Apple hasn't ever before designed and sold a product which is bought as a gift more often than as a necessity. Apple doesn't publish and you'll never find a statistic that tracks it, but as long as the competition views the iPod as technology - iPods will continue to find their way onto wishlists.
Legal precedents here will establish the US Gov't privacy law for citizens rights with implications for national security where financial markets are involved.
There will become an increasingly uncomfortable distinction without a difference between HP and the US gov't practices wrt: privacy violations in the name of national security.
the nations farmsteads through out the post-WW boom years. Cheap REC (rural elec co-ops) hooked up American water pumps and barns and by the 70's wind-energy was irrelevent.
A simple alternator driven by a windmill (back then) essentially provided reliable service. The requirement for wind energy is a monitor to turn it on when the wind blows, and off when it blows stink.
Today's aggregation on windfarms makes it irrelevent for all but the most remote locations to blow their own juice.
most importantly abstracts functionality - over form. Porting context over content changes the relationship between user and device from slave/master to client/server.
The First one is the age olde "frame problem". This is IT taking a perfectly good database and expecting it to be an even better recommendation system.
Airlines hit the same wall decades ago. They had databases of flights, seats and routes - all excellent. But they really wanted a reservation system based upon ticketing against that database. They finally recognized that nothing less than a mainframe was needed.
The answers you get is all in how you frame the question. Starting with "database and PC" is not going to get to recommendation system without abandoning inherent limits within IT's reference frame.
The second one is CCC Trucking Co solution. Sam owned Crete Carrier Co trucking. Sam owned a significant segment of his market ~50% but wanted to know *how* to grow to 80% of the market for his company. Sam's soluton was simple... he grew 1% at a time, buying smaller truckline competitors. 1% here, 3% there and soon CCC had real marketshare.
Netflix need only implement 1 and 2% solutions. Pretty soon they have a real 10% solution.
I've been around since 1984 with the birth of Lisa, then Mac, then NeXT and now *Pod. At every instance of manufacturing, design drove process. Manufacturing computers is the nastiest most resource polluting industries on the planet. The very last accusation Greenpeace can find refuge is in holding Apple products to a higher standard than governmental agencies, its competitor's practices and those of the manufacturing industry.
My close friend and Greenpeace founder will have nothing to do with what become of his protest against logging practices in Canada for Greenpeace strongarm tactics.
WhiteHats know more than a BlackHat only from priviledged access. WhiteHats don't know what a BlackHat knows, hence asymetric warfare rules have WhiteHats at a disadvantage from the start.
FTA:: "Customers who throw a disc in their shopping carts spend an average of $75 per trip to the store -- far more than those who don't pick up a DVD."
Walmart's air supply is DVD's, period.
FTA:: "Studios are trying to calculate how much longer DVD sales -- 40% of which go through Wal-Mart -- will be a cornerstone of their business."
Walmart is sucking thin air unless they replace sales lost to Digital downloads.
FTA:: "Studio sources say the rest of the majors (Hollywood studios) are very close to joining Disney in a deal with Apple but are holding off until the end of the key fourth quarter (Xmas), when half of all DVD sales occur."
Walmart is out of air after Xmas.
Walmart is the next Luddite if they don't transition with their customer's, Hollywood and popular culture going over to Digital.
In play are Walmart customer's, who's going to win their Entertainment dollar$ and live off the follow-on patronage represented by that $75.00 shopping basket. I would venture that Amazon is looking pretty good to Walmart right about now. A Bricks&Clicks deal would put Walmart's distribution behind every Amazon click to bring real leverage to the marketplace.
Walmart is a distribution channel and crossmarketing opportunity for Apple to tie-in its brand of product. Hollywood would like a single source of supply on software for consumers to easily obtain their offerings. Hollywood wants the best broker for the customer to make the experience positive and repeat.
