In the entire history of IBM PC clones, none have innovated. They usually copied the innovations from the Atari and Commodore machines..... and then the PC makers caught-up 5-10 years later to turn a boring business machine into one with sound/graphic cards. Or into integrated one-piece units like the iMac. THIS model has worked for them since the mid-80s so it's doubtful they'll suddenly change. It's cheaper to just copy.
Not the first time Microsoft emulated Apple. First time I laid hands on Windows 95, I had to doublecheck that I wasn't sitting at a Mac. With the trashcan, "create shortcut to desktop", shutdown procedure, and "it is now safe to turn off" screen..... it all felt like the Mac Finder.
Oh and Bill Gates is probably thinking that Apple loan was the best thing he did. Jobs says he was only 60 days from bankruptcy. With the failure of MS competitors Atari, Commodore, and Apple in the span of just five years, Microsoft would have been the only company left, and the anti-trust trial would have ended very badly for them.
$20 for year one, and $25 for year two. Averages out to ~$23 per month. The DishTV equipment is free w/ the contract.
>>>Turns out that his bill went from $10 to almost $100 and that is only for cable
Cancel. I inquired about cable for my brother and his four sets, and it started at $75 for one year, then jumped to $96, and finally $110 in year 3 (normal monthly rate). It was like pulling teeth to get the answer. They didn't want to tell me how much years 2 and 3 cost.
But you forget that Steve was still alive when this Sandbox came about. It was either his idea or he approved its development. It's got Steve written all over it.
BFE? Amplified rabbit ears are basically worthless for digital reception (unless you live within 10 miles of the broadcaster). Anyway: Just because you buy a "roof" antenna does not mean you have to put it on the roof. My CM4228 sits right next to the window, aimed towards the nearest major city 55 miles away. It was a piece of cake to setup & then run the cord under the rug to the TV.
Not communism. Ad-supported entertainment broadcast over AM, FM, and ATSC:
- 40+ TV channels through my antenna (CM4228) - supplemented by free Hulu so I can watch Syfy
And yes it's VASTLY cheaper than the ~$900/year that Comcast wants to charge to hookup two sets. (Another alternative is Dish TV which only costs $23/month for two sets... still much less than comsucks.) I've been watching lots of old movies, retro-shows like Dragnet, Cheers, and 24 hours news via RT. Also PBS World which airs lots of documentaries..... ya know, like History and Discovery used to do.;-)
A few DVDs wre released with MPEG4 encoding for HD, but they are still not as good as Bluray. There's a huge difference between the DVD's average 6 Mbit/s and the Bluray's average 35 Mbit/s stream, which gives the DVD with HD artifacting.
If children are involved, you can stream as low as 300 kbit/s (like I do) and they won't care. That's about equal to VHS or youtube-360p in quality.
I watch about 2 hours a day... 8 on weekends. So that's 16+2*5 == 26 per week or 111 for the month. 250GB/111 hours == 5 Mbit/s. Most streams don't come anywhere near that amount so I'd not worry about going over the limit. And just to be sure I'd watch everything in SD (which is what comcast cable serves anyway).
Only copy of Star Wars 4/5/6 I have are the laserdisc masters that Lucas released to DVD. (Would be nice if he released the laserdisc masters to Bluray, and eliminate the dvd artifacting, but I'm not holding my breath.) I will watch the special defect versions if they air on TV, but I refuse to purchase them. Bad enough I paid $20 to see the primitive 90s CGI in the theater.
And I doubt the customers will care either. If Walmart stops selling HTC televisions, do people just quit walmart? No they buy whatever brand is available. Same with the Apple Store; people will just buy what they can. So I disagree with the comments below: http://www.marco.org/2012/07/26/not-just-geeks
BTW instapaper's "read later" doesn't work in Opera. Would be nice if he fixed that.
QUOTE: "My argument was more nuanced: many previously-acceptable apps have been effectively kicked out of the App Store because theyâ(TM)re incompatible with the current implementation of sandboxing, and this hurts the customers of those apps enough that they will lose confidence in buying nontrivial software from the Store in the future. For this reason, I, as a customer, have lost confidence. Furthermore, the increasing number of good, useful apps not permitted in the App Store will prevent it from becoming ubiquitous, therefore harming Apple's presumed long-term goals."
>>>Google has no right to snoop on them. You Google shills are fucking annoying..
If some guy is standing inside his house and shouting at his wife, then you don't have to "listen" to hear it. You can pick it up just by walking by... you hear it anyway Same with radio broadcast (hence the term "broad" cast). Just as people realize if they yell the neighbors will hear it, they should also realize that broadcasting can be heard too.
>>>People [in banks and megacorps] talk a big game about how they believe in survival of the fittest and evolution but then don't seem to want the game to apply to them...
That's why they beg Congress for bailouts. "Private profits and socialized losses" to quote Peter Schiff.
