Dell and a few other companies have been bitten by the bug. Depending on who you source your parts from depends on the quality (and longevity) of your computers (and reputation). I have no doubt that the parts going into a $120 Intel brand motherboard cost a few cents more each than a similar AsRock or ECS Elitegroup board that costs half as much. You get what you pay for. Intel stuff generally doesn't break in the same decade you buy it. You're lucky to make it to the end of the warranty period with noname crap from newegg or Frys.
Just out of curiosity, how unique are isotope ratios? Are there any areas on earth that are similar, or match the isotope ratios found in the samples? In other words, is it at all possible for something like this to have originated on earth based on that data?
Not only gained, but kept, for a full decade, without any media speculation of "who will succeed him?" his CEO job. There's a large number of major corporations that rotate through CEOs every 3-7 years, and even right now, even though he's secured another 3 year contract, the media is already asking who NBC's current CEO will be. Not to mention the big three automakers in the last year, along with many major banks. Balmer's done some pretty dumb, boneheaded stuff in his decade at Microsoft, but nobody in the media has ever honestly questioned his ability to run Microsoft in ten years; a rare feat for such a high profile company.
I recall Gran Turismo 4 taking about as long to complete as well. Fantastic game, but took about 3x as long to deliver as they needed. I bought a PS2 specifically for GT4, but it was then delayed about two years before release. I've since given up on buying consoles.
I think the biggest problem would be finding a way to reliably make those large-radius bends. Most buildings that have pneumatic systems installed usually have the "kinks" (pun intended) that have to be worked out by the installer before you end up with a reliable system.
My old Casio from the 80's had an incandescent bulb for a backlight. Probably half a watt if that. I don't think LEDs became cheap enough to put in low end watches until the mid-90s; in either case that indiglo(w?) electroluminecent stuff was a better backlight anyways. I never saw a white or blue LED in a sub-$100 watch until after 2000
Instead, in their zeal to compete with each other and drive each other out of business, they've shot themselves in the foot as they've decreased their profit margin on the stuff to near zero
The real problem is that computers are a commodity item, and they're trying to sell commodities at retail with a luxury twist. A couple of grocers can get away with selling organically grown corn, but everywhere else, corn is corn, and comes in a cardboard or wood box on a shelf. You can try and sell butter and salt and pepper next to the corn, but as a shareholder, if you're expecting tons of growth from the corn sector, either you're an idiot, or you were lied to. Sadly, Best Buy shareholders are probably largely the former.
Right, but I think in the case of the smartphone, the fact that these wonder devices make phone calls to land lines is just an added feature. I'm not in the majority, but my smartphone is only used to talk to people age 40 or older; I use it's data services to contact anyone younger than that.
Hi, you blockquoted that text from my blog. The "extra" 500 minutes is call forwarding minutes. In theory, you could setup your phone to forward all your calls to your home phone (or other unmetered phone) when you run low on minutes. That would work. All that string of numbers does is forward the call to google voice after 4 rings (before tmobile VM kicks in). The call forwarding minutes are almost free for tmobile to provide, so you get 500 free, in a "use it, don't abuse it" type charge plan. I think you pay $0.10/min after the first 500 min, but if you're getting 500+ minutes of voicemail a month you probably already have a receptionist and personal assistant working for you.
Seriously, it lives in your pocket, or on your belt. How many times have you had your wallet stolen? Maybe you have an issue with keeping track of your personal belongings. I've never heard of any of my friends (mostly BB and iPhone users, fairly desirable phones, unlockable and use SIM cards) with stolen phones. Usually it's death by toilet, sidewalk or frustration (wall).
Right. You're adding an old school LCD "panel" (like the one used in 1980's digital watches) behind the OLED display to control light transmission (transparency). I doubt flexibility is important in a medical situation or laptop.
you can adjust transparency with a simple LCD. just adjust the current to fit the level of transparency you need. sort of (but not really) defeats the purpose of an OLED display
The noticable difference between firefox and chrome is that no amount of "you should really use firefox! its much safer and easier to use!" and even installing it on their computer for them, they still didn't used it. At best I get a grunt from the person I'm trying to "help". I've been traveling for a month and every person I've let borrow my netbook goes "ooh, is that google chrome? i might have to try this when i get home"
Because people don't gripe about sprint, they just drop them and move onto a carrier that supports modern phones. I love t-mobile by the way. Everytime I call (0 wait, either!) the tmobile rep usually says "we can add/adjust this feature for free!". When I called about how to use google voice as a voicemail transcription service, the guy not only gave me the code to key in, but also offered to set it up on my end, put me on hold and then call my cell and test the transcription service to confirm it worked. Compared to sprint, where I usually got in screaming matches with the CS reps there over some new $4 charge per month they needed to charge me to make/recieve international calls or some other BS. Fuck sprint. I'll never go back. I love tmobile.
