And yet I bought an Apple desktop this year. Got a mini cause I couldn't justify buying a Pro. If Apple was selling single CPU mATX type systems priced and spec'd about the same as the iMac line I would have bought one. I not asking that Apple sell this kind of computer for dirt cheap or to cut their profit margins. Honestly, Apple could sell it through the online store only and keep out of the brick and mortar stores. I just want a computer that would be the equivalent of the $1600 PowerMac I could get years ago.
I'm with the parent. I had a MDD G4 until recently. I broke down and got one of the new minis cause it finally supported dual monitors. Though I wish Apple had a $1600 box that I could expand down the line. With 1 PCIe, 1-2 PCI, and 2-4 drive bays. I would have gladly given Apple the extra $1000 for that box. Especially if I could have thrown in different processors. My PowerMac 7500 was great for the time, I had 601, 604, dual 604, and g3 processors in that box.
I feel there is a hole in the mac line that the pro-sumer wants. Yes, it may be a bit harder to support with generic hardware. Apple can be dicks and claim to only provide support for official hardware. As I said before that's the Mac I want to buy.
This is one of the things that sold me on TiVo the first year I had it. I added "The Tick" to my season pass and it got every episode regardless of where Fox moved it to. Trying to keep up with scheduling moves that Fox makes is a nightmare.
As for Futurama, at the end they stuck it on Sunday night at 7pm. At best you got to see the show already in progress because of football running long.
I haven't keep track of MythTV lately as I have a TiVo HD. The problem with MythTV going forward is that it can only do HD with OTA. Since CableLabs won't approve MythTV (or any digital cable tuner cards) as a CableCard device it handicaps the usefulness for digital cable. As far as I can tell the only way to make it work with digital cable is to have the MythTV use IR blasters for the set top box. Which is the main reason I dumped my previous TiVo when the HD model came out. The IR blasters are not reliable and the cable companies will not activate the serial port on that back. IE the cable companies want to lock you down and limit your options for what is really a VCR on steroids.
While not in the same league as Carlin or Stewart, I tend to find the spoken word performances of Henry Rollins to be funny and he has a tendency to point out everyone's bullshit.
But does it really save them bandwidth costs by getting rid of those groups? All the traffic to the usenet server should be internal to Verizon's network. Internal bandwidth should be very low cost for Verizon while external bandwidth would have a much higher cost. Cut this usenet access and how many people will switch over to using BitTorrent to download stuff. Which will most likely have to go outsides Verizon's network for all or a portion of the torrent. Will this increase in external traffic cost Verizon more than running a complete usenet server?
Herman Miller made the Aeron Chairs. I'm sitting in one right now at a company that occupies the space of a.com that closed up.
I'm an ex Infonautics employee. They had people that went all over. Some went to cdnow.com. I knew the guys that started half.com (which was later bought by eBay). I was part of the spinoff bigchalk.com that took Infonautic's education division, and was merged with ProQuest's K-12 group. We blew throw 50+ million in VC and didn't have much to show for it. Three years after the bubble burst, we still had a nice reserve in the bank and were at the break even point. In the end, ProQuest bought out all the private shareholders and move everything to Ann Arbor, MI.
I'm a TiVo user and I'll tell you now that I skip a lot of commercials. I know advertisers want us to see the ad so it makes an impressions. In the first commercial break it may be good/funny. For the second commercial break its a bit repetitive, and by the third it's just annoying. There is only so many times that I'm willing to watch the propaganda.
I won't say that macs don't crash, but if they are crashing on a regular basis something is wrong. Right before Leopard came out, my dual G4 was crashing on a daily (if not more basis). Since I knew I was about to install a new OS, I waited until Leopard was out before I did an OS install. I threw in a new IDE drive, installed Leopard, migrated data off of the old HD and things have been smooth ever since. If you mac crashes fairly often, then you either need to troubleshoot it or go for a fresh install. I tend to blame the software/OS for getting out of whack before saying the hardware is failing.
I put one of the WD GP drives in my TiVo HD. In the default settings, it was still to loud for my entertainment center. I took it out so I could run the Feature Tool from Hitachi to change the acoustic levels. After that it seemed my quieter and haven't seen any effect on performance in the TiVo.
I believe those fees are paid to the song writers. So if you're some manufactured boy band, you're probably screwed out of most/all of the money from those fees.
I bought a SD trinitron about 5 years ago. I was seriously scanning craigslist about 4 months ago to find a used Trinitron that did HD. With this wikipedia link, I had a good idea what I was looking for and willing to pay. For some reason, my wife was opposed to buying a used CRT TV. I think we would've gotten a pretty decent TV for about 1/4 the price of what we spent for our LCD.
