Except Apple aren't king of the hill any more, they have less than 20% of the smartphone market.
Hmm... your strawman is compelling, but it is difficult to ignore that Apple is the king of the stock market by value, the most valuable brand in the world, and with more than $150B in cash and about that much in projected annual revenue, if they're not yet richer than New Zealand (GDP ~$170B), they will be soon. So even if it is perhaps arguable that they lost some specific market battle, if, the point is overshadowed by the fact that Apple decisively won the war.
Ok... something happened. But I simply can't believe some of the things of which he's accused, nor even if he somehow is a super 1337 hacker right out of the Oracle's apartment in The Matrix, how they expect to prove in a court of law everything they've accused him of in the media. Granted, all 19yr old heterosexual men, without exception, are perverts. So he's guilty of that, at least... but this smacks of a "snow" job to protect the secret life of young women, who I will also have trouble believing are the innocent and pure white angelic virgin saints they are promoted in the media as being. Call me skeptical, but this Smells like Teen Spirit to me.
Don't be so quick to dismiss outsourcing as an option. IMO, its a great idea... but they're doing it all wrong. Domestic, in-house IT has been commoditized, and a reasonable, rational ceiling has been established for all positions. The money spent there is not waste, and not outrageous. Looking in that space to cut jobs to save money won't work. Its the same as saying "those cafeteria workers are sucking up all our profits... let's outsource!" I can't believe anybody actually believes the bull that flows from the top. But if they'd outsource every single executive and upper-management position, including boards of directors, they'd not only save so much money that their stock would skyrocket, pleasing investors, they'd have better educated, more ethical individuals working for far more reasonable salaries doing a much better job driving the company to bigger success in the short and long term. The shareholders need to stand up and demand that they outsource the suits and PHBs, if they have any sense.
Even if the bomb detonated over an empty field it would still have made an impression.
Yes, but not the intended impression. I believe there was some conversation (if not a formal debate) prior to Nagasaki and Hiroshima: Why not bomb Mount Fuji, and spare the lives of millions, and still have the effect of displaying military superiority?
Apparently, merely detonating a bomb is not enough. You need to show beyond any doubt that it is what the enemy thinks it is, and that you have the will to use such a thing. Why two bombs? So there can me no mistaking what it was.
President Truman took up to 250,000 human lives within a very short span, and alone carried that responsibility. No other human that has yet lived has ever caused as much death and destruction. The only thing to compare this to is a massive earthquake and resulting tsunami, a natural disaster.
Regardless how one may feel conserning personal politics and a sitting president, being President is no cake walk. Even if one despises a President, one should always have reverence for the Office, and more respect for the man in it. President Truman was a human tsunami, and all Presidents since have the power to do even more damage than he if necessary.
I disagree, strongly. There is nothing wrong with HTML5. The issue is that it is a non-issue. In physical publishing, the industry has long adopted PDF. It is ideal for printing. PDF is here for the forseeable future. If your book is being pressed, it doesn't matter if it was previously Word, LaTeX, HTML5, chiseled in granite, or you used your finger on a sandy beach and made molds with plaster; it's going to be normalized as PDF before it hits the press.
For digital distribution there is room for all formats, and new formats no one has thought up... there is no purpose in even talking about this. Compose how you feel most comfortable; if physically publishing, send your content to the printers in any form you wish, they will normalize to PDF; make any format available that the digital consumer desires -- the cost of multiple formats is negligible... I imagine a perl or python or ruby script conversion for each format desired is all that is necessary, perhaps with some proofing to iron out wrinkles.
Enjoy your preferred method of composition. But as I pleaded above, please stop evangelizing the need for a solution where no problem exists. HTML5 is not the One True Format, and all others despair in their inferiority. Give consumers the choice of all or any that they wish to use.
This is correct. Mod parent up. No disrespect to HTML5, but it is not going to play any key role for "authorship," (which is, although beside the point, absolutely the incorrect term for the query; "publishing and distribution" is what is meant and what should have been used).
Any writing will be composed however the author feels most comfortable or creative, via pen and paper, dictation, typewriter, or word processor. They're NOT going to compose and tag HTML code for crissakes! I realize some of you supernerds have already, good for you, but no one cares. Write with the method you want to write with, Napoleon. GOSH!
