Yes, they are overdue for a redesign. In my case, support expires this year on my wife's late-2008 Macbook. I suggested upgrading but she has no interest. Her reason? The new Macbook looks almost exactly like her old Macbook. So her old computer still "feels" new.
This has gotta be bad for Apple. The lack of cosmetic design changes is going to cause a lot of their users to not-upgrade and stick to old hardware, which is also more likely to be running old versions of OS X. By not changing their unibody aluminum chassis, Apple's new hardware ends up competing against their old hardware.
If most of the helium-3 demand is driven by lung x-rays, and you suddenly need $5000 of He-3 instead of $500 of He-3 to do an x-ray, then the result will simply be fewer people and animals getting x-rays.
Unless the situation is that government funded Medicaid/Medicare is going cover the $5000 cost for the x-ray, in which case the result will simply be the owners He-3 stockpiles getting insanely rich at the expense of taxpayers.
Seriously, what is the significance of finding a 9000 year old grave? We know people existed 9000 years ago. We also know they're all dead. It's not news.
Have any of you ever tried informing Google/Navteq/Teleatlas of map errors? It's like communicating with a black hole.
At one point every map provider had a POI for city hall (of a major US city) pointed at a nearby Starbucks, along with a long-gone road that had been redeveloped 40 years ago and is now covered with buildings. I filled out error reports every few month along with a link to photos and satellite imagery. It took between one and two-and-a-half years for them all to get updated. At one point I had email correspondence with a real person who said they would need to send someone out to check it out.
I don't get what the problem is. Is it really so labor intensive for map providers to fix their maps? Or do they just have sucky processes for collecting map feedback?
I cringe whenever I see an argument by the ACLU, EFF, etc that something has "compromised the civil liberties of American citizens", because they're making the wrong argument by casting it the opposite way it should be cast.
When you make a claim like that, the response is always going to be "was any harm done?" and the answer to that is usually "no, no harm was actually done" and then the response to that becomes "stop being a sissy, no harm no foul. unless you're up to something illegal, you've got nothing to worry about."
What the EFF should be claiming is that "government employees abuse the limits of their power". You have to focus the argument on the action, not the reaction. The way the Constitution is written, it doesn't guarantee the civil liberties of Americans. Instead, it limits the scope of authority of the federal government.
Twenty years ago, we though NASA's aerogel was going to be everywhere today. It promised the light-transmission and strength of regular glass, while being literally light as a feather and the best thermal insulator known to man. It seemed like eventually you could build entire houses out of this stuff.
Today, aerogel is nowhere to be found as a structural material, probably because it's so expensive. They do put pulverized aerogel into shoe insoles as insulation for mountain climbing, and you can buy a gumball-sized chunk of aerogel on eBay for USD$20 or so. I still wonder why nobody ever managed to get the cost down.
Next time there's a rally in Tiananmen Square, the world won't see an iconic image of a protester standing in front of a row of tanks. The protester will instead be standing in front a stealth fighter jet, but the stealth fighter jet will be invisible to cameras, making the photo uninteresting.
If you ever meet someone from the MIT Media Lab, ask them what floor they work on. If they work on the first floor then you're safe - typical electrical engineers working in a basement lab. If they're from the 3rd, 4th, or 5th floor, then run away before they get a chance to show you cute but mostly useless demos in the academic equivalent of Q's workshop from any James Bond movie.
Car manufacturers probably make more money from "optional" cameras than mandatory ones. FTOA:
"The rear-view camera system adds about $400 to the price of a Ford."
Compare the increase the price ($400) against the increase in cost (probably under $100). The big winner here is most likely the consumer, the lesser winner is the auto insurance industry.
Reminds me of that joke about that flawed Hubble telescope mirror made by Hughes, a subdivision of General Motors.
"Why would you trust a company that writes on all its mirrors 'object in mirror may be closer than they appear'?"
Newer cars and recent (USA) DOT regulations have a minimum vertical cutoff, alleviating that sudden glare you get. So I believe that problem tends to happen in cars with HID retrofits, and cars with OEM headlamps more than a few years old.
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2004/octqtr/49cfr571.108.htm
ICAAN started out as real geeks, then became a bunch of fake geeks, now is a bunch of lawyers, and is destined to become a bunch of business exectives until it finally becomes a bunch of ex-elected officials.
That's how these organizations evolve once they become responsible for handling real power.
In the USA, DNS needs to be woven into the first amendment as one of those things the government shall not fuck with, but I doubt the Roberts court will see it that way.
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Does this mean Parallels already supports Coreboot?
The safety issue is a distraction from the real issue, which is that the 4th amendment is supposed to prevent DHS employees from doing these searches.
Yes, they are overdue for a redesign. In my case, support expires this year on my wife's late-2008 Macbook. I suggested upgrading but she has no interest. Her reason? The new Macbook looks almost exactly like her old Macbook. So her old computer still "feels" new.
