1 - Determine once and for all that Mars is lifeless
2 - Introduce microbes & simple organisms to Mars
3 - Wait a long time until atmosphere is warmed and breathable
4 - Send colonists on one-way trip
5 - Supply colonists regularly with anything they can't grow or build themselves
6 - ?
7 - Profit
I believe most doctors are still upset when people get sick even though it means more business for them. Postini would probably prefer that spam not disappear completely, but I'm guessing that any large changes to spam volume cause all kinds of extra work for them.
Macromedia developed things like Flash and Dreamweaver and were bought by Adobe about a year ago. Macrovision does copy protection, DRM, and software licensing subsystems. Big difference.
There are no written accounts, as far as I know, of a meteorite causing significant numbers of human casualties, either through an impact or through a tsunami induced by impact.
Every society on earth has a great flood story woven into their mythology, and many stories of fire and light from "the heavens." Just because they didn't call it a meteorite doesn't mean it didn't happen.
The Tunguska event had the uncanny luck of happening over land and in one of the world's least populated areas. What are the odds of THAT happening again?
Its been a while since I've truly lusted after a gadget... I thought that I might have "outgrown" that particular impulse. My cell phone is so old that it has begun to attract curious looks. No camera, no text messaging, web, email or bluetooth... it even has the default ringtone, and somehow that was ok with me. Somewhere in the closet of my studio is a Palm IIIe which I haven't used in years because it never lived up to my expectations - and grafitti really messed up my penmanship. It even took me until the 3rd generation to finally give in and buy an iPod. Upgrading to the video models was a costly upgrade I couldn't justify though.
Today, all that changed. I'll be freezing myself in a glacier tomorrow so that I can bear the wait until June. I am the targer market, and Apple just scored a direct hit.
Every time something like this comes up in the news, I think about what I saw in the sky over Smyrna, DE in 2002.
It was a fairly overcast day, and my wife was tending to the horses on her parent's farm. I was sitting on my car trying to pass the time, and looked up when I heard the jetliner go overhead. The jet was flying beneath the cloud ceiling several thousand feet up, but due to the delay of the sound reaching me, I initially looked for it behind its actual position. There, I saw a dark flat object which seemed to be tumbling through the air. Originally, I thought it might be something that fell off the jetliner and was now plummeting to earth. The thought of recovering a piece of an airplane was thrilling, so I strained to stay focused on the object. I soon discovered though that it wasn't falling, it was traveling in the same direction, and at the same speed as the jet - following it close enough that it probably would show up as a single radar blip. You're going to laugh at this, but it reminded me of the two-dimensional prison that Superman's enemies were trapped in. How could a flat tumbling shape be moving through the air at speed like that? I should have grabbed my camera in my car, or gotten my wife's attention, but strangely I did neither, and to this day, I don't know why. Instead, I simply watched the object and jet as if I was in a trance until both finally vanished into low clouds near the horizon.
I remember the last big solar event back in 1990 - cable TV had just become available at my parents' rural house that summer, but we enjoyed the first several months of HBO with fuzzy pink fringe and lots of static due to all the solar interference. Anything was better than our old aerial reception though, so we lived with a pink Crypt Keeper and Dream On.
In the fall, I went back to school in western NY state (Alfred University, near the NY/PA border), and on many nights in December, we could see vivid Auroras even over the campus light polution. At the time, I didn't think it was possible for them to be visible at such a lattitude. If the next maximum ends up being as strong as predicted, we might even see them farther south.
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What exactly is Apple adding to the hardware besides a cool-looking case? If Apple loves us the way they claim, I wish they'd release a OS X for home-built hardware, even if the requirements were set way up high.
As an Apple user, I am guaranteed that OS X will run perfectly on Apple's hardware - you don't have to think about it... it just works. If Apple were to give up control of the hardware spec, they would have an exponentially harder time making changes to the OS without breaking this seamless user experience.
As much as I would like to save some cash on my next computer purchase, I'm not prepared to sacrifice stability to do this.
