Indeed. DVD sales in 2007 were down from 2006, and DVDs are where all the margin on motion pictures is. The theatrical distribution is really sortof a loss leader to promote the DVD and follow-on media, like DVD, television and video games (an industry which outstrips the film industry in revenues, I might add).
Remember, though, MS had sold all those software upgrade contracts with the stated timeline of having the new version out before they expired, this is why Vista was released to business before the user version was available.
Delivering an item on time and not "when it's ready" can be worth gobs more money to people who like to be able to contain risk. Look at how poorly Apple fares in the business market, for many reasons, but a big one is that they're pretty secretive about their development roadmap and you can't make million-dollar decisions based on Apple's stated trajectory (notice the recent deafening silence over the Xserve RAID EOL and iPhone SDK delay).
Not to say secrecy doesn't pay dividends in consumer segment, but consumers have always been the barnacle on the MS ship.
Picky note: You can only gauge the mass of an orbiting body relative to the mass of the primary, which you can estimate to a VERY accurate amount, as you say, but only as a coefficient of the mass of the primary. Thus we have an extremely accurate estimate of what the mass of the moon is, based on our knowledge of the mass of the Earth, and our knowledge of the mass of the Earth can only be estimated empirically, but can be measured very accurately with regard to the mass of the Sun. Our ability to turn orbital observations into mass is limited by our knowledge of the Gravitational constant, which we don't have an extremely accurate estimate of.
It's possible that if objects are accelerating away from the Solar system faster than we expect, we've underestimated the total mass of the solar system, since our estimates are based on the empirical knowledge of the mass of the spacecraft (we know how much they mass in kilos much better than we know how much the Earth or Sun masses in kilos).
I think you're reading too much malignancy into this, and searing about it and dropping the I-E word doesn't help:).
So WebKit is tightly integrated with the underlying OS service like Internet Explorer is alleged to be with Windows.
It totally is, nothing up our sleeve there, though you don't need webkit to run Finder.app, though under Leopard I bet the QuickView system will break. I think the main complaint about IE was that you can't actually delete Internet Explorer.exe from your Windows system, and it was a finagle to keep Windows from favoring IE for content. Safari.app can be deleted from a Mac with no effort, because Apple actually separated the web rendering system into a library, like the MS people were supposed to.
So, if you use WebKit, you benefit from the private, "better" linkage to the OS service, but if you don't, your performance (or perhaps other qualities) will suffer. Am I getting that right?
You put "better" in quotes because you probably anticipated where the issue is. The OS throttles display updates to the framerate of the display when you run a Cocoa application; this was done to make the drawing to the framebuffer look cleaner and for efficiency reasons (you can read about it here, it's from TFA). If you are building a Cocoa app and want to opt-out of the beam sync, you have to set this option in your Info.plist, which is just a setting built into your deployment (it's really easy, and documented, but they suggest you not do it because it might leave you with a faster-rendering but ugly result). Setting the option in the Info.plist is global for your app, from launch to exit.
WebKit makes use of beam sync on/off, but uses a call into the system to turn it off only at certain times (this is my understanding of Hyatt's explanation). Hyatt, a former Firefox dev himself we might add, himself says this is a hack, and that if you actually expose this functionality to vendors you're totally going to be loading the gun and pointing it at peoples feet.
So what do you do if you're Apple? You can offer people a function that'll turn this efficiency feature on and off, and a few devs might like this, but a ton won't care, and if you do decide to support this, you've gotta make sure it works forever for everybody and perfectly.
Is a pretty big merit in and of itself. It's important not to construct a whole value system around openness without considering that; software is a tool, not some form of moral action.
iPhones aren't vert extensible, it is true, but consumers don't seem to mind. I think the lesson of the iPhone in this regard is that Java on cellphones isn't really a platform for development as much as it is a way for the cellphone manufacturers to offload their own work on other developers. Want a good web browser or stock ticker or weather widget for your cellphone? When the market asked for these things Nokia and Sony and Moto etc. stuck a JVM into their phones and said "Not our problem!" Apple went to the trouble of making high-quality apps/tools and putting them in the box with the phone, and people seem to prefer having the complete widget instead of having the "choice" to go out and download crap. Having to think about what vendors and software I wanna run on my cellphone, just for me personally, and I wager for a lot of consumers, is sortof a choice overload.
