If you lump in the distillate fuel oil (which includes diesel fuel), the number climbs to 66%.
It would be interesting to find out if the breakdown simply reflects the refining process and its byproducts or whether the consumption breakdown can be skewed to gasoline over the other uses reflected in the California study.
Without prompting, they upgraded it to the new 20" model which included twice the RAM (I had planned to upgrade it after receipt) and a faster processor.
This only really matters if you can do something with the information. Between the time that this news came out and the end of market close on Friday, the stock dropped 8.6%.
I thought about it. You're correct that they didn't get it right for everyone.
They did, however, just get it right for me. And a substantial number of others based on the percentage of the market that they control.
Could I have been more exact in my wording? Sure.
Does that make my observations any less astute or valuable? Nope. Just doing what people do on Slashdot, share their opinions. For the record, I've owned:
1. Rio 500 2. Some Nomad-based player I forget the name of. 3. RCA Lyra 1070 4. RCA Lyra 1080B 5. RCA Lyra 2840 (40gb player) 6. Rio Carbon (5GB)
And now an Ipod Video 30GB.
I know that the list doesn't include many of the more popular Iriver products out there and alot of the newer players. Bottom line FOR ME is that there is a certain, even intangible, ease to the Ipod interface and integration with Itunes that I find unique in the set of players available.
Thanks tji. Very astute to notice the slashdot number. It might have been a bit longer ago than that.
I wholeheartedly admit that the "tech savy" line was a bit cheesy but I was looking for a way to say that I'm that nerd everyone else goes to for tech support. Electronic stuff and computers come natural for me, despite the fact that I turn 40 this year and grew up mostly before PC's (first college CS class was with punch cards, really).
I can mess with other players and have done so. There's just something awfully smooth about the IPOD and the level of integration with Itunes. Its a no brainer.
Not that I don't have a brain, just that its nice not to have to engage it for my music player.
I've owned at least 6 or 7 different non-IPOD players including RIO's, RCA's, hard drive, flash based, you name it.
My wife bought me a Video Ipod this year and I was skeptical. "Why not save the $50 and get a non-Apple one.". After less than 3 months, I like it so well, I'm ready to trade her Rio Carbon in for a Nano just because its so easy to use. I generally consider myself tech savy (using Linux since 1997) but the interface just seems so slick, so smooth, so simple to use with one hand that I can't get over it. Just the fact that you can rate songs as you play them and have that transferred back into Itunes seemed to represent a higher level of integration (seamlessness) than I saw with any other player and client-side software combination.
Want to fast forward though a song? No problem. Couple of intuitive ways to do it. Love the album art. I used to download podcasts with a non-Itunes client and download to my other players. Completely simple with Itunes and the Ipod.
What garbage. Either you have no income or you've made other spending decisions so that at the end of the month you don't "have the money".
Maybe your income doesn't entitle you to the lifestyle to which you feel entitled so you decide to steal instead.
Not ethically different from someone who doesn't have the money for a CD he wants so he steals it from Walmart. Either way, it involves desire for something (in this case the desire to view/hear media) without the means to pay for it and an unethical decision to steal it.
Although there has been alot of noise around it, actual progress hasn't been so convincing and the 2008 date appears highly unlikely. In many cases its more a matter of "here's how we'd do it if you gave us X dollars" than a funded plan forward.
This has appeared all along like a deliberate attempt to force a "technology refresh" that would be beneficial to major US networking companies than any real response to technical superiority of the IPv6 protocols.
If the technical merit were really there (many of the supposed IPv6 improvements have been backported to v4), my guess is a specific mandate wouldn't be necessary. Business would take care of it.
What I can tell you is that at least on the program I work (a major middleware software development for the Army being written by a "major" defense contractor"), the corporate attorneys are scared to death of the GPL.
LGPL is fine. Dual licensed open source products are fine where you can pay the developer for a license other than compliance with the GPL.
There are lots of reasons that companies and government entities don't want to expose all their source to the GPL including security considerations, protection of intellectual property etc.
The fear is not based on any doubt about the quality of open source/GPL code it is more a concern about the "viral nature" of the GPL. Even where changes are not made to the open source code and its dynamically linked with proprietary code, the attorneys will not allow it. We're actually paying to replace GPL components with non-GPL components to avoid any perceived risk of future litigation.
Because you are not so attractive or wearing so few clothes that he's willing to do it for free.
Seriously, models and photographers will often agree to waive payment in either direction if it fits the needs of both parties. The photographer gets to broaden his portfolio with an attractive subject and the model gets pictures to use in their portfolio to show to employers.
