Funny how all of those "independent" groups were all gearing up to challenge the election results and had allready begun to talk of "irregularities" in the last election. Then, when the as the results came in and it became obvious that the Repubs had had their asses handed to them, no one seemed to be all that interested and any irregularities or supposed disinfranchisment.
Funny how the left only talks about such things when they lose an election, and couldn't care less when they win.
Hell, just go to the launch event next month and they'll give you a free copy of Vista and Office 2007. Just let your boss know that you need to attend so you can be up on the latest tech.
What? The iPhone trademark is what is at issue between Cisco and Apple. That has nothing to do with IP or Copyright, and certainly nothing to do with the GPL. The summary is pretty horrible for trying to tie the two together, but I guess past summaries haven't set an increadibly high standard.
Actually no. That is just you rationalizing your own hatred. By cloaking yourself in some noble, but frankly disingenous, crap, you are just dressing up your personal bias. Your rant could easily be used against any political party, religion, or ethnicity. And people manage to do that the world over. That you are unable to be introspective enough to see that shows us, more than anything else, your bias, and serves as an example for my original point.
And since I'm a libertarian and don't agree with your irration hatred of the republicans, and that you manage to appoint yourself as the spokesman for literally millions of people in both the US and Europe, I'd say your original point is just asinine.
buying into a particular political philosophy doesn't automatically make the other side evil. bush wouldn't agree with you.
that an intelligent person would realize Oh, you accounted for that...
Nice of you to demonstrate what I was talking about. Thanks!
Funny, I've always felt that an intelligent person would realize that buying into a particular political philosophy doesn't automatically make the other side evil. But the ability for people to recognize their own biases and irrationalities seems to be remarkably diminished when it comes to politics.
No, the author is just trying to suggest he isn't just another democrat fanboy that will bash the republicans no matter what. It doesn't make him neutral, but it is an attempt to say that he's not biased against the particular group that he's accusing of rigging the election. He'll sell more books that way, you see.
Hitting the chinese embassy in Beograd was an intelligence failure, not guidance.
That was the claim, anyways. If I remeber correctly, there had just been some incident with the Chinese over some damned thing shortly before that. Funny how embassies have a habit of getting unintentionally targeted when the US is pissed at someone. Remember how the French embassy was accedentally hit, during the Libia bombing in the 80s, when they had refused airspace clearance for the strike force to fly over their territory? Oops. Our mistake. Sorry.
GPS and computer controlled fins. It'd just be a matter of developing a system that can withstand launch Gs and the electromagnetic forces. Maybe difficult, but probably not impossible.
Sure, they have no obligation and they can legally do it and yada yada yada. It doesn't make it less slimy. What's next? Digital output to that iPod for $10? Or maybe 3G to the iPhone for $50?
What they are doing is testing a new business model and seeing if the customers will put up with it. It goes like this. Sell crippled product. Offer an "upgrade" for sale which enables functionality that was already there. Enable the functionality with a simple download. Cost to Apple for this new product? An insignificant bit of bandwidth. That $4.99 is pure profit.
If you read the article carefully it hardly implies that bloggers were threatened with legal action for simply reporting about the skins.
This is Slashdot. The summaries of stories are mostly over-hyped and/or misleading and 75% of those who post comments haven't bothered to RTFA. Hell, we can get news anywhere. We come to slashdot for over-hyped and misleading stories and clueless comments. RingTFingA is for sissies.
Check the Mac forums and see what the reaction is-- very mixed feelings, with the general sentiment being that it's too expensive, lacking in features needed to make it a good business device, and tied to a single wireless company that many people don't like or will have to wait to switch to until their current contract expires. Of course there are many people that started hyperventalating went "OMG!! OMG!! OMG!! I want one!!!" and will buy most anything that's shiny and has an Apple logo on it, but is that really going to mean 10 million in sales in a year's time?
Unfortunately, though, computer non-experts fear Macs because they're not Microsoft. People have been brainwashed to believe that the Microsoft way is the only way they can learn. Too bad for other operating systems, though--they can't win converts with the majority of computer users thinking "it's too hard to use anything non-Microsoft!"
Bullshit. People generally don't want to learn a new way of doing things because it's an investment of time and energy that they don't want to spend. For most people, computers are tools that they have to use for work or that they want to use for entertainment. Having learned how to use one with a specific OS, they don't see the point in learning another way of doing the same thing. No one is scared or brainwashed, they just don't care about the things enough to want to do things differently. Belittling people in that fashion is idiotic.
The Mac Mini at $599.00 is really a different animal than the ~$500 Box you'd get from dell or the like. And the first Minis (the PPC ones) were woefully underpowered such that it had difficulty running the supplied OS in its standard configuration. I bought one and was very disapointed with it. The new ones may be better, but I'm sure not going to fork out another $599 to find out. Also, they are only a viable option if you already have usb keyboard and mouse plus a monitor. If you need those, you'll end up, price wise, in the Core 2 Duo desktop with 19" flat panel range.
