"Since the only division of Apple making any serious money is iPod/iTunes, I do not think Apple will play nice."
Perhaps you failed to notice that PowerBook and iBook shipments were up 37 per cent and 26 per cent year on year, representing 21.5 per cent and 13.6 per cent of revenue.
That's a third of Apple's revenue that comes from notebook sales. The iPod represents 12.3 per cent of Apple's revenues. Software is around 10% for Apple, as are perhiperals (iSight etc). So the iPod isn't "making the serious money" for Apple. Indeed, the profit margins on iTunes are very, very slim indeed.
Of course, either you're saying that Apple are lying in their latest financial report, or you just can't be bothered to do research and make some pretty stupid assumptions. I'm guessing the latter.
The Newton does the same job of my Palm Tungsten - and even surpasses it (my Tungsten E doesn't yet have WiFi support, and I can pick up a second hand Newton for quite a bit cheaper). Clearly though, this is a niche market. My Newton is too large for me to use regularly, but it's a great curiosity.
I think of the Newton like the NES - the games on the NES were great, and are still very popular (take the recent GameBoy Advance NES special edition). The NES formed the basis of many great consoles to come. But even though the NES is still a great machine (like the Newton), I probably would prefer to play on a PlayStation. Although, the flaw in this (rather basdly though out) analogy between the Newton and the NES would be one of them sold extremely well...
The UK does have life plus 70, certainly for published works - writers get copyright for life, then 70 years. Some writers try to be sneaky to get extend this law, by, for example, crediting their youngest daughter as a co-author, even if she is only two years old.
However, I'm guessing either laws for recorded music are different, or the law changed after this song was published.
Nokia's most popular phone in many UK retailers is the Nokia 1100 - just makes calls and SMS, the only bonus feature being a built in flashlight (kind of useful). It retails prepaid in the UK as low as £30...
"I'm of the opinion that all the under 17 or under 18 laws can be brought to under 13 and society will be better off in the long run."
Even voting laws? I could understand lowered to 16, but 13? Not a good thing for politics - unlike many other under 18 laws (taxes, etc.), I'm sure most American children have some idea of principles, and which party to vote for. At least, I hope so...
...not entirely sure about this one, but didn't Paul Simon violate US/UN sanctions by recording his album Graceland in South Africa? I don't recall anything happening to him over it (then again, I was only around four years old at the time:))...
"Almost every high end audiophile system includes a set of power tubes specifically because audiophiles _know_ that tubes sound best. DSP simply cannot reproduce the warm tones of tubes."
Similarly, synth manufacturers have started putting tubes into their products - for example, the recently released Korg Triton Extreme uses tubes to process the sounds. Considering this has an extremely powerful DSP engine, it's doubtful the effect could be used digitally.
That said, some manufacturers tend to use tubes as a "this makes our product instantly better" feature...not always true:)
The Register was reporting yesterday that Japan was planning to RFID school kids so that they could be monitored on their way to school:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/japanese_t ag_schoolkids/
A couple of weeks ago I went to a careers conference at which the product manager for HP tape drives (based in HP, Bristol, UK) waxed lyrical about tape drives...it appears that HP are still actively researching tape drives, and have devoted significant resources towards future development.
Monty Python, "In French" - a brilliant show at the Fringe Festival 2003, which was basically Monty Python sketches performed to a UK audience. But in French. I believe it got the blessing of the Pythons themselves...
"Here I thought a boys WHOLE eye was replaced! That would have been amazing and something for the whole world to rejoice for"...but people aren't amazed by the fact we can already give permanently deaf people hearing again. Nobody seems to have noticed we've created bionic ears...in fact, the whole area of Cochlear implants seems to have gone rather unnoticed (being the insertion of electrodes into the cochlear to enable someone born deaf to hear again).
A 48,000kbps sampling rate would make a 60 minute CD take up roughly 172 gigabytes. So it might let you choose what "lossy codec" you want, but probably take you a rather long time to download...
...I read the BBC article (unusual for here...), but it didn't seem to say whether or not the designers of the 1992 base knew the shelf would eventually break off...will this new base be designed to be easily expendable?
