Patrick Lo could use some lessons in this area. While some of what he says may be judged to be relevant or possibly insightful, the way he says it is incredibly insensitive. When someone is suffering ill health, to say "Once Steve Jobs goes away, which is probably not far away, then Apple will have to make a strategic decision on whether to open up the platform" is cruel.
Here's a snippet from a New York Times article, explaining that the 70 MPG number was achieved using the Japanese driving cycle, and that US customers can expect significantly less.
4:51 p.m. | Updated An earlier version of this post said the next Mazda 2 would get 70 miles per gallon. A Mazda spokesman clarified late on Thursday that the result was achieved from the Japanese test cycle. Fuel economy numbers will be lower in the United States....
The Mazda release said the car would achieve 70 miles per gallon, but that number was based on the Japanese test cycle, meaning American mileage would be lower. A 15 percent increase from the existing Mazda 2 would result in a combined 37 m.p.g. (For comparison, the Toyota Prius, which gets a combined 50 m.p.g. from the Environmental Protection Agency, achieves 89 m.p.g. in the Japanese test.)
I wasn't suggesting injecting liquid nitrogen into the well, but rather cooling the wellhead with it in to facilitate the formation of the same hydrate crystals that plugged the containment dome. I know there's a large flow rate of crude oil through the "pipe" but media reports indicate that it's already highly viscous due to the low temperatures at that depth. It doesn't seem beyond the capabilities of the nation that put men on the moon to deliver a sufficient quantity of liquid nitrogen to slow, then stop the flow of oil through the wellhead.
If the cold temperatures and static pressure caused the containment dome's outlet to plug, why not use liquid nitrogen to cool the leaking wellhead to cause it to plug with hydrates?
From the CBC website:...
a "large volume of hydrates," material similar to ice crystals, has formed inside the box, Suttles said Saturday.
The hydrates — which are formed when gas combines with water under certain pressure and temperatures — have plugged an area at the top of the dome's interior.
Exactly. Using PuTTY and VNC you can access your Mac even through corporate firewalls, and with a dynamic IP address, provided you've set up a dynamic DNS service like DynDNS.
Lumpy, don't forget that when non-US countries state their fuel economy they are using non-US gallons. So if you convert their stated "MPG" to US gallons you lose 20%
http://www.google.com/search?q=convert+50+miles+per+imperial+gallon+to+miles+per+US+gallon
A far better way of getting people to understand the true cost of their purchase decisions would be to go to a consumption model like many non-US countries already have. (See Frank Markus' editorial at http://www.motortrend.com/features/editorial112_0605_technologue_fuel_economy/index.html, where he insightfully states the following)
"consider changing from "miles per gallon" to "gallons per 1000 miles." Doing so would mean that, when we apply the EPA's latest correction, instead of a 20-mpg rating dropping slightly to 18, it would soar from 44 to an alarming 57 gallons per 1000 miles. The recovering petroholic's Prius, by contrast, will go from 15 to 21 gptm. That would be a more positive affirmation than a plunge in economy from 60 to 48 mpg would be. Want us to lower our consumption? Let's start measuring it."
Yup - why anybody would deposit more than $100k in a bank account is beyond me.
This may be obvious, but the FDIC insured limit of $100,000 is applied to the entire financial institution, not each account, and it applies to the assets of your whole family, not each individual family member. An elderly friend of the family has her money spread out over dozens of different banks, and when there is a merger she is very diligent about rebalancing her accounts to stay below $100,000 per institution.
Of course they knew the price would drop, but a 33% price drop in less than 70 days is both more of a discount and sooner than usual, if not unprecedented. Some of the open letters to Steve Jobs say exactly that.
"Microsoft has stated that the scheduled release date for worldwide availability is January 30, 2007.[2] These release dates come more than five years after the release of its predecessor, Windows XP, making it the longest time span between major releases of Windows."
Just like cell-phone records are now commercially available, it's probably only a matter of time before someone starts selling databases that cross-reference IP addresses to online account aliases.
Speaking of complexity causing headaches for users, consider BMW's iDrive interface.
Almost everybody who's ever used this human-machine interface has concluded that it is needlessly complex and difficult to use.
BMW - The Ultimate Driving Machine...for driving you crazy perhaps.
