One difference is that you can cancel the service and continue paying for just the phone part. You could then switch to prepaid or another carrier without paying any fees.
More specifically, they should offer it on their business computers. My school has a whole lab full of OptiPlex desktops with Windows 7 Pro CAs running CentOS.
They also have another lab full of OptiPlex desktops with Windows 7 Pro CAs running Windows 7 Enterprise.
Either way, making it easier to buy business computers without Windows licenses would save organizations a lot of money.
As far as I can tell, not a single one of the new approved gTLDs can be written using standard ASCII, and only one of them can be written with Extended ASCII. While this does mean that there isn't a key on a standard US keyboard for every single letter in every one of these new gTLDs, there are (or at least a well-known key combination) in the countries which are the target market for these domains. With regard to SPAM, I think you will find that much (if not most) of it comes from non-US sources; places where they are likely to have the necessary keyboards to type at least one of these strings.
I would include the list of approved gTLDs, but Slashdot seems to filter non-ASCII characters. Here is a link to the list sorted sorted by status (with the approved gTLDs at the top.)
I don't think it is going to make much difference. Not only will there be 7200 RPM drives available from WD and HGST (now part of WD), all of the Seagate Hybrid drives are 7200 RPM. I think the point of this announcement is that Seagate is only going to sell 7200 RPM 2.5" drives as part of a Hybrid drive. The cache in Seagate's Hybrid drives is transparent to the host, so the Hybrid drives should work just fine in a RAID.
Cisco made and sold a product they called iPhone before Apple in the US. This didn't stop Apple from selling their iPhone is the US without aquiring the rights.
Here is one more thing that happens. Hard drives' random access is much slower than sequential access. Therefore, another thing that can cause the transfer rate to quickly change is whether a large file or lots of smaller files are currently being transferred. Installers always seem to cluster all of the small files at the end of the install. Using an SSD solves this problem, at least in my experience.
I call BS. I can think of several laptops that come with IPS screens off the top of my head.
The following laptops can be configured to come with an IPS screen: HP EliteBook 8770w HP EliteBook 8570w Lenovo ThinkPad X230 Lenovo ThinkPad X230T Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Lenovo ThinkPad X220T
The Thinkpad X2x0T laptops even have a capacitive screen and come with a stylus.
A quick Google search revealed that the following also appear come with (or can be configured to come with) IPS screens: Both of the Retina Macbooks (13" and 15") HP dv6z with 1080p upgrade Vaio S15 VAIO SE HP Spectre 15t-4000 Asus Zenbook Prime UX31A (It looks like all of the Zenbook models have IPS screens) Dell Precision M4600 Dell Precision M4700 Dell Precision M6700 HP envy 15
You aren't the only one having problems with the 2TB WD drives. I bought three WD 2TB Black edition drives and two failed within a year. I turned the remaining drives into cold backups.
The other moving spirits should be Doppler shifted after light is slowed. Even if you are "still," the other spirits continue to move relative to you. After light is slowed enough that Doppler shifts are noticeable at low speeds, the light bouncing off the other spirits should be Doppler shifted because they have a component of velocity moving towards or away you at a large fraction of the speed of light.
This has more to do with GSM vs CDMA. There was an article on Slashdot recently about how CDMA has "won" the protocol war because it can handle more simultaneous connections. What wasn't mentioned is that the main difference is that GSM tries to keep all current connections regardless of signal strength, while CDMA drops the poor signal calls if the tower is near capacity and a handset with a strong signal call is attempting place a call. As a consumer, I went for GSM. In the U.S., this means AT&T or T-Mobile, or a MVNO like Trak Phone or SIMple Mobile. I also like the GSM device selection better.
LTE may be changing this, though.
It is interesting to see which countries went with CDMA over GSM. As far as I know, only the U.S., China and Mexico use CDMA.
I really think that this might be part of it. Most people who want to buy a laptop go to a big electronics store. Those stores usually sell two types of computers. Crappy consumer laptops and Macs. The casing of the Macs is usually built from more expensive materials and manufactured to tighter tolerances giving them a higher quality feel. Sure they cost a lot more, and the user may not be able to do everything they want with it when they get it home, but the first impression in the store is what matters.
The problem isn't that high quality non-Apple computers don't exist. HP and Lenovo both even make nice business ultrabooks under their Elitebook and Thinkpad lines respectively. The problem is that these high-quality products aren't sold at the big electronics store where the consumer went.
Another issue is that even if the hardware is great, a ton of crapware can make even a faster computer with an SSD painfully slow. Apple typically installs less crapware on their computers. I know many of us consider iTunes to be crapware, but some of the software that mainstream computer manufacturers install is much worse. Some business laptops ship without any crapware, and most ship with a lot less. My local Best Buy doesn't sell a single computer that I would use without wiping the hard drive first.
I think that Apple's recent rise in market share has shown that the mainstream computer manufacturers have no clue what consumers want.
