There are two problems for MS. First, they are not as structurally big as IBM was when IBM had their problems in the 80s. Second, MS is putting all (or most) of their eggs in the Windows 8 basket. I just cannot see Windows 8 getting much adoption in the corporate world. It does not appear to be a good environment for being productive. It seems to me to be an environment for consuming entertainment media.
There real problem is that their visionary (BG) stepped down and their business guy started running the show. It was at that point that Apple really took off. Apple made decisions that projected a vision. Microsoft made decisions to protect their own products. Now that Apple has lost their visionary and replaced him with a business guy, we will see if history repeats itself or not.
Thus, it converts applied electricity to photons, but also converts a heat differential to electricity, which gets converted to photons as well, meaning it's sucking heat out of its immediate evironment. Cool stuff, if you'll pardon the pun.
That must be why it was 70F yesterday and only 38F today?
I once observed a low threshold LED (has a much less than 1.4V on-voltage) that was only attached by one lead, with the other lead hanging freely in space. The LED was quite clearly "on". When you put your finger closer to the free hanging lead (but not touch) it got brighter. It was just acting as an antenna in a room with lots of EM radiation around, and the induced current was enough to light it up.
Used to do that with neon bulbs on CB radio antennas in the 1970s. Lit up everytime you pressed the talk button.
As the researchers explain in their study, the key to achieving a power conversion efficiency above 100%, i.e., âoeunity efficiency,â is to greatly decrease the applied voltage. According to their calculations, as the voltage is halved, the input power is decreased by a factor of 4, while the emitted light power scales linearly with voltage so that itâ(TM)s also only halved. In other words, an LEDâ(TM)s efficiency increases as its output power decreases. (The inverse of this relationship - that LED efficiency decreases as its output power increases - is one of the biggest hurdles in designing bright, efficient LED lights.)
Or just change the definition of power to only mean one input instead of all inputs (leaving out the heat energy that is also converted). By doing that, I can claim that my 1969 VW achieves a power conversion efficiency above 100%, too - assuming I am going down hill, with a strong tail wind and the engine at idle.
Various shells store command history as a.[shell name]_history file in the users home directory which can be left between sessions. Thats happened for years and root can view that too.
Sure, this may be a bug but frankly its a non issue.
It might not be a high risk issue, but it probably should still be fixed.
Actually, about 200 of them plus some lithium batteries and mantles from coleman lanterns. The americium-241 in the smoke detectors is used to convert the thorium-232 to make uranium-233 with the lithium used as a catalyst. The uranium-233 is fissionable or can be used to make a dirty device. There are a couple of other requirements that I have left out, but are commonly available from big box stores as my intention is not to have anyone actually do this. The point being, though, is that it isn't too hard.
The US govt's seemingly quixotic investment of hundreds of billions in missile defense seems more justified in light of this. When "some guy" can do it, it can't be long until almost any nation can.
Longer term I have the same concern about nuclear weapons. What if somebody found a simple, cheap way to make highly enriched uranium? It would be a disaster.
You don't need highly enriched uranium, just enough smoke detectors.
This. The popularity of the iPad will do more to bring computing to the world's poor than the XO-1 and similar programs ever could, since human selfishness trumps human generosity every time.
Compared to a typical PC, a tablet is smaller, cheaper, more efficient, more durable, easier to learn, and will probably get replaced in a year or two despite not being particularly obsolete. Tablets last a long time, and with Apple pumping out hundreds of millions of them every year, it's only a matter of time before every family on the planet can get hold of one--albeit one a few models old.
So "democratizing", not "disposable". Of course, that depends on how popular they are, so... BUY TABLETS, EVERYONE! The latest and greatest! They're shiny! And then resell or donate them. As soon as possible.
Oh, and if somebody out there could buy a Bugatti Veyron, try it for a month or two, then put it on Craigslist for cheap...I'd sure appreciate it.
Now if they could just get electricity, wifi and 3g to all of those millions of people.
First, good luck getting a decently powered Netbook at 1/3 of the cost.
Now, as for the differences:
1. It runs iOS 2. It has the App Store 3. It is lighter and thinner 4. It has better battery life
For many, probably most, users none of those will matter much. Such users are most likely better off with a Netbook (or inexpensive laptop). Users that depend on Windows applications will almost certainly be better off with a laptop.
