As a USA person (not from the East Coast), I imagine those are the colors of certain types of police uniforms native to NYC. I have no idea what they mean because they probably aren't really supposed to mean anything to people not familiar with local uniforms. All the uniforms where I am are either brown or gray.
until they learn that Apple's secret isn't "marketing".
Actually, it is about 'marketing'. However, the people who use that term here aren't using it correctly. They are using it to mean 'advertising' which is one portion of marketing. Their are many other parts such as figuring out what the market wants, how much the market will pay, how to deliver it to the market, and doing so in the time that the market is ready to accept it. Apple has almost always had good advertising but has failed previously in other areas when they have released products that weren't ready for market or were improperly leveraged. eg the Pippen or the Newton. They have been very careful in the last couple of years to make sure their products were ready and not ruined by other companies desires for things the market didn't want.
Been there. Done that. Criticizing what I experienced firsthand. But thanks for playing...
Oh, you're one of those. Go, have a bad time while never contributing anything, and then bitch about it for years even though your complaints have little relevance any more.
Look, I like the root idea of BM, the whole transient art-city-building concept, but the net result is always a bunch of hippies acting friggin' weird.And the money, ZOMG the money - both to get a ticket (which buys you fuckall), and the effort and resources spent to build art installations - only to be torn down a week later. Why can't they just build a permanent hippie city somewhere so they can live the way they want to live, do their silly little spirit dances and make love to Gaia or whatever, and we indoctrinated modernists can visit once in a while and bring them toilet paper.
If you like the idea, you might want to actually look into it because it doesn't sound like you have any idea what is is actually like or you are just trying to be offensive for the sake of insulting something you don't understand. Like any city, there is a wide and varied population. While there are hippies there, they are not the largest demographic. That would probably be ravers. Hell, even computer programers from SF probably outnumber the hippies; how do you think all that art gets built? Some of the ticket price does go towards art, but even then, the majority of the art has to come from the builders. Most large art pieces will go on to other events such as maker faire, art car shows, other outdoor festivals etc. If you really think the ticket price gets you fuckall, I'd really like to see you put on your art-city-building concept for and do it cheaper. It would be pure schadenfreude as you have no idea what you are talking about and would fail miserably.
If Apple history is any indication, tough times are ahead for Apple as they've only been successful in the past under Jobs direction. That might be why it's considered sad news by some. Me, I'm more curious about how things will change with a different CEO.
Last I heard, Steve had taken leave earlier this year. Even then, most of the stories you heard were about how Cook had arranged to buy up all the production for touchscreens for the next three years. How Cook was managing the supply chain. I'm guessing that this is not a surprise to Tim Cook, most of the upper levels of Apple, and the reigns had already all but been passed over some time ago and he's been de facto CEO since at least earlier in the year. Cornering the supply chain, patent lawsuits, etc. That is all been the new Apple.
I guarantee that if I'm at the bar watching a White Sox game, and somebody turns it off in favor of some video game, there's going to be hell to pay.
I'll tell you right now, that practically any bar you are at, sport's or not, will gladly change the channel to whatever brings in the most customers and gives them the most business. I've seen sports bars show X-Files, Sex in the City, Battlestar Galactica, instead of their normal sports because having 40 people watching their favorite TV show and drinking trumps 10 guys watching "the game". Somebody has gone to the management, told them they can bring in more people if they offer to play their favorite show, and the management agreed. If you want to make sure the White Sox are playing at your favorite bar, organize the events, get people out to watch it, and make sure you have and understanding with the management. Otherwise, if 40 Starcraft fans show up to drink and watch Starcraft who have already talked to the management, you're just going to have to learn to watch Starcraft or find a different bar.
I'm still trying to figure out how, exactly, since it would seem you'd be holding the phone somewhat in front of the bowl - but I'm not sure I really want to know.
I guess a lot of people turn around and face the toilet to flush. They could fumble it then, when they pull up their pants and it falls out of a pocket or off the belt, or if they bend over to flush after putting it in a front shirt pocket
What is with the Ender's books? I heard of it so I read the first one. It is just like a bad high school movie (shy young boy who has a glorious fate, who is a do-gooder but kills whoever gets in his path because he is "forced to do", and who becomes a world hero by playing video games and not risking anything). I realize it is ideal for nerdsturbation and nerdgasms, but didn't think that alone was enough to suppress critical thinking of so many people.
