Possibly the use of magnetic damping in the arresting gear cable spools. By varying the magnetic coupling between the spools and the hull you could achieve frictionless braking.
It's not so much that iTunes wanted to charge more than the labels wanted differentiation between DRM and non-DRM.
The iTunes store exists to sell iPods. Apple would have no problems with "free" music as long as it sold more iPods. According to all reports the shop barely covers its operating costs.
As for your not buying DRM'd music, I'm sure Steve Jobs cries himself to sleep each night at the thought.
Who are you sending the message to? Apple, who would just as soon sell non-DRM tracks if Warner would let them? Warner, who are selling non-DRM tracks but not thru Apple?
Warner are practicing discriminatory pricing. Why?
What do you mean "tried to build... a global network"? Are you saying I imagined VNET? All those PROFS notes to the labs in Rochester and Boca were imaginary? That I browsed the TEXT and IBMPC forums from Oz in my dreams?
I'd be willing to bet that it took many, many years before the Internet passed VNET in size. VNET was huge.
There was a gateway to the Internet in the late 80s from VNET, somewhere in NY state. I had to convince my manager to sign off on the (free) access for "business reasons". How else could I get to comp.sys.apple2 from the 3278 on my office desk?
Seriously, I want to know what happens if the observer is, say, a duck. Does it matter if we don't know if the observer can make sense of the observation? Who is the arbiter? The observer? The observed? The whatever-it-is that goes around collapsing waveforms when it thinks they're being observed?
Like, is the experiment IQ sensitive? Is there an IQ threshold at which the effect takes place?
If we had a trained duck (I like ducks) that could detect the waveform and placed it in a box with an identical untrained duck and then randomly picked a duck to be the observer, what would happen?
Anyone?
You have hit the nail on the head. Scientists, like everyone else, are entitled to believe whatever they like. In that regard science has common cause with religion.
Scientists seem to be having problems understanding the complexity of reality and are turning to mysticism. Any conclusion that depends on mysticism is automatically suspect in my book. It's back to the primitive practice of inventing a god or demon to account for things we don't understand.
What next? Prayers and holy water before observations?
I think the whole point of the Zune is to give Microsoft a seat at the music-seller table.
Microsoft's product isn't the Zune, it's their DRM. It really doesn't matter how well the Zune sells; it just has to be out there.
As long as Microsoft has a presence in that market they have influence. They can then use their influence to try to hamper a competitor and sell their real product, the DRM. The payment of $1 per Zune sold to Universal was an obvious attempt to wedge Apple.
I'd love to know the real reason Microsoft abandoned "Plays-for-Sure". Was it dying? Too many circumventions? It can't be buyer resistance. Very odd, that.
The thing the US is going "apeshit" about is not the Iranians having nuclear power, but having nukes.
This business about denial of nuclear power is pure smokescreen.
The Iranians declined an offer by the Russians to supply them with reactor grade fuel.
The Russians are supplying them with the technology. How much help do they want?
They hid their nuclear program for twenty years or so. That doesn't inspire confidence.
I think you'll find that the US isn't telling anyone they can't have nuclear power.
What they are unhappy about is nuclear weapons. It's the processing that is the issue.
Iran, for example, wants to refine their own fuel. That's not a problem up to a point.
The problem comes in when Iran wants to refine Uranium up beyond fuel grade.
Suspicions are further aroused when Iran declines a Russian offer to refine the fuel for them.
With Russia supplying fuel the Iranians would be spared the expense and danger of doing it themselves.
On the other hand they are a rightly proud people who don't want to be in thrall to a country like Russia.
Nor do they like being hassled by the US in its guise of World Policeman.
So they act provocatively and the US bites. The Arab world laps it up. Shades of Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gadaffi et al.
The geology dudes at the university tell me that the coal we're burning in the state's power stations contains Uranium. So our non-nuclear power stations have been spewing out Uranium (and other goodies) from their smoke stacks for decades.
In the good old days the British extracted Germanium (used in semiconductors) from Northumbrian coal ash from power stations.
Might be a good cheap (no extra mining) source of Uranium, given the quantities of coal involved.
Anti-ship missiles indeed. In the Falklands War one Exocet anti-ship missile took out the HMS Sheffield. Completely.
Mind you, the ship was mostly aluminium (so it burned) and was regarded as a "throw away" asset.
> No, he probably means "people who refuse to acknowledge that human languages are ever-evolving and think grammar should be prescriptive rather than descriptive."
