Actually, Old World vs New World might still be an informative division within the so-called First World. I live in the Old World, and have an uncapped 100/100 fiber internet at home. There are no limits or caps at all, even though it's a bog standard home service - I even run web and mail servers from home and have had close to 1TiB in combined upload & download traffic some months.
On the other hand, we hear nothing but whining about miserly caps in the New World, which rather devalues whatever connection speed they have.
I'm pretty sure Dell sells laptops that do 1920x1200 as well, it may not be as a standard feature like Apple, but definitely available as an option.
This was true, until a few months ago. There were some business only models with 1920x1200 screens. They were not available to personal or SOHO customers. Then they were discontinued, and the highest resolution Dell sells now is 1920x1080, even for business customers.
People often give me odd looks when I open my 17" Macbook Pro and boot to Windows, there is a reason it was rated "Best Windows laptop" a few years ago. It is usually high-end, lightweight, with a 1920x1200 display.
In fact, it's rather hard to find any laptop with a 1920x1200 screen these days. Some years ago, they were not so difficult to find; Apple appears to be one of the few left. Dell, Lenovo, Sony, Acer, Asus, Fujitsu... none of them have a 1920x1200 laptop offering. One of the few on offer is the HP EliteBook Workstation which actually costs more than the MacBook and has a smaller disk!
The lack of decent resolution screens is the main reason I still have an 8-year-old Sony Vaio VGN-A117S laptop in service. It may only have a 1.7GHz Pentium M, 1GiB of RAM, and Radeon 9600 (sticker says 9700, diagnostics say 9600) but its 17" 1920x1200 screen is a beauty. Since we don't do any gaming, it's quite adequate as a kitchen PC with Xubuntu (email, browsing, music, movies, photos, documents, etc.). I'm not replacing it until I can get more than 1200 vertical pixels on a built-in display - even an iPad 3 type display would do. Pixels matter rather more than inches.
Animals are already at the level of Ted Haggard, Jerry Fallwell, Creationists et al..
Animals without a central nervous system are not bothered by this remark.
Animals with single-digit IQs suspect you've just insulted their intelligence.
Animals with an IQ or 10 or more are certain of it, and they're utterly livid.
Same in Europe. Not that I mind. The FBI warning is entirely non-intrusive compared to the techno-ridden, flashing, non-fast-forwardable "PIRACY. IT'S A CRIME" clip that we have to put up with if we actually pay for our media. One more reason not to.
This is one of the reasons I rip a DVD immediately on buying it [*]. All the unskippable trash can be removed and we just get the movie from the media server.
[*] I buy a handful of DVDs per year, but always from the bargain bins where the price is something below euro10. As new releases, they're always grossly overpriced, often around euro15-20 for DVD (or euro25-35 for BD).
Google is not yet in Microsoft's league of indecency. Microsoft, just to remind you, is a convicted abusive monopolist. Google has not reached monopoly status anywhere significant. Some of us are keeping our eyes open, and still recognize the difference between a human (Google) and a pig (Microsoft).
What disturbs me is how politicized science has become. Science should be a discipline of absolutes.
Not science, but social "science". Which includes the study of politics ('nuff said) and shares its mistaken equivalence of victory in an inflamed debate with factual accuracy. Social "science" is and always has been infested with absurd propositions, bad experiments, misinterpretation of results, paucity of data, appalling innumeracy, and unsupported dodgy inferences dressed as fact. Goal-oriented plagiarism to get a doctorate is just par for the course.
Those of us actually in science don't regard social studies as a science for these and many other reasons.
Maybe Steve Woz was just trying to channel Steve Jobs' spirit, but got Steve Ballmer's anti-spirit in an appalling New-Age screw-up. Did he also throw a chair or scream about killing Google?
A nice "what if" novel was written by Gibson and Sterling, based on a posited successful adoption of the difference engine in Victorian times. It's classed as Sci Fi, but is more of a novel set in an alternative history. Definitely worth reading.
