Since... always. If it's under 5MP it's barely acceptible for looking at onscreen, and mostly useless for prints. Just because back in the day you had to walk five miles in the snow uphill both ways with no shoes just to get 3MP doesn't mean that 3MP was good back then, just that you couldn't get good.
I've had one of these for a few months, and it's absolutely one of the nicest bags I've seen. Priced around $50 if you get a good deal, it's a backpack designed with laptops in mind. It's a nice, fairly large backpack, with compartments in all the right places, and a padded compartment to fit a 15" (or 15.2 or 15.4 or whatever) laptop. And if you want, you can tuck away the backpack straps, and attach an overhand strap, and voila, true laptop bag. It's pretty nice.
What gets me is that you think that the leaders aren't these killers. History has shown us that they usually are the worst of them, and that leadership selects against the nurse Brantts who let morals get in the way of power and obedience.
Then that particular bit doesn't apply to you, it was just a random example. But the point is that it's a bad way of thinking altogether, not just that one example.
KDE, for its day-to-day tasks, doesn't use CORBA. What it does use is lighter-weight and simpler. I never noticed KDE to be slow, even when I was running KDE3.0 on my 120MHz Cyrix with 64MB RAM, it wasn't any slower than anything else. Fortunately for everyone, that system is now dead. But anyway, my point was that most of your griping about CORBA only applies to GNOME, which in my experience is slow, and has apps with UIs that make me not want to use them anyway.
Aah, there we have the cost factor of risk. Uncertainty carries with it a certain disutility, making it more worthwhile to choose "sure things". So you buy from a cereal company that has a good reputation for producing healthy foods, maybe one that allows open inspection of the cleanliness of their factories, and if you pay more for it, well, you choose it: it's like a little insurance policy in every box!
Of course. Nothing is done that isn't done by individuals. No group has ever done anything. If I say that "the Bush administration" invaded Iraq, I mean that Bush and Rice and Rumsfeld and Tenet and Powell and thousands of soldiers whose names I don't happen to know each did their individual part. Most of them did it, we can suppose, because they believed in Bush as a leader, because they liked their jobs, because they were already in the army, or whatever else, but whoever they were "representing", they each chose individually to take those actions. To say that "the US" is capable of doing anything, that is pawning off responsibility.
Sorry, I should have elaborated. But if you figure that everyone's too goddamn stupid to make decisions for themselves, then it follows that they're also incapable of voting sanely, and therefore the people who get elected to run the country will be the same people that you don't trust to run their own lives. This is good how?
Supposing you accept that as true, why is it bad to have everyone making bad decisions for themselves, but good to have a few people making bad decisions for everyone else?
I played a fan-trans of that game, and it's definitely pretty nice. It's right about the point where they started learning how to work the story into the game better, and to really refine the graphics and controls and battle system. Well, I mean, it's still NES, and on the surface it's the same, but it's really a lot less clunky than FFI.
Would be fun to see them do it to someone who has enough time and money to waste not to respond to the letter, see if the MPAA would get a court case rolling based on the completely bogus evidence, and then mention the fact that you don't actually have any copyrighted materials anywhere on your site. I'm sure they'd waste considerably more money than you would.
Actually, better plan: as many people as possible should link to files on their website claiming to be the latest Harry Potter movie or something, and actually pointing to the mpeg version of Aunt Margie's vacation slides. Could we push the SNR down far enough to make lawsuits unprofitable?
Dell Latitude D600. Pentium-M @ 1800MHz. And I lied; when it's plugged in it'll draw up to 45 or so. But if you're doing nothing strenuous (preferably at night, so the backlight is all the way down), then you can get it down to 12-13W, which is good as the battery is only 53Wh. A more realistic number, though, is about 16W, with the backlight low, low (but not zero) processor load, and using a wireless network.
I'm only coming up with about $8500, (You can get 1GB of CF for $70 if you don't mind it being Sandisk) but point still taken. The reason they compare to hard drives is because hard drives are what we'd really like a replacement for, in the long run. Flash is just a replacement for magnetic drives that is unfortunately unsuited for all but a few tasks. We're hoping this new stuff works out better. That's all.
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That was my point :)
Since... always. If it's under 5MP it's barely acceptible for looking at onscreen, and mostly useless for prints. Just because back in the day you had to walk five miles in the snow uphill both ways with no shoes just to get 3MP doesn't mean that 3MP was good back then, just that you couldn't get good.