Then (veering dangerously off-topic) why didn't he just say that instead of using a slur?
I think you can safely ignore any posting which contains a misuse of "begs the question".
Next thing you know they'll be claiming it has been "scuppered".
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You got a Apple I? Wow! That's amazing! Did you assemble it yourself or did someone else help?
You'd better point me at where the iPods are "locking" you into iTunes.
According to all reports 90% of iPod content is not fro iTunes.
Apple's DRM works only on iPods. MS' DRM works only on "Plays for Sure" licencees' players (not Zune or iPod). Removing Apple's DRM is trivial (even if it is unsatisfactory for the purists) and totally legal. Removing MS' DRM is neither. Apple is more than happy to sell non-DRM tracks because they don't market their DRM. MS, however, have a vested interest in marketing DRM. Except, of course, the proprietary DRM they use for the Zune.
The only criterion for any product is "fit for purpose". It can be as ugly as sin inside as long as it works. Elegant but inefficient code is rare outside books.
I the Real Good Old Days we only rented our hardware to you guys. Yes, we were obliged to sell it if you really wanted that but if you think getting Linux on a white box PC is hard...
The rental came with a service contract with guaranteed a 1 hour response time. We (the customer engineers) were measured on it. Our pay rises depended on getting over 90% of calls responded to in under 1 hour.
We were also measured on customer up-time. 99.9+% was good enough.
Then there was that nebulous thing: Customer Satisfaction.
Then, one day, a bright spark convinced the board that our cash-flow would improve if we sold rather that rented. I date our demise from that day.
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It's an iPhone "rival"? Why isn't it an iPhone "killer".
Sometimes cameras can have a deterrent effect. I don't mean those lame dummy cameras, either.
Just the rumor that we were putting a camera system in our school practically eliminated graffiti
vandalism in a vulnerable area. The vandalism then took other forms, which were actually more of a problem.
Possibly the use of magnetic damping in the arresting gear cable spools. By varying the magnetic coupling between the spools and the hull you could achieve frictionless braking.
It's not so much that iTunes wanted to charge more than the labels wanted differentiation between DRM and non-DRM.
The iTunes store exists to sell iPods. Apple would have no problems with "free" music as long as it sold more iPods.
According to all reports the shop barely covers its operating costs.
As for your not buying DRM'd music, I'm sure Steve Jobs cries himself to sleep each night at the thought.
OLPC declined Steve's offer of a custom OSX because it was "proprietary". Now they are going to snuggle up to Microsoft? They'll get eaten alive!
Nope, but your post reeks of envy.
Who are you sending the message to? Apple, who would just as soon sell non-DRM tracks if Warner would let them? Warner, who are selling non-DRM tracks but not thru Apple?
Warner are practicing discriminatory pricing. Why?
What do you mean "tried to build... a global network"? Are you saying I imagined VNET? All those PROFS notes to the labs in Rochester and Boca were imaginary? That I browsed the TEXT and IBMPC forums from Oz in my dreams?
I'd be willing to bet that it took many, many years before the Internet passed VNET in size. VNET was huge.
There was a gateway to the Internet in the late 80s from VNET, somewhere in NY state. I had to convince my manager to sign off on the (free) access for "business reasons". How else could I get to comp.sys.apple2 from the 3278 on my office desk?
Seriously, I want to know what happens if the observer is, say, a duck. Does it matter if we don't know if the observer can make sense of the observation? Who is the arbiter? The observer? The observed? The whatever-it-is that goes around collapsing waveforms when it thinks they're being observed?
Like, is the experiment IQ sensitive? Is there an IQ threshold at which the effect takes place?
If we had a trained duck (I like ducks) that could detect the waveform and placed it in a box with an identical untrained duck and then randomly picked a duck to be the observer, what would happen?
Anyone?
You have hit the nail on the head. Scientists, like everyone else, are entitled to believe whatever they like. In that regard science has common cause with religion.
Scientists seem to be having problems understanding the complexity of reality and are turning to mysticism. Any conclusion that depends on mysticism is automatically suspect in my book. It's back to the primitive practice of inventing a god or demon to account for things we don't understand.
What next? Prayers and holy water before observations?
I think the whole point of the Zune is to give Microsoft a seat at the music-seller table.
Microsoft's product isn't the Zune, it's their DRM. It really doesn't matter how well the Zune sells; it just has to be out there.
