"My laptop must work with the most ancient projectors, the most ancient of cabling and the most ancient of users. Therefore VGA is a must".
Well, yes. When I go somewhere to deliver a presentation, I use whatever projector the convention provides. I need to make whatever kind of connection the projector can accept. My old Powerbook was good in that regard: I could buy (terribly overpriced) adaptors for TV-out, VGA, DVI, whatever, and connect to just about any projector. But VGA was by far the one I used most.
DVI-I to VGA adaptors are, of course, perfectly fine... Basically as long as the analog signal is there (i.e. it's not DVI-D)...
...now I wonder how you'd react to a woman named Lisa Apple.
Apple Lisa is a lot less prominent in my personal history than Sharon Apple... There were a few years where I was hugely into Macross Plus... Whereas Apple Lisa is just this thing I heard about, an historical oddity. So it's possible I'd just miss the reference entirely.
If there's an electronics flea market nearby with a not-too-steep fee for sellers, that might be an option. There are people who are interested in having this kind of junk, especially if it's free. That's the best kind of recycling - pass it on to someone who will actually use it.
What? Problem with the antenna? A pure hardware problem that will be solved with the next iOS update, i.e. software problem??? Here i am lost, since when we entered the era of quantum phones?
The trick is that software controls the behavior of the hardware. So even if the basic problem remains, a software patch (blasting out more radio power, changing frequencies, whatever) could help reduce the symptoms.
They could always just sum the bars from every connected tower and report that number to the end user.
Or they could give their signal strength meter a total of ten bars - then even in poor reception areas it would probably have at least two or three bars - better than other phones!
Interested to know how a software update will fix an human-caused short circuit.
It's not a short circuit, it's just the fact that the user's hand is physically covering the antenna, and thus interfering with it...
I believe their plan was to send intense pulses down the antenna periodically, felt by the user as a small electric shock, so they won't hold the phone that way any more.
Man, don't you love letters like that? They are asking for money, but they don't list a single, specific point of how the law needs to change, or what specific philosophical claims for which they are in disagreement with EFF, CC, et. al.
They are asking you to write a check, but they haven't explained, AT ALL, what the money is going to be used for. They use very vague and nebulous statements that add up to nothing. What do they actually want to do?
Man, I wish it were possible to take all my debt, multiply it by a dollar, then take the square root of it and give it to them... I'd love to send imaginary dollars to them to support this agenda!
Well, the name change hasn't gone through - Mr. Sarcasm married Mr. Troll, so they're both going to be Mr. Troll - at least once they get all that awful paperwork taken care of.
Yes, but the porn was low-res and slow to download. So it's a double-edged sword.
Still, I think you're underrating the merits of the slow reveal... I mean, as the image file was loaded byte by byte onto the computer's memory, filling the display with that lustworthy graphical data, gradually revealing more and more, until you had a naked woman on your screen in 320x200 glory, 1bpp plus 4 bit colors, foreground and background, per 8x8 character cell... The five minute wait for the elusive delights to be laid plain was like a striptease...
And when I say 5-minute wait, that's how long it took to load an image from disk. Modem would take longer.:)
... and wants its A-Team back. Your meme is violating some copyright somewhere.
Was "I pity the fool" even in The A-Team? I watched like the first two or three seasons of the show and I don't recall Mr. T ever saying it. It was in Rocky III though...
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"My laptop must work with the most ancient projectors, the most ancient of cabling and the most ancient of users. Therefore VGA is a must".
Well, yes. When I go somewhere to deliver a presentation, I use whatever projector the convention provides. I need to make whatever kind of connection the projector can accept. My old Powerbook was good in that regard: I could buy (terribly overpriced) adaptors for TV-out, VGA, DVI, whatever, and connect to just about any projector. But VGA was by far the one I used most.
DVI-I to VGA adaptors are, of course, perfectly fine... Basically as long as the analog signal is there (i.e. it's not DVI-D)...
...now I wonder how you'd react to a woman named Lisa Apple.
Apple Lisa is a lot less prominent in my personal history than Sharon Apple... There were a few years where I was hugely into Macross Plus... Whereas Apple Lisa is just this thing I heard about, an historical oddity. So it's possible I'd just miss the reference entirely.
Like I could have sworn for a second that this candidate's name was "Sharron Apple"... Holy crap! A computer running for a senate seat...
finally copyright laws are used for something useful instead of deleting good AMV's from youtube.