Which is not to say I won't appreciate the SDK when it comes out (I've been missing my old Palm timecode calculator), I just don't think cellphones sell on the virtues of their "platform" as much as sell on their "out-of-box experience." And Apple provides the best out-of-box experience, hands down.
In The Dilbert Future, Scott Adams suggested the logical consummation of this, and really the most complelling way of harnessing "stupidity for clean power(tm)".
The proposal is pretty ingenious: First, you build a bunch of large hamster-wheel type contraptions in front of gas stations and convenience stores. The energy generated by people running in the wheels is hooked either to the grid or electrolysis for Hydrogen production. Then, you offer a 10 free lottery tickets per every 15 minutes in the wheel.
Just a nit... Professionals use nothing approaching betamax. They use Betacam SP and Digital Betacam; the electronics and recorded format are different, Betacam is a component format compared to Betamax's composite format, the tape speeds are different, etc. Really the only things the two formats share is the physical format of the cassette box, and the word "Beta" somewhere in the name.
If Paul can last to the national convention, and a brokered convention is required, Paul is hoping that the Iraq war goes further south, and that the economy continues to plummet. In this case, he has many wildcards available to actively compete for delegates once the first round of the brokered convention is over.
It's an interesting scenario, but I'm highly doubtful the Iraq War itself will go south in the next 12 months, mainly because the expectations are so low that anything short of a holocaust is considered progress. Also, if Paul did become the candidate, the party would instantly be split into pro-war/anti-war camps, with the presidential candidate essentially running on a contrary platform to the senate and house candidates, and Paul has demonstrated he isn't afraid of attacking them on that point. Republicans know that as long as they show a united pro-war, pro-surge, pro-invasion face, they never have to answer questions about the invasion, since they argue from the frame of "Saddam the Butcher," "Gathering Threat," "WMD," "Purple fingers," etc. (admittedly emotional, but it makes the war an issue of moral imperitives and "honor".) Paul approaches the issue from the frame of "National self-interest," and "prudence" (far more rational, but objectively indistinguishable from the language used to attack Republicans for the last 5 years). If the Republicans allow the frame to get away from them, everyone who supported it will be irretrievably compromised, and they'll lose a whole generation of politicians.
As it is it's pretty dubious that the Republican leadership would allow a "menshevik uprising" of Paul supporters enough sway to actually overrule the two candidates who together on a ticket would at least represent a majority of the Republican voter opinion.
If you're still running an unpatched mail server, please send an email to ferdinand@habsburg.at and tell him not to visit Sarajevo in 4 years. Just trust me on this one.
Jim Mallon was the operations manager of KTMA when the show was on the air, so it's a distinct possibility. He was the Weird Al to Joel's Stan Spidowsky.
For me it is the Physics law of Entropy that causes me to doubt Evolution.
talk.origins is happy to relieve you of this particular doubt.
The second law of thermodynamics states, for any closed system not in equilibrium the entropy over time must increase. Living beings are not closed systems, though, and neither are the abiotic processes that generate organic materials. The entropy in a part of a system can always go down as long as entropy in other parts of the system go up. So, assemblies of molecules in water can lose entropy as long as some other part of the system they interact with (the water they float in, or the air above it) gain enough entropy to offset the loss. The Sun is constantly raining useable energy into the systems on Earth, so there's constantly a temperature differential to drive processes and remove entropy from earthly systems; the entropy doesn't disappear of course, the entropy of the Sun merely goes up covering the balance in the other part of the system, the Earth.
I'll bet one of the reasons they're putting it out there is the hope that a few kind souls with some time on their hands will submit some patches and work out the kinks; given the amount of interest there is for this to be working on Mac OS X -- and there's a lot.
