Being that this is military drones, I don't think ITAR doesn't cut it. I work at a company that supplies a lot of people doing government work, and always now what on our floor is ITART compliant. We have provided material for a few companies doing military contracts, and ITAR means nothing to them. Needs to be DFARS. DFARS is a lot more involved - I've had to spend half a day making sure material was DFARS compliant.
I actually prefer it to every other phone keyboard I've used to date, but pretty much only for one reason: symbol and accent entry. I type very verbose text messages and don't use "text speech". Additionally, I use punctuation (especially parenthesis). I use Spanish and French words (not regularly, but often). The iPhone makes this easy, the Nokia I had before the iPhone was a complete pain in the ass. In Windows Mobile I could do it in, but it was not nearly was quick and intuitive as Apple makes it (plus I had to reset my Windows Mobile device at least once a day).
I don't know about you, but I don't get any spam via text, nor do I do any business via text. If I have a text, I know it is from a friend. It is immediate, I don't have to launch an app or log in. Maybe it is just my generation, but I have experienced a social ladder of communications (e-mail or facebook message for acquaintances, texting for friends, phone calls for good friends).
So next time my girlfriend drags me to a tennis match I'm not interested I'm going to get detained, searched, and questioned? (Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm on slashdot, so don't have a girlfriend, and wouldn't leave the basement, etc., etc.)
I don't know if I agree. Twitter is kind of odd, its not like facebook or e-mail. It is as personal as a text message, yet as easily to ignore as a blog. It is also great to see not only what is going on in the world, but what people think about what is going on. This shows there is definitely value for twitter, and like you I agree they can't charge for commercial tweets, but I think there are many other options for them to make money (most likely through premium services, maybe allow longer posts at 5c an additional character, or more a more customizable profile for X dollars, or maybe customer leads based on their user data).
Just in time inventory? Using China as a supplier? Sorry, not happening without a middleman. Shipping isn't reliable enough, unless you are using air and paying out the nose. Unless your JIT means something different to you than to my customers (several my of my customers have NO warehousing space, they need parts for their assemblies when they need them - any earlier and they can't store them, any later and they have a worker doing nothing).
Us old school gamers will remember stacking crates in Trinsic to climb on the roof in order to access the teleporter room in Ultima 7
I remember figuring out how to use the anvil to save two crates. But much more interesting were the "dead room" and the room that would kill you for cheating.
I, too, don't understand why Apple decided to replace the ExpressCard slot with an SD slot on a supposedly pro-level notebook.
They explained it clearly in the keynote. Less then 1% of users used ExpressCard. Over 90% of users owned cameras that use SD cards. Most users don't like using USB to hook up their cameras. ExpressCard is still available on the 17" MacBook Pro, because they acknowledge there are professional uses for it.
Why should we expect any delay, in this day and age?
Because I don't want a phone the size of a brick, and I want my phone to last all day. The iPhone processor is underclocked, and it barely scratches through the workday with heavy use (days that I use it heavily and am unable to plug it in I leave work with less than 10% battery remaining).
The reason for plasma instead of LCD was spelled out in the original post you responded to. If you like movies. Plasma has much deeper black levels, more colors, brighter colors, wider viewing angles, and more. LCDs used to blur fast movement more, but recent ones have gotten much better.
I was tempted to label you troll, but there is a chance you are not being purposefully obtuse. What he was referring to is the "burn-in" plasma screens have. Leave it on CNN all day (with the CNN logo in the bottom corner) and then change it to something else, and you will still be able to see that CNN logo. It issue with static images is how they effect future images, not in quality.
Also, I used Google to do the math. Since they likely want to compete with Apple, they might be up to what I am doing (even before it is indexed) and are intentionally fudging the numbers.
It's in the lab features, it's called under the "Pre-Index" feature. They use a precognitive algorithm to predict how the internet will change before the changes are posted. I've heard rumors that their are multiple precognitive algorithms though, and that they don't always agree.
I wouldn't say it was my friend's greed that killed the business model, I would say it is greed which my friend's actions are an example of. If your business model depends on the human population being suddenly altruistic you have a broken business model. I knew a person who made a living "returning stuff to Sears" (also known as retail fraud), these people are spread throughout society, and you have to take into account people treating business transactions like a zero-sum game.
I had a friend who made a few thousand from a bubble company by letting them monitor his serf habits, they paid per link you visited, up to a certain amount. He wrote a script that would search and open a webpage to optimize his return. They caught on to this, and started to monitor for mouse activity too. He updated the script to move the mouse x pixels every y minutes. This went through a couple other cat and mouse games before the company folded. That is what probably happened to FreePC, people figure out how to game the system.
