Reducing energy consumption isn't just about saving money, it's about not fucking up the planet too.
Not fucking up the planet is sadly underrated. ask any accountant from an IT company and Not Fucking Up The Planet is just a a trendy thing.
I actualy spoke to our Director of Finance and he sees things in Short Term Gains and not in long term speices survival. i.e. unless someone makes it profitable for the company's investors, reducing energy consumption is not going to happen.
Communism was brought down by its inhability to tell the truth about the Economy, Capitalism may be brought down by its inhability to divulge the truth about the ecology.
Is it just me or is the Legal Dept. the biggest branch of apple? I'm a Mac user, i own an iPod too, but this is getting ridiculous... i say let the skin be used on a shitty phone: when people get to use the real thing, they will see that UI isnt only pretty Aqua buttons...
Jobs changed the name to Apple Inc. but i'm starting to think it should be Apple Legal inc.
... the last municipal elections in the province of quebec used 'e-voting' and the whole thing was a total disaster in most cases. even if the system involved using a paper input, the votes did not get recorded well.
In post-mortem tests conducted by the Directeur Général des Élection (Elections General Director), the SAME paper ballot passed multiple times in the machine recoreded votes for DIFFERENT candidates. From there on, a moratory was imposed on e-voting in the province.
so tell me, whats so hard with making an X in a circle? why do we have to make such a simple thing as voting for 1 candidate in a list so complicated? oh yeah now i get it: the harder it is to vote, the simpler it is to cheat!
You can think of Windows XP as a house with a second floor built of spackle, wood filler and duct tape.
Ah! the good old duct tape indicator! i think this is true of XP. Of course you may edit media, create websites, code, skype... but the work environment isnt really the best there is. but then again, i sadly have to use it at work, for it is the industry standard... not to add that visually speaking, xp is poor compared to os x or xgl on linux. in fact, win xp, and what i've seen of vista, is clearly...hum... i'll use lacking in quality, to be polite. and, i must add, os x predates xp by 7 months and 1 day to be precise (os x released march 24th 2001, xp october 25th).
in such conditions, i prefer to use os x, but i will need an xp box (physical or virtual) to proof my websites and flash games and apps for as long as MS Windows is the defacto standard.
but seriously, when it comes to a computer, its only as bright as its users, for they are the ones inputing data and executing tasks. i think most everyone i know who use xp could easily learn to do their common tasks (office productivity, web browsing, email, chat) on liunx gnome...
..but then again i wonder if most of the windows users are really just windows litterate and not computer users.
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the 1st half of a project takes 90% of the time. the other half of the project takes the other 90% of the time.
i see the blackberry as a nuisance more than a tool. People who own one, at least the ones around me, seem compelled to glance at their BB every 35 seconds or so, even when in an important conversation. Let the BBs be stolen so these people can break the crackberry addiction and come back to the real physical world.
Microsoft is going at IPTV with the windows attitude: they are so infatuated with themselves that they think they will be the standard.
I had the chance of seeing a test deployment of MS's IPTV "solution" in a testing environment for evaluation and its basically sucks. The system is buggy, server intensive -- one of the engineers who demoed it to me refered to it as a 'Server Per Customer' solution. and in good MS tradition, cool features get dropped from version to version, as they are considered too buggy. Visually speaking the "solution" isn't really great. Anyone who has a MediaCenter version of XP knows exactly how it looks and works, and skinning the menus, onscreen guide and services isnt possible. i, for one, would never sign up to an IPTV service using the MS system. not because i hate them, but because i would not want a system that is far from being user-friendly. I would not recommend it to my worst ennemy.
No wonder Verizon is investing efforts to patch the thing: its a complete disaster. And verizon, in the good tradition of the Telco industry, cannot accept such a buggy and yet so costly system. If microsoft thought it could just walk into the IPTV business and dominate, they are wrong. At least this is a reassuring thing: money does not buy everything without effort, good will, and creativity.
once again, as for many other of its endeavors (the name Vista comes to mind) MS sets expectations that it cannot meet. When will people notice that, i keep wondering.