On a related note, if you have two CCDs, one 5MP, and the other 8MP, both 11mm diagonal, the 8MP one doesn't necessarily look much better ;)
I've had one of these for a few months, and it's absolutely one of the nicest bags I've seen. Priced around $50 if you get a good deal, it's a backpack designed with laptops in mind. It's a nice, fairly large backpack, with compartments in all the right places, and a padded compartment to fit a 15" (or 15.2 or 15.4 or whatever) laptop. And if you want, you can tuck away the backpack straps, and attach an overhand strap, and voila, true laptop bag. It's pretty nice.
What gets me is that you think that the leaders aren't these killers. History has shown us that they usually are the worst of them, and that leadership selects against the nurse Brantts who let morals get in the way of power and obedience.
Those who would give up essential freedom for a little television enjoyment... that doesn't even have a ring to it! Damn you.
Then that particular bit doesn't apply to you, it was just a random example. But the point is that it's a bad way of thinking altogether, not just that one example.
KDE, for its day-to-day tasks, doesn't use CORBA. What it does use is lighter-weight and simpler. I never noticed KDE to be slow, even when I was running KDE3.0 on my 120MHz Cyrix with 64MB RAM, it wasn't any slower than anything else. Fortunately for everyone, that system is now dead. But anyway, my point was that most of your griping about CORBA only applies to GNOME, which in my experience is slow, and has apps with UIs that make me not want to use them anyway.
Aah, there we have the cost factor of risk. Uncertainty carries with it a certain disutility, making it more worthwhile to choose "sure things". So you buy from a cereal company that has a good reputation for producing healthy foods, maybe one that allows open inspection of the cleanliness of their factories, and if you pay more for it, well, you choose it: it's like a little insurance policy in every box!
Of course. Nothing is done that isn't done by individuals. No group has ever done anything. If I say that "the Bush administration" invaded Iraq, I mean that Bush and Rice and Rumsfeld and Tenet and Powell and thousands of soldiers whose names I don't happen to know each did their individual part. Most of them did it, we can suppose, because they believed in Bush as a leader, because they liked their jobs, because they were already in the army, or whatever else, but whoever they were "representing", they each chose individually to take those actions. To say that "the US" is capable of doing anything, that is pawning off responsibility.
The cost of a box of cereal that gives you food poisoning is much higher than the cost of one that doesn't. Try learning some basic economics :)
Sorry, I should have elaborated. But if you figure that everyone's too goddamn stupid to make decisions for themselves, then it follows that they're also incapable of voting sanely, and therefore the people who get elected to run the country will be the same people that you don't trust to run their own lives. This is good how?
Supposing you accept that as true, why is it bad to have everyone making bad decisions for themselves, but good to have a few people making bad decisions for everyone else?
Three more. And they'll be a joint effort.
Why aren't patents required to be "vigorously defended" or whatever it is trademarks are? It seems to me that all the same reasons apply.
I played a fan-trans of that game, and it's definitely pretty nice. It's right about the point where they started learning how to work the story into the game better, and to really refine the graphics and controls and battle system. Well, I mean, it's still NES, and on the surface it's the same, but it's really a lot less clunky than FFI.
Would be fun to see them do it to someone who has enough time and money to waste not to respond to the letter, see if the MPAA would get a court case rolling based on the completely bogus evidence, and then mention the fact that you don't actually have any copyrighted materials anywhere on your site. I'm sure they'd waste considerably more money than you would.
Actually, better plan: as many people as possible should link to files on their website claiming to be the latest Harry Potter movie or something, and actually pointing to the mpeg version of Aunt Margie's vacation slides. Could we push the SNR down far enough to make lawsuits unprofitable?
Certainly these days most laptops do plug into the TV.
This has nothing even resembling meter, and any rhymes you added in the right places are purely accidental.
Dell Latitude D600. Pentium-M @ 1800MHz. And I lied; when it's plugged in it'll draw up to 45 or so. But if you're doing nothing strenuous (preferably at night, so the backlight is all the way down), then you can get it down to 12-13W, which is good as the battery is only 53Wh. A more realistic number, though, is about 16W, with the backlight low, low (but not zero) processor load, and using a wireless network.
andrew@twisted:~$ grep rate /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
present rate: 19983 mW
Hooray for laptops! The absolute low-end (not sleeping) load for this machine seems to be about 12W; I don't think I've seen it go over 35.
Unless you have a killer graphics card, five hard drives, and a USB blowdryer, you probably don't need more than 350W :)
I'm only coming up with about $8500, (You can get 1GB of CF for $70 if you don't mind it being Sandisk) but point still taken. The reason they compare to hard drives is because hard drives are what we'd really like a replacement for, in the long run. Flash is just a replacement for magnetic drives that is unfortunately unsuited for all but a few tasks. We're hoping this new stuff works out better. That's all.
Naturally. "Solid state" stuff has moving parts too, it's just that the moving parts tend to be electrons :)
But then again, So is .ps.gz