nothing useful in that link (I see apple are down 4 percent on the news in the TFA), but the data for 2007 seem to suggest that apple are far from being a leader.
what does this amount to in real numbers, and what is the amount relative to the whole notebook market?
notebooks have been more or less a commodity for quite some time now, so i can't imagine super-expensive notebooks represent that huge a share of the market.
I think you just don't want to talk about Microsoft. Why are you so eager to change the subject? I don't care about google, microsoft, apple, or whatever. I want to see competition. In my book, Google buying Yahoo is scarier than Microsoft buying Yahoo.
Do you care to cite any evidence of your concern? i already did, but you don't read. in some countries, Google are trying out a nice little strategy of making exclusive alliance with phone companies.
the end result - unless i do something very convoluted, all my mobile traffic goes via google; i hear they are going to remove the convoluted option. even microsoft isn't that invasive.
I imagine what will happen if they buy Yahoo (which, incidentally, is still way bigger than Google where I live).
Actually, insofar as Google supports competing advertising in an impartial way How are they doing that by buy doubleclick, and now trying for Yahoo? It is a textbook example of removing the competition. The reaping starts after you remove it, not while. Just as it was with Microsoft.
However, I think Google's main service in support of competition is providing access to non-advertising information about the real value of products. To date, Google generates almost no content of their own, and their key service is linking us to other people's content. Google mediate and rank content. I don't know how they do that, and you don't either. What reason do you have to think their mediation has anything to do with "real value of products" whatever that means?
If you love freedom and democracy, you have to love competition. And if you love competition, you have to be careful about Google.
They have a large percent of the search "market"; they have been offering all sorts of exclusive and semi-exclusive deals to various mobile providers; and they've been buying up competition for a while.
It can only be good if they have at least one huge tough mean and rich competitor that hates their guts.
"having found a link" would imply that in addition to the (possible) correlation described in the article, there was some mechanism that directly links the gene to the behaviour.
instead, we have wild speculation, an analogy with a different behaviour in a different species and a generalization that is not supported by what is described in the RTFA.
Heh. My aging sony tv (2 year old LCD) is running Linux, and their user interface is running on X. It is very funny to see it crap out after blinking several times when I connect a notebook to the vga port and start testing out video modes, although frankly I'm not quite sure why would it crap out that way.
I am too lazy to look it up and link, but you can download the whole set of software running on the TV from their website.
More nn topic (in glorious AOL me-too style), I've seen the Linux logo (on reboot) on Malaysia, on Austrian and at least one more European airline which I don't remember now. I saw it for the first time maybe in 2004, so it is definitely a slow Saturday.
Sounds to me like the * Ass. of A. are looking for new partnerships. They toss something to the ISPs in exchange for support for whatever measures the Ass. is interested in getting passed. I guess we'll see a lot more of the same in the coming months -- it'll be interesting which ISPs will they be talking too and how far it goes.
Your otherwise eloquent pre-emptive post leaves out one inconvenient fact. It seems main reason so many rockets fall on that particular city is the illegally built settlement present there.
It is a fine spin to call building settlements on a landgrab "non-violent, legal action, over repeated aggressive and violent attacks from a neighbouring region", but that ain't make it reality.
I am curious if trying some non-violent legal action in accordance with some UN resolutions may help.
and attention whoring. i have had notebooks that were smaller, lighter, weirder and probably thinner than the air mac since a few years ago. i have travelled to more than one country with those.
sometimes the security check personnel would be interested by the stuff I carry, but never in the way alledged in the article. even people in quite underdeveloped countries are able to recognize a laptop, and the "revolutionary" air mac isn't that different.
to study foreign languages. I had (from the ages before the internets) lots of language tapes, which I compressed about the time I got the thing. Since they sound a lot like bad phone anyway, compressing them to a low bitrate doesn't relly matter much. So, don't look down on 10 year old technology. Even in this age it can be put to good use;)
This is a nice workaround when you're allowed to have it -- and it illustrates my point. Not only is the technology needed for cheap and convenient mobile access available, there is even more than one way to do it. And still, there are virtually no providers that have reasonably and _understandably_ priced mobile plans (voice + data), adequate coverage and open devices.
Instead, we have phones packed with shit we don't need. I have integrated walkman that allows me to buy any music the phone company believes is "good" in lossy format at inflated price. I can even copy it to other devices, if I buy some software from them. And my integrated "PC browser" shows me adverts from the carrier.