"good... AMV"? I don't know what those two terms are supposed to mean placed next to each other like that.
We were all hoping he'd announce proof that P = NP....
That's easy. Just let N=1 and you got it. :)
If there's an electronics flea market nearby with a not-too-steep fee for sellers, that might be an option. There are people who are interested in having this kind of junk, especially if it's free. That's the best kind of recycling - pass it on to someone who will actually use it.
Daisy, Daisy
Give me your answer do
I'm half crazy
all for the love of you.........
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Indeed, like right now there are billions watching a South African lawn, I think it's called soccer.
Football, actually. :)
Are you viewing on an i "Phone" 4? Apple advise you avoid holding it like this guy.
I'm at work so I'm not going to try a tinyurl link... Let me guess... goatse guy?
What is a 'big site'?
Your mom's bedroom? She had to make sure it met fire codes for occupancy of up to 24 people, for professional reasons.
Yes, we all know you like Gary Numan.
XD OK, OK, really, seriously, I am sorry. I think I stretched things too far there.
Maybe it's time for a change. I'll think it over.
What? Problem with the antenna? A pure hardware problem that will be solved with the next iOS update, i.e. software problem??? Here i am lost, since when we entered the era of quantum phones?
The trick is that software controls the behavior of the hardware. So even if the basic problem remains, a software patch (blasting out more radio power, changing frequencies, whatever) could help reduce the symptoms.
They could always just sum the bars from every connected tower and report that number to the end user.
Or they could give their signal strength meter a total of ten bars - then even in poor reception areas it would probably have at least two or three bars - better than other phones!
All phones have sensitive areas," Jobs wrote. "Just avoid holding it in this way."
Now the iPhone won't have a sensitive area? Huh?
Yeah, my phone has an area like that...
Lucky for me, it sticks out the top of the phone, instead of wrapping around the side. Hooray for circa-2005 engineering! :)
Some phones are in cars
Da-doom, da-doom. (Ksssh!)
Da-doom, da-doom.
Interested to know how a software update will fix an human-caused short circuit.
It's not a short circuit, it's just the fact that the user's hand is physically covering the antenna, and thus interfering with it...
I believe their plan was to send intense pulses down the antenna periodically, felt by the user as a small electric shock, so they won't hold the phone that way any more.
Breaking Into the Industry - A development log about starting a game studio.
Totally unrelated, but can I just take a minute to thank you for not calling it a "blog"? :)
More like ASSHAT! mirite?
Damn, my Japanese is rusty... What the hell does "miriru" mean?
Man, don't you love letters like that? They are asking for money, but they don't list a single, specific point of how the law needs to change, or what specific philosophical claims for which they are in disagreement with EFF, CC, et. al.
They are asking you to write a check, but they haven't explained, AT ALL, what the money is going to be used for. They use very vague and nebulous statements that add up to nothing. What do they actually want to do?
Man, I wish it were possible to take all my debt, multiply it by a dollar, then take the square root of it and give it to them... I'd love to send imaginary dollars to them to support this agenda!
What a bunch of asshats.
That's ass-CAPS... :)
I wonder how far they had to stretch to assume this was a good idea?
I don't know... About 85 gum-gums?
He was not Mr. Troll. He was Mr. Sarcasm.
Well, the name change hasn't gone through - Mr. Sarcasm married Mr. Troll, so they're both going to be Mr. Troll - at least once they get all that awful paperwork taken care of.
You seems to have forgotten your sarcasm detector, sir. Here, have mine.
I have one, but it must be broken. Its indicator never turns off.
Yes, but the porn was low-res and slow to download. So it's a double-edged sword.
Still, I think you're underrating the merits of the slow reveal... I mean, as the image file was loaded byte by byte onto the computer's memory, filling the display with that lustworthy graphical data, gradually revealing more and more, until you had a naked woman on your screen in 320x200 glory, 1bpp plus 4 bit colors, foreground and background, per 8x8 character cell... The five minute wait for the elusive delights to be laid plain was like a striptease...
And when I say 5-minute wait, that's how long it took to load an image from disk. Modem would take longer. :)
... and wants its A-Team back. Your meme is violating some copyright somewhere.
Was "I pity the fool" even in The A-Team? I watched like the first two or three seasons of the show and I don't recall Mr. T ever saying it. It was in Rocky III though...