Before everyone starts wetting themselves, calm down. While the frothing-at-the-mouth article states:
Despite several plasma vendors including Panasonic who are the worlds #1 manufacturer showing plasma power reductions of up to 40 percent, the European Union wants to ban the display technology.
The EU is not actually thinking about banning a particular technology, but:
The countries are close to agreeing upon new energy performance standards for TVs that large plasma displays will not meet. Plasma models typically use about 50 percent more energy than LCD models. The new standards, which will go into effect this spring, will pull the least efficient TVs from shelves and start a labeling system that ranks the efficiency of the remaining models.
Source. The new, more efficient Plasmas mentioned in TFA will presumably be fine under the legislation.
I now return you to your anti-EU anti-regulation frothing-at-the-mouth posts.
If Apple sees any threat from Flash, it's in providing a distribution system for multimedia that is out of Apple's control.
Bingo - you're quite correct, but don't dimiss flash as a viable dev platform for many of the I-am-rich-style non-apps that make up the bulk of the appstore.
Imagine if anyone could do dummy iPhone apps using Flash, put them anywhere on the web, with absolutely no control from Apple. There'd be popups asking you to enter your credit card every 10 seconds, ads left and right, etc. Users would eventually be fed up and find the iPhone ugly. I guess Apple cares too much to let that happen.
Does that happen with your non-portable computer (Desktop) running OS X & Safari?
Does it happen with your more portable computer (laptop) Mac running OS X & Safari?
So WTF do you think it will happen with your extremely portable computer (iPhone) running OS X & Safari?
Don't visit malicious websites.
If Apple sees any threat from Flash, it is people being able to develop & distribute Apps out of Apple's control.
When malicious nasties get onto OS X by any of the above with no real action on the user's part, then you we can all blame Apple just like we blamed Microsoft. Until then, it's just a PEBKAC issue.
While I agree that this is a PEBKAC issue, perhaps Apple (and MS & Ubuntu too for that matter) should consider including a firewall that monitors outbound traffic by default.
Companies should accept that the user is stupid & try to mitigate their behavior.
MPEG-4 was defined by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), the working group within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that specified the widely adopted, Emmy Award-winning standards known as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. Hundreds of researchers around the world contributed to MPEG-4, which was finalized in 1998 and became an international standard in 2000 and included in QuickTime in 2002.
I hope you did more research for the rest of the 'facts' in your post.
Apparently you did not bother to actually understand what you posted.
Nope, apparently you didn't bother to read what I posted. Scroll down to the second graph - it's probably clear enough for you. Oh - and seeing you're hard of reading, I'll quote another relevant section:
Transportation: The transportation sector is the second largest source of CO2 emissions in the U.S. Almost all of the energy consumed in the transportation sector is petroleum based, including gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. Automobiles and light-duty trucks account for almost two-thirds of emissions from the transportation sector and emissions have steadily grown since 1990. [emp mine]
Of the remaining 40% that is petroleum, about half is related to transportation in the broadest possible sense. Of that portion that is transportation, only a fraction has any relation to Joe SixPack's automobile.
Source please - or are you just pulling numbers out of your ass?
Note that I'm not saying we emit more C02 with our cars than through electricity generation, just that dismissing personal transportation as a source of C02 emissions (a magnitude less than electricity generation according to you) is stupid.
On the other hand, if you think AAPL is not strong without Jobs,
Well, I am a whiney apple fanboy, so of course I believed Apple's statements saying Jobs was in good health & thought he'd be running the company for years to come....
But really, that particular argument would carry more weight if there existed any MKV+h.264 files that weren't pirated. I can't recall ever seeing one.
While we believe users should be able to express themselves and their point of view, certain kinds of speech simply do not belong in a community like Facebook. Therefore, you may not post or share Content that:
* is obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit
* depicts graphic or gratuitous violence
* makes threats of any kind or that intimidates, harasses, or bullies anyone
* is derogatory, demeaning, malicious, defamatory, abusive, offensive or hateful
So what is a woman nursing? Pornographic? Violent? Bullying? Malicious? Abusive?
