I knew this would catch up with them. I'm glad Intel is off the MHz thing. This doesn't mean the general populace will be more informed when buying a processor, but at least they might be looking at other features that may matter more (i.e. shared video memory, backside cache, etc.). Maybe.
Sequestering CO2 underground is tantamount to screwing our kids over -- again! Burying liquid CO2 will only result in it's boiling at a later point in time, at which point those that live above it will suffocate (this has already happened in Africa, I believe) and we'll get a really killer (as in bad) positive feedback mechanism with respect to climate change. Warm that area, warm it's contained CO2. That CO2 then boils, enters the atmosphere, and adds to the problem.
What we need is real solutions, not some half-assed band-aid effort. This is not a solution, but a cop-out.
Linux is a great idea for the desktop, but everything to which it aspires has already been accomplished by Apple with Mac OS X. You get a *nix based desktop OS, an open core, a raft of compatibility through standards adherence, and almost as many OSS projects. On top of that, industry standard apps like Office and Dreamweaver and Photoshop all run on Mac OS X -- not some spin off. Plus, it's wicked easy to setup and deploy. I worked for a small liberal arts college managing their Macs. All of them. I could easily handle the deployment and administration of 800 computers myself.
If the goal is to get away from MS (and Office), Mac OS X can help ease the transition. Until OpenOffice becomes everything you need, you can use MS Office. Once OO does the trick, drop MS Office like a bad habit!
Yes, there is also the issue hardware, but companies cycle their hardware relatively frequently. And what about the price? Even Linux Insider had something to say about that:
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/36120.html
In the end, Mac OS X does what Linux is still struggling with -- making *nix desktop computing and administration easy.
It's great that my comment is modded insightful. Originally, I meant it to be funny -- having grown up in the Midwest I often got the impression that many (not all, but many) people on the coasts just treat the region like a bunch of farms and empty space. In reality, it's much more than that. I'm glad to see the Walker making a name for itself. It's a really fabulous institution in a very vibrant metropolitan area.
In spite of its detractors, the Newton continues to be a viable handheld platform (shortcomings of the hardware notwithstanding). As a current Newton user, I'm excited for a new lease on life. The genius of the Newton is the OS -- the HWR, the Assistant, and the soup method of data storage. Newton apps "see" each other's data and don't have to run any sort of conversion to use it as their own. You own the data, not the app. Plus, writing "10:00 meeting with lab group 10/14" in the Assistant and getting the proper entry in your calendar just rocks!
I can see this being beneficial for pictures, video, and the like, but not UI elements. Phone OSes are going to need to build in scalable UIs and offer tools for their developers to do the same or we won't be able to use the things.
Why can't we just be informed consumers? When you go to buy a car, you don't just look at horsepower and the size of the tires. OK, maybe some people do, but I wouldn't call them informed. What needs to happen is people need to know that an AMD or PowerPC at a lower clock speed will offer similar or better performance to an Intel offering or that a dedicated GPUs is better than shared memory. It's all analogous to why a Mazda RX-8 with 247 hp is a faster and significantly more agile car than a 340 hp Chrysler 300.
"Gushing like a firehose." That's good, but can it compare to "Scientists find new black hole!" I thought I was getting the weekly mailing from Nature.
The only way eBooks will take off for me is if they come with actual paper media. I would strongly prefer paper media for reading but would love to have the eBook format to search for terms/concepts that I need to reference at a later time. I've been downloading PDFs of scientific papers for years but I find them to be an absolute pain in the ass for reading on the screen. So I end up printing them off, which is also a pain in the ass because I use 20 pages even with duplexing. There's no perfect answer, but I think the marriage of paper and eBook would be closer than what we have now.
That was actually Watson. Karelia hasn't stated to whom they sold Watson, but that it had been sold and the future of the software was up in the air.
I guess this is what bothers me the most about the whole Watson/Sherlock debacle. Back when Wood was offered a job at Apple, he claimed he didn't want to take it because it would put his other employees/co-workers out in the dark. I'm not saying that's what will happen with this deal, but it seems as though it might.
This was actually first seen in GIS software (not GPS) as a feature called dynamic segmentation or line generalization (they are two different methods). Line generalization can be followed until the minimum distance of the meandering segment is reached. Doing so requires use of the Douglas-Peucker method, which uses displacement to determine whether or not a point on the line is kept. I'm not sure whether GPS receivers use this or the extraction method (eliminating every nth point on the line), but the two showed up in GIS software first.
I have a Nokia 3650 and Bluetooth was disabled out of the box. I'm not into "toothing", so I leave Bluetooth off unless I'm syncing my addresses or retrieving a photo with my Mac. Besides, leaving Bluetooth on drains the battery to begin with, so it's not like the worm would be changing much of anything.
The best it can do--at least IMO--is raise the bar for commercial browsers. I do hope I'm wrong on this point, however.