I've noticed that almost everybody who loves that book, are nerdy guys, who read it in high school at that critical age when they needed something to identify with.* Like you, I read it after hearing so much about it and found it unexciting and predictable. Similarly, I read the Narnia series as an adult and pretty much dismiss it when compared even to Harry Potter books. People like and identify what they grew up with, especially if it was a new thing at the time.
*Mine was the Illuminatus! Trilogy. I can still go on forever (and probably bore you) on conspiracy theories, paradigms, and the occult.
If he is getting older, then the Deckard is not a replicant. That solves that debate.
Unless Deckard also did not have an incept date, and they are growing old together and having kids. After all, the off world colonies need long term colonists and what would be more human than human that making your robots self replicating? It was a plot to get the two of them together and have a need to flee to the off world colonies, the one place they wouldn't be hounded.
It's unmanned, I mean I love technology but does this have any applications outside of the military?
It was not only unmanned but also unpowered from what I've read so far. It was launched on the top of a missile that got it up to speed. This was, in effect, a test glider to check out the areodynamics of going at that speed. I bet once they have good data, it will be combined with the ram/scram jet research that they are also doing and we will return back to trying to get into orbit with a space plane. The plane will take off, use jets to get up to ram jet speed and altitude, use ram jets to get up to scram jet speed and altitude, and then use scram jets as far as they can and finish the entry into orbit with rockets. Saving the weight of the oxidizer they can get out of the air. Then it will return like the space shuttle did but be under power for landing.
What is wrong with the idea of ditching the general purpose boat anchor and choosing an extremely limited architecture that does everything those 90% need... making THAT the defacto standard for new employees, and then giving the general purpose machine to the other 10% that need to do heavier (real computer necessary) stuff?
Speaking as one of those IT guys, we don't do the above because servicing a standard set up as well as general purpose set up combined with having to constantly change the specifications of what that standard set up is more work (and money) than just giving everybody a general purpose set up to begin with (and then dealing with the unintended consequences). We've tried extreme locking down of computers, thin clients, etc. There's general locking down to be done, but in general, it's less trouble just to let everybody do whatever and then swap out with a new computer if something goes wrong. You can never tell when somebody is going to need something new and when they don't have it, that'll be the critical path, you'll be busy putting out a fire elsewhere, then have to get permission for the changes, then make the changes, and in the end the entire section lost a days productivity because somebody thought that this person would never use Access, Flash, or whatever.
The blue-label generics in Repo Man were based on real packaging (available in the 80s from Ralph's grocery stores in So. California, at least).
If you get the DVD and sit through the commentary track (like I did), you find out that is because they were one of the two companies that responded to requests for free product and gave them product to place. The other being the pine car fresheners.
Ya, Dvorak was usually considered wrong by the majority of/., but he seemed to talk about a bunch of different topics and actually would created discussions with people hashing out exactly why he was wrong.
All of which suck ass unless you live in a city so poorly designed that driving becomes even worse.
I usually find that it's the parking that usually makes everything worse. There have been times that the distance I would have had to walk to get my car plus the distance I would have had to walk from where I could have found parking to the place I was going, often was close enough to the total distance to get there that driving was just more trouble than it was worth. Either that, or pay $12 to run into a store for a few minutes. Then there is finding parking again once I get back home.
They shot and killed an armed drug dealer. It may not have been justified, but he was not "innocent".
Well, the police shot and killed a person the police say was an armed drug dealer. Whether true or not, public reaction will have a lot to do with the reputation of the police among the public.
I've had more Macintosh computers than most people and I don't regard calling it a MAC offensive.
It's not offensive, just confusing. A Mac is a computer made by Apple. MAC is an up scale Canadian line of cosmetics. Use the wrong one without context and people will start to think you are a cross dresser.
IF these gangs of hoodlums were all packing.45s, then hundreds of innocent people would likely be dead.
Doubtful, these people are there to trash and steal. They probably don't mind some assault too but aren't going around slitting people's throats as far as I can tell. They aren't looking for a gun battle and if presented with store owners that also had guns, would probably just leave for easier targets. That is essentially what happened in the last LA riot anyway. When the rioters wandered into a neighborhood where store owners were there with their own guns, rather than get into a gun battle, they just left for a different neighborhood.
If you are British, then 1824 (allowed police to confiscate weapons they thought might be used in a crime), 1903 (limits pistol ownership), 1920 (requiring a license for all firearms), and 1937 (declared that self defense was no longer a reason suitable for a license), as the right to bear arms from the Bill of Rights signed by King James II which stated that people have the right to bear arms for self defence.