I'm aware Facebook can remove content at their sole discretion, but nursing doesn't seem to be explicitly covered by their TOS.
As a private enterprise, they have the right to restrict what they want.
And as private citizens, the mothers have a right to complain, seek publicity & try to get an organization that relies on the public's page views to change its attitude.
That's the worst argument I've ever heard. I've got two words for you Psystar: Berne Convention
From the article you link to:
(note however that when the United States joined the Convention in 1988, they continued to make statutory damages and attorney's fees only available for registered works).
I suspect this is what Psystar are referring to, rather than Information Week's rather short, content free insinuation that Apple loses all rights if they fail to register.
You'd almost think they were organized just to antagonize Apple. Hmm...
Testing the waters, Hardware vendors want to sell something other than windows. I'm willing to bet one (or more) of the big 5 PC vendors is behind this
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Microsoft tried that. Thus we have UAC in Vista.
Bollocks. UAC is standard privilege escalation - like all nix-alike OSs have had for years.
UACs problem was that everyone (including MS) wrote software with the assumption that the windows user would be running as root.
You're not suggesting that UAC would/should have prevented a similar trojan installing via pirated software on windows are you?
Before everyone starts wetting themselves, calm down. While the frothing-at-the-mouth article states:
The EU is not actually thinking about banning a particular technology, but:
Source. The new, more efficient Plasmas mentioned in TFA will presumably be fine under the legislation.
I now return you to your anti-EU anti-regulation frothing-at-the-mouth posts.
If Apple sees any threat from Flash, it's in providing a distribution system for multimedia that is out of Apple's control.
Bingo - you're quite correct, but don't dimiss flash as a viable dev platform for many of the I-am-rich-style non-apps that make up the bulk of the appstore.
Imagine if anyone could do dummy iPhone apps using Flash, put them anywhere on the web, with absolutely no control from Apple. There'd be popups asking you to enter your credit card every 10 seconds, ads left and right, etc. Users would eventually be fed up and find the iPhone ugly. I guess Apple cares too much to let that happen.
Does that happen with your non-portable computer (Desktop) running OS X & Safari?
Does it happen with your more portable computer (laptop) Mac running OS X & Safari?
So WTF do you think it will happen with your extremely portable computer (iPhone) running OS X & Safari?
Don't visit malicious websites.
If Apple sees any threat from Flash, it is people being able to develop & distribute Apps out of Apple's control.
When malicious nasties get onto OS X by any of the above with no real action on the user's part, then you we can all blame Apple just like we blamed Microsoft. Until then, it's just a PEBKAC issue.
While I agree that this is a PEBKAC issue, perhaps Apple (and MS & Ubuntu too for that matter) should consider including a firewall that monitors outbound traffic by default.
Companies should accept that the user is stupid & try to mitigate their behavior.
The claim you made that I was disputing was the one I quoted: (the vast majority of CO2 comes from electricity generation)
Half is not a 'vast majority'.
Can this really work outside of a lab, where the water surface isn't like glass ?
It sure can work outside the lab. Check out the pics (search for figure 2 / figure 3) to see photos!
He was correct. MPEG-4 did adopt the QuickTime storage format.
No, he was not correct. Saying "MPEG-4 is a standardization of Apple's QuickTime format" is deceptive.
A more accurate way of putting it would be "The container format for MPEG-4 was based up on the container format for quicktime"
MPEG-4 is far more than MPEG-4 Part 14.
MPEG-4 is a standardization of Apple's QuickTime format
From Apple's MPEG-4 page:
I hope you did more research for the rest of the 'facts' in your post.
The #1 way to reduce CO2 production is to stop burning fossil fuels to generate power. A distant #2 is to eliminate personal automobiles.
Put up or shut up, I've given a link, link to something to back up your claims.