BlueCup seems to have forgotten to give credit to The Wall Street Journal for the information presented in this post.
Wall Street Journal Online subscribers can read the complete article here.
A personal computer (PC) is usually a microcomputer whose price, size, and capabilities make it suitable for personal usage. The term was popularized by Apple Computer with the Apple II in the late-1970s and early-1980s, and afterwards by IBM with the IBM PC. (emphasis added)
The term wasn't universally banned from use on Apple computers just because non-Apple users adopted it at some point.
And since the new Apple machines use Intel processors and can run Windows, one could argue that they would still be "PC's" even if your stricter definition of the acronym is used.
As far as the information being speculative, I agree, but the information posted on AppleInsider has been remarkably accurate with regard to the iMac, iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle, iPod Video, MacBook Pro, and MacBook. The only way to know for sure is to attend WWDC or watch the webcast when it becomes available.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I've yet to hear a valid argument on the application of the term to Apple's personal computers.
And, by the way, my original reply was intended more for humor. I'm guessing that it got modded up because it tickled someone's sense of humor.
Agreed. I just wanted to point out the discrepancy for the sake of accuracy. Here's hoping that the Mac Pro will debut with the "Woodcrest" variant of the Core 2 Duo Extreme as reportedhere.
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Just install a cell phone blocker. Problem solved. I'm sure the prison system can arrange an FCC exemption to use this. http://www.dealextreme.com/p/cell-phone-signal-blocker-40m-range-mountable-7709
Patrick Lo could use some lessons in this area. While some of what he says may be judged to be relevant or possibly insightful, the way he says it is incredibly insensitive. When someone is suffering ill health, to say "Once Steve Jobs goes away, which is probably not far away, then Apple will have to make a strategic decision on whether to open up the platform" is cruel.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1230&bih=840&q=convert+313+miles+per+uk+gallon+to+miles+per+us+gallon&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
Of course they support this. How else are they going to get their streaming child porn if their ISP throttles their bandwidth?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2hwnGrn3go (Especially interesting if you enable Closed Captioning and use the "translate captions" beta feature)
Here's a snippet from a New York Times article, explaining that the 70 MPG number was achieved using the Japanese driving cycle, and that US customers can expect significantly less. 4:51 p.m. | Updated An earlier version of this post said the next Mazda 2 would get 70 miles per gallon. A Mazda spokesman clarified late on Thursday that the result was achieved from the Japanese test cycle. Fuel economy numbers will be lower in the United States. ...
The Mazda release said the car would achieve 70 miles per gallon, but that number was based on the Japanese test cycle, meaning American mileage would be lower. A 15 percent increase from the existing Mazda 2 would result in a combined 37 m.p.g. (For comparison, the Toyota Prius, which gets a combined 50 m.p.g. from the Environmental Protection Agency, achieves 89 m.p.g. in the Japanese test.)
Per the article, the walls are 8 inches thick, not 18 as the article summary suggests.
So, NELL is going to develop a taste for p0rn sometime very soon?
I wasn't suggesting injecting liquid nitrogen into the well, but rather cooling the wellhead with it in to facilitate the formation of the same hydrate crystals that plugged the containment dome. I know there's a large flow rate of crude oil through the "pipe" but media reports indicate that it's already highly viscous due to the low temperatures at that depth. It doesn't seem beyond the capabilities of the nation that put men on the moon to deliver a sufficient quantity of liquid nitrogen to slow, then stop the flow of oil through the wellhead.
If the cold temperatures and static pressure caused the containment dome's outlet to plug, why not use liquid nitrogen to cool the leaking wellhead to cause it to plug with hydrates? From the CBC website: ...
a "large volume of hydrates," material similar to ice crystals, has formed inside the box, Suttles said Saturday.
The hydrates — which are formed when gas combines with water under certain pressure and temperatures — have plugged an area at the top of the dome's interior.
What better place to use the Ultra Premium Denon Link Cable? Comments here please.
Exactly. Using PuTTY and VNC you can access your Mac even through corporate firewalls, and with a dynamic IP address, provided you've set up a dynamic DNS service like DynDNS.