If Apple was serious about this space they'd come out with a ~$1000 expandable box, or even a Mini that you could easily open and upgrade (poping the case open with a pair of putty knives and voiding the warranty isn't a viable option most places). Frankly, Apple equipment is aimed at consumers and high end video/audo workstation users. None of their equipment, IMHO, is appealing to enterprise.
...they'll want harder, better, faster, stronger laptops that these corporations will be all too happy to *sell* them, as the OLPC simply doesn't meet the gluttonous standards of a modern consumer.
Oh good God. The point is they can't afford standard consumer electronics as it is. That's what the whole project was about-- provide a low cost computer to people that can't afford current computers. Great insight there. With out a doubt OLPC will soon be trying to sell the latest core 2 duo laptops to the children of Bangladesh. Hell, they'll probably start a new campaign, One Widescreen HD Plasma TV Per Child (OWHDPTVPC), next, just to sucker those unsuspecting s fools in even more.
You can avoid burnout with a bit of genetic engineering.
For instance, if you could modify the common cold into two strains that, when combined, cause the original strain to be reassembled in the victim, then you could choose two patient zero groups with a wide geographical spacing and watch the clock tick.
The real issue is choosing the right way to limit burnout and then finding a way to control them, so they can be applied as anything other than WMDs, although the US has displayed its eagerness to deploy WMDs in the past.
Of course, such a strain of anything might be a couple of mutations short of an extinction event, but that has never bothered anyone actually working on these things or funding them to the extent that it stopped "progress".
I think you've been watching to many movies. Number one, the state of the art isn't that good. It might be some time in the future, but modifying a virus into a subtly acting binary weapon is way beyond us at this time. Two, with two strains in the wild, which would both have to have extensive genomic DNA that isn't being expressed during the lifecycle of the pathogen, you'd have a number of errors introduced into it, which would likely render it non-effective whenever it meets up with its counterpart. Non-expressed DNA has no reason to be conserved. Also, these engineered viruses would have to compete against their wild-type parents, that don't have the added burden of all this extra, non-functional until signaled, DNA.
I was wondering if someone was going to point that out. You'd think, what with we just had an election and all, that people would realize that the elections in november 1994 didn't seat the new Republican controlled congress until 1995. 1994 saw the democrats controlling both houses of congress and the white house.
It's stupid to blame someone for seeking protection from abuse. It is worth noting, however, that Jobs did recieve backdated options during this time (55 million of them), but had them cancled in 2003 when the SEC started getting serious about investigating such things. However, he was rewarded with a bunch of new, non-backdated shares worth $85 million at the same time. Face it, Jobs stood to benefit from the backdating, was fully aware that it was going on, and still got the payoff when all was said and done. Just because they pulled a CYA so that they can now claim that Jobs didn't benefit from the options backdating doesn't give him a pass on the issue.
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Funny how all of those "independent" groups were all gearing up to challenge the election results and had allready begun to talk of "irregularities" in the last election. Then, when the as the results came in and it became obvious that the Repubs had had their asses handed to them, no one seemed to be all that interested and any irregularities or supposed disinfranchisment.
Funny how the left only talks about such things when they lose an election, and couldn't care less when they win.
Yeah because in the last elec......um......the election before the last one, there were voting irregularities!!
You really aren't suggesting that a manager would cover his ass by buying an OS for a critical server at Walmart, are you?
Hell, just go to the launch event next month and they'll give you a free copy of Vista and Office 2007. Just let your boss know that you need to attend so you can be up on the latest tech.
You must be new here.
DVD, Mail, Calendar, Addressbook, Fax & Scan.
Windows Imaging Component sounds identical to Core Image
Pfffttt. The new version of minesweeper rocks! Don't have that on you Mac, do you?
What? The iPhone trademark is what is at issue between Cisco and Apple. That has nothing to do with IP or Copyright, and certainly nothing to do with the GPL. The summary is pretty horrible for trying to tie the two together, but I guess past summaries haven't set an increadibly high standard.
Actually no. That is just you rationalizing your own hatred. By cloaking yourself in some noble, but frankly disingenous, crap, you are just dressing up your personal bias. Your rant could easily be used against any political party, religion, or ethnicity. And people manage to do that the world over. That you are unable to be introspective enough to see that shows us, more than anything else, your bias, and serves as an example for my original point.
And since I'm a libertarian and don't agree with your irration hatred of the republicans, and that you manage to appoint yourself as the spokesman for literally millions of people in both the US and Europe, I'd say your original point is just asinine.
Nice of you to demonstrate what I was talking about. Thanks!
Funny, I've always felt that an intelligent person would realize that buying into a particular political philosophy doesn't automatically make the other side evil. But the ability for people to recognize their own biases and irrationalities seems to be remarkably diminished when it comes to politics.
No, the author is just trying to suggest he isn't just another democrat fanboy that will bash the republicans no matter what. It doesn't make him neutral, but it is an attempt to say that he's not biased against the particular group that he's accusing of rigging the election. He'll sell more books that way, you see.
