The reason that the lefties are up in arms about this weapon is not because it might cause a few injuries while dispersing crowds.
A lot of people go to political demonstrations WITH THE INTENTION of getting arrested, hopefully while the cameras are rolling, so that they can advance their cause and claim to be martyrs. If the police roll out a weapon that is largely invisible to the cameras, and causes people to flee rather than confront, then this is not good news for the grandstanders, and (sadly) they will have to go home without an arrest record.
Which would you rather have? Lethal or non-lethal ways of dispersing drunken, angry mobs?
I've seen first-hand what rioters can do, and if this device saves police from having to kill idiots and keeps our officers out of harm's way, it's a god-send.
Well, if you could reverse the polarity through the chips to produce instantly warm air during the winter, that would be huge. And just have the Peltier chips switch off once the engine core reaches a certain temperature.
The kids bought the five chips they needed off of eBay for $50. The big auto makers should be able to buy the chips in volume for significantly less. The article doesn't say, but is that the biggest expense in such an AC system? I don't know what current auto AC systems cost the manufacturer, but I would guess that it's significantly more than $50.
Oh yeah, the auto industry would eat this up like biscuits and gravy.
The ESRB is an industry body, not a government regulatory agency. Participation in the ESRB is entirely voluntary.
Besides, the ratings system is just as much a selling point as anything else. A Mature rating only increases the interest in a game.
I would seriously question that any game with a Mature rating decreases by a significant amount the INTENDED audience for the game since, as you point out, it's so easy just to go online and purchase it from Amazon.
For long-time Apple watchers, this was pretty much anticipated.
Back in the 1996, when Jobs was still at NeXT, he gave an interview where he said, "The PC wars are over. Microsoft won a long time ago. If I were the head of Apple, I would milk the Mac for all it's worth and then move on the next big thing."
Granted, the Mac has come a long, long way since 1996, and for the first time is being taken seriously in the enterprise, with its Unix underpinnings. But Apple's chance of dethroning Microsoft? Practically nil, and Jobs knows it. The Mac is destined to forever be a boutique computer. But hey, it's still generating a lot of revenue for the company, and when Apple goes to the bargaining table with IBM or Intel, it allows them to factor in several million more processors that they need when arguing for a volume discount, so it serves a purpose.
I'm kind of surprised that Apple hasn't yet latched onto the idea of using the Mac Mini as a media center PC, but maybe that's still coming. Especially if Apple is developing a video iPod; record TV on your Mac Mini, upload it to your iPod for later viewing. Or connect your iPod to the Mac Mini, and stream content to your TV (rather than trying to watch it on a 2" screen).
Honestly, how popular are movies going to be on the iPod and the PSP? I really can't see that segment of the market being more than a curiosity.
You can tell just by looking at the stock chart. The company peaked in '95, just as computer animation was starting to take off (with the release of Toy Story). From '95 to 2000, the decline was as sharp as their run-up. My question, How does a cutting-edge tech company manage to lose so much market value during an enormous tech bubble?
When was Studio Max 3D first released for the PC? I suspect that that had a huge impact on SGI. Management was completely unprepared for teh low-cost revolution.
Yeah, but if the surgery cost $25k, and if you could immediately boost your income by $50k with your enhanced abilities, you can bet that a LOT of people will jump on that.
When impants start making you more competitive in the marketplace, you bet it's going to take off -- especially if they can be discreetly implanted.
What happens when a chip implanted in your brain can make you 25% "smarter"? Most people will recoil at the thought; a few will take advantage of it, and it will gradually catch on, until we reach the point that the most competitive jobs routinely have super-human requirements, and the people who don't have implants will start sliding down the economic scale.
Never underestimate the power of greed to transform human society.
If the problem with optical backup is degredation due to air and light, then the solution seems easy enough. Put the discs in a vacuum sealed, acid-free plastic bag using one of these and store in the dark in a cool, dry location.
And burn a second set of DVD's for actual use, so you don't have to break the seal on the others.
Also, as history shows, storage media will continue to grow in size and decline in price. In five years, he will probably want to re-archive everything, anyway, to condense it down.
Can't companies already commit crimes in the name of their competitors? So, what's so special about the online world that is suddenly going to embolden people to commit federal crimes?
Don't you think that if someone is misrepresenting Proctor & Gamble, the NY AG is going to go straight to P&G and get their full compliance in solving the crime?
And for the companies commiting the fraud, is it really worth putting their entire company on the line over a stupid adware stunt?
$0.10 is still too expensive. A penny per article is about right, and maybe a penny per second of video.
No one seems to have this paid content thing figured out. I see online newspapers selling old articles for anywhere from $1.50 to $5.00... come on, it's not like there's some little old lady in the archive vault waiting for your request, the content is just being pulled from a database.
For $5.00, I'll just find a free source for the same news. For a penny... feh, why bother, just pay the penny and be done with it.
from any other work that you do? If your company is just looking for a brain-dead code monkey, why are they paying you instead of farming out the work to the third world? Doesn't your company already expect you to generate ideas?