Yeah gotta love the states with oppressive liquor laws. In PA, we have beer distributors and state stores. The state stores sell wine and hard liquor while the beer distributors only sell beer and soda. Of course you also must buy beer in quantities of a case (ie 24 bottles/cans). Which sucks for a beer snob like me that wants to buy in smaller quantities to sample different microbrews. Also makes it nearly impossible to sample Belgian style beers which come in 750ml bottles. You can buy beer in smaller quantites from delis, but they are over priced. I could care less where I have to buy my beer, I just want variety in the quantities I can buy it in. I'm resigned to fact that I don't think the laws will change.
Does it support 1080p? I've been tempted to get a HD-DVD player mainly to use as a DVD upconverter. I'll be watching for the HD-A30 to go on clearance.
2 out of the 3 you highlighted are XML related. XSLT are used to transform XML into something else or more readable. While SVG is a graphic format, it is described in XML.
I would agree that is why they can do it. From a usage standpoint local caches/repositories makes a lot of sense. Get the customer to reduce their usage of the ISP's WAN pipe and have the stuff they want on the local/cheap/almost infinite bandwidth. The problem in the USA is that ISPs can't setup a bank of BitTorrent boxes to help seed their network without getting in a lot of trouble. Though I expect it would help them cut down on the WAN bandwidth usage. I hear that Comcast limits the downloads from their usenet servers, while Verizon seems to have unlimited downloads from their usenet servers. While I don't expect ISPs to state a preference for nzb over BitTorrent, I would have to imagine that they prefer you to use nzb to download your movies and tv shows.
Well, you do have the option to export your bookmarks from del.icio.us. I do it on a regular basis as I have some perl script to work with the data. The bookmarks are yours, just make sure you have a backup if your access to it goes away.
I've not listened to a lot of pop music lately, but it seems to me that album concepts are fewer and fewer. There were advantages to getting Alan Parson's Project I, Robot, Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick, and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Are there any albums concepts being sold today (regardless of whether you like the music listed above)? While a couple of years old, I would suggest Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age. In addition to songs there is audio on the album that would make you think you are in the car listening to the radio and flipping channels. While I could listen to most of those songs stand alone, I do like to hear the complete album with the little extras.
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From what I've read, the current production lines are going full tilt to get the 1.8 million/month. They will need major capital expense to expand production. How fast would Nintendo be able to recoup that expense? If demand drops before this, then as the parent mentioned the money is wasted and either ruin their profits or ruin the return on the capital expense. Nintendo is between a rock and a hard place.
The rock: Their competitors are able to throw a lot more money at the development of next gen consoles. Thus from a technology standpoint, better consoles.
The hard place: If they overextend themselves they may end up like Sega. No longer making hardware and creating games for other consoles.
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And yet I bought an Apple desktop this year. Got a mini cause I couldn't justify buying a Pro. If Apple was selling single CPU mATX type systems priced and spec'd about the same as the iMac line I would have bought one. I not asking that Apple sell this kind of computer for dirt cheap or to cut their profit margins. Honestly, Apple could sell it through the online store only and keep out of the brick and mortar stores. I just want a computer that would be the equivalent of the $1600 PowerMac I could get years ago.
I'm with the parent. I had a MDD G4 until recently. I broke down and got one of the new minis cause it finally supported dual monitors. Though I wish Apple had a $1600 box that I could expand down the line. With 1 PCIe, 1-2 PCI, and 2-4 drive bays. I would have gladly given Apple the extra $1000 for that box. Especially if I could have thrown in different processors. My PowerMac 7500 was great for the time, I had 601, 604, dual 604, and g3 processors in that box.
I feel there is a hole in the mac line that the pro-sumer wants. Yes, it may be a bit harder to support with generic hardware. Apple can be dicks and claim to only provide support for official hardware. As I said before that's the Mac I want to buy.
This is one of the things that sold me on TiVo the first year I had it. I added "The Tick" to my season pass and it got every episode regardless of where Fox moved it to. Trying to keep up with scheduling moves that Fox makes is a nightmare.
As for Futurama, at the end they stuck it on Sunday night at 7pm. At best you got to see the show already in progress because of football running long.
I would suggest Kathleen Robertson as Faye Valentine. She was in the scifi mini series Tin Man and she looked like natural Faye.
yes, but I expect since real money is involved, this device will be built right.
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And here a link to said April Fool's joke.
I thought we all knew who Romero was because he dated Stevie Case.
I haven't keep track of MythTV lately as I have a TiVo HD. The problem with MythTV going forward is that it can only do HD with OTA. Since CableLabs won't approve MythTV (or any digital cable tuner cards) as a CableCard device it handicaps the usefulness for digital cable. As far as I can tell the only way to make it work with digital cable is to have the MythTV use IR blasters for the set top box. Which is the main reason I dumped my previous TiVo when the HD model came out. The IR blasters are not reliable and the cable companies will not activate the serial port on that back. IE the cable companies want to lock you down and limit your options for what is really a VCR on steroids.
Bush seems to surround himself with "Yes" men. How can this man be the decider when he only hears opinions that mirror his own?
While not in the same league as Carlin or Stewart, I tend to find the spoken word performances of Henry Rollins to be funny and he has a tendency to point out everyone's bullshit.