>>>Most people don't even realize that wireless transmissions are being recorded and associated with an address
Then they must be fucking stupid. Anyone with sense knows if you pick-up a walkie-talkie or cordless phone and start speaking into it, then somebody else can hear what is being said with a 2nd walkie-talking or phone, and locate its source. Wifi is no different..... it is broadcasting to everyone.
Outside the U.S. it makes even MORE sense not to talk to cops, since they might throw the management in jail & later execute them. Other countries don't have the same legal protections we have.
"There is no expectation of privacy in a public arena." - Supreme Court. "Government officials in a public setting have no claim on privacy. The citizens have a first amendment guarantee to record by audio or video capture their police and public officials in the actions of their duties." - 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
If you don't want your actions to come back and haunt you 25 years later, then don't do things in public that you will later regret. Don't post messages online with a public name. And don't acquiesce to a cop or TSA or politician demanding you turn-off your camera, because they have no right to do so.
>>>Must we design the whole world to protect the least competent people from themselves?
Apparently "yes". Maybe the Congressmen who admitted the people are too dumb to rule themselves was correct. They need to be treated like children. (And I agree Google did nothing wrong if they captured data that was being "shouted" from homes without encyrption.)
The government wants all the power for itself. It wants a monopoly or near-monopoly. And not just for spycams, but also the schools. The trains. The hospitals.....
I'm kinda surprised Google admitted it did wrong. I was just as surprised Microsoft admitted it didn't install the browser choice screen on some Win7 computers. The corporation ought to keep its mouth shut. (See Don't Talk to Cops on youtube.)
Well I tried to find a "normal" sized Mac, but those cost over $2000! Th bottom line is that the HP Pavilion or Dell XPS desktops were much much less money. They also come installed with Windows so I don't have to deal with the hassle of trying to make MS Visio run on OS 10.7 and do work from home.
>>> If it cannot be lifted, there is no way to apply the jolt needed to knock the mechanism open.
True but also false. If you RTFA you will see they secured the safe to the floor, but were still able to jiggle-open the lock with a piece of metal. The locks are no more secure than the lock on a child's piggy bank.
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>>>Win 8...everything running maximized even on 27" displays...
Say what? You can't layer tiny windows overlapping each other??
I use LXDE (lubuntu). I want a fast responsive desktop and Gnome is not that.
In the entire history of IBM PC clones, none have innovated. They usually copied the innovations from the Atari and Commodore machines..... and then the PC makers caught-up 5-10 years later to turn a boring business machine into one with sound/graphic cards. Or into integrated one-piece units like the iMac. THIS model has worked for them since the mid-80s so it's doubtful they'll suddenly change. It's cheaper to just copy.
Not the first time Microsoft emulated Apple. First time I laid hands on Windows 95, I had to doublecheck that I wasn't sitting at a Mac. With the trashcan, "create shortcut to desktop", shutdown procedure, and "it is now safe to turn off" screen..... it all felt like the Mac Finder.
Oh and Bill Gates is probably thinking that Apple loan was the best thing he did. Jobs says he was only 60 days from bankruptcy. With the failure of MS competitors Atari, Commodore, and Apple in the span of just five years, Microsoft would have been the only company left, and the anti-trust trial would have ended very badly for them.
$20 for year one, and $25 for year two. Averages out to ~$23 per month. The DishTV equipment is free w/ the contract.
>>>Turns out that his bill went from $10 to almost $100 and that is only for cable
Cancel. I inquired about cable for my brother and his four sets, and it started at $75 for one year, then jumped to $96, and finally $110 in year 3 (normal monthly rate). It was like pulling teeth to get the answer. They didn't want to tell me how much years 2 and 3 cost.
But you forget that Steve was still alive when this Sandbox came about. It was either his idea or he approved its development. It's got Steve written all over it.
BFE?
Amplified rabbit ears are basically worthless for digital reception (unless you live within 10 miles of the broadcaster). Anyway: Just because you buy a "roof" antenna does not mean you have to put it on the roof. My CM4228 sits right next to the window, aimed towards the nearest major city 55 miles away. It was a piece of cake to setup & then run the cord under the rug to the TV.
Not communism. Ad-supported entertainment broadcast over AM, FM, and ATSC:
- 40+ TV channels through my antenna (CM4228)
- supplemented by free Hulu so I can watch Syfy
And yes it's VASTLY cheaper than the ~$900/year that Comcast wants to charge to hookup two sets. (Another alternative is Dish TV which only costs $23/month for two sets... still much less than comsucks.) I've been watching lots of old movies, retro-shows like Dragnet, Cheers, and 24 hours news via RT. Also PBS World which airs lots of documentaries..... ya know, like History and Discovery used to do. ;-)
A few DVDs wre released with MPEG4 encoding for HD, but they are still not as good as Bluray. There's a huge difference between the DVD's average 6 Mbit/s and the Bluray's average 35 Mbit/s stream, which gives the DVD with HD artifacting.