You're right on the money, no pun intended. $1.8M at something like $200K per work year for engineering labor (sounds high but reflects moderate corporate overhead, many companies are higher) is only 9 engineers working for one year. It should be one heck of a study but its still not going to pay for much real design.
Only a non-US citizen can write this kind of ridiculous statement.
The constitution is clear on this and in fact there is a specific amendment that prohibits more than 2 terms.
It speaks to your ignorance and paranoia. If nothing else, we have an armed citizenry. The military swears allegiance to the constitution, not the president.
Ironically, the EPA gas mileage estimate for automatics is almost always HIGHER than for the same model with a manual transmisison.
The Prius also comes with an automatic transmission only.
Not sure what this says about the energy "wasted in the torque converter". My guess is that the automatic overcomes the wasted energy by shifting at more optimal points to achieve efficiency than most manual drivers (or at least those the EPA uses).
Hey everybody! Comair is hiring Unix System Administrators and IT Software Engineers! http://www.comair.com/hr/other/
Read to the bottom. They're also hiring a "Staff Scheduler". Only a high school diploma required and 1 year of experience. Maybe they should raise their qualification requirements for this one given recent difficulties....
why not sell it full featured for cheap, while customers flock to it for it's awsomeness among rave reviews and compeditors struggle to keep up with the feature/price level?
Short answer is because in many cases one of the competitors is the company's own product line. On any given product at a given price point companies can predict their total sales and profit. These kind of decisions are likely made to maximize profit across an entire product line, in this case Canon's entire digital camera line.
In this case, I'm not sure how this constitutes fraud.
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It is an accomplishment and I'll download it but I wonder how this compares to Neooffice.
The external affairs director is the first one who should resign.
I don't blame him for not stopping it. I blame him for starting it.
Completely unacceptable.
I bought today at 77.80 and made 5% on the day (and sold $3 higher). Easy money.
The market overreacted. It may reflect poorly on management but it is highly unlikely to affect their ability to sell Macs or Ipods.
If you lump in the distillate fuel oil (which includes diesel fuel), the number climbs to 66%.
It would be interesting to find out if the breakdown simply reflects the refining process and its byproducts or whether the consumption breakdown can be skewed to gasoline over the other uses reflected in the California study.
Microsoft heard that Brown was the "New Black"
Fashion jokes are never funny on Slashdot....
Ordered my 20" Imac yesterday as well.
Without prompting, they upgraded it to the new 20" model which included twice the RAM (I had planned to upgrade it after receipt) and a faster processor.
And they reduced the price by $200.
Gotta like that.
Not sure what percentage of the S&P this will constitute but it will probably be too high for my tastes.
Don't think there's much upside left on GOOG.
Gay. Tell me I'm not the only one who thought that ....
The whole story should be posted as flamebait. (pun intended)
This also came out Thursday when they released their earnings:
l ?.v=1
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060223/20060223005898.htm
This only really matters if you can do something with the information. Between the time that this news came out and the end of market close on Friday, the stock dropped 8.6%.
This might have mattered on Thursday.
I thought about it. You're correct that they didn't get it right for everyone.
They did, however, just get it right for me. And a substantial number of others based on the percentage of the market that they control.
Could I have been more exact in my wording? Sure.
Does that make my observations any less astute or valuable? Nope. Just doing what people do on Slashdot, share their opinions. For the record, I've owned:
1. Rio 500
2. Some Nomad-based player I forget the name of.
3. RCA Lyra 1070
4. RCA Lyra 1080B
5. RCA Lyra 2840 (40gb player)
6. Rio Carbon (5GB)
And now an Ipod Video 30GB.
I know that the list doesn't include many of the more popular Iriver products out there and alot of the newer players. Bottom line FOR ME is that there is a certain, even intangible, ease to the Ipod interface and integration with Itunes that I find unique in the set of players available.
Thanks tji. Very astute to notice the slashdot number. It might have been a bit longer ago than that.
I wholeheartedly admit that the "tech savy" line was a bit cheesy but I was looking for a way to say that I'm that nerd everyone else goes to for tech support. Electronic stuff and computers come natural for me, despite the fact that I turn 40 this year and grew up mostly before PC's (first college CS class was with punch cards, really).
I can mess with other players and have done so. There's just something awfully smooth about the IPOD and the level of integration with Itunes. Its a no brainer.
Not that I don't have a brain, just that its nice not to have to engage it for my music player.
Until I owned one.
I've owned at least 6 or 7 different non-IPOD players including RIO's, RCA's, hard drive, flash based, you name it.
