Another of the entrants, Jabberwacky can apparently even woo the ladies: 'Some of its conversational partners confide in it every day; one conversation, with a teenaged girl, lasted 11 hours.'
You need to be careful who you meet online. The rise of the machines won't be in the form of war machine. No, far worse! They're just going to woo and steal our women!
On second thought, maybe that wouldn't be so bad. That would just put everyone on equal footing with the Slashdot crowd.
So AMD frees its production facilities to accept contracts from other fabless companies. Meanwhile, they can focus on designing and selling chips and chipsets for motherboards and graphics cards.
I think this will turn out well for AMD, if they can maintain a good relationship with their foundry spin off and if the foundry spin off can keep up with the competition in terms of quality and technology. Although, I guess this would also free AMD to find other partners if they need to either expand production or find better production facilities in the future without neglecting parts of their own business.
The people (or businesses in this case) using Lotus are not the same type of people using Apple's built in programs. Not that I agree with banning competition, but their reasoning is most likely that this will help enterprise adoption and not hurt their consumer apps usage. After all, does anyone actually choose to use Lotus?
Add to that the fact that they aren't even aiming at Joe Public. They are aiming at hobbyists and people who would like to have an open gaming/handheld platform. Not exactly the largest of markets, but all you need is a niche to be successful.
And don't give me the "there's no market for that" line - PC makers are selling the damned things like hotcakes
And how many people ever actually use that ability to add or swap out components? PC manufacturers make those types of computers because they are the least expensive to build, not because people like to be able to add or change out parts.
I think there is a fundamental difference between IT and Silicon Valley. The vast majority of IT workers work for large companies that may not have anything to do with technology. The vast majority of Silicon Valley companies, on the other hand, depend on investors with large amounts of money to fund their high technology ideas. In an economic downturn, there happens to be a lot less investors with money and investors are less willing to accept as much risk.
Actually IBM branded their line of computers as "PC". (Yes, I know the term Personal Computer existed before hand, but IBM made it their own) Once IBM went with Microsoft to provide the OS, the term PC and Windows was established as interchangeable in the public's view. The Apple ads are just capitalizing on the public's own perception of a computer with Windows on as something generic but a Mac as something different. (hmm, Macs advertised as something different, where have we heard that before?)
Maybe that shouldn't be in their care to begin with? I'm not so sure you could make the argument that it's "their" data anyhow. The point I was making was to put an impartial gatekeeper in the way who does not answer to the same person as those using the system.
That article is a perfect example of a tool or system being wrong. To use a car example, people cut off other people and cause accidents because of abuse of the "lanes" system on roads. Should we only have one lane roads then? After all, people just abuse it and don't follow the rules.
Extortion is illegal, plain and simple. If the men frequenting the gay bars were not so ashamed about being there, it would not have worked anyhow. My point is that if you are going somewhere in public, there will be witnesses. With this system, it just happens that the "witness" has perfect memory.
Judging from the summary, I don't see the issue so long as a warrant from a judge is needed to allow searching the system. This would make tracking and finding suspects easier (and therefore cheaper) for law enforcement officers. I know on this site people like to complain about Big Brother, but I really don't see how one's whereabouts in public are a privacy issue. Just like any tool this can be abused. Which is why there should be checks in place (such as judicial oversight). Now if you want to complain about even having these cameras in public, that's a different issue all together.
It most likely has to do with Apple starting as a hardware company and not a software company like Microsoft. Just because Microsoft's business model was wildly successful for them does not mean it would work for Apple. After all, Microsoft did not have to compete with someone who was entrenched in the market with somewhere around 90-95 percent marketshare. I think Apple recognizes that it can make a much larger profit per unit selling hardware with the OS there only as an incentive to purchase the hardware. I think of it as Apple is trying to sell an experience.
Think of Microsoft as an amusement park ride manufacturer and Apple as running its own amusement park. For Microsoft, selling as many rides to parks as possible is important, but providing an all around experience is the focus of Apple's business. I'm not saying one is a better model than the other, just that they two companies have different focuses.
Not that it really changes your point, but, I believe, that most "mildy educated" librarians have a masters degree. Plus it was the library director, not just a random librarian.
I disagree with your assessment as I tend to look at it as the public money was spent to put that library together and the public also chooses to allow stewardship of that property to fall the director of that library (who probably reports to some county library director and so on). If he used his judgment to allow the FBI to seize those computers, then I really don't have a problem with it. Just as things you do in public come with no guarantee of privacy, I would expect that things I do while using public property (such as these computers) should not be considered private. Especially when I myself am not the direct steward of that property.
