The article blurb already sums up EVERYTHING that is known about this coming event. It coincides with a professional photography conference. The invite is a close-up of Aperture's logo. Aperture obviously matters a lot to that crowd, not so much to other people.
ThinkSecret doesn't have any more info about it than that. TUAW doesn't have any more info about it than that. MacRumors and MacOSRumors don't have any more info about it than that. Most likely there *is* no more info about it than that.
Aperture update, and maybe the new MBP too. End of story. Next time, how about waiting until there's actually something worth discussing, mmmkay?
Your reading is incorrect. Australia may have gotten it right, but the SCOTUS has explicitly allowed retroactive extension, and Congress has indeed been ripping us off (WRT copyright) since 1976.
Yes, PowerPC is strong in the server room. Too bad for Freescale that 99% of them are IBM chips.
Presumably Freescale still has a decent share of the embedded market, but their position in general computing can be summed up in 8 characters: MPC8641D. Their amazing high-performance dual-core fast-FSB low-wattage super-G4 has been "just around the corner" since mid-2004.
Huh? I can only presume you are under 25 years old and implicitly disdain history. The only thing Todd has done which many many other writer/artists (Joe Kubert, John Byrne, Frank Miller, etc) hadn't already done before him was to set up his own merchandising company. While that's very nice for his wallet, it has nothing to do with "pushing the limits of art".
The mini is pricy when compared to a no-brand minitower that occupies several times as much volume. A whole lot of what you're paying for is the form factor. Take a look at Cappucino, AOpen, etc. But you better look very quickly, because I see those guys going out of business in the near future. You can buy a Mac mini AND a retail copy of Windows for much less than those guys' little Pentium M boxes.
Now, if what you want is a low-frills minitower *Mac*, well, join the club. We've been waiting all millennium.
No, plenty of people did figure out how much a headless iMac SHOULD have cost. That figure was hundreds of dollars lower than the Cube, even after you count the luxury form factor.
With the possible exception of Steve Jobs himself (due to recursive RDF effects), I am confident that EVERY significant executive at Apple knows EXACTLY what our crowd was (and still is) clamoring for: a low-frills minitower, possibly based on the iMac mobo if that helps to save cost, but with a standard replaceable GPU slot and one or two open drive bays. It's not rocket surgery.
According to every price sheet available from Intel or outside news sources, the price of Core 2 Duo (Merom) is the same as (or lower than) Core Duo (Yonah) at the same clock speed. We'll ignore Conroe for now because it isn't socket-compatible.
Why the heck is Apple (or anyone really) still using Yonah when you can replace it with Merom at no cost? The only non-evil reason would be that Intel's Merom production hasn't caught up to vendor demand yet. But even if, that's 2-3 months delay at most, after which Core 2 should entirely supplant the standard-version Core 1. It would be very out of character for Lord Steve to upgrade a Mac model, then change it again in the same season.
I certainly hope he isn't falling back into Apple's mid-90s habit of directly hamstringing certain models (i.e. lower performance without any reduction of Apple's manufacturing cost) so the complete Mac line has clearer price points.
The lesson that Apple SHOULD have learned that day was "people won't buy an overpriced, underpowered Mac (with limited expansion capability too) just because it looks fairly cool". For the same money you could buy a superior PowerMac.
Okay, so let's see. We have data on both sides of the balance. What can we make of it?
On the one hand, we have ONE group of west Himalayan glaciers which are remaining constant or maybe even growing a bit. Meanwhile, the other NINETY FIVE PERCENT of Himalayan glaciers are retreating. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story /0,6903,1646656,00.html Also, note that the Himalayas (east and west) have a total of 34000 sq km of glaciers.
On the other hand:
There are 1834000 sq km of glaciers in Greenland, which are shrinking. Oh, and the rate of melt is ACCELERATING. Greenland showed a record melt in 2002... followed by an even larger one in 2005. http://images.google.com/images?q=greenland+melt+m ap
And of course there's Antarctica, with the world's largest ice mass, which has been losing thousands of sq km each year. http://nsidc.org/iceshelves/
So, according to Fragmer, thousands of data points confirming loss of glaciers can be counterbalanced by one study that showed the POSSIBILITY of one glacier growing. What a convenient way to view the world.