But, in some cases, it does make sense, especially in vertical markets.
1. It is true that iOS is not available on a netbook, but what good is iOS other than the platform to run other Apple apps on? 2. Android has it's app store and Ubuntu has their repository -- all of them have 10s of thousands of apps some useful, many not. 3. The iPad is, but the original poster stated that they purchased the iPad plus a case with a built in bluetooth keyboard. That negates the thinner and lighter. 4. My Asus eeePC ($250) gets 9hours battery life, which is less than my iPad2, but then again, I can always slap in a spare battery if traveling and there isn't AC available.
I'm not saying to not buy an iPad, I was just questioning the business decision to buy 150 of them with case and keyboard for significantly more cost.
My asus eeePC performs very similar to my iPad2. Obviously, there are different applications, etc. But, browsing the web and checking email on one is not that different than the other. The eeePC was purchased new for $250. Of course, with the eeePC, I can also do word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and other business tasks.
Deficits for the eeePC is 1024x600 resolution, but that isn't a show stopper. Lack of touch screen is not, maybe, because I like to eat snacks while working on both, but potato chips really are a bad idea with an iPad.
Don't get me wrong, an iPad is great for simple consumption of web information. It just seems that a netbook is almost as good (if not as good) for the same task plus you can do a lot more business related tasks with it.
Available apps, 3G connection, touch interface, weight. Also you don't have to use the keyboard, it's just there in case you happen to have a need to enter a large amount of text. They're probably not used very often but since they cost about the same as a month of data service it was a very small part of the TCO calculation and potentially added a large amount of value.
Weight of the iPad, the case and the built in keyboard for the case probably isn't significantly different than an Asus eeepc. 3G is available on netbooks, so that isn't an issue, either. Same with the thickness. Touch interface would be nice, though. As for apps, I would doubt that the iPad or even Android have more, truly usable apps than either Windows or Linux.
So ignoring, the cost of 3G service, which would be the same regardless, paying $600+ for iPad/case/keyboard combos versus $250 for the netbook makes good business sense how?
The number mentioned was 150 units, so that comes out to be a difference of $52,500. The difference is greater than the purchase price of the same quantity of netbooks. I am not trying to troll or anything, I'm just trying to see the logic behind such decision.
for everyone to sell their old iPad! My biggest pet peeve, it's the most expensive "disposable" personal electronic device. It seems like it's embarrassing to be seen with the not-quite-latest version
Indeed it is! Everybody must sell their old iPad for cheap! To penny-pinching bastards like myself, who would like an iPad to play with, but can't justify handing over $500+ for one...
Anyone know the best place to get a good deal on a used-but-still-working-reliably iPad?
Apple wants everybody to buy a new iPad but doesn't really want them to sell their old iPad for cheap. If the market is flooded with used iPads, the used iPad price will drop. When that happens, it will be harder for Apple to sell new iPads at the current price. Why buy a new iPad 3 for $600 when I can buy a used iPad 2 for $200?
While some people will sell their old iPads to buy an iPad 3, then when Apple releases the iPad 4, they won't have to worry about competing against android or microsoft tablets, the stiff competition will be their own used products.
Pixels aren't everything. In the film days, a 35mm slide had significantly higher resolution that the new iPad screen. That does not mean one would want to have a screen only 35mm as it would be very difficult to see for any real work.
While I am all for higher resolution, ultimately the physical size is important, too. Take your two 22 inch screens, if you were to put all of the data on those two screens on the single iPad screen, would you be able to work just as effectively?
The Jumbotron at the stadium has lousy resolution compared to a modern iPad, but it definitely works better than using a single iPad as the Jumbotron.
pedophile will target predominately work where they have contact with children. It isn't new. But the government is TRYING at least to put obstacle and certainly DO NOT shuffle pedophile professor or teacher in anotehr district.
Furthermore I would argue it is much more important to compare the number of pedophile in church not agaisnt somewhere where you would expect pedophile to sneak in, but agaisnt the average pedophile rate. And yes pedo rate are higher in church. School are not pretending to be moral bastion. Church are pretending to be moral bastion and example. This is where the fucking significant difference is.
