"No need for remote stuff there."
To you maybe because you don't do much more than microwave or stir fry. But long cooking techniques would indeed benefit. I have a remote thermometer on my smoker and my BBQ for reason--to monitor internal meat temperatures remotely for long cooking and smoking so I don't have to stand out there in the weather. that would be nice in the kitchen too for roasting, baking, etc. I coudl heck the time remaining without having to go into the kitchen to see the timer says 1 hour 23 minutes left and then checking the thermometer--it would be very to cool to check both from my iPhone and maybe raise/lower the oven temp som number of degrees if I wanted to. How about an intelligent oven that sent me an estimate when the roast was 20 minutes away from being done so I could start the short courses? You just lack imagination me thinks
what's all this talk about wings anyway? It's not wings those guys or I am interested in regarding females. In fact, I am not interested in a female of any other species wings or not.
Christianity has won the Western World (for now) so they don't need to worry about Wikipedia. Their power elite met in Constantinople 500 years after Christ's death to create a Bible to their liking. They've strictly controlled all major PR for their religion since.
Of course this is a generalization, but in the main the paradox is that free content usually ends up not being worth paying for because quality producers won't make it for long leaving largely low cost/low quality content over the long run. Quality producers and distributors stick to channels where the business model provides a sufficient fee structure (ad revenue, subscribers fees, etc.) via channel control to provide them revenue and profit. But consumers will only pay for content they value--both in quality and speed. The problem right now is most US internet connections are mostly too slow to provide high quality and delivery speeds that will command cable TV-level fee structures for advertising and subscriber fees. The US is way behind the EU in this. So the cable companies and telcos have a huge investment in infrastructure ahead of them before they can profit in the general market. Which is why they want a tiered internet--to phase infrastructure in slowly and match costs and revenues better to stay profitable. Their greed early on has them no painted into a corner--but you can bet they are figuring out how to make to consumer fund their rescue.
Right, but with one characterization: entertainment has always been about restricting access to product to make it more valuable. The Music and Concert industries play this game well too.
We have been led to believe Microsoft does extensive testing of products and features. Even if the blocking was unintentional, certainly they must have noticed it and the fact they don't block there own server. As a result, they should have either, white-listed Google or at least expressly and clearly stated Google was being blocked. Given Microsoft's past history, this kind of "aw shucks look it blocks Google but let's just mirk and ignore it" behavior is not acceptable and is predatory in nature in keeping with past behavior. Convicted monopolists are held to higher standards than average companies because they are on parole.
I am so tired of the "all Apple gives for the extra charge is style" flawed analysis that I have to respond to this. It is utter nonsense--most Apple buyers, when pooled mention ease of use. power, flexibility and reliability over style. Style is the icing on the cake not the core reason to buy. This is the same bogus emotional ignore the facts appeal as the Republicans used to call the Democrats tax and spend, even though Republican presidents spend more and, worse, borrow to do it.
Not quite the whole story, you are also paying a robust 32- and 64-bit UNIX with a remarkably easy to use GUI and free apps for video, photos, mail, web publishing, and more that few commercial apps rival n terms of ease of use. There are otehr platforms advantages too: I can run OS X, many falvors of Windows (in VM or mative boot), plus many flavors of UNIX and Linux in VM on one machine.On my 8-core 13GB Mac Pro right now I have running: OS X Leopard, Ubuntu Server 8.10, SuSe 10 desktop, and Window Vista Home Premium 64-bit. I am cross-developing OpenGL/SDL and Qt apps for all three platforms on OS X using UNIX tools. No other OS or System let's me do that on one box at one time.
Plus Final Cut Studio kicks a*s compared to Similarly-priced Windows alternatives.
People try to make sense of GS catapulting this guy to fame to their detriment when they should properly just keep him in the shadows. Isn't it obvious why? One small Word, one big object: EGO
The people who run Goldman-Sachs are used to running everything--including the Fed, Congress, and the Presidency. They have saddled everyone of us with a debt of $165,000 for the bail out (so far) and most of that money goes into their pockets in bonuses, guarantees for their failed investments, and other devious ways they bilk people for cash. It sticks in their craw that some little nobody on the net can flip them the bird and blow raspberries at them and be untouchable. And they just cannot accept that. Their egos cannot stand it.
