You're not seeing the data I'm seeing, like the dozens of people writing me and saying they dropped plans to buy kindle as soon as they saw ereader running on their iphone. The iphone is cutting the legs off of kindle sales even as we speak.
Once you have the equipment, it just takes electricity. No need to buy paint, dyes, etc. on an ongoing basis. And according to the article, it's part of the metal, so it doesn't flake or rub off.
If you don't vote you don't have the right to complain
What baloney.
I live in Massachusetts. I guarantee that my state will give its electoral votes to the Democratic candidate, and my vote has absolutely zero effect on that.
And I retain the right to complain whether I vote or not.:-)
Maybe for new installs. When I got FIOS data installed 6 or 8 months ago, they installed a d-link router, which I promptly filed, replacing it with my Apple Airport. I had to configure the Airport to use PPPoE, but that was it. I had FIOS video installed later on, and they weren't happy about the setup, but they left me the ActionTec in a box (where it's stayed).
I too have HD TiVos, so I don't care about their VOD. I ended up going back to Comcast for video, however, because of the dropouts with FIOS on the HD TiVos. I hate paying the extra $30 per month to Comcast for lower bitrate video and a smaller selection of good channels.
I'm hoping to switch back to FIOS video at some point...
But it is not a better startup volume for current and foreseen versions of Mac OS X
Well, duh. Since booting under ZFS is still an unreleased feature on Solaris, let alone Mac OS X, it's not any kind of startup volume.
From the macjournals page (which looks like ass, by the way), pretending to quote AppleInsider:
"We don't find HFS Plus administration to be complex, and we can't tell you what those other things mean, but they sound really cool, and therefore we want them. On the magic unlocked iPhone. For free."
That isn't debunking, that's just whiny dumping. I'm all for informed discussion, which is why I was on the ZFS discussion list for a while, but the macjournals piece doesn't cut it.
This wasn't a debunking, it was more of a whiny "AppleInsider gets way more traffic than we do, so we'll dump on what they have to say, even though we don't have anything to add to it."
Despite the macjournals piece, ZFS is cool, and it is better than HFS+journaled, at some things. Deal with it.
Palm can't (or doesn't feel that it can) compete with Nokia et al in churning out low-end phones. Palm can only stay in business by making higher-end smartphones.
Their biggest problem is that their product cycle is way too long. The hardware and software revs between models seem small enough, but they're taking more than a year to push them out. That can't go on much longer.
I'm surprised that nobody has yet posted a link to Wicked Lasers. I haven't bought anything from them, but I've been tempted.
I do have a green laser I picked up on eBay from some HK reseller a couple of years ago for $30-something. It's very cool, but the cats are less interested in it than in a red laser for some reason. I suspect that the wavelength of the green laser corresponds to something less bug-like when viewed by cats' eyes.
Note: a quick google while writing this indicates that cats aren't really colorblind, but they cannot distinguish shades of red.
Yes, all modern phones have integrated GPS units (in the US, at least), as a requirement for 911 service. Whether it's exposed to the OS for use by applications is another question; one to which I don't know the answer.
Cite. Go on. I would so so love to see a citation of any evidence of this. Any, whatsoever.
I can't give you a cite since it wasn't public, but I was there when the company had to roll out a quick release for an email client that was hitting the network at the same time every morning, from some tens of thousands of handsets. With cell time synchronization, that meant exactly the same time every morning, which was bringing down the C******* server that handed out data connection contexts.
Like you, I wouldn't have believed that you could bring down a cell network, but there you go. I suppose it wasn't really the whole network, but whatever.
Maybe they have more than one server handing out contexts now. Maybe not.
Yeah, this article smacks of "how can I dump on Jobs to get page views?"
I've a friend who is a definite Mac geek and will be paying an early termination fee on his Verizon cell plan just to get an iPhone. That didn't stop him from buying two 80 GB video iPods last week (for him and his wife).
Since the iPhone has 8 GB max, I don't see that people who want to store their whole music collection (let alone video) are going to hold up a purchase, even if they plan on buying an iPhone in 6 months.
