In Omaha, red-light cameras are required to take two pictures of you(on the same film, as I read it). One with you before you enter the intersection, one with you in the intersection. Both pics must show that the light is red. These cameras have been placed at high-traffic intersections. Surrounding traffic/lighting/etc doesn't change that much between before you enter and when you're in the intersection. Thus the city and the police both have proof that you entered when the light was red.
Trouble with this is that not every Linux project becomes a newsmaker. What of the ones that have quietly & slowly shifted to or from Linux? What of the ones that have shifted to or from Linux, but wanted the change to remain quiet for security reasons? What of the ones who announce such a change, but never makes it past the newsmaking stage(some for security reasons, some for political reasons, or some for some other reason?)
Those will all throw off the map, and when we're dealing with market share/penetration in the range that we are with Linux, even a small change will affect it significantly?
If you'd bought apple stock and google stock at the time google went IPO, your apple stock would have outperformed your google stock by 3 or 4 times.
I beg to differ. "3 or 4 times" is an exaggeration.
Google Apple
$108.31 $15.40<--Aug 20, 2004
$535.27 $140.92<--Sept 17, 2007
$100 gets you this number of shares:
0.9233 6.494
Your shares are now worth:
$494.20 $915.06
Nitpicking aside, however, I'd definitely have rather put my money into Apple rather than Google.
Re:Cell providers are the problem, not the phone
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I don't want or need GPS in my phone; if I wanted a GPS receiver, I'd buy one.
I don't know about where you are; it might be different there. But here in Omaha, about a year ago, we had someone call 911 because they were in trouble. They were so high on meth that they couldn't tell the 911 operator where they were correctly. They died due to exposure in the snow. If the 911 operator had been able to push a button and have the phone relay to the operator the phone's location, we would've been able to prevent 2 deaths.
As long as the phone can do GPS(as above), it's a simple matter to add a GUI to the phone and present the data to the user instead of 911.
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A crappy ending to what could have been a pretty neat story, if you ask me.
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If only we could make stupidity more painful...
"I knew there was a reason to leave.sigs on. Is it me or is this.sig funny in this context?" OK, maybe not funny, but interesting nonetheless...
From TFA: >That said, don't go thinking you don't have work to do, Apple.... It's ridiculously hard to transfer a track downloaded for one iPod to another.
And you're not going to be able to. The RIAA will plant their feet even more strongly against that than they did for variable pricing. Being able to transfer songs from one iPod directly to another is one of the ways piracy could happen.
From TFA: > "We don't expect that retailers will use RFID like this at the product level for at least 10 or 15 years." By then, Truchsess thinks, security will be worked out.
Isn't this kind of lax attitude how a number of our current security flaws have come about? Through lax attitudes at first?
Spam: Authenticating the other computer all the way back to the original computer could have helped with this.
Phreaking: Likewise.
DDoS: Likewise.
Need I go on?
> Would it kill him to keep one or two around for "kicking the tires" of new Operating Systems?
One that has the Vista Requirements? Especially for the Premium, seeing as how you would be trying to convince people^H^H^H^H^H^Htechies to upgrade? Yeah it probably would.
1 GB memory
That's a fairly large amount for the system. If you want to run stuff that should be a memory hog(image editing, sound editing, etc), then your requirements will increase sharply.
40 GB hard drive space
Likewise.
15 GB free HD space
I don't know about you, but I tend to accumulate things. I start to run things down to only a few free GB, whereupon I free up a couple of GB.
Actually, that's just basic sales. Suppose you've got someone who wants to by a widget. Not an Acme Widget, but just any widget, and they've settled on Acme. But if an Acme Widget fanboi walks in off the street and tells the customer that there's going to be a new version released next week, then the customer might well decide to wait until Widget 2.0 comes out and get that one instead. While they're waiting for 2.0 to come out, they might go to Acme's competitor and get one of theirs. You've lost that sale.
And this is just stuff I gleaned while selling luggage at my local department store.
FTA: Rewards would include[...]free airtime minutes for Apple's forthcoming "iPhone" and the like.
Free airtime? Last I heard, they were just going to be making the phone, not becoming a carrier. Motorola doesn't include the minutes, Verizon does.
Based on some rough math estimated for the proposal, the team pushing this concept believes they could cut Apple's bandwidth costs by hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per year.
TFA makes it seem like the project is rather far along. Too far for them to still be working on 'rough math'. Also, millions of dollars per year? I know that Apple sends out a lot of content, but still, that's a lot of bandwidth.
[T]he system would also save terabytes of Internet backbone bandwidth that is now used for Software Updates, QuickTime Movie Trailers, and iTunes Store downloads among other things.
