Why is this modded insightful? Apple has been the first to offer computers with new chips from Intel at least 3 times in the last two years. So you might not be able to choose the absolute latest processor if you order one months later, but when the computers come out, they are using cutting edge technology.
But at that point, it's no longer a "Premium PC." You'd have a server (with server OS) that for some reason had 4 dual head video cards, two 30" monitors, video editing software, and a wireless keyboard/mouse.
My evidence is the users. I haven't met a single Mac user who uses Macs because of what the case looks like (and I sold/repaired Macs for over 4 years). People who don't use them tend to think that Mac Users are less informed than Windows users and are more attracted to eye candy than the user experience, and while I'm sure there are some people who care more about how their computer looks than how it works, they are few and far between.
Maybe because apple IS a hardware company. They use software to drive hardware sales. OS X sells Macs; the iTunes Music Store sells iPods; the App Store sells iPhones. They can't very well sell their hardware if other hardware companies start circumventing the things that tie Apple's hardware to their software. The Pre pretending to be an iPhone when connecting to iTunes is similar to Psystar making PCs think they're Macs.
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You can set the wallpaper and use third party ring tones without jailbreaking an iPhone. Apple doesn't restrict them THAT much.
Are crumple zones patented? Yes. Are seat belts patented? Yes. Just because they're patenting it, it doesn't mean they're doing so in order to sue people. Most patents are used to prevent the company from being sued.
I didn't see what part of streaming is going to surpass digital downloads - shear data transfer, unique tracks transferred, money made, etc. I don't doubt that they'll transfer more data, since if someone wants to listen to a song 3 times in a week, they have to download it 3 times. Maybe even unique tracks will be higher, since people would be more likely to listen to a song they don't know if they'll like or not if they don't have to pay anything extra (free or flat monthly fee). However I'm not sure streaming will pass the revenue of digital purchases any time soon.
Most companies these days call a "Lifetime Warranty" a warranty that lasts as long as they continue selling the product. It's not your lifetime - it's the lifetime of the product cycle. I think it's very misleading because no one thinks that's what they mean. It also gives a variable duration for the warranty - the longer after release you buy it, the shorter the warranty.
If you were asked to enter your phone number, you likely clicked on one of the "IQ" ads all over Facebook. This isn't a facebook application, but will often pretend to be one, showing "scores" of your friends, and saying something like "Your friend doesn't think you can beat his IQ. Click here to accept his challenge."
When you go to any application in Facebook, Facebook will ask if you want that application to have access to your data, but if you have your privacy settings set up correctly, applications can't see your phone number or email address.
Facebook DOES give the options of what data to allow applications to see. Of course by default everything is turned on, but you can reduce it down to just your name, networks and friends.
Applications don't have access to my profile picture, basic info, personal info, education history, work history, wall posts, photos, interests, etc.
Except it's not.5 billion per second. It's basically a.5 billionth of a second shutter speed, but only 6 million frames per second. It's also 2500 pixels per frame, not 2500 bits per frame. Let's just say it's 8 bits per pixel.
6,000,000 x 2500 x 8 = 120 gigabits per second, or 15 gigabytes per second.
I wasn't complaining about the lack of phones and power. There is a HUGE difference in the two situations. I could live without power or phones just fine. In fact I never even use my phone. The issue was that everything suddenly went down and there was no way to find out why.
It's not like people were running around screaming and crying because they didn't have power. Some people thought that one of the possible reasons that the effect was so wide-spread was an orchestrated attack on multiple power and communications stations. That's not an unreasonable thought considering it was shortly after the 9/11 attacks.
Oh, come on. You know perfectly well he was talking about size in terms of resolution, not physical hardware dimensions. Even so, almost all 1920x1200 or higher displays are 24" or more, so the comment would still hold true - most people don't have monitors bigger than that, resolution wise or physical size wise.
