We're talking graphics card. There's no really big vendor, and no reason to stockpile, on the contrary, the newer stuff commands a premium and is to be sold asap, before it becomes last month's news.Prices are already rising at retail, and OEMs will surely raise them too, even if they have plenty of parts.
Regarding the mom n' pop vs large OEM comment... I rather think the contrary: would you rather eat at a chain restaurant, or at a mom n' pop one ? Do you always buy standard, chain-made stuff assuming it's better than more individual, more hand-crafted stuff ? From my experience, Dell's failure rate is higher than that of the stuff I build myself (mostly because I know to put money for quality where it counts, Dell is just chasing checkmarks for reviews done over 1 week tops, a few hours more likely), and repairs are harder since some parts are nonstandard. Also, my mom's sweaters are definitely nicer than anything you can buy:-p
No, but i've got them on my main home PC, on my work PC to which I redirect my home calls in case I'm spending the Evening/WE at work, and on my mobile for free outgoing calls over wifi.
I'm sorry, I thought I was kinda answering your question.
I don't know how it works in the US, but here in France my home ADSL box, which I sue for internet acces + phone + TV, supports SIPS over ethernet or wifi: I can automatically redirect all my phone calls to a PC of my choice (including, firewall permitting, my work PC when I'm at work), or to a SIPS wifi mobile phone.
I'd maybe add that you can make fun of your own peer group, i.e. gay jokes by gays, Jew jokes by jews... don't bother me. I remember once during a one-woman-show trying to imagine it was a guy on stage... the girl was hilarious, I'd have docked a guy for the same spiel.
A fairly minor TV station did a (funny) disquieting gig a while back, about France's P2P 3-strikes law: they roamed the hallways of our national assembly, and asked congressmen what "peer-to-peer" was... that was right when the p2p law was being discussed and making daily headlines, mind you:
- "peer to peer is being able to talk directly to people in the same situation as you, so it's very good" - "I don't know... I speak French, you'll have to excuse me" - "protecting creativity via internet" - 'I don't know, but my sons do, I'm wondering what they're doing on my PC, by the way" - "It's downloading videos, like streaming but the bits get to you hard drive"
I'm guessing Euro MPs are getting heavily lobbied, and are more confused than purely evil. What can we do to change that ?
- e-mail is like snail mail: it transits through others to get to me. i DO have an expectation that my mail, and my email, is private - I park my car on someone else's property daily. This does NOT mean I'm giving my car away, or I don't care what happens to it. - In any case, blanket invasion of privacy without even having to go though a judge for each specific instance, or at least each specific individual for a certain time period, is unacceptable. I don't trust judges much more than politicians, but just needing 2 snoops instead of just one makes snooping exponentially harder.
Idiot and crooked politicians certainly cost us more money, and quite possibly more lives, than terrorism and drug gangs. Time to rein them in... and snoop on them. The public actually has much less reason to trust them than they have to trust the public. How about we put them under 24x7 public scrutiny ?
I had a go at my sister in law's iPhone over the week-end. The thing certainly is way better then my WinMob 6.1 piece of crap. The user interface in particular is quite good.
I was especially trying to confirm whether the iPhone would work for me as an ebook reader. I'm used to using PDAs, starting with the original Palm Pilot, on to an aging Palm TX. Sadly, the answer is no: the screen is too small for me. I'm hoping to upcoming 5" android phones will be good.. and not TOO big.
BTW, my 2 dislikes about the iPhone; - the thing is a fingerprint magnet, - and the "page-preview" in Safari is not kept up to date with the actual page render, so if you want to know if a longish page has finished downloading, you have to actually fully open it, you can't see it from the "tabs" preview.
I've found 1 bug, though: it's actually harder to move a user's data off to a different partition than it was under XP. XP needed just a right-click on My Documents, 7 doesn't seem to have any interface way to do that.