(AU in Japan. Avoid them like teh plague. contract expires soon;))
"anarchist agenda" must set the removal of authority (government, society, law, etc.) as its ultimate goal. what wikileaks does is leak documents about companies that violate the laws, and lets the authorities catch those companies. i'd say they are as far removed from "anarchists" as libertarians are from communists.
especially in the form that is available now in most places. the problem with hotspots is their accidental availability -- you can never be sure that you will end near one when you need it, so rebuilding your "mobile internet experience" around them is pretty stupid. that being said, even when you know you can't rely on them, they can be a nice surprise. that's how i am treating the occasional hotspot -- as a convenience, sometime nice, and (very rarely) helpful in emergencies. that is as much i can say about hotspots.
now, the issue of mobile connectivity is a different matter altogether. there is only one huge reason we still can't have reasonable mobile connectivity. it is because the mobile carriers are hellbent on not letting their networks 'decay' into something similar to the open internet, where they'll have to make money from network connectivity, and probably lose out on all their stupid "markup" services that are pushed onto the mobile users -- ridiculous "ringtone" downloads, ridiculous "official sites" and what not. once mobile connectivity becomes ubiquituous, all those "business models" will go, and most likely on day zero.
until the governments (or, eventually, the invisible hand) turn the mobile services oligopolies into something more competitive, changes will be coming at the usual glacial speed.
voice recognition won't be useful until it is intelligent.
voice recognition won't be useful until either
a) the computer understands what you're talking about, which will take forever to achieve or
b) the current paradigm, which you summarize so aptly -- voice being used to interact with items made specifically for interaction using your hands -- dies, and is replaced with an interface that is designed to supplement hands with voice. even the Orson Card's "vocalisation" interface makes more sense than what's currently available to use.
IMHO (b) will come first, and may become very good before we're any close to a reasonable (a).
Well, they have the right to make a point as they see fit, and that doesn't make the materials _other_ people upload to their site more or less trustworthy.
It is always good to be able to find information on a domain registrar, especially when you consider putting your valuable eggs... errr... domain records into their database. And the more noise, the more blogs will have it and the smaller likelihood of forgetting.
Be that as it may, I have never heard of the nom-nom-nom domain registrar before. Now I know something about them...
Well, they were a victim of an unjustified shutdown, and it seems eNom was a part of this shutdown, so I suppose one could cut them some slack on that account only.
Given the recent systematic drive to regulate the internets that's coming from virtually all quarters, it is hard to call their initiative for exposing irregular censorship entirely out of place. On the contrary, I think it is timely, and seems to me quite limited in scope, being concerned mainly with domain registrars.
Besides, Wikileaks is an activist site by definition -- publishing as they are scandalous materials from anonymous sources. I don't quite understand why would you feel more or less uncomfortable just because they publish some more of the same.
You've them K-things mixed up a bit. Knol is some sort of a project of Google, and is probably unrelated to the cute polar bear Knut.
Whoever modded you informative is almost certainly a noted Wikipedian though.
Slashdot Mirror
outside of the angry young men movement :-P
:)
you are obviously an accomplished debater and a polite person.
nothing useful in that link (I see apple are down 4 percent on the news in the TFA), but the data for 2007 seem to suggest that apple are far from being a leader.
http://www.marketnews.ca/news_detail.asp?nid=2636
what does this amount to in real numbers, and what is the amount relative to the whole notebook market?
notebooks have been more or less a commodity for quite some time now, so i can't imagine super-expensive notebooks represent that huge a share of the market.
yawn.
the end result - unless i do something very convoluted, all my mobile traffic goes via google; i hear they are going to remove the convoluted option. even microsoft isn't that invasive.
I imagine what will happen if they buy Yahoo (which, incidentally, is still way bigger than Google where I live). Actually, insofar as Google supports competing advertising in an impartial way How are they doing that by buy doubleclick, and now trying for Yahoo? It is a textbook example of removing the competition. The reaping starts after you remove it, not while. Just as it was with Microsoft. However, I think Google's main service in support of competition is providing access to non-advertising information about the real value of products. To date, Google generates almost no content of their own, and their key service is linking us to other people's content. Google mediate and rank content. I don't know how they do that, and you don't either. What reason do you have to think their mediation has anything to do with "real value of products" whatever that means?
If you love freedom and democracy, you have to love competition. And if you love competition, you have to be careful about Google.
They have a large percent of the search "market"; they have been offering all sorts of exclusive and semi-exclusive deals to various mobile providers; and they've been buying up competition for a while.
It can only be good if they have at least one huge tough mean and rich competitor that hates their guts.
root doesn't have to sudo on ubuntu.
"having found a link" would imply that in addition to the (possible) correlation described in the article, there was some mechanism that directly links the gene to the behaviour.
instead, we have wild speculation, an analogy with a different behaviour in a different species and a generalization that is not supported by what is described in the RTFA.
Heh. My aging sony tv (2 year old LCD) is running Linux, and their user interface is running on X. It is very funny to see it crap out after blinking several times when I connect a notebook to the vga port and start testing out video modes, although frankly I'm not quite sure why would it crap out that way.
I am too lazy to look it up and link, but you can download the whole set of software running on the TV from their website.
More nn topic (in glorious AOL me-too style), I've seen the Linux logo (on reboot) on Malaysia, on Austrian and at least one more European airline which I don't remember now. I saw it for the first time maybe in 2004, so it is definitely a slow Saturday.
Sounds to me like the * Ass. of A. are looking for new partnerships. They toss something to the ISPs in exchange for support for whatever measures the Ass. is interested in getting passed. I guess we'll see a lot more of the same in the coming months -- it'll be interesting which ISPs will they be talking too and how far it goes.
