Of course they use Hitachi drives, HGST used to be IBM's storage division. Hitachi drives ARE IBM drives. Outside of the "Deathstar" quality problem they had with desktop drives a couple years ago, HGST hasn't had major quality issues. I don't think Travelstar drives have had a higher than normal failure rate. And don't forget, other manufacturers including Dell have also used Hitachi notebook drives.
It does make sense, but I'm worried about backup. I get 12:1 compression with MP3 but lossless codecs are generally 2:1. This means my MP3 collection, which is about 10 GB, would take up about 60 GB in FLAC. That's fine for a hard drive, but not for my dinky 12GB tape backup. I back up all my MP3's to tape. There are two kinds of people in the world: those who have already had a hard drive crash, and those who will have a hard drive crash.
I realize the Pentium 4 won't hit 4 GHz in its current incarnation, but is it really true that we'll never see a CPU above 4 GHz? Have we finally hit the limit?
You can't trademark a building. This is a student paper, and it's likely that they confused trademark with copyright. The site probably took a photograph of the library from the UCSD website, which is property of UCSD.
Because it blows? PHP really, really blows. OK finally, after years it's "object oriented" even though the function library is still a haphazardly-named mess of handles and global variables.
I have a TiVo and I'm a Netflix subscriber. I think this is a great idea, but the companies are crazy if they think I'll pay more for it. I already pay $13/mo for TiVo and $22/mo for Netflix, that's $35 total for these services. No way I'm paying more than that, just to download movies from the Internet.
You're in luck, dear moderate: Centrist kind of thinking will get us a marriage amendment, unchecked government spending, a ten trillion dollar national debt, and absolutely zero progress. This is a time for big change, to our philosophies and our political process.
Yes, we do. 100 FPS looks and feels much better than 60 FPS. Don't trust me, try it for yourself in Q3 or UT or something. This meme has been around for a while, and any gamer can tell you it's ridiculous.
Really, an old VT100 would have sufficed? It's great how we ignore the cost of user training and application development. That PC probably cost the store $500. That's $500 paid for a system that most people already know how to use and all technicians know how to service. But I guess $500 in "unnecessary hardware" is enough to justify spending thousands of dollars on a system that is ugly, difficult to use, and inflexible. Look at the big picture.
This reads like a fluff piece for the "Vex Bot." Many of the claims such as "it's better than other bots because it adds a layer of AI" are ridiculous. The whole thing reads just like an ad for some encryption snake oil. It makes vague claims of superiority, it says it's better because it's "scientifically" designed, and of course the meaningless claim that it plays on a "master level." All of this makes me think that the bot is more hype than reality. If the bot really behaves like described, i.e. raising frequently and attempting to "infuriate" other players, I think a good player will quickly realize the bot's strategy and compensate.
Of course you couldn't release a product based on that XOR encryption, because it could be easily reverse engineered and your secret sequence would be discovered.
Yes, it's a contract. You said it was the law. They're not the same thing. Besides, the article said that students were hooking APs to cable and DSL connections. So theft of service isn't even the University's problem, it's Comcast's problem. The University is within its rights to restrict student behavior on its property, but the theft of service argument is bunk. They can't press charges for misuse of Comcast Internet.
It's also disappointing that someone with such a closed-minded misunderstanding of the law is in your position, if you're telling the truth.
Two, your stereotypes of Mac and PC users are ridiculous. Perhaps in the 80s PC users were all drab unfeeling business types, and Mac users were all creative design afficionados. That portrayal hasn't been accurate for years. Nowadays most of the world uses Windows, and this includes right-brained types who simply don't want to pay $2000 for a computer.
I don't get it then. If it's not supposed to go on a desk, and you want the monitor to be at eye level, where are you supposed to put your keyboard? On a TV dinner tray?
Do you put your monitor on top of your tower case? Of course not, because you don't want your neck to throb with pain for the rest of your life. That thing looks like it's about three feet higher than the desk. Every time you use your computer you feel like you got to a movie late and had to settle for the front row. Wow sign me up for this case, it's a model of practicality and ergonomics.
Other internet stocks are STILL overvalued. I'll be skipping on Google, same with Yahoo and eBay. A P/E of 110 is just crazy. Amazon has the most normal business model and P/E, it's the most attractive stock in the group you listed.
Google's stock price will be contingent on earnings growth. While their 2003 to 2004 growth is very impressive (at this rate, 2004 may triple 2003's net income), they can't possibly sustain it. Look for their price to fall along with their earnings growth rate.
Microsoft ain't lazy! Hey, at least they write their own stuff. Torvald$ had to steal his code from Minix, I heard. Plus you have the whole thing with IBM taking SCO's intellectual property and mi$appropriating it into the Linux kernel. How are real software companies to survive while lazy open source thieves are stealing the fruits of their labor?
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Of course they use Hitachi drives, HGST used to be IBM's storage division. Hitachi drives ARE IBM drives. Outside of the "Deathstar" quality problem they had with desktop drives a couple years ago, HGST hasn't had major quality issues. I don't think Travelstar drives have had a higher than normal failure rate. And don't forget, other manufacturers including Dell have also used Hitachi notebook drives.
