And once you get out of the top tier (I hesitate to put Sony there at all, but anyway) the build quality tends to be complete shit. At least Apple is pretty good about this.
I've got to disagree with this. Anecdotally, it seems like a large number of people I've known or talked to with Apple laptops have had the logic board replaced, sometimes more than once. This seems to align with stuff I've read online. Of all the things I've heard going wrong with wintel laptops, logic board replacement isn't one of them.
This wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that the publishing companies aren't providing a product that we can buy. The quality of most user-submitted tabs is pretty terrible, and I'd gladly pay a small free to get something accurate. Sure, there are tab books, but those are usually only in print for a short time, plus buying a $30 book because you want to learn one song is kind of ridiculous.
Everybody remembers the unix thing, but equally ridiculous were the videoconferencing scenes that were obviously just QuickTime movies playing, complete with a progress bar moving towards the end. Gave me a laugh at age 12.
I've had the sneaking suspicion for a while now that, in the event of narrow Democrat victories in this fall's midterms, Republican strategists will try to cast doubt on the safety of electronic voting. Increasingly, it looks like voting security issues are finally going to get the mainstream attention they deserve, and what better way to spin the issue than to pre-emptively associate it with Democrats and that commie Chavez. It's classic Rove - make the enemy's strength their weakness.
(No hint is given as to how this would apply to syndicated articles written in the US and published abroad.)
Naw, this administration would never skirt US laws by conducting operations in other countries. I wonder how long it'll take right wing bloggers to start foaming at the mouth about the New York Times jeopardizing our national security with another leak.
Honestly, I expected this kind of stuff was going on already. Remember Robert Redford's job from "Three Days of the Condor"? He was a "reader" for the CIA - fed all the schemes and dirty tricks he could find into a database so someone could find potential threats.
As someone who's on their 4th Nano under warranty, allow me to say "I wish".
First one had the screen die. Second one became permanently locked. Third one had the wheel die. Fourth one is sure to die any day. And now that the warranty is almost up, the replacement will be anything but an iPod.
I was googling St. Malachy's prophecy, an alleged 12th century document fortelling the rest of the Popes until the end of time. Went to Amazon a few minutes later, and a book on the subject was on the front page. I think that's a bit more unusual than the consumer electronics tests that people are trying out here.
Recently I had the task of troubleshooting a machine that could not send email out to personal distribution lists. After much troubleshooting, I finally tracked it down to AOL's suite of crapware. I have no idea WHY it would interfere with SMTP traffic, perhaps an attempt to keep people from becoming spam zombies, but zapping an email addressed to ~20 people without telling you is just unconscionable. Death to AOL!
My experiement would probably involve about 400ug of LSD. Seriously though, as someone who's done a fair share of psychedelics, I've had experiences that have proven to my standards that telepathic ability is very real. Nothing that could be mistaken as a drug-induced delusion, but very clear-cut examples. Coupled with several instances of visuals shared by more than one person, it's clear to me that the psychedelic experience is much more than just the neurons in your own head firing.
I used to do IT support for a business of less than 200 users. One of our beautiful-but-dimwitted salesgirls asked if I could hook her PDA up for her. When I got down there, I discovered she didn't have the cable for it, and seemed rather perplexed by the idea that she would need one. (This was before bluetooth or anything of the sort) I told her to try and find it and let me know.
A couple of weeks later, a get an excited phone call saying that she'd found it, so I make my way down there. Upon arriving, I see that she has a cell phone car charger in her hand, and she's trying to shove the big end, the one you stick in your car's cigarette lighter, into the side of the PDA. I somehow keep my composure and gently suggest that perhaps it's not the correct cable for the application. "Oh", she says, "then I guess it's this other one". She picks up a telephone cord and offers it to me. Oh dear.
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Lately I've seen people wondering why Myspace took off and Friendster didn't. For me and the people I know, it was because Friendster became so bogged down it was absolutely unusable. If you could manage to log in, it took ages to get a page to load, if at all. If they'd managed to scale better, I imagine they could have kept their position.
Wow, so you mean the processors themselves don't make any noise? Thanks for the clarification. I can say with a fair level of confidence that you've made a bleedingly obvious statement in your need to be pointlessly snarky.