Apparently you did not bother to actually understand what you posted.
Nope, apparently you didn't bother to read what I posted. Scroll down to the second graph - it's probably clear enough for you. Oh - and seeing you're hard of reading, I'll quote another relevant section:
Of the remaining 40% that is petroleum, about half is related to transportation in the broadest possible sense. Of that portion that is transportation, only a fraction has any relation to Joe SixPack's automobile.
Source please - or are you just pulling numbers out of your ass?
Note that I'm not saying we emit more C02 with our cars than through electricity generation, just that dismissing personal transportation as a source of C02 emissions (a magnitude less than electricity generation according to you) is stupid.
(the vast majority of CO2 comes from electricity generation)
Vast majority? Are you on Crack? ~2500 tergrams from electricity generation compared to ~2000 for transportation is not a 'vast majority'.
Source - EPA. You'll see on that same page that Petroleum accounts for almost half of the US's C02 emissions; far, far more than coal.
Everyone is so busy trying to prove how green they are that almost no one is actually, well, making the world green.
And they're unlike you how? You're just making stuff up.
I would guess it's trivial for this worm to change the flag to enable autorun, however.
Only after its executing....and if it's doing that, what's the point?
mark my words, it'll have bugs
It's an alpha release you goddamn fool - if you'd bothered to read the article rather than rushing to try & get first post you'd know that.
I knew you'd show up with some vapid repsonse as soon as you were shown to be wrong.
Shown to be wrong? I've already been proved right. Apple stocks are down 6% in after hours trading.
You just have no sense of humour do you?
On the other hand, if you think AAPL is not strong without Jobs,
Well, I am a whiney apple fanboy, so of course I believed Apple's statements saying Jobs was in good health & thought he'd be running the company for years to come....
I think he's planning on doing that keynote.
On what basis?
On a different note, this is a sad day for those owning AAPL shares - expect them to plunge even further than they have over the past year.
But really, that particular argument would carry more weight if there existed any MKV+h.264 files that weren't pirated. I can't recall ever seeing one.
Erm, perhaps try looking. Here you go.
Looks like Best Buy didn't share the information with anyone.
How on earth do you think Best Buy got his address? He explicitly states that he gave BB no information other than his card:
I don't expect anyone to RTFA anymore, but could you at least read the summary before posting?
The only ones hurt by the Beatles not being on iTunes and other services are the remaining members.
I don't think they're going to be hurt.
The Beatles have the biggest selling back catalogue in the world. The #2 seller AC DC are also not on iTunes.
Both bands think they make more money selling Albums than singles & selling singles on iTunes would cannibalise their album sales.
Not sure if I agree or not, but they've certainly got numbers (huge album sales) on their side.
I guess nobody read the TOS.
Did you?
From the Facebook code of conduct:
So what is a woman nursing? Pornographic? Violent? Bullying? Malicious? Abusive?
I'm aware Facebook can remove content at their sole discretion, but nursing doesn't seem to be explicitly covered by their TOS.
As a private enterprise, they have the right to restrict what they want.
And as private citizens, the mothers have a right to complain, seek publicity & try to get an organization that relies on the public's page views to change its attitude.
Capitalism at work.
Typically it is advisable to download and run the Combo update installer for these point releases.
Two separate update tools? One for big upgrades & one for little upgrades?
Are we talking about gentoo or os x here?
The Software Update presents updates in the order Apple recommends you install them.
You don't think Apple should have dependencies for something this important?
QA fuck up - as simple as that. Especially from a company that advertises its products as just working.
That's the worst argument I've ever heard. I've got two words for you Psystar: Berne Convention
From the article you link to:
I suspect this is what Psystar are referring to, rather than Information Week's rather short, content free insinuation that Apple loses all rights if they fail to register.
You'd almost think they were organized just to antagonize Apple. Hmm...
Testing the waters, Hardware vendors want to sell something other than windows. I'm willing to bet one (or more) of the big 5 PC vendors is behind this