Now on to the other half -- to get Microsoft to agree as well.
but i'll burn some karma to reply.
Your otherwise eloquent pre-emptive post leaves out one inconvenient fact. It seems main reason so many rockets fall on that particular city is the illegally built settlement present there.
It is a fine spin to call building settlements on a landgrab "non-violent, legal action, over repeated aggressive and violent attacks from a neighbouring region", but that ain't make it reality.
I am curious if trying some non-violent legal action in accordance with some UN resolutions may help.
and attention whoring. i have had notebooks that were smaller, lighter, weirder and probably thinner than the air mac since a few years ago. i have travelled to more than one country with those.
sometimes the security check personnel would be interested by the stuff I carry, but never in the way alledged in the article. even people in quite underdeveloped countries are able to recognize a laptop, and the "revolutionary" air mac isn't that different.
that guy probably just can't get over it.
You're one step ahead of yourself. You need to marry a gf before you can get a DIVORCE.
to study foreign languages. I had (from the ages before the internets) lots of language tapes, which I compressed about the time I got the thing. Since they sound a lot like bad phone anyway, compressing them to a low bitrate doesn't relly matter much. So, don't look down on 10 year old technology. Even in this age it can be put to good use ;)
This is a nice workaround when you're allowed to have it -- and it illustrates my point. Not only is the technology needed for cheap and convenient mobile access available, there is even more than one way to do it. And still, there are virtually no providers that have reasonably and _understandably_ priced mobile plans (voice + data), adequate coverage and open devices.
;))
Instead, we have phones packed with shit we don't need. I have integrated walkman that allows me to buy any music the phone company believes is "good" in lossy format at inflated price. I can even copy it to other devices, if I buy some software from them. And my integrated "PC browser" shows me adverts from the carrier.
(AU in Japan. Avoid them like teh plague. contract expires soon
"anarchist agenda" must set the removal of authority (government, society, law, etc.) as its ultimate goal. what wikileaks does is leak documents about companies that violate the laws, and lets the authorities catch those companies. i'd say they are as far removed from "anarchists" as libertarians are from communists.
and you're stupid.
especially in the form that is available now in most places. the problem with hotspots is their accidental availability -- you can never be sure that you will end near one when you need it, so rebuilding your "mobile internet experience" around them is pretty stupid. that being said, even when you know you can't rely on them, they can be a nice surprise. that's how i am treating the occasional hotspot -- as a convenience, sometime nice, and (very rarely) helpful in emergencies. that is as much i can say about hotspots.
now, the issue of mobile connectivity is a different matter altogether. there is only one huge reason we still can't have reasonable mobile connectivity. it is because the mobile carriers are hellbent on not letting their networks 'decay' into something similar to the open internet, where they'll have to make money from network connectivity, and probably lose out on all their stupid "markup" services that are pushed onto the mobile users -- ridiculous "ringtone" downloads, ridiculous "official sites" and what not. once mobile connectivity becomes ubiquituous, all those "business models" will go, and most likely on day zero.
until the governments (or, eventually, the invisible hand) turn the mobile services oligopolies into something more competitive, changes will be coming at the usual glacial speed.
meh, n00b. we've had these for years now.
voice recognition won't be useful until it is intelligent.
voice recognition won't be useful until either
a) the computer understands what you're talking about, which will take forever to achieve or
b) the current paradigm, which you summarize so aptly -- voice being used to interact with items made specifically for interaction using your hands -- dies, and is replaced with an interface that is designed to supplement hands with voice. even the Orson Card's "vocalisation" interface makes more sense than what's currently available to use.
IMHO (b) will come first, and may become very good before we're any close to a reasonable (a).
Well, they have the right to make a point as they see fit, and that doesn't make the materials _other_ people upload to their site more or less trustworthy.
... errr ... domain records into their database. And the more noise, the more blogs will have it and the smaller likelihood of forgetting.
...
It is always good to be able to find information on a domain registrar, especially when you consider putting your valuable eggs
Be that as it may, I have never heard of the nom-nom-nom domain registrar before. Now I know something about them
Well, they were a victim of an unjustified shutdown, and it seems eNom was a part of this shutdown, so I suppose one could cut them some slack on that account only.
Given the recent systematic drive to regulate the internets that's coming from virtually all quarters, it is hard to call their initiative for exposing irregular censorship entirely out of place. On the contrary, I think it is timely, and seems to me quite limited in scope, being concerned mainly with domain registrars.
Besides, Wikileaks is an activist site by definition -- publishing as they are scandalous materials from anonymous sources. I don't quite understand why would you feel more or less uncomfortable just because they publish some more of the same.
You've them K-things mixed up a bit. Knol is some sort of a project of Google, and is probably unrelated to the cute polar bear Knut. Whoever modded you informative is almost certainly a noted Wikipedian though.
You're so _obviously_ new here. US government data isn't copyrighted.