Great subject line, by the way, and thanks for finding those WMDs.
Oh, that's wonderful news. Please give us all a rough time estimate, with 1 significant digit of precision, when any well-known copyrighted work (such as Of Mice and Men, Doc Savage, or the song Happy Birthday) will actually come out of copyright.
Diebold touchscreens came to Maryland in 2004. Democrats won every major vote worth mentioning (Kerry got our EVs). And guess what? Technology-savvy Marylanders of every political stripe still think they're just as terrible, and still want them eliminated.
p.s. I'd like to remind everyone that Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta all used to be officially recognized planets... until it was discovered that there are thousands of other objects much like them in the same part of space. Then they got redefined. Hmm... does this pattern of events sound familiar?
Actually, Pluto's orbit isn't erratic, and Neptune dominates its orbit quite nicely. Pluto is 3:2 resonance locked, which makes it a pseudo-moon of Neptune (not entirely dissimilar to Cruithne's relationship with Earth).
NWN is by no means a perfect game. The D20 ruleset is saddled with old wrong ideas deep in its kernel (AC, level-based HP, memorization, etc) no matter how elegant they make the surrounding details. NWN's default AI is horrible; AI haks are erratic. And its 2.5D geometry is just plain sad compared to the true 3D engines used by most other games this millennium.
But it has exactly one thing unmatched by any other CRPG since perhaps FRUA -- the toolset. Other games offer skins, maps, tweaks, etc. Thanks to sites like NWVault, NWN has entire UNIVERSES full of those things and more.
As a CR subscriber, I am utterly amazed that they even had the IDEA to construct a test like that, much less actually find capable programmers and do it. Perhaps that security company cold-called them and suggested it?
CR's technology reviews are often wrong in ways that would be laughable if they weren't so influential. Off the top of my head:
monitor reviews with photo display tests, where it was obvious to me that no one involved had ever heard of the phrase "gamma correction"
claim that a two-digit percentage of Macs were infected with spyware
a seemingly uncanny ability to review hardware obsoleted by newer versions in the interim between testing and publication
Has anyone here heard of this "Independent Security Evaluators" biz? I wonder how many of the viruses were still functional (not just infectious) after twiddling.
Except that 3rd party WiFi is pointless when every mobile Mac comes with AirPort.
What the hackers are actually claiming is: "I can take over any Mac. All I need to do is add this 3rd party hardware, install 3rd party drivers, disable the built-in version, and sneak away without you noticing several inches of antenna sticking out the side."
Wrong, wrong, wrong! Just RTFPP. The moon does not have to completely escape the Earth's gravitational pull in order for Porkchop's comment to apply.
The terms "moon" and "double planet" are arbitrary human-made definitions. And they have a generally recognized boundary: is the barycenter inside the larger object or not? FYI, the Earth-Moon system is 79% of the way there.
Obviously, the moderators who gave a +3 Insightful to your comment mistook your arrogant tone for expertise.
religion: belief in a supernatural deity with a system of moral codes
science: knowledge gained through reason, observation and testing
Which leads to:
The supernatural is not (yet?) testable and therefore neither provable nor disprovable through science.
Morality is mostly unquantifiable and therefore beyond the purview of hard science.
Religion should not try to contradict testable facts.
Science should not try to claim dominion over untestable beliefs.
It is provably not "objective truth" to say all religions are ignorant superstition. Antagonistically overstepping the limits of science is logically and ethically a bad idea.
Bah, that's not so impressive. Hard to say why they printed that. They're inscrutable, you know.;-)
My personal favorite is the fundamentalists who sent a Harry Potter satanism article around as an URGENT WARNING PASS IT ON chain email.
With any luck, the major network news agencies will all be shut down for lack of viewers, and people will no longer have any excuse for believing that what they see on TV is true.
On the contrary, it's unfortunate that some arrogant people belittle God and reinforce the notion that science and religion must be mutually exclusive. You provoke a defensive reaction from well-meaning people who would rather not give up their faith to your satisfaction. Know the real enemy: all flavors of fanaticism.