If you brainstorm the big ideas, you generally get the big rewards. That's how business has always worked. Is there anything wrong with that model? Besides, Google has been generous with the sotck options, from what I understand, so sharing the big idea could have a direct impact on your net worth.
If you don't want to share your big ideas with Google, well... good luck trying to promote them on your own. There's a bazillion websites out there that have an insanely great idea, but no funding to make it happen. Not that I'm disparaging entrepreneurship, but there's no easy path to success with a great idea. If you are a first-time entrepreneur looking for an angel investor, guess what... you are going to sign away most of your ownership rights, anyway, in order to get the funding check to make it happen.
that the Bittorrent leak of OS X PPC was entirely bogus, so the whole premise of the article is off.
People mention that Microsoft "allowed" people to pirate Windows for years to increase marketshare and increase sales. It's true that having more systems out there running Windows means more potential marketshare for other apps like Office. However, if someone pirates Windows, why would they not pirate Office, too? So I just don't buy that MS ever encouraged people to pirate Windows.
As you point out, though, Apple has nothing to gain from pirated versions of OS X. If you pirated Tiger, chances are good that you'll pirate succeeding versions of the OS, as well. So, even if Apple did come out with a shrink-wrapped version of OS X for any x86 system, where's the profit potential? It's not there.
Keep in mind, too, that hacked versions of OS X will do more harm than good. Video drivers will be messed up, sound drivers, network cards will not work, and a slew of other problems that Apple never addressed because they didn't intend OS X to run on your particular setup. So, in the end, people who hack OS X will have a lot of frustration with all of the kernel panics and non-working hardware. Is that the experience that Apple wants people to have with their product? Hell no. This is the company that is so anal about the presentation of their product that they even design the user experience just opening the friggen cardboard box!
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The reason that the lefties are up in arms about this weapon is not because it might cause a few injuries while dispersing crowds.
A lot of people go to political demonstrations WITH THE INTENTION of getting arrested, hopefully while the cameras are rolling, so that they can advance their cause and claim to be martyrs. If the police roll out a weapon that is largely invisible to the cameras, and causes people to flee rather than confront, then this is not good news for the grandstanders, and (sadly) they will have to go home without an arrest record.
The police already have numerous, non-lethal ways of dispersing crowds, why would this one suddenly turn us into a fascist state?
Second, the Democrats have had their fair share of rioting at conventions, so why single out Republicans?
Third, our right to peaceable assembly is not being eviscerated. There was plenty of protesting going on outside both party conventions last year.
Which would you rather have? Lethal or non-lethal ways of dispersing drunken, angry mobs?
I've seen first-hand what rioters can do, and if this device saves police from having to kill idiots and keeps our officers out of harm's way, it's a god-send.
Well, if you could reverse the polarity through the chips to produce instantly warm air during the winter, that would be huge. And just have the Peltier chips switch off once the engine core reaches a certain temperature.
The kids bought the five chips they needed off of eBay for $50. The big auto makers should be able to buy the chips in volume for significantly less. The article doesn't say, but is that the biggest expense in such an AC system? I don't know what current auto AC systems cost the manufacturer, but I would guess that it's significantly more than $50.
Oh yeah, the auto industry would eat this up like biscuits and gravy.
The ESRB is an industry body, not a government regulatory agency. Participation in the ESRB is entirely voluntary.
Besides, the ratings system is just as much a selling point as anything else. A Mature rating only increases the interest in a game.
I would seriously question that any game with a Mature rating decreases by a significant amount the INTENDED audience for the game since, as you point out, it's so easy just to go online and purchase it from Amazon.
How do we know this isn't a Photoshop hack?
now they get slashdotted on the dupe, too.
Holy cow, that's gotta suck.
For long-time Apple watchers, this was pretty much anticipated.
Back in the 1996, when Jobs was still at NeXT, he gave an interview where he said, "The PC wars are over. Microsoft won a long time ago. If I were the head of Apple, I would milk the Mac for all it's worth and then move on the next big thing."
Granted, the Mac has come a long, long way since 1996, and for the first time is being taken seriously in the enterprise, with its Unix underpinnings. But Apple's chance of dethroning Microsoft? Practically nil, and Jobs knows it. The Mac is destined to forever be a boutique computer. But hey, it's still generating a lot of revenue for the company, and when Apple goes to the bargaining table with IBM or Intel, it allows them to factor in several million more processors that they need when arguing for a volume discount, so it serves a purpose.
I'm kind of surprised that Apple hasn't yet latched onto the idea of using the Mac Mini as a media center PC, but maybe that's still coming. Especially if Apple is developing a video iPod; record TV on your Mac Mini, upload it to your iPod for later viewing. Or connect your iPod to the Mac Mini, and stream content to your TV (rather than trying to watch it on a 2" screen).
