According to the video I watched on the Amazon site, it is indeed wireless and connects to "Amazon's whisper net" for free. Like WiFi but no need to log into anything as it does find service just like a cell phone. From there, you can look at the catalog of downloadable stuff and download for the presented price much like a downloadable Amazon website. You can email stuff to your Kindle, but that costs money. They never mention exactly what the whisper net is or how much coverage it has.
Every non-Apple hardware box that a user uses instead of Apple hardware box is much more money out of their pocket than the cost of the OS. Plus, last I was aware, there was no DRM, serial numbers, or other such things besides a simple agreement to prevent installing a single boxed copy of the Mac OS on as many computers as you want. Chances are that the people who would hack and install on cheap hardware would also be willing to not pay past the first copy. As a Mac hardware user, I'd rather not have to deal with any extra constraints Apple would have to put on their software even if that plan would work.
Yep, I love the dock. It bugged me at first, but now it works great. It holds 99% of all the things I need to open including applications, files, folders, and server connections and is never hidden by windows that normal cover my desktop. It shows me which apps are running at a glance. It even show me if I have mail without having to switch to the mail app.
BTW, it's much more a replacement for the old Apple Menu than anything else.
Some of the Germans that were caught pretending to be American troops in the battle of the buldge were caught for similar reasons. There was a misspelling on the American military IDs and when the Germans made their fakes, they corrected the obvious misspelling. So, even though the Germans could speak fluent English and sounded correct, people looking at their IDs at check points realized they were fake.
Albums are quickly becoming marketing structures to get people to attend your live performances. Many new bands give away their music via MySpace and PureVolume in hopes of getting people to come to their shows -- where they make the actual dollars doing actual labor on an ongoing basis.
You mean where they make the actual dollars selling merchandise. Unless you're a superstar, concerts in themselves rarely pay for themselves. Even if you're a decently big band that can name a garantee, it usually just covers expenses. Where bands make their money, from the punk rock band touring out of a car or a mega band, is merchandise such as t-shirts which is high profit margin and usually doesn't go through the venue.
The albums are marketing for the shows which are marketing for the special editions CDs and t-shirts that are sold at the shows.
...most IT managers suck. Reading these responces, I hardly see anybody checking their damn email. If you would check your email first thing in the morning, you'd know that I finished the project that you were asked about while walking around shmoozing people was finished. If you'd have read that email, you'd also have instructions on how to make said project work that would have saved you the half an hour you spent trying to guess your way through it with the person who met you in the hall, only to fail (because you're not tech savey although you think you are) and decide it wasn't done yet. This would also have saved both you and me the next 15 minutes you spent paging me and asking me about said project only so I could tell you that the project is done and all relevant details are in the email I sent you yesterday afternoon at 4:45 (an hour and half after you left).
Or has Jobs put his finger on the real difference between Apple and Microsoft?
What it is about is the "killer app". People will buy what they want or need to use. With "Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers.", it's the shotgun approach in hopes that one of those developers will create the killer app, or that alot of them will create killer apps for a small selection of users each. Apple, in this case, as skipped that part and decided on their own what they killer app is, a phone with usable interface and web browsing. They have decided what the killer app is and already have it developed and base their success on if they are correct. They do the same with their computer line. The killer apps for Macs is it's UI for the general consumer or video editing tools for the professional. The developed OS X for the users and bought and developed various tools such as Final Cut Pro for professionals. If they attempt further in roads into business, you will not see an attempt to cature the entire market, but rather a new killer app to capture one bit of the market at a time.
Thank you for that clarification. I feel so much better now knowing that the department in charge of protecting the U.S. from terrorists has no technical skills.
FYI, the white rhino killed in Zambia is a Southern white rhino and there is around 13,000 left in South Africa as well as others in other parts of Africa. The other article is about the Northern white rhino and there are only 13 left, all in the Congo.
