The more typical scenario is that the laptop is in police car overnight in sub-zero temperatures and they expect it work when they head out again. Obviously the car will warm up, but the machine has to start doing what it needs to do without waiting for hours.
Panasonic, just like Dell and HP, has an accidental damage plan.
Consider this. What's worth more the laptop or the data on the laptop? You're in a rugged location, you're off the grid and can't back up your data until you get back to civilization, which laptop would you want? I'm going to opt for the one that doesn't let moisture seep inside.
That's pretty much spot on. They need the hardware to work in temperature extremes. And even then I would assume they would by the semi-rugged model. The Panasonic Toughbook is a great machine. They still make them by hand in Kyoto. Panasonic doesn't trust the quality of factories in other parts of Asia, part of the price premium means you're getting a laptop built by a highly skilled workforce with a keen eye on tolerances.
This isn't a uber traveler laptop. It's for people working in harsh environments. Do you work on an oil rig, war zone or the middle of the amazon? If you answer no, then you don't need a rugged laptop.
I would say that the problem for the pilots is it's been a slow news week. A lot of Pilots and Flight Attendants said in the beginning these guys wouldn't get fired. I think a lot of that is based on past experience with these situations. Most people don't understand that this isn't the first time something like this has happened. The problem is these issues are usually internal matters. Maybe the purser finds a crew member asleep. It's taken care of internally.
This is a big international news story that just won't die. And it's likely the pilots will be terminated because of it.
I will disagree with cost to the airline. Delta has made so many route reductions, mainline to barbie-jet shifts, reduction in cycles, etc that they have Pilots to spare. If they needed to find a replacement they have had a fair number of lay-offs over the last few years and likely still have Pilots they could recall.
I think you could use some of the game engine ideas from Never Winter Nights as a starting point. It would show you the die rolls in a scrolling window as you proceeded through the game. In combat it would determine dozens of rolls and saves almost instantly. I think you could expand that metaphor to the surface to create fairly quick combat rounds.
As far as housekeeping, wouldn't the whole point of the surface be to automate all that crap? I would think if anything the automation would allow people who like to be more strategic to play with people that want to roll-n-go. I think the table also takes care of some of the distractions that are created by the "Rule Nazi" in a group.
So I decided to RTFA on the "Object Of Lust" link. Here's the conclusion to the article:
"The Hero represents a valiant effort from HTC -- though unfortunately, the company appears to have bitten off more than its last-generation hardware can chew. If this build of Android were to be loaded atop the guts of a 3GS or Pre, the performance would likely be astounding, but fused with the two-year old architecture of previous devices, it's mostly disappointing. We're not saying this isn't the best build of Android on the market -- we think it is. What we are saying is that this build is a bit too much for a device like the Hero to handle, and that makes for an uneven, sometimes frustrating experience. Going into the review, we desperately wanted to love this phone, but given the combination of a few poor hardware choices and an OS which outclasses the device it runs on, we can only recommend that you enter at your own risk. HTC has an explosive entry in the smartphone category with what its done on the software side... now it just needs the hardware to match."
I think they may be make the Hero out to be a bit more than it really is.
I see this replacing the mouse and quite useful in terms of day to day PC use. In particular in a business setting. I think what happen is the mouse will become a specialized tool, just like drawing tablets are specialized today.
I don't understand the typing reference as the video clearly shows the pad in the lower section of a traditional keyboard. It seems to be based entirely on replacing the mouse.
Sorry to break it to you, but you're already been fired from Company ABC. Or at the very least you're now on the C squad, the guy they send in at the last resort.
Also, I would not just use one company. If I'm hunting for a job I usually go for two companies. Make sure they understand that in this market you're not just sitting home twiddling your thumbs and that they better call you before submitting a resume. Outside that, move on. If company "ABC" always calls you before a submission I wouldn't even tell them you've "Fired" them.
The issue is at one point Warner Brothers had a license to the song. They just never owned the copyright. As a legal license holder they had the right to enforce copyright until such time as their license had elapsed. I would also guess that during the time that Warner had the license they had some sort of exclusive territory of which they could enforce their license rights in. Most likely to the extent where they could override the wishes of the copyright holder on certain decisions relating to distribution. Of wish MySpace would be a distribution channel.
However, all of that is for not as Warner obviously has no rights anymore.
What the/. summary doesn't say is that Aaron used a user name and password of the library to run his script from an outside location. I would guess the FBI closed the case because 1) he got a lawyer and and refused the interview. 2) most likely the librarian had lax password handling that didn't specifically say he shouldn't have use it at home.