Once again, the Pew Foundation studies show just the opposite of what you are claiming. Pedophilia and other sexual contact in schools is rampant and goes unreported. Teachers are routinely reassigned to other schools when it occurs. And, settlements with the victims, if any are minimal.
The studies also show that the rate of pedophilia among catholic priests is significantly lower than the general population rate and moderately lower than the rates in other professions that work with youth including physicians, teachers, sports programs and other youth program leaders. The rate in the catholic church is also lower than most other christian churches.
Pedophilia has nothing to do with the catholic church or any church pretending to be a moral bastion. It has everything to do with sick individuals who prey on children getting unfettered access to them.
China doesn't need to sink our ships, they just need to unload their US investments and treasuries to make our currency worthless and hyper inflation. While we still build weapons to fight a physical war from the last century, China is in position to cripple the US with a modern day economic war.
Today, there's zero tolerance, formal processes, and a much greater awareness.
That may be true in the U.S. thanks to our court system actively pursuing abusers, but that's not what I have seen around the world. Irelend has supposedly not received cooperation for criminal investigations and cover-ups may still be going on in Asia.
I believe the Vatican is making the changes that were made in the US the norm for all diocese. As for Ireland, it was church officials who reported it to the authorities and a number of bishops actually resigned over it.
The problem with other parts of the world deal with social norms. When young boys and girls are getting married at the age of 14, sometimes to a significantly older spouse, is that abuse or not. By western standards, it is abuse, but it is not seen that way locally. Granted this occurs mainly in 2nd and 3rd world countries, but it wasn't that long ago that even in the US, people were married by the time they were 15.
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There are two problems for MS. First, they are not as structurally big as IBM was when IBM had their problems in the 80s. Second, MS is putting all (or most) of their eggs in the Windows 8 basket. I just cannot see Windows 8 getting much adoption in the corporate world. It does not appear to be a good environment for being productive. It seems to me to be an environment for consuming entertainment media.
There real problem is that their visionary (BG) stepped down and their business guy started running the show. It was at that point that Apple really took off. Apple made decisions that projected a vision. Microsoft made decisions to protect their own products. Now that Apple has lost their visionary and replaced him with a business guy, we will see if history repeats itself or not.
Agreed. Microsoft will still be around much like IBM as they still contribute value to the market at the enterprise level.
I'm not sure that a tablet OS is really going to work well for enterprise users who just want to run Word on a desktop PC.
Unless the next version of Office only runs on Windows 8.
Thus, it converts applied electricity to photons, but also converts a heat differential to electricity, which gets converted to photons as well, meaning it's sucking heat out of its immediate evironment. Cool stuff, if you'll pardon the pun.
That must be why it was 70F yesterday and only 38F today?
I once observed a low threshold LED (has a much less than 1.4V on-voltage) that was only attached by one lead, with the other lead hanging freely in space. The LED was quite clearly "on". When you put your finger closer to the free hanging lead (but not touch) it got brighter. It was just acting as an antenna in a room with lots of EM radiation around, and the induced current was enough to light it up.
Used to do that with neon bulbs on CB radio antennas in the 1970s. Lit up everytime you pressed the talk button.
From the article:
As the researchers explain in their study, the key to achieving a power conversion efficiency above 100%, i.e., âoeunity efficiency,â is to greatly decrease the applied voltage. According to their calculations, as the voltage is halved, the input power is decreased by a factor of 4, while the emitted light power scales linearly with voltage so that itâ(TM)s also only halved. In other words, an LEDâ(TM)s efficiency increases as its output power decreases. (The inverse of this relationship - that LED efficiency decreases as its output power increases - is one of the biggest hurdles in designing bright, efficient LED lights.)
Or just change the definition of power to only mean one input instead of all inputs (leaving out the heat energy that is also converted). By doing that, I can claim that my 1969 VW achieves a power conversion efficiency above 100%, too - assuming I am going down hill, with a strong tail wind and the engine at idle.
Yeah, I saw that after I posted,
Various shells store command history as a .[shell name]_history file in the users home directory which can be left between sessions. Thats happened for years and root can view that too.
Sure, this may be a bug but frankly its a non issue.
It might not be a high risk issue, but it probably should still be fixed.
Does this impact KDE's Konsole, too?