MS should throw less chairs accross offices and concentrate on what they do best...
oh wait... their speciality is buggy, coslty software with inexistant user friendlyness!
i would tend to agree with the GPU theory, because Aero requires graphical acceleration to be constantly on. I read that on sevral reviews, and all agreed that Vista was not a good laptop solution as the ALWAYS ACCELERATING aero feature sucks the juice out of the battery: http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6534816.html (Vista Eats Laptop Batteries for Lunch).
this shows how bad MS is actually going about this: Apple's Aqua interface or The XGL for Linux are way beoynd that kind of problem, and their products are already out... see http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2915/linux_xglco mpiz_graphics for comparative video of all 3 interfaces.
Capitalism + Community + Personnal Info... this new feature is just to make it easier for those marketing guys to gather the info on people.
Lets not be blind to the fact that those who run such sites are companies, which means they have bills to pay....oh! i almost forgot!...this other thing, you know, profits to make.
paranoa is strong, all across the land of the free... this isnt new: it always has been. amreicans have already given up parts of their civil rights for an impression of safety from a spooky theoretical external threat (formerly known as Communism now conveniently know as terrorism).
The next logical step is to ask some rights to be given up for internal threats. the more rights are given up in the name of 'freedom' then the less the americans are actualy free. I just dont get this part. And then i wonder: do americans see this process going on? And if they are, why are they letting the system eat them up? Or are american totaly blind to such a process? in this case what makes them blind to it? then again some americans i met on some trips there would've told me that i think too much.
well the 'civilized world', not able to be without slavelike labour for very long, found a great thing in Globalisation: the slaves or exploited employees didnt have to live within their borders anymore.
Look around you. Most of the readers here have sevral electronic devices. Now check how many are partialy or completely manufactured in china. Thats right -- most, if not all of them.
This greedy lifestyle that we call the 'information age', our high tech ivory tower is built, once again, on the cheap exploitation of man by man. This is what you should think a bit about each time you use not only your iPod, but your PDA, laptop, desktop, digital camera, flash memory card...
And this can be extended to so much of what we all take for granted. But our lust for ever faster, ever greater abundance makes us blind to this reality. sadly.s
hmm. speaking of steve's apperance, didnt he get operated for a cancer a year ago?
oh but i forget, steve is a god... he HAS to be in the best of shape every time. he cannot be sick. he cannot fail, let alone get mixed up in a presentation. That would be a sacrilege.
well this calls for a new iPod accessory: the 20KHz ultrasound stick. and it should come complete with topical Quercetin cream.
but for the 60 secs of 20KHz Ultrasound, you will have to buy it 99cents on the iTMS.
ant
sure hawking is undoubtly important but... what if hawking didnt have to go around in a wheelchair, speaking trough a computer, would you have remebered him?
and what about einstein, would we remeber him as easily if he hadnt come up with a simple powerful equation such as e=mc2 ?
we as a society seem to remeber stuff that strikes imagination... e = mc2 does that, so does the wheelchair and robotic voice...
military spending is such a waste. I can't remember the last time i used something developed by the military. I think the net would be a better place without this kind of research.
you've just posted a comment on the internet, formerly known as arpanet (well a long time ago)... wasnt that a network of computers made for military use???
though i agree that military spending is a waste, i suggest you reevaluate your use of [INSERT USED OBJECT HERE] for it most probably has some root in military use...
wether we want it or not, war is a time when people get very inventive and money is rarely a concern, as victory is the only goal... think of all the advances in science that where triggered by war and you will notice how much we owe (in terms of technology) to this barbaric thing we call war.
...and they'll want the whole mileage you make.
whould any goverment official really SAY they are planning to spy on the poulation?? Does anyone remeber ANY government that announced such a spying plan BEFORE putting it in place??
seriously, this is just the infrastructure necessary to actualy get to the big brother level. the people putting it in place won't be the ones who get to use it to spy: this is just unlocking the door...
... its fun to have the americans to blame for everything in this world: it makes every problem so easy to understand!
Pluto has been, to what i can understand, qualified as a planet just so the americans could boast to have discovered a planet in the solar system... the planet definition loophole that this created is still going on today... its clearly the usa's fault!
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Not fucking up the planet is sadly underrated. ask any accountant from an IT company and Not Fucking Up The Planet is just a a trendy thing.
I actualy spoke to our Director of Finance and he sees things in Short Term Gains and not in long term speices survival. i.e. unless someone makes it profitable for the company's investors, reducing energy consumption is not going to happen.
