No a high quality dining table wont cost several thousand unless you shop at a furniture store where they rob you. I had solid wood funiture made for me by a master woodworker locally for 1/2 the price of the utter crap they sell at most of the "furniture stores" and mine has real inlays, real wood, and real craftsmanship instead of the machine made MDF core veneered garbage they sell at the fine furniture Botique's
Dude if you look a bit at Ikea you can build one for less than $300.00. Will it be heirloom quality? nope, but knowing the turds I game with neither will the $8900.00 one in 1 years time.
Bolt together some desks and shelf units to a table, add some tall barstool seats... Voila. go to home depot to get your "whiteboard plexi"
Honestly this is quite effortless, I can even make a felt covered insert board for MTG tournaments for less than $50.00
A buddy of mine plays with a set of polyhedral dice that cost him $3800.00 for the set. They are cut from meteorites. his D20 cost $450.00 on it's own.
And make it a LOT better. Using BOOKS for the DM? How drol. give them a laptop station or better yet a 21" monitor location for reading all the PDF files of every book needed. Plus using decent Virtual tabletop software and camera control for adding in long distance players. Yes this is getting more and more common having a player skype in.
6. Pay the maintainer enough money to see it your way. Honestly if you waved a $1,000,000 check in their face they certainly would ditch their stance and say, "OHH BRILLIANT! RIGHT AWAY SIR!"
you cant get any more democratic than that! It's almost identical to the way the US government works!
Office 2000-2003 Major changes. Office 2003-2008 HORRIBLE HUGE CHANGES.
2000-XP Big changes XP-Vista BIG changes Vista-W7 Big changes.
So what was your point? in fact the ONLY OS I have used that has remained stable in it's UI has been OSX and Linux at it's base (Slackware for example). Windows has changed radically every release.
Because salary.com is the ones in charge of this? or are they simply people that report nearly 4 year old information.
2 years ago most states unemployment was adjusted. I suggest you get real accurate info instead of some random and dodgy website as the letter of the law.
Web accelerator is nothing more than a cacheing proxy. install a proxy to replace it.
emulators, sorry, but bothand more are available under linux.
flash works fine.
Opera 10 - dont know I dont use it. Realplayer-- WHY? Who cares?
Ipod mp4 video works perfectly fine. did you even try?
Sorry but 80% of all your claims have not been true for 2 or more years now, and some are simply forever false. I've played SNES games under linux for over 10 years now.
I can add to your list that Linux will run IE6 and IE7 AND IE8 fine under wine. as well as REalplayer if you really want that.
I'll try opera 10 tonight, but I suspect it will work perfectly under Ubuntu 9.10.
Oh I can also play WMA and WMV files as well as other non linux file formats.
P.S. I'm really sad for you, having to live with a Dialup ISP must suck. You cant get broadband at all? no WISP service? How about CDMA?
Amen brother. Ubuntu 9.10 is an awesome windows replacement. I silently switched my wife's laptop to it 4 weeks ago and she is happy as a clam. Wine install was brain-dead easy. office 2003 runs on it perfectly, and IE6 installed well for her to upload tax info to the state and feds.
She's an accountant and only uses Excel for spreadsheets that wont open in OO.o
Honestly there is no reason to not switch away from windows and it's virus/spyware riddled existence for a bulk of the people out there.
hopefully they screw the RIAA and write in that the money collected goes directly to Canadian artists only and must have full accounting reported or heavy fines will be levied against the RIAA.
Come on, appease and screw them at the same time.
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Only if your laptop runs a OS that rolls over for the media companies.
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HUH?
I can build your mom a HTPC for $250.00 RIGHT NOW that can do HD.
XBMC + ASUS ION based nettop + Mediacenter remote. All done. That is dirt cheap for what you get plus it's more stable than Windows7media center. and 100% open. you can configure it easily to grab all of mommies video podcasts. If mom wants to broadcast her viewing habits then use Boxee instead.
Very easy, plug and play. really stable and pretty much virus proof so you dont have to babysit it.
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Well sony is going to disable HD on component out for ALL bluray players in a year or so anyways.
No encrypted content will go out of a Bluray player if it is not protected from the scumbag consumer by the precious HDCP.