On the other hand if he did something like grab the password from a config file or unencode a URL with the credentials embedded I wouldn't feel bad if he landed in court.
Cygwin is Unix utilities that run ontop of windows. They don't really hook into the OS at all. Since MacOS is based on BSD that terminal is true system level unix commands.
Again, it's your airline. In order to accommodate that the airport would have to spend millions to build a special secure terminal facility to do that type transit. Fact is, maybe one or two flights a day might need that facility, almost all of them Australian.
Asian airlines don't stop in the US when going to other North American Countries. They just go directly to the destination. Same thing with European airlines.
Even then, it's a short term problem. As soon as the 787 ships Quantas will be able the trip with out the stop or if they bought the existing 777-200LR they could be flying directly to Canada already.
SFO isn't going to pay for the facilities and the Aussie airlines are going to pay for it either.
You're forced to enter the US because that's the way your airline set it up. The reason you had to get off and clear immigration is because an airline has to have a special agreement with the country in question to do that. The airport also has to be set up to allow for people connect to connect that way. HNL is a fairly small airport. It's not set up to have people connect that way because it's 99.9% of the flights HNL is the final destination. So, you might have a point about gruff gov't employees, but you having to get off the plane and then clear immigration is entirely the fault of the airline you traveled on.
I go to a lot of developer forums. Be it stuff designed in Java, PHP, Ruby, etc, there is one common thread I've noted of all the developers that present. 8 of 10 presents will use a mac. I switched a few years ago and couldn't be happier. I have VM Ware. Many people use VMs to run various windows versions, I like to use it to run Linux VMs that I eventually move off to other machines. Works fantastic. No need to reboot.
Now, if the OP is a.net person, well, Mac may not be for them. But there's something nice about being able to pop a BSD style terminal window.
I was an actual repair tech who did warranty repair for HP. Back in the 90's HP had maybe 3 printers you would stay away from.
HP's downfall started around 95-96 with the 3100 series and the consumer version of the 5 series the 5L. The printers were so bad that HP was forced to create a repair kit as part of a class action.
It continued with the entire 6 series later in the 90's with the final straw being a lot of the 4000 series printers. The old 5si printers were ending up outlasting the 4000 series stuff that replaced them in the model lineup.
The only point you have how slow some of the really old ones where. Quality and page out of a 4 series weren't great. However, the 5si series was 24 PPM. And quality would hold up if you did the maint kits as directed.
The worst were the HP color laser printers from the mid to late 90's. Warm up and calibrate was around 5 minutes. If you wanted to be evil you would set the power save to 1 minute.
You want a nice printer from HP today then buy the 8000 series. Outside of that consider the printer disposable.
Please refer to Nintendo's corporate filings. R&D and S&M are included in the cost. The wii also essentially sold at the same price point for years even after several hardware revs. Each of those revs further reduced costs. You are aware that Nintendo, dispute not selling as many games as they would like, has made record profits? There's a reason why they could drop the price $50 and still float positive. And it's not because they were making a couple dollars per machine.
Even back in the 90's when I worked at Circuit City we had to scan the serial numbers of the physical machine. I don't know if that got reported to Nintendo or not, but you had to scan the code to make the sale. There's a reason why the serial numbers appear on the outside of the boxes. I think back in the day Sega even had a cut out in the packing so you could scan the serial off the console directly.
I just don't think they make HP's like they used too. Even the medium duty office printers like the current 4500 series are a bit dodgy. Brand new laser printer and the gears inside are so loud you can hear it from across the office. Not to mention the odd squeeks. Those aren't good signs.
I used to repair prints as a lad just out of school in the 90's. Most HPs back then never broke per se. You'd replace rollers and other consumable parts now and then, but an actual failure was pretty rare and often attributable to not doing the recommended maintenance kit. I think the best printer they put out was the 5simx. I would still see them around offices 8-10 years later.
Here's the problem I have with color inkjets. I rarely print in color. I do a lot of black and white printing. What I was finding was when I needed color the ink had dried out. So I was running out to the office store to buy more ink. I can't imagine what the cost per page was.
A little over two years ago I bought a Xerox color laser for Costco. Nice printer, with built in network support, quiet and able to run heavy paper stock out of the tray. No problems printing to it via Mac, Windows or Linux. Still on the original toner with plenty to spare.
I think Samsung makes an okay B&W laser, but we tried using an entry level color laser at the office. The color toner had serious issue adhering to the paper.
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The more typical scenario is that the laptop is in police car overnight in sub-zero temperatures and they expect it work when they head out again. Obviously the car will warm up, but the machine has to start doing what it needs to do without waiting for hours.