I've found screen sharing to be a huge help in problem solving, I've been able to help my brother (in the music business like you, and my introduction to Apple) out quite a few times with that (my parents next computer will be an Apple, but they don't need an upgrade yet (maybe never, as long as there is support of XP) and I don't have the money to gift them a new one.
Hmm... very odd. I have never run into either of those issues, and have used all sorts of wireless networks (included my parents netgear). And I've never had iTunes default to rip CDs, I've always used the "import CD" button. Are you sure it is a red book CD? The issue may be the CD, not iTunes.
Can you give an example of something not "just working" on Apple hardware? As for comparing it to windows, that was basically a non-issue for me as I knew I was going to be running XP (the only question was if I would be running in via GRUB or via Bootcamp). In my experience I have never had anything not "just work" for me in OS-X, while in linux I've had to manually edit setting files (and in a few cases just give up) and in windows I've had to muck around with registry settings (and in a handful of cases just give up) along with other work-arounds and hacks.
I don't know about others, but I can tell you in my experience why I bought a locked down music player, and a laptop, from Apple.
What won me over was the "just works" (especially sleeping the laptop, which linux may have improved with by now) combined with the terminal abilities. And as for the 300% price, when I bought my first MacBook it was the best value for the hardware with my student discount (not taking into account value of the OS and bundled iLife software). My current (refurbished) MacBook Pro was a little bit more than some competitors laptops, but I felt the build quality was superior and the physical dimensions were better (in addition timespace allowed for seamless transition from my old computer - all files, settings, everything. No time spent tweaking all the program settings and installing the apps - that experience has ensured my next computer will be from Apple).
With the music player I have owned players by creative, have run rockbox on a Sansa, and have had cheapo-stick players. You really have to give Apple credit for its interface here, it stays out of the way and lets me do what I want: play music. Additionally: for me the iTunes database is added value, I like not having to manage the player and being able to sync smart playlists.
Windows like Spotlight's "Show All" search results window aren't associated with any application
Just checked this because I thought it was wrong, and it is wrong. The "Show All" option opens a finder smart search, so the application you are looking for is finder.
While unlikely, I could see this a possibility depending on weather/jet-stream. If it takes less fuel (read: less money) for the airline to go a longer way, they will.
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Being that this is military drones, I don't think ITAR doesn't cut it. I work at a company that supplies a lot of people doing government work, and always now what on our floor is ITART compliant. We have provided material for a few companies doing military contracts, and ITAR means nothing to them. Needs to be DFARS. DFARS is a lot more involved - I've had to spend half a day making sure material was DFARS compliant.
I actually prefer it to every other phone keyboard I've used to date, but pretty much only for one reason: symbol and accent entry. I type very verbose text messages and don't use "text speech". Additionally, I use punctuation (especially parenthesis). I use Spanish and French words (not regularly, but often). The iPhone makes this easy, the Nokia I had before the iPhone was a complete pain in the ass. In Windows Mobile I could do it in, but it was not nearly was quick and intuitive as Apple makes it (plus I had to reset my Windows Mobile device at least once a day).
How is a text message more personal than email?
I don't know about you, but I don't get any spam via text, nor do I do any business via text. If I have a text, I know it is from a friend. It is immediate, I don't have to launch an app or log in. Maybe it is just my generation, but I have experienced a social ladder of communications (e-mail or facebook message for acquaintances, texting for friends, phone calls for good friends).
So next time my girlfriend drags me to a tennis match I'm not interested I'm going to get detained, searched, and questioned? (Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm on slashdot, so don't have a girlfriend, and wouldn't leave the basement, etc., etc.)
I don't know if I agree. Twitter is kind of odd, its not like facebook or e-mail. It is as personal as a text message, yet as easily to ignore as a blog. It is also great to see not only what is going on in the world, but what people think about what is going on. This shows there is definitely value for twitter, and like you I agree they can't charge for commercial tweets, but I think there are many other options for them to make money (most likely through premium services, maybe allow longer posts at 5c an additional character, or more a more customizable profile for X dollars, or maybe customer leads based on their user data).
Just in time inventory? Using China as a supplier? Sorry, not happening without a middleman. Shipping isn't reliable enough, unless you are using air and paying out the nose. Unless your JIT means something different to you than to my customers (several my of my customers have NO warehousing space, they need parts for their assemblies when they need them - any earlier and they can't store them, any later and they have a worker doing nothing).
Us old school gamers will remember stacking crates in Trinsic to climb on the roof in order to access the teleporter room in Ultima 7
I remember figuring out how to use the anvil to save two crates. But much more interesting were the "dead room" and the room that would kill you for cheating.
I, too, don't understand why Apple decided to replace the ExpressCard slot with an SD slot on a supposedly pro-level notebook.