God. I'm from further south where it snows maybe two or three days a year, sticks maybe every third year. Besides the lower cost of living and much better weather I don't understand why so many people feel the need to live in the NE or Detroit/Chicago/Great Lakes area. Yeah it might be too hot to function in Dallas in August and September, but it's 70-80 degrees the rest of the year and most people here have never seen a "salted" road.
Right but most of those failures came of light after Jobs left the company. Apple's "dark age" as some might call it. This magical tablet supposedly has Jobs' blessing, as did the iPod. Jobs usually only puts his name on products that succeed. The tablet is going to need some sort of amazing revolutionary interface similar in magnitude to the iPod's to succeed.
Wind is a poor general solution to the energy situation.
Texas is well on it's way to meeting it's goal of producing 10% of it's total power via renewable energy. Most of that is wind power. I doubt it would ever top 35% here in Texas, but once the turbines are built and paid off, it's basically "too cheap to meter". 35% is nothing to sneeze at.
DFW, or cities around DFW? DFW gets all its water from Texhoma, lake lavon, lake ray hubbard, and on the fort worth side you have eagle mountain lake, lake worth and other lakes in that chain of reservoirs.
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but both windows and the Xbox/360 use DirectX, which represents something like 50-90% of the "gaming market". It's simply easier to write your game/engine for Direct X and be ready to port it to console/PC with little more than a recompile. I don't know if the Xbox supports openGL at all, but I doubt it.
Its a slow news cycle, its an apple announcement. Detroit's autoshow is the only other bright point between now and probably February when the NE thaws out in the USA. I too have doubts about this product. Tablets are a pretty small niche market, and even an iPod touch DX may have trouble gaining traction in this market. The only discussion amongst my friends regarding the apple tablet is "$500, $700, or $800+?" and "my netbook + ipod work pretty well already"
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Dell and a few other companies have been bitten by the bug. Depending on who you source your parts from depends on the quality (and longevity) of your computers (and reputation). I have no doubt that the parts going into a $120 Intel brand motherboard cost a few cents more each than a similar AsRock or ECS Elitegroup board that costs half as much. You get what you pay for. Intel stuff generally doesn't break in the same decade you buy it. You're lucky to make it to the end of the warranty period with noname crap from newegg or Frys.
They probably do. But the parts for the mac boards are sourced from different suppliers, which is what makes all the difference.
Just out of curiosity, how unique are isotope ratios? Are there any areas on earth that are similar, or match the isotope ratios found in the samples? In other words, is it at all possible for something like this to have originated on earth based on that data?
Not only gained, but kept, for a full decade, without any media speculation of "who will succeed him?" his CEO job. There's a large number of major corporations that rotate through CEOs every 3-7 years, and even right now, even though he's secured another 3 year contract, the media is already asking who NBC's current CEO will be. Not to mention the big three automakers in the last year, along with many major banks. Balmer's done some pretty dumb, boneheaded stuff in his decade at Microsoft, but nobody in the media has ever honestly questioned his ability to run Microsoft in ten years; a rare feat for such a high profile company.
I recall Gran Turismo 4 taking about as long to complete as well. Fantastic game, but took about 3x as long to deliver as they needed. I bought a PS2 specifically for GT4, but it was then delayed about two years before release. I've since given up on buying consoles.
I think the biggest problem would be finding a way to reliably make those large-radius bends. Most buildings that have pneumatic systems installed usually have the "kinks" (pun intended) that have to be worked out by the installer before you end up with a reliable system.
Somewhere in here, there's a joke about Java's garbage collection.
My old Casio from the 80's had an incandescent bulb for a backlight. Probably half a watt if that. I don't think LEDs became cheap enough to put in low end watches until the mid-90s; in either case that indiglo(w?) electroluminecent stuff was a better backlight anyways. I never saw a white or blue LED in a sub-$100 watch until after 2000
The real problem is that computers are a commodity item, and they're trying to sell commodities at retail with a luxury twist. A couple of grocers can get away with selling organically grown corn, but everywhere else, corn is corn, and comes in a cardboard or wood box on a shelf. You can try and sell butter and salt and pepper next to the corn, but as a shareholder, if you're expecting tons of growth from the corn sector, either you're an idiot, or you were lied to. Sadly, Best Buy shareholders are probably largely the former.
