It's far easier to just launch the sound recorder of your choice (on windows) and select an audio source of "what you hear". It's not like it takes any technical skill. I don't understand really what value a separate website to do it for you provides.
Seeing how com, net and org all lost their meanings in the end, I think we'd be better off with just one general TLD and country specific TLDs to be run as each country wishes. Possible exception for some sort of "trusted" TLD as well, to be issued only to certified organizations.
I think I'd like to see all domains except the country specific ones go away. No exceptions, the problem with making a "trusted" tld is that you and I may not trust the same people.
All the geeks from the data-center will flock to join the Japanese ladies in the Japanese Bath
And even with the ladies already naked I fear the geeks still got no shot....
How about building REALLY SMART Hot Dog carts? With that much hot water we could have ever conceivable version of tube steak hot and ready to go.
Hot dog carts were banned in my town as a result of the G-string clad cart employees causing many automobile accidents.
How reliable do you really expect a Pi to be? After all its a 35 dollar computer. It does not even come with a case. I think you are much more likely to find a turn-key used solution than new in this price range. This holds just about anywhere you look. A $10,000 used car is likely to be far more reliable than a $10,000 new car.
lol. I wish I knew how reliable one would be - haven't been able to order one yet. In the specific case of rasberry pi vs used pc/laptop you also have to factor in that rasberry pi is extremely low power and far smaller than either. However, given that things like capacitors do wear out over time, new is still something to consider. Unless the manufacturer is creating shoddy boards (I don't know YET) they should outlast an older board of a different type given similar handling precautions. My point wasn't to say a rasberry pi is better than what you could buy on ebay for 35 bucks, but just to say that component age IS a consideration. You may not give that factor the same wight as another person when deciding what to buy; but that doesn't mean it's no factor at all.
At my office we replace devices after four years of age. In addition to reliability (and possibly more importantly, warranty) you also usually get better performance and better power efficiency out of newer devices. Not always, I suppose.. but I think that is usually the case.
That's true if you are of the opinion that "new" vs "used" inherently has no value. If reliability is a concern, then generally that new vs used is something to consider.
for people willing to invest in the tools, scout out parts suppliers, and learn the procedures, that is actually quite affordable.
These days it's even easier. ifixit.com has parts, tools, and well documented procedures for fixing pretty much anything that can go wrong with an Apple product.
I just "fixed" an old ThinkPad that had been given to a Felbers bartender by removing the admin password, drank for free all day when I brought it back.
I would submit that the backlit keyboard and absolutely wonderful mac trackpad are worth the difference in price alone. Windows peeps have no concept of how nice a GOOD trackpad is.
I can't compare the trackpads but other (most?) ultra books come with back lit keyboards. It's not something exclusive to Apple and therefore shouldn't really be a selling point when comparing products.
You are mistaken, sir.
Last time I shopped notebooks, I included the macbook pro but it was significantly overpriced. By the way, the 1199 price you mentioned is that of the Pro and not the Air. I decided to price compare again, this time with only one competitor since I'm not actually buying new notebooks but just comparing out of curiosity. Here's what I found:
Apple MacBook Pro 13"
CPU: Core i5 2520M 3MB Cache Dual Core 2.5-3.2Ghz (Second Gen)
GPU: Integrated Intel HD 3000
Ram: 4GB
Mass Storage: 500GB 5400RPM Spinning Disk
Optical Storage: DVD-RW
Price: $1199.00
So, from what I see the HP costs less, has a better CPU, GPU, Mass Storage. Has the same display (size and resolution), the same RAM, but lacks an integrated optical drive. Also, they throw in software that is actually useful (Office starter, Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements). Oh, and it will play most current computer games.
The Apple costs 120 bucks more, is slower in CPU, GPU, and mass storage but it does have a dvd burner. Requires a $150 software upgrade to play current computer games (windows home). The apple does have an extra memory slot for upgrading to 8GB which I would consider a no brainer given that 4GB of laptop memory in any brand is under 20 bucks, while the HP has no such slot.
Personally I wouldn't buy either of these because there's no integrated blu-ray drive, but I think the HP offers far more system for a little less money. $120 bucks isn't an insignificant price difference (at least on my budget it's not).
The bottom line is that I think it's still true you get a lot more for your money from other companies VS Apple - so it appears to me that my original post about Apple being mostly about "status" is still true.