Actually, about 200 of them plus some lithium batteries and mantles from coleman lanterns. The americium-241 in the smoke detectors is used to convert the thorium-232 to make uranium-233 with the lithium used as a catalyst. The uranium-233 is fissionable or can be used to make a dirty device. There are a couple of other requirements that I have left out, but are commonly available from big box stores as my intention is not to have anyone actually do this. The point being, though, is that it isn't too hard.
The US govt's seemingly quixotic investment of hundreds of billions in missile defense seems more justified in light of this. When "some guy" can do it, it can't be long until almost any nation can.
Longer term I have the same concern about nuclear weapons. What if somebody found a simple, cheap way to make highly enriched uranium? It would be a disaster.
You don't need highly enriched uranium, just enough smoke detectors.
This. The popularity of the iPad will do more to bring computing to the world's poor than the XO-1 and similar programs ever could, since human selfishness trumps human generosity every time.
Compared to a typical PC, a tablet is smaller, cheaper, more efficient, more durable, easier to learn, and will probably get replaced in a year or two despite not being particularly obsolete. Tablets last a long time, and with Apple pumping out hundreds of millions of them every year, it's only a matter of time before every family on the planet can get hold of one--albeit one a few models old.
So "democratizing", not "disposable". Of course, that depends on how popular they are, so... BUY TABLETS, EVERYONE! The latest and greatest! They're shiny! And then resell or donate them. As soon as possible.
Oh, and if somebody out there could buy a Bugatti Veyron, try it for a month or two, then put it on Craigslist for cheap...I'd sure appreciate it.
Now if they could just get electricity, wifi and 3g to all of those millions of people.
First, good luck getting a decently powered Netbook at 1/3 of the cost.
Now, as for the differences:
1. It runs iOS
2. It has the App Store
3. It is lighter and thinner
4. It has better battery life
For many, probably most, users none of those will matter much. Such users are most likely better off with a Netbook (or inexpensive laptop). Users that depend on Windows applications will almost certainly be better off with a laptop.
But, in some cases, it does make sense, especially in vertical markets.
1. It is true that iOS is not available on a netbook, but what good is iOS other than the platform to run other Apple apps on?
2. Android has it's app store and Ubuntu has their repository -- all of them have 10s of thousands of apps some useful, many not.
3. The iPad is, but the original poster stated that they purchased the iPad plus a case with a built in bluetooth keyboard. That negates the thinner and lighter.
4. My Asus eeePC ($250) gets 9hours battery life, which is less than my iPad2, but then again, I can always slap in a spare battery if traveling and there isn't AC available.
I'm not saying to not buy an iPad, I was just questioning the business decision to buy 150 of them with case and keyboard for significantly more cost.
My asus eeePC performs very similar to my iPad2. Obviously, there are different applications, etc. But, browsing the web and checking email on one is not that different than the other. The eeePC was purchased new for $250. Of course, with the eeePC, I can also do word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and other business tasks.
Deficits for the eeePC is 1024x600 resolution, but that isn't a show stopper. Lack of touch screen is not, maybe, because I like to eat snacks while working on both, but potato chips really are a bad idea with an iPad.
Don't get me wrong, an iPad is great for simple consumption of web information. It just seems that a netbook is almost as good (if not as good) for the same task plus you can do a lot more business related tasks with it.
Available apps, 3G connection, touch interface, weight. Also you don't have to use the keyboard, it's just there in case you happen to have a need to enter a large amount of text. They're probably not used very often but since they cost about the same as a month of data service it was a very small part of the TCO calculation and potentially added a large amount of value.
Weight of the iPad, the case and the built in keyboard for the case probably isn't significantly different than an Asus eeepc. 3G is available on netbooks, so that isn't an issue, either. Same with the thickness. Touch interface would be nice, though. As for apps, I would doubt that the iPad or even Android have more, truly usable apps than either Windows or Linux.
So ignoring, the cost of 3G service, which would be the same regardless, paying $600+ for iPad/case/keyboard combos versus $250 for the netbook makes good business sense how?
The number mentioned was 150 units, so that comes out to be a difference of $52,500. The difference is greater than the purchase price of the same quantity of netbooks. I am not trying to troll or anything, I'm just trying to see the logic behind such decision.
As far as the fanboyz are concerned, the name is I-pad MUST-HAVE.
