Aside from the entertainment of the mockery Wally World so richly deserves, this is a pretty clear example of the level of desperation the idiot mainstream marketers are experiencing. They, like the failed entertainment retailers, are coming to realize that they can't control the world anymore.
So, they are trying to take on this runaway train we call the web. Trouble is, they have been stuck in their little castles for so long, they no longer get the new world that is. Because they do not get it, they attempt a cheesy imitation of such.
The stunning irony here is that they actually believed this rip off would be found credible and there was no one within their ranks who was able to tell them how idiotic they looked.
This isn't the loss of a battle -- this is a total loss of the war.
The only reason I went for a Power Book rather then an iBook was the fact that it runs dual display. When I am doing a business presentation/conference, I have my notes on the PB screen while the power point slide is on the video projector. iBook will not do it and it doesn't look like this has changed.
Killing the 12in power Book is only likely to force me to hold onto the one I have until it is nearly dead because I just don't have the room for one of the new monsters on the road.
After reading dozens and dozens of articles, I have discovered something that clears up much of the confusion and conflicting arguments on this subject.....
When people talk about "the end of oil" it appears they are talking about oil produced from 'light crude' which (in known world reserves) is about 2.3 trillion barrels. Apparently, we have consumed about one third of this 'light crude oil' to date; 0.8 trillion or 800 billion barrels. With current predictions of world consumption (including Asia latest appetite) it makes sense to me that these reserves could be depleted in 40+ years.
However, what is missing from this discussion, is the known oil reserves in the form of 'Natural bitumen and Extra-Heavy oil'. Bitumen, for example, is what is found in the oil-sands of northern Alberta. In Alberta alone, there is 1.7 trillion barrels of oil which can be extracted with today's technology (Alberta is thought to have 85% of the world's bitumen reserves). In the case of 'Extra-Heavy oil', there is the potential to produce another 1.9 trillion barrels of oil. Like in the case of bitumen, this extra-heavy oil is 90% contained in one location, a basin in Venezuela.
So, while I think it's not unfounded to predict the eventually end of oil from 'light crude' (light crude is in a liquid form naturally and the cheapest to produce, like that of the Middle East), it appears that the BIG PICTURE of world wide oil reserves is being lost is this 'partial' story. And the irony may in fact be that while the Middle East supplies something like 80% of the world's oil needs today, in 30 years Canada may be the world's largest supplier!! And, the other good news is that the cost to extract oil from bitumen here in Alberta has fallen from $25 US per barrel (20 years ago) to $9-12 dollars a barrel today due to new/better technologies. I think the Middle East is producing oil for something like $5-7 per barrel.
And then there's a whole discussion to be had on 'oil from coal' and oil from 'oil-shale' deposits in the US....
So, while the price of oil might remain a little high, I strongly suspect that 'oil' will be around for many generations to come...
Spotlight put the machine through hell for a few days while it indexed everything it could find -- then it went to sleep.
Dashboard was eating battery life by 20% and increasing wait times on certain apps significantly -- that is until I killed it. Battery life instantly jumped right back up.
Spotlight is a one off issue that lasts about a day -- Dashboard is the ongoing PITA.
Ok, for the first time in my life, I'm almost in favor of limiting it. Perhaps any person who wants to publish or have their comments published should be forced to submit to an IQ test to verify they actually have one. I'm not asking for much -- an IQ of 79 will do much better then this...
(True, it may not help with much but at least it may have kept this dolt from having her blatant lies published, perhaps forced someone to check up on her track record of a 2yr turnaround or at least got her fined for idiocy later...)
/Has been hacked. //As a result of her BS. ///Yes, this is personal.
At the end of the day, the question for most/. folks seems not to be the legality/illegality of the actions but, rather, whether or not we believe the labels should die.
The actions are then justified/condemned according to the author's position against/for the labels.
Maybe the EFF is really doing the greatest service possible in killing the labels?
Naw, the USA would never invade us -- they are still shaking in their boots from the last time we invaded them -- 1812 -- and burned Dubya's little palace to the ground...
Besides -- why would they want Canada? By January all of the freshly renamed Popsicle battalions would be sobbing to their commanding officers to let them go home...
Little problem even with a multi part product. Filemaker is not owned by apple -- they sold it off.
Second, Keynote is a wonderful app -- but it has yet to even achieve even apple scriptable status even though sold by apple themselves. This renders it a useless gimmick for any power user who uses bluetooth to control presentations.
If those are the lynch-pins of Apple's new office suite, count me out.