I'm not sure I would dismiss the removal of a bloody car seat as just "circumstantial" evidence. Circumstantial can be pretty obvious all on it's own. As soon as that news broke, I knew he was guilty, especially with the way he tried to hide it.
It is just more obvious because of McCain's age. Don't get me wrong, nuclear is currently the safest, greenest option that is economically viable, but promising things 20+ years into the future is pretty bad. Regardless of age, couldn't that be said of any President? The longest they could be in office is 8 years. And beside humanitarian work, how many Presidents continue working on their policies once they are out of office? The best a President can do is set the country down a path and hope that future Presidents and Congress continue the work.
For home use a mid tower may be a good choice. However, I cannot think of many people in enterprises who would need a mid-sized tower. Most businesses either need small computers to access internal web apps and run office (such as customer service, finance, etc) or heavy machinery to power desktop crushing apps (like a developer running a test server or analyst running data manipulation apps). And, from what I've seen, most developers and management want laptops anyways to use in meetings, at home, or just on-the-go. Now as to any other issues with using Mac, I really don't know. I'm just commenting on what I've seen regarding the need for a mid sized desktop in enterprise.
Anyone who believes that Apple is really out for browser marketshare in the Windows world just doesn't get it. Safari is on Windows as a tool for iPhone developers, or should I just say web developers, to use standards that will work on the iPhone. Even without considering the "third party support" for the iPhone, the rest of the web still needs to look ok on the iPhone in order for the web browsing features to be worth a damn. Maybe grabbing some larger portion of the browser market is a way to encourage developers to test their sites on Safari, but it is not the main focus no matter how Jobs may have portrayed it.
WoW performance may lag, but try to minimize WoW or play it in a window on Windows (to look something up on thottbot or chat on AIM). At least on all my machines, the entire system slows to a crawl. On my Mac (Powerbook at that too) I can play WoW in a window, chat online, and surf the net without any real noticeable slowdown. This probably has less to do with OpenGL vs DirectX than with differences with how the OSes handle multitasking, but I still find it very interesting that a less powerful computer can handle it much better than my gaming machine.
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Another of the entrants, Jabberwacky can apparently even woo the ladies: 'Some of its conversational partners confide in it every day; one conversation, with a teenaged girl, lasted 11 hours.'
You need to be careful who you meet online. The rise of the machines won't be in the form of war machine. No, far worse! They're just going to woo and steal our women!
On second thought, maybe that wouldn't be so bad. That would just put everyone on equal footing with the Slashdot crowd.
So we're going to measure the cost of things in FBP's now?
Well, if it was designed to be as thin as possible without consideration of removable batteries or not, then, yes, it is a feature.
And what do you do with your old player when you get a new one? ... chuck it. Very environmentally friendly.
Actually, Apple has that covered too. They offer ten percent off a new iPod when you turn in an old (both working and non-working) one.
Like this? http://code.google.com/p/arora/
So AMD frees its production facilities to accept contracts from other fabless companies. Meanwhile, they can focus on designing and selling chips and chipsets for motherboards and graphics cards.
I think this will turn out well for AMD, if they can maintain a good relationship with their foundry spin off and if the foundry spin off can keep up with the competition in terms of quality and technology. Although, I guess this would also free AMD to find other partners if they need to either expand production or find better production facilities in the future without neglecting parts of their own business.
The people (or businesses in this case) using Lotus are not the same type of people using Apple's built in programs. Not that I agree with banning competition, but their reasoning is most likely that this will help enterprise adoption and not hurt their consumer apps usage. After all, does anyone actually choose to use Lotus?
Add to that the fact that they aren't even aiming at Joe Public. They are aiming at hobbyists and people who would like to have an open gaming/handheld platform. Not exactly the largest of markets, but all you need is a niche to be successful.
And don't give me the "there's no market for that" line - PC makers are selling the damned things like hotcakes
And how many people ever actually use that ability to add or swap out components? PC manufacturers make those types of computers because they are the least expensive to build, not because people like to be able to add or change out parts.
I think there is a fundamental difference between IT and Silicon Valley. The vast majority of IT workers work for large companies that may not have anything to do with technology. The vast majority of Silicon Valley companies, on the other hand, depend on investors with large amounts of money to fund their high technology ideas. In an economic downturn, there happens to be a lot less investors with money and investors are less willing to accept as much risk.
Not only that, but remember how well DVD did before players dropped below the magical 100 dollar mark?