Genesis, when taken as a parable, is entirely consistent with scientific history of the universe. Just for the fun of it:
Gen 1:01-03 == Big Bang
Gen 1:04-05 == Solar system forms, Earth rotates & revolves
Gen 1:06-10 == Earth develops water, atmosphere, land
Gen 1:11-13 == plant life arises
Gen 1:14-19 == Earth has axial tilt, Moon, and a view of the stars (slightly out of order, but still pretty damn good considering it was written circa 5000BC)
Gen 1:20-25 == animal life arises, first in the ocean, and from there to the land
Gen 1:26-31 == man arises and becomes the dominant multi-cellular organism
Personally I consider gravity/relativity/evolution/etc to be fact. And God set it all in motion.
p.s. you should also consider a pragmatic point of view: religious folk both in America and worldwide are outbreeding the atheists and agnostics by a wide margin. If this war between God and Science continues another couple generations, it's more likely to bring about a dark age than a golden age.
And in any case, even the CNN article still doesn't say what you claim. For starters, there's nothing in there remotely close to "they're finding less than 1/25th of what they're expecting".
JD, you need to provide a citation for that "Informative" comment of yours.
I suspect you're mistakenly referring to this study of deuterium near the galactic core, which says that the D-H ratio they found is consistent with other researchers' measurements that imply large amounts of dark matter.
Even though it's an interesting idea (but probably a bad one, IMO) to disallow specific uses of OSS, Asimov's law is a completely absurd way to implement it. It's hard to imagine how 99.4% of currently existing software could properly obey the provision "nor through inaction allow a human to be harmed".
This is a P2P client, right? If someone uses it to transmit a suicide/murder instruction manual, does it send a quick email off to an appropriate social service agency? It's been shown that listening to gangsta rap makes it more likely that teens will be sexually promiscuous. Somehow I doubt that his software has subroutines to infer the user's age and analyze the musical content. I think that's pretty clearly INACTION!!! He should not be allowed to use the software.
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The article blurb already sums up EVERYTHING that is known about this coming event. It coincides with a professional photography conference. The invite is a close-up of Aperture's logo. Aperture obviously matters a lot to that crowd, not so much to other people.
ThinkSecret doesn't have any more info about it than that. TUAW doesn't have any more info about it than that. MacRumors and MacOSRumors don't have any more info about it than that. Most likely there *is* no more info about it than that.
Aperture update, and maybe the new MBP too. End of story. Next time, how about waiting until there's actually something worth discussing, mmmkay?
Your reading is incorrect. Australia may have gotten it right, but the SCOTUS has explicitly allowed retroactive extension, and Congress has indeed been ripping us off (WRT copyright) since 1976.
Yes, PowerPC is strong in the server room. Too bad for Freescale that 99% of them are IBM chips.
Presumably Freescale still has a decent share of the embedded market, but their position in general computing can be summed up in 8 characters: MPC8641D. Their amazing high-performance dual-core fast-FSB low-wattage super-G4 has been "just around the corner" since mid-2004.
If that chip and the 3GHz G5 had shipped on schedule, the results for http://www.google.com/search?q=boot-camp would be a lot different.
Huh? I can only presume you are under 25 years old and implicitly disdain history. The only thing Todd has done which many many other writer/artists (Joe Kubert, John Byrne, Frank Miller, etc) hadn't already done before him was to set up his own merchandising company. While that's very nice for his wallet, it has nothing to do with "pushing the limits of art".
The mini is pricy when compared to a no-brand minitower that occupies several times as much volume. A whole lot of what you're paying for is the form factor. Take a look at Cappucino, AOpen, etc. But you better look very quickly, because I see those guys going out of business in the near future. You can buy a Mac mini AND a retail copy of Windows for much less than those guys' little Pentium M boxes.
Now, if what you want is a low-frills minitower *Mac*, well, join the club. We've been waiting all millennium.
