As for the actual printer, I've learned to buy LASER printers. They have a high initial cost but low-priced ink (~$50 for 5000 pages). The laser printer ends-up being cheaper after you pass 800 pages
Yep. Laser printer for 99.9% of my printing needs, color is either online photo printing (whats the going rate these days, $0.09/3x5"?), or if you need it TODAY I go through wally world for about $0.24/3x5". I don't know anyone who prints enough color photos at home to justify the cost of owning a photo quality printer at home. Unless your home color printer is a dye impregnation printer, that hp-uberjet ink is going to fade in 5-10 years anyhow.
I thought that the xbox and xbox 360 used dx9? Is there a console that uses dx10? I thought the ps3 used their own proprietary methods. Whenever the xbox 3 comes out, will anyone care about dx11 (or 12 by then?)? Game specs are written to the latest xbox console's specs. That's largely why dx9 has reigned supreme for so long. dx10 only existed on paper (for the most part) to push gamers to Vista. dx10 will probably be glossed and wallpapered over in the grand scheme of things to make way for dx11 and 12 when the xbox 3 is released
I wouldn't even say ad agency, so much as "newspaper or tv channel" - after all, you're buying ads for google searches, not just ads from google (although they do advertise on other sites, too). The products don't have to be particularly good, just shiny and new enough that people continue using google, rather than go to another service (like Bing). As long as they keep innovating and creating new things (nobody ever said they had to be any good), people will continue to go there, which drives ad revenue.
What happens if you put 47 people on that system? Or what happens if 100 people are only checking email and doing word processing? And two people playing quake live in firefox??? What then???
Your xenons probably underclock themselves to 50% clockspeed when idle. That's 50% right there. My nearly 3 year old core2duo does that, so I would assume your new(ish) xenons do as well.
Can someone elaborate on why you'd want 48 full processors, rather than a processor with two (dual) or four (quad) "cores" (I'm presuming core in this case == FPU in the article). Supposedly Win7's SMP support becomes much more effective at the 12-16 core thresehold.
Does W2K support up to DX8 or DX9? Steam has support for OSes back to winME. I use XP currently, but I'd downgrade in a heartbeat if I had to. No gamemaker wants to push a DX10-only game, so until that day comes, 99% of users probably would be comfortable using W2K.
yeah i was going to say, bf heroes is more of an attempt to build on the success of tf2, using the name and ip of bf to raise it's profile amongst users. bf heroes is "free to play, $$$ to be competitive" while tf2 is $20 ($2.50-9.99 on steam sale, usually 2-3 times a year) once, with new content every 2-3 months... pick your poison. tf2 isnt nearly as popular as counter-strike source, but it's close enough, and seems to have "long term support" from valve. i can see a lot of bf heroes players jumping ship for bf2, mw2 or simply tf2.
On the contrary, I would assume most of the junior management played Halo 1 in their frat houses all the time. Probably plenty of middle managers played Halo 1 in their off time while working on their MBAs. It wouldn't surprise me if most of them played a good bit of Halo 2 as well. Which would explain a lot regarding the recent turn towards console-based FPSes.
Queue the 1/2" kevlar rope! A quarter mile of the stuff ought to do the trick. The worst part about lines jamming the propeller is that the line gets coiled up in the space between where the propeller and the hull meet, and the motion causes the prop to pull the propshaft out of the boat (with the engine attached). This causes what's called a "through hull hole", aka an "oh shit!" circumstance, wherein the boat sinks as the engine room fills with water. The rope doesn't even have to be particularly strong to do this. This isn't as big of a problem for outboard motors (what the pirates use) but it does cause problems for them with fouled props, etc.
Most of the people doing the actual "pirating" have been pushed to it by their government. The source of the problem isn't greed, it's necessity (with a decent payoff, too).
Going traveling for 5 weeks in south america as well. Just bought a netbook. Every single person I've talked to says "blog about it! we want to see your pictures!" -- the truth of the matter is that a netbook is pretty damn tiny and takes up little space (2800 cu in pack) and definitely qualifies as "personal gear". Might as well take it along. Makes backing up my digital pics easier, and makes it easier to check the news (you never know what's going to happen next in venezuela) and communicate with couch surfers. You don't NEED one, but it damn well makes things easier in a pinch.
I would imagine the "free google netbook" promotion would/will only happen long enough to appease stockholders and appreciably raise their stock price. After a few tens of thousands are given out in a beta/labs situation, cut the program's cord and move on. It's a good enough idea that they'll probably have to follow through with it, but as you point out, it's probably an internally corrosive program and would bleed them too badly if they kept up with it. In otherwords, expect to see a post about it on their blog, and then watch for it to be quietly taken out back and euthanized behind the proverbial google barn with a rifle about a year afterwards.