Reminds me of a story from my local alternative weekly about a couple who contracted hookworms, but were diagnosed with delusional parasitosis when they went to doctors complaining of bugs under the skin. Just because something resembles the pathology of schizophrenia doesn't mean that it's not real, and getting a doctor to take you seriously isn't always easy. Morgellans sounds a little kooky, but I'm surprised to see so many Slashdotters dismissing it out of hand.
A friend of mine has a dual 2.5 G5, and the amount of noise it makes is astounding. If it stayed at a constant level you could tune it out, but it's constantly spinning different fans up and down at different rates, even when it's doing stuff that shouldn't produce significant load - just web browsing or ordinary tasks. I'm thinking that it's because the 2.5s just run too hot and the lesser models wouldn't be as bad. Anyone able to confirm?
Funny, I was just reading about floresiensis last night. I was greatly intrigued by the fact that the islanders' oral history includes stories about monkey-like men that closely fit the description of floresiensis man. They maintain that they were still around after the Dutch arrived in the 16th century, until about 300 years ago when they got fed up with their hijinks and set out to kill them all. Apparently there were still sightings up until the 19th century.
The most likely explanation seems to be that a population of h. erectus found itself on the island and, through island dwarfing, ended up at their diminutive height. I find the thought of sub-human hominids suriving until that recently both creepy and fascinating. More reading at wikipedia
You give him too much credit. He made up a fact to support a claim in order to get undeserved karma points. Simple whoring. Consequently, the people who bumped up his karma are probably carrying around a false impression about video card technology.
Can't believe I'm responding to an AC's diss, but here I go.
I wasn't making stuff up, don't give a shit about karma. Monitors that require dual inputs certainly do exist, and a casual Googling reveals that quite a few people think that the 30" is one of those. Hell, that's where I got the idea myself. Yeah, believing shit you read off the internet isn't always the best idea. I'm humbled, but not by you.
Not quite. EACH output supports 2048x1536, which is the maximum for the DVI spec. The 30" Cinema Display takes two inputs and composites them to make the 2560x1600 picture.
Large amounts of memory only help when a game has a large amount of textures, and that's usually only when it's running at the very highest resolutions. By the time a game that requires that much memory is released, your card will surely be unfit to run it at that resolution.
For instance, you can buy a Radeon 9200 (essentially an 8500) with 256mb. The class of game that could use that much memory is, say, Doom3 running at 1280 or greater - way out of the card's league. But OEMs will continue to happily sell such cards to the clueless, and I can't say I blame 'em.
People obsess about the one button mouse because it's an icon of Apple's design philosophy. When Apple was doing the UI testing for the original MacOS, they used people who were completely unfamiliar with computers, and designed the OS to be as intuitive as possible for someone who had no clue what they were doing. While this is a noble goal in some respects, ease of use should not come at the expense of usefulness. Just because something can be figured out easily doesn't necessarily mean it's the best way to do it.
I find it odd that the graphs only compare the average write speed, which doesn't take into account the time for writing lead-in/lead-out, which can vary greatly between drives. The info is there in the write test pics, but nowhere easily comparable. Plus they're obsessed with 16x burns when it's been shown that 12x burns almost always average faster because the drive spends less time adjusting speed.
Corporate recently switched us over to an ancient software package that requires administrative access, and it didn't take long before every last machine on the floor was spyware infested.
Virtually all spyware, in my experience, gets installed via ActiveX installers. People have gotten in the habit of closing popup windows as quickly as possible without even looking at them, and they end up agreeing to those without a moment's cognition.
I just made a regpatch that disabled ActiveX installers and locked down the security settings so the users couldn't change them. This, coupled with an explicit "DO NOT INSTALL SOFTWARE YOURSELF" policy has put a clamp on our problems.
I think it's absurd for users to demand protection from the spam that THEY CAUSED by being promiscuous with their email address. I've had my work email address for almost five years now, and I've never gotten a single piece of spam because I'm not dumb. My coworkers complain about spam endlessly, and I have not an ounce of sympathy for them. Hotmail has great spam filtering these days, maybe they should be using it instead of their employers' email.
I dont know why this was posted as AC because I was logged in.
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Yet another misleading kdawson post. I haven't had the urge to filter by editor since the JonKatz days, but I think I'm about there again.