It appears you can mount the Apple displays using a VESA mount - you could probably therefore rotate the display 90 degrees, and rotate the image appropriately...of course, this probably wouldn't be supported, so might need a software hack or the like...
"Apple tends to succeed better when they adopt the standards (USB, Firewire, etc) rather than go it their own (ADC over DVI, for example)."
I thought FireWire was an Apple standard - certainly, FireWire is a trademark of Apple.
...but the actual promotional banners Apple are using at WWDC for Tiger have the strapline "Redmond, start your photocopiers".
Although ironically, Steve Jobs noted in the keynote speech that he "ran into Bill Gates a few weeks ago and his company feels that their relationship with Apple is better than ever."
I think there's some pics of the banners at macrumors.com...
"But how did lessened melanin production and "whiteness" spread in Europe? Likely through founder's effect in small and isolated inbreeding populations -- but certainly not because of any "Aryan" superiority."
I disagree - your example of melanin doesn't really apply, because of environmental factors. Europeans are predominantly white due to the European lifestyle and climate, whereby considerable amounts of time are spent indoors, and (certianly in Britain), it isn't that sunny for most of the year. To quote Wikipedia: "As with peoples that migrated northward, those with light skin that migrated southward had to acclimate to the much stronger solar radiation."
Melanin production has very little, if anything, to do with the founder's effect, and more to do with adaption to changing environments...it's just a really bad example to use for your case.
Aren't PeopleSoft already being sued by Cleveland State University for $510 million over claimed breach of contract and fraud. The university is claiming that software developed by PeopleSoft was missing specified features, and as a result has caused disruption to the admissions process...
I guess he means when the "motherboard fries". Still, if your Mac's still under warrenty, of course Apple would replace it. If it's not, that's your problem. It wouldn't be any different with a PC.
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"Since the only division of Apple making any serious money is iPod/iTunes, I do not think Apple will play nice."
Perhaps you failed to notice that PowerBook and iBook shipments were up 37 per cent and 26 per cent year on year, representing 21.5 per cent and 13.6 per cent of revenue.
That's a third of Apple's revenue that comes from notebook sales. The iPod represents 12.3 per cent of Apple's revenues. Software is around 10% for Apple, as are perhiperals (iSight etc). So the iPod isn't "making the serious money" for Apple. Indeed, the profit margins on iTunes are very, very slim indeed.
Of course, either you're saying that Apple are lying in their latest financial report, or you just can't be bothered to do research and make some pretty stupid assumptions. I'm guessing the latter.
The Newton does the same job of my Palm Tungsten - and even surpasses it (my Tungsten E doesn't yet have WiFi support, and I can pick up a second hand Newton for quite a bit cheaper). Clearly though, this is a niche market. My Newton is too large for me to use regularly, but it's a great curiosity.
I think of the Newton like the NES - the games on the NES were great, and are still very popular (take the recent GameBoy Advance NES special edition). The NES formed the basis of many great consoles to come. But even though the NES is still a great machine (like the Newton), I probably would prefer to play on a PlayStation. Although, the flaw in this (rather basdly though out) analogy between the Newton and the NES would be one of them sold extremely well...
The UK does have life plus 70, certainly for published works - writers get copyright for life, then 70 years. Some writers try to be sneaky to get extend this law, by, for example, crediting their youngest daughter as a co-author, even if she is only two years old. However, I'm guessing either laws for recorded music are different, or the law changed after this song was published.
Nokia's most popular phone in many UK retailers is the Nokia 1100 - just makes calls and SMS, the only bonus feature being a built in flashlight (kind of useful). It retails prepaid in the UK as low as £30...
As one of those who reported this to Microsoft, perhaps I should get some of the settlement? Don't suppose that's likely though...
"I'm of the opinion that all the under 17 or under 18 laws can be brought to under 13 and society will be better off in the long run."
Even voting laws? I could understand lowered to 16, but 13? Not a good thing for politics - unlike many other under 18 laws (taxes, etc.), I'm sure most American children have some idea of principles, and which party to vote for. At least, I hope so...
...not entirely sure about this one, but didn't Paul Simon violate US/UN sanctions by recording his album Graceland in South Africa? I don't recall anything happening to him over it (then again, I was only around four years old at the time :))...