While I also hope Firefox can do better than that, simply "raising the bar" isn't necessarily a bad thing. I'm not sure if your statement references a set of features or if it hits on the open source nature of the project, then the latter has a good example in the Mac world. OmniWeb uses Apple's WebCore (the open source Mac part of Safari) for its rendering engine and builds what I think to be the best, most feature rich browser available for the Mac on top of it. Omni was able to divert the time it would have taken to modernize their rendering engine and put it into such things as per-site preferences, unique tabs, saved-state browsing, workspaces, a built-in RSS reader, and scores of other features.
By making a standards compliant core available (be that KHTML, WebCore, Gecko, whatever) commercial or non-commercial interests can work to build even better products. In the end, everyone wins.
While all of this is true, it doesn't address the issue of what codecs and standards each system uses. From what I understand, iChat uses it's own system which allows for higher quality video and audio unless you are talking to an AIM client, in which case it probably negotiates using AOL's standard. I checked Apple's website and they weren't too clear on much of iChat's underpinnings. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems as though iChat uses AIM lists to find buddies and then negotiates the audio and video directly between them.
Being one to own an MDD G4 (dual 867 with the replacement power supply) and use a G5 at work, I can say that 2 times quieter is quite revolutionary. My G4 at home absolutely hums most of the time. It's gotten to the point where I don't notice it as much, but it doesn't take a lot to hear it under my desk.
The G5, on the other hand, sits on my desk at work a scant two feet from my ears. From experience, it's significantly quieter than my G4. Those controlled fans, cooling zones, and oodles of sensors on the older model sure make a bit of difference. Plus, the noise is more "white" on the G5 than whiny or piercing. I'm sure the new one holds to this standard.
So long as the US and the EU are on good terms, we should be able to access both systems with the correct receiver. I can see a great benefit to a receiver that can read position from both systems and cross-check on the fly, reducing your PDOP and increasing your resolution of position far more quickly than before. Imagine having upwards of 10 satellites providing you with position data! I'd be in heaven!
Given the rate at which Window's code has been growing, I can unfortunately see this to be the case. If we consider Windows to grow by some factor (perhaps even exponentially), then Office will most likely grow as well. Pile those two onto a hard drive and you'll need to have 1 TB just so you can install any other software or save any reasonable amount of data.
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Ummm. . . That's all I've got. Look at the thing. The answer is just "no".
The Hole Hawg is dangerous because it does exactly what you tell it to.
Yes, well computers in general are dangerous because they are very good at doing exactly what you tell them to do. For better OR for worse.
I knew this would catch up with them. I'm glad Intel is off the MHz thing. This doesn't mean the general populace will be more informed when buying a processor, but at least they might be looking at other features that may matter more (i.e. shared video memory, backside cache, etc.). Maybe.
It depends on the pressure, I believe. If you place CO2 under pressure and not freeze it, it will liquify.
Sequestering CO2 underground is tantamount to screwing our kids over -- again! Burying liquid CO2 will only result in it's boiling at a later point in time, at which point those that live above it will suffocate (this has already happened in Africa, I believe) and we'll get a really killer (as in bad) positive feedback mechanism with respect to climate change. Warm that area, warm it's contained CO2. That CO2 then boils, enters the atmosphere, and adds to the problem.
What we need is real solutions, not some half-assed band-aid effort. This is not a solution, but a cop-out.
At the risk of my karma, here I go. . .
Linux is a great idea for the desktop, but everything to which it aspires has already been accomplished by Apple with Mac OS X. You get a *nix based desktop OS, an open core, a raft of compatibility through standards adherence, and almost as many OSS projects. On top of that, industry standard apps like Office and Dreamweaver and Photoshop all run on Mac OS X -- not some spin off. Plus, it's wicked easy to setup and deploy. I worked for a small liberal arts college managing their Macs. All of them. I could easily handle the deployment and administration of 800 computers myself.
If the goal is to get away from MS (and Office), Mac OS X can help ease the transition. Until OpenOffice becomes everything you need, you can use MS Office. Once OO does the trick, drop MS Office like a bad habit!
Yes, there is also the issue hardware, but companies cycle their hardware relatively frequently. And what about the price? Even Linux Insider had something to say about that:
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/36120.html
In the end, Mac OS X does what Linux is still struggling with -- making *nix desktop computing and administration easy.
It's great that my comment is modded insightful. Originally, I meant it to be funny -- having grown up in the Midwest I often got the impression that many (not all, but many) people on the coasts just treat the region like a bunch of farms and empty space. In reality, it's much more than that. I'm glad to see the Walker making a name for itself. It's a really fabulous institution in a very vibrant metropolitan area.
That culture and new ideas can come from "that place you fly over on a SFO-JFK flight."
In spite of its detractors, the Newton continues to be a viable handheld platform (shortcomings of the hardware notwithstanding). As a current Newton user, I'm excited for a new lease on life. The genius of the Newton is the OS -- the HWR, the Assistant, and the soup method of data storage. Newton apps "see" each other's data and don't have to run any sort of conversion to use it as their own. You own the data, not the app. Plus, writing "10:00 meeting with lab group 10/14" in the Assistant and getting the proper entry in your calendar just rocks!