Not likely. In areas where there is no competition for broadband (like RTP for example), the cable companies have no incentive to increase bandwidth, and have shown over the last 10+ years that they will keep bandwidth at a minimum. Time Warner is really the only option here in Raleigh, NC. There are a few pockets that can get DSL, but there is no FTTH. The fastest DSL here, if you can get it, is 6Mbps, so Time Warner offers 7Mbps down/384 up for $50 a month. I don't see that increasing until there's some competition. Time Warner is currently trying to push a bill through in NC that makes it so cities can't even provide their own broadband to compete with them.
Were you in NY during the power outage? We didn't know what the heck was going on. Power was out everywhere. Cell phones didn't work because the towers didn't have power. Same with radio. For a few hours, many people had no way of knowing what was going on.
No. If this incident were like an "avoid all public streets" reaction, those people wouldn't have been in the building to begin with. Obviously this incident was different enough from every other day in the last 7 years to make them evacuate the buildings, or they wouldn't have done it. It's not like they're evacuating every time a plane flies by.
I never farm gold and I always have enough money for whatever I need (key word here is 'need'). You can make a couple hundred gold in a clear of Naxx, and 50g easily in a heroic. That's not even counting any easily sellable items you might pick up like Frozen Orbs. The only things in the game that really cost a lot are items you don't need - mammoth mounts, crafting professions (the mats for any crafted item always sell for more than the item itself), BoE items you'll replace on your first heroic run, etc.
Isn't it possible that the observers were just looking at it from different angles? Imagine the moon is directly overhead, and you aim a camera (or telescope) at it. What is the "top" of the moon? You could rotate the camera to any angle to make any part of the moon you wanted to be on the top of the photograph.
The moon of course isn't directly overhead most of the time, so the angle someone is observing it from could depend on the time of night, where they are on earth, etc.
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Apps have to be submitted on a per-market basis I believe. I have a few apps from the Japanese app store that aren't available on the US one.
Why is this modded insightful? Apple has been the first to offer computers with new chips from Intel at least 3 times in the last two years. So you might not be able to choose the absolute latest processor if you order one months later, but when the computers come out, they are using cutting edge technology.
But at that point, it's no longer a "Premium PC." You'd have a server (with server OS) that for some reason had 4 dual head video cards, two 30" monitors, video editing software, and a wireless keyboard/mouse.
My evidence is the users. I haven't met a single Mac user who uses Macs because of what the case looks like (and I sold/repaired Macs for over 4 years). People who don't use them tend to think that Mac Users are less informed than Windows users and are more attracted to eye candy than the user experience, and while I'm sure there are some people who care more about how their computer looks than how it works, they are few and far between.
Maybe because apple IS a hardware company. They use software to drive hardware sales. OS X sells Macs; the iTunes Music Store sells iPods; the App Store sells iPhones. They can't very well sell their hardware if other hardware companies start circumventing the things that tie Apple's hardware to their software. The Pre pretending to be an iPhone when connecting to iTunes is similar to Psystar making PCs think they're Macs.
You can set the wallpaper and use third party ring tones without jailbreaking an iPhone. Apple doesn't restrict them THAT much.
Are crumple zones patented? Yes. Are seat belts patented? Yes. Just because they're patenting it, it doesn't mean they're doing so in order to sue people. Most patents are used to prevent the company from being sued.
I didn't see what part of streaming is going to surpass digital downloads - shear data transfer, unique tracks transferred, money made, etc. I don't doubt that they'll transfer more data, since if someone wants to listen to a song 3 times in a week, they have to download it 3 times. Maybe even unique tracks will be higher, since people would be more likely to listen to a song they don't know if they'll like or not if they don't have to pay anything extra (free or flat monthly fee). However I'm not sure streaming will pass the revenue of digital purchases any time soon.
Most companies these days call a "Lifetime Warranty" a warranty that lasts as long as they continue selling the product. It's not your lifetime - it's the lifetime of the product cycle. I think it's very misleading because no one thinks that's what they mean. It also gives a variable duration for the warranty - the longer after release you buy it, the shorter the warranty.