Frankly, this is just a gimmick to sell over-priced media to the masses.
If the label is for my own use, I'm quite happy with a marker. It's got to be MUCH quicker and just as effective unless there is a vast assortment of files on the cd -- in which case the surface is too small anyway.
If it is for others, I want full color graphics anyway so why would I use this thing?
how stupid the general North American group think is -- politicians are just a duller reflection of such.
Think about it: If the guy next door goes out each morning and kicks the carp out of his dog and the dog in turn bites some neighborhood kid who just wanted to pet him, are we going to solve the problem by banning attack dog training?
The absence of any sort of violence in our society is impossible. We may stop video game violence but we will never stop the news. People who have had the carp kicked out of them will always find some inspiration for a means of biting back -- all this does is change themes.
When are idiots like this guy going to realize that the problem is the kicking???
are rarely intended to accomplish anything. They are intended simply to create precedent for legislation of this nature such that when the real alteration in law comes along (or the real use becomes apparent), no one will notice.
Firstly: I have a relative who works in I.T. for a major paper. I've been in there many times watching columnists watching TV and writing their stories. The papers are loosing popularity because they are selling old news.
Secondly: The papers, unfortunately, are still not dying. Just because few are buying them does not mean they are dying. Papers can not afford to cease publication. They make a huge profit on the advertising in them -- so much so that readers are not really that relevant. What you pay for a paper is so insignificant it does not even cover the cost of actually printing what is in your hands and nearly every paper could afford to continue to publish even if they gave away the papers themselves for free.
In other words: Papers are not longer printed for readers. They are printed for advertisers who must be convinced that the paper is a viable means of advertising. When they have done so, they have a successful paper.
Thus, this paper died because it couldn't con enough advertisers -- pure and simple. The net really had nothing to do with it.
Last time I cracked a history book, I noted that we already did invade -- and burned the White House to the ground just to prove we were there.... But then we realized we just couldn't take the watered down beer...
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Aside from the entertainment of the mockery Wally World so richly deserves, this is a pretty clear example of the level of desperation the idiot mainstream marketers are experiencing. They, like the failed entertainment retailers, are coming to realize that they can't control the world anymore.
So, they are trying to take on this runaway train we call the web. Trouble is, they have been stuck in their little castles for so long, they no longer get the new world that is. Because they do not get it, they attempt a cheesy imitation of such.
The stunning irony here is that they actually believed this rip off would be found credible and there was no one within their ranks who was able to tell them how idiotic they looked.
This isn't the loss of a battle -- this is a total loss of the war.
Killing the 12in power Book is only likely to force me to hold onto the one I have until it is nearly dead because I just don't have the room for one of the new monsters on the road.
After reading dozens and dozens of articles, I have discovered something
that clears up much of the confusion and
conflicting arguments on this subject.....
When people talk about "the end of oil" it appears they are talking about
oil produced from 'light crude' which (in known world reserves) is about 2.3
trillion barrels. Apparently, we have consumed about one third of this
'light crude oil' to date; 0.8 trillion or 800 billion barrels. With
current predictions of world consumption (including Asia latest appetite) it
makes sense to me that these reserves could be depleted in 40+ years.
However, what is missing from this discussion, is the known oil reserves in
the form of 'Natural bitumen and Extra-Heavy oil'. Bitumen, for example, is
what is found in the oil-sands of northern Alberta. In Alberta alone, there
is 1.7 trillion barrels of oil which can be extracted with today's technology (Alberta is thought to
have 85% of the world's bitumen reserves). In the case of 'Extra-Heavy
oil', there is the potential to produce another 1.9 trillion barrels of oil.
Like in the case of bitumen, this extra-heavy oil is 90% contained in one
location, a basin in Venezuela.
So, while I think it's not unfounded to predict the eventually end of oil
from 'light crude' (light crude is in a liquid form naturally and the
cheapest to produce, like that of the Middle East), it appears that the BIG
PICTURE of world wide oil reserves is being lost is this 'partial' story.
And the irony may in fact be that while the Middle East supplies something
like 80% of the world's oil needs today, in 30 years Canada may be the
world's largest supplier!! And, the other good news is that the cost to
extract oil from bitumen here in Alberta has fallen from $25 US per barrel
(20 years ago) to $9-12 dollars a barrel today due to new/better
technologies. I think the Middle East is producing oil for something like
$5-7 per barrel.
And then there's a whole discussion to be had on 'oil from coal' and oil from 'oil-shale' deposits in the US....
