given the need to buy extra-cost adapters to use almost all existing displays, and the lack of HDMI support at all, I'm going to give the ADVANTAGE to the HDMI-packing HP, LENOVO, and SONY.
Here's a tidbit that very few people I've talked to seem to know: the video signal for HDMI is exactly the same as DVI's video signal. So, any device that has a DVI output can also have an HDMI output if you throw in a standard $5 DVI-to-HDMI adapter. Since the MacBooks all use Mini Displayport now, that means to get HDMI, you have to buy the Mini Displayport-to-DVI adapter and follow that up with a DVI-to-HDMI adapter. This ends up being a bit bulky, but it's cheap and it works. Sorry, but reading that in TFA sent me into a spat of nerd rage.
I have a serious problem with eye strain, even when using nice monitors. I'm not alone. Because of this, I have a hard time believing that there is a net benefit in terms of overall eye health. Doing visual-based puzzles or learning how to paint are probably far healthier ways to increase perception of fine contrast differences.
The reason why FPS games help your contrast perception is rather simple. If you want to stay alive, you have to be able to see the guy moving around that is 3 shades of gray lighter than the dark corner he's hiding in. Because of the required reaction time to be successful (aka shooting him before he shoots you) the game trains you to closely watch for these contrast differences.
In a visual-based puzzle game like Bejeweled (or any of the zillion color-matching games out there) all the game pieces are already high contrast. You see a field of 5 or 6 different colored pieces, not thousands or millions of colors, like most modern FPS games provide. Hence, the game doesn't train you to look for the small contrast differences. Painting may provide some benefit, but painting is a much slower process than fragging some n00b who's coming around the corner with a rocket launcher. You have as much time as you want to figure out if one color is different than the other. Taking an extra few miliseconds deciding on your next brush stroke for your still life painting isn't going to result in a grenade being lodged in your sphincter.
It is most assuredly not true. I have a 2 year old MBP, and I replaced the hard drive last fall. Let me tell you that is a nontrivial exercise because of a few factors
This has all been resolved on more recent versions of the MBP and regular MB. I have a white Macbook 13" and changing the hard drive is just about as easy as you could make it be on a notebook. 3 screws hold the hard drive/ram cover in place. Once that's off, you pull a tab and the drive slides out easily. There's a sheath around the actual drive (as is the case in most notebooks) that has maybe 6 screws and that pops off easily. The whole process of replacing a drive takes less than 5 minutes. Adding or replacing RAM takes less than 2 minutes. Can you easily get to other components like the CPU or the HSF(s)? Not really. It's not perfect, but I think Apple at least took customer feedback on hardware access into consideration and made some changes based on that.
As a side note, we're rapidly approaching a point where portable devices are going to be designed with absolutely no intention of being user serviceable. As price and size continue to shrink, it'll be impractical to try to repair or upgrade a portable device. You'll just throw it out and buy a replacement. So, enjoy groaning about hardware access while you can. It's going away faster than you think, and I don't just mean for Apple products.
Negative. The stock is up 5.6% already today, so we're at least on step 12. However, we managed to skip steps 5 through 11 in the process. At this rate, the 2nd generation of this netbook will be out by the end of the week.
I haven't owned a game console in a few years and I had become jealous of some of my buddies' XBoxes, so I decided to pick one up during the liquidation. I managed to pull 30% off, which actually is a pretty good deal on something like a game console, which usually will have a very strict price set by the manufacturer and is constant at any place you try to shop for it (including online). Of course, when I got it home, I realized it didn't come with an HDMI cable, and that's the online type of inputs my current monitor has (plus old timey VGA). So, I crawled back to Circuit City expecting a good deal on a cable. I found two crates full of 3 ft HDMI cables, priced at nearly $40 apiece (this is the price AFTER the discount, and about a quarter the cost of the console itself... wtf). They were all Monster brand, of course. I asked around to see if there were any cheaper ones, and I was told that there weren't. By pure chance, I happened to find one in a torn up box, that was shoved in the wrong place. It was another 3ft cable, but it was different than the others and had no price on it. After looking around for someone for about 10 minutes, I found one of the sales dudes and he told me it was $18, but that he had been hoping to pick that one up for himself. I halfway felt bad for him, but if he really wanted it, he could've stowed it somewhere. Anyway, it was only through sheer luck that I managed to not get screwed by them on my very last outing to that store.
Because we treat corporations legally as people and because they had almost unlimited wealth for the last 30 years, they changed the laws to destroy capitalism wherever they could.
We are now free to choose from LeftSockPuppet or RightSockPuppet. If either sockpuppet looks dangerous to the corporations then they flood their news stations with damaging stories about the sockpuppet and we obediently vote for the other sockpuppet instead.