For some reason, Bradbury stuff has always resonated strongly with me. Maybe because I got into it at the right age (12-ish), maybe because, much later, I'm still very indifferent to style, focusing instead on ideas and evocative power. Probably because I'm an escapist and much prefer wildly irrealistic / slightly poetic stuff to too much realism.
I also love K. Dick, which for some reason is much more appreciated here in France than he is in the US. He certainly does NOT write well, but the ideas and stories are interesting.
Anyway, I don't think Bradbury is pulp, and I'd like to see you explain why you say it is.
Parent is trolling; Fox has an extensive history of censorship.
I'm not so sure he's consciously attempting to troll. commodore64_love has shown time and time again that he falls very short on the ability to recognize shortcomings in both himself and those he tries to champion. I think he honestly believes that Fox is the epitome of "fair and balanced" reporting and that they are being picked on because of it.
My take is that the guy is an attention whore.. the obsessive way he replies and tries to stir things up in his own thread is a dead giveaway.
He's probably not thought much about what he is actually saying/supporting, just that it will get a raise out of people and he won't feel so alone in his basement. Actually, loudly making a contentious and weak/false argument like he does, is the best way to get feedback, even if negative. So in a way, is reaching his goal.
Does that Christian university STILL have that course that gives credit for Christian postings on "difficult" websites ? Do they have an integrated kindergarten ?
It's funny how you ignore my "if you put a lot of money in it, you won't badmouth it" argument. So, apple buyers do have an incentive to declare themselves happier than eMachines, same as Prada shoes are sooo much more comfortable than other ones ^^
I looked, but haven't found a reliability survey let alone with length of ownership. I'd be happy to see the one you seem to have ?
Same with a couple of IBM notebooks bought second hand, that must be 10+ yo by now, still working perfectly to play Scrabble when my mother is bedridden, or surf the web when all other PCs are down. Proof is not the plural of anecdote:-p
On the other hand, my brother's Mighty Mouse worked for all of 2 months (got dirty and... CANNOT be cleaned... talk about stupid design, but sooo shiny), his iMac's HD failed in 18, as did his keyboard, and is CPU fan, his wife's iPhone failed in 2 weeks... I'm not impressed.
I understand why you resort to Applecare though, this things are a pain to fix by ourself.
Declared (as opposed to observed) customer satisfaction is unreliable. There's a good chance someone who paid twice the price for something will say they're very happy with it, if only because not being happy would make them a sucker. Works for handbags, too ^^ On the other hand, some people are less narcissistic and will require more from a more expensive product. Again, objective data is needed, such as % failing within 1 year.
Also, newer products / recent purchases tend to bring in better reviews. People are more careful with their new toy, and the device hasn't had time to break.
I understand your point about Applecare. I have no anecdotal evidence for or against it, I'm a DYI kinda guy. On the purely hardware side of things, I haven't noticed Apple being any better than other 1st or 2nd-tier vendors, nor good DYI.
"The sales chart in Japan fluctuates a lot on a weekly basis because every single mobile phone is a carrier exclusive and they launch new phones every 3-4 months.
It is much harder to be number 1 in the US because they count all RAZR phones from all 4 carriers in both CDMA and GSM format as a single model.
You need to sell millions of phones to be ranked number 1 in the US in a single quarter (they don't release weekly sales data). You may only need to sell thousands of phones to be ranked number 1 in Japan for a week.
So you think design, ease of use, and the In factor have nothing to do with Apple's success ?
FYI, the iPhone is rather feature-poor. Look at how in can't break the Asian markets, which are more sophisticated. Browsing is easy and fun, the interface is nice, iTunes is very convenient... But even bluetooth profiles are incomplete, no multitasking....
Again, in my experience, build quality is not that good. Only objective figures will settle that question.
Finally, price, you must be kidding. Apple's kit, be it MP3 players, desktops, laptops, or phones, is one, if not THE, most expensive out there. Only Sony is consistently more expensive that Apple.