Actually IBM branded their line of computers as "PC". (Yes, I know the term Personal Computer existed before hand, but IBM made it their own) Once IBM went with Microsoft to provide the OS, the term PC and Windows was established as interchangeable in the public's view. The Apple ads are just capitalizing on the public's own perception of a computer with Windows on as something generic but a Mac as something different. (hmm, Macs advertised as something different, where have we heard that before?)
Maybe that shouldn't be in their care to begin with? I'm not so sure you could make the argument that it's "their" data anyhow. The point I was making was to put an impartial gatekeeper in the way who does not answer to the same person as those using the system. That article is a perfect example of a tool or system being wrong. To use a car example, people cut off other people and cause accidents because of abuse of the "lanes" system on roads. Should we only have one lane roads then? After all, people just abuse it and don't follow the rules. Extortion is illegal, plain and simple. If the men frequenting the gay bars were not so ashamed about being there, it would not have worked anyhow. My point is that if you are going somewhere in public, there will be witnesses. With this system, it just happens that the "witness" has perfect memory.
Judging from the summary, I don't see the issue so long as a warrant from a judge is needed to allow searching the system. This would make tracking and finding suspects easier (and therefore cheaper) for law enforcement officers. I know on this site people like to complain about Big Brother, but I really don't see how one's whereabouts in public are a privacy issue. Just like any tool this can be abused. Which is why there should be checks in place (such as judicial oversight). Now if you want to complain about even having these cameras in public, that's a different issue all together.
...a truthiness rating!
It most likely has to do with Apple starting as a hardware company and not a software company like Microsoft. Just because Microsoft's business model was wildly successful for them does not mean it would work for Apple. After all, Microsoft did not have to compete with someone who was entrenched in the market with somewhere around 90-95 percent marketshare. I think Apple recognizes that it can make a much larger profit per unit selling hardware with the OS there only as an incentive to purchase the hardware. I think of it as Apple is trying to sell an experience.
Think of Microsoft as an amusement park ride manufacturer and Apple as running its own amusement park. For Microsoft, selling as many rides to parks as possible is important, but providing an all around experience is the focus of Apple's business. I'm not saying one is a better model than the other, just that they two companies have different focuses.
Not that it really changes your point, but, I believe, that most "mildy educated" librarians have a masters degree. Plus it was the library director, not just a random librarian.
I disagree with your assessment as I tend to look at it as the public money was spent to put that library together and the public also chooses to allow stewardship of that property to fall the director of that library (who probably reports to some county library director and so on). If he used his judgment to allow the FBI to seize those computers, then I really don't have a problem with it. Just as things you do in public come with no guarantee of privacy, I would expect that things I do while using public property (such as these computers) should not be considered private. Especially when I myself am not the direct steward of that property.
I'm not sure I would dismiss the removal of a bloody car seat as just "circumstantial" evidence. Circumstantial can be pretty obvious all on it's own. As soon as that news broke, I knew he was guilty, especially with the way he tried to hide it.
For home use a mid tower may be a good choice. However, I cannot think of many people in enterprises who would need a mid-sized tower. Most businesses either need small computers to access internal web apps and run office (such as customer service, finance, etc) or heavy machinery to power desktop crushing apps (like a developer running a test server or analyst running data manipulation apps). And, from what I've seen, most developers and management want laptops anyways to use in meetings, at home, or just on-the-go. Now as to any other issues with using Mac, I really don't know. I'm just commenting on what I've seen regarding the need for a mid sized desktop in enterprise.
Anyone who believes that Apple is really out for browser marketshare in the Windows world just doesn't get it. Safari is on Windows as a tool for iPhone developers, or should I just say web developers, to use standards that will work on the iPhone. Even without considering the "third party support" for the iPhone, the rest of the web still needs to look ok on the iPhone in order for the web browsing features to be worth a damn. Maybe grabbing some larger portion of the browser market is a way to encourage developers to test their sites on Safari, but it is not the main focus no matter how Jobs may have portrayed it.
Looks like somebody read his Popular Science this month (either that or you're a chemist) :-p
WoW performance may lag, but try to minimize WoW or play it in a window on Windows (to look something up on thottbot or chat on AIM). At least on all my machines, the entire system slows to a crawl. On my Mac (Powerbook at that too) I can play WoW in a window, chat online, and surf the net without any real noticeable slowdown. This probably has less to do with OpenGL vs DirectX than with differences with how the OSes handle multitasking, but I still find it very interesting that a less powerful computer can handle it much better than my gaming machine.
But then again, so has the "Apple to switch to Intel" rumor.