9.10 UNR allows you to swap between standard GUI and "Netbook GUI" on the fly - that's why I finally decided on running that
Aaaand it appears that feature was removed in the 9.10 version, for inexplicable reasons. Fucking brilliant. And my sound isn't working (But it works in wubi 9.10 motherfucker...)
I'm reading this thread while ubuntu netbook remix upgrades from 9.04 to 9.10 (why oh why won't 9.10 image install for almost half of users? but 9.04 has zero issues, wtf)... I tested out Moblin 2.1 final and 9.10 remix, I can say that they're about 70% ready for prime time. Check back in about a year and we'll have some serious netbook contenders. Moblin is really, really cool, (and snappy as hell) but is too trimmed down for the power user. I suspect Chromium OS will be roughly the same. 9.10 UNR allows you to swap between standard GUI and "Netbook GUI" on the fly - that's why I finally decided on running that. And dual booting Windows. Oh, btw windows will freak out if you repartition the drives, even if you do it non-destructively in gparted. What a waste of time. Now I have to figure out how to install XP with just a frickin USB stick....
Anyways my point is, Microsoft has a full year before Linux is fully ready for Netbooks. In the meantime, XP and Win 7 starter edition are both plenty snappy, and don't really make much difference in the cost of the device. I doubt netbooks with linux on them will crack 15% of (retail! brick and mortar) sales. Given the wide discrepancy in build quality from model to model, it's highly recommended one check them out in person first. Glad I did - the HP minis have significantly better keyboards than even the storied samsung NC10 and NC20s. And most brick and mortar shops (at least my local Fry's and Best Buy) only carry Windows models.
The chances that the fish you eat in sushi is an endangered species in a sushi bar is roughly the same as if you go to any other seafood restaurant. There are a lot of fish in the sea (no shit sherlock) - assume that 0.01% of fish are endangered. Now imagine dragging a net behind your boat. In theory at most 0.01% of all fish in your net will be endangered. Let's look at this more closely: Endangered fish are likely to exist in much smaller quantities, so while there might be 500 tuna per square mile of ocean, there might only be 1 of super-endangered-deliciousfish. Secondly, super-endangered-deliciousfish (SEDF) may only exist in the Bahamas, while the fisherman may be trawling off the coast of Georgia for Tuna, where Tuna are known to be abundant. Your likelyhood of catching a SEDF is highly unlikely.
In any case the fish is dumped in the boat's hold on ice, and then sorted out when they get back to port. Fish are already partially ready for consumption at this point. It's not like fisherman go out in the forest and hunt individual endangered fish with rifles where they can see them. Making most any argument about endangered fish in a commercial fishing situation is completely retarded. The only argument for this is situations where opportunistic overfishing occurs in specific areas like when salmon swim upriver to lay their eggs, and this is already highly regulated.
Also this article came out almost a year ago in the NYT this is old news(!)
So is levothyroxine sodium a mood enhancer? hypothyroidism seems to cause general depression of the body's functions. Do you get a minor high off its stimulant properties, or are you just making a case that addiction == genuine physical dependence?
I think the bigger reality isn't that "the iphone app store sucks because they're so restrictive", but "the iphone app store sucks because they won't give us an unfair advantage by allowing us to break rules so we sell more apps than our competitors". I think the Android app store doesn't sell as many units simply because it's newer and simply doesn't have the same installed base as the iPhone/ipod touch. Politicizing things by bringing the apple "standards board" into things only muddies the issue.
The "default install" or the "cd install"? I can understand removing it from the 700mb version, but for the long term, most people install/upgrade over the web. While you're busy downloading the 1gb of other crap/updates, you might as well tack on an additional 500mb of useful stuff, like GIMP, with the ability to opt out of "standard software package".
Most cell carriers change at least one part of their contract (i.e. sms, mms fees) at least once a year. If you're at all aware, you can opt out of your contract based on the modification of the contract when they make these changes. T-Mobile upped their fees back in June or so of this year; a bunch of people I knew on T-Mobile jumped ship for the iPhone wagon with no early termination fees.
Because it's a slow process to change public opinion, and polling shows that only about 40% of Americans support repealing it at the moment. In congressional terms, we call that a "super majority"
If you know people who are buying freezers full of pot for personal use to save money, they have serious addiction issues and you should hold an intervention for them or ask them to seek help.