Maybe between Apple, some Sun devs on their breaks and Amit Singh they can have this all wrapped up in a few months:)
Academic question: What would have happened if MS had open sourced WinFS? Even under their PL, there would probably have been enough interest among enough dedicated nerds to... who knows.
The ocean has a teency screen and the web browser is an atrocity compared to MobileSafari; the iphone also does IMAP email and will do it over SSL. The iphone even its present closed form is simply more general-purpose than the Ocean.
In the end Helio is just another MVNO lifestyle cellphone brand, like Boost or Voce, that attempts to sell "premium content" through branding tie-ins and locked down applications (a la "myspace integration", instead of just letting me go to myspace.com without enduring an awful web browser), basically taking the basic/premium cable company pricing model and applying it to wireless.
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You still can't fly the things through weather, and storms effectively ground them.
50 MTs of cargo isn't worth a human life, but that's still 50 MTs of someone's cargo, and you'd need a level of safety approaching overwater transport, given that you're only doubling the speed of deliveries, instead of improving the speed 10x (like a jet would).
With a completely automated platform, piracy might be an issue, with people pulling up along side in blimps or light craft and raiding the cargo.
That's right, you heard it here first-- Air pirates.
For those of you guys using Macs and OSX for security work, is my perception skewed? Is there some simple way to get the good apps (nmap, wireshark, etc) working under OSX that I've missed?
I use both under OSX, you're doing it the right way, but you might not be going about getting the packages in the easiest way possible. Did you install the developer tools off the DVD? That's the best way to get GCC and the GNU build system tools. Once you have that you can use the darwinports package manager to get either, but if the versions on port are too old, it's just as easy to download the source tarball of what you need and do the old configure; make; sudo make install.
Your scheme doesn't address the analogue hole, nor how you securely get the public keys to the signing stage without the user being able to intercept them between his NIC and the signing chip.
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Indeed. DVD sales in 2007 were down from 2006, and DVDs are where all the margin on motion pictures is. The theatrical distribution is really sortof a loss leader to promote the DVD and follow-on media, like DVD, television and video games (an industry which outstrips the film industry in revenues, I might add).
Remember, though, MS had sold all those software upgrade contracts with the stated timeline of having the new version out before they expired, this is why Vista was released to business before the user version was available.
Delivering an item on time and not "when it's ready" can be worth gobs more money to people who like to be able to contain risk. Look at how poorly Apple fares in the business market, for many reasons, but a big one is that they're pretty secretive about their development roadmap and you can't make million-dollar decisions based on Apple's stated trajectory (notice the recent deafening silence over the Xserve RAID EOL and iPhone SDK delay).
Not to say secrecy doesn't pay dividends in consumer segment, but consumers have always been the barnacle on the MS ship.
why the lucky stiff is one token. Try enclosing it in quotes and recompiling.
People. Carbon nanotubes are made out of people.
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Picky note: You can only gauge the mass of an orbiting body relative to the mass of the primary, which you can estimate to a VERY accurate amount, as you say, but only as a coefficient of the mass of the primary. Thus we have an extremely accurate estimate of what the mass of the moon is, based on our knowledge of the mass of the Earth, and our knowledge of the mass of the Earth can only be estimated empirically, but can be measured very accurately with regard to the mass of the Sun. Our ability to turn orbital observations into mass is limited by our knowledge of the Gravitational constant, which we don't have an extremely accurate estimate of.
It's possible that if objects are accelerating away from the Solar system faster than we expect, we've underestimated the total mass of the solar system, since our estimates are based on the empirical knowledge of the mass of the spacecraft (we know how much they mass in kilos much better than we know how much the Earth or Sun masses in kilos).
Maybe, idunno, not my field of expertise.
I think you're reading too much malignancy into this, and searing about it and dropping the I-E word doesn't help :).