Honestly, how popular are movies going to be on the iPod and the PSP? I really can't see that segment of the market being more than a curiosity.
Just make sure it doesn't heat up to 145 degrees on you.
...but there's way around having too much debt. They could have had a new stock issue in 95 or 96 to change their financing structure.
Somebody mentioned Itanium, but SGI didn't embrace x86 until they were already deep in decline.
The stock chart shows a meteoric rise and an immediate catastrophic fall. Somebody screwed up.
You can tell just by looking at the stock chart. The company peaked in '95, just as computer animation was starting to take off (with the release of Toy Story). From '95 to 2000, the decline was as sharp as their run-up. My question, How does a cutting-edge tech company manage to lose so much market value during an enormous tech bubble?
When was Studio Max 3D first released for the PC? I suspect that that had a huge impact on SGI. Management was completely unprepared for teh low-cost revolution.
I was imaging a robotic Stevie Ray Vaughn, with a wide-brimmed hat and a goatee...
Yeah, but if the surgery cost $25k, and if you could immediately boost your income by $50k with your enhanced abilities, you can bet that a LOT of people will jump on that.
When impants start making you more competitive in the marketplace, you bet it's going to take off -- especially if they can be discreetly implanted.
What happens when a chip implanted in your brain can make you 25% "smarter"? Most people will recoil at the thought; a few will take advantage of it, and it will gradually catch on, until we reach the point that the most competitive jobs routinely have super-human requirements, and the people who don't have implants will start sliding down the economic scale.
Never underestimate the power of greed to transform human society.
They meant you can still play with the packaging... if you fold up the included pieces of paper, you can make one of those triangle football thingies.
one thing that can't be said about George is that he does thing half-assed
Like, dood, where have you been for the last six years?
If the problem with optical backup is degredation due to air and light, then the solution seems easy enough. Put the discs in a vacuum sealed, acid-free plastic bag using one of these and store in the dark in a cool, dry location.
And burn a second set of DVD's for actual use, so you don't have to break the seal on the others.
Also, as history shows, storage media will continue to grow in size and decline in price. In five years, he will probably want to re-archive everything, anyway, to condense it down.
Can't companies already commit crimes in the name of their competitors? So, what's so special about the online world that is suddenly going to embolden people to commit federal crimes?
Don't you think that if someone is misrepresenting Proctor & Gamble, the NY AG is going to go straight to P&G and get their full compliance in solving the crime?
And for the companies commiting the fraud, is it really worth putting their entire company on the line over a stupid adware stunt?
$0.10 is still too expensive. A penny per article is about right, and maybe a penny per second of video.
No one seems to have this paid content thing figured out. I see online newspapers selling old articles for anywhere from $1.50 to $5.00... come on, it's not like there's some little old lady in the archive vault waiting for your request, the content is just being pulled from a database.
For $5.00, I'll just find a free source for the same news. For a penny... feh, why bother, just pay the penny and be done with it.
from any other work that you do? If your company is just looking for a brain-dead code monkey, why are they paying you instead of farming out the work to the third world? Doesn't your company already expect you to generate ideas?
If you brainstorm the big ideas, you generally get the big rewards. That's how business has always worked. Is there anything wrong with that model? Besides, Google has been generous with the sotck options, from what I understand, so sharing the big idea could have a direct impact on your net worth.
If you don't want to share your big ideas with Google, well... good luck trying to promote them on your own. There's a bazillion websites out there that have an insanely great idea, but no funding to make it happen. Not that I'm disparaging entrepreneurship, but there's no easy path to success with a great idea. If you are a first-time entrepreneur looking for an angel investor, guess what... you are going to sign away most of your ownership rights, anyway, in order to get the funding check to make it happen.
you'll find old laptops there for under $20.
Strong enough for a man... but made for a Time Lord.
Old one didn't suck.
that the Bittorrent leak of OS X PPC was entirely bogus, so the whole premise of the article is off.
People mention that Microsoft "allowed" people to pirate Windows for years to increase marketshare and increase sales. It's true that having more systems out there running Windows means more potential marketshare for other apps like Office. However, if someone pirates Windows, why would they not pirate Office, too? So I just don't buy that MS ever encouraged people to pirate Windows.
As you point out, though, Apple has nothing to gain from pirated versions of OS X. If you pirated Tiger, chances are good that you'll pirate succeeding versions of the OS, as well. So, even if Apple did come out with a shrink-wrapped version of OS X for any x86 system, where's the profit potential? It's not there.
Keep in mind, too, that hacked versions of OS X will do more harm than good. Video drivers will be messed up, sound drivers, network cards will not work, and a slew of other problems that Apple never addressed because they didn't intend OS X to run on your particular setup. So, in the end, people who hack OS X will have a lot of frustration with all of the kernel panics and non-working hardware. Is that the experience that Apple wants people to have with their product? Hell no. This is the company that is so anal about the presentation of their product that they even design the user experience just opening the friggen cardboard box!