"Almost every high end audiophile system includes a set of power tubes specifically because audiophiles _know_ that tubes sound best. DSP simply cannot reproduce the warm tones of tubes."
:)
Similarly, synth manufacturers have started putting tubes into their products - for example, the recently released Korg Triton Extreme uses tubes to process the sounds. Considering this has an extremely powerful DSP engine, it's doubtful the effect could be used digitally.
That said, some manufacturers tend to use tubes as a "this makes our product instantly better" feature...not always true
...Excel and PowerPoint! The nightmare has been unleashed!
...ie, really dodgy pie charts and bar graphs!
"In Sandia's intelligence lab converts business data into 3-D images,"
The Register was reporting yesterday that Japan was planning to RFID school kids so that they could be monitored on their way to school: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/japanese_t ag_schoolkids/
Hotels in Europe still serve "continental breakfasts"...so where exactly is this continent that they speak of? :)
A couple of weeks ago I went to a careers conference at which the product manager for HP tape drives (based in HP, Bristol, UK) waxed lyrical about tape drives...it appears that HP are still actively researching tape drives, and have devoted significant resources towards future development.
Monty Python, "In French" - a brilliant show at the Fringe Festival 2003, which was basically Monty Python sketches performed to a UK audience. But in French. I believe it got the blessing of the Pythons themselves...
"Here I thought a boys WHOLE eye was replaced! That would have been amazing and something for the whole world to rejoice for" ...but people aren't amazed by the fact we can already give permanently deaf people hearing again. Nobody seems to have noticed we've created bionic ears...in fact, the whole area of Cochlear implants seems to have gone rather unnoticed (being the insertion of electrodes into the cochlear to enable someone born deaf to hear again).
A 48,000kbps sampling rate would make a 60 minute CD take up roughly 172 gigabytes. So it might let you choose what "lossy codec" you want, but probably take you a rather long time to download...
5 minutes ago some guy BROKE THE LAW by shooting anyother guy, and killing him. 2 days ago, some guy BROKE THE LAW by raping a child.
...I read the BBC article (unusual for here...), but it didn't seem to say whether or not the designers of the 1992 base knew the shelf would eventually break off...will this new base be designed to be easily expendable?
It appears you can mount the Apple displays using a VESA mount - you could probably therefore rotate the display 90 degrees, and rotate the image appropriately...of course, this probably wouldn't be supported, so might need a software hack or the like...
Tony would say "They're Grrrrrrreat!" - as in, "they are great"...
"Apple tends to succeed better when they adopt the standards (USB, Firewire, etc) rather than go it their own (ADC over DVI, for example)." I thought FireWire was an Apple standard - certainly, FireWire is a trademark of Apple.
...but the actual promotional banners Apple are using at WWDC for Tiger have the strapline "Redmond, start your photocopiers".
Although ironically, Steve Jobs noted in the keynote speech that he "ran into Bill Gates a few weeks ago and his company
feels that their relationship with Apple is better than ever."
I think there's some pics of the banners at macrumors.com...
"But how did lessened melanin production and "whiteness" spread in Europe? Likely through founder's effect in small and isolated inbreeding populations -- but certainly not because of any "Aryan" superiority."
I disagree - your example of melanin doesn't really apply, because of environmental factors. Europeans are predominantly white due to the European lifestyle and climate, whereby considerable amounts of time are spent indoors, and (certianly in Britain), it isn't that sunny for most of the year. To quote Wikipedia: "As with peoples that migrated northward, those with light skin that migrated southward had to acclimate to the much stronger solar radiation."
Melanin production has very little, if anything, to do with the founder's effect, and more to do with adaption to changing environments...it's just a really bad example to use for your case.
"My guess is that it is likely that this new move by Microsoft will only help sell Bill Gates Halloween masks."
I know what you clicked on last summer?
Aren't PeopleSoft already being sued by Cleveland State University for $510 million over claimed breach of contract and fraud. The university is claiming that software developed by PeopleSoft was missing specified features, and as a result has caused disruption to the admissions process...
I guess he means when the "motherboard fries". Still, if your Mac's still under warrenty, of course Apple would replace it. If it's not, that's your problem. It wouldn't be any different with a PC.