The Mac OS is 90% of the experience of owning a Mac, and having the hardware is the other 10%. And what's the point of having a server that's also pushing a GUI?
Colocate a Linux server, which is almost made to be administered remotely. Macs are made to be seen, used, and not heard. Unless you're running Garageband or iTunes.
Domain Name - $15 per year
Web Hosting with 3GB of space, PHP, MySQL, mod_perl, CGI and unlimited email addresses- $120 per year
The tools to set up WebDAV and iPhoto-to-Gallery publishing: Free
Having the ability to switch my service at any time and still keep my email address: Priceless.
How much will they be paying for this service? And how much spam will they get?
You can get a 1GB hosted server and domain name for $65/year, with SpamAssassin and a variety of webmail applications preinstalled. Then you can use IMAP or POP3 from any email client on any OS. And you get a professional domain name, all with as much knowledge as you need to set up Outlook.
So unless MS is charging less than $5.50 per month for this service, I don't see how it's going to make a profit.
Just realize it guys. Any business big enough is only after one thing, screwing everyone else. This is capitalism at it's finest, and those who endorse it shouldn't expect anything else.
No, screwing everyone else requires resources, which eats into profits. Businesses are after short-term profits. They'll do anything to ensure they keep making as much money as possible. They'll even break the law if the return on investment is high enough.
But they won't do anything just to hurt people. They don't have emotions, they just have greed.
You don't need thousands of gallons to do it, and you don't even have to ship it up as water. Send it up as hydrogen and oxygen for the fuel cells and store the excess water in a chamber. Hell, use the urine from the crew! Any water-bearing-liquid would do.
Pressurize the container using air (which does compress) from the cabin. The water would spray out of nozzles on the leading surface of the craft and vaporize, turning into steam and insulating the craft from the heat of reentry. Since it's a passive system it's very safe, won't chip or crack, is reuseable, doesn't need to carry anything up with it and is at least comparable to the weight of an ablative heat shield if not lower.
Beats the story of Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton.
This reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer is chasing Thomas Edison's record for inventions only to find that Edison was chasing Da Vinci.
To be totally fair the Chaldeans were looking at a blank slate. Tycho and Kepler and Newton and Copernicus were probably finding a lot of things, only to do some research and find out the Chaldeans had gotten there first. I'm sure Kepler must have tried to figure out the distance to the sun, but because he wasn't the first, nobody cared.
Let me be the first of many to point out that terrestrial bats don't have radar, just so nobody is confused. They have sonar, like dolphins, only in the air and while flying. It would be like you running through the forest at night screaming at the top of your lungs and listening for the echo to keep from running into trees.
Space bats, however, would have to have radar or lidar because sound cannot travel in space.
The last time I flew was on my honeymoon. The time before that was... my family trip to Colorado in 2000.
I don't fly often and I *still* hate flying. I have half a mind to ask them for a sedative so I'm comatose and stuffed in the overhead bin. I'd have more legroom and wouldn't wake up stiff and sore.
I emailed Comcast before setting up my own webserver. Their reply stated that it was okay that I have a web server, just so long as I wasn't hogging bandwidth. I printed it out in case of legal troubles, but haven't had any. All I use it for is publishing iCals (since my web host doesn't have WebDAV) and testing stuff. The upstream is too slow for anything else.
I got an iPod because it worked seamlessly with my Mac and the huge music library I had on iTunes, but arguing that people shouldn't make sweeping generalizations just makes me look like a n00b.
Okay, let's cram you in a seat with six inches less legroom than you need for four hours with screaming children, crappy food and a worse movie and see how much you like it! After, of course, you're scrutinized like a criminal, forced to partially disrobe at a "security checkpoint" and herded through loading like an animal.
An X11 OOo is suitable for linux users who also have a mac.
And how many people is that? 2,000? 3,000? Maybe? What about the millions of Mac users who need a carbonized - or even better, a cocoaized - office suite.
NeoOffice/J is almost there. Good enough that I use it every day. But Mac users need more.
Really, making an open source application popular with Mac users is perhaps the greatest challenge for the OSS community. We don't mind paying or good software, but we demand a fantastic UI and experience.
But how hard is it, really, to crack a schema on an XML document? It's viewable in a text editor, right? So a little trial and error and experimentation would crack it in no time.
Or is it XML wrapped inside some container that needs a special code from Microsoft to be opened.
Yes, but even if Cassini had burned up in the atmosphere and spread its RTG across the planet it would still be a lower radiation dose than breathing the air downwind of a coal power plant for a day.
Or, if the containment had survived and hit the ocean, it would be buried in the mud of the abyssal plain for the next ten thousand years.
Granted, it's not something we would want to do with nuclear waste, but it's not as bad as a lot of the things we're already doing. I'd be more concerned about the crater and the millions of dollars wasted than a little radiation.