It totally is, nothing up our sleeve there, though you don't need webkit to run Finder.app, though under Leopard I bet the QuickView system will break. I think the main complaint about IE was that you can't actually delete Internet Explorer.exe from your Windows system, and it was a finagle to keep Windows from favoring IE for content. Safari.app can be deleted from a Mac with no effort, because Apple actually separated the web rendering system into a library, like the MS people were supposed to.
You put "better" in quotes because you probably anticipated where the issue is. The OS throttles display updates to the framerate of the display when you run a Cocoa application; this was done to make the drawing to the framebuffer look cleaner and for efficiency reasons (you can read about it here, it's from TFA). If you are building a Cocoa app and want to opt-out of the beam sync, you have to set this option in your Info.plist, which is just a setting built into your deployment (it's really easy, and documented, but they suggest you not do it because it might leave you with a faster-rendering but ugly result). Setting the option in the Info.plist is global for your app, from launch to exit.
WebKit makes use of beam sync on/off, but uses a call into the system to turn it off only at certain times (this is my understanding of Hyatt's explanation). Hyatt, a former Firefox dev himself we might add, himself says this is a hack, and that if you actually expose this functionality to vendors you're totally going to be loading the gun and pointing it at peoples feet.
So what do you do if you're Apple? You can offer people a function that'll turn this efficiency feature on and off, and a few devs might like this, but a ton won't care, and if you do decide to support this, you've gotta make sure it works forever for everybody and perfectly.
Is a pretty big merit in and of itself. It's important not to construct a whole value system around openness without considering that; software is a tool, not some form of moral action.
iPhones aren't vert extensible, it is true, but consumers don't seem to mind. I think the lesson of the iPhone in this regard is that Java on cellphones isn't really a platform for development as much as it is a way for the cellphone manufacturers to offload their own work on other developers. Want a good web browser or stock ticker or weather widget for your cellphone? When the market asked for these things Nokia and Sony and Moto etc. stuck a JVM into their phones and said "Not our problem!" Apple went to the trouble of making high-quality apps/tools and putting them in the box with the phone, and people seem to prefer having the complete widget instead of having the "choice" to go out and download crap. Having to think about what vendors and software I wanna run on my cellphone, just for me personally, and I wager for a lot of consumers, is sortof a choice overload.
Which is not to say I won't appreciate the SDK when it comes out (I've been missing my old Palm timecode calculator), I just don't think cellphones sell on the virtues of their "platform" as much as sell on their "out-of-box experience." And Apple provides the best out-of-box experience, hands down.
...I believe the Alan Parson's project was some kind of hovercraft...
In The Dilbert Future, Scott Adams suggested the logical consummation of this, and really the most complelling way of harnessing "stupidity for clean power(tm)".
The proposal is pretty ingenious: First, you build a bunch of large hamster-wheel type contraptions in front of gas stations and convenience stores. The energy generated by people running in the wheels is hooked either to the grid or electrolysis for Hydrogen production. Then, you offer a 10 free lottery tickets per every 15 minutes in the wheel.
Just a nit... Professionals use nothing approaching betamax. They use Betacam SP and Digital Betacam; the electronics and recorded format are different, Betacam is a component format compared to Betamax's composite format, the tape speeds are different, etc. Really the only things the two formats share is the physical format of the cassette box, and the word "Beta" somewhere in the name.
It's an interesting scenario, but I'm highly doubtful the Iraq War itself will go south in the next 12 months, mainly because the expectations are so low that anything short of a holocaust is considered progress. Also, if Paul did become the candidate, the party would instantly be split into pro-war/anti-war camps, with the presidential candidate essentially running on a contrary platform to the senate and house candidates, and Paul has demonstrated he isn't afraid of attacking them on that point. Republicans know that as long as they show a united pro-war, pro-surge, pro-invasion face, they never have to answer questions about the invasion, since they argue from the frame of "Saddam the Butcher," "Gathering Threat," "WMD," "Purple fingers," etc. (admittedly emotional, but it makes the war an issue of moral imperitives and "honor".) Paul approaches the issue from the frame of "National self-interest," and "prudence" (far more rational, but objectively indistinguishable from the language used to attack Republicans for the last 5 years). If the Republicans allow the frame to get away from them, everyone who supported it will be irretrievably compromised, and they'll lose a whole generation of politicians.