This has gotta be bad for Apple. The lack of cosmetic design changes is going to cause a lot of their users to not-upgrade and stick to old hardware, which is also more likely to be running old versions of OS X. By not changing their unibody aluminum chassis, Apple's new hardware ends up competing against their old hardware.
If most of the helium-3 demand is driven by lung x-rays, and you suddenly need $5000 of He-3 instead of $500 of He-3 to do an x-ray, then the result will simply be fewer people and animals getting x-rays.
Unless the situation is that government funded Medicaid/Medicare is going cover the $5000 cost for the x-ray, in which case the result will simply be the owners He-3 stockpiles getting insanely rich at the expense of taxpayers.
Or pay an extra $100 for another 16GB in your iPhone 4.
Seriously, what is the significance of finding a 9000 year old grave? We know people existed 9000 years ago. We also know they're all dead. It's not news.
Let me guess - Garmin GPS set to "avoid tolls"?
Have any of you ever tried informing Google/Navteq/Teleatlas of map errors? It's like communicating with a black hole.
At one point every map provider had a POI for city hall (of a major US city) pointed at a nearby Starbucks, along with a long-gone road that had been redeveloped 40 years ago and is now covered with buildings. I filled out error reports every few month along with a link to photos and satellite imagery. It took between one and two-and-a-half years for them all to get updated. At one point I had email correspondence with a real person who said they would need to send someone out to check it out.
I don't get what the problem is. Is it really so labor intensive for map providers to fix their maps? Or do they just have sucky processes for collecting map feedback?
I cringe whenever I see an argument by the ACLU, EFF, etc that something has "compromised the civil liberties of American citizens", because they're making the wrong argument by casting it the opposite way it should be cast.
When you make a claim like that, the response is always going to be "was any harm done?" and the answer to that is usually "no, no harm was actually done" and then the response to that becomes "stop being a sissy, no harm no foul. unless you're up to something illegal, you've got nothing to worry about."
What the EFF should be claiming is that "government employees abuse the limits of their power". You have to focus the argument on the action, not the reaction. The way the Constitution is written, it doesn't guarantee the civil liberties of Americans. Instead, it limits the scope of authority of the federal government.
Q: What does NASA stand for?
A: Need another seven astronauts.
I guess it depends how you define "safe"
Twenty years ago, we though NASA's aerogel was going to be everywhere today. It promised the light-transmission and strength of regular glass, while being literally light as a feather and the best thermal insulator known to man. It seemed like eventually you could build entire houses out of this stuff.
Today, aerogel is nowhere to be found as a structural material, probably because it's so expensive. They do put pulverized aerogel into shoe insoles as insulation for mountain climbing, and you can buy a gumball-sized chunk of aerogel on eBay for USD$20 or so. I still wonder why nobody ever managed to get the cost down.
If he's gives 1:1000 odds then maybe he can convince Richard Lindzen to take that bet and put his money where his foot is.
Next time there's a rally in Tiananmen Square, the world won't see an iconic image of a protester standing in front of a row of tanks. The protester will instead be standing in front a stealth fighter jet, but the stealth fighter jet will be invisible to cameras, making the photo uninteresting.
If you ever meet someone from the MIT Media Lab, ask them what floor they work on. If they work on the first floor then you're safe - typical electrical engineers working in a basement lab. If they're from the 3rd, 4th, or 5th floor, then run away before they get a chance to show you cute but mostly useless demos in the academic equivalent of Q's workshop from any James Bond movie.
The government rolls out a commercial bus... that doesn't make sense, unless the South Korean government is actually a private company.
This is good news. Everyone knows that you regain stability by moving all your poles into the right hand plane.
For extra fun, sew it into a Yankees jersey and wear it to Boston. They love blinking lights in Boston.
Car manufacturers probably make more money from "optional" cameras than mandatory ones. FTOA: "The rear-view camera system adds about $400 to the price of a Ford." Compare the increase the price ($400) against the increase in cost (probably under $100). The big winner here is most likely the consumer, the lesser winner is the auto insurance industry.
Reminds me of that joke about that flawed Hubble telescope mirror made by Hughes, a subdivision of General Motors. "Why would you trust a company that writes on all its mirrors 'object in mirror may be closer than they appear'?"
Newer cars and recent (USA) DOT regulations have a minimum vertical cutoff, alleviating that sudden glare you get. So I believe that problem tends to happen in cars with HID retrofits, and cars with OEM headlamps more than a few years old. http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2004/octqtr/49cfr571.108.htm
ICAAN started out as real geeks, then became a bunch of fake geeks, now is a bunch of lawyers, and is destined to become a bunch of business exectives until it finally becomes a bunch of ex-elected officials. That's how these organizations evolve once they become responsible for handling real power.
In the USA, DNS needs to be woven into the first amendment as one of those things the government shall not fuck with, but I doubt the Roberts court will see it that way.
If a VC had invested $666 in Apple in 1976, how many Apple I's would that be worth today?
Isn't Steve Jobs known to start counting from zero?