Any written work, or book of images, or any combination of the medium, that is ever intended to be physically printed en mass, is going to be normalized as PDF no matter what the original form of the composition, even if it is a book of mathematics that is typeset in LaTeX, even if it is a small run of physical books and the majority of the tokens are sold as eBooks. If it is going to press, it will be PDF at some point. PDF is fine for digital distribution, but it is not ideal for eReaders, per se, unless the digital consumer desires a digital representation to be identical content to the printed book, in which case PDF is ideal.
IMO, there will be no single winner of the digital formats, because there's plenty of room for all of them, and then some. It's digital... who cares? Let's give the consumer some choice, it will make no significant difference in cost. Publish your book, print and sell the hardbound and softbound editions, and make available PDF, ePub, and Kindle format, Plaintext, DjVu, CHM, HTML, and sure, whiz bang HTML5 with JavaScript and video if you want... and any other versions for the digital consumer. There's no problem. Stop evangelizing the need for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
And are we under any legal obligation to not lie to these people? No we are not.
As a matter of fact, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives us the right to lie.
I was raised not to lie under any circumstances. It was a long time before I realized that this is impossible. Truth is slippery, and in truth, it cannot be fully known. I trudged through life doing my best to be honest in all but the "white lie" social situations. Over time, I realized how gullible I was, as when one is honest, it is a natural assumption that others are honest with you. Eventually, I became more and more aware of how full of shit everyone was. There were degrees, as I found some individuals beyond reproach in their honesty, and some that I could no longer believe a wors they say, My skepticism even spread to the news I was reading, and was reinforced by a certain news agency winning a court case effectively giving them the right to make up news out of thin air.
I still try to stay honest. In honesty, you don't need to remember any extra annotations to your memory. Every lie will create the need for 10 more, and so on. Who has time for that? Some people are exceptional at lying. Some live in their lies. Some live a lie to protect themselves and their family, but are otherwise decent, honest, psychologiclaly healthy individuals.
It is too late for me, I find I am terrible at creating and casting the intentional lie. I do my best, but my efforts to conceal are easily revealed. I am the opposite of a trained operative... I was trained and it is embedded in me to be as honest as I can. More and more I learn the correct way to live is to not engage in lies, to keep my mouth shut and say nothing rather than lie or tell the truth.
Hopefully, it is not too late for you all reading this. Protect yourself. If you need an ethical reason to behave dishonestly, I recommend studying the excellent philosophical works of Sissela Bok, espescially this. In a nutshell, Bok goes into detail how in a society of liars, one must lie to survive.
I wish you luck. But always remember, no one likes liars, and no one tolerates liars, not even liars. Don't get caught.
You're missing out, and there is a lot of confusion in this thread. You don't compile binaries. It doesn't matter if some ancient binary from some dead archetecture no longer runs on a modern system if the source code is still available. Compile from source.
The point is, digital isn't as perfect a solution as everyone seems to assume it is. It's advent in the industry lowered the cost of recording and allowed many records to be made by self-producing artists that would not have otherwise been possible. It has also rid the control room of a lot of engineering headaches... but also introduced some headache causing annoyances. The brilliance of the technology developed by the early engineers, at Telefunken, for instance, is rarely ever matched in the digital audio world. That old tech is still entirely valid, and will be so long as it is hoarded away by greedy collectors, reproduced in modern clones, and zealously sought after by discriminating consumers.
You can't transfer the audio anywhere else without it being lossy.
Very nearly, all art is lossy. A painting fades. Sculpture deteriorates. Dance is never the same twice. The fact that analog tape is lossy, by itself, does not invalidate the medium. Consider that all your backed up digital data is one good EMP or massive solar flare away from being forever irretrievable.
Butch Vig produced Nevermind. You can easily tell it's Butch Vig by listening to Smashing Pumpkin's Siamese Dream, which Vig also produced. Perhaps you're thinking of In Utero.
He screwed up the ability of the nuclear industry to move to safer, clean technologies, effectively trapping the US into 1950's light water reactors.
Your facts are in error. You are aware that President Carter is a nuclear engineer? He knew what he was doing. In actuality, whether by greed, negligence, or incompetence, it was the nuclear/energy industry itself that shit its own bed. President Carter merely delivered them the news of this.