I would much rather use a fund like this to bring back into print stuff that isn't available.
Penguin books and car-repair books you can find in any bookstore, or Amazon.
What I'd like to see is all the old, good science fiction from the 1930s through the 1980s bought up and made available again.
A lot of this stuff is still in copyright, but not in print for decades. In some cases, the author is dead, the estate is either up in the air, doesn't know they have rights to titles, or doesn't care.
That's the kind of stuff that I don't want to just disappear as the years go by. Penguin classics will always be around. Good SF won't.
OK, include other types of fiction if you want. And even non-fiction, I guess.:-)
No, there have been many predictions of this sort way before Kurzweil's. One notable prediction is, of course, Vinge's The Coming Technological Singularity, copyright 1993.
Vinge's timeline: let me more specific: I'll be surprised if this event occurs before 2005 or after 2030
Vinge goes beyond the BT guy's prediction, though. Vinge postulates that once you have a computer that can think as well as a human, it will think of ways to make itself more powerful -- to think faster. Then that rev will be able to think (faster) of ways to make itself even faster. An exponential curve that leads to...a singularity. A phase change of "intelligence" that we may not be able to understand.
While we're back on SF, let's not forget Heinlein's The Door Into Summer, published in 1956/1957, about a guy who is frozen from 1970 through 2000. Twice.:-) It's one of Heinlein's best, IMNSHO.
"Never" is too strong. Occasionally RAM fluctuations make buying from Apple a decent deal. Apple buys in large lots, so if the price of RAM spikes, Apple's previous purchase can yield a lower price to you than "spot" suppliers.
This doesn't happen as much as it used to, but that's not "never".
I'm an all-Mac guy by choice, and I agree with the grandparent. I'd love a small tower that would allow me to pop in a decent graphics card and maybe a total of two HDs without having a built-in monitor. Instead my choices are a Mini (craptastic graphics) or a Mac Pro (hujumbo tower case).
I was hoping that the Mac Pros would go back to something like the G4 MDD enclosure in size, which was way better (smaller) than the G5 case.
And in response to Null357's complaint about having to alter his habits, allow me to point out that nowhere is the right to listen to music on a trans-atlantic flight guaranteed
Yes, and nowhere is the right to wear clothes on a trans-atlantic flight guaranteed, or to not be cavity-searched, or any number of other things.
inconveniences do not mean that liberties get trampled
Where's the line between a "convenience" and a "liberty"?
There was a recent court ruling (which I'm too lazy to look up) that said that the government could perform invasive searches for what was it, airline travel or subway travel because there were other forms of travel available. To me, this is asinine. So, as long as you can walk from one coast to the other, the government is allowed to place arbitrary restrictions on every other form of travel, since those are just "conveniences"? That's bull***, IMO.
Liberty is about doing what you want, when you want. It is, of course, subject to restrictions mainly aimed at preventing you from infringing on other people's liberty, but listening to an iPod or playing a Gameboy squarely falls in the "liberty" square. Again, IMO.
If you mass test random potential compounds against random proteins, you get to cut out some of those steps.
Actually doing the "designer" thing lets you cut out a ton of the testing, since you're only testing compounds that have a geometry that would allow them to fit the receptor.
There is/was a pretty huge investment in the software and hardware that could do the umpty-kabillions (that's a technical term, sorry) of combinations of molecules and receptors, but the savings is in the back end with reduced testing and clinical trials.
The image in TFA is incomprehensible to me. How big is that thing? Does it fit in your ear, do you hold it with two hands, does it attach to your head somehow?
This is one of those items for which I have no referent. A picture of someone using one would be most welcome.
For those who don't want to click the link above, it's West Virginia.
airlynx's post is like the stupid nightly news ads: "Are we going to get some rough weather this weekend? I'll tell you at 11 o'clock!" "This common cosmetic may cause heart failure -- tune in at 11!"
I hate those f'ing ads. Just tell me if it's going to rain. I'm not staying up for your idiotic show.