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Yep. Laser printer for 99.9% of my printing needs, color is either online photo printing (whats the going rate these days, $0.09/3x5"?), or if you need it TODAY I go through wally world for about $0.24/3x5". I don't know anyone who prints enough color photos at home to justify the cost of owning a photo quality printer at home. Unless your home color printer is a dye impregnation printer, that hp-uberjet ink is going to fade in 5-10 years anyhow.
I thought that the xbox and xbox 360 used dx9? Is there a console that uses dx10? I thought the ps3 used their own proprietary methods. Whenever the xbox 3 comes out, will anyone care about dx11 (or 12 by then?)? Game specs are written to the latest xbox console's specs. That's largely why dx9 has reigned supreme for so long. dx10 only existed on paper (for the most part) to push gamers to Vista. dx10 will probably be glossed and wallpapered over in the grand scheme of things to make way for dx11 and 12 when the xbox 3 is released
I wouldn't even say ad agency, so much as "newspaper or tv channel" - after all, you're buying ads for google searches, not just ads from google (although they do advertise on other sites, too). The products don't have to be particularly good, just shiny and new enough that people continue using google, rather than go to another service (like Bing). As long as they keep innovating and creating new things (nobody ever said they had to be any good), people will continue to go there, which drives ad revenue.
What happens if you put 47 people on that system? Or what happens if 100 people are only checking email and doing word processing? And two people playing quake live in firefox??? What then???
Your xenons probably underclock themselves to 50% clockspeed when idle. That's 50% right there. My nearly 3 year old core2duo does that, so I would assume your new(ish) xenons do as well.
Can someone elaborate on why you'd want 48 full processors, rather than a processor with two (dual) or four (quad) "cores" (I'm presuming core in this case == FPU in the article). Supposedly Win7's SMP support becomes much more effective at the 12-16 core thresehold.
Does W2K support up to DX8 or DX9? Steam has support for OSes back to winME. I use XP currently, but I'd downgrade in a heartbeat if I had to. No gamemaker wants to push a DX10-only game, so until that day comes, 99% of users probably would be comfortable using W2K.
yeah i was going to say, bf heroes is more of an attempt to build on the success of tf2, using the name and ip of bf to raise it's profile amongst users. bf heroes is "free to play, $$$ to be competitive" while tf2 is $20 ($2.50-9.99 on steam sale, usually 2-3 times a year) once, with new content every 2-3 months... pick your poison. tf2 isnt nearly as popular as counter-strike source, but it's close enough, and seems to have "long term support" from valve. i can see a lot of bf heroes players jumping ship for bf2, mw2 or simply tf2.
On the contrary, I would assume most of the junior management played Halo 1 in their frat houses all the time. Probably plenty of middle managers played Halo 1 in their off time while working on their MBAs. It wouldn't surprise me if most of them played a good bit of Halo 2 as well. Which would explain a lot regarding the recent turn towards console-based FPSes.
Queue the 1/2" kevlar rope! A quarter mile of the stuff ought to do the trick. The worst part about lines jamming the propeller is that the line gets coiled up in the space between where the propeller and the hull meet, and the motion causes the prop to pull the propshaft out of the boat (with the engine attached). This causes what's called a "through hull hole", aka an "oh shit!" circumstance, wherein the boat sinks as the engine room fills with water. The rope doesn't even have to be particularly strong to do this. This isn't as big of a problem for outboard motors (what the pirates use) but it does cause problems for them with fouled props, etc.
Most of the people doing the actual "pirating" have been pushed to it by their government. The source of the problem isn't greed, it's necessity (with a decent payoff, too).
Going traveling for 5 weeks in south america as well. Just bought a netbook. Every single person I've talked to says "blog about it! we want to see your pictures!" -- the truth of the matter is that a netbook is pretty damn tiny and takes up little space (2800 cu in pack) and definitely qualifies as "personal gear". Might as well take it along. Makes backing up my digital pics easier, and makes it easier to check the news (you never know what's going to happen next in venezuela) and communicate with couch surfers. You don't NEED one, but it damn well makes things easier in a pinch.
I would imagine the "free google netbook" promotion would/will only happen long enough to appease stockholders and appreciably raise their stock price. After a few tens of thousands are given out in a beta/labs situation, cut the program's cord and move on. It's a good enough idea that they'll probably have to follow through with it, but as you point out, it's probably an internally corrosive program and would bleed them too badly if they kept up with it. In otherwords, expect to see a post about it on their blog, and then watch for it to be quietly taken out back and euthanized behind the proverbial google barn with a rifle about a year afterwards.