As long as Microsoft has a presence in that market they have influence. They can then use their influence to try to hamper a competitor and sell their real product, the DRM. The payment of $1 per Zune sold to Universal was an obvious attempt to wedge Apple.
I'd love to know the real reason Microsoft abandoned "Plays-for-Sure". Was it dying? Too many circumventions? It can't be buyer resistance. Very odd, that.
The thing the US is going "apeshit" about is not the Iranians having nuclear power, but having nukes.
This business about denial of nuclear power is pure smokescreen.
The Iranians declined an offer by the Russians to supply them with reactor grade fuel.
The Russians are supplying them with the technology. How much help do they want?
They hid their nuclear program for twenty years or so. That doesn't inspire confidence.
I think you'll find that the US isn't telling anyone they can't have nuclear power.
What they are unhappy about is nuclear weapons. It's the processing that is the issue.
Iran, for example, wants to refine their own fuel. That's not a problem up to a point.
The problem comes in when Iran wants to refine Uranium up beyond fuel grade.
Suspicions are further aroused when Iran declines a Russian offer to refine the fuel for them.
With Russia supplying fuel the Iranians would be spared the expense and danger of doing it themselves.
On the other hand they are a rightly proud people who don't want to be in thrall to a country like Russia.
Nor do they like being hassled by the US in its guise of World Policeman.
So they act provocatively and the US bites. The Arab world laps it up. Shades of Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gadaffi et al.
The geology dudes at the university tell me that the coal we're burning in the state's power stations contains Uranium.
So our non-nuclear power stations have been spewing out Uranium (and other goodies) from their smoke stacks for decades.
In the good old days the British extracted Germanium (used in semiconductors) from Northumbrian coal ash from power stations.
Might be a good cheap (no extra mining) source of Uranium, given the quantities of coal involved.
Anti-ship missiles indeed. In the Falklands War one Exocet anti-ship missile took out the HMS Sheffield. Completely.
Mind you, the ship was mostly aluminium (so it burned) and was regarded as a "throw away" asset.
> No, he probably means "people who refuse to acknowledge that human languages are ever-evolving and think grammar should be prescriptive rather than descriptive."
Then (veering dangerously off-topic) why didn't he just say that instead of using a slur?
I think you can safely ignore any posting which contains a misuse of "begs the question". Next thing you know they'll be claiming it has been "scuppered".
From Help:
To move files to a different location on the same disk, drag the icons to the new folder.
To move files to a different disk, hold down the Command key while you drag the icons.
To copy files to a different disk, drag the icons to the disk.
To copy files to a different location on the same disk, press the Option key while you drag the icons.
To open a folder while dragging an icon, hold the icon over the folder for a moment.(Springloaded folders)
To make copies of files within the same folder, select them and choose Edit > Duplicate. (or Cmd-D)
To delete, select and Cmd-Delete. To empty Trash, Option-Cmd-Delete.
If you mean Appletalk, NT does that.
You got a Apple I? Wow! That's amazing! Did you assemble it yourself or did someone else help? You'd better point me at where the iPods are "locking" you into iTunes. According to all reports 90% of iPod content is not fro iTunes.
...Once they have sold it to you subject to your agreeing to their conditions of sale, you mean. You probably don't own an iPhone or you'd know that.
Apple's DRM works only on iPods. MS' DRM works only on "Plays for Sure" licencees' players (not Zune or iPod). Removing Apple's DRM is trivial (even if it is unsatisfactory for the purists) and totally legal. Removing MS' DRM is neither. Apple is more than happy to sell non-DRM tracks because they don't market their DRM. MS, however, have a vested interest in marketing DRM. Except, of course, the proprietary DRM they use for the Zune.
The only criterion for any product is "fit for purpose". It can be as ugly as sin inside as long as it works. Elegant but inefficient code is rare outside books.
Yes, I can see it now... Apple: Numbers is bug-for-bug compatible with Excel. Just like OS/2 was with Windows.
I the Real Good Old Days we only rented our hardware to you guys. Yes, we were obliged to sell it if you really wanted that but if you think getting Linux on a white box PC is hard... The rental came with a service contract with guaranteed a 1 hour response time. We (the customer engineers) were measured on it. Our pay rises depended on getting over 90% of calls responded to in under 1 hour. We were also measured on customer up-time. 99.9+% was good enough. Then there was that nebulous thing: Customer Satisfaction. Then, one day, a bright spark convinced the board that our cash-flow would improve if we sold rather that rented. I date our demise from that day.