That's exactly how you win customers -- by alienating them.
Don't you mean "Aero Glass"?
I can see this being beneficial for pictures, video, and the like, but not UI elements. Phone OSes are going to need to build in scalable UIs and offer tools for their developers to do the same or we won't be able to use the things.
Why can't we just be informed consumers? When you go to buy a car, you don't just look at horsepower and the size of the tires. OK, maybe some people do, but I wouldn't call them informed. What needs to happen is people need to know that an AMD or PowerPC at a lower clock speed will offer similar or better performance to an Intel offering or that a dedicated GPUs is better than shared memory. It's all analogous to why a Mazda RX-8 with 247 hp is a faster and significantly more agile car than a 340 hp Chrysler 300.
"Gushing like a firehose." That's good, but can it compare to "Scientists find new black hole!" I thought I was getting the weekly mailing from Nature.
The only way eBooks will take off for me is if they come with actual paper media. I would strongly prefer paper media for reading but would love to have the eBook format to search for terms/concepts that I need to reference at a later time. I've been downloading PDFs of scientific papers for years but I find them to be an absolute pain in the ass for reading on the screen. So I end up printing them off, which is also a pain in the ass because I use 20 pages even with duplexing. There's no perfect answer, but I think the marriage of paper and eBook would be closer than what we have now.
That was actually Watson. Karelia hasn't stated to whom they sold Watson, but that it had been sold and the future of the software was up in the air.
I guess this is what bothers me the most about the whole Watson/Sherlock debacle. Back when Wood was offered a job at Apple, he claimed he didn't want to take it because it would put his other employees/co-workers out in the dark. I'm not saying that's what will happen with this deal, but it seems as though it might.
This was actually first seen in GIS software (not GPS) as a feature called dynamic segmentation or line generalization (they are two different methods). Line generalization can be followed until the minimum distance of the meandering segment is reached. Doing so requires use of the Douglas-Peucker method, which uses displacement to determine whether or not a point on the line is kept. I'm not sure whether GPS receivers use this or the extraction method (eliminating every nth point on the line), but the two showed up in GIS software first.
I have a Nokia 3650 and Bluetooth was disabled out of the box. I'm not into "toothing", so I leave Bluetooth off unless I'm syncing my addresses or retrieving a photo with my Mac. Besides, leaving Bluetooth on drains the battery to begin with, so it's not like the worm would be changing much of anything.
The best it can do--at least IMO--is raise the bar for commercial browsers. I do hope I'm wrong on this point, however.
While I also hope Firefox can do better than that, simply "raising the bar" isn't necessarily a bad thing. I'm not sure if your statement references a set of features or if it hits on the open source nature of the project, then the latter has a good example in the Mac world. OmniWeb uses Apple's WebCore (the open source Mac part of Safari) for its rendering engine and builds what I think to be the best, most feature rich browser available for the Mac on top of it. Omni was able to divert the time it would have taken to modernize their rendering engine and put it into such things as per-site preferences, unique tabs, saved-state browsing, workspaces, a built-in RSS reader, and scores of other features.
By making a standards compliant core available (be that KHTML, WebCore, Gecko, whatever) commercial or non-commercial interests can work to build even better products. In the end, everyone wins.
While all of this is true, it doesn't address the issue of what codecs and standards each system uses. From what I understand, iChat uses it's own system which allows for higher quality video and audio unless you are talking to an AIM client, in which case it probably negotiates using AOL's standard. I checked Apple's website and they weren't too clear on much of iChat's underpinnings. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems as though iChat uses AIM lists to find buddies and then negotiates the audio and video directly between them.
Being one to own an MDD G4 (dual 867 with the replacement power supply) and use a G5 at work, I can say that 2 times quieter is quite revolutionary. My G4 at home absolutely hums most of the time. It's gotten to the point where I don't notice it as much, but it doesn't take a lot to hear it under my desk.
The G5, on the other hand, sits on my desk at work a scant two feet from my ears. From experience, it's significantly quieter than my G4. Those controlled fans, cooling zones, and oodles of sensors on the older model sure make a bit of difference. Plus, the noise is more "white" on the G5 than whiny or piercing. I'm sure the new one holds to this standard.
and would likely have raised eyebrows among regulators. Article moderated -1 redundant.
So long as the US and the EU are on good terms, we should be able to access both systems with the correct receiver. I can see a great benefit to a receiver that can read position from both systems and cross-check on the fly, reducing your PDOP and increasing your resolution of position far more quickly than before. Imagine having upwards of 10 satellites providing you with position data! I'd be in heaven!
Given the rate at which Window's code has been growing, I can unfortunately see this to be the case. If we consider Windows to grow by some factor (perhaps even exponentially), then Office will most likely grow as well. Pile those two onto a hard drive and you'll need to have 1 TB just so you can install any other software or save any reasonable amount of data.
That's only because one can associate FreeBSD with Apple, who has been dying for longer than I have been alive.