Gee all those space probes and satellites working for SO LONG, how did they do it???. Telecommunications satellites have been in widespread use since at least the early 1970s. This is beyond nothing new, this is coming up on being 40 year old (industrial use! not experimental, HUGE difference) technology.
Aaaand it appears that feature was removed in the 9.10 version, for inexplicable reasons. Fucking brilliant. And my sound isn't working (But it works in wubi 9.10 motherfucker...)
I'm reading this thread while ubuntu netbook remix upgrades from 9.04 to 9.10 (why oh why won't 9.10 image install for almost half of users? but 9.04 has zero issues, wtf)... I tested out Moblin 2.1 final and 9.10 remix, I can say that they're about 70% ready for prime time. Check back in about a year and we'll have some serious netbook contenders. Moblin is really, really cool, (and snappy as hell) but is too trimmed down for the power user. I suspect Chromium OS will be roughly the same. 9.10 UNR allows you to swap between standard GUI and "Netbook GUI" on the fly - that's why I finally decided on running that. And dual booting Windows. Oh, btw windows will freak out if you repartition the drives, even if you do it non-destructively in gparted. What a waste of time. Now I have to figure out how to install XP with just a frickin USB stick....
Anyways my point is, Microsoft has a full year before Linux is fully ready for Netbooks. In the meantime, XP and Win 7 starter edition are both plenty snappy, and don't really make much difference in the cost of the device. I doubt netbooks with linux on them will crack 15% of (retail! brick and mortar) sales. Given the wide discrepancy in build quality from model to model, it's highly recommended one check them out in person first. Glad I did - the HP minis have significantly better keyboards than even the storied samsung NC10 and NC20s. And most brick and mortar shops (at least my local Fry's and Best Buy) only carry Windows models.
The chances that the fish you eat in sushi is an endangered species in a sushi bar is roughly the same as if you go to any other seafood restaurant. There are a lot of fish in the sea (no shit sherlock) - assume that 0.01% of fish are endangered. Now imagine dragging a net behind your boat. In theory at most 0.01% of all fish in your net will be endangered. Let's look at this more closely: Endangered fish are likely to exist in much smaller quantities, so while there might be 500 tuna per square mile of ocean, there might only be 1 of super-endangered-deliciousfish. Secondly, super-endangered-deliciousfish (SEDF) may only exist in the Bahamas, while the fisherman may be trawling off the coast of Georgia for Tuna, where Tuna are known to be abundant. Your likelyhood of catching a SEDF is highly unlikely.
In any case the fish is dumped in the boat's hold on ice, and then sorted out when they get back to port. Fish are already partially ready for consumption at this point. It's not like fisherman go out in the forest and hunt individual endangered fish with rifles where they can see them. Making most any argument about endangered fish in a commercial fishing situation is completely retarded. The only argument for this is situations where opportunistic overfishing occurs in specific areas like when salmon swim upriver to lay their eggs, and this is already highly regulated.
Also this article came out almost a year ago in the NYT this is old news(!)
Can you point me to an example of an acoustic air compressor? I'd love to see the implementation of that idea.
So is levothyroxine sodium a mood enhancer? hypothyroidism seems to cause general depression of the body's functions. Do you get a minor high off its stimulant properties, or are you just making a case that addiction == genuine physical dependence?
I think the bigger reality isn't that "the iphone app store sucks because they're so restrictive", but "the iphone app store sucks because they won't give us an unfair advantage by allowing us to break rules so we sell more apps than our competitors". I think the Android app store doesn't sell as many units simply because it's newer and simply doesn't have the same installed base as the iPhone/ipod touch. Politicizing things by bringing the apple "standards board" into things only muddies the issue.
The "default install" or the "cd install"? I can understand removing it from the 700mb version, but for the long term, most people install/upgrade over the web. While you're busy downloading the 1gb of other crap/updates, you might as well tack on an additional 500mb of useful stuff, like GIMP, with the ability to opt out of "standard software package".
Most cell carriers change at least one part of their contract (i.e. sms, mms fees) at least once a year. If you're at all aware, you can opt out of your contract based on the modification of the contract when they make these changes. T-Mobile upped their fees back in June or so of this year; a bunch of people I knew on T-Mobile jumped ship for the iPhone wagon with no early termination fees.
I was a little shocked to find out that slashdot's main page, a "mostly text" page, is anywhere between 500k-950k on my blackberry.
Because it's a slow process to change public opinion, and polling shows that only about 40% of Americans support repealing it at the moment. In congressional terms, we call that a "super majority"
If you know people who are buying freezers full of pot for personal use to save money, they have serious addiction issues and you should hold an intervention for them or ask them to seek help.