I'm not saying that companies should be worth X times their cash, but the grandparent was claiming that Apple should be worth less than it's cash, which is ridiculous.
I'm a flash developer and I'll be the first to admit that the format has some major drawbacks.
The parent is correct though, there are no viable alternatives to the format. Nothing I know of provides the kinds of experience that flash is capable is. (see this site) Advertising drives the consumer side of the web and advertisers aren't going to move to less interactive or more static mediums. It also doesn't hurt that flash has a 99% penetration.
If there was a better platform with good penetration, while maintaining the ability to build rich interactivity, I'd be the first to jump.
Keeping traffic flowing actually helps emergency vehicles get through more quickly as cars don't get backed up can move out of the way.
http://www.pwmag.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=774&articleID=445482
The Opticom GPS initiates an all-red phase and a green light in the direction of travel only at the request of the vehicle. The green light is initiated far enough in advance to clear out traffic in front of the emergency vehicle. As a result, heavily congested intersections without direct lines of sight are cleared to allow for safer and faster responses by emergency vehicles.
I think if Nintendo was selling them on ebay, they'd garner a lot of ill will from people trying to get Wiis in the Xmas season. Easier to sell under a different name to deflect some of the inevitable bad PR that might come about from Nintendo doing this.
I watched the video and was interested by the response times they graphed at the end. Standard touch screen had lower response times in almost every case. In fact, shift was only more faster in one case.
Sure maybe you might miss a small target the first time with a standard touch screen, but it's not rocket science to try again.
I can see this being useful where targets are very small, and very densely packed on the screen.
The measure will prohibit state implementation of the REAL ID Act, unless the federal government fully funds it and provides stronger protections for the privacy of Washington drivers. The measure (SB 5087) passed both chambers of the legislature with bipartisan support, including an overwhelming 95-2 vote in the House. Senator Mary Margaret Haugen (D-Camano Island) was the bill's prime sponsor, and Senators Dan Swecker (R-Rochester) and Ed Murray (D-Seattle) were cosponsors.
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I remove the plastic wrap by running the edge of the cd along the edge of a counter, and then peeling it off. The white sticker on the top edge is removed by unhinging the front case by prying the bottom tab up, and then rotating the front case overt the top. This allows peeling the whole white sticker away at once.
If you can imagine trying to remove the cd with out tearing the white label sticker, you'll understand how it's done.
What the summary doesn't say is that this method does not enable the GUI. Booting into single user mode works, but unfortunately I'll have to cancel that Dell I ordered.
Sounds like a good idea except for that one time you meet your favorite celeb on the street and want to take a picture... Oops, looks like the phone's battery has juice but you already drained the music/photo/video battery.
You'll be cursing as to why you can't take a picture with the phone battery.
I think this will only be covered by the $14.99 monthly subscription plan. There's no way Msft will pay $1 for every song I've bought on ITMS. I've bought way more songs than microsoft's profit margin.
My Tivo has 60x fast forward... so advertisers will have a 1 in 2 chance of me seeing their single frame! I guess they're the gambling type.
In all reality, the bigger problem is the huge ads they're overlaying at the bottom of the shows I'm watching. They're animated and very distracting, which is the point after all. Today, they're for other shows on the network, but I'm sure they'll soon be for other products.
At many schools materials produced for classes like handouts, tests, etc are property of the department, not the professor. Perhaps the professor doesn't have the right to sell his lectures.
My friend tried to start a business reproducing old tests for study guides. He had the ok from the professors who wrote the tests, but the school demanded such a large cut of the revenue that it wasn't worth his time.
Basically it's like a musician selling his songs on the side and not through his record label.
Did anyone else see the single frame flash of the text www.tivo.com/bluemoon in the video (at 3:58)? I'd guess that Tivo will develop the bluemoon site further and then will find some massive way to publicize the video over the web. If I were them I'd start with Slashdot.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I doubt you're going to own the new versions.
This sounds like a great feature of a subscription music service. "We know none of your ITMS songs will play on our device, so we're happy to scan your iTunes library for purchased music and add the subscription versions of the same to your account automatically! Just keep paying the $12.95 per month to keep them!"
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I'm not saying that companies should be worth X times their cash, but the grandparent was claiming that Apple should be worth less than it's cash, which is ridiculous.
