Steve Jobs should've cussed out the MobileMe team when it was created. Since it was obvious it was going to crater. It provided all the services that Google (mail, picasa, etc) and others had been providing for free for years, for the low annual price of $99 for the lowest tier.
Well, except for one thing. Prior to mobileme, they also had a program called iSync that would sync your contacts with your cell phone over bluetooth if you had one of the, iirc 3, cellphone models that they supported when they created iSync. Additional cell phone models never materialized and this service was folded into MobileMe where it continued to not support very many cell phone models, but instead of being part of the OS, you had to pay the annual fee for this.
It was doomed to failure by being completely lackluster. There was a photo sharing bit, but you still had to provide your own bandwidth and any photos you didn't actually have in your phone/pda/laptop would take forever to download (even over wifi, for some reason...), so it was pretty pointless.
Apple was using Google's data with their own UI. I don't think the issue was that they couldn't code a turn-by-turn feature, but the license they had from google did not allow it.
Which is probably why they rejected google's terms - they probably considered the lack of turn-by-turn license to be an oversight in the original license, rather than an extra feature that should be a significant extra cost - google wouldn't have provided anything but permission in this scenario.
Pretty sure it's not the delivery costs that sites are using advertising to pay for.
Peer to peer networking doesn't write that blog post or draw tomorrow's comic. It doesn't buy the products for testing, it doesn't test them, or edit the review.
I had the opposite problem... Since I didn't have 2G free on my device, I couldn't download the update over wireless and had to go through iTunes instead. So, the solution to your problem (for the next update) seems to be to make sure that all your space is already allocated to apps, songs, and pictures before the rollout, so it can't stage the update image on the device.
Seems like the real solution is to do even more extensive screening, to get an idea of what fraction of the interesting features actually turn out to be dangerous. Perhaps even finding a way to further refine the scans to find features that are dangerous.
Ignorance is a pretty lame tool for preventing negative medical outcomes....
Why are you browsing with cookies on in the first place? Just turn them off except for a short white list of sites you actually want to do the things that need cookies.
Why would there be no way to profit off of an addictive drug that comes from a processed agricultural product? It doesn't seem to have stopped companies from making money off of tobacco, and it's not really good for anything else.
Assuming a perfectly distributed hash for the purpose, and that your passwords have 64 valid letters, and your password hashes are the equivalent of a 16 byte string, you are guaranteed to have more than one password string that hashes to the same hash string - 256^16 < 64^22. There may be passwords with no collisions, you cannot say that all passwords would have not collisions.
Parent may have been assuming that the password box allowed any ascii character, in which case 256^16 < 256^(16+n) (where n > 0), which would also guarantee that at least some hashes would have colliding passwords.
If the hash is hex encoded and only takes up 16 characters in that state, then it gets even worse.
Interesting idea - that the document applications are basically mature, and not much more is needed/desired on the part of users.
In a world like that, you would expect development of new office suits to slow, and the department sizes to shrink. Ongoing development for the trickle of new features and bugs that need to be corrected, but on a much smaller scale than originally. Same as with operating systems.
I think maybe it is unreasonable to assume that a company in an expanding market would forever grow or even never contract. Surely as computers become ubiquitous, the purchases will only be for replacements, which one would expect would be lower than the peak where new units and replacements were being purchased.
Yeah, but how often do you need to share files in a mixed environment like that. I think a business that is currently MS Office will either stay with Office, or they will put one of the OO.org forks on every machine and internal sharing will just switch to ODF instead of OOXML and the old documents/templates will be converted/recreated and deprecated over time.
You only need to be able to share documents while you're collaboratively working on them. Once finished, they should be baked into PDF or paper anyway.
Who cares if more people show up if they're showing up because they were paid or intimidated?
I don't care if one person shows up (because that person would be me....), as long as that person is voting for what s/he actually believes is best for the country.
For a homebrew project, you're going to want to calibrate it using things you have easy access to. Things that are found in nature, perhaps. There must be a clever way to avoid having to borrow or obtain a lab-grade arc lamp. Perhaps using a CFL and the right filtering? I'm not sure how monochromatic each of the phosphors are...
Maybe accurate calibration isn't necessary, and just using the peak wavelengths from the sun and a halogen lamp would be sufficient to get a rough calibration using wein's, assuming both peaks are in the range, and the second order reflections don't mess things up too much.
Atraxen's idea looks pretty good.
I've often thought that the cd/dev as cheap diffraction mirror for school projects and demos would be a great idea and I hope there have been some science fair projects using the principle. I just wish I'd thought of doing a kickstarter so I'd get the credit...
By that logic we're all Breatharians - people who've made the conscious choice to get all of their nutrition from the air they breath, and also from a limited selections of vegetables and animal products.
But that's the problem. People who buy a kindle only buy it once (or once every so often when a better one comes out or they break it). But if they're using it to read books, they're buying books much more frequently. And as long as they're logged in to amazon, why not order a pack of batteries, some dry goods, (and I think amazon actually does sell milk and bread, come to think of it.)
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So.. before your hypothetical manned aircraft v. drones fight, you send in autonomous aircraft to take out the drone base?
Steve Jobs should've cussed out the MobileMe team when it was created. Since it was obvious it was going to crater. It provided all the services that Google (mail, picasa, etc) and others had been providing for free for years, for the low annual price of $99 for the lowest tier.
Well, except for one thing. Prior to mobileme, they also had a program called iSync that would sync your contacts with your cell phone over bluetooth if you had one of the, iirc 3, cellphone models that they supported when they created iSync. Additional cell phone models never materialized and this service was folded into MobileMe where it continued to not support very many cell phone models, but instead of being part of the OS, you had to pay the annual fee for this.