Apple price came from the Apple store, HP Price came from the HP EPP store.
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"I'm still waiting for my under $50 Macbook."
What is the point of this kind of trolling in article summaries, really?
Keep waiting. The biggest feature of apple products is the price tag. If they were cheap, they'd be no more desirable than any other notebook. It's the same thing with a prada bag vs a superior but less expensive generic.
I honestly can't tell if you're a very naive anti-privatization person, or a pro-privatization person doing an absolutely brilliant parody of the anti-privatization position.
This is why sending mail via government costs pennies, while sending mail via UPS or FedEx costs $10 or more. Privatization only makes things wasteful and inefficient because companies can't compete when they have to make a profit.
The only kind of mail that costs pennies via USPS is first class (letters), which private companies are forbidden by law from carrying. Also, the USPS is indirectly subsidized by taxpayers via exemption from federal taxes and special borrowing privileges, among other things. If the USPS provides such a better value, why do almost all online retailers use UPS or FedEx?
Furthermore, USPS does not provide the same level of service as FedEx or UPS. USPS is send and pray. FedEx/UPS is send and track it until it gets there, or the shipper will pay you for the failure. I wouldn't mind seeing USPS continue to exist if they did a major revamp of how things work, but as is I see it as being totally useless.
Do not blame the free market for a law that didn't provide for a free market. A 10% dig at wholesale and another 17% at retail is not a free market. The reason is clearly the government wants your money. You should reject a booze tax as much as a income tax. You still have a sin tax, apparently on steroids!
Boogers -- my mod points just expired and you need someone to mod you up.
In all cases, when government does a task themselves, you don't have to worry about waste
LOL, that's the funniest thing I've heard all week. Thanks!
Government agencies are almost synonymous with waste and inefficiency. The real questions here are:
1. Are the functions that TSA performs even necessary at all?
2. Can a private company do it better (assuming question one is yes)?
I think most people would generally stop after answering "NO" to question 1, though.
To the arm fanboys it is, apparently. The whole exercise seems fairly pointless to me. Intel netbook cpu outperformed by 12 competing cpu's...
That cluster would probably be more valuable if you melted it down to sell the precious metals inside it.
I can't believe they bothered, I can't believe someone wrote an article about it.. somehow I can believe it would get posted to slashdot, though.
If the SOPA bill would have gone through I am guessing this would have been one of its targets or others would have abused the bill towards this. Either the drugs he was selling were rip offs, or the drugs were cheaper and just as effective, and the U.S. prescription drug companies do not want you to pay less for drugs when they obviously want you to fork out hoards of money for "there" crap drugs.
The ACTA if it had passed this type of selling, would have been targeted. I guess the humor in this is Canada with there Iron Fist laws, and why they have not banned cheap effective prescription drugs. They pretty much allow companies to dictate there laws like we do here in the US.
I can't say for sure, but the portions in that photo appear to be very small. I would have to guess maybe 500 calories for the whole meal.. could even be less.
Sorry, you think this looks healthy and tasty? Uh huh...
It appears to represent a reasonable (for a primary school child) amount of all four food groups, and even has a tasty low calorie Popsicle desert to finish it off. It may not be catered by outback steakhouse but looks like a good lunch to me.
People are waving money. They are not waving enough money. If you wave an estimated $90 per month (which may very by market), you can get HBO Go.
I have HBO and HBO go and still download the episodes. I watch while on voice chat with some friends, so we need to be able to sync and be in front of the PC. HBO GO is a joke because (at least for this show, it's the only one I've tried) it's SD only. I stopped watching most SD programming years ago. When HBO GO starts showing 1080p episodes then I'll start using it instead.
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It's far easier to just launch the sound recorder of your choice (on windows) and select an audio source of "what you hear". It's not like it takes any technical skill. I don't understand really what value a separate website to do it for you provides.
Seeing how com, net and org all lost their meanings in the end, I think we'd be better off with just one general TLD and country specific TLDs to be run as each country wishes. Possible exception for some sort of "trusted" TLD as well, to be issued only to certified organizations.
I think I'd like to see all domains except the country specific ones go away. No exceptions, the problem with making a "trusted" tld is that you and I may not trust the same people.
