Or proof that EA can turn gold (the sims, which is actually quite a good game) can be turned into shit.
Although juding by the number of "chavs" I see walking down the streets ever day, Argos appear to have already achieved turning gold into shit:)
Sorry - my mistake. I got so caught up in replying, I forgot part of iWork actually was an update:)
I think the reason there was an i386 version of AppleWorks was because it was (correct me if I'm wrong here) based upon ClarisWorks, which Apple bought.
iWork is not an update. It's an entirely new software package, that was announced at the MacWorld expo. Would you care to tell me what package is being "updated" by iWorks?
Sure, it "replaces" AppleWorks - but is by no means an AppleWorks update, as you might have been able to tell by the completely different name. It's all new code, new interface, etc. etc.
I think you'd find it very hard to get the free google site search to search your companies Intranet site, seeing as it would be closed off from the net and only accessible inside your company.
In the UK, where GSM phones are far more widespread than the USA, SMS took off around 5 or 6 years ago. Seeing as nearly all those under 18 are on Pay As You Go, you could never really run up a large bill in the first place.
However, the phone companies came out with various packs and "bolt on" options - for example, Orange do a deal whereby you pay £20 and get 5 free texts a day to any network for a year. Some operators offer heavily reduced texts to same network users (Virgin Mobile have a 3p to same network, 10p to other network structure).
I saw this a few days back on The Register - it's a very neat design, and eliminates this USB reader I've got on my desktop at the moment.
The one thing I would be concerned about is how fragile it might be - I can imagine plugging this into my laptop and the connector snapping away from the card, especially given it doesn't have the surrounding metal case around the USB plug....still, I suppose that's a risk with most of the USB dongles I carry around, and it hasn't happened yet.
When asked why he leaked the build, he replies "I assumed it wouldn't be a big deal if I shared this with like minded mac fans"...rather a weak defence, because it's kind of like saying "I didn't think it would matter if I uploaded this film / mp3 before the release date as long as I only shared it with fans of said film/music"......although he doesn't mention it in the article, I'm sure at least a very small part of it was to do with his ego - "I have 10.4, I'm special" etc. etc. I'm not saying that was his primary reason, but it must have contributed.
As far as cost goes, it shouldn't really be too much of a problem for many businesses, assuming they are charged on the same basis as the power companies do here in the UK.
Companies (at least, the theatres I work in) are not charged according to the number of units used, but by the maximum amount of power they use during the billing period.
For example, during a theatre show we use a hell of a lot of power, and the power companies takes this peak rate and charges us across the board at that rate. I don't know whether this is just limited to certain businesses.
In most laptops the LCD screen failure is caused by the backlight breaking - if you shine a really bright light at the screen you'll still be able to make out the LCD display. Obviously most users don't have the know how to replace a backlight, and so just buy a new laptop. Backlights typically fail anything from 3 - 10 years, so normally you'd be thinking of upgrading when it went anyway:)
Similiar to the OS "life / death" clause
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It's similar to the standard Windows / Mac OS clause of "This OS is not designed for life / death or mission critical operations"...as if you'd actually want to run Windows in one of those areas:)
...for example, the shuttle could dock with ISS and the crew could take the Soyuz capsule down, rather than attempt a re-entry. They might not know the heat shielding was damaged without the cameras. Although it's still nowhere near the perfect solution (ie, scrap the shuttle).
I'm going to assume you meant by the comet crashing into a planet, and isn't it a creditable belief that some of the material responsible for life on earth was brought by comets? Perhaps a alien civilisation's equivalent of this probe was the basis for the entire of life on Earth?:)
On a slightly more serious note, all NASA space gear is assembled in a clean room, and they do almost everything they can to prevent microbes from contaminating equipment.
...my iBook had a dead pixel, and I took it straight back, basically saying what you said above. However, I also pointed out that at no point when I was buying the product did the store (it wasn't an Apple store, but it was an authorised dealer / servicer) tell me that I might get one, and if I did I couldn't return it.
Now, I already have a perfectly good monitor for which I do graphics work, and this dead pixel doesn't bother me in the slightest - it's only perhaps once a month I'll even notice it. Because of this, I was reluctant to take the issue outside the shop, and so did a deal whereby they gave me 1/5th the value of the laptop in cash, based on the fact that if I'd had 5 dead pixels Apple would have replaced it...£200 in my pocket, so I wasn't really complaining.
In order to drive a car, you have to pay a tax. It's the law.
However, in order to make a digital copy, or a copy of anything, you don't need to pay anything. Nothing, no tax, zilch. Assuming, of course, that you already own the source material you're copying.
I just don't see how you could justify a tax for copying, because you're either going to be copying illegally obtained material (in which case you can't really tax it, because it would legitimise the crime - you really can't tax something which is illegal to start with), or you're going to be copying something you own already (transferring an LP of yours to CD, recording your own work to a CD), or something that you have permission to copy (GPL files etc.)
It just doesn't work, and doesn't make sense. Perhaps somebody in Germany will follow Canada's example, and scrap it. Soon.