Sigh, this contrived argument comes up in every thread that involves some mention of limited ISP choices. Welcome to Econ 101. Creating network infrastructure on the scale of public phone and cable lines is prohibitively expensive. There are few projects that require as much capital as these. So, as an incentive for companies to take the plunge and lay the cable, the government will offer an exclusivity agreement which is also coupled with a price cap. So, the problem is not lack of competition. The lack of competition is by design. The problem is that these agreements came about when those cables only carried phone calls and television signals, instead of internet connections. So, the solution is to create legislation that alters these agreements to give the consumers better rights that require minimum levels of quality and neutrality, in addition to price caps.
I hope they sit down with the Warner execs and say: Have a look at album sales after we release a track [usatoday.com]. If you want us to use your songs, pay up. If not, we can always go elsewhere.
If labels were really in competition with each other, that's exactly how it would/should work. Unfortunately, they have notoriously collusive tendencies due to the quasi-cartel they all belong to (RIAA). Since there's only 4 major labels, having them all organize a standoff against Rock Band would be easy. Think about it this way: have you ever seen a price war between record labels for CDs or downloaded tracks?
The only other option would be to hit up indie labels, but the main selling point of these music games is the track list. If you look at the back of the Rock Band or Guitar Hero jewel case, half of it is covered with a list of big-name bands.
People have been so thoroughly conditioned to click "Accept" by years of dealing with EULAs that there is no chance that they will even realize what they have just agreed to. The real question is why MS has restrained themselves to just 10% when they could just ask them to "Accept" their own termination. This will make all the temps end up like Milton, post-glitch-fix and they'll still keep showing up to work everyday.
I thought the Fourth Amendment covered all citizens.
Actually, this sounded more like a Fifth Amendment issue to me when I first read it since you could be forced to provide your logs as "testimony" against yourself.
1234567890 is some arbitrary decimal string, if you wished to note a notable number, why not one which is 2^N, for something so entirely based within computers, it seems much more sensible to think in binary than some decimal number which happens to look a little pretty
No gaming machine, whether it be console or PC, will want an Intel GPU as it's workhorse for graphics.
Logic would suggest that no gaming machine would want Synergistic Processing Elements(tm) anywhere near it, but this is Sony we're talking about. They have a long history of being "special". The PS3 silicon is easily the goofiest out of the big 3 consoles.
In Finnish voting, a number of choisen candidate is written in booth by pen on paperboard sheet, that is then folded, stamped by official and put into ballot box. Many of invalid votes can be considered as protest votes (vulgar drawings, names of fictional charactes), but some of votes are rejected because number cannot be clearly identified (like 1 or 7). In larger cities, there are more than 100 candidates, so numbers can be upto 3 digits.
Articles in sentences are then discarded to make sound like bad American stereotype of European talking.
I think Windows PC's are still about half the price of Macs. That's a big deal to most users- and I think it always was. That's the same concept that got Windows to market dominate in the first place.
I don't know how it's possible for you to "think" that PCs are half the price of Macs when simple arithmetic proves that they're generally within about 10% of similarly spec'd PCs. The only reasonable argument that you could make is that Apple doesn't make cheap Macs, meaning that they don't offer lower spec'd machines further down the price range. You can't buy a $400 Mac and you probably never will be able to, but a $400 PC isn't going to have anywhere near the performance or included peripherals as a $1200 Mac. We're not in the 90's anymore. Macs are no longer defined by the outrageous price discrepancies of PowerPC and [insert ridiculous proprietary bus here].
Exactly what would a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind bring us?
I suppose that depends on what kind of math you're using. Possibilities:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 2
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Part Deux (the aliens speak French)
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind
Close Encounters of the Sixth Kind (not listed on the Hynek scale, but I think that's where the alien species gives you hyperdrive technology in exchange for a date with your mother)
If you're a minor in private school, your parents almost certainly signed some sort of agreement that allows the faculty there a great deal of freedom when it comes to handling your property. Confiscation of various items was fairly common the private high school I attended. They also could (and often did) search student lockers and backpacks. This was usually done under the pretense of finding illegal drugs, but the scope was not limited to illegal activity.
I've though this would be a great way to make a woman-free, child-free club by having a "swearing club" where men could exercise their freedom of speech...
Coming from California myself, it's hard to imagine a place that doesn't already have a gay bar.
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given the need to buy extra-cost adapters to use almost all existing displays, and the lack of HDMI support at all, I'm going to give the ADVANTAGE to the HDMI-packing HP, LENOVO, and SONY.
Here's a tidbit that very few people I've talked to seem to know: the video signal for HDMI is exactly the same as DVI's video signal. So, any device that has a DVI output can also have an HDMI output if you throw in a standard $5 DVI-to-HDMI adapter. Since the MacBooks all use Mini Displayport now, that means to get HDMI, you have to buy the Mini Displayport-to-DVI adapter and follow that up with a DVI-to-HDMI adapter. This ends up being a bit bulky, but it's cheap and it works. Sorry, but reading that in TFA sent me into a spat of nerd rage.