As for the cases themselves, they're not just good looking, they're well engineered and well constructed. Remember, it wasn't until Apple showed the industry that case design mattered that PCs had anything other than big beige boxes with noisy fans.
I wonder how the airlines are going to keep inappropriate video (i.e. porn or even just movies like "Snakes on a Plane" or "Alive") from appearing on the seat-back displays."
A few years ago, I was flying from the East Coast to Denver and was seated near the front of coach. The guy in the last seats of first class diagonally across the aisle from me had a laptop, and was working on a PowerPoint presentation. To my horror, I soon realized the man was a proctologist, and the presentation he was creating on the big 17" laptop screen was filled with screen grabs of ass-cam videos taken inside some very unhealthy people. At the angle I was sitting, the screen of his laptop was practically in front of me, so it was impossible not to look at.
I can't think of anything that could be shown on a seat back that would be worse than that, unless it was the video that those stills were taken from.
There were a couple of scratches in the media after I extricated it, so I ran it through our trusty crank-operated disc polisher, and it's now good as new. If you have a toddler, buy one of those polishers now because you will need it.
The DVD player itself is holding up fairly well. There was only one incident where she started to lose her balance, grabbed the tray for support, and had to sit through my explanation of what a "load bearing structure" was. It's an old player though (has trouble playing some burned DVDs), and this whole saga might be my back-handed attempt to purchase a new unit should my daughter get creative.
My daughter figured out how to play the VHS tape of her choice when she was about 14 months old. The process was simple - just jam a durable tape into the big slot, and kick back and watch some Baby Einstein. If the tape won't go in, press the little eject button, remove the old tape and try again. Piece of cake!
6 months later, she's still working on DVDs. Getting one out of the package is a challenge in itself, and the discs must be handled gently with clean hands (usually we can manage one of those at a time). She knows which button opens the tray, but she's still working on getting the disc centered in the tray, and right side up. The tray is flimsy, and she's almost ripped it off at least once. Even if she gets a disc into the player, she still has to deal with the DVD menu interface or at least press the play button at the appropriate time. This whole process is far from toddler-friendly, but she is determined to figure it out, and I'm willing to let her keep trying as long as she's supervised.
She's fast though, and last week, before I could stop her, she jammed a DVD into the VCR with great satisfaction after getting frustrated trying to get it to play. For the record, a DVD will fit fully into a VCR, and it took me 10 minutes and a pair of needle nose pliers to get it out.
My wife and I came to the conclusion that it was impossible to fulfill all our photographic needs with just a DSLR or just a point-n-shoot... we needed to have both. Having a Canon Digital Elf that's so small, you can wear around your neck, has allowed us to always have a camera with us, no matter what we're doing. We even sprung for an underwater housing for it, and took it snorkeling. Being able to take little movie clips with it is an unexpected bonus.
When we need the extra control, pixels and quality that a DSLR provides, we bring out the big guns and lug around a full camera bag with our Digital Rebel, lenses, filters and flashes.
I'd really hate to give up either setup, since each has yielded images that the other would never have been able to capture. I'd never one-hand my Rebel while rock climbing, and I'd never be able to lock focus on a fast moving mountain biker and shoot multiple frames/sec with the Elf.
DoubleTwist seem to be pretty sure about not being sued, but I can't imagine Apple not taking them to court.
Maybe Apple will sue, and maybe they won't.
Would 1,000 iTunes Music Store clones really be a bad thing for Apple? It's widely reported that Apple's profit margin is only a few percent on downloaded songs, but 50%+ on iPods and accessories. Suddenly having a huge influx of new available iPod content for sale would surely translate into even hotter iPod sales, wouldn't it?
Monique Farantzos, managing director at DoubleTwist said:
"This allows other companies to offer content for the iPod."
So, it looks like they're hoping to clone the iTunes Music Store, sell some sort of DRM'd content to existing iPod users and somehow profit. If that's the plan, I have some questions:
What's keeping Apple from making slight changes FairPlay during iPod updates which shut out non-sanctioned store content?