Panasonic, just like Dell and HP, has an accidental damage plan.
Consider this. What's worth more the laptop or the data on the laptop? You're in a rugged location, you're off the grid and can't back up your data until you get back to civilization, which laptop would you want? I'm going to opt for the one that doesn't let moisture seep inside.
That's pretty much spot on. They need the hardware to work in temperature extremes. And even then I would assume they would by the semi-rugged model. The Panasonic Toughbook is a great machine. They still make them by hand in Kyoto. Panasonic doesn't trust the quality of factories in other parts of Asia, part of the price premium means you're getting a laptop built by a highly skilled workforce with a keen eye on tolerances.
This isn't a uber traveler laptop. It's for people working in harsh environments. Do you work on an oil rig, war zone or the middle of the amazon? If you answer no, then you don't need a rugged laptop.
CFL is a good short term solution, but the real brass ring is LED.
I would say that the problem for the pilots is it's been a slow news week. A lot of Pilots and Flight Attendants said in the beginning these guys wouldn't get fired. I think a lot of that is based on past experience with these situations. Most people don't understand that this isn't the first time something like this has happened. The problem is these issues are usually internal matters. Maybe the purser finds a crew member asleep. It's taken care of internally.
This is a big international news story that just won't die. And it's likely the pilots will be terminated because of it.
I will disagree with cost to the airline. Delta has made so many route reductions, mainline to barbie-jet shifts, reduction in cycles, etc that they have Pilots to spare. If they needed to find a replacement they have had a fair number of lay-offs over the last few years and likely still have Pilots they could recall.
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I think you could use some of the game engine ideas from Never Winter Nights as a starting point. It would show you the die rolls in a scrolling window as you proceeded through the game. In combat it would determine dozens of rolls and saves almost instantly. I think you could expand that metaphor to the surface to create fairly quick combat rounds.
As far as housekeeping, wouldn't the whole point of the surface be to automate all that crap? I would think if anything the automation would allow people who like to be more strategic to play with people that want to roll-n-go. I think the table also takes care of some of the distractions that are created by the "Rule Nazi" in a group.
So I decided to RTFA on the "Object Of Lust" link. Here's the conclusion to the article:
"The Hero represents a valiant effort from HTC -- though unfortunately, the company appears to have bitten off more than its last-generation hardware can chew. If this build of Android were to be loaded atop the guts of a 3GS or Pre, the performance would likely be astounding, but fused with the two-year old architecture of previous devices, it's mostly disappointing. We're not saying this isn't the best build of Android on the market -- we think it is. What we are saying is that this build is a bit too much for a device like the Hero to handle, and that makes for an uneven, sometimes frustrating experience. Going into the review, we desperately wanted to love this phone, but given the combination of a few poor hardware choices and an OS which outclasses the device it runs on, we can only recommend that you enter at your own risk. HTC has an explosive entry in the smartphone category with what its done on the software side... now it just needs the hardware to match."
I think they may be make the Hero out to be a bit more than it really is.
I see this replacing the mouse and quite useful in terms of day to day PC use. In particular in a business setting. I think what happen is the mouse will become a specialized tool, just like drawing tablets are specialized today.
I don't understand the typing reference as the video clearly shows the pad in the lower section of a traditional keyboard. It seems to be based entirely on replacing the mouse.
Sorry to break it to you, but you're already been fired from Company ABC. Or at the very least you're now on the C squad, the guy they send in at the last resort.
Also, I would not just use one company. If I'm hunting for a job I usually go for two companies. Make sure they understand that in this market you're not just sitting home twiddling your thumbs and that they better call you before submitting a resume. Outside that, move on. If company "ABC" always calls you before a submission I wouldn't even tell them you've "Fired" them.
The issue is at one point Warner Brothers had a license to the song. They just never owned the copyright. As a legal license holder they had the right to enforce copyright until such time as their license had elapsed. I would also guess that during the time that Warner had the license they had some sort of exclusive territory of which they could enforce their license rights in. Most likely to the extent where they could override the wishes of the copyright holder on certain decisions relating to distribution. Of wish MySpace would be a distribution channel.
However, all of that is for not as Warner obviously has no rights anymore.
You should really RTFA before throwing out an RTFA... Just say'n.
What the /. summary doesn't say is that Aaron used a user name and password of the library to run his script from an outside location. I would guess the FBI closed the case because 1) he got a lawyer and and refused the interview. 2) most likely the librarian had lax password handling that didn't specifically say he shouldn't have use it at home.