If our idiot 'leaders' would learn to spend less than they take in, we wouldn't NEED a debt ceiling at all.
Trouble is, if they actually do reduce to spending what we take in or less, the voters who put them in office, including the ones that say they want spending cut, will revolt because things they want will also be cut. Instead, everybody is stuck in a deadlock of trying to only cut the other guys spending so the voters can keep on blaming the other guy.
The reason for the Arab Spring is because they don't have any "bread". Literally.
DEATH by Lawyer...
A symptom of having a society that actually governed by rule of law. I suppose you would prefer wandering groups of militias, gangs, and other thugs? You'll know when people actually think the system and those lawyers don't work, because that's exactly what we'll have.
While I'm all for protecting our rights, changing the system to everybody is protected, and making sure our votes count, let's not kid ourselves, we're still just whining about our first world problems of not having enough luxuries. Even if unemployed these day, we still have it an order of magnitude better than our grandparents in the great depression, probably even if they had a job.
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As a USA person (not from the East Coast), I imagine those are the colors of certain types of police uniforms native to NYC. I have no idea what they mean because they probably aren't really supposed to mean anything to people not familiar with local uniforms. All the uniforms where I am are either brown or gray.
Request a bulkhead seat, they have more space but at the cost of a place in front of you to put your stuff.
Actually, it is about 'marketing'. However, the people who use that term here aren't using it correctly. They are using it to mean 'advertising' which is one portion of marketing. Their are many other parts such as figuring out what the market wants, how much the market will pay, how to deliver it to the market, and doing so in the time that the market is ready to accept it. Apple has almost always had good advertising but has failed previously in other areas when they have released products that weren't ready for market or were improperly leveraged. eg the Pippen or the Newton. They have been very careful in the last couple of years to make sure their products were ready and not ruined by other companies desires for things the market didn't want.
Sounds like a happy ending to me.
Oh, you're one of those. Go, have a bad time while never contributing anything, and then bitch about it for years even though your complaints have little relevance any more.
If you like the idea, you might want to actually look into it because it doesn't sound like you have any idea what is is actually like or you are just trying to be offensive for the sake of insulting something you don't understand. Like any city, there is a wide and varied population. While there are hippies there, they are not the largest demographic. That would probably be ravers. Hell, even computer programers from SF probably outnumber the hippies; how do you think all that art gets built? Some of the ticket price does go towards art, but even then, the majority of the art has to come from the builders. Most large art pieces will go on to other events such as maker faire, art car shows, other outdoor festivals etc. If you really think the ticket price gets you fuckall, I'd really like to see you put on your art-city-building concept for and do it cheaper. It would be pure schadenfreude as you have no idea what you are talking about and would fail miserably.
Last I heard, Steve had taken leave earlier this year. Even then, most of the stories you heard were about how Cook had arranged to buy up all the production for touchscreens for the next three years. How Cook was managing the supply chain. I'm guessing that this is not a surprise to Tim Cook, most of the upper levels of Apple, and the reigns had already all but been passed over some time ago and he's been de facto CEO since at least earlier in the year. Cornering the supply chain, patent lawsuits, etc. That is all been the new Apple.
I'll tell you right now, that practically any bar you are at, sport's or not, will gladly change the channel to whatever brings in the most customers and gives them the most business. I've seen sports bars show X-Files, Sex in the City, Battlestar Galactica, instead of their normal sports because having 40 people watching their favorite TV show and drinking trumps 10 guys watching "the game". Somebody has gone to the management, told them they can bring in more people if they offer to play their favorite show, and the management agreed. If you want to make sure the White Sox are playing at your favorite bar, organize the events, get people out to watch it, and make sure you have and understanding with the management. Otherwise, if 40 Starcraft fans show up to drink and watch Starcraft who have already talked to the management, you're just going to have to learn to watch Starcraft or find a different bar.
I guess a lot of people turn around and face the toilet to flush. They could fumble it then, when they pull up their pants and it falls out of a pocket or off the belt, or if they bend over to flush after putting it in a front shirt pocket
"Email", yes, but this patent is for "email on a mobile device!"
I've noticed that almost everybody who loves that book, are nerdy guys, who read it in high school at that critical age when they needed something to identify with.* Like you, I read it after hearing so much about it and found it unexciting and predictable. Similarly, I read the Narnia series as an adult and pretty much dismiss it when compared even to Harry Potter books. People like and identify what they grew up with, especially if it was a new thing at the time.