And once you get out of the top tier (I hesitate to put Sony there at all, but anyway) the build quality tends to be complete shit. At least Apple is pretty good about this.
I've got to disagree with this. Anecdotally, it seems like a large number of people I've known or talked to with Apple laptops have had the logic board replaced, sometimes more than once. This seems to align with stuff I've read online. Of all the things I've heard going wrong with wintel laptops, logic board replacement isn't one of them.
This wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that the publishing companies aren't providing a product that we can buy. The quality of most user-submitted tabs is pretty terrible, and I'd gladly pay a small free to get something accurate. Sure, there are tab books, but those are usually only in print for a short time, plus buying a $30 book because you want to learn one song is kind of ridiculous.
Everybody remembers the unix thing, but equally ridiculous were the videoconferencing scenes that were obviously just QuickTime movies playing, complete with a progress bar moving towards the end. Gave me a laugh at age 12.
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil was there waiting.
-William S. Burroughs
I've had the sneaking suspicion for a while now that, in the event of narrow Democrat victories in this fall's midterms, Republican strategists will try to cast doubt on the safety of electronic voting. Increasingly, it looks like voting security issues are finally going to get the mainstream attention they deserve, and what better way to spin the issue than to pre-emptively associate it with Democrats and that commie Chavez. It's classic Rove - make the enemy's strength their weakness.
(No hint is given as to how this would apply to syndicated articles written in the US and published abroad.)
Naw, this administration would never skirt US laws by conducting operations in other countries. I wonder how long it'll take right wing bloggers to start foaming at the mouth about the New York Times jeopardizing our national security with another leak.
Honestly, I expected this kind of stuff was going on already. Remember Robert Redford's job from "Three Days of the Condor"? He was a "reader" for the CIA - fed all the schemes and dirty tricks he could find into a database so someone could find potential threats.
As someone who's on their 4th Nano under warranty, allow me to say "I wish".
First one had the screen die. Second one became permanently locked. Third one had the wheel die. Fourth one is sure to die any day. And now that the warranty is almost up, the replacement will be anything but an iPod.
I was googling St. Malachy's prophecy, an alleged 12th century document fortelling the rest of the Popes until the end of time. Went to Amazon a few minutes later, and a book on the subject was on the front page. I think that's a bit more unusual than the consumer electronics tests that people are trying out here.
Recently I had the task of troubleshooting a machine that could not send email out to personal distribution lists. After much troubleshooting, I finally tracked it down to AOL's suite of crapware. I have no idea WHY it would interfere with SMTP traffic, perhaps an attempt to keep people from becoming spam zombies, but zapping an email addressed to ~20 people without telling you is just unconscionable. Death to AOL!
My experiement would probably involve about 400ug of LSD. Seriously though, as someone who's done a fair share of psychedelics, I've had experiences that have proven to my standards that telepathic ability is very real. Nothing that could be mistaken as a drug-induced delusion, but very clear-cut examples. Coupled with several instances of visuals shared by more than one person, it's clear to me that the psychedelic experience is much more than just the neurons in your own head firing.
I used to do IT support for a business of less than 200 users. One of our beautiful-but-dimwitted salesgirls asked if I could hook her PDA up for her. When I got down there, I discovered she didn't have the cable for it, and seemed rather perplexed by the idea that she would need one. (This was before bluetooth or anything of the sort) I told her to try and find it and let me know.
A couple of weeks later, a get an excited phone call saying that she'd found it, so I make my way down there. Upon arriving, I see that she has a cell phone car charger in her hand, and she's trying to shove the big end, the one you stick in your car's cigarette lighter, into the side of the PDA. I somehow keep my composure and gently suggest that perhaps it's not the correct cable for the application. "Oh", she says, "then I guess it's this other one". She picks up a telephone cord and offers it to me. Oh dear.
Lately I've seen people wondering why Myspace took off and Friendster didn't. For me and the people I know, it was because Friendster became so bogged down it was absolutely unusable. If you could manage to log in, it took ages to get a page to load, if at all. If they'd managed to scale better, I imagine they could have kept their position.
Wow, so you mean the processors themselves don't make any noise? Thanks for the clarification. I can say with a fair level of confidence that you've made a bleedingly obvious statement in your need to be pointlessly snarky.