On the other hand if he did something like grab the password from a config file or unencode a URL with the credentials embedded I wouldn't feel bad if he landed in court.
Cygwin is Unix utilities that run ontop of windows. They don't really hook into the OS at all. Since MacOS is based on BSD that terminal is true system level unix commands.
Again, it's your airline. In order to accommodate that the airport would have to spend millions to build a special secure terminal facility to do that type transit. Fact is, maybe one or two flights a day might need that facility, almost all of them Australian.
Asian airlines don't stop in the US when going to other North American Countries. They just go directly to the destination. Same thing with European airlines.
Even then, it's a short term problem. As soon as the 787 ships Quantas will be able the trip with out the stop or if they bought the existing 777-200LR they could be flying directly to Canada already.
SFO isn't going to pay for the facilities and the Aussie airlines are going to pay for it either.
You're forced to enter the US because that's the way your airline set it up. The reason you had to get off and clear immigration is because an airline has to have a special agreement with the country in question to do that. The airport also has to be set up to allow for people connect to connect that way. HNL is a fairly small airport. It's not set up to have people connect that way because it's 99.9% of the flights HNL is the final destination. So, you might have a point about gruff gov't employees, but you having to get off the plane and then clear immigration is entirely the fault of the airline you traveled on.
You have to get finger printed in Tokyo as well. I think the difference is the TSA gives people from areas of interest the third degree.
I go to a lot of developer forums. Be it stuff designed in Java, PHP, Ruby, etc, there is one common thread I've noted of all the developers that present. 8 of 10 presents will use a mac. I switched a few years ago and couldn't be happier. I have VM Ware. Many people use VMs to run various windows versions, I like to use it to run Linux VMs that I eventually move off to other machines. Works fantastic. No need to reboot.
Now, if the OP is a .net person, well, Mac may not be for them. But there's something nice about being able to pop a BSD style terminal window.
I was an actual repair tech who did warranty repair for HP. Back in the 90's HP had maybe 3 printers you would stay away from.
HP's downfall started around 95-96 with the 3100 series and the consumer version of the 5 series the 5L. The printers were so bad that HP was forced to create a repair kit as part of a class action.
It continued with the entire 6 series later in the 90's with the final straw being a lot of the 4000 series printers. The old 5si printers were ending up outlasting the 4000 series stuff that replaced them in the model lineup.
The only point you have how slow some of the really old ones where. Quality and page out of a 4 series weren't great. However, the 5si series was 24 PPM. And quality would hold up if you did the maint kits as directed.
The worst were the HP color laser printers from the mid to late 90's. Warm up and calibrate was around 5 minutes. If you wanted to be evil you would set the power save to 1 minute.
You want a nice printer from HP today then buy the 8000 series. Outside of that consider the printer disposable.
Please refer to Nintendo's corporate filings. R&D and S&M are included in the cost. The wii also essentially sold at the same price point for years even after several hardware revs. Each of those revs further reduced costs. You are aware that Nintendo, dispute not selling as many games as they would like, has made record profits? There's a reason why they could drop the price $50 and still float positive. And it's not because they were making a couple dollars per machine.
Even back in the 90's when I worked at Circuit City we had to scan the serial numbers of the physical machine. I don't know if that got reported to Nintendo or not, but you had to scan the code to make the sale. There's a reason why the serial numbers appear on the outside of the boxes. I think back in the day Sega even had a cut out in the packing so you could scan the serial off the console directly.
I just don't think they make HP's like they used too. Even the medium duty office printers like the current 4500 series are a bit dodgy. Brand new laser printer and the gears inside are so loud you can hear it from across the office. Not to mention the odd squeeks. Those aren't good signs.
I used to repair prints as a lad just out of school in the 90's. Most HPs back then never broke per se. You'd replace rollers and other consumable parts now and then, but an actual failure was pretty rare and often attributable to not doing the recommended maintenance kit. I think the best printer they put out was the 5simx. I would still see them around offices 8-10 years later.
Here's the problem I have with color inkjets. I rarely print in color. I do a lot of black and white printing. What I was finding was when I needed color the ink had dried out. So I was running out to the office store to buy more ink. I can't imagine what the cost per page was.
A little over two years ago I bought a Xerox color laser for Costco. Nice printer, with built in network support, quiet and able to run heavy paper stock out of the tray. No problems printing to it via Mac, Windows or Linux. Still on the original toner with plenty to spare.
I think Samsung makes an okay B&W laser, but we tried using an entry level color laser at the office. The color toner had serious issue adhering to the paper.