Internet backbone bandiwdth, yes. But again, terabytes?
Another thing: How would the client computer report to Apple that the data of X size was received intact?
> In fact, even if you were questioned about the ethics of hacking, you might lie. An unethical person would.
Does anyone else find it funny that the line running at the bottom of/. right now is "There is one way to find out if a man is honest -- ask him. If he says "Yes" you know he is crooked. -- Groucho Marx?
Re:Not go gushing about Woz but.....
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Does anyone know where the submitter got the 160m customer figure? It should also show how many employees they have. Since LIC isn't an IT firm, the employees use the IT product, not their customers.
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>browsing the notes to the lecture that the teacher made available and adding notes/annotations
A good student will have pulled down the lecture notes to their hard drive already.
>Pulling down source code from the book you've got because it didn't come with a CD (that costs extra)
You don't know when you got a CD with your book?
>Googling for more info to assist a group project
This one is a decent use. The instructor could have a web-based interface to say when students can use the Internet.
>Uploading/Downloading your notes from your home server so you can keep them all in one place
Again, do this before class and again immediately after class.
>Saving bookmarks and urls that a teacher may point out as a good source for more info
This is where that web-based interface comes in handy. Giving URLs and/or sites they're allowed to browse.
>Using your laptop to run a presentation/group project
USB thumb drives are common enough, as are ethernet ports on laptops. Equip the instructor's computer with a crossover cable that will enable a student to send a presentation to the instructor's computer.
>Is this "Obvious Day" on Slashdot?
No, but it is "RTFA Day".
>and would Apple like a cut of that delicious, delicious profit by making some of those cheap accessories too?
Apple's trying to create a bigger market for accessories by spending their advertising dollars hitting everyone with ads targeted at audiophiles with fat wallets.
> Fourth, the description is by someone who isn't familiar with fulfilment operations
Heck, the entire article is by someone who isn't familiar with fulfilment ops. FTFA: "With your valuables bubble wrapped and the box filled with peanuts, it's handed off to the automatic taping machine. That's right, you hold the box shut and feed it into the machine that takes over and tapes it shut." Just like every other warehouse.
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In Omaha, red-light cameras are required to take two pictures of you(on the same film, as I read it). One with you before you enter the intersection, one with you in the intersection. Both pics must show that the light is red. These cameras have been placed at high-traffic intersections. Surrounding traffic/lighting/etc doesn't change that much between before you enter and when you're in the intersection. Thus the city and the police both have proof that you entered when the light was red.
Trouble with this is that not every Linux project becomes a newsmaker. What of the ones that have quietly & slowly shifted to or from Linux? What of the ones that have shifted to or from Linux, but wanted the change to remain quiet for security reasons? What of the ones who announce such a change, but never makes it past the newsmaking stage(some for security reasons, some for political reasons, or some for some other reason?)
Those will all throw off the map, and when we're dealing with market share/penetration in the range that we are with Linux, even a small change will affect it significantly?
I beg to differ. "3 or 4 times" is an exaggeration.
Google Apple
$108.31 $15.40<--Aug 20, 2004
$535.27 $140.92<--Sept 17, 2007
$100 gets you this number of shares:
0.9233 6.494
Your shares are now worth:
$494.20 $915.06
Nitpicking aside, however, I'd definitely have rather put my money into Apple rather than Google.
I don't know about where you are; it might be different there. But here in Omaha, about a year ago, we had someone call 911 because they were in trouble. They were so high on meth that they couldn't tell the 911 operator where they were correctly. They died due to exposure in the snow. If the 911 operator had been able to push a button and have the phone relay to the operator the phone's location, we would've been able to prevent 2 deaths.
As long as the phone can do GPS(as above), it's a simple matter to add a GUI to the phone and present the data to the user instead of 911.
Go for the print version. 1 page, no ads, just the straight scoop.
>... A crappy ending to what could have been a pretty neat story, if you ask me. -- If only we could make stupidity more painful... "I knew there was a reason to leave .sigs on. Is it me or is this .sig funny in this context?" OK, maybe not funny, but interesting nonetheless...
Whatever happened to ironing? Can't we have it do that for us too?
Free compression! Use hexadecimal! An quick 4:1 compression ratio if you use a free program that you download off the 'net.
For example, the above becomes: ABAD4553556A94AAAAA57556AACB54B5D56D2AA915294A56 AAA5F55D52A0AA0A95150001BFFD5406554A952A552A954AB 5554A1
From TFA: >That said, don't go thinking you don't have work to do, Apple. ... It's ridiculously hard to transfer a track downloaded for one iPod to another.