While I admire Mr. Gates immensely, I also pity him... such a success, yet always in living in the shadow of Steve. Both mere mortal men, one an ego-maniac with unbridled drive, and the other that is all too human and owes it all to his mother's promiscuity, and one very clever idea (licensing). While Steve failed time and again, and through sheer will was able to overcome adversity to turn his tiny creation into the largest richest company the world has ever known, Bill leveraged his initial conditions to maintain a notable status quo. What is saddest of all, however, is that Bill has your love and doesn't value it... he just wants to be loved by those that loved Steve.
But I'm also aware without government subsidies, it's not economically viable. On the large scale.
Interestingly, when you account for all the R&D government monies spent in nuclear development, nuclear power is far less economically viable than solar. Only because of the massive amounts spent on research and development for the BOMB during WWII are we able to now have affordable nuclear power. IF ONLY solar power could be used offensively... imagine how cheap solar power would get!
Except that it has NOTHING to do with OS X security. This is all Oracle software that has the issue, software that Apple no longer distributes nor supports. If you don't run Oracle software, you won't be affected. Interestingly, even if you do have the software installed, and it isn't used after 31 days, OS X automatically disables it.
Again, this has zero to do with OS X security. This is all about end user installed software, provided and supported by Oracle.
Hmm... weird... another dualist. Do you own your body? Then, you can sell or give your body away... and let's say you do... what is left? Where are YOU?
I look at it another way. I am my body, my body is me, thus, my genes are me as well.
Have you ever tried installing Windows... and just let the machine sit there, never using it? Even with no one ever using it, over time, the installation still rots. Even if you never used it, in a few short months, it will be unusable anyway. I think far and away the vendor that matches the requirements best is Microsoft. Although admittedly, the strategy of deploying something that is already broken (call it auto-self-destruct rather than merely self-destruct) seems to overshoot DARPA's goal.
What are we going to do in the Spring? I think there may have been some oversight. The new end of the world is Sunday, March 10, 2013, when we set the Doomsday Clock an hour ahead to preserve daylight.
Slashdot Mirror
So the fusion energy amounts to a few percent of the energy in the laser pulse (and much less if you account for the inefficiency of the laser).
The estimates become even more dubious when you account for all the energy expended training, feeding and housing the sharks.
Except Apple aren't king of the hill any more, they have less than 20% of the smartphone market.
Hmm... your strawman is compelling, but it is difficult to ignore that Apple is the king of the stock market by value, the most valuable brand in the world, and with more than $150B in cash and about that much in projected annual revenue, if they're not yet richer than New Zealand (GDP ~$170B), they will be soon. So even if it is perhaps arguable that they lost some specific market battle, if, the point is overshadowed by the fact that Apple decisively won the war.
Ok... something happened. But I simply can't believe some of the things of which he's accused, nor even if he somehow is a super 1337 hacker right out of the Oracle's apartment in The Matrix, how they expect to prove in a court of law everything they've accused him of in the media. Granted, all 19yr old heterosexual men, without exception, are perverts. So he's guilty of that, at least... but this smacks of a "snow" job to protect the secret life of young women, who I will also have trouble believing are the innocent and pure white angelic virgin saints they are promoted in the media as being. Call me skeptical, but this Smells like Teen Spirit to me.
Am I the only one that thinks this event is a little creepy?
Don't be so quick to dismiss outsourcing as an option. IMO, its a great idea... but they're doing it all wrong. Domestic, in-house IT has been commoditized, and a reasonable, rational ceiling has been established for all positions. The money spent there is not waste, and not outrageous. Looking in that space to cut jobs to save money won't work. Its the same as saying "those cafeteria workers are sucking up all our profits... let's outsource!" I can't believe anybody actually believes the bull that flows from the top. But if they'd outsource every single executive and upper-management position, including boards of directors, they'd not only save so much money that their stock would skyrocket, pleasing investors, they'd have better educated, more ethical individuals working for far more reasonable salaries doing a much better job driving the company to bigger success in the short and long term. The shareholders need to stand up and demand that they outsource the suits and PHBs, if they have any sense.
Even if the bomb detonated over an empty field it would still have made an impression.
Yes, but not the intended impression. I believe there was some conversation (if not a formal debate) prior to Nagasaki and Hiroshima: Why not bomb Mount Fuji, and spare the lives of millions, and still have the effect of displaying military superiority?
Apparently, merely detonating a bomb is not enough. You need to show beyond any doubt that it is what the enemy thinks it is, and that you have the will to use such a thing. Why two bombs? So there can me no mistaking what it was.
