There's an entire sub-culture of people who still support Volkswagon bugs. I know these cars are more complicated, but why not sell the EV-1's? Someone in Mexico's bound to be willing to make the needed parts, just they like several Mexican companies now support the Volkswagon Bug (original models).
My Colleagues at Apple: I've taken the liberty of copying you on this incredible Dr. Who episode. Thank so much for observing our cone of silence on all Apple activity. -Steve Jobs
>Kleinberg, however, ruled that no one has the >right to publish trade secrets that only could >have been provided by someone breaking the law.
I believe reasonable doubt comes into play here. There is no reason to believe someone who signed a trade agreement released this information, but then again, that's still for the next part of the trial.
There is every possibility that someone found out about this by seeing a box left somewhere it shouldn't have been. There is every possiblity that there was a source that never signed that agreement and therefore didnt break a 'law'. And there is also another possibility that if someone signed something, they didn't know what they were signing. It's called contractual fraud. And dat's illegal.
They're going to steal my new rap album I've been cooking up with my homeys over IM!!! De Don Got Da Riiiiiiiiggghhhhhtttt!
>you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, > assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, > worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, > distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium.
I don't think this will save the US Government or help them in any way, other than provide a honeypot where hackers, eager to get at the latest versions will attempt to hack away.
Of course this could be just as bad as if it were never updated, which it probably won't be until two months after the hackers and the rest of the world gets it. After all -- we're talking the US Government here. I bet any one of the Fed IT guys would tell you it takes at least three months or longer before anyone agrees it's okay to install a new update.
It's more important to shut down a project bringing information of value into the scientific community, thereby leaving 4 Million or so dollars around so that can be spent on making sure the control knobs on a Stealth Bomber are painted with white stripes instead of no paint?
"Holy Hand Grenades Batman", I think they maybe onto something there.
The most logical service...Ultimate Share-A-Show.
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The most logical service at this point in terms of what to add, that would be a leapfrog over just about everyone, would definitely be a distribution service based on something TIVO's already mentioned with the outside world.
Share-a-show Technology.
Basically under the concept of 'networking' and community. It's already been established that with Tivo-To-Go, it's expected you'll share shows with your family and friends.
NOW -- Take that a step farther. Suppose I get 50 people who all like Trek. Each person can share a particular trek episode with 6 people. So, you decide how many of the six 'burned' copies of Trek Episode 5 you're going to want to distribute among those 50 people who watch trek. If 9 people out of that 50 want to share, you've got more than enough copies of trek to go around. How do we get our very own copy to view? Well gee, I connect my tivo to the trek community. What do I get back? A list of every single Trek episode I can now download.
This beats HBO on demand when you don't have HBO. Of course it might be restricted by what you're subscribed to via your cable/satellite company but you'd basically be able to download off broadband your favorite shows. Things your single tivo just couldn't get because you could only tape one or two things at a time. Your favorite shows, any show on demand just so long as their Tivo (or computer) was online, was on broadband and had some distribution tokens left.
Well.... *I* would have named it Slash*nix, in honor of this oft-re-usable collection of articles, files and assorted other junk we like talking about so much here on Slashdot.
Ah, slight nitpick... the Hard Drive is 40GB. You're off by 20GB. This is more than enough space for a Macintosh that would be used by someone who is focusing on reading email, writing documents and a few basic issues of why you'd by a small PC in the first place. You're not buying it to crunch numbers, you're buying it to be 'basically useful' to you.
Personally, I think Apple's done the right thing at exactly the right time. There are so many viruses, trojans, etc on the PC side of the house and virtually none on the mac side by comparison -that makes a lot of PC users and the media stand up and take notice. Finally Apple simplicity and anonymity pays off, and you really don't need to do much at all, just plunk down $499 and cannibalize the PC garbage lying around the house to escape the MS-Insanity.
The $499 version specs:
1.25GHz PowerPC G4 256MB DDR333 SDRAM ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB DDR video memory 40GB Ultra ATA hard drive Combo drive DVI or VGA video output AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth optional
I hope this does happen in the USA, but only to companies.
A) Too many companies leave false, misleading information. B) Too many companies still believe a Web site is something you can build and leave alone, or revisit only once a year. C) It'll keep large companies from hiring part-time Webmasters, and encourage more full time hires to conduct regular Web site updates.