It was doomed to failure by being completely lackluster. There was a photo sharing bit, but you still had to provide your own bandwidth and any photos you didn't actually have in your phone/pda/laptop would take forever to download (even over wifi, for some reason...), so it was pretty pointless.
Apple was using Google's data with their own UI. I don't think the issue was that they couldn't code a turn-by-turn feature, but the license they had from google did not allow it.
Which is probably why they rejected google's terms - they probably considered the lack of turn-by-turn license to be an oversight in the original license, rather than an extra feature that should be a significant extra cost - google wouldn't have provided anything but permission in this scenario.
I thought that the telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico was the US's biggest telescope. Did Puerto Rico vote for independence while we weren't looking?
Pretty sure it's not the delivery costs that sites are using advertising to pay for.
Peer to peer networking doesn't write that blog post or draw tomorrow's comic. It doesn't buy the products for testing, it doesn't test them, or edit the review.
It just means we're not dealing with the information correctly. Ignorance is not a legitimate health care paradigm.
Firefox also.
I had the opposite problem... Since I didn't have 2G free on my device, I couldn't download the update over wireless and had to go through iTunes instead. So, the solution to your problem (for the next update) seems to be to make sure that all your space is already allocated to apps, songs, and pictures before the rollout, so it can't stage the update image on the device.
They did you a favor by preventing you from visiting a real arby's....
The superconductors that work at LN2 temperatures don't work very well if the magnetic field strength is high, which is the whole point of an MRI.
Seems like the real solution is to do even more extensive screening, to get an idea of what fraction of the interesting features actually turn out to be dangerous. Perhaps even finding a way to further refine the scans to find features that are dangerous.
Ignorance is a pretty lame tool for preventing negative medical outcomes....
What is the downside of an MRI, other than the cost? Also, if we cut the MRI scans, what will happen to the number of CT scans?
I actually assumed that it would result in even more tracking..... "What's this guy want to hide...."
Why are you browsing with cookies on in the first place? Just turn them off except for a short white list of sites you actually want to do the things that need cookies.
The more rocks we are on, the less important any one particular rock becomes.
Why would there be no way to profit off of an addictive drug that comes from a processed agricultural product? It doesn't seem to have stopped companies from making money off of tobacco, and it's not really good for anything else.
Assuming a perfectly distributed hash for the purpose, and that your passwords have 64 valid letters, and your password hashes are the equivalent of a 16 byte string, you are guaranteed to have more than one password string that hashes to the same hash string - 256^16 < 64^22. There may be passwords with no collisions, you cannot say that all passwords would have not collisions.
Parent may have been assuming that the password box allowed any ascii character, in which case 256^16 < 256^(16+n) (where n > 0), which would also guarantee that at least some hashes would have colliding passwords.
If the hash is hex encoded and only takes up 16 characters in that state, then it gets even worse.
Interesting idea - that the document applications are basically mature, and not much more is needed/desired on the part of users.
In a world like that, you would expect development of new office suits to slow, and the department sizes to shrink. Ongoing development for the trickle of new features and bugs that need to be corrected, but on a much smaller scale than originally. Same as with operating systems.
I think maybe it is unreasonable to assume that a company in an expanding market would forever grow or even never contract. Surely as computers become ubiquitous, the purchases will only be for replacements, which one would expect would be lower than the peak where new units and replacements were being purchased.
Yeah, but how often do you need to share files in a mixed environment like that. I think a business that is currently MS Office will either stay with Office, or they will put one of the OO.org forks on every machine and internal sharing will just switch to ODF instead of OOXML and the old documents/templates will be converted/recreated and deprecated over time.
You only need to be able to share documents while you're collaboratively working on them. Once finished, they should be baked into PDF or paper anyway.
Well the weird thing is that Verizon is a CDMA network....
Who cares if more people show up if they're showing up because they were paid or intimidated?
I don't care if one person shows up (because that person would be me....), as long as that person is voting for what s/he actually believes is best for the country.
For a homebrew project, you're going to want to calibrate it using things you have easy access to. Things that are found in nature, perhaps. There must be a clever way to avoid having to borrow or obtain a lab-grade arc lamp. Perhaps using a CFL and the right filtering? I'm not sure how monochromatic each of the phosphors are...
Maybe accurate calibration isn't necessary, and just using the peak wavelengths from the sun and a halogen lamp would be sufficient to get a rough calibration using wein's, assuming both peaks are in the range, and the second order reflections don't mess things up too much.
Atraxen's idea looks pretty good.
I've often thought that the cd/dev as cheap diffraction mirror for school projects and demos would be a great idea and I hope there have been some science fair projects using the principle. I just wish I'd thought of doing a kickstarter so I'd get the credit...
What's wrong with PulseAudio? Hasn't it just kinda worked (from a user perspective) for quite some time now?
I haven't used ubuntu in a while, but the last time I used it, in a virtual machine, no less, I didn't have any issues with the sound.
By that logic we're all Breatharians - people who've made the conscious choice to get all of their nutrition from the air they breath, and also from a limited selections of vegetables and animal products.
But that's the problem. People who buy a kindle only buy it once (or once every so often when a better one comes out or they break it). But if they're using it to read books, they're buying books much more frequently. And as long as they're logged in to amazon, why not order a pack of batteries, some dry goods, (and I think amazon actually does sell milk and bread, come to think of it.)