No, it classifies all Apps in your Applications folder (or should we call it Apps folder now) as well as those you downloaded through the Mac App Store.
The rest of the API's (full screen, instant shutdown/save etc...) are completely open and available and quite transparent to existing apps (no need to recode/recompile existing applications)
It's basically that they merged Expose, Dashboard and Spaces and made it more the look-and-feel of iOS and added a Store for free and non-free apps. Especially for individual developers this will give more exposure to some really good applications that are now pretty hard to find. Hosting, update distribution and promotion/ranking for only 30% of your revenue is pretty darn good unless you're Adobe or Microsoft or other software makers that can charge thousands of dollars for 4 or 5 crappy apps.
Hopefully they will also integrate an Enterprise option similar to the iPhone so you can create or package, distribute and automatically update your own set of applications. Currently you still have to rely on third party systems or Apple Remote Desktop for this.
I did it earlier. I remember doing it when I was young (the early to mid-90's) with a WaveLAN card. If I remember correctly, it had only 1 Mbit/s throughput or so (our coaxed LAN was very fast at ~8 Mbit/s) and was very susceptible to the newfangled "magnetron oven" being used by my mother. The card actually did not have Windows 95 drivers so we had to add the drivers in the DOS environment (config.sys & autoexec.bat) and use DR-WebSpyder instead of Internet Exploder.
Get a small (hosted or not) server to sync your desktop and all kinds of other mobile devices against. There are free and open source packages for Calendaring, E-mail (obviously) and Contacts either separately or together. If you already have a server, which you most likely do have, it will be able to handle this little bit of extra web service. This way you'll also be better protected in case a client computer decides to crash.
Otherwise, Ubuntu One and other service can get you these services for a small price.
Exactly and even if not on a personal device, many sites use SSL or are simply not being monitored (personal blogs, obscure or other-language social networks). It's a fallacy to think that in this day and age, you can keep a company secret if everyone in your company needs access to these secrets. Once you go beyond the highest levels of management (C-level) or the very guarded R&D departments you cannot keep anything a secret for very long.
If the only reason your company exists is because of an internal secret (whether that be a patent, process or a formula), you will fail because eventually someone will exit your company with enough information to reproduce it even if it has to be reproduced in a shady 3rd world country. If your company can survive while being very open about what's in the end product (such as it's software), only then will you have a stable company.
It's not necessarily blindness. You're missing the level of lobbying by the makers of these custom hardwares. They're the ones that take a 20 cent LCD display and a chip you find in any generic calculator and tell them it costs $10,000. The profit (1000%) pays for the lobbyists.
Eating fat is still unhealthy as animals store up what they eat in it and if they get fed chemicals, antibiotics and dioxins (which a lot of mass-farmed animals like chickens do get a lot off) that ends up in their fat and intestines. However, you are right that a balanced diet and exercise will work off most of your extra pouches even if you do end up eating a baked potato and steak dinner without trimming the fat or excluding the beer, cream cheese and bacon bits (which is delicious imho).
I recently started doing a full body workout (60 minutes) and running exercises (up to 30 minutes so far), still eat probably 2500 calories a day and I am also losing weight.
Actually, it really depends on the airline (actually the operator of the aircraft) you're flying with.
I've had some really good (in comparison to other airplanes) food on Air France (duck breast, foie gras) while the flights booked through Air France but operated by Delta really sucked (something resembling a McDonalds patty from the dollar menu and some hard noodles had to pass as Beef Stroganoff).
A lot of it is imho putting the human player on guard, playing mind games and making the other player think that you have more than you actually etc. something that most bots are inherently immune to. Intelligence and demoralization beats brute force most of the time in human warfare. Especially in electronic war games you can easily sacrifice a couple (or even a whole lot) of units in order to take the majority of the army out of position.
Look at Iraq for an example, there was bunches of brute force, the US could have just bombed (even non-nuclear) the whole country but they lost anyways because the other side outsmarted them (have squadrons looking through the desert and wasteland for a couple of nobodies among the rocks) and demoralized the supporters of the wars.
Exactly. You don't need to make a zombie-making superbug that kills everybody in sight. That will just get quarantined and fixed (nuked from orbit or so) as soon as it is identified. What you need is something with a long incubation period that is transferred much like the common cold or the flu. Within a couple of weeks all modern societies will be infected and you can send all of the Western world back to the stone age.
Either way, there will be survivors. Just hope you are the lucky one to be among them.
That's why I said, bundling IMAP, CalDAV and LDAP with a proprietary layer does not a unique product make. Calendaring and Address Books is available through a bunch of other programs and servers. Apple Mail can tie in a whole Exchange account as can Thunderbird (including the calendars etc.) and Apple even bundles an open source offering that rivals Exchange in Mac OS X Server. Same goes for Zimbra and a few other services but you can also set them up individually.