France (and the rest of the EU) are already in violating of the WTO over the massive grants they've given, and are planning to give, Airbus. The US government says it's unfair, but they too have given (and will continue to give) massive grants to Boeing. I guess that complaint has got more to do with the fact that Airbus recently moved ahead of Boeing in number of aircraft being ordered, and the US is no longer the dominant player (IMO).
Oddly enough, didn't the French also give a hand out to a server manufacturer a few weeks ago to keep them in business?
Genetic Savings & Clone are currently cloning cats for $50 000 - that's pretty cheap already compared to getting an effects house to create a photorealistic character. Sure, I havn't factored in the cost up bringing up the animal, but CGI is still comparatively expensive, and the results aren't always that believable - the best CGI effects work is typically on fictional characters (Gollum), where movements are a combination of motion capture and keyframing. You'd still need an animal to base movements on - I can't recall a recent film which had a believable CGI animal (that's a "realistic" animal, rather than a talking / exagerrated character).
On a more practical front, I'm sure actors would actually prefer working with an animal (trouble that they may be), so they can realistically react to them - you just don't really get that with a CGI character (unless you get an actor to perform with the cast, and composite over. This may work for human like characters, but completely defeat the point for animals, because you'd still need one in the scene).
"But I decided to compare it against Walmart's stuff"[...]"But still average cheapo american will be more willing to give more of his money to China to buy a cheaper system"
A few months back I took my iBook into a class, to run a presentation. The very first comment I got when I took it out was not "Nice iBook", "is that your laptop" etc. - it was "Wow - that's a really big iPod"....now, "average cheapo american" may be perfectly happy spending $99 on a perfectly good MP3 player, or he could buy...an iPod! And be cool! Similarly, he could buy a no name, or even a Dell, PC for a similar price, but it wouldn't be an Apple. It would be a Dell, or a no-name. There are lots of cheap alternatives people can buy, and they may suit them perfectly fine - but I'm willing to bet the majority of people when it comes to certain items (MP3 players, say) prefer the style and brand over the substance (just look at the iPod).
"lets see how much it canablizes on Power Macs though."
Probably not that much, since the PowerMacs do have PCI slots (this low end mac probably won't, following tradition...), and more importantly it won't have a G5 processor (or two).
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Or proof that EA can turn gold (the sims, which is actually quite a good game) can be turned into shit. Although juding by the number of "chavs" I see walking down the streets ever day, Argos appear to have already achieved turning gold into shit :)
Sorry - my mistake. I got so caught up in replying, I forgot part of iWork actually was an update :)
I think the reason there was an i386 version of AppleWorks was because it was (correct me if I'm wrong here) based upon ClarisWorks, which Apple bought.
iWork is not an update. It's an entirely new software package, that was announced at the MacWorld expo. Would you care to tell me what package is being "updated" by iWorks?
Sure, it "replaces" AppleWorks - but is by no means an AppleWorks update, as you might have been able to tell by the completely different name. It's all new code, new interface, etc. etc.
...and you could also control the brightness of the studio lights they'd be using :)
Perhaps a new market for guys (and gals) could open up for tin foil underwear? Not sure about the fragility of the foil though... :)
I think you'd find it very hard to get the free google site search to search your companies Intranet site, seeing as it would be closed off from the net and only accessible inside your company.
...a media player? It's a flaw in Windows Media Player, not (unusual as it is) Internet Explorer.
:)
So, in other words - use VideoLAN
In the UK, where GSM phones are far more widespread than the USA, SMS took off around 5 or 6 years ago. Seeing as nearly all those under 18 are on Pay As You Go, you could never really run up a large bill in the first place.
However, the phone companies came out with various packs and "bolt on" options - for example, Orange do a deal whereby you pay £20 and get 5 free texts a day to any network for a year. Some operators offer heavily reduced texts to same network users (Virgin Mobile have a 3p to same network, 10p to other network structure).
I saw this a few days back on The Register - it's a very neat design, and eliminates this USB reader I've got on my desktop at the moment. The one thing I would be concerned about is how fragile it might be - I can imagine plugging this into my laptop and the connector snapping away from the card, especially given it doesn't have the surrounding metal case around the USB plug. ...still, I suppose that's a risk with most of the USB dongles I carry around, and it hasn't happened yet.
When asked why he leaked the build, he replies "I assumed it wouldn't be a big deal if I shared this with like minded mac fans"...rather a weak defence, because it's kind of like saying "I didn't think it would matter if I uploaded this film / mp3 before the release date as long as I only shared it with fans of said film/music"... ...although he doesn't mention it in the article, I'm sure at least a very small part of it was to do with his ego - "I have 10.4, I'm special" etc. etc. I'm not saying that was his primary reason, but it must have contributed.
As far as cost goes, it shouldn't really be too much of a problem for many businesses, assuming they are charged on the same basis as the power companies do here in the UK. Companies (at least, the theatres I work in) are not charged according to the number of units used, but by the maximum amount of power they use during the billing period. For example, during a theatre show we use a hell of a lot of power, and the power companies takes this peak rate and charges us across the board at that rate. I don't know whether this is just limited to certain businesses.