Hitting the chinese embassy in Beograd was an intelligence failure, not guidance.
That was the claim, anyways. If I remeber correctly, there had just been some incident with the Chinese over some damned thing shortly before that. Funny how embassies have a habit of getting unintentionally targeted when the US is pissed at someone. Remember how the French embassy was accedentally hit, during the Libia bombing in the 80s, when they had refused airspace clearance for the strike force to fly over their territory? Oops. Our mistake. Sorry.
GPS and computer controlled fins. It'd just be a matter of developing a system that can withstand launch Gs and the electromagnetic forces. Maybe difficult, but probably not impossible.
Sure, they have no obligation and they can legally do it and yada yada yada. It doesn't make it less slimy. What's next? Digital output to that iPod for $10? Or maybe 3G to the iPhone for $50?
What they are doing is testing a new business model and seeing if the customers will put up with it. It goes like this. Sell crippled product. Offer an "upgrade" for sale which enables functionality that was already there. Enable the functionality with a simple download. Cost to Apple for this new product? An insignificant bit of bandwidth. That $4.99 is pure profit.
Check the Mac forums and see what the reaction is-- very mixed feelings, with the general sentiment being that it's too expensive, lacking in features needed to make it a good business device, and tied to a single wireless company that many people don't like or will have to wait to switch to until their current contract expires. Of course there are many people that started hyperventalating went "OMG!! OMG!! OMG!! I want one!!!" and will buy most anything that's shiny and has an Apple logo on it, but is that really going to mean 10 million in sales in a year's time?
Bullshit. People generally don't want to learn a new way of doing things because it's an investment of time and energy that they don't want to spend. For most people, computers are tools that they have to use for work or that they want to use for entertainment. Having learned how to use one with a specific OS, they don't see the point in learning another way of doing the same thing. No one is scared or brainwashed, they just don't care about the things enough to want to do things differently. Belittling people in that fashion is idiotic.
Or sign up for Technet plus and get it now. @ $350/year it's a better deal than buying Vista retail.
Here's the link to Dell's N-series (no OS) page:
s px/nseries?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&redirect=1
http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.a
Been that way for a while, it's just hard to find the 'n' version of their current models on the website.
The Mac Mini at $599.00 is really a different animal than the ~$500 Box you'd get from dell or the like. And the first Minis (the PPC ones) were woefully underpowered such that it had difficulty running the supplied OS in its standard configuration. I bought one and was very disapointed with it. The new ones may be better, but I'm sure not going to fork out another $599 to find out. Also, they are only a viable option if you already have usb keyboard and mouse plus a monitor. If you need those, you'll end up, price wise, in the Core 2 Duo desktop with 19" flat panel range.
If Apple was serious about this space they'd come out with a ~$1000 expandable box, or even a Mini that you could easily open and upgrade (poping the case open with a pair of putty knives and voiding the warranty isn't a viable option most places). Frankly, Apple equipment is aimed at consumers and high end video/audo workstation users. None of their equipment, IMHO, is appealing to enterprise.
...they'll want harder, better, faster, stronger laptops that these corporations will be all too happy to *sell* them, as the OLPC simply doesn't meet the gluttonous standards of a modern consumer.Oh good God. The point is they can't afford standard consumer electronics as it is. That's what the whole project was about-- provide a low cost computer to people that can't afford current computers. Great insight there. With out a doubt OLPC will soon be trying to sell the latest core 2 duo laptops to the children of Bangladesh. Hell, they'll probably start a new campaign, One Widescreen HD Plasma TV Per Child (OWHDPTVPC), next, just to sucker those unsuspecting s fools in even more.
For instance, if you could modify the common cold into two strains that, when combined, cause the original strain to be reassembled in the victim, then you could choose two patient zero groups with a wide geographical spacing and watch the clock tick.
The real issue is choosing the right way to limit burnout and then finding a way to control them, so they can be applied as anything other than WMDs, although the US has displayed its eagerness to deploy WMDs in the past.
Of course, such a strain of anything might be a couple of mutations short of an extinction event, but that has never bothered anyone actually working on these things or funding them to the extent that it stopped "progress".
I think you've been watching to many movies. Number one, the state of the art isn't that good. It might be some time in the future, but modifying a virus into a subtly acting binary weapon is way beyond us at this time. Two, with two strains in the wild, which would both have to have extensive genomic DNA that isn't being expressed during the lifecycle of the pathogen, you'd have a number of errors introduced into it, which would likely render it non-effective whenever it meets up with its counterpart. Non-expressed DNA has no reason to be conserved. Also, these engineered viruses would have to compete against their wild-type parents, that don't have the added burden of all this extra, non-functional until signaled, DNA.
Biology is not computer science.
I was wondering if someone was going to point that out. You'd think, what with we just had an election and all, that people would realize that the elections in november 1994 didn't seat the new Republican controlled congress until 1995. 1994 saw the democrats controlling both houses of congress and the white house.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&r