Considering that one of the reasons Scott Bakula was chosen for the part of Captain Archer is his attraction with female viewers.
Add to that:
* the horrible choice of popular-top-40-wishywashy-ballady type of music for the theme song (again to attract female viewers to make the show seem less "sci-fi-ish") * the immediate concept introduced in the series with the mention of "time travel", teasing the existing fans and the Quantum Leap fan base with the idea that there might be some actual time travel-ness in store for Captain Archer...
And that's just a sample of the groundwork laid by the Trek production team to pursue the female viewer. Adding one 'bombshell' hidden under a wig and ears as Proto-Starfleet's first vulcan officer was simply a way of nailing down the testosterone side of the equation. You typically don't market a woman to attract women. There are exceptions, but Blalock's character wasn't meant to be "Mrs. Murder She Wrote". That wasn't the market target since that market's much older (despite being more female than male).
At any rate, women were extensively marketed to. IMO, it's a misunderstanding of how to do that in relation to Sci-Fi that radically hurts Sci-Fi on TV.
Ah..I misunderstood that part. Thanks. The configurations are different to produce more accurate results because of minute unintentional differences in the specs. Gotcha.
I wonder then -- This part wasn't discussed although the rovers are still operational: Is it impossible to upload the correct configuration at this point? (aside from the past data being re-calculated against the correct config).
Creeping errors
Although their designs are identical, each instrument is unique because of quirks in the materials they are made from. So before the rovers were launched, each instrument was calibrated using known rock samples. The measurements from each rover are then processed using the calibration files, but because of the mix-up, researchers were using the wrong ones. As a result, small errors have crept into the APXS results, affecting measurements of sodium, magnesium and aluminium abundance.
Perhaps someone can clarify this statement? (Since I am not an engineer, eh?)... I'm wondering why it's so important to have differing configurations for the sensors in the first place. Wouldn't it be wise to collect exactly the same kind of information regardless of how complex if it's all being sent via transmission back to us anyway? Wouldn't it be extremely important to have the exact same configuration on BOTH sensors? I would think the end result would be useful when comparing the chemical composition of any particular area. It would be like hacking off a sensor "at the knees" when you had no significant reason to do so wouldn't it?
This was checked. A number of users have already reported that:
A) there was no choice provided to them - so it's not the same situation everywhere.
B) even if it's strictly to the browser (and not a part of the player), it is an add-on that will show up in some browsers where the toolbars have been declared turned off. Yet another factor to be concerned about.
C) as a toolbar add-on, it presents a danger as Yahoo updates that toolbar, or sells space/functionality on that toolbar to others. As I'm an IT manager, the last thing I can afford is Yahoo making updates that will further degrade system performance, or cause an unwanted reaction from a 3rd-party supplied toolbar or accessory to that toolbar.
Consider that nearly every.1 release of OS X comes with at least some functionality changes, security updates, etc, and those updates are exceptionally seamless in comparison to the typical MS techie handholding that has to take place with every Service Pack release (and nearly every security update)....
The software as a service aspects with Apple are off the charts:)
I have to agree with you. His comment of "Flash Blows" isn't real useful.
But something to take back to Macromedia -- It seems to me that Macromedia has a design and development community responsiblity, as well as a corporate one. That responsiblity is to provide a clear-cut interface to the results of that same design and development. No other add-ons, no other distractions from what I designed the end result to be. Yes, the toolset permits add-ons. But those add-ons arent supposed to be included by default with the product in question. If Yahoo wants their darn toolbar in with the product, let them offer the toolbar separately.
The moment Macromedia starts messing with my designs and UI considerations is the moment I start seriously looking at other avenues, as distasteful as it may be at first to do so, and I will start saying things like "Flash Sucks" to my customers.
That said, "Flash Sucks" comments are a great barometer. If Macromedia doesn't want "Flash Sucks" comments, they should improve the product, not add things that demean it or detract from it -- especially without interviewing the community before the implementation of something really potentially hurtful like this.
I don't think even having a process to 'disable' the toolbar in an the interface is remotely acceptable, let alone having to decide to disable it when people install the player themselves.
