Absolutely. I'm as guilty of apple fanboy status as anybody, but you've nailed it right on the head--the way to beat the iPod is at its own game. Commodity mp3 players are losing. Direct competitors (look, we make a product that is just as cool!) will lose.
So Apple is the BMW of digital music players right now? Remember a couple years ago when an Escalade was *the* status symbol vehical? Then the H2 came out? If Rio wants to win, they need to make an H2... something even more elite and ostentatious than the iPod.
This was just about the most asinine article ever, and that's saying A LOT! Thank you for boiling it down so that nobody else has to suffer the fate of us rubes who attempted, in good faith, to RTFA. Wish I hadn't blown all my mod points now...
The bundelling arguement is anything but BS. Schools don't buy single copies of programs; they buy site licenses. And I really doubt that they'd save any time, money, or effort by buying a massive site license for Word and another massive site license for Office over buying one gigantic site license for Office.
Excel and Access aren't the only things that come with Office; Outlook (and Exchange-powered mail) is also standard in many, many places.
Plus, the Law School of a major university probably gets it's IT support from the central university IT Department, who, again, will probably just get a massive license for office instead of pissing around with only installing word on the Law computers, and putting the full suite on Engineering computers--standardization is the lazy person's friend. And on top of that, the Law Students aren't the only ones using the computers! I can assure you, there are faculty and support staff that use the hell out of Excel and Access--even in the law school (personal experience on this one, from Research Admin).
If anybody has experience to the contrary, I'd be happy to hear it.
As an OSX user, I've actually run accross programs available for Windows or Linux, but not the Mac--Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, for one--so being able to run Linux binaries would be pretty useful to me.
First, he ain't starving.
Second, he'll get a cushy retirement package.
Third, hello, this is public service, isn't a higher calling more important than $?
Fourth, he'll get $millions to write a book.
and Fifth, of course, I'm sure Halliburton will come up with a place for him when everything is said and done!
(OK, that was a low blow--but seriously, he'll be fielding all kinds of high dollar job offers when he gets out; former cabinet members don't drive Hyundais)
Are you kidding me? And all the people who respond to this saying "yah, I'm sure they've got some kind of licensing agreement..." REALITY CHECK!
The law says UNAUTHORIZED. If somebody called Sony's lawyers, and said "OMG! BestBuy is showing your movies in their store!!!1" what do you think they'd hear? *click*
Why on earth would a studio ask a store to pay for a license, when they sell the product and make them money? They wouldn't! They wouldn't give a flying crap! There probably exists no means of purchasing an "instore display" license! The studios don't have to explicitly authorize ANYBODY; they only UNAUTHORIZE the people they don't want publicly showin' the movies (i.e. schools, churches, you) and COSTING them money. A store that makes them money isn't going to need their permission. If I see Ice Age in the store, odds are better that I'll buy it than they are that I will stand around for 2 hours and watch the whole thing. If I saw it at school, on the other hand...
No, the "problem" that "normally only occurs in veins" is the loss of pressure downstream from the heart. When blood reaches the venous system, it's like that last sprinkler on a badly setup lawn irrigation system.... not much power; the pressure is gone. The longer any pipe is, the greater the pressure loss by the time you reach the end (yay, engineering fluids taught me something!) The system of valves in the veins is in place to move blood back to the heart without the heart's assistance.
Because the artificial heart supplies pressure to the blood in the arteries, they don't have need for this elaborate valve system.
Building a dedicated water purifying truck & crew might be a good way to decrease your need on a supply line, but that's not what we're worried about here.
I think the field we're talking about is the one where the big trucks CAN'T bring water; like special forces patrols in Afghanistan, that kind of thing. Carrying a useful still around your pocket isn't feasible (obviously you can make a cheapo still out of plastic and a coffee can, but it wouldn't do as good a job of keeping out volitile chemicals as this membrane would).
So, you've pointed out a "problem," and then suggested a "solution" that is absolutely irrelevent.
"Heating it up" is only "best" if by "heating it up" you mean "distilling it," which would be rediculous to suggest for field use (time consuming, too much equipment). "Heating it up" might be good for preventing cholera (by killing it), but won't do anything to prevent you from drinking poisons. Just cause it's boiled, doesn't mean its pure--you're still drinking dead bacteria and all of the other chemicals that have higher boiling temps than water (which is a lot).
Wrong. Picture your house as the package, and your windows and doors were the pores: I'd be able to pass a tire through the "membrane" but not an 18 wheeler. A virus is much, much bigger than a molecule of urea. Even a prion (a single protein, e.g. mad cow disease) is a lot bigger than a molecule of water; orders of magnitude larger.
A virus is made of proteins and DNA. A protein is made of a collection of amino acids, each of which is a dozen or more atoms. Water is tiny. Urea is roughly the size of a single amino acid. A protein sac full of DNA, with protein receptors sticking out of it like antennae (i.e. a virus), is going to be much bigger than its building blocks.
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Maybe because we were fortunate enough to be born in a country that allows us to fix the problems in its constitution?
Or did I miss the part where God handed the Constitution and the U.S. Code to the Founding Fathers on stone tablets?