At least the stupidity part is shared with the slashdot headline. It should be "led" (verb, past tense), not "lead" (noun, heavy metal / verb, present tense).
If only I could buy a new phone with Meego on it...
In some countries, you can, such as Australia, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, etc. But not in the US, UK, Japan, or Germany (the Germans apparently are buying them from Switzerland). The Nokia N9 runs on Meego "Harmattan", which is actually intermediate between Maemo and Meego. It's deliberately withheld from the larger markets, because it causes some embarrassment to the Lumia series of WinPhones.
My question is this - which one, the murderer that converts or the buddhist that does not acknowledge Christ as his Lord and Savior, ends up in heaven?
Is this an attempt at trolling?
Obviously, both of them die sooner or later. But neither of them then goes to heaven, or to hell, or purgatory, or ragnarok, or aaru, or tian, or jannah, or hades, or any other version of afterlife. After they are dead, they no longer exist (they're dead).
I could just have easily said that neither of them will be able to cross the Styx to gain entry to Hades unless they have a coin for Charon (and had a hand chopped off if they died by suicide). Do you think this belief is likely? It's as plausible - or implausible, rather - as any other religious viewpoint.
I just hope that the user interface doesn't include the disaster bar. I know that setting off a volcano in your city center can add excitement and all, but that would be going too far.
I believe you could retain a functional disaster bar by simply installing Windows ME. I think they called it the "start menu", though. You could sandbox your SimCity instances too, and make it (slightly) recursive.
Please forward these worthy suggestions to Watson, the present mayor of Ottawa. I'm sure the mayor can rustle up some Canadian federal support for these fine initiatives.
the whole analogy is retarded anyway, because it's invariably qualified with a sentence explaining that it's a die shrink or a new architecture. So why bother with the whole tick-tock business?
Because Intel wants it to sound like a clock ticking away the life of its competitors?
Does this mean that after a few more tick-tocks it will end with a great big kaboom?
Intel is probably hoping to hear just a muted whimper and a brief death rattle...
It sounds OK, except that in our house a newspaper is typically read by at least 3 people. Would they allow three e-readers to access a single subscription? Would they do that for the same price as a single e-reader? At present, it sounds unlikely for most of them. Needing multiple subscriptions and multiple e-readers would seem to involve an economic hit and reduce any GHG benefit.
The exception that I'm aware of is The Economist magazine, which allows a number of devices to download its issues on a single set of credentials (we use apps on two Android phones and full web access for two or three computers). Of course, that access is provided as a side benefit to having the paid dead-tree subscription, so it probably does not reduce any GHG emissions.
There will be no red or blue pixels on any display used in the building, and no greyscale shit either. Just imagine the glorious greenish glow from all those high-tech CRTs which can be got cheap from almost any landfill...
Because in some jurisdictions, which at least until a few years ago consist of the entire world except the US and a hand full of puppet states, distributing a copyrighted work for personal use without the copyright holder's authorization is perfectly legal, and it is so very legal to the point that it is even explicitly authorized in the copyright code. So, these copyright trolls can't touch the people covered by those jurisdictions, and hence they are free to distribute any copyrighted work as they see fit.
One example being Finland, where a levy is charged on blank media (CDs, DVDs, USB sticks, fixed disks, etc.) to compensate rights holders, with a proportion going to those representing local producers (about 2½ M euro out of 6 M euro collected in 2010). In return, Finns are allowed to legally copy any media they want for personal use, including CDs or DVDs borrowed from public libraries or from friends.
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First-world problems are a bitch, eh?
Actually, Old World vs New World might still be an informative division within the so-called First World. I live in the Old World, and have an uncapped 100/100 fiber internet at home. There are no limits or caps at all, even though it's a bog standard home service - I even run web and mail servers from home and have had close to 1TiB in combined upload & download traffic some months.
On the other hand, we hear nothing but whining about miserly caps in the New World, which rather devalues whatever connection speed they have.