President Truman took up to 250,000 human lives within a very short span, and alone carried that responsibility. No other human that has yet lived has ever caused as much death and destruction. The only thing to compare this to is a massive earthquake and resulting tsunami, a natural disaster.
Regardless how one may feel conserning personal politics and a sitting president, being President is no cake walk. Even if one despises a President, one should always have reverence for the Office, and more respect for the man in it. President Truman was a human tsunami, and all Presidents since have the power to do even more damage than he if necessary.
I disagree, strongly. There is nothing wrong with HTML5. The issue is that it is a non-issue . In physical publishing, the industry has long adopted PDF. It is ideal for printing. PDF is here for the forseeable future. If your book is being pressed, it doesn't matter if it was previously Word, LaTeX, HTML5, chiseled in granite, or you used your finger on a sandy beach and made molds with plaster; it's going to be normalized as PDF before it hits the press.
For digital distribution there is room for all formats, and new formats no one has thought up... there is no purpose in even talking about this. Compose how you feel most comfortable; if physically publishing, send your content to the printers in any form you wish, they will normalize to PDF; make any format available that the digital consumer desires -- the cost of multiple formats is negligible... I imagine a perl or python or ruby script conversion for each format desired is all that is necessary, perhaps with some proofing to iron out wrinkles.
Enjoy your preferred method of composition. But as I pleaded above, please stop evangelizing the need for a solution where no problem exists. HTML5 is not the One True Format, and all others despair in their inferiority. Give consumers the choice of all or any that they wish to use.
No.
This is correct. Mod parent up. No disrespect to HTML5, but it is not going to play any key role for "authorship," (which is, although beside the point, absolutely the incorrect term for the query; "publishing and distribution" is what is meant and what should have been used).
Any writing will be composed however the author feels most comfortable or creative, via pen and paper, dictation, typewriter, or word processor. They're NOT going to compose and tag HTML code for crissakes! I realize some of you supernerds have already, good for you, but no one cares. Write with the method you want to write with, Napoleon. GOSH!
Any written work, or book of images, or any combination of the medium, that is ever intended to be physically printed en mass, is going to be normalized as PDF no matter what the original form of the composition, even if it is a book of mathematics that is typeset in LaTeX, even if it is a small run of physical books and the majority of the tokens are sold as eBooks. If it is going to press, it will be PDF at some point. PDF is fine for digital distribution, but it is not ideal for eReaders, per se, unless the digital consumer desires a digital representation to be identical content to the printed book, in which case PDF is ideal.
IMO, there will be no single winner of the digital formats, because there's plenty of room for all of them, and then some. It's digital... who cares? Let's give the consumer some choice, it will make no significant difference in cost. Publish your book, print and sell the hardbound and softbound editions, and make available PDF, ePub, and Kindle format, Plaintext, DjVu, CHM, HTML, and sure, whiz bang HTML5 with JavaScript and video if you want... and any other versions for the digital consumer. There's no problem. Stop evangelizing the need for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
And are we under any legal obligation to not lie to these people? No we are not.
As a matter of fact, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives us the right to lie.
I was raised not to lie under any circumstances. It was a long time before I realized that this is impossible. Truth is slippery, and in truth, it cannot be fully known. I trudged through life doing my best to be honest in all but the "white lie" social situations. Over time, I realized how gullible I was, as when one is honest, it is a natural assumption that others are honest with you. Eventually, I became more and more aware of how full of shit everyone was. There were degrees, as I found some individuals beyond reproach in their honesty, and some that I could no longer believe a wors they say, My skepticism even spread to the news I was reading, and was reinforced by a certain news agency winning a court case effectively giving them the right to make up news out of thin air.
I still try to stay honest. In honesty, you don't need to remember any extra annotations to your memory. Every lie will create the need for 10 more, and so on. Who has time for that? Some people are exceptional at lying. Some live in their lies. Some live a lie to protect themselves and their family, but are otherwise decent, honest, psychologiclaly healthy individuals.
It is too late for me, I find I am terrible at creating and casting the intentional lie. I do my best, but my efforts to conceal are easily revealed. I am the opposite of a trained operative... I was trained and it is embedded in me to be as honest as I can. More and more I learn the correct way to live is to not engage in lies, to keep my mouth shut and say nothing rather than lie or tell the truth.