That should be I-Must-Have-Pad
for everyone to sell their old iPad! My biggest pet peeve, it's the most expensive "disposable" personal electronic device. It seems like it's embarrassing to be seen with the not-quite-latest version
Indeed it is! Everybody must sell their old iPad for cheap! To penny-pinching bastards like myself, who would like an iPad to play with, but can't justify handing over $500+ for one...
Anyone know the best place to get a good deal on a used-but-still-working-reliably iPad?
Apple wants everybody to buy a new iPad but doesn't really want them to sell their old iPad for cheap. If the market is flooded with used iPads, the used iPad price will drop. When that happens, it will be harder for Apple to sell new iPads at the current price. Why buy a new iPad 3 for $600 when I can buy a used iPad 2 for $200?
While some people will sell their old iPads to buy an iPad 3, then when Apple releases the iPad 4, they won't have to worry about competing against android or microsoft tablets, the stiff competition will be their own used products.
Pixels aren't everything. In the film days, a 35mm slide had significantly higher resolution that the new iPad screen. That does not mean one would want to have a screen only 35mm as it would be very difficult to see for any real work.
While I am all for higher resolution, ultimately the physical size is important, too. Take your two 22 inch screens, if you were to put all of the data on those two screens on the single iPad screen, would you be able to work just as effectively?
The Jumbotron at the stadium has lousy resolution compared to a modern iPad, but it definitely works better than using a single iPad as the Jumbotron.
Well if you are at home, you would use your home wi-fi not 3G/4G. And isn't this a negative with all 4G devices?
No. Sprint still offers unlimited data on 4G.
Ummm, an iPad in a cover with a built in bluetooth keyboard, how is that different from say a netbook at 1/3 the cost?
I thought that it was impossible (theoretically) to go faster than the speed of light.
It is easy to theoretically go faster than the speed of light. It's darn near impossible to actually do it.
Producing energy is not completely safe no matter what method you use.
Tell me again what the safety issues are in the 'operation' of solar panels?
Well, maybe not in the operation of solar panels, but the production of said panels uses a lot of very toxic compounds
pedophile will target predominately work where they have contact with children. It isn't new. But the government is TRYING at least to put obstacle and certainly DO NOT shuffle pedophile professor or teacher in anotehr district.
Furthermore I would argue it is much more important to compare the number of pedophile in church not agaisnt somewhere where you would expect pedophile to sneak in, but agaisnt the average pedophile rate. And yes pedo rate are higher in church. School are not pretending to be moral bastion. Church are pretending to be moral bastion and example. This is where the fucking significant difference is.
Once again, the Pew Foundation studies show just the opposite of what you are claiming. Pedophilia and other sexual contact in schools is rampant and goes unreported. Teachers are routinely reassigned to other schools when it occurs. And, settlements with the victims, if any are minimal.
The studies also show that the rate of pedophilia among catholic priests is significantly lower than the general population rate and moderately lower than the rates in other professions that work with youth including physicians, teachers, sports programs and other youth program leaders. The rate in the catholic church is also lower than most other christian churches.
Pedophilia has nothing to do with the catholic church or any church pretending to be a moral bastion. It has everything to do with sick individuals who prey on children getting unfettered access to them.
China doesn't need to sink our ships, they just need to unload their US investments and treasuries to make our currency worthless and hyper inflation. While we still build weapons to fight a physical war from the last century, China is in position to cripple the US with a modern day economic war.
I don't know about Anonymous, but your sig should read Carpe Scrautum,
Today, there's zero tolerance, formal processes, and a much greater awareness.
That may be true in the U.S. thanks to our court system actively pursuing abusers, but that's not what I have seen around the world. Irelend has supposedly not received cooperation for criminal investigations and cover-ups may still be going on in Asia.
I believe the Vatican is making the changes that were made in the US the norm for all diocese. As for Ireland, it was church officials who reported it to the authorities and a number of bishops actually resigned over it.
The problem with other parts of the world deal with social norms. When young boys and girls are getting married at the age of 14, sometimes to a significantly older spouse, is that abuse or not. By western standards, it is abuse, but it is not seen that way locally. Granted this occurs mainly in 2nd and 3rd world countries, but it wasn't that long ago that even in the US, people were married by the time they were 15.