Communism was brought down by its inhability to tell the truth about the Economy, Capitalism may be brought down by its inhability to divulge the truth about the ecology.
Is it just me or is the Legal Dept. the biggest branch of apple? I'm a Mac user, i own an iPod too, but this is getting ridiculous... i say let the skin be used on a shitty phone: when people get to use the real thing, they will see that UI isnt only pretty Aqua buttons...
Jobs changed the name to Apple Inc. but i'm starting to think it should be Apple Legal inc.
ant
... the last municipal elections in the province of quebec used 'e-voting' and the whole thing was a total disaster in most cases. even if the system involved using a paper input, the votes did not get recorded well.
In post-mortem tests conducted by the Directeur Général des Élection (Elections General Director), the SAME paper ballot passed multiple times in the machine recoreded votes for DIFFERENT candidates. From there on, a moratory was imposed on e-voting in the province.
so tell me, whats so hard with making an X in a circle? why do we have to make such a simple thing as voting for 1 candidate in a list so complicated? oh yeah now i get it: the harder it is to vote, the simpler it is to cheat!
sign up at nasa headquarters and meet Olga, 5'3", 230lbs, your new russian mate!
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the 1st 10% of a project takes 90% of the time. the last 90% of the project take up the other 90% of the time...
Ah! the good old duct tape indicator! i think this is true of XP. Of course you may edit media, create websites, code, skype... but the work environment isnt really the best there is. but then again, i sadly have to use it at work, for it is the industry standard... not to add that visually speaking, xp is poor compared to os x or xgl on linux. in fact, win xp, and what i've seen of vista, is clearly...hum... i'll use lacking in quality, to be polite. and, i must add, os x predates xp by 7 months and 1 day to be precise (os x released march 24th 2001, xp october 25th).
in such conditions, i prefer to use os x, but i will need an xp box (physical or virtual) to proof my websites and flash games and apps for as long as MS Windows is the defacto standard.
but seriously, when it comes to a computer, its only as bright as its users, for they are the ones inputing data and executing tasks. i think most everyone i know who use xp could easily learn to do their common tasks (office productivity, web browsing, email, chat) on liunx gnome...
..but then again i wonder if most of the windows users are really just windows litterate and not computer users.
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the 1st half of a project takes 90% of the time. the other half of the project takes the other 90% of the time.
i see the blackberry as a nuisance more than a tool. People who own one, at least the ones around me, seem compelled to glance at their BB every 35 seconds or so, even when in an important conversation. Let the BBs be stolen so these people can break the crackberry addiction and come back to the real physical world.
ant
since i do html/actionscript/dHTML stuff, i have my browser cache size set to 0. this would technicaly prevent the id to be cached, no? ant
Microsoft is going at IPTV with the windows attitude: they are so infatuated with themselves that they think they will be the standard.
I had the chance of seeing a test deployment of MS's IPTV "solution" in a testing environment for evaluation and its basically sucks. The system is buggy, server intensive -- one of the engineers who demoed it to me refered to it as a 'Server Per Customer' solution. and in good MS tradition, cool features get dropped from version to version, as they are considered too buggy.
Visually speaking the "solution" isn't really great. Anyone who has a MediaCenter version of XP knows exactly how it looks and works, and skinning the menus, onscreen guide and services isnt possible.
i, for one, would never sign up to an IPTV service using the MS system. not because i hate them, but because i would not want a system that is far from being user-friendly. I would not recommend it to my worst ennemy.
No wonder Verizon is investing efforts to patch the thing: its a complete disaster. And verizon, in the good tradition of the Telco industry, cannot accept such a buggy and yet so costly system. If microsoft thought it could just walk into the IPTV business and dominate, they are wrong. At least this is a reassuring thing: money does not buy everything without effort, good will, and creativity.
once again, as for many other of its endeavors (the name Vista comes to mind) MS sets expectations that it cannot meet. When will people notice that, i keep wondering.