Ahem...a...no. The AIR is several hundred dollars cheaper comparing the base configurations for both machines. You pressed that knee-jerk moronic "apple is expensive" reflex button again without thinking. Where do you think you are posting? Some place where people hate facts and prefer unfounded opinion, rumors, innuendo, and fiction like Slashdot? Oh wait.
When it comes to security, the more physical the better. Wireless might seem a attractive on cost and convenience but reliability and vulnerability increase substantially. Again on that theme, the more complex a system, the more that can go wrong. It is all a matter of personal acceptance of a level of risk, but I'll stick with hardwired systems on a UPS and two good-sized dogs which gets me and my family to a comfortable sleeping level. that and Mister 12-gauge full of #00 buckshot and slugs. Your mileage may vary.
He said: "By the way, Sketchpad was the first system in which it was definitely discovered that the light pen is a very bad input device because the blood runs out of your hand in about 20 seconds and leaves it numb. In spite of that it's been reinvented at least 90 times in the last 25 years."
Did he ever consider it was the position of the screen that was the problem? I haven't heard of a lot of problems from artists when sketching and painting, I use a writing pen a lot on a desk or table or my lap, and I am not aware of drafting tables being horribly non-ergonomic. Frankly, I think a comfortably-positioned and angled screen might be less stressful than a key board and mouse.
Have you ever even looked at the controlling stock ownership, management, and boards of the "liberal" media? I think not otherwise you wouldn't dare repeat such an obviously Karl Rove-inspired myth that is patently false. It is clear who owns the media and it isn't the liberals.
The whole long tail idea seems like a trendy "pop" business and marketing book boldly proclaiming the obvious. The only thing that changed was it became more economical to serve what were niche markets. But Henry Ford did it: reaching into the then tail of auto ownership by reaching the common man. That can happen via any innovation that reduces either fixed or variable costs whether it be in resources, production, distribution, marketing, selling, or finance. You can even argue the Fed's loose monetary policy coupled with derivative innovations in CDOs allowed houses to reach into the sub-prime tail. That's radical innovation? Hardly. That's basic economics. The book was unimpressive to anyone who understands business and economics.
Boy Scouts--you are an anachronism of narow-minded hateful childish superstitious religion. It didn't have to be that way as you have accomplished a lot of good when you weren't on witch hunts. But you chose war so here it is. Please just die off in the dust of antiquity along with the Inquisition and other hateful superstitious groups.
I am a heterosexual man with a wife and family, but I have colleagues who are homosexual and I don't ascribe to your narrow-minded superstitious world view. Particularly given entire regimes who tolerated (not endorsed--just tolerated) homosexuality (Greek, Roman, Japan, N.American Indian,etc.) thrived proving it doesn't hurt society like you wackos say it does).
No help from me. Open Source is counter to your founding and ruling principles.
I think the PR spike may indicate Microsoft is behind an astro-turf campaign to raise awareness of Ada in support of their unannounced but soon to beta Visual Ada Plus Professional Platinum Edition 2008 for the Web.
Well, the difference is that with gaming systems there is significant money at risk if someone hacks the machines whereas with voting machines there is significant money at risk if someone cannot rig or hack an election and the 'wrong' candidate, i.e. the popular vote winner, is elected. For example what would Al Gore's global warming policy have done to the profits and tax subsidies of the energy industry Dick Cheney chums with?
> hopefully Sun will decide to add something to
> the table beyond just their name.
The *Java* Sun Open Media Stack ? Erm, That's "the Sun *Java* Open Media Stack". Let's keep those priorities straight. There ain't no Java without the Sun.
Yet a lot of people treat them that way like this Slash Dot commenter: "He might well be right, but I'd be more inclined to believe it from someone who doesn't have a corporate interest in picking data points to fit the line he would like to draw." Just why is that rated a 5?