As developers and corporate end-users, we can not accept something integrated with a web site to suddenly acquire an unnecessary UI element to join the browser screen, especially in something where the UI was supposed to be clean and clear. You will have single handedly broken a look, feel and usability factor that was designed for a client, and the client might just well come to me asking why it's broken. I'll have to spend time and money to fix it. In my mind and possibly reality Macromedia's going to get the bill for any hours of work I spend doing that, as well as the time spend calming down my client.
This opens up the door for advertising to be sent, interrupting or preceding what is supposed to be a design, presentation, logo or splash...Why? Simply because I (or my client) was told to trust something Macromedia decided to add on for those unsuspecting souls who download the new player.
The moment a board member of an organization I'm helping decides to call me in a rage over the Yahoo toolbar showing up in something that's NOT supposed to have any other UI add-ons, I will heavily consider finding a way to sue Macromedia for damages. This is a 'design and programming environment', not Macromedia's or Yahoo's excuse (or their advertising clients excuse) for a billboard. I don't want Yahoo's garbage interrupting my work, or putting it at risk in any way, which is a huge possibility considering a newly-downloaded component of the previously installed toolbar (even it it doesnt contain anything harmful right away) could contain yet another add-on from yet another company I didn't expect to have to deal with before.
They need to change this path before this gets exponentially worse. Take the Yahoo toolbar out permanently, and let Yahoo develop an alternative Flash player if they want one of their own with a toolbar in it so badly.
Let's think of this in terms of the money...
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There's no reason why a network run "for free" couldn't make money for the government and be completely free for the public in turn -- just establish the it as a network subsidizes most High School cable/satellite content these days. Let it be underwritten and sponsored by Macdonalds, Mobil and any number of other great companies like that. They are more than willing to let their names be applied to just about everything on PBS, so the same concept should be applied here.
Corporations can certainly compete and continue to influence as many people as possible into buying their lousy products.
I don't see why this would be an issue. After all, if a major corporation like Apple Computer can make current applications like "Pages" (i.e. MS Word) and "Keynote" (i.e. MS Powerpoint), there is no reason why OpenOffice can't do something similar, with similar keystrokes and functionality. As others have mentioned here, there's plenty of previous packages, such as WordPerfect providing more than adequate historical representation.
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There's an entire sub-culture of people who still support Volkswagon bugs. I know these cars are more complicated, but why not sell the EV-1's? Someone in Mexico's bound to be willing to make the needed parts, just they like several Mexican companies now support the Volkswagon Bug (original models).
FreeAtmospheres.com [FreeAtmospheresOnTheMoonsOfYourChoice.com]
I dunno. I'd give you an exact date but their Web site leaves me smitten with banal hilarity.
There's no way Matt Groening crew will pass this up. Guaranteed this is going to be a Simpsons episode about this.
I thought for sure they were talking about "Fellowship" the Tap-Dancing hobbit musical in LA...
y le/TapDancing.Hobbits.Bring.New.Light.To.ring-8375 27.shtml
http://www.dailytrojan.com/news/2005/01/21/Lifest
How much beer was consumed in the planning, building and dry runs?
>Kleinberg, however, ruled that no one has the
>right to publish trade secrets that only could
>have been provided by someone breaking the law.
I believe reasonable doubt comes into play here. There is no reason to believe someone who signed a trade agreement released this information, but then again, that's still for the next part of the trial.
There is every possibility that someone found out about this by seeing a box left somewhere it shouldn't have been. There is every possiblity that there was a source that never signed that agreement and therefore didnt break a 'law'. And there is also another possibility that if someone signed something, they didn't know what they were signing. It's called contractual fraud. And dat's illegal.
They're going to steal my new rap album I've been cooking up with my homeys over IM!!! De Don Got Da Riiiiiiiiggghhhhhtttt!
>you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries,
> assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual,
> worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform,
> distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium.
I don't think this will save the US Government or help them in any way, other than provide a honeypot where hackers, eager to get at the latest versions will attempt to hack away.
Of course this could be just as bad as if it were never updated, which it probably won't be until two months after the hackers and the rest of the world gets it. After all -- we're talking the US Government here. I bet any one of the Fed IT guys would tell you it takes at least three months or longer before anyone agrees it's okay to install a new update.