As it is it's pretty dubious that the Republican leadership would allow a "menshevik uprising" of Paul supporters enough sway to actually overrule the two candidates who together on a ticket would at least represent a majority of the Republican voter opinion.If you're still running an unpatched mail server, please send an email to ferdinand@habsburg.at and tell him not to visit Sarajevo in 4 years. Just trust me on this one.
Jim Mallon was the operations manager of KTMA when the show was on the air, so it's a distinct possibility. He was the Weird Al to Joel's Stan Spidowsky.
talk.origins is happy to relieve you of this particular doubt.
The second law of thermodynamics states, for any closed system not in equilibrium the entropy over time must increase. Living beings are not closed systems, though, and neither are the abiotic processes that generate organic materials. The entropy in a part of a system can always go down as long as entropy in other parts of the system go up. So, assemblies of molecules in water can lose entropy as long as some other part of the system they interact with (the water they float in, or the air above it) gain enough entropy to offset the loss. The Sun is constantly raining useable energy into the systems on Earth, so there's constantly a temperature differential to drive processes and remove entropy from earthly systems; the entropy doesn't disappear of course, the entropy of the Sun merely goes up covering the balance in the other part of the system, the Earth.
Here's a link explaining the parent for all you c|net "reporters" and NYT technology stringers who read slashdot. You know who you are.
I'll bet one of the reasons they're putting it out there is the hope that a few kind souls with some time on their hands will submit some patches and work out the kinks; given the amount of interest there is for this to be working on Mac OS X -- and there's a lot.
Maybe between Apple, some Sun devs on their breaks and Amit Singh they can have this all wrapped up in a few months :)
Academic question: What would have happened if MS had open sourced WinFS? Even under their PL, there would probably have been enough interest among enough dedicated nerds to... who knows.
He's probably not in engineering, development or QA either. He's probably the intern. :)
The ocean has a teency screen and the web browser is an atrocity compared to MobileSafari; the iphone also does IMAP email and will do it over SSL. The iphone even its present closed form is simply more general-purpose than the Ocean.
In the end Helio is just another MVNO lifestyle cellphone brand, like Boost or Voce, that attempts to sell "premium content" through branding tie-ins and locked down applications (a la "myspace integration", instead of just letting me go to myspace.com without enduring an awful web browser), basically taking the basic/premium cable company pricing model and applying it to wireless.
Don't you remember Alberto Gonzalez and Karl Rove getting into a lot of trouble for this? It isn't just politically embarrassing, it's quite illegal.
It violates 5 USC 2302(b), which applies to all employers, government or not, which the EEOC paraphrases as:
At Wed Jan 9 00:40:29 UTC 2008:
Screw the lightning, I'm talking wind gusts. The USN lost the Akron and Macon to structural failures do to wind, forgetting lightning.
Two little notes...
That's right, you heard it here first-- Air pirates.
For those of you guys using Macs and OSX for security work, is my perception skewed? Is there some simple way to get the good apps (nmap, wireshark, etc) working under OSX that I've missed?
I use both under OSX, you're doing it the right way, but you might not be going about getting the packages in the easiest way possible. Did you install the developer tools off the DVD? That's the best way to get GCC and the GNU build system tools. Once you have that you can use the darwinports package manager to get either, but if the versions on port are too old, it's just as easy to download the source tarball of what you need and do the old configure; make; sudo make install.
Your scheme doesn't address the analogue hole, nor how you securely get the public keys to the signing stage without the user being able to intercept them between his NIC and the signing chip.
Getting their data into 1NF is left as an exercise to the reader.
THESE people launch the space shuttle? The reason they don't build a fifth one is because their inventory database has the columns:
Name,SKU, QtyShuttle1, QtyShuttle2 , QtyShuttle3 , QtyShuttle4