It's why I wont be buying a newer Bluray player and my current is for sale on ebay. I'll just rip the disks and bypass all their BS. Bluray -> mpeg4 and played on a XBMC dedicated box looks wonderful and you dont have any of the crap. ripbot264 + anyDVDHD so far has ripped any Bluray I have bought without problems.
Look up wearable computing and Prof Steve Mann. He's the one that is the father of all this technology. He invented it and even invented a system to BLOCK advertisements from your vision... or at least started the research in that direction.
All of this stuff is old hat. I was working on Wearable computing and augmented reality in the 90's.
Problem is that normal viewing distances is too far. Sorry but 12 feet from your 42" plasma mounted 6 feet off the ground above the fireplace is the WORST way to watch it.
a 42" HDTV, 720p is 7 feet. 1080p is 5 feet. Problem is consumers either ignore it or take the word of the clueless idiot selling the TV at best buy that it will look fantastic at any distance.
Thus 90% of people that own a 1080p set cant see that it's any better than a 480p set. and this is why a regular DVD looks as good as a BluRay to most people.
I know a guy that runs a redbox franchise around here. He get's all the latest releases. He goes to walmart and buys them on release day at midnight. many of his titles are cheaper from walmart than from redbox directly.
The frequencies being released are at the low end, they cant carry as much information. RF modulation over coax is nothing like Fiber. you cant free up a transmission mode and use it as much as the others. The low channel 2-13 frequency segment cant carry 1/2 of what one of the upper QAM constellation channels can carry.
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No a high quality dining table wont cost several thousand unless you shop at a furniture store where they rob you. I had solid wood funiture made for me by a master woodworker locally for 1/2 the price of the utter crap they sell at most of the "furniture stores" and mine has real inlays, real wood, and real craftsmanship instead of the machine made MDF core veneered garbage they sell at the fine furniture Botique's
Dude if you look a bit at Ikea you can build one for less than $300.00. Will it be heirloom quality? nope, but knowing the turds I game with neither will the $8900.00 one in 1 years time.
Bolt together some desks and shelf units to a table, add some tall barstool seats... Voila. go to home depot to get your "whiteboard plexi"
Honestly this is quite effortless, I can even make a felt covered insert board for MTG tournaments for less than $50.00
A buddy of mine plays with a set of polyhedral dice that cost him $3800.00 for the set. They are cut from meteorites. his D20 cost $450.00 on it's own.
And make it a LOT better. Using BOOKS for the DM? How drol. give them a laptop station or better yet a 21" monitor location for reading all the PDF files of every book needed. Plus using decent Virtual tabletop software and camera control for adding in long distance players. Yes this is getting more and more common having a player skype in.
6. Pay the maintainer enough money to see it your way. Honestly if you waved a $1,000,000 check in their face they certainly would ditch their stance and say, "OHH BRILLIANT! RIGHT AWAY SIR!"
you cant get any more democratic than that! It's almost identical to the way the US government works!
Then why do you use windows?
Office 2000-2003 Major changes.
Office 2003-2008 HORRIBLE HUGE CHANGES.
2000-XP Big changes
XP-Vista BIG changes
Vista-W7 Big changes.
So what was your point? in fact the ONLY OS I have used that has remained stable in it's UI has been OSX and Linux at it's base (Slackware for example). Windows has changed radically every release.
Because salary.com is the ones in charge of this? or are they simply people that report nearly 4 year old information.
2 years ago most states unemployment was adjusted. I suggest you get real accurate info instead of some random and dodgy website as the letter of the law.
I got 80% of my pay capped at $1000.00 a week. It is default to 6 months max less extensions that can go out 24 months.
MA has a crappy Unemployment setup. I'm in michigan and had to suffer with it for the 2 months it took a headhunter to find me.
Web accelerator is nothing more than a cacheing proxy. install a proxy to replace it.
emulators, sorry, but bothand more are available under linux.
flash works fine.
Opera 10 - dont know I dont use it.
Realplayer-- WHY? Who cares?
Ipod mp4 video works perfectly fine. did you even try?
Sorry but 80% of all your claims have not been true for 2 or more years now, and some are simply forever false. I've played SNES games under linux for over 10 years now.
