LCDs are incredibly finicky. You can get a laptop for sub-$1000, but it probably has a 15" or less screen. You can get a 15" screen for less than $250, because they're easy to make. Keep in mind that screen area increases exponentially with respect to the inch number. Not to mention that LCDs don't have the greatest fault tolerance. I recall reading somewhere that half of the LCDs they make have to be recycled because of dead pixels etc. The more screen space you have the more dead pixels, thus the more broken screens must be thrown away, so it's gonna cost you more.
Don't go on slashdot screaming "PRICE FIXING" because that's really not the case. LCD prices have dropped SIGNIFICANTLY in recent years, to the point where a 19" screen is now somewhat affordable (around $700.) I know on a limited budget LCDs may seem expensive, but they're a lot cheaper now than they were 3 years ago (probably about half the price) and prices are still falling. OLEDs will come soon and that will cause even further price drops, because the OLED manufacturing process is less sensitive than the LCD process. In short, this article never should have made it to the front page, because it really doesn't line up with the truth.
Which is why you'll often see reporters doing their stories in front of a tank or an APC. That way all you see in the picture is the vehicle, not any of the surrounding terrain.
Except with printers, very often the most complicated part-- the print nozzles-- are attached to the ink cartridge itself. There is a technical reason for this actually, the ink nozzles tend to get clogged over time. Thus printing quality over the life of the printer will be better if you change the nozzles every time you change the ink.
This is also a good argument against refilled/remanufactured carts. Now, I'm not saying printer ink prices are reasonable or anything.. But laser is actually cheaper than inkjet (sure, the toner costs twice as much, but you can print 4 times as much stuff) so if you're doing lots and lots of printing, you probably already have a laser printer.
Yeah, it's because they're not allowed to fight.:) The Japanese have been ITCHING to get in on the action in Iraq, they really want to kick someone's ass. Japan just seems like they want to fight SOMEONE. They were essentially a military controlled state until about 1840, and for about half the time since then. I wouldn't really call Japan a "pacifist state," they would probably be in a war with China as we speak if the US didn't have such a strong Asian presence. They're only peaceful because we won't let them have much of a military.
In a move taken by Berlin as to not seem hypocritical, all American icons on German televisions, newspapers and plastic lunchboxes have been banned. It is unknown what effect this will have on Baywatch and Knight Rider merchandise, because... well..
IMO Al-Jazeera is more objective than the major US agencies. Yes there is a bit of an arab slant on things but they show both sides of the issue. American news channels are content to tell you one side of the story then some story about American soldiers giving skittles to Iraqi children, as if that has any bearing on the war whatsoever. The coverage has dropped off the past few days after US commanders realized the war wasn't going quite as well as they had hoped, pictures of dead Americans don't play well on TV (but dead Iraqis are just fine.) Al Jazeera at least respects the material it covers enough to report the unpopular side of the story as well as what people want to hear.
As an aside, the story I heard was that the prince of Qatar started and funded Al Jazeera for about five years, then it was cut loose (this was planned all along, the goal was to create an independent Arab news agency) to meet its own fate.
They don't really care though.:) The point of the embedded reporters is pure entertainment, you're not getting any more "accurate" reporting since the Pentagon has to okay all the satellite transmissions anyway. Embedded reporting is somewhat entertaining, but for news value, the only difference between an embedded reporter and a soldier is that the embedded reporter knows how to play the camera.:)
500 Mac users. The Mac users are probably professionals, and paid for their software. 4800 of those PC users downloaded Photoshop 7 off Kazaa. There may be more PCs out there, but in the graphic design market (where most if not all of Adobe's paying customers come from) is VERY prejudiced against PCs. All the vendors use Macs, all the competent agencies use Macs, if you aren't using a Mac there's no guarantee that you're not going to have weird errors. Most graphic pros out there who have been in the business a while don't trust Windows, and besides, dropping $5,000 on a computer in this market is worth it, you'll make the money back within a week at even a small agency. Those who try and skimp on cash usually don't last long, clients can sniff out a cheapskate and will usually head elsewhere.
Haha, well, none of those copies ever get out:) Apple's core development teams are essentially under lockdown, nothing unauthorized gets in or out of the OS development group. Most leaks of software actually come from outside Apple, such as when the release betas to developers, then the developers leak the software. Besides, all the real differences are already available in Darwin.:)
It's pretty well known that Apple has had OS X running on x86 boxes for years. The way the OS is designed, everything is high-level and very far abstracted from the hardware. Darwin and the microkernel are all that really need to be updated. I recall hearing that early builds of Aqua would run on top of Windows. So in short, Apple has OS X running on x86, probably very well, and have for a long time. Technically it's not hard to do, but as a business decision, it just doesn't make sense.
Stargate SG-1. It's very accessible to the average person (I have a lot of friends who are not geeks by any means but are avid fans of SG-1) yet it's not TOO cheesy (most of the time.) It accomplishes basically the same thing as Enterprise tries to while being a much better show. Yes, SG-1 is sci-fi fluff, but so is Trek.
