cosmicray

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by cosmicray 16y ago
1) AppleWorks 6 - which while mostly replaced by iWork, is still in use by quite a few people. iWork has yet to implement a database module. 2) compiled AppleScript scripts - a certain number of those were compiled, and generated PPC binari
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by cosmicray 16y ago
If you have a site triggering a false positive, maybe you need to go back and look at your content, where it originates from and how.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
From what I've read, and experienced with Flash on the OS X desktop, the issue was caused by Flash beating up hard on the CPU (and thereby causing a battery drain). The last thing Apple wants is to list a battery life in the specs, and then
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by cosmicray 16y ago
An 'upgrade' feature that has been promised, but will not be available on the day the Xoom ships.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Power utilities already do this (to a certain extent). No typical power utility has the manpower to respond to a major event, so they all have mutual aid agreements (to help one another).
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by cosmicray 16y ago
As you say, RAID (specifically RAID level 1) is redundancy. Time Machine is a form of generational/chronological backup. Apple has stated that Time Machine is not archival. I wonder is this new patent is referring to an extension of TM, to
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Try thinking of it like this ... Every life has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Some lives are very short, a few are very long, and most somewhere in the middle of the curve (something the insurance companies call the actuarial). Everyon
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> Apple has partnered with a few retail chains such as Best Buy and Walmart, but those stores always seem to get a small number of units in stock. Hiner rationalizes that the true purpose of these partnerships is probably to help spread
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> Hell, under Obamacare anyone who hires a kid to mow their lawn and pays them $400 over the course of a year has to file a 1099 on them! Under the new health care legislation ? No. What you are describing has been an IRS requirement fo
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> It would be unprecedented, as far as I know, for a company to be liable for taxes on the employee's on-paper-only gains, occurring some arbitrary time later at option-exercise. The questions is ... would the same taxation be applicabl
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by cosmicray 16y ago
It would solve the problem of people using an MBA, complaining about the lack of ports.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> Sony is also 130% the size of Apple in terms of revenue, 180% the size of Apple in terms of assets and 340% the size of Apple in terms of employees headcount. Which suggests that Sony makes ~39% of the revenue per employee that Apple
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> Part of the problem is that there is an internal inconsistency in play. You can subscribe to the Wall Street Journal Web edition and use that on Safari on your iPad just fine. Why should the WSJ app that gives you access to that same
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> It's just worse because they're a security company and they happened to piss off Anonymous. It's just worse because HBGary isn't eating their own dog food. Think about that.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> My company makes all of its money from subscription services that we sell directly to customers. Then don't sell on the iOS stores. Simple solution. Unless you now want to complain about all the 70% revenue that you will be missing.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
I'm going to say yes. (because I sell on GC, like GC, but note their lack of ability to reach a living person there)
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Apple owns a very fertile piece of soil. You can grow 10x the crop there that you can grown any where else. Where do you want to farm your crop ?
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Interesting premise ... Many years ago, back when I was working my way thru high school, my father was a shop manager at a manufacturing plant. One of the perks he had, was deciding what went in the drink cooler. He swore (all day and half
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> Echoing my post in another thread, Apple received $150 million in financing from Microsoft back in 1997 in exchange for including IE on the Mac (among other partnership goodies). Actually, based on my hazy recollection, someone at App
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> But it'd really suck to be the last generation before some significant increase in lifespan (say, up to 200) is reached. If you read the Mars trilogy, the subject of excessive long life spans is discussed (at least from a sci-fi ficti
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> I've been wondering if Microsoft's stock price is low due to the perception that they aren't sexy. Stock prices are (usually) set based on two factors: The current earnings/revenue situation and future expectations. MSFT and APPL both
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> They charge 100 yen for doing a book conversion. That's only about $1.25 US. I would kill for a service like this. Are they physically scanning every book presented, or is each scanning service building a library (by scanning each tit
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by cosmicray 16y ago
You could certainly bust the internet into a lot of small unconnected subnets, simply by telling all the backbone providers to disconnect peering. I would expect that .mil and continuity of government circuits would be tagged as exempt, and
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> doesn't consider himself too high to do the grunt work too go read 'Up the Organization' by Robert Towsend (written many years ago when he was the CEO of Avis Rent-a-car). Everyone at Avis (janitor, receptionist, CEO, all the way down
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Perhaps the time has arrived to dust off the old operating manuals for the CCC and the WPA. For those who don't recognize the acronyms, those were 2 of the major 'New Deal' programs during the 1930's era Great Depression. They were intended
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by cosmicray 16y ago
This is some truth to this. FB is a walled, semi-curated, subset of the internet. It has inertia and, for all those who don't want the general hassles associated with the internet at large, may be a perfect 5-minute solution. The local red-
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by cosmicray 16y ago
The local small town county newspaper used a similar process up until about 4 years ago. They had long since tossed the paper tape equipment, and bought a couple of Macs around 1990 with a laser printer. The column strips were set in MS Wor
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> When this feature was first added to photoshop Do you know what release that was ? Perhaps this cranky old copy of PS-5 I use is free of that enhancement .
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by cosmicray 16y ago
so who owns 42.42.42.42 ? (which is the obvious candidate for the root DNS server)
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> the heavy user is operating in an ambiguous zone where continued use of the service at the advertised price is at the whim of the provider That suggests an interesting business model where: we sell everyone on 'Unlimited', then we wai

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