It is NOT about belief, but more about science--either the facts and peer review support Mr. Weir or they don't. Apparently they do and in Spades. The majority of "yes" votes on this "standard" are by Microsoft partners who have a vested interest in a dingle vendor, single application (the only full implementation read and write) solution they sell products and services for and can lock in business. Sure IBM is a commercial organization with a checkered past, but they don't own completely open ODF so they aren't doing this for gain. they jsut want a level playing field for formats. And it is a great idea.
Google has 77% market share in search while Yahoo has 16% and Microsoft a little under 4%. If Microsoft and Yahoo brands alone can't get any better share than that, I don;t see how a merger is going to help. Mergers make sense for this kind of deal for only major two reasons: 1) increase efficiency or capital for business model that is failing only because of lack of it or 2) to take a strong brand move it in to a new market with new technology. Neither is the case here: both brands are well-known already and in the market. So neither is bringing anything to the other they didn't already have. There is no synergy here--just a combination of two losing armies that will have too many redundant generals and soldiers and are desperate. The market will become more efficient with this "natural" consolidation but I cannot see an increase in competitive position for either of them. In any event, odds are that the EU won't let this pass muster anyway. Maybe even the DOJ will arouse from its deep slumber on this one.
"I'm sure someone will respond to that by pointing to the Canadian system, and how the quality of coverage is perceived as low as compared to the US system, where you get as much health care as you can afford. "
In the WHO Healthcare rankings worldwide for industrialized countries in 2000 Canada, at 30th place, leads in quality over the US at 37th. At 37th, the US system is clearly poor. Actually pathetic. (http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html)
While the rankings are somewhat controversial, most analysts agree the US has one of the most expensive systems per capita and deliver to lowest quality of care among industrialized countries.
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"No need for remote stuff there." To you maybe because you don't do much more than microwave or stir fry. But long cooking techniques would indeed benefit. I have a remote thermometer on my smoker and my BBQ for reason--to monitor internal meat temperatures remotely for long cooking and smoking so I don't have to stand out there in the weather. that would be nice in the kitchen too for roasting, baking, etc. I coudl heck the time remaining without having to go into the kitchen to see the timer says 1 hour 23 minutes left and then checking the thermometer--it would be very to cool to check both from my iPhone and maybe raise/lower the oven temp som number of degrees if I wanted to. How about an intelligent oven that sent me an estimate when the roast was 20 minutes away from being done so I could start the short courses? You just lack imagination me thinks
She's virtual reality because this is slashdot. so she's also not even alpha yet--vaporware.
what's all this talk about wings anyway? It's not wings those guys or I am interested in regarding females. In fact, I am not interested in a female of any other species wings or not.
So shes' a real "blue hair" then? How long has she been in the AARP?
Christianity has won the Western World (for now) so they don't need to worry about Wikipedia. Their power elite met in Constantinople 500 years after Christ's death to create a Bible to their liking. They've strictly controlled all major PR for their religion since.
The number of followers, their wealth, and the number of politicians in the flock.
Of course this is a generalization, but in the main the paradox is that free content usually ends up not being worth paying for because quality producers won't make it for long leaving largely low cost/low quality content over the long run. Quality producers and distributors stick to channels where the business model provides a sufficient fee structure (ad revenue, subscribers fees, etc.) via channel control to provide them revenue and profit. But consumers will only pay for content they value--both in quality and speed. The problem right now is most US internet connections are mostly too slow to provide high quality and delivery speeds that will command cable TV-level fee structures for advertising and subscriber fees. The US is way behind the EU in this. So the cable companies and telcos have a huge investment in infrastructure ahead of them before they can profit in the general market. Which is why they want a tiered internet--to phase infrastructure in slowly and match costs and revenues better to stay profitable. Their greed early on has them no painted into a corner--but you can bet they are figuring out how to make to consumer fund their rescue.
I just opened up Adobe Reader on my Desktop Mac and disabled Javascript in the preferences...
And then I just opened up Adobe Reader on my laptop Mac and disabled Javascript in the preferences...
And then I just opened up Adobe Reader on my stand-alone PC and disabled Javascript in the preferences...