WHAT WILL WE GOT THEN: 1kg = M atoms of silicon. This definition will never change, and if the silicon spheres rust or break or change weight by any circunstances, we make new ones with M atoms and we have a forever-constant definition of a kilogram. This is GOOD.
Yes, but which isotope of Si? Three occur in nature in various quanities. Did they use just a single isotope? If not, what are the various percentages?
French opposition to the war in Iraq, for instance, was largely based on a good understanding of which political and sociological forces would naturally prevail in Iraq once the artificial Baathist regime was terminated. In other words: yes, we can blow the country to bits, but once we've done that, there is very little that can be done to manage the country's politics afterwards.
Funny, I thought French opposition to the war in Iraq came from Total Fina Elf (now just Total) controling the rights to pump and distribute Iraqi oil as arranged with Saddam through the oil for food program. Not to mention other economic deals France had with Iraq. I doubt France cared what would happen to Iraq as opposed to what would happen to the money coming from Iraq.
Not sure about recruiters, I usually had good luck with demanding swag before I would talk to vendors. Telling them to stop calling wouldn't work, but telling them they had to send me pens and coffee mugs with their corporate logo before I would talk to them usually did.
Owners of first-generation Intel Macs that used (32-bit only) Core Duo CPUs may not be so happy knowing that Vista will be the last Windows they will be able to run."
Umm,... by time the next version of Windows after Vista comes out, it'll be probably four versions of OS X later and two new comptuers for me. I fully expect that my Mac in 6 years time will be more than able to run whatever MS throws out there... should I wish to install it on my computer to play games.
Bacteria isn't really the matter, spores are a much greater threat to contaminating the rest of the universe and can happen easier than through space launches.
Spores can survive in space for a fari amount of time as they are resistant to much of the radiation they might encounter there. Furthermore, is is supectec that they already are capable of floating in the air to the upper atmosphere and leaving earth's gravity well. If that is the case then we have been spraying spores all over the universe for millions of years. At worst, it would require a meteor strike that would eject planetary material out of the gravity well. Some people suspect that Earth and Mars contaminated eachother in such a way, even speculating that life originated on a young Mars which contaminated Earth later.
The time to fix a Windows problem was usually quicker though.
"Error 3" popping up when a program crashes usually/is not/ helpful.
Don't agree with that at all. Everybody I knew who worked with me in tech support, even the MS cheer squad, admitted it was quicker to solve Mac issues. By mentioning "Error 3", it seems that you're on OS 9 or earlier and there are only a few main troubleshooting steps to do.
99% of bootable Mac issues were solved by one of the following:
1. Rebuild desktop
2. trash app prefs
3. start with base extensions
4. delete and reinstall app
5. give app more memory
6. reinstall OS
All including reinstall of the OS could usually be done quicker than scandisk and defrag on a similar PC harddisk.
The author of that peice has something on Livejournal explaining it.
http://vebelfetzer.livejournal.com/
Also seems that the grassroots entries defending Todd on the Wired's forums are all coming from the same IP.
I suspect that nobody mentions the possiblity of the appearance being an optical illusion caused by some object between us and it because where that the case, then signs of such would stick out and detection of such an object would be trivial. First off, it only affects this star. That it does not affect the other nearby stars and give similar appearance in the same wavelengths that this photo was taken, including other stars within the area of the nebula would seem to rule that out.
Why is this flamebait?
I've never heard of either program.
Some background for people who aren't on the prow of graphical processing would be appreciated.