I remember the days when companies practically begged Dell to get Opteron offerings. Initially they didn't have any but a lot of large companies (especially government and health care) had standardized on Dell systems. They conceded by giving a few offerings with Opteron processors which were for a while more popular than even their cheaper Intel counterparts.
I also remember the days when companies practically begged Dell to get any Linux offerings (server or otherwise) and they once again had to concede to the customer with Red Hat Linux on the server side. That's one of the reasons imho Red Hat Server became so popular even though other distro's were more capable and easier to use (like the original SuSE back in the day before MS Novell bought them).
These days practically any e-mail client with a large user base will do:
Evolution Kontact Thunderbird Apple Mail
Of course a real sysadmin would allow people to also get their mail through an open protocol like IMAP and not only the proprietary IMAP version. Same goes for the proprietary CalDAV and LDAP.
5 year for a business (much less a dotcom) to turn profitable is not very long. There are many companies that have been operating on a (seemingly) loss for decades. Look at some of the movie and music businesses, they seem to be making a loss at every movie they make. As long as you can woo investors (like some of those free-energy companies) you will stay in business. Zuckerberg is trying to monetize Facebook because he wants to get stinkin' rich and he probably feels he is 'finished' with it. Dotcoms are notable for some yuppie starting it up, losing interest as soon as it breaks even and then selling it to a venture capitalist whom tries to make even more money out of it (those investors will not invest in something that is going to be a giant loss). As soon as those corporates get their fingers in it however, they try to forcibly monetize it (being more interested in quarterly results and quick profits) which drains the company from it's life force and leaves a 'failed' business.
Depends on where you live really. Some would say your driveway is private property, but the legal arm of the government (in the US and some places elsewhere) really doesn't think it is so they can go in your driveway and then attach a GPS module to your car. Since your private parking lot has recently been declared public property, you really can't do anything when I park there, use (or remove) the water hose and electricity that you offer for free to the public.
At least that's how precedent and the law works in my naive head and IANAL but maybe somebody will bring this to the Supreme Court.
Off course, there's always the problem that when you use the centrally managed resources, they're practically worthless. I work in a similar environment and doing everything ourselves is ~10x cheaper and much more flexible. Even outsourcing it to a commercial entity would be cheaper. 1TB of data does not need to cost $10k/year, (paid) e-mail boxes should not be limited to 250MB and you really don't need 8 Exchange admins to manage 8 Exchange servers (maybe you do, I have only worked with Postfix). The downside is off course that you'll need to find a decent sysadmin every time and can't get away with somebody with a 6 month first line support stint.
Because such regulation is costly. Whenever somebody (usually the local RIAA offices) asks them to provide the logs or comply with the law they say: sure we can, but we'll be out of business in 6 months unless you provide in the equipment. The RIAA doesn't want to provide in the equipment, they're already making a loss on their existing practices. The government doesn't want to provide in the equipment because that would either mean unpopular budget cuts elsewhere (like cutting their version of Medicare or so) or raising taxes (which in most of Europe is already nearing 50% of one's wages to provide for 'free' health care and other social services).
The only place it is actually feasible to do this is in totalitarian and militaristic countries where these systems are controlled by military agencies, countries where over 4% of the GDP gets spent on military projects.
Everybody has very plastic brains. I know you meant it as a joke but brain damage usually gets routed around by the body even relocating whole centers to a different part of the brain. This research is just showing that just like brain damage, the body tries to route around the no-input problem from one organ and enhances others to compensate.
The brain is like a really small Internet. It routes around problems and has plenty of failover, fallbacks and backups for just about any 'site'.
The browsers should come out of the box with those settings. There is no good reason for 3rd party anything (cookies, flash, images) other than bad web development, injection of bad content or tracking for nefarious purposes. Same with HTML5. There is no reason that website x needs to be able to read the content of website y. It also doesn't need to access your browser settings or anything outside of the window where the website renders (that is buttons, history, other cookies, preferences or bookmarks).
Yeah, the Fifth amendment or any of them doesn't apply when you get arrested in the US and then shipped to a military prison in the US after the president of the US declares you an 'enemy soldier' of the US. The fact that this can happen to any US citizen means that the constitution doesn't apply (anymore) in the US.
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No, it classifies all Apps in your Applications folder (or should we call it Apps folder now) as well as those you downloaded through the Mac App Store.
The rest of the API's (full screen, instant shutdown/save etc...) are completely open and available and quite transparent to existing apps (no need to recode/recompile existing applications)
It's basically that they merged Expose, Dashboard and Spaces and made it more the look-and-feel of iOS and added a Store for free and non-free apps. Especially for individual developers this will give more exposure to some really good applications that are now pretty hard to find. Hosting, update distribution and promotion/ranking for only 30% of your revenue is pretty darn good unless you're Adobe or Microsoft or other software makers that can charge thousands of dollars for 4 or 5 crappy apps.
