutes of when it did it was snatched up. This is the second domain i've lost to this crap. The previous being switch2linux.com. I have had _no_ luck contacting the new owners to get either of them back.
Microsoft said something that didn't make me upset. hmm. in fact, it was the right thing to do! (i'm scared)
i'd ever see a new OS that would make people *want* to stick with XP.
A simple bugfix release is definitely !news. If slashdot were to consistently post stories for simple bugfix releases for major software packages these would be 90% of the news! Imagine MS patch Tuesdays.
That's simply not true. High estimates for the total number of cells in the human body are 100 trillion, a quick google search yields this: "Science NetLinks, a resource for science teachers, stated that there are approximately "ten to the 14th power" (that's 100 trillion) cells in the human body." maybe they meant 100 billion? I remember from one of my AI classes that there are up to 10,000 synapses per neuron, while other have fewer than 100.
Redhat's legal department confirmed what I had already believed (after all, my boss insisted I found out for sure, which makes perfect sense given the consequences). Redhat, like all other kernel/OSS developers owns copyrights on the code they have produced, but the code is licensed under the GPL. In fact, Redhat, being the great OSS supporter that they are, licenses all of their in house code under the GPL. Their sales department, unfortunately, is run by complete morons that don't understand simple things like the difference between trademarks, copyrights, and licenses. Since Redhat owns its trademark and, in order to preserve that trademark, must protect it, selling Redhat without following their licensing terms is illegal. In house use, however, is fair use.
I work from a company that runs most of its products on top of Redhat EL3 and EL4. While there is something to be said about Redhat's quality of support- for inhouse development wortk it isn't so important. Its value comes form supporting our customers at an OS level alleviating us from supporting the OS. (We require our customers to purchase Redhat support contracts). What I believe _is_ hurting redhat is how their sales department insists that making copies of Redhat is illegal. We have been told time and time again that it is illegal for us to run copies of Redhat that are not paid for within our support contract. The truth is- as long as you aren't expecting support for the unpaid for copies and you are not selling them to other companies (alone or as part of your product, because of redhat trademarks) it is fine to use as many inhouse copies as you want. It took me monthes to convince management at our company that Redhat Licensing is completely different beast than, say, Windows Server licensing while at the same time fighting a battle with the software programmers trying to convince them that Linux is _not_ freeware. The concept of GPL'd software seems to be lost on members of the IT management sector. CentOS has become a good inhouse alternative to redhat since it is binary compatible, but it does not displace any copies of Redhat sold with our product. So, while Redhat may be losing some marketshare for inhouse deployments, they are only losing cusotomers that didn't want the support or that they were essentially *lying* to by requiring them to purchase licenses they were not obligated to purchase.
yes supercapacitors are a great (future) option too. the real advantage to forgoing the entire "hydrogen infrustructure" is you can store electricity however you want and you can generate it using several means. Electric cars are effectively "future proof". We can use everything from fossil fuels, to solar power, to antimatter to generate electricity!
This technology has been 15 to 20 years off for the past 10 years. Improvements in battery technology are here, and cost would come down (much more quickly than fuel cells) if more companies jumped on the electric car bandwagon. We need more companies like this: www.teslamotors.com
people these days are fluent in pushing buttons and understanding the interfaces that were designed to be easy to understand in the first place. Lets not give people 'extra' credit for being able to install software on their notebook.
really makes you wonder what the artists do get, doesnt it?
Making $6-$10 million on a new album the week it comes out is _unheard-of_ in the music biz-- especially since radiohead gets to keep most of it, if not virtually all of it. (When you buy a CD in the store for $14 less than a dollar actually goes to the artist). Also-- this album went platinum in the first week! Huge success for Radiohead.