Apples work well because they are made and controlled by apple.
When was the last time you struggled to find a driver for something that came preinstalled with your mac - most likely never. Yet i need a plethora of disks and downloads to get my dell machine running.
The current situation is probably the best case for apple. People will run a hacked osx, but if driver support sucks then they'll assume "we'll OSX is cool, and when i get real apple hardware it'll run far better"
Whereas if they officially release it, then people will assume "OSX is cool, but it's pretty flaky"
If apple's can dual boot windows and cost less than the price of osx more than dells, then they should be set:)
I had a year long internship where I wasn't expected to do anything. It paid well, provided accomodation, good benifits but the hiring managers pretty much expected the interns to be useless.
As such, my assigned workload was around 4 hours a week. Most others in the group slacked off, but i made it a point to find things to do.
Most of what I did resulted from me going to the boss and saying - "look here's a proof of concept for X", and more often than not i'd be tasked with doing that in production.
Ahh the dot-com days:) Whole thing worked out well for me, although i just quit them to pursue a consulting position.
Cops in the US are quite happy to sit under bridges with their lights off at night. I'm sure that's illegal in most jurisdicitons, and the ticket would likely be thrown out.
Although to return to your point, it catches people driving without due care, since they'll probably not observe that the officer wasn't following procedure.
My personal experiences suggest that a well seeded torrent downloads much faster than an equivilent http download.
For whatever reason i struggle to max out my 3MB pipe from anywhere but the fastest servers, yet with bittorrent i can get damn close on most transfers.
The biggest hinderence (that i see) to bittorrent is that you need to have a listner port open for good performance.
I used to be in that camp, but now that i have a decent web-browser i'm starting to wonder how i lived without it.
Opera is remarkably usable on my nokia. I use it at the store to look up recipes, check if prices are competitive, pretend that i'm working when i'm out hiking etc....
Tri or Quad band seems like a must have for voice if you live in the USA since most of the rest of the world uses 1800mhz. Fortunately most new phones support that and it's a big reason to upgrade.
You should be able to talk your network into providing you with state of the art phones. When we got our 6600's they were going for over $400 on ebay, but we paid about $80 each for them.
That means t-mobile took a $640 loss supplying us with those phones. Now they'll just make that back this year, but it seems like the only way to get value for money from a US network.
In europe you can get lots of phone-less plans, so you are rewarded for being frugal and keeping a phone for a few years.
Phone costs will drop, but generally since they are subsidized by your contract you'll never know.
Also it's worth noting that most of the world use 900 or 1800 mhz cellphones, whereas gsm phones in the US typically run on 1900 mhz - I doubt this chipset will be initially manufactered in US frequencies, although some latin american countries do use 1900.
I have a Canon i560. It cost me about $100 when an equivilent lexmark would have been half that.
But the third part ink works great and costs virtually nothing. A black cartridge for $1.50 makes printing dirt cheap, probably comparable to many lasers.
Tesco give you back 1% of what you spend - so there's a very strong incentive to make sure that all your cards are registered to your home address.
They don't pull much of this "card member discount" crap that stores here in the US do. When i lived in the UK I would probably use half of all the coupons that tesco mailed to me - they were THAT effective.
In the real world this surely happens over time, it's makes sense for a number of pieces of information to be traded to build the relationship.
Does it matter if the source is idenfied as Anonymous#104928 rather than their name - so long as the journalist can depend that Anonymous#104928 is the same person each time then the same relationship can be established.
As long as Bank of America is harder to phish than say Wells Fargo, then they will probably reduce their phising rate (at the expense of their users convenience).
You don't need to be able to run faster than a bear, just faster than the person you are hiking with.
Why the hell don't banks just issue Safeword cards to generate one time passwords. They are still vulnerable to realtime MITM attacks, but it'd make a hell of a difference.
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find an old pda and have it 'bluecast' porn.
Sit it next to a real coke bluecaster, and then half the time that people choose to "Accept connection from Coke?" they'll get the porn.
Bluetooth doesn't have a whole lot of authentication other than the name that the other node chooses.
It wont take many calls to a large companies complaint department about them dispatching porn before this whole dumb idea will go away.
hell i dont even get wifi or bluetooth on my laptop without driver disks... cant download much without them.
Apples work well because they are made and controlled by apple.
:)
When was the last time you struggled to find a driver for something that came preinstalled with your mac - most likely never. Yet i need a plethora of disks and downloads to get my dell machine running.
The current situation is probably the best case for apple. People will run a hacked osx, but if driver support sucks then they'll assume "we'll OSX is cool, and when i get real apple hardware it'll run far better"
Whereas if they officially release it, then people will assume "OSX is cool, but it's pretty flaky"
If apple's can dual boot windows and cost less than the price of osx more than dells, then they should be set
I had a year long internship where I wasn't expected to do anything. It paid well, provided accomodation, good benifits but the hiring managers pretty much expected the interns to be useless.
:) Whole thing worked out well for me, although i just quit them to pursue a consulting position.