I guess Apple will have to avoid using cougar as a code name for OS X. Don't want MS suing you for creating confusion in the marketplace.
But does it really save them bandwidth costs by getting rid of those groups? All the traffic to the usenet server should be internal to Verizon's network. Internal bandwidth should be very low cost for Verizon while external bandwidth would have a much higher cost. Cut this usenet access and how many people will switch over to using BitTorrent to download stuff. Which will most likely have to go outsides Verizon's network for all or a portion of the torrent. Will this increase in external traffic cost Verizon more than running a complete usenet server?
Herman Miller made the Aeron Chairs. I'm sitting in one right now at a company that occupies the space of a .com that closed up.
I'm an ex Infonautics employee. They had people that went all over. Some went to cdnow.com. I knew the guys that started half.com (which was later bought by eBay). I was part of the spinoff bigchalk.com that took Infonautic's education division, and was merged with ProQuest's K-12 group. We blew throw 50+ million in VC and didn't have much to show for it. Three years after the bubble burst, we still had a nice reserve in the bank and were at the break even point. In the end, ProQuest bought out all the private shareholders and move everything to Ann Arbor, MI.
I'm a TiVo user and I'll tell you now that I skip a lot of commercials. I know advertisers want us to see the ad so it makes an impressions. In the first commercial break it may be good/funny. For the second commercial break its a bit repetitive, and by the third it's just annoying. There is only so many times that I'm willing to watch the propaganda.
I won't say that macs don't crash, but if they are crashing on a regular basis something is wrong. Right before Leopard came out, my dual G4 was crashing on a daily (if not more basis). Since I knew I was about to install a new OS, I waited until Leopard was out before I did an OS install. I threw in a new IDE drive, installed Leopard, migrated data off of the old HD and things have been smooth ever since. If you mac crashes fairly often, then you either need to troubleshoot it or go for a fresh install. I tend to blame the software/OS for getting out of whack before saying the hardware is failing.
I put one of the WD GP drives in my TiVo HD. In the default settings, it was still to loud for my entertainment center. I took it out so I could run the Feature Tool from Hitachi to change the acoustic levels. After that it seemed my quieter and haven't seen any effect on performance in the TiVo.
I believe those fees are paid to the song writers. So if you're some manufactured boy band, you're probably screwed out of most/all of the money from those fees.
I bought a SD trinitron about 5 years ago. I was seriously scanning craigslist about 4 months ago to find a used Trinitron that did HD. With this wikipedia link, I had a good idea what I was looking for and willing to pay. For some reason, my wife was opposed to buying a used CRT TV. I think we would've gotten a pretty decent TV for about 1/4 the price of what we spent for our LCD.
Yeah gotta love the states with oppressive liquor laws. In PA, we have beer distributors and state stores. The state stores sell wine and hard liquor while the beer distributors only sell beer and soda. Of course you also must buy beer in quantities of a case (ie 24 bottles/cans). Which sucks for a beer snob like me that wants to buy in smaller quantities to sample different microbrews. Also makes it nearly impossible to sample Belgian style beers which come in 750ml bottles. You can buy beer in smaller quantites from delis, but they are over priced. I could care less where I have to buy my beer, I just want variety in the quantities I can buy it in. I'm resigned to fact that I don't think the laws will change.
Does it support 1080p? I've been tempted to get a HD-DVD player mainly to use as a DVD upconverter. I'll be watching for the HD-A30 to go on clearance.
2 out of the 3 you highlighted are XML related. XSLT are used to transform XML into something else or more readable. While SVG is a graphic format, it is described in XML.
I would agree that is why they can do it. From a usage standpoint local caches/repositories makes a lot of sense. Get the customer to reduce their usage of the ISP's WAN pipe and have the stuff they want on the local/cheap/almost infinite bandwidth. The problem in the USA is that ISPs can't setup a bank of BitTorrent boxes to help seed their network without getting in a lot of trouble. Though I expect it would help them cut down on the WAN bandwidth usage. I hear that Comcast limits the downloads from their usenet servers, while Verizon seems to have unlimited downloads from their usenet servers. While I don't expect ISPs to state a preference for nzb over BitTorrent, I would have to imagine that they prefer you to use nzb to download your movies and tv shows.
Well, you do have the option to export your bookmarks from del.icio.us. I do it on a regular basis as I have some perl script to work with the data. The bookmarks are yours, just make sure you have a backup if your access to it goes away.
From what I've read, the current production lines are going full tilt to get the 1.8 million/month. They will need major capital expense to expand production. How fast would Nintendo be able to recoup that expense? If demand drops before this, then as the parent mentioned the money is wasted and either ruin their profits or ruin the return on the capital expense. Nintendo is between a rock and a hard place.
The rock: Their competitors are able to throw a lot more money at the development of next gen consoles. Thus from a technology standpoint, better consoles.The hard place: If they overextend themselves they may end up like Sega. No longer making hardware and creating games for other consoles.