Would any record company actually provide content to a knock-off music store based on this shady hacked DRM?
Since Apple makes much more money from iPod hardware sales than they do from selling $.99 songs, I can't see a thousand iPod compatible online stores being anything but beneficial to Apple.
As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it.
I would think that Apple would be the absolute last group of people on earth to be pissed about Microsoft's shoddy security model. If Apple is upset about it, I guess that means we've finally reached totality.
No matter how random something is, the human brain will always try to find patterns in it, and if there isn't one, we make something up. Constellations, cloud formations, potato chips and grilled cheese sandwiches...
...but with that said, I have an iPod that loves 80's hair band metal.
Before you flame me, I own 6 Macs, and my career is intertwined with Apple technology. My dependance on this so called "niche" computer maker is precisely why I ask this question, and why I keep close tabs on Apple's doings.
The iPod snuck up on everybody in the industry, and I believe it has resurrected Apple's brand in the eyes of the young. Just think about what the average teenager thought of Apple in 2001 versus today! Before the iPod, the average teen shunned Apple because there were far more games produced for Windows. You rarely if ever saw an Apple logo on TV unless it was a prop for show. I don't think it's a coincidence that Apple chose the mall for most of its stores. The iPod made Apple "cool" again in the eyes of the young, and I see a lot of these kids drooling over MacBooks and Cinema Displays at my local mall's Apple Store just like us old guys do.
I hope that this isn't just a bubble, and that Apple regains enough computer market share that they can give the industry some real competition. Double-digits would be nice, but I think 20% would be a real tipping point. If those little music players can help make that happen, I hope they're around for a long time... for our part, we own 3, and each is well loved.
I've personally been fighting with creative directors for years over the need to make sites accessible. Many agencies see no value in it because the clients don't ask for it (unless they're a big institution or an edu). What they're slowly realizing is that making a site accessible has benefits beyond catering to the blind. The sites have cleaner code, intelligent markup, and are much friendlier to handheld screens.
Did you really expect Microsoft to build a Web Designer that didn't target their platform?
So why does Dreamweaver support anything except ColdFusion?
Unlike you, I develop using whatever scripting language the project calls for, and I need a DE that can be flexible enough to handle my needs. This offering from Microsoft (and the name they chose for it) is just a bad joke to me.
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1 - Determine once and for all that Mars is lifeless 2 - Introduce microbes & simple organisms to Mars 3 - Wait a long time until atmosphere is warmed and breathable 4 - Send colonists on one-way trip 5 - Supply colonists regularly with anything they can't grow or build themselves 6 - ? 7 - Profit
I believe most doctors are still upset when people get sick even though it means more business for them. Postini would probably prefer that spam not disappear completely, but I'm guessing that any large changes to spam volume cause all kinds of extra work for them.
My god... he's probably got enough magnets on his refrigerator to life a Pinto!
Does this company sell/make/do anything that might be of value to you? Barter makes the world go round.
Instructions on the net of how to hack your sealed reactor in 3... 2... 1...
I thought 64k is all anyone would ever need.
Well, yes.. and no.
Every society on earth has a great flood story woven into their mythology, and many stories of fire and light from "the heavens." Just because they didn't call it a meteorite doesn't mean it didn't happen.
The Tunguska event had the uncanny luck of happening over land and in one of the world's least populated areas. What are the odds of THAT happening again?
Vista currently only has a couple of percentage points of market share at best, so why should Apple be expected to support such a "niche" OS?
Its been a while since I've truly lusted after a gadget... I thought that I might have "outgrown" that particular impulse. My cell phone is so old that it has begun to attract curious looks. No camera, no text messaging, web, email or bluetooth... it even has the default ringtone, and somehow that was ok with me. Somewhere in the closet of my studio is a Palm IIIe which I haven't used in years because it never lived up to my expectations - and grafitti really messed up my penmanship. It even took me until the 3rd generation to finally give in and buy an iPod. Upgrading to the video models was a costly upgrade I couldn't justify though.