If children are involved, you can stream as low as 300 kbit/s (like I do) and they won't care. That's about equal to VHS or youtube-360p in quality.
I watch about 2 hours a day... 8 on weekends. So that's 16+2*5 == 26 per week or 111 for the month. 250GB/111 hours == 5 Mbit/s. Most streams don't come anywhere near that amount so I'd not worry about going over the limit. And just to be sure I'd watch everything in SD (which is what comcast cable serves anyway).
Another alternative is Dish TV which only costs $23/month for two sets.
- it comes in through my antenna (40+ digital channels)
- supplemented by Hulu so I can watch Syfy
And yes it's not only cheaper, but a VASTLY cheaper than the ~$900/year that Comcast wants to charge to hookup two sets.
Only copy of Star Wars 4/5/6 I have are the laserdisc masters that Lucas released to DVD. (Would be nice if he released the laserdisc masters to Bluray, and eliminate the dvd artifacting, but I'm not holding my breath.) I will watch the special defect versions if they air on TV, but I refuse to purchase them. Bad enough I paid $20 to see the primitive 90s CGI in the theater.
And I doubt the customers will care either. If Walmart stops selling HTC televisions, do people just quit walmart? No they buy whatever brand is available. Same with the Apple Store; people will just buy what they can. So I disagree with the comments below: http://www.marco.org/2012/07/26/not-just-geeks
BTW instapaper's "read later" doesn't work in Opera.
Would be nice if he fixed that.
QUOTE: "My argument was more nuanced: many previously-acceptable apps have been effectively kicked out of the App Store because theyâ(TM)re incompatible with the current implementation of sandboxing, and this hurts the customers of those apps enough that they will lose confidence in buying nontrivial software from the Store in the future. For this reason, I, as a customer, have lost confidence. Furthermore, the increasing number of good, useful apps not permitted in the App Store will prevent it from becoming ubiquitous, therefore harming Apple's presumed long-term goals."
Apple probably doesn't care. When one merchandiser leaves, another one will gladly take its place.
>>>Google has no right to snoop on them. You Google shills are fucking annoying..
If some guy is standing inside his house and shouting at his wife, then you don't have to "listen" to hear it. You can pick it up just by walking by... you hear it anyway Same with radio broadcast (hence the term "broad" cast). Just as people realize if they yell the neighbors will hear it, they should also realize that broadcasting can be heard too.
>>>People [in banks and megacorps] talk a big game about how they believe in survival of the fittest and evolution but then don't seem to want the game to apply to them...
That's why they beg Congress for bailouts. "Private profits and socialized losses" to quote Peter Schiff.
When did Oracle try to kill Android Linux?
>>>Most people don't even realize that wireless transmissions are being recorded and associated with an address
Then they must be fucking stupid. Anyone with sense knows if you pick-up a walkie-talkie or cordless phone and start speaking into it, then somebody else can hear what is being said with a 2nd walkie-talking or phone, and locate its source. Wifi is no different..... it is broadcasting to everyone.
Outside the U.S. it makes even MORE sense not to talk to cops, since they might throw the management in jail & later execute them. Other countries don't have the same legal protections we have.
"There is no expectation of privacy in a public arena." - Supreme Court. "Government officials in a public setting have no claim on privacy. The citizens have a first amendment guarantee to record by audio or video capture their police and public officials in the actions of their duties." - 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
If you don't want your actions to come back and haunt you 25 years later, then don't do things in public that you will later regret. Don't post messages online with a public name. And don't acquiesce to a cop or TSA or politician demanding you turn-off your camera, because they have no right to do so.
>>>Must we design the whole world to protect the least competent people from themselves?
Apparently "yes". Maybe the Congressmen who admitted the people are too dumb to rule themselves was correct. They need to be treated like children. (And I agree Google did nothing wrong if they captured data that was being "shouted" from homes without encyrption.)
The government wants all the power for itself. It wants a monopoly or near-monopoly. And not just for spycams, but also the schools. The trains. The hospitals.....
I'm kinda surprised Google admitted it did wrong. I was just as surprised Microsoft admitted it didn't install the browser choice screen on some Win7 computers. The corporation ought to keep its mouth shut. (See Don't Talk to Cops on youtube.)
Well I tried to find a "normal" sized Mac, but those cost over $2000! Th bottom line is that the HP Pavilion or Dell XPS desktops were much much less money. They also come installed with Windows so I don't have to deal with the hassle of trying to make MS Visio run on OS 10.7 and do work from home.
>>> If it cannot be lifted, there is no way to apply the jolt needed to knock the mechanism open.
True but also false. If you RTFA you will see they secured the safe to the floor, but were still able to jiggle-open the lock with a piece of metal. The locks are no more secure than the lock on a child's piggy bank.