As such, my assigned workload was around 4 hours a week. Most others in the group slacked off, but i made it a point to find things to do.
Most of what I did resulted from me going to the boss and saying - "look here's a proof of concept for X", and more often than not i'd be tasked with doing that in production.
Ahh the dot-com days
Cops in the US are quite happy to sit under bridges with their lights off at night. I'm sure that's illegal in most jurisdicitons, and the ticket would likely be thrown out.
Although to return to your point, it catches people driving without due care, since they'll probably not observe that the officer wasn't following procedure.
Compile aqua without optimizations.
It'd be far harder for a hacker to find a way to optimize the binary than change some constant.
My personal experiences suggest that a well seeded torrent downloads much faster than an equivilent http download.
For whatever reason i struggle to max out my 3MB pipe from anywhere but the fastest servers, yet with bittorrent i can get damn close on most transfers.
The biggest hinderence (that i see) to bittorrent is that you need to have a listner port open for good performance.
is to not let anyone know that you have secrets!
:)
Failed on that at least
Where do you find these non-oppressive contracts?
I keep a UK phone on contract at 0/month for when i return there. I cant find any plans that cheap in the us.
I think triband phones have two xtal osscillators, i'm not sure that you can do 1800 and 1900 with a single one - at least not easily.
Even if you can, the silicon will be more complex to support more frequencies and i'd imagine this chipset cuts out all but the basic essentials.
I used to be in that camp, but now that i have a decent web-browser i'm starting to wonder how i lived without it.
Opera is remarkably usable on my nokia. I use it at the store to look up recipes, check if prices are competitive, pretend that i'm working when i'm out hiking etc....
Tri or Quad band seems like a must have for voice if you live in the USA since most of the rest of the world uses 1800mhz. Fortunately most new phones support that and it's a big reason to upgrade.
You should be able to talk your network into providing you with state of the art phones. When we got our 6600's they were going for over $400 on ebay, but we paid about $80 each for them.
That means t-mobile took a $640 loss supplying us with those phones. Now they'll just make that back this year, but it seems like the only way to get value for money from a US network.
In europe you can get lots of phone-less plans, so you are rewarded for being frugal and keeping a phone for a few years.
Phone costs will drop, but generally since they are subsidized by your contract you'll never know.
Also it's worth noting that most of the world use 900 or 1800 mhz cellphones, whereas gsm phones in the US typically run on 1900 mhz - I doubt this chipset will be initially manufactered in US frequencies, although some latin american countries do use 1900.
I have a Canon i560. It cost me about $100 when an equivilent lexmark would have been half that.
But the third part ink works great and costs virtually nothing. A black cartridge for $1.50 makes printing dirt cheap, probably comparable to many lasers.
Maybe not at high capacity
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But that's easily possible at a household scale, and i doubt large installations are THAT different.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_energy_effi
If you have a modern SEER 16 A/C unit then you can typically 'produce' 16 times as much cool and the energy required.
So it'll increase you cooling costs a fraction of power budget of the computer systems.
Tesco give you back 1% of what you spend - so there's a very strong incentive to make sure that all your cards are registered to your home address.
They don't pull much of this "card member discount" crap that stores here in the US do. When i lived in the UK I would probably use half of all the coupons that tesco mailed to me - they were THAT effective.
Another way to lower the general standard of peoples' communication skills.
/. doesn't do enough on its own.
I suppose
Even as a semi-serious amateur, film and processing cost well over $300 a year.
If i get two years out of my digital rebel then i'll be up on the $800 it cost me.
If the numbers don't make sense to you then that's fine, but for a great many people they DO make sense and your generalization doesn't really help.
The problem with a purely voting method is that a minor change to a page about a minor subject may never get enough votes to move into stable.
A story about a current event will easily get the votes it needs to move without the stabilization time.
Also you could perhaps make it the case that rolling back to a previous stable version doesn't require going back through draft mode.
When an article goes unedited for maybe 4 hours it automatically becomes stable.
That way wikipedians can always view the draft version, but it's highly unlikely that vandalism will stay around long enough to be stablized.
People coming in from google or such like will automatically get the stable version unless they deliberately choose draft.
In the real world this surely happens over time, it's makes sense for a number of pieces of information to be traded to build the relationship.
Does it matter if the source is idenfied as Anonymous#104928 rather than their name - so long as the journalist can depend that Anonymous#104928 is the same person each time then the same relationship can be established.
Lingo + T-Mobile gives me easily 99.99% and at far lower cost than landline
Lingo gives me free long distance and calls to europe (i make lots), and my cellphone is more flexible but doesn't give me unlimited minutes.
Between the two I have no problem communicating with anyone.
works fine on itunes for windows.
Unfortunately it doesn't work with any on-demand services.
As long as Bank of America is harder to phish than say Wells Fargo, then they will probably reduce their phising rate (at the expense of their users convenience).
You don't need to be able to run faster than a bear, just faster than the person you are hiking with.
Why the hell don't banks just issue Safeword cards to generate one time passwords. They are still vulnerable to realtime MITM attacks, but it'd make a hell of a difference.