Today, all that changed. I'll be freezing myself in a glacier tomorrow so that I can bear the wait until June. I am the targer market, and Apple just scored a direct hit.
Every time something like this comes up in the news, I think about what I saw in the sky over Smyrna, DE in 2002.
It was a fairly overcast day, and my wife was tending to the horses on her parent's farm. I was sitting on my car trying to pass the time, and looked up when I heard the jetliner go overhead. The jet was flying beneath the cloud ceiling several thousand feet up, but due to the delay of the sound reaching me, I initially looked for it behind its actual position. There, I saw a dark flat object which seemed to be tumbling through the air. Originally, I thought it might be something that fell off the jetliner and was now plummeting to earth. The thought of recovering a piece of an airplane was thrilling, so I strained to stay focused on the object. I soon discovered though that it wasn't falling, it was traveling in the same direction, and at the same speed as the jet - following it close enough that it probably would show up as a single radar blip. You're going to laugh at this, but it reminded me of the two-dimensional prison that Superman's enemies were trapped in. How could a flat tumbling shape be moving through the air at speed like that? I should have grabbed my camera in my car, or gotten my wife's attention, but strangely I did neither, and to this day, I don't know why. Instead, I simply watched the object and jet as if I was in a trance until both finally vanished into low clouds near the horizon.
Weird... really really weird.
In the fall, I went back to school in western NY state (Alfred University, near the NY/PA border), and on many nights in December, we could see vivid Auroras even over the campus light polution. At the time, I didn't think it was possible for them to be visible at such a lattitude. If the next maximum ends up being as strong as predicted, we might even see them farther south.
As an Apple user, I am guaranteed that OS X will run perfectly on Apple's hardware - you don't have to think about it... it just works. If Apple were to give up control of the hardware spec, they would have an exponentially harder time making changes to the OS without breaking this seamless user experience.
As much as I would like to save some cash on my next computer purchase, I'm not prepared to sacrifice stability to do this.
As for the cases themselves, they're not just good looking, they're well engineered and well constructed. Remember, it wasn't until Apple showed the industry that case design mattered that PCs had anything other than big beige boxes with noisy fans.
iBlinders - similar to the kind they use to block a horse's peripheral vision.
A few years ago, I was flying from the East Coast to Denver and was seated near the front of coach. The guy in the last seats of first class diagonally across the aisle from me had a laptop, and was working on a PowerPoint presentation. To my horror, I soon realized the man was a proctologist, and the presentation he was creating on the big 17" laptop screen was filled with screen grabs of ass-cam videos taken inside some very unhealthy people. At the angle I was sitting, the screen of his laptop was practically in front of me, so it was impossible not to look at.
I can't think of anything that could be shown on a seat back that would be worse than that, unless it was the video that those stills were taken from.
There were a couple of scratches in the media after I extricated it, so I ran it through our trusty crank-operated disc polisher, and it's now good as new. If you have a toddler, buy one of those polishers now because you will need it.
The DVD player itself is holding up fairly well. There was only one incident where she started to lose her balance, grabbed the tray for support, and had to sit through my explanation of what a "load bearing structure" was. It's an old player though (has trouble playing some burned DVDs), and this whole saga might be my back-handed attempt to purchase a new unit should my daughter get creative.
My daughter figured out how to play the VHS tape of her choice when she was about 14 months old. The process was simple - just jam a durable tape into the big slot, and kick back and watch some Baby Einstein. If the tape won't go in, press the little eject button, remove the old tape and try again. Piece of cake!
6 months later, she's still working on DVDs. Getting one out of the package is a challenge in itself, and the discs must be handled gently with clean hands (usually we can manage one of those at a time). She knows which button opens the tray, but she's still working on getting the disc centered in the tray, and right side up. The tray is flimsy, and she's almost ripped it off at least once. Even if she gets a disc into the player, she still has to deal with the DVD menu interface or at least press the play button at the appropriate time. This whole process is far from toddler-friendly, but she is determined to figure it out, and I'm willing to let her keep trying as long as she's supervised.