I can add to your list that Linux will run IE6 and IE7 AND IE8 fine under wine. as well as REalplayer if you really want that.
I'll try opera 10 tonight, but I suspect it will work perfectly under Ubuntu 9.10.
Oh I can also play WMA and WMV files as well as other non linux file formats.
P.S. I'm really sad for you, having to live with a Dialup ISP must suck. You cant get broadband at all? no WISP service? How about CDMA?
Amen brother. Ubuntu 9.10 is an awesome windows replacement. I silently switched my wife's laptop to it 4 weeks ago and she is happy as a clam. Wine install was brain-dead easy. office 2003 runs on it perfectly, and IE6 installed well for her to upload tax info to the state and feds.
She's an accountant and only uses Excel for spreadsheets that wont open in OO.o
Honestly there is no reason to not switch away from windows and it's virus/spyware riddled existence for a bulk of the people out there.
Most photographers I know refer to SLR's as cameras and non SLR cameras as "point and shoots" or if they are snobby "cute toys"
But then I hang around professionals and photojournalists, so they may not be hip on newbie terminology.
Id rather zoneminder do the processing and use cheaper video cameras to send video to zoneminder.
I've been using zoneminder for 4 years now, What more important is not "cheap" but high frame rate.
hopefully they screw the RIAA and write in that the money collected goes directly to Canadian artists only and must have full accounting reported or heavy fines will be levied against the RIAA.
Come on, appease and screw them at the same time.
In fact.....
http://lifehacker.com/5391308/build-a-silent-standalone-xbmc-media-center-on-the-cheap
For a step by step guide.
Only if your laptop runs a OS that rolls over for the media companies.
HUH?
I can build your mom a HTPC for $250.00 RIGHT NOW that can do HD.
XBMC + ASUS ION based nettop + Mediacenter remote. All done. That is dirt cheap for what you get plus it's more stable than Windows7media center. and 100% open. you can configure it easily to grab all of mommies video podcasts. If mom wants to broadcast her viewing habits then use Boxee instead.
Very easy, plug and play. really stable and pretty much virus proof so you dont have to babysit it.
Well sony is going to disable HD on component out for ALL bluray players in a year or so anyways.
No encrypted content will go out of a Bluray player if it is not protected from the scumbag consumer by the precious HDCP.
It's why I wont be buying a newer Bluray player and my current is for sale on ebay. I'll just rip the disks and bypass all their BS. Bluray -> mpeg4 and played on a XBMC dedicated box looks wonderful and you dont have any of the crap. ripbot264 + anyDVDHD so far has ripped any Bluray I have bought without problems.
Done believe me? http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=2849
Look up wearable computing and Prof Steve Mann. He's the one that is the father of all this technology. He invented it and even invented a system to BLOCK advertisements from your vision... or at least started the research in that direction.
All of this stuff is old hat. I was working on Wearable computing and augmented reality in the 90's.
How about the hard part. Focusing on the data that is at a location that your eyes are incapable of focusing on.
One small hurdle... Otherwise it's the colorful light blob experiment
Problem is that normal viewing distances is too far. Sorry but 12 feet from your 42" plasma mounted 6 feet off the ground above the fireplace is the WORST way to watch it.
a 42" HDTV, 720p is 7 feet. 1080p is 5 feet. Problem is consumers either ignore it or take the word of the clueless idiot selling the TV at best buy that it will look fantastic at any distance.
http://hdguru.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/hdtv_distance_chart.pdf
Thus 90% of people that own a 1080p set cant see that it's any better than a 480p set. and this is why a regular DVD looks as good as a BluRay to most people.
DVD was SUPPOSED to get studios to shoot with multiple cameras so you can change camera angles.
Problem is only the porn industry used it.
Wow you went to a scumbag theater. avatar was the same price as other films around here.
I know a guy that runs a redbox franchise around here. He get's all the latest releases. He goes to walmart and buys them on release day at midnight. many of his titles are cheaper from walmart than from redbox directly.
The frequencies being released are at the low end, they cant carry as much information. RF modulation over coax is nothing like Fiber. you cant free up a transmission mode and use it as much as the others. The low channel 2-13 frequency segment cant carry 1/2 of what one of the upper QAM constellation channels can carry.