Hopefully they will also integrate an Enterprise option similar to the iPhone so you can create or package, distribute and automatically update your own set of applications. Currently you still have to rely on third party systems or Apple Remote Desktop for this.
I did it earlier. I remember doing it when I was young (the early to mid-90's) with a WaveLAN card. If I remember correctly, it had only 1 Mbit/s throughput or so (our coaxed LAN was very fast at ~8 Mbit/s) and was very susceptible to the newfangled "magnetron oven" being used by my mother. The card actually did not have Windows 95 drivers so we had to add the drivers in the DOS environment (config.sys & autoexec.bat) and use DR-WebSpyder instead of Internet Exploder.
I've successfully implemented Zimbra as well as Darwin Calendar Server before.
Get a small (hosted or not) server to sync your desktop and all kinds of other mobile devices against. There are free and open source packages for Calendaring, E-mail (obviously) and Contacts either separately or together. If you already have a server, which you most likely do have, it will be able to handle this little bit of extra web service. This way you'll also be better protected in case a client computer decides to crash.
Otherwise, Ubuntu One and other service can get you these services for a small price.
Or you just start using 128-bit addressing. You'll be good until you reach ZettaBytes.
Exactly and even if not on a personal device, many sites use SSL or are simply not being monitored (personal blogs, obscure or other-language social networks). It's a fallacy to think that in this day and age, you can keep a company secret if everyone in your company needs access to these secrets. Once you go beyond the highest levels of management (C-level) or the very guarded R&D departments you cannot keep anything a secret for very long.
If the only reason your company exists is because of an internal secret (whether that be a patent, process or a formula), you will fail because eventually someone will exit your company with enough information to reproduce it even if it has to be reproduced in a shady 3rd world country. If your company can survive while being very open about what's in the end product (such as it's software), only then will you have a stable company.
It's not necessarily blindness. You're missing the level of lobbying by the makers of these custom hardwares. They're the ones that take a 20 cent LCD display and a chip you find in any generic calculator and tell them it costs $10,000. The profit (1000%) pays for the lobbyists.
"but instead has a proprietary interface that offers up 5 to 6Gb/s throughput."
You know that SAS offers 6Gb/s throughput and Infiniband up to 300Gb/s (with 8 and 16 being more common).
Either way, $1M for a bunch of SAS SSD (even SAS NVRAM) is way overpriced imho. They could've done it cheaper.
Eating fat is still unhealthy as animals store up what they eat in it and if they get fed chemicals, antibiotics and dioxins (which a lot of mass-farmed animals like chickens do get a lot off) that ends up in their fat and intestines. However, you are right that a balanced diet and exercise will work off most of your extra pouches even if you do end up eating a baked potato and steak dinner without trimming the fat or excluding the beer, cream cheese and bacon bits (which is delicious imho).
I recently started doing a full body workout (60 minutes) and running exercises (up to 30 minutes so far), still eat probably 2500 calories a day and I am also losing weight.
Actually, it really depends on the airline (actually the operator of the aircraft) you're flying with.
I've had some really good (in comparison to other airplanes) food on Air France (duck breast, foie gras) while the flights booked through Air France but operated by Delta really sucked (something resembling a McDonalds patty from the dollar menu and some hard noodles had to pass as Beef Stroganoff).
A lot of it is imho putting the human player on guard, playing mind games and making the other player think that you have more than you actually etc. something that most bots are inherently immune to. Intelligence and demoralization beats brute force most of the time in human warfare. Especially in electronic war games you can easily sacrifice a couple (or even a whole lot) of units in order to take the majority of the army out of position.
Look at Iraq for an example, there was bunches of brute force, the US could have just bombed (even non-nuclear) the whole country but they lost anyways because the other side outsmarted them (have squadrons looking through the desert and wasteland for a couple of nobodies among the rocks) and demoralized the supporters of the wars.
Exactly. You don't need to make a zombie-making superbug that kills everybody in sight. That will just get quarantined and fixed (nuked from orbit or so) as soon as it is identified. What you need is something with a long incubation period that is transferred much like the common cold or the flu. Within a couple of weeks all modern societies will be infected and you can send all of the Western world back to the stone age.
Either way, there will be survivors. Just hope you are the lucky one to be among them.
That's why I said, bundling IMAP, CalDAV and LDAP with a proprietary layer does not a unique product make. Calendaring and Address Books is available through a bunch of other programs and servers. Apple Mail can tie in a whole Exchange account as can Thunderbird (including the calendars etc.) and Apple even bundles an open source offering that rivals Exchange in Mac OS X Server. Same goes for Zimbra and a few other services but you can also set them up individually.