The deal here is Apple's proprietary format getting in between the consumer and the content. Walmart doesn't want to have Apple/Disney ransom the format against consumers unless they pony-up the AppleCare Agreement, ULISA Agreement, DMCA Agreement and pay Apple royalty for use of its proprietary licenses.
Job's is going to position Apple, its products, and iTMS service in the broker position abstracted above Walmart, Hollywood and the consumer in exchange for transaction fee. Walmart want's Apple to earn their $.99 or whatever on value-add versus leverage in the channel.
Throwing this "Dead Horse" survey on the table as proof of lost sales is pure posturing. It sand bags progress by staking the false claim that damages are owed in-lieu of evidence that a better franchise could serve the needs of the Industry than the legal CD disc royalty extortion.
Give up the sand bagging. The Flood broke through a long time ago. The RIAA were not there. Your Horse is Dead! Take your "Buggy Whip" franchise with you. The Horse and Buggy days are over.
Apple has formally institued a policy that damage to the case of its electronics is "prima facia" evidence of abuse. Careful engineering, materials selection and design have gone into Apple's product line. There is a reason that scratch resistence, dent proof and plastics with structural integrity are no longer used in casing Apple devices.
Take any product into Apple store for repair that has more than a scratch on the outside case, you will likely be told that the product is out-of-warrantee! Apple will not repair, replace or adjust any product that shows signs of obvious abuse on the exterior case.
Cases, sheaths, covers and bags are your #1 protection of the warrantee rights that come with your Apple product. Failure to invest in adequate protection is at your own risk of repair or replacement of your electronic device.
rolls their own client-side application. At least they have what MICROSOFT engineers think of as *standard* quality client-side software. Pretty clearcut specification failure to omit memory footprint of the client.
Thehe original story begs an answer to the question:
Did Apple fix mach IPC overhead congestion on mulitple cpu's OR
Has Intel accommodated mach overhead in hardware?
As for 8-16 cpu secret servers mythology,:
I bought surplus Intel machines out of Apple's R&D. Yes, they had pre-production CPU's w/o ser nos. and graphics. My experience is that Job's doesn't waste resources on one-off hotrods. He uses everything he sells. He just gets it first and much earlier than you do. Job's sees absolutely no money to be made in the narrow market of 16cpu server machines. He'd rather you just buy 8 or 16 towers and cluster them, ala Virginia Tech
NeXT multiprocessed the guts of OS X on 2-4 processors. The result is that the mach kernel doesn't scale the processors linearly. There isn't the straightline performance boost of adding another processor beyond 4 cores with Mac OS X's mach kernel.
Google is a window into you, your business and your Life. Google the franchise is 'the window' (search, gmail, eblogger, etc...) building it, extending it and having your information pay for it is the revenue model.
The very first day Google moved its servers out of.edu environment no business case existed to cover its costs. Google is information driven. Corporations and gov't pay to sniff your window. You will not pay Google for information. Hence the GoogleOS.
PBS is likely a portion of the hybrid model Google will evolve toward for user generated revenue streams. PBS, a gov't funded enterprise, is off the gov't dole, living comfortably upon donations from various interests. GoogleOS the 'service' ala.mac is what you'll pay for access to run the GoogleOS.app which will likely be free as gmail, eblogger, etc... are free to download.
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Apple hasn't ever before designed and sold a product which is bought as a gift more often than as a necessity. Apple doesn't publish and you'll never find a statistic that tracks it, but as long as the competition views the iPod as technology - iPods will continue to find their way onto wishlists.
Legal precedents here will establish the US Gov't privacy law for citizens rights with implications for national security where financial markets are involved.
There will become an increasingly uncomfortable distinction without a difference between HP and the US gov't practices wrt: privacy violations in the name of national security.
the nations farmsteads through out the post-WW boom years. Cheap REC (rural elec co-ops) hooked up American water pumps and barns and by the 70's wind-energy was irrelevent.
A simple alternator driven by a windmill (back then) essentially provided reliable service. The requirement for wind energy is a monitor to turn it on when the wind blows, and off when it blows stink.