Reminds me of a story from my local alternative weekly about a couple who contracted hookworms, but were diagnosed with delusional parasitosis when they went to doctors complaining of bugs under the skin. Just because something resembles the pathology of schizophrenia doesn't mean that it's not real, and getting a doctor to take you seriously isn't always easy. Morgellans sounds a little kooky, but I'm surprised to see so many Slashdotters dismissing it out of hand.
A friend of mine has a dual 2.5 G5, and the amount of noise it makes is astounding. If it stayed at a constant level you could tune it out, but it's constantly spinning different fans up and down at different rates, even when it's doing stuff that shouldn't produce significant load - just web browsing or ordinary tasks. I'm thinking that it's because the 2.5s just run too hot and the lesser models wouldn't be as bad. Anyone able to confirm?
FWIW, I have it on good authority that the Mac version of T2G began internal alpha testing last week.
Funny, I was just reading about floresiensis last night. I was greatly intrigued by the fact that the islanders' oral history includes stories about monkey-like men that closely fit the description of floresiensis man. They maintain that they were still around after the Dutch arrived in the 16th century, until about 300 years ago when they got fed up with their hijinks and set out to kill them all. Apparently there were still sightings up until the 19th century.
The most likely explanation seems to be that a population of h. erectus found itself on the island and, through island dwarfing, ended up at their diminutive height. I find the thought of sub-human hominids suriving until that recently both creepy and fascinating. More reading at wikipedia
You give him too much credit. He made up a fact to support a claim in order to get undeserved karma points. Simple whoring. Consequently, the people who bumped up his karma are probably carrying around a false impression about video card technology.
Can't believe I'm responding to an AC's diss, but here I go.
I wasn't making stuff up, don't give a shit about karma. Monitors that require dual inputs certainly do exist, and a casual Googling reveals that quite a few people think that the 30" is one of those. Hell, that's where I got the idea myself. Yeah, believing shit you read off the internet isn't always the best idea. I'm humbled, but not by you.
Not quite. EACH output supports 2048x1536, which is the maximum for the DVI spec. The 30" Cinema Display takes two inputs and composites them to make the 2560x1600 picture.
Large amounts of memory only help when a game has a large amount of textures, and that's usually only when it's running at the very highest resolutions. By the time a game that requires that much memory is released, your card will surely be unfit to run it at that resolution.
For instance, you can buy a Radeon 9200 (essentially an 8500) with 256mb. The class of game that could use that much memory is, say, Doom3 running at 1280 or greater - way out of the card's league. But OEMs will continue to happily sell such cards to the clueless, and I can't say I blame 'em.
People obsess about the one button mouse because it's an icon of Apple's design philosophy. When Apple was doing the UI testing for the original MacOS, they used people who were completely unfamiliar with computers, and designed the OS to be as intuitive as possible for someone who had no clue what they were doing. While this is a noble goal in some respects, ease of use should not come at the expense of usefulness. Just because something can be figured out easily doesn't necessarily mean it's the best way to do it.
I find it odd that the graphs only compare the average write speed, which doesn't take into account the time for writing lead-in/lead-out, which can vary greatly between drives. The info is there in the write test pics, but nowhere easily comparable. Plus they're obsessed with 16x burns when it's been shown that 12x burns almost always average faster because the drive spends less time adjusting speed.
Corporate recently switched us over to an ancient software package that requires administrative access, and it didn't take long before every last machine on the floor was spyware infested.
Virtually all spyware, in my experience, gets installed via ActiveX installers. People have gotten in the habit of closing popup windows as quickly as possible without even looking at them, and they end up agreeing to those without a moment's cognition.
I just made a regpatch that disabled ActiveX installers and locked down the security settings so the users couldn't change them. This, coupled with an explicit "DO NOT INSTALL SOFTWARE YOURSELF" policy has put a clamp on our problems.
I think it's absurd for users to demand protection from the spam that THEY CAUSED by being promiscuous with their email address. I've had my work email address for almost five years now, and I've never gotten a single piece of spam because I'm not dumb. My coworkers complain about spam endlessly, and I have not an ounce of sympathy for them. Hotmail has great spam filtering these days, maybe they should be using it instead of their employers' email.
I dont know why this was posted as AC because I was logged in.