I remember the days when companies practically begged Dell to get Opteron offerings. Initially they didn't have any but a lot of large companies (especially government and health care) had standardized on Dell systems. They conceded by giving a few offerings with Opteron processors which were for a while more popular than even their cheaper Intel counterparts.
I also remember the days when companies practically begged Dell to get any Linux offerings (server or otherwise) and they once again had to concede to the customer with Red Hat Linux on the server side. That's one of the reasons imho Red Hat Server became so popular even though other distro's were more capable and easier to use (like the original SuSE back in the day before MS Novell bought them).
Yes, the government mandates that bartenders no longer offer you drinks if you seem to be or reasonably are (due to the amount) becoming intoxicated.
Most restaurants will kick you out or even call an ambulance once you start to puke and try to continue eating.
These days practically any e-mail client with a large user base will do:
Evolution
Kontact
Thunderbird
Apple Mail
Of course a real sysadmin would allow people to also get their mail through an open protocol like IMAP and not only the proprietary IMAP version. Same goes for the proprietary CalDAV and LDAP.
5 year for a business (much less a dotcom) to turn profitable is not very long. There are many companies that have been operating on a (seemingly) loss for decades. Look at some of the movie and music businesses, they seem to be making a loss at every movie they make. As long as you can woo investors (like some of those free-energy companies) you will stay in business. Zuckerberg is trying to monetize Facebook because he wants to get stinkin' rich and he probably feels he is 'finished' with it. Dotcoms are notable for some yuppie starting it up, losing interest as soon as it breaks even and then selling it to a venture capitalist whom tries to make even more money out of it (those investors will not invest in something that is going to be a giant loss). As soon as those corporates get their fingers in it however, they try to forcibly monetize it (being more interested in quarterly results and quick profits) which drains the company from it's life force and leaves a 'failed' business.
Depends on where you live really. Some would say your driveway is private property, but the legal arm of the government (in the US and some places elsewhere) really doesn't think it is so they can go in your driveway and then attach a GPS module to your car. Since your private parking lot has recently been declared public property, you really can't do anything when I park there, use (or remove) the water hose and electricity that you offer for free to the public.
At least that's how precedent and the law works in my naive head and IANAL but maybe somebody will bring this to the Supreme Court.
Off course, there's always the problem that when you use the centrally managed resources, they're practically worthless. I work in a similar environment and doing everything ourselves is ~10x cheaper and much more flexible. Even outsourcing it to a commercial entity would be cheaper. 1TB of data does not need to cost $10k/year, (paid) e-mail boxes should not be limited to 250MB and you really don't need 8 Exchange admins to manage 8 Exchange servers (maybe you do, I have only worked with Postfix). The downside is off course that you'll need to find a decent sysadmin every time and can't get away with somebody with a 6 month first line support stint.
Because such regulation is costly. Whenever somebody (usually the local RIAA offices) asks them to provide the logs or comply with the law they say: sure we can, but we'll be out of business in 6 months unless you provide in the equipment. The RIAA doesn't want to provide in the equipment, they're already making a loss on their existing practices. The government doesn't want to provide in the equipment because that would either mean unpopular budget cuts elsewhere (like cutting their version of Medicare or so) or raising taxes (which in most of Europe is already nearing 50% of one's wages to provide for 'free' health care and other social services).
The only place it is actually feasible to do this is in totalitarian and militaristic countries where these systems are controlled by military agencies, countries where over 4% of the GDP gets spent on military projects.
Everybody has very plastic brains. I know you meant it as a joke but brain damage usually gets routed around by the body even relocating whole centers to a different part of the brain. This research is just showing that just like brain damage, the body tries to route around the no-input problem from one organ and enhances others to compensate.
The brain is like a really small Internet. It routes around problems and has plenty of failover, fallbacks and backups for just about any 'site'.
The browsers should come out of the box with those settings. There is no good reason for 3rd party anything (cookies, flash, images) other than bad web development, injection of bad content or tracking for nefarious purposes. Same with HTML5. There is no reason that website x needs to be able to read the content of website y. It also doesn't need to access your browser settings or anything outside of the window where the website renders (that is buttons, history, other cookies, preferences or bookmarks).
Then send off that Excel file to anybody else and see it all break down.
I don't have that problem in either Mac OS X or Ubuntu. I don't know what you're talking about. Who puts words in their menu's anyway.
Yeah, the Fifth amendment or any of them doesn't apply when you get arrested in the US and then shipped to a military prison in the US after the president of the US declares you an 'enemy soldier' of the US. The fact that this can happen to any US citizen means that the constitution doesn't apply (anymore) in the US.