And then I just opened up Adobe Reader on my XP Pro Parallels VM on my desktop Mac and disabled Javascript in the preferences...
And then I just opened up Adobe Reader on my VIsta Home Pro 64-bit Parallels VM on my desktop Mac and disabled Javascript in the preferences...
And then I remembered all my VM snapshots and my Mac TIme machine backups that would need to be changed if I ever used them..
OMFG! Why didn't they just disable such bloat as the default? Stupid is as stupid does.
Right, but with one characterization: entertainment has always been about restricting access to product to make it more valuable. The Music and Concert industries play this game well too.
We have been led to believe Microsoft does extensive testing of products and features. Even if the blocking was unintentional, certainly they must have noticed it and the fact they don't block there own server. As a result, they should have either, white-listed Google or at least expressly and clearly stated Google was being blocked. Given Microsoft's past history, this kind of "aw shucks look it blocks Google but let's just mirk and ignore it" behavior is not acceptable and is predatory in nature in keeping with past behavior. Convicted monopolists are held to higher standards than average companies because they are on parole.
I am so tired of the "all Apple gives for the extra charge is style" flawed analysis that I have to respond to this. It is utter nonsense--most Apple buyers, when pooled mention ease of use. power, flexibility and reliability over style. Style is the icing on the cake not the core reason to buy. This is the same bogus emotional ignore the facts appeal as the Republicans used to call the Democrats tax and spend, even though Republican presidents spend more and, worse, borrow to do it. Not quite the whole story, you are also paying a robust 32- and 64-bit UNIX with a remarkably easy to use GUI and free apps for video, photos, mail, web publishing, and more that few commercial apps rival n terms of ease of use. There are otehr platforms advantages too: I can run OS X, many falvors of Windows (in VM or mative boot), plus many flavors of UNIX and Linux in VM on one machine.On my 8-core 13GB Mac Pro right now I have running: OS X Leopard, Ubuntu Server 8.10, SuSe 10 desktop, and Window Vista Home Premium 64-bit. I am cross-developing OpenGL/SDL and Qt apps for all three platforms on OS X using UNIX tools. No other OS or System let's me do that on one box at one time. Plus Final Cut Studio kicks a*s compared to Similarly-priced Windows alternatives.
People try to make sense of GS catapulting this guy to fame to their detriment when they should properly just keep him in the shadows. Isn't it obvious why? One small Word, one big object: EGO The people who run Goldman-Sachs are used to running everything--including the Fed, Congress, and the Presidency. They have saddled everyone of us with a debt of $165,000 for the bail out (so far) and most of that money goes into their pockets in bonuses, guarantees for their failed investments, and other devious ways they bilk people for cash. It sticks in their craw that some little nobody on the net can flip them the bird and blow raspberries at them and be untouchable. And they just cannot accept that. Their egos cannot stand it.
Ahem...a ...no. The AIR is several hundred dollars cheaper comparing the base configurations for both machines. You pressed that knee-jerk moronic "apple is expensive" reflex button again without thinking. Where do you think you are posting? Some place where people hate facts and prefer unfounded opinion, rumors, innuendo, and fiction like Slashdot? Oh wait.
When it comes to security, the more physical the better. Wireless might seem a attractive on cost and convenience but reliability and vulnerability increase substantially. Again on that theme, the more complex a system, the more that can go wrong. It is all a matter of personal acceptance of a level of risk, but I'll stick with hardwired systems on a UPS and two good-sized dogs which gets me and my family to a comfortable sleeping level. that and Mister 12-gauge full of #00 buckshot and slugs. Your mileage may vary.
He said: "By the way, Sketchpad was the first system in which it was definitely discovered that the light pen is a very bad input device because the blood runs out of your hand in about 20 seconds and leaves it numb. In spite of that it's been reinvented at least 90 times in the last 25 years." Did he ever consider it was the position of the screen that was the problem? I haven't heard of a lot of problems from artists when sketching and painting, I use a writing pen a lot on a desk or table or my lap, and I am not aware of drafting tables being horribly non-ergonomic. Frankly, I think a comfortably-positioned and angled screen might be less stressful than a key board and mouse.