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Once you have the equipment, it just takes electricity. No need to buy paint, dyes, etc. on an ongoing basis. And according to the article, it's part of the metal, so it doesn't flake or rub off.
What baloney.
I live in Massachusetts. I guarantee that my state will give its electoral votes to the Democratic candidate, and my vote has absolutely zero effect on that.
And I retain the right to complain whether I vote or not. :-)
Having said that, I do vote.
Maybe for new installs. When I got FIOS data installed 6 or 8 months ago, they installed a d-link router, which I promptly filed, replacing it with my Apple Airport. I had to configure the Airport to use PPPoE, but that was it. I had FIOS video installed later on, and they weren't happy about the setup, but they left me the ActionTec in a box (where it's stayed).
I too have HD TiVos, so I don't care about their VOD. I ended up going back to Comcast for video, however, because of the dropouts with FIOS on the HD TiVos. I hate paying the extra $30 per month to Comcast for lower bitrate video and a smaller selection of good channels.
I'm hoping to switch back to FIOS video at some point...
Well, duh. Since booting under ZFS is still an unreleased feature on Solaris, let alone Mac OS X, it's not any kind of startup volume.
From the macjournals page (which looks like ass, by the way), pretending to quote AppleInsider:
That isn't debunking, that's just whiny dumping. I'm all for informed discussion, which is why I was on the ZFS discussion list for a while, but the macjournals piece doesn't cut it.
This wasn't a debunking, it was more of a whiny "AppleInsider gets way more traffic than we do, so we'll dump on what they have to say, even though we don't have anything to add to it."
Despite the macjournals piece, ZFS is cool, and it is better than HFS+journaled, at some things. Deal with it.
Palm can't (or doesn't feel that it can) compete with Nokia et al in churning out low-end phones. Palm can only stay in business by making higher-end smartphones.
Their biggest problem is that their product cycle is way too long. The hardware and software revs between models seem small enough, but they're taking more than a year to push them out. That can't go on much longer.
I'm surprised that nobody has yet posted a link to Wicked Lasers. I haven't bought anything from them, but I've been tempted.
I do have a green laser I picked up on eBay from some HK reseller a couple of years ago for $30-something. It's very cool, but the cats are less interested in it than in a red laser for some reason. I suspect that the wavelength of the green laser corresponds to something less bug-like when viewed by cats' eyes.
Note: a quick google while writing this indicates that cats aren't really colorblind, but they cannot distinguish shades of red.
Yes, all modern phones have integrated GPS units (in the US, at least), as a requirement for 911 service. Whether it's exposed to the OS for use by applications is another question; one to which I don't know the answer.
I can't give you a cite since it wasn't public, but I was there when the company had to roll out a quick release for an email client that was hitting the network at the same time every morning, from some tens of thousands of handsets. With cell time synchronization, that meant exactly the same time every morning, which was bringing down the C******* server that handed out data connection contexts.
Like you, I wouldn't have believed that you could bring down a cell network, but there you go. I suppose it wasn't really the whole network, but whatever.
Maybe they have more than one server handing out contexts now. Maybe not.
So that people could play the music on an iPod, the #1 DAP on the market? Yeah, that might be a reason.
I had a Treo, needed a plan. I walked into a Cingular store and said "I need a SIM and plan for my Treo." It was (pretty much) that easy.
Yeah, this article smacks of "how can I dump on Jobs to get page views?"
I've a friend who is a definite Mac geek and will be paying an early termination fee on his Verizon cell plan just to get an iPhone. That didn't stop him from buying two 80 GB video iPods last week (for him and his wife).
Since the iPhone has 8 GB max, I don't see that people who want to store their whole music collection (let alone video) are going to hold up a purchase, even if they plan on buying an iPhone in 6 months.
I would much rather use a fund like this to bring back into print stuff that isn't available.
Penguin books and car-repair books you can find in any bookstore, or Amazon.
What I'd like to see is all the old, good science fiction from the 1930s through the 1980s bought up and made available again.