Hopefully, it is not too late for you all reading this. Protect yourself. If you need an ethical reason to behave dishonestly, I recommend studying the excellent philosophical works of Sissela Bok, espescially this. In a nutshell, Bok goes into detail how in a society of liars, one must lie to survive.
I wish you luck. But always remember, no one likes liars, and no one tolerates liars, not even liars. Don't get caught.
You're missing out, and there is a lot of confusion in this thread. You don't compile binaries. It doesn't matter if some ancient binary from some dead archetecture no longer runs on a modern system if the source code is still available. Compile from source.
make install
not war
If you're compiling binaries, you're doing it wrong.
The point is, digital isn't as perfect a solution as everyone seems to assume it is. It's advent in the industry lowered the cost of recording and allowed many records to be made by self-producing artists that would not have otherwise been possible. It has also rid the control room of a lot of engineering headaches... but also introduced some headache causing annoyances. The brilliance of the technology developed by the early engineers, at Telefunken, for instance, is rarely ever matched in the digital audio world. That old tech is still entirely valid, and will be so long as it is hoarded away by greedy collectors, reproduced in modern clones, and zealously sought after by discriminating consumers.
You can't transfer the audio anywhere else without it being lossy.
Very nearly, all art is lossy. A painting fades. Sculpture deteriorates. Dance is never the same twice. The fact that analog tape is lossy, by itself, does not invalidate the medium. Consider that all your backed up digital data is one good EMP or massive solar flare away from being forever irretrievable.
Butch Vig produced Nevermind. You can easily tell it's Butch Vig by listening to Smashing Pumpkin's Siamese Dream, which Vig also produced. Perhaps you're thinking of In Utero.
He screwed up the ability of the nuclear industry to move to safer, clean technologies, effectively trapping the US into 1950's light water reactors.
Your facts are in error. You are aware that President Carter is a nuclear engineer? He knew what he was doing. In actuality, whether by greed, negligence, or incompetence, it was the nuclear/energy industry itself that shit its own bed. President Carter merely delivered them the news of this.
While I admire Mr. Gates immensely, I also pity him... such a success, yet always in living in the shadow of Steve. Both mere mortal men, one an ego-maniac with unbridled drive, and the other that is all too human and owes it all to his mother's promiscuity, and one very clever idea (licensing). While Steve failed time and again, and through sheer will was able to overcome adversity to turn his tiny creation into the largest richest company the world has ever known, Bill leveraged his initial conditions to maintain a notable status quo. What is saddest of all, however, is that Bill has your love and doesn't value it... he just wants to be loved by those that loved Steve.
But I'm also aware without government subsidies, it's not economically viable. On the large scale.
Interestingly, when you account for all the R&D government monies spent in nuclear development, nuclear power is far less economically viable than solar. Only because of the massive amounts spent on research and development for the BOMB during WWII are we able to now have affordable nuclear power. IF ONLY solar power could be used offensively... imagine how cheap solar power would get!
The Final Cut
the idea has been explored in depth
Except that it has NOTHING to do with OS X security. This is all Oracle software that has the issue, software that Apple no longer distributes nor supports. If you don't run Oracle software, you won't be affected. Interestingly, even if you do have the software installed, and it isn't used after 31 days, OS X automatically disables it.
Again, this has zero to do with OS X security. This is all about end user installed software, provided and supported by Oracle.
Bye-bye...
So I sez to him... The real way
that it should be done is to...
There is only one person who owns my genes: me.
Hmm... weird... another dualist. Do you own your body? Then, you can sell or give your body away... and let's say you do... what is left? Where are YOU?
I look at it another way. I am my body, my body is me, thus, my genes are me as well.
Yes. Greed kills people.
Awesome. Just submitted my patent on death. When awarded, I'm setting up shop in East Texas, and I'm going after all infringers.
I'm not taking any chances. I'm repartitioning and reformatting the Internet, wiping 37 times with random 1's and 0's
Have you ever tried installing Windows... and just let the machine sit there, never using it? Even with no one ever using it, over time, the installation still rots. Even if you never used it, in a few short months, it will be unusable anyway. I think far and away the vendor that matches the requirements best is Microsoft. Although admittedly, the strategy of deploying something that is already broken (call it auto-self-destruct rather than merely self-destruct) seems to overshoot DARPA's goal.
What are we going to do in the Spring? I think there may have been some oversight. The new end of the world is Sunday, March 10, 2013, when we set the Doomsday Clock an hour ahead to preserve daylight.