Have you ever even looked at the controlling stock ownership, management, and boards of the "liberal" media? I think not otherwise you wouldn't dare repeat such an obviously Karl Rove-inspired myth that is patently false. It is clear who owns the media and it isn't the liberals.
The whole long tail idea seems like a trendy "pop" business and marketing book boldly proclaiming the obvious. The only thing that changed was it became more economical to serve what were niche markets. But Henry Ford did it: reaching into the then tail of auto ownership by reaching the common man. That can happen via any innovation that reduces either fixed or variable costs whether it be in resources, production, distribution, marketing, selling, or finance. You can even argue the Fed's loose monetary policy coupled with derivative innovations in CDOs allowed houses to reach into the sub-prime tail. That's radical innovation? Hardly. That's basic economics. The book was unimpressive to anyone who understands business and economics.
Boy Scouts--you are an anachronism of narow-minded hateful childish superstitious religion. It didn't have to be that way as you have accomplished a lot of good when you weren't on witch hunts. But you chose war so here it is. Please just die off in the dust of antiquity along with the Inquisition and other hateful superstitious groups. I am a heterosexual man with a wife and family, but I have colleagues who are homosexual and I don't ascribe to your narrow-minded superstitious world view. Particularly given entire regimes who tolerated (not endorsed--just tolerated) homosexuality (Greek, Roman, Japan, N.American Indian,etc.) thrived proving it doesn't hurt society like you wackos say it does). No help from me. Open Source is counter to your founding and ruling principles.
I think the PR spike may indicate Microsoft is behind an astro-turf campaign to raise awareness of Ada in support of their unannounced but soon to beta Visual Ada Plus Professional Platinum Edition 2008 for the Web.
Aye, then we'll monetize ya. Savvy?
Well, the difference is that with gaming systems there is significant money at risk if someone hacks the machines whereas with voting machines there is significant money at risk if someone cannot rig or hack an election and the 'wrong' candidate, i.e. the popular vote winner, is elected. For example what would Al Gore's global warming policy have done to the profits and tax subsidies of the energy industry Dick Cheney chums with?
Yet a lot of people treat them that way like this Slash Dot commenter: "He might well be right, but I'd be more inclined to believe it from someone who doesn't have a corporate interest in picking data points to fit the line he would like to draw." Just why is that rated a 5? It is NOT about belief, but more about science--either the facts and peer review support Mr. Weir or they don't. Apparently they do and in Spades. The majority of "yes" votes on this "standard" are by Microsoft partners who have a vested interest in a dingle vendor, single application (the only full implementation read and write) solution they sell products and services for and can lock in business. Sure IBM is a commercial organization with a checkered past, but they don't own completely open ODF so they aren't doing this for gain. they jsut want a level playing field for formats. And it is a great idea.
Google has 77% market share in search while Yahoo has 16% and Microsoft a little under 4%. If Microsoft and Yahoo brands alone can't get any better share than that, I don;t see how a merger is going to help. Mergers make sense for this kind of deal for only major two reasons: 1) increase efficiency or capital for business model that is failing only because of lack of it or 2) to take a strong brand move it in to a new market with new technology. Neither is the case here: both brands are well-known already and in the market. So neither is bringing anything to the other they didn't already have. There is no synergy here--just a combination of two losing armies that will have too many redundant generals and soldiers and are desperate. The market will become more efficient with this "natural" consolidation but I cannot see an increase in competitive position for either of them. In any event, odds are that the EU won't let this pass muster anyway. Maybe even the DOJ will arouse from its deep slumber on this one.
"I'm sure someone will respond to that by pointing to the Canadian system, and how the quality of coverage is perceived as low as compared to the US system, where you get as much health care as you can afford. "
In the WHO Healthcare rankings worldwide for industrialized countries in 2000 Canada, at 30th place, leads in quality over the US at 37th. At 37th, the US system is clearly poor. Actually pathetic. (http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html)
While the rankings are somewhat controversial, most analysts agree the US has one of the most expensive systems per capita and deliver to lowest quality of care among industrialized countries.