Lumpy, don't forget that when non-US countries state their fuel economy they are using non-US gallons. So if you convert their stated "MPG" to US gallons you lose 20% http://www.google.com/search?q=convert+50+miles+per+imperial+gallon+to+miles+per+US+gallon A far better way of getting people to understand the true cost of their purchase decisions would be to go to a consumption model like many non-US countries already have. (See Frank Markus' editorial at http://www.motortrend.com/features/editorial112_0605_technologue_fuel_economy/index.html, where he insightfully states the following) "consider changing from "miles per gallon" to "gallons per 1000 miles." Doing so would mean that, when we apply the EPA's latest correction, instead of a 20-mpg rating dropping slightly to 18, it would soar from 44 to an alarming 57 gallons per 1000 miles. The recovering petroholic's Prius, by contrast, will go from 15 to 21 gptm. That would be a more positive affirmation than a plunge in economy from 60 to 48 mpg would be. Want us to lower our consumption? Let's start measuring it."
This may be obvious, but the FDIC insured limit of $100,000 is applied to the entire financial institution, not each account, and it applies to the assets of your whole family, not each individual family member. An elderly friend of the family has her money spread out over dozens of different banks, and when there is a merger she is very diligent about rebalancing her accounts to stay below $100,000 per institution.
"The FDIC protects you against the loss of your insured deposits in the unlikely event that an FDIC-Insured Institution fails. If you or your family's deposit accounts at one FDIC-Insured Institution total $100,000 or less, your deposits are fully insured."
Of course they knew the price would drop, but a 33% price drop in less than 70 days is both more of a discount and sooner than usual, if not unprecedented. Some of the open letters to Steve Jobs say exactly that.
I might update this Wikipedia article to reflect NASA's decision to NOT repair Endeavor's heat shield, just to see what WikiScanner shows for IP address 198.137.240.100 next week.
"They first announced it to people over a year ago, so they've probably been working on it for at least two years. That is not early development."
... unless you're Microsoft and you're on the Vista development team. Then two years WOULD be early development.
From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_vista:
"Microsoft has stated that the scheduled release date for worldwide availability is January 30, 2007.[2] These release dates come more than five years after the release of its predecessor, Windows XP, making it the longest time span between major releases of Windows."
I bet book orders are pouring in now that Slashdot ran this story.
Does Slashdot at least get pay-per-click referrals?
Isn't it plausible that your "anonymous" Hotmail accounts / multiple profiles could be cross-referenced by your IP address? Since ISP records are increasingly making their way into the public domain, such cross-referencing would seem inevitable.
Just like cell-phone records are now commercially available, it's probably only a matter of time before someone starts selling databases that cross-reference IP addresses to online account aliases.
Speaking of complexity causing headaches for users, consider BMW's iDrive interface. Almost everybody who's ever used this human-machine interface has concluded that it is needlessly complex and difficult to use. BMW - The Ultimate Driving Machine...for driving you crazy perhaps.
Sorry, I just realized that the Northwest Florida Daily News article gives credit to The Wall Street Journal. Apologies to BlueCup.
BlueCup seems to have forgotten to give credit to The Wall Street Journal for the information presented in this post. Wall Street Journal Online subscribers can read the complete article here.
Isn't a propositional phrase something like, "will you marry me?"
Hmmm... according to Wikipedia:
A personal computer (PC) is usually a microcomputer whose price, size, and capabilities make it suitable for personal usage. The term was popularized by Apple Computer with the Apple II in the late-1970s and early-1980s, and afterwards by IBM with the IBM PC. (emphasis added)
The term wasn't universally banned from use on Apple computers just because non-Apple users adopted it at some point.
And since the new Apple machines use Intel processors and can run Windows, one could argue that they would still be "PC's" even if your stricter definition of the acronym is used.
As far as the information being speculative, I agree, but the information posted on AppleInsider has been remarkably accurate with regard to the iMac, iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle, iPod Video, MacBook Pro, and MacBook. The only way to know for sure is to attend WWDC or watch the webcast when it becomes available.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I've yet to hear a valid argument on the application of the term to Apple's personal computers.
And, by the way, my original reply was intended more for humor. I'm guessing that it got modded up because it tickled someone's sense of humor.
Sorry if I offended anyone.
Agreed. I just wanted to point out the discrepancy for the sake of accuracy. Here's hoping that the Mac Pro will debut with the "Woodcrest" variant of the Core 2 Duo Extreme as reportedhere.