I'm pretty sure Dell sells laptops that do 1920x1200 as well, it may not be as a standard feature like Apple, but definitely available as an option.
This was true, until a few months ago. There were some business only models with 1920x1200 screens. They were not available to personal or SOHO customers. Then they were discontinued, and the highest resolution Dell sells now is 1920x1080, even for business customers.
People often give me odd looks when I open my 17" Macbook Pro and boot to Windows, there is a reason it was rated "Best Windows laptop" a few years ago. It is usually high-end, lightweight, with a 1920x1200 display.
In fact, it's rather hard to find any laptop with a 1920x1200 screen these days. Some years ago, they were not so difficult to find; Apple appears to be one of the few left. Dell, Lenovo, Sony, Acer, Asus, Fujitsu ... none of them have a 1920x1200 laptop offering. One of the few on offer is the HP EliteBook Workstation which actually costs more than the MacBook and has a smaller disk!
The lack of decent resolution screens is the main reason I still have an 8-year-old Sony Vaio VGN-A117S laptop in service. It may only have a 1.7GHz Pentium M, 1GiB of RAM, and Radeon 9600 (sticker says 9700, diagnostics say 9600) but its 17" 1920x1200 screen is a beauty. Since we don't do any gaming, it's quite adequate as a kitchen PC with Xubuntu (email, browsing, music, movies, photos, documents, etc.). I'm not replacing it until I can get more than 1200 vertical pixels on a built-in display - even an iPad 3 type display would do. Pixels matter rather more than inches.
Animals are already at the level of Ted Haggard, Jerry Fallwell, Creationists et al..
Animals without a central nervous system are not bothered by this remark.
Animals with single-digit IQs suspect you've just insulted their intelligence.
Animals with an IQ or 10 or more are certain of it, and they're utterly livid.
Same in Europe. Not that I mind. The FBI warning is entirely non-intrusive compared to the techno-ridden, flashing, non-fast-forwardable "PIRACY. IT'S A CRIME" clip that we have to put up with if we actually pay for our media. One more reason not to.
This is one of the reasons I rip a DVD immediately on buying it [*]. All the unskippable trash can be removed and we just get the movie from the media server.
[*] I buy a handful of DVDs per year, but always from the bargain bins where the price is something below euro10. As new releases, they're always grossly overpriced, often around euro15-20 for DVD (or euro25-35 for BD).
Google is not yet in Microsoft's league of indecency. Microsoft, just to remind you, is a convicted abusive monopolist. Google has not reached monopoly status anywhere significant. Some of us are keeping our eyes open, and still recognize the difference between a human (Google) and a pig (Microsoft).
"It is immoral to let a sucker keep his money". Apparently, the Romanian scammer fortune-tellers agree.
But jebus will protect me so I don't need your silly anti-virus
Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.' "
Why would I want to test Linus?
It was a reference to Gnu/RMS, you insensitive clod!
What disturbs me is how politicized science has become. Science should be a discipline of absolutes.
Not science, but social "science". Which includes the study of politics ('nuff said) and shares its mistaken equivalence of victory in an inflamed debate with factual accuracy. Social "science" is and always has been infested with absurd propositions, bad experiments, misinterpretation of results, paucity of data, appalling innumeracy, and unsupported dodgy inferences dressed as fact. Goal-oriented plagiarism to get a doctorate is just par for the course.
Those of us actually in science don't regard social studies as a science for these and many other reasons.
Maybe Steve Woz was just trying to channel Steve Jobs' spirit, but got Steve Ballmer's anti-spirit in an appalling New-Age screw-up. Did he also throw a chair or scream about killing Google?
Yep. It was this one. And even that was a repeat posting, possibly by a troll or astroturfer.
A nice "what if" novel was written by Gibson and Sterling, based on a posited successful adoption of the difference engine in Victorian times. It's classed as Sci Fi, but is more of a novel set in an alternative history. Definitely worth reading.