Until I see reliability data that proves otherwise, I don't think Apple is about quality/reliability. At least, not in my experience.
Aplle is about design, ease of use, and trendiness. My in-laws iPhone broke after 2 months. My brother's iMac, after 2 years, several thing in a row (CPU fan, HD). And let's not get even close to the Mighty Mouse I got suckered into buying in for a bday.
I'm not sure Apple products are of better quality than your average branded PC. They are more of a pain to fix, that's for sure, and don't seem that well built. Anyone got real maintenance data ?
I'm already amazed we have a universal x86 binary. With the architectural differences between an Atom and a Core7 or 9... I dare not think of all the inefficiencies this creates.
Wouldn't it be better to shoot for a Universal Source, with the install step integrating a compile+link step ? I know Gentoo does this, but Gentoo is marginal within the marginality that is Linux, on the desktop.
I'm amazed you can do real-time x86 emulation on non-x86 CPUs, but still can"t have a Universal Source.
Gosh, am I glad they're not mine: I would be mightily pissed off, a web site would be accessible by everyone, not just an elite, and if the IS a website, the app is redundant.
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We're talking graphics card. There's no really big vendor, and no reason to stockpile, on the contrary, the newer stuff commands a premium and is to be sold asap, before it becomes last month's news.Prices are already rising at retail, and OEMs will surely raise them too, even if they have plenty of parts.
Regarding the mom n' pop vs large OEM comment... I rather think the contrary: would you rather eat at a chain restaurant, or at a mom n' pop one ? Do you always buy standard, chain-made stuff assuming it's better than more individual, more hand-crafted stuff ? From my experience, Dell's failure rate is higher than that of the stuff I build myself (mostly because I know to put money for quality where it counts, Dell is just chasing checkmarks for reviews done over 1 week tops, a few hours more likely), and repairs are harder since some parts are nonstandard. Also, my mom's sweaters are definitely nicer than anything you can buy :-p
Mass-produced != good.
No, but i've got them on my main home PC, on my work PC to which I redirect my home calls in case I'm spending the Evening/WE at work, and on my mobile for free outgoing calls over wifi.
I'm sorry, I thought I was kinda answering your question.
I don't know how it works in the US, but here in France my home ADSL box, which I sue for internet acces + phone + TV, supports SIPS over ethernet or wifi: I can automatically redirect all my phone calls to a PC of my choice (including, firewall permitting, my work PC when I'm at work), or to a SIPS wifi mobile phone.
I personally find that kinda normal ?
I'd maybe add that you can make fun of your own peer group, i.e. gay jokes by gays, Jew jokes by jews... don't bother me. I remember once during a one-woman-show trying to imagine it was a guy on stage... the girl was hilarious, I'd have docked a guy for the same spiel.
A fairly minor TV station did a (funny) disquieting gig a while back, about France's P2P 3-strikes law: they roamed the hallways of our national assembly, and asked congressmen what "peer-to-peer" was... that was right when the p2p law was being discussed and making daily headlines, mind you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXHuxNeasvw&feature=related , very approximative translations, for fun
- "peer to peer is being able to talk directly to people in the same situation as you, so it's very good"
- "I don't know... I speak French, you'll have to excuse me"
- "protecting creativity via internet"
- 'I don't know, but my sons do, I'm wondering what they're doing on my PC, by the way"
- "It's downloading videos, like streaming but the bits get to you hard drive"
I'm guessing Euro MPs are getting heavily lobbied, and are more confused than purely evil. What can we do to change that ?
- e-mail is like snail mail: it transits through others to get to me. i DO have an expectation that my mail, and my email, is private
- I park my car on someone else's property daily. This does NOT mean I'm giving my car away, or I don't care what happens to it.
- In any case, blanket invasion of privacy without even having to go though a judge for each specific instance, or at least each specific individual for a certain time period, is unacceptable. I don't trust judges much more than politicians, but just needing 2 snoops instead of just one makes snooping exponentially harder.