It's more important to shut down a project bringing information of value into the scientific community, thereby leaving 4 Million or so dollars around so that can be spent on making sure the control knobs on a Stealth Bomber are painted with white stripes instead of no paint?
"Holy Hand Grenades Batman", I think they maybe onto something there.
The most logical service at this point in terms of what to add, that would be a leapfrog over just about everyone, would definitely be a distribution service based on something TIVO's already mentioned with the outside world.
Share-a-show Technology.
Basically under the concept of 'networking' and community. It's already been established that with Tivo-To-Go, it's expected you'll share shows with your family and friends.
NOW -- Take that a step farther. Suppose I get 50 people who all like Trek. Each person can share a particular trek episode with 6 people. So, you decide how many of the six 'burned' copies of Trek Episode 5 you're going to want to distribute among those 50 people who watch trek. If 9 people out of that 50 want to share, you've got more than enough copies of trek to go around. How do we get our very own copy to view? Well gee, I connect my tivo to the trek community. What do I get back? A list of every single Trek episode I can now download.
This beats HBO on demand when you don't have HBO. Of course it might be restricted by what you're subscribed to via your cable/satellite company but you'd basically be able to download off broadband your favorite shows. Things your single tivo just couldn't get because you could only tape one or two things at a time. Your favorite shows, any show on demand just so long as their Tivo (or computer) was online, was on broadband and had some distribution tokens left.
Well.... *I* would have named it Slash*nix, in honor of this oft-re-usable collection of articles, files and assorted other junk we like talking about so much here on Slashdot.
It's all about the re-use baby.
Ah, slight nitpick... the Hard Drive is 40GB. You're off by 20GB. This is more than enough space for a Macintosh that would be used by someone who is focusing on reading email, writing documents and a few basic issues of why you'd by a small PC in the first place. You're not buying it to crunch numbers, you're buying it to be 'basically useful' to you.
Personally, I think Apple's done the right thing at exactly the right time. There are so many viruses, trojans, etc on the PC side of the house and virtually none on the mac side by comparison -that makes a lot of PC users and the media stand up and take notice. Finally Apple simplicity and anonymity pays off, and you really don't need to do much at all, just plunk down $499 and cannibalize the PC garbage lying around the house to escape the MS-Insanity.
The $499 version specs:
1.25GHz PowerPC G4
256MB DDR333 SDRAM
ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB DDR video memory
40GB Ultra ATA hard drive
Combo drive
DVI or VGA video output
AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth optional
I hope this does happen in the USA, but only to companies.
A) Too many companies leave false, misleading information.
B) Too many companies still believe a Web site is something you can build and leave alone, or revisit only once a year.
C) It'll keep large companies from hiring part-time Webmasters, and encourage more full time hires to conduct regular Web site updates.
Hmmm... okay, 2 out of 3 wouldn't be bad...
Considering that one of the reasons Scott Bakula was chosen for the part of Captain Archer is his attraction with female viewers.
Add to that:
* the horrible choice of popular-top-40-wishywashy-ballady type of music for the theme song (again to attract female viewers to make the show seem less "sci-fi-ish")
* the immediate concept introduced in the series with the mention of "time travel", teasing the existing fans and the Quantum Leap fan base with the idea that there might be some actual time travel-ness in store for Captain Archer...
And that's just a sample of the groundwork laid by the Trek production team to pursue the female viewer.
Adding one 'bombshell' hidden under a wig and ears as Proto-Starfleet's first vulcan officer was simply a way of nailing down the testosterone side of the equation. You typically don't market a woman to attract women. There are exceptions, but Blalock's character wasn't meant to be "Mrs. Murder She Wrote". That wasn't the market target since that market's much older (despite being more female than male).
At any rate, women were extensively marketed to. IMO, it's a misunderstanding of how to do that in relation to Sci-Fi that radically hurts Sci-Fi on TV.
Well...that doesn't always apply. You could be a Whistleblower, for which you are occasionally given "Protection" from employer retaliation.
Sometimes. Very small, very few sometimes. Unfortunately.
Ah..I misunderstood that part. Thanks. The configurations are different to produce more accurate results because of minute unintentional differences in the specs. Gotcha.
I wonder then -- This part wasn't discussed although the rovers are still operational: Is it impossible to upload the correct configuration at this point? (aside from the past data being re-calculated against the correct config).