Aperture and Lightroom are photo management programs. The are essentially pro versions of Apple's iPhoto and Adobe's Album software. When you download your photos from your camera, you do so into these programs. You store your photos in them, organizes them, do minor modifications, all to figure out which of your photos you want to bother to take into photoshop and do more work on. For the serious photographer who can easily shoot 500+ digital images in one shoot and shoot ever day, the ability just to organize your photos as well as look and judge them quickly is something worth spending money on. Album or iPhoto fulfill these needs but typcially do not handle the thousands of images that quickly build up, nor a way to back them up easily. These two products also have more powerful tools such as the ability to store and read RAW data which is the original data from the cameras sensor. From that a photographer can do lots of work such change white balance. Once they have the 5 or so photos out of 500 they took that they want to do post-production work on in photoshop, they call up the serious photoediting software and do it. These programs also do version control, so you always have your original as well as your modified files in an easy to find format without the worry of losing prior versions.
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My sense of security isn't false, I have a Mac. (No matter how true that is, yes, that was supposed to be moderated as 'funny'.)
According to the video I watched on the Amazon site, it is indeed wireless and connects to "Amazon's whisper net" for free. Like WiFi but no need to log into anything as it does find service just like a cell phone. From there, you can look at the catalog of downloadable stuff and download for the presented price much like a downloadable Amazon website. You can email stuff to your Kindle, but that costs money. They never mention exactly what the whisper net is or how much coverage it has.
Go watch Idiocracy and then tell me your opinion of geeks having seven kids. It's up to the geeks to save the world!
Every non-Apple hardware box that a user uses instead of Apple hardware box is much more money out of their pocket than the cost of the OS. Plus, last I was aware, there was no DRM, serial numbers, or other such things besides a simple agreement to prevent installing a single boxed copy of the Mac OS on as many computers as you want. Chances are that the people who would hack and install on cheap hardware would also be willing to not pay past the first copy. As a Mac hardware user, I'd rather not have to deal with any extra constraints Apple would have to put on their software even if that plan would work.
Some of the Germans that were caught pretending to be American troops in the battle of the buldge were caught for similar reasons. There was a misspelling on the American military IDs and when the Germans made their fakes, they corrected the obvious misspelling. So, even though the Germans could speak fluent English and sounded correct, people looking at their IDs at check points realized they were fake.
You mean where they make the actual dollars selling merchandise. Unless you're a superstar, concerts in themselves rarely pay for themselves. Even if you're a decently big band that can name a garantee, it usually just covers expenses. Where bands make their money, from the punk rock band touring out of a car or a mega band, is merchandise such as t-shirts which is high profit margin and usually doesn't go through the venue.
The albums are marketing for the shows which are marketing for the special editions CDs and t-shirts that are sold at the shows.
...most IT managers suck. Reading these responces, I hardly see anybody checking their damn email. If you would check your email first thing in the morning, you'd know that I finished the project that you were asked about while walking around shmoozing people was finished. If you'd have read that email, you'd also have instructions on how to make said project work that would have saved you the half an hour you spent trying to guess your way through it with the person who met you in the hall, only to fail (because you're not tech savey although you think you are) and decide it wasn't done yet. This would also have saved both you and me the next 15 minutes you spent paging me and asking me about said project only so I could tell you that the project is done and all relevant details are in the email I sent you yesterday afternoon at 4:45 (an hour and half after you left).
What it is about is the "killer app". People will buy what they want or need to use. With "Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers.", it's the shotgun approach in hopes that one of those developers will create the killer app, or that alot of them will create killer apps for a small selection of users each. Apple, in this case, as skipped that part and decided on their own what they killer app is, a phone with usable interface and web browsing. They have decided what the killer app is and already have it developed and base their success on if they are correct. They do the same with their computer line. The killer apps for Macs is it's UI for the general consumer or video editing tools for the professional. The developed OS X for the users and bought and developed various tools such as Final Cut Pro for professionals. If they attempt further in roads into business, you will not see an attempt to cature the entire market, but rather a new killer app to capture one bit of the market at a time.
Optional?
FYI, the white rhino killed in Zambia is a Southern white rhino and there is around 13,000 left in South Africa as well as others in other parts of Africa. The other article is about the Northern white rhino and there are only 13 left, all in the Congo.
Yes, but which isotope of Si? Three occur in nature in various quanities. Did they use just a single isotope? If not, what are the various percentages?