My wife bought me a Video Ipod this year and I was skeptical. "Why not save the $50 and get a non-Apple one.". After less than 3 months, I like it so well, I'm ready to trade her Rio Carbon in for a Nano just because its so easy to use. I generally consider myself tech savy (using Linux since 1997) but the interface just seems so slick, so smooth, so simple to use with one hand that I can't get over it. Just the fact that you can rate songs as you play them and have that transferred back into Itunes seemed to represent a higher level of integration (seamlessness) than I saw with any other player and client-side software combination.
Want to fast forward though a song? No problem. Couple of intuitive ways to do it. Love the album art. I used to download podcasts with a non-Itunes client and download to my other players. Completely simple with Itunes and the Ipod.
I'm not suprised. Apple just got it right.
Until I heard him on the TWIT (this week in tech) podcast.
Now I thoroughly detest him.
TWIT - an acronym and a descriptor of the participants
What garbage. Either you have no income or you've made other spending decisions so that at the end of the month you don't "have the money".
Maybe your income doesn't entitle you to the lifestyle to which you feel entitled so you decide to steal instead.
Not ethically different from someone who doesn't have the money for a CD he wants so he steals it from Walmart. Either way, it involves desire for something (in this case the desire to view/hear media) without the means to pay for it and an unethical decision to steal it.
Although there has been alot of noise around it, actual progress hasn't been so convincing and the 2008 date appears highly unlikely. In many cases its more a matter of "here's how we'd do it if you gave us X dollars" than a funded plan forward.
This has appeared all along like a deliberate attempt to force a "technology refresh" that would be beneficial to major US networking companies than any real response to technical superiority of the IPv6 protocols.
If the technical merit were really there (many of the supposed IPv6 improvements have been backported to v4), my guess is a specific mandate wouldn't be necessary. Business would take care of it.
What I can tell you is that at least on the program I work (a major middleware software development for the Army being written by a "major" defense contractor"), the corporate attorneys are scared to death of the GPL.
LGPL is fine. Dual licensed open source products are fine where you can pay the developer for a license other than compliance with the GPL.
There are lots of reasons that companies and government entities don't want to expose all their source to the GPL including security considerations, protection of intellectual property etc.
The fear is not based on any doubt about the quality of open source/GPL code it is more a concern about the "viral nature" of the GPL. Even where changes are not made to the open source code and its dynamically linked with proprietary code, the attorneys will not allow it. We're actually paying to replace GPL components with non-GPL components to avoid any perceived risk of future litigation.
Because you are not so attractive or wearing so few clothes that he's willing to do it for free.
Seriously, models and photographers will often agree to waive payment in either direction if it fits the needs of both parties. The photographer gets to broaden his portfolio with an attractive subject and the model gets pictures to use in their portfolio to show to employers.
You're right on the money, no pun intended. $1.8M at something like $200K per work year for engineering labor (sounds high but reflects moderate corporate overhead, many companies are higher) is only 9 engineers working for one year. It should be one heck of a study but its still not going to pay for much real design.
Only a non-US citizen can write this kind of ridiculous statement.
The constitution is clear on this and in fact there is a specific amendment that prohibits more than 2 terms.
It speaks to your ignorance and paranoia. If nothing else, we have an armed citizenry. The military swears allegiance to the constitution, not the president.
Somehow the comment about Natalie Portman being pregnant only confirms all of my stereotypes of slashdotters.
;-)
Have any of you actually lived with a pregnant woman???
Trust me. Its no fantasy.
I'm not even sure its worth the 2 minute of bliss (be honest folks) that you'd probably last with Natalie
Ironically, the EPA gas mileage estimate for automatics is almost always HIGHER than for the same model with a manual transmisison.
The Prius also comes with an automatic transmission only.
Not sure what this says about the energy "wasted in the torque converter". My guess is that the automatic overcomes the wasted energy by shifting at more optimal points to achieve efficiency than most manual drivers (or at least those the EPA uses).
Mod parent up.... Great post and no moderator points :-(
Hey everybody! Comair is hiring Unix System Administrators and IT Software Engineers! http://www.comair.com/hr/other/
....
Read to the bottom. They're also hiring a "Staff Scheduler". Only a high school diploma required and 1 year of experience. Maybe they should raise their qualification requirements for this one given recent difficulties
I do want to report that my Nomad Zen Xtra Jukebox works great with Linux if you use the the gnomad2 program.
Am I the only one who read this as Gonad2.
Its Friday, what do you want?
why not sell it full featured for cheap, while customers flock to it for it's awsomeness among rave reviews and compeditors struggle to keep up with the feature/price level?
Short answer is because in many cases one of the competitors is the company's own product line. On any given product at a given price point companies can predict their total sales and profit. These kind of decisions are likely made to maximize profit across an entire product line, in this case Canon's entire digital camera line.
In this case, I'm not sure how this constitutes fraud.