Iraq differs from most Arab nations in that it's not a fundamentalist nation, merely a military dictatorship. Yes, Saddam appeals to religion because most of the people believe in Islam, not because he or his government have some deep belief that they are going to the kingdom of God after they die. He only hates Israel because he knows that if Israel engages Iraq, he'll suddenly have a lot of allies. This is actually somewhat ironic, seeing as the two largest and most oppressive fundamentalist Islamic regimes in the world are on either side of him (Iran and Saudi Arabia.)
First guess says you need satellite access codes. Second guess says the stream is probably VERY well encrypted. Third guess says that if you access the military channels without permission, you'll have men in black helicopters doing fastrope descents on your place of residence within a few minutes (it's GPS, so they already know where you are.) Though I could just be blowing this out my ass, who knows.
Yes except the US Military owns the satellites and basically lets everyone else use them so they're not just a waste of space (pun intended.) Also worth noting is that they can do this locally, so basically the accurracy would probably only decrease (if it does at all) in the areas in and around Iraq. I doubt the US or western Europe will be affected at all.
IMO pay-per-view movies are a better deal than rentals. They cost less, you're probably only going to watch the movie once anyway, and there are no tapes to return and no late fees to worry about. Plus you can rent porn without your SO knowing...
"Gee, you mean my ability to setup computer networks can get me hundreds of thousands of dollars? Nah! That couldn't be true."
Actually it's not anymore:) Nowadays you either need lots of experience or a legit certification (read: cisco certs) to land a job in that pay range. The lowest level cisco cert (CCNA) is actually rather difficult to get, so people who have it tend to know what they're doing. In other words, a Cisco cert means a lot more than a Microsoft cert;)
Actually, water-cooling somewhat makes sense for rackmount systems. There is a high density of machines, so you could cool multiple machines with a single installation. Run the coolant to a radiator in an air-conditioned environment (or even immersed in liquid nitrogen, if temps are too high.) With a decent valve system this would be very expandable. Watercooling IMO makes little sense for home computers, as you're buying a lot of equipment for a single system, but if you can spread the cost out among say, 72 1U systems, it would solve the problem of cooling in 1U cases (which is significant, because 1U cases can't accomodate huge heatsinks.) We may see this become more commonplace if CPUs start putting off much more heat.
Slashdot Mirror
LCDs are incredibly finicky. You can get a laptop for sub-$1000, but it probably has a 15" or less screen. You can get a 15" screen for less than $250, because they're easy to make. Keep in mind that screen area increases exponentially with respect to the inch number. Not to mention that LCDs don't have the greatest fault tolerance. I recall reading somewhere that half of the LCDs they make have to be recycled because of dead pixels etc. The more screen space you have the more dead pixels, thus the more broken screens must be thrown away, so it's gonna cost you more.
Don't go on slashdot screaming "PRICE FIXING" because that's really not the case. LCD prices have dropped SIGNIFICANTLY in recent years, to the point where a 19" screen is now somewhat affordable (around $700.) I know on a limited budget LCDs may seem expensive, but they're a lot cheaper now than they were 3 years ago (probably about half the price) and prices are still falling. OLEDs will come soon and that will cause even further price drops, because the OLED manufacturing process is less sensitive than the LCD process. In short, this article never should have made it to the front page, because it really doesn't line up with the truth.
Which is why you'll often see reporters doing their stories in front of a tank or an APC. That way all you see in the picture is the vehicle, not any of the surrounding terrain.
It also has lots of old people. And they like passing dumb conservative laws. :)
A bit OT, isn't the argument you used for potential revenue the exact opposite of the one used by the RIAA/MPAA/BSA?
Except with printers, very often the most complicated part-- the print nozzles-- are attached to the ink cartridge itself. There is a technical reason for this actually, the ink nozzles tend to get clogged over time. Thus printing quality over the life of the printer will be better if you change the nozzles every time you change the ink.
This is also a good argument against refilled/remanufactured carts. Now, I'm not saying printer ink prices are reasonable or anything.. But laser is actually cheaper than inkjet (sure, the toner costs twice as much, but you can print 4 times as much stuff) so if you're doing lots and lots of printing, you probably already have a laser printer.
Yeah, it's because they're not allowed to fight. :) The Japanese have been ITCHING to get in on the action in Iraq, they really want to kick someone's ass. Japan just seems like they want to fight SOMEONE. They were essentially a military controlled state until about 1840, and for about half the time since then. I wouldn't really call Japan a "pacifist state," they would probably be in a war with China as we speak if the US didn't have such a strong Asian presence. They're only peaceful because we won't let them have much of a military.
In a move taken by Berlin as to not seem hypocritical, all American icons on German televisions, newspapers and plastic lunchboxes have been banned. It is unknown what effect this will have on Baywatch and Knight Rider merchandise, because... well..
say it with me here folks..
Germans love David Hasselhoff.
In Mexico, politicians can be bought... but at least there we can afford it. :)
IMO Al-Jazeera is more objective than the major US agencies. Yes there is a bit of an arab slant on things but they show both sides of the issue. American news channels are content to tell you one side of the story then some story about American soldiers giving skittles to Iraqi children, as if that has any bearing on the war whatsoever. The coverage has dropped off the past few days after US commanders realized the war wasn't going quite as well as they had hoped, pictures of dead Americans don't play well on TV (but dead Iraqis are just fine.) Al Jazeera at least respects the material it covers enough to report the unpopular side of the story as well as what people want to hear.