Today's aggregation on windfarms makes it irrelevent for all but the most remote locations to blow their own juice.
/. has no clothes. It's run by ftp uploads on auto-timer drops into the website. What you are seeing is the equivalent of digital radio in text
most importantly abstracts functionality - over form. Porting context over content changes the relationship between user and device from slave/master to client/server.
Bluetooth gets leggs!
Deja vu Netflix!
The First one is the age olde "frame problem". This is IT taking a perfectly good database and expecting it to be an even better recommendation system.
Airlines hit the same wall decades ago. They had databases of flights, seats and routes - all excellent. But they really wanted a reservation system based upon ticketing against that database. They finally recognized that nothing less than a mainframe was needed.
The answers you get is all in how you frame the question. Starting with "database and PC" is not going to get to recommendation system without abandoning inherent limits within IT's reference frame.
The second one is CCC Trucking Co solution. Sam owned Crete Carrier Co trucking. Sam owned a significant segment of his market ~50% but wanted to know *how* to grow to 80% of the market for his company. Sam's soluton was simple... he grew 1% at a time, buying smaller truckline competitors. 1% here, 3% there and soon CCC had real marketshare.
Netflix need only implement 1 and 2% solutions. Pretty soon they have a real 10% solution.
Google are acting the political entity they are complete with foreign policy and juridical independence.
Google is no longer an ongoing enterprise, folks.
I've been around since 1984 with the birth of Lisa, then Mac, then NeXT and now *Pod. At every instance of manufacturing, design drove process. Manufacturing computers is the nastiest most resource polluting industries on the planet. The very last accusation Greenpeace can find refuge is in holding Apple products to a higher standard than governmental agencies, its competitor's practices and those of the manufacturing industry.
My close friend and Greenpeace founder will have nothing to do with what become of his protest against logging practices in Canada for Greenpeace strongarm tactics.
WhiteHats know more than a BlackHat only from priviledged access. WhiteHats don't know what a BlackHat knows, hence asymetric warfare rules have WhiteHats at a disadvantage from the start.
FTA:: "Customers who throw a disc in their shopping carts spend an average of $75 per trip to the store -- far more than those who don't pick up a DVD."
Walmart's air supply is DVD's, period.
FTA:: "Studios are trying to calculate how much longer DVD sales -- 40% of which go through Wal-Mart -- will be a cornerstone of their business."
Walmart is sucking thin air unless they replace sales lost to Digital downloads.
FTA:: "Studio sources say the rest of the majors (Hollywood studios) are very close to joining Disney in a deal with Apple but are holding off until the end of the key fourth quarter (Xmas), when half of all DVD sales occur."
Walmart is out of air after Xmas.
Walmart is the next Luddite if they don't transition with their customer's, Hollywood and popular culture going over to Digital.
In play are Walmart customer's, who's going to win their Entertainment dollar$ and live off the follow-on patronage represented by that $75.00 shopping basket. I would venture that Amazon is looking pretty good to Walmart right about now. A Bricks&Clicks deal would put Walmart's distribution behind every Amazon click to bring real leverage to the marketplace.
Walmart is a distribution channel and crossmarketing opportunity for Apple to tie-in its brand of product. Hollywood would like a single source of supply on software for consumers to easily obtain their offerings. Hollywood wants the best broker for the customer to make the experience positive and repeat.
The deal here is Apple's proprietary format getting in between the consumer and the content. Walmart doesn't want to have Apple/Disney ransom the format against consumers unless they pony-up the AppleCare Agreement, ULISA Agreement, DMCA Agreement and pay Apple royalty for use of its proprietary licenses.
Job's is going to position Apple, its products, and iTMS service in the broker position abstracted above Walmart, Hollywood and the consumer in exchange for transaction fee. Walmart want's Apple to earn their $.99 or whatever on value-add versus leverage in the channel.
for junkies and gamblers.
Its just Entertainment!