Absolutely. I'm as guilty of apple fanboy status as anybody, but you've nailed it right on the head--the way to beat the iPod is at its own game. Commodity mp3 players are losing. Direct competitors (look, we make a product that is just as cool!) will lose.
So Apple is the BMW of digital music players right now? Remember a couple years ago when an Escalade was *the* status symbol vehical? Then the H2 came out? If Rio wants to win, they need to make an H2... something even more elite and ostentatious than the iPod.
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This was just about the most asinine article ever, and that's saying A LOT! Thank you for boiling it down so that nobody else has to suffer the fate of us rubes who attempted, in good faith, to RTFA. Wish I hadn't blown all my mod points now...
I hate it when I can't tell if somebody is being funny, or just deeply disturbing.
Sigh.
The bundelling arguement is anything but BS. Schools don't buy single copies of programs; they buy site licenses. And I really doubt that they'd save any time, money, or effort by buying a massive site license for Word and another massive site license for Office over buying one gigantic site license for Office. Excel and Access aren't the only things that come with Office; Outlook (and Exchange-powered mail) is also standard in many, many places. Plus, the Law School of a major university probably gets it's IT support from the central university IT Department, who, again, will probably just get a massive license for office instead of pissing around with only installing word on the Law computers, and putting the full suite on Engineering computers--standardization is the lazy person's friend. And on top of that, the Law Students aren't the only ones using the computers! I can assure you, there are faculty and support staff that use the hell out of Excel and Access--even in the law school (personal experience on this one, from Research Admin). If anybody has experience to the contrary, I'd be happy to hear it.
As an OSX user, I've actually run accross programs available for Windows or Linux, but not the Mac--Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, for one--so being able to run Linux binaries would be pretty useful to me.
First, he ain't starving.
Second, he'll get a cushy retirement package.
Third, hello, this is public service, isn't a higher calling more important than $?
Fourth, he'll get $millions to write a book.
and Fifth, of course, I'm sure Halliburton will come up with a place for him when everything is said and done!
(OK, that was a low blow--but seriously, he'll be fielding all kinds of high dollar job offers when he gets out; former cabinet members don't drive Hyundais)
Are you kidding me? And all the people who respond to this saying "yah, I'm sure they've got some kind of licensing agreement..." REALITY CHECK!
The law says UNAUTHORIZED. If somebody called Sony's lawyers, and said "OMG! BestBuy is showing your movies in their store!!!1" what do you think they'd hear? *click*
Why on earth would a studio ask a store to pay for a license, when they sell the product and make them money? They wouldn't! They wouldn't give a flying crap! There probably exists no means of purchasing an "instore display" license! The studios don't have to explicitly authorize ANYBODY; they only UNAUTHORIZE the people they don't want publicly showin' the movies (i.e. schools, churches, you) and COSTING them money. A store that makes them money isn't going to need their permission. If I see Ice Age in the store, odds are better that I'll buy it than they are that I will stand around for 2 hours and watch the whole thing. If I saw it at school, on the other hand...
No, the "problem" that "normally only occurs in veins" is the loss of pressure downstream from the heart. When blood reaches the venous system, it's like that last sprinkler on a badly setup lawn irrigation system.... not much power; the pressure is gone. The longer any pipe is, the greater the pressure loss by the time you reach the end (yay, engineering fluids taught me something!) The system of valves in the veins is in place to move blood back to the heart without the heart's assistance. Because the artificial heart supplies pressure to the blood in the arteries, they don't have need for this elaborate valve system.
Building a dedicated water purifying truck & crew might be a good way to decrease your need on a supply line, but that's not what we're worried about here.
I think the field we're talking about is the one where the big trucks CAN'T bring water; like special forces patrols in Afghanistan, that kind of thing. Carrying a useful still around your pocket isn't feasible (obviously you can make a cheapo still out of plastic and a coffee can, but it wouldn't do as good a job of keeping out volitile chemicals as this membrane would).
So, you've pointed out a "problem," and then suggested a "solution" that is absolutely irrelevent. "Heating it up" is only "best" if by "heating it up" you mean "distilling it," which would be rediculous to suggest for field use (time consuming, too much equipment). "Heating it up" might be good for preventing cholera (by killing it), but won't do anything to prevent you from drinking poisons. Just cause it's boiled, doesn't mean its pure--you're still drinking dead bacteria and all of the other chemicals that have higher boiling temps than water (which is a lot).
Wrong. Picture your house as the package, and your windows and doors were the pores: I'd be able to pass a tire through the "membrane" but not an 18 wheeler. A virus is much, much bigger than a molecule of urea. Even a prion (a single protein, e.g. mad cow disease) is a lot bigger than a molecule of water; orders of magnitude larger.
A virus is made of proteins and DNA. A protein is made of a collection of amino acids, each of which is a dozen or more atoms. Water is tiny. Urea is roughly the size of a single amino acid. A protein sac full of DNA, with protein receptors sticking out of it like antennae (i.e. a virus), is going to be much bigger than its building blocks.
I am not a Macintosh/Apple expert,
True enough.
Computer experts use Windows XP Home edition.
Whaaat? Wouldn't they use Professional Edition?
*ducks*