A lot of this stuff is still in copyright, but not in print for decades. In some cases, the author is dead, the estate is either up in the air, doesn't know they have rights to titles, or doesn't care.
That's the kind of stuff that I don't want to just disappear as the years go by. Penguin classics will always be around. Good SF won't.
OK, include other types of fiction if you want. And even non-fiction, I guess. :-)
To be fair, Kurzweil predicted this first.
No, there have been many predictions of this sort way before Kurzweil's. One notable prediction is, of course, Vinge's The Coming Technological Singularity, copyright 1993.
Vinge's timeline: let me more specific: I'll be surprised if this event occurs before 2005 or after 2030
Vinge goes beyond the BT guy's prediction, though. Vinge postulates that once you have a computer that can think as well as a human, it will think of ways to make itself more powerful -- to think faster. Then that rev will be able to think (faster) of ways to make itself even faster. An exponential curve that leads to...a singularity. A phase change of "intelligence" that we may not be able to understand.
I think the editor put quotes around "creator" for the same reason he misspelled so many words.
While we're back on SF, let's not forget Heinlein's The Door Into Summer, published in 1956/1957, about a guy who is frozen from 1970 through 2000. Twice. :-) It's one of Heinlein's best, IMNSHO.
"Never" is too strong. Occasionally RAM fluctuations make buying from Apple a decent deal. Apple buys in large lots, so if the price of RAM spikes, Apple's previous purchase can yield a lower price to you than "spot" suppliers.
This doesn't happen as much as it used to, but that's not "never".
I'm an all-Mac guy by choice, and I agree with the grandparent. I'd love a small tower that would allow me to pop in a decent graphics card and maybe a total of two HDs without having a built-in monitor. Instead my choices are a Mini (craptastic graphics) or a Mac Pro (hujumbo tower case).
I was hoping that the Mac Pros would go back to something like the G4 MDD enclosure in size, which was way better (smaller) than the G5 case.
And in response to Null357's complaint about having to alter his habits, allow me to point out that nowhere is the right to listen to music on a trans-atlantic flight guaranteed
Yes, and nowhere is the right to wear clothes on a trans-atlantic flight guaranteed, or to not be cavity-searched, or any number of other things.
inconveniences do not mean that liberties get trampled
Where's the line between a "convenience" and a "liberty"?
There was a recent court ruling (which I'm too lazy to look up) that said that the government could perform invasive searches for what was it, airline travel or subway travel because there were other forms of travel available. To me, this is asinine. So, as long as you can walk from one coast to the other, the government is allowed to place arbitrary restrictions on every other form of travel, since those are just "conveniences"? That's bull***, IMO.
Liberty is about doing what you want, when you want. It is, of course, subject to restrictions mainly aimed at preventing you from infringing on other people's liberty, but listening to an iPod or playing a Gameboy squarely falls in the "liberty" square. Again, IMO.
If you mass test random potential compounds against random proteins, you get to cut out some of those steps.
Actually doing the "designer" thing lets you cut out a ton of the testing, since you're only testing compounds that have a geometry that would allow them to fit the receptor.
There is/was a pretty huge investment in the software and hardware that could do the umpty-kabillions (that's a technical term, sorry) of combinations of molecules and receptors, but the savings is in the back end with reduced testing and clinical trials.
Ha. Characters in Heinlein's Puppet Masters had implanted phones. And I don't know that they were original with him even at that.
The image in TFA is incomprehensible to me. How big is that thing? Does it fit in your ear, do you hold it with two hands, does it attach to your head somehow?
This is one of those items for which I have no referent. A picture of someone using one would be most welcome.
For those who don't want to click the link above, it's West Virginia.
airlynx's post is like the stupid nightly news ads: "Are we going to get some rough weather this weekend? I'll tell you at 11 o'clock!" "This common cosmetic may cause heart failure -- tune in at 11!"
I hate those f'ing ads. Just tell me if it's going to rain. I'm not staying up for your idiotic show.