I would recommend a Nokia N900. Availability would be the tough part, but it will do everything you need. It has a nice transflective screen that is legible in direct sunlight, and it is one of the most hackable devices around. Being a phone, it has several radios in it, but those can be disabled through software.
The N9 would most likely also work, and those are still in production as far as I know. The screen is also legible in direct sunlight, but I think the N900 would suit your needs better.
Did you notice that your face does not end the call when you hold your smartphone up to your face? Most smartphones use a proximity sensor to disable the touchscreen when it is against your face. I see no reason not to do the same here. The camera is, after all, running a smartphone OS.
You can switch fn and left ctrl the keys in the BIOS on most Thinkpads. Sure, the keys would then be mislabeled, but if you always hit the wrong key anyway it wouldn't matter.
I got a Thinkpad X230, which has the same keyboard layout and a very similar keyboard. The biggest problem is the odd placement of the Print Screen key. It is where the right click menu key should be. In addition, the keyboard is rather mushy without much travel. I am sure it is much better than a normal chiclet keyboard, but the layout is inexcusable. I really like the backlighting, and the trackpoint is, of course, excellent. While I agree that the keyboard is a draw, I think that the trackpoint is a big one too. At least they didn't ruin that yet.
While it is true that some of monitors listed have dead pixels, some don't. Just add "Perfect Pixel" to your search to find ones guaranteed to be free of dead pixels. These can be found for under $400 shipped. While I am sure it is obvious, I forgot to mention in my previous post that you need to sort by price low to high.
You can get them for around less than $350 shipped from South Korea. Just do an ebay search for '2560 1440 27"'. You should find a lot of really nice high resolution IPS monitors.
There actually was an article on Slashdot that had a link to the information you mentioned. It said how to check to see if you were infected and told how to remove it. By asking why something something that was posted wasn't posted, you are doing little to improve our collective opinion of Mac users.
After several weeks of trying to come up with a good name for the game, we finally decided not to learn from previous experiences and pick a name that's already kind of in use by a huge existing franchise.
After playing around with names like "Elight", "Wind Commander", and "Steve Online", we finally settled on the very catchy name "Mars Effect".
Where did you find that the N9 is out selling Nokia's WP7 devices 3:1? The numbers I have been seeing say that the WP7 devices have been out selling the N9 2:1.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes. Qt will let you style the GUI with what is effectively CSS.
One difference is that you can cancel the service and continue paying for just the phone part. You could then switch to prepaid or another carrier without paying any fees.
More specifically, they should offer it on their business computers. My school has a whole lab full of OptiPlex desktops with Windows 7 Pro CAs running CentOS.
They also have another lab full of OptiPlex desktops with Windows 7 Pro CAs running Windows 7 Enterprise.
Either way, making it easier to buy business computers without Windows licenses would save organizations a lot of money.
As far as I can tell, not a single one of the new approved gTLDs can be written using standard ASCII, and only one of them can be written with Extended ASCII. While this does mean that there isn't a key on a standard US keyboard for every single letter in every one of these new gTLDs, there are (or at least a well-known key combination) in the countries which are the target market for these domains. With regard to SPAM, I think you will find that much (if not most) of it comes from non-US sources; places where they are likely to have the necessary keyboards to type at least one of these strings.
I would include the list of approved gTLDs, but Slashdot seems to filter non-ASCII characters. Here is a link to the list sorted sorted by status (with the approved gTLDs at the top.)
I don't think it is going to make much difference. Not only will there be 7200 RPM drives available from WD and HGST (now part of WD), all of the Seagate Hybrid drives are 7200 RPM. I think the point of this announcement is that Seagate is only going to sell 7200 RPM 2.5" drives as part of a Hybrid drive. The cache in Seagate's Hybrid drives is transparent to the host, so the Hybrid drives should work just fine in a RAID.
Cisco made and sold a product they called iPhone before Apple in the US. This didn't stop Apple from selling their iPhone is the US without aquiring the rights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_iPhone
Here is one more thing that happens. Hard drives' random access is much slower than sequential access. Therefore, another thing that can cause the transfer rate to quickly change is whether a large file or lots of smaller files are currently being transferred. Installers always seem to cluster all of the small files at the end of the install. Using an SSD solves this problem, at least in my experience.
I call BS. I can think of several laptops that come with IPS screens off the top of my head.
The following laptops can be configured to come with an IPS screen:
HP EliteBook 8770w
HP EliteBook 8570w
Lenovo ThinkPad X230
Lenovo ThinkPad X230T
Lenovo ThinkPad X220
Lenovo ThinkPad X220T
The Thinkpad X2x0T laptops even have a capacitive screen and come with a stylus.
A quick Google search revealed that the following also appear come with (or can be configured to come with) IPS screens:
Both of the Retina Macbooks (13" and 15")
HP dv6z with 1080p upgrade
Vaio S15
VAIO SE
HP Spectre 15t-4000
Asus Zenbook Prime UX31A (It looks like all of the Zenbook models have IPS screens)
Dell Precision M4600
Dell Precision M4700
Dell Precision M6700
HP envy 15
I am sure that there are a lot more.