Also in the UK, the rumours actually made the news pages of The Independent - about a half a page long story on the subject in fact.
In most laptops the LCD screen failure is caused by the backlight breaking - if you shine a really bright light at the screen you'll still be able to make out the LCD display. Obviously most users don't have the know how to replace a backlight, and so just buy a new laptop. Backlights typically fail anything from 3 - 10 years, so normally you'd be thinking of upgrading when it went anyway :)
It's similar to the standard Windows / Mac OS clause of "This OS is not designed for life / death or mission critical operations"...as if you'd actually want to run Windows in one of those areas :)
...for example, the shuttle could dock with ISS and the crew could take the Soyuz capsule down, rather than attempt a re-entry. They might not know the heat shielding was damaged without the cameras. Although it's still nowhere near the perfect solution (ie, scrap the shuttle).
Addition: Invading Poland...with beach towels!
...it's called Tetris. And XTris. And Hextris. And CubeTris. And TrisTris. And GLTris. And...
Clearly, the most dominant platform on consumer computers is going to have the vast majority of games available.
If Linux was the dominant OS, you'd see plenty of games available.
Simple as that.
I'm going to assume you meant by the comet crashing into a planet, and isn't it a creditable belief that some of the material responsible for life on earth was brought by comets? Perhaps a alien civilisation's equivalent of this probe was the basis for the entire of life on Earth? :)
On a slightly more serious note, all NASA space gear is assembled in a clean room, and they do almost everything they can to prevent microbes from contaminating equipment.
No, they're being proactive - it's to catch people laser flashing the ISS :)
...my iBook had a dead pixel, and I took it straight back, basically saying what you said above. However, I also pointed out that at no point when I was buying the product did the store (it wasn't an Apple store, but it was an authorised dealer / servicer) tell me that I might get one, and if I did I couldn't return it.
Now, I already have a perfectly good monitor for which I do graphics work, and this dead pixel doesn't bother me in the slightest - it's only perhaps once a month I'll even notice it. Because of this, I was reluctant to take the issue outside the shop, and so did a deal whereby they gave me 1/5th the value of the laptop in cash, based on the fact that if I'd had 5 dead pixels Apple would have replaced it...£200 in my pocket, so I wasn't really complaining.
In order to drive a car, you have to pay a tax. It's the law.
However, in order to make a digital copy, or a copy of anything, you don't need to pay anything. Nothing, no tax, zilch. Assuming, of course, that you already own the source material you're copying.
I just don't see how you could justify a tax for copying, because you're either going to be copying illegally obtained material (in which case you can't really tax it, because it would legitimise the crime - you really can't tax something which is illegal to start with), or you're going to be copying something you own already (transferring an LP of yours to CD, recording your own work to a CD), or something that you have permission to copy (GPL files etc.)
It just doesn't work, and doesn't make sense. Perhaps somebody in Germany will follow Canada's example, and scrap it. Soon.
France (and the rest of the EU) are already in violating of the WTO over the massive grants they've given, and are planning to give, Airbus. The US government says it's unfair, but they too have given (and will continue to give) massive grants to Boeing. I guess that complaint has got more to do with the fact that Airbus recently moved ahead of Boeing in number of aircraft being ordered, and the US is no longer the dominant player (IMO). Oddly enough, didn't the French also give a hand out to a server manufacturer a few weeks ago to keep them in business?
Genetic Savings & Clone are currently cloning cats for $50 000 - that's pretty cheap already compared to getting an effects house to create a photorealistic character. Sure, I havn't factored in the cost up bringing up the animal, but CGI is still comparatively expensive, and the results aren't always that believable - the best CGI effects work is typically on fictional characters (Gollum), where movements are a combination of motion capture and keyframing. You'd still need an animal to base movements on - I can't recall a recent film which had a believable CGI animal (that's a "realistic" animal, rather than a talking / exagerrated character). On a more practical front, I'm sure actors would actually prefer working with an animal (trouble that they may be), so they can realistically react to them - you just don't really get that with a CGI character (unless you get an actor to perform with the cast, and composite over. This may work for human like characters, but completely defeat the point for animals, because you'd still need one in the scene).
"But I decided to compare it against Walmart's stuff"[...]"But still average cheapo american will be more willing to give more of his money to China to buy a cheaper system"
...now, "average cheapo american" may be perfectly happy spending $99 on a perfectly good MP3 player, or he could buy...an iPod! And be cool! Similarly, he could buy a no name, or even a Dell, PC for a similar price, but it wouldn't be an Apple. It would be a Dell, or a no-name. There are lots of cheap alternatives people can buy, and they may suit them perfectly fine - but I'm willing to bet the majority of people when it comes to certain items (MP3 players, say) prefer the style and brand over the substance (just look at the iPod).
A few months back I took my iBook into a class, to run a presentation. The very first comment I got when I took it out was not "Nice iBook", "is that your laptop" etc. - it was "Wow - that's a really big iPod".
"lets see how much it canablizes on Power Macs though." Probably not that much, since the PowerMacs do have PCI slots (this low end mac probably won't, following tradition...), and more importantly it won't have a G5 processor (or two).