The other reason they're not part of the Dow is because Apple is overvalued by about 30x.
Apple has about 10% of its market cap in the bank as cash. With that said I'd be happy to buy any $20 bills you have in your wallet for $2 each.
Google is already in your toilet.
Farenheight has no basis in anything practical at *any* range. At least Celsius is based around water, which is useful for a number of reasons.
That's not quite true, 0*F to 100*F is pretty much the range humans can survive in without any kind of crazy technology. Makes sense to me.
I'm a flash developer and I'll be the first to admit that the format has some major drawbacks.
The parent is correct though, there are no viable alternatives to the format. Nothing I know of provides the kinds of experience that flash is capable is. (see this site) Advertising drives the consumer side of the web and advertisers aren't going to move to less interactive or more static mediums. It also doesn't hurt that flash has a 99% penetration.
If there was a better platform with good penetration, while maintaining the ability to build rich interactivity, I'd be the first to jump.
http://www.pwmag.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=774&articleID=445482
The Opticom GPS initiates an all-red phase and a green light in the direction of travel only at the request of the vehicle. The green light is initiated far enough in advance to clear out traffic in front of the emergency vehicle. As a result, heavily congested intersections without direct lines of sight are cleared to allow for safer and faster responses by emergency vehicles.
I think if Nintendo was selling them on ebay, they'd garner a lot of ill will from people trying to get Wiis in the Xmas season. Easier to sell under a different name to deflect some of the inevitable bad PR that might come about from Nintendo doing this.
Why doesn't Nintendo set up a dummy company and sell them themselves on ebay?
Sure maybe you might miss a small target the first time with a standard touch screen, but it's not rocket science to try again.
I can see this being useful where targets are very small, and very densely packed on the screen.
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/gen/29426prs20070418.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_examiners#Uni
Anyone care to guess how much this settlement is worth?
I'd agree about desktops, but it's hard to build your own notebook.
I remove the plastic wrap by running the edge of the cd along the edge of a counter, and then peeling it off. The white sticker on the top edge is removed by unhinging the front case by prying the bottom tab up, and then rotating the front case overt the top. This allows peeling the whole white sticker away at once.
If you can imagine trying to remove the cd with out tearing the white label sticker, you'll understand how it's done.
What the summary doesn't say is that this method does not enable the GUI. Booting into single user mode works, but unfortunately I'll have to cancel that Dell I ordered.
Sounds like a good idea except for that one time you meet your favorite celeb on the street and want to take a picture... Oops, looks like the phone's battery has juice but you already drained the music/photo/video battery.
You'll be cursing as to why you can't take a picture with the phone battery.
I think this will only be covered by the $14.99 monthly subscription plan. There's no way Msft will pay $1 for every song I've bought on ITMS. I've bought way more songs than microsoft's profit margin.
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http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/ipod-vendi
I've seen some of the iPod vending machines with the robotic arms. Seems like this is pretty much the same idea in the same locations.
My Tivo has 60x fast forward... so advertisers will have a 1 in 2 chance of me seeing their single frame! I guess they're the gambling type. In all reality, the bigger problem is the huge ads they're overlaying at the bottom of the shows I'm watching. They're animated and very distracting, which is the point after all. Today, they're for other shows on the network, but I'm sure they'll soon be for other products.
At many schools materials produced for classes like handouts, tests, etc are property of the department, not the professor. Perhaps the professor doesn't have the right to sell his lectures.
My friend tried to start a business reproducing old tests for study guides. He had the ok from the professors who wrote the tests, but the school demanded such a large cut of the revenue that it wasn't worth his time.
Basically it's like a musician selling his songs on the side and not through his record label.
Did anyone else see the single frame flash of the text www.tivo.com/bluemoon in the video (at 3:58)? I'd guess that Tivo will develop the bluemoon site further and then will find some massive way to publicize the video over the web. If I were them I'd start with Slashdot.
Also take a look at Gapminder for really awesome displays of data.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I doubt you're going to own the new versions.
This sounds like a great feature of a subscription music service. "We know none of your ITMS songs will play on our device, so we're happy to scan your iTunes library for purchased music and add the subscription versions of the same to your account automatically! Just keep paying the $12.95 per month to keep them!"
Who will be first to spoof the entire iTunes Music Store library onto their own machine?