The device is almost $500. It's the margins they are after, not the bulk sale.
It's Apple style marketing... And I would completely understand if this becomes a success.
And first to crash, no doubt. I'll take the one that's more stable and standards compliant, even if it is slightly slower (not that I'm taking MS's word on this).
I'm pretty sure some Mexican slashdotters will be more disgusted at you calling Mexico a "third world" country.
As a citizen of a South American thirld world country, personally, I am not disgusted with dealing with the issue that my country is part of the thirld world. It's a sad fact that I hope some day will change.
I am disgusted though by the what the Great Grand Parent suggested. Either that Mexicans are so backwards they don't care about regulating the radio frequency spectrum, or that it's just a shitty country and wou can do whatever you want.
My concern is that email would, for some reason or another take all my information hostage.
What kind of accountability would Google offer for a free service, in contrast to the one offered by Dreamhost?
I'm actually suprised that some POP3 clients haven't incorporated this view.
Opera's built in email client (M2) uses the exact email paradigm as GMail, AFAIK (I was using it full time 2 years ago when I was on Windows). And it came out before GMail, IIRC.
Even, it had some nicer features like automatic categorization of mailing list emails that had the X-mailing-list (Or something like that) email header, I am still waiting for similar functionality from GMail and I have suggested it several times.
Not a problem. I'll just get an Apple label and stick it on my PC:)
I think that is what the Apple stickers that come with the computers are for.:-)
Buy one Apple computer and get the right to run Apple software on two non-Apple ones, wish I'd known before.
Users in demanding fields such as biosciences or meteorology do hack OS kernels to slim them down, alter the balance between throughput and computing, and to open them to the resources of a massive grid.
Sounds pretty useful to sophisticated OS X users to me!
I use a Mac for my research because it is a great desktop and it has a unixy feeling (I say feeling because it is still a headache to get some programs installed/compiled which are a breeze in any other of the more traditional flavors; especially with the Intel transition, there are some things that do not compile).
But besides that, I have to say, it's been proven with hard facts and my own experience that MacOSX is not an efficient OS. I don't know why they would even want to spend time hacking the kernel, or use MacOSX for a massive grid. Use Linux, FreeBSD or anything else more efficient, and hack it to improve it even further.
I am not trying to give an excuse for Apple, but it is just clear that Scientific computing is not the forte os MacOSX, even though Apple might market it as a strong point.
I think there are a lot of reasons this is good and interesting.
First of all it is a technical exercise that allows you to increse the possibilities of what you do with your computers. Macs, do have a very nice OS, but they also are computersee with very nice design; there are people out there running Linux con on their G3, G4, G5 processors just because they prefer it, why is it hard to imagine there could be someone who would fancy an Apple computer to run Windows for practical reasons. Even more, the guy who started the contest wants to runs Windows for work reasons, yet he would rather do it in a nice MacBook Pro.
Then, the fact that both Apple and Microsoft have stated publically that they won't offer any means to make it possible to boot Windows on the new MacIntels just makes it even more interesting. Just for the sake of proving them wrong.
I think that Google has a long term strategy, which is amassing the biggest collection of diverse information in the world and later on use machine learning/data mining techniques to gather useful information.
Today they have services like GMail, GMail managing your own domain, GTalk where you can save the your chat logs, Blogspot, Google Groups, Orkut, Google Videos. Now they have added the service of hosting Webpages. I figure, first of all, it's easier to control if they own it; at least they can try to make sure that all the info is legit in the sense that it comes from a real user and, therefore, the information is useful. Also, they can start adding features that will make the life easier for the data mining algorithms to extract data.
Following this reasoning, I think that in the future we will see more cool services from Google that will involve channeling/storing/guarding our precious data somehow (Even if its pics from your pet Ferret). If this were true I think that Google is going in a direction where marketing will be it's core source of revenue.
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24 users is less a study, and more a reason to declare "further research needed"
With that outcome sounds like the research is ripe for publication then.
(Emph. mine)
Apple doesn't want Flash on the iPhone.
I thought you said smell ...
I think she misread the memo. It was 'Casual Fridays' not 'Fire days'.
Does he work at Google now? ... * ducks a chair *
This is not the future of D&D. There are no Collectible Cards involved ...
The device is almost $500. It's the margins they are after, not the bulk sale. It's Apple style marketing ... And I would completely understand if this becomes a success.
Score: 5, Scary
And first to crash, no doubt. I'll take the one that's more stable and standards compliant, even if it is slightly slower (not that I'm taking MS's word on this).
Also, annoys users faster ...
I'm pretty sure some Mexican slashdotters will be more disgusted at you calling Mexico a "third world" country.
As a citizen of a South American thirld world country, personally, I am not disgusted with dealing with the issue that my country is part of the thirld world. It's a sad fact that I hope some day will change.
I am disgusted though by the what the Great Grand Parent suggested. Either that Mexicans are so backwards they don't care about regulating the radio frequency spectrum, or that it's just a shitty country and wou can do whatever you want.
Does it come with a Psycopath AI?
My concern is that email would, for some reason or another take all my information hostage. What kind of accountability would Google offer for a free service, in contrast to the one offered by Dreamhost?
Opera's built in email client (M2) uses the exact email paradigm as GMail, AFAIK (I was using it full time 2 years ago when I was on Windows). And it came out before GMail, IIRC.
Even, it had some nicer features like automatic categorization of mailing list emails that had the X-mailing-list (Or something like that) email header, I am still waiting for similar functionality from GMail and I have suggested it several times.
I use a Mac for my research because it is a great desktop and it has a unixy feeling (I say feeling because it is still a headache to get some programs installed/compiled which are a breeze in any other of the more traditional flavors; especially with the Intel transition, there are some things that do not compile).
But besides that, I have to say, it's been proven with hard facts and my own experience that MacOSX is not an efficient OS. I don't know why they would even want to spend time hacking the kernel, or use MacOSX for a massive grid. Use Linux, FreeBSD or anything else more efficient, and hack it to improve it even further.
I am not trying to give an excuse for Apple, but it is just clear that Scientific computing is not the forte os MacOSX, even though Apple might market it as a strong point.
I think it should be: Windows Hasta la Vista
I think there are a lot of reasons this is good and interesting.
First of all it is a technical exercise that allows you to increse the possibilities of what you do with your computers. Macs, do have a very nice OS, but they also are computersee with very nice design; there are people out there running Linux con on their G3, G4, G5 processors just because they prefer it, why is it hard to imagine there could be someone who would fancy an Apple computer to run Windows for practical reasons. Even more, the guy who started the contest wants to runs Windows for work reasons, yet he would rather do it in a nice MacBook Pro.
Then, the fact that both Apple and Microsoft have stated publically that they won't offer any means to make it possible to boot Windows on the new MacIntels just makes it even more interesting. Just for the sake of proving them wrong.
I think that Google has a long term strategy, which is amassing the biggest collection of diverse information in the world and later on use machine learning/data mining techniques to gather useful information.
Today they have services like GMail, GMail managing your own domain, GTalk where you can save the your chat logs, Blogspot, Google Groups, Orkut, Google Videos. Now they have added the service of hosting Webpages. I figure, first of all, it's easier to control if they own it; at least they can try to make sure that all the info is legit in the sense that it comes from a real user and, therefore, the information is useful. Also, they can start adding features that will make the life easier for the data mining algorithms to extract data.
Following this reasoning, I think that in the future we will see more cool services from Google that will involve channeling/storing/guarding our precious data somehow (Even if its pics from your pet Ferret). If this were true I think that Google is going in a direction where marketing will be it's core source of revenue.