No, he's saying that these so-called "minimum" requirements are a load of bollocks. Parents who don't know better will just look at these requirements and drop $2.5k on a new machine when they could have gotten something much, much cheaper to do the job. Are you suggesting that colleges should recommend only machines that can run the latest and greatest games?
They made a comic about "American McGee's Strawberry Shortcake" and American Greetings threatened to sue since they hold the copyright to said Miss Shortcake.
They took down the comic to avoid a fight, but continued to ridicule AG from thereafter. If you Google for Penny Arcade and Strawberry Shortcake, you can probably find the original comic since some fans managed to save it before it was taken down.
He was addressing the compilation test specifically, which is the one he linked to and the one where the slowest Athlon does indeed beat out the fastest P4.
Then look into co-location hosting. Your home ISP provider is never going to give you the kind of upstream you can get from a real hosting service. If you provide your own server and do the upkeep yourself, it's actually pretty cheap at some places.
True. My sister-in-law is a pharmacist living in rural South Carolina. Her starting salary was $71,000. Having known some of her classmates that have similar jobs, it made me realize that just about anyone could get the job. This is largely because there is a scarcity of pharmacists.
Conversely, there is a glut of programmers and IT workers because everyone was told in the '90s that tech was the way to go.
I doubt that this is a big deal. All the contractors were probably helping out the phone and power guys first. Hell, maybe Comcast even lent out their guys to help them. Would you really rather have cable service restored before power?? Unless you're hit by a class 5 hurricane every month, I wouldn't use this as a prime example.
The difference is that parent's shouldn't have to worry about not letting their little kids watch the Superbowl for fear of them being exposed to crass and crude behavior. No one was notified that the Superbowl would be sporting a rating of 'R' this year (a movie showing a bare breast would be rated 'R', for better or for worse.)
Meanwhile, parents can make sure that their kids will not be allowed to watch whatever violent show you're reffering to.
It's ultimately even worse than that. Frodo fails his quest is no uncertain terms. It is only through Gollum's fate or greed that the ring is destroyed.
And that wasn't even the end of the movie or book. The more important story is the personal one, in which Frodo can no longer be at rest after his ordeal and must sail to the Undying Lands with the elves. This is a happy ending? I don't think so.
All this adds up to prove that the Republicans' vaunted belief in the rule of law is complete bullshit. The party has been taken over by outlaws who seem to think the law does not apply to them.
I think you're swinging a bit too wide here. One or two staffers (read: young, impulsive) stole the memos. I very much doubt anything was cracked unless you call accessing an unprotected pubic share cracking. It's not like the Senators themselves were sitting there performing DES cracks.
It sounds to me like these memos were left on a unprotected public share. The Republican admin noticed and alerted (maybe, supposedly) the Dem admin, but nothing was done.
A Republican staffer or two "stole" the documents. Staffers, not congressmen. One staffer was said to have returned back to school, so that tells you the level of maturity we're dealing with here.
Anyway, these memos are not secret government documents or copyrighted materials. If you write a memo, leave it laying around a public area, and someone comes around and photocopies it has a crime been committed? I don't think so. That doesn't make it right, mind you.
You have to remember that these young, overzealous staffers see the opposing party as the enemy and play it like a game. They'll spread nasty rumors about you (e.g. Dean's staffers in Iowa lying about Kerry's prostate cancer returning); they'll peek at your memos if you leave them laying around.
In short, I don't think it's right and they certainly shouldn't have done it, but the best way to avoid it is to get a halfway decent admin and secure your files. At least then if they cracked your security and stole files it would be computer theft.
Apple is not a monopoly, you are free to use other solutions.
Apple is not that expensive compared to other manufacturers. Price Apple laptops against Sony and Toashiba's. Price their high end towers against Dells. If you're comparing against building your own system, then yes they will seem expensive; but then so will Sony, Dell, etc.
Reminds me of the pencil fights we used to have on the bus going to and from elementary school. I wrote with a lot a half-pencils back in those days...until I started buying those huge 1/2 inch diameter pencils!
It's pretty cool, I'll give it that. But at $3500 or $4000 (depending on which case material you go with) it's just too expensive and too feature limited to be something I would go for.
No trackpad (have to use trackpoint or external mouse). No built-in floppy or optical drive. Have to use dongles for LAN and VGA out. Have to use PC Card for 802.11. Only a 20GB hard drive. Max of 512MB RAM. 1 GHz Centrino CPU.
All your paying for is thinness and lightness. That may be enough for some, but not me. Get rid of all the dongles, include a CD drive, beef up the specs a bit and then we can talk. I don't care if you have to make it a little thicker and heavier -- it needs to be useful!
I suspect they're going for the mobile professional market. Marketing guys that will pay out the nose for the smallest, hippest item. Good luck to 'em.
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All three of those are available at the U.S. iTunes store. So you can probably assume they'll show up in the UK before too long.
No, he's saying that these so-called "minimum" requirements are a load of bollocks. Parents who don't know better will just look at these requirements and drop $2.5k on a new machine when they could have gotten something much, much cheaper to do the job. Are you suggesting that colleges should recommend only machines that can run the latest and greatest games?
They made a comic about "American McGee's Strawberry Shortcake" and American Greetings threatened to sue since they hold the copyright to said Miss Shortcake.