Throwing this "Dead Horse" survey on the table as proof of lost sales is pure posturing. It sand bags progress by staking the false claim that damages are owed in-lieu of evidence that a better franchise could serve the needs of the Industry than the legal CD disc royalty extortion.
Give up the sand bagging. The Flood broke through a long time ago. The RIAA were not there. Your Horse is Dead! Take your "Buggy Whip" franchise with you. The Horse and Buggy days are over.
#1 Protective Case for Electronics
Apple has formally institued a policy that damage to the case of its electronics is "prima facia" evidence of abuse. Careful engineering, materials selection and design have gone into Apple's product line. There is a reason that scratch resistence, dent proof and plastics with structural integrity are no longer used in casing Apple devices.
Take any product into Apple store for repair that has more than a scratch on the outside case, you will likely be told that the product is out-of-warrantee! Apple will not repair, replace or adjust any product that shows signs of obvious abuse on the exterior case.
Cases, sheaths, covers and bags are your #1 protection of the warrantee rights that come with your Apple product. Failure to invest in adequate protection is at your own risk of repair or replacement of your electronic device.
rolls their own client-side application. At least they have what MICROSOFT engineers think of as *standard* quality client-side software. Pretty clearcut specification failure to omit memory footprint of the client.
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Great auto analogy mapped onto a chemistry experiment!
"The researchers can now run the hydrogen generator on a 15% solution of borohydride, half-way to their goal of a truly power-packed 30% solution."
Half a solution? Not 10X but would disrupt LiOn market at the promising 10X potential.
Anyone want to explain the difference between this apparent wet technology and LiOn dry storage technology?
Thehe original story begs an answer to the question:
Did Apple fix mach IPC overhead congestion on mulitple cpu's
OR
Has Intel accommodated mach overhead in hardware?
As for 8-16 cpu secret servers mythology,:
I bought surplus Intel machines out of Apple's R&D. Yes, they had pre-production CPU's w/o ser nos. and graphics. My experience is that Job's doesn't waste resources on one-off hotrods. He uses everything he sells. He just gets it first and much earlier than you do. Job's sees absolutely no money to be made in the narrow market of 16cpu server machines. He'd rather you just buy 8 or 16 towers and cluster them, ala Virginia Tech
NeXT multiprocessed the guts of OS X on 2-4 processors. The result is that the mach kernel doesn't scale the processors linearly. There isn't the straightline performance boost of adding another processor beyond 4 cores with Mac OS X's mach kernel.
Calm down...
is a job requirement in Security work.
"Use of non-shielded cable in "secure" communications systems.
This one is a bit ridiculous, and shows his paranoia. "
A professional recognizes the difference between Professional Paranois and the personal affliction variety of paranoia.
Such amatuer archair diagnosis is enough branding evidence to reveal the real insecurity behind a flawed accusation.
Your it!
goes with the Claim.
Precisely because it is impossible to prove a negative.
A website designed to swipe email and contact information demands you surrender your identity.
Lack of documentary papers, academic studies or scientific tests require your suspension of disbelief.
A pithy Shaw quote adds a semblance of authenticity by association.
Honeypot and crackpot!
Don't believe anything you hear and only 1/2 of what you see.
Those photos make for a good story but likely have very little to do with Zune.
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Google is a window into you, your business and your Life. Google the franchise is 'the window' (search, gmail, eblogger, etc...) building it, extending it and having your information pay for it is the revenue model.
.edu environment no business case existed to cover its costs. Google is information driven. Corporations and gov't pay to sniff your window. You will not pay Google for information. Hence the GoogleOS.
.mac is what you'll pay for access to run the GoogleOS.app which will likely be free as gmail, eblogger, etc... are free to download.
The very first day Google moved its servers out of
PBS is likely a portion of the hybrid model Google will evolve toward for user generated revenue streams. PBS, a gov't funded enterprise, is off the gov't dole, living comfortably upon donations from various interests. GoogleOS the 'service' ala