No, plenty of people did figure out how much a headless iMac SHOULD have cost. That figure was hundreds of dollars lower than the Cube, even after you count the luxury form factor. With the possible exception of Steve Jobs himself (due to recursive RDF effects), I am confident that EVERY significant executive at Apple knows EXACTLY what our crowd was (and still is) clamoring for: a low-frills minitower, possibly based on the iMac mobo if that helps to save cost, but with a standard replaceable GPU slot and one or two open drive bays. It's not rocket surgery.
According to every price sheet available from Intel or outside news sources, the price of Core 2 Duo (Merom) is the same as (or lower than) Core Duo (Yonah) at the same clock speed. We'll ignore Conroe for now because it isn't socket-compatible.
Why the heck is Apple (or anyone really) still using Yonah when you can replace it with Merom at no cost? The only non-evil reason would be that Intel's Merom production hasn't caught up to vendor demand yet. But even if, that's 2-3 months delay at most, after which Core 2 should entirely supplant the standard-version Core 1. It would be very out of character for Lord Steve to upgrade a Mac model, then change it again in the same season.
I certainly hope he isn't falling back into Apple's mid-90s habit of directly hamstringing certain models (i.e. lower performance without any reduction of Apple's manufacturing cost) so the complete Mac line has clearer price points.
The iMac uses Merom, not Conroe. Yes, it's a laptop chip. Yes, it's slower AND more expensive than Conroe.
Yes, it's Steve Jobs.
The lesson that Apple SHOULD have learned that day was "people won't buy an overpriced, underpowered Mac (with limited expansion capability too) just because it looks fairly cool". For the same money you could buy a superior PowerMac.
Okay, so let's see. We have data on both sides of the balance. What can we make of it?
y /0,6903,1646656,00.html Also, note that the Himalayas (east and west) have a total of 34000 sq km of glaciers.
... followed by an even larger one in 2005. http://images.google.com/images?q=greenland+melt+m ap
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On the one hand, we have ONE group of west Himalayan glaciers which are remaining constant or maybe even growing a bit. Meanwhile, the other NINETY FIVE PERCENT of Himalayan glaciers are retreating. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/stor
On the other hand:
There are 1834000 sq km of glaciers in Greenland, which are shrinking. Oh, and the rate of melt is ACCELERATING. Greenland showed a record melt in 2002
And of course there's Antarctica, with the world's largest ice mass, which has been losing thousands of sq km each year. http://nsidc.org/iceshelves/
Hmm, but those are just individual parts of the world. We can't possibly draw a conclusion from such limited data without viewing the overall picture... http://images.google.com/images?q=glacier+mass+ba
So, according to Fragmer, thousands of data points confirming loss of glaciers can be counterbalanced by one study that showed the POSSIBILITY of one glacier growing. What a convenient way to view the world.
Great subject line, by the way, and thanks for finding those WMDs.
Oh, that's wonderful news. Please give us all a rough time estimate, with 1 significant digit of precision, when any well-known copyrighted work (such as Of Mice and Men, Doc Savage, or the song Happy Birthday) will actually come out of copyright.
Yep, I thought not.
Diebold touchscreens came to Maryland in 2004. Democrats won every major vote worth mentioning (Kerry got our EVs). And guess what? Technology-savvy Marylanders of every political stripe still think they're just as terrible, and still want them eliminated.
Your Celestia is at least a year out of date, because Pluto is at best the SECOND largest TNO/KBO, and probably lower than that. Here's a good illustration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2006-16-d-print .jpg
... until it was discovered that there are thousands of other objects much like them in the same part of space. Then they got redefined. Hmm... does this pattern of events sound familiar?
p.s. I'd like to remind everyone that Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta all used to be officially recognized planets
Actually, Pluto's orbit isn't erratic, and Neptune dominates its orbit quite nicely. Pluto is 3:2 resonance locked, which makes it a pseudo-moon of Neptune (not entirely dissimilar to Cruithne's relationship with Earth).
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http://www.google.com/search?q=pluto+neptune+reso
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne
NWN is by no means a perfect game. The D20 ruleset is saddled with old wrong ideas deep in its kernel (AC, level-based HP, memorization, etc) no matter how elegant they make the surrounding details. NWN's default AI is horrible; AI haks are erratic. And its 2.5D geometry is just plain sad compared to the true 3D engines used by most other games this millennium. But it has exactly one thing unmatched by any other CRPG since perhaps FRUA -- the toolset. Other games offer skins, maps, tweaks, etc. Thanks to sites like NWVault, NWN has entire UNIVERSES full of those things and more.