Idiot and crooked politicians certainly cost us more money, and quite possibly more lives, than terrorism and drug gangs. Time to rein them in... and snoop on them. The public actually has much less reason to trust them than they have to trust the public. How about we put them under 24x7 public scrutiny ?
I had a go at my sister in law's iPhone over the week-end. The thing certainly is way better then my WinMob 6.1 piece of crap. The user interface in particular is quite good.
I was especially trying to confirm whether the iPhone would work for me as an ebook reader. I'm used to using PDAs, starting with the original Palm Pilot, on to an aging Palm TX. Sadly, the answer is no: the screen is too small for me. I'm hoping to upcoming 5" android phones will be good.. and not TOO big.
BTW, my 2 dislikes about the iPhone;
- the thing is a fingerprint magnet,
- and the "page-preview" in Safari is not kept up to date with the actual page render, so if you want to know if a longish page has finished downloading, you have to actually fully open it, you can't see it from the "tabs" preview.
That's very true.
I've found 1 bug, though: it's actually harder to move a user's data off to a different partition than it was under XP. XP needed just a right-click on My Documents, 7 doesn't seem to have any interface way to do that.
And YES, this is so dumb it qualifies as a bug.
tsss tsss; Qemm was Quarterdeck's extended memory manager (or was it expanded ?): lin MS's emm386, only better: remember DEVICEHIGH=...
You mean DesqView.
Hand in you senior geek card, please !
For some reason, Bradbury stuff has always resonated strongly with me. Maybe because I got into it at the right age (12-ish), maybe because, much later, I'm still very indifferent to style, focusing instead on ideas and evocative power. Probably because I'm an escapist and much prefer wildly irrealistic / slightly poetic stuff to too much realism.
I also love K. Dick, which for some reason is much more appreciated here in France than he is in the US. He certainly does NOT write well, but the ideas and stories are interesting.
Anyway, I don't think Bradbury is pulp, and I'd like to see you explain why you say it is.
than what ... ?
My issues with USB 2.0 are not so much about speed:
1- there's that ridiculous fudging about hi-speed, full-speed... is USB 3.0 **ALWAYS** USB 3.0, at last ?
2- I've got a bunch of 2.0 stuff (whichever 2.0 that was) that only works if I set my PC's USB ports as 1.0 only.
3- Even 2.0 stuff that kinda works has a way to make any non-intel-chipset PC freezy-jerky
4- I very rarely got anywhere near the supposed speed of 2.0 anyway.
In the end, I'd rather have a reliable, compatible, no PC freezes connection, than a "if everything works well" (read: rarely if ever) 10x faster one.
Parent is trolling; Fox has an extensive history of censorship.
I'm not so sure he's consciously attempting to troll. commodore64_love has shown time and time again that he falls very short on the ability to recognize shortcomings in both himself and those he tries to champion. I think he honestly believes that Fox is the epitome of "fair and balanced" reporting and that they are being picked on because of it.
My take is that the guy is an attention whore.. the obsessive way he replies and tries to stir things up in his own thread is a dead giveaway.
He's probably not thought much about what he is actually saying/supporting, just that it will get a raise out of people and he won't feel so alone in his basement. Actually, loudly making a contentious and weak/false argument like he does, is the best way to get feedback, even if negative. So in a way, is reaching his goal.
Does that Christian university STILL have that course that gives credit for Christian postings on "difficult" websites ? Do they have an integrated kindergarten ?
I'm not sure WinMo developpers have a clear understanding of anything. 6 more months till I can give my phone the thrashing it deserves... PoS !
It's precisely because .pst doesn't matter that much, but the client-server protocol does, that MS is opening.... the .pst format, not the protocol.
You'll be able to manipulate the data locally, but as soon as you want to send it to or from the server, you'll need exchange/outlook.
nothing to see.