All the geeks from the data-center will flock to join the Japanese ladies in the Japanese Bath
And even with the ladies already naked I fear the geeks still got no shot.... How about building REALLY SMART Hot Dog carts? With that much hot water we could have ever conceivable version of tube steak hot and ready to go.
Hot dog carts were banned in my town as a result of the G-string clad cart employees causing many automobile accidents.
How reliable do you really expect a Pi to be? After all its a 35 dollar computer. It does not even come with a case. I think you are much more likely to find a turn-key used solution than new in this price range. This holds just about anywhere you look. A $10,000 used car is likely to be far more reliable than a $10,000 new car.
lol. I wish I knew how reliable one would be - haven't been able to order one yet. In the specific case of rasberry pi vs used pc/laptop you also have to factor in that rasberry pi is extremely low power and far smaller than either. However, given that things like capacitors do wear out over time, new is still something to consider. Unless the manufacturer is creating shoddy boards (I don't know YET) they should outlast an older board of a different type given similar handling precautions. My point wasn't to say a rasberry pi is better than what you could buy on ebay for 35 bucks, but just to say that component age IS a consideration. You may not give that factor the same wight as another person when deciding what to buy; but that doesn't mean it's no factor at all.
At my office we replace devices after four years of age. In addition to reliability (and possibly more importantly, warranty) you also usually get better performance and better power efficiency out of newer devices. Not always, I suppose.. but I think that is usually the case.
Exactly what professional can work with such little RAM?
Managers.
That's true if you are of the opinion that "new" vs "used" inherently has no value. If reliability is a concern, then generally that new vs used is something to consider.
for people willing to invest in the tools, scout out parts suppliers, and learn the procedures, that is actually quite affordable.
These days it's even easier. ifixit.com has parts, tools, and well documented procedures for fixing pretty much anything that can go wrong with an Apple product.
I just "fixed" an old ThinkPad that had been given to a Felbers bartender by removing the admin password, drank for free all day when I brought it back.
That's one hell of a trade! Well played!
I would submit that the backlit keyboard and absolutely wonderful mac trackpad are worth the difference in price alone. Windows peeps have no concept of how nice a GOOD trackpad is.
I can't compare the trackpads but other (most?) ultra books come with back lit keyboards. It's not something exclusive to Apple and therefore shouldn't really be a selling point when comparing products.
You are mistaken, sir.
Last time I shopped notebooks, I included the macbook pro but it was significantly overpriced. By the way, the 1199 price you mentioned is that of the Pro and not the Air. I decided to price compare again, this time with only one competitor since I'm not actually buying new notebooks but just comparing out of curiosity. Here's what I found:
Apple MacBook Pro 13"
CPU: Core i5 2520M 3MB Cache Dual Core 2.5-3.2Ghz (Second Gen)
GPU: Integrated Intel HD 3000
Ram: 4GB
Mass Storage: 500GB 5400RPM Spinning Disk
Optical Storage: DVD-RW
Price: $1199.00
HP Envy Spectre XT Ultrabook 13t-2000 (EPP)
CPU: Core i7 3517U 4MB Cache Quad Core 1.9-3.0Ghz (Third Gen)
GPU: Integrated Intel HD 4000
Ram: 4GB
Mass Storage: 128MB SSD
Optical Storage: NONE
Price: 1079.99
So, from what I see the HP costs less, has a better CPU, GPU, Mass Storage. Has the same display (size and resolution), the same RAM, but lacks an integrated optical drive. Also, they throw in software that is actually useful (Office starter, Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements). Oh, and it will play most current computer games.
The Apple costs 120 bucks more, is slower in CPU, GPU, and mass storage but it does have a dvd burner. Requires a $150 software upgrade to play current computer games (windows home). The apple does have an extra memory slot for upgrading to 8GB which I would consider a no brainer given that 4GB of laptop memory in any brand is under 20 bucks, while the HP has no such slot.
Personally I wouldn't buy either of these because there's no integrated blu-ray drive, but I think the HP offers far more system for a little less money. $120 bucks isn't an insignificant price difference (at least on my budget it's not).
The bottom line is that I think it's still true you get a lot more for your money from other companies VS Apple - so it appears to me that my original post about Apple being mostly about "status" is still true.
Apple price came from the Apple store, HP Price came from the HP EPP store.
"I'm still waiting for my under $50 Macbook."