She's fast though, and last week, before I could stop her, she jammed a DVD into the VCR with great satisfaction after getting frustrated trying to get it to play. For the record, a DVD will fit fully into a VCR, and it took me 10 minutes and a pair of needle nose pliers to get it out.
My wife and I came to the conclusion that it was impossible to fulfill all our photographic needs with just a DSLR or just a point-n-shoot... we needed to have both. Having a Canon Digital Elf that's so small, you can wear around your neck, has allowed us to always have a camera with us, no matter what we're doing. We even sprung for an underwater housing for it, and took it snorkeling. Being able to take little movie clips with it is an unexpected bonus.
When we need the extra control, pixels and quality that a DSLR provides, we bring out the big guns and lug around a full camera bag with our Digital Rebel, lenses, filters and flashes.
I'd really hate to give up either setup, since each has yielded images that the other would never have been able to capture. I'd never one-hand my Rebel while rock climbing, and I'd never be able to lock focus on a fast moving mountain biker and shoot multiple frames/sec with the Elf.
Maybe Apple will sue, and maybe they won't.
Would 1,000 iTunes Music Store clones really be a bad thing for Apple? It's widely reported that Apple's profit margin is only a few percent on downloaded songs, but 50%+ on iPods and accessories. Suddenly having a huge influx of new available iPod content for sale would surely translate into even hotter iPod sales, wouldn't it?
Monique Farantzos, managing director at DoubleTwist said:
So, it looks like they're hoping to clone the iTunes Music Store, sell some sort of DRM'd content to existing iPod users and somehow profit. If that's the plan, I have some questions:
Since Apple makes much more money from iPod hardware sales than they do from selling $.99 songs, I can't see a thousand iPod compatible online stores being anything but beneficial to Apple.
I would think that Apple would be the absolute last group of people on earth to be pissed about Microsoft's shoddy security model. If Apple is upset about it, I guess that means we've finally reached totality.
No matter how random something is, the human brain will always try to find patterns in it, and if there isn't one, we make something up. Constellations, cloud formations, potato chips and grilled cheese sandwiches...
...but with that said, I have an iPod that loves 80's hair band metal.
The real question is whether Apple will ever die.
Before you flame me, I own 6 Macs, and my career is intertwined with Apple technology. My dependance on this so called "niche" computer maker is precisely why I ask this question, and why I keep close tabs on Apple's doings.
The iPod snuck up on everybody in the industry, and I believe it has resurrected Apple's brand in the eyes of the young. Just think about what the average teenager thought of Apple in 2001 versus today! Before the iPod, the average teen shunned Apple because there were far more games produced for Windows. You rarely if ever saw an Apple logo on TV unless it was a prop for show. I don't think it's a coincidence that Apple chose the mall for most of its stores. The iPod made Apple "cool" again in the eyes of the young, and I see a lot of these kids drooling over MacBooks and Cinema Displays at my local mall's Apple Store just like us old guys do.
I hope that this isn't just a bubble, and that Apple regains enough computer market share that they can give the industry some real competition. Double-digits would be nice, but I think 20% would be a real tipping point. If those little music players can help make that happen, I hope they're around for a long time... for our part, we own 3, and each is well loved.
I've personally been fighting with creative directors for years over the need to make sites accessible. Many agencies see no value in it because the clients don't ask for it (unless they're a big institution or an edu). What they're slowly realizing is that making a site accessible has benefits beyond catering to the blind. The sites have cleaner code, intelligent markup, and are much friendlier to handheld screens.
So why does Dreamweaver support anything except ColdFusion?
Unlike you, I develop using whatever scripting language the project calls for, and I need a DE that can be flexible enough to handle my needs. This offering from Microsoft (and the name they chose for it) is just a bad joke to me.