What?
It does make sense, but I'm worried about backup. I get 12:1 compression with MP3 but lossless codecs are generally 2:1. This means my MP3 collection, which is about 10 GB, would take up about 60 GB in FLAC. That's fine for a hard drive, but not for my dinky 12GB tape backup. I back up all my MP3's to tape. There are two kinds of people in the world: those who have already had a hard drive crash, and those who will have a hard drive crash.
I realize the Pentium 4 won't hit 4 GHz in its current incarnation, but is it really true that we'll never see a CPU above 4 GHz? Have we finally hit the limit?
You can't trademark a building. This is a student paper, and it's likely that they confused trademark with copyright. The site probably took a photograph of the library from the UCSD website, which is property of UCSD.
Because it blows? PHP really, really blows. OK finally, after years it's "object oriented" even though the function library is still a haphazardly-named mess of handles and global variables.
I have a TiVo and I'm a Netflix subscriber. I think this is a great idea, but the companies are crazy if they think I'll pay more for it. I already pay $13/mo for TiVo and $22/mo for Netflix, that's $35 total for these services. No way I'm paying more than that, just to download movies from the Internet.
You're in luck, dear moderate: Centrist kind of thinking will get us a marriage amendment, unchecked government spending, a ten trillion dollar national debt, and absolutely zero progress. This is a time for big change, to our philosophies and our political process.
I read the license, and I still don't see what's wrong with it. Can you explain?
No, it's much cheaper than that. You can get good 8x media for $.50. I got a pack of 2x Ritek G03's over a year ago for less than a dollar each.
Yes, we do. 100 FPS looks and feels much better than 60 FPS. Don't trust me, try it for yourself in Q3 or UT or something. This meme has been around for a while, and any gamer can tell you it's ridiculous.
Really, an old VT100 would have sufficed? It's great how we ignore the cost of user training and application development. That PC probably cost the store $500. That's $500 paid for a system that most people already know how to use and all technicians know how to service. But I guess $500 in "unnecessary hardware" is enough to justify spending thousands of dollars on a system that is ugly, difficult to use, and inflexible. Look at the big picture.
This reads like a fluff piece for the "Vex Bot." Many of the claims such as "it's better than other bots because it adds a layer of AI" are ridiculous. The whole thing reads just like an ad for some encryption snake oil. It makes vague claims of superiority, it says it's better because it's "scientifically" designed, and of course the meaningless claim that it plays on a "master level." All of this makes me think that the bot is more hype than reality. If the bot really behaves like described, i.e. raising frequently and attempting to "infuriate" other players, I think a good player will quickly realize the bot's strategy and compensate.
Of course you couldn't release a product based on that XOR encryption, because it could be easily reverse engineered and your secret sequence would be discovered.
Yes, it's a contract. You said it was the law. They're not the same thing. Besides, the article said that students were hooking APs to cable and DSL connections. So theft of service isn't even the University's problem, it's Comcast's problem. The University is within its rights to restrict student behavior on its property, but the theft of service argument is bunk. They can't press charges for misuse of Comcast Internet.
It's also disappointing that someone with such a closed-minded misunderstanding of the law is in your position, if you're telling the truth.
One, I'm sure it works fine with a Mac.
Two, your stereotypes of Mac and PC users are ridiculous. Perhaps in the 80s PC users were all drab unfeeling business types, and Mac users were all creative design afficionados. That portrayal hasn't been accurate for years. Nowadays most of the world uses Windows, and this includes right-brained types who simply don't want to pay $2000 for a computer.
I hear it draws 500 watt-hours.
That's where the good stuff is.
You meant "how then shall I emulate master Gates," dear anonymous twitter. pls fix kthx.
I don't get it then. If it's not supposed to go on a desk, and you want the monitor to be at eye level, where are you supposed to put your keyboard? On a TV dinner tray?
Just wanted to make sure you knew that at least one person got the reference.
Do you put your monitor on top of your tower case? Of course not, because you don't want your neck to throb with pain for the rest of your life. That thing looks like it's about three feet higher than the desk. Every time you use your computer you feel like you got to a movie late and had to settle for the front row. Wow sign me up for this case, it's a model of practicality and ergonomics.
Other internet stocks are STILL overvalued. I'll be skipping on Google, same with Yahoo and eBay. A P/E of 110 is just crazy. Amazon has the most normal business model and P/E, it's the most attractive stock in the group you listed.
Google's stock price will be contingent on earnings growth. While their 2003 to 2004 growth is very impressive (at this rate, 2004 may triple 2003's net income), they can't possibly sustain it. Look for their price to fall along with their earnings growth rate.
So what is the OS supposed to do if Mozilla says "go run this program?" Magically detect that it's a security risk?
Microsoft ain't lazy! Hey, at least they write their own stuff. Torvald$ had to steal his code from Minix, I heard. Plus you have the whole thing with IBM taking SCO's intellectual property and mi$appropriating it into the Linux kernel. How are real software companies to survive while lazy open source thieves are stealing the fruits of their labor?