Funny, I thought French opposition to the war in Iraq came from Total Fina Elf (now just Total) controling the rights to pump and distribute Iraqi oil as arranged with Saddam through the oil for food program. Not to mention other economic deals France had with Iraq. I doubt France cared what would happen to Iraq as opposed to what would happen to the money coming from Iraq.
Not sure about recruiters, I usually had good luck with demanding swag before I would talk to vendors. Telling them to stop calling wouldn't work, but telling them they had to send me pens and coffee mugs with their corporate logo before I would talk to them usually did.
Umm,... by time the next version of Windows after Vista comes out, it'll be probably four versions of OS X later and two new comptuers for me. I fully expect that my Mac in 6 years time will be more than able to run whatever MS throws out there... should I wish to install it on my computer to play games.
I sooo want to mod this to 6.
Bacteria isn't really the matter, spores are a much greater threat to contaminating the rest of the universe and can happen easier than through space launches.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
Spores can survive in space for a fari amount of time as they are resistant to much of the radiation they might encounter there. Furthermore, is is supectec that they already are capable of floating in the air to the upper atmosphere and leaving earth's gravity well. If that is the case then we have been spraying spores all over the universe for millions of years. At worst, it would require a meteor strike that would eject planetary material out of the gravity well. Some people suspect that Earth and Mars contaminated eachother in such a way, even speculating that life originated on a young Mars which contaminated Earth later.
...but, it has two, count them, two!, A's in the name! One of them must stand for Apple!
Don't agree with that at all. Everybody I knew who worked with me in tech support, even the MS cheer squad, admitted it was quicker to solve Mac issues. By mentioning "Error 3", it seems that you're on OS 9 or earlier and there are only a few main troubleshooting steps to do.
99% of bootable Mac issues were solved by one of the following:
1. Rebuild desktop
2. trash app prefs
3. start with base extensions
4. delete and reinstall app
5. give app more memory
6. reinstall OS
All including reinstall of the OS could usually be done quicker than scandisk and defrag on a similar PC harddisk.
The author of that peice has something on Livejournal explaining it. http://vebelfetzer.livejournal.com/ Also seems that the grassroots entries defending Todd on the Wired's forums are all coming from the same IP.
I suspect that nobody mentions the possiblity of the appearance being an optical illusion caused by some object between us and it because where that the case, then signs of such would stick out and detection of such an object would be trivial. First off, it only affects this star. That it does not affect the other nearby stars and give similar appearance in the same wavelengths that this photo was taken, including other stars within the area of the nebula would seem to rule that out.
Actually, we figure the four of Cap's replaements will be:
Bucky (any of them) as the standard replacement.
Frank Castle as a Cap with guns.
The Falcon or Cage taking over as the black Cap.
Some woman for a female Cap. Carol Danvers currently has powers again, so she's out. Sharon Carter is a good bet. My vote is for Frankie Raye.
Aperture and Lightroom are photo management programs. The are essentially pro versions of Apple's iPhoto and Adobe's Album software. When you download your photos from your camera, you do so into these programs. You store your photos in them, organizes them, do minor modifications, all to figure out which of your photos you want to bother to take into photoshop and do more work on. For the serious photographer who can easily shoot 500+ digital images in one shoot and shoot ever day, the ability just to organize your photos as well as look and judge them quickly is something worth spending money on. Album or iPhoto fulfill these needs but typcially do not handle the thousands of images that quickly build up, nor a way to back them up easily. These two products also have more powerful tools such as the ability to store and read RAW data which is the original data from the cameras sensor. From that a photographer can do lots of work such change white balance. Once they have the 5 or so photos out of 500 they took that they want to do post-production work on in photoshop, they call up the serious photoediting software and do it. These programs also do version control, so you always have your original as well as your modified files in an easy to find format without the worry of losing prior versions.
Hope that helps.