Right, but I think in the case of the smartphone, the fact that these wonder devices make phone calls to land lines is just an added feature. I'm not in the majority, but my smartphone is only used to talk to people age 40 or older; I use it's data services to contact anyone younger than that.
Hi, you blockquoted that text from my blog. The "extra" 500 minutes is call forwarding minutes. In theory, you could setup your phone to forward all your calls to your home phone (or other unmetered phone) when you run low on minutes. That would work. All that string of numbers does is forward the call to google voice after 4 rings (before tmobile VM kicks in). The call forwarding minutes are almost free for tmobile to provide, so you get 500 free, in a "use it, don't abuse it" type charge plan. I think you pay $0.10/min after the first 500 min, but if you're getting 500+ minutes of voicemail a month you probably already have a receptionist and personal assistant working for you.
Times cell phone has been stolen at all: 0
Seriously, it lives in your pocket, or on your belt. How many times have you had your wallet stolen? Maybe you have an issue with keeping track of your personal belongings. I've never heard of any of my friends (mostly BB and iPhone users, fairly desirable phones, unlockable and use SIM cards) with stolen phones. Usually it's death by toilet, sidewalk or frustration (wall).
Right. You're adding an old school LCD "panel" (like the one used in 1980's digital watches) behind the OLED display to control light transmission (transparency). I doubt flexibility is important in a medical situation or laptop.
Number of times phone stolen from bedside table: 0
Number of times phone stolen from office desk: 0
you can adjust transparency with a simple LCD. just adjust the current to fit the level of transparency you need. sort of (but not really) defeats the purpose of an OLED display
Did you not get the memo about the free pizza for new years? Or maybe you were at a party and had free government sponsored pizza, but didn't know it.
The noticable difference between firefox and chrome is that no amount of "you should really use firefox! its much safer and easier to use!" and even installing it on their computer for them, they still didn't used it. At best I get a grunt from the person I'm trying to "help". I've been traveling for a month and every person I've let borrow my netbook goes "ooh, is that google chrome? i might have to try this when i get home"
Because people don't gripe about sprint, they just drop them and move onto a carrier that supports modern phones. I love t-mobile by the way. Everytime I call (0 wait, either!) the tmobile rep usually says "we can add/adjust this feature for free!". When I called about how to use google voice as a voicemail transcription service, the guy not only gave me the code to key in, but also offered to set it up on my end, put me on hold and then call my cell and test the transcription service to confirm it worked. Compared to sprint, where I usually got in screaming matches with the CS reps there over some new $4 charge per month they needed to charge me to make/recieve international calls or some other BS. Fuck sprint. I'll never go back. I love tmobile.
God. I'm from further south where it snows maybe two or three days a year, sticks maybe every third year. Besides the lower cost of living and much better weather I don't understand why so many people feel the need to live in the NE or Detroit/Chicago/Great Lakes area. Yeah it might be too hot to function in Dallas in August and September, but it's 70-80 degrees the rest of the year and most people here have never seen a "salted" road.
Right but most of those failures came of light after Jobs left the company. Apple's "dark age" as some might call it. This magical tablet supposedly has Jobs' blessing, as did the iPod. Jobs usually only puts his name on products that succeed. The tablet is going to need some sort of amazing revolutionary interface similar in magnitude to the iPod's to succeed.
Texas is well on it's way to meeting it's goal of producing 10% of it's total power via renewable energy. Most of that is wind power. I doubt it would ever top 35% here in Texas, but once the turbines are built and paid off, it's basically "too cheap to meter". 35% is nothing to sneeze at.
DFW, or cities around DFW? DFW gets all its water from Texhoma, lake lavon, lake ray hubbard, and on the fort worth side you have eagle mountain lake, lake worth and other lakes in that chain of reservoirs.
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but both windows and the Xbox/360 use DirectX, which represents something like 50-90% of the "gaming market". It's simply easier to write your game/engine for Direct X and be ready to port it to console/PC with little more than a recompile. I don't know if the Xbox supports openGL at all, but I doubt it.
Its a slow news cycle, its an apple announcement. Detroit's autoshow is the only other bright point between now and probably February when the NE thaws out in the USA. I too have doubts about this product. Tablets are a pretty small niche market, and even an iPod touch DX may have trouble gaining traction in this market. The only discussion amongst my friends regarding the apple tablet is "$500, $700, or $800+?" and "my netbook + ipod work pretty well already"
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