It's funny how you ignore my "if you put a lot of money in it, you won't badmouth it" argument. So, apple buyers do have an incentive to declare themselves happier than eMachines, same as Prada shoes are sooo much more comfortable than other ones ^^
I looked, but haven't found a reliability survey let alone with length of ownership. I'd be happy to see the one you seem to have ?
Same with a couple of IBM notebooks bought second hand, that must be 10+ yo by now, still working perfectly to play Scrabble when my mother is bedridden, or surf the web when all other PCs are down. Proof is not the plural of anecdote :-p
On the other hand, my brother's Mighty Mouse worked for all of 2 months (got dirty and... CANNOT be cleaned... talk about stupid design, but sooo shiny), his iMac's HD failed in 18, as did his keyboard, and is CPU fan, his wife's iPhone failed in 2 weeks... I'm not impressed.
I understand why you resort to Applecare though, this things are a pain to fix by ourself.
Declared (as opposed to observed) customer satisfaction is unreliable. There's a good chance someone who paid twice the price for something will say they're very happy with it, if only because not being happy would make them a sucker. Works for handbags, too ^^ On the other hand, some people are less narcissistic and will require more from a more expensive product. Again, objective data is needed, such as % failing within 1 year.
Also, newer products / recent purchases tend to bring in better reviews. People are more careful with their new toy, and the device hasn't had time to break.
I understand your point about Applecare. I have no anecdotal evidence for or against it, I'm a DYI kinda guy. On the purely hardware side of things, I haven't noticed Apple being any better than other 1st or 2nd-tier vendors, nor good DYI.
really
"The sales chart in Japan fluctuates a lot on a weekly basis because every single mobile phone is a carrier exclusive and they launch new phones every 3-4 months.
It is much harder to be number 1 in the US because they count all RAZR phones from all 4 carriers in both CDMA and GSM format as a single model.
You need to sell millions of phones to be ranked number 1 in the US in a single quarter (they don't release weekly sales data). You may only need to sell thousands of phones to be ranked number 1 in Japan for a week.
It doesn't mean a lot that the iphone was ranked number 1 in Japan for a couple of weeks during its initial launch." http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/08/17/apples-iphone-3gs-is-no-1-in-japan/
show me overall consolidated sales over a significant time, not 1-week wonders at launch.
So you think design, ease of use, and the In factor have nothing to do with Apple's success ?
FYI, the iPhone is rather feature-poor. Look at how in can't break the Asian markets, which are more sophisticated. Browsing is easy and fun, the interface is nice, iTunes is very convenient... But even bluetooth profiles are incomplete, no multitasking....
Again, in my experience, build quality is not that good. Only objective figures will settle that question.
Finally, price, you must be kidding. Apple's kit, be it MP3 players, desktops, laptops, or phones, is one, if not THE, most expensive out there. Only Sony is consistently more expensive that Apple.
Your statement seems to indicate laziness / lack of adventurousness ?
Until I see reliability data that proves otherwise, I don't think Apple is about quality/reliability. At least, not in my experience.
Aplle is about design, ease of use, and trendiness. My in-laws iPhone broke after 2 months. My brother's iMac, after 2 years, several thing in a row (CPU fan, HD). And let's not get even close to the Mighty Mouse I got suckered into buying in for a bday.
I'm not sure Apple products are of better quality than your average branded PC. They are more of a pain to fix, that's for sure, and don't seem that well built. Anyone got real maintenance data ?
I'm already amazed we have a universal x86 binary. With the architectural differences between an Atom and a Core7 or 9... I dare not think of all the inefficiencies this creates.
Wouldn't it be better to shoot for a Universal Source, with the install step integrating a compile+link step ? I know Gentoo does this, but Gentoo is marginal within the marginality that is Linux, on the desktop.
I'm amazed you can do real-time x86 emulation on non-x86 CPUs, but still can"t have a Universal Source.
Gosh, am I glad they're not mine: I would be mightily pissed off, a web site would be accessible by everyone, not just an elite, and if the IS a website, the app is redundant.