I have a serious problem with eye strain, even when using nice monitors. I'm not alone. Because of this, I have a hard time believing that there is a net benefit in terms of overall eye health. Doing visual-based puzzles or learning how to paint are probably far healthier ways to increase perception of fine contrast differences.
The reason why FPS games help your contrast perception is rather simple. If you want to stay alive, you have to be able to see the guy moving around that is 3 shades of gray lighter than the dark corner he's hiding in. Because of the required reaction time to be successful (aka shooting him before he shoots you) the game trains you to closely watch for these contrast differences.
In a visual-based puzzle game like Bejeweled (or any of the zillion color-matching games out there) all the game pieces are already high contrast. You see a field of 5 or 6 different colored pieces, not thousands or millions of colors, like most modern FPS games provide. Hence, the game doesn't train you to look for the small contrast differences. Painting may provide some benefit, but painting is a much slower process than fragging some n00b who's coming around the corner with a rocket launcher. You have as much time as you want to figure out if one color is different than the other. Taking an extra few miliseconds deciding on your next brush stroke for your still life painting isn't going to result in a grenade being lodged in your sphincter.
The sex drive is second only the hunger drive so if the teen has a full stomach then what do you think the next priority is?
Starve your children. Problem solved.
How is OS X which is certified Unix (http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/unix.html) not Unix?
He probably thinks it's not Unix because he thinks Linux is Unix, even though Linux isn't certified and OS X is. Oh the world we live in.
It is most assuredly not true. I have a 2 year old MBP, and I replaced the hard drive last fall.
Let me tell you that is a nontrivial exercise because of a few factors
This has all been resolved on more recent versions of the MBP and regular MB. I have a white Macbook 13" and changing the hard drive is just about as easy as you could make it be on a notebook. 3 screws hold the hard drive/ram cover in place. Once that's off, you pull a tab and the drive slides out easily. There's a sheath around the actual drive (as is the case in most notebooks) that has maybe 6 screws and that pops off easily. The whole process of replacing a drive takes less than 5 minutes. Adding or replacing RAM takes less than 2 minutes. Can you easily get to other components like the CPU or the HSF(s)? Not really. It's not perfect, but I think Apple at least took customer feedback on hardware access into consideration and made some changes based on that.
As a side note, we're rapidly approaching a point where portable devices are going to be designed with absolutely no intention of being user serviceable. As price and size continue to shrink, it'll be impractical to try to repair or upgrade a portable device. You'll just throw it out and buy a replacement. So, enjoy groaning about hardware access while you can. It's going away faster than you think, and I don't just mean for Apple products.
We are at step 4 already?
Negative. The stock is up 5.6% already today, so we're at least on step 12. However, we managed to skip steps 5 through 11 in the process. At this rate, the 2nd generation of this netbook will be out by the end of the week.
I haven't owned a game console in a few years and I had become jealous of some of my buddies' XBoxes, so I decided to pick one up during the liquidation. I managed to pull 30% off, which actually is a pretty good deal on something like a game console, which usually will have a very strict price set by the manufacturer and is constant at any place you try to shop for it (including online). Of course, when I got it home, I realized it didn't come with an HDMI cable, and that's the online type of inputs my current monitor has (plus old timey VGA). So, I crawled back to Circuit City expecting a good deal on a cable. I found two crates full of 3 ft HDMI cables, priced at nearly $40 apiece (this is the price AFTER the discount, and about a quarter the cost of the console itself... wtf). They were all Monster brand, of course. I asked around to see if there were any cheaper ones, and I was told that there weren't. By pure chance, I happened to find one in a torn up box, that was shoved in the wrong place. It was another 3ft cable, but it was different than the others and had no price on it. After looking around for someone for about 10 minutes, I found one of the sales dudes and he told me it was $18, but that he had been hoping to pick that one up for himself. I halfway felt bad for him, but if he really wanted it, he could've stowed it somewhere. Anyway, it was only through sheer luck that I managed to not get screwed by them on my very last outing to that store.
a gigabtye might be, I don't know what that is.
a gigabtye just means the stuff toward the end doesn't matter.
No, it's more of a fascist corporatist model.
Because we treat corporations legally as people and because they had almost unlimited wealth for the last 30 years, they changed the laws to destroy capitalism wherever they could.
We are now free to choose from LeftSockPuppet or RightSockPuppet. If either sockpuppet looks dangerous to the corporations then they flood their news stations with damaging stories about the sockpuppet and we obediently vote for the other sockpuppet instead.