*Mine was the Illuminatus! Trilogy. I can still go on forever (and probably bore you) on conspiracy theories, paradigms, and the occult.
Unless Deckard also did not have an incept date, and they are growing old together and having kids. After all, the off world colonies need long term colonists and what would be more human than human that making your robots self replicating? It was a plot to get the two of them together and have a need to flee to the off world colonies, the one place they wouldn't be hounded.
It was not only unmanned but also unpowered from what I've read so far. It was launched on the top of a missile that got it up to speed. This was, in effect, a test glider to check out the areodynamics of going at that speed. I bet once they have good data, it will be combined with the ram/scram jet research that they are also doing and we will return back to trying to get into orbit with a space plane. The plane will take off, use jets to get up to ram jet speed and altitude, use ram jets to get up to scram jet speed and altitude, and then use scram jets as far as they can and finish the entry into orbit with rockets. Saving the weight of the oxidizer they can get out of the air. Then it will return like the space shuttle did but be under power for landing.
Speaking as one of those IT guys, we don't do the above because servicing a standard set up as well as general purpose set up combined with having to constantly change the specifications of what that standard set up is more work (and money) than just giving everybody a general purpose set up to begin with (and then dealing with the unintended consequences). We've tried extreme locking down of computers, thin clients, etc. There's general locking down to be done, but in general, it's less trouble just to let everybody do whatever and then swap out with a new computer if something goes wrong. You can never tell when somebody is going to need something new and when they don't have it, that'll be the critical path, you'll be busy putting out a fire elsewhere, then have to get permission for the changes, then make the changes, and in the end the entire section lost a days productivity because somebody thought that this person would never use Access, Flash, or whatever.
If you get the DVD and sit through the commentary track (like I did), you find out that is because they were one of the two companies that responded to requests for free product and gave them product to place. The other being the pine car fresheners.
Ya, Dvorak was usually considered wrong by the majority of /., but he seemed to talk about a bunch of different topics and actually would created discussions with people hashing out exactly why he was wrong.
I'm beginning to remember the days of Dvorak articles as the happy times.
I usually find that it's the parking that usually makes everything worse. There have been times that the distance I would have had to walk to get my car plus the distance I would have had to walk from where I could have found parking to the place I was going, often was close enough to the total distance to get there that driving was just more trouble than it was worth. Either that, or pay $12 to run into a store for a few minutes. Then there is finding parking again once I get back home.
Well, the police shot and killed a person the police say was an armed drug dealer. Whether true or not, public reaction will have a lot to do with the reputation of the police among the public.
It's not offensive, just confusing. A Mac is a computer made by Apple. MAC is an up scale Canadian line of cosmetics. Use the wrong one without context and people will start to think you are a cross dresser.
Doubtful, these people are there to trash and steal. They probably don't mind some assault too but aren't going around slitting people's throats as far as I can tell. They aren't looking for a gun battle and if presented with store owners that also had guns, would probably just leave for easier targets. That is essentially what happened in the last LA riot anyway. When the rioters wandered into a neighborhood where store owners were there with their own guns, rather than get into a gun battle, they just left for a different neighborhood.
If you are British, then 1824 (allowed police to confiscate weapons they thought might be used in a crime), 1903 (limits pistol ownership), 1920 (requiring a license for all firearms), and 1937 (declared that self defense was no longer a reason suitable for a license), as the right to bear arms from the Bill of Rights signed by King James II which stated that people have the right to bear arms for self defence.
Trouble is, if they actually do reduce to spending what we take in or less, the voters who put them in office, including the ones that say they want spending cut, will revolt because things they want will also be cut. Instead, everybody is stuck in a deadlock of trying to only cut the other guys spending so the voters can keep on blaming the other guy.
How many people plan on carrying their tablet around in a bag with something else?
The reason for the Arab Spring is because they don't have any "bread". Literally.
A symptom of having a society that actually governed by rule of law. I suppose you would prefer wandering groups of militias, gangs, and other thugs? You'll know when people actually think the system and those lawyers don't work, because that's exactly what we'll have.
While I'm all for protecting our rights, changing the system to everybody is protected, and making sure our votes count, let's not kid ourselves, we're still just whining about our first world problems of not having enough luxuries. Even if unemployed these day, we still have it an order of magnitude better than our grandparents in the great depression, probably even if they had a job.