You aren't the only one having problems with the 2TB WD drives. I bought three WD 2TB Black edition drives and two failed within a year. I turned the remaining drives into cold backups.
The other moving spirits should be Doppler shifted after light is slowed. Even if you are "still," the other spirits continue to move relative to you. After light is slowed enough that Doppler shifts are noticeable at low speeds, the light bouncing off the other spirits should be Doppler shifted because they have a component of velocity moving towards or away you at a large fraction of the speed of light.
This has more to do with GSM vs CDMA. There was an article on Slashdot recently about how CDMA has "won" the protocol war because it can handle more simultaneous connections. What wasn't mentioned is that the main difference is that GSM tries to keep all current connections regardless of signal strength, while CDMA drops the poor signal calls if the tower is near capacity and a handset with a strong signal call is attempting place a call. As a consumer, I went for GSM. In the U.S., this means AT&T or T-Mobile, or a MVNO like Trak Phone or SIMple Mobile. I also like the GSM device selection better.
LTE may be changing this, though.
It is interesting to see which countries went with CDMA over GSM. As far as I know, only the U.S., China and Mexico use CDMA.
I really think that this might be part of it. Most people who want to buy a laptop go to a big electronics store. Those stores usually sell two types of computers. Crappy consumer laptops and Macs. The casing of the Macs is usually built from more expensive materials and manufactured to tighter tolerances giving them a higher quality feel. Sure they cost a lot more, and the user may not be able to do everything they want with it when they get it home, but the first impression in the store is what matters.
The problem isn't that high quality non-Apple computers don't exist. HP and Lenovo both even make nice business ultrabooks under their Elitebook and Thinkpad lines respectively. The problem is that these high-quality products aren't sold at the big electronics store where the consumer went.
Another issue is that even if the hardware is great, a ton of crapware can make even a faster computer with an SSD painfully slow. Apple typically installs less crapware on their computers. I know many of us consider iTunes to be crapware, but some of the software that mainstream computer manufacturers install is much worse. Some business laptops ship without any crapware, and most ship with a lot less. My local Best Buy doesn't sell a single computer that I would use without wiping the hard drive first.
I think that Apple's recent rise in market share has shown that the mainstream computer manufacturers have no clue what consumers want.
I would recommend a Nokia N900. Availability would be the tough part, but it will do everything you need. It has a nice transflective screen that is legible in direct sunlight, and it is one of the most hackable devices around. Being a phone, it has several radios in it, but those can be disabled through software.
The N9 would most likely also work, and those are still in production as far as I know. The screen is also legible in direct sunlight, but I think the N900 would suit your needs better.
Did you notice that your face does not end the call when you hold your smartphone up to your face? Most smartphones use a proximity sensor to disable the touchscreen when it is against your face. I see no reason not to do the same here. The camera is, after all, running a smartphone OS.
While I haven't tried removing any keys, I can tell you that the fn and ctrl keys are different sizes.
You can switch fn and left ctrl the keys in the BIOS on most Thinkpads. Sure, the keys would then be mislabeled, but if you always hit the wrong key anyway it wouldn't matter.
I got a Thinkpad X230, which has the same keyboard layout and a very similar keyboard. The biggest problem is the odd placement of the Print Screen key. It is where the right click menu key should be. In addition, the keyboard is rather mushy without much travel. I am sure it is much better than a normal chiclet keyboard, but the layout is inexcusable. I really like the backlighting, and the trackpoint is, of course, excellent. While I agree that the keyboard is a draw, I think that the trackpoint is a big one too. At least they didn't ruin that yet.
$2,600 of reported income.
Canola is a marketing term. There is no plant called Canola. The oil we call "Canola Oil" usually made from rapeseed.
HP makes some nice ones too. The HP Elitebook 8760W, 8560W and 8560P laptop all have excellent build quality, great keyboards, and numeric keypads.
While it is true that some of monitors listed have dead pixels, some don't. Just add "Perfect Pixel" to your search to find ones guaranteed to be free of dead pixels. These can be found for under $400 shipped. While I am sure it is obvious, I forgot to mention in my previous post that you need to sort by price low to high.
You can get them for around less than $350 shipped from South Korea. Just do an ebay search for '2560 1440 27"'. You should find a lot of really nice high resolution IPS monitors.
There actually was an article on Slashdot that had a link to the information you mentioned. It said how to check to see if you were infected and told how to remove it. By asking why something something that was posted wasn't posted, you are doing little to improve our collective opinion of Mac users.
After several weeks of trying to come up with a good name for the game, we finally decided not to learn from previous experiences and pick a name that's already kind of in use by a huge existing franchise.
After playing around with names like "Elight", "Wind Commander", and "Steve Online", we finally settled on the very catchy name "Mars Effect".
It is an April Fools joke.
Where did you find that the N9 is out selling Nokia's WP7 devices 3:1? The numbers I have been seeing say that the WP7 devices have been out selling the N9 2:1.