MS should throw less chairs accross offices and concentrate on what they do best...
oh wait... their speciality is buggy, coslty software with inexistant user friendlyness!
ant
i would tend to agree with the GPU theory, because Aero requires graphical acceleration to be constantly on. I read that on sevral reviews, and all agreed that Vista was not a good laptop solution as the ALWAYS ACCELERATING aero feature sucks the juice out of the battery: http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6534816.html (Vista Eats Laptop Batteries for Lunch).
o mpiz_graphics for comparative video of all 3 interfaces.
this shows how bad MS is actually going about this: Apple's Aqua interface or The XGL for Linux are way beoynd that kind of problem, and their products are already out... see http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2915/linux_xglc
ant
...that OS X is cooler than windows. (like we really needed THAT proof to reach that conclusion!)
ant
Capitalism + Community + Personnal Info... this new feature is just to make it easier for those marketing guys to gather the info on people.
...oh! i almost forgot! ...this other thing, you know, profits to make.
Lets not be blind to the fact that those who run such sites are companies, which means they have bills to pay.
paranoa is strong, all across the land of the free... this isnt new: it always has been. amreicans have already given up parts of their civil rights for an impression of safety from a spooky theoretical external threat (formerly known as Communism now conveniently know as terrorism).
The next logical step is to ask some rights to be given up for internal threats.
the more rights are given up in the name of 'freedom' then the less the americans are actualy free. I just dont get this part. And then i wonder: do americans see this process going on? And if they are, why are they letting the system eat them up? Or are american totaly blind to such a process? in this case what makes them blind to it? then again some americans i met on some trips there would've told me that i think too much.
well the 'civilized world', not able to be without slavelike labour for very long, found a great thing in Globalisation: the slaves or exploited employees didnt have to live within their borders anymore.
Look around you. Most of the readers here have sevral electronic devices. Now check how many are partialy or completely manufactured in china. Thats right -- most, if not all of them.
This greedy lifestyle that we call the 'information age', our high tech ivory tower is built, once again, on the cheap exploitation of man by man. This is what you should think a bit about each time you use not only your iPod, but your PDA, laptop, desktop, digital camera, flash memory card...
And this can be extended to so much of what we all take for granted. But our lust for ever faster, ever greater abundance makes us blind to this reality. sadly.s
ant
hmm. speaking of steve's apperance, didnt he get operated for a cancer a year ago?
oh but i forget, steve is a god... he HAS to be in the best of shape every time. he cannot be sick. he cannot fail, let alone get mixed up in a presentation. That would be a sacrilege.
well this calls for a new iPod accessory: the 20KHz ultrasound stick. and it should come complete with topical Quercetin cream. but for the 60 secs of 20KHz Ultrasound, you will have to buy it 99cents on the iTMS. ant
sure hawking is undoubtly important but... what if hawking didnt have to go around in a wheelchair, speaking trough a computer, would you have remebered him?
and what about einstein, would we remeber him as easily if he hadnt come up with a simple powerful equation such as e=mc2 ?
we as a society seem to remeber stuff that strikes imagination... e = mc2 does that, so does the wheelchair and robotic voice...
This clustering pattern suggests the presence of at least four distinct hands, and is consistent with the views of some art historians.
the tutoring methods of these days where known, but now we have mathematical proof of it...
i just hope that in 2606 computer historians dont have to analyse source code to be sure bill gates didnt code windows all by himself...
... redeploy them in michigan: this time of the year, they are bound not to die of heatstrokes.
ant
military spending is such a waste. I can't remember the last time i used something developed by the military. I think the net would be a better place without this kind of research.
you've just posted a comment on the internet, formerly known as arpanet (well a long time ago)... wasnt that a network of computers made for military use???
though i agree that military spending is a waste, i suggest you reevaluate your use of [INSERT USED OBJECT HERE] for it most probably has some root in military use...
wether we want it or not, war is a time when people get very inventive and money is rarely a concern, as victory is the only goal... think of all the advances in science that where triggered by war and you will notice how much we owe (in terms of technology) to this barbaric thing we call war.
antthis just proves why it's illegal most everywhere: it makes you think...
...and they'll want the whole mileage you make. whould any goverment official really SAY they are planning to spy on the poulation?? Does anyone remeber ANY government that announced such a spying plan BEFORE putting it in place?? seriously, this is just the infrastructure necessary to actualy get to the big brother level. the people putting it in place won't be the ones who get to use it to spy: this is just unlocking the door...
... its fun to have the americans to blame for everything in this world: it makes every problem so easy to understand! Pluto has been, to what i can understand, qualified as a planet just so the americans could boast to have discovered a planet in the solar system... the planet definition loophole that this created is still going on today... its clearly the usa's fault!