And you're not going to be able to. The RIAA will plant their feet even more strongly against that than they did for variable pricing. Being able to transfer songs from one iPod directly to another is one of the ways piracy could happen.
From TFA: > "We don't expect that retailers will use RFID like this at the product level for at least 10 or 15 years." By then, Truchsess thinks, security will be worked out.
Isn't this kind of lax attitude how a number of our current security flaws have come about? Through lax attitudes at first?
Spam: Authenticating the other computer all the way back to the original computer could have helped with this.
Phreaking: Likewise. DDoS: Likewise. Need I go on?
One that has the Vista Requirements? Especially for the Premium, seeing as how you would be trying to convince people^H^H^H^H^H^Htechies to upgrade? Yeah it probably would.
Actually, that's just basic sales. Suppose you've got someone who wants to by a widget. Not an Acme Widget, but just any widget, and they've settled on Acme. But if an Acme Widget fanboi walks in off the street and tells the customer that there's going to be a new version released next week, then the customer might well decide to wait until Widget 2.0 comes out and get that one instead. While they're waiting for 2.0 to come out, they might go to Acme's competitor and get one of theirs. You've lost that sale.
And this is just stuff I gleaned while selling luggage at my local department store.
Symantec does the same thing. IIRC, they did the same thing twice in the past year. Cry wolf, then everyone will buy our stuff.
FTA: Rewards would include[...]free airtime minutes for Apple's forthcoming "iPhone" and the like.
Free airtime? Last I heard, they were just going to be making the phone, not becoming a carrier. Motorola doesn't include the minutes, Verizon does.
Based on some rough math estimated for the proposal, the team pushing this concept believes they could cut Apple's bandwidth costs by hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per year.
TFA makes it seem like the project is rather far along. Too far for them to still be working on 'rough math'. Also, millions of dollars per year? I know that Apple sends out a lot of content, but still, that's a lot of bandwidth.
[T]he system would also save terabytes of Internet backbone bandwidth that is now used for Software Updates, QuickTime Movie Trailers, and iTunes Store downloads among other things.
Internet backbone bandiwdth, yes. But again, terabytes?
Another thing: How would the client computer report to Apple that the data of X size was received intact?
Emoti-bombing. Just like GoogleBombing, but for emotions on LiveJournal!
Yes, it does sound a little flamebaitish. However, for Linux to move forward, it needs to be said.
> In fact, even if you were questioned about the ethics of hacking, you might lie. An unethical person would.
/. right now is "There is one way to find out if a man is honest -- ask him. If he says "Yes" you know he is crooked. -- Groucho Marx?
Does anyone else find it funny that the line running at the bottom of
How about being a star at Nerdvana?
Does anyone know where the submitter got the 160m customer figure? It should also show how many employees they have. Since LIC isn't an IT firm, the employees use the IT product, not their customers.
>browsing the notes to the lecture that the teacher made available and adding notes/annotations
A good student will have pulled down the lecture notes to their hard drive already.
>Pulling down source code from the book you've got because it didn't come with a CD (that costs extra)
You don't know when you got a CD with your book?
>Googling for more info to assist a group project
This one is a decent use. The instructor could have a web-based interface to say when students can use the Internet.
>Uploading/Downloading your notes from your home server so you can keep them all in one place
Again, do this before class and again immediately after class.
>Saving bookmarks and urls that a teacher may point out as a good source for more info
This is where that web-based interface comes in handy. Giving URLs and/or sites they're allowed to browse.
>Using your laptop to run a presentation/group project
USB thumb drives are common enough, as are ethernet ports on laptops. Equip the instructor's computer with a crossover cable that will enable a student to send a presentation to the instructor's computer.
>Is this "Obvious Day" on Slashdot?
No, but it is "RTFA Day".
>and would Apple like a cut of that delicious, delicious profit by making some of those cheap accessories too?
Apple's trying to create a bigger market for accessories by spending their advertising dollars hitting everyone with ads targeted at audiophiles with fat wallets.
Apple overprices their iPod accessories. To create an accessory market.
Kind of like giving their competitor^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hhelper companies some advertising dollars, only without actually doing so.
They already banned smoking, as of July 1, 2004: http://communications.lakeheadu.ca/news/?id=47
> Fourth, the description is by someone who isn't familiar with fulfilment operations
Heck, the entire article is by someone who isn't familiar with fulfilment ops. FTFA: "With your valuables bubble wrapped and the box filled with peanuts, it's handed off to the automatic taping machine. That's right, you hold the box shut and feed it into the machine that takes over and tapes it shut." Just like every other warehouse.