So, while the price of oil might remain a little high, I strongly suspect that 'oil' will be around for many generations to come...
Spotlight put the machine through hell for a few days while it indexed everything it could find -- then it went to sleep.
Dashboard was eating battery life by 20% and increasing wait times on certain apps significantly -- that is until I killed it. Battery life instantly jumped right back up.
Spotlight is a one off issue that lasts about a day -- Dashboard is the ongoing PITA.
Ok, for the first time in my life, I'm almost in favor of limiting it. Perhaps any person who wants to publish or have their comments published should be forced to submit to an IQ test to verify they actually have one. I'm not asking for much -- an IQ of 79 will do much better then this...
//As a result of her BS.
///Yes, this is personal.
(True, it may not help with much but at least it may have kept this dolt from having her blatant lies published, perhaps forced someone to check up on her track record of a 2yr turnaround or at least got her fined for idiocy later...)
/Has been hacked.
That problem already exists.
With all of the trouble it took me to get sage back to life after the last update, I'm a bit afraid to upgrade firefox at all.
Like most FOSS, lack of support kills all but the hard core geek.
I am one of the hard core geeks -- it took me four hours of reading to solve that one...
At the end of the day, the question for most /. folks seems not to be the legality/illegality of the actions but, rather, whether or not we believe the labels should die.
The actions are then justified/condemned according to the author's position against/for the labels.
Maybe the EFF is really doing the greatest service possible in killing the labels?
It's the beginnings of a massive world wide revolt where everyone starts downloading their music from bittorrent.......
Oh wait....
Naw, the USA would never invade us -- they are still shaking in their boots from the last time we invaded them -- 1812 -- and burned Dubya's little palace to the ground...
Besides -- why would they want Canada? By January all of the freshly renamed Popsicle battalions would be sobbing to their commanding officers to let them go home...
Little problem even with a multi part product. Filemaker is not owned by apple -- they sold it off.
Second, Keynote is a wonderful app -- but it has yet to even achieve even apple scriptable status even though sold by apple themselves. This renders it a useless gimmick for any power user who uses bluetooth to control presentations.
If those are the lynch-pins of Apple's new office suite, count me out.
So they are gonna pay how many tens of thousands of $$$ for exactly how many SECONDS of something close to weightlessness???
A half hour flight I could see...
This??? A classic example of early adopters getting royally screwed?
You know, as terrifying as it is, I actually know what you mean.
Man, I am so getting old...
Frankly, this is just a gimmick to sell over-priced media to the masses.
If the label is for my own use, I'm quite happy with a marker. It's got to be MUCH quicker and just as effective unless there is a vast assortment of files on the cd -- in which case the surface is too small anyway.
If it is for others, I want full color graphics anyway so why would I use this thing?
that a country with practically a full length lead over the entire modern world in gun violence cares so much about nipples.
Can we say, "Misguided?"
how stupid the general North American group think is -- politicians are just a duller reflection of such.
Think about it: If the guy next door goes out each morning and kicks the carp out of his dog and the dog in turn bites some neighborhood kid who just wanted to pet him, are we going to solve the problem by banning attack dog training?
The absence of any sort of violence in our society is impossible. We may stop video game violence but we will never stop the news. People who have had the carp kicked out of them will always find some inspiration for a means of biting back -- all this does is change themes.
When are idiots like this guy going to realize that the problem is the kicking???
are rarely intended to accomplish anything. They are intended simply to create precedent for legislation of this nature such that when the real alteration in law comes along (or the real use becomes apparent), no one will notice.
we finally have identified which company Dilbert was modeled upon... :-)
Firstly: I have a relative who works in I.T. for a major paper. I've been in there many times watching columnists watching TV and writing their stories. The papers are loosing popularity because they are selling old news. Secondly: The papers, unfortunately, are still not dying. Just because few are buying them does not mean they are dying. Papers can not afford to cease publication. They make a huge profit on the advertising in them -- so much so that readers are not really that relevant. What you pay for a paper is so insignificant it does not even cover the cost of actually printing what is in your hands and nearly every paper could afford to continue to publish even if they gave away the papers themselves for free. In other words: Papers are not longer printed for readers. They are printed for advertisers who must be convinced that the paper is a viable means of advertising. When they have done so, they have a successful paper. Thus, this paper died because it couldn't con enough advertisers -- pure and simple. The net really had nothing to do with it.
the U.S. department of oxymorons...
Last time I cracked a history book, I noted that we already did invade -- and burned the White House to the ground just to prove we were there. ... But then we realized we just couldn't take the watered down beer...