Sigh, this contrived argument comes up in every thread that involves some mention of limited ISP choices. Welcome to Econ 101. Creating network infrastructure on the scale of public phone and cable lines is prohibitively expensive. There are few projects that require as much capital as these. So, as an incentive for companies to take the plunge and lay the cable, the government will offer an exclusivity agreement which is also coupled with a price cap. So, the problem is not lack of competition. The lack of competition is by design. The problem is that these agreements came about when those cables only carried phone calls and television signals, instead of internet connections. So, the solution is to create legislation that alters these agreements to give the consumers better rights that require minimum levels of quality and neutrality, in addition to price caps.
I hope they sit down with the Warner execs and say: Have a look at album sales after we release a track [usatoday.com]. If you want us to use your songs, pay up. If not, we can always go elsewhere.
If labels were really in competition with each other, that's exactly how it would/should work. Unfortunately, they have notoriously collusive tendencies due to the quasi-cartel they all belong to (RIAA). Since there's only 4 major labels, having them all organize a standoff against Rock Band would be easy. Think about it this way: have you ever seen a price war between record labels for CDs or downloaded tracks?
The only other option would be to hit up indie labels, but the main selling point of these music games is the track list. If you look at the back of the Rock Band or Guitar Hero jewel case, half of it is covered with a list of big-name bands.
People have been so thoroughly conditioned to click "Accept" by years of dealing with EULAs that there is no chance that they will even realize what they have just agreed to. The real question is why MS has restrained themselves to just 10% when they could just ask them to "Accept" their own termination. This will make all the temps end up like Milton, post-glitch-fix and they'll still keep showing up to work everyday.
Is this going to be modded up every single time it's copy-pasted into an Apple thread? I've seen this at least twice before in /. comments recently.
I'd say it's more like Ballmer threw his chair AT the employees and is asking them to pay the medical bills for his sprained wrist.
I thought the Fourth Amendment covered all citizens.
Actually, this sounded more like a Fifth Amendment issue to me when I first read it since you could be forced to provide your logs as "testimony" against yourself.
1234567890 is some arbitrary decimal string, if you wished to note a notable number, why not one which is 2^N, for something so entirely based within computers, it seems much more sensible to think in binary than some decimal number which happens to look a little pretty
Longest sentence ever.
No gaming machine, whether it be console or PC, will want an Intel GPU as it's workhorse for graphics.
Logic would suggest that no gaming machine would want Synergistic Processing Elements(tm) anywhere near it, but this is Sony we're talking about. They have a long history of being "special". The PS3 silicon is easily the goofiest out of the big 3 consoles.
US wind power capacity surged 50 percent last year to 25 gigwatts
Someone should write a video-sharing app for the current iPhone
Someone did. And that's not the only one, either. It requires a jailbroken phone, though :-/
...the greatest musicians on earth: Kage and Jables.
In Finnish voting, a number of choisen candidate is written in booth by pen on paperboard sheet, that is then folded, stamped by official and put into ballot box. Many of invalid votes can be considered as protest votes (vulgar drawings, names of fictional charactes), but some of votes are rejected because number cannot be clearly identified (like 1 or 7). In larger cities, there are more than 100 candidates, so numbers can be upto 3 digits.
Articles in sentences are then discarded to make sound like bad American stereotype of European talking.
I think Windows PC's are still about half the price of Macs. That's a big deal to most users- and I think it always was. That's the same concept that got Windows to market dominate in the first place.
I don't know how it's possible for you to "think" that PCs are half the price of Macs when simple arithmetic proves that they're generally within about 10% of similarly spec'd PCs. The only reasonable argument that you could make is that Apple doesn't make cheap Macs, meaning that they don't offer lower spec'd machines further down the price range. You can't buy a $400 Mac and you probably never will be able to, but a $400 PC isn't going to have anywhere near the performance or included peripherals as a $1200 Mac. We're not in the 90's anymore. Macs are no longer defined by the outrageous price discrepancies of PowerPC and [insert ridiculous proprietary bus here].
Exactly what would a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind bring us?
I suppose that depends on what kind of math you're using. Possibilities:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 2
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Part Deux (the aliens speak French)
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind
Close Encounters of the Sixth Kind (not listed on the Hynek scale, but I think that's where the alien species gives you hyperdrive technology in exchange for a date with your mother)
If you're a minor in private school, your parents almost certainly signed some sort of agreement that allows the faculty there a great deal of freedom when it comes to handling your property. Confiscation of various items was fairly common the private high school I attended. They also could (and often did) search student lockers and backpacks. This was usually done under the pretense of finding illegal drugs, but the scope was not limited to illegal activity.
Whew. For a second there I read it as "Youtube to allow self-aware ads for major media players".
Why were you worried? It is surely equitable to allow any self-aware being to live his/her/its life as he/she/it pleases.
I've though this would be a great way to make a woman-free, child-free club by having a "swearing club" where men could exercise their freedom of speech...
Coming from California myself, it's hard to imagine a place that doesn't already have a gay bar.