This was checked. A number of users have already reported that:
A) there was no choice provided to them - so it's not the same situation everywhere.
B) even if it's strictly to the browser (and not a part of the player), it is an add-on that will show up in some browsers where the toolbars have been declared turned off. Yet another factor to be concerned about.
C) as a toolbar add-on, it presents a danger as Yahoo updates that toolbar, or sells space/functionality on that toolbar to others. As I'm an IT manager, the last thing I can afford is Yahoo making updates that will further degrade system performance, or cause an unwanted reaction from a 3rd-party supplied toolbar or accessory to that toolbar.
I would argue it's even better than 1-2 Years.
.1 release of OS X comes with at least some functionality changes, security updates, etc, and those updates are exceptionally seamless in comparison to the typical MS techie handholding that has to take place with every Service Pack release (and nearly every security update)....
:)
Consider that nearly every
The software as a service aspects with Apple are off the charts
I have to agree with you. His comment of "Flash Blows" isn't real useful.
But something to take back to Macromedia -- It seems to me that Macromedia has a design and development community responsiblity, as well as a corporate one. That responsiblity is to provide a clear-cut interface to the results of that same design and development. No other add-ons, no other distractions from what I designed the end result to be. Yes, the toolset permits add-ons. But those add-ons arent supposed to be included by default with the product in question. If Yahoo wants their darn toolbar in with the product, let them offer the toolbar separately.
The moment Macromedia starts messing with my designs and UI considerations is the moment I start seriously looking at other avenues, as distasteful as it may be at first to do so, and I will start saying things like "Flash Sucks" to my customers.
That said, "Flash Sucks" comments are a great barometer. If Macromedia doesn't want "Flash Sucks" comments, they should improve the product, not add things that demean it or detract from it -- especially without interviewing the community before the implementation of something really potentially hurtful like this.
I don't think even having a process to 'disable' the toolbar in an the interface is remotely acceptable, let alone having to decide to disable it when people install the player themselves.
As developers and corporate end-users, we can not accept something integrated with a web site to suddenly acquire an unnecessary UI element to join the browser screen, especially in something where the UI was supposed to be clean and clear. You will have single handedly broken a look, feel and usability factor that was designed for a client, and the client might just well come to me asking why it's broken. I'll have to spend time and money to fix it. In my mind and possibly reality Macromedia's going to get the bill for any hours of work I spend doing that, as well as the time spend calming down my client.
This opens up the door for advertising to be sent, interrupting or preceding what is supposed to be a design, presentation, logo or splash...Why? Simply because I (or my client) was told to trust something Macromedia decided to add on for those unsuspecting souls who download the new player.
The moment a board member of an organization I'm helping decides to call me in a rage over the Yahoo toolbar showing up in something that's NOT supposed to have any other UI add-ons, I will heavily consider finding a way to sue Macromedia for damages. This is a 'design and programming environment', not Macromedia's or Yahoo's excuse (or their advertising clients excuse) for a billboard. I don't want Yahoo's garbage interrupting my work, or putting it at risk in any way, which is a huge possibility considering a newly-downloaded component of the previously installed toolbar (even it it doesnt contain anything harmful right away) could contain yet another add-on from yet another company I didn't expect to have to deal with before.
They need to change this path before this gets exponentially worse. Take the Yahoo toolbar out permanently, and let Yahoo develop an alternative Flash player if they want one of their own with a toolbar in it so badly.
There's no reason why a network run "for free" couldn't make money for the government and be completely free for the public in turn -- just establish the it as a network subsidizes most High School cable/satellite content these days. Let it be underwritten and sponsored by Macdonalds, Mobil and any number of other great companies like that. They are more than willing to let their names be applied to just about everything on PBS, so the same concept should be applied here.
Corporations can certainly compete and continue to influence as many people as possible into buying their lousy products.
I don't see why this would be an issue. After all, if a major corporation like Apple Computer can make current applications like "Pages" (i.e. MS Word) and "Keynote" (i.e. MS Powerpoint), there is no reason why OpenOffice can't do something similar, with similar keystrokes and functionality. As others have mentioned here, there's plenty of previous packages, such as WordPerfect providing more than adequate historical representation.