No, you risk civilization to blow other people up. Why else would there be a dozen nuclear submarines sitting on the bottom of the ocean?
Or you do it so people can have their PCs on 24/7. Why else would we still be burning coal?
There is *no way* to explore the outer solar system without RTGs or nuclear reactors. Sunlight is far too feeble to use solar panels.
The RTG in Cassini would not have been harmful to anyone, even if all the plutonium were vaporized. Coal power plants spew a ton of plutonium into the atmosphere every day. GO PROTEST THOSE.
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But how will I play games/take pictures/text my friends/browse the Internet/watch TV/cook a burrito/wash my laundry! This thing will never sell.
Where do you think Microsoft got the source code?
Colocate a Linux server, which is almost made to be administered remotely. Macs are made to be seen, used, and not heard. Unless you're running Garageband or iTunes.
I'm pretty sure Goole's goal is to have all the money, too. In fact, I think most corporations want all the money.
The tools to set up WebDAV and iPhoto-to-Gallery publishing: Free
Having the ability to switch my service at any time and still keep my email address: Priceless.
You can get a 1GB hosted server and domain name for $65/year, with SpamAssassin and a variety of webmail applications preinstalled. Then you can use IMAP or POP3 from any email client on any OS. And you get a professional domain name, all with as much knowledge as you need to set up Outlook.
So unless MS is charging less than $5.50 per month for this service, I don't see how it's going to make a profit.
No, screwing everyone else requires resources, which eats into profits. Businesses are after short-term profits. They'll do anything to ensure they keep making as much money as possible. They'll even break the law if the return on investment is high enough.
But they won't do anything just to hurt people. They don't have emotions, they just have greed.
Pressurize the container using air (which does compress) from the cabin. The water would spray out of nozzles on the leading surface of the craft and vaporize, turning into steam and insulating the craft from the heat of reentry. Since it's a passive system it's very safe, won't chip or crack, is reuseable, doesn't need to carry anything up with it and is at least comparable to the weight of an ablative heat shield if not lower.
Water, sprayed at high pressure, stored in a pressure vessel would provide a low-weight, high efficiency, reusable, heat shield.
You must be new here.
This reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer is chasing Thomas Edison's record for inventions only to find that Edison was chasing Da Vinci.
To be totally fair the Chaldeans were looking at a blank slate. Tycho and Kepler and Newton and Copernicus were probably finding a lot of things, only to do some research and find out the Chaldeans had gotten there first. I'm sure Kepler must have tried to figure out the distance to the sun, but because he wasn't the first, nobody cared.
Space bats, however, would have to have radar or lidar because sound cannot travel in space.
I don't fly often and I *still* hate flying. I have half a mind to ask them for a sedative so I'm comatose and stuffed in the overhead bin. I'd have more legroom and wouldn't wake up stiff and sore.
Yeah, it sounds obvious, but I'm sure he's just shocked at how disturbingly easy it is to create malicious code using ActiveX.
I emailed Comcast before setting up my own webserver. Their reply stated that it was okay that I have a web server, just so long as I wasn't hogging bandwidth. I printed it out in case of legal troubles, but haven't had any. All I use it for is publishing iCals (since my web host doesn't have WebDAV) and testing stuff. The upstream is too slow for anything else.
I wouldn't buy anything from someone who thinks an all Microsoft solution is a good thing.
I got an iPod because it worked seamlessly with my Mac and the huge music library I had on iTunes, but arguing that people shouldn't make sweeping generalizations just makes me look like a n00b.
I hate flying.
And how many people is that? 2,000? 3,000? Maybe? What about the millions of Mac users who need a carbonized - or even better, a cocoaized - office suite.
NeoOffice/J is almost there. Good enough that I use it every day. But Mac users need more.
Really, making an open source application popular with Mac users is perhaps the greatest challenge for the OSS community. We don't mind paying or good software, but we demand a fantastic UI and experience.
Or is it XML wrapped inside some container that needs a special code from Microsoft to be opened.
And this helps how exactly?
Or, if the containment had survived and hit the ocean, it would be buried in the mud of the abyssal plain for the next ten thousand years.
Granted, it's not something we would want to do with nuclear waste, but it's not as bad as a lot of the things we're already doing. I'd be more concerned about the crater and the millions of dollars wasted than a little radiation.
Or you do it so people can have their PCs on 24/7. Why else would we still be burning coal?
There is *no way* to explore the outer solar system without RTGs or nuclear reactors. Sunlight is far too feeble to use solar panels.
The RTG in Cassini would not have been harmful to anyone, even if all the plutonium were vaporized. Coal power plants spew a ton of plutonium into the atmosphere every day. GO PROTEST THOSE.
Let's see them put that into their ad campaign: "Microsoft: Setting up roadblocks since 2004."
1. Push Linux
2. Charge for installation and support
3. Profit!!!