What is the point of this kind of trolling in article summaries, really?
Keep waiting. The biggest feature of apple products is the price tag. If they were cheap, they'd be no more desirable than any other notebook. It's the same thing with a prada bag vs a superior but less expensive generic.
Could have been the first post, but the catcha was off-screen...
How'd that guy get modded off topic? Seems slightly humorous and very much on topic to me...
And people still buy Sony products... poor fools. When will they learn?
Well, my Motorola phone has no ICS update yet. I'd rather have ICS and open wifi than an older version of android.
I honestly can't tell if you're a very naive anti-privatization person, or a pro-privatization person doing an absolutely brilliant parody of the anti-privatization position.
This is why sending mail via government costs pennies, while sending mail via UPS or FedEx costs $10 or more. Privatization only makes things wasteful and inefficient because companies can't compete when they have to make a profit.
The only kind of mail that costs pennies via USPS is first class (letters), which private companies are forbidden by law from carrying. Also, the USPS is indirectly subsidized by taxpayers via exemption from federal taxes and special borrowing privileges, among other things. If the USPS provides such a better value, why do almost all online retailers use UPS or FedEx?
Furthermore, USPS does not provide the same level of service as FedEx or UPS. USPS is send and pray. FedEx/UPS is send and track it until it gets there, or the shipper will pay you for the failure.
I wouldn't mind seeing USPS continue to exist if they did a major revamp of how things work, but as is I see it as being totally useless.
Do not blame the free market for a law that didn't provide for a free market. A 10% dig at wholesale and another 17% at retail is not a free market. The reason is clearly the government wants your money. You should reject a booze tax as much as a income tax. You still have a sin tax, apparently on steroids!
Boogers -- my mod points just expired and you need someone to mod you up.
In all cases, when government does a task themselves, you don't have to worry about waste
LOL, that's the funniest thing I've heard all week. Thanks!
Government agencies are almost synonymous with waste and inefficiency.
The real questions here are:
1. Are the functions that TSA performs even necessary at all?
2. Can a private company do it better (assuming question one is yes)?
I think most people would generally stop after answering "NO" to question 1, though.
To the arm fanboys it is, apparently. The whole exercise seems fairly pointless to me. Intel netbook cpu outperformed by 12 competing cpu's...
That cluster would probably be more valuable if you melted it down to sell the precious metals inside it.
I can't believe they bothered, I can't believe someone wrote an article about it.. somehow I can believe it would get posted to slashdot, though.
If the SOPA bill would have gone through I am guessing this would have been one of its targets or others would have abused the bill towards this. Either the drugs he was selling were rip offs, or the drugs were cheaper and just as effective, and the U.S. prescription drug companies do not want you to pay less for drugs when they obviously want you to fork out hoards of money for "there" crap drugs. The ACTA if it had passed this type of selling, would have been targeted. I guess the humor in this is Canada with there Iron Fist laws, and why they have not banned cheap effective prescription drugs. They pretty much allow companies to dictate there laws like we do here in the US.
Probably because they have national health care.
I can't say for sure, but the portions in that photo appear to be very small. I would have to guess maybe 500 calories for the whole meal.. could even be less.
Sorry, you think this looks healthy and tasty? Uh huh...
It appears to represent a reasonable (for a primary school child) amount of all four food groups, and even has a tasty low calorie Popsicle desert to finish it off. It may not be catered by outback steakhouse but looks like a good lunch to me.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is bored and screws with a guy who helps people buy the health products they want to buy. News at 11.
I'm pretty sure a piece of electrical tape over the camera will repair this problem.
People are waving money. They are not waving enough money. If you wave an estimated $90 per month (which may very by market), you can get HBO Go.
I have HBO and HBO go and still download the episodes. I watch while on voice chat with some friends, so we need to be able to sync and be in front of the PC. HBO GO is a joke because (at least for this show, it's the only one I've tried) it's SD only. I stopped watching most SD programming years ago. When HBO GO starts showing 1080p episodes then I'll start using it instead.
Humans are the problem and chuck norris is the cure.
No, but they made them something people who are not filthy, basement dwelling geeks want.
You geeks really, really need to get over yourselves. You are halfway through the arc of being ossed on history's scrap heap.
Yet trolls will still be exactly as useful as they are today in 100 years...