As a CR subscriber, I am utterly amazed that they even had the IDEA to construct a test like that, much less actually find capable programmers and do it. Perhaps that security company cold-called them and suggested it?
CR's technology reviews are often wrong in ways that would be laughable if they weren't so influential. Off the top of my head:
Has anyone here heard of this "Independent Security Evaluators" biz? I wonder how many of the viruses were still functional (not just infectious) after twiddling.
Except that 3rd party WiFi is pointless when every mobile Mac comes with AirPort.
What the hackers are actually claiming is: "I can take over any Mac. All I need to do is add this 3rd party hardware, install 3rd party drivers, disable the built-in version, and sneak away without you noticing several inches of antenna sticking out the side."
Wrong, wrong, wrong! Just RTFPP. The moon does not have to completely escape the Earth's gravitational pull in order for Porkchop's comment to apply.
The terms "moon" and "double planet" are arbitrary human-made definitions. And they have a generally recognized boundary: is the barycenter inside the larger object or not? FYI, the Earth-Moon system is 79% of the way there.
Obviously, the moderators who gave a +3 Insightful to your comment mistook your arrogant tone for expertise.
Well, http://www.google.com/search?q=define:science and http://www.google.com/search?q=define:religion generally match what I expect those words to mean:
Which leads to:
It is provably not "objective truth" to say all religions are ignorant superstition. Antagonistically overstepping the limits of science is logically and ethically a bad idea.
Bah, that's not so impressive. Hard to say why they printed that. They're inscrutable, you know. ;-)
My personal favorite is the fundamentalists who sent a Harry Potter satanism article around as an URGENT WARNING PASS IT ON chain email.
With any luck, the major network news agencies will all be shut down for lack of viewers, and people will no longer have any excuse for believing that what they see on TV is true.
On the contrary, it's unfortunate that some arrogant people belittle God and reinforce the notion that science and religion must be mutually exclusive. You provoke a defensive reaction from well-meaning people who would rather not give up their faith to your satisfaction. Know the real enemy: all flavors of fanaticism.
Genesis, when taken as a parable, is entirely consistent with scientific history of the universe. Just for the fun of it:
Personally I consider gravity/relativity/evolution/etc to be fact. And God set it all in motion.
p.s. you should also consider a pragmatic point of view: religious folk both in America and worldwide are outbreeding the atheists and agnostics by a wide margin. If this war between God and Science continues another couple generations, it's more likely to bring about a dark age than a golden age.
Current news, eh? Seems there are a lot of sites reporting on that. CNN (or any general-audience media) would not be my first choice for accurate reporting of hard science.
I'd recommend going to a science-specific magazine, or even a direct source.
And in any case, even the CNN article still doesn't say what you claim. For starters, there's nothing in there remotely close to "they're finding less than 1/25th of what they're expecting".
JD, you need to provide a citation for that "Informative" comment of yours.
I suspect you're mistakenly referring to this study of deuterium near the galactic core, which says that the D-H ratio they found is consistent with other researchers' measurements that imply large amounts of dark matter.
Even though it's an interesting idea (but probably a bad one, IMO) to disallow specific uses of OSS, Asimov's law is a completely absurd way to implement it. It's hard to imagine how 99.4% of currently existing software could properly obey the provision "nor through inaction allow a human to be harmed".
This is a P2P client, right? If someone uses it to transmit a suicide/murder instruction manual, does it send a quick email off to an appropriate social service agency? It's been shown that listening to gangsta rap makes it more likely that teens will be sexually promiscuous. Somehow I doubt that his software has subroutines to infer the user's age and analyze the musical content. I think that's pretty clearly INACTION!!! He should not be allowed to use the software.
Way to go, AC, you drop yourself down to zero credibility in the first two sentences.
BTW, much more radiation flows into air and groundwater by way of your average coal power plant than any nuclear plant in western civilization.