They explained it clearly in the keynote. Less then 1% of users used ExpressCard. Over 90% of users owned cameras that use SD cards. Most users don't like using USB to hook up their cameras. ExpressCard is still available on the 17" MacBook Pro, because they acknowledge there are professional uses for it.
Why should we expect any delay, in this day and age?
Because I don't want a phone the size of a brick, and I want my phone to last all day. The iPhone processor is underclocked, and it barely scratches through the workday with heavy use (days that I use it heavily and am unable to plug it in I leave work with less than 10% battery remaining).
The reason for plasma instead of LCD was spelled out in the original post you responded to. If you like movies. Plasma has much deeper black levels, more colors, brighter colors, wider viewing angles, and more. LCDs used to blur fast movement more, but recent ones have gotten much better.
I was tempted to label you troll, but there is a chance you are not being purposefully obtuse. What he was referring to is the "burn-in" plasma screens have. Leave it on CNN all day (with the CNN logo in the bottom corner) and then change it to something else, and you will still be able to see that CNN logo. It issue with static images is how they effect future images, not in quality.
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Also, I used Google to do the math. Since they likely want to compete with Apple, they might be up to what I am doing (even before it is indexed) and are intentionally fudging the numbers.
It's in the lab features, it's called under the "Pre-Index" feature. They use a precognitive algorithm to predict how the internet will change before the changes are posted. I've heard rumors that their are multiple precognitive algorithms though, and that they don't always agree.
I wouldn't say it was my friend's greed that killed the business model, I would say it is greed which my friend's actions are an example of. If your business model depends on the human population being suddenly altruistic you have a broken business model. I knew a person who made a living "returning stuff to Sears" (also known as retail fraud), these people are spread throughout society, and you have to take into account people treating business transactions like a zero-sum game.
I had a friend who made a few thousand from a bubble company by letting them monitor his serf habits, they paid per link you visited, up to a certain amount. He wrote a script that would search and open a webpage to optimize his return. They caught on to this, and started to monitor for mouse activity too. He updated the script to move the mouse x pixels every y minutes. This went through a couple other cat and mouse games before the company folded. That is what probably happened to FreePC, people figure out how to game the system.
I've found screen sharing to be a huge help in problem solving, I've been able to help my brother (in the music business like you, and my introduction to Apple) out quite a few times with that (my parents next computer will be an Apple, but they don't need an upgrade yet (maybe never, as long as there is support of XP) and I don't have the money to gift them a new one.
Hmm... very odd. I have never run into either of those issues, and have used all sorts of wireless networks (included my parents netgear). And I've never had iTunes default to rip CDs, I've always used the "import CD" button. Are you sure it is a red book CD? The issue may be the CD, not iTunes.
Can you give an example of something not "just working" on Apple hardware? As for comparing it to windows, that was basically a non-issue for me as I knew I was going to be running XP (the only question was if I would be running in via GRUB or via Bootcamp). In my experience I have never had anything not "just work" for me in OS-X, while in linux I've had to manually edit setting files (and in a few cases just give up) and in windows I've had to muck around with registry settings (and in a handful of cases just give up) along with other work-arounds and hacks.
I don't know about others, but I can tell you in my experience why I bought a locked down music player, and a laptop, from Apple.
What won me over was the "just works" (especially sleeping the laptop, which linux may have improved with by now) combined with the terminal abilities. And as for the 300% price, when I bought my first MacBook it was the best value for the hardware with my student discount (not taking into account value of the OS and bundled iLife software). My current (refurbished) MacBook Pro was a little bit more than some competitors laptops, but I felt the build quality was superior and the physical dimensions were better (in addition timespace allowed for seamless transition from my old computer - all files, settings, everything. No time spent tweaking all the program settings and installing the apps - that experience has ensured my next computer will be from Apple).
With the music player I have owned players by creative, have run rockbox on a Sansa, and have had cheapo-stick players. You really have to give Apple credit for its interface here, it stays out of the way and lets me do what I want: play music. Additionally: for me the iTunes database is added value, I like not having to manage the player and being able to sync smart playlists.
No idea, I don't have a printer.
Windows like Spotlight's "Show All" search results window aren't associated with any application
Just checked this because I thought it was wrong, and it is wrong. The "Show All" option opens a finder smart search, so the application you are looking for is finder.
While unlikely, I could see this a possibility depending on weather/jet-stream. If it takes less fuel (read: less money) for the airline to go a longer way, they will.
But does that take into account people with multiple flights? What if I go from Mexico, to France, to Thailand, to Australia?
Really? How many people had a lay-over in MSP on their way back from Mexico?
You really think the NSA bothers to ask?