It was human stupidity and greed.
At least the stupidity part is shared with the slashdot headline. It should be "led" (verb, past tense), not "lead" (noun, heavy metal / verb, present tense).
If only I could buy a new phone with Meego on it...
In some countries, you can, such as Australia, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, etc. But not in the US, UK, Japan, or Germany (the Germans apparently are buying them from Switzerland). The Nokia N9 runs on Meego "Harmattan", which is actually intermediate between Maemo and Meego. It's deliberately withheld from the larger markets, because it causes some embarrassment to the Lumia series of WinPhones.
OK, clear enough. Perhaps our opinions on the matter are not too dissimilar.
My question is this - which one, the murderer that converts or the buddhist that does not acknowledge Christ as his Lord and Savior, ends up in heaven?
Is this an attempt at trolling?
Obviously, both of them die sooner or later. But neither of them then goes to heaven, or to hell, or purgatory, or ragnarok, or aaru, or tian, or jannah, or hades, or any other version of afterlife. After they are dead, they no longer exist (they're dead).
I could just have easily said that neither of them will be able to cross the Styx to gain entry to Hades unless they have a coin for Charon (and had a hand chopped off if they died by suicide). Do you think this belief is likely? It's as plausible - or implausible, rather - as any other religious viewpoint.
I just hope that the user interface doesn't include the disaster bar. I know that setting off a volcano in your city center can add excitement and all, but that would be going too far.
I believe you could retain a functional disaster bar by simply installing Windows ME. I think they called it the "start menu", though. You could sandbox your SimCity instances too, and make it (slightly) recursive.
Please forward these worthy suggestions to Watson, the present mayor of Ottawa. I'm sure the mayor can rustle up some Canadian federal support for these fine initiatives.
Successfully making a tasp or droud would probably lead to the end of humanity in a generation or so. At least the end of any non-stone-age parts.
Don't worry, we'll get rid of your gray goo with our black hole ;-)
Ah, but what about black hole goo....
Religion is gay.
Spread the word...
the whole analogy is retarded anyway, because it's invariably qualified with a sentence explaining that it's a die shrink or a new architecture. So why bother with the whole tick-tock business?
Because Intel wants it to sound like a clock ticking away the life of its competitors?
Does this mean that after a few more tick-tocks it will end with a great big kaboom?
Intel is probably hoping to hear just a muted whimper and a brief death rattle...
It sounds OK, except that in our house a newspaper is typically read by at least 3 people. Would they allow three e-readers to access a single subscription? Would they do that for the same price as a single e-reader? At present, it sounds unlikely for most of them. Needing multiple subscriptions and multiple e-readers would seem to involve an economic hit and reduce any GHG benefit.
The exception that I'm aware of is The Economist magazine, which allows a number of devices to download its issues on a single set of credentials (we use apps on two Android phones and full web access for two or three computers). Of course, that access is provided as a side benefit to having the paid dead-tree subscription, so it probably does not reduce any GHG emissions.
I simply need some of these not-yet-available batteries to power the flying car that I don't yet have.
There will be no red or blue pixels on any display used in the building, and no greyscale shit either. Just imagine the glorious greenish glow from all those high-tech CRTs which can be got cheap from almost any landfill...
Because in some jurisdictions, which at least until a few years ago consist of the entire world except the US and a hand full of puppet states, distributing a copyrighted work for personal use without the copyright holder's authorization is perfectly legal, and it is so very legal to the point that it is even explicitly authorized in the copyright code. So, these copyright trolls can't touch the people covered by those jurisdictions, and hence they are free to distribute any copyrighted work as they see fit.
One example being Finland, where a levy is charged on blank media (CDs, DVDs, USB sticks, fixed disks, etc.) to compensate rights holders, with a proportion going to those representing local producers (about 2½ M euro out of 6 M euro collected in 2010). In return, Finns are allowed to legally copy any media they want for personal use, including CDs or DVDs borrowed from public libraries or from friends.