They took down the comic to avoid a fight, but continued to ridicule AG from thereafter. If you Google for Penny Arcade and Strawberry Shortcake, you can probably find the original comic since some fans managed to save it before it was taken down.
You know: Su-su-sudio!
He was addressing the compilation test specifically, which is the one he linked to and the one where the slowest Athlon does indeed beat out the fastest P4.
So, yes, I would say his post was informative.
...to me how a voluntary survey is in any way scientific?
RTFA. They shot down an artillery shell with this thing -- no GPS capability...obviously.
Someone's unofficial report on that forum also indicates that it converts from WMA to AAC.
Umm...it's not unoffical. Apple touts it on their website.
It's hosted on mac.com, so I'd bet it'll last quite a while. :P
ET? So they finally ported it to something other than the Atari 2600? Nice!
Then look into co-location hosting. Your home ISP provider is never going to give you the kind of upstream you can get from a real hosting service. If you provide your own server and do the upkeep yourself, it's actually pretty cheap at some places.
But then again so is the entire NASDAQ, so it's probably unrelated.
True. My sister-in-law is a pharmacist living in rural South Carolina. Her starting salary was $71,000. Having known some of her classmates that have similar jobs, it made me realize that just about anyone could get the job. This is largely because there is a scarcity of pharmacists.
Conversely, there is a glut of programmers and IT workers because everyone was told in the '90s that tech was the way to go.
I doubt that this is a big deal. All the contractors were probably helping out the phone and power guys first. Hell, maybe Comcast even lent out their guys to help them. Would you really rather have cable service restored before power?? Unless you're hit by a class 5 hurricane every month, I wouldn't use this as a prime example.
The difference is that parent's shouldn't have to worry about not letting their little kids watch the Superbowl for fear of them being exposed to crass and crude behavior. No one was notified that the Superbowl would be sporting a rating of 'R' this year (a movie showing a bare breast would be rated 'R', for better or for worse.)
Meanwhile, parents can make sure that their kids will not be allowed to watch whatever violent show you're reffering to.
Maybe that's because it was nothing like a RPG. Let me guess: you liked the Dungeons & Dragons movie, didn't you?
It's ultimately even worse than that. Frodo fails his quest is no uncertain terms. It is only through Gollum's fate or greed that the ring is destroyed.
And that wasn't even the end of the movie or book. The more important story is the personal one, in which Frodo can no longer be at rest after his ordeal and must sail to the Undying Lands with the elves. This is a happy ending? I don't think so.
All this adds up to prove that the Republicans' vaunted belief in the rule of law is complete bullshit. The party has been taken over by outlaws who seem to think the law does not apply to them.
I think you're swinging a bit too wide here. One or two staffers (read: young, impulsive) stole the memos. I very much doubt anything was cracked unless you call accessing an unprotected pubic share cracking. It's not like the Senators themselves were sitting there performing DES cracks.
It sounds to me like these memos were left on a unprotected public share. The Republican admin noticed and alerted (maybe, supposedly) the Dem admin, but nothing was done.
A Republican staffer or two "stole" the documents. Staffers, not congressmen. One staffer was said to have returned back to school, so that tells you the level of maturity we're dealing with here.
Anyway, these memos are not secret government documents or copyrighted materials. If you write a memo, leave it laying around a public area, and someone comes around and photocopies it has a crime been committed? I don't think so. That doesn't make it right, mind you.
You have to remember that these young, overzealous staffers see the opposing party as the enemy and play it like a game. They'll spread nasty rumors about you (e.g. Dean's staffers in Iowa lying about Kerry's prostate cancer returning); they'll peek at your memos if you leave them laying around.
In short, I don't think it's right and they certainly shouldn't have done it, but the best way to avoid it is to get a halfway decent admin and secure your files. At least then if they cracked your security and stole files it would be computer theft.
Apple is not a monopoly, you are free to use other solutions.
Apple is not that expensive compared to other manufacturers. Price Apple laptops against Sony and Toashiba's. Price their high end towers against Dells. If you're comparing against building your own system, then yes they will seem expensive; but then so will Sony, Dell, etc.
Reminds me of the pencil fights we used to have on the bus going to and from elementary school. I wrote with a lot a half-pencils back in those days...until I started buying those huge 1/2 inch diameter pencils!
There is no built-in WiFi. You have to use a PC Card.
It's pretty cool, I'll give it that. But at $3500 or $4000 (depending on which case material you go with) it's just too expensive and too feature limited to be something I would go for.
No trackpad (have to use trackpoint or external mouse).
No built-in floppy or optical drive.
Have to use dongles for LAN and VGA out.
Have to use PC Card for 802.11.
Only a 20GB hard drive.
Max of 512MB RAM.
1 GHz Centrino CPU.
All your paying for is thinness and lightness. That may be enough for some, but not me. Get rid of all the dongles, include a CD drive, beef up the specs a bit and then we can talk. I don't care if you have to make it a little thicker and heavier -- it needs to be useful!
I suspect they're going for the mobile professional market. Marketing guys that will pay out the nose for the smallest, hippest item. Good luck to 'em.
The page seems to be dead, Jim, but here's another source of info on the X505.
I want to vote by carving the candidates name onto a potato and then casting in into a large pit! I'm being denied my voting rights!