As an aside, the story I heard was that the prince of Qatar started and funded Al Jazeera for about five years, then it was cut loose (this was planned all along, the goal was to create an independent Arab news agency) to meet its own fate.
They don't really care though. :) The point of the embedded reporters is pure entertainment, you're not getting any more "accurate" reporting since the Pentagon has to okay all the satellite transmissions anyway. Embedded reporting is somewhat entertaining, but for news value, the only difference between an embedded reporter and a soldier is that the embedded reporter knows how to play the camera. :)
500 Mac users. The Mac users are probably professionals, and paid for their software. 4800 of those PC users downloaded Photoshop 7 off Kazaa. There may be more PCs out there, but in the graphic design market (where most if not all of Adobe's paying customers come from) is VERY prejudiced against PCs. All the vendors use Macs, all the competent agencies use Macs, if you aren't using a Mac there's no guarantee that you're not going to have weird errors. Most graphic pros out there who have been in the business a while don't trust Windows, and besides, dropping $5,000 on a computer in this market is worth it, you'll make the money back within a week at even a small agency. Those who try and skimp on cash usually don't last long, clients can sniff out a cheapskate and will usually head elsewhere.
Haha, well, none of those copies ever get out :) Apple's core development teams are essentially under lockdown, nothing unauthorized gets in or out of the OS development group. Most leaks of software actually come from outside Apple, such as when the release betas to developers, then the developers leak the software. Besides, all the real differences are already available in Darwin. :)
It's pretty well known that Apple has had OS X running on x86 boxes for years. The way the OS is designed, everything is high-level and very far abstracted from the hardware. Darwin and the microkernel are all that really need to be updated. I recall hearing that early builds of Aqua would run on top of Windows. So in short, Apple has OS X running on x86, probably very well, and have for a long time. Technically it's not hard to do, but as a business decision, it just doesn't make sense.
Actually a lot of special forces ops will use a USP Tactical .45 over a SOCOM mk23 because the USP is a bit lighter while still being powerful.
Stargate SG-1. It's very accessible to the average person (I have a lot of friends who are not geeks by any means but are avid fans of SG-1) yet it's not TOO cheesy (most of the time.) It accomplishes basically the same thing as Enterprise tries to while being a much better show. Yes, SG-1 is sci-fi fluff, but so is Trek.
Iraq differs from most Arab nations in that it's not a fundamentalist nation, merely a military dictatorship. Yes, Saddam appeals to religion because most of the people believe in Islam, not because he or his government have some deep belief that they are going to the kingdom of God after they die. He only hates Israel because he knows that if Israel engages Iraq, he'll suddenly have a lot of allies. This is actually somewhat ironic, seeing as the two largest and most oppressive fundamentalist Islamic regimes in the world are on either side of him (Iran and Saudi Arabia.)
First guess says you need satellite access codes. Second guess says the stream is probably VERY well encrypted. Third guess says that if you access the military channels without permission, you'll have men in black helicopters doing fastrope descents on your place of residence within a few minutes (it's GPS, so they already know where you are.) Though I could just be blowing this out my ass, who knows.
Yes except the US Military owns the satellites and basically lets everyone else use them so they're not just a waste of space (pun intended.) Also worth noting is that they can do this locally, so basically the accurracy would probably only decrease (if it does at all) in the areas in and around Iraq. I doubt the US or western Europe will be affected at all.
IMO pay-per-view movies are a better deal than rentals. They cost less, you're probably only going to watch the movie once anyway, and there are no tapes to return and no late fees to worry about. Plus you can rent porn without your SO knowing...
"Gee, you mean my ability to setup computer networks can get me hundreds of thousands of dollars? Nah! That couldn't be true."
:) Nowadays you either need lots of experience or a legit certification (read: cisco certs) to land a job in that pay range. The lowest level cisco cert (CCNA) is actually rather difficult to get, so people who have it tend to know what they're doing. In other words, a Cisco cert means a lot more than a Microsoft cert ;)
Actually it's not anymore
And it only takes most of the slashdot crowd a few minutes to tenderize the meat, so it works out perfectly.
And Radar! Radar was in both the movie and the series, same actor.
Well, I never said the coolant HAD to be water...
It's "intents and purposes," not "intensive purposes." Yeah this'll prolly get modded -1 Offtopic, but I feel like being a bastard. :)
Actually, water-cooling somewhat makes sense for rackmount systems. There is a high density of machines, so you could cool multiple machines with a single installation. Run the coolant to a radiator in an air-conditioned environment (or even immersed in liquid nitrogen, if temps are too high.) With a decent valve system this would be very expandable. Watercooling IMO makes little sense for home computers, as you're buying a lot of equipment for a single system, but if you can spread the cost out among say, 72 1U systems, it would solve the problem of cooling in 1U cases (which is significant, because 1U cases can't accomodate huge heatsinks.) We may see this become more commonplace if CPUs start putting off much more heat.