If you were asked to enter your phone number, you likely clicked on one of the "IQ" ads all over Facebook. This isn't a facebook application, but will often pretend to be one, showing "scores" of your friends, and saying something like "Your friend doesn't think you can beat his IQ. Click here to accept his challenge."
When you go to any application in Facebook, Facebook will ask if you want that application to have access to your data, but if you have your privacy settings set up correctly, applications can't see your phone number or email address.
Facebook DOES give the options of what data to allow applications to see. Of course by default everything is turned on, but you can reduce it down to just your name, networks and friends.
Applications don't have access to my profile picture, basic info, personal info, education history, work history, wall posts, photos, interests, etc.
Except it's not .5 billion per second. It's basically a .5 billionth of a second shutter speed, but only 6 million frames per second. It's also 2500 pixels per frame, not 2500 bits per frame. Let's just say it's 8 bits per pixel.
6,000,000 x 2500 x 8 = 120 gigabits per second, or 15 gigabytes per second.
I heard they were coming to Durham, but not Raleigh/Cary, which are more likely to get UVerse.
I wasn't complaining about the lack of phones and power. There is a HUGE difference in the two situations. I could live without power or phones just fine. In fact I never even use my phone. The issue was that everything suddenly went down and there was no way to find out why.
It's not like people were running around screaming and crying because they didn't have power. Some people thought that one of the possible reasons that the effect was so wide-spread was an orchestrated attack on multiple power and communications stations. That's not an unreasonable thought considering it was shortly after the 9/11 attacks.
Oh, come on. You know perfectly well he was talking about size in terms of resolution, not physical hardware dimensions. Even so, almost all 1920x1200 or higher displays are 24" or more, so the comment would still hold true - most people don't have monitors bigger than that, resolution wise or physical size wise.
Not likely. In areas where there is no competition for broadband (like RTP for example), the cable companies have no incentive to increase bandwidth, and have shown over the last 10+ years that they will keep bandwidth at a minimum. Time Warner is really the only option here in Raleigh, NC. There are a few pockets that can get DSL, but there is no FTTH. The fastest DSL here, if you can get it, is 6Mbps, so Time Warner offers 7Mbps down/384 up for $50 a month. I don't see that increasing until there's some competition. Time Warner is currently trying to push a bill through in NC that makes it so cities can't even provide their own broadband to compete with them.
Were you in NY during the power outage? We didn't know what the heck was going on. Power was out everywhere. Cell phones didn't work because the towers didn't have power. Same with radio. For a few hours, many people had no way of knowing what was going on.
No. If this incident were like an "avoid all public streets" reaction, those people wouldn't have been in the building to begin with. Obviously this incident was different enough from every other day in the last 7 years to make them evacuate the buildings, or they wouldn't have done it. It's not like they're evacuating every time a plane flies by.
Yeah. When I read the summary's "18 seconds," I was thinking that it was an extremely long time for something like this.
I never farm gold and I always have enough money for whatever I need (key word here is 'need'). You can make a couple hundred gold in a clear of Naxx, and 50g easily in a heroic. That's not even counting any easily sellable items you might pick up like Frozen Orbs. The only things in the game that really cost a lot are items you don't need - mammoth mounts, crafting professions (the mats for any crafted item always sell for more than the item itself), BoE items you'll replace on your first heroic run, etc.
Maybe this is some joke that went over my head, but since when are pumas mythical?
Exactly my thoughts. A 3 wheel design would also use less energy since it wouldn't have to use motors to keep it balanced.
I've heard they're going to use Qualcomm's new dynamic network of Wolfpigeons to get as much coverage as possible - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3agYeT-T9co
Anyone happen to get the links to the videos on YouTube? I was only able to watch one before the site stopped responding.
Isn't it possible that the observers were just looking at it from different angles? Imagine the moon is directly overhead, and you aim a camera (or telescope) at it. What is the "top" of the moon? You could rotate the camera to any angle to make any part of the moon you wanted to be on the top of the photograph.
The moon of course isn't directly overhead most of the time, so the angle someone is observing it from could depend on the time of night, where they are on earth, etc.